The Sun. — London, England, 1844-07-29 00:00:00

lEWS ut. the senteLl osenza aP I T, [nsurrection nent has be e ?: o death, tell 3 twenty y ep ' have been colt' s, and twentr i The Gazeti e °A ose co ndennm the King ,o nonfisegien )poses to' ,11416 with BelP' l ' bring the P P) ; on macho, t country' wir, foreign 10 1 ord, the r Ol 7 , regulated , w t r, iented to t the trooPs_ h u ' O n the l'Aw' I the line, e establish" l at 86 deg Jana, and 11 , Paris for 5 0 in. of t the 11E0 s of the to l l t Belgium Governm ent rman Sut! and unifo'' to death t ar Aubeterre, rvant, who; ited at Cbs his death, ith becorllo ireumstan e : Id to his 0 6 ys ago, an deep enot l .4 g ustorn-hon his triusii*; ae out of C. die by frel •ater, 49 1 )0..7 nt and drl* ed for firee!} he whole ' to a fa' is prep3lo arge of set re tried r convictN• The calef r r 0 re are . 90 1 , lig the C°: e of a 3urt, inse A" St. O r , i n cushy ig upwa rd; h as under' fight beg° eady tar t' , p ar ish PP et' . • be aving h e prisoPY at din. ver o i Marqw 9 o f iy, Earl and co ; 0 Este, an a ci h: lane. the Gt r intentio n ' t Bettufo rS receive ~.; )t. 10°' t rem 11 , - with tli e Xoble festsd°nAl ensuing Vim Feel ?sent en al WO. Ls ciroo,4l iinburP: altb, pot Englan d f r om tb memb er re cuttep Maxg_ A uli us Lw". icultutpll addition )f cattl! )ted to! he bes" heCor indigo Grace of tt° Lich h 0 oflaftba sa . •:,00tf* COURT CIRCULAR. WzNDsoit, suswAy.— Fier :Majesty and his Royal nignee Prince, Albert to.ik their a customed airing bah u,oriiing and f , ernooli. His Roy-al Heiliness Prince Albest, her Royal High- Iless the DucheS of Kent, the Ladies and Gentlemen of t he Roy - ill Site. and the Household attended Divine service this morninir in the private chapel in the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Cnurtenay officiated. Thi it Royal iiiirhnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princ e - s Royal, and the Princess Alice were taken their usual airinifs in the royal gardens this morning. Her Majesty and Prince Aber walked in the pleasure grounds of the Castle in the forenoon of yesterday. The Royil Family were taken out in an open carriage this afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Duches of Kent visited the %leen yestertly at the Carl-.he Prince of ‘Vales, t:,e Princess Royal, and the Princeis Alice were taken it the p!e L,lir,-!Vontids and drives f the Cattle ye,t,rday, boas ia the forums in and afternoon. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing yi.ster daY afternoon. in a p t,ty plLetnn, the Pcinee driving. The Lady in Waiting, the Countess of Ntaiat-Eilg-nmbe, th e Maids of tliniour. Hon. Mi-se, Payu, aod Liddell, followed in an open pony carriage and four. The Equerries in Waiting /in the Queen and the Prince, Colonels Buckley and Bouverie, were on horseback. The royal party returned to the Castle at a quarter before seven Her Royal Highness the Duch-ss V Kent took an air ing in an open carriage this afterwam. The royal dinner party at the Castle, yesterday e vening, included Her Royal Highness the Duchess of 'Lent, Lady Charlotte Duncias, the Countess Wratislaw, end Mr. George E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. „Her , M a j est y' s p r i va t e h an d wa s in att e ndance after Qinner, and-performed dur:R the evening. The Goodwood Cup, the subject of' whch represents an incident in the escape of Cnar!es the Sei!ond from the battle of Worcester, was subnitted to the Queen and Prince Albert yesterday, by Mr. Hunt. The Eton Regatta took phce ye,terday evening, and, " the return of the scholars from Surly hall, a very brilliant display of fire-works was exhibited from a vessel stationed near the bridge. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal. St. James's. Her Majesty was attended by Countess Brownlow and Earl Howe. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Here ditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, attended Divine service yesterday morning at Grovernor Chapel, South Audley-street. ‘ ,The Q ueen D owager , at t en d e d by E ar l H ow e, th e Denbigh, a n d M a r c hioness of Ormunde, the Earl of menbigh, Lady Georgina, Curzon. and Ow Rev. Mr. yud.,on, visited the exhibition of fcescos and seu'pture In Westminster Hall, o S tturday morning. The D uc h ess of Gloucester visited her Maj, sty on ftturiav at Marlborough House. On Saturday evening the Queen Dowager, accom- Partied by Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, and attended hi the Ea r l an d C 'ant se. Brownlow, Earl Howe, Lady tl e °rgina, urzon, and Sir Andre T Barnard, honoured ' 4 e Italian Opera w th her presence. T• he Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand -puke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday even 31g- The royal party also honoured the Countess of ersey with their company at her Ladyship's evening 148 ernbiy. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Here rat,' Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Stre z, visited K e w yesterday afternoon, and returned to "-ambrid ge House in the evening. Lord Salldon had an interview with Sir Robert Peel aturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Div Larrir;hip had also an interview with the Chancellor ' 3f t he Exchequer. larLocisrd Stanley left town on Saturday for Tunbridge The Earl of Lonsdale, Postmaster-General, had an in . *et „._ ient with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Sa urd,y. T• he Secretary to the New Prison Commission had an Interview with Lord Wharncliffe, at the Privy Counil - on Saturday. Mr. Dean, and the Hon. E. Stewart, Chairman of the r iratnissioners of Customs. with S r John Hall, of the t. Katherin e ' s . Dock Company, Mr. Po -.1, of the Lo ndon Dock Company, Mr. Howe, Ba, ber, Mr. s e otreil and several other gentlemen, lid an interview Wi th Mr. Gladstone on Saturday , at the Board of Trade, 2 4 the subject of the privilege of landing and ware- T, 4 usin g certain articles at the sufferance whar f s on the eoathwark side of the river. HAYMARKET THEXTRE. At the conclusion of the performances on Satur 'Y night, a piece of plate, which had been sub seribed for by the whole of the company, was re sented to Mr. Webster, as a token of respect, for is excellent management, and his uniform attention And kindness to the performers The piece of plate is an epergne of elegant design, 6 Xe,':uted in solid burnished and dead silver. From a circular base rises a shaft or stem, shaped somewhat lik e e supporting a basket formed a champagne glass, () f vine twigs and foliage, in which is placed a rich t - glass bowl. Two beautifully-executed figures of Children holding cups are seated at the foot of the Stern. Around the base is an appropriate inscription, : t eenrding the circumstances under which the plate was presented. The stage was arranged for the ,ceremony of presenting the testimonial, which was placed on a table in the centre. Mrs. Glover, wh, hail been deputed to the offs: e, read the follow ing address written by Mr. Bucks'one : " TO .‘ Sir,—l hav m e h AIR. WE BSTER. d-puted by my brother actors, the officers and artizans of the T heatre in the H aymar k et, ' to p res ent you with a testimonial o f their regard for you, and by which they desire to mark and cominerno ate n unpts-cedented Thestage eh g istory of the d rama —an et ent that the annals of e throughout its best days, have never been able to record —and that is, a su ccessful and uninter rupted s eason of four hundred nights. Four hundred consecutive nights, without, on any occasion, closing the doors fora spec i al rehearsal, and on no pretex t w h a t e ver making the slightest deduction from the stipend of any Qne person who has had the gt,o3 fortune to be employed Your establishment. " It was originally ictended that the entire Haymarket company should unite in celebrating this dramatic tri- Il n 3 Pti, but a m a j or i ty o f t h e l a di es , w ith that enthusiasm s 0 c haracteristic-. of our sex, felt anxious at once to ex press their feeli ngs f or you , which they did to their sa tisfaction, and I am sure to your own. I preferred, w ith another sister actress (Mrs. Fitzwilliam), to join lraY brethren, and though there has been a division in the rod e of doing a proud and pleasant thing , yet the e a rty intention has been well and cheerfully carried *out b 3. all. " And belive me, that we feel still higher gratification n P ,raoresenting you this testimonial, when we know it also — " l ' d s Your firm encouragement of English talent ; tt road rare we to d e clare that the Haymarket Theatre 8 b een .Eng 1 1 . h " from top to toe ' —ay, "my lord, fr o . 2 fr om head to f oo t " w ith English actors, English arti -4zllls, En g li s h come di es and, to crown all, ever a fu ll ''.i°Yous English audience, to appreciate them. " And more honourable yet is your triumph, still I:aore deserved, when we are conscious that circumstances i sit aperative. no d o ubt—have prevented your efforts be ta cheered by that high patronage which would make oUr English hearts beat with gratitude, and, indeed, futeach us how to act "—one poets how to write. Still a . 4 , r ing public has enabled you eff crively to present e"medies of the nab st drama in the world, as the ciitoloured names of Sliaksp, re, Ma-singer, Congreve, a la b et% Vanbrugh, Gol !smith. Sheridan, Inchbald, Col ,lll, Centlivre, Murphy, Morton, among. t the dead ; ,q l ll our Sheridan Kiiowles, with Bulwer, and many i ll "11, amongst the living, whose names have appeared ~Jour bills, during the four hundred nigiitr, can sue 4sf-rullY and gloriously testify. eat, That the wish long continue in your henourable er iS the wish of all who know you, and may the kiih r l,t and enterprise that so lately led you to make a t a i er , i neent effort to discover hidden dramatic literary tk e " t, never fail of receiving that encouragement from Public which is its due. epe “ A " now, Sir, allow me to present you with that an d wit in commemoration of the event I have named, ti stwr W ith the heartfelt wishes of all your brother and actor s and actresses, and every pers on in the th e 4 b .r ' , for yeur health. happiness, and success, and for pil l aPPiness and prosperity of your dear children, who gl s‘v Oil !, day read thi, inscription engraven here, with a 43f th`';' c onscious pride, as they reflect on t h e trium p h e 'r I°4 fathr and the many warm cad devoted friends hi -r, rec e e;ded it." • WEBSTER acknowledged the compliment paid In a suitable speech. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING IN TOWN. (:0,)1)W0(1) STAKES. ••;;-! • • 6 to 1 agst Croton Oil—taken. 8 to 1 agst The Era—taken. 10 to 1 agst Parthian—taken. 11 to 1 agst Canton—taken. 12 to 1 agst Pride of Kildare—taken. 14 to 1 agst Elegance filly. 15 to 1 agst Murton Lordship—taken. 16 to 1 agst Lucy Banks. 20 to 1 agst Johnny and Mania—taken. 30 to 1 agst Subduer. CCP. Even on Alice Hawthorn. 6 to 1 agst Prizefighter—taken ST. LEGER. 4 to 1 agst Ithuriel 4 to 1 agst The Cure 7 to 1 agst Bay Nlomus 8 to 1 agst The Princess. Very little doing. Robert de Gorham does not run at Goodwood. GUILDFORD MEETING—FRIDAY. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas, for 3 yrs old, 7st 51b ; 4 yrs, 9st llb ; 5 yrs, 9st 111 b ; 6 yrs_and aged, lOst 21b. Heats, two miles. Mr. Dixon's Jamal, 4 yrs ...(Ford) 1 2 1 Mr. Werninck's Patchwork, 5 yrs Mr. Boyce's Corranna, 5 yrs Mr. Pannel's Sting, 3 yrs BETTING AT MANCH;LSTER.—FRIDAY. GOODWOOD STAKES 7 to It agst Franchise 14 to 1 agst Murton Lordship 11 to 2 agst Croton Oil —taken 8 to 1 asst The Era 15 to 1 agst Lucy Banks 10 to 1 agst Best of Three 16 to 1 agst Elegance filly 12 to 1 agst Canton 16 to 1 agst Ajax—taken 13 to 1 agst Parthian 20 to 1 agst Dog Billy 13 to 1 agst Pride of Kildare 20 to 1 agst Subduer GOODWOOD CUP. Even on Alice Hawthorn 112 to 1 agst The Squire—off. 5 to 1 agst Prizefighter ST. LEGER. 9 to 2 agst The Cure—t.freely 12 to 1 agst Red Deer 9 to 2 agst Ithuriel take); 14 to 1 agst Morpeth and afterwards offered 20 to 1 agst Valerian— taken 7 to 1 agst Bay Momus freely. n OODWOOD RACES. The following horses are either in preparation at Goodwood for the ensuing week, or are on the road:— Cotherstone Princess— Ithuriel Larry M‘Hale— Prizefigh Ter —Joe Lo ved—Parth ian —M ech anic—Jezail, 2 yrs —A--you- like-it, 2 yrs—Knight-of-the-whistle— Poor by I lornsea, out of Industry, 2 yrs —f by Hortisea, out of Dirce, 2 yrs—Johntiy—Maria—Walpole—Qu,en Mob (laie Eliza Redskin— Almaek „ filly—Pompey—Aristides— Bretwalda, 2 yrs—Britannia, 2 y s—Plaudit, 2 x rs— Quebee —Devil among-toe • railor,--Lutra—Devil's Du -t —Robert. de Gorham—f by'Ecitiouti,.t, out of Corumba— Ja,ml Aretbusa—Stini.—Diseolint—Hashed Vension —Auld I syne—Dalesman—Five-times-five—Pride of Kildare—Porto Bello—Garry 0 wen—Canton—Zenobia —Seaweed—Hersey, 2 yrs--c by Slane, out of Cobwebb. 2 yrs—Corranna—the Golden Rule—Lucy Banks—Need ful—c by Velocipede, out of Fair Jane—Stomacher—The Ashstead Pet--c by Slane, out of Frederica, 2 yrs—c by Slane, out of Margravine, 2 yrs—c by Mus, out of Carlotta, 2 yrs—Claude Frollo, Tisiphone, 2 yrs—Alex andria, 2 yrs—Prologue, 2 yrs—Fsllsail, 2 yrs— ,sq ue—Rowland —Example —Elemi—John Da vis—f by Muley Moloch, out of Dryad, 2.yrs—Epaulette—Nlous tache--Nat—Physalis—Murton Lordship—Tom Thumb —f by Pincher, dam by Rowton—Khorassan—Akbar —Antler—Orion—Ajax—Sister to Queen Charlotte, 2 vrs—Eserick—Secutor, 2 yrs—Ben-y-Ghlo—Zelia Wiseacre—Franchis.e—b g by Camel, out of Mar zellina —Nutbourne, 2 yrs—Maid of Orleans, 2 yrs— c by Camel, out of douche, 2 yrs—f by Sultan Junior, out of Wapiti, 2 yrs—Wedding Day, 2 yrs—Giantess, 2 yrs—The Currier—African—Lot hario—Elysium— Cornopean—Fisticuff—Black Gentleman—Nawort h G a per—Devil-to-ply—Emma—Red Deer—Croton Oil —Best Bower —Alva—Ail-round-my- Hat—Pastoral— Prince of Wales—Laird o' Cockpen—Plenitude—Pulee —Refraction—f by Glaucus, out of Estelle, 2 yrs—Pug —Miss Ellis—Jew Boy—c by Mus, out of Belvidere, 2 y-rs—Cluin sy—Nereus—Ape—Sist er to Gaper—Olive Oil —f by Bay Middleton, out of Chapeau d'Espagne, 2 yrs—Rose of Cashmere, 2 yrs—Longitude, 2 yrs— Duke of Cornwall. 2 vrs—Sister to Farintosh, 2 yrs— Phlegon—Algertion—Pergularia—Elegance filly—Best of Three—P..usin— Alice Hawthorn—Subduer—The C,ltada and Purity fillies—Bastion—Astarte, 2 yrs— Capt. Phcebus. 2 yrs, and several others. GOODWOOD CUP WEIGHTS. Alice Hawthorn, 6 yrs, 9st 51b Revel, 6 yrs, 7st 121 b Robert deGorham, syrs, 9st 41b Khondosz, 4 yrs, 7st 1 Ilb Attila, 5 yrs, 9st 41b Aristides, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b Lothario, 4 yrs, 9st 41b Arundo, 4 yrs, 7st 81b Cotherstone, 4 yrs, 9st 31b Bg by Hindoo, out of Sister _ YEolus. 5 --- - Una, 6 yrs, 9st 31b to . _lns, 5 yrs, 7st 71b William-le-Gros, 5 yrs, 9st 21b The Princess, 3 yrs, 7st 71b Scalteen, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b Messalina, 5 yrs, 7st 61b The Altered One (late Ca- lonian, 3 yrs, 7st 41b brera), 5 yrs, Bst 131 b Antler, 3 yrs, 7st 41b Aristotle, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b Discount, 6 yrs, 7st Olb Orion, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b Brunel, 3 yrs, Bst 131 b Parthian, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b Red Deer, 3 yrs 6st 131 b Phlegon, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b Milton, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b Sirikol, 4 yrs, fist 101 b Little Vivian, aged, Est 131 b Bishop of Romford's Cob, 4 Giges (bred in } ranee ), aged, yrs, Bst 101 b 6st 121 b Vibration, 5 yrs, Bst 91b Cameleon (bred on the CoLti- The Era, 4 yrs, Bst 81b nPnt ), aged, Est 121 b Bramble, 4 yrs, Bst 71b Lightning, aged, 6 , t 101 b Semiseria, 4 yrs, Bst 61b Stomacher (the Ca.storfilly), 3 Whistle Binkie, 5 yrs, Bst 61b yrs, Est 61b Prizefighter, 4 yrs, Bst 51b The Ashtead Pet,3 yrs, 6st 31b The Squire, 6 yrs, Bst 51b Rowena, 3 yrs, 6st llb Pompey, 4 yrs, Bst 51b Broken Down, aged, paid. British Yeoman, 4 yrs, Bst 51b Daddy Longlegs, 5 yrs, paid Somerset, 4 yrs, Bst 3lb The egly Buck, 3 yrs, paid Wiseacre, 5 yrs, Bst Ilb Belcour, 5 yrs, paid DOGGETT'S COAT AND BADGE. This old established and highly respectable aquatic contest by six young watermen, whose period of apprenticeship has expired since the selection for the last race, will be rowed on Thursday next from the Swan at London-bridge, to the Swan at Chelsea, against tide. Independently of the first prize, there are rewards to the second and third men, being the in terest of some money left by Sir Jolliffe. The following are the competitors : Frederick Lett ..... Lambeth. William Wingate Battersea. Thomas Sebery Old Barge-house. William Thompson Hungerford. Frederick Jones ..... Whitehall. Savage ........ ....... Horsleydown. We understand that there were upwards of forty-five put in for the wager, but the above only were fortunate to obtain a lot. Lett, who is " a very full-aged" apprentice, and who has distinguished himself in several matches, is freely backed against the field. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDOIq, JULY 27.—Wind N.W., light breeze and fine. DEAL, JULY 26.—Wind A.M. N.W. by W., light. P.M. N.E. and N.W., do.—Arrd. Countess Minto, M'Millan, Cal cutta ; New Express, Herdeth, Ceylon ; Brinda, Haslop, Mauritius; Jane, Lee, Coast of Africa; Ganges, Quebec, and Centurion, Quebec. Sld. Eliza Bell, Bahia; Arethusa, Cape Coast Castle ; Ravenswood , Ichaboe ; Belmont , St. Johns, New Brunswick ; Tyree, Edmund, and Glasgow, Quebec. OFF DOVER, JULY 26.—Swallow, Walker, Grenada; St. Thomas, Porto Rico. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 26.—Wind S.W. to N.W.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship Vindictive, Valparaiso, sailed May 1, Rio June 11, Fay-al June 17, on freight 1,500,000 dollars. Off, Susan King, Mauritius ; Brinleys, Knox, Algoa Bay. COWES, JULY 26.—Arrd. Ze Broder, Cailstad, Batavia, and sailed for Hamburgh ; Conservative, M'Lachlan, Ichaboe ; Elise Louise, Bahia, and sailed for London; Heber, Kohler, Bahia ; William Engs, Coe, Havannah ; Buenos Ayrean, Carver, Matanzas; Clarina Andrews, Colby, New Orleans. OFF THE WIGHT, JULY 23.—Nantes, Tobasco, for Havre. OFF THE LIZARD, JULY 22.—Jacob Pennell, Mobile, for Havre ; George, La Guayra, for Hamburgh. OFF BEACHY HEAD, JULY 24.—Vesta, Rio, for Hamburgh; Mandrigo, Bunting, Jamaica; Antoine, Mayer, Port au Prince, for Hamburgh ; Magellan, Meyer, Havannah. OFF THE START, JULY 24.—Dispatch, M'Donald, Gambia. OFF PLYMOUTH, JULY 26.—Mary Rowe, Goble, Mauritius. LIVERPOOL, JULY 25.—Wind /•..W., fresh breeze.—Arrd. Orina, Smith, Singapore; Groglen, Ichaboe; P. H. Dean, Rio Grande ; Unique, Buenos Ayres ; Tinamara, Ceara ; Hero, Grant, Bonny ; Scotia, and Liverpool, New Orleans ; Alliance, Charleston ; Isabella, New York ; Rory O'More, Montreal ; Indian Chief, and Rockshire, Quebec. Sld. Jane and Bay field, Africa; P. I. Nevins, Baltimore. The Robert Napier steamer. from Londonderry to this port, took fire on the 24th inst., between Portrush and Ballycastle, and was run ashore at the latter place, and burnt to the watei's edge, crew, pas sengers, machinery, and part of cargo saved. HULL, JULY 25.—S1d. Diana and Adele, Ichaboe. IcuanoE.