The Sun. — London, England, 1845-08-25 00:00:00

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Atna 15.—Their Majesties the King and ; ea arrived here yesterday from Dresden His Ma- J e e _ s tY mingled among the people, and was heartily wel in",ted by them. The King promised to have the strictest „,estigsti, es made into the late evects, and consoled the „,` o 4 tives of the persons killed with the prospect of being and for. His Majesty then went to the hospital '7l coniersed with the wounded. It might easily be of a L gtued what a soothing effect this generous conduct his blak•sty had on the people. The Leipsig journals sod letters say nothing of the arrival of their Majesties' "satt. AUG 11 —A Cabinet order of the Electoral ?tin ' • • fi. nee Regent ha;. been received here, by which the `iulatien of German communities is prohibited in t he whole Electoral of Hesse Cassel. Instructions were ' t tatnediat e ly sent from the &pita:eta of the interior ° al l the provincial governments to carry this ord er I nt o effect without delay. The propagation of the uectrities of the New Catholics is forbidden, and the - r t ice are to take care that no subscriptions and col .ttions i n t hei r f a vour are set f in Hesse Cassel. , e. heever is in violati , ,n of this prohitition renders Innisf-If liable to prosecution ILA puui,hinent. JIERLIN, Auc. 15.—0 n the 13th of this month, a mmisterial Rescript was addrw-sed to the censors, most strictly erj dning them to refuse their imprimateur to all I l trar,raphs which contains the most distant allus ion to ehvous matters in their periodicals, which are not ex- P r eNsly au horised by their licence to treat of religious e ontrovers'es. THE HAGUE. Ana. 22.—The journals contain nurne 1,0118 accounts of the devastation caused in various parts by a hurricane or waterspout that came from the South. The fellowing are xiracts " LIEGZ ZwALUW, AUG. 19.—T ,-day about half Test ' re o'clock in the afternoon we had a furious hurricane or waterspout from the South-west, which beat down se veral l arge an d strong barns, some to the very founda l°ll, from the house of the Burgomaster to that of "utian de Vigel. The houses, too, have suffered enor trus damage, the roofs were carried away, the windows 4 herl to pieces, to d many are so much injured that they Ir e M danger of falling. It is impossible to estimate the damage, for not only the stock in the barns, but also what corn was mown tstill in the fields. was taken up and scatteredlar nos r. th We bear that the same hurricane , acco m p anied b y a °ll der storm, raged at ZkNenberger, and did much i mage. The Roman Catholic church, in particular, suffered much damage." AMsrEarnam,2l.—There was good reason to rear that we s h o uld receive melancholy accounts of the effects of the violent hurricane which arose in the after noon of Tuesday, the 19th, and continued through the bight and the following day. The immediate environs of this city have not remained free. We do not hear that ttlq• damage worth mentioning has been done, except the uprooting of a few trees. AARLENDERVEEN, AUG. 20.—A waterspout did great damage here yesterday. On the road near Alphen it tore up a bridge, and threw it to a great distan ce. A f armhouse was much injured, and many large trees up rooted. A small vessel on the Rhine, on board which Were a man and his wife and three children, was turned upside down. The mast of it was fixed in the bed of the river. The parents and two children we r e thrown I nto . the Rhine.under the vessel , and s aved with much bane ; the third, a girl eleven years o l d , seems to "ure been below in the cabin, and perished. We may thank Providence that the waterspout did n ot p ass over t he parts of the populous distric ts of Al p hen, Aarlan merveen; &c., which are more covered with buildings. The accounts from Zeviubergen are of a similar na !in% ; more damage seems to ha ve been done there, and it was feared that several lives were lo st. A child was found buried under the ruins, a carpenter is missing, knd a servant was found dead in a barn. THE HAGUE, AUG. 21.—We learn that their Majes ties the King and Queen will set out to - morr ow on their tutended visit to Luxemburg. A part of their attend tate have already left the Hague. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. TEN MEN DROWNED. (Front the Caledonian Mercury.) beNeke....A most distressing catastrophe occurred here Tester_ d uY (Wednesday), by which ten individuals have been drowned. " 5 Red Rover fishing boat, of tluckhavcn, with a crew of six William "Eliorason master, in taking the old harbour, about ‘oid.d a y, was driven among the rocks and totally wrecked. Three the crew were instantly drowned. The master got on to a rock 4 ' 4 was saved. His brother reached a small rock, near the iron pale, which is surrounded by deep water, and covered at full tide ; 4 liainst which the sea was fearf ull y oreakiog. Many fruitless at_ te mpts were made to rescue him. As a last attempt, Lieutenant " * Ylde, of the Preventive service ; Mr. Lucas, chief boatman, With four seafaring men belong to the town, whose names were David Darg, Peter Darg, William Miller, and Wit. 10 at. Clement, volunteered their se rvices, and, in a fishing at. Willy ventured out. They had in arty reached the rock when the poor man was washed off; bur he kept up for a short time, 'rid neared the boat. The crew hail almost succeeded in catching bill hand, when a sea struck the boat and drove it among the rocks behind the pier, where, melancholy to mention, it was dashed to Pieces, and the whole crew drowned. The object of their solici hide was carried to sea, and met the same fete. It is distressing to think of the extent of affliction which this farful event has occasioned. Lieutenant Wylde, Mr. Lucas, Peter Darg, and Wil. bun Clement, were married men, and all of them except Mr. Lucas, have left families. The two farmer were excellent seamen, 1 4 much respected in Dunbar. The stale of excitement and bloom which this melancholy occurrence has occasioned among all Musses is very great. It is not known what caused the Red Rover `Q attempt Dunbar with such a fearful swell in shore. She had Pot bean fishing there for some days, and not more than six boats b elonging to the station had ventured to the fishing ground on the preceding evening. It is thought that she was well fished, and frorn the circumstance of few Dunbar boa's being out, expected a !pore ready market for her cargo. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Extract of a letter twin Dunbar, dated August 90 :—" A fist - 1- '4 boat, in trying to enter this harbour to-day at noon, in a rough eta , struck on a rock and went to pieces ; one man out of five was iraehed over the rocks and was saved. Another got on a rock with a certainty of being drowned unitss a boat could reach him. Lteut. Wyl.le, of the coast-guard, with five men, made tho praise Worthy attempt, but befcre they could reach him he was washed off the rock and drowned, and, lamentable to state, a heavy sea struck the boat amongst the rocks, which was dashed to pieces, and all on board perished. Thus perished a brave officer and nine men in a tiq minutes, in sight of hutillreds of persons, who could render no ihssistance. 4Ollll EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES .—oll Friday information of the following extensive robberies was circulated throughout the Me tropolitan and City Police : — From the house of Mr. Rice, No. 27, Queen-street, Brompton, the property of Mrs. Walsh, 401. in gold, ..,S ll 6 three 51. Bank of England notes. From the house of Mr. Wild. lievonport-street, Shoreditch, a small gold watch, with Worked back SUrrounded by twenty pink topazes, a gold key, three gold seals, and tt silver guard chain. From the house of Mr. Paul, 10, North-street, Westminster, two 51. Bank of England notes, a number of silver Spoons, and other articles. From the house of Mr. Keston, soap tuaker, Park-street, Walworth, a 51. Bank of England note, about in gold, an old crown piece, and 101. in silver. From the house 15 . Mr. Mitchell, No. 5, Hawley-road, Kentish-town, five Si. Bank of England notes. From a coffee-shop in Robert-street, Grosvenor ttluare, the property of Mr. Avery, of High Wycombe, Bucks, five 101. notes, of the Reading Bank, and sixty sovereigns. Frona the house of Mr. J. Spottiswoode, No. 16, Great George-street, West tarp/ter, a small gold Geneva chased watch, a short gold chain, a brequet key, and black ribbon, a small gold locket, like a hunting Vrateb,.a gold brooch set with turquoise, a large silver vertical double eased hunting watch, a tortoiseshell double eye-glass, and half a Sovereign. From a house at War wick, 1,0001., consisting of notes for 10/. of the Warwick and Leamington Banking Company ; and from Mr. Boyce, silversmith and jeweler, No. 5, Lisson-grove, a brilliant cluster ring, set with about twelve stones, a brilliant single stone pin, pearl pin and gold chain attached, &brilliant and emerald anion pin, a brilliant ring, a brilliant half hoop ring, a gold lever Watch, a gold guard chain, a brilliant pin, a gold Geneva watch, and A Silver gilt snuff-box. SUPERSTITION IN THE 19TH CENTURY. —ln the back settlements of the parish of Margaret noodling, a young man, Who lives with his mother, had been for some time grievously ~attlicted with intermittent fever a nd a g ue ; p h y sicians had visited 4, 01 in vain, he still remained ill, until a cunning woman was con sulted, who resides between Epping F orest and Ongar, and the charmer's prescription runs as follows :—" That a small nut should he cut in twain, the kernel extracted, and a live spider placed in the shell, which was to be sewn up in a bag and worn round his neck, and as the spider wasted so would the fever leave him " The charm Was procured;_ the patient positively wore it, and as "the whole Matter was in a nut-shell," of course he soon recovered, and (says our correspondent) is able to undertake his harvest. We should have thought such ignorance could not have found a resting place ill the darkest nook in Essex, but our correspondent assures us, in Solem n phrase, he is not cracking a joke upon the nut-shell.—Chelets feed Chroniee. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT LIVERPOOL.