The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-19 00:00:00

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D b the L c on 10 to Eenco ael's con aced ,or; Ling Dine it is laVc4 i ger and , ,ich Ty I VIEETING of the UNITED PARISHES (IF ST. STEPHEN'S. 11" A T,TIR 00K, AND ST. BEET, SHEREHOG.—(IIIIS DAY.) A crowded meeting of the most influential rate-payers of the above parishes' took place this day in the vestry room of St. Stephen's, to take into consideration a letter addressed to Messrs. Rock and Flight, the church- Wardsns. The Rev. Dr. CROLY was called to the chair. Mr. ROCK said, that before proceeding to the proper business of the meeting, he would take the liberty of dtlling their attention to a meat singular account of a meeting said to be held yesterday in that room. The account appeared in the Times of that morning. He ;r,as sure, that every one who had read it, would with express his surprise at the impudence of the person Who could send such a report to the Times ; and he (Mr. Rock) was sure that every well-thinking man in that parish must disclaim any connection with it. lie was utterly at a loss to conceive how any friend or enemy of Dir. Alderman Gibbs Could have sent Such a statement. He was sure that any gentleman there Would shudder at making the charges against the late churchwarden that that report did, and he hoped that all in the meeting would repudiate in the strongest term s any participation in such a disgraceful transaction. lie did it, fur one ; and he thought that all ought to ex- Press their disapprobation of such a procedure. Their cause was best served by truth and moderation, not by the injurious modes like that he had alluded to. Mr. HowITT could not help thinking that Mr. Rock was raking this matter much too seriously. It bore upon the face of it the character of a hoax, and he should be quite as ready to disclaim any of the articles which had appeared in Punch as that under consideration. They Wer e o f the same family—(A laugh)—and had, he thought, been richly deserved by the individual to whom they had immediate reference. Mr. Rocs—l trust you had nothing to do with it. Mr. Howirr—No, on my honour ; but yet I think the subject of it has richly merited it. Dr. CnoLv.—lt is right to disclaim it at all events, and now I hope the Chairman will open the business. Mr. F LIGH T said that he had received the letter he held in his hand from their Rector, Dr. Croly, and he immediately determined to call a meeting on the subject, Its he considered that its weighty purport deserved the attention of the united parishes, and that its importa nce 415 0 required that attention immediately. He would bow read the letter : " Gentlemen, —As in the course of this month two sears of my income as afternoon lecturer of this parish Will be due, will you have the goodness to let me know When the arrears will be paid.—l am yours faithfully, " G. CROLY, LL.D." N a p he said, that as regarded these two years of arrears their bands were completely tied as churchwardens. The question of law in which they were engaged was not Yet settled, and would not probably be heard till Christ buts. Although Mr. Rock and himself were willing to advance any moneys, yet they were restricted from doing so by the very peculiar circumstances in w hich they were placed. Their self-elected churchwarde n had 'received all the revenue, but shut his breeches pocket 4 0 fast that none was refunded ; and therefore it was t hat he (Mr. Flight) had written to Mr. Rock for his C onsent that that meeting should be held , to confer as to „ "le best mode of acting in such an emergency. He had be doubt that any difficulty in which they were placed ,euld be overcome by the united exertions of the meet ing. —(Hear, hear.) Mr. TIPPITTS, of St. Benets, was at a loss to under- Itasul why the parish to which he belonged should be in terested in this matter. „ Dr. CROLY would at once explain the reason. They, the parish of St. Stephen's, were not allowed to go to a higher expense than 51. in the repairing of the church , With the consent of the other parish ; and on the pre _eent occasion the reason why both parishes was sum toned was to take into consideration, among other Titers, the dilapidated state of that edifice. There : 8 4 nothing more painful to himself than to come for- Ward on any personal subject, but still they were aware tit when a duty was done it should also be paid for.— 1 11 ear.) He was not speaking merely for himself, he As o also speaking for others. The arrears of the :ganist were now five quarters, for in that time he had n ot been once paid. The sextoness was six quarters in I Prear—(Cries of " Shame.")—and he, therefore, spoke ,` In their conjoint names. These were things that con nected themselves with the services of the church, and ilich he humbly conceived called for immediate attention. lThere were other duties also, but to those he would not r ( en advert. Let them suppose, however, that those la Aries would not be paid for five years to come, lie did , 0 t say that they should not be ; but supposing the Crganist unpaid for that time, why the services of the a nd consequently would cease. The sextoness would also cease , consequently the parish service would be seriously arranged, and, therefore, it was he called upon them btake a rate in order to overcome the difficulty. He te °l 3 E4 that his observations would that day be calm and crlaerate as they had always been. He hoped that in his remarks he would maintain a dispassionate bear -17, and above all, he also trusted that the speakers ( 1 1 Id not in any way conned the business of their m eeting that day with any external matter in the City. Z(.Rear.) Ile disclaimed all possible connection of the 4 Nurs of that parish with things out of the parish. For I .llmber of years it was well known that no account k 1 been given of the expenditure or re cei p ts of the pa ' ,411 . Be wade no remark on that subject, but it so hap pened that the dilapidation of the church was observed, 1 ' 4 4 in 1842 it was represented to the Archdeacon by the con dition of St. Stephen's. Last year the wretched , n of the church was again brought under his notice, a joint meeting of the parishes was called, and the et, tis h.; e k q u ence was, that a demand was made to know what " been done with the parish money, and to know ge sierals',y how the state of affairs stood. At that time the late cLurchwarden came forward, and requeste d that time should be given. He (I)r. Croly) was not at th at meeting, but from his position in the par ish he " t e cessarily took the chair at the next meeting that w as lie then begged that the parish would give the t ime required by the churchwarden to bring forward 11 q accounts, and time was accordingly given. He had ' 4 , 41 (1 but few words himself, but he had sufficiently ex tossed his opinion that everything should be done with uderation—that the greatest possible conside ration il ueu.h.l be paid to that gentleman ; and that the incon venience to which he might be subjected by a demand f or ready money, should be allowed for. At a subse tlent day a deputation waited upon im with a request at h e would give up his accountsh to the period in 3 1 iesti on . They came away and said that they saw, in ed, not the accounts, but a p ortion of them, which the y deemed quite unsatisfactory. Afterwards an p iPPlication was made to the Lord Mayor to Znapel the production of the ac counts, and illt_vr that again, the state o f affairs had me so gloomy that a bill W 33 filed in Chancery by a gentleman well-known among them, and who had been : I ,keeedingly useful in the parish. — (Hea r, hear. ) He `r• Croly) was one of the select vestr y , but all that he " Saw of the accounts could be very briefly recounted. Notice given him the day before the meeting of the vestry L oa . t if he called upon Alderman Gibbs at his residence, 'Clween the hours of eleven and one , the a ccounts should "e shown to him. These were the accounts of nineteen and as he (Dr. Croly) was not infallible, as he reuld not boast a mind of railway power = (A lau g h ) — tr declined to look over them. They were aware of 4 e painful circumstances of that next - day's meeting— ' „, .[the policeman placed at the door of the sacred edifice — ° I die system of espionage pursued — of the bo l ts and the bars that were undrawn before admittance could be ined to the vestry - room. Th e y were aware that he 111) r. Croly) was in the chair at that meeting, and he 13 tild tell c'hem that if a motion had been brought in to A Pass the accounts he should not have p ut it.—(Hear.) "l'S it was they were ordered to be printed. There were pvouchers for the transactions in th o s e accounts, but 2 4 * gentlemen appointed by the c hurchwarden himself Were t o audit them.—(Hear, hear.) He said that no ~.4 L - t nunts should be received from th e p arish unless the y :r re compared with the proper v ou chers. Well, from the published accounts , it app eared that when Alderman 'Tibbs took the office of churchwarden, some nineteen t : s t twenti7 years ago, there was a ba lance in '„!_ 11 hands. From that account, also, it a pp eared it f or twelve years he had raised no rates t ° meet the difficulties of the parish, but at the en d of that period he charged the parish with a debt of 1,8001. (Hear, hear.) He now came to the condition of the *church itself. Their church was now in a state of dis- Ltk'aceful squalidness. lie himself had seen the rain Ul lkitling through the roof, and if any one had curiosity enovgh to look behind the pulpit, they could trace the boorw of the water there.