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THE WATERLOO HEROES The Subscribers and the Public are respectfully informed that the splendid Engraving of the " WATERLOO HEROES " is now completed. This most interesting and grand Historical Record of Waterloo, painted by G. P. KNIGHT, Esq., R.A., has been in progress by the celebrated Engraver, Mr. CHALES G. LEWIS, for nearly three years, and is now brought to a most successful termination. The engraving represents " Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K.G., receiving his illustrious guests at Apsley-house, on the anniversary of the glorious Eighteenth of June," and included in the Plate are most of the great " Soldiers of the age," to whom the nation owed its crowning victory at Waterloo. Henry Graves and Co., Publishers in Ordinary to her Majesty and Prince Albert, 6, Pall mall. MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE ATTRACTIVE MAN. A NOVEL. BY MRS. TROLLOPE. Anthoresi of " The Vicar of Wrexhill," " The Widow Barnaby," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready in Bvo., price only 55., I. VOL. V. of M. 'TIERS' HISTORY of the CONSULATE and EMPIRE. Translated by D. Forbes CaHiphell, Esq., with the Sanction an d A pp roval of the Author. Also now ready, Vol. 4, of THE NELSON LETTERS and DISPATCHES. Edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, G.C.M.G., &c. A THIRD EDITION of THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS . By Eliot Warburton, Esq. 2 vols., with Illustrations, 215., bound. Henry Colburn, Publisher. 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., L OVE, A TALE OF VENICE; MESMERISM, A MYSTERY. By HO ACE SMITH, Esq., Author of " brambletye House," &c. " These volumes are full of interest and beauty. ' Love' is a very charming talc of Venice during the first campaign of Buonaparte in Italy. Amelia Lamedano, its heroine, is ono of the loveliest and most graceful of all 31r. Smith's creations. The characters are greatly varied and ably sustained throughout Mesmerism' is a production of altogether a different class. Bordering on the supernatural, it is exceedingly curious in its construction, excites an intense and thr.l - interest, and with much of admirable moral, it throws much light upon the obscure, and, as yet, little understood subject of animal magnetism."—Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Grand Opera of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Arline, Miss Rainforth. To be followed by the Grand Divertissement of LA. BAYADERE. In which Mdlles. Louise, M. Delferier, and 31.111 e. Adele will appear. To conclude with Tilt: BRIDE k,F LA - MEOMOOK. Edgar, Mr D. W. King; Lucy Ashton, Madame Eugenie Garcia. 'CHEATUE BOY AL, HAl2aAtti , ra. THIS EVENING Wi'l be repeated the Comedy of THE HYPOCRITE. Dr. Cantwell, Mr. W. Pai ren ; Mawwenn, Mr. Buckstone. To be followed by (compressed into two Acts) the celebrated Comedy of PEED THE PLOUGH. After which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled A CABINET QUESTION. Sir Beaumont Cressy, Mr. Brindal ; Lionel, Mr. Howe; Rosewood, Mr. Tilbury; Tom, Mr. Buckstone; :hiss Mortimer, Miss Telbin ; Lucy, Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING Will be revived THE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. In which Messrs. 0. Smith, Selby, Stoker; Mrs. Yates, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam will perform. To be followed by SEEING WRIGHT. To conclnde with POWDER AND BALL; or, 'St. Tibb's Eve. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. THIS EVENING Will be repeat3d THE LAST OF TH BRAVOES. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Bender, Yar nold, and Miss Arden. After which, a New Farce, called NEXT DOOR. To be followed by a New and Original Cornedietta, entitled PETER JENKINS ; or, Fibbing for a Friend. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, A. Wigan, Turner, Meadows; Mrs. Keeley and Miss Dawson. 'lO conclude with ALADDIN and the WONDERFUL LAMP. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STLEET. THIS EVENING Will be performed DON WESAR DE BAZAN. Don Closer de Baum, Mr. Wallack ; Maritima, Mrs. Stirling. After which, ADVICE TO HUSBAND 3. To which will be rdhd rHE B ttIGAN D. To conclude with A MAN WITHOUT A HEAD. NEW STRAND THEATRE. PHILLIPPE'S SOIREES MYSTERIESUSES, M. Philippe has the honour to announce that, in consequence of the unprecedented success of his entertainment at the St. James's Theatre, he has taken the New Strand Theatre, which WILL OPEN This EVENING, OC fOBER 16, for the exhibition of hls celebrated - TOURS DE PHYSIQUE, and surprising feats of MAGICAL DELUSION. The performances will be varied by the Introduction of many most attractive novelties, obtained during a recent visit to Paris. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE QUEEN of BOHEMIA. After which, SKETCIIES IN INDIA. To conclude with THE BOYHOOD OF BACCHUS. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. ROPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. BATTY. Approbation ! approbation! approbation! nightly bestows its gra tifying meed upon the present novel Egyptian Hypodramatic pro duction. Fourth Week of the gorgeous, classic, equestrian, dramatic spectacle of THE BRIDE OF THE NILE, and the Lily of Memphis and The Horse of the Pyramids, with new startling effects ; twenty Tableaus, in which :14yptian Games and Chariot Races are introduced. New and varied scenes of Equitation, introducing the combined ta!ents of the French Artistes. To conclude with the much-admired Drama, LE COUPE GORGE. , Apported by the entire strength of the Company. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. "Morning -. 3 minutes after 2 j Evening .. 22 minutes after 2 THE WEATHER.—Sus OFFICE, OCT. 15. TLIERNOMETER, Lowest, 43 ' ; Highest, 58; Noon, 60. BAROMETER, 30.29. WIND S.W.; fine sunshiny weather. , (.4- ' 6- . „,_, 3 ,,,..,,•,,,A t .,.. N •,.. A l. P te. • .. . _ 7, - ~- - - , t. . ?" . s.• , ~. , - ,-, • i3O, . .. , ' _, ' ,.. , i t' f i t ( tri - ,`, - -,, N -- laceeitiit -11t1t4 LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1845. In tht last number of the Edinburgh Reim there is an ar ticle on a work by Mr. MCITLLocn, called "A Treatise on the Principles and Practical Influence of Taxation and the Funding System." This is a comprehensive title for a book published in a country that surpasses all others in taxation and in the amount of its public debt, and from the introduc tory remarks of the reviewer we anticipated much informa tion on these important subjects, and entertained hopes that political economy at last had discovered some means by which taxation might be lightened, and the enormous debt which oppresses us might be diminished. The exordium would lead to such an inference. The author is extolled to the skies by the writer. " This work," he says, " embraces one of the most extensive and pre-eminently the most prac tical department of the all-important science to which it belongs; and it comes to us recommended by the authorship of one of the most distinguished culti vators of that science." And further on—" It need hardly be said that a writer at once so deeply versed in scientific deductions, and so thoroughly conversant with statistical de tails, is peculiarly qualified to meet such a subject as taxa tion, in which conclusions drawn from abstract premises and general principles continually demand the correction of prac tical knowledge." We had looked at the work and tried to derive some advantage from it, but in vain. This mishap we :attributed to our ignorance of political economy, and the peculiar phrases which Mr. M•Cunnocit uses in conveying his sentiments to the public, and we, therefore, after this high praise in a journal so celebrated for its ability and es p e cially for its numerous articles on the princi ples which regulate the economy of trade, cotn tnerce, and manufactures, expected to find some light thrown on the chaos of confusion, and to behold at a glance the discoveries made by one " so deeply versed in scientific deductions and so thoroughly conversant with. statistical details." But miserable was our disappointment, for the reviewer seems as much bewildered as ourselves. He, in fgct, can make nothing of the work, and when he tegin3 to analyse its parts lie only points out faults, or de re:As, or contradictions. In the very first page we find that the work contains no great amount of absolute novelty, and that so much deep study and careful observation have sug gested but little in the way of practical amendment and in the second page the writer boldly speaks out, and as ts that " it would not be easy altogether to recon cile in Mr. M'eunnocit the theorist with the statisti dal." Ile gives a good reason, too, for this left-handed blow at "so able and experienced a writer." M'euttecir, in alluding to the condition of the working classes, states that during the last twenty or thirty years, notwithstanding a considerable reduction of taxation, "their condition has certainly not in any degree been improved, but has rather, we incline to think, been sensibly deteriorated.' To Which his eulogist sarcastically replies :—" In sonic of Mr. M'CuLtocti's previous statistical inquiries he seems, if we recollect rightly, .to have proved that during a period in which the population of England has doubled, its agricul tural produce, chiefly for the use of man, has quadrupled; and this although, in the interval, England has become an imp;:rting instead of an exporting country; from which it follows that an Englishman at this day eats twice as much as his ancestor eighty years ago—a fact difficult to digest in itself; more difficult still when we are informed that for thirtY years the condition of the great bulk of the people has }..„:„ falling off." This shows that political economists, as • well as liars, ought to have good memories. Throughout t'ne whole review of the work simtlar criticism prevails. 