—Acrd. Zenobia, George, Amy, Bombay, Expe rience, Favourite, Britannia, Marquis Wellesley, Chitmark, Lavinia, Ellen, Ann Laing, Rebecca, Tulloch Castle, West Indian, Mathesis, Dorcas, Louisa, Margaret, Flora, Pomona, and Robert Kerr. TAR St v, LoXbON I - maisDA* MOANING LITERAT URE. FACTS AND FICTIONS, 3 Vols. Allen, London, 1844. _ In these light and amusing 'volumes, which are the production of Mrs. Postans, we have a series of prose sketches illustrative of oriental character, scenery, and manners. The authoress writes vividly, because she writes from her own personal re•ollections of British India ; and in one of her sketches, entitled " A Tale of the Phansigars," gives an interesting account of a young Indian girl and her attendants, in company with a party of notorious Thugs, whom she had encountered on the road, and accepted as an escort, supposing that they were a travelling company of native merchants. The denouement of this tale, though somewhat abrupt, is brought about in a very exciting manner. The " Emperor's Grave " is a sketchy description of Longwood and the tomb of Napoleon, at St. Helena; but these have been de scribed so often, and so circumstantially, that the subject is quite an exhausted one, add will not admit of repetition. MONTE VIDEO AND4,BUENOS AYRES. - (From the Britannia and Monte Video Reporter.) It is somewhat remarkable that the London Minis terial papers make no mention whatever of the affairs of the River Plate, beyond the mere insertion of pa ragraphs of news as they are received from Monte Video and Buenos Ayres. We are aware that on the side of the Opposition, intervention would be objected to on principles of consistency, and we insert the following article from one of them as affording an encouraging indication that we are not altogether overlooked or forgotten. The si• lence of the opposite party on the general question may arise from a consciousness of the awk ward position in which Ministers have placed them selves by their vacillating policy, and the consequent difficulty of doing justice to the subject without re flecting discredit on the Government. But in spite of this studious reserve from all discussion, it may be perceived, in the occasional slight allusion to our affairs, that a profound abhorrence of the infamously criminal system of Rosas is a prevalent feeling among all who know anything of the war in the River Plate. The accounts which have lately been published of the state of affairs in Monte Video are at once dis tressing to humanity and disgraceful to our own apathy. Monte Video has been exposed for about twelve months, not so much to the more immediate horrors incident to a protracted siege, as to the more hopeless and withering process of a land blockade, efficiently established, and rigorously main tained by a bigoted and remorseless solier. General Rosas, commanding the troops of the Republic of Buenos Ayres, invests Monte Video with an army which cuts of all communication between the be leagured town and its commercial resources and con nexions. Monte Video contains not only a very con siderable number of English merchants and their families, but Spanish and colonial mercantile esta blishments of extensive connexion and character. It is believed, that through this body, in the aggregate, outstanding credits on English account are due, amounting to upwards of 50,0001. The passion of Rosas having, for its peculiar object, the extirpation of foreign commerce, he will not permit the cordon which he has established under the walls of the ill fated city to be broken through on any pretence of communicating with the native and colonial con -sumers, from whom these credits are due. The in evitable consequence, it would appear, must be, that they can never be collected. The Montevidean houses must perish under the continuance of the cruel duresee in which the contend ing pretensions of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video thus operate to keep all foreigners who are shut up in the latter. They have especial reason to complain, and do, accordingly, most vehemently complain, that they have been made the instruments of aggravating the losses which are likely to be sustained by the strong assurances that were given to them by Mr. Mandeville, our Minister, when visiting the shores of the Plata, that the British Government would certainly protect British rights and property in those regions, in the event of the Buneos Ayrean of Monte Video, In consequence recently armamentobfy this assurance—so repelling entering force by yh e t e f r o r r it e oe correspondence,r.y received in London, declares—" large sales of merchandise were made on credit, and orders transmitted to this country for further shipments." When Rosas did cross into the territory, there was a British force in those waters more than five times sufficient to have effected his instant discomfiture and retreat; but he was not interfered with, and has, ever since, cooped up the unhappy residents at Monte Video within the bare walls of their strong positi •n, where the whole community experience the un satisfied cravings for the common necessaries ef life. In the meantime the native and other consul - iv - Ts in the interior of the country are becoming, every day, less and less ' competent to pay for their purchases, owing to the unre lenting destructi. m of all foreign property, carried on by orders of Rosas throughout the territory sub ject to his vengeance. To such an extent does Rosas indulge his stupid prepossessions against external commerce of any kind, that he had very recently en forced the immediate return, without unloading, of several vessels which had arrived with cargoes of pro duce from Corrientes at Buenos Ayres. These car goes were composed, in part, of returns of the native dealers and consumers above alluded to, for the British merchandise and manufactures supplied to them by the importers of Monte Video. It seems, there fore, that no course more effective could have been taken for sacrificing all chances of reimbursing the shippers or owners of 500,0001. of British merchandise, destined for that market alone. COMPLETION OF STONE-BUILDINGS, LINCOLN'S INN.—These magnificent chambers, built by Sir Robert Taylor, and entirely faced with Portland stone, being at present deficient of th e i r sout h ern w i ng , are f or thwith to be completed. To such persons as are not ac quainted with this well-known pile, we merely intimate, that they are externally of the Corinthian order, and are (some details excepted) by all persons, except those who originate or follow the bad criticism of the day, much to be commended : as seen from the ex treme length of Lincoln's Inn-fields (over the beautiful terrace now cut up for the erection of the new Hall and other buildings, and the wall of which is celebrated for containing some workmanship from the very hand of " Rare Ben Jonson"), the pearl-like effect of their beautiful stone throws into shade every competing ob ject ; their simple, plain continuity, surmounted by the richer, though still plain, entablature of the order, shows how superior an effect plain, bleached, enduring masonry has to frippery, falsely called architecture. A little further on may also be seen the equisite Portland stone masonry of the upper part of the great gable of Lincoln's Inn Chapel ; which, contrasting with the w retched clay-coloured stucco, with which nearly all the remainder of that building was some years since 'evaded, puts the right-minded in an almost fixed humour to for swear the use of all other materials.—Builder. BIDEFORD.—About three months since three chimney-sweeps sold sixty bushels of soot to a neigh bouring farmer for 255., each party being very well satis fied with the bargain. Some days after it was discovered that the gentlemen of the black robe had adulterated the soot with three sacks of very dry sawdust. The farmer, however. is convinced that his crop of turnips is greatly improved by the sawdust, as it materially contributed to the passing the manure through the drill ; and as the vegetation of the seed looks most propitious, the circum stance promises to prove a valuable trial of the virtues of the chimney and saw-pit.—West Briton. THE LUCIFER MATCH AND THE LUCIFER TONGUE. —At the Chelmsford Assizes a boy of nine years old has been found guilty of firing a barn. John Hardy, aged eleven, was also convicted of firing a stack of straw. At Huntingdon, Samuel Baxter, aged ten, was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation for a like crime. These offences are very dreadful—very. We are shocked at the powers of mischief which the lucifer match places in the hands of the reckless and malignant. Terrible is it to contemplate blazing stacks of hay. and straw, and wheat —most terrible to imagine the savage satisfaction gleaming in the eyes of a starved, and therefore sullen and revengeful peasantry. How ever, the evil-doers are caught, arraigned, and sen tenced; and little would it avail them if, in the dock, they were to make the most contrite, yea, abject apology for their wick ed ness. The crime, they might declare, was accomp lishe d in an idle, reckless, or passionatepardon of f judge mo andent; and theref ore t h ey humbly b egged jury, and of the directors of the offices insuring the destroyed property,—and so. having apologised, the culprits might trust that nothing more would be said of the ma•ter. Alas! such apology benefits not the incendiary with th e lucifer match; he is not permitted " ex plain," but i s i nev i ta b ly transported. How different el fate of the i ncen di ary w i th the luc i fer o idly, Passion a t e l y , ma li gnant l y app l y tongue ngu he to m thea y his combustible to the character of any man ; he may in the House of Commons—beneath that awful roof where laws are made to restrain and punish the vindic tive and ferocious passions of men—he may there, in his place and solemn function of statute-maker, cast .1 of most unenviabl e a t tent i on —h e may apologise for hi s inadvertence ; h e may de c l are t h at h e ec o fire e a about n ob; him,—and when caught in th e t ac t, w h en become t meant nothing ; that he is very sorry if he have used his lucifer tongue to the inconvenience of any gentleman, and therefore hopes that his accidental use of the brim stone will be looked over. Great is the privilege al lowed to the lucifer tongue,—but woe to the errings of the lucifer match ! Is it not so, good Mr. Wodehouse ? The lucifer tongue may " apologise," and the lucifer match is transported.—Punch. NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.—In Robertson's History of America, speaking of the ancient agriculture of the Peruvians, the author says, " They enriched the soil by manuring it with the dung of sea-fowls, of which they found an inexhaustible store in all the islands scat tered along their coasts." And in a note he adds, "The Spaniards have adopted those customs of the ancient Peruvians; they continue to use guano, or the dung of sea.fowls, as mature. Ulloa gives a description of the almost incredible quantity of it in the small islands near the coast." We had thus the name and use of guano told us by Robertson seventy years ago.—lnverness ," Courier. TWO VESSELS PLUNDERED AND BURNT.- aert AuT ION TO AMATEUR RowEas.