The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-13 00:00:00

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"I rste s ie magot of e th „lerg ds, , l ' o c p 't Ay or in ' f oci' floating an i tlaY, th e tend f r a aif' e esty a n 411 V lotion re' e ty h' U r, P,A set _ ,.. „ 6 ° in ow — , tb e cool blie tes e h er ptl OW 0 0 The oP • , )lu l, e t F A an d 0 : l olls h and bee' at t °ll)c oft et t q u fot / , O ut k be . r ; el l 40 ° , 1 : e t roya tO os sible ttl et SCO#ojill 0 the ion i% SbiPr i be stea rye s r, .be 1 ,ers• 1 4 b e ' drall tOriA by out id the tbe )u nedi' or Let) o . _ OO ,O he • bet t left f' :en a c or, 10 ,..tet ie d Ygi e bP e o 'r e Pueetej SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. The close of the town betting, on the St. Leg.i>r drew a full attendance, and led to two or three " movements" of some interest, but, except that to all appearance it dis- Po,ed of Bay Momus, failed to show up the real Simon tire of Scott's stable. Ithuriel, the leading favourite of this Powerful lot, maintained the position assigned him to 11 - last town quotation, and was backed for a consi derable sum. Valerian, at the commencement, was supported freely at 7 to 1, and the same odds were taken, but not with so much spirit, at the close. The Princess began at 8 to 1, receded to 10 to 1, betted to about 150/., Came again, and, after a large outlay, left off at 7 to 1, „ ta ken. The Cure was not backed for much money, but 'role the first to the last was steady at the odds re- Ported. Red Deer fluctuated between 6 and 7to 1, and Is oig-a-ballagh, who, on Monday, appeared to have re ceived his coup de grace, was in great request, leaving off ,st an improvement of five points ; he is expected to reach 4i Reamerthis day. Closin g Yorkshire Handicap rnd Derby betting was flat. 'i°sing prices : ST. LEGER. 5 to 4 agst Scott's lot 3 to 1 agat Mr. Sa'yin's The Cure—taken and after. off. 4 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Ithuriel—taken 7 to I agst Colonel Anson's The Princess—taken 7 to I agat Duke of Richmond's Red Deer—taken 7 to 1 agst Mr. Vane's Valerian 12 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Foig-a-ballagh—taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's Bay Momus 30 to 1 agat Mr. Meiklam's Godfrey 40 to 1 agst Mr. J. Ilampson's Lightning—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Milton. GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. 4 to 1 agat Mr. Irwin's Mickey Free—taken 7 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Ashtead Pet 8 to 1 agst Sir C. Monck's Glossy 8 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Rowena 8 to 1 agst Mr. John Day's Artful Dodger 10 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Advice—taken. THE DERBY. 15 to 1 on the field 33 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Black Prince 40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Twig—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Mouche colt—taken 4 00 to 50 agst four Touchstone colts—taken. ABINGDON RACES—WEDNESDAY. T he Marcharn Park Stakes of 35 soya. each, with 40 added, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared ; the second saves his stakes. Two miles. kr. Wreford's Franchise, 5 yrs (West) 1 Sir. Hook's Una, 6 yrs 2 kr. Herbert's Ajax, 6 yrs.... / tr. Thornton's Pine Apple, 4 yrs The follo w i ng were no t pl ace d : —Si r S. Sp r y' s Sub- Ue• r, 4 yrs—Mr. J. Dixon's Glendower, 4 yrs—Mr. Yse's Jack Cade, 3 yrs—Mr. M. Sadler's New Forest r, 3 yrs. 4 he Berkshire Handicap of 10 sovs. each, h ft, and 15 added ; winner to be sold for 801. Heats, about a , mile and a h a lf. , 4 r- Etwall' s V e n a t r i x , 4 yr s (Pettit) 1 1 1r- Southby's Brenna, 4 yrs 2 2 I' l. . Palmer nd Preistnitz, aged lr. V ernon nd Egypta, 5 yrs I The Scott' s The Whaler, 4 yrs 0 0 'he Pusey Horn Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 20 added, for three-yrs-old 7st ; 4 yrs, Bst 31b ; 5 yrs, Bst I Ilb ; 6 yrs, 9st Ilb ; and aged, 9st 41b. Winner to be sold Nmiles. I , i l i r- F. Clarke's Arcanus, 5 yrs (Sly) I ai r. J Jack Cade, 3 yrs " i r. J. Day's fby Bubastes, out of Zelinda, 3 yrs...bolted LICHFIELD RACES—WEDNESDAY. a ir- of 10 sovs. each, with 20 added. T. Y. C. Sker ra tt' a Si s:er t o Lydi a , 2 y rs (A r th ur ) I ' t r- A. W. Hill's Salopian, 2 yrs -s lr- Copeland's Assay, 3 yrs :the Sweepstakes of 3 soya. each and 20 added, one atie, were won in two heats by Mr. Holford's Pickwick, ged (Stagg), beating Mr. Flintoff's The Rhine, 4 yrs, and Mr. J. Eyke's Heads or Tails, 4 yrs. ), The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats, two miles. t i r'. Denham's Harriet, 3 yrs (Denman) 1 1 r- Sker ra tt' s I n t re pid, 3 y rs ( V. Flintoff's The Exciseman, 4 yrs r. Wilson's The Disowned, 4 yrs o -4 c weepstakes of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added, winner i oe Sold for 2001., gentlemen riders, two miles, were won ptwo heats bv Mr. Shirley's Nonsuch, 5 yrs (Captain eti l), beating Tainworth, 6 31.4. The LEICESTER RACES.—WEDNISDAT. Ile Leicestershire Handicap of 25 sm. each, 15 ft, and 5 Only if declared, with 75 added. Twice round and % distance. k r • -1) . Cook's What, 4 yrs (Hutchinson) 1 r • lierrington's Fath e r Math ew 2 The following also started, but were not placed : —Mr. k:ehe n ame d P r i sc ill a T om b oy , 5 yrs —M r T o k e ' s Er angardis, 6 yrs—Mr. Wesley's Counsellor, 5 yrs—and Ongley's Roderick, 5 yrs. Swe epstakes of 5 son. each, with 40 added. Heats, fir, p , once round and in. ingley's Seaweed, 3 yrs (C rouc h) 2 1 1 i t r A3rown's Village Lass. 5 yrs 3 2 d r I. * 1 . Cook's What, 4 yrs ..... 1 dr 111 E OFFICE OF CHAMBERLAIN. th - resterday p u t an en d t o th e a ff a i r d e nominated e contest for the office of Chamberlain of the City of ' o ndon. At four o'clock the poll-books were closed, and a minute or two afterwards the following numbers Were Vaned on the poll-boards : Brown . .. 2,319 lleppel . 67 "ere was a greater number of' persons present ~P°l -1 the closing of the poll-books than we have wit 4,es. . the ''e vr 4l i sinc e the day of nomination, in the body of "ad, and upon the hustings. hi Alderman B R O WN s t oo d forward amidst loud ap ''ause- The contest, he said, if contest it could he I t alled, f or the office of Chamberlain, having terminated, becam e his duty to express to the Livery his warm est thank s f or the support wh i ch he had rece i ved. T he sta te of the p o ll p re tty correc tly ex pl a i ne d h ow mat i)trs sto o d, b ut t h e Sh er iff wou ld on S aturday have to thrforrn the duty of making an official declaration of e 'numbers, and he should then avail himself of the PPortunity of expressing at greater length the obli liati°ns he felt himself un der t o tho se w h o h a d come o nw ard in his f avou r. lie begged to be permitted h Bl 3' one - word of entreaty to those he had the hi "our to address, and one word of admonition to He would first say, that if he had uttered a Cable which had given the least pain to any one, trusted it would be forgiven and forgotten._ .i ! t. tear, h ear. ) li e h a d b een l ong b e f ore t h e L i very. 4 „“ e Y well k new th a t h e h a d b een a c ti ng w ith a p ar t y , 1 7d that he had alwas acted conscientiously. lie now a stronger party man than ever, and the party he acknowledged was the Livery of iVadon a n d th e i r r i g ht s an d pr i v il eges .—(Ch eers. ) tb e hoped by hi s f u t ure con d uc t t o s h ow th e e l ec t ors , h af he was d eep l y i mpresse d w ith th e i mportant h 4 racter of the trust they confided to him, and that th was determined to do all in his power to prove ‘ lie merited their confidence and good Opinion— hear)—and he had no less expectation that his Cure eff or t s wou ld mee t w ith a d egree o f i n d u l gence, equate to that which had been extended ce to m in the lik,rf'runance of the du by the offi in hi which he " (1 alread serveis fellow-ctizens.--Cheers.) :\lr, Iter y em, th d en h i came forward amids ( t loud cheers i n : l f some disapprobation. He appeared, he said, as a eated, but he trusted not as a disgraced, candidate (C heers)--and his first duty was to return his ? I , l ' a feful th an k s f or th e suppor t w hi c h h e h a d rece i ve d to ° ," 11 th e 67 i n d epen d ent men w h o h a d come forward 4 ) [ 'ear testimony to the soundness of th e p r i nc ipl es which he contended.—(Laughter and cheers.) Vlad not one word of objection t o u r ge aga i ns t th e ii ' 9 Liverymen who had polled for Alderm an B rown . to was bound in justice to say that they had polled th lis eientiously ; and he had not a word to say as to f ord large nu m b ers o f th e Li ver y w h o h a d no t come ard to vote f o r th e Alderm an .— hear, hear.) 1e of the pri nc ipl es u po n w hi c h h e came forward as , 411 didate was, that he had often heard it stated that th ere were good grounds for putting in nomination for A °nice of Chamberlain one of the Livery themselves. volle.)ther principle which he had frequently heard ad ti.,,,,c'fed with eulogium was, that somebody should 1 , - " ai '-'ark in the contest for the office who had neither 1 4 , 1 ' agents nor committees, but who would rely to the simple statement of his claims, and proceed ( t , l 'ne election without canvassing the constituency.— h e ears.) There was another principle upon which 4n s tarted, and t o w hi c h h e a tt ac h e d no sma ll import see. The Alder man h a d, i n hi s s p eec h es an d hi s p o i v • er fisements, held forth that the contest was not a ii ' t final one , an d h e was r i g ht , f or th e accomplish ti,,enf of his own purpo ses , i n ma ki ng s u c h a declare -4,41' All the Alctsrman's Committee, and all those Came forward prominently to support the Alder t„(4l, we re t a k en a l mos t exclusively from that party 44., _ \ ‘'hich he was notoriously attached.