The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-21 00:00:00

mv/... ° ROL' ck Yer Pw ards er w hole gaol on 10 COURT CIRCULAR. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and the Ilereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, have left Drumlanrig Castle, for Inverary. 1 .,A deputation from Hereford, consisting of the an of Hereford, Mr. Cleave, Mr. P. L. Boden . aril, Mr. Pritchard, and Mr. W. H. Smith, had an Interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade, on the line of rail way from Hereford to Gloucester, via Ross to the F orest of Dean. Sir Robert Peel left his residence in Whitehall gardens yesterday morning, for Brighton. A deputation from the Midland and Eastern -;eunties Railway Companies, consisting of Mr. nudson, Mr. Hennard, Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Hall, and Mr. Parker, had an interview yesterday with t he Earl of Dalhousie, at the Board of Trade. T hursday Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on 44 rsday afternoon, for Beechworth. „ C aPtain M. P. Berkeley, M.P., the Mayor of Glou eter, Mr. Samuel Baker, Mr. J. 0. Whitcombe, t and Clegram, as a deputation from Gloucester : 4 an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yes t'aY, at the office of the Board of Trade. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. The Innkeepers' RACES.—THURSDAT. 4ile Innkeepers' Plate, by subs of 15 soya each, 10 ft, with 100 added, the second to save his stake. t Red House in. etcl Chesterfield's Knight of the Whistle, 6 yrs, 1 ' r R. W. 13ulkeley's Bishop of Romford's Cob, 4 y rs Mr. Meiklam's Philip, 4 yrs, Mr. Gully's Juvenal, 8 . 7 Yrs, and Sir R. Gyll nd Corodino, 3 yrs, also ran. p to 4 a gs t Bi s h op o f R om f or d' s C o b, 2 t o 1 ags t I. II N and 3to 1 agst Knight of the Whistle. The Ight made nearly all the running, and won by a The Three Years Old Stakes of 200 sovs each, h ft• St Leger Course. 1,,• Anson's Joe Lovell (F. Butler) 1 "Ntd Glasgow's bc by Velocipede, out of Amulet 2 Won in a canter. The Tw o Years Old Stakes of 20 soya each, for colts Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 41b. T.Y.C. (32 Subs.) 1 1 7 d G. Bentinck's Longitude . (Nat) 1 • Hesseltine's The Helmsman ... 2 liThe following also ran, but were not placed R. Ramsey's Mid Lothian it; 4. W. Bulkeley's Sister to Coal Black Rose... 0 V I ; J. Osborne's Firemaster .0 ookson' s Punjaüb. kr. Br oo k s ' Ti tan i a . : Linton's b c by Sheet Anchor, out of Lillah 0 k t r d Eglinton's Bretwalda . 11:4 Johnston's ch c by St. Martin.,. 0 k.4ln of 300 sovs., with 50 added by the Corporat il°4 for the second. About two miles and five e d "s• k t . Salvin's Alice Hawthorn, 6 yrs, Bst 131 b 1 eiklam's Aristotle, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b Lrvin's The Pride of Kildare, 3 yrs, 6st 111 b 3 Won in a canter. % tit , i'vr MATCH FOR FRlDAY.—Corranna, Bst 101 b, William le Gros, Bst. Two miles. 100, h ft. 44)1) ITIONAL PARTICULARS RECEIVED _LAST NIGHT. DONCASTER, THURSDAY EVENING. appearance of Alice Hawthorn's name amongst e atries for the Cup, and the certainty that, if it 10teed a race at all, it would be for the bonus ( 47 by the Corporation for the second horse, entirely "ted what has hitherto been one of the most ex kitng races of the meeting, of all public interest, and fr en ,, s Peculati on ou t of the question. The list, apart 1 4 ; 1 1. the Cup, was not by any means imposing. The el k eepers' Plate, which, by the way, was one of the Cent races we ever saw, had considerably less i; . O the average number of subscribers_ The Three 44'sold Stakes only brought out a couple of starters, was a very hollow thing. The Two-year-old 4, 1 , 1 s! Was equ a lly s o, from the badness of the starting ; t he Cup was, what every Cup, Plate, or Stake, tZt be that Alice Hawthorn has any part in, little tf:r than a wa lk over . It did no t surpr i se us , tettefore, that with such feeble attractions, the at -4,l4ance was vastly inferior to the gener a lity of Cup I t t at Do ncas t er . Th e wea th er was b rig ht an d , and the muster of fashionables although t ‘ti, sufficient to enable us to present a tolerable 4 ,,et names. Before doing so, however, we have erin to refer to the Corranna and Foig-a-ballagh Our last parcel was made up to twelve l l :Pek on Wednesday night, it being then generally o ,7erstood that a compromise had been a gree d qi th e subject, ho wever , was di scusse d a f res h a f ter N ClePort was sent off, and a determination come Il l s m i e lorder to prevent further (dispute, to run the ZAvaal y em the day, and upon the terms ori togno'irr„l"reTosed. It will therefore come off tarrvi„, w over the St. Leger course, Corranna 6a, '1,: 6 9st and Foig-a-ballagh, 7st. 7to 4 tw ee- e n laid on the young 'un. The match , be ef this Corranna and William le Gros, in consequence kiveults arraement, will not be run. We will now It ° lir Promised list of the company :—Marquis of r tcna n -Y, Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl q ai Countess o f E g li n t on , E ar l o f Gl asgow , E ar l o f 41 ,'' v a3P, Earl of March, Earl and Countess Manvers, t al i of Miltown, Earl of Scarborough, Earl Spencer, .°t Stratford. Lords—Geo. Bentinck, Bruce, 6t eh r° ,', Hawke ' Maidstone, Milton, E. Russell, C. ry, Wenlock, &c. Sirs— George Armytage, 410 k,oekerell, C. W. Codrington, J. Gerard, G. 9st " , H, Mildmay, Tatton Sykes, W. Don, G. rie klk t and, H arr y V ane , H. V avasour , W. W. Wy nn , nonourables—Colonel Anson and Mrs. Anson, Cavendish, G. Fitzroy, G. W. Fitzwilliam, , 11 ' Forester, S. Hawke, Martin Hawke, James V l sden, Captain La w ley, C. C. Martin, Sir George li e ,, e3r, E. M. Mostyn, Ll. Mostyn, G. 0. Murray, V,,„ "tee Pitt. Captain ROll3, Captain Spencer, Captain l v i 'than, F. Villiers, M. Watson, J. S. Wort qj,;at„ e. General Shubrick. Colonels—Bouverie, 11 0) ,.."Te, Charritie, Cobbe, Fullerton, Haarty, tej", l °Y, Hawke, Knox, Stanley, Wallington, IN yng- C m ;',... Majors—Campbell, Shewell, Tempest, &c. r a r ," n ns—Anne, Bastard, Boyd, Cooke, Corbett, 40.7 n .,,e Fullerton, Grassett, Graham, Holden, Lum tl6°l'arkham, R. Peel, W. Peel, Pettat, Pickard, p e ',er, Power, Ramsden, Rawsons, Smith, C. I Vi'' l ng, F. Spencer, Tottenham, Taylor, Williams, 13a afie ld, Witham, Wood. Counts—Alversteven and .1-Varly • Messrs. Bouverie, F. T. Foljambe, G. k. Geo. Lane Fox, J. Garf7rth, Gilbert, e Aatn, Mostyn, &c., &c. kp l e racing commenced at three o'clock, the handl. Velog the first event. It 4 °l' the Innkeepers Plate, Corodino, Knight of the etatle, and the Cob got well off, and ran abreast lir e c'r°og pace to the distance, where Corodino re 'o% t ,' the Cob then went on with the running, but I e aught at the Stand, and after one of the most , 1 41 ,"u1d races ever beheld, won on the post by a head. 1 % °al and Phillip lost start, and never got within k or three lengths of the first two. *tio or the Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, Joe Lovell, . I, ite Two-yrs-old made r unn i ng f rom th e hill, won i n a canter. th ‘ l Stakes was one out of many races 41 'Lave occurred in the course of the present meet tq to prove either that there is something very de the've in the mode of starting at Doncaster, or that pet P e rson appointed to perform that duty is incom- W,a t ' In the first race this afternoon two horses -. e A ‘4epriv e d of all chance by the dropping of the N' t . w hen their heads were turned in a contrary di ,it°4 to the post ; and in this it lowered at the ma olle d the first favourite, Midlothian, jumped short tvh,, , not w h en th e h orses w h e r e at the post, but his they they were some yar d s b e l ow it ;it was no t kV vain until the flag in advance was also down, th e race,with seven out of the ten, had commenced ; kad e ,,°n 3 equence was, that the riders of the Lillah colt th at T itania hesitated and lost several lengths, and gal l • Aidlothian was loft at the post. A few words ae a llescribe the race. , Longitude got well off, made all the running, was never caught, and won in acs by two lengths ; the St. Martin colt was t Bretwalda fourth, and Sir R. Bulkeley's n; - ronjaub and Firemaster beaten off. °r the Cup, Alice Hawthorn made her own run g' never approached, and won in the corn feat of canters. Pride of Kildare was beaten off e4L ' e she had gone half the distance. or BLOOD-STOCK BY MESSRS. TATTERSALL. I vlßretby r, 60 L pn @fa ......... 110 160 AlbaAlb d of Fe z .......................... 9O t ro . Mr s Lnnavy's brown yearling c, by Wilbert, out of year Oil, (Derby, 1846) 1: t 611 y, by Euclid, out of Gazette (Oaks, l a 46) ... ... 100 yearii .................................................. (o a k a n g filly, by Cardinal Puff, out of Persian 11 , 846) Yearlin o (O k i n filly, by Stockport, dam by Blacklock xs, 1846) . (4tr d ()adchesterfield's Attagan 5O Ti le s eld End s Gizeil ee 52 el . .......... .... 