The Sun. — London, England, 1851-09-16 00:00:00

inPr day e E•I`LE P. fi York; 1104" Virg land.. E.—A' ta; ~rs~, C+P',. (sto oge) rrd. Met! )r, QuebelV Y 0 t ' ) ,0 3 1 36 : , 0 li d , d'rol so i„ 9 , la to all. 611 3 1 T s to l I I SI rice& andlV 451 0 1111 f it 11 ,1 b : C. On bla l3' i n the oi d tro ü ble , u ities " jt 3) bri dge 00 4 iiogi iogo so' be SPORTING NOTES. No. FINAL SQUARING OF CXXVL AIY LEGER ACCOUNTS. "Now hoar rue speak, with a prophetic spirit: For even the breath of what I mean to speak Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub, Out of the path which shell directl lead Thy foot t o Fortune's Temple; therefore mark." SHAILSPERE. Q TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. aIN--Whether I am destined this year to select the winner of the Great St. Leger, or fail in the attempt, hot having the privilege of a peep into the book of fate,. 1 cannot tell; but should I succeed in naming the Nu thete'rioUs hone on this occasion, I shall have accomplished extraordinary feat of picking out the St. Leger wtine ser five years successively; in three instances placing h ... econd also. According to the rules of gamblers, the odd easre decidedl against nay coming off victorious in this fifth be y; so but 8 * formY part I cannot discover why it should 0--In tact, I think it ought to be quite the e l l ; _ tr _arY. and I shall try to show the sporting public - 7 0 , I have already autilysed the merits of twitters, and yesterday week gave it as my opinion that the race would lie between II rnandez, The Ban, the probable ilettli.rzlitees er, Lamartine, The Prime e _ Minister, and plo o 'r e „.it _ awa,rding the palm to Her2ande e z jin a i n en d itteuasst imdergo a sli _, g Sir Joseph a fancy animal second. This P th e ght alteration. The field that will t. ter at the post to-morrow will be the greatest, W 1 41 15 ~.5 1 1) , that _eception of that which The Baron boat 18 had awaited the starter's orders since in Blue e 'nri°l3 'aret gular outsider, electrified the nerves of th lixitli.ll4°l litowniiigt,firhonaalisixteen othersEglintonfol for Lord Bite oft:-.Hernandez csat p ) r , o T b h ab e il ß it a y u , ( c m on ex s s iz e t n o ) t , the A ,... p r h r o . ; f e, euiplersan or Year!), Clasher (Robinson), t--; !'",, 1 4 " e re s ), Goliah (Marlow), Lough Bawn (Buniby e ) .. h ot ,. r (8, Mann or liitchener), Miserrima (White . ehasei), linook lc IT ~,- 4101 1 (Fenn or Wintringham), ma tte r), Sir kQilnPaon), First Fruits, Newminster e' a. colt t 9.: rt.ae Sir Rowland Trenchard, The Calculator,. e ,ma with 1 , , (A' L a 3?), and Ephesus; and, perhaps, 1931j___ other animal, up. Hippolytue, Hooleem Snivey, or 5 'L" the leader above into three lots—the first ilig . divide tli .."4' ' 14111 hell) to swell the field.. ,t. lee! will be co ' a ndnamed, I 10.4 s o . f the h i t, shall ruck, and the tail. The last _ m Ti t ok Kroll 'r -°" '-'Y Charles XII , Sir Rowland The c 1, P ea " of Goliah, Exeter, Miser T ri ren. :111.1.11, -he Calculator, and Ilookem Snivy. _ i ir d e e t T , of the ruck, I should imagine, would be Cinefiussot 4phred.ake it, will fligh fe4B' EPheatts, and Lough , Bawia. Thee Barn, not find their waand if they consist of Ilernandez, de, Clasher, L amartine, and Newminster, the st d ? he I've plaoed thoznYbPelow, The world .Past the post somethingafter "'Twill make me think , is full of rubs and that my alms against the la. " ' ::tvvixtni5ic,................. .. .... ........ I'4 lI AN e las .(Marlon) 1 L : iv b, Zor APHR0D1TE............ _ ............: .................. 1 ani, MI NSTER . .. ............................ e _ rions portier)._ nvinced that t .... ... who, to use a ver.vir3Aux, and cLAaltug Phrase, stand 011 HERNANDEZ, THE eati ialo being,thing, one of to e ,t (for titl outsider), are in tor a good use gee what is ternaed a " dead certainty." l' as far as a frail mortal like myself and will h e 07_ Aphrodite will run uncommonly well, Newminster, 1 ii_vra to the winner, whoever he may be. the Red hou'ealovill not be able to live the pace from I have from good at e ° and will c onsequently be about fourth. .. rea son c viiiisher a place, merely because, n first, he ain 3°' r° 3' o'i'll, believe that if he is --et filth; it uiton not be nearer than fourth or he to be t h.nnt ablyathe least surprise me, however, were . e ,--.9 Ire % n harbour " ° exbD ot P card to-morrow; I shall take . him for a ealeh, ~ or the hope, by which to regal se o ,;' f "iould the two cracks founder in the t s rou a b re lou_s_ folloleyeoUlation. The latest St. Leger price_ . _ Ban (41 44, t° 4 agst Hernandez, 3 to 1 egst The 12 t o , " to 1 agst Aphrodite,B to 1 1 k tip et -,„ rtine, 20 t t Fir.? ~,,PheSUS; 16 to 1 art Lama Bawn and Ciaehe ..'' R Nits; 30 to 1 each agst Lough agst Newminst e er, at Goliah; 50 t x ,._ ° l ti l l. 3t ° I egst Miserrima, 33 tO I ng- opt -440 01t e t i - aglit enmas and Exeter, 100 to 1 each 4,1/411(1 and colt by Charles the Twelfth. I am, Sir, yours, ' .2_ apt,l THE SPIRIT OF THE 6,18 51. TURF. „_ ""... .i1n,„......••••••• T, iluttTING INTELLIGENCE. rt,"OIirt",n,PONCASTER RACES. ' hi) '—'4x-4lt, I ii A FTERNOON, FIVE O'CLOCK. ilith e _ 6 attie s el _ e _ONDA.Y ' 6 4, f rom the us u ct at at three d o'c l ock, and, as will be d romise capital fields. The 1., t NT RlE app r en n e TnE P SDAY. "..itp ,n it zwinis tre s Throe; added, O tak s es7(h dicap) of 5 sous. each an Post TemPore , ThitlC,tigigmhatwidais,,t, n ß e ad iu u l l i p e. h — us , Equal, Green . Oaks, Mrs. Birch, Lily. k' k) elli4 stakes Team Valle h ft, with 50 added,. h ekrt, r `e WI ” °f 5 "v 3. each, Timothy, Swee`- 11 ( rd ' •----Lady of th e Grove, 6 I-4 330 Y, Mar Nobbler. el i N,lltraf ~,, Th__tlir!llEs dart' WEDNESDAY. 111 4 _ ( , 'her , 6 0 i . "Le Ot 100 guineas. Cup Course.—Vatican, 14 4'4 b, t 481tek, Ctwus, Maid of .M. sham Paquetta, 6 ? Wei ( ' °I.) Ilungerford Chief Justice, a ' True Blue, . rt, M rs. ~... , i lk veep et - I"' Joirh. ..41 aes for to Vet . seh ei two and three yrs old.. Red Il si o s u te se r 2.; I ttlei tti ,' 2 yrs--Sir Charles Napier, 2 yrs— ____Canina, f's - --.' '' l Yrs--E I 2 yrs—lris, 3 yrs —Canine, 44,2 etorttseau qua ' 3'4......,-, , 2 yrs—Senorita, 2 yrs—Prince „Th,- vrey Tommy, 2 yrs—Evadne, 2 yrs. t 4 lks •pan „ ~ lINTRIES FOR FRIDAY. Course.—Maid B c. asil,,,,_'4lll.er Cup of 300 soya. Cup rford h,lnwl i t : , 7pq r /i 3. a- t:, Exeter, Languish colt, I lunge , •Cry, , atm°. B irch, Hernandez, Confessor, Lough lI E 41 l tie 'CPo, Paquetta, Trickstress, The Ban, Nancy, T it if tli hst4 l3 l36 l B sok, Antigone, Calculator, iue. Aphrodite, kil o 6 N uts s•lio Doctor, Lamart .or two the g-- hiertlqs.-Viate of 100 s s or r s., I Fl, )34, Cy Bird, Herschel, 4, , . Ear,h__ 1111 : Grey Tommy, tea, my, Charles Dame TNaYat yrs s l i e e:r, ld Alfred Captain, Onet . Evadne, b ra 7 Wr r y j _ i ls Ir ousseau , Sweet , 1 1 mtek colt, &abate, Senorita, Jeminia filly. tib 6 foll„ . HORSES AItRIVED. I At,. _ ~ ,4 1 orde lear t, 'l ) g a have comelinhsincßeaoduuriplabsutsd, isp c atc c h lo i— s 'l3 r Itiett' F as ' V rtex Sir Rowland la ilarci 1, Captain Flash, ° . a Reaper, Go- IliZ '1144 1. °Y Lanercost out of Jemim , kp'qi (-1,.4, Heroine, Scarborough, Trousseau, Lough kt., 114 6117 a 1e f Justice, Evadne, Wryneck colt,. 2 yrs, 1 -"q t. Of mmreY Tommy, Senorita, Ephesus, Timothy, R oe s ' rtishara, fby Birdcatcher, dam by .Pantaloon, ti, - w"P Lily, - Stratagem, Flying H - —ll, ll, 4 0 h i , Augur, k) it 1, Sli °l ' e ta Snivey, Jack LeeMing li , k 61 4 1111414 f, Bird•on- the- Wing, Mrs. c, i, -...h e J k , Shadow Timothy. i n r:c i h e s r , k s ß a t, :a . o r d b:Et m t o s f , Tli kti ' tittti . 1 4w ,lers . 1 lot, consisting, it is u A Ttdci.`4Porodite, The Confessor, Vatican, Clincher, , i izeth L n g .i too will be here this evening. , 4 tCP t themeela'red not to start for the St. Leger. he s c :: t iale of closing our parcel very IC It, s:;,,Norted, but from the number o f r lodgings there arrivals R:Npqn4r,,tile continued fineness being fully weather, _. fully attended, 11 4 , 'utly i l - d4 usPect of the meeting tt 4 11 11 01 ,,;:' that the crowded staeol.the stables, and NI in,:leal excellence of the t a ntries, warrant the --AreSSiOLI that the sport will be first-rate. n , I) ONCASTER, TUESDAY MORNING. k ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) B ETTING AT ONE O'CLOCK. CHAMPAGNE STAKES. to 4 agst Homebrewed CHEAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. S to 2 agst The Calculator 6 to 1 agst Cossack 6 to 1 agst Clarissa • 7to 1 agst Miss Ann ST. LEGER. 9 to 2 agst Aphrodite S to I agst The Ban t k of u Aphrodite in great force. les for 'he asham should have been included in the Cup p u bli s h e d by us yesterday. kAt.tt, •t . "AA 44 4 "Te - srE. A recent writer on Italy .t g k ituth or . Should polygamy ever come into fashion, ~totty. I sed by law (and who knows but such an to pass in this enlightened century, where 7), j ',um been seriously dreamed of by the St. 5i t,.1,1 a prsuould certainly take unto myself four wives, );" 5 „ 1 1 1 44 tti. t .T i hyvoman an Englishwoman, a Roman, and k i Nki kid f ,,w 3 first of these I should escort to the ball lktt•cl itce o ,j' e ol the ball-room to the boudoir; the second . I to t ta i D t P li a bY me in my travels, were I even going to t ,A ci t era e topmost point of ;wandont Blanc, or to descen fibuttit% ,: r of Mount Etna tt4 c 7, r e of the kitchen and the sour crout, I should ''eu at court, at mass, and at the opera with my b °i t 0, 0 GD L , I2. ° t it ti 4 t or 1 . 4 ESCAPE FROM AN ADDER.