The Sun. — London, England, 1850-10-24 00:00:00

i , a rft fpfr MARKET NEWS.--(11.11s ,DAY.) NEWOATE AND LE.a.llEl' E..e - 1.1.1., Thee tnar4ete ruled heavy to day at barely ttutiorary It t ice • —Bair, from 2: to 3s 41; Mutton, 2 6d to 33 8d; vrk, 33 to 4: 4d ts• r Blhs, b MEAT y the careas-. NLAUE.ETS. Sount&LL, OCT. 2 3.—Piitne Beis.ts and Sheep w(re sc arce, and quire as dear as last vs er.k. Io al other stocks exceedingly liite business was traissiacte,l.—Wef, from 3s to 3 3 10d ; Mutton, 35 to 43 ; Veal, 3s to 3s 6 ' l ; Pork, 3s to 3s 101 per Sibs, to sink the 0ff..1. ROMFORD, OCT. 23.—O ur mar k et ru l e d d u ll to -d ay, and hist week's prices were barely supporei,—Beet, from 2s 10 d t.) 3s 8l; Mutton. 33 to 4s; Veal, 3,2 d to %86.1t;o 1.2'73k; and, 3 a2d tv 3. 81 par 'Sibs. Suckling Calve''' each. Quarter-old Sl os s Pi g s, 17$ to 233 Ilart.snA3l, Ocr. 23.—We had a very slow trade, on the following tents- —Bed, from 3. 2d to 4s; Mutton, 4 1 to 4 s 2 i ;Veal 3s 2d to 3 I 6d; Pork, 3'4i t) ftd per Blbs. 1:u ARUNDEL, OCT. 2 2.—Generally speaking, the trade butto n d uttodull, at droopi ng pr i ces.—Beef, from 3s 4 d to 4s; n, 35 41 to 43 2d ; P oi k , 3 4 4d t o 3 a 61 p er :Abs. fi a elli " E sTEß, OCT. 23.—O ur mar k e t to day- has ruled ts but we h ave no material change to notice in pries. e c from 38 4d to 4 , ; Mutton, 3s 64 to 4s ; Veal, as 2 d to 3s 44; Pork, 33 44 to 33 103 per 8 bs. BstrrlinEL D. --a lll a ess ir dor A ilf: t 27 l. Bl " to 31 143; Clover, Trade3l Os to 41 4s • ; and Straw, 11 Is to 1/ 73 per load. dulls at barely late rates. eullßEaLasso.—Meadow Hay, 21 10i to 3/ 15s ; CAlLvera, y3eirOaSgeto3u4piplys! and Straw, 1/ 2slo 11 8; per load. dm and a heavy demand. i,,WIIITECDAFEL. meadow Hay, 2/ 8s to 31 14s; 'i lc) . T-rs 3/0a to 4 / s s; and Straw, 11 is to 117 s per load. 43 ‘ 11 114 Y a nd Straw moved cff slowly, at our quotations. CORN AVERAGES. ror tpluirErtAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN' ju,__ ne Week ended Oct. 17 1850, made up from the Returns of the eurPietactpoerialiani_the d lffereneCitiesand Towns In warter. England and Wales P RICE I WEIZAT. I BAILEY.' OATS. I 1.2 T• IBE I PIAL d .. 3 9. iOd 1 24s 2d I 163 7d I 26e 7d 29s iti 293 5 WItEIT I I D UTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. I . „: BAILEY. OATS. I I ATE. I BEANS. PEAS. QUAY Is Od Is Od Is Od Is Od is Oa Wheat, XTI TIES OF GRA IN SOLD IN THE PAST WEEK. 87,475; Barley, 36,821 ; Oats, 14,704 ; Rye, 103; Beans, 4,428: Peas, 2,125 quarters. gilt It COURT THIS DAY.) There Were no cases set down for hearing to-day, t * .hich is the fait day of vacation. The ordinary sit ititgii"f the Court commence next week, when a 13 th e e o ex Pected, in c onsequence of the business before is for the ensuing term. - ` 111 "( KRU PTC Y.—( TH IS DAY.) RR A. ASHCROFT. rb The bankrupt was described as a shipowner at Liver 11.°V' and tame up to day on the que , tion of certificate. ti,ettiaPpeated that he had been induced to join his rela- Ni g i a n some small shipping matters, and bad also spa and !" railway shares• but the amount of the debts too not exceed 850 L an l a HONOUR said there did not appear to have been la! fraudulent tererce, but there had been a sprcu gon N ate ‘" Justified under the circumstances. The certi was thea grated of the second cla4s, but to he sus- This was the only case this morning. CRIMINAL COURT.--(THIS DAY.) GLD COURT. (Befere Mr. Justice ERLE.) 104 n Wakenivi Edward s , aged 57, a surgeon, carrying op hbeiness in the neighbourhood of St. Martin's.lane s urt "to teas remanded f rom l ast seseion, surrendered in u Kith e felo ke his tri a l on an i ndictment charging him niously ettempiing to procure abortion. are 4r. BALLANTINE, on the part of the prosecution, reum.w tho etteriticn of the Court this morning to the stance of the prosscutrix not being to be found, tir o it to his Lordship in that case to say whether th e titial should be postponed until next session, or that Lenefendeat should be discharged. The offence, which weel,been attempted by the defendant, was made upon a . ct . a en who was a welt in a gentleman's family, and was b very grave and peculiar character. Abortion had hetee procured, and that under circumstances resulting much pain to the prosecutrix and it would be for his L " d 'hiP under those circumstances to ea raise his dis eretinn in the matter. „ 116 LORDSHIP said that as the trial had been already .a... :n!an,? postponed to suit the convenience of the de t, it Was but fair that it should be again deterred T e al next session to allow of a search being made for 'o_prosecutrix, who was now absent. The ease accordingly stood over until next session. Se ll the case of Augustus Robinson who was convicted rday of uttering a forged cheque for 20/., with the ;at IA to defraud his employer, Mr. Keyser, a stock- Jobber, to Itjr;Cnanasorr, on the part of the prosecution, stated p ro secutor Court this morning that it was the wish of the to recommend the prisoner to mercy, Princi. Pally on' account of his youth, he being only eighteen years of age. Mr. PARRY, on behalf of the prisoner, the inegment of the Court postponed until an opportu thy Could be had f applied to have 0 proving that the handwriting in the _fo.rged cheque was not that of the prisoner, a person wri could have d.e.posed to that fact on the tof the Prisoner havingpar tee of Ris L died ' , ORDSHIP refused the application, and the son the prisoner was deferred. forbidAdliClE or riAsvg• of a — Daniel Harrington, a man * 44 i ~tig east of face, aged 30, described as a labourer, 4n..4uteted for feloniously and carnally knowing . and -111;13.4 IClaryto Ann O'Donne a ll, a years.child r a i g su e n d er eigr esun defendea:Eaon prosecuted ; the p Th e r tes ue ,g eater part of the evidence in tb e is ar c e a d se ne- Child tIY- unfit for publication. It app !Quer, oel,lecisth-onithatwas thewho had lost her mother, residedll with the offence was perpetrated by w t t h th e phreir ,,,47:l% Catherine O'Driscoll te c ,r , 14e Prisoner lodged. 'ill O N n o S a u h n 's da A y, rk tb -a e ‘ 2 e 2 y i Sep pri-loar, durig the temporary absence of the atu.t., the Ann 0 ,,, ner entered the room in which the child Mary there committed and her little sisters were in bed, and which he was c har ged, the abominable offence with velu t f `,,' On the return of the aunt the child told her e happened, and on the aunt charging the pri lone- with 4 ," the offence he denied it, and said he would sot have dcne Such a thing for the world. 04 4t e . u rgeon, to whom the child was submitted for ex.,..tt the ,-;7 1 o n the morning after the offence, deposed 1 " thild l , - . --( noe and injury which had been inflicted on the ~,.. ;person. tk.t.b. yrisoner, when called on for his defence, pro steel big innocence.' . ,rilhis toebsiiie hiving summed up the evidence, e,` i 4 rY f anal a. verdict of Guilty. piii;er_isa,nlc.oislinsnte then sentenced the prisoner . to be t:tine ported for life 84e.let m, a * young man 22 years of age, v .a a r s . Placed at the bar, on a charge of teloniously and e child, ,in g and abusing Catherine Ann Holt, a ill r.fiea a at)U t eight yews. tion . ancirdlestinecondneted the case for the prosecu _ .T.:le proMseritiPtrdirxr:elaludefended the prisoner. a!ietiob r merger , 'M. ... _. ~_, 0. .intelligent 2A ni-pl l a i e t e tl , e s g tr i a rl t , fu r r e d s , i a de u d d tfor offence the uetails. of which were necessarily unfit u ringPtithmicaah'isuenn'aew:fs c ommitted, as in the last case, d . - of te e , sh of ,ec tho childs' mother, on the evening From ti‘e u.rlober last. Rael " i., evnAnc e of the surgeon, by whom the child nat anamed, there could be no doubt that a capital 4 7 .. !ii had n t only t een committed upon her, that but by th`"iseme disease had been communicated toher edllsoner p,i4it_r• PARNELL addressed the jury on beha'f of the c ici ` nfl' Ile remarked upon the technical lan auage the u h er , had used in describing the offence committed upon epotlentending that such language could not have been ., lon s s, hat must have been put into her mouth u.) a other p,rsere t er iil k it t o e . a g o e t A G J u n ii D t.) G ..E summed up, and the jury found a second charge °I car pirilsuner was then arraigned on ri 4 A 44 'y knowiug and abusing the sam a echi l l o d, h el o at c h te e: Le 4 r , — 0 , 411 Heir, on another occasion , on the . - e411,1 1 - 1 ;: v d ici t Y en a c t e te i r u th th e is fir s:m t s o v ff e e r n y ce si b m a i d la b r. e t e u n t c h o a m t committed. eel the 1441 the preceding charge, and left little doubt of ttrisotier'a -guilt. in 44hdniinry convicted the prisoner, but wished to ream - " 141 to mercy on account of his youth. NEW COURT. B efore th P M Alderman Moorr.) .hu z e ..ECORDER and - r. pester a Jones and Esther Stone, who were convicted grocer b ah , l ', 4 aY of stealing a sovereign, the property of "r:rdt -14,181 Gannon, and 35., the property of William H 0 t 0, ,, vvere sentenced this morning, by the R.teoider, t z.,:: ..the Charles VI ez;lit.ri of the pave imprisonment and hard labour. viv o , , znter, an engineer, and Elizabeth Collins, a were convicted of stealing 0 purse s lie„ll,,n,ing upwards of 18s. the property cf Franc' , teC e m, r ielE, a Belgian, from his person, and were Ben et' to seven years' transportation. —sAEY SESSIONS.