—(Loud cries of CO,"to and " Yes, yes.") It was only necessary a lo ok over the list of the Committee to be s r i v 'need that such was the fact.—(Cheers t', 4 . disapprobation.) The Alderman was, there e() e 4 right i n pu bli c ly d ec l ar i ng th a t th e lie h it was not a political one, for while t ra l?ad th e whole of his own party with hi m h e mu- It,' s ed the other.—(Cries of "No," and "Yes.") t ests with Mr. Harvey in thinkin g , th a t con f,ei? of this kind must partake of political and party and he said so, considering that for many h ar f ; past no politi ca l movem e n t o f an y consequence ''en place in which he had not participated.— s t4 e 'lr, hea r .) H e h a d a r i g ht t h en to expect, t h at a q : n gst th e ran k s o f th ose w i t h w h om h e h a d 14, the re s h ou l d h ave b een a stronger sympathy his and views th an th e y h a d manifested.—(Cheers plain i saPprobation.) So far he had rea son t o cm 114tia those w ith w h om h e h a d p o liti ca ll y ac t e d. h„ d 4 ,' 3 esides the large and general class of which he h ad Just spoken, there was an elite set of men who of tt ° ll those hustings been in the habit of speaking Ald a n rpations and corruptions of the Court of Pal e usu •—(Applause, groans, and hisses.) He ap- I s ,,, r ed to Alderman Brown himself, whether there h a ll n ot men who were accustomed both in that coitusnd in an adjoining Court (the Court of Common 14,4 l) to attack the Court of Aldermen, ttsu rr , a `,ense that body of corruption, and Wh el ' af 'on, at stated periods ?—( Hear.) Now, of 4, were those loud declaimers against the Court ue rmen, who boisterouslyasserted that the liber ss,,,4laorld privilege s of Liverymen were at stake, and be utterly uP° '4 l, if a restraint were not placed the conduct of ost that Court ?—(Cheers.) He ould put it to Alderman Brown whether he had not fairly st e I facts.—(Cheers.) He had now, he con sidered, mule good the grounds of the conduct he had pursued. Ile could assure the Livery that he had I not the slightest disposition to renew the experiment. —(Laughter.) But he would, at the same time, assure them that he did not regret that he had made the experimens.—(Cheers and disapprobation.) If any fueling of acrimony had arisen, he was sure that the rich reward which the Alderman received at the hands of the Livery had by that time obliterated it; and for himself he would say, that the Alderman's elevation was looked upon by him without a tinge of envy.--(Cheers.) The Alderman's portly appearance and ruddy complexion in Heated a promise of a long course of enjoyment of the blessings to which he had attained; and if a wish of his (Mr. Hep , pet's) could have the effect of abridging that enjoyment a single day, he solemnly declared that he would not gise utterance to it.—(Loud cheers fol llowed the speech, which evidently made a most favourable impression upon the assembly.) Mr. AMBROSE MOORE said he rejoiced in the good feeling, so honourable to both parties, which pre vailed, and in speaking against the policy on w hich Mr. Heppel had come forward, he begged to state that he did not accuse him of any improper feeling, but he certainly charged him with gross want of judgment. Mr. Heppel had stated that he came for ward to advocate some great principle—to vindicate the privileges of the Livery—a more unfortunate vin dication had never been heard. Mr. Heppel first argued, in defence of his position, that the Court of Aldermen ought not to be allowed to dictate to the Livery. Now, how had they dictated ? It was a per fectly well understood principle that the Court of Aldermen never assumed any principle of the kind, and that every member of the Livery had an un doubted right to offer himself as a candidate.—(Here there was an evident disinclination among several persons in the body of the Hall to hear Mr. Moore) He begged to know whether the Livery would agree to the doctrine that the Aldermen should be disqualified as a candidate for the office ? If a:man served them faithfully for forty years, was that a reason for preventing him from offering himself for the suffrages of those who were aware of his services and his qualifications ? Mr. Heppel had said he was determined to try what he could do without a com mittee or paid agents. How far he had conducted those principles appeared from his 67 upon the poll.—(Laughter.) In vindicating what were considered great principles, it was necessary to put forward some capable person, some individual worthy of the confidence of more than 67 brother Liverymen—(Laughter.) He did not mean to offer the least objection to the character of Mr. Heppe], whom he knew to he a most respectable and honour able man, but he certainly did not look upon Mr. Heppel as an eligible person for the office of Cham berlain. In fact, so far from supporting the princi ple upon which Mr. Heppel had set out, he had rivettcd the principle in favour of the Alderman, if any such principle existed.—(Hear, hear, and loud disapprobation.) While Mr. Heppel could reckon but 67 supporters, Alderman Brown presented an instance of unexampled unanimity of choice. Al derman Humphery, who was eligible in every respect, was induced, by his knowledge of the position in which Alderman Brown stood, to forego any contest, but Mr. Heppel had thought proper to place himself in opposition, and had certainly, by doing so, acted in a manner extremely discreditable to his judgment. Mr. WINDUS presented himself to the Livery, to say a few words relative to his friend Mr. William Ward, who had represented the City of London with such high character in Parliament. He congratulated Alderman Brown upon his success, at the same time that he gave credit to Mr. Heppel for breaking through a line which it was necessary to sever, for there could be no doubt that the Aldermen ought not to be allowed to calculate upon making the office of Chamberlain their office.—(Cheers.) He did not know that he could name a man whose qualifications for the office were superior to those which Mr. Ward possessed. He had devoted a great part of his time to the service of his country, and had been returned to two Parliaments by the very body which elected to the office of Chamberlain, tha - t office which, notwithstanding all that had been uttered of the ar duousness of its duties, presented the otium cum dig - nitate to the individual who was fortunate enough to obtain it, and which certainly ought to be the reward of one whose services could not be mere matter of opinion or question. Little JACK ROBINSON, the Liveryman, who has been so actively engaged during the seven clays' ima ginary contest in amusing the multitude, here cried out, " Why, old fellow, that's extraneous." Mr. WINDus resumed—Explain it! I will explain it.—(Great laughter.) JACK ROBINSON-111 speak in plainer language to you. Extraneous means, that it has nothing at all to do with the question ; in fact, that you know nothing at all about it.—(Laughter.) Mr. Wltanus resumed—He had read a most erro neous account of the severity of the duties of Cham berlain of London ; one account stated that they were equal to the duties of a judge. JACK ROBINSON—Cut it short. My friend Brown is going to perform the duties, and will to our satis faction, if they were ten times as great as the duties of a judge. What's a judge ?—(Great laughter.) Mr. WtNnus declared that, whenever a Chamber lain fell into sickness or death, the duties were just as well performed as if he was in the full enjoyment of health. JACK ROBINSON—And why not ? That's the beauty of it.—(Laughter.) Mr. WINDUS begged the Livery to look at the office of Chamberlain during the illness of Sir Wil liam Heygafe. JACK llonissoN—Well, but have you anything to say against my friend Alderman Brown ? the ticket.—(Laughter.) He don't mean to be ill ; and if he should fall sick, why, we'll do the business, that's all. Very hard if some of us a'n't capable. Mr. WINDUS, without any further noticing Mr. Jack Robinson, said he strongly admired the conduct of Mr. Heppel in driving a wedge JACK RontstsoN—What do you mean by that ? Had he got a hold of your head ?—(Roars of laughter.) Here the crowd called aloud for Mr. D. W. Harvey, who appeared upon the hustings with several other gentlemen who have been long in the habit of ad dressing the Livery. It was understood, however, that the great speech-making day will be Saturday, and it was intimated that on that day a great deal of interesting matter would be discussed. Mr. JACK ROBINSON was at length introduced to the hustings, amidst roars of laughter and shouts of applause. He said he was glad to have that oppor tunity, at the side of his friend Alderman Brown, of addressing his brother Liverymen. He had been brought up at Christ's Hospital, and he was by trade a blacksmith, and if his brother Liverymen heard him make any mistakes in grammar no people ought mere readily to excuse him.—(Laughter.) lie re juiced to say that he had had the opportunity of ex ercising his franchise, and he had exercised it fear lessly. He had advocated his friend Brown, and had recorded his name as Jack Robinson, the black smith, in the poll-book for him, spontaneously, and without fee or reward.