The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-22 00:00:00

SUMMAEY OF liktS 0 i)utiltr Optinton. " Who runs may read." QOn Sunday evening their Majesties the King and ueen of the French received the Turkish Ambassa dor, the young Egyptian Princes, Baron de I3our quTt,ey. t h e Count" de Saint-Maurice, and M. de Saint• Priest, Peer of France. The Cou nc il -G eneral of the Seine closed its sess i on old Saturday. It has been engaged in the considera tion or many important questions, among which were the means of centralising in thQ hands of the Govern ment the hospitals for foundlings and lunatics, the expenses of which have so much increased ; and the servic e of the prisons, so as to lighten as much as possible the burdens , which weigh so heavy Cou g h e a depa r t ment. B ut what most i nterested the was a paper on the taxes, which it has or dered to be printed. A recent letter from Algiers announces the death o f M. Maissait, an officer of the 53d Regiment, of the 11-,ounds received in one of the last aff a i rs w ith the G I- r ' l) .Yles• Another letter an nounces th e d ea th o f M. anclpierre, an officer of the same regiment, and Wounded in th e same a ff a i r . General Amettler and his aide-de-camp, who were arrested w hil st attempting to enter Spain, arrived at C haumont on the 14th i n cus t o d y o fth e po li ce . The inundations in Italy appear to become general. : 1'? letter of the 4th, from Rome, states that the con tinual rains have caused the Tiber to overflow and „rubinerge th e l ower quarters of the city and the plains. : 11 some of th e streets b oats were ply i ng, and for eral days no mails h a d arr i ve d f rom th e nor th, so that it was feared that the Po had also overflowed its banks. We read in the Obserrateur Suisse of the 14th : “ The Vorort has just addressed to the States the r eply of M. Guizot to the application of the Govern. an at of G eneva for certain facilities in the convey- Clof l e t ters to and from England through France. . Guizot states that he is willing to grant the pro- P"sed facilities, but that he is desirous of entering Into postal treaties, having the same basis, with each of the States of Switzerland?' Letters from Constantinople of the 30th state that fresh disturban ces h a d b ro k en out in Syria, and that to wards L atakia the country was in such a state that tro°Ps were marching towards it with all possible rapi d i ty. for The Trieste journals of the 12th inform us that se veral day s p as t i t h as b een ra i n i ng t h ere con sctantly, and th a t a great port i on o f t h e surrounding euntry was under water. ini.AZ.nletter from Warsaw, of Nov. 7, say s : —"Th e t fortifications of th e ki ng d om may now b e cons id ere d t erm inated. B e f ore the revolution there were only rthena th ey h ave been strengthenen and enlarged by }gantic works. Two new fortresses have also been ,wilt--that o f W arsaw and that of Demplin, vs hich ha rec eived the na me o f I vangro d. Th ese wor k s ~_,,e cost more than 300 millions of Polish florins, fortresses Bich sum has b een ra i se d b y t axat i on. Th e f our south, are nearly on the same line from north to th_ T ,he Vigie o f Di eppe states that the sea, driven by th a t e late violent gales, has done great damage to latel part. and has invad e d th e groun d on which the of 3' demoli s h e d warehouses stood. On the retiring the tide , several pieces of gold coin of Louis XIV. Were f o A i s un • The ground was made-ground, and it • oldluPposed that the coins had been concealed in some h ouses, the foundations and walls of which were rought to form it. Zianrr AND 3POILICEI. the the course of the examination of W. Law, in blaa Bankruptcy Court, Mr. Commissioner ... Pon gee said, in reference to the bill-swindling con cerns which have recently sprung up, "as to those parties who are so considerate as to take their com- Inissi " in goads, they will find something in the new Statutes, which will enable us to visit the practices wi th severity." The examination of the bankrupt was adjourned to the 25th of January. Jane Passmore, a decent-looking old woman, aged sixty-f our , was convicted, at the Middlesex sessions, of stealing two sheets, and other articles, the property. of Robert Eagle, She put in a long written docu ment, in which she stated that was the widow of a general officer, and had been reduced to poverty. On inquiry the whole statement was found to be a fabri cation, and she was sentenced to be imprisoned for six calendar months, with hard labour, six weeks of that time to be spent in solitary confinement. The Lord Mayor refused to accede to an applica tion, made by Mr. James, at the Mansion House, for a warrant to re 'apprehend Besset, the Frenchman, charged with fraudulent bankruptcy, who was dis charged the other day by habeas corpus. e . A dece n tl y -d ressed man, named Cutter, was , barged, at Bow-street, with victimising an eating house keep er , a l a Dando. Mr. Bingham advised ul to pawn his coat, an d di sc h arge the score. The prisoner appeared astonished, but complied. .IAI t'lli Clerke nwe ll , W alter Taff, William Allen, .1V AT Poy, an d Ch arles Ross, well-dressed young inen cha d with h av i ng wan t on l y and w i thout law 4ful ' ... L excu se , knocke d at the doors, and rung the bellsurge various houses in Brunsw nhsquare and its vicinity, A to the annoyance of the iabitants, &c., were fined ao s , each. halw° omnibus drivers were sentenced, at Union , to six weeks' imprisonment for furious driving. TL c I nraT--se..Aassaxxereaus JAIL c_ n ue Duk e an d Duchess of Sutherland, the Ladies 0 stance and Caroline Leveson Gower, who are livis„iting Lo r d and Lady Blantyre, at Erskine House, li nW a are expected to pay visits to the Earl of Bur p ounsell, at Holkar Hall Lancashire, and the E ar l an d - D u k e e ss of Carli s l e , at Castle Howard. The Noble Car o r and Du c h ess and the Ladies Constance and TrentlLeveso n G ower do not intend returning to mo nth Hall u n til t h e m i ddle of the ensuing J ul a L a r r ci ll.,elq . arqui s an d Marchioness of Clanricarde and their.) Elizabeth de Burgh, have arrived at Biome, on c it e ll . ree Castle EarE ar l o , T , w ay to Naples. f Glengall has arrived at Dublin from Cal:roiln Earl Tipperary. and Countess of Warwick and Lady f rorn i l i, e Neeld have arrived at Gatton Park, Surrey, T h il r aulsgate. Cli ve e ,, r ion. R. li. and Lady Harriet Clive and Miss Si r T i tve arrived at Oakley Park, from Ireland. rl,‘,_ek rederick Adam and Miss Anstruther Thomson, arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Leamington Pal for the winter season. Ift?..BC ICSagiiklinßorlii. l aden t ,4 }. 1? course of the last few days several vessels Th e m : Il h guano have arrived in the river Thames. tan, 6(:oure is meetin g with a ready sale. The Spar burden, from Ichaboe, is now in the 11 ocks unloading. In the Surrey Canal there jare,,two vessels, the Achilles, about 400 tons, India „oac oung and the Captain, about 120 tons. In the West lad en -I ,y 3 there are two vessels, of about 1,100 tons, It Peruvian guano. There are two other vessels in the river, making altogether about 8,000 tons of thi The pric e s new description of manure in the market. wh quality the _ of the African guano is about 6/. per ton, of which is described to be excellent. en th e 8 , , 200 ,„ 1 P r.an left Ichaboe there were there about -ssels ' So mof • arid Whi c h e which were of heavyburden, .....yrom. thewerreecocls being'dispatch. laden with the utmost possible ' e - brig a a e, it a In the possession of the London time the report havet Bade, Peas.P that no fewer than 800 fires n present year, but at the same of lives l extensive a char acter suites that they have not been of so be e as in former years. The num greater. Lord Glenloys-otn, however, we regret to say, is much c e the terdi t d says the Inverness Courier has in proposed line of railwayengineers from Inverness to Perth. On his L met b • ordshi's ounds the • engineers were 3, a party of constables- sented an • • and others, who pre hibltin t_ interdict from the Court of Session pro g heir entrance on the Athol domains. T r RH CATTLE T asnE.-131ack cattle appear to cached that lowest point of depression from which they bat Orally return in a contrary direction. Summerin g , no doubt, was a bad trade ; but looking to the improved aspect of affairs, it is well so many graziers in the pos session of the necessary turnips and fodder had the courage to keep their St. Faith's stock over till spring, when they will bo much better grown, if not up nearly t° the mark of the shambles. The results of the Doune an Stamford markets have already exerted vivifying influences; and hence the improved prices at Castle bouglas on Monday, and Dumfries on Wednesday. Tho news from All Hallow Fair, Edinburgh, also operated as an extent in aid; and looking to the ground already favourably broken, we anticipate decidedly favourable tidit:gs from Hampton -green, which commences on Wed nesday ntxt. Scotland this year is helpin g En g l an d b y the export of compressed ha y, potatoes, and ev en turn i ps. --Dumfries Courier. ~,, OLDnam.