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; I , ii' l ' • c...... %a • e',,;0.1p-• Mt, . ‘,......,.. - • f•, -l~ MAGAZINES CON FINUED. BLACKWOOD.* 'Coin - ideas lines, from Lewes to Lerwick, cross like nets the country soon; 'Soon a roily ay (Atmospheric,) Speeds our progress to the moon,. 3raiersing yon space between us, ' Soon the rapid trains will bring Ores frOm Mars and tires from Venus, Lots of lead from Saturn's Ring; Belt's from Jupiter's own factory, A d n ßercliry from Maia's Son ; when surnmers look refractory, Bottled sunbeams from the sun. V too soaring, too seraphic, Seems to some that heavenward tack, T'other way there's much more traffic; Though not m any travel back. • IVe find that this magazine was punctually delivered as usual, but mislaid by some accident in The Sun office. LITERATURE. OIVOGHUE; a Tale of Ireland of Fifty Years Ago. ,ber brings the very striking story of O'Do i close. Like most:of these periodically-pub ances of real life, the catastrophe seems too ly brought about; and the charm of probabi (ore, expires at precisely that period of the then its presence is most necessary to vivify effect to the . closing tableaux of its action. But this and other defects there can be no doubt this O'Donogbue" is still destined to be one of the standard novels of its class. There i s j us t enou gh admixture of political excitement to enhance, without overlaying, its purely dramatic character. Mark O'Donoghue, after a hair-breadth escape from the plot contrived by the exe crable villain Hemsworth to secure his capture, and to subject him to the ignominious fate that would in evitably follow on his being taken, inflicts a signal chastisement on Hemsworth by throwing him out of the window—and after being challenged and pursued by some English dragoons, effects his passage, and is again on the eve of being made prisoner, when his generous rival. Captain Travers, rescues him, makes him mount his own charger, and bids him " God speed !" Mark subsequently gets himself put on board one of the French dispersed squadron near Bantry Bay. llemsworth dies a violent and appalling death, well merited by his crimes. The spirituelle and beautiful Kate is united to Mark ; and the wedded lovers, after a lapse of some seven or eight years, revisit in peace the desolate but romantic scenes in which the young Irish man had passed his boyhood, and he then returns to his permanent establishment in France as an officer in her armies. ON CHRONIC DISEASES of the SKIN; their various Causes and "Cure. Dr. de Prati is already so advantageously known to the public as a medical reformer of great sagacity and success, that we were prepared to expect from this Essay on Chronic Diseases much of the careful study, extensive research, and original thinking, in which it certainly abounds. Any man who, having ability and learning abundantly sufficient to give hi,sn a comprehensive knowledge of the various systems of pathology which have obtained, both in ancient and modern times, is endowed with that . quick ness of perception, and that accuracy in combining re sults, which are constantly invigorated by observation founded on extensive daily experiences, ought to be able to rise superior to the trammels of all systems when his own convictions, thus founded and thus forti fied, happen to be at variance with them. It is Dr. de Prati's praise to fulfil this notion of what should be looked for from a clear, powerful, and unprejudiced intellect. He passes in review the theories or discoveries of eminent predecessors in that branch of medical in vestigation which he has here selected for discussion ; but, while rendering justice to their labours, he preserves a tone of sustained critical discrimination, which, un biassed by all his respect for such great names as those Malphigi and Cheyne, Willan or Bateman, Alibert or Fohman cannot repress. His painful investigation is divided into many heads, as Tinea Capitis (T. Fur. furacea, T. Scatulata, T. Lupinosa, and other forms of that disgusting malady); Herpes, or Tetter; Leprosy; Ichthyosis; Acne and Varus; H. Circinnatus or Ring. worm; Mentagra, &c. The "Appendix" contains some important notices of " a few of the medicines employed by the autlar in the treatment of chronic cutaneous dis crders." 'This little work supplies a very valuable con tribution towards the remedial treatment of some of the most common, and, at the same time, most cruel diseases that afflict humanity. " Humboldt" and " The Railways " are both able articles, discursive,lt is true, and full of play and fancy, like some of the best productions of Maga, but, at the same time, abounding with information, with a generally corre* knowledge of the subject, and if not always corning to a proper conclusion, throwing forth new ideas - .a placing common-place matters in an interesting light. The review of Humboldt's last production is the best instance we have seen of the loose, yet useful and fascinating writing, which distinguishes this Magazine. It prefaced with a long introduction, and, like the in troduction to Sallust's History of the Cataline Conspi racy, might serve for any work whatever. It would do for a book of travels, or a novel, or a history, or a treatise on railways, a volume of sermons, a tragedy, a comedy, or as farce, _and if the reader were not led to form an. idea of shat was to follow from the heading of the article, he would imagine that it was a lecture on edu cation, delivered by some teacher newly installed into the London University, or a Birmingham College, or a Mechanics Institute, while to his surprise he would find it referred to Chimborazo, and Nundidevi, the rapids of Orinoco, the pampas and Banos of Brazil, and the snakes, alliga'ors, and panthers of the New World. Speaking of the Oxford student the writer says, "His head is lull of Homer, and Virgil, and Aschylus ; he could tell vou all the amours of Mars and Venus, of Jupiter and:Leda ; he could rival Orpheus or Pinder in the melodies of his Greek verses, and Cicero or Livy in the correctness of his Latin prose, but, as unfortunately ha has to write neither about gods nor goddesses, but mere mortals, and neither in Greek verse nor Latin verse, but in good English prose, he is utterly at a loss for thought or expression." 'This would apply equally well to every trade, profession, or pursuit, with the exception of perhaps one—the drulgery of an usher at Eton or Harrow ; yet it refers only to the labours of a traveller who takes a fancy for writing a hook. Cambridge is treated with the same ceremony. The Cambridge man knows how to solve cubic equations, is a master of loga rithms and the differential calculus, but as the world is neither ii geometric world nor an algebraic world, a world of conic sections or fluxions, but a world of plains and mountains, of lakes and rivers, of men and women, flesh and blood, ho finds his knowledge of little or no avail. Specimens are then given of the travels of sums celebrated scholars, among others Cl , lrlte and Heber. and all are thrown into the shade when Humboldt appears, because the system of education in Germany is different ; and an Englishm in who has spent the best part of his youth in making; " nonsense verses," is totally unable to com pete with the Prussian, or Bavarian, or Saxon instructed in all the elements of useful and general science. We admit the truth of the censure, and only wish that the monks of Oxford and Cambridge would make the same admission, and mend their manners. The article on rail ways furnishes deep matter for reflection, while it posses ses the same discursive character, and displays the same eccentricity. One pa -t of it struck us as peculiarly charac teristic of the Scotsman, prudent, cautious, argumentative, and seldom forgetting either himself or his country. Allusion is made tb the countless schemes for new lines, and plans are proposed for making selections which shit!) bring those most useful into operation. Among otb- a . s , boards are recommended—one for England, an';iher for Scotland, and another for Ireland ; but Scetiand, of the three, has by far the strongest claim i :or preference on the part of the Prime Minister. And why ? Because the manufacture of kelp was tiestroyed some ten years ago by a wicked Cabinet Minister (we believe Poulett Thomson is referred to) largely connected with foreign trade' ; by whom, without inquiry, and without warning, " the market was thrown open to competition from without, barilta imported, and the staple . pro duct of the north of Scotland annihilated." " There is now," adds the writer, " a great oppprtunity of giving us a reasonable comnensation, and "in the event o f a restr i ct i or, we so far claim pre cedence.'? This, however, is only a little episode, the articici altogether is written in a good spirit, and laughs to scorn those croakers who would crush the enterprising spirit of . .Englishmen, because one speculation out of twenty might fail. We ;ire hera a brief extract in proof ; and subjoin some verses from a rhapsody by a " Provincial Committee of Contributors," too long for insertion entire : THE GRAN/1 GENERAL .J I'NCTION AND INDEFINITE EXTENSION RAILWAY RHAPSODY. Though the farmer's hope may perish, While in floods the harvest lies, • Speculation let us cherish, . Let theßailway market rise! Honest trader, whosoever, Sick with losses, sad with cares, Quit your burden, now or never, • Cut, the shop and deal in shares. Spendthrift —short of (Pink and dinners, Half•pay-captain, younger son, Boldly throw while all are winners, Laugh henceforth at debt and dun. Comp, ye saints, whose skill in cavilling, Shock'd at skittleP, cards or dice, Think.; except for Sunday travellirg, Railway gaming is no vice. Hitter haste, each black-leg fellow, quit the turf or loaded bone; Like your brother-black Othello, OWn your occupation's gone. Tribes that live by depredation— • "Bulls" and " Bears," and birds of prey • See the coming spoliation, Scent the premiums far away. "Stags!" your rapid forms revealing, Show awhile your front so bright; • . 'Hien from your pursuers stealing ' Vanish sudden out of sight. • Now no more the Ragfair dealer hints with horrid breath " Old Cio' ; . Putting toith another feeler, " Any shares ?" he whispers low. - EVery paper's a prospectus, Nostrums, news, are at an end ; "Easy shaving" don't affect us, Silent even, " The Silent Friend." Morison. resigns his bubbling, - Lazenby has lost his zest; Widow Welch hits ceased from troubling, Weary Moses is at rest. 