The Sun. — London, England, 1851-10-01 00:00:00

land for Liverpool; -Moselle, Bonny for Liverpool, short of provisions, and lost two men. enynE.—Arrd. lis;hel, Paraiba; Ann Powell, New feundlar d; Matilda, 1,1-4uritius ; Marint?r, Mirfunichi ; Envoy, New Carlisle; Lelpzig, Quebec. WATERFORD.—Arrd. M. Dodd, Newfoundland. WIGTOWN, SEPT. 30.—The Ant sloop hai been burnt to the keel, her lime having caught fire; crew saved. Gunn, SEPT. 30.—The Pallas which arrived here Yesterday from Madras, got on the bank in the basin, and has strained herself considerably. • WHITBY, SEPT. 30.—The Arno, of this pert, struck on the Lemon Sand during a heavy gale, and was aban doned; crew raved. BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.) A gentleman from Rugby, on a visit to the Exh ibition, Preferred a charge against two girls, Mary Smith and ' l ane Norman, of robbing him of three sovereigns. It appears that the prisoners met the prosecutor in the `,L,reet, and induced him to accompa n y them to a house of fame where he had not been very long before he Ifound his money gone. He immediately gave the pri *cmers in charge, but the money was not found on them. Mr. HENRY said there was no evidence against the Priaoners, and he must discharge them. Prosecutor—But where's my money, sir? Mr. HENRY—Oh, 1 don't know that; if you will go to ' ▪ tell houses, you must put up with the consequences. IVIARLBRO'-STREET — ( THIS DAY.) it"BEßY.—Sumuel Hunt Nixon was placed at the bar before 9,, Mr. Hardwick, charged with stealing the sum of t '', the property of Mr. Thomas Broome, silk manufs.c tir, Ifundsfield, near Maticlefield. the appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, that of last prisoner was a weaver in his employ. On the 24th v: last month the prisoner was entrusted by prosecutor's 957ehouseman to take local bank notes of the value of doi• to exchange for Bank of England notes. Instead of Ag so he converted the notes into gold and absconded with `".a money. The p rosecutor, however, traced him to TC"doo, and having succedcdin finding out h is w ereabout, took a constable with him last night a and gave ! t ue him in charge. On sear chin g him a portion of money was found upon him. 4 ° pri who did not deny the charge, was ,rde_ 80/10r, b red to be taken down to Macclesfield at once, in barge of the officer who took him into custody. WORSHIP-STREET.—Ci HIS DAY.) With Slater was charg ed before Mr. D'Eyncourt th e embezzling t hirty yards of si lk velvet, value 201., property of hi s employers , M essrs. James Bill and Co •+ silk manufacturers , 30, Spital-square, D Norton °I gate. 0 The charge rested on the evidence of the prisoner's child, five years of age, who informed the ins p ector _ at he had seen his fathe r and another manox cu t the work fr om the loom and carry it away in a b.—R 4141:Idea,Al red 11 ,STEALING DUCKS Fito3l VicToapt t as tings, 16, wan charged with stealing two live ducks, t he property of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Gods and Forests. The officer of the par k observed the prisoner at sev en u'cleek this morning decoy one of the ducks from the ornamental water, and put it in his pocket. On search iflg a second was found co ncealed on his person. Pri "ler pleads starvation, and begged for another chance, e W hell he would go fo r a soldier. Ile was proved to have been previously convicted at this court.—Two months' hard labour in the House of Correction. SERIOUS CONFLAGRATIONS at BLACK HEATH and HOLBORN. This morning at an early hour, a fire of a very de structive character, and attended with a great loss of Property, happened in one of the spacious private h, rethesi dences numbered 3, Montpelier-row, Blackheat Property of a lady n amed Webb, but sublet to several lod ge rs. The fire was first perceived by a policeman of the R division, who lost no time in arousing the several occupants, who fortunately succeeded in effecting a retreat from the premises, but not before they were nearly suffocated with smoke. The engines of the parish quickly attended, as well as another belonging to her Msjesty's dockyard at D e p tford. These powerful machines were instantly set to work, but in spite of the exertions of the police, &c., the work of destructionafter con tinued, and in less than a quarter of an hour the commencement of the conflagration, the entire building presented one immense sheet of flame, the reflection of which could be seen from every part of London. This caused the engines of the brigade at the Southwark bridge-road Station, as well as that of the West of Eng land Company, to be taken out in search of the scene of danger. After travelling some distance a mounted express was met, who gave the firemen information of the exact spot the flames were raging. The engines were then driven with greater speed onwards, and on reaching Blackheath -hill an occurrence took place which Was nearly attended with fatal consequences to Mr. Deputy Barrow, of the West of England office. The men, it appears, were in the act of getting off the en gine, to ease the horses up the hill, when Barrow was thrown down by his foot catching the wheel, and before he could be extricated, the fore-wheel passed over his left foot and the hind-wheel over his thigh. The horses were immediately stopped, and the ladders taken off the engine, in order to carry him to the police-station , but fortunately he was - found to be only seriously bruised, no bones being fractured. Upon reaching the fire the firemen set to work in an indefatigable manner, but they were unable to sub due the fitimes until the premises in which the disaster commenced were gutted, and serious damage done b y fire wa t e r, anti removal to No s. 2 and 4 in the same row, belonging to M r. Gilbert. Mrs. Webb was insured it the Sun Fire-office, but Mr. Gilbert was uninsured. The cause of the fire was unknown.—At a late hour last night a fire of a serious character happened in the pre mises of Mr. Weeler , a japanner, No. 8 pp , Newton-street, Holborn. It originated in the manufactory, and spee were dily extended to three of the drying stoves, which burned out, the roofs destroyed, and several hundred pounds' worth of stock in trade consumed. The engines of the parish brigade and West of England attended, and the firemen eventually got the flames extinguished. The loss will fall on the Sun Fire•office. NEWMARKET BA (THIS DAY.) _-....,..._ (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Plate of 501. ... 1 ... 2 We3tow Retail Handicap. D.M. ... 1 Croupiar ••• Necklace .•• Runnymede ••• ... 2 •.• 3 walked over Meanc e colt ••• rc3t Match• Matches. Knight of the Galler received from Stronghow. Sophistry received from Songster. CITY an_nOuFal meetingLpNDO o l s i f thl:s society - ------'----------------- _— /0.7 V SOCIEi 1. • was held a t the Londo the 11 - "veru on At the commencement of Re u lmleeeedin cent re acquainted the MrNorth, on behalf of these cretary, po!itiont -oefmeeting expenditure that, in consideration the pred the society as regarded its income an e and in deference to the wishes of some of the members of the board of direction, the secretary re spectfully submitted that, in the event of his being re elected secretary of the charity, his salary r. for the future should be reduced by 251. per annum. M Mence (the secretary) then read the repor t, which stated that the society . had been honoured wi th the patronage of the endeavours and wealthiest in the l and, and that hitherto the tlikle,_ of the directors to maintain the charity in its integrity had been crowned with success; and they had anow to appeal for continued support to enable them to Carry out the objects of t he charity, by the granting o had for of monthly pensions to the a g ed and decayed wh merlymoved in a respectable s phere of society-. Since establishment of the society, thirty - t h r ee years the sin ce , 882 persons had been elected pen sioners, and re supported by an e x p enditu oeenf 55, e1ect994/. During th list °E . 3 5 candidates, and seven pensioners had died, of whom two were 86 years of age, one 84, one 79, one 73, one 72, and one 60. There were now 55 pensioners on the funds of the society, several of whom had been so for more than a quarter of a century.. Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabhell having taken the chair at a festival in sup port of the funds of the charity, a sufficient amount was subscribed to enable tho directors to meet the annual but owing exp en dit u re, and keep u p the amount of pensions, with out reduction, out o f the receipts of the year ; to the reduction in the annual income of the society , throu g h tho deaths of subscribers and other circum stances, t h e directors were fearful that in the coming Year th ' ey would have to entrench upon the funded pro- Perty of the society to meet their expenditure, unless means were found of adding to their regular income, which the directors would use every effort to effect. The balance-sheet Showed the total receipts for the pest year to have been 1, 115 /. 17s. 4d.; the amount expended i 123 n pensions, 7791. 18 s.; the other expenditure, 274/. . 10d.; and the balance in the hands of tho bankers, 61/. 6s. 6d. The funded property of the society amounts to 7,155/. 