—On Saturday, Mr. Birch, of Lower -L ees Hall mill, raised the wages of his spinners five per cent. and took off the charge for gas. He so gave an adva nce o f from five to ten per cent. to his al card-room hands and reelers. Most of the mill-owners in the neigh bourhood of Waterhead h ave taken off the charge for gas, which will be equivalent to an advance of twopence Par thousand hanks, or about two shillings weekly. The i.aPinters employed by Mrs. Mary Broadbent and Son, fl°Pwood mill, Side of Moor, have given notice of an Intention to turn out, for the purpose of obtaining an Ala 4dvance of th reepence per thousand hanks. Their em ers are understood to have offered an advance of half that amount, to which the men will not accede. Three beautiful carriage dogs, destined as a pre se shint from t h e Queen to the King of Prussia, were Pned last week on board be con e yed from thence to BerlHamburgh steamer, to in. a~~ t~ ~ T LAR. ?TINDSOR, THURSDAY.—This being the natal day of her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, the band of the Royal Horse Guards serenaded at nine o'clock this morning on the eastern terrace of the Castle, performing several martial and other pieces. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at the Castle early from Frogmore Lodge, to offer her congratulations on the happy return of her royal god-daughter's birthday. The Royal Duchess after wards took breakfast with her Majesty and the royal party. The illustrious party went to Frogmore-gardens in the forenoon, the Queen and the Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Gotha riding in a pony phaeton, and Prince Albert and the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Wurtemberg walking. The royal party afterwards returned to the Castle in pony carriages. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their usual airings this morning. His Royal High. ness Prince Alfred was taken a drive in the middle of the day. The Royal Family were again taken out in the afternoon. Her Majesty and the royal party drove out in pony carriages for an airing this afternoon, the Queen and the Duchess of Saxe Coburg in the first carriage, Prince Albert and the Duke of Saxe Coburg in the next carriage ; the Equerries in Waiting, Colonels Arbuthnot and Wylde, attending the illustrious party. The Hon. Miss Hamilton and the Hon. Miss Stanley have arrived at the Castle, and have suc ceeded the Hon. Misses Paget and Liddell as the Maids of Honour in Waiting on the Queen. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her Majesty. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, the Countess Wratislaw, Mr. George E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Sir George Couper, and Captain Francis Seymour. The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in at tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Castle. The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. The Earl of Aberdeen left town yesterday after noon for 'Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. Lord Granville Somerset transacted business yes terday at the office of the Board of Trade. OLPMPIC THEATRE. This theatre, under the new management, seems to progress in public estimation, and the new drama, introduced for the first time yesterday evening, will yet more establish the lessee's claims to the support of the admirers of the sock and buskin. The piece introduced was entitled Six Degrees of Crime; and exhibited in the most striking manner the various stages of vice which, deepening in colour as the pas sions are more depraved, eventually terminate with that fearful, but unfortunately too common climax— the scaffold. The hero, Julio Dormilly (Mr. J. Hud son Kirby), from the man of fashion, sinks into the, confirmed roué, and, after figuring as the gamester, the thief, and the assassin, is at last doomed to death at the hands of the public executioner. Such a plot necessarily involves many situations, which, from their severe realities, rather grate upon the sensibi lities of the more refined part of the audience ; but what is thus lost by the seeming absence of delicacy, is more than compensated by the lifelike development of the story. The intensity of passion was most admirably pourtrayed by the transatlantic ar tist. As the man of fashion, he was faultless ; and as h e d egenera t e d i n t o the ruffian, his acting (if we may use a seeming contradiction) was of a still higher character, simply because it gave scope for the display of more concentrated passion. Of the auxiliary characters we would particularly mention the Lacaille of Mr. B. Rogers, one of those gentlemen who are said, in common parlance, to " live upon town." Mr. Waldron, Mr. Broadfoot, Mr. P. Emery, and Mr. Smith, were also well up in their several parts. Miss L. Melville, as the heroine of the piece, Louise, evinced the same lady-like appreciation of character which we have ever observed in this young lady's acting. In the ball-room scene, Mr. Flexmore, without doubt the most happily grotesque ballet master on the English stage, was much and deser vedly applauded in the Cracovienne, a la Fanny Ellsler. The drama throughout was highly suc cessful, and at the conclusion Mr. J. H. Kirby was called before the curtain, and announced the piece for repetition amid unalloyed applause. Don Cesar de Bazan followed, and concluded the evening's enter tainment. WHOLESALE DEALERS. EXTENSIVE RODBERT.—On Thursday evening a cattle dealer was robbed of a sum of 1002 in a notorious house in Greensiile. It appears that he suspected the parties of robbing him soon after he entered the house, and charged them with the theft ; the landlady indig nantly denied the charge, and desired him to count his money and see if he had lost any,on which the simpleton drew out a handful of money, and began to count it. The sight of so much money proved too strong a temptation; a dash was made at the money and taken from him, with which they escaped to the street. The parties were soon after taken into custody, but the money has not been re covered.—Scotsman. STRANGE SCENE.—On Friday last, a most singular scene took place at St. Peters, near this town. For some time, cracks and rents have been observed in the walls of various houses in this vicinity, and especially in those near the docks. On Friday, however, as the land lord of the Ship Inn was at breakfast, several squares of glass gave way with a crackling noise, and an evident settling or sinking took place in the house. This was followed by a sinking of some other houses, and of the docks. Some walls tell, and the whole had the appear ance of an earthquake on a small scale. No personal hurts were sustained, but the damage is great, and some of the houses are closed. The cause is a shrink or " creep" in the older workings of Friar Goose Colliery (on the opposite bank), which extend under the river at this spot.— Tyne Mercury. ADVANCE IN WAGES.—We are happy to learn that an advance in the wages of all hands employed by the three extensive flax-spinning establishments here has taken place this week. The rise is from 10 to 15 per cent., making an aggregate increase to the income of that section of our population of about 501. per week. We sincerely hope that the advance will be general throughout the country. and that the state of trade will justify its continuance. Notwithstanding this appearance of prosperity, we could wish to see the manufacturing interest in a more favourable relation, for the seller finds it impossible to realise an advance on linen equivalent to the rise in yarns. —Montrose Review. A specimen of Irish linen, denominated " the golden flax," has recently come before us, as a manufacture in this neighbourhood ; and we cannot withhold our testi mony to the beauty of its bleach and fabric, uniting the greatest softness and brightness with the strongest fibre. This bids fair to put further off than ever all foreign competition with Ireland in the linen fabric, and to ex tend our home consumption for this beautiful manufac ture ; affording at the same time an additional encou ragement for the production of the finest qualities of flax at home, for which our soil and climate are found in every way suitable. We cannot help indulging the hope that ere long Belfast may be to the linen trade what Manchester is to the cotton, with this further advantage on the side of the former—that her looms may be work ing up the product of a happy industry—gradually ex tending itself throughout our agricultural districts in the south—yielding food and clothing—an appreciation of comfort, with means for its gratification—and, above all, issuing in an honest independence of mind, capable of discerning, and daring to choose, the truth.