'Every station, age, and gender, • Weep within the torrent dip; Even our children, young and tender, Play at games of nursery scrip. What a gradient through Avernus! What a curve will Hades take ! When with joy the Shades discern us, How Hell's terminus will shake! How the Pandemorium Junction, With the Central will combine, Rattling both without compunction Down the Tartarus incline Phlegethon no more need fright us, For we've bridged its fiery way; And the steamer on Cocytus Long ago has ceased to pay. Charon—under sequestration— Does the Stygian bark resign, Glad to find a situation As policeman to the line. Thoughts of penance need not haunt us; Who remains our sins to snub? Pluto, Minos, Rhadamanthus, All have joined the " Railway Club." DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE. " Notre Dame des Victoires" is an impressive and romantic story of a dream which has the effect of re claiming from a career of wild dissipation and impend ing death Casimir Delatour, the last descendant of an ancient and illustrious house in Languedoc. The writes vouches for the truth of this extraordinary vision, its precedents, and its results. It is somewhat too sustaincd an affair, like the dream in M. Scribe's " Victorine ;" but, otherwise, it is picturesquely conceived and elo quently told. Mr. S. F. Buckingham's " Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Brougham" is a very needless re sumption of the argument which has been raised—and successfully—in twenty other quarters, to prove the bigoted fallacies that have been indulged in by the noble historian of the " Lives of Men of Letters in the Reign of George the Third." Unless Mr. Buckingham innocently labours under the delusion that the clever ex-Chancellor is an histo rical or polemical authority safely to be trusted,we cannot understand how such a writer as Mr. S. F. Buckingham can have brought himself to suppose that he could con tribute any new light, or adduce any fresh facts, to corro borate the ample and really able vindication of the unfor tunate and persecuted Mary, which has lately been com pleted by Prince Lubanoff. All that was necessary to be done, in the shape of critical abstract, for the purpose introducing the extensive work of the distinguished Russian to the great bulk of the English reading public, had been already unexceptionably peformed in the pages of the Athenc e um. We are the more disposed to offer this remark, on account of the threat with ' which this paper concludes, "ro be continued." " The Countess Clemente," by the editor, is continued ; and these chapters have some good groupings and clever situa tions. The " Hornpipe" is a mortally long one ; and though its " Sketch of the Scariff Mountains" is graphic and fresh, it is disfigured by local politics, and a dash of religion, moreover, that have no interest for the general reader. " A tale of Oxford Life" is a brief but very graceful poem on the untimely fate of a student—the young Vernon—who, having formed an unfortunate connexion, finally destroys himself by plunging into the Isis. Here are some exquisite pencillings of the abode, and of some lineaments of the " frail Ellinor:"— " A little on I pass'd ; and stood before A latticed cottage, where a streamlet foams Through cowslipp'd grassplot; and the jalouse o'er Hung many a rich red rose or droop'd around the door. " Upon the casement lay a soft white hand, Which ever and anon was rais'd to pull Some odorous bud that dangled from its stand; A dazzling arm it was, right beautiful; And o'er it were a pair of dark eyes, full And gleaming;—the eloquent deep passion shone On that wild youthful brow. The beds of Gul Were not more delicate than the tints thereon ; Like rose-ting'd silvery shell, on tropic island thrown. " Too much of dreaminess, perhaps, there lay In the soft form and the voluptuous eyes; The tissued robe, perhaps, was over gay— Yet did I gaze, and gaze in mute surprise, Watching to catch her lips' sweet melodies. For lips so lovely must speak soft, I trow! To stand and mark such charms is little wise : But pencill'd lashes, but enchanting brow ! In girlhood's flush, how fair, frail Ellinor, wert thou !" A discovery of Vernon's intercourse with this fair one ensues. He rushes forth in all the self abasement of con scious guilt:— " How calm, how beautiful! no wild wind's rage Had stirr'd the baby-bloom upon the trees; But o'er the rose-clad little parsonage Wove they their big green arms :—the odorous breeze Bore to the near churchyard its melodies, There where his steps above his grandame's grave A thousand times had strayed, while round his knee Twin'd the long grass, that all spring through did wave O'er the grey burial stones that spoke Christ's power to save. " And overhead, a woof of orange light Was shot through the blue vestment of the sky; And there was that deep silence of the night, That rustling of an angel's pinions by, That wondrous Music of tranquillity All Nature's lovers love." The catastrophe, although it savours somewhat of too close, but perhaps involuntary, a recollection of Milton's Lycedas, is eminently poetical: Surely this woe is far too great to bear, Surely 'twere better, 0 my soul, to die! Ye cold cold waters spread so brightly there, Ye are not colder than earth's charity— Father, no father hast thou been to me— One sin, one shame, and all thy love of old Hath flown for ever, ceas'd for aye to be ; My love for thee is hangeless and untold— Wherefore thy will so stern, wherefore thy heart so cold?' " He said, and pluug'cl where fresh and graceful fall The many lilies with their garlands green Upon the waters, like a coronal For nymph, by haunted dreamer dimly seen, Rushing with foam-white foot the waves between.— The waters closed around him and before, And stirr'd the broad-leav'd lilies; and a sheen Of sparkling drops glitter'd each calyx o'er. Then slept the ruffled lake —and Vernon was no more !" THE RAILWAY REGISTER. The present number commences with the second of this valuable series of articles on railways in Ireland. This article is illustrated by a map of Ireland, showing all the railways existing or projected. The writer goes at great length into the question of the social miseries of Ireland, their causes, and remedies. The cause is easily perceived ; it is the selfishness of the Irish landoeracy, which has ever considered property ari d power as every thing, man as nothing, and has de2;ived hard-working man—of the ma''',:cet for his labour. " The conclusion to be dr'nvn from all these statements is, that there is no mark:ai for labour in Ireland, nor for the produce of labour. It has been shown, however, that there are ali , mdan.ce of natural products in Ireland, which, by the application of labour, might become valuable in exchange, and give a fair return for the labour employed upon them. The effect of laying down a system of railways in Ireland would be to give immediate empl o y men t t o labour, in the first instance in the necessary works of the lines themselves, and afterwards to open free communication to the labour market of the world. Their effect will be to introduce civili sation and the abodes of peace, where landlord's cupidity has sought to civilise by destroying the miserable abodes of his tenants." In this conclusion we entirely agree, and we look upon railways as the forernners of a long career of pros perity to Ireland. The papers on Indian railways are continued, and we have the first of a series of valuable papers on metropolitan improvements. The various railway schemes of the month are commented on, and in various instances illustrated by maps, and altogether the present number of the Register fully sustains the high character which this moat useful periodical has already acquired. THE BANKERS' 11 1AGAZINE. No. XX. This useful periodical is continued with great ability. We cannot entirely subscribe to all the notions an nounced in a paper on " The Effect of Railway Calls on the Currency and on Credit ;" but it ought to have its just effect with the public, by disabusing their minds of the foolish fears which have been expressed so vividly by some of our contemporaries as to the melancholy effects to be anticipated from the payment to the Accountant- General of the Court of Chancery (or rather to the Bank of England), at nearly the same time, of 20,000,0001. sterling, or more, in the deposit of 10 per cent. on the capital of the railway schemes to be submitted yo the next session of Parliament. "Irish Banking under the New Act" is also a very useful paper, drawn up, as we are informed in an introductory note, by a practical Irish banker of great experience and authority. fTHE FARMER'S MAGAZINE (Old Series), and Weekly Journal of Proceedings affecting the Agri cultural Ibterest. The embellishment of this number is a portrait of long-woolled wether sheep, bred by his Grace the Duke of Bedford, at Oakley Farm, Bedfordshire. We have often expressed our sense of the general utility of this periodical, and of the practical ability and perfect candour with which it is conducted. The present part in every respect sustains the well-merited reputation which the Magazine has acquired with a widely-ex tended community of readers. The melancholy aspect of the potato crop gives a degree of painful, as well as of important interest to two pages, entitled, respectively, " the Potato Murrain," and " the Potato Disease." THE HOUSELESS POOR.—During the last season the Committee of the Houseless Poor voted t;tie sum o f 10 0 / . for the fitting up of a washing and bathing apparatus for the inmates of the Eastern Asylum, where, in the short space of nineteen evenings, 987 individuals availed, themselves of its advantages. On the closing of that as a lum the apparatus was placed at the disposal of an Asso'.dation for Promoting Cleanliness amongst the Poor, which. Associatit to commenced its operations by allowing necess,itous persona to wash and bathe gratuitously in the building; and such ws. as the avidity with which it had been resorted to, that the nu tuber of those who have washed and bathed there amounts nut v, at the end of twenty-two weeks, to 24,027. Although si small allow ance of soap is made to each bather, and of soa p and soda to each washer, the expense does not quite &mat nit to threc halfpence a-head. STATU E ON SIR JAMES SHAW, THE LI :TE CHAM BERLAIN ON TILE CITY.