—An accident t o .li t tr4 'd yesterday, with narrow escape of the loss of lite, beat,Mr. Searle, w t, ` ) 3 0 ung men, in a boat belonging to when , rowing near the centre arch ~f 41 11 V-bri dg e, applrent l y i n deep conversation ; an d man za 04 it not b een for the timely warning of a young , t he bridge they must have gone down, for the next i„ e lll , , at the boat went in hal': They had just time to ta 4 6' hold of the piles that form the starlings, anti were St(.; qf in two boats. It required the exertions of three ri l a i i t.. ; ng nlen to get the boat from the pier, as the tide was very strong at the time of the accident. _ e cri FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday a fatal accident oc - t9 ab u tuad of the train which left Bolton for wtal•achesterothree o'clock. The unfortunate man, s e , ()se natne is James Cooke, was seated in one of the the eotadclass carriages, and was putting on the brake, as th, enter e d the tunnel ; but leaning too far over h of the carriage, his head came in contact with t or of th e i ron pillars of the tunnel, and with suc h the e, owing to the speed of the train at the time, that r ollJ was dreadfully crushed and fractured. On surgeon Prestolec the train stopped, and Mr. Turner, into ,of Manchester, who was travelling by it, got t h e tae carriage where the poor man was lying ; but t",,ajuries inflicted on the brain were beyond surgical bi and Cooke expired in about ten minutes after the lt ,r? had been received. There appears to be no blame 11`47ibutable to any one else ; the unfortunate man f l i c i e n ` , Z,. imprudently stretched his head out too far over the b ts ,, ,, ot the carriage. The deceased lived in Salford ; we eve he wa s a steady man, and he has left a widow clta several children to mourn their sudden bereavement. e.tquest wit! in all p ro h i b city be held Gitsvdian INT of SaturrSaturday.li,RAcT ion GAS LAMPS FOi 1112413"411.--- 'be IL Clark, ironmonger and tinner, has xh~en ale A • O. uccesttil party in obtaining the contract tor , kin the whole of the lamps for the intendedh be rworice* in the city of na - abur About new ' s d . 3,000 lamps will 1 on the 14th of injes. the wreck, and the remams,., MASS CRE OF THE CREWS. The recent arrivals from Sydney bring over the par ticulars of more horrible butchery by the natives of the South Sea Island , . The discovery was made by the crew of the brig Magnet, Captain Lewis, while on an expedition among the islands for sandal wood, and the subjoined statement of the facts is from a letter, dated Sydney, May 6, signed by the chief mate, Henry Alex ander : The Magnet, on coming to anchor off the north-west end of the Liffore, one of the South ' 4 ea Islands, on the 14th of January, was, as usual, boarded by a number of natives to barter with us, and their dealings were just. Their conduct throughout was so satisfactory, as to in duce Captain Lewis to go ashore and spend several days with one of the chiefs. While the cap tain was absent, we were informed that a ship had lately been taken, and the greater part of the crew massacred by the natives at the island of Maryee. The distance not being much, we determined upon immediately proceeding to the island mentioned, and endeavour to rescue the remainder of the crew and what property might not have been destroyed. We accord ingly weighed, and with a favourable wind succeeded in reaching the place the following day. At four P.M. a canoe carne alongside, with a missionary and three other m en, who had just come from the south-east extremity of the island, and they confirmed what we had pre viously heard, The information they furnished us with was, that all hands had been killed, and the vessel was sunk ; but that the sails, ropes, and part of her stores *ere ashore in a hole in a rock, abreast of which was the spot where the vessel went down. They also, to our no little alarm, stated that another vessel had either been wrecked or taken, and that all the crew had met with a similar fate. except two seamen, who managed to escape to that island, where they still remained ; and they added, that if we remained till the following day, they would bring them on board. We accordingly did so, and about mid-day the same men came &onside, having with them one of the survivors, the other the chief detained. The account he gave of the transaction was, that he sailed from London in the moagb of September last, in the brig Janet of Dum barton, Capt. Gorman, on a yOyase South Sea Is leas; to procure a cargo of sandal Wood and tprtoisp - `-eat was wrecked upon the coral reef dff - Calethinta, ""ooettibar seven of the crew peiiiheel' in • 4 " . fotiltMlA NOW/ Payed themselves in a boat, and landed on the same day on the Isle of Pines. They remained there but a short time, and sailed again, anticipating to fetch the other island, inly.b' , e,l by ~ dised raf•e of p,oir:e, *.ut unf rta nittely they touched - Ilaryee, where they were instantly attacked by the natives, their boat destroyed. and four teen of their companions wounded. He and another sailor, named William Richards, were saved, and they afterwards succeeded in escaping to that part of the is land. We inquired of them whether they had heard anything of the vessel that had been taken by the na tives. He replied in the negative, but said a great many things had lately been distributed amongst the natives, consisting of sails, clothing, mathematical instruments, and various other articles. He said a boat manned by natives left the island' A- felV days before, having on board a great many articles, among them a watch and chronimieter, but did not know how they became - possessed of them. (Here Mr. Alexander observes, that the conduct of the man excited their .44iicion, for he refused to leave the island, which, he could with ease have done, and accompanied them.) As we could not learn anything further as to the fate of the vessel, we determined on farther search, and lost no time in making for the south-west end of Liffore Island, where it was understood the boat full of goods had gone to, and if possible to learn the particulars from Huila, the chief of the tribe, whom we had some previous know ledge of. At seven A.M. the next day the Magnet reached the place, and from the first boat that came along-ide they a,certained the ill-fated vessel to be the brig Two Sisters, a South Sea whaler, commanded by Captain Bread. The account that was furnished to us of her loss was, that two or three days after her arrival off the coast, at the time there was a large number of the natives of both sexes on board, and part of the crew were employed at their respective duties, suddenly they were all seized (it was stated on account of one of them taking liberties with one of the natives' wives), and horribly massacred. Not a single one es caped —none, not even the poor cabin-boy—all were but chered, and their bodies thrown overboard. The natives then plundered the vessel of everything that was valuable, and afterwards the ship was set fire to and consumed. As some of the property had to our knowledge been taken to that part of the island, and strongly su•pecting these people to have been acce:sory vi the whole tran saction, we resolved to detain the chief's brother until the rest went ashore and brought off what things they had in their possession that belonged to the unfortunate vessel. They consisted of a chronometer, greatly in jured, a jolly boat with the name " Two Sisters" painted in yelfo .v over the stern, a quadrant, som , account books, and the log, which was kept up till the 16th of December last. We were prepared for an attack had any been made, hut all passed off quietly ; and having freed the chief's brother, we set sail from the island to Sydney. Mr. Alexander concludes by stating, that he has strong suspicion as to the truth of the seaman, Jon .t.'s state ment. We suspect that the vessel was not wrecked, but that he, along with the other seaman, Richards, planned with the natives her destruction for plunder, and mas sacred their brother messmates. The atrocities perpetrated on these islands in the South Sea have been very gre.A. Within the last two years no fewer than three vessels have been destroyed b‘ the natives, and upwards of fifty persons murdered. DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF THE ROBERT NAPIER. The Robert Napier left Lo do.i on Wednesday fore noon, for Liverpool, with a very heavy cargo on board, and about thirty passengers. Nothing particularly worthy of notice seems to have taken place until about half-past ten o'clock at night, when she arrived off a place called Woodsontown, between Portrush and Bally Castle; she was a considerable distance off the land, there being little or no wind, and the night excessively clear. The discovery was made by one of the crew, who ob served smoke issuing, it is stated, up the main hatch way, but whether it emanated from the cargo or the boilers, it was impossible to say. for no sooner were tee hatchways removed, than the flames burst forth with alarming violence, and the consternation that instantly ensued amongst the passengers and all on board, was of a description painful in the extreme. The pumps were got to work, lengths of leather hose screwed on, and streams of water brought to bear on that part on fire, but very little effect was apparent, for very shortly afterwards the destructive element shot forth with in creased fury. Captain Forrester, the commander, per ceiving the imminent danger of his crew and passengers, determined to run the vessel ashore. Accordingly the steamer's head was brought round for the desired ob jects. while the boats (three in number) were g, , t ready to be launched overboard at a moment's notice for their preservation, The distance from the shore being several miles. it was nearly an hour before she struck, the spot being Bally Castle Bay, near Belfast. By that time the after part of the ship presented a vivid sheet of' fire, the flames reaching far above the deck. Before the vessel went ashore, the passengers were all got safely into the boats, and were conveyed to the beach without sustain ing the slightest injury, but their luggage was left on hoard, and was afterwards burnt. The light