—Be/f_zst paper. CRIME IN FRANCE, OR THE FRENCH PAINTED BY THEMSELVES. - The Constitutionael of Sunday pub lishes the following horrible details of a murder and suicide which were committed at St. Laurent-de-Vignes on the Ist instant :—" M. Beaupoy had sold to M. Brunet, some years since, a property which he pos sessed at Cetty, in the commune of St. Laurent des-Vignes. He reserved for himself at the same time the enjoyment of the property for a certain period, but at the expiration of that time he refused to give up pos session, threatening to murder M. Brunet if he re peated his demand. M. Brunet, being aware of the savage character of M. Beaupoy, suffered him to re main at Cetty, where he became the terror of his neigh bours. M. Beaupoy had an only daughter, whom he determined to disinherit, for which purpose he con verted all his property, worth, it was said, 40,000 f., into bank-notes, with the determination to destroy them, at the same time that he should put an end to his own existence. On the morning of the Ist instant be pro ceeded to the house of M. Geraud, his brother-in-law, armed with a double-barrelled gun. M. Geraud, seeing that he appeared greatly excited, endeavoured to pacify him, but he quitted the house, uttering most violent threats. At a short distance from M. Geraud's house he perceived a vine -dresser, at whom he fired two shots, and wounded him severely in the arm. He then returned to M. Geraud's house, and reloaded his gun. He again set out, and having met a servant of M. Brunet, to whom he had expressed his dislike, he fired at him, and left him for dead on the road. He next set fire to a neigh bour's house, and threatened to shoot the owner should be present himself. He then proceeded to his own dwelling, and, having placed a quantity of brushwood round it, he set fire to it. He then set fire to the apart ments, and having called for assistance, he presented his gun at the peasants who came to aid in extinguishing the fire. In a moment afterwards two reports of fire arms were heard in the house, which were caused by M. Beaupoy shooting himself through the head. The authorities having proceeded to the spot, found the house almost entirely consumed. Among the ruins were found the remains of a human body, supposed to be that of M. Beaup oy but no trace could be discovered of hi s bank -notes, which it is supposed he burned, in order to prevent his heirs from enjoying them. The peasant, who was wounded in the arm, is at present out of danger, but M. Brunet's servant expired after three days of horrible torture." THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEIVIRE COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday the first Court of the present Mayoralty was held. The LORD MAYOR, in addressing the Court, said he had full reliance upon their support during his year of office. FLEET PRISON. Mr. JOHN DIXON said that, having seen an adver tisement in the papers that the Fleet Prison was to be sold, he wished .to know from the Chairman of the London-bridge Approaches Committee whether there was any intention upon the part of the City of London to purchase the ground for the purposes of the great improvements which were in progress ?—(Hear.) Mr. R. L. JONES said he certainly was of opinion that it would be extremely desirable that that pur chase should be made by the Corporation, with the view of forming an avenue through the ground into the heart of the City.—(Hear, hear.) He had called upon the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and pressed the necessity of not making sale of the pro perty until the Corporation should have an opportu nity of taking the question into consideration, and de ciding upon it.—(Hear, hear.) THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY. Mr. HEPPELL desired to know when the account of the expenses incurred by the visit of her Majesty to the City to open the Royal Exchange, and of the fund from which the expenses were to be paid, would be laid before the Court ? Mr. R. L. JONES stated that the Court mightexpect the accounts within a fortnight. THANKS OF THE COURT TO THE LATE LORD MAYOR. Mr. KING rose to move the thanks of the Court to Sir William Magnay, Bart., the late Lord Mayor.— (Cheers.) It was, h e sa id, unnecess ary for him to address those who h a d h a d suc h exper i ence o f the late Lord Mayor's conduct during the Mayoralty at any length, upon the claims of a gentleman who had entered on his office without ostentation or parade, and had performed all the duties of it so highly to his own honour, and to the maintenance of the dignity and honour of the City of London.-- (Cheers.) In the comparison with those who pre ceded him in the office, Sir William Magnay could suffer nothing in respect of any one of the essentials of a chief magistrate of the City of London, and it was to be hoped that those who are to follow would take a leaf out of his book.—(Cheers.) Mr. King then moved " That the thanks of the Court are emi nently due, and are hereby presented, to the Right Hon. Sir William Magnay, Baronet, late Lord Mayor of this City, for the ability, energy, and zeal, dis played by him in discharging the various duties of chief magistrate; for the discriminating judgment which characterised his ,administration of the law, whereby he combined moderation with vigour, and uniformly tempered justice with mercy ; for his firmness in maintaining the rights and privileges of all orders of the Corporation, and in preserving the franchises of the freemen and liverymen of the City; for his courteous attention to the members of this Court, and for his prompti tude in convening, and his impartiality in presiding over, all their meetings; for the ready and cheerful as sistance he has at all times rendered to the various charitable and benevolent institutions which adorn this City ; for the manner in which he upheld the character of the Corporation for hospitality, graciously blending with the dignity and splendour of his official banquets the liberality and urbanity of social life ; for the indefatigable zeal and sound discretion which characterised his Lordship's conduct on the occasion of her Majesty's visit to open the New Ex change, which obtained from his Sovereign a signal mark - of her royal approval in conferring upon him a titleof honourable distinction, which it is the earnest wish of his fellow-citizens that he may long live ha ivr. ppiilyDto. W. WHITS seconded th e mo ti on, whichvv. (Loud cheers.) was, after some observations from other members, carried, amidst loud and enthusiastic expressions of applause. The vote was ordered to be published in the usual newspapers. Mr. W. JONES moved " That the thanks of the Court be presented to Lieut.-Colonel Cox, and the officers and gentlemen of the Hon. Artillery Company, for their efficient services as the guard of honour to her Majesty on her visit to the City on the occasion of opening the Royal Exchange." Mr. JOHN DIXON seconded the motion, which was carried amidst loud cheers. In the list of applicants for freedoms to the Court, presented by the Chamberlain, appeared the name of Sir John . Rae Reid, M.P. for Dover, late a Governor of the Bank of England. The announcement was received with cheers ; but why the applause was given was not stated, for it was evident to the whole Court that the change in the opinions of Sir John Rae Reid was occasionei by the City Solicitor's letter to the wholesale dealers, informing them that if they did not forthwith take up their freedom, proceedings would be at once adopted against them. The name of the Hon. Baronet was followed by those of five publicans and one barber. 22, 1844. MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF I COMMERCE AND SIR HENRY POTTINGER. _ The Board of Directors of the Manchester Cham ber of Commerce and Manufactures, at a recent meet ing, unanimously adopted a congratulatory address to Sir Henry Pottinger, K.C.8., on his recent return to this country, after his arduous labours as British Plenipotentiary and Commander in China. Of this address the following is a copy : " TO SIR HENRY POTTINGER, BART., K.C.8., &C., &C. " The Board of Directors of the Chamber of Com merce and Manufactures at Manchester cannot per mit your return to your native country to take place, without tendering to you their warmest congratula tions upon your safe arrival. " They are moved to this expression of their high regard by the lustre which surrounds your administra tion of the important commission which a confiding country last entrusted to you ; a lustre which they believe will not be transient, but accumulative; re ceiving increase year by year, as the great principle by which the close of your severe labours in China is brilliantly distinguished shall become more and more internationally developed. It is not for them to speak of military achievements, the supervision of which formed the sterner portions of your duty. As merchants, anxious for the diffusion of civilisation and peace, they look with higher admiration upon the wisdom by which your negotiations were go verned. Not content with opening new channels for the commerce of your own country, you generously and wisely secured the same advantages for all the world, leaving the issue to those be nign influences which cannot fail to attend upon an unrestricted interchange of superfluities and wants between nations. From the high prin ciple which actuated you in your negotia tions with the Chinese authorities, and from the wisdom which they have themselves manifested in the arrangement of their tariff of duties, has arisen an irrefragable demonstration of how much the true in terests of the human race would be promoted, were nations, who do not hesitate to boast of superior en lightenment as contrasted with the Chinese, to pursue the same policy. Receiving on equal terms from all nations those supplies which it is their interest to attract, the Chinese see their markets stored with merchandise from every country, whilst the demand for return enables them to become the arbiters of the prices at which they will purchase from others, or dispose of their own. They do not seek to ascertain what profit other nations derive from intercourse with them : they are content to know that the inte rests of their own people are safely and permanently promoted. " Confident that the same results would follow the adoption of the same wise principle by every other nation, the Directors of this Chamber rejoice that, under measures which you have directed, the world may learn a practical moral lesson from China. Nations, like individuals, may be ungrateful ; but the gentlemen who now address you will be much deceived if the terror which your name so lately created in war merge not soon into blessings for the benefits which your diplomacy h as secured. " Animated by these sentiments, the Directors of this Chamber tender to you the tribute of their admi ration and gratitude ; and they fervently hope that your health, which they fear has suffered from the labours and anxieties that have beset you, may be speedily restored, so that the talents which you pos sess may soon be called again to the service of your country.