The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice were taken for a carriage airing this morning, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at the Castle in the forenoo❑ from her residence, Progmore Lodge, to :-,ee the Royal Family previous to their departure for Brighton. The Hon. Miss Devereux, Maid of Honour to the Queen, left the Castle yesterday. Colonel Drum mond, Groom in 'Waiting, also left the Castle on a tour. At two o'clock this afternoon their Royal High nesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice, left the Castle, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, in a carriage and four, for the Slough station of the Great Western Railway. The lion. Colonel Grey and Mrs. Brown followed in attendance on the royal children, in another carriage and four. At Slough a special train was in readiness, which Conveyed the illustrious party to the Paddington ter- Ininus, where they arrived soon after three o'clock. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice, went from Paddington, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, in a carriage and fou r . T wo other royal carriages and four followed, the first containing the Hon. Colonel Grey and Mr. brown. The royal party proceeded to the New Cross sta tion, and left by a special train of the Brighton Rail way for the Pavilion at Brighton. The Hon. C. A. Murray, Master of the Household has arrived at Fenton's Hotel on his way to Brighton, to attend the royal family. Deputations, consisting of Mr. J. Parker, M.P., Chairman, and of Mr. Michael Ellison, Mr. Stevenson, and Mr. Tie, on the part of the Sheffield and Man chester Railway Company ; of Mr. Westhead, Chair man of the Birmingham and Manchester Company; of Mr. Aldam, M.P., on the part of the Huddersfield rind Manchester Railway and Canal Company ; of Mr. Tie, Chairman, and Messrs. Shepard and Tyas, Solicitors of the Barnsley Junction Company ; and of Mr. Gainsford, Mr. Fowler, and Mr. Humfrey, on the part of the proposed Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, in connexion with the Sheffield and Man chester Company, attended at the Board of Trade Yesterday, and had a long interview with Mr. Laing and Mr. O'Brien, the joint secretaries of the Railway Department. Afterwards, Mr. Parker, M.P., Mr. Aidam, M.P., Mr. Westhead, Mr. Tie, Mr. Randall, arid Mr. Ire, had an interview with the Earl of ualhousie, at the office of the Board of Trade. Sir James Graham left town on Monday afternoon for Cowes. ' The accounts received in town of the health of Miss Peel continued unfavourable yesterday, both orning and afternoon. The family of Sir Robert Peel, at Drayton Manor, remained in the greatest state of uneasiness and anxiety respecting the state of this young lady. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EAST SURREY RACES —(YESTERDAY.) The St. George's Handicap of 5 sovs. each, two ft. Heats, twice round and a distance. (8 Subs. ; 6 of whom declared.) Mr. Werninck's Patchwork, 5 yrs, 9st, walked over. Free Handicap of 3 soy. each, and 20 added. Heats as above. (7 Subs.) Mr. Hepple's Lady Flora, 6 yrs, Bst sib (Pattison) 1 1 kr. Cook's Molly Mogg, 3 yrs, Bst 21b Mr. Wilson's Dart, 5 yrs, Bst 41b Mr. Werninck's Patchwork, 5 yrs, 9st 41b ...... 0 4 Won easy by three lengths. The Hunters' Stakes of 2 soya. each, with 15 added. Heats, twice round and a distance, over 5 hurdles (7 Subs.) air. Wiltshire's Delusion, aged, lOst (Drewett) 1 1 air. Bladon's Paltemon, 6 yrs, lOst I Ilb Cowderay's Ascot, aged, 9st Mr. P aget ' s B ess , age d, 9 s t 3 0 44 r. Lamb's Donald Caird, aged, lOst 71b 0 0 Won by a length, after a good race. WARWICK RACES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,t7l;rePOitof WatWiclll,acesit; your paPer, Freystop is stated to have run second for the sstle Park Stakes ; whereas in Bell's Life, and Other papers, he appears to have won the race. Will Y°*l oblige me by stating in your next publication which i s correc t, so as t o en a ble me to pay or receive U etSt as the case may be ? I am, Sir, yours respectfully, A SUBSCRIBER TO " THE SUN." Preston, Sept. 9. [The winner of the race was Freystop ; which was atzttcd in our paper of Saturday.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,--Every lover of his species will rejoice that your self, and other influential journalists, are employed in directing attention to the crying evils of mid city burial Pounds and defective drainage of populous districts, as Over present and powerful causes of disease, but not less v 7 s ) t t!llt you now seek to arouse the publie mind to the erectionslmrt of the erection of public baths, for the fre q u ent personal ablutions of the millions. That such for the use of the masses, and that such atten tion to Cleanliness, is extremely desirable, every one will r N °t only would foreigners no longer be able to s p eak °`, us derisively as " A nation wearing clean linen on iltrty skins," but individual, and the general comfort, d oalth, an d h a ppiness, would be largely promoted ; and Oath, the common enemy, would, as regards the public 'e, be pushed from his present proximity, some years Into the distance. Every medical man knows how effectually disease is warded off by strict attention to universal personal clean liness, and also how extensively it is engendered, where filthy habits obtain. As, however, public baths in all our cities and towns, supposing our population intent on having them, will, a nd must, be a work of time ; and as, whenever we can not obtain all the good we desire, we call it wisdom to l eure, or do, all the good we can, suffer me to name and ~ ' e commend, through your columns, a mode of bathing, ° F 3. bath, accessible to all in all places, and equally effi tem with any other mode, both for cleanliness and h ealth, and which when adopted only for a short time, b( -tomes an absolute luxury. I refer to the sponge bath, 1, 11 extensive use with travellers, whose numerous changes forbid almost every other method. The invariable re ti!lt of the daily use of the sponge and cold water is the ' 43 llnuent of the highest possible state of health. It need scarcely be added, that it is a special protec lite from " colds," and is highly curative of rheumatism, ithd other local complaints. The humblest individual may secure the advantages a nd pleasure of this bath, as a sponge with a small vessel 14 water, and four or five minutes of time, are the only te golsites. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. Edinburgh, Sept. 7, 1844. ALLEGED. ROBBERY OF 8,9001. FROM THE BANK ENGLAND.—Considerable sensation has been created Iriereantile circles in the City, by the circulation of a re port that a clerk in one of the departments of the Ink of England has absconded with 8,900/. in sove 'Nu& Our information has been obtained from a re spectable source, and we believe the following particulars, r ucagre though they be, may be relied on:—On Wed • last, the clerk in question asked and obtained le ave of absence for three days ; he ought to have re turned to the Bank yesterday ; but he has not yet made h 1 ,! 4 appearance, nor has any intelligence been heard of u n• Inquiries having been set on foot relative to some ' tr ansactions in his department, the signature to a power t.f attorney to draw 8,9001. has been discovered to be a r ur g 6 q- The forged document was presented on Wed he,sday afternoon by a person having the appearance of a - land steward ; he was paid in notes, but the whole of rcso were subsequently changed for sovereigns, which 'lag placed in strong wooden boxes, were carried to a carriage at the Bank entrance, in which they were de ' Posited, and the apparent " land steward" having en red, it immediately drove off, The name of the clerk, believ e d to be implicated in this serious and daring affair, b 0 4 ,43 been handed to us, but in the meantime we decline ';'; give it p u bli c ity. The gold weighed about four cwt.— . h iPPing Gazette. GOOD JOKE.—At our port, on Monday morning 1 44 1 tliere was a good attendance of shearers, mostly rig • ,t• Thera Was little or no hiring until about seven " 'e lQck, when some witty Irishman, purposely to put a s pur ' into th e f a rmers, caused the town-crier to announce, tuck of drum, the following intimation:—" Wanted 300 men for the railway between Berwick bnd Coeltburnspath—wages 18s." After which a fairish Obtain commenced, and those who were lucky enough to p. masters, were hired at from I Is. to 13s. per week. w as joke, which was only intended for the farmers, 0 , 48 also unprofitable to some of his countrymen not in ti e secret, as they immediately commenced to dispose of their hooks at about one-third of their price, fully ex tect_ting to be instantly engaged for the railway at the Iglier wages of 18s. per week.—Kelso Chronicle. SINGIILLR INCIDENT.—The following singular i l. :cident, ill ustrat i ve o f t h e i ns ti nc t w hich prompts the m: 1 ' 4 1 0 1'0E1 tribe when pressed by dire necessity, to throw 4 Utselves on the protection of man, occurred on the t i _ or ning of Sabbath last. As Mr. George Dippie was b ,l c ulg a. , walk around his garden, he was not a little sur red on observing a small bird suddenly drop down at f eet, fluttering and emitting piercing cries of distress. • most immediately afterwards a hawk, which had been , PlireNit of the little songster, darted downwards in the same directi on , npconseious of or unawed by his pre ae,slice, and struck his foot with considerable violence. ' ln instant the bird of prey was secured, and deprived e" 6l rarer of injuring Its intended victim, which thus 11', 0 i ts ruthless talons, The hawk, now made an a u wi lling captive, was detained in " durance vile," where, ho wever, it did n o t leng survive its disappointment, iwing died inthe course of the evening.