'Ara do not find one principle laid down which bears the tee' t of examina tion ; and though the writer, to keep up the appearance with which he commenced, throws in Ir,iv and then a little "soft sawdnr," he is evidently highly "..tissatisfied with a pro duction which comes forth with sur:n high pretensions. We are not surprised at this, for reel,4-- it contains nothing new except staggering dogmas, -, vithout any attempt at elucida tion or the slightest 7.00 f. It abounds with all the stock p idea or of p o li t i ca l economists, and expresses a common or the plair.es,l, proposition in such a complication of high-soundin'4 words and peculiar phraseology, that ordi nary readers cannot arrive at the meaning without trans lat in ,, the - paragraph, and some t imes t h e whole chapter, into plain English, and after sifting it are astonished to find no thing but chaff not ev en grain of wheat. Such phrases Its these meet you at evert-oti:te , incidence of taxes," " the natural or necessary price ofrnl-a—b‘o‘ " population increas ing with appalling rapidity," " the ir;or"fem.hediahle helotism of the great majority," " the horoscope capital,the system," " net or taxable incomes," " funds, mortgage 3, fifty other terms of the same stamp, toulichindhuostry," and should not object, if they were used in such a inay a w s ev t erwe pro duce any good effect, or afford the least con solatio n for the enormous taxes under which the population , a nd especially especially the working population, labours. But they ah come to nothing. Population is increasing at a fearful rate: WATT and ARKWR/C.LF.T, and others so celebrated for their wondrous inventions 'and discoveries, are the great culprits; even the poor Irish are blamed for coming over to this coun try, and reducing the comforts of the English population. The command of the CREATOR " to increase and multiply " is to be disobeyed, though the world is not yet half-peopled; the condition of the labouring classes is every day becoming more and more deteriorated ; and then comes this sage re flection :—" There may, however, be, and we trust there are countervailing principles at work, of which we cannot at present trace the operation; and at all events we are, whether for good or for evil, too far advanced in manufactures to think of seriously checking their progress." And what does he recommend in the meantime ? " Opening additional markets for our manufactured goods, lightening the bur dens of the lower classes, and repealing or mo difying injudicious or oppressive' taxes." Why, the first would act precisely in the same way as WArrs's and ARKWRIGHT'S inventions, for the manufacturing population increase or diminish according to the demand for their labour, and by lightening the burdens on the industrious: classes new burdens must be cast on others, of course on men who have capital in land or money, and according to his own showing, this would "lessen the means of capitalists to employ labour and increase the temptation to carry capital abroad; and it has not yet been shown how a measure productive of such re sults should be otherwise than injurious to the labouring classes." But he even despairs of his own remedy, and it is not to be wondered at, after such a jumble of confused ideas. " When this has been done," he sums up, " Government had better pause; and, how unphilosophical soever it may seem, the safest course will then probably be to fold our arms, and to leave the denouement to time and PROVIDENCE." We have only srace to notice two or three of the glaring contradictions and unfounded statements with which the work abounds. Mr. M'CULLOCII contends that every shilling raised by the income-tax is so much deducted from the fund for the em ployment of labour; that it lessens the means of capitalists to employ labour, and increases the temptation to carry capital abroad. Why, any man who possesses common sense, without a particle of that science called political economy, knows that there are as many false statements here as paragraphs. The money raised by the income-tax is not thrown into the sea; it still exists, and forms a fund for the employment of labour, either in improving or forming harbours ; in constructing machinery for steam-vessels ; in building ships, and making railroads, bridges, &c., for the service of the country. And if a heavy income-tax drives capital to other countries, has not every tax. the same tendency ? If fa milies find themselves burdened with taxes here more griev ously than in other countries, or if manufacturers ascertain that they can carry on their trade on the Continent at a cheaper rate, they would be as likely to emigrate for one tax as for another. But, after all, these high taxes do not, to any perceptible extent, drive capital abroad. This is a mere bugbear, to be found only in the imagination of the author, and at direct variance tco with one of his indis putable dogmas. What country ever was so taxed as Great Britain during the war with France ? The income-tax alone was three times heavier than it is now. Did capital emigrate on that account? Not in the least, and M'CULLOCH is our authority, for he is of opinion that all taxes, when judiciously imposed, and not carried to an op . pressive height, occasion an increase of industry and economy, and but rarely encroach on capital.' " Nay, he deems it pro bable that " the capital of this country, notwithstanding the enormous expenditure occasioned by the American and late French wars, is about as great as it would have been had we enjoyed profound peace since 1770." What is to be done with a writer like this? It is impossible to bind Mr. M'CULLOCH to anything, for what he advances as an indisputable fact in one place, he contradicts in another, and leaves the reader at an utter loss to know what he means by " true" and what he means by " false." The perusal of the work has only more confirmed us in the opinion of Mr. COBDEN, who, in animadverting on M'CuLLocn's notes and comments on the " Wealth of Nations," said that he was a good collector of statistical facts, but a miserable political economist, and in attempting to elucidate the theories of the immortal ADAM SNirria, had "only made that obscure which before was clear." Madrid journals of the 7th inst. announce that after a trial of several days LOPEZ, MADoz, CORTINA, and others, ac cused of participation in the revolt at Alicante, had been ho nourably acquitted. The Gazette publishes two royal decrees one reducing the duty on potash to ten per cent , ad valorem and the other making certain regulations relative to the im portation of cinnamon. Some business was done on the Bourse at last. The Three per Cents. were quoted at 32 3 / 4 cash, but nothing was done in the Five per Cents. Most of the Paris journals advert in strong terms to the comments made by certain London papers on the late dis asters in Algeria, and the general impression appears to be that, in England these events have excited universal joy. Such is far from the fact. The public disapprove of the system of warfare carried on by the French—of their razzias of cattle, destruction of property, and carrying off women and children—and regret that the brave troops of France should be instruments of a system contrary to the usages of modern war; but, at the same time, lament tha these troops should be made the victims of a course of policy for which the Government are responsible and which, if not stopped, will lead to the extermina tion of one or other of the contending parties. We admit that some English journals are to a certain extent liable to the charge, and that they have indiscreetly seized the opportunity to make attacks on the French at the time when they are least fitted to listen to advice or reason. The Journal des Debuts, that has long manfully rebutted the attacks of the Opposition against England, is even compelled in this instance to give way, and join in reprobation of articles which only tend to prolong and increase national antipathies. We give an extract from the article, at the same time protesting against the sweeping charge of the Opposition, which includes the whole of the London papers : " We are grieved," says the Ministerial paper," to be obliged to notice the detestable spirit which animates, in the present circumstances, nearly the whole of the British press. Their language forms a contrast, not very creditable to them, with that used by the French press at the time of the disasters of the English army in Asia. At that period we expressed the greatest sympathy for the fate of so many brave soldiers who bad fallen victims to savage treason. To-day, the Eng lish journals can only compassionate traitors. Let them triumph at their ease. We prefer the undisguised manifes tation of their joy to expressions of hypocritical philan thropy. The French who fell in battle died nobly and glo riously, and require no illusory condolences. We will not cffend their memory, nor dishonour their triumphant fall, I,y seeking, in the history of the English nation, all the cr'.mes which the scourge of GOD should have visited and puriished. Such reprisals would be unworthy of us. But, whe•a we be hold certain organs of public opinion in England. thus trans form acts of shameful perfidy into providentia: chastisement, we shall in future be able to appreciate the extent of their political morality, and the sincerity of ttsose Christian senti ments which they proclaim on all occasions with so much fervour." Tuese remarks, coming from such a source, are greatly to be regretted. It is not for the interest of this country to quarrel with France, and when the French see such charges made by a Government paper, they cannot fail to believe that our object is to take advantage of their difficulties and provoke a war. A report prevailed at Marseilles as well as Toulon, that another French column, consisting of 200 men,.. had been surrounded by the Arabs, and forced to lay down their arms. Another version declares that this affair related to the column of General CAVAIGXAC, which, although 600 in number, had surrendered, after having lost three-fourths of the men. The following account of this event appears in the S'ana phore de Marseilles of the 10th : _ " Just as the Ville de Bordeaux was on the point of quitting Algiers, rumours of a new check experienced by our troops began to circulate. Persons who, by their position and relations with the superior officers of the army in the province of Oran, are in a condition to be well informed, had just learned the following sad particulars, which were unfortunately confirmed to one of the p sengers of the Vile de Bordeaux by one of the chiefs of the naval department at Algiers :—The garrison of a small camp had applied to General Cavaignac for a reinforcement, which its numerical weakness, in the centre of a country in open revolt, and traversed wishing to reduce his effective force sent , with The General not by the numerous bands of Abd-el.Kader, render indi spensable. ed for &Al se ' A d were recover ye rvice. etachment sufficiently that object, taken from the different hospitals, 200 men, wh o , considered few leagues when it was surrounded by an bad only marched a abs belonging to the army of Abd-el. of Zouaves was ordered to accompany them. Tbe amen column immense multitude of Ar abs the 200 soldiers were compelled to lay down their a rms , stance, since the con ,- .of imposs a i t: b d le' became the prisoner. e e m fi g tsf _ th e guest, in AKbdad.eeri..KadAell:es.rishtiasncise the .rabs.'. no accounts had At the hour of post on Monday which a party of French soldiers surrendered to reached the Government. The j ° ""...als still continue the attacks on Puo,Enun's insolent IP':ter. The following article which apT:;ears in the Algerie a P ar i s journal, is the best we h ave B P.en on the saki P :zt and makes some disclosures er.