The Sun. — London, England, 1836-09-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRC ULAR. His Majesty, attended by Sir H. Taylor arrived in town soon after one o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Windsor Castle. the M. Ded e l, t h e Netherlands Minister, had an audience of King, t o d e li ver a letter from his Sovereign. His Excel y w lencas introduced by Viscount Palmerston, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by B Sir R o b ert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. Lord J.. O'ryen was the Lord in Waiting. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Sussex and the Prin cess Sophia visited his Majesty at St. James's Palace. Mr. Lichtenbu rg , t h e Hanoverian Chargé d'Affaires, had an audience of the King. His M ajesty gave au di ence to Viscount Melbourne, Sir J. liobhouse, and Sir J. Macdonald. At ten m i nutes past six o'clock the King, attended by Sir H. Tayl or , l eft the Palace in his carriage and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, for Windsor Castle. Viscount Palmerston returned to town on Tuesday, from a visit to their Majesties, at Windsor Castle. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. surer of the King's Household, advising him that his Majesty has ordered him to be paid a gratuity of 300 fr., for having saved the lives of three mariners near Ambleteuse last winter. —Boulogne Journal. [Henie is the man who, it will be re membered, behaved so courageously at the time of the loss of the Amphitrite female convict ship. .1 Yesterday afternoon, between one and two o'clock, the following melancholy accident occurred to Richard Bay. , cock, a labouring man employed on the London and Bir: mingham Rail-road, Harrow-road. The unfortunate man was attending a train of cars laden with the excavated earth, and having cast off from the others, the one on which he was riding was in the act of putting down the break with his foot to stop the car when he slipt off and fell underneath the wheels, which passed across the body and over his right leg, the bone of which was smashed in a shocking- manner : he also sustained some internal injuries of a most serious nature. The poor fellow was conveyed on a litter to St. George's Hospital, where it was found necessary immediately to amputate the injured limb above the knee. He has a wife and two children de pendent on his labour for their support. A new steam-vessel, superbly fitted up, built ex pressly by order of the Russian Consul-General (Chevalier Benkhausen), was launched on Monday. It is intended for the conveyance of the Emperor to the distant ports of his dominions, and a Captain and two Lieutenants of the Russian navy will take the command of her. An elegant dinner was served in the saloon of the vessel to a party of - sixty, including the Prince and Princess Von Wittgenstein, Prince and Prin cess Galitzen, Count and Countess Schwaloff, Countess Czer nichoff and two Counts Tolstoy, Capt. Quadreski, and other subjects of his Imperial Majesty, who took a trip to the Nore in the steamer, and returned in the evening. The Countess Czernichoff, Lady of the Russian Minister of War, on quitting the vessel, left 101. for the crew to regale themselves. KITE CARRIAGES.—This unique and ingenious invention of Mr. G. Pocock was witnessed by many of the members of the British Association, last week, on Clifton and Durdham Downs, and called forth their unqualified admira tion. The car, containing four persons, was drawn by two kites—the pilot kite ten feet in length of standard, the draft kite twelve. The general pace was about ten miles an hour. On Wednesday morning, at eleven o'clock, four carriages were on the Downs ; two of these were in constant use for several hours, and during the day about one hundred ladies and gen tlemen, many of them foreigners, had an opportunity of riding in these novel vehicles. In the morning, when the wind was active, the pace was about twelve miles an hour. From this discovery many judicious remarks were made on the various uses to which these kites, or buoyant sails, might be applied. Ideas, new even to the author of the invention, were sug gested. The general impression was, that it was peculiarly adapted for:sea service, especially in case of shipwreck, as life preservers, as auxiliary sails, and also for the making of sig nals.—Bristol Journal. The harvest is nearly got in throughout the agri cultural districts, with the exception of some parts of the north. It has commenced in Scotland, with every prospect of a good crop, and the accounts from Ireland are also satis factory, ARRIVALS. sea t he Du c h ess Cannizzaro, in Hanover-square, f rom he r lip , Wirnbledon-common Surrey; Lord Ach eson , a t Wor 1, 1 2all guani Hall, f rom a tour ; E. Arbuthnot, E sq ., a t Newton tiot, Newbu r y, f rom a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Bass, at Fenton's el, St. James's- street, from Ramsgate ; William Goff, s s cl., at ditto, from the Continent ; Lord James O'Bryen, at - a4 vnrn °r's's Hotel, St. James's -street, from a tour ; Dr. and prolniss favvt.rey, at the St. George's Hotel, Albermarlc-street, a stings ; Hon. Mrs. Tolleniach, at Huntsmore Park, from Brighton; Mr. and Mrs, Morris and family, at Batt's gad to ; Lady Hotel a , Dover -street, from B r i g ht o n ;J. W. Harding, Esq., Lady Hawkins Whitsted and Mi ss H. Whit C)lat Nerot's Hotel, Clifford and Cork-streets, from Hol c ; ev. Dr. C o l ston , M rs. an d Mi ss C o l ston and Miss e, from Italy. DEPARTURES. . .Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset, for Dover ; Hon. Cap 'fain Fitzgibbon, for Bognor; Hon. Captain Poulett, R.N., ~1 1; Exmouth ; Lady Burdett and family, for Southampton ; Charles Tufton Blicke, Esq., for Cheltenham ; Mr. and Mrs. k it :ier, from Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, for the Continent; Captain a Mrs. Austin, from Brook-street, for Worthing; bui Macleod, from Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street for Cork .'"n Lady Henniker, from Nerot's Hotel, Clifford and ....streets, for Essex ; C. Hyde, Esq., from ditto, for tiyde-end, l3erks • the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Dublin, and Mr • and M ' rs. O'lfrien, from th . e Brunswick Hotel, -ern ) f ., Yn-street, for Leamington ; Captain and Mrs. Waugh, ce,oosttnersdhitirtoe, for Kent • Miss Cameron, from ditto, for Wor 9tntinent ; Baron Kleuze and Mr. Pauli, from ditto, for the ; NI. le Compte and Comptesse d'Hohentahl, from 1 . 1 ! to, for ditto , Le Comte de Lalisse, from ditto, for ditto ; FCo de ' Maltzan, from ditto, for ditto ;La Princesse Itiron, f rom fro • ditto, for ditto ; General Sieasdoff and family, in ditto, for ditto. 4 Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, ttended by Lady Caroline Legge and Capt. Stephens, Aide cle.r f - anip to the Duke of Cambridge, on her route to England •r 0 ilium. Hanovfr, stopped a few days at Homburg, to visit her strious sister, the Dowager Landgravine, who resides in a Rini of the Landgrave's Palace. T he Earl o f P em b roke, we are requested to state, e u r a r s o nneooy tu:ieft Fenton's Hotel f or th e C on ti nen t, as h a d b een stated. Prin ce P aul Lievcn has sent over to Paris a set of beautiful grays, w hi c h are to be forwarded to St. Petersbu rg , or his father, Prince Lieven. The Russian Charge d'Affaires, Baron Maltitz, has 1 , -/kel l a urnn al month s . mansi on in Wellingt on square, Hastings, f or th e au - The Baroness de Keverberg and children, Dr. So tna,eryille, M essrs. Byng, Moreno , Robertson, Montgomery, ierdl •, were among the passe ngers y es t er d ay morn i ng f or Rot ani, in th e G eneral Steam Navigation Company's fast and ayourite steam ship the Ramona. sex Lord an d L ady Rivers have left Mistley Hall, Es join a party of fashionables assembled at Auberies, the neat of Colonel and Lady Louisa Meyrick, in Suffolk. A T he Earl an d C ountess o f Sh eff i eld, Lords Alvanley me Roos, and Henry Seymour, are on the Rhine. lia Sir Hora ce S eymour an d L ady Clinton, have left Mpton-court Palace, on a tour. Lord and Lady Stanley and their eldest sons are ex- ZPected to remain at Ballykiston, county Tipperary, for a month six weeks longer. His Lordship will occupy the Earl of e rbY's house in Grosvenor-square, next season. . Mr. L a b ouc h ere, the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, is making a tour in the Belgian provinces. Admiral Duncan's address to the officers who came O n board hi s s hi p f or i nstruct i ons, previous to the engagement : wi „th Admi ra l d e Wi n t er, was b ot h laconic and humourous:— u eatlemen you see a severe Wi n t er a pp roac hi ng, I have " 11, 1 to advise you to keep up a good fire." ItiLord and Lady Chelsea have arrived at the Bruns eckmliotel! Hanove - r-square, from Seaham-house, the seat of since .tbare9irtuins a o r f ria L g o e n . donderry, where they have been residing The fa their beautifulrs of Jersey have lately been robbed of extent, by thieveAsl, d w erney cows, and also of horses to a great quay as th • ho have deliberately led them down to the steamer. eil Own Property, and put them on board the English • REPUGEts FROM SWITZERLAND.