The Sun. — London, England, 1851-10-04 00:00:00

TILE CIA GAZINES. BLACK WOOD. After a very eulogistic and encouraging notice of " The Esuya of Mr. Helps"— essays better known to the g-nerality by their titles, " Friends in Council" and " Companions of my Solitude"—we have the fourteenth instalment of the new " Novel" by Sir litilvver Lytton, under his pseudonym of Pisietratus. With the close of this portion of the narrative we ar rive at the end of the first important epoch in the lives of its principal characters. Years are to pass by before they are again introduced to us, and the man ner in which this is told brings to our remembrance in its Hebraic eloquence a beautiful passage occur ring in the same author's historical romance of 4'l-Jerold." The prominent charm infused into the chapters comprised in the October number of Black wood is that imparted by every look, and word, and action of Harley L'Estrange—" gentlest heart and subtlest fancy that I have met with in my walk through life," a s h e i s called by his admiring friend Alphonse Riceabocc a . H arley has discovered Helen, or rather he has been discovered as the fellow -soldier of her father, Captain Digby, by Leonard, who we are inclined very shrewdly to look upon as the son of Lord L'Estrange. Frank Ilszledean fulls into debt, and in consequence thereof into disgrace with his father, the Squire. The mariner in which they are estranged from each Other, in s pi te of their own large hearts, and hi de fiance of their mutual yearning towards each other, is told with admirable feeling, and indicates as strik ingly as anything we have ever read, Sir Bulwer Lyttoa'a master-knovvledge of human nature. .landel Leslie is beginning to show r his detestable influence as the evil genius of the nar more and more native. W e only console ourselves in his regard by anticipating for him in the endvery terrible re tribution. Poor Burley while • also of Richard Avenel, the hard we have a lost Ift of for a tuner ; of • brutal manufac good simple-minded Parson Dale; of the (l a fello w the tinker, and the poor harmless creature his onkey. Our attention meanwhile is directed to the aperds2nages already mentioned, and beyond this to Lord vigorousnLady Lansmere, to Audley Egerton, the strong and and staesman, to Henry Norreys, the author, to a very masterly sketch from the life, the lac 41ileY attendttnt Norreys—" a man-servant of a tiin,plarly grim and awful aspect"—with "care on lip and liarl e Pomp on hi s b row " —who, as he precedes the yto the lib rary of his master, " stalks across hall with sonic g the step of a Dan eau ushering Montinorenci to the pres ence of Louis le Grand." After . " My No ve l" comes a dry but able epitome of the political situation just now arrived at by "The New t al anders." The commencement of the historical 'Vet* which follows—a chapter dedicated to an ac count of the' "I ta li an Revolutions"—is as admirable is l i ts tone an d lucidity as the latter port i on o f • J llll hled a n d nonsensical. In this respect , per h aps, the article is particularly suitable, bearing a certain resemblance in consequence, to the confusion and folly Whichi together closed the Italian movement. " Levan tine Rambles" will prove on examination to be a very i ghtful criticism on the recent books o f t rave l s Wtitten respectively by M. G. de Nerval, a French a.,lll4u, and by Mr. F. A. Neale, an Englishman. The , “Pare next some exceedingly unequal lines called aY Dreams of an Exile," signed H. G. K., verses ~ratto.gether unworthy of insertion in Blackwood. "A v from the Digging:" means that of Mr. Shaw, the last well-known traveller in California : it is the elidi ng, moreover, of a sensible and readable criticism. t The last article in the October number is of a politi al n n ature, sn eer i ng at Free Trade under the designa- eonsid e o o ' .the E x p er i ment. " I t i s ent i t l ed to serious ,ration however, as the argument put forward the morality orga n o f the Protectionists. Co O LBURN'S UNITED SERVICE . r. The present is an exce ll ent num b er. " Br i t i sh h e in I n di a " is continued, as likewise the " adventures of an English Soldier in Mexico." In li Paper on the " Military Defences and Expenditure of the West Indies," the writer, Major Smith O'Connor ?hews, We think clearly, that a safe and advantageous Zwithdrawal may be made of four regiments of the line, i r d . a large portion of the Royal Artillery from the Liindward and Leeward, and Jamaica commands. Lieutenant. Leeward, E. Napier continues his consi d.eratione o.n the subject of the proposed alterations . lis our military dress, arms, and equipments ; and it 1 to be sincerely hoped that some such ameliorations _11153, shortly take place, especially as that excellent onieer the Duke of Cambridge is favourable to a iCforin. of the present abominable system of 1313e c.149, tight-coats, stocks, Scc. By Colonel Napier's teen the infantry soldier's kit, nts when in heavy marching d but 57)b..n0z., in iiou arms, and appoint- Weight for details w e present. of 68 g 1b. or 8o e z r , w as o a u t ldbein must refer to the article itself which will be found highly w I told ; bat " Fight in Rond a , ,, is __ e suggestive. A_ "Bull Combat between a Pawnee and Osage Chief, contrid bated b The Fight " a spirited Y Ur. Mills, is one of the most graphic and peattjiirratives we ever perused. An "Adventure at the Bra af Salamanca," by Capt. Barralier, who was . Ply and etoYu wo unded in that engagement, is.toldonsitmhe field from theelnglY. be a freen in him self to his showing cir cumat il a :::i o fe f was saved twice apond en e -B „ ° ; n * In a short letter among theeorure: gestion c- ' 'g n ed " Nestor," are two excellen t from g aingtoa,.tsctornoeoptos send reinforcements to the Cape . an r a account ther e ~ being just the men to give of the liafirs, if assisted by our Euro un r B mith eginae nts, and de such men as Sir Harry ,n. ond General Somerset ;" the other as to the -..isehief Writer s to•the service The oys :—..of early selling out. Iv _ II I : 8 ° have too many young gentlemen who only enter are or to leave it again whenever their regiments a ervi reu abroad, leaving it just at the very time their me °Qs are m ost wanted ; and when their commanding p er ." 6 mist require officers of some standing and e - -..en 1 ,,,, 'elle assis them on embarkation. Many rep t., 7 t ' lls embark short-handed in officers; the newly Ze aPP( "Led must remain with the depots until made s h e. : I:kilited with their duty. The remedy is , easy . enough; '" none to sell out until after ten ears 'service. r i n -B i of the price of their commission would retain many ,t,,Q, service, or prevent holiday and home officers from - ' ,r ill . , - it Th g • Vtb e other principal papers are the second . part of the ,il3Blation of General Yusuf's " On War inAfrica," 4 ' 4 The Victories of the Month." A COLBURIV'S NEW MONTHLY. th-aknother sporting novel, evidently from th e pen o f h e now popular author of " Soapey Sponge's Tour," acommenced in the October number of the New onthly—it s t i t l e b e i ng " Young TomHall'sHeart hesnf and H orses. " I t prom i ses cap it a lly in th e way „.7 fun and an i mat i on. Wi t h muc h o f the r u d e an i- Z f at spirit s o f J ohn Mills, the wr i ter com bi nes a tr ifl e hi a th a comic vulgarity of John Poole. Occasionally uS ni: tyle is as harum-scarum as Lover's, and some w. 3 too a s v i v idl y graphic as that o f A pper l e y. cann ot th ese qualities the story j us t entered upon fail to be a source of amusement. A. rather ela of`te review of " Mignet's history of Mary Queen b y sots" follows soon afterwards, being preceded 4,,sotne agreeable "Reminiscences of Baden." The • -V 4 ,c 1 1 and concluding part of the tale called the attraction. -Picture" lends to the magazine an additional ti utte e ,tion. "Hester Somerset" is, of course, con hoe ; and among the novelties of the month we d o 5 0 7 e well-timed articles on " Arctic Expedi- States?, Succour," and on " Cuba and the Slave criticism _Besid es t h ese the New Monthly contains a ginni ng , 3 1 ; ead ed " A Batch of Novels," and the be entitled the <<" ac count of a summer tour in 1851, Griffi n J. B. cli o r fpetnhetercoutse potion u l t u s Switzerland." The metrical r is, as usual, contributed by ________________ 1 114 V SWO liT IL , After the customary instalment of the romance berbY insworth, we gay s i n the current num_ *rasi_ before us a variety of interesting and ng contributions. Nicholas Michell, known L r "Y a 3 the author of " Ruins of Many ii:oloft_bcles" and also of the romance of " Hester .13erset," gives us an excellent 414ntiquary and his Daughter." Miss Julia Addison 11Pears anew to the readers of A insworth, chapter about . an tg E T of her narrative relating to the fortun es _ to o r the me- f e..l."'renee Hamilton." An anonymous contr i butor i t : • 11 ,,ens the magazine with a paper recounting .-tinw vrast:-.°,PPY expatiated on the Beauties of Slin n ie d y e - r noti ce i wil lind in other respects the publication u t e i rs to be b y 40 be found by the curious in such_ m d a . October• 44443 the least among the per i o dicals for THE . 