The Sun. — London, England, 1839-09-26 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION BIRMIN GRAM-(WEDNESDA Y.) I The Chartists here appear to be making ready for the • winter's carnpaign. Hitherto, since the late disgraceful riot, they contented themselves with holding occasional meetings in Lawrence-street Chapel, or at their sec tional Rooms, where delegates from the different trades assembled. But now they announce their intention of t re-assembling in their wonted numbers, three times a i week, as appears from the following placard, which has been posted on the walls since Monday : " The Chartists of Birmingham, and the usual attend " ants at the Bull-ring, are hereby informed that in future Chartist meetings will be held not in the Bull-ring, but at the School-rooms, Allison-street, on Monday, Wed -1 nesday, and Friday each week, for the purpose of baying the newspapers read, and for mutual instruc tion. On Sundays service will commence at eleven o'clock, when it is hoped that all will attend and receive religious advice." EAST SURREY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. A meeting of the friends of this Association, which which was instituted for the purpose of giving rewards to deserving agricultural servants, and thereby create an incentive to them to persevere in a course of honest in dustry, and also for the general advancement of the in terests of agriculture, took place yesterday at Croydon. Previous to the meeting a trial of skill at ploughing took place upon the grounds of E. Lanfear, Esq , at Maddon Court, when upwards of thirty competitors en tered the lists. The style of ploughing was considered by the judges to be excellent. The proceedings ap peared to cause a good deal of interest. When this por tion of the business was concluded the successful com petitors were assembled together, and the different prizes were delivered to them. GEORGE ROBERT SMITH, Esq., M.P., the Presi dent of the Association, addressed the successful can didates, and observed that it had become his duty to give the prises to the successful labourers. He hoped that the proceedings of that day would be an incentive to them to persevere in a course of honest exertion. H e wa s glad to see that the Association had already been the means of greatly improving the style of plough ing; and he hoped that next year an equal improve ment would take place. With respect to the unsuc cessful competitors, he could only express hope that next year they would be more successful. After this portion of the proceedings had termi nated, the members of the Association dined together, at the Greyhound Inn, Croydon. where an excellent re past was provided for them by Mr. Gardner. The company, consisting of about 200, was composed of gentlemen possessed of considerable property in the county, and of all shades of political opinions. Among these we noticed G. R. Smith, Esq., M. P., Chair man, D. R. Warrington, Esq., J. W. Suther land, Esq., J. Currie, Esq., E. R. Adams, Esq., Sir H. Bridges, Bart., C. H. Turner, Esq., T. Weall, Esq., W. Lanfear, Esq., W. Gutteridge, Esq., W. Russell, Esq., Sir C. Grey, Sir Charles Farnaby, Capt. Mellbank, and T. S. Carter, Esq. When the cloth was removed the CHAIRMAN pro posed " The Queen, and long may she reign over a happy, prosperous, and united people."—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The Queen Dow ager, a lady endowed with all those virtues which must ever render her dear to the people of England, and the rest of the Royal Family." The CHAIRMAN next proposed "The Army and Navy," and said they should never forget that if the exigencies of the State required them, they would obtain their best recruits among the hardy and industrious agricultural labourers. The next toast was " The Archbishop of Canterbury and the C:ergy of the Diocese ;" and the Chairman, in propo9lng it, said that although upon an occasion like the present be might not 1)2 justified in going into a ue tail of matter* not connected with the ebj.'ct for which thug were assembled yet he could not refrain from bear ing testimony to the unostentatious charity and the exemplary conduct of the Reverend Prelate whose name he had mentioned, and which in his opinion was an ho nour to human nature. The Rev. Sir CHARLES FARNEBY briefly returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN then rose and proposed as a toast, is Success to the East Surrey Agricultural Association." He was sure that he need not wish them to drink the toast with enthusiasm. There were many gentlemen present who, from their knowledge of the sciez,ce of agriculture, and their great experience, would have been much better qualified to fill the chair that day than himself. Still, however ; he would yield to no one in his zeal for the interest of that important branch con nected with the national prosperity, agriculture. Such associations as the present v f e "pa - rt i rly . at the portance at all_ ti u ''''' os mpsible to deny that the present time, --- ,11 / 4 1tticting this important interest were, *ivsfhe least of them, extremely ominous. —(Hear, beer.) It was, therefore, their duty to rally round such Associations it 3 these ; and it was a glorious sight to see, as on the present occasion, the proprietors, the occupiers, and the cultivators of land bound together in one common object. The meeting of that day was a most gratifying sight, and he felt convinced that the carrying out of such Associations must lead to most important results. He concluded by proposing—" Suc cess to the East Surrey Agricultural Association."— (Great cheering.) Mr. RICHARDS, the Secretary of the Association, then read the minutes of previous proceedings con nected with it, from which it appeared that since its establishment it had been gradually and steadily in creasing in numbers, and that there was every prospect that the Association wauld be enabled to offer addi tional premiums at the next annual meeting—(Cheers.) The healths of the Chairman, the Trusurer, J. W. Sutherland, Esq., the Secretary, and the Committee, having been drunk, the meeting separated, highly gratified with the day's proceedings. ..adver...o.laarlarizerarr.MlMMllMMON AUCHTERARDER CASE. The Dean of Faculty, Mr. Hope, formerly Solicitor- General for Scotland, has addressed a letter to the Lord Chancellor on this important question. The letter extends to nearly 300 pages. This able Tory lawyer sides with the Lord Chancellor and Lord Brougham in their decision on the appeal from the General Assem bly, and reprobates, in no measured terms, the course pursued by the Church Courts in Scotland. He says the judgment of the House of Lords involved two points. First, that the rejection of the candidate by the people, without a cause assigned and judged of by the Presby tery, was illegal ; and secondly, that the Presbytery acted illegally, and violated the duty imposed upon them by statute, in refusing to take the presentee upon trials. The latter point it is very necessary to keep in view, for it bas been thrown entirely out of view by the Church in their subsequent proceedings. In a few weeks afterwards, the General Assembly of this year, on the motion of Dr. Chalmers, resolved to continue in the exercise of the power thus declared, to be illegal and incompetent to persist in doing the wrong thus declared, and in refusing thereby to perform the duty which it has been found formed a condition of the establishment of the National Church. Such, as will immediately appear, has been the resolution of the Gene ral Assembly—and it has been followed up by measures marking even more unequivocally the object of that general resolution—viz., instruction to Presbyteries to continue to enforce the veto. ._ __-- ---- That this is a most extraordinary and alarming posi tion for an Established Church to assume, is manifest to every one. That wrong should be openly done by a Church in the knowledge of the law,—that the statutes of the land should be deliberately and avowedly disre garded,—and that a judgment of the most authoritative tribunal in the kingdom should be immediately followed by a public resolution of the Church to persevere in the assumption and exercise of power so declared to be incompetent, is a scandal hitherto unexampled in any Protestant country. Dr. Chalmers proposes, with the aid of the Com 112teee which was appointed in last Assembly, to corn wuuleate with Your Lordship's colleague s, to " demon strate of this s sentence,altog ether that it is founded in error," ---that IX, he it e ' " a misinterpretation" of the law ; and nocouraged in the hope of success, by the " igno rance, ptlitieuzii• dearest shness," and "reckless disregard of the out in the api zf u t s h e Chur c h," w hi c h can b e pointed Brougham. of your Lordship and Lord A defence of th e judgment of the House of Lords I do not propos e to con firmation, I should think that it If it required acknovvledment made by Dr. &h a a l d received it in the eech that the act of the Ch • sp , Ters, in the same urch in 1834 , ' the Veto, was " A BLUNDER" in passing w hichhe had attempted to prevent. A local paper, the Edinburgh Adverarer , following opinion of this document dran' i g u v p :s the w the first lawyer at the Scottish bar :—" The whole subject of the Veto controversy—the judgm en t o f the Ho use of Lords on the illegality of that Act in reference to the Auchterarder case—the proceedings of the General A s . sembly and the other Church Courts, prior as Nell as sub sequent to the decision of the civil tribunals --the chang es sought to be effected by the advocates of the non-ir, trusion principle., and the divine right of the congregations to choose their own Ministers—the speeches and re.iolu tions of that party in the Assembly, and on the platform, as to the Independent Authority and Juri,-- diction of the Church ;—their misconceptions of the law on the subject ;—the injurious effects which the working of the Veto Act has had on the peace of the count r y ; these and o th er p o i nts connec t e d w ith the agitation of this important question, are entered into at great len g th, an d d i scussed with all that abil i ty, minuteness, knowledge, candou r,andcourtesy which ~. the public would naturally anticipat e from the Learned Dean. A gentleman has ofFered to build a wire bridge over the American M Paper.ississippi, at S t . L ouis, for 500,000 dolk.rs.. CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGIS- TRATION.