The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-18 00:00:00

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CS the' P' t ie, ke fiq , " is 11 , 0 e Crlsgl O f 1" '",be Is 01' - )1 1 T~e6d° horit2:a ef° l.e o l7en.., e , ien ey ion _ n ips ,, 1 ,1 co - of • con"' o ft „iterl u g • tua lc " - kepi,:, are employed beyond the time fixed for the attendance of i the water-side. officers. there Lords-of the Treasury haiing been pleased, by warrant, to approve of Hartlepool, at present a 7 110- port of Stockton, being constituted a separate and ; Stocks o d_e p e . 11 0 li d n t port, and of S2aliam, also within the port of being attached to the port of . Sunderlandob l e s mtnissioners of the Customs have issued directions that the same do take effect from the sth of January next ; and copies of th e or d er h ave b een f urn i s h e d to officers at the seve ra l d epar t ments i n L on d on , an d wansmitted to the collectors and comptrollers at the several outports of the United Kingdom, for their infor mation and Kovernment. seA splendid S cotch beast, which bids fair, from its pro.: ,t tee aPpearace, to carry off one of the principal prizes t f !' the Chri stmas cattle-show at Smithfield, is now being latned on th e Fl em i sh Farm, in the occupation of his ° Y 4I dighne- , s Prince Albert, at Windsor. The beast at th e present time weighs 210 stone ; and as two months will elapse before the show takes place, its v teight at that time is expected to be enormous. t he ship Royal Consort, which has arrived in the St. 44 rtn s Dock f rom B atav i a, h a d on b oar d the capta i n f€l crew ofthe l3elgian ship Le Charles, with their bag ag e, consistin g of.about 110 packages, their vessel hav ig been attacked and captured by the pirates at sea, in Li "`s to equenc e o f w hi ch they were obliged seek protec u°llountry, and ob ta i ned a pas-age on board the Royal Con or fund h ound to thi s port , on t h e i r way to t h e i r native c . Two candidates have announced their intention of con testing the vacant aldermanic gown for Portsoken-ward, vizi Mr. s F. G. Moon and Mr. Thomas Bousfild. Mr. i2l,`"morts declined again coming forward, as e it is his uLention to petition against the decision of the Court of ttAldermen. Mr. Michael Scales was also solicited to . a nd, but has declined, expressing his intention to use Is interest on behalf of Mr. Moon. p a The annual meeting and exhibition of the' I)raycot Thr°''hial Agricultural Society took place last - Tuesday. show of stock and implements was more rosmetosisly PPlied than in f ormer years, and the whole was eon *Lderetl of superior quality. DRUR Y-LA NE THEATRE. A A- libel's opera, The Syren, was prod uce d a t thi s " e Pre last evening, with all that attention to scenery ; ll ' costume which might have been expected from a f r at :gotnent of which Mr. Bunn has the direction. ,„7 8, in fact, impossible that a piece could have been 47 t tPon the stage in a manner more complete than thi s opera has been at Drury-lane. The audience and- r; -3' appreciated this attention to the inise en scene, ere loud in their applause as the different scenes i fr ° ll l the pencil of the Grieves' were exhibited: lhe doubleu scene in the second act, in which the lower part represents Scopetto's inn, and the upper part a then'ling footpath among the mountains of .c ,eectAbruzzi is a chef d'oeuvre of scenic . , i Lal l a adage, and in " says the old Films coronut opus, the accordance with that scrap of written wisdom of our ancestors, the • grand sceni c . thi s ia.,display has been reserved for the last ; arid 1 .... .. QI, W -7 e believe, is Drury-lane's " own t 4 4.° the orignal, the voice of Scopetto is heard ehltarllociellieng hwavaiY,in tile distance, as he swims towards the barque, ri:n' esc aped from the uards of the Duke de eilopprreilsie.nt:d, the Drury-laneversion, his triumph is visibly. The barque Etna appears at s e e n b°r• her colours flying, and her yards manned by and band, who have taken possession.of er, h er •9.,copetto himself appears on her quarter-deck, t e ti uk ßuns. firin g a salute in his honour, while h . r• and his attendants arrive on the shore just in .1 4 ,, , lately he spectators of his triumph. We have so Pe at ' ; ` 4 4 e . tailed the plot, that it is unnecessary .. to re el°, 1 " Suffice it to say, the original has been ea tli —e t 'Y .11:difted. The following is the cast at this ,„, e ....._ Wlen.e Duk e fie Popoli, Mr. Borrani ; Scopetto, - Mr. W. trerison ; Scipio, Mr. D. W. King ; Balbaya,_ M I : forti t , t° n I Pecchione, Mr. Weiss ; Zerlina p Miss Ra n A,,.; kathea, Miss Betts. j i , then Rainforth made a most_ interesting Zerlina. delineation of the character of a warm-hearted, ho m es ; silnple-minded girl, just budding into woman- ~:', t here is no young l a d y on t h e stage who can z4erii aPete with Miss Itainforth. Such a character is Way ,a a, and it received full justice at her hands. - She t o - di excellent voice, and we have seldom seen her th mor e advantage. She gave her grand scena, ad e . Prima donna song in the second act, ht he i . 4llra hlY, and was deservedly . encored ; u L e great triumph, the scene in which she showed th tse lf an artiste in the highest sense of the word, was as b .! duet with Scipio, in the third act. Her voice withal, w tt7trulous with feeling, yet beautifully clear of , she infused into the music an intensity, a w p a a s ssion . 4,;" hos which thrilled to the heart. She . ad ~,- ralb ly" s upported by Mr. D. W. King, whose Scipio ti a : a - higly creditable performance throughout. e rrisoil, as Scopetto, was very unequal. , . At the n " " a 'enceinent he was hard and angular. In the ‘, ll „ a ' t tt towards the conclusion of the first act he re,„ t e n r f Y good, and in the solo at the commence solol the second act he was excellent. In this 11 tlie dkiri he w ''s encored, and most deservedly so; but al. 1 / 4 .4 , whole o f t h e first and second acts he ap 'lll4 ‘ P a „e• The Italian is a creature of impulse—a g'ly, and h e t and air—by turns the gayest of the IW av B in ei "; 'flost sanguinary of the revengeful ; eti ". D ll —re rnes, but . ever impassioned, ever ener lie lives t ie -nt bivimas vivamus is his motto; and while a Zest „,enoys life —the mere act of living—with mill cloud rimed of hv the denizens of the " cold 'eern t:-(i.nYteerihninec t n h f e the character north. heHarrison was 131er smug the th e s,,_!' into of business, for the gain r eore in thin matter whereas Scopetto delighted even deri e ., hiricking the Duke of Popoli than . in plun k!eentl,, t n• The third act was a decided improve is p ir e,. ° n the former two ; he seemed to warm in be a de"., but even here a little more animation would II th.,ca.led improvement. If Harrison was guilty gqii t , 81 1 of un der -acting, a w y as a. certainly ery k nn - of over of Lc' 4" .' in lb He was Par e do Y, but he was unnaturally so. lie must the galleries som e of his exuberances, act a little less to buff g eri es, and his Balbaya will be an admirable feet' Nrforrnance. Borrani, as the Duke, was per faded Polished lNt, , • , affable, and courteous, yet self-sufa adisedfi gaetnn,tiaentediNlT,eak; never has the "foolish and the been more correctly delineated. Pie e ,,, rie b ass voice told admirably in the concerted do n g s and his " Brava !during the prima P ° wde re rg , was precisely that of one of those be ages w , 0 represe,ntatives of the dilettanti of a by-gone on th,,e, occasionally pay an angel's visit to•the Opera t his lin tirs ! night of a new, singer. Borrani has•made to see him °l character his own. We should much like all sere in Baron Pumnoliao At the conclusion ho A... 11.. , .. . • 41,e was si tn tor, and all loudly applauded. The c rowded to excess. t LLOYD'S SHIPPING. oN t) , firi e l eai ll, OCT. 17 Wind westerly, fresh breeze, and 4 weather. b ar ? L, ()CT. 16.—Wind A.M. S.E. to N.NW., blowing '(ln 4 s ; gV. moderate.—Arrd. Peter Proctor, Si ng - 3' ; Bangalor'e, Smith, China ; waraayntre. Sld. Westminster, New YorVk;i7Til;rilita'n,C%l•aes tnorni,, I t blew very hard during the night and this 401,11.1 f rom S . to N.N.W. Several vessels have lost r, rtAks " Porto nArE, OCT. 1 6.—The Sophia, Knudsen, from to Hatriburgh, which put in here 13th instant tir;ccioe' hasdischarged her cargo, and been hauled into wt y a t repair. of M°lPril, OC T . 1 6.—A bottle containing a piece L a Paper, (41 which i s written " 4th of September, 1844, il,r' Gabriel," has w as h e d as h ore in the West Bay. GszltrwLY, Oct. 15 .—Arrd. Royal Adelaide, gaure_bae-oes. It,pItA"SEY, OCT. 11.—Put back, Rosa, for B pa h d Ich atio --c°ll2l E, OeT. 1 5.—Arrd. Wellington, y, te fer Bideford. 8114T0L o e-r. 16. Arrd. Britan Barbadoes. elbAnr:a., Oer.ls.—Sld. Cobreo, Ellen Simpson, Cuba. the A.‘u/FP, ()CT. 16.—The Maria Lowther, Janson, and tht, ' l na, both hence to llamburgh, have put back from I,.ll.l,yoattis leaky, and have comme . nced discharging. h ,trii . OCT. 16 .—Arrd. Sicily, Pernambuco. Sld. e ua 4 : ll , °i,, Cadiz and Monte Video, with a large fleet of , ers. Tretiliel:EaeooL, OCT. 16 . --Wind N.N.W., Brown, St. John's, 1.,,yr0n, Pernambuco ; Elizabeth, . _ v. r. fresh.—Arrd. New Brun.w• 4k Sid. Chester. Colombia Ri , , I,Aill'aistto, SaTannah; ' Ac l a c nu • leo and d Priscilla, Pernambuco; chin n, Trinidad ; Helena, Halifax ; Sarah Louisa, wa* OW, Buenos Ayrian. N,., titTERAVENT, OcT. 15 —Sid. Carrick, St. John's, (.1,1, Brues,viek ; Campte-.11, Newport and Granada.. 