16s. 6d. The report was adopted--the Duke of Bedford re-elected president—and theother officers for the ensuing year having been appoinoted , the meeting separated. ST. ALBAN'S BRIDELLY Commission. it is now I definitively settled that the Commissioners appointed in the last session of Parliament to " inquire into the manner in which the elections for the borough of St. Albans have been conducted, with a view to arrive at the extent to which bribery and other orru pt practices have prevailed," hold their court in the month of November, for which pur pose the requisite proceedings are now being taken. It ap pears, however, that the court is not to be an open one, al though it was originally intended by the Commissioners that it should be. The grounds alleged for bearing the evidence with closed doolie are, that within the last few days facts have come to the knowledge of the Commissioners that have induced them to believe that the publication of the evidence would not only defeat the object the louse of Commons had in view when the Commission was proposed, but that it would be the means of inducing some of the per sons implicated to abscond. A very large number of witnesses are to be examined, amongst whom will be Sir R. W. Carden, Bart., one of the candidates at the last election ; Mr. Blagg, the gentleman whose name has so frequ entl y appeared before the public in connexion with the election proceedings in St. Albans; Messrs. Edwards, Birchmor e, Wa gg o ett, and lhers of equal notoriety. The Commission w ill sit in the _ Town-hall, St. Albans, and is expected to las t for a con id hold number of days. The precise day on which it will its first sitting has not yet been fixed, nor, indeed, will It be publicly known until the day preyiously. 13i11C.38 dots, to-day. rg for regl4- 14 30th. . al Mats, an NE WS. LOCK. were esti tding 500 quietly at id to inn- Lea to the week in k], north' ought are, les, tallow, , and con- tors. The ,ed in their been very s, and the the whole that an s the name hangs thi s ,at the ha icipally on ed in colo- )t yet a" ort market merchants ;eipt. been with• From )f all the the Zo11• tad to give ist the WI- irides, bat meols bare r Accou nt ' !al after a Lyon to the money on dend )osee• Th e r at 4 3 9 .. .0 0 5 05 . al u m ate] , 'outs. bare 374, the . 0 51 to i• iador at 3, I the Four dividend• Weed to a nt., taking 3r extreme _ , no mee l l ortaet om p o rarl d y , where what they here th e i r , stions and tB. Wh eti di sr egard th, if they TREE• / g 3. , CLOCD`. ;p ;p ;p CLOG• e % d• e% d. AY. - - , ••• 30 67% •.: 35 50 • " 464 •• 104 • 1 6 .. 634 • 634 •• ht -- . n d, rr , 1 43 £3 17 o 0 9 0 1 ,, ° 1 1 5 DAY.) ate b"ej° rd. Da p* Lyres. r, B° lll- Lodge , ditto ; tar of the ; Bone' t weirici c ; ehibuoto; ) ; Grey, 3 • Ja n° „i„ Off wheeler, t f this agl , , 25th ort from lan Copt d . re, of 11 0 isobar go. astle, ha to be the 26th off ,o belorg sails 6,1 1 er ern, 26 h; L( 0 cottm of gli a itac t off and WS and for the 26th ►bei.SYO o tent, bon ary and sr. The Iff shore, ke Myra. Tewpo► was in rudiel larboard ,ad 76e claw k.berdver seen 0 vessels —Arra: an, Po" 'enobig, Nfound - THE S UN, SPORTING NOTES. No. CXXXVI. A FEW WORDS ON YES i ERDAY'S AND TO I.OW - 10 WS RACES AT NEWMARKET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The majority of yesterday's races resulted in favour of my judgment; one of the principal ones, The Grand Duke Michael Stakes, haring fallen to Mountain Deer, who I fancied, when I penned my observations Deer, on thi s stake some days ago, would not start; h o wever, came out iu hi s old form, a nd won the race cleverly from Anspach by a shortish l e ngth, e the ga an me little Midas running home third, /Bolus, Phlgra, d Goliah beaten for pace. The Hopeful Stakes wcs con tested actually by only th ree nags; Kingston, as I pre dicted, winning cleverly by half, a length, Ambrose having but a neck the advantage of Flirt. This was the best race of the day. The 'Third Thermal Produce Stakes attracted exactly the field- to the post that I announced it would; this of course ' was the race, so far, however, only as money is concerned, and the future chances of the celebrities engaged therein. The first to cut out the work was, naturally enough, Ls martine; he kept the game up as long as he could, and was then headed by Midas; at the cords Hernandez and Ariosto went tothe front, the latter maintaining a slight lead until within a hundred yards of the judge's chair, but was stylishly defeated in the struggle by a length. It is a curious fact that Midas should run third both in the Grand Duke Michael and these stakes. Weather gage. as I remarked before, would walk over for the 200 Soya. Stakes, and did so. The trio of matches, without exception, ended in forfeits. Having disposed of yesterday's races, I now turn my attention to te-mor row's, which for a singular wonder has only four in the list; two of them—the Queen's Plato of 100 guineas, R. C., and the Town Plate of 50 soya., D.l.—not having yet closed, consequently I willproceed to give the probable starters for the:Fourth Triennial Produce Stakes, T.Y.C. They are as follows:—Greyleg, H. R. 11. filly or Hespe rus, Longbow, Chaffinch or Glenluce (both dubious), Caloric, Odessa colt, Poodle, Lapidist, Ambrose or the Toga filly, and France or Child of the Mist. The re sult, I imagine, will lay with Lord Ribblesdale's new purchase, Longbow, and Greyleg, and if I were to place them in the following style I think I should not be wide of the mark : LAPIDIST LONGBOW 2 GREY LE G The Rutland Stakes will have the follow ing field at the post:—Martinet, Lady in Waiting, Passion colt, Adine, and perhaps Ambrose or Caloric; the race seems a cer tainty for Adine if she runs . ; the next two in my esti mation are Ambrose and the Lady. I must correct an e rror with respect to to-day's races which appeared in yesterday's notes, in which I stated that the Goodwood party seemed determined to withdraw one if not both their horses for the Second Triennial Produce Stakes; it is now, however, all but certain that they will, on the contrary, start both of them, in which case there cannot remain the shadow of a doubt as to what quarter the winner will come from; my weathercock points from Sussex, the Nigger for choice. I am, Sir, yours, &c., Oct. 1, 1851. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. TUESDAY. Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, for two yrs old, 6st 71b; three, Bst 71b; four and upwards, 94t; the winner to be sold for 50 sous., if demanded, &c. T.Y.C. Lord Clifden's H. R. H. f, 2 yrs (G. Mann) 1 Lord Exeter's Amima f, 2 yrs (W. Harlock) 2 Sir J. Hawley's Songster, 3 yrs (T. Smith) 3 Betting-5 to 4 agst 11.R.H. filly, 7to 4 agst Songster, and 5 to 2 agst Amima filly. Won easily by a length; two lengths between second and third. Run in 1 min. 16 secs. The Grand Duke Michael Stakes of 50 cove. each; for three yrs old, colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b; the second to save his stake. A.F. (12 Subs.) Mr. H. Hill's Mountain Deer (J. Marson) 1 Mr. Gratwicke's Anspach . .(Flatinan) 2 Lord Exeter's Midas (F. Butler) 3 Sir R. Pigot's aEolus (Robinson) 4 Lord Exeter's Phlegra (Norman) 5 Mr. Worthington's Goliah (W. Abdale) 6 Betting-7 to 4 each agst Mountain Deer and An spach. Midas, with Anspach and Phlegra in attend ance, made play to the bushes, where the lead was taken by Anspach, Mountain Deer waiting on her; this couple went on to the bottom, Mountain Deer there taking up the running, and winning cleverly by a length; Midas a bad third. Run in 2 min. 26 secs. The Hopeful Stakes of 40 sovs. each, h ft, for two yrs old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Set 51b; winners extra; the second to receive 50 sovs. out of the stakes. Last half of Ab. M. (25 Subs.) Lord Ribblesdale's Kingston, Bst 10lb (J Ramon) 1 Lord Exeter's Ambrose, Set 71b (Norman) 2 Mr. Gratwicke's Flirt, Bst Sib (Fistulae) 3 Betting-2 to lon Flirt, who made the running at a good pace into the bushes; the three then closed and ran together to the cords; Kingston then taking the lead and winning cleverly by half a length, Ambrose beating Flirt by a neck. Run in 55 sees. Second Year of the Triennial Produce Stakes of 10 SM. each, for three years old; colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 41b; the second to receive a sum equal to 10 per cent. upon the whole stake, and the third horse a sum equal to 5 per cent. on the whole stake. A.F. (76 Subs.) Lord Enfield's Hernandez Mr. Grevillo's Ariosto (Fiatm an) 2 Lord Exeter's Midas (Norman) 3 Sir J. Hawley's The Ban (J. Marson) 4 Mr. W. Etwall's Knight of the Thistle ... (Robinson 5 Lord Exeter's Phlegm (W. Abdale) 6 Mr. Powney's Lamartine (J. Day) 7 Bettin g -7 to 4 agst The Ban, sto 2 agst Ariosto, and 7 tc2 agst Hernandez. Lamartine, taking a strong lead at starting, cut out the work to the bushes, where he retired, the running being taken up by Midas. The Ban lying second, with Hernandez and Ariosto in wait ing. In the bottom Ariosto and Hernandez singled themselves out, Ariosto leading until half way up to the ropes, but being defeated cleverly in the run in by a length. Midas a bad third. Run in 2 min. 24 sees. Sweepstakes of 200 soya. each, h ft, for two yrs old; colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 41b. T.Y.C. (4 Subs.) Duke of Bedford's Weathergage walked over, and divided the forfeits with Lord Derby's Merry-go-round. Match, 200, h ft, T.Y.C.—Lord Derby's c by Irish Birdcatcher, out of Meanee, received forfeit from Lard Exeter's Ben Nevis. Match, 100, h tt, T.Y.C.—Mr. W. E. Hughes's Cor nelius, 3 yrs, 7st 11b, received forfeit from Lord W. Powlett's St. Ann, 6 yrs, Bst 71b. Match, 200 sovs, h ft ; Bst 41b ; T.Y.C.