-(YESTERDAY.) Mr.MvLrot and Mr. CRAIG, the Barristers appointed to revise the list of voters for the City of Westminster, this morning opened their respective Courts at the Guildhall, Westminster. Mr. MYLNE said that it was intended to proceed in the course adopted on former years, which had been found most convenient and expeditious. After the pre sent officers had delivered in the lists, and verified them, he and his colleague would proceed to revise the ists in their respective Courts. He would take the first six parishes, viz., St. Anne, St. Clement Danes, St. George, St. James, St. John, and St. Margaret. , Mr. Craig would take the remaining four, viz. St. Martin, St. Mary-le-Strand, St. Paul, Covent Garden, and the Savoy Precinct. The various lists were then handed in by the parish officers in the usual manner. Mr. MYLNE said the only lists he should take to day would be St. Anne's and St. Clement Danes. Several parties were in attendance f or St. James's ; but they were informed that in all probability their cases would not be taken before Friday, the objections in the parish of St. George being likely to occupy the whole of this day. The total number of objections we understand is 560, and that of claims 69. Mr. Trott and Mr. West appeared on behalf of the Reformers ; Mr. Score and Mr. Score, jun., for the Tories. TO THE QUEEN. An't please your Majesty—We, of the Protestant Association, who lately addressed your Majesty, as head of the Church, with our respectful remonstrance against the promotion of papists to offices of trust and pay in the government of this country, beg leave now to present another humble petition at the foot of the throne in behalf of a brave and zealous Protestant. The individual for whom we feel so lively a concern is one of those staunch and strenuous defendersof " Church and State," for whose sole use and advantage, in our opinion, all places and appointments of the slightest honour or value were made, and ought to be filled up. Nevertheless, the object of our present prayer is, that that your Majesty would be graciously pleased out of a tender regard for his soul, to remove him from the rank which he holds in the military service of Great Britain, as being totally incompatible, according to his notions, with the obligations and practice of true religion. We speak, an't please your Majesty, of the most Noble the Marquis of Londonderry, who has, unfortunately conceived that there are two or perhaps three Gospels adapted to mankind in their several stations ; one for the Clergy, an other for the Army, and another for the Civil service , and that the Christianity of the army autho rises the perpetration of murder and the gratification of reveege ,even as, peradventure, gluttony may be sanc tioned by another class of professors, and a monopoly of all the loaves and fishes stoutly maintained by a third. Now we, of the Protestant Association, being exceed ingly grieved for the error of this our brother, whom, in common with the Clergy of Ripon, we regard as a valu able champion of the true religion, and being most de sirous to remove from him so lamentable a stumbling block as he has, in his warlike fancy, interposed between his honour and his hopes of salvation, do humbly en treat your Majesty to dismiss the said Marquis of Lon donderry forthwith from your Majesty's army, and re duce him to the condition of a civil Christian, in which capacity we doubt not that he will see and acknowledge the necessity of abstaining from shedding blood in private quarrel, as a part of a Christian's duty. Thus will your Majesty strengthen the Protestant religion, and confer a most inestimable boon on your humble servants, THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION. P.S. That was a pretty squad of Papists that went to mass last Sunday out of Windsor Castle, in the suite of the Queen of Belgium—Lord Fingal and the rest of them ! Had O'Connell and his tail been on a visit with your Majesty, they could not have made a grander dis play. " How long, Lord, righteous and true !" FUNERAL OF THE LATE RIINJEET SING U. (From the Bombay Times.) CONVEYANCE OF THE ASHES OF REINJEET SINGH TO THE GANGES.—Everything having been prepared the previous day for the removal of the ashes of the late Maharajah Runjeet Singh towards the sacred Gan ges, at Hurdwar, the procession left the palace at about an hour after sunrise, on the morning of the 2d of July, an moved through the city of I ,-0-,, , -- • - • - •rs ,ne Lin:l,i order. One squadron of Skh Gate in th , . 4-"•-'-o pr .....,e,s, one by one, on account of the narrowness of the streets, followed by five gold cloth flags carried on foot, in the same order ; a little in the rear of those came a golden khass:th or palkee, containing the ashes of the late Maharajah ; the Premier, Rajah Dehan Singh, on foot to the left, bearing a peacock feather chowry, and driv ing away the flies ; and on the right Jamandar Khoos sial Singh, also on foot bearing a golden punkah ; on the left, and near to Rajah Dehan Singh, was the late Maharajah's principal chutry bearer, carrying a golden chutry, and immediately behind him came his personal servants, such as dressers, chowry walla, cup bearer, &c. ; a little behind came four khassahs, containing the ashes of the four ranees, burnt with him, followed by a fifth, containing the ashes of the seven slaves also burned with him, and immediately behind marched his favourite horses, covered with gold ; about fifty paces behind them came the heir to the throne, Kurruck Singh, on an elephant, dressed in plain white muslin, followed at a short distance by the whole court in the same dress, without any kind of arms, and mounted on elephants. On arriving at the Delhi Gate, the procession received a salute of eleven cartridges per gun from Captain Ford's, Elli Bukh's, Emam sha's, and Sooltan Mamood's artillery (amount ing to about twenty-six pieces, drawn up there for that purpose), and proceeded through a street, formed of a 'quadron of the body guard, Captain Ford's, and Mr. Steinbach's two battalions of infantry, at a slow pace ; and receiving the salute of those two regiments, turned towards Hamb (a favourite barrah durry of the late Maharajah, about six miles from Lahore, being the first march). Half way to Hamb the procession passed through a street formed by Kurruck Singh's regiment of cavalry, two battalions of infantry, and four guns ; and received a salute of eleven cartridges per gun. East of Shalahmar, again the procession passed through a street formed of two battalions of infantry and two guns, belonging to the Missir, from whom they received a salute of eleven cartridges per gun ; and, lastly, on arriving at Hamb (the place of halt for the day), and on entering the line of sentry surrounding the barrah durry, the procession was re ceived by a battalion of Monsieur Anitabili's, under a salute of eleven guns. At the barrah durry, close to w hich there was a splendid tent pitched to receive the reLnains of the noble old Maharajah, the procession stopped, and the ashes were deposited in the tent ; everything was conducted as if the worthy man had been alive travelling about. The line of sentry, the door-keepers, &c., all with the same exactitude ; so much so, that a person accustomed to his way of travelling, and arriving, unaware of his demise, would not have seen anything that could have led him to suspect that deplorable and mournful event, except, perhaps, the absence of troops and the sirdars' and urn labs' tents, &c. ; and even these omissions to persons who had travelled with him, would have created no surprise, for how often have the tents (except the Maharajah's which always followed him on an ele fphant,) not come up for several hours after halting; and even then how few would hazard to pitch for the day, knowing that no dependance could be placed on the Maharajah's movements ; for his people often watched until, the evening being so far advanced, there could be no chance of moving till next morning, to go nobody knew where, before they thought of making themselves comfortable for the night. The Sikh troops, accompanying the remains, are said 1 to be in a high state of discipline and order, and do great credit to their different commanders, especially a squad ron of the Lancers under Captain De la Roche's com mand, who are a remarkably fine body of men, and well equipped. From other authentic sources we learn, to the aston ishment of every one, all has hitherto gone on in the most tranquil manner possible, and that there is every prospect of a continuance of this state of affairs. Monsieur Court is expected there in three or four days, having been, with his corps, recalled from Pesha wur. General Ventura has left the British camp with the Sikh forces, and encamped seven miles from it. Monsieur Anitabili is