being seen by the coast-guard stationed along that part of the coast some time before she reached the bay, by the time she struck, a powerful body of them were in attendance to render assistance. The flames, however, had too strong a hold or the ship, and notwith standing all the exertions used, she continued to burn for several hours, and, according to the letter received by the underwriters at Lloyd's from their agent at Belfast. " was burnt to the water's edge." Another account, however, states that " although the steamer is a com plete wreck, she being burnt from the quarter deck aft. her machinery and part of the cargo will be saved." The steamer is reported to he partly insured. FATAL ACCIDENT IN A MILL. Last evening, at the Manchester Royal Infirmary Mr. Chapman held an inquest on the body of a young woman, named Frances Kenyon, nineteen years of age, whose death was occasioned by injuries received from machinery, in the mill of Messrs. Watkin and Lees, cotton spinners, Dukinfield. Robert Wrigley, overlooker in the mill, stated, that the deceased was a weigher in the blowing-room, and had been employed in the mill about eighteen months. On the afternoon of the lith instant, witness was re. pairing one of the blowing machines at which the de ceased was employed, when, hearing a shriek, he looked round, and saw her with her left hand fast be tween two cog-wheels attached to the same machine. He threw the wheels out of geer as soon as possible and liberated her ; after which Mr. Orme, surgeon, dressed her injured hand, and next day she was con veyed to the infirmary. She was the only person blameable, as she had nothing to do except to weigh the cotton for the person feeding with it. The wheels were not boxed off, though they easily might be. There were none boxed off in the room. Four or five years ago a female was caught in the same manner, and died in the infirmary. There had been new machinery put up since then, and the new was more dangerous than the old. Jane Pollitt, a female employed in the same mill, stated that the deceased was caught whilst cleaning the machinery, which she had no right to do until it had stopped. It was nearly tea time when the accident hap pened, and the deceased was in a hurry to get to her tea. Her duty was to clean the machinery when it stopp. d at tea time. Mr. Tomlinson, house surgeon to the Infirmary, stated that the deceased was admitted on the forenoon of the 18th instant. The fore finger of her left hand had been amputated, and there was compound fracture of the middle and laceration of the two other fingers. Lock jaw ensued on the 23d, and she died on the morning of Thursday last. The injuries to the hand were the cause of death. The Coroner said, in this case, he conceived the jury would have to lay a deodand upon the machinery. He did not know that very large deodands were of any great service. The main object of imposing deodands was to make it compulsory upon parties to place their machinery in such a state as not to be dangerous to the people em played about it. Several of the jurors expressed a strong opinion as to the impropriety of allowing the machinery to remain un covered ; and eventually a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned, accompanied with a deodand of 101. upon the machinery.—Manchester Guardian of Saturday. TUE STATE OF AGRICULTURE.—At the last annual rent audit of Lord Hill, at Hawkstone, Shropshire, his Lordship, through his agent, Mr. George Gill; stated that the time had now arrived when it was absolutely neces sary to render every possible assistance to the farmer. With the view of attending to their welfare, he had offered his tenants a lease for eleven years, at a reduc tion of from seven to ten per cent., which would give them a sufficient opportunity of improving the cultiva tion of their farms, and of reaping the benefit of those improvements ; and further added, that if at any period they found the system of granting leases was not bene ficial to the full extent they calculated upon, he would at once cancel their leases, and receive them as yearly tenants as heretofore. This announcement was received with loud applause'by his Lordship's tenants. THE ROTHSCHILDS. — I mentioned the Rothsehilds, which reminds me that Frankfort is the stronghold of the Jewish race. The " peopulsh" abound here, there being one quarter of the town almost exclusively occu pied by them. They are very much despised, but, of course, Rothschild himself is regarded as King of the country. His wealth is so enormous that he acknow ledged, not long ago, it was more than he could count. Some idea may be formed of the wealth and influence of the family when I tell you that they have already pur chased so much property in the place that the Senate of Frankfort not long since passed a law expressly to forbid their buying one inch more ground in the territory of Frankfort, fearing that they would buy up the whole state, and sell it to Russia! The old fellow lives in grand style and occasionally gives large parties. Each lady, on her arrival, finds a pair of gloves and white satin shoes ready for her acceptance, and dress shoes and gloves are also prepared for each gentleman that may be invited. Roths child and his brother, Charles, have each a town house and a country house at Frankfort ; bat the inhabitants of Frankfurt call a country house one that is situated just outside the city gates. For instance, the country house of the elder Rothschild is not more than a quarter of a mile from Bockenheimer-gate, is by the roadside, and surrounded by a garden. Charles Rethschild's villa is still nearer the town, and has a grass lawn in front.— Correspondence of the B: ighlon Herald. TEST OF AGE.—At the inquest which was held last Monday, by Mr. Wakley, at the Elephant and Castle, St. Pancras, on the body of a female unknown, that was taken out of the Regent's Canal, in reply to a question from Mr, Wakley, Mr. Cooper, the house surgeon of St. Pancras workhouse, said that he could not positively state the age of deceased, but that from appearances he judged she was about twenty years old. Mr. Wakley asked if he could not tell a person's age from the teeth ? Mr. Cooper said that he could do so to the age of fifteen, but that after that period it would be difficult. Mr. Wakley was of a contrary opinion, a ii thought that, with a little attenti on , th e age of'anY petson could lie ascertained from the appearanc e of t4e . te.q4; 4 .1 • • • JULY 29, 1844. THE NEW CHARTER OF THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. The following is the petition of Mr. Guthrie, the celebrated army surgeon The petition of George James Guthrie, of Berkeley street, Berkeley-square, a Councillor and late Pre sident of the Royal College of Surgeons of LondOn. " Humbly showeth—That although yinir petitioner, in his collective capacity,' has been compelled to accept the grant of - a 'new Charter to the said College, a copy of Which was lately laid on the table of your Hon. House, he considers several of the provisions of said charter to be illiberal, exclusive, and unjust. " That, independently, of its placing a bar on the poor man, preventing, in many cases, his obtaining by his own exertions such places of honour as there may be in the profession of surgery, it offers unnecessary advan tages to the richer student in the attainment of these offices, who may not possess half his ability, his perse verance, or his knowledge, it presses with peculiar seve rity on the officers of the public service, nearly the whole of whom are deprived by it of those privileges they hitherto enjoyed, in common with their surgical brethren of equal standing in civil life; whilst they will also be deprived in future of the hope of succeeding to these offices of honour or profit, whatever may be their ability, or the pre-eminence they may have acquired in the service of their country, from their talents or their labours. " Your petitioner has hitherto believed that a gentle man employed in the service of his Sovereign did not forfeit those rights which he had previously acquired as a citizen and a subject ; in virtue of which rights your petitioner has twice held the office of !.'resident of the College, but which he could not have done if this charter had been formerly in existence ; that, as the friend of many of the seniors, the teacher of many of the junior officers of the medical departments of the navy, the army, and the East India Company, they have called upon him to use his best endeavours to pre serve to them the rightsand privileges they have hitherto enjoyed. Your petitioner humbly approaches your Hon. House, in compliance with such call, on behalf of the whole of these officers. " Your petitioner believes there are few Members of your Hon. House who, in the persons of their fathers, their brothers, their children, or relations, have not had reason to be thankful for the professional services of the men it is now intended to deprive of their ancient rights and future prospects ; he has seen many of the officers of these services lay down their lives in the service of their country, suffering solely from their de votion to their duties and the privations they necessarily underwent. He is aware that many others performed very arduous duties with a coolness and precision, under circumstances of difficulty and danger, deserving. of the greatest praise, and for which they, as well as their more martial comrades of all arms, have on many occasions received the thanks of Parliament ; that several of these officers who shared in these thanks, said to be the greatest honour a grateful country can give, now find themselves al together omitted from the privileges proposed to be granted by this charter, or placed below gentlemen who were not even born when these thanks were bestowed, and whose principal merit is, that they are living and can live in London with a reputation, which, however great and well deserved it may hereafter become, has yet to be acquired. " Your petitioner believes that the evil which has been thus committed has been unintentional, and that it can be remedied by a supplement to the said charter. " Your petitioner therefore