The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-04 00:00:00

WI! Clive' !low. , irion 4 ( "l i e nce o '' ocee d . 11 rho still eang by the e 105 r ni ; vsani". , in be Of l i t e , Of thlr: 11(1 i one tit sro~a s t eioor ,tir' r t d $ her ,A will !e.'di oyel;the ell ye" is feU pee iford s o l ; f the 0 5, AD ,n. . g e aPr o P 0 La ~ to e° the l ap o ant g 9 5- , 0 0 lige°'" t y tt uder e ,C• 1 31 ts 11' srV ,t g o and Too' Co for 51 frb 0 1 : 1 9 r T $O O , _ f is )1:1 tici jobo coins _ too v o i r e s rCl i f t ter 1 1 ° Ali 1 1 It' OJ J [M sif 111 04 t t° he rd A i l aster Li r e , d NJ) irP) ....if° P it , left. i ;e t. o o 0 14 r gig red f' 31 0, 6 A ° qv 5 0' 3 - . al' ,i'fbo e) 9 ~~~ s ~srd 1) $ i;le l ' i 1 0 0 a clf C re sl ' A , ' Ara; bee; COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY—The Queen held a Privy Council at three o'clock this afternoon at the Castle. It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Al bert, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President ; the Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-Chief; Sir Robert Peel, First Lord of the Treasury; the Earl of Aberdeen, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies; Sir James Graham, Secretary of State for the Home Depart 'tent ; the Right Hon. H. Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer ; the Earl of Haddington, First Lord of the Admiralty; Lord Granville Somerset, Chan cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; Sir Edward ( natchbull, Paymaster of the Forces; the Earl of Li verp 01, Lord Stosard; the Earl Delawarr, Lord horse. ; an d th e E ar l o f J ersey , M as t er o f th e ziorse. At the Council the Queen's speech, on closing the selsion of Parliament, was agreed upon. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in The Court was attended by the Lady in Waiting, the Lord, Groom, and Equerry in Waiting, and by the Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness. Lord Wharncliffe, the Earl of Haddington, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Granville Somerset, and Sir E. linatchbull, arrived at the Castle from town to attend the Council. At a quarter past four o'clock, the Earl of Jersey, Lord Wharneliffe, Lord Stanley, the Earl of Had dington, Sir James Graham, Mr. Goulburn, Lord G. Somerset, and Sir E. Knatchbull, left the Castle for the Slough station of the Great Western Railway, and returned to town by a special train. The Queen walked in the pleasure-grounds about the Castle this morning. Her Majesty also rode in the garden chair for some time. Prince Albert and the Prince of Prussia walked out in the forenoon and viewed her Majesty's buck hounds, and afterwards returned to the Castle in a Pony phaeton. The Royal Family were taken walking and pony aXercise this morning. Sir Henry Wheatley took his departure to-day from the Castle. , 4 Prince Alb e rt an d th e P r i nce o f P russ i a v i s it e d h er z iOXel Highness the Dnchess of Kent in the forenoon, at Erogmore Lodge. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Prussia, went out in a fly carriage and f our , L or d Ch ar l es W e ll es l ey , iuerry in Waiting, attending on horseback. The Viscountess Canning and Lady Peel followed in a r i rlY phaeton, and the Countess Delawarr, Lady ary West, Lady Caroline Cocks, and Count Nes aelrode, f o ll owe d i n a landau * and four. Count De znitry Nesselrode was on horseback. the Royal Family were taken a carriage airing i n afterno o n, accompanied by th e D owager L a d y Lyttelton. The Duke of Wellington walked out in the after :3l°oo ; and the Earl of of Liverpool, the Earl of Aber eon, and Sir R. Peel, went into the llome Park. Count Koenigsmark, Count Puckler, Baron Schlei lieit; and Captain Meynell, went to Swinley rabbit -shooting. The royal dinner party at the Castle, this evening, gill include her Royal Highness the Du c he s s o f K en t, Lady Charlotte Dundas, the Countess Wratislaw, Y Charles Wellesley, and Mr. G eorge E. an d th e 011 . Airs. Anson. The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in at- Mance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band '`, 4 !tended a ft erwar d s i n th e C as tl e , an d per f orme d t h e to Mainder of the evening. M• r- Dean, Chairman of the Customs, hal an inter it: with the Chancellor of the Exchequer ye s t er d a y o i.h. r is official residence in Downing- s tre e t. Th e E ar l ..Lonsdale, Postmaster-General, had an interview ~ " I th the Right Hon. Gentleman on Monday. The Duke of Buccleuch has arrived in town. e Dispatches for Sir Charl es M e t ca lf e , G ove rnor of Dispatches and for the Governors of the other North I: a r . f• aerican Colonies, were sent off yesterday evening 'o the Colonial-office. is Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence left town yesterday Portsmouth. l e... Dispatches f o r th e G overnor o f th e F a lkl an d 'Ws were sent off yesterday from the Colonial-office. BANK ISSUES. t T ile Gazette of last night contains the follo w i ng re ttellis und er th e new " A ct to ma k e f urther provision k„, itt ive to th e R e t urns t o b e ma d e b y B an k s o f t h e ti °l4 ll of their Notes in circulation." The period is acre weeks prior to the 27th of April last, and the lic e amount in each case is certified by two of her Sw it ' e l B tY'S Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes :- 41etlale and Wensleydale Banking Company, X t. Richmond (Yorkshire), Leybourn, Bedale, strawas, and other places Rotherham Banking Company, at Sheffield and u„ttotherham 35,843 n'dotaßfieidldin,gpte w n s io b n ur ß y anking Company, at Hud -34,029 , and Wakefield Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, at Warwick, Leamington Priors, Stratford-upon „Avon, Southain, and Henley in Ard en Worcester City and County Banking Company, at Worcester Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, at Whitchurch and Ellesmere 7,475 Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com -1,1)43V, at Wolverhampton 35,378 7k Union B an ki ng C ompany, at York, Drif t H e,ld, Burlingt on , Thi rs k, an d ot h er p l aces 71,240 13 riE City and County Banking Company, at York, Malton, Scarborough, Whitby, and Wilt s places i lls and Dorset Banking Company, at Salis bury, Axminster, Blandford, Dorchester, and , Other places 7 1111 Re g is an d N or f o lk B an k, a t Ly nn -B I.,;as;sey and L. W. Jarvis 13,917 " e End Staffordshire Bank, at Lane End-C Carob 11. Harvey 4ridge Bank, at Cambridge-T. Mortlock 25,744 Spooner, Bank, at Birmingham-Attwood, ii te gonner, and Co. T.'. City Bank, at Bath-G. Moger and Son 4,572 ' tis tck Bank, at Tavistock and Launceston )llo' R. Gill and J. Rundle 13,421 VI:4OMb Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon and Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, Ross and Herefordshire Bank, at Mon "louth, Brecon, and Ross-J. S. F. B. Bromage 4d dle J. P. Snead 16,385 worth Banking Company, at Saddleworth, 44shtcm.under-Lyne, and Oldham 8,122 field and Retford Bank, at Sheffield, Retford, )4 4 uxford, an d 01l er t on l l' ea stle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint ,i oeltt Banking Company, at Newcastle- on .nd Pim North Shields, South Shields, Sunder ' and other places l 'ax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com l./44Y, at Halifa x and Huddersfield 81 '°n Banking Company, at Helston 1,503 ris tchurch Bank, at Christchurch-W. Tice 1):„ T i J. K. W e l c h i ls . m ."Port Bank, at Devonport-W. Hodge and °m an 10,664 Darli ngton District Joint-Stock Banking Com- NF a nY, at D ar li ng t on , an d o th er pl aces 26,134 Oi w arit and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and e wark Bank-Peacock and Co 51,615 -wifordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, at Leigh ton Buzzard, Dunstable, and Newport Pagnell v_---Bassett and Co. 36,829 'lskaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, tolit,lC,,,naresborough and Ripon-Terry and Co. 21,825 7 1 .1. inank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, at IV,, th l -- -Smith and Co 19,979 P uy Rank, at Derby-Smith and Co 41,304 ehniond Bank, at Richmond (Yorkshire)-G. 44 d T. Stapleton l'inich and Needham-market Bank, Suffolk 14dleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley ar .k, and Woodbridge Bank-Alexander and 11 4, C0 . hton District Banking Company, at Wolver- L " , altipto n tilst able Bank, at Barnstable-Drake and Co 17,182 LBartholomew Fair was opened yesterday by the Ib ird - r Mayor. The scene altogether was very dismal. tltti o dship did not meet w i t h on e _ cheer. The Corp orallw of L on d on h as very properly ta ken steps to put eitti n n e t t hls annu a l nu i sance , an d it may now be said to be ti o f h e Revue de Paris informs us that " the commer . - 4jelations of France with Morocco began under Lo uis Colbert was th e fi rs t Mi n i s t er w h o encourage d :iNintieth the established on the coast of Africa, around Nis yteo c r ,„"e foot of th a t barrier which has been called the 1 ` of Fra nce , t o p ene t ra t e i n t o th e emp i re o f Mo af b a i t Their first transactions were managed by way f eath e r. The Moors exchanged their hides, ostrich -ers ' cattle, &c., against arms, powder, and shot. later • and Period this commerce took a more regular course, Cont. 4 eri„ Mued in it more than a century, without any depuhas di ffi culty arising between the two States. . Un_- 1? : d ge , reign* of Louis XVI., the Emperor, having al -vl-s` "Wised unwarrantably to confiscate the cargo of a t a r f e( r il vessel at Mogadore, M. Cheviers, Consul-Gen!