to remain with No Nehal Singb in the government of Peshawar. The Rajah Dehan Singh continues Premier, and all the other places are to be kept by those who held them in the Maharajah's life time ; the army, in fact everything, is to be kept on the same footing as formerly. Kurruck Singh has made over his private forces and the country he held to his brother-in-law, Mungul Singh. Shair Singh, who had not been near the Maharajah since the departure of the Governor-General, and who did not even attend the funeral ceremonies of his father (the late Maharajah), is now said to be raising troops, but this is not believed by our correspondent, who says " he is too wise for that, and I should not be as tonished to see him at the coronation ; he has been written to to come in," A few days before the poor Maharajah died, he gave away to fuckeers gold and silver howdahs, ele phants, horses, saddles, and bridles of the most costly articles covered with jewels and n e,arly three cror es of rupees, precious stones of all kinds and descriptions, g,oldand silver plates, shawls, cows death, . ttil,a,r punting, amiauhs,t p f e hr o oa p mv l e e t s hg a ie y v e , dn t a o ya a wo c af r y o h r it e so buffaloes, h ar d cas h , gold, silverprecio sstones &C ' ,o illness of fuckeers,rupees. t o that b ra h o m f i his ns, &c.,• sent. to Gaya-Gaya and Juggurnaut. Letters from Vienna mention, that M. Tatischef bar. taken part in the conferences regarding the East. The same letters say that the Russian fleet in the harbour of Qebastopol is victualled and watered for four months. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1839. ANOTHER DISTRICT TO BE ADDED TO ENGLAND. A great estuary, called the Wash, separates Norfolk from Lincoln on the sea-coast. Stimulated by the quantities of land formerly gained from the sea in the same neighbourhood, it is now proposed to form a Com pany to recover 150,000 acres, partly on the Lincoln and partly on the Norfolk coast. In this neighbour hood the Rivers Ouse, Nene, Welland, and Witham, discharge their waters into the German Ocean. This prospectus states— " The measure now in contemplation was suggested by the success which has already attended several other works of a similar nature upon the adjoining coasts, by which many thousand acres have been rescued from the overflowing of the sea, and converted into arable and pasture lands of excellent quality. " Not to mention the Embankment of the River Nene below Wisbeach, and the valuable land, now under enitivation, which a few years ago formed the channel of the Ouse above Lynn, and other works of a recent date and upon a more limited scale, it is known that the rich and extensive alluvial plains of marsh land in Nor folk, and those in the adjoining county of Lincoln, were formerly a part of the same Estuary, and have been re claimed by embankments, commencing in the time of the Romans. These instances are considered as afford ing the most satisfactory assurances of the practicability of the present undertaking, and of the extraordinary fertility and value of the soil which might be thereby added to the territory and agricultural resources of the empire. " Stimulated by the encouragement derived from these sources, and deeply impressed by the inestimable national and private benefits which would accrue from the accomplishment of this magnificent enterprise, the promoters have caused Surveys to be made, anil also Plans and Estimates to be prepared, by Sir John Rennie and other competent persons, for the purpos of ascertaining the practicability of the work, the ex pense of carrying it into execution, the time required for its completion, and, especially whether the value of the land, when recovered, would be sufficient to yield an adequate return for the capital expended. " The result of these inquiries has more than rea lized the most sanguine anticipations of the promoters. It appears by the Report of Sir John Rennie, that the whole quantity of recoverable land consists of 200,000 acres, of which the greater part of 150,000 acres may be recovered at the cost of 121. per acre ; whilst the remainder, being at a greater distance from the land, will require an outlay of from 141. to 151. per acre. It has also been satisfactorily shown by the reports of land valuers of great local knowledge and experience, that the average value of the fee-simple of the land, when recovered, cannot be estimated at less than 40/. per acre. " In regard to the time of completion, it is necessary to state that it is not intended to proceed to an imme diate embankment of the land ; the very eminent engi neer under whose superintendence the works will be executed, has clearly demonstrated the inexpedience of excluding the sea-water before the land has been warped, or covered with a certain quantity of alluvial deposit ; for, independently of the benefits to be (lc rived from raising the surface to a higher level, it obvious, that the fertility and consequent value of the land recovered, must necessarily depend upon the qua: - tity of alluvial matter with which it is covered. " To those who are unacquainted with the subject warping, it may, perhaps, appear to be a long and i:•- dious process. It is true that, in general, the accumu lation of alluvial deposit, where it is left, to the unaid operations of nature, advances very slowly ; but wh-1 it is assisted by judicious artificial means, it proceee with a rapidity scarcely to be credited by those uLo have not had an opportunity of witnessing its pregr-: . Still it is evident, that the successful result, even of most approved and scientific methods of warping, n -,t depend upon the quantity of alluvion which can be mai. • available for that purpose. Now it is well known t,h. t the Estuary called the Wash abounds with, or, tec:lrq cally speaking, holds in suspension, a very large proper. tion of rich alluvial matter ; and it has been ascertained by repeated experiments, that a quantity sufficient . o cover the whole of the 150,000 acres proposed to recovered, may be procured within a comparati:P'y short period of time. It is important to observe t. 13;, , out of these 150,000 acres, about 90,000 acres at the present time, left wholly uncovered by the sea low water. " OLD CHANNEL OF THE OUSE. " Since the opening of the Eau Brink Cut, took place about 17 years ago, 800 acres of this have been warped up by natural means to the ente.t of from 9.5 to 35 feet. The greater part of the 800 fr cline i“:1L1 z from the time of the opening of the Cut. The whoic 800 acres were in a state fit for embankment, and have been recovered ten years ago. The land now for 21. per acre ; and it is worth from 301. to 701. vq acre according to its respective stages of improveme,,t. " NENE WASH. " This comprises 6,300 acres, of which 1,300 acres were enclosed eight years ago, and are now let at froto ,`3O. to 40s. per acre. The remaining 5,000 acr upon which there has been an accumulation of allut al matter, to the extent of 15 or 16 feet, within the 1,.;t, eight years, are now about to be embanked. It is very valuable land, and in its present unembanked state is worth from 401. to 501. per acre. "FOSS-DYKE WASH. "Several thous2nd acres have been already inclosed above this Wash, and a large additional quantity wid be recovered within a very short period. " FREESTON AND WAINFLEET SHORES. " These shores form the northern side of the great Estuary which is the subject of the present undertaking. Upon many thousand acres, lying below high-water mark, the alluvial matter is (by the unassisted ope rations of nature) accumulating to such a height above low-water mark, that the first processes of vegetation, namely, samphire and the marsh grasses, are beginning to appear, which never takes place until the land attains the elevation of about sixteen feet above low water. The recovery of the whole of this land might be greatly , accelerated by judicious artificial measures ; the ope ration of which has been very strikingly exemplified during the present summer in the old Nene Estuary, where, by means of a jetty erected on the recommen dation of Sir John Rennie, the land has been warped up more than a foot within the very short period of one month. " To understand the effect produced by artifilal modes of warping, as compared with natural means, it is to be observed, that where the sea is left in its natural state, any very considerable deposit of the matter held in suspension is prevented by the continual agitation of the water, and consequently the alluvial soil is carried backwards and forwards by the influx and efflux of the tides ; whereas, by the erection of jetties, arid the oti.cr means adopted by skilful engineers, the current of :be tides is checked, and still water produced ; the ne cessary consequence of which is, that a large proi.