The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-03 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA. RAILROADS IN INDIA. 1, v e s the Oz e: land Delhi Gazette) now of no measure more calculated to strengthen th, 0 1., of wer of the British Government in India, or more fl',_iy,stto exercise a beneficia l effect over the people of lion , i _an_, than the introduction of communica attemeduwEituilop the inv . en t tio r n e, power has been of tilts to large masses of the happiest lipt!eople, a . nd it is generally observed that indications of , tressive improvement are no where so visible as in tiles ' Places which are accessible to the immediate in times of liatnee of steam communication. Thus as 1.1 it is r a jr a e .' b y the application of the philosopher's stone, to, 9Pposed that all things would be turned into gold, st e .._ lll the present day, by the happy e tn tn tr e e s duction of into city is found that barbarism be i',',o civilisation, barrenness into fertility,poverty converted into wealth. What, then, may the philanthropist eo 4._ that the for the people of India, when he i . s th e a ue Court. of Directors are about to investigate Pplicabilit • of railway communication to this tilting two Per ) this purpose they propose as..o v rtu two or three eminent engineers, who are to re slbie Pon the subject, and who are to suggest some pos first t l e of moderate length, as an experiment. , If this f ... rial should prove successful weexpect in a 113? " Re whole ,071)1ars to see lines of railroads tray . ersing fail l ' tr Y ; tat if, on the other hand, it should . prove a li en e • India will sink back into lethargy still gle e rt i t v e i. r 1 that i_ •• • , oa t i in which it now sleeps, and the march of r ote on will be retarded instead of advanced. It is there linflettir ?teliareportant that the first trial should be made Itk,,e,a circumstances as would most probably insure thatth at ~st ; Whicho much care cannot be taken in selecting line holds out the greatest . litical advan -4.4 st° Government, and which prom's ' : the best re li' ' L° th e capitalist. It is not enough to prove that the it i; I.l.° Posed is a good one, it must also be prnve s d re th in a . t 6, ce ,the best one that can be made in India. We t DiVe dwell upon this point, because we observe that C a l cutt a elleetion is already entertained in England for t t h h i e s 4 11and Mirzapore line. If we thought . that pr,tl.)os.tessed the advantages which its supporters ittl t 'Lq It d ' t . ""s, we have the interest of India too much tow tow ! I L ,e oppf , se it for a =nent ; nor do we o h ppo s s am i e Nisi'd we on ly ask that. the same talents and t 1 " th "'llion which have been devoted by Mr. Stevenson e toe I f ; e k al cutta and Mirzarre line, be also applied to c° ! tliitin 'ni a . rid Allahabad one, and if the resultof h s a u s ch n lest i'!"ation should prove that the former scheme it w a e r a tel to preference, we shall enrol ourselves among Bo se a dvocates. W ITOCItteS. Oto,„ t -.4l't ADGUST 27.—A new Company, called the 41 40' Steam Navigation Company," has just been P rhe s pec u l a nor running steamers up and down the coast. (Ile f or n, we think, is likely to prove a profitable f A°llPpOtttilePrt,lectors and that it is highly deservinrg of metib t r- e ll Public grounds, there can be no manner the benefits Tre is nocountry in the British empire . where r. 0,, a th e e ° as i n 111. railway can be demonstrated with such i Pred u 9 , a• The profits even in the transport of now -Il kr t i e e will be immense, for many articles arefor t t tlar ko to waste in the interior which could be sold iina. 'or etn l lB Butes at the ports. The prospects of hi rite it i a u re highly flattering, and its introduct t ion x in e to . „,,,, the opinion of men of judgment and e p 414 ' t a IA 11 w,, i Ors to consolidate I st tli w l. an additional army of 100,000 men. S ROAL IN THE CHINA SEAS. n eat ,e ins er t (r om the Calcutta Englishman.) . 4,.ealat, co uspicuou . sly, for the information of our _ engzh, 7 1ir eotninercial readers, from the .Nauttcal k il ' ilell t :°' 441 tY• 1845, a notice of what is, it would for ti os n ew sho 1 in the China Seas, and one very 4',._toith. the traek of a vessels which may get set or stand 0 , We -:„, wes t w ard, r d on their passage over its latitude. the o fi f - s t°, l l 3 _laying it . dovin on the supplementary s re-published here by glietrA.latin'uVosirnd the China i a „' It b ears d in 1843, from Bombay Spsnish chart of 1840, 11 '' 6, di ue west from the Castle's shoal of t lle p 6 r t a. ut 22 miles, and E. by S. i- S. from the centre . iititlite nee of Wales' Bank, distant 60 miles; and . it h l, soo,l),°ssible either that • it miy be a continuatic . n . of lig 0-1.;:Y Castle's shoal or the same reef, its position 1 ' t i 8 hi gh ti given by one of the ships. Ewa ' and4ll ti me these 'shoals were all carefully s_nr ..: ‘utva, the safe chan'nels between them properly laid 14, '4okA,n,, THE TEA TRADE. ."te DEPARTMENT.—GOVERNMENT bt NOTIFICATION. gi q.a t x , 1 Prom the China Mail.) . to tet Sue ee : "eY her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and f,o.,_tive T;ltehNin.t.eedant of British . Trade, &0., is pleased l ' t h 'll': ie lt to the following extract of a dispatch ir4 tp t ill :::;it e tit - a r il L ti t ist e l: Y eo nsu l .at Foo•chow-foo, as it conve r y o s . g g information as to the p ' Of trade a n t e t o h u a ra t capital of Fokien province. Vi o By order, A DAM W. ELMSLIE. 41. - via 4 ~c l ' ong-Kong June 18. ,_ k r 1 ,,_ . DISPATCH 't:t 4 4 ' FROD II I : A E D R D 3 R IA E LES O T r Y Ii 'S is C E OZ: t'',.l.3kNci,9o CROW- FOO, C° 1 ; 44 S t n ER MAJESTY'S THE ADDRESS A s, N c D ., I BD ttnINTENDENT OF 13— t .:I h y "AV 2 7, 845 ''''l4'lltiejlii°t e ease l dc - a - r . efully investigating the details, s tlb i N,., a t on the relative bearin g g h o e f the facilities opening and ~ yillei,V,liteges must greatly depend t pl aei q the Il rease of any British trade. fet tli n g bproP4ettntinie I am unwilling to lose any time in stroll . re Your Excellency the result merchant in the. t cl f t ' e rY recently obtained from a rtai d n is ii hi : i be n °4l the tea districts, expressly 1 6:''.14:1 demand here and foreign g th ood a s se t e o barter i„ t , t he crT::, This information goes far to show either frl'4e'ete.;etnor-General and the Treasurer have much )11 ' ib t he p,`' the difficulties and dangers of transport ' . 'tib :' , h ' } Qs, or been very imperfectly informed 4 , ‘ 1 h 4v eet I q l4 be 4'Stlrat'co from more than one source,.. that tisk sash ''tit here, from the districts where it is grown, Lt 4 4 to t'asoliable facility and moderate degree of lit , r iv ell love the apprehension of either difficulty tl !t; p t o h r e t r - t 7 i t fi i i n n g any serious impediment, and at a_co_s ts t I, t ri g compared with the expense of i tt it ' i dic'ff-an ton. is 0 %,,, , :it t ~„ere,nee in the expense of carriage to :P , t) I.`"ake a large diminution in the price foiftsteelaf ''a t th e merchant ° ''.e f • • and the tea c 'tily „N s ~ eeling s of the first producers te al - , , e 411 1 - . the interior, my informant expresses not °t‘t"r°Wert°ll desire of his own firm, but t. a of the li tL lll - „ e ' l erully, to find a market for their . produce Lak in 1 itPttiereace to Canton. In conju with itionunder -I)e,ts wil l ° c ity, I have every reason to believe the ex. Dt4 am te,adily, be entered into to bear all g t%' s at sIK of transit, and deliver teas at a fixed a te o e f -11 ‘ 4 sound, either at Foo-chow-foo or the a la rge vessels at Pagoda Island." True extract, ADAM W. ELMSLIE. (Fr °IAIMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. 14 ) t hl ' "4l the k fr ria 4 th ectleutta Overland Price Current, have reach Aug. • reached t-ce, 5111 1.: 11 : Past nine days no further accounts importance Nell t o °Pc' neither has anything of local markets ; the lin -413(1'4 stat e "Ilse any alteration in our lekeceseon,sl4 the weather however, has but e these will doubt ch4t'e ree,:lnlY rest rictedoperations ; tent as soon as a khe„lt, eto need to fully their former e hecked deliveries, V . ' th e lg P` S ee, should the mail k;potwitii ta or 19th) not bring discouraging l advices. s (with a fair tf` Zito standing that bills with documents we still IN ~, i ebrititi • (whi x ch nay be expected n throuh the _ ke'ete g no ne in request, and saleable at ls. 11d., ex kae tvarehn..! skQtrlative ship;n ents gol ahtiet th.n"'se Under advances from Governnfent, of the i . sl ay W4 front this source since the notification,,, , Q,ri, Rh i 's t?'22,702 company's rupees , or 3?9,5n" and the t at l' e, ill t etite P „ l „ )l ng list has been somewhat increased, and ts",cave are not at presentgoing forward very ount of C. .44 111 been estalili bd. We do not, however, anticipate ,4,slaLiereiloile_cl,ine. ouspreesent quJtation.s, as the am the u lo d w as er N 74, tk h _et tte, ai,e is still far from heay and,Our reminarksmaonny in assriCs will necessarily be short,. ,ba tnilate Cl osely to those of the it. 40. av eio „ place. iliv e Nt.,,waule, as little or no change has taken this number, to th e 4 pr ett : e had hoped to be enabled, in This is, how- Itilielapeatitnt;BYL correct statement of t much (even amongst .itit opons still vary so the probable out-turn of tit e l et Leen ‘nentselves) that as scarcely half of t . h d e a c r ro i p a has do_ cot' and as the result of the rennim we ti'sidetaticnt on the weather to be experienced, eeding findda)• kl e ,ks i ta e difficulty in doing so. tri - t '?"t ev te°re gloomy accounts th E an ae t h he su p ee reced u in a g a , dis and_ l e 4 i e eerY. estimate lately received from the v_ IL 44r 1471selerably 11 0 ' N ai,,. w .e gave rather favourable accounts b ro under what was formerly ca d 31alwa, itt;hlp,r'e`rivets, viz. :-- Kishnagur, Moorsheda flacutrallasteevdeornal. more than Ik111,,'„ te e a, ; but letters since received are of a a 7 very dif iii.rear.,,49 and not one is likely to send 4t 2 e ke eet r' that we think it scarcely_ poss d ib u l w e ll that J B e e s u s g or a e l l ibl e r last • tl e l`l° inacielltacilsialt 'one calculate the whole of the nfavour rtt4titl4 rhoseecoUnt3 from Tirhoot are not quite s_ bah her up , , Previously receivedallowin think it pro te,'e Ille t ", l 'i? the close of the season, we do not whilst gi,e l) , . eia districtwillreach I t year's out-turn , I, rtte e d , Pte tt qn th e u not expect it to exceed 1500° last accounts were k y , north-Nv t Provincesthe . o f too Ito, )0,1 , es kr, Nu, which'!int they were already complaining maunds. il e qoak i, , was beginning to reduce their g produce, ent in the Let,plaat . ',',. it continued, prevent any improve o' . h at :_ecafire tine weather to enable these parts the'°llstaeri's now calculated on, viz., 2 5,000 It4-tl‘tnt ld i r rere th e uPner provinces we hear of ul no c tu ha a n a ge, nd taahreselt o t f i g the generality cone7he opinions p m r a ev u al utia. t iii4 e 'et re,eoeach district, we lude that the total ell ut-turn (3 110,000 thlets, a n 7 a blY be expected to exceed 100,000 i Pe to t t t h even this may be further reducetl o s rtiy. W"--Ttie better in the weather take place 8 - ares has lite ll . t .iea h ~dentand for the finer qualities of Ben it.