The Sun. — London, England, 1845-08-07 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. - BRIGHTON RACES.--WEDNESDAY. The Pavilion Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for two yrs old. T.Y.C. (5 subs.) Duke of Richmond's Tug Net (Nat) walked over. The Brighton Stakes of 25 soya. each, 15 ft, and only 5 if declared, with 100 added ; the second saved his stake. The old course. Thirty-eight subscribers, nineteen of whom declared. Mr.ltamsbottom's Pine Apple, 5 yrs, 7st 91b (Nat) 1 Lord Chesterfield's Jenny Wren, 3 yrs, sst 91b • 2 Sir S. Spry's Subduer, 5 yrs, Est 121 b Lord Stradbroke'sßoarding School Miss, 4 yrs,6st 101 b 4 "Mr. Thompson's Mongrel, 3 yrs, Est 5 Mr. Bainbridge's The Wreck, 3 yrs. sst 91b 6 Betting-7 to 4 agst Boarding-school Miss-5 to 2 agst Pine Apple-5 to 1 agst The Wreck-6 to 1 agst Subduer. Boarding School Miss made the running, followed by Mongrel and Jenny Wren, to the turn, where Mongrel declared, and Pine Apple took the second place. At • the distance the running was taken up by Jenny Wren, who was collared at the stand by Pine Apple, and de • feated very cleverly by half a length. Subduer a bad third. The Town Plate of 401., added to a sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, for three yrs old and upwards. Winners extra. The winner to be sold for 2001., and the second to save his stake. Heats. The new course. (4 subs.) Mr. Shelley's b fby Slane, out of Seakale, 3 yrs, 7st 3lb (Whitehouse) I 1 Mr. Beresford's Best Bower, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b ... 4 2 Mr. Osbaldeston's Fickle Wild Rose, 3 yrs, 7st 31b 3. 3 Duke of Richmond's Kernac,4 yrs, Bst 31b First Heat, won by half a length. Second Heat, won in a canter by two lengths. ' BT. LEGER BETTING ON THE COURSE. 4 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit (taken to 251.) 11 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Merry Monarch (t. to 50/.) 25 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland (taken to 501) ti fine day. and a full and fashionable company. ' IN TELLIGENCE EXTRA.—EGHAM, 1845. Surrey and Middlesex Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft, and . I only 5 if declared on or before Saturday next. Lothario, 5 yrs, 9st 121b—John o'Gaunt, aged, 9st 51b —Queen Male, 6 yrs, 9st 21b—Red Deer, 4 yrs, Bst 131 b —Misdeal, 6 yrs, Bst 51b—Ajax, aged, 7st 121b—Pine Apple, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Subduer, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Hamp ton, 6 yrs, 7st 71b—Poor Soldier, 5 yrs, 7st 716—Roches ter, 6 yrs, 7st 31b--Orion, 5 yrs, 7st llb—Vol au Vent, 4 yrs, 7st lib—Boarding-school Miss, 4 yrs, ist 11b— .2Egis, 3 yrs, 7st—Pergularia, 4 yrs, 6st 131b—Brush, 4 yrs, 6st 41b—f by Slane, out of Seakale, 3 yrs, 6st 21b -Lydia Languish, 4 yrs, 61t llb—Devil's Dust, 3 yrs, '6st—Devil-aanong-the-Tailors, aged, sst 101b—Antonio, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Arthur,. 3 yrs. sst 71b. WARWICK, 1845. The Leamington Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declare,d on_or before Tuesday next. Alice Hawthor,n, aged, 9st 71b—Corranna s 6 yrs, 9st— Win.esour, 5 yrs, Fist 91b—Yardley, 5 yrs, Bst 61b— Trueboy, 5 yrs, Bst 21b—Una, aged, Bst, 21b—General Pollock, 5 yrs, 7st 1 11b—Best of the Three, 4 yrs, 7st 111b—Extempore, 5 yrs, 7st 111b—Sweetmeat, 3 yrs, 7st 91b—Roderick, 6 yrs, 7st 9 1 b—Doc tor Sangrado, 4 yrs, ist 71b—Lightning, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Porto Bello, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—Glossy, 5 yrs. 7st 21b—Jack Sheppard, aged, 7st—Milton, 4 yrs, 6st 131b--Nottingham, 5 yrs, Est 121b—President, aged, 6st 111b—Rochester, 6 yrs, 6st 111b—Pride of Kildare, 4 yrs, 6st 111 b—A-la-Mode. 4 yrs, 6st 1116—King of the Gipsies, 4 yrs, 6st 101b—Ould Ireland, 3 yrs, 6st 91b—f by Bu bastes, out of Zelinda, 4 yrs, Est 91b — Elixir, 5 yrs, Est 91b—Wee Pct, 5 yrs, 6st 81b—Chotor nian, 5 yrs, 6st 81b—Mainstay, 4 yrs, 6st 61b—Itnaum, 4 yrs, Est 61b—Seaport, 4 yrs, Est 61b—Pedometer, 4 yrs, Est 41b—Old George, 4 yrs, Est 21b—Vates, 4 yrs, 6st 21b—New Forest Deer, 4 yrs, Est 21b—Dean Swift, 3 yrs, Est 21b—Glendower, 5 yrs, 6st—Pythia, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Sunset, 4 3 rs, sst 101b--Freelnan, 3 yrs, sst 101h—Gwalior, 3 yr s, sst 91b—f by Sheet Anchor. out of l'Hirondelle, 3 yrs, sst 21b—The Brewer, 3 yrs, sst 21b—Chemise, 3 yrs, sst—Roebuck, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b Stepney, 3 yrs, Ott 121b—Orphan, 5 yrs, pays forfeit. If the highest weight accepting is under Bst 71b, it will be raised to Bst 71h, and the others in proportion. DONCASTER, 1845. FIRST DAY. The Cleveland Handicap of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, but 5 only if declared on or before the 16th of August. Knight of the Whistle, 6 yrs, Bst 121b—The Cure, 4 yrs, Bst 101b—The Era, 5 yrs, Bst 610—Zanoni, 5 yrs, Bst 61b—Trueboy, 5 yrs, Sat—Mickey Free, 4 yrs, 7st 121b—Philip, 5 yrs, 7st 816—Godfrey, 4 yrs, 7st 816 —Quebec, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Fair Charlotte, 4 yrs, 7st 41b - -Poor S oldier, 5 yrs, 7st--Vaudeville, 3 yrs, 7st—Ould Ireland, 3 yrs, 7st—Midlothian, 3 yrs, 7st—Hope, 3 yrs, 7it—Lady Wildair, 3 yrs, 6st 61b—Marian amsay, 3 yrs, 6st 21b—Fitzjames, 4 yrs, fist—Staley, 4 yrs, 6st —Cock Robin, 4 yrs, sst 91b—Prescription, 3 yrs, sst 91b. THIRD DAY. The Great Yorkshire Handicap of 25 soya. each, 15 ft, but 5 only if declared on or before the 16th of August. Alice Hawthorn, aged, 9st 91b—Lothario, 5 yrs, ' 9st—The Era, 5 yrs, Bst 101b—Pompey, 5 yrs, Set 101b—The Shadow, aged, Bst 91b—The Cure, '4 yrs, Bst 81b—Queen Mab, 6 yrs, Bst 71b— Inheritress, 5 yrs, Bst 61b—Winesour, 5 yrs, Bst 61b —Zanoni, 5y is, Bst 61b—John o'Gaunt, aged, Bst 41b— Red Deer, 4 yrs, Sat lib—Aristotle, 6 yrs, Bst—Trueboy, 5 yrs, 7st 121b—Mickey Free, 4 yrs, 7st 111b--Mille pede, aged, 7st 111b—The Best of Three, 4 yrs, 7st 81b —Queen of Tyne, 6 yrs, 7st 71b—Extempore, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Lightning, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—What. 5 yrs, 7st sth Sorella, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Weatherbit, 3 yrs, 7st 51b—Miss Ells, 3 yrs, 7st 41b—Rowena, 4 yrs, 7st 31b—Ratan, 4 yrs, 7st 31W—Stomacher, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Fair Charlotte, 4 yrs, 7st 31b—Vol-au-vent, 4 years, 7st—Old England, 3 yrs, 6st 121b—Glossy, 5 yrs, 6st 41b—Miss Burns, 5 yrs; Est 91b—Ould Ireland, 3 yrs, Est 91b—My Old. Hack, aged, Est 81b—Pedometer, 4 yrs, Est 71b—Crim. Con., 3 yrs, Est 41b—Lady Wildair, 3 yrs, 6st 21b-s-The Maid of Orleans, 3 yrs, 6st—Winchester, 3 yrs, 6st— Heather Bell, 3 yrs, 6st—Marian Ramsay, 3 yrs, 6st— Deuce Ace, 4 yrs, 6st—Britannia, 3 yrs, sst 111 b Plaudit, 3 yrs, sst 1 lib—Freeman, 3 yrs, sst 111 b Staley, 4 yrs, sst 1 lib—Fitzallen, 3 yrs, sst 111b—Cock Robin, 4 yrs, sst 10I0—As-you-like-it, 3 yrs, sst 91b Jenny Wren, 3 yrs, sst 91b—Yellowboy, 3 yrs, sst 71b —Magnet (late Loadstone), 3 yrs, sst 71b—Twig, 3 yrs, sst 716—Little • John, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Wynyard, 3 yrs, sst—My Mary, 3 yrs, sst—The Duke of Kent, 3 yrs, sst—Maria, 3 yrs, 4st 71b. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1845 WEDNESDAY. Colonel Peel's Garry Owen, Bst 61b, agst Lord Maid stone's Arcanus, 6st 131 b. T.Y.C. 50,h ft. . HOUGHTON MEETING, 1845. FRIDAY.—Lord Gla;gow's c, by Retriever, dam by St. Patrick, agst Mr. Payne's Collingisood ; Bst 71b each. First half of Ab M. 150, h ft. THURSDAY.—CoIoneI Peel's Garry Owen, Bst 71b, agst Mr. Pratt's Seenndus, 6st 71b. T.Y.C. 100, h ft. CRAVEN MEETING, 1846. MONDAY.—Duke of Brdford's Minotaur, agst Mr. Payne's Queen Mab, Bst 71b each. D.I. 500 . . 200 ft. ' FIRST SPILING MEETING, 1846. TUESDAY.—Lord Glasgow's c by Bay Middleton out of Mi,s Whip, agst Lord Exeter's Woodpigeon ; Bst rib each. R.M. 300. h ft. SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1846. :TllMlSDAY.—Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft. Ans4)res Jesuit, Bst 7 lb—Duke of Bedford's Frse Gift, Bst 71b—Lord Glasgow's I by. Sir Hercules out of Deerslayer's dam, 84 416. FRIDAY—Duke of Bedford's Eothon, by Erymus, asst , rd Glasgow's fby Retriever, dam by Jerry, Sat 716 each.