The Sun. — London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

both coasts. were p er tiring the stsf Later, that tbe t h touch ed 9 indulgence' came civility D en, too, thot t° an we , rigs, aLE S 11 " in coast, atat Cherbourg: defence, u . a , forts st,tun:: • the C" . f o , Bally recei; Out ' ee be prs p c 3 - e th i i r : s.: in party i° ig st4n , t‘ b repa f e c collec ti° , ll „ ° as s u nder' w i 3 tO it in t L%% 0 113 . th re •ibute o sl dirisj o the spu ad 01 , t he !,27.. at the os so. , ouut 1-' is hag like L e. The . ottere d him per esr s to tell s sen 1 'or 0. teu veil _ ce bas [ lab , gcd 0 ed 0 is collect sta. t tot se 15 ri t purs e swo o t ; the ti d oes; 1 ., at v 4 lo t ;. p rice u • 0 o 0 1 . 1 4 i 0 9.0 t i t o 2 1, 4 , I V d %ti :j e tl je 0,11 o e..nv Jog tb e I I.l‘, , io ,he 49 0,01% or' er poi re.' t 1 ,01 t e elll ,l A I tiP Ole er o f v oe jtoi MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS TY, QUARTER TO THREE. There w as a quiet m ark e t for Cotton at Liverpool yester day, the ac counts from the United States being favourable for the . oro—s v Sale.. 3,000 to 4,000 b a l es , a ll t o th e t ra d e. P rices were witho'ht change. Shares were active, and still looking up. IMany citizens have beard with regret that Mr. John s lui sidn for many years an alderman, and in turn Lord Mayor of London, departed this life on the 23d instant, at ith,e advanced.. age of seventy-two years. As a magistrate, his decisions were usually on the side of mercy. The arrivals from the Colonies to-day are all of old dates. The marker for Consols has rather advanced to-day, the TheeThepremium on Exch equer Bill s h as b een d one at 4 4 5. 465., and for India Bonds Funds; India Stock, 266. As to the Foreign there have been but half-a-dozen quotations this morning. The Portuguese Converted were taken at 601 4 ; Spanish Five per Cents. at 26 1 4 ; the Three r Cents. at 37%; and the Euador Bonds at 4%. The settlement in the Rai way Share Market can scarcely be said to have been yet comileted; the transactions have consequently this morning scarcely come up to th e average Pont. 13RITISPI FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) --v ___ 3 per Cent. Consols Anna 97% 98 97% 98 Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860... Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 11 3-16 India Stock 266 India Bonds 1,000/ 59 Ditto under 1.000/ 59 62 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%cl. 1,0004 500/. .....4546. Ditto Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Converted Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 2 6 1,4 Ditto 3 per Cent 3 71 Dutch 2% per Cents — Equador 474 11llsp o - r . ---., x.SS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE 'CLOCII. SHARE. RAILWAYS. O PAID. PER S 2% ...... to ArMagh, Coleraine Portrush 1% B irmingh a m lidefd Tavis ' tock .. ... .78 • , and Oxford J unctio 1 , . n • 2 ExeterBBtA to 70 Qrlatol and 16 Caledonian 5 544/1::: t 0 0 0 _— Ditto Extension Cambridge and Lincoln ....• • 11 / 4 to 5 Ditto, New l% ...... 4% Chester and Holyhead 3 : ...... to , w 3 % br hY• Utto xeter, and Staff ' d 2N 35 Dir ect Ma nc h . (Remington's) 2% 4 ,•*, to . irect northern .. ........ .. 2% 222 ,6... to to 22% Xaa tern Counties erneNT .. 4/. 165.... 8 4 pto 7 % ijohl ------ 2O to ~ 15 -- itto Extension 7.ondlinio n(Notting.SzLynn) 1% 4 %%... to Oreat South and W.(lrish)... 15 Oreat North of England 100 Ditto New to 160% Great Western so 162 91% Ditto % Shares 5O 37 ... to Ditto Fifths ....... 234% p to i-e!nester and Bedford Leeester and Tamworth 225. 4 D to 425. LiverpoolLo and Leeds Direct... 2%• ••• • • A %.** to t° — 2lB 220 neton and Birrningham • ...100 Tondo nitto 4 Shares 26 73% ..... to ,n and Brighton •• 6 ° ...endon and Croydon 13/. 15s. 9d. London, Cheltenham, Oxford, Gloucester, and Hereford... 19 6 5 ... to r ud on and York... _ .... 2% 2% T ,Warvick,Kidde;m” inler 21i ....ondon Sal & Yeov il 2 / i ii , 13 ry, 2 90 ... .. to 92 b an tl e t,t la ,o es_ g te ue r a a rt n e d rs lairmizgham 40 17 to 4 2 littit'eL.fNe vi Quarters..". Ditto43ll New & Darlington .11111 ... . 25 • 6 5 3 5 1 4 t A to _ 65 s_ zi Brandling 20 •••••• to tieivcastle and Berwick ziewcastle,Durham, and Lan. cashire Junction l% • 45,6% to t° isiewark,Shef6eld, and Boston 2% ow British, ex Dalkeith & to ..liatvielt &lft North Kent & Direct Dover 2 3 / 4 44 to North am 4JA% p to S taffordshire 425....... coheenphtoanni, Banbury, and 2 O .! 1 , rd and Worcester is, ri.2eP,o4osttodV sou t h andie: 2% l6 1514 t to o _14% ?,/ to C - 4 T i • r & eet Cheltnham 2 1% % .. ... 41 ScottishtWroyl re to Midland 1 h ll% 4 , y4...••• to 2. 41 , , trews.,Wolver Dud Birm. 2 1 •••••• 83 / ***" t o South ..flrevr r e s i t & sh lzal;V id a lan l. Union. nion. 228 ; m - 2 % p 41 4 .• •• to 502223••• - 7- i i p to te -- Midland. ivth Eastern and Dover ... 33 %.„ 4 3i14 to Nv: w ick and Cheltenham... 1 74 to -eribrd, Wexford, and 13,_ . 2% _ Ylelea h len k ti i a dla n d . to 2 1 4 b ...... 4 6 1 4 ..... to IV.ilts,Somerset &W mouth 2 /2•••••• A - I ~Y rater, Shrew '. &C e eUn I %.***** "I"' to 4 (birkttoall.Eterntsslionllirdellynd .. . 501 ......-- 303/4 to FOREIGN RAILW AYS. 12 3 4 b lic ' e high:' and Amiens 8 2 1 g%% to 12% Est Rheaish 5 2 %••• to f.ltat Indian Great Northern of Franco to o affitte's) ... . . ........ 4 to th-_• 109. (Rosa .. tn - e . 1' . 5 ) . . .... ... 2 ••"** q% to 2 ...... 4 ~.,ernbourg 4 ..... 1112••—• t t o o -- i•jA ° : 'IT and Liege........ Overand Bordeaux ••• — 4 . ~ ..... ' D t 0 ;:ver sa nd 3s i11...* ' 4 56 ' •.. t 0 rllTt s 4 ......... ... ... 2 11 i .... nd Lyons (Laffitte) 2%...... t* Pa;4 4 and LY°na (Colo")." 2 • 1,...„: and R oue , to .4.4).&,Stitrasburg(Gannern'a) 2 *-"' 2 3 aan i " 4:11, Pa de L'Est) 2 t 0 lip b re and Meuse to 8 7 1 0 4 " est Flanders 2 MINE. 14 41 del Monte, Unregistered VA' 4 3 4 5... to 4% 44111 (ET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) RAT Ai AILKIIL TB. tittii, he a t ..3traz ditto, Meadow Hay, 4! lOs to4/15s ; useful l eper 41 1 68 to 51 ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 3s to 5/ 8s; l i ille t er t laY, 4/ 15s to 61 ; Oat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s; ,the L v l e / ci l u 6 o s tat t i o on l s. / 18s per load. Trade rather Ot to —"ltLar m•--Coarse Meadow Hay, 4/ lOs to 5/ ; useful Clov' 51 2 ss; fine Upland ditto, 51 6s to 51 10s Whe e a r t 11 ,,1tY, 4/ 15s to 6/ • Oat Straw, 1/ 13s to 1/ 14s derat e '. 3 traw, 1/ 14s to 11 16s per load. Supply but mo -4 trade somewhat heavy. dal • p 5 Meadow Hay, 41 5s to 4/ 15s; Clo ve ditto, 41 16s to 5/ ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 3s to 5/ 1 8s; Whe a l ; Il c ,an 4/ 15s to 6/ 6s; Oat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ ! i s , Ina nd otraw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s par load. A steady e -1 e 2 at late rates. to 51 7 Meadow Ila 3l 10s to 41155, and New Clover 4/ ''s Per lad. y IlSti c , COMONM. antatt;"--There has been a g oo d . business done in British litherlion, ni about 1,800 hhds having been sold at rather ba gs I t 3. Prices, and the market is generally firm. Onl 500 hav e , en gal, and 364 barrels 29 casks Foreign Muscovada, v, been brought to auction, which found buyers at liniLair lower prices for both descriptions, but being paty low to P ar cels, they afford little guide to the market; lo w . t good white Benares Bengal brought 53s to 565, and i ltlantr t ,, Pod yellow Porto Rico, 23s to 24s 6d. - I :am t . , Y, of British Plantation landed last week at the 1 )235 - 1 1 3 14 West India Docks was 6,102 hhds, 662 tierces,. e ,880 h i l l :rels : and there were taken for home ci?nsumpt a i me i IPla ee , . us, 154 tierces, 356 barrels. The stock in the a 'l2:ulrrosrlisio'ins°4ehhds, 1,770 tierces, 2,709 barrels. I Vest f -- The quantity landed last week at the East and tak en, ,Mlla Docks was 1068 puns 21 hhds. There were consumption 140 puns 9 hhds, and exported kuos P Z o B ,, 29 hhds. The stock in the same places is 10,609 TALI: hhds. avi4 town - r.Y.C. is 41s 3d to 41s 6d per cwt. on the spot, T,. ....... 43 5 6d . rictivity The market is steady without any particular ---------------------- DAY.) t / I P YID'S SHIPPING-( T H IS L , SEPT, .- AlAl PALISP.PT. 29.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W.'mw 4.-I cm SEpr 30 Wind S.W., light breeze and . h_az Arrl y. ert, Mart' c010r,,,_ , inson, South Seas ; Demerara • Eleanor Claudia,Peele, .. , Le,„,'"uo, ; Skepton, Johnson, ditto; E mma , Ellis, A "'euagow St. John's, New Brunswick; telaid ' b ar e; Mary Mitcheson, ling, Airth, Madeira. Op in m Batavia. P PLysiouTu, SEPT. 28.—Anthony, —°P' Mitcheson, Berbice ; Grace Op t . ht PowrsmouTn, SEPT. 28.—Alert, St. Helena. Arrd• r Majesty's steamer Eclair, Africa. forCifP SvvANAGE,SErr. 28.—Serena, Godrich, Buenos Ayres, 11 Ismburgh. 1,01:1?!:poiti), SEPT. 27 .—Arrd. Snowdrop, Bale, Charlotte Am lin,itivßPoor., SEpT. 29. —Wind W., moderate._ 0f f ,;), , , Lershurst, Saldanha Bay; Windermere, St. John's, N yk;slabar, sailed July 17 ; Mihcite, . 1 Wright, . led 29th ; filar Brunswick ; Perthshire, Drake, ditt'3, sal p , ort, John Arrl Williams, Campbßrunswick Balberney, Cape of Good Hope. ell Qt, 4i , , Ann Paley, Agenoria, of Belfast (timber lade Is or Dorchester. The Glenview, 17, aban doli,on), was fallen in with on the 25th inst., long. ColonisEd O w ff arot Kenney, giu.h,_ ; S tem- The Glenview, icy" ler Liverpool on the 23d ult. Salter, of Belfast, cleared at v'nuti, SEPT. 27 .—Arrd. Ann Maxwell, Trinidad. • Ot g"t!e GHAT, SEPT. 26.—Arrd. , Feroina, Hanriet, Tatina he. Sl 26th Enterprise St. John's, New Brunswic k . ~.,(A)Ric., SRPT. 27: Wind fres , 11.—Arrd. Royal William,_ iLell% Saldanha B . ; ; Sandford, Sinclair, Rio Grande , 1) 11 ,, , Storey, Honduras. g "bRE, REM 27.—Arrd. Hector, Saldanha Bay. /...v/itiaggPonn, SEPT. 27. The Mars, Dickenson, from 21tleirP°°1 to Riga struck on Rock Patrick outside the bar, c,20 3 ‘ t., was assisted off without damage, and pnanwesoednect:of /..... 711 KILT; SEPT. 2 7.—The Heler! Anna, D it'itZtl, .from St. John's, New Brunswick, is eenie 43 ' i n a verY dangerous situation, and it is feared Colovn shore. at . anch d or wi i i n i F A/ 'Ks' 8"rv• 29 —Wind W.—Arrd Guru', Batavia. Mirau_ utta itta„l°:" Stiv.. 2.— Harriet. Manx, Saldanha Bay. t o _ „.e'r9L, SEPT. 29.--Wind S.W., light.—Arrd. Ennerdale, , nif h i , Druiei, T L r eo ip , p, F g is u h e e b r, ec. Jamaica ; rirANSEA, SEPT. 28.—Arrd. Canadian, Pomeroy, Cuba. t °e I t'r NT, SEPT. 26.