The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-04 00:00:00

)21Y.) with both ttsiness was full pnce•-: w bate . 6d; lbs ad Pou IL Turkey 2s to 3 . 5 ; ' st i n g PO 3 6d to 4s; ItouPle• „ s , otk .t er” I to 39 ° u m ' ['ork, 45 while th e 8 0 to 17 9 ; ;, 8d to : 3s; per pad% to d or ices " i 3 6d; k and For , no 1 00 3 abou I are fiat loaf. ,to 53 —: to 49 6d ! t o s 3 6 d is • a; Lan'''. 6s ; , D eaf t vbe st tliet Oft OS ' d itto, ;esti, Qtrant I A: ;id to 51 80 ; t 1 _oO 11 160; 113 Y ail hs d • lid 8 /.16' d that 15 0 it tine• hei • l o v io t ,c,:„llethetro 4° -esti° th the 4 Leo'? ' or , , n s p ar in , fte e . al ' eg e tr ‘i tw r o it w as . . ttot o ltY ,as e%" f tb e oP• c tioo t o le ,3s " red' . .., ^,...,, - ...-"'• -.." +1,0^1,,,M ---,.,,,r1,-,..—...., igPOIITING INTELLI CILENCE. PRESTON RACES—WEDNESDAY. The Hunters' Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 15 added ; three Years old, Bst slb ; four, 9st 71b ; five, lOst 51b ; six and tfel, thorough bred horses 71b extra; mares geldings allowed 31b. Heats, two miles. (6 Subs.) i Mr. Fox's ch m Deuce-ace, 4 years (Fowler) 1 r. Towers's ch m Ellen 1 1 1`Gregor, 6 yrs lllr Clll' Id • ~, ev seh g Heir -at-law, 3 yrs ""r• niggins's ch in Miss Foote, 6 yrs 4 dr First heat won by a head —the second cleverly . e Ile Selling Stakes af 3 sovs. each, with 20 added ; three years old, 7st 121 b ; four, 9st ; five, 9st 71b ; six and age t d, gat 1 01 b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b, and the winner o t , s il e 5i , 1.1 fur 120/. if demanded, two miles (6 subs), were won t. '''‘‘`.° heats by Mr. Dawson's f by Sheet Anchor, out o vr. s _ e seis• .3 years (Reeves), beating Mr. Duskworth's b c i''''''theskitchen, ascd, Mr. Redhead's Erebus, aged, Mr. smans's Canto, aged, and Mr. Davis's Talleyrand, 4 yrs. TI I URSDAY. A Hurdle Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 20 added ; three years e old, Bst 51b ; four, 9st Sib ; five, lOst 51b ; six and ag u e: . Hst; winners extra; mares and geldings allowed 8 I leatc , t • lit c . -, two miles. kr r• hephard's br g Mudlark, aged , ‘' (Stag) 4 1 2 1 2 1 u • btlekworth's Clear -the-kitchen. aged M. b Wasp- 2 3 3 Mr Buckle , Robinson's• m.' . **** ~ •y s br ni Alice (halt bred) 0 dr M. 11. Hey's br g Dick Turpin, 6 yrs ••••••• •••-- •h 5 VeletA Subscription Purse for Ponies of 1 guinea each, wit i ovas won in two heats by Mr. Benjamin's Bob, beatin g Flora * Donald and Phsic Til e Holme Purse of 20 se:vs, added to a Handicap of 4 sovs. each, two miles, was won by Mr. Fox's Deuce-ac 4 yrs, eat 2lb " 1)* * 1 ), beating Mr. Dawson's f by 3 Yrs, st 101 b, Mr. Osbaldestone's Moonshine, 3 yrs, Bst 51 b, Sheet Anchor, l'llltr. Higgins's Miss Foote, 7st 51b. cerile, Handicap for beaten horses , was won by Mr. Evans' s TOM , ers ), ' oean len ng Mr. D uc k worth ' s Clear-the-kitchen, and Mr. He 11PGregor. SANDBACH RACES. —TUESDAY. 11/ e TO Plate of 5 ;ova. each, 3 ft, with 15 added ; the se lei'ilkt t 9 save his stake. Heats, twice round and a distan l ce. l W: !:,arnb's Lady Flora, aged ,r,._ trratt's Tottenham, - 3 yrs ... 2 2 ''`l te e ar ottery Stakes of .5 sovs. each, h. ft., with 15 added: .see. t, es sad geldings allowed 31bs. Twice round and a dis air. hi 1 kr, Lamet,i's Maid of Auckland, 6 yrs 2 14 . is Lady Flora aged -' o 'le • Percy, 3 Tb s ii -3 na. 5 vrs . . to ned an echton Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 20 added, twice Z n ee,,Sad a distance, were won by Mr. Robinson's Was 814j'e"esting Mr. Skelton's Father Mathew, aged ; and Mr. u's Maid of Auckland, 6 yrs )41110111c1 aedLadistainCe WEDNESDAY. added, twice round ,Pluvrse of 5 sovs., with 20 ad • as won in two heats by Mr. Lamb's Lady If r'llged• beatin M Skerratt's Tottenham, 3 yrs; and Thr• bellavdo.tes Alaidgof Auckland r. . 15 added, the Nyt Kle-Awake Stakes of 5 sovs. each, wi th ttallistatilsee,nuelvreit.%becnis,old for 70 sovs., &c., twice round , and a in two heats, by Mr. Skelton 's Father_ . bier s ew ' aged, heating Mr. A. Sandbach's b g by Jack Pal ' ' Yrs, and Air. Bladon's Maid of Auckland, 6 yrs. A hate CHE'STERFIELD RACES—THURSDAY. fOlir, of 3 0 sovs., for maiden bosses ; three years, sit Glb •5 • lb . ,ses fr ~. • %e, Bst 11 ; six an d aged, Bst 131 b. Mare air, opse_lualgs allowed 31bs. Heats, two miles. 7st 31b a ; Ids trbe's br g Bedale, yrss Ks e ree, t's b c Exhort, 3 (Abdale) 0 1 21 2 Isrs,°°e's b c Yellow Boy, 3 yrs 3 3 dr Mr. gesseltine's Guano 3 yrs 2 4 dr del sbr c B roomstick 3 yrs tr°l alie n s7le Stakes of 3 ' SO - Vs each, with 25 added, once seat ;er by Mr. Stebbing's Hector, 3 yrs (Long. staff), ,lEls e g att 'Walker' N bbler 4 yrs, Mr. Flintoff s ire:ll Yrs, Mr. Paring's Sau ° l, aged, Mr. Moult's Shrew s , 'he Lis ' s . : 9shorne's Firemaster, 3 yrs, and Mr. Percival' 'es l eak u Yrs. 5 as s , el'ers' Plate of 35 sovs., added to a Sweepstak es of 9, t; each ; three years old, 7st 71b; four, Bst 91b; . five_ 2 11). 811,,5,ad aged 9st 21b ; mares and geldings allowed B,otls'fo7llZred, .N e. 71b •, winners e • the winner to be Mi . !-.,, rou nd '___°.! ; and the second x to tru sit ' ve his stake. Heats, alt P elaald4Bllth hdrisliirpc:ae, aged (Bumby) 0 1 1 kkr, Pattt°rth's br c Kil e , 4 iris 1 0 2 . 1/,, tn.er's Betsy Bir 5 vrs 0 2 dr , grtia,, b , . g ram , w 2 dr toes ken ! Trifle, 4 yrs (half-bred) toe song "tie SWeepstakes of h 3 l sovs. each, 114 t° his were won in two gill' is , Gaunt's Isabel 6 e t t 8 In. s t SaVe stake, two miles, with 20 added, „ : r i s ls is o -°3S aged, and' m y r. rs A g e m ek it , h B ), T h h e e ati ki ng ai M d r o . f S t u h t e - The (. 1 \ FRIDAY. 4 .+P a es . terfield Plate of 40 soya., added to a sweepstakes of isti2e.sels; the second to receive 10 soya.; three yrs old, . 11144 and four 9st ; five, 9st 51b; six and aged,9st 71b; l'tra. 'geldings allowed 21b half bed, ' i fetaZ t4e winner to be sold for 1201. if demanded, &c. ntet so , t rj to be sold for 100 sovs. allowed 31b ; for 90, 610 ; Zt. w 0... lb for 70, 141 b. Heats, two miles. ~ ~ 1 i' l l ' . % l',C 11 (ls eh li Millipede, aged (Bumby) G 2) ? ''' 1 2 2 k , . user Betsy Bird, 5 yrs (70) Is: s il att sl ;s ,bl' Redale, 3 yrs ••• 30 3 3 it„, \-,,a1•04 ell f Glideaway, 4 yrs (70) 1 0 0 dr A worth'Os ° f Arungzebe, 5 yrs 2hr c Idolatry, 3 yrs i 'vere lease; ,t 1 2% value 40 sovs. added to a Swe;;iake o s d o r f 3 sovs. Is' l , l '• h . : ''' r ee Yrs old, sovs,, 21b ; e 21b. ilf,,ea i e a rs - and aged, gst ; mares and four, geldings allow Elt 41b ; five, Bst fir' geddael;tra. Onc ' e round. 1 litllo%,ta s , br m Inheritress, 5 yrs 2 fs (l ek'T il s bl c Lord Saltoun, 4 yrs 3 C LlTts-,.$ Yellow Boy, 3 yrs te i t4l 4s t AT Baron (t), 12 1 'Alt inn STAKES:-10 to 1 agst The MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY EVaNISO, IVVI 4 ssiardi o b 1 te „ N„ „, gs 00 Miss(t) , 1 as st af, t „ , ,et, ~, ,) sell (t) 20 to 1 agst Intrepid. 20 to _ . s 12 to agst My Mary, 14 a to , - 1 % 1 ,7, ,to sal, General Pollock (t), 16 to ag . s ./Egi • 1 11 t .,, "eihin ;(t)offers to give 12 agst the field. 4 i:e'slls% 1i in RACES.—rn onsnxr. jot '' 9,A.. ge Whip and 50 toys., added to a Sweepstakes 1 0 , 1 111,' ..Icli and geldings al ; three yrs old, 7st 41b; four, Bst 41b; five, Alt '' e(l 3lL ll, t and aged, 9st llb ; mares - (Ist,StZ TWO miles. (3 Subs.) ' ' ''''n 4, ' l' s b c The Cure, 4 yrs (Holmes) 1 al- Toe A's th e Dog Billy, 4 yrs 2 d e i tk *, der it n Won in canter. e P e4,--ing CI b Stakes of 200 toys., added to a !lan , (alaletto L.l4st,akes 011125 sovs. each, 15 ft, and only 5 if de slt, Isuldie, s ' stile second to save his stake. Tf;ci miles. th.. A . It 1„1:‘ of wliorn declared ) p'. ' 101 10; 118 tolle's br c Millen, 41r DI e • br c Annandale 3 yrs fist 4lb 3 yrs, sst 91b .. ... 2 1 3 steild,„-'''''s b c The C, 4 yrs, Bst 61b The -43 b l l Ari t tl ure 6 rs 7st 101 b... ........ 1 41111 tets k NV II ty o ti e s ' Y len " gths. ir, ... s-,:s-takees of 10 sovs. each, h. ft., 12st each ; mares Alt, ~!.eliejj" gelffings allowed 31bs. Two miles. . _ _ (Mr. Nicholl) s t k r rs r e a l t ho lia 1/11 I N l 'a l verley, a. Bed k . k i. eaten .. g . 1 Jan Friday, aged 0 tet. e s I, -" b lienavensworth, 5 yrs q e s k ~1 Ar css aged .. o Al ik e 'in ieh a l - , m, aged 8 4 4 „of $ o Won by a length. If, °'; ss e scl vs- for three yrs old, 7st 71b ; four years, sit, kit(iefs, fire ?icars, Bst 101 b ; Winner to be (], lief, 200t al °wed 2 1bs. Heats, one mile. six years and . aged, Bst 121 b. tJr ske dra,,.,, , 5 1 1 1„ . -ern s _ -.8 oisdis, 3 yrs, 7st 51b ..• (Lye) 1 2 2 k c 4 1.6. d o h s i.: , Ne, t r. Alq 8 et he r ` latr 's , 3 yrs, 7st 7lb ... 2 dr a y.. I ia„,,aton Maid, 4 yrs, Bst 21b 3 dr 4 es Ilit",.', Aristotle, 6 yrs, Bst 1210 ... ...... 4 dr ''' 4 -Northumberlad, 4 yrs, Bst 91b 41 , 1 11 ' e h 4 ----—....----—• 44(114.1, 141(,,r‘ Will, agreeably to present arrange - t t tte con,-eir deParture from Windsor for Osborne-hous e e r , 4 s s fotheuencernent of November, there to sojou.rnf . estl e fer ght winhree weeks, and then return to Wind a, ( kyr s.,,:he ter ' 0 000/. has been formed t i° , l sil i atir;; A li pt su fp .COMPANY.—We understand that 111".,,,,,11._111 eikvle,e9ital will be 50 . , to 11:kis lit% ti e n li f e_lass of steam-ships to a first step towards ' ply regularly be e s Kin ~iltt, „ _ a c r ( . and N . ew York, naval depot. In aid of I t '!te f', l ,`S•t tl, 1 7 I;a et station and in is s r( ' Isb ert . vrts of the soil has granted to the Company nominal rent. 4 le e l l eted t : ellta3's, stores, o ffi ces, 11 day& nPerform the voyage frtn e" B a a t n a t ry to Halifax lii:PeSSriv --"'"rk Constitution. , lYop, AND COMPARATIVE —A n attempt to Y o 4 441,,,,;t1f is a „ ! 4 1 1 11 4 1 . A *. wrash act ; but a slice of fried bacon is er u t" A soverei (itt Lo .._ ery day is " damp ;" b t the refusal of a , 5 0 , 13 . ciett i;,(11713, yo , ti is " a damp r the conveyance Ll. ' lilip ( l 3 si• , li ght ; but a boat fo Ill tle 14 b 'gu ter 1" What you attach to a window l a s tho refinee p i t e a flash of lightning in your eyes . a but one AtB e Albert is called a " fine man • ri , i 44 (44 Qiiik rii rueta , s iS " a finer !" A stiff old lady is "P m''''' tar 8111)3'' Sliellitig-bOOk iS " a primer . , ar i • We ek affair . b r!" A negro 4 ,It e i , . ; but tit a skylark is a ~, A cracked head " . soar , e , 11, 4 , -P is , „ 1 , ) -i c t e one who cleans boots is a bl . acker !" A ZA . l , , der O" bold 0 ;" but the member for Chippenham is N lt 's X. Ae,.. thr,ot4kr. il,.;_tnENT ON THE RIVER LEA.