—(Cheers and laughter.) Had his friend Daniel Whittle Harvey maintained his post, he would have supported that same Daniel Whittle llarvey in preference to anybody, and in defiance of anybody ; but as the contest was re nounced in that quarter, he went over to Alderman Humphery—(Laughter)—no, it was to Sir John Key he went then. Well, Sir John Key gave it up, and he met his friend John Humphery, and told him what he had been doing for Key. So John said to him, " Well, now you must come over and work for me"—(Great laughter)—so to work he went, but at last the business was left between two of them, and, then he had to choose between the two, and accord ingly he selected his friend Alderman Brown, and brought him in triumphantly.—(Great laughter.) The Hall was then adjourned until Saturday, when the numbers will be officially declared. THE DIRECT LONDON AND PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY. ATMOSPHERIC LINE. A numerous and influential meeting of the Provi sional Committee was held on Wednesday, at the offices of the Company, No. 15, Parliament-street, Among those present were the Hon. J. C. Carnegie, Vice-Admiral Sir J. A. Ommaney, Sir James Stir ling, Captain Cornwall, R.N., Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, the Chairman ; Mr. F. Roberts, Deputy-Chairman ; and Mr. B. _Baines, Mr. C. S. Crowley, and Mr. J. Lawrie, Directors of the Croydon Company; Mr. 11. Allen, and Mr. Hoskins, of Portsmouth; Mr. G. Baker, ('f North Chapel ; the Rev. F. Ford, Mr. J. R. Greiz, and Mr. R. P. Pritchard, of Liphook ; Mr. F. B. S. Wilder, of Godalming, and several other influential members of the Committee. Mr. W. A. Wilkinson was, on the motion of Sir J. Ommaney, unanimously called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN said, gentlemen were perhaps aware that it was while the Croydon Company were progressing through Parliament with their Epsom Bill, that the Directors were first invited to promote a direct line from Portsmouth to join the Epsom and Croydon Railway. There could be no doubt that a line extending eighteen miles out of London, and having a station at London-bridge, and another at the 137icklayers' Arms, must afford very great facili ties to any line that might choose to join it from any district with which it was in direct communication. It had appeared to the Directors that with their sys tem of proportionate tolls, and the great advantages he had just mentioned, they were in a position to offer such inducetnents as to afford a preference to any line that sought to join their railway.—(Hear, hear.) Indeed, the Directors could not but think that the facilities to be afforded to a direct Portsmouth line by the Croydon and Epsom Railway, in addition to the latter consenting to forego any toll on the traffic THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13 , X 844. to be brought by the projected Company, till the Proprietors of it received four per cent. on their capital, gave them (the Directors of the Croydon and Epsom Company), as well as the promoters of the undertaking, a position which no other Company could pretend to assume. lie should observe that the present meeting had been called for the purpose of appointing a Board of Direction for carrying out the project of the direct Portsmouth line. With re spect to that Board, it had been deemed right to select for nomination to it several gentlemen who were con nected with the proposed Chatham and Portsmouth line, others who were interested in the Portsmouth line, and several of the Directors of the Croydon line. The fact that the proposed direct line to Portsmouth was to be an atmospheric one had rendered it desir able that gentlemen connected with the Croydon and Epsom line should be among the Directors, and for the reason that they had given their most anxious at tention to the atmospheric system, and several of those interested in that railway would be nominated. Sir J. OMMANET wished to know what steps had been taken to ascertain how far the atmospheric line about to be laid down was likely to succeed ? The CHAIRMAN said, that for the success of the at mospheric system, they depended on the satisfactory trial that had been made of it at Dalkey. The Direc tors of the Croydon and Epsom line considered that the mechanical difficulties of the atmospheric system, such as they were, had been overcome. As to the commercial part of the system, that they must try. They were most sanguine, and he thought he might take upon himself t.) say reasonably so, as to its re sults in that point of view. They had examined the working of the line at Dalkey, and the result they had arrived at was the conviction that the atmo spheric railway, when once laid down, might be worked at about half the expense of a locomotive line. They would permit him to say that a rail way traffic was a mode of carrying a large number of persons (and it was only by a large number of per sons it could be successfully carried out) at a smaller charge, and with greater rapidity, than they were carried by the ordinary modes of conveyance. It was by the atmospheric system that this desirable plan could be most effectively secured, for though there might be a comparatively larger outlay at first, the traffic could be carried on more economically and greater facilities afforded, than by the locomotive system. One of the Committee inquired whether the pro jectors of the line had been before the Board of Trade? The CHAIRMAN said they had laid the Chatham line before the Board of Trade, and in doing so they had connected with it this undertaking, as one which was at that time projected; but so large a number of shares had been subscribed for the direct Ports mouth line, that he hoped they would in a few days be in a position to go before that Board.—(Cheers.) The project had taken a strong hold of the public mind, and, in short, everybody now saw that this was the line to Portsmouth, and as such it was spoken of. He also perceived that the atmospheric system was now coming strongly and prominently before the attention of the public. The South Delon line, fifty-two miles in length, was to be worked on this system, and contracts for that purpose had been entered into with the representatives of the atmos pheric patent. They knew, too, that the Directors of the Great Western Railway had gone to Ireland, where they were to meet Mr. Brunel, for the purpose (as we understood) of inspecting the working of the atmospheric line. The promoters of the direct Ports mouth line depended much on their adoption of this principle for the success which they hoped to obtain ; they thought it affording the means of putting them selves in advantageous competition with any parties who might oppose the line. Sir J. OMMANET said the explanations that had been afforded by the Chairman were so satisfactory, and the advantages to be derived from the adoption of the atmospheric principle so manifest, that he had great pleasure in moving—" That a railway from Portsmouth to join the Epsom Railway at Epsom, to he worked upon the atmospheric principle of traction, will, in the opinion of this meeting, afford a materi ally shorter, cheaper, quicker, and better mode of conveyance between the metropolis and Portsea, Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, and the Channel Islands, than at present exists.' Mr. C. S. CROWLRY seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN said Mr. Samuda, one of the pa tentees of the atmospheric system, had just entered the room. He was sure that gentleman would feel great pleasure in answering any questions that might be put to him. Mr. W. Cubitt, one of their engineers, was also present, and would give any information touching upon the general features of the proposed line. Mr. W. CIIBITT, in answer to a question from Sir J. Stirling, said he had gone over the line, and was able to state there were no obstacles that could be called difficulties upon it. Sir J. STIRLING would offer two or three observa tions on the communication this railway offered to the Government in a naval and military point of view. The two great forts of England, Chatham, and Portsmouth, would, by the proposed line to Chatham, be closely connected, and the Government would be enabled with facility, and great advantage, to make one garrison serve for the defence of both places in the time of war; it must, therefore, be a great object with the Government to promote such a line. As to the importance of the railway in naval matters, it was only necessary to say that Ports mouth must ever be the great naval station of this country, except in the case of a war with the northern nations of Europe, including Holland. In this case the ri ver wou ld b ecome t h e position requiring defence, and as in a military, so in a naval point of view, the proposed line would afford the Government the means of transferring men from one point to the other. Again, this line proposed to connect Ports mouth with the great military arsenal of Woolwich. This, he conceived, would be sufficient to induce Go vernment to give all reasonable countenance to the undertaking. Deptford must also be included in this view of the proposed line. The adoption of the atmospheric principle for this line would ap pear to promise very great advantages, amongst not the least of which was the rapidity with which almost any number of men might be dispatched from one end of the railway to the other. With these opinions, he begged to propose—" That such a line, being in immediate communication with the projected London and Chatham and Chat ham and Portsmouth Junction Railway, as well as with the Greenwich Railway to Deptford, the great national object of uniting by a continuous line of railway the three important naval and military sta tions of Chatham, Deptford, and Portsmouth, will