—Kelso Chronicle. lai 4 ll4PLA,Tiost or O'CoNNELL.—The Liberals of b r as a uurY doetinined not to be behindhand in cele af Aug the triumph of free discusaion and the assertion e right o f th e people to combine for redress of rrilierances in the liberation of O'Connell and his col tne.nea beting y the final tribunal of appeal. A preliminary has been called for to-morrow (Wednesday) a-- 4111 K. at the Belvidere Tavern, for the purpose of • Public a committee to make arrangements for a c dinner, at which the honest and truly independent electors of the borough of Finsbury shall have an oppor fo,:_tY of expressing their feelings on the important ea t Which has just occurred. LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY. An adjourned Meeting and a Special General Meeting of the Directors and Proprietors of the Lon don and Greenwich Railway, took place yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpose of taking into consideration and determining the propriety of leasing the London and Greenwich Railway Company to the South-Eastern and Dover Railway Company. Shortly after one o'clock, W. SIIADBOLT, Esq., took the chair, and stated the objects of the meeting. At this time, among the Directors and Proprietors pre sent, we noticed Mr. Alderman Hughes, Mr. D. W. Harvey, Mr. Salomans, &c., &c. Mr. D. W. HARVEY then proceeded to read the report of the Committee that had been appointed at the last meeting, that was adjourned to the present day to consider on the propriety of leasing the line. The Committee had proceeded to ascertain the finan cial circumstances of the Company, and they were gratified in stating that the assets of the Company were adequate to all its liabilities, and that a surplus would be left to carry out every proposition into effect, and to pay the interest on their specialty debts. Now the result to which the Committee had come, and the minute of terms arranged between the Direc tors of the London and Greenwich Railway Company and the Committee of Shareholders of that Company and the Directors of the South-Eastern Railway Company, was this : " That a lease for nine hundred and ninety-nine years be granted by the Greenwich Railway Company to the South-Eastern Railway Company, of the Greenwich Railway, and all the works and conveniences connected therewith, at a rent of thirty-six thousand pounds for the first year, to be increased at the rate of one thousand pounds per annum, until it shall reach forty-five thou sand pounds per annum ; such lease to include the land on either side of the railway, varying from twenty-four and a half feet, more or less, to thirty feet, to include all tne land reserved for widening the Greenwich line. " The lease is not to include the surplus land and buildings thereon, belonging to the Greenwich Company, beyond the parcels of land on each side above referred to, which excepted property is mentioned in the margin. " With regard to such surplus or excepted land and buildings, the South-Eastern Company are to be at liberty to purchase the same, or any part of it, at any time previous to 29th September, 1845, either (if the whole be taken) at the gross sum of twenty thousand pounds, or if they should prefer it, or should take a part only, then at a valuation, in the usual way, for the whole or part. " The engines, carriages, stores, and working plant generally, to be taken at a valuation in the usual way. " The lease to commence from the Ist January, 1645, on which day the railway and works shall be delivered to the South-Eastern Company in good working order. " The rent to be payable quarterly, clear of all taxes and deductions, except property or income-tax. " The Greenwich Company to guarantee the South- Eastern Company against all liability in respect to the mortgage bonds and other debts of the Greenwich Com pany. " The above terms to be subject to the ratification of the Shareholders of the two Companies and to the sane tion of Parliament." Now the probable result of this arrangement, if adopted by the meeting, would be, that the first year's dividend would be 7s. 6d., and that it would increase sd. every year until it reached the amount of I Is. 9d., and a fund would also be left to meet all the expenses of future management. Mr. HITCHENS felt much indebted to the Com mittee for the trouble they had taken, but he thought the matter required further consideration. It was clear that Parliament, in any application made to it, would not consider private, but public interests. He thought they ought to wait and see what the proposed West Kent line would do. Mr. GUNTER thought some further negotiations ought to take place upon the subject. Mr. LEVY moved that the meeting should concur in the course proposed by the Committee. Mr. SCRINGCOUR believed that if a proper course had been adopted, the Dover Company would have given them better terms. If that Company amended its offer, they ought to accede to it at once. He thought the meeting should be adjourned for a fort night or so, to see if they would do so. Mr. HAMILTON considered that the present Com pany was in the condition of a garrison that had held out well, and that the moment relief came they were going to surrender. Their terminus was the best in London, and though the terms offered by the Dover line might appear fair and reasonable, he did not think them sufficient. He should, therefore, recom mend the meeting not to confirm the opinion of the Committee. It was against the interests of the public that the whole property should be thrown into the South-Eastern line. He thought the question ought to remain open for other Companies to make an offer. Dr. LEESON seconded the motion of Mr. Levy. He thought the rising of the price of the shares in the market was an evidence that the arrangement pro posed was a beneficial one. lie thought they ought to be careful that the Dover Company did not get disgusted with their arrangements. Mr. WOLITE thought they ought not to reject.the present offer, for if they did, they might depend upon it they would not get it offered again. If they did not confirm what their Directors and the Committee had done, they ought to lose everything. Mr. M‘LauREN saw no equivalent in the present offer. Mr. D. W. HARVEY said that it became them to consider that the only party they could properly deal with was a line in existence. He considered that the objections that had been raised to the report were of such a nature as ought not to be stated, because they would endanger the arrangement. It was impossible to suppose for a moment that, in the present arrange ment, the Greenwich Company had not got the best of the bargain. There could be no doubt their line was going from bad to worse, and as a proof of it he might state, that although they had had one of the finest summers they could possibly be blessed with, while their expenses exceeded 52,3281., their receipts had only been 55,3351., the balance, there fore, in favour of the Company was little more than 3,0001., and something less than ls. 6d. a share. How could they calculate on improving their condition by any other means than increasing the means of com munication ? The arrangement that was proposed was the best that could result from any line. They never would have, by any other means, so much to divide as under the present arrangement. It would be found that by it the Shareholders would receive nearly 4f per cent. In conclusion, he trusted the Proprietors would not be led away from a scheme which he believed was based upon right principles. Mr. MONEY thought they ought to accept an offer which they wore not likely to have again. Mr. MooRE considered that the Proprietors had now an opportunity of making the concern no specu lation, but a safe investment, upon which 4/ per cent. might be obtained. Major NUTT concurred in the adoption of the Re port of the Committee. The CHAIRMAN was about to put the question that the meeting do approve of the report of the Special Committee, and agree therewith, when Mr. G. W. BARNARD moved, as an amendment, that the present was not a fitting time to grant a lease of the Greenwich Railway. Mr. SCRINGCOUR seconded the amendment; Which, upon a show of hands, was lost, and the original motion carried by a large majority. The following resolutions were also agreed to :- Ist. That the report of the Directors, together with the accounts, be approved and adopted, with the exception of the calls relating to the Brighton and to the Croydon Railway Companies respectively. I 2d. That the Directors be authorised to continue the agreement they have entered into with the South- Eastern Railway Company, should they deem it ex pedient. 