—T.Y.C. 100, h ft. HOUGHTON MEETING, 1845. Tnuesnay.—Duke of Bedford's Free Gift, Bst 716, against Mr. Greville's Verres,Bat 21b. T.Y.C. 100 h it. WREXUAM, 1845. Acceptances for the Wynstay Stakes. _General Pollock, 5 yrs, Bst 91b—Milton, 4 yrs, Bat Roderick, 6 yrs, Bst—Alamode, 4 yrs, Bst—Remnant, c aned, 7st 91b—Dr. Wood, 4 yrs, 7st 7 1 b—Obscurity, 4 yrs, 6st 1116- 7 -Salopian, 3 yrs, Est 61b—Dean Swift, 3 yrs, 6st 31b—Stoker, 3 yrs, Est 31b. ABINGDON, 1845. • Acceptances for the Marcham Park Stakes. f iling, aged, B.t 111b—Buscot Buck, 4 yrs, 7st 31b— Wunsbus, 3 yrs, 6st—Sparsholt, 5 yrs, sst 101b—Busk gelding, 4 yrs, sst 101b—Giantess, 3 yrs, sst 101 b Antonio, 3 yrs, sst 616—Wild Roe, 3 years, sst 61b. DONCASTER, 1846. TUESDAY.—Lord Maidstone's Atropos agst Lord Glasgow's f by the Provost, out of Miss Whip, Bst 41b each. Red House in. 100, h ft- PAISLEY, 1845. .Acceptances for the Glasgow Cup—The Shadow, aged, ast 121b—Lora, aged, :.tst 21b—Glossy, 5 yrs, 7st 71b— Nottingham, 5 yrs, 7st 51b—Brevity, 5 yrs, 7st 31b— Do g 13111 3',.,4 yrs. 75t 21b—Raveniworth, 5 yrs, 7st 21b --Pythia, 3 yrs, 6st 6lb—Fitzjames, 4 )rs, 6st. PRIZE MONEY. The account of the unclaimed army prize money (for- Merly, merle by the Deputy Treasurer of the Royal Hos pftia Chel , ea) front the 18th of January, 1809, to the Slat' of DeCember, 1844, directed to be annually laid be ftire the Houses of Parliament by the Ant of 2 Win. IV., c. 53, shows on the debtor side cash arising from for feited and unclaimed shares of prize money, grants, &c., 1,081,312/. 3s. 2d. ; arising from the dividends, or interest of monies invested in the public funds or other Govern ment securities, 221,060/. os. 4d., making a total of 1,502,372/. 3s. 6d. - • 'On the creditor side is cash refunded to claimants, 70,339/. 17s. 61d. ; expenses in executing acts from the 18th of January, 1809, to the 31st of December, 1844, 57,6151. 14s. 81d. ; sums paid for the Royal Hospital, in di:ininution of the annual vote, 570,2841 6s. 10Id. ; le.Avieg a balance of 4,1291. 4s. 41d. :Although the balance upon tnia account appears to be . • as. above s t ate d , yet t h ere i s i n t h e Th ree per Cent. , Consols 100,0001. stock invested on account f. army grip money, the interest whereof is in cluded -. annually m the Parliamentary estimates, and is applicable to the payment of prize claims ; and when' the amount thereof, in addition to other sums received on the same account durinr , the year, ex vie& the claims paid, the balance is taken by the Pay master-General an appropriAtion in his accounts. differenCe between the above balance—viz., 4,1291. 4s. 4i'd. and the 100,000/. stock in the Three per Cent. Consols, arises from the investments in that stock hav ing been made when the funds were very low, and from the sales thereout, as occasion required, having been from time to time effected when the prices were con siderably higher. The return is dated Royal Hos pital, Chelsea, July, 1845, and is signed, " Richard Neave, Secretary." - , We cannot fully :loc•oed our credence to the reports afloat concerning the origin and nature of Mrs. Gore's new novel of " The Royal Favourite." Though a writer as fear las as she is popular, sovereigns are not.to be treated with im punity, with the freedom said to have been used in the present i MAGAZINES.-(CONTINUED.) THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. Many very good and very practical papers, on harvesting, grain crops, chemistry for farmers, the Royal Agricultural Society of England, &c. &c., are preceded by two highly finished engravings ; the one of a Guernsey Ox of the Pure Breed ; the other of Mr. Gratwick's " Merry Monarch"—the " outside," but powerful winner of the last Derby. This Magazine is a mast redundant two shillingsworth of invaluable in formation for the farmer, the grazier, and the gardener. NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE. The contents of the present number are of a more varied character than usual, and the Yachtsman, the Turfite, the Angler, and the Grouse-shooter, will meet here with papers on their favourite pursuits, well worthy of their attention, from the hands of men fully qualified to treat of them. Among those most deserving of commendation are Cotherstone's and Cecil's on Training the Racehorse and the Game laws. The illustrations are creditable to engraver and painter, and, on the whole, the number is the best we have seen for some time. LAW REVIEW. No. IV. This Quarterly Journal will always command a circle of readers without, as well as within, the bar. It is conducted under the auspices of parties who bring to their task very extensive general informa tion, as well as the soundest legal learning and judgment, The two beat papers this quarter are those on " Heriots," and on "Lord Eldon," as a Law Reformer. But the letter of Lord Camden and Lord Northington, the Memoir of Lord President Blair, and the " Practical Suggestions to Promoters o' Railways," are all excellent in their way. T' THE SUN, LONDON, THIIRSOAI EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1845. began earnestly to wish that this might win, and that might lose. I examined both with the microscope, and thereby easily distinguished the source of these passions. As the men were extremely heated with their exercise they perspired strongly, so that clouds •of the matter flowing from them reached us: my glass showed me dis tinctly, that the matter perspired by him for whom I felt an inclination, was exactly similar to what was perspired by myself, whereas the matter flowing from the other person was absolutely unlike to mine in all respects, and so jagged and bearded, that it seemed to wound and pierce me like so many arrows ; hence I discerned that the true cause of our sudden inclinations and aversions consists in the figures of the matter perspiring from us and from others, and in the similarity or contrariety of these in sensible vapours. We went out of the city, and at some miles distance, we saw some gentlemen diverting them selves in coursing a hare. As the poor creature passed almost close by us, I had just time to catch a glance of her witn my glass ; she appeared to me like a ball of fire moving with prodigious rapidity, and leaving a mighty smoke behind her. This was the matter per spired by the animal, and I saw that the dogs followed exactly the track of that smoke, and were never at all at a loss except when the wind dissipated the cloud that issued from the flying hare."—Melanges d'Histoire et de Literature, torn. ii. p. 461. Hermippus Redivivus, p. 85. RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES IN THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. THE HONG MERCHANTS OF CANTON. (From the Hong-Kong Register, May 6.) We are indebted to a friend for the following infor mation from Canton. When Canton was ransomed, and the money for that purpose drawn from the provincial treasury, a report was made to the Emperor that it was a debt due to the foreigners by the Hong merchants, who were unable to pay it, and these latter were induced to sign a document to that effect, on the assurance being given them that it should not be used against them. HoweVer, after the affair was terminated, various attempts were made to extort tl.e amount from them, but with:ait success. Headed by Howqua's eldest son, who has taken a literary dt , gree, and who threatened to lay the matter before the Emperor, they refused to pay more than 2,000,000 dollars, which they admitted tube due by the merchants to the Emperor. Thelocal authorities have at last agreed to accept this amount ; and thus has ter minated an affair which 'has been a source of great un easiness to the Hong merchants, and was considered suf ficiently important to the foreign trade to induce Mr. Cushing, the American Plenipotentiary, to address Key ing on the subiect. The following is the amount paid by each Hong merchant:— .. HONG MERCHANTS. PAY. - Howqua 550,000 taels. Poooke(qua . 