—(T HIS DAY. Jan e th e err y was indicted for stealing a silver watch, ieProse of Edward Pooley, at Lambeth. erl)seeteutor deposed that he was a coachsmith, residing % li t o. ti_igh l3 t u .Z' W O as n the Bth of September, about ten o'clock passing Kennington Church towards f em "": when he was accosted by the prisoner and another du I " , whe asked him to treat them. Ile refused to 1 , 41 80 , and the prisoner snatched his watch from his ea e ,, 3 „ teQ at pocket, and they both ran away and made their gage Be instantly informed a police•constnble, and wh i s',"tre a description of the prisoner and the watch, th e e iti ." ll 3 found afterwards pledged in Westtniest.r, on Pri —4 "diY morning. Witness saw nothing of the thea°etr until the ni g h t o f t h e 10t h , w h en he met her in inehtldieni - road, and gave her into custody. defence tho p r i soner den i ed stea li ng the wa t c h. Bru ton' Guilty. S entence n i ne mont h s ' b al d i sbour at _,W, ST IVIINSTER.—(THIS DAY.) char c lini Wri g h t was brought up before Mr. Brod,rip, (paucitgod with entering an u n fi n i s h e d house, h urning t, 401 a Chapliny ot laths, and en d anger i ng B the property of Mr. thiPsolice con riantstable 22 . 7. was on duty in Detibip,b-street att. morning, about half-past two, and saw a light in th e _ 1 ° of one of the unfinished houses. lie went up to the atties where he found the prisoner very t e atei at the fireplace, in which were a quantity of lat h s burning, lie immediately took him into ca,tody. comf,:tably boar Mr . John Chaplin Bryant s - iid he wee the p ro pfl, , t or Cveral buildings in Denbigh -street and the L e'gh .lood, The house in question was not yit habitable, 14 % ii was rooftd in. The he a rth -stoves were not in yet, and . V i le fire ut question was laid ou the flooring, and had it not l=ean for the vigilance of the police, there is no dcubt the whsle of the premites would have been burnt to the ground. As it was, the damvp did not amount to much. The prisoner said he was cold arLd had no pl.:ce to go to, so he went and lighted the fire to warm himself. Mr. BRODEXIIP orch red the prisoner to pay the amount of the damage, or be imprison - d For two da) a. MARLBW-STREET-(THISDAY.) ASSAULT ON THE POLlCE.—Richard Russell, a mester butcher, carrying on business at Ne. 18, Castle street, Leicester square, and Thomas Munduy, landlord of the Hungerfore Arms, Villiers -street, &reed, were placed st the bar before Mr. Herd Wick, charged with violently ass suiting tLe police while in the execution of their duty. Police-constable 68 C stated that about half pat twelve on the previous night he was on du'y in Casele street, when he saw the defendant Russell, who ass very tipsy, standing in a doorway committing a nuisance. Witness, in passing, sahl, " Halloo, old fel low, that is a dirty trick." He had no sooner uttered these words when the defendant struck him a tremen dous blow on the tight ear, and knecked hint Joan. Directly le recovered himself - he collared tee &ler:dent and took Lim into custody. Some werds then ensued, when the ds.fendant Munday ruched out of an adjoining public-house, and swore his friend Russell should nut go to the station. As the dtfendant Munday persisted in obstructing him in his duty, he called Emotivr constable to his (wit ness's) assistance, and gave him (Murda)) in , charge also. On crossing Leicester square, on their way to the station, the defendant threw witness to the groued with great violence, aud witness was so much exhausted from his (defendant's) violence, that he was obliged to hand him ovi r to the charge of Simmunds 42 C, whom he met in the square. The defendant Munday then collared 42 C, and tried to rescue Russell, and it re quired the assistance of a third constable to lodge them in the station. Police-constables 42 C and 254 A corroborated the above evidence, and stated that both defendants were very drunk and violent, and kicked them several times. Mr. Hostel!, in reply to the charge, said he was very tipsy, and knew not what he did. No doubt the con stables Lai stated the truth. He was very sorry, and much ashemed at his present position. Mr. Munday denied offering any obstruction to the officer. Ile was net in the least the worse for liquor, and instead of resisting the police, his desire was to fford them every assistance. Insfector Whall said when the defendants were brought to the station they were both tipsy. and Munday was very abusive, and called him several offensive name;. Mr. HARDWICK said it was a bad case, and fined Rus sell 41., being 4t .. for each assault, and Munday 40s. fur the assault on 42 C. The money was immediately paid. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT THE TRAVELLERS' CLUB HOUSE. This morning, between five and six o'clock, consi derable alarm was caused throughout the neighbourhood of Pall-mall and Regent-street, in consequerce of the sudden outbrezk of a very extensive fire in the Tra veller.' Club-house. _ The building • stands between the Athermum and Reform Club-houses, in Pall-mall, and rxtends back wards almost as far as Carlton-gardens. The discovery was made by a police-constable of the A division, who, in passing along the bock of the gardens, perceived an unusual glare of light over the house-tops in Pen well. The constable sprang his rattle, and aroused the inmates of the three club-houses before spoken of. In a very brief period afterwards it was clearly ascertained that thaws, in huge bodies, were rolling out of the billiard room at the top of the Travellers' CIO.. This plrt ot the premises was mo-t elaborately furnished and appointed, the walls being covered with splendid sculpture] ornsmeuts, whilst the paintings of the panels were s qual, in point of execution, to any in the metropoli:. With as little delay as possible, the brigade engines from Chandes.street and Krug street, Gulden-square, arrived, followed by that belonging to Messrs. Cembe, the brewers; the one fr,.m the West of England station. and three or four others from the more dis!ai:t brigade stations. Plenty of water having been obtioed, the en gines of the brigade uteri: set to work, under the diiec tion of Mr. Braidwoed, the superinteA,nt; and the West of England, under the charge of Mr. Connorton. In order to convey the wets'. to the ex:et seat of the fire, the hose from the engines were carried up the stair cas: v, and by that means the firemen were enabled to attack the flames at every point; but the , y were unab!s to extinguish them until the speadid billiard-room was totally destroyed, a small library adjoining burned, and one or two other rooms much injured by fire. The water from the engines has also found its way into most of the superbly furnish( d apartments in the build ing. The fire was caused from the kitchen chimney, which ignited a heavy beam running into the billiard room, and encased in the flue. The property was in sured in the Sun, Guardian, send Hand-iu-Hand Fire offices. FIRES IN THE METROPOLIS.—Yesterday morning, between twelve and one o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in the extensive warehouse of Mr. Jonas Defries, of No. 147, Houtunitch, lamp manufacturer, &c. The fire was discovered by the police, the flames bursting through the shutters. The engines from Watling-street and Jeffries square were quickly on the spot, under the direction of Mr. Braidwood. In consequence of the extent of the premises considerable alarm was felt ; and the fire, which is supposed to have been occasioned by an escape of gas, was not extin guished until considerable damage had been done. The premises are insured in the Phoenix, London, and Legal Fire Offices. Another fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Reynolds, builder, &c., 5, Queen's-row, Mile-end, and the workshops were consumed. The property is insured. The fine is supposed to have been occasioned by a spark from a candle falling amongst some shavings. SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF IN Ells- TRESS.—Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the board of di rectors and others, supporters of the above institution, was held at their offices, London-wall, for general business, the Rev. Dr. Kuper in the chair. The report stated that. there are at present 173 foreigners of all nations on the funds re ceiving relief, making a total of 78,411 instances in which pecuniary assistance has been afforded. During the past year 128 had been assisted in returning to their native coun tries, many of whom had families. A short time since E. 11. Brandt, Esq., presented the committee with 1,0001. for the commencing a building fund for the erection of almshouses for the reception of at least twenty of the most deserving and aged pensioners. The secretary announced that this munifi cence had been responded to by donations of 100/. from F. Huth, Esq., 1001. from Doxat, Esq., 1001. from Be nefice, Esq., 501. from J. Labouchere, Esq , and many others of smaller amount. The cost of the building is estimated at 5,0001. The amount of relief dispensed during the past year was 2,352/. 53. Ed. PARISH OF ST. JAMES, WESTMINSTER.