-The follow- Z;Yg' frnai Neufchatl, appears in a German Paper : " Strno eecir, formerly editor of the Fr i end of Liberty, has been co - P sane pe tin der an escort of gendarmes through Neufchatel to hav e • F ifty other f ug iti ves , escorted in a similar manner, assed through our canton. 4:20..; ea ,tetyiperane e t ea and coffee room was l ast wee k P no at las T Reading, w i t h an a b undant supply of (temperate) ws Papers w asb tles . da . y afternoon a b oy, scarce l y 14 years of age, h en , L e afing some of his little brothers and sisters, in the neigh e'nd of Saffron-hill, when his mother interfering, and stabbed u rine to save them from his brutality, he suddenly ' n. her ''in the abdomen with a knife. Medical advice was I t l i ' eul ately obtained, but at present fears are entertained as eight° er recovery. She is the wife of an Irish labourer, ond has 4.,_ children besides the young monster who committed " I s ct. ' Z e O n Tuesday morning last a gray mare, the property ~.- " rge Battie, of this' town, hairdresser, was found in ott;rlMPsall, dead, in a shocking mutilated state. It is theconjec ithit the animal had been attacked by a cow in the course night —.Lancaster Gazette. .. f 4 °re strangers. are said to be sojourning at the dif seetne.nt. stations in the Lake District of Cumberland at the pre- It nne than has been the case for some years past.—New urn"stle'lo 1 Pp,_a . 411.(vne National says that an English physician, just altat his at Paris, having lost all his money at a gaming -house, is ~..is throat with a razor the same night, at an hotel near the Roy a l s. tiExperiments of growing hops, both in Wiltshire and th e a r e tn ; this year, have succeeded so well, that an article hi ' %a l - "known in those counties is likely to become a staple kodity in each. i s s'ai;,triore than usual proportion of autumnal illness 11 1 ,t! to prevail at this time. Persons anxious to avoid it v .!, Id abstain from too muchexpo su re in light clothing to the anitbi_ t o , e state of the atmosphere, and from indulging in the prevalent practice of eating unripe fruit. !is'th e ursday William Welburn, an old man above 80, hung ,! r nPloy of Mr. Smallwood, of Middlethorpe, near York, tratuntiself in a stable. He was brought before the maads to m r. en the 20th ult., on a charge of threatening to set fire Aftli, Srnallwood's premises ; but it appearing the language lrow de use of in liquor, and the old man expressing his sor ake h• Was discharged. Mr. Smallwood, however, did not la g a. ,'ln back into his service ; since that he has been wander hoont without any settled place of abode. .Z.kilaw l , an a i,, ON ON LOVE.-A certain old bachelor, who 130 dy . . " ° st in his dotage, suddenly became a Benedict ; every '' Levexpressed their surprise but Dowton, who observed, ,t4llv Pressed is like the small-pox ;if you don't take it natu late' ar 'Y in life,never safe from its infection to your ss d e .. ~ you're Th e I. - -New Monthly Magaz i ne. tree in salaries of Paymasters to the Constabulary of 100 7 Irei o Ireland have been raised to 2001. per annum, instead 41 'Britt the Pay of sub-constables is increased from 25/. to tsh currency. tAildertleinisatlril'atinonE A LlNG.—During Sir Robert Walpole's when bribery was common, if not universal, I ll e He n s o ne Particular question which ho wanted to carry in teat epae,°f Commons, to which he knew there would be ell delA nsiti ° ll , and which was disliked by some of his own de , the t 8 ' As be was passing through the Court of Requests, til.l,e,e,a, ~would of the - opposite party, whose avarice, he ima ,47_?." se e p n ot reject a large bribe.. He took . him aside, and i,,7' her ; " a question comes on this day; give me your vote, 1 7 1.0 hi a e h ' s a l bank bill of two thousand pounds," which . he put I.l,o!:4,ot%s3,awhi;a,4;_eiy,The member made this answer—" Sir Robert, served some of my particular friends; and her nit whi ch 'Le was last at Court the King was very gracious to In to e re, th i nk have happened at your instance. I should, p l eased hi s po kink Myself very ungrateful (putting the bank bill ea sed t n e `, e t) if I were to refuse the favour you are now Ad ., I Nbj k aS il rne.”----Book of Table Talk. .;‘.. 10 ... t ie. ago, ithtlßE.R—Who would have thought, some tie ite rme a en this curious substance was merely used to s ~Sr e e t h e Pencil mark, that it would become in no small iNioa s ? means raising human beings into the aerial Il lpri ncipaii the varnish which covers the new Vauxhall balloon NIA e wh e Y n rip?sed of caoutchouc, which, being perfectly th e s to whi ch 1 7, is eminently fitted for the purpose. The 4 41 _ the grappling-iron is attached is also made of ', material. cb 4 4 xtr, W and, e,d-street, i purveyor of turtle to his Majesty, New Of 6001 tun', ... a happy bs • possessor of an extraordinary fine , Ilona the island of Ascension, weighing upwards tsr.ne st week .Peter Henin caved the live s of two ) h 4 thi n gentle men .. off t edge n one of men, named Jules and Lemaitre, who were Pll el)h and r. Mancel's machines. They had got out ,:tPat eff his' clothes one was calling out for assistance. Heflin iltiier, and es (which he lost) and rushed into thdr ellp has eirnecued both from drowning One of the gentle letile .testial e presented him with 10 . 01 r. We are glad to 41, 11 "Y to the srewpaeyat;ed successful exertions which in thi terk' a s us, of the "efore rnade and we this moment have a date of the 27th ult., from the Trea. A field of two and a half acres and twenty-one perches, in the occupation of M r . William Dombrain, Canter. bury, has: produced this year twenty-two quarters and five bushels of white wheat.—Kentish Gazette. A Toulon letter announces the arrival of the King of Naples in that town, at eight in the morning of Sunday last, accompanied by General Gourgaud. His Majesty was received with a royal salute, and afterwards went to mass in the small church of La Misericorde. He has taken up his abode at the Hotel de la Croix d'Or, where he received visits from the Maritime Prefect, Admiral .Massieu, and the officers of the navy and of the garrison. The King was to honour the theatre with his presence in the evening, when Mme. Dorval was to perform in " Angelo, Tyran de Padoue," and on Mon day review the troops of the garrison, and the 17th Regiment of Light Infantry, which arrived on Sunday. Another letter from the same place states that the steamer Vautour, which sailed the same day for Algiers, with troops and 300,000 f. in specie, took out despatches relative to the enrolling of troops for the legion in Spain. The Government has ordered that not more than 2,000 men shall go to Catalonia, who are to be replaced by others from the depots of the African regiments. An admirer of all good inventions or improvements for the benefit of the public, suggests to the proprietor of the new patent cab carriages that the door should be placed at the lack with spring locks to pull backwards with pleasure, both inside and outside the doors, and the passengers to sit, one on benches each side the carriage as in an omnibus. This might admit of glass fronts if preferred, and would relieve the pas engers from all apprehensions of a runaway restive horse or sipsy cab-boy. The Barriere d'Enfer seems an appropriate place enough for earring on the hellish practice of duelling. CocIIIN CHIN A.