--Arr. Tagus, Hornby, All k r i a k i , : o a.. l ' .A S TlN P , • 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. -ew , N.B 29th • In dian,English, Saldanha Bay. Smith, Quebec. that the , J. W. Collinawood, G BREAK NEAR BRIGHTON. _ Lloy ds Taylor Taylor has addressed a letter to the Committee of ' e°ntradicting the statement of a shipowner at Hove, exh...iaraber, &c. Ca h i t 0 break. Water near that place was in an unsafe state cif I:e,'.equence of the late gales having torn off portions ptain Taylor mentions that the light 'tilted on the breakwater is at his own expense. .„„,, IN ."..................... ena l b v i . co" TRit CATHEDRAL.-- t o are glad t . () be . : r: eftlAt:ra_rie tire that at least one result of the late meeting of t o the p'4"itiogical Institute at Winchester will be a benefit The Very Rev. Dean Gamier has ordered that tilt o even . cathedral shall be open to the public from nine Lein g o ne lin,the .thing, and two till four in the afternoon, --4 Previous to each of the daily services. THE _BUR,_ LONDON, TITESDAT EVENING, SEPTEMBRR 30, 1845. COURT CIRCULAR. Writnsort, MoIDAT.—The Queen walked for some time. and joined the Royal Family in their early morning airing. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken to-day on their ponies in the pleasure-grounds adjoining the Palace. The unfavourable state of the weather has prevented the Royal Family from leaving the Castle this afternoon. Sir Henry Wheatley arrived at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her Majesty. The Hon. John and Mrs. Bloomfield took their departure from the Castle this morning. Sir Robert Peel arrived at his residence in Whitehall-gar dens yesterday, from a visit to Sir William Middleton, at his seat, Shrubland Park, near Ipswich. Baron de Brunnow, the Prussian Minister, transacted busi ness yesterday at the Foreign-office. Dispatches from the Governor-General of Canada, and from the Governors of the other North American Provinces, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were also received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Go vernor of the Mauritius. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. Another flat day, and only five of the Cesarewitch nags in anything like force, viz., Jenny Wren, The Baron, Wee Pet, General Pollock, and Boarding -school Miss, of which lot the first and fourth only were looking upwards at the close. Very little disposition was shown to back Kent's lot, or My Mary, and the outlay on the horses quoted was in small sums : GRAND DUKE MICHAEL STAKES. Even on Lord Stradbroke's Idas. CESAREINTTCH STAKES. 4 to 1 agst Kent's lot 10 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's My Mary 12 to 1 agst Mr. Watts's The Baron 15 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Jenny Wren 16 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Wee Pet—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. W. Etwall's Egis 20 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Clumsy 25 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Boarding-school Miss -30 to 1 taken freely 30 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's General Pollock 30 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's I-am-not-aware—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Clifton's Nottingham—taken 30 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Longitude 30 to 1 agst Mr. Martin's Devil's Dust 30 to 1 agst General Yates's Seaman—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Skerratt's Intrepid GORTON RACES—SATURDAY. The Gorton Cup of 50 soya , added to a Handicap of 10 sees. each, 5 ft. The second to save his stake. Two miles. Mr. J. Thompson's b c Lord Saltoun, 4 yrs (Cartwright) 1 Mr. Bayley named b h Xanthus, 5 yrs Lord Eglinton's b f Bretwalda, 3 yrs 3 Mr. T. Flintoff's b f Princess Royal, 3 yrs 4 Mr. Lillie's br g Director, 4 yrs The Champagne Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 30 added ; for two yrs old colts, 7st slb ; fillies, 7st 2lb ; three yrs old, 9st ; fillies, Bst 111 b. Winners extra. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr. Cranstone's ch c Cranebrook, 2 yrs (Francis) 1 Mr. Dawson's b c Lord Harry, 2 yrs 2 Mr. R. J. Mostyn's br f Miracle, 3 yrs ... 3 The Innkeepers' Purse of 15 soya. ' added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, for beaten horses. Heats, one mile and a distance. Captain Carter's ch f April Noddy, 4 yrs Mr. J. Thompson's b g Hudibras, aged Mr. Skelton's ch g Father Mathew, aged _ 2 bol Match for 50 sovs. Once round and a distance. Mr. W. Hollaad's br pony Matilda. Mr. Royle's b pony Lady Sarah 2 (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NOTTINGHAM RACES.—MoNDAT. A Plate of 501. for maiden horses, &c. ; horses that have started three times witlout winning allowed 31hs. ; mares and geldings allowed albs. The second to receive 10 sovs. ; and the winner to be sold for 100/. Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. E. Peel's ch f Francis, 3 yrs (H. Bradley) 1 1 Mr. Walker's br g The Nobbler, 4 yrs 3 2 Mr. P. br gby Giovanni ...... The Two Year Old Stakes of 20 sovs. each, with 50 added ; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. Winners once before start ing, Bibs; twice, 51bs extra. Mr. W. R. Ramsay's b c Inglewood (Neale) 1 Lord Chesterfield's cby Don John, out of Gameless ...... 2 The Chesterfield Handicap of 20 * sovs. each, 10 ft, with 70 added. The second to save his stake. Twice round. yrs Mr. d. Thompson's br c Lord Saltoun, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Cooke's Yellow Boy, 3 yrs 3 A Plate of 60/. for three years old ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 2001., if demanded, &c. ; and the second to receive 101. Heats, a mile and three quarters. • Mr. Raworth's b c Idolatry (Bradley) 1 1 Mr. Clepg's b g Step-and-Fetch•it NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. NEWMARKET, MONDAY NIGHT. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) I " WHIN Doarons DISAGREE," &c.—The Learned Com missioner was occupied a considerable time in hearing ar guments in support of a summons granted under the Act 1 and 2 Victoria. The party summoned must, according to the Act, either pay the whole or part of the debt, and enter into security to try the question at law, or be made bankrupt. The question has been several times specially argued be fore one or the other of the Learned Commissioners, who have widely differed in opinion as to the construction of the Act. A very few days ago a well-known public character, whose tongue had exceeded credit on many occasions, declared that the Act of 1 and 2 Victoria had been repealed by the 7th and Bth ; but the Learned Commissioner (Fane) asked how a man accustomed to drawing beer could draw conclusions on ques tions of law. The debtor said he would quote " Archbold's Practice." The Learned Commissioner said Archbold might be right, or he might be wrong; it was a mere matter of opinion among professional men, and he should, therefore, adjudge ghat the defendant should be made bankrupt, as he did not pay the debt, but dared dispute it. In the present instance the person against whom the sum mons was granted carried, and still carries on busi ness in an extensive way as a lace-merchant, but was summoned for a small sum of fifty-four pounds. His attorney protested altogether against the process. He said it was most arbitrary and unjust—that his client was as sub stantial a man in trade as any in the city of London—that he was prepared to make an affidavit that he had a good de fence to the action—and that, as it was an arbitary act, the debtor was entitled to the most liberal interpretation of it in his favour. Now the affidavit set forth that his client was indebted for "goods sold." In the schedule of the Act, and in Archbold it was laid down that there must be a full copy of the account. The creditor's solicitor said it was a copy of the ledger. and invoices were deliver ed with the goods ; there could not be better particulars; even in common law they would not be required. In some instances two pennyworth of pins might be an item. He submitted that the affidavit would be sufficient to support the petitioning creditor's : debt on opening the fiat. The COMMISSIONER said it was true it would, yet the term goods, &c., were not very definite. The plaintiff's attorney submitted that as there had been no distinct rule laid down to the reverse of his argument, that the learned Commissioner was bound to accord with the pre cedents laid before him. The defendant's attorney said his client was perfectly sol vent, and it would be libellous to make an assertion to the contrary, he could pay 20s. in the pound to all his creditor?, and was then ready, and he (the attorney) would join in an affidavit, that he believed there was a good defence in law to any suit. The COMMISSIONER said, that on such - an affidavit being made, the case was taken out of the statute. The defendant's attorney applied for the names of the parties making the affidavit in reply, The plaintiff's attorney refused to give them up. The ComnissumEa said that he had no power to order it ; if, however it was filed for ulterior proceedings, an office copy could be got. (Before Commissioner EvANs.) IN RE FRIEND. This insolvent, who appeared a mere boy, had carried on business as a grocer at Canterbury, in the mixed character of a cheap " mixed tea and tobacco dealer," had preferred presenting his petition as a " tobacco merchant," having bought " six pounds" of that commodity and retailed it. He had received some money on the day he filed his petition. Is was about the sum covering necessary costs, and he paid it " to a friendly creditor."' The Learned COM3IISSIONER said the case must be ad journed for the present. LITERATURE. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY and COI?RESPON DENCE of Sir SIMONDS D'ELVES, Ba=t. during the Reigns of Jwcis I. and Charles I. 2 Vole, These volumes contain a great deal of gossip about the D'Ewes family, of little or no interest to the general reader ; but this is interspersed with occasional narratives of the public events of the day, including the foolish visit of " Baby Charles and Steenie" to the Court of Spain, the death of the modern Solomon, the acces sion of his son, and one of the first of his great arbi trary ordinances, the levying of ship-money. Speaking of that illegal impost, Sir D'Ewes, who was strongly op posed to the Established Church on account of its lean ing towards Popery, and at the same time favourable to the reigning dynasty, says—" alt home the liberty of the subjects of England received the most deadly and fatal blow it had been sensible of in five hundred years last past; for writs were isiued the summer foregoing to all the sheriffs of England to levy great sums of money in all the counties of the same kingdom and Wales, under pretext and colour to provide ships for the defence of the kingdom, although we were now in peace with all the world, and the royal fleet was never stronger or in better case. In all my life I never saw so many sad faces in England as this new taxation, called ship-money, occasioned." The author, however, did not live to see the end of that rising against the Crown, of which this was one of the great causes. The following is the account of the murder of Villiers. Most of our readers are aware that the Duke had gone down to Portsmouth to superintend the fleet which was collected at that place for the relief and victualling of Rochelle:— " Some of his friends had advised him, how generally he was hated in England, and how needful it would be for his greater safety to wear some coat of mail or some other secret armour : which the Duke slighting, said, It needs not; there are no Roman spirits left.' August 23d, being Satur day, the Duke having eaten his breakfast between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, in one Mr. Mason's house in Portsmouth, was then hasting away to the Bing, who lay at Reswick, some five miles distant, to have some speedy conference with him. Being come to the further part of the entry leading out of the parlour into the hall of the house, he had there some conference with Sir Thomas Frier, Rat., a colonel, and stooping down in taking his leave of him, John Felton, a gentleman, having watched his opportunity, thrust a long knife with a white haft he bad secretly about him with great strength and violence into his breast. under his left pap, cutting the diaphragm and lungs, and piercing the very heart itself. The Duke, having re ceived the stroke, instantly clapping his right hand on his sword-hilt, cried out, God's wounds! the villain hath killed me.' Some report his last words otherwise, little differing for substance from these : and it might have been wished that his end had not been so sudden, nor his last words mixed with so impious an expression. He was attended by many noblemen and leaders, yet none could see or prevent the stroke. His Duchess and the Countess of Anglesey, the wife of Christopher Villiers, Earl of Anglesey, his younger brother, being in an upper room, and hearing the noise in the hall, into which they had carried the Duke, ran-presently to a gallery that looked down into it, and there beholding the Duke's blood gush out abundantly from his breast, nose, and mouth (with which his speech after those his first words had been immediately stopped), they broke out into pitiful out cries, and raised great lamentation. He pulled out the knife himself, and being carried by his servants unto the table that stood in the same hall, having struggled with death near upon a quarter of an hour, at length he gave up the ghost about ten of the clock the same forenoon, and lay a long time after he was dead upon the hall table there. Mr. Felton, that gave him the deadly wound, was a gentleman of a very ancient family of gentry in Suffolk, very valorous, and of a stout spirit." The depraved state of the Church, which may be re garded as another cause of the excitement against the Government, is well described in the subjoined para graph. It is true to the letter, and it is painful to add that the description would answer very well for the present day. The followers of Laud and the Puseyites are of the same stamp:— " I can honour and esteem a virtuous or learned Papist, who, being educated in that religion, supposeth it to be the truth. But for men to call themselves Protestants, as Bishop Laud, Bishop Wren, and their wicked adherents, to swallow up the preferments of our Church, to inveigh against Popery in word only, and in the main to project and plot the ruin of the truth and Gospel, to maintain and publish the most gross and feculent errors of the Romish synagogue, to cause God's day to be profaned, his public service to be poisoned by idolatry and superstition, his faithful and painful ministers to be censured, suspended, deprived, and exiled, and to threaten a speedy ruin to the power of godliness,—this my soul abhors as the highest step of wickedness and of prevarication against God and his honour. I cannot but account the Pope, the Cardinals, and Jesuits themselves saints, in comparison of these men. For as a few traitors within a besieged city are of a greater danger for the ruin of it than a whole army without, so doubtless what Theodore Beza saith of the Pseudo-Lutherans of Germany is true of these men, that they do no less impudently and furiously weaken and under mine the Gospel of truth, than if they were hired by the Pope himself at great rates." SURGICAL AND PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISEASES OF THE HUMAN FOOT; with Instructions for their Treatment. To which is added, Advice :on the Management of the Hand. By John Eisenberg, author of "Practical Exposition of the Human Mr. Eisenberg has been long known to the public as a skilful and scientific chiropodist. his experience in the treatment of diseases of the feet has been extensive, and he has here presented us with the result of that ex• perience, in a clear and lucid treatise, which all who read can understand, and which is written with an accuracy of style and language which one would hardly expect to meet with in the works of a foreigner. The following observations, inculcating the necessity of exercising ju dicious discrimination in the choice of boots and shoes, strike us as well worthy an attentive perusal. " The lower extremities with us are destined to be confined in leathern cases, sometimes from the knees to the toes; these are made without much regard to the different struc ture of individuals ; all that the most intelligent of the shoe makers of the day think of is the length and breadth of the foot ; some of them, it is true, make a last, not from the foot, but from the boot, instead of modelling the foot, and from thence making the shoe. To this idea we are so much ac customed that we often buy what we require in the most in discriminate manner; we go into the first shoe-shop that presents itself to our view, and purchase a ready-made pair of shoes, quite satisfied if they are long enough and do not pinch at the sides; the flexibility of the material is little thought of, and still less is any attention paid to the natural form of each foot, for what fits one is supposed to be equally well adapted to all. This is, however, a fearful mistake, for which a thoughtless person has often to undergo great incon venience, painful annoyance, and even temporary lameness. The great desideratum is to leave the foot to its natural action, to incumber it as little as possible, and not to place it in immediate contact with hard unyielding materials; and, should there be any defects, to have them carefully remedied, or the best means taken to obviate them." The book, which is published in 4t0., is got up in a most luxurious manner, with wide margin, gilt edges, and embossed covers. It presents quite an aristocratical appearance. THE REAL PROPERTY STATUTES of the 8 and 9 Victoria, w;th Introduction, Notes, Forms, and Index. By George S. All nu tt, E sq , Barrister-at-Law. Importantinnovations in the law affecting real pro perty have been made by the Legislature during the past session. Whether the good intended will be pro duced or not remains to be proved; but, after theexample of the Act of the pr ev i ous sess i on , w e are by no means sanguine as to the beneficial results of the new statutes. Mr. Allnutt has done much service to the profession by collecting and editing these statutes, and the work appears to have been got up with great care and ability. The notes will furnish a use f u l prac ti ca l guide to solicitors in deciding upon the cases in which they may with safety adopt the benefits which have been offered by the Legislature. In the introduction, Mr. Allnutt states an objection to the use cf the forms provided by the " Act for facilitating the granting of certain Leases," which we do not remember to have met with elsewhere. He says:—" Hitherto in most cases leases could be read and understood by the parties themselves without re sorting to their legal advisers, but, as it is not to be pre sumed that the Act will be in their possession, they must, where a lease has been drawn under the Act, seek assistance for the purpose of understanding words which are to have an effect far beyond their natural meaning." In this remark we entirely concur, and we fear that this is not the only case in which the lawyers will benefit by these attempted improvements in favour of their clients. DISTRESSED CONDITION OF THE SHOEMAKERS OF NEW YORK (From the New York Tribune.) There is no class of mechanics who average so great an amount of work for so little money as the journey • men shoemakers. The number of journeymen out of employment is also large, and out of all just proportion. There are hundreds of them in the city constantly wan dering from shop to shop in search of work, while many of them have families in a state of absolute want. One by one the articles of their furniture hare been sold to supply bread which the disheartened workman could not earn, and at last the family are turned out of their miserable garret or cellar because they cannot pay their rent. Even those who work fare badly enough ; and many of them live in such a way as to deprive life of everything save the mero privilege of breath. But for those entirely out of situations the case is still worse. We have been in more than fifty cellars, in different parts of the city, each inhabited by a shoemaker and his family. The floor is made of rough plank laid loosely down , and t he ceilin g is not quite so high as a tall man. The walls a re dark and damp, anda wide, deso ltaratefire-place yawns in the centre t o t h e r i ght of the en nc is no outlet back, and ofcourse no yard privi leges of any kind. The miserable room is lighted only by a shallow sash p artl y p ro j e cting above the surface of en ground, ort andhaee d six m b a y nt childrenh with e rotting l i t t l histi light th at struggles down of ch, his wife andstairs. all ages ; and this apartment often ee l n work-b s a palsied grandf ather o r grandmother, and often both. In one corne r is a squalid bed, and th e room elsewhere is occupied by the wo r k b enc h, a tLthe iivv s teepe e cradle made from a dry - goods box, two o r th ree broken and seatless c hairs, a stewp.m, and a kettl e . Here is the whole of th at thi ng so noble in the abstra c t, so lofty in the destiny intended for it, so full of every source of joy and gladness—a family of human beings. Here they work—here they cook, they eat, they sleep, they pray—if to pray they have not forgotten. They procure a little something to eat by the chance jobs of