—A few days 11:taet19 4-4° rfi illou , hby d'Eresby's gamekeepers was Ili . . i le , Morning, watching the game on the moor of t: h ov r to ",.eing much fatigued, he lay down among the 4" 44 - Rre, l if' himself, when he fell asleep. On awaking ai tti cke o f alarmed to find a large adder twisted tightly 14 it ttl ilia his legs. Hastily shaking it off, he attacked qi dit to k, when it instantly turned upon him, hissing d G al i t eY iC a bott however, in a few minutes he managed kisi scul t It has been examined by several of the me ' t h tien Y ' who pronounce it one of the most venomous e 4, It measured one foot nine inches in length.— All ' , vet tiser , it °& g • k tit. R on oltEAus.—On Sunday evening last, con pi 4 41 till midnight, the heavens presented a very 14„ th e 'r 4 „aY of this interesting phenomenon. It 9c ittkllly far waole northern portion of the sky, extending 'eV' rou nd to the eastward, and the whole heavens N IA t s' with the fleet streamers, that palely flashed Point, " a moment bright, then lost "for ever." ( k L , 14 11. e, succession of the brilliancy was exceedingly 4 left,n af oout ten o'clock a star-like nucleus of the tk * f :‘er formed in the centre of the sky, and right p 5 °04,,,P 4 1e -r u ti ewo to the earth, swept the rapid flashes, ' , 0 i1 :1g.... 4 °w red, now green, now changing and inter remarkable and beautiful spectacle. —lnverness f;r o,7 -Att tx a zi, of e 0 4,, J aRIDGC.—A very ingenious and simple tklo o t g 1 4 ,4Lructing bridges over wide ditches in marshy cross aby which cattle and sheep from the common tr ,,' k attl ni invade enclosed farms, has been invented 1744' 3, - ew, of Wern, Carmarthenshire. They consist fo r ,,,,!riches square, and then awn from corner to 0 i."7 two triangular pieces. These are joined by . a f t'eti and . °l , ll oion iron butt hinges, according to their 11 4 titi:Oo of I h uandle at each end to open them • thus, when N ia e se forms a safe and easy foot-bridge, about e bes wide, - t -,but when shut presents an angular Whe n. B ,er Which neither cattle nor sheep can pass; it t , l t : f r"et, o r t, one rail forms, a protection to the other from i!i kt Pktti e weather. `inch a sug-gp.tinn must prove valu tkh ulEtrl i n . - ) of Prob a te ien iarinerd, and their evidently sma ll Ycause their extensive introduction. They be 4 fixture, or easily removed.--Nining THE S U ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Those surprisingly clever and delightful little ar tists, the Bateman children appeared last night as Natz Teik and Lisette in The Swiss Cottage, and with even more decided success than attended their efforts in The Young Couple. The acting of Ellen as Nata was most easy and natural, showing that whatever may be said to th© contrary, she perfectly understands her part. No amount of training could have brought such perfection, were it not that the teacher had in his scholar a most precocious genius. Her acting was nature itself. The part of Lisette was exceedingly well sustained by Kate, and Max, the soldier, found an able representative in Mr. Bateman, who was very warmly received by the audience. The piece was succeeded by The Young Couple, where the children again displayed their astonishing dra matic powers. The applause was hearty and loud throughout—indeed we never saw two pieces so highly relished by any audience. The " young couple" on being called before the curtain, were literally loaded with bouquets. The house was crammed in every part. STRAND THEATRE. Last evening two new pieces were produced with success at " Punch's Playhouse." Tne first a one act comediette, by Mr. Maddison Morton, entitled A Hopeless Passion, the scene being laid in the Court of Madrid in the reign of Philip the Fifth. The piece, which is full of entertaining cross purposes, was very well put upon the stage, very creditably acted, espe cially in the parts of the Lady Beatrice de Sandeval and her bamboozled guardian, Don Terribio de For tabello, which were admirably sust ained by Mrs. Copeland and Mr. Tilbury, and will, doubtless, have a run. It would rather bear expansion than curtail ment. A farce by Mr. Edward Stirling followed, called A Figure of Fun; ar, the Bloomer Costume, in which uninterrupted peals of laughter were ex cited by a waxwork shwa man and his boy (Messrs. Hudspeth and Rogers), especially the latter, and Martha Bailey, a servant of all-work, who is induced to figure in the new style of female dress, which looks well enough upon the stage or at a fancy ball, but will never, we imagine, become naturalised in this sober land. Miss Marshall did this little part right cleverly, as she does everything. She had, however, to speak a " tag" which was so vapid as greatly to damp the applause at the fall of the curtain. This can be easily altered, and was the only draw back to a rattling, extravagant, improbable, and de lightful farce. The plot is simple enough. A ser vant girl, on a fair-day, eaters a van where wax work is being exhibited, and consents, at length, to exhibit herself as a "Bloomer," the proprietor stating, that a lay Bloomer figure, from America, had been broken. Whilst standing immoveably and silently in the re quisite attitude, she recognises a faithless sweetheart, who enters the van with a rival beauty, and ulti mately an extraordinary denouement occurs, which is certainly very cleverly precipitated. To simplify matters, the poor servant being nearly certain of her discharge by her mistress on her return, marries her self to the showman, and the curtain falls just as she hes pronounced a formal condemnation of " Bloomer ism." Herr Franzi Eskens, " the celebrated Tyro lean Troubadour," gave three songs with a guitar accompaniment in very pleasing style. The enter tainments altogether, which are stereotyped for the week, are exceedingly well worth a visit to this ele gant little theatre. The house was well attended, and the audience in a high state of enjoyment at the various comicalities of the evening. SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. Another Shaksperian revival took place at this theatre last evening, viz., Timon of Athens. The production of the play at this time and place is an event worthy of special notice. It is not only Mr. Phelps's acting we go to see, but his idea and illus tration of the play. The play of Timon of Athens is one of the mixed dramas. The earlier part is, both in rhythm, style, and delineation of character, of a very composite nature, and is certainly derived from a previous production. That a play did exist on this subject previously the commentators acknowledge, and the Shakspere Society have published from an unique manuscript a play of the same name. From this play, which is a comedy of serious interest, it is evident Shakspere borrowed nothing, though there are coincidences in both, derived probably from a previous production. In Timon of Athens the only part of real consequence is that of Timon ; for though Apemantus is effective, it is still quite se condary. Among the many beautiful passages of the play, nothing could equal the artistic manner in which the following dialogue, which takes place in the third scene of the fourth act, between Timon and Apemantus, was given : Ape. If thou didst put this scour-cold• habit on To castigate thy pride 'twere well; but thou Post it enforcedly; thou'dst courtier be again, Wert thou not beggar. Willing misery Outlives incertain pcmp, is crown'd before; The one is filling still, never complete; The other, at high wish. Best state, contentless Bath a distracted and most wretched being, Worse than the worse, content Thou shouldst desire to die, being miserable. Tim. Not by his breath, that is more miserable. Thou art a slave, whom Fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog. Hadst thou, like us, from our first swath proceed The sweet degrees that this brief world affords To such as may the passive drugs of it, Fredy command, thou would'st have plung'd thyself In general riot; melted down thy youth In different beds of lust; and never learn'd The icy precepts of respect, but fullow'd The sugar'd game before thee. But myself Who had the world as my confectionary; The mouths, the tongues, the eyes, and hearts of men At duty, more than I could frame employment; That numberless upon me stuck, as leaves Do on the oak, have with one winter's brush Fell from their boughs, and left me open, bare For every storm that blows;—l, to bear this; That never knew but better, is some burden; Thy nature did commence in sufferance, time Hath made thee hard in't. Why shoulds't thou hate men; They never flatter'd thee: what hest thou given? If thou will curse—thy father, that poor rag, Must be tby subject; who in spite, put stuff To some she beggar, and compounded thee, Poor rogue hereditary. Hence! be gone! If thou hadst not been born the worst of men, Thou hadst been a knaie and flatterer. Ape. Art thou proud yet? 1 im. Ay, that I am not thee. Ape. I that was no prodigal. 