The Sun. — London, England, 1845-02-03 00:00:00

COIJRI .t. . Winsoi, SUNDAY. --The Q'-sen will hold a Ppr.Y Council tomorrow (Monday) afternoon at Bucking• ham Palace, at half -past three o'clock. 1 Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, the Prince A h l , - fred, the Princess Royal, and Princess Alice, left t Castle, accompanied b . , the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Colonel liouverie and their Royal Highnesses usual t Stott for the Great Western Railway station a Slough, and travelled to town by a k.pecial train, ar 'D'elnek riving at P a ddi ngton at ten minutes bi.fore ten . The royal party proceeded in three carriages and four to the Nevv Cross station, and left for our by a special train, arriving at the Pavilion a few minutes past one o'clock. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the he of Wales, walked for some time yesterday nibrning in the royal grounds adjacent to the Coale. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went to shoot, la the forenoon in the "Y the royal pr eserves, b eing the last Mar ! It 3 of phea sant shooting. The Pri nce was attended Capt a i n Me quis of O rmonde, Colonel Wylde, and ynell. The Earl of Aberdeen left the Castle early yester tisnorning for town, and returned to dinner. e ine American Minister, and Mrs. and Miss Ev - 1 relt, Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Ear 4 Countess of Lincoln, and Sir R. Peel, arrived at the Castle yesterday, on a visit to the Queen. ItiCount Pollon, the Sardinian Minister, and the Rlit llon. the S aker of the House of Commons And Mrs. ShawPeLefevre, took their departure Yesterday. s Ile the of Gainsborough has arrived, and has . Waiting on the Queen. wer.lonel. Buckley has relieved Major-General 1 aie n ,, s In the duties of Equerry in Waiting' on her ' 1,13roja:141; in Colonel Colonel Wvlde has relieved . Colonel the duties of Equerry in Waiting on ee Albert. II tphaeni,3,r lißonym,aalvill,iagrh,tiless the , Duchrss ,of .Kerl.t, joined the C. untess I\ ratislaw , Ihreyaillte_ir,ele at dinner yester.day. qtend a " u 'l of the Royal I tor - se Guard , s , private band f rte e dnring dinner. Her Majest} s . was in of .. : terwarrls alerided, and performed the remainder ,t,sh evening. th, l' i_ t ' l : morning the Qu-en and Prince Albert toek if,155.!1,41 early walk. c qc , alh j''st.3 - and Prince Albert and . the Din.be-s ", al. llou- ehold, atteatim ~,." the Court and the D ' Dom, the Ca,stie''buivine servi ce in the private chliel of e„oartft,t,,mia morning. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie)id tl'tiothl t eed the prayers, and the Rev. L( ',e,l, Ru.sell preached the sera on. La i c J,ii e h t ,,. -eitnny Ha w ir 1 v. , :is in waiting on th e 444ehe-:,l4.lif.tit. The Royal Din hess remained to I,ll.Cin)ll,,ve;ith the Qin en and the Prince. . . d by the p rise \ Eas of Cambridge, aceompnie ~ ~ afterlinn ' rarY, atten,nl Divine servic • Was it - I‘ ll . . 4 1 St James's Church, Baron Krasebeck yesterk y H Mayan II on her Royal iligheess. vi ltitd n3lll lilAness the Duchess of Glauc-ster brand t k I), n ''b'ss o' Cambridge and the ilereditary A C.,..uhess Qf Mecklenburgh Strelitz yesterday. alll4ulnet Council was held at te,o o'clock on tliaaraaY afternoon, at the Foreign -office. The Mi .iiinPreeent were Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of cliehl, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buc 144P.,raharri' srl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James 4 ' th'e Chancellor of the Exchequer, E :ri of 41 en, Earl of Ripo, Lord Granville Sumer , std th he s . e Earl of I,inAn. °dnk4-trd Chancellor arrived shortly before three The c kialedlll,fle,il eat two hours. f ttn a , 4telY after the Council Sir Robert Peel 4..loleAllfor Windsor Castle. The Earl of Aberdeen ylsit t 0 town for Windsor Castle in the evening, on a I'l l er Majest w,„ eAttorn • Y. ocheSir James e•General for Ireland had an interview . Graham on Saturday, at the Home 'ea,o tio wi th r 1,,. Francis Charteris, ALP., had an inter -4114 path'etr It. Peel on Saturday We t , s 1' the Governor of Van Diemee'a arda, sent off from the Colonial-office on L T he 11,.., -, tid a4 Lute o f k l ` 4 the 4 ellington and Sir P. Trench at ofq'tLtial, ache aearly service yesterday in the Chapel ecitte''s• The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated , Et °lltrOse the sertnon, v ., , est 13 1114 e Earl and CTouhneteDssuokfellarinldtopn,uLchoersds NI 4 ily ser i. and Lord and Lady Sondes, attended jts', the sere The Rev. Dr. Dakins read the 11 04 leatit th."•eev• Mr. Hall the lessons, and the Rev. li 41171:410 • pr",,, e , 'nn the ion service. The Rev, ir. 4,4%10;441'1' 1.-.lmon. The anthem was $4 % t art shall Sir a young man" (Boyce). ... ,...................__ Presi led at the organ. , --.................E........... k 4,4 1-4:1‘7,------, 1 ,, 13( ) N „. , F tic 1 ' 1i,„.. SHIPPING. - 1 s -'' °A.N ..1 --"Yind NAV., fresh breeze and hazy. Oktk,l44:llll:rallyli,,'A"lrr----d.lijoittid ...s.N.N.E. to N.E. strong breeze a ' re s t /,. un .e.;dward, Bassett,' Calcutta ; a 'it r , B ta l i fo r ~' • n aleti, for London ; a schooner, New- I N 7,,p04,; m Ultto . Q 1 , ''''cl• IC.innpar Launceston ; Amina, titok.kli jsciepriB,, Z'n,,.....ar,l,c,utta; West' brook. Berbiee ; r_r a ,-. : , 51 11 it 4 41 4 v Eliza, fl•tyti; Tulloeh Castle. .J ' 4l '‘. ?n.derititi.`",,sssstl; Condor, Cuba ; United Bing. , valway Lass Cadiz and Bio Grande. ticqinl-4; gift.e't',lielena; Lail Flora Hasting• New q th e 4; Siv a „ I l i' 0, the Ocean, YNlobile; and th.• 'Prima o,,t'lltwail hoot; flornbv, Barbadoes• and the whole N 4 1.11 So t ' except the (!aletionkf,,r Bo(nhal h ttlt I r stidia Tit FORELAND. N. 30 . —Gipsy, At,. r• Oh 4 tr"ltt 1413t'11, e,trgo shiftell • on the 26th inst to ' hoy q"entiiv , r 'L. ' , ei;, i. I t it, ja , ., wre(..s. elle" i stal ia ,N* 29.---Avidra,aehe Mo, ''.'" '' t,ti 1' 41 ,4 : 81 11(4 4 it i r t t' 5 t. 4 . ,1it: , 1 Oc•t 13. __A: la ' -g,- barque ;s r,.- tf, ti s , 4 i)a li. j a , sE , bay o f Duni.!etie.,s. 4 4.. 4 , itliiii f..,11;,31.--Wind NN. ti: —Arrd. Mao 11351'i1l `T', ii:ii,,,C,,nci-Y.m.-r... Sid Es., x, C.,p+ , and AI, u 41.1 al . ~'„" 't 0 0 , 1. Cr, MIV, P.irio It !‘ 0. a t , -. ' •••••-•• Iv ind N.E.--t;l4. - Po - -, vhattan, New Sl,"'ret. l'ol l ' Pa' 44 N. al ~. ,44,,,",,. gar;"--,11n.: N. N. E.. breeze increa,ing. i.ioli's,'-t.Vil ''""t'es i Luey, Antigua; Ca oil,-• riot 'Nos% o,,'eent ; Ellz,&hrth and Irvi'w, JArn,,ie-• ; b?tln.; a .k, , I , ' ' - 'ttn, ‘+,411),,01t0, J 411: Armlet. n, l'uha 044:tItti)6 A1b,,,t,:',.:. 30.---Wind%V.--LSlti: Ctfstri.'n• t 73, ,1k 410 Grande; Lsabella, Demerara; .18' i tet tb, j li t ; t it t ) ha Az,,tAN' 3°----The ves,ol sunk in eardi;:a n " 44,111erp,:l Picket, ,4f Plyin...uth, suppo•ed froe, t. l. 41 4 act ater.,,bew drowo,i 150 sacks of flour 1 41, 4 11 4 ,„ ~.,ardigan, and some more at New -1 '4'411,0 JO, )1; km 'i,', 4,,,,i,?--Wind N.N.W.—ShI. Amelia, Qtaa;lldraght,-4,L; Britannia, N 1 , ate Vide,. ; Gus 110111 set, t ; Qaleu. 151 ' 4v M'iall • Rialto, New Orleans ; 1) t)t 'litt' it° ' ; Funchal, tniprra Leone ; Robert t 'st ‘ t( 4 ) l ' ' I AN s ' stli AIN L ' a3.1•--k The crew of the Nancy, frier,. 'll!ttltit'°eL .1 , ',live been discharged by mutual tt o 1 18 tqlNlVea,l..9 l likik,,, I . • ul.---Wind N.N.E. moderate.—Ar -1.,ina,44t esreon, China 3O. Sailed o 1'114444°4; Invoke, Sept - e . of Good liepe ; ~,t's,'f „lt_ bare ° ; avnalea, Bahi l l • Bri - on Africa ; );Ph ) ,14. N ell, and Suff(4k, NeW Orlean s • P0w (41,4t1/4/./titt:;3l43,..freostia' v.MlpWarinadissoor Castle, Mobile.' Off— lAils tha,s,'l\),,---Wind WArrd. Gi!mour, Dry.• ;,',,,k412,511ate11a7 trunswick. Ski. Ifogarth, New I'xid,,Z.sret, Neleswn, Trinidad • St. Vincent, Gre il,titti, 4 4 e tla, s t. Orleans ; james Deans, Sayan a, -New Brunswick Li 4414 \i‘l29--A.r4 Ot'TA 44 elf ' - AN. 23 I)€lglas, St Andri-w's. tithsl4 Le ask, ' --- - t .A.rrd. Voltint, Merchant, Icha -0 t,i'to 4, t4 tf, JAN. a'id°hn's, New Brunswick. big, has 4 ai,T, :-L-Arrd. Nautilus, lehaboe. a,l44‘,val,itbatid" _,Antl, Abbntt, from Shields to 4114-a. r o ta t) 'pe Ana °n ett in a sinking state 26th inst.; Qtettkat,(lritaihbGathrie, from Sligo to London, t , It .pntl it ~ '''''ads, leßky, and with cor sider -11347, ' °Al t i i Roads' must discharge to repair. \li lt :ti lt, ` Peeled Anti of Aberdeen, Lowe, ttZklittill-ts 26,-_,/,11 Yeat'ik,k, j..k",,else distaaestienddustr3', of Chepstow, has Ni;4l4,(4l,,er,"aai,°'---,The Wilmot Hamlin, of (hie ad d a , The -"ereed other da'mageatlchaboe k.khiak,. Dundee, Wilson, nearly loaded, also' 411 ( 91 / 4 4 ST Iv 4!tZ444,4 stiiillakim-'I3,JA SIIIPPING' 4t;St. 1 la 4Pt: 3 6, 4.',,` etivson, frora China, at Liver. itl•ki't 4 11t 'sett, „J" Oct. 29, St. Helena Dec. 18 ; li.l tikti,?lega be onl B engal, in the Down s , sailed 11kel'i off p c. 2; Louisa, Pullout fro m Van t, 1,01,.% R lio,.ortland, sailed from ,from IN; al l ° ''' nte. from Mauritius, iu the Downs, lli "e, at 4 4 't+ odd t. If r ' 44 Os I i,ttileil i. elen4--B1 1- 11)1i,,N pttl h e,, tb ..., e , .1 to----nneraazeiris ; Stc,ajtrionwA, bfir,oesm. I.4rti:,,k•:' 1 g'h,llitiNl..;_,Atlio3l from Bo mb , , . n ) ,, , . d m 1 4; q tottrA3rt:.acciortMstat'olf•iti',! •Gover)riC,r Halket aanci 1 , as, 01.11,_. rie a, ... , .tairica ; Apprentice, 12th, ' ,i,, t 1 4 1,: c1 Ba nes, „tuiln? sailed 14th to Barbadoes `tlti,l.ittitilic,olit, ors the allY Fevershain, I ;th, fr,, m j.l,t;t! 8 e to tly 4604 ' Delhi ° e aPe ; Courrier de Sr. 4.1)qe(141 fr o 'Poet • 'ft. 13t h , from Bombay, and ;„ la d .r o 1, aeodosia, 1711, fro m ( ~ f 1 40 1141.1m141 iiire,°4llnein ; auntless, fpm CatCal -4.,N0N444:.q°,;e, frolnit!