—Last cross, Ti; t ty.fi v ki4Z e r held an inquest at the Coventry -cross, e 31,4r876%, on the body of Joseph . Crouch, aged L k ;' , 4 BCfl - pois in , ft . appeared by the ev e id e ets e c .ae e . th , at on 1 k A.M., k,f,, ti.. 01 s oots 's Lie,twen twelve and onas navigating a illq tl in t ' 4 ll°l 114 ti ,_ .;). with another man, w ts,kl, a _ the lgstarneliouse:cut of the River Lea, and on 0 . qt. .t 1 hs,i ,"ver Lea cistern, at Bromley, he found urs tete t,:lbs„'ill left, and he quitted the barge for the p te h t l, be;s,l'asstto,! "galleys" of the lock gates to tillow th '" (1 pelf' SDI 'llig then a moment afterwards his comps- t t i rs , ceix, lash in svate but owing to the darkness he 1 11 W • e et; k „ ll l. loan all„°,°°e• He in r, consequence hastened to the to. leessntistk, and procured bodies assistance, and in about N. , . se She lifeless yf deceased was gat ou . t of th (l ts re At , th, ga e , alainta,'S'sthe, a surgeon was sent for, but all efforts ,?ep" i tjaeoip „,n-I°o were unavailing. It was proved that ,„ s'lt. Is _ the spot in question bad not been lighted on eteiedilee th ere s „„ no positive evidence to show how the O tt , 4rsteie(ll.),l,ace, and the jury returned a verdict of k the C k 2Artr G A , til j''-ii 'Of th ---14 To THE FREE-TRADERS.—Up 4 Se dt e n Thee revision for the West Riding of Yorkshire, le,kistre;!e e Xtra o r ' el !lY• the liberal and free-traders had b ?he s _ rdin ary tissa it, s t) A estessay gain o 1 1 1,930 votes on this year's eveng the gain would be tece4 teatlll'elttarital'Zie, 2 ; 00 0 . . We need not say . that ill te tlie (l f tile ". decisive advantage is owing to etr o k o.hdatio free-traders, directed, according to the . "tan ',,, th ern a , 0 1 . the Anti -Corn -law League, to the quail -I,tes lie Ue se ss e 'e te s i _for the exercise of the elective fra .n n . - NI tsjeti estsb,:us have in a vast majority of i 4 4 4 Ige eollgtit '`.."shed. The revising barristers have 1 , . , is f ~,. 11LIOnal ilu_,'° obl .l oUs ti,. doctrine, that it is a right and ei th ‘s 'si n thing for an , a ' Ish„„ it b , 3 , man to desire the franchise, 411 ethe r N. legY legal means• .A question has been . I tr e r i, ets e ll t il q t b: r are invalidated when it is shown that Ntt "Ilap. use a "PertY knew that it was bought for the elisittl tiltt:ultsly of votes. The revising barristers tall ; L I( sell er d pinion that such knowledge on the te itt ed th e t as it i s not such the vote of the pur ge 411 e, S Phtti o ls alleged that the Act of Queen Anne, (leeht usi a g Aet, makes this concert between buyer Iless ta i w kl• the 1 ) • okNI o t , 4 th e eo barristers have granted a case to fy, es, „ I. th e s _ . .urts above. Not more than fifty votes lihN tii i! is yeemfcelesi,on. The success obtained by tge free ,,," great Ou ght p is o lit , to induce them to persevere in quail. i ns } 14 Nye c ea ses, es,ble number to exercise the franchise. ak`rity carve, -uponth return of two free -trade Members Vfp oyes- eulated 'Pos t thesis regists • ut t it . ts . well to tnake the Plain f,reat and decisive one. The revi- NR 41 4 Q est Is 4l ltss "edbe r lg terminates on Tuesday next at 1 4: 44 4 41't4t.x flgi"--Leeds Mercury. Al ti, tile -v., ottqlta.Ttort.--fr. Shadwell sat yes- Cl4lllQ,R.kyitiotce-Challefilor's Court, Westminster -hall, 0. Qfior the lists of St. Anne St. element t 4 1,111 41t,/,,ne,ge,z llanover-iquare •L St. john the Evan- Lill eos e ,; t l . .64. Martin -in -the-Fields St. Margaret, 111111:1(;.'1,4PPtie.artIdV. gs-4.rd,sea'`ro'et• Mar Y - le-Si;and, andL in vert, Ne t , . for th,, 1 ~_. , El., and George Fitch, % , ,y. . T at . ea Auerals, and Ps,ns,for .:4(4141.e e sult N 7. ease of interest OeC i urred during y of 123, making t• t la 0 the d y's revision was to leave '2lB. Norit a total majo ~ __. Y 8 UPPLEMENT TO THE EVENING SUN, SATURDA Y, AGRICULTURAL MEETINGS. THE CENTRAL SUFFOLK AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting of this large association took place at Stoa market, on Thursday, and the exhibition of stock of all kinds was abundant, and of the finest quality. The members dined together in the evening, including the two representatives for the division, (11. S. Waddinoon, Esq., and P. Benett, Esq., and the High Sheriff, Henry Wilson, Esq. Three remarkable speeches were made, on leases, increased production of land, and the education of' farmers' sons. The Rev. COPPINGER HILL observed, it had been inti• mated that short speeches were to be the order of the day, but with this desire he feared he could not comply. Indeed, he felt convinced he could not. He was desirous of making a long speech. (Laughter.) He wished to take part in the discussion of agricultural questions. He looked at the newspapers and found nothing but speeches on leases, the education of farmers, and of confludon to the game. (Laughter.) In compliance, therefore ' with the custom, h e mus t ma k e a speec h on each of these subjects. (Oh ! oh !) What did leases offer to the farteer ? It was said they allowed him the chance of getting back the capital expended on the land during his occupation in the way of improvements. Leases might afford a chance to the farmer, but they gave no certainty. (Hear, hear.) But though leases would not secure the farmer from loss, there existed a well devised system of compensatory clauses, which might be placed in action, capable of saving the farmt rs from any loss at the close of his term of occupation, and also averting loss to the landlord by a change of' tenant.— (Hear, hear.) He had considered this subject deeply for a lengthened period of time, and his opinion was this—that it was preferable to the occupier to have six months' notice to quit, with compensation for the value of the improvements helhad made on the land, than trust to the security the best lease could afford him.—(Cries of" No, no.") Look at Scotland, the country to which it was now the fashion and habit to turn on all ques tions of agriculture, where the lease expired and the te nant quitted at the same time. Look, again, at Lin colnshire, where it would be found that six months' no tice to quit, with the compensatory clauses in the agree ment, worked well, both fur tenant and landlord..— He was, therefore, of opinion, as h. said previously, a six months' notice to quit, with a compensation for out lay and improvement—the sum, of course, settled by vas luation properly made—was more remunerative and fair to a farmer than the uncertainty of a lease.—(Hear, hear, and No, no.) With respect to another subject—. the education of the farmer—he thought that class as well educated, proportionately, as other classes. Still they must keep pace with the times, and provide intel lectually for those that followed in a coming generation. (Hear, hear.) One plan he would at once recommend : to send their sons from home, for - " The homely keeping youth was ever homely wedded." and to take advantage of those institutions established for their benefit.—(Hear, hear.) As respected the game question, he begged to say that, when improperly pre served, game was an insufferable nuisance. —(Hear, hear.) He had heard of a plan, however, to reduce the evil. lie was himself fond of the trigger, and, therefore, did not think ho ought to give it tongue, but he wished to adopt a counter irritant— a St. J o h n Long system—with re spect to game. Let the landlords preserve the game as they pleased, but if the farmers would not cultivate vul pecidal propensities, the nuisance would soon be put down.—(Hear, hear.) F. HOBBS, Esq., replied to the observation of the Rev. C. Hill relative to a six months' tenantcy. His opinion was that an enterprising tenant would not be satisfied by a holding that might expire at the end of six months. —(Hear, hear.) There were improvements made and money expended on a farm which no valuer could de tect, or detecting, appreciate—(Hear, hear)—and though the occupier were paid for improvements, still the uncertain tenure by which he would hold under Mr. Hill's plan would be a bar to his prosperity and comfort. The landlord on his part ought to have a good and remunerative rent for his land, but he thought he would not do his duty if he did not afford to his tenant a fixity of tenure.—(Hear, hear.) Before he sat down, he would allude to the observations made by Captain Rous, M.P. for Westminster, on the subject of the corn- laws. That gentleman had said; alluding to the Ministers, that no man ought to have laid his head on his pillow, without attempting some thing to remedy the existing state of things, and be (Mr. Hobbs) presumed that Captain Rous held the opinion that the country must, or should, look to other coun tries for support—(Hear)—because of the increase of the population, and the want of corresponding increase in the productiveness of the land. If Captain Rous had consulted Maculloch's Statistics, he would have found that corn had increased in a twofold ratio with the population. And the land would do more than this. If confidence existed between the landlord, the farmer, and the Legislature, he fully believed the land would pro duce greater abundance than it yet yielded.—(Hear, hear.) Could any body visit one particular parish in the kingdom where, if the land was manage d b y a goo d Suffolk bailiff, one bushel an acre could not be grown more than at present ?—(Hear, hear.) Well, then, put the land into a sound state of cultivation such as this possible increase indicated, and a vast increase would be the effect.--(Hear, hear.) The waste lands, also, amount ing to several millions of acres, could be made produc tive in time.—(Hear, hear.) All these things proved to him that England might become, by the energy of her sons, an exporting instead of an importing country. —(Hear, hear, and much applause.) The Hitcm SHERIFF proposed " the health of the Chairman."—(Hear, hear.) He also alluded to the fair prospects now before the West District of Suffolk, in the railway in progress of construction, observing that the realisation of the means to forward stock to Smith field without deterioration in flesh would be accom plished.—(Hear, hear.) He wished to speak of an other subject, not new, but which had occupied the mind of Mr. Mapletoft, and, indeed, himself, not long ago, and had recently been revived by the Earl of Stradbroke —he meant the subject of the education of the farmers. —(Hear, hear.) He was of opinion that agriculturists, as a class, had not equal opportunities with others, of properly educating their sons according to the advance ment of the times.—(Hear, hear.) He did not wish that the sons of farmers should be made masters of the classics—he did not desire that the sons of agriculturists should show dragons' teeth, so that soldiers might spring from them, or that they should think, by extracting the cube of any given number, they might have an extended knowledge of agricultural implements. (Hear, hear.) He de sired only that a farmer's son should have the means afforded him of obtaining a good, sound, and practical education.—(Hear.) It was not the mere accident of birth which made men, but education.—(Hear.) It ought to be the object of all, that whatever profession they followed, an attempt should be made for improve ment— that an effort should be made to create better sailors, better soldiers, better philosephers, and to instil into all the fullest sense of the responsibility of mankind, and of their high position as moral creatures.