200,000 do. Samqua, Gowqtyt Kingqua POonhayqua Mowqua, 50.000 do. Fdotaye '; Miugqua 50,000 do. Sowqua One-third to be paid in four months, and the remainder in ten annual instalments. In reference to the recent, communications respecting the receiving ships at Whampoa, Mr. Macgregor has written to. the Chinese authorities, that unless the ex tensive smuggling in Portuguese lorchas and other river crafi be put a stop to, he will riot feel it his duty to in terfere with English vessels, should they again enter the port far the sale of opium. This very sensible view of the' subject is "producing its effects. Two Portuguese have been seized and carried into the city. Liver pool. lAug. 6. NAMES OF RAILWAYS. London. Aug. 6 3% 2% 25% 12 97% 61 10% 3 1 0 22 3A 1% Man chester. lAug. 6. 31% Bristol. 'Aug. 5. Midden field. lAug. 6. York. [Aug. 5 Leeds. lAug. 6. Hull. lAug. - CHILD M URDER. Monday afternoon an inquest was held in the borough gaol, Windsor, before Thomas Marlin, Fsq , -the Coro ner for Windsor, and a, respectable jury, on the.body of a new-born male infant, which was found dead in the privy attached to . the residence of Mr. Charles Alder, in Spring-gardens, on Friday last. The servant of Mr. Alder. a young girl, named Susan Douglas, between twenty and twentyone years of age, wbo had given birth to the in fant, tvas in custody of the gaoler, but too ill, from the weak state she was in, to be present during the inquiry, which lasted nearly four hours. Mr. Geoffrey Pearl, surgeon, deposed that he was sent for by Mr. Alder on Friday last, in consequence, as Mr. Alder stated, of a sus piCious circumstance having taken place with reference to his female servant. When he went there the girl was out upon an errand. Mrs. Alder told him she thought the girl had been delivered of a child. When the girl returned he told her of the suspicions entertained, but she denied that she had been delivered. Upon examin ing her in the presence of Mrs. Alder, he found that she had borne a child, and very recently • he told her so, and that she had better say at once what had become of it. She then told him that she had been taken ill while in the privy She looked pale, but not particularly ill. The next day he made a post mortem examination of the child, by the desire of the Mayor. It was a lull grown male infant ; there were no appearances of any external marks of violence to account for its death, and he had no doubt it was born alive. The umbilical cord was not tied. ire had attended the mother of the deceased in the prison since Friday. Mrs. Jail° . Alder stated that . Susan Douglas had lived with her .as servant for upwards of four years, and during that time had been particularly steady and honest. Witness was not aware she was in the family way. Witness, in consequence of the girl appearing very ill on Friday last, sent for Mr. Pearl. Mr. Charles Alder, the husband of lust witness, said that upon Mr. Pearl discovering that his servant had given birth to a child, he immediately ordered the privy to be opened, when the body of a new-born male child was found by the police near the mouth of the drain ,leading into the cesspool. James Dobson, police-sergeant, deposed to searching the privy, and find ing the infant lying on its back on the surface of the soil, quite dead. This being the whole of the evidence, the room in which the inquest was held was ordered to be cleared. After the jury had been in deliberation for half-an-hour, Mr. and Mrs. Alder were again called in and privately examined, and the jury then remained in deliberation for upwards of an hour, and ultimately re turned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Susan Douglas." The prisoner will be removed to the county gaol at Reading, to take her trial at the next Berkshire assizes, as soon as she -is in a fit, state to undertake the journey. The girl, whp is a native of Wokingham, states the father of the unfortunate infant to be an old man named Day, who died at Windsor, where he was well known,' about three weeks since, at the advanced age of between seventy and eighty. THE CONDEMNED AT EXETER.—When the tiilings of their respite was communicated to the prisoners, they all received it with gratitude and delight except the imperturb able Serva. This man (the captain of the Echo, a schooner of seventy tons only, with 434 slaves stowed and packed in it) has shied alike unmoved by the terrors of this world and the world to come. For three days, though smitten with a foul and loathsome disease, he underwent the ordeal of the trial without manifesting the slightest sign of uneasiness. He re ceived the doom of death without emotion, and he has since rejected the consolations of religion and the holy offices of the priest, with a cold and bitter sneer. He says his own heart is the depository of its own secrets, and no mortal man shall wrest them from him. He received unmoved the merciful de claration of the high sheriff, and turned away with as much apathy as if the message of . prolonged life and rekindling hope had been the most, ordinary matter which a heedless man could impart to an indifferent one. , . . . _ by a private letter which has reached us from Gibraltar, we are informed, upon good authority, that 20,000 slave shackles, for men, women, and children—in all, fourteen cart-loads—have been fished up from the wreck of the American war-steamer, lately burnt at that port !—Ship ping Gazette. THE _RECENT MAGISTERIAL FRACAS AT Rt)- CHESTER.—In consequence of the painful scene which took place between the magistrates on the bench at the County Police Court on Monday, the 21st ult., William Henry Bodkin, one of the Members of the city and borough, has been called upon by some friends to intercede between the parties, and that Learned Gentleman, after some considerable pains, has brought the Rev. George Davies and the Rev. Mr. Formby to an amicable understanding. It is, however, stated that another obstacle has since exhibited itself, which is that Captain Baker and Mr. James Smith feel that an apology is due from the Rev. Mr. Formby to them, as they constituted a portion of the bench on the occasion when the insult was offered, which Mr. Formby declines doing. Several special meetings of the magistrates of this division have been held on the subject, which have been private. It is, however, reported that the matter has been laid helore the Secretary of State. The cir cumstance creates considerable public interest, and the-wonder is how matters are to end. A SERIES OF MunDEus.— AWFUL DEEDS OF BLOOD. —A gentleman who arrived in Cincinnati lately gave the editor of the Commercial the following particulars of dreadful deeds of blood committed on the Wachitta • river, in Louisiana a few days since. He .stated that two planters, living' on adjoining plantations, had a difficulty. An unruly horse belonging to one jumped into a lot belonging to the other, and was shot. Soon after, a negro, belonging to the owner of the horse, went over to the said plantation, and he too was shot. The same evening the planter, who owned the horse and negro, took his gun, and went over to the planter's house who had shot his horse and negro, and, as he stood in his yard, deliberately shot him dead. The son of the dead planter, hearing the report, came out of the house, when he was commanded to stand. As soon as the gun was reloaded the son was shot and immediately expired. The daughter of the planter then came to the door, when the monster took his bowie-knife and cut her throat from ear to ear, and then fled. The slaves on the plantation raised the alarm, and the fiend was pursued and taken, and committed to the nearest gaol to await a trial. , These awful terrific details are - Said to be from a reliable source, but we feel inclined to doubt them.—American paper. DEATH FROM DRINKING THE CONTEN/S Or A GINGEK-BEER BOTTLE.