„,,gen et i , rtlift throughout the past week, but, as before tukould no h as de %III it , aav %tits- Very little change l tt :' shi tnn ne unfavourable weather experienced . 4ttP„ s 'etery e ' i '• is in favour of sellers. Our bazaar has been 146,,,,"R etaresred of first qualities, and even good second still is discernible in prices,_ tiist'ted, all"' All is of low sugars are tl ,I cil nar N , d khaur is onl Saleable for remanufacture,_ upas „t e - at this sn.,, t h alt "lea nt , -..0n. xports from the Ist instant et A her t , . to 94,000 Inaunds I tt,,,'llle ~::- the demand for this staple is still exclusively eirsetlitelle-'eontd although the quantity taken for this part is 4 41 1 "qs, /., . compensate for the cessation of operations , f_o ‘ r lttltk?gli h hold are quoted much the same as before ;but, n"'? ssitg e ° era will ttot submit to any decline, it is almost iikl• ,$:1 11 :Y effect aces. ki r l bilt i -0r market is now nearly cleared of all fine til e „glnot4 inferior qualitiesf almost every description a ki 4 - I . a tiv e 14,, business bas been done at about former rates; t e v. iti ß d e. _- ho lder s 1, ill -4Ving anxiously availed themselves of the ar e 1 atrirniatid,to effect a clearance of their stocks previous ekl,ready oi r e e f ri t e he new bond, of which a few small parcels ttketleett, to ~ g., Sli t 'llo 1 (lAreat Britain, front the Ist instant up to the„ Je t ,' ' 'lleum:ls. tioneastlv4 kqoods--The business done in orahs during c date, Itilt i ° qo e k '4 been, limited as, slag to the great reduc te t e t t l e °t sahnisibt etre' holders 811 7 ow le anxiety to realise, and 11° 1-4,, e l brw a d ° 4 golden reduction to induce purchasers 'llet.sa larg e " ,;_ thls.,.however, will, we think, prove tem -111,141111,0. tipas an ,i ti ttaetities may shortly be expected from the (.11,7....14e ~ bandannas Nve have no change to notice. ti t 's et t tree h i i re . ur kretl t h e or e 4. gluts has introduced a few ` bttzku "le home -market, which have n e ar ly ' aucl 110118 Of good quality is now Pro -1 AhltN,, SUPP curable under 2 rupees 4 annas per maund. The demand for Mauritius and Bourbon continues moderate at about former prices. Oil Seeds—We have not the slightest alteration to notice in the market for either linseed or mustard seed, purchases of both having been on a moderate scale, and at about former rates. Safflower—A few small sales are reported at 32 to 38 ru pees for fair Pattergbatta, but the demand is at present lan guid, and sales effected with difficulty. Shell Lac and Lac Dye—Shea tac has been in mode rate demand, and several small parcels have changed hands at about former rates. In lac dye we are aware of a few lots being taken for France, but generally speaking, parties do not seem disposed to pay the high rates lately current. Hides, Horns, and Tips—The market for hides, especially Buffalo, has been rather more actire, and several parcels have changed hands for Great Britain and America. Buffalo horns are not much wanted, but we notice consi derable shipments as dunnage. In deer and tips we are not aware of 'any transactions during the week. In the minor articles of country produce we are not aware of any alterations having taken place since the 7th inst. Opium—Prices continued to decline for some days after oar last issue, and came as low as 1,358 Company's rupees for Petra, and 1,290 for Benares; of late, however, they have rallied, and we now quote the former at 1,395 to 1,400, and the latter at 1,320 to 1,325 per chest. The stock in the Company's godown consists of 2,921 chests Patna, and 798 of Benares. Cotton—We have heard of a few operations for China, but there is still but little inquiry for the article. Exports from the Ist inst. up to date are 5,042 maunds. IMPORTS FROM EUROPE. British Cotton Piece Goods—Business has been far from brisk during the past nine days; but as we are aware of no other reason for this except perhaps a little lightness in the bazaar, we are rather disposed to think it merely proceeds from the delay in deliveries, consequent on the state of the weather, and that when this is removed operations will pro ceed on their former scale. We are not aware of any altera tion in the value of the principal fabrics under this head, and will not therefore enter into a recapitulation of them, merely noticing that the inquiry for all is at present languid. Coloured and Printed Goods—ln these a fair amount of business has been gone through, but no increased demand has been observable, chintz continuing rather difficult of sale,and Turkey red cloths, of suitable descriptions, in good inquiry. Woollens—ln these goods we have no change to notice, and although a few sales have been effected prices are still low. White Mule Twist—This market has been steady, and although sales are not extensive prices are looking up, 50's having further advanced in value, and 40's being very firm. Coloured Yarn—Under this head but little has been done, a few bales of German dye have, however, been placed at lr. la. 14 p., and British at lr. 9a. 7p. per lb. Copper—The sales effected during the week have been to a very limited extent, and the demand for tile, which was brisk at the date of our last, has apparently fallen off, al though rates are maintained; sheathing has sold to a mode rate extent, and prices are rather firmer. Iron—Tranractions in this metal have again been to a most insignificant extent, and we cannot as yet observe any symp toms of improvement. Speller—A few parcels have changed bands at Company's rupees 10-10 to 10-12, but the latter figure is not now ob tainable. Lead and Tin-plates—Sales of pig stamped are reported at Sicca rupees 5-12 to 5-14 per maund, but in other de scriptions and tin-plates we are not aware of any transac tions. Beer—Prices even of the favourite brands are quoted rather lower, and all are extremely difficult of sale. CE. taken), 0,1 8.3 t 7lb ~ (Sat) ........... 3 ......... e ,b of tb e a, A e pace towen P• 11 Last te, runn ing l i • clever' the 31103;e010Iti her W i r t hi Tura o ~..( Sat) 11 ....... -3 ry. ....... 4 ; .... ... 'Or eras 1" ' o li try Not °id colt 0 lob; so i hrf:lt be ( , es C 00,6 F. SW' ;! lc, the Letter t 9 1b; olts, ~ter ponc, i ne as, ti t f ain . ,st .( s a t) '' ........ 5 ...... ...... 4 ..... ...... Dpie,.veatit..-o 4a,e, , 0101 to tra6 moy, ▪ ie• go b; cog a lire" ' dforu' , 04 owl e l ; C. , Dell .......... 0 3 ....... ;t 13 ":' (7 11 0 ' 00 r diog lo t hree er iler • for ;6, 1 " 6. , jord'' „ :06° c.1 0)1 old 113 r ~3lUs fit, ival ile o l' ej" 0 0 3for loW ) . s iv-, o o.: lcd• IJA ISs EXCIIANGE. The paucity of drawers has caused a decline of from id. to d. ; the rate at which most of the operations in first-rate bills have been effected for the present opportunity being from Is. 101 d, to ls. Ild. per rupee. MONEY-MARKET. No change whatever has taken place under this head during the week, and we therefore repeat former quotations. CURRENT VALUE OF GOGERNMENT SECURITIES, BANK STOCK, &C. Transfer 5 per Cent. Second ditto, according to Nos 2 4 6 0 do. Third ditto 5 8 6 0 do. New ditto Sicca rupees, 4 per cent. Company's rupees, ditto.. Bank of Bengal shares, Company's rupees 4,000 each pre mium, 2,550 to 2,650, last dividend paid. Union Bank shares, Company's rupees 1.000 each premium 220 to 225, last dividend paid. Agra Bank shares, Company's rupees 500 each premium, 275 to 280. GENERAL NA PIER and COLONEL OUTRAM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. [The following letter, with some alterations, was sent to the Times about ten days back. I had some right to expect its publication in that journal, or that I should have had an intimation that it was refused. I have been disappointed in both points ; why, I know not, the editor having hitherto been very liberal in admitting my communications. It may be a mistake, but the effect has been injurious to me, as giving an appearance of delay in answering a production which ought to have been promptly noticed or despised alto gether. I shall feel the insertion of it in your paper as an obligation.] Sir,--Colonel Outram is indignant at my work called the " Conquest of Sinde." This is natural ; it proves his inca pacity as a public man, and wounded vanity easily merges in anger. There is not, indeed, a single expression in that work which conveys personal insult, or anything approaching to it, and no fair occasion of giving him credit was omitted, though he and his friends had provoked the exposure of his general ineptitude ; the irrefragable facts adduced in proof are crushing, and no man bears such a mortification without anger. Colonel Outram was entitled if it so pleased him, to give vent to that anger, and, as being a matter of taste, in abusive language also, though addressed to me privately from a distance of ten thousand miles! The usual course with gentlemen in such cases is, however, to avoid bad lan guage, or to await, at least, the reply of the person so ad dressed, before recourse is had to the public press ; but Co lonel Outram, while thus privately addressing me, sent a copy of his letter to the Morning Chronicle, where it actually appeared before the original reached its destination! This needs no comment ; but it has created a feeling which leads me to addi ess you instead of Colonel Outram, and that only because his assertions may otherwise mislead persons not conversant with the subject. I offer, therefore, the following simple corrective statement, and I shall leave the public to judge whether it be at all necessary for me or any other per son to take the trouble of " trampling upon Colonel Outram." From the moment that person's political functions in Sinde were transferred to Sir C. Napier, the foulest abuse of the latter, and the most fulsome praise of the former, were syste matically poured forth in the columns of the Bombay Times, a newspaper said to be principally owned by a mercantile house at Bombay, to which Colonel Outram was believed to be indebted, and from which he received a loan of ten thou= sand rupees to enable him to go to England after the battle of Meanee, there, by his insinuations and secret charges, to intercept for a time the thanks of Parliament to his General, whom he oontinued to call his friend, and to do the same by the brave troops whose dangers and glory he had not par ticipated in at the battles of Meanee and Dubla, though he had