The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-23 00:00:00

ived park• has the ,the hich area rime !rid lace jet' 10 CT!' ►etn eV St. )eell er' roln . h a d anu• ion. the cee , I is OS; r Of for oir lie s or eft tb° IV le' the 0' it COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY. —His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the i I D uk e of Saxe C o b urg G ot h a an d D u k e E rnes t of l' Y urternberg, an d t h e E ar l o f Li verpoo l , an d a tt en d e d Y Lord Rivers, Mr. Anson, Baron de Alvensleben, and Colonel AVylde, went to shoot in the royal pre serves thi s morning. The royal party returned to the Castle about two o'clock. „ Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice were taken for an airing in the pleasure -grounds to-day. The Marquis of Granby arrived at the Castle to-day. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady 'my Howard, and th e C oun t ess Wratislaw, joined the royal circle at the Castle at dinner this evening. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in atte ndance at th e C ast l e d ur i ng di nner . H er Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and performed the remainder of the evening. b Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam riuge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess lAlecklenburgli Strelitz arrived at Kew on Thurs y e vening from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, Sussex. A Cabi net Council was held yesterday afternoon at th e l Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert • 1 , the D u k e of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, ,)rd Wharncliff e , L or d St an l e y, Si r J a mes Graham, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, tßight icon. AV. E. Gladstone, and Lord Granville Somerset. The Council sat upwards of three hours. Robert Bishop of Carlisle had an interview with Sir Peel yesterday. A.deputation from the Scottish Central Railway, ofliaisl,isting. of the Marquis of ll.eadalbane, Mr. P"ant, of Condie ; the Lord Provost, and Mr. Reid, VY clerk of Perth ; the Provost of Stirling, and ". Galbraith, town clerk • Mr. Locke, engineer ; a nd , v' r. Weems, Parliamentary agent, had an inter with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the " Lu ce of th e B oard of Trade. Sir George Cockburn and the Hon. Sidney Her -12; sad an interview with the Right Hon. W. E. at one yesterday, at the Board of Trade. Pool e from the Bolton, Wigan, and Liver- Ipshlißre ti l ( Ny so a l y ii c t( 7 ) s , isting of Mr. Brancher, Mr. Dar- Mr. Thomson (engineer), Sr. th e _ a cP, and Mr. R. Ellicombe, had an interview with e Earl o f D alhousie yesterday. tdeputation from the Blackburn, Darwen, and h• ," 01 1 Rail way C ompany, cons i s ti ng o f M r . Hi n dle, A l c g r ,fl sheriff of Lancashire ; Mr. John Hornby, \v " - il li. for Blackbu rn ; Mr. Greenway (Darwen), Mr. t on ain Henry H orn by (Blackburn), Mr. Kay (Tur ro T ower), Mr. Roxburgh (Entwistle), Mr. Shor f (Darwe n ), accompan i e d by Mr. Cardwell, M.P. Cl itheroe Mr. Vignoles, engineer in chief; and w i r t i,Rohinson, solicitor, had an interview yesterday " the Earl of Dalhousie. au deput a ti on f rom t h e Li verpoo l an d M anc h es ter cr including Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Langton, Mr. the °l ;,.,ge Loch, and Mr. Booth, had an interview with tarl of Dalhousie yesterday. A deputation from the Huddersfield and Sheffield zt , - " e tion Rail way , cons i s ti ng o f M r . Joseph Arm cng, chai rman ; M r. J osep h B roo k, vice-chair an' Mr. Joseph L - icke, engineer ; and Mr. James of Fe nton, solicit or , had an interview with the Earl Dalhousie yesterday, at the Board of Trade. /: 1- 1 deputati on from the Great North of England A i r: l Y Company, consisting. of Mr. George 11. son, the ch a i rman ; an d Mr. Edward Oxley, b a ,,ke-chai rman , h a d an i nterv i ew wi th th e E a rl of 13r 'flousie yesterday, on the subject of their proposed h. railway to Richmond, in the county of York. deputati on from the Cork and Bandon Railway, 11 • 118i sting of M r . S ergean t M ur phy, M.P. ; M a jor adwell Clerke, K.H. ; Mr. Shaw ; Mr. Vignoles, t ar • 6 L n eer; Mr. Th om p son , an d Mr. Billing, secre t, had an interview yesterday with the Earl of Dalhousie. to LLOYD'S SHIPPING. moiler N poN, Nov. 23.—Wind this day at noon, westerly, ate breeze, and tine. O FF PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 21.—Wind N.W. to E.N.E. A itr(l. Kate Scott, Rio Janeiro; Emerald, Pavey, Antigua. b id. Gibraltar, Dominica. The Mercurius , from O dessa ° Falmouth, which put in here on the 18 th inst., havin g be en blown p ast her port, has come in here to discharge and repair. C°w Es, Nor. 21.—Arrd. Augusta, Stalthand, Bahia. Manchester, New Orleans. RAI4;scATE, Nov. Conner, Ichaboe ; Margaret, Tr itidaci; Swan. King, St. Lucia ; Aminus, Port Re- Publicain; La Grange, New Orleans. DEAL, Nov. 21.—Wind N.W. by N., light.—Arrd. Norie, Montserat; Promise, Bickford, Quebec. Sic!. Castlereagh, Sydney, New South Wales; Sir George Seymour, Launceston Duke of Wellington, Calcutta; Volunteer, Mauritius; 'Susan, Crisp, Cape of Good Hope; Sophia, Jamaica; Mediator, New York; and the rest of the outward bound. OFF DUNGENESS, Nov. 20.—Herald, Baltimore, for Amsterdam. OFF HASTINGS, Nov. 21.—Pauline Haughton, Ratsey, Mauritius. DARTMOUTH, Nov. 21.—S1d. John, Gambia. Off, Waterhen, and Reaper, Quebec. PLYMOUTH Nov. 21.—Wind E.S.E.—SId. Tweed, aka blO.. PALMOUTII, Nov. 21.—Wind variable and light.—Sld. Tier Majesty's steamer Flamer, Gibraltar. RISTOL, Nov. 19.—Sld. J o h n J ar di n e and Jane and Barbara,St lchabo e; William, Miles, Jamaica ; Glasgow, John's, N.B. 21. Margaret, St. Kitt's. NEWPORT, Nov. 20. Arrd. Alice Killam, Grant, ab °e Edlin, Gillespie, Quebec. Sld. Freidrich Wil - I T 1 11., St. Thomas's. - " I sEY, ISLE OF MAN, Nov. 20.—The Mary Ann, I,, r lueis, from Ballinacon toLiverpool, put in here to-day, ' a r l V, and with loss of spars. c,,-I"°NboxnEnav Nov. 20.—The President, Williams, 0 1341 Cardiff for this port, went on the rocks at the tra nce of th e l oug h 15th inst., and is full of water ; `celv (except one) saved. e r .' '' ' C°R TH SUNDERLAND, Nov. 20.—The Defiance, ,_ with t o - ,, a et , of All oa , with a general cargo, struck on New - 'and Neak last night during a thick fog, and remains five f eet water in her hold. ti,-/V9rßit.wount, Nov. 20.—The schooner Crispen, St a i r l' 4l 'e Kilns, from Seaham, got on shore on l.„ - ' e Y Rocks this morning, but was assisted off after w ing Part of her cargo overboard. t: r l\ d : E p h l' i cio li t, Nov. - 21.—Wind variable and light.— Ps, Stutt, Valparaiso, sld. Aug. 5 ; William J , a lues, Brown, Coquimbo; Oxford, New York. Off joigr,lul, Calcutta. Sld. William Abrams and Rothschild, G e ; •auntlet and Solid, Rio ; Diadem, Hayti ; or°ll4ll, Caledonia, Ocean Queen, and Themis, New j a ,, ea ns Java, Mobile; Elizabeth Bentley, Savannah. I ve ssel passed bottom up by the Achilles steamer, is -PPosed to be the Firefly, Kew, run down near Point Yii,rlas, to inst. A steam tug has gone in search of her. coal. 21.—The Lord Coke, Race, of and from ""le, laden, is on shore to the eastward. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. tit Aurrivals—Pauline Houghton, Ratsey, from Mauritius Ber -Las , ti ugs, sailed S. Head, ; Elizabeth, Morris, from Oct.gal, off St. Alban's sailed July 14,Arrivals Ascension ~ 9. atT , Mauritius—Maria Tavener, Aug. 30, from 34 t, fr )nwald, Martin, and Apolline, Thomas, s,„ t ura Calcutta ; Augusta, from Calcutta ; Mazeppa, :2 d v; 1 , from Algoa Bay • Primer and China, Lindsay, Loadingl-I.oalc L:—Scotswood, Tar, and Ann Falcon, for 2-Idon—all to sail in a week. Rene part ure from Launceston, Van Diemen's Land— u6vvn, Maedonold July 24, to London. GREENLAND FISHERY. f ENTLAND FIRTH, Nov. 18.—The Caledonia, ( 41 ' ) and for Kirkaldy, from Davis' Straits, put into Ling cto, 16th inst , with five fish. so : f rcr s -RIEI • I3 s, Nov. 21.—The Lady Jane, Harri fish'. !,"!: 112 a Davis' Straits, arrived here to-day with four ionneaosattak)iteerieoeed very severe weather, and landed twenty - crew - at the Orkneys bad of scurvy. One man drowned in ()t. dOirium jumped overboard, and was n the Straits. The Lord Gambier is reported entering the Orkneys with fish. LYCE" have .rli vi um•--The following distinguished persons ilujiited this theatre within the last few days : —The i e of Beaufort, the Duke of Rutland, Duke and of .t:izstismoof_n_Ad,rgmylaerltu. Duke of Marlborough, the Duchess Marquis of Worcester, Mar • Marquis u M i s a o r Marchioness h ß i d s s f of or d N s o i r r m ß a o n b b e y r t , And Lady Peel, Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl and Cnt ess of Harrington, Earl of Munster, Earl and ountess of Glengall, Earl of Scarborough, Earl Fer rers, Earl Craven, Lord Auckland, Lord Beresford, I.ord Fi tzroy Somerset,,Lord Burghersh, Lord and Lady Ernes t Lord n utßeld, L or d Ranelagh, Lord Adolphus Fitz vlarece, Lord Macdonald, Lord Alvanley, Lord Z4_.. P.k urchill, L or d G ardner, Lord and Lady Lilford, Lady ° 3 7 Alford, Lady Somerset, Hon. Lady Codrington, Harley, General Sir G. De Lacy Evans, Sir W. W. Wynn. Sir John Lowther, Sir H. Webb, Sir Wil liam and Lady Curtis, Sir Andrew Corbett, Sir Henry Webst er, L ord Augustus Fitzclarence, Hon. Mr. Liddell, 11.Villebois, Esq., George Wombwell, Esq., Sir William 0411 , Sir Percy Shelley, Sir C. Johnstone, Quentin Dick, 441 3 2 , Sir C. C o d r i ngton, &c., &c., &c. THE ECLIPSE OF THE MOON. —M. Dagonneau, the astronomer, after noticing the total eclipse of the moon which is to take place in the night of Sunday next, ',publishes in the Union of Le Mans, the following addi aional particulars :—" During the eclipse, and from its com leencement, the magnificent planet Jupiter, more brilliant than a star of the first magnitude, will be visible in the south. Quite near it, and a little more elevated, we shall see the 'constellation Uranus, distant 660,000,000 leagues from the sun, and having, in consequence of this distance, the PPearance of a sma ll star of only the sixth magnitude. tt will pass the meridian at 47 minutes past seven in the evening. Its longitude will be 2 deg. 47 min., and its latitude 0 d eg . 