60 30 tean • of Arc • I, , be A l bemarle47 -tti As, • :TINGS AND ST. LEONARD'S RACES. La i lts r'AT.—The Tow n Pl a t e o f 50 sov s. Heats. Itrrt. Caled on ' s A uld Lang Syne, 4 yrs 3 1 1 Alr •I; ockeray's D a l esman, 3 yrs .• • •••• • • 1 2 d r 111x,Shelley's Lydia Languish, 3 yrs (fell) 2 dr alchin' s C rocus, 4 yrs S weepstakesfiil of 2 sovs. each, and 30 added, one I t t otk ild a half, were won in two heats by Ajr. Au t - t 8 Palladium, 5 yrs (Ealing), beating Mr. u r' hew's Arcanus, S yrs, and Mr. Copperd's Specta- Yrs. M.N‘4l TAE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1844. DONCASTER RACES. (BY EXPRESS.) DONCASTER, FRIDAY AFTEROON. The early hour at which the races commenced ena bles us, by means of an express to the Swinton station, to give the result of the principal races to day, the 1001. Plate being the only one undecided when our parcel NI, as closed. The weather was showery, and the attendance thin, but not more so than usual on the last day at these meetings. It will be seen that, after all, the great match between Cor ranna and Foig-a-ballagh came off, and that it proved a decisive triumph for the young one. The Scarbrough Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft, for three yrs old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. The winner of the St. Leger to have carried 71b extra. One mile. (5 Subs.) Mr. Salvia's The Cure.. (Templeman) 1 Mr. Smallwood's Prince Royal Mr W. S. Standish's Susan 6tol on The Cure. The running. was made by Prince Royal at a strong pace, followed by the filly, The Cure lying off up to the Red House, where he took the second place. At the Stand he took the lead from the Prince Royal, and won in a canter by three lengths. Match, 1,000 sous. St. Leger Course. Mr. Irwin's Foig-a-ballagh, 3 yrs, 7st.. (Abdale) 1 Mr. Collett's Corrtnna, 5 yrs, 9st .. (Whitehouse) 2 3 to 1 on Foig-a-ballagh, who made running all the way, and won in a canter by six lengths. The Park Hill Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for three yr old fillies, Bst 71b each ; the second to receiveloo sovs., and the winner to pay 201. towards expenses. St. Leger Course. (31 Subs.) Mr. Osbaldeston's Sorella (J. Day, jun.) 1 Colonel Anson's The Princess Mr. Irwin's The Pride of Kildare Lord G. Bentinck's All-round-my-Hat Lord Chesterfield's Joan of Arc 2tol on Princess, and 3to 1 agst Sorella. Joan of Arc made the running at her best pace, followed by The Pride of Kildare and the Princess, Sorella lying off. They ran thus to the Red House, where The Pride of Kildare went in front, and with the Princess in attendance led to the distance ; she then fell back, and Sorella took the second place, waiting on The Princess to the stand, where she challenged, headed her in two or three strides, and won cleverly by a length. The Pride a good third. Match, 300 sovs. each, Red House in.—Lord G. Bentinck's br f Longitude, received ft from Lord Glasgow's b f Sister to Deerslayer. Match, 100, 11 ft, two miles.—Mr. Collett's Corranna, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b, against Mr. H. Johnstone's William le Gros, 5 yrs, Bst. Off by consent. LITERATURE. IRELAND AND ITS RULERS. Newby, London, 1844. This volume forms the third Part of a work on the subject of Ireland and its Rulers since the year 1829. It opens with an account of " Lord Normanby and his Times," which is the most interesting and the most carefully written chapter in the volume, though we think that the author somewhat underrates the talents of this popular Irish Viceroy, when he ob serves "of the delightful and amiable qualities of Lord ob serves, there cannot be the slightest doubt. No one ever disputed them, but the question is, as to his statesmanship. His popularity in Ireland was very great, but it arose principally from the circum stances of the times, and from the good-will and pleasure of the Irish demagogues. It originated in the Corn-Exchange, and was supported more by his manners and personal bearing than by his measures or statesmanship, and finally he did not wait for the recoil." At any rate Lord Normanby kept Ireland tranquil during the time of his administration; and this, we contend, is no slight proof of his statesman ship. The character of Plunkett is drawn with the nicest discrimination, and the comparison instituted by the author between him and Grattan, evinces much skill and ingenuity. COURT OF SEWERS. A Court of Sewers for the City and Liberty of Westminster, and part of the county of Middlesex, was held yesterday at the Sewers'-office, Greek-street, Soho-square, for the transaction of general business, T. L. Donaldson, Esq., in the chair. The orders of Court of the 6th and 13th of Sep tember having been read, the Court received petitions and memorials, and considered the cases of parties summoned to answer for irregular drainage, &c. A smart discussion arose upon the hearing of one of these as to the power of the Commissioners in ordering the construction of a new sewer where re quired, and amercing the parties benefited in the cost of the same. Mr. SMITH, the Solicitor to the Court, said that the majority of professional men were of opinion that the Court could not legally exercise such power, but the opi nion of the present Attorney-General (SirW.Follett), decidedly one of the highest authorities in his pro fession, was, that the Commissioners had full anal° • rity under the statute to order such construction where required. His (Mr. Smith's) own humble opi nion was, that the Court was possessed of such power. Mr. SALE saw no necessity for legal opinion upon the subject. The Act did decidedly give to the Com missioners the power of constructing any new sewer. A desultory conversation followed, in which Mr. Leslie, Col. Gaunt, Mr. Baldwin, and the Chairman, took part. Mr. WILLOUGHBY thought the discussion quite irregular. The Court must, in that case, act as it had heretofore done in cases of irregular drainage, and that was, by cutting off the drain. If they were satisfied by the opinions of Sir William Follett as to the powers of that Commission, why, then let them name a future day for the proper discussion of the question, but let them not then waste the time of the public, and their own, by entering upon any irrelevant matter. Mr. LE BRETON moved, in the case in question, that the parties who had built the drains some sixteen years ago, and whose right to use them Fai been till now unquestioned, should be still allowed to retain them. Colonel GAUNT, after a few remarks upon the hardship of the case, said it would be unfair if the parties, after already incurring the expense of building such drains, should be obliged to discontinue them. Mr. BALDWIN moved an amendment that they be cut off. Mr. CH ACE begged the Court not to admit the motion upon their books that they could for a moment tolerate a nuisance, which was the worse, because of sixteen years' standing. He would second the amend ment with a great deal of pleasure. The original motion and amendment were put, when the latter was carried by a majority of three. The next notice upon the paper, to consider if any, and what steps, should be immediately taken to re store the dilapidated parts of the main line of the Ranelagh sewer in Gloucester-road, Paddington, was deferred to a future day, the reports of surveyors upon the subject not yet being ready. The Court then took into consideration a letter received from the Holborn and Finsbury Commission, to the effect that they could not apply the funds of that district to the deepening of the line of sewer, in connexion with the proposed new street from St. Giles's to Long Acre. The Westminster Court had also ordered that their solicitor (Mr. Smith) should take counsel's opinion upon the legality of their (the Westminster Court of Sewers) expending the sum required for the purposes of the Holborn and Fins bury district. Mr. SMITH said that he had communicated with Mr. Barlow, who had given it as his opinion that the Westminster Court of Sewers could not legally incur expenses for the works of the Holborn and Finsbury division.