be materially promoted." Mr. LLOYD seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. ALLEN, seconded by Mr. PRITCHARD, it was resolved—" That such a line will at the same time afford the advantages of a railway communication with the metropolis to a large and important district of country between Epsom and Portsmouth." The Hon. J. C. CARNEGIE, in rising to move the next resolution, expressed his conviction that the pro posed line would have an excellent traffic. The line would go through a portion of the Government plan tations, the oaks in which were comparatively almost useless from the fact of there being no means of con veyance within 12 miles. He then proposed—" That whilst a railway from Epsom to Portsmouth will thus afford such great public advantages, it will in the opinion of this meeting command a greatly increased traffic between the metropolis and the districts of Surrey, Sussex, and Hants, through which it will pass, and between London and Portsea, Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, the port of Havre, and the Channel Islands, sufficient to afford an amply remunerative return for the capital expended." The CHAIRMAN said he would here observe that he was sure they all felt there could be but one direct line to Portsmouth—(Hear)—and if they were to take this project up seriously, as he hoped they would —(Hear)—it was as necessary for them to oppose any other line as to support their own. They did not like to be brought into opposition with others, but if parties would oppose them, they (the promoters of the direct line) must take all the advantage which the superior character of this line, as well as its being first in the field, gave them. When they (the pro moters of the direct line) went to Portsmouth, the other day, there had been no direct line to that place proposed. Gentlemen in that town were then, cer tainly, ready to support a line from Brighton, in pre ference to one from the South-Eastern ; but he be lieved there could not be two opinions about this, that had any direct line been proposed, there would not have been any debate about either a Brighton or a South-Eastern line to Portsmouth. Mr. ROBERTS having seconded the motion, Mr. HOSKINS (of Portsmouth) said there had re cently been a strong demonstration made at Ports mouth in favour of a line from Brighton and Chiches ter to Portsmouth, in opposition to that which the in habitants considered would not he so beneficial to Portsmouth—viz., a line from the South-Western; but had the now projected direct line been known—had the probability of it been contemplated for a motnent —there were parties at Portsmouth who would at once have come forward to promote it in preference to either of the other projects. He was satisfied that of these 2,500 persons whose names *ere attached to the requisition for that line, nine •tenths of them would have preferred the direct line. This line was now before the inhabitants of Portsmouth, and everybody said it was the line that would best suit the wants of the town. As between the two lines already adverted to, the people of Portsmouth sup ported the one from Brighton by way of Chichester in opposition to the South-Western one ; but now that a direct line was offered to them, they at once preferred it. The resolution was then carried. A resolution appointing the Directors, having been carried unanimously, and a vote of thank,' given to the Chairman, the meeting broke up. LITERATURE. ARTHUR ARUNDEL. 3 Vols. Colburn, London, 1844. We have here another of the numerous tales that have appeared within the last ten or a dozen years on the subject of the English Revolution of 1688, which —as Mr. Horace Smith, the author, ustly observes— has been panegyrized by historians much too highly, when they have applied to it the term " glorious." The tale is exceedingly fertile in point of incident, and is far superior to the author's first and best known work, " Brambletye House," inasmuch as there is less of an ambitious straining after effect; and the various personages of the narrative are introduced with more skill, and made to play their parts with more propriety. One of the most entertaining chap ters in the work is that which gives an account of Arthur Arundel's visit to France ; where he meets with the Grande Monarque at Versailles, and is introduced to the celebrated Madame de Maintenon—that maud lin and consummate hypocrite, of whom, however— as we gather from one or two passing remarks—Mr. Horace Smith seems to entertain a very favourable opinion. TALES OF THE CAMP AND CABINET. 2 Vols. .Newby, London, 1844. We should have guessed this work to be the produc tion of a military man, and one, too, who has seen much service, even had not the name of the author— Colonel Montmorency Tucker—appeared on the title page, for the tales, for the most part, have reference to military matters, and exhibit a minute acquaint ance with the subject, which no unprofessional man could have displayed with so much ease and readiness. The narrations contained in the volumes are supposed to be related by a party of veteran officers of different nations, who are in the daily habit of meeting each other in the reading-rooms of the city of Nice, and who, as they become better acquainted, resolve on establishing a club among themselves, " for the sole purpose," says the author in his introduction, " of intercourse and amusement, and of beguiling away the time in anecdotes of their lives, military adventures, and tales, either of the camp or cabinet." The stories, generally speaking, are written, with spirit and judg ment, and with an unassumingness of manner that at once conciliates the reader's good opinion. The first is the best, and gives a graphic sketch of the career of the notorious Spanish Guerilla Chief, Cabrera, which bears every appearance of strict authenticity. YOUNG IRELAND. " Erin ! an exile bequeaths thee his blessing, Land of my forefathers ! Erin go bragh ! It cannot be matter for surprise that any English Minister should confess Ireland to be his chief diffi culty so long as the Executive continue to counte nance modes of administration subservient to expe diency, and, therefore, inimical to just and disinte rested principles—a petty species of Government, that, in its most successful hour, is merely calculated to bestow temporary and shallow benefit. That mea sures for Irish relief, framed in a friendly spirit, have occasionally emanated from the British Senate it would be both unfair and unwise to deny; but, neverthe less, they have been uniformly conceded as hard wrung boons to party clamour, rather than bestowed on the nation as her right. The consequence has been that the factious and discontented have, in each in stance, eagerly availed themselves of the ungracious ness of the givers as a pea to militate against the value of the gifts. Speeches have been spoken_ pamphlets written—meetings convened, productive of no happier results than adverse individuals forcing each other to eat dirt—whilst the great bulk of the populace, for whom these wordy wars are ostenta tiously waged, derive from them neither moral nor physical advantages. It is but little to the purpose that Mr. So-and-So rise "to advert to various Irish penal enactments," , :ar " dwell u p on severa l facts in Irish history, and then sit down again ; it may be unsuggestive of any better remedy for these grievances than constant subscriptions to precursor or repeal clubs. The whole social body needs amendment, and it is not by eu logising the shadowy glories of 011 am Fodhah, or execrating Saxon misrule, that this can be effected ; neither will the tranquillity of Ireland be perfected through the misrepresenting fulminations that some times disgrace the Orange press and Orange dinners. " You hear of our case as in a dream, but feel not the smart of suffering that we endure," was the retort of the Geraldine to Cardinal Wolsey, and it is worthy of the deepest consideration that the complaints of the great Earl of Kildare, in Henry the Eighth's reign. were but the prolonged echoes of previous centuries of woe, whose vibrations extend, with little variation, even to our own times. Such lengthened discontents —such reiterated complaints—may well appal the stoutest mind as to the possibility of finding a Hercules to cleanse such Augean heaps ; but in truth it is beyond the power of any one man, or any one set of measures, however firmly and judiciously benevolent, to eradicate these long and deeply-rooted shoots of evil. All Ireland must bestir itself—high and low, rich and poor. Protestant and Catholic must, to render it effectual, unite in the sublime work of national regeneration, and immolating on the altar of patriotism their long-cherished vulgar pre judices ; their mutual rage, fear, and hatred, join hand-in-hand to annihilate that demoniacal party spirit which has transmuted the historical annal , of their country into the record of one vast and prolonged faction fight. Let Irishmen remember those men who pretend that the grievances of their native land may he best cancelled by inspir ing excitable lih s and ignorant peasantry with hatred o name—let them remember that domestic discord first summo ne d th e E ng li s h to th e i r s h ores , and through domesti c di scor d was the union finally ce mented. Engl an d h as h a d muc h t o answer for— much of neglectf u l i n j ust i ce an d oppress i ve pecula tion—butt she is not the only guilty one,: nor has Ireland even been the innocent victim that some of her so-called patriots would represent her. Na tions are like individuals ; their faults and follies should be alluded