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J..e , . .. . .. .....a . , . , / • - - ' . ' AIT G UST 12 ) 1641. , ......--. a TIIE SttN, LONDON, MON . DAY IVIOnI`IiNG, ..., ICE. . .. . . . ..„.. . . • - --- - - - DUDLEY ELECTION. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.- -BALAN C E -S HE ET ,ND :`3D. -stze -- RAILWAY. eac h, w ith Mr. Mr. Benbow has been returned fur Thelley by a On Friday the Proprietors of the London and Birmingham. ..s. i e. Three vlako.e.rde.ma)_ority—rnore than two to one out of 563 who Railway held their general meeting* at the station, Euston squ.are, for the purpose of receiving the report, and the trans_ A n A ccoun t of the Net Public Income of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the year ended the sth day of July, 1844, after abatino. the Expenditure thereout defrayed by the several ; 71b i fi" Revenue Departments, and of th e ac t ua l I ssues or Payments within the same Period, exclusive of the Sums applied to the Redemption of Funded or paying off Unfunded Debt, and of the Advances and fhe numbers were—for Mr. Benbo , v, 388 ; A winner for M r. action of business for the last, half-year. The meeting was [owed 31b. The ( R , Rawson 175. The result was fully expected. most numerously attended, it being generally known that a Repayments for Local Works, &c. rill not be Government press will, we trust, remember in piece of plate and a purse, of money were to be presented by Other Public .. to Mr. Richard Creed, the Secretary to the • Applicable to coed horse its exultation, that Mr. Benbow goes to Parliament, the Proprietors ------- ---..... EXPENDITURE. 80i, if de' having disavowed under compulsion on the hustings Company. George Carr, Esq., the Chairman, in opening the " business of the day, said that the affairs of the Company INCOME OR REVENUE. ...Consolidated . c Total. s. d. use on the Personal attachment to Sir R. Peel, and tracing Lfe- . were in a most prosperous condition, and that the various Fund. Services. Funded Debt.—lnterest and Management of the Permanent Debt . ante. _, tral depression of trade in his new constituency to branches of the line from the present trunk were rapidly ap- — ---_____ ' X a. •d. X s. d. with 2 4 l'lr It- Peel's tariff. Mr. Benbow then is one snore preaching to completion. The report was read, from which ORDINARY REVENUE AND RECEIPTS. £ s. d. £ s. d. 24,648,421 211 stance the added to that band of "generous supporters" of the it appears that the balance in hand on the 31st of December GCustoms . 18,781,676 14 2 3,000,000 0 0 21,781,670 14 2 ... ... 1 4 3 : 0 19 33 7: 4 5 6 15 7 19 9 7 1 Terminable Annuities Total Charge of the Funded Debt, exclusive of 8,8841. 3s. OvL, the Interest 3'988'513 27 ) start, orlast was 383,9041. 14s. 5d., and the cash received from - that . 13,033,467 9 1 I ,,°%ler e l . llnFnt, between whom and the Government the Excise Unfunded Debt. Interest on Exchequer-bills than five , time up to the 30th of June last was 750,674/. 4s. ld., making 7,046,501 10 10 f 'tut Minister has confessed that there are a ids dif- 7,046,501 10 10 Ike. Ani -ereneo s in the whole 1,134,578/. 18s. 6d., of which sum 469,373/. 16s. Stamps . • 4,197,515 19 7 on Donations and Bequests. 4 .__ -on fundamental principles—another recruit sd. had been expended on the London and Birmingham line, Taxes (Land and Assessed)..... ••• ••• lures and 4 ur,,," Atles's boy." 22,124/. 13s. 11d. on the Warwick and Leamington branch, Property-tax 5,247,663 19 10 .4 • ... 5,247,663 19 10 511,812 3 2 e entrance 638,000 0 0 There is another thing which the Government press 147,8541. 3s. 9d. on the Northampton and Peterborough Post Office 638,000 0 0 3S A C ia i n i v isa n i c l r i e l il i e L i t as i e i n s s ae t no a du n s d AC P ihl e oa n wr s ga ions for Civil, Naval, Military, and Judicial Services, • 29,048,746 9 8 - • ••• branch, 100,000 L on the Chester and Holyhead Railway— Crown Lands 145.000 0 0 145,000 0 0 &c., charged by various Acts of Parliament on the Consolidated Fund 15 added Will do well to bear in mind. The number of rem ° making a total expenditure for the six months last past I s and 64 and 4s in the di on Pensions and Salaries.... 5,216 19 3 ••• ... ••• .. 5,216 19 3 st. Heats , ter ed electors in Dudley is 911, out of which number of 722,392/. 145., and leaving a balance to be divide d 33,7s9 7 10 564,653 12 3 e taken inthan 1 (411 Y 5 63 have voted in all, and only 388, less among the Proprietors of 405,226/. 4s. 50., on which a Small Branches of ' the Hereditary Revenues of the Crown 33,759 710 Surplus Fees of Regulated-Public Offices 53,865 16 8 trt, or the irif the whole number 67, have voted for Mr. Ben- dividend of tive per cent. was immediately declared, ••• ••• .53,865 16 8 Diplomatic Salaries and Pensions -- e n s ce o s n the Consolidated Fund 180,752 10 2 ---.. ive horses Courts of Justice i• °w • Mr. Benbow then has been returned to Par- leaving 15,000/. as balance in hand. An important la 49,182,667 17 3 3,000,0 N 0 0 52 ; 182 667 17 3 , name and ment by the votes of a minority of the electors of part of the day's proceedings was the presentation of a 242,063 12 10 in 18 44 ' Dudley. splendid piece a plate, in the shape of a candelabrum, and . two large dishes, all of solid silver, value 300/., in addition to OTHER RECEIPTS. - 6,086,394 5 1 2,353,026 10 8 [l3. . ~, fr,That 348 electors out of 911 should have abstained Army a purse of 2,100 guineas, to the secretary for his services. Money from China under the Treaty of August, 1842... 184,802 7 8 ..• .., 184,802 7 8 N ll ° l ra i d s vi c Yl e .a l n l :n e er . ); ~ '''''''''''''''''''''' * On . ****** ******** Annual .*** ** G . **************** ****.. *** Parliament "** ************** , ach, lellp .. In votinglos,4o2 0 3 I distanc es Lon altogether, admits of only one explana- Colonel Alcock, as Chairman of the Committee appointed by Imprest . and other Monies 60,000 0 0 ••• ... 10:5,402 0 3 1,977,267 12 2 — influence, If so many have stayed away from the Proprietors to manage the su b s cription list, presented Money received from the East India Company Unclaimed Dividends more than paid nor of the tohfett,p_o_li to avert Lord Ward's displeasure, how many 14,635 16 92,849,837 3 2 .. the plate to Mr. Creed, accompanied with a high eulogium, • . ••• 14,635 16 9 sto start,Opium Compensation 1,257,616 11 3 than n w ee t. ,.. , "u5e who have voted for Lord Ward's agent may h i upon which Mr. Creed replied in a very feeling manner for the high compliment paid him by his employers. The candela- _________ China Expedition 49,547,508 1 11 3,000,000 0 0 52,547,508 1 11 - 821,020 0 0 take. i° 'i 4 le given the direct lie to their convictions ? bruin excited the admiration of every person present, being Canada Insurrection Who will 25,300 0 0 ng of th e e ncy like believe that a manufacturing constitu- executed in the highest style of art, and representing Peace, 19,375,654 11 11 ol if de' Dudley would have sent a man to Parlia- Plenty, and Britannia . at the base, in addition to a view of the Euston-square station. On the different pieces of plate rnent to vote for denying foreign markets to its ma- 50,777,427 12 3 15 added . nufact d e ures, and cheap bread to its artisans, are engraved the arms of the Company, and of Mr. Creed, if . with the following inscription engraved on each :—" Pre ,52,54'7,508 111 Excess of Income over Expenditure ••• ••• 1,770,080 98 , the Trig _,,, pendent voters had been protected by the ballot sented to Richard Creed, Esq., together with a purse of 2,100 lb extra' ear renoxsosnii►it intimidationiteyerr,proof, iey added Proprietors . of the London and Birmingham Company, in ac- 1 added to the recent Salisbury, Hastings, Exeter - cordance with a resolution passed unanimously, at a general . . start, the meeting held on the 9th of February, 1844, as a testimonial rise before Il t d he tt - i l o t t. Lancashire elections, of the ne .An Account of the Public Money remaining in the Exchequer on the sth day of J p n ay l 3l g lB o 4 tT 3; t.h th e :eA moun t of Money raised by the Additions to the Funded Or Unfunded Debt in the Year *ended the sth Day of their high appreciation of the indefatigable zeal and dis of July, 1844 ; the Money applied towards the Redemption of the Funded or Unfunded Debt ; the Total Amount of Advances and •Repayments on Account of Local Works, &c., with the !es. Th e Cirencester—where took the occasion of the late vacancy for tinguished ability manifested by him for fourteen years, in Difference accruing thereon; and the Balances in the Exchequer on the sth day of Juty, 1844. tsual waY' karencester—vvbere the Government have achieved promoting, under the auspices of the Court of Directors, the tiled to * 17. another triumph in the return of L or d general interest and prospectsof the Company,of their esteem and respect for his private character and an evidence of the carrying £ s. d. X v illiers to - represent Lord Bathurst and the manner in which they appreciated his courteous and gentle- s. d. X s. d. I I .£ a. d. { X s. d. .a. i twice' lo e IBALANCES in the EXCHEQUER on the sth day of July, 1843 ••• ••• ••• so. 1,835,014 19 6:1 nd a dis' -a - hanker's overdrawn accounts —to call manly demeanour upon all occasions." ISSUED. 1 astern:,,-. . _ _ _,.,_ _.,_ _r L _i__,.!