The Sun. — London, England, 1849-11-14 00:00:00

DAY OF GESERAL THANKSGIVING• The following is the Form of Prayer and Thanks giving to Almighty God, to be used in all Churches and Chapels in England and Wales, and in the town of Berwlek-upon-Tweed, to-morrow, the 15th day of November, 1849, being the day appointed for a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God, to acknowledge Ilis great goodness and mercy in removing from us that grievous disease with whi.th many parts of this King dom have been lately visited:— BY HEN MAJESTY'S SPECIAL COMMAND. The service of the day shall be the same with the usual office, except where it is in this office otherwise appointed. THE ORDER FOR MORNING PRAYER. Let him that miniatereth read with a loud voice these sentences of Scripture ; and after them the Exhorta tion, " Dearly beloved Brethren," &c. Rejoice in the Lord, 0 ye righteous ; for it becometh well the just to be thankful. 0 let us magnify the Lord our God, and fall down before Ms footstool, for He is holy. The Lord hath doue great things for us, whereof we rejoice. Instead of the Venice exultemus. O give thanks unto the Lord, and call upon His name: tell the people what things He hath done. 0 let your songs be of Him, and praise Him; and let your talking be of all His wondrous works. Rejoice in His holy name; let the heart of them re oice that seek the Lord. _ For His mercy is greater than the 'leavens; and Ms truth reacheth unto the clouds. _ _ In the time of our trouble, we called upon the Lord; and He heard us. • _ _ The Lord heard our petition; the Lord received our prayer. 'When fearfulness and trembling came upon us, and a horrible dread overwhelmed us, He delivered our souls from death, and our feet from falling; that we might walk before the Lord in the land of the living. Therefore will we give thanks unto Thee, 0 Lord, among the peopie; wo will sing unto Thee among the nations. Unto Thee, our strength, will we sing: for Thou, 0 God, art our refuge and our merciful God. Glory be to the Father, &e. As it was in the beginning, &e. Proper Psalms, xci. viii. First Lesson, Jonah, iii. Te Deem laudamus, Second Lesson, St. John, v. to ver. 15. Benedictus. The Creed, &c., to the end of the Lord's Prayer. Instead of the Collect for the Day, the following shall bo used. Ac^ep•r, we beseech Theo, 0 merciful God, the praises and thanksgivings of Thy people, whom Thou has gra ciously relieved from the sore judgment of grievous sick ness and mortality which has lately afflicted our land. Incline tit to devote to Thy service the lives which Thou has: spared; and so enlighten our understandings and purify our affections by Thy Holy Spirit, that we may learn from Thy judgments to fear Thy wrath above all thing, and may be led by Thy goodness to love Thee with our whole heart, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then shall follow the Second and Third Collects for Morning Prayer, and the Litany. Aftft the Prayer " We humbly beseech Thee, 0 Father," shall the following be added. Almighty God, our Father and Judge, whose power no creature is able to resist; who host in Thy diaplea• sure brought us down to the gates of death, and in Thy mercy halt stayed the course of that pestilence, for which there was no help in man; to Thee alone we ascribe our deliverance; in Thee only do we trust, to preserve us both in body and soul. And now, 0 Lord, we entreat Tti,:e to make the chastisement which Thou has sent effectual to produce in us a more lively faith in Thy word, and a more entire obedience to Thy command ments. Make us so duly sensible of Thy mercies to this nation, in mainte6inin!; our domestic tranquillity, and in groan:lg a plentiful return to the labours of our hus bandmea, that we may show our thankfulness by an c arnest endeavour to conform to Thy will, and to ad vance Thy glory. And may the frequent instances of morta.lity which we have bAeld remind us all of the nearness of death, and dispose us so to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom ; that, wile tivr living or dying, we may be found faithful disciples of Him who has taken away the sting of death, and opened the gate of everlasting life to all believers. Hear us, Lord, fur Thy goodness is great; and ac cording to the multitude of Thy mercies receive these our petitions, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then the general Thanksgiving, to the end of Morn ing rraycr. THE COMMUNION SERVICE. After the Collect for the Queen, " Almighty God, whose kingdom," &c , shall be read the Collect used in the Morning Prayer, " Accept, we beseech Thee," &c., and then shall follow, For the Epistle. Numbers, xvi., v. 42 to 48. And it came to pass, when the congregation was ga thered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation; and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared. And Moses and Aaron came before the • tabernacle of the congregation. And the Lord spake unto M 0305, saying, Get you up from among this con gregation, that I may consume them as in a moment, and they fell upon their faces. And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague has begun. And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. The Gospel. St. Luke, xvii., v. 11 to 19. _ . • And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through tho midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ton men that were lepers, which stood afar off : and they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Muter, have mercy on us. And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go show yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them, when he saw that be was healed, turned bails, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks ; and ho was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, 'Were there not ten cleansed ? But where are the nine ? There are not found that re turned to give glory to God, save the stranger, And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole. Then the Nicene Creed, and atter that the Sermon. Then shall be read the following sentences: Whatsoever ye would that mon sh - ould do unto you, even so do unto them, for this is the law and the prophets. IVessed be the man thst provicle..h for the sick and needy; the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble. After the Prayer the wholo State of Christ's Church Militant, etc.?., the Mowing shall be used. A Prayer for this Church and Kingdom. _ _ O Gracious God, who art kind to the ungrateful and the evil, we humbly acknowledge that we have not manifested a due sense of the numberless ltlassings, bath spiritual and temporal, which we and our fathers have reclived at Thy hands, and of the mighty deliverances which thy power hath wrought for this Church and Kingdom. Through our neglect of Thy ordinances, end misuse of Thy bounties, offences have been multipEel in the land; and in our urosperity we have not sufficiently honoured Thee, the Author and Giver of our blessings. Yet forsake us not utterly, ()Lard, our Redeemer, but continue Thy loving kindoesl to thy servants as in the days of old. Send Th y heavenly blessing ou our Sovereign Lady the Queen, and on gill that are in authority under her, and direct their proceedings to the advancement of true religion and piety, and to the peace and prosperity of the realm. P forth the gifts of Thy Spirit on all pastors and teachers of Thy fl ,ck, that they may be clothed with righteousness, and that Thy word spoken by their mouths may never be spoken in vain. And to all orders and degrees of men amongst us vouchsafe such a mea sure of Thy grace, that righteousness may flourish in our land, with abundance of peace; and that, being re eoncled to Thee through Thy Son Jesus Christ, and united with each other in c'narity, we may b 3 an accept able people in Thy sight, and make known to the ends of the earth the ri..thcs of Thy mercy in Christ; to whom, with Thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and gl ,ry for ever and ever. Awn, A'lmighty God, who has promised to hear the petiti ins of them that ask in Thy Son's name, we beseech Thee merciful!) , to incline Thine ear to us that have made now our prayers and atipplinltions unto Thee; and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to Thy will may cif, ctually be obtained, to the relief of our necessity, and to the setting forth of Thy glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amara. The p-:ace of God, which paiseth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of Go:), and of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord; and the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, ho amongst you and remain with you always. Amen. TETE ORDER FOR EVENING PRAXER. Let him that ministeretVrea(i with a loud voico these sentences of Scripture ; and after them the Exhortation, " Dearly be.:loved Brethren," &c. R. Face in the Lord, 0 ye righteous; for it becometh well the just to be thankful. let us magnify th 3 Lord our God; and fall down hel)re His footstool; for He i; holy. The I.9rd bath done great thin A s for us, whereof we reHce. The Hymn appointed to ha used at Morning Prayer, in stead of Venice exultemus, shall here also b 3 use d ba:'ore the proper the proper Psalms. 