—Yester day a meeting of the vestrymen of the parish of St. James, Piccadilly, was held in the vestry room, the Rev. John Jack son, rector, in the chair, for the purpose of adopting measures to prevent the style of architecture of the parish church, built by Sir Christopher Wren, being interfered with by the churchwardens. Mr. Nelson moved a resolution, recom mending the vestry to call upon the churchwardens not to proceed further with the repairs or alterations of the church until they obtained the opinion of three architects, to be selected from Sir Thomas Srnirke, Messrs. Barry, Cockrell, Hardwick, Barry, and Tito, upon the propriety of such n pairs and alterations. And that they also request the churchwardens to lay before the vestry all their models, plans, and papers. connected with their pteposed building operations. Mr. Jackson seconded the motion. Mr. Green, senior ch - archwarden, assured the vestry that he had no idea of interfering wilt the original architecture, and that his only object was the restoring the building to its original beauty, by cleansing its exterior. The Hun. Mr. Byng said that it was quite i:legal for the vestry to exercise such con trol over the churchwardens, who had full power (ATr the church funds. Mr. Brown moved, and Mr. Clarke seconded, an amendment, that the vestry should not interfere with the churchwardens in their building operations as regarded the church. Mr. Lees, the architect, was called iu on the motiote of Dlr. Watkins, and said that those inno vations were not contemplated, but that in any alterations that might be mads the designs of Sir Christopher Wren would be studied and closely adhered to. The amendment and motion were put, when the former was carried by a ma jority of ten to one. After which Mr. Nelson ,gave notice of motion for a petition to the Legislature for an Act to place on a more satisfactory basis all matters connected with church . building and church expenditure. Thanks were then voted to the rev. chairman, and the vestry separatt d. MELANCDOLY AND SUDDEN DEATH OF PRO•. resson Honares —An occurrence of a melancholy nature, which threw considerable grief over many parts of our town, took place yesterday morning by the sudden death of the Rev. Professor Frederick Holmes, of Claremont-buildings, in this town. The rev. gentleman left his home on foot in good health, to proceed to the railway-station, intending to leave by the 7.10 Chester train. Oa Pride-hill he was taken up by an omnibus, in which he was conveyed to the station. He went into the station to the train, - but immediately re turned to the carriage, apparently indisposed, and signified a wish to be driven home, which was directly complied with. On arriving at his residence, he - Was found to be sitting down on the bottom of the conveyance, in a state of insensibility. He was immediately taken into the house, and medical assistance sent for. with the utmost expedi tion, but the vital spark had fled its tenement of clay. The cause of death was apoplexy.—Eddowe's Journal of Wednesday. NARROW ESCAPE.—A fair equestrian had a nar row escape with her life on Monday aftern9on. While riding out, the horse ran away, and •galloped at full speed through the town, down North-street, across the Steine, up St. James's-street, and was at last checked near tire City of Hereford Inn, in consequence of a cab and a carrier's cart occupying so much of the road that there was no room to pass. Not willing to stop, however, the horse attempted to clear the cab, but only leaped into it, r.der and all. It then scrambled over the top, and ran a few paces further, but at s l ac kened speed, which enab led the rider to seize the oppor tunity of slipping off unhurt. She was, of course, somewhat alarmed, and rested a few minutes in a saddler's shop close by; ,but every one admired her skill as a horsewoman, and exclaimed that she had ke p t her seat like a jockey. The young lady is said to be not more than sixteen years of age. —Brighton Guardian. ESSF X.—On Friday after,noon a stack of straw, in a field in Kelvedon, belorgurg to Mr. William Abott, farmer, was consumed by fire. The alarm was given by two b6ys, named Howard and Newman, who were et work in an adjoining field. Both the boys were the s me evening apprehended, and have since been remanded by the magic. trates. Newman, it appears, had been the same morning chastised by his master for burning s me haulm in the field, which he had lighted with Inciters. APPROACH OF WINTER.— A letter from lons le Saulnier states teat snow had Mien in some quantity as low down as the first plateau of the Jura. . In the plains the re had been a sharp frost, which had co mpelled the vale growers to hasten the gathering of their crops. The wine this year is lower in price than it has been for a long time; it is difficult to obtain M. the hectolitre. Accounts from Gex say the bears had begun to descend from the moun'ains, and a general battue was aVut to lake place against them. —Galignani. GALWAY FISDERY.—For the last few years wP have not witnessed such a t.,ke of fish as has been for the present— cod, hake, and herring. Fish are being sold by out Claddaglunen at remarkably low prices (the former from Id. to 3d. each), owinc , to their immense success in fishing this week.— Galway arcury. HER MAJESTY'S THEA,TRE. GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS. Last night was the triumph of native talent. Miss Goddard made the most successful debiit as a pianiste that has ever Leen known of late years, and we are happy to say the success was as deserved as it was triumphant. She has on this, her first appear ance in public, at once taken her station in the very first rank of pianists. She is a pupil of Thalberg, and never has he had a pupil who did greater justice to his intructions. Miss Goddard performed Thalberg's fantasia on themes from the Elisir d'Amore, and when encored substituted for it Prudent's arrangement of " A to o cars ;" in the second part she performed Tbalbsrg's Tarentalla, and when encored substituted Blumenthal's "Croat March." Nothing' could exceed the deli.,acy and firmness of her touch, or the brilliancy and accuracy of her execution ; she was repeatedly applauded during the course of her performance, and was called on at the conclusion. She excited a pirfectfurore. THE SUN, LON DON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER . 24, 1850. HAYMARKET THEATRE: A pleasant t o-actcatuedy, adapted from the French. by Mr. Charles Selby, was produced here last evening, under the title of The Husband of my Heart. The scene is laid in Paris, in the time of Louis XV. The King, it appears, has ordered the Duke de Fronsac (Mr. Howe) to marry Mademoiselle de Nuailles, an order with which the Duke is, of course, forced to comply ; but he t urns his head from his bride during the whole time they are at the altar, and on the com pletion of the ceremony leaves her without once looking at her. The Duchess (Miss Reynolds) is, however, sincerely and devotedly attached to. him — he is, in truth, the husband of her heart, and she de termines, if possible, to win his love. With this ob ject in view, knowing the Duke's propensity to low amours, she disguises herself as a market girl, and thus attracts the attention of the Duke and of a certain Viscount de Belletulippe (Mr. C. Selby), a coxcomb companion of the Duke, and who had formerly been a suitor to the Duchess, but who had been indig nantly rejected. The Viscount recognises her in her disguise, but does not betray her, as he has " an idea" of getting her into his power. The market girl suc ceeds in her design, and so ardent is the love of the Duke that he actually promises to make her his Duchess should he succeed in freeing himself from his hated bonds. An officer of the Bastille arrives to arrest him, by order of the King, for having deserted his bride, and now comes the important crisis in the life and happiness of the Duchess. She must re veal the truth ; and, the truth revealed, will the Duke love the Duchess as ardently as he has loved the market girl ? The acting of Miss Reynolds in this trying scene was most graceful, yet truthful withal and full of pathos, and produced an immense effect. The Duke does love the Duchess as he had loved the market girl, and she has secured the husband of her heart; whilst the Viscount, who has chosen to make love to Eugenie (Mrs. Fi:zwil- Ham), a young poissarde, the affianced bride of Bricche (Mr. Buclrstone), is obliged to compound for his folly by paying a large sum of money to Madame Ccquillard (Mrs. Stanley), the mother of Eitgenie, after having been soundly thrashed by the poissardes kr his impertinence. The part of the Duchess was exquisitely acted by Miss Reynolds; there was a deli cacy and refinement about her personation of the character which wra most fascinating. She was well supported by Mr. Howe, as the Duke ; and Selby, as the coxcomb Viscount, was most amusingly ridiculous. Fitzwilliam made the most interesting of pois sardes, and sang a new ballad, cornrosed tor her by Mr. German Reed, with gfeat spirit ; and Buckatone, as her lover, was the most grotesquely jealous and infuriated of pastry cooks. All the artistes were called on at the conclusion, and the comedy was announced . . for repetition every evening with the hearty and unanimous concurrence of the audience: The theatre was very well attended. MISS KELLY'S THEATRE. - _ The Western Dramatic Amateurs commenced last night a second series of private performances at the abr,ve elegant little theatre, situate in Dean-street, Soho. The members of this excellent dramatic so ciety appear, one and all, to be deeply embued with an admiration for the drama, hence their histrionic endeavours are characterised by a greater degree of correctness and success than can be said to attend the generality of amateur performances. The manner in which the various pieces forming the programme were played last night, betokened that the ladies and gentlemen cf the Western Dramatic Amateurs bad well studied the characters judiciously allotted to them, and well and carefully rehearsed the enter tainments. The performances commenced with Morton's admirable comedy, The School of Reform, which was gone through with praiseworthy pre ci,ion. The principal characters were distributed with much discrimination, each party appearing in that bat suited to his or her