The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. WiNoson, WEDNESDAT.—The unfavourable state of the weather, both yesterday afternoon and also this morning, prevented the Royal Family from being taken their accustomed walks and rides in the pleasure grounds of the Castle. 'The - Duke of Cambridge went out shooting on _ Tuesday. His Royal Highness left Kew yesterday morning for town, and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House. Her Royal highness the Duchess of Cambridge also ar rived in town from Kew in the afternoon. A deputation of the East Dereham and Norwich Railway Company, consisting of Mr. R. J. Harvey (Norwich), chairman ; Mr. Clay, Mr. Drake, and -Mr. Bush, had an interview with the Kiri of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Sir James Graham left town yesterday morning for Burleigh, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter, to have the honour of meeting her Majesty. ”ispat:hes from the Governor of New South Wales, and also from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial. office for the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and also for the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO BURLEIGH. The time arranged for her Majesty's departure from the Euston-square terminus was a quarter-past nine lan Tuesday morning. With her usual punctuality she *tired at the station exactly at the appointed hour. The usual preperations had been duly made for the r ception of the royal travellers. They were received ill the state room by G. C. Glyn, Esq., chairman of the company ; J. J. Jedrum, Esq., deputy-chairman ; - T. young, Esq., P. S. L. Grenfell, Esq., Directors ; Creed, Esq., the secratary, and the other principal functionaries of the railway. The train was driven by Mr. Berry, and soon pro ceeded at a tremendous speed, flying over the country • y and the several stations at a glorious rate. The morning was dark and lowering, a heavy wet fog rolling in wreaths over the fields and clumps of leafless trees, and everything certainly looking cold and cheerless enough. At Tring the train stopped for water. A consi derable number of persons had collected at the st ition, and a perfect legion of children, drawn, we suppose, from all the schools in the neighbourhood, were ranged in two long lines along the platform, and kept up a series of shrill juvenile hurrahs. The distance from London to Tring was performed in about fifty four minutes. • Al the royal travellers approached Bletchley, the weather began to clear up, the distant mist rose from the ground, and presently the sun shone forth merrily. At Wolverton there was a strong muster of spec tators, consisting chiefly of the workmen stationed On that part of the line, with their wives and fa milies, and her Majesty and the Prince were loudly greeted as the train shot past. On the portion of the line between Wolverton and Weedon, a good many spectators had stationed them selves—farmers, their wives, and labourers in their smock-frocks, clustered together in little groups at gates where cross lanes intersected the railroad, and from every such party there was a momently-heard shout, and a momently-seen flutter of handkerchiefs, . and then they were left far behind. Roade station, thronged with anxious groups, was soon passed, and then 131isworth, and then came Weedon, the town and the station gay with flags and triumphal arches. • Animmense crowd thronged the little station, dis posed in every available position, and cheered most heartily as the royal train arrived. Outside the station Were drawn up the 47th Regiment, lining the road through the village, and an escort of the 7th Hussars was disposed in due order. The road leading through the straggling little hamlet was seen mounted by several very pretty triumphal arches, and the inha bitants were ranged in a double line, dressed in all --the variations of rural dandyism, every third or fourth man holding a little leaf-crowned banner; the whole presenting a really very pretty array. Her Majesty and the Prince were received by the • Marquis of Exeter Lord Lieutena nt of the count y ; . Sir H. Dryden, High Sheriff; and the county ma gistrates. After a brief delay the royal party entered their • carriage—the Hussars formed around it—the infantry presented arms, and amid the enthusiastic cheering of ,the multitude, and the merry peals of the bells, the royal cortege drove rapidly off towards Northampton. The activity and general bustle of preparation in the town of Northampton for the last few days were such as to prove that the inhabitants of that ancient borough were by no means behind hand with their . fellow-subjects elsewhere in devotion to their Queen, and in a just appreciation of the honour and advan • tage conferred upon their town by the presence of the Sovereign. In every thoroughfare through which ,it was anticipated that the procession would pass, workmen were busily employed in constructing scaf folding, and fitting up windows and balconies for the accommodation of those who would, no doubt, con gregate from all the neighbouring parts of the coun try, to enjoy a sight which to them must be as rare, as it could not fail to be delightful, and even in those localities which presented no opportunity of partici gating in the general gala, the residents were at least enabled to gratify their loyalty and taste by deco rating their house fronts with appropriate ornaments and gratulatory devices. Shortly after leaving Northampton, the day became again overcast, and continued dull and heavy. Bullock's Booth was the first stage—it consists of —T i 4l old public-house and a few cottages. The inhabi tants had turned out right loyally, with flags and ; v ands, and a tremendously loud brass band. The brief stay afforded time for the usual demonstrations of loyalty, and the cortege proceeded. At Meldon the horses of the Marquis of Exeter were stationed to convey the royal party the stage between that and Stamford, and at Wakerly-ford 800 of the tenantry of the Noble Marquis, well mounted, were ready, and escorted her Majesty and her noble host to the conclusion of the journey. At Stamford, as everywhere else, the most devote d loyalty and attachment was manifested in every way. 'among the company who will be enterta ined this day at Burleigh-house, are the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Duke of Rutland, Lord and Lady Thomas emit, Lord and Lady C. Wellesley , Lord f and Lady Willoughby, &c. &c. At a quarter before one o'clock a salvo of artiller y r ol 'n the ca s tl e wa ll s announced the appearance of the IRoyal , cortege at some little dista nce, and within a t e l l minutes afterwards Queen Victoria and her illus -110113 Consort arrived. The procession having been formed, with the clergy and the Corporation in the rear, then pre ceded the Queens carriage up Black Lion-hill, Ware - fair, Ilorse-mark e t, and Gold-street, to the Market-square. Here the cortege halted, and the Mayor read the ad dress, which appeared in The Sun of Monday last. her Majesty acknowledged it in a few appro priate and expressive words. The procession having been again got in motion advanced along the Market square and passed down Abingdon-street, on the road to Burleigh. Here, as on the previous parts of her route, her Majesty's admiration must have been ex cited by the taste and variety of the decorative ? I ,'signia displayed.. Scarcely a single house along the whole line, extending upwards of a mile, but was enlivened by flags with loyal mottoes, transparencies, .hearing inscriptions of devotion and attachment, or wreaths of evergreens suspended from the opposite aides of the street. The royal visit was also celebrated by the erection of five lofty and very elegantly de signed triumphal arches, chequered and festooned - with various lively colours. • In the evening a dinner in celebration'of the happy event of the day took place at the Angel Inn. The Mayor was in the chair, and was supported by the clergy and gentry of the neighbourhood. After the dinner, which was an excellent substantial repast served in good style, the company proceeded to do honour to the several toasts proposed to them. STAMFORD, SIX O'CLOCK.—The royal party have arrived at Burleigh-house. All along the route from Northampton her Majesty has been received with the most loyal demonstrations. The peasantry mustered in great force at every available point along the road, and every little village had its triumphal arch—its flaunting colours, and its evergreen -decked windows and roofs. HEROIC RESCUE.—On Saturday, during the 1 heavy rain that was falling, a boy named Ackland, those parents reside at Lee, next Lewisham, fell into the river Lea, at the back of the Eltham-road, and was carried down by the land flood about 1,000 feet to the - bridge which separates the parishes of Lee and Lewisham, . when Mr. Abraham Owen, jun., whose shop adjoins the bridge, saw the boy floating above the bridge, and im • mediately ran out, and leaped over the wall into the river, the waters of which nearly touched the roof of the arch of the bridge, and before he could seize hold of the boy he was carried through the arch about fifty feet, and with much difficulty reached the opposite bank. In this situation, however, he was still determined to save young Ackland, if possible, from the jaws of death, and as the boy fl oa t e d th roug h th e arc h, h e d as h e d once mo r e Into the stream and succeeded in bringing him to the bank. Upwards of 100 persons had followed the course of the river, and were calling aloud " Save him! Save him!" Some humane persons assisted Mr. Owen, and conveyed him and the lad to a druggist's at Lewisham, and Dr. Brown's assistant (Mr. J. Haynes) attended, and ultimately restored them to a state of sensibility. Tha bay was removed to his parents' roof, and is now doing well. ALL laLtow FAut.