—(Hear, hear.) Mr.WiLLouGnny said, that the Holborn and Fins bury Commission had already told them that they could not lay out money out of their district, al though for their own purposes ; and yet they expected that Court to expend funds from which they themselves derived no benefit. He wished to be as liberal as possi- ble to any other Commission, but surely it did not re quire legal opinion as to the justice of spending the money of that division for the benefit of another Com mission. Let them have the use, if they would, of the depth required by that Court, but not an inch more, unless they were prepared to pay for the extra digging. Mr. LESLIE could not understand why the Holborn and Finsbury Commission should have sent such a letter. They paid 1501. a year to the City of Lon don Commission for permission to go through their sewers. Surely, then, when every facility was given to them of an outlet to the Thames, by only paying the extra expenses of digging, that Commission could not be branded as narrow or illiberal. It could not be conceded for a moment that it would be legal for the rate-payers of that district to pay for works from which they derived no benefit. The only use, then, of the legal opinion quoted by Mr. Smith was, that it enabled them to give the Holborn and Finsbury Com mission a very short answer. He must add, that the 971. of additional expense for gullies ought also to be added to the original sum required from them for the extra digging. Colonel GAUNT said that he would trouble the Court with but a few words on the subject under discussion. In reference to the rent paid by the Holborn and Finsbury district to the City of London, he would remind them that the latter, by its great influence, got a clause inserted in their Act, by which the already mentioned sum was allowed them. But the question was, ought that Commission, in a line calculated to be of general and lasting benefit, to act so very stringently ? Supposing that the three Com missions were acting as under the law of Henry the Eighth, when the country, now so densely peopled, was quite open, and when the waters -of the higher lands were obliged to reach the Thames by their natural channels would it be contended, at that period, that this Commission could attempt to stop the ancient water-courses ? The Court of Queen's Bench would very soon settle the question, by order ing them to be opened. Let them look at the ca=e now. He thought that this Commission was quite bound to keep open the outlets for the benefit of the upper lands. He thought that the higher courts would decide now as they would have decided then.—(Hear.) Why, if this Commission stopped their outlets, if the City of London, if the Tower Hamlets, also, did the same, then the Holborn and Finsbury, to all intents and purposes, would cease to act as a Commission altogether. Tinder these cir cumstances, he thought it was not such a monstrous expectation that the Holborn and Finsbury division should look to them to deepen the line to such a degree that the sewerage of the upper portions might find an outlet. As a Commissioner of Holborn and Finsbury, he would not vote, but having never spoken upon that subject in the other Court, he thought he had a right to state his opinion in that place. Mr. LESLIE agreed with the observations made by the Hon. Commissioner, Colonel Gaunt, as to the re quirements of the Act of Henry VIII. in reference to the ground drainage ; but supposing that the area of Bloomsbury-square was one large cesspool— (A. laugh)—llon. Commissioners might laugh, but the period was not so very far removed when such a thing was actually proposed, though in a different locality--(Hear, hear)—supposing, then, such a case, would they call that land drainage? (The Hon. Commissioner then read the Act of Parliament constituting the Holborn and Finsbury Commission, in which it was conceded that the yearly demand of the City of London Court was a fair, just, and proper one.) Did that Court, then, wish anything less reasonable ? No. They required, according to their surveyor's statement, to go to a certain depth for their own purposes, and every inch beyond that was for the purposes of the Holborn and Finsbury dis trict. He was inclined to give every facility to the drainage of Gower-street and its neighbourhood. Ile had gone through that district very lately, and he had observed the vast increase of building there. Now let them imagine the mass of water poured through those (the Westminster) sewers from that closely inhabited district. Were there no expenses attendant on that—no wear and tear, exclusive of what their own immediate district would occasion ? He thought, therefore, that the Holborn and Fins.. bury district was fully entitled to pay the extra digging, and the 97/. required for the gully drains necessary on that account, and he would propose, therefore, that the legal opinion read that day should be sent to that Commission, with the determination to which they themselves had come, and that one fort night should be allowed them to make up their minds finally.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. BALDWIN thought that if they executed this work for the benefit of another Commission, that Commission might make a similar demand at a future period. He was, therefore, opposed to affording such a bad precedent. The CHAIRMAN said, that while they attended to the interest of the rate-payers in that district, it might be well also to consider—he gave it as his opinion merely—that their surveyors should have taken a more enlarged view of the depth required in the main line. He was of opinion that the collateral sewers ought to have a greater depth of fall than they had at present. He thought, therefore, that the eight feet of digging should at least be borne by them, as it was really required, but that the additional depth of five feet should be charged to the Holborn and Finsbury division. The 971. for gully-drains might be afterwards considered. Mr. LESLIE said they had taken the opinion of the proper officers upon the subject, and he was bound to suppose that they had duly considered the fall reqiiired for the collateral sewers. They had also the opinion of their solicitor, Mr. Smith, and he thought the Court ought not to take the respon sibility upon itself of departing from the opinions ex pressed by those gentlemen. The CHAIRMAN, without infringing upon the rights of the officers of that Court, thought he also was jus tified in advancing his opinion, and he knew of no rule which rendered it paramount that that Commis sion should abide by any expressed opinions of the surveyors. After some few observations from Mr. 'WIL LOUGHBY and Mr. W. L. DONALDSON, a resolution, in accordance with the suggestions of Mr. Leslie, was moved by Mr. HAWRES, seconded by Mr. WIL LOUGHBY, and carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN suggested that the list of quan tities for the guidance of the persons contracting for the coming year might, where an odd figure existed, be changed into even numbers, thereby saving to the servants of the Court a very great degree of labour. Mr. LESLIE had understood that the quantities were not to be inserted in the forms, but left in the office merely as a reference to those who might wish to contract. The CLERK stated that the last Court had decided otherwise. Mr. LESLIE complained that he had been taken by surprise. He had distinctly understood that the tenders were only to be for so much per foot, or yard, as it might be. The enormous jobbing he had exposed on the last contract was only affected by tendering for quantities. The CHAIRMAN said the Court had settled the question last Court-day, and the matter was now set at rest. Mr. LESLIE would enter his earnest protest against the proceeding, as he should most certainly have done had he been aware of the decision to which the Court had come. He was still, however, of opinion, that a mistake had been made in this particular. After a very warm discussion, the quantities for the year ending Midsummer, 1844, were ordered to be sent out without any alterations being made in them. Some unimportant business was then gone through, and the Court adjourned. STATUE OF HER MAJESTY.—The package which was landed at the St. Katherine's Dock, out of the ship Effort, from Leghorn, and which her Majesty's agent requested might remain unexamined until her pleasure should be known on the subject, was removed to Windsor Castle on Thursday, in charge of an officer of the Customs, and there opened and examined. The package in ques tion contains a full length marble figure of the Queen, and was executed in Italy by, it is understood, the same English artist, Wolff, the sculptor of the statue of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, which was imported from Leghorn, and removed to Windsor Castle about a month since. CLOSE OF THE SALMON FISHING.—The salmon fishing closed here on Saturday. For some time prior, few fish were taken, and these not in the best condition. The season, however, on the whole, has been a favour able one. We need not remind anglers that rod or any other mode of fishing is illegal till February next, and that a heavy penalty attaches to any violation of the law.—Ayr Observer. In consequence of the extensive preparations to be made for the reception of the King of the French, it is not expected that the state apartments will be open to the public after Wednesday next. THUNDER-STORM AT BANFF.—On Tuesday, 3d current, a terrific thunder-storm visited Banff, com mencing at seven o'clock, P.M., and continuing till ten. The lightning struck and knocked down a house near Macdutf. Three large stacks of hay, near Whitehill, were also struck and consumed, and the loss is estimated at about 50/. sterling. The chimneys are knocked off the tops of some houses in the burgh.—Edinburgh Witness. MANCHESTER ATHENIEUM.