The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-22 00:00:00

BALLOONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN. &B r e-Seeing in your last evenings journal a letter from a correspondent, who signs his communication "Nauticus," in relation to conveying intelligence by means of " balloons," I beg to observe that some years since I tried the experiment of substituting calico for silk in the making of aerostatic machines on a small scale, intending, if the experiment had justified such a conclusion, to have built a large balloon of 30,000 feet capacity, using the material of your correspondent's suggestion, instead of the much more expensive article of silk—but Byron says, "experience is the chief philosopher" —and the result of that experience was the fact that there is as much superiority on the side of the silk as there is difference in price between the two materials, the nature of the fibre constituting the calico, however tough and wiry in wear previous to varnishing, is apt to become brittle and crack at the least exposure to atmospheric air soon after it is varnished; the well known difference between animal and vegetable substances may and does in a great measure account for this. Then again all calicoes and linens are subject more or less to a sort of dressing in the manufacture—one object is, and that the greatest, to induce the buyers of the article to believe they have got a stout article for their money—" a great bar gain " of course—while, in reality, the preparation used in the manufacture has a deteriorating tendency in regard to wear, so in the same respect with silk of all descriptions, down to the narrowest ribend. Science is ransacked and exhausted in order to produce an article that shall sell with the public, in the depraved view and intense desire to "buy bargains," which in the long run, by the bye, are no bargains at all. I do not blame the manufacturers so much for this—their customers are continually harping and carping for the low priced commodities, and this is now prevalent from the most respectable establishments down to what our facetious friend Punch terms "Nebuchad nezzar Long Noses and Son." To return to the gar ment of silk, it is a well .known fact that every pound sent out from the manufacturer to the re tailer contains from four to five ounces of gum and drug, such an article handles like substance in the hands of the buyer ; deprived of its dressing such a substance becomes a shadow. In the early days of a.eroetation Mr. Sadler, who may be termed the father of the English aeronauts (that highly ac complished gentleman first ascended at Oxford, in the year 1784), built his first balloon with silk as made for general use, and even in that day deception was at work to produce en artificial substance. Mr. S. soon concluded in his own mind that the next balloon he built should be of silk free from all this injurious and superfious weight of gum and drug ; his keen perception saw that a chemical action was produced between the letter and the sulphur, carbon, ammonia, and other impurities, which (let the purifying pro cess be as carefully attended to as possible, an acre mut is sure to get a portion (f) produces a sort of aotarnist warftre, and inevitably ends in the annihi lation of all the strength in the material the balloon is composed of. Aeron hats, by pawing an extra price, get a silk made free from the deleterious ingredients above alluded to. There is a small portion of the pub ic, loalngst whom are our friends the lynx-eyed Qeakers, who prefer paying an additional price in order to poznass what in the tra le is termed " nVu ral sof'," 1. e, the silk free from "G. and D.," and there this small portion of the public display superior wisdom, inasmuch as they realise, the sayings of olden days, so little thought of now, that the best is cheapest in the end and this carries me back to your correspondent "Nauticus," who I do hope will take these observations all in good part, for in the strictest sense of that interpretation they are intended ; still theory is one thing and prac tice another. know many nautical gentlemen in different parts of the country who amuse themselves with experimental small paper balloons, sorne of whom have sail to me, " Why don't you use calico or linen for your balloon ?—it is much cheaper." There it is —the case lies in a nutshell ; in the absence of prac tical experience those gentlemen imagine calico or linen would answer the purpose; but, on the other band, practical experience gives an unanswerable denial to their views Your correspondent supposes the calico balloon would stand some good thumps and bumps on the icebergs—indeed but little, very little, of that ; the chances are that the first tins the young lady embraced the- cold rough- lips of Mester John Iceberg—to use an old aeronautical phrase—she would go to rihand4, and there would be an end of the attachment that might have existed between the gaseous lady (all balloons have the term "she" applied to them, similar to a ship), and the 'Cold, unfeeling brute that no..v binds the gallant Sir J. Franklin in his ice-hound arms. I assuredly thick that the honour of the navy—the honour of all nautical me-ans, and last, not least, the honour of the country is at stake till the where abouts w . the missing expedition be found, and that efforts unremitting and energetically appliesi should he persevered in. Any little aid that the' science laerwenitical can render may certainly he adopted, bat that is candidly speaking a very slendi.r thread to bang aey hopes or expectations te, for this reason— all balloons, as soon as they are launched, are liable to the fluctuations and vicissitudes of expansion sae. condensaton—the former is not only produced by heat, it is often instantaneously caused by diminished pros-ure. In such eases the balloon is rent to atoms and its fragments fall to the ground.* In condensa tion they are deprived of their power, and of course descend. I am far from undervaluing what those small balloon.. might do in the cause, but for reasons above stated lam equally far from lacing much de pendence on them as an auxiliary aid. As to an aeronaut going out with the two vessels that started last week—the aeronaut, his balloon, together with the apparatus necessary for generating gas, all would be an encumbrance. Such a proposition is perfectly preposterous and visionary. Why ? First, because there is very little summer in the Arctic regions; then all chemists know that the acid sulphuric—the very life and soul ( f the genera ti ng process of hydro gen gas-making—is freezing in England now in sheltered situations—there would he an utter im possibility of generating gas in the Arctic re gions, unless the whole apparatus was sur rounded by a large and powerful fire, and if only a leakage sufficient to pass through a tobacco-pipe made . its escape and came in contact with the surrounding fire, an explosion that would hurl the balloon, appa ratus, and all superintending it into the air would ensue. We may be told leakages are to be stopped, but you first have to find them, and before that could be (hale a catastrophe occune In all my experience threug% the east, north, west, and south of England, I have not met a coal-gas engineer that would say his works era entirely free from leakage, nor one absurd tsteugh to offer to surround his gasholder with a fire; tster, pea nay insert a pipe small or large and burn the gasholder empty, but allow a promiscuous escape where a flame or red heat exists, and the disastrous coin , esiences are soon manifest ; or why do we have gas explosions among consumers in London or other places? Hydrogen is known to be far more subtle than coal-gas, and its tendency to escape greater. To generate hydrogen in the centre of a fire would be the act of a foolhardy mountebank, and without fire it could not be obtained at all ; the water, by the de composition of which the gar, is obtained, is solid, and still accumulating ice, and is no sooner reduced to a liquid than it is ice again. ,In short, difficulties would be encountered at every step, and the attempt rendered insurmountable. A very short survey of these facts—presenting themselves to my mtnd in succession induced me to give a reply—a reply that I 'shall never regret—to a letter bearing an official exterior, or, or rather containing, six in terrogatoriee. This letter reached me at Bedford in the early part of November, shortly after my last ascent this season from the above town—the first ac count of which, Sir, appeared in the columns of your widely and extensively circulated journal. I presume that the peculiar situation in which I was placed on - the occasion of that ascent led to me being honoured with the questions aforesaid. Suffice it to say that I wrote back then what I mean now—that any attempt o inflate a balloon on a large scale in the Arctic re gions would be a visionary delusion. I say on a large sc ale, because I suggested that on a small scale h Orogen to obtain lifting power for light varnished psper balloons could be generated from a portable apeere'us in the steerage of a ship, and by means of a flexible hose conveyed to the balloon on deck under evening, to carry out the experiment. This, I believe, will be done. I wieh it every success, though, far the reasons above stated, I should not be surprised to hear that it availed nothing in 'the hands of Me. Shepherd, who tried the first experiment—it was in the hands of a scientific . gentleman who doubtless would make those sugges tions to the officers commanding the expedition that would enable them to accomplish all which - could be accomplished. Should your corres pondent " Nanticus " wish for any information in .trying eeronautic experiments, if he will drop a line to me, in care of Mr. Wieland, mathemati cian, near Tvlanor-place, Walworth, I shall be extremely . happy to afford him any information that it may be in my power to give Young associations and old recol lections make the nautical service of my country, one `Whose honour and welfare I- must ever desire, and the jpfos t f one friend and relation in that service, near ,senetdear to me, invests its name with a hallowed re efnenee. Cut off in his young and blooming days, he the lines of the imperishable Byron : " More whom the Gods love die young, was Laid of , yer; . And many eeeth3 do they escape by this, The d,ath c) 4 ' friond4, and th it which slays el.:a m The thath c f friendship—love , youth, all that Is Except mere breath; and since the silent shore, • Air-eta at I tit eeprk those who longest miss . old arcller's shafcg, r e hops tl e early grave, Which men weep over, may be meant to save " * This of course refers to 3132 all balloons incapable of parrying an aeronaut to superintend Ulm. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, Apologising for the length of this intrusion on your space, I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, RICHARD GYPSON, Aeronaut. Jan. 15, 1850. MEETING OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. On Saturday an unusually numerous meeting of the members of the Royal Asiatic Society was held at their rooms, in New Burlington-street, for the purpose of receiving a promised communication re lating to the inscriptions recently discovered at Nineveh and its neighbourhood from Major R twlin son, who has recently returned from exploring these interesting ruins. The Earl of Ellesmere presided on the occasion ; and among the members present were Sir R. H. Inglis, M.P., Sir George Staunton, Sir G. T. Colebrooke, M.P., &c. The SECRETARY read a communication from the private secretary of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, in answer to a request addressed to his Royal Highness that be would take the chair on this occa sion, stating that his Royal Highness deeply regretted that various important engagements would prevent ,his being present to hear the communication respect jug these inscriptions, in the deciphering of which be took the deepest interest. The CHAIRMAN then called upon Major Rmtlinson for the communication he had promised the society, and at the same time took occasion to congratulate the society on the safe arrival of their gallant associate from his arduous labours in another and an ungenial climate. . Major Rawnresoet began by assuming that every one present was acquainted with the valuable work of Major Layard on this subject, and therefore he would not attempt to describe the remains which had been discovered in Assyria, but would refer for such information to Mr. Layard'a book. The greater number of the inscriptions, he remarked, were generally supposed to have been found at Nineveh but the correct modern name of the place was Nirnrud. And though it was in all probability one iof the group of the cities to which Jonah was sent, ; yet it had no claim to be considered Nineveh itself— its ancient name, as denoted on the inscriptions, was Khala, or Sale, and was probably the Cslneh men timed in the 10th chapter of Genesis. The real and ;principal Nineveh he cenjectured to have stood on ;the site now occupied by that huge mound, on the ;opposite eide of the Tigris from Mosul, on the top jef which was the pretended tomb of the prophet !Jonah. That mound was held so sacred by the Turks that they would not allow Europeans to excava!e it, but he did not believe Major Layard would leave ;the country without bringing away some of the in scriptions it contained. There were two other towns !in the neighbourhood whose modern names were Khor saber and Konyinjuk ; and these two towns he believed were the two chief cities of the kingdom of Nineveh. The early history of that country was buried in the deepest obscurity. Even if they should be able to de cipher all the inscription:, still these would give little : insight into the chronology cf the period unless they ;could lay hold of some event which touched upon the : history of other countries. They had already oh ,tained some valuable notices of the reigns of six monarchs in succession, but any one mu,t see that th tt was but a short way towards a connected history of the nine centuries to which the Assyrian E np:re extended. Of the six monarchs he had mentioned, there was little to mark the era of their reigns ; but, : after being engaged in the examination of the ,question fir many years, the conviction had been forced upon him that the date of the build ing of the north-west palace of Khale or Ntritrud, on which palace the inscriptions re lating to these monarchs had been found, was nearly ,coeval with the extinction of the 18:h dynasty of ',Egypt, and the first establishmeut of the Jews in Palestine. Toe earliest cuneiform descriptions which he had been able to decipher, related to a king whose name he read as Sardanapalus, not the voluptuary with whose name they were so familiar, but a monarch much anterior, the builder of the north-;vest palace ; but it did not, therefore, follow that he was the fir.it king or the builder of the city, for several other names of monarchs are incidentally mentioned, and his even father and grandfather are always spoken of as. kings. lie might mention here that a great difficulty was thrown in the way of identifying a monarch referred to iu different inscriptions, or in dif ferent parts of the same inscription, from the fact that the names were not marked by any definite phonetic sound, but rather by the sense, so that synonymes were employed• to any extent. The inscription to which he had referred began, "This is the Palace of Serdanapalus, the humble worshipper of Assarach." There could be no doubt that this Aesarach was the Nisroch mentioned in Scripture, in whose temple Sennacherib was slain. He was most probably the deified father of the tribe, the A. , sur of the Bible. Tnis Assarach was styled in all the inscriptions as the King, the Fathz:r, and the ruler of the gods, thus answering to the Greek god Chronos, or Saturn, in their Aesyrio-Hellenic mythology. The inscription then went on to record the extent of the dominions of King S'ardanapalus, from which it appeared that Pkoenicia was not at that time subject to his sway ; but another inscription stated, that after passing the Great Desert he received tribute from the Kings of Tyre and Sidon and Accaia on the sea coast. There was another inscription giving an account of various wars, but in so mutilated a condition that it was impossible to make out a connected narrative. lie therefore passed on to another inscription, giving an account of the reign of Tumrnurn Bahr, the son of SArdanapulus. This inscription was complete, and it gave an account of an active and restless Monarch, who during a period of more than thirty years carried on his wars and conquests on every side, quelling rebellious, plunder ing cities—leading princes into captivity, and slaugh tering thousands in battle. These expeditions were invariably headed by the King himself, till towards the thirtieth year of his reign, when, sated with glory and probably worn out with action, he remained at home and sent his armies to rob, plunder, and slay under the command of his lieutenant. The whole of this long and deeply interesting inscription, which gave much curious information respecting the early tribes then inhabiting these countries, as read by Major Rawlinson, supplied a continuous and singularly coherent narrative, in which there were only two checks of any consequence—one was where the events of the third and fourth years of the Mo narch's reign were hopelessly mixed up together, and which Major Rawlinson said he could only account for by supposing that the workmen employed to make the inscription had inadv€rtently left out a line; and the other was where towards the end of his reign the events of a campaign begun by the lieutenant were ascribed to the King, and which is probably to be ascribed to the vanity of the Mon arch or the flattery of the scribe. It was further mentioned that the events of one of the early campaigns, productive of more than ordinary treasure, were commemorated in more detail in an inscription on a colossal bull which had been found among the ruins, and which Major Raw linson also read. Above the inscription were several epigraphs illustrative of the tribute received from different countries. He could not attempt to decipher all the articles apparently enumerated, but among them were gold and silver, horses and camels, which were termed "beasts of the desert, with double backs." There were also mutilated inscriptions relating to the son and grandson of this Monarch; but after them it appeared that from domestic troubles and foreign con quests there was an interruption to this dynasty • and when events could be again deciphered through the in scriptions, there appeared to be such a great change in the manners and customs of the people, that Mr. Layard , . had thought a new race had come to inhabit the land. He (Major Rawlinson) was not of that opinion, though he was satisfied a great change must have oc curred among the people. There had been an inter regnum, and possibly another branch of the family came afterwards to the throne, but the later inscriptions all asserted the then reigning monarchs to be of the fa mily of Sardanapalus. One curious fact apparent from the later inscriptions was, that a strong Celtic element had been infused into the west of Asia, for the Cymri were referred to in almost every inscription.