‘'` r.fror'l lehabt>e ; r her Ma. Ni: 4 ;t vi 'l ‘ kt ' Ilrlet 1/11,;.;:inrii.; El iza!) , th Arab 1144441' 41turiti 8"r"n1 ---- ; Arab tta kid 43---Earl or t, kti Qrci Itobar, Lonsale, No v . 1 It t p, zet a . ~_ 4e, 2,1, both from I • II 11 1 f` k'nEtriegleddh, aeata , C . N .'p L ; 4 ro ta . 3d, from lada -41, 'NI t'tkitt, qstiriti o,4tli4lire l't t W•lk• 14--tady Emm N vq. . 0 .. 2,, oa r , , le , x o _ • a. OY. 3, to chlti,t? , t i to 4,,,,dn,„ ii .v s ,. ;%;. Ni;,,lmein. .t, %„4 tk,,;,,,-41,,,„t . . •--I /Ince Albert, 40114 ,-.„Ohalleng,,l, f T0.,,,1Ve,11 k.aristia, , roln the ciyaa 4 1 1 1 tle ta , '4, 'from Liverpool —all to it 'R t( 4tt by t• t1111(1 it IV Ili? het' t ith is her 14 ---------- 4 ~.kli ptea Ilertetroa jesty's intention to I,,Nti,"(letl, t aee, p n ces at the St. James's reviOns to the Court repair kN llii° ‘44(1 11 ., ,''' 441. anti - •Eit th ~ . 44114", 4 1 1 2rb , i 3; 4,44e41-deu.tenant Stewart who N• ' ' 13 ' ' l '4 4,1,,the 500 D e life of the marin e on 1V of i i : Copt Ur -Alston Stewart. r w ke the Dubois of 8 to 1 10 to 1 12 to 1 16 to 1 18 to 1 25 to 1 28 to 1 30 to 1 ~r,~ ~~ POLtTII` i IGEN CE BATH SPRING MEETING, 1845. Acceptances for the omarsetsuire B;ekes. tt. lb. •• 8 10 8 0 7 6 •• 7 4 •• 7 3 .. 7 2 .• 7 2 .. 7 0 .. 6 13 • 6 13 ,• 6 13 St. Lawrence, aged What, 5 yrs Captain Flathooker, 6 yrs Fausta, aged Pharaoh,l 5 yrs Barricade, 4 yrs Roderick, 6 yrs Young Lochinvar, 5 yrs Idleness, 4 yrs Jane, 4 yrs Yhoeman ac Knuck, 4 yrs Europa, 5 yrs Strathspey, 4 yrs Glendower, 5 yrs Pugilist, 4 yrs Yates, 4 yrs Seaweed, 4 yrs Agriculture, 5 yrs Cotner, 5 yrs Temerity, 5 yrs Sweetmeat, 3 yrs.... ........ ...... Eclogue, 4 yrs B g by Mazeppa, out of Busk, 4 yrs Bastion, 3 yrs .. Pug, 3 yrs Velox, 3 yrs.... Cabin Boy, 3 yrs Plenitude, 3 yrs Giantess, 3 yrs Worthless, 3 yrs 4 12 Wild Rose, 3 yrs 4 7 Sister to Devil-among-the-Tailors, 3 yrs 4 4 CHESTER, 1845. Acceptances fur the Chester Cup. st. lb. Alice Hawthorn, aged. lO 0 Faugh-a-ballagh, 4 yrs Corranna, 6 yrs 8 12 Aristides, 5 yrs Gorhambury, 5 yrs Zanoni, 5 yrs 8 12 The Era, 5 yrs 8 12 St. Lawrence, aged 8 9 Winesour, 5 yrs 8 6 Trueb. , y. 5 yrs The Cure, 4 yrs 8 4 Ratan, 4 yrs 8 4 Counsellor, 6 yrs 8 2 Mickey Free, 4 yrs 7 13 Sorella, 4 yrs 7 12 Peter the Hermit, 5 yrs Selniseria, 5 yrs 7 8 Extempore. 4 yrs A lamode, 4 yrs. Queen of Tyne, 6 yrs 7 5 Porto Bello, syr Beatric— 6 yrs 7 2 Defender. aged 7 0 Po ash, 5 yrs Yheouthn ac linuek, 4 yr, 7 0 Dr. i iii,baiei, 4 yrs 7 0 Ever on, 5 yrs 6 12 Portrait, ag , d C , Aaract, 5 yrs 6 10 The Prde of Kildare, 4 yrs I"Auld Squire, 4 yrs Veuiti, 4N rs 6 9 Little Hatupto., 4 yrs 6 9 Hrrnp, 4 yrs .. 6 9 Prince Royal, 4 yrs 6 9 The Dog Bitly. 4y rs 6 9 Milton, 4 yrs The Dean, aged Agriculture. 5 yrs Patriot, 4 yrs Intrepid, 4 yrs S, sport, 4 yrs Dr. Phillunore, 4 yrs, Strathspey, 4 yrs Little John, 4 yrs Blue Jacket, 4 yrs Obscurity, 4 yrs 5 12 Celeste, 4 yrs Susan, 4 yrs . Ambition, 4 yrs April N. .ddy, 4 yrs British Tar, 4 yrs The Hermit, 3 yrs Fitzallen, 3 vrs 5 0 Young England, 3 yrs Marro%mat, 3 yrs Devil's Dust. 3 yrs Rt.bin Burns, 3 yrs 5 0 Blunderbuss, 3 yrs 5 0 Cabin Boy, 3 yrs Ould Ireland, 3 yrs 505 0 Bastion, 3 yrs Mystery, 3 yrs Br f by Master of the R o ll s, 3 yrs Pug, 3 yrs 8 Sister t, Devil-among-the-Tail o r s , 3 yrs 4 4 7 Extravaganza, 3 yrs ~ .. BETTING AT MANC CIIEST7 agst Kent's lot agst Mr. Irwin's lot agst Semiseria agst Obscurity (t) agst Cataract agst Celeste agst ZaLoni agst Winesour . 6 10 . 6 10 . 6 8 . 6 7 . 6 6 . 6 5 . 6 4 6 3 5 13 5 13 5 7 5 6 5 5 5 4 5 4 6 to 1 agst Scott's lot 12 to 1 agst Ahrm 13 to, 1 agst Cobwc.h colt 15 th 1 agst. Kedger (takpr. to 251.) 16 to 1 agst Idas 18 to 1 agst Pam 25 to 1 agst Atoimidate 30 to 1 agst Newsmout:er HESTER—FRIDAY. R CUP. 30 to I agst The Era (t) 30 to I agst Ratan 35 to 1 ay.st St. Lawrence 40 to 1 agst Pug '4O to I agst The. Extempore (t) 40 to I agst Hemp 30 to 1 agst Mentor 33 to 1 ' , list Miss Whip colt 33 to 1 agst Old England 33 to I agst Weatherbit 40 to 1 agst Laird o'Cockpen '4O to 1 agst Frederica colt 5o to 1 agst Connaught Ranger COURSI NG. CARDINGToN CHAMPION MEETING, JAN. 28. 29. 30, AND 31.-- che Cup (26 puppies) was won by Mr. A. Agitation ; Mr Sabertoit's V«Tottica ran up. Southil; Cop, r.,r 26 a!1-ngtd dogs, was won by Capt. ; hi, 11,phazard (named by Mr. on) r-.r up FLE!..TWO..II MEETING. --Th , Fl.-1 , 0 , a0rl Cup (8 dogs) wOli by Mr. Vail.: Ht's F. i k ; tle! itt , s , tall Puppy Cur, (8 dogs) t.y Mr. WiLiams's Nettle ; Th, Wyre Puppy S:ake, by Mr. Nrubiett's : the Railway ''takes bv Ntr. art ; th•-• etmsolation Stakes 3; Mr Ec1•04.,,d,,,0', ; ~n.i er , m Popp Cup by Mr. N.e.1.-.0; ESTWARD (WIGTON) AIEETINC.—The Wy:11!ISM Cup (16 pubs. of 3 ~, u ;nca, wa won by - Mr. Rit sou's Garet ; . r. Jt.fferion's Juliet ran lip .4)(1 re ce:red 8/. DRURY-LINE THEATRE.—The entire resources o. his establishment will be employed in the production of he grand ball. t of Les DaHuides, which 7s to be pre dueed here to-merr ev, ning. Madetneiselle Maria, fnen the Academie Royale, is quite new to our stnee, but she brings a high reputation with her, both as a tr ime and danseuse. The 50 sons of Egyptus, and the 50 daughters of Danau (100 dancers in all) give pro mise of a , . unheard of corps (le hall. t In The Sun of Thursday last, appeared exclusively the particulars of the abduction of a young lady, re siding at Cambere ell green with her mether, who is the widow of an officer in the army. Since the application was made at. Lambeth Police -court, she has been restored to her friends and home, by the instrumentality of her brother, who has been night and day in search of her, and yesterday he was fortunate enough to discover her retreat. The young lady wag le waning at. the end et a street, where tee per_ , pan who took her from home was to have met her. The brother, who was accompanied by a friend in hot pursuit, caught a glimpse of his sister, who was, at the first instance, unwilling to return home, her se ducer having bound her with the most solemn oaths to secrecy, and to go with him to the " world's end." The lady was, however, forced ir to a cab, which was driven off at full speed to her mother's residence, after which the brother returned, accompanied by a friend. to the place where he discovered his sister waiting, but the enamoured gentleman did not make his appearance. It appears that the present is the third lady he has seduced from her horn. in the short space of nine months. The lady obstinately rt fuses to inform her friends whether the elopement was effected by force or stratagem, or whether it was with her own consent. ; all she states is, that she is bound to secrecy, and will tell nothing. REPRESENTATION OF LINCOLN.--A number of Liberal citizens waited upon Mr. Seeley last Friday even ing, to pros , nt a requisition signed by 525 electors, in viting Mr. Seeley to become a candidate for the repre sentation of the city at the next election, and the invi- en( tation has been accepted.—Lincoln Mercuty HER MAJESTY'S STEAM-FRIGATE TERRIBLE.— - The preparations fur the launch of this magnificent j vessel are nearly completed. O n Th urs d a y, at Deptferd dockyard, the shipwrights commenced painting her bows, and seats are being erected for the accommoda tion of spectaters. In consequence of some little delay which has occurred in the Woolwich 3 and in the prepa ration of the timber for the builders, it was found that the work could nor. be completed by the 23d of the pre sent month, the time origi ally fixed fir the launch. Now, however, it is definitely settled that the event will take place or the 6th of February (Thursday next). During the ia't few dare the vessel has b; en inspected by Sir Charles Napiee, Sir Wiliam Gage, Lord Hustings, ("amain Austen, and several others ilistinguished in the nautical world, all of whom have express- d their appro bation of the mariner in which the whole of the works have been ex.