The Sun. — London, England, 1849-09-29 00:00:00

V 1 . • - t 4 2^ A , 46 ' . -.' . ',. " I Tv E AU V ..it 7 LONDON, - - - , . LITERATURE. •_ CHOLERA AND lIIARRHCEA.. PRICES OF SHARES or, THE BRITISH QUARTERLY. No. XX. ____......... 0 ,-._ IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM - RETURN OF CASES, SEPT. 27. PANIES' STOCK. the To oil - thinking . , the last number of the British all. Qu irterly is, without one exceptien, the most attract- THE METROPOLIS. F rom the Official List. SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. ate ive and inteldgent that has yet appeared. I;ee'eies a ' Deaths. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FIrTDA.Y EVENING . ff's very graceful article on the '` .2E,thetics of Gothi_i Cholera. Diarrh LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 . Kensington ... WEST ... DIST RICTS.... go.-- ot- Architecture ;" a very clever essay on "Religion and ye t Ethnology ;" an excellent review of the "Poetry of Chelsea... ... ... ... - 2 2 JOINT-STOCE. ISAMRS. of Legr n iary Art ;" and a half-biographical, half-his- , 3 1 Dividend Amount St. George, Hanover-square ... - 2 0 ltd torical criticism relating to " Milton and the wes , m ", t 3 1 Name of Company. per _of Paid. Pric e. ted Commonwealth ; " there is a controversial paper • •-sber ••• ••• •• • '-''. St. Alartin-in-the-Fields . - 2 Annum. Share. O ---....---•_ --__ -.-- -- -. er, on " Philosophy and Religion " referring to St. James, Westminster ::. - 0 0 As.d..i s. d. iastralasia .• .• ••• • • • 3/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 - re- Me-'srs. Morrell, Newman, an d Froude ; a corn- NORTH DISTRICTS. Britsh.North American Si. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - Of parison Letvveen the epistolary writings of " Ches- Marylebone ... ... ... - *2 • 0 Ceylon ...... •... •• •.1 7/. per cent. 25 002 5 0 0 - Ire terfield, Junius, and Cowper;" together with an intelli- Hampstead _ ~, ~, - 0 0 Commercial of London Si. per cent. 100 0020 0 0 - ,k ; , C denial.. •• • • - ale gent contrast of the various "Historians of the French St. Pancras _ _ ~, *2 '' Gloucestershire .. •• -115 l per cent. - - - the Revolution,"-Mignet, Thiers, Michelet, Blanc, Islington Hackney ••• ••• ••• - 2 1 lonian - , of Carlyle, and Lamartine. In addition to all these 2 1 Londn and Westminstr 6/. per cent. 100 0020 0 0 2ri's - - 13 0 0 - CENTRAL DISTRICTS. ~, London Joint-Stock . -6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 interesting contributions there are three oth ers not -• Sr.St Giles 1 Provincial of Ireland .• 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - BS' et y particularized, being estimates of the writings Struid .. ten and capacities of three of the most con s p icuous men Holborn Union .- - - .- 0 2 Otto, New......... El. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - O sLitional of Ireland •.51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 - of our generatien -Thomas Carlyle, - 0 ----Bevilm-- ,1 Clerkenwell ... ..... ••• - 2 1 Nat. Provnelal of Eng. Si . per cent. 100 0 0 3 5 0 0 - Ditto, New. ..• - -5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - are Disraeli, and Douglas Jerrold-the Wit, the Le is Sr. Luke 2 0 South Australia - 22 10 0 - ••• ••• ••• -- red later, and the Thinker. OF Mr. Carlyle it is said East Louden ... ••• ... - 0 0 Union of Australia • . Cl. per cent. 25 0025 0 0 - 112, very justly, that in his genius m a y be recog- West London t 1 1 Ditto •• ...... - - 61. per cent -210 0 - Union of London. •• - 61. per cent 50 0 0 10 0 0 - ith nised "a more remarkable combina tion both of City of London ••• ••• - 1 0 Union of Madrid ..... - lO 0 0 40 0 0 - ant the stronger and we aker elements of our EAST DISTRICTS. ur. age than in any other man among us." Of Mr. sfhoreditch ... ... ..• - 11i:thrial-green. 5 0 INSURANCE COMPANIES. the Disraeli the Reviewer can find no' hing whatever to k . % hitechapel ... ... ... - 4 2 Dividend Amount O Name of Company. Annum. share.of Paid. ['rite. the assert but what is most depreciatory, whether in po• Stepney George-in-the-East 3 red litics or letters. The entire paper is couched in 1 0 - - 1 1 x s. d. A s. 41• inn terms of the most undi•qui , ed rilicu'e-and this too poplar ... ..„ ~.. „„. - 1 1 Albion •••••••• • • • • •• 3/. 10s. 500 0050 0 0 75 use in reference to the "Revolutionary Epick," to the Alliance Brit. and For. 7114 s 6d &bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 19X SOUTH DISTRICTS. Ditto Marine.•• •• •• Si. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 - , tragedy of "Count Alarcos," and to those nine novels, St. Saviour, Southwark 1 0 Atlas ••• - not " Alrey," " Contarini Fleming," " Henrietta St. Olave ••• - 5 2 British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 - 2 Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19 Temple," " Venetia," " Vivian Grey," the " Young Bermondsey „,, „, „, - 0 ere Duke," " Coningsbv," " Sybil," and " Tancred." St. George, Southwark ••• -- 1 2 County .....• •••••• •• Crown •••••••• • • • • •• 31. 14s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 60 50 0 0 5 0 0 - ,est Th e conc l us i o n at which the writer arrives is that Newin g ton ... ... ... - 3 0 Eagle • • •• • - lief Benjamin Disraeli is not a genius, but only the - Lambeth ••• • • ••• ---- 7 2 Eng.& Seot•Law - :be Prospectus of a Genius. We shall not trouble our- Wandsworth ... ... ... - Camberwell 0 0 European Life •••.•• 4% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 15 FamilyEndowract Soc. 4/. & bs. 100 0 0 4 0 0 ere••• ••• ••• .".... 2 0 Freemasons' .• ••••• • • 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 30 0 - selves by entering into such a discussion. Douglas Rotherhithe - sve Jerrold, on the contrary, is pronounced to be one of l 0 Gybe • . •• •• • • 61. per cent. Stook. - 120 Grardian --•••• • • .• 51. 100 0 0 36 10 0 49% Greenwich ••• - - 1 1 rse, imperial Fire .. •••• •• 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 220 the most sterling and brilliant of our humorous Lewisham ... ••• ••• - 0 ,' imperial Life •••• •• • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15 mi.. writers. And we are satisfied that no one will deny - - Indemnity Marine.... 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 25 old him to be witty, after reading the following speci- Total ••• ••• ••• .".. 65 24 Law Fire •••••• • • • • • • - 100 002 10 0 218 WO Law Life•• •• •• •• - -1/. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 414 =tens of his style :- Total deaths from cholera, registered from Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 4% hat " The ostrich is libelled for his glu tton y . Believe Sept. 17, 1848, to Sept. 27, 1849 ... 13,991 Lor.dcn Fire .. •.• • •• 10s. 25 0 012 10 0 161- A Landon Ship • .... •• •• 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 161 ,4 re- wh a t i s s aid of him, and you would not trust him Total deaths from cholera, registered from marine.. ••• •• ...... 12s.per share 100 0015 0 0 9 of even in the royal stables, lest he should devour the very June 17, 1849, to Sept. 27, 1849 ... 12,900 Sled. Invlid&Gen.Life 45 1. per ct. 50 0 0 20 0 21,E rse shoes from the feet of the horses. Why, the ostrich National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 - h e ought to be taken as the one emblem of temperance. • Returns for Thursday have not been received frora National Life.... - Palladium Lite sl.per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21 Os. the He lives and fl nirishes on the desert, his choicest food a the registrars of Kentish -town, sub-district of Pancras; or, little spikey shrub, with a few stone=,-for how rarely and Christchurch, sub-district of Marylebone. Pelican •• ••••.•• • .. •• - - - - Phcenix - - 141 Pi otector Life.... ... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 - IRS can he find iron, how few the white days in which the t Three of the above deaths in the north sub-district in poor ostrich can, in Arabia Peti ma, have the luxury of a of West London, on which inquests were held, occurred Provident Life- -- .. 11. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 26 • tenpenny nail-to season, as with salt, his vegetable between the 25th of July and the 2d of August, but were Rock Life.. • ......... ss. 5000 10 0 5% er- not registered till the 27th inst. [loyal Exchange 6/. per ceat. Stock. 200 diet.-Stary of a Feather, p. 3. Sun Fire.. -6/. 10s. - - 203 ird $ Two deaths, on which inquests were held, in St. Ditto Life .. We know the common story runs that nature haslt. Gs. - - 44 !Of Peter's Walworth, sub-district of Newington, occurred ljxiversal Life........ to% pr cut. 100 0 0 9 0 0 - peculiar visages for poets, philosophers, statesmen, war -5e d between the 18th of August and the Bth of September, Victoria Life .... 5/. per cut. - 40 0 4% riors, and so forth: we do not believe it: we have seen a eir slack•wire dancer with the face of a great pious bard, but were nut registered till the 27th inst. DOCKS. ess an u-urer with the legendary features of a Socrates, a THE COUNTRY. Dividend Amount for passer of bad money very like a Chancellor of the Ex- The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. el chequer, and a carcase-butcher at Whitechepel so re- Di arr h oea re port e d to the General Board of Health Annum. Share. the sembling Napoleon, that Prince Talleyrun d, suddenly the 28th day of September, 18 4 9 t - -- --- - d. A s. d. , no beholding him, burst into tears at the similitude. - Cakes Deaths. East and West India... 6/. pr cent. Stock. k. c- 136 and Ale, vol. i., pp. 269, 2 70. Cholera. Diarrh. East Country .. 20s. per sh. 100 0 0 - 21 " Yet, for alt this, Jericho was ordinarily a dull, Abergavenny ... ... ... - 3 0 London • • . 5/. pr cent. Stock. - - matter-of-fact man. Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and Alnwick 1 0 Ditto Bonds •••• •• .. 