- 1) ( 1 )1 P rance for the Levant, and resident at Constants- r, received orders to repair in person to the Empe tiolitaad to make to him the most energetic protesta tion no such an outrage. That gentleman's mis- Ivb i tacit havir, had any sort of success, and the events atikerlut;had supervened in France having withdrawn the c 'f % I .:" of the Government from the affair, this state ?ti eontinutd until a period long subsequent, when, e °eeasion of the expedition to Egypt, amicable re- Pr o were re - established between the two countries. re wroth that Gm: tune, until 1830, these relations continued al the se e '"'ad• In the course of this protracted interval, tiev era v i eral agents for France always remained each for fe11 0 ,7 Years at his post. This will be evident from the eno t liag list of French Consuls-General :—M. d'Ornano 1 / 1 1 3 1 14Q c 1 d in this capacity from the earliest days of the to rota own to the ear 1814; M. Sourdeau from 1814 t r pta it:tc; CourteZux from 1828 to 1829; M. Mechain D o - I` 9 t ° 183 9. Finally, from 1839 to the present time, ,-lon-; be Neon. I n d ependently of these Consular agents, larne and 11. de Mornay hare discharged, recli te B 4 3o , the functions of Envoys Extraordinary, ac ,,,..111R th e i.t° the Court of Morocco with the object of urg bvkituiuremonstrances to the reigning Emperor on the sda bad Pursued towards Enlace." THE SUN, _LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1844. MAGAZINES.—(CONTINUED.) HOOD'S MAGAZINE. The present portion of Mr. Hood's domestic novel, entitled "Our Family," opened with a humorous scene of an altercation between two servants respect ing the proper mode of treating their master's infant children. The one is all for the soothing system, the other for compelling the helpless innocents in question to rough it through their nursery career. The quar rel between the two servants is carried on with a dis regard to the . proprieties of grammar and com mon-sense exquisitely extravagant and original. " Sonnet," by the late John Keates, is a very poor affair, remarkable rather for verbiage than thought or sentiment. " Uncle Tom in Trouble," is a cleverish sketch of academic life at Oxford. " Camberwell Fair towards Midniklit," contains one or two sketches of character pcurtrayed in a touching, unaffected spirit, that at once makes its way to the heart. IVe subjoin some elegant stanzas on " The Rose of June :" Oh ! sweet are the flowers of early Spring When her budding wreath she weaves ; And bright are the glowing tints that cling To the last of Autumn leaves. And dear to me was the spring-time once, And bright yeas the harvest moon But mine eye now turns with a kinder glance To the cloudless skies of June. For we met beneath those skies at eye, As the sun in splendour set ; But our souls were dark as the eastern wave, Which the evening rays forget. For Fortune screed my love from me, And we wept to part so soon ; But the token she gave for memory Was a blooming rose of June. For that was all of its worshipp'd wealth That the world had given us then ; But, oh ! for the wasted hope and health Of those vanish'd years again I And, oh ! for the love so freely given, For life bath no such boon To offer now, as was promised then, By that lovely Rose of June. Long, long was the treasured blossom worn, When its leaves were dead and sere, And far was the frail memorial borne, 'Through the storms of many a year. For dear to the depths of memory, As the wanderer's household tune, When heard on his far and weary way, Was that wither'd Rose of June. My task was done,. and my hopes were crown'd, And I sought my native shore ; And my home and my kindred's hearts I found As I left their land of yore. I came in the strength of hope and love— In the pride of manhood's noon ; But I came to. plant on her early grave The first bright Rose of June. Oh ! many a spring, with its blossoms bright, O'er my lonely path 'lath swept, But joyless all, as the morning's light To the eyes that have not slept. Yet the flower in my first affection shrined, Though its beauty perished soon, Still it blooms in the wastes of memory, twined With the lovely Rose of June I ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE. The embellishments to this Magazine are, as usual, excellent ; among them is a picturesque sylvan scene representing a venerable forest oak stretching its huge branches across a stream, whose waters it throws into deep shadow. There is infinite spirit shown in the execution of this plate. There is some lively dialogue in the "Adventures of a Scamp," but the article is too much spun out. It is amusingly illus trated by Leech, who is no unworthy successor of George Cruikshank. We quote the following sketch of an English farmer from a descriptive article en titled " A Seasonable Gossip :" " Let us now glance for a moment at the farmer, the genuine unsophisticated yeoman of the old school—the broad-backed, strong-limbed, and brawny- handed scion of the ancient stock— what a transformation the autumn works in him ! Much as we respect the many traits of excellence peculiar to his character, we must confess, that he is, in general, a dull and ponderous animal, a slow-spoken, heavy-witted saunterer, patiently watchful of the progress of , his crops, and punctually attentive to the periodical satisfaction of his appetites; but at hay sell and at harvest, how marvellous the change I It is a strife between the laverock and himself, which shall be first abroad; and as with him so with his household. The earliest glance shot by the rising sun, through the sparkling casement of his ample kitchen, shines upon every member of the family, old and young, circling a breakfast-table laden with abundance most profuse. Brief space, not idly spent, is thus consumed. Without, a sleek and silken-coated cob, saddled and bridled, awaits the burden of his master's bulk, and, mounting this, the anxious yeoman hastens to the fields. The swarthy reapers own the influence of their master's eye, and sickles glance like lightning-flashes through the yielding corn. Sometimes, alighting from his nag, he wields that implement himself, and with a lower, broader sweep, enjoins a greater thrift of straw, dwell ing exultingly the while (how mournful is the yearly retrccession of the world I) upon the superior mode of reaping and of binding sheaves, which generally ob tained when he was young ; while elder men, who were his rustic tutors in the labours of the field, bury their brown faces in the wheat, and with difficulty suppress a smothered laugh. Presently he is among the busiest of the carters in a neighbouring field, pitching the sheaves, or driving team, or portioning out supplies of beer, or ruminating on the quality and prospective value of his well-housed oats. And so he flits from field to field, busy as the busiest, and manifesting a volubility of speech and suppleness of limbs peculiar to the occasion, rather than the individual. Dinner supplies him with a timely respite, but the customary nap which used to follow like an epilogue, is now foregone, and afternoon, and even night (if the sky be threatening), find him lingering in the fields with the adhesive pertinacity of the worthy in the old ballad, who Oft fitted the halter, oft traversed the cart, And often took leave, but seemed loath to depart.' Nor is it merely in the harvest-field and in the home stead that the most delightful characteristics of the sea son are observable. Orchards and garden-grounds are rich with their abundant fruitage and creaking branches heavy with luscious burdens, droop to the very ground. which they so richly chequer with their restless shadows. AINS WORTH'S MAGAZINE. In the present chapters of his "St. James's, or the Court of Queen Anne," the editor introduces us to that notorious French political adventurer the Mar quis de Guiscard, and describes that memorable scene in the Council Chamber—to which Swift has made such frequent allusions in his Journal to Stella— when the Marquis openly attempted the assassination of Harley. The whole scene is wrought up in Mr. Ainsworth's most careful and effective manner. The " Husband Malgre• Lui" is a story which evinces descriptive talent of no ordinary character. The " Gipsey's Tragedy" is from the pen of the author of the Mountain Decameron. The scene of the nar rative is laid in South Wales, and the incidents— more particularly the denouement—are impressive, though not devoid of exaggeration, which is the be setting sin of all Mr. Downes's fictions. " Wanted a Governness" details the humiliations and annoyances to which those are subjected whose hard lot it is to earn a livelihoOd by undertakiqg the education of children. The " Lady Lucille and her Wedding Brooch" is a lively piece of versification, whose danc ing measure and ingenious rhymes will recal the Ingoldsby Legends to the reader's recollection. " Every Man has his Doctor Johnson" is an essay illustrative of a social truth that all must feel, though not all will acknowledge. There is much sagacity in this observation :—" If there be a tendency to dis parage, there is an equal tendency to admire and exalt, in the humanity that moves about us con tinually. The ordinary world is full of extraordi nary humours. The enemy of idol-worship likes to keep a little pet-god or pocket-divinity of his own. If we must have something to vent our spleen upon, we must also have something to puff and venerate. Hero-worship is everywhere. It is a vital principle in the religion of social life. There is no such thing as a consistent leveller." " John Manesty, the Liverpool Merchant," is here brought to a close. It is a clever tale, but its author, the late Dr. Maginn, does not exhibit to such advantage in it as in those worldly sketches, essays, and criticisms, which for years he was so continually in the habit of contribut ing to the monthly periodicals. " Kate Crosby's Polka Party" is a story scarce one degree removed from