__ isual wai' Ided to carrying ; twic e ' ,nd a dis' • hurdle*. ill not be )nd hors* ie o'clock -inner to )ED). he beat ats, 0111 1 I 4 $ A 5 ~• - 5 4 .... 2dr at easili, .teps take° riders (5 les Jack' h, adds , die anu- tiley) ; ....... 2 )0 added' in tw ° sting se• ichise vens--lv to 2 psi,r i gst v S ig . 71y Buc k orPetli-' Mr. Benbow has been returned fur Dudley by a lar.re majority —more than two to one out of 563 who voted. The numbers were—for Mr. 13enho , v, 388 ; for Mr. Rawson, 175. The result was fully expected. The Government press will, we trust, remember in its exultation, that Mr. Benbow goes to Parliament, hav ing disavowed under compulsion on the hustings Personal attachment to Sir R. Peel, and tracing ge neral depression of trade in his new constituency to Ste R• Peel's tariff. Mr. Benbow then is one snore added to that band of " generous supporters" of the u ? nv ernment, between whom and the Government the 4 ime.:Mi n i s t er has confessed that there are u ide dif ference.s recruit for on fundamental principles—another , w ," Wes's boy." I. here is a no th er thi ng w hi c h th e G overnm ent press will do well to bear in mind. The number of regis tered electors in Dudley is 911, out of which number Onl y 5 63 have voted in all, and only 388, less than half the whole number 67, have voted for Mr. Ben tow' Mr- Benbow then has been returned to Par ament by the votes of a minority of the electors of Dudley. That 348 electors out of 911 should have abstained __, voting altogether, admits of only one explana tion—influence. If so many have stayed away from the poll to avert Lord Ward's displeasure, how many ot' those who h ave vote d f or L or d Ward's agent may have give n th e direct lie to their convictions ? Who will believe that a manufacturing constitu ency like Dudley would have sent a man to Parlia ment to vote for denying foreign markets to its ma nufactures, and cheap bread to its artisans, if pendent voters had been protected by the ballot from intimidation ? The Dudley election, then, is ,another , p roo f , added to the recent S a li s b ury , H as ti ngs , xixeter, and South Lancashire elections, of the ne cessity of the ballot. We took the occasion of the late vacancy for Cirencester—where the Government have achieved an other t r i ump h i n th e re t u rn of Lord Villiers to represent Lord Bathurst and the local banker's overdrawn accounts —to call attention, to another class of recent elections for small boroughs, where the ballot by itself could not be a sufficient remedy. In Abingdon, Buck ingham, Christchurch, Cirencester, Devizes, Horsham Huntingdon, Launceston, and Woodstock—in all of which the constituencies are under 500, in all but one of which (Cirencester) under 400, and in one of which (Abingdon) under 300 —wholesale bribery and intimidation might still neutralise the ballot. The Government purse might still afford to furnish a sum to be divided among the bulk of the electors of Abing don, if the Government candidate were returned. The l Duke of Buckingham might still sway the 380 L e n e t t s ors h o a f v ß e number is sufficient utheekmingham with his own band of depen o callers ensure together r return o t o o l f d, m " y Y o o oo ur . didates—*f they ar enotreturned, wi l l all have you notices to qu i t : ca n n it , Besides, whethe r i mproper influences exist or not, a. be said that const i tuencies of two, three, four, 1.. five h un d red are sufficiently large to give anythinglli the attainable security for a proper choice of re presentatives ! all • If the 225 e l ec t ors o f H arw i c h were spotles s as the milk-white hind, would it not yet be monstrous that so small a number should choose two Me m b ers of Parliament? If the 170 electors of be aine and the 190 electors of Reigate—we wish to Impartial —were entirely independent respectively of I _ L ord Lan s d owne and Lord Somers, would it be r ri e r ight for suc h miserably small constituencies each to number a memb er t o P arliament, when so large a of men possessing the qualification of the ualne an d Reigate electors are without a voice in the P re sentation ? We have of the derived our information as to the numbers _ different constituencies from a return of regis &erect electors, moved for by Mr. Hume. The same ret urn urnfurnishes us with the following facts : r tw t there are forty-f our b oroug h s i n England eoing each one mem b er to Parl i ament, and thirty iese returning eac h t wo mem b ers to Parl i ament, with e' than hu n d re d e l ectors ; ma ki ng in all ninety- A;' -c• oish mem b ers elected by consituencies under e nundr,led. in That IV tu rni ales ther e are th ree b oroug h s, eac h re -800 e n,g ( me member to Parliament, with l ess than raarissectors. Indeed, they are a ll un d er 400 ; B eau - Th ' 315 ; Brecon, 330 ; Fli n t, 270. at in Scotland there is one b oroug h, Ayr, re turningeount one member, with 440 electors ; and one eoo Yo Bute with 420 electors ; while another hav!_‘3', aithness, just exceeds the number 500, Zgotfi2B registered electors. for Ire] er P arliamentary return of registered electors bo roughs d, Mov e d by Mr. Butler, shows us sixteen 'OO e l ector s c returning one member, w , e h with less than The r ..th e .esult of the whole is, that 119 Members in under tnted Kingdom are elected by constituencies Liber 5 1 00. Of these - 72 are Conservatives, and 47 e ons :. alembers. In tngland the proportion of the small rvative Members to the Liberal Me nbers for I n / b i °rough s is larger, the numbers being 64 to 34. by f r i , e 'and, where the Liberal party - could - only gain ri ts 'e enlargement of constituencies, there are 10 eral and 6 Conservative Members, for boroughs wlth l • less than 500 electors. 11 _ 41 (jd to the Conservative majority in corrupt and dnunlation boroughs, their majority in landford-rid- ZFuunties ; and what would become of the Govern tecta 1 11 the House of Commons, if voters were pro large the ballot, and constitnences were uniformly en nu 'on im- Pra et • „gu to render bribery and nomination Je anie? The re 1,000 electors.libuuld be no constituency with less than a It does not follow from establishing thr oughout n i nnn ef electors, that we should also establish l the rep resentat i on a un if orm proport i on t ' lea thers to 1 men to eh e •ectors. If th e th ousan d electors are `e,mpted to ) ,?se, and ca n c h oose f ree l y , an d are no t cn oice as a •-; eor r uPt, they may make as good a the twenty th°nstituency of 20,000 ; at any rate a s good a thous uti will not make twenty times then, that choice. There would be no reason, thirty the Mr tho osa d est Riding of Yorkshire, with its the choice ofd electors, should be intrusted with anoth er oonst , more than two members, because Laa•ncl, returns either one member or two mem ther it s , _ co nsiderations would determine whe choice o r t uid have one Member or two ; but its with members could be depended upon, were its choice of one. eortunor,:tutrhat Mr. Duncombe has not had the op ing the mistsession, of bringing forward ti - ..oLton f or . bor ouols kjommittee of inquiry into nomina first mots It will, we trust, be one of the very when, e n . s of the next session. The time is come or : ?Plg clear of wild and impracticable schemes slasNanic change, the Liberal party must look the ti °n defectsof ( min th e f the present state of the representa sent nuro :ce ; and without ballot, and with the pre enrll-14w, h i ' of nomination boroughs, neither can l a othe repealed, nor justice to Ireland achieved, ulk of er object, in which the hopes of the great t Ptne acei ",,,e . People are embarked, attained, unless by 1 2 .. . r. th e cre `nt to which no statesman would trust, or Ris e aro honest of a popular excitement which every tokver,Q. statesman would do all in his power ‘--0/obe. LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAIL WAY. The half-yearly general meeting of the Proprietors of this Company was held on Friday, at the terminus, London bridge, William Nash, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, in the chair, for the purpose of receiving the Directors' report for the half year, and also a statement of the accounts of the Company. The meeting was also made special, for the purpose of decid ing the means of raising the money for constructing the rail way from Brighton to Chichester, and from Brighton to Lewes and Hastings. The report stated that the receipts for ordinary traffic during the half-year ending the 30th of June, as compared with the corresponding period of 1843, showed an increase of 10,1181., while the expenses of working the line (exclusive of toll and rates and taxes, as contrasted with the same period) exhibited a decrease 'of 1,8801, the result of the whole account being an increase on the balance of net revenue of 10,2151. The agreement which had been entered into with the Greenwich Company, by which that Company were to receive a fixed sum in lieu of toll, having terminated on the 30th June last, the Directors had entered into a fresh arrangement, by whi-...11 the Brighton Company would in future pay for the first-class passengers 4d., second class 3d., and third-class 2d., so long as the whole Brighton passenger traffic to and from London should pass over the Greenwich