humbly prays, that your Hon. House will not confirm the said charter by any Act or Acts whatever relating to medical or surgical arrange ments for the United Kingdoms until your Hon. House shall have granted your petitioner an opportunity of being heard, by himself or counsel, against them, or the particular parts to which this charter must neces sarily relate, either at the bar of your Hon. House, or in such other way as your Hon. House may be pleased to direct. " And your petitioner shall ever pray. " July 18. " GEORGE JAMES GUTHRLE." THE RAILWAYS BILL. The present Government is made of very squeezable materials. Accordingly we find•in the instance of the Railways Bill, that the bold front which they at first as sumed is now altogether abandoned, and that instead of marching under the banner of the public welfare, they have faced about in the opposite direction. Future rail way companies are to have it all their own way for twenty-one years, while existing companies are to be left to themselves, and the people are to be consoled with the chance that the Parliament will, at the end of that period, take it into consideration whether the railways shall be revised or purchased at twenty-five years' value of their annual rate of profit, whatever that may be. And so the assumed zeal of Government for railway reform is little better than make-believe after all. Our objections to the original Bill were, that it did not go far enough; that it did not include all existing as well as future railways; that it did not make it imperative on all to run third-class trains of covered carriages at fixed rates and times; and that it did not make the option of purchase or revision apply whenever the profits reached ten per cent., and not at the end of fifteen years only. The powers of revision and purchase, which were the characteristics of the Bill. appeared to us to be the only ones which rendered it at all beneficial as a check upon practical monopolies of land transit, which, like the canal companies, might become a great and expensive drawback upon the internal traffic of the country. The objection of the quantity of patronage which a Govern. ment system of railways would involve, did not appear to us of any great force;—first, because the chance of a railway holding out against the Government was re mote, and, secondly, because the lines would, in all pro tability. be leased by Government, if ever they fell into its hands. As the clauses which convey these powers to Government appeared to be somewhat vague, the present amendments have expressly enacted that they shall not he exercised at all without a particular application to Parliament. Thus, then, the wholesome fear which would have prevented a grasping company from vic timising the public is withdrawn, and with the addi tional substitution of twenty-one, instead of fifteen years. as the period before which no interference of any kind can take place, it may be safely said that private in terests have triumphed over the public welfare in this instance, and have succeeded in rendering the Bill little better than a nullity. As it stands, the Government may pretend that they have shown great regard for the poor, by retaining an empty option of purchase, which is a mere brutum fulmtn,sbut in reality nobody will be benefited by it but the railway proprietors. One weapon the mutilated Bill still retains against the old companies, and that is, the power of encouraging competition. We hope the Board of Trade will make use of this engine to bring refractory companies to reason. This Bill could not pass through Committee without giving Mr. Gladstone an opportunity of exhibiting his peculiar religious notions. Sunday travelling was to be forbidden to the poor occupants of third-class carriages, while it was permitted to the richer travellers by first and second class-trains;—but the House, en the motion of our townsman, Mr. Thornely, defeated the manoeuvre by a large majority. We must confess that we hardly expected to see Mr. Gladstone amongst the Pharisees. The sickening cant in which he indulged was well re• buked by Mr. Sheil's allusion to Lazarus and Dives, and an adverse majority barbed the shaft which quivered in the side of the Ministry.—Liverpool Merculy. THE DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL. The following amusing article appears in the Church and State Gazette of Saturday. How Peel is supported by his friends ! It would be a work of supererogation to inform our readers in what way, and when debased Roman Christianity intruded itself into our country under the monk Austin, and finally became possessed of the Welsh, Scotch, and Irish endowments. The merits attending, and the advantages following, the conversion of a heathen Saxon king, we will not dispute ; but the consequent forcible entry made into the British Christian Church was, in its character of intrusion, precisely similar to that of the Socinians into Presbyterian endowments. It was a fortunate circumstance that at the Re tbrmation there was no Minister to move a Popish Chapels Bill to legalise the Romish holdings of those things into which the Papists had intruded. If such a Bill had then passed (and if now, why not then ?) there would have been no reformation of either Church or State. The people would have em braced Reformation principles, and the Church and State would have decimated the people. But as luckily there was then no Government leader to plead the principle of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill as it now stands, the Reformation went on. Sir R. Peel thinks that the principle of his Bill legalises our present holding as intruders into Roman Ca tholic endowments. Mr. Sheil knows better than that. And we are convinced that he does so, from his assertion that the Romanists supportel, the Dis senters' Chapels Bill to a man. We are further con vinced of the better knowledge of Mr. Sheil and his party, from O'Connell's visit to London, simply to give his vote in favour of the same fatal Bill. The reason is obvious. The Queen has now signed the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, and as soon as O'Connell regains his liberty, he will agitate for making Popery the Church of Ireland, on the plea that the principle of his motion is already conceded to him in the Dissenters' Chapel Bill—as it is—thus : Popery under Henry Plantagenet, and Adrian, and Alexander, intruded itself into Ireland. It occupied and improved the Church secularities. It found itself, and continued for many years, unchallenged as an intrusionist. Nevertheless, as an intruder, Popery was at length ejected. But this same Popery having never been since then for twenty-five years together silent as to its claim to recover its holdings—and Pro testantism, moreover, having constantly been made sensible by the Pope, the Pretender, the battle of the Boyne, the Irish rebellion, Guy Faux, and O'Connell, cum multis aliis, that Popish claims were alive and energetic—it would be unavailing for Protestantism to plead twenty-five years' quiet and undisturbed possession in Ireland, since the Reformation.. Some other future Parliament, therefore, having in it, in addition to the present Socinian and Popish parties, a Government So mien party, purchased by the Dissenters' Chapels Bill —these combined, in gratitude to the Romanists for their recent help to a man, will assist the latter to put Popery in Ireland in the place of the present Established Church. And they will do so according to law ; the Dissenters' Chapels Bill keing 'virtually • a repeal of the Reformation principle of the Consti tution, and the substitution of a principle which will eventually endeavour to thrust Socinian and Popish in fidelity in all our high places. Our readers may have observed with what attempt at elect the Synod of Ul ster (Socinian) have waited upon O'Connell in gaol to thank him for his valuable assistance. The con junction of these parties is threatening to reli gion. The mischief to ensue will, if not checked by a vigorous political Trinitarian combination, eventually destroy the State organisation of Esta blished Episcopal Churches ; and also the organi sation of Presbyterian and Methodist-Trinitarian communities. A bounty is now offered to Papists and Socinians to do what they have always done, in fact, and what Channing did and countenanced his party in doing—that is, to enter other churches professing Church principles, until they have parti zans sufficient to throw off the mask and seize all. This is the history of Socinianism in Boston, and elsewhere in the United States. Channing, when first suspected of Socinianism, denied the charge, until eventually he found his party strong enough to stand in defence of their hitherto concealed heresy. No sooner had they achieved this position, than they came out boldly Socinian, and defied any attempts to dislodge them from their Trinitarian endowments. Popery is too crafty not to profit by the Government hint, or to lose sight of Mr. Channing's practice." WHAT SORT OF EDUCATION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE POOR ? After struggling for above a century, the opponents of general education have been reduced to silence, and are compelled to give in their adhesion to some kind of general education. _ _ The question now is one of degree. The old oppo nents of education are still for giving as little as pos sible, and that- of the worst sort. A little reading, less writing, and no arithmetic, is what their liberality would extend to ; but still the two latter cannot he absolutely refused, and though reading can be con fined at schools to hymns, psalms, catechisms, and tracts, the schoolmaster, who is sure to be imbibed with a better spirit than his haughty superiors, is led to give instructions in writing and arithmetic of the best kind to some of the better scholars, who neces sarily become favourites, and almost his adopted children. Never was there a greater mistake than to narrow the education given to the bulk of the people. It ought to be as extensive and liberal as possible, for nature is very capricious in her gifts, and, instead of following the ordinances of man, and giving the best