-cut-A. The vessel has now a most miyen , fieent apeeeranee, end it is perfectly sin-- prisine bow so gigantic a work could have la. , en e , impleted in so short a tie,e, it being sixteen mouths only since the first ',leek.: were laid. After thelauueb the Terrible will he towed to Wo thvich Dockyard. whore her engines will be fitted he cost of which will be 22,000/., there being twe of them now completed for that. purpose of 4 00-horse power earn. It is not yet officially known who will stir:,t , .l) this leveithen f the deep. bat the reporter was On Thursday informed, upon excellent authority, a l it it i s not at tell improbable that either tier Majesty the Queen, or her illustrious consort Prince Albert, may condescend to give the name to the vessel. Orders have been re ceived that immediately after the launch preparations shall be made for building another steam frigate, of 1,840 tons burden, to he built upon the same princip)e as that magnificent vessel, to be called the Odin. The im provements now in progress in this once desolate but now flourishing yard will cost the Government nearly 70,000/. The Spitfire is nearly ready for going off the stocks ; and the Havannzh, which has been lying in or dinary in the Medway for some time, lies off the dock yard for the purpose di - being cut down, and afterwards sent to sea as a corvette. THE 8 • LONDON, MON MORNING, RY I FF-Rfiii A • BRIG H TON AND CHICHESTER RAIL WAY. A special general meeting of the Shareholders in the above railway was held on Saturday, in the great room above the terminus at London bridge, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Dir. ctors relative to the works in progress on the extension line to Portsmouth. Cane Kelly, R.N., Chairman of the Board of Directors, presided. The SECRETARY having read the report, which ex pressed the regret fi It by the Directors at the non-pro gress of the works, but ascribed the delay to circum stances over which they had no control, The CHAIRMAN rose to address the meeting. He had to express, on behalf of himself and colleagues, their dis appointment at not being is a condition to submit a more pleasing account of the progress of the works upon the line, but they must all have seen the extra ordinary convulsions in the railevey world, the number of new companies formed for carrying out schemes of the most extended character, and the consequent de mand for engineers to prepare plans and specifications. Every engineer was engaged, and among the number was Mr. Rastrick, whose services were of necessity and entirely taken away from that Company. But still they had not been altogether idle, for on the 30th of November, having lodged their plans, they then de voted their whole attention to preparing specifications to enable them to call for tenders to complete the works. On the 16th of December they were fully prepared with these, and on that day advertisements were inserted in the newspapers. On the last day of the year the tenders were opened by the Directors, and he had the great satisfaction of informing the shareholders that two of them were accepted, with most respectable contractors, at sums much below the Parliamentary esti mate. Those contracts were for work on the permanent way. The Directors considered it more advantageous to separate the stations and other works for another con tract. The engineer was then engaged in preparing spe cifications for these buildings, and, when ready, contracts would be entered into for them. As stated in the report, their time was not altogether lost. Their solicitors had devoted themselves to the duties which more particularly belong to their department, by placing themselves in communication with the proprietors of land on the line, and thus they were in advance of the contractors, by getting possession of such parts of the line as was re quired. Negotiations were then going on, so that the Directors hoped that as the works advanced land would be prepared for thorn. He (the Chairman) was not aware that he need remark upon anything else. He was, how ever, perfectly ready to answer such questions as gentle men present might choose to ask. He begged to move the adoption of the report. The motion was seconded by a Proprietor. Mr. D. W. HARVEY considered it not the least ad vantage of these occasional meetings, that Proprietors had thus an opportunity of expressing any opinion they might entertain of the course adopted by the manae-e went, and by their observations, perhaps, assist in pro >noting the common benefit. That was a meeting, of such a character, and although the Chairman could not congratulate them on the progress made on the line from Shoreham to Chichester, where the Board of Trade had willed it to stop, yet he (Mr. Harvey) begged to con gratulate the Directors on the nice position they had held during the last six months —(hear. and laughter%) The capital orginally proposed was 300,000/ ; hut they were now told that this calculation was likely to be di minished by the advantageous tenders made by the contractors. Their capital was a small one when con sidered in reference te railway extensions ; hut still the shareholders in little concerns were not always satisfied with little dividends.—(Laughter.) He was always one of those who spoke their mind • openly, and it did appear to him that a Board of eight Directors, with a salary of 1,000/ a year, was too large for so trifling a Company as their own ; and as he understood that the line was to be connected with the Brighten Company. he did not see why their affairs should not be placed under that Board. Tney had a directory suffieiently numerous, anti this would ed.l but little to their labours. One thousand a year appeared to him an enormous sum for attending to a little affair of that kind—especially when the union would be a step in advance towards a common object. He should like to know whether it had ever engaged the attention of the Directors that the decision of the Board of Trade was final. He knew no reason why it should be challenged, for they could not move across the floor of the House of Ceonnons under a cost of 12.0001. He did not see, therefore, why they should attempt to fight against that decision. There was no more reason why they should h ave a cos tly B oar d o f Di rectors, w i th all the costly paraphanalia, than that Shoreham should also have one. It was a general principle—and he contended it was a good one—that where the business of two or three could be brought under one control—the smaller the better—because the larger the number of Directors the less the individual responsibility ; but if they gave their money to two or three men, they secured attention, there being no tie so strong as that of self-interest. It might be desirable to confer with the Board of the Brighton Directors to ascertain how far the suggestion would meet their views. Should this union take place, then the capital necessary for completing the Chichester line might be raised by the Brighton Directors. Another thing surprised him. They had given notice for this session of a line from Chichester to Portsmouth. That egg was, however, addled, for the Board of Trade had sat on it, and it would now produce no chickens.— (Laughter.) Now it occurred to him that it would have been wisdom if they had thous - ht of this before, and when (during last session) they got the Bill to construct the line from Shoreham to Chichester, they ought to have at once secured powers to extend it on to Ports mouth. The Chairman had told them that the railway world had been in a state of commotion, and that their engineer had so much work to divert him from the business of that Company, that the progress of their works had necessarily been delayed. (Hear. hear.) The Directors ought to have tested that, and if they found that gentleman really so absorbed in business, it would he no matter of delicacy to congratu late him upon it, but at the same time to insist that their works should not be delayed, and unless he could give his attention to them, they must find some one who could. He threw out, these remarks without any intention of giving. umbrage to the Directors, or to any one, but he thought that, by the arrangement he had suggested, 1.0001. would be well saved to the Chichester share holders in the meantime, and ulterior advantages also be derived by them. Mr. GREF.NFELL objected altogether to the snggestion. The Brig ., ton Directors had already sacrificed the inte rests of that Company, and he would not like again to trust them. After n tew words from Mr. SCOTT, Mr BRUCE expressed a hone that some arrangement would be mAe with the Brighton Company, for he s.ilch a consolidation of interests would be most beneficial to both Companies. He would, therefore, move that it ;4! recommended to the consideratioti of the Directors, whether it svnuld nov. be beneficial to both C anpanies that a proposal of amalpamltion shoul ! b e male to the Brighton Comnlny. Mr. ,TowLEn see , ,nded the amendment. Mr. RASTRICR (the engineer) said that some obierva Lions had been made te•specting the delay in the progress of the w,rks. Some mitmpprehension appeared to exist as to he cause of that delay, from the wording. of the re port. In the first place, it was well known that the, whole. of the line from Shoreham to Chichester was very liftleult of construction, and necessarily caused a delay in the preparing of - plans and specifications. Further delay had been caus.-d by disputes between the proprietors of land upon the line and the Directors of the Company. Those disputes had now been removed, and he (Sir. Rastrick) had no hesitation in promising that the whole line would be finished in nine months.