- title/ A t o cre dit " General I _:amoriciere has written a confidential letter to Mar shal Bugt'Aud on the state of Algeria, in which he speaks of the graTity ofthe late events, but adds—' It is, however, on such great °cations that men of mind show themselves.' Marshal Bugeaud hawks this letter throughout Paris as an avowal by General de Lamoriciere of his own insufficiency. This is too ungrateful. If we allude to such intrigues, it is because they have ;?`some public, zitigeaud Algeria is l os t. I n and are revolting to all men of right feeling who are constant l y hearing repeated that without Marshrj, a letter which has been conlalunicated to 200 persons —a letter from the hand of Marshal I3ug - eaud, General de Lamoriciere and General Cavaignae ate accused of having, by the faults they have committed, been the causes of the late events. The one is reproached for having suffered the garrison of Djemma Ghazaouat to make a sortie, when it ought to have defended the place by re. mining within the walls; of having scattered the troops of hi. subdivision in detachtnents of five hundreds, so as to enable the enemy to cut them eff in detail. The other is rebuked for having created small posts, which paralysed the action of the eight or ten battalions at El Kamis, Bel Oud, Bel Abbes, Dais, Djemma Gha. zaouat, Lalla blagbrina, and the rest. It Is impossible that these general officers should remain ignorant of the blame which an am.. bilious vanity has thrown upon them; it is impossible for men who so nobly devote their lives not to cry out when they learn that their services have been so unjustly appreciated. Marshal Bugeaud has forgotten that he left Algiers on the 4th of Septemter, and that it was only four days after his departure that the revolt near Chertbell broke out; only eight. days after in the Dahra ; only fifteen days after in the Flitta; and only eighteen days after his return into France that the disaster of Djemma Ghazaouat happened. Marshal Bugeaud has forgotten that if he had been free he would now be with ten or fifteen thousand men In the Kabilia of Djerdjera, and that if unfortunate!), our troops had been engaged i n t hi s insensate expedition, Abd-el-Kader ' uld be now, as he was in 1339 at the gates of Al g i ers . Mar that Bugeaud has f orgotten that it: was he who maintained the or- Kader—au organisationCdoiurnetert3; just as it was made by Abd el. I or ganisation of the Arab m Y , Z t ainst us ; he has forgotten that it was he who created anadothteaus that th a e lni retu th rn e chief, that have now I el-Kader had that it ,AIS foreseenofanAdbpdredicted by all betrayed us ; v h re e l h a a r s at f i e o r n ; been long in THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1845. men acquainted with Algeria ; that he, Marshal Bugeaud, in his last report as commandant-in.chief of the province of Oran, an nounced that the daira had been reinforced with 6,000 tents; and that he, this general officer, feeling the gravity of the state of things, required to be invested with sovereign powers, in order to be able to fulfil his duties as Governor. General. Yes, great faults have been committed ! But they have been by Marshal Bu geaud, by the men who surrounded him, and misled him to his ruin. The evil is done, and irreparably done, if Marshal Bugeaud is to be charged with the remedy. Restored to Algiers, Marshal Bugeaud will not obey the Government, whose orders he would not defer his departure to receive, and whose blindness he loudly proclaims. Marshal Bugeaud cannot rely upon the concur rence of General de Lamoriciere or General Cavaignac, for they will never consent to remain under the orders of a man who has so unjustly misrepresented their services. Let a telegraphic dispatch be sent to stop Marshal Bugeaud at Marseilles. Let tl a Ministry confide the Government of Algiers to a man eminent in position, popular with the natives from his justice and prudence, already rendered illustrious by his deeds of arms, and the Minister of War, as well as the brave general officers who have served their country with so much brilliant valour, with so much steady devotion for fifteen years, may then give all their support to the new Governor- General, without making any sacrffice of their dignity. Wth such servants as Lamoriciere, Changarnier, Bedeau, and Cavaignac France will easily prove to Marshal Bugeaud that he is not indis. pensable.'' Marshal SOULT had at last made up his mind to return to Paris, and was expected there on the 15th. A telegraphic despatch had been sent to the Minister of the Interior, who was at Mirabeau, ordering his return to Paris. The greatest activity prevailed in the dock-yard at Toulon, to get ready three steam-frigates, the Orenoque, Labrador, and Albatros, to transport to Algeria the 10,000 men and 1,000 horses which are destined to reinforce the army there. The follswing are miscellaneous extracts from the Conti- nental papers : " A letter from Vienna, Oct. 5, in the Journal de Frankfort, says The Bourse was agitated by a panic at the news of the disorders which burst out in Italy. Enormous sums were lost by those speculating for the account. The Government, it is said, has come in aid of the Bourse with considerable sums.'—A Berlin letter of the 7th, in the same journal, says : " Yesterday, one of our first banking-houses received from Vienna intelligence that about thirty persons, who had speculated in railway shares, and were not able to fulfil their engagements, had disappeared suddenly. These persons, it is said, are for the moat part Jews and persons of little importance, nevertheless their disappearance has caused a considerable fall in the market. The Austrian Government had long foreseen this, and, in consequence, had taken measures relative to the safety of the bank. It is true that these steps have produced a momentary want of money, but they will prevent new disorders and new losses. Similar measures were taken antecedently with full success by the Prussian Govern. meat, and since then the frenzy of jobbing has considerably dimi nished.'" The Augsburgh Gazette has the followingfrom Athens, 28th of September : " Tnere was a great agitation here on Monday last, in conse quence of an article published in a journal, calling on the Greeks to rally round the King, whose life was threatened by murderers. It stated that the writer of the article had in his possession proofs of a detestable conspiracy, and that the 15th of October was fixed upon to carry the scheme into effect. The journal in which it appeared is regarded as the organ of the Ministry. The editor was obliged some years since to absent himself, in order to escape prosecution, but has since returned. A very great sensation has been caused by this, and several of the Deputies of the Chamber have demanded that he should be brought to trial for it" The French Funds were firm on ilonday, but Shares were depressed. The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 50c.; the Five per Cents., 1181. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,2371. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,065 f. ; Great Northern, 826 f. 25c.; Fampoux, 535 f. ; Havre, 880 f.; Avignon, 1,042 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 765 f.; Bordeaux, 690 f.; Boulogne, 6301.; Troyes and Montereau, ' 20f. • Basle, 28Cf.; Spanish Three per Cents., 38%. The following are the quotations for other new lines :- Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 27f. 50 c . prem i u m ; ditto (Calon), Bf.; ditto (Ganneron), 10f. 50c.; ditto (La pinsonniere), sf. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 80f. ; ditto (Rosamel), 411.; ditto (Pepin Lehalleur), 32f. 50c.; ditto (Decan Lebeuf), 31f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 16f. ; ditto (Hinguerlot), 15f. ; ditto (Bechet), sf. ; ditto (Aymard), 12f. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 20f. ; ditto (Drouillard), 3f. ; ditto (O'Neill), 12f. 50c. ; ditto (Lefevre), 7f. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 35f.; ditto (Lecointe), 121. 50k.; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 10f.; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 2f. 50c. ; ditto (Es peleta), 131. 75c.; Creil and St. Quentin (Kysaens,) if. 50c.; ditto (Carette), Bf.; ditto (Colbert), lf. 25c.; Charleroi (Kysaens), 42f. 50c. MARSEILLES, Our. 7.-Marseilles and Avignon, 1,055 f.; Boulogne, 640 E; Vierzon, 7751. ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 700 f. livoNs, Ocr. 10.—Marseilles and Avignon, 1,043 f„ end of October; Paris and Orleans, 1,255 f., ditto; Paris and Rouen, 1,077 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 775 f.; Northern, 847 f., cash. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 14. Anglo-Belgian — Luxembourg Boulogne and Amiens.. 123 Namur and Liege — Bordeaux &Mediterran North Jamaica Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierzon Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Orleans and Bordeaux 13 1 % Do. (Mackenzie's) .. OverYssel ... IA dis Central of Spain — Paris& Lyons (Lafitte) 241 Demerara Dendre Valley ...... Ditto (Ganneron's). 3 1 4 Ditto (Caton's).— Dutch Rhenish ... ...... 11 Paris and Orleans.— Dieppe & Paris Junct. Dijon and Mulhouse ... East Indian ........ Grt Northern of France Paris and Rouen . 41% Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron's) Do. (Compte de L'Est) . - (Laffitte's) Ditto (Rosamel's) Do. (Le Boeuf) Do. Pepin to Halleur — Paris and St. Quentin. Rouen and Havre-- 32 Royal North of Spain. Sambre and Meuse .... 714 Great Parisi and Lyons. Great Western Bengal 1 1 / a Jamaica Junction Strasbourg and Basle . Tournay,Jurbise, Lan dent, and Hasselt ... Do. North Midland 2 1 4 Do. Extension Jersey 2 Louvain and Jemeppe — Lyons and Avignon 214 Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie's) 2 ,. Do. (Lefebvre's) Verona and Ancona — Weq. Flanders — AMERICAN NE WS, FURTHER EXTRACTS.) The Orpheus, Captain Hill, which arrived at New 'lork from Valparaiso, brought advices from thence to thP, 7 th of July. The demands of the British Government on t h at of Peru, consequent upon the affair of the Consul at Arica, had been submitted to after some show of resistance. General Iguin had been cashiered, and an apology had been made to the British naval commander. The advices from Hayti are to t 'de 16th September. The blockade of Port-au-Platt had Iv' en proclaimed at Cape Hay fien, but not officially noti 'lied to the Consuls. President. Pierrot had arived at the (:),pe, to urge on the war with the Dominicans, which th y , Haytiens were prosecuting with . vigour and success. A large supply of muskets also have ar rived. Two co () Arable bodies of troops had marched, one „, nsi upon Port-an - ?latt, and the other against the city of St. Domingo. 