The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-20 00:00:00

3j : p rose er oll ; m e. Th e ar m ca , Imo f.cl Astrs te °oa r rich b r e ba rter re Vile seo % l b 11, 0 he 6 1 lder 3 ; s vv — e j bseo t. Lae ti Mica o; to.` o f oce fri • e P d itn etjt r ife d° Le Co rrife o idi"g s‘ ofl .ce 1/ I°/1 1 ;;ILL •ch ob i ,3 beta Do A or Warthaii' xg p, is lil:oti lA telf I dr. 0 tho.- e i Of C ' Tti • • g 0 0819 401. !, PUBLIC BATHS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn,—Through the columns of the public press, the public have been fully informed respecting the great and important demonstration made by the working classes of Edinburgh a few days ago, on the occasion of laying the foundation-stone of the first public bath spe cially intended for their use. All thinking men will concur in regarding this event as a most marked and striking evidence of the practical fruits, resulting from the sound and practical information which has of late years been disseminated amongst the industrious orders. Will you endeavour to spare as much of your valuable space as to insert a few brief remarks on this important subject from " A Working Man" to his fellow-labourers in London. To the sanatory improvement of large towns the pub lie mind has of late been much directed ; and the Mar atha of Normanby, in recently moving an address to the queen, praying that her Majesty would be pleased to direct the attention of Parliament early in the next ses sion to this subject, gives us good ground to hope that the matter will be taken up in earnest. When the sub ject is thus pressed upon the Government, we may be sure that they will ultimately be led to the adoption of I nane' salutary measures. The metropolis, doubtless, will first claim their notice, and, among other matters, we may expect that the subject of public baths will re ceive a share of their attention. But why, I wish to ask, Why should we, the working men of London, be thus solely dependent upon Government for the attain• went of an object so important to our comfort and well-being ? Why not imitate the noble example of our northern brethren, and rather secure for ourselves the credit of an independent spirit? Let us evidence that we know and fully appreciate the value of self action. Let it not be said of London, in connexion with this great movement, that " everything is done for the People, and nothing by the people." We have our Parks, our palaces, our museums, and our galleries—all °pen to us. Valuable they all are, and I trust fully ap preciated, as excellent aids to their improvement, by ev ery working man. For all of them wo are indebted to the Government. As we have originated mechanics' institutes for the improvement of our minds, let us like wise gain the credit of founding institutions for the Improvement of our physical condition ; and all w ho know how necessary a sound body is to the e njoyment of a sound mind, will at once ad mit that the bath is a most invaluable adjunct to the institute. The wealthy orders and the Government Could do much, and I doubt not would do much, to aid the independent efforts of the working classes in the attainment of this laudable object ; from Government we could at least obtain sites for the erection of proper I2uildines. Let the movement only be begun in a hope ful and energetic spirit, the means cannot fail to be forth eofeleg, That private parties have done much in London to su pply this great d es id eratum t o th e h ea l t h and comfort of the p eople is not for a moment sought to b e ques tioned. Still, that our baths are too few in number, too Widely scattered, and too high in price to be a frequent indulgence with working men, is beyond all doubt. With but one exception that am aware of, the lowest Price charged for a bath is sixpence. The use of the bath ought to be a daily duty ; but what working man with a family can well spare this sum for a bath, even but once a week, seeing that it is necessary, not for him self O ILY, but for each member of his family likewise. It ms only by the combination of means on the part of e working classes themselves, that we can hope to bring this comfort cheaply within our reach ; with an economical management, and an absence of proprietary Profits, much may be effected. ,And how, it w ill b e as k e d, i s a ll this to be- brought about ? How, I would reply, has it been effected in the Provincial towns—have wo not their example to direct L l s,? We mu s t l oo k t o th e public press, in the first place, ee ri nging the subject prominently before the public. We e - Last, above all thi ngs , ag it a t e . There are many asso tasions of working men in London, having for their tl o bjects cts the attainment of different political and improvement,indus not to mention those numerous bodies rose sole b on d o f connex i on i s f o r mutual support or bcr mutual improvement. Could not those various ° clies be br oug ht to act in concert for the attainment of a great social benefit ? A sufficiently numerously si gned requisition to Mr. Simpson, of Edinburgh, who a s so honourably distinguished himself by his labours forl nduce our improvement, would, I doubt not, be sufficient to t rl dnee him to undertake the task of instructing and in ileresting the London public upon this subject, or might t he Mr. Fox, who has done, and is doing, so much for e ,enlightenment of the working classes of the metro ris, be prevailed upon to lead us in this movement. It i s little that I can do individually, though I would gladly j e i c a all my feeble aid in such a cause. I have deemed my duty to throw out these hints. The seed I know .3 good, though the husbandman be unskilful. Trusting that it will not fall on a barren soil, but with a strong :°P O that L on d on, t h e great metropo li s o f a grea t 111 Pire, disdaining not to profit by the example of her i a °ll flger and l esser b re th ren , w ill a ttain for herself, and J the efforts of her citizens, benefits commensurate with her greatness, I am, Sir, respectfully yours, A IVORKING MAN. 77 , IT • sarrison-street, Regent-square, Aug. 15, 1844. AI R T EMPT TO SCUTTLE A SHIP. b,. : -IT ,Nnettr AND AUG. 17.—Mr. Droughtsmater of the sitin g -r•arl Vane, of this port, was before the charged with having magistrates to-day, attempted to scuttle that vessel at sea. The vessel re turned from sea, after being out for about nine weeks on a passage for Archangel, as stated in the Shipeng and Mercantile Gazette of the 16th instant. boon after her arrival an investigation took place by the committee of the insurance policies, when it was elicited that the cause why the vessel has returned was, that an attempt had been made by the master to scuttle her. A criminal charge having, therefore, been made against him, he was accordingly brought Up i before th e b enc h . M essrs. R. Brown and J. C. - ‘ l 4 9tts• solicitor s , appeare d f or the prosecution, and r. T. T. Wright, solicitor, for the defence. Part of the crew only have yet been examined, and the case st ands adjourned till the 19th. The evidence in de tail is necessarily very lengthy. The f ac t s are these :—The master, not being a co mplete na v i ga t or , th e d u ti es d evo l ve d en tirely upon th e, mate, w h o , i n consequence o f th e ex t ra d u ties he had to perform, treated the master with great harsh- I le s% and applied to him horrid names. They had a l e 'g continu ance o f con t rar y w i n d s , and were de• andtYed on their passage. One of the crew was sick, ti another had a scalded foot, and from the delay w eir provisions were nearly all exhausted. The mate said that the vessel should return ; but the master rthat, rather than return, he would sink the ship. d °° l l afterwards, when near the North Cape, it was rate that the vessel was making water at the foundut nine feet per hour. On examining, they Mid that two treenail holes had been bored with an auger 4 in the hold, which were plugged by the car penter;L7 and, by the exertions of the crew at the ` - n - , 111 1 33 the water was greatly reduced. The master did d d e ' take that interest in assisting that he might have o t He afterwards confessed that he had bored the v : e s, and that a third had been commenced, which flag also discovered; but it was not very deep in the tc, h ,er• They determined to return home, and spoke toSale, of Dundee, the master of which vessel to ' 4 ' i sed them to return. The mate prepared a letter th the owner, stating the circumstances, and said th er ein that th e mas t er a pp e ared to be insane. All e c rew were willing to sign it but the carpenter, b° objected to the word insane, which he did not /so l eve to b e correc t. H e wo uld not sign it, and r at te , ; they ~r u e others of the crew were influenced by his exam therefore proceeded on the passage home, 1 : , without any further disaster, arrived here on the th i nst. From as much - of the cross-examination as has been ron W ee ded with, it appears that the defence is insanity. tr : e master was much agitated by the very harsh t a tulent of the mate, and it was for several days that i m i d very little food. He is considered to be a much nervous man, and at the same time was so that lll l , l : l exeited, that his conduct in some instances was - of an insane person.—Shipping Gazette. i„,:zIALLooN AscENT.