The Sun. — London, England, 1850-10-21 00:00:00

1 f v ; l; Of jeo l 11$ Tts o nu , been o r d ere d to cruise i2etwema Tripoli and Malta for f the s ame purpose. A di spatc h on the subj, ct . has been o rwarded to the Admiral Commanding-in-Chief. s 134 T 471 A., AUG. 26.—Tho Elehantreas schooner, rnY d nY, New South Wales t o Java, is totally lost in rres Straits; ere and passengers reported to be aaved. '4 eETON, AUG. 22 —Th ere have been two severe os thwring the past month, and a typhoon is reported ,ntside. The shipping have sustained no considTable ?ftulage beyond the lees of masts to two or three vessk:ls. blush anxiety, however, is felt for several vessels which are considerably out of date; amongst them the Ras tc'in Calcutta9e Cowus'ee with a val u abl e cargo o f o pium from cos The Fama, Hong-liong• to Manilla, has been totally on the Scarborough Shoal ; crew saved. fo r ~ ,A.Nhti.t.t. AUG. 1 0. —T he Ganges, sa i le d h ence 21 s t 4 11 y, put hack 21 August di.masted. ,11 QUARANTINE NOTICE. 811 b SEPT. 19, 1850 . —V esse l s f rom M a lta are quajrantine ect to ten, and th ose f rom E gypt to fi ve , days' MA lI KE'fIEWS.-(THIS DAY.) ________ a,kiuttN EXCHANGE-31ONDAY. . firmust of the country markets held on Saturday we t r l e . m for all kinds of Wheat % at an tons f full °- ls per quarter. The supplies oil .ritz advance in the Ti ). lie"' comparatively sm , sll. The best Barley, 0 its, a ar_ 4 " ) ,ar, roovod off steadily, at full prices. In other ttetes very little business was tranmcted. Advice& from New York, to the 90 inst., site that a moderate business was doing in Flour f , r shipment t,, dal land; but the demand for home col,unarion ruled of pric- _ IVilhipajhnavethgeivletltvvicay and Black Sea Mai kets and Fretich markets hsvle 414 1 0 1 e 2s p h e ea r v q y u . arter. The Dutch iy_The arrivals of English Grain up to our markeLlast s ; k were very moderate, if we except those of Malt. F ro eargoea of Oats came to hani from Ireland. 14 in , abroad we received 25,625 qu trters of Wheat, s 2 gl-220f Barley, 29 .731 Oats, 20 Rye, 2,304 Bean. : i'a Peas, 431 Tars, 7,181 L'iaseed, Q 7 klustard Seed 420 seeds, 5 800 sacks and sundry , 1,200 barrels Flour. 929 Rapeseed_ t Th e s uPPIY of Wheat rece'ved fresh . uP market to from Essexsmall, but of fair averag e an d Kent coastwise was l e the r - • quality. By and sami,. to our land carriage a act. , ec-ipts vvere smaller than for some weAs p 7 ll_ ell() the quantity of home-grown Wheat on offer was eko_roparatively trifling. Notwithstanding that the nudine lawf_o! buyers in attendance was not extensive, the . -- I .._Zpu foe all kinds of English Wheat was firm at prices wuhiY_Lequal to thoso obtained on Monday last, and at _ busiennZgood clearance was effected prior to the close f ba, Bey few offers reached us from any quarter to ship p‘reartints present prices., some of the c will l rule dur in,„ , 4 4! 9 be of opinion that higher rates 6 ,C 1 W inter. lators a; - Th e forei market Wag som ew h at h eav ily supplied with taiidlinn wheat, a large quantity of which was o f ve r y red _ g and inferior quality. Selected samp!e , s of u b p o t t _ ft . tiQ.4411:1 white sold to a fair extent at last week s q a , yer;„ Otherwise the trade was in a very slug4ish state offered, zs io e ave no actual fall to notice in value. Suite ted cargoes of Odessa and Dantzic were freely ~_s e but we heard 'tof verY 'feW iiaiisitet t ioas in , them. •Eareples:of "tpili l aAa Elarliq..were seirce, 'and .. . eei. _as dear as last week.,, Grinding and distaling. par. 4 i* of foreign growth Were almost unsaleable, yet the ,u_Vorters referred to accept lower prices. We had e a ii7Y extensive supply of Malt on offer ready for d - e t h":_Y• . Ware samples sold at full currencies, but all ,;:r kinds were ver 'the t ydull. 1 ,,,,, otal supply of Oats was very extensive; on the "ino the trade ruled inactive, at barely late rates. tiu,lntillieoatinns very f ew transactiLs took place, at unaltered Th /4 s a 4 e for Peas was heavy, at last week's currencies. tra e , a u Corn dull; but a full average business was „ . oted, both in English and foreign Flour, at full Friees. Whoat4itrßßENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE' Bex Et Kent, , Malt—Chevalier. Rea NT 378 to 43s Oats—Yorkshire F bitto ' ' "v. ' " Norfolk ite New 39s 498 . e ttn ... ci 52s to 55s 3 223 and Lin- Potato ...... • • • • Bitteola• Red,,,,, 351 4b Youghal and Cork, Lineolnsh., &ad. 1 1 8 6 a 17s 14s !_ss 0, White.. • 378 438 Irish, Red • • ::. IBs 29s k ebitto,White••••••• ••• 1::: —s Y 30Id .......... 269 2783 beanse—Tick Cork, White . . •. .. .. .. .. 1 " 2172. 288 6 34 288 29s Pigeons ...... •• • • s ........ 25s 298 Y—Grinding .. • • 20s 23s Peas—Grey .••••• '' • • 2 3 144111EZ • •• • Chevalier ...... 25 s 2 7s 1 1 ,, er .... •• . 288 298 ‘l,--Suffolk and Nor- 1 ‘ W i a l fi l t e e . . : : : • . : .• : .• : '' n °257 15 3332383 58 Boilers ••••• • • • • 3 35 3 40e folk.. b , ••••• • • • • . 433 483 Flour—Town-made. • • ..,,_ ~,_ own .••••.. • • • • 43 423 Suffolk •.••• • • • • • •,'" ".' .4naston and Ware 478 51s szEns. Stockta &IN'orfolk 298 343 l:EduCanary Seed continues to movd off heavily, eed rates; but both Linseed and Rapeseed are quite a l 4 dear Its last we.l. All other Seeds urea dull sale. at further telde,White, per bush. lla to 12s Carraway •••••• • • • • • • 219 s 338 Mustard,Red sad Green.... 103 I2s Coriander •••••• • • " ' • -si :211583 Brown, new 8 lls Hernpseed, per quarter 318 --- - Tare;White, new ......63 Od 7508 Linseed Eng Nevr Winter •.58 Od 5, 64 '• . 403 43 83 uAling —— Old •. • . ••• • • • ...Is Od 5s 08 Cr 384 4483 Baltic ••••• • :: ~ . 53 54 s 91 5 ,1 6 :, 5 s Canary, per quarter • • 518 60s 42s 48. Rye gras.. ••.....• •• 243 30 Lln• d 0 Clover, ReklErq,. (cwt.) 32s 48a • O e e d Cak e • P :owingr : 1 0 ° White •• • • .....• 32s 488 Lnglish ••• • • °,.` 5, 71 5 ' 30s 445 Rap Foreign Red...—. e ersesign, per ton u m 53 41 15s C a kes , or ton White.... 28s 46s Rapeseed,Nevv, prlst2sl 108 271 Os Trefoil .. .• ••••.. •• 11.!ii 228 snix'surrEza. . We have sgain to report the arrival of very extensive B ,, ll i l i v i t ) l h i e of foreign stock into the metropolis. amongst theatv whi c h are large numbers of Pigs. The total same week has amounted to 7,800 head, During week tame period in 1849 we recl 460 8 ; the import in ‘4 1848' 5.°56; and in 1847, Fr IXPORTs INTO LONDON IN TILE PAS Llves. A... 711 Beasts. 3,47 1 head. WEEK. ••• ••• y,ounlircerp ..... ..... ... Sheep. Lambs. Osterildng3ll ••• 231 ... liter ' '"'• -- \,, Ile n -- • • Pigs 50 - 100 ... - ... 10 ......., ••• t ie ,,, 11 1 , 6 i e P .... :: 17268 .. . 2 5 8 7 5 ...... -- 11l __— ::. ---.' I) o ;.ii t ' u rgh ... 18 ..... 124 ... •• , ... _ il otterd" "*" --- 365 ... ... 273 43 If lit , ate ... 548 . 2,242 ... 67 .. 514 41. -- R e h 246 - 1 615 .. ••• Total li nsrd am ••••• , ••• , ,_ ~,,, 7 •-• 22 ... 70- ...____ ---- 9 ... 567 TI ..... 1334 .. 5,540 ... ... 18: ihlPnrtations during the corresponding 9. 1 848, and 1847, ware as under: — Pigs. 184 a Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. 61 weeks in 1;".... ..... 1,479 ... 2,870 .., -,,,, 190 , "' - ~4 t t ..... 855 ... 4,046 ... —•-• l ' Al ''' 4 ° B Tc.4,,,7......... 661 2 579 ... ... 185 ... , e fi gs which have co , nae to hand since our last are op .tly logs, and th ey are certainly not worth more than Lan ) 23 r Notwithstandin g this low price very large k Lien are expected to arrive during the season, as ex tl supplies have, we understand, been fed in the l neighbourhood of Harlingen for our market. The gener d a : 1 1 '! ftl itY of the Beasts and Sheep are somewhat improve . _este Irish supply, direct bysea, has been confined to four li .asts and twenty-five Pigs. We were again extensively_ , tlpplied with each kind of foreign stock to-day. The' Itohiv'eanscitueasillitdyCotreltrhees,zreeei3in very moderate districts des . oratn g thia n i a 4" " g the are receipts still o f Beasts improving. condition, bu were very large ;the total supply of that being eription of stock, including the foreign arrivals, F fresh rom o u u p r upwards of 5 ,000 he d u leas two-thirds of which slau.ghter Were of inferior quality. although t the weather was favourable for, Beef trade, owing to the large suppliei itigthe Newgate and on sale in Leadenhall, was in a sluggish state. However, th e p ri mest Scots, Herefords, &c., sold at last Monday's prices; but most other breeds ere the turn in favour of the butchers. The droves from Lincolnshire, Leices slshire, and Northamptonshire, amounted to about ~) 000 Shorthorns, &e. From otber parts of England received about 500 of v • and from Scotland 14 g emus breeds, :fShShops. There was a slight falling-off in the numbers ep 1. compared with exhibited on s day -.' h i nght; yet the mutton those trade was far from thi activelll6 ''stid la te rates were with difficulty supported. The, general top figure for the best Downs was Calves Per Blbs. NI ...otwithstanding that the supply of .. a , s ZIS raoderate, the Veal trade ruled heavy at Friday's y .. :cline in value, the top quotation not exceeding 3a. 4 j,,P lia s• Fine Pi s the number of which was 4 . 1 good, the de a m g an'- was inactive, at late rates. Per albs. to sink the offal: Itifert,,,... w. s. d. to S. d, I g e w, ne, . 2 4 2 6 p r y quality :: :: 2 a 3 o prirBo larg e oxen.. 3 2 3 6 i . rue Sc at , ...... 3 g 310 1. rte co wse Calves 2 8 3 4 Ru'aOsteall ditto .. 3 6 3 it tmook,".l C alves .. la 0 25 0 ---' .' ••••• • • • 0 0 0 0 s. d. to s. ct. Inferior Sheep •2 10 3 SJeond val. Sheep 3 2 3 4 C)arse-woolledditto3 6 3 8 SouthdownWether 310 4 0 Ditto eutof the wool 0 0 0 0 Large Hogs .. 3 0 3 6 Small Porkers •• 3 8 4 2 Quartar old Pigs •.17 0 25 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. R esets ' 1 Sheep. Calves. Pigs.6Oo 5,403 26,120 213 FOREIGN' SUPPLY. Weser., I I Sheep. 