7 int. I, that I am one now; Were all the wealth I have, shut up in thee, I'd give thee leave to hang it. Get thee gone. That the whole of Athens were in this! Thus would I eat it. The applause which followed the giving of this passage was immense. The Timon of Air. Phelps, taken as a whole, may be pronounced perfect. Mr. G. Ben nett, as Apemantus, stood prominently out; it was an admirable performance, not one word of the biting railing missing its mark. Mr. 11. Marston as Alci biades was excellent ; in fact, the whole of the cha racters in the play were well supported. There was a very pretty masque of ladies in the first act which does great credit to Mr. Frampton. The scenery and dresses were of the most superb description. We cannot conclude our remarks without entering our protest against the accommodation given to the repre sentatives of the press, who always have a difficult duty to perform, and therefore their comfort should be studied to a certain extent. At Sadler's Wells they have three alternatives of being, firstly, thrust into an overcrowded back box, where they can neither sit easily or see plainly ; secondly, of mounting d- a ricketty platform in the lobby; or , thirdly, of stan ing and looking at a quantity of empty seats in the ront tier of boxes. --- ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Yesterday Dr. Bachhoffner commenced, at the above-named establishment, the fir st of a series of lectures on the electro-metallic deposits in the Great Exhibition, the Doctor having drawn a brief out line of the rise and progress of this interesting and valuable branch of art, in which he traced its gradual development from the crude productions first exhibited in the year 1839, to the magnificent display of gold, silver, and bronze specimens, kindly forwarded for the occasion by Messrs. Elkington. The electrotype, for by such name was the process first designated by Dr. I3achhoffner, on introducing the subject twelve years since at the Polytechnic Institution, is a pro cess resulting from the action of the voltaic current, whereby a metal may be deposited on any given con ducting surface, when a voltaic current is transmitted through a metallic solution. The Professor illus trated his Subject with numerous beautiful and ap propriate experiments, which considerably heightened the interest of his lecture ; and the Learned Doctor concluded his discourse with most deserved applause from a large and highly respectable audience. PARRICIDE OF A RELIGIOUS ENTHUSIAST. —The Criminal Court of Stuttgart tried three days ago a female named Held, for the murder of her mother. The accused, from her earliest youth, had been noted for her religious fa naticism, and at last her mind became so affected that she fancied she was enceinte by the Holy Ghost of a new Messiah. In the night of the 11th of last month, as she was b e d, she fancied she h eard God say to her—" My new Son cannot be born until after the death of the mother of his mother !" She immediately proceeded to her aged mother's chamber, and strangled her, as she was sleeping, with a pocket handkerchief. The next morning she proclaimed to her neighbours Before the Court she called she her " heroic declared with 'much e was arrested. bravado that she considered she had done a meritorious thing. The jury gave a verdict of guilty, and the Court condemned her to death; but the jurymen immediately signed a petition to the King, praying that she might be sent to a lunatic asylum. —Gabgnam. RULED BY TEE MAJORITY. --An Irishmen, being about to enter the army, was asked by one of the recruiting officers, " Weil, sir, when you get into battle, will you fight or run ?" " Ah, faith," replied the Hibernian, with a comical twist of his countenance, "I'll be either (loin', yer honour ; ea the majority pf ye doe' LONDON, THE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT- BICESTER. CONCLUSION OP THE INQUEST. The inquest on the bodies of the five persons killed on Saturday week, in consequence of this accident, was yesterday resumed and concluded. The principal evidence taken yesterday was that of the station master, Mr. Bruin, who said that he was in the habit of stopping trains when he considered it requisite, that he considered the straight line to be the main line, and that he had admitted excursion trains to go through the straight line for the safety and conve nience of the passengers. The CORONER summed up at great length. After deliberating for almost an hour and a half, the foreman of the jury announced their verdict to be — That the deceased died from accidental causes ; and stated that the jury desired him to append spe cial observations to that verdict, which be then read as follow : " The jury consider that in closing their investi gations as to the cause of the melancholy catastrophe which has been attended with such fatal results, they are called upon, as well in regard to the distressed feelings of the relatives of the deceased es of those unfortunate sufferers who have survived the accident, and also in justice to the public at large, to record some special observations with reference to the events preceding the occurrence, and attendant upon it, but further with reference to the future traffic of the Bucks Railway. " The jury find that the railway upon which the lamentable event occurred is a branch line from the London and North-Western Railway, diverting at Bletchley to Oxford through Bicester, and that from Steeple Claydon to Oxford is a single line only. " The jury find that the train to which the acci dent occurred was not only an excursion train adver tised by public notice for passengers to leave London on Saturday and to return on the following Monday, but it also formed a return excursion train for pas sengers who had left Oxford for London on the pre vious Monday, as well as for those who had left Ox ford and Bicester on the previous Tuesday. " The jury find that the notices to the public of these excursion trains were imperfectly and vaguely drawn, for while the company's officers at Bicester construed them to mean that the Saturday's excur sion train from London to Oxford was to call at Bicester, the officers at Bletchley construed them to mean that they should not stop at Bletchley but go through to Oxford; and the jury consider that both of those constructions might be fairly adopted with-. out the imputation of any neglect of duty on their part as arising from such cause. " The jury find that the company's servants at Bicester were prepared for the train to stop there for the Bicester passengers to alight, but that the engine man in charge of the train acted upon the belief that he was to go through to Oxford without stopping at Bicester, and that such a misunderstanding had a tendency to produce confusion in the arrangements, and required more than ordinary vigilance to be paid to the points and signals; and the jury consider that there was a want of adequate instruction to the guards from their superior officers as to the stoppages of the train to be consistent with the public safety. "The jury find that, although there is much dis crepancy in the evidence adduced before them as to the speed at which the train was travelling when it reached the junction point at Bicester, yet the en gineman admits that he was going at a greater speed than he would have done had he known that he was to stop at Bicester. It appears, therefore, that in the absence of a clear understanding among the officers as to stopping at Bicester or not, the only guides they had to direct them were the signals provided by the company with directions for their use. That in the present case the signal-man had used the necessary signal and caution at the auxiliary signal post, and of danger and stop at the points. That the engineman and guards had observed the caution signal at the auxiliary post, and had slackened speed accordingly ; but that the driver and his guards were misled by some optical illusion as to the white light or Go on' signal, at the principal signal post at the station. "The jury find that the white light was not turned towards the approaching train, yet they see no reason to doubt that the engineman and guards were, from some unexplained cause, misled by the appearance of a real or reflected light, which they believed to have been the white light signal for Go on;' and that, being deluded by this supposed white light, they did not observe the danger signal at the points until they had approached so near to them as to be unable to stop or to reverse the engine. " The jury find that if the points bad been fairly open for the train to pass down either the straight line or the siding, and had been in perfect condition at the time, it is more than probable that the train would have passed to the station. " The jury find that there was nothing observed by the pointsuian at the time the train reached him to indicate any defect whatever in the points; but they find, also, that after the train had passed the points man, and before any other train had gone over the points, it was discovered that the tie-rod, which is shown to have been partially broken before, and which connects the two point-rails, had been broken asunder near to the screw and nut, and that the heel chair was also broken, and the point-rail attached to it bent. "The jury find that these injuries to the tie-rod, the chair, and point-rail were occasioned at the mo mentary transit of the engine or tender over the points by coming in contact with the tie of the point-rail, but whether they were so occasioned by sand, gravel, or any other material, having prevented the points falling into their proper position, or whether by any indecision on the part of the pointsman as to which line of rail he was to send the train down by, or whe ther by any slip of the handle of the points-lever, or by any other cause, yet the jury find that from some such cause the engine went over the points on to the straight line, while the rest of the train took the siding, and resulted in that awful loss of life, serious injury to persons, and great destruction of property, which is now so painfully deplored. " That while the jury . find that there was not that measure of culpability in the conduct of any of the company's servants as to warrant the finding of an adverse verdict against any of