1, '1.1(1.111, Ocr. 14. —Sid. .aeon, Valparaiso ; Trident, 'e ni n ' -4rtr a . Citi2,ll 1/4;t Kitt's. 15. James Moran, De •ieNtra. • ' .' ' ' . 4(°.na,Ocr.l4.—Arrd. Unicorn. Jarzel, Buenos Ayres. ~11israa RIVER, OCT. 1 3.—Arrd. River, Sims, St. or 4 ; New Brunswick for Cork, leaky, and with part rargo thrown overboard. Li no, Ocr. overboard. Elliot., Gascoigne, Quebec : tttbsorwaaAt:rilh?br;t, OCT. 15.—A bale of cotton, into which Penetrated about two inches, was washed I,,w'lurrt yesterday on the west side of the Mull of Gal -1.11,%-, rho Industry, stranded in Chapelrosgan'Bay on 0 ) , " instant, has received so much dam4pe since i . ,r'-` that she has been abandoned for the: preent:„ ci.n .if.‘;,u-ina, stranded at the same place, ws,s got oft 1 `',:hel2th instant, after dkeLarei:.g the greater part of **.,*--ear, - ' tl;.,:.p.tsr. OCT. 15.—The 'L.niplia, i)anish brig, to ,ilt,Pool,-for- St. Dorniiigo, struck on the rocks at the i ft , ta4 ne or stratigford Lou„eh, 12th iest„ and, after beat ';' -I,•er ti•e . - b Ait to anchor . in Mill (.I,._r .. len s e s IN as rout,. . ( ,4 :ter Bay, with five f'et, water in bar hold ; crew' safe, t:,,,- :44g0 disehargie4. A vessel, supposed to t 4 e of 100 ~i ,' ;'ivas totelly wrecked at Ballyquinton Bay, in the 4 :r t . , t of the 12th inst. ; crew supposed to hate perished ,: 1 ,,, u _ at, In in the stern" R. Johnson, of Greenock, I,i•ii,,:asettliplki)l..h.a.rvpe ib.rett)in,grreyd. to a ship of 300 tons, been ,t,;in,,n'reorourrut ,OeT. 16.—:-Wind N.W. to W.:LArid. ,1,1.64.1)0re, Mar:Alan, Batavia, for Hamburgh--4tine 22. 4 n , 1 g•P•Nt 3/111)3 Inflexible., Bell Poole, Goiner,'Caiman, 0 'litOn,Cherbourg ;'Abby, Baker Boston. • ,T, °Nv}:s, OCT. 16. Arrd. E'rnma, ' Cadiz, toned in d,, 0 'lit OCT. experienced a heavy gale ;• Julie, ej a, in 14 d • : • tu4tavistouT.ll.,3soCT. 16.—S1d. Sir Charles Napier, T o Y. Q4bnll-v OeT. 16.Arrd. Chieftain, St. John's. Off, " Al s t Pl}dtion, Buenos Ayres, for Exeter. -' s • - COURT CIRCULAR. ,WINDson, THURSDAY.—Yesterday afternoon their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice walked on the Castle Terrace. This morning their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice were taken their ac customed airings, riding on ponies in the pleasure grounds of the Castle. Yesterday was the birthday of hiS Royal Highness Frederick, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenbnigh Strelitz. The auspicious event was celebrated at Kew. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glou cester arrived from town in the forenoon to .pay a visit of congratulation to the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh•Strelitz, and remained to lunch with their Royal Highnesses and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. _ _ In the afternoon the Duchess of Gloucester left Kew, and returned to her residence, Gloucester House, Piccadilly. A deputation from the Staines and Richmond Junction Railway Company, consisting of Mr. Charles Finch, Chairman, Mr. Apsley Pellatt, Mr. C. J. Clarke, Mr. William Roy, Solicitor, Mr. H. Bird, Engineer, and Mr. J. C. Govett, Secretary, had an i;.terview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, frorn'the Governor of Sierra Leone. Di:patches were sent off on Wednesday evening for the Governors of the West India Colonies. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET—WEDNEsnIv CA3II3IIIDGESTIIIIE STAKES. 6t05 on Foig-a btl:agh 20 to 1 agst Golden Rule 18 to 1 agst The Cure 20 to 1 agst The Altered One 20 tl 1 -agst Evenus 10 to I agstAlarm—taken 12 to 1 agst Col. Peel's lot—t 20 to 1 agst Forth'i lot—t 20 to 1 agst Sir G. Heath eote's lot—taken !17 to 1 agst Kedger 25 to 1 agst Minikin c-30 35 to 1 agst Black Prince—t 140 to 1 agst Pantasa—t 40 to 1 agst Lillah colt 50 to 1 agst Young Eclipse —taken 50 to 1 agst Clear-the -way 50 to 1 agst Laird o' Cock pen--taken 1,000 to 15 agst Flahowlagh —taken 1,000 to 10 agst Lycurgus to 1 taken 30 to 1 agitFitz-Allen—t 30 to 1 agst Connaught Ranger—t 33 to 1 agst Old England—tl ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each for two-yrs-old, winner to be sold for 401., &c. :—Colt by Bentley, nut of Emma— f by Cmsar, out of Vienna—Richard Cricket, f by Horn sea, dam by Sultan—f by Cmsar, out of Linnet—St. Do mingo. Miscellany. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs, each, winner to be sold for 3001.; &c. :—Chatham, 5 yrs—Canton, 4 yrs—Ashtead Pet, 3 yrs'—Walpole, 3 yrE—Physalis, 3 yrs—My Mary, 2 yrs, and Tawney, 2 yrs. Handicap Plate of 100 L, A. F.:—Minotaur, Bst 121 b Scalteen, 7st 121b—Johnny, 7st 101b—Needful, 7st 101 b 81b—Hyrcanium, 7st 81b—Revocation 7st 81b—Naworth, 7st 21b—Prosody, 7st 21b—Ashtead Pet, Est 101b—Souvenir filly, Est 101b—Young Lochinvar, 6st 101b—Skeleton, 6,t 61b—Plantaganet, Est 41b—Cock fighter, Est 101b—Coal Black Rose, sst 121b—Boarding- School Miss, sst 121b—Crosby, sst 21b—and Five's-the- Main, sst. The Ratan affair was again proceeded with this even ing, and again adjourned. ( RECEIVED LAST NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBERMEETING. THURSDAY. Match, 100, T.Y.C., Lord G. Bentinck's b c Devil-to- Pay, Bst 101 b (Nat), beat Lord Glasgow's f by Retainer, out of Purity, Bst 71b-2 to 1 on the colt, who won by three lengths. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst Mb. First half of Ab. M. Winner to be sold for 401., &c. (9 Subs.) Lord Chesterfield's fby Hornsea (F. Butler) 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Duke of Cornwall 2 The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. Marson's c by Bentley, out of Emma—Mr. Newton's f by Cmsar, out of Vicuna—Mr. Beresford's Richard Cricket—Mr. Cooper's fby Caesar, out of Linnet—Mr. Rogers's St. Domingo—Mr. Drinkald's Miscellany—and Duke of Bedford's Euterpeon. Betting-3 to 1 agst Duke of Cornwall, 4to 1 agst Hornsea filly, 5 to 1 agst Marson's colt, and 5 to 1 agst Vicuna filly. The Duke of Cornwall made the running, followed by Euterpeon and Miscellany, to the cords, wbere they were beaten ; the liornsea filly then took the second place, followed the Duke to within the last three or four strides, went up with a rush, and won by a head. St. Domingo a good third. The winner was claimed. Sweepstakes of 10 sov:. each ; for two yrs old, 6st 71b ; three yrs, Bst 31b •, four yrs, Bst 111 b ; five yrs, &c., 9st. First half of Ab. M. Winner to be sold for 3001. (7 Subs.) Mr. Copeland's My Mary, 2 yrs (Cotton) 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Chatham, 5 yrs Mr. Phillimore's Physalis, 3 yrs The followithe, also started, but were not placed : Colonel Peel's Canton, 4 yrs—Mr. Forth's A.shstead Pet, 3 yrs—Mr. Payne's Walpole, 3 yrs—Lord Sandwich's Tawnay, 2 yrs. Betting-5 to 2 agst Chatham, 3to 1 agst My Mary, 7 to 2 agst Canton, 5 to 1 agst Walpole, and 5 to 1 agst Physalis. Chatham made running at a good pace, followed by Physalis and Ashstead Pet, the three running in advance of the other horses to the cords, where Phy salis and the Pet were beaten ; My Mary then took up the running, and won easy by a length, Physalis an in different third, and Ashstead Pet fourth. Match—Lord George Bentinck's All-round-my-Hat, Bst 71b (Nat), beat Lord Glasgow's c by Velocipede, out of Ainula, Bst 31b, 200, T.Y.C.—Won in a canter by a length. Handicap Plate of 1001., for three yrs olds, &c. A.F. Lord G. Bentinck's Naworth, aged, 7st 21b...(Abdale) 1 Lord Exeter's Crosby, 3 yrs, sst 21b 2 Toe following also started, but were not placed:— Mr. Payne's Johnny, aged, 7st 101b—Duke of Rutland's Hyrcaniam 4 yrs, 7st Sib—Mr. Buckley's David, 5 yrs, 7st 81b—Mr. Rogers's Prosody, 5 yrs, 7st 21b —Mr. King's Young Lochinvar, 4 yrs, 65t 101b—Duke of rortland's f by Beiram, out of Souvenir, 4 yrs. Est 101 b Mr. F.,rth's Ashtead Pet, 3 yrs, fist—Mr. Skeleton, 3 yrs, fist 61b—Lord andwich's Plantagenet, 3 yrs, 6st 41b—Lord Chest?rfield's Cockfighter, 3 yrs— Lord Stradbroke's Boarding-school Miss, 3 vrs, sst 21b— Lord Exeter's Crosby, 3 yrs, sst 21b—Mr. Francis's Sever-the-Main, 3 yrs, sst. Batting-4 to 1 agst Naworth ;4to 1 agst Young Lochinvar ; 6 to 1 agst David ; 8 to 1 agst Crosby ; to 1 agst Boarding-school Miss ; 9 to 1 agst Skeleton ; and 9to 1 agst Cockfighter. Young Lochinvar took the lead, and made running to the New Ground, where he barst a blood-vessel, and was immediately pulled up. The running was then taken up by Plantagenet, fol lowed by Naworth, Crosby, and Davit, to the bushes, where Naworth went a-head ; the four, however, lying close together, and keeping so to the end, Na worth win ning by a neck, and Crosby beating Plantagenet by a neck. David a good fourth. Match, 150, 50 ft, Ab. M.—Mr. Joseph Anderson's Chance, Sst 71b (Bell), beat Lord E. Russell's Nat, Sat. —7 to 4on Nat. Won by five lengths. Match, 200,h ft, R.M., Sat each—Lord Exeter's Merope received forfeit from Duke of Rutland's Crenoline. The late hour at which, owing to the time necessarily devoted to the " delicate investigation," the races com menced, and were protracted (from two o'clock until half-paa four), prevents our saying more than that the weather was cold and squally, and the attendance in different. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 6to 5 on Foig-a-ballagh 15 to 1 agst The Cure —taken 17 to 1 agst Altered One 15 to 1 agst Golden Rule 18 to 1 agst Evenus CHESTERFIELD RACES.—WEDNESDAY. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 40 added ; for three yrs old, 7st 71b; four yrs, Bst 91b; five yrs, 9st; six yrs and aged, 9st 21h; mares and geldings allowed 21h; half-bred allowed 71b; winners of 401. this year, 51b extra; twice, 81b extra; thrice, a Gold Cup or Queen's Plate, 101 b extra; those that have started twice :and not won allowed 31b; the second to save his stake, and the winner to be sold for 100 sovs. Heats, two miles. (4 Subs.) Mr. Halfotd's Pickwick, aged—h-bred (Bradley) 1 1 Mr. Heap's Staley, 3 yrs Mr. Arm:lale's Jamie Falshaw, 4 yrs Mr. Denham's Conspirator, 3 yrs 3 dr First heat won by half a length. Second heat won easy. The Scarsdale Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 30 added ; fur three yrs old, 7st 71b ; four yrs, Bst 9lb ; five yrs, 9st ; six yrs and aged, 9st 21b ; mares and geldings allowed 21bs ; extra weights, &c., as above. The second t , r save his stake, and the winner to be sold for 701. Heats, one round. (8 Subs.) Mr. Palmer's Betsey Bird, 4 yrs... (Copeland) 0 1 1 Mr. Barton's Glideaway, 3 yrs Mr. Whetnall's Bird, 5 yrs The following also started, but were not placed : Captain Ilarcourt's f by Inheritor, out of Marsala, 3 yrs —Mr. Denlaain's f by Voltaire, out of Emineh, 3 yrs— Mr. Wildman's Co-heiress, 4 yrs—Mr. S. Waring's Saul, aged—Mr. Lund's Bess Bedlam, aged. The second heat was well contested, the others were won by a length. SALE OF MR. THORNHILL'S BROOD MARES, &c. (CONTINUED.) Previous to the races the sale of the remainder of the late Mr. Thornhill's stud took place. The following were the prices : Guineas Empress, by Emilitis, out of Mangel Wurzel, 7 yrs old—civered b y Erymus Exclamation. by Emilius, out of Surprise—Erymus 155 Euclid, by Emilius, out of Maria, 8 yrs old 6lO The Commodore, by Liverpool, out of Fancy, 8 yrs 50 E. 0., by Emilius, out of Ophelia 95 Ally i .raker, by Albemarle, 3 yrs Ktrwig, by Emilius, out of Shoveler--Erymus 6O St. 11r, , u1a, by St. Patrick—Euclid and Erymus B5 St. Agatha, by St. Patrick—Emilius 9O Eloise, by St. Patrick—Erymus Merganser, by Merchant—Emilius Emetic, by Emilius, out of Mustard—Erymus Peeress, by Priam, out of Rowtm's dam—Erymus 330 Elphine, by Emilius—Commodore and Erymus 92 Cast-aside (the dam of Caster) —Euclid Apprentice, by Albemarle, 3 yrs. Bay yearling filly by Emilius, out of Chincilla FOALS. Ch c by Emilius, out of Variation B c by Emitins, out of Mangel Wurzel . 13 c by Emilius, out of Receipt 4O Ch c by Emilins, dam by Bay Middleton 215 B f by Emilius, out of Tarantella Bl -13 fby Emilius, out of Ophelia, Ch f by Euclid, out of Victoire 2l - Br f by Emilius, out of Lantern Ch f by` Emilius, out of Menalippe A VAII to carry two horses sold for 4l .• J... .. .1~ THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING OCTOBER 18 1844. BURIAL IN. TtoiVisis. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) • " The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature, appall'd, Shakes off her wonted firmness. Ah, how dark The long extended realms and rueful wastes, Where nought but silence reigns, and night, dark night! • • • . The sickly taper, By glimmering through thy low-brow'd mirky vaults,. Furr'd round with misty damps and ropy slime, Lets fall a supernumerary horror, And only serves to make thy night more irksome." In The Sun of September 3 appeared a well written article, copied from the Leicester Chronicle, pointing out some of the ill effects arising from the dangerous practice of burying the dead in towns. -It is a subject but little considered, and consequently the evils arising from it are seldom thought of. Was, every town within itself provided with an extensive and well-ordered burial•ground, where there would be no possibility of the coffins becoming crowded to-, gether, even then the practice would be bad and un justifiable. But taking the fact as it is, namely, that the burial-grounds are generally of small dimensions, and filled with dead, even to heaping up, how much more is a continuance of this system to be deprecated, as fraught with most imminent and dangerous come sequences. It is strange that, whilst we boast of our advancenient in the arts and sciences, and assert the moral and intellectual improvement of all classes of society, we should still, as a nation, tenaciously .adhere to a practice unworthy the most ignorant ages of the world, - and in every way revolting to the best feelings of our nature. At no period, probably, has the spirit of the philanthropist shown itself, or been more active, than during the present age—in the hospitals, the visiting societies, the humble individual efforts to alleviate the misery of our fellow-creatures, and in providing suitable relief for their bodily suf ferings. It is strange, too, that while this is being done, we look calmly on, and—by our tacit acknow ledgment of the fact, without making an effort_ to arrest its progress—encourage a perpetual monster reservoir of pestilence, in the crowded and heaped up masses of decayed mortality to be found in every old established burial-ground in the kingdom. Habit has accustomed us to view this state of things with indifference, and so blunted the sensitive feelings of our nature, that We bestow not a thought upon the sickness and death, which is too often attributable (although we knew it not at the time) to the inhaling of the noxious and poisoned atmosphere generated from the dead. "The main object of a burial-ground," says Mr. Loudon, "is the disposal of the remains of the dead in such a manner as that their decomposition, and re turn to the earth from which they sprung, shall not prove injurious to the living, either by affecting their health, or shocking their feelings, opinions, or preju dices. In a burial-ground, properly arranged and managed, a coffin, after it is once interred, should never again be exposed to view, nor a human bone be disturbed." Let those who read bear this in mind. No one will dispute the correctness of the assertion, while every one will admit that the principle is daily, in thousands of cases, being violated. Let us, for a moment, turn our attention to the decomposition of the body, and its results. We are all aware of the indestructability of the bones. "In the ante-hominal part" of the creation there are bones daily discovered, which have existed 6,000 years at least. Dr. Charles Loudon informs us, "'that he has seen numerous human bones, in certain caves near Naples, which are supposed to be those of the Grecian colonists who settled there before the Christian era, or perhaps those of an older race, who inhabited Magna Grwcia.' This, of itself, should furnish sufficient argument for the inviolability of the grave being respected. " The health of the living," continues Mr. Loudon, " is chiefly affected by a certain description of gas," generated in the decomposition of the body. "To inhale this gas, undiluted with atmospheric air, is in stant death, and even when much diluted, it is pro ductive of disease which commonly ends in death." " This gas abounds to a fearful extent in the soil of all crowded burial-grounds, and has been proved to be more or less present in the soil thrown out of graves where bodies have been interred before." "In the years 1782 and 1783, when the disinterment from the burying grounds of Les Innocents, in Paris, took place, under the direction of some eminent French chemists, these philosophers wished to analyse the gas, but were un able to procure it. Fourcroy says, 4 ln vain we en deavoured to induce the grave-diggers to procure us some of this elastic fluid ; they uniformly refused. The horrible odour and poisonous activity of this fluid, announces to us that it is mingled with hydro genous and azotic gas, holding sulphur and phospho rus in solution. It may contain, also, another dele terious vapour, whose nature has hitherto escaped philosophical research, while its terrible action upon life is too strikingly evinced.' " The secondary ob ject of a cemetery is, or ought to be, the improve ment of the moral sentiments and general taste of all classes, and more especially of the great masses of society. In vain we look for an attractive influence or argument in the crowded churchyards of towns. Tall weeds, rank grass, and neglected gravestones do indeed teach a lesson ; but it is one where, too often, mingled dread and disgust usurp the place of moral reflection and calm and holy feelings. " Why," says Washington Irving, "should we seek to clothe death with unnecessary terrors, and spread horrors around the tomb of those we loved ? The grave should be surrounded by everything that might inspire kindness and veneration for the dead, or that might win the living to virtue. It is the place not of disgust and dismay, but of sorrow and meditation." " Nothing can make amends," says Coleridge, " for the want of the soothing influences of nature, and for the absence of those types of renovation and decay which the woods and the fields offer to the notice of the serious and contemplative mind. To feel the force of this sentiment, let a man only compare in imagina tion the unsightly manner in which our monuments are crowded together in the busy, noisy, unclean, and almost grassless churchyard of a large town, with the still seclusion of a Turkish cemetery in some remote place, and yet further sanctified by the grove of cyprus in which it is embosomed." " Where is it, we would ask," says the learned and elegant author of " Necropolis Glusguensis," "that the innate desire which is felt in every bosom to live in the recollection of his companions, the pleasing hope that he may still be a remembered denizen of this fleeting world, is more likely to be realised than at the spot where his ashes are laid ? Where is •it and half the towns in the kingdom, or more, will be found to tell a similar tale. Where is Mr. Mackinnon's Bill? Why does not the Legislature step forward -and put its veto upon this crying evil ? Every town in the kingdom which does not already possess a cemetery, situated at a proper distance from its precincts, should be compelled to abandon its present practice, and adopt the tbrmer. No interment whatever should be permitted within a town, except under peculiar circumstances. I would fain arouse the attention of the public to the i►nportance of this subject ; more especially would I call upon the ministers of religion to come forward and render their aid in correcting a monster evil, and in promoting a public good. The clergy of the Es tablished Church are not permitted to bury in uncon• secreted ground. Their grounds are " consecrated " to a holy purpose; and yet, in the performance of their duty, in such as that at Poole, are not the laws of decency, morality, and religion violated ? In such cases, " consecration" becomes a farce, and the ordi nances of the Church a bye-word. Poole, Oct. 16, 1844. 