—Manchester Oct. 29, 1844." To this address, which was duly forwarded to the Gallant Commander, the Chamber of Commerce have received the following reply : " 49, Albemarle-street, London, Nov. 5, 1844. " To the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Com- THE QUARANTINE LAWS. merce and Manufactures, Manchester. " Gentlemen,—The address of congr a tul a ti on on my return to ngland which you have been so good as to forward to me, has given me great pleasure, and I beg you will accept my sincere acknowledg• ments for it. " It is most gratifying to me to know that you, who are so deeply interested and so competent to judge, have seen cau se t o f orm t h e fl atter i ng opinion you have expressed as to the result of my commercial arrangements with China; and it is further peculiarly satisfactory to me to learn from your address, that you fully recognise and concur in the principles which formed the groundwork of that portion of my negotiations, which ended in, the commercial regula tions and tariff. "I trust that China will, in due time, reap the full reward she so well merits for her liberality in the ar rangements; and that all other nations wishing to participate in the trade with that vast and wonderful empire, will take example by the moderation which, I hope I may say, England evinced through me, her humble instrument, in these discussions, and in the final settlement. " Should it be so, I have not the least doubt but that, at no very distant day, China will take her proper po sition amongst the civilised and enlightened nations of the earth, and will be the first to acknowledge and proclaim the advantages she has gained from the changes that recent events must inevitably cause in her whole social system and policy. " I thank you, gentleman, warmly for your good wishes toward me personally; and you may be as sured that, whenever my humble exertions can be of use to my country, they shall be at her free disposal. —I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your very faith ful, humble servant, " HENRY POTTINGER." EXTENSION OF THE MORNING MAlLS.—Thirteen additional towns have been added to the list of mails dis patched daily from the General Police-office, by com mand of the Postmaster-General. Subjoined is a list of them, copied from the " notice" issued on Wednesday : Bolton, Bury St. Edmund's, Chesterfield, Cockermouth, Dunmow, Grantham, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Newmarket, Northallerton, Pwlheli, Ripon, and Thirsk. It may be well to remind new venders, merchants, and others, residing in the metropolis, that according to the most recent postal arrangements with reference to morn ing mails, the official order as to the hours of posting by the day-bags from London is as follows :—" Newspapers are received - at the various receiving -houses throughout the metropolis in time for dispatch by morning mails to all the places upon the list, including the whole of Scot land and Ireland, until seven A.M. Letters are in time until eight A.M. At the branch offices in Cavendish street, Charing-cross, and Blackman street, Southwark, for newspapers until half-past seven A.M., and for letters until eight A.M. Newspapers may be posted at Lom bard-street and, the General Post-office for the same conveyance until a quarter before eight A.m., and letters until half-past eight A.M." It may also be as well to state that for newspapers, by the morning dispatch, there is no "late fee," as is the case with the dispatch of the evening mails. THE TIMBER, WOOL, AND GUANO TRADES.—It • iS said that the above trades are the only ones in which large sums of money have not been lost by importers during the present year; and it is a fact worthy of notice, that in two out of three of these trades the protective system has been in whole, or in part, abandoned during the last four years. It will be remembered that one of Sir Robert Peel's earliest measures was to diminish the amount of protection on colonial timber, and that it was most confidently predicted at the time that the colonists would be ruined by the change. The result has shown that this was a false prophecy, for the timber trade has never been in a more healthy or prosperous state. This is partly the result of the breaking up of a system of speculation and over-trading, but still more of the re vival of trade and commerce. People have once more begun to build houses, mills, warehouses, and ships, and the result has been to create a brisk demand for timber, and to show that commercial and manufacturing pros perity are of infinitely more value to the timber trade than all the protecting duties that ever were invented. Another trade which has prospered, either in conse quence or in spite of the repeal of the protective duties, is that in sheep's wool. The repeal of the duty of Id. a pound on foreign wool has not only been followed by great briskness in the demand for that kind of wool, but also by equal briskness in the demand for colonial and Bri tish wools, to which the duty served as a sort of protection. They have seldom sold better than during the present year, and although it would be too much to say that this is owing to the change in the duties, yet it is clear that the change has had no injurious effect upon the wool growers, whilst it has greatly benefited the manufac turers and all dependent upon them. The import of colonial wool, which twenty years ago was a mere nothing, has now reached the large amount of 70,000 bales from Australia alone.—Liverpool Times. AQUATICS.—henry Clasper has accepted the chal lenge of Coombes, the London waterman, to row from Tyne-bridge five miles up the river, the cockney staking 100/. to 801. of the Northumbrian. Clasper gives 101. to Coombes to corer the expense of his journey to New castle. It is to be a skiff-race. We understand that Clasper has put his signature to the articles of agree ment, and that they are sent to London. The match may therefore be considered as good as made.—Tyne Mercury. -~:: If the existing sy.,tern ‘aoitary r-gulations and quarantine lays is to remain unchanged, not only until the question of contagion or non -contagion has been decided by the scientific world, but even until all the Governments of Europe have unanimous:y* adopted a scientific opinion on the subject, it is ev dent that nothing short of a mathematical demonstrp fion can put an end to these inconvenient restrictions on the intercource of nations. Such a demonstration can never be arrived at, especially under a system which prohibits experiment ; and thus the whole restrictive system is retained, because we consent to he the victims of an uncertainty and the slaves of a doubt. It is doubtful in the highest degree whether if a person affected with Oriental plague in its worst form and stage were suddenly transported into the heart of a foreign, and particularly of a northern, country, where no previous tendencies to the dis ease prevailed, the disorder would prove infec tious. Yet, so strong is the prepossession of alariu ingrafted on our legislators and our Administration, that we still act upon the most terrible conceptions of pestilential influence, and the officers entrusted with the care of the public health, exert all the vigilance of a vexatious police over a considerable portion of the commerce of this and all other countries. .To such an extent do these sanitary regulations extend, that they are directed-not only against those places where infectious disorders are known to prevail, but against whole quarters of the globe. It was not till the French had been many years established on the northern coast of Africa that they dis covered that the plague was as little known in the Regency of Algiers as on the shores of Provence, and they at last abandoned, without inconvenience, the system of quarantine, which they had till th en rigorously enforced. In like manner, nine-tenths of the precautions taken to avoid the transmission of infectious disease are utterly fantastical ; and the question, which it behoves our Government to con sider is, how large a portion