The Sun. — London, England, 1845-08-14 00:00:00

SUNDERLAND ELECTION. SUNDERLAND, TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 12.--Yesterday the exertions of the candidates and their friends were increased, and the town is now on " the tiptoe of expectation," and in a stet!, of great excitement. Mr. Hudson and Mr. Cobden sr ri.ved during the day, and the appearance of the latter gentle man has given renewed animation to the contest. In the evening, Mr. Cobden, M.P. (who arrived in he town during the day), Colonel Thompson, and Mr. Bright, N. P., addressed the electors in the Polytechnic Hall of the Athene3uni. The gallery was reserved for ladies. Both parts of the building were crowded to excess, and also the adjoining lecture theatre, which is separated from the hall by a wooden partition, and in which, when the inner doors are opened, the persons assembled are enabled to hear, though not to see the speaker. On the platform were some of the most active and influential Liberals in the borough. Joshua Wilson, Esq. (of the well-known firm Wilson and Brothers, merchants and importers) presided, and at once in•- tro4uced Richard Cobden, Esq., Member for Stockport, to the meeting. Mr. Cosoaw said, I received a summons from our good friend Colonel Thompson to come here to pay my respects to yon in person. I must confess I think it almost a work of supererogation that 1 should come here at all ; for when yeti have my master and teacher to teach you, I hardly think it is necessary for one of his pupils to come. How ever, I now repeat what I have often said, I would wa'k barefoot 200 miles merely to assist in promoting his 0 - turn to Parliament. Fortunately I have visited you with mush lee; fatigue, for I left Manchester at seven o'clock, and here I am in the midst of you. I should have thought Sunderland the very last place in the kingdom where we should have had a free-trade contest against monopoly. —(11e-tr.) It is said "experience teaches fools," and you are net foals in Sunderland—you are " too far North for that," end therefore I should have thought the bitter ex perience of the four or five years during which this town and nriehbourhood were plunged into a state of distress from which it is only just emering, would have prevented anybody, lieweeer deeply sunk in the mire of political prejudice, from any further attachment to the corn-laws. But it seems there arr.. still persons to be found in Sunderland to raise tee banner of monopoly against free trade, and I am told that there are persons who own ships, and who live by carrying goods to and from foreign countries, in favour of restriction upon trade. I believe that twenty-five years hence, when those among us who may then be living, tell to our chil dren what has happened during that time in this struggle for free trade, the thing most difficult to make them comprehend will be, the fact that shipowners were found against free trade. I have sometimes speculated as to what • eats be the ground of the hostility of shipowners to free trade, and I believe this is the solution of it. You have, some old men among the shipowners—there are old men in every calling, and we are apt to look upon old men as kr.owing mere than young ones. Old men have a hankering after old times; under the navigation laws, large fortunes wore made; and they think if we returned to that system, the same would be the case again. Now, I wish to convince them that it is impossible to do so, not upon my own authority, but upon that of the House of Commons, Sir Robert Feel. - Mr. Glad -tone, and every man there worth two minute.' thought—that nothing is more wild and visionary than for ski; owners to dream of going back to the old sy-tem of the navigation laws. —(Hear, hear.) We must have foreign trade carried on in foreign shipping, we cannot prevent it ; the next best thing is, to have as much carrying trade as we can, as much demand as we can, and for Englishmen TO take the chance of doing all they can ; and if they have fair play in the world's market, I do not think anybody can beat Englishmen either by sea or land. Well, then, we say we want more trade, for the free trade means more trade, as I dare say you have heard fifty times before during the contest • and if we have more trade, English men will have their ;hare of it. We say especially that we want more trade in foreign corn ; it is a bulky article and grown everywhere ; for there is not a latitude in which other commodities will grow, that will not grow corn. Then ep gets an ancient shipowner, tells me that a free trade in cern would be carried on in foreign ships, and points to t',.e notorious fact that in 1843, out of 100,000 quarters of foreign corn, only 3,000 or 4,000 quarters were brought in English ships, the rest being brought in foreign bottoms. That is the very point I want to talk about. Why do foreigners bring corn to this country? It is owing to the operation of the slid ing scale ; and I will explain that in such a manner that no shipowner, whatever may be his politics, will fail to respond to it. Under the present system, no min dare import corn as a regular article of trade ' • he does not know whether the scale will jump to 20s. or down to is , and therefore it is nut a ode trade for a merchant in ordinary times ; but as just news when there is a chance, owing to the probable failure of the harvest, that the duty should be down to ss. or 69., then there is a demand for corn all over the world. But corn is wanted instantly. Since I have been here I have had a letter put into my hand, addressed to a house in this town, from - Marseilles, dated July 31st, which affords an illw-tration of shat I was saying : --" Gentlemen, the present is to inform you that the merchants are moving about freights to England. Only within three days, the freights for corn have risen from ss. to Ces. 6d. There are no English vessels, and none off the coast." Then there is an account of the ships chartered, 'which perhaps I ought not to read. It is not certain how long this demand may continue—it may last a month; the very neat post that goes out to Marseilles may tell the merchants there that the son is shining here, and that the prospect of harvest is good, and beg them nen to send corn at all, but pay smart money to get off the bargain. Under such a system as this, you cannot possibly have a regular trade carried on in English ships, bat if the cern trade were put on the same footing as the cotton trade, why should you not have as regular a trade in corn as in cotton, and why should not English ships have a fair share of *oat freight? Well, then, we are met in this town by those wits prof's, to be the peculiar friends of the poor with the state ment that if we admit foreign corn the wages of labour here will fall—that if we bring corn from Poland our people will get the same wages as the Polish serfs ; they might just as well soy • that if we bring gum from Africa the labourers here will be clack and have surly hair.—(Laughter and cheers.) Have you not had some experience in this town on that point—the expe rience of the last five or six years ought to have closed the mouths of the people who talk such nonsense as this.—( Hear. ) My respected and venerated friend, I understand, has been denounced as a Socialist and an infidel. I was reading yes terday the life of Wilberforce (an old friend of Col. Thomp- Sou's), and I find that in the commencement of his career as an agitator against that most horrible traffic in human beings, the slave-trade. he and his friends were denounced as being the disciples of Tom Paine, and the friends of Marat and Robes pierre in the French Revolution. Av, and then genteel people —persons in broad-cloth—used to make it ii‘-eat that they did not belong to the Wilberforce party abolititrists. there And in less time than Wilberforce abolish 4 and the .1-7 we shall have achieved the triumph of fr that.erir nciples ? and the very men who are now opposing us in this holy crusade will be the first to turn round and say we were always free traders. Now the two candidates presented to you are cart didates to fill a vacancy caused by the loss which we in the House of Commons have sustained by the retirement of your late excellent representative, Lord Howick. I deeply regret that loss,_ because he stood prominent among his class or order in that House for the honest and unflinching advocacy of free trade principles. He did not advocate the abolition of the corn-laws, and the abolition of the monopolies in sugar, and coffee, and other things—he did not advocate them as a man who acted as a mere politician. He had the franknesa to avow :n the House of Commons, that he had, during the three years of discussion which took place, seen reason to change his opi nions materially as regarded the laws which restricted the supply of the brat necessaries of life. He said, what we will all remember, that he did not consider it a mere ques tion of politics, but he thought the question of free-trade was one, the nature and circumstances of which involved a great moral duty in the Legislatt*e of this country. He did more, by that earnest speech, to take the question out of the category of party politics than was done by any speech made in the House of Commons. He served as a connecting link between the free-traders in that House and the Whig aristocracy who are to be found in the House ; and I much regret that be is not there still, so that he might cement that union, and make us one combined body in our cause.—(Hear, hear.) But you are called upon to nominate his successor. Now. if there is one thing that I cannot possibly forget, more than -I can do another, in this contest, it is the fact that yon were previously represented by such a man as Lord Howick. If any constituency can be considered pledged,— I say pledged in honour, to return a man of kindred senti ments to the House of Commons on this question, you are; or I cannot tell how he can face the pulic again, after hav ing, as I heard him in the House of Commons, stated that he was requested by three-fourths of the constituency of this borough to take that honest and straightforward course whieh he did take in the advocacy of the question. I re peat, that you have now two candidates placed before you ; —one, my friend here, Colonel Thompson, who has done more than any living man to advance the principles which Lowl Howick advocated in your name. He devoted his time, his fortune, his labour to the cause, at a time when there were few to sympathise with, and fewer still to aid him, in his efforts. He printed tracts by tens of thousands when the great difficulty was to find readers who would read them, even though they were gratuitously distributed. But he penevered ; and from the solitude of his chamber came forth those lessons which taught another class of teachers—the teachers who perambulated this land, vulgarising, if I may so speak, the doctrines-- Mr. BRlGHT—Popularising. Mr. CoaDEN—Or "popularising," as my more genteel friend, Mr. Bright, suggests—the doctrines and the lessons which they derived from Colonel Thompson's pen ; and I think that, on this occasion, Sanderland is fortunate in having the opportunity of endorsing those strong opinions which they expressed through Lord Howick, by sending Colonel Thorup.;on to reiterate those arguments in the House of Commons.