1 ) Poor Peter LI ,4ZTONS. Part -MIL gets cleaned outlillt° h• and 4 finds each turn against lint the J tit the g am i ng -table. eery usu rer, of se hitu with R course turns obdura A te b , e a l n i d ir e a v u e s 4 - summary writ, hut Hansen a c i a 'atiges to get him bail to stave off arrest for twelv e 1 ) 2 1 ' lia makes another visit to the Cursaal, and _.rr i o w _ ing from the banker, has an extraordinary run ° Etti l d l uck for some time, but it begins to be reversed , dead tb ; ell L PP lnes " the last stake of all." He drops iildl ad ' t h e gmning room, his dirge being thus fur lßned by Colonel liag erstone : ~ If coroners were 6 fashion here he -g bled fr om b ack . . ey w ou ld bring in a verdict of ing the wrong colour, with a deo -44" a gainst the rak e l' • „. SINGIILAIL CLIARA l• R.—Mr. Thomas Hale, far- Rter, of Greet, near WinechEconabe, Gloucestershire, died last teum l eek, in his 78th year. The deceased was formerly in poor stances, but a considerable sum having been left to him it Y some maiden ladies, his prospects underwent a change for Ve better, and by industrious and careful habits he managed et).o7 ac cumulate a large fortune dying worth more tha ,, n 00/ Ile was unable to read and write, and such was :la love for the shining met a l . t h at Ile was unhappy whe n in tassession of bank -notes until he turned them into gold j' his death between 10,000/. and 20,0001. in money was in .41 house. —Bath Chronicle. it i fiLette) a from Glasgow state the suspension of Sirs. Slater and Robertson, -411)40,1 R 1.80,0001. In—e rchants and brokers, with THE TIIE REGISTRATIONS. CITY OF LONDON. The question as to the legal time for the payment of the t st ,essed taxes, to meet the requirements of the Regiett a tion Act, came before Mr. M‘Christie the other de] e The Learned Barrister having taken time to consider the point, delivered his judgment on Thursd ky, by which it will appear that the decisions of other revisi n g barristers are held by Mr. MiChristie to be cc ,n trary to the law. The case was that of Mr. Charles Lovell, who occupied a house No. 19, Bow - lane, lane, an, I who claimed to have his name inserted in the list .'f persons entitled to vote in the parish of St. Mary, 2 Lldermar y , from which it had been omitted on the grot Led that he had not paid his assessed taxes which L a 1 " become payable from him previously to the sth day of January last." The barrister said, — The question simply is, whether, for the purposes of the regis ':ration, a quarter's assessed taxes were pay able by >1 Ir. Lovell on the 20th of December, 1850, which of i ght to have been paid on or before the 20th of July, 1851. It is to be observt d, that both by the Reform Act, and by the 11th and 12th Victoria, c. 90, the expr e asion used is that the poor's- rates and assessed taxes are, to be paid by the 20th of July which " shall have be.:. ime payable from him previously to the sth of January .." The 43,i George 111., c. 161, was an Act fbr repealin. g the several duties under the management of the C ommissioners for the Affairs of Taxes, and granting• new duties in lieu thereof. By section 23 of that 2 ieof every assessment to be made under it is to be in fat .ce for one whole year, commencing from the sth of A and to be payable quarterly—namely, on the 2 0 :h of June, 20th of September, 20th of De cember, :and the 20th of March in every year. By the 55th 1 • ection it is enacted that those duties shall be duly emended of the respective persons charged therewitl 3 within ten days after the same are payable by virtue, of this Act by the collector or collectors, and the sth section is this—" And be it further enacted, t hat all the several duties hereby granted in England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, shall be assessed, raised, levied, and collected, under the re gulation: s of the Act passed in the present session of Parham( ti t, entitled An Act for consolidating certain of the pr o visions contained in any Act or Acts rela ting to 11 se duties under the management of the Commis' ,i;.oners for the Affairs of Taxes, and for amendin. g • the same.' " These taxes, therefore, are, by this . 9.ct all to be assessed, raised, levied, and collected lunder the regulations of another Act, which is the 43. 1 George 111., c. 99, and the collection, &c., of them are hereby declared to be under the manage ment of t I.e Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes. Turning, then, to that Act of the 43d George 111., c. 99, you • find that by the 12th section the col lectors a r e required to made demand of the parties charged 'with those duties (as in the other Act) "within en days after the said duties shall respect ively bee ame payable." By the 13th section the col lectors a r a required to give security " for their duly demandirls• the sums assessed of the respective persons from wh( the same are payable ;" and by section 61 it is enac fed that all officers and persons who shall be emplo tied in the execution of this Act, or any Act or Acts for granting duties to be assessed under the regulatic iis of this Act, shall observe arid follow such orders, is t structions, and directions as they shall from " time to t i the receive from the said Commissioners o the Trea: a ary." So far, therefore, it is obvious that these tax :s are under the management of the Corn missionei 3, and that all collectors and officers are to act in ref erence to them under the instructions and direction of the Commissioners. The Commissioners according ly issue their printed instructions to their collectors and officen—a copy of which, dated 1851, I have iohow before me—and it is beyond a doubt, from the ..e instructions, that the Commissioners con sider th r.t these taxes become due, payable, and cull ectable half-yearly, and half-yearly only, notwiths mding the 43.1 George 111., c. 16 1 , states th , y are to be payable quarterly. The in struction s explicitly inform the collectors that they are to be collected by half-yearly instalments, on the days hei dnafter mentioned—that is to sag, the 20th day of fieptember, for the half-year commencing from the .sth day of April and ending on the 10th day of Octob r; and the 20th day of March, for the half year con, mencing from the 10th day of October and ending ci i the sth of April next; and you are to make del x land of the several sums from the parties charged, or at the places of their last abode, or on the premises charged with the assessment, " within ten days—an.a these latter words are put in italics by the instructs 3 ns themselves—within ten ten days after the said duti,t's shall respectively become payable ; and in all cases of demand and non-payment, you are, by virtue of the w a r ran t annexe d t o y o ur duplicate, to distrain.' ''' Then at p. 12 the instructions say, " The composil ons of assessed taxes are to be paid to you by the la arties charged therewith by two instalments, viz., the first instalment on or before the 10:h of Oc tober, au a d the second instalment on or before the sth of April ; and you are to make demand of the same," and if :a ot then paid the collectors are to levy. It is pally ible, therefore, from these instructions, that the Coy raissioners, who by the Act are to regulate and sr.:lmage these taxes, consider that de facto and for all practical purposes they only be: come d tie and payable half- yearly—that is to say, on the 20: 11 of October and on the 20th of March, and not qt.'. a rterly—not on the 20th of December. It is very ti "ae that the commissioners in some parts of their i nstructions inform their collectors that by the Act of .Parliament these taxes are made payable quar terly, hut that is only with a view to a necessity of levying for them where they are likely to be lost. They sf y in a note, " You will observe that, although the tax s are collected half-yearly, yet according to the law they are payable quarterly. . . and therefore as befor, a stated in case of a seizure under an execu- tion, or- other proceeding (except at the suit of the landlor (1 for rent), you are authorised to demand for the wh ede duty assessed for the year, though the day of Papx lent for the first quarter only has arrived," a sn r h d e a id. n y• case of not receiving to levy. But, as I have said, that is solely applicable to a case w 1 erene there is a prospect of the taxes being lost. And ie the same note the Commissioners go on to say, " And you should in all cases proceed according to the st r p i a ct m di e r n e t cti f ons—namely, to give notice and to quarteros assesserde demand of Deci. on Mr. Lovell y previous wereo the d u tt f la re o m f January him o n th ethat 20th t o aexd t e. h s e t taxes.' No notice was served taxes rnbmeradep of him;ing; no demand for any such aP p arent that the d eeply interested Nif a sand, surely, when it is so self-ap p rescribe that the are s o a . Commissioners themselves, who y in are the ue collectionaed payableof thesehalf. taxes, yearly, tha l t ev t ie h d ey shall only be collected half-yearly, due sha 11 have been for until after notice of their being and newer them, hold the t because ofM given and demand made for i t,.. would bea r monstrous hardship if I were to lector thy the sth. Lovell did not go to his col receive a sum o f m„ January and insist that he should sessed tuxes from from him in respect of as- Decercier T , the collect° 20th of October to the 20th of the ey holding . in his hand at the same ea( fluent his instrru informirg him that no ctions from his employers, from Mx. Lovell on the assessed2oth h taxes were payable would be absolute inju s ti ce if of De cem b er —l say i t to disfranchise the claimant on that groun d I was Acts, which are to have the largest the R eg i s t ra ti on construction [put upon them, l st and he coll most liberal assessed taxes