—(Hear.) A portion of the b;irafiss• of the tower had fallen down, and it was owing `o th e s las srciful providence of God that it did not crush S ome o f she persons in the street. One of the finest of the archite,atoral structures in their country was thus 1 1t a miseraNes state of ruin, and they were stand in g t here without a shilling.—(Hear.) Yes, there they S tood, with a ci :tapidated church—with no revenues — and in d e servants of the parish. — (Hear.) o m e attempted for the late church warden ; he (Dr. Cro.‘Y) had examined that defence ith a calm and tenni:i.e.-02c mind, and he could only ; 1 ; Aie to the conclusion t hat it was mere declama "oll, and did not disprove a single fact.—(Hear , hear.) The question now was, what Was to be done ? That he i would leave with themselves , and he ho p ed the y would °e enabled to provide the parish, the country, and him self a speedy remedy.--(Hear, hear.) Mr. CUNLIFFE wished to know what difficulties stood in the way of their making a rate there ? (Mr. Rock w He (Mr. Cunliffe) wis he d the 'entry -clerk ‘ils going to answer.) 'westry-clerk to answer his questio:n. .Mr. JONES, Vestry-clerk of St. .13alet's, said that their Parissh would be willing to bear the.ir ,share of the ra te kr the churchwardens of St. Stephen's 'could get their awn . pevtion of it raised. A 7-, CVNLIFFE thought that was getting o wethe diffis r betty, b u t he should have wished that their ow:n Vestry qerls had eiswered his question. t The VEST;LY•CLERK of St. Stephen's said i t Was if ee ( ta no want of respect to Mr. Cun 's that. he did not at first answer. The ' question vut of which the present difficulty arose „ Was simply this, wbo were de jure the churchwar dens at ' , Mt time? The matter was depending in the higher Courts , and if a rate were attempted to be levied before t he, settlement of that question Messrs. Rock and Flight '1,41n find themselves in a situation of considerable " culty. The attempt to enforce a rat e then would onl y l ead to useless litigation, and therefore it was that be t hought it best avoided. Mr. Curamm said, that if they went on in that way, t ., h is ey would be in the same situation seven years hence as were then. Mr. Rocs said there were many disadvantages to con let d against in making a rate. It appeared that their reve, sme was enough to pay their expences, and more than enough, and it would seem a mo st un j udicious thing f or the 'lemons whose right to the church-wardership Was y u L'oned, to attempt for the first time in twelve . Years o f , mil the parish for a rate which tho se p ersons ' 4 814 • p e no ight to impose. t Llielhad endeavoured to guard against the difficulty at the time the decree which was some time ago made, was established, by a special agreement being entered into between Mr. Alderman Gibbs's counsel and his own counsel, that during the liti gation the rents of the parish should be applied to the purposes of the parish. About a month or two ago Mr. Alderman Gibbs's solicitor wrote to his (Mr. Rocks) solicitor, expressing the intenton of Mr. Alderman Gibbs so to apply the money. It, however, .appeared by the subsequent answer of Mr. Alderman Gibbs in the Court of Chancery, that since that time there had been an accumulation in his hands of 2471., which was quite enough, as far as he was aware of, to quit any claim that was outstanding against the parish. It was quite enough to pay the lecturer, the sexton, the organist, and all current expenses of the parish. Mr. CUNLIFFE—Not the poor. Mr. Rocx. continued. He therefore thought that by making a rate as suggested by Mr. Cunliffe, they would only be seeking litigation with every individual in the parish; and they would thereby plunge their unhappy district into fresh troubles. He disclaimed anything like a wish to make this a municipal question. No longer ago than yesterday he told Mr. Alderman Gibbs's solicitor, that if Mr. Gibbs would show a fair and honest account, .he (Mr. Rock) would make every allowance for the difficulty of producing the accounts. He would do more if Mr. Gibbs would show an honest account ; he (Mr. Rock) would do all in his power to support the Alderman's claim to the civic chair, rather than endea vour to keep him from it.—(Hear, hear.) He merely wanted him to produce a clear account to the parish. If he would do this, they (the churchwardens) would sit from day to day until they had gone through it. Would not the simple verdict of that vestry, that the accounts were correct, do more for Alderman Gibbs than he could ever do or say for kimself.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Rock) therefore implored him to take this course. In the meantime it remained for them to consider what they were to do in this matter. It seemed to him that there was one of two courses open for their adoption, to call upon Mr. Alderman Gibbs to do that which he had promised, namely, to pay over the 2471. which he had in hand, or else for them to open a subscription, which he (Mr. Rock) would be very happy, as far as his humble means went, to support. Dr. CROLY—I object to a subscription. Mr. ROCK said he meant a subscription to defray the salaries of the subordinate officers of the church. Mr. IIowETT said, whatever was their disposition to wards Alderman Gibbs, that nothing but censure could issue from that room against a man who had paid so little attention to the affairs of their parish. Why should they try to assist a man who obstinately refused to assist himself. Several voices—He has had enough of censure already. Mr. TIBBETTS suggested that Mr. Alderman Gibbs and Mr. Whittaker, and Mr. Rock and Mr. Flight, should jointly call a vestry, and levy a rate, irrespective to the question at issue with respect to the church wardenship. Mr. How Err said that had been proposed before, but it was considered a degradation on the part of the parish to hold any communication with Alderman Gibbs. Mr. JONES thought they ought not to let the church fall down because they were involved in litigation. That would be a degradation. Let them make a rate and re pair the church, and then they could afterwards decide as to the claims to the churchwardenship. Mr. TIBBETTS said he had no doubt that Mr. Alder man Gibbs would concur in the arrangement which he (Mr. Tibbetts) had suggested. Mr. JONES said that the parish of St. Benet Sherehog would willingly pay their quota. Mr. TlnnErrs thought a vestry of St. Stephen should be called for eleven o'clock on some day, and a vestry of St. Benet at twelve and they then could decide upon the rate that should be levied. Mr. FLIGHT said that unquestionably there were ample funds for the support of that church, and for the carrying out of their religious worship in a respectable manner. He had looked over the very voluminous accounts which had been submitted, for ho was perfectly ignorant of the duties of churchwarden when then they did him the honour to elect him, and he was anxious to ascertain what were the ordinary expenses of the parish ; and to his astonishment he found that an enormous amount of expenses were put down, for a period of nineteen years, for the maintenance of the religious worship in the church. He went to other churches, in order to make a comparison. He went to several City parishes, and he crossed over into Lambeth, to the populous parishes of that district, and he found that in no one parish were the expenses two-thirds:of those in St. Stephen's Walbrook, and the majority of them were not one half. He meant the expenses of maintaining the worship in the church. In many of the churches, which were larger than St. Ste phen's, the expenses were less than one-half what they were in Walbrook. He had documents in his pocket to show this. He had got his friends to make inquiries, and they discovered that in no parish were the expenses more than two-thirds of what they were in Walbrook ; at least, as they appeared in the accounts.—(Cries of " Oh, oh !" and laughter.) He would remind the vestry, too, that the property of the parish, if properly ma naged, would produce one-third more than it did at pre sent.—(Hear, hear.) Now if they reduced their ex penses one-third, and augmented their income one-third, there would be ample income to support the church, without calling on any gentleman for a single item of rate. Mr. Rock thought it was desirable that Mr. Flight and himself should endeavour to induce Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Whittaker, jointly, to call a vestry meeting, in order to raise a rate, without prejudice to the conflicting claims of the two parties to the churchwardenship. This, he thought, was the sense of the meeting. Mr. HOWETT thoughtpat Mr. Alderman Gibbs ought to be called upon to pay over the money which he had received since the litigation, towards the payment of the claims which now existed, that money to be applied to the purposes of the parish. Mr. Rom said this, of course, would be done. The rate would be made in order that the parish of St. Benet Sherehog should bear its quota. A resolution was then come to, that Mr. Alderman Gibbs and Mr. Whittaker should be requested to call a select vestry, jointly with Mr. Flight and Mr. Rock. Mr.reicur, in very complimentary terms, proposed a vote of thanks to Dr. Croly, for his able and impartial conduct in the chair. Mr. HOWETT seconded the motion. Dr. CROLY returned thanks, and in doing so, said that he had been actuated solely by a desire to see justice done to all parties in the course he had taken. He did not feel the slightest to any person whatever. The vestry then adjourned. THE PARISH OF WALBROOK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—We beg to inform you that the statement re lative to the parish of Wa'brook, which has been impu dently imposed on the Times of this morning, is a forgery, no meeting whatever having been held in the church yesterday. We remain, Sir, your most obedient servants, TIIOS. FLIGHT, WM. F. ROCK, Churchwardens of St. Stephen's. Walbrook, Sept. 19, 1844. "'ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. — Owing to the absence from town of several members of the council, the monthly meetings have been discon tinued until the 6th of November next, when the re gular session will commence. In the meantime prepara tions are going on for the next annual country meeting of the society, which has been appointed to take place at Shrewsbury, and which it is predicted will be highly at tractive, from the great interest which the leading agri culturists and breeders of stock in that part of the coun try take in the exhibition. PORTSOKEN WARD.