—CoI. Anson's Bay Rosalind received 60 soya. ft from the Duke of Bed ford's Salvage. The Handicap was no race. There was a very fair attendance on the heath, and the sport, although short of what had been generally expected, was full of interest. The weather continues very fine. The following horses arrived on Monday night : Merry Peal, The Ban, Caloric, Cranberry, Bilborry, Songster, Goliab, Poodle, William the Conqueror, The Nigger, &c. Mr. H. Hibbard officiated to-day as starter, and will continue to do so until the appointment is permanently filled up. CESAREWITCII STAKES BETTING UP TO SIX O'CLOCK. 9 to 1 agst Mokanna (t) 20 to 1 agst Darkie i 10 to 1 agst Grand Duke 20 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's lot 13 to 1 agstilippolytus 40 to 1 agst Officious. NEWMARKET, 1 CTESDAY NIGUT. ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY. 501. Plate.—Retail, 5 yrs—Westow, 5 yrs. Handicap. D.M.—Vanguard, 5 yrs, Bst 101b—Runny mede, 3 yrs, 7st 101b—Necklace, 4 yrs, 7st 81b—Crou pier, 3 yrs, 7st 61b. No alteration in the betting. MONMOUTH RACES.--TUESDAY. - - These sports commenced at one o'clock on Tuesday, witnessed by a full field of spectators from among the rank and aristocracy of the county. The Back Stakes of 3 sons. each, and 15 added. Heats, twice round and a distance. Mr. Marsh'a Cosachia (Knott) 1 1 Mr. Bigg's Jessie .... (Knight) 2 2 Mr. Burford 's Maisemore Lass (Cheswas) bolted Betting—Cosachia even agst 'the field, 2 to 1 agst Maisemore Lass, and 4 to 1 agst Jessie. At starting Jessie led, but was evidently more friskey than sound. Tho Maisemore Lass bolted, or was forced to a bolt, at the first opening. Cosachia was evidently held in hand till near the distance post, whoa she made the running, and easily dis p laced her single competitor, winning the first heat by a length. In the second heat t he same tactics were at work—Jessie led off hotl y , and Cosachia passed her easily at the distance p ost, and both s truggled hard for the vic tor y , which was gained by Cosachia by half a length. The Monmouthshire Stakes of 10 sous. well. 5 ft, with 401. added. Two miles. Heats, twice round and a distance. Seven horses entered. Mr. IL Dyke as Stafford ........................ (Knott) 1 Marquis of Worcester na Combatant (Knight) 2 Mr. Vaughan's Breach of Promise ............ (Bendith)l Mr. N. Russell's Docility ........................ (Thick) 4 Doubt, Young England, and Salute were entered, b ut not placed. Betting-2 to lon Stafford, 3tol on Docility, sto 1 on Combatant, and 6 to lon Breach of Promise. I n the first round, Docility led at a slappiog Pace, but aeon allowed Combatant to take up the running, closely followed by Stafford, and Breach of Promise lying far in the rear. On the second round Stafford took the premiership, when nearing the distance post, and thundered in a good winner by half a lengt o h. vs. added, The Bye Stakes of 5 sovs. eac h, with 2sO did not fill. The first day's sprt concluded at four o'clock, tu but a longer day was anticipated for Wedneskty, and u grca extent of sport. MELANCHOLY ACClDENT.—Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. William Baker, jun., deputy coroner, at the Horse and Groom, Church-street, Hackney, one view of n the body of Mr. William Gillian], aged 60, who rsided i Mare-street, Hackney. The deceased on Monday morning was at the window of his bed-room, from which ho gave di rections to his servant to order a cab for him, for the purpose of taking him to Horusey. The servant, who was in the forecourt of tke house, bad scarcely turned l is back when he heard a heavy fall. On looking round he saw deceased on the ground, and found him in a state of insensibility. A surgeon was called, who found the skull of the deceased ex tensively fractured, and that life was extinct. Deceased had been for some months past suffering from giddiness, and it is supposed that after giving the order he was seized, and that while in that state he fell from the window. Verdict —"Ac cidental death." On the 15th of September there arrived in New York no fewer than 3,890 emigrants, of whom 2,452 were from Liverpool. LONDON, THE LATE HEAVY GALES, In addition to the sad events detailed in this ournal cn Monday, there appear to have been from :he reports of Lloyd's agents upwards of 100 vessels stranded, and the number which foundered with all hands were. unhappily painfully numerous. Perhaps on no part of the coast was the mischief greater than in the vicinity of the entranca of the Humber. During the height of the gale on Friday, a brig, which is supposed to be the Venus, of Arundel, was seen to founder about ten miles north of the Dud geon, and every one belonging to her met with a watery grave. About the same period a large-sized craft was seen by the Favourite, of Shields, to go down a short distance from Cromer with all on board. A third one was seen to meet with a similar fate in the neighbourhood of Boston Deeps. The master of the Ann and Elizabeth, from Newcastle, since arrived at Gravesend, reports seeing a brig disappear on that part cf the coast ; her bowsprit, bulwarks, and sails were carried away. Her name could not be distin guished, but the letter T was seen on her stern. She was believed to have belonged to Blyth. In one instance there was an extraordinary preser vation of life. The brig St. Catherine, bound to Hull, on entering the Humber bay was blown over. The crew contrived to cling to the side of the hull, and so continued for nearly 24 hours, when, with one exception, they were taken off, although suffering from exposure and want of food. A lamentable casualty took place on the Lemann-shoal while the gale was raging with all its might on Friday night. The brig Seven Brothers, Mr. Alexander Sibbald master, of South Shields, was driven on the sand and immediately capsized. The master and four of the crew took to the jolly boat, but un fortunately before the wife of the master, who was on board, and the remainder of the crew, eight, could be taken off, the wreck got adrift and every one of them is supposed to have perished. As it was, those in the boat had a narrow escape ; without a sail or an oar they were baked about for many hours, when at last they were picked up by the Whin pilot-cutter and landed near Yarmouth. A sloop called the Ma deira, for Goole, had her master and boy walhed over board. She then foundered, the wife of the master perishing with her. The above forms but a brief notice of the disasters on this portion of the coast. Higher up the channel the gale was almost as de structive. We have already detailed a melancholy list of casualties on the Yorkshire coast, especially in the vicinities of Whitby and Reclean Amongst the many additional disasters resulting from the storm, the Triton, of Newcastle, is reported to have been wrecked near the Kettleness, and that her crew perished. Some of the bodies have been washed ashore. The Northumbrian line of coast also suffered from the fury of the wind. On Hely Island a schooner called the Margaret, for Sunderland, from Cromarty, was wrecked; and off Bamborough Castle the Mar garet and Ann, from Newcastle, met with a similar tate. Abreast of the Immanuel-head, while the gale was blowing with all its violence, a brig, since ascer tained to have been the Falcon, of Aberdeen, foun dered, with all hands. The body of the master, Mr. Smith, his trunk, and some of the vessel's papers, have been cast ashore. Sbe was laden with wheat, and is snpposed to have been from Stettin. About the same time a sloop was observed to go down, in deep water, off Newton, and it is said that all be longing to her also perished. The vicinity of Kilrush was nigh being the'scene of a most shocking shipwreck. it seems that the Owen Glendower, a fine yacht of nearly 130 tons burden, the property of Mr. William Moore, of Waterford, and which had on board in addition to its owner, Mrs. Moore. Mrs. Massey, Miss Llewllyn, and a crew of 11 men, was caught in the gale in making for the Galway bay, and when almost a perfect wreck, as reported, was observed off Arran Island by a ussian bark, which had left Galway a day or so previously, with emigrants for New York. The master, Mr. Hein, after going as near the wreck as possible, had the boats lowered, and after much difficulty and peril, succeeded in preserving all who were on board. The yacht had been in the most dangerous position for upwards of 30 hours, and the suffering of those on board may probably be imagined. Mr. Moore made a most munificent donation to the captain of the barque for the promptitude and hu manity he had displayed in rescuing them from the wreck. The later accounts from the respective ports de• scribe the gale to have moderated considerably, but it is more than probable that many other casualties, resulting from the storm, are yet to be made known. LOWESTOFT. THE LATE GALES.