of these superfluous re strictions may be abolished, without too great a risk of exposing our ports and our population to any real danger. It is an old maxim of law, " omnia pra:su nzuntur contra spoliatorenz ;" and assuredly this prin ciple has been held good against infectious disease. Not only are they supposed to be transmissible over a vast distance of sea and land, and through a con siderable lapse of time, whenever they have occurred ; but travellers and merchandise are treated yith almost equal suspicion in spite of direct evidence that they come from places where no pestilence exists at ,all. A clean bill of health is received only in mitigation of these rigorous precautions ; and under the system which now prevails, with more or less severity, throughout Europe, the whole com merce and intercourse of the world will the sus pected countries is dealt with as if the exception was the rule. The proportion of vessels coming to this country with clean bills, even from the coun tries where plague most frequently :prevails, is hap pily very large ; yet these ships, against which no practical evidence whatever can be said to exist, are detained on the bare theoretical presumption, that they may have latent plague on board, though none was known to have disclosed itself in the places from which they sailed. It is of so much importance to proceed in this important matter with due caution, that we should be most unwilling to run any direct risks, or even to alarm the prejudices of the public or the scruples of foreign nations, by a premature ad mission of vessels coming from infected countries to free pratique. But long before we arrive at this stage of sanitary reform, we may hope to see the precau tions disposed of which are taken, not against real, but imaginary, perils ; and we shall venture to throw out one or two suggestions on the most obvious of these changes. It is in the north of Europe, and es pecially in the ports of the United Kingdom, that these experiments may be tried with least risk and with most advantage; for the most zealous contagionists admit that the propagation of these diseases requires something more than mere contact—namely, a certain concourse of circumstances unfavourable to health, and an epidemic tendency to that form of disorder. The best writers on the plague have remarked that, even in the East, whenever it has occurred out of season, it has not spread; and it is evident that the total diversity of climate and habits on the banks of the Nile and on those of the Thames render it most impro bable that a disease should be transplanted with the same fatal results from one to the other. We rest our view of this subject, however, on grounds more ac curately ascertained than theories of science. There is, we believe, no recorded instance of a case of plague occurring in any of the quarantine establishments of this kingdom. No one seriously believes that there is more plague, or chance of plague, at Standgate Creek or Bamborough Pool than in the heart of the me tropolis ; yet the vessels which undergo this deten tion are all assumed to have on board the germs of a pestilence ; the amount of suspicion is expressed by the length of time they may remain in quarantine ; no shins from the suspected ports are allowed to es oape, although in none o f th em h as t hi s presumpt i on ever been verified. It would not be difficult to show that the present system, especially as it is practised at Malta and in various foreign ports of the Mediter ranean, is inconsistent an d unsa ti s f ac t ory upon e i ther hypothesis. If the plague is highly contagious, the carelessness and indifference to various minor but es sential points in the lazarettos would infallibly let the disease into Christendom, and all these precautions, ought to be redoubled; if it be not contagious, it is not to these precautions we owe our security, and they are vexatious without being requisite or effectual. The first steps, however to be taken in the matter by the British Government should be at once extremely moderate and very important, we see no reason, con sidering the length of the voyage from any port of the Levant to the United Kingdom, that all vessels arriving with clean bills of health, and from a port where no plague was known to exist at the time of their departure, should not at once be admitted to land their passengers, and even to discharge their cargoes. The mode of dealing with vessels and cargoes from infected ports is a more delicate part of the subject; but we have no doubt, as we hinted on a former occasion, that even with them the mere lapse of time spent in a lazaretto is by no means the best or surest preventive of contagion. The more urgent and important measure of relief, however, is that which would exempt from the quarantine regu lations the large majority of vessels against which no colourable apprehensions can be said to exist; and we are satisfied that this relaxation may be extended to all the foreign trade of this country, except from places at which the plague or some other epidemic may be raging with violence at any particular time. To some up our opinion as briefly as possible, we dissent from the application of general and permanent restrictions of this nature, without denying that it is the duty of the Government to protect the public health by particular precautions, whenever it is en dangered; and we blame the present quarantine legislation of Europe, because it exists as a system, and is endured as an institution, instead of being adapted, with as much regard as possible to the in terests of trade, to the places, seasons, and times, in which epidemic diseases may prevail. We are aware that any considerable change in this system must be carried into execution by several at least of the mari time Powers; and the negotiations to effect this im portant object are of so delicate a nature, that we hope they will not be intrusted to obtrusive volun- teers, or to men whose readiness considerably outruns their reason and respectability. But we see no reason to despair of our obtaining the concurrence of the Baltic maritime States in the first instance, and after wards extending the same modifications, with the assistance of Austria, to the Mediterranean. Mean while, however, there are powerful elements mast actively at work in this cause. All the Eastern events - of the last few years—the culture of Egypt— the overland communication with India—the Oriental CALLS TO TIIE BAR.—LINCOLVS INN, Nov. 19. The undermentioned members of this honourable Society having kept the full number of terms, they were, in the customary manner, called to the degree of Barrister-at- Law:—Mr. John Sayres, of Wadham College, Oxford, the second son of John Sayres, of North Stokes, in the county of Sussex, Esq. ; Mr. Edward Stirling Dickson, of the Old-buildings, Lincoln's Inn, the eldest son of Admiral Edward Stirling Dickson, of Paris ; Mr. Hugh Ross, of Edinburgh, and of Chancery-lane, in the county of Middlesex, the eldest son of Colonel Hugh Ross, of Edinburgh aforesaid ; Mr. William Benson, of Queen's College, Cambridge, the second son of Robert Benson, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Esq. ; Mr. George Charles Appleby, of Magdalen College, Oxford, the only son of the Rev. George Appleby, of Barton upon-Humber ; Mr. Nicholas Darnell. of New College, Oxford, the second son of the Rev. William Nicholas Darnell, of Stanhope, in the county of Durham ; and Mr. Samuel Edward Moberly, of Christ Church, Oxford, the youngest son of Joseph Maberley, of King's-road, Bedford-row, Attorney-at-Law. We understand that a matrimonial alliance is on the Lapis between the sister of a Noble Earl possessing large estates in the county of Sussex and connected with the most illustrious of the British aristocracy, and a member of a noble family in Norfolk, as highly distin guished for its virtues as for its great antiquity. packet service—the Syrian expedition—and the pro jects for crossing the Isthmus of Suez—have already shown how little the fear of infection interferes with the operations of politics, war, or trade in the country where the disease is supposed to be most rife, and will ultimately relieve us from apprehensions, which we should cease to entertain if we were better informed as to the precise nature of the danger.—Times. MATCH AT QUOITS FOR 501. A-SIDE.--On Friday, this match, which excited considerable interest from the celebrity of the players—Messrs. David Weir, Glasgow, and J. Dunlop, Pollokshaws, against Messrs. A. Smith and R. Paterson, Mauchline Ayrshire—came off on Mr. Weir's green, Tradeston. The morning was exceedingly stormy, but at mid-day it cleared up, and the weather, considering the season, was highly favourable. Messrs. Dunlop and Weir took the lead and kept it till they num bered 50 shots. The game afterwards was keenly contested, both sides being equal at 55, 57, and 58 ; at this point Messrs. Smith and Paterson got two shots a-head, making them 60 against 58. All hope cf beating the far-famed Ayrshire men seemed now at an end, when Messrs. Dunlop and Weir, whose playing throughout (particularly that of the latter) was admirable, again took the lead, and gained by one shot, the result being—Messrs. Weir and Dunlop, 61 ; Smith and Paterson, 60. The green was crowded all day with visitors, many of whom wers deeply interested in the game. Considerable sums o f ' money, we understand, changed hands, the defeated party having been heavily backed by Liverpool sports men BRAIN.