- He could not venture, however, to go into the inscriptions at that meeting, hut, if the society wished it, he should be happy to continue the reading of them at another meeting of the society.—(Loud applause.) The gallant officer concluded by reading a note he had recently received from Major Layard, giving an account of some further interesting discoveries he had made at Nimrud. In answer to a question, Major RAWLINSON said that undoubtedly the language was of a boat fide Semitic character, closely allied to the Hebrew and Chalciee in the pronouns and prenominal affixes, but otherwise more allied to the African language, and he had a strong impression that what was called the Semitic language would be found to have come from Africa. The Earl of ELLESMERE then conveyed to Major Rawlinson the thanks of the meeting for his deeply interesting communication, the gratification with which they had all heard the extraordinarily perspi cuous result of his labours in the East, and expressed a hope that he would • continue his expositions at a future meeting of the society. The meeting then separated. DEATH OF A FISH FROM EATING ve nerable and voracious pike, who had probably been tEe terror of all the smaller fry inhabiting the spaciou s late at Stowe for a great many years, determined on Christ mm-day have a feast of fish, and carp beng moat to his fancy; he a'tempted to swallow one .51b. weight. By this act cf gluttony• he was actually choked, and was f iund !hating the next day with the carp in his guile. On . being put i n t o t h e scale the two were fried to weigh 3.11 b. This is the larzest pike ever caught at Stowe, though others have Ele.en found of 231 h. and 281 b. each. The pike vas cla'aled by the R-v. John Ri3le s y, who rents the water, and has been seat to Oxford to be stuffed and preserved.—Oxford Journal, SERVICES OF BREVET-MAJOR MACKAY. (From the British Army Despatch, 4th Jan., 1850.) We would be remiss in our duty were we not to direct particular atention to the subjoined services of Brevet-Major Mackay, of the 21st Fusiliers, who, after a full-pay service of forty-one years, is still but a captain and brevet-major in the army. A harder case, or one requiring more immediate redress, has never come under our notice; and we hope and trust the authorities will give this officer a rank which his length of service so imperatively calls for, and justice at once requires to be conceded to him. To render it one of greater hardship, Major Mackay was thirty years a subaltern, though he purchased his first and second lieutenancy. He has been upwards of 17 years a captain, of which he has been for the last six years the senior in the regiment. He was 26 years on foreign service, in the four quarters of the globe. He was for five years a prisoner of war in Franke, having had to surrender to a superior force in Calabria, in June, 1809, on which occasion his commander, C iptain Donald Mackay, was desperately wounded, and his own captain (Hunter) killed. Dis heartened by the manner in which he has been treated by the legitimate service he depended on for promotion, he has no alternative but to exhibit, through the press, his unparelleled case of hardship, af:er long and arduous services. A friend of Major Mackay's naturally indignant at the treatment he has received, writes to us :—" I leave it to your su perior advocacy to bring it forward in whichever way you deem advisable, and I am sure you will at once convince the public of this unheard-of case of injustice. I even question whether there is a siaiilar instance in the British army ; and I would add, that in looking over " Hart's Army List," I can find but two exceptions to Major Mackay (Lieutenant -Colonel Dennis, 3d Foot, and Lieutenant-Colonel Despard, 99th Foot, both effective Lieutenant-Colonels) in the whole of the field officers of the line, whose commis sions bear date antecedent to his ; and . the services of his late father, Captain Robert Mackay, who served wish distinction for thirty-five years in the same regiment, should be borne in mind, as giving Brevet- Major Mackay an additional claim to the notice of his Grace the Commander-in-Chief." Brevet-Major Mackay entered the army as second ligutenant, by purchase, in the 21st Fusiliers, on the 24 h July, 1802 ; reduced at thu peace ( f Amiens in the same year ; re-entered the 21st Fusiliers as second lieutenant on the 16th Oztober, 1805, without paying the difference ' • was promoted 83 firs`.-lieutenant, by purchase, on the 30th June, 1803. IL proceeded with his regiment to Egypt, May 17, 1807, under the command of Major-G lieral Mackenzie Fraser, and returned with the army to Sicily, September 28th following ; and from June 19, 1809, to July 14, 1814, was a prisoner of war in France. lie obtained his company, by purchase, in May, 1815 In August, 1815, his company was cancelled through family circumstances, but he was allowed to retail , his original position of lieutenant in the regiment, and served in Americo, the Netherlands, France, and Jamaica with the 33d Regiment ; and from Oetober 23, 1833, to 12th March, 1840, in Van Diernen':. Tiled with the 21st Fusiliers. He went on half pay in 1819 on account of had health, bat returned to full pay, as lieutenant, 331 Regiment, in Oc tober, 1821, repaying the difference. He was pro ev:ted to aa unattached company July 27±, 1832 Without purchase ; 'removed to full pay in the 331 g iment August 10th, 1832; and exchanged to his old regiment January 18th, 1833. He previously volun teered, when on leave, to accompany a draft under Major Alexander James Ross, and embarked for the United States of America to join the Ist battalion, and commanded Captain Conran's (killed in action) com pany at the attack on the American lines before New Orleans, January Bth, 1815, and served subsequently with the army in France. Major Mackay further served from June sth, 1840, to February 18111,1847, in the Bengal and Madras Presidencies, and ou Nevember 9th, 1846, was promoted as brevet-major. We feel confident that the above enumeration of Brevet-Major Mlekay's services will speak more elo quently in his behalf, and plead his cguse far more etE.ctually, than all the words we could pen upon a case of such unparalleled neglect, and cold and withering injustice. In contrast to the neglect of Major Mackay, we take the following announcements from Gazettes immediatey preceding :—" Brevet-Major Hamerton is brought in Loin half- r ay to full, in the 9th Foot, .and allowed to sell his commissions ;" but re-ap pears at the bottom of the same Gazette as lieu fanaut-colonel by brevet. A still more glsring case of favouritism is the following :—" The Hon. Cap'.ain Cust, from half-ply, 3d Dragoon Guards, if , brought into full pay as Captain into the 22d Foot,' sells his commissions, and at the bottom of the very same Gazette he appears, first as " major by brevet," and then as " lieutenant-colonel by brevet. This is promotion with most comfortable rapidity indeed! BRITISIr ORPHILTI ASYLUM. Yesterday, the t vert, -third ahnual mooting pf the members of tais in stitution, which has f its object the boa-ding, clothing, aid ,dudating of orphan children, with the view of valiying them to 611 hereafter usffal stations in life, 1734 held in t' , at London Tavern, Bislnpsgate-street, the Right Her. the Lori Major in the chair. The Rev. C. limbic, ono of the bonora-y snrctirics, rat the report. It commenced with al expression of t'sank fulness to the Almighty for the continued manifestation cf his 'avour with which he was pleased to bless the iustituttore During the fea f.,l ravages of cholera which had raged on all sides of the asylum, not one t f its in mates had been a:tacked; and this, whilst it offered ano ther ground fur thankfulness, bore also strong testimony in f %your of the sanitary regulations which were adopted in the asylum. The committee bad, in common with other institutions, to regret the loss of the excellent and laved Queen Do we ger, who had been an annualcontributor of tin guineas. The number of children resident in the asylum, on the 31st Dec. last, was 95 (59 boys and 36 girls), a-id 8 more we-e added 3 esterday, out of a list of 37 candidates. Since the last meting a considerable in crease of aceommoda ion has been provided, and several important arrangements which had become necessary to promote the greater healthfulness and comfort of the institution had been effeetel at a considerable cost, to d fay which 7241. 12:. 63. had already been subscribed. Tae dinner, which was held in May last, under the pre sidency of Mr. Alcock, M.P., had realised 7001.; and 1511.6 had been collected after sermons on behalf t f thz institution. These two sums, in addition to a pre vious ba'ance of 74/. 21. I ld., 116/. 9s. (the dividend on 4,050/. stock), 5991 4s. 93. (from de sale of 6501. Three per Cent. Consols), and subscriptions, amountel try 2,602/. 183. 5d.; and the expenditure to 2,391/. 