3d. That the Directors be authorised also to con- tinue the subsisting agreements with the Croydon Railway Company as to tolls, until the completion of the arrangement with the South-Eastern Railway, should they deem it expedient." A vote of thanks was then agreed to, to the special Committee, for their labours. The meeting was then made special, for the purpose of ratifying the arrangement that had been entered into with the South-Eastern Railway Company. Resolutions were proposed and agreed to for that purpose, and also for authorising the Directors to go to Parliament for the purpose of perfecting the pro ceeding. Mr. F. G. HAMILTON trusted the Directors would recommend their servants to the South-Eastern Rail way Company. The CHAIRMAN said they had already done so. The meeting, which was rather a stormy one, broke up at a late hour, the general feeling among the Proprietors appearing to be that the best had been done for their interests. The proceedings of this day virtually put an end to the Greenwich Railway Company. THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—We are happy to state that her 'Majesty the Queen Dowager arrived safely at Witley Court, Worcestershire, on Monday evening, be tween five and six o'clock, where she was warmly greeted by all the most influential inhabitants of the surrounding neighbourhood. EXTENSIVE FIRE AT STRATroan.—About half past two o'clock yesterday morning a fire was discovered making considerable progress in the lower part of the Rose and Crown public-house, near Stratford turnpike. The police, with the utmost difficulty, aroused the family and lodgers, who escaped with only their night clothes. The engine of the parish was soon taken to the spot, but the flames had spread their fury so rapidly that its use was trifling. Shortly afterwards the powerful ones belonging to the London Establishment and West of England Companies arrived, and were ably worked by the firemen and others present, but in vain, as nearly all the stock, furniture, &c., were consumed. The loss is estimated at 600/. _ . We regret to learn that, owing to the state of his health, Dr. Chalmers is under the necessity of re luctantly declining the invitation sent him by the elders and deacons of the Free Church in Glasgow, to address them on the subject of the Sustentation Fula—Guardian. guN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1844. IRELAND. LIBERATION OF THE STATE PRISONERS. (Irons a Correspondent of a Morning Contemporary.) Duaram, SUNDAY, SHPT. B.—This day there was the celebration in the Catholic metropolitan church of high mass, and a Te Deum, in thanksgiving for the liberation from prison of Mr. O'Connell, and those who hare been associated with him in punishment. The fatal course of policy adopted by the party of Sir Robert Peel, both when in opposition, and ever since ' they have constituted the Government, has given them the character of being persecutors of those professing the Catholic religion. Their denunciations of the concessions made by the Whigs when, in accordance with the Reform Bill, they made a few Roman Catholics Members of the Privy Council, their outcry because one or two Catholics had been promoted to the bench by the late GovernnAt, and their attacks upon the Catholic priesthood of this country, prepared the Irish people to regard their acts with suspicion when they attained power. No subsequent conduct on the part of the Tories was calculated to remove that suspicion. On the contrary, their promotion to the bench and the mitre, of the most virulent de nouncers of the creed of the nation, showed that Toryism, as represented by Sir Robert Peel's Go vernment, was still a consistent foe to their faith, and they found that enmity assume the form of a virulent persecution, when it excluded every Catholic from the jury for the trial of Mr. O'Connell. Such being, then, the feelings that animate the Catholic people of Ireland, it cannot be considered as a matter of surprise that they should regard the I recent victory not merely as a political triumph, but estimate it still more as a defeat of the enemies of the Roman Catholic religion. If it were not so looked upon, it is not probable that the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin—one who has carefully abstained from all participation in political movements of any descrip tion—would have given to the ceremonies of this day the sanction of his authority. Up to this time, Dr. Murray has refused taking any part in the repeal agitation. I believe he has even discountenanced it to the utmost of his power. I cannot say that his opinions have. changed on the subject. I should suppose they have not ; but of course, when he ap pears in a proceeding like that which I have just witnessed, it could only be because he regarded it as necessary fer the vindication of a religion that has been assailed, and which it is his prime duty to watch over and protect. How strong the feeling of persecution inflicted on men, because they are Catho lics, is proved when such an individual comes forward to repel it. The fact is one too important, in the present state of Ireland, to be overlooked. It ought to be known in England; but, above all, it ought to be known to those who wield the govern mental powers of England. The manner in which the proceedings of this day were notified to the public was the following : " PONTIFICAL HIGH MASS AND SOLEMN TX DEUM, IN Till MITROPOLITAN CHURCH, ON SUNDAY, THI BTH INSTANT, AT ELEVIN O'CLOCL.—His Grace the Arch bishop will officiate at the Solemn Pontifical High Mass, in thanksgiving to Almighty God for the deliverance of the beloved Liberator of his country, and of his fellow-martyr., from their unjust captivity. The sermon by the Rev. Dr. Miley. The 'Te Deum ' will be chauated immediately after mass. The Libe rator and the other martyrs will be present." The metropolitan church, as the principal Catholic building in this city is called, is a noble temple of the Doric order of architecture, and is sufficiently spacious to accommodate several thousand persons. The front portico, which is very lofty, is raised on an elevated flight of steps, and is formed of six mas sive columns. There are smaller porticos on each of the sides ; a beautiful dome rises in the centre ; and the whole edifice is composed of hewn stone. But if the style of the exterior be classic and severe, that of the interior is still more so, being altogether in the fashion of a Grecian temple. It is divided into three parallel naves, by lines of magnificent columns ; the ceiling is lofty and semi-circular ; and on the outside is a representation of the Ascension, in bas relief. The high altar and tabernacle are of white marble, sculptured in an exquisite style of art. The altar rises at a distance from the east end of the church, in the style of the continental cathedrals ; the space railed in around it is styled the sanctuary, and on the left-hand side of this space was raised a lofty throne, with a crimson canopy, for the Archbishop; whilst on the opposite side , near the foot of the pulpit, were placed chairs cistate for O'Connell and his Catholic fellow-prisoners. Several seats in the immediate vicinity of Mr. O'Connell's chair were oc cupied by the members of his family, whilst all the Catholic families of distinction now in Dublin and its neighbourhood were present. At the time that the religious ceremonies of the day commenced, the scene that presented itself was of a very peculiar description. On the left of the altar sat on his episcopal throne, with his rich mitre, gorgeous robes, and bearing in his hand his burnished pastoral staff, the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin—a venerable, dignified man—the very per sonification of a high priest of an ancient faith ; below him were his attendant priests, and then there stood upon the altar the officiating priest, the Rev. Dr. Laphen, whilst, on a line, two or three steps below him, was the deacon, and two or three steps lower down again, the sub-deacon, and ranged beneath the lowest steps, and fronting the altar, were boys in rich scarlet robes, bearing tapers, the censer, and the other appurtenances suitable to ceremonies of the day. On the right was Mr. O'Connell, his son, and Mr. Ray ; and the other traversers on a raised platform ; and then there were all parts of the church, the organ loft, the recesses even beneath the roof, crowded to the uttermost, whilst the incense ascended, and rich strains of sweet music were chanted forth, amid the pealing of the organ, over which a very clever musician, Mr. Corn, presided. Such a scene was calculated to inspire a stranger with feelings of devotion. What must be its effect, coupled with the occasion on which it originated, upon the minds of the Roman Catholics, every one of whom, by his prayers, was a partici pator in the devotions of the day? The sermon delivered was by the Rev. Dr. Miley, one of the most distinguished preachers of this city. In the course of his addreas, which was a very powerful one, he referred to that day as being a great festival in the Catholic Church, that of " the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin ;" and he observed that coincident with its celebration this remarkable incident had occurred with Mr. O'Connell, and those members of his family, as well as of the other pri soners who were in communion with the Catholic Church, viz., that when all hope from human aid had appeared to be vain when all succour from man might well be despaired of—it had been sug gested to them, by a pious Catholic clergyman, to pray to Heaven, through the intercession of the blessed Virgin, for that justice which it seemed that man was determined to deny to them. The devo tion of the Novena in honour of the Nativity was begun, and the last day upon which it terminated was completed, when Mr. O'Connell and the others were free, but not until then. It was to say the last prayers of thanksgiving—the last prayers appointed by the church—that Mr. O'Connell had returned to the