them, yet they feel that it is due to the public safety that some greater means of protection to life and property than now exists should be resorted to by the company, and that in the monopoly which railways have achieved in travelling the lives of. passengers should not be jeo pardised at the shrine of interest and dividends. " The jury find that a single line of railway neces sarily involves more danger to passengers than a double one, by reason of the trains having to pass over junction points in the one case which would not be required in the other. They also find that trains are occasionally delayed at the stations to prevent collision with other trains, and hence that the enginemen on duty are superinduced to travel at a greater speed than is consistent with safety on a single line of railway, in order to observe the times appointed for their arrival at stations. These, and other matters of more minute detail, impose upon the company's ser vants a degree of watchfulness and care on a single line of railway almost superhuman ; and that the pointsman, in the discharge of his duties, is liable, from a mere accidental slip or fall, or from a want of nerve or that presence of mind which is so essential in cases of difficulty and danger, to be the innocent or accidental cause of destruction to life and property. "The jury, therefore, earnestly urge upon the directors of the company, as they value human life and deplore the sacrifice of it, that they will cause a second line of rails to be laid down without delay, as a means of preventing the recurrence of such a dire calamity as that which has now formed the subject of their very anxious inquiry and most painful de liberation." The CORONER expressed his concurrence in the view taken by th jury, and thought the country at large would be e grateful to them for what they had done. Mr. Wagstaffe stated that the verdict would be laid before the directors, from whom it might be expected to receive the most careful consideration. The CORONER suggested the following addition to the recommendations of the jury "The jury suggest, that until the line of railway is made double every train should stop at the Bicester station." Mr. Wagstaffe assured the coroner and jury that attention would be paid to the suggestion without rendering it necessary to add it to the recommenda tion made by the jury. He begged to produce two general orders which bad been issued by the company ; one a circular to guards and breaksmen ; another a notice to enginemen, and especially to those working the Buckinghamshire line, enjoining great caution, and also attention to the 34th rule, respecting the speed of trains when running through stations. The clause suggested by the coroner was then added to the recommendations of the jury ; and the separate verdicts required in the different cases having been taken, the proceedings terminated. IRON STEAM-BOATS FOR THE MAIL SERVICE.--T Government some time ago passed an order probibiting i ron steam•vessels from being used in the service of th e Crown in the conveyance of mails by sea. A paragraph has appeared in some of the papers, stating that this resolution had been rescinded. We believe there is no foundation for such a statement, and we make this announcement lest any of the mail contractors should be induced to build iron boats for the service, and thus incur considerable expense in the erection of steamers which they will not afterwards be allowed to use in the conveyance of the mails. The rule which prohibits iron steamers from being used in the mail service remains in full force. —Liverpool Mercury. EDINBURGH, PERTH, AND DUNDEE RAILWAY.--- In order to pay off the arrears of calls on the company's shares on the Sterling and Dunfermline Railway, the:diredors propose to raise a loan on the security of the shares. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVENHAMPTON RAILIN - AY • —The directors of the Great Western have, it is understood, declined to accede to the proposed guarantee of 3 per cent. TUESDAY EVEN LNG. SEPTEMBER l6 , 1' U • SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. I ROM. THE MORNING PAPERS OF TIIIS DAY. TIMES.—Among the many advantages to be derived from an improved communication between nations, we may hope to find a very general and un hesitating acquiescence by every civilised people in the rules of international morality, commonly de nominated the law of nations. We belong not indeed to that sanguine class of politicians, which expects to see war banished from among the means of human arbitrament, bat we would fain believe that increased intelligence will tend to produce rational behaviour, not only among individuals but among states, that the dictates of prejudice and passion will have a constantly decreasing influence upon the policy and conduct of mankind, and that the rapid means of intercourse be tween all parts of the earth, which we now providen tially possess, will lead in truth to a real comity cf nations, making of the different kingdoms and states into which men are divided one great commonwealth, in which general opinion will have great sway, and the unbiassed judgment of disinterested parties will eventually acquire the force of an almost imperative rule cf conduct. We entertain these expectations because we hope that an improvement in the physical conditicn of mankind will tend materially to soften manners generally, and conduce to an uni versal cultivation of every humanizing art and science. The constant interchange of thought that is now going on amid the many communities and states that have become members of the great civilised common wealth of the world must tend to an eradication of national antipathies, a lowering of national vanity, as well as to an increased susceptibility on the part of all to the censures and applause of the great aggregate of which we all form a portion. Just in proportion to our increased intelligence, and our improvement in all the better arts of life, will in future be our obe dience, both to the general opinion of civilized nations and to those rules of international morality to which an universal assent has given the force of positive law. The nations who are most strictly bound by , all the higher sanctions which can alone influence the con duct of sovereign communities, to set an example of the most ready obedience to this exalted morality, are those upon whom fortune has lavished her choicest gifts of wealth, power, and intelligence — and, if we were called upon at this moment to select that people which, of all others, from their political and social condition is more especially under an obligation to obey the dictates of this international morality, we should, without hesitation, point to the United States of America. Unlike all other nations, they have not been condemned to pass through an ignorant and barbarous infancy. They began their national existence at the highest point of civilization to which mankind has yet attained. They enter into the great commonwealth of nations just when science and art have almost annihilated time and distance, and when intelligence can be communicated from one end of the earth to the other almost with the rapidity of thought; when, too, the physical wants of man kind are satisfied with an ease that, in times past, would have been deemed miraculous, and when, be sides, political science has discovered the means of uniting into one national community, under the rule of a law made by themselves, any number of human beings, spread over any extent of territory. Thus happy as to the moment of their national birth, they have been equally fortunate in the territories in which as a people they are destined to dwell. For ages these territories will be practically without limit, and they contain within themselves all that a nation needs for comfort, luxury, security, and power. The people are united by the tie of one language and one law ; and although many different races of men have con tributed to make up this population, one nation, viz., the English, have so far outnumbered all others in this contribution as to stamp upon them a national and peculiar character. It is this people, we say, united, homogeneous, enjoying every comfort, and all the luxuries of life, possessed of a boundless and fer tile territory, secure against outward aggression, and safe, as far as a community formed of fallible human beings can be safe, from internal danger, endowed with every means of enlightenment, and already in all the useful arts evincing a wonderful and ever improving efficiency—it is this people, we say, who are bound by every obligation of duty to mankind, every consideration of policy as respects them selves, to set an example of willing and ear nest obedience to the rules of international law. In the United States the people govern, and their resolutions are manifest by law alone. No despotic will is by the spirit of the Constitution per mitted to have sway. The predetermined rule of the law is supposed to be paramount, and to govern with its inflexible will and command not merely individuals, but the whole community. Just as no single man can, by his mere volition, determine for the commu nity, so no body of men, none, in short, but the whole community, acting according to forms prearranged, can adopt resolutions for the State. A mob in a great city—the great city itself—nay, the State of which it may be the metropolis—is, according to the law and the spirit of the Constitution, as much with out power to act in the name of the people of the United States as a single individual ; and were the President to-morrow - , by