gentlemen's or children's mending brought in by the rich people above ground in the neighbourhood, who are not celebrated for paying a poor cobbler high prices. Now this picture is faithfully drawn—not over-coloured in any one particular. We have written nothing that we have not seen over and over again with our own eyes. We permitted our correspondent to state his case in a former number, in his own language. It is doubt less well as far as it goes ; but it does not touch the dark shades in the condition of the shoemakers in this city. They are the worst paid, and live the least like life of all men who have spent years in learning trades that they might know how to live. We met recently, going up the Iludson, a journeyman shoemaker, pale and haggard w it h unremitting toil. lie had his wife and three children with him, and told us, with a truly thank ful air, that he had at length escaped from New York, and was going to Herkimer county, where ho owned a little patch of land, and could raise his own potatoes. Enviable fortune, indeed ! He said he had tried it faith fully for years—worked early and late—half clad and half fed his family, and almost ruined his own health— in the hope that something would turn up. But he had given it up. He used to get 2s. 6d. a pair for making ladies' gaiter-boots, and said this was the usual price paid for good second-rate work. He lived in a sort of shed, in the rear of a wooden-house, and paid for his room four dollars a month. He could make from eight to ten pairs of gaiters in a week, if he had steady em ployment—but this he seldom had. In winter, when work is slack and expenses much increased, the, em ployers come and offer even lower prices —and they are compelled to accept them. Oh, he said he was glad to think he was already so far from that "hard-hearted city." There are often several hundred journeymen in New York who have no regular situations, and of those who have work, a great number do not receive, on the aver age, over three and a half and four dollars per week. How they live we have attempted to show. But, of course, there are a few very skilful and taste ful workmen who get more. They are employed on the choicest work, and receive for the first quality of ladies' gaiters four or five shillings per pair. A man makes of these a pair in a day. A skin of French patent leather costs $2,50, and will cut six or seven pairs of foxings. 'Thewhich cuts Sat i t h Frrette par n c s seco s ts s ;t e eleven andshillings s fifty cents, or five shillings per pair—and the boots are sold to the customers for $3. This, of course, relates binding ck)s closing; per yard, o s t to the finest kind of custom-work. ROMANCE IN THE ALMS-HOUSES. MISFORTUNES OF A MISER.—Much gossip has been indulged in for some days past in this city, arising out of a serious loss that has befallen an old woman named Anne Woodward, an inmate of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. This individual has been a recipient of the benefits of the above cha ritable institution for a period of about thirteen years, and at the time of her election some of her disap pointed competitors stated to the Committee of Trustees that she was possessed of wealth. This, however, she so lemnly denied, and on being elected into this most com fortable and benevolentasylum, she fell on her knees, and implored the blessing of the Almighty upon the trustees for having saved her from perishing of starvation. It now appears that the old creature acted the part of a shameless hypocrite and a fradulent impostor on a most praise. worthy institution ; for it has just transpired that at the time of her election, when she affected to be in a state of abject misery, she possessed a fortune sufficient to maintain her in decency and comfort to the end of her days. Her wealth has, however, now taken to itself wings, for by the defaultOnd embarrassments of a gentleman in whom she placed trust, she has sustained the loss of her se cret hoard, to the extent, it is stated, of considerably more than a thousand pounds. The history of the old woman, as it has been told to us, is a somewhat curious one. She is now about 80 years of age. Several years ago she bestowed her affections upon a man named Wood ward, who accepted them rather reluctantly, she being, we believe, considerably his senior; but as she was very urgent in her courtship, and had, moreover, the reputa tion of possessing a well-stocked purse, Woodward surrendered himself to the impetuosity of her wooing, and married her at Newent. After the marriage she de clared she had not a shilling in the world; and in proof of this she practised such a system of rigid economy in her household arrangements, that she very nearly starved her husband to death. They entered upon a lodging-house in Cheltenham, but her husband, not relishing the idea of being attenuated to a walking skeleton, determined to seek his fortune elsewhere alone, and by mutual agree ment a separation took place, the husband wending his way to London, in the hope of enjoying once more the luxury of a full meal, and his wife remaining behind as lodging-house-keeper at Cheltenham. She, however, soon followed his ex ample, sold off her goods, and departed also, no one knew whither, and for a number of years nothing more was seen or heard of her. In process of time her hus band was gathered to his fathers, and then, as if she bad dropped from the clouds, his widow again made her appearance on the scene, and succeeded in persuading the dispensers of charity in Gloucester that she was a fit and proper object for admission into the hospital of St. Bartholomew. Here she became a recipient of five shillings and sixpence per week, with house-rent free, and other perquisites; but her parsi monious disposition accompanied her into this retreat, and it is supposed that she contrived to save and hoard up at least the one-half of her weekly allowance. It has now transpired that at the time of her admission into the hospital, she had a large sum of money invested in Government securities, but in a fictitious name; a step which she is supposed to have resorted to, in order to pre vent her husband's heirs from laying claim to any part of it. Lately, the state of her affairs was communicated in con fidence to a gentleman held in much esteem in this city and neighbourhood, but whose pecuniary embarrass ments unfortunately caused him in this instance to fall a victim to temptation. It was felt by some of the old woman's nearest relatives, who expected to be benefited by her will, and who well knew how her money was deposited, that after her death some difficulty might be experienced in obtaining payment of Government Stock stooling in a fictitious name ; and the gentleman above alluded to, it is stated, advised that the Stock should be sold out and re- invested. The selling-out was accom plished by him on her behalf, but the re-invest ment was postponed, and finally, the affairs of the gentleman have become so involved that he has left the country, and the old woman's long-cherished secret stare (of some 1,200 L it is said) has vanished. Still, notwithstanding the magnitude of her loss, she receives, and probably deserves, but little sympathy ; for, with ample means to exist in independence, she has for thir teen years been eating the bread of charity, and by so doing has for the whole of that period been perpetrating a gross fraud, and has stood in the way of really de serving objects being benefited by benevolence which was intended for the unfortunate and destitute.—Glou cester Journal. FORGERY AND FRAUD. A prosecution for forgery and fraud, coding in bank ruptey, connected with an incident which occurred a short time ago in London, when a Frenchman named Besset was arrested on a warrant issued by the Lord Mayor, compliance with the late convention between France and England for the reciprocal extradition of certain classes of criminals, but who was afterwards released by a judge's warrant, on the ground that fraudulent bank ruptcy was a crime unknown to the English law, was on Monday last brought on before the Court of Assizes. The parties now brought to the bar are—Joseph Oscar de Sazy, aged 32, merchant, born at Naples ; Joseph Regis- Germain, aged 39, merchant, of Romans (Drome); and Victor Bandon, aged 38, of Valence (Drome), originally a watchmaker, afterwards an accountant or book-keeper, and latterly clerk to the two first named parties. Two ofiier parties were included in the indictment, but neither of whom has been arrested, and therefore they were tried by default. Their names are—Francois Caruel, alias Delarmarcotelle, alias Pricene r, aged 50, a a native of Normandy, who has lived successively in Paris, Jersey, New York, and London, and is believed to be at this time at Baltimore, in the United States, and has been condemn( d to hard labour for 10 years, by default, for fraudulent bankruptcy; and Jacques Besset, ag-,al 48, formerly a shawl manufacturer at Lyons, but lately resident at London. The indictment is of extreme length, and we shall confine ourselves to abstracting only such parts as are sufficient to show the main features of the ease, and the share taken by each of the accused parties in the acts incriminated. In August and September, 18-12, Carnet, Olen lately arrived from America, Sazy, and Regis Germain met in London to establish a commercial commission warehouse, under the name of Pricener and Co. The name of Pricener did not legitimat.ly belong to them, but Caruel assumed it, pretending that it was the maiden name of his wife, and also the name of an uncle in America, who had authorised him to use it, and who was to be a sleeping partner in the business. This firm of Pricener and Co. established itself at No. 38, Fen church-street, London, and had also a corresponding house in Paris, at No. 61, Rue de Provence, under the name of Regis-Germain. Sazy acted as travelling part ner both in France and abroad, to keep up the credit of both houses, and negotiate their bills for such goods as were purchased in their names. Baudon was first only a clerk at 1,200 f., and afterwards 1,500 f. a year. In this manner their proceedings went on till June, 1844, when the bubble burst, and Pricener decamped from London and went to America. Regis-Germain, on the 25th of the same month, disappeared from Paris, and went to Brussels with his mistress, but was afterwards overtaken at Rotterdam, by a creditor. An application was made to the Tribunal de Com merce, and Regis-Germain was declared bankrupt. On investigating his affairs it was found that the debts amounted to 400,000 f. and the assets to literally nothing, for even his furniture was absorbed by arrears of rent. Baudon was therefore arrested in Paris, and Sazy, who was