—THE ALDERMANIC GOWN. — The precept for the election of an alderman to represent the ward Portsoken in the Court of Aldermen, has been issued by the Lord Mayor, who has appointed Wednes day, the 25th inst., as the day of nomination, when, in case of a contest, of which there is no doubt, the two fol lowing days will be occupied in taking the votes of the electors of the ward. THE MILITARY KNIGHTS OF Wmpson.—Lieute nant Richard Nantes, on half-pay of the 55th Regiment of Foot, has just been appointed one of the Military Knights of Windsor, in the room of the late Major Anderson, who died in the early part of last month. Lieutenant Nantes, who was engaged during the Penin sular war, entered the army in 1809, serving in the 7th Royal Fusiliers, and has been on half-pay since 1814. The number of applications to Sir James Graham, the Home Secretary, in whom the appointment is vested, subject to the approval of her Majesty, for the situation, was upwards of two hundred. Yesterday morning, at the conclusion of Divine worship at St. George's Chapel, 'Windsor, the statutes of Queen Elizabeth, for the go vernance of the Military Knights, were read over in the Chapter-room by Mr. Thomas Batcheldor, the newly appointed Chapter Clerk, in the presence of the Hon. and Rev. the Dean, and the whole of the Knights in residence. The Commissioners of Woods and Forests have just determined that no public sale by auction shall be suffered to take place, for the future, at the resi dences of the Military Knights, upon the decease of a member of that body. This new regulation has just been communicated to the executors of the late Major Ander son ; the reason assigned being the alleged injury which would be done to the house, by the numbers of persons who generally attend public auctions within the pre cincts of the Castle. According to the existing regula tions, the residence of a Military Knight must be vacated within one month after his decease. TOULON, SEPT. 13.—The brig of war L'Aigle, Capt. Martin, recently arrived from Cherbourg, sails to-mor row for Cadiz with dispatches, and from thence to Mo gadore, to join the blockade squadron. The following is the ceremony to be observed on the arrival of the gal lant Prince de Joinville :—The instant the vessel com manded by the Prince anchors in the roads, all the men of war are to hoist their colours, and fire three salutes ; the crew are to man the yards, and shout seven times 66 Vive 1e Roi." On leaving the vessel, he will be es weed on his right by the maritime prefect in his boat withtio Royal standard, and on his left by the maj or- gene .ataff. The boats of the commissary-general the constructions, the harbourmaster, are to ra l director and h e i f s n follow. The Prince w inland at the arsenal, and proceed from thence to the hot.' lof the prefecture. A guard of honour, of 100 men, commanded by a field officer, is to be her side is to be lined by tghiveenmtiolithairmy from The road. the prefecture. The garrison is to be under arm s. m the arsenal o n ether lt to Berwick Castle is to be levelled with the ground, in order to allow space for the terminus of the railway forming between that town and Edinburgh. A CRIMINAL LUNATIC.—It wi ll be remembered that at Monkwearmouth, during the election of 1841, Lord Howick was fired at by a man named Edward Lid dell. This individual has been admitted to the asylum of Mr. Kent, Sheriff Hill, his state of mind having been lately such as to render it improper for him to be at liberty.—Tyne Mercury. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. We regret to state that some serious accidents oc curred at a soldier's funeral in this town (Liverpool) on Monday last, which, but for the timely assistance rendered by the military and police, might have been at tended with fatal consequences. About three o'clock on that afternoon the funeral was passing along St. Anne-street, from the barracks in Soho-street, to wards St. James's Cemetery. It was preceded by Jolliffe's band and a party of soldiers, with their fire locks reversed, and it was followed by the chief mourners, another large party of soldiers, the officers in command of the detachment, and a considerable crowd, of the lower classes of the town. The novelty of the scene in Liyapool, together with the music in the "Dead March in Saul," induced immense numbers of spectators to stand upon the steps of most of the hall-doors in St. Anne-street, with the view of obtaining a more distinct view of what was passing ; and it was while the funeral pro cession was moving in the order described, and the street was in this state, that the accident happened. It seems that a horse and whitechapel, belonging to Mr. Alcock, tallow-chandler, of Islington, were either standing or going along the middle of the way, when the sound of the music frightened the animal, and caused him to plunge and rear in such a manner as to cause the utmost apprehension for the lives of the bystanders. He foamed at the mouth —threw up his forelegs—became altogether unmanageable, and, at last, rushed upon the footpath and up the steps of a hall-door, crowded with spectators at the time, and which is situate close to a house occupied by the Licensed Victuallers' Society, not far distant from the judge's lodgings. The women and children, who were upon the steps, screamed terrifically, and for a while the utmost con sternation prevailed. At this period the band ceased to play, the procession halted, and the soldiers broke from their ranks and ran with many others to seize the infuriated animal. They failed, however, in ac complishing this laudable object until after he had knocked down and injured several of the persons on the steps. Amongst others, one of the wheels passed over the body of a lad 14 years of age, named John Couch. Ile was immediately attended by Dr. Burgess, of Queen Anne-street, who stated that he was internally injured, but not, we believe, fatally. One of the wheels also passed over the body of an elderly woman, named Bridget Steekes, who was re moved to the Northern Hospital, and received the promptest medical assistance. She complained of her side ; and it was believed that one of her ribs had been broken. The others received bruises and contusions, not, however, of any serious consequence; and a few were bleeding from wounds received in various parts of the body. Most of them were conveyed at once to their respective homes. When the horse had been secured and led off, and the necessary assistance had been rendered to the wounded, the procession was re-formed, the band re commenced the march, and the funeral moved unin terruptedly towards the place of interment.—Liver pool paper. THE SAFETY BEACON ON THE GOODWIN SANDS. The following extract from a private letter, dated Deal, Sept. 17, written by a gentleman who was an eye-witness to the late operations on the Goodwins, and who has taken a deep interest in the success of the safety beacon, may be interesting to our readers : —" Captain Bullock has just completed the replace ment of his safety beacon on the Goodwin Sands, which was run down by a careless Dutchman some weeks ago. It now stands erect on those dangerous sands, the record of a simple design, which has led to attempts of a similar humane and praiseworthy cha racter, but of a more elaborate and costly description. It is affixed upon the same principle as at first, with an improvement in its base. This is now composed of iron instead of wood; and it consequently pene trates further into the sand than the former. From the stability of the materials of which it is composed there is no doubt, barring accidents' of a similar na ture to the last, it will last for years. A proof thus far has been obtained that beacons of refuge may now be placed upon any sand. The honour of having led the way to these useful undertakings (even after this simple contrivance shall have been eclipsed, by the substitution of beacons of a more durable de scription) is due to Captain Bullock. There is no doubt that the first beacon of refuge has been the happy means of saving both life and property, answer ing the double purpose of a warning and a refuge. It has cautioned the unwary of the proximity to danger, and has been a guide even to those who were aware of its erection in the constant communication between Dover and Ostend. During my visit to the Good wins, while the beacon was in the course of re-erec tion, my attention was particularly drawn to the fact, that the foundation of the former beacon remained unmoved and unabsorbed. Day after day I walked upon the mass of chalk deposited by Captain Bullock, now four years ago. In consequence of this circum stance I perceive that Captain Bullock has resorted to his former plan by throwing upon the same founda tion between SO and 60 tons of concrete blocks, chalk, and shingle, all of which have stood un changed during the continuance of the late calm weather. The tide, so