'ltade very dull; the long drought had made fruit and 'vegetables scarce. The native American party assembled in great force at PhP.adelphia on the 30th of September. The correspondent P:i the New York Commercial Advertiser says—" There is no disguising the fact, but the new party presents a strong front, and many who had heretofore doubted, no longer hesitated to express an opinion." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the pleasure-grounds within the precincts of the Castle this morning. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took equestrian ex ercise about half-past twelve o'clock, attended by the Hon. Miss Kerr, the Hon. Colonel Grey, and Mr. G. E. Anson: Her Majesty rode out until near two o'clock. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their usual riding and walking exercise this morning. All the Royal Family were taken outagain in the afternoon. His Royal Highness Prince George left the Castle to-day. His Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen and the Earl of Aberdeen also took their departure this morning. A Turkish artist, Mr. Miqurditz Milconian, accompanied by an interpreter, Mr. Daniel Sands, had the honour of sub mitting to the Queen and Prince Albert, for their inspection, his model of Constantinople, of which both her Majesty and his Royal Highness were pleased to express their appro bation. His Royal Highness Prince George arrived at his residence in St. James's Palace yesterday, from a visit to the Queen, at Windsor Castle. His Excellency Mr. Moreno, Minister of Buenos Ayres, returned to town last night, from Berlin. Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister, transacted busi ness yesterday at the Foreign -office. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday from Windsor Castle. . .orican pro- Lispatehes from th e G overnors-General of Canad^ , also from the Gover nors o f the other North Am- and vinces, were receiv e d yesterday at the Coif " ~Lial-office. ----- —.—..... MORnr,NisM It appears that the ic 3- . neighbourhood of Nauv , ~o have been attacking the Mormon settlement, and burr.' gtbe_ther pelting the Morn' •ing down houses, for the purpose of ex- The editor the.l4o r.- , t the St. Louis Republican is of opinion that ,-,, .ons from the country. , 7.ad . t a b n e n( g it ua o r r tal w . ill n n e o d t eac liv i e ib to e; i s ll nd ari a n n s ti m 4l us o t rni de o c n id s e c .e -process of burning the houses of Mormons, which is don e with great method and duorum—ample time being al lowed the inmates to remove their furniture and moveable property, and no personal violence being offered. He also describes a meeting which almost took place between a party of anti-Mormons and the Mont on force under the sishruerrmffunißaatcukueknstutostb;eibruitlebeelsforaeudtheLacittubaeltaly m uu e t t au t e h d e baunttia little way, perhaps f ear i ng an ambuscade. t h e conclusion of his letter, which was written at Warsaw on the 17th, is as follows : _ __.. principal men of the Mormons, have r trust may which was received The twelve elders, or r e -ropose that the y put a final end to this ?r to w s - i . l i l leave Nauvoo, and chargett ities are suspended, addressed a proposition to th e , tncl li they are allowed this evening, and which, anties to have war. The twelve the county, Zext spring, provided prepare for their partto co o r - f 0.r.z.1 ihe vexatious suits which they iastituted against them are withdrawn peaceably to dispose of their property, an d removal. They have appointed a committele respond with a committee of an equal number on th i e ) e, the old settlers. This proposition is well received many of the citizens of 'Warsaw, and if they do act reject it cause of the language in w hich it is a d dr essed to them (tllicey thinking it disrespectful) , it w i ll m ost likely lead to a settle ment, and to the removal of the Mormon s front amon g t h em. - It is very desirable that this should be the result. The Mormons offer no resistance to these proceedings, and it would appear, from a statement of one of their chiefs, th a t their determination is to stick by the law, and to sue the county for the damage which may be done to their property. , THE ANNUAL FLOWER SHow.—The gr:at Flower Show of Literary Annuals is c►ose at hand, and we hear much in praise of the rich and rare" qualities of some of the specimens ; but we understand that one, of an entirely novel character, is likely to eclipse them all, no less in the beauty and costliness of its pictorial illustrations, and the elegance of its "complement extern," than in the novelty and interest of its literary contents. The illustrations are all from designs made by GEORGE CarrEumoLE, expressly for this work ; the literary portions are contributed by seve ral of the most popular writers of the day,. and the editor ship is entrusted to a lady (the Baroness Calabrella), whose approved taste and judgment secure that choice and arrange ment of the materials, and that skill in putting them to gether, which are so essential - to the success of a work of this nature. The vo:ume is entitled "EVENINGS AT HAD DON HALL," and we understand the "machinery" by which the various tales, &c., are brought before the reader, is of the most ingenious kind, and affords an opportunity of introduc ing personal aketclates of many distinguished individuals in the several worlds 91faqbion, diplomacy, and literature. UONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS (From The Sun of Last Night). The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 2,000 bales, all to the trade. Prices were very fully supported, although the business was but small. There was nut much doing in Shares, and prices had a downward tendency. In the accounts that came to hand yesterday from Graham's Town we find a curious item in the revenue re turns for the financial year, viz , the receipt of 2,1131. 17s. 10d. for licenses to take off guano. There are numerous places on the sea board where this manure abounds to almost an un limited extent, and it is therefore certain that there will be yearly an increase in this novel item in the public revenue of the Cape of Good Hope. The total revenue for the quarter ending on the 30th June, 1844, was 59,5991., and the expen diture 70,881/. ss. In the corresponding quarter of 1845 the revenue bad exceeded the expenditure by 5,446/. lls. The accounts received this morning from Canada by the Halifax steamer are of a most satisfactory nature. The wea ther continued very fine for getting in the crops. The furor for railway operations was on the increase. Up to the 26th of September last, there had arrived at Quebec 1,296 vessels of the gross tonnage of 488,536 tons. In the same period of last year the arrivals were 1,125 vessels, of the tonnage of 427,472. This shows an increase of arrivals at Quebec this year of 171 ships, and of toi.nage 61,064 tons. Flour and wheat had fallen, as the accounts taken out by the steamer from hence gave a more favourable statement of the pro pable yield of our crops. It appears by the statement from the offer of the National Debt Reduction Commissioners, that in the present quarter there will be laid out in the purchase of Stock 267,780/. 3s. 7d., and in the withdrawal of Exchequer-bills, issued pursuant to the 57th George 111., cap. 48, the sum of 600,0001. The surplus revenue, all things considered, is of a most satisfactory character. There has been a slight disposition to sell Stock to-day, and Consols for immediate transfer have been reduced in value from 98% to 98; and the Three' per Cents. Reduced were taken, at one period, at 97 1 , . but since then they have rallied to 97%. For the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. there is a very heavy market, at a fall from 100 to 99 1 / 2 . Bank Stock is lower by 1 per cent., being now worth only 206 1 /. The premium upon Exchequer -bills has slightly advanced. The Foreign Funds are much neglected. Spanish Three per Cents. have been sold at 37% ; the Dutch Two-and-a.. Half per Cents. at 60 U and 3 4 ; the Four per Cents. at 94 1 4 %; and the Mexican Five per Cents. at 32. The settlement of the Railway Share Account has not yet been fully completed. For a temporary accommodation a comparatively high rate of interest is demanded. The de mand for Irish, India, and the principal English scrips and shares is very healthy. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 98% 98 98V, %Tew 34 per Cents. lOO 99% yr 4 l/, 99 1 1, Long Annuities toexoireJan.lB6o 10 15-16 13-16 10 13-15 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 Consols for Account .. .... . . Exchequer Bills, 1,0004 I%d 5l 53 pm. 53 Ditto 500/. Ditto Small ONE CL(YsiNG PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK - e i nclis Brazilian Bonds — Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 — 84 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 32 32 1 4 Ditto Deferred 17% 17V 2 Ditto, Debentures . 8 8 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. Dutch, 2% per Cent Ditto, 4 Der Cent. Certificates 9 4 %% 94% PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN G RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen . . Bristol and Exeter 7 o— lOl 98% 9B i l ; Ditto New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... Caledonian Ditto Extension - — 5% Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 57,E 6 •••......... 6 Cornwall Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir. and Leicester l l% 3 34 3 3 /4 Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford ... Direct Manchester _ . (Remington's) Ditto (Rackstrick's)... 5 1 4 7 Direct Northern Dublin and Galway..... 4 Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 23A %24 Ditto New 4/. 16s. 9 14 % 3 /4 9 34 P Grand Union l% 3% Great Eastern &Western 2% ...... 3% Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension ...... 7 1 ,2 l6 Ye Great Western Ditto 1 ,4 Shares Ditto Fifths • Luicaster and Carlisle... 25 Leicester & Birmingham 225. 2 p • 2 P Leicester and Bedford... 225. Leicester and Tamworth 495. Liverpool & Leeds Direct 2% ••• London and Birminghmloo 21l; 217 217 Do. Quarters Ditto Extension ...... 1 V 4•••, 3%... . London and Blackwall. 161. r j s. 4d. 10 3 / 4 1‘ 11 ll% Do. New London and Brighton._ 50 London and Croyd' 1 1 , 131. 15s. 9d. 25 24 3 / 4 ..... .. Lond. & S.Westr.,, , n 411 64 led 79 ... ........ .. 79 London and y or k 2% 6% % 3 / 4... 6% London, W arwick, and Kidderr,inster 214 4 ... 3 34 Londor , derry &Coleraine 24 OM 5 1 ,4 Nano ,ester and Leeds... 76 1.,0. 1% Shares . ‘, ' .anchezter and Birmin Do. New Quarters ... 2 Midland... 100 175 176 176 Do. New Newcastle and Darling ton Junction — , Do. New Brandling Newcastle and Berwick 5 Newry and Enniskillen 2% Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... ....- 2 2% .: ....... 6 8 : . 5 . Y . 8... 1 6: 4 I . Lls p. . . .. . 47 u2725153111p North British . 7 .. •• •• Do., New North Devon Northern and Eastern Do. New .... N. Kent & Direct Dover 2%.... ___ 18611i3/1346% I'' 1A- North Staffordshire 425......, North Wales 6 % 7 1 % ..... ... alp Norwich and Brandon... 