The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. ruom THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.— We took occasion, a few weeks ago, to advert to the first Report of the Commissioners for inquiring into the state of large towns and popu lous districts. We now return to the subject, for the purpose of stating some considerations having reference to the practical adoption of the measures already indicated by the Commissioners as most expedient. The subject naturally divides itself into portions more or less distinct, and of varying importance. Foremost among these, in point of im portance, we find drainage and ventilation, each having direct relation to the chief o bj ec t of the com mission. The evils developed in the course of these two branches of the inquiry are, however, evidently susceptible of very different remedies. The improve ment of the system of drainage now prevalent seems, to a great extent, hopeless, without the vigorous inter ference of the Legislature. It is chiefly under the management of Commissioners appointed under local Acts, and governed by bye-laws 9, n d usages alike destitute of uniformity and of fitness for attaining the lirst object of an efficient system of drainage. It aims almost solely at effecting a mere surface drainage ; thus leaving the sewerage and drainage of houses almost entirely unprovidei for • and confined as these laws are as to the extent of their object, they are so loosely constructed as to give rise to considerable differences of opinion ; and are, moreover, seldom enforced hut under the preisure of great local annoyance from a want of drainage. The efforts made by those who can afford to pay for a convenience so essential to health and comfort as the proper drainage of their houses, are attended with much unnecessary trouble and expense, and the convenience is at length conceded rather as a privi lege than as a common right; while those who stand in greatest need of the accommodation, are effectually deprived of it, though immediately surrounded by every facility for it. In some of our large towns the passage of house refuse, &c. into the drains is entirely prohibited, and it is very generally forbidden to make the drains subservient to the cleansing of the streets. There being no general supervision in reference to the levels, it is not uncommon to have houses so built that they do not admit of effectual drainage, or drains so constructed that their contents can only be partially discharged. None but a legislative remedy can reach evils such as those just enumerated. There are, however, some others which may be cured by a better exercise of the discretion at present vested in the local authorities—such as the defective and unnecessarily expensive methods of construction at present very generally adopted, and the de tails of the arrangements for meeting the expense of improvements. A complete revision of all the Acts now in force affecting the subject, and the formation of a general plan of drainage upon a scien tific basis, with regulations for an equitable imposi tion of the requisite expense, however, seem to present themselves as essential requisites. If the art of i draining towns is but little understood or practised amongst us, that of ventilating our dwellings is scarcely more so. But the drainage is under public management, and comes properly within cognisance of the Legislature, while ventilation is rather matter of arrangement for private individuals. Much may be done in widening streets and passages, and prohibiting the erection of the most notoriously de fective class of houses, but nothing very effectual can be hoped for without the hearty co-operation of the public. It is already sufficiently obvious, that neither the value of pure air nor the facility with which it enay almost everywhere be procured, are sufficiently known. Here the great barrier to improve ment is ignorance; and that is not to be re moved by an Act of Parliament. The poorer classes especially require to be taught to what an extent they suffer from this cause. All classes would be the better for it, and we believe any means by which the leading facts and suggestions embodied in the report we have alluded to could be made gene rally known throughout the kingdom, would do much to prepare the way for such legislative measures as the Commissioners may ultimately think fit to recommend, and at the same time tend strongly to bring about changes for the better in the sana tory condition of the people which no legislative interference, unaided by such knowledge, would be at all likely to effect. How far the Govern ment should interfere to settle the terms of con tracts between private individuals, or to regulate their personal habits in matters not most palpably and directly affecting the public weal, is a problem yet to be solved. Should its solution be required in this case, it would, we conceive, be advisable to begin by narrowing the ground of disuussion as much as pos sible. This might be done, perhaps, most efficiently by, publishing in a more accessible form a condensed view of the evidence already taken and published by the Commissioners, embodying the facts and the sug gestions of practical men most immediately appli cable to those evils which lie beyond the ordinary range of legislative enactments. STANDARD.—There is in the Church a party, we rejoice to believe a small one, who wishing well to the scheme of Tractarian dissent, and lending to the Romanising Dissenters all the aid that they ssfely can, decline: boldly to assume Mr. New man s colours. This may be good worldly policy. Such men are secure from being involved in the fate of the more ingenuous and enterprising Dissen ters, should it prove disastrous ; while, in the event of success, they prepare a claim to share in the triumph ; and all the while they enjoy that praise of moderation to " cowardice and craft so dear." This, however, though a good worldly policy, is not Christian policy. The presumption is, no doubt, always in favour of moderation towards those who act on the defensive, and who maintain the admitted truths, even when they happen to err on the side of excess, because their motive is originally sound and honourable ; but the presumption is against moderation towards the aggressor, whenever there can be the slightest suspi cion of the rightfulness of his aggression. " When thou sawest," &c., says the inspired King— and how does the spirit menace the Laodiceans who "were neither hot nor cold"—in the assertion of divine truth ? It is not for us to mark out the re presentatives of the lukewarm party to which we refer, but few readers can be at a loss to name them. Doctor Hook, of Leeds,-has caused to be published, a letter addressed lay him to a friend in Oxford, which letter, with the replies to it from some Romanising Dissenters,. we copy from the Trac tarian organ that has been favoured with them. Dr. Hook declares that be will not attend to vote against Dr. Symons, because the majority of the members of Convocation are not disposed to set aside that excellent and pious gentleman, in com pliance with the command of Messrs. Newman, Ward, and Company ; and Dr. Hook, however wiiling to be the unattached ally and abettor of the Romanising Dissenters, does not like implicitly to cast in his lot with them—least of all when they, seem to be seriously threatened with a defeat. This is the plain English translation of Doctor Hook's shuffling apology to his Romanising Dissenter friends, and some of his answerers have made good use of its transparent dis ingenuousness and confession of self-seeking. But though Dr. Hook will not vote against Dr. Symons, neither will he attend to support the venerable war den's claim to what uninterrupted usage has rendered his indisputable right, and what therefore cannot be withholden from him without inflicting an insult and an indelible stigma. Here is strange morality— more extraordinary religion ! Here, says Dr. Hook, is a grievous aggression threatened upon one whom I acknowledge to be a most upright, pious, and honourable man ; I Is ill not join in executing the threat, not, ho sever, because I believe an unprovoked aggression upon any man wrong—more wrong upon a man such as the warden of Wadham—but because I Wilk none will tyke part in it, save the most despe rate of the Romanising Dissenters; and it is not my present convenience to identify myself with them. Would such morality as this be endured in any of the ordinary affairs of life? The proceeding at o:tford, it is to be remembered, is not an election, not a 'contest between A and B, where every one is et liberty to weigh the merits of the respective candi dates, and to vote for one, the other, or neither, ac cordingly as his judgment shall direct. It is a punish ment ,threatened for an alleged offence ; an aggres sion, menaced for the gratification of revenge; or a political manoeuvre, contrived for the purpose of throasing the government of the University into the handssof a particular party. Now we care not which of thethree hypotheses be adopted; we assert that no really honest man can escape from the necessity of taking a part, as far as his opportunity and convenience permit. If a punishment for trans gression is proposed, an honest man will vote to punish the transgressor, or more cheerfully to pro tect the innocent. If