strong as it passes the shallow, has had no visible effect upon the mass, around which the sand had accumulated nearly two feet in height, and it now remains as the result of a most interesting and successful experiment. The present gale (while I am writing) from the southward will prove whether it will eventually stand against the ' boiling surf,' by which it will be surrounded and assailed. I have myself very little fear for the heavy concrete blocks which constitute the base of the cone ; but I think it very likely that the upper portions of the undefended and loose shingle may be disarranged, and the cone somewhat flattened down. It is, however, but an experiment, and the problem will probably be demon strated that human skill and ingenuity cannot over come the formidable Goodwins with small means, and that man cannot successfully wage ' a little war' with such a foe. However, I must say, from all I have heard, that the Lords of the Admiralty have behaved in the most kind and handsome manner to Captain Bullock, in enabling him to possess thus far every facility for carrying out his humane and highly praiseworthy undertaking." CAPTURE OF FIVE HUNDRED WHALES. On Thursday an immense shoal of whales, amounting to up. wards of 500, came in off the mouth of Sandvoe, in the immediate vicinity of Sandsting-manse, Zetland. The attention of the inhabitants was immediately roused by the sudden visit of these monsters of the deep. The herd was surrounded, and with some difficulty nearly all of them were captured. Tho carcasses were sold at an average of 2L ss. each, which will prove a seasonable relief to many.—Scotch paper. DEATH FROM DRUNKENNESS.—Yesterday Mr. T. Wakley held an inquest at the sign of the Black Lion, Church-street, King's-road, Chelsea, on the body of Mr. Benjamin Davis, the brother of the landlord of the above public-house. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased had, until very . recently, been in partnership with his brother. During the last two years he had habituated himself to excessive drinking, and was, in fact, but seldom sober. On the night of Thursday last the deceased was suddenly taken very ill, and Mr. Gar dener, surgeon, of Cheyne-road, being called in about half-past twelve o'clock on Friday morning, found him vomiting bilious matter, with great tremor and a rapid pulse. Ile again saw him the next morning and again in the evening, when he was sent for and found him up in his room and dressed. Deceased he was told had been out and was evidently labouring under delusions. After wards he became so violent that assistance was procured, and the deceased placed in a strait waistcoat. The next morning the deceased died in the same violent state. Mr. Gardener stated that he supposed the cause of death to have been delirium tremens, the effects of intoxicat ing liquors. The deceased never slept from the time of his being seized with the attack. The jury returned a verdict of " Died from delirium tremens," caused by the effects of intoxicating liquors. THE LATE EXTENSIVE SEIZURE AT MESSRS. SMITH'S DISTILLERY, WHITECHAPEL.—Monday after noon the Excise-yard, in Old Broad-street, presented a bustling appearance, by the arrival of four waggons be longing to Messrs. Smith and Co., the eminent distillers, of Whitechapel, and the attention of the passers through that crowded thoroughfare was arrested by numerous in quiries made into the circumstance. It may be in the recollection of the public that some months since the officers of Excise made an extensive seizure of between two and three thousand gallons of pure spirit, and which was deposited in the Excise stores in twenty-one casks. The offence alleged against this respectable firm was that it was " permitted" out to the rectifiers at a strength above that represented in the written permits. Since the seizure a correspondence has been carried on between the Board of Excise and Messrs. Smith, which has resulted in that firm having yesterday returned to them, in com pliance with an order of her Majesty's Revenue Commis sioners, fifteen casks, with their contents, nearly two thousand gallons, and the same were removed to the Messrs. Smith's distillery last evening. The remaining six casks are still in the custody of the Excise, awaiting the adjudication of the Commissioners at their next sittings. MR. CHARLES KEMELE.—A circumstance in refer ence to this gentleman has come to our knowledge, which we have much pleasure in recording, and which reflects highly on his liberality. On being presented last Saturday evening, by the Directors of the Athe naeum, with a cheque for the amount of his readings, Mr. Kemble very liberally returned the sum of 10L, which he desired might be applied for the benefit of the Institution, in such a manner as to the Directors might best seem fit. We understand that it is the intention of the Directors to avail themselves of this spontaneous act of liberality by purchasing a valuable standard work for the library, which, apart from its intrinsic merits, will here after possess a double value, as having been the gift of one of the Kemble family.—Manchester Guardian.] CRICHET.—KINGSTON v. DrrTox.--The return match between two elevens selected from the eastern district of Surrey, was played at Kingston, on Tuesday, and was decided in favour of Ditton, who won by six wickets. An immense quantity of the new coin, hal farthings, bag been issued from the Mint. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1844. SU AM' OF NEWS AND Vubitt Optnton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. On Sunday evening their Majesties, the King and Queen of the French, received the Minister for Foreign Affairs and General de Saint Yon. The Bavarian and Danish Ministers had yesterday audiences of the King, to deliver to his Majesty letters from their respective Sovereigns, in answer to the noti fications of the birth of the Duke d'Alencon. A similar letter from the Queen of Spain has been transmitted to the King, through the Spanish Charge d'Affaires, in the absence of the Ambassador. Admiral Lasusse, who arrived at Havre on Sunday, took his departure thence on Monday, for Cherbourg, in the Government steamer Canaan. The Pattie mentions a rumour that the King and Queen of Naples will visit Paris towards the end of Oc tober or the beginning of November. Captain Aufray, of the Spahis, has died at Lalla- Maghrin of 'the wounds which he received at the battle of Isly. M. Camille Perier, Peer of France, fell a victim on Saturday, at Paris, to a long and painful malady, at the age of sixty-three. He was auditor in the Council of State under the Republic, and Prefect for some years under the Restoration, but, being dismissed from this latter situation, he took his place as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies. In 1830, he was one of the first deputies in Paris who protested against the violation of engagements by the Crown, and he gave his support to the new Government. During his brother's Ministry, he afforded him all the assistance in his power. He was called to the Chamber of Peers in 1837. A large number of distinguished persons went on Monday to Neuilly to off er th King their congratula tions on the conclusion of the peace with Morocco. A Naples letter of the 6th inst. speaks of the marriage of the Duke d'Aumale with his first cousin, the Princess of Salerno, as fixed for the second week of next month. Great preparations were in progress for the celebration of the marriage with pomp and circumstance. The Duke de Bordeaux arrived at Venice on the 23d ult., and put up at the Hotel Danieli, on the quay of the Sclavonians. Sea bathing has been recommended to him, and he appears to excel in the art of swimming, having several times swum, without resting, from the idole to the Lido, a distance of three miles. The Prince is accompanied by the Duke de Levis and M. de Monty Reze. The persons summoned to attend the legiti matist congress were nearly all at their post. Messrs. Illyde de Neuville, La Tour Foissac, Hautpoult and St. Priest, had already arrived at Venice. Messrs. Aurelien de Seze and St. Marc, members of the bar at Bordeaux, were also expected. Marshal Sebastiani was at Milan watching the legitimatist movement. The Augsburg Gazette announces that a divorce has been decreed between Prince Gustavus Vasa and the Princess Louisa Amelia Stephania of Baden, and that the judgment has been confirmed by the Grand Duke. Thus the parties are relieved from the bonds of matri mony, and each may contract a new alliance. They were married on the 9th November, 1830. Letters from Rome represent the state of the public mind in the Roman States as very unsettled. A Vienna letter, bearing date the 9th instant, says:— " The Government has given permission to a company to establish a central railroad in Hungary. It is hoped that the Government will guarantee the payment of 5 per cent. interest. A capital of 18 millions will be ne cessary to execute this line, and of this sum eight mil lions have already been obtained by subscription, and three by the intervention of Baron de Rothschild, so that only seven remain to be raised. The concession is made for eighty years. Several branch lines have also been authorised. The works will be executed simultaneously between Pesth and Vienna, and Pesth and Debreczen." The Berlin journals state that the grand line of rail road between Berlin and Kcenisburgh is decided upon, and that it is to run by Kustrem, Landsberg, Driesen, and the other towns towards the Vistula. From Drie sen, it is said, there are to be two branches, one to Posen and to Stargardt, in Pomerania, in order to unite these two towns with Stettin. In this case, the distance between Berlin