laboured most assiduously in folly to cause their de struction. This has been placed beyond doubt in my work, and hence Colonel Outram's anger; but that work has not, as he asserts, revealed any official secrets, the disclosure of which has been denounced by Sir R. Peel as injurious to the public service. It is founded generally on the Parliamentary papers relating to Sinde, which are at every person's com mand, and where the proofs'of Colonel Outram's incapacity and dangerous meddling are at least as strongly set forth as in my work : those who desire to know the truth will find it there. After Colonel Outram's arrival in London the vituperation of Sir C. Napier to raise the reputation of the Colonel was renewed in the Bombay Times, and also pervaded the English papers most opposed to Lord Ellenborough. The coincidence was remarkable ; and as Colonel Outram, though professing warm friendship in private for his General, suffered those false notions to spread unchecked, and silently accepted the credit of acts which he knew he was not entitled to, I pub licly taxed him, as may be seen in my letters to The Sun newspaper (July or August, 1843), with his want of good taste, and plainly told him that, far from having shown any superior genius and ability, he had committed enormous errors, and only missed causing the entire destructi on of the army because the General's vigour and capacity had over borne his folly. Instead of meeting this remonstrance openly and boldly, Colonel Outram sheltered himself under an official cloak ; he intimated, indeed, that he would and could give a sufficient answer when that cloak could be laid aside ; and he then re turned to India, having previously given as much effect as he could to the secret charges he had preferred against Sir C. Napier. That General's crushing reply to those charges, and his exposition of Colonel Outram's incapable conduct in Sinde, came back from India in due time, and were published in the Sinde Parliamentary papers; but meanwhile Colonel Outram's whisperings had, as I have already said, caused the Government to delay the thanks of Parliament to the General and Army, and thus give a colour to the notion, industriously inculcated by the press, that the great victories gained, and the heroic courage displayed in Sinde, were crimes, and not glories. I When the Sinde Blue Book was published the official cloak was torn from Colonel Outram's shoulders, but his hands remained paralysed ;he could not hold a pen ! He could not, he dared not, answer Sir C. Napier's exposition of his folly ; he cowered under the public animadversion of the Governor- General and Council on his conduct ; but the anonymous vituperation of Sir C. Napier, and the laudatory incense to Colonel Outram, continued in the Bombay Times with more vehemence than before—it has never ceased; and Colonel Outram now seeks to avenge the public, the signal defeat of his secret machinations by scurrilous accusations against Sir C. Napier, addressed, not to him who is at band, but to me who am ten thousand miles off! and this in language and sentiment so exactly in unison with what has before appeared in the Bombay Times, that the inference is inevitable. It is not a little remarkable also, that Colonel Outram, in his letter, defends everybody but himself, thereby, indeed, showing prudence, and a desire to enlist others in his cause; but his weakness is evident from this fact, that he has suf fered the Parliamentary papers to be published without a remark, though they contain every accusation of incapacity which I have made in my History, and the proofs of their truth ; those proofs satisfied the Governments of India and England, and both Houses of Parliament. Now also, as in his former letter, while menacing me with a book, he still holds up his official garment; he will refute my work, but he will not " withdraw the veil of official secresy." What is the meaning of all this? Is it to avoid giving an account of his letter to the Khan of Khelat, which cost him his situation as Political Agent in Sinde? He knows what I mean; I have alluded to it in my History. Or does he mean to keep back amongst his official secrets the protest he left with the Government when he returned to India, after his secret efforts to destroy the reputation of his General? The veil must be thick and wide that serves Col. Outram's need. With respect to his assertions. He who shrunk from con troversy with me when in London, now, being in India, says I delayed the publication of my work until after the depar ture of the Indian mail, to evade his refutation for a time I His refutation ! Let my publisher, whose patience was so tried by reiterated remonstrances about delay, answer that assertion. Colonel Outran . ' says I have, on the authority of my brother, traduced the whole Civil Service of India. I answer that I have not done so on the authority of my brother, or that of any other person—l have not done so at all. He says that Lord Ellenborough's speech eta public dinner shows 1 have no warrant from him for so traducing the whole of the Civil servants of the Company. Certainly Lord Ellen borough's speech was not and could not have been my war rant for doing what I have not done. Nevertheless, in that speech he is reported to have said " he never had to complain of any Civil servant with whom he came into personal com munication." But, touching the army, he said he never had to complain of any Military qfficer, a marked and most signi ficant difference of expression. Colonel Outram asserts that land my brother have accused the officers of the Royal and Company's Armies of habitual intemperance, and that we have ascribed the mortality in the 78th Regiment to the same cause. This effort to enlist the EMENT TO THE EVENING SUN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1845. passions of the Sinde Army on his side will fail ; the brave men who have served under Sir C. Napier know too well his attachment to them, and his gratitude for their matchless courage and endurance, to heed such baseless suggestions. My letter, published in the Times and in the Naval and Mid tar y Gazette, upon the sickness of the 78th Regiment, does not contain even an allusion to intemperance; the epidemic is expressly described as one baffling the medical men. It was written to crush an accusation in the Bombay Times, which ascribed, as Colonel Outram does now, the mortality to the General's mismanagement ; and it even went so far as to call him " the murderer of the soldiers." But I have also, in my work on Sinde, published a letter in which drink is said to be the great cause of disease with bath officers and men in the army generally. This is called charging the officers with habitual drunkenness, and affirming that inebriety alone caused the dreadful mortality in the 78th Regiment. Now, in that letter the sickness of the 78th is positively stated to be one which "nobody could account for ;" and is thus completely separated from the observations about drink which follow. Those observations are general, the mere expression of an opinion as to one of the causes of great mortality in the army at large ; they are not even confined to Sinde; Jellalabad is expressly referred to. They treat of the bad effect of the common ration of spirits given to all soldiers; they have no special application to the 78th, or any other corps ; and if, as Colonel Outram asserts, the command ing officer of that regiment applied to Sir C. Napier on the subject, the reported answer was strictly correct and just, viz., that "no such accusation had been made ; if it had, the General would have contradicted it." It never has been made by anybody but Colonel Outram and his tool, Dr. Buist, of the Bombay Times. What, in fact, is the drift of the observations referred to ? Simply that strong drinks, temperately or intemperately used, produce in a hot climate, not sickness, but a morbid tendency in the brain and liver, which renders those organs always the first affected by the epidemic less able to resist its action; hence the great mortality. This is the simple enunciation of a pathological fact, which it is the absolute duty of a general in command to promulgate, if he is satisfied of its truth. The assertion that the officers have been charged with habitual intemperance is almost too despicable to notice; officers drink wine, ale, spirits—is that to accuse them of drunkenness ! If so, they cannot deny the accusation, for they certainly are not teetotalers. They use fermented and spirituous liquors in a hot climate which tends to render life less secure than if abstinence were practised. This is the whole that has been said, and malignity tantamount to drivelling could alone give it any other meaning, or a par- titular application. The rest of Colonel Outram's letter being merely an expo sition of his utter and presumptuous ignorance of the pre sent state of Sinde, merits no attention; it is quite in ac cordance with the incapacity he displayed when employed in that country. He speaks of the mountain tribes recently sub dued by Sir C. Napier, as having no connexion with the Seiks! They were nevertheless in constant communication with those of Mooltan ; they received provisions from them during the operations; many of them fled for refuge to that country; and at one time there was a large body . of those Seiks in arms on the point of joining the tribes to give battle to the British. I have now only to notice the statement of Mr. Peart attached to Colonel Outram's letter. That gentleman, who is the civil surgeon attending the Ameers, declares that those Princes, while in close captivity, do not, to his know ledge, display the same vices they exhibited when, as sovereigns, they were unrestrained in the exercise of their passsions and power—a marvellous proof of innocence, truly I will now ask Mr. Peart two questions :-1. Is he the surgeon, who, being in attendance on the Ameers, made a report of their secret conversations to Sir George Arthur ? 