—At Giaw — Argu t s. T the inquest held on Monday upon a person who survived for sthairdee_thty; sandorretatdimfuel ek l\lr. W onthe ak h i eld with a pickaxe, an d ago iiij a manuryofti‘as h , ebr s a tr in u , that although his brains escaped from the wound and besmeared his hand, he was able to run without assist ahnocsepittoalthhee ‘‘L.aosnadsoknedllhooswpital. felt, when h arriving at tho e h n is he b r r e a p in li s ed . that lf he was m uc h b etter since he he lost r. Wakley further said that it was almost incredible how long persons survived injuries of the brain. We understand that the reduction of fares on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway has been followed by a great increase in the number of passen gers .- 4iverpool Courier, LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Nov. 21.—Wind, noon,light breeze, at N.W. and foggy. PORTS3IOUTLY, Nov. 20.—Wind S.W. by W.—Sld. Anne Jane, China. RAMSGATE, Nov. 20.—Sld. Resolution, London, with part of the cargo of the American ship Ilzaide, beneaped in the harbour. DEAL, Nov. 20.—Wind W. to W.S.W., P.M. N.W. by W.—Arrd. Helen, Stewart, China; Herald, Bolton, Singa pore, left St. Helena 10th Oct.; Madiera, Smith, Madras; Anvio, Walker, Zanzibar; Agile, Small, Cape of Good Hope; Amelia and Caroline, Quebec. Sid. Sultana, Sydney; Jane Catherine, Newport and Ceylon; Nereid, Aden. OFF THE GALLOPIE, Nov. 18. —Guardian, Venice for Hull, experienced a heavy gale from ISt to 12th inst. Lost bulwarks, sails, and one man overboard. Coax, Nuv. 18.—Arrd. Brutus, Williams, Ichaboe, for Liverpool, leaky ; Wallace, Mann, Callao, Aug. 18 ; Pandora, Bisson, Honduras, with logs of sails, fore and maintoprnasts, &c. ; Duncan, Robertson, St. John's, New Brunswick. The Henrie, of Bayonne, Lane, bound to Havre, was spoken 20th ult., lat. 33 N., lon. 66 W., dismasted, and with part of poop carried away, bearing up for Bermuda, and supplied with charts by the Pandora, arrived at Cork. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 20.—Wind W.N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Tamerlane, Mlienzie, Calcutta; Fortuna, Lingman, and Middleton Trenon, Callao; Pakenham, Morris, Punta, Arenas, Bombay packet, Africa ; Cromwell, Quebec. Off. Pilgrim (supposed) from Calcutta ; Phillips, Val paraiso; William and James (supposed) ditto; xford, New York. The Camoens and Henry Winch, in coming out of New Calabar River, Aug. 30, got ashore in the bar, and became total wrecks; captain and two of crew of latter -drowned. The Panope got ashore the same time, but came off Sept. 1, without much damage, and into Bonny. A brig of about 200 tons, newly coppered, with bright masts, bottom up, was passed 25 miles W. of the Bell Bury, by the Achilles, steamer, arrived here. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Madeira, Smith, from Madras, in the Downs, sailed July 16, St. Helena Sept. '24; Arrow, Walker, from Zanzibar, in the Downs, sailed Aug. 3, St. Helena Sept. 29; Herald, Bolton, from Singapore, in the Downs, sailed Aug. 1, St. Helena Oct. 11 ; Agile, Small, from the Cape of Good Hope, in the Downs, sailed Sept. 22, St. Helena Oct. 7; Helen Stewart, Whittingham, from China, in the Downs, sailed June 20, St. Helena Oct. 1; Ganges, M`Donald, from Sydney, off Torbay, sailed July 30, Pernambuco Oct. 15 ; Achilles, Veale, from Sydney, off Torbay, sailed July 11; Tamerlane, M•Kenzie, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed July 14, St. Helena Oct. 2; Pilgrim, Rawlins, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed June 13, St. Helena Sept. 26; Orient, Wales, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed June 29, Mauritius Aug. 21, St. Helena Sept. 29. Arrivals at St. Helena—Malvina, Sept. 30, from Batavia, and sailed Oct. 1 to Hamburgh • Magnolia, Royal, 3d, from west:coast of Africa, and sailed to Liver pool ; Edward Boustead, from China, and sailed 4th to London ; Sylphide, from Batavia, and sailed 4th to Amsterdam ; Freedom and Damon, 3d, from Ichaboe ; Antoinette Marie, 4th, from Batavia. and sailed to Rot terdam ; Rosanna, from Ichaboe, and sailed 6th to Cork; Hawk, from Ichaboe, and sailed 4th to Cork ; Gabrielle, from Bordeaux ; Marina, sth, from Ichaboe, and sailed Bth to Bristol ; Flora, sth, from Ichaboe, and sailed 6th to Cork ; Elizabeth Walker, 6th, from Ichaboe, and sailed 7th to Clyde ; Emperor, sth, from Manilla, and sailed to Antwerp ; Bouthsook, from Bourbon, and sailed 7th to Havre ; Arab, from Manilla and Mauritius, and sailed to London ; Canada, sth, from Bengal, and sailed to Liverpool ; Windsor Castle, from Bombay, and sailed 6th to Liverpool ; John Graham, from Ceylon, passed to London ; Bencoolen, Oct. 7, from Manilla, and sailed Bth to Cork ; Indus, from Bourbon, and sailed Bth to Marseilles ; Bretagne, from Bourbon, and sailed Bth to St. Malo ; Prins Hendrick, from Batavia, and sailed Bth to Amsterdam ; Thomas Naylor, from coast of Africa, and sailed Bth to Liverpool ; Brooksby, 10th, from Manilla, and sailed to London ; Eliza Scott and Eliza, from coast of Africa ; Pondicherry from Pondi cherry. Arrivals in Table Bay—Edward Robinson, Sept. 1, from China ; G. H. Harrison, 21st, from Singapore ; Hope, from Mauritius. Aparture from Table Bay—Owen Glendower, Sept. 8, to Madras and Calcutta. Arrival at Hobart Town—London, Attwood, July 9, from London. Departures from Hobart Tewn—Ben Nevis, June 28, to Launceston ; Eudora, July 10, to New Zealand. Arrival at Launceston—Agostina, Volum, for London. Arrivals at Sydney—Sarah, July 21, from Singapore ; Star of China, 27th, from New Zealand ; Lady Gray, from Hobart Town ; Blundell, from London and Nor folk Island. Departures from Sydney—Georgetown, July 20, to Guam; Nimrod, 25th, to South Seas; Governor, to Cape. Arrival at Port Philip—Sovendrapony, July 12, from Hong-Kong and Batavia. The Sea Queen cleared at Port Philip, July 21, for Liverpool. THE LATE FATAL EXPLOSION AT BLACKWALL.--- The poor fellow Hill who received such frightful injuries at the late explosion on board the Gipsy Queen, and who is the only survivor of the many maimed by that sad catastrophe, is likely to recover. He still lies in the London Hospital, and in answer to inquiries made on Wednesday, he was said to be progressing most favourably. On being: questioned respecting the accident, he ex presses himself as being rendered quite frantic at the moment of the steam escaping, and in his endeavours to escape up the engine-room steps he pulled down three or four of his unfortunate fellow-sufferers. A subscrip tion has been set on foot for the relief of the destitute families of the deceased, and upwards of 300/. has been collected in their behalf. The unfortunate steamer still lies in the import basin of the East India Dock. The Nouvelliste of Bruges says that a prayer has been published in Belgium, humbly asking God to be pleased to reconcile England to the Catholic faith. This prayer was compiled by the Belgian Bishops, according to the request of Mr. George Spencer, who conformed some years ago to the Catholic persuasion. THE DUTY ON TEA.—LIVERPOOL.—The exorbi tant rate of duty on tea has frequently been complained of ; and, in the course of the meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, on Thursday last, it was spe cially referred to by Mr. Robert Gardner, as having a most injurious effect upon our Chinese return trade. It has also began to excite considerable attention here, for a memorial to the Lords of the Treasury, praying them to take the subject into their most serious consideration, has been'signed to-day by a large body of the merchants, ship-owners, and traders in general of the port. This memorial sets forth that the present exorbitant rate of duty upon the article of tea, from its manifest tendency to check the general consumption of this country, pre sented an insuperable impediment to the extension o our import trade with China, as it was now fully ascer tained that tea was the only staple article of conse quence upon which our merchants can depend for their returns from that country. It then states that the en couragement given to trade by the Chinese Government in the admission of our fabrics at a low rate of duty, to the consumption of the people of that vast empire, had already been most beneficially felt by our merchants and our manufacturers ; but it had become equally evident that the demand for our manufactures could not be ex tended unless some impulse was speedily applied in promoting our increased consumption of tea. Indepen dently of these important considerations, the imposition of such a high rate of duty on an article (the first cost of which is comparatively moderate) of such universal con sumption, and so congenial to the tastes and habits of the people of this country, as tea had become with the great bulk an absolute necessary of life, was, in the opi nion of the memorialists, highly impolitic. An exten sive reduction of the duty, it was next urged, would in troduce a new class of consumers from among the lower orders of the people, willing to abstain from articles of a deleterious and demoralising character, and tend to the suppression of pernicious adulterations, of which the poor in particular were the unfortunate victims. Finally, it was stated, the adoption of a measure of such practical wisdom would be benficial to all classes, conferring upon the British public increased enjoyments, in a form most conducive to health and morals, and affording to the merchants, shipowners, and manufacturers increased em ployment for their capital and skill. The memorial con cluded by earnestly entreating that this important sub ject might be taken into consideration, and such a reduc tion granted as might be deemed expedient. About fifty of the most eminent firma have signed this document, among whom are Gladstones and Co., Sands, Turner, and Co., Baring Brothers, Littledale and Co., T. an d J. Brocklebank, Horsfall and Sons, &c.