has no authority Whatever Collector of the housekeepers quarterly for payments, and I d o not to call on believe that one man out of ten, or anything like that number, throughout England, called by the sth of January and paid for" his c o ll ec t or as sessed taxes up to the 20th of December, so that the a quarter's might be registered as a voter. I anitold that it 'nets been decided by a gentleman actin, indeed, the sa..ne authority and with the same p ew g under self, 'that a person in Mr. Lovell's position is not as intold enti y" tied to be placed on the register, but I must h by a higher authority that that is the precedent's I am to follow before I shall feel justified in adopti ng it. ' overrule the objection which has been made to thi s gentleman's title to be registered; I insert his name in the list of voters; and I hold that for the purpose s of the Registration Acts the assessed taxes are only due an& payable half-yearly, and that t h ose which the y voter is required by the 11th and 12th Victoria, c 9 0, to have paid by the 20th of July are th ose only which were due and payable on the 20th day of October pre. ceding. The revision of the list of voters for the City was finished yesterday. The result of :the efforts of the two parties to correct the list was, that 42 claims made by the Liberals were allowed, and 18 disal lowed; 1 claim by the Tories was allowed, and 3 were disallowed; 537 objections by the Liberals were rjlowed, and 83 disallowed; 575 objections by the Tories were allowed, and IEI disallowed; 178 objections taken by both parties were allowed, and 8 disallowed. The barrister also expunged 24 names for reasons appearing on the face of the register. BLOOMERISM IN ARBROATH.—Considerable sen sation was created in our market-place on Saturday, by the appearance of a lady —young, beautiful, and aristocratic--on a fiery steed, habited ala Bloomer. She wore hat, habit, and trousers. The material of the latter were of substantial cloth, of a darkish hue, with the extremities tightly strapped below the boot, whether a Wellington or not we were not permitted to see, but both legs and boots were strapped, although only one stirrup was used. The equipment was most becoming, and certainly an improvement in horseman ship worthy of imitation; and we advise all our fair readers, when they ride their horses, to don the Bloomer costume. To this extent and no further, however, do we hold ourselves committed.—Arbroath Paper. Sir Charles Napier is a candidate for the repre sentation of Bassetlaw, in the place of Captain Duncombe, the future Member for the East Riding, in opposition to the Hon. W. E. Duncombe, son of Lord Fevershinn. Sir Charles comes forward as " the champion of reform and retrench ment, and the rectifier of all acknowledged and well-proved abuses." EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—A cr,se of three chil dren at one birth occurred on 'Wednesday in Victoria-place, Peckham. The mother is the wife of a flydriver. Tho chil d= of this birth are two boys and one girl. SUN, LONDON, SPORTING NOTES. No. CXXXVII. REMINISCENCES OF THE NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. TO THE EDITOR OF TEE SUN. Six,—lii ; my first remarks on this meeting I was led to suppose, from various causes, that it would in most respects be decidedly below par; I am glad, however, that that observation has since been rendered a falsity by as respectable an attendance and amount of sport as is generally met with at the First October reunion. Several curious results have distinguished the week from its predecessors of the last three er four years; one of them being the extraordinary sweep on the part of the Goodwood - stable of the three principal races of the meet—the Triennials. Red Hind's victory in be Fourth Triennial Produce Stakes is another curious circum stance; the race being booked so dead a certainty for Lord Derby's Longbow that Lepidist (to whom I had awarded the race) and several others were withdrawn, in consequence of the formidable appearance of the Melton crack. The betting up to within half an hour of the race was even, 5, and 6 to 4 on Longbow, but at the last moment, atter saddling, it was discovered that he was lame—that is to say, slightly so; in consequence the odds veered round, 6 to 4 being laid against Red Hind, who thus became first favourite, and 7 to 4 against Longbow; so little was the rest of the field valued that Bto 1 was offered against any other. The race came off exactly as the betting stood ; Red Hind taking a lead of a length at starting, made all the running, and won very easily by two lengths, the same distance divided Longbow from the Odessa colt, Caloric beaten two lengths for third place, Hirsute, and Ambrose fifth and sixth, in close company, Child of the Mist and Peacock (the two last) beaten off. The race was timed at 1 min. 9 sec. and is uncommonly creditable to the speed of the soldier's daughter. Longbow, reported to be the best thing in Scott's stable for next year's Derby, had ho been beaten on his merits, would have sent the whole lot bang oat of the Derby market; I hope however yet to see, when fit, that he will be able to turn the tables on some of the very best of the year; and when it is reported on good authority , that Daniel O'Rourke has succumbed to him at a dif ference of either seven or ten pounds, I think it must be evident to any one connected with sporting affairs that his chance cannot be by any means an inferior one. In my earliest prophecy concerning this stake I gave the race to Lapidist and Red Hind, and in my revised one to Lapidist and Longbow, thus making a contrary mess of it, placing the first horee in one and the second in the other. A singular specimen of running was evidenced in the race for the Town Plate yesterday; Anspach, whom they backed against the geld with avidity, and laid fives against any other, was actually, though better than the three behind her—Gaylass, Phlegetbon, and Timid Fawn—beaten very cleverly by that pretty little Trinket of Mr. Barnes's. Westow, who Seems to be in running, giving half a stone to Nutshell, and nearly a couple to Presto, made a waiting race until within a short distance of home, then went to the front, and cleared the chair an easy five lengths for Her Majesty's Plate. The Rutland Stakes brought out that clever little filly of Mr. Greville's, Adine, who, with the race in hand from end to end, laid in the rear to the cords, where taking her proper position—in front—won very easily by two or three lengths from Caloric (second), Ambrose (third), Lady in Waiting (fourth), Passion colt (fifth), and the Joanna filly (sixth and last). I have animadverted at some length on the principal two-year old running, merely because it will be necessary to bear in mind the performances of the horses engaged in those stakes with respect to their Derby and Oaks chances. I have but a few remarks to make on Wednesday's races. The St. Leger stakes were won by that game little Mi das, but only by a short head, Artisan struggling well against him to the last; Merry Peal third. Tile Granby Stakes was another slice of luck for Sir Joseph Hawley; his Bilberry in the final struggle just getting the best of Mr. Hughes's Sophistry—a neck only_di- vided them—Freedom was a fair third. The Four Year Old Triennial Stakes was won, as I predicted, by the Goodwood horse, the Nigger, who in the run in beat Cranberry a clever length. To this latter horse, in the absence of the Nigger, I had awarded the palm of superiority; so, therefore, may be considered to have placed first and second. Abdallab, whom I had spoken of as the City Horse for this race, showed a slight im provement on his previous running by scrambling into the third position. Before closing this communication, I shall notice the few events that have occurred in the North during the past week, as probably being interesting to some of your readers. The Richmond races are rendered rather remarkable this year by three facts, one of which is great, another small, end the third somewhat mediocre. Touching the great one—Nancy goes for the Plate, has the race all her own way, and wins in a canter, but beats nothing worth naming ; it proves, however, that she is doing strong work and is in beautiful condition. People still say she is sure to win one of the great Newmarket gees, to which I reply by a strong negative. The ;small fact is a strange fact, too, that old Rftdulphus, with a welter weight up as usual, boats a tidy field very cleverly for the Sweep stakes. It strikes me forcibly that this Radulphus must be the shadow of that sturdy old animal the Bishop of Romford's Cob. The remaining fact is, that the Calcu- lator, whose running is very much in and out, carrying weight for age, wins the cup from England's Glory with the most perfect ewe. THE CESAREWITCH betting, in consequence of the repeated victories of the Good wood Stable during the present week, has been materially altered in several important points; the greatest of which relates to the first favourite. Lord 11. Lennox's veiled prophet, the great MORANNA, so eels bratrd by Moore in his poetical effusion denominated Lalla ltookh," is to be the mystic name to be circu lated through the length and breadth of the land as the Premier for the Cesarewitch of 1851, I will not at the present moment say the victor, for that is very pro. blematical, but I will venture to assert, that if he con tinues in his present form and work, he mast be either first, second, or third. What are the odds he does not figure in tho last named place, and from nothing else but bad jockeyship? I have not as yet for gotten that his stable companion Landgrave, after winning the Triennial last year, was by nothing else than the cause just mentioned, or rather, perhaps I ought to say, incapacity from weakness, debarred from getting any nearer the primal position than third; and yet afterwards, with a clever jockey up in good health, carried off the Cambridgeshire triumphantly. So to those that are already on him at stiff prices, it would be the wisest to make sure by hedging, as between now and the day of the race he is about cer tain to stand in the quotations at about 6 or 7 to 4. Rogers' couple of horses, Mr. Crawford's Darkie, 4 yrs, at Est 101 b, and Mr. Shafto's Westow, 5 yrs, at Est 131 b, ought to be a couple of good outsiders for this race; who ever the winner is, depend upon it they will not be far in his rear. I am, Sir, yours, &0., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Oct. 3, 1851. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. RICHMOND RACES.—THURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added. Grey Stone in. (7 Subs.) Lord Zstland's Radulphus, aged, 9st 51b (G. Oates) 1 Mr. Stebbings's Cerito, 2 yrs, s st (Dodd) 2 Mr. Shepherd's Velox, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b (Bumby) 3 Mr. Winteringham's Northman, 6st 101 b (Haxby) 0 Mr. Wilkin's Fortis, 2 yrs, 6st 101 b (Johnson) 0 Mr. Carter's Farmer's Boy, 2 yrs, 6st 41b (Atkinson) 0 Betting-5 to 4 agst Cerito, and 2to 1 agst Radulphus. Won on the post by a head.Velox a bad third. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Three miles. Mr. Martinson's Nancy, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (Lye) 1 Mr. Walters's Mary Nobblcr, aged, 9st 51b...(N0b1e) 2 Won in a canter. The Gold Cup Stakes of 10 guineas each; once round. (8 Subs.) Mr. G. Barton's Calculator, 3 yrs, 7st 61b ...(Oates) 1 Mr. Ewbank's England's Glory, 7st 61b (Arnold) 2 Mr. Thompson's Jack Robinson, 7st 61b (Hawkswell) 3 6to 4 agst Calculator. Won by two lengths. The Wright Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft. Grey Stone in. (5 Subs.) Mr. A Campbell's b c by Cotherstone walked over The Rubbish Plate of 201., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft. Ono mile and a quarter. (4 Subs.) Mr. Stephenson's fby Emilius, 3 yrs, Bst (Hawkswell) 1 Mr. J. Shepherd's Velox, 5 yrs, Bst 71b (Bumby) 2 Mr. Wilkin's Fancy Free, 2 yrs, 7st (Arnold) 3 Mr. Stebbings's Cerito, 2 yrs, sst 71b (Dodd) bltd Even on Cerito. Won easily. CALEDONIAN HUNT (AYR) RACES.—THURSDAY. The Caledonian Cup of 105 sovs., for three yrs old and upwards. Three miles. Mr. Campbell's Haricot, 4 yrs, Bst (Sharp) 1 Mr. A. John s t one ' s Jenny Lind, 5 yrs, Bst 71b 2 Mr. Binnie's Sir Astley Cooper, 4 yrs, 7st 111 b Betting -2 to l on Haricot. Won easy by a lsngth. The Caledonian Handicap of 25 soya, each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 150 added. Two miles. (16 Subs.) Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b (Sharp 1 Mr. B ar t on ' s Li tt l e Fawn, 3 yrs, Est 31b ...(Aliason ) 2 Mr. Robson's The Sweep, 4 yrs, Est 121 b (Charlton) 3 Mr. Parr's Clothworker, 5 yra, Bst 41b (Marlow) 0 Mr. Sh arpe ' s G ulliver, 5 yrs, 7st 61b (Basham) 0 The favourit e ma d e a ll t h e runn i ng, and won by a length ; th e S weep a bad third. The Scottish V o l unteer S ta k es o f 2 soya. each, and 50 added, 13st each, &c. One mile and a half. (9 Subs.) Mr. Skirving's The Fop (Thrift) 1 Mr. Vallan ce ' s Li ttle John Sweepstakes ofl Two e s others ov e a o r , 2 Mr. Tur n b u l l ' s Mystery 13. and W 5 o 0 n ad ea d s e y d .3 . Heats, one Mr. Merr s mile. (5 Subs.) Mi • Y ss Ann, 5 yrs, B s t 101 b... (Sh arp) 1 1 Mr. Parrs Clothworker, 5 yrs, Bst 71b 2 dr Won by a length. CIRENCESTER RACES.—FRIDAY. The Thorncote Stakes of 2 sovs. each, and 20 added, one mile and a quarter (6 Subs.), were won in three heats by Mr. Waring's Gloom, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Preece), beating Mr. G. Drewe's Impression, 4 yrs, 7st 13lb; Mr. Kitten's Awbassadress, 5 yrs, Bst 31h; Mr. J. Day's b fby Irish Birdcatcher, out of Wadastra, 3 yrs, Est 71b; and Mr. Hewett's Golden Lady, 4 yrs, 7st 81b. The Cirencester Stakes of 5 Bove. each, and 50 added. Two miles. Mr. Hewitt's Madame Warton, 3 yrs, 6st 41b(Kellow) 1 Mr. Bloomfield's Simplicity, 3 yrs, Est 131 b 2 Mr. J. Day's The Tout, 3 yrs, 6st 81b 3 A Silver Cup of 401. for farmers' horses, 12st each, two miles, over four hurdles, was won by Mr. R. Tovey's Speculation (Owner), beating Mr. W. Tovey'a Ven geance, and three HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Mr. Deacon's harts., Thurs., Whitchurch Down; Sat., Shaugh Village—at 10. Mr. Morgan's hds., Thurs., Kennel—at 10. Mr. Trelawny'e hds., Tues., Slade Hill; Fri., Langdon Ball—at 11. S TUItDA Y Devon and Sorneroet stag hd.F.., Tues., Cloutsham, near Porlock ; Fri, Ilelebridge, near Dalverton—at 10. Mr. Furso's hds., Thurs., Torrington Wood—at 10i. THE KAFIR WAR. TO THE, EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I beg leave to make a suggestion through your columns with regard to the mode of carrying on the Kafir war. It is quite certain that the great cause of the prolongation of the struggle is the small number of regular troops at the disposal of the Ge neral. For instance, when he made his last inroad into the heart of the enemy's country, he was unable to leave behind him a sufficient cordon to protect our own territory. The Kafirs, therefore, indemnified them selves for their own losses in cattle, even at the ex pense of our colonists, and Sir Harry Smith's inroad was productive of no especial minhief to the enemy, but of much to our friends. Now, as we have not European troops enough to reinforce Sir H. Smith effectually, I ask why not send Sepoys from Madras and Bombay ? The climate would suit them, and some of the Indian irregular cavalry, one would think, would be useful. With a large force of Sepoys and Cuban bloodhounds, as was suggested recently, we might come au bout of the Kafir war.—Your obedient servant, Newcastle. on-Tyne, Sept. 30. R. M. G. Mlles opened, 1851. 37% 26% 85% 189% 94' 49 ERITL3II. Aberdeen Belfast and Ballymena •• •• •• •• • •• Belfast and County Down.• • • •• •• •• Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, and West York • • • • Bristol and Exeter •• ..e• •• • . •• Caledonian._ ......... Chester and Holyhead.• •.•• • • • •• . • Cork, Blackrock, and Passage Dublin and Belfast Junction . ..... Dublin and Drogheda • • •. • • .•••• • • • • Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • • •• • • • • Dundee and Arbroath •• • • • • • • • • • • • • Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeenjunction Dundalk and Enniskillen.• .. • • ...... East Anglian.... • . • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • . 9 East Lancashire • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• •... -- - -----_ _ Eastern Counties and Norfolk .. .. .. Eastern Union • • ........ • • •• • ..... Edinburgh and Glasgow . • • • Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee.... Exeter and Creditor.. • • • • • • • • • • 171% 241% 188 264 Furness Railway •• • •••••• • • • • •• Glasgow, and South-Western• • Great Northern and E. L.• • • • Great Southern and Western (Ireland, Great Western ••••••••••••••••• • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • INNS ST WEEK. Z 1,409 236 1,218 752 4,679 8,321 3,651 439 1,115 1,014 480 682 701 3,898 13,827 2,368 3,94 2,928 359 3,371 9,333 4,609 18,028 E VEN NG, 1851. £1,586 689 295 670 5,203 9,096 4,157 669 4,413 16,243 2,570 3,913 2,394 4,843 14,261 4,75 t 26,446 5,593 17,389 439 59,338 15,424 16,447 7,131 542 24,347 2,334 917 2,406 3,767 5,276 743 1,905 732 19,785 1,916 2,261 1,138 255 15,817 10,488 3,211 1,349 THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. "9. On my return from the ships, I learnt from Captain Ommanney that, in crossing Baffin's Bay they had been hampered considerably by the ice, and were compelled to pass to the northward of the Cary Islands. 