The Sun. — London, England, 1845-09-01 00:00:00

COVVI:'S ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, AUG. YAC HT SQUADRON IN TE LLIG ENCE. 19. In the absence of the yachts of the squadron to Plymouth and the Western Ports, the spirit has been kept up b y the Earl of Fitahardinge, that liberal pat ron of aquatics ; Gn Saturday )4st lie gav e a S ilver Cup of fifty guineas va l ue, to be sailed for nori by four yachts—th e St. Alargaret, Jilt, S ea F lower, and Agi a. On Mon After a very spi r i ted contest it was won by the Jilt. the th ree first - ay he g ave another Cup, which was sailed for by he cutters, and the lugger Rachael, belong- TgivitoilLzrdoiblbmemrt, Cunningham. it was won by the Sea Flower, Minutes. Esq., beating the Jilt by two. and-a-half The yachts of the Royal Yacht Squadron are expected back to-morro it is much to be lamented that the squadron does not amount t o double its present numbers, and we have no doubt but it would, but for objection of many to the present Mode of election: it often happens that ten members cannot ?e brought to the Roy ball ot, without al Yacht S oc i ety House in time for th e 'he el) amon great difficul ty , vet should there be one black gst them, wh ose crooked temper should p rompt hi m to thr ow in a black ball, the most honourable and spirited noble ofman in the kingdom might be prevented becoming a member this the club, which, ins tead of numberin onl b, OOO ie . a a ra t h e says th h. highly tlyto count double that number. R umo u r . , firm ... . respected secretary has tendered his resigna '"P hope this is not correct—if it is, it is the most serious ariacirsumsta that has occurred to it for many years. the lle at d Countess of Wilton have left Clift House for yillase;a:hoen ; u C k o e l . and a and d DuchessA I r. Anson n f B a a n a d u f or t family a a dfrothme Gothic nonraerset from Trafalgar House, and No. 1, Castle -terrace. Saturday Lord and Lady Dillon leave Adelaide Villa. On Castl e. Lord F itzhardings leaves the South-parade for Berkeley astle. On Monday S . H. Ho hton leaves bath-buildings. th Z/ 1 11 1 . , HA ItVES:r.-- 'n i ece nver g eould be more splendid wea for th 1 finer yea r s there certainly has been potatoesnoth_innearit th e , e i an ten of 'wheat, barley, and oats.. On 1 the entire an unfortunate blight whi ch . has entirely destroyed the co b r e crop in many places ; .this extends t o other parts of at t i o , 4 o . try . * ects there - Letters from Belgium descr i b e i t as having very W - Ivo ORCESTE R FESTIVAL. festival' - f, 31'XII, FRIDAY. —Last night the final concert of the lowl y c Was given at the College Hall. It was again nume noti atlcl fashionably attended, and amongst these present we Clive d the Hon. General H.RlLygon, M.P., the Hon. R. H. T. Foley, EN 11 . 13 ., the Bishop of Rochester and Lady Sarah Murray, . and the Lady Emily Foley and party, Sir il:e,tlerick Ouseley Bart., and the bulk of the county families, th sid e , a numerous sprinkling of strangers. The first part of Th e coneert consisted of Mendelsshon's " Walpurgis Nicht." Pr' j' neipal Druid was personated by Staudigl, but a great renpart of the commencement was lost to the audience in conse ce of the utimely arrival o f a l arge b ody of fashionables, ho by their no i se evidently annoyed the singer, but who offered an atonement at the end of the piece by demanding an core. C ons i dering the comparatively small practice which , e ,°ald have b een expended on it, this extraordinary cornposi "°4 was given with astonishing accuracy and f orce . T he solo P ar ts were carefully sustained by Staueigl and Mi ss Willi ams, an d the choruses were extrem e l y effe c ti ve. .u ' madame Dulcken afterward s gave the Concert Stuck, by ",..'ber ; much of the effect was lost owing to the size of "e hail. Th e second part of the concert was a miscellaneous 4 °l lection, i n wh i ch we may particularly mention Miss Rain ' or h th,, in th e scene from Der Freischutz, " Before my eyes beeld him," a n d ~ Softly sighs the voice of evening;" Mr. :4 achiu, in ‘, Let the dreadful eng i nes ;" H err Staudigl in N 0 ! wie will iie, triumphiren ;" and Mr. Hobbs, in "All hail at i !tee, brav e W e lli ngton 1 " The finale, of course, was the npnal Anthem, p roduced in magnificent style. This ended the entire festival.We understand th e performances at the present - aggregate of receipts at present amount to nearly 9001., but it is expected that other donations will yet come in, tthereby the receipts for the clergy charity will be above the 9 ve .. r age. In 1836, the amount was 8081. 14s. ; in 1839, thelw. Bs. 2d. ; and in 1842, 1,059/. 163. 2d. It is hoped that ti expenses will very nearly be covered by the sale of Leekes, which has not been the case of late years, a very avY deioi'the This • 11,, _ e i enc }usually falling on stewards. year, si ,T,',. ver, the number of stewards being increased, the region -6 uu ltY will be lessened and, moreover, a guarantee fund of t)(4. has,been raised. ' , ,There will he a grand ball to-night (Friday), at the Guild- I t aw h closes the whole proceedings. ~ is hoped that te suess of this festival under its improved ''golations will institution ot the Clergy, litidows, and Ornh ' place . the . to th e • ans Charity on a firm and -stable footing with , regard e support to be derived from these gatherings. v A Irian named Tiller was on Friday eon eictt , d at hliddlesex Sessions of an a-sault upon a brUer-, who was 'gen:lining to levy a distress. He was sentenced he iropri -1913ed for one month, and to find sureties to keep . e he peace for 'ix months. ----- .....05awr"*....- s ..........--........ .--- NAVAL INTELLIGE7',7CE kIiTURNS CALLED FOR By LORD iNbESTRE AND sIR CHARLES NAIER - The returns called for by Lord lneestre P . and • Sir Charles Napier, of various particulars cooneeted with the construction, Jtomparative expense. . and capacity of various ships of war, have ust been promulgated ; but are, strange in say, authenticated by the name of any pe.iiic efficer vi hatever. wholly un- Excepting, therefore, that they Contain misstatements of the most flagrant description, intended to account for and excuse the gross blunders and jobbing of the Navy Office-, ice should have been at a loss to conceive with what department they could have originated. It will, however, be seen that whilst they e normously understate th e exp ,i nSe of the surveyor's !ships, and of their repair, they as grossly exaggerate the cost of the ships of other constructors. We believe we may safely effirm that details more deliberately intended to mislead than these returns have never issued from any department of the public service. Not only are the expenses of the construction and repair of the ships of the Surveyor of the Navy very in correctly stated, but remarks are introduced, designed to sle et:cm for the immense sums which have been squandered upon them, which are far more applicable to the cases ofrival ships which have been produced at an infinitely smaller cost, although the price of materials and labour when they were built was 40 per cent. more than they are now. As, however we propose to examine these returns s eriatim hereafter, we shall content ourselves for the present with pointing out the following sample of the dis honesty of the details of which they are composed. Among the many fine vessels of war which have been broken up at the peahen of Si r W illiam Symonds because they were —lik e the Barham — formidable rivals to his own productions, may be mentioned the Tremendous. This ship was surveyed in 18.4 3, when the expense of repairing her was estimated at 31,9871 , and but for the interference of Sir George Coekburn, Navi n bevould actually have been broken up. A new survey of her "ig been ordered, however, it was estimated that, at the cost bi `20,000/., she might be converted into a fifty-gun frigate, but at a co st of half that sum she has been rendered one of the finest ships of that elan in the service. It is to be hoped that the Admiralty will institute a rigid inquiry into the statements of which these returns are composed, and put a stop to the further concoction of such replies to the inquiries of the House of Commons. THE "BLOCK" &rtes. —Our daily contemporaries, misled by a paragraph in an obscure weekly newspaper, h ave an nounced that it is the intention of the Admiralty to convert isixteen line-of -battle ships, and ten frigates, into what they labsurdly denominate " block ships , " and on e morn i ng j ournal tesseri goes st. f ar as to take credit for having a d v i se d t h e B oar d to that which they decided u ion doing, so soon as the failure of the experiment in the PenelOpe had bean fully ascertained, and the " advanced ships" had be en completed. 'rhe Admiralty, at this however, have not y e t d e fi ned their plan, and it is premature moment to say anything on the subject. But this mach Inay be stated : the Admiralty have solicited from several engineer ing firms particulars respecting machinery, such as weight of engines, the space they will occupy, and the power requisite te propel a line-of-battle ship, and also a frigate, with given armaments and a prescribed quantity of stores on board, at a certain speed. On being furnished with those data, it is most probable their On will select, perhaps, six old line-of attle ships and half a doz en f r i gates as port guard ships, and sillil then c a ll for tender s f or the screw machinery for them. T e port guard ships when finished will be jury rigged, heavily aimed, and will thoenneharveeucooamplements of o-ffic ers-ind men as : signed to them. purpose is, that they can be fittedior ctou averting aae- foa r o t l h d l ships ess t time teo than t this st will take to build new shi' to some useful purpose. We s, an 1 they will be applying them beyond asking the ii f a itist.uc'tedrrabelieve the only other teep taken tion of the engineers is merely that of having the. Surveyor of the Navy to propose ane of the staalles.t class line -of-battle ship s and one of the tecond or third class frigates for each port.—Hera/d. Gordon,Admiral Sir George Cockburn, Captain the Hon. William G and the Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Secretary, have returned to the Admiralty, from their annual visit of insp ection to Petnbroke Dockyard. THE RETIREMENT.