—Yesterd, . Hamp h4ati fied the sight-seers of the metropolis Mr by making ton an str eet, from White Conduit Gardens, in his newly-con intlete4 " monster balloon." The period which has c i r , -.1)5 oll since an ascent has been made in or near Lon vl aurally n attached to the exhibition an air of no :a tY ; a vast concourse of persons assembled. The grdengwere thrown open as early as eleven o'clock, od shortly after the process of inflation commsnced, and eoatinued until near six o'clock, when the balloon was I : v r°n ouneed t o b e sufficiently full for ascent, and which 1 1: 15 Clearly i n di cated b y the extraordinary buoyancy of Ponderou s mac hi ne . Sh or tly after six o'clock Mr. -11 , 1 P° 11 ' , mule his appearance in the circle, and was t c ; lO Y and enthusia s tically greeted by the assembled ra asands. Th e usual parap h erna li a h av i ng b een ar io-trigf,(l7 at half-past six o'clock Mr. Hampton stepped car, and the signal being given, at twenty-five za.nutes i n „ to seven o'clock the balloon rose in a slow but 1114 "' s "o manner, amidst the deafening shouts of the e t"itita de, which crowded not only the interior but the A t l er ` h °l ; of the gardens and their immediate vicinity. a etts -all oon, for a few minutes, took its course in_a_ tioco-westerly direction, but, on attaining a greater al _ ov i le, it bore in the direction of the southeast, passed river the eastern portion of the metropolis, crossed the near Deptf or d and bore in the direction of Plum woeat:ll,,, ,about whi c h' spot it was expected the descent o De made. F °' 'CE 4CE or C ONSCIENCE.—A f ew d ays ego a mer w„4 of Perth, retired fro m business some years, was upon by one of his old apprentices. The young i"Le:l4laewas received with marked kindness, and, on taking toseemed u•reatly embarrassed, but, plucking up to ; a g e, he " Mr. —, Ido not know well what ari a Tam in your debt." "In my debt," was the ar e " I do not k now how t h at can b e , I am no t ma r , eof it." " I kno w you are no t," resume d the young " but the fact is, when in your employ. I was, like • a a s n Y ri other young men, foolish, and appropriated what to myself. My chief object to-day in abl e. l2 ; Was to confess, and make what restitution I was S a ,, i MY conscience has often e since." in a',. ll . g which he laid down before theastonished gentle- Riv i!: several pounds, adding, " That is all I am able to //e.ait present, but I will soon repay you the whole." easi 'non took his leave, saying, " that he felt much Cuu e r L i r " being, so much of an honest man."—Glasgew Liee'enstein and suite arrived last evening ~.._Ln,sostend by the General Steam Navigation Com ''2Y favourite steam-ship Rainbow, and immediately kv9Ces;ded to Mivart's Hotel. WEST INDIES. The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Dee, Captain llembly, arrived at Southampton last even ing, with mails from Jamaica and from the Leeward and - Windward Islands. The latest dates are St. Jago de Cuba, July 19 ; Jamaica, 24th ; Demerara, *2oth ; Trinidad, 21st ; Barbadoes, 24th ; Grenada, 26th; St. Thomas, 31st; and Fayal, Aug. 13. The Dee brings forty-nine passengers. She also brings on freight 1,000 dollars, 228 ounces of gold dust, and 342 ounces of silver. The Royal Mail Steam-packet Clyde, Captain Symons, arrived at Grenada on the 28th July, all well. She left Southampton on the 2d July. The Royal Mail Steam-packet Severn, Capt. Vincent, received the mail passengers and quicksilver for the Gulf of Mexico from the Clyde. We have received by the Dee Jamaica papers to the 24th July. It appears that the Ministerial pro position for the reduction of the sugar duties still continued to excite a great sensation throughout all the West India colonies. The subject of the immi gration of labourers, and of the introduction of im proved methods of cultivation is also exciting general attention. The following are extracts : JAMAlCA.—Although the crops in St. James's and the adjoining parishes will this year exhibit a most melancholy falling off, especially when compared with the extent of cane land in cultivation, and the efforts made to improve the process by every feasible means, our prospects for next year, I am happy to say are of a very gratifying description ; and if the seasons only continue as they have begun, I have no doubt that so far as the north side generally is concerned, the crop of 1845 will equal, if not exceed, that of any since the termination of the apprenticeship. On the 15th July Montego Bay . was visited by a severe storm of thunder and lightning, during which a cocoa-nut tree, on the premises of Mr. llarvey, was struck by the fluid and ignited. The fire was extin guished without any,further damage. The weather has been variable, partial showers of rain have fallen, but the heat is intense, and the south east wind positively tempestuous, doing injuryamong products of tender growth and cultivation. The dysentery still prevails among the inhabitants, but otherwise the island is healthful; and so are the navy and army departments. The Commissioners for distributing the charitable fund, subscribed for the sufferers by the late confla gration, have resolved that those who have not con• tracted for, or have not commenced the repair or re building of their dwellings, are to be debarred a par ticipation in the money. A report is said to have been prevalent in St. Vincents that Porto Rico had been visited by a severe earthquake ; but it had not been confirmed. TRINIDAD. — A proposition had been made in the council to send an agent from this island to Sierra Leone, for the purpose of inquiring into the causes which obstruct free emigration from that place to these colonies. ST. CIIRISTOPHER.—The weather was favour able, and there was said to be every prospect of an abun dant crop. ANTIGUA.--A severe shock of earthquake was experienced in this island, at a few minutes before seven on the morning of Sunday, June 23. The House of Assembly had passed a modified election law. ST. Lucia.—The Governor, Col. Clarke, had ob tained leave to go to England, and Col. Torrens was daily expected to assume the government in his stead. MARTINIQUE.—The rains had been extremely severe here, destroying houses, plantations, and roads. ToBAGo.—" The weather is not such as the planter could wish it to be. The sunny days are few —very few and far between—while we are writing it is raining, and there is no appearance of a lasting change for the better. The proprietors in England will, however, see that their agents here are doing all that can possibly be done by them under present cir cumstances. Every one of the vessels that has yet sailed with produce, has sailed with full cargoes, and at an earlier period this year than they did the last." HAYTI.—We have been favoured with the follow ing intelligence respecting the position of affairs in the Island of Hayti, by a vessel just arrived from Jeremie. Acao, after surrendering himself to the Government at Port au Prince, was immediately arrested and imprisoned, in conjunction with two of his generals, Augustin and Loude. We are not in possession of the particulars relative to the move ments of his troops stationed at Aux Cayes, but may reasonably apprehend some unpleasant results from his imprisonment. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Her Majesty and the infant Prince continue going on well. his Royal Highness Prince Albert inspected the Scots Fusilier Guards in garrison this morning, in the Great Park. Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting, attended his Royal Highness. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice were taken a carriage airing in the forenoon, and the Princess Royal went out on a pony. The Countess of Dunmore, Lady in Waiting, took her departure to-day from the Castle. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie and Mr. G. E. Anson, went to Virginia Water, fishing, this afternoon. His Royal Highness and suite went from the Castle in a car riage. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at the Castle in the evening, from her residence, Frogmore Lodge, and dined with his Royal Highness Prince Albert. His Royal Highness Prince William of Prussia left the residence of the Prussian Legation yesterday morning, at half-past six o'clock, for the terminus of the South-Western Railway, at Nine Elms, and took his departure, attended by his suite, for Ports mouth. The Prince was afterwards expected to pro ceed to Strathfieldsaye on a visit to the Duke of Wellington. THE DUCHESS OEKENT'S BIRTHDAY.—The Duchess of Kent having most liberally presented a fat buck to the stewards of the dinner, annually held by her Royal Highness's London tradesmen, in honour of the birthday of the Royal Duchess, the tradesmen assembled yesterday (instead of Saturday), at the King's Arms Tavern, Kensington, Mr. Gabriel in the chair. The company were agreeably entertained by the vocal abilities of Mr. Ransford and his party. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, attended by Baron Knesebeck, left Kew yesterday morning, to honour the Earl of Shrewsbury with a visit, at his seat, Alton Towers, Staffordshire. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Wei mar arrived in town on Sunday, from Bushy House, Bushy Park, the residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager. In the evening the Prince left town for Scotland. _ . . Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister, trans acted business yesterday, at the Foreign-office. DEPARTURE OF ROBERT OWEN FOR AMERICA, On Sunday afternoon, Mr. Owen left London by the Southampton Railway on his way to Portsmouth, from whence he proceeds to America on a visit to his family, resident in New Harmony, Indiana. His friends and disciples assembled in St. James's Park, anxious to tes tify their respect and affection, and to bid him " fare well." Mr. Owen, accompanied by his friends, passed through Pimlico sad along the Vauxhall-road on his way to the railway station. Previous to crossing the bridge, the assemblage, numbering at the least five thou sand, were addressed in a short appropriate speech by Mr. Fleming, editor of the New Moral World, who ex pressed his extreme gratification with the quiet and orderly demeanour of so vast an assemblage, who, with out flags, banners, or public notice, had met to bid fare well to their venerable father and friend. It was Mr. Owen's intention to return to England the following year. " Meantime our blessings follow him wherever he may go, and warm; shall be the welcome which shall greet his return." This sentiment having been enthusi astically responded to, Mr. Owen (who appeared in ex cellent health and spirits) then bade his friends " fare well," wishing them every happiness, and hoping that, on his return, he should find them in the possession of the means to secure sound practical education, and bene ficial employment for themselves and families. Mr. Owen then proceeded across the bridge to the railway station, still followed by great numbers. ANTWERP, AUGUST 18.—This city still continues to be the principal point of attraction to the numerous travellers who are hastening to the German autumnal rendezvous. The occupants of the magnificent salons of the Hotel St. Antoine are very numerous. The follow ing are amongst the most recent arrivals :—Viscount Ebrington, Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., Sir John Wal sham, Bart., the lion. J. Stuart Wortley. M.P., and family, the Hon. H. Devereux, Count de Yoe Mr. Sar toris, Captain Domett, Major Clarke, Mr. Auldjo, &c. The Hon. Mrs. Le Poer Trench, relict of the late Archbishop of Tuam, died at Gresham-terrace, Kings town, on Thursday. She was Anne, daughter of W. Taylor, Esq., and married 29th January, 1795, the llon. and Most Rev. Poer Lord Archbishop of Tuam, second son'of Richard first Earl of Clancarty, by whom she has left issue a numerous family. ANOTHER MONSTER TRAIN.—BRIGHTON, AUG. 19. --Yesterday morning a train, consisting of no less than 53 carriages, propelled by four engines, arrived at the terminus about half-past eleven o'clock, and upwards of 1,800 persons left the carriages, a large majority of whom proceeded immediately to the beach, where num bers of them* remained during the whole day. The pleasure-boats were in constant requisition ; m short, the cliffs and the beach were literally strewed with cock neys, who were easily distinguished by their walking about with their provision baskets, carpet bags, &e. The train left again in the evening, but in consequence of the heavy drag of the morning train, the Railway Company judiciously divided it in the evening, 36 car riages going first, and 27 more following in about half an hour. We understand that there were about 500 who were left behind at London, in consequence of the want of carriages. The Brightonians complain that they are not allowed the same chance to see the metropolis on Sundays as the Londoners are to see Brighton. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1644. rented by the British authorities, and by them in part sublet to British merchants. It will contain the con sular and vice-consular residences and officers' and merchants' houses, and altogether will consist of 18 houses. The houses are to occupy either side of the ground on the west and east, and through the centre runs a street 40 feet wide, but shaded on either side by a verandah 12 feet wide, connecting the upper parts of the houses, and protecting passengers against sun and rain. The consular residence being the largest of the projected houses is to face the square or river on the south-west ; and the opposite corner in the south-east has been granted to the same firm formerly in possession of the Creek Hong. The vice consulate is to be immediately behind the consulate. The well-known Respondentia walk is now narrowed by a wooden railing, supported by pillars of masonry, which incloses the whole of the square in front of the six centre factories that still remain. This has been laid out tastefully in walks and shrubberies, and in its centre has been erected a splendid flagstaff, brought out for the use and protection of Americans by the United States frigate Brandywine, and erected by the crews of American merchant ships at Whampoa. In melancholy contrast to thi s new l y pa i n t e d fl ags t a ff a n d its glittering vane, are the fire-blackened stumps of those from which once floated the British and Dutch flags, and still left standing memorials of the strife. The company's garden, formerly stocked with many a rare and beautiful plant and flower, has been sadly neglected, many of its denizens having been trans planted to its more prosperous neighbour. The younger of the foreign residents here find a little ex ercise in playing at ninepins and quoits, nor seem aquatic sports to be forgotten, although the number of wherries and pleasure boats is not yet by any means what it used to be in times of old. Jackass Point, on which in days of yore the quid-nuncs used to assemble, now offers the disagreeable spectacle of a mass of dirt and rubbish, for which it seems to have become the privileged receptacle, much to the re proach of the foreign residents, who might easily con cert measures to do away with that nuisance ; which, however it is to be hoped, will be much abated after the new garden shall have been extended, as it is about to be, to the brink of the river. With the ex ception of the foreign factories and their immediate neighbourhood, down to the river, not much change has taken place. Old China-street is exactly what it always was, and New China-street has been rebuilt in exact imitation of its former self; and only four or five shops there remain to be built to obliterate all traces of the late disastrous fire. With extraordinary activity the Chinese have repaired the damage done by that fire, and the streets have everywhere been rebuilt, nor does the visitor dream that destruction has been at work there only a few months since, the new streets and houses being mostly rebuilt as they formerly were, the only difference now striking the beholder being the fresh and gaudy colours of the new signboards overhanging the ' streets, in lieu of those sobered down by age. The British flag now floats in front of Howqua's hone', where the British Consu l is at p r esent domiciled, and where a British sentinel, a marine, paces in front. If old Howqua is permitted from beyond the grave to cast a look upon the scene of his commercial success, he will quickly avert his eyes from a spectacle by no means calculated to please him, who to the very last was averse to the new order of things. It now only remains for me in this short sketch to notice the glo rious river, the Chokiang, with its hundreds of thou sands of boats and vessels of all sizes, admitting, free from danger, the largest line-of-battle ships, and, at the same time, nourishing and bearing on its bosom thousands of families that know no other home than the small boats it rocks on its waters. For miles, all the length of the provincial city, it is now, as ever before, covered with a multi tude of boats of all descriptions, from the humble tanka to the flaunting flower boat, disposed in regular streets and squares ; in fact another city upon the waters. From the factories are visible, in the direction of what used to be called Red Fort, the masts of a frigate built by the Chinese, in imitation of a Euro pean ship of war. This vessel is said to be well built ; but her cost is money utterly thrown away, as she is not likely ever to be of any use in the de fence of her country; but she may, in case of an other war, prove a valuable prize to her captor. The feeling of enmity so frequently manifested of late by the populace of Canton towards foreigners, seems, according to all I have been able to learn, to be making room for b etter impressions; and there can be little doubt that it is the firm and fixed in tention and wish of the Canton authorities to pre serve uninterrupted the present amicable relations. But as stated before, the late war has revealed to the people generally the inefficiency of their rulers, and the credit of the mandarins has suffered immea surably by the conviction it has afforded to the masses, that however willing instruments they may, have been for their oppression, they have been alto gether unable to protect them. The Chinese autho rrities seem to be perfectly aware of this, and dread nothing more than the gathering of a mob, which in China is more easily collected, and more ready for every mischief, than perhaps anywhere else. TWEED FISIIINGS. — The late rains, which at this season are to be regretted for the sake of the grain crops, have produced a most beneficial effect on the salmon fishings. Last night the River became flooded, in consequence of which an immense number of fish has entered it, and the boats, as they arrived at the quay, this morning, were literally fillel with fish. These for tunate takes have not been confined to a few stations or any particular part of the river, but have extended oyca the whole as far as the tide flows. The appearance of the fish-house at the quay this morning has not been equalled during this, or, indeed, any previous season.— Berwick Advertiser. SOMNAMBULISM EXTRAORDINART.