4/. per cent. - - - ••• ••• ••• -- Ashton-under-Lyne •... • ... - ee, SLR atharine .. • • .... 4 per cent. Stock. - - he would ask the number of the steps. -A Man made of 1 2 by Ditto, Scrip..... • . - - - _ Money, p. S. Aston ••• „, „, „, 0 2 Ditto Bonds.. -- - NI. pr cent. - - - the "At that hour when sparrows look down reproach- Barnstaple ... ... ... - 0 1 Southampton •• -.• . . 21. per cent. 50 0050 0 0 - w 0 1 0 fully from their eaves at the flushed man trying the Basford- ... ... ... - ere street-door,-Ibid., p. 12. Bedford ••• ••• ..• "-... 1 0 BRIDGES em "'Pon my life, you are so good, you'd pour rose- Bedminster ... ... ... - 1 o Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. 001 Water over a tcad.--Ibid., p. 113. Biggleswade ... ... ..• - 2 ' 0 Annum. Share. rag " I'll tell you %hat, Jenny, the noblest sight on earth Birmingham ... ... ... - 0 2 Charing-cross ••• • •• - - nl' is a man talking reason, and his wife titian' at the file- Bolton 2 0 -- A. s. d. .C. a. d. 001 side listening to hirn.-Ibid ,p. 114. Bradford and North Bierley .. - 5 4 Southwrk,NivSub.Av. - - - 632 12 8 25 0 0 - - - " Comment itors-the worthy folks that too often Brecknock ... ... ... - 1 0 Ditto Nw of 754 p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - - ;ht ihe Write on books, as men with diamonds write on glass, Brentford ... ... ... - 4 2 Waterloo .... •• -.. •• - 100 0 0 -3% obscuring light with scratches.-Ibid., p. 195. Bridgwater •• • • ••• ••• '''' 2 0 Ditto Old Ann. of 8/. 11. 4s. 0-1. - 60 0 0 27 ly Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. Is. Od. - 40 0 0 24 " Earth is here (in Australia) so kind, that just Brighton •.• ••• ••• - 1 0 Vauxhall .... ... Ay. 11. ,7010 3 - 18 Of Bristol tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest.'- ••• ••• ••• ---- 5 1 WELTER.-13TORIES. Aid, p. 212. Bromle y ••• ••• ••• - 1 o :ng " ' Hubert, my dear,' said Jenny, with the deferential Bury ... ••.... ... - 2 1 Dividend Amount air of a scholar ; ' Robert, what did Mr. Carraways Cardiff ... ... ... ... - 1 , z , Name of Company. per of raid. Price. w- mean when he said he hated dog - dogmatism? ' Topps Carmarthen - ... ... - 1 0 --, -- ,nd was puzzled. ' Robert, my dear, Jenny urged, ' what- Chesterfield ... ... ... - 0 1 Xs.d.X s• d. ,nd what in the world is dogmatism?' Now it was the Chippenham ... ... ... - 1 0 East London••• •..•• •• 81. 100 0 0 - 179 ,11(1 weakness of Topps never to confess ignorance of any- Chorlton ••• ••• ••• - 6 2 Grand Junction •••• •• 41. per cut. 50 0 0 Kent.. -••• • • • ...... 31. 10s. 100 0 0 - - Si 75 n(I thing same- to his wife. ' A man should never do it,' Clifton ••• ••• ••• - 6 2 Lambeth - 99 aid Topps had been known in convivial season to declare; 'it Clutton 1 0 New Rivr Lndn Brdge 21.105. - - - Makes 'um conceited: Whereupon Topps prepared him- Coekermouth ... ... ... - 3 o Vauxhall .• .• - ...... 61. per cnt. 100 0 0 - _ nd West Middlesex . . . !61.05. pr mt.; - 123% self, as was his wont, to make solemn, satisfying answer. Coventry ••• ••• ••• 1 o - ,nd Taking off his hat, and smoothing the wrinkles of his Darlington ... ... ... ---- 0 . 1 GAS-MIGHT ELND CONE COMPANIES. brow, Topps said-'Humph! what is dogmatism? Why Derby ... ... ... ... - 1 1 Jg 3 it is this-of course. Dogmatism is puppyism come to Dewsbury ... ... ... - 2 1 Name of Company. Dividend Amount I per of Paid. Price. Of its full grow th.'-Ibid., p. 252. Doncaster ... ••• ••• - 1 0 Annum. :...are. " I declare, Mr. Goldthumb, it seems you have reed Droitwich ... - „, - 1 0 - Z. s. 0. A. s. d. everything.' Why, ma'am, after working thirty years Dudle y ••• ••• ••• - 3 1 British ••••••• • •• •• • • 1/. 40 0 0 18 0 0 14 10- as a trunk-maker, 'twould be to my shame if I didn't Edmonton ... ... ... - 2 1 Ditto frovincial.• •• 11. Bs. 20 0 0 19 0 0 18 ,be know something of the literature of my country.'-Time Ely ..• ... ... ... - 1 0 Bristol .. -.• • • ...... 101. per cent. 20 0 0 - - in Works Wonders." Exeter ... ... ... ... - 0 1 Brighton -••..•• • • • .• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 0 City of London .. •• •• - 16 101. ,100 0 0 100 0 0 250 ;en . We close the British Quarterly, after making these Gainsborough ... ... ... - 1 ':ontinentalConsolidat. 925. pr share' 50 00395 41 30 for excerpts, in the height of good humour. 0 Gateshead ... ... .. - 1 1 I.:quitable.. •• • • ...... 50s. pr share 50 00500 0 26 Gloucester ... ..„ ... - 1 imperial ............ 3 1. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 67 independent ... .... • • 61. per cent. '4O 0 0 40 0 0 6 2 % eir TIIE PARLOUR LIBRARY. Hemel Hem p stead ... ... - 1 1 London.• .. _•.•• • • • • - 50 0050 0 0 - ct- Elitchin 1 Among the fictions reprinted in this excellent and 1=1 , 01 , y . well ••• ••• ••• .... - 50 0050 0 - W- 1 0 Phoenix .-„ •• _ ~, .. 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 46 0 0 27% popular serial, must be noticed the Irish tale of ••• ••• •s• ...". :en Ratcliff .... .-•• • • • • 5/. 100 0090 0 0 '75 "Father O'Connell," and the French story of " An- will ••• ••• ••• ••• - 16 4 1 United General •• •• •• 7s. Gd. 50 0 0 50 0 0 13 DSO tlunslet 16 lVestminster Chartered 31. 50 0 0 45 - Led drew the Savoyard." Both of them are admirable Ipswich 0 1 Ditto, New •• •• -.. 12s. 50 0010 0 0 8 specimens of two very different species of romance. st • Isle of Thanet (Ramsgate) ... - 1 0 Another volume contains a series of most enthralling Kidd erm i ns t er 1 0 CANALS. as••• ••• - tad "Tales of the First French Revolution," collected by Kingsbridge (Modbur3) .•• - 1 0 1 ,•; 1 I the gifted author of "Emilia Wyndham." King's Lynn ... ... ... - 0 e Names of i '., Dividend Price. Names of r; "Dividend ea Companies. 21 1 per 's 1 per • Leeds ... ... - - - 20 7 Companies. A 1 Ann uri. Price. me -- THE RAILWAY LIBRARY. Lewes ... ... ... ... - 0 2 --. re \ Annum. .4 i i -- ;he A periodical of •somewhat similar character with the Liver I poo_ ••• ••.• ••• - 6 2 I , A \ --- 1 0 .ishtn& Oldh 97 71. 113 Macelesiaelt . 'OO 21. 10s. - foregoing has been recently commenced, entitled the Llaudillo Fawr ••• ••• - aarnsiey• •.• 160, 121. 180 Neatly •••• • • 'OO 161. 340 or,Llanelly 1 "Hallway Lib: and among the most interesting ••• ••• ••• - 0 urknk&Abrg 150 : 51. 85 0xf0rd...... C 3 20/. 185 tat Liskeard 9 0 Birmingham , 35, 41. 81 Peak Forest. 78 31. 18s. 10 of the reprints for a single shilling, complete, are the ••• ••• ••• ---- ,he Maidstone (Loose) ... ... - 10 1 Coventry....lloo, 251. 2re Regent's •• ••3 3 i I/. 2s. 17% works of Miss Austin and of Mr. Cooper. The 3 Derby ••• - 1100 61. 63 Rochdale..• • 85 1 41. 50% to Manchester ••• ••• ••• - 23 "Pilot" with "Sense and Sensibility," are the spe- Elismre&Chs' 133, 565. 41 Somrset Coal so ' 71.105. 130 e a Market Drayton (from Sept. 23) - 5 0 E-ewash -.1100, 321. - Do.LkFdSt 12 Gl.p. c. - 21. 03. - cimens now lying upon our table. Considering the iss Medway ••• ••• ••• - 0 1 GrandJunctnlloo 51. 86% Strfril &Wore '4O 281. 210 merit of the works, and the cheapness with which , .trandSurrey 1100 21. 30 Shrewsbury.. 125 131 . _ Da laeath - „, „„ „, - 1 0 0 Grand Union' 100 11. 10s. 24 Stourbridge- 201. 300 they are here reproduced, they cannot fail to corn- 145 2 Grantham - 150 : - - Severn andl he Newcastle-upo n- Tyne ••• - 0 Kennt & Avn 39, 7s. 6d. mend a large circulation. N ewcastle-under-Lyoe 2 ••• - 1 Leeds& Livrp 100, t he 2 41. 63 Lid ELEMENTS OF ELECTRO BIOLOGY; Newton Abbott Norwich ••• ••• - ••• ••• - 1 3 Leicester .... 141:f it. 63% Rirming. j 100 301. 32 5 5 % w W a y rw e Rail. ik 26 Leicstr &Nth 83 41. 45 Warwick& } 100 31. 43 !r- or, The Voltaic Mechanism of Man; of Electra. O. m4kirk ••• ••• -- 1 0 Loughborogh 142 701. 6 50 Napton.. t s P a thology, especially of the Nervous System; and Pembroke 4 ,. ••• e ••• ••• ••• ••• 0 2 Nionmouthsh 100, 81. - Worcstr &1 78 21. 41 Mntgemrysh 100 - - Binning. j ut of Electra Therapeutics. By Alfred Smee, Peterborough ... •• ••• 0 - 0 Her eltnMbry, 100 - - Wilts & Brks -14 s. 10 y; .F.R S, Surgeon to the Bank of England, 6 - c. 6 - c . Pontefract ... ... ... - 1 o id It has been the opinion of scientific men for many Prescot ••• ••• ••• - 2 0 LEST OP SCOTTISH COMP ANIES' PRICER 3r, years past that life and electricity were identical, and Redruth ••• ••• •.• - 6 1 1 Dividend I Amount ' v 1 0 ~ • . •_ .c... A. - Name of Company. s per Share. of Paid. Price n ~ ,-, ~ .... Dividend Amount Name of Company. per _ of Paid. Prii e. Annum. Share. ----- --_. -- - - £ s. d. £ IN d. Australasia .• .• ••• • • • 3/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 - Britsh.North American Si. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - Ceylon ...... • ....... 1 7/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - C denial.. •• • • - Gloucestershire .. •• - 1151 cent. - - - lonian -••-. . - - - 161. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Londn and Westminstr : 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 24 % Ditto ' - - 13 0 0 - London Joint-Stock ... 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -• Provincial of Ireland.. 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -- Ditto, New... -. . - SI. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - Nxtioual of Ireland .. Si. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 - Nat. Provncial of Eng. GE. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, New. ..• - - 151. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - South Australia •. - - 51 per cent. - 22 10 0 - Union 01 Australia.... I Cl. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto •• ........ - - 61. per cent - 210 0 - Union of London. •-• , 61. per cent 50 0 0 10 0 0 - ..... Union of Madrid I - 10 0 0 40 0 0 - INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ s. 41. Albion ••••••• • • • • • -3/. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 '75 Alliance Brit. and For. 7114 s 6d &bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 19X Ditto Marine. •• •• •• 61. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 - Atlas .. - British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 - Clericl,Med.&Gen•Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19 County --.••••• •• •• 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 60 148. 50 0 0 5 0 0 - Eagle •••• • • - Eng.& Scot. Law -•• bl.per cent. 50 0 0 212 6 - European Life •••• •• 4% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 15 FamilyEndowmet Soc. 4/. & bs. 100 0 0 4 0 0 - Freemasons' .• ••••• .• 61. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 - Globe •• •• •• .• 61. per cent. Stook. - 120 Guardian • ... ••••• • .• 51. 100 0 0 36 10 0 49% imperial Fire .. •••• - 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 220 Imperial Life •••• •• • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15 Indemnity Marine •• • . 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 35 Law Fire •• •••••• •• •• - 100 0 0 210 0 2% Law Life•• •• •• •• .... 1/. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 41% Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 434 Lorelen Fire .. •.• • •• 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16 1 A London Ship • .... - -10 s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16 1 A Marine - ••• • • ...... 12s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 9 Red. Invlid&Gen.Life 4%1. per ct . 50 0 0 20 0 2 1 % National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 - National Lite• • - Palladium Lite 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 210 s. Pelican •• • • • • .• • • .. •• - - - - Pheenix - - 141 Pi otector Life.... ... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 - Provident Life- •..... 11. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 26 Rock Life.. • ......... Is. 5 0 0 010 0 5% [loyal Exchange 6l. per cent. Stock. - 200 Sun Fire.. -6/. 10s. - - 203 Ditto Life ..... - - 44 tlxiversal Life.. - - Victoria Life ... - 4 0 0 44 DOCKS. Dividend Amount Name of Coraptuiy. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. -- - - £ s. d. £ s. d. East and West India... 6/. pr cent. Stock. - 136 East Country .. 20s. per sh. 100 0 0 - 21 London • • - - Ditto Bonds •••• •• -4/. per cent. - - - SALK atharine .. • • .... 4 per cent. Stock. - - Ditto, Scrip - - - - Ditto Bonds.. -- - NI. pr cent. - - - Southampton •• •• - BRIDGES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. A. 8. d. X. a. d. Charing-cross •• • • •• - - 25 0 0 - Southwrk,NivSub.Av. - G 32 12 6 - Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - - Waterloo .... •. - - 100 0 0 -3% Ditto Old Ann. of 8/. 11. 4s. Oil. - 60 0 0 27 Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. Is. Od. - 40 0 0 24 Vauxhall .... ... Ay. 11. i 70 10 3 - 18 WATER-13TORIES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of raid. Price. Annum. Share. ------' - -- - £ 8. d. £ s. d. East London..• •.••• •• al. 100 0 0 - 179 Grand Junction •••• •• 41. per cut. 50 0 0 - 81 Kent.. -•••• •• ...... 31. 10s. 100 0 0 - 75 Lambeth ...... -- - 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 99 New ltivr Lndn Brdge 21. 10s. - - - Vauxhall .• .• ........ 51. per cut. 100 0 0 - - West Middlesex . . . ,61. Os. pr cut.; - - 123% GASINIGLIT AND COKE COMPANIES. i Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price. Annum. :.rare. Z. s. d. A. a. d. British ••••••• • • • • • • • 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 14 Ditto froTincial.• • • 11. Bs. 20 0 0 19 0 0 18 Bristol ••••••• • • . • • • • 101. per cent. 20 0 0 Brighton .. •• .. •..... 51. per cent. l 20 0 0 16 City of London .. •• • • 101. 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 ':ontinental Consolidat. 925. pr share 50 0 0 39 5 11 30 r2quitable —•• • • ...... 50s. pr share 50 0 0 50 0 0 26 imperial •. .. .. •• .. .. 31. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 67 independent ....... • • 61. per cent. '4O 0 0 40 0 0 62% London.• .... •.•• • • • • 50 0 0 50 0 0 Ditto 50 0 0 50 0 i'hcenix . ............ 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 46 0 0 27% Ratcliff ..... .. •.• • • • 5/. 100 0 0 90 0 0 75 United General •• •• 7s. CIL 50 0 0 50 0 0 13 Westminster Chartered 31. 50 0 0 45 Ditto, New ••- • .. 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 ELEJLENTS OF ELECTRO BIOLOGY; or, The Voltaic illechanisni of Man; of Electro• Pathology, especially of the Nervous System; and of Electro Therapeutics. By Alfred Smee, F.R S, Surgeon to the Bank of England, 6-c. 6-c. It has been the opinion of scientific men for many years past that life and electricity were identical, and although when first propounded the opinion, like all new opinions, was scoffed at, and then denounced as tending to infidelity, yet from the time of the experiments of Dr. Wilson Philip, from which it appeared that the process of digestion was carried on in the stomach of a recently killed rabbit by placing the nerve which went to the stomach into contact with a galvanic battery, this opinion has been gradually gaining ground. No experiments, however, had been undertaken to test the accuracy of this opinion until Mr. Alfred Smee, to vi hom electrical science has long been under deep obligations, de voted his attention to the investigation of this most interesting and important subject. The results of his observations and experiments he has given to the world in the work now under review, which sets the question at rest. Mr. Smee proves that not the brain and nerves merely, but the whole mechanism of man is essentially voltaic, that life is the supremacy of electrical over chemical action in the human system, that when electrical action loses its supremacy disease ensues, that when it ceases death is the immediate consequence. He satisfactorily shows that life and all vital phenomena are merely so many modifications of electricity. Mr. Alfred Smee has conferred a great benefit upon the cause of true science by the publication of this excellent work. LEST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. -.. ........-. -.-.-.- -- -. X s. d. X s. d Bank of Scotland .Iritish Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 204 Jaledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 1134 ;Iydesdale Bank •• •• •• 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12% ;ommercial Bank - - 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 165 Eastern Bank .••• •• •• 61. percent. 25 u 0 10 0 C 91. Is Edinb.fiGlasgow Bank Si. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 5% Exehangeßnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 21% Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 - N'ational Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14% gorth of Scotlandßank 41. percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 31.0 s North British Bank .• • - - - - Royal Bank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 128% Union Bank of Scotland 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 84 Western Bank •• •• •• •• 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 731 Aberdeen Fire and Life 7%1.pr cent. 12 10 0 2 0 8 2 B. Accord. Lifeaud Fire - 20 0 0 010 0 - British Guarantee Ins. V. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 9s 6d Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21 Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 2 0 0 - City of Glasgow Life.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. Is :dinburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18% East of Scotland Life.. - 10 0 0 015 0 9s.Od. Eng. & Scot. Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 - aercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Incur. Co. of Scetlnd.• 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ll. 6s Sfercantile Life ...• .. 4/. per cent. 10 0 0 010 0 35. Gd. National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 205.6 d North British Incur... 5%1.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 231 North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ' - Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 011 ,cot. M as. and Gen.L l fe - 0 0 015 0 - Scottish Union Insrnee. 6UI. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 2s itandard Life •••• •. • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 , 95i United Dep. Assurance 4. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 114s.ed .., MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. --- X. a. d. X. a. d. Australian Agriculturl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 16 Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 4s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - Ditto, Bali Shares.. - - 2 10 0 Canada -. ••..•• - - Gl. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 - Uppr Canada Bonds Si. per_cent. - - 89 City Navigation .... - - - 90 C om p.Cppr Mnrs Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 - i Gen. Revers. & Invest. s p. c.k, bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 - E q uitable Reversionry 5 1 . pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 104 1 Gen.SteamNavigation 11.8 s. 15 0 0 14 0 0 - 1 London Institution .• • - - 78 15 0 - ) Russell Institution.. • . - - 26 5 0 - Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 8/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 78% Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 90 ) Royal Mail Steam.... 61 18..4. p. c. 100 0 0 160 0 0 - ) South Australian ... -1/. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 18 _ Van Diemen's Land. , - 100 00,23 0 0 - ••• .. Rye Saffron Walden Salford ... Stamford ... Sculcoates Sheffield South Shields ... Staines ... Stockport ... Stockton ... Stoke Damarel Stoke-upon-Trent Stourbridge • ... Stroud Sudbury ... Sunderland Swansea ... Tavistock ... Teesdals (Barnard Caul') Totnes ... Truro ... Tynemouth Ulverston Wakefield ... Walsall ... Warrington ... Watford ... Wells ... West Ashford... West Bromwich West Derby ... Weymouth ... Whitehaven Wigan Windsor Wirral Wisbeach • • • .".. ••• ''''' ••• ..... ••• "" ••• ''' • • • ''''''' • • • •".. •• • "". ••• •"'• ••• ".. • • • ..... ••• ••••• ••• "."". ••• .". ••• ... ••• ... ••• .'" •• • "'. • • • ".m. ••• °"'' • • • "'"'. ••• .". ••• "" ••• "". ••• ."' • • "'"" •• • "'" MITCHELL'S SHILLING VOLITME. Yet another shilling serial has been commenced by another enterprising publisher. Volume One of this new adventure is an agreeable tale of truth, called " Charlotte Temple," by ➢lrs. Rowton. The spe culation of Messrs. Mitchell is deserving of en couragement. ••• ..... WI, .."" ••• •"' ••• '''''. • • • .... e•• ""'" ••• ""'" • TINTS FROM AN AMATEUR'S PALETTE. A pleasant little volume, dedicated to Charles Dickens, and evidently conceived throughout under his genial inspiration. Some of the sketches are really very felicitous, as for example the one descrip tive of mail coach travelling. None of the Amateur's Tints are neutral tints—half of them are sad-coloured, the other moiety gay and hilarious. Taken from his palette as they have been with such a skilful hand, we doubt not they will be found satisfactory to the palates of the generality. •• • .... 39 BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, fa] the Week ending on Saturday, the 22d day of September, 1849. Isms MAIMS-ENT. HAYMARKET `THEATRE.—On Monday next this house will open for the season with Mrs. Nisbett and Miss Jane Mordaunt in the Love Chase. The rest of the week will be occupied by comedies, in which Mrs. Nisbett plays some of her best characters. On the fol lowing Monday Mr. Macready will appear, and act on alternate nights, the intervals bein g fill e d by Mrs. Nis bett. Mr. Macready will be succeeded by Mr. and Mrs. Kern, with whom Mrs. Warner, who appear pith Mr. Macready, will remain. Afterwards 11 . 1 r. Ma crea dy will return, and complete the round of his characters, prior to his final retirement from the stage, which will, we believe, take place next summer. Several new play s, serious and comic, will, it is said, be produced at the Haymarket in the course of the approaching season, Lord and Lady Brougham have been receiving a succession of visitors at Brougham Hall this month; amongst the guests have been the Marquis of Dour?, Lord Wharncliffe, Mr. and Mrs. Towneley, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, the Duke and Duchess of BLautort and Lady Henrietta Somerset, Earl and Countess of Glengall and Lady Margaret Butler, Colonel and Miss Darner, Captain Moore, Lord and Lady Win. Yowlett, lion. Edward Stanley, Mr. Howard, &e. DAY or FASTING AND HUMILIATION AT WINDSOR AND ETON.—At Windsor, on Wednesday last, all secular business was entirely suspended, and the whole of the shops closed during the day, agreeably to the recom mendation of the bishop of the diocese, supported by the mayor, and the vicar and clergy, in order that the day might be observoi as one " of solemn fasting and humi anon, in consequence of the grievous disease with which it has pleased Almighty God to afflict many portions of this lima." It is most gratifying to be enabled to state that the c' *a has been extremely mild in its effects in the nei of windser and Eton. Notes issuQll•• 28,246,500 Government debt •• 11,015,100 Other securities •• •• '2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 13,839,423 Silver bullion • • • . • . 407,077 £ 28,246,500 L MARSHALL, Mei Cashier. OEPARTMEN T. Government securi ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) • • 14,354,859 Other securities •• •• 10,721,590 Notes ••••••• • • • • • • • 10,813,735 Gold and silver coin•• 868,376 £36,758,560 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. 65 T la 1 1 1 U ON 14 3 SAS ril URI" A Y EVEIRING, ORPTEmrinn go, 164& very serious, that we were not to judge, .or to know of their Tricks and Cczerv , ge, and that it was no matter to us if they did cheat their Creditors, provided we could buy their 11 7 ;,rEs at a Bargain, and besides, if we did not, others would. So going by Rogge, Rip, and Co., their Establi.bment, as they do call their shop, she would needs stop in front of it to look in, and, I knew, consider what among the Things there she could find to want : which did trouble me. Ito read the Posters in the Window, which were the worst and most pitiful of any, and by their showing Mr. Ragge, and Mr. Rip, and their Co. were going altogether to the Dogs. My Wife did presently, as I expected, find somewhat she had a mind to : a Muslin she did say was Dirt cheep, and I knew was Dirt-worth. I plainly refused to let her buy it, or anything else at angle and Rip's, who have been, to my Knowledge, making a Tremen dous Sacrifice any Time the last two Years ; but the Simpletons their Cu,tomers the only Victims. But I do nut pity such Gudgeons a Whit as are caught by these Tricks of the Drapery Trade; and methinks they are rightly served by being cheated in seeking to profit, as they think, by Fraud and dishonest Bank ruptcy. I told my WVe that ltagg , . and Rip do sell off at a loss to none but those that deal with them, and were like at that mo:nent, in::-tend of being Bankrupts, to be making merry at the expense of their Dupes. But she being sullen at my Denial of her Muslin, I did quiet her by the Promise of a better Piece at Faireloth and Pryce'e, who do carry on Bu,iness without roguish Puffery, and after the old Fashion of English Traders, according to the Maxim that " Good Wine needs no Bush," which my Wife, poor silly Wretch, not understanding, I explained to her did mean, that Stuffs worth the buying to find a sale do stand in no imecl of Haberdashers' trickish Advertisements. —Punch. THE NATIONAL REFORM CLUB. (From the Cork Southern Reporter.) There is a considerable stir among such of the Reformers as are in town, consequent on the dissolu tion of the Free Trade Club, in St. James's-square, and respecting which you will have seen several pa ragraphs in the 'papers, many altogether erroneous, especially in the Tory journals. The versions from the latter ',sources would lead you to infer that the dissolution waa effected amidst a storm of recrimina tory vindictiveness, insolvency„ - and disaster of all sorts. That such was not the case, and that the cause of reform is not likely to suffer by the future move ments of those who have just brought about the break up of the late establishment, you will see from the following circular issued by the president of the Progressive Association to whose proceedings at their central office in the Poultry, City, your attention has been sere ral times drawn of late, viz : " ProvisionallCommittee of the National Reform Club, 14, St. James's Square, Sept. 22,1849. Sir,—The Free Trade Club having been dissolved by the unanimous decision of a general meeting, held for that purpose on the 20th inst., and it being con• sidered desirable by many members of the National Par liamentary and Financial Reform Asscciation, that a new club, based upon their principles, and assisting that great movement, should be established in the house of the late club, I have to request you will be so good as to intimate whether, in the event of a suf ficient number of gentlemen agreeing to constitute such a club, the provisional committee may have the honour of your support and membership. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " JOSHUA WALMESLEY." There is no doubt that this is a wise and judicious proceeding on the part of those who have the wel fare of the popular cause at heart, which many of the so-called free- traders had and have not, merely using the now comparatively antiquated cloak of com mercial liberality as a blind to this retrogression from their early professions of anxiety for political justice, properly so called. Free trade is now as much part and parcel of the :constitution as the lion and unicorn; and it would ba just as reasonable for people to associate for the conservation of the domes tic comfort of these respectable maminamli I as to unite against the re-imposition of the sliding scale, navigation laws, differential duties, and so on. The full completion of the measure of free-trade is in the natural course of fulfilment. Not so the Reform Bill. Progression there is essentially crab-like. The tendency of our rulers and of the dominant classes is notoriously anti-popular, in the widest sense of the term ; and we are at this moment further from the realization of the governmental ameliorations contem plated by Lord John Russell, and proposed by Lord Durham in the first draft of the Act of 1832, than during any period that has elapsed from that hour to this, even when the Court, the Cabinet, the United Services, the Church, a large majority of both houses and the principal organs of the press were ostentatiously Tory. Hence the necessity of stripping quasi reformers of the guise in which this Free-Trade Club permitted, them to envelope themselves. It was exceedingly con venient to a thorough ministerial hack or expectant, to point to his enrolment with Cobden, Bright, and the rest of the free-traders as a proof that he kept pace with the spirit of the times, as if the veriest Peelite were not equally entitled to claim the same merit. That juggle now no longer possible. A secession from the free-trade club under its new or ganisation means a secession from the cause of further reform, and will be taken by the public as a recogni tion of the wisdom of the wh,les ...me old motto, " these that are not with us are against us." The new agitation is being commenced with the younger blood of the late club :—Mr. Tindal Atkinson, the barrister, whose conduct in respect to the unfor tunate Chartist prisoners swept off by cholera