— The list of captains who their d es i re to accept of the proposed retirement now amounts have n o tifi e d to about 140 , i ncluding four holdinoo eight Comp an i ons of the Bath, g gd-servi ce pensions and THE CoSIMAND -IN- CHIEF AT PORTSMOUTH,— There is bo longer any doubt that the declining health of the Gallant and much -respected Admiral, Sir Charles Rowley, Bart-, will 2_eca,ion his speedy retirement from the command-in-ehief at Portsmouth; and it is very probable that Admiral of the blue Sir Charles Ogle Bart., will be appointed to succeed Sir ' Charles Rowley in the course of next month. The latter Gal lant Officer is at present residing at Brighton. He was ap poisited to the Portsmouth command in December, 1642. It is generally believed that Captain Sir Richard Grant will be the flag captain, and that the present respected Secretary, Richard Haigh, Esq., will continue in that office on the appointment of the new port admiral. • TIIE NEW IRON STEAM•SLOOP MEGISRA.....The contract for building the Megrera first class steam-slonp, of 1,297 tOns, to have engines of 56 -horse power, and to be propelled by the screw, Ly Messrs. Fairburn and Son, of Miilwall, has been completed, and the vessel is to be built with the greatest dispatch. THE PEGASUS IRON STE AM•sLOOP.—Mes.,rs. Scott and Sinclair's contract for building the Pegasus, second elas.s steam sloop, to be propelled by the scre w , o f 1 , 2 80 tons, to have en gines of 561,;.h0r5e power, has been signed. paostrertosts AND APPoINT3IENTS. THE HEROINE CoMMlsSlONED.—Commander Charles Ed monds (1841), has been appointed to command the Heroine, 6, brig, refitted at Devonport, for further service on the coast of w A lieutenant o f t firs t enant the Curacoa. twelve peers, and was promoted Commander Joseph Martin Mottley (1843), was ye s t er d ay appointed t o th e Pres i dent, 50, flag-ship of Rear Admiral 'Acres. Lieutenant Francis Philip Egerton (1836), first of the Agin court, 72, was appointed by Rear-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane, the Commander-in-Chief of China and the East Indies, to the command of the Hazard, 18, sloop, vacant by the death of Commander Bell. The Admiralty have promoted Lieutenant Egerton to the rank of commander, and have confirmed his +appointment. The gallant commander of the Hazard, David Robertson, who, as First Lieutenant, assumed the command of the Hazard, but since promoted for his conduct in the affair at New Zealand, will be invalided. Lieutenant s F. Marten (1844), to the President ; Macleod Coekraft (1844), to the Excellent • ; W. H. Haswell, on pro %notion, to th e Vernon. Master James T. Russell (1837), to the President. Suergeon William H. B. Jones, M.D. (1837), to the President. 14 . John Edwards, surgeon, of 1809, of the William and Mary yacht, has been placed on the retired list, creating a vacancy in that vessel. Chaplain and Naval Inaosttructor, the Rev. Arthur Browne ( 1 841), to the Crocodile y et joined). Paymaster and Willi am Purser( Benge Basden (1805), from tlae packet service at Dover, to the President. Mates S. H. Henders on and T. B. Hannarn, to the Excel lent; W. 11. Connoll , r . o , rn the Comet. Second Master W. Y C. t ayne, to the President. Assistant Surgeons, James Rae (b 1841), to the Meteor ; 3 ' l ' W. Rob erts - 1 835), and John Cockin (1841), to the Pre sident. - Naval Cadets C. Montagu and T. Bishop, t o th e P res id ent. . Master'Assistants s tent, Bishop, and Willi amson , to t h e P rest- Carpenter James Pink, from the Victory to the Excellent. , and Lieute nants John M. D. Smith, first of the Penelop e steam frirrgaivte, a Augustus C. M ay , fi rst of the L arne sloop, have Ale home invalided f rom the coast of Africa. r. Peter Cullen, surgeon of 1793, on the retired list, died St Sheerness on the 23d instant, aged 76. Mr. Cullen had a pension of 801. per atavism as retired surgeon of convicts. IIF St; N, LON DON, RAILWAY RE TUR NS. RAILWAY TAAFFIC.—The following are the Total ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the respective returns are made, together with the re week in the previous year Receipts of Ral date to which the ceipts of the same 1 Week ending 11656 28s p Aug. 23 23 25% 23 11% 24 I 24 - 1 23 - 1 23 - 1 24 - I 23 - I 24 - I 23 - I 24 --- I 22 23 - I 23 3 N I .. 24 - I 25 - I 25 - I 23 -- 1 23 23 - I 23 22 5 % 23 8 % prem.—South Wales, 6 —Eastern Counties, 20V —Exeter and Crediton, 8 , 4 . There has been a heavy business both in North Devon and Yeovil shares. HULL, Atm. 29, St . Oit. atid Sutilet , 1. 1 1 1.70. 2,12;. 641.—Hu1l and Selby, Half Shares, 23 ; London and Croydon, New, 11. 15s.—York and North Midland Extension, 24 1 -Caledonian Extension, ._. 3'4—Great GrimsbY and Sheffield, 22—Ditto, Quarter t Shares, s%—Leeds and Thirsk, 171,.# —North British, 31 3 / 4 —Oxford ) Worcester, a n d Wol ver ha mp to n , 8-.-.Armagh, 1 IColeraine, and Portrti s h, 2 / B —East Lineollishire, 405.--Goole ) 4: Doncaster, Sheffield, ac., 3%--Grand Union, g-ts.- - Great Eastern and 'Western, 3s.—Leicester and 13cdford, Leicester and Birmingham, 26s.—London and Birmingham Extension, 21s,—Lundon and York, 7—Manchester, Buxton, and , Matlock, 9 —Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 6 Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, 21, M.—Nottingham, Erewash, &c.,21. lus.- , —Nottingliatti and Boston, 30s. 6d.- 3% Nottingham and Mansfield, 29s.—North Western, 5 1 /, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 7 1 ; ,/ 2 —Shrewsbury and Trent Union, 498—Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North Wales, 431--Tean and Dove Valley, 29 8 —Trent Valley Continua tion, 2 1 ,—Wakefield and Bradford, 85s.—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 18s. YORK, AUG. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Eastern Union Exten • - sion, 3%-Great North of England, New, 55-London and Croydon, New, 1 3 4 prem. -Midland, New, 25-North Bi tisb, New, 9%-York and North Midland Extension, 23 3 / 4 -Grand Union, 2%-Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, - Quarter Shares, 5 3 / 4 -Leicester and Bedford, 4%-London - and York, 7-Manchester, Buxton, &c., 8/. 3s. 6d.-New castle and Berwick, 24 3 4-North Western, 54-Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 8-South Midland, 8 3 %-Welsh Midland, 4. SHEFFIELD, AVG. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales art-Eastern Counties, - 20-London and Croydon, New, IL 15s• 6d.-Manchester - and Birmingham, Q uar t er Shares, IVA-South-Eastern, No. -2, New Creation, 141 2 -Caledonian Extension, 3%-Goole and Doncaster, 31/ 2 -Grimsby and Sheffield, 23-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 5% -Grimsby Railway and Dock Extension, •- 11-Grand Union (Nottingham to Lynn), 34-Huddersfield - and Manchester, 15%-London and York (Bawtry Branch); 64-North Western, 5-Newark and Sheffield, 4%- 7 Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 7%-South Midland, 738 prein. -Welsh Midland, 37 8 . EDINBURGH, AUG. 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 3/. 38.- - Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 21. Its. 6d.-Arbroath and For - far, 251.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151.-Armagh and Portrush,2/. = -Banffshire, 2L Is. 6d.-British and Irish Union, 3/. is.- _ Belfast and County Down, 3/. 155.-Ca m b r id ge and Lincoln, -3/. 10s.-Caledonian, 10/. 10s.-Caledonian Extension, 21. - 18s.-Caledonian and Dumba r t on , 31. 17 s . 6d . -Clydesdale - Junction, 91.-Direct No r th ern , 24 4s. 6d.-Dundee and alb Arbroath, 37/. Is. 6d.-Ditto, N ew , 18/. - D un d ee and _ 3 Perth, 41. 125.-Edi n b ur gh an d B a th gate , 21 . B s. 6d.-Edin -3% burgh and Glasgow, 901.-Ditto, Quarters, 211. 155.-Ditto, 2!,6 New, 14/, 17s. 6d.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, - 11. 11s. 6d.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 261.-Ditto, Preference, 17/. 10 8 .-Edinb urg h and Northern, 1/. 19s. 6d. -Ditto, New, 1/. 55.-Edinburgh and Peebles, 2/. 15s. 6d. - Edinburgh and Perth, 1/. its. - Glasgow and Ayr _ shire, 711.-Ditto, New Stock, 22/. - Glasgow and Belfast - Union, 41. - Glasgow and Garnkirk, 41/. - Glasgow - Dumfries, and C ar li s l e , 11. 95.-Glasgow and Greeno c k, 21/: - -Ditto, New Stock, 10/. 5 5 . -Ditt o , P re f erence , 2/ . -G rear - _ North of Scotland, 3/. - I nverness an d El g i n, 1/. 2a. - _. Kilmarnock and Ardrossan, 5/. 155.-London and York, Si. - 108. -Monkland and Kirkintilloch, 33/.-Morayshire, 1/.-. - North British, ex one-fifth, 29/.-Ditto, Halves, 9/. - . Ditto, One-fifth, 71. 155.-North Wales Mineral, New, 6/ 5s -Perth and-Inverness, 2L 25.-Scottish Central, 71. 155,- : Scottish Midland, 2/. 4s.- Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and - Chester, 41. ss. -Shrewsbury and HerefOrd, 1/. 12s. 6d.- - Slamannan, 18/.-South Midland, 9:.-Stirling and Dun - fermline, IL 155.-Tean and Dove Valley, 2/. 135.-Water ford, Wicklow, and Dublin, 1/. 165..-Wishaw and Coltness, 39/. RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES IN THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND: 4 . ti NAMtS 6r itAILW 43 4 1!): A.tig Aug: lAlig. A 29. 29. 29: 3% 336 - - Aberdeen • Airdrie and Coatbridge Arbroath and Forfar .. Ditto Half Shares Armagh, Col r.; Portrush 8r.....11bit and Bantry... • Belfast and Ballymena •• Belfast and County Down Birknhd,Lan.&Ches.dnc. Birmingham and Glo'ster Do. Netv (its. at 7% dis.) Ditto Half Shares Birminghm &Oxfrd.Junc. 5 Blckburn, and Preston.. Blekburn, Danvb,& Bolin Bolton, Wigan, & Liverpl. Boston, Stamfrd and firm Brighton, Lewes, & Haat. Bristol and Exeter • • • • 93 Ditto New ...... .• • 12 Bristol and Gloucester .. Bristol and S. Wales June. British and Irish Union.. Caledon. and Ayrsh. June Caledon. &Dumbar. June Caled Man Ditto Extension • Cambridge and Lincoln.. Chester and Birkenhead. Ditto New Shares • • Ditto Half Shares Chester and H Iyhead 21% Chtiltoiliam and Oxfotd . 3% 2%! Chichester and Brighton.. Churnet Valley Clitheroe Junction ...... Clydesdale Junction • . -- Cork, Blackrck & Passage Cork and Bandon Cork and Killarney ..... Cork and Waterford . • Cork and Youghal • Canterbury and Dover... 2% Coventry and Leicester.. 2% Cornwall . .. •••• • • Derby and Crewe . • • 5 Direct Lon. and Manchstr Diss, Beccles, & Yarmoth Direct Northern .... .. • . 2% 2341 2y2 Direct Norwich Dublin and Belfast June. Dublin, Belfast, & Coln e Dublin and Drogheda.... Dublin and Galway . • • • • Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath ... Ditto New Dundee and Per h Durham and Sunderland East Lancashire (No. 1) Ditto (No. 2) ..... Eastern Counties . Do. Perp.s pr Ct., No 1 Do. do. No. 2 East Dereham & Norwich East Union ... • • • • • Ditto Extension Edinbgh, Glas., and Dum Edinburgh and Glasgow. Do. Quarter Shares Do. New Quarter Shares 14%1 Edin b. Leith, and Grant. n -- Do. Pref. 5 per Cent • . Edinburgh and Northern Edinburgh and Peebles • . Edinburgh and Perth .• Ely and Huntingdon • • .. Enniskillen and 51ig0.... I Exeter, Yeovil, & Drehstr Pltwood, Prstn, & W. Rid. Gartikirk and Glasgow .. Glasgow and Ayr. Do. Quarter Shares.... Glasgow and Greenock 1514 15,4 - 30%1 28 2186 d 12% - 12%1 - 3% 3% I - 3% 3% 3% - 3%i 4 -2% 4% - I _- 8%1- 4% - - I - 20M 20% - NP - - .I 304 - 3 14 1 _ 4 _ Ditto New. .