— (Hear, hear.) He had the more confidence in making this promise, that the sanction of the Board of Admi ralty had been given to the passage of the Arun, and therefore the last obstacle was overcome to the further progress {4" the wotks. Mr. llA.avEir suggested that the proposed amendment should bt. made a substantive resolution, and that the meeting should afterwards adjourn to that day fortnight, to receive the result of the conference with the Board of Directori of the Brighton Company. Mr. FAITHFUL, solicitor, said it would be necessary that the Directors should first be re-elected, as their term of office expired on that day. The Act of Parliament rendered such a proceeding imperative. The Directors were then re-elected, and the resolu tion, as altered, put to the meeting and carried. The meeting then adjourned till the 15th current. H 45, sitsu is made for the full acc , l , rnmodation of the passengers. The ladies have two sitting rooms, separate from the main rootn— a va , t saloon, in which 300 persons can dine. The ladies' berths, too, are so situated as to give thera the utmost light and sir. Tlit , r is a promenade deck ittonediatel: over the dining-room, and sheltered by the upper deck from the air. In fact, there is all that can he required by the most fastidious voyager, except that there is a total absence of that costly and luxurious ornament to which the public are now accus torned in large steamers. Visitors to the ship shruld not omit seeing the engine room, containing all of the machinery that is not boxed in and hidden —the life and moving - principle of this marine giantess. The engine is of stupendous magni tude; the great wheel (which works a smaller wheel that turns the screw) spans nearly the whole breadth of the vessel ; and there is stowage for 2,000 tons of coal. Lastly, though rot least in importance, people must be prepared with their 3s. 6d. if they wish to see the inte rior of the ship ; but its magnitude may be quite as well judged of by going round it in a boat.— Tines. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following arc the Total Receipts of Rail• ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year:— NAME OF RAILWAY. Last week. , z m+... O 1,4 4";% Pbc — Q. 9 25 Arbroath and Forfar .• • 24 Itirmitighain and Gloucester •• • • • Brandling .unction .• • ••• • • • •• • • 25 Bristol and Gloucester . • . • • 24 Chester and Birkenhead .• • ••• . 23 Dublin and Dr0gheda........... 28 Dublin and Kingstown •• •••• • • •• • 26 Dundee and Arbroath .• • •• •• •• . 25 Durham and Sunderland . 25 Edinburgh and Giasgow ...... . 26 Eastern Counties and North Eastern• 25 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 25 Glasgow and Green0ck......... 25 Grand Junction .. • • . 25 Great North of England . 26 Great Western .•• •• •• •• ....... 24 Liverpool and Manchester • 25 London and Birmingham . •••• •• •c 26 London and Blackwall— • London and Brighton. • 2i London and Croydon .......... . 30 London and Greenwich . 26 London and south Western ... . '46 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 24 Manchester and Birmingham 2a Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc -25 Midland Counties. .. 25 Newcastle and Darlington 25 Newcastle and Carlisle. • . 26 Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........ 24 North Union and Bolton and Preston 27 Paris, Corbeil, and 0r1ean5.......... 27 Paris and Rouen . ........ • _.. • 2 1 Preston and Wyre 25 Sheffield and Manchester...—. 30 South Eastern. •• • 25 Taff Vale • •• ..... . 25 Ulster . • •• • ••• 25 Yarmouth and _Norwich 25 York and North Midland •• •• 201 2,054 BRISTOL SUGAR- MARKET, JAN. 31.—We have no improvt.ment to notice in our sugar market, which still continues dull. The sales in West India, since our last, amount to about 230 hhds., and which are for immediate use ; grocery descriptions are rather more in request, butt the supply is indifferee. In Bengals and Mauritios there is heating uuiog, liat this chiefly arises from the wait of kt proper assortment.—Bristol Mercury. 177 2,028 1,017 421 513 672 651 1,933 3,945 1,366 713 7,481 1,591 13,945 4,713 14,484 137 1,651 694 343 635 189 551 1,786 3,485 1,134 663 6,914 1,234 11,698 4,005 13,663 597 2,794 661 4,403 713 2,801 5,199 7,450 358 1,390 3,66 4,213 613 3,35 tiSS LITERATURE. THE MEDICAL Al?(; US. AND ADVOCATE OF TTIb G FN,!:I?AL PRACTITIONER OF EDICINE, S URGE RY, AND MIDWIFERY. No. I. This is the first Number of a new weekly medical periodical, which has been started for the purpose o upholding the cause of the general practi tioner, and of promoting union among the whole me dical body, so as to procure for the profession gene rally a high©r status than it has hitherto enjoyed in society. These are most praiseworthy ob jects, and we sincerely hope that the projectors of the " Medical Argus" may succeed in their efforts to obtain them. The present Number, in addition to a leading article and an address, contains copious ex tracts from the contemporaneous medical press, and also lectures, reports of cases from British and fo reign hospitals, and a great quantity of information of a scientific character. It is printed in a clear type, on excellent paper, and its appearance is much in its favour. THE SCATTERGOOD FAMILY. 3 Vols. Bentley, London, 1845. As this tale, which is here republished in three volumes, has already appeared in successive numbers of Bentley's Miscellany, we need say nothing more on the present occasion, than that it is not undeserv ing the honour of republication. The newspaper reports respecting the state of Sir ay, s mmtals W h, ttl enFreaoi: enjoyment ozpaE l eytw l i ws e tmeeoel t ssurtfvLere' until nleno s Lnaatrffitlpit: h lcai epeoletlrtyetyifahT, they v l_ aaceg t tht h D:ooe Le( orwci a sisefsan r aet aorn e ihirmotooedetie v nuancouL e erlesurAtt r iei nhbhyvT( doubt flattering. with.—Western hbv a sNoictoeeu t t hr. t uhhiuc e oyrhir r r—oo i pilnnnnievm:gsz excellent flattering rtiesetvhslet ai W ilnreeet iworinnn e vnwttghe ,a r naGat e ngicha g :dneaed, r eoir, eienstransni gal lantlttinssor e Chronicle. believe it was never before cur hap to record, in three consecutive publications, instances of illicit distillation occurring in the North. Such appeared in our paper of last, and also of the preceding week ; and a fresh instance has just been brought under our notice. Until now we fancied that smuggling was almost entirely put down by the strong arm of the Excise. It appears, however, that there are still parties who roam about among the rocks, "where the snow-flake reposes," making a livelihood by defrauding the revenue and evading the law. Glenlivat was, at no very distant period, one of the strongholds of smugglers. On Thursday, 16th instant, Mr. Bain, Excise officer at Grantown, the officer at Tomintoul, and a party of three cuttermen, whilst going their rounds through this secluded glen, came upon a large still in full operation. The delinquents got off with the still before the arrival of the party, who, upon entering the boothy, found that it contained the enormous quantity of 475 gallons of wash, and 51 gal lons of low wines, also 8 bushels of ground malt, a large copper kettle 4 large tuns, a mash tun, 8 casks and 4 tuba—making 18 utensils in all. The whole were de. stroyed by the effieers and their party. The country people were collecting in scores, armed with stows and bludgeetis, bet luckily before they arrived Mr. Bain and the p:lrty had finish,al the work or destruction. and were at a sate distaece. This ftetive officer has been survey ing the dist ict o' Glenlirst for upwards of 17 years, and this is the most extensive illicit. distilletion which he has diseov,red during that per od.—/nreriie ss COU, ier. INTERESTING '•;ALI'I OF AUTOGRAPHS.—Yesterday at one o'clock, a sale by autism of a large collection of autograph i-ttera and historical documents, the property of a well-known collec , or, took place at Mr. Fletcher's Room. 191. Piccadilly There were 275 lots. consisting of a complete series of autographs (excepting the ante graph of Geo. I.), and including some fine specimens, of the kings and queens of Great Britain from Remy VIII. to Geo IV., various foreign sovereigns, noblemen, states men, naval and military commanders, literary characters, poets and dramatists, scientific men, artists, &c. Two letters in the handwriting or Mrs. Jordan sold for 7s. Of statesmen, a letter of Charles James Fox sold for Bs., and one of George Canning for the same sum. A letter of W. Pitt, as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, dated Walmer Castle, May 13,1803. sold for 15s. Lot 100, a letter of the celebrated G. Washington, dated Fairfax, count% of Virginia, June 24, 1771, brought the large sum of 21. ss. Lot 101, a frank of Lord Byron, 6th of November, 1813, very fine, sold for 11. 2s. Lot 109, autograph letter of Dr. Benjamin Franklin to D. Hartley, sold for 11. 13s. An autograph letter of Shenstone (W.) the poet, to the Hon. Mrs. Knight. sold for 135., and an unpublished poem of Robert Bloomfield, in his autograph, sold for 1/. Is. The autograph of Henry VII. fetched 175.; Henry VIII., 195.; " Marye the Queene,"ll. 25.; James 1., 11. Is.; Charles Prince of Wales, 135.; a b eau tif u l letter of Charles I. to Viscount Falkland sold for 11. 25.; the autographs of Charles 11. brought small sums James IL's letter to Dr. Zouch sold f or 145.; the auto graphs of William 111., Mary, Anne, George IL, George 111., and George IV., brought sums of from ss. to 14S. each. Lot 154, ten original state letters, addressed to William 111., from Christian VIII., King of Den mark, the Emperor Leopold, the Dukes of Saxe Gotha, and various other German potentates, sold for 21. 12s. 6d. Lot 164, authograph letter of the Princess Charlotte, sold for 11. Bs. The next lot, " A leaf from the same lamented Princess's copy-book, the text, ' Fame Animates,' " sold for a 1 s. Lot 174, a beautiful auto graph letter of Margaret of Austria to the Queen of France, date 1610, sold for 21. 2s. Lot 224, Casti No velle Galanti, an unpublished translation of five tales into English verse, by Lord Byron, partly in the auto graph of Percy Byshe Shelley, by whom it has been prepared for publication, sold for six guineas. The next lot consisted of a folio manuscript of 358 pages, every page containing an autograph of Sir Walter Scott ; this sold for the small sum of 2/. 