still carrying on trade, was taken at Grandville, in virtue of a telegraphic dispatch. Besset acted in Eng land much in the same capacity as Sazy in France, where also Besset occasionally came, and by the auda city of his proceedings alarmed both Caruel and Regis- Germain, and in fine cheated them both by converting considerable purchases, made in their names and with their bills, to his own use. In fact, it was sufficiently shown that this man was, beyond all comparison, the greatest rogue of the set, and by his appropriations had hastened the termination of their schemes, and made the catastrophe tenfold more glaring and despe rate. From the interrogation of Sazy by the President, it appeared that he had previously to the establishment of this precious concern, been in correspondence with Caruel, who therein used the name of Delamarco telle, while he, Sazy, signed that of Saint Clair, and from which correspondence he must have known that Caruel was not worth a sou, and yet he represented it to Laborde, the banker, that he began business with a capital of 100,000 f., and that his partners brought in 50,000 f. more. Regis-Germain, in answer to the ques tions put to him, stated that being lame he was at first destined for the priesthood, :but, at the age of fif teen, he changed his mind and became clerk to a notary, and afterwards traveller to a commercial home till about 1841, when falling into bad health, his mother induced him to give up that employ ment. He first made acquaintance, in 1836, with Dela ruarcotelle, at Jersey, being recommended to him by the master of an hotel at Granville, and Delamarcotelle re commended him to Sazy. Regis-Germain denied that when he entered into connexion with",Caruel and Sazy, in 1842, he knew that he was without money, for Besset, who was known to be rich, said that he should enter the house and support it. He also understood that there was to be a sleeping partner, who would advance 50,000 f. In fine, he protested that until the bills upon the house of Pricener were returned in 1844 unpaid, he believed that all was right. Ho then wished to withdraw from the concern, but was ridiculed for his fears P - „: over persuaded by Besset, who affirm l 2:l that he had his whole fortune, amounting 1,11 500,000 francs, embarked in the, business. Regis-Germain further declared that he went to Brussels and Rotterdam only in pursuit of Besset, and to endeavour to get back a quantity of goods which that person had taken with him, in order that there might be something for the creditors. Baudon throughout his examination maintained that he had done nothing but what was the duty of a cierk in a solvent house, although at times there might be a want of money to meet the demands upon it, never receiving any further remuneration for his services than his stipulated salary. On proceeding to the evidence, many letters and other written documents were read and verified. Numerous merchants and tradesmen were examined, and most, if not all, of them stated that, at the beginning, all the bills given for the merchandise they supplied to the house of Regis-Germain were paid, though in the end they were left creditors, and some to a very large amount. M. Dubois, a dealer in leather, who was one of them, and who, after the bankruptcy, became provisional syndic, or assignee, represented that, having sold a quantity of leather to the house of Pricener through Regis Germain for ready money, he went to London, and called upon Pricener and Co. for payment. Sazy was present, and the pretended Pricener rebuked him roundly for dealing for ready money, and Sazy said nothing, but stood like a scolded school-boy before his master. That account, however, and a second one on bills, were duly paid. The money for the third, however, still remained due, the leather sold having been delivered only on the strong but false representations of Besset. fie stated that he believed Regis-Germain to have acted honestly at the beginning, but thought be must have known before the close the real state of affairs, and ought not to have gone on. M. Dubois could not call Regis- Germain a rogue, but thought he was very weak. Bandon, he said, never gave any orders, and he knew nothing to induce him to believe he was an accomplice in the frauds. Of Besset, M. Dubois said that he did not think there was a man at the hulks more criminal. M. Dubois, who went to London to procure the extra dition of Besset, gave a very lively description of his in solence when he was released from his arrest by the judge's warrant, but we have not space for it. He con cluded by expressing a hope that he should still be able to lay hold of him. That Regis-Germain, when he went to Brussels and Rotterdam, had no intention of abscond. ing from his creditors, but went, as he stated in his ex amination, with the hope of overtaking Besset, and re covering some of the money from him, was shown by the evidence of M. Paris, a creditor, who followed him to Rotterdam, and there found him in great distress of mind, complaining of having been cruelly deceived, with so little in his purse that he had been obliged to pawn his watch. M. Paris gave him tk supply, and Regis- Germain readily came back with him to Paris. These are the principal circumstances of the case. The trial lasted till yesterday (Thursday) at three in the afternoon, when the jury retired to consider their verdict. At six they returned, declaring all the three prisoners guilty, but finding extenuating circumstances in favour of Bandon. The prisoners, on hearing the verdict read to them, were completely overcome. On being asked by the President whether they had anything to say why judgment should not be passed on them, Germain burst into tears and exclaimed, " Gentlemen, have pity upon my poor mother!" Sazy atbampted to speak, but his words were choked in his throat. Baudon remained silent. The counsel for Germain intimated an intention to appeal so the Court of Cassation, on the grounds of irregularity in the indictment and proceedings so far as regarded him. The President then delivered the judgment of the court, condemning Sazy to hard labour at the hulks for ten years, 100 f. fine, and exposure on the pillory ; Re gis -Germain to close confinement with hard labour for seven years, a fine of 100 f., and exposure on the pillory ; and Baudon to simple imprisonment for five years.— Galignani. The workmen, in repairing the Grand Court of Louis XIV., the Hotel de Vile, have discovered two marble slabs, on which are the following inscriptions :—" 1660—In terview between Louis XIV., King of France, and Philip of Spain, in the Island of Pheasants, when peace was sworn between the two kings. Marriage of the King with Maria Theresa of Austria, Infanta of Spain. Solemn entry of their Majesties into the city of Paris amidst the acclamations of the people." " 1684—The King granted peace to the Alge rians; punished the Genoese; forced his enemies to accept a truce for twenty years; and, yielding to the prayers of the Spaniards, remitted 3,500,000 livres of taxes."—Galignani. WRESTLlNG.—Yesterday a match took place at the Brecknock Arms, Camden Town, between Bowden, of Cornwall, and Truscott, of Devonshire, the best of three back falls, which terminated by Bowden throwing Truseott the first fall, and Truscott throwing Bowden the other two. JUDGES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.—There are 363 judges in the United Kingdom, whose salaries amount to 402,032!. a year. England has 145, Ireland 124, and Scotland 94. The salaries in England are 208,976/., in Ireland 116,0861., and in Scotland 76,9701. FISH, FLESH, FOWL, AND VEGETABLES. —It is t a singular fact that fatal diseases are, at the present mo t T i et e t s , . prevalent amongst members of all the abov a egi c a t m e sd witi b i a Cattle, as our readers know, have long be a t grouse have died distemper which has destroyed numbers; has variously destroyed scribed; and the in hundreds ofson al te u i r n r a a l i a n dy a , m w oi h ig ich st ; of Europe. It is now stated the crops over a great portion . potatoes t been oes broken o ut .t the rivers, numbers of pike, eels, and other fish the fish in that a plague of some description has among's. being found dead, or dying, on the surface of the water.— Liretpool Albion, HOP INTELLIGENCE.—CANTERBURY. The past week has been most disastrous to the hops—th e hi gh winds and cold weather have swept away from 30,000! . to 50,000/ iitgoit the Picking of the duty. Poles have been prostrated and hops scattered e ( ' i s a e t e i d e i l l : 1 n ahlalvoever likewiset i gardens; a b r e d e e n n s; greatlynlanydoefptrl blue has been carried on generally, and all accountsquality. concur in the hops being not only bad in quality, but ve _ ry light. Genera, report states th a t great havoc has been made amo ng ill' hops ; that they are rapidl • 3going off, and the duty is as rae pidlv talling.—Caul .1 I `, ei airy Journal. - vOACH ACCI 0• DENT.— n Friday afternoon last the coach called the Rapid, which runs between Carlisle and Lancaster, going southwards, heavily laden with passengers, overturned near Shap, Westmoreland, in consequence of the axletree breaking, but none of the passengers were severely injured. B e f ore t h e coac h could be repaired a delay of op- I wards of four hours took place. EXECUTION AT GENOA. Went to the mole, wishing to see what preparations had been made l'or the execution. but was refused ad mittance at the gates. I th,n took a boat and went on board the Emulous, an Eeglah schooner, lying near the mule, and at a short distance from the gallows. Ahout4 noon the two criminals arrived on foot, escorted by a.' procession of officers of justice, monks, and others, with a banner, crucifix, &e. The gallows was very low, and had no drop nor stage, but a strong wide ladder was placed against the cross-beam. The execu tioner was a tall, powerful man, very well and neatly dressed, with his hair n:cely arranged, appearing somewhat like a respectable servant in half livery. Ile mounted the ladder first, and one of the criminals, ap parently without any c om p u l s i on , f o ll owe d behind him, caressed in shabby, dirty clothes, with no cap or other covering for his head or face. Ilis arms were closely pinioned to his side. When the executioner had at tached the halter, previously placed round the criminal's nook, to the hook, with a smitten thrust, be pushed him uff the ladder, and supportiog hives if by the beam, he stood on the neck and thouLters of his victim, jumping, stamping, and Lending the head sideways as much as possible, while one or two assist,nts below forci bly at his legs. The , Aretehud man appeared to be quite dead in less than halt' a minute. The execution of the second