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He only wished the members of the Association to talk over the subject among themselves, fur surely it could be but of the greatest advantage to procure such an education as he had understood could be obtained at Cirencester and in Hertfordshire, and at an equally moderate expense. If the opinions of the farmers of the county were in unison on the subject, the thing was done. Public opinion was then obtained in its favour—public opinion, which only spoke with a whisper at first, but at length rose into a voice which reached every ear—a voice which Government ought at all times to respect. Other topics were introduced, which called forth keen arguments, and the whole proceedings may be charac terised as remarkable, compared with the usual run of such gatherings. LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The 15th annual meeting of this society was held on Thursday in an enclosure at the top of Sackville-street, near the New Haymarket. The repot t of the committee for the year 1845 stated, that their funds continue in a healthy state, and that after discharging all claims fur the past year, their trea surer has a balance in hand of 151. 14s. 4d. The dinner took place as usual at five o'clock, in the large room, Lucas's Repository. Lord Stanley in the chair. After the usual national toasts had been drank, The CHAIRMAN said, in rising to propose •i Prosperity to the Liverpool Agricultural Society," he believed it would net be deemed inconsistent with a very sincere desire to promote the welfare of that Society, and the important objects for which its maintenance was most to be desired, if he should say that he trusted this would be the last occasion on which he should have the oppor tunity of addressing the members of the Liverpool Agri cultural Society as a separate body.—(Applause.) Ile had hoped that before that time, he still hoped before that time next year, an union might be effected between this and another similar society, (the Manchester So ciety,) which occupied the south • eastern part of this county and a greater portion of the northern part of the adjoining county of Chester. He had hoped that that union would have already taken place, and he still trusted that it would take place within a short period, because he was satisfied that such an union would be for the mutual benefit of both Societies, and tend to extend more widely the benefits derived from such Societies, for the exten-. sion of the sphere of influence of these Societies mate rially tended to promote the merit of the competition raised within them.—(Hear, hear.) He did not by this at all mean to deprecate the establishment of small local Societies, confined within a very limited sphere ; on the contrary, he thought they .were calculated to do infinite good. He rejoiced to see them springing up in every direction, in every part of the country. He knew that within their limited sphere they excited a spirit of emu lation and desire of improvement which could not be excited by Societies having a more extended range. He knew that improvements carried on under the eyes of the farmers themselves, and by those with whom they were most friendly and neighbourly, and of whose means they would have the power of estimating, and by comparison with whom they might form a judgment of what they themselves were able to accomplish—he knew these were calculated to excite a desire of improve ment, and a spirit of competition, without which improve ment in agriculture was not to be expected ; but vt hen that spirit had been excited—when that emulation had been raised, comparatively speaking, teat emulation extending only over a narrow district of country could effect little of good. Persons comparing their stock or farms with their neighbour', within a limited sphere, were satisfied with moderate superiority —with very moderate farms, very moderate stock, and very moderate implements ; but when the feeling of emulation was ex cited by the competition of small societies, then the more they could extend the range of large societies, to which the smaller ones ought to be affiliated, the greater the competition and the greater the range of improvement, the greater the merit and the higher wculd be raised the standard to which each in his separate locality would en deavour to raise himself.—(Applause.) And, therefore, whilst he rejoiced to see springing up and multiplying in every direction these small societies within a very narrow compass, he rejoiced also to think there was a prospect of this great society extending its advantages and its benefits more widely by a co-operation with an other society extending over another extensive district. He was balmy to be enabled to say that, so far ies he was aware, the obstacles which prevented the annexa tion of these two societies up to the present time had been an obstacle not on the part of this Society, but some trillirg financial difficulties,_ he hoped nearly sur mounted, on the p ar t o f the Society with which they were desirous of entering into copartnership. He was enabled to congratulate them on the financial position of this Society, inasmuch as they had succeeded by efforts made a year or two ago, in removing the embarrass ments to which they were subjected, without any decline in their subscriptions, and, he believed. an increase of members, they had a balance, not a large one, hut still a balance, in the treasurer's hands. Although he had to regret that on the present occasion, and in the course of the morning, the attendance had not been so large, and in the yard considerably smaller, than it had been on many former occasion:, he thought, that when they considered what sort of weather those had who attended the showyard that day, it was rather a matter of con gratulation that a sum of 60/ or 70/., mostly in shillings, had been taken, than of regret that they had not such a sum on former occasions. He believed he might also congratulate them—though he must con fess he was one of the defaulters, and had not been in the show-yard, and therefore could not speak of the.show from his own individual kno wledge,---yet he believed he might safely congratulate them on the exhibition of that (lay. lie believed that am mg the cattle some very su perior animals were exhibited, very far superior to most of those exhibited in former years ; that the pigs of the show-yard continued to be marked by the same degree of excellence, and that there was exhibited some valuable implements of husbandry, a department to which he was particularly desirous to see the attention of the farmers of this country directed. But, it was not en the thriving position of the Society—it was not only the show, brought together that day, that they were about t.) look at as resulting from the labours of this Seciety—it was in the general marked gratifying improvement which had taken place in agriculture, within the memory of almost all he saw around him. lie was quite certain that within the time to which he could himself look back, and since the commencement of that society, there had been an im provement in the stock, in the farms, and in every de scription of agriculture in that neighbourhood, which gave the greatest satisfaction for the past, and which gave the greatest of hope and confidence for the future. —(Applause). He would not say that there existed that prejudice against the use of implements which he had heard related by a gentleman from the midland counties, who presented one of his farmers with a couple of iron ploughs, and having left the country for two years, re turned and was surprised to find not only that the number of iron ploughs had not increased, but that no use had been made of those he bad given to the tenants. The answer he received on inquiring the cause of this was, "Why, you see, we have a notion in this country that iron :ploughs breeds weeds."—(Great laughter). He (the Chairman) would not say anything so absurd as this existed in this county, but he should like to see a considerable increase of iron ploughs. He should like to see them superseding the lumbering wooden ploughs still too prevalent. He should like to see two horses abreast doing the work of three or four in a straight line. He could only put down as one of these prejudices, the notion that one horse working in a furrow must necessarily poach the land. He apprehended the natural remedy would be to drain the land ; that would be found a more advantageous remedy than making four or five horses do the work of three. This was one of the prejudices of this country. He recollected another. He was cer tain he was speaking within compass when he said that within fifteen years any one here would have been told that the land in this neighbourhood would not grow tur nips. That was superseded by the test of experience. Mr. Skirving had done something to undeceive their on that point, and the practical experience of every farmer would prove, that not only could they grow turnips, but that there were few countries in the world that could grow better; and very many farmers, he thought, would find that they had not made a bad exchange by sowing their land with turnips instead of potatoes.—(Hear, hear.) Again, referring to the improved state of agri • culture, he said he saw draining going on in every di rection on the best and most scientific principles. He saw, with satisfaction, landlord and tenant co operating together to improve the agriculture of this county; and unless the landlords did so co-operate and combine, he was satisfied it was not reasonable to expect improve ment from the farming and agricultural population of the country. When landlords (lid come forward and lend their assistance, they had a right to expect that the tenants would go hand and hand with them. Tney had a right to expect that assistance given by the land lord was not an excuse for slovenly conduct to the farmers.