4 0. On the evening of the 6th of September, the expedition proceeded to make the best of its way out of Baffin's Bay and Davis's Strait; being much fa voured by fair winds and open water, Cape Farewell was passed on the 16th, since which we have been followed by fresh gales and a high sea until abreast of Aberdeen on the evening of the 26th, reaching this at 1.30 P.m. this day. " 11. The Pioneer, in advanee of the other vessels, parted company during a strong breeze on the 18th ; the Intrepid during a fresh gale and thick weather, while pressing the ships through the Fair Island Pas sage, on the 25th; and the Assistance, during a strong gale and thick weather off Kinnaird's Head, on the 26th. The Resolute has been delayed in proceeding between the Pentland Skerries and this, in the hope of the other vessels rejoining ; but, although they have not done so, I have every 4teason to believe that they aro either in advance or in our immediate vicinity. " 12. The watchfulness called for in proceeding out of Baffin's Bay and Davis's Straits ; the unex pected rapidity of our passage from Cape Farewell, combined with a following sea, have prevented the completion of a compiled chart, showing the land newly discovered, and that surveyed by this expedi tion; but which, with other records and documents in detail, shall be transmitted at an early period. " 13. In concluding this report I feel it to be due to express my sense of the ready and zealous co-ope ration I have received from Captain Onamanney ; and of the efficient state in which the ship under his com mand has been at all times held ; to the officers in command of the steam tenders ; to the executive officers of the expedition, and to the heads of the re spective branches my best thanks are due ; and I must not omit to notice the talented assistance I have had in the navigation of the expedition from Mr. Allan, master of the Resolute. Of all their respec tive stations (not forgetting the admirable conduct and spirited exertions of the crews) I cannot speak too highly, and hope, should your Lordships be pleased to think favourably of the labours of the expedition intrusted to my charge, that they may be further in duced to reward the individual merit. " 14. When locking to the return of the expedition under such favourable circumstances from the priva tions and dangers which we have had to contend with, with the loss of but one life and so few casualties, I cannot close this report without expressing to their Lordships the deep sense that is gener a ll y fel t of the g reat mercy and protection that has been vouchsafed unto us. At the same time I must ever deeply regret that, although aided by most liberal resources, our exertions unhappily have not been crowned with success. " Herewith I enclose a chart descriptive of the progress of the steam tenders while prosecuting the search in the northern part of Baffin's Bay, as also a few sketches of some of the most prominent points. "I have, &c., HORATIO. T. AUSTIN, "Captain, and i n c h arge o f t h e Expedition. " " Her Majt - -6ty's ship Resolute, Yarmouth-roads, Oct. 1, 1851. Sir,—Sinee forwarding ray report, dated 30th (From the Chronicle.) RETURN OF CAPTAIN AUSTIN WITH THE SHIPS OF THE ARCTIC SEARCHING EX PEDITION. Her Majesty's ships Resolute and Pioneer are ar rived in Yarmouth Roads, and the Assistance and Intrepid at Grimsby, on their way to Woolwich. The following is Captain Austin's report of his further proceedings : " Her Majesty's ship Resolute, at anchor off Winterton, Norfolk, Sept. 30. " Sir,—ln continuation of the report of the 12th of August last, transmitted by Captain Penny, I have now the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that having, off Cape Warrender, on the evening of the 14th, in clear water, and under favourable circum stances, attached to the Intrepid, Lieutenant Elliott, and Mr. Hamilton, mate ; and to the Pioneer, Mr. M`Dougall, second master, for hydrographical pur poses; as also Mr. May, mate, in addition to the latter vessel, so that, in the event of opportunity offering, the acquirements of those officers might be brought to good account, I gave to each vessel six ad ditional men. Directed Captain Oinmanney to erect a cairn and beacon, and deposit a record on Cape War render, and conduct the ships to the east shore of Baffin's Bay, and rendezvous between Woletenholme Sound end Cape York ; then, placing impel( on board the Pioneer, I proceeded at seven o'clock P.M. with both steam-tenders along the west shore of Baffin's Bay, rounded Cape Horaburgh on the 15th, advanced along the coast to the northward about thirty miles, and then proceeded up by the southern shore of an extensive sound in a north-west direction, about 45 miles; here our progress was arrested by a fixed bar rier of ice, that was subsequently found to extend from shore to shore, a distance of 25 miles. The ves sels then stood along the edge of the ice to the north shore, when, proving it impracticable to proceed fur ther, a cairn and beacon were erected, and record deposited, upon a remarkable conical island; after which we returned by the north shore out of the sound, having closely examined both sides without discovering traces of the missing expedition. " 2. The mouth of this sound is about 60 miles broad, with an island at its entrance 20 miles in length, of which Cape Leopold is a part. During the clearest period we had here, when distant objects were very distinct, there was every appearance of a well-defined outline of land stretching across and terminating it to the westward; and although I am impressed that there is no outlet in that direction, yet by no means assert such to be the case. "3. There is every reason to consider this the Jones's Sound of Baffin, although its northern shore is situated about ten miles to the southward of that upon the chart. "4. The attempt was then made to get to the` northward along the western shore of Baffin's Bay, to satisfactorily determine this question ; but the ice rendered it impracticable, for by this time it had set home upon the coast and blocked up both entrances to the sound. We therefore directed our course,with considerable difficulty, through a drifting pack to wards the east shore, in the hope o f b e i ng a bl e to get to the northward and westward on that side, but were arrested ten miles to the northward of Wolstenholme Sound on the 20th, and detained and beset in that locality until the 28th, during two days of which, with spring -tides, and a heavy gale from the south ward, our position was both critical and perilous. Upon one occasion, the Intrepid was driven up on the tongue of a berg, while her rudder was carried away, the frame of her screw broken, and two of her boats run over by a floe, the vessel herself remaining for about twenty hours in great peril, during a part of which her stern was raised to a very considerable ex tent, with the ice piling up forward to her gunwale, and all but falling on her deck, rendering it doubtful whether it would not become imperative to abandon her, but happily the wind fell, the ice eased, and she became relieved in a most remarkable manner, appa rently without having sustained any vital injury. "6. Being unable to join the Intrepid, and the ice easing to the northward, the Pioneer proceeded in that direction until reaching nearly opposite Cape Parry, the southern entrance of Whale Sound, where she was again arrested by the ice in close pack, and made fast in the hope of being able to examine that sound, which is of limited extent (from eight to ten miles broad at its entrance) takes a north-easterly direction, and was filled with ice. After remaining a few hours the ice began to close from the southward, rendering it necessary to forthwith retrace our steps to avoid being beset, and we proceeded in the direc of the Intrepid. "6. Having now, after full consideration, seen the impracticability of prosecuting further to the north ward or westward in Baffin's Bay without risking de tention for another winter, stud the uncertainty of then being able to do so; and considering that Baffin's Bay bad been examined as far as the supposed Jones's Sound on its west side, and as Whale Sound on its east, without any trace of the missing expedition ; in addition to which, looking to the late period of the navigable season, I deemed it my duty to proceed at once to rejoin the ships and return to England, in ac cordance with the spirit of my instructions. We were, however, impeded a few miles to the north ward of Wolstenholm Island by a close and heavy pack to the southward until the Ist instant, when a slight easing of the ice took place, enabling us, after considerable difficulty and doubt, to rejoin the ships —the Pioneer on the morning of the 2d, and the Intrepid, not being able to take the same lead, on the Gth. " 7. It is here necessary to notice that, had it not been for the capability of ,the screw propeller, most remarkable under such circumstances, I do not con sider that either the passage across Baffin's Bay or that to rejoin the ship, could have been accomplished in the manner or time they were. " 8. During the detention off Wolstenholmo Sound on the night of the 28th, the vessels were visited by a party of five Esquimaux, with dog-sledges, but ap prehending, as spring tides were in operation, that their return to the shore might be cut off, their de parture was hastened, after liberally supplying them with useful articles from the presents furnished to the expedition for that purpose ; as also with as much wood for constructing sledges as they could convey. The confidence with which these harmless people approached the vessels, and their general manners, indicated their having visited the North Star, or some other vessel ; and their state of health and appearance altogether betokened contentment and comparative comfort. RAILWAY ItETU TRAFFIC RETUNS FOR THE P. NAME OF RAILWAY. R ceelpts. 185 J. Irish South Eastern • • •• • ..... • Lancaster and Carlisle • • • • • • • • • ... Lancashire and Yorkshire Leeds and Thirek .• .. ••••••• • •• • • 1236 526 1731 A 244)4 15 11% 167% 9% 28 496% 126 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... London and North Western. London and Blackwall • • • • • • • • • • • • • • London, Brighton, and South Coast London and South Western. • • Londonderry and Enniskillen • • Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. Manchester, Sheffield, andLincolnshire Manchester and South Junction Maryport and Carlisle Midland Great Western (Irish) •.... Monklands ....................... Newcastle and Car •• •• •• •• . North British • •• •• • • •"• '" North Staffordshire • • ...... '• '• . North-Western • Scottish Central •• •••• • • . 12 Scottish Midland ••••••••• " • • • •• • • 1034 Shrewsbury and Birmingham • • .... E 7 Shrewsbury and Chester 10 Shropshire Union .. •••• • • • ******* • • '8 South Devon.. •...