14 - Ditto New Nottingham and Boston 1% ... ... ... ......... _ 162% 141 i Oxford and Worcester.- 2% Preston and Wyre ...... 50 22 2 1 14 . s .'.. c co ot t t t is is h h Central midland ......... 15 Shrews., Wolverhamp., A Dudley, and Birm ...... 2%„.. . 7% 8 Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union South Midland l% South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... _ Do., No. 2. ............ 7 South Wales ..... ...... ••• 21 , . • .... 7% 7 l2 Vale of Neath ... .. ...... 2 Warwick & Cheltenham 1 % 3 4 1 4 Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw , .......... ... 3 - and Dublin ............ 11,4 2IA ........ .. 1 Wat erford, Wexford, and ... 2is Valentia .............. 1% 3% . 31 /e Welch Midland ........• 2% 4% 4 Wilts, Somerset, and 4 Southampton • - ...... 1 % 2%......••....... 2% Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth .. ...... ... ...... 2% 8 ........ ...• .„ 81 ,4 Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union ... .. IN__ 81/z Worcester and S. Wales 425. York and Carlisle ....:.••• 21/ 4 Vti%... % P ••••• .. • 4 1 % York and North Midland 50 — Do.Do S E e x lb te y ns .. io .. n . ................... 20 114 823/4 B4 : 293/4 FOREIGN RAILWAY' Boulogne and Amiens... 8.. l3 s'i 3 13 Dendre Valley ......••• .., 2 10 Dutch Rhenish .. 5 1 1 , 8 1 A l l l /2 ... ... East Indian ss. h 4% . 3 / .... 4 44 1. , 4 orth. of France I% 2 1 4% 2% Great Luxembourg La ffi W U e e s t 's e ) r . n . . B . : . .e . .t . i . 1 . .... 4 2 5s . Namur and Liege Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2 Pans and Lyons (Gan neron's) Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron's) 2 ...... 2% . 2si Do. (Compte de L'Est) 2 Rouen and Havre MINES. Real del Monte Unregd. 4% • • .•....... 4% [ADVERTIIEMENT.] THE MEDICAL LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT. The Times of yesterday, by its leading article, has sealed the fate of doctors and of tiieir organic theory, for let us ask who are the pars ies who have held out opiates as essen tial to the cure of disease? Are they not the doctors them selves? And has not the British College of Health for years past, most strongly protested against the odious practice? The article in the Times is an attempt to arrest, if possible, the medical liberty i f the subject, which liberty is inherent in every f..ee-born individual. We repeat, it is the doctors themselves who are responsible for these opiates, alias poi sons,* administered falsely as medicines in older to throw danger and mystery in the path of those who otherwise might and would teat their own maladies.—We are, Sir, your obe dient servants, MORISON, MOAT, and Co., For, and on behalf of the body of Hygeists. British College of Health, New-road, _ _ London, Oct. 16, 1845. • Telling the world that poisons are medicines when scientifically administered is a gross imposition, and we trust the day is not far distant when the people will so under stand it. A BOOK FOR A RAINY . DAY. Br JOHN THOMAS SMITH.—This new book, by the Author of " Nnllekens and. his . Times," is replete with i n t eres t, and contains a great variety of inf orma ti on . Th e aut h or has gone back to the year of hi s bi rt h , and narrated chrono l o gically the incidents which di ve rsified his life, giving us, at the - s a me time, an insight int o th e passing events of the day , a nd anecdotes of celebrated personages, and infinitely amusing sket ch es of character. W e g l ean, f or i nstance, man y a scrap of news which the g eneral h i storian forbears to r ecord—we obtain glimpses of what London was some sixty years ago—we have a description of Marylebone -gardens, its fireworks, its amusements', &c. Anecdotes, without number , abound. The book is, indeed, aptly entitled one for a rainy day, as we feel convinced the read er w ill soon forget the glom ay weather without in the amusement afforded by the vol .ume in his hands; and if a gleam of sunshine burst forth, would hesi tate to lay down his book to avail himselff the oppor tunity of going forth to bask in it. We have r tot for a long time enjoyed the perusal of a work f this 0 .escription so much. " A Book for a Rainy Day " will so en be in the hands of every one. —Sunday Times. TELLIGENCL. SPORTING IN NEW MAI BETTING ON THE CAll 2 to 1 agst The Baron (t) 20 to 1 agst Alarm (t) 23 to 1 agst Croton Oil 25 to 1 agst Wolf Dog 25 to 1 agst Ould Ireland 25 to 1 agst Caen 25 to 1 agst Lady Wildair RKET.--TUESDAY EVENING. IBRIDGESIIIRE STARE. 25 to 1 agst Titmouse 30 to 1 agst Chertsey (t) 30 to 1 agst Clumsy 30 to 1 agst Espoir 30 to 1 agst Secundus 38 to 1 agst Hartshorn DERBY. 8 to 1 agst Sting. ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. Town Plate. T.M.M. My Old Hack, aged—Subduer, 5 yrs—Welbeck, 4 yrs— Little John, 4 yrs—Manto filly, 4 vrs—Metal, 3 vrs—Longi tude, 3 yrs—f by Plenipo, out of Acacia, 3 y►s—Haw•kcsbury, 3 yrs—Stream, 3 yrs—Sister to Ma Mie, 3 yrs—Prairie, 3 yrs—The cook, 3 yrs. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each. The winner to be sold for 80 sous. Caroline, 3 yrs--Syllabub, 3 yrs—Malvoisie, 2 yrs—Deer Chase, 2 yrs—The Pretender. 2 yrs. Oatlands. B.M. Trueboy, 5 yrs, Bst 81b—Longitude, 3 yrs, 6st 31b—Jet, 3 yrs, 4st 111 b. The rest declared. (RECEIVED LAST NIGHT). NEWMARKET, TUESDAY NIGHT, TWEIXE o'CLocK. At a very numerous meeting of the Jockey Club, held this evening after the races, a vote of thanks was unanimously passed to the Duke of Richmond, for his eminent services in the House of Lords in procuring a revision of the laws relat ing to the turf. A similar vote was passed to Lord Palmer ston, for his exertions in the House of Commons; and, the rules and orders of the Club having been suspended for the purpose, his Lordship was elected a free and honorary mem ber without a dissentient voice. It was also resolved, una nimously, that it is not desirable to have stands erected on the race-course. The attention of the Club was next directed to the proposed railroad from Chesterford to Newmarket., and the plans having been submitted and explained, they were unanimously approved. WEDNESDAY. The settling for the Cesarewitch took place this morning, and a:tilt ugh rather heavy and unfavourable to the betters round, went off well. Two Noble Lords are the principal winners (between four and five thousand pounds), Mr. Watt and the stable having stood to win but small stakes. We would here suggest to speculators that it would be more prudent to pay and receive in the Subscription-room than in the street. Pitkpockets were in great force, and one nobleman was eased of 2001. ; that others escaped was more from luck than carefulness. The rating to-day commenced at half-past two, with Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, two yrs old, 7st 31b ; three, 9st ; fillies allowrd r dlb. The winner to be sold for 801., if de manded, &c. T.Y.C. (5 Subs). Mr. Greville's Deer Chase, 2 yrs (Pettit) 1 Mr. Steer's Caroline, 3 yrs Mr. W. Sadl er ' s Th e Pretender, 2 yrs 3 Lord G. Bentinck's b f Malvoicie, 3 yrs Mr. Worley's b f Syllabub, 3 yrs ... 5 Betting-2 to 1 agst Syllabub, 2to 1 agst Deer Chase, 3 to 1 ngst The Pretender, and 4 to 1 agst Caroline.—Caroline made the running, followed by The Pretender and Deer Chase till half way up the con's. The Pretender then de dined, and Dear Chase challenging, Caroline defeated her, after a fine race, by a head. Match, 200 sows. 50 ft. Bst 71b each. First half of Ab. M.— Lord Exeter's Celia (Mann) beat Lord W. Powlett's Espoir. The Oatland Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 10 ft, if declared, &c. B.M. (7 Subs., 4of whom declared.) Lord Exeter's Jet, 3 yrs, 4st 111 b (J. Sharp) I Mr. Meiklam's Trueboy, 5 yrs, Bst 81b Lord G. Bentinck's Longitude, 3 yrs, Est 31b Betting-6 to 4 against Jet, 6to 4 against Trueboy, and 7 to 2 against Longitude.—Jet took the lead, Trueboy lying at her quarters, Longitude following them, but very soon out of the race,' In rising the hill, Trueboy collared the leading mare, headed her at the top, and ought to have won, but shut up a few yards from the post, and was beaten by a neck. The Town Plate of 501. for three yrs old, 7st 41b ; four, Bst 41b; five Bst 111 b ; six and aged, 9st 11b. The winner to be sold for 200/. if demanded. T.M.M. Mr. R. J. Shafto's Metal, 3 yrs (Brown) 1 Mr. 3lostyn's bl f Stream, 3 yrs ... Lord Verulam's Hawksbury, 3 yrs 3 The following also started, but were not placed :—Sir C. Monck's My Old Hack, aged—Sir S. Spry's Subduer, 5 yrs —Duke of Ru:land's Welbeck, 4 yrs—Mr. R. Clifton's b g Little John, 4 yrs—Lord G. B en ti nc k' s b f L ong i tu d e , 3 yrs —Mr. Batson ' s fby Plenipotentiary, out of Acacia,:3 yrs— Lord Sandwich's Prairie, 3 yrs—and Mr. W. Sadler's The Cook, 3 yrs. Betting-5 to 2 agst Welbeck-5 to 1 asst sto 1 agst Metal-5 to 1 agst Hawkesbury—' 7 , t o 1 agst My Old Hack. Hawkesbury and Longitude the running for the first half mile, and then gave pl ace ' Lo Prairie, who carried it on to the Ditch, when she In his turn, ".esigned it to My Old Heck, who, g ave w s ry to Metal and Stream, the horse leading. In nearly this the race continued to the erd, Metal win ning by a P":„ck, and Stream beating Hawkesbury, who came rt the i lst, by half a neck ; My Old Hack fourth, and nothing ' up. The winner was claimed. Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft. D.M. (3 Subs.) Duke of Bedford's Prologue, 7st 101 b (Whitehouse 1 Lord Eglinton's Vaudeville, 7st 121 b ... 