revenge only is the aggressor's object, every honest man will feel it a sacred duty to interpose between the aggressor and his vengeance. If the manoeuvre be purely a stroke of Uni versity politics to obtain ascendancy for one party at Oxford, every honest man attached to the University and to the Church, must feel that it is his duty to take one side or the other. Less learned men than the members of Convocation remember the infamy justly attached by the Athe nian legislator to neutrality upon such a vital question as is agitated. But Dr. Hook does not disguise his feeling that not only Dr. Symons but the other five j u d ges of Dr. Pusey's sermon, as well as the admirable Vice-Chancellor now in office, ought to be insulted and stigmatised • nor conceal the fact that it is on his an ticipation of defeat, and hi s care for the position of himself, Doctor Hook, that prevent his join ing heart and hand with Messrs. Newman, Wrrd, and Company, in the attempt to affix the insult and the stigma. Honest and generous man! His pre text is the condemnation of Dr. Pusey's !sermon. And why the condemnation of Dr. Pusey's sermon ? pot deny that substanti a l justice ~~ ;,' ' was done in the condemnation of a discourse which laboured without disguise to establish, against the Protestant Church of England and all the other Pro testant reformed churches, that doctrine which is the distinctive doctrine of Popery—the foundation of the power of Rome, and the great source of its errors and its crimes. Dr. Hook will not say that such a sermon, preached in a Protestant Univer sity, might not be condemned, and he does not dare to deny the substantial justice of the condemnation or its necessity. No, imitating the example of some of the less honest Whigs, in the parallel case of the repeal conspirators, he evades the question of substantial justice, rest ing his complaint upon the pretext that the party had no fair trial. What does Doctor Hook mean by a fair trial ? The tribunal was statutably appointed by the Vice-Chancellor, under the obligation of his official oath, and it comprised gentlemen supposed to be favourable to Doctor Pusey's opinions. No other form of tribunal was available without violating the statutes. No better men it was admitted, before they gave their judgment, by the Tractarians them selves, could be found in the University than the six gentlemen selected. The corpus delicti, the Romanising sermon, was placed in the hands of this tribunal. Dr. Pusey was made acquainted with the construction put upon its Romanising passages, Ind invited to explain these passages, if he could, in a manner to reconcile them to the Articles of the Church of England, to which he had more than once sworn. Neither then, however, nor since, has he ever attempted any such explanation. Was not this a fair trial ? If not, no man against whom a plea of guilty has been recorded was fairly tried. What is a plea of guilty ? Is it an acknowledgment that the party ought to be hanged, transported, or im prisoned, as the case may be ? No ; it is merely a confession that the accused has perpetrated the act alleged against him, under the circumstances and with the understanding imputed in the indictment ; but after the record of his plea of guilty, is he allowed to defend, as innocent, the act condemned by law ? No; the law will not allow such an insult to its authority. This, however, is precisely the case of Dr. Pusey's sermon. His delivery of the sermon, and de clining to explain away the Romanising tendency of its objectionable passages, was a plea of guilty. Any defence after that, would be merely an apology for the avowed Popish doctrines of the dis course, and such on apology, the Vice-Chancellor and his assessors were by their oath and by the statues forbidden to hear. This is state of things which Dr. Hook represents as constituting a denial of justice. Dr. Hook, however, will, we trust, find few followers, as to-morrow's numbers will show. REMOVAL OF COMMERCIAL RE STRICTIONS. Although the commercial negotiations undertaken by the British Government with foreign Powers within the last few years did not meet with that ac ceptance and success to which they were justly en titled as the best means of improving the advantages of traffic and of peace, yet we observe with pleasure that a considerable impulse has been given to the re moval of commercial restrictions abroad, and that the principles of a more liberal commercial policy are certainly gaining ground in every country in Europe, except in France. These subjects are still so imper fectly understood by a large proportion of the men who are invested with the government of States, that their reasoning upon them is an incongruous mixture of political suspicions and commercial ignorance. They are disposed to apply the old maxims of State policy, which consisted in labouring by all means to weaken their rivals, forgetting that one of the greatest dangers to which a productive nation can be exposed is to impoverish its customers ; and they still attach such mysterious notions of prosperity to high prices, that they do not disdain the aid of artificial means to support them, even at the expense of their. own subjects. The true reasons by which the vices of this system have been exposed and demonstrated are not unfrequently viewed by politicians of this class with excessive distrust ; but meanwhile other consi derations, less sound in principle, but more effectual in their result, insensibly urge them in the same course, and the consequence is a general, though gradual, movement in the right direction. If the ef fects of this jealous policy had not been extremely detrimental to the best interests of the world, there was something unspeakably ludicrous in the lan guage of the different States which evaded or rejected the offers of England, for no better reason than that they were British effers. " Timeo Danaos et done ferentes" was the universal cry ; and our own commercial greatness appeared to have taught the world no wiser lesson than that it was unsafe to associate the interests of other countries with our own, and to adopt those principles by which we hold that the common pros perity of nations may be most securely promoted. The pedantic prohibitionists of Germany, the slave traders of Brazil, and the jobbers in Portugal, had but one and the same theme; and by their deliberate suggestions or ignorant terrors their respective Go vern:nents were led to reject an alliance with the best market and the largest capitalists in the world. Such folly must be short-lived; and although we do not expect them to have the candour or good sense to acknowledge the extent of theirerror, yet we perceive with satisfaction that in many quarters serious prac tical attempts are now made to counteract its progress. It must be admitted that the principles of commercial reform, however just they may be in themselves, are shown to great disadvantage when they are urged upon the attention of a Government by a foreign Power. In negotiations of this kind each State takes an exaggerated view of the concessions required of it by the other ; each seems to forget that external con cessions are in reality at the same time internal bene fits to the domestic consumer; and the value of a commercial treaty is estimated, not by a general view of its effects, but by a sort of balance of profit and loss, which is derived from the most superficial ob servation of its immediate consequences. It is the evident duty of a Minister engaged in a transaction of this nature to promote and defend the interests of his own country before all others ; but in the dis charge of this duty he is apt to lose the credit which he may in reality deserve for equitable and prudent intentions towards the other contracting party, and, as we have repeatedly seen, the most allur ing and advantageous proposals have been tainted and made repulsive by a foreign origin. For these reasons our commercial negotiations have for the most part failed, and we must he content to wait until the progress of public opinion in various countries, the effects of competition, and the claims of internal interests bring about those changes which a more enlightened and energetic spirit on their part might have anticipated. This is the operation which we confidently believe to be going on ; and the present year has exhibited numerous signs of the command ing interest which these commercial questions have everywhere assumed. The Austrian Government has promulgated a new tariff, which shows that it is dis posed to follow with characteristic steadiness the policy begun by the treaty and the tariff of 1838. In Hungary the Diet has been agitated by vigorous debates on the subject of free trade ; and amongst the Hungarians, who are eager to assume that rank in Europe to which they are justly entitled by their population, their productions, and their free institu tions, there are few who deny that the improvement of their commercial system is the first step to the ac complishment of their national desires. Holland, la bouring with financial difficulties which would over whelm a people of less prudence and integrity, steers her course in the same direction, and the mo nopolies founded by the late King for selfish pur poses are tottering to their fall. Naples seems at length to recollect that it rests with herself