brought on by the barbarous regimen of the gaol, is as rare as it is noble ; Mr. Charles Wordsworth, the eminent writer on election law and joint-stock companies; Mr. M'Enteer, one of your countrymen whose practical efficiency is commensurate with his zeal ; George Thompson, the Member for the Tower Hamlets; and numerous others —all under the wary and vigilant guardianship of Sir Joshua Walmesley, who aspires much more to be a guide than a leader, being well content that others should openly " share the triumph and par take the gale " if he can be useful, (and no man is more so), in maturing that consumption. A club, of whom these gentlemen are the working committee, is indeed calculated to accomplish the uses for which the Reform Club was originally instituted, the ad vancement of the reform cause. But those uses are now burlesqued by that association. The working committee of the Reform Club are as conservative as the working committee of the Carlton. Whig offi cials, their relations, parasites, and jackals control the whole affair to their own ends, and make it a sort of inner Clerk's Office to Downing -street, and with the usual financial embarrasment—debt—w hose mag nitude is disguised by the same species of legerdemain that characterised Sir Charles Wood's five budgets the first year he was Chancellor, and characterised Trevelyan's squandering of millions of Irish works, that only deepened the poverty and augmented the idleness of the people mocked with the phantasm of relief." The National Reform Club expects to open next month with fully five hundred members, and it is more than probable that a considerable number of these will be Irishmen, of whom neither their coun try nor this need be ashamed. It is understood that several Irish M.P.'s will join forthwith, and among them, it is to be presumed, will be your excellent re presentative, Mr. Fagan, who was one of the most energetic, consistent, and constant of all the Liberal opposition throughout last session, being scarcely ever absent from a division wherein his vote could mark his approbation of sound principle in theory, or honest conduct in practice. The provisional com mittee are most anxious to avail themselves of all Irishmen of character, conduct, and discernment; and the occasion does indeed seem most auspicious for a junction of the working intellect of the two countries for the mutual acquirement of reforms of which each stands respectively so much in need. It is obvious enough that there is a most serious apprehension in interested quarters here lest any such fusion should be brought about. The prospects of the National Reform Club, dis encumbered of the heterogeneous elements that have neutralized the Reform body of late years, are far more encouraging than could have been looked fur even three months ago ; and lend to the contempla tion of the coming session an aspect whose hopeful ness is calculated to inspire with energetic zeal those who had begun to despair of progress. The stake that Ireland has in the new movement is immense, and there is reason to believe that she will n ot forfeit it through a criminal apathy, to the advice of her best n adviser to join her friends here. SUNDAY DUTIES AT THE POST- OFFICE. General Po*t•office, September, 1849. I. With a view to affording postmasters and their assistants proper rest on the Sunday, the Postmaster- General has been pleased to direct 1. That on and after the 14th of October next, all provincial offices in England and Wales shall be closed on the Sunday from 10 A M. to 5 P.M , except for the necessary receipt and dispatch of mails; the box merely being left open for the receipt of stamped and unpaid letters. 2. That the deliveries at such places on the Sunday shall be restricted in all cases to one. 11. Further, that to facilitate the above arrange ments, and at the same time to promote the public co nvenience, letters posted at provincial offices on the blank post day for towns beyond London, shall, if stamped and paying full letter rates, be forwarded, as on other days, so as to be delivered, except in remote places, en the Monday morning. No change, how ever, will be made as regards letters addressed to or posted in London. A very interesting series of Letters by his Majesty George the Third and the Royal Family to Bishop Hurd, and that Prelate's replies, are published in the new number of Bentley's Miscellany, issued this day. THE SEWERS COMMISSION. Of late, whilst pestilence has been abroad—when all general considerations ought to have merged in the performance of immediate and importent duties of wealleviation, believe that many members of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers have been greatly annoyed at the intrusion of angry personal questions and disputes, which they have made large sacrifices to avoid. We believe that the facts out of which these opprobrious scenes have arisen are as follow : On the formation of tha Consolidated Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, several gentlemen were in cluded who had been members of the superseded commissions, but who were understood to be favour. able to the new measures recommended by the Sani tary Commissioners, as essential to the improvement of the metropolis. It turned out, however, in no great length of time, that these gentlemen considered the change to be merely one of men, and not the entire change contemplated of works, as well as of the modes of working, that they had been formerly ac customed to. Some of them ccnsidered it as a waste of the ratepayers' money and a misapplication of the officers' time to institute such operations as the gauging of sewers to ascertain the flow of water, and determine accurately the sizes of the new works for its complete removal. Others declared the applica tion of sewer water as manure, and the trial works for its disposal, to be matters foreign to the business of a sewers commission. The Metropolitan Sanitary Com missioners had strongly urged the drainage of the suburban marshes, and the extension of facilities to private land drainage as a means of removing damp and insalubrity, as well as of preparing the land for the reception of manures, which otherwise must be piled up in putrid laystalls, or cause the pollution of the river. Some of these commissioners were put upon committees under the consolidated commission of 1847, and the earlier courts of that commission were engrossed with the re-discussion of schemes and principles of works, which although fully expounded and supported by adequate evidence in published re ports, were neither admitted nor understood by these gentlemen. On the issue of the second consolidated commission under the new Sewers Act, a division of labour was introduced, and one very large depart ment was handed over (at least as far as regarded the preparation of matter for the decision of the court) to a committee of works, consisting of engineers and others possessing special qualifications for that de partment. Not to stultify the committee by includ ing members who had been concerned in the approval of works totally the reverse of what had now to be constructed, the names of these members of previous commissions were omitted. But one consequence of this omission was the constant raising of ques tions as to the legality of transacting any portion of the business of the commission in committees, al though expressly sanctioned by the new Act. To satisfy the complainants, the matter was referred to the Jaw cfficers of the Crown, who gave their opinion in accordance with the plain words of the statute ; but notwithstanding this, the time of the courts con tinued to be occupied by the dissentient members whom nothing could apparently reconcile to a proce dure that excluded them from a full share in all the discussions relaing to the works of the commission. They insisted upon every matter, however technical, and every detail, however trifling, being debated in open court; and this not being allowed, they quar relled with almost everything that had been prepared apart from them. The time of the court was occu pied by the setting forth of their qualifications to carry out works which they had no part in originating, and were not inclined to agree to. Very great delays in the operations of the commission—operations of life and death—were incurred by this unfortunate state of things, which it was at one time hoped would have been terminated by the resignation of one or two of the commissioners—gentlemen in the highest degree respectable, and of the most sincere good intentions, and in many respects men of ability, whose misfor tune it is that they cannot in this instance see the peculiarities of an altered state of things. As Har vey declared that he could never get a man above rixty years of age to admit the doctrine of the cir culation of the blood, so these gentlemen could not be brought to see the necessity of an entire change of the liquid circulation of this great metropolis. Besides these personal bickerings on the part of the old commissioners, there were several of the old officers, who were considered to fall short, and did not gain entire confidence in the performance of their new duties. The appointment of Mr. Henry Austin, as the consulting engineer, and of several new officers, opened additional mines of jealousy, which had of late broken out publicly. No pains have been spared to excite external agitation in aid of the internal oppo sition. The local boards who had charge of gully shoots, and whose paving is likely to be interfered with, have been incited against the commission. The chief point of opposition recently raised was actually an extensive cleansing operation, the flushing of the sewers, which had of late been carried on to a con siderable extent. On this operation was charged the infection of the air. The operation of flushing, it may be briefly stated, is