(sr don of the suspended matter subsides and depo.its itself before the reflux of the tide. " The Crown, as owner of the soil of the land in tended to be recovered, in consideration of the . gr,at national advantages arising from the undertaking, has ceded its territorial rights to the Company, reserving only a gross payment of one per cent. upon the capital expended. " For the present it is intended to limit the taking to the recovery of 150,000 acres. This will require an expenditure of 2,000,0001., which, de ducted from the sum of 6,000,0001., the value of the land, will leave to the Shareholders a clear gain of 4,000,0001. " The Capital of the Company will be 2,000,001., which will be divided into 20,000 shares of 1001. e;eh, upon which a deposit of 51. is to be made immediately ; but no farther deposit will be required, until an Act of Parliament, for which application will be made in the next Session, has been obtained, for incorporating !he Company, and conferring upon it the necessary pots ers. " But although it has been thought prudent to it, ske provision for raising the sum of 2,000,000/., which is the estimated expense of completing the undertaking, it is confidently expected that it will not be necess,,ry to call for the whole of that sum, as large tracts of land will be recovered shortly atter the commencement and during the progress of the work, which may be made an available fund far prosecuting the undertaking, or be divided among the Shareholders, as may be deemed most expedient. Between 9,000 and 10,000 acres of the most valuable part of the land, worth fiorn 401. to 601. per acre, are fit for immediate embankment, and will be wholly recovered within three years." To all such undertakings we wish the most :;mple success, but we trust that those who have planned this one do not estimate the value of the land to be re claimed by the present price of land, because that is enhanced by the Corn-laws, accordi.ng to Sir James Graham, fully one-half, or the landlords pocket twice as much rent as they ought—according to more rober calculations, one-fifth ; and consequently the 40/. per acre must be reduced to 321. in case the Corn-laws are repealed. Perhaps the reduction should be still greater. Much as we wish to see England improved we think it would be a monstrous injustice to tax the whole coro munity to enrich the gentlemen who may redeem the land in the Wash. Let them wait till the Corn laws are repealed, and then they may proceed with justice, and we believe with greater advantage. The prop ctus has the respectable names of Earls Fitzwilliam, li.:rd wicke, Oxford, and others, to recommend it, though not to guarantee the success. For that the Messrs. Re3nie, the engineers, are the responsible parties. THE TOMATO, OR LOVE APPLE.—A physi cian at Ciucicnati, in the United States (Dr. M , res), affirms that he has discovered a substitute for calunA in the abovenamed vegetable, and that "in the sou!!;. est o p co mpound extract of tomato is by f ar t h e most pcpular medicine in circulat ion, particularly for bilious comp:di - its," It is said that its power is decidedly shown upon the of 2: a r of secretion and excretion, and that in bilious f e v er ', and other diseases cons e q uent u p on a torpidity or congest of the liver, its influence has prevailed with h a p py c a• , cis. The medicine, it appears, is made from the fruit. :lany other physicians in America are prescribing th e use this addition to their pharmacopoeia, which has been hiLiierto always exhibited in the shape of a pill. SUNDAY TRAVELLING In our last was given the Report and proceedings of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, one of the most promising Companies in the north. A discus sion on that occasion arose respecting Sunday travelling. Several of the proprietors were for shutting the line up altogether, others for partially opening it, and others again for opening it for the tr ans it o f passenge rs, as on other days. An animated discussion took place, and it was at length resolved to open the line on Sunday with not fewer trains than travel on that day on the Liver pool and Manchester Railway, with which it is in con nection. This result, we regret to learn, has deter mined Mr. Wood, the Chairman, and two of his col leagues, to resign. Mr. Wood has, we believe, been the Chairman from the begin n i ng , an d b y hi s zea l and vigour has contributed much to bring the concern through the difficulties which once b ese t it t o it s p r esent prosperous state. It is therefore with unmingled feel ings of regret that we heard of his secession from an office which he filled so honourably to himself and so advantageously to the Company. We lament exceedingly these di scuss i ons on the sub ject of Sunday travelling. It i s f u ll ti me some hi g h er power should step in and decide what shall; or what shall not be done on the Sabbath. If presently 0,,e line takes upon itself to exclude Sunday travelling ant? another to admit it, what endless confusion shall we have throughout the country ! W e give the fullest credit to the excellence and sincerity of the motives of thos, gentlemen who are for restricting, or even closing alto gether, the railways on a Sunday; but, we apprehend, they are assuming to themselves a power they have no right to at all, even supposing they were unanimous on the point. The preamble of ev er y A ct says , " Wh ereas the making of a railway ' from A to B " would be of great public advantage, be it therefore enacted," and so forth. Hence it is . dear that the p o i n t t o be con sidered is whether opening it on a S un d a y w ill b e a benefit to the public , which can only be settled, in our opinion, by the demands of th e p u bli c , an d th e use they make of the line when so opened. Nov, the way to determine this, and the only way, is to open the linc as freely on the Sunday as any other day for some de finite period, and observe the use the public make of it. If they do not use it, we may conclude they do not want it, and the opening of it is of no public advantage ; if they do use it, we must of necessity conclude it is wanted, and will be of advantage, and, consequently. cannot legally be closed. As mandamuses are become so fashionable, we rather wonder the effect of one ha , not been tried on this point. We have no doubt the result would be a compulsion to afford every and equal facility, on all days in the week, without distinc tion, to public transit. We believe an opinion to this effect has already been given by a high legal authority. —Railway Magazine. SUSPECTED INCENDIARISM AT WATFORD. —On Friday evening last a fire of an alarming descrip tion broke out in a barn at the rear of the Essex Arm, Hotel, Watford, belonging to Mr. Barnard. The barn contained about twenty loads of hay and straw at the time The fire was first discovered about half-past seven o'clock and in a very short time it was completely enveloped it flames. A great masonic dinner had been provided le Mr Barnard ; and the gentlemen who were dining in room, the windows of which fronted the barn, were dis turbed in the midst of their festivities by the glare of tee flames and the cries of the neighbours. The town engine , was soon brought to the spot, and it happened very fortu nately that on the same day it had been exercised, one was in excellent order; and, by the exertions of the town', people, and the immediate neighbours of Mr. Barnard, ter fire was subdued in about two hours, but not before eigh, or nine loads of hay and straw had been entirely consumed and the building nearly destroyed. We regret to say the' a very strong impresssion prevails that the fire was the act of some vile incendiary, as no person was allowed to g ( into the barn with a candle, and it had not been opera at all for several meetly:. Several strangers had been us served lurking about the house Ouring the day, and it I supposed that advantage was taken of the confusion cau:,( by the dinner for the purpose of committing the act. H the fire occurred at a later period of the night, there i very little doubt but that the whole of the premises woue have been destroyed. INCENDIARISM.—Yesterday, information vvas received by the Police, that on Monday night a stack o wheat and a stack of oats, situate about sixty rods fron each other, in a field near Dagenham, Essex, were maliei ously set fire to and destroyed. Mr. George Edwttre Poulett, the owner, has offered a reward of twenty poun and the Daginham Association a further reward of twentl pounds for the d;scovery of the incendiary. On Monday morning, as the Hastings li f2 ,li Express coach was going from London, and had, at half-past ten o'clock, arrived at the George lan, Farni , e wnich is situated on a steep hill, and which tie coach had to descend, fresh horses had been put to, En; the horse-keeper standing:at their heads waiting for Bates 1 the coachman, to mount the box, when a " gentleman' drove up in his chaise, and called to the horse-keeper e take the loose horses which had been just before take, from the coach and were standing in the road, out of th wry, as he could not pas,. Not thinking what ho w., about for the moment, he lea the heads of the horses at taebed to the coach, and they immediately started off ail! fearful speed down the hill, without the coachman or is one to guide them. The cuseb being full inside and cu , the pasesengers were drelefully terrified at the prosp,:c before them, and the alarm of those who witnessed it col be more easily felt than described. Bates. the coachman instantly nsounted one of the horses and followed the cost- . at a rapid rate, but very judiciously did not attempt to ee before the afEeighted horses until they began to slacket hgaliopped about six miles. eN little teir beforePacr' after theyyar had arrived at the toll gate at Spratt's-bottom he succeeded in getting up to them and stopped them As several vehicles bad been passed on the road, it was ; miracle that none of them were upset and lives lost. Th rumours up the road were various and of a most painft. description, until the up-coach arrived, when it was aster tabled that no serious damage had been done. All ti passengers, except one gentleman, had the courage to kee l their places, and escaped injury. It was said one gentle man leaped from the coach, and was seriously but no: dangerously injured. SINGULAR INCIDEMT.