to with tenderness, and never save with the cordial hope of amendment. Flatter them, and they become self-sufficient and reckless ; degrade them in their own estimation, and they sink into sullen apathy, or are goaded into passionate irritation. Poor Ireland has suffered alternately from both treat ments: now surfeited with a "too-high flavoured bowl" o f flattery by the one side, and anon by the other insulted with vilifying suspicions. Well might she sa y," Save me from my friends, and I will take care o f my enemies !" But through the long list of her woes history confirms the sad truth that her worst enemies have ever sprung from her own bosom, and that the truculent ranks of an Anglo-Irish faction, rather than the English people at large, have contained her most relentless oppressors. Without diving into remote periods, the proof of this fact may be clearly deduced from the events during, or subsequent to, the late Rebellion, when the coercive measures adopted by the Irish Cabinet were, Lord Clare openly asserted in the House of Lords, " to his knowledge, extorted from the nobleman who governed that country." But a truce to these old grievances— a truce to the humbling exposition of party frailty— let " rascally Papists " and " bloody Orangemen " cease to bandy derisive and insolent epithets ; let them become less eager in the expression of their mistrust ful opinions ; more anxious to co-operate in plans for the general good, regardless from whom these plans mayemanate, provided they be good, and more certain benefit will accrue to their country than in agitating for a native Parliament, or aspersing the Catholic hierarchy. The results of a repeal of the:union, until it be granted, must be problematical ; it may certainly be productive of remedial measures, and again it may furnish but a more imposing arena for the renewal of political squabbles—a licensed board on which to display sordid desires and petty jealousies. Are the men of the present day wiser ) stronger, more honest and tincempromising, than those who heard the sublime apostrophe, " Ireland is now a nation, and bowing to her august presence, I say,Fisto perpelua ?" Yet scarcely had these words died on the ears of a free native Parliament, ere it commenced signing its own death-warrant. Scarcely had the almost superhuman exertions of the illustrious Grattan been crowned by success, ere he had to mourn over the ingratitude and unworthiness of those An' whom he had so long strh'en. nut though the succ ess of repeal to the dis passionate must remain doubtful, there are measures open to the pursuit of every friend of Ireland, whose success, be they but adopted with " a single eye" to patriotic philanthropy, cannot admit of a doubt. With the undeveloped resources of a fruitful land re maining to be opened—with the poor to be supplied with work—the ignorant to be instructed—there is surely a fair and wide field spread for labour, in which the best, the noblest, the most highly-gifted, might cancur for the happiest results. There are bogs to be drained, waste lands to be improved, canals to be dug, railroads constructed, manufactures improved. Why, in the name of common sense, not expend a por tion of " riot" and patriotic energy in promoting such means of progress ? How much can be effected through small beginnings, but with honest persever ance, the establishments of Mr. Bianconi amply testify, by whom many hundreds are daily employed in fur thering the increase of traffic and social intercourse. if the chivalrous motto of ancient France, " Fais le Bien advienne que pourra, fail to awaken the public mind, will the insinuating whispers of self-interest prove equally abortive ? Irishmen, it is for your interest, regardless of rank or creed, to adopt such measures; your green isle needs not an agitation— scarcely now, thank God, a Liberator—but she is most lamentably in want of an unprejudiced Pacificator. AN OLD HIBERNIAN. CEICKET.—On Wednesday a I llatcllwhieh created much interest was played at the Copenhagen ground, Islington, between 1 i players of the Islington Albion Club and 22 players of the Islington Junior Club. The 22 players took their innings first, and scored 110 runs. The 11 players then went in, and obtained 112 runs, thus beating their 22 opponents by two runt. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Earl and Countess of Arundel and Surrey, in Chesham-place, from Arundel Castle; the Hon. Mrs. G. A. Cravan, at the Grosvenor Hotel, Park-street; Lord Seymour, M. P., in Spring Gardens; Gomersal, Esq., and Mrs. Gomersal, and Miss Jones, at the Caven dish Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Italy; the Earl of March, from the Duke of Richmond's, Gordon Castle, N. B.; Earl and Countess Cadogan and the Ladies Cadogan, at Queensberry House, Piceadill7; Mansfield Forbes, Esq., and Miss Forbes, at Nelson a Hotel, Great Port- N.nd-place, from Aberdeen ; the Misses Sutton, at ditto, from Birmingham ; Mr. and Mrs. White, at ditto, from Reading ; T. Watson, Esq., at ditto, from Havannah ; S. Richards, Esq., at ditto ; M. Koudriaffsky, from a visit to Count Nesselrode, at the York Hotel, Brighton; Mr. Wombwell, from the George Hotel, Portsmouth ; Baron de Talleyrand, at Manchester House; Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., from a tour ; Schwabey, Esq., and Mrs. Schwabey, at Fenton's Hotel ; John S. Harford, Esq., M.P., at the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street, St. James's, from Blaise Castle, Bristol. DEPARTURES. The Hon. A. Willoughby, from the Terrace, Picca dilly, for Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire; Mr. Denny, Enniskillen Dragoons ' from th e C aven di s h H ote l, Jer rnyn-street ; the Earl and Countess of Egremont and slise Stevens, on a cruise in the Jeannette yacht ; Lord A. Lennox, M.P. to assume the comman d o f the 72c1 Highlanders, at liuttevant ; Lord Loftus, for the Albion Hotel, at Brighton ; Sir F. Nicholson, R N., from Wil liam-street, Knightsbridge, for Cowes, Isle of Wight ; Lord Foley and the Hon. Miss Foley, from Grosvenor- Square. on a visit to Mr. and Lady C. Sanford, at Nyne head Court, Somerset ; Norton Knatchbull, Esq., from the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, for Provender Hall, near Ashford ; Lady Selina Needham, for Brighton ; Captain Clifford, on a visiting tour in the north ; Mr. R. Neville, on a visit to Mr. and Lady Caroline Sandford, at Nynehead Court, Somerset ; Lord and Lady Bean mont, on a tour ; Mr. Attwood, M.P., for the Marine parade, Brighton ; Robert Fox, Esq., and Mrs. Fox. from Nelson's Hotel, Great Portland-place, for Wen lover, Bucks ; J. Jackson, Esq., and family from ditto, for St. Maloes ; Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Brand, on a visit to Lord and Lady Dacre, at the Hoo, near Welwyn, Herts ; General and Mrs. Wood, for Bath ; the Honourable C. A. Murray, from Fenton's Hotel, for the Royal Pavilion, at Brighton ; Sir A. and Lady ClitTord and family, from Eaton-square, for the Isle of Wight ; Captain Ormsby, Ist Royale, for Bath ; the Earl of Lonsdale, from Carlton-terrace, for Paris ; the Hon. Hanbury Tracy, for Bath • G. B. Farnham, M.P., fo r Quorndon Hall, Leicesters hire ; the Dowager Countess Ashburnham, from Eaton-square, for Southwood Villa, Ramsgate ; Captain Nias, R.N., for Portsmouth ; Count and Countess de Bouvet, on a visiting tour in Wales ; Major-General Morri on, M.P., for Greenfield. ! undertaking I have been warned, entreated, and dis suaded by my farming friends, who protested that a profitable return for such an enormous expenditure was impossible. My calculations, however, were made, and mere assertions without facts and figures weighed nothing with me." This is business-like in a farmer. And it may now be worth while to inquire who this farmer is. It is not a new thing to find that a man who has been bred in trade makes the - best farmer. This is another instance of it. This agricultural reformer of Tip tree Hall, in Essex, is a tradesman from Leadenhall , street, in the City of London ; no other than Mr. Mechi, of the magic razor-strop. The tenant who occupied Tiptree before Mr. Mechi bought the land is still upon it. I shall hereafter mention some particulars of their bargain. He looked with amazement and dread at Mr. Mechis first proceedings; but he is long since convinced that they are sound, practicable, and profitable. Mr. Mechi says, after stating the benefit to the crops :—" In a moral and social point of view, these improvements have acted beneficially. They have excited the energies of the tenant an d hi s l a b ourers, stimulating them to think, compare, and improve. They have awakened the curiosity of the neighbour ing farmers, who are watching the result, and al ready have they caused many undertakings in drain age, which otherwise would not have been thought of." He adds :—" Had I invested my money in the funds, there would have been an end of the matter; but now I have the satisfaction of having fulfilled a public duty (without injury to myself), by calling into action, temporarily and permanently, a consider able amount of labour. I conceive that the highest order of charity, which, by providing employment to the willing labourer, confers a favour unseen, and leaves uncompromised (his most valuable privilege) his self-dependence." Mr. Mechi says he may be asked, what can a Lon doner know about farming ? If so, he is prepared to answer that he has been always fond of the country, and has been a close observer of the condition of agri culture. "I have seen," he says, "one farmer making a fortune, and his next neighbour losing