—(Applause.) But it appears that Colonel Thompou, besides being a free-trader, entertains other opinions on political questions. And I bold that I should be myself but a poor advocate of free trade if I could not allow any one who was co-operating with me in the advocacy of tree trade to entertain his own political principles. But, on this occasion, don't let us be mystified. Whatever other opinions Colonel Thompson may entertain—whether he go one point farther, or fall one point short of myself—don't be mysti fied. The only question at issue in this election is the question of free trade and monopoly.—( Hear.) In England we are in the habit of doing things one at a time • and the question we have in hand now is that of free trade. It is the question of the present generation; and that question will be settled before any other question, about which your enemies at :erupt to terrify you, will have anything like a discussion in the House of Commons. And, therefore, without asking whether Colonel Thempson's political opinions. are in all re spects the same as mine, or yours, or not, I think you will a! - =ree with me that, as a free-trader, you could not send a man to the House of Commons who would strike such a blow for free trade as you would be the means of striking by retusn'eg my respected friend on my left.—(Loud ) I see, in one of the placards, it is stated that the members of Co!onel Thompson's Committee are not all jus tices of the peace, and are not all gentlemen. In fact, it 'ell, us that there is nobody on that Committee. Why, this reminds me of an anecdote in Goldsmith's Citizen of the IV*rld, where he makes his fashionable fop to walk the park with a Chinese. The park was crowded; but the fop kept telling the Chinese gentleman—" There is nobody here— eciboel-0 nobody a t a ll. Th ere i s p os iti v ely nobody in town." " Then," said the clever Chinese, " if there is nobody her!, pray who are all the people here that are laughing at us '—( G reat laughter and applause.) Now I think I may ask, if any of those justices of the peace and petty sessions should be tel you that there is nooody here for Colonel Tnetnpeoh, is not every hotly else laughing at them ? For I declare that from one end of the kingdom to the other there is nothing but one loud laugh at Colonol Thompson's oppo nent here.- -( Applause.) There never was such an exhibi t:en in the world. he idea of a man coming among a po pulation 'of nearly 60,000, and offering to bribe the whole borough by pledging himself to make such a dock or such a railway;—the idea itself was certainly a clumsy one, but the way in which the thing was managed by these great justices of the peace was so strange that certainly there never was any. thing more ridiculous. They should not have said anything in public if they wanted Mr. Hudson to go to Parliament and d their jobs for them. They spoiled the whole scheme. They should not have said a word, because they prevented -s having a possibility of doing anything of the kind. I negiee Mr. Hudson getting up in the House of Commons - -thou.Ji I am aware you are not going to send him tnere, by the way—(Laughter)—but imagine him rising in his seat in the House of Commons, and saying he begged to move for leave to bring in a Bill for con structing a dock at Sunderland. Before he had finished the words a peal of laughter would have arisen from all parts of the House ; and then one would shout, " Wright ! Wright !" and another, " Spoor I Spoor ?" till all was drowned in laughter once again.—(Much cheering and laughter.) Why, you may tell them that all the world is laughing at them. And then, what an insulting proposition ! If somebody had gone to Seaham, strong as an Atlas, and said he would make them a dock, or something of the kind, if they would only make him dock-keeper, or chief constable—l could have understood if, in a place like that, people might put themselves under the patronage of any man who would make them docks. But the idea of a town like Sunderland, with fifty-six thousand inhabitants, being asked to suffer themselves to be bribed by the making of a dock, and the bringing to them a railway into the bargain, is such an insulting proposal—that I must say I did not think there was so much impudence extant.—(Laughter.) To do Mr. Hudson justice, however, lam quite sure he is no party to it. Has he publicly said that he will make you docks?—(" No.") No, he is a great deal too good a judge. Has he declared that he will make a railway ?—(" No.") Then it is not Mr. Hudson who has said it, but Mr. Wright and Mr. Spoor.—( Laughter.) You know best whether their guarantee is good for the construction of docks and railways; but you have no claim upon Mr. Hudson at all events. But I presume the town has now come to its senses; and shortly after the thing was first proposed, when it became known that all the country was laughing at it, I do not doubt that there was not one sane man who did not thorough!) believe that it was all " fudge ;" and if Mr. Hudson's friends kept up a face on the sul-ject, it was merely to laugh in their sleeves when nobody cou'd see then. How can Mr. Hudson make docks and railways. If I understand anything of his position and his undertakings—and I should not have talked about them if he and his friends hail not made them matter of public boast, if I understand his position, I believe there is no man in this country whose ways and means are more deeply engaged and bespoken than Mr. Hudson's. —( Hear.) If all that he him sell tells us is true, he will want every farthing that he can get from every source that he can command.—( Hear.) He does net propose to find you the money. Who does? If anybody lends money to make docks or railways, it is because he ex pects to get a good return. But it does not require Mr. Hud son to be a Member of Parliament in order to enable him to take shares in these things, if he likes. He may do it now, if so he will ; and I want to show you that he can do it better out of Parliament than in it.—( Hear, and laughter.) I told him so myself the other day. I met, him in the lobby of the House of Commons, where he is often to be found, and I whispered in his ear, " If you wish to have any of your pro jects under the attention of that House, I would advise you to remain in the lobby till the business is done, fur you are a great deal more powerful in this lobby than you will ever be within those walls." " Why so? " was his answer. " Why, because if Mr. Hudson gets up out of his place to speak in favour of a particular railway, he will not be regarded as the most disinte rested advocate of that railway."—( Applause.) And men who are disinterested will be quite as likely to vote against him, as any will be to vote in his favour, because he advocates the measure. If 3.ir. Hudson wants to extend his operations, and to make other railways in addition to those which he has now upon his hands—if he wish to pass other Bills, let him pursue the same course in their operation— let him stick to the lobby. You are mistaken if you suppose that Members of Parliament can new act in the House of Commons for the promotion of private jobs. Great improve. ment has taken place in these things. Nothing has given me more satisfaction than the complete change which has lately taken place in the management of private business. Let Mr. Hudson keep, then, in the lobby ; and if he have taken such a violent affection for this borough—if he mourn over your want of docks—if he kindly conceive - you want another railway, and is himself dying with anxiety to assist you in getting them, still I say " let him stick to the lobby," for he will be more able to realise his wishes there than on the other side of the door.—(Applause and laughter.) There is another rea. son why Mr. Hudson should not wish to go into the House of Commons. I don't think his debut in public life has at all added to his reputation. I believe he used to be considered at a premium in the market ; but since his introductory speech here, in public, on the corn-laws and free trade, he no longer occupies that position. I don't know whether any man has more completely settled his own downward course as a public man ; but this I knew, that if I had happened to hold shares in Mr. Hudson's lines of railway from Bristol to Ber wick, and if my confidence in him was challenged because be had been so prosperous, I would, after reading that speech, have felt obliged to take a calm review of myself; for a man who could talk such rubbish proves himself to be infinitely below, in intellect, the very lowest Member of the House of Commons at this moment—and that is saying a good deal.— ( Laughter.) Well, here are your two candidates. You have here a man who, intellectually, has not a superior in his day.-- ( Cheers ) You have a man—l wish he had not been present while i said it—you have a man of most excellent character in every respect. And how has he been assailed ? I don't know what they have not called him. But I judge of men by their fruit.--(Loud applause.) If you can show me a better man, a better neighbour, a better citizen, a better husband, a better father, then I'll give up the contest, and leave it to Mr. Hudson.—( Hear, hear.) I believe if Colonel Thompson has a fault, it is this. He has not sufficient of the quality which in phrenology is called " self-esteem;." and he has never known his own worth. The absence of that self-esteem—that vulgar pride—has led Colonel Thompson always to descend from his own station, to try and elevate those beneath him. When I visit my friend at his house at Blackheath, and when I see the elegant style in which he lives—when I see the manner in which Colonel Thompson might pass his life, and ought to pass his life, free from the cares and anxieties which he willingly takes upon himself—when I see a man of large fortune living as he does, where the humblest classes see him—willing to lift up the humble man to a level with himself—l say that man ought to be honoured as the greatest of all characters.—(Cheers. ) Flattery, I know, can be pleasant neither to Colonel Thomp son nor to me ; but I mean to say that he is the most amiable of my acquaintance. I have a theory that political economists are the most amiable of men ; and! remember Sir J. Mackintosh says that the three great political economists—Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and the Rev. Mr. Malthus—were the most amiable men he had ever known. I add Colonel Thompson to the number ; and say he is the most amiable man of my acquaintance.—(Loud cheers.) If a man give a bad vote, 1 am disposed to treat him just as Henry Clay desired to be treated. He gave what was considered a bad vote; and when he went down to Kentucky, he met an old backwoodsman with a rifle with which he had been shoot ing squirrels. Clay asked him for his vote. " No, no," said the man, " I'll never vote for you again ; you gave a bad vote the other day." " Well," said Clay, " what sort of a rifle is that ?" " Never was a better," was the reply, "It never missed fire but once." " And what did you do then?" was C!ay's next question. " Why,_ I nicked the flint, and Mini you had better do the same—nick the flint, and try again with me." Now I don't know that Colonel Thompson has any bad vote recorded that can now be raked up against him ; but if there be, why, nick the flint, and let him try again.