1 Calves. 'Mrs 1,600 5,000 166 200 . ; IVENVGATE AND LEADENHALL , . ''' n eu Monday last th© arrivals of country-killed 1 1 3 1 eat up to our markets, per railway conveyance, have .- seasonably ext.rnsive ; whilst the supplies of Meat _ o ffering s l aughtered in London have ben good, but of very middli ng quality. Prime Beef, Mutton, and are Pork, in steady rc quest at full prices. Otherwise the de mand rules heavy. About 2.500 carcases of foreign meat have been disposed of since our last report. At por stone by the Carcase. S. d. to s. d. neeronfe___.... to I. d. 2 2 1 210 —.,.. middling .. :: 1 4 0 2 2 Itatton,intarior •• 3 _ 3 6 prime----prelarge .. 2 a i ----- middling 3 8 z 3 10 man .. 32 3 0 ----- p ri m e -- 210 3 8 Veal.— ......., .. 2 a 3 t Pork, 1arg 1 1,.... 1. :::: 310 4 4 .110ROITGEL AND SPX sw I. ;ELI". During the past week several Vessels, containing about 1 600 tons, have arrived with potatoes from Scotland and Yorkshire. From Essex. Xent, Cambridges,hire, and other q uar t ers, about 2,800 tons have reached us in ex cellent con di t i on, no traces of disease being apparent in any of them. As the dealers are now enabled to purchase extensively, a large business is doing in all kinds, and prices continue to advance. From abroad, the imports h ave been confined to 5 bags from Antwerp and 910 hags from Rotterdam, whilst 2 sacks have come to hand from Ireland. Present rates as under : Per Ton. I :Cent Per Ton. I Shaws ...... 60i to 70HKentish Red Kid. 605 to 70s 1: 38 7, ex Shaw ... 60s to ,0s Chats ll Kent Regents..... 655 to 608 Lincoln. Regents 7ss to bOs A t s ,',,e 3 z Regents... 65 s to 80s j Ditto Shaws 6os to 7.5 s " m iling Ware... 40s to 50s Scotch Regents GOs to 75s 13 02.01TGE1 EOP za.0.14...a.mr. For a ll fi ne Hops of tho present year's growth the demand continues steady, at prices fu ly equal to those obtained on Monday last, but the middling qualities are somewhat lower to purchase. The supplies are un usually large, and the duty has been done as high as 230,0001. In yearling and old Hops next to nothing doing. New East Kent pockets, 41 15s to 71; New Slid Kent ditto, 41 8s to 61 6s; New Weald of Kent ditto, 31 14s to 4110 s; New Sussex ditto, 31 46 to 41. WOOL. Last week's imports of Wool into London were 11 THE SUN, LONDON, bales from Ostend; 120 from Callao; 253 from Ado-1 lade; 1,208 trona J.klgo% Bay ; 693 from Sydney; 805 f:•:)En Port Philip ; 65 from the Cape; 5 hags from ilamburgh; and 59 paeltag,: , s from Ireland. By private contract, the demand continues steady. at prices fully equal to those obtained at the last public sales. British `Pools are quite as dear. TAMILOW. Letters from St. Petersburgh to the 14th inst. state that a good busin.ss was doing in Tallow at full prices. Shipments were progressing steadily. Since our last report the imports into London hive been large, viz , 11,837, whilst the deliveries have been confined to 2,321 c.7.sks, leaving a present stock of 36,790 c .sks. On the whole the trade is steady, but we have no change to notice in the quotations. To - dsy P. Y.C. on the spot Is selling at 385 63 per cwt. For forward delivery next to nothing doing. Town Tallow, 38s 3d to 38s 63 per cwt, net cash; Rough Fat, 2i 2,1 For Slbs 1846. 1847. 1848. 1849. 1850. ----; Mock this day • • .... 4,3.18 25,288 3 1,931 41,4'.8 1 35, 790 COs 0.1 44s 6,1 45s Od 37, Od to. 38s 6d Price of Y . C. ••/to Cs Oil to 45501 to 0 , 0 , 1 Os 0.1 ito Os 0,1 11 Delivery last week •• 2,201 2 ,897 2.518 2,849 2,321 Ditto from June 1.• • . 29152 33,0 .9 , 37,730 31,753 3,6'26 Arrivals last wee's • 100 1,836 6,150 775 45,792 ,837 Ditto from June 1.. 22,817 59 ,2 . 9 62,138 47,76 , I rice of Town •• • 52s 61 43s 01 478 6d 398 Gil 41s 01 STATEMENT OF T kiLOW SHIPPING AT ST. PETERsBUIIGH. 1850. 1849. 1 1848. I 1847. 1 1846. Tallow dispatched Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks from Cronstadt to 383 88,150 9,759 9 5 , 485 70,394 Sept. 25, O.S. 79, In ships loading and lighters .• • • ...... 17,194 13,196 11,531 16,537 19,822 Total loaded off, 27th .. •• .. 96,577 102,345 111,3' 1 : 0 112,022 9 0 ,' 116 Sept., O.S. Loaded afterwards • . •• .. 15,7.6 18,1 54 19 , 542 21,007 - - 'total at the close of --- the na vigation.. . • . 118,112 129,' 04 131,864 113, 223 London ••••• • •• • • 34,121 33,311 55,106 I 41,230 31, 599 Liverpool .•..• • .. 14,870 15,871 12 9 ,103 12,167 ,722 Bristol .• •• • • 3,542 3,255 4,231 3,329 2,745 Other English ports 5.288 10,698 11,008 9,320 8,711 Ireland ••••• • • • .. 3,573 4,267 4,172 6,615 6,; , 3 60 Scotland ••..• • .. 2,520 4,171 6,472 6,043 5,07 Germany .... •• .. 8,331 9,602 6,076 9,8 5 5,419 Franco .... •• •• 3,134 6,975 291 6,916 9h5 ; 79,383 88,150 99,759 95,485 70,390 IS DAY• CRIMINAL COURT.—(TIi. OLD COURT. These sessions, the twelfth and last of the present mayoralty, commenced to-day, before the Lord Mayor, the new Recorder (the Right Hon. James Stuart ;Wort ley, M.P.), Alderman Wm. Hunter, Alderman Challis, Alderman Sidney, Alderman Sir C. Marshall, Alderman Farebrother, the new Sheriffs, Messrs. Carden and Hodg kinson, the Under-Sheriffs, &c. The calendar contains the names of no less than 196 prisoners, of which 39 are from London, 114 from Mid dlesex, 8 from Essex, 12 from Kent, and 23 from Sur rey. The crimes of which the prisoners stand charged may be stated as follows:---1 for feloniousasly sault at tempting to procure abortion, 1 for an with intent to rob, 1 for bigamy, 6 for bur glary, 13 for unlawfully uttering counterfeit coin, 1 for feloniously threatening to accuse of an in famous crime, 3 for cutting and wounding with intent, 12 for embezzlement, 1 for forgery and uttering forged instruments, 9 - for housebreaking and larceny,,47 for ,larceny,l3PrjarcenY,,frop the person, 44'lareeny by' ser vants, 12 for larceny in a AW e lling-liouSe, • 'l' . for' steel ing a post letter, 2 for manSlaiightei,' lot -MlS'de meanour, 4 for rape, 13 for receiving stolen goods, 1 for shop breaking and larceny, and 1 for feloniously return ing from transportation. The grand jury having been empannelled and sworn, The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge to them. He had no doubt that the gentlmen who formed the present grand jury were sufficiently experienced in the duties they were celled upon to perform to render it unnecessary for him tet dwell upon them. They were called together for the protection of the subjects of the Queen from unfounded charges, and unnecessary punishment and delay. The institution for which they were constituted in that box was one of the great bulwarks of the liberty of the subject, and one that was entitled to the greatest respect and considera tion, and whatever opinions might be entertained with respect to the value of grand juries, whatever difference there might be in that respect, this at least was clear, that it was a great privilege that persons of every grade in society might be called from time to time together to prevent their fellows-subjects from being charged, and unnecessarily subjected to trial in a criminal court. He was happy to congratulate the grand jury tthe hat there was nothing in the appearance of p rese nt calendar that e ould require from him any spacial rema rk, and he was happy also to add that from the information he had received from the officers of the court, that, as compared with this time let year, crime was not on the increase, but had diminished, The opportunity he had had of running over the depositions, as welha g s the nature of a enabled him to state that there was none of any peculiar atrocity, or which called for any special (direc tions to the grand jury from him. There had, 1,0 doubt, of late been notoriously considerable alarm excited its the public mind at the different burglaries, attended with violence, that had lately taken place, these events had been strongly commented upon, and had alarmed the public mind, but he was happy to say that the present calendar did not disclose any case to justify that alarm. The cases that had principally caused alarm were not within the jurisdiction of tat, Court, and had occurred in districts to which the effi cient exertions of the inetropitlitan police did not ex tend; :and for his own part he believed that the com mittal of such crimes might be attributed to the want of a proper organiz Laub of a force to de tect and prevent crime in those districts to which the jurisdiction of the police did net ext--nd. There had, however, occurred cases within the jurisdic tion of that court which bad caused some alarm, aid which called for increased r xertions on the part of the police to put down. In cases like these it became the duty of the officers of justice to attend most vigilantly to the security of the poorer classes, as they had trot such remedies in their power to prevent the intrusion into their dwellings of the burglar as the rich had. As to the rich, they had the means in their own hands, because t he y had always a great number of inmates in their dwellings, and had the power of having their houses amply secured. In the case to which he was alluding he could not but express the gra tification he felt at the course adopted by the inmates who were left in possession of the property; it was richly deserving of praise, and required only to be imitated to put an end to the crime of burglary altogether, for never was there a greater truism than that crime and cowardice went hand in hand. With respect to the other cases in the calendar, there were oily three he considered re quired any special notice from him. The first was the case of a foreigner who was charged witk forging and uttering a true security of a foreign country, namely, notes upon the Austrian Government. Now, with respect to that case, all he need say was that such forgeries by Act of Par liament were placed upon the same footing as forgeries upon any bank or firm in this country. The grand jury would, therefore, have no trouble in that respect. The two other cases were charges in which two human beings had been deprived of life. The first was the case of an unhappy young woman causing the death of her child, and the other the death of a party caused by the ill usage of the police officers in attempting to take him into custody. In the first case the grand jury were bound, before they returned a true bill either for murder or manslaughter, to c uisider well the evidence, in order to ascertain whether the death had been caused by accident or design; and in the latter case the jury must bear in mind that no officer was allowed by law to use more violence in endeavouring to capture an individual than was absolutely necessary. It would be for the grand jury to say. after hearing the evidence, whether they considered that undue violence had been used, and it they thought there had it would be their duty to put the case in a train fur further investigation. Tne Learned Judge then remitted the grand jury to the discharge of their duties, and the Court proceeded to swear the petty jury. (SURREY SESSIONS.