0 give thanks unto the Lord, &c. Proper Psalms, xxxiv., exvi. First Lesson, 2 Sunuel xxiv., v. 15 to the end. 0 sing unto the Lord a new song, &C. Second Lesson, itotnana xii. God be merciful ti us and bliss us, &c. Then the Creed, &o. to the end of the Lord's Pray er. Instead of the Coll e ct for the Day, the Collect used in the M,rning Prayer shall be read. Then the two Collects for Evening Prayer, &c., to the end of the Prayer for the Clergy and People. Then the Prayer used in the Morning Service, " Al mighty God, our Father and Judge," &c and the 6' Prayer for this Church and Kingdom, " Gracious (',red, who art kind," &a., as in the Communion Service. Then shall follow the Prayer for all Conditions of Mee, the Genera! Thanksgiving, &a, to the end of the Ev(n ing Prayer. The Bishop of London has issued the following circular to the clergy of the metropolis : " Fulham, Nov. 3, 1849. " Reverend and dear Sir,—ln the pastoral letter which I addressed to the clergy of this diocese in December, 1847, with reference to the expected ap pearance of the cholera, I pointed out certain special duties as proper to be undertaken by them at . that anxious crisis, in addition to the m ore peculiar func tions of their sacred office. I said that, while their first object should be to impress upon the minds of their people the necessity of an implicit trust in God, of an entire submission to his will, of increased degrees of seriousness, vigilance, and self-restraint, and of frequency and fervour in prayer, it would also be an office of real piety and charity to urge upon them the importance of endeavouring to remove all those physical causes which might invite the approach of disease, and aggravate its malignity. " I suggested, as a motive to such endeavours, that while we may not look for a blessing upon the re sources and appliances of human skill if they are not employed in humble reliance upon the power and goodness of God, so neither, if we neglect to use all probable and practicable means of prevention and preservation, have we any reason to expect that He will specially interfere to rescue us from the conse quences of our own negligence. • " The importance of this caution has been painfully proved by the events of the last twelve months. The expected seourge has fallen upon us with awful sevexity, and has swept away from this vast metro polis at least 15,000 of its inhabitants. Judging from tha unvarying tenor of the reports made by the medical inspectors, and of other persons who have watched the progress of that fatal disease, I do not hesitate to declare my belief that by far the greater number of those who have fallen victims to the pestilence sleight, under God's blessing, have been saved from death bad timely and effectual measures been taken for cleansing and ventilating their dwell ings, preventing their overcrowded state, and draining the courts and alleys in which they are situate. " We shall be chargeable with great folly and want of foresight as political economists, and guilty, I verily believe, of great sinfulness as a Christian people, if we neglect to profit by the dearly-bought expe rience of the past, and to take prompt and energetic measures for improving the condition of the labouring classes, by removing the worst at least of those evils, which at once render them an easy prey to disease and death, and place them at a hopeless distance from the Church's teaching and ministry. I remarked in my former letter, that persons immersed in misery and filth are for the most part inaccessible to the motives and consolations of the Gospel. " Much, no doubt, there is which can be effected only by means of legislative measures ; but much may be done by the charitable efforts of associated Christians, which in the present state of things the law could accomplish only by very slow degrees. Let us not wait, while under the pressure of extreme necessity, for the operations of a machinery which will require a considerable time to put it in motion ; but let us at once take the work in hand, and show that the desired improvement is practicable, to a great ex tent, by the exertions of an active and well-directed charity. " We are about to perform, as a Christian people, a public and solemn act of thanksgiving to Him, who holds in his hands the issues of life and death, for his great mercy vouchsafed to U 3 in answer to our prayers, in removing from us the plague and grievous sickness which of late afflicted us, and restoring the voice of joy and health to our dwellings. God grant that it. limy be the expression of a real, heartfelt thankfulness ; and hat it may be followed by its pro per results of incriased self-denial and charity ! You will, I am persuaded, see the propriety of calling up'in y&ur congregation to contribute liberally of their worldly substance on that occasion, as a thank • offering to Almighty God for their preservation from that pestilence which has hurried so many thousands to their last account; and I venture to recommend that the alms then collected should be applied to the promotion of some well-considered plan for improving the dwellings of the labouring classes. " I would not be understood to prescribe the channel through which the collections should be so applied; but I would suggest that where the funds so raised are not sufficient for carrying out a local scheme for that purpose, they may he safely entrusted to The Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes,' without fear of misapplication or waste. Much good has been already effected by that society, in setting an example of what may be done towards providing the poor with decent and commo dious habitations, by an outlay which will ultimately be repaid with interest, both in a social and a pecu niary point of view. It is a remarkable and encou ' raging fact, that in the dwellings and lodging-houses belonging to the society there was not one case of cholera, and two only of diarrhoea, which speedily yielded to medical treatment.* " I cannot conclude this letter without expressing my deep sense of the exemplary manner in which the clergy of this diocese have discharged their duties during the late most trying season, in visiting with unwearied assiduity and kindness the sick and dying, and in ministering, to the utmost of their power, both to the bodily and spiritual comfort of the sufferers. Two only of their number have fallen victims to that deadly disease which has carried off so many members of their flocks. Let us, who have been mercifully , spared, show forth our thankfulness by increased dili gence in every work of piety and charity, that the Lord, when he cometh, may find us so doing. Com mending you to his holy keeping. "I remain, Reverend and dear Sir, your affectionate friend, " C. J. LONDON." * The reports of the society may be bad of the secretary, John Wood, Esq., 21, Exeter Hall, Strand. The Lord Mayor gave directions on Monday that the following notice should be extensively circulated in the city of London : " FAENCOMD, MAYOR. " Mansion-house, Nov. 12, 1849. " Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen having by her royal proclamation appointed and commanded that a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the abatement of the grievous disease with which many places in this kingdom have been lately visited shall be observed throughout England and Ireland on Thursday, the 15th day of November instant, "The Lord Mayor requests that his fellow-citizet s will close their shops and abstain from all business on that day, in order that it may be devoutly and reve rently observed by all classes. " By order of the Lord Mayor, " S. R. GOODMAN." Oa Monday the Rev. Dr. Adler, the Chief Rabbi, issued the following Form of Thanksgiving for the cessation of cholera, to be used in all the British syna gogues on Thursday next. The Thanksgiving is to be preefided by psalms, and by the ordinary prayers for the Queen and the Royal Family : " God of the spirits of all flesh l—beore thee we come this day, in the place of Thy holiness, to glorify, to praise, and to thank Thee that, although Thou bast been angry with us, Thine anger is turned away, and Thou bast com forted us : and that, though Thou hast chastised us sorely, Thou hest again become our salvation. Thy chastening hand had lain heavily upon the inhabitants of this land. The mysterious and irremediable sickness had stricken down many—many beloved and lamented victims : the stoutest heart trembled at the voice of death sounding at the threshold; and the boldest among the mighty were seized terror and anguish. But gracious and merciful art Thou, 0 Lord! Thy wrath endureth not long; nor is thine anger everlastingl Thou makest sore and healest; Thou woundest, but it is Thy hand which prepareth the balm. In the depths of our terror and affliction Thou didst send forth Thy Spirit and there was a pause. Thou commandedst, and the Plague ceased. " Mighty and all-powerful Lord ! our Rock and our Shelter ! who can tell all Thy goodness ?