—Manchester Guardian. THRATRB ROYAL, DUBLIN.—." Quite refreshing," is a conventional phrase used by the small fry of critics, when they would express their sense of aught that is novel and pleasing, and, borrowing from their nomen clature, we may truly say—it is quite refreshing to visit the theatre since the very judicious reduction in the prices of admission. The excitement, the fuu, the noise, the pristine glory of the galleries have been restored, and the crowds that nightly throng them to overflowing, afford a sure proof that the people can appreciate thea tricals when placed within their means. We congratu late Mr. Calcraft upon the success of his experiment, and are fully convinced that this will be one of the most pro fitable seasons that he has experienced for years. Mrs. Seymour, whose performance of Maritana we witnessed for the second time last night, is an actress of great pro mise. Her person is singularly prepossessing, her car riage graceful, her voice melodious, and her style, formed on the best models, is spirited, expressive, and, withal, full of truth, never o'erstepping the modesty of nature. In the interview with Charles, where she upbraids hiai with his perfidy, the energy she summoned up, and the swelling indignation with which, in the pride of virtue, the poor singing girl rose superior to the King, could not be surpassed. The burst of applause that followed her fine delivery of the emphatic rebuke was richly de served. In the lighter scenes her animation, the ringing happiness of her laugh, and the bounding gaiety of her actions, were all in keeping. It appeared no wonder that the King should have become the slave of such charms. Miss Chalmers performed with her wonted ability, being, as in every part she undertakes, effective and per fect ; and Mr. Barrett., as a courtier of the Polonius order, with Mrs. Hill as his vain spouse, added to the effect of the piece. After the curtain fell Mrs. Seymour and Mr. Calcraft were loudly called for.—Dublin Even ing Packet. RURAL SIMPLICITY. —Last week a farmer's wif e called her servant girl, thirteen years of age, and gave her a watch, bidding her take it and boil an egg four minutes by it ; she shortly returned with the watch (which had been purchased only a few days before for 81.) on a plate, well boiled, instead of the egg, stating she had boiled it exactly four minutes by the clock. Another servant stood by and saw her place the watch in the pan, and said it was wrong, she was sure, but allowed her to proceed. All the parties reside at Bewdon.—Carlisle Patriot. BLACKTRIARS-BRIDGE PIER. Deputy HICKS brought up the report of the Thames Navigation Committee relative to a pier at Black friars-bridge. The report recommended the erection of a pier at the eastern side of the bridge, upon piles, according to the suggestion of Mr. Walker, the engineer, and was referred back to the Committee, to be carried into effect. A report relative to steam-boat piers in the river was also brought up . I t recommen d e d th a t all piers, in which due provision had not been made for the security of the public, should be immediately removed, and that the Corporation should act merely as con servators of the river, leaving the pecuniary business connected with the piers to private speculation. The report was ordered to be printed, and taken into con sideration on a future day. The sum of 2001. was voted to the Royal British Institution for the Education of Children. BETTER SUPPLY OF PURE WATER. Mr. H. PHILLIPS moved " That it be referred to a Committee to consider the best means of securing to all classes of the citizens of London a pure, abundant, and forcible supply of water, at a reasonable charge, and that they report thereon." After some observa tions upon the monopoly of the New River Company, the subject was referred to the Commissioners of Sewers. Upon the motion of the same gentleman, it Was referred to the same Committee to consider and report to the Court the best means of providing for the poor a better supply of pure water in different parts of the City than it at present afforded to them.—Adjourned. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Martha Brassinton, the schoolmistress of the Beth nal-green Union, was indicted for an assault on Jane Kingston, a pauper inmate of that workhouse. The facts of the case lately appeared at length in The Sun, under the head of our Worship-street po lice report. The jury, after about an hour's consultation, re turned a verdict of Guilty, accompa n i e d w i t h a re commendation fined a ionto mer cy. She discharged up on pay i ng r Sh m e was the sum. THE FOG.—Yesterday afternoon we were visited with one of the densest fogs that has occurred in the metropolis for some years past, which continued during the whole of the night, and rendered the streets in the vicinity of the river nearly impassable. WORRYING SHEEP. —An immense number of sheep have been worried during the summer in the vicinity of Haydon-bridge ; and, strange to say, the depredator has up to this time escaped, in spite of all attempts to discover him. The sheep are all bitten in one way, in the windpipe, which is generally torn out, and some of them clean bled. Many valuable dogs have, in consequence, been destroyed on suspicion. What is •strangest of all is, that none of the wor r i e d s h eep are i n the least eaten or mutilated, which seems to prove that the love of blood rather than hunger is the cause. Many years ago a dog, near Wooler, killed great numbers of sheep, of which he only drank the blood and eat the kid ney, which he tore out very scientifically. After many attempts, he was shot on Cheviot.—Tyne Mercury. SOMETHING NEw.—Those curious in the contem plation of the vagaries of nature may ju s t now h ave an opportunity of gratifying their curiosity by seeing a young dog with five legs, in the possession of Mr. Taws, skinner, Stobb's Well. This strange quadruped is one of a fine lively family of five, is of the Newfoundland breed, and is about five weeks old. The additional leg is attached to the right shoulder, and both seem to work in perfect unison.—Dundee Advetiser. ICHABOE.— The ship Ann, Row, of South Shields, arrived in this port on Saturday last, with a cargo of guano, after an interesting voyage. The passage has taken up eleven weeks. On her way she touched at the Island of Ascension for water, but none was to b e h a d, the springs being completely dried up. At St. Helena she was more fortunate. The weather was delightfully fine until the Ann made the Azores, after which it began to be stormy and tempestuous. Captain Row s t a t es t h a t he was seven weeks in procuring and stowing his cargo, which is guano of the first quality. He has made a chart and sketch of the island, which are highly interesting.— Tyne Mercury, LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.--A report has ob tain some currency in the City that the promoters of the London and York Railway have failed to give the neces sary preliminary notices in due time, and that difficulties must in consequence arise in prosecuting the appli ca ti on to Parliament for a Bill to authorise the formation of the line. We are enabled to state that th e rumour i n question is entirely without foundation. All the preliminary no tices have been given, and the plans will be lodged on the 30th instant. Every step has, i n fact, been taken to comply with the standing orders, and to enabl e th e project to be fully and fairly investigated on its merits by the Board of Trade and Parliament. A CAPITAL HASH.—A new sauce is advertised under the title of Sir Robert Peel's Sauce. It has been concocted, we believe, from his promises that the income tax aol last longer that three years.