his single authority, to de clare war against a foreign Power, and call out the armies and fleets of the Republic in support of his warlike resolves, he would not be guilty of a more flagrant violation of the law, a more criminal breach of bis duty than would a band of unauthorised indi viduals, no matter bow numerous, powerful, or re spected, who should, upon their own mere motion, commence hostilities upon a neighbouring people. There is in the United States, as there must be in all communities assuming to be civilized, and pro fessing to be governed by law, a specified authority by which communications with foreign Powers are carried on, there is also a rule as to the mode in which such communications are to be conducted, and any departure from this mode, any encroachment upon the defined powers of the constituted authority by which international intercourse is to be conducted is not merely a violation of international law, but also of the Constitution of the United States, and the viola tion is as signal and as mischievous when the work of many as of one. This regulation of the American Constitution is in accordance with, and is supported by, the general rules of international morality. War levied by individuals, and without the authority of a sovereign state, is by this international law adjudged to be piracy. They who thus levy war are pi rates, are without the pale of law, and are deemed the enemies not merely of the country they unjustly attack, but of the whole civilized world. Those, however, who would more than all others be bound to repress such a breach of the most sacred obligations of law and morality, would, in this case, be the people of America themselves ; and if we apply there rules to the late proceedings of the piratical and marauding band who attacked Cuba, and to the conduct of certain assemblies of American citizens who met to discuss, to approve, and defend this outrage upon the civilized world, we shall not be at a loss as to what judgment we are to form either with respect to the original piracy, or the subsequent approval of it ; neither can we be in doubt as to what will be the course of conduct which the United States should feel bound to pursue upon the occasion. If, under circumstances such as those which have oc curred, any Government should either be unwilling or unable to do what the comity of nations demands of it, such a Government would necessarily incur the contempt and excite the indignation of every civi lized community. We cannot believe, from our knowledge of the men who compose it, that the American Government will be unwilling to perform its duty. We are sure, from what we know of the constitution of the United States, there is no real lack of power to enforce in this case the dictates of com mon prudence and common honesty upon the nation at large. Spain and the United States are not merely allied, they are friendly nations. The wretched subterfuge to which Mr. Ashbel Smith bad recourse in our columns some days since, in order to justify an attack upon Cuba, cannot by possibility be ac cepted by the President of the United States and his Government upon this occasion. There is no quarrel b e tween the United States and Spain, neither can any pretext for a quarrel be found in the conduct of certain Englishmen who choose to advocate the abo lition of slavery in Cuba. The circumstances which , have led to this outrageous aggression have no con nexion with slavery or the doings, wise or unwise, cf English abolitionists. There are in the United States, more especially towards the south, large bands of men, desperate in fortune, loose in their morality, and reckless and daring in conduct. To ruffians of this description the excitement of a marauding expe dition, together with the hope of plunder to result from it, is absolutely irresistible. fold out to them a chance of success, and they would join in an expe dition against London, Liverpool, or New York, with the same alacrity as hat which they evinced when invited to attack Cuba. This buccaneering spirit was the first moving cause to this unprovoked outrage. A love of excitement and of plunder moved the at tacking bands to action. The circumstances which have induced an expression of sympathy with these pirates are, however, of a somewhat different descrip tion. We are quite ready to suppose that the execu tion in cool blood of fifty gallant, though unprincipled youths, by the Spanish authorities shocked many who in no way sympathized with the objects or justified the conduct of the unfortunate sufferers upon this oc casion. Feelings of national vanity were quickly mixed up with the anger roused by the inhumanity of the execution; and thus a somewhat generous senti ment, and an almost pardonable weakness, contributed simultaneously to a sudden outburst of passion. There a re also some politicians in the United States who consider Cuba an exceedingly desirable acqui sition for their country, and who view with undisguised satisfaction any events which may tend to bring it about. These men join the sympathizers, end swell the shout which demands re venge and seeks to enforce punishment. If to these we add all who belong to the class of those who suf fered, viz., All the idle, reckless buccaneers who 80 remain in the United States, and are eager for a fray, we shall understand the nature of the cry raised, and its probable influence upon the sober-minded Government of the United States. That Government cannot fail to lament the inadvertence—to give it no other name—which permitted the expedition against Cuba to sail, and they ought henceforth to exercise with proper energy the power which the law gives them to put down every attempt to renew such an outrage upon the comity of nations. Themselves en lightened, and obeying the dictates of a severe mo rality, they should be among the first to acknowledge that hesitation or weakness on their part would now be a glaring violation of the sacred duties imposed on them, alike by their position, by a regard for the true interests of the United States, and by a worthy con sideration of the per9neral welfare of mankind. ADVERTISER.—The time has at last arrived when those who wish to see an effective measure of Reform must bestir them!elycs. Lord John Russell, it is now known, has at length applied himself to the task of framing another Reform Bill. He has been obliged, whether he would or not, to abjure, at least in practice, his finality notions, and to acknowledge him selC a convert to the necessity of popular progress. No thanks to the Noble Lord for this. It is not of a hog mind, but of necessity, that be appears on the political stage as a Reformer. lied he been left to follow out his own inclinations, he would have clung to his finality principles till the end of the chapter. Ile is again in the field as a Reformer, because events had placed before him the alternative of either resign ing office, or bringing forward a new measure of Re form to meet the necessities of the times. Ile has preferred the latter alternative, and is, accordingly, about to come before the country in the same chm:ac ter as that in which he appeared before it precisely c'o years ago. It depends entirely on the people them selves whether the Noble Lord is or is not to benefit the country by his authorship of a new measure of Reform. If left to himself; we can easily be lieve what sort of affair Lord John Russell will make of the new measure. It will be worse than an abortion. It will be a deceptiou. It will not be what it professes. It will be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare. The Whig Premier will not spontaneously do the thing that's right. If he is to be honest he must be made so. If the new measure is to be worthy of acceptation, the Noble Lord must be made to frame it under compulsion. "Your money or your life," says the footpad. A somewhat similar alternative must be placed before the Premier. The people must say to him, in the plainest possible terms, " A sound sweeping measure of electoral re • form, or your ejection from office." We know which alternative the Premier will accept. He will agree to give us all we ask, and more than is necessary, should we demand it. As a free agent, Lord John Russell is one of the most unsatisfactory persons that ever occupied apartments in Downing-street. As a ser vant acting under the authority of the public, there is nothing which he will not do. As, therefore, the Premier is now known to be occupied in the prepara tion of his new Reform Bill, the people must bestir themselves, if they wish to see him bring before the country such a measure as will be worth their acceptance. If he has begun in earnest to frame his Bill, the nation ought also to be at work in furnishing him with an exposition of their views on the subject. They are bound to let him know, in a way wnich will leave no room for miscon ception, the precise thing they want. If they do not speak out he will turn round on them, and taunt them to their faces in Parliament with having themselves to blame for not having a better measure offered for their acceptance. And there will be at least a show of reason in the Noble Lord's reproaches. If the country does not speak out—if it does not declare what sort of a reform measure it wants, the Whigs will certainly be in a position to make out a seeming case for themselves, in not proposing a more liberal scheme. If the measure is to be made one which will meet the exigencies of the case—if it is to be one which will, in some sense, come up to the require ments of the country, there must forthwith be a de cided and universal