—During the last few days the Lowestoft roads have presented a highly animated appearance, owing to several hundred vessels getting under weigh, after seeking shelter in that safe and conspicuous basin from the fury of the storms that have raged with peculiar violence on the neighbouring coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk, and also, it would seem, on the opposite continental shores, for no less than 60 Dutch schuyts had put in for repairs at one time, and found an asylum which no other English harbour in these boisterous seas could have afforded. Outside the harbour the disasters to he local and other craft have, we regret to say, been numerous and calamitous. During the tremendous gale on Friday morning a heavy sea struck the herring lug ger Chase, of Lowestoft, off the Dudgeon Light, making an almost complete wreck of her and drowning the unfortunate master, Joseph Garwood, and the mate, James Butcher, the former leaving a wife, and the latter a wife and child, to mourn their bereave ment. About the same time the Fortitude lugger, also of Lowestoft, had five men washed overboard, but succeeded in recovering four at the reflux of the wave. A Dutch schuyt likewise foundered with all hands, one of whom was seen to perish by two brothers in another vessel close to leeward, without the possi bility of relief being tendered. The damage done to the fishing gear has been most extensive, but infi nitely less so than might have been expected, consi dering the exceeding violence and duration of the hurricane. On no former occasion of a like nature probably were the advantages of this admirable har bour of refuge more conspicuously apparent, perhaps frombeing made better known of late among its capacitythemaritime nations of the north, owing to the fastextending traffic opened up by the new route to Denmark, in which several powerful steamers are now regularly employed, with the best results to all parti es concerned. The season at Lowestoft is now at its height, and the influx of visitors greatly exceeds all former precedent. IRELAND. DUBLIN, TUESDAY.—It has been blowing a perfect hurricane for the last 48 hours, the wind being nearly due east and the weather wet and hazy. The storm appears to have been general. The Cork Examiner of yesterday says : " During last night and this morning a violent gale has blown. The sea ran so high in Queenstown as in many places to cover the quay, and to render it imprac ticable for the half-past nine steamer, which came up from Aghada this morning, to get a landing there. Several of the vessels in the harbour dragged their anchors, and were driven towards Queenstown, but we have not heard of any vessel being sent ashore, with the exception of one or two pleasure yachts, or any serious damage having been done. A great portion of the quay at Monkstown was swept away by the sea, and in the reach between Pasaago and Carrigaloe the fury of the gale was tremendous. The wind has since considerably abated in violence." From the north the intelligence is of a similar nature : " Since Friday (says the Newry Telegraph) we have had very severe gales from the north-east, which must have been severe on the shipping in the Channel. The Sea Nymph steamer, from Liverpool, due at Warrenpoint on Saturday, did not arrive until Sunday morning, having delayed her departure from Liverpool, One of the Dundalk boats, which did venture out, was, we are told, partly dismantled; she, however, made her passage good. The Sea Nymph sailed again from Warrenpoint Dock, with passengers, cattle, and goods, on Sunday at midnight. Her passage must have been a rough one, as during the whole night and all yesterday it blew hard from the same quarter, accompanied by heavy and almost unremitting rain. The cold is intense, and fires have been, consequently, had recourse to much earlier than usual. The wcrst of it is that the poor man's harvest,' especially on the mountain sides, has not yet been ga thered in." This morning the wind veered to south-west, but there is little or no abatement of the gale, which is blowing very fresh, accompanied with heavy showers of rain. The Kingstown shipping note of the Freeman's Journal thus reports : " September 29.—This morning, at a very early hour, the wind veered roand to the south-west, and commenced blowing fiercely, the bay presenting one sheet of foam, accompanied by a mad rolling sea, the vessels to wind ward making for the harbour; those less fortunate made for llowth, where I hope they arrived in safety. The railway steamer Scotia left at the usual hour, nine, A.M., and, to my surprise, had a number of passengers. As she rounded the east pier she plunged madly into the heavy sea, and was apparently ingulfed, still onwards she steadily went in the teeth of the gale, and in a very short time was hull down. The Dublin Company's mail steamer arrived in harbour when the gale was at its height, and, from her appearance, she experienced its full efftc*.s ; howevi r, she made a capital run. The steamer Eblana left at 6.15 F rt. for Liverpool. The gale at this period was evidently on the increase, the mercury standing at this time at 29.5., the inclination still down wards, the bay appearing in the most disturbed state, with a roiling and lumpy sea. The brig Etigulck Cana way, 109 term, Conaway master, from Whitehaven, bound for Cardiff, with iron ore, was standing in for harbour this morning about 11 o'clock; she struck the barque Kingston, lying at anchor near the harbour's mouth, carrying away her bowsprit, jib-boom, foremast, fore and maintopmast. She was towed into harbour by the steam•tug Ellen Fawcett, and now lies alongside the Wolf, east pier. The barque proceeded to Dublin. "Ralf-past 10—The pier presents a most desolate ap- WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1851. pearance from the severity of the gale. The lamps are all extinguished. Its aspect is most dreary. " half-past 11—Itailway steamer Scotia jut arrived, crowded with passengers." SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—Some time ago we called attention to the very inadequate provision made by the Legislature for the investigation of charges against the judges of the county courts, a question which the increase of their jurisdiction, present and prospective, renders daily of more pressing importance. We have now to call public attention to a train of circumstances illustrating most fully the defects of the present law, and casting, we regret to say, no small discredit on a number of persons occupying judicial situations, and bound by the nature of their offices to more than ordinary care and discretion. Some time ago the Judge of the Liverpool County Court was drowned. The Earl of Carlisle, upon whom, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, devolved the duty of naming a successor, selected for the place Mr. Ramshay, of the Northern Circuit, a gentleman who, in addition to his other qualifications, possessed the merit of being the son and grandson of two successive land agents for his Lordship's family. This gentleman's conduct in his office gave great dissatisfaction to a large number of persons in Liverpool, and complaints rained thick as hail upon Lord Carlisle, who has by the 18th sec tion of the County Courts Act the power to remove the judge for inability or misbehaviour. So forcibly was Lord Carlisle impressed with the unfitness of Mr. Ramshay for the situation which he occupied that he earnestly requested him to resign his office, and even went so far as to offer that, if he would do so, he should be indemnified at Lord Carlisle's ex pense for the pecuniary loss • which such a step would involve. Mr. Ramshay refusing to accede to this request, was prevailed upon to discontinue sitting, and to discharge his duties by deputy until the complaints against him should be investigated. In this investi gation Mr. Sergeant Wilkins appeared as counsel for Mr. Ramshay. The County Courts Act provides no means of enforcing the attendance of witnesses to give evidence on such an occasion, or of examining those who present themselves on oath, and the result was, as might naturally have been expected, that Lord Carlisle, whatever might be his private opinion about Mr. Ramshay's unfitness, did not find in the evidence adduced sufficient to warrant him in removing him from his office. Mr. Ramshay was therefore remitted to his duties as County Court Judge in Liverpool by a superior who felt so strongly the necessity of his removal that he bad actually engaged to pay him a thousand a year for life rather than that he should continue in his office. The first step of Mr. Ramsbay tended to justify Lord Carlisle's private opinion, and to discredit his judicial decision. The judge issued cards for a banquet to be held in his own court, " in honour of the great principle of judicial independence, so long and so recklessly assailed in this town." The ban quet was held accordingly. The Mayor did not honour it with his presence, though Mr. Ramshay, in a carriage drawn by four gray horses, with postilions, waited upon him with an invitation ; but we regret to say Mr. Mansfield, the police magistrate of Liver pool, and Mr. Harden, the judge of the Cheshire County Court, were present at this most unseemly festival. After dinner Mr. Ramshay delivered a long and rambling speech, insinuating, we trust without foundation, that the death of his predecessor was at tributable to persecution from the press of Liverpool. He then narrated the circumstances of his own ap pointment, and intimated that, had the decision of Lord Carlisle been against him, be should have resisted it. He then expressed his determination to teach the press of Liverpool to behave themselves better, and assured them the greater their insubordination the greater would be their punishment. In conclusion he presented Mr. Sergeant Wilkins with a piece of plate in acknowledgment of his services. •In return ing thanks Mr. Wilkins entreated Mr. Ramshay not to abuse the vantage ground he bad gained, re minded him that he could afford to forgive, and begged him while he judged to entertain mercy. On drinking the health of a Hungarian gentleman pre sent, Mr. Ramshay recited some doggrel verses ex pressive of the hope that England, France, and Hun gary would fight again the battle of freedom on the plains of the latter country. The sequel of these proceedings, which explains the threats of the judge and the deprecation of the sergeant, we gave in our impression of yesterday. A placard having been posted not far from the court, bearing the heading, " Mr. Ramshay's Opinion of the