— (Laughter and applause,) The CHAIRMA N then called upon John Bright, Esq., M.P. for Durham, to address the meeting. Mr. BRIGHT observed—This is the ninth meeting I have attended during the progress of the contest, and I may say, without exaggeration, that however numerous anct enthusiastic the other meetings were, this excels them all. We come before you, not as electors of Sunderland, nor yet as private individuals, who, of our own minds, have left our own business to interfere with you ; but we come here (and I consider I do not overstep the line of strict modesty when I say it) deputed by a hundred or more of the towns of this kingdom, and thousands and millions of your countrymen, to explain what is the cause of the terrible suf • ferings which the people endure—to ask that now, when you have the power, to strike a heavy, I trust it may be a deadly, blow against the foulest injustice and crime which any Government ever perpetrated against any people, you, the electors, will indignantly scorn all those mean and base, sordid and insulting considerations that have been laid before you, and judge rightly for yourselves, rightly for your country, and for those great principles of justice and mercy, which, if not paramount in the Government, can never tend to the prosperity of the people.—(Great cheering.) We come with a very simple, yet forcible statement, to arraign before the constituency of this borough a law which restricts the supply of food, and dooms the poorest of the people perio dically to the suffering and misery of famine. The corn-law is a famine law; the men who passed it, and the men who support it, if they know its object and tendency, are men who legislated for famine, and whose only end—if it operate at all—must be to produce famine, scarcity, and want amongst the poorest of the people. Can anything be more outrageous, more frightfully unjust than such a law as this ?—( Rear, hear.) There is not a clime under heaven where man can live in which wheat cannot be grown ; there is not a man under heaven to whom wheat is not a whole some article of food ; there is not probably another procfacten the earth's surface which will stand so many vicissi tudes of climate and still come to maturity. All this shows that this great staple article of human existence, wherever grown, was intended for the whole human family. At this moment, on the continent of America, there is a bountiful harvest ; there is also a stock remaining over from last year's harvest ; it has been there waiting twelve months, and no buyers from this country have been found. The President of that great Republic has stated in one of those important documents which he is in the habit of submitting to the American Legislature, that the greatest difficulty found in that country is, to secure purchasers for their surplus produce. Why is this, then, that now, when the sun does not shine, and the rain unsparingly descends, that throughout the length and breadth of the land there is a sensitiveness and tremour, such as one would think no insane person would subject us to if be knew how to avoid it. TAUNTON, AUG. 13.—1 t is with great pleasure that we are enabled to report the improved state of the weather since. Sunday last. The dingy and capricious aspecta of the clouds hare at last passed away, and are now succeeded by seasonable warmth and brightness, accompanied by very encouraging indications of a permanent character of fine harvest weather. The crops are not in the least degree in jured by the cold and dampness which have impeded their maturity, and every description of agricultural produce, is either in the best state of ripeness, or presents the most promising appearance of becoming so. Potatoes will be most abundant, and of excellent quality, and the orchards everywhere exhibit the assurance; of an excel lent crop of cider. Fruit, carrots, cabbages, and all sorts of garden products are brought to market in unusual quantities, and of very superior growth. Potatoes are selling at sd. per peck. Several fields of wheat have been cut around this town, at Wellington, Milverton, and othcr parts of this neighbour hood, and the utmost activity now prevails throughout the corn-lands generally. A beautiful field of wheat is now under the sickle at Wheatleigh Cross, near this town. The average produce of wheat in this part of the county, is generally about twenty bushels an acre; but, in the field just mentioned, so heavy is the ear, that at least thirty bushels pet acre is ex pected to be garnered. For weight, quality, and cleanly ap pearance, nothing ever exceeded the beauty of this corn-field. Taunton Courier. STATE OF TRADE.—The weather continues to exercise an unfavourable influenc. , upon the goods market, which has been very quiet for the last few day s , th oug h without i soy sensible change n prices. For yarn the demand continues exceedingly good, and spinners have no difficulty in makini , extended contracts for future delivery, at full rates.--" ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, AUG. 11.—We have had another excellent market ; all the goods were bought up by noon, at better prices. This week there has been more doing in the wool market, and prices, notwithstanding the new clip, have been fully maintained.—Manchester Guardian. A letter from Pesth, of the 28th ult., gives an ac count of a frightful inundation of several rivers on the north of Hungary. The great commercial town of Miskoes, which has a population of 20,000, was submerged, the current being sufficiently strong to carry away several Muses and other buildings. As the torrent came on in the night, several persons were taken by surprise, and lost their lives. All communication between Pesth and Kaschan was prevented for several days. This calamity happened on the 19th of JulY, precisely the second anniversary, day for day, of the conflagration from which Miskoez suffered so severely in 1843. _Booworm.— A young sailor of this town, named Fournier, left as cabin-boy some four years back. He was found on the quay of Liverpool with his tongue cut out, and his arms twisted out of their sockets, and in this condition was sent home to his family. It is said that witnpssecl a murder on board, and was thus served in cons(.quence. Neither being able to write nor speak, it is difficult to extract the truth from him.— 21nnota: Boulogne. THE WEATHER .E.ND THE CROPS. The weather yesterday in the metropolis was a decided im provement; there was scarcely a drop of rain, and the clouds were higher, lighter, and fleecier, than for several days. There was no sunshine, but the temperature was better, the wind was light, and the signs are all favourable. The progress of the corn crops towards ripeness since our last has been much less rapid than might have been desired, though a perceptible adfance has taken place in South Lancashire. We trust that no very serious, and still less any irreparable injury has been done to the crops up to the press nt time, and that, if the weather should be tolerably fine during the remainder of the month of August and in Sep tember, we may still have an average harvest, taking all descriptions of crops into account. The hay crop which is already secured is very large, and the after-grass is most abundant, thus securing abundant food for cattle, without trenching on the grain crops. All kinds of spring corn and roots promise well, and though the wheat has been much battered, and can scarcely prove a good sample, yet there is still no reason to anticipate a deficiency in quantity.—Lieer pool Times. WORTHING . —The want of genial weather for the approach ing important operations of the husbandman is the subject of daily remark. The speculation, during and between showers, existing among farmers having old wheat on hand, as to how and where they may obtain the highest price f e it, forms a conspicuous feature in their present mental and practical pur suits. The threatening of ill in one respect may, indeed, be legitimately turned to profitable account in another ; yet that the inauspiciousness of the season, which, if not suddenly and speedily averted, will visit so many poor homes, should be a source of gain, gratifying, as in some measure it undoubtedly is to those who produce the crops so likely to fail, seems ano malous. There is no wheat cut between the rivers Arun and Adun, and none yet ripe. The crops generally stand up well, and are heavy. Sussex Advertiser. HEATHFIELD.—The rain, which has fallen in torrents during the past week, has completely spoiled the many acres of hay that ware already very much damaged ; and at this instant the rain is fast falling, with a boisterous wind and a sinking barometer, insomuch that the most inauspicious forebodings are becoming prevalent as relates to the crops, whether of hay, corn, or hops. The partial blight of potatoes, which was first noticed here about a fortnight ago, is now found to be spread ing, and similar statements are given from different parts of East Sussex. May Providence avert the threatened catas trophe, and send us far different results from those of 1816 and 1817. The crops generally are abundant, but hot suns are re quisite to mature them.—lbid. BIRKENHEAD.—(From a Correspondent.)—l arrived this morning from southwards, having had my trip to Ireiand stopped at Plymouth, by the very contrary wind and stormy weather. The harvest in Devon, Somerset, &c., is very un promising; and I cannot help thinking, from all I saw and heard on the roads from Plymouth to this place, that the crop will be quite under an average. This will combine, with any severe pressure on the money market, to shake the financial stronghold of the Government. Wheat is fairly up from Bs. to 9s. a quarter ; and as the chief stocks are now small, and these in the bands of speculators (the farmers having been compelled to thrash and sell early, fro l'evant of straw, which was very light last year), the average may be expected to rise soon, so as to let in the 450,000 quarters in bond, at a low duty and high price. HUNTINGDON.—The weather still continues very wet and dull ; the most serious apprehensions are now beginning to be felt for the growing crops; it is evident that the lodged crops of wheat are mildewed ; the wheat, after fallow, is also mil dewed, whether lodged or not. The very heavy crops of bar ley which have been lodged this month or five weeks, are root grown ; the yield, quality, and straw will consequently be bad. We have noticed a great quantity of smut amongst the oats ; the loss from this cause cannot be less than a quarter per acre in the Fens. Turnips and cole-seed go on well. There is ?et a considerable quantity of hay to carry in the late districts; it ;s very much injured. The price of wheat has now reached 7s. per bushel for the best samples, with a good supply,— Cam bridge Independent. CHELMSFORD. —Here and there patches of wheat were cut in this county in the course of the past week, and no doubt the sickle would have been in more general re quisition, as in some districts, we understand, much of the corn is riper than it would appear from a cursory glance, had not the storms and gloomy weather determined the' farmers to wait. The sun shine and drying wind of yesterday morning set many in ac tivity, and the cutting of wheat became rather general, though the afternoon showers a little damped the full ardour oeharvest. A return of settled summer weather, now so much needed for gathering in the fruits of the earth, would set the sickle and scythe in full operation.