—It is by no means gen erally known that a statue is about to be erected to the re temory of Sir James Shaw, who preceded Sir William Hey gate in the office of Chamberlain of the City of London. he statue is to be ramie by Mr. Fillans, the sculptor, a n d t o b e placed in Kilmarnoc k, wh ere , we be lieve, Sir James She w was born. A plaster .of Paris cas t, f rom a _lendid model of the statue, was some week s ago sent by Mr. Fillans to the c tmmittee at townspeople,K i 1 m ari appointedfor approval. to carry . e i y e too unanimously t the fishes d o s p h p e r s o of ve the f the cast, and the scu l p t or i s now at work on the b doc k. k. The statue is to be colos sa l, an d to stand on a grani to pedestal fourteen .feet altitude. [ADV ERTISEMENT.] —The fame of Hollow ay's Pills, in the eel .e of headaches, dimness of sight, deranges d stomachs, and disordered livers, as likewise in restoring a t rength and vigour in cases of debilitated constitutions, is ) great, that even in enc. East Indies the different castes and natives are taking but little other medicine than these famous Pills. One native agent in the Presidency of Bombay sold I. it ely, retail, fifty-three dozen boxes in fifteen days. The eat raordinary cures performed by these Pills, when all other a ins fail, is truly wonderful. Females will find this a most admirable medicine.—So ld by all druggists, and pt Professor olloway's establlsitiont, 244, Straw!, London. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENYNQ_NOVEMBER 7, 1845. IRELAND. THE POTATO DISTEMPER. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLL'S COURT, Nov. 6. LONG v. BUNNEY. This was a petition in which the plaintiff, Ann Elizabeth Long, a minor, by means of her friends, sought to impugn a decision found before the Master. From the facts of the case it appeared that the plaintiff was the illegitimate child of a gentleman named Gilmore, who died in 1842, bequeath ing her a sum of money equivalent to 1001. per annum, as well as other property. The widow of the testator having contessed the validity of the will, one of the trustees of the petitioner filed a bill in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, and the defendant was appointed her guardian, thus setting aside, to a certain extent, the will of the plaintiff's father, which nominated a female, Mary Pointer, to the guardianship of the petitioner during her minority. The grounds on which the Vice-Chancellor had made this order were, that the mother of the petitioner was an illiterate person, and that Mary Pointer was not qualified to supply her place, or superintend the education of plaintiff. The petition contended that Bunney had an interest adverse to that of the petitioner, being one of the executors of the will ; and having sold some of the timber on the property, which belonged to the plaintiff, and granted leases injurious to her interests, consequently was entitled to be the party at whose suit proceedings should be instituted. The arguments in this case occupied the whole day, and his Lordship expressed his determination to delay giving his judgment, in crder to give the case full deliberation. DUBLIN, Nov. s.—The indefatigable trio of Potato Com missioners have presented a third report to the Lord Lieu tenant upon the subject cf their inquiries into the state of the crop. This document, as well as its predecessor, is some what prolix and not remarkable for the novelty of its sug gestions, many of which have been already laid before the public, unencumbered with the multiplicity of directions which overload the present report, and, therefore, being less complex, better adapted to the tastes of a people who are now by an unexpected calamity called upon for the first time to follow a course of treatment foreign to their old and che rished customs. Indeed, so sensible are the learned pro fessors of this difficulty, that they wind up with the follow ing misgiving : " There will be (they say), of course, a good deal of trouble in doing all that we have recommended, and, perhaps, you will not succeed Very well at first ; but we are confident that all true Irish men will exert themselves, and never let it be said that in Ireland the inhabitants wanted courage to meet difficulties against which other nations are successfully struggling." Subjoined is the report : " TO HIS EXCELLENCY BARON lIEYTESBURY, LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND, ecc. " Board-room, Royal Dublin Society, Nov. 3. " My Lord,—We have had the honour to lay before your Ex cellency reports on the disease in the potato crop, which have been distributed extensively throughout the country. Representations, however, have been made to us, that the recommendations being in the form of reports, are not likely to be of that use which the more simple form of instructions might enable them to be. We have, therefore, thought It advisable to prepare the accompanying direc tions, in the hope that the methods recommended may be easily understood and promptly carried into execution. " We shall immediately lay before your Excellency our views upon the course which should have been pursued with regard to seed for a future year. " We have the honour to be, your faithful and obedient servants, "ROBERT KANE. "JOHN LINDLEY. " LYON PLAYFAIR. " ADVICE CONCERNING THE POTATO CROP TO TIE FARMERS AND TO THE PEASANTRY OF IRELAND. "The dreadful disease that has attacked your potatoes is one, the effects of which you can only stop by strict attention to the ad. vice of those interested in your welfare. Many plans have been proposed, and after examining them all, we recommend the follow ing as the best. " All competent persons are of opinion that the first things to bear in mind are the following directions : "1. Dig your potatoes in dry weather, if you can, and if you cannot, get them dry somehow as fast as you can. "2. Keep them dry and cool. " 3. Keep the bad potatoes separate from the good. "4. Do not pit your potatoes, as you have been accustomed to de in former years. "5. Recollect that if they got damp nothing can make them keep ; and do not consider theta dry unless the mould which sticks to them is like dust. " Do not take them into your houses, unless you want them for immediate use. "Digging and Drying.—As you dig the potatoes, leave them in the sun all day; and if you can, throw them upon straw, turning them over two or three times. At night you may (gather them together and cover them with straw, so as to keep off frost. Next day take off the straw, spread them out, and give them the sun again. Do this for three days running, if the weather permit. If you put straw enough upon them at night, they will not surlier. " If the weather be unfavourable, and you have a dry loft or outhouse large enough to hold them, you may spread them thinly on the floor, allowing a free circulation of air, so as to dry them there. " They must be got dry. " Sorting the Potatoes—As soon as they are dry you must sort them. Pick them one by one, and put in one heap the very bad ones, in another those which are not so bad, and in a third those that are sontsd. Treat the bad potatoes as shall afterwards be di rected, and store the sound ones according to the dirctious given in the next paragraph. You will know the very bad potatoes by their unpleasant smell, and the second set by their skin look ing brown or dull, and not bright, as it generally does ; a very little practice will teach you how to distinguish them easily from each other. " Storing.—When the potatoes are quite dry and well sorted, proceed to store them thus :—Mark out on the ground a space six feet wide, and as long as you please. Dig a shallow trench two feet wide all round, and throw the mould upon the space, then level it and cover it over with a door of turf-sod, set on their edges. On this sift or spread, very thinly, the dry mixtures, or any of the dry materials described below, and which you may call packing stuff. Also, get some dry slacked lime, and dust all the potatoes with it as well as you can. Then put one row of turf-sods, laid fiat, on the top of the floor, all round the sides, so as to form a broad edge, and within this spread the dry potatoes, mixed well with packing stuff, so as not to touch one another. When you have covered the floor in this manner up to the top of the sods, lay another row of sods all round the first, so that the half of each sod may rest on the bed of potatoes, and the other half on the first layer of sods ; this will make another edge one sod deep, which must be filled up with dry potatoes, and dry packing stuff, as before. Then lay another edge of sods in the same way, fill it again, and go on till the heap is made. When the building of this pit is finished, it may be covered with sods at the top, and will be ready for thatching. If rightly made, it will look like the roof of a cot. Cage cut into steps. " If you do net understand this, ask your landlord or your cler- , gyman to explain its meaning, and we are sure that they will give you every assistance ; also recol!ect that the recommendation ap plies only to sound potatoes, after being well dried. "You will lose nothing by applying these materials in storing, for the turf can be burnt as you use up the potatoes, and the mix. tune of lime with dry clay or ashes, which you are afterwards directed to employ, will form a good manure, after having saved the potatoes. The only difference is, that you must get what you want now, ins'ead of waiting till Xnother time. " After you have completed the heap, thatch it so as to throw off the waters into the ditch and keep out the frost. " In districts where there may not be spare turf sufficient to form the pits in the above way, make them as follows :—Mark out the spot, and make the trench as before. Lay on the ground a floor of stones, about as large as apples, and over them as much heath, brushwood, or twigs as will just cover the stones. On this door form the heaps of potatoes, and packing stuff, just as de scribed, for the turfpit. Cover the sides of the potatoes with more of the packing stuff, and thatch in the usual way. " We must again impress upon you that to pit potatoes in your I usual way is certain destruction to them. A meeting of Proprietors of this Company, called by a party who objected to the agreement entered into by the South-Western and Great Western Companies, with regard to certain projected schemes and extension lines, was an nounced to take place yesterday, at one o'clock, at the London Tavern. At the hour named, in addition to the reporters, there were about half a dozen persons present. The number gradually increased up to two o'clock, when the chair was taken by Mr. Gilbert, there being then about a dozen present. The