line. The Directors had given unceasing atten tion to the necessity of improving the communication with France, a subject on which their powers were very limited. After several interviews with the General Steam Navigation Company, some improvements had al ready been affected, and the Directors were enabled to state that for the month of August the departure of steamers from Brighton to Dieppe had been increased to six in the week. If either of the projected railways from Dieppe to Rouen should be executed, the advantages of improving the sea passage would be still more important to the interests of this Company. The report having been adopted, the follow ing resolution was agreed to :—That the London and Brighton Railway Company be authorised by the Proprietors, present at this general meeting, to purchase an interest in the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Company, to an extant not exceeding 3,500 shares, and in the Brighton and Chichester Railway Company, to an extent not exceeding 1,195 shares. That in order to complete these purchases the Brighton Railway Company be authorised to raise by the creation of new shares in eighths, at 6/. ss. each, a SUM not exceeding 234,7501. That such shares be offered to the pre sent Proprietors of the London and Brighton Railway Com pany in the proportion of one-eighth share for every original share registered in the books of the Company. That the time for taking up such shares by the Proprietors be limited to the Ist of September. That 2/. shall be paid on each such eighth share, and that each share should bear in terest at the rate of five per cent. A dividend of 1/. 2s. 6d. per share ;vas then declared, and Mr. Cooper having been elected a Director of the Company in the room of Mr. Parsons, who had retired, the thanks of the Shareholders were voted to the Chairman, and the meet ing separated. MONEY RAISED IN THE YEAR ENDING THE STH DAY OP JULY, 1843, BY To the Commissioner s f or th e re d uct i on o f t h e N at i ona l THE CREATION OF FUNDED OR UNFUNDED DEBT. Debt, to be applied t o the redemption of the Public - Debt : UNFUNDED DEBT. By issues per Act 10 Geo rge IV., c . 27 58 7 ,961 2 7 Exchequer-bills 18,407,3001., charged on Supplies, per Act 7 Victoria, c. 14 9,333 , 800 0 0 By interests on donations a nd b eques t s 8,884 3 0 Exchequer-bills charged on Supplies (in part of 11,132,1001.), Act 6 and 7 Victoria, c. 87 18,348,300 0 0 Deduct sum appli e d no t i n re d emp ti on o f F un d e d Exchequer. bills, charged on Consolid a t e d F un d, f o r Opium Compensation, Debt, but of Consolidated D e fi cienc y B i ll s . and in part of the above Fund of 11,132,1001., Act 6 and 7 Victoria, c. 87 .., ••• 2,000,000- 0 0 96,845 5 7 To the Paymasters of Exchequer-bills for payment of . Exchequer-bills for Public Works.—l re l an d, p er A c t 1 an d 2 William Unfunded Debt : Money out of the Con so lid a t e d F un d f or paymen t IV., c. 33 Exchequer-bills for Shannon Navi ga ti on , per A ct 2 an d 3 Vi ctor i a , c . 61 65,000 0 0 of Public Work s an d Sh annon Bill s 5 5 ,750 0 0 96 700 0 0 Money out of Ways a n d M eans , G ran t s app li e d , Exchequer-bills for Public Works.--Great Britain (charged on the Conso- for payment of S u pply Bill s ll,BOO 0 0 500 0 0 Exchequer -bills i ssue d f or payment o f di tto 1 8 , 348, 3 00 0 0 lidated Fund), Act 3 Victoria, C. 10 ••• ... 4, 20,449,500 0 0 18,415,850 0 0 FUNDED DEBT. Exchequer -bills delivered up to be cancelled, per Exchequer-bills issued for the promotion of P u bli c Works, and held by the Corn- Acts 9 .George IV., C. 92, an d 5 Vi ctor i a, sess. 2, • missioners for the reduction of the N at i ona l D e b t, on account of Sav i ngs ' C. 9 Banks, and delivered up to be funded, p er A cts 9 G eorge IV., c. 92, and 5 Balances in th e E xc h equer on t h e st h d ay o f J u l y, Victoria, sess. 2, c. 9 1844 ••• ••• 5,687,497 7 31 . • ••• ••• ••• ••• 14,000 0 0 for Local W or k s , & c ., un d er au th or ity . Total amount of Re-payments ~.. of various Acts of Parliament ... ... 1,447,900 7 7 - - -- ' Total amount of Advances for L oco: W or k s, &c., under authority of • various Acts of Parliament ... ... 1,302,303 311 ----- Excess of Re-payments over Advances 145 5 ... , Excess of Income over Expenditure 97 3 8 ... ••• ••• • ••• ••• 1,770,080 9 8 _ -• 124,214,192 __---- 1 12 10i 24.214.192 12 10J MES• 124,214,192 12 10} I CLERK. TEI.E COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. The following is a copy of the petition of the medical officers of the Horse and Foot Guards which was lately pre sented to the House of Commons : " TO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRE LAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. " THE PETITION OF THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF THE HORSE qv.-, d by _,7 Follow ed er Cr ac : ntlemein oan lace, v i m ° d e to AND FOOT GU.ARDS " Humbly showeth.— " That the recent charter granted to the Royal College of Surgeons of England, a copy of which was lately laid on the table of your lion. House, presses with peculiar severity on the officers of their department, nearly the whole of whom are by it deprived of those privileges they have hitherto en joyed, in consequence of an undue precedency granted to surgeons in civil life, whilst they will also be deprived in future of the hope of succeeding to offices of honour and profit in the College, whatever may be their ability, or the eminence they may have acquired in the service of their country. " Your petitioners now appeal to your Honouable House, in full confidence that their claims will be fully and favour ably considered. " Your petitioners, whenever employed in the service of their country, either at home or abroad, have always endea voured faithfully to discharge the duties of their station, and have used every exertion to improve the practice of their profession. " Your petitioners respectfully, but earnestly, submit that they should not, in consequence of being employed in the public service, be considered to have forfeited by any subse quent enactment, their civil rights as Members of the Royal College of Surgeons. "Your petitioners humbly pray that your Hon. House will not confirm any measure depriving them of their hitherto acknowledged rights and privileges, without giving them an opportunity of being heard by themselves or counsel, either at the bar of your Honourable House, or in such other way as your Honourable House may please to direct. "And your petitioners will ever pray." somewhat in a bustle for a day or two, stran gers dropping in daily during the whole of the past week ; and great numbers came with the trains on Saturday and yesterday. All the accommo dation of the inns and private lodgings were speedily secured, and high prices were obtained for very indifferent apartments. Wombwell's caravans of wild animals have been exhibiting since Friday I so that, with various other minor amusements, the noise of preparation, and wandering minstrels innu merable, a continued buzz has been kept up. The celebration of the sacrament on Sabbath, with the usual services on Saturday and yesterday, which, notwithstanding the prevailing excitement, was ob served with all the solemnity due to so sacred an oc casion, tended, no doubt, to moderate the flow of public feeling. The restraint, however, had the effect of rendering the outburst this morning all the more exuberant. The unsettled state of the weather for some time previously had cre ated fears that the day might prove bois terous ; but, fortunately, yesterday continued dry, and though now very blowy and threat ening, we trust no great fall of rain will be experienced. At earliest dawn the union jack was floating from 'Wallace Tower, and the ships in the harbour and building-yard were decorated with their colours in the gaudiest manner. The banners of the various masonic bodies were also exhibited from their respective lodges, and the hum of a constantly increas ing crowd moving along the streets, indicated, in a manner not to be mistaken, the important character of the day. On the New Bridge, the main entrance from the north, a splendid Gothic triumphal arch was erected, beautif u ll y ornamen t e d w ith s h ru b s , and surmounted with a mo d e l o f th e arms o f th e burgh. On the " Auld Bri g ," now only used by foot-passengers, a n e l egant gateway was cons t ruc t e d, having a tasteful d ecorat i on of boug h s, h u t w ith ou t any device. With th e " Hermit Ayr' rolling peace fully beneath, the classic " Twa Brigs," as they sported -their gala-day bravery, seemed to have for gotten their ancient bickerings in the jubilee about to be held in honour of the bard whose muse had given tonge to their feuds. At the Townhead, oppo site the " Tam o'Shanter" Inn, believed to be the veritable house referred to in that inimitable tale, the landlord of which was a person of the name of Shearer, a magnificent Gothic structure, spanned the causeway. The whole, exquisitely interwoven with branches of trees and evergreens, was surmounted with the appropriate device of " Tam o' Shanter" and " Souter Johnnie," seated at their " reaming swats that drank divinely," cut out in wool At the Fish Cross, the fl ag of the fishermen w a s exh i b i ted, having a sign -bo