—The members of the Manchester Atheneum intend holding a grand soiree at the Great Free-trade Hall, Manchester, on the 3d of next month. Benjamin D'lsraeli, Esq., M.P., has pro mised to preside. The following noblemen and gentle men have already accepted the invitations of the Com mittee to be present :—The Right Hon. the Earl of Ducie, the Right Hon. Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., the Right Hon. Lord John Manners, M.P., the Hon. George Sydney Smythe, M.P., Mark Philips, Esq., M.P., Thos. Milner Gibson, Esq., M.P., Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., Richard M. Milnes, Esq., M.P., Joseph Brotherton, Esq., M.P., S. A. M'Geachy, Esq., M.P., John Bowring, Esq., LL.D., M.P., Edmund Buckley, Esq., M.P., John Bright, Esq., M.P., Rowland Hill, Esq.. Wm. Cooke Taylor, Esq., LL.D., Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall. It will be seen from this list that the meeting has nothing what ever to do with party, but is to be a purely literary ga thering, and one of the greatest interest and importance. It is expected that upwards of 3,000 ladies and gentle men will be present. Sir Robert Peel, accompanied by two of his sons, left Whitehall-gardens yesterday for Brighton. We are happy to state that Miss Peel is daily improving in health and strength. BRIGHTON, THURSDAY.—The Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttleton, drove to the pier again this morning soon after nine o'clock, and alighted at the entrance of the promenade. Their Royal Highnesses remained on the pier for about half an hour, and were then taken for a carriage airing. The Earl of Denbigh and Viscountess and Lady Mary Fielding arrived yesterday at the Nor folk Hotel. Lady Fludyer arrived yesterday on the Marine Parade. Sir John and Lady Pelley, and the Right Hon. George Dawson and family are among our arrivals. A detachment of the Scots Fusilier Guards have arrived, under the command of Colonel Moncrieffe, and have relieved the Inniskillen Dragoons on Palace dut)7_. THE WARD or CORNHILE.—It was rumoured in the City on Thursday that Sir John Pirie had resigned, or intended to resign, his Aldermanic gown, in conse quence of having received an appointment as a Com missioner of one of the Revenue Boards. The Lord Bishop of Winchester has instituted the Rev. John Lister, M.A., formerly of St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge, to the vicarage of Thorpe, Surrey, on the nominative of the Lord ChancellOr IRELAND. ADDRESS OF THE CORPORATION TO MR. O'CONNELL. DUBLIN, SEPT. 18.—The members of the Town council of the city of Dublin assembled this day, at the Corporate-house, in William-street, in order to nresent to Mr. O'Connell the address congratulating Lim on his liberation from unjust captivity, which had been agreed to at the meeting of the Corporation on Saturday. The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Town-councillors, wearing their official robes, left the Assembly-house about half-past two o'clock, and the procession, con sisting of a considerable number of carriages, pro ceeded to the residence of Mr. O'Connell, in Merrion square. A large crowd assembled, and the members of the Corporation were greeted with repeated accla mations as they passed along. The procession reached its destination shortly before three o'clock, and the gentlemen composing it were ushered into the large dining-room of Mr. O'Connell's house. The mem bers of some provincial deputations arrived about the same time, and the scene altogether was a very en livening one. The Lord Mayor read the address from the Corpo ration of Dublin in a very emphatic manner, espe cially the following passage :—" In the hour of your captivity we condoled with you, in the hour of your victorious liberation we rejoice, and we indulge the firm belief, and fond hope, that the day is not far distant when we shall again address you on the con summation of your labours—the restoration to Ireland of her Parliament." Mr. O'CONNELL delivered a verbal reply, remark able for warmth and earnestness. After referring to the State trials, the reversal of the judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench, and the popular triumph over injustice, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman dwelt, with manifest delight, upon the new spirit of conciliation which was abroad, and which it was their duty, as well as their disposition and their interest, to foster and encourage. This glorious spirit existed in quarters heretofore decidedly hostile, and the result was almost daily accessions to their ranks, with the most cheering prospects for the future. The senti ments of Mr. O'Connell on this subject were received with much applause. When Mr. O'Connell had concluded his reply to the address from the Corporation of Dublin, similar addresses were presented from Sligo, Newry, and other places. The address from the Corporation of Sligo was read by the Mayor of that borough, who was accompanied by Mr. Somers, M.P., and several members of the Town Council. _ _ _ Mr. O'CONNELL, in his reply to this address, ob served that much had been said of the kindly dispo sition and anxiety of the English people—the people as contradistinguished from the English Government —for justice to Ireland. The proceedings to be taken to render amenable to justice the persons who had been guilty of the recent violation of law and justice to Ireland would very soon bring the real feelings and sentiments of the English people to a test the most unequivocal. Would they join in the effort to obtain justice for Ireland for the outrage on her rights by the functionaries to whom he had alluded ? If the people of England did join, why, of course, it would afford him gratification ; but even if they did not, Ireland possessed within herself, keep ing quite within the bounds of the law and the con stitution, energies quite sufficient for the achievement of her national independence. The gentlemen of the deputation had heard the lines— " Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.' It was nearly four o'clock before the gentlemen composing the deputations had left the residence of Mr. O'Connell. IMPORTANT DECLARATION AGAINST THE CHARITABLE BEQUESTS BILL. Ardecia;;;;nstrongly. condemning this Bill, as most unjustly compromising the doctrines and disci pline of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, has been signed by fourteen bishops, and an immense number of the second order of the clergy. This very important declaration is soon to be published. The Bill is not to come into operation until the Ist of Janua7 next. MEETING OF THE CITIZENS OF CORK. A very numerous meeting took place in the city Court House in Cork, on Monday last, for the pur pose of adopting a congratulatory address to Mr. O'Connell, " on his late triumphant restoration to liberty and his country." The Mayor presided. Mr. Callaghan, M.P., and many of the leading merchants were present. The address was unanimously adopted. A resolution was also adopted unanimously, de claring that the repeal test should be acted upon at future elections of 'representatives for the city of Cork. TORY EXCLUSIVE DEALING. The Kilkenny Journal contains the following : " PROTESTANT REGISTRATION OFFICE.—ExcLy- SIVE DEALING.—The plot thickens on us. Through the kindness of Colonel Bryan we have just received some documents, in which the saints' recommend all Protestants wholly to discontinue the employment of Catholic servants, brand the latter as perjurers, liars, and by other opprobrious epithets. In sending such documents to Colonel Bryan the ' saints' mis took their man. Fiendish persecutions of this sort must not pass with impunity." THE NEW JURY LISTS. The following letter has been addressed by Mr. Mahony (one of the solicitors for the defence on the late State prosecutions) to the clerks of the peace for the city of Dublin : " 23, William-street, Dublin, Sept. 18, 1844. " Gentlemen,—Not doubting your compliance with the provisions of the 3d and 4th William IV., c. 91, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relative to Jurors and Juries in Ireland,' I must assume that you have, on or before the 22d day of July last, issued and delivered your precepts, ac cording to the form given in schedule A, addressed to the several collectors of grand jury ces3 within the Dublin, which Act (sec. 4) re quiresrespectively to prepare and make month then next ensuing, a true list oocounty t, all ,mw suchoei nft `within then one collectorsi city residing c yo f within the respective districts qua. lified with respect of property, and liable to serve on juries, according to this Act as aforesaid, and also to with all other the requisitions in perform n the said precepts ad ycom p c l ontained ; and which precepts con tain the following words, that is to say, and when you have made out such ists, you are authorised to order a sufficient number of copies thereof to be printed, the expense