The Sun. — London, England, 1850-11-28 00:00:00

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Agbg 91 1, Stoe lr h 689; o f ore doing, s ,ttleme P ii i e o re i° o o3 foto; r to° pro be D E I n ' sP, 13ra co re_p A e!.., ee bier; e 8. ba b r y per T ire 5 6 p to i• 2 , old irn 3le h a ibe brong" in fli : ° ro o / o p. al` sti orin lorth n po° ao lieg 13,0 rgfl° 961 4 1 i 1i 97 04 75 0- 18 1-16 8 86 P i , 7 / Pit% .01 , .10 116 68,1,34 ILLOYS SI - ppplNG.—..( Tills DA Y.) 411 ,1 4 , N13 °N Nov. 9 8.—Wind at noon N., light Lre , z3 • , he clear wc- 28.--Wind .r • sight •ro.sr • Successor, of Sun ` I'D, CLARE, 23.—The washe ( - 19.14 hd, struck on a rued' at Mutton Island, anti went d 'the bodies of the mastir and four men have been w ashed NOV.2s.—The i ; f : I L Z T Alfred drove on shore at Nov. • 25.—A large Engiiah schooner, deeply batt en ' wit h Paiiiied ports, way seen lying to, with fore „?,t gone, 21st Nov., in lat. 47, long. 9. of L ' 4 Ew Ross, Nov. 24.—The Neutral (? Venture) brig, ounderland, was fallen in with 2d Nov., in let. 45, °fl i t ;'' 47, waterlogged, dismasted, and abandoned. th-uNoAavox, Nov 23.—The Bathurst, on shore in d a e j , ' e hl, has been got • off, and come in to repair slight 4441-El43r, Nov. 25.—A s mall Frereh vessel is on zre between Worthing acid Littlehampton. fro IARU "Tu, Nov. 97.—The schooner Emerald parted her anchors in the gale of the 24th, and drove in the bud are: remains. dtDe ae ck J eof p i jue.l7l:o;i:Editin:riav damaged, ufrof2Nmpsi )A a, ,s ° 4 ul l :l.l 7 : i ehewc:ol:l;hoiaoesfni discharging 'Thomas aajg e ora,dm d e a ner deal l h e e dMo r f a‘ e w‘r a yFr r : g l ed, having' x been on shore in Downing's shnte bc AR, Nov. 27.—Th e Al a di n . schooner got on cie ou the North Esk last night, and remains suck; 4 ert e d to be saved. T he Ikv M Nor. 27.—1 t is blowing a gale from N.F. ca h - n ,, 4r Y , of and for this port from the northward, went gre at - 3 e to the westward, and it is feared will receive ereis a th tt4e; the life-boat has put out to rescue the vi 4 . s chooner is reported to be on shore at Burnham. has s i.7 4, Nov. 13.—The Munro, of Leith, St. Peters -1,4. to Elsinyre, run on Fahludd Reef during a ga . l . e . pr o t l l 4 ,qe Sad is not expected off; cargo and stores I°3 ' be landed. wle saved; crew Echo FoEtn, Nov. 18.— rhe Isabella Harley ia B C ll l ol ', Wismar to Harwich, on shore on Lylt 11th t 44 'ad-as become a wreck; part of materials saved, the ta b: 1-- el! and the cargo, in a damaged state, expected lent u i silv ed. The M. raves, of Hartlepool, Stettin to be t , (3l l, which was on shore on Lylt 9th inst., has also Tittle wrek. `DI4p,, h ET. Nov. 26.—The Dordrecht steamer, . r Dort te logi, e " 4 ,°c, has put b ac k l ea ky an d with damage to 1 %er t „",.'iving been on shore near the Kwader L ock , - Island. g ilNov. 27.—A gale from N.N.E.—Arrd. Jon New e p t t ' Madras; Victoria, Trinidad; Faside, St. John's,' N 177 1 , h svvick; Mountaineer, Quebec, for Whitby. to th: 4 R "lh Rookb, London to San Francisco, put back it 104 euwns this afternoon in tow of a steamer, with ; keep mainmast, &c., and leaky, will proceed to with heavy to repair.' It is blowing a gale from N.N.E. Ehttpdel qu%ilz. Arid. Lady Bute, Calcutta; Koop, mula Ihtt,via for Rotterdam ; Courieron He d si ul ' Val pftr also. Arrd. from the River an d. orv l-4 . l ' l , B .Ydoey, New South Wales; Derwent, Hobart . lich ci ' 0 -.41 m, Madras; Harrison, Chitton, Pernambuco, ~4 1 exi lk „ 'I n k, Trinidad ; Contractor, Barbadoes. Sld. 4eith-err, Calcutta ; Jermy, Mauritius ; Isabella, tion.' l ,."Pe of Good Hope; Sir Charles Forbes, Ascen. Ay r : alparaiso, Valparaiso; Royal William, Buenos asp,„:; Valiant, Demerara; Electra, Grenada ; Point, ..1 4 - ,, e a ; Yorktown, New York; Reber, Mogadore. ' Nov. 27.—Wind N.N.E,—A,rid: 8 11sdi ar , 4 Y; Columbeana, New. ci)CoriAPO , 41 . g a -; 4f fghan, Quebec; Progr'ess; ditto; CoaXer, tirs6 ) , 4 : ° t o ; Essex Icnaboe. Std. Henry Nesmith, Bal lissa;;; Trio, San ' Francisco; William Parker, Val- V; Ariel Pernambuco; Esperance, Hayti; Caro biea ',€stnith, New Orleans; Agnes, Apalachicola; Bona Pliii„ - d at i tuah; Commerce, Charleston; J. 11. Glidden. ""e'Phia; Enterprise, New York; Levant, ditto, t e, r n rt, manei. The ship Montezuma, of Sr. John's. 12 w.'arianswick, was spoken 21st inst., lat. 49 N., long, with los s o f rudder, and making for Queenstown. n. Nov. 27.—The Steerswell, of and for rap n t ", fro m Bangor, in entering the Tees last,night, ereia -C t he North Gore Sand, and has become a wreck; Nov. 24.—The Norwich Merchant, of Yar itse,it. u-aue on sh ore l as t night, abandoned, and a total e: ltt p.ny, N ov. 25.—Oranges have been observed ~-% about our roadstead this morning. hse,,"sComnt, Nov. 27.—Two P.m., blowing strong Asa f°En N.E.—The quarter-deck of a small vessel brought in here today by one of the harbour gigs. d er 1 1; 41 ' 431 Abocit, Nov. 27.—A boat and vessel's rud 10ava been washed ashore near Bury Flolms, Bury; 4: boat at Briton Ferry. Ititsb,„, I LLI IRLI, Nov. 27.—Two pianofortes have been of „, - -1 ob shore on Llanhaiarn Beach, with a quantity reek imber. tisb, llll , ° L,T l l, Now. 27.—The William and Ann, from I sPrit ()- „,'° ; dull, was assisted in here with loss of bow '44lcil &c. The Britannia, of Louth, h for be t , ( . l u, has been assisted in, with loss of canvas. having ( ''"v when in shoal water off Tinterton. ~.._korein,,;2l Lynn, was assisted into the roads this geed. ular aasted, having been in tow off Flamborougb ° 11 main, tto dfo r t l4 is , Noy. 27.—The Margaret Cunningham, of n p, port ( coa l-l a d e n), went on re on the il iPPed 94th Nov., has un. A h barge and received other damage ; crew saved. r e ctedh h-S been sent to lighten her, when it is ex- C AR will be got off. c Glasvn- w F P, N ow . 25 . —Th e Ci rcass i an b arque , o f e : i n tt a l i r il e - rab ' l l e r° a ve athwart hawse a Prussian barque, doing ; -amage, and she has since been . in contact . " 3 "'iLin brig. al‘ f ,„ - ctiESTEn, Nov. 26.—The Margaret Cunningham "na 41 1 wright, of and for Mald , n, from Blyth, drove St her anchor in the W a ll e tt, 24th Nov., and went on M yth beach, but is expected off, after discharging. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) IVENVG.A.TE SZTD LEADZIVILELIMi. tThese markets were firm to-day, at very full prices. .'eef from 2s .2d to 3s 6d ; M utton, 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; eal, 3s to 34 10d; Pork, 3s to 4s 2d per 81bs by the 4reas,.. HAY MAIME TS. ' MITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 8s to 3/ 16s; Clover, 0 3 to 41 4a ; and St raw , 1/ is to 11 7s per l oa d. "Ilpply tolerably good, and trade firm. Meadow Hay, 2/ los to 31 17s; 4 A f, l r, 3/ O s t o 410 s; an d St raw, 1 1 2 s to 1/ 8s per load. average supply, and a steady demand. eIoWILITEcnAPEL. Meadow Hay, 21 8 s t o 3/ 163; Trade 3/ Os t o 4145; and Straw, 1/ 18 to 117 s per load. e St eady, at our quotations. ": MEAT M.ARIEETS. Noy. 27.—Prime Beasts and Sheep were vet fi r Noy. at full prices. In other kinds of stock • , 327 nuts was doing. Beef from 3s to 4s; Mutton, to 43 2d; Veal, 3s Od to 3s 8d ; P o rk, 3s Od to Pvr Bibs to sink th e o ff a l s . 1 410 °34°111 ), ROT. 27. Our market was tolerably 4% ; 4 tfolly last week's quotations. Beef from 3s , to , 31 to s ttott, a s qd to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 8d; 101 , • titiar t „ Per Blhs. Suckling Calves 18s to 255; and ld Store Pigs, 17s to 23s each. tal l D w ri s, Nov. 26.—We had a fair demand to-day, at to 4i.a e l• Be e f, f rom 3 s 24 to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 4 d "; Pork, 3s 2d to 3/ 8d per Sibs. CORN AVERAGES. to -4D 'the w •-.A-L AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN ended Nov. 21, 1850, made up from the Retums_o4 n t . l e te s per /,Z u ra in the different Citiesand Towns in England and 1 lierial Quarter '-• — ` 4 oE „ I !MEAT. B;iILET.I OATS. 1 SIM 1 BEANS. 1 PEAK. 4d ' 9l 11d 24s id I I7g 3d I 29s 6d 28s 9d 129 g DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. I BAILEY, 1 OATS. „A DA Is od 1 is Od Is Od is Od I "E." Am. I PEAS. "tiearI'IJITIES OF GRAIN SOLD IN THE PAST WEEK. -51°88 ; Barley - 92,257 ; Oats, 24,251 ; Eye, 28; Beans, 4,856; Peas, 2,159 quarters. ( ctlp BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) I-64 in Banco, before Justices PATTESON, COLE. h 'III RIDG E , WIGHTMAN, and ERLE.) ea th ! eu,urt was in tv, uter i occupied throughout the morning f urther arguments in Doe dem. Armistead h . „ ANtirth Staffordshire Railway Company, 111 t jh r bj r i t e .h . e a rd yesterday, bat whic . h involved no feature itk interest to justify a detailed report, 'the clues . I od, At I asue h aving only reference to a few roods of Cl ittie n )( efiE(4 , UE THIS DAY.) * h li at NiA Prius, before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Common Jury.) 4.3 7 1 r •Op SQUIRE V. PREW. 4tr • : %11tr lltSR D and Mr. Prentice appeared for the plain . rb. prair• Crowder conducted the defendant's case. liff isa pianoforte-maker in High Holborn, s t h 1111 ail he r a Ci- ght the present action to recover damages * defe nda e s-- Litt and trespass alleged to be committed by Who l is the well-known advertising tailor, Oeti 4 .,7 e Pti a shop adjoining that of the plaintiff. It th o up f ront, plaintiff had no use for a portion f to let the defendant have agreed th eo: Us e e t o ch f o i t;Blbourtyso meedifference of opinion arose betweenh lis e of a. ter the a greement was completed, us to whom h t e p root e a ne e d edond - p t o h s e t which divided the premises. had plaintiff by way, of testing his right, , 1111° P, e ; t11t° Put up a bell to communicate with his work -"8,14,:tiu While in the act of doing so he found ne ,,era bl. t° Push aside some of the " dummies" which t " tir ke s e r t - ;" by the defendant outside his door. This ettli,c'og excited the wrath of the defendant, who / int toe plaintiff vagabond, and then struck him a Plait e ,i"cv on the face. The trespass which was com ahe of consisted in the defendant having obstructed `l,OlB, and taken away a part of the boarding in TO the p l aintiff's shop. t it ts was e e elli tF BARON, in summing . up, told the jury that I'oll to Clear . , by the terms of the conveyance, that plain t i ff 't ) use the disputed story-post remained in the Th e J(11 1' found a verdict for the plaiot:ff, damngei 10/ 4tlr r COURT —(THIS DAY. Before Mr. Und.r-Sheritr BIETRCIIELL.) OAK AND ANOTHER V. WILSON. 