16s. leaving a present bsetalce of 211/. Is. 9d. The report having been unanimously agreed to, the meeting pro coeded t the election of eight children, and sp (clay broke up, upon the a-inouncement of the names of- the successful candidates. ST. HELEN'S SAVINGS' BANK.—The total amount of detukition, sp , eking from data which have been co'- eted is about 10.0001., or rather, we should say, that sum will alt ar it, and it is believed Mr. Johnson and hie brother hare sufficient property to curer it. The amount of the bank liabilities t•as-been represented as 13.0001. ; it is supposed they should be 23,0001. Though tke trustees have not got them, there can be no doubt that the fraud was carried on by means of duplicate books, and Mr. Johnson appears to bare regularly entered and raid interest, from some source or other, upon the amounts abstracted to the accounts from which they were taker', and also to have made a•i account straight where he found the parties in whore name it stood were about to alter it,• and there was a danger of an exposé. This, however, he effected by merely taking sufficient from some other account, or, in common phraseology, " robbing Peter to pay Paul." Of course the sub actuary, his brother, who kept the books, was cogniz ant of all this, as he admits, and actually effected the transfer; but he. denies that he got any pecuniary benefit. It is but justice to sta'e that both brothers have made over the whole of their property, by a legal instru ment, to the trustees, to be applied in liquidation of the claim upon them; and it is thought that, if the sum eventually made out be not more than 10.000/. or 12,000/., that there will be sufficient asset'. We trust this may be true.—Manchester Courier. GENERAL LYING-IN HOSPITAL, YORK -ROAD, LAMBETH.—A quarterly meeting of the governors of this charity was held yesterday at the hospital, to take into consideration the alteration of the laws, orders, and regulations of the hospital, relating to the number of patients which governors and subscribers of all classes are entitled annually to recommend, and other maters suggested by the report of the committee ap pointed in April last,'and to transact other business— Thomas Somers Cox, Esq., M.P., in the chair. The report stated that the expenditure exceeded the receipt] or what might be called the regular income, including the dividend on stock, annual subscriptions, and dona tions, by 304/. 9s. 63., the expenditure being for the year 1,955/. 18s. 10d., and the income, 1,651/. 9s. 6d. The average amount of annual subscriptions for the last five years had been 3601. 14'. The largest amount of subscriptions had been collected in the year 1849. During the la't year 311 in-patients had been ad mitted, and 445 out-patients 'visited at their houses, The election of officers and vice-presidents was then procseled with; and a resolution passed, adjourning the meeting till Feb. 18th, to take into consideration the various alterations proposed by the committee. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the business of the day. MANCHESTER.—Considerable gloom has been ing of a mela nc h o ly case o f su i c id e an d suppose d oc casioned in this city by th e di s cov er y y es t er d a y morn murder, which took place under very mysterious cir inweolliks n n o it w y. n a i s i r w e n o s f f t o h n e nd lar y g n e s s t t er s d h a ip y pi na ng nra m in er g - , cir cumstances. The deceased i s M r . Philip N ove lli, a gen tlemanchants about eight o'clock, hanging in, his bed-room, with the rope nit iched to the bed-post', at his residence, Cliff mount, Lower Broughton, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Harriet Nonni, the wife cf his late brother, Louis No vell', was found quite deaf], lying upon the drawing room floor with a glass cf gin on ihe table beside her. The jury have not pat held their inquest, we cannot ersefore Mate anything further in the matte; Mr. Y. Novelli was a widower. It is stated that he attended I)..i. , :itwieh Church, a distance of three nalles from his house, on Su.iday morning, in company wi.h his &- ceased sister, and that they spent the evening together as usual. LAW INTELLIGENCE. EXCHEQUER COURT, Jan. 21. 'Sittings at Nisi Prius in Middlesex, in Hilary Term, before Mr. Baron ROLFE and Common Juries.) LEWIS V. FALCONER,. This was an action to recover the sum of 45/. upon a bill of exchange, drawn by one Atkins, and alleged to have been accepted by the defendant. The defend ant pleaded in effect that he had not accepted the bill. Mr. Hutnfrey and Mr. Hawkins conducted the case for the plaintiff; and Mr. Edwin James, with Mr. Pearson, appeared for the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiff is an attorney, and that he had received the bill in question from a per son of the name of Leon, under the following cir cumstances. The defendant is a large cowkeeper at Hoxton. Lewis Leon stated that he is a watchmaker and jeweller in Hatton-garden, and that he had discounted this bill. The bill was dated the Bth of October in the last year. The bill had been brought to him by a gentleman of the name of Tucker, a billbroker, to whom he had given a cheque for 411. 12s. 6d. fur it. (It was afterwards proved by Tucker that ha had handed this cheque to Atkins, the drawer of the bill, for whom he had obtained its discount). After he had given the money for the bill, he had called upon the defendant, to whom he said that he had called to make an inquiry about a bill of exchange. During that interview he had stated that he had discounted a bill drawn by one Atkins upon, and accepted by the defendant and made payable at No. 45, Smithfield. To this the defendant said, that " the bill was all right." He then told him he had been to Edgavvare, where he had ascertained that Atkins had been com mitting some forgeries, and had, therefore, gone off. The defendant remarked that be had heard Atkins had got himself intosome mess, but the bill was all right, and would be paid when it became due. He asked the defendant if he had accepted a bill of the same amount as this, when the reply was in the affirmative. Cross-examined—He had originally received this bill from Tucker. It was drawn for 451., at two months' date, and he gave Tucker a cheque for 411. 12s. 6d. fur it. He had no running account with Tucker. The bill he had paid into the London Joint- Stock Bank, by whom it was re-discounted for him. When the bill became due it was not paid, and, having got it from the hank, he then gave it to the present plaintiff, with whom he had an account. He gave the bill to the plaintiff in )rder that he should do the best ho could with it, ,Ind, in truth, that that gentleman should sue the defendant, and thus enable himself to become a wit' iIOSS on the trial. He had not received any account from the plaintiff, but it was a distinct understanding with that gentleman that, if the amount of this bill were recovered, the sum should be placed to his ac count. The bill was most decidedly given to the plaintiff in order that he (witness) should be able to give evidence when the trial came on. 11 , ,t had had a general understanding with the plaintiff that in any lotion which he might bring on his account he would pay the costs if the action were lost. Mr. JAMES here submitted that this witness had a .dear interest in the action, and therefore ftll within the Act of Lord Denman. This was now proved, hat the day the bill had become due the last witness had handed it to the present plaintiff without any consideration. It was thus evident that the bill had been indorsed to the plaintiff Leon, the real holder, in ,rder that he himself should be brought forward as a witness to prove certain admissions or statem , ,nts which it was alleged had been male by the defen dant. Upon the ground, therefore, that the present Action was not for the individual benefit of the plain tiff, he must submit that the evidence of Leon was not admissible. _ _ _ Mr: Baron ROLFE said he should admit the evi lene,‘, but would give the Learned Counsel leave to move. Cro - A-examination resumed—He had caned on Mr. Williams, a banker, in Smithfield, at whose house the bill had been made payable, to inquire if the bill had been accepted by the defendant, when Mr. Williams replied that he could not say that it was not his hand writing. Mr. JANIFF, on the part of the defendant, con ended, in the first place, that the plaintiff had never given one farthing of consideration for the bill, and, ;a the second place, that the acceptance of the de ,'endant to the bill was a forgery. It unfortunately happened that there were several bills in circulation en which the acceptance of the defendant hid been 'urged, and if the present or any other jury were to gold him liable, the result must be his ruin. John Williams being called, said that he and his brother had an office in Smithfield, where many of the salesmen who attended that market were in the habit of making their hills payable, and of paying money in to meet such bills. They had had many 'ransactions with the defendant:, and some with the plaintiff. lie remembered a person coming to his office to inquire whether the acceptance of a bill was in the handwriting of the defendant, when his reply had been that he could not say that it was not, and that if any funds were in their hand-, on its arrival it maturity, to meet the bill, it would no doubt be paid. Tne bill was drawn by William Atkins !laving now again looked at the acceptance, he was unable to say that it was in the handwriting of the lefendant. The defendant is aco wkeeper in an ex tensive way of