CHAIRMAN opened the business by stating that he had taken the liberty of calling the present meeting together on account of the Great Western Company having, by their re cent determination, agreed to support lines of railway, in violation of the agreement formerly entered into between them and the South-Western Company. The recent notices given by the former Company to support new schemes, in op position to previous pledges, rendered some step necessary to be taken by the Proprietors ; hence he had called the pre sent meeting. The Hon. Gentleman then moved the adop tion of a memorial to the Directors of the South-Western Company, calling on them to annul the agreement entered into between the two Companies in January last. After some discussion the memorial was moved, but, after waiting half an hour without a seconder being found, the meeting broke up. LONDOA' AND CROYDON RAIL WAY COMPANY. PROPOSED AMALGAMATION WITH THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON. _ COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Non. 6. (Sittings in Banco.) COOK V. WETHERELL. A meeting of the Directors and Shareholders of this Com pany was held yesterday, at the London-bridge station, for the purpose of the Directors submitting, in the form of a resolu tion, the terms on which they proposed to amalgamate with the London and Brighton Company. Iv /LK/I/so/4 , Esq., having taken the chair, proceeded to state briefly the substance of the resolution, which he then read, and which will be found in our advertising columns. When he had concluded his address to the meeting, several questions were put to him relative to the details of the plan, all of which he said he thought it would be more pru dent to leave for the present in the hands of the Direc tors. In answer to another series of questions which were put in reference to the constituion of the future Board of Directors of the united companies, and the mode of disposing of the existing staff of officers, he said, in answer to the first of these questions, that he concaived that the present mode of management in all railway companies was a mere fiction. He called attention to the manner in which all the breweries, banks, and other great commercial establishments were conducted : that was, by a regular number of partners, who made it their business to apply themselves daily and unceasingly to the affairs of their concerns, without which it would be impos sible for them to go on; and he contended that until railway , companies were placed under the direcction and manage ment of a number of persons who would be equally re sponsible and interested, they could not go on satisfactorily , either to themselves, the preprieters, or the public. He had deemed it necessary to make these few observations on this point as it was probable that this would be the last meeting of this Company over which he should preside. In respect to the officers, he had not the least doubt but that they would be provided for, for it was not to be supposed that faithful servants would be summarily dis missed. In answer to another question, he said the time for amalgamation had not yet been definitively fixed, but he supposed it would take place either in January or July next. The question was then put, and the meeting expressed their unanimous approbation of the terms of the amal gamation. Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL, on the part of the defendant in this case, moved for a new trial, and produced and read several affidavits in contradiction of the evidence given on the trial. The facts of the case have been before the public for some time, so that it is not necessary to repeat them here. The Learned Sergeant pointed out several inconsistencies in the evidence given on the trial, and read to the court the affidavits of several persons who, though not examined at the trial, were alluded to by the witnesses, and who now denied any knowledge of transactions in which they had been said to have taken a part. The rule to show cause why there should not be a new trial was granted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-ROUSE. A young man, named David Thomas Darrell, was brought before the Lord Mayor, for final examination, charged with having plundered his employers, Messrs. Posey and Pellatt, of No. 58, Bread-street, warehousemen, in whose employment he had been for some time. Mr. Wolfe, from Mr. Flower's office, who attended for the prosecution, stated that he considered it necessary to make a representation of the conduct of the partner of a highly respectable concern with which tha prosecutors transacted business, exceedingly prejudicial to the moral character of that partner. It had been ascertained that the prisoner had been robbing his employers, and the officer engaged in the in vestigation found in his pocket a small book, in which entries were made in the prisoner's handwriting of certain turf and other wagers with parties whose names were specified. Amongst these names was that of the partner in the house to which he had alluded, to whom the prisoner proved to be a loser. It was quite impossible that the person who, by such conduct, encouraged the destructive vice of gambling, could have been ignorant that the salary of the unfortunate prisoner was no more than 50/. a year, and yet the former was known to have gone to the very warehouse in which the latter was employed to bet upon the Derby with him, and subsequently to call there for the amount of his win nings. He (Mr. Wolfe) was authorised to make this state ment by the prosecutors, who trusted that the public an nouncement of such a fact would, although it could render no service to the prisoner, operate as a warning and a pu nishment to the gentleman whose betting-book presented a more favourable appearance than that upon which the police man had laid his hands. Mr. Pusey said the prisoner was in the employment of the house on the 18th of October last, and in consequence of in formation which he had received, he gave the prisoner into 'ustody. In his pocket was found a letter from a Mr. Peckiss. The prisoner had previously mentioned that he had sent a piece of Irish-wove fine linen for fronts, and apiece of long cloth to Mr. Peckiss, and b a d no t entere d them in the books, although he had received the money for them. It was ascer tained that there was no entry of the kind in the books. • Richard Pordage, a warehouseman at Messrs. Pusey and Co.'s, stated that he supplied the prisoner with the articles specified above out of his department of the business, and he saw the prisonergo up to the entering-book, apparently for the purpose of entering them, and heard him say that he had made the entry. The porter who took the articles to the Parcels' Delivery Company said he saw the prisoner direct them to Peckiss, Esq., of Aylesbury. He th oug ht th ey were th e pr i soner ' s private property, and he was told by the prisoner not to let Mr. Pellatt see the parcel. Mr. H. B. Peckiss, surgeon, at Aylesbury, stated that he wrote the letter which had been found upon the prisoner, re questing that he would send to him the goods specified, and he remitted to the prisoner, by a post-office order, the sum of 41. 15s. 6d. for the goods. Witness believed at the time he was dealing with the prosecutors. The policeman stated that he found in the possession of the prisoner a pocket-book containing Mr. Peckiss's letter, and the prisoner said, in answer to a question, that he had sent the goods. A similar charge, in which the prisoner is stated to have sent goods belonging to his employer to a Mr. Sparling, and received the value without making any entry, wa3 preferred, and he was committed for trial upon both accusations. An,elderly man, named William ,White, was brought up on the charge of having attempted to pick' the pockets of several gentlemen at the Post-office. The prisoner was observed with a letter in his hand wait iug about the Post-office, and as he did not attempt to post the letter, it was suspected that he was in the neighbourhood for another purpose. He was watched, and seen to dip his hand into the pockets of several persons. A policeman said he knew White to be in the habit of trying to pick pockets. The prisoner —Never in my life did such a thing —never was in a prison before in my life. Goocs (the turnkey) said the old gentleman was certainly a pickpocket, although he might not have been in the Comp ter before. There was no doubt at all that the prisoner was in the habit of attending the Post-office when the crowds assembled to get in their letters, and that under the shelter of a letter he was constantly picking pockets. He at first said, upon being asked to whom the letterwas addressed, that it was directed to his uncle; and upon being told that the superscription was a female's name, "Oh then," said he, '• it was to my aunt." The prisoner was committed to Bridewell fos two months. MAIILBOROUGH-STREE 7: THE LATE EXTENSIVE WATCH AND JEWELLERY ROBBERY IN THE CFTY.