and Posen may be performed in nine or ten hours, and between Berlin and Stettin in seven or eight hours. The surveys of the railroad be tween Posen and Glogan are very nearly finished. LAW AND POLICE. At the Court of Bankruptcy, James Croft, who had been in custody, but had been released on an interim order, perceiving that the Court was about to dismiss his petition, walked quietly out of Court ; and when ap plication was made to remand him, he could no where be found. The case of the Hon. Mr. Tonchet was postponed at the Central Criminal Court until the ensuing sessions. Edwin and William Hartledge, brothers, were brought before the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House, charged with robbery in the house of Mr. Sarl, jeweller, of the Poultry and Cornhill. ' :The prisoners were both com mitted for trial, and bills were ordered to be laid before the Grand Jury at once, so that in all probability a very few hours will intervene between their committal and their trial. Three men, of the names of William Hawthorn, Frederick Cornwall, and Henry Baldwin, habited in countrymen's garb, and one of them having but one eye, were charged at Bow-street, as having escaped from the gaol at St. Alban's. They were arrested by Sergeants Parker and Thornton, and having acknowledged they were the persons, they were sent to St. Alban's in custody. At Clerkenwell, on Tuesday, police-constable John Grey, 157 E, was charged by the Rev. Mr. Kelly, Rector of Stilongan, in the county of Dublin, with aiding, incit ing, and abetting an apprentice to run away from him ; also with using abusive and insulting language towards Caroline George, a servant to the Rev. Gentleman, who now resides at 18, Regent-square. Ho was convicted, and as the conviction will ensure his dismissal from the force, he was only fined 11. James Riley was brought up on remand, charged with being concerned, with another man not in custody, with robbing a young man from Dover of 101. The com plainant had been inveigled into.the Ram Jam public house, and robbed ; and, as some suspicion attached to the conduct of the landlord, he was directed to enter into recognizances to appear on Tuesday, to which the prisoner was remanded. George Alexander, charged with feloniously and ma liciously stabbing Mr. George Tomlinson, the chief mate of the ship Sultana, from Sydney, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm, was committed for trial at the Maidstone Assizes, from the Thames-office. A policeman named Speary, No. 153 K, who wrong fully took a man into custody, and was reprimanded by Mr. Broderip for so doing, on Tuesday afternoon, was f o rmally dismissed the force by the Commissioners. COUNT-PAIMIONABLEI. The Prince and Princess Radzivill left town yesterday morning for Badminton, on a visit to their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort. Twelve splendid horses . p u rchased this country by Prince Radzivill for his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, were shipped on Saturday last for St. Petersburgh. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset came to town on Tuesday for a short interval, and returned the same even ing to Wimbledon Park. Their Graces entertained a select party at Wimbledon last evening. The Earl and Countess of Wilton, who have been cruising off the French coast, returned to the Isle of Wight on Sunday. The Noble Earl and Countess landed at Cherbourg last week. Lady Elizabeth Rope Vere returns to town on Friday. The marriage of her Ladyship's daughter, Miss Jane Hope Vere, with Viscount Loftus, son of the M arqu i s of Ely, is not expected to take place until the first week in October. His Excellency Baron Brunnow entertained a select circle at dinner last evening, which included Count Nesselrode, Count Dmitry Nesselrode, the Baroness Seebach, M. Hebeler (Prussian Consul-General), M. de Maltzoff, Admiral Pootiatin, M. do Berg, M. de Koudri affsky, M. Gregoire de Koudriaffsky, &c. Count Nesselrode will leave town to-day, accompanied by his son, Count Dmitry Nesselrode, and the Baroness Seebach, his daughter, for Woburn Abbey, on a visit to his Grace the Duke of Bedford. The Count, after visiting Stowe and Chatsworth, will make a short tour in Scotland, returning by the lakes, and finally leave England on the 4th of next month. 163ESCIEEMANEOUB. A number of the principal rate-payers in Oldham and the adjaCent townships are taking measures with a view to the introduction of the new Poor-law, whilst a con siderable body of the middle and working classes are strongly opposed to the change. It is reported that the late irregularities in the administration of the parochial affairs of Oldham, and the recent mismanagement in the conducting of Middleton workhouse have produced the present proceedings. Mr. O'Connell, it is said, starts for Derrynane shortly after the martyrs' feast, on Thursday next. The bea gles, it is added, are in training for the 4 , Liberator's" return to his mountain home. On his arrival in Dublin, in November, he promises to attend another feast, to be given in his honour in Meath. On Saturday, the 31st ultimo, as the Lord Lovat coach, from Peterhead to Banff, was changing horses about ten miles from the latter place, the fresh horses which had just been put to, from some unknown cause, were startled, and set off at full speed, without guard or coachman. Mr. Macduie, perfumer, Banff, who was an outside passenger, unfortunately leaped from the top, and although ho alighted upon his feet, fell back from the recoil before one of the hind wheels, which passed over his chest, and caused death in a few minutes. A Government agent has visited Sunderland, and sur veyed and approved the site selected by the Public Walks Committee as a recreation ground for the inhabitants. On Friday, Messrs. Chappell and Marsden, of Cannon street, Manchester (through their agent, Mr. Slack), made an advance of ten per cent. in the prices paid to the handloom weavers in their employment in Wigan and the neighbourhood. We hope, for the sake of so industrious a class as the weavers are universally admitted to be, that this example will be followed by a general advance throughout the trade. Last week one of the Assistant Poor-law Commis sioners visited Rochdale, for the purpose (as it is re ported) of shortly putting the New Poor-law into force in that borough. There appears to be great opposition to it at present. The most active exertions have been made during these few days to discover tho delinquents in the late Bank forgery and robbery case, and it having been ascer tained that they have proceeded to the United States, J. and D. Forester, the active police-officers, will be sent immediately to America, to apply to the authorities there for the necessary powers, under the late Act of Conven tion, to apprehend the guilty parties. LITERATURE. PERCY RELIQUES. 3 Vols. Moxer, London, 1844. We have here a republication, in three small, cheap, neatly printed duodecimo volumes, of Bishop Percy's well-known " Reliques of Ancient English Poetry" —a fascinating collection of old songs, odes, and ballads, which first gave an impulse to the youthful genius of Southey and Scott, and produced a greater effect on the mind of the last generation than any work of that time on record. It is not a little curious that in the decline of his life, when he had attained rank and wealth in the Church, Dr. Percy professed to be ashamed of his " Reliques," and was not best pleased when the subject was alluded to in his pre sence. Yet it is by this despised work—and by this only—that his name is now honourably known among us ; as Bishop of Dromore, he is long since forgotten; but as long as a taste for genuine national poetry survives among us, so long will " Percy's Reliques " retain a high place in our imaginative literature. E 0 THEN. 011ivier, London, 1844. The author of this volume of travels has given it the quaint appellation of Eothen, from the circum stance of the word, which is of Greek origin, signi fying " from the early dawn"—that is to say, from the East, in which quarter chiefly he prosecuted his travels. He should have explained this matter in the title-page--or, rather, he should not have given such a title to his work at all, for it must be caviare to the majority of his readers, and even those who are ac quainted with the meaning of the term " Eothen," will not be best pleased with the pedantry that sug gested it. But, however, it may be with the title, there is nothing of pedantry in the volume itself, which is penned in an easy and amusing style, and is by no means devoid of the requisite variety of matter. Starting from Belgrade on the Danube—an important post well known in the Turkish wars with Austria and Russia—the author set out for Constantinople, which he reached after a long harassing journey, and then rambled over the Tread—which he describes, by the bye, in a very slight and superficial manner; visited Lady Hester Stanhope in her mountain fastness on the edge of the Syrian desert ; thence passed on to the Holy Land, taking a peep at the river Jordan and the Dead Sea on his route ; and having seen all that was worthy of note in this hallowed district, he passed into Egypt, and reached Cairo at the very time when the plague was daily making the most destruc tive ravages in that devoted city. The chapter in which he describes the aspect of Cairo at this appal ling season ; the incessant alarms of its inhabitants ; the sight of the numerous funerals passing through the streets ; the zealous system of isolation kept up in many of the principal houses ; and his own course of daily proceeding during the height of the visita tion ;—this chapter is written by the author in his most spirited and circumstantial manner, and is, in fact, by far the most entertaining in the volume. The work is of an exceedingly slight and superficial cha racter, and not unfrequently, in the author's wish to be smart and lively, he degenerates into mere flip pancy. 