of which printing will be allowed you by the county, and you are required within one month from the date hereof to deliver a true copy of such list to the clerk of the peace,' &c. &c. ; and . which precept ends with the following remarkable words And these several matters you are in nowise to omit, upon the peril that may ensue.' " I beg to apprise you that out of ten collectors, two alone have performed that duty, by delivering their lists to you within the time prescribed by law ; and that no one of them has up to this hour complied with that important direction of the Act which requires, for the information of the public, that said lists should be printed by each collector as soon as made out; the fact being, that instead of having a sufficient number of copies printed, as said Act intended, for circulation in each district, not one printed copy exists. " After having complained of this neglect so often within the last year, before the highest legal tribunals in England and in Ireland, I cannot delay the ex pression of my great surprise that public officers could continue to pursue a system so contrary to their duties, as prescribed by the statute I refer to. And I now call upon you, as clerks of the peace for this city, to insist on the immediate fulfilment of your precepts, as it is manifest that the chief protection in tended for the public by the Legislature will l. e de feated, unless those lists are printed and generally circulated as the law directs. ---- "In the hope that no cir cums t ances w ill aga i n arise to justify the highest legal auth or ity i n th e em pire toa mockery," declare I am, that ar d t r a i a by j snare: gentlemen,your humble servant, "PEIRCE MAHONY." DASTARDLY ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION.—One of the most heartless and unmanly attempts to assassi nate, in the opportune darkness of night, an unoffend ing gentleman and a stranger, occurred near Ship quay-gate of this city, in the beginning of last week, which, for treachery and audacity, may rank with the vilest deeds perpetrated by the Spanish stiletto. Mr. Jones Henry, one of was returni ng a l one , a b ou t the officers of Exci s e, a t pre se nt stationed in this city, P.M., to his lodgi ngs , w hi c h are at Mi ss East-wall. He h a d t o pass th roug h e p l o e i v i e o n ok o: s c , l N oc o k . , 5, Shipquay-gate, and to get on the Wall, by the steps opposite the back entrance to Fl o yd' s H o t e l, an d when he had placed his foot on the first step he was struck from behind on the back of his head by a heavy stick or colt, and the effects of the blow felled him to the ground, where he lay for some time wholly insensible. Having partly recovered, he endeavoured, with great difficulty, to reach his lodgings ; and, on undressing, found he had been s t a bb e d b y some s h arp instrument on the left side, nearly opposite the heart. The violence of the blow had indented his hat close by the rim, and caused a rent of t wo i nc h es . Th e nex t day a surgeon examined the wo un d, an d f oun d i n it the point of some sharp instrument, and gave it, as heart;hs opinion , was well aimed for the a nd that ad t h against the fifth rib, death would have been inevitable. The perpetrator e n w ot ea . s p t o ru n . ck of this infamous act is, for the present, unknown ; but we hope, for the credit of Derry, where such an oc currence is altogether unpreced en t e d , th a t th e v ill a i n will be brought to condign punishment. We under stand that Government has offered a reward of 401. for his detection. Mr. Henry, we are happy to say, was so far recovered as to be able to be out yesterday; aswi, having performed no public duty since his ap pointment, is not aware of havin g g i ven th e s li g ht es t provocation for this wanton attempt on his life.— Derry Journal of Tuesday. BALL IN HONOUR OF LADY SALE.—The ball in honour of Lady Sale comes off this evening. Sir Robert and Lady Sale returned yesterday by the mail from Dublin, in order to be present at the ball.— Derry Journal of Tuesday. FRACAS AT THE THEATRE.—The following addi tional particulars appear in the Freeman's JOI4Pi4II of yesterday : " On Monday night an officer belonging to the 11 th Hussars entered a box at Hawkins'-street Theatre during the performance. In the box, which was filled in every part, were some ladies, who were accompanied by a gentleman named Saunders, from the county Kerry, and who lately filled the office of high sheriff for that county. The officer stood in the door-way, and kept the box-door open. A current of air was thus admitted, which caused great annoy ance to the ladies, upon which Mr. Saunders requested the officer to close the door. With this request he refused compliance, and Mr. Saunders then rose from his seat and closed it. The door was again pushed open by the officer. Mr. Saunders remonstrated, and some angry words passed between the parties ; the result was, that Mr. Saunders is said to have struck the officer a blow which knocked him down, and on his getting up he was knocked down a second time. Another account has it that the officer gave the first blow ; certainly there was an exchange of hits ; but the officer was not the most successful. Lord Car digan and several of his officers, who were in a private box, and who, it is said, witnessed the transaction, went round at once to their brother officer; some discussion then took place, in consequence of which, we have heard it stated that the officer apologised for his conduct, upon which Mr. Saunders explained that his knock down was intended for a gentleman who would not act with propriety, and who would insist upon annoying ladies, by subjecting them to drafts through open door-ways ; but as to the gentleman who had apologised, he was very sorry that the misconcep tion had produced him inconvenience. _ "We were informed, in the course of yesterday, that a court of military inquiry was sitting on the subject at the Royal Hospital, Sir Edward Blakeney having taken that prompt step, as well for the honour of the military, as to protect from outrage or annoy ance the civilian subjects of the Queen. The name of the officer engaged in the fracas with Mr. Saunders was, we have heard, the Hon. Mr. Dunconsbe, a son of Lord Feversham. THE LATE RIOT AT CARTOWN. At Pallaskenry Petty Sessions, on the 9th instant, the case of Hanrahan v. T. E. Langford, Esq., J.P., Denis Ryan, and several others, was heard before the following magistrates :—Stephen De Vere, Esq., in the chair ; Rev. Mr. Waller, Spring Rice and Thomas Davenport, Esqs. Michael Hanrahan deposed to proceeding to the lands of Cartown, to make a seizure for non-payment of rent. Mr. Langford told him that the stock and crops were already in the hands of the sheriff. Wit ness replied that he did not care, and left two keepers on the premises. Mr. Langford told him to go to the sheriff and he would pay him. He (witness) saw the sheriff the day after the distress, and asked him for the rent. He said he would not pay it, and that witness had no right to go there at all. Subse quently witness attempted to go into a corn-field, when he was assaulted by a party of men armed with large bludgeons and sticks. Witness then went for the police, and brought them to the ground. Mr. Langford said, " Don't strike him, boys, but prevent him from selling." Francis Naugton, Thomas M'Mahon, and Denis Ryan, and others, leaped inside of the field, and said they did not care for the police. Mr. Langford gave them into custody, telling them he would have them out in half an hour. The police took charge of them. He desired one of the crowd to go for his horse. I then asked the police to leave me one man to protect me, and they said they could not. Mr. Langford mounted the horse. He said to the crowd—either before or after, I am not sure which—" Clip him before you let him in." The corn was sold by Mr. Crowe from the road. There were cattle seized, and I was in dread of mylife to go into the land. They threatened to have my life if I did. W. Naughton, Galvin, and another young man did so. On my solemn oath I was afraid of my life. Ido not exactly understand the meaning of the word 'clip,' but I think it meant to hurt me."—(Laughter.) MONDAY, SEPT. 16.—The case, after an adjourn ment, was resumed this day, when, after the examina tion of some witnesses, one of whom, Conner Mul cahy, a keeper on the lands, deposed to having been assaulted with sticks. The Chairman announced the decision of the B?nch to be as follows :—ln this case some of the ma gistrates are of opinion that informations should be taken against all the parties mentioned in the sum mons ; but other magistrates are of a different opi nion, and the result is, that the complaint against J. E. Langland, Esq., is dismissed, and also against all the others, except Thomas M'Mahon, William Naughton, Francis Naughton, and Denis Ryan, against whom informations are ordered for an assault upon Hanrahan, and for a riot and assault in the case of Connor Mulcahy. The Chairman further intimated that the case of Mr. Langford against Hanrahan, &c., for trespass, was dismissed.