style of performing and ability. Mr. Edward's Lord Avendale was a gentle manly and interesting performance ; a like eulogium may also be paid to the General Tarragon' of Mr. Birch and the Ferment of Mr. Spicer. Mr. G. Har rison gave a forcible and spirited interpretation of Robert Tyke, producing in many of the scenes a great effect. A word of praise is especially due to the ladies, who admirably acquitted themselves in their particular branch of the comedy. Miss Ne ville's Julia was a natural and charming piece of acting. Miss Sophia Archer and Miss J. Montague both honourably acquitted themselves in the respec tive pars of Mrs. St. Clair and Mrs. Ferment. The other characters were also well sustained. In addition to the comedy, the evening's programme contained the interlude of A Day After the Wedding, and the laughable farce of Captuin Stevens, &c. &c. The theatre was attended by a numerous and fashionable company. THE MILL OF ATHOLL'S GLEN. (After Ossian, by Punch.) • Why is the peeper of Athol! closed? Wherefore is am eye of Strange surrounded with a ring cf purple ? It is the print of the Southron knuckle—the fist mark of the Cambridge Undergraduate, heavy-banded bruiser. Cambridge Undergraduate, bruiser of the heavy hand, wherefore didst thou darken the eye of Strange ? Why bungedat thou up the peeper of Athol'? The autumn winds were singing the corowch of the summer in Glen Tilt. A moaning, as of no end of ghosts, swept through the hollow glen. There, with the red and brown leaves falling around him, stood the Chief of Clan Atholl, with a party of ladies and gentlemen. Shrowded in the mist of the distance cometh Sandy Meclarran. Whh him behold two stranger forms spproaching. Onward they come with the sturdy tramp of youth; stout are the cudgels which they grasp in their nervous fists. Ho, there, ye that range unbidden the Glen of Tilt ! Halt, ye wanderers from the land of Cockney I Stand, ye jumpers of the counter ! We are no jumpers of the counter ; wanderers are we from the land of Cockney. We come from the nusidows that are wa'ered by the Cam,—from the abodes were learning dwelleth in her colleges and halls. Thither journey we on this beaten track. And who the deuce art thou that hinderest us ? Ken. ye not the Chief of Clan Atholl—the tourist hafillng Duke, of the impassable glen ? Fur the Chief of Atholi's Clan we care not a dump; the Duke of the impassable glen we value not at a farthing. We have passed toe Asses-bridge, where fore should we not cross thy glen ? Chief of Clan Atholl, get out of the way ! Duke of the impassable glen, stand out of the sunshine 1 Fire flashed from the eye of Atholl; wrath blazed from the countenance of Strange. By the collar he seized the foremost youth. Back ! Return by the way thou earnest. Back! or, by the beard of my ten thousand ancestors, ye shall rue the day ! Back, I say, on your lives, ye sons of Granta! Unhand me, Chief of Clan Atholl, or whoever thou art! Unhand me, I say, or I will punch thine head. Thou wilt not ? No ? Here goeth, then ; take that for thyself ! Together they rushed; the son of Granta and Chief of Clau Atholl. Furious was the Chief; and wild and aroused was the Undergraduate's monkey. Blow was exchanged for blow, lunge for lunge, slash for slash ; heavy was the countering, and the knocks re sounded. Loud shouted the gentlemen; shrill were the screams of the ladies. The Chief was overcome with fury, and hit all abroad. Wary was the Cantabrigian youth, well trained on the pleasant banks of the Cam to encounter in stand-up mill the brawny bargee. Sharp fell the stinger on the proboscis of Strange ; fast flowed the claret from the conk of Atholl. One, two, were planted on the optics of the Chief—darkness swam before him; then fell a stunner on his ducal frontis piece, and he was doubled up by a finisher in the breadbasket. He staggered—he fell into the arms of his faithful henchman—even the arms of Sandy Mae larran. o FamishTt h o e t h r c e od f r e c ho u eu e sy , t ai Donald peehse_s.ut o h c,o f utgtht: l th tufted hee ch l p broef in l ckie yours s—c chl Roderick l Chief y n h A an t d h s oll o mr r i r re he fo e r ig e t l iat I f the four bald grooms are at once on the collar of the Sassenach. As many more grasped the coat. tails of his companion—the Heeland men were braw. From before the bruised lice of their chieftain they drag away the sons of Granta. Mourn ; fur ecch3 trum,is encircles the ogle of Strange: lament ; for the visual organ of Atholl is der ketied. Raise the sound of wail upon a thousand bagpipes ! Closed is the eye of him who would close Glen Tilt to the traveller. Contusion sits on the brow of the Chieftain; the countenance of the Duke • I beareth maths of punishment ! 1r T►iE LOUD ADVOCATE. —We understand that his Lordship is continuing slowly but gradually to improve in health.—Scotsman. THE PREVENTION OF CHIME. LETTER TO THE milt HON. SIR GEORGE GREY, BART., MT., &a. &c. Sir,—ln pointing out one mode by which niy pro posal could be fairly carried into execution, the first point, and assuredly it is one which I da not mean to shirk, is the question of transportation, how far it should be considered a proper mode of punishment, with reference to the criminal, the mother country, and to the colony to which the convict is transported. - After the most attentive perusal and re•perusal of the evidence taken before Sir William Molesworth's Committee, I am unable to refer to one single sen tence, containing either a fact or an opinion, the latter with a, reason attached or anything purporting to be one, against a proper sy stem of transportation ; although every page is replete wi.h the most conclu sive testimony against the system adopted by Govern ment, proving that it has produced the most diabo lical results. 'And atiain I would remark, that if the wit of the wittiest, combined with the judietnent of the most sagacious, were asked to reply ti the question, What is the beat poseible mode to adopt in order to render a convict the greatest posible curse to the colony to which he is sent ? there could be but one answer, Do as we have done, adopt our sy stem and the result must be similar. Before your convict is sent abroad take as much care as possible that he is well practised in every crime ; let him have gone the round of many prisons, in order that his acquaintance among the votaries of guilt may be most extensive; when you find that he has well advanced in crime, from his first offence of picking pockets to that of an expert housebreaker, then send him to the colonies and if you should happen to be an hereditary legislator, and your assur ance is equal to your ignorance, express your unqua lified surprise, that a colony should be so regardless of its interests as ungratefully to decline - receiving those with whose criminal education you had taken such unwearied pains. But at the same time be mindful of the paramount claims of the mother country on so accomplished convict ; transport him in the first place for seven years only, and then you kceß, his mind well occupied with the pleasing thought, how soon the time will pass by when he will be restored to his mother country, to whom he . will show his gratitude by recounting to an admiring audi , ,lice how delightful is the residence in a tropical climafe, where it is unnecessary to work bard to obtain all the comforts of life. One point you must not lose sight of; in establish ing your colony take the greatest care that for the first fifty years you send out no minister of religion, no schoolmaster, and appoint your governors, not on account of their capacity, but because they have been useful to your parr t eding paragraph, and d eny thaty.ce lin C e a i n n . ythoeu,foStiir p Sir George Grey, put your finger on one such is the eysecm we have practised, and I ask you if it he not just as illogical, and just as untrue, to say that the infamous state of our penal colonies is owing to a wise and judicious system of transportation, as it would be to attribute the massacre of St. Bartho lomew, or. the atrocities of the Inquisition, to our blessed Saviour, for having been the Founder of the Christian Religion, in whose name such abominations were perpetrated. But fortunately we have on this very question, The Prevention of Clime," examph is precisely in point; in Howard's work on the State of Eisons, dated 1775, you will learn that practices just as infanroui as those narrated before Sir William Molesworth's Committee were of daily occurrence in every gaol in the kingdom; yet that Christian philosopher did not propose the abolishment of prisons, a most easy suggestion, but devoted his time, his energies, and his fortune to improve them. So also with respect to the hulks. In 1785 a Com mittee of the House of Commons reported, "That they had singularly contributed to improve the prac tice of vi11any."