2 6 to 4 on Prologue, who made all the running, and won easily by a length and a half. THE LATE THOMAS DAVIS. (From the Nation, a Dublin paper.) While the death-knell of those whom, of all God's creatures we held most dear, is yet rit!ging in our ears, and it still seems a question whether there is anything left to hope or labour for on the earth, we are assured that a conspiracy has commenced, whose base object is to malign the living and the dead, and to resist and destroy the labours of love and conciliation which have made Thomas Davis immortal. Oh I poor knaves—foolish as base—you have ill-chosen your time. Foolish knaves---o believe that the generous Irish heart, full of love and tenderness as a mother's, would go with you in bringing bitterness and anger into the house of death. Base knaves—not to feel that tite l simple people would recognise instinctively the assassin's hand (that hand that would murder with the knife as with the pen) in a blow made in such a guise, at such an hottfi We place, as a shield between us and you, the memory of Thomas Davie, already risen to be a star in our firmament. All men (even you, bringing the tribute Vide pay§ to deceticy) have offered incense to his lie was our beloved friend and brother. What he believeJ, we believe; what he preached, we preach. How can you, shut-sighted knaves that you are, hope that a neo - 1 7-4;; ithb liitve learned to love his name as tit tiAine of a de:iverer, will hate in others th e principles and practices they honoured in him. You dare not lay hands on the sacred dead. The humblest of all his friends would take by the throat the highest head that ventured to breathe a slander upon him. Neither shall von touch; with impunity, all that we have left of him—his . (10etrities and his labours. We have spared you long, that dissension might not come into the national counsels by us; but h thousand times rather would we trample you into your native mud—a thousand times rather would we strip bare the political scare crows who frighten good men away from our cause-rather than that a shade of dishonour, an hour of disrepute, should come on the fame of Thomas Davis. We will not stop to-day to rend to pieces the web of vulgar sophistry. God knows we have little inclination now for angry controversy! But, for the future, the memory .of the illustrious'dead, and the political faith which he ha 3 bequeathed to the living, shall not be misrepresented in vain. We are threatened with popular disfavour. No ; the people know us, and shall know you. But it is not for po pular favour we labour ; but for far other 'results. We desire public support; but there are conditions on which, if ii were tendered, we would scorn to accept it. We would not tell lies for it. We would not hunt down, by ealumlly, a good man who dinred from us, nor would we glorify and exalt a scoundrel who profes.ied himself a repealer. It is a crime, we are told, to be complimented by a Conser vative. Now, we care not to conceal this fact, that there are many Conservatives whose good opinion we would feel proud to enjoy, and some renealers whose applause we should be ashamed to possess. Which of us does not know a repealer whose praise is infamy—one whom we know to be a hollow and venal advocate of a good cause? Say that he is a po litical apostate, who now covers with coarse and vulgar adu lation a holy whom he at one time assailed with more coarse and more truculent abuse. He measures out his flattery now, as he did then his vituperation, by the pence which he is paid. He is a Protestant, and lie assails the very t=eed which he professes to hold, and audaciously puts himself forth as the champion of a faith whose tenets he does not believe. What is most exalted and sacred is not beyond the reach of his calumny. His trade is hypocrisy—his life a continued and consistent lie. Shall we desire the applause of a man like this ? On the other hand, do we not know many a man who is astray on one vital question, but still sincere in his error— whose spirit shrinks with instinctive abhorrence from false hood and dishonour—in whose breast the seeds of national feeling are deeply sown, and who only waits, perhaps, to wit ness the failure of those vile attempts to raise the dead spirit of bigotry into life, to fling himself with ardour into the struggle for the independence of his country? From which of these two men is there more to hope? i Of which of them shall we deiirt the good opinion ? In the course of these protracted struggles, we have be come too much disposed to accord to mere professions that respect which is due only to sincerity—we are too tolerant of falsehood and hypocrisy—too apt to overlook the most flagrant violations of the fundamental virtues of honesty and truth. Alas! shall the day ever arrive when true men shall come together, and look into each other's hearts, and learn that they have nothing to fear; and when association with a political knave shall be shunned as carefully as association with a pickpocket? THE POTATO DISEASE. DUBLIN, OCT. 12.—1 t is four or five weeks since attention was first called to the appearance of the potato disease in some districts on the eastern coast of Ireland, especially in places four or five miles from Dublin. People here were generally incredulous as to the existence of such a disease ; but meantime it was spreading in all directions, and now there are few counties in which the potato crop has not been more or less affected. Allowing much for exaggeration, natural perhaps where there is such general alarm, there can be no doubt that injury has already been done to an extent which may very seriously diminish the only food of two-thirds at least of the population of Ireland. But this is not all. Where there is such a predisposition to decay and disease in the potato, the deepest anxiety must exist as to the further pro gress of the malady. Even a partial failure in the potato crop would be a great calamity in Ireland; but it is fearful to contemplate the consequennes of anything like a general failure. It is now manifest that the disease is greatly influenced by the state of the atmosphere. During a week or two of fine weather there was a decided check, and farmers indulged the 'belief that the pestilence had ceased; it certainly was not extending. But after a week's heavy rain, we have accounts of the appearance and spread of the disease in almost all parts of the country. This day is fi , .e and dry ; and we may indulge the hope of the continuance of favourable weather during the potatoe digging, which is now in progress. A letter from Ardee, county of Louth, gives the following deplorable account :—" I am sorry to inform you that this dire calamity is still making fearful strides, and the state of the potato crop at present is calculated to cause the most serious alarm in districts which, a fortnight ago, were thought to be exempt froth it.' The greatest panic prevails at present. The ravages committed in a single week, nay, a single day, are surprising. The only theme which occupied ..the different prsons t :it came to our market on Tuesday last was the fe.irful stab. nf the potato crop. I know one gentleman who purchased tier his men a ton of oatmeal to have ready as a substitute. - lie d clan- d tip me it was pitiful to see the poor people. actually crying about their crop—their all. The gentleman I conversed with is ,ht ati extensive farmer, but he is a philanthropist, and anxious as much as possible to avert the effects likely to occur to * This plan, it appears, was Immediately adopted by the Portu guese Governor of the Island of Buena 'Vista t The results of the late titger ,xpedition were, that out of 145 whites, 130 were attacked with fever, and 40 died; or 1 in 3-25 of the attac:;ed. Only 15 lemons escaped the fever; but some of them afterwards so fr,red from disorder), which were probably brought on by the voyage. In a second. attempt to ascend the liver by one steamer, out of S whi:e persons 7 were attacked, and 2 died. It is remarkable as an mdieation of an acclamatising influence, that out of 158 blacks, only 11 were attacked with fever, and not one died. It s.e.eins also that the blacks, or Kroomen, in the case of the Eclair, have entirely escaped the fever. - . those dependent on him from the fatal malady. I have been I told of some other generous individuals who have desired their tenants to dig all the potatoes fit for use and to take tht m off the land without any charge. Now this is cer tainly very praiseworthy and laudable ; but if the malady proceeds. at the rapid pace it has during the last two weeks, something more than indivi dual benevolence must be interposed between the poor and that destitution which must inevitably result from it. The aggregate benevolence of the country will .; - have an ample t:eld unfortunately to work on. In the county of Meath it was said the crop was quite safe a short time ago ; I have the fact from unquestionable authority, that the crop is bad there as elsewhere. The progress of the malady is cal culated to create the most serious alarm, and as an addition to the mischief, I am sorry to have to state that a great deal of corn, of different kinds, is still out in the fields in stook, and, owing to the heavy rain, is in a very precarious state. In some late districts there is still a good deal of oats uncut. If the weather does not take up shortly, I much fear that the potato crop is not the only loss we shall have to deplore, as I fear a great deal:of grain in the fields is much injured." GALWAY, Om 11.—We have made particular inquiries throughout this county as to the existence of the disease known by the name of potato cholera, and we are happy to inform the public that there is no reason to apprehend danger in this quarter. The crops present a healthy appear ance, and the produce is most abundant. Owing, however, to an apprehension of a failure elsewhere the prices are rather high for this season, with a tendency to advance. But there is not the slightest reason to dread a short supply in this neighbourhood. • BELFAST, OCT. IL—The weather continues wet, and un6 favourable for securing the remnant of the harvest, andpat , titularly unfavourable for the raising t.f the potato crop. From all we can learn, this crop is as defective as the reports have represented, and it cannot be denied that the rot is general in this part of the country. [Another Belfast account, of the same date, states that the grain crop is generally secured, and will prove abundant. But it is admitted that the reports of the grain crop are very unfavourable—that there are large quantities of tainted potatos at Beira& market; but still it Is copposed the ac , counts of the disease are greatly ekaggerateit] DOWN AND ANTRI3L—ThaeIB now no doubt but that both in the county Down and county Antrim the disease has spread to a serious, though not an alarming extent. At Comber, immediately opposite the police barraek ; there Is d large field scarcely worth digoing; anti ill the vi c inity of Ballynahinch, tineKillyleagh, the crop is much injured. At Antrim. a few days ago, Lord Musereene sold some potatoes, in the ground, at the high price of 36t. per acre. They looked vtry well, but so extensive have been the ravages of the rot, that the ptirthasere are greatly d's= appointed, and Would gladly withdraw from.their agreement Ltstantm, OCT. 11.