ho was treated in the same manner, was a still more horrid spectacle, for he was dragged up the ladder, step by step, by main force, by the executioner and his leen ; and his terror must have be n inereas, d, if possible, by seeing the ghastly corpse of his companion dangling above him. In another minute lie was iiiinself a corpse hanging by his side. A itanthonie bell-led priest then motin:ed the ladder, and made a .1.11011 address to the spectators, exhorting them (as I r..as intbirned, for I was at too great a distance to bear his words) to take warning by the fate of the criminals. Not more than 200 or 300 persons were admitted on the mole. The greater part of the spectators were in boats, or in the vessels in the ha:- baur, and among them all I could not see more than about twenty women, who were chiefly quite of the lower orders. The assembly behaved quietly, but showed great indifference, and even levity. The bodies of the criminals remained on the gallows till half-past five in the afternoon. and the spot was visited by thousands, the mole being even to the public as usual. They were natives of 'Savona. They had been notoriously bad characters, and one of them had been a thief from the age of five years, at which time he was in the habit of cutting off the leaden weights from the fishermen's nets when they were spread out to dry on the shore. The crime for which they suffered was a murder of the worst description. They had gone to the house of a priest in Genoa, and finding from the servant that her master was out, and would not return for some time, they murdered her by strangling her with their own hands; after which they had brutally disfigured the body. They had then plundered the house of some plate and other articles of value. They both made a confessii.n of th. it guilt. This method of executing criminals, though really quite as humane as thatadopted in England, and perhaps more so, appears ye. y barbarous and uncivilised, and the spectacle is rendered infinitely more horrid by the face being exposed. The rolling eyes, the protruded tongue, the features, purple and distorted in the death agony of strangulation, and with that • lideous expression upon them becoming gradually fixed and rigid, form a spectacle, the horrors of which can neither be described by those who have wit nessed it, nor conceived by those who have not. But the advocates for capital punishments and public execu tions say that the example is useful in deterring others from committing crime. If so, the Genoese are more rational than the English, because, without increasing.' the sufferings of the criminal, they make that example as effective and horrible as possible. And the ads dress of the priest, standing on the ladder by the side of the scarcely lifeless bodies, and speaking to an asseu!'uly, every individual of which, however depraved, urust, for a short time at least, be in a serious mood, might be made, if well managed, a very solnin and impressive part of this dreadful ceremony.•-_(From an Eye Witness.) NEW GERMAN REFORMATION. The Universal German Ga.:, tle contains the follow ing :—" The divine service of the German Catholic Church has been celebrated for the first time at Malle (Prussia). Mr. Denneth, curate of the German Catholic congregation of Frankfort, officiated. The ser mon was preached by Mr. Wittig, curate of Hamburgh. The ceremony took place in the praying-room of the Institution de Franck : 41 members received the sacra ment." The Frankfort Jour:.ai announces that on Saturday, the 20th, was c':;iistituted, at Essling (Wirtemburg), t h e Germanl Catholic congregation of that town. The me in . 1 .:-rs amount to 40, some of whom were Protestants the others converted Roman Catholics. The appearance of Mr. Ronge was anxiously hoped for. Mr. Mangold wag named head of the new sect. A new decree was issued on the 18th by the Govern ment of Hesse concerning the Germaa Catho lics. The motive for this proceeding was afforded by a petition of the German Catholics of Ilanau, that the curate of the town should be authorised to officiate at baptisms, marriages, and funerals. The German Catholics of Marbourg had also demanded permission to form themselves into a congregation ac cording to the principles adopted at the Council of Leipsic, with the assistance of Protestant clergymen at their religious ceremonies. The following is the decree :—" A sect which desires to form itself according to the principles and rules of the Council of Leipsic cannot be tolerated nor recognised in the electorate of Hesse. The assistance of evangelical clergymen cannot be allowed to the members of such a. sect. The private meetings of such a sect cannot any longer be tolerated, and the n.embers must confine their devotions to their own h0u,..,e5." - - DEATH OF JUDGE STORY. This eminent man is no more. He died on We,lnes. dav evening at his residence in Cambridge at a quartcr before nine o'cicck. His pulse had ceased to beat and his hands were cold before eight o'clock. His dis ease was stoppage of the intestines, or internal strangu lation, which two years ago caused the death of Hugh St. Legard, Attorney General of the 'United States, then on a visit to Boston. Joseph Story was born in 1780. He graduated at Harvard University in 1798. He was appointed Asso ciate Justice of the United States, by President Madison, in 1811. In addition to t.'ne duties of Judge of the Su preme Court he devoted much of his time to the Cam bridge Law School as Dane Professor of Law in Har vard University, His commanding talents as a lawyer, and the pee.tifar felicity with which he imparted" to others tte rich stores of his own mind, gave Harvard Law school a pre-eminence over all other similar insti -1 tntions. It is a painful coincidence that the Principals of our two great law institutions, Harvard and Yale, should have passed from the scenes of their labours to the world of spirits with but a few days in.'cervening between their deaths. The fame of Story was not confined to our country. Ho bad a deservedly high European reputation. His name reflected honour on the high post of honour which he held. Jay, Ellsworth, Marshall, Story and others have given character to the Court and made it what the framers of the constitution intended it to be, the crowing glory of a free and law abiding people. Few of the great men who have given lustre to the Supreme Court have done so much for the clear exposition of its laws. Mar shall and Story rank side by side in this respect. Cool judgment, great learning, firmness of character, strict integrity, a clear head and pure heart, rendered him eminently fit for that place, now vacant, and which wt fear cannot be filled. A substitute we may and will have—his equal we cannot expect to find. The lofti ness of his intellect, the purity of his gentle spirit— the magic spell with which his conv-rsation charmed his hearers, made him the idol of every circle is which he moved. But this is neither the time nor place to write his his tory or his eulogy. While we bow with submission to the overruling will of Providence, we maybe permitted to mourn the misfortunes of our country in the loss 3 cif her brightest jewels—Thompson, Baldwin, Story, tain t , from a single department of our Government in so short a time. Truly we are fallen upon gloomy days when star after star fades from our horizon, leaving us i n com parative darkness to mourn their setting, alas ! never again to rise in that sky where their light is so much needed.—New York Tribune. ENLARGEMENT OE THE 44 OISSERVEL"—During the past six months the Observer has given an epitome of rail way information, malty of the articles original, and not at tainable by any other journal. With a view to extend such authenticated information more in detail Mr. Clement purposes increasing the size of the Observer to that of the Times. This important enlargement will take place the last Sunday in October, without any increase of price, which, will remain at sixpence. The Observer is regularly pub lished at five o'clock on Sunday mornings The Monday's. subscribers, is publish e d at four o'clock every Aoay edition, which is best adapted for readers abroad and c ountry i afternoon. _We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn,. Great Marlborough-street, has Works, which can now be THE NEW PUBLICA O, T f i N O e N w S. just published the follow in g 5 of M. Thiers's History of Translated by D. Forbes and Esq., with the sa nction approval of the Campbell, s theh d Consulateo f 2 Vol. 4of the Nelson Letters and Dis patches-3. Bvo., ss.— . • of the A Third Edition C rescent and the Cross, Warburton, Esq., 2 vols., with Illustrations 21s. all by Eliot boolcsanel,kertsh'e Empire , St 1 bound.-4. Lady Hester an lope sMemoirs , R elated hy Herself, 3 vols., with Illustration, 31s. fd. hound.--5. Third Edition of Sybil, or the Two Notions, by B. Disrali, Esq., M.P.-6. A Second Edition of Revelations of Spain, by I'. N. Hughes, with numerous additions, 2 vols., 21s. bound.-7. The Diary and Memoirs of Sophia Dorothea, Consort of George 1., 2 vols., Bvo., with Portraits, 28s. bound. ....-8. Memoirs of Prince Charles Stuart, commonly called " The Young Pretender," by C. L. Klose, Esq 2 vols. , Bvo., with Portrait, 245. bound. DEATH OF SIR CHARLES GORDON OF DRIMNIN -We regret to state that Sir Charles Gordon, the well-known and hi ghly - respected secretary of the Highland and Agri cultural S ociety, died at his house, No. 6, Albvn-place, on Thursday evening last. Sir Charles, we understand, was in the fifty-third year of his age, and had held the important situation of secretary of the Highland Society for upwards of twenty years. He received the honour of knighthood from. William the Fourth, in 1836 Ho had long been in a delicate state of health, though, we understand, his death was very unexpected at the last.—Edinburgh Witness. DEATH OF THE DOWAGER MARCHIONESS Cop BREADALBANE.—We have just learned that the Dowager Marchioness of Breadalbane died at Langton House, on Thursday evening last. Her ladyship, wh o was d aug h ter of David Gavin, Esq., of Langton, married to John, fourth Earl of Breadalbane , in 1793, and was considerably advanced in years.—Edinburgh Witness. I3ATTLE CHURCIL—On cleansing and scraping the old wash from the walls of Battle Church, previous to their being re-washed, the walls are discovered to be full of paint ings, of a very ancient and curious character, some of theta very well executed, which appear to have been done during the reign of one of the Edwards, or IrobalAy before. ENTRIES FOR TO-MORROW. The Trial Stakes—Duke of Bedford's Oakley, aged—Duke of Portland's ch f, by Beiram, out of Ruth, 3 yrs—and Mr. Coape's Energy, 3 yrs. The Buckenham Stakes—The following have paid :—Mr. Wreford, jun.'s, West Countryman, and Mr. Wreford, jun.'s, Wooden Wall. _ _ _ The Grand Duke Michael Stakes—Seaman, Leopold, Puke, and Pug, are scratched. The Hopeful Stakes—Five only, viz. :—Snake, Madcap, Pawnbroker, Chamois, and Cuckoo, are left in. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The First October Newmarket Meeting for sport is decidedly not first-rate, yet it equals, if not surpasses, many of its predecessors. It commences on Tuesday with, as usual, the Trial Stakes, the winner of which I think Lord G. Ben . thick will furnish. Colonel Peel will win the Buckenham Stakes with Queen Anne. The Grand Duke Michael Stakes will bring out the following, viz.: Wood Pigeon, colt by Jerry out of Turquoise, colt by Slane out of Cobweb, Leopard, Idas, Sir Francis, Worthless, and perhaps Pug and sister to Ma Mie. Now of these I consider sister to Ma Mie, Sir Francis, Leopard, and Cobweb colt to have not the shadow of a chance. Worthless and Pug have a respectable outside chance, nothing more. The race will lay entirely between the Turquoise colt, Wood Pigeon, and Idas, which I expect will be rather close, giving a slight preference to Idas. The Hopeful Stakes looks well for Cuckoo or Princess Alice, Mr. Gratwicke's filly being close up at the finish. The match between Prologue, Bst. 131 b., and Collingwood, sst. 131 b., will be won by the former. On Wednesday, Kent's stable will carry off the St. Leger Stakes. Colonel Peel's Garry Owen will receive forfeit from Lord Maidstone's Arcanus, or should the match be run, it will go to the former for a certainty. On Thursday, Tug-Net, or the colt by Slane, out of Volup tuary, will make sure of the Rutland Stakes. The 50 Sovs. Stakes to Ides, Paulton's finishing a good second. In the match between Captain Phelus and Collingwood over the T.Y.C.,1 expect the latter will be very near winning. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Monday, 2 P.M. P.S. Jenny Wren, Pantasa, I-am-not-aware, and Wee Pet, are my pick for the Cesarewitch Stakes, the first and third being in splendid trim, Jenny Wren will be near winning this stake, if well on the day. Semiseria, Nottingham, Croton Oil, and Mongrel are the best " in " for the Cambridgeshire Stakes, all four being in first-rate condition. SURREY THEATRE. A new drama, entitled the Rover's Secret, being another version of the French piece on which Clarisse is founded, was produced here last evening with the most decided success. The piece was very strongly cast. Mrs. H. Vining sustained the character of the 'heroine with great power; and Mr. H. Hughes, as the foreman of the yard, and Mr. Hicks, as Mar tial, were both excellent. The Laroche of Mr. Fredericks was very good, and Mr. S. Cowell, by his humorous vagaries, as Barbillon, the diver, kept the audience in a roar the whole time he was on the stage. The scenery, by Brunning, was beautiful, and the Rover's Secret will no doubt become a mcst popular Surrey piece. The house was crowded. FORTIFYING SHEERNESS.—The fortifications of this garrison are to be considerably strengthened, and 70 guns are to be immediately placed on the old batteries. A detachment of the Royal Sappers and Miners has commenced work on the south side, near the drawbridge, by throwing out the mud and clay from the adjoining moat, also raising it higher, and a large number of masons has also been set to work to complete the job. The greatest activity prevails throughout the whole of the official departments, which leads the inhabitants to think that a " storm is brewing." RAILWAYS V. UNIVERSITIES.—It has been the fashion with a certain clique, to denominate the labourers, who are employed in forming railways, "untutored savages." We understand that the Bangor police have reported to the magistrates, that eight or ten collegians, who, for some weeks, had been located in that city, had been more riotous and disorderly, and had given them more trouble, and, to many of the respectable inhabitants, more annoyance, than all the six or seven hundred labourers employed within Bangor parish, on the Chester and Holyhead Railway. We trust that the parties referred to had only assumed the name of collegians. It would be highly discreditable to either Ox ford or Cambridge to send out students, whose conduct would not bear a favourable comparison with that of railway la bourers.—Carnarvon Herald. EXPLOSION OF GAS AND SKOCKING ACCIDENT.— On „Monday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, the inhabitants of Fleet-street and its vicinity were alarmed by a loud report and smashing of glass, while smoke and flame were seen to issue from East Temple Chambers, in White friars-street. It appears that that the housekeeper on going in as usual to prepare the rooms, perceived a strong smell of gas, and called a lad, who came into the room with a lighted candle. Immediately a loud report took place, and the room and furniture were quickly on fire. The Farringdon-street engine was speedily on the spot, and the firemen succeeded in confining the flames to the room in which the explosion oc curred. We regret to add, that the unfortunate woman was severely burnt, while her clothes were destroyed. She now lies in a very dangerous state. The poor boy was also in. jured by the fire, but not so severely. The escape of gas which caused the accident is supposed to have arisen from its not having been turned off at the main. he Universal Prussian Gazelle states that the crops in Western Prussia were not considered this year to be even of an average character. The rye had given but a small return, and the wheat and oats harvest was every where indifferent, In the districts of Schlocbau, Konitz, and Lobau, Stuhm, and Rosemberk great damage was done by a violent hail-storm on the night of July 8; and the lower localities, bordering the Vistula, had suffered greatly from the inundation of that river. The hay and clover crop, however, was everywhere satisfactory, if not for quantity at least for quality, The potato crop did not promise well. PAINFUL AcclDENT.—Yesterday afternoon, be tween three and four o'clock, as the son of Mr. Wilson, 15, Gardner's-crescent, an interesting youth, shout seven years of age, was amusing himself, with two other companions, at the commencement of the extension tunnel of the Glasgow and Edinburgh Railway, one of the wheels of a waggon, weighing nearly six tons_, which was employed in conveying bricks a few yards into the inle-601, passed over his right leg, which produced a very severe and serhine fracture of the sma ller hone:, and a deep incision. It appears that th e b o y had been wailing on the rails in front of the waggon, which was propelled by two men, at an ordinary walking pace, but more rapidly than he was moving, and hence came in colli. sion with him, and threw him 11Nleath the wheel. He also received a slight contusion on the !wad, supposed to have been produced by the fall. He was instantly Convoyed home, where Dr. Menzies and two other medical gentlemen were in attendance, but what may be the result it is impossible to divine, as be is in a somewhat precarious condition.—Edin burgh Witness of Saturday. OUR MANCHE6Tga Goons SUPERSEDED,— S - vend French artists have arrives in Egypt, to organise the new manufactory for printing ealieoes, which are intended to suPersedethe English printed Manehasteroods that country has hitherto been eupplied with.—Hanipshireildvertiser. M RE MAJOR. In this case an insolvent came up for his protection order, so as to enable him to take the benefit of the new Act. Mr. HuGnEs appeared to support the application (which would rescue the insolvent from further incarceration). The question was - whether a party in custody on an' attach ment for contempt in not paying costs was entitled to the benefit of the Act? He contended that directly costs were taxed they became part of the debt. The Learned COMMISSIONER—Yes, but it is not a debt re covered by judgment, and this act does not satisfy it. Application refused. . CLERKENWELL.- 7 (THIS_DAYO A man named Je f fries was charged with embezzling 1L I.ls. 2d., which he had received from Mr. Atkinson, of 24, Old Bond-street, for his mistress, Mrs. Jones, fishmonger, (.4 . Amwell-street, Clerkenwell. In August last the prosecutrix sent two baskets of fish to Mr. Atkinson, who at once paid to the prisoner the cost for the same, amounting to the before-mentioned sum. The accused afterwards got intoxicated, and spent the money, and has since been wandering about in want of common ne cessaries.—He was fully committed to Newgate. Two fellows, named Carroll and Tooney, were charged as follows :—Sergeant 37, of the E division, said that while on duty in Regent-square on Monday night, he saw the pri soners conduct themselves most insultingly to females He remonstrated with them, and they then commenced a feroci ous attack on them, and would have injured him most dread fully had not some neighbours kindly interfered on his behalf. They were committed to the House of Correction for 14 days. ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR. The following list shows how each Alderman voted at the election of Lord Mayor on Sept. 29, 1845 : For Mr. Alderman Wood. For Mr. Alderman Johnson. Sir John Key Sir Claudius S. Hunter Mr. Alderman Farebrother Sir Peter Laurie 7, Kelly Mr. Alderman Copeland Sir Chapman Marshall lf ft Wilson Sir John Pirie The Lord Mayor Gibbs Mr. Alderman Humphery Mr. Alderman Johnson Sir William Magnay Sir G. Carroll Mr. Alderman Wood Sir J. Duke ~ ft Hunter Mr. Alderman Farncomb Challis „ „ Musgrove „ „ H. Hughes ~ Sidney Absent. Mr. Alderman Lucas ff 27 Thompson Hooper 11 Moon THE ROUND TOWERS.—Mr. G. Petrie, after a long research, has come to the following results :—" 1. That the towers are of Christian and ecclesiastical origin, and were erected at various periods between the 6th and 13th cen turies. 2. That they were designed to answer, at least, a twofold use, namely, to serve as belfries, and as keeps, or places of strength, in which the sacred utensils, books, relics, and other valuables, were deposited, and into which the ec clesiastics, to whom they belonged, could retire for security in cases of a sudden predatory attack. 3. That they were probably also used, when occasion required, as beacons and watch-towers " SUICIDE IN A WATER-BUTT.