—On Saturday an inquest was held in Liverpool, before the Coroner, on view of the body of Ruth Goldsmith, a child of two years of age, who met her death under the following singular circumstances —Thomas Holclsmith deposed that he was a joiner,„ and kept a beer house in Craven-street. The deceased was his daughter. On Thursday afternoon last he went into his cellar for the purpose of shilling a quantity of empty ginger-beer bottles out of his way, and, finding a full one among them, he opened it to see if i t were good, as it had been seven or eight months in the house. He took a little himself, and gave same to his wife, which she tasted. Several other persons partook of it, and deceased had two drinks. In about five or ten minutes after, all those who had partaken of the contents of the bottle became sick and vomited. The deceased kept getting better and worse until about nine o'clock the same night, awwaaskginigventhseomfoelloZ.rnitg , ori w iin h g ich sh s e he ca h ll a e d d ha fo d r b a ef d o r r i e n . k, s an he d when she fell asl eep an d appeared to be somewhat better. Oa te m a kept getting worse from that time until about four o'clock, when a surgeon was sent for, but befere his arrival she breathed her last. The contents of the bottle, so far as taste and appearance went, appeared to be ginger beer, which he (witness) had purchased from Messrs. Evans and Matthews, ginger -beer manufacturers, of Queen Anne-street. The cork in the bottle was secured in the usual manner by a wire, but whether it was iron or copper wire it wa s impossible to say. When the wire was taken off the cork flew out,. When the bottle was opened witness poured its contents into a tumbler glass, out of which the parties drank, and when they had all drank of it a white sediment was' Ob. served in the bottom of the glass.. The glass was quite clean before the contents of the bottle were put into it. Other wit nesses confirmed the statement of this witness. The surgeon ' could not state the cause of death, and the inquest was ad. ourned that the contented the stomach might be analysed. Aberdeen Arbroath and Forfar Ditto Half , Shares . Armagh, Colr., & I'ortrush Belfast and Ballymena Belfast and County Down Birmingham and Glo'ster Do. New (iss. at 7% dia.) Ditto Half Shares . Birminghm & Oxfrd. Junc. Blckburn, Chrly, & N. Un. Brighton, Lewes, and Hast Bristol and Exeter Ditto New Bristol and Gloucester .... Caledonian . Ditto Extension Cambridge and Lincoln Chester. and Holyhead . Cheltenham and Oxford Chichester and Brighton Churnet Valley Clydesdale Junction . Cork and Bandon Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford Cork and Youghal . Covntry, Bedwrth, & Nun. Coventry and Leicester Cornwall . Diss, Beccles, and Yarmoth Direct Northern Direct Norwich . Dublin and Belfast Juliet. Dublin, Belfast, & Colraine Dublin and Ga1way........ Dundalk and Enniskillen.. Dundee and Arbroath Ditto New Dundee and Perth. Eastern Counties Do. New. Do. Perp.,s pr Cnt.,No. 1 Do. ditto N 0.2 East lsereham & Norwich Eastern'Union Ditto Extension ...... Edinbgh, Glas., and Dam. Edinburgh and Glasgow Do. Quarter Shares Do. New Quarter Shares Edinb., Leith, and Granton Ditto Pref. 5 per Cent Edinburgh and Northern Edinburgh and Peebleshire Edinburgh and Perth Ely and Bedford Enniskillen and Sligo Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchttr G'arnkirk and Glasgow Glasgow and Ayr • Do. Quarter shares Glasgow and Greenock Ditto New Ditto Preference ...... Glasgow, Dmfries, and Car Goole and Doncaster Grand Junction. Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarter Shares ... Grarid Union .. Great Grimsby & Sheffield Gt Sothrn & Wstrn (Irelnd) Ditto Extension .. Great Munster Great Northern of Scotlnd Great Northern of Englnd Do. New, 401. Shares Do. 'New, M. Shares Great Western Ditto Halt Shares Ditto Fifths Guildfrd, Farelim, & Ports. Harwich . Hull and Gainsborough Hull and Selby Ditto Quarter Shares .. Ditto Half Shares. Inverness and Elgin Kendal and Windermere Kingstown and Bray Killarney Junctions Lancaster and Carlisle..... Leeds and W. Riding June. Leicester and Birmingham Leicester, and 8edf0rd...... Limerick and Waterford... Limrck, Ennis,& Kil. Junc. Lincoln, York, and Leeds.. Liverpool and Manchester Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarter Shares ... London and Birmingham. Ditto Thirds Ditto Quarters London and Blackwall London and Brighton Do. Cnsolidated Eighths London and Croydon. Ditto New... Do. Guarantd. 5 per cent. London and Greenwich Do. Prefrnc. or Privilege London & South Western Do. New Cone. Eighths Do. New, 50/. Shares ... - Do. New, 40/. Shares London and York London and Windsor Londn, Salisbury, & Yeovil Londonderry and Coleraine Londonderry & Enniskillen Lynn and Ely ••• Lynn and Dereham... ...... Manchester and Leeds ..... Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarter Shares Ditto Sixteenths Manchester & Birminghm Ditto Quarter Shares Do. New Quarter Shares Manchstr, Buxtn, & Matlk Midland Ditto Fifths Ditto New Do. Birminghm & Derby Midland Gt Westrn (Irish - ) Do. Extension to Sligo Nwcastl & Darlingtn June DO.New (Brandling) ,Newcastle and Berwick Newcastle and Carlisle Newport and Abergavenny Newry and Enniskillen Newark and Sheffield North British .... Ditto y. 2 •.. Northern and Eastern , Do. Scrip (iss. at 5 die.) Do. Quarter Shares...... North Kent .Noith Staffordshire.. North Wales Norwich and 8rand0n...... Ditto New Not., BelvOir, and Granthm Nottingham and Boston Nott., Erewsh Val. & Man Oxtbrd and Worcester Perth and Inverness Portsmouth Direct Preston and Wyre . Rich thud and W . End June. Rugby, Worcester, & Tring Scottish Central ....... Scottish Midland Sheffield and Manchester Ditto Quarter Shares Shrews.,llrolv.,Dudly,&Bir Shrewsbry & Trnt Val. Un. Shrewsb,llerefd,&N.Wals Slamannan South Devon . South Midland South Eastern and Dover. Do. New (iss. 321.) No. 1 Do. (iss. 33468.8 d.) „ 2 Do (iss. 301.) „ 3 Staines and Richmond.... Staffordshire & Shropshire Stirling and Dunfermline.. South Wales Trent Valley Do. and Holyhead June Welsh W e a s r t w c3 o ki n i d d a ln o a n dn , dc o h l d e Shares tenh a West End & Southm Cou n . Wexford and Carlow Waterford and Kilk enny Watrfd,Wexfil,Wick&Dub West Cornwall West Yorkshire Wilts, Somrst. & \Veymth Yarmouth and Norwich Ditto New York and Carlisle York and• North Ditto Half Shares.. Do. Scarborough Branch Ditto Selby Ditto Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS Boulogne and Amiens Bordeaux & Mediterranean BordeauX and Toulouse.— Br deaux,Toulouse,&Cette Dendre Valley Dieppe and Paris Junction Dijon and Mu1h0u5e....,., East Indian. ........ Gt Nrthn of Frnce (Laiitte) Ditto (Rosaniel's) Great Paris and Lyons Jamaica Junction Do. South Midlnd June Louvain and Jemeppe Lyons and Avignon Namur and Liege Orleans and Vierzon • Orleans and Bordeaux .... Over Yssel Paris and Lyons (Lafitte's) Ditto (Ganneron's) Ditto (Calon's)... Paris and Orleans . ...... _ Paris and Rouen ... Pars & Strsbrg(Gannern's Do. (Compte deL'Est) Paris and St. Quentin Rouen and Havre . Royal North of Spain Sambre and Meuse Strasbourg and Basle Tours &Nants(M'Kenzie's) Do. (Lefebvre's) Verona and Ancona West Flanders 21 11% 121% 49 105 21% 15% 1;A 2 48 55 37 11% 35 % 24 3 / 13a 24% 14% 82. A 5% 3% 204, 64 534 180 28% 39 25% 271 3 29% B:r4 18 . 2% 24 5% 7 4 1-.4 36 30 46 th 84 5% 5 1 ~z 55 ki.i 53 254 11% 2 63/4 o i ' 5 3a 17 1 4 1114 3 1 ,1 24 , 48% 4154 . 21 % 2% 2 1 % 6% 10 3% 6 15-161 I 2 -1546 S% 4% -.^li k 7% 4% 3IA • 5% 46V2 £3 l , 5p 3% 15% 3% iSheffiell.l lAug. 6. Glasgow. Aug. 5, Dublin. Aug. 5. HE BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. Of this review it is satisfactory to us to report a steady and progressive improvement. Of the ten papers in the present number most may safely challenge com parison with their more veteran contemporaries in the blue and buff and the olive green liveries. The Currency Question ; Tennyson's Poems, and School of Poetry ; Ecclesiastical History—(a paper occasioned by the ap pearance of the late Dr. Wild's "Elements of Church History," Vol. L) ; Russian Government and Society— (a careful review of " Revelations of Russia") ; I'he Real Union. of England and Ireland ; French Philoso phy (Jouffroy' " Nouveaux Mélanges Philosophiques") ; Popular Education (Dr. Hamilton's Prize Essay) ; D'lsraeli's " Sybil ;" The Bampton Lectures ; and Brougham's " Lives of Men of Letters," &c.