—THIS DAY.) ' The adjourned quarter sessions for the county of Surrey commenced this morning, at the Court, House, Newington causeway, before Thomas Puckle, Esq., and full' bench of magistra'es. The calendar contained the names of forty-eight prisoners. The grand jury having been sworn, the Chairman ad dressed th-in as to the nature of their duties. James Stroud, 23, was indicted for stealing, at Ber mohdsey a watch, pair of stocking , , and other properly, belonging to William Farning. The prosecutor, a young man in !.he employ of a but cher at Bermondsey, said, that the prisoner was a'so in the same service prior to the 17th of September, and slept in the same room with him. On that day he ab sconded, when witness found that his box had bet n broken open, and that his watch and other articles had been stolen. Mary Pearch , a lodging-house keeper in the City road, said the prisoner formerly lodged at her house. and on the night of the 17th ult. he came to her and handed her an old-fashioned silver watch to take care of. He slept there that. night, and on the following morning he went away, but returned shortly afterwards for the watch. A few days after that she received information of the robbery, and as soon as the prisoner came to her again she sent for a policeman ands gave him into custody. Witness produeetl a pair of toc ings which he left with her, and were identified by th e pr.secutor. In defence the prisoner denied all knowledv,e of the robbery, and said what the ftmale C stated was false. Thu juryfound p tt month~ him m p G r i n: 0 1 n t Guilty, him to six m E:l4ntdw thhe hardour t l a b s e o n u t r e . need IVIARLBIIO'STREET.-(T HIS DAY.) A FOOLISH WOMAN.— Harriet Bowler, toe wile of . a cabman, was placed before Mr. Hardwick, charged. ~ i th attempting to commit suicide by throwi,lg herselt into the Serpentine, Hyde-park. John Parsons, a boatman in the employ of the Royal Humane Society, stated that on Saturday evening, abt.ut six o'clock, he was standing by the bolt-house on the north side of the S. rpentiue, when he saw the defendant rush from amonst several persons and throw herst.lt into the water, which ay. that place is about three fret deep. lie immediately went to her assistance, but be fore he could get to her a gentleman had jumped to and pulled her out. She was then Olen into the receiving house, and subsequently to Sr. Ge rg,e's workhouse. In reply to the charge, the defendant said she was driven to attempt suicide by the ill-treatment sbe had received from her husband. The prisoner's . husband, a respectable -looking man, denied this, and said he always had treated her with the greatest kindness, and allowed her "30s. per week"for household expenses. She was of a most violent temper, and had repeatedly threatened to do him some serious injury. Oar Saturday last he was obliged to take her to Clerkenwell Police.court, when she was bound over to keep the peace towards him, and he agreed to give her ss. per week, and paid her a week in advance. She no sooner received this money than she called a cab, and drove directly to the Serpentine. HARDwicK severely lectured the prisoner on her foolish conduct, and on her promising not to repeat it he discharged her. WESTMIN STE t.-(THISi DAY.) James Miller and George Preston were charged under the following circumstances : Po!ice-constable 190 B, from information he received, went last night into No. 4, Gardnßea-buildings, and, looking over the wall into No. 5, he saw the prisoners emptying a cesspool into a pit which they had dug in the garden. They had been so careless that the street was in a most boastly state, and the nuisance to the inhibit ants of the neighbourhood was intolerable. He got over the wall to take them iht.) custody, when one of thi:m ran out of the front door and the other tot up a chim ney. Both of th , m wore, however, eventually secured. The prisoners said they were in ov..reni , - , poverty, and were glad to do anything to .zet st shilinug. Mr. PAINTER he could no: allow them to ritk the lives et others for that purpose. He should there fore order them each to pay a fine of 20s. or be impri soned for three weeks. AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY, 10 P.M. The Royal mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain Kyrie, arrived in the Mersey at half-past nine, with advices from New York to the 9th inst. The Cambrian arrived at Boston on the 3d inst. The Niagara has 300,000 dolls. in specie on freight. The steam. ship Hermann, from Southampton, ar rived at New York on the morning of the 9:h inst. The United States steam-ship Atlantic arrived at New York at 8 A.M. on the 9th inst. The Lotus, from Bremen, went ashore on Carri tucket Island on the 2d inst. Upwards of 5,0001. sterling in gold dust had been received at New York from California. Our accounts from Washington are unimportant. Sir H. Bulwer had denied the assertion that he had endeavoured to procure the recall of Squier. Great alarm prevailed amongst the coloured popu lation of the northern cities, and hundreds bad fled to Canada. San Francisco accounts of September 1 state that the prospects of commerce were auspicious. Rich fruits were being yielded by the mines and quartz rocks. From Canada, Jernaica, Havannab, &c , we have later dates, but no details of note. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The exchange market is firm, with good demand. Sterling money is at 10/ to 10 1 , 3 , ; francs, 5 18:/ to 5 17i: Bilis on Amsterdam, 404 to 41 ; llamburgh, 354 to 36.1 At the clbse sterling was freely offered at IN. Bremen, 80 to WI, The, supply, ormoney is very abundant, and loans are negotiated with facility at 5 to 6 per cent. on good stocks, and still lower on Government securities. Paper of good quality is scarce, and second class is taken cautiously. First class goes at 6 to 7 per cent. freely, and the demand exceeds the supply. Cotton is very buoyant, and some sales have been made at an improvement. About 9,000 bales sold to day. Middling fair is quoted at 144 to 141 cents. per pound. Breadstuffs—The flour market is rather easier for low grains. There is less doing for export, but fair for home trade. Wheat—There is not an active business, and the market is rather easy. The market-for corn is easier, heavy, and quiet. Sales are 15,000 bushels. Provisions—ln Pork there is more doing. The sales are 1,000 barrels at 8 dolls. Vic. for prime ; 10 dolls. 81c. to 10 dolls. 874 c. for mess. There is but little action in beef, but the market is easier. Lard is rather easier. Iron—Sellars at 16 dolls. 25c. and 20 dolls. 25c. six months for Scotch pig, with sale of 150 to 200 tons. English bars are dull, at 15 dolls. to 35 dolls. 50c. Ashes inquired for, with sales at 5 dolls. 87Ie. to 6 dolls. 121 r. for pots and pearls. Freights are quiet, at 16d. for flour and Bd. for cot ton. About 8,000 barrels and 1,000 bales were en gaged at these figures. Some dead weight was taken at 151 to 201, and 4 000 bushels at 4d. To London cheese was taken at 30s. NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 7. Cotton is firm, and the advance is fully sustained. The sates to-day were 2,000 hales fair at 14/. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, OCT. 19. The gaeen and Prince walked to-day in Osborne Park. The younger members of the Royal Family walked and rode as usual. OCT. 20. The Queen and Prince, and the younger memb , rs of the Royal Family, walked this morning in Os borne Park. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness, and the Princess Royal, and the Ladies and G.ntlemen of the royal household, attended Divine srrvice at Whip pingham Church this afternoon. The Rev. T. fro theroe officiated. His Excellency the American Minister and Mrs. Lawrence left town on Saturday on a visit to Lord and Lady Palmerston, at Broadlands. Sir Georwe Grey arrived in town on Saturday, from his seat, Fallodon, Northumberland. The Right Hon. Baronet paid a visit to Lord John Russell, at his residence in Downing-street. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Co lonial-office from the Governors of the West India Colonies. Dispatches were sent off from the Colonial-office for the Governors of Malta, Ceylon, and Hong-Kong; and also for the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, on Saturday evening. FUNERAL OF THE QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS. (From Galignani's Messenger.) The remains of this illustrious and amiable per sonage were on Friday confided to their last resting place. Before ten o'clock the Ministers, the Presidents of the Chambers, the corps diplonudique, the first , pre sidents and procureurs - general of the Courts of Cessation and Appeal, the Mies and gentlemen of the King's household, and a long list of senators, representatives, public functionaries, and eminent per sonages, were assembled. The church was hung with black. Four colonels stood at the corners of the cof fin with drawn swords, and around them were twenty old non-commissioned officers, who had been selected to bear the.coffin to the vault. At a quarter to eleven o'clock the cannon announced the departure of the King and the Royal Family from the château of Laeken. They were received with marks of the greatest respect by the crowd which had assembled, and the Civic Guard, who formed a line from the chLeau, presented arms. The Cardinal Arch bishop of Malines, and the clergy received the King at the entrance to the church. The Cardinal addressed a few observations to the King, but his Majesty could only reply by tears. The King entered first with Queen Ainelie leaning on his arm. He was so affected that he could scarcely walk. On passing the cata falque, his_Majesty was observed to stagger, as if over whelmed with emotion, and the Queen addressed. some observations to him, and took his arm in hers to support him. This incident excited a most painful sensation. The King's sons, the Duke de Brabant and the C irate de Flandre, accompanied by the Princess Clementine followed, and then came the Duke de Nemours, who seemed profoundly afft cted, the Prince de Joinville, who was paler than usual, the Duke d'Aumale, and the Prince Augustus of Saxe Coburg Gotha. The Royal party was en comia Allied by the Duke de Cazes, General de St. Yon (Minister of War under Louis Philippe), De la Rue (formerly director of Algerian affairs at the Ministry of War), de Montesqaiou and d'Houdetot, the Dukes de Meunier and de l'revise, &c. The funeral service then commenced, and lasted for about an hour. The voice of the Cardinal who offici ated was frequently broken by emotion, and all per sons in the church were in tears. When the venerable Prelate turned to bless the congregation, subdued sobs broke the solemn silence. On the conclusion of the requiem, the King and Royal Family retired. The non-commissioned officers then removed the coffin to the vault, the Cardinal casting holy water upon it, and throwing on it a handful of dust, saying, "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." The coffin having been duly deposited, the vault was closed, and loss the of the sn d ceremony terminated. All the Belgians, without distinction of class o r opin g i_ , on h , a, c ,e oi b it e i e n t u ,, e , t r o display profound sorrow fur the Qu ee n; ar a e fl t i o re b ss e e , s dr o a l wn co u n p do i l l en i e l e un t d o r t e l d ie King , of municipalities, public bodies, &c. The Court of C tssation, as well as the Cour dFs Coinptes, have presented addresses. In a vast number of churches masses for the repose of the soul of the royal deceased have been celebrated, and others are to take place. MOTLIIT EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1850. HER. MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ZAND NATIONAL CONCERTS. The fifth conciirt of the series took place on Satur day night, and, as coinpared with the first, it is impos sible npt ) perceive the vast progress which has been made duriug the course of five nights. The production of classiczj music before a mixed audience was an eXprienent of a perfectly novel charac ter, and the directors were, therefore, per fectly justified in interspersing largely their classical pieces with quadrilles and other " pretty music," as they did on the opening night; but finding that tie mixed audience were attentive to, and appre ciated, the master-pieces of Beethoven, of Mende's shwa, and of Sphor, they have on each successive night giv en i their programme more and more of a " Phil- Lrmonio" character, and on Saturday we had, what may certainly be styled, a classical concert. Beethovan's sinfonis, Eroica was given as a hok and not as on the second night divided into two pArts. It was admirably conducted by Balk and mignificently played by the orchestra. Balfe's overture was reputed, and it is a composition that will bi-ar repetition. It was admirably performed, and it grows on tho liking by repetitions. It is, we are inclined to think, the most perfectly classical musical composition that Balfe has yet produced. M. Charles Halle performed 'Weber's Concert Stuck for pianoforte and orchestra in admirable style, and M. Sainton gave us some rolgnificent violin playing in the course of the pPrrorrwince of his new fantasia. Tile overture to Guillaume Tell completed the list of classical orchestral compositions, but not of classical performances, for we had in additi.)n a duet for piano-forte and violin magnificently performed by MM. Charles and the " Brindisi" both mag nificently and Sainton. In the vocal' d,partment we ladlle. Ang r i. A cav itina trom hadnific the en t i y s"Unaung v b o y c e the Sonnambula, and another from Beatrice di Tenda, most effectively rendered by Madame Biscaccianti, besides airs by M. Jules Lefort, Mr. Gustavus Geary, and Mrs. Alexander Newton, who seems to have become, and most deservedly, as great a favou rite at these concerts as she is at Exeter Hall. The heatre was crowded. SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. Measure for Measure has been revived here for the purpose of introducing Miss Glyn as Isabella. As this is a character essentially declamatory, in which any very strong • exhibition of passion or burst of feeling would be contrary to the nature of the staid maiden, it is a part better suited to the powers of Miss Glyn than many in which she has recently been in the habit of appearing, and accordingly she succeeded in giving a most effective representation of Shakspere'a heroine. The play: which was cast as it was two or three seasons ago when first produced at Sadler's Wells, was well and evenly acted throughout; the best performance, however, being decidedly the Angelo of Mr. G. Bennett. The afterpieces at Sadler's Wells seldom form .a main feature in an evening's entertain ment, but a new petite comedy, by *F. E. Stirling, called The' Teacher "aught, is worthy ofmention.` A staid youth with a dissipated father proposes to reform the latter by marrying him to a young 14dy, while he consents to take to himself the young lady's aunt as a means of assisting the match. In the progress of the scheme the young man falls in love with the juvenile, and is converted from pedantry to animation, and the elderly maiden is consigned to the parent. The delineation of a classical scholar is not very accurate, inasmuch as the youth is made to talk of So crates as an " ancient father," but the intrigue is pleasantly conducted, and the piece has the advantage of very lively and spirited acting. Mr. Hoskins, who plays the young pedant, is one of the most useful performers of the establishment. Here his quiet as sumption of gravity is highly ludicrous, but generally his line is the rapid and eccentric, to which he always gives effect by his unceasing flow of spirits. As a Shaksperian fop he is also valuable, and of his talent in this way his Lucio in Measure for Measure is a good specimen. HANGMAN HAYNAU." The subjoined extract from a private letter of a nobleman of Transylvania to a friend residing in Eng land will be read with deep sympathy. The writer is Colonel Count G. Bethlen, formerly commander of the cavalry in Transylvania; and it is quite needless to add, having named him, that the strict veracity of his statement may be relied upon. The unfortunate Count Leiningen to whom he revere was a near rela tion of the half-brother of our own Queen. " You may imagine," writes Count Bethlen, " the pleasure with which I read the reception that the Austrian Hangman had met with in London. The words of General Count Leiningen some hours before his execution are very remarkable in relation to this event. lie sent fur me to visit him ; for the poor victims had an hour allowed them to take leave of their friends. I summoned up all the strength I could, as I entered his room, and he spoke to me with the greatest coolness. My dear friend, in couple of hours I shall be no more. I a s sure you I die perfectly tranquil, in the full con viction that I die fir the most righteous of causes. The mariner of my death is to me most painful. I have en unconquerable aversion and disgust for the halter. Were there the slightest possi bility I would use every means, I would even apply to my relations in other countries, to obtain for toe the Austrian grace to die by powder and shot. And to Haynau it could make no such great difference. I assure. you I shudder when I think of this filthy operation.' Later in the course of conversation he oloerved, You will see, our infamous murder will excite the greatest sensation in England, and I recom mend Haynau not to venture on a visit to England, for the people, will stone him.'"—Examiner. FIRE IN BERMONDSEY.