—(Applause.) He had seen, and did see every day, great and manifold improvement ; but that was not a ground for relaxing their exertions. Their motto should be,— " To think nothing done while aught remains to do ;" and very few farmers in that or any other country could say honestly and conscientiously that nothing remained to do in the way of labour on their farms. He did think they had a right to expect that they should not see— tnuch as a sportsman he should like to see them—those high stalked stubbles, offering an excellent cover for game, but suggesting to the agriculturist a very lament able condition of farming, and suggesting, if he might be allowed to say to the landlord, a very natural con clusion that the farmer must be very low rented indeed who could afford to grow so large a crop of weeds. (Laughter and applause.) He trhsted as they had be gun so they would go on, hand in h•qid ; that they should promote agriculture, and endeavour by all their power—by all the applications of science, in which he did not expect the farmers to take the lead, but he did expect the farmers would not shut their eyes when the advantages were demonstrated to them. The country had a right to expect it from them, and they must remember that, as par after year passed by, they had an increase of 300,000 mouths to feed beyond the population of the preceding year, and that on their exer tions the supply for those 300,000 mouths mainly de pended. He believed himself, not that the capacities of the soil were infinite, but that the productive capacities of the soil were in finitely larger than most people imagined; and he believed it was not only capable of providing for the existing population, but, with the application of science, of providing for a much larger and increasing population. It was their duty and their advantage to find the means of providing for that population, and in the hope that that and other similar societies would be the means of exciting the landlord and tenant to fresh exer tions and renewed applications of capital, science, and skill. It was with such anticipations, such hopes, that he proposed to them, whether maintaining its present posi tion, or united with another body, and thereby extending its advantages, "Prosperity to the Liverpool Agricul tural Society, with three times three." (Drank with much enthusiasm.) Several other toasts having been drank, and the prizes having been distributed, the company separated. THE LATE FIRE AT GREAT WALTHAM-AP- PREHENSION OF TOE SUSPECTED INCENDIARY. labourer, named Charles Murralls, is at present in cus tody on suspicion of having wilfully occasioned the con flagration which took place on the 13th ult. on the premises of Mr. Isaac Livermore, the Old Park Farm, in the above parish. Suspicion attached to the prisoner, it appears, owing to a threat which he made to Mr. Li vermore when discharged from his service for some misconduct. He was seen at the fire, and on the first occasion of Mr. Livermore observing him he re marked that he was in a state of profuse perspiration, which he accounted for by stating that he had been running. The police have been actively engaged in. investigating the matter, and the prisoner is to undergo an examination upon the charge.—Cheksford Chronicle. SERIOUS ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning a poor lad, named James Johnson, having ascended the roof of the house, 18, Cornwall-road, Lambeth, to entrap a pigeon, lost his footing, while in the act of whistling to the bird, and fell a height of about forty fret into the court be neath, where he was found by his sister, lying on his face (which was frightfully disfigured), bleeding and insen sible. Mr. S e w e ll, s urgeon , of the New -cut, advised hi s immediate removal to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he now lies in a precarious state. SERIOUS ACClDENTS.—Yesterday the following ac cidents occurred :—The first happened to a bricklayer, named John Stitch, aged forty years. who, it appears, was at work on a scaffold at the Home-office, when he missed his footing and fell to the ground with great violence. He was removed to the Westminster Hospital, where he now lies in a very precarious state. A second accident took place in the after noon to a labourer named Timothy Avant, living in Hocking ham-street, Westminster, who, while assisting in the removal of a heavy stone, when the whole mass, wei g hi ng severa l hundred weight, fell upon his fingers, crushing them in a frightful manner. lie was taken to a surgeon, and ulti mately to the same hospital, where he remains in a state of great suffering: A third accident took place in Bridge-street, Blackfriars, to an aged female, who was running across the roadway between the end of Ludqate-hill and Fleet-street, and before she could reach the kerb she was knocked down by a horse, which was being driven at a rapid speed from Smith field cattle-market. She was picked up bleeding from a wound on the right temple, and was carried in to the nearest surgeon's,.but after a short time, was able to walk home. FATAL SCAFFOLD ACClDENT.—Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, an accident, which terminated fatally, occurred to a man named Michael Dalton. Deceased, a labouring man, was at work on a scaffold erected at the back of the Prince of Wales's Tavern, near the Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway, when, missing his footing, he fell head foremost to the ground. He was picked up in a state of insensibility, and conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where it was found that he had received such a combination of injuries as to cause his death in two hours afterwards. THE AFFRAY AT HOUNSLOW BARRACKS.—The surgeons in attendance on Quartermaster Tarleton examined the wound yesterday, and pronounced a favourable opinion of its state. At a late hour yesterday evening, Tarleton was reported to be progressing favourably. DEATH FROM OIL OF LMONDS.—Yesterday afternoon, Mr. William Payne, the City coroner, went into a long inquiry in the board-room of St. Bartholomew's Hos pital, as to the death of Sarah Webb, aged 49 years. It ap peared by the evidence,.that the deceased was in the habit of working for a Mrs. Francis, residing at No. 2, Bennett's. hill, Doctors'-commons. On Friday morning, whilst the deceased was at work in the kitchen, she was seized with a tit of shivering. Mrs. Francis ran to the deceased and placed her on the floor. She remained in that position a few minutes, when she vomited. A surgeon was called in, who, seeing the state she was in, ordered her to be removed with all speed to the above hospital. A small bottle was soon :after wards found, which the deceased had been tasting from. There was a strong smell in the room of the essential oil of almonds. The deceased never spoke after she fell to the ground, and died in ten minutes after her admission into the hospital. Mr. T. Francis said, in answer to the coroner, that the bottle was his property. It contained a small por tion of almond flavouring, which was considerably weaker than oil of almonds. The deceased must have placed the bottle to her mouth for the purpose of tasting its contents. The coroner animadverted in strong terms on the danger c f leaving such articles exposed, after which the jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased died from the effects of poison taken by mistake." MAGAZINES, Szc.—(CONTINUED): A !NSW (MTH' S MA GA ZIN E. The three chapters of "Caesar Borgia," tvith which this number commencee, are a decided improvement on those which hare, preceded them. The author begins to sketch the terrible soldier -cardinal with a steadier and more vigorous -hand, and .the :accessories to the story come out with a - degree of keeping and fidelity which in duce us to believe lie has studied the pages of Bur ehardus, Platina, and Macchiavelli to good account. The personal character of this latter, indeed, is some what feebly pourtrayed ; but it is no evert -day task to bring before the public in the nineteenth century a good posthumous portrait of the great Florentine Secretary and diplomatist of the sixteenth. The Black Penitent— Dom Sa.bbat—we are led to suppose will turn out an embodiment of the " Wandering Jew." It will not be an easy thing to give force or novelty to this edition of that most romantic of legends after it has been so ably and variously handled by the German and the French romance writers. To show the disheartining effect of coming after great masters, we may remark that even M Eugene Sue's more carefuly elaborated portrait of ular of tal gi.uf t ,g ? tufrri i llyi s adut_rgi c rile e ee); l ,o, e nbu, b lyvfi r ,ibis a dgt: t eio e ipderA d o: ri‘us p v. ide of x.c).%enr,s €tad tifo:p i .fina s aiptkv , eilt e tn,isri v e L ,i F asn i :nsko t te h ,t,a, powerftch. ul e‘c f et t b,i t i) l oniumor l tnm i pp a dsloi r e,i t toin d ,:nrei s niteldt e fear, Tom Hood's pathetic and solemn ballad, eittitlei " - The Bridge of Sighs." Mr. Thomas Oilier furnishes a very pretty sonnet on October, !nil of poetical imagery and feeling. " Glimpses of Germany, with a Glance at France," have been caught. by some ono who calls himself " a travelling satellite of Queen Victoria," and appears to have been perfectly .ehloui by, we suspect, the munificent courtesies of the Duke of Saxe Gotha to those whom the writer calls "feuille tonistes." He announces, with much circumstance, that "a compliment, one of the neatest, nay, the most ele• !ant national compliment that" (can it be believed?) "he had ever heard, was paid through him—his insig nificant self, to —the whole British nation!" by some Pole—not named—in some service—not hinted at—with Louis Philippe, on board the steam-boat, in its home ward passage irons Tat,tort. lie is e xtreme l y wrat h with Jules Janin, as one "of the French journalists who are best at a distance" (this is neither the " neatest nor the nicest compliment we have ever met with")—is denounced as a sort of "bourgeois dandy;" and he kindly vindicates her Majesty from imputations sug gested by two absurd anecdotes which, having been at the trouble to set up, he has the best right in the world to bowl down; and does accordingly overth row with most superfluous solicitude. "James Shepherd, the Jacobite." a tale of the reign of George I. (suggested, we presume, by a well-known case in the black collec tion of the " State Trials"), is a clever but dreary tale of that vindictive period, in which the change of dynasty on the throne seemed to have, for a time, extinguished, even among the leading members of the two contending parties, advocating respectively the succession of the house of Stuart and that of the House of Hanover all the emotions of human pity ; the dictates of mercy in the Sovereign and his councils, and the judges of the land; the charities of life both among his adherents and his enemies, but especially among the former. Poor Shepherd, the young herald-painter of 18, was hanged at Tyburn on the 17th of March, 1718, a mistaken, but conscientious and unrepining victim to a deeply-rooted principle of enthusiastic devotion to the Stuart family. " A Tale of East India Life, founded on fact, by J. E. Stocqueler," is a story of an attachment commenced in England] between a ha - f -caste youth (son of an English officer quartered in Bengal, by a native mother), and crushed in India through this " abatement " in the hero's "escutcheon of pretence" The following is the denouement of the narrative:— " It was on a fine night in the middle of August, 1832, that Merton, who had been dining with a friend at Kensing-• ton, was returning along the pathway which s ki r t s H yde Park, when he was accosted by a female who appeared rather disposed to solicit alms of the stranger, than propose an of fensive traffic. The general demeanour of the woman caused Merton, whose heart was always alive to ge nerous i mpulses, to slacken Lis step and listen to her. She walked by his side for a short distance—the voice was familiar to his ear— the gait was not altogether foreign to his eye. Presently they reached a lamp-post, when stopping to take out hi s purse and afford her aid, he suddenly beheld in the stream of light the well-known features of Emily Bertram! Great was his grief nce in superior In d servants the and astonishment at