2. If so, will he deny that in those conversat i o ns the y ad mitted that their acts and intentions, political and military, and their diplomacy, were, previous to their dethronement, precisely such as Sir C. Napier bad supposed them to be, and for which he made war on them ; thus vindicating Sir C. Napier's sagacity, and laying Colonel Outram's incapacity naked ? WM. NAPIER, Major-General. Guernsey, Sept. 18, 1845. POSTSCRIM—Since writing the above, it has been sug gested to me that I ought to notice Col. Outram's charges against my brother of having improperly provided for his re lations. To defend Sir C. Napier from the scurrility of Col. Outram is, I think, unnecessary ; but I will show the true character of the accusation. Sir C. Napier found Lieut. McMurdo, then a stranger to him, on the Quartermaster-General's staff in Sinde. That young officer soon distinguished himself by his zeal, his ability, and his heroic courage, andhis General continued him in a post he filled so worthily; two years afterwards he mar ried that General's daughter : this is called his son-in-law on the Staff, " contrary to the regulations of the Service Sir C. Napier appointed his nephews to be, the one his Aid de-Camp, the other his Military Secretary. Those officers are the sons of Sir George Napier, whose well-known services and wounds would alone justify favour towards them, even from a stranger, if they were worthy of their station and descent. They were captains of regiments in India, one in Sinde ; they had served with their corps and on the Staff in England and at the Cape for years, and one of them took a high certificate at the Military College of Sandhurst, where he was educated : hence, being well acquainted with both staff and regimental duties, their appointments were natural, just, and military. This is called appointing his relations "to lucrative situations !" Had Sir C. Napier been capable of any sordid feeling, he could, both of right and from precedent, have made his nephews prize agents ; they have married his daughter and his step-daughter, and it would have given them each at least ten thousand pounds. Without hesitation, he appointed as prize agents three officers of whom he knew nothing, but that they had fought gallantly under his orders and served their country welL The other examples of "nepotism" adduced by Colonel Outram, if there be any truth at all, are equally discoloured. The Messrs. Curlings—for that is the name of which the initials and terminating letters are given by Col. Outram— are not near relatives of Sir C. Napier. They were relations of his first wife, who died without children by him. The reader may now judge the taste with which Colonel Outram directs his reproaches against Sir C. Napier, not direct to that officer who is close to him, but to me, his brother, at ten thousand miles' distance. Need I say more? W. N. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—There are but few truths involved in any controversy, but the falsehoods which may be advanced are innumerable; it would be silly, therefore, to notice every anonymous slan derer of Sir C. Napier. I will, however, expose two gross assertions made by your correspondent " 0. 0.," and having done so, henceforth treat him, and all other anonymous assailants, with thp silent contempt they merit. It is not true that Sir C. Napier has "publicly expressed, at his own table, regret and vexation" at the publication of my work on Sinde. He feels neither regret nor vexation ; he ie well pleased with it. It is not "probable" that nay work has pre vented him from being made Commander-in-Chief at Bom bay. Ido not know if it ever was intended to offer him that situation ; but I do know that if it had been offered within the last year, he would have declined it. His present Go vernment is nearly as good in point of emolument, and far, very far superior in point of distinction and utility. I believe also that the value of his presence in Sinde is too well known and appreciated to encourage any project for removing him. But these despicable insinuations are part of a system adopted by the friends of Col. Outram at Bombay ; this assertion as to the loss of the appointment there, in conse quence of my work, was published a fortnight ago in the newspapers of this island. W. NAPIER, Maj.-Gen. Guernse; -, Sept. 23, 1845. CURIOUS PARALLEL. It must, indeed, be admitted, that there had been through out the whole course of the French Revolution, a chain of very remarkable coincidences with corresponding events in English history, which we have before incidentally noticed, but which we think it is worth while to exhibit more clearly in the following synopsis Charles I. Louis XVI. Unpopularity of the Queen. Unpopularity of the Queer. The Long Parliament. The National Assembly. Flight to the Isle of Wight. Flight to Varennes. Trial and execution. Trial and execution. Government by the Parlia- Government by the Conven ment. tion. Cromwell. Buonaparte. Expels the Parliament. Expels the Councils. Military despotism. Military despotism. Richard Cromwell set aside. Napoleon 11. set aside. Restoration of Charles 11. Restoration of Louis XVIII. Amnesty to all but regicides. Amnesty to all but regicides. Popish and Ryehouse plots. Conspiracies of Berton, Bo ries, &c. Unpopularity of the Duke of Unpopularity of Count ork. d'Artois. Fear of the Jesuits. Fear of the Jesuits. James 11., late King's bro- Charles X., late King's bro ther. then. Suspected birth of the Pre- Suspected birth of Duke o tender. Bordeaux. Influence of the Jesuits. Influence of the Jesuits. Royal declaration of indul- Royal ordinances. gence. Convention Parliament. Meeting of the dissolved Chamber. Flight and abdication of the Flight and abdication of the king. Expulsion of him and his Expulsion of him and his family. family. They take refuge in France. They take refuge in England. And, finally, both revolutions arrived at the same identical result—the calling to the vacant throne the late King's cousin, being the next male heir after the abdicating family. These leading coincidences, and some collateral ones too complicated for a synopsis, are very curious, and at first sight surprising; but they are not unnatural nor even acci dental; they only prove, when closely examined, that the rule of like causes producing like effects is almost as certain in the moral and political as in the physical world. But there were in France stronger incentives to the change of dy nasty than existed in England. The English rebellion had not essentially disturbed the great foundations of society— and the English Restoratip endangered no private rights, and rather satisfied than alarmed public principle. But in France everything had been subverted—bou/everse —not merely the face of things, but the things, them selves—property, above all, bad changed hands, and that, too, under the operation of such cruel and unjustifiable illegalities as could not but render the new possessors very sensitive as to their titles. The usurping Government of France had been, moreover, of longer duration, and had, of course, spread deeper roots, and it had created an extensive nobility and gentry of its own ;—now all those interests and feelings were offended, and pretended to be alarmed, by the return of those whom they affected to fear as claimants of their properties, and whom they really hated as antagonists of their principles, and rivals to their new fangled aristocracy. Many even of those who most wished for peace and quiet under the shelter of a monarchy were not sorry to have a monarch—the son of a regicide—whose own revolutionary title to the Crown should be a guarantee for all the interests that had grown out of the revolution.— Herald. FUNERAL OF THE BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. — The remains of the late Bishop of Bath and Wells (Dr. Law) were interred on Tuesday afternoon in the family vault at the cathedral, Wells. The funeral procession arrived from Banwell soon after one o'clock. The Rev. James Thomas Law, Chancellor of Lichfield, was chief mourner. Amongst the other mourners were the Venerable Henry Law, Archdea con of Wells, and the Rev. R. V. Law (sons of the deceased), Alexander Powell, Esq., Rev. J. Slade, lion. E. C. Law, M.P., Recorder of London, Hon. and Rev. William T. Law, Chancellor of the Diocese of Bath and Wells, Hon. Henry Law, and Colonel Sinling. Tne Earl of lillenborough was absent owing to a severe acciO l ent by a fall from his horse. A large body of the clergy of tine diocese attended the cere mony without invitation, bei fug anxious to testify respect to the memory of their esteem 01 di o cesan. The remains of the venerable Prelate were c o t em itted to the vault under the south aisle of the Lady Jhapel, where those of his Lordshi p 's wife, and other membe •S of the family , ar e de p osited. The whole of the funeral (- appro priate solemnity, do- fol d o f os t e ntatious parade. It is gene rally rumoured thr t the Rev. Dr. Jelf , P rinci p al of King's College, will be a' , p oi nted were ch aracterised by - 0131tOti to the vacant see. LITERATURE. THE PHARMACEUTICAL LATIN GRAJI- MAR. By Arnold James Cooley. " This little book," says the author, in his preface, " was written some time ago, at the earnest solicitation of a friend whose education had been neglected in his youth, and who was extremely desirous of instructing himself in the rudiments of medical Latin." Within the course of the next fortnight some hundreds of medical students, situated precisely as was the friend at whose solicitation this work was undertaken, will arrive in the metropolis. To all such we would recommend Cooley's " Pharmaceutical Latin Grammar" as an ex cellent and perfectly legitimate help fur their preliminary classical examination at the Hall. The author has managed to condense an immense mass of instruction into a very small space. The rules are short and clear, and the examples are all given in medical Latin. There are two appendixes, the first containing a great variety of prescriptions parsed ; the other, all the usual con tractions used in prescriptions. The medical student who is not well up in his Latin should lose no time in procuring this little work. REMARKS on the PRESENT STATE of the LAW of DEBTOR and CREDIT OR ; with Suggestions for its Improvement. By T. T. a Beckett, Attorney at-Law. Second Edition. We cannot say that this pamphlet presents us with any new or striking view of the important subject to which it is addressed ; but we are amused by the touch ing simplicity with which the author, after favouring us with a copy of his letter to LDrd Brougham on his Lord ship's original " Insolvent Debtors' Amendment Act," apprises us of the fact that, " not satisfied with address ing Lord Brougham alone, he sent a copy of his letter to the Solicitor-General but from neither the one nor the other did his communication receive any notice what ever." Very strange. But surely the experiences alluded to at p. 40 might have moderated his egotism. " While, however, the country at large" (he writes) " was under this delusion with respect to the real character of the Bill in question, I perceived in it all the mischief which it subsequently produced ; and before it became law / strained every nerve to avert the calamity which would befal the country were it allowed to come into opera tion with the powers with which it was proposed to in vest it. I sent letters to the press, which, coming from an attorney, were doubtless considered as nothing more than the scream of the vulture at seeing his prey snatched from his beak." This is a capital figure—it is so very true. But what induced Mr. T. a. Bcckett to