—all these offer an abundant field for extract. But our limits being very contracted, we can notice only, for the purpose of quotation, the paper on Mr. Cargill's Currency Question. and on Mr. Taylor's admirable "Essay on Money" and " Catechism of the Currency." We would entreat our readers to be induced, by the' Reviewer's sensible remarks on the absurd prejudice which exists against the more general study of " Currency," to betake them-e selves without loss of time to the acquisition of some preliminary or elementary acquaintance (most easily ac quired) of this, the most august and tremendous question, we hesitate not to affirm, of the day, and of which the terrible development that must be brought about by a blind acquiescence much longer continued, in the signal errors of the Premier's monetary. legislation, will more fatally convulse this country than any calamity she hss experienced since the exhaustion consequent. on the civil wars, or the closing of the Exchequer in 1673. We commend, therefore, without further comment, the fol lowing passages to public attention:— " The question of currency is, in fact, mixed, more or less intimately, with some of the bearings of almost every political question of great importance which can come before us. There is hardly one upon which it does not either proximately or remotely bear. Whether it be a question of taxation, or of commerce, or of agricultural position, or of peace or war, or of the laws respecting corn and other provisions, or of tithes, or fixed payments of any kind, national or individual, this übiqui tous question of currency has relation to them all. No man, whatever may be his intellectual resources and acquirements in other respects, can really understand the history of his country for the last century and a half, who is unacquainted with this question. We say, the last century and a half, because it was not until about the period of the Revolution of 1688, that financial exigencies became prominent in the regulation of the political movements of civilized nations." As to the facility of acquirement, the Reviewer remarks: " It seems to follow that this portion at all events, of the much controverted science of political economy' is a portion which may be certainly known, which may be termed an exact' science, and which he who understands, comprehends in its integrity fully, unpuzzled by any infusion of error, un clouded by any sophistry, undistracted by any specious fallacy ; and this truth we now propose, as the first step in this inquiry, to impress upon the reader." As to " value" and " money," these are his definitions:— " We find from this, that the value of a" thing in exchange depends upon its plentity or scarcity, upon the ease or difficulty of getting it ; or, in other words, upon the quantity of labour which is required to enable us to obtain tf. By this surely simple process, we obtain a perfect perception of the bearings of the gerieral term ' value ; and by an easy inference, we see, at the same time, that as various things are owing to the dispensations of Providence, sometimes more plentiful than at other times, the exchangeable value of these things is subject to constant variation ; and that exchangeable. value' is not only an idea quite distinct from that -of positive value, but liable to constant changes as to its application to particular things, of constant use amongst men. Here is another very plain but very simple step in this question. A child may comprehend it ; and yet children of a larger growth' suffer themselves to be confused or puzzled by it, merely from neglecting thus to begin at 'the beginning. We have now arrived, naturally and easily, at the question of ' money' and its use. It is surely nothing more than a self-evident thing, that, having once come to see this tendency to constant variation and flux ,in the ex changeable values of commodities in use by society, we cannot avoid also perceiving that these constant variations must cause great inconvenience in the barter or exchange of these commo dities. There cannot be, in such a state of barter, any means of quickly and certainly knowing what the value, at the ,mo ment, of any commodity was or is compared with the rest. No man could know, easily, how much wheat to give for so much barley, or how much wine for so much oil ; and hence the de sire amongst men to have at hand, at all times, some means of measuring, and, at the same time, expressing the actual ex changeable value, at the moment, of any commodity and cf all commodities. This means is money ;' and our next step is to inquire how mankind came to fix upon gold and silver as the best substances of which to coin money—that money being to be used as a standard measure of the value in exchange of all other commodities." We can only afford room for one more extract. Ti .egards Sir Robert Peel's " complement" Bill of lase rear. " hisnot our intention to disguise, however, our opinion o 1 this celebrated measure. It has been well described as a scheme to prevent eb b . - tides, by keeping the country always at low water.' That the intention is such as is here quaintly sha dowed forth is not denied 'by its author. That it will effect even this portion of the advantage he expects to derive from it, 'we must take leave to doubt. The Act of 1819 was a mistake —not in its principle, but in its application. The Act of 1644 is not a mistake; but it is worse than that—it is a crotchet,' totally inconsistent with other portions of the policy of the very man in whose prepossessions a►one it originates, and with which it fs made .to limp forward hand in hand. It is impotent to secure, under given circumstances, the ends put forward by its projector as the motives for its enactment. It is at open war with every other enactment of a fiscal or commercial nature to hich his administration has given birth." W about committing ourselves by any means to all the opinions contained in this powerful paper, we really look upon it as one of the Most able summaries of the Currency Question" that we have ever yet seep.. THE THEOLOGIAN. A Chronicle rf Ancient and Modern Divinity, No. VII. The papers in this Number—" Objective Moral ity," " Magic," " Present Spiritual Temptations," " Hieroglyphics," " The Ideal of the Reformation," Rabbinism "—these form a garland surely of ample variety for extract. They are, however, for the most part, ably written, and full of interest. Yet we find it difficult to convey an adequate notion of one of them by the condensed abridgment of whiCh, alone, our limits would allow—but we " bring up;' at once, at a very curious note on the article" Magic," from which we transfer the following whimsical portion, out of respect for the very zealous and learned, but credulous Ashmole. " These very words occur in the notes to a body of treatises professing to explain all these mysteries: it would be difficult to find an instance of a man exhibit ing more acuteness in bolstering up a system of super stition, in which' he devoutly believed, than Elias Ash mole. " Dr. Campbell in his Hermippus Redivivus, quotes a singular book published under the title Melanges d'Histoire et de Literature par M. de Vigneul Marville,' Bonaventure d'Argonne was the real name of the author who called himself Vigneul de Marville ; he was a Chartreux religieux, and died about 1704. The follow ing tale is told, by way of exemplifying the notions above named:—' The day after our arrival in London, several tradesmen came tb our lodgings, in order to sell us the commodities and curiosities of their country. Every one of the company fixed readily his attention on what pleased him most; some brought gloves, others ribbons, and others silk gloves. The merchandise which fell to my share was several perspective glasses and microscopes; he who sold them was an excellent mathematician, a man of great capacity, a n d cou ld spea k French tolera b ly well. and as he was m i g h ty we ll p l ease d I kept him to dinner, with the entertainment, he told me, after he rose from the table, that he had a great curiosity to show me. He then took out of a shagreen box an instrument in a tor toiseshell case, which proved to be a most excellent mi this epith et upon it, since it mi croscope. wassco p s e n . I may well bestow e xcellent as not only to dis cover an i