44 m i n. in the sign Pisces. Before the 'eclipse there will be apparent in the west the planet ;Saturn, the most curious of all the planets, and present g a unique appearance in the atmosphere. This star Placed in the middle of an elliptical ring, and has ateven. satellites. At present, seen through an achro matic teles cope , i t b ears the image of an oval silver bas n laced horizontally, in the middle of which is a round sall of the same metal rising three or four inches above edge, but with ou t touc hi ng i t. This planet is a thou and times larger than the earth, its diameter being 280,000 leagues. It takes thirty years in making its revolution round the sun, from which it is distant a 29,000,000 leagues." THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, NOTEMBER 23 1344. DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE. --- NOTTINGHAM, THURSDAY EVENING.—I have just received authentic intelligence, of an alarming ac cident on the Midland line, which occurred this afternoon at Beeston, about four miles from this town. At ten minutes to three o'clock, the London train came into collision with a Derby train, and the result was awful. The stoker of the London train, and four passengers, are reported dead; and many others severely wounded. The confusion, the dismantled engines, the broken carriages, but above all, the cries and groans of the unfortunate sufferers are represented to me, as being most appalling. FURTHER PARTICULARS. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) NOTTINGHAM, FRIDAY.—I am now enabled to give you authentic particulars of the accident yesterday. As the different trains approach the Nottingham station, it is customary to remove them from the down line of rails to those upon which the up trains travel. In accordance with this custom, a coal train, which arrived about two o'clock P.m., was removed to the up line, in doing which the tender accidentally slipped off the rails, and was broken when about forty yards above the Wilford-gate. Great efforts were made to replace the tender in the right positi in, and to remove the coal- waggons into the yard, but the massive weight of the former defied all attempts at removal. Finding their most strenuous efforts inef fectual, Mr. Lightfoot went to Beeston, to intercept the Derby train, due at Nottingham at three o'clock. Whilst away, Mr. Youle, one of the managing directors, took charge of the station at Nottingham, and it is btated that it was understood by Mr. Lightfoot that no up trains should be started until the train due from Derby had arrived at Nottingham. This being Mr. Lightfoot's impression, upon receiving the down train at Beeston station, he joined the stoker upon the engine, and proceeded on for Nottingham, at the rate of about four miles an hour. This caution was highly necessary, as a thick fog prevented the stoker seeing more than a few yards before him, and it was probable that some obstruction might be met with on the line. Having proceeded at this easy pace about three quarters of a mile, they heard the rumbling of wheels, and the next moment they were thrown from their elevation by a most violent concussion. In conse quence of having neglected entering into a distinct arrangement with Mr. Lightfoot, the station-master, before dispatching him to Beeston, Mr. Youle started the London up train at about twenty minutes to three. The stoker not having had sufficient in struction, or being reckless as to the consequences, caused the train to proceed at the rate of about twenty miles an hour—so say the passengers—notwithstand ing that he knew he was on the wrong line. When the two trains met, it thus appears that the down train was travelling at a slow pace, whilst the other was proceeding with great velocity. Upon the two meeting, the collision was dreadful. The train from Derby consisted of several coal waggons and two or three passenger carriages ; the engine was of very powerful construction, and sustained the shock with out material injury. None of the passengers in the train were injured : the shock they felt was com paratively slight, in consequence of the slow rate at which they were proceeding, the strong build of their engine, and the height of the material with which the waggons were filled. But it was far otherwise with the up train : it consisted of a much lighter engine, the tender, the luggage truck, a second class carriage, a first class carriage, and lastly, one of the old " tubs," formeriy used as a third class carriage. The second class carriage was crowded with passengers, and several second class passengers had been put into the first class carriage, as they could not all find seats in the carriage for which they had taken tickets. It is said that there were about sixty passengers in all in this train, about twenty of whom are more or less injured. One of these, Mrs. Dean, wife of Mr. George Dean, landlord of the Castle and Falcon, Warser-gate, has described to us the scene, and her sensations at the moment of the occurrence. She says—" At the time of the catastrophe, we were travelling at a very quick pace, and had no idea of anything like an accident. Upon entering the carriage, I and my little daughter placed ourselves behind my husband's brother, who happened to be travelling in the same carriage to a different destination. We were then sitting with our backs to the engine ; but my daughter fancied she should like to sit on the opposite side, facing her uncle. I removed to please her. I had not changed my place more than a few moments, when the colli sion took place. We were all stunned in a moment. I had been sitting directly opposite to my brother-in law, and at the moment of the accident I could not help noticing him; he jumped up from his seat, and exclaimed in a tone of deep agony, O-o-h.' In the next moment he had rolled head first out of the window. I believe he was then dead. We all began to scramble out at the windows as well as we could, some of the more fortunate of the passengers assisting others who could not extricate themselves." Three have died, and sixteen other individuals lie in a dangerous state. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Holderness hds., Mon., Burton Agnes ; Tttes" Cove Castle ; Thursday, Sproatley Village • Fri., Water Hall ; Sat., Woodmansey Lord Yarborough's hds., Mon., Weelsby House ; Wed., Cabourn Village ; Fri., Cheatham-11. Mr. Musters's hds., Mon., Epperstone; Wed., Bagthorpe common-2. Sherwood harrs., Tues.,;Sherwood Hall, King's-mill-11. Donington hds., Mon., Bunn's Park ; Wed., Cavendish bridge ; Sat., Hathern Turn-101. Mr. M. Ingram's hds., Mon., Barton Park ; Thurs., Drakelow ; Sat., Wicbnor Park. Rufford's hds., Mon., Langwith-bridge ; Wed., Kennels. Quorn hds., Mon., Kebworth ; Tues., Bardon Hall ; Thurs., Lowesby Hall; Fri.,Wattenby Stone-pits-Iq. United Pack, Thurs., Linley. Mr. Farquharson's hds., Mon., Doles Ash. B. V. H., Tues., Toomer Farm. Mr. G. Notley's harrs., Devonshire Inn, near Honiton ; Fri., Kingstone Turnpike-gate. Mr. Long's harrs., Mon. New Copse; Wed., Broughton ; Fri., Knooknoll. Duke of Beaufort's hds., Mon., Chavenage-green ; Wed Wick Wilk Turnpike-gate ; Sat., Petty France. Mr. A. Smith's hds., Mon., Red Rice; Tues., Oare-hill; Wed., Wherwell Wood; Thurs., Wayhill; Sat., Roche Court-11 Linlithgow and Stirtingshire hds., Mon., Dunmore Park; Tues., Hangingside ; Thurs., Hopetoun House; Sat., Bell's Quarry. Badsworth hds., Tues., Streethouse Bar; Thurs., Robin Hood's Well; Sat., Wombwell Wood-101. Mr. Foljambe's hds., Mon., Lindrick Common; Tues., Mettering-bridge; Thurs., Streetly Bar; Fri., Ros sington-bridge-101. Earl of Harewood's hds., Mon., Harewood-bridge; Wed., Towton ; Fri., Tockwith- 10 1. Lord 11. Bentinck's hds., Mon., Stainfield Hall; T oes ,, Linwood-by-Rasen; Wed., Swinthorpe; Thurs., Nor ton House; Fri., Stapleford Moor; Thurs., Norton Place-11. Sir R. Sutton's hds., Mon., Uffington Hall ; Tues., Burley-on-the-Hill ; Wed., Grimsthorpe Castle ; Fri., Loddington Hall ; Sat., Little Dalby-11. Pytchley Hunt, Mon., Finedon ; Wed., Sulby Hall ; Frid., Fox Hall ; Sat., Spratton Bridge-10i. East Essex hds., Mon., Bulmer Plough ; Thurs., Gos field ; Sat., Yeldham. Essex Union hds., Tues., Rettendon Common ; Sat., Hazeleigh Hall. Lieut. Col. Hildyard's harrs., Mon., Ludell ; Wed., Frosterley-bridge ; Fri., Faon Lees-10. Hurworth hds., Tues., Cotcliff Wood; Sat., Kennel3-10i. Raby hds., Mon., Whitton-bridge-10j ; Wed. (a deer), Sommerhouse-1 . 2 ; Fri., Waterfield-10i. Mr. Trelawney's hds., Tues. , Pl y m-brid g e ; Fri., Goodamoor—loi. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. CONTINUATION OF CAPTAIN NORTON'S SHELL PRACTICE.-FOURTH DAY. The firing continued again on Thursday morning, at nine o'clock, at the top of high water, for the purpose of testing the qualities of these formid able missiles, as ricochet shells—the Swiftsure the target. The guns used were as before, 68 and 32- pounders. Twenty-five shells were thrown at a very small elevation of the gun, to make the first graze about eight hundred yards from the Excellent, the object being to test the operation of the shell on striking the water. We understand that a number of the shells fired were not pointed at the Swiftsure, but merely to try whether the shell would explode by the resistance of the water, which it did not do except in one or two instances, and then we suppose the shell came into contact with the hard ground under the slight coating of mud and water ; about 10 shells struck the ship, four of which exploded with tremendous effect, one entered through the quarter deck, and did not explode, but was picked up and taken back to the Excellent. _ _ _ We subjoin a list of shells fired, &c. No. 1. First graze about 800 yards, passed over Swiftsure, grazed water eight times ; no explosion. No. 2. First graze about 850 yards, second graze into ships' bulwark, quarter-deck, port side, splinter ing timberheads, side-planking, &c. No. 3. Ex ploded in the air, about 700 yards from the Excellent. No. 4. First graze 800 prds, third graze into ship and exploded. No. 5. irst graze about 800 yards ; at third graze struck ship, passing through quarter deck bulwarks, and into deck ; no explosion seen. No. 6. First graze about 800 yards ; at third graze struck ship through quarter-deck by skylight, through main deck ; no explosion. No. 7. First graze about 850 yards ; struck, third graze, passing through quarter and main deck ; exploded on main deck. No. 8. Ricochet, nine times, passing ahead of ship ; no explosion. No. 9. First graze about 900 yards, passed ahead of ship, grazed nine times. No. 10. First graze about 900 yards, passed ahead, grazed six times ; exploded. No. 11. Passed ahead of ship, grazed water twenty times ; no explosion. No. 12. Into ship the fourth graze ; no explosion heard. No. 13. Into ship the third graze, struck port fore castle bulwark, and exploded. No. 14. Into ship the third graze, and exploded. N 0.15. First graze about 800 yards, passed over ship; no explosion heard. No. 16. First graze about 800 yards, struck ship the third graze, and exploded. No. 17. First graze about 800 yards, struck the third graze into ship's water line. No. 18. First graze about 950 yards, passed ship, grazed water twelve times. No. 19. First graze about 950 yards, passed, grazed seven times, and ex ploded. No. 20. Struck water about 950 yards, and exploded. No. 21. First graze about 900 yards, missed ship, grazed water twelve times. No. 22. First graze 950 yards, missed ship, grazed water twelve times. No. 23. First graze about 700 yards, missed ship, grazed water twenty times. No. 24. First graze about 800 yards, missed ship, grazed water thirteen times ; no explosion. No. 25. First graze about 900 yards, missed ship, grazed water thirty times ; no explosion. Sir T. Hastings, Colonel Dansey, and Capt. Stevens, inspected the Swifture after the firing ceased. The Daedalus, 20, Captain P. M`Quhae, is ordered from Woolwich to Devonport, where she will be paid advance and receive orders. The Black Eagle steam-yacht, Master-Commander B. Cook, has returned to Woolwich from Dover. The Champion, 18, Commander Clavell, has arrived from South America at Portsmouth, sailed from Val paraiso Aug. 10. She worked out of the bay with a French frigate, bound to Otaheite. The Dublin, 50, Captain Tucker, had sailed on the 7th to blockade Callao. Left at Valparaiso the Cormorant steam sloop, Commander Gordon ; and at Rio, the Alfred, 50, Commodore Purvis, and the Crescent receiving ship. The Champion reached Portsmouth in forty seven days ; had fine weather all the passage. The Satellite, Commander Rowley, arrived at Monte Video, from Rio Janeiro, on the 30th July. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Nov. 21.—At a Congregation holden this morning the following degrees were conferred :-- MASTER OF ARTS.—William James Garnett, Christ Church ; Rev. Algernon Coote, Brasenose College. BACHELOR OF ARTS.—William Packer Coulson Butt, Trinity College, Grand Compounder ; John Aubrey Scott, Balliol College ; Charles Patten Good, Exeter College ; Henry Martyn Walker, Clerk, Oriel College ; John Arundel Leakey, Queen's College ; Samuel Johnson Butler, Clerk, New College ; Alfred Roberts, Brasenose College ; John H. Jenkinson, Christ Church ; Hugo D. Harper, Scholar of Jesus College ; John Cawood, St. Edmund Hall. The Sibthorpian Professor of Rural Economy will deliver two lectures, at the Library attached to the Botanical-garden, on Wednesday and Thursday next, the 26th and 27th instant, in which he will include the subject of the mechanical method of improving the soil. In the former of these lectures he proposes to consider the various means adopted for pulverising and preparing the earth for seeds ; and in the latter he will treat of the history of peat bogs, their relation to clay beds, and the expediency suggested for re claiming or applying them to useful purposes. BRAZILIAN GOLD MINES. A meeting of the holders of shares in the Cata Branca (Brazils) Gold Mining Company was held at the office of the Society, Broad-street-buildings, at half-past one yesterday, for the purpose of receiving the half-yearly report of the Directors ; George Hay thorne, Esq., in the chair. After reading the advertisement convening the meeting, the Secretary proceeded to read the report, by which it appeared that there had been a decrease in the quantity of gold produced from the " lode" during the last half-year, in comparison with that produced from a similar quantity of lode in the year 1840, and those intervening. The rate of the produce of the gold in the year 1840, as compared with the lode was 974 lbs. of gold for 18,230 tons of lode, while in the last half-year it was only 1541b5. of gold for 7,900 tons of lode, being a falling off in the proportion of about 23 to 51. The cause of the decrease was attributed, by those who were deputed to examine into it, to the tact of what is technically termed a " slide" running longitudinally through the bed of lode at an angle of 42 degrees, by which the quality of the productive earth was consi derably deteriorated. To counteract this, it became necessary to sink a bell shaft to the depth of 100 fathoms, and now they found a considerable improve ment in the quality of the lode. The excavated earth, by the usual process, produced as much gold as covered the expenses of working the shaft. The Directors had deemed that it would be advisable to make a call on the Shareholders, but they had re frained from doing so as yet, and made themselves liable to 8,0001. debt. On the motion of Mr. GREY, seconded by Mr. WILAy, the report was adopted, and ordered to be printed for circulation; after which a vote of thanks to the Chairman, and one of confidence in the Three 'ory, were passed, and the meeting separated. 'UBLIC -ATIIS AT EDINBURGH.— A numerous meeting was held on Wednesday in the Hopetoun Rooms, Queen-street, of the friends and supporters of the scheme for supplying baths for the working classes, to eonsider of the means for increasing the funds in behalf of that object. The meeting, which was crowded by a numerous assemblage of all classes, was called at the instance of the Committee for erecting the baths, and the interest in the proceedings was maintained throughout. The Duke of Buccleuch took the chair, amidst loud and frequently repeated expressions of ap plause. On the platform beside his Grace, were Lord Dunfermline, theLordJustice-General,Lord Cuninghame, Lord M'Neill, Andrew Rutherford, Esq., M.P., Bishops On Wednesday last the Lord Mayor accepted the Terrot and Gillot, Sheriff Speirs, James Simpson, Esq., invitation of the General Purposes Committee to dine advocate, Robert Chambers, Esq„ &c. &c. The Duke at Masons'-hall Tavern, White-alley, Coleman-street, made a very suitable speech on the occasion, and was when Mr. Bailey, the proprietor of the tavern, prepared followed by the Lord Justice-General, Lord Cuninghame, a most splendid entertainment. Deputy Stevens, who Andrew Rutherford, Esq., M.P., and other leading men has been for many years one of the most popular and in- in the northern metropolis, when several resolutions in fluential members of the Corporation, presided upon the accordance with the object of the meeting were adopted. occasion, and was supported by Deputy Peacock, the A vote of thanks to the Noble Chairman was proposed popular member for Bishopsgate, and several others of by a working man of the name of Watson, who paid a the Court. His Lordship was received in the warmest high compliment to his Grace for the deep interest he had manner, and responded to the toast of " His health" in manifested on all occasions for the welfare of the work such a manner as drew down the strongest expressions ing classes. The Duke subscribed 1001., the Duchess 251., of applause from the company. and many other liberal subscriptions were announced. THE RAILWAY RIOTS IN LEICESTERSHIRE. — SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW:—The show will Several examinations of parties concerned in the riots commence on Wednesday, Dec. 11, and continue open consequent upon the attempt of the railway surveyors to the three following days, at Baker-street. On account get upon Lord Harborough's property, have taken place of the increased number of visitors which has taken place before the county magistrates. In some cases the par- since the change of locality, the arrangements for their ties have been held to bail for assaults; in others the accommodation will this year be considerably increased. magistrates have refused to grant warrants. On Monday The space in the upper portion of the building appro upwards of 200 special constables were sworn in for priated to implements will also be extended, on account twenty-one days, and placed in various parts of Staple- of the magnitude of their exhibition at the late show at ford Park, and there are also several in the neighbour- Southampton. ing villages, headed by some of the Leicester county GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL AT VIENNA.