'We quote an interesting passage from his chapter on the plague at Cairo : " Going out one morning, I met unexpectedly the scorching breath of the Khamseen wind, and fearing that I should faint under the horrible sensations which it caused, I returned to my rooms. Reflecting, however, that I might have to encounter this wind in the desert, where there would be no possibility of avoiding it, I thought it would be better to brave it once more in the city, and to try whether I could bear it or not. I there fore mounted my ass, and rode to old Cairo, and along the gardens by the banks of the Nile. The wind was hot to the touch as though it came from a furnace ; it blew strongly, but yet with such perfect steadiness, that the trees bending under its force remained fixed in the same curves without perceptibly waving ; the whole sky was obscured by a veil of yellowish gray, which shut out the face of the sun. The streets were utterly silent, being indeed almost entirely deserted, and not without cause, for the scorching blast, whilst it fevers the blood, closes up the pores of the skin, and is terribly distress ing, therefore, to every animal that encounters it. I returned to my rooms dreadfully ill. My head ached with a burning pain, and my pulse bounded quick, and fitfully, but perhaps (as in the instance of the poor Le vantine, whose death I was mentioning), the fear, and excitement which I felt in trying my own wrist, may have made my blood flutter the faster. " It is a thoroughly well believed theory, that during the continuance of the plague, you can't be ill of any other febrile malady ; an unpleasant privilege that! for ill I was, and ill offerer, and I anxiously wished that the ailment might turn out to be any thing rather than plague. I had some right to surmise that my illness may have been merely the effect of the hot wind, and this notion was encouraged by the elasticity of my spirits, and by a strong forefecling that much of my destined life in this world was yet to come, and yet to be fulfilled. That was my instinctive belief, but when I carefully weighed the probabilities on the one side and on the other, I could not help seeing that the strength of argu ment was all against me. There was a strong antece dent likelihood in favour of my being struck by the same blow as the rest of the people who bad been dying around me. Besides, it occurred to me, that after all, the uni versal opinion of the Europeans upon a medical ques tion, such as that of contagion might probably be cor rect, and if it were, I was so thoroughly ' compromised,' and especially by the touch, and breath of the dying Me dico, that I had no right to expect any other fate than that which now seemed to have overtaken me. Ba lancing as well as I could all the considerations which hope and fear suggested, I slowly, and reluctantly came to the conclusion that according to all merely reasonable probability the plague had come upon me. " You would suppose that this conviction would have induced me to write a few farewell lines to those who were dearest, and that having done that, I should have turned my thoughts towards the world to come. Such, however, was not the case ; I believe that the prospect of death often brings with it strong anxieties about mat ters of comparatively trivial import, and certainly with me the whole energy of the mind was directed towards the one petty object of concealing my illness until the latest possible moment—until the delirious stage. did not believe that either Mysseri, or Dthemetri, who had served me so faithfully in all trials, would have deserted me (as most Europeans are wont to do) when they knew that I was stricken by plague, but I shrank from the idea of putting them to this test, and I dreaded the .consternation which the knowledge of my illness would be sure to occasion. " I was very ill indeed at the moment when my din ner was served, and my soul sickened at the sight of the food, but I had luckily the habit of dispensing with the attendance of servants during my meal, and as soon' as I was left alone, I made a melancholy calculation of the quantity of food which I should have eaten if I had been in my usual health, and filled my plates accordingly, and gave myself salt, and so on, as though I were going to dine ; I then transferred the viands to a piece of the omnipresent 7 imes newspaper, and hid them away in a cupboard, for it was not yet night, and I dared not throw the food into the street until darkness came. I did not at all relish this proces: - . of fictitious dining, but at length the cloth was removed, and I gladly reclined on my divan (I would not lie down), with the ' Arabian Nights' in my hand. " I had a feeling that tea would be a capital thing for me, but I would not order it till the usual hour. When at last the time came, I drank deep draughts from the fragrant cup. The effect was almost instantaneous. A. plenteous sweat burst through my skin, and watered my clothes through and through. I kept myself thickly covered. The hot, tormenting weight which had been loading my brain was slowly heaved away. The fever was extinguished. I felt a new buoyancy of spirits, and an unusual activity of mind. I went into my bed under a load of thick covering, and when the morning came, and I asked myself how I was, I found that I was thoroughly well." METROPOLITAN MORTALITY.—The number of deaths within the bills of mortality in the week ending on Saturday last presents a very favourable contrast with the average either of the last five seasons or of the last five years, the numbers being respectively 843, 900, and 946. Still, however, the number of deaths from epide mic diseases is considerably greater than the average, there having died last week of diseases comprised under this class no less than 236 persons, the average at this season not being higher than 191. In diseases of the brain, of the lungs, and of the stomach, there is a percep tible decrease ; but the ratio of mortality from small-pox is still greater than ordinary, the deaths last week being 37, while the average mortality is not higher than 11. In both hooping-cough and typhus there is also a consi derable increase. The greatest elevation to which the mercury of the thermometer at Greenwich attained in the sun was on Sunday, September 8, when it reached 95.4 deg. ; the lowest on the grass at the same place was on Tuesday, September 10, when it fell to 34. The mean temperature for the week was in the sun 86.2 ; on the grass, 46.6. FATAL COACH ACCIDENT.—On Saturday, the 31st ult., as the Lord Lovat coach, from Peterhead to Banff, was changing horses about ten miles from the latter place, the fresh horses which had just been put to, from some unknown cause, were startled, and set off at full speed, without guard or coachman. Mr. Macduie, per fumer, Banff, who, was an outside passenger, unfortu nately leaped from the top, and, although he alighted upon his feet, fell back from the recoil before one of the hind wheels, which passed over his chest, and caused death in a few minutes. Mr. Macduie had only com menced business at Whit Sunday last, and was in a fair way of establishing an excellent trade, when thus sud denly cut off. The other passengers, two ladies, who were inside, were more or less injured, the coach having been upset about two miles from where the horses started. —Elgin Courant. PARISH CONSTABLES.—On the 29th of July last, an Act came into operation to extend the powers of the Act for the appointment and payment of parish con stables, There are five sections in the statute, and by the third it is enacted that no toll shall be demanded or taken on any turnpike-road or bridge for any horse or police van, carriage, or cart, passing along such road or bridge in the service of a superintendent constable, ap pointed under the Act 5 and 6 Victoria, c. 109, for the appointment and payment of parish constables, provided that the superintendent constable shall produce a certi ficate of his appointment, signed by the clerk of the peace, or shall have his dress according to the regulation of the said county, at the time of claiming the exemp tion ; and every person who shall fraudulently claim or take the benefit, shall for every offence be liable to a penalty of not exceeding 51., and in all such cases the proof of exemption shall be upon the party claiming the Same HER MAJESTY at BLAIR ATHOL. BLAIR. ATHOL, TUESDAY, SEPT. 17. Her Majesty continues in the enjoyment of excel lent health and spirits, and her complexion has already 'begun to glow under the rude hand of health, whose established dwelling-place is in the hills and glens of Scotland. Her Majesty left the shores of England like a second Galatea—but constant exposure to the weather and the fresh air, which streams through " the land of mountain and of flood," have substituted a healthful ruddiness, for the pale cast of thought with which her Majesty's countenance has been sicklied over since her recent confinement. Prince Albertand the Princess Royal also begin to show the beneficial effects of their residence here. The Princess Royal, mounted on a Shetland pony, and attended by a groom and servant, always accompanies her Majesty and the Prince in their morning walk through the grounds, and the royal parents are frequently seen to stop and listen with alternations of interest and amusement to the naifs observations of the youthful Princess on the novelty of the objects which meet her view