—Limerick Reporter. CAPTURE OF AN EX-COLLECTOR OF POOR-RATES IN IRELAND. Francis Long, of Carlingford, ex-collector of poor rates in the union of Dundalk, who stood indicted at the late quarter-sessions in Dundalk on several charges, for unlawfully obtaining money under false pretences, assuming to be a poor-rate collector, and against whom there was a magistrate's warrant and three bench warrants, was arrested after many fruit less attempts, on the night of the Bth inst., by head constable Patrick John Cullen, and constable Chris- topher John Murray, of Carlingford, having eluded their vigilance for nearly six months. This delin quent, although his act was notoriously injurious to the country, was nevertheless, from that natural and national characteristic feeling of sympathy prevalent among the people, joined to their hostility of every thing under the name of police execution, carefully secreted by them, and every expedient used for his concealment; in many instances they supplied him with horses for escape, when intimation was given that the police were in search of him, and so success fully, that although the latter went frequently on cars, and disguised in coloured clothes by night and day, they were as repeatedly foiled, the object of their search scarcely ever remaining in one house the second night. It appears, however, that Mr. J. Cullen adopted an ingenious plan, he and his men having for some time particularly patrolled the eastern (where Long was in the habit of residing), and carefully shunning the western district of the parish where his house was situate, to give him thus an opportunity of settling there. This proved success ful on the night in question ; the head constable abruptly posted men near the house, at different places adjacent, and at the lanes and leading roads, and, in the event of failure, intended to search every suspected house in the district. On approaching Long's house they perceived, at a short distance from the house, Long escaping from the mountains. He was, however, after some trouble immediately cap tured by these active officers, who have, as well as the commissioners and board of guardians, experienced great annoyance and trouble by him. Last Satur day he was brought before A. M. Rutherford, Esq., J.P., Carlingford, and committed to Dundalk gaol to take his trial at the next quarter-sessions. Long was bailed as collector of rates, by Joseph Anderson, of Mullatee, and one Robert Ross Gyle3, of Castletown Cooley. The Carlingford constabulary, particularly the two officers abovenamed, are certainly entitled to particular consideration, not only from the official department with which they are themselves con nected, but from the commissioners and the board of guardians of the Dundalk union, for the zeal and tact manifested by them in the discharge of their duty on this occasion, attended as it was by considerable trouble and difficulties invidiously thrown in their way up to the _moment of the arrest.—Drogheda Conservative. PROCLAMATIONS or OUTLAWRY.—Thursday being county day, the sheriff's officer made the following proclamation of outlawry :—William Hilton to answer John Westcott Bamfield ; William Baines to answer Isaac Riddle and James Dearn ; H. T. Ryda to answer Alfred Bradley Bloxam ; Thomas Read Kemp to answer Sir William Pilkington, Bart. ; John Charles Trevanion to answer Jacob Con nop ; George Clarke to answer Joseph Ivi mey ; Thomas Delahay to answer William Gra ham ; Thomas K. Channell to answer John Wilkinson; William Fyne to answer John Carlow; Sarah Gregson to answer Esther Simpson; Sarah Gregson to answer William Wood; William Francis Ellaby to answer Mi chael Timbleson; Thomas Hawkes to answer William Adams ; E. B. Lake to answer Joseph Smith; George Croke, to answer Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll; the Rev. John Croke to answer the same; Sir John Scott Lillie to answer the same. POPULATION or THE WEST INDIES.—The popula tion of Antigua, as taken by the last census, was 16,722 males and 19,456 females, total 36,178. St. Christopher 10,523 males, and 12,654 females, total 23,177. St. Vin cent the population is 12,600 males and 14,648 females, total 27,248. Trinidad the number is 59,815, the males exceeding the females by 1,611. In Jamaica the returns had not been completed, and in Grenada the provisions of the Census Act renders it necessary that the returns should be laid before tha Council and Assembly, and be approved of by them previously to being published. In St. Vincent it is stated that considerably more than a fourth of the whole population appears under 10 years of age, and nearly half the population under 20 years. — St. Lucia Independent Press, Aug. 22. ENGLISH POLITICIANS ABROAD.—The Whigs are all gone upon their travels, the country having left them quite free to aller prornener as long as they find it agree able. Speculation is very busy as to the motives by which some of the leading politicians are influenced ; and it is roundly asserted that Lord John Russell has been into Germany with the intention of " warming up old animosities a gainst France." This seems to be a most unprofitable ranch of political cookery ; for, whoever tries to warm up old animosities, is likely to make a pretty hash of it.—Punch. MR. CLARKSON'S SECOND LEC TURE ON ANCIENT EGYPT. (From the Cambridge Advertiser.) In furtherance of his promise Mr. Clarkson gave a second lecture on the manners, customs, and amusements of the ancient Egyptians, at the Town Hall, Cambridge, on Thursday, on behalf of the Mechanics' Institute. There were two important omissions, which tine compelled him to make in the former lecture ; one relating to agriculture, the other to manufactures—embracing the implements and products of agriculture, and the tool of the artisan— which he should now fill up. He had remarked in his former address, and had always maintained that Egyptian antiquarian discovery comprises facts andinquirie s from which the utilitarian and political economist may di w and necessary informa tion. It lays _lie whole progress of early agriculture, art, dde, and manufacture—the pro gress from serfdom t o f ree d om — t h e or i g i n o f judi cial institutions, colonisation, and taxation—of the corn-laws--of the first division of the land, and of a single land-tax, a tax of 20 per cent. (a tax recom mended by political economists as the best), appro priated to all the purposes of government. The sub ject opens out new and momentous views of early history—(or rather creates a new volume of history, and necessitates the introduction of a new element in the ground-work of education)—fills up vast chasms in the invention and progress of art and science, and embraces perspicuous views of the foundation, the de velopment, the progressive tendencies, and, conse quently, the ultimate destinies of political society. It is but recently that a conviction of the truth of these propositions had reached the public mind ; but the conviction was daily acquiring new force, and the exciting attraction of the subject was now proved by its growing popularity. A singular proof of its close connexion with the political economy, and corrobora tion of his argument. was just put into his hands ; the organ of the Anti Corn-law body of political economists (the League paper) having last week founded a discussion of Egyptian agriculture with wood-cuts, derived from Rosselini's illustrations before them, and promising next week a similar review of Egyptian manufacture. These were the two points to which he had promised briefly to call their attention previous to a survey of the 18th dynasty of Egyptian Sovereigns, which would com plete his view of Egyptian society, and terminate his course of two lectures. Mr. Clarkson then threw a rapid glance over the agriculture of the ancient Egyptians, exhibiting large drawings of the various agricultural implements, and exhibiting illustrated scenes on a large scale, copied from the Theban tombs of ploughing, hoeing, sowing, reap- ' ing, carrying, and storing the harvest. The writer in the League had made three mistakes in a short passage, which was perfectly excusable, considering the novelty of the subject to ordinary political writers. He asserted that the wheat was not stacked in sheaves—that gleaning was not allowed —and that the agricultural labourer toiled in melancholy slavery, and was denied all amusements and enjoyments. There is no evidence like that which is submitted to the eye ; and Mr. Clarkson produced numerous evidences that gleaning was allowed—that the corn sheaves were stacked—and that the pro prietor rewarded his labourers with liquor—en couraged their pastimes (as Homer describes on the shield of Achilles), and that our harvest-home revels and songs (an Egyptian harvest-home song, probably