—On the morning o Wednesday last, when the officials at our Post Office pre ceeded to make the arraegrnents for dispatching th mail for Edinburgh, which leaves about half-past fie, o'clock, p.m., a silver watch , enclosed in a paper wrappee and bearing this address " To James Soutar, labour. r. parish of Johnstone," was found in the receiving box. Ti the watch was appended a long piece of string, doubled and which had apparently b men used for at once prevent ing the watch from being e,na g ed, and occasioning are noise while being dropped in :to the box. The clerks wee puzzled what to do with the wide, but Mr. Baddan, tie mail-guard on duty that in orning, instantly scented te. motive which led to the wat ch being then in their hand... In short the dropper wished , :o transmit it to James Smite by the guard, but as the only means to avoid detection ha , resorted to the letter box. Mr. Baddan having got to article into his possession, at id knowing nothing of the in dividual to whom it was addressed determined on seareitiae him out by trusting to whatever accident chance might throw in his way. Act ordingly when everything we.; " all right" off went the mail , and upon nearing St. Ann's Bridge, which lies in Johnso fine parish, a person was mei upon the road, of whom Mr Baddan enquired if he knew anything of a labourer nam. td Soutar, in that part of the country. " Why, James e. touter? yes," was the answer returned. " I think I've got a bit of a watch for him here," said our friend, handling tl le packet, and looking inquisi tively at his informant. .; A watch l" was the rejoinder, " how did you come by it ?" Mr. Baddan related its recent history, and was informed tb at about thirteen years and a half ago, the individual to c thorn the packet was directed, was attending divine service in Lochmaben church. Derive the service his watch had e ether been extracted from les pocket, or dropping on the fluor had been picked up and unfairly converted into bog pty. Suspicion fell strongly on a person present, but as not hing tending to circumstantiate it could be found, no steps of any consequence were taken in this matter. The watt' a was then transmitted to the custody of the individual, who promised to deliver it to Soutar. It is evident fran t what we have related, that to watch must have come unl awfully into the possession of some one, who, afterward. ; labouring under a remorse of conscience, sought the abo• se curious means of restoring it to its rightful owner. —Du mfries Courier. DiscoVERY OF A Si DiTERRANEAN CHAMBER. AT ALTON.—A number of / abourers have lately been eri. ployede ;bury in excavating part of the the t ruins of the ancient baronial castle, which forms the chicf ornament of Earl hi s o p f i c S t uhrre7qt i e village. Amongst oth er trifling curiosities they found some bullets and a piece of ancient coin ; but a few days since they discovered a sub. terraneous apartment, and a flight of stone steps, wines apparently form a descent to 1 the bottom part of the stu pendous and l o f ty rock on w l tich the castle is built. The excavation has s i nce b een su s ] )ended by order of the Ea , I, who intend s to cont i nue i t to still geater extent, on his re turn to Engl an d next summer .—Sta f fordshire Ezaminer. LARGE MUSHROOM.- —Last week a mushroom was gathered in a field at Gre •enstead Hall, near Chipping Ongar, which measured 13i inches in diameter, and 401 inches in circumference. , t parish, which for size, we EN ORMOUS TROUT.— -A trout wa s latel y cau g ht in the Wat er o f Wester, ;at can confidently say, h as wider n or ever been surpassed is this country. This king ref the trout tribe measured no less than three feet in length , was two feet two inches it cir cumference i n the thicke, it part, and weighed no less than 23ilbs. 1 It was taken a little b elow the bridge of Wester, and the individual who c aught i t; affirms it to be the largast trout he had ever seen. We Is ave been assured that ti i Daniel Lambert of trove Is was c onsiderably larger than tiny f olmon caught at Wich. this 'ear. The trouts found in the Water of Wester 'have at i 11 times been remarkable for their *CO flavour zed Large size e —John o' Groat's Journ,fl, CAPTUItE OF IV HALE' Friday two you:ig whales were got in the Clye the one on the beach at Roseneath, the othe r a roc Dumbarton, or West Fen ) . They were both of th abe the nose species, and about '22 feet in length. The o ee e t Roseneath was thrown tree', e dead. The other was foetid below Bisbopton, in el eit six feet of water, left by the receding tide, and unable to swim out, and after a good deal of difficulty wastit ii d by the ferryman, an d oue o f the men belonging t ) dredge vessel, now s , :atioru.d above Dumbarton T: were both of such awg sight that the blubber had to be (~t off them as the l ay I for ty wa n attempted to haul u.) o one at West Ferry, b et they were unable to move it Glasgow Courier. Yesterday mornit ig, at si% o'clock, a strong t' - tachment of the Royal , Foot Artillery arrived, by the re. el train, by the London mil Birmingham railroad, from I. e land, having landed at Liverpool, under the commaee .1 Colonel Richardson. They proceeded at seven o'clock on their march to Woolw icb. HARVEST. Our accounts are conflicting as to the amount of da mage done. Our own opinions are not in accordance with the alarm which seems as usual studiously propa gated.—Dublin Pilot. _ _ In the upper ward of Renfrewshire, the grain of all sorts may now be fairly considered two-thirds cut ; but with very little exception there is none of it led in, nor unless the drought be stronger than it is will be dry for leading for some days to come. The last two or three dry days is enabling the husbandman to com plete the reaping ; the crops are in pretty good order. To-day the shearers have been readily engaged at Paisley and Johnstone at aid. per hour.—Glasgow Chronicle. Since Tuesday we have had generally fine weather, and reaping has been carried on in this neighbourhood with much vigour. We have seen a large district of Holderness, and observed;that, although in part wheat is injured by the floods of rain, the greater proportion is got dry, and we have seen some very good samples. We are not aware how the yield will be in the interior of the Riding ; but we should fancy it near an average on those lands vie have seen. No crops have been so much injured by the rains as beans ; we have a sample now before us, from near Patrington, which is corn oletely spoiled. The continual wet weather has caused the corn in the pod to swell until the pod has burst open, when the grain, not being ripe, has perished.— Hull Observer. For the last week the weather has been more favour able for agricultural operations than previously, though we had very little sunshine until Sunday, when it issumed a more favourable aspect, which, we hope, will continue : should this week keep fine there is every prospect of a great breadth of corn being well housed. The late wet and unfavourable weather has had consi derable influence on the market in this town, wheat realized an advance of 2s. per qr., though 3s. and 4s. were demanded.—Tyne Mercury. In a wide circuit around Dumfries, the crops, we hould say, are about three-fourths cut ; leading, how ,ver, is a different question, and yesterday morning ve conversed with husbandmen who doubted .whether there were a hundred ricks secured in Dum friesshire and Galloway. Where the land is dry and tindly, it is only the head sheaves that are much injured; ,iut along the banks of streams, and on wet bottoms, considerable damage has been done by flooding and sanding up. Not a few farms could be mentioned, part if the crops on which have been three or four times under water, and it is grievous to see fertile holnts ,ot wheat, beans, and even barley, thus situated. In the (ewer parts of the county, green as well as white crop has been more than once submerged, and in various parishes of Annandale and Nithsdale, cotters and others have become afraid that their potatoes will rot. On dry soils, however, the crop is excellent ; larger ,übers have rarely been seen, and thus far we hear of io complaints as to bossness of heart. On Friday a eater-spout broke in the parish of Kirkgunzeon, which inundated every field within its range to such an extent that passers by could only see the tops of the stooks. In the last Sound List fifty-five vessels were reported ;rain laden for Britain, and valuing the cargo of each it 4,0001., we have an expenditure, for a single trip to ,he Baltic, of 220,0001. sterling. But speculation is busy in other quarters, and operations so extensive on the part of persons who may be supposed to know their iusiness well, augurs, we fear, badly as to aggregate re mits in the home market. Eight thousand quarters of Foreign barley were imported into Leith last week, and whisky rose 2d. per gallon.—Dumf ies Courier. RIPON.—The weather during the past week has been very unpropitious, and the harvest has made little pro ;Tess. We regret to state that full one half of the crops in this neighbourhood are yet unsecured. We have ioticed many fields of barley in a bad condition, and , ven some of wheat, which were fine before the late :Leavy rains, are beginning to show symptoms of sprout, L 3 well as the sheaves which have been exposed in .the ield. Some of the spring crops of wheat, and those ;r1 backward land, have escaped with less injury, not )eing so fully ripe. Several beautiful samples of new Nheat have been exhibited in our market ; and, had the ieason continued favourable, an abundant supply, with core than an average crop, might have been anticipated. MALToN.