business at tioxton. Cross-examined—He had frequently seen the de ;endant write. Its knew Akins, who had been in - he habit of leaving money at his office to take up hills of which the acceptances purported to be in the handwriting of the defendant in the present action. This proceeding, however, had not been renewed since about last June. Probably Atkins had done this as many as six times. The defendant had never called at his office before any of these bills had be come due ; but after they had become due and had been paid by money placed in the office by Atkins, the mat er had been mentioned to him. The defendant had told his brother and himself that he had heard of the plaintiff's putting hills in circulation with his name upon them as the acceptor, but that it had been gone without his consent. The drawer Atkins was a calf-salesman living at Chelmsford, but occasionally attending Smithfield. Ann Johnson, the niece of the defendant, proved that she was present when the witness Leon had seen her uncle, who had told him that the acceptance to this bill was not made by him—it was not his hand writing. Leon then asked her uncle if he thought Atkins would pay the bill when it fell due, to which question her uncle had replied that no doubt it would be all right. C. Perry, the managing clerk to the attorney for the defendant, proved that, on the 14th of January, the plaintiff had communicated with him on the sub ject of the defendant going before a judge at Cham bers to snake an affidavit that the acceptance to the bill was a forgery, and that the defendant having con dented to do so upon condition that the affidavit might be used in evidence, the plaintiff refused to allow such :1 proceeding. However, the parties met, and, find ing that it was too early to go before a judge, an arrangement was made that they should go before the magistrate at Bow-street, when the defendant should make a declaration to that effect. When the clerk to the magistrates had heard the nature of the de claration, and that it was not to be given in evidence, he said that the magistrate would not take the decla ration. Mr. HUMFREY then . replied. . _ Mr. Baron RoLFB, in leaving the case to the jury, told them that the question which had been raised in this case was not so much whether the bill had been accepted by the defendant—for that acceptance now appeared to be admitted on all hands to be a forgery ; but whether he had, in an interview with the witness Leon, "adopted" the bill. Now, so far as the testi mony of the witness Leon had gone, it might be said that such adoption had taken place. But then, when they came to contrast that with the evidence which had been given by the niece of the defendant, it would appear that there was a great contradiction between the two statements, and so far as his opinion might be said to go, from the statement which had been made by the niece, there had been no adoption by the defendant, for all ha had said was that he' thought the bill would be all right when it became due. The jury must bear in mind that the plaintiff, in order to entitle him to a verdict, must satisfy them either that the acceptance was in the hand writing of the defendant—which it had been proved was not the case—or that by some act of his he had " ad - opted" the bill. If he did this, the plaintiff would be entitled to a verdict. If not, then' it would' be their duty to find in favour of the defendant. There were two peculiar points in the case which he felt it necessary that he should direct their atten tion to. The first was, that, although Leon had not handed the bill to the present plaintiff until the day upon which it had fallen due, there appeared upon its back not only the indorsement of the plaintiff, but of another name under his. It was somewhat difficult to conceive why those indorsements should have been made after the dishonour of the bill. Then the other point wai this, that it was quite clear that the idea of imputing the " adoption " of the bill in October by the defendant had never occurred until after the 14th of the present month, fbr, on that day, the defendants had been asked to go before a judge and make affi davit to the effect that the acceptance was a forgery ; or when it had been found too early in the day to meet with a judge at Chambers, then that the parties had gone to Bow-street, in order that the defendant should make a declaration to that effect. When they arrived there, however, the clerk to the magistrate, having been i n f orme d of the purport of the intended declaration, but that the plaintiff had refused to allow the document to be used in evidence, said that the magistrate would not take the declaration. It was manifest, therefore, that the plaintiff had thought nothing of the assumed adoption in October. These were two matters well worthy of the attention of the jury. The jury eeeeulfeel e few minutes, an then returned a verdict for the defendant. Mr. JAMES then applied that the bill might be im pounded. JANUARY 22, 1850. Mr. Baron ROLFE—Certainly ; but to be pro duced should the defendant take any steps against the drawer. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 21. (B-fire the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.) IN RE STEPHEN GEARY. The insolvent was an architect and surveyor in the New-road. His application for his discharge was supported by Mr. Cooke and M. Sargood. Mr. Dowse opposed on behalf of Mr. Dupre. The debts of the insolvent are 16,0001., of which more than 11,0001. are on account- of liabilities for which no consideration has been received. He had taken the benefit of the Act in 1842, and had been concerned in some patents and inventions which he expected would have proved of a lucrative character. He had obtained from Mr. Dupre 3001. to carry them out, promising a bonus of 50/., and giving Mr. Dupre four bills for 871. each, but which had been dis honoured when presented for payment at the Union Bank. His HONOUR observed that the evidence did not sustain a charge against the insolvent of having im properly or fraudulently contracted the debt, and declared him entitled to his discharge. It appeared that the insolvent had obtained 151. out of the chari table fund of the court, as a means of coming up for his discharge, and the Commissioner remarked that he did not think the case was one in which Mr. Bardon, the humane Governor of Whitecross-street prison, should have recommended an allowance to be made. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. The LORD MAYOR stated that he had received from Mr. Dewhurst, of Bradford, in Yorkshire, a letter, to which his Lordship said he would be obliged to the newspapers to convey an answer, fir the satisfac tion of his correspondent, as well as for the informa tion of the public. The letter was as follows : " Mr. Dewhurst presents his compliments to the Lord Mayor, and begs to inclose a lt-tter this day revived from a person calling himself Dr. Dewhurst, asking charity; but Mr. Dewhurst has so often been imposed upon, that he declines complying unless satisfied that it is a proper ease when he would be happy to contribute his mite t swards relieving distress. "Perhaps the Lord Mayor will hare some knowledge of the case in quertion, and inform Mr. D. "Bradford, Yorkshire, Jan. 19, 1850." The application alluded to in the note was as fol lows : " 16, Isabella-street, New-cut, Great Surre) -street, London. " The Rev. Dr. Henry Dewhurst solicits Mr. Dew burst, as a patron of science, to benevolently buy his History tf the Bible,' ss. 60., fir which Christ'an kindness he will feel most grateful, as it will enable him to buy a blanket for this bitter westher. His family e actually destitute of a bed, bedding, ta'sle and chairs. On Monday he intends ope-ring a boys' sehool, and when ho can pay the 7r. 6tl. for four more f srnr, will establish an evening scientific lecture for the support of his three destitute motherless children (m ne, f ,urtee is slowly recovering from brain ft ver). His troubles arose from his own frequent illness, the want of employment, and the four and a ha'f years' illness of his late wife. An early reply is humbly supplicated. Mr. Goodman (the chief clerk) observed to his Lordship that the Rev. Doctor happened to be well known at several of the London pollee-offices, as a person who contrived to obtain contributions from the public upon groundless, but apparently very rea sonable, claims on their sympathies. Toe LORD MAYOR said he trusted the Bible " dodge," which he feared had been a very profitable one to rtmny persons, would nut avail in the present instance. The Doctor's communication bad the merit of condensing a great many miseries in a very few lines, but the style was perfectly well understood amongst the frequenters of the police-offices of the metropolis. It was satisfactory to find that there were some gentlemen who would take the trouble to inquire into cases of alleged distress before they put their hands in their pockets, to comply with the so licitations of their correspondents. The observation of such a rule for the regulation of private charity would do more towards the practical effect of bene volence and giving a check to the successful manoeu vres of knaves than any other course. GUILDHALL. A young man, who gave his name as Wiliam Brown, living at the London and South-Western Coffee-house, Waterloo-road, but whose real name turned out to be John Goring, who a few months since held an excellent situation in the Silver Pantry at