this sudden rencontre. lie h a d sup opfosaedsehneirotor Merchantbe living Com pany were then called), for he had seen her m arr i age an nounced. She recognised him as readily as he discover e d her, and with less reserve than she would have sho wn i n prouder days, revealed her sad history. It involved a t a l e too often told in India—of selfishness, ambition, passion, re morse, and disgrace. Emily, instigated by her burra bebee much her senior in year:, who had a large incom e an d a , (great lady) friend, had given her hand to a gentl eman very handsome establishment. ' Her heart she reserve I for a later suitor—a captain of dragoons. The liaison was - discovered; banishment from her husband's house, followed by a formal separation, was the immediate result ; her paramour refused to receive her—aaciety turned its back upon her, and she was only too glad to receive from one who lead tasted her hospi tality, when in affluence, the means of returning to England, a prey to the undying worm. Sh e h a d landed only a fort night previous to her meeting with Mert ,- )n; no one of the few friends she had would admit her, and beggary, or some thing worse, was the only source of subsistence open to het! Merton shed burning teats over her narrative—gave her the present means of existence, and appointed to meet her in Hyde Park the tbllowing day, intending in the mean time to consult with his wife as to further arrangements for her welfare. On reaching home he told die whole story to Mts. Merton, who, out of the fulness of her sympathy for the erring sufferer, proposed that their house should afford her an asylum. " The next day Merton proceeded from his residence to the appointed spot. Emily was not true to her engagement. For an hour he waited in expection of her coming —but she came not. He was leaving the Park by the bridge across the Ser pentine river to retrace his steps homeward, , , when some policemen, followed by a ragged crowd, emerged from the house of the Royal Humane Society, bearing a human body upon a board. Poor thing!' ejaculated an old woman who formed part of the curious assemblage,' tired of her life, I dare say.' The words arrested Merton's attention—he addressed himself to the police officers and begged to look upon the face. His curiosity was gratified—Emily Bertram was the hapless suicide !" Madame de Crespigny's " Saint Silvester's Night,",is a " Romance of Peal Li►e," the scene of which is laid in the old Castle of Heidelberg, and the epoch dated from no more remote period than ten years ago. " Charac teristics of Early English Poets (viz., Chaucer, Webster, Quarles, and Chapman)," a pleasant paper enough. The "Lover's Leap" and " Ehrenstein," are continued. This number of Ainsworth is a very good one. We hail with much satisfaction, the marked improvement in the illustrated embellishments of:this periodical, which commences this month, and is, we trust, like the frag mentary romances it contains, to" be continued in our next." The " Black Penitent," in the present number, is, in point both of design and execution, by fur the best thing se have seen in Ainsworth for a long time past. GEORGE CRUICKSHANK'S TABLE-BOOK. " Oddities from the Rhine," the opening paper of the present number, from the pen of Angus B. Reach, is quite worthy of being illustrated by George Cruik shank, and this is the highest praise that can be bestowed upon the productions of any comic writer. And most gloriously has Cruikshank illustrated it, in his return from a delightful trip to the Continent, where the party are seen being conveyed in an open boat, " amidst the peltings of the pitiless storm," from the Belgian packet to Dover harbour. " Never trust to outward Appearances" is a very good story, well told, and capitally illustrated ; and " The Hermit of Vauxhall," by the Editor, is a " right merrie" imitation of Goldsmith's " Edwin and Angelina." We recommend the following to the atten tive consideration of all young ladies wcickfancy they have a voice : " If all the young ladies who sit down to a piano to sing a song were to be taken at their words—that is to say, at the words of the poet, which, for the time being, they adopt as their own—much awkwardness might be the consequence. If the invitations that are frequently issued were to be literally accepted, we should have people rushing to willow glens the day after an evening party; or jumping into cabs and giving directions to the cabmen to drive • where the aspens quiver,' `down by the shining river,' whither they had been requested to • bring their guitar' by some syren of last night's soirée. Four or fire years ago it was customary to recommend a whole roomful of company to hurry Away, away to the mountain's brow !' and many of our readers will recollect being intreated to leave the gay and festive scene' considerably before supper, and to 'rove 'mid forests green,' for the purpose of watching the lingering ray that shoots from every star; which, as the stars happen to be innumerable, would have been a very end less business. To ask a gentleman to come and watch the rays that shoot from every star, is almost as bad as inviting him to come and count the • five million addi tional lamps' at Vauxhall, a task under which even Cocker must have fallen prostrate. The coolness with which a request for a meeting by moonlight alone' is frequently conveyed may be all very well in a crow d ed room full of guests, but if the solitary intervi ew were to come Off at the appointed hour , the strongest o f f emale nerves might be shaken. As the invitation i s general, any one present is at liberty to accept it, provided h e fulfil the condition of coming alone ; and if Spring heeled Jack should happen to overhear the song, he might take into his head—and heels —to keep the ap pointment. " Young ladies should be very careful in issuing notes of invitation to a moonlight soi , ee, for they do not know who may overhear them, and attend the rendezvous. The Cock-lane Ghost, had he been living when the song of Meet me by moonlight' was composed, would have been a very likely sort of gentleman to be waiting 'in the grove at the end of the vale,' for the purpose of bestow.. ing the sweet light of his eyes—glaring through two holes in a turnip--upon any one who had asked for it. " We must say, we prefer the present system of wri ting songs with no meaning at all, to the old method of asking people to a moonlight tete-a-tete, a meeting in ' a tranquil cot at a pleasant spot,' or a conversazione where the aspens quiver.' `You'll remember me," pledges you to nothing, unless a waiter sings it while you nod your assent, arid a promise to do something when hollow hearts shall wear a_ mask' is certainly void, for impossibility." The other papers are all redolent of fun, and the Table-Book of this month will set full many " a table in a roar." THE BRITISH MAG4ZLIVE. The contents of the " Britibh" for the pr esen t mont h are of a more varied range and interesting character than the scope of a publication so largely devoted to pole mics usually embraces. The most important papers are " Modern H a giology"—" Morals o f A rmor i a l Bearings"—" On the Restoration of the Jews to the Land of Canaan"—" Judicial Committee of the Privy Council"—" Mr. Ward's Secession to the Church of Rome"—" Church of England in India"—" Rt,v, W. Wingfield's Reasons fur withdrawing from the Church of England." In pity to our readers, who must bted and somewhat more, with the Tractarlau Controversy, we shall find room but for two very short extracts from the first of these articles. It is, however, a most able paper. A more epigrammatic summary of doctrine, and an inference more irmsistible than that which the writer wisely leaves the world to draw from it, we haVe not often seen than those which are comprised in the follow ing passages : "ProM'what has already been laid before the reader in these papers it may be gathered that Dr. Posey en tertains no serious objection to the system advocated by Mr. Oakeley. _ _ " The passage referred to is in the Preface to his adaptation of another work of Avrillon's : A Guide far passing Lent Holily, in which is found for each day, Advice as to Practice, a Meditation and Thoughts on the Gospel for the Day, and Passages from the Holy Scriptures and the Fathers ; with a Collect, and one point in the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. By Avrilion. Translated from the French, and adapted t, the use of the English Church.' " In the preface to this volume, Dr. Pusey plainly avows his approval of the method of tampering with Holy Scripture which is now recommended by this party, under the name of Meditation ; and on precisely the same ground as Mr. , Oakeley has taken." Under the heading " Church of England in India" we find extracts from a sensible and iatreetionate " Fare well Ch,rge" of the Bishop of Calcutta (Wilson) to his clergy. We make room for the following passage : "Ic is true, there are many anomalies still in our po sition as compared with an Erglish diocese. It is true, the inherent powers or the biship, as ri,cognised and defined• in the royal lettrrs patent, were not duly sup ported in the Act for the erection of the see in 1S 14, by corresponding provisions. It is true, the rev, chaplains are not incumbents nor perpetual curates, as at home. It is true, the bishop's license is not clearly and formally acknowledged by the Government in their proceedings, as it should be. It is true, that the appointments to sta tions and the removal of chaplains are in the Govern ment. It, is true, that impediments, as to the Bishops of Calcutta and Madras holding their ecclesiastical courts, have arisen. It is true, that the rev. chaplains are still sometimes termed military ones.' " But all these anomalies are, in practice, very much remedied. The bishop's recommendations to appoint ments are acted on ; removals do not rake place without his approbation, and his endorsing of that approbation on the license. All the cleegy, both chaplains and mis sionaries, are duly licensed by the bishop, and act under that license. Notices of the licenses of the rev, clergy are inserted in the Government gazette ; anything 'dis orderly in the conduct of the chaplains is referred by Government to the bishop, and his opinion duly sup ported ; the chaplains, if described 'as similar to mili tary ones,' are known and acknowledged to be described so improperly and merely in common parlance." JOURNAL of AGRICULTURE; and the Transac tions of the Highland and Agricultural Socitty of Scot land. No. X. New Series. October, 1845. We see but one objection to the scheme on which this intelligent and pains -taking journal is conducted. It may be that we have old-fashioned notions on such sub jects ; but it seems to us that the sphere of usefulness such a periodical is destined to fill must be determined by the presence, among other elements of success, of this primary condition, namely, that its contributions be popularly treated. Allowing much for the more ge nerally diffused amount of chemical and