6f St. an action on a guarantee to recover the sum 10z, 51 6 is r the Payment of an overdue bill of exchange for T he _ 0 ? which only had bcen paid. 441 oun r t e . b 'ing no defence a verdict was given for the titre ,i, i ' , ..03,.1 6 : ;v4 s only ono other ease to recover 5/. for t't Wit 14 Ras cif,little laterest and tolast 'tbtgltv I,„it f• , ; :!'" 1 ' • , ;te 4 „ ° ' ; ', AVr i '„' • 1-..,437 . 1iTS oCIURT 1 411. V 1 0141314 '1 ' 4 1, -7t lb eti 'C l anniniuint, d 44- t-iat 'A; nes' pnetablY att,iere4o thirty, 'll I i l llcicte;d Tor 'erabe ziling . an 144414 thpe r , + , l ,tt‘ii; varft e ' l4 ' . l l.o *R l : - "" w ; ,Re'tirOpitik-iifttie'rodthaiter.-Ginerul. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY s EVENING-, NOVEMBER 28, 1850. Mr. Car:teen :eel Mr. Bodkin reenliecti tl - re preee cutien ; Mr. Pere ,11 eppearetl foe le , pr'eorier. Mr. CneeksoN heving stated the :xec, proceeded to call the following evidence : Mathew Peak, a police-officer, attached to the Post office stated that the prisoner had been a clerk in the Inland Department, and it was part of leis duty to sort letters. On the morning of the 14th of November wit ness received instructions to place himself in such a position as to command a view of the prisoner, without the prisoner seeing -him. The prisoner had previously , been suspected of stealing letters, *He obeyed his in structions, and about seven o'clock, on the morning al ready mentioned, he watched the prisoner sorting in the Great Western Division. He watched him till be tween eight and nine o'clock, when he saw the prisoner fumble with a number of letters, as though he were crumpling one up, and then retire from the sorting room. As the prisoner left the room witness observed that he had some letters in his right hand, but the other hand was shut, and suspecting that it held a money letter, which the prisoner wished to parloin, he immediately disclosed his sus picions to Mr. Bourne, the superintendent of the department. That gentleman directed witness to come with him, and they both went in search of the prisoner, whom they found in Mr. Buckingham's office, but Mr. Buckingham was not there. Mr. Bourne said to him, " Cunningham, you are suspected of stealing a letter— you must let the officer search you." The prisoner re luetantly consented to this, but nothing was found upon him. A bundle of letters, however, was lying near to the prisoner, and witness said to Mr. Bourne, " You will find a money letter under them." Mr. Bourne ac cordingly took up the letters, and at the bottom was erne crumpled up, with the seal unbroken. Mr. Bourne thee directed witness to take the prisoner into custody. At the police-court. the letter, which was addressed to " Mrs. Williker, 28, Charlotte-terrace, Morristown, Devonport, Devon," and contained a shilling, a sixpence, and a pawnbroker's duplicate. John Forbes, another constable attached to the Post offic‘, saw the prisoner come out of the Great Western division office. The prisoner had one letter in his right hand, and one or two between the thumb and forefinger of his left hand, but the other three fit gers were pressed down upon the palm of the hand crushing a piece of paper, which looked like a crumpled letter. Witness watched the prisoner into the " tick" room, and kept his eye upon him till Mr. Bourne came down. Mr. Henry Bourne, -one of the presidents of the General Post-office, stated that the prisoner was a clerk in his department, and had been in the service since 1849. • On the 14th of November, in consequence of a communication from the previous witness. he went down into the " Tick" room, where he sew the prisoner talking to one of the clerks. He waited till he came out, when witness observed that he had a letter in his right hand, and others in his left. The prisoner said he had been to ascertain if the letter he held in his right hand was re gistered; but witness, taking no notice of this remark, requested the prisoner to follow him. They retired to Mr. Buckingham's room, where witness took the letters from the prisoner's left hand, and placing them on a table, he said to the prisoner, " I suspect you have a letter secreted about you somewhere." The prisoner protested that he had not, and allowed Peak to search him. Nothing, however, was found upon him; but Peak raid he was positive the prisoner had a crumpled letter in his left hand, and asked witness to examine the let ters on the table. Ho did so, and at the bottom of about fourteen letters the letter in qucstion was discovered. It ertimplt d, and had the appearance of having been dOubled iii - three. • Cross-examined by Mr. PARNELL —lt was the priso soner's duty to ascertain if the letter was registered, but he should have come to witness, and not have gone to the " Tick" room, though the information could be ob tained there. . . William Lugsdale, the " Tick" clerk, stated that, on the morning of the 14th of Novemlx , r, ale prisoner came to him and asked if a letter he held in his right hand was entered in the Dover bill? Ile did not notice any letters in the prisoner':, left hand, nor did the pri soner appear to be at all confused. Cross-examined—There was nettling strange, or un usual, or peculiar, in the prisoner's asking nth a question. Mr. Robert Walker, a master i❑ the Royal Navy, identified the let V-r as one which he had posted r.t South sea, on the 13th instant. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. PARNELL addressed the jury, and insist( d that, at the most, the evidence only made out a case of suspi cion, and the jury would not be justified in convicting the prisoner of the charge imputed to him. The Learned JUDGE having summed up with his ac customed clearness and precision, The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The prisoner was again indicted for stealing another letter, containing a shilling, the property of the Post master General. He pleaded not guilty. M. CLARKSON, having stated the case to the jury, called the following witnesses: — John Forbes, a messenger iu the Inland Department, stated that en the morning of the 13:h, about half-past eight o'clock, he saw the prisoner sorting letters in the Great Western office. He watched him and eventually he observed him crumple up a letter in his left hand. Shortly afterwards the prisoner retired to a water closet, and witness followed him. Witness took up a position in the adjoining water-closet, where he could see the prisoner threugh a side-grating without being seen himself. He saw the prisoner sit down on the seat of the water-closet, and then °con a letter with a red seal. He could perceive that the letter was dated from Rochester, and commenced "My dear father." It con tained something which the prisoner took out and placed in his pocket. The prisoner afterwards seemed to read the letter, and then tear it into four parts, dropping the pieces with the envelope down the pan of the closet. Witness then gave an alarm to another officer, who caused a plumber o open the pipe of the closet and get possession of the fragments of the letter. He watched the prisoner back to the sorting-office, having previously taken care to lc ck the cloaca which was a self-acting one, and a few minutes afterwards the pieces of the letter, which he now produced, were brought to him by the plumber. Cross examined by Mr. PARNELL on behalf of the prisoner—Witness gave information of what had passed to the superintendent of the department immediately; but it was not till the following day that the prisoner was arrested. He watched the prisoner through a grating which was put up partly for the purpose of let ting air into the closet and of enabling the Post-office authorities to keep a watch on all suspected persons en gaed in the service. John Russell, another constable, employed at the Post-office, corroborated the testimony of the last wit- Iles 's. He, with his brother constable, watched the pri soner through a grating placed between the two water closets. The prisoner was in the one, and witness with Forbes was in the other. Cross-examined —The prisoner was not searched when be came out of the closet. William Blackburn, the plumber, stated that in ac cordance with directions which he received from the last witness, be opened the pipe attached to the water closet, and amongst the deposit he found the envelope and pieces of paper which had already been produced. Frederick James Fry, of Rochester, deposed that the fragments of paper produced made up a letter which he wrote to his father at Axminster, on the 12th of the present month. That letter ho placed in the envelope produced with Is., and posted it on the 12th at Roches ter. Had sealed it with red wax. This was the case for theprosecntion. Mr. PARNELL having- addressed the jury for the de fence, The Learned JUDGE summed up the whole of the evidence, and The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. ho CoURT deferred passing sentence till to-morrow. BURGLARY. —George Rouse, aged 17, described as a potman, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing three bags, 33u shillings ; 14 half-crowns, 121 sixpences. and other moneys, the property of George Seatons in his dwelling-house, and afterwards bur glariously breaking out of the same dwelling-house. Mr. CLARKsON informed the Court that the burglary was committed in the Chalk Farm Tavern, but there was a second indictment charging the prisoner with cutting, stabbing, and wounding William Godson, the constable, who arrested the prisoner, to prevent his lawful appre hension. • Tne CoURT intimated a wish to examine the con stable and the medical witness on the subject of the se cond charge. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner stabbed the constable in the temple with a knife, inflicting a serious wound, of about two inches in length. The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for life. THE BURGLARY IN THE BEGENT'S-PARK.—This case was fixed for Saturday. PERJURY.—On the application of Mr. Ballantine the trial of Mr. William Sobieski Kildabl, a proctor of Dublin, who stands charged with perjury at the instance of the Baron Von Steink, was put off on the ground that the Baroness, who was a material and necessary witness, had been suddenly taken ill, and was unable to attend the court. NEW COURT. Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman LAWRENCE. STEALING IN THE LONDON Di CIL& Alfred Turnbull, 19, described in the calendar as a watermark, was convicted of stealing 221bs. of bees' wax and 19 ez. of pepper, the property of the London Dock Cowpony, and was sentenced to be imprisoned in the House of .:orrection and kept to hard labour for six months. Ann Wells, a notorious nymph of the pave, who was convicted yesterday of stealing a purse and sixteen half-crowns, the property of Jame-a Holland, front his person, was this morning I,rought up to receive sentence, the Recorder having yes terday protponeil passing it on account of the prisoner having stoutly denied that she had been before convicted, although she was charged with having been so iu the indictment. On the prisoner being placed at the bar. no less than four persons connected with the House of Correction at Brixton stated that the primmer had bean confined iu that gaol no less than four times since 1845. The RECORDER, after strongly admonishing the pri soner upon her guilt, and the crime of adding to it by falsehood, sentenced her to seven years' transportation, telling her at the same time that she would certainly leave the country. BOW-STREET.—(TIIIS DAY.) Illri‘ , lyicha !son John Gardener, a merchant, Was.. charged ;with violently asiaultiog 'George X l .: ir) ° II ' a merchant% clpili,_unde.ri t)aa todOwing .cttrisitis circum stancet4 ;;I• • The prPicentirs4C4 Out ;tf).JulliTn's concert .last, night, aud afFeetlie perfor . .4itoc wss'bdifelnde ,, ,'be re paired with hiss friguds tO, - 3, the. C3',,l4,,Celiars, , in . the . Strand, for the-purpose orthaving.sonra.,./efreshments! 3111Vadotiiitineldl'hereiuutibthe °cis this, Lao ruin gi ,w, l l° n address, wh:ch he gave t' a friend. He placed the pencil-case in his kft-hand coat pocke:, and at that time one of the prisouer'ii friends sat next to aim. Directly - afterwards he missed his pencil-case, and he communicated his sus picions to the proprietor of the house, that the prisoner's friend had been sitting next to him at the time he lost . his pencil-case. He was instantly surrounded by the prisoner and several of his friends. The prisoner said, "You accuse my friend of sterling the pencil-case!" and immediately struck him a violent blow upon the face, which was afterwards swollen. On reselling Maiden lane the prisoner again attempted to strike him, but was prevented by the interference of the constable, who took him into custody. • The prisoner admitted that be struck the complainant, and it was under circumstances of great provocation. He accused his friend of robbery, and he certainly did strike Mr. HALL said if the prisoner wished to act the part of Don Quixote in protecting all his friends he must put up with the consequence. He thouzht the complainant had behaved very mildly in acquainting the proprietor of the house cf his loss and his suspicions, whether they were true or not. The prisoner had no right to assault him in that outrageous manner. He fined the prisoner the full penalty or 51, or one month's imprisonment. The fine was immediately paid. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR. Nov. 27. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert walked this morning in the Slopes. The Royal Family took their usual airings. His Excellency the General Radowitz, and the Right llon. Henry Labouchere, are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day on a visit to the Queen and the Prince. The Royal dinner party at the Castle to-day will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Excellency the General Radowitz, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Ludy' Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Lieut.• Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Sir George Couper. The band of the Royal Horse Guards attend during dinner. The Queen's private band will afterwards attend in the Castle. Lord Elphinstone has relieved the Earl of Morley in his duty as Lord in Waiting to, the Queen, and Major-General Sir Frederick Stovin has relieved Lieut.-Colonel Hon. A. N. Hood in his duty as Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. The band of the Coldstream Guards performed the following pieces yesterday (Tuesday) during dinner : Overture—" La Val d'Andorre" Halevy. Hibernian Quadrilles .. - Duo—(Les Huguenots) Waltz—" Rose de Mai" Chant des Croates Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Castle, and played the following selection : Overture, " La Gaieti" Ottetto (Op. 20) Allegro con fuoco, Andante, Scherzo Allegro leggierrissimo, Presto, Four violins, two violas, two violoncellos, Messrs. Sainton, Day, Chipp, Cusins, Hill Nickel, H. Chipp, and P. Hardy. March:-, , .." Le Prophete," • • Meyerbeet, The Earl of Chichester bud au interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. Mr. J. C. Byrne had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial office. Sir George Grey returned to town yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Lord Marcus Hill had an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey. Sir Edward Buxton, Bart., had also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet yes terday. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH LANCASHIRE' STEEPLECHASES, &e. WEDNESDAY. The Free Handicap Hurdle SwEepstakes of 7 sous. each, 5 It, and 30 added. Two miles, over six hurdles. (5 Subs.) Mr. Benson's Little Queen, 4 yrs, llst 81b...(Frisby) 1 Mr. Peace ua Redstreak, aged, list lib 2 Mr. Pattison's Gilley, 5 yrs, list 51b Mr. Molony's Gold Dust, aged, lOst 1211 3 ...(Fowler) 4 Won by half a neck. Match, 50 so - vs., h ft. T. Y. C. Captain Scott's Administrator, 9st 21b (A. Clark) 1 Mr. Gaman's Maid Marian, 5 yrs, Bat 91b (Owner) 2 The Newton Scramble of 3 sovs, each and 20 added, the second to save his stake; two yrs old, Bst 21b; three yrs, 9t 121 b; four,yrs, 10at i 121 b; five yrs, 1 Ist 41b; six yrs and aged, llst 61b; maidens allowed 51b, &c. Ralf a mile. (6 Subs.) Mr. Smith's Alma, 3 yrs (to be sold for 301) (Liveaey) 1 Mr. Lloyd's Posey, 3 yrs (200 (Fowler) 2 Mr. Martin's bf by Accident, 2 yrs (301)... (Cowup) 3 Archeress, Maid of Kent, and Repulse also ran.— Won by a length. The South Lancashire Grand Steeple Frea Handicap of 10 sous. (act:, and 100 added; the second to receive 20 sovs., and the winner to pay 20 toys, towards expenses. About three miles. (10 Subs.) Mr. Tiernan's Isaac, aged, list 101 b (Mr. Sharkey) 1 Mr. Connor's The Oaks, 5 yrs, lOst Sib (Mr. Maloney) 2 Mr. Peace's Nelly Brown, 6 yrs, 9st lib (Livesey) 3 Mr. Williamson's Shinrone, aged, l lst 3lb (A. Clark) 0 Mr. Vevers's Volatile, 5 yrs, 10st 91b (Darling) 0 Mr. Henderson's Hezard, aged, 9st Sib (Fowler) 0 Won by two lengths. The Selling Plate of 301., added to a sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each; for three yrs old, Bst 81b; four yrs, 9st 81b; five yrs, lOst 21b; six yrs and aged, lOst 51b; mares and geldings allowed 21b; and maidens having started twice allowed 71b; winners extra. Heats, one mile and a quarter. (6 Subs.) Mr. Peace's Latitat, 5 yrs (201.) (Livesey) 0 0 1 1 Mr. Doyle's Accident, 6 yrs (501.) Mr. Little's Kill or Cure, 3 yrs (301) 1 0 3 3 Captain Scott's Administrator, 6 yrs (801 ) 2 2 dr Mr. Hepple's Cynthia, 4 yrs (201.) Mr. Whitfield's Vauxhall Buck, 6 yrs' ( 20L) 0 0 dr , NEW MARKET COURSING MEETING. WEDNESDAY. The Puppy Stakes. First Ties—TrLte bt Harum-Scarum, Memory bt Factotum, Viardot bt Gallantry, Cobra bt Dunkeld, Tro:zig bt Dora, Dot bt Bertha. The All-aged Stakes. First Ties—Mammon bt Magician, Mocking Bird bt Mercury, Verity bt Donald, Merchant bt Midas, Bees wing bt Asp. The Exning Stakes, for aged dogs. Mr. Buckworth's Barbara bt Mr. R. Bagge's Townsman. Mr. Fyson's Forerunner bt Mr. Holmes 'a Mystery. Mr. Dobede's Diamond bt Mr. Finch's Crenoline. Mr. Gillett na Florette bt Mr. Hill's Mary. The Chippenham Puppy Stakes. Mr. Fyson's Fanny bt Mr. Holmes's Melancholy. Mr. Dobede's Dart bt Mr. R. Bagge's Tondapamei boninos. Mr. King's Regard bt Mr. Vipan's Victory. Mr. Brook's Bran bt Mr. Hill's 2lodel Lady. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1851. The following are tho present fixtures as nearly as we can make out:— MARCH. Doncaster Spring Warwick Spring... lB Northampton .. .......... 26 Croxton Park 1 Catterick Bridge 3 Epsom Spring 4 Newmarket Craven The 1100 l2 Bath l5 Malton l5 Newmark. First Spring 21 Abargavenny 24 Chester Plymouth Spring Epsom NE. Newton Stockbridge Winchester.... Newcastle rLY. Nottinghena 16 Goodwood Newmkt. Second Spring 6 Shrewsbury 8 Ascot Hampton ll Manchester ll Bibury . lB Newmarket Carlisle ....... Worcester Liverpool 9 •••• •• AU, Ripon Brighton 6 Wolverhampton ..... SEPTET Warwick 2 Doncaster Saudbach Liwes ]3 or 14 York Egham 27 Eglinton Park 22 or 23 Bedford 22 or 23 Newmarket P.O 3O CASE BETWEEN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE PUSEYITES. TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlP,— . The way in which the public has responded to the letter of Lord John &ritell, encourages any endeavour to confirm and support that remarkable document. No part of it evinces more of the (hellion and ac curacy which designate a leader of men, than that which refers the actual outbreak to the invitations held out by professed members of the Anglican Church. A step towards getting a bird's•eye view of the case, will be to review the circumstances under which the Anglican Church took its rise ; and if your readers will be patient, the preliminary matter shall be run through as rapidly as possible. The Founder of Christianity and his contemporary followers, promulgated a religion very slightly cere• monial, and directed almost entirely to the effects upon the life and conversation of its receivers. The principles were embodied in documents either at the time or soon after ; and the documents have re mained, with litt/e er no dispute upon the text, to the pr,-Rent hour. But no prevision was made against the tendency to deterioration which attaches to all in which human creatures are concerned. The Founder himself re ci,r(l,,d a doubt whether at a future coming he should " find faith upon the earth ;" and the most active of his apostles avowed a distinct prospect of a "man of sin," " sitting" not in pa r tib us but " in the temple of God," and a, " mystery of iniquity" of which he felt and saw the roots and beginnings, for it " cloth already work." The apostles had their quar rels and disputes like other men ; and it so happened, that on the most signal of these occasions (Galat. ii. 11), the very one for whose supposed successor is claimed the power of the keys, was put down and overruled by a comparative neophyte, who had never seen the Founder upon earth. Of all clear things the clearest, is that if anybody was infallible nobody knew it then, and that so far from security being pro vided against the developement of error, its progress and actual eommencement were announced in the strongest terms, by those who had best right to know. And as well these forebodings were ful filled. Of all theories of spiritual power the ' most convenient, is first to claim infallibility, and then back it by declaring all reformers to be schismatics, and consequently orthodoxy identical with the conglomeration of abuse. Political power soon added its temptations; and the end was that nothing was too puerile or too atrocious, to find its representation in the creed and practice of what called itself the Church. During all this there was no want of protesters against the process ; but these were to be put down with fire and sword, by the token that they did protest. Paulicians, Albigenses, Waldenses, Lollards, kept up an unbroken fire of remonstrance and heresy. Often locally suppressed, the resistance was always there ; and when the re vival of learning turned the balance in favour of recurrence to the original authorities, the conflagra tion burst out in all the most energetic portions of European society. England was not behind ; and the practical genius of Englishmen conceived, what after all was the great and useful idea, of taking the property of the corrupt hierarchy, and out of it constructing a physical bul wark in defence of what they deemed more sound. This might not keep pace with all the romance of reform ; but though unromantic it was effective, and the proof is that at this hour the enemy is running his head against the same walls. Here then were the elements out of which the new hierarchy was to be formed. Men of all shades of opposition to the general foe, and every gradation of enlightenment upon the reasons, were to be com bined into something like a whole. It was as clear that some must be kept below what they individually would have aimed at, as that some must be carried further. Everything was by necessity, within limits, a compromise ; and to insist that either the best informed or the worst should have everything their own way, must have been ruin to the whole. From temperament, habit, or accident, one man had a lurking leaning towards one piece of silliness and another to another - so that instead of its being strange that traces of the Old follies should be found, the only wonder is there were no more. And whatever their number in detail, they formed no connected whole, and were incompetent to conceal the existence of one grand current directed against that species of falsifi cation of documents, which consists in burying them beneath.a mass of interested additions under the title of developements. As opposed to this, the fancies of individuals were of little more ultimate account, than the differences of stature and complexion in the con stitution of an army. True it was, that the new army of the faith did not thenceforth do everything a cultivated intelligence might have desired. In bad times it was fond of leaguing with political tyranny. But even then, it was keeping out a worse ; and when the crisis came, it sided with the right. If it did not exert itself till threatened in its own existence by the ancient enemy, this amounts to proof that it existed to the purpose of the founders. The Seven Bishops might not be everything an ardent imagination could devise ; and their predecessors and successors may come under the same category. But the Seven Bishops and the mass they represented, drove civil and religious despotism from the realm of England ; and it re mains to be seen whether the old bulwark has not some virtue left. What were the precise causes of iel t ru h arm e nexbu tendencies dis played among the Angli can clergy in the exact middle of the nineteenth centurvib of m t it le m de a yhreeennfotbed to tthoedelfionne. p S e o n m ee e , th n i . n h g ieh m e a s y it p h e a r s ha t p re s h in the universities, must ureh have created an increased pressure in the Ch t s o t u m d e a n k t g e s something amusing, i n a vocation which never very deeply engaged their minds and interests. Something, too, to the love of novelty which makes the silliest desireeo hpea things rramt et; c do o , a m mnud e anget round nnooiofrsyee itt unconsciously s y ain it mwaityhbthein.aptpebarance,_o.f a s l the g n ioffi al e l, e to of th th e e s e a ,p m r e le m a , oti y ve . s m w ak h l i o ch g a g e w i g h p i i ‘a n o e tti grand resource, curates elwltsohe events individual him the dispenser of something like a c a h ll em a i g c e a pro cess of salvation. If the entrance to heaven can be reduced to the application of an oil, t afluid,or an ali agents.gni merit, how great must be the di • y of those who can tshtehemania came • and bishops and e affected by its ' • n fluence. The vem r e e sn e eat , lsl w vike as to fasten uponthe in i firm passages weaknesses Church, ur h h ad . introduced into the reformer, amidst the clash and thd ritual of the Reformed in hostility to the manifest current of its gener e al , verilywor ds , a h n a d l f i n fi d g euerde taken n half and mystification, r e ee. d views. Some o m e . feeble tno to Transubstantiation, had contrived un to er r of ntif res h i i s s resistance halting scruples, by procuring the insertion gy of the ire . was an open door for emulous curates to distinguish themselves by copying"whichH e Here, then, are en, Laud's "mops and mower" before the symbols. Another of the Anglican Fathers, inly shocked at the paucity of Sacraments he saw impending, bad conceived the bright idea that if Mar riage was not to be a Sacrament, something might be done by tacking it to a Sacrament, and so ob tained the addition in the rubric w hich sta te s it to be " convenient " that n ew-married per sons should receive th e C om munion at the time of their marriage, or at the first opportunity after wards. Ground sufficient for an upstart of the new apostacy, to frame a kind of " House that Jack built," and refuse to marry a couple where the man could not be proved to have been confirmed, confir mation being somewhere stated as a preliminary to the ceremony hinted at as "convenient" in the rubric. The old power of Absolution had manifestly been the subject of regrets; and