common-place. The " Termination of the Transport" is a narrative by Mr. F. Ainsworth, of his recent travels in Syria. He thus speaks of a re markable character with whom he comes in contact in the neighbourhood of Antioch : " Here we found Mr. Elliot, commonly called Dervish Ali, whose services as an interpreter had been obtained since our arrival in the country, and who had provided two empty houses for our use, one of which was con verted into an hospital, and the other kept for the offi cers Fitzjames and Bell being at the tim e among th e invalids. This Mr. Elliot was a very remarkable cha racter. He had received a good education, was a tole rable classical scholar, and had been a medical student at one of the London hospitals, but having come to the East, his passion for wandering became so great, as to lead him to sacrifice everything in order to gratify it. In order to facilitate his movements, he perfected himself in the Arabic language, and assumed the garb and appear ance of a Dervish, by which means he was enabled to visit in safety all parts of the country. lie was employed for some time by Colonel Taylor, the resident at Baghdad, on exploratory missions, one of which was to trace the retreat of the ten thousand Greeks. On this occasion, a native damsel was given to him as a spouse, in return for his having cared her of ophthalmia ; but he afterwards exchanged her fOr a donkey, the latter being more useful in following the footsteps of the Greeks. There was great difficu'ty in getting him to put the re sult of his researches on paper, and he required constant superintendence—at one moment, the chair was too high; at another, the pen was bad—in fact, the irksomeness of writing was quite inconsistent with his acquired habits of desultoriness. The MS. however exists, and is, with many others, in Colonel Taylor's possession. Mr. J. Bailie Fraser was permitted access to it, with the Colonel's usual liberality ; and he says, in his work on Mesopotamia (p. 304), that, as Mr, Elliot possessed means of obtaining information which fell to the lot of few, the notes which he left are of immense value, more especially as they respect the manners and domestic habits of the people. " Mr. Elliot had, at this time, just returned from a mission, composed of the two Messrs. Lynch and Mr. Staunton, which had been sent to the Arabs, on the Euphrates. They had visited the tribes of Waldiya, Gizeh, Bu Sipahi, and others of the 'Anezeh. Their re ception was generally very favourable, but as they •ere bearers of presents to the different sheikhs, one of the Bedwin tribes, the Bu Litchi by name, conceived the in telligent project of appropriating the whole to them selves ; and they followed the party for some days with these amiable intentions, which they carried so far, as to wound one of the servants but as this was explained away as a playful accident, and Captain Lynch's intimate acquaintance with the character of the people enabled him to exhibit great forbearance on the occasion, a colli sion was avoided, and the sheikh was afterwards anxious to compromise the matter by presents, which were not accepted. " Mr. Elliot still wore the Dervish dress ; and hence he always went by the name of Dervish Ali. His man ners were extremely flighty, and never, for a moment to be depended upon. At one time he was praying and dancing a ith the villagers, at another, he would get up a quarrel with them. Ilaving, one day, indulged a little, lie became unwell ; upon which, although a dark night, he put a candle into a pap2r-lantern, which he hung by the bow of his saddle, and took himself off, across the stony and deserted mountain districts, to Aleppo. He was, however, notwithstanding his peculiarities, of great use to the expedition ; and after it broke up, was em ployed by Captain Lynch. His end was melancholy— having perished on the desert, between Damascus and Baghdad." NE H' SPORTING MAGAZINE. Among the literary articles in the present Number, the most sensible, if not the most entertaining, are some remarks suggested by the Reports of the Com mittees on Gaming, which seems to be written by one who is thoroughly conversant with the bearings of the subject on which he expatiates. Of the two sporting embellishments, the cleverest is one entitled " September," which vepresents a sportsman reclining at his ease on a bank, after the fatigue of a day's shooting. UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE. There are always, at least, one or two amusing articles in this periodical, and on those themes, too, of which the pensive public most like to read— namely, the exploits of our soldiers and sailors during the late wars with France and America. The Num ber before us, in addition to several other papers of an amusing character, contains one, headed " Some Passages in the Life of a Sailor," which is full of stirring incident. BRITISH MAGAZINE. The most generally interesting article in the pre sent Number, is that which is very fitly placed first. It is headed " Some Notice of the Early Colonial Church," and gives details, short, but animated, respecting the labours of the early missionaries in America. In addition to this article, there is a chap ter on religious antiquities, which is worth reading, together with a copious monthly register of eccle siastical information. SPORTING MAGAZINE. We have here two engravings, each, of course, illustrative of a sporting subject—the one represents two men setting out with their guns, and dogs, and ponies, on a shooting excursion to some neighbouring moors ; and the other, an angler fishing for salmon in a broad, shallow, mountain stream, just below a bridge which spans he water, and has a picturesque back-ground of wood and mountain. Both plates are skilfully executed. Among , the literary cintents, appears a lively article, descriptive of a visit paid by the writer to the Marquis of Waterford's and the Earl of Shannon's hounds. THE THEOLOGIAN. This periodical professes to be a chronicle of ancient awl modern Divinity, and universal Christian litera ture, and contains this month a well-digested essay on the " Cabalistic Writers," to say , nothing of some ingenious speculations on " The Fall." FARMER'S MAGAZINE. This is a journal, as its title imports, exclusively , devoted to the consideration of subjects con nected with the agricultural interests, and in the Number before us, we find, inter alia, some common sense remarks on " Irrigation." EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT IPSWICH. (Abridged from the Suffolk Chronicle.) EARLY CLOSING.—During the week the town of Ipswich, after eight o'clock in the evening, has been the scene of considerable excitement, in consequence of n large and disorderly crowd of persons assembling opposite the shop of Mr. Bloxsome, in Brook-street, upon the plea that it was kept open after the time agreed upon by the proprietor. It appears that, when the arrangement was made among the drapers, to close their establishments at eight in the summer, Mr. Bloxsome was one of those who signed a paper to adhere to that rule, and he continued to keep the terms imposed until Monday last, when, a few hours before the time of closing, he gave notice of his intention to return to the practice of later hours. This determination soon became known, and whether by instigation, or mere knowledge, a crowd of people, disgraceful in their general behaviour, con gregated outside the premises, and besides disturb ing the neighbourhood, proceeded to throw stones, by which several valuable panes of glass have been much injured. All attempts to soothe the excited feelings of those outside were of no avail, and the police were dispatched to the place to prevent further obstruction. The presence of these authorities, however, did no good beyond repressing mischievous pranks, and though the mayor, town clerk, and other official persons also presented themselves night after night, the crowd has continued to increase. Much sympathy has been evinced by the inhabitants in favour of the assistants, and although they condemn the open annoyance and disturbance, as not being the proper means of obtain ing the object sought, yet most anxiously desire that all tradesmen who had, after proper deliberation, signed the agreement to close at eight o'clock, should continue to keep it. Mr. Bloxsome says he regrets he is obliged to revert to late hours, but he finds his re ceipts fallen off so considerably by the change, that in justice to himself he could not continue the system without entailing a loss he did not consider himself justified to bear. In the meantime, no increase of custom appears to flow to his establishment, for while the crowd remain outside no person will, of course, attempt to enter the premises. Yesterday a large number of special constables were sworn in to keep the peace, and the crowd was less, and less annoyance offered. We read in Le Pilote, Guernsey paper, a passage relative to the Channel Islands, which is not without its interest at the present moment. It is as follows :—" The notion is daily gaining ground that Government is con templating the erection of works and fortifications, for these islands, on a very considerable scale. What will be the amount appropriated to this object is still matter of conjecture. The funds intended to be disbursed on fortification ought to be applied to the putting Fort George in an efficient condition for defence, and the building additional works at such points as may best command les Grand et Petit Rueaux. The Chateau Cornet is about to undergo important alterations, and Lancrasse is to be placed in a state of defence. General Napier, it is known, has always entertained a predilection for fortifying this part of the island ; and we have good reason to believe that his representations and recom mendations to the Government have contributed not a little to induce them to look, in good time, to the state of the defences of all the Channel Islands, more par ticularly Auregny and Guernsey. These may be con sidered as (so to speak) our advanced posts opposite to the important maritime position of Cherbourg." INUNDATIONS.