—O n Saturday evening a very destructive fire occurred u p on t h e prem ises belonging to • Mr. Bennington, a painter and grainer, No. 5. Grange place, Grange-road, the scene of the disastrous conflagration which happened on 1 , Vermondse Thursday last. The flames originated thus : Mr. Benning- .v; within a short distance of ton was engaged . i.n preparing some varnish, when he acci dentally let a lighted candle fall into the liquid. The fire men who were on duty at the farmer fire in the same road hastened to the spot, and no doubt could have extinguished the flames before they had extended beyond the kitchen if they could only have obtained a supply of water. Unfor tunately one hour and twenty minutes elapsed before a drop of water could be obtained from the mains running through the district. The engines of the parish, London Brigade, and West of England office, were all remarkably early in ar riving, bat owing to the want of water they were compara tively useless, and Mr. Bennington's premises, his furniture, The sufferer was not insured for a single farthing ; his family, who a few hours previously were in comparatively affluent stock in m t r r . a ß de r , a a jd n w d o w od ea ir r 4 ing L is official circumstances, have been reduced to a state of utter destitu-apparel, were totally consumed. build ing destroyed for want of water, and No. 6, belonging . 51 Harrison, and No. 4, occupied by Mr. Scott (both adjoining), injured by fire and removal. T• --FUNE THE LATE MURDER AT DODDINGIIIIRS • 11AL OF THE MURDERED WOMAN. ----BRENTWOOD, SATURDAY above N IGHT.—The funeral of Jael Denny, the victim of the . churchyard horrible tragedy, took place this afternoon in the miles and report returns the to __ r. of the village of Doddinghurst, distant about two a half from the cottage in which the deceased's parents manner The ceremony was conducted in the most Prt• ea h rse of te possible. About three o'clock a one-horse . m which commonest description, received the paupe . r C O " tely afterwards the body had been deposited, and immedia the aged moved off towards Doddinghurst, followedan _by e and it was ac Aere a small the fiineral carriage f n a e t i h g e h r n a o n u t. r i s mo A th s er t , h a e smistoeurronfertsh walked,e deceased, d beforeto it Proceedarriarrived d a t at a t v h e e r y e it s l o o r w o o P . pc two t , s o reside. three ceremony, b ut knot of villager-; had assembled to witness theoo was f,, ur compelled the part there was no indication of vulgar curiosity ectators n earedapp one present. On the contrary, ell the P 'ccasion. The coffin painfully impressed with the melancholy s o s conveyed into the o'clock having been removed from the hearse, was receded by the church on the shoulders of four young ortion of the fune vicar, the Rev. W. Manley, reading lapel on the trestles in ral service. The coffin having ers been vi. re Pe read over the b o d y , the centre aisle, the usual pray d i n to the churchyard, i n after which the procession return ed was lowered into a grave a retired corner of which the co. s d o f the deceased, about five five feet deep. The &L os en t o f the bystanders, were cially her sister, as well as In ne a ltogether was of a ve r y painfully affected, and the s cene melancholy character. i,stilttrßut this is not KING JAMES IN LA I/- , w hich the "'wise monarch" is the only " pleasant conceit" 0 , said to have delivered himself duri n g his visit to Hoghton Tower. On the way from Freston his attenti on was at treeted by a huge boulder stone w hich lay in th e roads i de, and was still in existence not a century ag o . "O' my saul," cried he, "that ineik le stave would build a b ra ' chap pin block for m L or d Pr*: v st. Stoll! there b e l etters thereon: unto what purpery ~? Several voices re c it e d t h e inscription : Turn me o're , an I'le tel thee plains." • " 1 the monarch ; and a long and "Then turn it ower," Sa it ht the following satisfact or y i n• laborious toil brought to light telligence: -- h o s hard cake soft, Hot porritch ma " So tonne me o'er againe., shall gang roun' KW, ":,, e to your "My saul," said the gd Q owks manna ken the riddle place again : these coun tr y; an a eries. without the labour." - :LV°l e c o mmissiox. — The fir s t meet i ng THE UNIVERSITY . inquire into the state of education in of the Conuni-sion tO d , f toox place at two o'clock on Satur day, University of Orford office in Do wning -street. All day, in Lord John , mission were present, as well as the the members of the Con . hei r secretary. The second meeting Rev. A P. Stanley, t takes place to day. Tile FVIIERY. —The Mount's Bay d r if t b oats have taken this last wee k from 200 to 1,000 fish per night.—Corn -1 of the Duchy, wall Gazette. CAUGHT.—'A Ger man b name d We understand that Government has just appointed Thomas has been arrested in Luxem ourg on th e charge of a gentleman of colour to the o ffi ce of British Cons ul "t having swindled serer -'1 Englishmen out of 25/. each, on the A SCOUNDREL Liberia. This is, we believe, the first instance on record in pretence of requiring those sums a s sec ur i ties . for their accep which a man of colour has received a similar appointment twice of the psts of professors o E ngl ish in the "university" Irons our Government. On the introduction of the new of that Duchy—an establishment which does not exist. He British Consul, on F r id ay l ast, at t h e F o reign-office, his per- had described himself in London as the Envoy sonal appearance e xc it e d no i ncons id era ble interest. He is a and had induced his victims to proceed thither. man of superior intelligence, and of highly polished man-Turner' s Act for "diminishing delay and Mr ex ners. We wonder what the Americana will think of this "Ch a ncery"will come into operation on the appointment. They will, doubtless, be very much shocked p o e f n t se I'n term, at the taste of the British Government, as they deem all men R WAY.—The meeting of this of colour, no matter how great may be their intellectual at- CEYLON A,lLturday, did not take p la ce , company, taintnents or moral worth, little better than the beasts of the advertised for Sa turday, owing to the t d . of prop ' t want of a su ffi cient at en ance rie Ors. aeld.—Morning Advertiser. DR. SCOFFERN'S PAT EN T. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sit,—The question of manufacturing and refining sugar by the process discovered and patented by Dr. Scoffern is one of so momentous a character to the sugar-producing and sugar-consuming public, and to the :great interest s o f h uman ity, that I offer no apology for troubling you with a few remarks re specting it. The ordinary process of manufacture is so destruc tive to the material in its crude form, that not less than 66 per cent. are lost in the effort to secure the remaining 34, in which, moreover, there are so many impurities, that a further reduction to a very great extent must take place before the sugar is fit for the market. Now it was thought with regard to the extract of 34 per cent. that it needed nothing more than au ingenious mechanical contri vance to separate the impurities ; but long experience has demonstrated that any ma chine for this purpose, however beautiful, and, under some circumstances, valuable, could only modify the evil to an almost inapproeUle extent. The truth ii the diffioulty was of a chemical and not of a me chanical kind—chemists, the-efore, have devoted their energies to overcome it. Tney saw clearly that the quantity of sugar loot by the processes of drainage and filtration arose from the imperfect crystallization which the agency of lime, the common defecator in the colonies, secured. The result to be aimed at, therefore, was the dis covery of an agent competent to effect a complete crystallization. Such an agent was discovered in the acetates and sub-acetates of lead, but the great, and up to Dr. Scoffern's discovery, the unsolved problem, con sisted in the want of a chemical ingredient capable of precipitating and converting the lead into an insoluble substance, in which shape it could he removed by fil tration. This problem Dr. Scoffern, in 1847, satisfac torily solved. He discovered that the application of sulphurous acid gas to the liquor converted the acetic acid into an insoluble sulphite of lead, since demon strated to be perfectly innocuous. This discovery he made known to several refiners, through whom it was tried on a large scale, and found to answer most satisfactorily. It was subsequently patented, and the patent secured to the inventor in every country in which one could be obtained. The most important feature of the discovery, however, remains to be told. By the old system the amount of sugar extracted from the, juice - is about six or seven per cent., by this process the manufacturer is able to obtain from eighteen to twenty per cent., in other words three cwts., or thereabouts, may now be obtained in place of one, by the time-honoured but destructive agency of lime. For this important invention, however, in place of assistance from the British Government to determine its safety and value, the inventor has had to encounter a degree of opposition which is almost unprecedented. Without intimation, without examination, the Colo nial Government issued a warning to the planters in the colonies against the use of the process as highly dangerous. The consequence was that the agents of the patent, wherever they went, were met with the caveat of Earl Grey, and found-it , ,difficult .to. obtain a hearing, much less -ate:opportunity of experimentiz ing. Where they did, however, they succeeded in establishing the double proposition that the sugar was not only perfectly free from noxious ingredients, but the extract threefold in quantity. Complaints were laid before the Government of the injustice of their proceeding, and at length, ten months after the issu ing of their protest, a chemical inquiry was set on foot. The result of this was that no more lead was found in the samples by the new process than in those of the old—the experimentizers add, more over, that, in no case, in any quantity that they could pronounce dangerous. But another body of medical men, adjudicating on this very report, considered that the consumption of sugar with lead in it was dan gerous. This applies, however, with equal force to both processes, since both, according to the chemical investigators, contain