to carry into execution the most essential parts of the treaty which was so inexplicably and disgracefully frus trated by Lord Palmerston. In the other States of Italy the idea of commercial union is gaining ground ; and in the north of Europe Belgium has concluded a treaty for six years with the German Commercial League. In all these States there is the same manifest tendency to remove restrictions and to extend trade ; and even though the immediate purpose r of some of these arrangements may be governed by no friendly spirit to the commerce of this country, yet we view them with no dissatisfaction, from the full conviction that the commercial relations of the world must be based upon general principles, and cannot be narrowed by that worst form of restrictions which consists in national preferences and exclusive privi leges. We have already remarked that the spirit by which the German Zollverein was called into existence is at work in various parts of Europe. It tends to assimilate the several members of the Austrian empire ; it will probably combine the Italian States , it has even led France to make an abortive effort to join her commercial interests to those of Belgium. But the failure of that attempt (without reference to the important political considerations it suggested at the time) shows in a striking light the conditions on which alone such unions are practicable or can he profitable. They indispensably require a low standard of custom house duties, and a good system of internal communication. In these respects France had nothing to offer to Belgium : she would have placed her within the circle of her own prohibi tive duties, but those duties would have cut Belgium off from her maritime and trans-Rhenane neighbours. She would have opened to her the market of France; but France has as yet done less than any country in Europe towards the completion of that system of rail roads which she, more than any other country, re quires. The commercial system, the ports, and the railways of Belgium already assimilated her to her German neighbours ; and although the French are irritated with the Government of Brussels for having, as they term it. " turned its back on the revolution of July," they have nothing to blame for it but their infatuated adherence to maxims of commercial policy which every other State is gra dually relaxing, and . their very slow prosecution of , . s those improvements which have already opened most important lines of communication in Europe, and will eventually contribute, as much as anything else, to the general interchange of the productions of every part of the world.—Times. ASCENT OF MONT BLANC. It has been already stated that two French gentle men, Messrs. Bravais and Martins, had made an ascent to Mont Blanc. They have now made an offi cial statement to the Minister of Vublic Instruction. It is as follows: " We left Paris on the 16th of July, and arrived at Geneva on the 19th. Our first project was to choose for our meteorological station Mont Blanc itself, that immense mountain upon which, since the illustrious De Saus'ure, no traveller has had the op portunity, with sufficient means, of studying physical nature in those high regions. The base of the moun tain, too, offered a vast field of research in the numerous glaciers with which it is surrounded, and with which are connected a multitude of phe nomena of a curious character. Having left Geneva on the 26th we arrived on the 28th at Chamouni, situated at the northern foot of the mountain which we proposed to ascend. Our instruments, our provi sions, and our clothing, required no less than thirty-five men to carry them to the summit. The load which each man had to carry was about 12 kilogrames (about 271b5.) and it would have been imprudent to augment it, for the ascent of Mont Blanc requires the use of all the physical powers; sometimes they are insufficient, and it is by no means rare to see the most robust person stopped in his progress before reaching the summit. We had with us three guides, chosen among the most capable of the valley—Jean Mugnier, Mi chael Coutel, and Gideon Balinat. They were to indi cate the route, and clear us a passage through the snow. We left on the 28th of July at half-past 7 o'clock in the morning. The weather was favourable in ap pearance, the sky clear, the air calm ; but there was a south-west wind in the upper regions. At 35 minutes pest 3 o'clock we reached the rock of the Grand Mulets, where we were to pass the night. It was a beautiful one, but the clouds, which were passing with extreme rapidity from the south-west to the north-east, caused us strong apprehensions for the following day, which were soon realised. On the 29th, at ten o'clock, we had reached the Grand Plateau, which forms the northern base of the pyramid of Mont Blanc. This is a vast plain of snow in a slight declivity from south-west to north-east. It occupies the centre of a vast circus, which forms on all sides, to the north excepted, the high neighbour ing summits of Mont Blanc, and it is dominated by them to an angular height of from 20 to 30 degrees. "Arrived on this spot, we found ourselves enve loped in mist ; the thermometer marked two degrees (35 6 deg. Fahrenheit). A heavy fall of snow took place; a difference of level of 880 metres still sepa rated us from the summit ; to attain it was evidently impossible in the state of the atmosphere at that time. We therefore resolved to fit up our tent on the Grand Plateau itself; and to wait until the weather improved, so as to allow us to attempt the ascent. Our com panions were sent to Chamouny, and we only retained our three guides and two of our porters, who offered spontaneously to partake the chances of our enterprise. " The bad weather continued the whole night, the wind was extremely violent, and the snow fell with. out interruption. At daylight (a quarter to four) the centigrade thermometer marked 13 deg. (55 . 4 deg. Fahrenheit). The weather was such that we could make no observation, with the exception of some few experiments with the barometer and thermometer. The force of the wind was such that we were alarmed for the safety of our tent, which we sometimes held with our hands, and which we were obliged to strengthen by every means in our power. We therefore re descended to Chamouny, leaving in order under the tent the articles brought with us. During the descent the weather improved. We saw the snow which fell still upon the flank of the mountains, to the inferior limit of 1,500 metres (5,000 feet), and we knew that at Chamouny the temperature of the air had fallen to 5 degrees ! (41 deg. Fahrenheit). On the 7th of August we attempted a new ascent. The cir cumstances appeared more favourable than the first time, and the barometer was higher. We left at 25 minutes after seven with our guides or porters, and we reached the Grand Plateau at half-past six in the evening. We found it in good condition, but shortly afterwards the hail began to fall, and the storm threatened around us. The lightning was very fre quent, but the claps of thunder were weak; though the interval between the lightning and the thunder proved to us that we were in the centre of the storm, and that objects were struck at less than a kilometer distant. The temperature of the air was lower than en the night from the Ist to the 24 of August, and only six degrees towards 4 o'clock in the morning. The storm which had lasted the whole of the night still existed in the morning. The wind blew with greater force. The snow began to fall in great quantity. During this time the rain inundated the valley of Chamouny, and several persons had become very uneasy on our account. In short, at three o'clock in the afternoon our guides declared that we should be exposed to great danger if we did not regain the plain, in consequence of the avalanches and the absolute impossibility of descending the next morning, if the snow should fall as abundantly as during the preceding night. Our chief guide, Jean Nlugnier, asserted that he could find our track in spite of the mist and the wind, which had completely effaced our route of the previous evening, and we ceded to his solicitations and descended rapidly. At half-past four o'clock the route of the Grand Mulets, which we had to touch, rose suddenly to our view, and we had to admire that instinctive knowledge of the track of which our guide had just given us a proof. " Under all the circumstances we thought it better to make a third attempt. We thought that the month of August could not pass without affording us the op portunity of realising our hopes. IVith this expecta tion we left Chamouny on the 10th of August, on our route to Cormayeur by the Great St. Bernard, and returned to the point of departure by the moun tains of Seigne and Bonhomme. During this excur sion abundant falls of snow had taken place on the mountains on the nights of the 14th, 15th, and 16th of August. On the 19th we were on our return ; the weather had improved, but it got worse again, and we employed the 25th and the 26th of August in visit ing Sallanches, St. Gervais, and the mountain of La Jorelas, which leads to the latter town. On the 27th the weather had decidedly changed ; the ba rometer had ascended considerably, and the wind in the upper regions was at the north-west. There were flying clouds. Our departure took