geological knowledge among the farmers and cultivators of the northern, as compared with those of the southern divisions of the island, we cannot persuade ourselves that, fur the purposes of the average run of Scotch farmers, even in the most highly-cultivated districts, such as those of Perthshire and the Lothians, an array of agri cultural essays, with such a large sprinkling of scientific and technical designations as we meet here, is the most expedient means of inducing those who are in want of in formation on the questions treated of to acquire it. What would one of our great wheat growers on stiff clays on the enormous farms of the Isle of Ely, or farmers on the heavy soils of Essex, or the tillers of the great wealds of Kent and Sussex say. if they are requested to peruse a paper with a heading like that, for example, which is presented to us at the very first page of this quarterly number ? Here we have an article "On the Source of the Carbon str.cl Nitrogen in Plants as derived from the Soil !" Let us not be misunderstood in offering this criticism. It is with great satisfaction we state that we have never opened a number of this journal without deriving both instruction and amusement from it. We merely wish to express our conviction of the universal value of popular papers with popular titles : such, for example, as that uhich we find at p. 125 of the number before us ; "On the over-liming of Land, by Henry Ch %per, Eiq , of Clervaux Castle, Darlington." A most admirable manual this is for regulating the ap plication of a most valuable but very caustic manure. The paper " On Insects most injurious to Vegetables and Animals, and the means best calculated to counteract their ravages, by the Rev. James Duncan, Af.W.S.,” reaches its sixteenth chapter. We cannot find in the present number any matter that seems well calculated for being tramftrred to our own columns : though we doubt not that the practical farmer will study with ad vantage W. T. Rowlandson's (of Liverpool) excellent essay "On the Formation of Manure Heaps, and the Eccnimising of Liquid Manures." THE RAILWAY REGISTER. The present number opens with the first of a series of articles on railways in Ireland, which should be rend with attention by every legislator, statesman, and phi lanthropist. The writer goes into a minute considera tion of the peculiar evils of Ireland, and shows, from authentic ducuments, that those evils are social rather than political, that they are caused neither by ab senteeism nor by the exportation of provisions, but by want of proper means to develop the natural resources of the country among which the writer enumerates, as a most important one, which has been strangely over looked by the Railway Commissioners, the fisheries. The writer then goes on to observe— " The only cure for the social miseries of Ireland consists in the encouragement to industry. For this purpose capital is absolutely necessary b e f ore a s t e p can be taken ;—capital to encourage production, and capital to make roads for the conveyance of the produce to proper markets. We care not much at which end the application of this powerful agency is commenced. Per haps the proper beginning would be in the matter of roads ;—for when they are made, comparatively Lttle capital would be sufficient to do something in the way of production ; and that little would soon grow to more. "The only wholesome inducement to the investment of capital upon an extensive scale consists in the expec tation of a profitable return. That such return may be obtained in Ireland has become too generally discre dited,ao — ls so , much so th a t th e E ng li s h cap i ta li st pre f ers sending o ver sma ll contributions in charity, to alleviate the imm e di ate pressure of extraordinary distress, to risking more with a view to profit. With this impres sion,it has been the pr ac ti ce t o ma k e a d vances o f public money, in aid of local works in Ireland ; in our opinion a most pernicious practice, as whilst the good actually done is extremely small compared with what the country requires, the very fact keeps alive the no tion, already too prevalent, that capital cannot be pro fitably employed in Ireland. This notion we are sorry t? find pervading the report of the Railway Commis sioners, as will be seen by-and-by when we come to its details. In the meantime it will be our anxious desire to disabuse the public mind of a prejudice which we sin cerely believe to be as groundless es it is fatal in its influence." Having given a detailed account of the experiment recently tried by Lord G. Hill, in the county of Donegal, as a proof of the beneficial effect of capital and good management upon the social condition of the Irish people, the writer concludes the present article in these words : " We must not look at present, we fear, for many Irish landlords to follow the wise and laudable example of Lord G. Hill ; and in justice to this class, we must add that we apprehend that under the existing laws relating to landed property in Ireland, as in England (in Scot land it is not so) few of them would have the means, even if they had the inclination, to undertake a similar System of improved management. Three-fourths of the property in Ireland is under strict entail or settlement, which would prevent the present owners from borrow ing money, upon the security of their property, and without money nothing can be done. The capitalist, however, might still step forward and assist in working the remedy, as a speculation on his own account, or partly so ;—and the most gratifying results, we have no doubt, would reward his public spirit. Dr. Kane assures us that Ireland is not destitute, and points with seeming pride and satisfaction to the fact, that upwards of two milliors of Irish capital is employed on English railroads. We should be but too happy if we could convince the owners, by the observations which we have yet to make, that their capital might be as profitably employed in en coursging the industry of their own country." We look forward with interest to the next paper by this very able writer on this all-important subject. In an excellent review of the Continental Railways, the low price of Havre and Rouen shares, as compared with Rouen and Paris shares, in consequence of reports that have appeared from time to time respecting the defective construction of the works on the Havre and Rouen line, are made the occasion of introducing the following valu able remarks on the construction of lines of railway, which we commend to the attentive perusal of every holder of shares in lines not yet constructed : " On the solidity and durability of the works con structed on a line of railway depend chiefly the patron age which that particular line shall receive from the public. If the constructions are defective the traffic will be decreased in proportion to the alarm thereby created in the public mind, and a corresponding loss of revenue will be the consequence. If the constructions are defec tive they will be continually demanding fresh expenses, to repair those defections, and hence will arise another loss of revenue. We need not add, that when a public highway, such as railways have now become, gets into disrepute from its defective construction or its defective management, and the consequences of its loss of cha racter are daily depicted in the share list, that it is next to impossible to reinfuse confidence into the public mind. hence it is expedient, that whenever rumours prejudicial to any particular line have currency among the public, the directors should immediately institute an inquiry as to the truth of those rumours, and if unfounded, give them a circumstantial contradiction ; if well founded, set about to rectify that which has produced them ; and more still, to give every possible publicity to the contra diction or to the rectification, as the case may be. As we have before said, the public are the patrons of rail ways, and their patronage will always be extended in de rive proportion re tu r t n o ; t he th e c r o e mf ror o e r t i a t d s t t h n a e t a , ns o for f t safety they sake of the shareholders, the public should have every means of judging of the condition of any particular line, and how far its construction and management are calculated to meet those public wants which the railway system has created, and must therefore supply. We have not yet allud d to the danger to which ihe lives of pissengevs me subjected when travelling on a railway whose con strucion and management are es nfided to parties who have nothing more than the immediate pecuniary profit in their eye. The recent melarcholy and fatal cases of this miture which have happen( d in England justify us in calling upon all who hate the control of railways to commence elt once an organisation that shall effectually prevent such occurrences in future. Prevention is better; than cure. " With respect to railways 3et to be constructed, we would avail ourse l ves o f t h e exper i ence wh i ch the past has given us to avoid the justice of the censures we have felt ourselves bound to pass upon this occasion. We would advise directors lo be cautious in taking the first step after gaining the concession of their line ; that is, in fixing upon the party who :hall construct it. Who ever, or whatever that party may b e, i t s h oul d b e a stringent condition that he be not a director, that he be not one of the comp an y, or t h at his interest in the de posits be not so great as to give him a preponderating influence in the deliberation, of the society. The party, whether a company or an intliyidual, who undertakes the execution of the work', should i..tand in his natural position as a servant, under certain conditions, of the directors. If, on the contrary, he be one of their body, Or fats an overwhelming interest in their deposits, he will execute the works nut as they, but as he may think proper, and will be his own judge into the bargain. *f In re will be no control over him exer pt that which his own immediate intert sts may dictate. The disadvan tageous position which we have here support d is the very one respectively occupied by the dirt ctors of the Havre line and their emits actor. Hence, the complaints that have been publicly made respecting .the defective condition of the works have not drawn forth a single ob sersation, but have been treated with contemptuous silence, because the contractor reports to the director, and the director is the contractor. Another strict rule should be olierved by directors in future contracts, and that is, that the interests of their engineer and those of their contractor should not be identical. The want o: due precaution in this matter. on the Ilavre line, has been productive of much well-founded complaint." The present number likewise contains a valuable paper on American Railways, and analyses of the various rail- w•a.y schemes of the month, illustrated by maps and CHURCH OF ENGLAND QUARTERLY RE VIEW, October. No. 36. We, laymen, are not disposed to quarrel with the somewhat