assume that Lord Brougham or Mr. Solicitor would be less saga cious or more complying than the editors whom he had addressed? Mr. a Beckett would have done better to have devoted his legal acumen to a searching exposi tion and denunciation of the " Small Debts Act," as it was finally extorted from the Lords in the last agonies of last session—a statute which is certainly the most scandalous, unconstitutional, and oppressive in its enact ments that has been promulgated by the Legislature for some years past. We are glad, however, to find some of the opinions we published, pending its progress through the Lower House, corroborated by Mr. i Beckett in the following remarks:— " One of the most formidable objections to the Act as it at present stands, is the power given to the judge to decide arbitrarily, all the cases to which the jurisdiction is to be ex tended to meet—a power possessed by no judge of the supe rior courts of common law, and too great a one to be in trusted to any individual, especially when it is remembered that against it there is no appeal. By a strange anomaly the judge does not possess the exclusive power of deciding on matters at present within the jurisdiction of the court, the Commissioners in these cases having a voice in the matter. " One word as to the persons who are likely to be charged with this extraordinary privilege, or rather, responsibility. The judges are to be chosen by the Commissioners themselves, and the appointments will be sufficiently valuable to cause great exertion to be made to obtain them by those who, al though legally qualified to hold them, may possess nothing but a local influence and this legal qualification to justify their ap plication. If the former be great, they may be in a most important post without being in the smallest degree practically qualified to peform its duties. It may be that the choice proves a fortunate one to the public; but whether this be so or no, when once made it cannot be recalled. It there fore becomes a positive duty imposed upon the Legislature at a future session, to place some check upon the exclusive f p :c w ti e o r n a o t f t p h r e es s e u n i t t o v r e s s , t b e t i nonthe the judge, generaln o p t r o i nl nc ):: p lfeosr by te h y e w s t c i sh all well-regulated states profess to be influenced." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. lefFto t ß h T e S m f 0 U o b T a n il k ll E i S n D night the ELlatihresciteuaamra-slutoinope station at Stangate Creek. At the last report from her yesterday only 18 white men were well on board; 23 were lying sick of the deadly malady. The Government is loudly censured for not having adopted prompt measures to check the dis' ase prevail ing on board the Eclair after they were made cognizant of the melancholy circumstances, instead of allowing the vessel to remain helpless at the Motherbank for nearly three days after she made her appearance and signalled her awful condition. Naval medical men consider that a couple of hulks ought to have been sent without delay to the distressed vessel, and the sick put into one and the able into the other, and the steamer left for the time deserted. Such measures would at once have checked the progress of the disease, whereas the neglect of such caution has already proved fatal to three or four since her arrival, and many more may, we fear, be sacrificed to this want of proper caution by the Government authorities. We are informed that when the engines of the Eclair were fitted, the surgeon, who was afterwards appointed to her, Mr. J. Maconchy, wrote to the Admiralty, and told them that in consequence of the very inefficient ven tilation, the vessel was likely to be very unhealthy, and particularly so upon the station on which she was about to be sent. That opinion, if given, was never acted upon, and the officer who is alleged to have tendered it has fallen a victim himself, fearfully proving the correct ness of his foreboding. The Vindictive, 50, Captain Seymour, flag of Vice- Admiral Sir Francis W. Austin, Commander .in-Chief in the West Indies, was at Halifax (all well) on the 16th ult. On the Ist of October the Admiral intended to pro ceed on a cruise of inspection to the various islands under his command. The Vulture steam-frigate, Captain M`Dougal, was at Rio on the 30th of July. The Philomel, 6, surveying -vessel, Commander Suli van, arrived at Buenos Ayres, from Monte Video, on the 23d of July. The Spider, 6, Lieut.-Commander Pym was at Rio on the 30th of July. The Larne, 18, Commander Brisbane, sailed from St. Helena, for the Coast, on the 30th July. The -Albatross, 16, Commander Yorke, sailed from St. Helena on Aug. 1, for the Island of Ascension. The Dolphin, 3, Commander Livigne, arrived at Buenos Ayres, from Rio on the 4th July. The Firebrand, 8, steam-frigate, Capt. Hope, arrived at Buenos Ayres, from Monte Video, on July 19. The Racer, 16, Commander Reed, arrived at Buenos Ayres, from Monte Video, on July 19. She had been aground on the Chico Bank, and the Firebrand went to render assistance on the morning of the 19th, but she had got off when the latter arrived. The Comus, 18, Commander Thompson, left Buenos Ayres for Monte Video on July 6. The Acorn, 16, Commander Bingham, sailed from Buenos Ayres for Colonia on July 10, and returned on the 23d. The Gorgon stTl,m_-sl9op t Captain Hotham, was at Buenos Ayres on the 24th Of July. The Pantaloon, 10, Commander Wilson, in June last fell in with a pirate. The Pantaloon gave chase, and after some hours' pursuit the enemy tacked and crossed her bows. The Pantaloon then hoisted the British en sign ; the enemy, however, would not show colours, and the Pantaloon tired a gun, which the enemy returned with a long 18 loaded with grape at the bows of the Pantaloon, who then beat to quarters and fired a broad. side, which fell short of the pirate , who, perceiving the advantage she had over the Pantaloon, fired twice more but without effect, and then made off under all sail, and was soon out of sight. The pirate is supposed t) be the famous, or rather infamous, " Third of June," armed with a long 18 amidships and four small guns. A pri vate letter from the Pantaloon, dated Ascension, Aug. 1, says—" We sail to-morrow for the Bight of Benin. Be fore our arrival here we drove ashore a large brig with 700 slaves on board. The Commodore has hurried us off, as he has received intelligence that several large slavers are expected in the Bight from Bahia. The Penelope, 22, with the Commodore on board ; the Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Duffil ; the Prome theus steam-sloop, Commander Hay ; the Lily, 16, Commander Newton ; and the Sealark, 10, Commander Gooch, are here. The Styx steam-sloop, Commander Hornby, is ordered here." The Grecian, 16, Commander Montgomery, and the Seagull, 6, Commander Dicken, were at Rio on the 30th of July. - The Osprey, 12, Commander Patten, was at Malacca on the Ist of July about to sail for New Zealand. She had transferred her specie which she took out from England to the Wolf, 16, which had sailed with it for H The Co way, 26, Captain Kelly, which arrived in the Mauritius from Bourbon on the 17th of July, we regret to state, had been attacked:with fever July, we Mada gascar, which had carried off many of her crew. Mr. Stretton, the purser, we a re sorr y to state, was one of the victims. DEVONPORT.—The Growl er steam sloo p , Commander C. H. M. Buckle, 'arrived from the coast of Africa on Monday evening. She left Ascension on the 18th of August, arrived at Sierra Leone on the 26th, whence she proceeded to Bonavista, where she found the Eclair steam -sloop, with all her crew on shore sick of the coast fever ; the only persons on board the vessel were the Kroomen, the greater por tion of the white men being either dead or disabled by sickness. Commander Buckle ordered the Eclair to proceed to Madeira, where she arrived on _the evening before the Growler (Aug. 21)- The Growler reports that Dr. .M'Clure, who was coming home in the Growler, having been promoted to the rank of surgeon on the station, on hearing of the death of the surgeon and assis tant-surgeon of the Eclair, volunteered to go on board and attend the sick ho me, but within fire days he was a corpse, a martyr to his zeal at and M b a ene e d volence. Com mander Buckle, on a rriving ira, finding Dr. M'Clure and several of the men in a dying state, ordered the vessel to Englan d (as stated in 7'he Sun of Wed nesday). The Heroine, 6, Commander Edmunds, is expected to be ready to sail for the coast of Africa in a Af day or two. The Nimrod, 20, is or d ere d home with rican teak wood. The Druid, 44, is ordered to be fitted as a coal depot. The Scylla, 16, Commander Sharp, will be paid off into ordinary this day. The Creole, 26, on the design of Messrs. Chatfield, Reid, and Cruize, the Committee of the School o f Naval A rc hitecture, was launched yesterday. Mi s s pym, grand-daughter of the Commander -in-Chief of the experi mental squadron, named the vessel. It is proposed to erect a beacon on the eastern end of the Breakwater. Drawings are before the Board of Admiralty fur approval. THE RETIREMENT. The Commanders at this port held a preliminary meeting on Friday, to consider the propriety of pre senting a memorial to the First Lord of the Admiralty, to take their particular case into his consideration. It resolved that a correspondence should be opened with the Committee appointed in London and at Portsmouth, and a subsequent meeting held for the adoption of the memorial. DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 30.—The average price of wheat, in the week ending on the 27th of September, was 23f. 22c., and that of rye 151. 53c. At a moment when the attention of the Government, and of all those who concern themselves about the public interest, is fixed on the question of affording subsistence to the labouring classes during the winter season, the Governor of Hainanit has recourse to those persons who seem to be able to indicate the measures which are calcu'ated to prevent the evils which may arise from the scarcity and high price of provisions. With this view, he has appointed a Commission in the capital of the province, the first.meeting of which is fixed for the 30th of September. Potatoes were sold in the market of Brussels, yester day, at 13f. to 151. per sack of 100 kilogrammes. 1 he Journal of Antwerp says, " We are assured that the loth Regiment of the line paid, in the camp at Be-1 verloo, for the kilogramme of excellent potatoes, only Sic., and Ic. at the line. It consumed 1,500 kilogrammes daily. The contractor was ready to supply them, at that price, for the rest of the year." We have accounts of the arrival of considerable sup plies from Scotland, and other parts. We find, too, that in Holland, people are recovering from the panic terror with which they were seized, so that potatoes had been sold in the market of Amsterdam, for 6.25 florins per mauod, which, at the beginning of the week were sold at 10 florins.