effected by penning back the sewer water, with the addition of such other water as can be obtained, to add to the force of the operation. The decomposing matter which had even accumulated in the sewer is then stirred up beneath the water, so that no smell escapes ; the floodgate is opened, and the whole discharged. It was stated in one of the sewers courts the se::her day, that the operation, instead of occasioning an emission of effluvia, carries down with it air from the street. The parties who complained were asked to point out the times when they could aver that there had been, instead of a dimunition, an increase of offen sive effluvia, because, if there had been much increase, the operation had been very improperly conducted, and the parties employed would be held responsible for it ; but the complainants failed to make good a single instance. The following extracts from a re port, presented to the court by Assistant-Surveyor Lovick, displays the nature of the opposition raised : " Believing that it would be satisfactory to the -com missioners, as a test of the efficacy of these operations, I have collected the opinions of between 800 and 900 of the inhabitants, including many medical men, in the Surrey and Kent district, who speak very decidedly of the benefits experienced by them from the late more frequent flushing of the sewers, many very favourably contrasting their present condition under this commission with their condition under the old commission. Some have stated that the increased cleansing is equivalent to the increased sewers' rate, and they hare expressed their gratitude for the comparative freedom from smell and annoyance resulting from the works of this commission. (See Appendix A. and C.) " To the individual opinions which I have appended to this report I beg to draw the attention of the com missioners. " Your chief surveyors, Messrs. Roe and Phillips, appended to their report on flushing in August. 1848, a list of the opinions of upwards of 1,000 persons, medical men, and others, very expressive of satisfaction with the operation of this system. These, as they appear very pertinent to the subject, I also append; and as I believe them to express, as well as those before alluded to, the public opinion on this matter; and as the expressions of the opinions of a few appear to have been mistaken for a public expression, and the necessary results of natural for artificial causes. (See Appendix A. and B.) "At an adjourned inquest held on the 14th Ult., OU a death which had occurred in Staple-street, Borough, and which was stated to have been caused by the open ditch in the vicinity, upon which, at the coroner's (Mr. Payne) request, I attended the clerk to the board of guardians, amongst other very strong expressions of opinion, stated that they had never experienced smells before the new commission interfered with them; that the new com mission had done everything wrong ; that everything they touched had gone wrong; that they were all right under the old commission, but that they were now an noyed by nuisances which they never felt before. " He fetched two witnesses from Staple-street, who resided on the banks of the open ditch, who proved, in answer to questions which I put to them, that the ditch was greatly improved since this commission bad taken to it, and kept much better than it ever was before; that they wore greatly benefited by the flushing, 'the ditch being much sweeter and cleaner after it;' and that they did not experience near so bad smells from it' as those to which they were accustomed under the old com mission; and that they greatly preferred the frequent cleansing of the ditch, and seemed much surprised at being asked the question, as they had been benefited in proportion to the frequent cleansing. " This ditch had been cleansed at mote frequent inter vals during the two months prior to the inquest, and the coroner, in summing up. laid great and particular stress upon this fact as saving the commissioners from the charge of neglect. "And the coroner and jury, upon my explaining to them that this was the only practical remedy, pending permanent works which the circumstances of the case wou!d not warrant, agreed that the commissioners had, to the extent of their power, afforded relief to this locality. " I adduce this as an example of the kind of statements made, and which, coming, uncontradicted, from the re presentative of a local body, would no doubt have been mistaken for an ( xpression of the opinion of a district; and of the statements of the inhabitants, supposed, in this case, adverse witnesses, who most unequivocally express that which may, from the circumstances, be taken to be the public opinion. Mr. Grant, the assistant surveyor, in his report on the evils complained of in Blackfriars-road and neighbourhood, thus corrects the erroneous views of a gentleman, who was loud in his complaints of the works of the commission in this lo cality, when it appeared that these had not for many months been in operation : " In describing the cause of the unhealthy condition of this neighbourhood it would be improper to omit re ference to two which were supposed by a gentleman who has interested himself in this matter to bo the chief, and into which I inquired. These were, first, the flushing of the sewers, and secondly, the substitution of 450 feet of 9-inch pipe for a wide and offensive ditch in Boundary-row. 'ln reference to the first alleged cause, the foreman of flashers stated to me that the sewers in Blackfriars road and Charlotte-street have not bEen flushed for some months, simply because the men cannot remain in the sewers. There is a cross wall built about three feet high, at the upper end of the sewer in Blackfriars-road, which turns the water down the Westminster-road and Water- A 28,246,500 Dated the 27th day of Sept., tB4 BANKING D. X. E'roprietors'capttal•• 14,553,000 [test • •• •....... 3,580,516 Public deposits (in alading Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say kngs-banks, and Di vidend accounts).. 8,528,948 Other deposits ••• • • • 9,112,962 Seven day and other bills•• •• •• •••• 583,134 £3G,758,560 Dated the 27th day of Sept., 18 SWEARING IN OF THE NEW SHERlFFS.—Yesterday the sheriffs eleW, L. D. Nicoll, Esq., and Alderman Law rsnce, after having attended Divine service, proceeded iu state to Guildhall, where they were sworn into office for the ensuing year, before the civic authorities, with the usual formalities. PRODIGIOUS CROP —A letter from a gentleman in Kent states that the wheat crop this year, in the Isle of Thanet, has yielded from 60 to 65 bushels per acre. — Lincolnshire Chronicle. Wolverhampton and Siesdoi York ... ... ... Total ... SC U 1 LAND. Dunfermline ... Dundee ... Lauder ... ... St. Andrew's ... Hayrick ... Perth ... ... Portwilliam ... ••• •""' ••• "''' • 0 • .'"'''. ••• ''''' •• • •'" •• • ...... •• • .'" Total ... ••• •"" General total:— Metropolis ... Country ... Scotland ... ••• "''• 0 • • ...'. •• • - 321 Total ... 425 119 NOTE.—The number of attaeks r( ported by the union officers are—for the metropolis 70, and for the country 364; but their returns do not, in general, comprehend the cases that are treated by medical men in private practice. The deaths are returned according to 11 e superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found im. practicable to distinguish every place separately. CHOLERA. Wed. Thur. Sep.. Sept. 26th. 27th. 9 12 2 8 8 9 24 15 26 21 DIARRUCEA. Wed. Thur. Sept. Sept. 26th. 27th. 4 4 3 3 1 4 9 4 7 9 LONDON. West Districts ... North Districts ... Central Districts ... East Districts ... South Districts ... Total We have received from Carnarvon a communication correcting the returns of the Board of Health published on the 25. h, and which stated that 11 deaths from cholera took place in that union. The number was only two, and it appears that the local Board of Health has been exerting itself vigorously in the removal of nuisances and in improving the sanitary condition of the district. Monarchs seldom hear truth until too late to derive profit from its knowledge,—Eliza Cooh's Journal. FRANCE, We find the following in the Moniteur du Soir : " Bettie j.iurrials in Paris, on the authority 01 those of the Loire lijetieure, have given incorrect details as to the events ah ch have recently taken place at Cholet ; we consider it our duty to give the correct version of what occurred there. The journeymen weavers of Cholet struck to the number of about 900, with a view to obtain an increase of pay of sc. por metre, delegates were appointed, and the masters having agreed to an advance of only 2c., the strike, which at firs had been quiet, assumed a threaten ing character. One manufactory was invaded and several others menaced. In presence of these disturbances, the authorities, who had hitherto calmed the public mind by soothing words and conciliatory measures, were compelled to think of making public tranquilliry and the laws to be respected by force. The gEnerale was beaten, and thanks to the National Guard, the Gendarmerie, arid a company of the 71st, who were at Cholet, the assemblages were dispersed, some or the ringleaders arrested, and, on the evening of the 23d, the town had resumed its usual tranquillity. It has been said that some shots were fired, tut we can positively state that only one shot had been heard at the [immune the yetterale was beaten, and as it has been fuucd im possible to discover by whom it was tired, it is fair to suppose that it vs as accidentd." SET A TISIEF TO CATCH A THIEF.—We read in a letter from Paris to the Independahce of Brussels : "You knew that a collector of the Comptoir d'Escompte was lately robbed of 100,0001. The director of the bank went to consult M. earlier, Chief of the Municipal Police, on the affair. M. Carlier expressed the opinion that the collector really had been robbed; but the director expressed surprise how a man could without seeing it lose a packet of 100,CO0'. placed in a pocket-book on his breast. 