—We are much concerned to state Ll at the prevalent distemper in the potatO crop haS been this week found to extend its tearful ravages to the county Limerick, and the fields on several farms show unequivocal symptoms of the rot or canker in the potato. At Caliirelly the disease was first observed, and subsequently at Ada more, where twelve acres were opened, and the spade la bourers left off work on finding the plant was not worth raising • the evil was also apparent at Co o lyh e ' an an d o th er parts of the country, where no suspicion of the kind was entertained. At Kilworth, Michelstown, arid a wide rtirtge of land in the counties of Cork, Ltnierick, and Tipperary, serious apprehensions are felt for the same result. The po tatos most exposed to this deadly plague.spot aft the " white eye," for they are most prone to detay, arid Wirth the disease has fixed on these it may be deemed incurable; not so the cup and crow potatoes, and if on high grourid the farmer has a better chance for his crops. There is little doubt but the distemper now attacking the potatos in both coun tries is the effect of prolonged low atmosphere and excessive moisture acting upon the plant since the early part of August last, when the rain set in very heavily. The recent moist atmosphere and frequent rains aggravate the tendency to infection. This terrible epidemic not only threatens loss of food in the pre_ ent season, hut loss of food for the next year. THE AFRICAN FEVER, (Frail the Medical Gazette. In our last numb e r w e refer; rid to the tirrival of a Vessel from the coast of Africa, baVing on board a disease repre sented to be the African fewr, which had caused great mor , tality among the cre w . N o less than 66 persons had die i, including the two medical officers. We expressed no doubt that immediate relief would be afforded by Government to the survivors, who were thus left in a mast helpless condi tion; but it appears that the excessive fear of contagion caused th, strictest quarantine to be observed, and in the first i'.tance the plan adopted by the Lord Mayor and Alder '.7.en in the great plague of London in 1665 was enforced— e , the healthy were compelled to remain shut up with the diseased. - We confess we were hardly prepared for this mode of dealing with a fever-stricken ship in the 19th century; fur, even admitting the contagious nature of the malady, methods would have easily suggested themselves for imme diately separating the diseased from the healthy, and remov ing the whole of the survivors from the pestilential atmos phere in which they were confined. . • . The delay in adopting measures of isolation was, we under stand, occasioned by the absence from town of the chief quarantine officer at the time the intelligence was received. It is to be regretted that there is not a medical officer at all our great naval stations empowered to act immediately in such emergencies. We have proballly never before had the African fever brought so near to our coasts as in this instance; and it may be worth while, therefore, to inquire into a few cir cumstances connected with it. The most accurate observa tions which have been made on this formidable malady are those of Dr. M‘Williain and Dr. Pritchett, who accompanied the late Niger expedition. From the account given by Dr. ➢l'William, we learn that all who composed the expedition were exposed to the same influences, and nearly all were at trcked with the fever. Two only of the four medical officers who died had been in attendance on fever patients! Dr. Pritchett, Mr. Thomson, Mr. Stirling, and Dr. Stanger were among the few who escaped being seized with fever, although they were in constant intercourse with the sick, and Dr. M'William himself was the last person in the Albert who was attacked. The nurses on board this vessel were among the latest taken ill, and one escaped altogether. In short, there was no fact which came under the observation of this experienced medical officer which afforded the sli!7htest evi that the disease was communicated from one person to another: These fltets appear to show clearly that the malady must have owed its difftisibti to CndehilB itititienee i and het to eon. tagion. It is well known that in the equipment of thee vessels gpetial prOvisions were made not only for insuring a free circulation ()fair below fleas; bat ah asfar as possible for purifying it, or of depriving it of nollotta thattefs. There is,, however, good'reason to believe, from the' fatal progress of the disease, than these had no influence in counteracting the effects of the enuemic poison. We learn from Dr. M'William's 'account, that some circumstances were actutillj- favynealale to the propagition of fever by contagion : the upper deck Was much lumbered, in a degree to prevent the free circulation of the air; and . the same cause prevented it from being tho roughly cleaned. In the deeke below many men were neces sarily crowded together iii sleeping titidef a very high tem perature; for the thermometer was seldom below 84 degrees. The steam apparatus treated an unavoidable source of heat, which was constantly being diffused throughout the vessel by the active conducting powereof the metal (iron) of which she Wite CotlicioSed, It might be supposed that this would rather lead to the cooling of the - vessel by its immersion in water; but the water of the river was seldom below 83 de grees. Under these circumstances, we think it pretty evident that had the fever been contagious some proofs of its possess ing this character would have been most probably obtained. There can, however, be no doubt that the great mortality which attended the disease, was in great part to be ascribed to the vital energies of the men becoming reduced by these depressing influences. In the absence of any medical history of the progress of the malady on board the recently arrived vessel, it is out of our power to form a conjecture whether the deaths on the homeward voyage, and those which have taken place off Portsmouth, were clue to the African fever or its sequelte. If to the former, the disease may, like the worst form of typhus fever, have acquired a contagious character from confine ment, want of ventilation, or proper medical or hygienic treatment, an evil which was only likely to be increased by the plan pursued under the quarainine laws, at the first ar rival of the ship. The remedy would have been to have iso lated the effected, and placed them at once under medical treatment, whereby all danger of the diffusion of the disease would have been prevented.* It does not appear probable, however, that the genuine African fever would have lain so long latent; the facts oh-erved in the Niger expedition show that the pet iod of latency is about from 16 to 21 days; and it t may turn out, therefore, that instead of fresh cases of fever occuring on board this ill-fated chip during the latter part of the voyage, they may have been merely sequences of the malady, aggravated in their effects by the unhealthy state of the vessel. It has been long known that those who recover from this disease are liable to suffer from lesions of the mucous mem branes of the bowels, which are caused by the fever. He morrhage, hnmatemesis, and dysentery have supervened long after the fever has passed away, and have destroyed life. Within a short period all these matters will have been cleared up to the satisfaction of the public and profession; since Sir William Pym, Superintendent-General of Quaran tine, and Mr. Arnott, of the Middlesex Hospital, have been appointed to investigate the matter; and their report is, we understand, more favourable than the intelligence already received would have led us to anticipate. This does, not, however, remove the objections to our quarantine regulations, which loudly call for some modifica tien. We are not prepared to say, after the sad experience of the pestilential cholera, that fearful maladies derived from endemic causes in one quarter of the globe, may not diffuse themselves by a property strongly analogous to, if not iden tical with, contagion ; but we believe it to be not only a rel fish but a dangerous policy to shut up the diseased under such circumstances. The poison is only likely to acquire thereby a more virulent action ; and, like the gaol-fever at the Black Assizes, cut off all who come within its sphere. Moral causes, it is well known, have an important infl uence in bringing on an attack, so that the locking up the healthy with the affected for the period required by the quarantine laws, is virtually consiging the former to destruction. We have made these remarks, as the subject is of present interest. The nistory of the African fever, as given by Dr. 111‘William, shows it to be a disease most insidious in its attacks, most fatal in its progress, and at present apparently beyond the reakh of medical treatment.f The bare possibi lity of so fearful a malady becoming im.orted into his coen try, and spreading itself by contagion, is thereforet a subject which deserves the close attention of the medical profession. The above remarks were made before we had seen the re port to the Amiralty by Sir W. Pym and Mr. Arnott. 'We are glad to find that energetic measures have been taken, and that, on the arrival of the Eclair at Standgate- creek, such precautions were adopted as prudence would suggest. Those who had escaped from the attack of the fever (41) were removed to a clean vessel, and convalescents to another; At present there are only two men confined to bed with the fever, but no fresh case has occurred since the 29th ultimo. The report, we think, leaves it clear that the fever has, in this instance certainly, spread by contagion. In the report we have re, detailed account of the symptoms; but it is ex pressly stared that the disease was marked by the occurrence of "black vomit," the first fatal case being that of a man who was brought on board after having been three days on shore. Soon afterwards eighteen persons were attacked with fever and black vomit, and thirteen died! The disease may, therefore, be same severe modification of the coast fiver; for Dr. KWllliarn expressly states that, " inno case of the river fever was there the slightest appearance of black vomit.' Bilious vomiting was common in the early stage of the disease." We shall take care to report any facts that may further transpire with respect to the disease. In the mean time, there it every reason to believe, as the report states, that its progress is arrested. 