10s., whilst, earlier in the sale, one autograph of the same individual brought Bs. The sale excited considerabl e interest, the principal pur chasers being Messrs. Thorpe, Simpson, Upcott, Boone, Rutherford, &c. THE STATE OF THE STREETS.—There is still the same complaint to be made respecting the disgusting condition of the foot -pavements in damp or rainy weather. They are far worse after a fall of snow, such as took place on Thursday night or Friday morning, as the house and shop-keepers almost in all cases neglect to clean away the filth that is accumulated on the flags by a partial thaw and the successive tramping of hundreds of pede.tria.ns. But we wish to point out another nuisance requiring instant abatement. After a fall of snow, and whilst it. is still freezing, it is the custom of a great number of slovenly shop-keeper s to attempt to dissolve the frozen snow by an ..pplieation of salt ! The inevi table result is, that whilst a portion of the snow is melted, the remainder is converted into slosh, and the surface of the stone pavement rendered besides miserably wet and cold to the feet. This dirty practice is greatly destruc tive not only of the comifert, but of the health, of pedes trians, and it is strongly to be desired that steps should be taken taiPel those who m t h e l aw requ i res so to do, to com pel footways in front of their premises in a proper, efficacious, and effectual manner. As things are allowed to remain, the poor peleatrian must perforr.e trudge through all the filth, mire, slosh, and diluted mud which the housekeepers may choose to prepare for him. Why should the clause in the New Police Act (so often and repeatedly quoted in this journal) be suffered by the magistrates to remain a dead letter ? The auisance is positively unbearable, and must be " put down." What is Sir Peter Laurie about?—Timee MRS. CANDLER'S MURDER.--For several days, or perhapi a fortnight, great exertions have been made to find a little girl of the name of Mellish, who was said to have told a woman in Yarmouth that she was going past Mrs. Candler's house at the time of the murder, and that hearing a voice inside, she went and peeped through the keyhole of the door, where she could clearly see what was done inside, and that she saw Royal and Mapes there. The keyhole has been carefully tried by the magistrates, and it was found, that from the keyhole might clearly be seen what was done inside in the direction of the murdered wo man ; but Mellish, who was only eleven or twelve years of age, could nowhere be found. Her father, it seems, is an unbrella mender, and travels the country for this purpose, commonly bivouacking with the cadgers. The girl when in Norwich, called at the station-house, and, telling a tale of great distress, obtained some temporary relief, and though every lodging-house in the city, and many in the county, have since been visited, and rewards offered to produce her, she could not be found till Friday last, when she was seen in Norwich Market-place on the walk. She was at once taken to the station-- house, and has evidently had much experience in d t ofat Etaples, ceso:na the slang of the begging fraternity. Without being asked any questions as to the particular business that she Was wanted for, she was taken off to Yarmouth by Capt. Love, the superintendent of the Yarmouth police, who has for the last fortnight come to Norwich nearly every n Wednesday morning a day, and sometimes twice a day, hoping that she might Boulogne teen an East India be found. We know nothing cbl : e f .en th w e r r e e c s k u e l Boulogne and Montreuil, wL t oa s o n G report ußne ua .N c —E ir 'N cu j° l rf a k t N e l d .4 smallman hfiosmhienwgartodwbnoubndet,ween which had a melancholy interest attached to it not long since by the wrecks of those ill-fated vessels the Conque ror and the Reliance. On inquiries being instituted, the report was found to be too true, and it was said that 29. —On owing to the high sea, and the inaccessible nature of the coast, the whole of the crew had met a watery grave. Immediately on the report being authenticated, Mr. Hamilton, her Majesty's Consul, and Commander Ha milton, his son, proceeded to the spot to afford all the assistance in their power—though it is feared that, on account of the violence of the storm, and the total wreck which the vessel presents, all their efforts will prove unavailing, and but little of the property be saved. The name of the vessel is unknown, as her stern was dashed to pieces by the fury of the waves. Her loss is attributed to her having missed stays. She was being driven on a lee shore, and when she attempted to tack, her rudder proved totally useless ; in a short time she struck on a ridge of rocks, and although the inhabitants of Etaples used the utmost exertions to save the crew, no boat could reach them, and they perished miserably, within hearing from th e co ast, end after hi v i ng passed thousands of miles to arrive at their country which they were destined never snore to see. It is the universal belief of sailors that if she had been able to get her head round she would have weathered out the storm in safety. The galliot Phoenix, of Malines, Captain G. Kuiper, arrived here on Wednesday, with stem and bows stove in, bowsprit broken, and much other damage, having, on her voyage from Lirerpool to Antwerp, been in con tact with a large barque, name unknown, off Dungeness, early the same morning. Also arrived on Wednesday, the schooner Fanny, of Jersey, Captain Thomas Amy, from Demerara for London, laden with rum, having lost anchor. part of chain, several sails, eith datnav ie hull and rigging, in the gale on Sunday last —Dover Chronicle. A CHANCE FOR BRISTOL. The Great Britain has, according to the various accounts of those who went in her from Bristol to London, made a most successful experiinenral trip, under circumstances well qualified to test her capabi lities. True, she had only ballast on board, and was, consequently, light and buoyant as a duck; bat she steered admirably, and so conducted herself through out a bt , isterous passage, as to leave the impression that, under any circumstances, she will be able gal lantly to face foul weather. The fair presumption is, that she is a capital sea-boat. Now, Government wants good sea-boats, and builds very bad ones. With Government steamers, failure appears to be the rule—success the exception. Bristol builds good steamers—witness the Great Western and Great Britain. The fair inference is, that Government cannot do better than give Bristol an order. A writer in a morning paper, evidently conversant with the subject, shows that in almost every instance Government steamers have turned out, on trial, lamentable blunders. The Gorgon, on her first trip, swam so much by the stern, that, in her passage from Sheerness to Longreach, " the lower ports on the main-deck had to be caulked in ; and, notwithstand ing this, the officers' cabins were filled with water." She would only go eight miles an hour, and her bisilders were compelled to " caulk in the ports fitted for guns." To make up for the Gorgon being so much by the stern, the Victoria and Albert swam so much by the head that 200 tons of lead ballast had to be placed aft to keep her on an even keel; and she steered badly. The Firebrand, in her experimental cruise, " rolled and jerked about to that degree in a sea-way, that it was impossible to cast the guns loose for prac tice." The Cyclops, the Retribution, and other vessels, were equally failures. The Examiner, in reference to these official " mistakes," observes— If you happen to fall in with a steamer at sea, mak ing bad way and bad weather, you may be sure that she is a man-of-war. Slowness, awkwardness, and uneasi ness, are the certain characteristics of the man-of-war steamer. The common trading packets beat them wherever they happen to try their speed with them. It is curious, indeed, that the managers of these things in the navy have so contrived matters as never yet to have produced a tolerably good man-of-war steamer. The unifoi mitt' of the failure is quite extraordinary. In so many experiments it is singular that there has been no solitary deviation into success. The surveyor, however, takes his measures so as to guard against any such irre gularity, and no one of his steamers shames the others. When they are put to shame, it is by packets with cargoes of pigs, oxen, and the like." It is not a little strange that England, so long the first naval power in the world, should, notwithstand ing her great experience, have failed so often and so signally in the construction of her war vessels. Is it not lamentable that the service should have been crowded with "Forty Thieves"—" Donkey Frigates," that could " neither fight nor run"—and gun-brigs, facetiously known as " Coffins," in consequence of the " alacrity in sinking" for which these vessels were distinguished? It is notorious, too, that in the last war many of the best ships in the British navy were those taken from the French. We won our naval battles, not because we had better ships, hut because our sailors and officers knew better than French officers how to handle th , .m, and becauAe our soamen were better than those of our neighbour. So well known were the superior sailing