'Oh!' answered M. Carlier, 'it is very simple. 'fake, for example, this newspaper—fold it up, arid put it in the pocket of your coat on the breast. Well! I won't pledge myself that it will not be taken from you before you leave the Prefecture, and if it be, I answer in sid vance that you will not feel the hand of the clever fellow who will do the trick!' 'Al!' said the' di rector confidently, but lam sure that it shall not be taken!' and he placed the journal in the pocket indicated by the side of his pocket•book. M. Carlier then en gaged him in conversation, and whilst he did so wrote orders and received visits. When the director rose to leave, M. Curlier said—' And the newspaper ! Have you got it still ? " Oh, yes! to bo sure!' cried the bank director triumphantly, and he plunged his hand into his pocket ; but lo! the newspaper was g one, and with it his pocket book ! Yes, he was robbed —robbed in the room of the chief of the police! Judge of his stupefaction! After enjoying his contusion for a few moments, M. Carlier pulled the bell, and a man immediately brought in a newspaper and the pocket book. A line written by M: Carlier had sufficed for in structions to the man, and the trick was done in a moment." AUSTRIA. The Austrian Emperor still continues his war against women and children. He has caused the infant children of Pulsky, the Hungarian Envoy at present in England, to be arrested as well as Foljaray, Pu!sky's brother-in-law ; ltattkay, the brother-in law of Kossuth, is also a prisoner, as is Csanyi, one of the ex-Ministers of Hungary, and Hauk, the Guerilla leader. DENMARK. From Copenhagen a change of Ministers is re ported. The late Minister for the Interior, M. Bang, has been replaced by Stiftamtmann Rose:lcm, and it appears that a change in the organization of the Ministerial functions has taken place. HAMBURGH. lIAMBURGH, SEPT. 25.—The Permanent Commit tee of the Hamburgh Constituency have solemnly protested against the measures to be proposed by the Senate to the corporation on Thursday next, in their contest respecting the intro duction of the new Constitution, principally , on the plea that such measures would im ply a breech of promise on the part of the Senate, and infringe on the rights of the people, by whose votes the Constituency was assembled. The Senate has published a law by which the " High Court of Umpirage," instituted by the consti tution of the Three Kings, comes into power for this town also. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF BANK NOTES IN LIVERPOOL. On Monday Jane Nary Maher, a good-looking woman with a child in her arms, John Maher, her husband, Roby Maher, his father, and Frances Sharp, described as their servant, were brought up at the Police-office under the following circumstances, hich were stated by Mr. Dowling, the chief-con stable : On the 10th of the present month, Mr. Hunt, sail maker, whose place of businete - is in Hanover-street, in this town, went to the Union Back and received there the sum of 2281. in two 1001. note.; a 101. note, and the rest in gold and silver. After calling at the Exchange newsroom and several other places, he returned to his office and placed the money it a drawer, which be believes he lett locked. in abort half an hour afterwards Mr. Hunt left the office for the purpose of taking some lunch, but did not lock the office, which is situated at the rear of his sail room. Whilst absent the female prisoner Maher was seen to enter the premises by a young man named Taylor, in Mr. Hunt's employ. She also inquired for Mr. Hunt, and then left. On Mr. Hunt's return he discovered, on attempting to unlock his drawer, that it had been broken open and the money stolen therefrom. Nothing was heard of the matter until a few days since, when the female prisoners called at the shop of a Mr. Falkner, draper, of Athol-street, Douglas, Isle of Man, and after purchasing drapery articles to the amount of 61., tendered a 1001. note in payment. Mr. Falkner not having sufficient change in his pos session, sent the note to Mr. Holmes's bank, where it was changed, the prisoner Jane Mary Maher endorsing it at the back with the name of Ann Yates. The note was sent by Mr. Holmes to a banker's in this town, when it was discovered to be one of those stolen from Mr. Hunt. Information was than given to Mr. Dowling, when he dispatched Bates, one of the most active of the detective force, to Douglas. Immediately on landing on Wednesday, Bates put himself in communication with Mr. Falkner, and an active search was made in the island, but without suc cess on that day. The next morning Bates, accom panied by Mr. Falkner, went on board the Tynwald, and having put himself in communication with Capt. Gill, that gentleman instantly afforded him every as sistance. The passengers brought by the boats were minutely scrutinized by Mr. Falkner, but no traces of the prisoner could be seen. The last boat, containing the mail, had come alongside, and the steamer was preparing for sailing, when a private boat, containing tour individuals, was seen to put off from the land, and steered as if for the steamer. Suspicion was im mediately aroused that the boat was freighted with the parties of whom Bates was in search. This proved to be correct, for in a few minutes the boat was along side, but the prisoners refused to come on board. By a preconcerted arrangement with Captain Gill, the steamer was got under weigh, when the prisoners, fearing that they might be left, got on board. Mr. Falkner, on examining them as they came on board, pointed out the two female prisoners as the persons who had changed the notes. Bates then took them into the cabin, and on examining them a considerable sum in gold and silver was found upon them. They were then secured, and put on shore, and placed under restraint. On examining their luggage, a great quantity of jewellery and wearing apparel was found. The next day the other note was handed to Bates, the husband stating that he would make all right. The whole amount recovered is 158/. 15s. A clerk from the Union Bank proved that the no t es recovered were in the bank on the same day that Mr. Hunt had received the amount stolen. Mr. Hunt, H. Taylor, Mr. Falkner, and Bates, gave evidence to the effect above stated. - Mr. Rushton asked the prisoners if they had any thing to say to the charge ? Roby Maher stated that he would defy any one to say that be knew anything about the notes being in the possession of Jane Mary Maher. He had been for some time in a bad state of health, and had gone to the Isle of Man to recruit himself. Frances Sharp said that she was a dress-maker, and had been employed by Mrs. Maher to make her some dresses, and had been prevailed upon to accompany her to the island. The prisoners were then remanded for seven days. —Liverpool Courier. MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1849.—With my Wife this day to Westminster, and walking thereabouts it Regent-street and Oxford-street, and the principa, Streets, though contrary to my Resolution to walk with her only in the Fields, but did it to please her, and keep her in good Humour, but in mighty Fear of what it might cost me, tremblihg to observe her con tinually looking askance at the Shop-Windows. But I cannot wonder that they did catch her Eye ; parti cularly the Haberdashers, and Drapers, and Mercers, whereof many were full of Bills, stuck in all manner of Ways across the Panes, and printed in Letters of from Two Inches to a Span Long, and Dashes of Ad miration two and three together, as staring as a Notice of Hue and Cry. Mighty shocking to read in one Window of a " Tremendous Sacrifice !" in another of an " Alarming Failure ! !" in a third of a " Ruin ous Bankruptcy ! ! !" by Reason whereof the Goods within were a selling off at 50, 60, or 70 per Cent. under prime Cost, but that at any Rate the Owners must raise money. Good Lack, to think of the des perate and dreadful pass the Drapery Trade must have come to; so many Master Mercers and Haber dashers on the Threshold of the Prison or the Work house, and their Wives and Families becoming Paupers on the Parish, or Beggars, and their People out of Employ, starving; if their Notices do tell true : which made my Heart ake; I mean through laughing at their. Roguery. But my Wife did say, loo.roaci. The, sewer la Friar .street, Ivo& 1-Yeis• cannot be flushed out. 6" Before I made inquiries it seemed to me not un likely that although the men had not been able to flush chete particular sewers, yet the sewage sent down from the higher districts might have been seat into but not carried through thcm. The wall across the sewer near the Obelisk, however, would prevent this.' " I bzz to append a letter from the guardians of St. Luke's parish, urging the necessity of frequent flushing." (See Appendix D.) It is a subject which offers a great temptation to agitation, by the ease of assertion and the difficulty arising from the length required for disproof. The public, however, may rely up 3n it that the above extracts afforded only one specimen of the misrepre sentations and ignorant falsehoods which have been propagated very industriously in relation to the pro ceedings under that commission. We shall probably be enabled to take other opportunities of adverting to the m.— Observer. RAILWAY RETURNS RAILWAY TIIIFFIC.--The following are the Total Receipts of 'tell yea} s for the past week—that is to say, op to the date to which :l.e respective returns are made, together wail the receipts of the sarue week in the previous year:— Weak ending L,lst week. Gl,l. ;:. 0.- t?t4 NAME OF RAILWAY. Aberdeen .. Amiens and Boulogne. ••••• • • • •• • • Belfast and Ballymena • • • • • • • • • • • • •• Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroc, and W. Y. Bristol and Exeter . . Ca1ed0nian............ • • • • • •••• • • • • 176 1,18 ~../ 520 1,819 396 869 281 Chester and Holyhead •••••• Dublin and Drogheda. • • • .•••• Dublin and Kingstown •• • • •. •• 401 4,017 6,812 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen.... •• •• East Anglian.... • • .• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • •• •• •• • • Edlnlur ;h and Northern . • • • •• • • Eastern Counties and North Easturn • • East Lancashire • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ' • • • Eastern Union ....... .•• •• •• •• 802 1,037 Glasgow, Kihnarnock, and Ayr • • • • • • Glasgow and Greenock • • •••• • • • • • • • Great Northern and E. L. • • • • • • • • • • Great Southern and Western • • • • • • • • Great Western, Stc .• Kendal and Windennere.... • . •• • • Lancashire and Yorkshire • • • • • • • Lancaster and Carlisle -- Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport. • • • Londonderry and Eniiiski)len. • • ... •• London and North Western, &e. ..... London and Blackwall. • •• • Londcn and Brighton • • Loudon and South Western . • • Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.. • • Midland Great Western (Irish) • • • • • • - 818 3,033 2,433 14,181 3,528 1,564 3,009 1 0 4 2;306 3,331 20,170 5.1n7 12,117 133 43,542 960 1,100 Newcastle and Carlisle... • • North British .. •• •• •• •• Paris and Rouen . .. •••• . Rouen and Havre .. .. • Scottish Central ..... Shrewsbury and Chester • • .• • • • • • • • • South Eastern. Arid Branches •• •• • • •• South Devon • ....• „, .............. Taff Vale •••....... Ulster . Waterford and Limerick, ...... ••.• •. Whitehaven Junction ..•••••••••.••. York and Newcastle . .......... • ... York and North Midland ........... 778 12,011 10,C52 5,0b2 23,659 1,101 3,:85 7,277 2,889 1,505 1.446 12,641 1,605 2,287 661 196 13,261 7,567 WAR BALLOONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 711 4.494 2; 45 15,778 1,307 1,402 °.718 1.,111 31)9 21,155 225 12,394 2,442 140 46,565 1,109 11,911 16,631 3,575 24,4' 4 1,183 2,863 6,b 16 2,5i9 1,211 83i 10,816 1,866 2,:91 715 299 13,666 9.855 Sra,—You may recollect that when Captain War ner's problem of the "long range" came out in the form of a balloon it excited much merriment in the House of Commons; in that assembly ridicule and pomposity too often pass for sagacity and profundity. But how stands the matter now ? It appears the Austrians have made a trial of aerial machines in the bombardment of Venice, and intend to make another essay of them upon Comorn; fortunately, however, they are not exactly up to the thing, and it is to be hoped no one who understands the subject will instruct them in so unholy a cause as that of crushing the ill used Hungarians. I am, Sir, yours, &c., ONE WHO HAS DABBLED IN JEROSTATION. Sept. 29. A pension of 1001. per annum for dibtinguished service has been granted to Major-General W. Jer- vois from the Ist ii stunt. Major-General G. P. lligginson has been se lected to fill up the vacancy in the establishment of 120 general officers at 1/. 53. per diem, from the same date., BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY PROGRESS. The remaining portion of Bint hill, near Buckingham, is in the course of removal, and it is believed that this, the only obstruction between Brackley and Salidon-hill, will, with the latter hill, also be cut through by the middle of October. Between Islip and Bleeder Messrs. Smith and Fountain have " gangs" at work, and have now but little to do. Mesi - rs2e.larrick and Bulman are ar- ranging for carrying on the works from Claydon to Bicester. The lasing of the permanent road and the ballasting from Brackley towards Banbury is proCeed. i n ... It is ready to near Greatworth, and it is expected that by the time that is done, Mr. Ruby's work from that place towards Banbury will be ready to pass along. A few days since, Sir 11. Verney, Bart., M.P., the chairman of the company, travelled along the line from Buckingham to Brackley by the ballast engine. lie expressed his approbation of the forward state of the works. Workmen have commenced clearing the ground for the foundation of the station at Buckingham. This will be a wooden one only—at least that for passengers, which is to be on the Buckingham property.—Banbury Guardian. COMMISSION UNDER TILE CHURCH DIFCIFLINE ACT.— On Tuesday morning the commission instituted by the Bishop of Exeter to inquire into the allegations against the Rev. Charles Rookes, rector of N 3 met Row land, in this county, was opened in the Chapter-honEe. The commissioners were the Worshipful George Martin, Chancellor of the Dioc,se (President); the Venerable John More Stevens, Archdeacon of Exeter; the Venerable John Bartholowew, Archdeacon of Barnstaple; the Worshipful E. C. ilarington, Chancellor of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter in Exeter; and the Rev. James John Rowe, rector of Sr. Mary Arches, Exeter. The rev. defendant was charged with offences "against the laws ecclesiastical, and other irregularities and excesses within the diocese, whereby he had brought great scandal on the Church," Sze. The Court, on the application of the rev. defendant, as we presume, was closed against the press and the public, so that . we are ❑ot able to :give any report of the proceedings. The Rev. C. C. Rookes has determined to conduct his own case.—Exeter Flying Post. ST. JOHN'S, BETHNAL GREEN.—The parishioners of Bethnal-green, aided by the friends of Church endow ment, baying now raised the sum of 1,090/. towards the permanera augmentation of the above benefice, the Bishop of London has liberally appropriated the annual sum of 150/. to the same purp'ae' out of the revenues of St. Catherine Colima'', (of valich his Lordship is the patron), on condition that &:7 of the pew-sittings be declared free. There are thus secured in this clutch, 1,137 seats for the poor free and unappropriated for ever. Plans hare been drawn by Mr. E. N. Clifton, architect, for a parsonage-house, to be shortly erected upon Bethnal-green, adjoining the church. In the list of subscribers to the above fund appee.r the names of the Queen Dowager, the Bishop et Lorislon, the Earl of llarrowby, Lord R. Grosvenor, Mr. William Cotton, Mr. H. Mcrenron, Mr. R. Hanbury, Sir E. N. 13u. 3 :1 0 n, &c. WEYMOUTH.—MELANCHOLY DEATH.--.With regret we record the death of Mr. Thomas Hellier, son of Mr.- Helder, maltster, &c., of Cerne, an articled assistant of Mr. A. Sansom, surgeon, of this town. This unfortu nate youth, who was 18 years of age, was found dead in his bed early on the moaning of Tuesday week. A note in his own handwriting was found on the table to the effect that he had swallowed several drachms of strych nine and laudanum, a quantity more than sufficient to cause instant dissolution. An inquest was held in the course of the morning, before J. Wallis, Esq., coroner, when the verdict found was—" Temporary insanity."— Sherborne Journal. ACCIDENT.—On Saturday, John M'lntosh, weaver, Newtyle, was sent on a message from that place to Dun dee, and having indulged rather freely in liquor, he, at A late hour at night, in passing the quarry at Logic Spout (after visiting a sister who resided in the Blackness road), fell over it, a height of about 40 feet. He lay there in a state of insensibility until Sunday fort moll, when he was accidentally discovered by some persons passing. He was then conveyed to the Royal Infirmary, where it was found that he had sustained a lacerated wound on the scalp, with fracture of the bone and de pression, with a skin wound on the knee. We are glad to learn that the patient is doing well.—Dundee Courier. APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH Lire.—The marriage of the Hon. C. Neville, second son of Lord Braybrooke, and the lion. Florence Maude, second daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Hawarden, is to be solemised in the course of next month. A large family circle will meet in town to attend the nuptial ceremony. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—A boy 13 years of age, named William Ballantine, was about to take a message to his father, a journeyman in the employ of Mr. Guth rie, tailor, in Bond street, when, upon opening the door of the workshop, an iron pillar, which stood iu a leaning position against the wall, fell suddenly forward, dashing the poor boy to the ground with fearful violence, felling upon his head, and indicting injuries of a deadly charac ter. The lad was conveyed in a senseless state to the house of Mr. Love, surgeon, in Brook street, when that gentleman, aseertaiLing the great amount of injury done, advised the immediate removal of the sufferer to the Mid dlesex Hospital. Upon an examination of the boy's wound by Mr. Gilbertson, house-surgeon, the whole of the left side of the head was found to be denuded of its sc alp, with a fracture of the skull, extending over por tions of the frontal, parietal, temporaral, and occipital bones, or the whole of the left side of the head, from front to back. The poor little fellow has remained wholly insensible from the time be received the blow, which is likely to terminate fatally. N EWARK.—Wednesday was the cheese market. which is generally considered the largest market during the year, and the day being remarkably fine, brought is very large attendance of most respectable people. There was a great deal of cheese shown, but the sale was not anything like so rapid as on former years; indeed, cheese seemed a drug, and many dairies would have to be taken home. Prices were lower than last year; new milk cheese, first quality, from 535. to 5Ss. per cwt.; two meals, 40s. to 445. per cwt. There was a large quantity of stock of all descrip:ions, sheep, beasts, pigs, and horses; prices were low, but a good deal of business was trans acted. Beef from ss. 6d. to 6i. per stone; mutton, 40. to sd. per lb.--Lincolnshire Chronicle.