•••••• • • • • • • • • 261 93% 77 South Ea5tern.... ...... South Wales .. ••..• • • • South York., Doncaster, and Goole -. -. Taff Vale • • • • •• • • Ulster . • • • • • • • • Waterford and Limerick •• • 442% 134 U 240 4,667 16,023 1,204 226 48,036 937 12,57 a 11,889 189 6,339 482 683 24,314 1,216 671 2,431 3,704 5,129 615 1,701 697 1,796 Q 95 2,170 15,846 1,050 1,657 2,583 913 346 West CornwallT:7: 7 . ...... Whitehaven Junction ..••• •• • • • • York and Newcastle, and Berwick. York and North Midland. .. .. • ... 222 15,146 9,451 FOREIGN. Central of France .......... • Dutch Rhenish ...• ........ •• • Al aria Antonia Montereau and Troyes Northern of France .. •• •• •• •• •• Orleans and Bordeaux Paris and Lyons .... •. •• •• Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen . Paris and Strasburgh ••..•• • • . • Rouen and Havre .............. Tours and Nante5........ 2,922 1,406 1,176 25,328 3,614 8,256 8,428 7,817 6,059 3,270 1,435 1,156 27,866 4,950 14,755 9,043 8,516 8,960 3,458 2,715 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY HARBOUR. The works in connexion with the railway and great harbour at Holyhead are actively progressing. The blasting operations now . being alm os t d a il y carried on are probably the most extensive on record. These are being carried on at a place called " Th e M oun tain, , about half a mile distant from Holyhead, where quarries of schisters quartz exist, of the most e x t ens i ve nature in this country, and which, on being dislodged in large boulders from the mountain, are draughted down on trams upon three lines of rail s by l ocomo ti ves , and tilted into some 50 feet of sea low water mark, to form the break-water. The ordinary operations are carried on by charges of 22,0001bs of gunpowder, fired by means of galvanic batteries, the dislodging power of the ex plosive operation representing upwards of 30,C00 tons of material at a time, and which falls away, so to speak, almost as imperceptibly and slowly as though by the action of an earthquake. The most extensive discharge hitherto successfully attempted by the engineers, and Mes s rs. Rigby, the contractors, has been one of 5,000 tons of gun powder, divided into three different mines, exploded by the battery simultaneously, but which only dislodged 36,000 tons. To-day a gran d dislodgement of 30,000 tons is to take place ; some o f the stones dislodged from the mountain ar e t wen ty tons in weight. About one million tons have alr ea dy b een deposited to form the foreshore for the break water, and a total of from five to six million toms it is calculated will be required. The daily delivery into the sea is about 4,000 tons, and there are from 1,200 to 1,500 men engaged on those and the harbour works. The width of the deposit at the base of the breakwater is to be 600 feet, and the proper settlement of the work is ascertained by soundings car ried on by Mr. Rendel and his engineers. The break water is to enclose an are a o f 3 16 acres, three-quarters of a mile long, in 6k fathom water, with a sea pier 2,000 feet long, at a cost of 700,0004 The foreshore, now half-way, will extend 5,600 feet seaward. Upwards of 400 sail have sheltered under the breakwater in the last few months, and when completed it will form the largest harb our o f re f uge i n the kingdom. The rail way company are building a large station and pier for the traffic. Yesterday an inquest wEaNs h p el E d A by TH M . . r Wakley, at Marylebo ne W or kh ouse, on thebody Venison, livery-stable keep Bailey, aged 36, late coachnaa uin th e s e r v i c e o f Mr. of William grove. It appeared fro m t h e evidence that on Wednes day night last dece ase d was engaged to drive a gentle maner, Lodge-place, Lisson named Orme, residing at N o. 16, Regent ' s Vill as , Avenue-road, St. Johns-wood, an d a friend of h i s, M r. Tozer, of Park-ro a d, in a fly, t o t h e Opera. On return ing to Mr. Orme's, ab ou t one o ' clock in the morning, both gentlemen went in, d eceased being told to wait for his own dero' whom in his way h ome he could put down at or. About half-past one Police-constable Ker ridge, S 108, who was on duty, saw deceased walking up and down by the Bide . of the c arr i age; b ut on his aga i n visiting the spot, in i less th an half an hour, h e found him insensible n the arms of the gentleman before named, who told him that on Mr. Tower leaving the house to get into the carriage, they found deceased lying on the . ground betw een t h e f ore an d hi n d wheels with his beau doubled under him on to his chest. A medical gentleman was promptly in attendance, but life was extinct. Mr. G ilham, the i n fi rmary surgeon , said that he had examined the body, an d externa ll y there were two slight bruises on the head as if from a fall, but internally nothing which could give him the most remote idea of the cause of death. The Coroner remarked that several similar unaccountable deaths had lately come under his notice. One a mechanic , in good health, snoring rather loudly , his wife, afraid he would awake the child, to arouse him placed her hand under his head, and that moment he was death, nor the th a corpse. In th e pre sent case there was no accounting for in which deceased was found. Vei rdct—" That position the deceased was found dead u nder a c arriage, but how ho came there, and the cause o f d eath , there was no evidence to show." Ma. THACKERAY.—Our readers will be glad to learn that Edinburgh is likely to be honoured in the course of the winter by a visit from the author of " Vanity Fair," and that Mr. Thackeray is to re-deliver here some of those lectures on the " Humorists of last Century," Which attracted so much admiration in London in the sprinz DUNDEE TRADE RErour.—Flax—All kinds are of slow sale, with prices the turn in favour of buyers. Owing to recent numerous arrivals (38 within the week) with flax cargoes, that article is now getting more pl ent i ful, and to save landing charges, &c., there are sellers from the ships' side at ss. to 10s. per ton below our current rates, for the respective marks. Tows and Coaillas—A lack of animation is felt for these articles, even though obtainable on somewhat lower terms. Hemp and Hemp Codillas—There is very little doing in either, and prices are without alteration. Jut This article continues of large consumption, and fine qualities sell readily at full prices, while common qualities, Owing to their abundance, are of heavy sale, at former lower rates. Yarns and Linens—ln both articles a fair amount of busi ness is doing, though only at the same cheap prices as formerly,— Dundee Courier. GENERAL TERMINUS AND GLASGOW HARBOUR._ The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Glas gow on Tuesday, M r . A. S. Dalghsh in the chair. The report stated that a considerable decrease in the working expenses had been e ff ec t e d. N ow that the difficulties and disputes which had so long subsisted between the Caledonian and their guaranteed lines have been amicably adjusted, the di rectors are in hopes that the full and legitimate development of the traffic will be effected by the immediate adoption of a liberal and equitable table of rates. In the meanti me mea sures have bee n t a k en f or improving the revenue from other sources. Since the last half-yearly meeting three vacancies have occurred in the board of direction, and their places have been supplied by the appointment of Mr. W. Buchanan, Mr. W. Patterson, an d M r . J. G. Gilbert. A vacancy has like wise occurred i n th e o ffi ce o f auditor by the resignation of Mr. W. R oss , an d t h e d i rec t ors recommend M r . J. G . Mor rison for election i n hi s roo m. The receipts for the h a lf- year ending the 31st of July amounted to 1,5481., and the-ex penses to 1,4631. The chairman moved the adoption of the report, which, after some discussion, was agreed to. Resolu tions in conformity with the report were adopted, after which the meeting separated. OCTOBEIt 4 , tti3 TO THE EDITO R OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Huds on ' s B ay House, Oct. 2, 1851. beg to , hand y ou f or publication in your withly-circulated journal a copy of a dispatch received at the Iludson'3 Bay House, from Rear -Admiral Sir John Ross, announcin to g the safe ret urn, and regret add, the unsuccestful result, of the expedition under his command. The public are aware that Sir John Ross,on offered re his departure on his perilous voyage, not 13 , his gratuitous services in the cause of humanity, but also bound himself—rather than that the proposed un dertaking should fail through want of funds --to de fray out of his private resources any expense that should be incurred beyond the amount of the sub scription raised for the equipment of the expedition. The total amount of the subscription is 3,0631. 14s. 2d., and the expenses amount to 4,3631. 193. 7d., leaving a balance of 1,3001. ss. sd. to be provided for. To meet this there is only the schooner Felix, and even should that vessel be sold to advantage, there will still be considerable deficiency to be made good by Sir John Ross. But I feel confident that a British public, ever ready to ap preciate acts of daring intrepedity and generous devo tedness, will not allow a veteran officer who has acted so noble a part in a sacred cause to add a pecuniary sacrifice to his arduous personal services. In this confidence, I beg to state that subscriptions will con tinue to be received at the different banking houses in London, by the collectors of Customs throughout the kingdom, and by the secretary of the Hudson's Bay Company, until the end of the present month, by which time it is hoped a sufficient sum will have been received both to meet all claims and to present Sir John Ross with some token of the public approbation. Allow me to add that a statement of account and a list of the subscribers, names will be published, a copy of which will be sent to each subscriber. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, J. li. TELLY. "Felix Discovery Vessel, Stranraer, Sept. 25, 1851. " Sir—ln reference to an extract of my dispatch of the 29th July, 1851, sent by Captain Austin, I have to acquaint you that, after leaving our winter quarters at Cornwallis Island on the 12th August, we parted company with the vessels under Capt. Austin, and those in charge of Capt. Penny off the Wellington Channel on the following day ; and, after having made a further search at Beechey Island, we proceeded with out much obstruction to the eastward, and having made the land in lat. 76 deg. N., we used every effort be tween the 15th and 25th of August to close with the coast, but were prevented by impenetrable ice, ex tending from th e east l and to seaward, twenty miles between the lat. of 75 deg. and 77 N. It was evident, that by getting round this immense body of ice, either by the northward or southward, even if it were pos sible, we must be obliged to spend another winter in order to make the proposed examination, and for which we had not provisions, being originally vic tualled for only eighteen months. I was therefore under the necessity of bearing up for Godhaven (Lie foly) in Disco, still in hopes of obtaining a supply of provisions, from what the commander of the North Star was directed by the Admiralty to land there, and which would enable me probably to obtain a position north of Wolstenholme Sound, from whence I should, during the ensuing spring, have set the question at rest. But here I regret to say I was disappointed ; I arrived at Godhaven on the 30th of August, in company with the Danish Government brig foal fisken, which I fell in with on the 29th, and to my mortification I found that Mr. Saunders, the master commander of the North Star, had not, according to his orders, been to Godhaven to land any provisions ; and although the manager and magistrate at Godhaven in the absence of the governor, most readily supplied us with the refreshment so necessary for the health of my craw, he could not spare us provisions for another season ; and being obliged to deter my intention of examining the coast between Whale Sound and Mel ville Bay, it only remained for me to obtain the depo sition on oath, touching the fate of the missing ships, of my interpreter Adam Beck, who, on the Ist of September, was carried before the magistrate, and being warned that if it was found by a future expedi tion, which would probably be sent out, that he had sworn to what was not true, he would incur a severe punishment. Whereupon be voluntarily made the enclosed deposition, which he signed and swore to iu my presence, and in that of the magistrate. I regret that there was no person at Godhaven who could translate this document either into Danish or Eng lish, although it was perfectly understood by the ma gistrate's lady, who is the daughter of a former go vernor, was born and brought up in Greenland, but could not translate into Danish. The substance of this document was, however, that the two missing ships were actually wrecked on the coast north of Cape York; that some of the crews reached the land in a state of destitution, and perished during the winter of 1846-7, either by cold, hunger, or by the treachery of a hostile tribe of natives; that articles belonging to the ships could be shown which would prove the truth of his assertions ; and that he would accompany any future expedition that might be sen to ascertain the truth. "It is true, indeed, that Petersen, the Dane, who is interpreter on board the Lady Franklin, flatly contradicted the report of Ad am B ec k ; but circum stances have transpired, and facts have come to light, which have caused serious doubts on the veracity, if not on the respectability of Petersen ; while they have in a material degree corroborated the testimony , of Adam Beck, and have also in a satisfactory man ner accounted for the boy now on board the Assis tance being on the side of Petersen. I am also authorised by the resident and magistrate of Disco to say that they firmly believe that what Adam Beck has deposed is true, as he was born in Greenland, was brought up a Christian, can both read and write, is well informed in the nature of an oath and its con sequences, and that under such circumstances the natives have never been known to swear falsely. "And having myself taken everything into con sideration, I am clearly of opinion that the missing ships under the command of Sir John Franklin, having remained at their winter quarters, Beechey Island, until September, 1846, and seeing there could be no possibility of advancing further during that season (after which they would only have one year's provisions), that they had on their attempt to return home round the north end of the pack, been wrecked on the east coast of Baffin's Bay ; and in short, that the report of Adam Beak is in every re spect true. _ " Adam Beck was discharged on the 30th o: August, on our arrival at Godhaven. "Inclosure No. 1 contains his deposition on oath, written in the Esquimaux language. Inclosure No. 2 is his account current ; copies of his bills in liqui dation of his wages, and supplies to the ship. " Truly thankful for the blessings of health and strength, by which, through the blessings of Divine Providence, we have been enabled to perform the arduous duty we undertook, it is with feelings of un qualified satisfaction I have to inform you that the Felix, not having met with the slightest damage, has safely arrivedwheroeletherisewd:ya,swvithlloasut inthyeseloifs,sionf, perfect health. and with the h health. I have the honour to be, with truth and regard, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) " JOHN Ross, Rear-Admiral. " Archibald Barclay, Esq., Secretary to the Hudson's Bay Company." Extract of Admiral Sir John Ross's letter of the 29th July, 1851 It is my intention, ¶'f possible, to make a tho rough inquiry into the truth of Adam Beck's report of the ship's having been wrecked in the space between Whale Sound and Cape York. This, indeed, may detain me another winter, and with 16 men I am not very able to cope with a numerous tribe of hostile savages, but I must and will try. " I have, sir, to intreat you to offer my most grate ful remembrances and respectful compliments to the governor and directors of the Hon. the Hudson's Bsy Company, and I am with truth and regard, " Your most obedient servant, (Signed) JOHN Ross. " To Archibald Barclay, Esq." (From the Devonport Independent.) Captain E. orn- We have been favoured w i th a perusal of a letter 'rsiinsisjibpyAßssoisatdasn,cefst October, 1851, m fro an m ne h y e , r d lN a l t : e ij d est G y from which we make the following extracts:— " Captain Austin's dispatch sent by C a pt a i n P enny, which has been published, must hue put y© u in pos session of our proceedings up t o the period of our leaving our winter quarters (11th of August) nor 'of September ' I have the hon our t o s t a t e, f or t h e information of the Lords Commissioners of the Re solute, with her tender, the Pioneer, have arrived in Yarmouth -roads, and that the Assistance with her tender, the Intrepid, are in the Humber. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient sex vast, " Holten° T. AUSTIN, " Captain in charge of an Arctic Expedition. `a To the Secretary of the Admiralty, London." e have received for publication the following letters, which we shall notice more fully at an early opportunity. In the meantime it is incumbent upon us to state, that we are in possession of facts which throw entire discredit upon the story which Sir John Ross has u g.; T nfor tunately accepted, an d is eued in circu lating. We regret that the Honourable Hud son's Bay Company, his natrons, should ever eppoar to h ave l ent the authority of their name and countenance —we are sure unwittingly—to the dissemination of a tale which we have reason to believe is rejected at the Admiralty, and the re vival of which is calculated to bring anguish to the hearts of many an humble individual, ignorant of facts, and incapable of weighing conflicting evi dence : 815 1,922 COURT CIRCULAR. BAL MORAL, THURSDAY. Her Majesty drove yesterday in the opec carriage, accompanied by the Princess Royal, and attended by the Marchioness of Douro. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out deer-stalking. Lady Clark, and Mr. and Mrs. Clark, had the honour of dining with her Majesty yesterday. In the ;evening her Majesty gave a ball to the tenantry on the estates of Balmoral, Abergeldie, and Birk Hall. The Oxford University Commission bad a meeting yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing -street. Present :—The Bishop of Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. H. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev. Professor Powell, the Rev. G. H. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (secretary). Dispatches were sent off yesterday from the Colo nial•office to the Governors of the North American Colonies. LYCEUM THEATRE. An English version of De Balzac's posthumous comedy of iliercadet was produced at this theatre on Thursday, under the title of a Game of Speculation. The success of Mercadet, when originally produced at the Gymnase, was very great; it was considered, and justly considered, as the greatest of the dramatic works of Pe Balzac, as superior even to Vautrin. Mercadet, as the hero of the piece so called, represents a character especially belonging to the present day. He is a millionnaire, with the highest reputation on the Bourse, who has been ruined by the flight of a dishonest partner. To keep up his credit, in spite of his loss, he has recourse to all sorts of projects, and endeavours to form all sorts of companies. His desperate speculations, though sometinses prcsper ous, have ultimately raised au army of greedy cre ditors, and it is when he bas lost everything and is bated by these persecutors that the play begins. He is shown working on the temperament of each indi vidual creditor —coaxing one, bullying another, till be succeeds, not only in softening them, but in making them lend him more money. Tbis is required to make the preparations for his daughter's marriage with the wealthy Count de la Brive, on which all his hopes of restoring his credit depend. Everything seems straight, when suddenly be is astounded by the dis covery that the Count is himself a ruined man, who hopes to retrieve his fortunes by marrying the daughter of the rich Mercadet. In fact, Mercadet and the Count have been trying to practise on each other like the Copper Captain and Estifania. The speculator is still undaunted, and as a last resource requests the Count, whom he has in his power, as a holder of acceptances, to personate the runaway part ner, now returned with a large fortune. During the temporary restoration of credit which this fraud will occasion he hopes to effect advantageous operations in the share-market. His wife, who is less unsorupu lous than himself, dissuades the Count from joining her husband in so dishonourable a scheme, and in the meanwhile the real runaway partner really returns. The creditors whom Mercadet has called to his house are all delighted, their debts are all paid, and the only puzzled person is Mercadet himself, who knows last of all that the partner is no impostor, but a wealthy pe nitent who has brought him an immense fortune from India. The character of Mercadet is admirably drawn. His indomitable courage and tact in facing the most formidable difficulties create a sympathy which he does not earn by any one moral virtue. Be is a scamp at heart, but on such a grand smile that everybody rejoices to see him cleared from his em barrassments at last. The creditors lilsewise are deli neated with an artistic hand. There is the brutal cre ditor—and the creditor who is an intimate private friend—and the creditor who assumes an appearance almost of mendicity to extort his interest by chari table instalments; not one of them is a repetition of the other, though all are selfish and rapacious speculators. The situations of the piece are strongly marked, and the dialogue is natural and sharply s serious i o fi u n s e to the point. M ercadet and his creditors have t a .)o e k atalkping urp , ose thnu to gh stand many s a til s l ma f r o t r sa t y he . g and inmany a shrewd maxim falls from their lips. In the Lyceum version of the piece the scene is laid in London, but in other respects the original is closely followed, though an attempt is made here and there to elevate the moral character of Mercadet. The execution of the piece is excellent. Mr. C. Mathews plays Mr. Affable Hawk (the English Mercadet) with infinite blandness and subtlety, and each of his victo ries raised the sympathetic laughter of the audience, many of whom had probably never seen the art of talking-over so f u ll y d eve l oped. Mr. Roxbywaadsvesn. adven turer, and the pe cu li ar iti es o f th e severa l Sir in Harry Le s t er (th e C ount ) , the easy, im pud ent t Matthews, IL were well shado we d ou t b y Messrs. F. i i ez - Baker, Suter, an d Horncastle. The piece was com pletely successf u l, an d a g eneral demand wa s made for the auth or , w h en M r . R oxby came for ward and stated that his name was Lawrence. EXHIBITION. b p ' e A r;o l n ' s entered the building, and was taken in half-crowns at the doors. tho Y s e u s A lady in Bloomer attire made her appearance among T m ter H o d f ay E 3, 3 3 l s G , 4 9 l s . R l 3s. the crowds of visitors during the day, and tho new cos tume and the fair wearer of it, as may be imagined, at tracted no small share of attention. We understand that his Royal Highness Prince Albert has signified his intention to become the purchaser of the original series of sketches illustrative of the Exhibition, made by Mr. Nash, Mr. Louis H ague, and Mr. D. Roberts, for Messrs. Dickinson, of New Bond -street. A number of them have already been submitted to the Pricca, and, though in an unfinished state, have been highly approved of by hi: 11 . They are now arranged on too north side of the eastern nave at the foot of the staircase, between the Greek and Spanish compartments, and will be found well worthy of inspection. UDLIN, OCT. 2.—The Galway Vindicator men_ ions a melancholy catastrophe which took place near that town yesterday.—Mr. Townsend, of Balliaesloe, and two boatmen having been drowned by the upsetting of a boat near the cliffs of Barna. Mr. Wade, son-in-law of Mr. Bur ton Persse, and a child who were also in the boat, had a narrow escape, having been picked up by a Connemara boat. SEurous ACCIDENT.—The Macroom coach on its way to Cork on Tuesday morning, was upset by the breaking of the axle, and all the passengers thrown off and severely injured, amongst whom was the Rev. Mr. O'Donoghue, who bad several of his ribs broken. . Griffith Island, where the expedition was fixed from the previous lath of September; notwithstanding the distance we have travelled, not a trace hes been found of the missing expedition beyond their first winter quarters in 1845-46, where, unfortunately, not a re cord beyond the graves of three men was to be dis covered. The distance we have accomplished by means of travelling parties is unprecedented ; a divi sion of sleighs was dispatched to the S.W. of Cape Walker; we set out on the 15th of April, and were absent from the ship 60 days, carrying all our re sources with us, with nothing but a thin tenato protect us from the intense cold, and we were exposed to the se verest trial of temperature ever experienced, being 60 deg. below the freezing point ; at cue time the mercury congealed in the thermometer. We accomplished a distance of 500 miles, draggirg over rough ice the whole time ; the fatigue from Cape Weiler was ex cessive ; we traversed 200 miles of newly-discover, d line, never before trodden by any European, on which Captain Ommanney had the honour of planting the British flag. It is a wretched dreary coast covered with snow, the shores bound with old fixed ice ; this coast lay precisely in the course which Sir John Franklin's instructions directed him to pursue. Not a vestige could be seen, and with feelings of deep gratitude we regained our ship in perfect health, having obtained our retreat just precious to the dis ruption of the ice in the Straits. We were equally successful in accomplishing extended searches in other directions. The Fist Lieutenant (M'Clietock) reached beyond Melville Island, after an absence of eight days, during which be traversed 760 miles ; fur ther search to the westward became unnecessary. Since leaving our whiter position, we have been searching the head of Baffin's Bay. Captain Austin took the steamers and searched Jones' Sound, the shores of which, as well as on the eastern side of the Bay, were found totally different from those laid down in the chart ; he got forty miles up the Sound when a bar rier of fixed ice arrested his progress, nor could be reach Smith's Sound for the same reason. Captain Ommanney had charge of the sailing ships to reach a rendezvous near Wolstenholme Island, and became involved in ice, from which they were released after some exertion. They reached the Cary Islands, which were searched, and attained the parallel of 77 deg. north. The steamers also became beset ; one was placed in a most perilous position, being thrown up on an iceberg 40 feet above the sea. Oaptain Austin did not join the sailing ships again for some time, and con siderable doubts were entertained about him. Having completed all that was possible to be done, we bore up England on the 6th of Sept., in 76 degs., north, afteriihaving experinced a most prosperous voyage, not having touched a bowlilue since we rounded the Orkneys. In the operations of last year, whilst de tubed, Captain Ommanney succeeded in finding the winter position of the North Star, and had the satis faction of being the discover er of the first traces of Sir John Franklin. We have returned after a faithful discharge of our duty, such as we hope will afford satisfaction to the country, or to those who are capable of forming a proper estimation of our re searches, which we trust will reflect credit on the service. The most perfect unanimity has prevailed throughout the expedition—the conduct of the officera and men having been most exemplary. We have en dured the terrors of an Arctic winter, mid escaped without a single case of scurvy with one exception. Captain Ommanney has brought home a native from Wolstenholm Sound, belonging to a tribe separated from the rest of the world, and the most northern of human beings ever known to exist on the globe."