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,~,_ xi COURT CiRCULA IVINDsou, WEDNESDAY. The ceremony ot Privat e t h e Q ueen too k p l ace t hi s mo rning • Leslie Ch ape l o f t h e C as tl e , t h e Hon. aodllev. C. • Prince Courtenay officiating.. His Royld Ilighip3ss • rrince Albert attended the ceremony. The Queen and Prince Albert waiked on the Ter race and in th e pleasure-grounds atYactn - A , to the Castle this mornin g ; a garden-chair was toktAi for her INia- Psty's use w Len required. Ills Excellency Count Nornstjerna, the Minister ' arrived to-day, and had an audience of rinee Albert, His Excellency afterwards to,k his departure for town. The Judge-Advocate-General arrived at the Castle in the forenoon, and had an audience of the Queen, to ! ü bmit to her Majesty the proceedings of some courts-m a rti a l. The Queen took an airing in the afternoon in a rnY phaeton, Prince Albert driving. The Hon. Co el Grey attended on horseback. The Royal Family were taken their usual pony a irings this morning in the grounds about the Castle, a nd were taken out in a carriage this afternoon. } ler Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent is ex pected to dine at the Castle this evening. COT ler punt Bjornstjerna, the Swedish Miniit er, :ei to wn.,, yesterday morning for Windsor Castle. His fi;xcellency returned to his residence in Mount-street 1 the evening. nispatches from Sir Robert Wilson, Govern or of Gibraltar were received yesterday at the Colonial °_f4e- Dispatches for Sir R. \Vilson, at Gibraltar, were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. 11 . Earl and C oun te,s Ducie and family, in Malkin - street el g r ase - seluare ; W. Butterworth Bayly, Esq., at the It ~urlington Hotel, Cork-street ; I)undas, Esq., at Ttto ► Lamont, Esq., at ditto ; the Hon. Capt. Cecil •I:orester, Royal Horse Guards Blue, at Lord Foresters, Ch arles -street, Berkeley-square, from the Cavalry Bar ticks, ist Windsor. DEPARTURES. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and Lady Emma c aroPbell, from Connaught-place West, fir Ardencaple as tle, N. 8.. and thence to Inverary Casle •, Arthur Webster, Esq., from the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street ; irdYund Miss Robinson, for Swanage , Dorset • Mr. o r dson, M.P., from Harley-street , for Wi lts ; dolonel Smith, Royal Hurst, Guards Blue, on a visit to the Duke rd Duchess Esq.hess M. o , f Richmond, at Gordon Castle' N. ; for the north ; the Rt - v. J. . Cooper, I% Coop er , and family, from the Waterloo Hotel, for 1 4 e ester ; J. H. Alarvin, Esq., and Mrs. Marvin, from ditto, for ditto. CHANGES. , t The M arqu i s an d M arc hioness of Douglas and suite, at ;Wick C ast l e , I s l e o f Arran, from Leamington Spa ; sr, L 3 igt)Y and. Lady Mackwcrth. from Bath , o n a tour ; " • M. 4qanley, Bart., at his shooting quarters , Glen ilero Inverness-shire, from Houton Hall, Che shire ; -( 1 ; k 13 ;azilian Minister and Madame Lisboa , from :he itork Hous e Hotel, Bath, on a tour ; Sir Richard Sut ; Ban., on the doors of Kunio, from his seat in bethishire ; Lord Ossulston, at the Earl of Malrues ml',Y shooting 7 quarters in Inverness - shire , from t he Lady Noel Byron, from Clifton Hot W ells , on a 0 o tir ;,Lord and Lady Villiers; from the Baths o f Ems. atn a visit t o P r i nce an d Princess Nicholas Esterhazy, Vienna ; the Rev. Sir Cecil and Lady Bishupp, at 'Vita, fro m a t our; Colonel Richardson, Royal Horse G uards Blue, on a visit to the Duke and Du2iiess of 'oehrnond. at Gordon Castle, N. 8., from the south ; .Burrell, from Bath, on a tour. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. MATRICULATION—EXAMINATION FOR HONOURS. (T he names are arranged in the order of proficiency. E., MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL eoavards, William Finch (Exhibition).King's Colleg e Po rter, Henry Gladdish, University College. ;t i er, George, Stonyhurst College. Malley, Robert, Manchester New College. II b e CHEMISTRY. a 1 1110 D, S. 0. (Prize of Books), King's College. Statham,lte Sherard Freeman, University College. )3 Id, Joh n , Ki ng ' s College. t i li dgwater, Thomas, King's College. Charles Sayer, Private Tuition. sk; Si'' John, King's College. ' li ner, George Robert, King's College. ZOOLOGY. Ite ld, John (Prize of Books), King's College. G reen CLASSICS. Ed Wood, George, King's College. Jackson, William Finch, King's College. Edward Sterne, UniversitCollege. A e ri s ' "°/In Charles, St. Edmund's, Ware. "`AIELce OF MEDICINE.—FIR'T EXA MINATION. E XAMINATION FOR HONOURS. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY . Ca dge, William (Exhibition and Gold Medal), Uni versity College. Copeman, Arthur Charles (Gold Medal), King's (Tolle e Kicks, John Braxton, Guy's Hospital. 'otherby, Henry Isaac, Guy's Hospital. Greenwood, William Henry, Guy's Hospital. Elam, Charles, Leeds School of Medicine. Ody, John, King's College. Duncan, Peter Martin, King's College. CHEMISTRY. Grimsdale, T. F. (Exhibition and Gold Medal), University College. Ody, John (Gold Medal), King's College. Greenw oo d William Henry, Guy's Hospital. `-?Pernan, Arthur Charles, King's College. Matthew,., Ch ar l es R eeve , University College. 411 ks, John Braxton, uy's Hospital. V T ERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIS TRY 1e ,, k8 , J. Braxt o n (Exhibition and Gold Medal), Guy's Qritiospital. rnwood, William Henry (Gold Medal) , Guy's p ftPital. ° th. '" etb Y, Henry Isaac, Guy's Hospital. We PHILIP. vve • th e give the following letter, as a curiosity, from h Edinburgh Advertiser. The cry of repeal is i :ard on the opposite side of the globe. Poor Eng- Even the convicts of Botany Bay cry out for repeal" Melbourne, Port Philip, " 27th March, 1844. " This colony, I hope, is rising again. ingThe boil or rather steaming down cattle and sheepis be coming quite a business, and the tallow, I hear , is white and hard. There are now three or 1 °I;Ir large establishments formed for the purpose which this town on the banks of the Yarra, some o f luell boil do wn two or three hundred sheep every : 4 Y• The legs are either sold fresh at 6d. each, or are salted and cured. This makes a sheep worth m uch more than it used to be; and I really believe th e average value now is about from 6 s. 6 d. to 7 s. each. They are also commencing to boil down cattle, which ill pay the settler much better than at the v r ices the butchers at present give. The process is i pple, but the stench is dreadful. Pigs are fed with offal—which makes no difference to me—not being a pork eater—but I don't envy those who do eat such meat. " There has been a great amount of tallow ex- Ported this season, and next year the quantity will be very much larger. We have likewise exported this Year a very large supply of Mimosa bark—some People say enough to Out the home market. The ": o ° l has been earlier dispatched this season, but the iQuality I rather think is not quite up to the mark ; as °b e ,. Wool g rowers being so short of cash, have been Liged to hurry the washing and shearing that they Tight o bt a i n t h e a d vance . I may explain to you that e w Persons " buy out" the wool here—the merchants a nd hanks, instead, advance a certain sum, say 10 d. Per lh. to the grower, and when the returns arrive from home, the settler receives anything that may be over the 10d., after deducting expenses and the com mission of the broker, &c. If the wool does not b ring 4, the said 10d., then the settler has to make up the difference. I believe, however, that this year only 9d . has been advanced, and the settler will, therefore, most likely have to receive. "The people of Port Philip are loudly crying out for s eparation'—the Governor having just drained this tre asury of 20,0001.—the fact is, that almost all the rev enue of Port Philip is spent in Sydney, and I reallyo cannot wonder at the cry. Port Philip, strange t say, was made in Sir George Gipp's time, and yet h a treats it as a changeling. ," A good deal has been said lately about the desir ableness o f ma ki ng thi s the central depot for the „ n rQ elis quartered in these colonies. It seems rather a ' IS .M idea, for it would be very easy to have a body %I men here at a moment's notice to throw into either of the older colonies. I cannot say that I should f ancy, Van Di emen ' s Land much as a place to live in , ' 1 ?w• The enormous number of convicts at present at large on wages is rather fearful, and robberies, &c., are becoming very frequent. It is reported that 400 "'en have broken out from a stockade, and are in pos session of a road, and that the military are in full march to oppose them—also that the Government _Yenisei (a lar ge b r i g ) h as b een s eized by sixty convicts, :no have obliged the master to stand off with them ~° r some place as yet unknown to the authorities : how 'el', we have no correct tidings yet of all this." birds - uhtstiNG-Biaps.—We found many humming at Port San Antonio, which we attributed to the sheltered situation of the place, and the luxuriant growth of fusehias and other plants, upon the sweets of whose flo wers they f ee d. Here, hewever, one of the same spe cies w as seen sporting about in a most exposed place litinad during the fall of a snow shower — a proof of the rdY character of this little bird, which, if it doe 3 mi grate upon the a pp roac h o f w i n t e r to a warmer clime, irl gers, at least, as lon as it possibly can. This was th e middle o f A pr i l ; the winter had, in fact, already (?mmenced, and all the mountains around us were clothed with snow, while the ground was also coated with the same dazzling covering.—Voyages of the Adven lire and Beagle. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY IVIORNINEC AUGUST 29, 1844. LORD BROUGHAM'S INSOLVENCY THE LATE COLONEL CAR MICHAEL. We have the painful task of announcing the pre mature death of our gallant countryman, Lieutenant- Colonel Lewis Carmichael, which took place at Forres on the Bth instant. A braver soldier, or a man of a more gentle, affectionate, and modest, yet independent nature, never existed. Colonel Carmichael com menced his military career as an ensign in the 59th Regiment, in 1809, whilst he was yet a mere boy. His first campaign was in the Peninsular war, when, towards its close, he was four times wounded, and on one of these occasions ve_ry severely. He was en gaged at the battle of Vittoria, at the siege and capture of St. Sebastian, the battles of the Nieve and Nivelle, and at the crossing of the Bidassoa. After the escape of Napoleon from Elba, the Colonel was with his regiment at Waterloo, and was next engaged at the storming of Cambray. Shortly after the peace he joined his regiment in India, where he served in the Mahratta war of 1817 and 1818, and in the commotions of Ceylon in the following year. In 1826 he particularly dis tinguished himself at the siege of Bhurtpore, being then Aide-de-camp to Sir Jasper Nicol. •n some of these occasions his conduct and bravery were made the subject of special mention in general orders. In Canada also, during the late disturbances, his ser vices merited and received similar acknowledg ments. He was in command of the regular and militia forces when Beauharnois was given up by the insurgents, and afterwards commanding at Co teau-de-Lac, he was as efficient in keeping the quiet of the provinces as he had been before in quelling the insurrection. He attained his majority by purchase after leaving India, in 1829; his Unattached 1 Lieutenant-Colonelcy was the reward of his service in Canada. At St. Sebastian he was the only officer out of thirteen who accompanied the advance that entered the town; and at Bhurtpore he did signal services at the greatest personal risk, by examining a part of the interior defences three days previous to the assault. Some of the trophies taken at Bhurtpore were handsomely presented to him by the Indian Go vernment. On the occasion of the shipwreck of a portion of his regiment, on board the Lord Melville transport, near Kinsale, in the year 1815, he displayed his admirable courage, coolness, and the influ ence he possessed over his men, and was mainly instrumental in conducing to their preservation. In Canada, the Glengarry Highlanders looked up to him as a brother, while they obeyed him as a chief. The cairn raised by them in honour of Lord Seaton, was planned at the suggestion of Colonel Carmichael, and his own assistance in rearing this singular structure was not . wanting. He was greatly attached to all relating to the Gael, and cherished their language, their customs, and the remembrance of all connected with the north, in whatever part of the world his destiny led him. The duties of private life he discharged in the most exem plary manner. He was a devoted and affectionate re lation, an attached and constant friend, and a highly agreeable and intelligent companion. His constitu tional firmness and intrepidity were united to the mildest disposition and most unassuming demea nour. The respect in which he was held was strikingly evinced on the occasion of his death, which was felt by all who knew him as a personal calamity; while his funeral was numerously attended both in Forres and Strathspey. At the former of these places, nearly all the respectable inhabitants followed his remains, and many of the neighbouring proprietors (among whom were the Earl of Moray, Sir W. G. G. Cumming, Bart., &c.) joined in the same mournful tribute to departed worth. He now sleeps in his " narrow bed" amongst his native hills in the church-yard of Cromdale. Peace to his ashes—ho nour to his memory !—lnverness Courier. LAWS. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) " The children who have eaten their cake, are the natural enemies of those who have their cake to eat."—BENTIIAM. It is the vice of lawyers that they cannot under stand or ever see a new principle, much less see the time when a new principle must be known and ap• plic d. They saw, and rightly enough, that the old insolvency-laws were brutally severe, but, instead of taking the old procedure all to pieces, and devising a rational one in place thereof, they only meliorated the old plan by applying egregious absurdities thereto. While they were justly horrified at the hanging of men for offences (as bankrupts) wi.ich deserved a much milder punishment, the lawyers went on patching and patching, and still their work remains an incorrigible heap of inefficient errors. The ad justment of bad debts was made a subject of equity jurisdiction, burdened with the cumbrous and ex pensive machinery of Chancery, or a punishment was inflicted at once on the alleged debtor without due trial and proof. As well might men be charged on oath with stealing watches, and then be consigned to prison until they or their value were - refunded, as when it was found the prisons . were crammed, and when countless indiscriminating acts of oppression were committed, the odd device should be hit on, of having a periodical goal delivery, and that failing, to construct a court for the regular relief of pickpockets. Belief from indefinite punishment, afforded to men who had been merely charged but never tried, and yet had endured a certain sum of imprisonment! Yet such was the remedy hit upon to cure insolvency, which has been since improved further by Lord Brougham, not only by liberating all indiscriminately who had been as yet untried by any court, but by shutting the prison doors almost entirely against all insol vents. From a wild and unconstitutio n a l punish ment, the Legislature has run into the opposite error of no punishment at all. Thus giving practical im punity to all persons who, no matter what may be the cause, did not fulfil their promise and pay their just debts ; for, except in rarest instances where the in jured creditor is animat©d by vengeance, a very rare fact, there are no means by which a debtor can be punished, he who is, in almost all cases, deserving punishment. All this arises from an unwillingness to expound the principles on which insolvency laws , should be founded. These principles are— ], All men who make contracts, if they be lawful, should be required to fulfil them, being liable to certain sanctions if they do not. 2. He who receives money or goods from another, under bargain or contract to restore the same at a fixed time, should be bound by law so to do, and should be visited by puishments of due severity if he do not, unless he act involuntarily. 3. He who incurs a debt, makes this sort of con tract, and he must pay the whole debt, or being unable t..) pay it, he must do so to the utmost extent of his ability ; and 4. He must endure punishment, in order that other people may be deterred from breaking the like sort of contracts if, as the evidence shows, is almost univer sally the case, he has voluntarily rendered himself unable to do so, that is, by acts over which he had more or less control ; and 5. He has done so voluntarily, who has become in insolvent, because he has been idle, has neglected his business, and not kept proper accounts; or who has been extravagant, and has enjoyed more pleasures than his own means would allow ; or who has been dishonest, and has concealed and removed beyond re covery all or part of the effects, without his creditors incur an expense equal to, or greater than the value to be recovered. The evils the insolvent has inflicted on society are great indeed. Ist. He has misapplied the wealth, the produce of other men's toil, and with which other men have entrusted him, and in violation of his solemn en gagement, thus rendering property insecure (except that protected by special laws) ; he has weakened the motives to be industrious, and to accumulate, and thus diminished the quantity of wealth in the land; he is a public enemy. 2d. He has wasted the wealth he sh , aild have husbanded and productively invested. 3d. He has forfeited voluntarily his word, and thus diminished confidence between man and man ; but it is of the very greatest importance that in all cases the simple word of a man should be absolutely received with confidence, especially in a commercial nation. The baneful act of the insolvent (a modification of stealing) is felt all through society to diminish that indispensable confidence, and laws which do not punish him encourage a social pestilence. 4th. He injures directly, trade and commerce, because in order that there may be national prosperity it is desirable that the greatest number of persons should be in the highest credit, so that they may obtain an v amount of credit, " at any time, on their mere word, "I promise to pay ; which should in all cases (as in millions of cases it does) pass with the same value as coin. The labours of Lord Brougham (who is in a state of stolid igno rance on the subject he has legislated about) would not be more mischievois if he had repealed all Acts relating to forgery and to coining, and the uttering of base coin, and told the people (a 3 he has done with regard to that much more universally circulated me dium a word-of-mouth-promise-to-pay) that they must mind what coin and what notes they accept, for the law shall afford them no protection any more than if they were in Negroland. It these principles be true—and • they are incontro vertible; Lord Brougham can no more disprove them than he can disprove the law of the triangle—it fol lows that our commercial code must be constructed by other hands than those whose " frantic" presump tion has, and is continuing, to confiscate the treasure of the middle classes, whose very social existence i 3 placed in peril by bad insolvency-laws, just as that of the lower classes has been destroyed by long continued bad laws. Insolvency-laws are to the middle classes what poor-laws are to the lower classes. MAUCHLIN E.