—This annual cattle market will be formally opened this forenoon by the magis trates. Up to yesterday afternoon only one or two lots had reached the fair ground at Gorgie Mains, but a large amount of stock was expected to be forwarded by the morning, and holders of stock are sanguine of realis ing good prices.—Edinburgh Advertiser of Tuesday. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.. LONDON. Nov. 13. Strong bre( to S.W.—lt has rained hard all night and this morning, and continues. S OUTHAMP TON, Nov. 12.—Arrd. Mary Wood (s.), London. Opp MARGATE, Nov. 12.—Ocean Queen, Freeman, 1 Sydney, New South Wales. BUDS, N v. 12.—The David, Wamoatha, of and for Stettin, flora Newport, got on the rocks at Crackington . Harbour yesterday, and is expected to become a wreck; crew saved, cargo expected to be. The Knysna, Gibson, of lluddington, from Westiort to Bristol (with oats), also got ashore at the same time, and is expected to be come a wreck ; crew saved. FALMOUTH, Nov. 12.—The Matthew Plumer, from Alexandria, the Deptford, Hull, from Taganrog, and the Magnet, Prudu, from Cardiff, drove on St. Mawes Bank during the gale yesterday morning, grounded at low water, but came off at the flood tide, it is supposed without damage. BRIXHAM, Nov. 12.—The Two Sisters, Wood, from Shield; to A xmouth, whi.th went ashore at Elbury Cove on the 2d inst., has been got off, and in here to-day. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 12.—Arrd. Ganges, China ; and Lochlibo, Quebec. It has blown strong all night from W. to W.S.W. FALMOUTH, Nov. 12.—Wind W., strong gales and violent squalls.—Arrd. Sportsman, Leyden, Ichaboe. B R ISTOL, Nov. 12. —Arrd. Rankin, Muckle, Quebec. Sid. Exchange, St. John's, New Brunswick. NEWPORT, Nov. 10.—S1d. Commercial, Valparaiso ; Lyna, Havannah. COWES, Nov. 12.—Arrd. Ernst Kundsen, Rio. Altr,Fon,o, Nov. 11.—Arrd. Harning, St. John's, New Brunswick, for Irvine. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 12.—Wind W. to S S.E. moderate. —Ski. Lamport, Armstrong, New Orleans. Arrd. Vic toria, Hancock, lehaboe ; Duke of Portland, Patterson, Demerara • Duke of Cornwall, Webster; Fame, Feronia, Laurel, and Warren Hastings, Quebec. Cont, Nov. lo.—Arrd. Brooke, Campbell, and Rowley, Emery, Ichaboe ; Sarah, Fletcher, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Mania, Stobbs, Quebec ; Lady llawey, Reid. Newfoundland ; England, Liverpool for Ichaboe, with loss of bowsprit. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 11.—The Belle, Curier, from Wa terford to this port, was wrecked at the mouth of the Dee yesterday, the master and one man saved. The Blundell, Townsend, hence to Trinidad. in putting back last night, with loss of topmast, sails, &c., got in con tact with the Ferenia, from Quebec, at anchor off the Magazines, _ and soon after sank. CORK. Nov. 10.—The John and Mary, of Dublin, from Quebec to Liverpool, was abandoned at sea previous to the 29th ult. ; crew saved. LANCASTER, Nov. 12.—The schooner Fame, of Pres ton, capsized in coming up the river yesterday, in a gale at N.W.; crew saved. LEITH, Nov. 11.—The Astrea, Scholdberg, from Sundoksw all to Luff, and the Worsley, Keellez, of and for Grimsby, from St. Petersburgh, put in here yester day from St. Margaret's Hope, the latter in a very bad condition, e.. 1 must discharge part of her cargo. DEAL, Nov. 12., 8, A.m.—Wind W.S.W., fresh.— Arrd. Jane Goudie, Goudie, Sydney, New South Wales; Hyderabad, Robertson, Calcutta ; Galatea, Owen, Cape of Good Hope; Rambler, Buenos Ayres; Eyer, Grenada; Waterford, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Wave, Prince Edward's Islaud ; Glenlyon, Erramanga; Puscy Hall, brig No. 475, Canertieu and Merrier, St. Laurence. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. John Burnham, Prince Edward's Island. TORBAY, Nov. 11—Arrd. Margaret, Davidson, late Northwood, Ichaboe. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER —TUESDAY. IbERBY. 10 to 1 agst Alarm—t 11 to 1'33 to 1 agst Young Eclipse 16 to 1 agst Kedger 35 to 1 agst Connaught 22 to 1 agit Cobweb c Ranger 25 to 1 agst Newsmonger 45 to 1 agst Clear-the-Way 28 to 1 ag.t Rebecca c 50 to 1 agst Cabin Boy 25 to 1 agst Pam 1,000 to 1 agst John Davis 27 to 1 agst Fitz-Allen ASHDO WN PARK COURSING MEETING. Arrivals—Jane Goudie, Simpson, from New South Wales, in the Downs, sailed from Sydney 30th June ; Ocean Queen, Freeman, from New South Wales, off Marl;ate, sailed from Sydney 13th July ; Galatea, Owen, from the Cape of Good Hope, in the Downs, sailed 23d August, St. Helena 9th Sept. ; Hydrabad, Harrison, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed 4th July. Arrivals at Hobart Town—Eudora, June 16 ; Lady Gray, 26th, both from London ; Louisa, July 1; Caro line, 2d, from Sydney ; Greenlay, 3J, from Kingstown. Arrivals at Sydney—Clarkson, from the South Seas ; Nimrod, July 1, from the South Seas ; Nelson, July 6, from the South Seas ; Avon, 7th, from coasting; Dorset, Bth, from Adelaide and Port Philip ; Christina, 9th, from Port Philip; Haidee, 12th, from Liverpool; Sham rock, 13th, from Port Philip and Launceston. Departures from Sydney—Her Majesty's ship North Star, July 6, to the South Seas; Waterlily, 9th to Hobart Town; Vanguard, 11th, to Akarod ; 11th, to London. Arrival at Calcutta—Bentinck steamer, Sept. 20, from Suez, Aden, aad Madras. Departures from Kedgeree—Salacia, Sept. 19, to Mauritius; Mary Ridley, to London; Thodosia, to Liver pool ; Pallas, and Cordela. Departures from Saugor—Olinda, Sept. 20, to Mau ritius; Dido, Ayrshire, and Hope; Arganur, to Greenock. Departure from Manilla—Lord Petre, Lukey, to Europe. Departure from Batavia—Mango Park, July 31, to London. Departure from Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope— Her Majesty's ship Vestal, Sept. 16, to Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales. Arrival in Algoa Bay—Her Majesty's ship Conway, Sept. 5, from Simon's Bay, and sailed sth to Mauritius. RESOURCES OF INDIA-IRON ORE, &c. We have heard that some of the superabundant wealth of this country is likely to be appropriated to the development of a vast field of enterprise in the Suuth 3f India. Some of the provinces in that part of the country abound in Iron ores of various kinds, of the richest and purest descriptions k nown : wood ' charcoal, for fuel, may be had, in inexhaus tible quantities, for the cost of cutting, and making it. Labour of all kinds is procurable in abundance ; cheaper than in any other country : and the facilities for transport of materials, are such as will admit of Iron being manufactured there, at a cost, far below that at which Iron can be made at any other part of the world. We understand that this is not a merely specula tive project. A small Association of Gentlemen in India, engaged in the prosecution of it, some years ago ; and by their labours, and at their cost, re sults of unexampled value have been established; but the nature of their Association was far too limited, and the capital they could afford to embark in the undertaking altoge ther inadequate, to enable them to make more than a mere demonstration of facts. The local Indian Go vernment, under the sanction of the East India Com pany, impressed with the value, in a public point of view, of the objects of this Association, has granted them considerable pecuniary assistance, and has con veyed to them rights and privileges, which with those obtained from private proprietors of land, give them complete, and exclusive possession of all the materials for Iron making in these provinces. A large set of Iron Works has been erected by this Company near Madras, which is now in active opera • Lion, with all the improvements recently introduced into the manufacture of Charcoal Iron on the Conti nent of Europe; the difficulties they had to contend with, at the commencement, have been gradually surmounted ; and the extraordinary character of the Indian Iron has been fully established: a proof of this is afforded by the recent purchase, after pre vious trial, of several hu ndred tons of? it, by one of the first English Iron masters, for conversion into tin plate. With the improvements now in the course of introduction at their Works in India, there is now no doubt that Iron may be made there, and sold at a very large profit, for the consumption of the whole of the markets of Asia, so as to supersede foreign im portations ; and that it can be disposed of, in this country at a great profit, to replace the produce of Sweden, and Russia, for conversion into Steel; and for use in all purposes, where a superior quality of Iron is