at every instant. His Royal Highness Prince Albert left the Castle shortly after luncheon, and proceeded to the hills im mediately in the front of the Castle, to have some grouse shooting. His Royal Highness was accom panied by his noble host, who merely went with the Prince to point out the most probable places for find ing the game. The Prince had some excellent sport, considering the short period which he remained on the hill. His Royal Highness shot eight brace of grouse, a snipe, and a golden plover, and returned to the Castle shortly after three, to accompany her Majesty in her drive. Lord Liverpool, who was grouse shooting in a different part of the hill-side, shot six brace of grouse during the course of the afternoon. Lord Glenlyon did not shoot, and re spectfully declined the courteous entreaties of his royal guest to partake of the sport. During the morning Lord Charles Wellesley, Sir E. Bowater, and the Hon. Mr. Anson, mounted on shooting ponies, scampered up the hill at the back of the Castle, and enjoyed the fine view and extensive prospect, the clearness of the atmosphere rendering every object in the distance distinctly visible. At half-past three in the afternoon, her Majesty and the Prince left the Castle in a pony phaeton with outriders to inspect the falls of Bruar, which are about three miles distant from Blair Athol, on the high road to Inverness. Lord Glenlyon and Lord Charles Wellesley, the chieftain being as usual attired in the Highland costume, rode on either side of the phaeton. On arriving at the cottage of an antique Highland Naid, the presiding deity, or, rather, demon of these falls, her Majesty alighted, and ascended the gravel walk leaning on the arm of Prince Albert, the beauties of the fall being pointed out by the noble cicerone. Her Majesty was struck with the beauty of the scene, and declared that each succeeding object which met her view surpassed its predecessor in beauty and interest. The falls were seen to great advantage, and the roaring of the waters through the craggy moss-grown chasm was considerably increased by the heavy rains which had fallen during the preceding day ; in ascending some of the steeper acclivities which lead to the topmost portion of the falls, her Majesty entered her garden chair, which was drawn by two servants in plain liveries, and had been previously sent on foot for the use of her Majesty. The effect arising from the wild grandeur of the scene at these falls is, however, to a certain extent, marred by the neatly, well-rolled gravel walk which wes along the side of the chasm, giving to nature a starched, prim appearance, and making this beautiful waterfall appear rather like trim gardens where retired leisure might take its pleasure. The trees which were planted on the banks by the late Duke of Athol, in compliance with Burns's celebrated poetical petition, i n some d egree h a d thi s d e f ec t, which, however, it must be acknowledged, materially affects the comforts of visitors, and makes much more facilis the ascensus and descensus of tourists. The royal party did not return to the Castle until a late hour. Covers are laid for sixteen in the evening. The dinner party consists of Lord and Lady Glen. lyon, Miss Murray, Oswald of Dunnikier, and Small Kier of Kindroggan, the officers of her Majesty's guard of Athol Highlanders, with the members of her Majesty's suite. Lady Glenlyon drove up the Glen Tilt during the afternoon, to make some addition in the furniture of the forester's lodge, which is situated about eight miles up the glen, in case Prince Albert might take shelter there during his shooting excursions. Vast numbers of the "bothies"—the small stone huts for concealing the deerstalkers from their antlered prey —are being built up and repaired along the banks of the burn, called the "Water of Tilt," which tears through the rocks at the bottom of this magnificent glen. His Royal Highness and Lord Glenlyon will take their station in one of these " bothies," and get a shot at the herd as they descend from their rocky acclivities on the precipitous summits of the adjoining mountains. "The wild herd which never needs a fold" always ascend the hills to cool themselves during the heat of the day, and come down to slake their thirst in the burns and mountain-springs at sunset. Myriads of them may be seen at nightfall in the valley of Glen Tilt, eating the sweet grass and drinking the crystal stream, but at the appraach of a human being they scamper off to their rocky fast nesses. The deer which were killed by his Royal Highness, on Saturday, were three harts, which weighed respectively fifteen stone, twelve stone, and eleven stone. Her Majesty took her accustomed walk in the grounds this morning, accompanied by Prince Albert and the Princess Royal. Her Majesty will drive out during the afternoon, but her destination is not yet definitively determined. Gravel walks are being laid down and carefully rolled along the banks at the pass of Killiecrankie, for her Majesty has expressed her intention of paying a second visit to the sublime scenery at the bottom of the pass during her sojourn at Blair Athol. Prince Albert and Lord Glenlyon, both attired in shooting jackets and caps, have just left the Castle in his Lordship's phaeton, to try some moors in a distant part of the Athol estates ; the Prince will, however, return to the Castle to accompany her Majesty in her afternoon drive. The weather is as propitious as could be desired, which enables her Majesty and the Prince to pass a great portion of their time in the open air. Several excursions are spoken of, but nothing has as yet been definitively arranged.—Post. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, left Witley Court, Worcestershire, yesterday morning, to honour the Earl Howe with a visit, at his seat, Gopsall Hall Leicestershire. A deputation, consisting of Mr. G. H. Wilkinson (Chairman), Mr. E. Oxley (Deputy-Chairman), Mr. N. Fleur, and Mr. W. O'Brien, from the Great North of England Railway, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade ' on the subject of a branch line f rom th e G rea t North of England Railway to Harrowgate, Knares borough, and Ripon. Sir Robert and Lady Peel arrived at their residence at Whitehall-gardens, yesterday evening, from Dray ton Manor, Staffordshire. A deputation from the Direct Portsmouth Railway Company, consisting of the Chairman, the Deputy chairman, Sir James Stirling (one of the Directors), Mr. William Cubitt, and Mr. Burchel (the Solicitor), had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie, on Tues day, at the Board of Trade. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. DEPARTURES. Earl and Countess Cadogan, from Queensberry House, for the Marine Parade, Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Berkeley, for the Grand Parade, Hastings ; Lady Car dross, for Brighton ; Sir W. Newton, for the Castle Hotel, Hastings ; Lady Dashwood, for the Marine Pa rade, Brighton ; Mr. and the Misses Hallifax, from Portland-place, to Chadacre Hall, Suffolk ; the Rev. William Waters and Mrs. Waters, from the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street, St. James's ; Hugh Mallett, Esq., and Mrs. Mallet, from CHANGES. The Earl of Roden, at Tullymore Park, from Hyde Hall, Herts ; Earl Fortescue, from Castle Hill, for Ire land ; Mr. Young, M.P., and Mrs. Young, from a visit to Lord and Lady Adare, at Dunraven Castle, on a tour ; Hon. C. Annesley, at Dingwall, N. 8., from the south. PitoC. ROYAL JLAMATION.—Whereas, on each and every of our Royal movements, it has been, and is the the custom of sundry weekly-disposed persons, known as " Our Own Correspondents," " Our Private Correspon dents," and others, to write, and cause to be printed, ab surd and foolish language, touching ourself, our Royal Consort, and beloved babies, it is our will and pleasure that such foolish practices (tending as they really do to bring Royalty into contempt) shall be disconti nue d ; and that from he nce f or th, all vain, silly, and sycophantic verbiage shall cease, and good, straightforward, s i mp l e English be used in all descriptions of all progresses made by ourself, our Royal Consort, and ou r d ear l y beloved children. And furthermore, it shall be permitted to our Royal self to wear a white shawl, or a black shawl, with out any idle talk being passed upon the same. And further, our beloved Consort shall, whenever it shall so please him, "cha nge his round hat for a nava l cap w i t h a gold band, " without calling for the special notice of the newspapers ; and further, that our beloved child, the Princess Royal, shall be permitted to walk " hand in hand" with her Royal father, without exciting such marked demonstrations of wonderment at the familiarity, as have been made known to me by the public press. Be it known that the Queen of England is not the Grand Lama ; and further be it remembered, that Englishm en . should not emulate the v a i n id o l a t r y o f s p e e c h familiar in the mouths of Eastern bondmen.—Vicronu REGINA. Given at Blair Athol, Sept. 16, 1844.—Punch. IRELAND. MORE TRICKERY IN THE JURY LISTS. •• DUBLIN, SEPT. 17.