these had been got over in the most prominent place, by one of the most re markable specimens of theological evasion the world has witnessed. The ancient priesthood claimed the power of granting or withholding absolution upon particular confession, with the same plenitude of power that a chemist adds or withholds the mixture which from two fluids is to produce a salt. The genius of the Anglican Church devised the making a general confession by the congregation that they were miserable offenders, and then announcing on the part of the priest, that power is given to God's ministers to declare the absolution and remission of their sins " to his people, being penitent." In which the fraud is not in attempti g n to put off for true anything which is not, but in at tempting to put off one thing which is true, as being the same with another which is not. The Church, or some individual in it haunted with the ancient scru ples, wanted to preserve the utmost possible of the ancient claim ; and most awkwardly it was performed. But this was not the worst. In an adjunct to the Communion Service, " the benefit of absolution" was allowed to creep in w ithout an attempt at palliation ; and in the Service for the Visitation of the Sick the power of the Church to absolve sinners, and of the in dividual priest to absolve the individual applicant, are expressed in terms which might satisfy Pius the Ninth at the present moment ; and addition is made of b o rdering on an invitation to auri cularthough room for eva s i on i s limiting it to cases where the pr som ethingovi de c d o n fe h sysi closelyo n i , i sufferer shall " feel his conscience troubled with any weighty matter." Still these were more of the nature of slips, or of submission to strong tempta tion, than anything else. No man doubts or has doubted, that the broad general creed of the Anglican Church on the remission of sins, is the same as that of the Protestant Ch urch es in general, and that the rest is " leather and prunella." But all t apostasy. It was high these made grand oppor tpurnotnitioetsinnfofror the modern_ curate to be troubling the beds of the sick with demands for auricular confession, and as gratifying to him as to any of this ascetics of the olden time, to be deemed the conduit through I ,which the mercy of Ileum was conveyed into the pariah, • • Bishops too had their temptations, as well as en- I rates; and there was one mystification of early origin, which particularly attracted their patronage. The great struggle of Protestmtism hail been on the second of the two rites to which it conceded the name of Sacraments. But there was another on which it was possible to play the traitor, and the game was played accordingly. The Founder of Christianity had appointed an initiatory rite of simple form, and had declared that those who believed in his mission, and in evidence of it submitted to the rite, should be partakers in the benefits he came to bring ; and those who did not believe (not a word about the de claratory rite) should not. Nothing could he simpler, or more remote from anything like a priestly conjura tion. The proffer was to such as were addressed, being evidently voluntary agents and capable of un derstanding. But an unexpected complication soon arose. The early Christians, partly from feel ings easily accounted for, and partly perhaps from the progress of the superstitious notions which after times were doomed to see increased, introduced the custom of baptising their new-born infants. By this they " made the glints first, and then they kill'd them." Of what use could baptism be to an uncon scious infant ? The intellect of the time saw but one way of escaping the difficulty ; and that was, to suppose that baptism w;:s a conjuration, —a ceremony not dependent for its efficacy on the effect on tee mind of the recipient, but possessing another effect not dependent on the reci pient's having a mind at all; in short, a superhuman process, with which were to be connected the opera tions of an unseen world, as in a cognate case the Daemon was obliged to avoid places sprinkled with a certain water and a certain brush. It was the same gross material silliness as had so sorely perplexed Christendom in the interpretation of the other Sacra ment. Words descriptive of a type and a ceremony, were to be interpreted in a mechanical sense for the sake of getting up a sacerdotal miracle. And this was the pet of our Bishops. When the clergy under their charge went further than they liked in the matter of other follies, they declare they had no authority to interfere. When an Anglican clergyman let fall words which looked like non-acquiescence in the pet folly of the episcopal bench, then they could find power to prosecute and to annoy, and it was as much as the secular arm could do to rescue him from their gripe. On other points they showed an equal determina tion to shock the vulgar good sense of the Protestant mind. If they combated the pretensions of Rome to Apostolic succession, it was only to raise the plea that the real Simon was themselves. Who taught them this trumpery of an Apostolic succession at all ? Is not a Methodist class-leader a successor of the Apostles, if he demeans himself as the Apostles declare an overseer ought, and teaches with a sincere mind the Apostles' doctrine ? The Anglican Reformers, in their anxiety to make as little change as possible, may have inserted doubtful words about a " Catholic Church," which they would probably have inter preted to mean everybody who in any age or clans was ever a good Christian ; but they never advisedly went into the quackery, of claiming to be the " one true " by virtue of an unbroken succession of touches for the Soul's Evil. Our modern Bishops were the frogs that thus tried to puff themselves into the ox ; and they must take the consequences. Among the Bishops too were the supporters of the attempt, in opposition to the clear direction of what is emphatically called the Apostle of the Gentiles, to re-introduce the obligation of the Jewish law on the subject of the Sabbath ; an obligation the Anglican Church had distinctly refused to recognize in its com- mentary on the Jewish Commandments in its Cate chism. They would have called for the restoration of Circumcision, if it had held out equal prospects of spiritual domination, and had been leas personally unpleasant. They carried their attempt so far, that the Government and people united to put it down. A hierarchy which had been discovered and put down in the attempt to maintain a glaring falsehood, could not fail to have lost ground in the estimation of the Eu peen public. Under all these circumstances, who can wonder that the restored puppet of the French army at Rome was up and doing ? Whether it was politic to com bine it with so much of insult as in ways direct and indirect has attended, is what time must show. It is with two hundred thousand Austrians in 'its train, and Russian reserves not specified, that " the compact solid globe" is shown to us by the English Ca tholics as " rolling forward in happy ruled order." We have heard such words before ; but did not expect to find the Holy Alliance so soon brought to our own doors. None of this would have happened if Mazzini and Garibaldi had held their ground ; no wonder, therefore, that the same agents of British breed who were in Don Carlos' camp in Spain, were found at the table of the French General. France in her turn will probably be waked some morn ing with the armies of the coalition on the frontier, " giving encouragement to the well-disposed within," and playing over again the game of which Frenchmen set the monstrous example at the gates of Rome; which if it happens, let none pity, but all rejoice at seeing the wave so spend itself, and calculate upon the future. But foreign politics will take care of themselves, as they always do. The more immediate business is with things at home. And here the first point which impresses it-elf, is that, without denying the full efficacy of the maxim that nobody must be oppressed, there is an end of everything that depended upon confidence in any altered feeling in the Catholics as a whole. They are at the direction of a foreign potentate, who if he tells them to repeat the attempt of Guido Fawkes must be obeyed, unless by the sceptical portion who chuse to risk eternal damnation by refusal. In general they no more dare decline, than a Popish governor of Malta dared allow British hospitality to an Italian refugee. We Protestants do not know what a serious thing it is to expect to be damned; we have lurking notions of the possibility of escape, which make us only half at the disposal of any ghostly threatener. But if we believed a foreign man had only to put on a triple cap and bid the devil take us, we should be as unfit to be good Bri tish citizens as the others are ; we therefore should be moderate. Still we must not be taken asleep; and we have had an escape as it is. Its n'ont rien oublii, ils n'ont rien appris, is as true as it was of those to whom it ' was originally applied. The hydrophobic patient has been tried, and the first use of freedom was to snatch at the hand that helped him. There may be worthy individuals to whom the whole is matter of great regret ; but bodies must be judged by the ac tions of their officials. Does anybody, for instance, . feel confident, that if circumstances had been such as to invite the French fleet in Torbay to make a point on Plymouth with the Pope's Bull