nfinity of c bodies imperceptible to the naked eye, but even the atoms of Epicurus, the subtle matter of Descartes, t h e vapours of thep s, ic e u a r r e th, those which flow from our own bodies, and such as bring down to us here the influence of the stars. The first experiment I made was looking.on the person from whom I received it, at the distance of four or five an opportunity of discerning an infinitePacpaces, which number git'e me o ' f little worms, that were feeding most voraciously upon his clothes; by which I perceived that, contrary to the common opinion, it is not we who wear out our clothes, but they are fairly eaten , off our backs by these invisible insects. I changed my situation, and considered my mathematician in another light. He ap reared t 6 be enveloped in a dark cloud. He told me, that this appearance was owing to his perspiring strongly after dinner ; and that this ought to convince me of the truth of what Sanctorius had delivered in respect to the proportion between this and other secretions. We next , went into the kitchen, where there was a large piece of beef roasting fur the servants, and I had the pleasure of seeing with the same microscope, how the fire separates all the parts of the wood upon which it acts, and darts them by the violence of its motion against the beef that turns before it, wounding it as it were, with an infinite number of shafts, and so tearing it to pieces, some of which are converted into juice, and others into a delicate kind of smoke or vapour, which filled the kirchen, and was very sensibly distinguished b y our nostrils. Going out of the house; we saw four young men playing at ball. lat first sight felt a strong inclination in favour of one, and as strong an aversion against another, whence I• 10% 56e. 6d. 3% 0 3 / 4 1 % 455. Od - 731,4 2 .- 16 20% N I _... 0% _ 3% 844 21 1 % 10►/.z - 3% 235. 6d 8 54% 23% 2% 1X 514 - 1% 15 1 A ..2 1 % 535. 9d 54% 246 5% 3% 10% 9 % 7% - 128% 31s. - i 53% ... s 4 5% 4 1 A 3% 15% 3% 12 1 % 60% 1014 21,i - 3% --S. 13s. p 233. 6d 375. p 335. p -- 1 5 14. 24N B 'Yi 3~~ 15s. 41s. 7% 555. 71.15.6 d. 955. p ...... 151% .2__ 6s. 1' 20% 375.6 d 395. 148. 6d 3 % 61. 14s. - 154 5% 45zji 6 1 / . 58 g . 37 ..... 151/ CHELMSFORD •AID BURY RAILWAY. Elsewhere we have given a notice—necessarily brief from the pressure of so many meetings—of the opening of the Railways to Ely and Norwich. Most sincerely do we congratulate the Proprietors of the Eastern Counties' Company and of the united Norfolk Company on this consummation of a great undertaking. We trust and believe that it will add materially to the pros perity of the Eastern Counties' Shareholders, and render auspicious to both parties the amalgamation so happily effected between the Companies whose lines meet at Norwich. It will be seen that great praise was awarded to the contractors for the energy and liberality which they have displayed during the progress of the works. Never was praise better deserved. Messrs. Grissell and Peto, and Mn. Jackson, who was associated with them in the undertaking, have most admirably fulfilled their part, and one cannot, in simple justice, but echo the commendation which, on Tuesday, was so amply be stowed, and which, coming as it did from quarters so highly influential, most have been as gratifying to those who received, it as it was honourable to those who be stowed it. With respect to the general question of railway corn muuication for the East Anglian districts, the route to Norwich, via Cambridge and Ely, is circuitous undoubt edly—not less than 1251 miles ; and it is not to be sup posed that the traffic between the metropolis. and such an important place as Norwich—to say nothing of it almost equally imp,:rtant sister town, Yarmout—will continue to take that course a moment after a more direct line of communication is opened. The distance by the Eastern Counties' line to Colchester, and thence by the Eastern Union and Eastern Union Extension to Norwich, will he only 113 miles, and by the Chelms ford and Bury, when extended to Thetford, only With respect to this last line, by the way, we are glad to perceive an advertisernent of " the Extension to Thetford," which appears in our advertising columns (for which extension an additional capital of 250,0004 is required) that " by a special arrangement with the solicitor of the Eastern Counties' Railway, they (the Provisional Committee of the Cbelmford and Bury) are as sured of the concurrence of the good offices of that im portant Company in the formation of their line." There is more good sense and sound discretion in this determi nation than we have been accustomed to observe in the proceedings of the Eastern Counties' officials. It ought clearly to be the policy of the managers of a great trunk lien like the Eastern Counties to give every possible en couragement to feeders from all quarters, whether pro moted by parties in or out of " the House ;" for how ever independent in respect of management such feeders may be at first, they are sure to be absorbed and amal gamated at last. And, least of all, should they be with held from giving such encouragement from any narrow calculation of the gain to be made by compelling the pub lic to travel some dozen )r half-dozen miles more by rail than there is any occasion for. They may rest perfectly assured that the best line for the public will always, in the long run, be the best also for railway proprietors. We have always thought well of the Chelmsford and Bury branch, and have reason to know that it is thought equally well of by the members of the Legislature most conversant with the traffic wants of the East Anglian districts. The members of the Committee of the House of Commons, to whom the Norwich Direct, and Bury and Cambridge lines were referred, took occasion re peatedly to advert to the Chelmsford and Bury line (though it was not formally before them), as being one which was indispensable to the welfare of the commer cial and agricultural interests of Suffolk and Norfolk ; and when giving the decision against the Norwich Di rect, Lord Sandon, the chairman, emphatically observed, " The Committee was decidedly in favour of the Chelms ford and Bury scheme."—Railway Record. LORD MELBOURNE'S OPINION OF SIR R. PEEL'S MINISTRY. At the annual meeting of the Fishmongers' Company, Lord Melbourne was presented with the freedom of the Company, and was afterwards present at the dinner. His health having been proposed by the Prime Warden, and drunk with great applause— Lord MELBOURNE rose and said—Mr. Prime Warden and gentlemen, before I thank this Company for the great honour which they have done me, I must express my regret and concern that the infirm state of my health has compelled me so often to decline the invitations with which I have been honoured, and to put off for so long a time the reception of the honour which I have at length received this morning, and which I highly value and esteem.—(Hear, hear.) I assure yob, gentlemen, that I consider it a very high distinction to be enrolled among the members of a Corporation so ancient and respectable, and which has always been distinguished by its steady adherence to the enlightened and constitutional principles of civil and religious liberty.—(Hear, hear.) In proposing my health, the Prime Warden has adverted, ,in terms highly flattering and compli mentary, and very gratifying to my feelings, to the Ad ministration of which I was the leading Member. — (Hear.) That Administration is now defunct. We are gone, as Members of and as a Government. But pars metier nostrum is still adhuc viva et superstes ; the cor poreal frame may he said to have expired, and to be con signed to the tomb, but the immortal spirit, the ignea vis animi, is still alive, and not only alive, but active and efficient.—(Loud cheers.) Our principles and opinions, our views of public affairs, still survive us.