minds to the great and noble, she is frequently de mocratic enough to confer them on the meanest and poorest of the people, who sometimes, if they can but obtain a scrap of education, will work out wonders, and have often astonished the world with their prodi gious discoveries, far surpassing all that was ever made by the proudest disciples of the schools. If some of the cheap and popular publishers of the day would give well- condensed biographies of all the great men who have sprung from the common people and acquired immortal fame through the strength of their own, often unaided, and frequently persecuted genius, they would confer a greater benefit upon society than by almost any other work of the kind which has hitherto been published. Let us briefly glance at a few. The intricate Ptolemaic system, supported by Aristotelean dogmas, had maintained undisputed possession of the schools for hundreds of 'years; to have questioned it would have brought the inquisition and the thunders of the Church down upon the head of the impious innovator; for, in those days, to reason was considered synonymous with Atheism. Copernicus, a poor obscure Polish Roman Catholic priest, appeared, and contended that, instead of the sun going round this little lump of earth of ours, the earth went round the sun. The learned world stood astonished at the assurance of the contemptible priest ; but truth, whenever she shows herself, is invincible ; Copernicus at once divided the learned world, and half of it became reluctant con verts. Still, as both systems were little better than theories, no further advance could be made without more numerous and accurate observations, to obtain what no unsound theory can withstand—facts. The father of Galileo was so poor that he could not maintain his son at Pisa ; he applied for a bursary ; was disappointed, and Galileo seemed doomed to hope less poverty, when he obtained a patron in Guido Ri baldi, who got him a lectureship at 151. a-year, and this poor scholar, who left college because un able to defray the expense of a doctor's degree, upset all the learned schools in Europe ; at tacked with fearlessness Aristotle's doctrines of mechanics, and overthrew, as with the spear of Ithuriel, his fine-spun theories of the perfec tion, smoothness. and absolute incorruptible essence of the heavenly bodies; for Galileo had a telescope, in - ven.ed and made by himself in his hand, and dis covered the rugged irregular surface of the moon, and what was far more important, the satellites that revolve around the planet Jupiter. So palpable and striking an analogy to the primary planets revolving about the sun, furnished an argument in favour or - the Copernican theory, to which the most bigoted followers of Aristotle could scarcely with hold assent. And how did the enem;es of education meet these truths ? They declared the doctrine of the earth's motion to be false, and imprisoned Galileo. " It is in vain," exclaimed Pascal with honest zeal, " that you have procured against Galileo a decree from Rome condemning the opinion of the earth's motion. Assuredly that will never prove it to be at rest; and if we have unerring observations proving that it turns round, not all mankind together can keep it from turning, nor themselves from turning." . _ _ Those observations were made - by Tycho Brahe, who, not being a poor man, nor a commoner, does not come within our range ; but the immortal Kep ler, every way Tycho Brahe's superior, does. At twelve years of age we find him a poor sickly pot boy in a miserable public-house kept by his father. He afterwards went to the University at Tabingen. The word university has an aristocratic sound in an English ear ; for though in former days Oxford could boast of 30,000 poor students, all commoners, both our English Universities have long since been devoted exclusively to the education of the rich, and the poor, with here and there an excep tion, as in Bishop Prideaux's instance, have long since been prohibited from entrance to places origi nally built expressly for their use. But the terms " university" and " student" have a widely different meaning in Germany, a clear though not very full account of which may be found in the Life of Thomas Platter in the 79th volume of the " Family Library," containing the " Lives of Individuals who raised themselves from poverty to eminence or fortune." Another strong instance of the importance to so ciety itself of giving to the very lowest classes an op portunity of obtaining education is furnished in the life of Valentine Jomerai Duval, librarian to the Duke Leopold, of Lorraine. He was the son of a labouring man, who left a wife and large family in a season of unusual scarcity. Dural kept turkies fora master by whom he was almost starved. He afterwards became cowherd to the four hermits of St. Anne, who assisted him in gaining some useful knowledge, and taught him to write, and the use of figures in arithmetic. His own genius led him to study astronomy, and, obtaining some old maps of the world and of the constellations, he was enabled to make a kind of armillary sphere—in which the earth was, a ball of clay, and the lines bent hazel twigs. Thus, almost without any human assistance, and with the aid of a few old books, he mastered, to a considerable extent, mathematics, and, as all self-taught persons are irre gular in their studies, heraldry. It was in the midst of a forest, clad in the homeliest habiliments, and pursuing his studies, that he was found by Leo pold Duke of Lorraine, who took him in his rude garb, and sent him to the college at Lunneville, where he subsequently became professor of history, antiquities, and of ancient and modern geography. This is one of the numerous instances in which genius has forced itself to eminence in spite of all ob stacles ; but if we wish to have a serious, happy, in dustrious population, means of extending educati©n to all, on the most liberal scale practicable, must be supplied.—Brighton Herald. THE LATE HORRIBLE CHARGE AT STOCKPORT. — Our readers will probably remember this charge, mentioned in The Sun of Monday. On Wednesday the rev. delin quent, R. H. Cresswell, the incumbent of St. Peter's Church, Stockport, who was under bail to answer the horrible charge, underwent an examination before the Mayor, and Messrs. . Walmsley, C. Baker, and P. E. Marsland, two of them being Churchmen and two Dissenters. As he was not in a fit state to be removed from his bed, the examination took pla ce pri vately at his residence, at the Parsonage House, St. P eter's,. square, Mr. W. Vaughan and Mr. H. Turner attend ing for the defence. The first witness called was a youth named James Booth, a servant employed in the prisoner's house, who detailed several revolting particulars, unfit for publiea Lion. His evidence was in many respects corroborated by different domestics of the ha.ose,ande magistrates theeross-elt on ai e nln sici at e io re n d s t: that th of the prisoner's solicitor did not a t all shake his testimony, ry ws the rev. offender to Ch es t er Assizes it The their resultd duty t o y f tthoe commitinqui for trial. Not being in a fit state to te removed, however, he was admitted to ball, himself in 2,0001., and two sureties of 1,0001. each his uncle, said to be a magist ra t e i n Leicester shire, and his father, a person in opulent ciscumstances, we understand, residing in the same neighbourhood, becoming sureties. The revolting affair has caused much excitement in Stockport. THE HARVEST.—Owing to the great number of agriculturists from all parts of the two western coun ties, who have, during the last few days, embarked at this place for Southampton to atten4 the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, we have been able to make very extensive inquiries relative to the harvest. " One and all" are exhilarated by the fine prospects which are presented. The white crops will all be good, but wheat especially ; Nnk hide will be far beyond the average in straw as well as grain ; while even the green crops, which it was thought VON damaged, and in sprile instan c es destroyed, by the long drought; have been surprisingly invigorated by the late riling. This is good news for the poor and the country at large.— West of England Conservative, A PLEASANT BEDFELLOW. I was awakened, last night, by a violent storm of thunder and lightning, and wind and rain. - Hard dreaming as I was, I had sense enough left to fee 1 something moving in the bed, and by the light from a flash of lightning, to my unspeakable horror I saw, crawling over the mattress, a cobra de capello. He reared his head when he came to my body, and slowly crawled on to my legs; and, as there was nothing over me but a thin cotton sheet, I could distinctly feel the cord, clammy body of the venemous reptile through the sheet. The heat of my body seemed agreeable to the monster, as he coiled 'himself up there. I lay dead still; I knew my life depended upon my ,remaining motionless ; for, had I moved a leg or an arm, he would instantly have bitten me, after which I could not have lived many minutes. A cold sweat ran in a stream down my back ; I was in an agony of terror. Home and friends, and all that was dear to me, rushed to the memory ; my whole life passed in re view before me. I saw no way of escape, and I con sidered my doom sealed ; every flash of lightning showed me my new bedfellow, in all his loathsome ness. Well, there the reptile lay, but how long heaven knows ; to me the time appeared inter minable. When I had lain in one position about three hours, my legs became sore and stiff, from having been kept so long motionless ; and at this time, I gave an involuntary shudder, which at tracted the notice of the reptile. He raised his head about a foot high, thrust out his forked tongue, and looked around him, as if for some living object to prey upon. I now thought it was all over with me. I prayed mentally (for I dared not move my lips for fear of at tracting notice) for the forgiveness of my sins, when— Heaven be praised!—the reptile unfolded his coils, and crawled slowly away from off my lim'3s, on to the bed, down by the bed-post to the floor, and then left me. It has been said, that poverty makes a man acquainted with strange bedfellows; it might be added, so does wandering in foreign climes.