—There police force; they keep watch in parties of about twenty, was a grand musical festival held at Vienna on the 10th and are relieved every eight hours. It was stated at of this month, by the Society of Musicians of the Aus- Melton on Wednesday that the surveys had re-corn- trian Empire. The concert was held in the Imperial menced on the Oakham Canal towing path, and as Winter Riding-school, on which occasion upwards of one there appears to be a right of way reserved to the public thousand artists, vocal and instrumental, gave their ser by the Act of Parliament, it is not thought that Lord vices, to assist in the performance of Haydn's cele- Harborough or his advisers will venture again upon brated oratorio of the " Seasons," which was performed ejecting the railway agents from it. in a style of magnificence never before excelled. THE NEW BUILDING ACT.—Scarcely any Act of CORONER'S INQUEST.—DEATH OF A DISSENTING the Legislature within the last twenty years has had such MINISTER.— On Thursday Mr. Baker held an inquest at an effect upon the labouring classes as the above. The the Golden Eagle, Stepney, on view of the body of the leading provision of the Bill relates to all buildings Rev. Edwin Parsons, aged 47, a Dissenting minister, " commenced" after the Ist of January, 1845, the con - attached to Baalam chapel, Mile-end-road. It appeared sequence of which has been the commencement of an from the e v id ence , th at t h e d ecease d was resi di ng in immense number of houses in e ver y p art of the metro- Assembly-row, Mile-end. On Friday morning last, be polis, the suburbs especially, - where the utmost activity tween twelve and one o'clock, he was alarmed by a noise, prevails. The plan adopted by the speculators in bricks which he thought proceeded from his garden, at the back and mortar appears to be the finishing of the foundation of the hous e . H e i mme di ate l y went out o f hi s room t o and ground-floors, leaving the final completion till a i go down stairs, when his foot caught against something, future period. In order to accomplish this end, brick- and he fell d own near l y h a lf the fl i g h t o f sta i rs . I n hi s layers and labourers have been hi red with ea g erness by fall he knocked down some flower pots. Mrs. Parsons the traders, and a great many men, thrown out of em- afforded him immediate assistance, and he was carried ploy by the scantiness of their own trades, have readily into his room. The deceased gradually sank from the found employment as labourers. At this season of the effects of the injuries he received, and died on Tuesday year, when the mass of bricklayers, &c., are generally j last. Verdict, "Accidental death." Deceased was unemployed, the demand for labour is particularly gra- highly respected by hi s congregat i on, over w hi c h h e h a d , tifying. presided many years. IRELAND. DUBLIN UNIVE RSITY—ORANGE MOVEMENT. DUBLIN, Nov. 20.—The statement of the Dublin Warder, respecting the anti-Peel movement amongst the divinity students, has produced some excitement in the University, and led to a decided course of action on the part of the board of Senior Fellows. The - Statesman, an Orange journal, contains the following on this subject : "An article quoted in another column from the Warder, with reference to Wyse and Peel's proposed University tamperings, mentions that the Regius Pro fessor of Divinity had spoken, in his opening prelection, this term, of the possibility that this might be his last occasion of addressing them as an officer of a Protes tant university. " We understand that yesterday (Monday) the Rev. Mr. M`Neice, Archbishop King's Lecturer in Divinity, warned the students of the junior class, that any attend ance upon a political meeting of the sort referred to would be a direct breach of academic discipline, and would be so treated by the board. We understand, also, that this day Dr. Elrington, Regius Professor of Divi nity, advised the senior class not to take any part in such movements ; and also explained that he did not speak of likelihood, but merely of the dangers threatened by the enemies of the Protestant cause and of the University and Church of Ireland. " Of course, in consequence of these admonitions, no public step of a political hue will be taken by university students in that capacity. " Since writing the above, we learn that a special meeting of the board was held this day, and that it was resolved to publish on the gate of Trinity College the old rule of the board, which prohibits all students from taking part in political assemblies. This rule, which is now upon the gate, originated in 1798, or thereabouts, we believe, and was revived in 1834 . but we do not know that it was ever before published, or that in any mode whatever a student could be reasonably presumed to be informed of it. We see it, indeed, printed in the recent new edition of the statues, but these will be in very few hands. Of course the rule will be at once and heartily obeyed to the letter ; but equally, of course, it will be found a step not without deep and ulterior conse quences to tamper with any more bulwarks of Pro testantism." THE CORPORATION AND THE TREASURY. At the meeting of the corporation of Dublin, yes terday, the Town-clerk read the following letter from the Lords of the Treasury, in reply to a communica tion from the Council, dated Sept. 10 : " Treasury Chambers, Nov. 16, 1844. "My Lord,—The Lords Commissioners of her Ma jesty's Treasury having had before them the letter from the Town-clerk of the city of Dublin, dated 10th Septem ber last, in reply to the letter of this board of the 31st of August last, upon the subject of the arrangements pro posed by the corporation of Dublin, for charging their estates with a sufficient sum to pay off certain city bonds and pipe water debentures, with a view to an annual saving, by a reduction of the interest now payable on those bands and debentures, I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you that, under the peculiar cir cumstances in which the corporation are placed, their Lordships are disposed to reconsider the financial scheme proposed by the council, with a view to ascertain whe tiler the interest on the corporate debt can be reduced in a manner more in accordance with the usual practice of this board than that originally proposed. " My Lords desire me to state that they continue to entertain objections to the plan of parcelling out so large a sum as that required by the corporation among credi tors of 1001. each. " Their Lordships are, however, informed by the Town-clerk's letter, of the 10th of September last, that the Hibernian Bank would agree to consolidate the bonds and debentures into somewhat larger amounts, such as sums of 5001., 3001., 2001., and 100/., instead of the present 1001. debentures. " Such consolidation, if carried to such an extent as to divide the debt among a large proportion of creditors of 5001. and 3001., leaving comparatively few of smaller sums, would lessen the objections entertained by this board to the proposed scheme. My Lords, therefore, before they proceed to the reconsideration of the whole question, would wish to be informed of the utmost ex tent to which the Hibernian Bank will consent to such a consolidation of the 100/. debentures into larger sums.