--We learn that the insurrection, and consequent disturbances, which have prevailed here for the last three or four years, had at length been quelled. The country was quiet, an in a good state of defence. It was rumoured that the King of Siam was about to give his favourite daughter in marriage to Chan-Fab, and elevate him to the rank of second King. The new crop of sugar was beginning to come in, but prices remained high, 91 to 91 ticals per picul being asked. The market for imports con tinued unaltered. OLD OAK.—A large oak in the forest of Cerisy, known under the name of the Quenese, at a little distance to the right of the great road to St. Lo, is supposed, by com paring data, to be eight or nine hundred years old. In 1824 it measured 36 feet in circumference, just above the soil, and was about 55 feet high. The trunk is now hollow, and will hold from fourteen to fifteen persons. FEMALE UNIVERSITY.—The Scottish Institution is the name of what a Scotch paper calls an " enterprising University for young ladies, which is," it says, " we under stand, increasing in prosperity and usefulness." The names of the teachers who conduct the fifteen different branches of education are sufficient guarantees to the public that the duties will be discharged in the ablest manner. What with languages and literature in all its branches, and the lighter elegant accomplishments, and the sciences, the young ladies attending it should come out with no superficial acquirements. We need not point out what superior recommendation an esta blishment possesses in point of economy of time and comfort where all the different branches of education are carried on under one roof.—Fife Paper. In the middle of last month a mason, living at Geler, in Saxony, threw into the shaft of a mine behind a vitriol-manufactory, 175 feet deep, his three daughters, re spectively aged two, five, and seven years. Their bodies were taken out in a horribly mutilated state. The motives for this atrocious deed are not known. It is in contemplation to make a new road through Kensington or to widen it near the church, where it is so nar- row as to occasion many accidents to the carriages passing to and fro. The latter plan would be attended with much ex- pensc, as many houses must be rased to carry it into effect. The amount of the customs and navigation dues received at the port of Havre during the last month was 1,548,833 f. le., being 123,404 f. 55c. more than in the cor responding month of 1835. The beautiful Rotunda of Louisberg, at Aix-la- Chapelle, was totally destroyed by fire in the night of the 27th ult. There had been a ball in the evening, but the com pany had retired, the lights were put out, and the proprietor and his servants had all gone to rest. They were, however, soon roused by cries of " Fire," which, it appears, broke out in one of the rooms of the dwelling-house, and in less than two hours the roof fell in, and the whole was reduced to ashes. MILITARY COURT -MARTIAL.—Yesterday a dis. trict Court-martial was held upon John Bolton, one of the Pay sergeants of the Ist battalion of Grenadier Guards. The inquiry was held at the Wellington Barracks, St. James's Park, and a great deal of interest was excited in consequence of the high character which the accused had borne in the regiment. The proceedings were strictly private; Lieut.-Col. Lyster was the President, and it seems that the Sergeant had embezzled up wards of 40/. with which he had been entrusted to pay his com pany. In spite of every exertion to get at the evidence, we have only been able to ascertain that the prisoner was sentenced to three months' hard labour at Brixton, to be reduced to the ranks, and that half of his pay should be applied until the de falcation be fully made up. NEWS FOR THE BRIEFLESS.--An advertise ment appears in a New South Wales paper, which interests some parties in this country. It begins—" Wanted imme diately, some barristers, called to the bar of England." It then goes on to say, " Seriously, the advertiser begs to acquaint the numerous gentlemen of high talent and legal knowledge, with whom the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland abound, that there is here an ample field for the exercise of those labours which circumstances render almost unavailing in the mother country, owing to the irresistible effect of all powerful competition. The practice of the bar of New South Wales is at present monopolized by some half-dozen gentle men, who sometimes join in an application to the presiding Judge to postpone the business of the day, on the ground of over-exertion and want of rest; and it must be clear, there fore, that it would further the administration of justice, bene fit the suitor, and abridge the labour of the Judges, if there were a greater number of gentlemen duly qualified to manage the business of the Court. We, therefore, cordially invite the presence of this colony of some dozen of English bar risters of talent and independence." The invitation is a cor dial one, and it has been supposed by some persons on 'Change, interested for the colony, that England might spare so many as a dozen lawyers, without great risk of an alarming scarcity of the article being immediately felt in the home market. ORIGIN OF PRIVATE BOXES.—During the O.P. war the number of private boxes was reckoned a great source of grievance. Incledon attempted to defend their existence, but failing in his argument, he at last exclaimed, " My dear boy, d—n me, antiquity, Sir, antiquity ; there have been pri vate boxes these 3,000 years." " Where ? when ?" burst simultaneously from all the company. At the deluge, Sir, when, to the exclusion of all the public, Noah, d—n me, had a private box for himself and family."__Records of a Stage Vete ran, in the New Monthly. Yesterday morning the foll ow i ng accident came under the cognizance of the surgeon s o f the Westminster Hos pital :---About eleven o'clock, Mrs. Mary Singleton, the wife of a tradesman residing in Hyde-place, Tothill.fields, had oc casion to leave her home upon an errand, and unthinkingly left her child, aged two years, shut up in a room. Shortly after the absence of the mother, the scream s of the unfortunate child caused one of the lodgers in the house to enter, who found the child lying upon the hearth in the most excruciating agony, and scalded in the most dreadful manner. Medical assistance was immediately called in, and she was removed to the above institution, where every attention was paid to her, but no hopes are entertained of her recovery. TILE SUN, LONDON, THMISDAY. SEPTEMI3ER 8, 1536. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM RACES,TuEsDA Y. A Maiden Plate cf 301., given by the Members for the Western Division ; three yrs old, 7st. 41b ; four, Bst. 71b; five, 9st ; s ix and aged, 9st. 51b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. Heats, one mile. Captain Gardnor's Idiot, 3 yrs S. Day 3 1 1 Mr. Johnson's Ticket, 3 yrs 1 2 2 Colonel Peel's Partner, 3 yrs The Rockingham Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with .50 added; three yrs old, ist. 41b ; four, Bst. 71b ; five, 9st ; six and aged, 9st. 41b. Heats, mile and a half. The winner to be sold for 300 sovs., &e. S Subs. Duke of Richmond's Pussy, 5 yrs... ...... ......A lad 1 1 Mr. Best na. Pincher, 5 y - rs The Members' Plate of 591. Weights as for the Rockingham Stakes. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 2001. if demanded. lleats, two miles. Captain Gardnor's Skirmislier, 3 yrs ...S. Day 0 1 1 Mr. Brown's Arbaces, 3 yrs... 0 2 2 Mr. Wickham's Robinette, 5 yrs 3 dr WARWICK RACES, TUESDAY. The Guy Stakes of 50 save. each, h. ft., for three yrs old. Mile. 12 Subs. Mr. J. Day's ch. c. by Velocipede, Bst. 31b Paris 1 Lord Warwick's Pelopia, Bst. 41b Mr. Giffard's br. c. by Filho da Puta, Bst. 41b......... 3 Won by a head. The Leamington Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., with 100 added by the town of Leamington. Two miles. Captain Bunney's Miss Newton, 5 yrs, 7st. 91b 1 Mr. Collins's Theophilus, 6 yrs, 7st. I lib Mr. B. King's Lucy, aged, Bst. 21b Captain Berkeley's Paris, 5 yrs, Bst. Sib., and Mr. Wyatt's Fi delio, 4 yrs, Est. 131 b., also started, but were not placed. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added. Heats, two miles. Mr. J. Day's Venison, 3 yrs, Bst... ...... J. Day 2 1 1 General Yates's Sylvan, 4 yrs, 9st. 21b ...... 1 2 2 The Yeomanry Plate of 50 sovs., and 10 for the second horse. Two miles. Mr. Newman's Smallhopes, aged, 12st. 7lb Owner 1 Mr. T. Bateman's Pandora, aged, 12st ... 2 Mr. T. Holloway's St. Peter, aged, 13st. 71b BARNET RACES—YESTERDAY. The Barnet St. Leger, by a Subscription of 5 sons. each, with 30 added from the Fund. Ileats, twice round and a distance; three years old, ist. 41b; four, Bst. 61b. ; five, 9st. ; six and aged, 9st. 41b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. A winner of one race in the present year to carry 41b. extra ; two, 71b. extra. Half-bred horses allowed 71b. To name and close on the entrance night. The winner to be sold for 150 sovs., &c. 5 Subs. or no race ; if more than five, the second horse to receive back his stake. Mr. Stubbs's Edward, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b... Mathews 1 1 Mr. Bacon's Tiara, 6 yrs, 9st. 81b 2 2 Mr. Mason's Water Nymph, 3 yrs, 7st. Ilb 3 3 Mr. Lambden's Little Rover, 5 yrs, 2st Both heats won easy. The Town Plate of 501., by a Subscription of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added from the Fund. Heats, weights, &c., the same as for the Barnet St. Leger. The winner of the Barnet St. Leger to cary 101 b. extra. Maiden horses to be allowed 51b. The win ner to be sold for 100 sows., &c. 5 Subs. or no race. If more than five, the second horse to receive back his stake. To name and close on the entrance night. Mr. Scott's Catalonia, 6 yrs, 9st. 41b Sly 1 1 Mr. Firth's Swallow, 3 yrs, ist. 41b Mr. East's Quicksilver, 5 yrs, Bst. 81b 3 3 Mr. Webb's Exposita, 3 yrs, Bst. 61b Mr. Harrison's Cicero, 3 yrs, fist. 121 b Mr. Ray's Mountain Lass, 6 yrs, Bst. 121 b 0 dr Won easy. The Tradesmen's Splendid Silver Cup, value 501., for horses of all ages, which were on or before the Ist of July, 1836, the property of Tradesmen residing in Barnet or Hadley, or within one mile thereof, and being Subscriber of not less than one guinea each to the Fund. Heats, twice round and a distance. To carry 9st. To name and close on the entrance night. To pay 15s. entrance. Five horses to start, or no race. The afternoon's amusements terminated with this race. The course was very numerously attended. CURRAGH SEPTEMBER MEETING, MONDAY. The Northumberland Handicap (Sweepstakes), 20 sovs., 10 ft., with 100 sovs. added. Ilathbride Post. Col. Westenra's Freney, 6 yrs, lOst. 41b...P. Connolly 1 Mr. Disney's Maria, 3 yrs, ist. 101 b 2 Mr. Watt's Blackfoot, 3 yrs, ist. 131 b Eight others started, and three others paid 5 sovs. ft. The Anglesey Stakes of 10 sovs., p.p., with 100 sovs. added, for two yrs old; colts, Bst. 41b. ; fillies, Bst. Anglesey Post. The winner to give three dozen Champagne to the Club. Mr. Watts's Magpie , Mr. J. Kelly's eh. c. by Philip Mr. Ferguson's b. f. by Economist 3 Fifteen others started. PARIS RACES,• SEPT. 4. A Prize of 2,000 fr. for three yrs old. Once round the Champs de Mars. _ _ _ ...._.... Mr. Lupin's Belind a ... ~ Mizeu 1 Lord A. Seymour's Timensul ... 2 111. Riviere's Bertram Duke of Orleans's Brougham M. Fasquel's Topaze A Prize of 3,000 fr. for three yrs old and upwards. Twice round. Lord 11. Seymour's Frank, 2st. 21b Flatman 1 Duke of Orleans's Volante, lOst. 41b 2 Duke of Orleans's Esperance Won easy. REGISTER OF PUBLIC SALES. SEPT. 7.—By Mr. RICHARD Ews, at Garraway's.—The Leasehold White Horse Wine-vaults, High Holborn, held for 104 years, at 1151. a year-4501. The Punch-bowl Public-house, Moorfields, was withdrawn. Six Houses, with large gardens, Marc-street, Old Ford, let at 831., held for 80 years, at 41/. a year, 2001. Thirteen Houses adjoining, let at 1371. 165., held for SO years, at 651.-1001. A Rent of 441. 4s. a year, for nine years, amply secured on houses in St. Luke's parish--3851. Four Houses, Nos. 38 to 41, Underwood -street, Mile-end New Town, let at 56/., held for 68 years from 1822, at 101. ground-rend-1451. By Mr. W. FIELD.—The Old George Public-house, Stable, and a House adjoining, Fulham-road ; held for 11 years at 70/. a year-8501. By Mr. GARDINER._Two Freehold Houses, Nos. 46 and 47, Margaret-street, Hackney-road ; let at 43/. 165.-3901. By SOUTHEY and Sox.—A Plot of Freehold Building_ ground, having a frontage of :32 feet, in Long-lane Bermond sey, by a depth of 157 leet-4001. FATAL STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT._ Yesterday an inquest was held at the Black Horse Poplar, before Mr. Baker, the Coroner, on the body of Louisa Selby, aged 29, who was drowned on Tuesday evening last, by .the boat in which she was, with two other persons, being run down by the Gipsy Greenwich steam-boat. The inquiry excited much interest, from the fact of the waterman who was rowing the parties being intoxicated at the time, and having since been taken into custody, and committed by Mr. Ballantine at the Thames Police-office for re-examination, on a charge of hav ing, by carelessness and neglect, caused the death of the de ceased. The Coroner, after examining several witnesses, who proved that the waterman rowed right in to the bows of the steamer, and that he was intoxicated at the time, adjourned the inquiry until Friday to hear evidence on the part of the waterman. To rebut this statement a clerk from the office of Mr. Loney, a solicitor, appeared for the waterman, and the Secretary of the Steam-boat Company for the Captain of the Gipsy. On Monday evening, at the denouement of the Bill Sticker, at the Strand Theatre, when several persons were coming down the stairs for either fresh air or refresh ments, the horses in an omnibus from the City, full of passen gers, fell opposite the entrance door, and on being pulled up turned round and bolted into the lobby, to the great peril and astonishment of the passengers and egressers, the latter of whom took unconscious refuge in the pit and boxes, which they had just left, without standing much on the order of their re treat. The horses, however—who were, probably, not the least astonished of the parties—were backed out without mischief. GREATEST ASCENTS IN THE ATMOSPHERE.— M. Boussaingault, in company with Colonel Ilall, on the 15th of December, 1831, ascended Chimborazo, to the height of 6,006 metres (19,699 feet), the greatest elevation which has yet been attained en land, Humboldt having been able to reach as high only as 19,400 feet. M. Gay Lussac, in a balloon, rose to 22,900 feet at Paris. The barometer carried by Boussain gault fell to 13 inches 8 lines. The temperature in the shade was 7.8 C. (45.60 F.) This chemist thinks it possil•le to live in rarified air. Thus, at a height almost equal to that of Mont Blanc, where Saussure had scarce strength to consult his instruments, young women may be seen in South America dancing the whole night. The celebrated battle of Pichincha, during the war of independence, was fought at a height little inferior to that of Mount Rose. The guides who accompanied Saussure assured him that they had seen the stars in broad day. Boussaingault never witnessed them, although he reached a much greater altitude. —Journal de China. Medic. A club existed forty years since in London, called, " You F:bould have been here before ;'' it consisted of an equal number of theatrical and literary persons, originally but four, ultimately upwards of fifty. A new member was added every week ; no ceremony was gone through of making the members, which is customary in other clubs, but the new corner partook of a splendid dinner, &c., and when the party were about breaking up and the bill was called for, it was handed over to him, the president bidding him to pay it. "I !" the stranger would generally exclaim, " why should I pay all?" To this was replied, " You are the last among us—you should have been here before." This was the inauguration. Merry was, I believe, the last member; his bill amounted to nearly 100/., and it was then agreed that the whole affair was rather too keen a joke, and " You should have been here befere," was changed into " We'll never go there again. "_New Monthly. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, SEPT. 6. There has been little business stirring in the Cotton-market to-day ; there is, however, no sign of a decline in prices, which are, in fact, firm as well as steady. The sales to-day do not exceed 1,500 bags ; say 70 Egyptian, 15d. a 17d. ; Maran hams, 13d. ; 60 Pernambuco, 12d. a 131 d. ; 120 Surats, 51d. a Bd. ; the remainder American, 81-d. a Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, a gentleman was ob served walking towards Kensington, and apparently in a bad state of . health ; when he arrived opposite the Palace gates he dropped into th e arms of George Pearce, the sentinel on duty at the Palace, who considered that he was dead. He took him to the Crown Inn, where he was attended by Mr. Morris, a medical gentleman, of Kensington ; but he died in a very short time afterwards. The deceased is understood to be the Rev. John King, the Rector of Bossen, Suffolk. Upon his finger were found several gold rings, upon one of which was an inscription relative to his daughter. The body awaits a Coroner's Inquest. RAMSGATE. I(FROM A CORRESPONDENT, DATED AUG. 30.) At the close of last year, several gentlemen resident in the metropolis, who had been educated by Mr. Whitehead in this town, being desirous of markin g their respect and gratitude to their valued preceptor and friend, having met together, it was proposed to raise a su b scr i ption and ap point a committ ee t o determine on the best mode of carry ing their wishes into effect. The result was a resolution that a piece of plate should be present e d to M r. Whitehead, and that he s h ou ld be invited to meet his o ld pup il s at a dinner to be given by the subscribers the re t o at R amsgate, on the 29th August following, being the twenty-first anni versary of the opening of his establishment in this town. The committee having carefully examined several designs, fixed upon one of a most elegant an d c h aste description ; the subscriptions having amounted to upwards of one hun dred and fifty pounds, being confined to those gentlemen who had finished their education under his care. At six o'clock yesterday, upwards of fi fty of his f ormer pupils sat down to a superb dinner, furnished from the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. The wines and des sert were of a most costly description. The chair was ably fill e d by W. H. Tilstone, Esq. After the usual public toasts had been ',riven, the President, in an eloquent and feeling speech, addressed Mr. Whitehead, stating that on him had devolved the pleasing task of presenting to their respected preceptor and valued friend, a small token of re gard from his old pupils, who Ivere desi rous o f testifying i their gratitude for the valuableinstruction which they had received whilst under his charge, by which they had become qualified for holding their present situations in society. He begged to express the sincere wishes of his schoolfellows and himself, that Mr. Whitehead and his family might enjoy many years of health and happiness.—(Long con tinued cheers.) . After some time Mr. Whitehead rose, but was so over powered by his feelings that he was unable to give utterance to a syllable. At length his words found vent, and he as sured the Chairman and his old boys how truly that was a proud day for him. When be saw himself surrounded by so many of his former pupils, with whom he had also conti nued upon the most friendly terms since they quitted his roof, he had no power to express his feelings, and should ever regard the memo r i a l b e f ore hi m with the greatest pride and gratification ; that be should hand it down to his son, whom be hoped would succeed him in the education of youth, with his prayer that the same kind feeling might al ways exist between his son and his pupils, that always existed between his own scholars and himself.--(Long cheers.) The health of Mrs. Whitehead was then given with loud cheers, and sincerely was she greeted as the boys' friend, both in sickness and in health. Many other toasts were given, accompanied by some ex cellent speeches from Messrs. Tilstone, Henry, Curling, Hilouse, White, Oakley, Hamilton, &c. Shortly before twelve Mr. Whitehe a d rose t o re ti re , w h en he ag a i n addressed his old boys and repeated his gratifica tion, adding that the events of the day had made an im pression on his heart never to be obliterated. A numerous company of ladies and gentlemen were admitted to witness the presentation of the plate, and were liberally regaled with wine, fruit, tea and coffee. The design of the plate was both chaste and elegant, being of frosted and burnished sil ver, viz., two female figures on a tripod, supporting a basket ; on the vase was the following inscription : Presented THOMAS WHITEHEAD, ESQ., of Chatham House, Ramsgate, by his former Pupil F, on the 21st anniversary of his establishment, in grateful remembrance of the able, unwearied, and conscientious exertions of their preceptor and friend, 28th August, 1836. The plate was purchased from Messrs. Green and Ward, Cockspur-street. Much praise was due to the managing committee for the selection of the plate and fbr the general arrangements. The whole proceedings must have been highly gratifying to Mr. Whitehead and his family ; nor must it be considered adulatory when we say that the worth of the man deserved the memorial, as was stated by his oldest pupil, Mr. Henry, in his eloquent speech, that to none could he more appropriately apply " palmam qui meruit, ferat," than to his tutor. If a devoted love of his profession, assiduity, a conscientious discharge of duty to those committed to his custody, and, above all an ever active principle within to guide his actions, mark the upright man, Mr. IVhitehead is that man ! ST. LUKE'S, CHELSEA. DEFEAT OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY. Since the commencement of the present week the rate payers of this very extensive and populous parish have been much excited in consequence of a poll of the whole parish taking place, which had been demanded, on Thursday last, by the Conservative parochial authorities, on the question as to the legality of confirming the minutes of a vestry held on the 14th ult., at which meeting a motion was car ried to increase the salary of Mr. Newsom, the assistant overseer, from eighty guineas to 1301. per annum. The following is a brief report of the proceedings which took place this day week. Mr. Churchwarden Davis was called to the Chair. Mr. AV. CORNEL, the vestry-clerk, read the notice con vening the meeting, from which it appeared that it had been called for the purpose (among others) " of confirming the minutes of vestry of the 14th ult., and the increase of salary voted to the assistant-overseer." Several gentlemen here contended that the confirmation of the minutes was unnecessary. The VESTRY-CLERK explained—lt had been the custom for the last thirty years, whenever an increase of salary was voted to any of the parochial officers, to convene a second vestry meeting to confirm the minutes of the preceding one, as well as to give an opportunity to any rate-payer to express