--Yesterday, Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the Rose and Crown, Rose-street, Soho, on the body of Ann Foxwell, aged fifty-eight. The deceased, a widow, carried on the business of a turner and stand-maker, at No. 24, Crown-street. She had been very unsettled, and at times depressed in spirits since the death of her husband, eleven months since, and would frequently ex claim, "That there was no one in the world she cared for," and "that there was nothing worth living for." On Satur day morning last, at twenty minutes past seven o'clock, her sister left her in bed, and a quarter of an hour after she was found by her foreman in the water-butt in the back kitchen, her feet upwards. On being taken out she was quite dead. The top of the water-butt being within a foot of the ceiling, she must have had some trouble in effecting her object. Ver dict " Temporary insanity." MILITARY MOVEMENTS AT PORTSMOUTH,—It has been decided to enlarge the Cambridge Barracks, and for this purpose the Theatre Royal and the houses at the upper part of the High-street, Portsmouth, together with those facing the ramparts on the south of the High-street, will be taken down as soon as the Government can obtain possession of them. The space thus obtained will provide one of the finest sites in the town for this object, and as the property is not occupied by persons in business, no inconvenience is likely to result from the procedure. The building now occupied as the Portsmouth workhouse, which will be vacated in a few weeks, the inmates being about to be removed to the new union house, will be purchased by the Government for the purpose of enlarging the Colewort Barracks, the wish of the authorities being that each of these barracks may contain 1,200 men, besides the necessary accommodation for the officers of such a large number. It is also stated, that upon the completion of the above the Forehouse Barracks, which adjoins the one occupied by the Royal Marines, will be added to the latter establishment, thus providing additional room for that branch of the service.—Hampshire Independent. The newspapers of New York are full of ovations of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean. A larger audience was as sembled upon the occasion of the benefit of Mr. Charles Kean than had ever been witnessed at the Park Theatre. One journal states that it was a sea of heads from the pit to the back seat of the fourth tier. More money had been re ceived at the treasury during their engagement than had been taken during a similar number of performances for twenty-five years. Eleven nights have realised to these artistes 1,0001. _ _ THE NEW IRONWORKS IN SCOTLAND.—The for ward state of the ironworks, which were commenced in spring, gives promise of some new brands of pig iron being very soon brought into this market. At Kinneil there are four furnaces completed, and arrangements are making to have them blown in during next month, or early in Novem ber. It is not more than six or seven months since the foun dation of this work was laid, which for rapidity of erection is, we believe, unequalled in the history of the iron trade. Eg linton and Lugar are also progressing rapidly to completion, and it is expected will be in blast little later than Kinneil. It will be some time longer before any of the works in Fife shire can come into operation ; but, from the well-known activity of the enterprising proprietor of the Forth works, there is little doubt that the spring of 1846 will witness the production of metal in this new field on an extensive scale. Other two new ironworks are talked of for the purpose of supplying parties who have hitherto been purchasers of pigs. One of those is certain to go on, and we expect to be able, in a short time, to notice the commencement of opera tions.— Scotch Reformers' Gazette. DISTRICT ASYLUM, ST. GEORGE'S, SOUTHWARK.— Yesterday a meeting of the rate-payers of St. George's, South wark, was held in the vestry-room, for the purpose of taking Into consideration an order of the Poor-law Commissioners to combine with other parties to erect an asylum for the temporary relief of the poor and destitute, and for supplying them with work. The Rev. Mr. Horton, the rector, pre sided.'Mr. Matthews moved a resolution to the effect—" that the parishioners contemplated with alarm the junction of that parish with others in the forming of a union which only tended to carry out the system of centralisation, and deprived the rate-payers of control over their own officers--that it would entail vast additional expense, and strongly recom mended that every resistance should be offered to it both by the guardians nominated over it and the parish generally" The motion having been seconded, Mr. B oxer o b serve d, that Mr. Hall, the Poor-law Commis s i oner , h a d s h own more humanity at the meeting than most of the supporters of the poor-law, for he expressed his regret that the only relief that could be afforded would be food and a night's lodging. If the asylum were established it would be a sign-post for the dissolute and idle who would flock to it. St. George's Gould not afford it, for independent of 10,0001. for building the asylum, it would require 2,0001. a-year for the working of this most objectionable proposal. The resolution was carried unanimously, and after the usual vote of thanks to the Rev. Chairman, the meeting broke up. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Monday afteenoon, about three o'clock, as Ellen Brooks, parlour-maid to Samwell, Esq., of Canterbury-street, Lambeth, was running down the kitchen stairs, she slipped and fell, when a carving knife she had in her hand at the time entered her right thigh, and in flicted a frightful wound; she also broke four of her ribs by the fall. Medical assistance was obtained, but it was sonic lima before the flow of blood was stopped, the wound in the thifl filiVided an artery. NEW ZEALAND STATISTICS. The following extracts are from a lately published work on " New Zealand," by a Mr. Brown, and inserted in the New Zealand Journal : "To the speculator and man of large capital, New Zealand presents at this moment the most tempting pros pects, almost too much so for his prudence to withstand. "Already two copper mines in the neighbourhood of Auckland have been opened, and the results are in the highest degree satisfactory, ore being obtainable of the best quality, and at so trifling an expense, that there are no accounts of mines in any other part of the word in this respect to be com pared with them. In fact, the operation can not be termed mining at all—it is only quarry ing and blasting, the ore being almost at the very sur face. Some idea of the facility of procuring the ore may be formed from the fact, that miners are at present work ing one of the mines referred to, and have undertaken to produce the ore, properly cleaned and sorted, fit for shipment, at the rates of 41. per ton for the third quality, 61. for the second, and 81. fur the finest ; and at these rates thore is every appearance of their realising a small fortune for themselves in the course of two years, for which period it is understood their contract extends. They would realise enormous wages at the lowest rate of 41. for all qualities, if the ore continues to be procured as easily as hitherto. About ten or twelve men, in the course of six weeks, actually quarried out sixty tons, thirty (.f which were shipped to Sydney, and thirty tons to England. Nor is the ore of an ordinary quality ; the analysis of some samples from the mi ne re f er r e to shows upwards of 50 per cent. of pure copper. " Manganese is equally abundant, and is found within 15 miles of Auckland. Considerable quantities have already been shipped to England, some of which has re alised 7t per ton. The expense of quarrying this has been 10s. per ton. " Many places on the coast, both northward to the Bay of Islands, and southward towards the East Cape, afford indications both of copper and manganese ; and it may easily be supposed that the utmost eagerness is manifested to become the fortunate purchaser of th e se mines. While the obstructions to the free purchase of lands continued, no one even thought of taking the trouble to look for these treasures ; but now that the natives are permitted to dispose of their lands, there scarcely passe s a week without a party setting off in some direction, on a voyage of discovery, " The very natives have become infected with the mania, and are nearly as expert judges of copper or man• ganese as the settlers, and may be seen going about with fragments of stone and bottles of nitric acid, for the pur pose of testing its composition, They serve to keep the settlers in a perpetual excitement, by pretending to have discovered copper or manganese upon their lands, and no little money is spent in fruitless expeditions to prove the fact. In some cases, the eagerness of the settlers outruns their prudence, and they are induced, by the solicitations of the natives, to purchase land before seeing it, fearing some more reckless speculator may otherwise secure the prize ; but it is needless to say that they are almost sure of losing their money, as the specimen of the ore shown to them has, in all probability, been taken from the mines at the Great Barrier, or from the island of Kawau. The natives seem to discover, with singular acuteness, the weak points in the character of the person they are deal ing with, and never fail to work upon them with great dexterity. Where knowledge is equal on both sides, the settlers are no match for the natives in buying and selling, as the latter concentrate, in the smallest affair, their whole soul, and never lose sight of their own inte rest for a moment. " Besides copper and manganese, tin, lead, and nickel are reported to have been discovered. Coal abounds in various places on the Middle Island; it has also been seen near Manakao, and indications of it are to be met with near the Bay of Islands, but no mine has yet been opened on the North Island. A shaft was sunk at ➢iauharangi, (near the Kawau copper mine), but having been under taken by a person without means, the work was aban doned, after sinking about eighty feet. Rock salt has been discovered in the neighbourhood of Mercury Bay ; and alum and nitre near the medicinal springs at,the Roturua lakes. Sulphur is found in vast quantities, about the East Cape, and has already been shipped to England, though it did not, it is believed, realise a good price ; but sulphur, of a very superior description, has lately been discovered, in purity nearly equal to the rolled sulphur of commerce. Specimens of this article have been sent to England in the Bolina. Various other minerals have been found, but are less worthy of notice, as they do nut appear to be available at present as exports." THE FISH ERIES. —ST. IVES.—No pilchards have been seen from the hills duringthe week. Mackarel are very plentiful on the coast, but the weather has prevented the boats front driving. Two boats went out on Tuesday night, and caught about 2,000 each, which were sold at 12s. per 120. FOWEY.—Very few fish have been taken here this week.— West Briton, ..- _lam NM&