—Essex Herald. The wheat harvest has commenced at several localities in this neighbourhood, and the opinion is, as far as can be ascer tained, that there will be a general deficiency, compared with last year's crop, of full 25 per cent, We have heard that a similar deficiency is apprehended in the hundred of Tendring, which is allowed to be a most productive district. The barley crop is excellent, and if there should be a fine harvest, the quality will be very good. The oat crop is particularly good, but the bean and pea crops are defective, owing to an attack of that deadly enemy, the louse.—Essex Mercury. Previous to Wednesday we had three fine days, and it was confidently hoped that at-last dry weather had set in. On the afternoon of that day, however, there was a heavy fall of rain, and we have had broken - and cold weather ever since—yester day being the worst day we had during the season. It began to rain about eleven in the forenoon, and continued till four ; but it was so heavy and constant while it lasted, that not only were all the streams in the neighbourhood much swollen and discoloured, but a large breadth of the crop had been laid down. From the stillness of the atmosphere, and the weight of the grain, the ears being now full, there is reason to fear that a large portion of the crop will be permanently lodged. Many fields of barley are now well coloured, and with a few bright and hot days would be ready for the sickle ; but the weather is so cold, cloudy, and rainy, and the crop generally in this dis. trict being three weeks later than last year, no one will hazard a prediction as to the commencement of the harvest. In any event the harvest will be a late one, and unless there be a speedy and favourable change of the weather, there is reason to appro. bend that it will also be a disastrous one. This is the more to be regretted, as the crop is probably as great as ever was pro duced in Scotland. Turnips and potatoes have made great progress, and look as well as can be desired.— Caledonian Mercury. The weather continues, on the whole, to be but little favour able to the ripening of the crops—a complaint which we find general all over the country. The atmosphere is cold and re pulsive, and the frequent rajas in many districts are telling with injurious effect upon the crops. This has told seriously on the quality of the wheat crop, which stands particularly in want of sunshine to bring the grain to maturity, and which, snore and more deterforited. In all - PartsTht t wen ntll'ilY6 heavy crops are considerably laid down, and nothing can save the wheat from. being of very inferior quality, and unfit for baking without the assistance of forei g n grain, except bright sunshine, stirring breezes, and dry weather. In this neigh bourhood we have neither seen nor heard of - wheat that will be ready for the sickle in less than two weeks hence at the earliest, and the general part of the crop, even with favourable weather, will be at least a week later.— Glasgow Argus. DUBLIN, AuG. 11.—The weather holds up, and the alarm respecting the crops is lessening. Stec°, Auer. 9.—The weather has again changed; during the week we had little rain, but the crops are not ripening in this locality as fast as we would wish. The general opinion amongst farmers, and persons best acquainted with the subject, is that the harvest will be more than an average one, but late. However, two or three weeks of fine weather would make a great alteration in the country. LONGFORP, AUG UST 9.—There is a large supply ,of new potatoes in our market daily, selling at from 3d. to 4id. per stone, but they are generally wet, from the variable and wet weather. Roscommon, AUGUST 9.—The constant heavy rains with which we have been visited has done much injury to the crops in this county. The hay crop is very late, and feats are enter tained that it will be much damaged. ATHLONE, AUGUST B.—During the last week the weather has been very wet, and it is feared a continuation of similar weather would do immense injury. The crops, generally speaking, as yet seem to have suffered little. Potatoes of a very excellent quality are selling in our market at 4id. per stone. - Yesterday was really a fearful day for the country. The weather generally, this week, has been most favourable, for the occasional fall of rain was not injurious, but the conti nuous, dull, heavy-rain of yesterday, without a glimpse of sun shine, or a slight breath of air, spread universal gloom and despondency. Last night the rain came down in torrents, and this morning has opened with a dreary prospect. The corn fields, whose standing was healthy and vigorous the day before, are prostrated in many places. At Meelick several fields of pasture were swamped by the mountain flood, which is this day accumulated on the lands of Lower Meelick. Deficient embankment is the great evil the farmer is exposed to in these districts. The weather, since our last, has been very wet ; however, the crops have not sustained much damage. The hay has suf fered in colour; some of the heavy crops, although bent under the pressure of the constant wet, are not in a dangerous condi tion ; new potatoes have been selling freely at 434 d. per stone. Westmeath Guardian. Never did the crops look better, with the exception of wheat, which, in many places, has suffered from the rain much of the grain presenting a rusted appearance ; but thi s blight, we trust, is partial. The present wet and unsettled state of the weather, however, is giving some unerviuess. This is a very critical season of the year. Should it clear up, the harvest will be most abundant—if not, grain of every kind will be much injured.— Tyrone Constitution. We perceive the speculators are at work in consequence of the lats rain, and wheat, flower, oats, and meal have advanced con siderably in the London and Liverpool markets. Wheat is up Is. per SOlb. ; flour 4s. per sack. There cannot be greater folly —the man who can sell at present prices is wise to do so, for a few weeks will depress them low enough. The crops have re ecived no injury whatever—there never was a better premise of an abundant harvest, and if the weather keeps fine, which is probable, prices will range lower than they have done for years past. We are blessed here with delightful harvest weather.— Sligo Journal. Notwithstanding the cause of alarm that - has for some time past existed, relative to the state of the coming harvest, we are happy to be able to state, on the testimony of an intelligent correspondent, who has just returned from the counties of Tip perary, Kilkenny, and Cork, that the appearance of the gene, ral crops is of the most luxuriant character. - He states that although passing by four hundred fields of wheat, he did not witness one field but what was perfectly upright. Oats ap peared equally abundant, with the exception of two fields, a part of which was partially laid. The potato crop appears more abundant than for years past. In the counties of Tippe rary and Kilkenny our correspondent says that the wheat crop, although far advanced, is not so much so as in the county of Cork. In the latter, particularly about Fermov and towards Cork, the crops appear rapidly approaching towards maturity. A few weeks of sunshine, which we hope to obtain, will set everything right.— Cork Examiner. During the last week the weather has been very wet, and it i s feared a continuation of similar weather would do immense injury. The crops, generally speaking, as yet seem to have suffered little. Potatoes of a very excellent quality are selling in our market at 41. per stone.—Athlone Sentinel. During the last, three or four weeks the weather has been very unsettled. On Monday the heaviest showers of rain that have been witnessed for many years fell in this neighbourhood. The crops as yet have not sustained much injury, and if the weather soon takes a favourable change a most luxuriant and abundant harvest may be expected.— Tyratoty Herald. For some time past the weather has been in a most un settled state. We have had severe cold winds, with copious and frequent showers of rain, which, we fear, must cause con siderable damage to the forward crops in this part of the coun try. Last night the rain descended in torrents, and should there be a continuance of weather like the present, the worst fears may be entertained for the safety of the harvest. We hope that a kind Providence will order it otherwise.— Galway Mercury. GLASGOW COTTON SPINNERS.--At a full meeting of the cotton spinners of Glasgow and vicinity, along with the tenters of self-acting machines, held in the Institution Hall, in Great Hamilton-street, on Wednesday last, it was unanimously agreed that under present circumstances it is advisable for the trade to demand from their employer? , an increase upon their present rate of wages. It was , l e ft, however, dele , ::n.te the. , ting: representing the cotton-spinners of It i,;fewsl:;.e a: CI Ulasgow, to be held in Paisley, to arrange the amount to be asked, and the manner in which it should be demanded.—Glasgow National. HOP INTELLIGENCE. MAIDSTONE, AUG. 11.—Our reports all tell the same tale— continued wet, wintry weather putting an entire stop to the pro gress of the plant : and if we get anything like an average crop this year, according to the present appearances, it will be the most remarkable instance on record—hops and hot sum mers having always gone hand in hand hitherto. The late winds and rains have retarded the plantations another week, in addition to having bruised the bine and broken down a great many poles. The burr has suffered much by the whipping at the tops of the branches it is as hard as shot, and about the same size as number fours. The duty has receded to 175,0001. A correspondent observes that this is the most singular season he ever remembered. For freedom from vermin and mould, together with the general luxuriousness of the plant, he never saw so abundant a prospect_provided this was the early part of July, instead of the second week in August. For a thousand acres not a spot of mould, or an appearance of vermin is to be seen—but yet the growth is at a stand-still, not a hop is visible, and the burr itself comes out very languidly— and this within a month of the usual time for commencing hopping. THE Fa IitEIGHS. Coming out in burr slowly—abundance of bine, which has suffered much from the wind. Box LEY, AYLESFO RD, AND BE it HA H. —The hops in these parishes have received considerable injury from wet and rain ; the burr comes out very slowly, and from the backwardness of the sei.son a short crop must be expected. Ira LDING. —We have plenty of bine and burr and are now free from vermin. At this late period, however, there is much against the crop. The wind also knocks the shoots about sadly, and the weati - er is much too cold for them. A frosty night would probably he fatal, as a similar occurrence was about this time, in 1816. I~IEItEWOitTH, WATERINGBURT, AND BA RMING.— From these parishes we have the same report as from others— abundance of bine, burr coming out slowly, but no appearance of hops. EAST Alamano.