Windsor Castle, was charged before Sir Peter Laurie, with fraudulently obtaining two gold watches, a silver watch, and seven ,gold guards, value 331., from Mr. Henry Perring, of 83, Farriugdon-street, watchmaker. At the conclusion of the evidence, Sir PETER LAURIE asked how the prisoner had been living since he left Windsor Castle? Mr. Per ring said that he had ascertained that the prisoner had been on the constant move from one coffee-shop to another ever since. His father had been with Messrs. Rundle and Co. for twenty. five years, and it was they who got him and his brother into the Queen's service. Inspector Howard wished for a remand, as there were other charges against the prisoner of getting quanti ties of plate under similar circumstances. Sir PETER LAURIE remanded him until Thursday next. LAMB ETH. James Sinclair, a powerful fellow of most deter mined appearance, and who, it will be recollected, was one of the three persons charged at thia court about six weeks ago with being the perpetrators of several desperate highway robberies, accompanied with brutal violence, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of stealing two watches, the pro perty of Mr. Charles Lorge. Police-constable William Thorpe, 230 M, deposed that on Saturday last he was ordered to follow and watch the prisoner, who was then at a house in Kent street. He came out about twelve o'clock, and walked towards Tower-hill and Rateliff-highway. On ob serving that he was following him the prisoner, in Rateliff-highway, turned round and said, " I can't steal, I won't beg, and I can't starve, and therefore I give myself up into your custody. I have corn mated a robbery that I have not suffered for." Wit ness toll him to mind what he said, as he (witness) would have to use it against him elsewhere ; upon which he replied that he was well aware of that ; that he (the constable) kept so close to him that he could do nothing. He then said that he had committed a robbery at Mr. Lorge's, in the Old Kent-road, and stole two watches from him on the 231 of Novem ber last. Mr. Charles Lorge, a watchmaker, 16, Frederick place, Old Kent-road, stated that on the 234 of No vember last, at about seven o'clock in the evening, the prisoner entered his shop, and asked to see some watches, saying he had been recommended to him as a person who would give him a good article. He then showed him a silver watch, and on looking at it the prisoner said it was not heavy enough. He then showed him a second, and the prisoner said he wanted one still larger and heavier, one worth about 41. I.os. Witness went to the window to take down a third watch for his inspection, and while so engaged the prisoner opened the shop door and ran away with the two watches he had already shown him. Witness ran out of the shop after him, but observing some three or four suspicious-looking persons approaching his shop, he thought it more advisable to return and look after the property in his shop than follow the prisoner, who by this time had got out of sight. Mr. ELLIOTT—Are you quite certain as to the prisoner's identity ? Mr. Lorge—l am perfectly certain he is the same person. The prisoner, when asked if he had anything to say to the charge, replied nothing; and was fully committed for trial. vV The other two persons who had been charged with the prisoner at this court with the highway robberies, have since been transported; the one (Fitzgerald) for returning from transportation before his thno, and the other (Johnson) for felony. THAMES. A person named Wootton, lately a lodging-house keeper at Margate, applied to Mr. Yardley under the following circumstances :—He said that in November last he treated with a company, whose office is in Jewry-street, Aldgate, for a passage for himself and family, who were about to emigrate to Port Natal, agreeing to pay a sum of 401. On the '29th or 30th of that month he received a letter from a Mr. Mie, who, he understood, was secretary to Mr. Hackett, the principal, urging him to pay up, as final arrangements were being rapidly made. He therefore lodged 401., in two instalments of 29/. each, to the credit of Mr. Hackett, in the bank of Messrs. Barclay and Co., for which he exhibited the receipts. He was ordered to be ready on the 12th ult., at which time it vas stated the vessel (the Toronto) would leave London. He hastily ordered his broker to sell his goods, which was done at a considerable loss under the circumstances, and came at once with his wife and children up to London ; but there was no Toronto to start. After the lapse of some time he was directed to take his effects to the West India Docks, being informed that he and his family were to have their passage in a vessel called the Hebrides, but, up to the present time, he saw no prospect of pursui ng th e voyage. H e h a d been here since the 12th cf December, at consider able expense, consumi ng w h at li tt l e the sa l e o f hi s effects hid prod uce d, and, owiiw to the cruel delay, ruin was staring him and his family in the face. In answer to the Magistrate, applicant said he knew nothing of Mr. Hackett, but that he was a squire, and he understood Mr. Bine to be his secretary. Mr. YARDLEY told him, that as the money had been paid in the City, he had better make his com plaint to the Lord Mayor, who would, no doubt, under the Passengers Act, enable him not only to recover the money hw had advanced, but likewise the expepqes to tie had been put. The poor man gratefully thanked his Worship, and withdrew, saying he would imme diately do so. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Thomas Alexander Beale, of the Saloon, Picca dilly ; Mary Ann Smith, of the Waterford Arms, Haymarket ; and Harriet Ottley, of the Saxe Coburg, Windmill-street, were summoned by the police for knowingly permitting and suffering prostitutes to congregate in their houses. . Mr. Clarkson was for the Saloon proprietor, and Mr. Parry for the other defendants. It was understo d, as the evidence was similar in all the charges, and as the alleged offence was the same in character, that the decision in the first case should be considered as the decision in all. Mr. Superintendent Beresford, of the C said that, on Tuesday morning last, about two o'clock, he went to the house known as the Picadilly Saloon, accompanied by Inspector Lestor and Police•ser g`eant Burney, and found about sixty females in the saloon, the adjoining room, and up-stairs. There were also about forty gentlemen in the place. Thirty at least of the women witness knew to be common prostitutes, and he believed the remainder were of the same loose character. Some c•f the women were walking about, and some were taking wine and other refreshment. There was neither drunkenness nor disorderly conduct in the place. Mr. Clarkson asked if the other witnesses could merely depose to the same facts ? The superintendent replied in the affirmative. Mr. Clarkson inquired if it was intended to pro duce evidence to show that there was either disorderly , conduct or drunkenness in the saloon ? The super iutendent replied it was not. Mr. Parry, to save time, would ask if similar evi dence was to be given in the other case ; if so it would not be necessary to go into it? The superintendent replied it was, and no evidence of disorderly conduct or drunkenness was to be given. Mr. Bistouxy l said the summonses were taken out under a clause/IY the 44th section of the Police Act, which made it an offence "knowingly " to permit or suffer prostitutes to meet and assemble in houses of public resort. He must dismiss the summons against the defendant Beale, because it bad not been proved he " knew " that prostitutes had assembled at his house, or that he was present when they were assembled. Mr. Clarkson said, undoubtedly this was the proper decision on the evidence laid before the Court; but if it had been necessary, there was a broader view of the law which would have entitled his client to have the summons dismissed. Mr. BINGHAM said, with reference to the other two cases, there was no eviience to be brought forward to show that the proprietors knew the women fmnd in their houses to be common prostitutes. There was no drunkenness or disorderly conduct, and, for aught known to the contrary, the women present were re spectable characters. These summonses must be dis • missed. SPORTI.N G INTELLIGENCE. TAT TEII.SALL'S.—YESTERDAY. There was a very full attendance, and a largo amount of business transaet.id. chiefly on the Chester Cup. The horses most in f,vour were—Fugleman, Miss Ann, G , rsica, The Flea, Cossack, Harriett, and Chasitrey, the odds in every instance showing a decided improvement on previous quotat one. Most of the thousands to ten and fifteen bets were taken several times. The Derby transact ons we -e few. hut not uniroport ant, inasmuch as an outlay of three or four hundred pounds on Ghillie Odium made him quite as good, if not a better, fa vourite than Bolingbroke. Probity was backed fir the Oak v, at an improvement, and was in much favour. We subjoin the prices at ttae close if business:— LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 15 to 1 agst Lord Strathmore's Rat-trap—taken 15 to 1 agst Mr. J. Fort's Knight of Gwynne— taken 20.t0 1 agst Lord Waterford's Sir John—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Mangan's Farnham—taken 30 to 1 egst Lord Lowth's Agitation 30 to 1 agst Mr. J. DJyle's Rory be Aisy 50 to 1 agst Mr. Hughes's Tipperary Boy—taken 50 to 1 agst Lord Sefton na Little Fanny—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Tilbury's Bayonet Most of the prices quoted were taken to 501. or 601. THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 20 to 1 agst Mr. Halford's Harriett—taken to 1001. 