—PHOJECTEH RESCUE OF THE PRISONEOS-- George Gamble and Adolphus Win. Bodell were brought 1.2 for final examination, charged with stealing and obtaining by false pretences gold and silver watches, guard-chains, diamond rings, &c., to the amount of between 3,0001. and 4,0001. The Court was densely crowded the moment it was opened, and a great number of persons had assembled in the street to catch a sight of the prisoners as they alighted from the prison van, on their being brought up from the New Bridewell, Westminster. While in that gaol, it appears they had concocted a plan of escape, by being rescued as they were getting into the van to be brought up for final exami nation previous to their committal to Newgate for trial. On Thursday fortnight they contrived to convey out of the prison three letters, lay means of a fellow-prisoner named Hall, who st3od remanded from Marylebone Police-court on a charge of felony, and was that day brought up there for further examination, the result of which was his committal to Newgate for trial. Hall, it appears, had been paying his addresses to a respectable female in the neighbour hood of the Regent's Park, and on her visiting him in Newgate, the three letters were delivered to her, concealed in some dirty linen. On discovering them, she handed them to her father, who delivered two of them, but mislaid the third ; and, on the following day, seeing in The Sun newspaper an account of the prisoner's final examination, he, after making inquiries, was induced to communicate these facts to Mr. French. In consequence, two of the letters were found to have been written by Gamble—one to a party in the Haymarket, requesting him to have a carriage and post horses in waiting near the prison at the time the prisoners were brought out this morning, and stating that it was the determivation of the writer and his fellow-prisoner to attempt their escape at all hazards, as it would most probably be the only chance that would again occur in their lifetime. Effec tual precautions were, of course, taken by the police to frus trate their intention; and, this morning, before leaving the prison, they were securely handcuffed. Several police con stables were also in attendance to see them placed in the van, anel on their arriving at the Court similar precautions were adopted. No attempt was, however, made, but additional constables were in attendance during the day, and a con stable was expressly stationed in front of the cells they were confined in, to prevent any communication whatever with the prisoners. Mr. Humphries, the solicitor, again appeared on the part of the prosecution, and Mr. Wright, of Fenchurch- street, for the defence. The CIIAIRDIAN next laid before the meeting a proposi tion for forming a steam-packet company in connexion with the Brighton Railway Company, in order to compete for the traffic coming from the opposite coast. He also congratu lated the Company upon the fact, that the Croydon Company were the first to establish the atmospheric principle ; and he bad not the least doubt upon his mind but that in a few years the atmospheric railway system would effect as great a revolution in railways as steam had done in the former modes of travelling, because the atmospheric plan would be found to be safer, cheaper, and more rapid. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. "Packing Stuff:—This, which is of the greatest consequ ence, may be prepared in either of the following ways—some of you may prefer the one, some the other:— " First Way.—Mix a barrel of freshly burnt unslacked lime, with wo barrels of sand or tarth, as dry as you possibly can get it. The . _ _ . . - lumps of lime should be broken into pieces as large as marbles, and the, mixture should be left 24 hours ; at the end of that time turn the heap well over, mixing the lime and sand (or other dry mate rials) till no lumps of lime can be found. " Second Way.—Mix well equal quantities of earth and turf, or dry sawdust ; put a few sods of lighted turf on the ground, place the mixture on them by degrees till a large heap is made in a few hours the tire will have spread through the heap, which is then to be covered with earth so as to put out the tire. In fact, this is to be managed just as if you were burning land. This burnt mixture forms a very good kind of packing stuff, perhaps as good as the mixture of lime with dry materials. " What to do with bad potatoes.—When potatoes are only slightly diseased, that is, when the disease shows itself only under the skin in small dark spots, or, at most, spreading into the sub stance of the potato for about a quarter of an inch deep, with a yel low, or light brown, or blackish colour, and without any smell, they may be eaten by the family without any danger. They should be peeled and the diseased parts pared off before they are boiled ; the parts cut off should be kept for making starch. Potatoes thus treated are wholsome and palateable, but should be used for food as quickly as possible, as it is not quite certain that they will keep long with the greatest care. " It is a pity to destroy potatoes for starch if they will other wise keep. Cut out the diseased parts, if it can easily be done, and dust over the cut parts with lime and the potato also. Get them dry as soon as you possibly can, and if you have outhouses or sheds you should keep the potatoes in them, also using the packing materials. In such cases you should allow the air to circulate freely in the sheds, and frequently examine your potatoes, which should not be laid in layers above two or three feet in height. If you turn them frequently during the first two or three weeks, and keep them very dry in this way, they will probably keep. Although sheds or outhouses are to be preferred, if you have them not and cannot construct them out of cheap mrterials, you should store the diseased potatoes by themselves, Just as we ha►e recommended you to store the sound oues. " If. with all your care, the diseased potatoes still get worse, dry them thoroughly in kilns, or on hurdles placed over low turf fires, after having cut the potatoes into two or three slices. It is only very bad potatoes that you should break up into starch. " How to save the value of very bad potatoes.—Although no. body knows how to make bad potatoes into good ones, or to prevent many of them from becoming worse, yet it is possible to extract from bad potatoes, or from bad parts of them, a great deal which is good. For this purpose proceed as follows :—Provide yourselves with the following things,—a rasp or grater, which may be made out of a sheet of tin, or even of sheet iron bent round, and punched full of holes with a nail—a common coarse linen cloth, or hair sieve, hand sieve, or common cloth strainer— and a pail, or tub or two to hold water. " To make the bad potatoes useful wash them clean, and then rasp them into one of the tubs of water; the finer they are rasped the more food you will produce from them. Having rasped a good many, take the cloth and place it on another tub, then put the pulp on the cloth and pour water on it, allowing the water to run through. You have now two things to attend to, the pulp and the starch. To prevent hinderance to the other public business, the de positions were taken in the private room by Mr. Fitzpatrick, the chief clerk. Between :30 and 40 witnesses have been summoned to attend. " First attend to the pulp ; squeeze out as much water as you can from what remains in the cloth. You should wash it, how. ever, till no smell remains. After you have squeezed it pretty dry, complete the drying on a griddle, over a slack fire, and when it is dry put it aside for use. " Next look to the milky water ; it will then become clear, and the milkiness, which is starch, will have settled to the bottom. Pour oft the water gently till the starch is tolerably well drained, then add more water, stir the whole well up, and let it settle again. As soon as it is again clear pour off the water, and when you have got rid of as much as you can, put the wet lumps of starch on a shelf or other place to dry. In a few days: it will be fit to pack up. In addition to the particulars which have appeared in The Sun, Sergeants Wall and Gray, since the prisoners' last exa mination, have succeeded in tracing out, pledged at different pawnbrokers shops, twenty-nine gold and silver watches be longing to Mr. French, on which upwards of 2401. had been obtained, and ten other watches obtained by Gamble from different watchmakers and jewellers under false pretences. The circumstances of some of the latter cases are held to constitute a larceny, and Gamble already stands committed for trial for stealing goods similarly obtained. The amount advanced in pledge on the watches, &c., belonging to Mr. French is 600/. and upwards, and the actual value of the pro perty which will be restored to him is about 2,0001. Some further evidence having been adduced, the prisoners, who declined saying anything in defence, were fully com mitted on Mr. French's case, but ordered to be brought up again in a week on other charges. It appeared that Mr. French is likely to recover the greater part of his property. In many instances where there was a doubt, Mr. French refused to identify the pro perty, but gave it up to the pawnbrokers, a proceeding that has given much satisfaction. " Good wholesome bread may be made by mixing the starch with the dried pulp, peasmeal, beanmeal, oatmeal, or flour. You must bear in mind that starch is not food by itself. " There will be, of course, a good deal of trouble in doing all that we have recommended, and perhaps you will not succeed •ery wall at first ; but we are confident that all hue Irishmen will exert themselves, and never let it be said that in Ireland the inhabitants wanted courage to meet difficulties against which other nations are successfully struggling. " ROBERT KANE. " JOHN LINDLEY. " LYON PLAYFAIR. SOU'T'HWARK. A policeman, named Corcoran, of the M division, was charged before Mr. Cottingham with committing an assault of an aggravated nature on Martha Wright. The complainant stated that she is an unfortunate girl, and that on Monday-morning, between four and five o'clock, she was walking home to her lodgings in Kent-street, with another girl, when the defendant came up and desired them to go on quicker. They proceeded along, when the defendant, without their giving any provocation, came up and struck the complainant, and tore her bonnet off her head. She turned round to remonstrate, when she was again assaulted by the defendant, who struck her a blow on her nose, which made it bleed, and he also kicked her. She then ran into the house where she lodged, to escape from further violence, and had not since seen her bonnet. She added that, as she was outside the Court that morning, waiting to be called in to give her evidence, a man came up to her, and, having spoken to her abo u t the transaction, gave her 10s. for the loss of her bonnet, at the same time saying that there was no occasion for her to remain there any longer, as the case was disposed of. She further said that on previous occasions she had been assaulted by the defendant, although she was not aware of having given him any cause for it. The complainant's evidence as to the assault on the morn ing in question, was corroborated by the young woman who was in her company at the time, and the landlady of the hmse in which she lodged proved that on her entrance her nose was bleeding. The latter witness also mentioned the uncalled-for abuse uttered by the defendant towards herself, when she remonstrated on the violence exercised towards the complainant. The defendant denied having assaulted the complainant in the manner described, and said that his attention was -called to the spot where she and some other girls were quarrelling. That on his arrival he tried to prevent any further disturb ance, and only received abuse for his pains. That finding the complainant was obstinate, he merely took her by the arm to compel her to go home, when she begat to abuse , him ; and `Board Room, Royal Dublin