his sentiments thereon. Mr. NEWLAND urged that the confirmation of the mi nutes of any meeting was necessary in order to legalise the proceedings. Mr. DUCKETT opposed the confirmation of the minutes, and trusted that the friends of reform would by their votes put a final stop to such an unnecessary increase of Mr. Newsom's salary, and an additional burden on the poor rates. He (Mr. Duckett) would like to know what good reason could be assigned for increasing Mr. Newsom's sa lary to 1301., when the duties had been diminished. Could any other tradesman of the parish add 1/. a week to his income, and do nothing for it ? He should feel it his bounden duty to submit the whole of the present proceed ings to the notice of the Commissioners. Mr. VINALL moved " That the increase of salary voted to the assistant-overseer be confirmed." Mr. CHALMERS, the rector's warden, seconded the reso lution. Mr. DUCKETT moved the following amendment : " That it is the opinion of this vestry that the minutes of the 14th of July last, respecting the increase of salary to the assistant-overseer, be not confirmed, and that such in crease be rejected." Mr. KtcapmaN seconded the amendment. The amendment was carried by a large majority. A poll was demanded on the question, and granted, and the vestry adjourned. On Tuesday morning, at eight o'clock, the parochial authorities, with a number of the most respectable inhabi tant householders, attended at the vestry-room for the pur pose of commencing the poll. At the close of the poll, at six o'clock, there appeared— For the original resolution For Mr. Duckett's amendment Majority Yesterday morning, the poll commenced at the same hour in the morning as on the preceding day, and closed at seven o'clock in the evening. The Liberal party strenuously exerted themselves, and their exertions were crowned with success, notwithstanding the determined opposition of their opponents. At the cast i ng up of the numbers of both days' poll, there appeared For the original r eso l ut i on For Mr. Duckett's amendment Majority for the Liberals 47 The result of the poll was received by the parishioners in the vestry-room, which was crowded to excess, with the most deafening cheers, and also by the assembled multitude at the doors. In the course of the debate a violent altercation ensued, in which Mr. Duckett, who holds an appointment in the Secretary's office of Chelsea Hospital, was violently as saulted by Mr. Johnson, a surgeon, of College-street, who hurled with considerable violence the ruler of the Chair man's desk at his.head, which struck him, as it was under stood, a little below the eye on the right check, and much injured him. Mr. Johnson was immediately surrounded by the friends of Mr. Duckett, at whose hands he received a severe castigation. The affair terminated in a general row, and had it not been for the united exertions of the active parochial constables in rescuing him from the hands of the crowd, he would doubtless have been murdered. ur townsman' Mr. Duke, sheriff elect of London and Middlesex, has evinced his respect ' for Montrose by send ing cards of invitation to the sheriffs' inauguration dinner, on the 30th instant, to our provost, bailies, town-clerks, &C. The Lord Mayor has testifi e d hi s good feeling towards Mr. Duke by granting the use of the Egyptian Hall, with all the magnificent city plate ' • and, as this is the first instance of the Mansion-ho use being granted for such an occasion, the enter tainment is likely to be on a scale of unusual splendour. Montrose is undoubtedly the first provincial town which can boast of two of its sons filling, at the same moment, the high offices of Members of Parliament and of sheriff of the meti•o politan c ounty.—Montrose Review. • VAUXHALL GARDENS. Last evening these delightful gardens closed for the sea son—a season distinguished by a series of attractions supe rior, in many respects, to any hitherto offered. The extra ordinary performances of the Ravel Nay, the various balloon ascents, and the numerous and picturesque altera tions conferred by the taste of the proprietors on the spot, have all tended to collect an accession of visitors more nu merous than we have for many years had the gratification of witnessing. The following valedictory address was im pressively delivered by Mr. Buckingh am : Ladies and Gentlemen,—The gratifying duty of thank ing you for your kind patronage and support during the past season has devolved on me. A leave-takin g is at all times unpleasant, but it is doubly so in the present instance, when we are about to part from a friend, whose smiles, I may say, are our food, whose applause our greatest luxury ; nay, whose breath is our very existence. Such a friend is-- the public ! Still, ladies and gentlemen, disagreeable as this parting must be, it is rendered in some measure pleas ing by the thought, that during the present season we have crought forward those novelties for your entertainment which have secured your kind approbation r we have endeavoured to produce amusements acceptable both to the higher and middling classes, and I am proud to say that the ye nerable edifice above me has never, in the most prosperous days of the Royal Gardens, looked down upon such as semblages of grace and fashion as have flocked around it during the past season. It is, indeed, gratifying for the proprietors of such an establishment as this to see their pro menades honoured by the presence of the nobility and gentry of their country. Although this evening is the last of those termed night-entertainments, the Gardens will be opened on Friday for a day fete, with a novelty unknown in this or any other nation. I allude to the Vauxhall Bal loon, constructed in these Gardens by Mr. Green, which has recently occupied no inconsiderable portion of the public curiosity. Mr. Green will make a voyage through the aerial regions, with from eight to ten persons. I have only now, Ladies and Gentlemen, to tender you the heartfelt thanks of the performers of this establishment, as well as my own, for the uniform approval of our bumble efforts to please, and most respectfully bid you farewell." AN ORANGEMAN'S VISIT TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. (From the Cork Evening Herald.) Sir Robert Peel brought a large roll of papers under his arm, laid it on the table, and put on his hat—Members I was told since enter the House uncovered in respect to the Speaker. He took his scat next Lord Stanley, and spoke to him very closely—rubbing his right hand over his left one, both perched up at the time on the cap of his knee, for his legs were crossed. All the world has seen Sir Robert's portrait. I therefore will not stay to say what sort of a face be has. His person is running gently into bon point, height five feet ten and a half—perhaps eleven— the ieft shoulder a trifle lower than the right one, which in walking gives him the appearance of a short arm. He dresses always the same way—blue frock, buff waistcoat, black stock, well made trousers and boots ; the hat, I must say, smells terribly of Bond-street—scarcely sober enopgh for a man of 48 years. Lord Francis Egerton was busy preparing to bring on his amendment on the Municipal Bill, and kept tying, un tying, and settling papers and documents all the time I was there until he rose. Sir James Graham, Sir Robert Inglis, Sergeant Jackson, Charles Ross, and such Members of the Opposition filled the remaining seats on the front bench appropriated to the Conservatives. Lord John Russell, Lord Howick, Mr. Spring Rice, and Lord Palmerston sat next each other at the Ministerial side—the back benches at each side meanwhile filled with the retainers of both parties. Joe Hume sat stretched out on the second form above Ministers, and made room for O'Connell when the latter came in ; when he did, the strangers' gallery was all excitement to see that notorious gentleman. The House was inordinately full on that particular day before the Speaker came in—a very rare thing—so that both armies sat