—The plantations here present as splendid an appearance of bine as ever was seen, and one forty-acre piece (Mr. Browning's) has at present the prospect of gro.v ing more than a ton an acre. WEST MA LUNG.— The bines here have been considerably beaten by the late stormy weather, but have a great show of burr. HAritow.—ln consequence of the late heavy rains and cold winds the hops in this district appear almost at a stand. Some burr has appeared, but few and far between. Fr,un these cir. cumstances the probability of anything like a full crop is very doub*mul. WROTH AM, PLA 'VTOL, IGHTHA M. —The late heavy winds, rain, and cold nights and mornings, make a very decidedly un favourable impression relative to anything like a full crop of hops here. The burr does not come out freely. Still we are free from vermin, and have but little disease. No one can say what a few we, ks' fine weather would do, but without it, cer tainly a large crop cannot be expected. Grounds within the range of the high winds of Saturday sustained much damage; 500 poles were torn down in one plantation of about three acres, in the course of an hour. _ SEVENOAKS —The hops have made little progress this week, and we are fearful, without an alteration in the weather, we shall have to report very unfavourably of them next. The bine begins to look sickly and yellow, particularly in the wet soils below the hill. Towards Edenbridge, we have seen a piece or two out in hop, but the generality bang much in burr, owing, most probably, to the cold n'ghts and heavy rains. We dis cover but little fly. In exposed situations the wind has sadly battered the plant, particularly where the bine is very luxuriant, and it has certainly knocked the duty down to 180,0001. at least. Maidstone Journal. HEALTH OF THE COUNTRY. The Registrar-General has just made public a quar terly report, abounding in interest. The Registrar of Charlton gives this curious account of .the medical attendance of his district:, : _ _ Thinking it desirable to know the proportion of the inhabitants who avail themselves of medical assistance in time of severe illness, I hare for some years past kept private record of the attendants in cases of fatal disease, an an tiy.iis of which gives the following result Out of one "thousand cases of fatal illness recorded, there were— . . Undtr the care of regular medical practitioners as • private patients 585 As Abopensary, infirmary, and hospital patients Pre'SCribed for by druggists . !lad no medical assistance whatever during the last illness "From this it appears that this district, which contains a smaller proportion of the very poor than most others, nearly one quarter (226 out of 100) are not attended by autcorised practitioners even in their last illness, and many of the rest are so attended for a very short time ,oily preceding death. There -is no doubt that the proportion of tha , ,e who do not Obtain regular medical assistance in less severe forms of disease is very much larger. The absence of proper medical attendance, in a large.proportion of cases, renders it exceedingly difficult to procure correct information of the cause of death— impossible, indeed, without great care and labour, and the employment of medical knowledge." A statement of this kind, while showing how service able to the interests of the profession may be a careful and thoughtful system of reoistration, and therefore how much to - be encouraged, offers a striking picture of the need that exists that the medical attendance which superabounds in this country should be made more avail able then it is—through causes easily removed—to the exigencies of. the public. The mortality of the spring .quarter has, after all, been less than the average. Small pox has, however, committed fearful ravages, from the apathy of the poor to the advantages of vaccination. In the only case of death recorded alter vaccination, the operation had been performed by a midwife. One hun dred and four women &so died from childbirth in the metropolis within three months. The weekly deaths in the metropolis fell progressively in the quarter from eight hundred :and eighty-four to seven hundred and tifry-six as the temperature ro .e.—Medical Times. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.—Last night, about half-past six o'clock two young men, brothers were drowned in in the Clyde at the Green, under circumstances of very dis s,,eTibtrilerir tofA i efiei b irr tressi _galore Messrs. H. Monteith and Co., at Darrowfield, an d the latter satj are _ George and a tailor, who has recently been working we believe, in Paisley. It appears that in the course of yesterday (Sunday), the two brothers, who had not seen each other for a consi derable time, met in town—so far as is known, accidentally —and had some whisky together, by which they both became somewhat intoxicated. They afterwards proceeded along Glasgow-green, where they were seen quarrelling. George, the elder brother, repeatedly pushed and knocked Robert about, and once or twice threw him on the ground, at which the latter appeared vexed and mortified, but so far as we have heard, made no attempt at retaliation. Their conduct attracted the notice of a number of blackguard boys in the green, who followed and assailed them with expressions ef jeering and mockery, such as are frequently used towards persons found in a state of intoxication. hen they reached the well situated trnmediatety beyond Dominie's Hole, a short way westward of Allan's Pen, the elder brother threw the younger down upon the ground, and soiled his clothes, which were wiped by a little girl who chanced to be upon the spot. While she was doing so, he complained to her that his brother had been teasing and ill-using him. He then went to the brink of the river, and at the moment his brother George was drinking at the well, exclaimed Farewell Geordie," and threw himself into the water, The elder brother at once plunged in to his rescue, but fell upon him, and they both went below. They came again to the surface, however, and Robert, the youngest brother, contrived to get to the shore, where he lay for a short time half in and half out of the water. He then saw his brother struggling for life, and went back into the river, obviously to render him assistance : but by this time the strength of both was gone, and they sunk to the bottom. The bodies were recovered in the course of the evening.— Glasgow Argus. THE HARVEST.—Here and there patches of wheat were cut in this county in the course of the past week, and no doubt the sickle would have been in more general requisition, as in some districts, we understand, much of the corn is riper than it would appear from a cursory glance, had net the storms and gloomy weather determined the farmers to wait. The sunshine and drying wind of yesterday morning set many in activity, and the cutting of wheat became rather general, though the afternoon showers a little damped the full ar dour ef harvest. A return of settled summer weather, now se much needed for gathering in the fruits of the earth, would set the sickle and the scythe in full operation.—Essex Herald. SWALLOWING FOREIGN BODIES.—Dr. Brookes de scribes two cases, in one of which a black pin, and in the other a halfpenny, was swallowed, and remained sti cking in tke ceso dhagus. In each instance the foreign body could readily be distinguished in the tube, where its presence was productive of great distress: the doctor's practice, however, was at first restricted to the exhibition of an emetic, and he did not have recourse to the probes:lg until the emetic had proved useless. Immediate relief followed the dislodgement of the foreign bo dies, which were afterwards found in the stools. We trust the experience thus gained by Dr. Brookes will induce him in future not to trust to emetics, when the foreign body is within reach"of the probang.—Medical Times. LIST or um MAJESTY'S VESSELS WHOSE TERMS OF THREE YFARS AND UPWARDS HAVE EXPIRED.--Agin court (flag ), 72, Captain W. J. H. Johnstone, East Indies ; Aigle, 24, Lord Clarence E. Paget, Mediterranean; Alba tross, 16, Reginald Yorke, Coast of Africa ; Ardent, steam sloopl.John Russell (h), Coast of Africa; Basilisk, 6, Fleury S. Hunt. Pacific ; Beacon, 6, Thomas . Graves, Mediterra nean ; Cleopatra, 26, Christopher Wyvill, Cape of Good Hope ; Daphne , 18, John J. Onslow, .Pacific ; Devastation, steam-sloop, W. H. Kitchen, Mediterranean; Driver, steam-sloop, Courtenay E. Hayes, East Indies; Fly, 18, Francis P. Blackwood, East Indies ; Formidable (flag), 14, George F. Risk, Mediterranean ; Geyser, steam-sloop, E. J. Carpenter, Mediterranean ; Growler, steam-sloop, C. H. M. Buckle, Coast of Africa ; Hazard, 18, David Robertson, East Indies ; North Star, 26, Sir James E. Home, East Indies ; Orestes, 18, E. S. L. Cannon, Mediterranean ; Philomel, 6, Bartholomew J. Sulivan, South East Coast of America; Pique, 36, Hon. Montague Stopford, North America ; Plover, surveying-vessel, Richard Collinson, East Indies; Polyphemus, steam-sloop, Thomas Spark, Mediterranean ; Ringdove, 16, Sir William Daniell, Coast of Africa ; Salamander, steam-sloop, Andrew S. Hammond, Pacific ; Sapphire, 22, John R. Fittock, East Indies ; Scylla, 10, Robert Sharpe, North America and West Indies; Serpent, 16, William Nevill, East Indies; Snake, 16, Hon. W. B. Devereux, Mediterranean; Spartan. 26, Hon. C. G. J. B. Elliott, North America and West Indies; Spider, 6, Richard E. Pam, south-east coast of America; Talbot, S 6, Sir Thonsas R. T. Thompson, Pacific; Thalia, 42, Charles Hope, Pacific ; Vixen, steam-sloop, George Giffird, East Indi es; Warspite, 50, P. W. P. Wallis, Mediterranean ; Winchewer (flag), 50, Charles Eden, Cape of Good Hope; Wolf. 18, Jaetes A. Gordon, East Indies; Wolverine, 16, W. J. C. Clifford, East Indies. THE LATE SESSION.—Front the official records issued by order of both Houses of Parliament it appears that no fewer than 666 different documents, either in the form of reports a n d bl ue b ooks (some extending to upwards of 1,000 folio pages each), or returns, statistical or otherwise, have been directed to be printed by the House of Commons alone. By far the greater number of these have been already issued; but a long list of documents, including many of the utmost public importance and interest, still remain to be printed and distributed ; and the like is the case with respect to the papers of the other branch of the Legislature. No fewer than 22 reports, returns, &c., were moved for or presented in the House of Commons only on the last day of the session, all of which will be some time before they are ready for publication. Indeed, these- proofs of the labours of a session generally con tinue being afforded during a large portion of the recess ; the more especially will it b e so now, un exampled labour and e x t ens i ve i nvest i ga tion. The House of Lords sat during the late sess i on 95 d a y s; and the House of Commons 125. The offi c i a l recor d s o f t h e p r oceedings of the those former occupy 1,048 pa ges ; after a session of such of Use lower House of Par liament 2,078 pages, the last two of which contain 16 notices of motions, which now stand in the order-book of that House " for the next session." There were altogether 170 divisions during the past session in the House of Commons. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTH ERN CI RCUlT.—Lanca:ter, Aug. 12. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron RoLFE.) DUCKETT V. TOMLINSON. This action was brought to recover damages for the seduc tion of the plaintiff's daughter. The plaintiff is a plasterer at Chorley, and the defendant a reedmaker at the same place. Mr. Segsr conducted the case of the plaintiff, and Mr. Atherton that of the defendant. . . The plaintiff's daughter, on being sworn, stated that she was about 21 years of age. Her family consisted of her father, aged 52, her mother, aged 60, a younger sister of 19, anal herself. They all lived together in the same house. She had been in a factory some time back, and her sister was now engaged in that way. There were three sleeping-rooms in their house, one of which had been occupied by herself and her sister, the second by her father and mother, and the third by an apprentice of her father. The families of the plaintiff and defendant had for some years been ac quainted. Defendant's father died, leaving his widow in the business of reedmaker, at which the defendant worked, and after the death of his father, in January, 1844, the defendant came to lodge at the plaintiff's, his mother lodging at the shep where he worked, which was a cellar, though one of the prin cipal shops of the kind in Chorley. The witness proceeded to state that her father, E the time the defendant lodged with them, used to go out to work at an early hour in the morning. The defendant used to take his meals. He began to pay her attentions some time after he became a lodger, and since that she had had a child, of which he was the father, and which was born on the 27th of last March. The defendant, in speaking of his property, had said that he had a house in Chapel-street, and two in Bolton-street. Those in Bolton street were cottages, and the other a house letting for 181. a year. Defendant, as a reedmaker, had ►he best stock in the place. He once said he got about 30s. in three days. lie had, on ihie occasion, advised her father not to suffer the visits of a young man who used to frequent the house, observing that his (the plaintiff's) daughters were respectable girls, and that the young man was not a person of good character. The witness, on cross-examination by Mr. ATHERTON, stated that defendant paid 2s. 6d. per week for his lodging, and that that included cooking and washine. When he came to lodge she and her sister left their room for hies, and slept in the same room with their father and mother. The witness had been a winder in a factory just before he came to lodge with the family. He used to come home sometimes very late, and she used to sit up to let him in, the rest of the family being in bed. The defendant sometimes came home in liquor. She had not mentioned that to her father. He first began to take liberties with her on his return home one night at about 10 o'clock. Her sister was then out also, and re turned from the factory-school at about 11 at night. Did not mention the defendant's attempt upon that occasion. That was the latter end of March. She continued to sit up for him as before, and he repeated his attempt in April, and again in May. Did not mention those attempts to any one. It was at 6 o'clock one morning that defendant succeeded in his purpose. There was no one else in the house then but the apprentice. Her father was gone to his work, and her mother on a journey, and her sister to the factory. The girl's sister was called, and confirmed, to some extent, the foregoing evidence. Mr. J. Walworth, manufacturer, of Chorley, stated that the girl had worked in his factory. Knew the defendant, and had purchased reeds of him. His business is w.,rth about 1001. a year. Does not know, but supposes that he must employ a man or two to assist him in the business, Mr. ATHERTON, in addressing the jury for the defendant, said, that it was admitted that the plain:iff was entitled to some damages, because the defendant did not deny that he was the father of the child, and he ( Mr. Atherton) could not altoge ther justify the conduct which had unfortunately taken place between these young people. But this was a mere question of money, and the father, by the degree of negligence which he had betrayed respecting the conduct of his own daughter, did not show himself entitled to more than moderate da mages. It was not a proper thing that this young woman should have been left up of nights to let in a lodger like the defendant, and it was a remarkable fact in the case that, in order to find room for the defendant, the father had allowed the two young women, his daughters, to leave their own room, and to sleep in a room occupied by himself. With re spect to the means of the defendant, it was not distinctly shown that he in fact possessed anything at all, and it was most inconsistent with the idea of his having property of his own that he should be lodging at a house where he paid but 2s. 6d. a week for house-room, cooking, and washing included. It was for the jury, however, to determine what amount of damages might be just; he would only submit that the nature of this particular case was such as to suggest that they ought to be moderate, and more particularly as it had not been proved that the lather had been put to any additional-expense on account of what had happened to his daughter. His Loansitsr, in summing up the case, appeared to express it as his opinion thatit did not necessarily follow, from what was admitted on the plaintiff's side, that the plaintiff himself was at all to blame, or that he had in any degree been negligent as to the conduct of the girl. The jury consulted together for two or three minutes, and then gave a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 701. WESTERN ClitGUlL—Derises, August 12. (Before Mr. Justice ERLE. ) Thomas Sheppard was indicted for having, on the 22d of March, sent a letter to Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., threatening to destroy his property, at Everleigh. From the evidence, it appeared that, on the 22d of March last, a woman was going along the garden of a person of the name of Coles, who resided near the mansion-house of Sir Francis Aatley, at Everleigh, when seeing something on the ground, she picked it up, and it proved to be a letter addressed to Sir Francis Astley. The letter went through different hands, until it reached Fir Francis Astley, when it turned out to be the following : " Everly,—Sir Frances, if ther is not littel alteration in Everley verey soon that Sem of the pepeel send out of the parish of Everley, as thee is more then hundred inhabetens brote into the parish since Sir Frances is com to Everley,. and Mr. Brown and Mr. Thorall, and if ther is not littel altera tion made, we will burn the whoul parish dune to the ground. if the land were put into small farms ther would more hands employed, and if ther is not, we will burn the wohol parish . doun to the ground, for it our intengen to it set afier." The prisoner was apprehended in two days, and he was asked to write a letter, which he consented to do, and the found letter was dictated to him, and he wrote from the dicta tion, but that Which he wrote was in a much better hand, and was correctly spelt. A parish clerk was called, who stated that the prisoner, in 1837, had been desk to a hpo.fit society. and he r ad. therefo , . hornmo familiar /Is laic b.andwriting. Uputs looking at the fetter found in the garden, he said ho did not believe it to be in the prisoner's writing. A gentleman from Doctors'-commons, who called himself an inspector of disputed writings, stated, that from a careful examination of the letter, he was convinced that it was written in a disguised hand. The prisoner had left Everleigh for two years, and had worked at Marlborough; but on the day in question he was at Everleigb, and complained of the hardness of the times. The prisoner, in his defence, said he knew nothing about it ; he had never written such a letter in his life. The Learned JUDGE having summed up the case, the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. William Cox was indicted for maliciouslycutting and wound ing James Humphries, at Corsham, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. This prisoner was a poor miserable looking wretch, with his head tied up with a handkerchief. The evidence was very simple. It appeared that on the 7th of March last the prosecutor, being sergeant of the Corsham Court of Requests, went, accompanied by two other persons, to the house of the prisoner to levy an execution. On their arrival they found the door of the cottage open; they walked in, and saw Cox sitting down in the room. They told him what they were come about. He said he had no money. They said they should take the goods. The prisoner then stooped down, picked up a bill-hook, and inflicted a severe wound on the head of Humphries, who became insensible. There then seemed to have been some fight between the prisoner and the other two men, arid hard blows indeed must have been given on both sides. It was proved that the prisoner had epileptic fits, and was much excited when money was mentioned. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment without hard labour. • POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. - THE TEA WARRANTS CASE.—MT. W. T. Bland ap peared on Friday, Tuesday, and yesterday, before the Lord Mayor, to answer the complaint of Sheriff Sidney. Air. Clarkson and Mr. Humphreys appeared to support the charge ; Mr. Parry attended for the defendant. The justice-room was crowded with persons engaged in the tea trade. Sheriff Sidney stated that he is in partnership with W. Hall,and carried on the wholesale tea trade, on Ludgate-hill. He had known Mr. Bland for the last fifteen years, and occa sionally had had dealings with him from the house of Bennet and Co., and believed him to be one of the firm. Witness had, on the 22d of July, a quantity of teas for sale, previously to which time he mentioned to Mr. Bland that be had some teas which did not suit the trade of the house he belone * ed to, and wished to dispose of them at the market price. Mr. Bland called upon him on the 22d of July respecting these teas, saw the samples, was informed of the quantities, and agreed to the price, saying, " Very well, I'll take these teas at one month prompt, and you will take a parcel of teas from Bennet and Co. for cash. Before that witness supposed that he was dealing with the house of Bennet and Co., and he said to 'Mr. Bland, " Bennet and Co. ! Are you not a partner in the house of Bennet and Co. ?" To which Mr. Bland replied, " No, not a partner; they allow me 6001. a year to do busi ness for them, and they allow me to do business en my own account." Mr. Bland then expressed a wish to have the war rants that he might examine the teas and show them to the trade, and witness told him lie might have the warrants of the broken parcels, but there could• be no ne cessity for his taking the warrants of the 93 boxes of pouchong or the 24 chests of twankay, per the Hebrides. Witness then called Mr. Wells, his clerk, into the counting house, and told him to bring the warrants of the b r ok en parcels. Part of the !goods, amounting to 1901., remained in the docks to the order of the house, and Mr. Wells brought the orders of these teas and the warrants into the