ar d portrait of Burns attac h ed. . With these preparations, "auld Ayr" was in ex cellent mood to welcome the thousands of visitors expected to honour her by their presence ; while Coila, proud of her Bard, unfurled, like Fergus of Morven, her " banner from the standard on high," an d, delighted, surveyed the boundaries of her ancient province spreading wide around the ancient capital. Hill and dale, sea and isle, smiling in the luxury of approaching autumn— " Now, from the summit to the plain, Waves all the hill with y ellow grain; And o'er th e landscap as I look. Nought do I see unchanged remain, Save the rude cliffs and chiming brook." The change, however, is not th e c h a nge of desolation, but of improvement, and therefore calculate d to heighten rather th an d epress remembrance. Towards the west, over the dancing wares, where rises stupendous Ailsa full in view, O'erlooking, what gallant prows a re these, steaming along, with many a lea gue , t h e oce an round." crowded decks ? They come from the shores of "merry England ;" and eke from the "Green Isle," which though unhappil y di sturbed by f act i on, h as ne vertheless a keen re li sh for minstre l sy : t h ey come, the warm-h earted admirers o f " Scotia's Bard," not, like their ancestors of old, with spears in their hands, to combat with Lochlin on Morven's or yet on Coila's plains. But there are other barques breasting the wave not less swiftly under the beetling cliffs of Carrick. These are the men of Galloway and the adjacent coasts, whose ancestors were always ready for the fray ; they come, not with weapons in their _hands, and headed by a Black Douglas, but hastening onward to pay their peaceful allegiance to the genius of Coila. Now do we t urn to the north, by Arran's mist-clad summits, and behold other steam-driven galleys emerge from the horizon, counting-houses their factories cleaving the surgy bosom of Clyde as if proud of the living cargoes which they bear. These are some of and St. Marion, for the time, to worship at the shrine of genius, and for the s a r k i ric king to show that in the laudable enterprises of commerce burghers their co u o n f they have not forgotton what belongs to their country. Turn we again eastward and south, what a panorama meets the view ! There lengthened trains of railway carriages shoot onward with the speed of lightning, bearing thousands upon thousand s f rom Duned i n, " Scotia's darling seat," the " Metropolis of the West," and from every other conceivable quarter of the country, as well as the intermediate districts through which they pass. Here, at all points round to the west, gay masses approach from every defile, many of them in marching array, with music and " banners bravely spread." Cunninghame, Kyle, and Carrick are pouring forth their bands of stalwart men ; but not, as ,of yore, to repel invasion at Laight Alpin, Large, or Loudoun, or to assert their civil rights at Pentland or Drumclog, but to rally round the poetic standard of the Bard who has added to the escutcheon of Ayrshire a name well worthy of being associated with those of Wallace and of Bruce. The Streams converge to a point—now they meet —now the tide rolls densely through the streets, where King Cris pin and his gallant train, the Masonic bodies, the burghers and the trades—all are busily preparing for the business of the day. Men, women, horses, car riages, flags, bands of music, all are borne onwards, amidst the ringing of the bells, to the place of ren ' dezvous. Long before the hour of meeting, the Low Green was throng ed with people, numerous bOlies havi n g arrived at an early hour. Amongst these were the Foresters of Itilwinning, the Odd-Fellows of Glasgow, the Yeomen of Cumnock, the Burn's Club of Dalrymple, the Shepherds of Straiten, with their piper, &c. By ten o'clock, or shortly after wards, it was literally crowded; while the sands adjacent were thronged with carriages, and the masses who were takin g no par t i n t h e demonstra tion. As the procession was in progress of formation it required no great stretch of fancy to convert the rendezvous into another Borough-moor of Edinburgh —where, as Tytler so beautifully describes the gather ing, the whole feudal array of Scotland was assembled by the chivalrous, but foolish monarch, prior to the unfortunate, though well-fought field of Flodden. The number of banners—the military and picturesque garb of many—with the kingly and warlike display of Crispin and his followers—imparted to the whole an aspect highly interesting and imposing. It wanted but little to realise the description of Marmion's view of the Scottish camp:— " Nor marked they less, where in the air A thousand streamers flaunted fair; Various in shape, device, and hue, Green, sanguine, purple, red, and blue, Broad, narrow, swallow-tailed, and square, Scroll, pennon, pensil, bandrol, there O'er the pavilion flew." After the lapse of more than an hour, during which Mr. Thwaites, and the members of the Committee ex erted themselves with great activity in arranging the procession; the immense body was at length mar shalled, and began to move off atbalf-past 11 o'clock. At a given signal the various bands struck up in spiriting tunes, and the magnificent pageant commenced its progress to the monument, through the principal streets of Ayr. The procession was extremely nume rous, while the crowd surrounding it was so dense that the road was completely choked up. Perhaps the most pleasing feature in the whole procession WAS the vast assemblage of ploughmen and shepherds, who, dressed in their plaids and broad blue bonnets, afforded a noble representation of that humble but independent and industrious class from which the poet sprang. During the formation of the procession the pipers played round the field, greatly enhancing the scene by their music. When fully marshalled the immense body moved onwards, the bands striking up the well-known air of " A man's a' man for a' that" along the south side of Wellington-square. The procession was formed three deep, and extended to nearly a mile in length. It had a very imposing effect. After leaving the Town-head the procession moved on at a quicker pace. The road all along was greatly crowded ; so much so, that it was with difficulty the mass could keep moving. The walls, houses, and gates, were everywhere lined with anxious observers ; and various platforms were constructed for the accommodation of ladies. The procession occupied at least an hour in passing from the new bridge into the field, on entering which the band played " Duncan Gray," followed by " The Birks of Aberfeldy." A large circle was then formed round the platform for the musicians in the field, and the whole company, led by professional vocalists, joined in singing, " Ye banks and braes o' bonny noon," and." Auld Lang Syne." The bands were afterwards stationed in various quarters throughout the field—the Regimental and Glas gow St. Andrew's bands in the centre of the field, and the Kilwinning and Cumnock bands at the cottage-- the bagpipers playing at a distance from the pavilion. There were two enclosures for dancing ; one towards the head of the field, and the other at the brow overlooking the water of I)oon. • The company began to enter the pavilion almost immediately after the close of the procession, and the chair was taken shortly after. The pavilion, when all were seated, had a splendid ap pearance—more like a banquet in fairy land than a thing of real life. The chairman's and croupier's seats were of oak, made of the rafters of Alloway Kirk; and several splendid silver vases decorated their tables. The Chairman, the Right lion. the Earl of Eglintoun, was supported on the right by Mr. Robert Burns, late of the Stamps and Taxes, Somerset-house, London. eldest son of the poet ; Major Burns, youngest son of the poet ; Miss Begg, niece of the poet ; Mr. H. G. Bell, Sheriff substitute of Lanarkshire ; the Rev. Mr. Cuthill, Ayr ; Mr. R. Burns Begg, teacher, Kinross, nephew of the poet ; Miss Begg, the younger niece of the poet ; Mr. and Mrs. Thomson, of Dumfries (the Jessie Lewars of the bard) ; on the left, by Colonel Burns, se cond son of the poet ; Mrs. Begg, sister of the poet ; Sir J. M'Neill, Bart., late Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia ; the Right Hon. Lord Justice General; the Countess of Eglintoun; and Sir D..E. Blair, Bart., of Blairquhar. The croupier, Professor Wilson, of Edin burgh, was supported on the right by Mr. A. Alison, Sheriff of Lanarkshire; Colonel Mum, of Caldwell; Mr. W. Aytoun, Advocate; Mr. A. Hastie, M.P. for Paisley; Mr. J. Oswald, M.P. for Glasgow; on the left by Sir J. Campbell, Glasgow; Provost Miller, Ayr; Mr. J. Bal lantine, of Castlehill; Mr. J. Campbell, of Craigie. ( ,LI E G L , throu,-,,..0:, or other, it has unfortunately --- o tn e t, - SE AND TUE CUSTOM-HOUSE b OF n FI i C n E y R I S o . t Oafn p ,l` 'lre to pay smartly for my little re e sc e .arche .i s a, i , n e h ui•'l - I , l „ ist ° l 7, when business or inclination. country.l -aie i n l r t •-e back to the shores of my b e Uni t ate" zeal-subduing affair at Live n r a p t " iv o, e l , l _ v ra il n l ,. n e o r _ t ings ,11I3w n to those who shall have read the Vt netts o'f• "4 latterly at Hull, through the pig headed-tleti, 1:111baltt va ,-,0 rn Custom-house officer, and th f e t l i i i tt a u s g a h m ty a tstablishr,, -,. another in a higher station o _ "el I , — ,"t, rhy ornithological views w "ad nivra-*/ g ay I lost, at one go, my time, my patience. Hay ere frustrated; lII R ' "e)% You shall see how this happened. WidgPeounreitersed two pairs of Bernacle geese and four iamper, 4ad i a , at Rotterdans, I got them put into a 1 "elm; to ok them with me on board the vessel which We had Bkl Y het•vi t that town and the port of lull. aeh • x . our mil, , . thingarmi passage, short and suloo . th; and. on tok kh at Ina Hbe, I informed t nd four Widgeons°e officer that I had four geese a he visitins 1 18 t in the hamper which stood before him. " They t ellst,R a of tt s eid I, "if they were dead geese,the purpose to the Custom-house," said he. " I know they t'rued I, ii iteaktneree ; but they are living geese," c°ll i feasant for eppitn'tioS course out law from such an . uny • to the etlat nn ., I. NO matter," said he, obstinatel) ; ,.,, Aug ,74-uoUse they must and shall go, alive or 11 . (_ao t a prin ko the Custom -house they went, on a truck withou int o 8, trotting all the way over the rough pavement, a the the heart of the town of hull. On our arrival ,t . voi 14410 t-house, another officer, in a harsh tone )t . mace% asked me why I had brought living geese to that Irk. ?