11. J. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. • Yesterday a Court was held, in consequence of a requisition to the Lord Mayor, "to consider of an address to be presented to her most gracious Majesty the Queen, on her auspicious visit to the City, to be present at the opening of the New Royal Exchange." The Court was tilled with members. THE KING OF THE FRENCH. The LORD MAYOR informed the Court that the de putation appointed by the Corporation had had the honour of waiting upon the King of the French with the City address, upon his Majesty's arrival upon a visit to the Queen, and that his Majesty had been graciously pleased to give an answer, which the Re corder would read to the Court. The RECORDER read the answer of the King of the French in an extremely impressive manner. The Court applauded to the echo every paragraph of his Majesty's answer, and manifested their admiration when the Recorder concluded by the loudest cheers. Sir PETER LAURIE rose to move that the answer of the King of the French should be placed upon the records of the Court. The motion having been seconded, Mr. ANDERTON said he hoped that this Court would go further.—(Cheers.) He thought that such an answer as the King of the French had re turned to the address of the Corporation—an answer so highly honourable to the feelings of his Ma jesty, and so highly complimentary to the body to whom it was addressed, should meet with no ordi nary reception by that Court.--(Cheers.) He was convinced that every member of the Court would feel the utmost gratification and pride in having the opportunity of keeping and exhibiting in his own house an engraved copy of his Majesty's words.— (Cheers.) Mr. A nderton then suggested to the mover to improve his motion, by adopting the addi tion to which the Court had so unequivocally assented. Sir P. LAURIE acknowledged that the suggestion was unexceptionable. He begged to state, too, that the Court had now the opportunity of supplying an omission which had been made at the last Court. In consequence of the hurry in which the subject hid been got up, and the shurt stay which his Majesty intended to make, the form of having the address to his Majesty ornamentally written and emblazoned had been omitted in the consideration of the merits of the question. They had, since the meetin g o f th e l as t Court, had time to consider more particularly the subject, and they had what enabled them to form a more accurate opinion of the nature of their duty upon such an occasion—the answer of the King of the French.—(Cheers.) That was no common answer.— (Loud cheers.) It was no ordinary answer to a Corporation from a great Monarch to say, as h e (Si r Peter Laurie) had heard with his own ears the King of the French say, that he was desirous to have the portrait of the Lord Mayor, that he might place it in his palace at Versailles. — (lmmense applause.) Sir Peter Laurie then moved that the address be orna mentally written, properly emblazoned, f rame d an d glazed, and transmitted to his Majesty the King of the French. _ . Mr. Jurr seconded the proposition, which was unanimously agreed to - amidst great cheering; and it was also unanimously agreed that the answer of the King of the French should be inserted upon the records of the Court, and that steps should be taken by the Committee to emblazon and other wise record the answer of Louis Philippe, the King of the French, and that a copy, executed in such manner as to the Committee appeared to be most eligible, should be transmitted to every member of the Court. . _ that the extincta amabitur, surth as Cicero professed to his daughter Tallia, and which is still the pledge of friendship offered at the couch of the dying, is more likely to be experienced in all its force, and all its purity, than at the tomb, where all the remains of mirth and loveliness is lying? Where is it, indeed, that the heart is likely to be so feelingly moved, or the memory to be so powerfully roused, as at a parent's grave or a sister's tomb ?" " A garden cemetery is the sworn foe to preternatural fear and superstition. The ancients, from their minds being never polluted with the idea of a charnel-house, nor their feelings roused by the revolting emblems of mortality, contemplated death without terror, and visited its gloomy shrine without fear. With them death was tranquillity, and the only images that ever associated with it, were those of peaceful repose and tender sorrow." The burial-ground at Poole, Dorset,measuring about one acre, was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester, July 3, 1781. The number of burials which have there taken place since that period to the present time, is about 6,300. Mr. Loudon calculates that in the ordinary mode of burial, with and without head-stones and monuments, with necessary roadway, &c., that the extent of an acre of ground will give 1,361 graves. Taking, therefore, the number of interments in the Poole ground from 1784 to 1796, inclusive, we have 1,369. We will suppose that each grave was seven feet in depth. The extent of the ground was then covered. From 1797 to 1811, inclusive, 1,377 inter ments took place ; the ground was, therefore, covered a second time. Mr. Loudon argues that, for the health of the community it ought to be imperative that a layer of earth, of not less than six feet in depth, should be left between the under and upper coffins, so that the earth may absorb the greater portion of the gene rated gases. In the ground now spoken of, sup posing that the earth left between the under and upper coffins was two feet in depth, the latter would then be about three feet from the surface of the ground. It then necessarily follows that in 1811, after 2,746 interments (and upwards) had taken place, that the ground was full. N o t another ' THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY. Mr. R. TAYLOR said he wished to call the attention of the Court for one moment to a subject of very serious importance—the decision of one of the Revis ing Barristers, lately delivered, to the effect that none of the freedoms conferred by the Court of Com mon Council are recognised in the matters concerning the election of Members to serve in Parliament. Now, he could nDt see why the privileges of the Cor poration were to be done away with by a•revising barrister.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HEPPEL said it seemed to escape Mr. Taylor's memory that no man had a right to vote for a Member of Parliament merely as a freeman. Mr. R. TAYLOR stated that, in the case he alluded to, a Liveryman had been divested of his right to vote because he had been made a freeman according to the recent regulations of the Court. . . Sir P. LAURIE saidihe — ;l;ject was certainly one of much importance, and that Mr. Taylor ought to give,notice of it for future discussion. _ . Mr. It. TAYLOR accordingly gave notice of motion. interment could take place without the desecration of a grave. The coffin and the remains of one must be displaced to make room for the remains of another. The parish register shows, as before. observed, that since the consecration of the ground, about 6,300 interments have taken place ; therefore, after the ground was filled, the remains of three thou sand five hundred and upwards were added—not buried, or, if so, the majority only for a time—not one of which should ever have been placed there. "Is the human heart so callous to right feeling, that men must wait until their own parents or rela tives are dragged from their graves before they will act and speak out on this question ?" It is truly said that " use is second nature." As man, by the force of example, becomes habituated to a life that, in moral capacity, places him below the beasts of the creation, so does the most sensitive and refined in character become indifferent and callous to a practice every way worthy. the most degraded ages of the world. Many there are who, looking upon the bright green sod of a country churchyard, may accuse the writer of exaggeration. There is none. Let them beware of the exhalations of burial grounds. Pestilence and death hang over every grave. The crowded state of the ground at Poole is not an isolated case. Let the parish registers be examined, MEETING OF MIDDLESEX HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE CITY. The LORD MAYOR rose, and stated that he had received a requisition "to consider of an address to be presented to the Queen upon her auspicious visit to the City, to be present at the opening Royal Exchange." His Lordship then called upon Nil'. Harriso n , th e gent l eman w h ose n ame appeared first upon th e requ i s i t i on, to proceed. of the new Mr. HARRISON said that the sudden adjournment of the last Court rendered it necessary that a requisi tion should be transmitted to the Lord Mayor, re questing that his Lordship would call another Court, to consider the subject. He was aware of the claim which several gentlemen who had been actively en gaged in superintendin g the elegant building which had been erected possessed above that which he had, and he should withdraw whatever claim he might be supposed to have in favour of Mr. R. L. Jones, the Chairman of the Committee.