qualities of the French vessels, that it used to be a stupid boast that British ships were built to fight—French ones to run away. But, as it is well known that the superior sailing qualities of a ship frequently give her crew immense advantages in taking up a position, it is clear that in this respect, as in many others, we won our battles against olds. We mention these circumstances, because what was true of Government-built ships at that time is true of Government-built steamers in the present day; and the frequency of failure then, as now, leads to the presumption that there must be something amiss in the Government system—inefficiency, favouritism, wrong-headedness, or want of science. Now, con sidering the immense importance of the naval service in upholding the honour, interests, and reputation of this country, and considering the increasing import ance of steam-frigates as a branch of that naval ser vice, the repeated failures in the building of efficient Government vessels are worse than disgraceful —are positively dangerous. If better vessels, out of all sight, can be built by private companies than at the Government dockyards, then the Government owes it to the nation to give orders to private companies for the construction of national vessels. Government has had its agents on board, scrutinis ing the qualities of the Great Britain. Should they report favourably, a great step will have been gained. The vessel will, no doubt, have first to go through the ordeal of an Atlantic voyage ; but should she prove successful, then we think there is a fair and reason able chance, on applications being mad e i n th e proper quarters, that this city may obtain orders for the con struction of one or more Government vessels. No other place, perhaps, could be selected pos sessing equal advantages. The dock where the Great Britain was built, and the immense machinery em ployed in her construction, being already at hand ; whilst the vicinity of Bristol to the iron of Wales gives her great facilities in cheaply procuring that material. The Great Britain, though possibly a failure in a commercial point of view, may be looked upon as a great experiment in naval science, which may yet have a national influence. Should she succeed, and should Government wish for vessels like her, surely Bristol possesses claims superior to any other city to be favoured with their construction. It is to be hoped that this subject will not be lost sight of by those who have most interest in looking after the matter. —Bristol Mercury. THE GREAT BRITAINSTEAM SHIP. This interesting monster, whose reluctance to quit ,he dock at Bristol gave rise to so much fun, and at the same time to so much solid trouble, is at length quietly moored in the Thames —after her trip from Bristol, re corded in our paper a few days back, in which she silenced, by anticipation, many of those objections to her sailing and seaworthy qualities which are so ready to start up in the minds of the nautically-wise, and of that still larger class —the prophets of evil. She is moored otf Blackwell, close to the terminus of the railway, and nearly oppo-ite the ship-building yard of Mr. Greene, where her solid mass of dark bulk—.its giganticp ro p or . tions scarcely relieved by the six bare poles that stretch (with the name of masts) from bows to stern —appears to monopolise the Pool. The vessel is evident an ob ject of unusual interest. Crowds of persons are to be seen on the pier, from the steem -Wet station up to Love grove's Tavern, staring with all their eyes at the gloomy-looking leviathan in the distance. Others, more adventurous, put off in the boats that poke their prows into each other around the stairs, re gularly marshalled, and " taking their turns " of the passengers, to row visitors round the ship or put them on board. Hawkers of prints, too, find it worth their while to parade up and down the pier in the cold and fog, selling for ld. a very fair engraving of the vessel, with a full, true, and particular account of all her proportions and wonderful exaggerations. We are not surprised that the Great Britain should excite this curiosity, or that such numbers should crowd to see what so many believe is to be at once the alpha and omega of monster-ships. The old waterman who took us on board observed on returning, with an awfully pro phetic shake of the head, " Glad you've seed the wessel, Sir ; don't think she'll ever be seed or heerd of agin ! The sea's trouble enough wi' whales, and don't want to be bothered wi' no more sich big barges as that !" Now, a great number of persons go to see the ship with fore bodings very similar to those of the exasperated old tar ; but most of them must come away with different im pressions. Nautical men of course base their opi nions upon certain calculations ; and to them the breadth of the Great Britain (50 feet 6 inches) appears too little for her length, which is 322 feet. The unscien tific spectator, on approaching her side, is certainly struck with the remarkable length from stem to stern ; and, looking at her under the bows, the breadth does seem utterly inadequate. But this is a question which the different schools of shipbuilders will settle, pro or con., to their own satisfaction beforehand, and which will be disposed of more, we trust, to the satisfaction of the public after a few successful voyages across the At lantic. Those who may take advantage of the facility of the railway to take a trip to Blackwell, in the expecta tion of finding anything beautiful about the Great Bri tain, will be mistaken. If their imaginations have figured one cluster amidst the forest of masts and spars, towering high above the rest, its crowded canvas taper ing in light and elegant diminution to the topmost spire, and swaying the " tall ship gracefully," they will be not a little disappointed to see only a long, monotonous, dark, half-painted, dingy, coppery hulk, not moulded into shape like a good sailing boat, and yet without the abrupt bulge which the paddle-boxes cause in ordinary steam boats, and which, if unshapely, at least speak of hard work. If you look above the hulk for your beautiful three masts with the graduated outline of their spars and rigging, you are not a little annoyed at seeing six naked poles, running like a row of posts from stem to stern, and suggesting, in spite of the vastness of the surface they cover, the idea of a laundress's yard prepared with props and lines for hanging out the clothes. When the ship is under full press of sail, the inelegance is none the less ; because the masts are not hi g h enough to re lieve the heaviness of the long bulky mass that forms the ship. But, this first disappointment got over, there is every thing to admire in this extraordinary effort of human determination. The Great Britain has evidently been built not for ornament, but for use. She might easily have been made more graceful, and perhaps without any saciifise of power or safety. Her claim to admiration consists in her plainness and simplicity, the r-stness of her proportions, the rigid utilitarianism with which not one inch of space is thrown away. There is an ap• pearance of iron-bound strength which inspires confi dence. The interior is fitted pon the same principle. There is nothing gay or gaudy ; on . the contrary, it there be a fault in the arrangements, it is perhaps that they are too plain, hard, and cold (so to speak) for comfort and ease. For this reason the accommodation for fore cabin passengers is nearly as good as that in the chief cabin. It would have been next to impasiible to render them more plain. On the other hand, though or every provi moat hes been used perhaps too sparingly, THE WEATHER —THE TEM PERATURE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) Since our last the weather has continued to increase in severity, there being heavy falls of snow during Tuesday night and Wednesday night, or rather Thursday morning. The frost during Thursday night was intense, and the temperature lower than we have experienced in Manchester for a great num ber of years past. In the cold frosty weather of De cember last the temperature fell from 31 deg. on the 3d, to 20 deg. on the 6th; and during the night of Saturday, the 7th, or rather at an early hour of Sun day, the Bth, it reached its lowest point, 19 deg. But the temperature during the last few days has declined much more rapidly, and to a much lower point. On Monday the lowest point was 33 deg.; on Tuesday, 26 deg.; on Wednesday, 23 deg.; on Thursday evening, 13 deg. ; and yesterday morning the mercury was as low as eight degrees of Fahrenheit, or 24 deg. below the freezing point. As this temperature is ) Re unusually low, as oc curring in this town, we have been careful to make inquiries as to the circumstances under which it was observed. Messrs. J. B. and J. Ronchetti have a carefully graduated and tested thermometer, sus pended on a low wall, bounding a garden, at Higher Ardwick, and not contiguous to any house; and at midnight on Thursday this instrument indicated the temperature to be 12 degrees. Struck with the low point, Messrs. Ronchetti tried three other instru ments. They drove a piece of wood into the soil in the middle of the garden, and hung these instruments upon this wooden upright, at a height of about three feet from the ground, and they all indicated the same degree -of temperature. At one o'clock yesterday