—Just as we Were going to press last night, word reached the fire police station that the sugar-warehouse and premises of Messrs. Parry and Light foot, Ellanborougli-street, were on fire. Mr. Hewitt immediately dispatched several engines, and a large number of the fire-brigade. There being plenty of water, the engines were soon got into DIV. Shortly after eleven o'clock the roof of the sugar house fell in, and the total destruction of the building seemed inevitable. About a quarter to twelve o'clock the fire had reached its utmost Hinds, but no sooner had the flames been got well under in this part of the premises, than it watt discovered the warehouse Adjoining, which fronts Wellington-street, had caught fire, and that the flames had got well hold of the building. The rooms being partly empty, assisted materially the progress of the flames, and the fire spread rapidly for some time. In about an hour and a half from the time of the discovery the flames were gut under to so great an extent as to Place all appehensions of the further destrtion of property beyond doubt. The total loss is roughly estimated uc at between 5,000/. and 6.oool.—Lieerpool Mercury. STATE OF THE HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The state of the staple manufactures of the town has not improved since our last, and a general gloom pervades the workme n, as well as the 'heaters. The N7rought cotton hose branch, however, which employs the greatest number of hands, is, if any thing, in the best state of any of the cotton hosi,?rY branches, if we except the fancy branch, Which is rather limited; btit even this is very dull, the hands not having full employment. A rumour has prevailed, that the Act of Parliament passed last session, indeed the working of cut hosiery , And a grtevous.atsappointment is felt that !t only relates to giving out a ticket with the work. We have not heard that any of the masters, or any additional hosiers, have adopted the method of giving put tickets, and in all probability they will not until the Ist if January when the law becomes compulsory, under the heavy fine of Si. for each omission. It remains now to be seen whether this salutary statute will remain, like the Truck Act, a dead letter, because the hands, from fear of losing their employment, have not the spirit to gendrally enforce it. All partial operations of a restrictive law is an unjust infliction upon individuals, as it punishes them in removing the evil. The fancy bobbing net trade continues in a lamentable state. A general gloom seems to pervade most of the machine owners, as they find alteration upon alteration of pattern to bring little or no relief. There is no material alteration to the warp lace trade since our last, the cotton branches are very dull, and manygood hands are out of employment. The worsted jucquard shawls are in creasing, and becoming commonly worn.—Xottieghant Review. TROUT IN A Dook.—On the evening of Friday last, while the water was pumping out of the graving dock, two fine trout were captured, each weighing from a pound to a pound and a halt We have observed several others taken from the same place during the season.—Dundee Courier. EXECUTION AT CLONMEL.—On Saturday last Denis Lucie forfeited his life in the front of our county gaol, for the Inurder of Daniel Sullivan, near Fethard, in this county, in the year 1 843, of Which he was fo und g uilt y at our late , assizes, before Chief Justice Doherty. From an early hour thismoming the streets in the "Immediate vicinity of the gaol were literally crammed with persons 9,f all ages and sexes. All the windows which commanded 4 view of the 'mai spot were also tilled with people, who, to their sitqme. Anxiously, awaited the dismal moment to arrive to behold the last finishes of the law perform his rigorous atni, 41as ! appalling duty. S hortl y atter 1 o'clock the place of execution was suitzsglitded by a strong military and d Police force, which consisted of a troop of do 13111 Light Dragoons end two companies of the 3311 Foot, the former unites - alg Command of Lieutenant Gore, and the latter under Captain Galway, together With a strong possee of constabularY. commanded by sub-inspecthi 'e„ Leod ; and in a few minutes dichtnoed-stmt became a reservoir 1 " of human beings. At 12 o'clock the unhappy RllPrit approached ntel dread drop, supported by the executions swetival aeveral ;Pea, and required the exertions of the latter bring hini foywitird s_i e ereinaitted standing _on tile gritting of the drop, attended by the v . John Vowel', Catholic clergyman of St, Peter and St. Patti, Er~lng him consolation. The noose being adjusted, and the cap m . . 11 . I,i over his head, in a moment the grate opened beneath its k ninl, and he was launched into eternity. His history was little f: r 'n, as he was a native of the 'county of Cork , and a drover. After the body had hung the regulated period, it was taken down , an o led within the precincts Of the gaol.—Waterford Chronicle. • - TFIE SUN,, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING,_ AUGUST 25 1 _ 184112 Wales, 154-EXeter and Crediton, 8%--Exeter, pun Doe Jaester, % prem. IIUDDERSFIELD, AuG 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are Great Grimsby Dock Extensiot. , , 15s. pm.-Shrewsburv, Hereford, and North Wales, 314: 3 -Dun :lee and Perth, 436 -Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 11 1 ,f i ex new-Manchester and Birkenhead Con tinuation, 255. pm -Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, o it g 31. 136.-Si.nth Midlands, 6 1 4 pm. to HULL, Auo 22: STOCK rxerLiNcia.-The sales are-Durham and Sunder - land New, 44. IBs. 9d.-London and Croydon New, 13/4-York der- Aug, 21. . Clot& Aug. and Nortl; Alidland Extension, 24Y 4 -Blackburn, Darriwen, 22. -. and Bolton, 9-Grimsby Dock Extension, 2 3 / N r th B O - Half Shares, 9-Derby and Crewe, 3-East Lincolnshire, - - 145.-Great .:astern and Western, 2s. 6d.-London and Bir - - mingham Exl:ension. 19s. 6d.-London and York, 5 3 ja -New - - castle, Durham, and Lancashire, 285.-Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grantham, Z.ls.-Nottingham and Boston, 125.-Not tingham and Mixislield, 255.-Rugby, 2%-South Midl ws and, - --iheffi eld and Lincolnshire J unction, 3% -Shrebury, - Hereford, and North Wales, 4. YORK, AUG. 22. STOCK ExcHANGF..-The sales are-Eastern Union Exten sion, :3 1 7 -Midland, New, 2614-Newcastls and Darlington Tunction, 53-Nkrrili British, 31%-Ditto, New, 9 1 4.-York North Mid:and Extension, 24% -Great Grimsby and Id Junction, 7%-Leeds and Bradford, 551,4-I:Aver ..)rinskirk, and Preston, 7-London and York, 5%- .sanchester, Buxton, &c., 8% -Newcastle and Berwick, 24-Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 48. EDINBURGH, AUG. 20. STOCK EXCEIANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 3/. 6s. 61- Ab,n-deen, Banff. and Elgin, 2/. 11s. 6d.-Arbroath and For far, 251.-Di t to. Half Shares,ls/.- Armagh and Portrush, W. - Banffshire,2/. 13. 6,1-British and Irish Union, 3L fast and County Down, 3/. I7s. 6d -Cambridge and Lincoln, 3/. 103 -Caledonian , 101. 10s.-Caledon ian Extension, 21. 165.-Caledonian and Dumbarton , 31 . 17s. 61-Clydesdale Junction, W.-Direct Northern, 2/. 55.-Dundee and Ar broath, 371. Is. 6d.-Ditto, New, 181.-Dundea and Perth, 41. Cs. and Bathgate, 2/. 6s. - Edinburgh and Glasgow, 881.-Ditto, Quarters, 211. 155.-Ditto, New, 151-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, I/. 17s. 6d. --Edinburgh, Leitb, and Granton, 261.-Ditto, Prefer ence, 161. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, IL 125.-Ditto, : 7 e New, 1/. 25.-Edinburgh and Peebles, 2/. 155.-Edinburgh _ and Perth, 11. 145.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, M . -Ditto, - New Stock, 221.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 3/. 10s.- - Glasgow and Neilston, 211. 10s.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 41/. -Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 1/. 35.-Glasgow and - Greenock, 211.-Ditto, New Stock, 10/. 55.-Ditto, Pre ference, 21.-Great North of Scotland, 21. 15s. 6d.-Inver ness and Elgin, 11. 2s. 6d.-Kilmarnock and Ardrossan, 51.155. - -London and York, 4/. 10s.-Londonderry and Coleraine, -3/. 17s. 6.1.-Londonderry. and Enniskillen, 3/. 155.-Monk -8 land and Kirkintilloch,33/.-Morayshire, 11.-North British, 31/. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, 9/. 53.-North Wales Mineral, 3 % New, 6/. 55.-Perth and Inverness, 2/. 25.-Scottish Central, 71. 12s. 6d -Scottish Midland, 2/. 78. 6d.-Shrewsbury, Os - vestry, and Chester, 4/. ls.-Slamannan, 181.-South Midland, 51. 18s.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 11. 153.- Waterford, Wicklow, and Dublin, 1 /. 165.-Wishaw and Cultness, 391. and Shcfi pool, RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year : I 1 Week ending Last week. o„ as;.; F.,:!.'-' 0 . b° U ..5. NAME OF RAILWAY. Aug. 16 - 2 Arbroath and Forfar ••••• • • • • Bristol and Birmingham . • • • • • • • • • • Chester and Birkenhead . • ...... • • • Dublin and Drogheda. • • • • • • • • • • • • • Dublin and Kingstown • • • • Dundee and Arbroath . :• • • • • • • • • 6 Durham and Sunderland ••• 6 Edinburgh and Glasgow •• • ••••• • •• 7 Eastern Counties and North Eastern• • 6 Glasgow, Itilinarnock, and Ayr •••• •• .6 Glasgow and Greenock.• •• • • ... .6 Grand Junction •••• • • • - I - i 17 - I- I 16 - I - I 16 - I - I 19 - 11% I 16 - 1 - 1 18 - 1 - 1 18 - I - I 16 - I - I 16 - I - I )6 - 1 - I 16 Gravesend and Rochester ......... Great North of England •• •• • • •• •• • Great Western. •• •• • • •• •• •• •• •• •• • hull and Selby •. Liverpool and Manchester . •• Loudon and Birmingham . •• • London and Blackwall.. London and Brighton. •• • • •• London and Croydon . • • ........•••• London and Greenwich. • • •••• • London and South Western. •• •••••• Manchester, Bolton, and Bury .• •• •• Manchester and Birmingham.• •• •• •• Manchester, Leeds, and Ilan Assoc Midland Comities. •• • • •• •• .. •• •• •• •• Newcastle and Darlington •• •• •• •• •• Newcastle and Carlisle.... . .. Newcastle and North Shields •• •• •• North Union and Bolton and Preston Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans •••• •• •• Paris and Rouen. •• • • •• • • •• •• •• •• •• Preston and Wyre • • • • • • • • • • • Sheffield and Manchester • • • • • • • • • • • South Eastern. . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ••• . • Taff Vale • • Ulster Yarmouth and Norwich . York and North llidhind . 1,129 400 3,221 6,248 2,002 1,228 17,782 283 20,032 20,805 1,244 6,651 2,016 6,339 744 1,325 586 2,739 4,379 1,690 1,128 10,224 427 1,836 5,469 6,235 814 6,483 878 367 3,052 RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TAFF VALE. On Wednesday the half-yearly general meeting of the _ proprietors was held at Bristol; Sir J. Guest in the chair. 2% Mr. Moacom (the secretary) read the Directors' re - port. in which were ttie following statements :- - • " The receipts during the past half year amount to - 24,894/. 19a. I Id., being an increase of 2,202/. 12s. 9d., as - compared with the last half year, and of 6 5 4801. 18s., as - compared with the corresponding six months of 1844. The profits of the past half year (after payment of the - working expenses, the interest on bonds and capital stuck, and a dividend equal to 5 per cent. per annum on ° 6,000 quarter shares) amount to 6,3091. 25., which, with - 579/. Bs. 10.1., undivided lat half year, will give a dis - posable balance of 6,8881. 10s. 101, from which your Directors recommend a dividend to the holders of original shares, at the rate of 3L 14s. 6d. per cent. per annum on - the amount of capital standing to the credit of each - old share on the 31st of December last, or 2/. 6s. lid. per share for the half year. This will leave 3s. Id. per share - to be added to the capital of the original share, viz.:- - Amount of each old share on 31st Dec., 1844, as per last report £125 16 11 Sum authorised to be placed to the credit of each cld share half yearly 7: Less dividend now recommended 2 611 0 3 1 • £126 0 0 In pursuance of the resolution of the special general . meeting, held on the Ist of April, the Directors took measures for obtaining an Act of Parliament to enable them to carry out the agreement made with the Mar . quis of Bute on the 14th November last. The period - of giving notices of applications to Parliament fixed by the standing orders of the House of Commons having elapsed before the agreement with the Marquis of Bute - was made, and the Committee of that House refusing to suspend the standing orders, as in many other in _ stances they had done, your Directors regret to say that - the Bill was thrown out. The formation of a double - line as far as Navigation House is in progress, one - fourth of the_ distance (from Cardiff to Llandaff) _ being nearly finished, and arrangements made for - the completion of the remainder. During the last - session of Parliament, the Aberdare Railway Com pany obtained an Act for joining your line at Navigation - House, distant from Cardiff sixteen miles. When the great extent of the coal-field thus opened, and the pre a'' ference the Aberdare coal has obtained all over the _ world for steam-packet purposes, are taken into con - sideration, it may safely be asserted that the increase of - trade which will be thus brought on the Taff Vale Rail _ way can hardly be overrated. The erection of blast - furnaces contemplated by Mr. Crawshay Bailey on his very extensive mineral estate, through which the Aberdare line passes, holds out the prospect of still - increasing revenue to this Company." The CHAIRMAN, in reply to inquiries from Mr. Price - and others, said the 76 forfeited shares would be sold in - the market. OVERTON said he considered that the Directors were exceeding the powers vested in them by the Act of Parliament, by expending their capital in making a - double line before they had accomplished the purposes for which the Company was formed. It was intended that a branch should be made to Dowlais. This had not - been made, noi, as far as he could ascertain, were there any preparations for making it. He had no doubt that if the Company were to make that branch t at it would yield a large profit. Indeed, he - had no hesitation in say in that it would not only - return five per cent. on the outlay, but it would yield from 3,000/. to 4,0001. a year to the present line. For - some strange reason this branch had never been made, and he ( Nlr. Overton) insisted that the Cotnpany•were t,ound to make it before they could expend money in _ making a double line. The CHAIRMAN said, if the Hon. Proprietor would look at the Act of Parliament, he would find that the Dowlais Company had taken powers to make the line - themselves whenever it might, suit them to do so. With - the great capital which that Company possessed, there could be no doubt that if it -had appeared to them de sirable they would have made it. At present the Di - rectors did not deem it judicious to - -recommend the Shareholders to do so. Sir J. Guest, Mr. C. James, and Mr. R. H. Webb were -- re elected Directors. - At the close of the meeting the forfeited shares were put up to auction, and realised from 1401. to 1411. MIDDLESBOROUGH AND REDCAR. The Directors of this line celebrated the passing of the Bill for this line by a public dinner at Redear. The line having been staked off preparatory to obtaining - the contract, the Directors and several of the Shareholders walked over the course, and visited the - dock branch of the Darlington and Stockton Railway, on a convenient part of which the Middlesborough - station-house is intended for the Redcar line. The - latter, we may here state, branches off the former line, near the docks, and skirts the Tees and the sea banks, -- visaing Ormsby Hall, Normazby Hall, Wilton Castle, Kirleathom, and other places of interest, which were pointed out to the company as they went over the line. - On nearing Coatham, a village about a mile from Redcar, 2% the Directors were met by . a number of influential gentlemen belonging to the neighbourhood, and escorted into the -town by instrumental music, banners, and a .!onsid,rable number of the inhabitants, who evince 3 an enthusiasm in the proceedings that has never, we are sure, been witnessed on any previous occasion in Reclean, The town had quite a holiday appearance. The inhabitants, to a great extent, suspended all busi ness for the day, and flags and colours were displayed from most of the houses. On reaching the site In tended for the station, where, by the way, a tent was erecte4, an tea supplied to about 50 0 females, the direc tors procee d ed to the Red Lion llotek where they partook of a sumptuous entertainment, Mr. Wilkinson pre siding ; supported by Mr. C. Dryden, as Vice-Chairman ; Messrs. Yeas,-,jun., Henry Pease, B. Flounders, J. Q. 4atr.aniel flews, Edw. Oxley, Birkbeek, of ; John Harris. Thomas Newham, of Yam ; F. Mewl:pro, s:em, V. vlo'vliorn, ji3n., J. W. Peitae, J. Middle ton, C. C. Oxley, Dr. Harper, T. B. tlonfine.r.4all, John Dolphin, of Hunter House ; Thomas Macnap, John Baker, of Thirek, and others. The dining-room was decorated with flip, on which were inscribed "Mid. clleshro' and Redcar Inilwax—Cu , su pc-wiz- at littora IJ7clit" (swift in its course it tends to the shore). and "Success to the Bishop-Auckland and Weardale Rail way Company—Fit via vi" (it becomes a way by force). A variey of teat, were proposed and responded to, amowt others, " The Directors of the Iliddleborough and Redcar Railway." The Cama-max returned thanks. The undertaking in which they were concerned must, he be deeply interesting to the commercial classes. Looking to the various channels of communication by various rail ways already formed or in progress, and ,to the connexion speedily to be formed with Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire, no ono could fail to see the great benefit this district would derive from the railwa -- . When they hmsidered how completely it stood proved that thfi improvement in agriculture had gone hand in. hand with railways, they must agree that both were inseparable interests. When they saw matiareQ, mineral, ve4et.:ble, and chemic,d, and the pro dule of the land thus manured brought from one place to another with such facility, and when, above all, they saw that collision of mind which enabled one farmer to co:np rre his potitioa with an ither i.t a different Rat of foe e itintr), they saw titiou t t.h to show the advantages of railways to the agricultural interest. OXFORD, WORCES'FER, AND WOLVERIIAMPTON. • A pitblie dinner was given in the Market price;, at Stow on the-Wohl, last week, to IL G. Btr•by, E:q., of More ton, and Robert Beartn, Esq , of Donnington house, to commemorate the pas-ing of the Oxf rd, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Bill. The 112 v. R . W. Hippos ley presided, awl sevetal addresses were delivered, the respective speakers concurring in the conviction that the proposed line woold be of in calculable a lvAtitAga lo the districts through which it passe:!. The staking out of the lioe is being proceeded with, anti the ground will shortly be hri&in. - GREAT EASTERN AND WESTERN.—We 1,1,1rn that this Company is prepared to adopt the wile ! - 2:,att4 . e from Birmingham to Swansea, and to meet the wishes of the inhabitants of Great Malvern and Ledbury to the fullest extent, by making communication With .these towns either by the main line or branches therefrom.—Wor cester Chronicle. The proprietors of the Somersetshire Canal purpose to convert it into a railway, A rumour has reached us that Mr. Hudson has avowed his intention to bring out a rOw line of railway between Hull and :Manchester, passing through Howden, and saving 26 miles in the entire distance between the two termini. This act of hostility to the Manchester and Leeds Company is said to have followed an intimation that the latter Company intend to divert, so far as it is possible, the Manchester export goods traffic from Hull to Goole, by means of the Wakefield, Pontefv.et, and Goole Railway.— Ea,tern Counties Herald. The system which many bankers have adopted, of ad vancing money upon railway shares as security, has con tributed much to the diffusion of the mania for specula- tion, and to an unnaturally high state of prices. Two thirds of the quoted value, it is understood, is generally lent, and the nr,ney, as long as it lasts, is in all proba bility employed in fresh speculations.—Sentinel. WHITER AVEN JUNCTION.