one : I have „seen one field all corn, and another nearly all weeds." And, concluding for the present, so say I. It is the weedy field and weedy farm whose occupier calls most lustily for protection. But Mr. Mechi is one of those who know how to make agriculture protect itself. —League. IRISH WASTE LAND IMPROVE MENT SOCIETY. (From the Mining Journal.) This society, whose successful progress we have watched and recorded with so much pleasure, as one among the various practical measures for the ame liorati In of the peasantry of Ireland, was established in 1836, under the auspices of the Earl of Devon, as Chairman, for the reclamation of the waste lands of that country; great caution has been exercised in all the progressive steps ; the estates are held on leases of ninety-nine years, at a low rent, averaging less than 2s. per acre, and the plan adopted was not to speculate in farming, as at Pobble O'Keefe or King William Town a costly experiment, which has acted as a salutary check—but to relet the whole on allotments of from ten to twenty-five acres, on leases generally of thirty-one years, at rents rising gra dually from 4s. to 10s. per acre; main drains and roads being made by the society, who also assist the tenants with timber, when needed, to build their houses. A small mountain tract was first taken from Sir Johnjßurke, of Marble Hill, in Galway; another in Limerick followed ; a third of considerable extent in Sligo, highly favourable for reclamation ; and in 1841 a wild district in Connemara, along the shores of Kilkerrin Bay, comprising 9,500 acres, was added to their estates, making together upwards of 16,000 acres, which hava become the property of, and placed in productive culture by, the society, whilst the calls have amounted to only 81. per share upon 501. shares, BALLINAKIL.—On the 12th ult., the Earl of Devon, Sir R. Ferguson, and Mr. Wynne, accompanied by Captain Kennedy, proceeded to Marble Hill, the de lightful residence of Sir John Burke, Bart., when several leading gentlemen of the county connected with agriculture were invited to meet them, for the purpose of inspecting the estate of Ballinakil, on which a very successful system of reclamation and improvement is now carried on, and thereby afford ing constant employment to numbers of the peasan try. On the 13th the Earl of Devon, with the other Commissioners (attached to the Landlord and Tenants' C )mmission), and numerous visitors, minutely in spected the society's estate, and expressed themselves highly gratified with the whole of the arrangements, and the improvement in the condition and habits of the tenantry the extraordinary cleanliness of many of their cottages and homesteads, and par ticularly with the quantity of land reclaimed and brought into cultivation, exceeding one acre and a half each resident tenant since August, 1843. Having addressed the tenantry and many of the neighbour ing farmers in the most encouraging manner, his Lordship distributed the prizes given by the society and Sir John Burke, for progress in reclamation and improvement in agriculture, accompanying each with a few words of valuable advice on the advantages to themselves and their country of perseverance in habits of industry, when three hearty cheers were given for the Earl of Devon (chairman of the society) and Col. Robinson (managing director). GLENEASKE.—The estate of Gleneaske, comprising upwards of 6,500 acres, is beautifully situated on the south-east slope of the Slievh Gauff Mountains, which are here about 1,000 feet above the level of the sea; the whole valley, which is watered by numerous rills, as well as the lower slopes of the mountain, is pure unmitigated peat bog, to the extent of 3,500 acres, and the remainder is well adapted to the breed ing of the Kyloe, or Highland cattle, of which the society have a thriving herd. A model farm of six teen acres has been erected, where, upon a piece of pure bog only two years reclaimed, may be seen as fine Swedish turnips as can be found in Ireland; mangles, rape, vetches, &c., are all flourishing in the same kind of land, while the potatoes cannot be sur passed either in quality or quantity. The houses of the tenants are 30 feet long, 13 feet broad, and 8 feet high ; the allotments surrounded with trimmed furze hedges, and the drains marked out. The difficulties of a new settler, during the first year, are here admi rably met—he works for the society on roads and drains while his first crops are coming up, for which he is paid Bd. per day, and 10d. per perch for furze hedges, thus rendering him in some measure inde pendent of the land, until it is made, by his own labour, to produce a crop. Among the whole of the small holders occupying 1,400 statute acres, not one was without turnips or clover, or both, and some rape and vetches in addition ; and there are generally five or six head of cattle on each farm, and evidences of recent draining and reclamation on the part of the tenants were likewise apparent. The society offer a strong stimulant for the latter, giving a prize of 2/. for every acre reclaimed, equal to four years' rent at the highest rate. After draining, the surface is burned and lined, then two successive crops of pota toes taken, then a crop of Aberdeen turnips, and, lastly, oats laid down with clover ; lime is too far distant to be generally available, but limestone can be procured, and the lowering of Lough Taalt, executed at a trilling cost to the society, laid bare a rich bed of marl, which is little inferior in fertilising power to lime. At this estate prizes were given similar to those at Ballinakil. KILILERRIL—This estate is in an equally pros perous condition, the result of the same fostering management as at Ballinakil and Gleneaske ; and, upon a recent distribution of prizes there for good farming, &c., before Lord Devon, Captain Kennedy, and the principal gentry of that part of the country, the people generally poured in as to a national festival or great fair, arrayed in all the colours of the rainbow —so popular is the society becoming where its ope rations are known, that popularity being the natural result of a just appreciation of its increasing endea vours, through the able management of Colonel no ! binson, to improve the condition of the people. DEATU.—The Venerable Archdeacon Bathurst, we regret to hear, expired last night, about eleven o'clock, at No. 11, Promenade Villas, at a very advanced age. This venerable clergyman had been for some time in a declining state of health, and arrived here about a fort night since.--Cheltenham Examiner. TITIIa COMMUTATION.—Wednesday a Parliamen tary document, which was moved for by Dir. Manners Sutton, was printed, embracing returns of all agree ments for the commutation of tithes which have been confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners in the several counties of England and Wales, from the Ist ofJanuary to the Ist of July last, specifying also i n each case the amount of rent-charge agreed to be paid in lieu of tithes, and showing whether the same be payable to appro priators, impropriators, or clerical incumbents ; of a ll awards for the commutation of tithes which have been confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners in the several counties of England and Wales in the same period ; and also of all appointments of rent-charges in the period mentioned. It appears that under the first branch— agreements for the commutation of tithes which have been confirmed by the Commissioners—the balance of increase was 6911. 17s. 0.-A., which, with the increase in former returns of 54,7221. 2s. lid., makes the total increase 55,464/., so that in England and Wales " rent charges" will be the term used, instead of the ancient word " tithe," which existed from the earliest period, and was provided for the support of the clergy. By the second head—the awards for the commutation of tithes confirmed by the Commissioners—it is stated, that in England and Wales the total rent-charges of the present return were 92,3601. 6s. 54d. ; the total rent-charges of former returns, 856,371/. 19s. ; and the total rent charges, 948,7321. ss. sid. Under the third branch, a return wag made of all apportionments confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners in the period of six months ending I in July last ; and over the same period the two other I branches have reference. . TLIE ROYAL CHRISTENING.—The young Prince has been baptised Alfred—Ernest—Albert ! Thee names remind us of the old story of passing 011' a bad sbilliDg between two gm' Quea.—Punch. CHANGES. Lord and Lady Lurgan, at Brighton, from the Conti nent ; Sir John and Lady Shelley, from Lord Belhaven's seat, Wilusw House, N. 8., on a visiting tour in the forth ; Mr. J. Lefroy, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Lefroy, on a visit to General Lord Lorton, at Rockingham Castle, from a visit to Sir R. and Lady Gore Booth, at Lipadel house, Sligo ; Lady Carbery and s u it e , f rom Lord Carbery'a seat, Laxton Hall, Northampton, for Lord Carbery 's seat, Castle Freko, near Cork; Mr. Mar- Alan, M.P., and family, at Brighton, from Herts ; Lord Ind Lady Aberdour, at New Sanghton, N. 8., from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Morton, at Dalmahoy House ; the Right Hon. G. L. 1). Dawson, from Buxton Wells, on a visiting tour ; the Countess of Clare and Miss Elliott, from Bath, on a tour ; Lieutenant-Colonel Roller, from a visit to the Duke of Richmond, at Gordon Castle, for the south ; Sir A. Hood, Bart., from his seat, in Somerset, on a tour • Lord and Lady Dungarvon, from Bath, for the Earl of dork's, Marston House, near From° ; the Marquis of Kildare, from a visit to Lord snd Lady Adare, at Dunraven Castle, on a tour. DESCRIPTION OF REMARKABLE FARMS. BY ADAM BROWS. No. ll.