morning (an hour after midnight) they again looked at all four instruments, and found them alike to in dicate 11 degrees ; at two o'clock they found the temperature 10 degrees ; and at three o'clock in the morning they were again observed, and at that hour they all indicated a temperature of nine degrees. They were not again observed till an ad vanced hour in the morning; but, being all self registering, they were found alike to indicate, as the lowest temperature attained, eight degrees. We un derstand, that, i n thi s respec t , t h ey agree with other instruments in different parts of the town and suburbs. Mr. Lawrence Buchan, who resides in Hyde Place, Higher Ardwick, and has for many years been a careful observer of temperature—re gistering his observations, made with excellent in struments of his own construction—found the lowest temperature registered on Friday morning to be eight degrees ; exac tl y agree i ng w i t h t h e observation of Messrs. Ronchetti, in the same suburb of Man chester. But we have received one communication deserving of attention, from the well-known scientific attainments of the writer, which certainly exhibits a much lower minimum than that just noticed. The following is the note of Mr. Joule, whose experiments and researches in physical science are well-known : " Sir,—This (Friday) morning, at half-past seven o'clock, the temperature of the air at Oak Field, Upper Chorlton-road, was four degrees and a half below the zero of Fahrenheit, or 36} deg. below the freezing point. The thermometer was placed in an open field, its bulb being five or six inches above the surface of the snow. "I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " JAMES J. JOULE This, it will b e seen, is 123- degrees below the ." ob -se'rvations of Messrs. Ronchetti and Mr. Buchan. But Mr. Joule's is not the only thermometer which has shown this extraordinarily low temperature. We have been informed that a gentleman residing at Withington observed his thermometer, at eleven o'clock on Thursday night, at six degrees ; and at half-past six o'clock yesterday morning it indicated two degrees below zero. This is not the first time that we have noticed that, in the district to the south of the town, within the range of the town fog, the observations of low temperatures have indicated a point lower, by several degrees, than in other localities about equidistant from the centre of the town. We know but previous of one occasion in which the temperature has been observed so low as on that just noticed. On the 13th of January, 1826, the thermometer indicated 10 deg. Fahrenheit. On the morning of Thursday, the 4th of January, 1827, the lowest point observed in the town was 6 deg. above zero; but in several parts of the neighbourhood self registering thermometers were found to have marked a temperature of 4 deg. below zero ; being at that time the most intense cold ever observed in this neigh bourhood by any person in the habit of registering his observations. During the great frost of 1814, the lowest point was 6 deg. above zero. It is a fact worthy of observation, that both in January, 1827, and during Thursday last, the barometer was un usually low for a period of severe frost. During the whole of Thursday last, it stood at 29.11, and the mean pressure on the 3d of January, 1827, was 29.45. January being the month of lowest temperature, we have taken from the registered observations of Messrs. Ronchetti the lowest temperatures recorded by them during that month in each of the last sixteen years : - January. Degs Jan uary. D eg* 1830. 19th r 17 1838. 19th,11degs.;20th 9 1831. 26th and 27th ... 25 1839. 31st 1832. sth 1833. 10th 23 1841. 7th, 11 degs. ; 6th 9 1834. 28th 32 1842. 23d 1835. 21st 201843. 2d 1836. 11th 1837. Ist To these we add the two lowest temperatures known in Manchester or its neighbourhood : Below Zero. 1827. Jan. 4.—Neighbourhood of the town, 4 deg. 1845. Jan. 31.—Lppe► Chorlton•road 44 dog. 1845. Jan. 31.—Withington THE SALE AT CHESTERFIELD HOUSE, BLACKHEATH. The remaining effects of her late Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester were on Thursday brought to the hammer by Mr. Chinnock, of Regent street, by permission of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests. The auctioneer was honoured by a vast number of bidders, and the greater portion of the articles put ap fetched extraordinarily high prices. Amongst the books, engravings, &c., were a full-length portrait of King William IV., in his coronation robes, the Duchess of Kent ditto, and half portraits of Queen Adelaide and Prince Albert ; these sold for 20s. only ; six portraits of the Royal Family, ditto, 20s. ; a royal elephant portfolio, containing valuable engravings of battles, landscapes, portraits, &c., brought 61. 10s. Water-coloured drawings of lodges in Windsor Great Park, very beautiful, but which proved, on close inspec tion, to be only lithographic prints skilfully coloured, fetched 525. Roscoe's " Monandrin Plants," 2 vols., plates, were sold at 70s. ; Lewis's drawings of the Alhambra, 655.; Beaumont's " Travel's through the Alps," 325. ; Lewis's " Sketches of Spain," 51. ss. ; David Roberts's " Sketches in Spain," 90s. ; "Pic turesque Voyage to Geneva, Milan, &c," in French, plates highly coloured, in Morocco double-gilt, 5/. 7s. 6d. ; and about 20 other lots of choice books went off at equally good prices. Amongst the furniture a handsome bird's-eye maple cabinet, inlaid with ebony and lined with crimson silk (lot '655), was knocked down at 24 guineas. Lot 669, an elegant eight-light glass chandelier and chain to ceiling, sold at 5/. 171. Of the china ornaments—lot 682, a pair of white gold torches with three open-work trays for flowers, 18 inches high, brought 90s. Lot 683, a small alabaster vase, with bouquet of rice flowers, and a pair of small china cornu copise match vases, sold at 48s. Lot 684, eight old real china cups, embossed flowers and stands, 265. Lot 685, a carved ivory pedestal watch-stand, with thermometer and a bronze sliding candle-screen, 90s. Lot 686, a Dresden china Grecian vase, 13 inches high, sold for 8 guineas. Lot 687, a pair of small china flower-stands, with pencil landscapes, fetched 17s. Lot 689, a painted time piece in Dresden china case, 24 inches, flowers and landscapes, sold for 25 guin f ea w s .: : a . pair of handsome flower vases o knocked down painted in medallions, were Lot after a sharp bidding at 29/. los.ldt LSutev6r9eos; cream•coloured china candlesticks 692, size, sold and a pair a of p c a h i oc r choco late-ground at 5/. Lot 693, a pair cf late-ground china flower - pot stands , e s r t m an e d le s, vases small tazzas, with bor essories, small, fetched bor der of Cupids, Hymen, and 8 guineas. Lot 694,ap iu w G er r e ee s ia o n ld correspond, glass shadesstands, a a i n r d of scentcasket, ditto tray, and a soapstone-cat, sold guineas. Lot 696,_ a satinwood a with four bottles, a glass pen rm L ot 697, Parisian ormolu timepiece, at 5 gui neas. very pretty, sold at 81. lls. Lot 698, a dejeuner and tea service of old white ground Furst, nberg china, painted pastoral subjects, small set, only 12 cups, saucers, &e,, sold at 10 guineas. Lot 699, a h an d some cut glass basin stand with her Re:- al Highness's coronet and initials, the harp and Irish symbols, 31. 3s. Lot 790, a case of 17 Chinese drawings ou rice paper, and a Turkey morocco writing case, 50s. Lot 701, a Ru.sia leather paper-case with painted drawing of the Italian coast, and marble paper-weights, 2 guineas. Lot 70 2 , a bijou envelope case of crimson velvet fitted uon p and a medallion painted ivory t 6/. 10s. The sale of about 2,000 ounces of plate followed, which varied in price from 7s. per ounce to 31s. sd. Lot 740, al3 inch circular salver with em bossed border of grapes, engraved centre and coronet, sold at 14s. an ounce. A quantity of plated articles and other unimp , rtant things were sold. and the sale closed at a late hour. A very great number of lots realised more than twice their original coat. 1,737 STEAM POWER SUPERSEDED. For centuries upon centuries, till within our own days, water, as the origin of motive power, has had the supremacy over steam. For the last 40 or 50 years steam has been making rapid strides towards the complete subjugation of water; but, like all unnatu ral or forced operations, its victory appears near its end, and the power of water once more assumes its wonted superiority, and eclipses once more and for ever the power of steam. No one can be surprised at this who reflects that, while the power or laws of matter are innate or inhe rent, the power of steam is only acquired, and may be said to be artificial or unnatural, being forced by the ingenuity of man into that state upon which its power entirely depends. We have been led into these remarks by the cir cumstance of having been favoured with the inspec tion of an invention for which a patent has lately been taken out; and if we may be permitted to judge of it from the opinions of some of our leading scientific men, who have investigated it, and who declare that " they cannot (however astounding its effects) see any error or fallacy in it, or any reason why it should not answer," we must look upon its success as certain. But what inspires us with even more confidence is, that while the structure of the new invention is so ex tremely simple that a child may