—LORD GLEN LEE.—On Monday the .2th inst. ' Lord Glenlee entered upon the 90 th year of his age. A handsome entertainment was dispensed at Barskimming to the people in his Lordship's employ ment ; and in the evening about thirty of the inhabitants of Mauchline met at supper in the Black Bull Inn, to drink his Lordship's health, Dugald Hamilton, Esq., in the chair. The chairman, in proposing the toast of the evening—the health of the Venerable Baronet—passed a high and just encomium upon his character and useful ness ; and the Rev. Mr. Fairlie, minister of the parish, in proposing the health of Miss Miller, stated that he had that day received from this benevolent lady the sum of 10/., to be distributed amongst the poor of the parish. A number of other appropriate toasts were given ; and the evening was spent in the utmost harmony.. NEW THRESHING MACHINE.—There is DOW in operation at Tywarnhale experimental farm, a threshing machine, which, from its simplicity of construction, and its great power, is a vast improvement on the former threshing machine, or those now generally used. It performs the work of three horses, and threshes 125 sheaves of whew, and 225 sheaves of barley or oats an hour ; and this is performed by a poor pony of thirteen hands high. The improver is a miner, named Michael Harris, a poor man residing at Silverwell, in the parish of St. Agnes, who is possessed of surprising natural genius, and therefore deserves support. He carries the whole apparatus about in a small cart, and contracts with the farmers of the neighbourhood at per 100 sheaves. Several gentlemen have seen the machine, and pro nounced it to be the greatest improvement yet made. — West Briton. RAILWAY INTERCOURSE AND NATIONAL ANTIPA THIES.—The Hon. Mr. Liddell, M.P., at the late open ing of the Newcastle and Darlington Railway, is stated by the York Gazette to have spoken on this subject as follows :—" He could show them the truth of the adage, that great events often spring from apparently triflin g ca uses, and how, in f ac t, it appeared to him that nothing was more likely to preserve and maintain a universal peace than the establishment of railways in this country and over the whole world. They had all been very much in the habit of attributing a fictitious and tinsel glory to the blaze of war ; whilst the trials which it necessarily involved, and th e dangers which it held o ut, w ere known only to th ose w h o were c alled on to perform a part in the scene. Th ey had heard of their na tural e nemies from childhood, and in their infancy France had been painted to them as their greatest foe, and consequently they had been induced through life to CLOSE OF THE CROWN BUSINESS AT LIVERPOOL. look with feelings o f hostility on their contine ntal neigh -Yesterday afternoon the Lord Chief Baron dis p osed of hours. He had been livin g lately in the neighbourhood all the cases in the calendar. As his Lordship has of a railway — the Folkestone and Dover line — a n d on declined, most probably on account of the fatigue Whit-Monday last he had seen the whole population the of he has undergone upon the circuit , to take any the neighbourhood of the metropolis, forth an d ourieg also of the Nisi Prius causes still standing ove r for trial, he counties of Surre will leave for London this morning. It is worthy of re- their myriads to t a k e the a d van t ag e of the holidays, Y, Kent, and Sussex , p mark that, at the present assizes, no prisoner has been an e d L mi n g d rate for a time, through the instrumentality of left for execution. We believe it is quite impossible that th o on and Dover , line, amid fresh scenes and pros the assizes can terminate before Monday or Tuesday pects, an r d c whiling away their leisure in a trip to Bon , Which, but for the formation of rail e been spent in encouraging feelings of ninegx.tththeereswooenreesnt,naise,waetrthtehrainsintgweonf twenty -four l w. o a g y n s e , .in o ight al h a a is v twelve special jury causes remaining over for disposal by Tat i ation against their natural enemies. This was but a yet it spoke volumes to a reflecting mind f l‘ n l r r m . J id u a s b ti l c e e C am re n s u s n w t ell o . f on extension of results which must be realised from the although he has now been sitting for nearly a fortnight, _ ofrailway interests." H bu is sin L e many of the undisposed-of causes bein° of considerable A N EW rEicK. ossrdsyheitp thoas,getth7herfoerneg,hg, sing_e example, —lt has become a maxim among those who supply length.—Liverpool Courier of Wednesday. the labourers on the railway lines with necessaries, to A BATTLE BETWEEN TWO HARES.--On Easter have the money in one hand before they deliver the Sunday, in the afternoon, as I was proceeding with my t lit - of beinggoods from the other, to prevent any possibi brother-in-law, Mr. Carr, to look at a wild duck's nFs h ra Y ctised b - cheated. The following device was lately in an adjacent wood, we saw two hares fighting witds Practice. i r : e n d e of those workmen to evade this safe inconceivable fury on the open ground about 150 yar like Pshoemakersresiding at Shap. The labourer, having ordered a two bull dogs resolutely bent on destruction. Havhinng the mannerPa n i f ! of shoes, with particular direction as to watched them for about a quarter of an hour, we t ' a similar th eir make, went to the other, and gave entered the wood, I observing to Mr. Carr that we should order, with the like directions •, both pairs to the be ready b find them engaged on our return. We stayed in s ready by a Calledthe for his shoes, and played his part so a P s to mane hares still in desperate battle. They had moved along away with rim, by ; ► some petty excuses, to get a shoe the hill side, and the grass was strongly marked with f them. A shoe foroal each, place, without paying for their down for a space of twenty yards. At last one o n each foot was all he wanted ; and, of course, he left the the sylvan warriors fell on its side, and never got up osons of St. Crispin to condole with each other on their its legs again. Its antagonist then retreated for a yard loss.—Kendal Mercury. d MANCHESTE or so, stood still for a minu te as if in contemplation, an then rushed vengefully on t he fallen foe. This retreat HILL.—The R TESTIMONIAL TO MR. ROWLAND Committee, we perceive, have issued an the ' and advance was perfor med man y times ; the conqueror address to striking its prostrate adver sar y with its fore feet, and employed in establi s h ments , f rom which we make the clawing off great quantities of down with them. In the following extract e 5..,,, To Mr. Hill, whose services as yet meantime the vanquished hare rolled over and over are unacknowledged, th e public owe a great debt of grati again, but could not reco ver the use of its legs, although tulle. political services an d m ili tar y ac hievements are it made several attempts t o do so. Its movemements rewarded, ed , yet, whatever may b e t h oug h t o f t h e i r va l u e, put you in mind of a dru nken man tr y in g to get up from what are they in compa r i son w i th the peace f u l tr i ump h s the floor after a hard night in the ale house. It now lay of commerce, civilisation, knowledge, and religion, which still on the ground effectually subdued, while the other arise from the h more easy intercourse of mind with mind, continued its attacks upon it with the fury of a little and which t, e_ e penny postage system has so essentially demon. Seeing that the fight was over, we approached promoted ?" i6 ibe lo a r l e ly closing the subscription, which has the scene of action—the conqueror retiring as we drew already been and tradesmensupported by the merchants, ma near. I took up the fallen combatant just as it was nufacturers, _ _ of the town, it has been breathing its last. Both its sides had been completely thoiht desirable other persons employed in warehouses, from its back and belly. It was a well-conditioned buck- &c., to express their gratitude to Mr. Rowland Hill, from hare, weighing, I should suppose, from seven to eight whose system. they have, in common with other classes pounds.— Waterton's Essays on Natural History. derived i nes timable advantages. It is hoped that every contribute BIRTH OF TWINS AT SEA.—On Monday afternoon individual will according to his means and 1 ter Gu ardian, the steam-ship Royal Adelaide, Captain Allison, arrived ebility.—.Manc Les ardian. at St. Katherine's steam-packet wharf, London, from STATE or TH E POOR IN EDINBURGIL—It is grati- Leith. During her passage she unexpectedly received lying to be abl e t °state, that the health of the city an accession to the number of her passengers. Whilst among the poorer f classes is better at the present time between Flainborough-head and the Dudgeon, Mrs. than it has bees or m i ens, years past. The fever that Currie, a second-cabin passenger, was suddenly taken ill. scourged us s _evere r f . last year, has now almost en- Fortunately there happened to be a medical gentleman tirely disappeare.d, a solitary case occurring only occa (Mr. MSLeish) among the cabin passengers, who, on being sionally to remind us of its former severity. It ap• informed of Mrs.. Currie's indisposition, instantly ten- pears, also, that employment is much more general—a dered his assistance, and in less than half an hour after- state of matters which F the harvest will, of course, still wards communicated the result of his labours—Mrs. further increase. From the combined influence of these Currie's safe delivery of female twins. Mrs. Currie was two causes, the num the r of applications to the Destitute proceeding from Leith to London to join her husband, Sick Society during arter that has just passed is who is a respectable tradesman. He was waiting his fewer than has been known fur many previous years.