4% A TALE OF HORROR. A recent traveller gives the fallowing as on his experiences of foreign enjoyments. lie had gene t° sleep in his Indian tent, and continues — " I might ha ve . slept for some four or five hours, and a dreaml ess and satisfying sleep it was; but certainly it is—let sc ions ! ' say what they will, and sceptics throw doubts by ba nd ;) fuls on the assertions of metaphysicians—that be'ere,' awoke, and in my dreamless slumber , I bad a visi bis perception of danger--a helpless a helpless cognizance of being bed-feliowed by peril--a consciousness of the horing, presence of death. " ow to describe my feelings I kno w not; but 0 H we have all read and heard that if the eyes of s watcher are steadily fixed on the counte nance ef sleeper for a certain length of time, the sltireberer will be sure to start up, wakened by the tisystereel: magnetism of a recondite principle of v ision ; so v'.s it, that with shut eyes and drowsed-up senses, an ward ability was conferred upon me to detect Pt. living presence of danger near me — t o see, theug; blind, the ferroless shape of a mysterious hort°: wa crouching beside me ; and, as if the pe ril [bap gs my night mate Was of a nature tti be quido.tioi activity by any motion on my part, I felt in my stupor the critical neces ity of lying quite still ; / th that, when I at last awoke,. and felt that as 110 `` l i d , my face towards the roof there was - thick, h e avy, e°_ creeping thing upon my chest, I stirred not, not 9ttel i e l t . a word of eanie, Dafiget ttnd iat• they necasionalirle the senses and paralyse the faculties, but they ggie: sharpen both ; and ere I could twice wink roY i eY e i d o ; was br. ad awake ; and aware that, coiling and e ° itself up into a circle or twisn , , a huge serpent elassct, my chest. When I tell you that the whole dig br i f t b s e and even the pit of my stomaoh, were covered Fit i t cold scvly proportions of the reptile, you will own tu' must have been one of a Considerable site. tre eßi " What my thoughtwere=-so made Up al' delve et o dread, and the ekti clatioh, itsslifehEe: death that must follow fitly nabeetivent oh, Int.r c i to I miter can tell in langua;ge etillicienfly 1 0 ' d ie; cetvey their full force., It was evident the l o p some creature had at length bettlhti itself, l o r n st and I felt that, attracted by b3y approached the upper part of my throat: ; ft f o ot quite still, and its weighty pressur6—its chillness at first becoming gradu a lly( it s e-- bis so ,„ me) of n burning heat—and the odious indescrtnai odour Which was exhale,; from its hotly 0 1 rYOl3q the whole eVerwhelthed the, thi‘t fierce struggle that I prevented myself froiii As it. was a cold sweat burst from every Per e- " A i s tasl' hear the beating of my heart- and I felt, to ittY that the palsy of terror had begun to agitat e It will wake,' thought and theft all et id re a" "At that juncture, something—it /night right lizard, or a large beetle—tell from the eeilire upon my left arm, which lay stretched beside or:, pa snake, uncoiling its head, raised it With a len ",!Tereet,, then, for the first time, I saw the hood, the fefir iu .b r i glittering in the faint sunshine—it Was i ' ,eb , i o Capello, " Shutting my eyes to ckeitide the droadfdlslll::Oed lay almost fainting, until itaitin ail was quiet. O fl ' ' t are glances met mine, all would have been over ; 13 2 . .0 the; rently it wits once more asleep, and preeeittly I r the tell; Lases" moving alyait, undoing the fastenings °, and striking ft light, A sudden thought stead s; sh ort l f with an impulse I could then ascribe to nethieetwigl, desperation though Its eitects were so „ ( 56 0 „ uttereti in n ' lotid sepulchral tone, Kulassi(and " Sahib !' was the instantaneous response, to I is%, heart beat quicker at the success of my attelnPode still again, for the invite evidently rousd' 00' movement, mad ita bead, I suppose, fell on arm. " Oh, God I the agony of that momeoti, pressed tremor almost gave way to madnes s " I debated With myself whether I should reo-11 , deavour to attract the attention of the Ittess - ,,' t ea • j r o perfectly quiet ; whether it would riot be, " t o either to st , irt up at once &Lid ghille..tl !h. hie e ',' ne eil", 4 Ehl 'l; from me. But the latter suggestion was at J Boned by the assurance I felt that it would P r ; eo lo, s " impeded by the heavy coils of the creature, o il,- nerveless from excitement, I could not e sctiee, ; - , ; 0 64 , it Again, therefore, I spoke, in the hollow bet " 0 - 4 1 ‘.„" il e cents which arise from the throat when the,,a`(lr afraid to move a muscle—' Kulassi chi nigh I " tbo a lanthurn.) e t/ 6 " Again the cobra moved, and again, ready Lascar replied— 'r ) fili e 66t 6 Late houn Sahib' (I am bringing it . 1; ott " There was then a sour d of clanking TD" „de le advancing flashed across the roof of th e Mier 004 at the noise of quick coming feet, 10, one a'tieled horrible coils unwinding, the grisly m onster g, e or e from my body ; and the last sound that s utte snake 1‘ iv of hearing was the Ya hillihi samp,' (O L G . o a d r :; tt of the Lascar, for I fainted away, for tu° my life."—Chant hers. rpf . ---- „ifs FLOOD IN THE RIVER " j Since Sunday, the 28th ult., the Clyde 5b0,5,0 fleod, rising gradually from four to eight fel t " ) ; and for ordinary level, until the night between Fr' iglit• 0 1' turday last, when the waters reached their be fe ll in t he 36 hoers previous to Saturday morning, raianecto! rents almost without intermission, and th e a ‘ e r o sia' ° ale river on Friday night gave the great st e n , tyiM l l. oo all who reside on its banks, or inhabit the l ev '.ht tricts of the city. The flood reached its 11%cellui four o'clock on Saturday morning, when th e t . s tealto volume of waters was interrupted, though P° „ g ottPl'o o , by the advancing tide ; and at this titil e t e 9 t - eeth i " - ralli the information furnished by Mr. Geddes, 0"-,ot Society's house, the Clyde had risen at tha t r t . el o 12 feet above its ordinary level—contai ning . 110' the volume of water than has been known for tee . 5 Flasher's Haugh—the pretty green elV ns b e r:ei rA tl e healthful recreate, and invalids woo the so d b ,Y1,44 submerged to the extent of several fee t . 0 j ,in morning light boats were seen rowing over it, a the sa tire up the meek which had ben drifted fron„ :1 cr op '` fte ll channel. For several Lours large masses tiro„ el f o e s observed fhating down, and though boats r d . , t he lobe and again to seize a multure from the fl u° os itY ref / found it impossible to live, from the in3P.etuthe o , e t ,e2 torrent, and were glad to reach the land 11 ,„ o den, i g oa", which they left it. Trees, cut timber:, "" t i. 0 t.t0 .4 sheep, barn-yard poultry, and even galn e t_ t otio a the tinually down, and furnished topics of eh", c i wonderment to the thousands congrePfre Alth c .,i;er bridges and on the banks of the stroll'. lc t he i ver e, every part of the city is now protected freofort toot itself, the greatest inconvenience and d ig t , et t he joe nevertheless, experienced by the inhabitall,l e ther_ ro oll of Salt-market, Bridgegate, Stt2ckwell, an" tho eow f o l e) lying parts, from the waters choking aP, opp 3 °tbd sewers, and finding access to the cellars satLattrit'lo,tol citizens. During a considerable part et . novelty was seen of a pump inserted by a f disc htier et. into one of the cellars in Jamaica-street, al to se e r e el its c intents over the pavement. Fr°33l_t-es"' ser e affairs on Friday afternoon, men and luf t er g% tlis ployed at any price, and till late at P i r s h9d 4 11 „ecli r. transporting valuablo goods fforn th l ist Broornielaw.' It wax, indeed, form -ate 0 . 0P ., " o ft, tion was used, otherwise the loss of pr e ter fe• been immense, for during the night the ri o ich fA rg , e , the sheds, and se rem vetoey artielesatfety, been impo., , sible to a place a 5 trine quaiitities of crop and debris were ob st .l l . s e t `, l t to g against the sharp piers of the woolen b" a lto ( ' ,i,r ( v c- , was observed that the flood mounted LT pole at 01 ' path-vay, much alarm began to be experienvroliceowili* the fate of this insecure s'ructure. i P i d e the l' lrde % early hour, stopped up the passegP2 Asao J o of ' I , ricketty as it is, stood out the storm. the the height of the river, we may state that rot fie too the bridges were submerge , !, and lite °ls A ' 4° foaming below on 'a level with the ar(o.l:tien of crof, of wood which lay moored below the vt' the means of interrupting a great clt l ' o il • t ot ill% and timber in theii• downward pas'et--:ep'st charge must have reaped a good ha r ro .- 0 00 011 2 hegP e r had never sown, for on Saturday ° ° g to ff y be piles of wheat, barley, and oats, w ere pre' on the raft, which only required deP tt " , : t ev' nl warded to the mill. We may state lan d idii g 141 ' 0 , caution was taken by the city pollee «,f a n tit e tio sengers from the river steamers, by ln e r woe to $t suhstantial line of planking Plaee ( " s f a ctioa h , i s be e t , and the quay ; and it is scatter of sa'' ... , ao hie 1 . - t ere,'), that, so far as we have learned no hull' ain f o lly lost. In the course of the morning , a ,P a dog- 13° 1i 14 t i t o ing sight was observed in the shut e r ttaeh ed t° ea the dead body of the usual occupant a.. p et bad _ re e chain—the our animal having literallY]terr, bact: t i frtf post. In the course of yesterday the " be crues! o , o {o' subsided. The fury of the torc e e n b t e nt en a t Y hsewbeal i n t i ti o : .be fq; the ponderous roots which have the higher districts and thrown upo , ll cd (rota `4 in In reference to the damage mist, The flot Aio ,tic_., the Post of Saturday evening progress swept many of the fi s e a lg ...„._ fr b r irtn () of the country. A correspondent attF4.7oterno,,, banks of Clyde, in a note received° 1 , 1 , 1 0 3 0 potig7ttitit that Joseph Gelding, baron officer t n , -1 , - ", o . to r, in the uPert,uoll tP.sr lost his whole crop of oats, amou t 3"" c ovem a I ' 3' or stooks, and that all the potatoes are craigo th a tV d a be iri near Clyde. Mr. James Wiik i t ' ht, .a rick of wheat carried off during I, t rt.re - tf i ,,*(K) eighty stooks floatine. Th i s morn down thv Ao g dowu b dont ace, of grain in sheaf found its IN .7 re d y con s 00 bridge, which it somevvhat endangeea__. 00 1 a , i . k es part of the stream. We likewise_ 1 0 4. 01 , awl" t be et : able quantity of grain was carried it t / . 10 . the bank of the Black Cart." The Stirling Observer Sa VS Il V itestirs - 21 0 3141iag oi such a heavy spate in the Forthffl. n or o f we have experienced this week. On _ se a the at low water, the Highland flood ‘ t ore r' e n u ig ht ib e ` tite tt) it , the river by eight feet, and ) t 1 ;:n., Te ich, it! nr eAt i deeper, though nut measurzd. it self over some fields of turniPs hav ing b e en and Blackdub, has overtiow, d its n b d a o o t k i ::::r a eP sv o ' ilv d ti on t ' is have heard of little other damage 0 —Glasgow Herald c 1 . ou ng 9. 3 e t ,5 f o r jo to a . t oe named AN Porter,U Nc o NI N, F I O: ortrTe.A:deLst,"wri t lialistiti;tlorsricico_gofegetrht 1 , , pill dale, was out the other day id n moano rahlAr o widePosi hunting rabbits. The dog havinga,eeffort t trie bo le: oi l amongst some stokes, Porter In a : . a n it stone l s o iat ve 4 01 3 place, and had thrust his hand a binr 111 1- eS til iael just got hold of a rabbit, whenicit,heic oclrobseodd3h,Lmoniinyshoisfaisctgtshwaterhee ucFaoter f' eg b u c i i t ion , b u nary position he was discover..e( 2 v __ ,tche d cen is , re' di' hours. He was taken home in a r o, grid, .ich,3 retaining his co n2eiongie - s. Itheugli mardra* met- bourhood turned out to find .„. , it t His discovery was quite a ccidental , to 0 , 1 - nab J o t All it ep , it 01 • o f the e , 00, oiice-court whicii appeared in,,,(!nn L ies tine` 01 ! of :rest+ rday, the name of Mr. ilte w e arc i,ctivil • _ o t ;e seibber, ii.steati of the )rubbed. tiny aria 0,14 aistake. FOrtlitlately 3lr. M. en . unlucky re port _ 4 l. iur contemporarea will not lose..at:i,:o kcooontre,lollo, araeter stand. too ancastor v 'lo§f nave done him any mischic • _ _ L oam FO I. igl.l,ffbrAtihtiswho reto t._ ll , ! a beta cv have been aware that some grievoaa atittOd. - '~~ ~' 7 .---- '----- I i _ - J4st' % ll • il i j k )U f t ": I. 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