„*.• (.„' By peremptory orders," said I, tin $y officer in the river." "He is a 41 ,1' Y, ' said this offiiier ; " let, the ge se ly, removed ; ~ from the Nil d i t/If t PV duty." My geese and widgeons were the inilly withdrawn from lics haughty presence, through be 4r a e etS of Hull to the water-side with some fears on , 1 44 _ P rt that they would not forget in a hurry their , ii i I g, ittusbled they so rudely in the performance of te a h est epedition. We steamed up the Humber, and Lttul4ed Walton Hall that night. The Bernacle ganders ~, QI, borne their journey well; but it was otherwise with .the two geese, and three of the widgeons. They ow- alit of sorts, and died in the colirse of the follow 11iriverton, Ess„y, ou ... , v,if,,,i iii.of,..y. ~,,,,,IvtETRopoLiTAN ImPROvEmENTs.—Ti i A.mi,:s EM / ' e"t,.l'.--oti Friday the ( liv,Tninent measure to ein riaocw r leer nujesty's connnis,ieners of Warn to form a ter e embankment, with convenient lanitin , 4 places fir t he andPitw_ con the Middlesex shore of the River "'navies, be ,risT_Westtninster-bridge and Blacktriars-bridg e was ' L i ::d• It contains no fewer than eighty-four sections, with ii.„7"edllle annexed, giving a full description of the intended I p einia ti c i ti v n v e ke e t i n r u be e i t ; s , e is n h te i (i eh to ar t e he pl 9anueneend report v,tliiceh othfeerrtrhal‘ecreatj est.oai n n c - i. sanction. It is proposed that 1 On d th t e n ti ent ia,,. Imi:iota be completed in two ,wears, with conve -4,4 "'Ling places and piers for the public. Money is to be urerB._ ced for the purpose, under the direction of the Commis . The Bill has been printed for consideration before u utter is Nailer dilicw"el mory of the bard which a brother poet can alone do — Christopher himself is here—(Great applause)—anxious to pay his tribute of admiration to a kindred spirit. The historian who has depicted the most eventful period of the French empire, the glorious triumphs of Wellington, is here—(Cheers)—Clio, as it were, offering up a gar land to Erato.—(Cheers.) The distinguished head of the Scottish bar is here—(Cheers)—in short, every town and every district, every class, and every sex, and every ago, has come forward to pay homage to their poet. The honest lads whom he so praised, and whose greatest boast is to belong to the land of Burns, are here. —(Cheers.) The bonnie lasses whom he so praised— those whom he loved and sung—are here ; they have followed hither to justify, by their loveliness, the poet's worth.—(Great applause)—while the descendant of those who dwelt in the " Castle o' Montgomerio" feels himself only too highly honoured in being permitted to propose the memory of him who then wandered there unknown on the banks of Fail.--(Loud cheering.) how little the pious old man who dweit in yonder cottage— with his " lyart haffets " o'erspreading his venerable brow—when he read the " big ha' Bible "—could have guessed that the infant prattling on his knee was to be the pride of his nation—the chief among the poetic band—was to be one of the brightest planets that glows around the mighty sun of the Bard of Avon--(Cheers) —in knowledge and originality ; second to none in the fervent expression of deep feeling, in the genuine per ception of the beauties of nature, and equal to any who revels in the fairy-land of poesy.—(Cheers.) Well may we rejoice that Burns is our own—that no other spot can claim to be the birth-place of our Homer, ex cept the spot on which we stand.—(Great cheering.) Oh ! that he could have foreseen the futurity of fame created for him this day, when the poet and the his torian, the peer and the peasant, vie with each other in paying the tribute of their admiration to the humble but mighty genius of him whom we hail as the first of Scottish poets.—(Cheers.) Such a fore sight might have alleviated the dreary hours of his sojourn at Mossgiel—might have lightened the dark days of his pilgrimage on earth.—(Cheers.) Well does he deserve our homage who has pourtrayed the" Cottar's Saturday Night"—not in strains of inconsiderate mirth, but in solemnity and truth—who breathed the patriotic words that tell of the glories of our Wallace, immortal ising alike the poet and the hero ; he who could draw inspiration from the humble daisy, breathed forth the heroic words of " The Song of Death"—strains the in carnation of poetry and love, and yet of the bitterest shafts of satire and ridicule—obeying but the band of nature, despising all the rules of art, yet trampling over the very rules he set at nought.—(Cheers.) At his name every Scottish heart beats high. He has become a household word alike in the palace and the cottage. Of whom should we be proud—of whom should we pay homage, if not to our own immortal Burns ?—(Cheers.) But I feel I am detaining you too long in the presence of a Wilson and an Alison.—(Cries of " No, no," and applause.) In such a presence as these, I feel that I am not a fit person to dilate upon the genius of Burns. I am but an admirer like yourselves. There are others present, who are brother poets, kindred geniuses— men who, like Burns, have created a glorious immor tality for themselves—to them will I commit the agree able task of more fully displaying before you, decked out with their eloquence, the excellence of the poet and the genius of the man, and to extend and welcome his sons to the land of their father—(Cheers)—and I will now ask you in their presence, on the ground his genius has rendered sacred—on the " hanks and braes o' bonny Doon"—to join with me in drinking one overflowing bumper, and in joining to it every expression of enthu siasm which you can, to " The Memory of Burns." (The toast was received with the most rapturous and enthusiastic bursts of applause.) Mr. Templeton sang with admirable effect, " Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon," which elicited the warmest plaudits of the meeting. • Mr- ROBERT BURNS, on rising to return thanks, was, with his brothers, received with enthusiastic cheering. He said—My Lord, Ladies, and Gentlemen, of course it cannot be expected, at a meeting such as the present, that the sons of Burns should expatiate on the merits and genius of their deceased father. Around them were an immense number of admirers, who, by their presence there that day, bore a sufficient testimony to the opinion in which they held his memory, and the high esteem in which they held his genius. In the lan guage of the late Sir Christopher Wren, though very differently applied, the sons of Burns could say, that to obtain a living testimony to their father's genius they had only to look around them.—(Cheers.) He begged, in the name of his sister, brothers, and himself, to re turn their heartfelt and grateful thanks for the honour that had that day been paid to their father's memory. Professor WILsoN, who was received with enthusias tic cheering, spoke as follows :—Were this festival to commemorate the genius of Burns, and it were asked what need of such commemoratives since his fame is co extensive with the heroes of our land, and inherent in every soul, I must answer that, though admiration of the poet be indeed wide as the world, yet we, as compatriots to whom it is more especially dear, rejoice to see that universal sentiment concentrated in the voice of a great assembly of his own people—(Cheers) —that we rejoice to meet in thousands to honour him w ho has delighted each single one of us all at his own hearty.—(Cheers.) But this commemoration expresses, too, if it not a pro founder, yet a more tender senti ment ; for is to wel come his sons to the land which their father illustrated —it is to indulge our national pride . in a great name, while, at the same time, we gratify in full hearts the most pious of affections.