— wife's arrival on the St. Katherine's-wharf, but not ob- Caledonian Mercury. serving her among the passengers on deck, he made in- THE ARTESIAN WELL OF GRENELLE.—The Pre quiries of Mr. MVallum, / ss the stewa rd , of the second ca - feet o f the Seine, accompanied by M. Ara g o and the bi n , if she was on boaru. He received an answer in the en gineers of the city of Paris, yesterday visited the affirmative, and, moreover, that she had brought 'to him basins of the Estrapade,into which the water of the two presents, but that neither Mrs. Currie nor they could artesia n well of Grenelle was introduced f or th e fi rs t ti me . be handed over for at least a day. He looked unutter - The flow was in the highest degree satisfactory. There able things, and exclaimed, " Has she been seized with a re two basins placed at the angle of the R ues Clotilde smuggled whisky ?" "No, not exactly s°9" replied Mr. and la Ve ille Estraparde ; each of them will contain M`Callum ; "you'd better come down and see The about 50,000 hectolitres, and is 30 metres higher than husband did so, and found his better half with two beau- the mouth of the well, which is 548 metres in depth. At tiful babes lying beside her. His surprise may be easily the mouth of the well the flow of water is equal to 100 imagined. On Tuesday afternoon the mother and in- fountain inches, or 20,000 hectolitres per day ; but the fants left the Royal Adelaide, where every kindness and reservoirs will only receive half this quantity. About attention was paid them by Captain Allison and others 20 inches are de stined for the su pply of subscribers , and I on board, for Colnbrook, near W inds or , in a private the rest for the public fountains. The source which carriage and pair, accompanied by the husband and Mr. ' supplies the water is 512 metres below the level of the Warwick, the obliging steward of the first cabin, and sea ; the height to which it rises is 60 metres above that arrived safely at their destination the same evening. i level.—Gdignani of Saturday. We understand the twins are to be baptized respectively 1 A large finner-whale was caught near Spurn Point, "Adelaide" and " Allison," the former being the name lon Wednesday morning last. It was alive when taken, of the ship, and the latter that of her kind and attentive 1 but died in the after noon . It measured from 35 to 40 commander.—Cakdonian Mercury. I feet from the tip of the nose to the tail. FRANCE AND MOROCCO. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. HERALD.—The news of the brilliant victory obtained by Marshal Bugeaud over the Moors, as re corded in the recent telegraphic dispatch from the French camp, appears to have produced a singularly opposite effect upon two of our Contemporaries ; for whilst it has filled one with the gravest apprehensions, it has supplied an apparently fruitful source of merri ment to the other. Their mirth and despondency appear to us to be equally out of place. We can dis cover nothing ridiculous in the statement that the private baggage of the Emperor's son, as well as the tents and artillery of his followers, was captured (the shaving tackle of Napoleon formed part of the spoils of Waterloo) ; or in the fact that eight hun dred of the enemy were left dead upon the field. Still less can we understand why so decisive a battle, and one which holds out so fair a prospect of termi nating the dispute between the two countries, at once, should have produced dismay instead of exul tation in the minds of those statesmen and politicians who are anxious for the maintenance of the peace of Europe. Much as the frightful loss of life recorded in the Marshal's dispatch is to be de plored, it is far better that such should have been the case than that thousands upon thousands should hereafter be sacrificed in a long and fruit less contest, in which victory on the part of the French could purchase no corresponding advantage, and which might eventually lead to con sequences disastrous to the rest of Europe. What ever may have been the merits of the original dispute, it cannot be denied that the Emperor of Morocco has behaved, in all his later negotiations, with great perfidy and faithlessness. At Tangiers, as well as on the Moorish frontier, his sole object appears to have been delay. The Prince de Joinville has been blamed for having commenced operations against Tangiers with the knowledge that the Em peror had signified to Mr. Drummond Hay his acquiescence in all the conditions imposed upon him in the ultimatum of the French Government; and this charge, although it has been more than once satisfactorily refuted, was repeated no later than yes terday, by a Contemporary, as still demanding ex planation. Now, so far from there being any foundation for such an imputation, it has been dis tinctly shown that whilst the Emperor refused to comply with four out of the seven demands of Spain, he insisted on the withdrawal of Marshal Bugeaud altogether from his frontier ! It moreover ap pears that whilst these negotiations were in progress his son was hurrying to form a junction with his father's main army, with a reinforcement of 20,000 men I The Prince de Joinville had, there fore, no alternative; and has even been abused for avoiding, as much as possible, the destruction of life and property at Tangiers. The Marshal, on the other hand, appears to have found the same difficulty in ob taining anything like a definite answer to the ulti matum of his Government ; and it was not until he became satisfied that the army before him would soon be increased, by the arrival of the Maroquin Prince, from 20,000 to 40,000 men, and that affairs " were every day becoming more menacing," and until the enemy had assumed the offensive, that he was induced to attack them ; and looking at the com paratively small force at his disposal (from 10,000 to 12,000 men), his victory appears to have been most ' decisive. Now so far from such a defeat being calculated to lead to a protraction of the war, it is much more likely to put an end to it altogether. If the French deserve credit for their assurance theat they have no view to ultimate occupation in their present operations, and if we accept this disclaimer, we can have nothing to fear, so far as the general peace is concerned, from this quarrel, end when it may. To infer its prolongation, how ever, from such a defeat as has just been sustained by the Maroquins, at the hands of a force vastly inferior to them in numbers, and that too on their own van tage ground, is most perverse. Had the Moors beaten the French, there might have been some pre text for the apprehension ; for in that event the Em peror would have begun to consider himself invin cible ; and it might have taken some time and large reinforcements to have altered his opinion. It is true that he cannot fail to be aware of the extreme diffi culty of penetrating into the interior of his country, but be has witnessed the sacrifices which the French have not hesitated to make (whether wisely or not is not the question) in Algeria, and may fairly infer therefrom that, even if he should be enabled to make head against them, he can only do so at a severe cost to himself. Such are the reasons for our belief that so soon as the first fever of his resentment has sub sided he will discover the folly of further resistance, and yield, on all reasonable points, to the conditions demanded of him. CHRONICLE.—The tidings brought by the above express are indeed important. Another port of Morocco bombarded, and an island occupied and garrisoned! Here is the cases belli so recently and so vauntingly demanded by our Ministerial Contem porary. Here is a considerable " endangerment of our convenience." Here is " occupation !" It may be said that the occupation is but of an island, only two miles in circumference, and at least a quarter of a mile from the shore. This island forms the port of Mogadore, and since the defences of the town are destroyed, it of course commands town, port, and bay, and is, to all intents and purposes, an occupation of all three. Yet it evades, rather than directly con travenes, the wish of the English Government that France should not occupy. It is but a quasi-occupa pation, and Admiral de Joinville and his sire may laugh in their sleeves at what they no doubt consider a mystification of Lord Aberdeen. The dexterity, indeed, with which the French have gulled, and tricked, and deceived our Foreign Minister into confidence for the last few months would be amusing, if our interests were not so deeply con cerned. At first they were all pacific, all dis interested, and when the quarrel arose between Spain and Morocco, they pressed the English Government to act mediator, and declared it to be a most injurious calumny to suppose that they urged the Spaniards to make difficulties or demands. Then came their own quarrel, got up so adroitly in conjunction or in continuation of the Spanish one. On this the mistrust of the British Ca binet was of course excited, but then it was lulled by france coming forward to