—Brussels Papers, Oct. 1. HEIDELBERG, SEPT. 27.—Yesterday evening, shortly after the arrival of Ronge and his fellow-travellers, the chiefs of the German Catholics in this city were sum moned to appear before M. Bohme, the chief magistrate, who intimated that a re3cript of the Minister of the Interior prohibited Ronge from celebrating divine wor ship here, or from delivering any public discourse. At the same time, they were informed, that unless they would pledge themselves to the observance of this re script, Ronge would be immediately obliged to quit the city. They accordingly gave the pledge required of them.—Journal de Frankfort, Sept. 30. THE H..4.GUE, Sam. 29.—His Majesty, by a resolution of Sept. 27, has ordered the ex-propriation for the public good of such property as may be required for the iron railway be tween the Hague and Rotterdam. We learn that several merchants have agreed to make pur chase of provisions in foreign countries, in order, when they arrive here, that they may sell them without any profit, for what they have cost. A letter from Arnheim, of Sept. 26, says, " that the Estates of the province have resolved on contracting a loan in shares of 100 florins each, on account of the province, the proceeds of which are to be employed exclusively in making advances to those communes in which the local resources are not sufficient to afford to the poor the relief that may be re quired in the ensuing winter." The Chamber of Commerce of Gwolle has induced some merchants to import two or three thousand mends of po tatoes from Scotland. If this should answer both in quality and price, others will be purchased. Similar measures for the relief of the poorer classes are adopted in other parts of the kingdom. The officers of justice have to-day made a domiciliary visit to the house of E. Meeter, I. Dumee, and P. Mingelen, the first editor, and the two other publishers of the journal the Poyevaar, the Hague Miniatum or Nicuwsbode, and the Out waaklen Leeuw, of which last paper only one or two num bers have been published. These three persons have been arrested and confined in the civil and military prisons. Their papers , together with the copies of the second Number of the Outwa akle Leeuw, which was published to-day, and of which only a few copies have beenissued, were seized. Of the twenty-one persons against whom legal measures were taken on the occasion of the disturbances that lately took place here, seventeen are dismissed. Two of the ring leaders in the troubles at Delft have been arrested here. Buussms, SEPT. 29.—A correspondent of the Courrier de Anvers is justly surprised that potatoes find purchasers at 14f. or 15f. per sack, since it is now certain that at that price more wholesome and substantial food may be had. It is proved by experiments that a kilogramme (21bs.) of bread, or three-quarters of a kilogramme of meat, or of beans, con tain more nutritious matter than three kilogrammes of pota toes. We cannot, therefore, too earnestly impress on the people the advantage of considerably reducing their con sumption of potatoes, for the sake both . of their health and their pockets. ANTwEnr, SErr. 27.—Large supplies of corn, especially rice and wheat, continue to arrive by sea; so great a quan tity of the latter has arrived that the granaries are insufficient to contain it. Yesterday, 1,773 hectolitres of peas arrived from Hull. A vessel from London has brought 41 sacks of potatoes, and another a cargo of peas. Several cargoes of wheat and rice have also arrived. DUTCH UNDS.—AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 29. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 21 r% per Cent •• • • 60% 61 1 ,4 Ititto, 3 per Cent ••••••.•.• • • • • • • • • 73% 74% Ditto, 4 per Cent................... 97% 98 Amort Syndic, 414 per Cent..... ..... 99% 99% Ditto, 3% per Cent •••. • • • • •• • • 90% 91 1 ,4 Commercia Company, 4% per Cent • 161 1 ,E 16214 East India Loan, 4 per Cent.. •••• •• • • 97% 97% Exchange on London, at sight •• • •• 12 27 Two months.• ••••••• • . • • • . 12 20 On Hamburgh, at sight •• • • 36 Two months ..... ••• • • • .... 35 56% On Paris ••••• • • • .. Two months. •• • • —Dutch Papers, Sept. 30. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussEts, SEPT. 30. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••••••• • • • • • • • Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ••• . • • Loan of Thirty Millions, Four percent ... Ditto Three per Cent.. •••••••• • • • • • • • • Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto Ditto, ditto, 1840......................101 Ditto, ditto, 1842 ..... . • ••• • • Ditto of the City, 1844 .. . ..... 100!„ Ditto, 1843 • • . • • • • • • . .• • • • ...... Bank ofßelgium •••••• • • • • • • • •• • • 736 —Brussels Papers, Sept. 30. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, SEPT. 24. 5 per Cent. Metall i ques .......... . ....... 112% 4 per Cent. ditto• • •• • • • • •• • • ............ 1013 i 3 per Cent. ditto ,••••• • • • • • • ... ••• • • 771 i Loan, 1834.•.. • • • • Ditto, 1839 .• •. • . • • • ••• •• • 129% Bank Shares • • • 1600 Esterhazy's Loan ........ 4, •••••• • • • • • RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand • • .... d. • • .• 220 1 4 Vienna—Milan .. . . • . Gloggnitz . Leghorn ................ 120 k Pesth • —Allgemeine Zeittmg, Sept. 27. NEW ZEALAND. The ketch Thistle bad come into Sydney on the 28th of May, bringing news from New Zealand to the 3d. Another collision had taken place at the Bay of Islands between the natives and the troops, in which fifty of the latter are reported to have been killed; but Pomare, one of the most mischievous of the chiefs, had been captured, and was confined on board the Hazard, his entrench- ments having been destroyed. A body of volunteers had been dispatched to the bay, and when the Thistle passed by it on the 12th of May the report of fire arms was distinctly heard. A squadron, composed of the Hazard and North Star, men-of-war, and the Aurora, Slainscastle, and Velocity, mer chantmen, were engaged in blockading Korora rika. The'schooner I Don't Know, which our readers will recollect as having, according to our last advices, ran into the bay with ammunition and been lightened of it by the American war-steamer in the harbour, has been seized by tho Government and removed to Auck land, where its owner, Mr. Waitford, is committed to take his trial for high treason, on suspicion of colleagu ing with the natives. At ellington the natives were perfectly quiet, but it was understood that Rauperaha had gone in that direction with 500 men, for what pur pose is not known.. The Legislative Council at Auck land closed its session on the 22d April, with the fol lowing speech from Governor Fitzroy, by which it will be seen. that he had no anticipation of the steps taken by the Colonial Office to reverse his policy. The speech runs thus— " Gentlemen,—l am now enabled to adjourn this fifth session of the Legislative Council—and to relieve you for some time from such tedious and irksome duties as those which you have so cheerfully and regularly exe cuted. " I am fully sensible of the sacrifices which the non official members have made in giving up their time to public affairs, and exposing themselves tl personal ob loquy, the certain consequence of political exertion in whatever manner. "It must be satisfactory to the Council to reflect that by their zealous endeavours very great reductions have been effected in the current expenditure, and that the es timate for 1845.6 is 10,000/. (or one-fourth) less than that for 1844 5, although the estimate for that year was 20,0001. less than for 1843. " The estimated expenditure for this year is only 26,0001., notwithstanding that several distinct settle ments, so distant from each other, cause so much expense on account of their separate establishments. "In proposing that we should revert to the system of raising a revenue by means of duties of Customs, I felt extreme reluctance ; but there was no choice. Six months' trial has shown that a revenue nearly sufficient for the most economical expenditure on the public ac count could not, under the peculiar circumstances of this colony, be raised by direct taxation. " To have continued the trial longer would have made the difficulties under which we are labouring still greater. Having failed to prevent insurrection by removing the restrictions of Customs, regulations, the chief motive for their abolition ceased ; and, as the less of two evils, their re-establishment became imperative. "At the commencement of this season I had no an ticipation of such a disaster as that which befel Koro rarika. I considered that place sufficiently defended, and I looked cheerfully at the prospects elsewhere. But the fall of Kororarika has taught all a lesson ; and .1 trust that improvement will be the consequence, after a season of bitterness and inevitable warfare. " British authority must be vindicated—but with jus tice and mercy." The Van Diemen's Land papers are generally unin teresting as far as we have been able to glance over them. Clerical disputes seems to be their staple. Wheat is from 3s. Bd. to 4 s. the bushe l, manifesting an improve ment.—Calcutta Star , Aug ust 12. TILE HARVEST.—Our accounts, generally, are very satisfactory, and in regard to potatoes, much less unfavour- able than had been apprehended. The disease in this coun try is much more partial, and far less injurious tban England. At our Corn Exchange to-day wheat again de clined. At the opening there were some sales at Tuesday's prices, but these were not long maintained ; a decline of front is. to Is.6d. per barrel was submitted to.—Dublin Even ing Post. SWEARING -IN OF THE NEW SHERIFFS.—On Sa turday the newly-elected Sheriffs, Messrs. Chaplin and Laurie, were sworn in at Guildhall, with the usual forms and ceremonies. ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. On. Thursday night the ' monthly meeting of the above Club was held at the British Coffee-house, Cock spur-street, which was very numerously attended. 11. H. Harrison, Esq., the Commodore, presidA, faced by Lord A. Paget, the Vice-Commodore, and supported by Lord W. Lennox, &c. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, Capt. `WHEELER (treasurer) read the financial report, which showed that, after defraying the expenses (there being no existing claim against the Club), a balance of 3431. 