overtinted orthodoxy which is the standard ever flyiug at the mast-head of this able periodical, pro vided that we find, in friendly combination with it, the flags of other nations of civilised literature. On this account the expectations with which we open each new " Manifest" of her qui,rtcrl3 cargo are seldom disap pointed, Theology, divinity, and controversy of course form the staple commodities of the cargo; but we arc sure to find sound ethics also, questions of social and municipal policy, and occasionally ingenious, if not pro found speculations of natural philosophy. The enume ration we have now to report is a curiosity in its way — and a very creditable one. Under " Scriptural Geo logy" we have a review of the Rev. Dr. Burton's " Lec tures on the Deluge and the World after the Flood," followed by a paper on that chaotic " amas" of pseudo• physieo-geological common-places called " Vestiges of Creation." But No. 3on the list delights us. The generic designation of the thesis is " Mr. Oakeley and the Claim to Hold." The exemplar selected for illustrative criticism is " The Claim to Hold as distinct from teaching, explained in a Letter,to a Friend, by the Rev. F. Oakeley, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College, Oxon." This Tractarian pastor thus openly confesses to the im putation, that declining to comply with the command of the " Good Shepherd," his Divine Master, " Feed ye my sheep," he yet prefers, with tenacious worldliness, his own temporal demand, " Pay me my hire, though I do not perform my work." Mr. Oakeley should have graduated at Brazen-nose or Saint Peter's, rather than at Balliol. Then we have an account of Professor Nord heimer's " Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language." There is, next, a somewhat dull paper on " Infant Schools"—a very remarkable one on " Socialism in France." The notice of the Duke of Manchester's new work on Sacred and Profane Chronology is executed with learning and candour. Mr. Ward's letter to the Oxford Herald is made mince-meat of ; but a just and fair discrimination is thus made in his favour, on a com parison of his disinterestedness with Mr. Oakeley's " hoking on" propensity:— " But this very weakness of Mr. Ward should have protected him from much that has been said of him— certainly from the charge of being actuated by motives of gain. He may be weak, and little aware of his true position with regard to ecclesiastical politics, but he is not dishonest; worldly gain has, less than anything, entered into his contemplation ; he has not for one moment been swayed by such crafty considerations." Of the article headed " The Congress of Vienna," we were at first tempted only to remark that we were grieved to see so much ability and information wasted on the chastisement of so ignorant and clumsy a libeller of our national character as the author of the " Fetes it Souvenirs du Congres de Vienne." It seemed, surtly, to be doing too much honour to a very disingenuous, if not an unprincipled writer, to notice these fussy memoranda of his engage ments and his absurdities. And yet the anecdotes ex tracted from his pages into this very article are pre cisely those from which we can cull matter calculated to amuse the general rt oder. But first, here is a vigorous sketch of the action of the French Revolution by the reviewer:— " But the Congress a3sembled at Vienna had another task. They stood amid the ruins of Europe—amid wrecks so great and confused that to attempt to form out of them the original edifices of which they had been a part, was beyond the power of man, inasmuch as it appears to have been contrary to the will of God. It was in obedience to his v ill, and for the accomplishment of His own wise purposes, that whatever the French Re volution should touch, that object should straightway wither into nothingness—the breath of that whirlwind was annihilation. In a few cases the ashes of old great ness were fashioned into something new; but in no case did any object that ever came into collision with that terror of nations ever recover the appearance, the vigour, or even the name, which it bore ere it endured the shock. That revolution touched French feudality, and cast it into shivers—it breathed on absolute mo narchy, and absolutism in France melted away before it like hoar frost beneath the sun of spring: it looked upon Germany, and forthwith all German things endured a change, from which they never recovered. The empire of Germany, last remnant of old Rome, ceased for ever. The electoral houses disappeared like dissolving views; and things sacred were so scattered or so exposed that they either were never recoverable, or could never be contemplated as sacred again. The government of the Doge, at Venice, had boasted of immortality ; but a single glance and a menacing expression from the French Revolution smote it instantaneously and irre coverably with death. As its effect in Venice, so were its consequences to Europe in general. " The task, then, out of the chaotic and anarchical confusion to create a new beauty and a new order, was not a light one. This was the task of the governments of Europe, when they saw the disturber of all govern ments chained to his mock and diminished dignity in his infinitesimal empire at Elba. Vienna was announced as the locality where the peace of the world should be consolidated; and no sooner had the fiat gone forth, than Europe seemed to have changed one agitation for another. An universal flutter seized all hearts, from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, from the Bay of Biscay to the Black Sea. The war of interests was renewed, but the struggle was to be maintained by diplomatic cun ning rather than strategetic ability." And this is the portrait drawn by our author, the Count de la Garde, of the Congress itself on a reduced scale : . "If we may receive Monsieur de la Garde's evidence as unimpeachable testimony, the well-being of Europe was settled under the most- joyous of auspices. The royal and noble senate, if we may so term them, shrouded themselves occasionally from the public eye; and good easy people fancied that kings were discussing the destinies of nations when, in fact, they were dis cussing matters more substantial, and infinitely more agreeable. M. de la Garde has effectually torn down the veil which hung between wide-mouthed nations and the monarchs who were supposed to be in sleepless de liberation for their good. The truth, as revealed in the pages before us, very much places the parties in the posi tions occupied by the liquor-loving executive of our own Commonwealth, and the Puritans, who gave them credit for being engaged in prayer for the welfare of the Re public. " The people fancy (said one of the roystering Roundheads, as he was groping under the table) that we are seeking the Lord ! Now, for my part, I'm seeking for nothing but the corkscrew !" Let us now see how the real business of Congress is transacted, for this is quite a curiosity:— " It would be great labour to us were we compelled to show, by detailing each day and each night't employ ment, how little was the labour of serious business an object of care to these gay arbiters of dynasties and destinies. The actual labour seems to have been under taken by a little knot of natienal representatives—such as Castlereagh, Talleyrand, and Metternich: though how even those iron-nerved individuals contrived to re concile the heavy toil with the heavier pleasure will always be a mystery to us. As if there had not been more than enough of war, reviews, stimulating general engagements, with a horrible expenditure of powder and noise,_ made the capital roc k aga i n w i t h exc i tement an d harmless thunder. From these the monarchs and glit tering crowds sought repose by listening to a concert, in which a hundred pianos resounded at once in one and the same room: then ensued an endless succession of balls, banquets, huntings, carousals, tournaments, and masquerades. In the very high top-gallant of this joy, a report reached Vienna that the Queen, Mary Ca roline of Naples, had just expired. Here had been a contre temps, but for the contrivance that elu it. Means vtere actually taken to prevent the s a d news being an nounced officially to the Government. The monarchs would not mourn, as no proof - positive of their sister's death was before them. As long as they could enjoy their little day, the deluge might come after them, for what they cared. They determined that the already tomb-inclosed queen should not officially die till ' n e x t wee k.' They had no leisure for sorrow . just then; and they could mourn all the more appropriately when the fun was over!—and, therefor e , t o t h e i r follies they went, with appetite renewed at the check it had experienc e d but for a moment. French clamors, Italian singers, and German actors, man agt d w i th little difficulty to conceal from the eyes of the illustrious spectators, the grave of the cold, dead killing queen. Lotteries, pie-vies, and a thou sand other devices for kill time, made them probably forget that the latter had ever existed. Universal Europe, i n it s sovereigns or its representatives, ::ere too eagerly occupied in admiring a living empress, to think of a Mune; queen. The entire, illustrious mob fell to admiring the dexterity of the wife of the Emperor of Austria; her Imperial Majesty was a capital shot, and MOM sho manirrstri hr.r supni.7,rity, ntnr,l 4 l)4,gb, I g down more grtme with her heavy double-barrel than all the royal sportsmen put together. If our readt rs be apt to think that such an arntt.%ement hardy became a Christian an d a sovereign lady, they will at least allow that it was a more dignified sport than thct f 1- lowed by the apostate Chri,tine of Sweden, who, armed with a little rifle of some ffew ounces weight, was want to kill, and gravely bag, all ti o flies who dared to tri.ublo her royal presence. The heathen Domitian, cultivating cabbages, presents a more tolerable spectacle than either the Popish empre,s, or the now Protestant, DOW Popish, ard always pseudo• Christian Queen." - - - HAMBURGH MAIL. BERLIN, SEPT. 25.—The Vos, Gaz lie of today has a long'artiele on the derangement in the Zollverein and in the conferences at Carlsruhe ; it says, among other observations:—"lf we believe accounts derived from very respectable priva.e authority, l'ins'a will probably not now resolve to yield to the Sc.utli Gertm - :n Stmts. In dependently of the general pruciples cf the Adinintstra ti..n, it seems to be jmtly applebended that such commission might rti.der the important prospt et less and hss probable cf the accession of Ilanottr, Alecklenhurgh, and the Ilanseatic cities to the Zoltve rein ; and, in truth, the accession of these States is of such immense importance, that even great tonpursry sacrifices should be regarded. It is only through theta t:iet the Zolvereincan become a maritime power, v.ln , se co st. %till no l onger Li kept, by the Sound duties, in a hind ~f hostile btock•ocie. But it is true that those States are fully aware of tt,eir irnrot tance to the Zollv, rein, and thrrOl,re danand . a high price for at,ir accession. It is thought, however, that the idea of ~ e pat ate Z.. 11- verein has bcen Conceived, which, in ease ih,, differences at Car'sruhe should lead to a b:c:ch, aou!d form a North German Union, of which Prttlia. would Le the head. HESSE CASSEL, SEPr. this day tha ex portation of corn from the eectorate is prohibit, d. COLOGNE, SEPT. 25.