with musical notes, is extant) were derived from theirs. Some of those pastoral and agricultural scenes exhibited by the lecturer were calculated to remind the audience of Thomson's Palaemon and Lavinia, and of Boaz and Ruth. From agriculture, Mr. Clarkson proceeded to an exhibition of ancient trade and manufacture, com menting on them, with numerous large illustrations, which he produced, as he proceeded. Volumes of written detail would not give us so complete an in sight into the Egyptian workshop, laboratory, or manufactory, as those plates. Every process of art and manufacture then known is elaborately and minutely laid open. The shops of the Egyptian fish mongers and poulterers in the act of buying and selling, plucking, trussing, scaling, and salting, are also exhibited. The mode of making shoes, and of blowing glass, of staining leather, and the whole business of the linendraper and tailor are brought before our eyes. The fuller, dyer, and currier, are exhibited in their daily craft. We see the potter with the " potter's wheel" in the act of making his vases—the turner in the act of modelling his woad— the coachmaker in manufacturing all the details of the splendid chariots of the Egyptian aristocracy. The whole process of wine-making from training the vines on trellises and gathering grapes, to the stage of pressing them in the wine press, and storing the wine in amphovie during and after fermentation, is accurately exhibited, and the most minute details respecting the process of " treading the wine press," to which reference is so often made in the Scrip tures, are brought in the same obvious manner before our eyes. The Scriptural "corn floor" is exhibited with the same vivid accuracy. There is a subject connected with the extensive trade of pottery and brickmaking in Egypt which demands attention. Mr. Clarkson exhibited an illus tration wherein the Jews are represented making bricks with straw, under a taskmaster, in Egypt. Subsequently, they appear as warriors, either incor porated in the Egyptian army, or warring against the Pharoahs. In the tomb of Petamon Osiri, opened by Belzoni, they appear as types of the Caucassian family of the human race. Their last appearance is in the person of Reboboam, King of Judah, at Kar nack. Their first appearance, however, on the monu ments, is most remarkable, as bearing the most startling evidence to the truth of the Mosaic record. A grand tableau, of which Mr. Clarkson exhibited copies on a large scale, has been recently discovered on an excavated tomb at Beni Hassan, of an Egyp tian governor of Goshen (the Wadi Tomylat), a " Royal Scribe" (so called in the inscription) or secretary of state, whose name, phonetically, is read " Yoseptha," or " Noseptha," is introducing to the Viceroy of Osirtesen (who reigned in On in 1897, and was therefore contemporary with Joseph), ten llebrew brothers (clearly identified as such) with one lad and their wives, amounting to thirty-seven persons. The Secretary of State, Yoseptha, produces a decree of the reigning Pharoah, in which is recorded the arrival of these strangers across the Syrian desert, in the sixth year of Osirtesen. They bring with them Syrian presents, the gazelle and ibex of Judea. They are called " bond slaves" after the Chinese fashion, but they are well armed. One is playing on a lyre—one bears a royal pedum, or sceptre—and one carries the Jewish cow-horn trum pet—all marks of triumph and rejoicing rather than of bond slavery. Two carry the desert water bottles, slung over their shoulders, and accompany ing asses carry the large water-bottles, now borne by those animals in crossing the desert between Egypt and Syria. Few persons, on inspecting the tableau, will doubt that it is a pictorial repre sentation of the first colonisation of the Jews in Egypt—of the arrival of the " lad " Benjamin, with his brothers, to be introduced to the Vizier, their brother Joseph, to redeem Simeon, who was, in fact, in "bond" till their return, under a gaoler, as re corded in this most striking illustration, and to enter on the possession of the land of Rameses, where the picture is located. Time would fail, said Mr. Clarkson, were I to at tempt to lead you seriatim through the whole details of the magic lantern of trades and manufactures here exhibited. To the trades naturally follow the tools therein used. Many of them resemble entirely those used in modern times. The mallet, the bent and straight chisel, the saw, the axe, the adze, the centre bit, the gimlet, the awl, the file, the wimble, the lathe, the trowel, the leather-slice, &c., &c., come under this description. The common saw resembles precisely the modern. The shuttle, the distaff, and the spindle, resemble entirely those which were used before the late improvements in machinery. At the various institutions, metropolitan and su burban, where he had lectured during the last ten years, Mr. Clarkson said that the tools and imple ments of manufacture and agriculture and the deve lopement of trade, had been considered specially fitted for Mechanics' Institutes, and the exclusive novelty of the subject was certainly equal to its appropriate ness ; the Egyptian room at the British Museum con taining the tools, being only recently opened, and the great Tuscan Commission's work, representing the tools illustrated before them, not being attainable in Cambridge, and one copy only being at the Bri tish Museum. Many of the implements are painted yellow, or copper colour, in the illustrations. The saw is generally painted red, and was most probably made of copper. There are many tools of the same de scription, made of copper and brass, preserved in the Egyptian room of the British Museum. They are elastic, do not oxydize, and cut the hardest granite. The chemical knowledge: aiied displayed ptlial3e-ecdhienintihc chemical l kno fabricationNNied knowledge of evinced tT l ' e ar ase tisan, ci the tradesman, a n d th e maim fthetoobyls facturer. The " fine linen ' manufacturers employed 540 threads to the inch in the warp to 110 in the warp; the famous Dacca. muslin looms being only 100 to 84. They employed metallic ox 'des, vegetable and mineral dyes, both substantive a adjective, and ac etates of iron and of alum. The yers use the / saf frum indicum, the earthamus tinctorius, and the re seda luteola. The tanners had equal chemical skill. It appears from remnants of leather found in the tombs, that they employed the bark of acacia in tan ning, and the periplaca secamora, which grows near the Red Sea. The painters employed vegetable ex tracts and mineral oxydes, and the relics of glass ex tant or attested, prove an equal chemical knowledge among the glass-blowers. The emerald hue which they gave to glass appears from chemical analysis to be imparted by oxyde of copper, and the reds used in ornaments, imitating rubies, appear to have been derived from minium. They must have used oxyde of gold to produce the rich purple of those factitious gems, oxydes of cobalt or of calcined copper and zinc for blue, oxyde of silver for yellow, and oxyde of copper for green. Of the pure ruby colour which they produced we have lost the art. Mr. Clakson then proceeded to the main subject of the present lecture. The trades and manufactures of ancient Egypt belong to the magnificent 18th dynasty of Theban sovereigns, of whom Rosellini furnishes us with details of the most ample and accurate descrip tion—details which may be justly said to constitute a new volume in the history of the world. He had exhi bited, at the last lecture, the model of a private dwel ling. He now exhibited the model of the temple palace of one of those splendid and ambitious monarchs with whom all human civilisation begun. Numerous large diagram drawings of Karnac, of the gigantic hypostyle Hall, a the-simile model of the Obelisk of Osirtesen (the oldest extant), and a perfect Portrait Gallery, on a large scale, of all the kings and queens of the magnificent 18th dynasty, accompanied this part of the lecture. Mr. Clarkson brought before the audience proces sions and pageants ; the nature of the military force ; horse, foot, or chariots ; the countries warred upon ; the costume and arms of the hostile nations; the triumphant processions consequent upon victory; and the prisoners, the enslaved captives or the sacrificed victims, and the booty in the produce of the various countries subjugated by the Pharoah's arms. All these things are detailed and with that minute pre cision, and in that indisputable form, which leave no matter for question. They are in fact sculptured bulletins. We have next the costume of the court and army, not brought befor e us as th at o f our o ld chroniclers, including Froissart, accurate as they are, but in a more certain form—Tor much is left to imagination by description, nothing by the sense of sight. With the power of an enchanter, as if he wielded the serpent wands of the very Egyptian theocracy, which he describes. Egyptographer