declare that she required but three things—the dispersion of the Moorish troops, the punishment of the Moorish offi cers, and the sending of Abd-elsKader to some dis tant province. But, whilst M. Guizot made these demands, the conduct of Marshal Bugeaud on the frontier was so provocative, that he never gave a week's time to the Emperor of Morocco to accept or act upon such propositions. At length Mr. Drum mond Hay was commissioned to try his powers of persuasion with the;Emperor, and our accounts allege that he perfectly succeeded, the Emperor yielding all demands. The letter which we published was a friendly one, written to convey the general fact and impres sion, not a diplomatic or precise statement. The Journal des Debats has evidently sought for informa tion on the subject at the French Foreign-office, and from this information impugns the exactitude of our letter. The terms of its contradiction are as follow "Everyone knows that the Emperor refused four of the seven conditions demanded by Spain, and that he demanded the recal of Bugeaud.' Now, it is pretty evident from this that the Emperor did grant the three demands of France. If he had not, the Debats would have been able tocontradict the assertion. And it is very natural that when the Moorish Emperor consented to recal and disperse his army, to punish his officers, and force Ab-el-Kader to retire, he should demand that his efforts to do this might be facilitated by Marshal Bugeaud's retiring also from his menacing position on the frontier. Such a de mand on the part of the Emperor was not unreason able, and even if the French had objections to grant it, nevertheless, the Emperor having ceded all their de mands, ought to have had at least the effect of inducing the French to postpone hostilities. But, although it appears that all their own conditions had been obtained, the French had another excuse for keeping open the differences, and prolonging hos tilities. This was the demand of Spain. In answer to our letter, the Journal des Debats triumphantly exclaims—Oh, the Emperor would consent to but three of the seven demands of Spain! We have not now time to enter into the justice of all these de mands, of which we feel certain that the Emperor ceded the material part; but we remember that Lord Aberdeen, on the 13th of June, declared that both Spain and France desired that England should em ploy its efforts to mediate, and bring about an ar rangement. If so, is it not hard that France should bombard, because all those demands were not uncon ditionally granted ? But independently of such con siderations, we must most strenuously protest against France thus assuming the exclusive protectorate of Spanish interests, and against her bombarding, block ading, and occupying the ports of Morocco, in order to enforce, not a French, but a Spanish ultimatum; and we must say, that if Lord Aberdeen has suffered this, he has, indeed, put the cope-stone upon a series of the most imbecile and pusillanimous policy that ever disgraced a British Administration. TIMES.—The spectacle of the Mauritian expedi tion continues to animate the ardour of the French marine, and to amuse the imagination of the French people. But will it end in nothing beyond spectacle ? beyond the i Will n t nhoce chapter ohfoacf revealartillery, s ry , and over throw of ill-conditioned forts ? Wi ll the cannonading always be restricted to the functions of a national scold? Will the Prince Admir al content himself with punishing a covert and passive foe ? Or that which will was the natural penalty b castigation diverge into aggr e ssion, and theno nothing g ti of insidious hostility e dis torted into an excuse for a scheme of vast and dan gerous aggrandizement ? These are questions which are necessarily suggested by the very character and origin of such a war as the French are waging against Morocco ; and every day which passes in creases their urgency and their importance. Since his cannonade of Tangiers the Prince de Joinville has attacked Mogadore, and after having razed ' the town and fortifications, taken possession of the island and the port. This latter fact is one which may add to the embarrassments of diplomatic nego tiation, unless after-information modify or explain it. It is the first instance, during the expedition, of the French having occupied the place which they besieged. It is not indeed a departure from the general understanding which prevails in such cases, but from a promise given either explicitly or by implication in the present one. But at the same time it is such a departure as may be palliated by the prac tice and necessities of aggressive warfare. The terms of hostilities between two independent nations are not of course to be dictated by any third party. Eng land cannot direct France how to besiege Moorish towns or demolish Moorish forts. She cannot say to the French Admiral, " You must always anchor your ships at such a distance ; you must never set foot on an island which commands the object of your attack ; or having once landed, you must embark again within such and such a time." Language like this would be equally arrogant and absurd. But she has a right to say to any country carrying on a mari time war in the the vicinity of her own possessions, " You shall not make this a war of aggrandizement ; you shall not make acquisitions injurious to the com merce and influence of England ; you shall not add to your, nor infringe upon .our, empire in the Mediter ranean. You shall not retain one rood of land, what ever may be the success-of your arms, or the submis sion of your foes." England may speak thus in the spirit of self-assertion and self-defence, of salutary jealousy and politic precaution, and with the help of a strong arm and large resources to support her both in her remonstrances and her demands. Yet it is easy to see how these conditions of hosti lity may appear to be violated even where there is a full intention of adhering to them with good faith. The island off Mogadore has been occupied by the in vading squadron. This is prima facie a violation of a compact between France and England. But it is not necessarily so. The island, we believe, commands the town, fortification, and port, in such a way as to render its occupation a condition necessarily prece dent to the successful attack of the town itself. If this be the case, it is as yet only a seeming, not a real, infringement of their engagement on the part of the French. But if this occupation continue after its necessity has ceased—if other places are occupied in the same way without excuse, or retained after the causes which may be supposed to justify their occu pation have ceased to exist—then we shall have no hesitation in declaring that a breach of trust has been committed—a gross wrong done, for which this coun try is bound to demand explanation and redress. In the meantime, however, we discern no reason for suspecting our neighbours of any such intention, or convicting them of such misconduct. And it were rash—worse than rash, it were unjust, insulting, and quarrelsome, to rush to the conclusion—a con clusion which would militate against the positive assurances received from France—that the occu pation of the island near Mogadore is only the prelude to a system of African conquests and European annoyances. We hope better things. W e trust the good sense and the good faith of the French King and his Ministers will exclude this new element of strife from the too ample magazine of feuds and jealousie-. We trust that the self-knowledge of the French people will prevent them entering on the mad attempt of raising a maritime empire in Africa. And when we say this—speaking as we do with a know ledge of, and a firm confidence in, our own resources —we would not be understood as impugning the cou rage or personal prowess of our rivals. An unneces sary and superfluous amount of indignation has been kindled in Paris by a hurried phrase in an extempore contribution to our columns. No one, least of all a British officer, would deliberately charge Frenchmen, whether sailors or soldiers, with whole sale cowardice. But any one, and especially a British naval officer, might be expected to criticise the sea manship, the gunnery, and the nautical address of a French Admiral and a French fleet. Nor would any one be so likely as British officers to see and un derstand the deficiencies and errors of those whom they criticised. Accustomed to the quick, neat, noise less, manceuvres of an English man-of-war—to the rapid dash of an English frigate—to the admirable precision of English gunnery—they would of course exult at the comparative slovenliness and awkward ness of French tactics and practice. Nor should our neighbours be so intensely disgusted at this sort of criticism. It is no fault of theirs that they are not born sailors. But it is the fact—a strong, unalterble fact. They are not for the sea, nor the sea for them. It is not in their rule. Their genius loves the land. With us—but why repeat the familiar boast, which the experience of the past has made a household pro verb, and which it were indeed treason to doubt but that the future will confirm ? For the result of a maritime collision with France, or any other power of Europe, we have no fear whatever. Our men, our ships, and our skill, are as they were in the best days of our history ; and we hope not to he driven to the necessity of war, much more than we dread the pro bable issue of a contest which, on every other ground, we are earnestly anxious to avoid. THE FjtENCH IN MOROCCO. (From the Times.) OaAN, Ana. 17.