prison, to pass from thence to the car of triumph. The reverend preacher said he did not call this a miracle ; but it was an incident so far beyond human calculation, that one of the solicitors engaged in the cause had said to him, that though he had heard the judgment reversed, had seen men congratulate them selves on the event, and was himself the bearer of the official document, still he could not believe it to be true. The reverend preacher also remarked, that the idea of having those peculiar prayers, for the inter cession of the Virgin, was suggested to the mind of the priest who conducted the devotion by observing that Mr. O'Connell had, in the speech at Tara, noticed that the day was commemorative of " the assumption," that he begged for the prayers of the Virgin to protect the cause in which he was engaged, that being one which had for its object an improvement in the condition of the help less poor, and that used as its only means those that were free from crime of every description, whilst it inculcated respect for the law and loyalty to the Sovereign. The reverend preacher then adverted to other events that were notorious in history, to show, as he said, the coincidence between prayers to the blessed Virgin, and the fulfilment of them, contrary to all human probability. Those portions of the sermon referring to Mr. O'Connell and the state of Ireland produced a great sensation in the church. The religious ceremonies of the day were not ter minated until two o'clock. At that time Mr. O'Con nell left the church, and was accompanied by hundreds on his way home, all testifying by their cheers the delight they felt in seeing him once more restored to liberty. on their triumphant release from an unjust incarcera thn. It was also resolved that the Chamber of Coln merce should be illuminated to celebrate the glorious event. Soon after nightfall thousands of people began to parade the principal streets, carrying lighted tar barrels, and proceeded, in one case, by over sixty women with lighted flambeaux, which they waved in the air, the effect of which was singularly picturesque. Several temperance bands accompanied them, playing national and popular airs, and as they passed each huuse or public edifice which was illuminated they gave several hearty rounds of cheers. The Chamber of Commerce was effectively lighted up, and was filled during the evening with the members and others exchanging cordial congratulations on the event which was thus hastily celebrated. After describing the illuminations the report pro ceeds Until a very late hour the dense crowds continued to parade the streets, and though shouts of triumph and acclamation rent the air, we have the happiness of recording that no outrage or insult to the person, property, or sentiments, religious or political, of any of our fellow-citizens occurred. Well did the people exhibit on that exciting occasion the effect of that moral training which their leaders and friends have shown them the value of. In exhibiting the intensity of their veneration for their illustrious patron and friend, they carefully—scrupulously—abstained from the slightest indications which could be censured by the partisans of any political doctrine. This was as it should be, and as it henceforth ever will be. We have received accounts this morning from several parts of the country, all of which acquaint us with the extacy of the people on the receipt of the intelli gence which restores to liberty the Liberator of mil lions of his countrymen. A respectable correspon dent writing this morning from Mallow says : " On last night Fiddane, Knockaro, Mallow, and the entire of the country, as far as the eye could reach, was brilliantly illuminated. Joy beamed in every countenance for O'Connell's triumph. A meet ing is to be held this day in Mallow to appoint a number of persons to keep order and prevent the least annoyance during the illuminations this even ing —extensive preparations are making for the occa sion in that town." In Bandon the populace carried lighted tar-barrels through the principal streets, and by the most enthu siastic popular demonstrations evinced their partici pation in the general feeling of joy and gladness. The hills all about Cove and for miles in that direction to wards Youghal and along the coast were illumined with bonfires, and the people thronged round them in joyous excitement. PRINCE WILLIAM of PRUSSIA, and theDUKE of WELLINGTON'S VISIT to the PIMLICO SLATE WORKS. This extensive establi s h men t h as b egun to attract amongst the highest quarters the attention which it de serves, and already many of the nobility have given large orders to Mr. Magnus, the proprietor, for various ar ticles of decorative furniture, and for fitting up, on a large scale, of staircases, halls, bath-rooms, apartments, &c. Wednesday last his Royal Highness Prince Wil liam of Prussia and suite, accompanied by the Duke of Wellington, honoured the proprietor of the works with a visit in Upper Beigrave-place. The Prince was much pleased with the numerous and various specimens i n the show-rooms, and expressed his surprise at the ap parently perfect transmutation of simple slate into the most costly marbles and precious slabs of stone. Amongst the articles which excited admiration was a perfect imitation of lapie lazuli, and an enamelled slate billiard-table, similar to one which Mr. Magnus recently made for Strathfieldsaye. His Royal High ness and the Duke of Wellington subsequently ex amined the machinery for sawing, planning, moulding, and polishing slate, all of which are exceedingly curious. They then visited the enamelling houses and the rest of the works, with all of which they were highly gratified. The processes used at this esta blishment are exceedingly interesting, and the re sults are perfect. Slate, a commodity hitherto used for the most common purposes, and but for few of them, is here cut, by means of instruments of great power, into balustrades, tablets, mouldings, mullions, sashes for windows, door-frames, and many other things. It is polished, painted, or stained to represent so closely the most beautiful marbles, that the eye can detect no dif ference between the original and the copy. It is then submitted to the process of enamelling in stoves or heated closets, or furnaces, where it remains for eight days or more, as the necessity may require, and is then polished or finished oil', and, having undergone all this, presents a most splendid and costly appear ance. Thus tables or slabs of Sienna marble, of Negro antiquo, of the verd antique, of lapis lazuli, and of the rarer specimens of Italian and oriental marbles, are produced, which are said to be harder and more durable than real marble, and capable of resisting very great external force. Neither are they affected by heat or frost, and, being perfectly non-absorbent, are of pro digious durability. Some of the enamellings of flowers, animals, landscapes, and so fortb, are very fine as works of art, and will well reward the inspection of the curious. The Duke of Wellington, who has patronized this invention, some time since forwarded with his dispatch to Colonel Malcolm several speci mens of the enamelled slate to Hong-Kong, and large orders for baths and other things have in conse quence been received by the proprietor from that country within the last two months. The slate is principally from Merionethshire, Carnarvonshire, and Cornwall.—From the Times journal of Sept. 9. [lt is a curious coincidence that at the moment so much of deserved praise is properly bestowed on the Pimlico Slate Quarries, that Mr. George Robins should be directed to announce the sale, by public com petition, of the slate quarries in Merionethshire, in North Wales, in which Mr. Magnus, alluded to in the Times report, is so largely interested. It may be called the parent quarry to the one at Pimlico. It is proposed that a company should be established to carry out the peremptory instruc tions of the board of directors ; such a speculation would appear without risk. It is strange, and as Shakspeare would say, "it is passing strange" that at the moment so much interest is excited in respect to the use and great utility of slate, that another quarry is in the market, and is placed also under the controul of Mr. Robins, in Carnarvonshire. It is stated of this that it is the most extensive con cern throughout the empire, and it is said, with ap parently great truth, that it promises a speedy and certain fortune] A POTATO RIOT AT APPLEDORE. We are furnished by a correspondent with some par ticulars of a singular outbreak which occurred at Apple dore about two or three weeks since, we believe on Sa turday, the 17th ult. The origin of the fracas, it appears, was a farmer's wife having boasted, when on her way from Appledore to Bideford, that she bad made a sove reign of a few potatoes, in A ppledore, the week before, and that on the following week she intended to make more. The potato-dealer inquestion, it seems, made the money by selling her potatoes at 14d. per peck; and this ' successful inroad upon the pockets of the Appledorians led to her determination of making even a larger profit on the following week. This circumstance becoming known, the ladies of West Appledore made up their minds to resist the imposition that was to be practised upon them, and having assembled in a very formidable body, they went to the different farmers' wives whe frequented the market, informing them that they had agreed among themselves