• Ditto Preference • •• Dmfries, and Car. Kilntarnck, & Ard. Glasgow and Belfast Un. Goole and Doncaster Grand Juneton ......... Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarter Shares .. - Ditto New Quarters .. Ditto Eighths .. Grand Union .•• • • . •• • • 3 Great Eastern & Western tit Grimsby &Dk Extens. Gt Grimsby and Sheffield Gt Sthrn & Wstrn (hind) 25% -- Ditto Extension • . 11% Great Monster.. • • Gt Northern of Scotland on Northern of England Do. New 401. Shares •• Do. New 301. Shares .. Great Western • • Ditto Half Shares ...• Ditto Fifths Gnilfrd, Farehm, & Ports. Htuirsfid & Man. It. &Canl Huddersfield and Sheffield Hull and Gainsborough • • Hull and Selby . • Ditto Quarter Shares • • Ditto Half Shares •• • • 23 Inverness and Elgin ••• Isle of Jersey ••••• • . . • • Kendal and Windermere Kingstown and Bray Killarney Junctions Lancaster and Cat lisle .. Lancaster and Preston .. Leeds and Bradford Ditto Extension .. Leeds and Dewsbury.... 394 40 Leeds and Thirsk • • 174 18 Leeds &W. Riding June. 16% 164 Leicester & Birmingham —3% 2% Leicester and Bedford ••• 3% p 44 4% Limerick and Waterford - Limrek, Ennis, & Kit. Jnc. Lincoln, York, and Leeds Liv. Man. &GtN. of Eng. 41 Liverpool and Manchester Ditto Half Shares .... Ditto Quarter Shares.. Liverpl, Ormskrk, & Prstn London and Birmingham 225 Ditto Thirds .... .• Ditto Quarters •••• • • • 28 London and Blackwall • • 10% - Lon.&Mart.(Remington's) 1 p 3 % London and Brighton • 78 Ditto Consolid. Eighths London and Croydon • ... 263 47s Ditto New . ••••• • • • I%p Do. Guarant. 5 per Cnt. London and Greenwich Do. Pref. or Privilege • • London and South Westrn 78% Do. New Cons. Eighths Do. New, 501 Shares.. 154 Do. New, 401. Sh ares .. _ London and York 74 7% 7% Ditto (Bawtry) •• _ London and Windsor.... Londn, Salsbury, & Yeovl Londonderry & Coleraine Londonderry& Enniskilln Lynn and Ely •• . •• • Lynn and Dereham • • 4% 5 % 5 Manchester and Leeds • • 219 2124 Ditto Half Shares . -- Ditto Quarter Shares.. 394 39% Ditto Sixteenths ••• • • • Manchstr and Birkenhead Manchester & Birminghm 72 73 74 Ditto Quarter Shares • • 13% 13% 1334 Ditto New Quarters . 124 10% 10 % Do. Con. & Welsh June. 3 3 Manchestr, Boltn, & Bury -- Mnchstr, Buxtn, &Matlk 7 3 4 p 9 Man. Shet and Mid. June. 6 • Manchestr & Southainptn Midland.... •••••• • • • • • 174 1 7 5 Ditto Fifths • Ditto New .•• • • ••• • • 26% Do. Con. Birm. & Derby 132% Midlnd Gt Westrn (Irish) 314 Do. Extension to Sligo . Nereciati & Daringtn June. 57 Da. New (Brandling) • • 42 Newcastle and Berwick • • 25% Newcastle and Carlisle • • N wcstle, Durham, & Lan. Newport & Abergavenny Newry and Enniskillen • • 2% Newark and Sheffield .•• 44 North British ••••• • • • • • 29 Ditto New Shares •••• 8% Northern and Eastern 74 Do. Scrip (iss. at 5 dia.) I Do. Quarter Shares North Devon North Kent .. •• . North Staffordshire North Eastern.. ...... North Union (A). . • • Ditto (B) • • • • • • • • North Wales Mineral.... Ditto New Shares • • • • North Western •• • ..... North Wales • . • • • Norwich and Brandon • • Ditto New.. Not., Belvoir, & Granthm Nottingham and Boston • • Nott., Er vrsh. Val. & Man. Nottingham & Mansfield 3 Oxford and Birming. June —5% Oxford and Worcester 8% 9% Oxford and Cambridge — Perth and Inverness • — Portsmouth Direct •• • • 64 Preston and Wyre • • 41 Ditto Half Shares .• • Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar Do. Pref. S per Ct. & div. Preston Wyre Extens. 27i !G6s3di 1 I 1 % 4 b% 4% 1245 -3%1 3NI - 2i - - 9 - 20% 224 % , -- 177 2% 113 I -18 13 117;4I -- ..._ ___ • 11075 - 77t1 - iii := 218 I NIT - - - - Oil 4%, 1 ..._ 18j - 4 1 4% Odi 4% 6 6 - -• 2% 3 - - 190 181 i - 1 -- 5 5%! _ - 3%1- yhj - - 3N 2% 3% 41 _ s!,il.,_ 32s p 3 PI .. , : 3 e A i , 1 , , • Aug.l Aug,l 29. 128. 1- Odi —58 s —74 s 12% 11 57s 3%1- 5% - - I - 2 1 g I -- 15856d12956d 30s p 1 145 2254 !33s p 165 s p 7% - - 1 - r 3 3 2; p -- 12166 - by, - [Bs6p 12% li % 59s 26% - 1 -- 61,& - 1 - - .! , i I I-- -, ,41:. - Richmond &W. End June 7% Rugby, Worcestr, & Tring Scottish Central -- .. Scottish Midland Sheffield and Manchester Ditto Quarter Shares.. Ditto ditto (No. 2) .. Ditto ditto (No. 3). • Sheffield and Lincoln.... Sheffield and Rotherham Shrewsbry & Grand June. —81 j Shrewsb.. Wor., & Crewe 4% 5 4 I Shrws.,Wolv.,Dudl,&Bir 6 8 7% Shrwf,":iry & Trnt Val. Mi. 3% 47e 4%1 Shrws, Ilerefd,&N. Wales 434 5% Slamannan South Devon .••••• • • • • • 36 South Midland • • 73( 17859 8% South Eastern and Dover 46% 48 Do. Nert (Iss. 320 No. 1 Do. (155.33/Ss.Bd.)., 2 14% 16% Do. (iss. 301.) „3 8 8% 8% Staines and Richmond .• • 3% Staffordshire&Shropshire Stirling and Dunfermline 183 17 3 ,4 16% - 7 14 7AI oil igi South Wales.... - Tean and Dove Valley "'lent Valley ... • Do. and Holz head Juno. Vale 01 Neath • • • • • - West London, Old Shares West End & Sothrn Coun. Wexford tv.d Carlow .... Warwick and Cheltenham Waterford and Kilkenny Watrtil,Wxfd,Wiek &Dab 2 Wakefield and Bradford .. Wakild, Pontefrct, & Gool Wakefield and Harrogate Warwick and London . West Lancashire Worcester and Tring.... Whitehaven and Furness Do. New Half Shares.. Welsh Midland • • • • • • • • • • We,t Cornwall. • • • • • • • • • West Yorkshire • • • • Wilson AY n, M. & Coltness Wilts, :;•onirst, & Weymth 4% Yariaiouth and Norwich.. :: I -19 2il - : - 3!il - 595 4% 1 _.:l 5% ___ 4 3x1 3%1 4%1 Ditto New . ..... York and Carlisle York and North Midland Ditto Half Shares Ditto Searbro' Branch Ditto Selby .......... Ditto Extension ...... Yorkshire It Glasgow (Tn. 16%1 16%1 - - - - 5 1 5 4'; 1 1 - - 24141 31"1 7 4P, 9NH 18 - Is6d 241 30s pi EXETER, Au&. 29. STOCK EKCIIANGE.—The sales are—Zsibrth Devon, 2 1 ,E prem.—south Devon, 35 1 ?—.Ezetor, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 42%1 - NAME OF RAILWAY. Arbroath and Forfar ..• Bristol and Birmingham Chester and Birkenhead I Dublin and Drogheda— • • • • • • • • • . Dublin and Kingstown .. • Dundee and Arbroath .•• • • • ••• •• •• Durham and Sunderland Edinburgh and Giasgow . •• • •• Eastern Counties and North Eastern. . Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • ..... Glasgow and Greenock— ....... Grand Junction • • • • ....... Gravesend and R0che5ter............ Great North of England Great Western .. • • • • .• • ..... Hull and Selby • Liverpool and Manchester • • • • London and Birmingham . London and Blackwall• • • • • • •• London and ...... London and Croydon. • • • • • ... London and Greenwich London and South Western. ..... Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Manchester and Bamingham— Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc Midland Counties Newcastle and Darlington Newcastle and Carlisle • Newcastle and North Shields North Union and Bolton and Preston Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans Paris and Rouen Preston and Wyre.. • ............... Sheffield and Manchester.. • South Ea5tern......... ..... ........ Taff Vale ... • Ulster . Yarmouth and Norwich York and North Midland Last week. 770 1,006 1,124 467 3,098 5,189 2,470 1,630 18,806 18,169 21,024 1,392 6,463 1,720 8,522 980 5,463 7,777 17,944 2,855 1,816 516 2,017 6,646 7,210 1,212 1,641 8,823 1,200 1,330 6,558 639 755 1,173 711 2,666 4,503 2,013 1,487 9,698 2,506 18,171 1,747 6,218 19,099 1,457 6,061 6,652 $92 3,331 BRIGHTON AND CHICHESTER RAILWAY. A general Half-yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of this Company was held yesterday at one o'clock, at the London- bridge station. Mr. Hotham, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, presided on the occasion. The SECRETARY, having read the advertisement con vening the meeting, and the seal of the Company being affixed to the register of Proprietors in the usual way, the report, of which the following is an abstract, was read : It set forth that the Worthing branch would be com pleted by the Ist of October ensuing, and the line com pleted to Chichester by about February, 1846. The Directors expected also to carry out, ere long, th e ex tension of the line to Portsmouth, It was considered the arrangement come to at the meeting of the sth of August, to transfer the line to the London and Brighton Company, would be completed by the 12th of September at the outside, when the purchase-money would be ready. The CUAIRISIA.N said, after the report which had been submitted it would not be necessary to make many observations, He might inform them that at the pre sent time there was only 150/. due upon calls. On the 30th of June there was an unpaid balance on calls of 7,320/. ; but since then it had been re• duced to the small sum he had stated. The arrange ment come to with the Brighton Company, he had little doubt, would prove satisfactory to the Proprietors. He was glad to say that the terms named for the trans f:•r of the line at the previous meeting had been met by the Brighton Company in the most satisfactory manner, and he had no doubt they would be able to complete the purchase by the 12th September. He could not name the exact day then, but considered it would be on the day he had named. Circulars however, would be issued apprising the proprietors of the fact. The Honourable Chairman concluded by moving the adoption of the report, which being seconded, was put and agreed to. Atter a vote of thanks to the Chairman and Board of Directors, the meeting adjourned. THAMES HAI 7 .Eoi DOCK AND RAILWAY COMPANY. The Proprietors of this Company were advertised to have met yesterday, but, as there were not so many pre _ sent as the Act of Parliament required, the meeting at once adjourned. SOUTH WARK ELECTION. (From the Birmingham Pilot of Saturday. ) [We know not upon what ground the Pilot makes the fol lowing announc. • ment, but as the Pilot is a recognised organ of the Complete Suffrage and Anti-State Church party, we consider it as made not without authority.—En. Sun.] " WITHDRAWAL OF THE LIBERAL CANDIDATES IN CA vouß OF MR. 1). W. HARVEY.