People of Liverpool," the judge dispatched a bailiff to take into custody the editor of the Liverpool Journal, by whose direc tion this placard, announcing the publication of the paper, had been issued. Mr. Whitty, the editor, asked the bailiffs for their authority, and, upon their being unable to produce any in writing, he un der the advice of his attorney refused to attend. A scuffle ensued, but the bailiffs were unable to appre hend the editor. Finally the Judge condescended to issue a summons, in obedience to which Mr. Whitty attended, and was fined 51. under the 113th section of the County Courts Act, which Imposes that penalty on any person who shall wilfully insult the judge or an officer during their sitting or attendance in court, and three sums of Si. each, under the 114th section, for assaults on the bailiffs in the execution of their duty. In default of payment of each of these sums of 51., Mr. Whitty was sentenced to four terms of imprisonment of seven days each. A reporter for the Albion, who asked for a chair, and on being re fused, under the supposition that he was connected with the obnoxious journal, told the bailiff that he was as bad as his master, was for this sentenced to a similar fine. It would be an insult to the common sense of our readers to comment gravely on these out rageous proceedings, or to show by argument what is transparently clear,—that the placarding question had nothing offensive in it, and that, if it had, the posting it at thirty or forty yards from the court was not an insult to the judge during his sitting or attendance there. Nor shall we condescend to show that bailiffs seeking, on the verbal command of the judge of an inferior court, to drag a free citizen from his dwelling, are not in the execution of their duty, and have no claim whatever on the protection of the law. Of course Mr. Ramshay cannot be allowed to proceed in this unprecedented career, or to get up a small reign of terror of his own, for the purpose, as he boasts, of avenging the fate of his predecessor. If Lord Carlisle had not sufficient evidence before, he has it now, and will incur a heavy responsibility if he allow such proceedings to continue for a single moment. Of Mr. Ramshay's conduct we are un willing to think or write harshly; there is an eccentricity, an extravagance, and absurdity about it which seems only too clearly to point out that, whatever may have been the case before, the mind of this gentleman is not now in a state for the dis charge of judicial duties ; and we sincerely regret that they in whom the authority is vested should have permitted him to retain a situation in which he has, unhappily, had the opportunity, not merely of making public his infirmities, but of rendering himself liable to legal proceedings of the most formidable descrip tion. We cannot suppose that on a true return to a habeas corpus any judge would permit a person to remain in prison under such a sentence ; but it is DANGEROUS SPORT. —Two young gentlemen were, i o-xnt Orford r a renovating a few evenings since, trying the strength of their arms by melancholy to think of the scandal to public justice, as well as the inconvenience to private persons, which clasping the right hand of each and resting the elbow on h op a i s ni b on een occasioned by the disregard of public which has retained this gentleman in a situa the counter, and trying each to force the hand of the other tion long after his bodily illness and mental in down. aurrareopforotnelouwdas enough h n t s o ho b r e t firmities had become unhappily matters of notoriety. offh e araab above from eoI theln the toh elbow,one e ex t extreme struggle,causingm e o t h f the saloon to the other.—Nero We cannot conclude without expressing, our sur- York Tribune. prise that the police magistrate of Liverpool, and the Judge of the Chester County Court, should have ROYAL DONATION.—Iier Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to give a donation of 251. to Mr. been guilty of the glaring impropriety of attending a proceeding so exceptionable and objectionable in its Wilson, editor of the IVorth of Scotland Gazette, for the benefit of the funds of a school erected in connexion with the character as a banquet given by a Judge in his own Aberdeen Ragged Kirk. court to commemorate his own acquittal, and which, OxFoRD, MONDAY.- - A most distressing accident i i n ts a in d d di is ti o o r n et t io o n ev a e n r d y b a a c d ce t s as so t r e y , w w a h s i s c u h re w t o o u b ld e aggravate occurred an insult by many of those to whom it is their duty occurred here yesterday, which has thrown two mo h r i a g kt h he l re y , al r asn e d - t ble F to administer justice. Singular and mixed also must have been the feelings of the Learned Sergeant who , occasion—pleasure mperedby pa at in shfopi fortnight s e t e nf t oi a rg b eh l m e t a 3 i f n a i ro ,r. : c l i i r e a. s mH i p n eiy t o o gn ,a t the greatest Lh g ao r vn ea ed t ob e n s : t ebn a i fil liini i a c r t iod therese present, te in company with a young man named Gar- figured so conspicuously O M n r. s ß u i n e d k a e y rto th n e 's y b , billiard-tables previous to the October term. dener and a female, went to Sandford in a two-oared" dingy." the receipt of the splendid on p On their return to Oxford, about five o'clock, the boat was, in at the speech by which it was accompanied, and consequence of Mr. Campion missing his oar near Sandford Lasher, upset in about fourteen feet of water, and melancholy which only too clearly proved that the eloquence to relate, both Mr. Campion and his foreman were drowned. which it rewarded had been exerted in vain—exulta- Mr. Gardener rescued the lady, and attempted to save Mr. tion at the triumph of past advocacy, mingled with Campion, and no doubt would have done so but for th e l a tt er well-grounded apprehensions of future indiscretion on clinging so tightly round his neck. In that state th e y b o th the part of his client. Now that all these rejoicings went to the bottom, when , fo r self - preservation, Mr. Gardener g was compelled to release himself; and although a good are at an end, it only remains for Lord Carlisle itn swimmer, when brought to shore he was nearly exhausted, mediately to remove their object from his judicial and it was some time before he could be brought to himself. situation, and save him from that ruin which a few The deceased were highly re s p ected i n Oxford. The fore- more such exhibitions as those of last Monday must man, with Mr. Campion's late father, has been in the habit • f ll • bl b•in a t y ring upon him. of attending here for many years. ADVERTISER.—We yesterday published an SURREY CONSUMERS' GAS LIGHT AND COKE COM" article under the head, " The Judge and the Bill- PANL—Yesterday the first half-yearly m ee ti ng o f t hi s " s tick er. T o-day we give much more copious details company was held at the Bridge-house Hotel ; M r . Th omas Pocock, deputy-chairman, preside d . Mr. S. H. Powell, the of the circumstances under which the functions of the secretary, read the report, from which it appeared that the 1 bill-sticker were interfered with. The matter alto works had been completed at Rotherhi the , and some of the ' gether reads more like romance than reality. It is public lamps in that neighbourhood had been lighted on the 1 one o f t h e mos t ex t raor di nary a ff a irs w ith w hi c h the previous evening. The local authorities and commissioners, • i tudicial character has ever been mixed up in th with one exception — namely , S out hwark—afforded every - s facility to the company. The districts to be supplied are I country. Mr. Ramshay, the Liverpool Judge, and Rotherhithe, B erm ondsey, and Deptford. Many of the Mr. Whitty, the Liverpool newspaper editor, are not shareholders are in default from non-payment. In pur- ; the only persons interested in the matter. J udges nuance of a power granted to the directors in April last ' 1 and journalists everywhere, and the public of borrowing 20,0001., they have raised 8,0061., and they ! also, are affected by the issues which have hope that no further exercise of that power will be neces- 1 nar y . From the balance-sheet it appeared that the income" collision . between Mr. Ramshay and Mr. \Th . bitty. of the company amounted to 7,2791. 145., and the outlay and Hitherto it has been the prevailing belief in this liabilities to 25,2371. 2s. 6d., exclusive of what is due to the country that a judge's conduct • was alegitimate solicitor. The amount due to other creditors is stated to be subject for fair and temperate • b 17,957/. Bs. 6d. ; cash at bankers, 3,607/. 12s. The chairman discussion. And it certainly has be having moved the adoption of the report and statement of en the practice of news the accounts, Mr. Brickhill wished to know how much was papers to express themselves very freely on the due to the solicitor. Mr. James, the solicitor, said he had conduct of our judicial functionaries, whenever not made up his accounts, as he was in no hurry for the .it was thought that • t circums ances called for the money. The account extended over two years and a half, expression of their ' ' and is impression was that it would exceed 8001. Mr. Brick- , opinions. We have not, we are hill—l am glad to hear that, for I understood that it would 1 a e are any right to deal with the motives of those amount to 2,500/. The chairman having satisfactorily an- who are entrusted with the administration of public swered several other questions, the report and statement of justice. However erroneous we may deem their de accounts were approved of and the meeting separated. ' cisi 1 ons to be, we would not, on that account, be justi- NonanumneuaeND - Rnaise.