to give ninepence, and no more, and they vowed vengeance against all who should be induced to exceed that price. Some of the dealers were quickly intimidated into compliance, but others for a time stood firm. What aggravated the case on the part of the dealers was a well-ascertained fact, that they had purchased them in Barnstaple market at 7d., and even 6d. per peck, and endeavoured to make the Appledore people pay them 14d. One of the farmers' wives, we are told, made application to a magistrate in the neighbourhood, who advised her to prevent a dis turbance by selling at the Barnstaple price. A farmer sat on his hamper, in a corner, and swore stoutly that he would not sell for less than Is. per peck, and went to Bideford for the assistance of the police, w'ho told him that if he offered his potatoes at a fair price there would be no riot, and declined to interfere. The women, nothing daunted by the resistance offered to them, took possession of the potatoes, served them out to the public at their own price (9d. per peck) and threw the money into the baskets. One of the inhabitants, with a view of en • forcing order, read part of the Riot Act ; but this was a sort of dead letter to the fair sex of Appledore, and they gained their point. They " served out" the farmer who went to Bideford for the police, by giving him a black eye ; an " old chap," who stuck himself up in a corner in defiance of the fair belligerents, and the pleas ing information communicated to him by one of the party, that unless he " came to" they would lash him to the stern of a boat and tow him from Appledore to In stow. With the fear of such a cooler before his eyes, the old gentleman at length gave way, sold out his pota toes, and put the money in his sack. In the afternoon, to celebrate the victory they had obtained, the Apple dore women had a " grand tea," and , some gentlemen who admired the courage and patriotism they had evinced, supplied them with spirits for the remainder of the day. [All the theory in the world is not equal to experiments of this kind.] North Devon Advertiser. MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE.—On Friday last, as the steam-boat, Waterman No. 7, left Woolwich on her voyage to London, among her passengers was a gentle man respectably attired, and accompanied by a lady. They were observed by the other passengers to be en gaged in an earnest conversation, and the lady appeared very much excited. When the vessel was between Charlton and Woolwich Point, the gentleman gave his walking-stick to the lady, walked deliberately to the stern of the boat, and jumped overboard. The steamer was going at full speed by the flood tide, and made con siderable way before an alarm was given. Mr. W. Phillips, the master, immediately ordered the engines to be reversed, and made every effort to save the unfortu nate man ; but though he was observed to struggle for some time in the water, he ultimately sunk before assist ance reached him. The lady appeared distracted—and as there appeared to be a determination on her part to jump overboard likewise, Mr. Griffiths, a timber-mer chant of Woolwich, watched her closely, and on the arrival of the boat at Blackwall, gave her into the care of a police-constable, who promised to conduct her home. She refused to give either her name or address, or fur nish any particulars with regard to the unfortunate de ceased, mere stating that he was a gentleman residing at Holton New Town. From further information, on in quiry being made at Woolwich, it appears that they were observed walking in a lane in the vicinity of that town, apparently excited, and the lady in tears. The body has not been recovered, although the river in that part has been several times dragged. MEATH or SIR THOMAS TANCRED, BART.—The accounts received from Spa, Belgium, at the close of last week, confirm the account of the death of the above Baronet, wbo expired at that watering-place on the 29th ult., in his 75th year. The deceased was son of the fifth Baronet and Miss Smith, daughter of Mr. Thomas Ash ton Smith, and married in 1805 Miss Crewe, second daughter of the Rev. Obey Crewe, of Muxton, Staf fordshire, who has been dead some years. He succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father in 1782. He is succeeded by Mr. Thomas Tancred, born in MO, and married in 1839 to Miss Selby, youngest daughter of Mr. Prideaux Selby, of Turrell House, Northumberland. DEATH Or THE HON. LADY BROOKE PECRELL.— We have to record the demise of the above lady, who expired, after a short illness, on Friday night, at the family mansion, in Hill-street, Berkeley-square. Her Ladyship, wko was the only surviving daughter of Ro bert Edward, ninth Lord Petre, married, 13th Aril, 1833, Sir Samuel John Brooke Pechell. The families of the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, Lord and Lady Petro, Dowager Lady Petre, Earl and Countess of Arun del and Surrey, Captain and Hon. Mrs. Pechell, Mr. T. and Hon. Mrs. Weld, the Earl and Countess of earner von, Viscount and Viscountess Andover, are placed in mourning by her Ladyship's death. RAILWAY EXCURSION.—The inhabitants of Ports-.. mouth, Gosport, and Southampton, were treated by the South-Western Railway Company to • very cheap trip to the " Great Metropolis" on Monday, in second-class carriages, with the privilege of staying until Thursday. The charge for this trip was Bs. there and back. Tickets were issued at the termini, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday last—a most judicious arrangement , thereb y ascertaining how many carriages would be required, and providing them, thus avoiding the confusio n and disap pointment which has attended several trips on other lines recently. Upwards of 1,000 availed themselves of the favourable opportunity thus afforded of seeing London and its sights. The train, consisting of 23 carriages, and drawn by two engines, left Gosport at half-past nine, and Southampton at ten, most punctually in both cases. On the Gosport train arriving at Bishopstoke, it was found the train was too long to be joined to the Southampton train ; and, after waiting a minute or two, the Gosport train proceeded ahead, and stopping only at Winchester, Basingstoke, and \Yoking, arrived at Vaux hall at half-past one, having performed the journey in most splendid style, satisfying all, disappointing none. THE ATTACK ON MOGADORE. (From a Correspondent of the Times.) GIBRALTAR, AuG. 31.—8 y the packet which left this on the 24th, the authorised French account of the attack on Mogadore was forwarded. The following is the best English account, received partly from an intelligent °nicer oh board Zone of our vessels of war there, and partly from Mr. Willshire, our Vice. Consul, who, with some of his family, was concealed in the town during the attack. Mogadore was bombarded by the French squadron under the command of his Royal Highness the Prince de Juinville on the 15th of August. Hostilities began at nine o'clock A.m., by the Moors firing twenty-one guns before the French had taken up their position, but the fire was not returned until two 'P.m.. The batteries were silenced; the Deputy-Governor and all the Moorish authorities and Moslem inhabitants, with the exception of ten or twelve, having previously fled, leaving the gates open behind them. The liabyles called in for the de fence of the town then commenced breaking open the shops, bazaars, and also the custom-houses, until near midnight, when ;hey fled with their booty, fearing the French would lund early in the morning and take pos session. It is difficult to ascertain the loss of life on the part of the Moors. .The Jemappes, 100 ; Suffren, 90 ; Triton, 80, liners; the Belle Poule, 60, frigate ; and the Pluton, steamer, were the ships engaged on the 15th, with a few brigs. On the 16th the Belle Poule and Asmodee threw se veral shot into the town and island; 900 French were landed on the island in the afternoon, and, after a rude encounter, took possession of it, having some officers wounded and some men killed and wounded. The Kabylea returned on the morning of the 16th in greater force, and, finding the gates shut, threatened to set fire to everything if they were not instantly opened. After some delay this was done, and the rush of the Rubyles through the streets was distinctly heard by those Christians and Jews who were concealed. The merchants' houses were immediately attacked, and flee cries and skrieks of men, women, and children pierced the air in every direction, and were heard by Mr. Willshire and party during the whole day and night. Our Vice-Consul, Mr. Willskire, escaped in a miracu lous manner. His daughters and their governess had previously got on board the Heels, and during the bom bardment were safe on board the Warspite; but Mr. Willshire, his wife, Messrs. Allnut and Lucas, clerks in Mr. Wiltshire's establishment, Mr. Robertson (a mer chant), and his wife and four children were on shore the whole time. Mrs. Wiltshire had four or fire daggers raised to her throat by these wretches, in hopes of extorting money. Tier presence of mind, and her knowledge of the Mo ghrebi dialect, saved her. One of the ruffians seized upon Mr. Robertson's little girl, a pretty child about nine years old, and scratched her arm several times with his dagger, calling out " money " at each stroke. Mr. Robertsoa himself, as he tried to escape, received a sabre cut on the right elbow. After hours of agony and suspence they managed to escape the attention of the Kabyles, who were too intent upon booty, and got to the Waterport about three o'clock in the morning of the 17th. Mr. Lucas had found his way there an hour be fore, and, lashing together three planks, which fortu nately lay at the gate, he paddled himself off to the French brig of war Cassard, then about a mile off. A French boat was immediately sent to their assistance ; and the Prince, made acquainted with their escape, sent them in a steamer to the Warspite. The Moors for two hours fired pretty well, but their best gunner, a Spanish renegade (Omar el Alge), being killed, they became dispirited and abandoned the batte ries. The French fired better than they previously had done at Tangiers • they went in under their fore and mizen topsails, and fired pretty quickly. An old Moor never desertei the Consul's family the whole time; and a Jewess, much attached to the family, abandoned them only to return to those allied to her by the ties of blood. Mr. Wiltshire's house was set on fire the moment he left it ; a large quantity of tea, sugar, English goods, and produce of the country, gum, skins, almonds, 'Etc., was destroyed in the conflagration. Auo. 23.