20 t 1 agst Mr. Bumby's Velox—taken 25 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Little Jack—taken 26 to 1 egst Mr. E. R. Clark's Giselle—taken METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 20 to 1 agst Sir G. Heatheote's Black Eagle—taken 25 to 1 agst Duke of Bedford's Retail—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. bleiklam's Snowstorm—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. D mglas's Sir Gilbert—taken CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Fogleman—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Glauca—taken and after wards offered 20 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Miss Ann—taken and eters ards offered 25 to 1 agst Mr. St. George's Whim colt—taken and • afterwards offered 25 to 1 agst Lord How th's Peep-o'-day Boy—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Medley's Cossack—taken and afterwards offered 33 to 1 Mr. agst Halford's Harriott—take 40 to 1 b 35 to 1 not Mr. Jaques's Chantrey 35 to 1 agst Mr. Padwick's The Flea—take 40 to 1 40 to 1 agst Lord Ches'erfield's Lady Evelyn—tsk,- n 50 to 1 agst Sir IL Pigot's Essedarius—taken toloo/. 50 to 1 agst Mr. Hassorth's The Baroness 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Meiklam's Rowland—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Lord Warwick's Grief—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Lord Exeter's Glenalvon—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Gregory's Loupgaron—taken 1,000 to 10 agst Sir J. flawley's Van Dieman—taken 1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Lawson's Keleshea—taken 1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Drinkald's Dulcet—taken 1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Minimum—taken 1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Gregory's i )arnask—taken 1,000 to I() agst Mr. C. Peck's Melody—taken Even on 20 agst the field. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 2 to I agst Lord H. Lennox's Beehunter—taken DERBY, 1850. 9 to 1 agst Mr. W. Edwards na. BAingbroke 9 to I agst Duke of Richmond's Ghillie Callum —; 12 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Kuight of Aveuel—t 17 to 1 agst 14,rd Zetlafid's Voltigeur 20 to 1 agst Lord Airlie's Clincher 30 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Alavors—taken THE OAKS. 1.500 to 20 agst Lord Eghnton's Probity—taken 7,000 to 350 azst Probity winning this and The Flying Dutchman the Et.peror', Yhte—t9.lt , n DERBY, 1851. 2,000 to 30 agst Lord Eglinton's Jr.iggernant —taken 2,000 V) 30 agst Mr. Watts's Ohio c:,lt—taken Waltham Abbey Steeplechase, owing to the frost, is off; this announcement is necessary, t prevent parties a' a distance going to the exnense of sending their horses. LOUTLI STEEPLECHASE HANDICAP. Brit;sh Yeoman, list 10ib —Proceed, list 214—Chan dler, 1 lst— Trust-tne not, 104 101b—Atichael, lost 6ib— Fugitive, 104 61b—Yard-Arm, 10s: 6d3—A4d-el-Kider, [o,t 51h—via is D‘y, lOst lOst 314—Ven geance, lOst 31b— Roswell, 10=t 2'h—Wild 1.1.‘y, 104 21h —Sobriety, 95t 13.b—Alaurice D.tley, 9st 1214—Little Houghton, 9st 121b--Little caul, 9.t 10113—Venice, 9st 710—Veri:a4, 9 , t. Chandler is s, , ratched. HUN LING APPOINTENTS. Her Majesty's stag hounds met to morrow at New L9dge, and on Friday at Iver Heat"), at Pleven. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, J.N. 19. The Paolector of Logic proposes t) deliver an in augural lecture in tno Clarendon, on Thursday, the 24th inst., at 2 o'clock. The R-gius Prcfessor of Ecclesiastical History pro poses to begin his lectures for this Term on Monday, February 4. Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture proposer to begin his lectures for this Term at the Clarendon on Tuesday, February 5, at 1 o'clock. NEW COLLEGE. Frederick Elliot Blackstone, Commoner of University College, has been adinisttd a probationary scholar of Nev College. Mr. P. B. Duncan, of this College, and keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, has increased his original subscrip tion of 201. to 500!. in aid of the proposed baths and washhouses fir the poor of this city, ORIEL COLLEGE. The Rev. S. Douglas, M.A., has been presented to the rectory of Fishb,,urne, Essex. ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE. The Rev. Hessey, formerly fellow of this College, and now Head Master of Alercbaltlors' School, has been appointed preacher to the Society of Gray's Inn. First JESUS COLLEGE. The Venerable T. Williams, M.A., formerly of this College, Archdeacon of Llandaff, has been appoiuted examining chaplain to the Bishop of Lland..ff. WADRAM COLLEGE. The Rev. J. T. Reeve. 8.A., formerly of this College, has been ins itutsd to the re:itories of Thoruham Magna and Thornham Parva, Suffolk. Most of the colleg,s and halls have met for the pre sent term, but some meet next week. Responsions com mence on the 30th insr. Au exercise f the degree of Bachelor of Music, com posed by. Charles Danvers Ha';ki-tr,, of Madden Hall, organist of the parish church of Liverpool, will be per f armed iu the Music School on Weßeiday, Jan. 23, at 2 o'clock. GRAVESEND, JAN. 21.—0 n Sunday morning the smack Intrepid, of Barking, Es4tx, was wrecked on tLe Ship Wash in a snow storm. At what hour of the morning she went on the shoal is n , ,t known, but about eight o'clock the crew of the smack Mary, in passing the shoal, observed the wreck and a man clinging to her rigging. The Mary succeeded, after a considerable lapse of time, in gaining the wreck, and with much daoger and difficulty took off the man in the rigging, who proved to be the master (Walsh), and who was quite itiensible, clinging apparently with all the tenacity of a death grasp. His limbs were benumbed and stiff, the cold dqring the night and morning haying been excessive. When brought on board the Mary every avai!able effort was made to restore him, but ineff.ctually, as he died in a short time, end the body was laud d at this place (Gravesend). The crew of the Intrepid (number as yet unknown) were all drowned. THE WEATUER.—A number of years has elapsed sine.) the frost has been so int•nse and of t o long con tinuance al it has now been. Wild fo r:ls, wild ducks, S:^., have hoer► pl-mtifnl, hut, fTlaly wen he yin'! t!: ►l,; -111-ntwr shnt , m.n bave 01 the feat'iered tribe then more frightened than hurt by the sportamen.—PlyntouthiPaper. THE COU The following is the of corn, &c., received in th Essex, from the 14th Ja both inclusive : Colchester.. :arwich Leigh Malden 03 03 " a> 4'; XI 2001 451 5141 164 518 10to_ CID al 0 .. 03 .1 cu 0 i=l - I 295 - I 205 400 600 bO7 O CHELMSFORD, JAN 18.—We had about the usua l time of year supply of wheat at market, but the dish! : chnation of the dealers to purchase c aused a general deli ' ness lee the track, and a reduction of fill Is per qr.; ar i l corn of al d , scriptious may also be quoted is lower; tu businesss t-ansscted heitte of a very limited charact er i Wheat, white, old 37s to 45s ; new 40 s t o 46s ; red, chevalier 358 to 405; new, 36s to 41s ; ba r l e y, 25 8 to 2 8 s ; chafau; 26s to 295 ; grinding 21s to 235 ; oa t s 16 s t o 225; malt 54 s 565; chevalier '64s to 585; peas, partridge, new 26s t° 285; old, —s to —5; white, new, 26s to 28s ; old, --11 to dun, new, 24s to 26s ; beans, tick, new 21s to 265; old, " to 295; haiTow ticks, new 25s to 275; old 28s to 30s; f aP zagan, new 23s to 255; old 24s to 26s per qr. COLCHESTER, JAN. 19.—Wheat, white 44s to 485; red 37 to 42s ; barley 2 , 38 to 305; beans, mazagan 22s to 265; mi dd e and mall 2s to 30s; peas 26s to 288 per qr. Of HADDINGTON, JAN. 18.—The following are the prices grain at our market to-day : Wheat. Barley. Oats. I n edli o d f. I I ... 42s 0,1 248 Od 203 Od 2 85 id Second ... .. 36s 4d I 2C) 9d 1 17s Oil 1 24s 1 / i L Third ... .. 30s Od 17s Od lis 9d 122 s 9d Total quantity of Wheat in market 561qrs., 5 Ms°. ~ 7 sol d Do. Barley do. 371 qrs., , 4 _ ll D.. Do. Beans d o . 53 qrs., 53 go l d Do. KIRKALDT, JAN. 19.—The foll ow ing a r e the quota up to this date:- I , Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. P ess a First . ..42s Od 22s 6 , 1 18s 61 —s Od _s .04 Second:..... 408 Od 218 6 , 1 17s Od —s Od I --5 od Third ...... 321 Od 16s 64 14s 64 —8 Od I_ 4 •r - a Oatmeal, per bag of 280ihs. insp., 24i to Os 04%, 0 4 GLASGOW, JAN. 17.—Provisions—Cheese, 48s to 5 0 444 per cwt_,- retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Skim milk, 18s to 0 0 5 Per cwt. Country fresh butter, 9d to 10d per lb; Irish ed . tiered, in lumps, 9d to 10d; country powdered, wholesale,d to &I. Country eggs, 9d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 5 !„.. per hundred ? or 7d per dozen. Hens, 2s Od per pair; Ila'''''' 2s Od. - - STIRLING, J. 18.—Wheat, f ore i gn , 21 s t o 24s Od; ditto, home, 00s ocl to Os Od; ditto ditto new, 15s to 18s; barleiog ; boll of 6 bushels, OOs Od to OOs o'd ; ditto new, 16s to 1 7 s u n d ; oats, common, 10, Od to 13s Od ; ditto new, 9 1 0 d to 10s " 0 ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, Os Od; e l 4 distillers, 33s to 351 ; ditto brewers, 35s Od to 385; b ea ' per boll, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new, 16s Od to 17s 6d; P e as ' • 14s 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 34s to 35s • di tto cosot ; ditto, 24s Od to 2.5 s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, ds Od to Os Z ; ditto new 26s Od to 28s ; ditto per peck of 71bs, 84d to Os 7a ; fresh butter, per lb, 8d to 10d; eggs per dozen, 6d t ° hay per ton, 48s to 50s. w 25 1 KELso, JAN. 18.