—Before the arrival of the news of the grand victory obtained by Marshal Bugeaud over the Moors on the 14th inst., we had heard that the Mar shal was nearly surrounded by the enemy, and expected to be attacked every hour. The enclosed proclamation gives you all the information which I have on this last affair on the frontier, which is indeed grave, and will convince all that war has begun in earnest. The Marshal continues to receive fresh troops, both from France and other parts of Algeria. The two ca valry regiments are now complete. The Hussars, con sisting of 588 men and 501 horses, have already joined the Marshal; the 10th Chasseurs, consisting of 505 men and 359 horses, have arrived here. The best riders are to have Arab horses, which is the reason the horses do not equal the number of men. Five more regiments of cavalry are expected—one of Lancers, one of Chasseurs, one of Hussars, and two of heavy horse. Without ca valry it is impossible to proceed in the interior, infantry not being sufficient to cope with the vast numbers of ca valry which the Moors are capable of bringing into the field. However, 500 infantry came yesterday in:the steamer from Algiers, who had previously arrived there from Port Vendres. It is rumoured that kogiii - 20,000 addi tional troops are expected. The fresh troops are to be distributed on the coast, and the troops aguerres are to join the Marshal. But . ihis is evidently exaggeration. Nevertheless, if the Marshal intend seriously to invade Morocco, and to march to Fez, several additional regi ments will be needed. Perhaps, however, this victory of Isly may induce the Moors not to expose themselves to fresh diasters, but to listen to peace. Yet we must not be too confident; on the contrary, this defeat may ex asperate, not humble, the Moors. Extermination alone may reduce the Moors of Morocco. It was the intention of the Marshal to have remained on the defensive, and to have waited the result of the naval operations of the Prince de Joinville on the coast of Morocco, as the Marshal found himself in want of cavalry as well as provisions and military stores. The Marshal is also encumbered with sick. A few days ago, 250 sick were brought from the hospitals of Tlemcen to Oran, and 1,000 mattrasses have been sent to that p l a ce for the accommodation of invalids. As the season advances, the sick are expected to increase, and these mattrasses are a provision for them. The Marshal would, undoubtedly have remained on the defensive, had he not had a good opportunity of attacking the Moors. It seems he sought the enemy for fear of being over whelmed with increasing numbers. As to the exact amount of troops which the Marshal has now with him, I cannot tell you. A person who has just come from the camp says about 17,000. It is ex pected that the troops will be sent direct from France to Jemaa El Ghazaout, near the mouth of the Malwia, so that it will be difficult for us to learn all the movements of troops in this province. We were here all a good deal astonished—though, where French officers, employes, and diplomatists are concerned, nothing should astonish us—at the receipt of the news of the bombardment of Tangiers, which reached us last Sunday. We had heard of nothing but peace, and up to the last moment the highest military authori ties here gave out that things were in statu quo, that is, up to the moment of the arrival of the news of the bombardment. Indeed, a proclamation, con taining the preliminary arrangements of the peace, had been published in Oran on the sth, dated the 4th ins t., and nothing to the contrary had been heard of the affairs of the frontier. But the grand puzzle is, that whilst on the sth instant peace was proclaimedhei nO 4thr a t n o , orders had been dispatched f rom here on bombard Tangiers, and wh ich was bombarledo hear rt the 6th. This affair, if we m a y j ud g e from what we h h see, has confounded the authorities of Oran as much as w ourselves, whilst whilst it has completely driven mad ith d piece of chi scion the people of Gib raltar. Agr c anery or treachery ha s beenhtu played off the n e an by someof the parti esborn- The steamer which brougsnews . bardn3ent of Tangiers was the Etna. There had been reports that Eng lish vessels were supplying the Moors w ith arms and the m unitions of war, so the Etna (French steamer) called on her way at the mouth of the river, on which is placed the port of Tetuan. There the Etna saw two merchant vessels, a Portuguese and an English vessel. A boat from the Etna hoarded them, and I be lieve attempted to search them. The English captain was not very communicative ; the French man-of-war boat was more successful with the Portuguese. How ever, the affair ended in nothing. This little event shows not the less the animus of the French, and their disposition to do something to involve France and Eng land in a war. I imagine you will hoar of this via Gibraltar. Amongst local topics, we have again the Garde Na• tionale. The son of the late English Vice-Consul, Mr. Enos Welsford, was thi s week put in confinement, for having obtained a substitute for an hour when on duty. His punishment is five days' imprisonment. People are getting in prison every day for these breaches of dis cipline. But the most galling is, a person is not allowed to find a substitute. This is the way the French civilise and colonise Africa ! lam quite convinced that if the French authorities were aware of the infinite annoyance which they give families, they would moderate this mad system. lam sure they would permit persons to pro- Tido substitutes. On Monday last there was a proclamation given out, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EGHAM RACES—YESTERDAY. The last day at lieharn, with the Queen's Plate as its leading feature, has usually delighted in that much abused adjective " grand," and hitherto has been exten sively patrani,ed by " the million." We cannot say that such was the case yest, rday ; by an alteration in the custoteary order of running, the Queen's Plate and the Sturey and Middlesex Stakes changed days, and the iatttn', Lo some uwoward and unlooked for rircumstanees, Inlving proved an entire failure, there was nothing in the list at all calculated to attract either the sporting ar " miscellaneous" public. In consequence, the attendance was not mu eh more numerous that) on Tuesday ; the sport was inferior ; and the bitting fiat beyond parallel. In justice to the managers, we should add, that they did all they could to make sport, and if they did not succeed to the extent of their wishes, they have the satisfaction of knowing that their exertions were appreciated by those on whose behalf they officiated ; as an additional proof we may mention that the stewardship for next year has be.'n accepted by Sir Charles Slingsby, Sir lE(.1;i: Booth, and James Ramsbottam, Esq., and that se veral names are down for the handicap. The racing commenced at two o'clock, and, by a little better ob servance of time than marked the proceedings on Tues day, was got through by five. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 40 added by the Comity Mention, The winner to be sold for 200 sovs., &c. lleats, one mile. (6 Subscile rs.) Mr. Coleman's Devil- among- the-Tailors, 5 yrs, Bst I llb (Coleman) 2 1 1 Mr. Be.ichth's Epaulette, 5 yrs, Bst Illb 1 2 2 Mr. Arethusa, 3 yrs, 6st 91b 3 3 4 Lord G. Bentinck's Alva, 3 yrs, Est 9113' The first heat was one by a length, the second by three, and the third by two. The Surrey and Middleset Stakes, of 25 soya. each, 15 ft,, and 5 only if declared ; widi 50 added. Two miles and a distance. (16 Subs., 12 of whom declared.) ' Ramsbottona's fine Apple, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Bell) I Mr. S. Scott's The Whaler, 4 yrs, 7st 41b 2 6 to 4 on pine Apple ? who waited on the light weight, and after a show of a raoe for a few strides won by half a length. The Whaler ran out a little near the end. The Egham Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 25 added; 3 yrs, 7st ; 4 yrs, Bst 41b ; 5 yrs, Bst 10Ib ; 6 yrs and aged, Oat Mares, &c., allowed 31b. Horses that have started twice and not won,allowed t i lb, Winners extra. Heats, one mile and a half. (8 Subs.) Mr. Osbaldestone's Esrick, 3 yrs (Pigott) 1 3 1 Mr. Thompson's gby nindoo, 1 3 Mr. Rush's ch gby Plenipo, 4 yrs 2 5 2 Lord G. Bentinck's Proof Print, 5 yrs Mr. C. Brooke's Dean Swift, 6 . yrs 0 4 dr Lord Verulam's fby Euonounst, out of Co rumbia, 3 yrs 0 4 dr The first heat was won in a canter by two lengths ; the corumbia filly a bad third. The second heat was won cleverly bs- 4 length ; tlindoo a respectable third, The Royal Duke Stakes of 5 sovs. each, it ft, with 20 added for the beaten horses, Gaper, Hashed Venison, and Red Deer, were handicapped, but the filly's party having declined to run, the race was off. The Runnymede Stakes on Tuesday was divided by Messrs. King and Coleman. No change in the St. Leger betting. STOURBRIDGE RACES—MONDAY. The Stand Purse of 251., added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each ; the second to receive Si. out of the stakes. Heats, one mile. (5 Subs.) Mr. Worthington's Gipsey Queen, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (Marlow) 0 1 I Mr. Fowler's Filly, 4 yrs, Bst 41b Mr. Flintotf's Countess of Lichfield, 4 yrs,Bst4lb 1 2 0 Mr. Painter's Oberon, aged, Bst 51h Mr. Wildmaa's Coheiress, 4 yrs, Bst 41h 2 dr The Stourbridge Handicap, of 5 sovs. each and 35 added. One mile and three quarters. (16 Subs.) Mr. Skerratt's Intrepid, 3 yrs, Est 81b (Arthur) 1 Mr. Worthington's Hooton, 4 yrs, Bst 6th 2 Mr. Saunders' Nix-my-Dolly, 5 yrs, ist 101 b The following also started but were not placed :—Mr. Flintoff's The Eibe, 3 yrs, Est 81b—Mr.Davies's Princess of Wales, 5 yrs, Bst 71b—Mr. Wildman's Coheiress, 4 yrs, 6st 101 ii, The East Worcestershire Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 30 added. Heats, one mile and a half. (7 Subs.) Mr. No worth's Clinker, aged, Bst 81b Mr. Saunders' Caitiff, 5 yrs, Bst 21b 1 2 2 0 Mr. Frost's Utica, 4 yrs, fist 121 b 2 1 2 0 Mr. Barton's Glideaway, 3 yrs, 6st 31b Mr. Hawkin's Nix-my-Dolly, 5 yrs, Bst 71b 0 0 dr. 0 Mr. Copeland's Assay, 3 yrs, Ist 41b Mr. Hayman's Fair Ellen, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b 0 dr. Match, 501., 1 mile.