required. The recent enormous development of railway con structions has created a demand for a description of Iron which England does not produce. The smelt ing of Iron ore with charcoal in England is now limited to a few hundred tons a year; and the price of foreign charcoal Iron of good quality, is too high to admit of its use in this country, for Iron purposes. Indian charcoal Iron, of a quality equal to the finest foreign Iron, can be delivered in England, at a cost, not exceeding that of common English coke Iron; while its value, for use, as Iron, is at least double that of the best coke Iron. All that is now required to realise these statements, we are assured, is the application of sufficient capital; and at a time when railway projects, hold ing out expectations of moderate returns, are so eagerly sought after, it is expected that the attention of capitalists will soon be attracted to an undertaking, the succ •;s of which, when vigorously prosecuted, is now placed beyond a doubt; and the profits from which will so greatly exceed those of any other project now offered for public participation. The original Projectors of this undertaking being now satisfied of the utter incompetency of their means to occupy the gigantic field of enterprise in their pos session, in an efficient manner, have agreed to place the whole, on most favourable terms, in the hands of a public Company, who can bring to the prosecution of it a capital commensurate with its importance. As this neighbourhood contains the largest Iron Works in the kingdom, the above information will, we presume, be of more than ordinary interest, — 'Abridged from the Bradford Observer.) ITN IViiIRSIT 1r OF E D INBURG H.—The winter session of the University opened on Monday, when an admirable introductory lecture was delivered by the venerable Principal Lee, in the presence of a crowded and most respectable audience. Since then all the professors have opened their classes. We are happy to announce that the number of students matriculated during-the first five days of the session exceeds the number of the corre sponding period of last session by 119, this excess being divided almost equally between the Facult;es of arts and medicine. The law classes are not yet opened, and the students of divinity are enrolled separately at the Theological Library.—Caledonian Mercury. D OVE R, Nov. 12.—A fall of the cliff, near the Town Jetty, took place this morning early, and we regret to state, destroyed a cottage tenanted by a poor man of the name of Hart, and killed two of his children, aged eight and twelve years. The fall is attributed to the late heavy rains.—His Grace the Duke of Welling ton and the Commissioners of Dover Harbour will hold a sessions here on Thursday next. TUESDAY. THE Cur.—Mr. Bowles's Bodice beat Mr. Agg's Anna trlla ; Mr. W. Ettwall's Win-if-I-can beat Mr. Law rence's Lceia ; Mr. Bowles's Bill Scott beat Mr. W. Ettwall's Witchery; Mr. Gordon's Laura beat Mr. God dard's Arathea. THE DE RD Y.—Mr. Agg's Almaviva beat Mr. Law rence's Linchpin ; Mr. W. Etwall's West-End beat Mr. Bowles's Baldrick. THE OAKS.—Mr. Bowles's Blessington beat Mr. W. Etwall's Wild Rose ; Mr. Lawrence's Laudanum beat Mr. Agg's Gazelle ; Mr. W. Etwall's Wit's-End beat Mr. Bowles's Burlesque. ST. LEGER.—Mr. Agg's Abelard beat Mr. W. Etwall's Wiliness ; Mr. Bowles's Brocade beat Mr. Lawrence's Lobelia. MATCH.—Mr. Bowles's Blue Coat Boy beat Mr. Agg's Ano:line. The weather was unfavourable and the attendance thin, but the sport was good. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. GOODWOOD-1845. THIRD DAY. Nominations for the Molecornbe Stakes of 50 sous. each, &c. Lord G. Bentinck's b c by Bay Middleton, out of Mar ' rowfat ;b f Ennui; Princess Alice; bf by Jereed, out of Vacana ; and Killi Krankie. Lord Chesterfield's c by Jereed, out of Dirce. Mr. Cooper's Madcap. Mr. T. Dawson's Grimston. Mr. John Day's Cambaules. Mr. C. Dorrien's Ferney. Mr. Drinkald's Sr. George. Lord Eglinton's Silvius and Sotades. Lord Exeter's c by Colwick, out of Toga. Mr. Forth's c by Slane, out of Echo. Lord Glasgow's f by Retriever, out of Emilia. Mr. Gratwicke's f by Elis, out of Frederica. Mr. Gregory's Moonbeam. Mr. Herbert's c by Wintonian, out of Zebra ; and fby Elis, out of Delightful. Mr. Jaques's Spur. Mr. A. Johnstone's f by Pantaloon, out of Rebecca. Mr. Maher's by Sir Hercules, out of Helen ; and fby Birdcatcher, out of Perdita. Mr. Osbaldeston's Sister to Pompey. Mr. Payne's Polka. Mr. 0. Powell's Holloway. Duke of Richmond's fby Elis, out of Reel. Mr. Wreford's f by Venison, out of Victoria. GOODWOOD, 1846. FIRST DAY. The Drawing •room Stakes of 25 sous. each, &c. Lord Albemarle's The Little Vulgar Boy. Colonel Anson's Shelford and Martext. Duke of Beaufort's c by Touchstone, out of Hoyden. Lord G. Bentinck's c by Bay Middleton, out of Marrow. fat ; Ennui ; Sombrero ; Binnacle; f by Jereed, out of Vacuna ; and Killi Krankie. Mr. Bowes's Volga. Sir R. W. Bulkeley's br c by Piccaroon—Remilution's dam Lord Chesterfield's Birkenhead and Ginger. Mr. C. Dorrien's Ferney. Lord Exeter's c by Colwick, out of Gelato ; c by Col wick, out of Macremma ; and c by Colwick, out of Lucetta. Mr. Forth's c by Slane, out of Echo. Lord Glasgow's br c by Retriever, dam by St. Patrick. Mr. G ratwicke's f Elis, out of Cestus. Mr. Greville's Polka and Titchfield. Sir G. Heathcote's c by Velocipede, dam by Emilius. Mr. Herbert's c by Wintonian, out of Zebra. Mr. Jaques's Spur. Mr. Maher's c by Sir Hercules, out of Helen ; f by Bird catcher, out of Perdita ; and c by Ratcatcher, out of Oatmeal. Sir J. B. Mills's The Slot. Mr. Mostyn's Louis Philippe. Mr. Osbaldeston's Brother to Sorella and King Charles. Mr. Payne's Collingwood. Duke of Richmond's f by Elis, out of Reel ; and e by Elis, out of Baleine. Llrd Verulam's c by Sir Hercules, dam by Ishmael. Mr. Wreford ns Cambaules. Sir W. W. Wynn's Cynynion. THIRD DAY. Two Yrs Old Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each fur fillies. Lord G. Bentinck's Sister to The Devil-to-pay ; and f by Venison, out of Diversity. Lord Chesterfield's Sister to the Maid of Orleans. Lord Eglinton's Themis. Lord Glasgow's f by The Provost, out of Miss Whip. Mr. Herbert's f by Sheet Anchor, out of Miss Letty; and f by Elis, out of Walfrima. Mr. A. Johnstone's f by the Provost, out of Morsel. Lord Maidstone's Atropos. Mr. Osbaldeston's Sister to Sorella. Mr. Wreford's f by Vension, out of Wapiti. The Racing Stakes of 50 sovs. each, for three yrs olds. The New Mile. Lord Albermarle's Smuggler Bill. Colonel Anson's lago and Borghese. Duke of Beaufort's Tanrina. Lord G. Bentinck's c by Bay Middleton, out of Marrow• fat; and f by Jereed, out of Vacuna. Mr. Bowes's Ukraine. Lord Chesterfield's Arkwright. Lord Eglinton's Draco. Lord Exeter's c by Colwick, out of Lucetta. Mr. Gratwicke's c by Elis, out of The Margravine. Sir J. Hawley's Prospect. Sir G. Heathcote's b c by Hetman Platoff, out of Nannette. Mr. Herbert's c by Wintonian, out of Zebra. Mr. A. Johnstone's f by Pantaloon, out of Rebecca. Lord Miltown's Foinnuala. Mr. Mostyn's Louis Philippe. Mr. Osbaldeston's King Charles. Mr. Payne's Collingwood. Mr. Phillimore's Oxberry. Lord Verulam's f by Sir Hercules, out of Duvernay. Mr. Wreford's Cambaules. Two Years-old Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each • T.Y.C. Lord G. Bentinck's c by Ba y Middleton, out of Olive ; c by Bay Middleton, c of Melvina ; c by Lanercost, out of Crucifix (allowed 31b) ; c by Bay Middleton, out of Plenary ; and Brother to Egeria. Mr. Gully's Brother to Euclid. Lord Glasgow's c by The Provost, out of Amulet ( 31 b). Duke of Richmond's f by Mus, out of Reel. Mr. Wreford's cby Muley oloch, out of Margellina. Sir W. W. Wynn's f by Gladiator, dam by Buzzard.Y.C. . Two Years-old Sweepsta kes of 25 sovs. each ; T Lord G. Bentinck's c by Bay Middleton, out of Plenary Mr. Greville's cby E mi lius, out of Receipt (31b). Sir G. Heathcote's f by Astracan— Lady Geraldine (51b). Mr. Herbert's f by Coronation, out of Factory Girl (51b). Mr. Osbaldeston's f by Lanercost (31b). Duke of Richmond's c by Mus, out of Prism. Lord Stanley's Abdiel (31b). The Sussex 5 takes 0f25 sovs. each, for two yrs ld. o T.Mid Y.C. Lord G. Bentinck's Brother to Ga p er ; by Bay . dleton, out of Malvina ; and c by Bay Middleton, out of Olive. out of Receipt ( 31 b) . Mr. Greville's c by Emilius , Duke of Richmond's c by Venison, out of the Soldier's Daughter ; f by Mus, out of Reel. Mr. Shelley's Broadsword (31b). Lord Stanley's Abdiel (31b). LAST DAY. The Nassau Stakes of 50 sore. each, for three yrs old. Lord Albemarle's Nell Cook. Colonel Anson's Ardennes and Ellipsis. Duke of Beaufort's Taurina. Lord G. Bentinck's Prince Alice ; Ennui; fby Gereed, out of Vacuna ; and Killi Krankie. Mr. Bowes's Mowerina. Mr. Cooper's Lady Teazle. Lord Exeter's Sister to Pergularia. Mr. Ford's Guaracha. Lord Glasgow's f by Velocipede, out of Miss Whip. Mr. Gratwicke's f by Elis, out of Cestus ; and f by Elis, out of Carlotta. Mr. Greville's Polka. Sir J. llawley's Regina. Sir G. Heathcote's Sister to Bokhara. Mr. Herbert's Elis, out of Fesane. Mr. A. Johnstone's f by Pantaloon, out of Rebecca. Lord Miltown's Foinnuala. Mr. Osbaldeston's Sister to Pompey. Duke of Richmond's fby Elia, out of Reel. Lord Verulam's f by Muley Moloch, out of Corumba. Sir W. W. Wynn's Anne Boleyn. DONCASTER, 1846. styccoßjbfbeeyy:r ie L ao Lanercost, heo House erucst Lanercost, l nos In. Colonel THIRD DAY. The Municipal Stakes of 200 soya. each, for two yrs old Tivourr.dblvyG. Colwick,. A I Bi e s ßn o tr n io n ' s ock c kT b s, La Bohemienne; and out out o o f f B C o r s u s c y ifi ß x e . dlum. Lord Chesterfield's Sister to Lady Waldair. Lord Eglinton's Themie. Lord Glasgow's t' by Retriever, out of Emilia. Mr. Jaques's Tom Fool. Mr. Osbaldeston's f by Lanercost. FIRE AT CROYDOII.