—Punch. TIIE COMIC ALMANACK. Bogue, London, 18.14. A copy of George Cruikshank's "Comic Almanack" for 1845 is now lying before us ; it is illustrated with twelve embellishments characteristic of the different months of the year, together with several other plates hit off in the artist's most facetious vein. A. " Monster Meeting" is an irresistibly humorous pro duction. An unhappy jack -tar is standing at the edge of a forest close by a river, while a vicious-look ing bear is leaping up on his shoulders, from which it has just snatched a hasty mouthful ; a huge alligator, open-mouthed, is preparing to make an attack on his legs; a snake is darting from a tree right down upon him; and to increase the comforts of his situation, the head of a tiger is seen peeping out from beneath some thick underwood hard by ! The sailor's countenance is full of the most ludicrous bewilderment and affrig:it, and he evidently inclines to the opinion that it is all over with him, and it is no use, therefore, to attempt making any resistance. The "Court of Young Eng land" is a good-humoured quiz upon this band of sturdy Reformers, and represents an infant Queen surrounded by a set of infant courtiers, all looking as innocent and guileless as so many lambs. The " Fall of the Leaf" is represented by the sudden giving way of the leaf of a dinner-table, just at the moment when it is crowded with good things, and the appetites of the guests are duly wetted for the on slaught. The hostess, squatted on the floor with the dish of fish in her lap, presents an image of the most touching melancholy, and not less pathetic is the countenance of the host, who seems philosophically resigned to destiny. The " Horticultural Fate" shows a party of well-dressed ladies and gentlemen exposed to a pitiless shower of rain, as usually happens to be the case when the Society give their annual fête at Chiswick. We quote the verses illustrative of this lively design The morn was beautiful and bright, The sun, that general adorner— Was gliding with its glowing light, The iron rails at Hyde Park Corner. " The lodge beneath its radiance gleamed,— Into some curds there shot a ray; As if within the bowl it dreamed To find on earth the milky whey. " Lured by the clearness of the sky, A party, though the hour was late, Resolved on ordering a fly, To waft them to the Chiswick Fete. " And by those sympathetic chains Few can describe, but each one owns, The same idea had struck the Payees, Brown, Thompson, Edwards, Smith, and Jones, " Oh, sympathy! thou hast the power To make twelve hearts in concert throb; And eke to give, within one hour, Twelve different liv'rymen a job. " Thus did thine influence extend (Explain it, ye who study physic); Making a lot of parties send For vehicles, to go to Chiswick. "No sooner had they reached the spot, - Than straight the sky is seen to lower; And, like a curious watering pot, Pours down a most terrific hower. " The belles can't save their sati. Their silks are watered—hov, y scamper! Fate on that fete unkindly throi‘a A sudden, but decisive, damper." HISTORY of the EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Chapman and Hall, London, 1844. The work before us, which appears from time to time in separate Parts, is a translation from the German, and is of a most comprehensive character, professing to be neither more nor less than a history of all the leading nations in Europe during the eighteenth century—and not only a history of their politics, but of th e i r lit erature also. The work, we understand, has been favourably received in Germany, and so far as we can judge, from the detached portions of it which we have yet seen, it is not unworthy of its reputation. The account of the famous War of the Succession, as it is called, is given at great length, and with much apparent accuracy ; and the author has taken no slight pains in drawing the portrait of the notorious Count Bruhl, the Saxon Minister—a clever, dashing adventurer, who indulged in the most wanton extravagance at the very time when Saxony was reduced to a state of almost absolute bankruptcy. The portion of the work which we like least is that wherein the author passes his opinions on the prin cipal literary characters of England during the period of which he treats ; these opinions are, many of them, just enough in their way, but they seldom rise above superficial common-places, and appear to be less the results of his own critical inquiries, than of the scores of critics who have preceded him in the task of investigation. HEDDERWICK'S POEMS. .Rutherglen, Glasgow, 1844. The author of this quarto volume of poems is a skilful versifier, and puts forth no sentiments but such as do credit to his heart, but we should be guilty of egregious flattery were we to tell him that he is a poet. Taste he has and judgment, and occasionally he exhibits genuine feeling, but he is deficient in the imaginative faculty, of which we need no more con vincing proof than is furnished us in every page of his namby-pamby " Ode on Shakspeare." The best things in the volume are the sonnets, one of which, suggested by the word "Farewell," contains one or two touches of genuine pathos. THE PRICE OF A JAW. (From Punch.) One would think that Plutus made most of our English laws, there are so few of them that are not to be mended with money, if the breaker can afford the tinkering. This is, indeed, the true aristocracy of wealth, and makes a man with gold in his pocket feel that he is unquestionably one of the superior classes— in fact, a chartered ruffian, who may knock down his fellow-creatures like nine-pins, if he have ready cash sufficient to pay for the sport. Blessed privilege of wealth! How contemptuo us ly mus t t h e r i c h o ff ender eye the pauper ruffian, who can no more afford to enjoy the broken members of his neighbours than he can afford green peas at Christmas ? Again and again do Magistrates by their judgments --call upon us to marvel at the healing principle of gold—the never failing aurum potabile of the police-office. The subjoined case, however, applies, we presume, to a penniless ruffian : " .OLERKENwELL.- George Conzbes was charged with breaking the jaw of an unfortunate girl, named Anne Gorman. " The poor girl was standing quietly in the Chalk road, when the prisoner told her to accompany him. She refused, upon which he dealt her such a blow with his clenched fist as broke her jaw, and felled her to the ground, where she lay insensible for half an hour She was then conveyed to a surgeon. " Mr. ComnE—Will you make this poor creature some compensation for the grievous injury you have done her ? Prisoner—l won't give her a farthing. " Mr. COMBE —Then you will pay 51., or go to the House of Correction for two months." " Some compensation" for a broken jaw ! George Combes could not, or would not, pay for the article, and—we cordially hope—he is a prisoner for two months, with the supplementary punishment of hard labour. If, however, he could have paid 51., he would have been free to break another jaw the next night on the same terms. The Magistrates say they have no discretion in these matters. If the ruffian have money, justice writes him a receipt in full of all demands. It is the men who make these laws who are answer able for their injustice. Well, we will suppose it eight in the evening—the place, palace-yard. There goes Lord to his seat in the Commons. A ruffian, thinking that he has a good quarrel with his Lordship's jaw, with his clenched fist breaks it. Does his Lordship—the law-maker— think the fine of 51. a sufficient punishment for the atrocity ? We think not; but then Lords are so sel dom assaulted : such doings generally fall upon the " lower orders," and they being made of coarser clay, are—like pipkins—to be paid for when broken. Men with money can afford it. We are pretty certain that Mr. Thomas Duncombe must read the police reports, and equally sure that the iniquity of this law is wholly worthy of his re forming energy. Or where is Young England ? Wherefore does it not champion the jaws of what breeches pocket, in its big complacency, calls the lower orders? COMMERCIAL LITERATURE. —An advertisement appeared the other day for a clerk, who was wanted at Lloyd's, where he would receive a hundred a year, and it was added that editing Lloyd's List would be a part of his duties. Lloyd ought to be ashamed of himself to pay his editor so shabbily. It is true the List does not require a very imaginative mind, or a very fertile fancy ; but the editor of such an important paper must be cognisant of commerce, immersed in the mysteries of mustard, tho roughly ground in pepper, and, in fact, a walking price current. The man to edit Lloyd's List should be able to see which waythe wind blows without the aid of a weather cock, and to discriminate at a glance between the various degrees of fresh, squally, and moderate. The noble sciences of breeze-ology, wind-ology, and tide-ology, should all be at his fingers' ends. He should be on the constant look out for bits of vessels washed ashore ; and, as Hamlet knew " a hawk from a handsaw," the editor of Lloyd's List should be able to distinguish a figure-head from a marling-spike. No blacking-bottle washed up by the tide should elude his editoral vigi lance ; for some of the most interesting articles in Lloyd's List have been written on the subject of bits of paper discovered corked up in a former recipient of Day and Martin's jettest of all jets that ever were manufac tured. Such should be the mind that ought to preside over the putting together of Lloyd's List ; and if our con temporary don't strike for an advance, he is a traitor to the press, a villain to himself, and a wretch to his fa mily !—Punch. S . )0-3- i Eater a the u pon lnish ents., jean, seW, were not t the ather idat ctive. rts. .stern r, Sir ed an ib in ir ises n with 00 15 goii Ba 111C " being Cent!' de hill Y( 5 " neo a. ee per igue se Got& flail) ? 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