—We are gratified to learn that Sir Wm. Molesworth and Mr. Edward Miall are both to withdraw from the contest for the representation of the borough of Southwark, on the assumption that Mr. D. W. Harvey, who has consented to stand, unites in himself the great principles of civil and religious freedom, around which the real Liberal and independent feeling of the borough will rally. Mr. Harvey, in thus coming forward, gives a first place to the question of the Suffrage ; and thus realises the anticipations we indulged in last week, when we said, ' If the electors of the borough of Southwark are true to themselves, and have the interests of the constituency sincerely at heart, they will make the question of the Suffrage the single ground on which the contest for the representation will succeed. On this ground only can a tri umphant victory be gained—or a defeat profitably sustained.' " MEDICAL AND LEGAL COMMIS- SIONE RS. TO THI7, EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir.,—When the Lunacy Bill was in progress through Parliament, it was distinctly stated by the Government that the Medical and Legal Commissioners would not be allowed any other avocation ; consequently the Times journal recently adverted to the vacant appointment of medical examiner to the East India Company, occa sioned by Dr. Hume's nomination to a commissionership in lunacy. It is understood that he has made no signifi cation to the Court of Directors, and that he has refused the Government appointment. In the absence of all specific information, and no new appointment having been made_ by the Lord Chancellor or the E a st India Company, I beg the favour of your informing the public to th. state o: the case, it being; el-ar that Dr. llume cann , t hold both conA , t.-ntl v with tlie declarations of the Ministers.—Your obc dig nt servant, M. [We have, it not in our power to afford our cor• respondent the itif , rmation he requires, but possibly the publication of his letter may elicit some declaration on the subject from the parties concerned.—En. Sun.] ROMAN REMAINS IN LINCOLN. --In High-street several Roman remains have been disinterred; and amongst the rest. some bases of pillars, and two beautiful cqins of the Emperor Antoninus Pius and Domitian. On Wednesday afternoon the workmen discovered souse huge worked stones at about four yards from the present surface ; those have evidently been plinths to pillars supporting a Roman build ing ; on one is an inscription, which, as well as it could be traced, consists of the following letters : vic. HaVYO MERCVRES tvasi. :Yost probably this is incomplete, as in all likelihood it was continued along the fellow-plinth. All the earth above the level at which the stones were discovered is made ground.— Stanford Mercury. ACCIDENT FROM WINDOW CLEANING.—On Thurs. day morning, about nine o'clock, as Mary Howard, servant to Mrs. M'Eviley, residing in the Waterloo-road, was cleaning the first-floor windows, she missed her hold of the sash and fell into the area below, from a height of nearly thirty feet. flee right leg and her arm were fractured, and bet spine was everely injured, She is considered in very great danger. 6 N D...:1 t ..Ad e ; "'", MAGAZINE bAlr. 8L.4 CK W 0 OD'S MAGAZINE. The decline and fall of party rancour are the most re , F.rkable symptoms of the present time, and in no puh iicatioris grit 01 , 5:44 griapfern, ifititti eittrYlrts i t than in the monthly periodicals, d evo t e d or i g i na lly to literettire anti amusing tales, but up to the accession of the Peel Minis try, generally ending with a violent dissertation on the polities of one party or another in the State. Since Peel's reign commenced, the writers have found it a most difficult task to put the political engine in motion. They could fidt get tip the stettrn for want of fuel, and latterly, so scanty has been the supply, one party article in the course of three months has been reckoned ti fair average for the market. Even that amount, North, with all his strung Tory principles, could not furnish. Others have been more productive, but perhaps to less purpose, for what with a wish to blame, or to praise, the conduct of the Afinist-r, and a want of power to discern the eh. jeets of his policy, they have not unfrequently been com pelled to tiesay in one article the arguments which they had put forth with much gravity and assurance in another. These are the natural results of the present state of parties. Peel has confounded Whigs and Tories. His old friends occasionally write against him, but they write without hope. They have no other idol to substi tute in his plate, a sort of interregnum exists, and they trust to the chapter of accidents for a new leader, and a better state of things. The Whigs, the Liberals, and the moderate Conservatives, and all the other sections, if we except the thorough-going Radical, have no reason to find fault. The two first, in fact, can only complain that they are not allowed to work, for they cannot say that their work is not done. They have been shoved from their plaa a by their skilful adversaries who have taken up their trade, and now carry on the firm, as Jonathan would say, under a new name, but with more enterprise, and a great deal more capital. These rea sons sufficiently expl a i n the a bs e nce of those angry dis cussions which were formerly appended to the literary dissertations in the Magazines. Blackwood has, how ever, contrived to infuse a little Tory policy into the present number by reverting to events now neatly half a century old. He has gone back to the time of Pitt and the French Consulate, and the partition of Poland. " Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman," has for months been rather a heavy and prosy production, but it has been imbued with fresh vigour by the astonishing events which it de: tribes, and we are glad to find owes that vigour, not so much to the violence of Tory prepos sessions, or to selfish attacks on the policy of the Whigs during the long reign of Church anti State principles, as to a generous and . :catholic spirit in the cause of freedom, and a sincere regret that the man of the age sacrificed Poland, and threw away countless blessings which he ;night have conferred on mankind, to gratify his boundless and wicked ambition. The following extract will bear out our remarks : " The partition of Poland was the most comprehensive and audacious crime of the modern world. It was a deliberate in sult, at once to the laws of nations and to the majesty of the great Disposer of nations. And never fell vengeance more immediate, more distinct, or more characteristic. The capital of Austria twice entered over the bodies of its gallant sol diery ; Russia ravaged and Moscow burnt ; the Prussian army extinguished by the massacre of Jena, and Prussia in a day fettered for years—were the summary and solemn retribution of Heaven. But, when the penalty was paid, the fate of the executioner instantly followed. Guilt had punished guilt, and justice was to be alike done upon all. Napoleon and his em pire vanished, as the powder vanishes that explodes the mine. The ground was broken up; the structures of royalty on its surface were deeply fractured; the havoc was complete; but the fiery deposit which had effected the havoc was itself scat tered into air. " His re-establishment of Poland would have been an act of grandeur. It would have established a new character for the whole Revolution. It would have shown that the new spirit which had gone forth summoning the world to regenera tion, was itself regeneration ; that it was not a tempter, but a restorer; that all conquest was not selfish, and all protestation not meant to deceive. If Napoleon had given Poland a diadem, and placed it on the brow of Kosciusko, he would, in that act, have placed on his own a diadem which no chance of the field could have plucked away; an imperishable and &titling answer to all the calumnies of his age, and all the doubts of posterity. He might even have built, in the re storation of the fallen kingdom, a citadel for his own security in all the casualties of empire; but, in all events, he would have fixed in the political heave n a star which, to the last re collection of mankind, would have thrown light on his sepul chre, anti borne his name." In the same article is a brief allusion to the death of Pitt, in which we heartily concur. "It was said," says the writer, " that Pitt died of a broken heart, in despair of the prospects of England. The defeat of Austerlitz was pronounced his death blow. What thoughts may cluster roand the pillow who shall tell ? But no man knew England better—none had a bolder faith in her perseverance and principle —none had more broadly laid the foundations of victory in national honour. I shall never be driven into the belief that William Pitt des paired of his country." Yes—who can tell what thoughts may cluster round the sleepless pillow ? Dis ease of body produces awful changes in the mind. The hand of death unnerves the strongest spirit, yet there are men of the present day, vainly calling themselves British historians, who attribute the words " 0 my country" (we believe they were never uttered), to the convictions of a ration a l mind, and, with a want of na tional spirit, rendered only more disgraceful by repeat ing the reveries of the dying, encourage the French in their vain-glorious boastings, that Bonaparte had not only killed Pitt, but subdued the spirit of his country men. Pitt never despaired of England. North still continues his " Specimens of the British Critics," and in the present series has enliivened them a little by a viru lent attack on the poet Churchill, the friend of Wilkes. Had it been less coarse, it would have been m ore etfec five. His character is thus summed up :—" He left his profession, the Church ; and he exchanged his wife, af ter many years' cohabitation, for a mistress ; two para mount desecrations unhappily met. And the trumpet call to the war-field of patriotism sings but uncheeringly when the blast is winded by the breath of Wilkes." 011 N IN (i, S EPTE3I riER __..._!.. .......—.