—who can show forth all Thy glory P—who can expound thy ways in the sanctuary ? But the living, whom Thy mercy hath spared—the living it behoveth to thank Thee with their whole heart. The father to his children shall make known Thy truth, and declare Thy goodness—how Thou hast dealt wondrously with us ! —how Thou hast called to mind Thy cove nant with our forefathers and has shielded us with the sun of Thy mercy which beareth healing and consolation on its wings. _ _ " Fountain of all blessings ! open our eves to know the benefits which the days of distress bring forth when the scourge has ceased. Grant that we may understand how full of blessings are the chas tisements of Thy hand : that we may learn thereby Thy statutes, and cease to sin against Thy holy lass. Glorious are the powers and faculties with which Thou lust bounteously endowed us ; which cease • lessly follow out their true destination, but when we destroy their harmony it is we who produce conflict between them and act against Thy will : 0, let us therefore ponder our ways so that we may ever re member the past affliction and provoke not its return. Grant that no uncleanness may pollute us, and that wrong and unrighteousness be not found among us Send sorth the blessed light of Thy truth to guide and lead us in Thy holy path. Deign to imbue us with the spirit of true charity, that we may strengthen the feeble knees and assist with compassion those who are in affliction —for such deeds are Thy desire—such whichmerciful Thou do s t untonot u d s e s l are,,tohe continue sacrces to countenance despise. Thy still shine up on us, 0 Lord, and render our days as of old ! Amen." IF TAT BLACK CAP FITS, WEAR IT.--Haynau has been ealled " The Jack Ketch of Hungary," By-the bye whenever a King or an Emperor, or any fi nd d espot, has a pet executioner, it would not be amiss to add ress him by the significant title of " Ms Royal Haynaus."— Punch. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING-, RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE. FRACAS BETWEEN THE SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER AND THE BIRKENHEAD RAIL• WAY COMPANIES. A dispute, which has occasioned considerable interest in railway circles, has just occurred between the two companies above-mentioned. In order to understand what follows, it will be necessary to ex plain bow it originated. It appears that the Shrews bury and Birmingham line is to open this day (Monday), from whence the Shrewsbury and Chester Company always contemplated receiving some portion of the traffic between Liverpool and Birmingham, as the distance bet ween these two towns is the same by the route of the London and North-Western and that via Birkenhead, Chester, and Shrewsbury. The latter route having the disadvantage of crossing the Mer sey, it is proposed by the Shrewsbury companies to I make a reduction of charge in order to place the two routes on an equal footing, and for this purpose a mileage rate for the three companie3 interested in the Shrewsbury and Birmingham route should be agreed upcn. This arrangement the Birkenhead Com pany declined to accede to, and it was therefore resolved by the other two companies competing for the passenger traffic with the London and North- Western to establish omnibuses from Chester to Birkenhead, at a less charge than the railway fare, so as to accommodate passengers who preferred a saving of money to a saving of time. 'These omnibuses have now continued to run from Chester to Birkenhead for several days, no doubt considerably diminishing thereby the amount of pas senger traffic on the Birkenhead line. The contract for the omnibuses is taken by Mr. Smith, an extensive omnibus proprietor in Chester, and it has been the practice of his drivers to take the omnibus direct to the booking offices at the Chester general station, and thence to carry such passengers from Shrewsbury and elsewhere as preferred omnibus to railway accommodation. On Thursday last an intimation was given by the manager at the station to the driver of one of the om nibuses, that he would not permit him again to enter the station premises, for the purpose of decoying passengers from using the Birkenhead line. No at tention, however, was paid to the prohibition, and in the afternoon the driver attended with his omnibus as usual, upon which the station- manager called in a policeman and gave him into custody. Immediately after the driver was conveyed to the lock-up a train, filled with " navvies," armed with clubs, was driven into the station, prepared for any work that might have ,been apportioned to them. As the prisoner, however, had been removed, no disturbance took place. On the following day (Friday) the driver was brought up at the Chester Police Court, charged by Mr. Jones, the station-manager, with wilfully im peding and obstructing the business of the station. Mr. C. W. Potts appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Kelsall, the law clerk of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, for the defendant. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Potts that the station was built at the joint expense of the London and North- Western, the Shrewsbury and Chester, the Chester and Holyhead, and the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Companies ; that its regu lation was committed to a committee consisting of two directors from each of the railway boards, who had appointed Mr. Jones as a general manager. By the regulations of the committee parties were ex cludeo from plying from the station with omnibuses in the direction taken by the converging railways. Mr. Potts, therefore, contended that Mr. Jones was justified in ordering the driver off the station, and that the latter, by refusing to gib, had imped e d an d obstructed the business of the station, and rendered him self liable to a penalty not exceeding 51, and in default two months' imprisonment under the Act 4:h and sth 'fle a chap 97, sec. IG, commonly known as Lord Sey mour's Act. Mr. KELSALL argued that the omnibuses really belonged to the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company during the continuance of the contract with Mr. Smith ; that the Shrewsbury and Chester Com pany were part owners of the station, and as such had a right to authorise, and did authorise the defendant to enter upon and use the premises, and that Mr. Jones had never consulted the station committee before he ordered the defendant to be taken into custody. He stated these facts for the information of the magistrates, but denied at the same time their jurisdiction in the matter, as the question of right must necessarily be tried elsewhere. The Court consulted for a short time, and Mr. POTTS, the presiding magistrate, then gave its decision, to the effect that no " wilful impeding or obstructing" had been proved ; that the defendant believed that he had a right to act as he had done, in consequence of his instructions from the Shrews bury and Chester Company ; and that they must therefore decline to adjudicate, and leave the parties to seek a remedy in the superior courts. The dispute between the railway companies seems likely to furnish some employment to the gentlemen of the long robe ; in fact, we understand proceedings have actually already been commenced. BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD. It is rumoured in certain quarters that negotia tions are pending between the London and North- Western and Great Western directors for the sale of the Birmingham and Oxford Railway to the former company, who, it is said, are likely to obtain posses. sion of it. We believe we are correct in stating that negotiations have been carried on for such a purpose, but that they have had an unsatisfactory termination. One of the conditions of the negotiations was, that the London and North-Western Company should advance 1,500,000/. on account of the purchase. There were other conditions respecting the limits of the bread and narrow gauges. We can, however, state that negotiations are being carried on between the two companies in the most friendly spirit for working the traffic of the Birmingham and Oxford, Birmingham, Dudley, and Wolverhampton, and some other connecting lines, with the greatest pos sible economy. CALEDONIAN. We mentioned afew days since that the directors of the Caledonian Railway had applied to the London and North-Western Company for pecuniary assist ance. On Saturday the application—viz , for an advance of some 200,0001. or 300,0001. upon the rolling stock of the Caledonian Railway —was brought under dsscussion at the monthly meeting of the Lon don and' North• Western board, and, after a very animated debate, it was resolved not to advance the sum required. NORTH STAFFORDSIIIRE. Some serious differences have arisen between the directors of the North Staffordshire and the directors of the London and North-Western Railways re specting the agreement entered into in 1845—that is, previous to the amalgamation of the old London and Birmingham and Grand Junction—for taking the Manchester traffic over a portion of the North Staf fordshire line. To carry out the agreement would necessarily injure the amalgamated companies, who are now called upon to fulfil the terms of the agree ment. Their objection to do so arises, it seems, from the fact that a canal in connexion with the North Staffordshire Company is competing with the London and North-Western for the goods' traffic. It is stated that the latter company require this competition to be put an end to before they v, ill consent to negotiate upon the basis of the agreement of 1845. SOUTH YORKSHIHE, DONCASTER, AND GOOLE. The portion of this line extending about nine miles in length, from Doncaster to the Swinton st ition, on the Midland Railway, was opened for traffic on Saturday. Four trains now run daily each way between Doncaster and Sheffield. ABERDEEN. The directors of this company have given notice of their intention to apply to Parliament in the ensuing session fur poser to increase the capital ; to make alterations in the authorised line and stations in the vicinity of Aberdeen ; to repeal the Act amalgamating the Aberdeen Companywith the Great North of Scotland Company ; to authorise the directors to guarantee interest on the new shares hich may be created by the company for paying off any mortgagees or bond 3, and to guarantee in terest on any stock into which any new shares may be consolidated. It is intended to apply for powers to raise additional capital to the amount of 150,000/., but it is expected that 120,0001. will be sufficient to provide the necessary stock for working the line. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. The Sacred :Harmonic Society commenced their season last night at Exeter Hall. The band and chorus are in all essential respects the same as during last season ; and the whole of the musical arrange ments are under the direction of Mr. Costa. If we may judge from the admirable style in which the whole performance, vocal and instrumental, went off last night, there is no reason to doubt that this so ciety will continue to deserve the high reputation which it has enjoyed, alike with the musical world and the regular frequenters of sacred performances at Exeter-hall, since the improved management. The oratorio selected for last evening was Handers Solo mon, one motive for opening the season with it being that, with the exception of a few months, one century has elapsed since its first production. It was com menced on the 11th July, 1748, and finished on the 9th of August; and it was first performed (at Covent-garden Theatre) on the 17th March, 1749. One of the latest, it is by no means one of the best of Handel's oratorios ; but its beauties, which lie chiefly in the choruses, received full justice from the enor mous orchestra. All the choruses are fine ; but among the most effective last night were, " Through out the Land," and the final chorus of the first part, " May no rash intruder." This last, especially, was i admirably rendered, so much so that, in spite of the rule to the contrary, the ebire of the audience for a repetition was irreprcssi . ".l3. Again, the opening chorus of the second part 'From the censer,' was magnificently given. The solo parts were sustained by Miss M. and Miss A. Williams, Miss Stewart Mr. Lockey, and Mr. Lawler. Miss M. William? particularly distinguished herself by her execution os the music assigned to Solomon ; and Miss A. Wil liams imparted much pathos to her delivery of the air, " Can I see my infant gored." The hall was crowded, and the whole performance went off so satisfactorily as to imply a very auspicious commence ment of the season. ESTABLISHMENT OF A LAW SCHOOL. A general meeting of the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law was held list night, at the rooms in Regent-street, when Mr. James Stewart submitted a project for the establishment of a Law School; Mr. Spence, Q.C., was called to the chair. Mr. STEWART, in his address, said the teaching of law by means of oral instruction appeared to have been almost co existent with its being taught at all as a science. Lectures or professorships had been established in most cifilized countries, and it was difficult to show why, as one means of impart ing legal knowledge, they should not be useful. Of late years, however, but little favour had been shown for this means of instruction in some departments of the profesSion. On the one hand, it was said that professors accessible to all students were not appointed; and on the other, that students would not attend the lectures of those who were appointed. There was perhaps truth in both complaints. But it could not be disputed that under certain circumstances, and in some departments, lectures had been successfully delivered, both at the Universities and in London ; and the Inns of Court had recently revived, upon the suggestion of Mr. Bothell, a course of lectures exclusively confined to students. These would seem, however, not to have been generally successful. Indeed, so little prospect of success had appeared as to induce the Society of Lincoln's Inn, the first in number if not in rank and importance, to discontinue after a short trial the lectures that society had established, and it was pos sible that the example might be followed by some or all the other societies. He attached no blame to the benchers of the Inns of Court for this result, but he showed from documents that the original intentions with regard to examinations and prizes had not been acted upon. Mr. Stewart went into this part of the question with some minuteness. There was then no institution in London for the purpose of do- livering lectures on all the branches of the law; and it seemed open to any one, more especially to a scientific society, to provide for the teaching of the law in this manner to all who were willing to be taught. He therefore submitted that this would be an appropriate and fitting duty for the society to undertake. There could be no better method of amending the law than first to ascertain briefly and clearly how the law stood which it was proposed to amend. No better means could be taken for this purpose than fully to investigate what it was, and then to declare it publicly before those competent to listen to it; and he believed that no better mode could be found of obtaining a correct and accurate idea of the law than by lectures followed by repeated examinations, the lecturer and the class working together. On these grounds he invited the society to use its influence and authority to found a law school for the purpose of teaching the law in all its departments, and to afford the means to every one of acquiring a knowledge of those rules which govern his property and his liberty, his own rights and the rights of others. lle would let in not only students but the public. The school should be entirely of a practical kind. It should consist of classes in which the main object should be to teach particular branches, not by fixed rules, or in any prescribed mode, but by such means as might seem best to the particular lecturer ; by oral or written communications, by examination, and free conversa tion between the lecturer and the classes. All that he had consulted upon the subject cordially approved of the plan ; and he read a letter from Lord Brougham in which ie Noble and Learned Lord offered 251. as his contribution towards the prizes, and further inti mated his willingness to volunteer a course of lectures upon Constitutional Law. Mr. Stewart concluded his very interesting paper by moving that it be re ferred toa committee to consider the subject. The motion was seconded by Mr. PULLING. The CHAIRMAN said that having been appointed Professor of Equity in Lincoln's Inn, under the reso lution to which his Learned Friend had referred, he would state the result of his experience in that office. He commenced his lectures in the Hall. The system was to deliver written lectures in term, and after term he instituted examinations upon them. The society had made it compulsory upon students who desired to be called to attend these lectures ; but ' the examinations were entirely voluntary. The number of students who originally attended the lectures was about 18 or 19. Some of them evidently attended because they were compelled; but he found that those who attended the voluntary examination after term made great progress. This went on for about a year. At the end of the year the society came to a resolution that it should no longer be compulsory for students to attend the lectures; on which those who had attended only to qualify themselves to be called ceased their attendance ; but those who attended the voluntary examination, to the number of eight or nine, continued. Finding the numbers thus reduced, and thinking they could be much more effectually taught round a table, he gave up the Hall lectures and invited the students to meet him in the Chancellor's private room, where he proceeded with them, taking care when he came to the end of every branch of a subject to inquire whether the principles he had endeavoured to expound were thoroughly un derstood ; and after term the voluntary examination was gone through, as usual, upon what had been treated during term. He must say he never met a set of young men more regular in their attend ance' or who devoted themselves more completely to the subject than his pupils. These lectures would terminate next term; but from his own experience he