—The Vesuvius arrived off Mazagan at a quarter-past 7 o'clock A.M. The batteries were all manned, and bodies of cavalry were coming into the town from Azimore. Orders had been issued to fire upon any vessel that might approach within range, and it was only by strong remonstrances on the part of Mr. Redman, our Vice-Consul, that the orders wore not obeyed. The Governor would not give permission to the Vice-Consul to come off (there being Custom-house accounts pending), but promised to send him under a strong escort to the Sultan at Rabat, to be disposed of as his Majesty might think proper ; his two brothers were allowed to embark. The Vesuvius has brought from Mogadore Mr. and Mrs. Wiltshire, and four daughters, Miss Archer, Mr. and Mrs. Elton and son, Mr. and Mrs. Robertson and four children, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Allnut, Mr. Levi (a converted jew and missionary), and Mr. Grace ; from Mazagan, the two Messrs. Redman. The French did not enter the town of Mogaclore, but a force landed after the people had abandoned it, at the battery near the Waterport gate, whence they took off 12 brass guns, and rendered useless many others, accord ing to their statement forwarded hence by last packet. A matter yet remaining to be shown to us here, though perhaps cleared up by the French official details which will have reached England ere this, is, if, as has been stated in the French account here, 180 dead bodies were thrown into the sea after the island had been taken, what became of the number of wounded which must have been on the ground ? Whether in open field or an attack against a fortress, the proportion of wounded may be rated at from five to seven times the number killed, and yet, neither from the French accounts from our own ships of war, nor from the Consul's party, has one word Leen mentioned hero about the disposal of wounded Moors ! This omission is the more remarkable on the part of the French, as, according to what may have been seen by their account of the attack which reached this, some details of minor importance were given. One version as to the prisoners here is, that those embarked by the French were persons found in the fortress, having been confined there by the Emperor for political crimes. In reference to the letters from Tangiers published in the Times, the following order was published in the Gib • raliar Chronicle yesterday : " Iler Majesty's steam vessel Vesuvius, at Gibraltar, Aug. 30, 1844. " General Memorandum, No. 157.—Various offensive paragraphs having appeared in some English newspapers with reference to the late proceedings on the coast of Barbary, the attention of the several captains and com manders of her Majesty's ships and vessels under my command, and more especially of the Warspite, is called to the mischief which attends on such unlicensed publi ' cations, written for the most part, as they must be, without accurate knowledge, with false views, and under wrong impressions. " They are directed to impress the minds of those whom they respectively command with a just sense of the evil consequences and mutual ill will they may give rise to between the subjects of her Majesty and those of friendly powers. . . "And, with reference to the 9th Article, sec. 2, chap. 5, page 96, of the Admiralty Instructions, they will call for strict obedience to the directions it contains, assuring those who may transgress herein, that, if discovered, they will be visited by the high displeasure of the Right lion. the Lcrds Commissioners of the Admiralty, and be made responsible in every case for any mischief which arises front the practice. " E. W. C. R. OWEN, Vice-Admiral. " To the respective Captains, Commanders, and Commanding Officers of her Majesty's ships and vessels in the Mediterranean." THE IRISH REPEAL ASSOCIATION. The weekly meeting took place at the Conciliation Hall on Monday, when the crowd was immense. The Lord Mayor was called to the chair, and after some preliminary business, Mr. O'CONNELL addressed the meeting. He announced that Irishmen might now meet •in thousands - and tens of thousands to petition There was no impediment now—by keeping themselves within the law there was nothing to prevent them strengthening themselves by the increase of numbers —by increasing the registries, and pouring petitions into the House of Commons until the table should break beneath the load of complaints of the people of Ireland. He could tell the people of Ireland this fact. When sentence was about to be passed, Perrin, as the junior judge, was first asked what the punishment ought to be. He said, six months' imprisonment. Crampton next said two years. Chief Justice Penne father said two years. Judge Perrin did the best thing in his power, under the circumstances, and agreed to twelve months' imprisonment. Mr. O'Con nell next commented upon the proceedings in the House of Lords. He made a full and ample apology to the Whigs, and promised never to abuse them more. The country, he said, owed them a debt of gratitude for the judges whom they appointed—it was to the Whigs they were indebted for such judges as Lords Denman, and Cottenham, and Campbell— men who never would be on the bench if the Tories continued in power. He concluded by giving notice that on the next day of meeting he would submit the three following subjects to the consideration of the Association : Ist. As to the propriety of holding the Clontarf meeting—his own opinion was not in favour of doing so. 2d. The propriety of forming a preservative society of 300 gentlemen, each one paying 1001. It should not be an initiative body, but correct and control everything of a revolutionary tendency. idly. The impeachment of the Irish Judges and the Attorney-General. The rent was announced to be 5751. 6s. 6d. OTAPIEITE.—The following is an extract from a private letter, dated " Otaheite, April 24, 1844," ad dressed by Mr. Alexander Salmon, resident at Otaheite, to Mr. John Salmon,B6, Piccadilly, London ;—" My dear Father,—l now regret to inform you that there has been an engagement between the French troops and the natives, in which the former have lost 16 killed and about 50 wounded ; and the latter from ISt) to 200 killed, and a great many wounded. You may fancy we are not very easy here; in fact, we .have all our arms cleaned up, and keep watch every night." FIFE RAILWAY.—We have received the last issued prospectus of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway Company. The proposal now made is, that the crossing of the Tay be mad e i mme di ate ly a bove Newburgh, by a swing bridge fro m th e nort h s h ore to the island of Mug drum, where th e navigable channel is only about 400 yards wide at high-water, and 150 at low - water of spring tides. By thi s b r id ge t h e tra i n s will be carried over without the least interruption to the navigation of the river. " The remaining part of the channel of the river (says the prospectus) between Mugdrum and the north shore, b e i ng d ry at low - water , w ill be passed by a causeway or r oa d f orme d on p il es pl ac ed so far apart as not to interfer e w i t h t h e sa l mon fi s hi n gs." By the pro posed changes a reduction of 300,000 L," is calculated on the cost of the railway. We certainly would have wished that the line had 4eu carried from Cupar to Dundee ; but on the completion of the scheme as now agreed to by the . Provisional Committee, we tkink there can hardly be a doubt that a branch from Cupar to Craighead will be immediately contemplated and carried into effect.— Fifeshire Journal. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT—On the forenoon of T 1105.. day, while some boys were employed with a hurley tt Mr. Boyack's mill, North Lindsay-street, Dundee, one 01 them, a lad of about fifteen years of age, got entangled by tke feet, and tumbled into a shallow pond, in the Witness. midst of whi c h i s a deep well for supp l y i ng the b o i ler with water. H av i ng struck his head i n the fall, the boy r o ll e d i nto the well. Ass i stance was imme diately obtained ; but before he could be got, out tea manatee h Edinburgh had elapsed, by which time life was extinct.—. WITCHCRAFT IN 1844.