place on the 28th, at midnight. At daybreak we were at the entrance of the glacier of the Bossons, accompanied by seven persons of the valley. Although the snow was soft and difficult, at eleven o'clock we had reached the . Grand Plateau, and at mid-day we commenced a regular series of meteorological observations, day and night, till the Ist of September. On the 29th of August, during a serene night, we set out with the intention of reaching the highest summit of Mon Blanc, which we reached at — forty-five minutes past one. That is the most dangerous point of the ascent, and many travellers, exhausted with fatigue, or frightened with the impetuous wind, have given up the task. To these obstacles may be added the phy siological defects arising from the passage of the dense air of the valleys to the rarer air of the mountain; these are somnolency, diffi culty of respiration, and nausea. Although the cold was at 7 degrees (44.6 deg. Fahrenheit), and there was a fierce wind from the north north-west, we were so fortunate as only to ex perience these effects in a slight degree. We had hoped to remain at the summit till ten o'clock at night, but the sudden fall of temperature, and the violence of the wind, made the cold almost intolerable; and we afterwards learned that Mont Blanc could not be perceived from Lyons during the whole of the 29th, in consequence of the mist which covered the horizon. These considerations determined us to descend at ten minutes before six o'clock in the evening; and at a quarter to seven we had all rallied again under our tent in the Grand Plateau. 'We did not abandon this latter station till the Ist of September at midnght, after a stay of twenty-four hours. At half-past four o'clock we definitively left Mont Blanc, without any unpleasant accident having arisen during the various departures and returns occasioned by our different attempts. 'We left Chamouny on the 6th of September, and returned to Geneva on the Bth. We are about to quit the latter city, and to pass twelve days at Faulhorn, to make in that new station a few observations of a snore delicate nature, and which our inconvenient position at Mont . . Blanc prevented us from attempting there." The report concludes by stating the principal re• sults of the ascent, which were regular meteorologica observations at Chamouny during many days, tend ing to make known the law of the diurnal variation of the barometer in that narrow valley. It appears that the average temperature at the Grand Plateau was from 4 deg. to 5 deg. (39.2 and 41 deg. Fahrenheit) ; from ten o'clock in the morning till four in the after noon the barometer was stationary. It rose from four to ten in the afternoon, and fell again from ten at night till four in the morning. SOUTH WALES TURNPIKE! ROAD COMMISSION —The Commissioners, consisting of the Rietht Hon. F. Frankland Lewis (chairman) and G. F. Richards, Esq., togeth(--r with A. E. Somerset. Eiq , the Se cretary to the Commission, hell their sittings at the Council Chamber of Swansea Town•hall, on Saturday and Monday last, for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of debts owing by the Swansea and Wvchtree Turnpike Trusts, to compere them with the books of the Trust, and to determine who were the parties actua►ly entitled to the money. It appeared that the amount of debts owing by the Swansea Trust was 11,500/., and by th. Wyehtree Trust, 3,057/. The Commissioners ex pressed their satisfaction at the manner in which the ac counts of both Trusts had been kept, and their approval of the general management of the business.— Cambrian. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A young man, named Joseph Charles Paton, was brought before Sir John Brie by James Roots (City policeman 577), who apprehended him on Sunday morning as he was stepping into one of the carriages on the Blackwall Railway with two young women for what is called a spree. Mr. Woolf, from Mr. Flower's offices, attended for the prisoner. John Taylor, warehouseman to Mr. Bevington, of No. 67, King 1 Villiara-street, leather-seller, stated that the prisoner, who was in the habit of calling at the warehouse to order goods for his employer, Mr. Sharman, of No. 37, Gracechurch-street, came at the end of September last and ordered various articles, and amongst them ten pairs of morocco legs for hoots. Witness entered all the goods in a book which the prisoner always brought with him when he called to do business. A boy accompanied the prisoner, and took away all the articles except the Morocco boot legs, which the prisoner himself took away. Witness debited Mr. Sharman with the whole, to the amount of 201. 17s. 101. The value of the morocco leather was 31. 15s. Witness never sold the prisoner goods on his own account. Sir J. PIRIE said he recollected having seen the prisoner at the bar befure fur a very discreditable transaction. Mr. Goodman (the chief clerk) stated to the Alder man that the prisoner had been charged, about a month ago, with having given a young woman who was pregnant by him a violent blow with a stick in the eye. Mr. Frederick Sharman, bootmaker, of Grace church-street, stated that the prisoner was a clicker in his service for about four months, and left him on the 21st of September, in pursuance of a notice given by witness. Witness dealt with Mr. Bevington for boot fronts and other articles, and it was his custom to send a book by the person employed to purchase goods there, in which they were to be entered, and which was then brought home to the shop to be checked. It was impossible that the particular de scription of goods (the morocco legs) could have been brought home without witness's knowledge. The prisoner had unlimited authority from him to purchase goods, and the morocco legs were obtained without witness's knowledge or authority. Richard Barton, an errand-boy in the service of Mr. Sharman, stated that on Saturday three weeks he went with the prisoner to Mr. Bevington's shop, v and by his direction brought away to Mr. Sharman 's house materials fore boots and shoes, and pieces of leather, but did not bring away any morocco leg fronts or backs. 'Witness delivered all that he had brought away to his master's shopman. Edward Askew, servant of Mr. Sharman, stated that it was his duty to check the goods purchased for the house. The goods described in the book as hav ing been purchased at Mr. Bevington's warehouse were all received, with the exception of the morocco legs. - - - A boot-closer proved that last week the prisoner employed him to close a pair of red morocco boots for him. The prisoner called for the boots when they were finished, paid for them, and took them away. The prisoner was remanded. It was stated to Sir John Pirie that the prisoner had occasioned the most poignant distress in two very decent families, by marrying two young women within a very short period. Sir JOHN having been inf omed that the two wives were present, but that one of them was in such a con dition as not to be able to give evidence, directed that all the witnesses should be in attendance this day. Two gipsy horse-dealers, named Chileoch and Weston, and a young Welshman, named Evan Jones, were brought before Mr. Alderman Hooper, charged under the following circumstances : A policeman stated that as he was passing along /litigate he saw the three prisoners quarrelling over a oony, which one of them charged the other two with having stolen. 'Witness interposed to prevent any breach of the -peace, and then retired, but upon re turning soon afterwards, he found them at it again, and then he took them all to the station- house, where the Welshman charged the gipsies with having done him out of a pony, and about half done him out of another. Alderman Hoopem immediately determined, after having asked a few questions, to take the evidence of the Welshman as to the alleged robbery. From the story of Evan Jones, it appeared that he was a Welsh drover, and had been employed by his master to sell two ponies. He accordingly drove the ponies into Essex, where he met Chilcock, whom he took for a respectable body, and sold him one of the ponies for 31. 17s. 6d. receiving 21. in hand, and the promise of 11. 17s. 6d. next day. Next day came, and the drover had his master's second pony for sale, and Chilcock took a fancy to that animal too, and agreed to pay 41. 17s. 6d. for it. The offer was a very agreeable one, as the drover considered it to be doing business in earnest, without trouble or humbug, and as the 1/. 