Society." THE MURDER OF MR. PATRICK CLARKE. The Tipperary papers contain the proceedings had at the inquest held on Saturday on the body of the last victim to the code of Tip perary. " The corpse," say the reports, " presented a frightful appearance, the skull having been smashed in, and the face covered with blood and brains." After hearing evidence the jury returned the following ver dict That the said Patrick Clarke, Esq., came by his death in consequence of a gunshot wound inflicted upon him in the after. noon of Friday, the 31st day of October, by some person or persons unknown, and of which wound he died." " Throughout Saturday, Sunday, and Monday," says the Vindi cator, " the police continued to make the most energetic exertions for the discovery of the perpetrators ; but, up to the present_time, without any prospect whatever of success." A reward of 3701., subscribed by the friends and relatives of the deceased, has been offered for the discovery of the murderers, and a meeting of the magistrates of the county is convened for Monday next, at the Court-house of Nenagh. ANOTHER MURDER IN MAYO. A letter from Westport, published in the Mayo Constitution, says : " It is my painful duty to inform you that about eight o'clock on last (Saturday) night, as a man named Peter Gibbons was leaving this town (Westport) for his residence near Kilboyne, he was waylaid opposite the Court-house here, and received a blow of a loaded stick which broke his skull. He lived about two hours after receiving the blow. An inquest was held this day by the coroner, when a verdict of Wilful murder' was returned against some person unknown. The authorities here are on the alert, and it is to be hoped that the murderer ere long will be secured. There was much rioting during the night, and never did I see more drunken persons in this once peaceable town. I should have stated that the unfortunate Gibbons had some dispute with some persons at the last fair of Ballyhane, and that they got him set for his murderer. The Milan lay near a wall until he saw his victim." that with respect to her having lost her bonnet, she had thrown it into the road herself, and if it were lost she was to blame. The defendant then called two other policemen, for the purpose of proving that the complainant was very violent in her behaviour on the occasion, and also to contradict the statement with respect to his having struck or kicked the girl. The witnesses, however, varied in their accounts of the transaction, and after a lengthened investigation, Mr. Cot tingham, after having made some remarks on the conduct pursued to women in the complainant's unfortunate situa tion, against whom all hands were raised, and who rarely had a friend to appear in their behalf, said that they were entitled to the same protection as other females, so long as they conducted themselves peaceably in their miserable calling. That on the present occasion, from the evidence adduced in support of the charge, it was made cut to his satisfaction ; that he was aware policemen bad .an arduous duty to perform ; but when a man in that situation conducted himself in the manner the defendant was found to have dcne, he was not fit, in his estimation, to be continued longer in the force, for it was evident throughout the inquiry that he was a passionate man, and had no command over his temper, and that he had acted with a degree of violence towards the woman which could not be justified under any circumstances. The Magistrate added, that, instead of imposing a fine on the defendant, he should sentence him to one month's imprison ment.—Committed accordingly. THE AFFAIRS OF THE PUNJAUB. The late movements of the Indian army in the north western provinces, the powerful force which is already col lected in Meerut and on the banks of the Sutlej, the depar ture of the Governor-General from Calcutta, and the conti nual disturbances and insurrections which agitate the king dom of Lahore, have directed the attention of the world to the affairs of the Punjaub, and to the crisis which seems to be approaching there. The whole force of the eorps within reach of the north-western frontier is stated by the Indian papers to consist of eight troops of European horse artillery, three troops of native horse artillery, six companies of European foot artillery, five companies of native foot artillery, ten companies of sappers and miners, two regiments of Euro pean cavalry, five regiments of native light cavalry, seven regiments of European light infantry, twenty-three regiments of native infantry, and three regiments of irregular ca valry, all which may be estimated to amount to a force of 32,000 infantry, 5,800 cavalry, and 140 guns. The Bengal Hurharu, from which we borrow this statement, complains that the native regiments in this army are insufficiently pro vided with European officers, not having above fifteen British officers of all ranks per regiment; but, without entering into a technical discussion on this point, we have no doubt that this army is one of the finest, if not the very finest, ever assembled on the plains of India. The presence of such a force clearly denotes a great politi cal object, and a considerable amount of respect for the adversary we may have to encounter—that object is to re store the Punjaub to a state of tranquillity, and that adver sary is the Seikh army, which is still the best and most formidable of the native armies of Asia, but which is a permanent and insurmountable obstacle to the peaceable government of the country, and even to the security of our own frontier. If it were a mere question of acquisition of territory, we believe that there is not a di rector in Leadenhall-street, or a member of Council in India, or a statesman either here or there, who would not rather hold back than expose the Government of India to the charges and difficulties of a fresh conquest, and a still further ex tension of its dominions. But that neutrality which it has been the disposition of the Government to observe, during the sanguinary contests which have been going on for some years in Lahore, actually imposes upon us all the burdens of war. The strength of the Indian army has ever been adapted to the amount of force required to maintain our supremacy in the country; but the foreign wars of the last seven years, the occupation of Slade, and the necessity of maintaining a large army of observation to keep in check so formidable and uncertain a power on the other side of the Sutlej, have imposed very heavy and extraordinary burdens on the mili tary and financial resources of India. Such a state of things cannot be perpetual. No man will consent to maintain the fire brigade upon his own premises because his neighbour's house is continually in a blaze. The conflagration must be extinguished. In the present state of Lahore, every adven • turer who wins the support of the army may extort from the feeble Government his own terms; and he enters the capital either to be bribed or assassinated—probably both. Such has been apparently the last turn in the fortunes of Prince Pe shora Singh. That enterprising personage, aftercapturing At tock and defeating the troops sent against him from Lahore, has accepted terms offered to him by the Maharanee, mother of the young Raja ; for a jaghire of a lakh of rupees and the promise of a distinguished post at Court, he agreed to make his entry and submission at Lahore. On the approach of his rival, the Wuzeer retired with the large sums of money he had appropriated to himself. Peshora has, therefore, pro bably re-entered the capital a great man ; and at no distant period we may expect to learn that he is either the hero or the victim of some new tragedy. It is obvious that these incessant revolutions and convulsions are inherent in a bar barous state of society where no one man exercises a su preme and irresistible power. With them where absolute despotism ceases anarchy begins. But if the British rule in India has been distinguished by any virtue—if, as we believe it to have done, it has rendered the greatest services to the whole of the vast community it governs—those services con sist mainly in the substitution of a fixed authority and an en lightened deliberate control for the vicissitudes and excesses of Oriental despotism. The two forms of Government are not only hostile, but irreconcileable. They both of them aim at power, but the one snatches at its immediate fruits by ad venture and crime ; the other insures its permanence by a policy as temperate as it is certain and firm. Ere long, the Government of Lahore will invoke that support which they know to be the only secure protection of their lives and their rank. They will forfeit their independence, and a collision will take between the steadily advancing tide of civil Govern ment and British power, and the forces of the Seikh army. The cavalry and artillery of that army are not, we believe, materially inferior to our own native forces in those arms ; and in speaking of Asiatic troops it is impossible to give higher praise to an antagonist. But in this, as in all our Asiatic campaigns, the presence of even a small proportion of European troops turns the scale. In reality, the proportion of British muscle and British spirit has on no former occa sion been so considerable; and although the Seikh army may be very well prepared to fight a battle, and not to surrender its high reputation without a struggle, neither the condition of the Government of Lahore nor that of the troops can ad mit of the possibility of a protracted campaign. The next Mails will probably inform us whether any negotiations have actually been opened, which may lead to an invasion of the Punjaub, and to the establishment of a settled form of go vernment there under a subsidiary treaty; or whether this event will be postponed until some fresh convulsion occurs. The departure of Sir Henry Hardinge from Calcutta, unac companied by any member of Council, but invested by a I special act of the Indian Government with the full powers of the Governor in Council during his visit to the north-western provinces, appears to encourage the former supposition. But the course of events in Lahore will doubtless accelerate or defer the final determination of the Governor-General.—Times. SCARCITY OF FOOD. (From the Norfolk News.) 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BRODIE and urgeons, London. 