—That portion of the White haven J unet i,, n Railway, extending from Maryport across the Derwent to Workington, is expected to be opened for the convyance of goods and passengers be fore the close of the present year. _Cumberland Pacquet structed cheaply, and worked economically, whhah T have no doubt will h, the ease in this instai ce. Besides the line from Enniskillen to Sligo, I liar? surveyed another line from Baliybay to Cavan, which is also about to be undertaken by an influential and powerful Compary (the North Midland)," and which will also prove a most beneficial feeder or branch to the Dundalk end Enniskilhn Railway, as it will open the whole of that country to the nearest seaport, where the agricultural produce is at present sent by common carts, the number of which on market days is extremely large. On the whole, therefore, and considering. the increased trade of Dundalk, thi- prospect of most important branch rail ways and extension of the line being constructed, and the certainty of its being cheaply made, I have no hesi tation whatever in stating that I-consider the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway an excellent and useful und.er taking, likely to prove beneficial to the country and re munerative to its proprietors." IJIATER.—The traffic on this Railway (25 miles opened; was, for the week ending 17th August, 1845: — Passengers, 13 009, amount 461/. 14:. Id. ; goods. 131/. Its. 4 , 1.-5931. si. 51. Correspondini , week of last year :—Pass hg ers. 11,373, amount .109/". 12 , . 41; goods, 1221 12 , . 31-532/. 7(1. I 1 PR,P3SED AMALGAMATION OF COUNTY DowN LlNES.—Ditheultius have arisen is the way of the abr.ve mekvure, such as seem very likely to pri vent its ty!com plishment. A meeting of the shar,holders of the Belfast and County Down, and the Newry, Banbridge, and Belfast junction Railway, called to consider and decide upon the subject. GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN.—The arecturs have inAde a call of 51, p, r sh re upon the Exteusious to Limerick and Cup k. THE WEATH ''.l:l/. AND THE CROPS. N.RTH OF IRELAND.—During the past week. there have been same days of weather favourable for tee corns meneement of the early grain harveat, and advantage has been taken of this by the farmers in a few place. There have, however, been heavy rains, by which weighty corn crops have been partially laid down, and 'their ripening thus retarded. In the neighbourhood of Belfast, particularly on the Downshire side, several fills of barley have fallen before the sickle, and the yield, both in grain and straw, is stated to be at least an ave rage. Very little winter-sown wheat is as yet ready far cutting ; but, in one or two very early districts, a few patches have been reaped ; and the return of grain pro mises well. Toe last of the flax crop has been pulled ; and the greater proportion of the season's produce is now undergoing the process of grassing. The quantity of fine flax is likely to prove greater than was at one time anticipated. The growth of the potato plant progresses as favourably as the most sanguine fernier could wish ; and there is no doubt that this crop will far exceed in quantity that of any year since 1340.—Banner of Ulster. During the past and present week we hare been over several miles of the country in our neighbourhood, and we can safely say that a few days of sunshine would give us a crop unequalled even in the late plenteous seasons. Everywhere—and more particularly in the rich valley of the Ayr— the wheat and oats are very heavy in the ear and long in the straw ; thus pro mising abundance for man and the inferior animals. In the neighbourhood of Gadgirth and Enterkine we observed several fields of wheat far advanced in ripeness, and only waiting a glimpse of sunshine to fit them for the sickle. Farther up the Ayr, to the banks of the Lugar, oats are the prevailing crop ; and though greener than in the lower lands, they are also very heavy and abundant. Barley is generally pretty far advanced ; but—sunshine ! sunshine ! As tonishingly little grain of any kind has been laid by the rain. Beans have a very promising appearance. In the potatoe crops we observed no failures ; partial failures may have occurred, but so far as we can judge, the root will be very plenteous. The late wet weather has marred the finishing of the hay harvest ; generally it is cut, but a consider able quantity lies upon the meadows waiting for heat. In our immediate neighbourhood the crops wear a very luxuriant appearance, though it will be some time ere the sickle be in active operation. Friday and Saturday last were brilliant days ; but the mornings and evenings were exceedingly chill. In fact, the frost on those mornings lay, in some places, quite white. This visit of the rude nortlanan was anything but welcome. Oc Sunday the wind blew strong from the south east, driving before it heavy and successive showers. Yesterday the wind rounded to W.S.W , and the sun shone strongly.—Ayr Observer. On this increasingly important subject, we regret we cannot report very favourably for the past week, rain having fallen almost every day since our last publication. The worst fears have consequently been entertained by the farmer throughout the district, not so much because of the injury already done to the creps, as on account of the damage that may yet occur, should the protracted wet weather continue much longer. The only day on which no rain fell was Saturday, when considerable pro gress was made in securing the hay. In Yorkshire and some of the southern counties, the crops are said to be in a very fair condition, and appear to have suffered little from the inclemency of the weather. This, we believe, is also the case in Scotland and Ireland ; and should the weather take a favourable turn, as we fondly hope it will, we may yet have fully an average harvest. —Tyne Mercury. It would have been a matter of no ordinary gratifi cation to have recorded, this week, that the state of the weather, upon which every thing now depends, had at length assumed that settled and sun light character which is essentially necessary to bring tee forthcoming crops of grain to a state of perfect maturity. Un he ?ply, however, such is not the case. One day, marked by a character of general brightness, has been succeeded by one of almost incessant and extremely heavy rain—at least, for the greater part of the day. This was the case on Tuesday last, when the showers descended literally in torrents, and must, we fear, have occasioned much injuty in those localities where the crops are fliiegy and heavy upon the ground. Even the occasional recurrence of a bright day is succeeded by one of gloom and heaviness. We knew nothing of a uniform continuance of clear and cloudless skies, and of that high and also uniform state of the atmosphere, without which the wheat crop cannot yield that bountiful produce which, at one time, presented very gratifying indications, and without which the most lamentable results will ineviably ensue, in embarrass. ment to trade, the prostration of enterprise, the de rangement of the money market, from the effect of which railway speculations could not escape, and in privations and sufferings of no ordinary nature and extent. These considerations aro of the more import ance, when it is remembered, that, with the immense daily consumption of a rapidly increasing population, the stock of bonded wheat now on hand only amounts to about twelve days' consumption. We trust, however, that in most localities no serious damage has yet been occasioned. But, at the same time, it cannot be denied that the harvest, especially with a continuance of the present weather, will be protracted to a late period ; and that, consequently, the risks of the crop being secured in good condition, are doubled, and that the stocks on hand, as we have before remarked, will expe rience a daily diminution before the new grain can be po isibly brought to the market. In proof of the lateness of the sees )n it need only be remarked, that last year— an early harvest, certainly—wheat, in the higher loca lities in this district, was cut on the sth of August, which corresponds with Tuesday last, and now the crop is as green as grass. To the generality of crops, indeed, a late harvest is invariably injurious.—Doncaster Gazette. Rain again set in on Monday evening in many parts of the country, and continued without intermission the whole of Tuesday. On Wednesday, a brisk gal-. from the north-west cleared away the clouds, and in and around Derby we had fine weather up to the time of writing this (yesterday afternoon). It has been ascer tained that the late heavy rains have really greatly in jered the crops, which will not, it is thought, give an average yield, even should the weathercontinue as favour able as one would wish.—Der by Reporter of Friday. We understand, from a source upon which we can rely, that there are considerable failures in wheat ; yet, it is hoped that the increased breadth of tillage, and the mush larger quantity of stalk, will afford almost an average crop. The late rains have not injured the wheat so much as the unfavourableness of the weather at the time of blossoming. A great deal was beat about that time, and became what farmers term " Krieebound,' by which the sap is prevented from rising and giving its nuttiment to the kernel. It is hoped, notwithstanding, that it Providence favours us with fine weather, there will be a fair supply up to Midsummer next. Barley and ows are a good crop. The early potatoes have failed, but the later potatoes are looking very well. Harvesting has com menced in good earnest in Cornwall, and some small quan tities have been secured in this neighbourhood, more par ticularly in the vicinity of the rivers. We saw a consi derable quantity cut in the neighbourhood of Saltram last week. The few days of fine weather that we have had has enabled farmers to get in a great deal of the hay that was in a precarious state, and it may be said to be secured in tolerable order. The quantity saved in fine order has not been large, but the crop upon the whole has been a b4untiful one.—Plymouth Journal. The weather, we regret to say, i 3 still most untoward for harvest purposes. On Monday from noon till night sunshine and moderate heat prevailed; but since then we have had showers, heavy rains, and almost chilling cold. The rain ceased yesterday evening, but the atmc asphere continues heavy and humid.