—Tuesday night a lad named Smith, in the employ of Mr. J. Cottrell, farmer, of Cleeve, awoke in a great fright, on finding himself crammed into some dark corner, nearly smothered and blinded with dust and soot. Not being able to make out his whereabouts, he tried for a few moments to collect his scattered senses, and found him self with an indistinct recollection of having dreamed of climbing to take a rook's nest in his master's field ; con cluding ho was still up in the tree, and being unable to get down, he cried out lustily for assistance, but without effect. After bawling for some time he became ex hausted, and was compelled to relinquish his hold, and fell with great violence on the hard ground. Groping about he found himself still in his own bedroom, and, glad to escape so easily, he scrambled again into bed, and fell asleep. But, on waking in the morning, the mystery of his night's bird-nestin,g w as unravelled, for, to his great disc om fi ture, h e f oun d his person and the bed and bed-clothes, as well as the floor of the room, completely covered with soot, and, from a quantity of the same material lyi ng in the fire-place, there is no doubt that the poor fellow got up in his sleep, and at tempted to climb the chimney, and, 'getting jammed in the narrow part, some seven or eight feet up, awoke with the sensation before described. Fortunately, his rapid descent occasioned no other injury than a few slight bruises on his person, and the damaged state of the bed and bedding was easily repaired by a plentiful applica tion of soap and water.—Cheltenhant Examiner. CATS' MEAT AND HORSES' TONGUES. — Wednes da y , Mr. Wakley, LP., held an inquest at the Elephant and Castle, King's-road, St. Pancras on the body of John King, aged fourteen. It appeared in evidence that de ceased was a deputy vendor of cats' meat, and got from his employer 2s. 6d. a week and his breakfast and dinner each day. On Monday last he knocked at the door of a customer in Henry-street, Hampstead-road, and the in stant the door was opened he fell into the passage and died. He was subject to fits. The Coroner—His must have been a very laborious occupation, for he must have travelled a long distance with a large quantity of meat, which I understand is sold at a penny a pound, before any profit could be realised. A Juror--Oh dear no; cats' meat is sold at fourpence and threepence a pound. and he would not have to wheel more at any time in his barrow than half a hundr e d we i g ht. A good cats' meat walk is a fine fortune, and the proprietor would not sell his vested interest for a trifle. The Coroner—l believe it is boiled horse flesh they sell. Did any of you ever see them sell for cats' meat boiled horses' tongues? The Jury—Never. The Coroner —T o be sure you never did. They are salted and dried and sold 'for ox tongues. A Juror—Yes, many of the so- ca ll e d pickled an d cure d nests' tongues come from the knacker's yard. The Co roner—lt requires, lam told, a nice palate to distinguish the flavour of an ox's tongue from that of a horse's. I do not see why it should not be so. A gentleman—The prejudice against equine flesh is not universal. The celebrated sausage s of Arles, in the south o f F ranc e, are principally composed of asses' flesh and condiments. They are considered a great delicacy, easy of digestion, and extremely appetissants. The Jury returned a ver dict of " Natural death. ANTIDOTE FOR PRUSSIC ACID.—We feel much pleasure in announcing in these columns that some re cent experiments made by Messrs. T. and H. Smith, of Duke-street, Edinburgh, with a view to discover an anti dote for prussic acid,- have been brought to a successful termination. It was previously well known that the acid might be neutralised, but a perfect neetralising power, i nflex ions to the stomach in its e lf, eas il y use d , an d readily to be procured, has hitherto, as far as we are aware, been a thing altogether unknown. The sulphate of iron, commonly called green vitriol, was lately stated by Sir G. Lefevre to be an antidote to this poison, in the pages of the Lancet. It is not so, as the Messrs. Smith showed in reply. However, the presentation of oxidized iron to the deadly acid is in reality the fundamental fea ture of their own discovery. Only it was necessary to find out how to present it to the acid in the shape in which the acid will combine with it, and to do that safely is a difficult matter, as all medical men well know. The iron, as the late experiments demonstrate, must be p in a state partly of peroxide, and partly of rotoxide, when combined with which, only, will the acid form the desired compounds a compound well . known as Prussian harmless in blue, which is perfectly the stomach. It was the observation that in that salt the iron was peculiarly which, while showing and doubly oxidized , _ the useless ness of common sulphate of iron, suggested the forma tion of another combination of the sulphuric acid with the oxidized metal, which might take up the prussic acid and form Prussian blue. The, accomplishment of this combination constitutes the antidote. The prussic acid is turned 'in the stomach into Prussian blue; there an inert, harmless body.. We only give what may be held enough to satisfy the informed, as well as the uninformed, of the possibility —the chemical possibility—of the re medy.—Scotsman. MEHEMET ALL The Journal des Debats gives the following inte resting particulars connected with the abdication of Mehemet Ali : " It is not astonishing that, in presence of the dis organisation which was extending itself more end more in the provinces under his domination, Mehe met Ali should have felt his usual c o u rage and perse verance giving way. At his age, and after the active life that he had led, lassitude became natural, and the circumstances which accompanied the still problema tical act of his abdication, prove that the weight of affairs had begun to become too heavy for him. Some time previously to the late events the Pacha had been ill, and his return to health was marked by a measure, the prudence of which was not perhaps equal to its clemency. He had opened the doors of all the prisons of Egypt, and in one day 2,000 prisoners, thieves, assassins, and innocent men, were, without distinction, restored to liberty. It was not by such measures that the deplorable abuses of the Government, and the unhappy state of the country could be reformed. The evil had become so great, that the most faithful coun sellors of the Pacha felt themselves called upon to en lighten his mind at any price. It appears that Ibrahim Pacha himself laid aside the extreme reserve which he had until then maintained. The Pacha, con- stantly habituated to find in his way only docile in struments, was at first surprised, and appeared to be for an instant vanquished by a contradiction which was so unusual. He manifested equal astonishment and grief at what was told him, and announced his intention of applying a remedy. But this moderation did not last long, and in a new access of passion the old Pacha went so far as to threaten to send Ibra him Pacha bound hand and foot to Cairo, and to keep him there a prisoner. Two or three days passed in irresolution. On the 25th, the day fixed for sending his children to France, the Pacha held a council at which a report was made to him of the state of the provinces. It appears that the facts as stated in this report were exposed with so much plainness, that none of the Ministers had dared to communicate it to the Pacha. Mehemet Ali, however, had it read to him, listened to it in silence, and left the room without making any observation. On the following day, however, he gave sudden orders for his departure, and, as there was no steamer in readiness, he shut himself up in a kiosque of the garden of Moharem Bey, placed two sentinels at the door, and ordered that no person should be admitted to him. It was in vain that Ibrahim Pacha and 30 or 40 persons of the Court pre sented themselves at the door : they remained there se veral hours without being able to obtain admittance. The Pacha's physician,Gaetani Bey,and Kosreirßey,his first dragoman, could alone reach his presence. It was to them that he declared his intention of proceeding to Mecca, adding that they might remain in Alexandria to be of use to Egypt, but that, for his part, he re nounced it for ever. Then, as they remonstrated with him, he begged them, with tears in his eyes, to withdraw. Ibrahim and Said Pacha, his two sons, and his principal officers, addressed a letter to him, in which they assured him of their devotedness to his parson ; but the Pacha replied that he was resolved to retire into the lledjaz, and that he renounced Egypt for ever. No other reply could be obtained from him. In the night he asked for a sum of 125,000 f., and on the following day it was known that he had em barked, again declaring that he renounced everything, and was going to reside at Mecca, where he would take the name of Hadji (pilgrim). As soon as the depar ture of the Pacha was generally known in Alex andria the agitation became extreme. The evil dis positions of the Mussulman population, and the presence in the city of a crowd of malefactors, whom the opening of the prisons had let loose on society, were of a nature to inspire the Europeans with great uneasiness. The consuls held a meeting, and ad dressed a collective note to Ibrahim Pacha, request ing him to inform them if he had taken the necessary measures to maintain order. When the last news left, Ibrahim Pacha had not sent his answer, but so long as he remained in the city, no disorders were apprehended. The Marquis de Lavalette had written to the commander of the Levant station to send him a ship of the line." The following letter, addressed to Mr. Court, the Secretary to the Underwriters' Association of this town (Liverpool), from the agent of the association at Alexandria, gives the best and most detailed ac count we have yet seen of the movements of .Mo hamed Ali, the Pacha of Egypt : " Alexandria, July 17, 1844. " Sire—Since closing my letter, per french mail, I find the steamer is detained till the evening in conse quence of the excitement prevailing in this city from the sudden and unpremeditated departure of Mohamed Ali for Cairo, for which a variety of reasons are assigned. I can only give the pre vailing rumours, as, at the present moment, it is im possible to