—....... - _ on which the system takes firmest hold, and in which it elects thwiie cures that convert cxi,tence froM a burden into a b,e,s ing. lienco h folldws that many r - mieie-s sad countless com plaints proceeding from derange tucot of the stomach, cea..e as Ithat great machine is restored to order. I have seen disorders ! of the heart which have iren pronounced organic by the leitned Atitiairiliss of the Pr'lift,:ttien, o,., q pp e; , r ,;--, an incredibly short tim6caSes of incifient consumption, In rbigh the seat .is in the nutritious powers; htmorrhars, and Varkts cenb gest:ow, shortness of breath, habitual fainting fits, many a what are called, improperly, nervous complifints, but which, in reality, are radiations from the main ganglionic springs the disordera produced by the abuse of powerful medicines, ts pecially mercury and iodine, the lost of appetite, the dulled sense, and the shaking hand of intemperance, skin complaints, and the dire scourge of scrofula—all these seem to ebtsiu from h3dropathy relignay, absolute and unqualified cure, heyorid not only the means of the thUst skilful drug doctor, but the hopes of the most sanguine patient. ° We have o!dy space barely to allude to On , other articles of the Mapzine, all of which are above the average. Captain Marryatt, Mr. James, and Mrs. Trollope, and Dudley Costello, continue their respective novels. " Peter Priggit s" gives us another of his amusing illustrations of 11',op. We have an admirable sketch, entitled " The La , y Miler," end Mr. F. Ains worth continues his account of the " Bunks of the Euphrates." Altogether this is an excellent Number. COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY. The most valuable article in this Number, perhaps we should not be far wrong in saying, the most valuable Magazine article of the month, is the one entitled " Con. fessions of a Water Patient, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart." It appears that sixteen years of wear and tear in the literary, political, and fashionable world, had completely upset the physical well being of Sir Ed ward—that for years he never had passed twelve hours without pain or illness--that his constitution was, in fa.. .3t, completely shattered. Various physicians pre scribed various remedies—he tried them all. He tra velled, he retired to the seaside and lived quiet, still his rendered hi s lif e wretched. At length he was induced sufferings c ont i nue d una l lev i ate d , and gastr i c i rr i tat i on to try the cold water cure, an d went to Malvern, where he placed himself under the care of Dr. Wilson, of whom and of his establishment he speaks in the highest terms. A two months' course of hydropathy nearly restored him to health. He was called away to Germany. On his journey he took cold, fever came on. Fortunately he was near the hydropathic establishment of De Schmidt, at Boppart, to which he was conveyed, and under cold water treatment he recovered in two days. He is now in better health thin he has been for years, and he at tributes his recovery entirely to cold water. The use of the wet sheet has always been represented by anti•hy dropathists as most dangerous ; according to Sir Ed ward's account, it must be the mildest of remedies. It is in fact a very gentle continuous vapour bath, not attended with the danger of the cold allusion so strenuously recommended by the late Dr. Currie in cases of fever, and infinitely more efficacious, as its action may with safety be kept up for any length of time. Every new remedy suffers, perhaps, more from the exaggerations of unreasoning bel'evers than from the attacks of the sceptical. It is therefore no small advantage to have the opinion of such a man as Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton on the capabilities of hydropathy, more especially when that opinion is founded on personal experience and close observation. The subject is one of such vast im portance that we offer no apology for the length of the following extract. "It remains fo r me t o say , me rely a s an o b server , an d solely with such authority as a n o bserver altogether disinterested, b u t without the least pretence to professional science, may fairly claim, what class of di seases 1 have s een l eas t, an d w h at most, tractable to the operations of the water cure, and how far en thusiasts appear to me to have over-estimated, how far sceptics have under-valued, the effects of water as a medicament. There are those (most of the water doctors especially) who contend that all medicine by drugs is unnecessary—that water internally and outwardly applied suffices in skilful management for all complaints—that the time will come when the drug doctor will cease to receive a fee, when the apothecary will close his shop, and the water cure be adopted in every hospital sad by every family. Dreams and absurdities! Even grant ing that the wa t er cu re were capable of all the won d ers in chronic cases—it u sua lly requiresascribed such i h t , completeit s pro process is s o abstractionslo from care and business---it takes the active man so thoroughly ou t o f hi s course o f lif e, that a vast proportion of those en gag ed in wor ldl y pursu i ts cannot hope to find the requisite l e i s ure. Th ere are a l so a large number of complaints (perhap s the majority) which yield sounder a moderat e ly compe tenetarairlay to a sparing use etitioner,thatthoef convenient plan of se n di ng t o t h e next chemist for your pill or potio n can never be superseded, nor can I think it desirable that it should be. Moreover, as plaints curable by medicine appears to me to be far r i a ch s I th h e av w e a s t e e e r n c ' ur t e h u er t e ter a ly re fa c il ° s 'n to reach. lea ' s ' tpains, especially the monster pain of the tic doloreux. Not one instance of a cure in the The eeffectual u i disorders first wherein neuralgic hydropathy latter by hydropathy has come under my own observation, and I he case of recovery fr o m it by that ,paralysis of a grave ch ar acte r i n per bens v of only an e s advanced heard. Secondly, Thirdly, in tubercular consump tion.b a p rc As s one age. this stage of th a t me l anc h o ly disease, t may he b water at e ex e r fails to restore, b u t I h av e known it even here prolong life, beyond all re asona bl e calcula tion, and astonishingly relieve the more oppr e s s i ve s y m pt oms . In all cases where the nervous exhaustion i s g rea t an d o f l ong standing, and is accompanied with ob s ti na t e h ypoc h on d r i a , hydropathy, if successful at all, i s ve ry s l ow i n it s b ene fits, and c P u e r c e te t ( utterly teir in this the patience of the sufferer is too often worn out before the favourable turn takes place. I have also noticed that obstinate and deep-rooted maladies, in Persons of very athletic frames, seem to yield much more tardily' to the water cure than similar complaints in more delicate constitutions, so that you will often see of two persons afflicted by the same genera of com plaints. the feeble anti fragile one recover before the stout man with Atlantic shoulders evinces one symptom of amelioration. "'Those cises, on the other h an d , in which the water cure seems an absolute panacea, and in which the patient may coin rococo with the most sanguiw , hopes, are, first, rheuniAtism, hplicated. In thi s th e cure i s usually ; , ermanent. Secondly, gout. however rapid—nearly iirol,,nge,l, howeverai viay u'' Here its effi::acy is little less startling to a pp earance t h an i n t h e former case ; it seem:, to take up the disease by the routs; it extracts the peculiar acid, often appears in discolors thms upon the sheets used in the application, or is ejected in ether modes. But here, judging always from cases subjected to my personal knowledge. 1 hav e not seen instances to justify the assertion of some water doctors, that returns of the disease do not occur. The predispoi,ition—the tendency, has ap peared to me to remain. The patient is liable to relapses—but 1 have invariably found them far less frequent, less lengthened, and readily susceptible of simple and speedy cure, especially if the habits remain temperate. .‘ Thirdly, that wide and grisly family of affliction classed under the common name of dyspepsia. All derangements of the digestive organs, imperfect powers of nutrition—the malaise of an injured stomach, appear precisely the complaints BENTLEY'S MIst,CELLANY. Albert Smith's romance, " The Marchioness de 13rin villiers," increases in intensity of interest as it draws near to a conclusion. The guilty Marchioness, at the instigation of her paramour, Saint Croix, poisons both her hi., thers. Saint Croix, who has endeavoured to cheat the physician from whom they obtained the poison, is himself poisoned by the Italian, and it is not until after the death of St. Croix that the wretched physician discovers that he has killed his own son. On the death of St. Croix his effects are seized by the authoritis s, and among the rest a cabinet which is claimed by the Marchioness as her prop , rty. It is opened, and found to contain various preparations of poison. She bast; ns to her own residence, knowing that the police have possession of the cabinet, and at this interesting summit the story breaks off for the present number. Mrs. Mathews continues her sketches of ennobled actresses, and gives us the short but entertaining biography of the Countess of Craven (Miss Brunton) and Lady Thusio:v (Miss Bol ton). The outpourings of D. Canter consist of a series of amusing reminiscences of poor Power. and the subject of the literary retrospect of the delta: tad great is -John Galt. The Gaol Chaplain continues This dark pages from "Life's Volume." We must confess, however, that we prefer the story of the bright pages of life, and there fore are under infinite obligations to Alfred Crowquill for introducing us to his aunt, " a good-natured wo man," one of the most simple minded and kindest hearted of creatures. It is a sketch not unworthy of Goldsmith. Paul Prendergast introduces us to a dan gerous character, Mr. Thwailes. Ima4ine a man aping in decent society, at the present day, the intoler able and disgusting brutalities of old Sam. Johnson, and imagine Paul Prendergast she:ening adventures of such a man, and, good reader, you may form some idea of the treat that is in store for you. BeLeey eschews politics ; nevertheless, in the pressnt Number, there is a short address to the gentlemen of England, which is more worthy the attention of those to whose care the destinies of this great nation are con fided, than all the political articles which have appeared in all the magazines for the last twelve months. It cc curs at the conclusion of an interesting narrative, en titled, " A Press-gang Hero," a narrative founded in fact, by Robert Postans. Thus dues Mr. Postans ad dress the gentlemen of England : " A word to the ' Gentlemen of England who live at home at ease.' You cannot he ignorant that powerful rivals are striving to overmatch you on that element you fondly call your own. Think you nut that there are many more old sea men along your coast who have similar tales of neglect and wrong to recount to younger mariners? Know you not there are thousands, and their warning voices perchance has influ enced them to adopt a service in every respect opposed to yours, and may affect the manning of your ships at the present hour. Let the truth be told. Seamen will not enter the navy—they shirk it—it takes months in these times of peace, with a luxury of sailors, to man a ship of war. They prefer the American to the British marine ; and why ? because the pay is better, and the service made more palatable. This is not a flattering ex ponent of the spirit which your mariners bear towards the navy. Be wise in time ; and remember that one decisive vic tory over a British fleet would be more destructive to you than t h e loss of a score of Waterloos ; nay, your seamen have been so used to victory, that a drawn battle, ship for ship, and gun for gun, would be a triumph to your foe, and a defeat to you. You cannot afford to lower the prestige of your flag ; if your seamen are not invincible, the world must not know it. There is po licy in making the fox's skin piece out the lion's hide. " You