—(Cheers.) It was customary, you know, in former times, to crown great poets. No such ovation honoured our bard ; yet he, too, tasted of human applause —he enjoyed its delights, and he saw the trials that attend it. Which, think you, would he himself have preferred ? Such a celebration as this in his lifetime, or fifty years after his death ? I cannot doubt that he would have preferred the posthumous, be cause the finer incense.--(Cheers.) The ho nour an d i ts object arc thus seen in their just proportions ; for death gives an elevation which the candid soul of the poet would himself have considered, and th a t honour- he would have reserved rather for his manes, than encoun tered it with his living i nfirmities. —(Cheers.) And yet, could he have foresee n th e d ay when they for whom his soul was often sorely troubled, should, after many years of separation, return to the hut where himself was born, and near it, within the shadoW of his owncadies monu ment, be welcomed f or hi s sake by the lords and of the land ; and d earer still, far- dearer to his manly breast, by the children and children's children of people of his own degree, whose hearts he sought to thrill by the voice of his own inspirations, then surely would such a vision have been sweeter to his soul even than that immortal one in which the genius of the land bound holly round his forehead—the lilac-leaved crown that shall flourish for ever.—(Cheers.) Of his three sons now sit ting here, one only, I believe, ca n remember his father's face —c an remember those large lustrous eyes of his, so full of meaning, so full of melting in melancholy, or kindling in mirth, but never turned on nis ebildrert, the mother of his children, but with one expression of The Rev. Mr. CUTHILL, of Ayr, asked the blessing in language brief, impressive, and appropriate. The Rev. Gentleman also returned thanks. Lord EuratcrouN said—There is one toast which never can be omitted, more especially at an assembly such as this, consisting of loyal Scotchmen; and it is a toast which I am sure will be received here, as it is else where, with respect and joy. "The health of the Queen."—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then rose and said—We will drink " Prince Albert and the rest of the Royal Family." The CHAIRMAN then rose amidst the most enthu siastic applause. He said—Ladies and Gentlemen, the subject of the toast which I turn now going to bring be fore you is one of such paramount importance on this occasion, and is so deeply interesting, not only to those whom I hare now the honour to address, but to all whom genius is dear, that I could hare wished it com mitted to more worthy hands; more particularly when I see the enormous assemblage collected here—the distin guished persons which grace our board to-day.-- (Cheers.) It is only because I conceive that my official position renders me the most formal and fitting, though most inefficient, mouthpiece of the inhabitants of this county—(llear, hear, and cheers)—that I have ven tured to intrude myself before you on this occasion, and to undertake the onerous, though gratifying duty of proposing in such an assemblage the thrilling toast, " The Memory of Burns."—(Great applause, the company rising to testify their approbation by the waving of handkerchiefs.) This is not a meeting for the pur pose of recreation and amusement ; it is not a banquet at which a certain number of toasts printed on paper are to be proposed and responded to, which to -day marks our preparations ; it is the enthusiastic desire of a whole people to pay honour to their countryman ; it is the spontaneous offering of a nation's feelings towards the illustrious dead, and, added to this, the,desire to extend a hand of welcome and friendship to those whom he has left behind.—(Tremendous applause.) Here on the very spot where he first drew breath, on the very ground which his genius has hallowed, bosi , le the Old Kirk of Alloway, which his verse has immortalised, beneath the monument which an ad:niring and t epentant people have raised to him—(Great applause)—we meet, after the lapse of years, to pay our homage to the man of genius. —(Loud cheers.) The master-mind who has sung the " Isle of Palms "—who has revelled in the immortal Noctes"—who has alreatly done that justice to the THE HERRING TRADE. ABERMEN.—We are sorry to say that the fishing here continues very indifferent. Some of the boats have had four, six, or ten crans occasionally; but others have frequently re turned clean ; and a good many of the boats have gone else where to fish. PETERHEAD, AUG. 6.—The number of boats 401 fishing here ; average on Saturday last, 30i crans each boat. BANFF, Arc:. 6.—The July fishing this season has fallen far short of 1843. There have been a few pretty good shoals during last week. The average up to this date may be stated as under—viz., Banff and Whitehills, 25 barrels per boat ; llaccluti, 20 to 25 ; and Gardenstown, 35 to 40. ntAsEnntraGir, AuG. 6.—Our herring fishing proceeds but very poorly. Little was done last week, owing to the un settled weather; and this week the prospects are clouded by the same cause. The wind has gone out far to eastward, and it looks quite stormy. The total average for this season up to this date will not exceed 28 crans 280 boats. LYCEUM THEATRE.—The followinez is a list of the distinguished fashionables who harQ visited this theatre during the week :—The Duke of Rutland, the Duchess of Bedford, Duchess of Leinster, the Countess of Glen gall, Earl and Cointess of Shelburne, Earl and Countess of Wicklow and family; Earl and Countess of Wemyss and March and family; Lady Malcolm, Lord A. Lennox, Lord and Lady Macdonald, Lord Paget, Lord George L , iftus, Lord Viscount Dillon, Lord Viscount Canta lupe, Lord Dorchester, Lord Gardner. Lord lendle sham, Earl and Countess of Harrington, Lady Joddrell, Lady Manley, Lord Ranelagh, Sir George Hayter, Sir George and Lady Pocock, Sir J. Campbell, Sir Walter Blount, Sir George Barclay, Count Mataxa, Sir Henry Webb, Sir Henry Mildmay, Hon. Leicester and Mrs. Stanhope, Colonel Anson and family; Hon. A. Dun combe, Major Bulkeley, Hon. Mrs. Douglas, Hon. Fitzroy Stanhope, Captain Cariton, Mr. Ramsden, Hon. Mr. Lascelles, Major White, Captain Cartwright, George Wombwell, Esq., Mr. Drummond, Mr. Beaumont, Mr. Calder, Mr. Knatchbull, Captain" Vole, Mr. Truelock, Lady Kinloch, Lord Eliot., Lord Suffield, &c., &c. ACCIDENT ON THE ARTIFICIAL ICE.—On Friday evening last an accident, attended by serious consequences, occurred upon the sheet of artificial - ice at the Mechanics' Institution. As Mr. S. Campbell, of the Albion News-room and Temperance Hotel, Great Charlotte-street, was pro ceeding down the glacier, or inclined plane, he came in con tact with the projections representing rocks. His right foot was,iammed in between two of them, and, as he was passing along at a rapid rate, the sudden jerk caused his body to turn quickly round, and broke his leg a little above the ankle. He was instantly conveyed home, where the neces sary medical assistance was obtained. From inquiries yes tei day morning, we learn that Mr. C. is doing well.—Liver pool Times. MEDICAL WITNESSES AT CORONERS' INQUESTS. — Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest on Friday:on the body.of Mr. Edward Mottram, engraver, Little Britain, Aldersgate street, at that gentleman's country residence, Muswell-hill, Highgate. TheJeceased, who was seventy years of age, got up as usual on Wednesday morning, and was preparing to leave his country seat for London, when he was seized with an apoplectic fit, which terminated fatally, notwithstanding the immediate attendance of medical aid. Evidence of the above having been given, Mr. Wakley inquired if the jury desired the medical gentleman who attended deceased to be examined, observing. at the same time, that it would only entail unnecessary expenSe on the parish. The jury having expressed their desire that the medical gentleman should be examined, Mr. Wheterall, surgeon, Highgate, was called in, who stated, without having made a post mortem examination, that in his opinion deceased died of apoplexy. Mr. Wakley (addressing Mr. Wheterall) asked him if ho had added any testimony to what they had already received ? Mr. Whet erall admitted that he had not. 11Ir. Wakley was satisfied that Mr. Wheterall would' give that answer, "for what," continutql Mr. Wakley, "further information could he give when he had not opened the body ? He was most anxious that, in every caAe that came before him a post mortem exa mination t,liould be made ; but when that was not deemed necessary he had no idea of making the parish pay for a medical witness, as he.was resolved not to fool away the pub lic money." Mr. Wakley'concluded his observations with an encomium upon Mr. Wheterall's treatment of deceased. Mr. Wheterall assured him that he had merely attended from a desire to prove that everything that was possible was done for deceased. Verdict—" Apoplexy." A SLY SHAVER.