17s. 6d. due from the other transaction was to be paid at the same time, it was accepted with as little hesitation as it was proposed. The two ponies having been thus disposed of, the drover waited for the cash, while the purchaser went to put up the ponies, accompanied by Weston, who seemed to take a friendly interest in the bargain on account of both. Some time elapsed, during which a great variety of surmises were made by the drover as to the cause of the delay. At last it occurred to him, to use his own language, that " it was a regular do," and, upon making particular inquiry, he found that he was en tirely " done" out of one, and nearly " half-done " out of the other pony, and that the conspirators had wholly disappeared from that part of the country. In this dilemma, and as his master determined to make him responsible for the amount, the drover had no alternative but to visit the most convenient mart, and up to London he came in quest of Chilcock and the ponies. He was particularly lucky in making the journey, for upon walking into Aldgate he saw the pony which had been "entirely lost" trotted up and down before a bidder, and Chilcock and Weston pointing out the animal's perfections. He instantly took hold of his property and claimed it, and the two confederates, who thought that a poor drover would be nothing in their hands, violently resented his in terference with the sale, and it was durin; the scuffle that the policeman interfered. Alderman Hoorsa (to the gipsies)—Well, my honest fellows, why don t you pay this man for the ponies? Chilcock—Why, you see, your Lord—. Weston—Please your Lordship, he's my brother, and he has got a hesitation in his speech. I'll answer for him. Alderman HoorEs—Then the best way to answer it is to pay the cash. my Lord, if I ge t hl. The el ; pso. nd6yrdo.lvue seized.pr—o t drover—l'll the b satisfied, Alderman loopia—Prisoners, wh ere i s t h e fi rs t ; otherll put pony.o n p with the lo ss o f th e I pony ? Weston--I assure you, my L or d, it cu t away soon after my brother bought it. H e i n t en d e d to pay the 1/. 17s. 61 upon the sale of the other pony, which he was just going to get well oft' our hands, when he came up and spoiled us. His money would have been all right. Alderman HOOPER—You must send to the livery stable for the pony he found with you, and you must pay the 1/. 17s. 6d., or you shall be immediately in dicted for a conspiracy to defraud this poor fellow. Chilcock—l am willing to give up the pony I have in my possession, but I have no money, and the other pony has wandered away, the Lord knows where. --- Alderman HooPEß—:Then you shall certainly be prosecuted for conspiring to rob this poor IVelshman. The tone in, which this threat was uttered had an instantaneous effect upon an old gipsy who was standing aloof, and who, without uttering a word, threw down the IL 17s. 61, to the great delight of the drover and his master, who most gratefully acknow ledged the kind and judicious interference of the Al derman. CLERKEIV WELL. Mr. Richard James Chapman, a respectable look ing. middle aged man, residing at No. 7, Wellington square, an actor at Drury-lane Theatre, appeared before the magistrate to answer charges of assault preferred against him by Emma, his wife. The complainant was herself charged here this morning with being drunk and disorderly. Her hus band appeared to sustain the charge. Mrs. Chapman denied the offence, and, crying bitterly, complained of the cruel treatment practised towards her by the defendant. The magistrate then told the parties to appear before him at three o'clock, if they had not previously arranged the matter amicably. He dis charged Mrs. Chapman. Mrs. Chapman deposed, that in consequence of her husband's ill-treatment, she was obliged to run out of the house, 7, Wellington-square, between two and three o'clock on Sunday morning. She was running along the square when the defendant overtook and struck her a violent blow between the eyes, which felled her to the ground. A police constable came up at the moment. The defendant said she had fallen from intoxication, and she was taken to the station house. Mr. GREENWOOD—What made you leave the house at such an hour? Mrs. Chapman—Because he threa tened to strangle me. lam every moment in fear of my life. He nas often threatened to murder me. Last week he said he would shoot me with an air-gun, so that nobody might know anything about it. Mr. GREENWOOD — Has he got an air-gun ? Mrs. Chapman—l can't tell, but my life is miserable. Mr. GREENWOOD remanded the case to Thursday next, but ordered the defendant to be bound over to appear here on that day. Mrs. Chapman then left the court, accompanied by her mother. The case was brought before the bench at its last sitting, but the defendant did not appear upon that or the present occasion. The magistrates thought there was not sufficient corroborative t2stimony of the state ment of the complainant, and at the request of her father. they adjourned the further hearing until to day, the Magistrate observing that owing t , ) the un avoidaMe difficulty of obtaining corroborative testi mony in such casts, the new law was, to a certain extent, completely inoperative. The complainant deposed that she was a single woman, and that she was delivered of a male illegiti mate child on the 13th of April, and that John Down was the father of that child. In addition to this tes timony a young woman named Miller proved that there had been some familiarity between the com plainant and the person who was alleged to be the father of her child. Sir C. PARNABY inquired whether there was any further corroborative testimony? The father of the young woman stated that he had written to defendant since the last hearing, and had received a letter from him in answer, in which he expressed his willing ness to come to some arrangement without allowing the matter to be disposed of by the magistrates. The Bescrt expressed their opinion that this admis sion of the defendant, coupled with the other facts, established his :liability, and they should feel them selves justified in making an order upon him to sup port the child. The father, with some warmth, said he thought it was a cruel thing that parties should be put to so much trouble and inconvenience to establish the liability of a party committing an offence of this de scription. If it had been in his power to support the child, he would much rather have done so than have incurred the expense and trouble to which he had been subjected. The BENCH said that it might be difficult to obtain the necessary evidence, but the magistrates had nothing to do with that matter. They must carry out the law as it stood, and they had no power to act unless sufficient confirmatory evidence was laid before them to support the testimony of the mother of the child. The BENCH then made an order upon the de fendant to pay two shillings per week, and the neces sary process was directed to be issued to enforce the payment of that sum, and also the amount of arrears and expenses. SCOTCH BANKS. EDINBURGH COUNTY MEETING. At a meeting of the freeholders, heritors, and commissioners of supply, held at Edinburgh last week, Sir JAMES G. CRAIG said, that, at the reqm-st of several gentlemen eonnecr• d with t , e county. he begged to bring h .tore the me. ting a matter of very great imp :rtance. He had every reason to believe that Sir R. Peel had the intention to bring in a mea sure next seision regarding the banking system of Scotland. The rumour of this intention had excited great apprehension in the minds of those who take an interest in the subject. The nation was wedded to the present system, believing it to be the best in any country, and they naturally were exceedingly jealous of any interference with it. He reminded the meeting of the attempt which was made in 1825 to alter the system ; and when Committees of both Housr.s of Parliament unanimously reported that it should not be interfered with. If then there was no ground for interfering with the system in 1825, there was less ground now ; and, therefore, he begged to propose the following resolutions :- 1. That the system of banking which has been car ried on in Scotland since 1695, an I, with the addition of one pound notes, since 1704, has met with the most cor dial approbation of every class of the community, and particularly of all those engaged in mercantile and agri cultural pursuits. 2. That so far f.om any change being called for, the opinion throughout the entire country is, that no reasoa whatever has been assigned for interf er i ng w ith w h a t h as worked so well and so beneficially for all classes, who unite in deprecating .tny alteration in the existing system. 3. That constituted as the Scottish banks are at pre sent, the safety of the currency may be considered be yond question. Independent of the reFponsibility of the individual parties, the banks now in operation have paid up capital of twelve millions and a circulation of no!es little exceeding two millions eight hundred thousand pounds. 4. That although the Scottish banks make all their payments in their own notes, and gold is scarcely known in the circulation, the habits of the country, and the peculiar mode of operating on cash accounts, have re stricted the entire circulation to the small amount just stated ; which is found sufficient, with occasional varia tions to a very moderate extent, to meet the wants of all classes, whether engaged in trade or agriculture; and the improved mode of carrying on monied transactions has tended to diminish the currency, notwithstanding an in crease in the number of banks, as well as a great in crease both of mercantile and agricultural capital. 5. That the circulation of bank notes in Scotland is much less, both in proportion to the population and to the general business of the country than that of Eng land, although England has no Rotes under five pounds. 6. That the circulation of the Scottish hanks has no direct dependence, or at least depends in a very trifling degree, upon the state of the foreign exchanges, but varies, as is shown in the regular returns made to Go vernment, with the demands of trade, or with the regular recurrence of terms and great cattle markets. 