counting house, and witness told Mr. Wells, in Mr. Bland's presence, that Mr. Bland would not require the warrants for the pou chong or the twankays, and the others might be given to him. Air. Bland then left the counting-house. The meaning of " prompt one month " was, that the party purchasing should not pay for the teas for one month ; and with respect to the warrants, it was usual to retain them till the expiration of the month, and then exchange them for the money. When Mr. Bland had left the house witness called Mr. Wells into the counting-house, and, in consequence of information arising from their conversation, went with him to Mr. Bland to de mand the warrants for the ninety-eight boxes of pouchong and the twenty-four chests of twankay, as these were warrants he could not want for the purpose of sampling, and were not broken parcels. The bargain had taken place between three and four o'clock, and Mr. Wells was sent to Mr. Bland about five o'clock. ( The information given by Mr. Wells was that he had handed all the warrants to Mr. Bland.) that U phoenhhaids reasons,r oss -e a u mi p r t i e a t t i h o I'y e n 22d Aeif July, Parry, f r considering 1 that Mr. Bland was a partner in the firm of Bennet and Co. The pouchong warrants and the warrants for the young hyson were delivered to Mr. Bland on his own account. The pouchongs were worth about 801., and the twankays about 1101. Witness admitted that he had met Mr. Bland on friendly terms after the 22d of July, but did not know that he had pledged these warrants. He did ride with Mr. Bland in a cab. He had that honour. He knew of the warrants having been taken on that day, but Mr. Bland said he had !edged them with a br.ker for sale. The 2d of August was the first day he had a sus picion. On the 4th of August he went with Mr. Slaney to Mr. Bland for the purpose of getting the warrants back, and he said if they were not returned he should certainly see his solicitor ; and, after making three proposals to him, he said he should see the Lord Mayor on the subject, but gave him that day to consider. His first proposal was that Mr. Bland should return the warrants for the twankays per Hebrides. The second that, if Mr. Bland had not sold the whole of the goods, he should return the warrants, and witness should give up the contract. The third that, in case any warrants for the twan kays were not available to Mr. Bland to return to him, he should give witness equal securities for them ; but not one of d tat w h i o t hu returno. ht hAhelewr recollectedan n t s d bount it wit nessthat m t h c e e do p ind r o dn i o dc ; nlt r oi eect (:ns: ll Y e s wh ct eer h se i h s coo r u e ln p i l a very wordy ono, Mr. Charles WeDa, clerk to Messrs. Sidney and Hall, stated, that on the 22d of July he was present at the interview be tween Mr. Sidney and Mr. Bland part of the time. Mr. Sidney called to him to bring some warrants and delivery orders of broken parcels. Witness brought the whole of them, with the exception of the twankays, per the Hebrides, and left Mr. Bland in Mr. Sidney's counting-house, with all the war. rants in his hand except those fur the twenty-four twankays. Shortly afterwards witness returned to Mr. Sidney's counting house, and heard Mr. Sidney say to Mr. Bland, " Oh, you'll not want those souchongs," or " There is no occasion for your having them." Mr. Bland replied, " Oh, yes, I may as well have them ' • I shall want them to sample ;" and witness did not think Mr. Sidney objected, but did not hear him speak, for he (witness) went backwards and forwards. Witness went back to his counting-house for the warrants for the twenty-four chests of twankay, which he took to Mr. Sidney's counting house, and was going to give them to Mr. Bland, but Mr. Sidney took them from him, and said, " Oh, you must not have those warrants," and gave them back to witness; and Mr. Bland said, " I may as well have them altogether." Wit- LC , SI did not hear Mr. Sidney make any answer, and, as he was going to his counting-house, gave the warrants to Mr. Bland, who then went away. After Mr. Mind had departed, Mr. Sidney called witness to him, and they had a conversation, and witness went to Mr. Bland, to get back the warrants for the ninety-eight boxes of pouchong and the twenty-four chests of twankay, and Mr. Blaiid gave him warrants for eighty-nine boxes of pouchong, but said the warrants for the twankay were placed in a broker's hands, and that he would send them to Mr. Sidney in a day or two. A day or two afterwards Mr. Bland called, but did not tring the warrants wilt him. Mr. Charles Millard, tea and coffee dealer, of Little Tower street, said—Mr. Wand, who was well known to me, called en me on the 22d of July a , . a little after four o'clock. He said he wanted some money he had to pay. and he wished me to let him have some on some orders, and also on some warrants fur twenty-four chests of twankay. I advanced him 2581. odd. There were some orders on some warrants. Orders for five chests of young hyson, one chest of gun powder, two of ditto, per City of Derry, and warrants for twenty-four chests of twankay, per Hebrides. The orders were in Sidney and Hall's names, deliverable to W. J. Bland on order. I asked him whether the warrants were his, and he said they were; that he had bought them of Mr. Sidney, aryl that he thought he should do a great deal of business with Mr. Sidney. I asked him how it happened that Mr. Sidney gave him the warrants, and he said he had given warrants in ex change ; that he had sold goods to Mr. Sidney to lull or more than the amount of those he had bought. The teas were sold, as Mr. Bland said I might sell them at once. I gave the war rants to the brokers, T. and R Moffatt, of Mincing-lane, and I got the orders exchanged for warrants in my brother's name a day or two after. Mr. Bland said he had been to the warehouses to see that the gocels were there, and showed me a receipt from Nicholson's Wharf to that effect. The transac tion was a private one, not a partnership one, for which reason I get the orders transferred in my brother's name. I lent the money to oblige Mr. Bland. I took from him a memorandum, which I required tam to sign, as I have done before. that they were his goods, and authorising me to sell them at a given time, the Ist of August, as I think. The witness, in cro-s-examination by Mr. Bland, said that it was defendant's frequent pr,ne lee to call and expiatn his cir cumstances to witness; that the defendant had had loans fi orn him both with and without warrant!, and such deposits had always turned out right, and that that practice had extended over a period of three years. Upon his re-examination the witness said—l certainly do not consider Mr. Wand's circumstances to be good. He was not in the habit of bringing such large parcels. He has com pounded and has not veld hi, instalments. I was a creditor of his for 9001. to 1,11001. I gave him part in money and part in cheques, and he gave me oirt of it a portion of the old debt— about 151. I deducted the 151. from he 258/ The witness then produced the following loan paper which he received from Mr. Biand : " London, July 22, 1845. " enosidecation of your having this day advanced it w the sum of 258/. ss. 81., I have deposited with you, as a Coilateral security for tlift repayment of the same, the following Wolauts, &c., for tea, as :per particulars annexed—l hereby engage to repay you the said ns , ,ney, 256/ 55. ad., in cash or Bank of Engl.:nd notes, with interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum, '.n or before the Bth of August next, .which, if 1 fail to do, 1 awborise you to sell the said tea by public or private sale, and should any loss or losses, togett er with all costs, charges, &c., I engage to pay the same on demand, the said teas being at this time my property. ( Signed) . " Mr. C. V. Millard." "W. G. BLAND. Mr. Josiah Brown, wholesale tea dealer, at No. 47. Carson street, having been called as amicus curie by the Lord i%layor to give some explanation with regard to the practice of the trade, made his affirmation, and, in answer to his Lordship, said, " Bought at three months means, that when sold at three months, and the teas are not wanted before that time, they are to be paid for on that day, and warrants taken in exchange for the money if wanted before. If the parcel were a hundred chest parcel, there would be six or nine chest lots, and if we want six or a hundred chests we pay for that proportion. A month prompt ustrally*fers to second-hand parcels, that is, thossewhich are in , the-hand-, of the trade ; but it is usual, by '*ay of courtesy, to deliver the warrants, but it depends upon the seller treating; his buyer with confidence. If not he retains the warrants ; .but I cannot say what is more usual, withhold ing the, warrants or delivering them." Air. Clarkson said that the evidence which his Lordship had heard constituted the case against Mr. Bland, and Mr. Sidney, whose cot,duct was influenced by no feeling but a sense of justice and of duty to the public, left it entirely to his Lord ship to decide upon the course to he adopted on its future prosecution. The Loan MAYOR, said that he had maturely considered the whole of the evidence, and had come to the decision that Mr. Bland must appear elsewhere to answer the very serious charge against him. It was evident to him that Mr. Bland had used false representations to obtain the warrants, which he had dkposed of, which had been asked for under the pretence of sampling, and handed to a person, in the habit of rendering pecuniary assistance to Mr. Bland, for money, an flour after they had been thus improperly procured. Mr. Parry asked for what definite offence his Lordship thought of committing Mr. Bland. The LORD Mayoa stated that he should hold Mr. Bland to bail to appear at the Central Criminal Court, to answer any chirp which Mr. Sidney-might think proper to bring against him. Mr. Parry protested against a committal of so vague and indefinite a description, and Mr. Bland earnestly requested that his Lordship would bind n. r Air. Sidney and tne witnesses to prosecute_ 'l' he Loan MAYOR consented, and the defendant was re quested to enter into his own recognizances to the amount (I 500/. to appear at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court, to answer any charge which might be brought against him by Mr. Sydney. WORSIIIP-STREET. SUSPICIOUS DEATll.