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. R. L. JONES said he felt highly honoured by the flattering distinction of being called upon to move that a loyal and dutiful address be presented to her Majesty on the occasion of the visit to the City of London, to open the new Royal Exchange. It was a most gracious condescension upon the part of her Majesty to pay so high a compliment to the Corpora tion, and to all the commercial interests of the great community of the City of London.—(Cheers.) Her Majesty had most graciously intimated that, upon the 28th instant, she would come to pay respect to the citizens of London. The Corporation felt how highly they were honoured by such condescension, and so did the Mercers' Company, who, as they were joined with the Corporation in accomplishing the great object of raising the magnificent edifice, felt that they ought to be blended with the Corporation in the great honour about to be conferred.—(Cheers.) Mr. Jones thcn moved that a loyal and dutiful address be pre sented to the Queen, and that the ancient Company of the Mercers be duly recognised in the address. The following letter from Sir James Graham to the Lord Mayor, was read : " Whitehall, Oct. 15, 1844. MAGISTRATES. A meeting of the magistrates fur the county of Middlesex was held yesterday, at twelve o'clock, in tha Court-house, Clerkenwell-green, for the transac tion of business connected with the aff“irs of the county, at which there was the most numerous at tendance we ever remember to have witnessed. Mr. Devon in the chair. "My Lord,—l have the honour to inform your Lordship, with reference to my letter of the 9th ult., that her Majesty has been pleased to signify her gracious intention of visiting the City of London on Monday, the 28th inst., for the purpose of opening the new Exchange. " Her Majesty will arrive at Temple-bar at noon on the 28th. " I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lord ship's obedient servant, "J.R. G. GRAHAM. "The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor." Mr. HARRISON, in seconding Mr. R. L. Jones's motion, stated that the new building reflected the highest credit upon the City of London, and upon the Committee who had so ably superintended the whole of the proceedings, and were wholly actuated by the desire to administer to the convenience of the mer chants of London, and by the wish to contribute as much as possible to the advance of the commerce of this great country.—(Cheers.) He contrasted the enormous extent of the shipping of the present day with that of former periods, and said that this mea sure was only to be attributed to the enterprising spirit of the merchants. North and south the trade of London was becoming greater and greater, and he fervently hoped that the Queen would long be spared to see the merchants of London prosperous, and her people happy.—(Cheers.) The motion was then agreed to amidst shouts of applause, and a Committee was formed to draw up the address. It was then determined that the Lord Mayor should himself decide upon the members to present the ad dress to her Majesty, and that the Mercers' Company should receive due notice of the regulations. The Court then having resolved to do no other business, adjourned amidst acclamations. The most complete harmony existed amongst the members during the whole of the proceedings of the day. COURT OF ALDERMEN.—The following are the names of the Aldermen voting on the question of ad mitting Mr. Salomons, without taking the declaration: — Majority—the Lord Mayor, Lord Mayor Elect, Alder men Lucas, Sir P. Laurie, Farebrother, Kelly, Sir C. Marshall, Sir J. Pirie, Johnson, Sir G. Carroll, Hooper, Farncomb, Hughes-13. Minority—Sir J. Key, Alder men Humphery, Thomas Wood, Hunter, Challis, Sidney-6. Sir C. Hunter and Alderman Wilson left the Court before the division, or the majority would hare been fifteen. APPOINTMENT OF MR. SERGEANT ADAMS. Mr. EDMONDS the deputy-clerk of the peace, having read a fetter from Sergeant Adams, an nouncing his intention to resign his chairmanship of the Court, in consequence of his appointment by her Majesty to the situation of Deputy Judge of the Middlesex Sessions, Mr. POWNALL proposed a vote of thanks to the Learned Gentleman, and also that the meeting should present him with a congratulatory address, expressive of the high sense entertained of his general conduct, by the county magistracy, and of his untiring exer tions in behalf of the lunatic poor at Hanwell Asylum, and for his excellent management of the Adelaide fund for the relief of the poor upon leaving the asylum. The proposition was agreed to with acclamation, and ordered to be inserted in four morning and even ing papers, and upon the records of the Court. IIANWELL LUNATIC ASYLUM. Upon the report of the visiting justice of this in stitution, and also that of Dr. Conolly, the resident physician, being brought up, a long and tedious dis cussion ensued with respect to the practice of the guardians of the poor in the several workhouses, in which Mr. Preshfield, M.P., Mr. Wilkes, and several other magistrates, to az part, the report wa s e ven t ua lly ordered to be received and.printed. TIIE METROPOLITAN PRISONS. The visiting justices' reports of the state of the Middlesex prisons were brought up and ordered to be received, after a long conversation. By these docu ments it appeared that the number of persons in the House of Correction was 1,011, of whom 252 were females; and of this large number only three were in the infirmary. In the New Prison there were 149, of whom 47 were females ; and in the - Westminster Bridewell the number of prisoners was 450, of whom 149 were females. The deputy clerk of the peace read a memorial from the vestry of St. Marylebone, complaining of the increase in the county rate, owing to the expense of maintaining those estal•lishments, aril praying that means would be adopted by a reduction in the sala ries of the various officers, and otherwise, to lessen the tax. After the declaration of a county-rate of one halfpenny in the pound, and the transaction of some other routine business, the Court broke up shortly after six o'clock. DREADFUL CONFLAGRATION AT BLACKWALL. Yesterday morning, at half-past three, a dreadful fire broke out at Blackwell, in the bar of the Britannia Tavern, and spread with rapidity. The A, B, and 1) engines of the brigade, the West of England, as also County Fire Office, West India Dock, parish, &c., were soon brought to bear on the flames, but every exertion on the part of the firemen was useless, and very speedily the India House Tavern also shared the same fate From thence the flames reached the Plough, the Arti choke, King's Arms, and George taverns, and by six o'clock a most dreadful ravage had been the consequence. Water was well supplied to the firemen, and they, with numerous auxiliaries, kept continually throwing copious streams on the burning mass, but not any impression could be made till property to the amount of at least 10,0001. had been destroyed. By ten o'clock the destruc tion was at an end, when an examination took place as to the origin of the fire, the loss of property, and names of persons interested in the dreadful calamity. The fol lowing may be relied on as correct : Britannia Tavern—All destroyed. Insured in the Phoenix Fire-office. India House Tavern—Completely consumed. Insurell in the Hand-in-Hand-office. Plough Tavern—Roof, &c., destroyed. Insured in the Licensed Victnallers'-office. Artichoke Tavern—Roof, &c., destroyed. Insured in the Sun Firo-office. King's Arms Tavern—Considerably damaged. The furniture, &c., insured in the Union Fire-office. George Tavern—Furniture damaged. Insured in the Union Fire-office. Also two private houses—Furniture damaged by re moval, and neither insured. It was not known how the fire originated, and the in mates had several narrow escapes. LOUIS PHILIPPE'S JOURNEY TO DOVLR BY THE DOVER RAILWAY.—It gives us extreme pleasure in being able to state, that his Majesty the King of the French has, through Colonel Wemyss, conveyed to the officers of the Dover Company an expression of his ex treme approval of the manner in which the arrange ments for his transit had, from first to last, been con ducted. His Majesty expressed much regret at the fire which was raging at New-cross on his arrival, inquired anxiously as to whether the Company were insured, and finaing they were, evinced much pleasure. Tee journey occupied 2i hours, and his Majesty bore it, from the known smoothness of the line, with apparently little fatigue.