7. That the change from one pound notes to gold would be attended with many inconveniences in a country situated as are many important dis'ricts of Scot land, not only from deficient weight and counterfeits, but from the increased risks of transmission, rendering it vexatious to the people, accustomed as they have been to a currency which for so many generations has ac quired their entire confidence. 8. That a diminution of so important a portion of the circulation of bank notes= in Scotland as those below five pounds, extending to nearly three fifths of the whole, would militate in an essential degree against the general accommodation, both by the principal banks and their branches by the means of cash credits on proper security, to almost all persons beginning the world, whether as merchants or farmers. That no class of the community has derived more beneficial aid from this system than the landlords and farmers of Scotland—the improve ments of the soil during the last century. and the sin mense improvements now in progress, having been in a great degree produced by the pecuniary aid afforded by these credits, and any change which shall deprive the banks of the power to grunt them will be highly injurious to agriculture from one end of Scotland to the other. 9. That fur these reasons, and considering that the system of Scottish banking has stood the test of the rebellions of 1715 and 1745, the crisis of the French Revolution. the panic of 1825, the great failures of 1837. and the critical period of 1839.40, and passed through all not only unscathed, but standing higher than ever in general estimation, it would be not only impolitic, but would be highly injurious to the best interest of the country, to interfere with the present cnrrency." He did not propose that these resolutions should be adopted immediately. On the contrary, he thought it of great importance that the subject should be de liberately considered, and with this view he begged to move, that the resolutions be remitted to a Com mittee, who should be requested to report thereon to the next meeting of the county, on Tuesday, the 19th November. Some might be disposed to say, that this was not the proper time to bring forward this subject. He begged to differ with those who held this view. It was a matter of such importance, that it was better to stop the measure before it was brought forward— if there was any reasonable ground for stopping it— rather than.object to it after it was brought forward ; and as be had reason to believe that some such mea sure was in contemplation, he thought it but just to the Minister himself, that he should know the opinion of the public before he had committed himself on the subject.—(Hear, hear.) The Earl of ROSEBERT expressed his concurrence in the proposal to remit the subject to a Committee; and the motion of the Hon. Baronet was unanimously adopted. Sir JOHN HOPE then read to the meeting an extract from the minutes of a meeting of the county Gf Had dington, held on the 17th September, on the subject of the currency, recommending the county to direct the attention of their representative to that subj ec t, and request him to communicate w ith the other re presentatives of Scotland, and in conjunction with them to give the most determined resistance to every measure which tended, in a material degree, to change the system of banking and currency in this country. ABERDEEN COUNTY MEETING. On Tuesday, the Michaelmas meeting of the Land holders, Commissioners of Supply, &c., - of this county was held in the Conrt-house, Mr. Grant of Tilly four, Convener of the County in the chair. After some routine business, a communication was read from the Chamber of Commerce, Glasgow, re lating to the Bills anticipated to be brought before Parliament, on the subject of the Scotch banks ; to getlr.r with the resolutions adopted by the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, condemnatory of any inter ference with the present system. Similar resolutions adopted at a meeting of the Commissioners of Supply of the County of Haddington, were also read. Mr. GORDON, of Craig, said, from the important nature of this question, it would not be expected that this meeting could come to any resolution at present ; more particularly, as they were yet in the dark as to whether or not any change whatever in the Scotch system of banking would be proposed in Parliament. He would, therefore, move that these communications lie on the table. Sir MICHAEL BRUCE seconded the motion. Mr. GORDON, of Cairfibulg said, although no dis tinct announcement had yet fallen from Government, yet, from various circumstances that had taken place, it was extremely likely that some change as to the, one-pound notes was contemplated. If this were the case, so important would it be to the country, that every exertion ought to be made to oppose the intro duction of any substitute in their place. He was not, however, at present prepared to move any resolution on the subject. The CHAIRMAN said there were two ways open to the meeting—either to adopt Mr. Gordon of Craig's motion, or to appoint a committee to consider the sub ject, and report to a future meeting. He would leave it entirely for the meeting to decide as to the better mode of the two, but he was rather in favour of a committee. After some conversation, Sir M. Baucil said it appeared to him that to attempt any change in the currency would have the effect of rousing the whole of Scotland against it ; but, unless they were possessed of more proof of the intentions of Government to interfere, he did not think it proper to go so far as the county of Hadding ton had done. He hoped it would meet the wishes of all present, if to Mr. Gordon of Craig's motion a clause were added, deprecating any fundamental change in the Scotch banking system This was unanimously approved of ; and it was further understood that the Convener should call an early meeting, if any measure be proposed by Govern ment on this important subject. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD. OCT. s.—Michaelmas term commences on Thursday next; the Latin sermon will be preached at St. Mary's church on the preceding day. Tuesday next is mentioned as the day for the nomination of Vice• Cha ncellor ; on this occasion the members of convocation usually meet at twelve o'clock. The meetings of the respective Colleges and Halls will be as follows : October 12.—Christ Church, Exeter, Balliol, Wad ham, Magdalene, Worcester Colleges, and St. Alban Hall. October 17.—St. Edmund Hall. October 18.—St. Mary Hall. October 19.—University, Queen's, Brasenosa, Merton, Lincoln, New, Trinity, St. John's, Jesus, Pembroke, Oriel, Corpus Christi Colleges, and Magdalen and New Inn Halls. October 26.—A1l Saints' College. The f sllowing members of this University have been ordained by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol : Deacons —J. B. Riddle, of Wadhaarn College ; R. G. Swayne, of Wadham College ; G. C. Tooth, of Worces ter College. Priests—Rev. T. Beale, of Brasenose College ; Rev. J. L. Longrnire, of Lincoln College ; Rev. J. Clements, of Oriel College ; Rev. A. Seaton, of Queen's College ; Rev. G. C. Swayne, of Corpus Christi College ; Rer. H. M. Stowers, of St. Edmund Hall. By the Lord Bishop or Llandaff : Deacon—F. Woodward, of Brasenose College. _ _ Priest—W. H. Twvning, of Jesus College. The Rev. F. 0. Morris, of Worcester College, has been presented by the Archbishop of York to the Vi car sge of Nafferton, Yorkshire—value, 1391. per annum. The Earl of Albemarle has presented the Rev. A. F. Hart to the Vicarage of Arundel, Sussex—value, 1991. per annum. The Queen has nominated the Rev. S. Pagan to the new District Church of Leverbridge, Bolton-le-Moors. The Lord Bishop of Ely has presented the Rev. H. Sewell to the Rectory of Burgate, Suffolk—value, 560 L per annum. The Vicar of Haversham has presented the Rev. J. Wallis to the perpetual Curacy of Stainton, Westmore land—value, 89/. per annum. J. Weld, Esq., has presented the Rev. J. Cree to the Vicarage of Chalden Herring, Dorset—value, 82/. per annum. Earl Spencer has presented the Rev. T. R. Keppel to the Rectory of North Creak, Norfolk—value, 1,077 L per annum. CAMBRIDGE, OCT. s.—George Suffield, 8.A., has just been elected a Fellow of Clare Hall, on the Borage foundation. The following are the days appointed for meetings of the Philosophical Society during the approaching Michaelmas term :—Monday, October 28 ; Wednesday (anniversary), November 6 ; Monday, November 11 ; Monday, November 25 ; Monday, December 9. Congregations will be held on the following days of the ensuing Michaelmas Term:—=Thursday, October 10, at ten; Wednesday, October 16, at eleven; Wednesday, October 30, at eleven; Wednesday, November 13, at eleven; Wednesday, November 27, at eleven; Wednes day, December 11, at eleven; Monday, December 16 (end of term), at ten. The late Duke of Grafton was a member of Trinity College, in this University. It does not appear by the calendar that he ever proceeded to the usual M.A. de gree, but he received that of LL.D. in 1835. He was married and returned to Parliament for the University when Lord Euston, in the twenty-fourth year of his age. His colleague in the representation of the learned body was his college friend, the immortal William Pitt. On the occasion of his first return, at the general election of 1784, Lord John Townshend and Mr. Mansfield, after wards Lord Mansfield, were defeated. Lord Euston sat for twenty-seven years in the Lower House, as Member for the Cambridge University, and in 1811 was called to the [louse of Lords, by the death of his father, the third Duke, who was Chancellor to the University. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. DEPARTURE OF FOREIGN MAILS. For Holland—The Ocean, with to-night's mail. For Hamhurgh—The John Bull, with to-night's mail. ARRIVAL OF FOREIGN MAILS. At Southampton—The Lady Mary Wood steamer from Gibraltar, the 28th Sept. ; Cadiz, 29th Sept. ; Lisbon, Oct. 1 ; Oporto, Oct. 2 ; and Vigo, Oct. 3, inst. The Great Liverpool steamer, with remaining portion of Indian mail ; Alexandria, 21st ; and Malta, 26th ult.; and Gibraltar, Ist inst. The Severn steamer, with the Mexico and West India mail. Ship letters were received in town yesterday from China, Madeira, St. Helena, La Guayra, Sierra Leone, and Ascension, from Calcutta to April 24, by the Mars, Lonsdale. arrived at Dover ; from Sydney to June 5, by the Arachne, Pearse, arrived at Falmouth ; from Mauritius, June 22, by the Wasdale, M•lienzie, arrived at Brixham ; from Algoa Bay, to July 17, and St. Helena to 13 Aug., by the Richmond, Furber, arrived at Gravesend. NOTICE TO MARINERS. BEACON ON BONDEN ROCK IN TROMSAL SOUND. Admiralty, sth October, 1844. Sir,—l am commanded by my Lord,: Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit to you herewith, for the information of the Committee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's, the translation of a notice received from her Majesty's Consul-General in Norway, relative to the erection of a beacon on Bonden Rock in Tromsal Sound. —I am, Sir, you: most obedient, humble servant, . . . (Signed) JOHN BARROW. William Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's. (copy.) "NOTICE OF THE ERECTION OF A MARK OR BEACON ON BONDEN ROCK IN THE CHANNEL, OR IN•SAILING TO TROMOE SUND. "On the Bonden Rock, by the easternmost channel or in-sailing into Tromci Sund, has been erected a mark or beacon, which, seen from sea, has the appearance of a shortened cone. It is painted yellow, is fourteen feet high by eight feet in diameter, and is thirty feet above the level of the sea, lat. 58 deg. 30 min. 40 sec., lon. 9 deg. 4 min. 40 sec. E. of Greenwich, and may be seen from a distance of from six to eight miles English. " The Royal Norwegian Marine Department, " t,:hristiania, Sept. 13, 1846. (Signed) " PETERSON." EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Arachne, Pearse, from Sydney, in the Downs, sailed June 6 ; Maria, Lonsdale, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed April 29, St. Helena Aug. 15 ; Richmond, Turner, from Algoa Bay, at Gravesend, sailed July 19, St. Helena Aug. 13 ; Wasdale, M•Ken zie, from Mauritius, off Brixham, sailed Juno 23, St. Helena Aug, 17 ; Birm3n, Guthrie, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed May 1 ; Brahmin, APArthur, from China, in the Downs, sailed April 20, St. Helena August 6 ; Pearl, Bunows, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed April 22, St. Helena Aug. 5 ; Moffatt, Gilbert, from Bombay, in the Downs, sailed May 19, St. Helena August 12 ; Lady Kennaway, Spence, from Bombay, at Gravesend, sailed Nfay 19, St. Helena Aug. 13 ; Bolivar, Fenwiiek, from Bombay, at Liverpool, sailed June 4, St. Helena Aug. 19 ; Lord Lyndueh, Canney, from Bombay, in the Channel. sailed Nl , irch 14, i2allicut, 31st, St. Helena July 22 ; Warlock. 13e11, from Bengd, off Dover, sailed April 29, St. Helena August 6 ; Adelaide, Whar ton, from Bombay, in the Dowits, sailed May 16. St. Helena August 8. Arrival at Launceston—Louisa , . day 25, from L on e on . Arrival at New Zealand.—Tuscan, from London. Arrivals at St. Helena—Grafton. Aug. 5, from Ceyt and sailed to London; Cheverell, 10th, from Bombs y, ant+ saikd 11th to Hull. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston bad, by the oast letters received from Germany, arrived at Dresden, from Berlin, and were to quit the Saxon capital this week for Vienna. WESTMINSTER IMF ROVEMEN TS.-.--.-RIGET WASON'S LINE. —Some of the inhabitants of Westminster having seen a plan for the proposed i4nproveineno4, invited their neighbours to meet them on Tuesda) last to consider ihe same. They had been unabie to obtain a copy of the plan, but from what they had seen of it. reported that it was very jat a; ci s e , t ; e : to r ri t i we i: I l i i na l t i lgl h b li ee,ya, en s t.e ! si t a t ' n e Sl el a i::; oti t . l l .4 % ;f r : yp , "° ; ii ., if i l . :3 ;; ' r jt i ai r ‘ (] r . , i il a i e d r 6t e: l l, r : d il " vi t te : Sod, points i : l ni ' si d t.,: . k r v‘ n e , h : ).Theib:h2 %. , V p e u s t rt ii t i i c ins , t i t. e r w. A i :ib l 7y rt , , p re , c li d t t , o lay before the. Comtnis,ioners of "W oi.pds and Forests end the public: -Ist. By "Rigby Wason's i t t hr w o a w s n ag o i na in i p n t it , re v r t_, A ti : e ih t z p t r o ,, A ,, :z e . s xl T l 7, l t i- i : - , ir , Westminster Abbey. it i- a curved street, from West now. 2d. Instead of a direct approtie we h qhui Fi ll i ( " m itn :)rb li s e te o utr( f )e 'rc b ) a m es tiler and further front it eery arti ii prone , ds. 4th. It d le,tve, the sewer age of ‘Vestin:nst .1. unimproved, al. - i il:':l ( a7e, '''' but 3d i . ii l v t er d ;:s s f i n ° r t i cl: a ie la s i t T ii:t u t;i i t: b .h a t r h: a b e ad 4 I : ::g a h r t i alleys, ) ( , l ,ur il b ( r , f a : n c , hn the_ of =Jails. and e . . s tion to tioe proposed plan, lea .he tot-7-4.131g were cioniiiiid spicuous figure in the welt known Exchequer-bl/1 fors . derel sty+ rpal . cal , t. t' th... 1 i:. ~,,. tho.t,..ht it w , BROMLEY POLICE. John own, geries, was the other day seen near the Efephant and TILE EXCLIEQUE ft BILL. Foli • • A il ,n i t a i i r e u::l sour:, illg out of York-street, in ti ( i ' e u onl) h. neeofol . . . •".•n of al parties con ' A young woman, named Anne Marls CatOrOttended 1 .... .. , . G Eh.' ES, ..-....- 4 .s ....,orrespon- cerneu to them, to ii, kir.. its r..j ii , 4 .. ti , ti rd a :411)1.i:rip ( ent iti.ralS is that Mr. Rapello, who cut such $l, ix , •-d to take And a committee ,orn,e , eof lffiliatinv her , quent fever, flier. were points of ohjvc tion was entered into, before the bench for the purpose of D Lord Wharncliffe arrived in town yesterday morn in accordance with the provisions of the Amended I Castle, and that he is now located somewhge in the • f Wortley Hall, Yorkshire. Poor-law. neighbourhOod of Wandinvovtl4..—Sunday" Tim" ' TinBN rout illegitimate child upon a person named , the necessary steps to effect this. Arrivals at Svdney--Hindoo, June 8; Miry &`iarp, 11th; Eninore 22d; Georgetown, 22d—all from Long Ion; Briton, 26th, from Liverp 4)1; Royal Saxon, from 0 t Departures from Sy lney—William Stovehl, May :30; Cremona, June 2; Skerne, 18th—all to London. Arrivals at AdPn—Sea Horse, Aug. 26, from Bomb ay; Augusta Jessie, Harvey, Sept. 22, from Mussowah, vai;ed 7th to Mauritius; Sauey Jack, Paddle, Sept. 4, from Mauritius. HA.VIBURGH AND DUTCH MAIL. BERLIN, SEPT. 29.—There is no truth in the re• poet of the King's visit to the Rhine; his Majesty v.lll not h•ave us COP r.N SEPT. Cupenhag'n Post sip, it is oo;% c(-rt :in tiat i:ing of Prussia will pay us a visit on the 10th of October, at which time our King will return from Jutland. it is natural that this visit is supposed to be connected with regulations for the Smut i l)uty more advantageous to Prussia. STocKnomv, SEPT. was not till yesterday the ceremony of the coronation was .solemnly _pro claimed by four heralds as fixed for to-morrow. A notice was issued on the 25th that the general mourn ing• was to be suspended ; but it is to be resumed after the coronation, and worn for as long a time as be fore the ceremony. The custom of throwing money among the people, usual at coronations, is not to take place this time Ilis 111::jestv has announced this to th city InaOtrates. The king has ordered great entertainments for the journeymen workmen gext week. BERLIN, Ocr. I. —Nothing is determined respect" ing a visit of our King to Denmark. At our Court there has never been any mention of a journey of the King to Copenhagen, but only to a meeting in s ome Danish province near to it, where the King would certainly be the guest of his Danish Majesty. BERLIN, SEPI. 30.—1 t is reported that it is hie Majesty's intention, arter Tscheeh has been con. demned in the second instance, and after negotiation s to this effect has been opened with the English Go' vernment, to banish him to an island out of Europe. This would he a new proof of the magnanimity of our King.—llambtirgh Paper, tat 4. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY: THE CESAREWITCLI STAKES 7 to 1 agst Duke of Portland's Souvenir filly-6 8 to 1 agst Mr. Dixon's Jamal 15 to 1 agst Mr. Dawson's Lightning—taken 17 to 1 agst Sir J. Ilawley's Vibration 17 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Give. him-a-Name 17 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's F..,ig-a-balli3gh—taken 20 to 1 agst Sir C. Monck's Glossy—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Hook's Una—taken 20 to 1 agst Capt. Colquit's Pickpocket—taken 20 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Emperor—taken 25 to 1 agst Col. Ansen's Marquise—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. G. H. Moore 's The Bride 25 to I agst Mr. Bateman's Flaitoe 25 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Campanerd 25 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Rowena 30 to I agst Lord Exeter's Aiblon—taken 30 to 1 agst Lord Sandwich's Plantagenet 30 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's Scalteen The betting on the agave event derived its interest from the great sprit witn which the Emperor (Winner of the Ascot Cop—his only race). Lightning, and Feir a-baliagh were backed, opening respe..tively at 30, 20 ' and 25 to 1, and closimr at. the o.:ds quoted, the Emperor' of the three, being the least in demand at the &dill' Glossy's race at Kelso, in which the Best-of-Three gal e the year and 2105., ran her to a neck, combined with th e Lightning counnission to force to double the odds laid • week since. The EmpPror's appearance in the market was still more decisive ag ains t Th e B rewer , no one , that W. are aware of, having offered to take any odds about hip' The Souvenir filly- was backed at 7 to 1 is several quit' ters, and Jamal at 8 and 9 to 1, the smaller odds being the last betted. Many other horses were backed f or small sums at liberal prices. DERBY. • 5 to 1 agst John Day's lot 16 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Kedger 25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Isiewsmonger 25 to - 1 agst Mr. S. Stanley's Minikin colt 33 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger—ts,ke° P 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Story's Young Eclipse (40 to 1 once). RAISING OF THE AIISSOURL—This ve ss e l ' the property of the American Government, and tainly the largest war steam-frigate in the world, it WI ll be recollected, in the month of August, 1843, whilst con; veying the Hon. Caleb Cushing to Alexandria, "It mission to China, burnt almost to the water's-edge , Si Gibraltar, and sunk in about foul fathoms and a b '' r water. Messrs. Lovell and Marshall, contrac tors fe 4 raising sunken vessels, and who are in the habit _s e cruising about in different parts of the world for t h '„ purpose, undertook to weigh the unfortunate frigate, I,°: condition that they should receive half the value of property they recovered. These terms were acceptedand operations accor di ng l y commence d i n the early Pte rt of the late spring. The contractors ascertained that 1 .7 1 _ Missouri had b ecome firmly imbedded in a hard san k, and it was pres ume d t h at if they could succeed in o% s ing her up t o hi g h water mark, thus damming In water, and afterwards pumping it out, she would 11 TC rally rise, and would be e as ily b roug h t to s h o re. „c: process of planking her up was p rocee d e d w ith. ''''"d very large chain pumps were then fi xe d on h er War' s% o f twenty others in different parts of the w rec k, and 6 7 0 the troops belonging to the garrison ass i s t e d is re' ing her out. After an hour's working the water tint duced to two feet, and the ship righted a littlet ope eeel doing so, it is supposed that she must have ter , and another leak, which caused a fr e sh flew of elt, b ‘f file though by immense exertions they reduced " g„„ so feet, still the pressure of the sea from the eut.ide 1 ", r" b e great, that it could not be lessened any further. • ' „ following (lay, however, the men recommenced Opel': tions, and succeeded in r e d uc i ng t h e water aga i n t o it' former lovel, but on the morning of the 7th the CO" tractors were compelled to give up the idea of rail her by the mean s th ey were t h en employ i ng. It is tits that the contr ac t ors h ave a l ready expended 15 ,000 has in the work.—Banipshire Advertiser. DARING FEAT.—A f ew d a y s ago, a circurota nc. - strikingly i ll us t rat i ve of the awful positions in which on collier lads are cont i nua ll y placing. themselves, occurr e d at a pit near Crow T re e s . A party of harriers had b' amusing them se l ves f or some time, by clinging t o sides of loaded corves, dr o pping when they attainea to he height of about three yards ; he who had the darinK„, mount the highest being considered the cleverest. v" 0 Of the youngsters, however, got above the distance 0 which he considered it safe to drop ; and, as the e on was ascending with great rapidity, he was carried al; ward, with the prospect, on reaching the lunding.b oo 7 6 l of being knocked from his holding by them, and das' o d to the bottom. His fears impelled him to cry out , e at fortunately the banksman heard lion, and, with g oo presence of mind, stationed himself in such- a pesi tt h e that he was enabled to seize the lad by the jacket as t h came within reach, and landed him unhurt. The d e l l of the pit is 110 yards.—Bradford Observer. A l p DISCOVERY OF THE BODY OF THE LATE - MARTIN, OF SLIGO.—The body of this lamented g e io tleman, whose death we noticed in the public journa', about two months since, was washed ashore on Suet last at Mullaghderg, five miles from Durigloe, es county Donegal, and about forty by sea f rom the P 4,1 where he lost his life. An inquiry was instituted 1 1 3 1 , i Mr. Foster and Mr. Russell, magistrates, respecting ire finding ef the corpse, and from the address with wi l d Mr. Foster conducted the investigation, he discover" that the individual by whom it was first drawn out of fr o water had secretly taken possession of the un fortu:n! A y gentleman's watch, whi c h he then gave up. The ,ess was a good deal mutil a ted. The eyes w e r e out, and ja ears eaten while in the water. The remains were pu c e zr a shell, and after prayers had been read over them, t 7 were lightly covered with earth in the church-yar"d Dungloe ; but it was expected they would be disinterra and conveyed to Sligo for burial, and fur the p u rpose 0 , having a Coroner's inquest held upon them. We ? v % derstand that a suspicion exists of Mr. Martin's ha ri :be been murdered, and that two men are under arrest, ^ are charged with the murder.—Londonderry Sentitet BIRTHS. On the 2d inst., at the Highway, Enfield, the wife of f l) • John Jameson, of son. l' On the 2d inst., ?t Riverhill, near Sevenoaks, the lady ° i Rogers, Esq., of a daughter. $' On the 3d inst., at Lewes, the wife of the Rev. WilliamsAllfree, Rector o Southease, of a daughter. ici‘ On the 4th inst., at Gresham-place, Daiston, Mr/Lir-oder- Price, of a daughter. A' On the 4th inst., at Doughty-street, Mrs. Edward Stri of a daughter. GO V On the sth inst., at Montague-place, Mrs. Binsteect lee, of a daughter. A.,0 11 On the sth inst., at Champion-grove, the wife of E.- Lounge, barrister-at-law, of a son. On the sth inst., at Pall-Mall, Mrs. H. Jones, of a O n tap On the sth inst., at Camden-road Villas, the wife of '''" H. W. Valiance, solicitor, of a son. ll s On the sth inst , the lady of Philip Baker, Esq., of Ell ato square, of a daughter. ------- MARRIED. I t ber' On the 2d inst., at Skendleby Church, John Ballet FA -G ., to Esq., of Woodthorpe, Lincolnshire, and Pagham, Suss e of Sarah Vere, youngest daughter of John Holland, E 644 Skendleby Thorpe, Lincolnshire. hire' On the 3d inst., at All Saints. Stamford, Linco lt r 0 0, George Sayle, Esq., surgeon, of King Staith-square , L i ke Norfolk, to Harriett, daughter of J. H. Fysh, Esc! ° _ former place. , -fi t erOP . On the 3d inst., at the eirurch of the Holy Trinity, „to* ton, Franklin Hudson, Esq., of Alexander-square, ron e se to Sarah, eldest daughter of George Gunthorpe, Esq. , of+ ington-place, Kensington. „ of On the 3d inst., at Horton Kirby, George T. Parkinso-1:00 Raquet-court, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Mr. Ja i Russell, of ll,rton Kirby. f S iC . On the 4th hist., at Westerham, Albert, fourth son !),1,0, John Henry Pelly, Bart., of Upton, Essex , to Barbara of eldest surviving daughter of the Rev. Thomas Stre atfeiP" Chartsedge, Kent. On the sth inst., at St. George's Church, CaMbe,r:.-o m Robert, youngest st of the late Robert Bannon' f ' s 7h . ter Rucliminster, Leicestershire, to Clara Mary, eldest daub of William Foot, Esq., of the Coburg-road. • 1 • arri f# On Saturday last, at Liverpool, a few days after his pep, from Calcutta. 31r. S. Cobb, eldest son of Simon Cobb, Great Yarmouth. r -Id . On the sth inst., A. I. Boss, of Wm&or- place. 1- ,et E n 'stit' On the 12th of August, Henrietta, wife of 'Li eu " - Colonel Henry Moberly. On the 27tit ult., in Mount- row, New Kent-road, igar,g wife of 31r. John Syme. bi te , • On the 24 inst., at Taunton , M a ry, w id ow of the Blake, M.D. ofd' On the 2d inst., at Bath, Frederick, the youngest B° ll Q. Wright, Eq. P ' On the 24 ins t ., at B r i g ht on , C aro l ine , the wife of Hudson, Esq , of St. George's- terr.ice, Hyde-park. T of i ,at r C d r . t B Susan" — A ,tc.ory, s, On the Es)fththieusit:e.rrlai Terrace, , second • • ' - Loll , oo ittute,, Cublishea by MUhOO 1- — D T , So. 112, Strand, Printer, at. Pe Slat Oftice' rni lti btrand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in VA Y 7 Tu4447, lard* 6,1844. so.nof OCTOBER 8 tiB44 I Lot or 1 SPer 11%1 Mot Old] Sups gall( Mari i J !fl ,„ Da rr fere CA at h Or 1 to I Cool 1-oi erui put( whi, sery peri And to b, th e j Li 113, C Duct calm new Leah 44 - 1 " I then, the ft rattle a de e at lib( thou! 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