for restoring Ca tholicity in England, an average Popish governor could have been expected to do other than signalize his attachment to the Holy See, like the Governor of Malta ? There is nothing like looking things in the face ; and if we do not, we have had fair warning. If the facts had fallen in with less favourable times, as for example when the Ileir Apparent was supposed to be under the influence of a Romish mistress or wife, there would have been new Boynes, and possibly new Blenheims. As it is, we must try to come off with less. But promptitude, not letting alone, must be the way. A single proceed ing, or promise of proceeding, tending to throw the protection of present or future law about the supre macy of the domestic legislature, though going no further than a 40 shillings' penalty, would have settled the question, which now seems likely to be left to the strongworkings of popular energy. It is pity that Eng land should, for six months in every year, be without the popular branch of government while Parliament is partridge-shooting ; and enemies are quite intelli gent enough to take advantage of it. There will probably be nothing done, but as the people call for it. If there is a law, why is it not executed ? Six attor neys, duly retained, would tell us in twelve hours whether there is a law or not. If there is not a law, why is not a statement made, that something is to be done or nothing ? But the Government is not the only quarter where duties are to be discovered. What is the Evangelical portion of the Church doing, that it does not in the Spanish phrase " pronounce" ? The Primate, and others of the Anglican leaders, have shown themselves worthy of the public confidence hitherto ; why do they not do more ? But do not let them put the clergy upon controversy. The pub lic will only laugh, at dull discourses directed to prove that Martin or Jack, and not Peter, is " the real ani mal." But a Primate who would bring up the old Protestant principle in its substance and not in its phylacteries, would take his seat by the men of the olden time. The Queen's Ministers too, though they cannot unmake a Bishop, at least without more trouble than it is worth, might mend the breed. Make Gorham a bishop, as a persecuted defender of Scripture and common sense would have been in the days of our fathers ; and see if that does not balance a half-dozen of traitors. There are ways for everything; and when men mean it, they take them. Lastly, what a luckless time was this for making a disorderly retreat before the enemies cf Secular Edu cation. If men dare not w ith their tongues avow an education which shall not involve the bending of the mind by some priest or other, what is to be ex pected but that the boldest shall carry the day ? Protestantism is not a series of dogmas ; it is a branch of the mathematics, and holds of the same cultivated reason, as the belief that the earth turns upon its axis. The discovery of Euclid in the Greek gave a fillip to the Reformation ; and what we want, is people so educated that they shall be able to distinguish between a document and its " develope meats. ' Wee want men taught and trained in such soul's habits, as shall enable them to decide for them selves on the truth or falsehood of the oldetPro testant assumption, that " developemente','-, lan a testament after the decease of the testator, are forgeries. We do not want children to be told so, in formularies that make them sick, and which the other side can neutralize by formu laries of their own. Wo want the introduction of those sources and means of knowledge which en abled our forefathers to pick their way when all the religious teaching of the day was against them, and when the cry was, as now, to bar "godless" in struction. The Protestant public knows what "god less " instruction means, and yet it cannot take the hint. Let us conclude with the hope, that the Government, without whom nothing is done in this country, will see the accumulated interest given to the question, and that the banner of " Secular Education," so strangely lowered before the enemy at the Lanca shire meeting, will be raised under its patronage. With permission, on another opportunity inquiry shall be made into the constitutional meaning of the Queen's Supremacy ; which is already involved in some of the positions taken. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. London, 28 Nov. 1850. TO TUE RIGHT 1-10NoURABLE LORD PAL ERSToN, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FO EIGN AFFAI S. The flu:11610 mernoriLl of the und,rsigned inhabitants of the town of C , rri'ol3, in the priliCip',llity a Wales, Showcth, That your memorialists are deeply sensible of the claims to the acimiration and respect of all civilized na tions which the Turkish Sultan has acquired by his re fusal to violate the sacred laws of hospiinli:y by deliver ing up to the Austrian and Russian Governments the Hungarian and Polish refugees who had sought an asylum in his territory. That with these sentiments they venture to express their approval of the sympathy jointly evinced by the Governments of France and England with the high minded Sovereign of the Ottoman empire. 'But that your memorialists beg, nevertheless, to ex press their earnest hope that the refugees may be re leased without further delay from their present impri sonment, as its protraction inlan unhealthy climate, at the instigation of their enemies, is calculated to render nugatory the protection originally afforded to them by the friendly powers of Europe, and insidiously to accom plish by indirect means the cruel and vindictive designs of their implacable oppressors. That as the term of banishment was originally meant to be confined to a short space of time, and the personal safety of the refugees, as well as the maintenance of the independence of the Turkish Sultan, formed the grounds of the interposition of the Governments of England and France, the entire object of that interposition will be frustrated by the continued detention of the Hungarian and Polish exiles, under the dictation of Austria and Russia, in a country where they are daily exposed to the most imminent danger from the attacks of disease and the stratagems of the assassin. • That your memorialists beg respectfully, yet ur gently, to express their deep conviction that the honour of the British name is irrevocably involved in the protec tion and prospects of these unfortunate but illustrious men, and they venture to express their anticipations that on this, as on former occasions, your Lordship will firmly and worthily sustain the character of the British nation. REPLY. (C9PY.),. Foreign-office, 21st Nov., 1850. Sir,—l am desired by Viscount Palmerston to ac knowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th, enclos ing a memorial signed by yourself and other inhabitants of Cowren, calling his Lordship's attention to the con tinued detention of the Hungarian refugees in Turkey, and I am to request that you will state to the memo rialists that her Majesty's Government will not fail to bear in mind the generous and humane wishes which are expressed in the memorial. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, W. B. Williams, Esq. STANLEY OF ALDERLEY. DEATH OF LORD NUGENT, M.P. FOR AYLESBURY. The Right Hon. George Grenville Baron Nugent, of Carlanstown, in the county of Westmeath, whose death we announced in our paper of yesterday, was second son of the first ➢larquis of Buckingham, by the only daughter and heir of Robert Earl Nugent, who was created a baroness in her own right in 1800, with the special remainder to her second son, the late peer. He was born in December, 1789, succeeded to the title in March, 1812, and married, 1813, Anne Lucy, second daughter of the late Major-General Hon. Vera Poulett, and niece of Earl Poulett. Her Ladyship died in 1848, leaving no issue. Lord Nugent will be remembered as having taken an active part in favour of Queen Caroline, and as the author of " Lands Classical and Sacred," and other works. In politics he was ever a Whig-Radical. He represented Aylesbury from 1812 to 1832. In the latter year, he was uppointed Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and remained there until 1835, when he returned to England with the usual decoration of G.C.M.G. In 1837 he again offered himself for Aylesbury, but was defeated; and in 1839 once more contested that borough, but was again unsuccessful. In 1543, in conjunction with Mr. George Thompson, the present M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, he addressed him self to the constituency of Southampton, and sustained another defeat; but, on again appearing before the elec tors of Aylesbury, at the general election iu 1847, his Lordship was elected in the room of Captain Baillie Ha milton, to represent his early friends. It has already been generally anticipated that the late Lord's successor will be a staunch Protestant Protectionist, in the person of Mr. Sergeant Ryles, TIIE EXPOSITOR. No. IV. A splendid engraving of the interior perspective of the Crystal Palace invests the new number of the Expositor with more than usual interest. The spec tator is supposed to be looking towards Kensington Gardens, the view being sketched from near the transept. A better or more vivid idea could scarcely be conveyed of this stupendous undertaking. Among the minor embellishments are some singular and in teresting woodcuts of a very novel invention—namely, of some ornamented