could, in the mean time, state that the teaching of the law by this mode had been eminently successful. To show that it had not failed, he would mention that several gentlemen who attended the first course of lectures also attended the second, though the subject was the same ; and that, seeing the earnestness with which the pupils seemed to devote themselves to the study, he had himself proposed that at the, end of the course they should receive prizes. The numbers, however, not having been adequate, for he could scarcely think it justifiable to establish a professorship to teach only eight or nine pupils, the society was quite right in discontinuing the system, but it could not be in consequence of any failure as regarded those who attended. Ile felt sure there was not a man who would leave the course now in progress without being in a more advanced state as regarded knowledge than if he had been at the bar for five years under the ordi nary course of study. The system of teaching by lectures, and the system of a legal school, would, he was satisfied, be effectual for teaching the law ; and the v_sults of his own experience led him to concur heartily in the principle. Mr. A'BRCKETT de..cribed the success of the lectures at the Law Institution to articled clerks in the other branch of the profession, and said it was most de sirable that similar advantages of acquiring know ledge should be afforded to the students for the bar. The establishment of a law school would in this respect be a public benefit; and parties who distin guished themselves in it would, on that account, 1 e very often selected for business. Mr. STEWART regarded the case of the Law In stitution as a most valuable one, because it was an instance of a successful law school having been estab lished by a private society. The motion was carried unanimously, and after the remaining business had ben disi o3ed of the meeting adjourned. DRAINAGE OF TIDAL TOM NS TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—An original suggestion fur the drainage of London has been just made by Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney, proposing to take advantage of the tile of the Thames, running down seven hours, and only up five. The paper containing this suggestion has been put into my hands to examine into the correctness of certain data and calculations necessarily connected with its practical application. I have maturely con sidered the subject, and have been forcibly stru c k with its originality ; and at this moment, when our attention is so closely drawn to sanitary considerations, deem it important to be put before the public. I have obtained permission to do so; and if you think so with me it is very much at your service. He sa y s —" The current of the Thames, in round numbers, at London- bridge, runs down seven hours an d up five every tide—in winter more,, in summer less— depending on the amount of rain-water. It runs at a rate of almost from five to seven mil es p er hour—no matter the exact rate, if we suppose that it ebbs and flows at , the same; it will b e p l a i n that anything thrown into, and forming part of th e Thames at high water, would, in seven hours, be carried by the stream more than forty miles down the river, never to return. In order to make this more clear, let us suppose a portion of the sewage (or what is better, a sea-log) to be thrown into the Thames, and to become part of the current, precisely at the turn of tide at high water, at London bridge ; in seven hours, taking six miles per hoer as th e mean run of current, it would be carried forty-two miles down the river. On the return of the tide, even sup posing it to run up at the same rate, in five hours it will only have come up thirty miles ; and at the time of the next high water, at the turn of the tile, it would be full twelve miles below the bridge. It would now run down again for seven hours, and be carried 42 IllilCs further, or 54 miles below London- NOVEMBER 14 1849. bridge. On the turn of the next tide it would be left 24 miles down the river, and so on, de scending 24 miles in 24 hours until it went clear into the sea. If our numbers are correct — they are not far from the truth—it is self-evident that if the sewage of London was collected and allowed only to run into the Thames at high water, like the sea-log above stated, it would at low water be forty-two miles down the river, never to return ; for five hours' flow would only bring it within twelve miles of the place from whence it started." He goes on to show that under such conditions the water of the Thames above London bridge woul I be always pure ; that no pollution could affect it, and that the river below the bridge, instead of being, as now, constantly filled with filth, would only be fouled during the short period of the opening of the sluices—about an hour a day. His views are self-evidently true in principle ; he follows them up by a detail of arrange ments to suit the conditions in prectice, which need not be stated here; but at the end of the paper appears the following anecdote, which so clearly shows the principle, and is so naturally put, that I cannot help giving it as it originally stands. He says :—" When I was a boy, I was much amused to observe a dead pig to flow up and down a tidal river, every day; as regularly as the day came my friend the pig came also ; he grew bigger and bigger, and shortened his visit about a mile a day, until at last he went to sea, and, poor fellow, I never saw him more. He made me a phi: losopher. What could make a dead pig grow bigger? If he had been a living one the question never would have arisen—or why did he choose to shorten his visits so regularly a mile a day ?" Now it is evident, carrying out this anecdote in connexion with our subject, that if a " dead pig" were thrown over Waterloo-bridge at low water, he would go up with the tide for five hours, and he would in five hours more return, making ten hours. He would now only have two hours' ebb before he would meet the tide coming up ; consequently he would return again with it, and go up the river; he night be seen every day for a week : but if he were thrown over at high water, he would float down for seven hours, and up only for five, consequently he never would be seen again within twelve miles of the bridge. The calculations of under-current, the fact of its being twelve and a half hours between tide and tide, difference in rate, &c., are all in favour of the prac ticability of its being carried out. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, King's College, Nov. 10. JAMES HANN. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 11.—Orders were received here on Thursday for the fitting out of the Indefatigable, 50, with a crew of 500 men; and Lieutenant Joseph Edye, the son of her able constructor, being ap pointed to her, was especially ordered by the Lords of the Admiralty to commission her immediately. This officer was at Teignmouth when the order came, but the electric telegraph called him down, and in two hours and a half he was with the Commander in- Chief of the port to receive his instructions. The Indefatigable was commissioned on Friday by Lieutenant Joseph Edye (1849) for Captain Robert Smart, K.H. (1837). This gallant officer's expe rience extends over a period of twenty-three years, since his entry into the service in October, 1810. As a master's-mate he served in the Glasgow, at Algiers ; obtained his lieutenant's commission September, 1820; and, as lieutenant of the Cambria, was in the action at Navarino, and was subsequently wrecked in an attack upon a nest of pirates at Cara busa. He was made a commander April, 1828, and served in the Satellite three years; and, since his elevation to the rank of captain, has commanded the Impregnable, 104, and Ilowe, 120, and ha 3 I,tdy returnad from serving as captain of the flag ship Collingwood, 80, in the Pacific. Her Majesty's brig Hound, 8, was commissioned on Friday, by Commander F. Patten (1837), for service on the coast of Africa, and is to have a com plement of eighty officers and men. She will take out the December mails. Commander Pattern entered the navy in January, 1814, and has served twenty-five years on lull pay, afloat and in the coast guard. He was a lieutenant of 1822, and _was promoted from the command of the Rapid, 10, in South America. His last vessel was the Osprey, 12, wrecked at New Zealand, at a place called False Hokianga, which had never been surveyed. The Conflict, 12 (screw), Commander Blake, went out .of harbour yesterday. The Ganges, 8.1, Captain Smith, C. 8., was paid wages yesterday. The Shearwater, Lieutenant• Commander E. Tur flour, sailed yesterday for Liverpool. The Royal Dockyard Female Orphan Fund pro ceeds well. There has been a large number of subscriptions entered into; and the patron Sir John Louis, Bart., has presented 1001. from the Bunkers' Hill fund. It has been proposed that a bazaar should be held the first week in January, and several ladies in the dockyard have kindly consented to receive contributions. There are seventy-six orphans, whose parents died in the course of the cholera visitation. Admiral-Superintendent Sir John Louis resigned the duties of the dockyard yesterday, and is succeeded by Captain Lord John Hay, at present one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. The Leda hulk, stationed off Mutton Cove for convalescent persons during the prevalence of cho lera, has been towed by the Confiance steam-vessel to her moorings in Swanage, the cholera having entirely disappeared from these towns. The keel of the Narcissus, 50, will be laid down in No. 1 slip in the course of a few days. WooLwicu, Nov. 12.