—Near Kelvedon, in Esser. But let us return to the railway. 'We may take another road back to it. We shall enter Chelmsford at a part where several streets, crescents, and " places" or "rows," are in process of being built. We can hardly help remarking them. Are they to be in habited and paid for by protected agriculture ? or are they reared for persons who are still in, or have come out of, unprotected trade ? They are the last. London—commercial, competing, intensely competi tive London—sends her tradespeople down to Chelmsford now that the rail is so convenient; And there they take lodgings and buy butter, and milk, and vegetables, and poultry, and eggs, and beef, and bread, protecting, while they do so, Mr. Baker and others of his neighbours from having to eat all those things themselves. We are again on the rail, faces eastward, and dashing along 'as fast as the wind that comes with us from the west. So much for the enterprise of traders and the strength of commerce. This railway was made to facilitate the transit of agri cultural produce, not by the growers but by the pur chasers of that produce, and yet the growers want to be protected from those purchasers, one-third of whom would treble the amount of what they now con sume, and one-half of whom would add a third to what they now consume, even though they got nothing more than barely three meals a day, if they could afford to pay the price. Mr. Robert Baker limits the supply to them, and he also advocates the perpetuation of their limited ability to buy. That vast community of London—who eat the produce of almost every blade of grass and ear of corn grown in EVISOIC, and who depend on the commerce of their City for employment, and for the means of paying for every blade of grass and ear of corn, and who have neither enough of work to do, nor money to pay —Mr. Baker speaks to us thus—if not in actual words he does so in effect : " You are the persons who pay for blades of grass and ears of corn. lam the person who sells blades of grass and ears of corn. You say you want more than I hare to give you ; and you tell me you would buy still more if you were allowed to add a little to your ability by going elsewhere. That may be, but you are not allowed to go elsewhere ; and so long as I can prevent it, you never shall. What, although you taunt me with not cultivating my land well, and growing as much upon it as I might do, I defy you to interfere with me, and make rue do otherwise than I am doing." But we have arrived at another station, at the dis tance of another twenty miles from London—forty miles in all. This is Kelvedon. We here hire a gig, and drive five miles north, to a farm called Tiptree Hall. Here we find a farm-yard, farm-house, barns, sta bles, sheds, and everything very complete and com pact. We find every fence running square and parallel, and all clear and useful as fences should be. We find the soil to be very inferior compared with Mr. Baker's farm. Yet we find that while Mr. Baker has been allowing his soil of best quality to run out of cultivation into grass, allowing even his grass to run into rushes and marshy bogs, this cultivator has been bringing his poor soil into the highest state of cultivation. lie has one hundred and thirty acres, for which, just about the time that the Anti-Corn-law League became a giant, he paid 3,2501. He is not one of the League ; but be is a believer in the virtue of agricultural enterprise in preference to agricultural protection ; and so far is he from supposing that free trade would injure the English farmers—and so far from having listened to the forebodings of the alarmists, who are led on by Mr. Baker to cry " Land must go out of cultivation if free trade is carried"—that he has, since January, 1843, expended in hard cash the sum of 6,200/. in improving his farm, every penny of which, he is sure, free trade or no free trade, will be repaid him with a good profit. While Mr. Baker has been laying the League prostrate and slaying it, and receiving the great token of the age, " a piece of plate," for having upset, and destroyed, and utterly annihilated the League—for so the inscrip tion on the silver sets forth his services—this farmer has been quietly cultivating his land, and employing at least twenty times more labourers than ever Mr. Baker employed on the same number of acres. He has thus stated, in letters to a local newspaper, the nature of his improvements :—" Ist. The perfect and per manent drainage of the land with stones and pipes, 4 yards apart, and 32 inches deep— between 80 and 90 miles of drains.-2d. To the entire removal of all timber trees, which cannot be profitably grown in cern fields.-3d. To the removing all old, crooked, and unnecessary banks, fences, and ditches.-4th. The cutting new parallel ditches and fences, so as to avoid short lands.-sth. The enclosure of waste, and conversion of useless bogs into good soil. 6th. The economising time and distance by new roads, arches, and more direct communications with the extremities of the farm.-7th. The erection of well-arranged farm-build ings, built of brick, iron, and slate, in a continuous range, excluding all cold winds and currents of air, but open to sunny warmth.-Bth. The building a su b s t an ti a l and genteel residence, with all due requisites for do mestic comfort and economy. 9th. The erection of an efficient threshing machine, and needful apparatus for shaking the straw, dressing the corn, cutting chaff, bruising oats, &c., so constructed as not to injure the straw; avoiding, byits perfect actio n , th a t i mmense waste of grain visible in almost every truss of straw we examine.-10th. The avoidance of thatching and risk of weather, by ample barn room, with convenience for in-door horse labour at threshing, &c., when not em ployable without, so as to have no idle days for man or beast.-11th. The saving of every pound and pint of manure by a tank (90 feet long, 6 feet deep, 8 feet wide, with slated roof facing the north, and with well and pump), into which is received the whole drainage foam the farm-yard and stables.-12th. The convey ance by iron gutters and pipes of every drop of water from the roofs of each building, so as in no manner to dilute the manure in yards.-13th. The perfect drain age of the foundations of the barn, and every building on the farin.-14th. A steam-house to prepare food for cattle." He says he is thus particular to ',tate his alterations, because—" It is from each of the above branches of expenditure that some portion of remune ration is expected." And again ha says--" During the progres;.4 of Ply \T'-'777 TANGIERS AND IVIOGADORE. The Me. - ages of Monday evening publishes a retort received from the Prince de Joinville, giving in more de tail than hitherto an account of his proceedings against ; Morocco, with a notice of the affair of the 23d, already, mentioned in the Toulon journals. The report is ad dressed to the Minister of the Marine : " On board the Pluton steamer, Mogadore, Aug. 21. " Monsieur le Ministre,—l am about to render you an account of the purely military part of the operations upon the coasts of Morocco, in the course of August, by the squadron under my command. On the sth in the even ing the resolution to attack Tangiers was formed, and all the preparations were made. On the 6th at day-break, the steamers Ve!oce, Pluton, Gassendie, Phare, Rubis, and Var came and moored close alongside of the Jem mapes, Suffren, Triton, Cassard, and Argus, in order to be ready to tow them to the posts assigned them. The calm, which generally prevails in the morning in the Bay of Tangiers, rendered this necessary. About eight in the morning the squadron was in motion. I pre scribed that they should take their stations running from east to west, mooring with two anchors, one with a strong warp to the east, on account of the bad quality of the ground and the east wind, which had for some time blown with violence in the day. The Jemmapes was the first to come into line, but after her first anchor was fast, her tow-boat was not able to stretch her chain to its full length. The Jemmapes, however, succeeded in bringing her broadside to bear upon the place within four cables' length. The Suffren and Pluton, perfectly directed by Captains Lapierre and Bouet, also took up excellent po sitions. The Argus found a compensation for her long and painful winter station at Tangiers, by laying her self to at the extremity o f h er d raug h t of water, in a po sition where she could give much and had much to re ceive. I cannot give too high praise to her commander, Lieutenant de Vaisseau Jean Gerard, and the officers and crew of this small vessel, for their zeal and devoted ness excited the admiration of all. The Cassard placed herself so as to play on the scarp marked L on the map I send you, and whose fire enfiladed our line. The weak ness of tug-ships, added to the force of the currents, pre vented the Triton and Belle Poule from immediately fixinr , themselves at their posts. The Iriton cam e u p with her sails, and the Belle Paulo, after being ably ex tricated from a critical position by Captain Massin, of the Gassendi, came into line about ten o'clock, but, as the fire of the town was nearly silenced, the presence of these ships became useless, and I sent them to cannonade forts Abdel Selim and El Arbi el Saidi, which fired some balls upon us. All our movements were made without any opposition from the enemy. At half-past eight we opened our fire, which was