...." That efter the expiration of their sentences they returned into the mass of the community, not reformed in their prirciples, but con firmed in every vicious habit; that when they regained their liberty no parish would receive them, and no person give them work ; that being shunned by their former acquaintance, and baffled in every attempt to gain their bread, the danger of starving almost inevitably led them to a renewal of their former crimes." And yet the bulks were not abolished, but reformed, so slowly, however, that Mr. Milford, speaking in the House of Commons upon the subject, used nearly the same language, at various times from 1814 to 1825 ; but the truth is that in dealing with criminals there is only a choice of evils before us, and the only judicious mode of solving the question, What system will produce the least evil and the most good ? is to compare their effects upon the criminal, upon society, and upon the colony. . . I have the honour to-remain, Sir, • Your most obedient and faithful servant, RIGBY WASON. Corwar, Oct. 19, 1850. TO THE RIGIIT HON. SIR GEORGE GREY BART., M.P., &c., &c. Sir,—ln The Sun paper of the 17th inst., I ob served a letter addressed to you, signed "Rigby Wason," which for its deep imperial import should he circulated through every vein of 01 our empire, because it recommends an awful experiment as an act of preventive justice--" that all persons should be transported for the first offence." I have not the honour of knowing the worthy writer, either person ally or by reputation, but, from circumstances, infer that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and entitled to credence when he asserts his intention to be one of kindness to the prisoners. Be he right or wrong, 1 . respect his moral courage, and will leave his concep tinn, i!s consummation, and its consequences, to the estimate of every human heart, wherever that heart may beet and pour out the " Lord's Prayer" to Heaven. The power which judges•now have to transport for life for the second offence, should be, in his opi nion, not discretionary, hut imperative. As it is pos sible that these suggesaions may lead to a Parliamen tary narrowing of the nieses of the legislatorial web, I will respectfully submit to You, Sir, as a legislator and lawyer, the very intelligible and ingenious—some senses are so blunted as to believe it ingenuous--plan to make escape the second'offence hopeless, which has been long practised in Devon, with almost infal lible success. The certificate of former conviction, written on white paper, very frequently more spacious, con sequently more attractive to the eye, is affixed to the face of the yellow parchment on which the bill is w ""e en grossed, and in this 1: -ng state sent up to thy-grand jury, who, havi ng doubtless well digested both, return them 'to th e court, whose efficer opens them before the petty jury, who from practice will interpret the " rider ;" but lest th ey s h ou ld no t, he tells them , nt on arraigeint, that th e cr i me they h ave to try was committed after a f ormer o ff ence. country too deeply to offer a single I respect your judgment, Sir, and that of my h coraequences, for nafure instinctisely and intuitively recoils frorn its contemplation. Legislatures are often condemned when the error is in the legal construction. Here, Sir. can he no doubt, though the law be disregarded by the ; there it stands, a monument of legislative justice and flume. nits, in section 111 of the 6 a nd 7 Win. IV., which offence shell he deferred until after enacts " that the reading ( f the etattment of a former petty jury." Why ? To prevent if from being pre judicial tei the prisoner.. To this aw I last week respec call the attention I was, by his Lord dully ende evoured to r oot ! I, l ‘ ) he ec et : I s h l i e r o ; o n t u e . l it r 'e L a m b v o n) l e r e l'.' dnh dp C s i v t r e o. i e t i e i ° fl i as i oT t r ee l i f t coo t t t uni h iv o is E e t t. Quarter Seseione Courttnay was Sessions, When ship, rather peremptorily pilt down]. lcomparisonshre . e will eos living, even in this ' underuuns(:°rm%which those bcl.°e. of a mad for bad as things are, I prefer a misguided and i legal Beetle, under the laws o re s and murderous." Dre.co." honour to he, , c h i o r t cti z i , n fi st r e d nc . t . _ guiding " Drake," rather rtahteher than Your obedient servant, CHARLES BIRD: ANDSrp:::::::exel3reuit: impulse by a wondrous durin g develo o tha t PENNY POST 7.-7- AGE penny postage has been established. , i , t n ,er h t s h ea3 i c s .rifi year that the last ten years, the natural desire to learn to write, of that part of the eontliful ropulation which education can reach, t h e whole number of letters delivered in the merit of the most useful and g Pa' f A r n o ist t t i h te e great annual delivery has reached the prodigious numbereioletrhraecet hundrdd and thirty-seven millions- in 18 38, a Committee of has l : loll%t:h r e : e n . :;: t. e hr d e . i. aBu3gBnr,ist: uniform o, moral United Kingdom was seventy-sx m i llions; in the House of Commons thus denounced, commercial evils of the WI rates of postage, their injurious little earnings to the pleasure and advantage r on e a effects e a c tgsrtilepyronui thegrievous ta x g r o e n a t t bbeu poor,lk ot t c h l e u p s i e n o g p correspond ing with their distant iriends, or compel them to forego such thus su b tractir a ! intercourse altogether ; enjoyments, and o structing the amount of their enjeY growth and maintenance of their best affections ) ." . Ilotioured be the man I who broke down these barriers! I raised be the Government that, for once, stepping out of its fiscal tram-way, dared boldly to legislate fur the domestic happiness, the educational progress, and the moral elevation of the ma sses ! The steel pen, sold at the rate of a pe); a a ez .. t . n, ie the creation, in a conAdt rabic degree, of the Penny l'estvge stamp, as the Penny Pcstao - e stamp was a rept:fEditative, if not a creation, of the new educational power. Without the steel pen, it may feasonabl,y be doubted w hether there were mechanical means within the reach of the great bulk of the population for writing the three humircd and thirty-seven millions of letters that now annually pass through the Post-oel ee. - Dickenss " household Words." By an advertisement in another Column it will be seen that the plan for establishing another bank in the me tropolis on the Scotch system, under the title of "The London and Suburban Bank," has been matured. The head-. quarters will be at the West-end, it having originated, as we understand, in the desire of the inhabitants of Marvle • b die, St. Pancras, and Paddington, to obtain greater Wink ing accommodation than they at present possess, and who have already taken up a large portien of th e shares, THE IRISH PACKET STATION. TO TEE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—On the short sea passage question, the fol lowing, partly official, return will - be likely to prove of interest to some of your readers : Distance in Nauiic Miles. Area. !Area over five New low water fathoms deep York. Halifax. Spring Tides. at low water. Acres. I Acres. :o 2.790 2;2.41 „ 2,772 2,..;22 „ 2,750 2, '67 1.370 533 ' 2,156 .350 84 „ 2,732 2,150 2.900 1.900 ice table appears in the Irish journals, I take frctu Captain , Woife's ving, previous to his decease, a few years , yed these ports unt!er the Admiralty. Cork to Galway Bantry 31 1.370 533 Crooknaven „ .350 84 Berehaven 2,732 2.900 1.900 The distance table appears in the Irish journals, and the area I take frcna Captain , Wolfe's R.N. Chart, be having, previous to his decease, a few years n s c i e n r to c i toe k, these in v surveyeden tables, B t , r e ea s „i trs u in f e : ownieli n c3 t h l ci er atipt t rd h c e gtrhol Admiralty. apttrecr, he r e al P t . e 40 longitude miles west of Galway; beAdes the coreli duration of their being situate on the very point, which is the greet landfall of the American packets. The Railway Commissioners, who in 1836 inquiied into this subject, report*—" Of the very superior qualities of Berehaven as a port there can be no quesion whatever." And Captain Evans, It N., who surveyed and reported on the Western Coast, under this Commission, states—" Could a railway be made from Dublin to Bantry, Berehaven would possess every advantage necessary for a packet station, namely, facility of ingress and egress in all weather, that a ship could keep the sea, a good harbJur (Biiitiy) under the lee when beating out, plenty of sea room when once well outside the bay, and, owing to tilt/ prevailing vsinds being S.W. and W., a vessel leaving Berehaven would command the coasts cf Spain, Por tugal, and the Mediterranean, as well as be in the most desirable spot of departure for either the West Indies or America; it is well situated for steam com munication with the south of Ireland and England, and is a harbour that in a political point of view should not be left unprotected, being the only one on the _lrish coast which an enemy's fleet would run for." From this official testimony, given at a period when the great " steam race which has begun for the em pire of the sea" was no way anticipated—much lees the changes in France from the Prince of Peace at St. Eu to Louis Napoleon at Cherbourg—it is evident that Berehaven is destined to play an important part in the future history of the nation; and, as a port of which very little is known in England, you may consider a short sketch of the locality worthy of insertion. The haven of Bere comprises that portion of the fine navigable. Bay of Bantry within Bere Island on the north-west share. Of its formation I could give no better description than that applied by Virgil to another harbour— _ _ " There lies a bay, • An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride, Broke by the jutting land on either side." DRYDEN. Between these jutting points the haven in length m2y be eight, with an average breadth of two miles, with 14 fathoms on the two entrances, good holding ground, and excellent shelter. A first-clefs harbour light has since 1847 been exhibited at the eastern mouth, and the shores outside will be shortly bright ened by the tower in progress on the Solitary Past nett (Carrig-enar). In 1836 the Commissioners had a line surveyed from Dublin to Berehaven. By a different route via Bandon the rail will be laid