—From a Journal of a Wanderer. UXBRIDGE YEOMANRY.—The Uxbridge yeomanry under the command of Hubert De Burgh, Esq., were in spected by Major Lawrenson, of the 17th Lancers, on Tues day last, on Uxbridge-common, and performed their duties in so efficient a manner as to call forth the decided approba tion of that gallant officer. On their return to Uxbridge, after the duties of the morning, an excellent dinner was pre pared at the White Horse Inn, to which about eighty of the members sat down, Captain DP Burgh takin g th e head of the centre table, and Lieutenants Cox and Newdegate presiding at other tables. The band performed a variety of pleasing airs, and the party passed a pleasant evening. LORD Ross E's TELESCOPE.—We are informed bye Rev. Gentleman who lately visited Birr Castle, and expe rienced the courteous attention of its noble owner, in being conducted by his Lordship through his extensive workshops, and in a minute examination of the " monster" telescope —a stupendous monument of scientific skill and mechanical contrivance—that the colossal tube, in' length above fifty feet, and in diameter nearly eight feet, is now suspended in its permanent position, between the two walls of solid masonry, built to correspond with the architecture of the castle. It is attached at its lower extremity—where the speculum, weighing four tons, is to be placed—by a massive universal joint of beautiful workmanship, and - weighing nearly three tons ; and its counterpoise, about seven tons weight, is so skilkfully contrived and adjusted that it easily adapts itself to every alteration in any required elevation or depression of the instrument. At the time of our informant's visit, the speculum was in the actual process of being ground, which, together with the subsequent polishing. would oc cupy, perhaps, a fortnight--so that, in about a month or six weeks from the present time, the public anxiety will, pro bably, be gratified in learning the first results, upon which it is impossible to calculate, of an undertaking which, we may confidently expect, will redound no less to our national ho nour, than it already does to the acknowledged talents and munificent liberality of the patriotic and noble proprietor.— Belfast Chronicle. SALE OF THE EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.— The auction room at Garraway's was much crowded yester day by capitalists, in consequence of the announcement of the sale by auction of the above celebrated premises, which were erected about thirty years since by Mr. Robinson, the eminent architect, and were originally known as Bullock's Museum, but have since been used for different exhibitions. The property, which is leasehold, having an unexpired term of twenty-eight years from Midsummer last at a ground rent. of 300/. per annum, which, with the land tax, paving, light ing, water, and parochial rates, would amount to the annual rent of 413/., was ordered to be brought to the hammer by the direction of the executors of the late George Lackhigton, Esq. From the statement of Messrs. Rushworth and Jarvis, the auctioneers, it appeared that the premises realised a net rental of 1,1001. per annum, after paying the ground rent and all rates and taxes. which income was derived from the exhi bition rooms, the two shops on the ground-floor, let for 210/. a-year each to permanent tenants, the lecture rooms, and bazaar,the Waterloo gallery, and immense warehouse under the bazaar room. Mr. RusiTworth said that, from a moderate calculation of the net rental, the property would be worth, for the twenty-eight years purchase of the lease at six per cent., 14,8501. The competition then commenced by a bid ding of 3,0004 but was eventually bo ug h t i n for 6,25 . 0/. The sale created considerable interest. It was stated by the auctioneer that the exhibit ion of General Tom Thumb rea lised at times as much as 125/. per day, and that 44/. per month was paid for the use of the exhibition room. • FORGE ME Not.—" Did you ever hear what it was that led to the discovery of the fact—that letter,' were opened by the creatures of the G , vernment?" in quired a rather shrewd customer of ours the other day. " It was this :—A letter, secured by a seal with the motto Forget me not' had been subjected to the scru tiny of the authorities. and, on closing which, a small portion of the wax, containing the last letter of the first word of the motto, was loosened and fell off: The atten tion of the recipient of the letter was drawn to l' Ate matter by the broken appearance of the wax. and. t h e reproof conveyed in the mutilated motto—' k, ge me not,' confirmed the su,:picion that the servier s of P au l Pry, or some of his frat ern ity, h a d b een in requisition." —Leicester Mercury. A LORD CHANCELLOR'S NOTioxs or THE PIC TURESQUE AT ENCoMBE. had a fire he e once, in 'int; for all th e ma id s turned out of f the wing, which destroy%l two bed-rooms. It rea ll formed a, line fr om th e water to the t was hei their b v e e d r s y , fire-engine, handing the b uc k e t s ; th ey l ooked very apnrcie t , t t ,r n e s y i. pretty, all in their shifts. My first care was the Great Seal; so by way of securing it during the confusion, I. buried it, The next morning, when I came to reflect, could not remember the spot where I had put it ; you never saw anything so ridiculous as seeing the ahole family down that walk, probing and digging till we found it, ---Life of Eldon. , SPORTING ERTRAORDINARY.—A Plyr,ftouth Cor respondent informs us that the inhabitan' s of that port were treated on Tuesday to a perfect l y novel species of amusement—donkey racing and nrAnibus driving on the Breakwater S The " high mettled racers" and the lum bering vehicle were, of course, taken offin suitable craft. A tent was erected, well stored with all the means and appliances of enjoyment. The company was numerous, and, of course, " select ;" and the sport, we are told, as regards both the donkeys and the buss, was first-rate The Breakwater is no stranger, we believe, to the rf,,R way ; but the idea of making it the scene of compe't:ition between two donkeys, and of an omnibus ride at s;,xpence a head, is quite new. CATCHING FOXES BY WHOLESALE.--Fora con siderable time past, the estate of Mr. Char'ies Richards, of Venvin, Lelant, has been infested with, foxes, and his poultry, &c., have been carried off by them—even at mid-day. A trap was set, and one morning poor Reynard's leg and tail were found in it. The depreda tions of these sly animals, however, became so great„ that it was necessary to adopt effectual means for their extirpation. On Monday a crAduit in one of the fields on the estate was opened., and 2i feet deep and 600 feet in, six young foxes we're discovered—one minus a leg and tail. They were all destroyed except one, which was hmught to Penzance and sold to Edwin Ley, Esq.—. West Briton. SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF A SUSIPECTED MURTJER. —Some few weeks ago, as a man, assisted by hi.s son, was digging turf in a lonely part of Longton, Moss, near Preston, he discovered the remains of is human, body under the following circumstances the, course of his labours, he came to a spot of ground which had long been called the "grave," from the peculiar form arid appearance of the grass growin g over it being in the shape of a grave, and the sods upon it much more verdant than the surrounding vegetation. When he had put his spade down among the turf, and was corking it about to loosen the mass, of soil which he wished to dislodge, he encounteredi something that obstructed his operations, which 'ine which he had ,just hitchhrowhin., olu:bowyaves thought was an accumulation of matted st f i a c era k il s oe , vvi f ivr tie c found in turbaries. It proved, however, to be hair, and li re rue a e t it44: l l i i ris i : caovheuremdanwitshkulollng tresses. He then f bec ame andhe 1 o t p h e e n edb breast resting-place h ( had vared the traces of a body were apparent All was .ecomposed, except some of the larger bones ;. but where the head and nec k h ad la i n the earth was ofi with blood.different Th% colour, as though it h a d b een .. oakedi a remains were most of thin colletterly, and removed to a neighbouring house, where the hair was washed, and found to be of a very dark colonft The singularity of the occurrence caused no. smalf, talk in the district, and various were the surmises offered. to account for it, in the course of which the fol lowing statemnt was gathered, which appears the most probable ;ale, and which is submitted in hopes that it may % perhaps, lead to a discovery of the individual by whom the crime has been perpetrated : About twenty-two years ago, during the summer months, ft man and a woman, both of whom were strangers, were seen one Sunday on the Moss, in company togethew a and, by their appearances and behaviour, attracted, the attention of the country people, who thought they were " courting." The evening was calm, and at midnight m respectable inmate of Sod-hall, which was the nearest house to the spot, was awoke from her sleep, by loud and piercing shrieks at some distance. She opened tlve window to listen, and heard a woman screaming, in sua agonised manner, " Spare my life ; do not murder ose I" All then was hushed, nor did she hear anything further,: A few days afterwards a red shawl was found near the place, which was recognised as being the / o no worn by the woman who was seen on the p'..eviotiM Sunday, and some one remarked an appearance on. the moss as though the sods had been removed. s ome . slight inquiry was made by the constable, but the places was unopened, nor was further notice taken of it untie some years after, when the grass had grown so verdantly over it, and It was so singularly formed, as to acquire the name of " the grave !" and sods were frequently eattl from it on account of their being better than any mat it, The ground, when dug into, was still looser than tit* surrounding earth, as moss soil, when oncedisturbed,4* a long time before it again becomes firmly bound toga-. ther.—Preston Chronicle. I