— I am, my Lord, your most obedient humble servant, " C. E. TREVELYAN. " To the Lord Mayor of Dublin." The corporation had given notice that they would reduce the rate of interest on their debentures on the 29th September last, that being the gale-day, and to enable them to make such reduction in the manner then proposed, the sanction of the Lords of the Trea sury was required. Accordingly, a correspondence on the subject ensued ; and now, to a letter dated the 10th September, on a subject to be concluded on the 29th of that month, an answer is forwarded by the Lords of the Treasury of the IGth November ! The matter so treated by the Lords of the Treasury related to a saving to the citizens of Dublin of not less than 1,3001. a year. The corporation not having received a final answer in proper time from the Treasury, might have been involved in great difficulty but for the intervention of the Hibernian Bank, which en abled them to keep faith with their creditors and carry out the reduction of interest for which they had given notice. This conduct of the Treasury was the cause of much severe animadversion at the meeting of the town council, and the repealers availed themselves of so good a topic. RESISTANCE TO THE POOR-RATE. The Mayo Constitution says :—" A police force, under the command of Sub-inspector 'Walshe, and Mr. Kelly, R.M., accompanied the collector of poor rate to that part of the parish of Islandeady which is in the Castlebar union, on Saturday last. At first the collector met with fierce opposition, and stones were flung at him ; but owing to the conciliatory course adopted towards the people, a good deal of the rate was paid, and the remainder promised. It is but just to Mr. Kelly to say that, in several cases where he saw that persons were not able to pay, he paid the rate for them himself. This creditable act ought to be stated." ANOTHER DISMISSAL FROM THE MA GISTRACY. The Cork Reporter contains the following corre. spondence, commencing with a letter to the editor of that journal : " The Rennies, Carrigaline, Nov. 18, 1844. " Sir—Having had the honour of being admitted a member of the Loyal National Repeal Association on the Ist of July, I have been now visited with the usual laconic notice of Mr. Henry Sugden, hich gave rise to the following correspondence.—l am ur obedient ser vant, " LUKE JO EPH SHEA." " Secretary's-office, Four Courts, Dublin, Ithavrie a m having been era cello ‘S rt i— h r at you a I am directed to ask you, as a magistrate, whether t he Cha Chan cellor v. report is correct.—l have the honour to be , Sir , you r most obedient servant, b e rp o f r t t h Nd e o ; e B p t Repeal 8411. rd Association, " HENRY SUGDEN. " Luke John Shea, Esq., &c.' " " Ringmahon Castle, Cork, Nov. 12, 1844. " Sir,—Your letter of the Bth inst. did not reach me until this day, owing to my absence from " The Ren nies," and being on a visit here with my father-in-law, Mr. James Murphy, which will account for your not having heard from me in due course. "' By your communication I am informed of a report having been made to the Lord Chancellor that lam a member of the Repeal Association,' and you ask me, as a magistrate, whether the report is correct ? " ' In reply, I have the honour to state, for the in formation of his Lordship, that on or about the Ist of July last I sent a letter to Smith O'Brien, Esq., accom panied by a subscription to the repeal fund, and I am informed that I have been admitted a member of the Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland, and I hare further to add, I subscribed myself then, as I have still, the privilege (at the pleasure of his Lordship) to do, a magistrate of the county of Cork, and am your very obedient servant, &c., " LUKE JOSEPH SHEA, J.P. " Henry Sugden, Esq., Secretary's Office, Four Courts, Dublin. " ' N.B. Your letter directed to Luke John Shea, Esq., I presume was intended for me.' " Secretary's Office, Four Courts, Dublin, Nov. 15. " have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th inst., and I am directed by the Lord Chancellor to inform you that he regrets he has felt it his duty to supersede you in the commission of the peace.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, " HENRY SUGDEN. " Luke Joseph Shea, Esq.' " " The Rennies, Carrigaline, County Cork, Nov. 18. 1844. "' Sir—l have received an intimation from you, bear ing date the 15th inst., that the Lord Chancellor has thought fit to deprive me of the commission of the peace for tau county of Cork. I therefore beg leave in reply to say, that intelligence has come upon me without sur prise, as I have already seen so many instances of the practice, but in no case have I heard it alleged that in any amongst the magi s trates who joined and who have been visited with the intended penalty of a supersedeas, for so joining the peaceable association of their country men for a legal object to be obtained by strictly legal means—have been guilty of the slightest violation of the laws which they were sworn to enforce, or in any manner infringed upon the principles of the Constitution, which they learned at all times to respect, and under any cir cumstances sacredly to uphold as the safeguard of the State ; in a word, I have yet to know how or when we ceased to be loyal subjects, or impartial magistrates?— You will, then allow me to say, that in my humbie opi nion, you do his Lordship the Chancellor, in his minis terial capacity, a great injustice when you make him thus pronounce my doom ' sic volo, sic juGeo, stet pro ratione voluntas: " I respectfully bow to the decision of his Lordship, but it makes the fact to me the more clear, that nothing can serve Ireland but repeal. Promises have been made and as soon broken. This kingdom has been the play thing of party in every age. A Government (exhibiting some profession of good perhaps) chanced to have had a short existence one day, but again the picture is re versed, and our faint hopes are blackened. We have seen alternate courses of conciliation and coercion, tan talized by English friends, and oppressed by English foes—lrishmen are MADE to feel that no consistency can be relied upon except in the security of self-government. This, I say, is the conviction on the minds of many, and it is mine, though Government may think themselves strong because they have apparently succeeded in stifling, not the opinion, but the expression of it in some —because magistrates who have *got aristocratic friends are still silent— because barristers who expect promo, Lion, countenance, or place, still remember the warning of Lord Ebrington, and say nothing—because the army and police dare not read the journals of the Liberal press or join in the cry for repeal—and because persons in every department of the few public offices in Ireland have received notice to quit or be mute. This, you will permit me to say, is at best but a very negative power, and while you stop the mouth of the volcano, you do not quench, but concentrate the fire, and notwithstand ing that there are still many waiters upon Providence— many who are still content to take the crumbs which fall from the rich man's table—the truth is every day becom ing more and more evident that the ranks of the re pealers are increasing —that nine•tenths of the Roman Catholics are practical patriots, and that a large body of the Orangemen, too, wish the cause to succeed, but their esprit de corps prevents them as yet from say ing so ; for my part, I felt I would be doing violence to my nature, dishonour to my religion, and injus tice to my country, in withholding my co-operation (humble though it may be) from the NATIONAL cause. I foreknew the consequences of my act, but could no longer stifle the expression of my conviction, when the master-spirit of our age—he whom Providence has raised up the emancipating pillar of the Irish nation—who, heaven directed, leads, while he cheers his chosen people from their long captivity—was sought by legal mystifica tion to be hidden from our view, whilst O'Connell was himself a captive, when an ominously sullen gloom over- hung this land—when the last ray of hope was about to carry our faint prospects of justice to a foreign shore, to be afterwards so gloriously and unexpectedly revived there, by the voice of the immortal Denman, of whom it may be said in the language of the poet, ' Semper hones, nomenque town, laudesque manebunt.' When there was no longer in Ireland any chance of ' Justice to Ireland,' I came forward, but at the eleventh hour. I did not, on that account, expect an exception in my favour for 5o long a time, even to prove a rule, and though I could have anticipated this mark of his Lord ship's displeasure by my voluntary resignation, I did not wish to commit so pusillanimous a suicide, but, relying on my constitutional right to act as I have done, I now willingly accept the intended degradation at the hands of his Lordship, and I shall rest content with the mens conscia sibirect? to take my stand at the bar, as I am no longer considered worthy of a seat on that bench which cannot now be held by any one, but at the willing sacri fice of self-esteem and public independence. I cease to be a magistrate of this county, only to become a more determined national repealer.