4s. 9d. remained in the hands of the treasurer, being much larger than that of any previous year. The CO3IMODORE, in bringing forward the long-pend ing motion relative to the well-merited increase of salary to Capt. Frederick H. Durand,:the secretary, read a letter from that gentleman, pointing out his heavy and onerous duties, and showing that the average annual sum he had received during six years was about 341. ; and further, that he had frequently negotiated for the sale of yachts without receiving any remuneration whatever. The Gallant Commodore then proposed that a fixed salary of 601. per annum be paid to the secretary for his services, commencing from Midsummer last ; and that he further receive one shilling for each guinea he may collect. Mr. MonGAN, after a warm and appropriate eulogy on Capt. Durand, seconded the motion, which was carried by acclamation. Mr. BUCKNALL gave notice of a motion to the effect— " That in future at the sale of every yacht, in which the secretary may be applied to, he shall receive IL The motions relative to the establishment of a new club-house,and for altering the mode of ballot were post poned through the unavoidable absence of Messrs. Rey nell and Green. The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected: —W. Breynton, Esq., Temple ; E. Downs, Esq., Rich mond; E. J.iMaude, Esq., York; G. Richmond, Esq., Mill bank; R. Moseley, Esq., Maids Vale. On the motion of Lord A. PAGET, it was unanimously resolved that a trip of the yachts and members to Mrs. Milton's, at Erith, take place on Saturday next. After thanks to the Commodore, Vice-Commcdore, &c., the meeting broke up. DEATHS OF A IMPERIAL I HOUSE Both Houses of ParHaim at a quarter-past two o'cloc. The Lord Chancellor, tb , Earl of Shaftesbury, the taken their seats in front o Learned Lord directed Mr the Black Rod, to summon toe _ _ hear the Royal Commission for the further prorogration of Parliament read. In a few minutes afterwards Mr. Ley, and other officers of the Commons, appeared at the bar, when the Commission having been read by the clerk at the table, __ _ TF:e LORD CHANCELLOR, in her Majesty's name, declared that the present Parliament was further pro rogued until Thursday, the 27th of November next. There was no Member of the House of Commons pre sent—that body was represented by the clerks and prin cipal officers of the House. _ _ - 1 PARLI.4k.MF4.I' OF LOB .1)8:,;_ c s t_‘ well 4 nent Riet..ytiste. ll 44 a, 1 he 0 0 `. 4.04 ,• the Lor,• in of of therw"..j.• 4,. e and r. Pul., ,t-r• e man Usher of in the House of Commons to MELANCHOLY HUSBAND AND WIFE. Yesterday 11r:Baker. held an inquest at the King's Arms, Prospect-place, Bethnal• green, on the body of Mr. Charles Anderson, aged 53 years. It appeared by the evidence of several witnesses that deceased had formerly carried on the business of a master baker, in the parish of Hackney. He subsequently sold the shop and trade for 1,0001, and with his pre viously acquired gains retired into private life. After enjoying himself for two or three years, deceased became restless, and desirous of seeing foreign countries. He accordingly engaged with the captain of the Thames, East Indiaman, to accompany him to India and China, in the character of ship-steward. He proceeded thither, leaving his wife at home with an annual allowance. He returned to England about two years ago, having, by some untoward means, expended the greater portion of his little fortune, with the remnant of which he again entered into business, at Bexley, in Kent. Here misfortune completed what extravagance had begun, and, by an unlimited credit to his poorer customers, he was reduced to beggary. On quitting Bexley he became an inmate of the Hackney union-workhouse, where he continued until he procured a situation as journeyman, at Mr. Beak's, West-street, Hackney. Whilst there he commenced a system of inebriety, which a short time since led to his dis charge from Mr. Beak's service, in whose house he lived at the time. Tuesday se'nnight his wife died suddenly, and it being alleged that her death had been occa• sioned through his ill-treatment, an inquest was held on Friday last only on her body, when, there being no evidence to substantiate such a statement, the jury re turned a verdict of " Natural Death." This circum stance had preyed much upon deceased's mind, and since that day he has indulged unusually in intoxicating drink. On Monday morning last he called upon a Mrs. Buncker, at Stepney-green, to whom he stated that he had not the means to defray the expenses of his wife's funeral, and that his landlord, although he held possession of his goods, had refused to advance him a sum sufficient for the purpose ; and said he should in despair either " hang or drown himself." She remonstrated with him upon the subject, and advanced him 12s. to pay for the church-ground. He then left her, and heard no of him until she was informed that his lifeless body had been discovered floating in the Re gent's Canal on Wednesday morning, near the Bethnal green workhouse. Mrs. Buncker said she had no doubt he had committed suicide whilst under mental excite ment. James Spring, a bargeman, deposed to finding the body; deceased was quite dead, but warm. There being no evidence to show how he camesinto the water, the jury, under the Coroner's direction, returned a ver dict of " Found drowned." DETERMINED SUICIDE BY A FOREIGNER. On Thursday Mr. G. L Mills held an inquest at the Load of Hay, Hampstead, on the body of a foreigner, name unknown, about twenty-five years of age, who committed a most determined act of self-destruction, as detailed in the subjoined evidence. Sarah Preston, a charwoman, deposed that as she was passing through Park-fields, Haverstock-hill, which was adjoining that in which the late Mr. Delarue was mur dered, she saw the deceased with his feet in the ditch, and his head leaning on the bank. Blood was oozing from his mouth. She instantly called to a gentleman who was reading a book, who proved to be Mr. Gundy, surgeon, Gower-place, Euston-square,: who pronounced him dead, and desired her to fetch a constable, which she did. Constable John Baker, 284 S, was called by the last witness to the spot where deceased lay. In his left hand he grasped a pistol which be had recently discharged in his mouth, and his right hand rested upon a second pistol, charged with two bullets. Blood was flowing from his mouth and he was warm, but he had been dead some minutes. The Inspector produced the pistols, which were of Pa risian make, and had brass barrels and percussion caps. The stocks were branded with the date of 1553, and were initialed A. F. E. L. G. Frederick Matthews, a tailor, residing at No. 7, John street, Somers-town, statedi that, about one o'clock last Tuesday, he met deceased walking along the fields, and addressing him, said it was a fine morning, to which de ceased, with difficulty, and in a foreign accent, replied " Yes," He accompanied him, without speaking more, to the field where he was found dead. Shortly after leaving him he heard the report of a pistol. M r . F ra zer, a juror, said that on the morning of Tues day he was standing in the shop of Mr. Whitbread, a baker, at the cornet' of Chalk road, when deceased came in and bought a bun, 16:* which he gave in payment a fremc piece. Having received the change,. he left the shop laughing, because, in consequence of his not know ing English, he could make his wants known to Mr. Whitbread by signs only. The jury, who expressed it to he their belief that de ceased had been a military man, returned a verdict— 'l'hat he bad destroyed himself, but that there was no evidence of his state of mind when he did so." LAUNCH OF THE BULL-DGG STEAM-FRIGATE AT CHATHAM.—This steam• frigate was launched yesterday at Chatham Dockyard. She has been constructed with great care, and is built with Honduras maho gany, African teak, and well-seasoned oak. The en gines for this vessel, manufactured by Messrs. Rennie and Company, are two of 250-horse power each. The length of the engine-room is 47 feet, and the width is 33 feet 8 inches, depth 21 feet, and the diameter of the paddle-wheels 26 feet 6 inches. Her tonnage of coals room is 408.16. Registered tonnage, 461.77. Her armament consists of two 42- pounders , 84 cwt., 10 feet in length ; and two 68-pounders, 64 cwt., 9 feet in length ; and two carronades 42 pounders, 22 cwt. each. About five minutes before one o'clock the vessel went beautifully off the stocks, amidst the hearty greetings of the spectators ; on each quarter of the slip booths - had been erected for the visitors, and were occupied by many ladies and gentlemen, among them the Right Hon. the Earl of Dundonald, Captain Superinten dent Shirreff, with many families of the town and neigh bourhood. Mrs. Angela Brown, wife of Colonel Brown. R.E., and who is grandson of Admiral Lord Rodney, named the vessel. The band of the Royal Marines was in attendance, and as the ship glided off the slope struck up the National Anthem. A great number of civilians an military availed themselves of permission to, be launched in the ship. THE LATE LIEUT. J. A• SETON.—We are just in formed that this officer (late of the 11th Hussars;, who lingered for some time after the fatal wound he r eceived i n the duel near Portsmouth, did , t wo da y s previous to his death, and in the presence of-his physici a n and a legal friend execute his will, and sign the same in a firm hand, by which he left to his w ife, for her life, the whole of the receipts of his estates , p roviding for his daughter's use when required, and with the consent of her mother and other guardians and the executors, a sum of 2,0001.; and at the decease of her mother the estates absolutely. " The harvest home" at Shillinglee Park, the seat of the Earl of Winterton, was celebrated on Tuesday last with its usual festivities. The tables laid out in the park groaned with the weight of plum-pudding, beef, mutton, Between 200 and 300 of his Lordship's la bourers, with their wives and children, sat down to them. The Earl and Countess and children, arid the Countess Dowager of Winterton, were on the ground, and it was pleasing to behold the youthful scions of a noble house running about to see that every one was amply served, and learning to take delight in ministering to the honest pleasures of the labouring classes. THE :MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE AT lIOUNSLO, BARRACKS.—HOUNSLOW, THURSDAY EVENIN.---.111! great reserve maintained by all the barrack, ties, ever since the distressing occurrence on Sunday Chas as to the state of Quartermaster Thomas 1 arleton, been this day most fully carried out, and all that has been allowed to transpire is the fact that the wounded man is not so well to-day as he was on Wednesday. INCREASE OF WORKMEN IN THE WEST INDIA DOCKS. —The increase of shipping in the West India Docks has created a demand for labourers within the last fort night unparalleled since the year 1821. Within that short period upwards of one hundred and ten homeward bound vessels have entered the docks. All is bustle au it a ctivity, and is calculated that the number of men who procured employment in the docks on Thurs 'ay consi derably exceeded six thousand. OLYMPIC TIIEATRE.