pitched in camp viewing each other long before " The sun peeped o'er the heath, To lighten all the field of death, And show wha' would be best." When the first Commoner did come in, all the Members arose until he took the Chair. Then a very well-looking, dignified man in a surplice, and with a book in his hand, read prayers—impressively, and in a clear, loud tone : from all the marks and tokens I took hint to be a parson. I took especial notice that O'Connell was not in the House during that divine service ; nothing less than the Latin tongue, it seems, satisfies the Kerryman. I considered the prayers quite long enough, to be candid with you, for we were terribly disturbed about this time for room in the gallery. As we resumed our seats, my com municative friend gave me a short dig in the ribs, accom panying the gesture by telling me, before I could recover my breath, that the stout white-headed " man" I might have noticed kneeling with one knee, and who blessed him self after prayers, was Mr. Callaghan, the Member for Cork. Of this being fully aware, I had no need of infor mation on the subject, having voted for him at the last election. I was just pondering on the great advantage of dying in Cork, if a man makes up his mind to die any where, in con sequence of all the fine epitaphs spoken about you after, when I got a smart knock on the sconce from a tidy little man in black silk stockings, intended to apprise me that I broke silence too loud. This threw me, as the newspapers say, and my "immediate vicinity, into a state of the utmost alarm and consternation," and for the next three quarters of an hour I was roasted and half smothered in perfect silence. I waited until the business part of the evening was transacted—that, I saw, consisted of Members standing up, and seeming to say something—judging from their mouths, which opened and shut like people talking, and the thumps and swings of their arms ; after which they marched round the table and gave a paper, about which they were talking the minute before, to all appearance, to the Speaker, who gave it to a gentleman in spectacles, who stood up, and said it was " the humble petition of the undersigned,"and crammed it, no more to do, into a sort of vault between his legs, where it was under consigned for evermore. At this fine there was as much noise in the house as there generally is in a school-room when the master is out, so that you could not hear one word. The next day, the papers said that Mr. supported such a petition " very ably"—perhaps they ar rived at the conclusion from the number of knocks, or the various twists and turns of the speaker's body during his elo quent address, but it shows what a difficult art reporting accurately is, when the force and beauty of a man's senti ments are understood from all the wry faces be makes, and from the specific gravity of his sledging on the benches. This doubtless gave rise to the term, a " decided hit." You see how one improves by travelling. At long and at last there sprang up a faint breeze of hope—Lord Francis Egerton stood up, and silence enchained all tongues, as Tom Moore says. The Noble stopped settling himself— hemming and clutching his hips with his hands for about five minutes, and then proceeded. I listened patiently for a long time, afraid to think he wasn't a" splendid speaker," but my friend drew hi s under lip over hi s upper one, an d bobbed up his head, in which opinion thus expressed I agreed, and exchanged signals with him, betokening that our minds, as they say of new married people, were in a state of most undisturbed harmony. There was an absence of violence and proper energy about the man that I thought very odd : what he said was sensible enough and well rounded, yet 1 could not account for the wilful omission and neglect of either stamping or striking the small desk that was put under his knuckles, so that th ere could be no apology for want of opportunity or proper materials to strike. Then the audience, -I protest, was infamous in the extreme—a breathless silence and profound attention, so that every man seemed to me to be weighing his argu ments and listening to his reasons for proposing t he amen , d.. ment at all. I thought th e ass embly altogether a regu ar humbug. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. HOPS IN FRANCE.—Accounts from Bailleul, dated 31st of August, state the fine weather of the previous eight days had very much strengthened the hop plants, and an abun dant crop is expected. Th e picking was about to com mence. The prices anticipated for the new hops is from 601. to 65f., equal to 48s. to .525. per English cwt. At Properingue and at Alost the great number of the plants are very weak, and not than half an average crop is calculated on. WOOLLENS IN FRANCE.—LAvAun, AuG fia 3 t o ; . Tut A t so t m he e fair of Toulouse t he cloth trade was very sales of low goods were made at steady prices. Several contracts have been made with merchants from Bourdeaux, to deliver to the manufacturers of Chalabre and the vicinity at good prices. SILK IN FRANCE.---LAVAUR, AUG. 30.—The prices of raw silk keep up, and are expected to d o un til th e nex t crop comes to market. The spinners of this town have now Improved so much, that their goods fetch as high a price as those of Cevennes. Y terd, .esterday afternoon, on the arrival of the Sylph, a Woolwich steam-packet, at. Hungerford-stairs, as the mate was in the a c t o f jumping off the vessel on to the floating pier, for the purpose of making a rope fast, he stepped short, and fell between the barge and the steamer into the water; an alarm was raised, and the greatest alacrity was displayed by the watermen and peopl e b e l ong ing to the steamer, but ten minutes elapsed before the mate was found. He was taken ashore to the Dolphin public-house, where every means were used to r es t ore an i mat i on, b ut t h ey prove d unsuccessful. It is supposed the man ' s d eat h was ca used by striking against the barge in falling. THAMES TUNNEL COMPANY.' A special meeting of the Proprietors of this Coln• pany was held yesterday, at the City of London Ta. 'vern, fcr the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and a statement of the accounts, &c. BENJ. HAWES, Esq., took the Chair. The CHAIRMAN stated that he felt great pleasure in informing the meeting that the engineer had ad. vanced sixty feet further under the river since the in. troduction of the new shield, making upwards of 700 feet in the whole. The success of the undertaking was placed beyond a doubt, as there was good hard ground to proceed with the work. When it was con• sidered that, in order to proceed with the work, they had to use a machine weighing 140 tons, propelled under a pressure of 3,000 tons, under the bed of the Thames, it was not desirable to proceed too rapidly ; but, on the contrary, that every step taken should be regulated with care and caution. The total number of persons that had visited the tunnel since its formation, was 300,000, among whom were distinguished fo reigners and several Royal Personages. It would not be long, he believed, before the proprietors would be enabled to go into the tunnel at Rotherhithe, and come out at Wapping.