—The Enterprise, Captain Sir James Clark Ross, and the Investigator, Captain E. J. Bird, were inspected today at eleven o'clock A.M., by Commodore Henry Eden, accompanied by Flag-Lieutenant Gore and - Mr. Dyer, private secre tary. The gallant Commodore, on going on board Investigator, was received by Captain Bird and the officers, and inspected the whole of the crew and Royal Marines as they passed singly from the port to the starboard side of the vessel. The Commodore then went below, and examined the state of the vessel, which was very good., considering the nature and length of the voyage, and the great quantity of spare stores with which she was supplied. From the Investigator the Commodore went on board the Enterprise, and was received by Lieutenant M'Clure and the officers of that vessel. The crew were then passed singly from the port to the starboard side of the vessel. The saws with which the ice was cut to make channels fur the vessels to go through were shown. They are about 14 feet in length, without the handles, and the iron of Which they are made is of considerable thickness. The shape of the teeth was considerably improved by the men, the original form being found to retain pieces of .the ice. Immediately on the Com modore coming on shore the crews of the Enterprise and Investigator went aloft, unfurled the sails, and struck the topgallant mast, preparatory to the being paid off. Captain Sir James Clark Ross arrived in the afternoon, and went on board the Enterprise. Tho Enterprise and Investigator entered Port Leo pold on the 11th of September, 1848, and remained locked up in the ice until the early part of September of the present year. When these vessels arrived in the extreme northern regions they burned blue lights and sent rockets up every morning and evening, the Enterprise firing at ten P.m., at twelve at night, and two o'clock A.M., the Investigator using her rockets at nine and eleven P.M., and one o'clock A.M., and both burnt their blue lights at about five minutes before the rockets were sent up. During the long and tedious days of winter the officers and crews mused themselves by catching foxes, and secured upwards of a hundred of these animals, which are nearly the size of the common foxes of this country, only the fur of the former is white in winter and of a grey colour in summer. The whole of the foxes were liberated after each had a collar put round his neck, made of hear skin, and having the names of the vessels and the captains commanding them, with the latitude and longitude of the places where the ships were at the time, written upon them. Several of the foxes were taken a second time, with their collars upom them. The traps used for taking the foxes were empty casks, and some times three or four of the foxes would be taken in one day. The carpenters have finished their work to•day on board the Terrible, steam frigate, and she is expected to be commissioned on Wednesday next by Captain Hope. The Styx steam-sloop, when she left Woolwich on Thursday last, under the charge of Lieutenant Robertson, remained at Greenhithe during the night, and on the following day made two runs up and two runs down the distance between the Nore and Mouse lights, and was ascertained to have an average speed of 9+ knots per hour. That result proving satisfactory, and her engines working well, she pro ceeded for Devonport, and landed Mr. Stuart, the Government pilot at Woolwich, at Dover. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Termagant steam frigate, 1,556 tons, 24 guns, 620-horse power, went out of this harbour under Commander J. A. Stevens, of the Blenheim, this morning to make a trial of her speed and sea• worthiness under steam at the measured mile in Stokes-bay, and to test the working of Mr. Grant's cooking and distilling apparatus. There was enough sea on to try the vessel well under every phase of tide, if not of wind, of which element there was a stiff breeze blowing all the time, but the vessel's speed was insignificant f)r her power compared with the performance of steamers of only auxiliary power by steam—viz., 61 knots, making 25 revolu tiorri. She lay over from 3i to 5 degrees. Mr. Murray, C.E. superintending engineer of this dock yard ; Captains Sulivan and Hayes, Mr. T. T. Grant, and other officers, were on board during her trial, which is considered a fair one. Her cooking and di:s tilling apparatus was set in operation the whole of the time, and prepared various condiments for the visitors on board, showing the excellences of the invention and adaptation to the manifold necessities of a ship's officers and crew. It distilled one gallon of fresh water from that taken out of the sea in one minute and ten seconds, and performed all its work in a most satisfactory manner. The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord Amelius Beauclerk, arrived this morning from the Channel, and was dispatched this afternoon to the vicinity of \Vhitecliff, to offer assistance to a .hip in distress, reported to be a steamer o❑ her way from Cork to London, with a cargo of turpentine and pas sengers on board, which had been run aground on the island to save the lives of the passengers. No parti culars have yet (6 r.m.) come from the scene of the disaster. The Leander, 50, Captain Dacres, was inspected at Spithead yesterday, by the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel, K.C.8., the Commander-in• Chief, and her cre w _ . exercised in gunnery by Captain Chads, C. 8., of the Excellent. The Hecate, steam-sloop, Commander Shadwell, was also inspected yesterday by the same authorities, and lies ready to embark his Excellency Sir H. L. Bulvver, for America, whenever he may appear. The Sidon steam-frigate was undocked yesterday, and returned to the steam-basin, for completion for trial. A sad accident happened yesterday on board the 1 Excellent to a boy whose name we have not ascer tained, whilst engaged in the gunnery practice con stituting the education on board that ship. Some portion of the ship's company were exercising with a couple of small guns on the forecastle, about ten A.M., and the boy in question, who was stationed outside of the port, mistook the report of one of the guns for the discharge of the other, and while in the act of inserting his rammer into the muzzle of the wrong gun, those on board, not seeing him in the smoke, fired off the charge, which carried the boy off the ship's side into the water, and blew his right arm off above the elbow. Several of those who witnessed the catastrophe plunged overboard after the boy, who was speedily conveyed to Hasler Hospital. The Sprightly steam-tender was undocked yester day, and the .Bloodhound taken in, when her iron showed another most signal triumph for the chemical officer of the dockyard, whose composition had been on six months and was quite clean, whereas the side of her bottom coated with the preparation of an op posingagent was covered thickly with grass, presenting the appearance, in the words of an officer looking on, of " a garden of young leeks." A Board of Admiralty, comprising Rear-Admiral Dundas, C. 8., M P., Captain Lord John Hay, C. 8., M.P., Captain Milne, and Mr. Parker, secretary, arrived this afternoon from London, via Brighton, to pay Captain Dacres, of the Leander, a complimentary visit before his sailing for Lisbon. Their Lordships were accompanied by Captain Charles Eden, Private Secretary to Sir Francis Baring ; Captain Sir B. Walker, Surveyor of the Navy; and by Rear-Ad miral Prescott, C. 8., Superintendent of this Dockyard, and were received at the Landport station by Flag- Lieutenant Cochran, Mr. Superintendent Sutton, &c. Sir Bladen Capel's carriage was in attendance to bring their Lordships into this town, their barge being in waiting at the old Sallyport-stairs, and the Myrtle port tender. Master-Commander Braddon, moored off the Victoria-pier in readiness to embark them for Spithead. Sir Bladen Capel and Commander Lord F. H. Kerr met the Board at the Sallyport, and his Lordship formed one of the party for Spithead. The weather was very forbidding, the rain pouring heavily, and the wind blowing with considerable violence, coupled with anything but a Lords-of-the-Admiralty sea, rendered the aquatic fete a rather nauseous trial. No salutes were fired, no flag hoisted, there fore it may be presumed this visit was a private one. They remained on board the Leander about two hours. Commander Jerningham is concentrating the broadside of the Leander. The object of this is to insure the certainty of delivering the first broadside with the most deadly effect; the whole of the guns should be fired simultaneously, or the smoke from a single gun would obscure the object at the moment the others are to fire; and after the smoke has ren- tiered everything invisible from between decks, the only chance of getting a sight of the enemy is from the upper-deck, or aloft as long as the masts are left, standing. Captain Jerningham's plan, therefore, which was satisfactorily proved on board the Wel lesley in India and China, in 1837, and on board the Excellent in 1847, is one that may be adopted in every ship without any additional fittings, and that in a few hours. The guns may be brought into position to cover a horizontal line varying in length from 1 inch to 50 feet, at any distance up to 600 yards within the angle of training of the guns in the ports, and the fire repeated with the same precision and rapidity as is now done with single guns. The Board of Admiralty returned to town this afternoon by the 6 30 train. APPOINTMENTS. Woonwicn, Nov. 13.