—Thetremendous rains which have lately ['alien, and the continued wet weather, have entirely :topped the getting in of the harvest in the neighbour mod of Mahon, which otherwise is fit for active ope rations, A small part has been gathered in the low !ountry places ; but in the Wolds only a very small qua', ity in odd districts has been obtained. The sprout is ;Towing on the curn in many situations ; and it is eared much damage to the crops will be sustained in !onsequence. At all event , and under any eircum itanees, the harvest will be a late one ; and how the .Tops may turn out, both with respect to yield and qua ity, is at present very problematical. It is expected, however, the yield will be above the average quantity ; 'out the quality will, of course, depend upon the wea ther and the state in which the corn is obtained. So ex.ettsive has been the fall of rain for the last few days, that the river Dement is now flooded almost as much is in the heaviest rains in winter or spring. ScAnaohouuti.—Thc harvest here is in a very pre c.:arious state at present ; the corn is ripe, and the abourers are making all speed, but the heavy falls of rain greatly retard their progress. We regret to state that in many parts of this and the Adjacent counties the grain has begun to sprout, and is some few cases the unhoused crops are nearly worthless. The continuance of the wet weather has damped the hopes of the farmer ; and we fear that, generally speaking, the crops in this county and Anglesey are in a worse state than they have been during many years. Very little, indeed, is safely housed ; and we hear similar accounts from the entire of North Wales, and also from Cheshire, Lancashire, and Shropshire.— Carnarvon Herald. Eastward of the mountainous ridge which separates Lancashire and Yorkshire, and extends almost to the centre of the kingdom, the crops are good and well se cured ; but westward, from Argyleshire to Cornwall, and in all except the earlier parts of Ireland, the rain has been productive of great damage.—Manchester Times. _ The corn crops in the neighbourhood of Bradford have suffered considerably by the late rains. A great deal of wheat has sprouted several inches, and most of it must be secured in bad condition. Wednesday being a fine day a great deal was cut. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER.—There was a considerable inquiry for yarn yesterday ; but it did not produce an adequate extent of business. The sales, though tolerably nume rous, were by no means heavy ; and some descriptions of yarn, especially 40's and the lowest counts of mule yarn, were a shadow lower than on the preceding Tues day, but other sorts remained unaltered. For goods of all kinds the market was exceedingly flat, and power loom printing cloth was about lid. lower than last week ;—the very best qualities of '27-inch cloth barely commanding 7s. In heavy goods there was no change of prices, but sales were made with difficulty. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, SEPT. 23. —The demand for flannels still ectitinues steady, and we have had a good average market to-day, but no change in the prices. The wool market has been rather more lively, and manufacturers have bought more freely, but prices may be quoted the same as la,t week. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, SEPT. 24.—The demand for heavy woollens, especially fancies, continues un abated ; but superfines are at discount, and few sales made. The beautiful and seasonable weather has had a favourable effect on the market, as well as on the spirits of the people, and sanguine hopes are entertained of an average autumn trade. The demand for light fancy goods and waiscoatings is not so good, which may be fairly attributed to the season. Priees generally remain firm, nor is there any material change in the wool market. Considerable activity prevails in the warehouses. PEDESTRIANISM.—On Saturday night James Molloy, the pedestrian, successfully finished a match against time, to walk 400 miles in six successive days. Tile ground over which he walked is two miles and a half long, being the high road from the Crown and Sceptre, in Brompton, to the Wheatsheaf, in Fulham. He began before two o'clock on Monday morning, and had walked 70 miles before midnight. The weather was so bad on Tuesday he performed only 50 miles. The num ber of miles increased by ten on each of the three succeeding days, and on Saturday he walked 80 and had finished his wearisome task in spite of as discou raging a week's weather as any traveller on horse or foot could have to make way against, an hour and a half before midnight, which was the limit of the time allowed. Molloy frequently walked five miles in fifty-two minutes. He says the best regimen for a pedestrian is beef-steaks and wine, dividing the four ordinary meals into eight. To eat little but often is his maxim. Malt, and ardent spirits he says will knock a man up. He is but little the worse of his expedition, except, as may well be supposed, that his feet are covered with blisters. ---- ----- DEATH OF A MONOMANIAC.—TUeSday inquest was held before Mr. Wakley, at the Boot, Wells street, Oxford -street, on the body of Franccs Stanton, aged 52, the wife of a labouring man residing at No. 40 in the same street. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased had very extravagant notions, entertaining an idea that she was one of the Royal Family. She would frequently assert that the throne was hers, but that she was kept from it by her enemies, She had been charged nt different metropolitan police-offices with riding about in cabs, looking after her imaginary rights, and having no money to pay the fare. She never drank intoxicating liquors, and would not associate with persons who did ; she was perfectly rational in conversation on every subject except what related to herself. She had been for some time past afflicted with dropsy, and was taken about a month ago to Middlesex Hospital, which she left on Mon day week, saying she knew she was going to die, end would die at home. On reaching home she declared that she was in the family way, and that the doctors had 13, en bribed by the executors who held the property to which she laid claim to give her medicine to destroy the lawful heir she was about to bring into the world. On Saturday night last she was taken very ill, and on Sunday morning died. Verdict—" Natural Death." DETERMINED AND EXTRAORDI- NARY SUICIDE. VERDICT OF FELO DE SE. On Saturday evening last, a sensation of alarm was created in Preeson's-row, Bolton, by a report that Mr. Hi ram Simpton had gone into an eating-house in that street and shot himself with a pistol in one of the upper rooms. The circumstances of the case are fully detailed in the following evidence adduced at the inquest : Eliza Evans being sworn, said, lam a single woman, and keep an eating-house in Preeson's-row, in partnership with Miss Leader. I know the deceased, and have known him for about three years. He was the head constable at Bolton. He was often in the habit of coming to our house. He came there on Saturday last between seven and eight o'clock in the evening. I heard the report of the pistol with;which he shot himself. Ho was a:very sober man, and during the time I have known him I never observed any thing desponding in his manner, but he was a very hasty man. He was a married man. He had formed an attach - meat to a young female, a Miss Leader, but I never heard that it led to any unpleasantness between him and his wife. Jane Carr, servant in the eating-house, was sitting in the kitchen on Saturday evening last, when the deceased came in. She merely corroborated her mistress's testimony. Edward Hulse, being sworn, said, I am a surgeon. About half-past 7 o'clock on Saturday evening last I was called to the deceased. I was informed that a man had shot himself. I took my assistant with me and went into one of the bed-rooms in Miss Evans's eating-home, and there I found the deceased, whom I had known previously, lying on the floor on his back, quite dead. I observed some hemorrhage through his shirt, and on making an examination I observed an orifice in the chest, which had evidently been made by a pistol-ball, and within a yard of the body I found the pistol now produced. I was enabled to pass my little finger into the wound, which was of con siderable depth. The ball had passed through between the ribs, on the lower part of the sternum. The wound was decidedly the cause of death. Frederick 'Morton Baker said—l am Inspector of Police in Bolton. The deceased was superintendent. The last time I saw the deceased alive was on Saturday afternoon last, about al quarter past one; he said he was going to shoot himself. I thought at the time it was said more jocularly than seriously. I ridiculed the idea, and ha said he bad written to all his friends, and showed me a packet of letters, and I observed one directed to myself, and which is the same now produced. He then put the letters in his desk, and I observed my percussion pistol, and asked him to let me have it, aed he said I should have it in the course of the day. He was a very passionate man, but I never saw anything like insanity about him. I always considered that he lived very happy with his wife, setting aside what I - knew privately, that he was very much attached to a girl in Liverpool. He tasted to me that he was going over to Liverpool to see a young girl of the name of Chrissy, and that he was heart-broken because she had refused to see him, and he requested me not to say anything about it. Christiana Leader sworn—l am a single woman and am in partnership with Miss Evans, who keeps an eating house. I have been