have lieutenants sufficient to man a stout fleet of line of-battle ships on your half-pay list, and admirals and captains enough to officer all the navies in the world. Ships—noble ships you have in profusion; but seamen—the muscles and bones to put all these vast resources in motion—are not to be found. The inference is plain. Jack feels himself neglected, and seeks employment where he is better treated. Be assured the seaman of the last war is an altered man—he is changed with the times—the thoughtless beings who fought so valiantly for you in the last war will not readily be found again. The days of frying watches and eating bank-notes between slices of bread and butter are gone, and are only remembered now as so much yarn. " Endeavour to make the service popular by increased pay, and comfort to the seamen ; let him feel he is protected, and he will protect you ; he will b 3, as he always has been, the van of your vanguard. Be wise in time then, gentlemen of Eng land, or peradventure the hazards of some future war may make it a difficult matter for you to live at home at ease." Now, we know, from our own personal knowledge, that every wot d here stated is true. Seamen will not enter the British navy so long as the Americans offer them better pay, better treatment, and better chance of promotion. The price of labour is regulated like that of every other commodity, by the demand. In callings in, which the supply exceeds the deman,l, our Legislators (who are at the same time all employers) are willing enough to admit and act upon the truth of this doctrine. Let them also acknowledge its truth in the case of the navy—there the demand for able-bodied seamen exceeds the supply, and to obtain that supply the employers must pay the price. Let then the Government look to it in time, that should a war come it may not find us unprepared. Awful will be the reckoning to which the country will bring those who by their want of precaution and by their pinny-wise and pound-foolish economy shad destroy the prestige of invincibility which has hitherto always attached to the British navy. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. The first paper in this Number, " Peel's Policy to wards Ireland," is an attempt to run a parallel between the policy adopted by two premiers respectively (the interval of just a century elapsing between their adminis trations) towards Ireland. The systems of the two Sir Roberts, it is contended, is identical in principle—varied only as to the means resorted to for carrying it into ex ecution. This system is described to be the government of Ireland through " the instrumentality of under takers." The " undertakers' employed by Walpole were the Protestant aristocracy of that country. Ttle " undertaker" relied on by Peel are its Roman h ierocracy. " There must be on both sides concession as well as claim. Undertakers, if they do a Minister's work, will require a recom • pence ; and the man in office, who needs their instrumentality to effect his own ends, must, in turn, lend himself as an instru ment to accomplish the ends they insist on." Allowing for a great deal of political prejudice, and that false colouring in which it rejoices, this paper is one of considerable talent, and extremely little candour. " Jerusalem," a review of i• The Holy City," by the Rev. Geo. Williams, M.A., late Chaplain to Bishop Alexander, at Jerusalem (Lord Parker), is made the vehicle for a tedious and withal very unsatisfactory topographical disquisition. The " Antholi;gia Ger manica," of which we have, here, the twenty-first paper, contains one or two translations of not very favourable specimens of the singular genius of Heinrich Heine. From the " Zeitgedichte" of Freiligrath, on the other hand, we have a noble lyric " On the Execution of Don Diego Leon," shot in Spain, in 1841, by order of Espartero. It is too long for extract, and too good for abridgment. From some stanzas by Baron Zedlitz, entitled " The Midnight Review," we give that which stands Number 111. " And when midnight robes the sky, The Emperor leaves his tomb, And rides along, surrounded by His shadowy Staff, through the gloom. " A silver star so bright Is glittering on his breast ; In an uniform of blue and white And a gray camp frock he is dressed. " The moonbeams shine afar On the various marshall'd groups, As the Man with the glittering silver star Proceeds to review his troops. " And the dead battalions all Go again through their exercise, Till the moon withdraws, and a gloomier pall Of blackness warps the skies. " Then around their Chief once more The Generals and Marshals throng ; And he whispers a word oft heard before In the ear of his Aide-de-camp. " In files the troops advance, And then are no longer seen. The challenging watchword given is "France !" The answer is " St. Helene !" " And this is the Grand Review Which at midnight on the weld, - 411. In popular tales may pass for true, The buried Emperor holds." The next paper is an ably executed summary and re view a Dudley Costello's 4 . Tour through the Valley of the Meuse, with the Legends of the Walloon Country and the Ardennes." Tins is certainly one of the treat charming books of the season, and although, in ad dition to the perusal we have givtn to the work, , e have read some half•do7.ol critical notices of it, we rise from this paper with rent.. td and confirmed im pressions of the singalr ability and power of this gritee fol writer. The other artiele6 of this Number of ti e Dublin University - are, " Iridi Rivers, No. I. The Blackwater," a very beautiful contribution, full of ro mantic interest, ant; reminiscenc , es of Spenser, Raleigh, &c. " Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George III." " Itelaod and her Church ;" and the " Luck of Lynhunt." FRASER'S M.IGAZINF. One would have th , night that the character of Cicero, 117(.1. a lapse of nineteen centiiris, had been esta- Wished beyond the possibility of a doubt, and that all his frailties, includin:4 lii vanity, his a ant cf candour a: d courar, and his revengeful disposition when victorious, had become fanaiiar to every classical reader. o:tr re spect, d and accomplished friend, " Morgan Rattler," however, thinks otherwise, and he has 64 refore consi deredi it necessary to write a very interesting, though a rather partial article in drawing a contrast b.. - - , .tween the great orator and his rivil and enemy, Marc Antony. The latter, of course, has the preference ; for, taking all his distinguishing features, as exhibited by ancient writers, it would be difficult to Ojlne to any other con- Ms. elusion than that he far surpassed Cicero in generosity of mind, daring exploits, and in manly acquire meets. Cicero, iioWeetr: has the advantage in the eyes of superfichil observers. Ilia elegenti °reticule, which are read in every school ; his elegant taste for literature, and his unsparing abuse of Antony, have raised him to a piens - tele of fame litths merited by his other qualities. A n t ony 'e speeches and general character are much less ktaisen turd appecciatt d, and the writer, therefore, de serves prtiise, ease) at the present hour, for making them more conspicuous to the general reader. However the teataea was arranged among the Triumvirs, it cannot be said that Antony proscribed Cicer3. His name was placed in a different list, and possibly he would not have been proscribed at all, if Antony had ben supreme dictator. So much in Antony's favour. " Yet," says " Morgan Rattler," " upon the faith of the sotietrasns abuse heaped by the common railer upon Antony, nine tenths of the world are satis fied to enter up judgment of utter condemnation against him, and fiat this alone, but to accept his enemy as a virtuous philosopher, A pure patriot, and a sort of blessed martyr. But the truth is, that if no second philippic had been written, if not one of the fourteen philippics had been spoken, the deeds done by Cicero against Antony fully justified him, according to the doctrines and feelings of that day, in wrecking the severest vengeance on his head. Twice, at least, Antony would have been assassinated, if the advice of the gentle philo sopher had prevailed." These facts, about which there can be no doubt, and others enumerated, throw a stain on the memory of Cicero, and make the world less regret his untimely end. In fact, his own timorous, wavering, and cunning disposition brought on his fall, for had he used common diligence in making his escape, had he not lingered on the coast of Gaeta with the hope of some change taking place at Rome in his favour, he would have been allowed to leave Italy in safety. The article altogether places the merits of the two statesmen in a clear point of view, and if we except a decided bias against Cicero, perhaps not unwarranted by history, the contrast is not fir frora the truth. There are two other articles in the present number not less entitled to praise, one of which is entitled, " Greek and Roman domestic affairs," and the other a review of Victor . Hugo's Lyrics. The former is limited to the domestic customs of the Greeks. those of the Romans being reserved fur a future nnmber. It is founded chiefly on a work of Becker, a German philosopher, and gives a good idea of the manners and customs and amusements of the lively and intelligent people of Attica,. Their houses, their halls, sleeping apartments, banking system, dinners, festivals, and fu neral cer monies are amply described, and give us a much more favourable idea of Greek customs and re finements than of those which distinguished the masters of the world. The other article which we have men tioned, does justice—perhaps more than justice—to Baron-Hugo. for a great many of his writings are blow mediocrity ; those particularly which aim at flights, like those of Atlases, without the genius and prudence which controlled the course of the elegant and fanciful Italian. Many of his lyrics, however, deserve the highest praise. Those on the rapid rise, the splendid career, and the un expected fall of Napoleon, are peculiarly spirited, and show that Victor Hugo has the real soul of a poet. We have room for only one extract, as translated by the writer, which describes the former master of Europe weeping on the barren rock of St. Helena, over the pic ture of his only child : " 'Twas not the steps of that heroic tale That from Arcola marched to Montmirail On glory's red degrees ; Nor Cairo's pacha's fierce Numidian steeds Nor the tall shadows of the pyramids,— Ah I 'twas not always these;— " 'Twas nut the bursting shell, the iron sleet, The whirldwied rush of battle 'neath his feet, Though twice ten years ago, When, at his breath, upon that sea of steel Were launch'd the rustling banners,—there to reel Like masts when tempests blow ; "'Twas not Madrid, nor Kremlin of the csar, Nor Pharos on old Egypt's coast afar, Nor shrill reveille's camp-awak'ning bound Nor bivouac couch'd its starry fires around, Crested dragoons, grim, veteran grenadiers, Nor the red lances 'midst a wood of spears Swarming like purple dowers among the golden ears. " N ! 