—ln answer to inquiries! fled in arraigning the integrity of their characters. made yesterday it was stated that his Grace the Duke of ' Not the least extraordinary ofthis is part Northumberland had ordered Northumberland-house to be fact that ' - kept open to visitors to Saturday the 25th of this month, the offended judge did not know the con and Syon-house to Thursday the 23d, inclusive, to give the tents of the paragraph at which he was so indignant, public an opportunity of seeing those noble mansions for a' when he instructed his officers to bring the proprietor ' fortnight after the closing of the Grand Exhibition. ' and editor of the Liverpool Journal before him. He THE LATE BALLOON ACCIDENT. We have mentioned the balloon accident at Cha lons-sur-Marne, arising from the escape of the bal loon, from the breaking of .the hoop to which the ropes were attached, as it was being conveyed from the gasworki to the place from which the ascent was to have taken place on the occasion of the fete, and the death of one of the two persons who were in the car directing the men who were dragging the balloon at the time when it broke loose, and ascended. The following detail s are g i ven i n a l e tt er by the survivor: —Launched into the air, without anchor and without vane, it was difficult for us to entertain the idea of descending immediately, on account of the wind. Another still more powerful motive deterred us, and that was the darkness. We decided on waiting for daybreak, as the wind, which blew from the north, caused no fear that we should be driven out of France. There was one danger attendant on our position, and that was, that the balloon might carry us to a height of from 5,500 to 6,000 metres, where we should be inevitably exposed to a cold of from 15 to 20 de grees, particularly during the night. After some time we opened the valve fifteen times successively, in order to arrest the progress, and make us descend. M. Merle, suffering from cold, enveloped himself in a piece of canvas, and lay down in the bottom of the car. I leant on my elbows on the edge of the car, endeavouring to distinguish some lights in the towns we might be passing, in order to ascertain the pro gress, of the balloon. I had just advised M. Merle to take his cotton nightcap, as being more conveni ent than a hat, when, feeling myself affected by the cold, I asked him whether we should descend a little. He did not reply ; I took him by the arm, but he was senseless, and I thought he had been attacked with apoplexy. I afterwards thought that he must have been in a perspiration when he first ascended, and that the cold had seized on him before he was sufficiently aware of his position. I then pulled strongly on the cord attached to the valve, in order to descend as quickly as possible, and at the expira tion of about three quarters of an hour I came to the ground without any shock, in a meadow about four leagues from Troyes. I continued to use friction on the body of M. Merle for some time, for the night was so dark and the fog so thick that I knew not in what direction to seek for assistance, but without pro ducing any effect. Soon after, hearing a cook crow I directed my steps towards the spot, and discovered a farm, the proprietor of which came to me. We carried my companion into his house, and then sent for a medical man. During an hour and a half the farmer and myself did everything in our power to restore animation, and when the doctor arrived he pro nounced that all further attempts were useless."— Galignani's .Messenger. THE MURDER AT FROME. FROME, TUESDAY.—AII efforts to apprehend the perpetrator of these atrocities have as yet failed. This morning the articles of wearing apparel stolen from the cottage were found in a field in the neighbour hood. The inquest was commenced on Friday, and ad journed. It was resumed to-day, when Mr. Francis Giles, surgeon, deposed that he had made a post mortem examination. He found a large qutetity of blood between the ,scalp and the bone on the fore part of the head towards the right side. On opening the skull, be found that the bone was not fractured ; the brain was very much congested, but in other respects healthy. On the neck were two bruises beneath the skin, one in the middle of the line, just over tho windpipe, the other two or three inches dis tant ou the left side. The heart and lungs were very much congested, but in other respects healthy. All the other viscera were healthy. [The post mortem examination also proved that a rape had been com mitted.] He believed death to have been caused by strangulation. It was quite impossible the girl could have strangled herself. The verdict was an open one, viz., that the de ceased was murdered by some person or persons unknown. not only, on his owh confession, had not seen it, but had not the remotest idea of its nature. For anything he knew to the contrary, it might have been penned in strains of the highest eulogy. The heading of the paragraph in the placard which was offensive to Mr. Ramshay was simply "Mr. Ramshay's Opinion of the People of Liverpool." Possibly he may have been conscious that he had recently expressed some opinion not particularly flattering to that people ; but then how was he to know, not having seen the article, nor learnt its character from any second party, that the editor did not indorse his " opinion of the people of Liverpool," and hold it up to the gaze of the world as the soundest and most enlightened opinion which either judge, jury, or private individual, ever expressed ? But it is right our readers should be enabled to form their own opinion of the article which stirred up such deep indignati on in the soul of this judicial func tionary. The article is not long, and therefore it has all the greater claims to a place in this department of our paper. Here is the incriminated paragraph.— " In a case," says the Liverpool Journal, " before the Judge of the County Court yesterday, in which W. Holrum, a shoemaker, of Edge-hill, claimed nineteen shillings for goods supplied to R. Fox, the latter having a se t- o ff aga i nst the plaintiff for board and lodging supplied to the plaintiff's son, a boy, his Honour expressed himself in rather strong language with respect to the characteristics of some people in this part of the country. The plaintiff's wife had observed that the boy was in a very weak state of health, and on one occasion when at Holrum's, she proposed to take him home with her to Rainhill, 'where he would be attended to, and have the benefit of pure air. From some cause the boy was brought back to his parents at the expiration of a month, and the set-off was a demand of ss. a-week for board and lodging, as previously agreed on. His Honour cha racterised the conduct of the plaintiff as unfortunately like that of many persons in this part of the country, and which to him (the judge) was a perfect problem ; they appeared to have not the slightest regard to the solemnity of an oath, and were equally destitute of the feelings of humanity. The defendant, with the most praiseworthy motive, had made a proposition to the boy's parents, which they no doubt jumped at with avidity. The ss. a week charged by the defendant for the boy's board and lodging was a very mode- rate charge, yet the plaintiff attempted to deny the agreement, and had told a positive falsehood with respect to the time the boy was at Rainhill.' He be lieved that nearly all that had been stated' by the plaintiff was false, and he therefore had great pleasure in giving a verdict for the defendant." Few of our readers, we presume, will differ from us, when we say that we have rarely met with anything more harmless than the paragraph we have just quoted. It is inno cence itself, compared with articles relative to the conduct of judges, which appear, from time to time, in the metropolitan journals. And yet it is the rarest thing in the world, to see any of our metropolitan judicial functionaries embarking in a crusade against the newspaper press, on the ground of alleged departures from that respectful treatment which is supposed to be due to the dispensers of justice. It will be observed, that in the incriminated para graph, it so happens that there is not a single word in the shape of censure or of animadversion in any shape on the: character, judicial or otherwise, of this county court judge. The paragraph, which has created so great a commotion in Liverpool, and which will attract attention in all parts of the coun try, consists simply of a narrative of what took place in Mr. Ramsbay's court on a particular day. In other words, it is purely a report of a j u d gmen t which the Learned Judge delivered in a case which came before him. For ourselves, we must own that some of the observations of this judicial functionary, were particularly inviting of remark. And had the circumstances occurred in Lendon, where, somehow or other, we use greater liberty of speech than they do in the provinces, the chances are ten to one that, instead of a mere simple narrative of what took place —a report of what fell from the judicial lips, he would have had to encounter no small amount of leading-article thunder. Our only wonder is, that the Liverpool journals, in reporting such al case, had to much control over their editorial tempers, as to abstain from canvassing freely and fulty some of the startling " opinions" expressed in this judgment of the functionary who presides over the county court of that place. However, that is their affair, not ours. H