—The following remarkable q>!, ;r :77 ) ;\ statement appears in the Dubli n E ven i ng P ost o f this - • afternoon : " After the thorough exposure of the illegal tinCtlV'f.'fr" . L. fraudulent practices in regard to the jury list of the 11.4;:4.1 year, and the effect of those exposures, one mightizilP. pect that all parties concerned in the prepart4l4Vi„-- the new lists would take care, at least, t o comp l y wi th db ztAtZAT the forms required by the jury law. The public will learn with surprise, that all such forms have been ut terly disregarded. We have learned from Mr. Ala bony, to whom the duty of attending to the revision last year had been entrusted, that the cess collectors are playing the same game. Notwithstanding the strict directions in the Jury Act, and also in the pre cept sent to each of them, that they should print and circulate their lists of qualified persons, in each of the parishes, early in August—notwithstanding all the remonstrances last year that those provisions of the law had not been complied with, the duty still remains undone in the middle of September. But the disre gard of the law for the protection of trial by jury has been carried much further. " Although the lists of the cess collectors are re turnable to the clerk of the peace before the 22d of August, the first return of those lists was not made until that day, and even then three parishes only were returned. The last returns, required by law to be in the hands of the clerk of the peace before the 22d of August, were not in the possession of that officer until Friday last, the 13th of September ! But, even although thus held back, the provisions of the law requiring the previous printing and publishing of the entire lists in the various parishes had been wholly neglected. "It is remarkable also that the entire number of jurors, common and special, now returned, amounts only to 5,175. Last year, imperfect as the lists were, they exceeded this considerably, and it is notorious that there are at least 12,000 persons qualified to serve as jurors in the city of Dublin. " The Government have the power to compel those entrusted with the administration of the jury law to fulfil its mandates ; and if Lord Heytesbury desired that his administration should maintain a shred of character for impartiality, he would require that the jury lists should be made according to law. What are the Government Crown solicitors for, unless they see that a law, upon which the entire administration of justice is based, has been complied with ? " Never was there anything so scandalous 'as the whole course of proceeding in reference to the jury system in Ireland. The present Jury Act has been the law of the land for ten years. That Act requiros that there shall be an annual revision, before the Re corder, for the due administration of justice and the security of the subject. Nevertheless, there never was a revision until last year, when Mr. Mahony, acting on behalf of the traversers in the State trials, demanded it. Care will, no doubt, be taken that there shall be another revision this year ; but up to this moment, as we have shown, the provisions of th e jury law have been utterly andi daringly disregarded. We call on Mr. Shaw, the Recorder, at once to inter fere. Why should he receive lists which have been made up illegally, and in the arrangement of which every guarantee provided by law for the impartial administration of justice has been violated ? " As to the county of Dublin we have inquired, and have learned, to our utter amazement, that the precepts were issued so long since as the 25th of June last. The return should have been made on the 25th of July at the latest, and yet we now write on the 17th of September, having ascertained the fact that not a single collector has made a return to the clerk of the peace up to this hour. Is there, we ask, no remedy for this ?" FRACAS IN THE THEATRE ROYAL. In the course of the evening an unpleasant fracas occurred between an officer of the 11th Hussars and a gentleman who not long since held the office of high sheriff for a southern county. The latter was sitting with some ladies in the last row of the dress boxes, when the officer in question opened the door and remained standing at it, the box being full. He was requested to close it, as the air incommoded the ladies, and from the reply he made some words passed upon the occasion, but the affair did not terminate without blows. Cards were exchanged, and several officers of the regiment having interested themselves in consequence of the position in which one of their corps had been placed, not a little discussion took place subsequently, which ended, as we learned, in explanations being given, which put an end to any ulterior proceedings. The preceding statement is copied from Saunders's News Letter of this morning. The gentleman al luded to is Mr. Saunders, who had been high sheriff of the county of Kerry two or three years since, and who is regarded by all who know him as one of the most peaceable men in society. It is stated that the officer of the 11th Hussars, who had been engaged in this rencontre, subsequently apologised to Mr. Saunders. A NEW ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY. A most important step in the advance of railway extension in this country has been taken from the visit recently paid to this country by the Directors of the Great Western and the South Wales Railways, to test the working of the:atmospheric principle on the line now at work between Kingstown and Dalkey. This project has for its aim the connexion of the ports of Waterford, Wicklow, and Wexford, with Kingstown and Dublin on this side, by means of an atmospheric railway; aild the port of IVexford with Fishguard-harbour, in the south of England, by powerful steam-boats. The inland communication with the great metropolis, by means of an atmospheric railway of 120 miles, to join the Great Western at a given point, and from thence by this now available line to London. The harbour of Wexford to be rendered fit for the reception of steam-vessels of suitable tonnage. The distance, it is ascertained, can be readily accomplished in thirteen harbours, and thus the Irish traffic to Lon don by the Liverpool and Birmingham and Grand Junction will be fairly divided, and any unjust mono poly defeated. The directory, it is intended, will consist of a cer tain number of the Directors of the Great Western, the South Wales, and the Dublin and Kingstown Railways. This is the merest outline of the intended project. On the 19th instant a deputation from each of the directions intend to meet at Swansea, to adopt mea sures towards the furtherance of this great undertak ing, and to facilitate the passing of a Bill for the pur pose in the next session of Parliament.—Dublin paper. EVICTION OF TENANTRY. The Cork Examiner publishes the following " facts for Lord Devon :"—" In the parish of Drumtariff, within half a mile of Kanturk, in this county, 16 families, numbering 96 individuals, have been turned off the land which they held for several years —many of them for 40 years and upwards. This took place on the 25th of March last. This land, held by such a number of tenants, is now in the possession. of one individual, and that individual, shall we add, is a Protestant. The landlord is Richard Longfield, Esq." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 17.—This afternoon, about one o'clock, a fine French steam-frigate, named Le Caiman, came into this harbour full steam from Cherbourg, bringing dispatches to the Commander in-Chief at this port, notifying (we are informed) the positive intention of his Majesty the King of the French to land at Portsmouth in the second week in October ; the precise day and hour, however, named in the dispatch is only known to the Commander-in- Chief and the Lords of the Admiralty. The dis patches are to the effect, we believe, that his Majesty wishes accommodation provided for the fleet which will accompany him to this country. Le Oilman is commanded by M. Dieudonne. The Baron de let Ronciere Lenoury, Aide-de-Camp to Admiral La Susse (who will command the fleet or squadron in attendance upon his Majesty) arrived in Le Caiman to present the dispatches, and conduct the necessary arrangements for his Majesty's reception. Le Caiman did not salute in coming into harbour.. She is a remakably fine frigate. ller officers had a good view of the Queen, 110, Capt a i n M art i n, which was leaving harbour under canvass at the time the, Caiman was entering it. A fi ner spec i men of a British man-of-war could not have been exhibited, and' her leaving the harbour to-day instead of yester da, as reported, was m os t opportune. It was a beau tiful sight, and many thousand persons assembled on the fortifications to witness her departure for Spit head, where she is now moored in the position latelT vacated by the Collingwood. She was most beautis fully manceuvred in going out of the harbour. The Styx steam surveying vessel, Captain Vidal, which towed th e T ay W est I n di a steamer to South ampton on Sunday, returned to Spithead the same evening, where she lay u n til thi s mornin g, when s he came into harbour at twelve o'clock. The Canton freight-ship arrived yesterday f t om China, with the last detachment of the 55th Reg iment. By private letters dated the 28th of May we are informed that the Carysfort, 26, Capt. the Right Hon. Lord George Paulet, and the Dublin, 50, Captain Tucker, flag of Rear-Admiral Thomas, were at Val paraiso on the above date, the latter awaiting the ar— rival of Rear-Admiral Seymour in the Collingwood to relieve her. TRINCOMALEE, JULY 4.—The Cornwallis, 72, Capt. Richards, flag of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker,. G.C.8., sails for England on the 7th. The Vixen. steam-sloop,:Commander Gi ff ord, leaves i n a f ew days; for China. Lieutenant G. Ogle, of th e C ambria -A, takes passage in her to command the Royalist, p); on that station. t that DEATH or A PATRIARCH. —It is with ri:.•-,, 5 , f , we record the death of Mr. Mliniffnt, of Brdochan. which occurred at Barlochan on Monday, the 9 .d instant, in the 101st year of his age, and in the full r ossession or all his faculties, with the exception of hio • g i me o f bear. _ ing , —Galloway Advertises.