lead. Dr. Scoffern replies, and subsequent investigations by chemists of great eminence go to establish his statement, that as suming the existence of lead in the produce of both processes, that his is the safer; since the lead therein is in an insoluble and innocuous form, whilst that in the sugar by the old process is and must be poison ous. But he maintains, and a number of chemical certificates substantiate the position, that in the sugar manufactured and refined by perfect machinery under his process, and sold in large quantities, is destitute of any, even the slightest trace of lead, - so that the most delicate tests of the laboratory have failed to discover it. It is a fact that the sugar has been used to the exclusion of all other at the tables of many families for two years past without any evil re sult. If it is added to this also that the Doctor has offered to ingest a quantity of the sulphite of lead as long as any one will eat the same quantity of chalk it surely requires an immense amount of incredulity to deny its perfect harmlessness. Now, what I wish to call your attention to, Sir, is the bearing of this important discovery on two of the great questions of the day—the revival of the West Indies :and the overthrow of slavery. Never, if the above facts are true, was there a finer opportunity of retrieving the condition of the estates in those islands than by the use, especially if the process could be made exclusive, of the patent for the manufacture of sugar there. And were the planters free to act, can any one imagine that capital would be wanted where the returns are as enormous as are offered to the ca pitalist in such an investment. No doubt an abund ance of capital would flow into so profitable a channel. The present appeal of the planters is for Government aid, but where would the supplies go if any were granted ? Undoubtedly where the larger portion of the twenty millions voted for slave compensation went, into the pockets of the merchant princes of this country. It, however, the same remedy were applied to West Indian estates which has, with so much be nefit, been applied to Irish encumbered property, the proprietors would speedily see the propriety of adopt ing a process so fraught with benefit to their future interests. With respect to the question of slavery in the sugar growing countries of the United States, Spain, and Portugal, there can be no doubt that the exclusive ap plication of an agent like the patent to the production of sugar in the British West Indies, would utterly put beyond the reach of competition slave sugar pro duce, with the improved and increased produce of our own colonies. At present there is a strong feeling strengthagainstby a e ff the,a, rand d to sincerity devel introduction o peot if 1 o e f slaver thatesofeeling,ur resources p e s r o o d f t u ah c e e f nr . e, eb I ce . o e tu t e ns the on principles as safe dehgd and leteiouga nthp het e ed : ov o fef n rro o ytmmhsei boiling-housetec hv a s elee asnashistory oo nr t h , ae e ti y nhgdoeh a f t r sws e llyaoa e evrv a akee s rre y isyds. and profitable. The slave s greatest enemy is sugar. On the plains of Louisiana, United States, a genera tionlttpasaw:nl k ar e d e av n Cn le ( jy t 'u y ff. : rs i o o n laam u g : t e m it o snh f a ie y st t hfi h b uet e e ls twenty-four hours. Facts equally in Brazil. But is there no remedy for this great evil ? Surely the multiplication threefold by free labour of an article of universal consumption, in the production of which such enormous sacrifices of human life take place, is the remedy. If the anti-slavery public re fuse to take it up, the self interest of men will do it, rfysotogreat largea consummation m is at a i t o t n a i n a e s d2 th i e t owveilrlthbreows said that great and effective as the efforts of philanthropists have been, the selfishness of man has achieved what ,hey were unable to accomplish.-1 am, Sir, &c., Oct. 18, 1850. HUMANITAS. ANOTHER FACT FOR THE PROTECTIONISTS WINCANTON..—RELIEF OF THE Poon--From the financial and statistical statement issued by the guardians of the Wincan ton union, for the six months ended Michaelmas last, it ap • pears that the union comprises 39 parishes with a population of 21,286, occupying an area of 65,019 acres, the rateable value of which is 118,2861.; that at the formation of the union the relief, maintenance, and management of the poor was 14s. O'd. per head on the entire pOpulation, and that it is now reduced to 10s. Sid. per head. The total amount of money expended by the guardians during the six months now ended is 5,995/, being 879/. less than was expended in the corresponding period of 1819. 454/ less than in the cor responding period of 1848, and 1,686/ less than in the cor responding period of 1847, and the decrease in the number of paupers is 48. From the statement to which we have re ferred, the affairs of this union appear to be in a most satis factory state.—Somerset County Gazette. [Wincanton is situated in an exclusively agricultural district, consisting principally of arable land.—En. Sun.] FIRE NEAR OxFonn-sTREET.—Last evening (Sun day), at a few minutes before eigh t o'cl ck, the neighbour hood of Dean-street, Oxford-street, was thrown into a state of great confusion, owing to a fire of a very serious character breaking out in the premises occ u p ied by Mr. Sapwell, a grocer, &c., carrying on business at No. 86, in t theta above - mentioned thoroughfare. The parochial engine o Ann's was the first to arrive, and was c losel y followed by several belonging to the London establishment and that of the West of England Company. Plenty of water having been obtained from the New River Company's mains, the engines were called into requisition, but the flames were not extin guished until a serious destruction of property had taken place. The houses adjoining fortunately received but trifling damage. Mr. Sapwell and his family not being at home I when the fire occurred, it was impossible to learn whether the sufferer was insured or not. OXFORD, OCT. 19. --Intelligence rerohed this city to-day of an alarming and most destructive fire, which broke out yesterday, about mid-day, at Bloxham, a village near Banbury, and which totally destroyed the farmhouse, ricks, barns, a large quantity of wool, &c., belonging to Mr. Gulli ver, an extensive farmer residing there; also a malt-house, and other premises belonging to Sir. Willis, part of the homestead of Mr. Potter, a large farmer, and ten cottages, which were totally destroyed. The origin Of the fire is un known, but is supposed to be the vile act of an incendiary. Many of the labourers refused to render assistance, and stood looking on with apparent. apathy, with their hands in their pockets, and when the fire was at the highest on Mr. Gul liver's premises, one of them remarked, " It is of no conse quence—he can well afford to lose it!" The timely arrival of the fire-engines from Banbury, and a good supply of hands to work them, prevented the devouring element from de stroying half the village, which, until their arrival, was in great jeopardy. DISPATCH PROM LONDON TO CHINA.—The Penin sular and Oriental steamer Pekin landed the overland mails at Hong-Kong within 45 days atter their dispatch from London. . LITERATURE. HARRISON AINS WORTH'S ROMANCES. Vol X.—Guy Fawkes. Several weeks having el,ilised since the appearance ; of the preceding volume of this re-isstne, we accord a yet more lively welcome to itssuccessor. In the histori cal romance of " Guy Fawkes" the novelist has aimed at a loftier object than that of penning an enthralling narratives—althouwh in the latter respect his success has been here very:distinguished. 13:sides the interest with which he has surrounded the incidents of the fiction, our author has diffused over the whole work an earnestness such as of itself sutiMently indicates the existence of that more elevated intention to whicn we have referred—the intention of advancing, under the fascinating garb of a romance, the beautiful and ennobling principles of religious toleration. A more brilliant or more bervficent purpose has certainly never actuated any writer in the process of bringing to maturity any similar composition. To it Mr. Ainsworth refers in his recent " Preface" Ns ith a very reasonable and even enviable complacency. One portion of these remarks we cannot rßfram from especially particularizng. " From those," he observes, " who have wilfully misinter preed one of my firmer production*, and have attri buted to it a purpose and an aim utterly foreign to my own intentions, I can scarcely expect fairer treat ment for the present work. 13ut to that wider and more discriminating class of readers from whom I have experienced so much favour and support, I con fidently commit the book, certain of meeting with leniency and impartiality." By very gracefully and significantly selecting Doctor Lingard as his au thority, Mr. Ainsworth has added new weight to the arguments of this powerfully conceived story of the gunpowder treason, more particularly where they bear reference to the restiveness engendered among the Roman Catholics throughout England by the re vival, during the reign of King James 1., of the penal laws, those cruel and grinding enactments firstframed at the instigation of Queen Elizabeth. In the " loyal and devout" character of Viviana Radcliffe, in the "un scrupulous and ambitious" Catesby, in " the subtle and yet sincere" Jesuit Garnet, but more especially in the person of Guy Fawkes himself, " the gloomy and superstitious enthusiast," the historical romancist has pourtrayed most vividly the passions excited by the ferocity of the legislators, the bigotry of the monarch, and the cupidity of his Scottish courtiers. After reading the tale as it is told by William Harrison Ainsworth, we cannot for the life of us help appre ciating the fantastic extravagance of that joke of poor Charles Lamb, where he regretted the failure of the gunpowder conspiracy on the ground that its suc cess would have been such a magnificent thunderclap in history ! Two more volumes, we presume, will complete the present republication of the collected writings of Mr. Ainsworth. When concluded the series will take its place in the libraries of the people with the cheap re-issues of the works of other distinguished novelists, his contemporaries. Our author has acted judiciously in reproducing his fic. tions in a form so accessible to the community, as is being simultaneously done by Mr. Charles Dickens, by Sir Bulwer Lytton, and even by Mr. G. P.R. James, in spite 9fhis effusignsPeing so voluminous. One additional re-issue would perfect the piesent re-publication 'of Harrison Ainsworth's romances, and, we are con vinced, would be peculiarly acceptable to its sub scribers—we mean the publication of a supplementary volume (of a larger size, of course), containing a re print of the numerous and brilliant illustrations from the pencils of Tony Johannot, and of the inimitable George Cruikshank, not forgetting the admirable wood engravings from the drawings of Delamotte. THE QUARTERLIES. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. IV6. CLXXXV.III. A more brilliant or more diversified number of the great Whig quarterly has not apper.red for a very long time than the current one for this present October. As the leading contribution, we have a critical and etymological essay on the " History of the English Language," in the course of which the reviewer does full justice to the laborious researches of Dr. Latham. Among the many epigrammatic sentences scattered through the article, the reader cannot fail to be struck with one in which it is observed that " five-eighths at least of the language spoken by Alfred still circulates in the ♦eins of modern English." The writer comments at some length on the non• retention of Celtic names, and dates the greatest purity of the Anglo-Saxon tongue at the time immediately preceding the arrival of the Con queror. It is remarked that chief among the changes consequent on the Norman invasion were the difficulties of orthography, where the peculiarities of spelling almost equalled the "Ingenuity of the man who managed to spell his name (Jacob) without a single letter which there ought to have been in it, namely. Gikup;' and accounts sent in similar to that which had for its inexplicable items osafada,' agetinonimome r—which, however suspiciously they may look like some South Sea or Malay combination of vocables, were really meant to signify no more than horse half a day,' and ' a getting on him home.' " Having proceeded a little further in his disquisition, the reviewer refers successively to the influences, good and bad, exercised upon the development of the lan • guage by Sir John Mandeville, by Chaucer, by Caxton, by Sir Thomas More, by Wilson, the first English rhetorician, by Jeremy Taylor, and by Samuel Johnson. From the reference to old Jeremy Taylor, the good, the wise, and the eloquent, we must make one quotation, being a specimen of his lovely and sonorous style, thus introduced by the reviewer : - - . " How exquisite is the harmony, as well as the con ception, of the following sentence! The close is music itself:—' So much as moments are exceeded by eternity, and the sighing of a man by the joys of an angel, and a salutary frown by the light of God's countenance, a few frowns by the infinite and eternal hallelujahs, so much aro the sorrows of the godly to be undervalued in respect of what is deposited for them in the treasures of eternity. Their sorrows can die, but so cannot their joys. And if the blessed martyrs and confessors were asked concern ing their past sufferings and their present rest, and the joys of their certain expectation, you should hear them glory in nothing but in the mercies of God, and in the cross of the Lord Jesus. Every chain is a ray of light, and every prison is a palace, and every loss is the pur chase of a kingdom, and every affront in the cause of God is an eternal honour, and every day of sorrow is a thousand years of comfort, multiplied with a never ceasing numeration,—days without night, joys without sorrow, sanctity without sin, charity without stain, pos session without fear, society without envying, communi cation of joys without lessening; and they shall dwell in a blessed country, where an enemy never entered, and from whence a friend never w e nt awa y . One other paragraph we must transcribe from this learned and intelligent contribution; and then briefly refer to the remaining articles in the Edinburgh : " The AnglceSaxons invaded Britain in 449, and in something less than a century had conquered nearly as much of the island as they ever conquered at all. They retained their language uncorrupted—by no means always the case with conquerors. As Gibbon expresses it, ' a large army is but a small nationf 'the progress of conquest is slow; and the victors, in time, are apt to adopt, with some modifications, the language of the van quished. The Anglo-Saxons, however, partly extirpated and partly expelled the ancient inhabitants, to such an extent, that with comparatively few exceptions (as in the case of great natural landmarks), even the names of places were changed, and received Saxon appellations. The word Kent (Cantium) is anhexception; nor is it difficult to see why. The Anglo-Saxons did not make their first appearance as invaders, but ostensibly to assist the Britiih against the Northern marauders, the Picts and Scots. It was some time before they assumed a hostile posture. While yet allies they were entertained in Kent, and they became accustomed themselves to call that province by its name, before they proceeded to eject the rightful owners. Not so with other portions of the island, where they had never planted foot except as con querors, and to which, therefore, they naturally gave new names." A comprehensive chapter on the " United States," has been suggested by the recent volumes of Mr. Alexander Mackay and Sir Charles Lyell, the re nowned geologist. In this paper will be found some very curious information in reference to the fanati cism of New England, referring especially to the Mormons and the Millerites. The wonderful spread of Roman Catholicism in the valley of the Mississippi is noticed, and the writer (disclaiming, while so do ing, " any shade of Protestant jealousy") speaks in terms of admiration of the goodness and beneficence of the Catholic missionaries. After sneering rather sardonically at the faults and blemishes of the Yan kees, the reviewer exclaims with enthusiasm— " But all Englishmen should remember this, that these their brethren of the New World have sown the insti tutions of Alfred, and the language of Shakspere, broad cast, from the Atlantic to the Pacific! that in the north eastern states at least, they have cherished and im proved upon the virtues of their lathers, and outgrown many of their vices; that the slavery of the southern states is a legacy from the parent land, and that ell the ignorance and pauperism of New England is an overflow from Europe!" A rather gossipping paper follows on the " British Museum Commission," in which the difficulties of compiling a catalogue are thus ingeniously illustrated: "One man might ent.e. the Rejected Addresses' un• der Satire, another under Druri lane Theatre, a thi' d under Parodies, a fourth and -r hintetiong, a filth under Horace Smith, a sixth under James Smith, u seventh pot.- : if seven cloguers were em sibly under Courtship w.i ployed, it might depend upon which of the seven got this book to do; and if four different editions happened to fail to fiur different men, they might be distributed under four different heeds." As a sample of the absurdities committed occasionally by the best cataloguers, we are told the subjoined ludicrous anecdote of a literary blunder : "In the sixteenth century lived G. J. Rheticus, well known as the most laborious calculator of tables that ever lived, and the friend and follower of Copernicus, a worthy man, who bad nothing to do with beer or ale e cept to drink that modicum which would strengthentohris without unfitting slow and laborious calculations o f sines. The Bodleian him for going from his dinner catalogue has him down for a treatise on beer ‘lthetious S r r ,':••••••••'' • t -, ' . • - F.,/ • _ _ "'s .• .\ . , (G. J.) Cei.viia,' atdd to be co:-t-irwt ...1 h. the A*o .a . . .. ~,,,,, ._ theatrum sapientice Socratic jucorseric c.f Mrnaviaa. a ,/,...c: :j '<d) kind cf folio light rkadicg of the ye4. 