—(Renewed cheers.) They have been adopted and acted upon by those who replaced us, and they have been productive, during the session of Parliament that is just about to terminate, of more than one wise and beneficial measure of measures which I believe to be fit and essential, to be founded upon sound principle, based upon good example, and which, I have the greatest hopes, will confer lasting benefit upon the part of the empire to which they espe cially apply, and upon the community at large. At . the same time we all well know that these very area • sures have been productive, in one House of Parliament, of much difference of opinion—that they have been the cause of much bitter feeling, not to say malignant in vective, being levelled against the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government, upon the notion of some supposed inconsistency of these measures with his farmer opinions and conduct.—(Hear, hear.) Placed as I have been by circumstances' in the position of an antagonist and competitor to that Right Honourable Baronet, it is natural that I should look into and ex.- amine his conduct, not with hostile jealousy or any hostile feeling, but with care and anxiety.—(Hear, hear.) It is natural that I should be anxious to learn what his conduct has been, what have been his measures, what have been the prin ciples upon which they have been founded, and what the language in which he has urged and en forced those principles.—(Hear, hear.) I have made such inquiry and examination, and I think myeelf bound to state, as the result of it, that I know of nothing in the antecedent conduct of the Right Hon. Baronet which should, in point of consistency, preclude him from bring ing forward either the measures which he has brought forward, or any other measures in the same direction which he may convince his understanding or persuade his conscience would- be both expedient and conduce to the benefit and advantage of his country.—(Loud cheers.) Thus much I have thought it my duty to say. I had intended to have said it in Parliament, but I have never been able to find an opportunity of doing so. But, indeed, when I look at the assembly which I have the honour of addressing, and consider how it is composed, I do not think I am likely to find a better opportunity of making this declaration than that which is now presented to ine.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I thank you again for the honour which you have conferred upon me. I wish you success in all your undertakings. I know you will undertake nothing which, while it is for your own benefit, is not also for the advantage of your country ; and wishing you collectiv:ly and individually happiness, prosperity, peace, and every earthly blessing, I respectfully take my leave. (The noble Lord sat down amid loud cheers.) J% HERRING FIShING. .BERWICK, AUG. I.—The take this week has been but very indifferent. On Saturday morning the success was very encouraging. The highest boat 20, and all had a few crans ; but, since, the highest take has been 12 crans, and on some nights a number of the boats did not go off at all. There has, however, always been fish, from a few hundreds to a few crans ; and at this early part of the season a greater quantity has been taken than we remember of. We wonder very much that none of our Berwick boats have gone to the shoal at Dunbar, the wind being so favourable for them. Prices this week are rather higher to the cadgers, and on some mornings as high as 20s. have been given for a cran. We see a vast number of French and Yarmouth luggers passing to the north in quest of herrings. ETEMOUTH.—Tuesday morning we had from 1 to 30 crans per boat. Price 14,. per cran. Wednesday most of the boats returned clean ; the highest take was five crans ; a few ha' 2,3, and 4 crans. On Thursday a ges neral fishing, from 3 to 10 crans per boat, price 15s. The Norfolk Hero sailed on Tuesday, and the William and Ann sailed to day (Thursda, ) for Yarmouth, with tull cargoes. Three more Yarmouth loggers and two ether vessels are waiting on cargoes. None of our boats are engaged this sesson—they are all open to the best market which offers. We have upwards of 40 boats out here this year, besides a large number ,from adjacent places. From 60 to 80 b oa t s are h ere eery morning. Since the new quay was built, and the harbour deepened and enlarged, we have great accommodation both for boats, vessels, and curers. Our curers are all well sup plied with stock this season. DUNBAR.—The fishing for this week is excellent, and the fish of first-rate quality. There are now upwards of 150 boats in our harbour, and several French vessels. Home curers are purchasing largely at from Ss. to 9s. per cran. To-night (Thursday). there are upwards of 200 boats at sea, lying, offtptwesn this and Cove. NORTH SUNDERLAND.—Oar fishing on Saturday morning last week offered well for the beginning, there being takes of ten, fifteen, and twenty crans ; but, on 'fuesaay and Wednesday mornings this week it has fallen greatly off. Highest boat five crans. Price 15s. per cran.—Berwick Advettiser. COAL IWAEXtET. Prices per ton at the close of the Market :—Chester Main, Iss 3d ; Hastings Hartley, 16s 6d; Holywell Main, 16s ; New Tanfield, 14s Pontop Windsor, - 14s ; Townley, 14s 6d ; Wall's end iiddell's, 17s; Haswell, 18s 9d; Heugh Hall, 17s 6d; Kelloe, 17s 9d; •Evenwood. 16s; Derwentwater Hartley, 15s.—Ships arrived, 8. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —The Gentletilan's Real Head of Hair, or Invisible Ventilating Peruke, is so close a resem blance to nature as to .defy detection ; and to enable any gen tleman to see the effect, a large assortment is always kept for inspection, any one of which, if appro% ell of, saves the purchaser both time and trouble. Tlice splendid specimens of the per ruquean art, superior to anything to be obtained elsewhere, either in Paris or London, have only to be seen to be admired, and are the sole invention of Ross and Sons ; 119 and 120, Bishopsgate-street, London. N.B. Splendid hair-cutting apartments on the ground-floor, the whole of the walls being UAW with looking-glass a la mods de Paris. LaV 6'A, R l -; 21 /., _ 2 ,/i ~~ 7~ 2 --5/ ;i3 372 1 3 / THE LATE EAST INDIA CADET- SHIP CASE. LEWES, August 4. (Before Auckland, Esq , Deputy-Sheriff) DEW V. COHEN. This was a writ of inquiry to assess the damages for a libel insert, d by the defendant in the .Brighto Guardian, the defendant having suffered judgment to go by default. Mr. Ballantine was for the plaintiff, and Mr. James for the defence. Mr. BALLANTINE said the plaintif, Mr. Dew, was av d auction-er, residing in Kiug William-street, London9, o _,, he brought this action to recover compensation in damage' for injury to his character and business by the publicatie of a. libel by the defendant, whose'paper had a considers b ? circulation in Sussex, where plaintiff bad many friends:, lie did not impute any miliee or improper model' to the defendant, but he bad shown a want of care An; diligence in this case. Mr. Ballantine here procee da ; to n,rrate the circumstances attending the late gt° ‘ Inclia. Cadetship case. Had the report complained e u been strictly a report of what took place in London, Wh e t a charg' was instituted against Mr. Dew by the ks!, India Company, Mr. Dew would not have brought t' action, but, instead of reporting what took place, t t : defendant had condensed the report, not giving Mr. Pe ( the fall benefit of the observations made in the course ° hearing the charge, nor giving the people of this col an opportunity of judging of the transaction ; 50 i. d .4 1 the conder.sation one of the gravest charges from veul a man could suffer was made against Mr. Dew. 11 '1; Ballantine, here read the article, which was a follows: n - 0 " ILLEGAL SALE OF AN EAST INDIA CADETSHIP. - 7; Saturday Mr. John : . 18 - Harry Drew, auctioneer, of '," 0, - William -street, and Mr. William Rallett, of BayswittT' were charged before Mr. Hardwick, of the Marlboroug,"' street Police-office, with being concerned in negotiati for the sale of a cadetship in the East India Compat service, in violation of the 49th Geo. 111., which ins": such a proceeding a misdemeanour. Mr. Clarkson % peered for the prosecution. It appeared that the n it sellers had represented to Mr. Coppard, formely residing:, the London-road, Brighton, and now at Horsham,,,,.