—Midshipmen—William C. England, to the Scourge, at Portsmouth; Edwin S. D'Arcy, and C. IL Stainforth, to the Hound, at Devonport. Naval Cadet—W. A. Welch, to the Indefatigable, at Devonport. The Devonshire, 72 guns, was towed down tho river today from Deptford by the Monkey, African, and Adder steam-vessels, and is to be taken to Chatham. The Retribution steam•frigate has had her engines of 800 horse power taken out, and she was taken out of the basin to-clay into the river, to have her masts taken out to-morrow. The Minx steam-vessel, fitted with a screw pro peller, has been fitted with a 10 horse power disc engine. The steam was got up yesterday to try the working of the disc engine of the Minx, in tihe basin, and it made 106 revolutions per minute. The vessel is to be tried down the river in the course of the week. The diameter of the screw is 4 feet 6 inches, the ball of the engine 10 inches, and the drum in which the ball works 27 inches. The shaft of the screw descends to the stern of the vessel at an apparent angle of 25 degrees from the engine. his Royal Highness Prince Albert having caused an order to be forwarded to Captain the lion. W. E. Fitzmaurice to bring his model of his rotary en gine and the engine itself and pinnace to Windsor Casthi p lor his Royal Highness's inspection, the gallant Captain attended on the 6th instant at Windsor Castle, and caused the pinnace, with the engine on board, to be conveyed to Datchet-reach. his Royal highness went up the reach in the pinnace, and ex pressed himself highly pleased with all he had wit nessed. The Enterprise, Captain Sir James Clarke Ross, has commenced unloading her stores into lighters for the purpose of their being taken on shore. Captain Sir John Ross, accompanied by Mr. Lang, master shipwright, visited the Enterprise yesterday after ' noon, shortly after the return of Capt. Sir J. C. Ross to town. Sir John Ross speaks with great confidence of the safety of Captain Sir John Franklin's exile dition, and says he will suggest to the Lords of the Admiralty to offer a reward of 50,000/. for the recovery of the whole or a part of the officers and crews, leaving the whole further exertions to private enterprise, and he, for one, will proceed to the Arctic regions next season. Sir John Ross also asked and obtained the promise of some of his former associates in his perilous North Polar voyage to accompany him again to the Arctic regions. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, Nov. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-clay were as fol low :—Great Western, 62—Ditto, Quarters, 114 dis.—Ditt New Shares, 71. 13s. 9d. dis. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 13. STOCK ETCIIANGE. —The share market was dull to-day at the quotations, which were rather lower than yesterday. The transactions were as follow :—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, (late C. and B.), 6 per cent. till 1850, 13— Caledonian, 115 ,—Great Northern, 13 dis. Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol. Fifths, 6% dis. —London and North- Western, 113%—Ditto, New Quarters, Bs. 9d. p.—Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Quarters (No. 1), guaranteed 7 1 4 till 1853, 13;‘, dis.—Midland, Halves, 21% dis.—South- Eastern and Dover (No. 4), 61. 6s. 3d. MANCEIESTER, Nov. 13. 'STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to-day were as follow:—Manchester and Leeds, 32/, Shares, 10% dis.— oitte, Fifths, 6% dis.—Bolton and Bury, 40 dis.—Edin burgh and Glasgow, 30 dis.—Sheffield, Preference, 9% North Staffordshire, 9% dis.—Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 6 1 A — Grimsby Docks, 4 3 4—Ditto, Quarters, 104 dis. BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The only transactions to-day were— Great Western, 62 South Staffordshire, 4 dis. YORK, Nov. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow:—York, Newcastle, and Perwick, 17% Great North ern, 7% —York and North Midland, 19%. GLASGOW, Nov. 12. STOCK Exerrargott.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—Clydesdale Junction, 51— Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, VA—Glasgow and Greenock, 14—North British, Preference, 5. . -- 15EATII FROM A KICK ON Tan LEG.—It has been remarked, on the highest authority, that the body is not one member but many; and whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it. Of this a re markable example has occurred at Chapel of Lochore, five miles south of Kinross. A healthy boy, eight years of age, received from a scho olfellow a kick on the calf of the left leg, which caused considerable pain, though there was no perceptible scar or discolouration. This happened about noon on Wednesday. In the afternoon, the boy reached home from the school at Maryburgh, a distance of rather more than two and a half miles, having walked with some diffinilty. On Thursday he was observed occa sionally to wander in his mind, and had two fits, each lasting about half an hour. On Friday there seems, from the account given, to have boen difficulty Of swallowing, but to which no importance was at the time attached. On Saturday he had become nearly in sensible, but after medical means had been re sorted to, he recovered so far as to be sensible to the pain of the leg, which was still, however, neither much swollen nor discoloured. In this state he remained with little change till the morning of Sabbath, at four o'clock, when he expired—being eight hours less than four days from the reception of this apparently trivial injury.—Caledonian Mercury. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. IPSWICH, Nov. 13. Our millers bought wheat more freely to-day, and priers imp:owed is par quarter. Good malting barley supports its price; other qualities negleeted. Oats and beans no a - iation. Peas a dull sale. Malt scarcely so good. Flour steady. PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER. Wheat 37s to 46s Beans 26s to 30s Barley. Oats Rye............ 22s to 25s Flour, per sack 355 to 40s AVERAGES FUR THE WEEK ENDING NuV. 10. Wheat 1,420 quarters at 42s 10d. Barley Oats Beans ... 74 „ 27s 2d. Yea 5...... 62 „ 28s 11d. Rye . ... 00 „ 00s OJ. HULL, Nov. 13. _ _ Messrs. Taylor and Bright's circular states:—Arti vals during the past week have been moderate, and although actual business not extensive, more firmness exhibited on the part of importers, some of whom are going to granary with the better runs of wheat, under the impression that during winter mouths better prices may be obtained, as the result of diminished large sup plies, or deteriorated condition of the new English. Spring corn generally has been very fist, with the single exception of the better class of old beans, which are not now plentiful on the market. We are fairly supplied with English wheat for this day's market, and an attempt by farmers to obtain yesterday's advance on Mark-lane, but our milli rs being shy buyers, it was only picked samples that commanded fully last week's prices. More money was demanded for best runs of foreign, but owing to the still excellent condition of new English, the sale for this is for the present merely of a retail character. Inferior samples, whether foreign or home-growth, con tinue bed to quit. Transactions in barley, either for malting or grinding purposes, are only limited, and con cession is made in sales from ship. The demand for old beans is still good, but limited to first quality. New beans, unless very dry or kiln-dried, are more difficult to sell, though their present price seems tempting. White peas for feeding are more in request; tor boilers the demand has not yet commenced. Several fine samples of blue, English and foreign, are on the market, at about 30s to 325. In linseed the business passing is very limited, owing chiefly to the lack of supplies, except for account a the crushers; there is rather more inquiry for cakes of first quality, and our quotation is paid for such. The import of rapeseed quoted above goes direct to the crushers, and the market remains without stock; of ripe cokes, the supply is in excess of demand,Kand lower rates are again taken. Bones are sold at our quo tations as they arrive. The following are the present prices of grain : s. 5. 