—N0t long since, the resting place of the dead, at Phillack, near Halle, was made the scene of transactions which would have blackened the darkest ignorance of bygone ages. It appears that several persons who are afflicted with disease, and who, for want of moral courage, would not submit to the directions of their medical advisers, very readily caught hold of and applied every nostrum that gossips made known. Experience proving that the boasted remedies were of no avail, their imaginations were put to the utmost stretch, in order might avoid the only method by which they c tha ou t ld they be cured. Fortunately, a blazing light shot across their darkened way, and their gloomy reflec tions were dissipated by its brilliancy. It was a revelation ; and they denounced their ignorance, be cause they did not sooner find out the cause of their malady. To believe that they were ill-wished was only the work of a moment, but to discover a person who could break the spell was not so easily accomplished. Every thought and action was centered in attaining their darling object. Finally, their wish was consummated, and a scatterer of witch -spells stalked forth from Hel ston, to whom they disclosed every incident of their lives, fraught witk uncertainty as tending to good or evil. The day was chosen, the dreadful hour of midnight fixed, and the abode of the silent clod of all that once was living was named as the place of assignation. The hour drew near, but their purpose be came known from the impulse of their ecstasies, and their stealthy actions were closely watc h e d. Th e asked for fee was immediately g i ven , and after T s i lenc e heii thewas enjoined, th e churchyard was scaled. spell-breaker commenced the mys teries of his art, by making mysterious sounds and performing mysterious actions, as he walked over the dead, hotly pressed by his frightened dupes. Having walked many times around the church, the doors and w indows opened and shut at his bidding. Then be command e d them to remain open, and as they passe wi d in succession, h e b rought the persona who ha ol broken and dissolved, ed them to thei r f ace. Thus the spell was and a faith given that their cure d be speedily e ff ected. S ome days have s i nce elapsed, and eith er thei r faith has failed, or the witch spell is not bro ken, for their disease still maintains its ground, the effect of a visibl e cause.— IVest Briton. DEER STALKING. -- A splendid s t ag , w ith th e were w d u ii largest horns we have seen this season, was shot some days since by Mr. Chearnley, at Auchnahault. The first bullet which was fired hit the deer at th e b ase o f o ne of his horns, completely . separating it from the head. The next ball killed him inst antaneously. The noble forest ranger weighed up wards of twenty stonesA length of antlers, thirty-two inches ; span, twenty-seven inches, the top branches c u r vin g inwards to sixteen inches ; girth of a ntlers, seven inches. At M oney , H. W. Whit e , Eqo deer ; and at Guisachan, Mr. Fletcher killed two fine stags. Sir 11. Melif o at Dun- dri n d Mr . Boulderson , at Erchlaii; have added some fine heads, with i n the last week, t o th e ir collec tions:-..de yaws , Courier. n s a , and a r. with. B roo ke, had t wo days five de f fortunate stalk- ig returning HERIOT'S HosrlTAL.—The monthly meeting of the Governors was held on Thursday —the Lord Provost in the chair. A letter was read from Mr. Crosbie, teacher of the school in 13othwick's-close, High-street, resigning the appointment. It was resolved to advertise for can didates. The Property Committee reported the result of their negotiations with the Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railway for the disposal of the ground required by that Company for the Leith Branch Railway. The Governors approved of the Committee's refusal of the offer made,, and re-committed the matter with instruc tions to dispose of the ground on the same terms as had been agreed upon in the case of the Cemetery Company. —Edinburgh Paper. REJOICINGS IN CORK. (From the Southern Reporter.) Under any circumstances that have arisen to call forth popular enthusiasm in Ireland, we have never witnessed so intense and earnest an expression of pub lic feeling as this city presented, from the hour at which the news of the decision of the House of Lords arrived yesterday, to a late hour last night. Within a few minutes after the intelligence was received by the coach—having been specially marked on the way bill in Dublin, by Mr. Charles Bianconi, and its ac curacy confirmed by the signature of that patriotic gentleman—it was promulgated through every street, lane, and alley; and anxious thousands of every sex and age instantly abandoned their usual occupations, and thronged into Patrick-street, towards the Cham ber of Commerce, and the newspaper offices, for the purpose of satisfying themselves that the account was true. A requisition was, at a moment's notice, drawn up, and signed by all the influential and respectable citizens, requesting the mayor to convene a meeting on an early day, for the-purpose of voting a congratu , latory ad4ess to Mr." 0 Connell and fellow-patriots ARUNDEL YACHT CLUB. The sailing match amongst the fast yachts belonging to this highly-respectable club, for a very handsome silver cup and cover, came off yesterday between Wool wich and Greenwich, T. Haines, Esq., the commodore of the club, who has done much for its advancement, being the dcnor. The following had been entered:— Hazard, 6 tons, Messrs. Ackbourne and T. Charles, red with white dice ; Bermudian Maid, 7 tons, Mr. H. Bailes, red over white ; Halcyon, 7 tons, Mr. H. Bai les, blue and white stripes ; Dauntless, 7 tons, Mr. T. Ed- wards, blue with red cross. The commodore's cutter moved to the starting place off the upper end of the town of Greenwich at a little after twelve, and having seen all in readiness, Mr. Haines gave the signal at twenty-five minutes past twelve. The Dauntless took the lead in very good style, and held it until the second round, when the slight wind died off, and the little fleet became becalmed. The Hazard then took the lead, and won the race at twenty minutes after seven, the Halcyon being second, and the Dauntless third. The 'weather was ill adapted for a race of this de scription. Lord Stanley has already issued his farewell address to the electors of North Lancashire, and several indi viduals have been named as likely to claim the honour which he has relinquished. It was at first confidently asserted that R. Townley Parker, Esq., had determined to come forward in the Tory interest. As Mr. Parker has considerable influence amongst the Catholics of the northern districts of this county , i t was generally be lieved that the Tories had, with their usual adroitness, resolved upon bringing that influence into operation. It appears, however, that Mr. Parker has given place to Mr. T. Clifton, son of T. Clifton, Esq., of Lytham Hall, a connexion, we understand, of the Lowther family, and one who is likely to be anything but a favourite with the Catholics, as he abjured their faith some years ago, and is now uttached to the evangelical Church party. W e have not hoard of any movement on the part of the Liberals, for, to use the words of a writer in the Man chester Guardian—" It is a matter of general observa tion, that his Lordship' s vacation of his seat at this mo- ' party, as m ent is, at all events, judiciously timed for his the election will take place under the regi s t er of las t year. Had his acceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds been a few weeks later his successor might scarcely have Since the above wreasali%se,rdittheins, w L e or h d a s v h e ip s 's ee a n nt m ie r ip . a c ti l o if n to s.; s a ddress, an ill written composition, of the most commonplace order, both as regards ideas and ex wofully against the well-balanc ed yt placed contrasts n t e S i r s e a y s n s a d i u o n v n t i i g n o g r l ous periods of Lord Stanley, with which juxtaposition. Mr. Clifton makes the usual promises to attend to all interests and t o do good to everybody. Of course he will "con s id er it a paramount duty to main tain our institutions in Church and State ;" a phrase that is kept stereotyped in every Tory printing-office could scarcely escape string of equalla• writer of Mr. Clifton's calibre. In a y t rite clap-traps, which wa forbear to copy, he promises to support the Tory Government. We have not learned on what day the election is to take place ; but, as Mr. Clifton declares so short a period will elapse that he will not have time to make a regular can vass, we presume matters are to be pushed forward as rapidly as possible.