—Wheat, old, 34s to 3651 ditto, n e- ,,A' to to 30s Od ; barley, new,- ns to 15s id ; ditto old, 0 0 5 , 4 7 0 . 00s ; potato oats, 00s to 00s ; ditto new, I sto 12s Od ; " igs mon oats , 9s to 11 s6d ; ditto new, 103 to 13s Od • ' peo l _ to ... , s Od; beans, 16e to 20 3 per boll of six imperialbOShe , les PERTH, J us . . 17.—Wheat, 32s Od to 37a Od; bo l t s 0J 20s Od ; oats, 13s to 16s ; peas and beans, 215 Od to "- per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 252 to 265. hold , BAWicK, J AN . 17. —Wh o a, new, 2 , ), Od to 29s 0 d ; „as, new, 12s to lbs Od ; ditt o o ld, 00 s to 00s ; pota to 0 s 10s 0d to 1230 d ; c ommon oats , •8s to 12s Od ; peas , 2 .,, s ' s risl to 24, Od ; beans, 20s Od t o 24 s Od p er boll of six WY' bushel's: . f wl i BERwICR, JAN. 17.—Wheat, 34s 90 ; barley, 10 sj — t eer oats, 15s id ; rye, Os Od ; beans; 23s bid ; peas, 004 Od rage per imperial quarter. ABERDEEN, JAN. 18.—Grain—Oats 14s Od to 14s 6d, 401btrod bushel ; oats, new, 00s Od to 00s ; foreign oats, 605 Od to °o 195 per qr.; barley, 18s to 19s Od, 521bs per bushel; bear, 18s t °6d Od, 521bs per bushel; wheat. 40s to 455; oatmeal, 1 I s 6dto If 4 per boll ; flour, 33s to 35s per sack. Provisions -- na 6d to 8d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 6d to 7d; veal, dit tp 'o,l; to 9d; pork, per lb, 4d to 6d; lamb, per lb, tallow, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; potatoes per peck, 10 d t :b 4 oo hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each, 6d to 8d; hares, e s gd ; to Os Ocl grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 7d to , pc , eggs, per doz, I s to It 4d; cheese, per cwt, Hs to 235; b en dittor pair, 3s 6d to 4s Od ; chickens, ditto, 2s Od to 2s 6d ; ducks , 4 ,64 2s Cd to 2s 6d ; ducklings, ditto, Os to Os Od; turkeys, each, 060 to 550 d; geese; ditto, 3s to 3s 6d; butter for exportation (Pr 44 Od cure), per cwt, 00s to 52s • eggs. wholesale price, per dap, * to 7d ; 41b loaf, 6d ; 21b loaf, 3d ; pork, per stone 0 1 l a rger 3s 6d to Os Od; poik fine, small, 5s 6d to Os Od; poss. • o s . 3s 6d to 4s 3d ; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, Os to 741 Meal—Oatmeal, Is 2d to is 3d; barley dust, 6d 0 0 , pd peasemeal, Is 8d to Is 10d ; lids, 6d to 711 - bearmettly / lei .' d to 2d, ha to Is 2d; flour, is 8d to Is 10d; barley, per lb, lid flour, Is 2d to 15 3d. Od to io COAL MARKET. —YESTERDAY. 6d Holy Well Townley Hilda 22 0 0s s 0 60 dd d N S t i e cx w aor ar tnd,siff'sm..;...r..t . ... r.. ..• .. .. ......... 03 Riddell's 2oa Eden Main RAILWAY SHAKE MARKETS' BRISTOL, m tax. 21. t STOCK EXCHANGE.—Tho arket was again firm the only alteration in prices was—Great IN extern, '4' - 9 1-16 dis. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 21. to STOCK EXCHANGE. The market has been very ll' MO day, and prices had an upward tendency. The transa c. a. ~• were as follow: East Lancashire, Quarters , 61s. 3 IL Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol , 60— Ditto. Fifth 0 1. 4 0/ Is. 3d. dts. —London and North-Western, 117—Ditto, '„,01 Quarters, 41s. 3d. p.— Dit to, Fifths, 3 p.—Ditto, (C), 1!, p. Midland, 45 , ,, 2 Ditto, Halves, 22% u;pd North British, New Preference, South-Eastern le x Dover (No. 2), 13 7 4 4 dis.—York, Newcastle, and 1 3 er fb (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till 1850, 4% dis. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 21. to' 6Tocx EXCHANGE. —There was little business dodtios, day, but prices were much the same as last quot a South Staffordshires were done at 3/. 16s. 3d. dis• ------- ------ -- -- - -- - ---- ........ --- YORK, JAN 19.---. re " Saocit EXCHANGIC.—The transactions to-day - , vr . e n ocet follow : Great Northern, 71. 7s.—North British, Pre'e;9e), 5 ,/ York, Newcastle, and Berwick, (G. N. E. Pu re 2';' B ex :n. THE WEATHER AND PARRS. —Yesterday the;th narnental waters of the park s were aga in throng e " , ,.oo% sk , iters and sliders. Oa th e Seri:poi:tale s everal tin ja. were decided ; that w hi c h attracted the 03° , 5 sr. ter.st was a match net w, , en C. aota i a Bolder° the Herrin, of tie e-road, for 15/, e e' u t . l %,tieg er under taking to run against t: captain's "cre:i la a distance of 200 yards. To e ev e nt was decL, eoor favour of the g alla n t ca pt a i n, w h o di s t a nced nr„ ponent full 15 yards. Nunat , rous parties were l' is i,eog eased at the sport o f go lf an d hockey. On the ""d' Water, Kensington -gardens, a number of ladies 1 % 0 4 sleighs were driven akrig the ice with extrfl°,l.•,;es io by gentlemen mkating The carriagi..arl.b-itolt Hyde-park were lined with quipagei, and eitn er , c eOr e • crowd.rd w :th s p ee tvors of the spirit -stirring b'er H -gent's-park w as v i s it e d by art immense l parsons. No accident beyond some cases of parti r ' re ong me; lion oe,nirreit. thougo upwards of 120.000 re eor r are believed to have been on the ice during h The barometer, last nit: 0 - . t, indicated a coutin...7olP" frost; the thermometer fell to 29 Fahrenh'it. by E. FIRES IN LONDON DURING liw rep irt of the Fire Brigades, of the outbreak of A n rieg grati. , us in the metropolis and its suburbs, - -- L odei ° ; past ear, was issued yesterday by its sup -4111 : "; 'Sift The t, tel number anears to have been 83 5, fi,cbool4,,b the destruction of bet wet-it 400 and 500 houses "'" - D er l 7: an iner,ase over the previous ytav, the loss of In tbs' in the aggrega'e, has not been so greet. It rt ° tI 3P 20 persons lost their lives at the fires. , age A INCREASE OF TRADE.—We are happy . to the trade of this port is steadily on the inor°6sreere" the close of last year there were 233 vessels, reg n ' o Off at a tonnage of nearly 11,000, being about 4,° :yese r ! beyond that of the year 1840. The number o t . a eel s entered inwards, both on coasting and on for" fl g r esif tl i it of ages, he O r s been larger for 1849 than for S year. The revenue , t oo —th e mo st important e . i gt —is about 1,0004 greater than the preceding Ye ° is most satisfactory.—lnvernees Courier. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Another important Cti,..re bi 10 * Holloway's Ointment and Pills of a Wound in the L e g' of al. Malcolm, wife of the lighthouse-keeper at the ent rap Js o f tee , river Tees, near Redcar, had been a sufferer for uPw sr the i :1 years with a severe wound in the leg, which during t oe four years of that period was so bad that it made her reoi'd capable of walking without crutches. To heal it loslnt dies had been tried in vain, before Holloway's Oin t 7. last co, Pills were used, but these excellent remedies being , a pe eP r s sorted to, effectually healed the wound in about eoplf,„. and the patient is able to walk about, even without the kjoi of a stick.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor way's Establishment, 214, Strand, London. 11....1.....1...M, 11° BIRTHS. ISO Of On the 15th inst., Mrs. Joseph Chesterrnani 0 , stree', Manchester-square, of a son. Vi ticaslll On the 17th inst., at Chorley-road, Bolton , f ib ° the wife of the Rev. B. Backhouse of a son- 4fe °- On the 17th i st., at Bunipton , , Devon, the r tB' Rev. Fr , ncis P. Sti+ tnour, of a daughter. On the l'th inst., at Hart-street, BloonisbarP 4 , ofo l Frederick Pf e il, of a daught, r. On the 18th inst., at Hampstead, the Wi fe ° _......,.-- Nevinson, Esq , of a son II ' efs MARRIED. the -1 i 0 On the 16th in -t., at Seighford, Staffordsbire,llo ti. youngest j o seph Thomps on, duuger o f vicar o Francis f Oa the 'th inst., at Ealing Cli..rc ' h, JoseP . , to 1 :,, r1 fi third daughter of Thomas Farmer, fourth son of Martin Ware, Esq of Russell-sqtAl" a rs/ )'' 0 1/3 , ' house, Acton. G e ore , V- , On the 19th inst., at St. Marylebone Church,wilioo oft :idY,:rh:f:oEsrqds.q, .s,toeoi:C:aorairobdinsiosiiit., 11,3, 04: Esq., of EdgbaA. , n, second son of the late Bev. Church or " rect rof Einly, Irelaed, to Agnes, second datig": ,r a lcb , Brown, Esq., of Somerset-street, Portmanquar-5. r- to Esq., R.N., Commander of ' her A St Paul's, Southsea Portsmouth, Da vid F ,irli ,er t Majesty' g Paint, go Elizxbeth Caroline, eldest laughter of Licat e-13 Poole, R. N., of her Majesty's ship Illustrious. ____.....---"" ----- be tk DIED 11 . 3 On the 10th inst., at Horncastle, Lincolnshire!. , ii „, eldest daughter of the late Willingham Moor's Enlet by, in that county,-sister to Sir .b,'''. ll ,„ ,0 0 p editl;„ DI the cel,brated onimnuder of the arctic Ex FriallirFra' o ‘ On the l'th inst., Charles Robert Forrester, x' " 1 , ef rO Royal rxchange, aged 4S. in the rtll as ' 0 On the I sth inst., at North Bailey, uurbs te r Charles John Champneys, D.C.L., lat e head 1:n . i yiat• Collegiate School, ...,lasgow, aged ',B. W ife Ci „ 6 On the 17th inst., t.t ..;.'atusgate, Harriette, _, JP- J. Rainer, R.N. E ss ex ' On the 18th ins', at the Grove, Stratford, .." I t rid, Gray, Esq., aged „veg.- On the Pqlt inst., at Woodville.terr ace,L4' Procter, Esq., aged 46. -Ind Pato i9beil by DifTBP O , I , C $O. • •-•-••• z Of; t:4v.V. In O le COu 51 ' 4 ' 11661 z , Tuesrle-y, January 22, 1850, TRY MARKETS. acial statement of the quantiti Ie port of London from the poi In., MO, to the 19th Jan., ies its o lebOt 1 t t c t 1 Itt till 11 1 , tht