ascertain the truth. One report is that Mo hamed Ali, yesterday, abdicated in favour of his son, Ibrahim Pacha; who, however, refuses to net during his father's lifetime. Another, that, in a fit of religi ous enthusiasm, Mohamed Ali set off on a pilgrimage to Mecca; that he was induced to this step by the reproaches of his harem, in consequence of his having recently sent his son to France for education. From another quarter we hear that there has been some thing like a revolt in consequence of a meeting held at Cairo, Mohamed Ali's grandson (Abas Pacha), Sheriff Pacha, and others presided, and that it was agreed that Mohamed Ali was now too old, and ought to give up the reins of government; that, on this in telligence reaching Mohamed Ali, be was greatly enraged, and set off to restore order by his presence, giving out the report of a pilgrimage to Mecca to lull suspicion.Nlia Whatever may be the true state of the case, it is certain that Mohamed Ali's departur e was most precipitate, and induced by some extraordinary cause, as lie left Alexandria without any intimation to the Government authorities or instructions for their future guidance. It is also certain lie is seriously unwell. Her Britannic Majesty's steamer Geyser, Captain Carpenter, is in port; but the British authorities have been inquiring for a fast-sailing British vessel, to take dispatches to Beyrout ; it is supposed to order down to Alexandria her Majesty's ship Tyne, or any other man-of-war on the station, as it is apprehended some crisis is approaching. Mohamed Ali's son, Admiral Said Pacha, has requested a steamer from the P. and 0. Company, to follow his father, and endeavour to learn the cause of his extraordinary departure ; it is said the French Consul-General will accompany him." Liverpool Albion. MONUMENT TO THE POLITICAL MARTYRS. We understand that Sir James Gibson Craig has I consented to preside at the dinner of the stewards on Wednesday next, after the foundation of the monu ment is laid to the political martyrs of Scotland in ' 1793-94. It is with peculiar propriety that a part of the proceedings on that occasion is to be under the direction of this distinguished veteran in the cause of freedom, who not only felt keenly the injustice of the sentences at the time they were pronounced, but made strenuous exertions, both personal and professional, to stay and avert their execution. No man now de fends these proceedings, -and the Tories themselves were so ashamed of them, that they procured, even from an unreformed Parliament, statutes entirely abrogating in future the powers under which the Court of Justiciary was enabled to pass such sen tences. But, nevertheless, it is fit that a suitable testimonial should be erected amidst the numerous monumental structures of this city to mark the repro bation of the sentences by the public in the present age, and to record their high re spect for the virtuous resolution and forti tude displayed by the injured men in bearing the heavy sufferings to which they were subjected. Sir James Gibson Craig, who is now almost the only survivor of the small but able band of patriots who opposed the dominant party so powerfully in 1793, can well explain the grounds on which he and the late Lord Holland, and other friends, became early subscribers to this monument. We are happy that he is still in health and vigour to do so; we have no doubt that he will be able to do full justice to the memory of the persecuted Reformers, without any unnecessary mixture of acrimonius or vindictive feel ing towards the actors in these lamentable proceed . ings, who may now be safely left to the judgment of impartial posterity.—Scotsman. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE AND LANCASTER AND PRESTON RAILWAYS.—At the half-yearly meeting of the Lancaster Canal Company, held last week, it was stated that the Company's opposition to the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway had been withdrawn, on condition that the Railway Company should guarantee and make up (if needful) the amount of tonnage, on the north end of the canal, to 11,000/. per annum. Should the amount exceed that sum, such excess to be paid to the Railway Company, the latter to have an option, at any time, of adopting the now current lease of the Lancaster and Preston Railway, on paying to the Canal Company 9,2501., in addition to the sum of 13,3001. now paid by the Canal Company as-a yearly rent for the lino. The secretary intimated the intention of the lessen to run a third- ekes train on the Lancaster and Preston Railway, at ld. per mile, one each way, at a convenient hour, in compliance with the intentions of the Legislature. — Railway Record. A SUBSTITUTE FOR TOBACCO.—A gentleman, not five miles from Upwell, who was taught at one of the scheo!s of ../E.'culapius, thought to enjoy a first-rate llii vannah, and to make the pleasure more complete, walked to a friend's house. While engaged in conversation, he found himself annoyed by not being able to smoke with facility ; now puffing with all his might, now biting off the end, he again placed it in his mouth, but he could not make it burn freely until he drew from the cigar a rat's tail, which he had been sucking for some time Whatever liking the feline tribe may have for rats' tails, we are sure the gentleman had none. The fumes of the tobacco, the blanching of the bones by suction, and the roasting of the residue of the tail, being commingled, we need not say produced nausea. Happily the gentleman w as well skilled in the healing art, and immediately took a glass of cold water to rince his mouth out.—Canitridge Chronicle. TANGIERS. The following particulars relative to Tangiers will be read with interest at the present moment : " The city of Tangiers is very strong by its position and the number of its batteries, which are well armed. Its old walls crenellated, and flanked with round and square towers, are perhaps capable of a greater resistance than their appearance indicates. Several bastioned towers have been repaired, and put into a state of defence within the last few years. The city itself is of little importance; it is poor, and has little trade. Tangiers has no interest but from its being the residence of the European Consuls, for its population only amounts to from 8,000 to 9,000, and its commerce is inferior to that of some other ports, notwithstanding its proximity to the European coast. The houses- of the Consuls form the only ornament of the town. It is situate on the declivity of a calcareous mountain, part of which is not built upon, and presents a naked and unpleasant coup Wail. The town, like all other places in Morocco, is surrounded by a wall flanked by round and square towers ; this wall is enclosed by a ditch, 2,200 metres in extent, but which has no counter scarp. It is protected by a Moorish kasbah (fortress) of imposing appearance, and by a fort of Portuguese construction, bastioned in the modern style, but half in ruins. The kasbah is mounted by twelve pieces of cannon, which command the straits of Gibraltar. The ditches round the city are filled with trees, and cultivated as kitchen gardens, the letting of which belongs to the Governor, and who would take good care not to sacrifice the revenue he enjoys from them by putting the ditch in a proper state of defence. The rampart oppo site the sea is remarkable for having two tiers of embankments with embrasures, mounted by guns. On the north side the city is defended by steep rocks, which prevent the approach of a besieging force. The principal defences have been raised in front of the landing-place near the marine gate. They consist of two batteries, mounting sixty pieces of heavy calibre, and eight mortars, all bearing on the port. The plat forms of the batteries are very narrow, the parapets are of masonry, but only three feet in thickness, and the embrasures are not far enough apart, which tends to diminish the strength of the battery. The landing place is flanked on either side by two batteries. Be sides these defences of the port, the bay of Tangiers is defended by six batteries in masonry, one built on Cape Malabata, and the other on the ruins of Old Tan giers (the Tingis of the Romans). They mount to gether forty guns. The two batteries which flank the roadstead at its two extremities are raised on small hills about 150 feet above the level of the sea; the others are at the water's edge. To attack the place by sea, it would be necessary first to destroy those batteries, as well as those in front of the port, but in order to get into the town three inclosures must be forced, each having a very strong gate lined with iron. To do this cannon must be landed, or else a mine or the petard be had recourse to, but during this operation the assailants would be exposed to a murderous fire from the garrison, if the inhabi tants should be resolved to defend their city. By land the point of attack would be on the sands, and the low hills to the south, between the Fez road and the sea, after effecting a landing on the beach of Old Tangiers, out of reach of the sea batteries. Once established on these points, the plateau on which the market is situated would be gained. On this plateau there is space enough to form an entrenched camp, to serve as a point d'appui for the troops acting against the town. The western rampart being only of earth, might readily be de molished. The last attack against Tangiers was in 1790, when it was bombarded by the Spaniards. The inhabitants abandoned the place with all their effects, and peace was soon after concluded. The English draw their supply of beef, mutton, fruits, and vege tables from Tangiers and Tetifan. Tangiers is dis tant seventy leagues from Fez and Mequinez, and one hundred and fifty