—A fire took place at Croydon on Tuesday night, on the premises of Mr. Harris, a tailor and outfitter, residing in the High-street, which but for its timely discovery might have been at tended by the loss of the lives of the whole of the in mates, consisting of Mr. Harris, his wife, and a female servant, who, as it was, were only enabled to make their escape, almost in a state of nudity, by means of a ladder placed against their bed-room windows. It ap pears that between eleven and twelve o'clock a neigh bour's servant was passing the house, when she heard a sound like the crackling of fire in the shop, and she im mediately gave an alarm, when it was discovered that the shop was all in flames. Every endeavour was then made for upwards of ten minutes, by knocking at the door and various other means, to awaken the inmates -of the house, but without effect. The fire was in the mean time rapidly increasing, and at length a ladder was pro cured and placed up to the window, and a young taan named Chandler, who is in the service of a butcher in the town, ascended, and forced his way into the room, and actually awakened the inmates, who were at this time still asleep, and unconscious of danger. All means of egress by the lower part of the house was at this time completely cut off, and Mr. Harris, his wife, and the servant, were compelled to descend the ladder, which they di d without any injury, and then took refuge in the house of a neighbour. The police, and a good many other persons, had arrived by this time, and there being a plentiful supply of water, the ravages of the fire were confined to the shop and the lower part of the premises, which, however, with a good deal of stock, were almost entirely destroyed. The property is insured in one of the London fire-offices. THE APPROACHING POLISH would soon arrive, he hoped in God, when those noble BALL AT GUILDHALL. and patriotic heroes would be possessed of their country. Mr. Hour made a few observations on the glad anti cipations of the success of the ball, and the Committee adjourned. --- Yesterday a very full meeting of the Committee appointed to superintend the arrangements for the grand ball and concert, to be given on the 19th instant, at the Guildhall, took place. Deputy Peacock in the Chair. The CHAIRMAN rejoiced to communicate to the Com mittee that they had every prospect of a most prosperous issue to their labours on the forthcoming occasion. Lord DUDLEY STUART said he felt great pleasure in seeing so full an attendance at the Committee, and was very happy to congratulate them on the prospects before them of a most successful ball. He had received on all hands, both in the west-end of the town and in the City, assurances of support the most encouraging The long list of distinguished persons who had signified their de sire to patronise the ball, headed by the illustrious lady who never failed them, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and graced by such names as the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Lord and Lady Stanley, Lord and Lady John Russell, and not least in importance Sir Robert and Lady Sale— (Clieers)—was evidence of the favour with which their undertaking was regarded by persons in high stations of different parties; and though, even last year, they had met with such kind assistance from the public, as had ultimately produced a most satisfactory result, he per • ceived, this year, amongst all classes, a still greater in terest in the object in view, and still greater readiness to come forward to promote it. This he attributed partly to the improved condition of the country, trade being generally less depressed, and partly to the circum stance of the Polish cause being better understood, in consequence of its having attracted a greater share of public attention. This had no doubt been one effect of the recent visit to this country of the Emperor of Russia. However that might be, the friends of Poland had before them the prospect if being enabled to derive the greatest advantage from the liberality of the Court of Common Council, which by granting to them the use of the Guild • hall, would be found to have afforded them the means of carrying on their labours in behalf of the brave and un fortunate men, now, reduced to destitution in conse quence of their resolute attachment to their country and of their defence of its rights. It was impossible for him (Lord Dudley Stuart) adequately to express his appre ciation of the important boon thus conferred on the Poles and their friends ; but he thought it no wonder that the Corporation of London, ever famous in his tory as the friends and champions of liberty, should feel sympathy for men who were sufferers in its cause ;—no wonder that they could not bear to leave them without bread, and without a home in the midst of their busy and flourishing city ; no wonder that when a mode was pointed out of relieving them, without detriment in any way to the interests of other claimants, they should wil lingly adopt it. Far be it from me (said Lord Dudley Stuart), as far, I am sure, it is from the wish of any of those with whoin I have the honour to act, to turn from, or undervalue the claims of our own poor. I believe that the humble individual now addressing you—l be lieve that the members of the Association to which I belong, cannot be charged with indifference to the suffer ings of their own countrymen—and that we are at least as ready as other people to contribute to their relief. We have not come into the City seeking to divert the benevo lence of the citizens from other channels, or to intercept assistance, which but for us would be bestowed on the destitute of our own country ; but we have sought to employ, for a benevolent purpose that, which, to all ap pearance would, but for us, not be used at all. For some time past there has been a Polish Ball at Guildhall almost every year; but there have been years when the necessities of the Poles not requiring it, we have for borne from asking for the Hall ; for we have no desire to take undue advantage of the generosity of the public, or to collect more money than is absolutely required. In those years we have no. seen the Hall employed for any other charitable purpose ; but it has stood empty. We have never competed for it with any other charitable association ; and when our petition was presented to the Court of Common Council last week you heard a mem ber of the Court of Common Council make this state ment :—That when some years ago the Association of the Friends of Poland were about to ask for the Hall, a report was circulated that the Committee of the Greville street Infirmary wished to obtain it for that institution ; that on that occasion I w aited on him, as a member of the Committee of the Infirmary, accompanied by some of my co ll eag ues, and inquired whether there really was any foundation for the report, stating, at the same time, that if so, we should not think of standing in the way of the Infirmary, and that, on the contrary, we should be ready to do anything in our power to promote its success. His answer was, that there was no intention of asking for the Hall for that Institution ; and we then presented our petition, which was granted.—(Hear.) We have not heard this year that any other parties were ready to take the Hall and employ it to advantage. The entertainments given here are not conducted to a suc cessful termination without much preparation, or without great and sustained exertion. This we had made ; and being prepared to make the Hall conducive to a purpose which we were confident was good, and finding that there were no other persons in a similar situation, we came forward with the petition to which it has been the plea sure of the Court generously to accede. The ball, then, which will be given, will interfere with no other charity, will form a magnificent entertainment for those who attend it, and will cause at least as much money to be circulated amongst the tradesmen of this City as will be devoted to the relief of the Po'es. The funds collected in this manner are employed in relieving the sick among the refugees. and those who are the victims of accident and other Casualties, in enabling others to proceed to foreign coun tries, in assisting some to procure employment, and in providing for the wants of those who have no other re source, by granting them allowances which, in every case, were of very small amount. It is our constant aim to repress misconduct, to discourage idleness, and to pro mote industry ; and in this we have not been without success—many are usefully and honourably employed, end though individual instances of misconduct may doubtless be pointed to amongst the Poles, as amongst all large bodies of men, I am not afraid to say that on the whole, they conduct themselves well ; and I doubt if any other set of men in a similar situation would be found to conduct themselves so well, although the whole number of the Poles in this country has within the last five or six years, been very materially reduced (for, in 1838, it reached nearly 700, and now amounts scarcely to 500), the number of those depending exclusively on the Association for support (which had also diminished) has, since last year, been somewhat augmented. The chief cause of this is the following:—Some months ago a Russian man-of- war , b oun d f or Kamschatka, was drive n into Portsmouth b y stress o f wea ther ; on board of her were a numbe r o f P o l es , w h o had been compelle d to serve as sa il ors and were destined to become in habitants of Sib er i a. O n fi n ding themselves in a British harb our , they took advantage of that g lorious privilege, whi c h is common to the white as w ell as to , the black slave fortunate enough to reach our shores, and escaped from the service into which they had been forced.