—Under the heading, "Bois-le-Due," we have extracted some particulars touching the awful condition of that district of country, owing to these de structive visitations. From the Constitutionnelof Friday last we take the following singular details of a timilar calamity in another part of Europe :—" Russia has also its share of those inundations which for some weeks past have been the cause of so many disasters in different localities. They write from St. Petersburgh, that in the morning of the 4th of August, by reason of a violent wind and a pelting shower (une pluie battante), the Velika and the Pskova experienced a considerable increase in the volume of their waters ; and the bridges over these two rivers were broken and carried away by the irresistible violence of the current. The bridge of the Velika was rapidly forced in a direction towards the lake of Pskoff, and the people had the greatest possible difficulty in stopping it at a point about five versts from the city. From thence it, is in contemplation to tow it up the stream to her former position, by means of a steam-boat belonging to Dorpat, which had arrived a few days previously. CAPTURE or PRETENDED POLICE OFFICERS AND HOUSE RODBEBEL—Last week, the house of Mrs. Blun dell, No. 24, Agnes-street, York-road, Lambeth, was robbed of twelve sovereign and a half by two men, who represented themselves as policemen. They stated to Mrs. Blundell that her husband was confined at Tower street on a charge of felony, and producing a sham search warrant, were allowed to take away spoons, brooches, the money above stated, &e. &c. Last night, however, through the exertions of Inspector Evans, and Sergeants Green and Brown, both the men were arrested, brought before the Magistrate at Unien-hall, this day, and re manded. STRANGE ACCIDENT.—On Friday last, a woman named Murray, and her two daughters, were going into a wheat field near Ely, to glean, when the girl quarrelling about some apples, and loitering behind, the mother turned round aid playfully struck one of them on the back with her bag, which contained her knife for cutting off the ears, and the instrument entered the back of the young woman. It was feared the strings (?) of the heart were cut, and her life was despaired of, but we hear there is a likelihood of her ultimate recovery. It was truly pitiable to see the distress of the poor woman, who declared that if her child died she would not survive her. --IVorfOth Chronicle, THE WRIT OF 'ERROR. C ' CONN'ILLL AND OTHERS v. TREE QUEEN. The opinions delivered on Monday by the Learned Jukes in the House of Lords give rise to a variety of considerations, amongst which the following may be noticed as particularly important : I. In the case of an appeal, or writ of error, is any presumption to be made either in favour of, or against the legal validity of the judgment appealed from, or is not the proper judgment to be given as much open to be considered by the Court of Appeal upon Error, as by the Court below upon the original hearing? 2. If in an indictment consisting of counts A B where the verdict is guilty of all generally, and the count C is bad, a judgment that the defendants for the offences aforesaid be fined and, imprisoned cannot be re versed on a writ of error, upon" theground that the judg ment would hare been sufficient if confined expressly to counts A and B, and that a Court of Error must pre sume that the Court below passed such judgment upon the good counts only—is there any mode of rebutting such presumption, and of bringing to the knowledge of the Court of Error the tact that the Court below had, before they gave such judgment, held upon motion in arrest of judgment that the count, was good ; and if not, how can they act upon a presUmption which cannot be rebutted ? 3. Would it make any difference if the Court in pass ing sentence, should hare actually commented upon the enormity of the offences charged in count C, and the great danger in which the public would be if such offences should be allowed to go unpunished, and should then have proceeded to pass the sentence upon the de fendant—therefore, for the offences of which you have been found guilty you be imprisoned, &c. ? or could such judgment, if in writit ' v or print, be judicially brought to the knowled ge o f the Court of Error ? 4. Would it make any difference if the writ of error were brought on the judgment of a criminal Court, in which the presiding judge had been a Peer of the realm, and it were admitted by that Peer in his place in Parlia ment, that he had entirely, or in part, given the judg ment and passed the sentence upon the bad count ; or would the effect of the legal presumption now under discussion be such as to constrain him to adopt the pre sumption that he had rejected that count, when in fact he had acted upon it ? 5. Suppose a judgment to have been founded on the bad counts in an English Court, would it be the duty of the judges who had given such judgment to advise the House of Lords to presume that they had not founded their judgment on these counts ? 6. Would the same doctrine of presumption be made in the case of a judgment of a Court of Quarter Sessions, or any inferior Court of record ? 7. Is a motion in arrest of judgment made before or after the sentence is passed ? Is it a motion to the Court to roview its own judgment, given upon a bad count, or an application to the Court to abstain from Passing judgment tor the offence charged in such count ? 8. The following appears to be the form of the entry of an arrest of judgment in a civil case : " But because it appears to the Court that the declara tion is not sufficient in law for the plaintiff to have or maintain his action against the defendant, therefore omitting to give judgment upon the verdict aforesaid, it is told to the parties by the said C our t, t h at t h ey go thereof without delay." 9. Is there not also a proper form of entry in a cri minal case, where the Court holds the indictment, or any one of the counts, bad in law ? 10. Is not the form of judgment given by Lord Hale, in Dale's " Pleas of the Crown," vol. ii. pp. 394, 395, the form which ought to be adopted in such case. He says, " for where the prisoner excepts to the insufficieny of the indictment, or the Court does it ex qificio, the judg ment is special, quod indictamentum ob insufficientiam cassetur, et quod the prisoner eat inde ad prcesens sine die? 11. Is not a motion in arrest of judgment an applica tion to the Court, calling on it to decide that no judg ment can be given upon the indictment, without regard to the form of the judgment, whether on all the counts or only on some ? Is not the question on a writ of error whether the judgment, in the form actually given, can be sustained ? If so, can cases on motions in arrest of judgment throw any light on the questions to be decided on writs of error ? 12. If there is a form of entry in a criminal case, where the Court holds an indictment, or any count or counts, bad in law, can a Court of Error presume that the Court below gave judgment only upon the good counts, where there is no entry upon the record to show that the Court below, upon due consideration, have con sidered any of the counts insufficient in law but, on the -contrary, have given judgment that the defendant, for his offences aforesaid, be fined and imprisoned,' &c. 13. Would it make any difference as to the presump tion to be made by the Court of Error, if the jury should have actually found by their verdict, that as to the pre mises charged in the count C (the bad count), the de fendants are guilty thereof, and such finding should ap pear upon the same record on which the Court below is recorded to have given judgment, or passed sentence, that the defendant, for his offences aforesaid, be fined and imprisoned, &c., without saying anything as to such finding upon the bad count ? 14. In the case of the King v. Holland, 5 Term Rep. 623, Lord Kenyon is reported to have said, " Mr. Adam argued that three things ought to concur in every cri minal proceeding—first, that the party accused should be apprised of the charge he is to defend ; second, that the Court might know what jufigmeat was to be pro.- nounced according to law ; and thirdly, that posterity might know what law is to be ' , derived from the record. These are general propositions, to which I assent." Now, if this be the law, how can posterity derive any know ledge from the record of the Court below as to the va • lidity of the count C, and whether it 'charges an offence or not ? 15. If the presumption of a Court of Error is that the Court gave judgment upon the good count only, and the judgment be affirmed upon that Presumption, how will posterity derive their knowledge of the law from the re cord of affirmance ? Will the record of affirmance by the Court of Error specify the counts which are good and those which are bad, or will the judgment be general that the judgment below be affirmed ? 16. As the record of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland now stands, can Mr. D. O'Connell, or any one else, say for what offence he is now suffering imprison ment, unless it is for a ll th e offences - with which he has been charged by the i n di c t men t, an d o f w hi c h he has been found guilty by the jury ? 1 t e r y a i b sta ti on, e ti n s ging A FIELD OF B ARLEY S ET ON FIRE.