e r e the p u bli c would have charged the press with a flagrant dereliction of duty, had such a case occurred in the metropolis, and we passed it over without animadversion. But the cha racter of the paragraph is not the point in dispute. The question is, whether it be contrary to the con stitution of this country, that the press should discuss calmly and temperately the sayings and doings of judges—just as they are confessedly at liberty to discuss the sayings and doings of other servants of the Crown acid of the public. The matter must be brought to. an issue. It cannot rest where it is. An , appeal must be made to an other court The judgment of a higher tri bunal than that of the County Court of Liverpool, must be obtained—a tribunal whose proeeedings have been hitherto characterised by the decorum becoming the dignity which we are accustomed to associate with the judicial functions. The appeal must be made to a tribunal whose decision will be respected. But there are circumstances connected with this case to which we have not yet alluded. The way in which Mr. Whitty was brought before the bar of the court, or rather the way in which it was, in the first instance, attempted to bring him before that tribunal, was in happy keeping with the whole affair. On two several occasions the officers of the court went to drag him before the judge without a warrant, and it was not until Mr. Whitty threatened them with something very like " an assault and battery," if they dared to lay hands on him with out a warrant, that they bethought themselves of going about their work in a legal manner. But we must defer any further allusion to the subject, until we have a more ample report of the case before us, than that which appears in our paper to-day. The result was, that Mr. Whitty was sentenced to pay a penalty of 51. each on three cases of assault, and seven days' imprisoment each for two cases of alleged assault on the officers of the court. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE: LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—,ThiS company are now borrowing large SUMS of money at 4 per cent., with which they are paying off old loans of 5 and 5i per cent. _ _ _ GREAT NORTLIERN RAILWAY.—The directors of this company have male arrangements for erecting a large station on their line, near that of the East Anglian Rail way, at Wisbeach. This step has been considered ne cessary, in consequence of the great increase of traffic at that place, more particularly in goods. EAST ANGLIAN itAILWAY:--- , A Station at St. Ives, in connexion with this line, is to bl forthwith erected. The want of one has long been considered a great disadvan tage to the company. BLACKBURN RAlLWAY.—Arrangements are being made by the directors of this company for a working agreement with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. ►SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—This company intend going to Parliament, during the ensuing session, for powers to amalgamate the Reading, Guildford and Rei gate Company. EXCURSION TRAINS TO THE GREAT EXHIBITION. — On and after to-day most of the railway companies dis continue the issue of Exhibition return tickets. MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN.--The half-yearly meet ing of the Midland Great Western Railway was held yesterday, when the report of the directors and abstract of accounts were unanimously adopted. The dividend for the half-year was declared to be at the rate of four per cont. per annum. IRISH SOUTH-EASTERN.—The balance-sheet of the Irish South-Eastern has been printed preliminary to the general meeting, from which it appears that there is a small profit, amounting to 711. 4s. sd. on the working of the half -3 ear. The traffic amounted to the sum of 3,937/. 19s. 6d. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SUNDAY, SEPT. 28. Her Majesty an d hi s Royal Highness P r i nce Albert attended divin e serv i ce t hi s morn i ng in the parish church of Crathie. The Marchioness of Douro and the Hon. Beatrice Byng were in attendance on her Majesty. The Earl of Carlisle and the Gentlemen of the Household were also in attendance. The service was performed by the Rev. Archibald Anderson. In the afternoon, her 11Iajesty and his Royal High ness walked in the neighbourhood of Balmoral, ac companied by the younger members of the Royal Family. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from the Governor of the Falkland Islands. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. Immense as the concourse of visitors was on Mon day, it was exceeded yesterday, 69,346 persons hav ing entered the building, and the sum of 3,303/. 4s. being taken at the doors. THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. CALAIS, SEPT. 30.—The completion of this under taking has been marked with great rejoicings on this side the Channel. The line of communication be tween the two coasts was fully established on Sunday evening, about five o'clock, and the electric wire, after three days had been consumed in stretching it across the straits ; was brought up on the French coast at Sanngate, about three miles below Calais, whence it was carried underground to the telegraph station of the Great Northern of France Railway at Calais. Electric currents were passed from coast to coast, and messages sent the same evening; but on Monday a series of experiments were tried with the most satis factory results; and as the same results were achieved today, the great enterprise may now be regarded as actually finished and complete. Early on Monday morning a congratulatory message to the President of the French Republic was sent di rect from England to Paris ; also to the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Austria, at Berlin and Vienna ; and messages were r also transmitted to London, from the principal cities of Europe included in the continental system of telegraphic com munication. During the whole of Monday the town of Calais presented the appearance of a file, and num bers of the inhabitants congregated on the ramparts watching with interest and wonder the various expe riments which were tried with the submarine wires. In the evening an entertainment was given, at the Hotel de Ville, to those English gentlemen, promo ters of the undertaking, who were on the spot and had assisted in its completion. These were Sir James Carmichael, Mr. Crampton, C.E., Mr. Wollaston, and Mr. Tatham, of the Gutta Percha Company, M. Mayer, the mayor of Calais, presided; and, in addi tion to the English guests, there were present MM. Legros Devot, representative du Yeuple ; Duhamel, councillor of state, and member of the Academy of St. Petersburgh ; Dupont, vice-consul of Russia; and M. Bonkom, British consul, together with the • cipal inhabitants of Caltas and the officers of the Dgar utmost h rison. uring the wh o l e of the proceedings the harmony Prevailed, and after dinner the English gentlemen were conducted over the Museum of the town, where it was determined that a portion of the electric coil should in future be placed in juxta- Position with the balloon of the celebrated aeronaut, Blanchard, who, in 1795, made his first supramal e voyage from Dover to Calais. [ADVERTISEMENT.] .—The correct report of the pugilistic contest between Broome and Perry will be given in Bell's Life in London on Saturday. Price of Bell's Life Sixpence. Bell's Life is published in time for all the early railways and Saturday morning mails. Average sale of Bell's Life Thirty Thousand. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—During the present year of 1851 The Observer has published over two hundred folio columns of the most interesting particulars of the contents of the Great Exhibition, chiefly original, and collected and penned by two gentlemen of The Observer establishment, who visited the Exhibition daily for that purpose, and for The Observer only. The extensive publication of The Ob server commences at five o'clock on Sunday mornings, i n time for all the Sunday morning railways. A Monday's edition, which is best for the country and abroad, at four, Monday afternoons. Two JUDGES DISFRANCHISED. -011 Friday, at the the Middlesex Divisional Registration Court held a o f West minster, the names of Sir John Romilly, Rolls, and Lord Cranworth were struck oft the list of voters, the former for having changed his residence with out giving notice to the overseers; and the latter for having sold the chambers in right of which he held his qualification. No FLATTERY..