—Caledunian Me.-- cury. Within the past week there has been a great many changes in the weather, and yesterday one of a most unfavourable nature, and this day again presents no change for the better. The effect of the late rains, of which so much apprehension was entertained, has not been by any means so prejudicial as some per sons are anxious to represent it—and we are in formed by an experienced agriculturist, who has within the last week seen a good deal of the condition of the crops through this county, that they look gene rally good and productive. We have seen some samples of new oats, grown in the neighbourhood of Midleton, the grain of which is full and hard, and, as regards the potato crop, there never was less reason to complain. A great deal, however, will yet depend on the continuance of fair weather or otherwise, for in many parts of the county the crops are very late, and require some ripening heat to bring them tomaturity.—Cork Southern Reporter. THE HARVEST.—The few finer days previous to' Monday last raised hopes that the harvest might yet be gathered in tolerable condition, but on the evening of that day the clouds gathered again, and a deluge of rein fell the whole of the night, coatinuieg en Tuesday, accompanied with a strung and ternpe:tueus wind. The alarm is again general. The failure of the potato crop is confirmed from all quarters. Very serious, indeed beyond all calculation, must be the ceneequenees, if immediate and long continued dry weather do not enaee, lindar any circtltnstances enough dqmagp he f a hectl already done to render the crop deficient in yield and in quality. Amidst all this, there is a duty of nearly 20s. per quarter on the importation of corn. What a taste for starvation the `people of this country must havc, to enact, or allow - to be enacted, such laws !—Ker,t Herald. Within the last few days the state of the weather in this district has b.en of such a character as to awaken serious apprehensions fur the safety of the growing crops. A large quantity of rain fell during the whole of Monday and Tuesday and the greater portion of these nights, with little hope that a period . was at hand for the prAralence of those sunlight 'and genial hours which are essentially necessary fur bringing the produce to a state of perfect maturity. On Wednesday the showers hard ceased to fail, but a brisk wind sprung up from the west, so chill and hoislerous, and with an atmosphere so cloudy at.d cheerless as to present few, if any, indications, that un certainty fur the future was at an end, or that, at length, we were about to enter upon a more propitious period. It is feared that the heavy crops of wheat will be further beaten down by the heavy rain and sustain very considerable injury ; that, in many instances, they will he totally unable to resume their upright position ; and that the grain will be much deteriorated by the im p:)ssibility of its becoming well fed, or of ripening f. qually. This feeling has been increased by the rain eccurring after the • comparatively fine .days of the pre cett ug week. It should, however, •be borne in mind, that the wheat crops are yet green ; and that the it jury may be possibly less than if the produce was gone rip., for the sickle. This remark, however, does nit apply to barley, which is in a more advanced scat-, and, consequently, fable to greater injury. horn" of the produce of the barley lands has been already eu•,— at Wheatiee, for i-istance, on the fern of Sir W. B. Cooke, Bart., - where harvest commenced on Friday last by cutting it with the sickle ; but these operations, in onsequeece of the heavy and incessant rains, have lace chtcked. We ba-e seen several tracks of this d‘seriOtin of pro,7inte much lodged ; and, -in some instances, the green weeds are growing through, and binding it down to the ground. Under these circum stances, it is to be feared that the quality will be much deteriorated, and much injury inflicted. Wednesday night was gusty, thmtening, arid extremely cold and cheerless. Early yesterday morning, several heavy showers again descznthd, with a brisk wind blowing from the west. As the day advanced, however, the wind became lulled ; the clouds assumed a greater alti tude; the beams of the sun occasionally struggled through, and, on the whole, the aspect was more favourable.— Doncaster Gaut to of Friday. Although Monday and Tuesday were amongst the most unfavourable days we have had in Yorkshire in prospect of the harvest, the brisk wind of Wednesday, the fair, though not brilliant day of Thursday, and the still more favourable weather of yesterday, have effected a very favourable change, and re-anitrated the public spirits. The barometer, after passing through all the changes from " Rain" to " Fair" in the course of those three days, has assumed a more settled position. Still there is much cause for apprehension. In all parts of the country the corn is a good deal beaten down,—in sc me places irrevocably ; we hear of rust and mildew, and the other diseases incident to wet seasons, and in the low parts of the country, particularly in Lincolnshire, from which we insert a very desponding letter from one of our own correspondents, the mischief is very exten sive. The barley seems to have suffered more from the rain generally than other grain. Oats are ripening, and nearly ready for the sickle, but they do not ripen kindly, and the wheat, which is the most important of all the grain crop, is still green, and from a fortnight to three weeks later than last year. The following is an extract from the Wakefield corn letter of the cor responding week of last year (August 23) :—" Since this day week the weather upon the whole has been favourable for harvest operations, and the harvest is now progressing rapidly. The supply of wheat is small for this days market, but sales are slow at a reduction of Is. per quarter. A sample of new Lincolnshire barley was sold at 395. per varter."—Leeds MerCUT. SOUTH HAMS —Harvest oprations have been much retarded here. On Monday rain set in about four in the afternoon, and lasted twenty hours, a dead soaker. Tuesday and Wednesday were catchitg days ; there was reaping but no carrying. For ten miles round Totnes the wheat is much blighted. Expressing a doubt of this fact, to one of the best farmers cef the dis trict, he pointed out to us a field on the ridge of the bill which overlooks Totnes bridge, as a specimen of the condition of the wheat in that neighbourhood This field belongs to Mr. Nicholas Manning of Bramborough ; when it was last in wheat it had more than 40 bushels an acre of the best description. This year it will not give fifteen bushels per acre, and not a single bushel of the best description. We have seen specimens of wheat from Drewsteignton district, culled by two ex tensive corn-factors, yesterday, as a test of the condition of the crop. These specimens exhibit rust and blight to a slight degree. Practical judges have come to the conclusion that a considerable quantity of foreign wheat must be bought before next harvest.— Western Times. THE MOORS. The sportsman's time has never, we believe, been more actively employed than preceding the first day of the present grouse shooting season, nor better prospects has he had than what. he is likely to enjoy during its conti nuance. A greater number of sportsmen has not been in the north than within the last few days. Several shootings, which, from their large extent and the diffi culty existing of making up corresponding parties, are still in the market, but if these were divided into moors of from 5,000 to 6 000 acres, we hare no doubt but the whole would meet with tenants on any terms. l'uesdty morning, the " twal of August," was rather unfavourable for the hills, but towards the afternoon the day cleared up, so consequently our news from the hills of the number shot is not so large as at the same time List year. Oa the 12th, Georde Ross, Esq., of Cro irony, bagged, on the hill of 'fain, 40f brace of grouse, 5 mountain hares, and a teal drake—rn.king in all, 87 head of game. Mr. R. had only gma out at a rather late hour, and hitherto this moor was almost wholly un productive, but owing to the attention latterly paid to the preservation of the game, it promises to become a very exc2llent one. Mr. Napier and Major Ogilvy, at l)ounavourd, near Pitlochrie, bagged 411 brace and three blue hares ; Alfred Baillie, Eiq., eight brace, at Culduthel ; Mr. S. Casborne. 12 brace, on Mr. Grant's, Inverness, moors ; Major Fraser, 24 brace, on Holme moor, in four hours ; Mr. Rose and Mr. Sims, 21 brace, at Holm ; Captain Boyd, 53 brace, and H. Davidson, Esq., at Cantry, 30 brace and 4 hares ; Mr. Laverack and party, at Pitmain, 200 brace ; Mr. M`Gildowny and Mr.. Casement, at Bel vide, 70 brace ; Mr. Berney and friend, at Newton more, 35 ,brace each ; J. B. Fraser, at Moniack. 10f brace, in three hours ; Mr. Colby, at Dell of M.rle, 30 brace ; Mr. Ross, at Strathgarve, 25 brace ; H. Call well, Esq., and friend. at Killin, 57 brace ; Cluny Mac pherson, 40 brace, at Cluny.—Ross-shire Adve; user. Considerable execution appears to have been done by sportsmen on our moors, on the twelfth and succeed ing days. The birds were plentiful, but strong on the wing, and generally not easily to be got at. At Blair quhan, on the 12th, Sir David H. Blair, Bart., Captain J. H. Blair, and John 11. Blair, Esq., shot 45 brace of Grouse, on Lam(loughty and Gass Moors, prish of Straiton. Sir David bagged 18 brace, to his own gun, although not on the moor till half-put 11 o'clock. On the 14th Sir David, and Ji..hn H. Blair, Esq. shot 31} brace in four hours. On ere 15th Sir Charles Lambe, Bart , and Capt. J. H. Blair ba,4ged 35 brace in seven hours. Mr. Walker, of Bellsbank, en the 12th, killed 28 brace on the farm of Moor, on the Craigen gillan estate. Dr. Eaton of Darnaconner killed, on the Darnaconner Moors, on the 12th, 19f besee, and a snipe ;on ti - .e 13th, 121, and a hare ;on the 15th, 13} brace and 2 snipes ; and on the 16th, 14} brace of grouse, and one brace of snipes. Dr. Eaton was home cach day at four o'clock. On the 12th, Mr. Aird of Crosallat, and Mr. Samson of Kilmarnock killed 22 brace each ; and Mr. Wilson, of Chelmsford, and other gen tlemen, had excellent sprt in the vicinity of Muirkirk. Throughout Ayrshire generally the shooting season opened well.