—ne raele:lTUl Journal con tains several documents, among which are the letter of the King of Prussia; expressing his approbati, n of what has hitherto been d and protni,i,ig to do his utmost to promote the great work ; ao l 2, the address of thanks to the Queen of Engl ind, for the interest which she took in the Cathedral during the visit to the Rhine, which was manifested not only by the most gracious expres siont of approbation, but by a truly royal donation; and an address of thanks has like is° teen sent to the King of Hanover. HANOVER, SEPT. 24.—A Lew rescript of the Go vernment respecting the German Catholics declares that a sect which adht re to the principles and resolu tions of the so-called Leipsic C,,uncil, cannot be tole rated or recognised in the Eltc:ora:e of Hesse ; that the members of such a sect cannot be allow( d the as,istance of the evangelic clergy, and that private assemblies of them cannot be permitted, hut that their devotions must be confined to their own families. I.IA3IBURGII BORSENILILLE, SEPT. 30. s. 4ustrian 5 per Cents 11300 y. Bank Shares 1630 Anglo-Russian Loan ••• • • • 111% 1 Russian 5 per Cent., liamb. Certificate. 101% Ditto Ist series Inscription •• - • 1011.4 -- Ditto, llope and Co., 3,1 and •Ith series.. 973 Ditto, in Certificate • •••• • • • 97% New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •• • • • S 2 Ditto Stieglitz ••••• • • • • 89% 8934 Spanish New 5 per Cent.... ••• • • • 1 8m 18 Ditto 3 per Cent ................ Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 23 yerecnt.. Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per c cut Ditto 3 per Cent. NEW WORKS AT WINDSOR AND ETON. Restorations are going on gradually at St. George's Chapel. The open- work parJpet, which is at present of compo, is to be reinstated in stone ; Pratt's carrying ma.. chine is to be employed on it. By the way, Holiar's print of the chapel (1663) shows every one of the pinnacles surmounted by a vane ; these should be restored. Addi tional stained-glass windows have been recently inserted in the north and south aisles. Henry VIIL's gateway opposite the chapel is under repair, and the Salisbury Tower is being rebuilt. Locke and Nes ham are the contractors. C,:en stone is used. A new sewer has been constructed in Windsor by the Government ; the course of it is from Fregmore to Sheet-street, and thence to the cavalry and infantry barracks, ith a branch to the Cl..stle. It was proposed at first to construct a more extersive line, and that the town should contribute a portion of tl , e cost. At a public meeting, however, which was callcd on the occasion, the inhabitants unwisely, as it seems to us, refused to co operate in the matter. At Eton College great alterations have been made. The noted lung dormitory has been divided into separate apartments, and extensive ranges of chambers built in Werton's yard, so as to afford a separate sleeping room to each scholar. The n, -w rooms are all heated by hot wakr. An apartment has Leen built to serve as a library fur the we of the pupil:, and is a handsome room with a large stained-glass window by Willement, cc.ntaining the arms of her Majesty. the Prince, the Duke of New castle, the College, &c. The fittings are of deal—they should have been of oak. Mr. Shaw is the architect, Mr. Burton the contractor. The selected drawings fur the restoration of the chapel are exhibited with the view of inducing subscrip tions. The design dues not present any remarkable features. If the rejected ch signs had fewer points of value than this, they must have been very indifferent affairs indeed. According to the proposed new arrange, meat, the organ is to b,.• plAccd in an apartment on the north side of the building near the vast end. The chapel is to be vaulted with stone, and the body of it filled with stalls and other sittings.- 7 Builder. RAILWAY ACCIDENT —On Thursday afternoon, about half-past three, as Mr. E. W. James, solicitor, of Greenwich, was steppingout 4-1 t be train before it had stopped, the toe of his boot, which was or e of the fashionable French make, unfortunately caught the edge of the platform, causing him to slip, when his loot fallirg on the rails the carriages went over it. He instantly fell, and was conveyed home to his residence on Crotems-hill, where he was at tended by Drs. Wattsford, Sutton, and Hurch. On the boot and stocking being cut off; it was in consequence of the very great inflammation and swelling difficult to discover what was the nature of the injury, and an immediate appli cation of leeches and warm lomentations ordered. On in quiry yesterday we ascertained that the Learned Gentleman was in less pain, although from the swelling and inflammation not having decreased, it was impossible for his medical ad visers to ascertain the nature of the injuries. The accident occurred from the anxiety of Mr. James to leave the car riage before the train had finally stopped. CATCH OF HEERINGS.—The catch of herrings at Yarmouth, and along the coast, has been extraordinarily large, and very high prices have been realised. It is the fashion, before the commencement of the regular herring fishing season, for some of the fishermen who have boats and nets of their own, to go a short distance from the shore, and catch what they can on their own account—'The her rings so caught are generally few and very fine ones, and they usually realize a high price. —The price this year has been or 9s. a hundred, or 451. a last; but on Monday the catch was of an unusually heavy description. One boat alone, with only three men, brought on shore nearly a last of herrings, and several of th em i n b r i ef space caught a last and a half. The railway has enabled them to sell them to a great advantage, and the fishermen have seldom made such a favourable hit. The fishing boats on Monday and Tuesday started off for the regular herring fishery. Tee Dutch fleet of fishing veseels (thirty-two sail), have, also been at Yarmouth as usual to " wet their nets," and then sailed for the herring fishing, on Monday and Tuesday, about the same time as the Yarmouth boats. -Norfolk Chronicle. ENGLISH THEATRICALS AT AMSTERDAM.— Yes terday evening a company of English performers gave the first of' twelve proposed representations. It is now a considerable period since our fellow-townsmen who study the English language and literature, have been able to enjoy such an advantage, and take part in what is now offered to them. The first representation has proved 'Jo us that the present company is highly deserving of our patronage and support. Miss Davenport, who acted the part of Juliet, in Shakspeare's tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, can with justice be ranked among the first actresses of her country. She unites youth, beauty, an agreeable delivery, with intense feel ing, judgment, study, and practical skill. The character of Juliet combines the native innocence of a girl of 18—th e first birth of the sentim en t s o f l ove i n the virgin heart—the romantic soar of imagination— the fidelity and strength of unchangeable constancy—in fortune by the softest emotions —in misfortune by a courage mare than human, and at length by the sacrifice of the faithful and loving husband. All these qualities were executed by Miss Davenport with the greatest truth, and expressed with a happy union of voice and gesture that bore off the astonishment and admi ration of the audience, even of those who had not the least knowledge of the language. Repeated and loud applause was the reward of her exertions, and after the play was acted, she was called to appear upon the stage. Mr. Charles Dillon, who appeared in the character of Romeo, is also favoured with a good appearance, and exhibited the result of study, combined with practical experience ; but at the same time, we must observe, that he wants the necessary tire and warmth which are requisite for the character. How ever' in the last scene h e acte d hi s part with a strengt h equal to the subject, and he received considerable applause. Of the rest of the company, Mr. Davenport as 31erct e iti ,. , and Mrs. Davenport as the Nurse, and (in the farce of_th Mr. Walton were greeted with app ra la t u e we shall have an opportunity to s I Nati se. all M th re at do i u s bt favourable ?otectrieat of this company.—.. 4 lgeinein Kande s G .. Much excite- CASE OF SUPPOSED POISODITI . h a i n ,a d ris i h ts of n K eig ea, b n o w url e io d o p d, et b e y ; excite ment thein ebnatcr:alatel s ü b b e s e e n q u e n attended tl ; , e rumour ias be t had d had been il l a uweeks,apparently of u i r n er T o ru f the e Bonython, had died through the six administration of poison. The decease Kirkness, surgeon, Dr. Barham. Notwithstanding the attentions of these inflammation of the of bo r m r - n el i s r , o 7 . : , l . gentlemen,alled in p however, the patient died on Thursday, the 2.5 th ult. Before his death various rumours had prevailed in the neighbourhood of the unkindness of deceased's wife, and it was suggested that his death had been occa sioned by poison. The medical attendants, on being ap plied to, considered that symptoms had been exhibited during the illness of deceased, which should induce them to open the body, and accordingly a post modem examine,. tion took place, before Dr. Barham, and Messrs. Kirkness and Paul, surgeons. The result was such as to warrant them in sending the stomach for examination to Mr. Pri deaux, of Plymouth, an eminent analytical chemist. In the mean time, the coroner of the district, J. Cailyon, Esq., had been informed of the circumstances, and summoned a jury to inquire into the cause of death. The inquest was held on Friday last, at the Cornish Arms, Calenick, but after the examination of one witness, it was adjourned to Friday, the 3d inst., to await the result of Mr. Prideaux's analysis of the contents of tie stomach. At present mane reports are in circulation respecting the past conduct of deceased's wife, which, for obvious reasons, we forbear to mention. The deceased was interred on Sunday last, in Kenwyn churchyard, the funeral being followed by ai immense crowd of people. He was about thirty-eight years of age at the time of his dattle and, we are informed, was an honest, sober, and induitrioas min. Mrs. Bonython is about ten years younger than her husband. They had been married about eight yea's, and have two children living. West Briton, WESTON-SUPER MARE.—The sprat fishing hr_:re has commenced much earlier than usual. The fish caught during the week was very line, and a good harvest is c';pected by the fisheimeu.—Somerset county Gazette. LY') %..~ i