bricks, and other architectural decorations, patented by Messrs. Bowers, Challinors, and \Vooliscroft, Tunstall, Staffordshire Potteries. The following description of these contrivances, as beautiful as they are unquestionably new, will be read, we doubt not, with curiosity : " These ornamented bricks and decorations, which we are glad to notice as an improvement of no small pro mise, following so speedily upon the abolition of the ex cise of bricks, are made from a mixture of clay and other ingredients, calculated to vitrify with the clay, pre cisely in the manner described in the very fully illustrated account of the Birmingham brick manufacture given in our second number, with, however, more careful selec tion, grinding, and combination of the clay, and other ingredients, and the use of the hydraulic-press in the process of the moulding, by which all air and moisture are so completely forced out as entirely to obviate the necessity of exposing, as described, in our former article, the moulded material to the process of slow drying before they can with safety be baked. There hydraulic pressed bricks and clay decorations come from the mould ready for the kiln, and are baked in the usual manner, when, from the nature of the ingredients, they assume a vitre ous character, lose all absorbent properties, and become impervious to damp and rain, and can be painted and grained with the utmost facility, so as to imitate any kind of oak, rose, satin, or other woods, or sculptures in stone, or be gilded without injuring the brilliancy of the gold leaf. They may supply the place of wood carving in architectural decoration, and, from their fire-proof na ture, add to the safety of the buildings; besides being about the tenth of the cost of wood carving. Many places now left bare from the expense of such decoration can, by this equally excellent, if not superior material, be handsomely adorned at a trifling outlay. Wood carvings, similar to those we have witnessed in earthen ware, would cost from 70s. to 80s. per yard; whereas the price the patentees affix to their material is 7s. 6d. per yard. The architectural purposes to which it is fitting are all internal and external decorations of churches, public buildings, mansions, houses, and shops; comprising cornices, mouldings, skirting boards, finger plates for doors; to match in design any style of archi tecture, or the taste of any private individual; and orna mental bricks suited for arches as well as for facings of pilasters. In complying with the new Act of Parliament, with regard to the joining of shop fronts, which requires that a distance of nine inches on each side must be left between every shop front, consisting of a party wall, proof against fire, by erecting a pilaster of these orna mental bricks, not only will a space of nine inches be gained, a thoroughly fireproof division be erected, but a graceful appearance, adding to the attractiveness of the marts of commerce. " The centrepiece ornament for a ceiling, intended for the great Exhibition, from the nature of the material, displays a freedom and grace rarely accomplished in similar works, with a sharpness of outline that shows its capability for minute productions. It is equally appli cable for picture-frames, upholsterers' fittings, bed and window cornices, and all other purposes in which mould ings and wood-carving are used. The ornaments can be fixed by means of screws or liquid cement in any place where required. From the varied capabilities, fireproof nature, imperishability from exposure to the weather, beauty, and price, there is little doubt they will rapidly come into general use. The inventor is Mr. J. H. Bad deley, of Shelton, Staffordshire." Besides these illustrations, the paper contains some attractive details respecting the building in Hyde park, and a capital sketch of the navigable balloon recently exhibited in Paris at the Hippodrome. FRANKLIN EXPEDITION.—Captain Forsyth, R. N., has addressed the following letter to the Gutta Percha Com pany, Wharf-road, City-road, London :—" 14, Stratford place, Camden-square, Camden-town, November 18th, 1850. Gentlemen,—lt gives me much satisfaction in being able to bear testimony to the value of Gutta Percha in constructing Boats. The Gutta Percha Boat presented to Lady Franklin by Messrs. Serle and Co., for the use of the Expedition under my command to the Arctic Regions, proved an invaluable ac quisition to the Expedition. Whilst the other Boats con structed of wood suffered much by the cutting of the young ice, the Gutta Percha Boat was not in the l east d amaged, and returned to England in almost as good condition as when she left, although she underwent all the rough 'Nvork of the voyage.—l remain, Gentlemen, your obedient 'servant, ClisaLEs C. FORSYTH, Commander, R.N." , _.. _ RUMOURED DAMAGE TO THE CRYSTAL PALACE.— It was rumoured throughout London, in the course of Mon day, that the storm of Sunday had done serious damage to the works in Hyde Park, and the damage was estimated at ettms varying from 1,0001, to 4001. The fact is, however, that, with the exception of a few unfastened planks which twee blown dOwn.from a scaffold, and the dektruction of about tea square feet of glaos.(which, from ,not , ,baving been pro perly secured on Saturday night, was in, tything but a fit meet 'state to soviolent a storm); the W'6rhave in tio' re ,spect suffered. We are happy in,thusteingable to contradict a rumour, the future propagation Of which might operate to the Prludice of the thterei W te of W. estaibit4! . . , • ATTEMPT TO MURDER A POLICEMAN IN ESSEX. William Wood, a young determined-looking fel low, who has often been in custody for poaching and other offences, was yesterday brought before Mr. D. Ede and Mr. Spitty, county magistrates, sitting in petty sessions, at the Town-hall, Billericay, Essex, for examination on a charge of having made a desperate attempt to murder Robert Bambrough, an officer in the Essex const a b u l ar y, by v i o l en tly maltreating him and, when insensible, dragging him into a pond, and leaving him for dead. It maylbe necessary to mention that in the course of last week the prisoner was found poaching on the estate of Lord Petre, in this neigh bourhood. After much difficulty he was captured by the keepers, the gun which he had with him being broken in the scale. Two pheasants were found in his pockets, and on being examined before the magis trates he was committed to the county gaol at Chelms ford. On Thursday morning the injured officer was conveying him along the road to Brentwood, prior to his removal to Chelmsford, end on nearing a pond by the ways!de he suddenly turned round upon the ufficer, who from kindness had only fastened the handcuffs to one wrist of the prisoner, the constable having hold of the other end. Succeeding in throwing the officer down, and hitting him with the end of the handcuffs, and jumping up3n him, he dragged bim into a pond and made off. As quickly as possible Mr. Coulson, the superintendent of the district, had a full description of the ruffian circulated. lie was shortly traced along the road to Tilbury Fort, where he was found to have crossed the Thames to Gravesend, some gentlemen from motives of charity having given him 3d. for the ferry. Mr. Coulson, considering that he would be making the best of his way to Chatham to enlist, two expert officers were sent in that direction, and, on their arrival in Chatham, they found the pri soner in custody. He was in a beer-shop in the Military-road, when the landlord, singularly enough, read a paragraph in one of the London papers relating to the affair, and thinking that the description of the escaped assailant corre sponded with that of his guest, the police were called in, and the prisoner arrested. On the officers of the Essex constabulary reaching the town, they duly identified him and removed him to Billericay. The prisoner, securely ironed, was brought over from Brent wood Gaol yesterday morning by Mr. Coulson, the superintendent, for examination. The wounded officer being totally unable to leave his bed, the magistrates arranged to take his deposition at his cottage, the pri soner being present. Bamborough, in his evidence, gave all the particulars of the assault up to the time when he was rendered insensible. The prisoner after striking him with great ferocity, dragged him into the pond and threatened to drown him, pressing his knees upon his throat, and filling his mouth and nos trils with mud. A little girl, named "latch, partly corroborated the evidence of the officer, and one or two per sons living in the neighbourhood spoke to finding him in the pond in a state of insensibility, and dreadfully injured by the blows he had received. The prisoner was ultimately committed to the county gaol. NEW REML DY for SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS. It has been remarked that many of the happiest discoveries in science have been the result of mere ac cident ; and although to a certain extent this may be true, yet we shall find, on examination, that we are less indebted to the accident itself than to the mind by which it was perceived. In other words, there are persons who possess the peculiar faculty of seeing things through a medium of their own. They are original thinkers, who view the most ordinary sub jects under new aspects, and enjoy a quickness of per ception which enables them to seize hold of the prin ciple which binds facts together, and is the great secret of their mutual