4 16755..A0 tbe .. ../..... fact is that Rheticus, honest man, made a:ruitt . - 7 0 ' \• 7 / wee call :d a j:ilte in his day—up..ll the signs of thezettas` and Bre,l.in beer, on which jok, one I.irneh wrote vrst - ILV which Dorouvius inserted iu his miscellany: and iwtice the asserted work of Rheticus on beer, to the exclusion even of the zodiac, though he was as astronomer." The scholastic labours of Colonel Mare are eulo gistically c , Aebrat , A in a charr.lbg criticism on the "Ancient Greek Language and Literature ;" and the fifth article compacts within a very readable compass a narrative of the" Euphrates Expedition." A delight ful paper on " Recent Classical Romances" awards the highest commendation to Mr. Robert Eyres Landor for his " Fawn of Sertorius " and his Fountain of Arethusa." The eloquence and ear nestness of Miss Lynn as displayed in her beau tiful tale of " Arnymone," are also commended by the reviewer, although her classical correctness is d: , cLired infe:ior to that of the author of "Periclfs." Wilkie C.dlins' "Antonina " comes in for a word of panegyric, being termed by the Edinburgh a splendid though rather over elaborated production. In refer- Hoz: to the various woz ka of this kind which have been produced at variou, times we are surprised to find no mention whatever of tlikA most exquisite of sill classical rommices, the " Telemaque" of Ferielkm. The article on Emigration and industrial Train ing" grapples boldly with one of the most embar rassing and problematic questions of the uge ; and the tn-xt one, scarcely less puzzling in character, exa• mines into the various " Difficulties of Republican France." The peroration of the latter contribution is expressed thus emphatically If the President will make st cret war on the Assem bly, and intrigue for an illegal augmentation or con tinuance of power—if the Assembly will thwart the President and encroach upon his functions—if the con servative majority will fetter the press, and disfranchise half France, because it fears the Socialist minority — while the Socialist minority lives, moves, and breathes in a perpetual conspiracy against government and order, — the issue cannot be either distant er doubtful; and, end how it may, the result cannot but be lastingly injurious to France, and discrediting to the cause of representative government all over the world. Oar apprehensions for Republican France lie deeper, it will be seen, than any revision of an impracticable constitution, or any fusion of parties, honest or dishonest, can possibly remove. Dean Milman, the biographer of " Horace and Tassu" is favourably criticised in the concluding article of the present number of the Edinburgh, an article in which the genius of those great writers is discriminated with considerable accumen. Speaking of Pomponius Atticus,whom he happily terms t. the Prince of Trim mers," the reviewer says inadvertently, that while At ticus burnt his correspondence, " Talleyrand seems to have extended his caution beyond the grave." The" writer appears to be ignorant of the circumstance that the autobiography of the latter is only reserved for publication until after a certain number of years shall have expired. Altogether, the Edinburgh for October indicates anew its right to rank at the head of all the periodicals.. EN CE. SPORTING IN TELLI BRIGHTON RACES. • The race committee have got up an autumn meeting for Tuesday and Wednesday, and wi h every prospect of success. The railway directors, to give the public an opportunity of attending it, have announced special trains at 7s. 6d. first-class, ss. 6d. for the second-class, and 3s. 6d. for the third, for the double journey. CURRAGH RACES.—THURSDAY. The raciug this day was very good; the attendance large and fashionable. The Lord-Lieutenant's Plate was won by Mr. Watts' colt the Marquees cleverly ; the Sligo Stakes, after as fine a race as ever we witnessed, by the Perdita filly; and the Curragh Cesarewitch Stakes by Captain Grant, beatin g Ballinafad by a neck. An objection was made by the rider of Louis Philippe on the ground of a cross, which, after a patient investi gation by the stewards, was declared to be "frivolous and vexatious." His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant's Plate of 100 gui neas; two yrs old, Est 51b; three, Oat 21b; four, lOst; five, lOst 51b; six and aged, lOst 61b; mares and geldings allowed 31b. Red post. Mr. Watts ch c The Marquess, 2 yrs...(J. Wynne) 1 Lord Waterford's c by Coranna—Monica, 2 yrs 2 Mr. Farrar's bl c Tailored, 2 yrs Mr. Coffey's h c by Monarch, 3 yrs 0 Mr. IL Coatsworth's eh c Hecate, 2 yrs 0 Mr. French's b f Medea, 3 yrs Mr. Courtenay's gr f Caprice, 3 yrs Mr. Irwin's br f Tribute, 2 yrs . . The Marquis and Coranna colt singled out from the lot at the turn, and after a fine race the former won on the post rather easily. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs., la ft, for two yrs old ; colts, Bst 41b; fillies, Bst. New Anglesey Post. 31b allowed to untried stallions or mares, 51b to botb. Lord Waterford's ch f by Birdcatcher, Perdita Mr. Watts' b f by Birdeatcher, out of Echidna Mr. Quin's br c Whiff (un) The following paid forteit:—Mr. Courtenay's ch c by Napier (un)—Mr. Courtenay's b e by Ben-Y-Glo (un)— Lord Waterford's ch f by Coranna (un)—Mr. St. George's ch c by Birdcateaer, Whim—Mr. Irwin's b o Lord Edward. The Purdita filly made all the running, and won in a canter. Curragh of Kildare Cesarewitch Stakes, a free handi cap of 20 soya. each, 10 ft, 50 added. About two miles and a quarter; second horse to save his stake. Mr. Disney's oh c Captain Grant. 3 yrs, ist 12Ib 1 Mr. Irwin's ch h Bsllinsfad, 6 yrs, 9st 71b Captain Oakes's oh f Dolly's Brae. 3 yrs, ist 41b 0 Mr. Murphy's oh fby Tearaway, Zulima.3 yrs, 6st 71b 0 Mr. M•Cormick's ch c Louis Philippe, 3 yrs, bat 121 b 0 Lethargy, Whim colt by Veralam, sad Larry's the Lad paid foi felt. Betting—Even on Captain Grant, who made the run ning at a slapping pace ail the way with Bellinafad close at his quarter; a splendid finish baweeu the two ended in favour of the gallant highwayman. Selling Stakes, 5 soya. each with 25 added. Anglesey Post. Three years old, ist 71b; four, Bst; five, six, and aged, Bst 61b; 3lb to mares and geldings. All horses starting aro subject to be sold for 200 sovs., if entering to be sold for 150 to be allowed 51b; if for 100 sovs., 91b; if for 50 soya., 141 b; if for '25 sovs., 181 b. The winner to be put up and sold by auction after the race, and any surplus to go to the Racing Fund. Mr. Cunningham's ch m Miss Fortune, aged (1001) 1 Mr. Harrison's b m Lethargy, 6 yrs (501) 2 Mr. Irwin's ch c Independence , 3 yr s ( 500 0 Lord Waterford's ch f Modesty. 3 yrs (1501) 0 Mr. Walsh's b m Panic, aged ( 501 ) Mr. Doyle's ch m Pauline , h b , 5 y rs (251.) Mr. W. Reynolds's b c by Templar, 3 yrs (500 0 HUNTING - APPOIN I'aIENTS. The F. B. hounds will meet on Tuesday, at Withiel; on Friday, at Kennel-10k. The York and Ainsty has., Tues., Goldsborough-hall; Thurs., Pill-moor, Saseey; Sat., Skipwith- bridge-10k. Sir Tetton Sykes's Ws., Wed., Castle Howard; Fri., W bin- moor-build-10k. The Sinuington hds., Tues., Cawton; Fri., Catter bridge—lo. The Hambleton hds., Tues., Limekild-house; Fri., Sutton-10. Captain H. Lewis's has., Tues., Mr. Coates's; Sat., Morton-bridge-11. Mr. Morgan's lids., Thurs., Luscombe-plantations —lok. Mr. Trelawny's lids, Tues., Buller's arms, Dean; Fri., Puslinch bridge—Hi. Mr. Furse's lids., Wed., Buckland-brewer; Fri., Bram blecombe, Iddesleigh-10i. The Blackdown hds., Sat., Stop-gate, Old Stoke road-10}. The Tiverton hds., Thurs., Stone, near Exton; Sat., Two-gates, Winsford•hili. The Brighton liars., Wed., Race-course; Fri., Dyke —lOl. The Brookside harra., Thurs., Telsoombe-tye-1 0 4. The Worthing hare, Tues., Broadwater-green; Fri., Steyning-post-10k. Carmarthenshire, Tues., Abergwlly ; Fri., Tre vaughan-bridge-10. The Tivyside lids., Thurs., Dolbalid-10. The Llanelly lids., Wed., Laughor; Sat., Llanon-10i. Harrogate, Fri., Graystone-plain. Durham County, Wed., Burnopside; Fri., Stony gate-10i. Tho Murpeth hare.. Thurs., lieighlay-gate. Mr. Hellier's lids., Tues., the Swam, at Trimby; Thurs., Hainton; Sat., Dolby-bar-10i. The B. V. li., Tues., Drace-down ; Sat., Cerne hill-11k. CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY.—The extraordi nary diminution of business in the Bankruptcy and InsoL vency Courts bears emphatic testimony to the flourishing condition of the country. Never before were they so little occupied as at thia moment. The Gazettes of last week pre sented altogether but five bankrupts, the usual number two years ago being twenty in each gazette, or an average of forty per week.—Law Times. AN IRRITABLE AMATEUR.—A gentleman, of no mean pretensions in art, and of acknowledged talent, sent more than one picture to the exhibition at present open in the Argyle Arcade (Glasgow), expecting, no doubt, that they would fix the wandering gaze, and excite the most lively admiration. What one of them might have done it is impossible now to say, for the ill-natured gentlemen who hung the pictures, having strangely overlooked the merits of the one in question, placed it in the staircase in such a posi tion that hardly one solitary ray of light descended on the canvass. The thing was really too bad, and required re dress, and redress was obtained ; but of such a character that few men, save those possessed of more than ordinary courage, NI ould have had nerve to go through with what was necessary. Armed with a brush and whitewash, the offended artist proceeded quietly to the exhibition-rooms on Saturday, evening, where he deliberately effaced from the disgraced picture every appearance of form an d there or trace of colour; there it hung in this condition—at least it did so yester s d e ?; --- ,, a curious illustration of the a da g e, that desperate cases ca w 4. q uire desperate remedies. Wh at ma y come out ,of this riash pleasant affair we cannot p retend to divine. AG lis Tim Loss or THE Sursßo.—Orders have been sent from the Home-office, directed to Sir Thomas le Di eton, the procureur-general at Jersey, commanding that the cap tain and mate of the Superb steamer should be Rut u th po en forms eir tr ial with all neceNsary dispatch, coniistent with of Jersey jurisprudence, for their culpable conducf ;, by which so many lives were wantonly sacrificed.—Jlini; tteriai Paper. i u y s e u a c l a t t t o l e s a n s y p a e r x t t o e f u their i c n a g r g t o h e e s, y w o a h r i: ;:h The BELGIAN CATTLB. — The steame rs from B e l glum g b i e n f g ore notar e b b e r: n n steamer Sir Edward Banks, just arrived from (Jaen d, has brought 100 sheep, the produce of Belgium. , o rl l 4 - 8~ 14 9~ 1 1 4 144 7 1 0 , 145* t2)i 7~ i S~ Y•) fresh t PI O 1 010 4 0(1° foL ls OP- N B A' c" to I b eg. If b° hoe ) I, rolig * pot t'f Yor k; esrP _erf es Oibe