expression of the public voice. We observe, with pleasure, that in some of the pro vincial parts of the country, and more especially in the Potteries, great public meetings in favour of a sweeping measure of reform, have already been held. So far well. But more is required. A movement in Staffordshire, standing alone, will have little or no weight with the Premier. Where are the great towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire ? How happens it that Manchester has made no sign ? Why is Leeds si lent ? Wbat can be the reason that Sheffield is mute ? Has Birmingham no voice to utter at such a time, and on such a question ? It was not the wont of that enterprising place to remain passive at a crisis like the present. Why does Birmingham give no token of the interest it takes in the cause of popular pro gress now ? We are sure we will not in vain ap peal to it to bestir itself without delay. Nor will Manchester, Leeds, or Sheffield fail to respond to the call which we make on them, to arise and assert the right of Englishmen to an ample measure of repre sentative reform. But if' we are surprised at the past apathy of the places we have mentioned, we are still more astonished that the metropolis has not only not yet taken any active part in the great question, but that it is giving no indications of its intention to do so. We do not hear anywhere, either in the City or in the metropolitan boroughs, the note of preparation for a demonstration in favour of au extensive measure of Parliamentary reform ? Is, then, the reform feeling in the metropolis dead ? Have the citizens of London ceased to be reformers ? Are the metropolitan boroughs no longer the great strongholds of the popular cause ? It almost seems as if it were so ; and yet we know it is not. The reform feeling is asleep, but it is not dead. It has only to be aroused—only to be awoke, to become as vigorous and determined as ever. But if it is to awake from its slumbers, it must do so now,—other wise it will lose the only opportunity which may not be afforded to it for a long time to come, of acting with effect. A few weeks hence, and it may be too late. The Premier may by that time have completed his task. His work may be done. His measure may be framed, and ready to be brought before the public. He will not then feel under the same obligations as he would do now, to regulate the provisions of the Bill by the generally expressed wishes of the country. If, therefore, the Noble Lord is expected to bring forward such a measure as will meet the necessities of the case, and come up to the expectations of the people, it is of indispensable importance that they should bestir themselves without further delay. We have no doubt they fully mean to do it; but the danger is of their not moving in the matter until it be too late. If any movement is to be made, it must be done at once. Shall we appeal in vain to the City to take the lead in a great national demonstration in favour of a sweeping measure of reform ? If so, it will be the first time for several generations, in which the City has failed in its duty to the popular cause. It was always the first and foremost in the field on all previous occasions, when the case of civil and reli gious liberty was to be promoted. 'We cannot believe it will hesitate any longer in the present emergency. Let the City only do its duty, and all the metropoli tan boroughs will forthwith follow its example. And the provinces, in that case, will tread in the steps of the metropolis. To insure a great national demon stration in favour of a large and liberal measure of representative reform, all that is required is, that London shall take the initiative. Let the metropolis only do this, and the work will be done. The object on which all hearts are set will be achieved. Lord John Russell will make a virtue of necessity—he will concede that to the omnipotent voice of the public which he would never have accorded to the abstract claims of a nation's right. THE SARDINIAN WORKMEN• The following address has been presented by the Sardinian workmen now visiting the Exhibition : LECTURE 01 , 1 BLOOMERISM BY A BLOOMER. Yesterday evening, Mrs. C. 11. Dexter delirered a lecture on Bloemerism, in the Literary Institution, John-street, Fitzroy-square, immortalized as the locality where the Chartist Convention held its cede runt. The lady having publicly announced that she " would gratify her f r i en d s and admirers by appearing o n thi▪ s occasion in th e mo d ern f ema l e costume, an immense crowd was att rac t e d t o th e place, which speedi▪ ly became filled almost to suffocation. A con siderable number of females of the middle class were present, many of them evincing their sympathy with "the dress movement" by occupying conspicuous seats on the platform, but the male element prepon derated in the audience. The price of admission was twopence to " the hall," and threepence to the gal lery; but so great was the rush when the doors opened that the crowd completely carried away the men stationed to collect the halfpence., and hundreds gained access without payment. At half-past eight Mrs. Dexter, a lady about 33 year s of Ewe made her appearance on the platform intiabitech the Blo omer cos t um e. She was received with slight manif es t a ti ons o f app l ause . Herattire, which was wholly comp ose d o f bl ac k satin, consisted of a jacket ordinarily worn by l a die s i u walking dress, a skirt below that, scarcely reac hi ng d own t o the knee, and a pair of exceedingly wide trousers, tied at the aukle. She proceeded at once with her lecture, which she commenced by adverting to a slight degree of difficulty and emharraesment she felt in appearing publicly to advocate a change of female costume. She felt there was something wrong in the state of things which rendered it necessary for a woman to appear in public to vindicate such a change. Yet that the female dress came within the especial province of females no reasonable being would dispute. Not withstanding, it was certain that the mass of the people, end especially the female sex , were in most cases so completely under the trammels of fashion that any deviation from the prevailing mode was regarded with suspicion. No improvement, however undeniable, was sure of adoption, and no absurdity, however glar ing, was sure to be rejected. Fashion, in the article of dress, had most power among those nations which arrogated to th emse l ves a high degree of civilisation. In our own country, at one period, no lady was con sidered in full dress who had not a castle piled some twenty inches high upon her head. At another pe riod, ladies consented to have their natural circum ference expanded by hoops, so contrived that it re quired much manceuvering on their parts to pass an ordinary doorway.—(Laughter.) It had been re served to the English nation to curry to the extreme of absurdity a custom by which thousands of the loveliest of nature's lovely works were annually mas sacred. She referred, of course, to th e i n f erna l con trivance of tight stays.—(Hear, hear.) Sh e (M rs . Dexter) lifted up her voice against that, as the pre eminent and deadly evil incident to the present sys tem of female costume. She acknowledged no au thority which sought to prevent her from deviating from the usual style of dress to such an extent as she thought desirable on the grounds of health, conveni ence, and comfort.—(Cheers.) On that matter she insisted on the right to judge for herself; and for those who demanded from her an implicit submission to the vagaries of fashion she had no respect. Many of the most remarkable revolutions in fashion had been introduced to conceal defects in the human form ; and there had been those whose pride it was to ape their superiors even to the extent of imitating their de formities. She contended that she was at liberty to adopt what dress she pleased, provided it offered no violence to health or modesty. If her costume satis fied those conditions, she demanded to be left at perfect liberty to consult her own taste in the matter of de coration, and her own feelings with regard to conve nience and comfort.—(Applause.) She had long felt the inconvenience arising from long petticoats ; yet she never thought of adopting the Oriental costume until she learnt that one lady across the Atlantic had actually walked abroad in trousers, to the amusement of fastidious fault-finders. Let her remind her audience of a common exhibition—a lady's dress on a rainy day; it was a moving panorama, and really gave her more trouble than a baby.—(Laughter.) If that was not a pitiable and ludicrous spectacle, she (Mrs. Dexter) was much mistaken. The long petti coats, too, were equally inconvenient in fine as in dirty weather. When a lady, on a beautiful summer's day, attired herself in a dress of rich material, she forgot that the pavement would be wiped with it as it trailed magnificently along, enveloped in clouds of dust. What, she would ask, prevented women enjoys tng the vigorous exercise of their limbs ? Let ladies ask their wardrobes and they would find an answer. Women, from time immemorial, had been cheated out of many a sweet summer's ramble in the open country. Was not a woman able to get over a stile without the care and assistance of her husband or her lover ?