— Times. ATTEMPT TO UPSET A RAILWAY TRAIN.—At Durham, on Monday, William Atkinson, a young man of respectable exterior, was charged with having ob structed certain carriages on the Durham and Sunder land Railway, and thereby endangered the lives of the passengers. It appeared that on the 4th of August, as the passenger tram in the evening, from Hartlepool to Sunderland, was proceeding down Seaton-bank—a steep incline, two miles and a half in length—the conductor observed something lying across the rails. He applied the break, and this obstruction (which proved to be a bunch of railway keys) was safely passed over. Further along the line two similar obstructions were met with ; in one case two keys had been placed in an upright posi tion between the rails, and had not these been removed by the guard, who leaped from the train, there can be no doubt the carriages would have been thrown over on the incline, and many lives sacrificed. Near where the last obstruction took place, Atkinson was seen running along the line, and afterwards leaping over a hedge. He was pursued by the guard, and when he came up to him and asked what he was doing there, Atkinson replied he was going to take a sleep He was removed to Sunderland. No other person was seen on the line, or near it, for the entire distance from Seaton to Sunderland. No motive could be assigned for the commission of such a heinous offence by the prisoner, or indeed any other person. It appeared that he had been compelled to leave the carriage at the junction which is near Seaton, when he wanted to be at Sunder land, in consequence of having only taken a ticket to that place, and also that the servants of the company re fused to allow him to travel to Sunderland on the coal waggons after the train had left; both these circum stances seemed greatly to annoy him, but no threatening language was used by him. His counsel, Mr. Grainger, commented on the absence of motive for the commission of such an appalling crime, and suggested that it must have been perpetrated by some discarded servant who harboured feelings of revenge against the proprietors. It was elicited in the course of the investigation that railway keys are laid about so loosely that any person may easily obtain them for the purpose of overthrowing trains, and also that the line is not watched by police men, at least only a small portion of it. The jury re turned a verdict of Not Guilty. INTERMITTENT FEVERS.-Dr. Crawford states that intermittent and remittent fevers are extremely prevalent in Upper Canada, whilst they are very rare in the lower division of the province. An extraordinary exemption from this class of fevers is also observable in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. At Annapolis, Windsor, and Fort Cumberland, in Nova Scotia, which are situated at the embouchures of rivers, daily exposed to exten sive inundations by the rise of the tide, where the banks for several miles exhibit a combination of mud, marsh, and decayed vegetation, so generally considered a prolific source of this class of febrile diseases—inter mittents and remittents are extremely rare ; and at Frederictown, in New Brunswick, situated on the marshy banks of a river, surrounded by a dense wood and luxu riant vegetation, these diseases are scarcely ever met with ; proving that, although, on some occasions, cir cumstances of this nature may favour the development of this disease, its prevalence or existence is by no means a necessary consequence or concomitant ; while, on the other hand, this class of diseases has been very preva lent at Gibraltar, the lonian Islands, and Bermuda, countries which are destitute of marsh, and compara tively barren of vegetation.—Medical Times. On Wednesday the Earl of Chichester held his half-yearly audit at Stammer Park. About forty of the tenants sat down to a handsome repast, his Lordship pre siding over them with the kindness and affability for which the Noble Earl is proverbial. Next evening the cottagers and those holding allotments in the parishes of Stanmer and Falmer, to the number of seventy, also attended their audit, a substantial hot supper, flanked by a plentiful supply of good October ale, being provided for them. After supper his Lordship addressed his humble but happy guests, and presented many of them with various premiums for keeping their cottages and allotments in good order.—Sussex Advertiser. SHERIFFS COURT.—Yesterday, proclamation- was made in the usual manner by Kemp, the officer, and the following persons not answering to their names, were declared outlaws:—Thomas Reade Kemp, at the suit of Sir William Pilkington, Bart.; John Charles Trevanion, at the suit of. Jacob Connop ; George Clarke, at the suit of Joseph Ivimy; Thomas De la Hay, at the suit of William Graham; Thomas K. Channell, at the suit of J. Wilkinson; William Pyne, at the suit of J. C:a . lcptt ; Sarah Grcgson, at the suit of William Woo d ; lliam Francis Ellerby, at the suit of Nathaniel Daniel; George Boker, at the suit of William Tombleton ; Thomas Hawkes, at the suit of William Adams ; E. B. Lake:, at . the suit of Joseph Smith ; George Croke, at the . suit 9f E. J. Hill ; John Croko (clerk ), at the same suit . ; . Sir John Scott Lillie, at the suit of E. J. Hill ; am Pyne and William Learmouth, at the suit of C. Lewis ; and C. Wing, at the suit of the same plaintiff. UNPARALLELED 7N TIIE WEST.—Yesterday after noon, during the storm which arose about one o'clock, large flakes of snow fell at intervals. Let it be .remem bered that it snowed, ol the 27th day of August, 1844-- a thing which has reier happened in this city before during the summer a oaths, at least it is unknown to the oldest inhabitants.--Cincinnati Times, Aug. 28. LITERATURE. QUARTERLY REVIEW. No.'CXLV III. !Murray, London, 1844. The hackneyed subject of Horace Walpole and his peculiarities —a favourite hobby which the Quarterly Review has well nigh ridden to death—is again re ferred to in the Number before us. The critical re marks on the most recently published correspondence of this prince of letter -writers—that, namely, with Sir Horace Mann—though the Reviewer has evidently taken more than ordinary pains with them, are as un sound as they are captious; but indeed the whole ar ticle is characterised by a spirit of petty sarcasm and bitterness that sufficiently indicates 'the workshop whence it emanates. "As to the letters contained in these last volumes," says the Reviewer, " they cer tainly exhibit anew feature in Walpole's Correspon dence. Such is the fertility of the writer's - genius, that the wind-up of two thousand letter is marked by_ an absolute novelty; they are, as compared with all their predecessors, dull—downright heavy—hardly readable without an effort." On the contrary, the correspondence in question is perhaps the most inte resting that its author ever penned. True, it has not smartness and mere verbal felicity of the earlier series; but it is full of worldly sagacity, of philosophic observations, and gives evidence in places of a tender sensibility which feW would give Walpole credit for possessing. " Passages in the Life of a Radical" is a notice of a little work publiihed about two years since by a weaver named Bamford, who made himself conspicuous in the north by his advocacy of the prin ciples of " Orator Hunt," about the period of the me, morable Manchester massacre. The article is chiefly interesting from the number and variety of its ex tracts ; and towards the close the Reviewer impres sively warns the higher and middle classes how they persist in alienating the affections of the masses by their assumption and habits of jealous isolation. The remarks on " Stanley's Life of Dr. Arnold" are penned in a temperate and even eulogistic spirit, as regards the sturdpaninded historian of Rome, whic - h we scarcely expected to meet with in this periodical. " Arnold,' observes the Reviewer, " was a remark able man—a man of a character rarely met with now, who united the simplicity ant . s heroism of a past gene ration with the practical energy and inquiry of our own—a man truly English in his noblest points, and yet tempering the stern rigour of the English cha racter with a reflection and an amiability which rather belong to the Greek or the German mind. lie will strike those who study him more closely as a complete character—complete in its union of moral and intellectual gifts, and in the steady growth and deVelopment of both." There is no exaggeration in this portrait. Dr. Arnold was indeed a man of su• perior energy of character, the ardour of which was in a great degree tempered by the meek spirit of the Christian. As an instructor of youth, who had the rare ability of drawing forth the intellectual powers of his pupils, and making himself respected as well as beloved by them, he shone without a rival, and during the whole period of his management of it, no great public school—not even Eton—stood higher than Rugby. He had much of Dr. Parr's scholar. ship without any of his pedantry and assumption, and would—had his life been prolonged—have become one of the leading spirits of his age. As it is, he has left a reputation that is not likely to be diminished by years—more