comprehend it, it does not violate any one law in natural philosophy. More over, the inventor (a professional gentleman) is a man of scientific acquirements, well acquainted with nature's laws, and perfectly aware of the various in ventions and the causes of their failure, which have of late years been devised for the purpose of superseding steam, whether by condensed air, water power, me chanical co n t r i vances, e l ect ricity:Sic. He does not, he says, pretend to have created power; this, he properly observes, is impossible, but has merely availed himself of those laws or properties with which the Creator has endowed matter, and by a combination of the same to make them (as the inventors of steam engines, water-mills, &c., have) subservient to the use of man. The fundamental principle on which the new en. gine is founded is precisely similar to that of the hy draulic press, the power of w hi c h, every one knows, can only be limited by the strength of the materials of which it is made. But what has hitherto rendered the power of the hydraulic press inapplicable to th production of motive power is, that, just in proportion as the power is gained speed is lost, and vice versa. In the present invention, however, unlimited p ower i s gained without the l oss o f speed, the piston of the large cylinder travelling, at each stroke, with the power gained, just the same distance as the piston of the lesser cylinder. This power and this speed, which are in inverse ratio of each other, appear by this most important invention (however paradoxical) actually combined. We are not at liberty to give the public a more particular account of the nature of this invention than the words of the title ot the patent—viz., " The Hydro-Mechanic Apparatus, which, by a combination of hydraulic and mechanical properties, on well-known scientific principles, is intended to supersede the use of fire and steam in working and propelling all kinds of machinery and engines"--thus effecting an enor mous saving, and avoiding the imminent danger arising from the explosive nature of steam. It may well be asked, where will human ingenuity end ?—From a Scientific Correvontlent of a Morning Paper. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, JAN. 31.—We have no change to notice in this branch of trade since our last report. Only a moderate amount of business has been done, but prices are very firm. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, JAN. 31.—We do not vary from last week's report, transactions being about the same extent, and prices unaltered. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, JAN. 31.—There continues to be a steady demand for all kinds of combing and clothing Wools. Prices are very firm. LEEDS. —There has been more business doing at our Cloth Halls this week than in any week since the begin ning of October ; the demand is principally for Tweeds and cloths of low qualities, but fine and middle qualities continue dull of sale ; there has also been considerable deliveries of goods of light make for shipping during the week. On the whole there is a full average business doing in balk goods for the season. Many of the larger buy ers have been in the market, and there has been more finished goods sold than for some time past; the shipping houses are also a little more on the move than has been the case for some time. lIECKMoNDwIKE BLANKET MARKET, THURSDAY, TAN. 30.—There is no alteration to report since our last. BRADFORD MARKET, TMIIRSDAY.—WOOI : There is no change worthy of note since our last. Yarns : The business doing is tolerably fair, but the prices very un satisfactory, as they bear no proportion to the cost of wool. Piece : The merchants are rather active to-day, and a fair business has been done. In prices there is no alteration. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had upon the whole a good business doing in cloth, and manu facturers, if they ha►e not generally obtained an advance, have in a few cases obtained rather more money. The market is scarce of stock, and the feeling is of a decidedly upward tendency. The yarn market is very brisk indeed for the season, and the appearances are most flat tering for the spinner, owing to the almost certainty that the staple will continue at a low igure for some time to come.—Leeds Mercury. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZET' PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. A. Clayton and A: J. Phillips, P. Facet', and 131.irBerougchtoLn,islteaere maanedhin j e makers, Chard ! S m Liverpool—M. Nottingham—R. and T. L. Banks, tallow chandlers, Limehouse—W. Wiley, jun., IN% Beckett, and J. Wiley, japanners, Wolverham_pton-4. Clough, milliners, i e l h li e n m en is,s, °e maltsters, Ashfield, Nottingham- Bell and J. Eagle, linen factors, Bow-lane —D. Fryer and J. Prince, colliers, Bailden, Yorkshire—F. Shack lock and J. I. Evans, shire—W. Watson, J. Brook J. Murgatroyd, and C. Bedford-square —A. Stead, stonemasons, Huddersfield (so far as regards W. j. m r a a n r a r f , ac s t h ure rim rs r: P W e a rc t 7- n stYeet, - s N q u e v i:r . b e e — r fringeYA. a and J. dealers, Blackpool, Lancashire—S. Rolf and J. Neale, wine merchants, Reigate—W. Sykes and R. Crosland, woollen spinners, Alniondhury, Yorkshire—G. Muir and T. Marshall, drapers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne —T. Mar shall and A. Purvis, grocers, Newcastle upon-Tyne-- IL Waterhouse, W. Boulton, and W. Morris, cotton spinners, Manchester (ko far as regards W. Boulton) J. Pearson and S. Price, chartermasters, Kingswinford, Staffordshire—lL and T. P. Hull, hosiers, Leicester-- - T. Foster, sen., and W. Foster, jun., joiners, Nottingham —.T. Finch, sen., J. Finch, jun., and W. Di c ki nson, iron founder, Blackburn—C. Candy and W. Dean, Wat ling-street, City. EFFECTS OF TIGLIT-LACING.—Atthe fancy dress ball, on Monday evening, a gentleman bearing her Ma jesty's commission was suddenly seized with faintness, • and was borne from the field in the arms of his brother officers. On examining into the cause of the attack, it was found to originate in the over-pressure of the gallant , soldiers's uniform, which, -it seems, in these "piping times of peace," he had net worn for some little time. The narrow escape of the valiant son of Afars from so tier'singlor l io e u ni s i a ct fate "Diedas wfreoumld tight -lacing," aincogroto his brethren how they sacrifice too much to the Graces, or to the pleasures of the table!—Brioht,om Hera g s FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY. (From the World (f Fashion.) CARRIAGE HATS AND BONNETS .tre more remark able for their elegance than for their novelty, as they vary but very little in their form from th se that have already been adopted—retaining all their favour, the colours alai e constituting their novelty. Mcst of them are composed of velvet. BALL HEAD-DRESSES are principally comp( sed of hair, and we observe that ringlets, or as they are termed Anglaises, are, if possible, more numerous than the bandeaux. THE TRIMMINGS OF FULL-DRESS ROBES most in vogue are called Lea Montants, that is to say trim mings placed on each side of the skirt. For velvet or satin dresses, rich broad lace is the most favourite trimming, put on in the form of volants, those robes of a light hue being decorated with white point lace, whilst those of darker shades are ornamented with black. DRESS HATS FOR THE THEATRE are principally composed of white or black lace, and lined with a light-coloured gauze, such as pink or blue, decorated with marabout feathers, either white or black, tipped with the same colours as the linings. PELISSES. —Velvet ones are much in favour for the public promenades, and as the weather is at present very cold, several are trimmed with fur, dark furs being m os t i n est i mation. Among those that are not trimmed with fur, we have noticed several of satin, the corsage turning back, and fastened with beautiful buttons. Spencers A basque are also much worn, made of velvet, and sometimes trimmed with rich black lace. They look very rich when worn with jupes of satin or watered silk. BALL DRESSES—ROBES A RUBAN.—.The colours of the ribbons are so pretty, and the fringes so fresh and light in their appearance, that they are generally put on in eight or ten rows, particularly when in tended for trimming of those becoming and youthful style of crepe and tulle dresses. We must also men tion those very elegant dresses composed of velours satin, of a rich pink colour, the front part of the jupe (that is to say, the front breadth) entirely covered with a rich lace, upon each side of which is posee two wreaths of small flowers, having a very large rose at the end of each wreath, also encircled with very small flowers. Plain corsage, very low and pointed, and decorated with a berthe composed of two rows of lace, open in the front, and only reaching on each side as far as the side seams of the corsage, where it is attach e d w ith sma ll wreaths of flowers, descending on each side as far as the point of the waist. Plain short sleeves, with manchettes of rich lace, headed with a petite wreath of flowers. FASHIONABLE COLOURS.—Dark hues are in favour for out-door costume, such as purple, different shades of green, dark ruby, and, above all, black. For evening dress, light colours prevail, such as mauve, pink, blue, pale lilac, and white. ,01 0 ,,, ~,,,,4 tY cP; , P cs if°