8. s • Wheat, English, red 37 to 40 Peas, white and yel. 25 27 Do. white 4O 42 1 D0. grey ,, 24 Dant zic and Ko- Linseed, Black Sea. 43 45 , nigsberg 46 48.D0. Petersburgh 37 42' Pomeranian and Do. Riga & Archngl. 36 —3S Hamburgh . 3B 42 Do. Konigsberg .... 35 37 anish, Holstein, & Per ton. Friesland ......... 31 —37 Linseed cakes, Hull 71 5s o+l Russian and Odessa 32 36 Do. fine foreign Oats, English Do. Danish.— l3 15 Rapeseed Do. Friesland l6 18 Rape cakes...7ss 05 to 00s Od Do. Russ. & Odessa 14 16 Tares, English ......00s —00 g Barley,malting 24 26 Do. foreign 20s 243 Do. grinding........ 20 22 Guano Beans 2B 34, Bones, do 00s Od to 87s 6a Do. foreign ...... 26 —30 j meal GI 0 5 LIVERPOOL, Nov. 13.—At this morning's mace there was a fair attendance of the trade. The small im provement noted on Friday of 15 to 25 per bushel in Wheat was maintained today, but the business was only moderate. Choice brands of Flour supported late rates; the secondary sorts of American and Irish are still difficult to move. Oats sold readily at an advance of id to 15 per bushel on the price of last Tuesday. There was no amendrnens in oatmeal. Barley, beans, and peas, were each in fair request at fully late rates. Indian corn is still neglected; white is quoted is and yellow a par quarter under this day se'unight. The following is the official statement of the quantiti corn, &e., received in the port of London from the po Essex, from the sth Nov., 1849, to the 10th Nov., both inclusive ie4 Of rt 9 in 1849, • c n) 4-1 PR G a i3 O •1, 4 i c 3 aS 0 :VI 3 w 4', ;A Colchester 35 746 1 127 101 73 0 Harwich Leigh ......... •••.. 82; 9 10 e 22 Mahlon 448 123 105 60 126 1`.131030 C HELM SFORD, Nov 9.—There was a tolerablY brisk side for wheat to-day at last week's prices, whicil were fully maintained. All else without var;atiot 7 - Wheat, white, old 42s to 48s; new 44s to 495; rs,d, old 38s to 43s ; new, 39s to 45s ; barley, 28s to 30s ; chevaiV . 28s to 325; grinding 20s to 24s ; oats 17s to 23s ; malt 5 46 to 565; chevalier 54s to 58s; peas, partridge, new 283 W 30s; old, —s to —s ; white, new, 28s to 30s ; old, —s 'to ---I; dun, new, 27s to 295; beans, tick, new 25s to 27s ; oid, 283 to 30s ; harrow ticks, new 26s to 28s ; old 29s to 31.:3; l aa° zagan, new 24s to 26s ; old 25s to 27s per qr. COLCHESTER, Nov. 10.—Wheat, white 44s to 48s; Ted , 4 9,! to 44s ; barley 28s to 32 s ; b eans , mazagan 24 s t o 28 s ; nriauw and small 28s to 30s ; peas 26s to 30s per qr. HADDINGTON ? Nov. 9.—The following are the prices of grain at our market to-day • • Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. f Bean e ; ... 52s 6d I 258 Cd I 2OF Od X 23 Od is Second ... ... 36s 2d I 22s 7d I 17s 7d i •29s 8 1 Third ••• .. 27s Od 14s Od 1 14s 6d 283 o ', Total quantity of Wheat in market 590 qrs., 534 sol d Do. Barley do. gol d 535 qrs., 483 i Do. Oats do. 402 qrs., 353 sold Do. Beans do. 27 qrs., 26 s al KIRKALDY, Nov. 10.—The following are the quotations up to this date :, _ _ Wheat. :Barley. Oats. Beans.. Peas, First 463 Od 24s Od 21s Od —s Od I—s (1 1 second 428 Od 193 6d 183 6d —s Od I—s n ° 7l Third 353 Od 17 s Od 15 s Od — s Od, v- .• - . Oatmeal, per bag of 280 lbs. imp., 27s to 008 . 0 d. GLASGOW, Nov. S.—Provisions—Cheese, 46s to 505 u" per cwt ; retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Skim milk, 18s to 00s Per cwt. Country fresh butter, 9d to lid per lb; Irish pows dered, in lumps, 9d to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, 7 ,.i j to &I. Country eggs, 9d per dozen ; carried h en ditto, 59 per hundred, or 7d per dozen. Hens, 2s Od per pair; duckh 2s Od. STIRLING, Nov. 9.—Wheat, foreign, 21s to 25s Od did° , home, 2is Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, 16s to 20s, barley, if boll of 6 bushels, ON Od to OOs Od ; ditto new, lls to 179 6 °' oats, common, 12s Od to 13s Od • ditto new, 9s Od to 105 O d d i ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, Os Od; distillers, 33s to 353 ditto brewers, 35. Od to 38s ; beao 9, per boll, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new, 16s Od to 170 6d; Pe s t 14s 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 34 1 to 35s ; ditto corani ( t i. ditto, 24s Od to 25s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, 1.4 Od to Os_ ,O ditto new 26s Od to 28s ; ditto per peck of 7 1 bs, 8d to Os 01! fresh butter, per lb, 8d to lod ; eggs per dozen, 6d . to 7°' hay per ton, 44s to 475. KELso, Nov. 9.—Wheat, old, 34s to 36s ; ditto, new, 21 ; to 34s t.d ; barley, new, 12s to 17s Od ; ditt o old, Otis Od „ 00s ; potato oats, OOs to 00s ; ditto new, lls to 13s Od ; cots' mon oats, OOs to OOs Od; ditto new, 9s to 111 Od ' • peas , °Cm to OOs Od; beans, 20s to 22 s per b o ll o f s i x imperialbushels;s, PERTH, Nov. B.—Wh ea t, 32 s Od to 44 s O d ; barley, 1„A to 23s Od ; oats, 14 s t o 16 3 ; peas an d b eans, 25 s Od to 983 Od par quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 261 to 28s. FALKIRK, Nov. B..—The supply of grain in this del' market was 734 bolls; wheat at Its Od t o 21s 6d per bo ll barley, 15s 6d to 18s Od ; oats, lls 6d to 13s 9d; beans, 12 9 to 15s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. HAwicx, Nov. B.—Wheat, new, 33s Od to 37s Od; barl new, 16s to 19 s Od ; ditt o o ld, 17 s to 20 s ; po t a t o 08 ,4 13s Od to 15s Od ; common oats, lls to 14s Od ; peas, 933 to 2.5 s Od ; beans, 23s Od to 23s Od per boll of six imPe r bushels. BERWICK, Nov. B.—Wheat, 385 2id ; barley, 20s oats, 17s 4d ; rye, 003 Od ; beans, Os Od ; peas, 00s Od rage per imperial quarter. Conic, N0v.12. Flour—First 12s6d to 13s 6d; extra 1.4 s 6 1 1 0 seconds, 11s Od to 12s 6d - households 9s to I ls; thirds, r/ E t. 8 , ? per cwt. Oatmeal 12. to ' l3s 6d; Indian meal 6s 9d to 7s; w°,7 o , meal, 9s 6d to 10s per cwt. Indian corn 12590 d to'l3os Od per`a" Bran 3/ 10s to 3115 s per ton. Hay—Farmers 25s Od to 32s;'ave r Trl 30s ; dealers 32s to 36s Od; average 34s per ton. Straw—Far " - od; 183 Od to i6s Od ; average 20s ; dealers 263 Od to 00 3 " . average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 6 ,rt; household loaf 5d to sid per 41b. Fresh butter, 8 “,,„.• 9d per lb. Eggs— 5s 5d to 5s 7d per hundred. Co als Newport 149; Lydney 16s ; Landore 14s ; Best N ea vi t, Culm 13. per ton. Tallow 39. Oct to 00s per .. e /ei t Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. t o —Beef 4d to 7d; mutton 4d to bid; veal: 4d f Od ; pork 4id to 5d ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 5d P p e e lb. Hops 91 Os per cwt. Bangor slates 3 / 2 s 6d to 3/ 5s ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 815 x; Valonia 141 to 01; .Frell e, 715 s ; English 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 10s to 12 s p e r st° s Hemp 34/ to 35/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 21s to 00s ; r p e e t ditto 25s to 26s per barrel ; Newfoundland 00100 s to. 001; ton. Timber—Memel, 85/ per ton • deals, first quality. I ; second quality, 16 s p er 100. Hi d es—Market 12s to ' salted 13s to 183 per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 2id per Potatoes, white bid to 8d; Minions lld to 00d; Peruvian, 11/ los ; lehaboe 9/ per ton; Tar—Areba l3 ° 19s per barrel. BIRTHS. f, cif On the 11th inst., at Moray-place, Edinburgh, - -/i Blantyre, of a daughter, MA* On the 10th inst., at Avonhurst, Warwickshire, the ,-- Mrs. Woodrnass, of a son. A On the 10th inst., at Abbey-place, St. John's-woow the wife of George H. Taylor, Esq. c.f a son. 1 On the 11th inst., at Craven -hill, Mrs. Thomas Gribblef a daughter. On the 11th inst., at Church-fields, Cheshunt, Her"' 06 wife of Edgar Crispin, Esq, of a son. .t r , Aft °. On the 11th inst., at Gl oucester-square, Hyde.par--, G. Marshall, of a daughter. oo ti ' On the 11th inst., at Hamilton-terrace, St. John's- 0 the lady of H. Darby, Esq., of a daughter. Le e ' On the 12th i ns t ., t h e w i fe of A. N. Cherrill, Esq ., road, Blackheath, of a daughter. _.-----' On the CH I inst., at M MAR am RI ED. e, Inverness shire, Be r vg jos, Precis, F - - Esq., of Beaurepaire-park, Hants, late Carey-, f to Jane Lilly, Younges t d aug ht er o f Li eutenant -G e nera , John Rose, K.g.8., of Holme. DIED. of r On the Bth inst., Charles Lyell, Erq., of Kinnordy , farshire, aged 81. ft• On the Bth inst., at Beaupre, GlamorgansWre Capta l , Basset, Royal Artillery, Deputy Lieutenant of the' cotV'ijer On the 9th inst., at Wateringbury, near Maidstone,` 4 Smith, Esq., of Canton-place, Poplar, aged 38. T COP * On the 10th inst., at Summer-hill, Birmingham, '• - Esq., aged 77. On the 10th inst., aged 80, Charles Henry Last, Had On le thighe, S 10 uffolk. ef °f th inst., at Brighton, aged 78, Elizabeth , 01 Thomas Dyke, Esq., of Doctors'-commons. Dorse t' On the 11th inst., at Ilerston-hc,use, Swanage , 61. Susanna, the wife of J. Arowlem, Esq., Paddington' eg e ,, a rd On the 11th inst., at Eltolts, near Leeds, aged 44, Jowett, Esq., a justice of peace for the West Riding. AO, On the 11th inst., at York-place, Walworth, Dirs• late of Uxbridge, ag<d 65 London: Printed and Published by 1111JEDO YO a r, ;11%' No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun 011im 4;l ' , Strand, in tb , , Precinct 4f the Savoy, in tha G 4 - 10. bliddisaex, Wednesday, November 14, 1849. 1 First