0 41 Published by the Authors, and sold CO.,by Sherwood, Paternoste l :: o o9' Nannay and Co., 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxeord-street ; Purkiss, ton-street, Soho ; Noble, 114, Chancery-lane ; Barth, 4, 130 ;01 1 ! street, Covent-garden; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street, Wood, High-street, Birmingham ; Newton, Church-street , „ r ill:: pool ; Westmacott, Manchester ; Heron and C o ., 6, L ow er Sactof street, Dublin ; Ker, 16, Leith-walk, Edinburgh ; Ferris and f f , Union-street, Bristol ; and by all Booksellers in town and coal"' 0 OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. PA' ' " This is a work of great merit, and should be placed in 0 0 . . 4 10 of every young man who is suf f ering from past folly and indis ov od contains many valuable truths, and its perusal is certain to be i him in many ways."—The London Mercantile Journal. 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On the 21st ult., Charles, eldest son of C.tyle, Esq. , Donegal. „ 10 11 On the 30th ult., Mrs. Eliz a b e th G a i n , o f - CanterlitUl -1 " ningtor aged 80. ged 76. 4- On the 2d inst., at Barking, Essex, James Sharp, Eat , On the 3d lust:, Sir J o h n C. 2ifortlock, one of ner Maissv missioners of Excise, aged 68. aged On the 4th inst., John Southgate, Esq., Old 'Change, s YOU London : Printed and P u bli s h e d by WIRD° NGt, " o Of Strand, Printer, at Th e S u n Vo. 112, Strand , la of the Saroy i in the County of-MidcUeoos, Sel'UPO 7, 1845. • J~~ 4 ; c.i 4~ THE TREASURY The Memorial of the undersigned Inhabitants of the City of Norwich, Sheweth,—That your memorialists partake:in the general alarm excited by the failure of the potato crops, and the deficiency in the wheat crops, which have occurred simul taneously in Great Brit a i n and Irelaud, and in many of the nations on the Continent of Europe. That the scarcity and the consequent privation to the poor throughout her Majesty's domiuions, to be apprehended from these causes, will be felt with peculiar severity in the city of Norwich. That the operatives of this city have just emerged from a lengthened period of distress, unexampled in the memory of any living citizen, if not unparalleled in the history of civilized countries—a distress which, though borne with patient fortitude, has, in many instances, induced a condition of slow starvation—a distress which the Poor-law, find the utmost efforts of private charity, have been found alike utterly inefficient to relieve—a distress, in the recollection of which, your memorialists cannot look backward without affliction ; nor forward, under present circumstances, without absolute dismay. That the rate of wages now earned by these operatives, a rate not likely to be soon raised, and not certain to be long continued. is but barely sufficient to sustain life ; the impend ing advance in the price of food must, therefore, plunge them during the coming winter into aggravated want. Necessity, it is said, has no law; the present emergency, as it appears to your memorialists, calls imperatively for the temporary suspension of that law which limits the supply of food. For the sake of warding off, as far as possible, the antici pated sufferings of the poor citizens of Norwich, as well as the distress which is threatened to their fellow-subjects in Ireland, and in other parts of the empire, your memorialists entreat her Majesty's Government to suspend, for such time as they may deem expedient, all DUTIES ON IMPORTED ARTICLES OF FOOD. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. THE POTATO DISEASE. Dr. Ryan yesterday gave a lecture at the above institu tion on the potato disease. As this subject has become a matter of great consequence to the whole kingdom, we deem a notice of a portion of the lecture would be acceptable to our readers. The potato owes its nutritious properties to the starch which it contains. 100 parts of a fresh potato, denuded of its skin, are composed of—water, from 68 to 72 ; meal, 32 to 28. The meal consists of—starch, from 15 to 17 ; fibrous matter, 8 to 9 ; mucilage, 5 to 6. To extract the whole of the starch from 15 to 17 per cent. may be obtained. The idea of employing starch as an article of food may appear to many exceedingly strange • but the difficulty will perhaps disappear when they learn that arrowroot, tapioca, &c., are merely varieties of starch ; wheat flour, rye, barley, rice, &c., also contain lai - ge quantities of that substance. The process of obtaining starch from these substances is comparatively easy and rapid. Formerly all the starch of commerce was obtained from wheat flour or meal. That sub stance contains a considerable amount of gluten, and to sepa rate that entirely from the starch occupied a considerable period of time—upwards of ten days. First of all, the wheat and meal had to be kept in cold water until fermenta tion set in. This fermentation was allowed to go on to the acetous stage, in order that the acetic acid formed might dis solve the gluten and allow the starch to separate. The starch was then removed, and washed repeatedly, and passed through sieves of various degrees of fineness, and this pro cess was continued until sufficient purity was obtained. In obtaining starch from other substances, such as the potato or the sago plant, the gluten offers no annoyance, as simple maceration is sufficient. The skin is first removed, and the potato grated into a pulpy mass; it is then stirred up in cold water, when everything will dissolve, but the fibrous matter, the mucilage, will disappear upon washing, and the fibre is removed by passing through sieves. The starch is deposited at the bottom of the water, is then dried on stones or in an oven, and is then fit for use. When it is intended for immediate use it is not necessary to dry it, but the addition of boiling water affords a highly nutritious and palatable food. During the process of wash ing the diseased portions are removed. The Learned Doctor feared that it would be difficult to convince the poor of the facility with which the process might be done. The Doctor also stated, although the potato disease was ascribed to a variety of causes, that which he considered the most probable was cold and damp, which was quite sufficient to produce the results discovered in <the tuber. This disease somewhat resembles that which attacks other plants from long-con tinued rains. It is well to know that vegetable matter, in a state of decomposition, is highly prejudicial to health, and produces serious epidemics. The view taken of the potato disease by Dr. Ryan seems to coincide with that of the Government Commissioners in Ire land, who seem to attribute the disease to a sluggish circula tion in the plant. CHARING-CROSS BRIDGE. A meeting of the Charing-cross Bridge Proprietors was held yesterday at their office, 9, Villiers-street, Strand, to take into consideration Mr. Fuller's offer for the bridge. Mr. W. Hawes in the chair. Mr. LAWRENCE, the Secretary, read the minutes of the last meeting, and the notice calling this. A protest by Mr. Cope, of St. Martin's-lane, against the sale of the bridge, having been read, The CHAIRMAN informed the meeting that the Directors bad been able to complete the sale of the bridge at 226,000/. The contract of sale was read specifying Mr. Jackson, Sir Joshua Walesby, and Mr. Reid as the purchasers; that 10,0001. of the purchase-money should be paid immediately, 108,000!. by the Ist August next, if the present Bridge Com pany should have succeeded_in obtaining an Act of Parlia- inept authorising them to sell, and the remainder when the contract of sale shall have been fulfilled in all its particulars, as far as they regard the present Company; and that if the purchasers after this, but before the completion of sale, shall wish to withdraw, that they may do so under the for feiture of the 10,0001. paid. It was moved by Mr. SEAGER, and supported by Mr. WALKER, to the effect —lst, That this be entered on the mi nutes; 2d, That this meeting sanctions and confirms this sale and contract; 3rd, That this sale and contract be com pleted by the Directors; 4th, That the meeting authorises the Directors to adopt all such measures as are necessary to obtain an Act of Parliament permitting to sell. Mr. STINELY expressed his entire approbation of the re solutions. Mr. ADAMS thought that 10,0001. was a great deal too little as a forfeiture in case of non-compliance of the con tract on the part of the purchasers. He would have had the sale completed at once. Here you must go to Parliament first, and not only for power to sell, but, as he understood, for power to enlarge the bridge for the passing of hones and steam carriages. [The Chairman—That is not the case, the new purchasers may go to Parliament for this object if they choose.] Well, but as it is the bridge is taken out of the market; it is kept out of the market for four or five months by three or four persons (and no one knows what difficulty there is in obtaining an Act of Parliament, what back stairs influence may be used to stop it in its progress), and then these gentlemen may turn round and say they withdraw from the contract. All they lose is 10,000/. They offer 226,0001. for the bridge, and to have it at their option to fulfil the terms of the offer four or five months after, or not at the risk of forfeiting 10,0001., not 214 per cent. [The Chair man—nearly 5 per cent.] He heard the money paid was to have been 20,000/., and this would have been but a trifle, considering at the expiration of the time in question, the risk there is of a fall in the market. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to some questions from Share holders, said the tolls realised 2001. a week; that there was 11,0001. depo ited with the Company's bankers that morn ing. The total amount from tolls was 4,500/. To some one who asked whether the present purchasers, previous to obtaining the Act of Parliament, could sell the property, the CHAIRMAN said, of course they could do with their own property as they chose. Mr. HOWLER just rose to remind them that until an Act of Parliament was obtained the sale could not be completed —it was impossible to buy the bridge out and out. The CHAIRMAN concurred in this, and added the Directors had exerted their utmost to•get 20 ,0001., but were unable. Mr. ENGLISH, after some remarks on other offers having been made to the Company, moved, as an amendment, -' That Mr. Fuller's offer be declined, unless with option, and that the meeting take into consideration the offer previously made to the Directors of 216,0004" which was seconded by Mr. Goodall. . Mr. STOCKTON wished to urge upon the meeting, before this amendment was put, the improprietv of vo ti ng on i t. H e had heard much at the last meeting about th e i mmora li t i es e how they c o u ld stultify themselves b voting s not this a ne w o ff er? connected with their voting , but he would as k t h em, a f ter uspfili a (,)i s l tEtilnliegtyoLpl: this a E amendment. d ß tloll l A CHAIRMAN—No. Mr. ENGLISII—Wm there not an offer of 216,0001., with option ? CHAIRMAN—Yes ; but never in a condition that your Directors could submit to a meeting. The offer was made by Mr. Fuller at a time when your Directors were already on terms with two other parties, and they rejected this offer. On pressing that offer afterwards, however, it was withdrawn. On the amendment being put to the meeting three voted for it. For the resolutions, 57 of those present voted for, and 7 against them. Total proxies and votes, 256 ayes; 10 noes. The cordial thanks of the meeting to the Chairman and the Directors were moved by Mr. Stutely, and seconded by Mr. Hopgood. The CHAIRMAN, in reply, concurred in the expressions used by Mr. Stutely, and took them for his own, and said that in case he had evinced any warmth, it was for the interests of the Company, and trusted they would always meet as though nothing of the kind had occurred. The meeting then separated. THE BANK OF ENGLAND. At a late hour yesterday afternoon the Bank of England ad vanced the rate of interest on bills at ninety-five days, dis counted by them, to 3% per cent. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Nereide, Grant, from Bombay, at Gravesend, sailed July 17 ; Catherine, Brown, from the Cape of Good Hope, at Falmouth, sailed from Algoa Bay Aug. 15, Table Bay, Aug. 28, St. Helena, Sept. 10 ; Heroine, Coltish, from Van Diemen's Land, off Plymouth, sailed from Launceston, May 31. Departures from Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope—Phoenix (steamer), Aug. 23, fo r T a bl e Bay ; Zuleika, Montgomery, 24th, for Angra Pequin a ; C ass andra, Kerr, 25 th, for New Orleans; Isabella (A mer i can ), Matthews, for Algoa B a y ; Majestic, Smith, a n d Ri c h ar d, H o pkins, for Elephant Rock ; Thomas and Joseph Crisp, Potts, for Mauritius; Ceylon, Beazley, for Algoa Bay; Swartwick, Hjarne, for Batavia. Departures from Simon's Bay—Her Majesty's ship Lancer, Aug. 22, and Hussar, 23d, f or Batavia. Arrivals in Algoa Bay Prince of \Vales, Brown, Aug, 17 ; Blackaller, Watson, 19th, both from M a uritius; Gilbert Hen derson, Tweedie, from London ; Chanticleer, Challis, 21, Guard, Paine, and Essex, Rotby, 22d, from Table Bay. Departures from Algoa Bay--Lady Emma, Paddle, Aug. 16, to Mauritius; Mary Ann, Guy, 22d, to Lo ndon. Departure from t. Helena—Julius Ceesar, Sept. 7, to Cork. Arrival at Madeira—Maria Somas (transport), King, Sept. 27, from Cork, and sailed 28th, to Ceylon. Arrivals at Madras—Orestes, Fenwick, Sept. 14, from Cud dalore ; Alecto, Anwyl, 21st, from Liverpool. Departures from Madras—Cape (packet), Lamb, Sept. 14, to Ennore and Calcutta ; Diana, Vincent, 18, to Bimlipatam ; her Majesty's ship Fo x , to Trincomalee ; Courier de Indie, to Calcutta. DEATH OF A CHILD FROM LAUDANUM, GIN, AND BEER.—Thursday Mr. Bak er h e ld a n inquest at the Three Jolly Anglers, Lea-bridge, E as t Mi ddlesex, on the body of George James Rumba], aged tsvo.and. a .h alf years, w h o se parents reside in some tenements belonging to M r. L ee ' s b r i c ktields, near Lea-bridge. On Sunday morning th e d eceased wen t i n to the next neighbour's house, where he had a small portion o f g i n a nd beer, mixed toge. ther, given to him. H e subsequently b eca me sleepy, and was placed in bed. He a wo k e once or tw i ce d ur ing the day, but ex.. Aired the same evening. The mother of the deceased stated that the infant had had the hooping.cough, and on the morning in question she had given it two spoonsful of a mixture which she had been recommended by another female, composed of vinegar, treacle, I and laudanum. Soon after the child had drank the gin and beer, on awaking he became very sick. She had had six children, only one of whom was now living, the others having died young. One of them expired on the Friday previous to deceased. Her husband belonged to a " burial gathering," and she had received money for their funerals. Mr. Kellock, surgeon, of Stoke Newington, said he was called in on Monday morning, and received the same state ment from the mother as that just given in evidence. Death, he thought, had been caused by irritation of the system, from the effects of the inum and :improper stimulants, there being pre. disposition to Wavulsions from hooping.cough. There was no appearance of disease, otherwise, sufficient to account for death. The jury returned a verdict of " Died from natural causes.", WOVEMBER . MIST S. Once more November's month its reign resumes, 'Mid cheerless prospects and proverbial glooms ; No cheering beams of sunshine can we trace— The sun appears afraid to show his face. The fading leaves and flowers of Autumn say, " Farewell! good folks ; we',l call another day." This is the time when people should obtain Extra attire, to suit the Winter's reign ; Each gentleman should buy an over-Coat, . As winter's season is not far remote ; For such a famous article resists The influence of the dull " November Mists." November's month to chilling damp exposes, And calls aloud for Warm Attire from MOSES ! MOSES and SON are Winter's greatest foes ; Their Coats exclude cold damps, and rain, and snovil• When once their Coats for Winter you behold, YOU'LL not have ANY fears of catching cold. You'll see that they'll preserve the wearer's form, And bring it safe through every Wintry storm. Then, don't FORGET this lesson to REMEMBER. But come and buy a Coat for cold November ! LIST OF PRICES. READY MADE. A 0. Beaver Taglionis ....... ........ .. Chesterfields or Codringtons D'Orsays, Attols, Pembroke, and every description . *of 10 0 Winter Coats • • .... • • Boys' Winter Coats in every style .:............ item 0 9 Winter trousers, lined 0 4 6 Dress Coats, edged .... •••• • • • • • • • • • • .......• 1 0 0 Poll Collar Vest I 6 Double-breasted ......... ................. Boys' Hussar and Tunic suits 0 1 9 0 Ditto, Winter Tr0u5er5............ .................. 0 3 6 Ditto, ditto Vests 0 1 MADE TO ICIAIIVIE. Winter Coats, in every style and shape, handsomely 5 ° 1 2 Milled cloth Great Coats, velvet collar and cuffs ...... 11 - 6 16 6 Ditto Trousers .. • • ...............• •• • • ••••• • • • • • • • 12- Winter Trousers, in all the new patterns • • .•• .. • Doeskin ditto.. ..................... ..... • ... 0 1 1 ' 0 Best quality, or dress do ............•• 1 6 0 Dress Coats... ..... . 1 13 ~ ; Ditto, best quality made •••• . • • • • • v Frock Coats.. • . ••• • • • •.• • • . l2 Ditto, best quality made ••••• • • • • • ••••••••• • • • • • • • • 3 3 6 Cashmere Ve5t5........ ...... 0 8 0 Satin do., plain or fancy 0 i 2 0 Boys' Hussar and Tunic suits.. ••••• • • • • .••••• • • • • • • I 6 6 Great Coats ••• • • . The New Work, entitled the " Monarch MARV with full „ Th . cti el for self-measurement, may be had, on appliMon, " Post Fres. d IMPOETANT.—Any article purchased or ordered, if not apPro" exchanged, or the money returned. vel o Observe—E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Wholesale and 7 , Woollen Drapers, Outfitters, and General Warehousemen, 15 4 , 3 "7 - ries, and 86, Aldgate, City, opposite the Church.' t 0 4 N.B. No busitiess transacted at this Establishment from Friday till sunset on Saturday, when business is resumed at 1r o'cloac. Catrnow.-16. Moses and Son are obliged to guard the P lOO f or against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlilte 1 4 0 hood of boat connected with them, er its the same coneerSibef been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reaseles• o oi have no connexion whatever with any other establishment, in * i d (to of London, and those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing she u „,.eir prevent cli;appointment, &c.) call or send to 154, braoriell , Aldgate, opposite the Church. T" public is most respectfully informed Messrs. NICOLL have received permission, accord specification in the Act 6 and T Vict., cap 65, to alter and 00 1 .4 he adapt the coat, known as the REGISTERED PALETOT, suitable for winter wear, and it is now being made of a thicker fiA tonal, viz., of milled Llama cloth ; it is waterproofed by the • the method, which, it is well known, does not unnecessarily celu w A ihe heat of the body, but the material, when thus operated upon, r e 'keet as porous as other that has not undergone this process, the Dpi being that it does net sop, and will turn a stout shower of rev" , o trf not that of 24 hours' duration. Nicoll's Registered Paletot !brio, wear is a garment that is warm without being heavy', tber even for travelling, the necessity of wrapping up in a ei w i e hti some manner, has of late years been found needless, distances p ee' so much shortened by present rail wa y an d o th er convelP, poi Nicoll's Registered Paletot, used alone as a morning frock CO over another, is found to be a most agreeable g a rmen t for lw e. poi exercise ; and from the skilful way it is formed, it de, 0 1 confine the chest or shoulders, but has au equally neat ii gentlemanly appearance when worn in cold wet weather, o the evening over a morning or dress coat. The price IS guineas, that for summer wear being two. It' may be d fg served that those principles are retained that has obtain e f t De the Registered Paletot the patronage of mere than one tipce Crowned Heads of Europe. The Prince Consort, Far George of Cambridge, the chief members of the Court, cipal families in the kingdom, who it is well known ,1 distinguished in their taste for perfect neatness of dress. The ,e tered Paletot having therefore necessarily excluded anything 'i ct or outré in appearance, would alone recommend itself to the n° he' the respectable members of the middle classes, was it not sisted by its moderate price, being for ready money. It mill o f 0 tamed of the principal tailors of the chief provincial cities ; ? t ope only most of the respectable firma are appointed agents, any' on the part of others will thus by the public be at once detectg u ,'lo o such attempts, when known, will be visited by the penalties Pr e ;11 4 in the Act beforementioned ; and in furtherance of which etr e tl3 l of fifty pounds will be paid fOr information that may lead et it' conviction of such parties by H. J. and G. 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