—Mr. Batson's Kitty Clover, aged, lOst (Owner), beat Mr. Saunders' ch f by Tulip, st. TUESDAY. The Ladies' Purse of 30/. added to a sweepstakes of 5 soya. each. Heats, two miles. (8 Subs.) Mr .Hawkin's Clinker, aged, 9st 61b (Bradley) 2 1 1 Mr. Hawkin's Nix-my-Dolly, 5 yrs, Bst 13st 1 3 2 Mr. Fowler's The Duke, 5 yrs, Bst 13Ib The Gold Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft. Two miles. (5 Subs.) Mr. Skerratt's Intrepid, 3 yrs, 6st 51b, walked over. The Himley Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 30 added. Heats, one mile and a-quarter. (6 Subs.) Mr. Buckley's David, 5 yrs, Bst 31b (Whitehouse) 1 3 1 Mr. Flintoff's The Rhine, 4 yrs, 7st 111 b Mr. Hobson's Charity, 3 yrs, 7st 41b HUNTINGDON RACES—TUESDAY. The Huntingdonshire Stakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 50 added. Heats, two miles. (23 Subs.), ten of whom paid 5 soya. each. Ld. Sandwich's bc by Liverpool, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (Carter) 1 Lord W. Powlett's Eclogne, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b 2 Mr. Ward nd Bourns Tomache, 4 yrs, sst 131 b Colonel Peel's Hartshorn, 4 yrs, Est 41b ... 4 Mr. Phillimore's Syntaxina, 6 yrs, 7st The Hinchingbrook Plate of 50/., winner to be sold for 1501. Heats, ooce round. Hon. G. Ongley's Fama, 6 yrs, Bst 131 b (Sly) 4 1 1 Mr. Rogers's Prosody, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b.. Mr. Booth's Donnybrook, 4 yrs, Bst 61b 2 dis Mr. Wesley's Miss Lucy, 5 yrs, Bst 71b 3 dr Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each, with 20 added ; the win ter to be sold for 3002 Heats, one mile. 5 Subs.) Colonel Peers Seaweed, Bst 21b (Nat) 2 1 1 Mr. Edwards' Trudges, Bst 81b 1 2 2 Mr. Booth's Repealer, Bst 51b 4 3 3 Mr. G. Thornhill's fby Ruinous dam, Bst 21b 3 dr PAISLEY RACES—(CostcLuDED). The Two-years Old Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h ft, with 20 added ; colts, Bst 51b; fillies, Bst 21b. T.Y.C. Lord Eglinton's Pythia (Howlett) 1 Mr. Merry's Pilot 2 Mr. H. Johnstone's Rose of Cashmere, and Mr. Ram sey's Millden also ran. Won by a length. The Silver Bells, with 50/. added. Two miles and a dis. Mr. Ramsay's Lady Skipsey, 4 yrs, Bst 1 Mr. Merry s Cable, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b 2 Won easy by two lengths. The Hunters' Stakes of 10 sovereigns each, h ft, with 20 added. Gentlemen riders, 12st 71b each, &c. Heats, two miles. Mr. Cook's Zoroaster 1 1 Mr. Fawcett's Wanton Mr. Harvey's Tom Forester 3 dr Won easy. The Railway Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 25 added. Heats, once round and a dis. Winner to be sold for 1001., &c. Mr. Merry's Christopher, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b 1 1 Mr. Cook's Zoroaster, aged, Bst 13Ib Sir J. Boswell's Interest, 4 yrs, Bst 31b 3 3 A fine race. The " Aftershots" Free Handicap, with a purse added, was won by Geneva, beating Prudence, Whi,tle Binkie, Wanton, and Interest, by a head. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY. LEAMINGTON STAKES (WARWICK). 6 to 1 agstCouncillor—(t) 17 to 1 agst Algernon—(t) 6to 1 agst Mosque I Bto 1 agst Advice—(t) GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP (DONCASTER). 6to 1 agst Mickey Free— 6to 2 agsf i the two—taken (taken freely) to 1001 6to 1 agst Artfal Dodger Bto 1 agst Rowena—(t) —(taken freely) 12 to 1 agst any other—(off) ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 agstTheCure—(oft) 4 to 1 agst Ithuriel—(t and aft offered) 7 to 1 agst Bay Momus ------ 8 to 1 agst Red Deer In to i agst Valerian 13 to 1 agst The Princess 13 to 1 agstFoig-a-ballagh CITY OF Dumas REGISTRY. The state of the Parliamentary registration for Dublin city affords a practical evidence of the rapid decay of that Orange fervour which preceded the last general election, and which continued, although with some abatement, for a year or two after the expulsion of the Whigs. Lat terly, however, the Orange and Tory party in Dublin seem to have deserted electioneering as a hopeless and unprofitable speculation. The agents who had managed the registry fur the Tories have retired in disgust, having failed to obtain the places they . expected ; and on account of the general apathy existing amongst the party, there is a lack of the funds required for the payment of new agents, and all the incidental expenses of hunting for claimants to the franchise, and bringing them to the Registry Court. At the preceding registry sessions, as well as the present, the Liberals have made immense way towards recovering their lost ground. Day by day the Liberals obtain a majority, and the Tories now can scarcely muster a claimant. On Satur day the Liberals registered seventeen electors, whilst the Orange party did not bring up a single man ! An effort was made by Mr. Cary, who acted as counsel for the Tories, to induce the Registering Barrister to close the session, but he peremptorily refused. The Liberals are still increasing their majority. THE POLITICAL MARTYS.—It appears that an at tempt has been made to prohibit the erection of the mo nument to Muir and others, on the site selected within the Calton-hill Burying-ground. On an application to the Lord Ordinary, in the Bill Chamber, for an inter dict, we understand the judge (Lord Murray) refused to grant the interdict hoc stain, reserving to the parties to try the matter in the Court of Session, in a deliberate form. Independently of the question of right, we con ceive this interference an ill-advised step. Half a cen tury has elapsed since the condemnation of these men ; nearly all who took a part in the struggles of those days have passed away ; the animosities have been buried ; and we live in a new era, when one ought to look back on that stormy period with a calm historical interest. This monument is to be raised by those who sympathise in the hard fate of those virtuous sufferers, the sub scribers including the late Duke of Bedford, the late Lord Holland, and Sir James Gibson Craig. To treat this tribute as if it was some moral pollution, calculated to shock the sensibilities of one class of our citizens, and even disturb the mouldering remains of those who lie around, is nut only extravagant, but can be regarde d as nothing else than a piece of a rrant affectation. As to the question of right, we don't believe that any parties can interfere with the erection of this monument, sup posing the title to the site to be effectual.—Cakdonian Mercury. that all the Garde Nationale must appear at the review of Wednesday in regimentals, at their own expense, unless they could prove that they did not earn more than two francs per day, or had nut that amount. The con sequence of this order has been to get some two hun dred sentenced to prison for disobedience to orders. These people go to prison by turns, until the whole have had the benefit of French civilisation in Africa. Yuu know that in this " Garde" there is more, or at least an equal number of foreigners. The question is, whether an Englishman is to be forced to serve in this " Garde" —not to be allowed to find a substitute—not to be able to transact his business, by being called upon duty perhaps at the moment when his affairs most demand his attention—to be obliged to wear a foreign or a French uniform—to be obliged to purchase this at his own expense (some 61. sterling), though he remains but four months in Oran—with numberless other vexations. I cannot conceive that these things can be demanded of British subjects. We could not demand them of French subjects in our colonies. At any rate we do nut. I be lieve for some breaches of paltry discipline a person can be put in prison for forty days ! In suck a case a person may be ruined. It is quite time that our Con suls laid this before our Government. But then there is the horror of the " Exequatur" staring them in the face. 1 I cannot close my letter without asking—" Whether Government are not yet convinced that Abd-el-Kader is not to be caught?"