—(Laughter.) There was elasticity enough in her constitution—(Renewed laughter)--but she was the slave to the foolish and too general impression that there was something of vulgarity in the gentler sex depending on their own resources. She (Mrs. Dexter) would not forgive herself if she did not advert again to the practice of tight-lacing. Human beings must have been under some kind of infatuation when they adopted that fashion. Woman was not sent into this working world merely to be admired as an image, but to per form an honourable and a holy part. The early edu cation of both sexes principally devolved on her. The happiness of the human family was greatly dependent on the right fulfilment of a woman's arduous duties. —(Hear, hear.) She (Mrs. Dexter) believed that nature would eventually assert her supremacy in this matter. "Beauty, when unadorned, is adorned the most ;" and she did not despair of seeing a form of dress adopted in this country which would not injure health and enfeeble intellect. Only conceive a Venus held up to the admiration of man supported by slips of whalebone.—(Laughter.) Men of taste and genius could never have formed their conceptions of beauty from such a mockery of well-developed form. Half the women of fashion were more or less deformed. Deformity, indeed, was almost the peculiarity of the civilised portion of mankind. The Greek women of the present day wore trousers, and the Italian women attired themselves in short petticoats. She (Mrs. Dexter) believed much mischief had arisen from the habit of blindly following the practices of even the most polished nations of antiquity. We had almost always limited our inquiries in matters of taste to the ancient Greeks, and their inferior imitators, the Romans. With respect to the charge of novelty brought against the new dress, was novelty an objec- tion in this age ? Novelty ! Why, novelty, espe cially in matters of fashion, was the great object of ' one-half of society. In the name of conscience, let not a thing be degraded for its novelty. Would it not be wiser to inquire whether a thing was meritorious or useful, leaving the question of novelty to idlers and simple folk ? She would remind them that there were at the present time millions of women who had never seen any other female dress than trousers and short petticoats ; so that their lords and masters in this country must not look on the new dress as an illegal encroachment. The women of Georgia, Circassia, the Burman empire —in a word, one-half of the human race—had from time immemorial worn trou sers ; so that there would be no danger of her (Mrs. Dexter) standing a solitary monument of trousers.— (Laughter.) She was quite sure there wou ld be more difficulty in convincing the ladies that their errors in dress demanded reform than in convincing the gen tlemen that it was their duty to persuade them to as sent to the change.—(Laughter.) She was also quite sure that such views as she desired to convey would be embraced only by those who had good hearts and happy dispositions.—(Hear, hear.) The question in America was, what right had men to wear trousers at all ?.—(Great laughter.) In China the men now wore petticoats and the women trousers.—(Renewed laughter.) In the dress in which she was now endea vouring to enlist their interest there was nothing in convenient, unbecoming, or unsightly.—(Cheers.) Of its comfort she could speak from experience, and with regard to its appearance she would leave the audience to contrast it with its competitors.—(Hear, bear.) Some ladies thought she had taken a bold stand in en deavouring to introduce so indelicate a fashion. She allowed she had taken a bold stand. She was the first, she believed, who ventured to appear in London in the reformed costume, and whether it was adopted or not by the ladies in general, she intended to continue it.—(Applause.) But she had yet to learn that bold ness was necessarily criminal. She felt, on the con trary, that she had done nothing unfeminine in adopt ing or in advocating the change of dress. She had felt the advantages of it, and she should have considered her self as deserting her duty if she bad refused, when re quested, to appear publicly in its favour. That the fashion was an indelicate one, she a lto g et h er denied—on the contrary, the great recommemdation of the costume in question was its pecul i a r modesty. Persons who strained at a gnat would often swallow a camel. She appealed to any gentleman who had had o c casion to walk behind a lady caught i n a summer shower in the streets of this metropolis, whether the present style of dress had any claim to regard on the score of de cency?—(Bear.) Up to the age of fourteen, the fe male dress which was celled immodest was worn with impunity ; but, arrived at that age, the dress which was worn on one day was characterised as unbecom ing on the next. She (Mrs. Dexter) thought it was high time that the investigating spirit of philosophy which marked the present day should be applied to the principles of dress, both male and female. It would be easy to show that the male costume in volved many absurdities.—(A laugh.) The dress she (Mrs. Dexter) wore would soon cease to be singular. She was the first who bud dared publicly to call at tention to it in this metropolis. She had, th ere f ore, been subject to many jeers. A young mani for in stance, unaware of her presence, had asked whether she would complete the outrage on masculine attire by appearing at the lecture in whiskers.— (A laugh.) Another had offered to present her with a box of cigars. She thanked hiro7 bgt she had no desire te , commit an outrage cn nature; she wished rather to strengthen than to debilitate her nerves. Through a foolish servility to the dictates of fashion, women had been deprived of choice in matters of dress, and in order to maintain their rights it had consequently become necessary to set on foot an agitation as active as any political one. If ladies chose to wear long dresses indoors or in car riages, where they were protected from mud and mire, it was not her business to interfere. What she asked was, that she might not be subjected to annoy ance or insulting remarks because she differed from those about her in matters of costume. From the male sex she had never been treated with insult when she had appeared in the reformed costume. On the contrary, they had ever received her with respect and I dignified politeness.—(A. laugh.) She could not say as much of her own sex. She called on men, in con elusion, as the natural protectors of women in time of need, to shield those of her sex who might follow her example in adopting the costume she then wore from gratuitous and vulgar insult. Mrs. Dexter then withdrew, amid expressions of general applause, mingled with some faint laughter. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMOiAL, SUNDAT. Her Majesty and his 11;3: al Highness Prince Albert returned to adinoral yeEterday evening from Giuthsach. The Hon. Miss Byng was in attendance on her Mejesty. The Right Hon. Fox Maule arrived at BAltnelal yesterday. The dinner party yesterday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Augusta and Lady Frances Bruce, and the Eight Hon. Fox Maule. Lord and Lady John Russell and family left Pem broke Lodge, Richmond Park, yesterday morning, for Bangor. Mr. James Stewart, from Canada, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Mr. Henry Currie had also an interview with the Noble Earl. Dispatches were sent off yesterday from the Colo nial•ofce to the Governor of the Cape of Good Ilope. Dispatches were also sent to the Governors of the North American Colonies, the Governor of St. Helens, and the Governor of Natal. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of the Gold Coast and the Governor of Gibraltar. TO TILE ENGLISH SOCIETY OF THE FRIENDS OF ITALY IN LONDON. " The Italian workmen who have come from the Sardinian States to admire the cosmopolitan industry exhibited in the magnificent Crystal Palace, erected by British genius for so noble a purpose, believe that they would neglect a sacred duty of gratitude if they quitted the shores of the Thames without addressing their warmest thanks to you, the friends of their un happy country, oppressed by the stranger. " We who, thanks to our statute, enjoy the advan tage of free institutions, are yet but divided by the Ticino from those brethren the cry of whose long martyrdom is first addressed to us. May the great British nation be impressed by you in favour of the unhappy Peninsula, so that in the approaching struggle of the people she may meet with the powerful support of British influence. May the blessing of that God rest upon you who has marked out with his Almighty , finger the boundaries of our nationality. That na tionality, opposed to foreign invasion, and by him who impiously and tyrannically arrogates to himself the right of representing the God who is the Father of the peoples on earth, will arise more rapidly if it meet the sympathy of free nations, and more espe cially of yours. " THE ITALIAN WORKMEN OF TUE SARDINIAN STATES IN LONDON. " Sept. 8." FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE STRAND.—Yester da y afternoon, about four o'clock, two omnibuses, nearly full, and proceeding to the West-end, having passed through Temple bar, commenced racing ; one of them, a Chelsea omnibus, in order to get before the other, drove at a furious rate on its wrong side to round the cab-stand. In its progress, when opposite the corner of Pickett-place, it came in contact with a poor man, a vender of lead pencils, and knocked him down, both wheels of the vehicle passing obliquely over his head and neck. The unfortunate man was placed in a cab and re moved to King's College Hospital, when it was ascertained that death must have been instantaneous, the head being dreadfully fractured on the right side, and the vertebra: of the neck broken. The jugular vein was also burst. The driver of the omnibus was at once taken into custody and removed to Bow-street. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. Yesterday the receipts at the doors of the building rose to 2,9331. 103. 6d., and 60,497 persons visited the interior. By the sale of season tickets 1/. 10s. was realised. Frcm this statement it will be seen that the approaching close of the great spectacle begins to make itself felt in a gradually increased attendance. While there are so many strangers in town anxious to learn all they can about the most remarkable features of the collection in Hyde-park, it may not be out of place to draw attention to the series of popular lectures at present being deliver ed at the Po ly technic Institutio n u p o n some of our more curiou s ind u strial processes. Yesterday, for example, Dr. Baclahoffner explained to a numerous audience the art of electro • type, so practically carried out by the Messrs. Elkington, illustrating his observations by numerous oxpenments, and by a very fi ne display of specimens furnished by that eminent firm for the occasion. .Shortly after the Exhibiti on opene d an ar ticle appeared in our columns describing th e sys t em o f electro-metal lie deposits, and contrasting it with the mode of facturing Sheffield plate. It is unnecessary, there fore, now to do more than to refer all who may wish to have the subject explained to them in a clear and simple manner to Dr. Bachhoffner's lectures. One of the most striking points brought out by him in his observations was that the process of electrotype was discovered in 1839, almost simultaneously by Jacobi, Spencer, and Jordan. We have received from Mr. Bennett, of Cheapside, who has placed forty of his standard thermometers in various parts of the building, an interesting account of the variations of the temperature therein, made from numerous observations. During the month of May and for a part of June the mean temperatures continued below their average values as much as 4 degrees Fahrenheit ; on the 19th of June there was a sudden rise, amounting to 10 degrees. This was a shilling day, with 63,863 visitors, and matters con tinued to grow worse till the 26th, when the mean temperature was 78 6 degrees, or two degrees above summer heat. On that day, at 4 P.m., the thermo meter at the north-east corner of the gallery, among the wax flowers, registered 97 degrees. In conse quence of the inconvenience and suffering to which tee heated state of the atmosphere gave rise vigorous means were adopted in order to secure better ventila tion, and with such success that since the 7th of July, when the changes made were completed, the tenipere ture of the building has been well under the control of the authorities.—Times. DEATH OF ONE OF BURNS'S HEROINES.—A Glas gow contemporary records the death of one of the six " Mauchline belles," on whom Burns confers the fame of his verse. Mrs. Findlay, relict of Mr. Robert Findlay, of the Excise, Greenock, was one of the very few persons, surviving to our own times, who intimately knew the peasant bard in the first flush of his genius and manhood, and by whom her name and charms have been wedded to immortal verse. When we consider that sixty-five years have elapsed since Burns wrote the lines in which this lady is noticed, and that the six Mauchline belles were then in the pride of opening womanhood, it is surprising that two of them, who have often listened to the living accents of the inspired peasant, still survive. The fate in life of the six belles was as follows: Miss Helen Miller, the first-named, became the wife of B urns's friend, Dr. Mackenzie, a medical gentleman in Mauchline, latterly in Irvine ; Miss Markland we have already spoken of; itxiss Jean Smith was married to Mr. Candlish, a successful teacher in Edinburgh, and became the mother of the eminent divine; Miss Betty (Miller) became the wife of Mr. Tem pleton, in Mauchline ; and Miss Morton married Mr. Pat terson, cloth-merchant, in the same village. Of the fate and history of " Bonnie Jean " (Armour) we need not speak. The survivors are Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. Candlish. — Scottish Press. ESCAPE OF THREE CONVlCTS.—Yesterday informa tion was received that three convicts had succeeded in effect ing their escape from the Justitia hulk at Woolwich, by seizing a boat and rowing to the opposite bank, on the Essex shore. They were all under seutence of ten years' trans portation, and were all dressed in the grey convict suit. Their names are John Clark, convicted at Beverley, 2d July, 1850; James Carr, at Kingston-upon-Hull, 4th April, 1850; and George Hobbs, at Portsmouth, 22d July, 1850. DINNER TO THE LORD PROVOST OP EDINBURGH. —On Friday evening the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, who recently received the honour of knighthood on the occasion of her Majesty passing through Edinburgh on her journey to Balmoral, was entertained at dinner by upwards of 300 of the most respectable citizens. The entertainment took place in the Music-hall, the chair being occupied by Mr. Sheriff Gordon, who was supported by the Duke of Buceleuch, Major-General Riddell, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Cowan, M.l'., Sir John K.C.8., Sir James Forrest, Sir James Anderson (the Lord Provost of Glasgow), &c. The duties of croupier were discharged by Sir J. W. Gordon, President of the Royal Scottish Academy of Arts. The Chairman having proposed, in highly complimentary terms, the health of the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Sir W. Johnston expressed his thanks for the approval of his public conduct thus mani fested, and observed that the honour which had been con ferred upon him by the Sovereign proved that public ser vices, however humble, did not pass unappreciated or un requited. The health of the Duke of Bucclench, Lord- Lieutenant of the county of Edinburgh, was next given. and was acknowledged by the Noble Duke, and a number of toasts of a local and general character were afterwards proposed. THE HARVEST.—The weather during the week has again been all that could ba wished for the successful prosecution of harvest operations. But little grain now no. mains to be cut in the lowlands, and a large proportion of that which has already yielded to the sickle has been stored by in excellent condition. — Carlisle Jou, nal. Two CHILDREN FOUND DEAD. —Yesterday, two inquests were held before Mr. William Carter, the coroner for Surrey, at the Six Bells Tavern, Paradise-street, Roth,er hithe, on the bodies of two newly born children found dead under very suspicious circumstances. The evidence of the first case proved that on Friday a labouring man was pro ceeding to work in a field near the St. Helena Gardens, • Lower Rotherhithe, when he had his attention directed to a parcel lying on the ground. He opened it, and found the dead body of a female infant quite fresh, and apparently free from external violence. The child could not have been dead many hours. The body, which was wrapped in a piece of black lining, was conveyed by the police to the bone-house. The second inquiry was gone into at the same house, on the body of another female child discovered by a Waterman on Saturday, floating in the river off the platform, Rotherhithe. The deceased was much decomposed, and several parts of the body were bruised and injured. Mr. H. Gardner, the sum moning officer, said every possible means had been used to find the guilty parties, but no clue of them had at present been discovered. The bodies were generally brought many miles. The jury in each case returned a verdict of " Found dead." ntittObetrldina°lll; o E m i T a n 3 thCeo Bth,EG E 0 . — n T h which v daye, e Ett t o h n e s t e e h r o na o opened. The collegers and lower oppidans arr i ved on Satur day, to commence their studies on Monday, and the whole of the assembledasters have ' b by Saturday een g e next. Two ad ditionalmathematics} as in future mathematics are to be taught as a regular and com pulsory part of the school duties. THE IRISH LINEN TRADE.--lIIISiIIttSS continues dull both in yarns and cloth ; the latest intelligence from the United States, though more favourable, leading to the belief that further failures are not far distant. In Ballymena, on Saturday, a good deal of cloth remained over unsold, and there was a shade of difference in price in favour of the buyer. In Armagh, both in cloth and yarns, the market was fist. Drills are rather lower in price, and stock is accumu lating. In printi ng l awns, 26 inches. there is still a fair tde mand, with prices somewhat lower. Ilandkerchiefa are,B still heavy in stock, though a fair demand has sprung up and Minted ones, new style foreign trade. Our printed linen lawns are . t r rge eagerly patterns, both for th e e .l l - 3 1 g. largely into home consumptin, and in London th n e d YL :ho colours very chased. The patterns are all large,: chaste, something after the French sty to a few- of these elegant dresses t ar e e. ea ,o _ bf _ e s ps i re n i enn a t I ni n ng o . e Unit. n Belfast.t Strange to say, English ladies ar a e vio li g. in their favour, her Majestvat,n printed dresses, Which she of wearing one of the iitr. selected when in Belfast —Banner i set ue t r he first eample line of railway front d Stock ton , a re now a in ly nt pa p :t o ff next sum emd by 4 r_ thence to LEEDS NORTUE H t tle e p e ool to Leeds and Man fully s es a s nod a n ud frt ar ohnli e s elaciter rill be Yeu l'-'lAst-r;vartoir:..—orTathhiellll6e:r:tono:nek,r Sunderland Aegis. raer, eNgeenle-tthaerdeindit-°B--91:3ecnocMfieniidfsrehorgqin,ene ~~ II