down next spring on three-fourths of the distance betwten Dublin and Bere. The town, 18 miles due west of Glengariffe, ex tends along the shore on the N.W. angle of the haven; and, from its very neat appeardnee, every house being well slated and whitewashed, adds to the beauty of the picture as seen from the Bantry road—the m, jestic hills stretching along the shor e from Knockoura to Dade---'he ridge on Bere Island rising 700 feet, dotted with numerous inrirtello towers, the noble basin of 11 -, rehaven outside, the vast Atlantic sinking into mist, and within the grandeur of that noble I3iy of Bantry—all make up a highly sublime panorama of Nature. Ca“letown contains a post-45ce, fish curing es , abliAment of the Society of Friends, and the usual Iri-h adjuncts of church, chapel, and poorhouse. The chapel is an old building, both the others new and rather hand some structures, the poorhouse being the neatest I have seen in Ireland. The hotel (Harrington%) is a larga concern, but will bear some improvement in its internal accommodation. I am, Sir, yours, &c., G. P. O. Cork, Oct. 19. * Second Report R. C., 1838. MEETING OF THE CABINET. The Cabinet, which would not otherwise have as ' setnbled till the 6th of next month, met yesterday, at a very short notice, on a question of considerable urgency. The disgraceful conduct of Prussia, in helping to protect the Schleswig-Holstein war, not only in spite of a treaty of peace with Denmark, but actually under cover of the treaty, and by means of it, has led to a very natural—we might almost say Legitimate consequence. The Governments of Russia and of France have jointly proposed to the Government of this country, that the three Powers shall peremptorily require Prussia to fulfil her recant engagement with Denmark, and withdraw the sup port she still continues to give to the Schleswig-Hol stein army. In the event of Prussia hesitating to comply with this reasonable demand, Russia and France are proposed to back it, not by an unpt ofitable march to the territory under dispute, but in a way more congenial to their tastes,— by an invasion of the Silesian provinces of Prussia on the one side, and the Rhenish on the other. In the first instance, how ever, they require the co-operation of Eng land in the remonstrance with Prussia, with out which they are not prepared to move at present. The answer of the British Government may perhaps be anticipated. It declines to join with Russia and France in such a note as we have described, but proposes that all three Powers shalt separately re monstrate with Prussia on her present breach of faith with the Danish Government. Whether their triple remonstrances will be of more avail than all the rest of the diplomacy that has been lavished on this affair, is a question on which we will not venture to give an opinion. The interests of justice and of oiler require that Prussia should be compelled to desist from a course dangerous to the faith of treaties and the peace of the expostulation. at, u l nd r e e i ,dr Berlin and popular nin r d io yt r o l y s e t i influence itafli respectableivi ukseee tootnl y o ce e pn t ss :a h ' be l Power iiaes thetwet listen that toa threaten al indignityit rheea mereGovernmenteCno fo vu s va: verbal b o fl it is not also ready to execute its threats. But hrn t e h ere e administration of justice and order ought to be clear even from the suspicion of interested motives if it is to have any moral weight, or even the most moderate success. To check the designs of Prussia by forwarding the designs of Russia and France is not furthering justice, but substituting one act -1f injustice for another, and making one underhand ..4.rong a pretence for two intinifest outrages. There is a want . of logic in the whole proposition. Whet tlaire the Rhenish provinces and S lesia to do wi:h the Schleswig. Holstein affair, already sufficiently corn- plicated on its own merits ? The, motive is intern 4ible enough. Beth Russia and France have 1 itely been doing some knight errantry of a most thankless and disagreeable character, and it is very natural they should begin to think Europe rather in their debt. Th 6 two provinces we have mentioned would be very appropriate guerdons for our two great Cometvative neighbours at St. Petereburgh and Paris. There is a necessity too under which all Presidents and Consuls unfortunately labour. If they wish to be re•elected, or to have a name in history, they mud mark their brief tenure of clfice with some glorious feat or valu able acquisition. With. Cologne and Coblente occu pied by French troops, Louis Napoleon would be safe for another four years, at least, and be able to dis pente with half the garrison at Paris. But it is not so easy to say when and where the matter would end, and whether the judicial mutilation of Prinsia at both her extremities would be the last asst of the drama. Germany would probably be more alive to the claims of national sympathy than of public justice, and even Austria, notwithstanding her tremendous obligations, mielt not be able to resist an appeal to the common fatherland. fnat such an offer should be made to the British Government, and 'tat such results us we have allude-d to should be brought within the compass of possi bility, is enough to mark the very serious character of the part which Prussia is now pla3ieg. The mul titude of all countries invariably measure the acts of a nation solely by its end, and if the end to their taste they think the means sufficiently sacred. OF course, therefore, so glorious an end as the rescue tf Sehleswig-ilolstein from the Danish yoke will be held to justify the interference of ad Germ any in the quarrel. But, if nationality is a fact and independ ence a blessing, faith is something more than either, for it is a duty. There was an armistice, which was concluded by a treaty of peaee between Prussia and. Denmark. Forthwith, en the signing of that treaty, Prussia released from military service hosts of o th ee rs find privates, who, it was notorious, were desirous to join - the Se hlus ig- 110 l stein army. In effect, she desisted from open war in order that she might take to mere brigand age. The war is now carried on by Prussians, and, if General Willisen is more brilliant on paper than in the field, it is not for want of the best intentions on the part of his master, who would much prefer a con quest to a treatise on war. It is impossible that Europe can go on fur ever seeing a small though gal lant people wantonly destroyed by a neighbour at the same time unscrupulous and powerful. Tnere will be some interference in the end, if Prussia will not submit to be advised, and we see that an interference of a most questionable character has been actually proposed.- The ball is now with the British Govern ment, which, having declined one suggestion, is ex pected to , make another. All depends on the nature of the remonstrance to be addressed to the Court of Prussia, which ought, of course, to have due regard to the dignity of a great military power, but ought also to leave no doubt that Prussia must consult her own dignity as well as her faith with Denmark.— Times. IRELAND. SALES OF ENCUMBERED ESTATES. DUBLIN, WEDNUSDAY MORNING.—The business of the second session of the Encumbered Estates Court commenced yesterday, when no leas than seven pro perties changed hands in the brief apace of four hours. The first sale was of lands in the county of Tipperary, the property of Mr. Cooper Crawford, yielding a nut profit rent of 3(34/. 4s. lUd. It was set up in sepa• rate lots, but there being no bidders the whole was offered, ato.! purchased by the petitioner in the case for the suns of 6,000/. An estate in the county of Cork was put up in eight lots, all of which were disposed of, the whole . ptoducing 10,7001. The aggregate rental was 851/. 23. 41. The third sale was also of property in the county of Cork, part of the estates of Mr. Robert Warren, together with houses and pre mises in the city of Cork, the latter of which realised 800/. The prepsrty in the county yielded an annual rental of 5581., subject, however, to revertil he a vy annuities which materially deteriorated the value of the whole. It was disposed of in four lots, and brought 4,4601. A small estate ;n the county of Limerick, producing a profit rent of little over 1001. per annum, sold for 1,5201. Some lands in the county of Dublin, yielding a yearly profit rent of 1881.. were sold, after a brisk competition, for 3,0001. A property in the county of Kildare was offered in four lots, but one of which found a purchaser at 2,6251. The sale of the other lots was adjourned, the sums bid being deemed below the value. The last and most important sale was cf an estate in the county of Wexford, the first lot consisting of 865 a. Ic. 7ip. statute measure, and producing 1,1971. is. 3d. per annum, including the value of land in owner's pos session.-Mr. N. M. Power bid 10.0001.; Mr. Edward Carltoe, 10.500/. ; Sir Robert Bsteson, 11,0001. After some advances Mr. Power bid 16,0001. Sale deferred to a later period of the day, and was pur chased by Mr. Power for 17,500/. Lot 2.—The fee and inheritance of and in the lands of Bolderan, con taining 488:i. Ir. 16p. statute measure, and producing a perpetual head rent of 46/. 33. Id. per annum. The following were the biddings :—Mr. Carlton, 500/. ; Mr. Daniel Thorpe, 800/. ; Mr, Power, 1,0001.; Mr. Benjamin Conn, 1,0501.; Mr. Power, 1,1004 The latter was declared the purchaser at 1,160/. The three remaining lots produced over 1,6001. The court adjourned at four o'clock. TUE NEW LAW APPOINTMENTS. The Right Hon. James Henry Monahan was yes terday sworn in before the Lord Chief Ju•tice of the Common Pleas. At the same time Mr. John Hat chell took :he oaths as Attorney-Genera), and Mr. Henry George Hughes was sworn in as Solicitor- General. Mr. Edmund Mooney has been appointed to the office of clerk to the Attorney-General. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, OcT. 23. Her M.jesty and his Royal Highness, and the younger members of the Royal Family, were pre vented by the iuelemeney of the weather from taking their u,ual early wt.lk this morning. A Cabinet Council was held at one o'clock yes terday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Minis ters present were Lord John Russell, the Lard Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount Pahnerston, Earl Grey, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhou , e, the Right Hon. H. Labouchert, and the Marquis of Clanricarde. The Marquis of Lansdowne came to town to at tend the Council from his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. The Council sat three hours. The L-rd Chancellor has appointed the 23 of Nov. for the rec,ption of the Lord Miyor eb-ct, in order to signify her NI bje,ty's approbation of the choke of the Livery of London. The ceremony will take place at his Lordship's residence in Eaton-square, at eleven o'clock. Oa the same day, at twelve o'clock (the first of Michaelmas term), the Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, Queen's Counsel, &c. The Noble and Learned Lord will afterwards proceed to Westminster Hall. The Attorney-General had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. SPORTING IN TEL LIGENCE. BRIGHTON RACES. BRIGHTON, WEDNESDAY.—III consequence of the bad ness of the wt r, the races are put off to Thursday. WILTSHIRE CHAMPION COURSING MEETING. WEDNESDAY. The Druid Cup (continued). Mr. Jebb's Ringdove bt Mr. Eddiestone's Sefton. First Tire—pacer bt Cerito (drawn), Ebb bt Sincerity, Mzggie Laufer bt Garibaldi, ltingdorc bt Wench, Com pact bt Columbine, Estelle bt Beau (drawn), War Eagle bt Switch, .111, eking. Bird bt Lady Mary. The Great Weatern Cup. First Ties—Cc bra bt Eddy; The Nailer bt Catalatii, Whiff bt Mannz minis, Irish Girl bt L3tbe, Vestal bt Remnant,Nfar ce.rvrer bt Bluebeard, Egypt bt Lady Loch leven, I'uzzle'em bt Sontag. The Beacon Hill Stakes. Captain Bhurtpore bt Mr. Bowles's Budbiras. Mr. Clowes' California bt Capt. Wyndhain's Westwind. Mr. Etwall's First bt Ur. Randsli's Run;agaiu. Mr. Miller's Magistrata bt Sir J. Boswelt's Bradshaw. Mr. Paxlcy's Phelim bt Mr. Mejoribanks' Malt. Mr. Law renee's Lopez bt Mr. Psrliinson's Sharp Shooter. Mr. BowlPs's Jack's the Ltd b.. Sir St. G. Gore's Argentine. Mr. Randall's Rory O'More bt Mr. Noyes's Nelson. The Elston Stakcs. - Mr. Banda Victoria bt S:r J. Boswell's Cornclips. tit St. G. Gore's Panoply bt Mr. Etwall's Sags. Captain Wyndham's Victory bt Mr. Moreton's Medora. LIVERPOOL POLICE.—The grand jury attending at the quarter sessions now being held, on Tuesday made an important presentment, signed by their foreman, Mr. H. C. Chapman, in which they refer to the following topics :- 1. They recommend the establishment of a penitentiary in Liverpool for the reformation of juvenile offenders. 2. They complain that the police establishment has been reduced to the extent of 300 men, l'y which felonies awl assaults were encouraged, and great difficulty found in meeting with an officer when wanted. 8. They complain of the general in structions to the viice, by which rfficers are prohibited from taking offenders into custody unless they actually see the' Offence committed; and they suggest as a remedy that the magistrates should swear in resulent 101. householders as special constables, whose evidence the law would recognise; and thus a detective police would be established without cost, and vagabonds deterred from committing outrages in the streets and suburbs of Liverpool. At a meeting which the county magistrates held on Tuesday, it was unanitmusly resolved that a mounted pOlice force should be at once esta blished for the praection of the outskirts of the town during the w'nter months, the organization of which is again en trusted to Robert Neilson, Esq., of Hazlewood. ACCIDENT To LADY EMILY FOLEY.—On Saturday morning as the carriage d Lath' Emily Foley, with four beautiful gee; horses, entered the High Town on their way to the Show Ground. in conszquence of the slippery state of the road one of the leaders sweive4 slipp.l, and fell, by which the to v who was riding was thrown eff audiell under their feet; the postilion on the wheeler, hOwzver, imme diately pulled up, mid the boy was extricated from fill perilous s ituation, wiat his arm and face slightly cut and bruised. liar Lady - ship and a gentleman who acc: - Inp,anied her alighted and remained in the shop of Mr. Phillips, booksellir, until the poor boy had been attended to and the horses removed, when she again enteied the carriage and was driven to the Show Ground in her accustomed happy spirits. A considerable crowd assembled at the time of the accident, and it appeated a source cf pleasure to ail to find that 114-r Ladyship was enabled to leave Vie carriage in safety and with but little alarm.—llereford Journal. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY 'Pease[ US.—At the Waterloo-road station yester day a number of men were making ready the five r.at. train for Southampton, when Thomas Martin, one of the porters, made an attempt to cross through a vacancy between a number of carriages. Unfortunately, at that instant six or seven men pushed a number of carriages inwards with such violence as to force the poor fellow against the buffers both back and front. The unfortunate man uttered a faint shriek, and fell across the metals of the line, and the carriages having been detached Martin was extricated, but quite in sensible. He was immediately placed in a cab and re moved to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he died soon after his adm:toion. LLTTICE ARNOLD.—Readeis of every class will be gratified by learning that one of the moat popu'ar of our NI titers of fiction, the gifted author of " Emilia Wyndham," " Two Old Men's Tales," Ste., is before the public, with another of her deeply interesting narratives. Her new work is called " Lettice Arnold," and besides being one of those touching portraits of female excellence, which only her graceful pen can accomplish, embodies a story of singular power and beauty, in which the defects of our social system —particularly as regards the treatment of young females in certain positions—are forcibly illustrated. DEATH OF AN OPULBIST CROSSING SWEETER.- Yesterday Mr. H. M. Wakley, the deputy coroner, held au inquest at the Marylebona workhouse on the body of Andrew Riley, an aged crossing sweeper, who had fur many years officiated at the corner of Baker-street, Portman-square, and whose ready wit and quaint replica had gained him many friends amongst the residents of the neighbourhood. It ap peared that upon Thursday last, whilst pursuing his avoca tions, he was knocked down by a four-wheeled cab, and sus ' taioed injuries which in the end proved fatal. The deceased was in the habit of saying that he had fought under his Ma jesty in the Rebellion of '92, and since then in the Peninsula, and had often come across Master " Honey," whom he de scribed as a "rare 'cute, but slippery customer." He Lad succeeded, in his crossing, an old gentl,man who had amassed a large fortune. Riley himself resided at a lodging-house in lietirietta-street, Manchester-square, where he occupied the best apartments. He frequently boasted of his wealth, and was wont upon grand occasions to regale his comrades with the best of everything. He is stated to have paid a heavy sum for the goodwill of the crossing, which, however, amply remunerated him for his outlay. The verdict was " Acci dental death." that, at i A ri G ra g i rti e T me r et o i ß ng was agreed to accept the resignation of Mr. Pet er T o of t E h e CTloTwi:n. -zTrne Council ) u , e r sj l en e r, r ide s a t is a .o n ni d t Graham, W.S., as his successor. 3 , t . conducted the chief W.S., an law-agent for the City, and to a p ci p r o a i i n ,a t m 3l , r. w, l e 'at in ri a cli . mention, has, for a number of years pa <t, to the Town Council ,—.scotsnrun, part of the law business o f the cit y , and with much satisfac- MURDER IN LINCOLNSHIRE. A murder took place at Booby, Lincolnshire, on the 15:h inst. The murderer's name is Meggitt ; his age 73. His drunken habits had long caused him to be a terror to his farnily and the neighbourhood in which he lived. The particulars of the shocking event will be best gleaned from the subjoined evidence ad duced at the inquest. The inquest. opened in the New School Room at Booby at three o'clock in the afternoon, before George Morris, E‘q., coroner of the district, over the body of a young man named George Sinderson. Robert Meg gitt was present during the investigation. He laughed and spoke in the most frivolous manner. He has been a hard drinker,and when intoxicated he has frequently been subject to a kind of frenzy, during which his conduct was exceedingly dangerous. Mary Meggitt, vvite of the prisoner, deposed—l went to bed with my husband on Monday night last. Ile had had a little drink during the day, but be was sober. After we had been in bed an hour and a half my husband got up and Esti% " What fire is that ?" at the same time going out ef the parlour into the living-room. I took bold of him and endeavoured to bricg him back but did no t succee d.. I t o ld hi m a ll were in bed ; he said, " Who's in bed ? I'll let 'em know who's master here ; smash their brains out." lie then took up the tongs and went towards the stairs. I, however, with the assistance of my grand son George, obtained possession of the tongs. I en treated a man named Morley to come in, and he held my husband; he was subsequently held down by my son and grandsoo, and then by Sinderson. During that day my husband was sitting by the fire and talk ing to himself, when he said, "I shall lice to murder somebody to-night or to-morrow morning." I did not think he was out of his mind. John Meggitt, son of the prisoner, said—On Monday night last, while in bed at my father's house, about eleven o'clock, I heard him go down stairs, swearing that he would knock somebody's brains out. I went down stairs with George Cross, and met my father, who was in his shirt, raving very much. We got him into bed, and secured him until Morley came, who held him down tilt the arrival of Sinderson, who assisted us. He was afterwards allowed to get up, on which he almost immediately ran at Sinderson, who was very much hurt, and who it appeared had been stabbed. A knife was taken from my father. He was then handcuffed and allowed to go to bed. George Cross deposed—l am servant with Mr. Oldfield, butcher, of Winterton. Yesterday being Booby feast, I came to my grandfather's (the pri soner's) house, with the intention of staying all night. I went to bed about balfApast ten o'clock. When I bad been in bed about half an hour I beard my grandfather get up, and my grandmother trying to persuade him to go to bed again. I and my uncle at once arose, and on going down stairs heard my grandfather exclaim, "If you touch me again I'll smash your brains out." He had the tongs in his hand. My uncle seized him and put him to bed, and my mother and sister ran out to fetch Morley, who came in immediately and held my grandfather on the bed till I and say uncle ran up stairs to put our clothes on. Shortly after having dressed George Sinderson came in ; he took hold of my grandfather, who was raging and swearing very much, and held him on the bed. My grandfather, after a time, got up again ; but I did not see him strike Sinderson, as I was standing behind some people. I saw my uncle, however, take a knife out of my grandfather's hands. The dying declaration of George Sinderson was here read, and was as follows :—" Robert Meggitt, of Booby, stabbed me on Monday night, is the middle of my body, with a pocket knife. I was standing up for his wife. One of the grandbairns came and fetched me, for her grandfather was 'mocking her grandmother on the bead. I know lam dying. I know I have no chance to live." Gorge Walker, constable, of Bonby, said—About half-pert, eleven e's.lot:k on the night of Monday, the 7th of October, I was called to the house of Robert Meggitt, who, I was informed, had stabbed a m ,n. I at once proceeded to the house, and there ;Appre hended the prisoner on the cl:arge of having stabbed George Sinderaon. He was in a violent fit of pas• 'ion, and I found it necessary to handcuff him. John Meggitt, son of the prisoner, gave me a knife, which I now produce, as being the one with which be stabbed Sinderson. The following morning I told prisoner that Sinderson was iu a d3ing state ; when he said he was not afraid to meet any magistrate, as he was justified in doing what he had done, because Sindersoti was intruditig in his house. When I was prepating to go -With him to Barton, he inquired if I was going to take him to Lincoln in the train. I said it was not a concern to be trifled with, and he replied he was sorry he had stabbed him where he had ; he wished he had stabbed him in some other part where there was more flesh. Robert Morley deposed—l am a carpenter, and live at Booby. About eleven o'clock on the night in question, when about thirty yards from the priso ner's house, I was called in by the prisoner's family, who sail that he was hallooing . and shouting in the house, and was going to . murder them all. 1 imme dietely made my way there, and found his son and grandson holding him down in bed. They were naked, and while they got their clothes on I stood by the prisoner and held him down. During this ti:ne he appeared raving mad. He acid he had dreamed a dream the night before that he had to kill somebody that night 'or the next morning. The pri soner desired me to release him, in . order to get a drink of water and put his clothes on. I did so, when he directly ran towards his son John, who was at the other end of the room, but I seized and prevented him. At this time George Sinderson came in and held him. He laid him on the bed, and shook him very much, and said be would shake him to death. Prisoner begged hard to be released, whereupon Sin derson left hold of hits. He then ran at the de ceased, and struck him, as I thought, with his fist. The prisoner's son said, " Oh, he's let his puddings out," and immedia t ely took a knife from his father's hand. Prisoner was then taken into custody by Walker, the constable. Mr. William Wilkinson, surgeon, Barton, was ne*t; examined. He said—On Monday night last, about 12 , o'clock, I was called to attend upon deceased. I found ; him labouring under a serious penetrating wound on the abdomen, about 2} inches below the umbilicus. ; The small intestines were protruding through the aper ture. He was also suffering from internal bleeding, and must have bsen in great pain. I immediately endea voured to put the bowel into its proper place, but from the internal. bleeding and the great mass of ho eel which protruded . compared with the smallness of the aperture, I was not able to succeed. 1 told him there was only one chance to save him—namely, to make the apertekre larger ; but he refused to allow me. 1 told him I could not stand by and see him die, and therefore I got three men to hold him while I made the aperture a quarter of an inch larger. I then en deavoured to reduce the bowel, but after I had put a portion in another portion came out, with blood, and I gave it up, telling deceased that I could do nothing for hint, and that he must die. I had not discovered at this time that there was any puncture of the bowel. I was with deceased about an hour and a half. I visited him again on Tuesday morning, and found his pain relieved by a dose of morphia, which I Lad given him on elonday evenieg. On examining him, in co operation with Mr. B-nnett, I found the bowel was punctured, and that there was a great flow of serum through the aperture. Deceased died on Wednesday night, about seven'o'clock. Me. 11,:nnett, surpceon. Winterton, ciapose,ll met the, last witness (Mr. Wilkinson) at deceased's house on Tuesday, about twelve o'clock, as stated by Mr. Wilkinson. I have heard his deposition read over, and, so far as the same relates to Mr. Wilkinson and myself conjointly, I confirm it. I have to day made a post mortem examination of the deceased, and think that death has been caused by inflammation and mor tification. The opening which was made to reduce the bowel was about 4 inch long. From the wound in the bowel I this k death must have taken place under any circumstances, and if more medical aid had been obtained it would have been tf no use. Mr. William Greyburo, clerk to the magistrates of the Barton district, deposed that, in his capacity, he attended on ;the deceased, along with Smith Wor mold, Esq., a magistrate, and took down in writing the dying declaration-of deceased. The CORONER having summed up, at half-past nine o'clock the jury retiOd, and returned with a verdict of " Wilful Murder" . against the prisoner, who wits committed to take his trial at the Lincoln assizes. DRATIi OF MAJOR•GENLBAL SIB. E. G. STANN IP , C.B. —Mk gallant officer, who held the post of governor of the East India Company's Military College at Addisaombe, died on the 2111,t at Addiscombe HOW, near Croydon, in hia 137th year. ROYAL ARTILLERY.—IIer sjfst)'4 ship Re• eit4LUlCe sailed from 'Woolwich yesterdny afternoon with s:veral . cfficers of the Royal Artillery, and about SOU non crruntissioLed officers and privates, fur Gibraltar, Malta, and Corfu. A letter from Constantinople, sth ipt,tant, in the CoLatitutionnel, says: —"The English lady, who some ti me since killed one of her eunuchs, has been condemned to five months' imprisonment, and her accomplices to a mote severe punishment." PRICE OF WHEAT IN BEI.GI4IIM.—The average price of wheat for the week ending October 12, was 18f. 3c., and of rye I if. 82c., being a decrease of 19c. on the .former, and of 13c. en the latter , co m p ared with the quotations of the I:acceding week. ''lce LuNG VACATION. —To-day (Thursday) the long vacation terminates, when the cilices of the several law carts v% ill resume business preparatory to the ensuing Illichaolinas Term, commencing on Salurday week. Ibis vacation —the first since tLe Extended. Courity Courts Act was pass,d - will ba a re markable one in respect to the num ber of declarations to be filed and delivered. The agency business has greatly decreased in consequence of the G.Amty Courts Act, and it is understood that the Commissioners of the Law Commiesion will recommend that forms of in th ac: C ip o n rk s brought in the superior cour L is Eour b ß e thAem simplified. pHeo._ He T nd Ii eIo SUBMARINET or E s f and Bandon Railway, have been declared' contractors for making the wire rope of the electric telegraph to be laid down betweea England and France. completing of Fox and, ..-- , Cl/ .. 0 .., J . , ti 110,1 0 ;),•11/0 1 1 ,1 13-,` 97 1 4!!, 1p p l~' •••' ... , ,1 10' ..... f 7 ..-- ..-- ~..•, L. ,t 0 1%, ) (IV tO l ‘ , t,ter ,rld° j ol, , l i r a Eo'