—Yesterday a man named Joseph Clark, a wooden-legged man, a jobbing porter in the neigh bourhood of Spitalfields, was brought before Mr Bingham, on suspicion of having been accessory to the death of a man whose name is unknown. The deceased was discovered about six o'clock yesterday morning, lying in one of the archways beside the new street in course of formation from St. Katharine's-dock through Spital fields. There were several hurts about the forehead and other parts, which might have been occasioned by a fall upon bricks or stoners; but there was a straight cut of a severe nal ore upon the crown of the head, which appeared quite distinct from the other hurts, and the side of line of street was fenced by a railing of such height that. an ordinary-sized man could not easily have fallen over it. No property of any kind was found upon the deceased but a sailor's nis , charge ticket, bearing the date of the current year, and the name of Michael William Edwards. The deceased, however, hail more the look of a rail way workman. Sergeant Barker said that. about half-past six yesterday morning he received information,_ in consequence of which he went to the spot.abuve• mentioned, and there found the de ceased lying on his face, and weltering in his blued, which was issuing from the mouth and nose. Subsequently he received a letter, which induced him to take the primmer into custody. James White, resident in Spitalfields, said that he procured the letter to be written. He proceeded to state that about half-past eleven on Tuesday night, while passing through Wentworth-street, he saw the prisoner and another man, whom he:believed to be -the -deckated, against a shop window. The dun seemed to be drunk, and the prisoner, who appeared to be s sOber, was poking him in the side with a stick as hard as he - : could, while another man was encouraging the prisoner, and hitting the man with his fist. The witness said he was passing 'on the opposite side, but he was sure the prisoner was the per son he saw hitting the other. The prisoner said he know nothing about the deceased or any violence committed upon him. The Magistrate remanded him until the Coroner's inquest should have been held, [ADVERTISEMENT.] RErNINGTON'S . LINE. - LONDCN AND MANCHESTER DIRECT INDEPENDENT RAILWAY. We noticed in our last the unscrupulous manner in which the promoters of a quasi cimpeting " Direct" line from London to Manchester had " appmpriata l" some of the peculiar features of Remit gtote.—the elder, bett er , 410 mor(f ) p:ptdai Ashurst is the person who acted.thus ; and, by way of showing how far the op- Pfisite of modesty May .tie carried, he now charges the ~promoters of Remington's line with having been later the field than himself; and (inferentially) with having taken up his ideas. Thus doth Augustus Muzzlewig, Who perpetrates middling rhymes in the Butoek-smitity Gaze te, " convey" whole pages from " Paradise Lost," and declare that his prose-run-mad was written long be fore Milton flourished ! The test of priority is simple. We have it and shall apply it. Let us look to the registration of the two nr j bets. On the Ist of November, 1844, Mr. Remington regis tered his line : " For making a direct railway from London, cum • mencing at or near Battle-bridge, to Manchester and York respectively, by one trunk line to Bedford or thereabouts, and thence diverging north-westward to Manchester, and north-eastward to York." The prospectus, registered at the same time, was sittriO4#l ; op t 44ll4irk lJ e;repistration:— " Prospectus of tlie4Diyect London, Manchester, and ,York Railway, vid*Beriford,laking in its route Chipping arpvt; Se:Albates, Luton, Silsue, Ampthill, and Bed :frt. diverging thence north-westwards to Manchester tiri,-Wellingbore.i.igh, Kettering, Market Harbnrough, be:tee'ster, Loughborough, Derby, Uttoxeter. Cheadle. Le. k, and Macclesfield ; and north-eastwards to York by Higharn Ferrars, Thrapaton, Oundle, S amford, Grantham, Newark, between Retford and Guinsborough to Thorne, Snaith, and Selby. Capital 7.0J0,000/., in shares of 501. each. Deposit 21. los. per share." The prject thus registered remained in statu quo until the Ist of May, when it was revived by public advertisement by the Bedford solicitor of the line, and, on the 24th of that month, w;l5 a second time re gistered by Mr. Remi , gt....;. as ws " DIRECT INDEPENDENT LONDON AND MANCHESTER RAILNitAY.--Comtne ,•., , t King's-cross, at the north o ay's-inn r thetic , round Friern Barnet, , inr Barnet, St. Alba'n's, Luton, IVe:lingborou4h, aa.,otv,„ .. i . lro,irpltti;ll2; i rtillt„lifice- ter ; thenee across th e Sfv f 4iivingturt,..apd ~ei'eester Railway to Barton-up 11- %114 i-Ttroxeter; Teal., Cheadle, Lack, Sto;..kport, and Maatchester.'! 'Ashairst's "Direct" line was not registered until the 22nd of May, exactly six months and twenty-one days after Remington!s had been registered. It was entered as " The Direct London and Manchester Railway Corn piny, carriers by railway of passengers, goods and mei.- ..hatielize between London and Marvih , •ster." The pir ;ftelentary announcement was as rol!ows •: " It is in , ended to commence in London at Farring , ~n-street, and to take in route ti,e following towns, as nearly as consistent Kith the surveys now in progress, :—Highgate, Fincbley, Barnet, St. Alban's, serving possible, Litton, Woburn, Ampthill, Wellingborough, • „edmou..:, - . . ..~c.... •.-Y~_ ~ T - littering, Market Harborough, joining the Midland Counties Railway at Leicester. (It is intended to proceed for t.lir ty miles to Derby on that line.) It will then take its course t Ashbourne, thence near to Hartington and Longnon, pasiing midway between Buxton to Mendes enh of wk,ch lines is only four miles distant from the proposed line, direct to Stockport, and will tbenoa juin ,he lire whiih runs from that line to its terrni oo° . at Manchester." So much fur priority of design ! Now let our readers compare t e registered purpose of the Ashurst proje6 with its p esent adec?tised purp..se, and what will they lied ? 'I hat the line so registered, then, is very diffe ren: from the line now adv , ;TtiEed. The alterations are about ten days old ! The original plan was not fur ose di -s et line from Linden to Manchester, but for a serial of links, each deperdant on the other. Therefore, it ha; no claim to the name of " independent " and " direct Besides, Ashurst's original line would go to Manchester by a route very diffurent from that proposed at th e eleventh hour—a route " borrowed " from Mr. Reining' tun. Thus the case is den - - •the original line is th 00, overboard, and Mr. Ashurst has quietly taken up the rival tine. This is "stealing the brooms ready-made." ,vine years ago Mr. Remington planned and surveyed this ad tnirable line. Is the triumph, the advantage of rnaijail it to be taken from him, on the eve of success, by a rivas tti ho merely abandons his 7 own • crude plans, and apPl lr prtatcs what it is clear he could not make? 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V‘:urtit'lf however confess that a perusal of this work has left such ala"rdi,,ll/ iairiression on cur minds, that we not only recommen d, hot ee erl°: wish every one who is the victim of past folly, or suffering &ot: cretion, to profit by the advice contained 1.0. l pages."—Age ,ted The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is exclusively di re , los , the cure of nervous and sexual debility, irre gu la r ity, wealsn e ',;o ° of appetite, indigestion, consumptive habits, and debilities ari sing 0 06 , excess, &c. Iu bottles, price 1 Is., or the quantity of four 4- 00. 7 bottle for 33c, by which Ils. are saved. The five-pound c a be had as usual. „,, 141j' The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an — 14 4 01; antic remedy for searching out and purifying the blood from blotches en the head, face, and body, ulcerations, and thos e 1•ct0 7 .1 erections arising from improper treatment or the effects of ra — rri* - removing secondary symptoms, and all eruptions of the ski n. 115. and 335. per bottle. n 45 ' f4' PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price ' d " and I Is. per box, are the most effectual remedy for strictures, ocs !Ration, irritation of the bladder, &c., without hi n d ra nce to ba_fg,,,j. Cons:illation fee, if by letter. 11. Minute detail of cases o e ,„%ir r e ' Messrs. Perry are in daily attendance, for con su ltation, at , 9 , an d silence, 19, Berners-street, 05rford.etreet, London. from tali - till S. On Sundays from 10 till 12. One personal visit is " ces,p , ne , rprt A p , ,e.nanent cure. SEA SICKNESS. th e THOMPSON'S REMEDY.—lncomparah l i best yet offered ; in a trial extending over two ye-rest, found efficacious in 93 cases out of every 100, in curing nr,P ri al ing sea-sickness. It is tasteless, readily administered, and given with perfect safety to an infant. The packet of eight Po uto,'" only occupy the bulk of a small card-case, a n d w eighs le vel.; than half an ounce. The steady and increasing sale of ";; efficacious remedy for sea-sickness induces the proprietors t, it more generally known. h u C a Sold by the proprietors, T. Thompson and Son, chemle.s: for Do- • . street, Liverpool ; wholesale by W. S. Rumsey (sole agent' A ' n 1 71 don), wholesale chemist, 3, Queen-street-place, City ; ari had retail of the most respectable chemists throughout th' ox fory‘ Kingdom ; of Dietrichsen and Hannay, Sanger and Squir e .,',..,tree, street ; Si.vory and Moore, New Bond-street and Begel:_ s tree`: Godfrey and Cooke, Fisher and Toiler, Bullock, Conduit jotleo Burfield, Strand; T. Keeting, St. Paul's Church-yard; and T. 4, Cheapside, in packets, at 2s. 9d. and I ls. each. T.O LORD ELDON'S APERIENT PlL— habitual Costiveness, have been the means of us c '; cure to many thousands ; they are peculiarly adapted for Pe A tl , '" both sexes who are of sedentary habits ; they are patronis e ...' nobility and gentry, and are the mildest and most efileac i° ` - ' eine extant. g eF ;; Sold in boxes at Is. 1%c1., 2s. 9d , and 45. sd., so 0, .4 Barclay and Co., 95, Farringdon-street ; Sutton and CO , sant e Churchyard; Newberry, 45, and Edwards, 65, St. Pind,"3/640 0 ',,i 150, Oxford-street; and by all respectable Druggists and 00" Venders in the Kingdom : and wholesale, at 13. Great St. Apostle, London. TESTI NIONIAL TO LORD ELDON'S PILLS. pre,; Sir,—l have subjected to a careful chemical analysis the I ..STrfen w pared by you, and find them-to consist of effectual but safe se" without any mercurial preparation whatever, Yours, A. ITRE, 341. D.• 13, Chariot te-st reet Bedford-square. London. , it at' On the ith inst., at Wid com b e Church, Bath , L ieute &o . Co;ovel Sir Claude N. Wade, C.B , of the East India th e Pany's lie! gal Service, to Jane Selina, eldest daughter %eII. late Clot. T. Nichol!, Horse artillery, Bengal establistneldet On the 7th inst., at Lyndhurst Church, t 7lau° l. i son of Gcorge Money Esq., of Whethani, Wilts, t°„ 01 second daughter of the late Sir Edward Poore, P3' Cuffnalls, Hants. DIED ' On the 10th inst., at Emsworth, Eliza Garrett, A s-8°- of the late Major Patten, sincerely reg retted. c r cee '3 On the 13th inst., Mrs. Caroline Mayo, of the ,-11-3 Head, Snow-hill, aged 57. daugh ter On the 1 Ith inst., p I t Brighton, Marv, rldest dat Esq., of Guildford-street, rriuted. usu r.L,lsnwt. or lifilJEDO 11 21 f 'v o. 112, strand, rint9r, at The Stitt OffiC e, ri i . Tuntl Straid. in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the '- Middlesex, Thursday, August 14, 184 i. • tail, bet , ( e tm tt TLi the 7 lAndi i Q T ~.....2.. On the 10th inst., at the Downes, near SoutharoP t°° ' lady of Andrew Saunders, Esq., of a son. into ll ' On the 11th inst., at Old Bond-street, Mrs. Alfred ki•• of a son. On the 11th inst., at the Node,Welwyn. Mrs. Rej On the 11th inst., at Hampstead, Mrs. A. Ray,efa di:lif fitrO ler°:. On the 6th inst., at Welchpool, the lady of R. P. . 1 ' son, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service, of a daughter. ~e lacy On the 10th inst., at. Lordship Ledge, Tottenham, L" of the Rev. Lewis Page Mercer, of a daughter. 14 dy On the 11th inst., at C o tt age - gree n, Camberwell, the of .Nin Woo!Cett, Esq., of a son. THE SUN, LONDON. THWRS EVENING, AUGUS7 14, 1:-,r1