—Ayr Observer. Yesterday se'nnight, grouse shooting commenced all over the country, and since then, notwithstanding the unfavourable waather, there has been an immense slaughter of game. On the fells and other preserves in be counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland, grouse are pretty plentiful, the pouts being fine strong birds. but the old ones, especially the hens, are only small, and not so plump as they have been known in former years. The coveys are tolerably numerous, numbers of them are already packed together, and being wild and strong on the wing on some moor., it was with difficulty that they were come within range of; but from the accounts hitherto received from the moors, the sport was excel lent, especially on Wednesday, which was a fine bright day, and the packs of birds were found basking on the sides of the hillocks. From the late continued wet state of the weather, the moors were very wet and heavy ; yet, notwithstanding this, several of them made a long day of the 12th, but at night they were truly " weary sportsmen." Grouse are selling at from 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. per brace—the supply keeps pace with the demand.— Tyne Mercury. CUMBERLAND.—The early dawn on Tuesday morning, the 12th instant, which was a fair one, but rather dark and lowering, was anxiously waited for by hundreds of sportsmen on the fells and moors all Britain over, impa tient to be at work with their slaughtering guns amongst the game. On the fells and other preserves in the coun ties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, grouse are pretty plentiful, the pouts being fine strong birds, but the old ones, especially the hens, are only small, and not so plump as they have been known in former years. The chveys are tolerably numerous, numbers of which are al ready packed together, and being wild and strong on the wing on some moors, it was with difficulty that they were come within range of ; but from the accounts hi therto received from the moors. the sport was excellent, es pecially on Wednesday, which was a flue bright day, and the packs of birds were found basking on the sides of the hillocks. On a preserve near Alston moor,Cumberland, Mr. Timothy Featherstonhaugh, of the College, Kirkoswald, High Sheriff of the county of Cumberland, bagged up wards of 20 brace before noon on Tuesday. Sir George Musgrave, of Eden-hall, and other gentlemen were very successful. Mr. Henry Howard, of Greystoke Castle, and his brother-in-law, Lord Andover, bagged on Mell fells, 16 and 10 brace respectively. On Shap-fells, Birk beck-fells. and other preserves of the Earl of Lonsdale, the Hon. Colonel Lowther, M.P., and other gentlemen now on a visit to his Lo-dship at Lowther Castle, made out well. From the late continued wet state of the weather, the moors were very wet and heavy; yet, not withstanding this, several of them made a long day of the 12th, but at night they were ind ee d an d o f a t rut h, weary sportsmen. Grouse are selling at ss. and 6s. per brace, and the supply keeps pace with the demand. The Marquis of Worcester add a few select friends commenced the spurt of grouse shooting last week on the Puke of Beaufort's moors, rear Crickhowell. DERBYSHIRE.—Tuesday week being the 12th of Au gust, grouse shooting commenced. The Derbyshire moors were crowded by eager sportsmen early in the morning, although the weather was very unfavourable. Nevertheless, the ardour manifested by the lover of the RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES Of RAILWAY SHARES IN THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. NAMES or RAILWAYS. if; TO :E I "5 r 4 Aberdeen • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Airdrie and Costbridge . • Arbrolth and Forfar • • • • Ditto Half Shares • • • • Armagh, Colr., & Portrush Bandon and Bantry . • . • • Belfast and Ballymena . lieltitst and County Down ilirktibd, Lan. & Ches.Jnc. Birmingham and Gio'ster Do. New (iss . at 7 4 dis.) Ditto Half Shares .. • • Birminghin & Oxfrd June. Blekburn, and Preston • • Blekburn, Darwn,& Boltn Bolton, W ignu, & Liverpl. Boston, Sainfrd and Birm Brighton, Lewes, & Haat. Bristol and Exeter • • • • • • Ditto New .. • • • • • • • • • • Bristol and Gloucester • • Bristol and S. Wales June. British and Irish Union • • Calcdon. and Ayrsh. June Caledon. & Duinbar.J tine. Caled , n iau . • • • . . Ditto Extension • • • • • • Cambridge and Lincoln• • Che, ter and Birkenhead.. Dit&o New Shares • • • • Ditto Half Shares . • . • Chester and H lyhead • • Cheltenham and Oxford.. Chichester and Brighton.. Churnet Valley Clitheroe J unction • • • • • • Clydesdale Junction • • • • Cork, Blackrck & Passage Cork and Bandon .• • • • • • Cork and Killarney .• • • • Cork and Waterford • • • • Cork and Youghal • • • • • • Canterbury And Dover... Coventry and Leicester • • Cornwall . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Derby and Crewe . • • • • • • Direct Lon. and Manchstr Diss, Beccles, & Yannoth Direct Northern • . • • • • • • Direct Norwich . • • . • • • • • Dublin and Belfast June. Dublin, Belfast, & Coiree Dublin and Drogheda • • .. Dublin and Galway . • • • • Ddudalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath . • • Ditto New .• • •••• • • • Dundee and Per. ...• • • Durham and Sunderland East Lancashire (No. 1) Ditto (No. 2) .. .• Eastern Counties . .. • • Do. New . • • • • • • • Do. Perp. 5 pr Ct., No. 1 Do. do. No. 2 East Dereham & Norwich Easi Union . • • • • • • • • • • • • Ditto Extension • • • • • • Edinbgh, Glas., and Dum. Edinburgh and Glasgow.. Do. Quarter Shares • • • Do. New Quarter Shares Edinb. Leith, and Grantcn Do. Pref. 5 per Cent. • Edinburgh and Northern Edinburgh and Peebles . . Edinburgh and Perth.... Ely and Huntingdon .... Enniskillen and 51ig0.... Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr Flt wood, Prstn, & W. Rid. Garnkirk and Glasgow —, Glasgow and Ayr . • • Do. Quarter Shares • • • • Glasgow and Greenock • • Ditto New. • .• • • • • • •• Ditto Preference • • • • Glasgw, Dmfries, and Car. Glsgw, Kilmanick, & Ard. Glasgow and Belfast Un. Goole and Doncaster • • • • Grand Junction • • • • • Ditto Half Shares • • • • Ditto Quarter Shares • • Ditto New Quarters • • Ditto Eighths • • - Grand Union. • • • • • , • • .• Great Eastern & Western Gt Grimsby & Dk Extens. Gt Grimsby and Sheffield Gt Sthrn & Wstrn (hind) Ditto Extension • • • • • • Great Munster.. • • • - • • • • Zit - Rorthern of Scotland Grt Northern of England Do. New 401. Shares . • Do. New 30/. Shares .. Great Western • • • • • • • • • Ditto Half Shares • . • • Ditto Fifths • Guilfrd, Farehm, & Ports Ilarwich . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • I I udrsfld & Man. R. & Canl Iluddersfield and Sheffield Hull and Gainsborough • • Hull and Selby • • • • • • • • • • Ditto Quarter Shares . • Ditto Half Shares • • • • Inverness and Elgin Isle of Jersey • • • • • • • • • • Kendal and Windermere Kingstown and Bray • • • • Killarney Junctions . • • • • Lancaster and Cal lisle • • Lancaster and Preston Leeds and Bradford •• • • Ditto Extension • • Leeds and Dewsbury • Leeds and Thirak • • • • • Leeds & W. Riding June Leicester & Birmingham Leicester and Bedford . • • Limerick and Waterford Limrck, Ennis, & Kll. Jnc. Lincoln, York, and Leeds Liv. Man. & Gt N. of Eng. Liverpool and Manchester Ditto Half Shares •• • • Ditto Quarter Shares • • Liverpl, Ormskrk, & Prstn London and Birmingham Ditto Thirds Ditto Quarters • • • • • • • London and Blackwell • • 10% Lon.&3lan.(Remington'ts) f 1 p London and Brighton. • • 77 w Ditto Cons°lid. Eighths London and Croydon •• • • 25% DittO New • ••••• • • • • I%p Do. Guarant. 5 per Cnt. 7% London and Greenwich • 10% Do. Pref. or Privilege.. London and South Westrn 78% Do. New Cons. Eighths Do. New, 50/ Shares. • Do. New, 401. Shares• • London and York . • • • • . • Ditto (Bawtry) London and Windsor. •• • Londn, Salsbury, & Yeovl Londonderry & Coleraine 33 Londonderry& Enniskillu Lynn and Ely • • ..... •• • 7% Lynn and Dereham .•• • • Manchester and Leeds • • 206 202 203% Ditto Half Shares • • 93 Ditto Quarter Shares. • 36 341 35 Ditto Sixteenths • • • • Manchstr and Birkenhead Manchester &Birminghm 63 Ditto Quarter Shares Ditto New Quarters .• • Do. Con. & Welsh June. Manchestr, Boltn, & Bury Mnchstr, Buxtn, & Mat* 7M p 8 Man. Shef. and Mid. June. 4)4 4)4 Manchestr& Southamptn 3% Midland .. •• • •• • Ditto Fifths ••••• • • • • • Ditto New Do. Con. Birm. & Derby 132% 311dlnd Gt Westrn (Irish) _ Do. Extension to Sligo Newestl & DarlngtnJunc. Do. New (Brandling) • • 36 Newcastle and Berwick • 24% Newcastle and Carlisle • . Nwestle, Durham, & Lan. 3% 2% 5236(11 Newport & Abergavenny Newry and Enniskillen • • 2% 51s6d Newark and Sheffield .• • 3% North British •. • . Ditto New Shares • Northern ands astern • • 72 Do. Scrip (i. at 5 Ms.) Do. Quarter Shares • • North Devon .• North Kent • . • •• • ..... North Staffordshire •• • • North Eastern • • • • • • • • • North Union (A) • • • • • • • • 03) • • • • • • • • North Ditto Wales Mineral •• • • Ditto New Shares .• • • North Western •••• • • • • North Wales ••••• • • • • • Norwich and Brandon • • 22%1 Ditto New 5% Not., Belvoir, & Granthm Nottingham and Boston • • Nott., Er wall. Val. & Man. Nottingham & Mansfield Oxford and Binning. June Oxford and Worcester • • Oxlbrd and Cambridge • • Perth and Inverness • • • • Portsmouth Direct • • • • • • Preston and Wyre Ditto Half Shares • • • • Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & di v. Preston & Wyre Extent. Richmond &W. End June -- Rugby, Worcestr, & Tring • 2% —15153 d. Scottish Central ••..• • • • 6% 7th Scottish Midland... . 2% Sheffield and Manchester Ditto Quarter Shares • • Ditto ditto (No. 2) Ditto ditto (No. 3) • • Sheffield and Lincoln.. • • Sheffield and Rotherham Shrewsbry & Grand June. Shrewsb., Wor., & Crewe Shrws.,Wolv.,Dudl,&Bir 4% Shrwsbry & Trnt Val. Un. _ Shrws, Herefd,& N. Wales 4 Slamannan .• • • • South Devon ••••• • • • • • South Midland .•.. • • 6% 7% 7t4 South Eastern and Dover 46% Do. New (iss. 321.) No. I Do. (i55.331.65.tid.)., 2 . Do. (iss. 301.) „3 - Staines and Richmond .