—(Hear.) Mr. CHARLIER, the Company's Clerk, then read the report. It stated that the Directors felt great sa tisfaction in stating that since the report in March. last, 60 feet of the brickwork of the Tunnel had been. completed, making nearly 700 feet under the Thames_ When the stoppage in 1828 took place it was occa sioned by no difficulties of an engineering nature, but solely from the ori g i na l cap i tal of the Company being exhausted. At that time about 599 feet out of 1,300 feet were completed for the sum of 120,0001. only. The Directors never received of the or ig inal subscrip tions more than 182,0001. The difference between these sums, viz., 62,0001., was, as had been fre quently stated to the proprietors, absorbed by the purchase of land, machinery, engines, store, build ings, Parliamentary and other expenses (includin g the cost of maintaining the works during the period of their suspension of nearly seven years), and by the extra expenditure occasioned by the two irruptions of the river. The Directors stated that the new shield had fully answered the purpose, and has en abled the work to proceed through some portions of ground in almost a fluid state: Some idea may be formed of the extent of the excavation which it enables the miners to carry on through the ground, of the consis tency just mentioned, and which it preserves until the brickwork is completed, when it is known that the area before and around it is equal to 2,000 superficial feet, over the whole of which vents are opened for the in filtration of water from the river and land springs. After entering at some length into various particulars 'dative to the.carrying on of the works, &c., &c., the report concluded by stating that the Directors continued their unabated confidence in Mr. Brunel, and reiterated their opinion that at no very distant period this great undertaking will be completed. The CHAIRMAN stated, that since June Mr. Brunei had been able to proceed with the works at the rate of 4 feet per week. When he was able to go on at the rate of five feet a week the expense of the undertaking would be less than the estimate sent in to Government —(Hear, hear)—and in a short time he had no doubt but that the work would be proceeded with at the rate of .eight or nine feet per week. The Clerk then read the accounts, from which it appeared that in June there was a balance in hand of 3,000/. The CHAIRMAN said, that previous to June, Go vernment had advanced 30,0001. and since then 10,0001. in addition, and the probability was, that another 10,000/. would very shortly be advanced. The report was unanimously adopted, and ordered to be entered on the minutes. In answer to a Proprietor, the CHAIRMAN said, that a stranger visiting the works at the Tunnel, might think the falling of earth, &c., were matters of an appal ling nature, whilst those who were conversant with the works would think nothing about them. The writer _ _ of a letter to a Morning Paper, might therefore pos sibly feel all he had stated. A complaint had been also made to the Navigation Committee, but when the Company attended to meet the charge, no complainant appeared—(Hear, hear)—and the Lord Mayor acted upon the occasion in a manner that was highly grati fying to the Company. At the suggestion of Mr. ADAMS, it was arranged that for the future, the liabilities of the Company should be set out in the accounts furnished to the Pro prietors. Upon the motion of Mr. HANKEY, the thanks of the meeting were given to the Directors. The CHAIRMAN having acknowledged the compli ment, the meeting separated. Let Norway and Sweden in all their internal affairs remain two independent sovereign States, each with its own Legislation, Administration, &c. ; in this respect there is not in Sweden any wish, any thought, different from the wishes of the Norwegian nation. But what every reflecting Swede must wish as earnestly, especially considering how Sweden is exposed to its too powerful neighbour in the East, is, that the kingdoms may in all internal affairs, in all rela tions to Foreign Powers, and in all matters concerning their defence, not remain so divided as they now are, but form oue whole ; and truly, it seems that every reflecting Norwegian should join in this wish, for it would be idle to imagine that after the bulwark of Norway had fallen—after Sweden had become a Russian province, the Norwegian nation could long maintain its independence against the preponderance of Rus sia. But it is clear that such au union cannot be hoped for so long as a mistrust is cherished in the Norwegian nation that every proposal coming from Sweden aims at the amalgamation of the two countries—so long as national aversion is kept alive by insinuations that everything unpopular in Norway originates in Sweden.—Argus,... a Swedish paper. THE GOOSE V. THE LAPSTONE.—St. Monday has been a social fellow time out of mind ; his very breath is redolent of " heavy wet," and peradventure of grog—and he wields for a sceptre a well-filled pipe of the best bird's-eye. No wonder, then, his subjects are frolicsome and funny, or that tailors and shoemakers, of all others, should delight to bask in his sunny smile. This week his godship held a field-day, and even on Tuesday a party of his subjects—the thoughts of their patron hanging in their heads—assembled at the Cups, at Springfield, where five tailors—aye, every inch of them tailors— entered the cricket-ground against some members of the honourable order of the hammer and the lapstone. How, it will be asked, could five tailors dare to oppose two men? That we cannot answer ; tailors arc evidently improving in courage. We recollect to have heard of one some time since who ac tually enlisted for a soldier, and only fainted three times in. biting off the end of a blank cartridge. However, Tuesday last was not a day for fainting ; the tailors pressed their oppo nents very hard, and ultimately won the suit. The shoemakers having received a good welting, the parties retired to Mrs. Murrell's parlour, and "mine host" attended very satisfactorily to their inside lining.—Essex Herald. ANTIQUITY OF RACING.—Sir Simon d'Ewes, in his Journal, speaks of " a horse race, near Linton, in Cam bridgeshire, in the reign o f J ames the First, at which town most of the company slept on th e night of the race." Ga- tlierly, in Yorkshire; Croydon, i n Surrey; Theobald's, on Enfield Chace, when the King was resident, were the spots where races were run. This King (James I.) bought an Arabian horse of Mr. Markham, and gave 5001. for him. He was the first of that country which had ever been seen in England. Races were held at Newmarket the latter end of Charles 1., although the round course was not made till 1666. In this King's reign races were run in Hyde-park, as appears from a comedy called The Merry Beggars ; or, Jovial Crew, 1641. " Shall we make a fling to London, and see how the spring appears there, in Spring-garden and in Ilyde-park, to see the races, horse and foot ?"—Sporting Magazine. There is a Company formed, and a very extensive building erected, by Mr. Cubitt, with powerful steam-engines, on Bankside to make Sugar from Beet-root, under the direc tion of Mr. Hoare, the banker, and several opulent Quakers. It is expected they will commence early in October. The Messager de Marseilles states, that on the 0 6th ult., a young man went to the Mayor, pretending that b e b a d been made privy to a new conspiracy against the life of the King, but that, being terrified by the consequences, he had resolved to reveal the whole plot. The account be gave, how ever, was so confused and inconsistent, that the Mayor soon suspected he was an impostor, and on making the necessary inquiries, discovered that the co n h s a e d i e l n a t t i e o l u y s a y r r o i t e h d , f i r n o s in tea c d on of ( sTa m nt i i n n gmn op fr lein Pthaeriis,/eaisiribetetes,ahiad;ing since got into debt at seve ral hotels. It appeared that he belonged to a respectable family at Paris, and took this step in order to get conveyed home at the expense of the Government. We understand that the Dock Trustees have re ceived a reply to their last application to Government, which completely settles the question as to the future trusteeship and management of the Dock estate. The clause in the Muni cipal Act which continues to the new Town Councils all the powers of the old Corporations as trustees, is, by a proviso in another clause, suspended, so far as regards the Liverpool Docks, until the first day of November next, and no longer. Away they go on the first day of November. The Town Council will then become trustees of the Docks. , There is great room for reform and improvement. • The interests of the town depend upon it; and we look with confidence to many improvements, and to good management for the future.— Liverpool Mercury.