-011 Wed nesday forenoon, at a quarter past ten, as the first down the parish of Rive n h a ll , h alf a w il e from t h e Wi t h am through a cutting of about five feet in to Mr. Up son . Th e b ar l ey sppaasrskinfgrom the engine set fire to a field of bar and uncut, and a heavy crop both of straw and grain, not less than sev en quarters per acre. The fl ames passe d a cross the field w i t h great rapidity, till they were stopped was very ripe by the hedge or bottom of the enclosure, which fortu nately was a distance of only eighteen rods. The quan tity consumed was about two acres, and altogether, in cluding the straw, the damage sustained is not less than 301.—Essex Herald. The galvanic telegraph on the Great Western Rail way, between Paddington and Slough, was in great re quisition yesterday, to communicate the departure, from the Paddington terminus, of several of her Majesty's dis tinguished visitors, and to order carriages and four, from the Royal Hotel at Slough, to be in readiness upon their arrival at that station. 'Amongst those personages who availed themselves of this mode of communication (thus losing not a moment's time on their reaching Slough) were the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl and Countess Dela warr, Sir Robert Peel, Baron Anthony Rothschild, Count Nesselrode, &c. The Duke of Wellington pro ceeded to the Castle from Slough on horseback. SNOW IN THE DOG DAYS.—CODLENTE, AUG. 19. —On the afternoon of the 16th there was a fall of snow in the vicinity of Rh ense, on the Rhine. It is almost in• credible that snow should fall in the dog days, on the banks of the Rhine. n° y, o t itz t — he lt p h ow as iai b s e l e r n on s c ta o t t e4, an o y e at n many orders on h an d as w ill k eep t h at establishment with all its i rons i n the fire for seven years to come.—Beth Jour na l. EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY PARCEL.—By the prettyhavlr good p L r A e i s s e a n lu t ßt a hO s z: r i Wt train which left Glasgow last evening at half-past six o'clock, reaching Ayr at half -past eight, a parcel arrived, consisting of a white willow basket, with the lid closely sewed down. As there is no delivery after that hour, the basket was put along with other articles in the goods office where it remained all night. This morning the porter proceeded to deliver the goods, and, on going his rounds, thought he felt something stirring in the basket, and on . lifting the corner of the lid, disco vere d t h at hi s c h arge was a female child! The case is und er i nvest i gat i on b y the authorit ie s. — Ayr th o h ißes._Ayr Advertiser, T en ifE vnea.—We h ave enjoyed during the k t r fi i‘t nest weather we h ave experienced since the m It has given a universal impulse to the weoa the ef I 'A May. harvest, which is now making rapid progress, and has all parts of the country are equally removed all the apprehensions we were beginning to en tertain from the continuence of rain. The accounts we a °rrieglic?'' favourable.adwriaerAst yohr receivingpao avwgenlu — ieebr G f y r oloantmshgteohwe sa c r i sta n, . e,Continent, n National tin na ti visiting a cathedral, other ~m s a i r r v , ,e , l ss , a ida phial. After eyeing it for some time,• the 64 Do you call this the sacristan, indignantly, "It contains some of the darkness that Moses spread over the land of Egypt." traveller said THE FIRST EXCURSION TRAIN FROM LONDON TO EXETER.—The Great Western Railway's first excursion train from London to Bath, Bristol, Taunton, and Exeter, left Paddington yesterday morning at seven o'clock, with nearly ZOO passengers ; the fares, for the holydsy travellers, having been reduced one-half. At Slough, Reading, and the several stations along the line, the numbers were considerably increased, amounting in the aggregate to nearly 1,000 passengers. SUNDAY TRAVELLING ON It Atf.wAirs.—A corre spondent of the Preston Chronicle, in reference to the opposition offered by the Bishop of London to Sunday travelling on railways, says :—" Last Sunday, about 2,000 people went to Fleetwood in third-class carriages, and from about twelve to twenty persons were em ployed in the locomotion of this numerous party, not quite one to 100. I rememb er, some years ago, seeing his Lordship of London, then Bishop of Chester, come to preach on a Sunday morning at Preston Church, and, although he had only about two or three hundred yards to go, he had his carriage, two horses, and two or three servants employ e d. His Lord ship, who cannot travel two or three hundred yards, without requiring two or three persons to break the Sabbath, grumbles at a poor man travelling, who, in a journey of 20 miles, with 99 of his neighbours, do not al together cause the services of one man to be employed on the Sunday."—Railway Record. A vast number of objections to Parliamentary votes have been served upon parties in Colchester, and it is alleged that the Anti- Corn-lari League has a hand i in the matter.—. Essex Herald. • We heartily commend this work to the approval of the public, as an able, unflinching, and powerful exposure of the numerous and varied evils of town interment. To it, as well as the energetic and public-spirited exertions of its author, the country is indebted for the rise of the movement upon this subject, and to the notice which the Poor. law Commis sioners (through Mr. Chadwick) have since bestowed upon it, although, we are sorry to say, with an ungracious and un worthy disposition to overlook Mr. Walker's labours. For some time before the Supplement to the Sanitary Report (on " Interment in Towns") was printed, Mr. Walker had been making great personal exertions, by calling public meetings by publishing works, by addressing letters to the editors of the metropolitan press, and by being the cause, in a great measure, of the appointmant of a Committee of the House of Commons, to awaken the country to a sense of the mis chiefs attending the practice we are here alluding to. To him, therefore, belongs the merit of having enlightened and aroused the public mind on this subject, and not to the Go vernment, or its agent, who would in this, as in some other cases, deprive real worth of its due—if they could. THE METROPOLITAN PARLIAMENTARY REVISIONS. —We understand that Mr. T. J. Arnold has been ap pointed by Lord Denman the revising barrister of the lists of electors for the City of London, and has appointed to hold his first Court in the Court of Common Pleas, Guildhall, on Monday, the 16th inst. The proceedings of the first day's sitting will be occupied in receiving from the Secondaries the lists of the livery, and from the overseers the lists of the 101. householders. After this formal proceeding the discussion of the different c'aims and objections will be proceeded with in the order which, at its earliest sitting, will, no doubt, be appointed by the Court. In the letter of appointment issued by Lord Denman, in his capacity of Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, the names of Mr. Lancelot Shadwell, son of the Vice Chancellor of England, and Mr. D. C. Moylan, are associated, and it is presumed that one of those Learned Gentlemen will take the revision of the county of Middlesex, and the other that of the boroughs of Finsbury, Marylebone, and the Tower Hamlets. As yet, however, no definitive arrangement has been made. EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY TRAlNS.—Sunday morning being the last day for the cheap excursions to Brighton and back, the terminus at London-bridge was literally besieged by nearly 3,000 people. At seven o'clock, they commenced sending them off in batches. The first lot consisted of 700 people, who were conveyed in 25 carriages, propelled by three engines; immediately after, another, consisting of 20 carriages, containing 540 ; and at eight o'clock, a monster train of 40 carriages, containing 1,000, left the terminus for Brighton, where they arrived in two hours. The latter train was pro pelled by six powerful engines. The whole of them returned home by ten o'clock at night in two monster trains without encountering any accident. BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY.—OH Monday the 12th• instant, in the New Lane, off the Coal Quay, Sally, the wife of Patrick Donoghue, at the age of over sixty years, gave birth to a son. The mother and child are both well. The mother is a most industrious, honest woman. —Cork Reporter. SUDDEN DEATH OF THE KEEPER OF EXETER HALL, WHILE BATHING.—OH Saturday morning, about half-past eight o'clock, as Mr. William Gordon, keeper of Exeter Hall who, had been lodging at Mr. Kirkham s, in Edward-street, Brighton, fora change of air, was bathing in the sea, Ile was suddenly taken with a fit and fell in the water. He was immediately assisted into the machine from which he had been bathing, and was at tended by an assistant of Mr. Cordy Burrows, surgeon, but life was extinct. An inquest was held before Mr. F. 11. Gell, coroner for East Sussex, on Saturday even ing. Verdict, " Died of apoplexy." Deceased's wife was waiting on the beach when be was taken with the ht which ended in his deAtil. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. The neighbourhood of Henham-park, the country eat of the Earl of Stradbroke, was thrown int o a s t a t e o f great excitement on Saturday morning last, August 31, by the rumour being spread that his Lordship's head keeper, whose name WAS Easey, had destroyed himself. This report, on inquiry, was found to be but too true. About eleven o'clock on the morning of that day the unfortunate man, it appeared, whose character for quietness and general worth was high, left his cottage, which is situate on the Henham-park estate, taking a double-barrelled gun with him. He proceeded to a spot at the back of his house, where grow a quantity of bull rushes; and of these he managed in an ingenious and most original manner to form the means of his death and fearful mutilation. From the relative positions in which the body and gun were found, it would seem that he had fixed some of the rushes across the two triggers of his piece, and placed his foot upon the end of those rushes in such a manner as to enable him, haring Lilt the end of the barrels in his mouth, to fire Off the gun! The effect of this most extraordinary and determined act of suicide was, of course, the imme diate death of the unhappy man. The whole of the head was shattered in a frightful manner, particularly the left side, which was blo-wn completely away. The brain was found in a tolerably perfect condition, at a distance from the corpse. A more resolute and horrible mode of self-slaughter can scarcely ever, if ever, have occurred. As may be imagined, the circumstance has created great excitement in the immediate vicinity of the park, and indeed around that part of the country; and the various .circumstances attending the melancholy act are such as to be well calculated to increase the peculiar and painful interest of the case. From the situation held by the de ceased he necessarily had the chief care and direction of the Earl of Stradbroke's game preserves; and as the Noble Lord was expected to arrive on Saturday at Henham Park with his family, Easey was anxious to have all duly prepared for his reception and sporting amusement on Monday. However, for some time past the poachers have been active on the estate, and great quantities of the game have been destroyed and taken by them, including several of his Lordship's favourite breeding birds among numbers of pheasants that have fallen before these illegal sportsmen. The vexation and annoyance caused to the deceased by these predatory acts have been very great. Persons who had seen and conversed with him during the past week all remarked how unusually dull and depressed his manner was. It is imagined by his wife and those most intimate with him that this has been the cause of that state of mind which led to the commission of the fatal deed, combined with the expectation of meeting his master so soon, and the fear excited that the Noble Earl would impute blame to him fur negligence of his duties in permitting the continuance of such robberies of his preserves. Whe ther such were really the origin of the suicide or not it is, of course, quite impossible now to decide ; but it would seem to afford a very probable and likely cause for the melancholy circumstance in the absence of any do mestic and private motive for the act. It is also stated that he was to have been a witness at the examination of some poachers, who will be brought before the magis trates on Wednesday. These men he saw leave with game in their possession, he being afraid to attack them, they -being four or fire in number. This may have added to the troubled state of mind under which the un fortunate man had evidently for some days laboured. It ryas expected that the inquest would be held yesterday (Monday). CAPTAIN WARNER AND THE GOVERNMENT.—On Saturday the correspondence which has taken place be tween Captain Warner and the Government, respecting his inventions, was printed by order of the House of Commons. The first letter was dated the sth of Octo ber, 1841, and the last on the 9th of November, 1843. It appears that Captain Warner, who in 1841 complained that he had suffered ten years' delay, sus pense, and disappointment, demanded 200,000/. for his invisible shell, and 200,000/. for his " long range," and in graphic terms speaks of their destructive powers on sea and land ; at the same time he states, that the dis appointments he has endured have involved him in pecu niary embarrassments, alluding to the commands of the late King, that he should not leave the country, and the expectations he had formed that his inventions would have been accepted. In the first letter from Sir Robert Peel to Sir George Murray, the Right Hon. Baronet re quest* that great caution should be used in the negotia • tions, and declares the sum to be " exorbitant, at least large in amount," and refers to a l e tt er s h own hi m by Lord Ingestre, that 300,000 L would be no obstable from a foreign Power to secure the inventions. It would seem that in October last it was arranged that the" long range" invention should be tested. Captain Warner offered to procure 1,5001., and the Government consented to pay 5001. The fernier was, however, unable to raise his portion, and the negotiations were abruptly closed at the end of the month. The public are aware of the recent experiment, and the discussion which has occurred lathe House of Commons, which discussion is likely to be con tinued in consequence of the information which is now afforded by the Parliamentary document of the corre spondence, which contains a great many letters, and ex tends to seventy printed pages. Preparations have commenced at Witley Court, the seat of Lord Ward, which the Queen Dowager rents, bat no precise period has yet been named for the ar rival of her Majesty and suite from Bushy. Sir Roger and Lady Palmer, family, and suite, left London on Monday, by the Antwerpen steam-packet, on a tour through Germany and Switzerland, and intend passing the winter in Italy. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAT.—We are glad to learn that this Company have at last so far complied with the wants of the public as to intimate that they are about to make arrangements for putting second-class carriages on the line, so as. to meet those of the Birming ham and London at Birmingham. This is an important alteration that ought long ago to have been enforced. On Monday evening, between five and six o'clock, the body of a full-grown male child was found down the area of Mr. Whittingham, printer, Took's-court, Chan cery-lane. It was wrapped in a dirty coarse black apron, and appeared to have been born alive. The body was conveyed to the workhouse, where it await s a n i nques t. THE HARVEST IN THE WEST OF IRELAND.— Every species of grain crop, through the whole western district of this county, with the exception of a few patches on poor ground and mountain fields, has fallen bcneath the side. The farmers on every side, from here to Bandon, have been for the last fortnight cutting down, and the yield of wheat and oats, though not abundant, has.been found to give a fair average crop. The cheat, generally, is good, clean and free from smut, &c., though the head is rather light, and the straw short. The oat crop has not been found so productive, and in many places, patches of that grain in the field have been left standing, while other parts have been cut down ; this may have beer. owing to bad tillage; but what with the quantityin this state, and the portion that has been laid by adverse wind and rain, the crop does not appear to be one that will repay the farmer. There are, of course, many exceptions, particularly on the farms of extensive landowners. From Ban'don to Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Rosscarbery, Skibbereen, &c., the same state of things appears to exist, varying only with regard to certain localities, and modes of culture. But one remarkable feature that strikes the observer in passing through the west is, that that most useful process, draining, appears to have been adopte3, for not a bit of ground, however small, stony or ill-conditioned, that has not been subjected or is in course of subjection to it. The farmers, too, appear to understand it now, and those who tried it last year speak in high praise of its value, and regret their inability to apply it in its most perfect and improved form to certain portions of their ground reclaimable by no other method. The late potato crop promises an abundant yield, and the glorious sunshine that has con tinued for the last ten or twelve days is hailed as a happy harbinger, after the late rains, bringing promise of a bountiful supply of " the poor men's crop." Barley ap pears to have taken its final leave of the west, and to be as little known or cared for as intemperance ; indeed, it would appear that in proportion as the blessings awl benign influence of teetotalism forced its onward walla and spread its all-conquering power over the land, re did Barley, like a beaten and retreating foe, cower before the victor, and ultimately left him in undisputed posses sion.—Cork Southern Reporter. ETON COLLEGE, AUG. 30.—Her Majesty hiving graciously expressed a desire that a week's bolyday should be granted to the Eton boys, in commemoration of the birth of the infant Prince, the Provost hes given this week, in addition to the present holydays. The school, therefore, will open for the collegers and lower oppidans on Saturday, the 21st of September. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Monday, about one o'clock, an awful instance of sudden death occurred in Upper John-street, Hoxton. The deceased, a man about fifty years of age, was engaged in carrying coals to the house of Mr. Smith (No. 14), when, after emptying a sack into the coal-cellar, Mrs. Smith observed to him that his nose was bleeding. Ile endeavoured to reply, but was unable, in consequence of the rapid flow of blood both' from his nose and mouth, and had just strength left to gain the door, when he fell down and instantly expired. Lie was conveyed immediately to Shoreditch workhouse,b where a coroner's inquest will be held. It app ears the statement of some fellow-workmen (who wer fromeun able to give his name), that he had just recovered a severe illness, and his widow is now COntiflea to her I bed with an attack of rheumatism, without any means of support. BARNET FAlL—This fair, which is considerably the largest for cattle throughout England,_ takes_ place on Wednesday next. The face of the whole of the pasture grounds for a mile andano7tle. The number of Wel s h beasts brought up year around the town is com pletely mottled with black t hi s y c r a is more s numerous than has been the case for the l ast two years past, and the ki ng , on a general scale, a ppear extremely healthy and in good order. The Welsh drovers affirm that they have been ve ry lucky this season, compared with what th ey were two years ag o, their beasts having been more f ree f rom the fatal effe cts of the epidemic which carried off such numbers of them at that period. The number of buyers already arrived is pretty numerous, and there is a fair prospect of some business being done upon the occasion. Barnet, which, since the completion of the Birmingham line, has been almost deserted, is just now assuming a bustling appearance, and the various innkeepers, who hive suffered so severely in consequence of the traffic to the north of England being thrown into a different channel, are now taking their annual benefit in good earliest, upon which they chiefly depend. It may be as well, by the way, to caution sellers of stock to secure the proceeds of the same against the dexterity of the light fingered fraternity, who at Barnet fair are always busy in:pursuing their furtive avocations. We regret to learn that an attempt was made on Tuesday morning last, about four o'clock, to set fire to an outhouse upon Woodland's Farm, Woodltam Walter, in this county. The miscreant selected for his diabolical purpose an outbuilding near the dwelling-house, but for tunately the extent of damage was very limited. A liberal reward has been offered fur the detecttion of the offender.—Essex ~. THE HARVEST IN SCOTLAND. REsrarwsiiiaE.— We last week had a :cries of the most delightful harvest weather which we have ever witnessed, Since our notice of this day week, the crops in this neighbourhood have made rapid progress, and the farmers have not been idle. On Saturday the ripened fields were Flustered w ith reapers p l y i ng their laborious undertaking. In the low-lying purely arable districts, one-half the crop is about cut, and we should think that with another week of/such favour able weather, very little grain, in these quarters, will be left standing. It is a remarkable feature of the times, that notwithstanding the existing stir amongst the manufacturers, even in this centre of manufac tures, and with the hurried harvest that has come on, there has not only been abundance, but rather a super abundance, of hands for cutting down the ripened grain fields. Wages throughout last week were mo (Aerate. During most of the days 2s. and 2s. ad. were the current p r i ces g i ven ; b u t on Friday morn ing the supply of shearers far exceeded the demand ; a number were left unhired, and as low as ls. 6d. pea day was offered by some farmers, though few sub mitted to these terms. BERwlCK.suraE.—During the month of August, up to the 24th, the weather continued very wet and un settled. The greater part o f th e w h e at and barley crop is very much laid, and in some instances the wheat will be damaged. since the 24th, however, the weather has been all that the farmer could wish —fine, bright, and airy during the day, and sharp and cold during the night. Since Monday last, a great many large fields of wheat and barley have been cut down, and look well on the ground in regard to hulk, though samples of wheat and barley are likely to be far short of last year's crop. In regard to qua lity, however, should the present fine weather con tinue, much good will be effected. Harvest is now general in all parts of the country. Three weeks of such weather will put a great part of the crop safe in the barn-yard. The turnip crop is backward, and looking indifferent on clay soils. Our corn market on Saturday last wa well supplied with grain, prices for which were on the decline.—Berwick and Kelso Warder. PERTIISHIRE.—The weather this week has been as fine as could have been wished for, and the cutting down of the grain is proceeding with rapidity in all districts: and it is thought that a continuance of the same delightful weather for a week or ten days would finish the harvest in this quarter, except a few very late patches here and there. WitcroNsuißE.--Since our last number we have had a splendid change atmospheric, with the prospect of a continuance of good harvest weather. The con sequence is, harvest has become general—all kinds of crop look well—potatoes and turnips excellent ; and pastures thick and much improved. A great deal of grain will be safe ender the thack and rope in the lthins, in the course of the week.—lVigton Free Press. AYRSIIIRE.—Harvest, the pleasantest of the hus bandman's labours, is well begun, and indeed literally half-finished in this quarter. One hundred acres of the grain crops of Mr. Guthrie, Crossburn, have already fallen to the sickle, and a goodly band of reapers will probably cut out as much more for him this week, and thus conclude the harvest : The beautiful clear airy weather we have had is most favourable for winnowing the grain, and in many quarters the stack-yards are being replenished ; so that sportsmen, on the 2nd September (for Sabbath gives a day of grace to the partridges)will run little chance of doing any mischief to the standing crops. Samples of oatmeal, the first this season, were shown in Ayr Grain Market on Tuesday, from Mrs. Gird wood, Greenfield, and Mr. M'Creath, Doonbank, which sold at 14s. and 14s. 3d. per boll.—Ayr Advertiser. KELSo,—Since Saturday last we have had as fine harvest weather as could be desired. Previously con siderable apprehensions had been entertained, in conse quence of the continued humidity of the atmosphere, .for the safe getting in of the craps ; but now, we are are happy to say, appearances indicate settled weather —sunshiny days and frosty nights—and harvest operations have commenced in earnest, and with the necessary degree of confidence.--Kelso Mail. A quantity of llimmalaya wheat was cut, on Wed nesday last, as Craignothie, Fifeshire, belonging to Mr. Clelland. The seeds were sown on the 24th April last, being only three months and twenty days from sowing And reaping. MESMERISM. On Monday, the Marquise St. Simon Tecman gave another grand soiree nzesmerique, at her resi dence in Baker-street. The company was very nu merous, and the experiments varied and striking. A paralytic patient (a lady) being apparently thrown into the condition called the mesmeric trance, by the manipulations of Madam Tecman, and being ascer tained to be insensible to every sign and sound, and to every object around or in contact with her, at a motion of the Marquise's hand from the opposide side of the room, rose from her chair without assistance and walked steadily towards the Marqui e, and then followed her about the room, although the patient was manifestly in a state of sleep or unconsciousness more profound than ordinary somnambulism. On being restored to the ordinary state, the lady stated that she was progressively recovering the use of the para. lysed side. The Marquise herself was, in the course of the evening, subjected to- the mesmeric influence, in which state she possesses, or is supposed to possess, the mysterious specialite called " clairvoyance;" and, indeed, the revelations which i she made to those who, last night, consulted her were surprising, and wholly inexplicable by any ascer- tuned laws of nature. To some she described mi nutely the condition of their own health, and the seat, extent, and duration of disease, if any. To others she described the appearance, stature, age, health, and' character of friends at a distance, respecting whom . they put questions to her; and to one gentleman, of whose occupations and connections, friends or ene mies, she could not by possibility know anything, the Marquise (all the. tune in a profound sleep) de tailed occurrences which happened to him in a distant country years ago, named the country, and accurately explained a train of painful sensations to which he is subject; and, to crown the whole, described to him the persons, at a distance, who at the moment occu pied his thoughts. To account for these things, and , much more that were witnessed on this occasion, is impossible, but they seemed to be beyond the suspi-, cion of collusion or deception. BURIAL. IN TOWNS. (From•the Leicester Chronicle.) " And who would lay His body in the city burial-place, To be thrown up again by some rude sexton, And yield its narrow house another tenant, Ere the moist flesh had mingled with the dust, Ere the tenacious hair had left the scalp, Exposed to insult lewd, and wantonness ? No, I will lay me in the village ground ; There are the dead respected."