from Morocco, these being the three Imperial cities at which the Sultan alternately resides. From eighteen t ) twenty days is required to send a dispatch, and get an answer, from Tangiers to Fez, and from Morocco requires from forty-five to fifty days." HISTORICAL RECOLLECTIONS OF TANGIERS. Tangiers is situated near the western entrance to the Straits of Gibraltar, built at the entrance of a bay, on the side of a hill overlooking the sea, and about 14 miles west of Cape Spartel. It has a popu lation of 9,000 souls; and, in conjunction with Te tuan, supplies Gibraltar, Cadiz, Lisbon, and other ports on the coast of Spain and Portugal, with fowls, beef, mutton, and fruit. During the memorable siege of Gibraltar, 1779-82, Tangiers was of considerable importance to the English, from whence much valu able information respecting the movements of the French and Spaniards was constantly transmitted. It may not, however, be generally known that Tangiers was formerly in the possession of the English, having been ceded by Portugal in 1662 to King Charles the Second, on the occasion of his marriage with Donna Catherina, infanta of Portugal, as part of her dowry. In the spring of 1680, Tan giers was besieged by an army from Morocco, and Charles recommended the Parliament to take mea sures for its preservation. The occupation of Tan giers was said to be of importance to the Levant trade, and it was feared that two millions embarked in that commerce would be lost. Consequently, detachments from each of the three troops of Life Guards; 260 officers and men from the First Foot Guards; and 130 officers and men from the Coldstream Guards, under the command of the Earl of Mulgrave, were dispatched to garrison the fortress of Tangiers, and on their arrival were styled " the King's battalion." These were followed by the Earl of Dumbarton's regiment (now the Ist, or Royal Regiment), and the Earl of Inchiquin's (now the 2d, or Queen's Royals). Much fighting took place be tween the Moors and the English, with varied suc cess, and Tangiers was closely besieged by the bar barians. On the 27th September, 1680, a general sally of the garrison was made on the Moorish lines, where 15,000 troops were encamped. The action soon became general, and Dumbarton's renowned veterans quickly carried the redoubts, although with immense slaughter ; the Guards and the Queen's Royals equally suffered, for the returns give an ag gregate loss of 11 officers and 100 men killed, and 34 officers and 334 men wounded. King Charles IL found the maintenance of a suffi cient garrison at Tangiers to be too expensive ; and the nation refusing to grant supplies, the fortifications and mole were blown up. On the retirement of the English, the Moors quickly occupied the place,_ and it has ever since continued in their possession. Whilst the English were masters of Tangiers, the works on the land side were considered as almost impregnable. In April, 1684, the troops returned to England ; and only 235 effective men of the Guards joined their re giments in London. It is a singular historical fact, that " rifles " were introduced into the British service in the year 1680, and were first used by the Life Guards at the siege of Tangiers. It is also remarkable, that about the same period the Grenadiers were introduced into the army, and did good service at this memorable siege. According to the quaint language of the day,. "a company was formed of men who each carried a large pouch filled with hand-grenades. These men were instructed to ignite the fusees, and to cast the grenades into forts, trenches , or amidst the ranks of their enemies, where the explosion was calculated to produce much execution ;" and the men, deriving their designation from the combustibles with which they were armed, were styled " Grenadiers?' Al though the hand-grenades have long since been laid aside, yet one company, which is designated "'The Grenadier Company," continues to form part of every battalion in the English service. - - - CANTON ITS CONDITION BE FORE AND SINCE THE LATE WAR. (From a Correspondent of the Ilong-Kong Register o' April 22.) When in May, 1839, after an imprisonment of abou six weeks, the foreign community found themselves once more at liberty, they, with few exceptions, left a place where they found themselves to be completely at the mercy of arbitrary power, and to a degree that same feeling of insecurity seems still to prevail, but a small proportion of the former residents having as yet chosen to return, and to pitch their tents again on the scene of their former captivity, although two years have nearly elapsed since the peace has been concluded. But at present how much is that scene itself changed from what it formerly was ! Of a goodly row of thirteen hongs, presenting a rather imposing front to the river, five years back, now only seven re main ; three of them, including the splendid hall of the East India Company, having been destroyed in December, 1842, by a riotous mob, and the other three on the opposite, or west end, having shared the same fate, occasioned by a fire, which at the same time reduced a great portion of the suburbs of Canton to ashes, in October last. It is true that some progress has been made in rebuilding the Spanish and French bongs destroyed by the last fire • but the Danish has been converted into Chinese shops, and thus has the small space formerly allotted to foreign residence been still more reduced, instead of having been extended, as we might have had a right to expect, and for which the accident of the fire might have offered a fair occasion and pretence. On the eastern side of the factories nothing has, however, yet been done, for rebuilding the other three hongs destroyed by the mob, except clearing the ground, which at present offers a dreary enough spectacle. The considerable extent of ground from which the princely company used for many years to supply the English market with tea at a hundred per cent. profit, and where its agents were famed for en tertaining themselves and others with unbounded hospitality, offering nothing now to the eye but heaps of rubbish, and mounds of bricks pilei up here and there, ready at hand for the buildings it is now in contemplation to raise there. The ground has been MADAME TECMAN'S SOIREE. MESMERISM. The celebrated clairvoyante, the Marquise de St. Simon Tecman, gave last evening a soirée mes merique, at her elegant residence, in Baker-street, Portman-square. The experiments commenced at nine o'clock, when the drawing-rooms were crowded with the elite of the rank and fashion still remaining in town. In the first instance the marquise under took to try her active powers of mesmerism, before she proceeded to the grand object of her visitors' curiosity—the exhibition of those phenomena by which her own mesmeric trances are attended. Ac cordingly she invited any lady or gentleman present who had never been mesmerised to submit to the operation at her hands, and thus fairly test her powers. Two gentlemen accepted the offer. One of them the Marquise (after considerable:exertion to effect the mesmeric influence upon him) declared to be then in a state so far removed from susceptibility that it would be impossible to mesmerise him. The other gentleman was in a few minutes reduced to the mesmeric sleep by the manipulations of the Marquise. No further experiments of this kind were made, as the anxiety of the company to see the lady herself a subject of the mysterious power became very evi dent. Mr.; Margrave, of Highgate, was, we believe, the operator, and the fair patient was in a few minutes to all appearance buried in a profound and death-like trance. It was then stated that a lady of rank, who was present, had been for some time afflicted with paralysis of the right side, of which she had been partially, and that in a great degree, cured by Madame Tecman's mesmeric operations. The lady, with the greatest affability, explained to the company the particulars of her case, and walked across the room, raising her arm, extend ing the fingers, &c., to demonstrate how far the cure had progressed in eleven flays, from the first curative experiment, when she was unable to walk, to raise her arm from her side, or to open her hand. Several persons then successively placed themselves in com munication with the apparently unconscious Marquise, and as each took her hand, her really beautiful coun tenance beamed with a peculiar and fascinating ex pression of life and tenderness. She pressed the hand of the patient fondly, and whispered softly in the ear her conjectures as to the existence of malady, its seat, cause, and cure. In every instance but one the pa tients avowed themselves astonished beyond expres sion at the minute accuracy of her revelations. A. gentleman, however, who was suffering from a gun shot wound in the right hip, the ball having traversed to the left side, and had not been extracted, although he underwent many painful operations, declared that Madame had failed in her description of his condition and sensations, and that she pointed to the right groin as the place where the ball was lodged, whereas he was convinced that it was in the neighbourhood of the left groin. On the whole, the experiments gave great satisfaction. We heard a widow lady (whom she had never seen) in consultation with the clairvoyante. The conversation was carried on in French, and in a very low tone, but with evident earnestness and feeling on both parts. Madame Tecman told the lady she would soon get well—the cause of her illness was the loss of her husband, who died abroad (and she stated where), of a broken heart. The effect of this extraordinary revelation on all present may be imagined. It is only fair to the English professors of this much-disputed mystery to state, that last evening we were present at another mesmeric reunion at the house of Mr. liaise, medical electrician, Pelham crescent, Brompton, and there a clairvoyante, Miss Taylor, mesmerised by Mr. Holmes, a professor of the alleged science, made revelations far surpassing, in their extraordinary character, to a gentleman with whose strange case the writer was previously well acquainted, but of which the young lady could scarcely have known anything. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. To-night will be the last night of the Opera, and Mr. Lumley, determined that the season shall end as brilliantly as it was begun, and has continued, has concentrated as it were, into one focus, for this the last evening, all the gems ofthe season. First, we are to have the Barbiere with Grisi, Fornasari, and Lablache. Then Un bat sous Louis XI V. with the two Fannys Ellsler and Cerito—then Moriani, the first tenor in the world in the last scene of Lucia — the Fanny Ellsler and Perrot in La Esmeralda—then the last act of La Cenerentola, with Favanti as La Ceneren tola, Fornasari as Dandini, Lablache, glorious Lablache, as the Magnifico, and that promising singer, Corelli, as Ramiro ; to conclude with selections from Ondine and Alma, those two graceful creations of the fascinating Cerito. In the course of the evening " God save the Queen" will be sung by the united operatic force of the company ; and to hear the national anthem given as it will be given to-night, will be one of the greatest treats that can fall to the lot of a lover of music to enjoy. To night concludes the present most deservedly successful season. Mr. Lumley adopts the only method of com manding success—he shows the public that he deserves it. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHI THEATRE. • Mr. Carter, the Lion King, made his first appear ance for the season at this theatre last evening, with his celebrated trained animals, in Bayle Bernard's melodrama of Mango Park. The performances of Mr. Carter are truly astonishing. All that Eugene Sue has imagined of the power of Morok, the brute tamer, over the most ferocious animals is more than realised by the performances of Mr. Carter. Not only does he exhibit his perfect command over his ferocious animals, by entering their den, and making them perform every variety of trick, but he actually has trained a tiger to play with him as though it were a lap-dog, and appears in a car drawn by a lion. So completely has Mr. Carter subdued the natural ferocity of the monarch of the forest, that he actually puts a bit into his mouth, curbs, checks, and guides him, as he would a horse. The house was crowded, and Mr. Carter was vehemently applauded throughout the whole of his performances. EXTRAORDINARILY Low TIDE.—The river on So. , turday and Sunday presented a most remarkable and unusual appearance, in consequence of the tide, which was so low at one period as to cause the greatest diffi culty among the steam-boats and other vessels in navi gating the river, particularly between London-bridge and Chelsea. At Waterloo and Blackfriars the river had more the appearance of a canal, and might have been easily waded through. The business at Blackfriars pier was considerably impeded, in embarking and land ing the passengers who were arriving by the various boats. The Waterman steamer No. 4 was aground off Blackfriars for some time, and notwithstanding the re peated efforts to remove her, she was compelled to tranship her passengers on to another vessel after a de lay-of half an hour. Many were aground off West minster for some time on Saturday, but were able to proceed at the return of the tide, which has not been so low for many years. FEMALE OURAN-OUTANG.—The Salem Gazette mentions the arrival at that port of a female ouran outang in a ship from Africa. The animal, which is stated to be very docile and intelligent, had attracted much attention. In the course of the voyage she had greatly amused the sailors by her pranks. On one occa sion, having seen one of the crew employed in painting, she watched her opportunity and ran aloft with the paint pot and brushes, and, determined to display her powers on canvass, she daubed upon one of the sails a series of figures, such as, it may be safely said, were never at tempted by any ht nan artist. She is fond of the un feminine accomplishment of smoking cigars, and she puffs away at the weed greatly to the delight of her Yankee visitors. It is said, that she is even polite enough to hand her cigar to any gentleman near her whose appearance is sufficiently prepossessing to win her favour. She is also something of a housewife, and a disciple of the manual labour school, for she can help herself to coffee, and draw water from the pump as readily as any of her more favoured human sisterhood. FANCY SALE IN AID OF TILE ST. ANN'S SOCIETY. —Yesterday evening a sale of fancy articles gratuitously presented to the officers of the St. Ann's Society by several ladies of distinction, was opened at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. The Queen Dowager, one of the patronesses of the institution, has placed at the disposal of the committee, several of her Majesty's autographs, and so great is the desire to obtain them that a single signature usually fetches from 15s. to 20s. A fancy fair, with the same object, took place last week, at the Surrey Zoological Gardens ; but, in consequence of the very unfavourable state of the weather, the society suffered a considerable loss: Hors BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. --The above society was instituted in 1837, and during this compara tivelyf short period of existence it has been the means o . supplying to the deserving poor 41,933 tickets fo r w Wining bread and coals. Many of the reciien u s . , out this charitable aid, would have wanted , d ring the For severity of the winter, those common nece ssari es. t grand da extending the above objects of the so a cie and evening fete was given jTsterd y, y a , t a the Whit y e Conduit Gardens, and from the immense attraction held out in the shape of bands, concerts, balloon as cent, fire works, &c., we doubt n ot the funds of the institution have been considerably augmented. SOUTHEND. _Notwithstanding the late rain, -this place has been all g aiety and bustle, being well filled with visitors, whom the beauty of the scenery, the healthiness of the site, and the excellence of the accom modation, has att.' acte:l hitherward ; most of th e h ouses o n the pier r.re let, the Grove Terrace is full, and the town well occupied. The convenience of the new church is fully appreciated by the visitors ; and the spirit of im provement continues marching onwards. The extension o f the pier proceeds rapidly ; and the ground in front of the Ship and the llope, and General Strutt's house, has b ee n erected with a neat wood an d i ron fence, e be lieve by the general himself, at an expense of 2501. The steamers afford great accommodation' with the metro polis, and when the pier is completed, we venture to be lieve this town may challenge the attractions of many of its larger rivals. REVIVAL, or TRADE.—We have received the fol lowing from an intelligent correspondent:—Sunderland, 15th August—After a long season of depression, trade is evidently reviving with us. Coals are more plentiful ; in fact, more plentiful than ships, as there are very few left in the harbour, and in consequence freights have advanced, 81. 10s. per keel having been given for Ham burgh.—Durhani Advertiser, AQUATICS. LAMBETH REGATTA.—The L am b e th Watecail% '/ 13 ' ' ' ,.Ane majority of whom have acquired some cfklebfitfTis wagermen, yesterday contended in three heats; with six' 2_ pair of oars, for a purse of sovereigns, givela - by th..4w ) . ladies and gentlemen of St. Mary's. The race Wasivell::_J— contested throughout, and drew a vast number 1'46-404 , At tators who lined the Bishop's-walk, and availed them: `"' , :l selves of every other place that could command a view of the match. George Maynard was the winner. WATERLOO-BRIDGE AND STRAND-LANE REGATTA.— This regatta, for some very good money prizes, annually subscribed by the residents of St. Clements Danes; St. Mary-le-Strand, the Savoy precincts, &c., came off yes terday, and afforded much amusement to the spectators, who were very numerous. It was a double scultiera' contest among the watermen plying at Waterloo-bridge, Arundel-stairs, and Strand-lane, in three heats, With twelve competitors, the distance rowed being from 'tile Temple-gardens, round a boat moored off the Fox-under the-Hill, down the north shore, round the boat off the Temple-gardens, up again to the Fox-under-the-Hill, and finish at Strand-lane. J. Scullthorpc and R. Ridg way were the winners. GREENWICH REGATTA.—The first east-end regatta here, which owes its origin to the increased l atronage the watermen Lave received at this favourite place of surnmer - resort, took place yesterday, and was as attrac tive as could have been anticipated, the holiday folks taking a trip down from London in the evening, to wit ness the two or three last heats. The regatta was under the patronage of Admiral the Hon. Sir R. Stopford and the nobility and gentry in the vicinity, the race being for a new boat, and about 201. divided in fair proportions amongst the other men. The course extended the entire front of the town, the distance being repeated, and five heats afforded a whole day's amusement. Henry Lago was the winner. • CRICKET. SUSSEX V. THE MARYLEBONE CLUB ♦ND GROUND. — This match was commenced yesterday in Box's ground, at Brighton, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. At five o'clock Sussex had lost nine wickets, and had obtained 161 runs. Box had scored sixty from his bat, and was not out. WINDSOR, MONDAY EVENING.