—l have the honour to re- main your very obedient humble servant, " LUKE JOSEPH SHEA, ex-J.P., and Barrister- at-Law." MR. O'CONNELL IN TRALEE. (From the Kerry Examiner.) From an early hour yesterday (Monday) the popu lation for twenty miles round the town were all in motion—all proceeding to the grand object of attrac tion, Tralee, from whence the procession to compli ment the illustrious Liberator was to start at twelve o'clock. At twelve o'clock, the hour appointed, there was a general move towards Mulgrave-bridge, the place appointed for the rendezvous, when the various trad©s proceeded, with their beautiful new silk ban ners, which had been prepared for the occasion, to take up their several positions. The Castle-street band shortly after, dressed in their splendid military uniform, drove along the street in a novel sort of chariot, being no other than the celebrated boat, be• longing to Dr. Blennerhassett, which had the honour of visiting the metropolis, with her gallant crew, when Tory injustice consigned the Liberator to Richmond Penitentiary. This boat, the famous Colleen Dhas, placed as it was on the body of a car riage, to which it was firmly bound, and bearing the inscriptions, "Hurrah, for Lords Denham, Cot tenham, and Campbell, Daniel O'Connell, and Repeal of the Union," " Remember the 30th of May," awakened in the bosoms of the spectators the warmest respect for the worthy owner. Notwithstanding the distance the quay of Blennerville is from the town, the seamen in the harbour seemed to participate in the universal ardour—the captains of the dif- ferent vessels having ordered, at six o'clock in the morning, to hoist all the flags on board to respect Ireland's vindicator. The appointed hour having arrived, the procession proceeded along the Mall, with banners inscribed with the appropriate mottoes of each trade. Immediately in front of the proces sion were Dr. Blennerhassett, the Rev. Bartholomew O'Conner, P.P., Milltown ; Rev. Jeremiah Connell, P.P., Bawnmore ; Rev. T. L. M'Donnell, R.C.C„ Bawnmore ; Rev. O'Callaghan, P.P., Bally-M'Elli god ; Rev. E. O'Flaherty, R.C.C., Tralee ; Daniel and Justin Supple, Esqs., Dr. King; the Messrs. Donevan, Mulchinock, Fitzgibbon, &c. The procession having passed the barrack, the gates of which, by-the-way, were closed, and the loop-holes stuffed with straw, proceeded along the picturesque and romantic glens of the new line of road t• Miltown. Along this line the scene was majestically grand. The eye of man, perhaps, seldom witnessed a sight more imposing than what was there presented. As the dense mass of human beings wound along this meandering road, .the mountain presented the appearance of some mighty encamp ment, as the banners moved in front of its heath-clad sides, while the national airs, re-echoing from every hollow ravine, spoke as if with a thousand tongues to the Irish heart. Ilaving gained the summit, the whole body, which could not have amounted to less than fifty or sixty thousand persons, halted to await the arrival of their illustrious Liberator. The delay was but short, when the cheers of thousands who accompanied the Liberator on his route proclaimed his near approach. Nothing could equal the enthusiasm of the multitude on his arrival. As he slowly passed along, the lines were drawn up to meet him. Hating again formed, they moved down the mountains, and on reaching the barrack, outside the town, the several bands, on passing by, struck up the royal anthem—" God save the Queen,"—amidst loud cheers for her gracious Majesty. The procession at length arrived in town, and conducted the Liberator to Miss Connor's house, Denny-street, where he alighted amidst general accla mation. Mr. O'CONNELL then presented himself at the window, and was received with the most deafening cheers, which continued for several minutes. After silence was restored, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman said—Fellow-countrymen,—l am anxious that the bands may now stop playing, as I am unwilling that the men who have done me the honour of accompanying me to town may be exposed to the rain. In the fullest tone of satisfaction ant! delight, I must express my warmest th an k s f or th e very . kind reception my friends have given me this day, in my native county.—(Loud cheers.) It has been observed that no man is considered a prophet in his own cou ntry; however, I h ave rece ived mar k s o f your affect ionate rnard beyond anythi ng I cou ld anticipate. It i s impossible for me to find words to describe how I feel. I again thank you for your kindness. My gratitude towards you is not founded on the consideration that the compliment is personal. No, my gratitude to you is for Ireland—(Cheers) — and your devotion in the cause of Old Ireland— (Loud cheers)—for which every man of you is ready to die if necessary. And are you not ready to live for it ?—(Loud cheers) Yes, you are, and your attachment to it to day proves it. You are deter mined to stand in support of fatherland—(Cheers), —for liberty and Ireland—(lmmense cheering),—for repeal of the union and Ireland.—(Tremendous cheering.) For this I have laboured as during the struggle of Emancipation ; but I had always an ulte rior object—not, however, to place the Catholic or the Protestant in the ascendancy, but to make both the possessors of property in the land of their birth. —(Loud cheers.) For this have I struggled—to have Ireland for the Irish—Scotland for the Scotch — Wales for the Welsh—and with all my heart, England for the English.—(Cheers.) But I insist that Ire land must be for the Irish.—(Cheering for several minutes.) For my attachment to this principle they sent me to the felons' gaol—to a prison for one hun dred days—(Loud groans)—but here I am as merry as ever.—(Long continued cheers.) They had no more right to send me there than I would have to send the judges who tried me there. How much they would deserve it you all can judge. I need not re mind you of the law having been violated, the packed jury and the jury lists.—(Groans.) I committed no crime; my only crime was my love for Ireland— (Cheers)—but if it is a crime to love Ireland, let them punish me again; for I love Ireland as much as ever. (Great cheering.) I have now come from my na tive mountains, still determined to struggle against the enemies of Ireland, looking for the great and mighty object of all our aspirations, liberty. And oh ! what can expand the human heart in its greatest amplitude more than the obtainment of liberty and the amelioration of the condition of the people ? If the people of this country had employment, how happy would they feel ; if the absentee rents were spent in works of public utility, how different would be the state of the labouring class. If we had the 6,000,0001. a year expended among the people, to how many would it afford employment? It would put in circu lation 500,0001. a month, 125,0001. a week, or about 18,0001. a day, including Sunday.—(Loud cheers.) What employment this would afford. What a cheerful country would this be. You would have the farmers comfortable—you would have the labourer able to obtain from the farmer remuneration for his labour. —(Loud cheers.) I don't mean to detain you at this late hour by other topics on the repeal question, but I have been informed by gentlemen in other parts of the county that the people are alive to the subject— I perceive by this day's display that Kerry is alive. —(Loud cheering.) I have sufficient proof of that fact by your conduct to-day.—(Loud cheers.) Your peaceful, orderly conduct in the national cause must be crowned with success.—(Cheers.) Let us have no anger or irritation, no hatred to any man. lam now contending for the interests of Protestants as well as Catholics. My heart beats only for the good of Ire land. I begin now, and will not cease until we have the Parliamont House again in College-green.—(lm mense cheering, during which the Liberator retired.) Mr. O'Connell shortly after appeared at the win dow, and advised the immense assemblage to disperse to their homes, on which all quickly separated. The Castle-street and Square Temperance Rooms were brilliantly illuminated. THE FIST ULA INFIRMARY. _ - A numerous and influential meeting of the sub scribers to this excellent institution was held at the London Tavern, for the transaction of special business. Sir Chapman Marshall was, in the ab sence of the Lord Mayor, who had to attend a meeting of the Common Council, unanimously called to the chair. The honorary secretary, Mr. S. B. Merriman, read a letter from Mr. Howell, who communicated in it his resignation as treasurer of the charity. Mr. Howell stated he exceed ingly regretted that frequent absence from Eng land, and a feeling that he could not adequately dis charge the duties of his office, induced him to resign. He, however, though officially retiring from their valuable institution, should always feel a deep inte rest in its welfare, and contribute to its support. The resignation of Mr. Howell having been ac cepted, and a vote of thanks passed to him for the zea lous and liberal assistance he had at all times afforded the institution, it was unanimously resolved, " That J. Masterman, Esq., M.P., be requested to accept the office of treasurer." Mr. Masterman, in returning thanks, raid he had, for many years past, had the gratification of witnessing the great advantage de rived by the poorer classes from the Fistula Infirmary, and the great kindness and skill of its excellent founder and honorary surgeon, Mr. Salmon. The chairman then stated that their esteemed friend, Mr. Ogden, who had for the last twentyyears acted as their honorary secretary, was about to retire into the country, where he would permanently reside amongst his friends. That gentleman had in consequence resigned his office, very much to the regret ofevery friend of the institution. The vacancy had been filled up by the Committee, and their new honorary secretary, Mr. Merriman, who was lending his able and active exertions in promoting the welfare of their charity, was now present at his post. After a warm tribute of praise to Mr. Ogden, the cordial thanks of the meeting were voted to that gentleman, and it was further resolved that such vote should be presented to him emblazoned on vellum. In accordance with a recommendation of the Committee of the charity, the meeting resolved that a honorary physician to the Infirmary should be appointed. A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman, who, in acknowledging it, spoke in strong terms of the great value of the Fistula Infirmary, and the great bless ings it had conferred upon the poorer and industrious classes of the metropolis. The meeting then broke