dependency. The appearance and relative position of the fixed stars were known to the Chaldean shepherds before the genius of Coper nicus and Newton revealed the laws which appear to govern the order and harmony of the universe. The anatomical facts connected with the valvular structure of the veins and heart indicating the ne cessary current of the circulation and the motion of the blood itself, were known to Eustachius, Servetus, and Fabricius, long before Harvey pointed out the physiological principles which govern the cir culation. In chemistry, too, it is the same. The alchemists themselves were well acquainted with the existence and properties of a vast variety of substances, the analysis of which only yielded to the superior abilities of those original thinkers who, like Black, Cavendish, Sir Humphrey Davy, &c., observed phe nomena for themselves, moving in no fictitious atmos phere and bowing to no preconceived immaculate authority. Such men live in a world of their own ; they see not with the eyes of ordinary observers. They perceive, with intuitive quickness, objects in new relations ; and suggestions spring up in their minds, like the imagery which rises up creatively in the imagination of the poet. Such philosophers make, not one discovery, but many discoveries. One new principle of science found out affords a clue to the solution of a whole series of mysteries. The thread of the labyrinth once gained, its intricacies are then easily explored. When Sir Humphrey Davy, by the aid of a powerful voltaic battery, decomposed one earth and pointed out its metallic basis united with oxygen, it was easy enough to extend the experimen tal h.quiry to other earths, and decompose in succes sion potash, soda, magnesia, &c. So also is vegetable chemistry. The discovery of Veratria by Dr. Turn bull suggested to his mind the discovery of Aconitine ; therefore we ought not to be surprised that in this instance also one original thinker, in following out his own peculiar modes of thought, has the good for tune to discover many things which were not before " dreamed of in our philosophy." We make these remarks in justice to Dr. Turnbull, who now appears before us as the inventor of a new remedy for short-sightedness, an imperfect condition of vision which is one of the " class diseases" of civi lized society. We have all of us probably noticed that short-sighted people very often partially close their eyelids, in order to make distant objects more clearly perceptible. The doctor, in making this observation, began to reflect on the physiology of the case ; and as the iris, in such instances, is more or less unusually dilated, it occurred to him that any medicinal agent that would act upon the iris so as to cause it to contract would correct the defect. He also naturally enough reflected, that as the cause of short-sightedness de• pends on the convexity of the cornea, as well as on the convexity of the lens, the effect of contracting the iris would be to extend the axis of vision, thereby di minishing apparently the convexity of the cornea; the effect of which must be to make the rays of light pass in a direct line through an approaching plane, and thus bring distant objects within its range. The truth of this theory was established by the result. The doctor found that the tincture of ginger and the tinc ture of pepper, made of a certain strength, and rubbed over the forehead according to his directions, produced contraction of the iris; and after this had been ap plied, and the plan of treatment he prescribes perse vered in, short-sighted persons have completely over come the imperfection, and been enabled to lay per manently aside their concave glasses. The value of this discovery is greatly enhanced by its simplicity, and it certainly deserves a fair trial by the profession. —Literary Gazette. PROTESTANTISM IN THE UNITED STATES.-111 . 8 subjoined statistics of the Protestant Epi sco p a l Ch urc h i n the United States will doubtless prove interesting to our religious readers. It will be remembered that this church, allowing for difference of country and instit u ti ons , is affirm. tive with the Church of England. Of this Church there are in the United States—Dioceses, 29 ; bishops, 32 ; priests and deacons, 1,557 ; whole number of clergy in the United States, 1,589. Baptisms—adults, 2,698 ; infants, 1,516 ; total, 4,214. Confirmed, 7,461; communicants, 87,794. The num ber of clergy! is as follows in the several dioceses :—New York, 256 ; Pennsylvania, 144 ; Maryland, 128 ; Virginia, 114 ; Western New York, 113 ; Connecticut, 107 ; Massa chusetts,l, 80 ; South Carolina, 71 ; Ohio, 70; New Jersey, 59; North Carolina, 39 ; Michigan, 34 ; Illinois, 30 ; Georgia, 28 ; Kentucky, 28 ; Louisiana, 25 ; Rhode Island, 24 ; Ala bama, 23; Wisconsin, ; Indiana, 21; Tennessee, 21; Vermont, 21; Mississippi, 17 ; Delaware, 16 ; Missouri, 15 ; Maine, 13 ; Florida, 8 ; New Hampshire, 8 ; Texas, 8 ; lowa, ; Arkansas, 4 ; Minesota, 3. DEATH OF MKS. GORE BELL MARTIN.—The American journals announce the demise of this lady, which took place in New York shortly after landing from a voyage across the Atlantic. Mrs. Martin had been prematurely confined at sea, and from that moment gradually sunk. Mrs. Bell Martin was the daughter of the late Mr. Martin, M.P. for the county of Galway, the proprietor of the exten sive estates of Connemara. In 1847 she married Mr. Gore Bell, the nephew maternally of the late Mr. Dillon Browne, M.P. The decased lady was the author of several valuable literary productions, and had proceeded to American on a literary tour. ASSASSINATION OF AN ARAB BEAUTY.-111 Arab girl, named Majauba, well known at Algiers for her beauty, has just been assassinated at her residence in that place. This girl, who was known to be always dressed with a cer tain quantity of jewellery about her, was sitting alone, smoking on her divan, when an Arab, named Sliman-Boug cloud, suddenly entered, and stabbed her in several places with a poignard. At the same time he commenced tearing her ear-rings from her ears, and her necklace from her bosom. The cries of the young woman gave the alarm, and just as the murderer was leaving the house with the jewel , in his hand, he was met by persons who had heard the out cry, and who arrested him. He has been lodged in prison to take his trial. The poor girl expired shortly after, and her body was found stabbed in thirty-three places.—French Paper. THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY AND THE DANISH GOVERNMENT. - The British Government having, as we lately stated, placed 40,000 Ordnance blankets at the disposal of the Danish Minister for the use of the army in Schleswig, the General Steam Packet Company have de livered them free of charge to the Danish authorities at Ton• ningen. For this act of sympathy for the Danish nation, the Count Reventlow, the Ambassador of Denmark, has, in very handsome letter, conveyed to the secretary of the com pany his warm acknowledgments. ULSTER CANAL AND RAILWAY.—A Bill will be applied for in the next session of Parliament to make a rail. way, at Armagh, to the Ulster canal at the town of Caledon. Mr. Dargan, who iS _now almost the sole proprietor of the canal, is the promoter of the railway, and the work will be prosecuted at his GiVil expense. The distance is about seven statute miles. UST. OCTOBER. blonmouth Chester Wrexham MEDICAL CHARITIES, &C., IRELAND.—It appears from an abstract of a return moved for by Colonel Dunne, relative to medical establishments under the poor-law in Ireland, union workhouses included, and ordered by the House of Commons to be printed no the 15th August last, that the average number of hospital patients for each week in the year ended the 25th March, 1850, was 34,714 ; total number admitted during the year, 468,028. Payments to medical attendants, 23,9471. 3s. 3d.; nurses and other per sons, 8,929/. 15s. 11d. ; other expenses, 144,1621. 12s. 71d.; total expenditure, 177,0391. lls. LITIGATION CONNECTED WITH SCOTTISH RAILWAYS. —The litigations at present pending relative to railway pro perty in Scotland are complicated and truly alarming. Ist. The Scottish Central Company are suing the London and North-Western, Lancaster and Carlisle, and Caledonian Com panies, for breach of wo'king agreement, endeavouring, by arrestments of the property of the two former companies, to bring them within the jurisdiction of the Scottish courts. 2d. The Caledonian Company are suing the Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Company for restitution of advances. 3d. The Barrhead Company are suing the Caledonian Company for implement of lease. 4th. Some half-dozen of actions, at the instance of groups of Clydesdale Junction shareholders against the Caledonian Company, me pending. sth. Ditto, ditto, Wishaw shareholders against the Caledonian Com pany. Besides the above, numbers of actions are in the course of being raised by c ompanies against each other. Liti gations are also going on against the old Caledonian board, at the instance of the Dumbartonshire and Ardrossan Com panies.—North British Mail. " ALEXANDRE' I) DAUB, THE FRENCH DRAMATIST," Several actors of the Theatre Historique yesterday applied to the Tribunal of Commerce to ,declare Alexandre Dumas bankrupt. They, grounded their application, on the fact, that bet was personally interested in the management of the theatre, which bad stopped. payment. The matter was placed in deliberation.— Galioares Zilessenger. 1 1 4.,