especially as an historian, a department. in literature in which the fearless and inquisitive turn of his mind enabled him to exhibit himself to signal advantage. " Diaries and Correspondence of the First Earl of Malmesbury" takes a rational and un prejudiced view of the diplomatic talents of this over rated statesman, who in a few years will be as much forgotten as if he had never lived. From a " Report on the Treatment of Lunatics" we quote the follow ing curious passage:— " It was during the Reign of Terror, and while all France !abound under a new form of insanity, that the idea was first conceived of setting loose madmen from their bonds. The good and wise physician, Pinel, seems to have been struck with the injustice of keeping his patients chained in the dungeons of Bicetre, while so many hundreds of his countrymen, more mischievously distracted than many of them, were at large to work the bloody frolics of the revolutionary phrenzy. There were at that time upwards of 300 maniacs chained in the loathsome cells of the horrible Bedlam of France. Pinel formed the resolution of setting them free from their strict restraint, and he entreated permission of the Commune to that effect. Struck with the novelty of the enterprise, at that time a sufficient recommendation before any assembly in France, the Commune listened to the proposal, and deputed one of their body, the notorious Couthon, to accompany the physician to the spot, and judge of the propriety of carrying his under taking into effect. They were received by a confused noise—the yells and vociferations of some hundred of madmen, mixed with the sounds of their clanking chains, echoing through the damp and dreary vaults of the prison. Couthon turned away with horror, but he permitted Pinel to pursue his enterprise. The philanthropist re solved speedily to liberate fifty of the number by way of experiment, and he began by unchaining twelve of the most violent. The account of his proceeding has been recorded by his nephew, Scipion Pine), in a lively narra tive, which was read before the Academy of Sciences. The first man set at liberty was an English captain. He had been forty years in chains,- and his history was for gotten by himself and all the world. His keepers ap proached him with dread : he had killed one of their comrades by a blow with his manacles. Pinel entered his cell unattended, and accosted him in a kind and con fiding manner, and told him that it was designed to give him the liberty of walking abroad, on condition that he would put on a waistcoat that might confine his arms. The madman appeared to disbelieve ; but he obeyed. His chains were removed, and the door of his cell was left open. Many times he raised himself and fell back; his limbs gave way; they had been ironed forty years. At length he was able to stand, and to stalk to the door of his dark cell, and to gaze, with exclamations of wonder and delight, at the beautiful sky. He spent the day in the enjoyment of his newly-acquired privilege; he was no more in bonds •, and during the two years of his further detention at Bicetre, assisted in managing the house. The next man liberated was a soldier, a private in the French guards, who had been ten years in chains. and was an object of general fear. His case had been one of acute mania, occasioned by intemperance—a die-. order which often subsides in a short period under absti nence from intoxicating drinks, unless kept up, as in this case, by improper treatment. When set at liberty, this man willingly assisted Pinel in breaking the chains of his fellow-prisoners: he became immediately calm, and even kind and attentive, and was ever afterwards the devoted friend of his deliverer. In an adjoining cell there were three Prussian soldiers, who had been many years in chains and darkness : through grief and despair they had sunk into a state of stupor and fatuity, the fre quent result of similar treatment, and they refused to be removed. Near to them was an old priest, harmless and patient, who fancied himself to be the Saviour of the world. When taunted by his keepers, who used to tell him that, if he was Christ, he could break the heavy chains that loaded his bands, he replied, with solemn dignity, Frustra tentaris Dominum tuunt. After his re lease he got rid of his illusion, and recovered the sound ness of his mind. Within a few days Pinel liberated fifty-three maniacs from their imprisonment. The result was beyond his hopes. Tranquillity and harmony suc ceeded to tumult and' disorder, and even the most fero cious madmen became more tractable. This took place in 1792; and the example of Pinel was followed in various parts of France." MEMOIRS OF EMINENT ENGLISHWOMEN. Vols. ill. and IV. Bentley, London, 1844. Foremost amongst these Memoirs, we find a life of the celebrated Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the great Whig General, who was certainly One of the most remarkable women that ever existed in any age or country, and ruled her heroic husband in quite as despotic a spirit as she ruled her Queen. Yet, despite. the almost sovereign authority she exercised for so many years over the coun‘ils of the nation, raising and depressing Ministers of State at her pleasure ; despite, too, the fact that her ambition was gratified in almost every respect, the life of the Duchess was, on the whole, an unhappy one ; calm, sober, ra tional enjoyment, she seems never to have known ; the husband she loved and reverenced she kept in a constant state of hot water by her irri table, capricious temper ; and even in the midst of her greatest political triumphs she appears to have been constantly haunted by a dread of reverses. Towards the close of her chequered career, when her rule as the royal favourite was at an end, she fell into a state of spleen and melancholy, and in her last moments expressed satisfaction that the time of her release was come. The Memoirs of this illustrious lady afford another striking illustration of the fact that ambition, no matter how successful it may be in all its projects, is wholly unable to confer true or lasting happiness. The portrait of the Duchess, which is prefixed to her life, conveys a very accurate idea of her character ; she rooks just the scornful, irritable, imperious beauty, who can never be satisfied with anything short of universal homage and obedience. The. lives of the unfortunate " Stella and Vanessa"—the victims of. the heartless pride and treachery of Dean Swift—are written by Miss Costello in the most just and feeling spirit. We could have wished, however, that she had spoken of the conduct of the Dean in stronger t e rms of reprobation, and represented him , as he really was , _ as one of the most callous scoundrels that Norb te%trrcole the hearts of two fond and trusting women. was thoughtless passion of youth, r of this wanton cruelty perpetrated fo i s n wi t f l t ie wa l s iea t t hi a r i t )d , y the world, when h yea efi r r s s o t f age, ilfcam a e nd a acquainted thorou Stella, g % h vit in h an and upward: , of forty wben he was first introduced to the credulous Vanessa. From the Memoirs of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, we quote an amusing Court anecdote anolgrlyaigeeeamnr r ldey e anit - ;, s ferring to herself, but related by her in the thi r d person : tt at " t S em h x e palda h ei a n d he de o r n hw o e n irs e hr e e at v so e o n n b i s n e g t do i a s tmh p ie a s particular isssu e and the Duchess informed the Ring, who, after a few complimentary remonstrances, appeared to acqui esce . But when he saw h er a b out to take her leave, he b egan battling . the poi n t a f res h , declaring it was unfair and per fidious to cheat him in such _a manner, and saying many other fine thi ngs , i n sp i te of which she at last contrived to escape. • At.the foot of the great stairs she ran against Secretary Craggs just coming in, who stopped her-to inquire what was the matter ? Were the company put off ? -She told him why she went away, and how urgently the 'King - had pressed her to stay !firmer ; possibly dwelling on that head with some smalreomplaceney. Mr. Craggs made no remark; hut, when he had heard all, snatching her up in his arms as a nurse carries'a child, he ran full speed with her up stairs, deposited her within the ante-chamber, kissed both her hands re spectfully (still not saying a word), and vanished. The pages seeing her returned, they knew not how, hastily threw open the inner doors, and, I , efore she had 're covered her breath, she found herself again in the KinO• presence. Ah ! re-voila ! cried he and the Duchess, extremely pleased, and began thanking her for her obliging change of mind. The motto on all palace gates is ' Hush!' as Lady Mary very well knew. She . had not to learn that mystery and caution ever spread their awful wings over the precincts of a Court; where nobody knows what dire mischief may, ensue from one unlucky syllable blabbed about anything, or about no thing', at a wrong time. But she was bewildered, tint,' tered, and entirely otT her guard; so, beginning giddily with Oh, Lord, Sir! I have been so frightened I' she told his Majesty the whole story exactly as she would have told it to any one else. He had not done exelairn Mg, nor his Germans wondering, 1% hen again the doer,. Hew open, and the attendants announced Mr. Secretary' Craggs, who, but that M , HICTIt arrived, it should seem. entered with the u'ual obeisance, and