'twas an 'infant's image, fresh and fair, With rosy mouth half-oped, as slumbering there It lay beneath the smile Of her whose breast, soft-bending o'er its sleep, Ling'ring upon that little lip doth keep One pendant drop the while. " Then, his sad head upon his hands inclined, He wept ; that father-heart all unconfined, Outpoured in love alone. My blessing on thy clay-cold head, poor child ! Sole being for whose sake his thoughts, beguiled, Forgot the world's lost throne." LITERA TITRE. LETTRRS OF MARY STUART, QUEEN OF SCOTLAND; collected from the Recueil des Lettres de Marie Stuart; together with the Chronological Sum mary of Events during the Reign of the Queen of Scot land. By Prince Alexander Labanoff ; translated, with Niles and an Introduction, by William Turnbull, Esq., Advocate. The great exertions made by Prince Labanoff, in in vestigating the archives of almost every Court of Eu rope, for State papers connected with the life and times and personal history of the ill-fated but illustrious daughter of James V. of Scotland, are favourably known to all European scholars, who are interested in the ex tension of our biographical knowledge. Of the admira ble abstract which Mr. Turnbull has here made of the Prince's voluminous " Collections," we cannot speak in terms of too earnest praise. Suffice it to say, that on the three momentous incidents connected with Mary, on which, among modern writers, Hume and Robertson have laid most stress, ae impheating her in conduct of the most guilty criminality, these papers, now for the first time produced by Prince Labanoff, from the various royal and ducal repositories of continental sovereigns and princes, where they had remained unexamined and unknown by all former historiographers, and cor roborated by various documents drawn from the monuments end records of Noble Scottish fami lies, completely, in our opinion, establish her in nocence. We allude to the suspicion of a guilty inti macy between Mary and David Riecio,—the charge of her having had a guilty pre-knowledge of, or other col lusive participation in the murder by gunpowder of het husband, Darnley ; and the still darker story of her subsequent union with the ferocious Bothwell. We are not ashamed to own that on each and every of these points our own private judgment had long since passed condemnation on the memory of this great, accom plished, but unhappy Queen. On all the evidence which preceding historians had collected, even of that produced by Mary's ablest apologists, we had remained Lepressed with this terrible conviction. We rise feom the perusal of these letters and papers with a far different conviction—a clear and distinct perception that they establish her absolute exoneration from these, and from a multiplicity of less grave imputations. lliccio appears, in his capacity of secretary for foreign corresi,ondence, to have well merited her unbounded confidence ; and it is certain that Murray, Argyll, Ceiencairn, Rothes, Boyd, Ochiltree, and the other parties who signed the bond, by which they cove nanted one with the other and each to all to effect the murder of the Italian, were moved by no sort of conviction of her gallantries, or resentment for Darn ley's supposed dishonour, but simply by the desire to rid themselves of the man who was thoroughly cognisant of all the facts of their past conspiracy with the Duke of Chatelberault (Earl of Arran) to depose her, a?d place the Regent, Murray, on her throne, supported as they were by the powerful protection of Elizabeth, the ts.s - of which had been communicated to those rebel Lords by Throckmorton. As to Darnley's death, no reasonable man can doubt of Bothwell's fiendlike concern in the matter; but we have abundant evidence of Mary's regret and unaffected sorrow for the untimely fate of her worthless husband. All the authenticated evidence, even that given by quarters most hostile to her, now removes every suspicion from the Queen of criminality "or knowledge or act" touching the appalling fate of Darnley. Then, as to Bothwell, whom it is certain she detested, we have in these collec tions irresistible testimony to the fact of his having forcibly seized her near Almond bridge, and afterwards committed eidetic(' on her person. Her marriage with that ruffian on the l sth of May, 1567, is theretore to be explained on grounds that will suggest themselves to every reader. She was married "in mourning ;" and an original letier of the French Ambas sador, M. du Croce preserved in the Royal Li brary at Paris, Harley(' Collection, addressed to Catherine de Medicis, three days after this ill-assorted but compulsory marriage, at which Du Croc had refused to be present, has this most: remarkable passage : " Thursday ( the very day of her marriage) her Majesty sent for me, when I pereeived a strange formality between her and her husband, which she begged me to excuse, saying that if I saw her sad, it was because she did not wish to be happy, as she said she never could be, wishing only for death. Yesterday b-ing all slope in a closet with the Earl of Bothwell, she called aloud for them to give her a knife to kill herself with. Thoe who were in the room adjoining the closet heard her." Melvil, in his Memoirs, gives the same details ; they may be found p. 180 of the Banns- Syne Club edition : " The queer), wha was sa disdanfully hand lit, and with sic reprocheful langage, that Arthour Askin and I being present, hard her ask a knyt to stik hirself, or elis,' said ache, 1 shall drown myself.' " It is difficult to say whether the narrative or auto biographical itaterest or historical importance of this work be the more difficult sufficiently to appreciate. TILE 01. n CHURCH AT FULTIAM.—The venerable tower of Fulham church, adjoining the palace of the Bishop of London, has long called for restoration : brickwork capped with Yorkshire paving formed the battlements, the turret was stunted, the belfry windows, strings, and plinth, were tumbling to pieces, and the great west window had disappeared altoge ther, and was boarded up. Partly by a rate, and partly by subscription, funds have been raised, and the work is now rapidly proci , edirig, under the direction of Mr. Godwin, the architect. His Lordship the Bishop, the Rev. Mr. Baker, the rec tor, Jahn Gunter, Esq., and several o th er o f the pri ncipal inhabitants of the parish, have exerted themselves to effect this re storation. Mr. Samuel Cundy, of Pi m li co, i s the con tractor. Whin completed we shall give some account of the church, which has several points of considerable interest. — Builder. HYDROPHOBIA AND ALLEGED MURDER.—A case of hydrophobia occurred at Ennistymon on Tuesday last. A girl named Anne Gallery, about fifteen years of age, was bitten six weeks since by a dog. The dog did not show any previous slaps of madness, but he has not since been heard of or seen. Or. Shannon was called on, and when on his way met two other medical men who accompanied him, and they all agreed it was a confirmed case of hydrophobia. Our informant adds, " This poor creature was smothered between two beds." Can this be true ? We presume it was not advised by the medical attendants. The circumstance being known, an inquiry will no doubt be instituted into the murder.— Clare Journal. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.—EDINBURGII, AUG. 26. The discussion on Councillor Russell's motion in favour of the total repeal of the laws which inflict capital punishments, was resumed this day in our Town-council, and carried by a majority of 12 to 5. " ROYAL ADEL %IDE GALLERY. NEW ZEALAND. An attractive and interesting novelty has been this week added to the stores of this institution. The novelty to which we have now to draw public attention is that of a New Zealand chief—a real chief—tattooed n the most becoming and patrician fas}ion—lecturingin g ood English, to no small extent enriched with a ger.ultie brogue. Our lecturer, whose name is Barnet Burns, was born in Ireland of Scotch parents, and passed the first few years of his life in Manchester. He engaged in a seafaring life, and had visited at an early age most parts of the world, and now, besides * perfect familiarity with the Polynesian dialects, he speaks some of the civilized languages (amongst others, trench) with greater facility than English. His simple narrative of his adventures and sufferings is deeply affecting, and the descriptions and illustrations which he gives of the habits of the savages amongst whom he lived and reigned for many years, against his will, are fraught with interest. The gesticulations, war dance, and other modes of the New Zealanders strikingly resemble those of the North American Indians. But if Mr. Burns, or, according to his present title (for he is still a chief), " Pake-a-Range," gives us a correct spe cimen of their song, the New Zealander has a great ad vantage over the Indian in possessing a rich, varied, and most expressive melody. We strongly recommend the chief to public attention and favour. MURDEROUS ASSAULT. Mr. James Jack, a merehant, of No. 44, Bedford-street, Bedford-square, Stepney, who is the proprietor of ale, spirit, and provision stores in Glasshouse-yard, Upper East Smith• field, appeared before Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Police. court, to answer a charge of violently assaulting John Salisbury and William Kelly, also for assaulting police-constable Thomas Harris, 212 H, in the execution of his duty. The prisoner is a strong, portly man, about forty-five years of age, and was labouring under considerable excitement durin the proceedings, which caused the most lively interest. Mr. Pelham, the solicitor, was in attendance for Mr. Jack towards the close of the proceedings. Mr. John Salisbury stated that he is a sail-maker, and lived at King James's-stairs, N apping.wall. He had bee* slightly acquainted. with the prisoner. On Thursday even. lag he was passing along Glasshouse-yard, when the pri. soner suddenly rushed upon him, and struck his * heavy blow on the head which knocked him down, and be fore he could recover himself he was dragged into the pri. soner's warehouse, the door of which was open, and as soon as Mr. Jack had got him into the warehouse he banged the door and fastened it, and then seized him by the collar with his left hand and made a most savage attack upon him. The prisoner fell upon him, and forced his knees upon his stomach, and beat him with his right fist on the the face and head, and said he would be the death