answered with vivacity. However, at the end of a quarter of an hour, the Arab gunners deserted their batteries, the parapets of which were beaten down by the remarkable cor rectness of our fire. The batteries only prolonged the defence of the place. One of these was casemated and situated at the upper part of the Marine Fort, and the other was that of the Casbah. The fire of the Suffren was solely directed against the casemated battery, and in the end put it completely out of condition to act against us, while the Jemmapes drove the people from the Casbah. At ten o'clock in the morning all was over. I remained with the Suffren before the town till five o'clock, when, finding it made no further at tempt at defence, I withdrew. You know with what ob ject I attacked Tangiers. According to your instruc tion I was not to occupy it. My object was obtained the moment that, by the silence of its batteries, the town acknowledged itself vanquished. As I have already had the honour to inform you, the quarter in which were the residences of the Europeans was scrupulously re spected. The town was on fire in several places from the rockets thrown from the steamer Rubis. Through out the day every man rivalled his fellow in zeal and coolness. I have nothing but praise to bestow. At the point of day the posts of the ships were marked by buoys. Captain Duquesne acquitted himself of this duty, which was attended with risk, with his usual cou rage and intelligence. We have three killed and seven teen wounded. The ships have sustained some slight damages. The Suffren, which was the worst treated, ' received scarcely fifty balls. The enemy's loss is stated at 150 killed and 300 wounded. The busi ness being done, the steam-boats towed the ships to their mooring-grounds. The 7th was passed in re storing the ships to a condition to go to sea. On the Bth I was joined by the steam-boat Groenland, whose ser vices I required to go to Cadiz for water, provisions, and coals, for the squadron. On the 11th the squadron was assembled before Mogadore. New difficulties, and of more than one kind, here awaited us. For four days the violence of the wind and the roughness of the sea pre vented us from communicating with each other. An chored upon a rocky bottom, our anchors and cables broke, and the loss of them deprived us of resources which were indispensable, in order to obtain our object. Some vessels had only one chain and one anchor, and the latter deprived of one of its flukes. 'We could not think of maintaining ourselves before Mogadore under sail. The violence of the currents and of the gale would pro bably have carried us too far, and we should have lost the opportunity of acting. Besides, in causing the steamers to get ready to proceed with us, they would have consumed their fuel, and in leaving them by them selves they would be exposed to run short of provisons and water. It was therefore necessary to remain at anchor. At last, on the 15th, the wind abated, and there remained of the hurricane of the preceding days but a great swell from the N.N.W. Knowing how rare fine days are at this season of the year in those latitudes, I immediately made my arrangements ; but a new inci• dent occurred to thwart our designs--the wind fell com pletely. Our vessels, tormented by the swell, were un goeernable, and I could not think of employing the steamers to take the ships of the line to their post. The preparations which were being made on land proved that we would not be permitted to approach as easily as at Tangiers. A single ball could put the engines of a steamer out of order, and force it to stop in a critical poSition, from which we might not have been able to withdraw it, and where it could not defend itself. The steamers were, besides, a resource which we were bound to take great care of, in order to bring off our s hi ps of the line from their position over a rocky bottom, with the swell of the currents running in shore, and it being cer tain that, as soon as the wind should begin to rise, it would blow from the offing. At last, in the afternoon of the 15th, a feeble breeze from the N.N.N. having arisen, we took advantage of it, and the squadron set sail. I had communicated to all the captains a plan of attack, and assigned to each his post, once that the signal to execute the orders was given. Tam only , an eye-witness, endeavouring to act the part of a faithful historian, and relate with a lively admiration, and a profound acknow ledgment, with what zeal, what devotedness, and what intelligence, on the part of every one, the orders were executed. The soundings of the hoe of position had been executed in the open day, by Captain Maissin, of the Gassendi, and Lieutenant Touchard, belonging to my staff. The three ships of the, line first reached their moorings, the Triton, Captain Bellanger, in advance, lead ing on the squadron under the fire of all the enemy's bat teries. She let go the anchor within 700 metres of the town, without having fired a shot in return. The Suf fren and the Jemmapes followed. The latter vessel and the Triton placed themselves opposite the batteries of the west of the town. The Suffren took up her posi tion on the northern channel, firing in a slanting direc tion on the marine batteries, and, in front, on the round fort, situated on a little isle, at the entrance of the chan nel, whilst with her sternchasers she answered the bat tery on the island, the raking fire of which annoyed her. The entering on this delicate position under the enemy's fire, without any of us deigning to offer any reply, does great honour to the captains who executed it. Once in our place, we opened our fire. The marine batteries were quickly abandoned, but that of the west presenting about two score of guns, well sheltered behind stone epaulments upwards of six feet thick, held out for a considerable length of time. The Jemmapes, Captain Montagnies, which was the object aimed at by all these guns, at last got the better of them, though not without a serious loss caused by well-directed shell. Twenty men were killed or wounded on board this vessel, amongst whom was a young midshipman ofgreat promise, M. Noel, mortally wounded by a splinter of a shell, grave in juries to the rigging, and a number of balls in the hull, are proofs of the energetic resistance of the enemy's gunners. Once that the fire of the ships of the line was well opened, orders were given to the Belle Poule frigate, and the Cassard, Volage, and Argus brigs, to enter the harbour. The frigate was to engage with the marine batteries and the brigs with those of the island. Tlie Belle Pottle and brigs passed under the stern of the bottom on Suffren. Capt. llernoux took the t h h a e d of a bey, where she scarce the firing fr h ig er at b e er to th t , he those of the island. Large rifles placed the round one side on the batteries of the a nd town,inn other on tops, fired at six hundred y ards at the gunners of t he island. The effect of this bold _ manoeuvre was such that the marine batterie s were immediately deserted. The brigs anchored in a line before the three batt er i es w hi ch protected the landing;-place eng aged in . all animated confli c t w i t h t h em. At of the i s l an d , and inue seeing that the tire was slackening, I or d ere d t h ree d la i s a t t , ely steamers, the Gassendi, the Pluton, and the Phare ' to enter the port. They carried on b oar d, 500 men for landing, under the command of Capt. Duquesne and Lieut.-Col. Chauchard. These steamers posted them selves between the openings of the line of brigs, giving their fire to that o f th e ot h er vesse l s, w hil st t h e landing flotilla was being formed. At half-past five, the flotilla advanced, under a sharp fusillade. The men ,jumped on shore with enthusiasm, the wounded in the boats dash ing forth the first, and, clearing with a run a steep talus, they carried the first battery. The second master of the Phare, named Toche, entered the first, and planted the French flag. From this. battery, two detachments, one led by Lieutenant- Col. Chauchard, and the other by Captain of Engineers. Coffinieres, were dispatched to make a circuit of the island, and to rout out 300 or 400 Moors from the posts which they occupied in the houses and the batteries. They drove them to a mosque, where a great number of them took refuge. The door was battered in with cannon balls, and the men rushed in. The resistance was sharp- M. Pottier, an artillery officer, a young man of great merit, was killed, and several officers were wounded, viz., Capt. Duquesne, Lieut. Ceupvent-des-Bo d u is, u tart! Sous-Lieut. des Palli&Ts. Our men were engag e obscure vaults in the midst of a smoke which preventede anything from being seen. The m en of the Argus and Pluton, however, persisted in penetrating. I judged that we should lose a great many men for no purpose, and withdrew them. We surrounded the mosque, , and picked up nearly a 0 We next day 140 men surren( the night coming on bivouacked the troops. At daylight. a of the dead bodies o n the island. T h is bein g taken, the fire of th e town com p letel y silenced, I g ave orders to the Asmod6s to take the ships from the coast, which was done during the night. The wea lier was tine. 1 kept the Belle Poole in the pass. She C o ntinued during the whole night to fire on the marine ports, to prevent their bring re .eeenpierl. - On the 1 c.th the steamers Af;rucoit , , Pluton, and Gassendi. a nd the brigs Cassard and Pandour, laid their broad side; frent of the tengue of sand on which are the forts of the Marine that I was extremely desirous of Tl Nr ` 6 7-‘r. ; =_ •,-, _ ' - - 11 " h AI h 7