—A grand " Revel," in honour of the birth-day of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, got up by the bachelors of Windsor, under the auspices of her Majesty and his Royal High ness Prince Albert, took place this day, in the Bachelors' Acre. Amongst the rural sports, commencing at ten o'clock, which were not concluded till the dusk of the even ing, handsome prizes being given to the successful com petitors, may be.enumerated back-swording, wrestling, foot, hurdle races, gingling matches, climbing soaped poles, eating rolls and treacle, and rural dancing ; con cluding, at nine o'clock, with a splendid display of fire works. A great number of the neighbouring nubility and gentry, with their families, were present to witness the sports, and the day was observed throughout the town as " one universal holiday." THE LATE DR DALTON.—This celebrateal ' Hoe sopher and chemist was the first and only Qua •i s whom the honour of Doctor of Laws wasconferr• s 14 the University of Oxford. He was installed at the of the the British Association for the Advancement- et Science, in 1833, and the enthusiastic reception eihiciee the illustrious individual met with on that cccasion will. be long remembered by every visitor. We hear that an order has been issued from the Admiralty by which a number of - able seamen will be secured to the service, by entering them on board the ordinary guardships, in lieu of the oldest and least qua lified pensioners, who will go on shore on their super annuations. THE INFANT PRINCE AND THE CITIZENS OF YORx. —The town council of York met on Monday, for the purpose of agreeing upon en address of congratulation to her Majesty on the birth of another Prince. Mr. Alderman Hudson, in seconding the address, " heartily hoped that the Prince now given birth to would be a Duke of York. It was not for them, however, to go further than to express a hope on that subject. It must be left to the Prince's royal parents to say whether he should be a Duke of York or of Kent. At the same time, he did trust that our gracious Queen would not forget the ancient city of York.—(Cheers.) York was once the seat of royalty, and now that that great boon had been taken from us, he hoped, nay he could not believe that her Majesty would determine otherwise than that the Prince should be named the Duke of York. That this should be so was the ardent hope of himself, and he felt sure that it was also the anxious desire of the council, and of the citizens at large."—(Cheers.) All the gen tlemen present concurred in expressing their fervent hope that the Royal infant might '" live long to be an ornament in the British nation, and an honour to their city as the Duke of York." The address was adopted by acclamation. DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER, ..... An inquest was held last evening at the workhouse of the West London Union, West-street, Smithfield, before Mr. Joseph Payne, ie Deputy Coroner, on the body of Michael Wright, aged fifty-four, a law writer, who died under the following remarkable circumstances : Dr. Jordan Lynch, medical officer of the above union, said that on Friday afternoon last ho received an order to attend upon the deceased at his lodging, in Star-court, Chancery-lane. He proceeded up to his room on the first floor, but upon opening the door the stench which issued from the apartment was so overpower ing that he was compelled to step back again. tie, how ever entered, and saw the deceased, with his body bent forward and his head upon a pillow on the table. De ceased had his clothes on, but they were ragged, and his flesh being black with dirt, he could hardly distinguish his legs from the cloth of his trousers. Some papers and pieces of furniture were strewed about, and the whole place appeared to witness a mass of filth and squalid wretchedness. Witness endeavoured to raise him into a more erect position, but deceased was quite insen sible, and an old man, who seemed to be his at tendant, said that he (deceased) had rested in that posture for the last three years. Witness told the old man that his neglect of the deceased was shameful, and asked whether deceased was in want of money or food. The man replied that deceased was not in want, and that he could earn money as a scrivener's clerk. Deceased was then utterly unable to swallow, and witness lost no time in having him conveyed to the workhouse. All possible care was taken of him, but he died at three o'clock the next morn ing. From the appearance of the body witness judged that deceased died from disease of the lungs, probably ac celerated by bad diet. He lived entirely upon bread dud milk. Thomas Edwards said :Who was the deceased's landlord. Deceased was a man of singular habits, and•• would never speak to a woman. Witness did not knos he was dangerously ill until Tfiday morning. He was's a law-writer, performing his business at home, and witness believed that he had not left his room for the last three •ears. He bad no bed to lie upon, and In change of linen. Mary Ann Wheatley said that fa three years she had lived in the next room to the de- ceased, and she never saw him during the whole of that . time. He was a most eccentric man. An o I man used to carry his writing backwards and forwarYs. Se veral other witnesses having been examined, the inquiry was adjourned for the evidence of the man who attended upon deceased. A FOX-RUNT IN A POOR-HOUSE.—A few days since, a fine full-grown fox, by some unaccountable means, obtained an entrance into the precincts of the Kilkenny union poor-house. After wandering about for some time in search of a mode of regain ing liberty, he was discovered by one of the paupers, who, with a view-hollo loud enough to wake the dead from their graves, called all the inmates of the in stitution to his assistance. A (lace then commenced, in which, for three long hours, the strange and luck less visitant was hunted by the maimed, the halt, the blind, the infirm, and the able-bodied of all sexes and ages, en masse, out of the house and in the house, up stairs and down stairs, through parlour, kitchen, and hall, flower-beds and potatoe-ridges, till at length poor reynard finding himself met at every turn by numbers of uncouth hunters, surrounded on all hang by stone walls, and, above all, bewildered and overpower ed by the demoniacal yells which rang around him, so unlike the music of the.chace to which he was accus tomed, calmly lay down and submitted ingloriously to be trampled to death by his blood-thirsty pursuers. On the following day the huntsman of the Kilkenny Chib repaired to the poor-house, and indignantly reproached the inmates for their conduct, stating that they had de stroyed the Lyrath fux , a particu lar favourite of Sir J. Power, Bart.—Kilhenny Moderator. NOVEL FISIIING.—On Monday last, while a drove of porpoises were in pursuit of salmon, convenient to a shallow bay formed by the waters of the Shannon, in the vicinity of Tarbert, one of the fugitives, in a moment of bewilderment, having approached too close to the shore, was secured by a countryman, who casually passing at the time, rushed into the water and seized it in his arms. It was truly laughable to behold the grotesque appearance of the fortunate captor, whose breast appeared as if cased in the cuirass of a Lifeguard, from the adhesion of the scales. The fish, on being examined, bore evident marks of the destructive nature of its original pursuer, a deep _ ash being observable at the extremity of the back; which thus rendered it an easy object of prey to its se cond enemy, more destructive than the first. —Kent Examine , . AN OLD APRICOT TREE..—A remarkable instance of the great age to which this tree attains is evident in the garden of J. J. Deighton, Esq., at Harston, where a fine specimen is growing on an east wall, which was ( planted in the year 1714, bearing an abundance of fine flavoured fruit, with a stem three feet in circumference. —Cambridge Chronicle. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—About three months ago Mr. John Wearing, of the Fleece Inn, Kirby Lonse dale, was strolling out with his gun, when he fired at a throstle, whose leg he shot off, the bird escaping other wise uninjured. On Thursday he shot the identical bird which he had previously dismembered.—Westatcrela4 Gazette. THE CROPS, WEST KENT, AUG. 18.—The weai ther has been fortunately favourable fbr the corn, boai cut and us:cut, fur the last three days, and a large qual?4, tity of the latter has been carried. There appears to tie little if any injury suffered by the crops , al thou g h tl farmers apprehended great damage to the corn whic a - had been cut but not carried. Sonic of the barley to'. sprouted, but the change of the weather will, This week, if tine, . hoped, put an end to arty further appreh ‘ e , i 1 i s Ito; secure e t u k r r e t ) t. t h h e e" safety of the crops. entire of the wheat and bean crops as yet uncut. Four mechanics, three of them English an d the other Irish, arrived at Lewiston last Saturday, from Bermuda, in an open boat, after fourteen . days of peril: ,wedlls t ap to poi ß n e te rm d, u l d e a ft in the s r e c at i theot and suffering. Th b e e y in employment, but 0 boat, for want of means to obtain a passage in any other manner. —New York Paper of July 26. Lieutenant Peel, R.N. son of the Right Hon. Baronet, has proceeded to Portsmouth, to go on board the Collingwood, Admiral Sir George?. Seymour's flag• ship, preparatory to sailing in that vessel to the Pacific, where he joins his ship, the Cormorant. Ncs tie the t of r as yed t. ank ) of had the uted ,085 D itteJ I. wer° ith s" with panY , orde r an or t xaite d )f Con Sat o ; &SY( 600 o 0 0 ' state' N