—There is a barber in Dalkeith if we are not imposed upon by a correspondent), who lathers his customers with guano water. The con , sequence is, that if they be shaved ever - so closely, they scarcely reach' the end of the street until they are ready fvr anothecicrape. THE BURNS' FESTIVAL. The first idea of a Festival on the Banks of the Doon in honour of the memory of Burns was sug gested, we believe, by the entertainment given in September last year to Mr. Mainzer on that classic ground. It was upon a small scale, no doubt, but it showed how effective a larger demonstration would be. The visit of Colonel Burns to Ayrshire about the same period naturally prompted the feeling that some mark of respect should be paid him while so journing in the land of his father. Cogitations to this effect were going on amongst individuals, when a hitter from a gentleman in Edinburgh, with whom Mr. Auld had been in correspondence, recommending that the three sons of Burns, all of whom were then in the country, should be invited to an entertain ment of welcome on the ground rendered classic by their father's muse, at once gave an impetus to the embryo thought; and countenanced by the ready acquiescence of the Earl of Eglinton and Winton to preside on the occasion, it was immediately resolved to put the suggestion into practice. A little reflec tion, however, convinced Mr. Auld, and those who were taking an interest in the matter, that the season was too far advanced to overtake it upon a proper scale. The idea was consequently abandoned for the time, but with a full determination to realise it next year. The first meeting called with the view of forming a committee, took place in Ayr on the 17th of May last. The subsequent progress of the ar rangements we need not repeat. _ They have been regularly chronicled in the Ayr Observer, and other journals, and are well known to the public. From the enthusiasm with which the announcement of the festival was everywhere greeted, and the interest taken in it by so many persons of rank and talent, the Committee found A necessary greatly to extenil their original plan, and the result has beenn, the ample accommodation provided for the largest assem blage ever witnessed—not even excepting the tourna ment itself—in the west of Scotland. The pavilion, erected in a field of twenty-two acres, adjoining to the monument, is a magn ificent building. It measures not less than 120 feet by 110, forming nearly a perfect square. It has three roofs ; the centr 4 one—with two ventilators—rises prop or ti ona ll y ' nigher t h an the others ; and, surm oun t e d w i t, ' numero us flags waving in the wind, prese n t s 3. picturesque and im posing object. The roof, a :tinported by two rows of pillars, is covered with. 'waterproof Celt, and the building inside is lined with white cloth, variegated with crimson ; and, Voile wreaths of flowers taste fully adorn the walls,, and the daises of the chairman and croupier, the 'centre of the roof is beautifully wrought in imitation of the sun dispensing his rays over the expa'.isive area beneath. The tables and seats are arranged in parallelograms from the head to the foot of the apartment, rising with a gentle in- clination. from the middle on both sides. The com pany, seated as in a church, have a full view of the chai.rmanAnd croupier. On each side there is an abut ment—one for the band, and the other for the press. It was deemed better by the Building Committee to make provision in this way for the gentlemen of the broad sheet, than that they should be scattered throughout the body of the meeting, where they could not have the same facilities for writing : and it was also con sidered they would hear the better for being elevated. Immediately under the reporters' gallery, a platform is erected for Mr. Blewitt, the conductor of the vocal music, and the glee singers. The architect of the building was James Miller, Esq., of this town, and he certainly deserves the utmost credit for the design, which is elegant, substantial, and economical. Mr. DPNab and Mr. Dickie, the contractors, also merits very con siderable praise for the efficient and expeditious man ner in which the work has been executed; while, in the ornamental department, the Messrs. Wilson, upholsterers, hare shown equal taste and neat ness of handicraft. The Pavilion is connected with the " Auld Brig" of Doon by two rustic bridges. In the centre of the field an erec tion has been made for the band of the 87th Regiment, and in other parts of it four tents for refreshments are put up at proper distances. A splendid Gothic arch is erected over the New bridge at the monument. Another spans the para pets of the " Auld Brig," with a painting of " Tam „ o' Shanter," well mounted on his " noble Maggie, at the critical moment of his gaining the key-stone of the arch, when .. • " Ae spring brought aff her master hale, But left behind her aim grey tail." Another arch of evergreens and flowers marks the cottage of the Poet's birth, where. " The gossip keelcit in his loof, Quo' she, wha lives will see the proof, This waly boy will be nae coof, I think we'll ca' him Robin." The line of march for the procession by the High-road was well chosen. To the right the line of the old road from Ayr through the borough moor, which was then unenclosed, and which the Poet no doubt had in his eye when he composed the poem of " Tam o'Shanter," can be traced. It must have passed, on the west of the farm of Slaphouse, by St. Leonard's Chapel, now entirely demolished, throught the ford of the Curtecun, " Where n the snaw the chapman smoor'd;" then " past the birks and monde stane Where drucken Charlie brak 's neck bane," which stone is within a short distance of the public road. From thence " through the whins and by the cairn Whare hunters fand'the murder'd bairn," west of Greenfield-house, and onwards to " the thorn aboon the well, Where Mungo's mither hang'd hersel';" till at length -- when glimmering through the trees, Kirk Alloway seemed in a bleeze." All these objects are near at hand, and can be pointed out by any one acquainted with the locality. The sons of Burns, accompanied by a large party of friends, arrived early at the Crown Inn here, from Dumfries. Yesterday they spent the greater part of the day with their aunt, Mrs. Ben, at Bridgehouse, where the two younger brothers remained last night —the eldest and his friends returning to the Crown in the evening. Lord Eglinton reached Eglinton Castle yesterday, and Professor Wilson arrived here in the evening. He spent the night at Castle hill. Many other distinguished individuals arrived in the course of yesterday. Ayr, indeed, has been 'S °s:fl4lK "‘Plnil. A: a 3:eftl'.:• ) ot , • 93 0 s f il -.,,.„ A 4 1 ip. I, orvg.k 4 • tenderest, or most intense affection.. at this day, he, too, may remember with its dark clusters, not unmixed wi eves closed for ever, lying upon the b should such solemn image arise, would i to this festival ; for while I bid welcomWjelsepk . s k i Burns to thair father's land, I feel, I cannot but feet tfilt1" 111 while you have conferred upon me a high honour, you have also imposed upon me a sacred duty ; and, however inadequately I may discharge it, I at least shall in no degree militate either the spirit of humanity, or truth.— (Cheers.) In speaking of the character of Burns in the presence of his sons I must speak reverently- but even in their presence I must not refuse to speak the truth.—(Cheers.) I must speak according to the esta blished and everlasting judgment of what is right. Burns had his faults ; Burns, like every other mortal, had his faults ; Burns, like every other mortal being, had his faults, great faults, in the eyes of men, and grievous in the eyes of Heaven above us. There is a moral in every man's life, even in his humblest condi tion,. imperfectly understood ; and how affecting is it when we read confessions wrung out by remorse from the souls of the greatly gifted and the gloriously en dowed !—(Loud cheers.) But it is not his faults that are remembered here—surely it is not to honour these that we meet together. To deny that error is error is to extenuate its blame. Then we make an attack upon sacred truth ; but to forget that it exists, or, if that may not be wholly, so to think of it as to regard it with that melancholy emotion that still accompanies all our meditations on the mixed character of men—that is not only allowable, but it is ordered—it is a privilege dear to humanity. And well, indeed, might we tremble for him who should in this be dead to the voice of Nature crying from the tomb.—(Cheers.) And in its music how graciously time aids the inclination of charity. Its shadows soften what they may not hide ; and the dis tant discords that might have grated too painfully on our ears are now undistinguishably lost in that music, sweet and solemn, that comes from afar with the sound of a great man's name.—(Cheers.) It is consolatory to see how the faults of those people, however, grew favour ites, and favourites in the national memory, while their virtues grow brighter and still more bright; and if in this injustice we have done them—and who shall dare to deny that cruellest injustice was once done to Burns ? the succeeding generations become more and more cha ritable to the dead, and desires to repair the wrong by some profoundest homage. It may be truly said, the good which men do lives after them. All that is ethereal in their being alone seems to remain ; and, therefore, with all our cherished memories of our best men, Burns was among our best, to be invested with all consistent excellencies ; for far better do their virtues instruct us by the love which they inspire than ever could their vices injure us. To dwell on the goodness of the great shows that we ourselves are not only lovers of nature, but that we may be aspiring to reach its serene abodes; but to dwell upon the faults of greatness, and, still worse, to ransack in order that we may create them, that is the low industry of envy, which, grown into a habit, becomes malice, at once hardening and embittering the mind.