• • 2 ••-• Staffordshire &Shropshire Stirling and Dunfermline South Wales •••••• • • • • • • 5% Teen and Dove Valley • • —21 s Trent Valley •• • • ....... • Do. and Holyhead June. Vale of Neath • • • . • • • • • West London, Old Shares West End & Sothrn Coun. Wmford aed Carlow .• • • _ Warwiek 04 Cheltenham Waterford and Kilkenny Watrld,Wxfil,Wick& Dub Wakefield and Bradford.. _ Waktid, Fontefret, & Gool Wakefield and Harrogate Warwick and London ... West Lancashire Worcester and Tring • . • • Whitehaven and Furness po, New Half Shares. • Welsh t ... • ' • ' West Cornwall • • • • • • r:r: West Yorkshire • • ••• • • • Wilsomwn, M.& Coltne.ss Wilts, Sornrst, & Weymth 4% igrnouth and Norwich. • . •••• • • • • York and tarli,sle 4 York and North Midland 004 -- Ditto Half Shares .• • • Hnto 4cartgo' Branch IW O SPIV • •••• • . • • 75 Ditto E4t•Olii-On •• •• • • #§ Yorkshire & Glasgow On 12 1 ,4 13 14 13% 2 3656(1 6 %l 6)4 1225 46% _16% - 1- 5%1 I 541 34 81s6d To I To 9il 4 I S MI - ,4 17 2:14! _ Yz! I 3 % - , 7; 7, 4 - 41 4114 40 2%1 - 12% 7 .3% 1 -- 7 '‘l -1= - 3%1 - 46)41 -- a% 3% - - I - '}4 L,. 11241 - 3%1 = 2 -7 3%1 :oraw EXETER. AUG. 22. STOCK iiXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ely and Bedford, 4 1 4 —Bristol and Exeter, Thirds, IO%—CG Aug. I". lAug. lAug. 22. 22. 22. 22. 5 %1 - - 24% 2nii 24% 10%1 - 110%l 10% 3 %1 - I 3% 334 1 58s3d 3 27j 2% 20 19% &Sp - 1% - 2%l - 2%1 - 89 I - [4%1 - 41- I2u 2% 12686d1285 9 d1 -- 123% 7% 7% 219% - 53 31% - 218 - 116% - 46% - 14%1 14% - 14% 56 I - 151 s3dl '66dpi 5 1 ,41 - 27 I 13 16s p 141 s pl 1 - 7s6pl 5% 82s6d lls p - I 118 p - - 6%p SCOTCH LINES. EDINBURGH AND HAwIcK.—A special general meet ing of the Proprietors was held on Monday, at Gibbs's Royal Hotel, Edinburgh, Mr. J. Learmouth, of Dean, in the chair, when, on the motion of the chairman, se conded by Sir James Forrest, a requisition concurring in the sale of the line to the North British Railway Company, was carried unanimously. The chairman said the holders of shares of the Hawick line would now become holders in the North British, the former being hereafter an integral part of the latter. He mieht mention that it was intended to form the line all the way to Carlisle, and that there was the prospect of ar rangements being made with two of the principal pro prietors in the district of the country through which the line to that town would pass, by which arrangement the formation of the line all the way to Carlisle would be proceeded with previous to obtaining an Act of Par liament. He trusted they would arrive at Carlisle as soon as the Caledonian line, and by that means keep the traffic in this district of the country on their own line. People would take ad vantage of the Hawick line in preference to the Caledonian Railway, as the country was much more popu low, more beautiful, and in every respect much more attractive. Mr. Millar, the engineer, was desirous that the Company should get possession Of the land as soon as pos*ib!e in order that the more expensiVe and tedious rrtloo of the line might immediately he proceeded w:th, so that within a year of obtaining an Act of Par liament. the line might be open for traffic for the whole &static:, from I;; , linbargli to Carlisle.--(Hear, hear.) The line from Dalhousie Mains, southward, had already been staked off, and as contracts had been entered into, the woks would forthwith be commenced. Nolen' BRITISH.—Sub-evently a meeting of Pro prietors in this line was held, when a resolution of transference of the hlawiek line WAS agreed to, together with resolutions authori4n4 the Directors to raise 403,0001, by the issue of :12,000 new shares, to be divided amongst North British holders—one share for every 251. share. . _ ABERDEEN.—On Mlnday a meeting was hal at Mont rose, when msolutions were passed requesting the Aberdeen Company to delay for a short time the execu tion of their plin of enteric 7 ; the town by the east, being satisfied that, by a mutual arrangennt, a line far more natural, shorter, and less expensive, may be de termined on, without detriment or prtjudice to the interest of the company, avoiding numerous level cross ings, the links to the dock, the house of refuge, and the race-course. GLASGOW AND AIM BARRHEAD AND GLASGOW, AND ARDROSSAN LINES.—The proposal for an amalgamation of the above lines, xhich was broken tff some time ago, has been again revived, and is likely to be brought to a favourable termination. The amalgamation of these railways would be mutually beneficial, as it would lead to a large saying in the management. The united lines would be the most profitable in the kingdom.—Glisgow Chronic I?. IRISH LINES. DUNDALK AND ENNISKILLEN. Dumnr, AUG. 20 .—Yesterday the first meeting of .his Company was held at their offices in Talbot:street, in pursuance of the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act. G. HOYTE, Esq., who presided as chairman, stated that the meeting 51i0.,11 be attended by proprietors holding at least one-twentieth part of the Company's shares. He regretted that representatives of the necessary amount of capital were nut present, so that in point of fact the meeting was not legally constituted to do that which the Act of Parliament directed them to perform. The Di r-ctors, however, were most anx i ous to afford the Proprietors every inf ormat i on i n t h e i r p owe r ; and they had prepared a report on tha state of the concern, which, together, wit h Si r J ohn M acne ill's report, relative to the eng i neer i ng d epartment o f the line, should be read. Constituted as the meeting was, they could wit transact the business contemplated by the Act of Parliament, which was of an unimportant nature, so tar as regarded the stability of the Company, namely, the salaries to be paid to the Directors and secretary, and the appointment of auditors to audit the Company's accounts. R t T ev E l er e a r s e k pe e r d ecs th te sharesM r . he G . V. 1 3 0 0 u4h Mr. KANE repli e d t h at there were represen tatives of represented solicitor at the meeting? h many 478 shares in attendance, and the Act of Parliament required that there should be 750. Atter some conversation relative to the shortness of time allowed by the Companies Clauses Act for the in dispensable preliminary arrangements, Mr. KANE, solicitor of the Convene-. read the report from the Board of DirectorS, in which they "con fidently anticipate that the total outlay for legal, eegineering, and parliamentary expenses to the time of the passing of the Act, will be co vered by the sum of 13,0001., an amount which, considering the circumstances under which the Act was obtained, end the late period of commencing the preparations for Parliament, is more moderate than might have been anticipated." The rep art proceeds, In the progress of the Bill through Partiatnent, an ar rang-ment was made, at the suggestion of the Parlia mentary Committee, with the Newry and Enniskillen Company, regarling the competing portion of the two lines which run from Clones to Enniskillen, by which the construction of that part is to be executed by the Newry and Enniskillen Company, who are bound by the terms of their Act to complete it within three years, and on its completion this Company is to pay one half its cost, and to become joint proprietors, paying half the expense of maintenanv, &c , thus having the free use of the line for the whole of their traffic fur an outlay equal t 3 only one half its cost. Your Directors consider that, in every point of vie eethis arrangement is a very advantageous oae for this Company. Sir John Macneill, the Company's engineer, is proceeding with great expedition in the detailed survey of the line in order to the purchase of the land ; and by his report it appears that the expense of construction will in many instances be considerably less than the estimate made from the former surveys for Parliament." '1 report_ concludes by stating that the works will be urged with great expedition, and it is ex pected that the whole may be completed for public traffic in 18 months from the time that the contracts are made. On account of the legal impediment referred to, the report could not be formally adopted at this meeting, but several .shareholders expressed themselves highly satisfied with its contents. Mr. KANE also read the report of the engineer, Sir John Macneill, who says—" I have no hesitation whatever in stating that the line may be cornpletedand opened under my original estimate. The experience I have had in such undertakings, and the fact of more than eighty miles of the Great Southern and western Railway having been lately contracted for considerably under my Parlia mentary estimate, justifies me in giving this opinion, the accuracy of which the shareholders and the public will soon be able to test, for I am in expectation of having all the plans and specifications of the two first contracts rea 'y by the end of this month, so as to advertise for tenders ; anti as the Earl of Roden has been most liberal in the arrangement made with him for the purchase of the land required for the railway and the terminus and station at Dundalk." In conclibion, Sir John M aeneill says :—" The large steamers plying bitwern Liverpool, Glasgew, and Dun dalk now come up close to the qaays, and will be 0144 414 as Tam as the rai!aray is fionipletg lqad unloa . d :Ct and froal the railway e carriages without a second trenshipmect ; and when it is considered that the west coast of Ireland will be thus brought within three hours or three hours and a half of the ,stern part, an a within fifteen or si4teea hours pf "Liiverp.ii, it is, I thinli e ts- fair presemptioa thet a railway Which will effect such an object must prove re. numerative to the shareholders, more especially if con- S 1 -T i t ; ;~\ trlggee 'VMS no way tin:Adtr.:l. heavy rains the birds were unusually . f;earce,•and the cf the young ones very small. Thd;spriit,how. ever, was considered excell,-nt ; anokitror - V4ritity'ot birds hive been bagged. The tnoor4, Aareie 'tweet &net' wet and miry, and the grouse difficult to follow. Grouto has been fetching very high prices! On the first day, they were selling at 14s. a brace upon the moors. The re were not a few tyros who essayed in vain to bring to bag a bird or two, rather than