intimate with the deceased for about four years. On Friday last, I received a letter from the wife of the deceased, requesting me to meet her at the railway station. I was proceeding then along with a niece of the deceased, when I met him in Lord-street. I told him I was going to meet his wife, when he observed that she was not coming ; he sent his wife home. He took hold of my arm, fast in his, and walked at a rapid rate down to the George's Pier-head. I went on board one of the Woodside boats with him. From his manner altogether I was alarmed that he intended something wrong, so I got up from where I was sit ting, and told a gentleman that I was afraid he was going to do me some injury, and that he was taking me over the water against my will. The gentleman had him sent on shore, and I proceeded to Woodside without him. I did not land at Woodside, but returned with the same boat, the Captain of which placed me in a car, and I went to my brother John, in London -road, and I never afterwards saw the deceased alive. The same night, about nine o'clock, I was informed that he had shot himsdf. He has more than once threatened to me that he would shoot himself, and ohce threatened that he would shout me. About five week, , ago he had a pistol in his pocket, and he then said he would shot himself, as he said he was very unhappy. He never, by his manner or eoeduct, led me to think he was out of his mind, bet he was very passionate. Ou Saturday evening I did not think he was out of his mind, but he was very much excited. Some letters found on the deceased were then put in and read. One was addressed to the Mayor of Bolton, begging him to sign some receipts for the ben. fit of his ( 'impton's) wife. Another was sntto a Superintendent, with a similar request. The others were the following : September 20. My dear Wife and Child,—Our miseries have been so manifold through my iniquities ; our wretchedness has been so much on the increase of late, that I can no longer endure myself, my misery is so great, and yet I can blame no one but myself fur it all. Oh 1 my dear wile, when I think how very happy we may have been, but foi cne circum stance, (going to Liverpool ;) when I think bow very, very happy we may have been in each other's love—but why do dwell on this subject? Things are done amid they cannot be undone. When you receive this I shall be no more ; but recollect, my dear wife and my dear child, it is not for the sake of her alone that you accuse me of, that I commit so rash an act. No 1 no lit is that I have taken all things into consideration, and that I find my life is a drawback upon you, and upon that individual we have so often quarrelled about, by removing which I shall, in sacrificing my life, render you all hap pier than you are at present. You, my dear Harriet, will by and by, when my person is somewhat forgotten, do much better in the world without than with me, for you know how peevish, spiteful, cross, and wicked I am, and you know how much worse I get every day. Oh, Harriet, you must forget that even such a one as me ever lived. You must, you must, and you must endeavour yourself to improve in cleanliness, &c., and do learn to write, &e. Oh 1 ilarriet, forgive me telling you all this, but I do, even think if you had have tried, you may have altered me ; but it cannot be done now, therefore I shall say no more on that head, but confine myself to what I ought to inform you of--that I loved Christy. I have told you repeatedly and often, and I have begged you to proceed in a certain line of conduct towards me. and I would be as kind to you as I possibly could. You did not proceed as I desired you, but quite contrary, and thereby added fuel to an already blazing fire. Oh ! Harriet, why did you persevere in such a line of conduct ? But 'tis done, and all is passed now. When Chrissy and me were friends I could endure all with a growl now and then - but when she too quarrelled with me, and all thing s rushed across my mind, thinking how many years we may have to live together, I drew these conclusions that unless I could forget Chrissy we should be miserable ; that as long 83 you thought I loved her, you would be jealous, and we should be wretched. Now, you would always think so, and I cannot say I should ever cease to love her ; but, Harriet, I do love you, and my dear child, and also Christy. Forgive me ; I am too free, but I am writing for the last time to you. Bring up Polly as a good dear babe, and let her be taught cleanliness and carefulness. Pay some little atten tion to my last request, in looking, to yourself, and save all you can, even to a pin's worth. God bless you, my dear, dear wife and child. Yours, HIRAM. To Mrs. C. Re4y, &c., London. Sept. 20. Dear Sister,—Dear Mary.—l have loved and loved till I have driven myself mad, and forgive me for what I have done. lam now out of all, all the miiery of this infer,lal life Oh I what a world of sin. Ou ! how very unhappy does sin render one, and yet how ready we are to rush again to the iniquity of the flesh. Adieu I Farewell I I have been mad ever since I came from London. Your mad brother, t-lIRAM. To Mr. George or John Simptoo, pilot, Galvenston Bay, - Texas. Sept . . *3och, 1839. Brothers,—l have committed an act that has rid me of all worldly miseries. Oh, what I have endured these last six months I I can never think of again going through , o much horrible misery, and all through —. I oviil it 11 no one but one individual of my real motive for commit , ing so rash an act. Farewell I M,y God bless you . 1 ! Your mad brother, HIRAM. * Evidently a mistake for 20. The Juryi then retired to consider the evidence, which the Coroner had perspicuously summed up. After a con sultation of about 20 minutes, they returned a ♦erdict to the eff , Tt that the deceased had committed " St•if- murder." The CORONER then issued his order for the burial of the body, without funeral rites, between the hours of idue and twelve that night. _ - Mr. Ceely, surgeon, of Aylesbury, has demon strated the important fact, that small-pox and cow-pox have the same origin, the latter being small-pox communicated to the cow. Mr. Ceely inoculated cows with small. pox matter; the vesicle produced in the animals had every ap pearance of the vaccine pock. To ascertain the point, children were inoculated with matter taken from the cow thus artificially infected; the result was a fine genuine vaccine vesicle. To establish the fact satisfactorily, these children were submitted to small-pox inoculation, and found to be protected from the disease. Twenty-five successive inocu lations have now been performed with this new virus, which may truly be named " variola vaccina," and it continues to produce the most satisfactory vesicles ; the matter has been employed in Bri , tol with perfect success. The importance of this discovery cannot be too highly appreciated. Small pox often breaks cut in countries where cow-pox cannot be procured; now, it is only necessary to inoculate a cow with the small-pox, and this virulent morbid poison, s o fatal to human life, will be converted by this useful animal into a mild fluid, capable of protecting all inoculated with it from that d: eadtul malady, the small-pox.—Bristol Journal. —..—.. GERMAN ENTHUSIASM AND RHENISH PUNCH.—At the table of Mr. Clay I met a young man from Germany o f the name of V " gentle , on his tra vels, and heard with much pleasure that he proposed go i ng to St. Louis, which was also m y own destination. I went with him to a m usical soiree, at t he house of aGerman. who had been many years in this country, and was corn. manger-in-chief of all the musical dtoboelplitaetrht;emabenondatritdnhiengLe_veseexihiiniolgiogi ton, from the church organ down o to w i n ep a solfeggio." He was extremely ladies retired, I was also about to leave ray twheell'house , When a s wasth the P M a r s - se : off 7the :h f u o t ru h l : ily pressed us to remain and take one stirrup-cup in the old German....e. fashion, of punch, made from the true Rhe E n a i c sh h . glass b a e n g d a n a t t o i e i slug g t i s G om er e m t a o n ast o o a r g Chorus from t l' h v e s d o a f i cr ipur:ch was succeeded by e so coun N t lr ry o , ssmluoirobtielrilliguiettiamtioannanlerardourofthe of our in ot , i . r ric h , :n st ai w u a s s ic ro a u ,a sc: thet h w h e aes gave laid u s aside,some as, of th withe spirit - stirring hand and glowing che, ,td k e , s rit-stirring lays of Schiller and of the heroic Korner. Temperance Societies I how many gallons of your inanimate the ye slops might be consumed before ye could inspire enthusiasm, evoke the recol lections, which out Rhenish n b t o h w u juice brought the long estranged son of awakened, as n it b s an n k obl n e the Rhine, and its thousand legions of love, ro a rti > :.nee, and t glory.