—(Loud cheers.) Some of them have since entered on board B r i t i s h merc h an tmen, and others have found different emp l oyments , b u t they have not all been so fortunate, and some are still without wor k . Some others who, esc a pi ng f rom R u ssia, had obtained leave to remain a certai n t i me i n P rus sia, on the expiry of the time prescribed found themselves reduced to the alter native of returning to the Russian dominions, or of taking ship from Hamburgh for England. What would have been their fate had they decided to return may be inferred from the treatment experienced within the last two months by racter and exe mp l ar y piety, who having ventured to a Polish clergyman, of unimpeachable cha proceed from P russ i a into that part of Poland now under Russia, was immediately seised, and condemned to receive 150 lashes from the knout. Russia boasts that she has no capital punishments ; but the knout, severely applied, answers all the purpose of the gallows; and at the 147th blow the wretched man expired 1 A report has been circulated that the Emperor of Russia has this year published a general amnesty, and some people ask why the Poles do not return to their country. Without stopping to dis cuss the motives which might prevent them from avail ing themselves of it, if it existed, it is important you should know that this amnesty is wholly imaginary. There has been no amnesty ; and the only foundation for the report is this :—About a down Poles residing here petitioned for leave to make submission to the Emperor, and to return to Poland. It was accorded to five ; and who and what were they who received this mark of imperial indulgence ? All persons of infamous addressing character. Thr ee h ad been convicted of felony in France ; one, struck off the list of ref ugees a t th e d es i r e of his countrym an here, had been bound over to keep the peace towa rds me ; and the fifth, a convicted felon , comm itted an assault on me last year.—(Hear, hear.) oc casion, showed that th e y nee d e d no t t o h ave the dr claimsessing gentlemen who, by their a tt en d ance on the present I t was perhaps unnecessary to enter into such details in d of the Poles impressed on them ; but, seeing many members in the room who had joined the Com mittee for the first time, he (Lord Dudley Stuart) had thought that the statements he had laid before them might not be uninteresting, and that they would tend to confirm them in their conviction of the soundness of the cause in which they had engaged.--(Loud cheers.) This year of 1844 (continued his Lordship) will long be memorable in the eyes of the Poles, in consequence of the marks of sympathy they have received from the British public—greater, perhaps, and more striking, than any they have ever before received. In this year they have seen the leading members of our aristocracy employed for the p ur p ose of r elieving Polish di stress, undisturbed by the presence of the Autocrat himself, and deterred by no slavish fear of their benevolent exertions b e ing met by imperial frowns ; but there is no. sym pathy more grateful to the Poles than that which has always been so generously awarded them—the sympathy c hee r citizens of the Corporation of London. It is most a position—those on whom the eyes of the cring to them to see that those who occupy so con ee lately, even more than usual, been turned, in consequence of the magnificent solemnities, graced by the presence of royalty, which have lately taken place in this city ; those who were accustomed to have Sovereigns for their guests, that they still remain steady in their sp worldi cuo us s a humane consideration for the sufferings of the exile.— (Loud cheering.) Mr. E AGL ETON (the Treasurer, to whose exertions the Poles have l on e. been deeply indebted) rose, and ex- Lord Dudley Stuart, interesting and im pressed the hig h g ratification he felt at the detailed ac countwas to the cause of the persecuted Poles, in eni r o a erron e ous impression whi c h had gone abroad, that they had it in their p ower to return.— (H e ar, hear.) He ha d taken care to mak e it kno wn to rot removing a v g e s ni thet by all parties with w hom he came in contact, that it was impossible for the brave but unfortunate men to specu late upon the mercy of the Emperor of Russia. The knout would be their doom if they built u p on the coal passion of that monarch ; and the fate of the clergyman alluded to by Lord Dudley Stuart would, without the shadow of a doubt, be visited upon those who would en gage in ao rash an adventure.—(Hear, hear.) The day THE GRESITAM LECTURES. NOMY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—l read with pleasure your remarks, contained in your journal of Monday last, under the head of " Mis cellaneous," respecting the course of lectures now delivering in the Gresham College, Basinghall-street, and am not all surprised at your burst of honest indig nation when you designate them as "mere farces;" but you should, I think, have gone a little further, and pointed out the cause. The fact is—that these lectures are appointed to be delivered at twelve and one o'clock in the day, the most inconvenient hours that could pos sibly have been fixed upon, and it is well known that scarcely any onuotends, and the lectures, when deli vered, are hurried over, in a most monotonous manner, to empty benches. I repeat when delivered, for should it happen when the hour arrives that no person is present, the door is shut, and the noble minded lecturer calmly walk% away, with the lecture unopened in his pocket, no doubt well pleased in attributing it to the apathy of the public. I am really astonished how any man with a spark of talent or right feeling can satisfy his own mind by going through such a tame, dull duty, and receiving 1001. a year for this farce. Ido sincerely hope that the time is not far distant when these lectures will be made as useful as they ought to be, and which was evidently the design of the benevolent founder that they should be. Now let us for a moment turn to the course of lectures delivered in the same hall by E. Taylor, Esq., the very talented Gresham professor of music. These are deli vered in the evening, and are always well attended, and the deep interest excited by a numerous and respectable audience, and the delight manifested by all present, is a proof, if any were wanting, that if the other lectures were delivered at the same hour, and the lecturers were to exert themselves to render them popular, the same happy effects would follow, and we should no longer have to lament over well-paid, useless farces, and, empty benches. Do pray, Mr. Editor, aid us in calling atten tion to the subject, in order that a better system may speedily be adopted, and your laudable exertions will be hailed with delight by a grateful public, and none more so than, Sir, your most obedient servant, 9, Billiter-street, Nov. 7, 1844. A CITIZEN. [This letter, from some accident, had been mislaid for some days.] HAMBURGH MAIL. TREVES, OCT. 30.—Several parish priests in our diocese positively refused, during the exhibition of the Holy Garment, to accompany parishioners to see it, and in a very sensible manner dissuaded them from undertaking this pilgrimage. By this conduct those priests have, it seems, drawn upon themselves the anger of the Bishops, and may expect to be shortly accused of Hermesianism. The inhabitants of the Rhenish provinces are too clear-sighted for such measures to be carried into effect. Even the mani festo of the Romish priest, Rouge, against the absurd exhibition of the Holy Garment at Treves, is more and more approved, though it severely censures the clergy of the diocese of Treves, calls Bishop Arnold the Fetzel of the 19th century. FROM THE VESTULA, OCT. 30.