go home without "moor game." Some gave a sovereign a brace in order to pop icto their heretofore empty pouches. The presert price of grouse is from Bs. to 103. per brace, according to the size of the birds —thpiraster Gazdte. LITERATURE. TFIE DISPATCHES AND LETTERS OF VICE-ADMIRAL LORD VISCOUNT NEL SON, with Notes by Sir Nieolas Harris Nicolas, G.C.M.G. Vol. In pr,vious notices of this work we have already indicated our opinion of its merits as a companion to the I) ,patches of Virtliington and Mirlborol:gb. We not.d not delay, therefore, to characterise it again. The tine occupied in the prest-nt volulne is about twenty montits--:rom January, 1798, to Augoit, 1799. The contents, the editor remarks, illustrate, p. chaps, the most itni.ortztnt, as well as most interesting, ( rents of Nulson's life—the first of his brilliant vieteries, and the Only transaction in his prGfessional career to which blame has ev:a. bet n, uttaelwd." The Niet!zy was that of the Nile ; the doubtful ran action was the tri,.l of Prince Caraceioli, followed by the execution of that aged man. Ihere is no occasion here to repeat N' hat history has traced up , em her adamantine tabh , t— the details of the defeat of the French fleet in Aboukir Bar, on the l't o' A ttgu-t, 1798. Nelson's own dispatch, - announcing the triumph, occupies a siooe pap, but Sir IL Nicolas has very judiciously prefaced it by a more explicit narrative from the pen of Sir E. Berry, Captain of Nelson's own tddp, the Vanguard—an account which particularly interested George the Thrd and the Duke of Clarence—by the log of the Vanguard, by letters from several of his cap tains, and by the official account which the French Ad- mire! Blanquet drew up. Such materials make the fullest and most satisfactory narrative yet submitted to the public. What more particularly has struck u. is the fact that Nelson achieved his victories under circum- stances of comparative difficif ty. The winds, and even the tides, sometimes baffled him. /k ow, with steam to place a fleet completely under command, it would seem as if nothing could resist our arms at sea. Yet, whether through carelessness or ill-judged economy, our naval force is not what it might and ought to be. Steam l'as mule our naval force manage-aide beyond what the wildest dream of fancy could have anticipated 20 years ago; but, if the occasion shoeld unhappily art, e neght we rest assured that vict.ry = ould so ce: t rin/y crown our arms as when Nelson had command? Every mail who feueht trader him, had a conviction that defeat was impossible ; and perhaps this was the secret of his success. Con sidering our insular position, the best defence of Efielaud is to be found in her " Wooden Walls, " and the Eeecu tive shoul4 be mindful of keeping these unimpaired; for to be ever prepared for war is the best way to insure the continuance of peace. Sir Harris Nicolas defends Nelson from the grave charge.of cruelty in the case of Careeeiole puhiieies tell the letters and other documents written h) his Lordship on that and the preceding events, end nuts into an appendix all collateral flocuments. In all of these he forms an opinion much more favourable to Nelson then has hitherto been entertained,—namely, that he acted only "in obedience to a scrupulous sense of detv." The facts are very simple. In the summer of 1799 the French were driven out of Naples. Some of them, with certain Neapolitans who had jf,ined them, and borne arms against their Sovereign, placed themselves in the Castles of Uovo and Nuovo. Cardi na l Ruffo proceeded to invest those castles, :red Captain Foote, pf the Seahorse frigate, with the Perseus bomb and the Sicilian squadr n, speedily joined him in that service. An armistice followed, and the invested leas capitulated immediately after, the terms being that " persons and property, both moveable and immoveable, of every individual of the two garrisons, should be respected and guaranteed," and that not only the said garrison, but the Neapolitans who had taken refuge with them, should be conveyed to Toulon. But Cardinal Ruffo's instructions from the King of the Two Siciries were that he should not treat with the rebels. Nelson came up. He believed that an armistice, and not a capi tulation—a prtliminary, rather than a conclusion— had been made, and, acting for King Ferdinand. decided that the capitulation should not be carried into effect without the royal sanction, and this he grounded on the fact that he (Lord Nelson) had arrived with a superior force before the capitulation was even begun to be carried into effect. Cardinal Ruffo protested. Nelson insisted, and took the castles. The garrisons and the Neapolitans with them became prisoners. Caraccioli, noble Neapolitan, had joined the rebels, and com manded the Republican gun-boats that had fired upon the Minerva, bearing the King's flag. Re fled from one of the besieged castles after the capitu latien, but a day or two before Nelson's arrival ; he was taken prisoner—brought on b iard an English ship of war—tried there by a court martial of Sicilian officers, convened by Nelson's warrant—convicted of treason in having borne arms against his sovereign—did net claim any pri.,tet fon from the capitulation—was convicted—sen tenced to death—and executed, by N, lsou's warrant, as naval commander-in chief. Sir IL Nicolas adds, " Lord Nel*on's motive for ordering the immediate execution o f Caraccioli is unknown ; but the magnitude and notoriety of his crime, atal the suppes, d necessity, from the state Naples, of an immediate example, seem the probable cete , e." It does et t appear that Lady Harnilten urged Nelson to severity in this cose—indeed, it seems that he was impelled by a sense of duty. But it is a serious question whether the capitulation, once made, s ho u ld hu e have been carried out, even though contrary to Nelson's own belief of the King's wishes and instructions. The letters from N'e'lson in this volume are highly cha racteristic. Tho postscript of One of them con Aims tha ancient creed of a British sailor: ' There is no way of dea!ing with a Frenchman but to knock him down. To be civil t.) them is only to be laughed at, %It( n th e y arty enemies." _ _ _ In the appendix, alre say referred to, is part of a journal kept at Naples, 1798-9, by Miss Knight, daughter of one of Nelson's captains. We su►join a few pas- sages :-- " He says, that when he was seventeen years of age, he won 300/. at a gaming -table; but he was so shocked at reflecting that, had he lest them, he should not have known how to pay them, that from that time to this he has never played again." " When Admiral Nelson's area was cut off. the surgeon asked if he should not embalm it, to send it to England to be buried; but he said, ' throw it into the hammock, with the brave fellow that was killed beside m,'—a common seaman." " As we were going in the Admiral's barge, the other day, looking at the ships and talking of the victory, Sir William Hamilton could not be pacified for the French calling it a drawn battle. 'Nay, it war a drawn battle,' said the Admiral, ' for they di - ew the blanks, and we the prises.' " " The Queen bas desired to have a portrait of the Admiral. Little Prince Leopold says, he will get a copy, and stand con tinually opposite to it, saying, Dear Nelson, teach me to be comi, like you.' " In another passage, alluding to Nelsc tt, whom she first saw after the battle of the Nile. she says, Admiral Nelson is little, and not remarkable in his person either way ; but he has great animation of counteralce and activity its his appearance : his manners are unaffectedly simple and modest." Another volume, we presume, will conclule this work, which really forms almost an autobi4graphy of Nelson. THE ADVENTURES OF AN UMBRELLA. By S. Hes bet t Rodwell. Past I. Mr Rodwell hai been long known to the public as a musical composer of great talent, to whose genius we are indebted for some of our most delightful me:edics. He now comes before us in the character of a novelist, and has bid fair to become a most successful one. The idea of making an umbrella relate its own adventures is a very happy one, and it has so far been cleverly worked out. His sketches are extremely graphic. 011 Stutters, the returned nabob, is the most entertaining of oddities. But it is not alone in depicting the broadly humorous that Mr. Rodwell excels ; his description of the gaming house and its inmates is one of the most harrowing ever penned. We extract the following graceful tribute of respect to one to whom we, in common with thousands. have been indebted for some of the merriest hours of our existence, and cordially do we join in the prayer with in pg a very which itassi passing concludes : pretty, low, white-fronted house, faxing Hyde-park, who should I see reading at a window, but one that must ever be dear to the whole race of umbrellas. I trust I shall not offend in mentioning his name, but it would appear ungrateful were any of my race to pass that door without some tribute of respect—what would I not have given to have been the umbrella he immortalised in Paul Pry ?—it was the great. the incomparable Liston. That he may now in his private life enjoy that heartfelt cheerfulness be so freely imparted to others in his public one, is my sincere—my fervent—prayer." The work is profusely illustrated with characteristic and spirited woodcuts by Landells. INQUEST ON GENERAL DICK AT BATA,—This in quest was resumed on Saturday, when Mr. Herapath, the cele brated analytical chemist, deposed that he had made an analy tical examination of the stomach , intestines, and liver, and that he could not find therein any traces of mineral m e t a lli c poisons. Mr. T. Barrett, the surgeon who opened th e b o dy, stated that lee had found traces of inflammation in the bowels ; and the jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased had died from inflammation of the stomach and h0w219, but how this was produced there was no evidence to show." [A DVERTIS EMENT.] DEFECTIVE SIGHT AND HEARING RELIEVED.—SPECTACLES AND INSTRUMENTS SEW, FREE, BY YOST, INTO THE COUNTRY. — Testimonials —From the Hon. 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He WAS ordered to find bail, and in default wits locked up. I U d :uned ted at • • • i ,3 ra ~ #~ f .:i