of him. The prisoner kept hint down and continued beating him for some time, until his face was contused, and the blood was streaming from his eyes, nose, and mouth. Mr. Brod , rip asked the witness, whose face was terribly dis figured, if the injuries were caused by the blows he received? Mr. Salisbury replied in the affirmative. He was covered with blood, and the floor of the warehou-e was like that of a slaughter-house. He thought the prisoner intended to kill him, and he called out " Murder" as loud as he was able, and very fortunately Mr. Kelly, a neighnour, who was passing at the time, looked through the window, anti seeing him on the ground with the prisoner over him, he called out " Mr. Jack, you are murdering the man," and directed him to release him. The prisoner paid no attention to Mr. Kelly, who ultimately burst the door open, and with great exertion took the prisoner away, and secured him till an officer cane. The prisoner cross-examined the witness in a very peremp tory and boisterous manner. Mr. Salisbury said he formerly lived in Glasshouse-yard, and that he was taken to one of the City station-houses on suspicion of being the person named in a printed bill offering a reward for the discovery of a person' who had robbed Mr. Jack. The prisoner exhibited a copy of the bill, and exclaimed loudly, " 7 hat's it, Sir." Mr. Salle. bury added, that the police discharged him after a few hours' detention. Mr. William Kelly, a carman, of 106, Upper East Smith. field, said his stable adjoined Mr. Jack's premises. He bend the cries of murder about six o'clock in the evening, and saw Mr. Jack dragging the last witness into his warehouse. The cries of murder were continued, and upon looking through the window he saw the prisoner with his knees en Mr. Salisbury's stomach, and his hand under his stock, apparently making an attempt to strangle him. He afterwards saw Mr. Jack strike Mr. Salisbury in a downward direction, and he expostulated with him, and asked him if he was going to commit murder. Mr. Jack continued ham mering at the man, and he then burst the door open and found Mr. Salisbury quite insensible, and he thought he was dead. There was half a pailful of blood on the floor. He pulled Mr. Jack away, and was about to remove him from the warehouse, when he seized witness by the throat and tore his shirt. Find.. ing that mild measures would be of no use with such a despe rate man, he threw him on the ground, and kept him down until a policeman came. The prisoner kicked him most severely, and would have served him as he did Mr. Salisbury if he had not overpowered him. About two hours after the prisoner war taken to the station-house he was bailed by his friends, and about nine o'clock he came into witness's stables, and said, " You old -, I want you ; now I'll do for you,'• and caught hold of him by the throat. He straggled with the prisoner, who made an attempt to drag him out of the stable, and he was obliged to throw the prisoner again, and bold hint fast tills policeman came. Thomas Harris, a policeman, who had been severely pm. nished, said that he was sent for to Mr. Jack's premises. On reaching the place he found Mr. Salisbury in a deplo rable condition, and bleeding profusely. Mr. Kelly and Mr. Jack were both on the floor and struggling. He se parated them, and took Mr. Jack into custody. Mr. Jack refused to go until some person was engaged to look after his premises. He left a constable in charge of them, and conveyed the prisoner towards the station-house. He had not proceeded far before Mr. Jack made his escape, and rushedinto a beer-shop, and caught hold of the beer ma.. chine, and exclaimed, with an oath, that he would not go any further. He told him he was his prisoner, and to the station-house he must go, on which the landlord interfered, and used the most opprobrious language. The prisoner then struck him several times, and knocked one of the buttons off his coat with his fist. Witness then drew his staff in self-defence, and having procured assistance, he took him to the station -house. After the prisoner had procured bail, he came on witness's beat, and followed him and annoyed him from eight till nine o'clock, and frequently called him a thief. He put up with these insults without notice, and get out of the prisoner's way. A few minutes afterwards the prisoner brought the landlord of the beer shop to insult him, and stopped him on his beat. He de sired him to go away, but it was some time before he would do so, and accused him of robbing him, and added that he would have him taken into custody. He then left him again, and after the lap se o f a f ew m i nutes he was sent for to Mr. Kelly's stables, and found the prisoner there conducting himself in a most violent and disorderly manner, and he struck Mr. Kelly, who threw him directly, and then gave him in charge. He again conveyed him to the station-house, and the inspector ad vised Mr. Kelly to obtain an assault warrant from a magistrate, as the prisoner was already bailed. Mr. Jack was then set at liberty: The prisoner, who alternately abused and cross-examined the witness, asked him how he dared to take him out of his house. Mr. Broderip advised the prisoner to be more temperate, and said the law gave the police-constable authority to take him into custody. He then asked the prisoner if he had any defence to make, and said he should send the case before jury. The prisoner said, as he was to appear before another tri. bunal, lie should reserve his defence. Several other persons who had been assaulted by the prisoner, were stated to be in attendance, but it was not thought necea sary to examine them. Mr. Broderip said the prisoner was charged with committing a most unprovoked and murderous assault en Mr. Salisbury, and he ordered him to find good bail, himself in 2001., and two responsible housekeepers in 100!. each, to appear and take his trial at the next Middlesex sessions. The prisoner also stood accused of committing two other violent assaults, one upon Mr. Kelly, and the other upon the police-constable in the execution of his duty ; and he further directed that he should put in bail to a similar amount in Mr. Kelly's case, and to enter into sureties, himself in 1001., and two housekeepers in 501. each, to answer the charge of assaulting the constable. The prisoner, who was unable to find the bail, was com• mitted to Clerkenwell prison. He was formerly an inmate of a lunatic asylum for several months, and it is supposed that a return of his old malady caused him to make the attempt 04 Mr. Salisbury's life. THE LATE CAPTAIN DOWLING.—We beg to rectify a atieake of ours in the insertion of the sudden death of Captain Dowlinj, late Barrack Master of St. James's—" That he was brother of ;:ir. Dowling, of Liverpool," being in no way related to the family, the deceased gentleman being the only son of the late Rev. Dr. Dionysius Dowling, of Lougbswilly, County Derry, Ireland. IRISH WASTE LAND IMPROVEMENT SOCIETT.— On Thursday the half-yearly meetieg of the proprietors of this Company was appointed to be held at the King's Head Tavern, Poultry, but as there were not fifteen proprietors present representing three hundred shares, as required by the Act of Incorporation, no actual business was transacted. Mr. Maule took the chair, and the half-yearly report, which gave a statement of the accounts, up to the 30th June, had been made up, and showed the balance of bills and cask then in hand was 1,2831. 9a. 7d., and that the assess of the society, after allowing for such liabilities connected with them as were then outstanding, was 11,2111. 17s. The Directors did not deem it desirable to give an account of the pro ceedings for the past half-year, as it must necessarily be in complete for want of the report of Colonel Robin son i as to the present condition of the Society's estates; that gentleman was at present engaged in his annual inspection. The Direc tors had every reason to anticipate that favourable accounts would be submitted to the Proprietors at their next half yearly meeting. The number of shareholders at yr.-sent in the Company was 'll5, the number of shares being 2,76 a, The report concluded by . stating that Mr. E. J. Cooper, having disqualified, had retired from the direction. A Pro prietor inquired how the contemplated lines of railway in Ireland would affect the Society's lands ? The Chairman replied that if the Dublin and Galway line had passed last session it would have been of material advantage, as it would have afforded a direct communication with the Society's estates at Kilkerrin. As that line had been for the present rejected, the Company had received the sanction of the Board of Works .not at the present hai t en"n for the construction of a di r:ct water communication: Its an e s r w e er ottn in a a Proprietorp declare e d a tha d t iv t i h d e en D d i , r a ector w toan t a de s c cir cumstance which prob a bl y cause d so scanty an atten d ance o f proprietors. ROBBERY OF THREE HUNDRED POUNDS AT GRAVESEND.—On Friday, at the Gravesend petty sessions, held in the Town-hall, a young man named Cumm;.ngs was charged with entering the apartments of Captain Bryan, Richmond Terrace-place, and stealing a carpet-bag containing property and other articles to the amount of :-;001. It ap pears, on Saturday morning last, during the absence of Captain Bryan, who for some time past has occupied apart tnenis at the house cf the prisoner's relatives at the above resi dence, his room was entered and the following articles stolen:— A carpet-bag containing linen marked C. 8., a black frock-coat and trousers, a black satin waistcoat, a pair of reading glasses set in gold, and ten sovereigns. An old pair of trousers that were hanging up in a closet were also stolen, in the fob of which were two 1001. Bank of England notes, one 40/. note, and two 51. notes. The prisoner having been seen in the apartments in the course of the morning, he was apprehended on sus picion of having been concerned in the robbery, but no por tion of the property could be found. Mr. North, the superin tendent of the Gravesend police, prayed for a remand. The magistrate, however, refused to detain the prisoner, who was consequently discharged. THE GAME LAWS IN WILTS —lt is a remarkable fact that there is not, at the present time, one individual eon tuned in either of the prisons in this county for offences against the game-laws, nor has there been one of this descrip tion of offenders in confinement for six weeks past, although the county abounds with preserves and coursing grounds as much, probably, as any shiro in the kingdom, and although there are petty sessions held weekly in about twenty pines Within the county, t • ti ~, 1 sfi afief bo :00;111 N$ ll . P 1 0. e 0 010 .holo or,! 6 11 ` C