Rosellini brings before us from the grave the kings, the heroes, the sages, the legislators, entombed for 4,000 years. No dreamy and mysterious vagueness as that which hangs round the line of Banquo's exorcised dynasty, or that which, half concealed the lineaments of the magnates of the ancient world, which Faust is described as summoning before him ! The vision here produced from the sleep of forty centuries is as clear as the light of day; and the " kings of ancient name" of which Homer's Syrens sung to the man of wisdom—the optimates of the earth's youth—stand before us in garb, in fea ture, in lineament, in physiognomical expression, as precisely pourtrayed as those of any of our contempo rary kings. Not they only, hut with them come in equally perspicuous form their generals, their pontiffs, their priests, their counsellors, and all the various splendid appendages of the courts of the ancient Pharaohs and all the female aristocracy of their courts —queens, mothers, wives, sisters, princesses, all in the various costume of their graduated ranks—some magnificent in dress, some resplendent in beauty—all marked as portraits, not by difference of feature only, but by difference of physiognomical expression. Use wears off the edge of wonder, but if the event of this discovery had suddenly taken place—the cir cumstance by which the youth and old age of the world may be considered as joining hands after a long interval of oblivion—it would have startled the world as by a sudden and substantial miracle realised before its eyes. Mr. Clarkson referred to the triumphant processions as evidences of the extent of the conquests of the Pharaohs. The Scythian bear and the Indian buffalo, the ape and the parrot of India are there. The cameleopard, native of middle, and the ostrich of southern, Africa, are among the spoils. The people of Lydia, Messo potamia, Armenia, Aracan, Arabia, Judea, Tyre, India, Scythia, Russia (Mosck), are ascertained. Is the Chinese type among the combatants and the cap tives depicted in the representations of the great bat tles of Sesostris and the more warlike of the Pharoahs bearing the common name of Ramesses ? Some of the combatants in cars have decidedly the Tartar cha racter, with long locks of hair at the top of the head, as the Tartars wear at the present day. Their cars resemble the war waggons of the Scythians described by Herodotus. In some of the magnificent golden vases which adorned the banquet tables of the victo rious Pharoahs, there appear Caryatides figures resem bling the modern Chinese. But that the victories of the conquering Pharoahs extended to China has been latterly proved by an extraordinary discovery. A Chinese scent-bottle with characters capable of being deciphered, has been found in one of the tombs, the date of which is contemporary with the monarchs of the immediate line of Ramesses. Sesostris extended his conquests to the borders of Scythian, Tartary, and China, and Tartars, with shaved heads and long single locks of hair depending from the crown of the head, as well as figures much resembling the Chinese in physiognomy and dress, appear among the captives in his sculptured triumphs or thrones, and Caryatides, supporting the golden and jewelled banquet cups on his table. Other his torical desiderata suggest themselves. Are the red and beardless people who appear among the conquered nation of the Nubian monuments the red and beardless race of the American Indians ? Recent discoveries have proved that a contemporary nation in America, now extinct, were in an equally high state of civilisation. They had copper tools and weapons, pyramids as large as those in Egypt, sculptured temples, palaces of con siderable taste, and magnificent subterraneous sepul chres, granaries, and treasuries. From the extent of the conquests of Sesostris, including the three coloni sations during the 18th dynasty—(lst, Jews ; 2d, Argives ; 3d, Athenians)—and the consequences of those great events on all modern civilisation, Mr. Clarkson proceeded to the great result of the whole inquiry. The question of the lost art of hardening copper led to' the question of the " lost arts" gene rally, and to the extent of the chemical and scientific knowledge of the Egyptians. Mr. Clarkson maintained that independent of many arts that we have not reco vered, the Egyptian men of science were familiar with the Artesian well, with the railroad, and with steam power. In the latter assertion, he supported himself by a recently published memoir of M. Arago. With reference to the " lost arts," one unavoidable inference occurs. A perfect chemical science implies an equal knowledge of the whole circuit of sciences. 'The contest of the Sophoi, or magician order of scribes with Moses, before Pharaoh pays striking tribute to their " union of knowledge with power." No supernatural aid is intimated. Three of the miracles of their natural magii (as affirmed by Sir David Brewster on Natural Magic and Demonology), the jugglers of India and modern Egypt can and do perform now. In the fourth, an attempt to produce the lowest form of animal life, they fail. From the whole statement, one inference is safe, that the am bition of the priestly chemists and anatomists had led them from the fictitious immortality of embalming, and the triumphs cf chicken hatching to a Franken stein experiment on the vital fluid, and on the prin ciple of life. A similar ambitious assumption of creating—not re-producing—the galvanic Acari— the lowest form of life—has been recently ascribed to a modern savant. This being the elevated range of their knowledge, how and why were these powers and these discove ries lost ? Because the men of science of that time had no press to record them—because they adopted Jesuitical principles of secresy—because they fatally bound their god of letters in insidious chains on the dog s n u eo E p e o r N s vly t a i s t o i tofhne. its just sp h to e z e ,et x rr t ii ! b n u c at t ni i o o cin n iot o fs f t Egyptianhe perversion anti. pa to lotkpar d nu e sol s a‘ p yro o leinf tic purposes. The fact furnished a great na• tional lesson, and far from giving ground for despair of the human progress, furnished the most urgent, safe, and cheering auguries of an illimitable extent of improvement, social, moral, and intellectual. Mr. Clarkson concluded, by expressing his opinion that lectures of this description ought to be given on a public stage, assisted by the effects of scenery a n d machinery, in order to do them justice. The lecture, which was given extempore, and lasted one hour and three quarters, was received with warm approbation., throughout. The large room in the Town-hall, which will hold 1,000 persons, was the whole time filled with a highly respectable audience of ladies and gentlemen. PEAT" OF MR. BALLS, COMEDIAN.—Mr Balls, the celebrated light comedian, died last night of delirium tremens. lie had just terminated an engagement at the Abbey-street Theatre, Dublin.— Standar d. SUPPOSED SUICIDE THROUGH FEAR OP POYENTY. —Thurslay Mr. William Baker held an inquest at the George the Fourth, Green -street, Bethnal-green, on the body of Harriet Downs, aged fifty-eight years. It ap peared the deceased was the wife of a Spitalfields weaver. In consequence of the slackness of work, and deprecia tion in weaver's wages, she had lately become very desponding. on Friday last, in the early part of the day, she said to her husband, " Jack, I don't like to see you work so hard, and not live better." He en deavoured to soothe her, but she was very low and de jected, and said she should not live till Saturday. At five o'clock she left home, and was not again heard of until Tuesday last, when her body was found floating in the water of the Regent's-canal, near the Ferry-bridge. The husband deposed their altered circumstances had preyed much upon her mind. There being no evidence of how deceased came into the water, the jury returned an open verdict of "Found drowned." MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Married, on the 18th instant, at 13ramham, by the Rev. Wm. Harcourt, son of his Grace the Archbishop of York, Frederick Aeclum Milbank, Esq., of Hart and Hartlepool, to Alexiana, daughter of the late Sir Alexander Don, Bart., of New ' ton Don, Roxburghshire. The lovely bride, whose beauty and elegance attracted universal admiration , was given away by Sir Maxwell Wallace. She was attired in a superb dress and veil of Brussels lace, and attended by six bridesmaids, viz., Miss Milbank, Miss Lane Fox., two Misses Vavasour, and two Misses Fane. After the ceremony the marriage party returned to Chesnut Grove, I the residence of Sir Maxwell Wallace. After the dejeuner the happy pair set off to Thorpe PQIIOW, the splendid seat of Mark Milbank, Esq., who, with Lady Augusta and her fawily, are at present residing at Barn ingham Park. ',. '. (ti;' ' ~t s t i e n old Isar° iing l l )poin' Oates iourea sue tail' , aD d the etas ro• 3 1e of qsl%