—." Can you t e ll me where Mr. Smith lives, Mister?" " Smit h — Sizith—what Smith ? There are a good many of that name in these b name is Smith." " Why, I do n 't know hisothearr arts : my m name ; but he's a sour, cross, and crabbed sort of a fellow, and they call him Crab Smith." " Oh, I suppose I'm the man." A MIRACLE FOR FATHER NEWMA The Univers contained the following in its number of Saturday last. As Dr. Newman is so eager to swallow everything miraculous, this new miracle will gratify his taste : There is much talk at Rome of an extraordinary cure which has taken place in the very palace of the Vatican. The following is the manner in which this prodigious fact is described, and which will, without doubt, become the subject of a judicial inquiry : "A young girl, of about 20 years of age, whose family is employed in the domestic side of the palace, had contracted a bad fever, owing to the loss of her father a little time before, as well as to the influence of the season, which has multiplied at Rome diseases of this kind, and by which a great number of victims have fallen within the last few months. " Notwithstanding the enlightened efforts of the doctor of the pontifical family,' and of her parents, the young invalid was soon at the last extremity. The vice cure of the palace (which, as is known, is a foun dation), a member of the Augustin order (Monseig neur the Sacristan of the same order is the titular cure) had administered to her the sacrament of ex treme unction, and had recited the prayer recom mending her soul. Her last sigh was hourly ex pected. " For the sake of enabling our readers to under stand the prodigy about to be related, it is necessary to state that during the course of the malady the vice cure had several times engaged the pious patient to invoke the aid of a venerable servant of God, of the Augustin order, whose beatification is about to be declared, and he had even mixed in the potions given to such girl some little fragments of the clothes of the venerable man—(old clo'). On the other hand, according to the usage of religious families, they had carried into the chamber of the dying per son the Santo Bambino de l'Ara•Cceli, demanding of these last resources of the faith a cure no longer in the reach of human science to bestow. " Let us return to the bed of the dying girl, whom we find in a profound sleep from which she shall soon awaken to relate with smiles on her lips how she had seen the infant J esus , h av i ng at his bide a venerable servant of God, clad iu the habit of the order of St. Augustin. She adds that she feels herself cured, but very weak, and she asks for a cup of broth to give her strength. The broth is given to her, although the request is regarded as coming from ono in the last agitation of dying; but the sick girl, who had felt the action of grace, and who knew well that she w as cure d, r i ses, t h rows o ff a l l the b l i sters, o f which not a trace was left on her body, and on the following day repaired to the Church of l'Ara Cceli, at more than half a l eague di stant, to t h an k the S anto Bambino and the servant of God who had restored her to life and .health. " You may easily comprehend the sensation that a fact of this kind must have produced upon a popula tion so full of faith, especially upon the eve of the ceremony of the 21st, which will p u t so l emn l y upon the altar, in placing him amongst the blest, the vene rable Father Clavier, of the . Society of J esus , an d a t the close of the expiatory tr i duo which has been cele brated at Saint Andre del la Valle in reparation of the sacrilegious outrage committed against the Ma donna du Vicolo dell' Abate Luigi. , , Our readers will be obliged to us for saying some words about this ceremony, and the cause which led to it. Last year Colonel Nardoni, assailed by two assas sins, providentially escaped death. It so happened that the theatre of this event was precisely under the Ma donna placed at the corner Du Vicolo dell Abate Luigi. The Colonel attributed his escape to the pro tection of the Holy Virgin, and out of gratitude caused the image which had so protected him to be carefully restored, for owing to the isolation of the place it had been much neglected. Demagoguism, as it appears, owed a grudge' to the Queen of Heaven, for having saved a man whose death would have been so precious to the Republican cause, and a sacrilegious and democratic hand some time ago smashed with stones the crystal which se cures the sacred image, and mutilated its blessed fea tures. This brutal outrage having filled the town with horror, his Eminence the Cardinal Vicar, yielding to entreaties, ordered a solemn triduo, which took place the 14th, 15th, and 16th of the month. The image so outraged by demagogues was placed on the grand altar of the church in the midst of an infinitude of tapers, which crowned it as with a diadem of fire, and for three days she received the homage, the invocations, and the tears of a faithful people. On the evening of the third day, in the midst of singing and illuminations, the holy image was borne in procession and replaced in the corner it had occupied, the people crying " Viva Maria !" To this account the Univers adds the following : " Our correspondent, in a postscript, states that on the night of the 19th, the Madonna du Vicolo Deo Met cante, near the place Trajan, had been, to use the ex pressive language of the Roman people, assassinated and thrown into the dirt. It supposed that, in this instance, Heresy has lent its hand to Demagoguism." MR. FOX, M.P., AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS. " The House of Lords is as safe," says Mr. Fox, " as it deserves to be." Whatever may be Mr. Fox's estimate of the deserts of that body, we think he will not find the country so ready to sweep it away ; and while the House of Lords remains, the training of its future members in the popular arena of the Lower House is one of the best guarantees for the harmonious working of the Constitution. Wben some one expressed to the King of Hanover his surprise at the marked success with which that monarch had weathered the storms of 1848, when all other German thrones were shaken or overthrown, he answered, " It would be a strange thing if I, wbo have passed forty years in an English Parliament, did not know better how to conduct my affairs than these hereditary despots." What the House of Lords was to the King of Hanover, the House of Commons is to the heir of a peerage ; and whatever Mr. Fox may say to the contrary, the prudence and moderation which the Upper House have shown on those occasions in which the will of the people and the supposed inte rests of the aristocracy have clashed, are due to that sound political training, and that practical apprecia tion of the popular spirit, which a large number of its members have acquired in the House of Commons. The condemnation which Mr. Fox passes upon Lord John Russell is, we fear, scarcely less appli cable to himself :—" His tendency is always to look to the narrow, rather than to the broad and expansive." The member for Oldham is the slave of words—he cannot endure the name of a " lord," and he loses his temper at the bare notion of a bishop. It is not by efforts made in such a spirit that the cause of reform will be advanced, or any real and solid popular progress be achieved. That is a work which must be undertaken in a statesman like temper, and with generous and comprehensive views—views alike devoid of the class jealousies which Mr. Fox imputes to Lord John Russell and the Whigs, and of those which he unquestionably displays in his own person. —Morning Chronicle. A FATAL DUEL. In Mr. Commissioner Phillips's Life of Curran," he gives the followin g anec d o t e connected with the cele brated duel between Mr. Daniel O'Connell and Mr. D'Esterre:—" Being one of those who accompanied O'Connell, he beckoned me aside to a distant portion of the very large field, which had a slight covering of snow. Phillips,' said he, • thi s seems to me not a personal but a political affair. I am obnoxious to a party, and they adopt a false pretence to cut me off. I shall not submit to it. They have reckoned without their host, I promise you. I am one of the best shots in Ireland at a mar k , having, as a public man, considered it a duty to prepare for my own protection against such unprovoked aggression as the present. Now, re member what I say to you. I may be struck myself and then skill is out of the question ; but, if am not, my antagonist may have cause to regret his having forced me into this conflict.' The parties were then placisd on the ground at, I think, twelve paces, each having a CSEO of pistols, with directions to fire when they chose a ft er a g i ven signal. D'Esterre rather agitated himself by maki ng a s h or t s p eec h disclaiming all hostility to hi s R oman C at h o li c countrymen,sin and took his ground, somew h a t theatrically o pistols on his b osom . Th e y fi re d almost _etoicigretshmcorr,g his mortally instantly on th e s i gna l. D'Esterre these detail s i n wounded. The greatest self-possession was displayed by him. I deemed it a duty to narrate no O'Connell's lifetime whenever I heard his courage w questioned, and justice to his memory prompts me to record them here." FRENCH RAIL WAY TRAFFIC. The following are the last returns of the gross ro ceipts of the principal French Railways :-- NORTH-ERN.—From Sept. 17 to Sept. 23: Passengers, 457,892 f.; goods, 238,768 f.; total, c96,660f. ROIIEN.—From Sept. 14 to Sept. 20 : Passengers, 192,2921.; goods, 81.290 f.; total, 203,5821. HAVRIL—From S: , pt. 14 t• Sept. 20: Passengcra, 46,8451.; goods, 37,058 f. ; total 114,495 f. —From S e p t. 15 to Sept. 21• Passengers, LE 108,9081. ; ANs. goods, 117,181 f.; tota l , 226,0891. E 13ORDEAIJX.—Proui Sept. 9 to Sept. 15: Passengers, 81,8081.; goods. 46,405 f.; total, 128,213 f. VIERZON.--/;1'01.0 &rt. 15 to Sept. 21 : Passengers, 42,249 E; goods, 38,036 f,; total, 80,285 f. NANTE S r Sept. 13 Lpt. to Sept. 19 : Passengers, 4 6,813 f.; goods, 23,7641.; total, 70.577 f. STRAsuunG.—Prom Sqt. 17 to Sept. 23: Passengers, 13 9,076 f.; oodl, 84,936 f.; total, 224,012 f. 13.41.E.—Fr0m Sept. 8 to Sept. 14 : Passengers, 3 5,4831.; goods, 18,1111.; total, 53,594 f. MoNTEarAu.—From Sept. 10 to Sept. 16: Passengers, 16,271 f. ; goods, 12,636 f.; total, 28,9071. 2tIARSEILLES.—From Sept. 7 to Sept. 16: Passengers, 55,227 f.; goods, 26,464 f.; total, 81,691 f. LIONS.—From Sept. 7 to Sept. 1 3 : Passengers, goods,; 284 308f81 7881 • total 366,096 f. , . CHARTREB.—From Sept. 8 to Sept. 14: Passengers, 35,460 f.; goods, 38,213 f.; total, 73,673 f. Rose Tamisier is to be tried again by a Court of Appeal. r . ._ I _