up. We understand that the sum subscribed for the purpose of presenting the founder and honorary sur geon of this valuable charity, Mr. Frederick Salmon, with a testimonial of the esteem in which he is held by the friends of the Institution, already exceeds 7001. COMMISSION OF LUNACY. A commission de lunatico inquirendo was opened on Thursday at the Manor-house Tavern, Stoke New ington, before Mr. Commissioner Barlow and seven teen special jurors, to inquire into the state of mind of Jane Edwards, a maiden lady, aged thirty-six, daughter of the late wealthy George Edwards, Esq., of the Hampstead-road, described in the commission as " late of Clarendon-place, Maida-hill, but now of Northumberland House, Stoke Newington, spinster." Mr. Gregory, of the firm of Gregory, Faulkner, and Co., appeared as solicitor in support of the com mission, which was unopposed. The Learned COMMISSIONER explained the law of lunacy in the usual terms, and, in the absence of counsel on either side, stated the nature of the case ; from which, and the evidence adduced, it appeared that the unfortunate lady had in her infancy been affected with convulsive fits, which had weakened her mind,• but decided unsoundness had not manifested itself till 1825, when she was seventeen years of age, when she was placed in Bethnal-green Asylum. She then laboured under the delusions that people were continually breaking into her room, and also that many people were conspiring against her, and she ultimately became perfectly imbecile. After her father's death, in 1839, she was removed to her uncle's, in Belgrave-square ; and upon his death, in 1842, to another relative's, at Maida-hill ; who, hav ing also died, she, in September, 1843, became an in mate of the above asylum. Her father, at his death, left her a handsome annuity, to secure which the commission had been issued. Mr. Anthony White, surgeon, of Parliament-street, deposed to the imbecility of her mind from October 1, 1842. Dr. Alexander Sutherland also stated that she said her father was still alive, and she appeared i nca p a bl e of understanding the va lue of money, figures, or any subject, though it appeared she had been originally well educated. She was decidedly of unsound mind. Her chief amusement was tearing paper, handker chiefs, and other articles ' • but she never asked for food or anything else. She was attired in deep mourning. The lady was introduced ; her countenance was mild and pleasing, with fine hazel eyes, and she had evidently been pretty. She continually smiled at the Learned Commissioner's questions, but her answers were chiefly " Yes," or No." A book ws handed her to read, but she merely muttered indistinctly and unintelligibly. By request she took a pen to write, and first drawing off one glove she wrote in a good neat hand the words, " Miss Jane Edwards," when her mind appeared to wander, and she joined to the latter word "edsredseds," and was so continuing, when the jury expressed themselves satisfied, and re turned a verdict, dating the unsoundness of mind from Oct. 1, 1842. SUICIDE BY A GENTLEMAN ON EPPING-FOREST. On Wednesday last a gentleman, named Scott, committed a most deliberate act of suicide by hang ing himself from a tree in that part of Epping-forest which is known by the name of Phillipson's Warren, High-beach, and this circumstance, together with the discovery of the skeleton of an old man, named John Harris, who was supposed to have been murdered, near the same spot, has created an unusual degree of excitement for some miles round the country. It appeared that on the same morning (Wednesday) Mr. Soott had arrived from his residence in the neighbourhood of Steine, at the asylum of Dr. Allen, on a visit to a female patient. For some reason or other, Dr. Allen, on his making his appearance at his house, wrote to deceased's brother to apprise him of his being there. About one o'clock in the day the deceased was observed walking about the forest near High .beach, but there was nothing in his manner to attract particular notice. About three o'clock, a man named John Clarke, in the employment of Mr. Phillipsen, of the King's Oak Tavern, High beach, having occasion to go into a small thicket adjoining the rabbit-warren, found the deceased gentleman suspended from the forked branch of an oak by a white silk handkerchief. He with much promptness cut him down, and with the assistance of Paine, a police-constable belonging to the N division, conveyed him to the King's Oak Tavern. The body was warm at the time, and Mr. Searl, a veterinary surgeon, who happened to be at the inn at the time, opened several veins and arteries, but no blood flowed, and it was evident the vital spark had fled. In the course of the afternoon, Dr. Allen and the brother of the deceased arrived at the King's Oak, when the latter seemed dreadfully affected, and desired that every respect should be paid to the remains of the de ceased until the Coroner's inquest was held. The body, or rather the skeleton, of the man Harris, remains at the same house, and an inquest is appointed to be holden on both this evening. The disappearance of the deceased was attended with much mystery, and the general impression at the time was that he had been murdered. It seems that he was in the employment of Captain Southey, son to the late poet laureat, who is lord of a manor in Loughton, and the last time he was seen alive was on th night of the 28th of June last, between ten and eleven o'clock, by a lad named Cannon. On that day, it appears, he changed half a sovereign at the King's Oak Inn, where he was in the constant habit of calling, and in the evening was at a beer-shop, in the company of some notorious 1 poachers. He left shortly after ten o'clock, in com pany with the youth Cannon, and after that had not been seen alive. The fact of his absence under such suspicious circumstances, had for some time engaged the attention of the police, and from what transpired it was found that out of the change he had received he had not spent more than a shilling, yet strange to say when his skeleton was discovered there was not a farthing about him. The spot where his remains were discovered was a very secluded one, and had it not been for the annual custom of cropping each tree this might have remained there for years without being found. It was evident that the cord with which he had been suspended had, after some con siderable time, given way, and the body was on the left side, 'and the ancles rather contracted when found. Not the slightest cause has been assigned for the suicide. LICKING AN EDITOR.—The following ludicrous affair is said to have " come off" somewhere " out west," lately :—[Editor in his sanctum, discovered writing. A "six-foot " customer approaches with a newspaper in his hand.] Visitor (pointing out a particular article) — Look here, Mister, did you write that thar ? Editor— I did. Visitor (laying off his coat)—Well, I've got to whip you, so you'd better peel. Editor—lndeed ! but I prefer not being whipped. Visitor— Can't help it. Got to do it. You'd better be a pullin' off that coat, or I moght spile it for you. Editor (drawing a "revolver ") Thank you, Sir; I believe I'll keep my coat on. Visitor — What! you're rot a goin' to use that shootin' iron, are you? Editor—Not unless you render it necessary. Visitor —Now see here, stranger; that's not gentlemanly. Jest lay that thing aside, and let's take it out in a way that's becomin'. Editor—Sorry not to be able to oblige you ; but I can't, positively. Visitor (putting on his coat and retiring)—Well, if you're that sort of a fellow, I want nothin to do with you. You're . beneath the notice of a a o n f p e a x p e e h r a . n e ? Be_—laEdxyi like L A a bil l nte res i pgt y ab i l s e a ci y ti o s u en ng ! cause she ought to be settled as soon as she comes to maturity. THE MIDDLE CLASSES. It has been often observed, that a good middle class is the strength and glory of a nation. Without this unfailing source to draw upon, no great efforts can be long sustained. An aristocracy may be splendid fur its wealth, and honourable for its generosity ; a pea santry may he respectable for its spirit and numbers, and still more so for its domestic virtues. But neither of them possesses the stamina of a good middle class for any great purpose, either of peace or of war. It brings to bear upon one another all the great elements of social strength, industry, talent, wealth, public spirit, and public opinion, in a far more efficient manner than any political effort of the state ; because in the most natural way—by actual combination. Where there are wide intervals between the classes, energy and promptitude are lost by dis tance of operation, by bad leverage, so to speak, and ill-direction of forces. When you have a good middle class, you have not far to fetch your mate rials, to communicate your intentions, to apply your impulses. There the state has not to get at the nob?e men, the nobleman to get at his dependents ; spirit has not to awaken industry, and industry to go about looking for means, and means to waste for want of hands. The electric circle is always com plete. The industrious man is also enlightened and wealthy; the wealthy man is also energetic and able. Go into the market-place and look around, and there you have in one view all the elements you want for any great internal improvement or external under taking. In this class you possess a