—This little temple of the drama opens for the season on Monday next, under the guidance of Miss Kate Ho war d, a id e d by that popular son of Momus George Wild. The lessee states that she will use her utmost endeavours to restore the theatre to the high position it once held in general estimation. An excellent company has been engaged, and pieces from popular writers are promisei, so that there is every prospect of a successful SMOIII THE STAGE COACH ACT. Yesterday, Byers, the common informer, attended at the Thames Police•court, to support three informations under the Metropolitan Carriage Act, against Elizabeth Boyce, of Romford, George Short, of Leytonstone, and Francis Mackenzie, of Kent and Essex-yard, White chapel, omnibus proprietors, who were charged with neg lecting to paint on three omnibuses belonging to them, "in words at length, and in legible and conspicuous Roman letters, one inch at the least in height, and of a proper and proportionzte breadth, and in a colour dif ferent from and opposite to the colour of the ground on which such letters should have been painted, and in one or more straight horizontal lines, upon some conspicuous part on the outside of such carriage, at the back thereof, and so as to be then and there plainly and distinctly visible and legible, the number of passengers the said carriages were then and there constructed to carry, according to law, in the whole, and on the outside and in the inside thereof respectively," and by which they had incurred penalties not exceeding 104, nor less than 50s. each. _ The case against Mrs. Boyce was first called on. Her son answered for her, and said his mother was up wards of eighty years of age, and too infirm to attend. Jeremiah Felstead, the informer's witness, stated that he saw the Romford omnibus, No. 5,190, of which the defendant was proprietor, inWhitechapel, on the 17th of September last. There was no description painted on the carriage, relating to the number of passengers to be carried. Ile then produced a certified copy of the licence issued to Mrs. Boyce, which he obtained from the proper office at Somerset-house. Mr. Ballantine read the attested copy of the licence put in as evidence, and said it was no licence at all. It certified that the licence commenced on the 11th day of November, 1845—a period which had not yet arrived, and extended to the Ist of October in the same year. Byers said the clerk at Somerset-house committed the error. It should have been the 11th November, 1844. Mr. Ballantine said there was a certificate on the back of the copy certifying it was a true one. It did not coma within the meaning of the Act of Parliament; the error was fatal to the information, and the case must be dismissed. George Short next answered, and pleaded not guilty. Felstead said that on Wednesday, the 24th September, he saw the defendant's Leytonstone omnibus, 5,186, in the Whitechapel-road. The number of the carriage was on a plate, but there was no inscription either inside or outside of the number of passengers it was con structed to carry. He produced an attested copy of the licence, which in this instance was correctly made out. The defendant, in reply to the charge, said that about the time in question new regulations were just issued by the people at Somerset-house relating to the plates and numbers, and in order to carry them out he sent the omnibus, 5,186 to the coach-builders to be altered, and while it was being painted was compelled to borrow another one, on which the number of passengers it was constructed to carry was not painted. Mr. Ballantine said the defendant had clearly vio lated the Act of Parliament, and fined him 50s. and costs. _ _ _ Francis Mackenzie was the third person summoned for the same offence. Another omnibus proprietor, named Meeres, attended on his behalf, and said he had gone down the river on business. In this case a fine was imposed as in the previous case. THE MARQUIS OF EXETER'S ATTEMPT TO EVADE PAROCHIAL RATES. On Saturday last, at the Town-hall, Stamford, the whole of the five borough magistrates (the Mayor, Dr. Hopkinson, Mr. Roden. Mr. Newcomb, and Mr. Cayley) assembled to adjudicate in this case. It will be remem bered that the Commissioners under an Act for the im provement of the town had assessed a house in Lord Exeter's occupation on Barn-hill, in common with all other property in the town. At the time of the Queen's visit to Burghley, the house had a large quantity of fur niture put into it, and several distinguished guests (including the Prime Minister) were accommodated there ; a great part of the furniture had remained since; persons resided on the premises; and the house was ready for the reception of visitors whenever the Marquis might think proper to locate any there. Im provement rates, in which the house was charged, were laid on the 19th Nov., 1844, and the 6th May, 1845, but payment was refused on the alleged ground that the house was occupied only during the three days of the Queen's visit, and that the furniture remaining in the house was hired furniture, and might have been taken away. A summons to compel payment of the rates was issued, and Saturday last was appointed for the hearing. Mr. R. Thompson appeared on the part of the Commissioners, and Mr. T. 11. Jackson on behalf of Lord Exeter. The latter, after admitting the service of the summons and the de mand of the rate, contended that there had been no oc cupation since the termination of the Queen's visit, and that, as the persons in charge of the house lived in an outhouse, and the furniture was hired for three days only (though it had remained there since), the Marquis of Exeter could not be considered liable to be assessed. Mr. Jackson not calling any other witnesses, Mr. Thompson submitted that no case whatever was made out against the rate ; it had been acknowledged that there was occupation on the 12th, 13th, and 14th November, and they had failed to prove that it did not continue beyond that time. The attorneys and strangers then retired from the Court, and after some time were again called in, when the Mayor stated that, after giving the subject the most careful consideration, the Magis trates were of opinion (unanimously) that Lord Exeter was liable to the rates, and that a beneficial occupation was continued by the furniture's remaining in the house. —Stamford Met curt'. M. Thiers is daily expected in London. Apart ments have been engaged for himself and a numerous suite at N ivart's. WOODSTOCK.—By the death of the Marquis of Ely a vacancy is caused in the representation of this borough in the House of Commons, as Viscount Loftus succeeds to the family honours. His Lordship was elected in the room of the Marquis of Blandford. . PHEASANT SHOOTING. —Wednesday last was the ffrst day of pheasant shooting, and very favourable ac counts are given of the plentifulness of young birds. The season has been very favourable for rearing them, the spring being exceedingly dry. Young birds are particularly strong on the wing, and very plump in con dition, and the young cock pheasants have attained their plumage. A PROFITABLE BUSINESS.—It is said that in one day last week a sharebroker on the Manchester exchange transacted business in shares to the amount of 80,0001. ! At half-a-crown in the pound only he would clear by this one day's business 10,000/.----131ackburn Standard. FOOT-RACE FOR FIFTY POUNDS.—Yesterday, the match between Jameson and Dean was decided. The men were matched for 251. aside, to walk ten miles of road, at a fair toe and heel walk, and either party running to go over the ground not fairly walked. The contest drew a great muster of the pedestrian fancy, and the betting was 5 to 4 on Jameson. The men kept well together, and covered the first mile in nine minutes and ten seconds. They continued at a similar pace, and without either gaining . an advantage, and four miles were per formed in thirty-eight minutes. At the sixth mile D ea n took the lead , and performed six miles and a quarter within the hour. The pace now a ppeared too fast for Jameso n, but he st r ugg led on . Dean attained his Bth mile iu seventy-eight minutes, and bad a lead of fifty yards. Jameson exerted every effort, but nature appeared exhausted, and, at the ap proach of the last mile, he was compelled to relinquish the contest ; and Dean went in an easy winner, accom plishing the ten miles of road in one hour and thirty /seven minutes, fair walking. The match came off over one mile of road, in and out, near the Wellington Inn at Highgate. WANTON DAMAGE.--MANCHESTER, THURSDAY. — Yesterday two persons respectably dressed were brought before Mr. Maude, at the Borough fCsoeuvrt,. charged with wilfully damaging the prop y erttrooad. tit ral gentlemen residing on the Sto . 22, that the prisoners had r e f o o mT appeared from the evidence of i n e c k e ti rill constable No. ts t r d style, to the pro of violence, in the Saturday last the two • hnonin„Plt:anin'aeinWstiseireeyroOngiven as John Smith Levers, of the same place, Hutton, o f lih ' it° "' and and having ecome drunk they Hutton, c e a s n , . and went to Stockport. Finding theirManchestermissedweretheir way home they called at several l t a h t e e i r public houses, where, after obtaining a supply of drink, they immediately began to break the glasses, furid h mist ake o ur. all ture, &c., of the landlords. In this way they pro ceeded to Manchester, creating, in their own words, a " jolly . good row" in every house they came to. On reaching Mr. Thomas Hulme's residence, they commenced an attack on the gates and iron-railings in front of his house, which they partially demolished. Their next attack was on the residence of Miss Sarah Roscoe, where they did considerable injury. Miss Appleton, Dr. Wood, Mr. T. Broadbent, and several other gentlemen residing in front of the road, sustained similar damage. In the whole they injured property to the amount of 401. or 501. These facts having been proved, Mr. Maude said that unless some arrangement was cone to with the parties whose property had been injured, he should feel it his duty to ccmmit them to the sessions. The two young " gentlemen," after a conference with the parties injured, agreed to make good the damage done to the property, and were then discharged e . ENORMOUS TRAINS.—On Saturday last, the lar g number of nearly 7,000 children belonging to the Dis senting Sunday schools, in Birmingham, visited Derby. They came in 112 carriages, and formed two enormous trains, and left in about three hours, after going through the Arboretum. An immense train of persons also visited Derby on Wednesday, from Rugby and the villages on the line. It consisted of sixty-nine carriages. —Derby Mercury.