—ll. K.. WHITE. We should neglect the performance of a duty, were we not to continue unceasingly to point out the evils of urban interment, as one of the many causes of public ill health. So much happiness or misery depends upon attention to such matters as those — upon which we are about to treat, that it would be criminal not to enforce it upon the community continually and determinedly. Not only must• a conviction of the great mischief accruing from the practice of burying the dead in the midst of the hying, be created, but that conviction must be repeatedly appealed to, and the feelings of people thoroughly aroused in detestation= thereof. Rich and poor should be alike made to see that their homes are not safe fronr the invasion of pestilential fever—that the bodies of their friends do not lie safe, sacred, and undisturbed in their graves—so long as the shocking custom of town burial continues in existence. There is no valid reason, either, why it should be practised. Early precedent, for one thing, is not to be cited in its favour. We find from Mr. Walker's volume on this subject (the " Gatherings from Graveyards"*), that in the early ages of the Christian Church burial out of the city was an obligation upon all. The bodies of the deceased friends of the Christians were placed in catacombs or cemeteries situated at a distance from hu man habitations. The plan of interment within churches was commenced, it seems, by Constantine, whose example was followed in the case of other Emperors, and of the benefactors of the church. Afterwards, it became still more general; yet, the Christian Emperors always cen sured the custom: Theodosius (A.D. 381) especially for bade it in his code. Early councils also interfered to pre- . vent the practice. It was condemned, too, in an ordi nance of the Archbishop of Toulouse, couched in terms the most forcible and convincing. In 1765 the Parliament of Paris made a decided stand against the system, which had caused almost universal complaints about its noxious effects. Indeed, the French people have all along shown a greater regard for the public health and more respect for the dead than we have, as a nation, despite the charges of irreligion and immorality which are often urged against them. In the city of New York, too,„a Board of' Health reported upon, this subject, in 1806,. and a prohibition of interment within the city was afterwards formally determined upon. The report stated that the practice " ought to be prohibited. A vast mass of decaying animal matter, produced by the superstition of interring dead bodies near the churches, and which has been accumulating for a long lapse of time, is now deposited in many of the most populous parts of the city. It is impossible (pro ceeds the report) that such a quantity of these animal remains, even if placed at the greatest depth of inter ment commonly practised, should continue to be inoffen sive and safe." In the course of his work Mr. Walker has accumulated a mass of evidence to prove the dangerous nature of town burial, against which it would be utterly hopelesa to appeal. It would be as foolish to deny the mischievous effects of the custom as to doubt the life-destroying pro perty of prussic acid. Is the human heart so callous to right feeling that men must wait until their own parents or relations are dragged from their graves, before they will think, act, and speak out on this question ? If only this will satisfy them, let them consult the grave-diggers. They could tell them tales that would " make their blood run cold ;" they could make fearful revelations about the mangled corpses of the friends of many a man who con soles himself that his once-loved parent or child reposes undisturbedly in the grave. But we need not go to the grave-diggers for facts on this subject. We have heard of a parent seeing the mutilated remains of his own child knocked about in the earth, and we have been told by eye-witnesses of persons having been buried near their parents, when the dead bodies of those parents fell out of their coffins, dismembered, into the newly-opened grave : and these things, too, in Leicester churchyards. How often do the vaulted aisles of our churches ring with denunciations of the infidel, the sinner, the sectary, and the Papist; yet, from day to day, and from week to week, the ministers of God's Word are themselves vio lating its most solemn behests, are themselves counte nancing, aye, and profiting by, a practice which shocks all decent feeling, and which wounds the holiest ties of hu manity! Will the inhabitants of this large town remain for ever indifferent upon this question? Are considera tions of public health, morality, and religion so feeble among us, that no movement will ever be made to abo lish the practice? Is there no latent apprehension, either, among us, that whenever another dreadful visi tation, like that of the cholera, sweeps over the face of the country, our utter disregard of sanitary precautions will bring upon us a terrible retribution? THE MOORS. his Grace the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of March, and Lord Templemore, have killed an im mense quantity in Glen Fiddich and Blackwater. Lord 11. Bentinck, one day last week, killed three fine stags, two of them instantly shot right and left. Sir. Richard Sutton, Bart., has terminated a short but successful campaign on the Killin moors, having shot 1,536 head. The party consisted of Sir Richard, his son, and Mr. Heathcote. Great as the number is, they would have bagged much more had the weather permitted. The Balmacaan party—Lord Reidhaven, Mr. Hoare, Mr. Bacon, and Mr. Bainbridge—had a fair day's sport on Saturday, having brought home 71 brace. On the same day, Sir H. Meux and Richard Arabin, Esq., at Dundriggan, came in with 67 brace. At Erchless Castle. Mr. I3oulderson and Dr. Gray bagged 71 brace. Another day Mr. B. shot a couple of stags, right and left shots. At Invereshie, Evans, Esq., and G. Gisborne, Esq., had a fortunate day in the corrics lately. They secured five stags, two of them by one rifle shot. The Redcastle party have also been very successful, having killed two stage, a hind and a roe—the latter by Mr. A. Baillie, being his first shot at deer. Some large stags' heads have arrived here, for preservation, from Mr. Gilian ders, Highfield, J. W. Eyton, Esq., Fasnakyle, and. Mr. Jones, Shiness. For angling, the Ness has im proved from increase of water. The other day, Master W. Fraser, the son of Affleck Fraser, Esq., landed from one pool three salmon, and a trout as large as a grilse, in the course of an hour and a half. A splendid clean-run fish, weighing upwards of 261 h. was taken by the rod in the Arndilly pools, on the Spey last Friday, by J. Ella, Esq. This gentleman is a frequent visitor to the Highlands, and seeks re creation in angling, from his yrofessional duties in her Majesty's Italian Opera Band, of which he is one of the most accomplished performers. Mr. Arabin has caught some fine grilse in the river Ness ; and the net-fishing has greatly improved. On Saturday some salmon were taken, weighing 2716; and Tuesday, se veral were caught from 181 b to 201 b weight. BEAEMAR. — We hear from Braemar the same fa vourable account of the different shootings in that district as is so generally the case in the north this year. The Duke of Leeds at Mar Lodge, Sir Alex. Duff at Coriemnilzie, and Mr. Farquharson at Inver cauld, with their respective parties of friends, are en joying both deer and grouse shooting in the highest perfection. All the Invercauld shootings are occu pied by their former tenants, viz , Mr. Edmunds, and Captain Methold, with Captain Bell, have Gleneala dar ; Colonel Towers, the forest of Caich ; Sir F. Sykes, Corndayon ; Sir Benjamin Hall, and Lord Castlereagh, the Moss of Monaltrie and Gairnshiel ; Sir Frederick Stowin, Deskrie Shiel ; Messrs. Light foot and Boyd, Glennwick ; and Messrs. Barker and Fowler, the Spittal of Glenshee. STOW.—On the 12th there was bagged on these moors, by two young shots, fifteen brace, among which was a woodcock, flushed in the open moor. Had it not rained in the afternoon, they would have made a much better bag, as the birds were sitting tolerably well. So much for preserving these moors. No such bag could have been made a few years ago, these moors having been formerly the rendezvous of all the dog-breakers and poachers in the country, but are now strictly preserved. ABERDEENSIIIRE.—The accounts from the different shooting quarters at the head of st th fa is vo c u o r u a n h ti e , , and ad joining districts are of the most descrip tion, and seldom have we h i e s ar th o e f a e l a l s p e ar t e h ie i s s being seaso s n o . generally delighted as There is rarely any change among the sporting tenants in that district. The Duke of Leeds still con tinues at Mar Lodge. Mr. Alexander Duff, and a numerous party, is at Corriemulzie ; Mr. Edmunds and Captain Methold occupy Glencallader ; Colonel Towers has Catch on the Invercauld West Deer Forest ; Messrs. Barker, T ow l er , an d party, t h e Spit tal shootings ; Sir Benjamin Hall, and Lord Castle reagh and party, Gairnshiel and Moss of Monaltrie; Sir F. Sykes and party, Corndavon; Lord Henry Ben tink, Gienavon and Tomintoul shootings ; Sir George Sitwell, Balmoral; Lord de Tabley and Mr. War burton, Abergeldie ; Messrs. Lightfoot, Boyd, and party, Glenmuick; and Sir Fred.Stovin, Deskrie Shiel. The birds are described as being not only most abun dant, but strong and well-grown. In general the parties seem to have averaged about forty brace a gun the first day. Sir Benjamin Hall has one day since, we believe, bagged - 69 brace ; while another gentle manh of his party shot 40 brace in two hours on the lil called the Brown Cow. Capt. Bell , in t he G:ast sau, bagged 68 brace, 6 white hares , and a a lthough not on the ground till late in the day; of while roebuck, e; Mr. Boyd (a gentleman upwards of seventy age) brought A tis ught dve ho r me er. his 50 brace from G"len-muick.— Ross-shire On Monday evening Sir Andrew Agnew . was thr o wn down by a minib us in Glasgow, b fortunately escaped without sus tainin g any injury. T ut he Hon. Baro net was entirely under the vehicle, and for some time clung by the axle ; but the driver, on the alarm being g iven, stopped, an d he was liberated from his perilous position.—Scolch Paper. We u nderstand that the Right Hon. T. B. Macau lay, Member for the city, arrived in town on Tuesday, and remained for a day or two in Ormond's Hotel. Ile has since gone to the north.—Ediuburgh Paper T HE HERRING FISHING.—We regret that the her ring fishing has utterly failed this year in the Moray Firth, and even at Wick the take has been deficient. To day about sixty persons arrived at Dingwall on their re turn from Burghead and other places, to the West Coast and they are sadly disappointed at the result.—Ross . hire Advertiser. t