—The new military law respecting the Jews, published on the 26th of September last year, induced the elders of the Jewish community at Warsaw to send a deputation to St. Petersburgh, in order to petition his Majesty the Emperor to place the civil condition of the Jews on the same footing as that of the Christians, in reference to the law of 1817. In the imperial decree issued at that time, it is said that the adherents of the Mosaic faith residing in the kingdom may be exempt from the military conscription and military service so long as they are not admitted to civil rights, and pay to the Polish Treasury 105,299 silver roubles annually. It was intimated to the deputation that they should receive an answer at Warsaw from the Governor- General of the Kingdom. This answer has now been given, but it by no means corresponds with the de sires of the petitioners. They are told that they are not to appeal to the law of 7th January, 1817, be cause the grant of civil rights was an act of imperial favour ; but, with regard to the money paid for exemption from military service, it was ordered to cease on the introduction of the military conscrip tion, according to the literal tenor of the law; but that for the present the fixed sum must continue to be paid, " because the Jews, by their temperance in the use of highly-taxed liquors, brandy, for instance, dimi nished the public revenue."—Hamburgh Papers. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company have given the necessary notices that they intend to apply to Parliament next session for powers to effect the following objects : To alter, extend, and enlarge the present passenger station in Lime-street, Liverpool, the present goods station at Wapping, and the old station at Crown street, Edge-hill. To purchase land and make another branch and tunnel between the goods tunnel to Wapping and the passenger tunnel to Smithdown-lane. To make another tunnel from Edge-hill to Water loo-road, at the north end of the town. To make a branch from Barton-on-Irwell, in the parish of Eccles,` hrough Worsley, Pendlebury, and Clifton, to join the Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale Railway. To make a branch from some point of the Liver pool and Manchester line, between Newton and Park side,_ to communicate with the North Union line. To make a railway, with tunnels, from Barrow nook Moss, in the township of Rainford (there to com municate with the St. Helens and Runcorn Railway), to the north end of the town of Liverpool. To authorise the Liverpool and Manchester Com pany to purchase the Bolton and Leigh and Bolton and Kenyon Railway ; and To make a line from the Runcorn and St. Helens Railway to Rufford. PROPOSED BRANCHES OF THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. It appears from the Parliamentary notices of the Grand Junction Railway Company, that the Com pany intends to apply next session for powers to make the following branches to the main line :- 1. A branch from Kekewich, in Cheshire, to Huvton in this county. In constructing thi s b ranch, it will be necessary to build an immense bridge across the Mersey, either at Runcorn or Fiddler's Ferry. The formation of this branch will enable the Com pany to effect a saving of several miles, and will render the line between Liverpool and Birmingham as straight as it is possible to make it. 2. A branch or branches to Stoke-upon-Trent and the populous district of the Potteries. 3. A line from Friar's Wood, West Bromwich, to the heart of the mineral district at Dudley ; and 4. A line which will serve as a branch of the Grand Junction from Wednesbury, near Wolver hampton, to Shrewsbury. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in the 'Week ending Saturday, the 9th of November, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:— CAUSES OF DEATH. Weekly Total. Average of Five-Years Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 214 178 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat 95 111 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 147 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 32 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion .. Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 9 5 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ll 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles l4 6 Diseases of the Skin, ... 2 1 Old Age, or Natural Decay 6l 71 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance • 30 26 Causes specified 9BB 942 Deaths from all Causes 989 946 DEATHS FROM TIIR PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UND . THE ABOVE HEADS. West North Central East 2ls 207 South 285 242 - - Total •••• 00000 0 0 •••• ••• • • 989 946 Total. Weekly Average of Five Years Consumption Scarlatina Pneumonia Dropsy .. ... .. .. ........... Hooping Cough .... ....... .. Typhus Small Pox 42 15 Disease of the Heart Measles Apoplexy Diseases of the Brain .... 9 9 Diarrhoea.. - ........ ..••• 11 12 Sudden Deaths ..... .... 11 15 DISTRICTS. TWO HOUSES BLOWN DOWN IN THE LONDON•ROAD. —Among the mischiefs occasion ed b y the storm may be mentioned the blowing down of two ho uses in the London road. Southwark—one of the most crowded thoroughfares in the metropolis—yet, miraculous as it may seem, without the loss of any lives. Fortunately the catastrophe occurred at half-past eight yesterday, and the houses—one, a china and chrystal establishment ; the other, occupied by a furniture broker—being very old, gave such ample warning of their approaching dissolution, that the indi viduals in the shops had time to run out into the street, before the whole came to the ground. In the upper floor there were two children in bed, who were fortu nately protected by a portion of the roof which adhered to the side wall. They were rescued, from their perilous situation by a gentleman, who with considerable heroism rushed up the ruins before they were well settled, and had the pleasure of placing the children in the arms of their frightened mother. The stock in both shops is of course totally destroyed. A number of labourers are now busily employed in clearing off the ruins. rnE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 14 1844. POLITICAL ECO (From the Times.) WORK HOUSE REGULATIONS. Every age has its panics. At one time the Turk, then the Emperor, then the Pope, then despotism, then the Radicals, have occupied the attention of all who had something to lose, and leisure to be alarmed. A few years back the cry was, that every article of food was adulterated; and nobody could be sure it was bread he was eating, unless be had sown, reaped, thrashei, ground, sifted, kneaded, baked, and sliced the material with his: own hands, or, as a second best course, by the hands of a confidential servant interested in his preservation. The cholera frightened us all once ; comets now and then ; the new tariff spread considerable consternation in some quarters; mad dogs are always and everywhere terrible; the slow westward progress of white ants, and the oc casional visit of a real oriental locust, have in their turn considerably affected the more cautious and provident part of mankind. But what do our readers suppose is the last new bugbear ? A very terrible one, to judge from the universal horror it has excited. All parties, and almost all classes, both sexes and all ages, agree in the most dreadful apprehensions. The most alarming circumstance of the new enemy is, that it has been amongst us from time immemorial, and is impossible to be quite eradicated. The baneful charac ter of its operations has only just now been discovered. Reader—prepare your nerves. The new enemy of mankind is Charity. By the light of the economists it is discovered that charity, notwithstanding her angel robes, her gentle ness and smiles, is the most insidious and deadly of monsters. Her charms are meretricious, her sem blance a disguise, her name a misnomer, and her com mission a forgery. Proteus as she is, it is hard to say in which of her many forms she is the worst. Some times she presents herself in the shape of a fair young lady, carrying a basket of provisions. Don't kiss— don't shake hands—don't speak, but stop your mouth, nose, and ears, and run for your life. She is more terrible than the old hag who carries the plague to Aleppo or Bagdad, at sight of whom the whole popu lation shut their windows and doors, and sit in speech less affright. If you have interchanged the smallest civility with the harpy, a consuming canker will con taminate your substance and your store. Sometimes the wretch assumes a dingier character, and goes about with a cart distributing half-hundreds of coals. Fatal incendiary. The hearth her coals have once lighted, will never again know an honest combustion. Sometimes she presides at a caldron, and distributes soup to besotted crowds, who little think they are gulping down dog's-meat and dependence, brick dust and bondage. Sometimes she carries bags of clothing infected with future nakedness. Sometimes she takes the attributes of Lucina, and delivers paupers of paupers ; whereas it is the midwives of Egypt we want just now. Sometimes she carries a me dicine-chest, and glories to lengthen the days of idle ness. ...sometimes she enrols a crowd of rustics in a penny club. Wretched beings! Their names once down in that black list, they never will be their own men again. Sometimes she harbours old men and women, widows and orphans, the sick and destitute, in lazar-houses, whose very sight spreads an