— (Cheers.) Such, in the case of our great poet, beyond all doubt, was the source of many a malignant truth and lie, fondly written down, carefully recorded, by a class of calumniators that never may become extinct. And for many year's we were forced to hear souls ignoble, formed to be forgot, dragging forth some puny Phantasm of their own heated fancy, as if it were the majestic shade of Burns evoked from his mausoleum for contumely and in sult.—(Cheers.) We have thus been told, by some who rather presumptuously presume the office of our instructors, to beware how we allow our ad miration of genius to seduce us from reverence of truth. We have been told how far moral is superior to intellectual worth ; nay, that is nature they are not allied. But akin in nature they are, and sacred -to prety, and cease if ever they should be disunited. But 'nark in what a hypocritical spirit such counsels as these were often preferred, till salutary truths were perverted by gross misapplication into pernicious falsehoods. They did not seek to elevate nature ; they sought to degrade genius.—(Cheers.) And never in any other instance did such men stand forth so glaringly self-contriulicted of wretched ignorance of the nature of both than by this wilful perversion of many of the noblest attributes of hu manity in the character of Robert Burns.—(Loud cheers.) Yes ; virtue and genius are both alike from heaven, and both alike they tend, heavenward. There fore, we lament to see a single stain assoiling the divine gift of genius—therefore we lament to see virtue, where no genius is, fall before the tempter.— (Cheers.) But let us never listen: to those who, by the very breath of morning, would seek to blight the wreath bound round the forehead of the muses sons by a people's gratitude. —(Cheers.) Let us beware of those who, under affected zeal for religion, have as often violated the sprit of both by gross misrepresentations and exaggerations, and de nunciations of the common frailties of our nature in illustrious man—in men who, in spite of their aberra tions, more or less deplorable, from the right line of duty, were nevertheless, like Burns, in their prevail ing moods, devoted worshippers of virtue in the general tenor of their lives, and noble examples to all of their brethren. Burns, who, while sorely op. pressed, in his own generous breast by the worst of anxieties—the anxiety of providing the means of subsistence to those of his own household and his own hearth—was notwithstanding no less faithful to that sacred gift with which by Heaven he had been en dowed. Obedient to the holy inspiration, he ever sought to strew in the paths of poverty that love which is in deed from heaven. From his inexhaustible fancy, warmed by the sunshine of his heart, even in the thickest gloom, he strewed along the weary ways of the world flowers so beautiful, that even to eyes that weep— that are familiar to tears—they looked as if they were flowers dropped from heaven. But in a more humane— in a more Christian spirit, men have now consented to judge of the character of their great benefactor; there fore at a hazard I may call them sacred scenes, the anni versary of the birth or death of one who had completed so great an achievement. But they have still sought to make manifest the honour they intended him, to make manifest if possible tin some degree the demands made upon them by the imagination and the heart. In what other way than that could genius ever have dared to seek to perpetuate in elegies and hymns the expression of a whole people's triumph, and a whole people's grief, for the death of some king, sage, priest, or poet ? (Loud applause.) What king from the infirmities of his meanest subject ever was free? We know that there are throbs which come from a king's heart, and up to the brow which is mounted by a kingly crown. ing passions or ideas are as fatal as those that torment the heart of the meanest kind on his pallet of straw, But "then the king with all his sins had been a guardian, a: restorer, a deliverer. Thus his sins were buried with his body, and all over the land, not only in his day, but in after; generations, the cry was, " 0, King live for ever !"—(Cheers.) The sage has seen how liberty rests upon law ; how rights are obligations ; how the passions of man must be controlled in order that ho may be free. See, too, how often has he struggled in vain with his own passions—with the powers of evil that beset him in that seclusion in which reverend admiration would fondly believe that wisdom for ever severely dwells ? The servant of God, has he always kept his breath pure from the earth, nor ever lifted prayer with spotless hands ? The humbled confession of his own unworthiness would be his reply, alike to the scoffer and to him that believed. But the one tried by plague or pestilence, he had carried comfort into the house de serted by all, except the son of despair ; he had sallied forth from the quiet home of the Christian, where he had long in peace hovered, and for the sake of his Divine Master, and for the sake of them who were sitting in darkness and the shadow of death ; therefore shall his name be blessed, and all Christendom point to him as a chosedservant of God. This must show that there is a debt duo to these benefactors of our race—a deep debt of gratitude to those who have done true service to man kind by exerting their powers of fancy and of imagina tion, and by means of the great powers of thought. After some other eloquent remarks, Professor Wilson concluded amidst applause. Mr. R. BURNS replied in the following terms :—My Lord, my Lady, and ladies and gentlemen, we are surd the sons of Burns feel all that they ought to feel on an occasion so gratifying, and on account of so nobly gener ous a welcome to the banks of Doon. Wherever they have gone they have found a reception prepared for them by the genius and fame of their father, -and under the providence of God, they owe to the Admirers of his genius all that they have, and what competencies they nose enjoy. We have no claim to attention individually —we are all aware that genius, and more particularly poetic genius, is not hereditary,- and in this - case the mantle of Elijah has not • descended upon Elishie— (Applause.) The sons of Burns have grateful hearts, and will remember, so long as they live, the honour which has this day been conferred upon them by the noble and the illustrious of our own land, and many ge nerous and kind spirits from other lands —some from the far west, a country composed of the great and • the free, and altogether a kindred people. We beg to return our most heartfelt thanks to this numerous and highly re spectable company, for the honour which has been done us this day.—(Mr. Burns resumed his seat amidst the most deafening shouts of applause, which continued for some time.) Sir J. M‘NEILL role, and was received with loud ap plause. He said—My Lord, Ladies, and Gentlemen, we have now accomplished the main purpose of this as sembly. We have done honour to the memory of Burns, and we have welcomed his sons to the land of their fa thers.—(hear, hear.) After the address—which I may be permitted to call the address of manly eloquence— which you have heard from our Noble Chairman—after the oration, which I may be permitted to designate as solemn and beautiful, which -you have heard from our worthy Vice-Chairman—it.would be inexcusable were I to detain you long with the subject which has been in trusted to me. The range .of English-poetry is so vast —it is profuse in so many beauties and excellencies, and many of its great names are appreciated. with so much habitual veneration, that I feel great diffidence and dif ficulty in addressing you on a subjeot which my opi nions can have little weight, and-my judgment is no au thority ; hut to you, whose minds have been stirred with the lofty thoughts of the poets of England, and familiar with their beauties, nothing is needed to stimulate you to admire that which I am sure has been the object of your continual admiration, and the subject le v of have )-o been rauen failing delight.—(Loud applause.) sometimes accused of a nationality, which is too nar row and exclusive ; but I hope and believe that the ace cusation is founded ow misapprehension of our prin ciples. It is true that as Scotsmen we love• Scotland above any other spot on earth—it is true that we love it as our early home, and our father's house. We cherish our feelings of nationality as we cherish our domestic affections, of which they are in truth a part ; but while we have these feelings we glory in the might and the majesty of that great country with which, for the happiness and the comfort of both, we have long been united into one nation.—(Applause.) We are as proud of the victories of Cressy, of A g i ncour t, an d of Poictiers, as if they had been won by our ancestors. —(R enewed applause.) And I say there is not in this great assembly one person who is not proud to look on Spenser, and