‘"; was seeking a cadetship for his step-son, Mr. John At. thew Boswell, that they could procure him a cadetsl on receiving 1,090/. or 1,1001., through the influence Mr. Henry Shank, formerly a Director of the Compl and they exhibited to him a note, purporting t o be by Mr. Shank, promising to procure Mr. Boswell av . ,„, oetship in November next, and o n h an di ng over the ov cument,,and also a certificate signed by the prisoner' and another person not in custody, that the signature ell that of Mr. Shank, Mr. Coppard paid the parties 1,05 It was proved that the signature purporting to be Shank's was a forgery. The prisoners were admitted bail." The jury would see that not only was the plaintiff stated to' be charged by the East India Company with Wi n ' concerned in the illegal sale of a cadetship, but the sr e ,i title went on to charge what he was sure his Lealll t Friend would admit never was stated against him, ' 4 " the document signed. by the prisoner was a fore,: Nothing of the kind .ever took place ; there was no 0 . , 1 cument signed by Mr. Dew. It was for being trade,7j in, this mannt r that his client felt it necessary to ttfr" to a jury. .1 William Ball, bookkeeper to Mr. Dew, was , prove that the business of Mr. Dew had been seriousll4, jurod since the appearance of the paragraph in questl ° o Mr.. JAMES, having cross• examined the witness * , great length, addressed the jury for the defence. witness* Cohen had apologised for the mistake. The Win n e, ' 6 , of the plaintiff's business was owing, not to the tion of a short paragraph in the Sussex papers, in `"w,; . ' the sole mistake was the insertion of a superfluous but the charge of being concerned in the illegal sal e a cadetship, for which he was taken three times toy London police-office, and the details df which transseit were reported in the London papers. Not a s'"' ! ; owner of property had been called to prove darew t s, they had no cne but the clerk, who was engaged ' re . salary of 255. per week. Mr. James concluded by o ld minding the jury that a verdict of less than 405. ig ° leave the plaintiff to pay his own costs. The DEPUTY SHERIFF having snmmed up, The jury consulted for about two minutes, and returned the damages at the eighth of a penny t ot Mr. JAMES said there was a coin in the colonies would just meet that. ind Mr. BALLANTINE said they had better'say a WO Mr. JAMES—We consent to the increase. The verdict was applauded by the spectators. DUTCH MAIL. TRH HAGUE, AUG. I.—Their R o y a l Highnesse s ! o il : Prince and Princess of Orange returned from Ems days ago, and are now at the Loo. • They are exPs e here next week, with their children and household. _at The Cabinet messeng e r, R e i sman , i s t o go to-ilw r '' to London, with dispatches for the Kibg. The that MARCH 4 —Accounts from Am13 0, .. s oe that the health of that island is quite satisfactorP epidemic has wholly disappeared. .„ - a-L he , clol 3° , BATAVIA, M ARCH 14. Great damage basts in the residence of Tagat 'and Pekalongar, by r and rain, which inundated the'plantations of Inc e ' a tir other indigo, and destroyed several habitations buildings, and many small vessels, ng BATAVIA, MARCH 21.—The coasts of Sam ara an d Japara are still molested by pirates, and the , fi shin g *l 7 cooacing trade are exposo:l to great danger. TRADE OF FRANCE. The Moniteur of Sunday publishes the following L e ; , 'turns, from the Administration of th e Customs of '', principal articles of merchandise i m p orte d intol:Fril :0 t; during the first six months of th e p resent year , shefi ti the quantities arrived and consumed, an d the all' recei ti ell : Merchandise. Arrived. Consumed. Datiso: Met.Quint.*Met.Quint. Free 4 9 6 s l Sugar (Freneh Colonies) 489,847 434,400 20, 395 '09 Ditto (Foreign) Coff,e Cocoa Pepper 1 Cotton Wool Mahogany Oil (Olive) Wools . , Silk (Raw) 4,30§ 3,263 1',4'6 ,5 , Ditto (Spun) . Ditto `Floss) , 324 184 , 21 41 Coal 10,405,681 9,875,077 2 . , 3 7,'69 1 Cast Iron (unwrought) 278,122 279,040 1,61'603 Copper (first fusion) 48,090 48,975 1 13 :' 0 ,31 Lead (in pigs) 88,780 , 65,322 36j'51- 159• Tin (unwrought) 11,04! Zinc (first fusion) - 5 , 7 Nitrate of Potassium 2,170 3,981 6"'6A61 Nitrate of Soda ,7570 Cochineal 521 862 ~q 6 4 —' 54 Indigo Flax & Hemp (Threads) 41,781 40,312 2,7:fr049 Ditto ditto (Cloths) Other duties —.- _ ii,B2 • - --- n i4 75, 95 ,400 Being 4,404,607 f. more than fur the corresponding P e.- of 1844. and 6,032,796 f. than that of 1843. * The Metrical quintal is 221ilbs. English. ,ber MORTALITY OF THE of deaths registered in the metropolitan district, I °,' B ll week ending Saturday, August 2, is 827, of whic, ll o ,4l l were from disease, showing a decrease, as compared ,rge the previous week, in deaths from disease, of 49. to ff number of deaths from diseases of the respire on or g ans, was 292 ; and from epidemic, endemic, an tagious diseases, 184. Alutish. r On the Sth ult., at Hallow, Allan Waters, Esq" ° ft, mouth, Devon, to Anne Maria, daughter of the late King, r-sq., M.D., of Mortlake, Surrey. 000 30 On the 10th ult., at Quebec, the Rev. lien rml oo ° third son of the Hon. and Rev s F re d er i c k Hothan 3 o"7, John Rochester, to Mary, second daughter of the late o°-• Hale, Receiver-General of Lowtr Canada. the On the 31st ult., at St. Andrew's Chapel, AberdeeT er , to Rev. Philip Carlyon, Incumbent of St. James's, D' e t r e tth Grace Julia, youngest daughter of the late. Colonel oun. n the 2d p i l a r n 's e , Lcleerr,sgtaoteu, L ei c' e n n d , ° ei tdes i3 Y i W. ett, Esq., solicitor. daughter . of Robert Garrod, Esq., of Ipswich• On the 4th inst., Henry lE i D l 1 E oz ey - , Derby. wife of A ' On the 1 tof a June, at ghittagong, Caroline, Sconce, Esq., B.C.C. wife of On the 18th ult., in the city of Valetta, Lecilens, commanding Lieutenant-Colonel William Burton Tylden, the Royal Engineers in the Island of Malta. Esq'' On the 30th ult., at Brighton, Nathaniel Simmons, of Gloucester Lodge, St. James's, Croydon, Surrey- T o l es On the 2d inst., at Bath, Vice-Admiral George . Shirley, aged 77. roond , sq., of the Friari, On the 3d inst., Mary Sophia, the wife of James Rag Esq., of Bavthorn-park, Essex. et, re lict On the 3d inst., at Southsea, Portsmouth, Margar of the late Major-General Sir William Clarke, Bart. wi r e of the On the 26th ult., at Dawlish, Frances Isabella, Rev. d Hye W. don. On the 29th ult ßea ., at Hampstead, John Eaton, Eq: ..,, mrS• On the 30th ult., at Pembroke-square, Kensnet: Elizabeth Spence, relict of Captain H. IL Spence!,e 1 ‘• 1 0 - } phi , On the 30th nit.. at Ludlow , Elizabeth, wir Hutchings, Esq., aged 68. YOUN G ' °I 4on : Printed and Published by AILIRDO , o. 112/ Lon No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tile Sun Office , a v ert Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in t ill Middlesex, Thursday, August 7, 18414 tlj~ J ) 6 BIRTHS. C 3l ' On the sth inst., Mrs. R. Pryke, of the Lord Nelson , burton-street, Fitzroy-square, of a son. f D 3 ' s*ij On the 31st ult., at Myddelton-square, the lady 0 - Betts, Esq., of a daughter. g rs. On the 2d inst., at Trinity-terrace, East India-road' Ninian Miller, of a son at . ani el ' On the 2d inst., Bedford, the lady of Samuel Esq , of a daughter. il e org e On the 3d inst ., at Hyde-park-square, the wife of ,-,' La Coste, Esq., Judicial Referee of Trinidad, of a son- er y,if On the 3d met., at the Holt House, Wokinghamt v oo , the lady of John Spencer Wynn Werninck. Esq., of a 4' sri• On the 3d inst., at Burton-street, Tavistock- square , M On the . Phillip 4th son inst.,i of a on. the ladi n John-street, Berkeley-square, of Harry Surman, Esq., of a son. te4 On the 4th inst., in Manchester-building, West in° Mrs. Joseph Cubitt, of a daughter. ' .3fiS" On the 4th inst., at Belinda-terrace, Islington , Dewick, of a son. 310* On the 4th inst., at the Grove, East Dulwich, Stare.' v ' Henry 11. Piper, of Eastcbeap, of a son. Ag wort iv On the sth inst., Mrs. E. C. Dermer, of the Wan" — road, of a son. Be dfo ord er On the Ist inst., Mrs. Ainger, of John-street, row On , of a son. f a 6 ' 9 % the Ist inst., at Lee, Bent, Mrs. T. B. Stow , °.,,,, of On the 2d inst., at Greenwich, Mrs. John Matth` daughter. . ___..--- 35i, 8 5% 6% 27 1 A 28%