as composed an air as if nothing had happened. Alais comment done,' Monsieur Craggs,' said the King, going up to him, est-ce que e'est l'usage de ee pays de porter des belles dames eomme un sac de•froinent ?" Is it - the custom:of this country to carry about fair ladies like a sack of . wheat ?".I'he Minkter, struck dumb by this uncx-. tinted attack, stood a minute or two not' knowing which ? way to look ; then, recovering his self-possession, an swered with a low bow, There is nothing I would not do for yOur Majesty's satisfaction.' This was coining, tolerably well ; but he did not forgive the tell-tale vie !Tit, in whose ear, watching, his opportunity when the, King turned from them, he 'muttered a bitter reproach,' with a round oath to enforce it ; which I durst nut rc sen►,' continued she, for I had drawn it upon My self ; and, indeed, I was heArtily vexed at my own im romilenee; " JOHNSON'S TOUR IN IRELAND; Highley,- London, 1844. • Of the numerous works on Ireland with which the press has teemed for the last dozen years and upwards,. this, if not one of the soundest, is certainly one of the most entertaining. It is written in a pleasant, good- , natured spirit, approaching at times to genuine humour, and has the recommendation—so rarely to be met with in a work on the sister country—of being utterly • free from anything like religious ur political prejudice. Doctor Johnson, the author, saw and observed for himself, without reference to the opinions of others ; and gives expression to his own views of things in a spirit of the most laudable moderation and impartiality. Ills account of the famous monster meeting on the , hill of. Tara, at which he %% as present, and which he assures us was attended by upwards of three hundred thousand individuals, is one of the most diverting epi-. sodes in his volume. LIFE IN ATHENS. Painter, London, 1844. The little work before us is a translation from the German of Von Wessenberg, and professes to give an account of the character of life in Athens, in the palmy days of Pericles, and, moreover, to illustrate the spirit of ancient and modern democracy. The work consists of a series of dialogues—more re markable for staid good sense than point or bril liancy—in the. course of which the dillerent speakers. discuss the administration of Pericles, the Socratic wisdom as compared with that of • the Sophists, the nature of the Eleusiniztn Mysteries, and various other masters which, we fear, will be caviare to the gene rality of readers. There is some show of scholarship in the book, and occasionally we come across a graphic descriptive passage. MISERIES OF A NEWSPAPER EDITOR. What a life is that of .a newspaper editor ! How numerous, how varied, how onerous his duties! lie • must have under his. eyes all events,. of all, different kinds, that have passed, that are passing; and that are expected to pass, in every quarter of the globe. Ile must have his intentiDn concentrated, at one and the same time, on the weather, on the crops, on agricul ture, on markets, accidents, offences, crimes, ship wrecks, railways, births, deaths, marriages, courts of law, police-offices, the state of the Church, and the state of the Stocks, the proceedings of politicians and the proceedings of the swell mob, the blowing up of steam-boats and the blowing down of chimneys. There is nothing, in short, too great to come under his notice, or too small to elude his grasp. Regularly, • and day by day, is he under the . necessity of ferreting out and chronicling, . for the benefit (?) of his fellow-beings, all and sundry the transactions of this lower world. from the fall of a leaf to the fall of a kingdom, from the lopping of a limb to a full, true, and particular account of the last bloody murder. But, not only is this unfortunate in dividual supposed to see everything, but likewise to know everything, and to be able to do every thing. Ile is understood to be well informed upon, and able to answer all sorts of questions upon all sorts of subjects—on law, on political economy, on his tory, on statistics, on aritinnetio, on algebra, on mathematics, on geology, on theology, on •my thology, on chronology, on chronohotonthology. . By the public at. large he is regarded as a sort of " standing counsel " in all cases of difficulty. If a man wants to know the date of any historical event, what does he do ? lie writes to the editor. Has he any doubt about the authenticity of any particular piece of civil, religious, or philanthropic intelligence, what does he do ? He writes to the editor. Does he want • to know how Mr. So-and-So, the Parliament man, voted on such and such a question, when it was, why it was, and under what circumstances it was that he so voted, what does he do ? Why, he wrjtes to the editor as a matter of course. To whom else would he, under any circumstances, ever so much as dream of making application ? IVe have said, that this un fortunate personage is supposed -to see everything, to know everything, and to be able to do everything. But there is yet another call upon him, and that, perhaps, of a harder kind than all the three put together. Like the man that. carried the donkey, he is under the necessity of pleasing every body. We put it to our intelligent .and dearly-beloved Caledonian cousins whether it does not consist with their knowledge that almost every man, without exception, who takes up a newspaper expects that paper to be written solely and exclusively for himself. It is to be his paper and his alone. Ile expects to find in it everything which he wants. He is displeased if it contains anything else, or of a different character than what he requires. The ancient maiden lady, who complains that there are in the newspapers such dull things as grain mar kets, cattle-shows, and cures for the caterpillar, never once thinks that the editor may have among his subscribers some few hundreds of six-feet farmers, to whom such information may be of the most material consequence ; nor does the farmer, who finds fault with the. gossip that he sees about the great vulgar and the small ever consider that to the an tiquated mademoiselle these are the oniy tit-bits of the affair. The public-house reader, who finds fault with the love stories, and the poetry, and the other little sentimentalities in a newspaper, remembers not, that to a large class of juveniles of both sexes, from 15 to 25, such things are almost the only ones about which they may care a straw : nor does it ever come into the mind of the love-torn maidens or the smart young gentlemen who turn up their noses at the vul garity and commonplace of the police intelligence, that, without such things, to the public-house reader a newspaper would he a body without a soul. The father of a family, who complains of the scandal and tittle-tat tle' and many other little odds and ends that occasionally be brought before the public, forgets that such things form the staple of the grim old bachelors ; nor do the sinful fraternity last mentioned, who find fault with the moral paragraphs, and the notices of sermons, and the reports of religious societies which occasionally appear on the broad-sheet, call to their recollection that, in the eyes of the many, such things arc the very gems of a journal. In short, the reader of a news paper, through some unaccountable fatality, for the time forgets that there is, in reruns natura, any other being than himself. He is an exclusive, a monopolist, alone in his glory, the only living, sentient, existent yet fixed upon a .profeasn bweoirnlgd . on R th e e ad f e a r ce ! a f v t e h y i s o fair u and newspaper reading. profes sion ; 1 takkeeePin lodger—take washing. For l u f eg n — ot, ta n k e e v t e i r le o p n a c c e k_ . think up a school—set humanity's sake, an especial) for vo o u f r nbecoming niang_ . e any thing rather than become a y newspaper • ed Glasgow National. Saturday m orning last, contractor 3 or I Brookfield f yed by Messrs. Sykes an( a iN llt A l T iine ij o A 'e s l E oc sn k ° , R fiv l e iG m il e'n em p o nv DrtovvN after breakfast, in a small boat; some tricks were played D EAT tz the Shannon improvements, were returning to their work between the persons on shore and those in the boat; there was a stone thrown by a man named. Kelly, when all the persons in the boat ran to one side, and she upset; three that could swim retched the shore, . and two, one named Ratigan, and the other, named Murphy, both ‘cllaA men, were drowned. .When the news reached tS - iftflice barracks, Constable R amsay , an d Sub-Con stable 13rereton,-after much difficulty. procured a boat, but being delayed in procuring oars in sufficient time, they had ruched within a couple' of perches of the drowning, persons, when the stream carried them away, and the unfortunate men sonic to rise no more. Too touch praise cannot be given to the police for their active, although unfortunately unsuccessful, efforts to save them. On being taken up medical wistance was in at tendance, but to no effect—life was extinct, Next day there was a coroner's inquest, when th(i '.lo7,7eturned a verdict of " Accidental death by drowning*Lorwiford Journal. , DeRIIAM SCHOLARSHIP.—RaIph Lin d say,. r.4,.!3;1 Solicitor, of London, and a native of Durham, is abOlifT,,. to found a scholarship in the university of the latter city, of the annual value of 401. It will be tenable-for three years by boys, who must have been two years at Dur ham.--Tyne Mercury. •