—Liverpool Albion. Towards the memorial to the late Earl of Lonsdale upwards of 7001. has been subscribed. LITERATURE. WESTMINSTER REVIEW. A'o. Clarke, London, 1844. The most remarkable article in the present Num ber, is the one which is very properly placed first ; it is on the subject of " Railway Administration and Improvement," and is full of most sanguine specula tions as to th© immense advantages that will accrue to humanity from the spread of these wonderful improvements. The Reviewer justly remarks that the railway serves to unite both mind and matter, and to draw the ends of the earth together, and that it is its office to perfect the civilization which the Press has commenced. " Coningsby" is a notice of Mr. D'lsraeli's most popular work of fiction ; it is written in a highly eulogistic strain, though, a s might be expected, there are many points in which th e Reviewer differs widely from the Reviewed. On one point, however, their opinions are marvellously in ac , cordance with each other. Both acknowledge that the machinery of the Reform Bill has utterly failed ; and the former, more especially—who, we need not say, is a Radical—expresses his decided opinion that the kind of Government which this Bill has secured, in telligent minority, neither that of the maj o rity nor of the minority, but that it has placed power in the hands of the venal. There is some truth in this observa tion, but it certainly is not true to the extent which the Reviewer would fain have his readers be lieve it is. The Reform Bill has done a world of good, if in nothing more than in having overthrown the corrupt influence of the boroughmongers, and brought the House of Commons more in harmony with the character of th e C ons tit u tion ; but it un questionably is not a fi na l measure , and—notwith standing the perverse notion of one of the Whig chiefs—could never have been seriously intended us such. The " Prize Comedy" is a caustic notice of Mrs. Gore's unfortunate play of Quid Pro Quo, which the author denounces as a trashy abortion, and observes that it is far more remarkable for flippant vulgarity than for sterling wit or humour. As we have neither seen nor read the comedy, we cannot of course presume to pronounce an opinion on its merits, but if we may judge from the extracts quoted by the Reviewer, we should be tempted to say that it was at best but a so-so production. " Charles James, Bishop of London," professes to be a temperate and impartial esti mate of the character of this bustling Prelate. The article is clearly the production of one who has at tentively studied the peculiarities of the character which he pourtrays, and his judgment, therefore, however unfavourable, cannot but be received with respect. The Bishop, he says, " gives us the impres sion of being a man of small mind, of feeble powers of thought, contracted sympathies, mean aims, and a most slippery public morality. He has talent with. out a doubt—talent to become Bishop of London— talent to get new churches built, and cathedral sine cures cut up into benefices for e pi scopa l patronage ; but of any of the higher mental qualities, we see not a trace at any period of his life." We quote the following eloquent and emphatic passage from the article on railways God made the country, and man made the town.' And now that man bath practically annihilated both time and space, by the spirit within him that bath taught his right hand the cunning whereby he may achieve his escape from darkness into light, let the country once more be devoted to God's uses for the many, instead of being confined to the few. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. The words of God's mouth are written on mountain and moor, on heath and hill, on wood and forest, brook and river, ocean and sea. They who would blot out the face of nature and make ' the whole land artificial, would destroy one of man's noblest faculties, the power of appreciating nature. They would destroy God's handwriting, and substitute for it artificial signs. We hope, we trust, we believe, that this shall not come to pass. We trust that the wild lands of England, the Mount Horebs of the soil, the spots that nature hath made difficult of cultivation, as though she had said, " these are reserved" the wild gardens cf the poor man, in which the purple heath and the yellow gorse flourish self planted—the old forest patches, the Charts and the Commons, the Combes and the Hurats, the wildernesses of the land—we trust that the rich man's plough shall never pass over these, the poor man's inheritance. Up and be doing, ministers of religion ! Plant your cross in such places, and shadow them with your protection. Not as the head of the Church—he of Canterbury—bath done—enclosing a poor man's common for a private park, but shutting out for ever the spoilers of Naboth's vineyard. Proclaim that the high places and wild places are set apart for the worship of nature's God, and build ye your temples at their entrances, for the seasons when the rains of heaven shall fall, and a wintry sky require artificial warmth. " The great work is nearly wrought, the problem solved, whereby the natural man and the cultivated man may become one, whereby the city may be rescued from its squalor, and field and forest from their ignorance. The yearning for this has always existed in men's minds. People confined to towns by their daily avocations placed their children at school in country air—when they possessed pecuniary means—excepting the strange, anomalies of Westminster school, and similar establish ments. The poor were fain to be content with the day school, or the parish school—free air was too great a luxury for them. The church, the chapel, the lecture room, the concert-morn, the theatre, wero all reared in impure places, and their uses confined to the inhabitants of towns. All this is within remedy, as the uses of the railway become developed. The poor man can have his accessible country dwelling. Churches and chapels may be reared in beautiful spots at the confluence of lines of' railway—temples worthy of man's nature, where man may meet man in Christian equality, where all benign influences may be at work, attracting but not com pelling, where architecture, music, and painting —the beautiful in art, may combine with the beautiful in na ture. When the promoters of religion shall work by the aid of nature, instead of striving to counteract her, when they shall enable the working-classes to pluck wild flowers, as well as " ears of corn on the Sabbath day," when they shall make for them a healthy and pleasant path to the temple ; then will the temple be thronged with voluntary worshippers, and hypocrites shall cease in the land." IMPORTATION OF SPIRITS IN BOTTLES.—A diver sity of practice having prevailed in the mode of ascer taining the quantity of spirits in bottles, the same being computed at certain of the outports at the rate of six reputed quart bottles to the gallon, and in London by actual measurement of one bottle out of each case ; the Commissioners of Customs have deemed it expedient to extend to the eutports the regulations of their minute of August, 1839, which directs with respect to spirits which are chargeable with duty according to the strength thereof, that the bottles in each case be counted, and that one bottle of each size from every case be sent to the room appropriated to the trial of the strength of spirits for measurement ; but as regards other spirits and cordials, when the bottles are of the same size, the glass, and description of glass, that one bottle in every three cases be measured, excepting Maraschino, and with respect to that article, that one bottle only in every five cases is to be measured. Copies of this order have been furnished to the officers at the several departments n London, and to the collectors and controllers at all the outports of the kingdom, for their information and government. POLICE VIGILANCE.—On Friday night, Sergeant John Gunn observed a female hurriedly leaving a noto rious house in West Register-street, and suspecting all was not right, followed at a distance, until he got the assistance of one of his men, and apprehended her in St. Andrew's-square. He found in her hand notes and sovereigns to the amount of 406, and on being ques• tioned as to how she got possession of it, she said she " didna ken" where she got it. After lodging her in the police-office, he proceeded to the house in ques tion, and apprehended other three women on suspicion, but could get no trace of the person who had lost th e money. However, about nine o'clock on Saturday morn ing, M‘Levie, the officer, was cent for by a gentleman, who stated that he had been robbed of a considerable sum of money the night previous in West Register street, and described the money. The officer i nv ited bit s to the police-office, where, to his asto nishment, Lieute nant Id‘Lellan produced the cas h, which wa s imme to quell u diately identified. The who le of the p risoners were re mitted to a higher court. — C aledonian Mercur y. Doves, Ia st n i ght r ing t h e p woreeent for r i i cl iar o l f to t n h , e"4l storm Dover. police-officers .—u a serious disturbance w hic h had occurred, and m ur d er S er. the 9 9 .—During in a noted house in Paper - alley, C Upon the officers arrival they found the neighbourhood in the utmost alarm, expecting for hours previously that murder would ensue. The house was and prize-fighters. The police occupied by sweeps were requested to go l a to preserve the peace ; on th e i r im mediately attacked by th e wholeentrance they were gang. The police were only two in number, Samu e l Couchman and Smith ; the latter was soon knocked down, and upon Couch man coming to his assistance he was immediately surrounded, struck , kicked, and -stamped upon. At length one of the ruffians, named Thomas Clarke, a prize-fighter, handle of a broom, to which a piece of iron was attached at the end, and struck poor Crouchman with the greatest fury across the bridge of the nose, which lacerated it and the cheeks in the most frightful manner. He never I spoke afterwards, and having breathed a short time, fell dead. He had been some months in the police, and served upwards of twenty-six years in the Royal Ma rines, on board her Majesty's ship Thetis and other men of-war ; had obtained the silver medal for twenty-two years' good conduct, and a medal for his services at St. Jean d'Acre. 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