---Hon. Charles Murray's Travels in America. EVENING EDITION. VENEZUELA. We have received from Caraccas papers to the be ginning of last month. They announce with expres sions of much satisfaction that the President of the Republic had appointed Dr. Alejo Fortique to replace General O'Leary as Commissioner for the Settlement of the Venezuelan debt with the British creditors. Dr. Fortique, who is a principal member of the High Court of Justice, is also accredited as Minister Pleni potentiary to her Majesty Queen Victoria ; and it is said that he is also authorized to open negotiations with the Court of Rome respecting the affairs of the Church in Venezuela. General O'Leary, it appears, had declined the appointment. On the last mentioned object of Dr. Alejo Fortique 's mission, one of the papers, El Liberal, makes the fol lowing observations : " We, who never were of opinion that relations with the Pope would be any thing but inconvenient for us, cannot but see with regret that the Execu tive intends to establish them. The treaties with Popes, called concordats, or under any other name, are nothing but compromises with spiritual autho rity at the expence of temporal, or in which Tovern ments renounce a part of the national sovereignty in favour of a foreign Prince denominated Pope. The his tory of every age, and more particularly the history of Spain, testifies beyond the possibility of doubt that the authority exercised by Popes in Roman Catholic coun tries has always been a stumbling-block to the Government, an affliction to the nation, and, in a word, an ever fertile source of shameless disorders. Tbis dangerous quicksand does not exist in the United States ; yet there are in those States abundance of Catholics, who find there everything necessary for their salvation ; and we too, like the United States, have proclaimed religious freedom." THE MARKETS..--(YESTERDAY•) COAL [ARKET. s, d Carr's Hartley l6 6 Holywell Main 2O 0 Ord's Redhugh Original Windsor's Pontop 21 6 Pontop Windsor Smith's Pontop l9 0 Tanfied Moor Butes 2l 6 Wylam 23 A Walls End Brown's Walls "'nd Heaton 22 0 Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killingworth Walis End Newmarch 21 0 Walls End Walker 22 • Walls Endßraddyll'sHetton '23 3 Walls End Haswell Walls End Hetton Walls End Lambton 23 Ships arrived since s. tl• W. E. North Hetton Lyons 22 0 0 Walls End Stewart's 24 Walls End Whitwell 22 3 Vs alls End Hartlepool 23 9 Walls End Kelloe O4 0 Walls End Adelaide: 2 g 0 Walls End Barrett -2 6 Walls End Clarence Hetton 21 6 Walls Endßichardson's Tees Z 8 0 W. E.Richardson's Hartley 18 0 Walls End Tees 22 9 Walls End Tennant Blythe . l7 0 Bampton lB 0 H art l ey 2O 0 Howard's Netherton Main 18 0 Wigan.., l6 6 last market-day, 78. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Wheat. j Barley. Oats. Per Quarter s. to s, s. to a. Boiton Braintree B ighton 66 73 30 40 ;.,,,bri.tge —. 62 32 Chiche,ter 65 76 =fl 33 Dunmow ,56 7 , 1 26 30 e. to s. 20 29 27 29 16 22 23 29 26 30 20 30 23 20 22 29 28 34 26 33 22 29 Beans. a. to S. 39 43 as 43 53 Grantham 68 '7l 128 35 Grimsby ]67 7 2 26 32 Hai'sham 163 70 26 32 j Hitchin 64 70 32 42 Ipswich L, , wes 64 71 32 34 L. tin - 6 38 • Maidstone ti'l 75 36 39 26 32 NorAich I - e , wo. th Ro oford Sandwich 65 75 28 32 jl7 28 Thet.ord witherh . Witham 64 72 21 22 Yarmouth 65 6'9 ,24 36 26 32 L.VERPOOL CORN MARKET. WHEAT, English, White, tier 71111/. 4 9 4a 33 42 34 40 40 t.. 0 42 14 40 46 Pew• • t.,., 1 . ss 4. r. 2 - 2' II •••• - 46 - 3 - 5 4 4 ex. .m.• - - 42 44 4 '2 - 40 •••• ... 34 40 .—Sept. 24. .. 10 9 '. 9 6 10 3 S 9 9 .5 Foreign 8 a lid 0 t o l , 2 s • 36 : ; OATS, English, Wolsh, and Sewell, i. er 45th Irish „ Fore,gn lIAZILEY, English, Malting, per 11111,111aCter : l5 (4 4:3 11 -- Scotch and Irish, net tiiilbs. Feeding 4 9 5( 1 BEAKY, English, per Imperial quarter 45 0 48 - Irish, Ste. Foreign PEASE, Enr,lisn, per imperial quarter 46 0 44 " Foreign FLou,t, I , !J g h,l„ i5 ,,, t2 8,”!, I rsh OATMEAL, 1.:11,41,01 and Irish, per . 2401bs Sa . 0 42 6 IN lAN CORM, iA C 480111, ...., 44 0 4,4 0 EYE, por {inner al quarter ' l5 n 40 or, , 0 MALT, per imperial qnarer TO 4 lied Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White Red HULT. CORN MARKET. 688. Wheal, White ;per Quarter) ed Foreign Barley. Mal ing Grinchng Oats, Brit h Foreign (in bond) Beans Pease, Grey... ...... ....... Blue and White Linfeed Flour (per sack;... R weseed (per lo quarters)... ...... KING OTHO OF GICEECE.-ATHENS, AvG• 15.—1 was not mistaken when I informed you that Dr. Wibmer would have to follow Colonel Lemair's example , and take his departure. The official Gazette announces; that his resignation has been accepted. Lemair, when at Patras, not only publicly admitted that he had signed the certificate, but justified the act, maintaining that the King was, is, and ever will be an idiot. Ido not believe that any one will feel inclined to differ in opinion with the Gal lant Colonel on this point ; and, such being the c ase, ill it not too bad that a kingd om s h ou ld b e un d er the afbosoll;lte government of such a fo o l— a d ownr i g h t s l aver ing obstinate enough to cl ose hi s ears to conviction, weal;_o enough to listen to the b a d co u nse l s o f t h e parasites wb: surround him. With su ffi cient cunning to lead him int: mischief, his stupidity prevents his getting out o f scrapes he is led into. His jesuitical education has O e prived him of every particle of honour or honesty nature r may have originally gifted him with. He is bated wan,. out being feared, and dull without wisdom ; he has no t even the advantage of some fools in creating merriment in his beholders. _ . The intelligence from Presburgh, received in Vienna on the 14th, was of a satisfactory nature. The Hungarian Diet resolved, on the 12th to enter upon. the discussion of the Royal propositions. The motion in favour of the liberty of speech has been thrown out, and that relative to the affair of Count Radaz had been re ferred to a Committee. A loyal address to the Emperor was proposed and adopted on the 12th, but, contrary to usage, it was drawn up in the Hungarian language. " London, No. 3, Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square. " The Countess of Clifford presents her compli ments to Mr. E Solomons, and is much gratified in being able to say that his Patent Spectacles, adapted to her sight nearly six years ago, have continued undiminished in the perfect ease and pleasure she was so delighted, to have experienced from their use immediately he so. fully applied them, enabling her to read or engage bet sight for the most minute employment, and for any length of time, by day or candle light, without the slightes t fatigue. This is thn more remarkable and gratulatory t° the Countess's feelings, considering the total failure in th e above resp ec t s , a n d consequent mort if y i ng di sappo intment' attending the various ether spectacles she hitheit° attempted to wear; indeed it is with the greatest pleilor t . Ow Countess testifies to Mr E. Solomons' perfectly sec cessful treatment of her sight. and submits her own pec u ' liar case in confirmation of the strong and deserved recor!: mendatkiis his spectacles have re ce i ve d, and of l i a r E. Solomon's high profes , ional standing. " COUNTESS CONSTANTIA CLIFFORD. 0 " To Mr. E. Solomons, Opticia n , 36, Old Bond-stree2.o . • • PLATE SUITED FOR PRESENTATION' Elegant or Splendid Silver Inkkands—Silver Waiters of el sizt —Silver Cups, New and S econ d-h an d—Fifty var i e ties . Silver Tea and Coffee S erv i ces —G o ld S nu ff B oxe s--Silv e Table Snuff Boxes—Silver Epergnes—Silver Bread Bas kets` And many other articles of Plate adapted for Presentati on el Testimonials, &c., may be s e l ecte d from, in the Show Re ems°t T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silversmith, Gold sm ith, an d W atc h ma k er , 47, Coro' hill, London (Seven Doors from Gracechurch- street). the. N. B. 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E 4l . : 1 0 A round Silver Waiter, with shell border, is 17 9 19° j A round Silver Waiter, with shell border 10 20 15 i A round Silver Waiter, with shell border, 12 30 19 19 - 0 A round Silver Waiter, with shell border, 15 42 40 11 . 0 A round Silver Waiter, with shell bordyr IS 86 b 9 1.9 - A round Silver Waiter, with shell border, II 124 c sten" The Plate rooms of this Establishment, which are t pia e ' sive, contain a large and choice selection of Silver _ er „ oppositidip Plated Goods, and every article requisite to complete a fa ' nu ., vice. List of Prices gratis. A. B. Sr...vory and Sons, ?,, the facturinz Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, London, 4 1.1" 31 — Bank of England. _.......! ;on. . On the 24th inst. the lady of BIRTIIS James Soames , jun., E s q . ' Artillery -pl ace, o f a 1 1 On the 11th inst. , at Geneva, the lady of Hubert De Burg 9 Esq., of a daughtern Neil, Esg. the2dinst;o f a so ~f James at North Bank, Regent's-park , t he lady, o ___....------ MARRIED. On the 24th inst., at St. George's Church, Hanove.r-squer, Samuel Appleton Appleton, Esq. of Boston, -in A:merino, e Julia, only daughter of the Hon. ' Daniel Webster, of 1 3 ° 5°11 ' Senator of the United States. On the 24th inst., at St. Michael's, Stamford, 111 - ge.g r 2: Johnson, Broad- s t re et, to Sophia, second daughter of 0 . 1 ".. Rogers, Sheffield, and niece to John Lowe, Esq., of the fornle" place. On, the 24th inst., at St. Pancras New Churc'n, Mr. Franei7 J. C. Enright, of York-place, Kentish-town, youn ges t son the late John Enright, Esq., surgeon, R.N., and grandsov. 0' the late Alexander Aikman, Esq., of Prospectpen, St. An: drew's, and Birnagt-wood and Walle n f or d, St. Georg Jamaica, to - Martha , only daughter of the late Mr. "Alob ei. Daniel, of the Church Missionary-house and Kentish-tower DIED. On the 22d inst., in Clarence-terrace, Reger.t's-park , j ohn Kingston, Esq., aged 59. On the 23d inst., Mr. Thomas Carr. of Circus, Greenwich' and of the Mast-house, Mill-wall, aged 59. On the 2 3 d inst.. at Lowestoft, Mr. William Bound nen— dle• late of the Close, Clerkenwell, aged M. On the 23d inst., in Hunter.street, Branswick.square, Pee F r ance* , w idow of the late Charles Bartrurn, q y , rye and London - bridge , aged 66. ; formerl of khow London : Pr4tted atd Published by 111URDO YOUNG? 9 ; 0 No. 112. Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Stn i tOß, the county of Middlesex..—Thurs,l ay , September 26, Jo. i