—in other words, whether, M. Guizot having declared to all the world that the main condition of peace with the Emperor was that that Abd el-Kader should be arrested and conveyed to some safe asylum on the Atlantic coast, our Government is prepared to see the French, under the pretext of getting this im • possible condition ceded by the Emperor, invading Morocco, and preparing it for a French province ? This is the question it is necessary to repeat until Govern ment opens its eyes. The Moors are blinded by fanaticism, and the unfortunate condition of their birth ; but no authorities have shown greater blindness in this affair than the British, when all their experience of the Morocco people and its Government ought to have taught them, that the strong, the last hold of Islamism in the West, would not stoop to the Christiens ; that no good Mussulman would arrest Abd-el-Kader ; that to arrest Abd-el-Kader is looked upon as violating the liberty of the Prophet ; that the Emperor is unable to control the remote and immense districts of Arabs, some of them the most hardy and determined in the whole world ; that the Emperor, ever so anxious for peace, ' could not, dare not, make it with the French, or any , other Christians ; and yet, our wise people in Gibraltar, 7 including the worthy Governor, all declared to the last moment, " that there would be no war," . . At the moment of closing my letter, another courier, it is said, has arrived from the Marshal, ordering all the disposable force to be sent forward immediately to the camp, as the Moors were again on the offensive, and coming down with immense reinforcements—with clouds of cavalry. We have reason to believe that so much of a para graph which appeared in our yesterday's impression as represents her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester as being about to relinquish the Royal domain at Bag shot, in compliance with the wishes of the Queen, is en tirely without foundation. Her Royal Highness has, we are informed, exchanged Bagshot, park for the house at Richmond at her own request, and solely from a desire to be near her sister. Nor is there any better foundation for the report that the vacant residence has been assigned to Prince Albert, the wishes of the Royal Duchess being alone consulted in the arrangement, and the future destination of the Bagshot estate not having been as yet even thought of.—Times of yesterday. THE LATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER IN HOLBORN.--• In this journal on Monday appeared the final examina tion of the Hon. W. Touchet, at Bow-street, on Satur day last, for discharging a loaded pistol at Mr. Smith, the proprietor of a shooting gallery, No. 288, High Holborn, on the 6th of July. Last week Mr. Smith was thought sufficiently recovered to leave St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and on Saturday he attended at Bow-street and gave evidence of the occurrence. During the examination he appeared very weak, and gave his evidence suffering great pain. On his return home he became very ill, and was com pelled to have medical aid. He continued to get worse, and on Monday was again received into St. Bartholo mew's Hospital, where he now remains. The wound has broken out afresh, and portions of bone are forced through it. On inquiring at the hospital on Tuesday he was ascertained to be better than on the preceding day, but still he lies in a dangerous state. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.—On Tuesday letters were re ceived at the principal insurance offices in the City, de tailing the particulars of two dreadful fires which occurred in the village of Winsham, situate near Chard, in Devonshire, and which terminated in the complete demolition of no fewer than thirty houses. The first appears to have broken out soon after ten o'clock on Sunday morning, during Divine service, and on the alarm being raised the fire was found raging in the upper part of a house situate with twelve others, at the ex- tremity of the village, and the thatch roof soon igniting the building was speedily re duced to ashes. A crowd quickly collected, and attempts were made to check the flames from running along the thatch of the adjacent houses, but ineffectually, for within the space of a quarter of an hour, no less than eight of the adjoining dwellings had caught, and, there being no engines in the neighbour hood, the fire exterded its ravages until the whole of the buildings were consumed. The village had scarcely been restored to its usual state of quietude before it was again aroused by a second outbreak, far more destructive than the previous one, taking place at about half past ten o clock on Monday night. The flames were first discovered raging in a small out-house at the back of a dwelling in Church-street ; and the wind unfortunately being high at the time soon wafted the destructive element to the surrounding property, and scarcely had an hour elapsed after the alarm before upwards of fourteen houses were enveloped in flames. The distress that prevailed amongs the poor villagers was of a character truly heartrending. At an early stage of the conflagration an express was sent off to Chard for the fire-engines, but it was full two hours before they arrived ; and, as may be expected, the \ havoc in the meanwhile was most extensive. Six other houses, all tenanted by small tradespeople, had fallen with the rest, and it was sadly feared at one period that the whole village would have fallen a prey to the flames ; but the buildings being deprived of their thatch they were therefore preserved. It is supposed that these fires were the work of an incendiary, but nothing decisive is as yet known. The loss must be very heavy. RECREATION FOR THE WORKING CLASSES.—The Duke of Norfolk has promised, on the expiration of a few leases, to give up fifty acres of his land for a plea sure-ground, for the lecreatian of the people of Shef field. In Birmingham the question has already been discussed in the Town Council, and the great advantage and benefit of public parks unanimously affirmed. That body has opened a communication with Government, for the purpose of obtaining a grant towards providing the public walks, which, in Birmingham, with its 220,000 in habitants, are felt to be imperatively needed. DARING ROBBERY.—On Tuesday a most daring robbery was committed by two well-dressed fellows at the house of Mr. Blundell, 24, Agnes-street, Wa terloo-road, which was effected in the following auda cious manner :—The fellows knocked at the door, and asked if Mrs. Blundell was at home, and on being shown into the parlour, they produced a written note, which they stated was sent by her husband, who the men stated was locked up in the Tower-street sta tion on a charge of felony, and said she had better go as quick as possible to see her husband. The men then took out of their pockets a printed paper, which had all the appearance of an official document, and informed Mrs. Blundell that it was a search warrant, and they must search the house for stolen property, at the same time informing the lady that she must give up possession of everything she had. Mrs. Blundell, who was dread fully alarmed, and is only just out of her confinement, directed the nurse to give up the keys, when the fellows opened the drawers, and took out twelve sovereigns in gold as well as half a dozen silver spoons. The men then insisted on having the boxes of the lodgers opened. which the lady positively refused to comply with. They then completely ransacked the house of every valuable article they could possibly lay their hands on, and with the greatest effrontery left the house, inform ing Mrs. Blundell that the sooner she proceeded to her husband the better. Mrs. Blundell, though exceedingly ill and weak, went direct to the Tower•street station house, and inquired for her husband, when she learnt no such person was in custody. Mrs. Blundell then returned home with the utmost expedition, and discovered that she had been most cruelly deceived, and her house stripped of nearly every available article, with which the fellows got clear off. Ir. Blundell is a respectable man, in the employ of Mr. Patrick, the extensive builder of the Belvidere-road. CAUTION TO HOUSEKEEPERS.—The following art ful system of robbery has been for some time prac tised at the west end of the town by an orga nised gang of depredators, who have hitherto suc ceeded in evading the vigilance of the police. Choosing is os in o g oe a n n pi e e a d rl e y le h an o i u og morning,rin tb t e he door.step o r wh p e o n ssa th g e e, soenre of the confederates drops a sixpence or other sma ll co in into the area; the loss is then made known to the servant, p w i h e e o is eo in f m t o he ne y m , o s a t n civilimt a i n s n e v r i s r i b e q l e u e f s r t o e m d toobroevset,o she b e the e i l, generally disarmed of all suspicion, and proceeds to com ply with the request, when the opportunity is immediately seized to strip the hall of coats, cloaks, or any portable pro , perty. 'TILE LATE REV. ROWLAND HILL.—On Tuesday a very large public meeting was held at the Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars-road, for the purpose of commemorating the centenary of the birth of the late Rev. Rowland Hill, and also to consider the propriety of erecting a memorial to him. The Rev. .1. Sherman, M.A., the minister of the chapel, presided, and was supported by Mr. Prit chard, the Consul at Otaheite ; the Rev. G. Clayton, the Rev. Dr. Campbell, and several other gentlemen. The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, said that it had been suggested to him to take measures for erecting a memorial to the late Rev. Rowland Hill, formerly the minister of Surrey Chapel, now they had co b mpleted the n e ral the accept neigh bourhood- centenary of his birth. Many plans had een_ recom moneenedwedm,sb, but o t t ha w t h w ie h b ic p h ro m po e s t e w d i t t o h of the chapel a large . school-house, where a er in ec o t st wi s tl e i n i number of children mig ht receive the blessings of • sound, liberal, and script ural education. In addition to this, it was proposed to erect two large infant schools, one of which should b e in the Borough-road. Resolu tions to that effect were submitted and adopted, and up wards of 6001. was subscribed on the spot. Mr. Pnt chard detailed at some length the progress of education in Otaheite an d the South Sea Islands, and the proceed ings terminated with a vote of thanks to the Chairman. The garrison of Gibraltar is to be reinforced by another regiment, and another company of artillery. The 72d, at Buttevant, are hourly expecting the order to march to Cork, and embark thence forthwith for th• Rock.—Limvich Chronicle. Mite+ peg: MIG" .4 is id 64 IT* e stio ge b io be ; P e of P boy' r sPf ~;