storehouse and a school, on which you may depend for a constant and equable supply of political means and virtues. The state has not to set to work as soon as it foresees an exigency, or conceives a design, putting all the scat tered parts of the social machine together, and dis covering, at the last moment, to its cost, that it is not prepared, for that something is missing, some joint has gaped, or some member has shrunk since the last great turn-out of the nation. In such a predicament the results mu,t always be precarious and imperfect. But with a large class, neither very rich nor very poor, neither incapable of great efforts nor above them, always engaged in extensive and, arduous designs, always augmenting and concen trating the resources of the country, the statesman has three parts of his work done to his hand. Even if he slept, others worked. He has only to speak to a prepared people, and open a well filled magazine. We are aware of the prejudices we offend by elevat ing the middle class into the saviours of their country. There are persons who would rather not be saved at all than by such means ; at least in theory, for most of them appear to acquiesce very contentedly in the historical fact, and to enjoy without any reserve the numerous benefits thence accruing. But when ever they can abstract themselves enough to mo ralise, and forget enough to be ungrateful, then they complacently meditate on the middle class as all that is vulgar, pushing, conceited, selfish, and unsocial, with the world for its god and money for its religion, without either the dignity of command or the grace of obedience ; neither lofty nor dutiful ; removed alike from the beauties of nature and the perfections of art ; a novelty on the past, a cloud in the future, intrusive, encroaching, upstart, without right or inheritance, with out father or mother, absolutely without place in a perfect system, anti-aristocratical, anti-monar chical, anti-ecclesiastical, anti-everything, excepting only its own odious self. If so great an absurdity ad mits of aggravation, it receives it from the circum stance that most who so feel and talk are them se.ves of the middle class, and are only removed from the warehouse or the shop by one generation of parentage, or perhaps by seven years of school and college, or even not at all. As we never yet heard any serious project for dispensing with this class, and showing how England was to continue England with out it, and not relapse to holes in the earth and painted skins, such sentiments as the above do not pretend to be anything else than a rebellion of one's tastes against an inevitable dispensation ; and, as such, have not a very religious or rational character. However, they exist and continue. There are, and will be, thousands who consider their inward revolting at the middle classes to he the most exalted and precious part of their nature, and the most certain evidence of their soul's nobility. Such a prejudice, ridiculous as it is, is yet injurious. It estranges from paths of public usefulness many who might do service in their day; it diverts into the ideal many who might be practical ; and, though not in itself a very active principle, it furnishes the groundwork of dangerous appeals,—appeals from the living 'present to the dead past, from realities to chimeras, from duties to dreams. It is then with very great pleasure that we find the use, the necessity, and the rightfulness of a middle class, and an unbroken gradation of middle classes, advocated by men likely to command attention, and recommended by arguments which cannot be denied. With some minds use, with others rightfulness will have more weight. For the benefit of the former we will extract a very important passage, as seems to us, from Mr. Tremenheere's exceedingly interesting report on the state of the population in the mining districts : " Another result of the truck system, not less in jurious, though not so directly appreciable, is, that by checking the growth of a middle class it reduces the amount and effect of those civilizing influences which descend upon the labouring classes from the various gradations of society above them. The large sum of 200,000/. a-year, part of the wages paid by the principal works having stores as abovementioned, has been al ready shown not to be expended in these stores. The growth, therefore, of the class of retail dealers in those neighbourhoods has been considerable, as is proved by the case of Coatbridge, where there are at present 134 shops and three inns, besides six shops at Dundyvan kept by persons belonging to the works, who deal in the same kind of articles that are sold at the Dundyvan store. It is stated that eight years ago there were only 16 shops open at Coatbridge. The increase is un doubtedly great ; but it must not be overlooked that the profits of the 50,0001. a-year estimated to be ex pended at the stores of the enumerated works would, under other circumstances, have been so much added to the fund which supplies the well-being and wealth of the class of retail dealers. It would have promoted pro tanto their advance towards the middle ranks of society, and therefore towards filling that void the existence of which is oae of the fertile sources of evil in districts new and rapidly peopled." Only the old story, some will say. Who wants to multiply small shopkeepers ? They are enough already : one at every corner. What will a state come to of which retailers of sugar and cheese are the predominant citizens ? Well, we burn coals, and are glad to warm our hands and cook our dinners by their aid. Coals involve smudgy pitmen, smudgy pitmen involve smug shopkeepers, and what is more, if we have any bowels of mercy or of gratitude for the said pitman, lying naked on his side for live-long days, and picking laboriously at the walls of his dungeon, in utter darkness, and in deadly vapours, more than a hundred fathoms below the cheerful: realms of day, we may be glad to think that he has a chance some day or other, before age surprises him at his toil, of standing upright, clad and clean, behind a counter, enjoying the light of day and the sight of fellow-men. The middle classes, we maintain, have an hereditary place in England, from which they have too generally been ousted. In the golden age of the old English gentleman there was a rising class above the labourer, and step above step to the highest station. This we have repeatedly asserted, and believe there is no fact for which more abundant and conclusive evidence can be adduced. There is hardly a village where, in the memory of man, there were not many times more holdings than there are now, and consequently many opportunities for the poor man to escape from that poverty which England calls a crime. The very sur face of the fields, the traces of ancient homesteads, roads, and hedgerows, declare the same historical fact. The statement in the following extract from Lord Willoughby D'Eresby's very excellent and sug gestive letter, which we published on Tuesday, would be found confirmed wherever the inquiry was made : _ . The occupation of three acres of pasture would give him that great necessary of life, a supply of milk for his family, which he can very rarely buy, and at the same time afford him a profitable investment for his money, by the purchase of a cow and sheep, which would pro duce him as many pounds yearly as he could get shil lings in the savings' bank. It would consequently en able him to accumulate the capital necessary to stock a small farm. I cannot refrain from adding two very sig nificant facts for the benefit of those who talk of the im possibility of the labourer's purchasing a cow :—I have seen the plan of a parish of the date of 1717, i n which every cottage had an allotment of pasture. At so me subsequent periods all these were taken away a nd let with the large farms. Ten years ago they were restored, and there are now in the parish 33 labourers who; pur chased cows for themselves as soon as the allotments were granted." These two passages, from different quarters, con stitute a very bufficient case for the practical benefit and successional right of an unbroken gradation of middle classes. If, however, they have been banished from the country to the town, and made thereby more democratic, whose fault is it? Not their own.— Times. THE CUSTOMS.—It was stated, a short time since, that an a dditional landing surveyor had been stationed at the London Docks, besides the two regular officers, owing to the great increase of business in that large e stablishment. It has since been also determined. by the board to place an additional officer of the same :staisding at the St. Katharine Docks, where the business has also of late increased to a very great extent, the time of the one landing surveyor originally and till now placed on the station being almost entirely occupied in super intending the number of vessels from Leghorn which discharge their cargoes there, it being, consequently, impracticable for him to devote as much attention to the other portione of the docks as the wants of the public and the necessities of the case require. Ilzsides being a great advantage to the mercantile world., as affording them additional means of dispatching their business, a greater degree of security is also afforded to their goads and the revenue, a measure strongly recom mended in the recent report of the - Revenue Inquiry Conimissisk.