epidemic of age and infancy, widowhood, sickness, and destitu tion. Sometimes—direful invention of these latter days—she invades mother earth herself, and scars her fair face with leprous allotments. But there are no limits to her destructive ingenuity. The charla tan wife readily accommodates herself to every want and weakness of man. Not a cry can be uttered but she presents hersents herself with some one of her nefarious devices. To crown all, she augments the curse of death by burying the dead, and thus making the grave itself a school of improvidence. Nothing can exceed the universality of the horror which these newly discovered atrocities of charity have excited. Quiet old gentlemen, not hitherto supposed to trouble themselves very deeply for the welfare of society, are now loud-tongued alarmists, on the dangers of benevolence. Old ladies, who hated a paradox as much as a burglar, and would almost rather have their houses•broken into than their reasons taken by surprise, zealously propound the sin of giving. At the weekly meeting of district visi tors, the new curate, or the old incumbent (it matters not which), is sure to open his address to his fair co adjutors—" Dear sisters, the great secret of charity is to keep your money in your own pocket. There fore pray don't let's hear of funds. Depend upon it they are quite unnecessary for the purposes of rm en lightened charity." On this point the greatest bigots are liberal, and the liberals are must cei tainly bigoted. Men who hate the whole theory of political economy with a hatred unspeakable, and consider it a most utter and iniquitous delusion, will yet reserve one clause. The one jewel in this toad's eye is the rule of not giving except for an exact equivalent. As we kill a whale for its blubber, a beaver for its fur, a castor for its oil, and the eider duck for its down, throwing away all the rest, so are there thousands who extract from political economy the one precious virtue of capital for capital, and send all the rest to the dogs, or to any other residuary legatee of super fluous remainders that may happen to occur to them. The application of this science is a great experiment, so they will only consent to try it on a cheap ma terial—namely, the poor. To take care of oneself is now the first duty of man. He is the greatest public benefactor who gets on the fastest. Country gentle men, for conscience sake, suffer the labourers on their property to starve, or be turned out of doors, or sent to the union, and feel themselves to be martyrs all the while. Their daughters, who two or three years ago were setting up for so many Sisters of Mercy, now sit quietly at home, and read Miss Martineau. For ourselves, who continue in the old tack, the world is so turned about us, that we hardly know our bearings. Not a day passes but we receive ex postulations at the novel and revolutionary character of doctrines which we should have thought, if any thing, were rather too stale for zealous propagation in these days. It seems that not giving is now become a catholic verity, and we who still cleave to the old poor-law, and other beggarly elements, are now the heretics and innovators. How far the doctrines of the economists are cal culated to supersede the offices of charity, and make a whole nation prosperous and happy, supposing them to be thoroughly carried out, is a question so utterly abstract and conjectural, that we may be excused from entering into it. They cannot be carried out in our very mixed state of society, and with the multi tude of interests and preiudices arrayed against them. We have no more immediate prospect of seeing the whole creed of the economist adopted by the nation, and producing its glorious millenium, than we have of hearing the music of the spheres, or Robert Owen's more rectangular harmonies.. Consider the state of things which the economist supposes—all the elements of society divested of their present stiff and formal character, and melted to perfect fluidity; labour and capital finding their level as quickly as wind and water; every five shillings and every five hours flow ing towards the greater demand as naturally as the surrounding water fills the vacuum you make by drawing a bucket out of the river. The labourer, in this theory, is ready, both by education and circum stances, to scent out and pursue an additional 6d. a week as far and as instantly as a vulture its prey, or a capitalist one-quarter per cent. more than he gets now on equal security. Land, in this theory, is nothing whatever but an investment, with no other use, value, opinion, or fancy connected with it, than shares in a dock or a railroad. None of these con ditions at present hold. Our customs and institutions are stiff and rigid, and so they are likely to remain for ages. We do then protest very strongly against working at once, with all its purity and severity, against the poor man, against even the aged, the orphan, the sick, and the unfortunate, a system the benefits of which they of this generation are certain never to receive. The economist turns round the wheel, and sets his machine in motion. " Don't you see labour flowing towards that capital, and capital meeting that redundaace of labour, and all those other beautiful and profitable combinations ?" If he could put the British isles, with all their living and dead stock, into his machine. doubtless he would be able to master the results. Unfortunately, it is a concrete, actual, solid reality we have to deal with. We must legislate on facts and for facts. The economists are glad of any friend, however in consistent. Ten years ago they made an unholy alliance with the squirearchy to carry the New Poor law, though the two parties have r eall y almost as little community of feeling as Turks and Christians. Nor are they at all anxious to see their system ad vance as a whole. Any part will do. Hence their cruelty. Under their suggestions the p oor man has been stripped of his existing protection, without se curing for him the theoretical substitute. We have taken from him an ancient vested right which to him was hard money, and given him instead a promissory note payable to the n•th generation of his children. At the last meeting of the bench of magistrates at Kingston, seven young men were charged with mis behaviour in the Kingston workhouse, and refusing to perform the work allotted to them, according to the regulations of the establishment, as casual paupers. It appeared that on the previous day the defendants went in a body to the house of the relieving-officer, and stated they were destitute, and demanded relief, upon which he gave them an order of admission to the workhouse. They were there required, before any food was given to them, to break a certain num ber of stones, which they one and all positively re fused to do, upon which they were turned out of the house, without any kind of food or refreshment being given to them. They then, it appeared, went back to the house of the relieving-officer, and again demanded relief, and they were instantly taken into custody, and conveyed by the police before Mr. Row, the Mayor of Kingston. They there excused themselves by saying that they were faint and weak and wanted food, and they did not think that the people at the workhouse had any right to set them to work before they gave them food. The mayor recom ' mended that the men should be admitted into the workhouse, and that food and shelter should be given them for the night, upon the under standing that they should do double the allowance of work the next morning. This was accordingly done, but in the morning the men again refused to work, and they were in consequence given into custody a second time, and brought before Captain Roberts and Mr. Williams, the presiding magistrates at the county bench. The defendants conducted themselves in a very impudent manner, and insisted that they had a right to have food, and that nobody had a right to I compel them to work in the workhouse. The MAGISTRATES said that there appeared to be a determination among persons of the defendants' class to set the workhouse rules at defiance, but they might rely upon it they would find the law too strong for them. They were then sentenced to fourteen days' impri sonment in the House of Correction. The defendants were then removed, laughing at the proposed punish ment, and declaring that they should be as well off in gaol as in the union workhouse. BAD BREAD. " ACCIDENT ON TIIE RIVER. —Yesterday an acci- 1 dent, which was near being attended with the loss of three lives, occurred on the Surrey side of the river, be tween Blackfriars and 'Waterloo bridges, by the upsetting of a punt, in which were three labourers, named Murray, Delany, and Cripps. "The three men were rowing from the slip at Blackfriars- bridge;Ab a raft of timber lying on the river, and upon nearing it, whether through want of caution, or the force of the tide, they struck some of the projecting beams of the raft with the side of the boat, which was instantly upset. , an d the three men precipi tated into the water. Delany and Murray clung to the raft for a considerable time, until they were rescued by \ some f e ll o w-workmen, who , h earin g their cries, hastened to the spot ; but Cripps was less fortunate, for he failed in grasping the raft, and was carried by the force of the \ tide under it. After considerable exertion on the part of those who hurried to the spot on witnessing the acci dent, he was at length got into a boat in an exhausted and almost insensible state, when ho was taken ashore and every attention paid him, but a considerable time elapsed before he could be considered out of danger. The other men escaped with a good ducking only, and were enabled to resume their work after a change of clothes. At a meeting of the members of the Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society, held at their rooms, at the Union Baths, on Monday, Dr. Tripe read an important paper on "Ropy Bread," in the course of which he stated that the state of bread termed " ropy" was generally admitted to depend on the presence of fungi. After promising to write a paper on the subject, he had made numerous inquiries of se veral parties practically interested in the question, but he regretted to say he had found a total ignorance both as to its origin, its true nature, and the best re medy. As to the remedy, it was true that experience had taught bakers that washing, both with lime-wash and plain water, would frequently answer ; but, in spite of these remedies, it frequently continued for weeks, and that to their great loss, and not unfrequently ruin. Recent writers on the subject agreed in attributing the ropy state of bread to the presence of fungi. And they all accounted for the presence ( f fungi on the ground of the quality of the flour, but he (Dr. Tripe) thought it might originate from three causes—that of atmosphere, from yeast, which he thought the main cause, and from the flour. With respect to yeast, he said it appeared, from a micros copic examination of a mass of yeast, that it consists of minute disconnected vesicles, that appear to con stitute one of the simplest forms of vegetation. these, like seeds, may remain for any length of time in an inactive condition without losing their vitality ; but when placed in a fluid in which any kind of sugary matter is contained, they commence vege tating actively, provided the temperature be suffi ciently high, and they assist in producing that change in the composition of the fluid which is known • under the name of fermentation. Having referred to several opinions on fermentation, the Learned Gentleman went on to say, that if a small portion of the fermenting fluid be examined at intervals with a powerful microscope, it is observed that each of the little resides at first contained in it puts forth one or more prolongations, which in time be come new vesicles like their parents. These organs perform the same office, so that in a few hours the single vesicles have developed themselves into rows of five or six. This is not the only way, however, in which they multiply, for sometimes the vesicles burst, and emit a number of minute granules, which are the germs of new plants, and which soon develope themselves into additional cells. By the time that five or six vesicles are formed in each group, the fermentation is sufficiently far advanced for the puposes to which it is to be applied, and measures are then taken to check it, by which the vegetation of the yeast plant is checked. If they could suppose any circumstance to arise by which the vegetation of the yeast was not suspended, or after it was checked and the yeast amalgamated with the flour, for the vegetation again to be active, they would have a sufficient cause for the origin of the fungi in bread. The progress of the disease, as it may be called, in bakehouses from one lot of bread to another were elaborately gone into and pointed out, and instances cited in which its ravages had prevailed to the extent of even ruining the bakers. As a remedy, he suggested ventilation, fumigation with chlorine, and the application of cold instead of hot washing. At the conclusion of the reading of the paper the subject was discussed with considerable ingenuity by the President, Messrs. Markes, Bartlett, Boswarva, Oxiand, Harper, Captain APAdam, and Dr. Tripe, and a Committee was ap pointed to inquire and report upon the subject.— Plymouth Times. DYSART ITARBOUR.—The extreme point of the pier here was partially demolished on Saturday last by the sea, in consequence of the severe easterly gale which continued during the greater part of last week. The harbour has sustained a considerable amount of damage by the gale. The fair way is half shut up by a large mass of broken fragments of stone and rubbish, which it will require considerable expense and labour to remove. —Fife Journal. DEATH OF L ADY MARY Thu.—We have to re cord the demise of Lady Mary Hill, wife of Major-Ge neral Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill, - K.C.8., who expired on Wednesday last, at Turnwood Park, her Ladyship's re sidence in Dorsetshirc. The deceased lady was in her 73d year, and had been previously married to Mr. Mark Davis, of Turnwood, Dorset. CAUTION TO - PROPRIETORS AND VISITORS OF COP. FEE-lIOUSES.—A suspicious - and shabby-looking foreigner, thin and rather elderly, who has been more than sus pected of two or three times abstracting French and other newspapers from various coffee-houses which ho honours with his visits as a customer, succeeded yester day (Tuesday) in getting off quietly with a valuable umbrella, belonging to a gentleman frequenting a house near Regent-street, during his temporary absence in an adjoining room. This person is lame, and has appa rently a cork leg. THE WEATHER.—That ominous bird, "the stormy peterel," is reported to have been seen off the mouth of the Tyne, on Sunday last. It is rarely seen here, save in tempestuous weather. For the last few days the numbers of wild fowl upon the coast, both north and south, have been very great. All these things are indi cations of a severe winter.—Newcastle Journal. LEWES.—The works on the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastiogs Railway have been commenced between Hod shrove and Ashcombe, where large gangs of labourers are set on, who proceed merrily in removing the earth. One day 'last week, Mr. Acton, of this town, was sworn at the Brighton Bench to take charge of the police con nected with the railway. Several policemen were sworn in at the same tisne.—Brighton Guardian. STORNOWAY, OCT. 19.—The brig Mary Wylie, of Kincardine, Wylie, bound for Liverpool from Riga, in making out of ,the harbour of Stornoway on Thursday last, got on shore at the top of high-water, ots a rugged piece of ground. Fortunately the wind was from the north throughout the day ; and in the evening the crew of the revenue cutter Prince of Wales, Captain Oliver, assisted the Captain and crew of the brig in getting her off, for which service they were awarded, by arbiters, 401. After being surveyed, and as it was ascertained that she received no damage, she sailed in two days afterwards. The barque Ma jestic, of Newcastle, from St. John's, for Hull, was driven from the Pentland Firth to the Island of Lewis, and came to anchor in the Broad Bay on Tuesday night, mistaking it in the darkness of the night for the harbour of Stornoway. Fortunately the wind was off the land, and she rode the gale in safety.—Nov. 2. The harvest is now over in the Island of Lewis, and a plentiful crop secured in fine condition. In the early part of October the weather was extremely boisterous, and there wero heavy falls of rain ; but for the last ten, days it has bee* particularly favourable for raising and - housing the potato crops, which is more abundant than it has been for several years past.—Ross-shire Advertiser. T HE SAURY OR SEA PIKE.—We last week no ticed the capture of a few of these fish in the Conon. Since then large numbers have been taken, and it was somewhat amusing to see women with their tucked• up gowns in the water, throwing out the fish. These fish are driven to the beach by the action of the waves, are incapable of motion, o n the receding of the waves, and die immediately they are thrown ashore. At Beaatlys immense numbers have also been taken, and in the Inverness market, as well as here have been sold at the rate of four and five for a penny. Several of the poor have found in them a very bene ficial relief, while the philosophical old women auger a famine from their appearance in our bays.—Ross-shire Advertiser.: There was, we hear, a heavy slip of earth on the Railway on Saturday night, just by the Burgess Hill station. Great activity has been displayed by the Com pany's servants, and the traffic on the line has scarcely been interrupted.—Briyhton Guardian. MANUFACTURES AT PERTII.--We understand that a manufacturing establishment here has taken premises to commence the manufacture of the goods called unions, that is, dresses of cotton and woollen combined by means of power-looms. This is the first attempt at the introduction of steam power to manufactures in this place, and we hope it \\ lit be successful, and lead to an extension of such establishments. The prices of hand-loom weaving have advanced a fraction during the last month, and the , prospect of the winter trad e here is favourable for the workurau.—Perth Courier.