The Sun. — London, England, 1845-11-17 00:00:00

R AIL ------- Mr A V SHARE MARKETS. Sr o , , LIVERPOOL, Nov 14. Livetll4,''''',l,e.l,itixoeThe sales are—Bolton,. Wigan,.. and 41(11,,,,, ''',2—Cambridge and Lincoln, 4%—Edinnu }g—Edinburgh ratb,-, s —Glasgow and Belfast Union, 3—Glasgow, Qu arter reenock, 211 / 4 —Grand Junction, 227—Ditto, w Fares Sharer, 47 —Ditto; New Quarter Shares, 31—Ditto, l ilr v „„ ar es , 1 1), 5: Great Western, Half Shares, 864 'at; mess and Perth, 2 %—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and miidLL'4.-Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 2 !o,, e d.l4litto, 401. Shares, 204—North Union Q 1), 511...'Ve1d and Manchester, Quarter Shares, N 0.3, (scrip), oatilPsbarY, Wolverhampton, and South Stafford, 3% I.l4teh Rh-asern and Dover, 36—West Riding Union, 84— enishi 714—Great Luxembourg, 2 3 / 4 . 84- 6 /a , MANCHESTER Noy. 14. 'lock , ii -e, xCIIANGE•—Th sales ' - are—Bideford and Tavi -Ibridge 4--Birkenhe:;(l, Lan e caste and Cheshire, 7 3 / 4 —Cam -44, h• ild Lincoln 41 /—Eastern Counties, 204—East 1: 4• 1 7 , N'e. 1, 18'1().2•East Lincolnshire, 24—Essex d to(--heirleici -GlasgoW•.ind Dumfries, 2 1 / 2 —Huddersfield and . •s ' (-- L4d 4netien. 20— Lancashire and North Yorkshire, Leeds .*i and Thirsk, 121 A—Leeds and York, 3--Leicester r t ,. On,4glinl, li'. !i — Leicester and Tamworth, 2—Liver- 4 ', to - 4^"tc. and Presto ,n 41 / B —London and Manchester 44 -;i--Landon and Windscal 3 / —London and tlinehonanclister and Birmingham ' Continuation and Welsh Nnrii,s'tell/a--Manchester and Bury Atmospheric,. 1 1 4 7 ' , c , it:ll,l l; and Rugby Direct, 1 1 /,—.STorth Statfordsp ire, o% ti lbl Woh7 4 2 11 and Boston_ , 51s: 6d.—Oxfurd, Worcester, .at,,si •eraampton, 17 —Preston and Wyre, 'l4 ll " 1-78--. ffi ldand .; aach "le a Lincolnshire,33% —Sheffield lA—Ditto, sktrrilinghi ester Qaarters, No. 3, 64—Shrewsbury and 41"ilir raA--West Lancashire Coast, 2 5 / 8 Worcester, Y, and Crewe, 1 9-16. LEEDS, Nov. 14. 4Skez Excyt 14, ',%iftllSh • ertsfie :na —The sales are—Manchester and . 411144 ares, 10% p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, torrbitto a . nd Sheffield, I9—Leeds . and Bradford, le , xtensions 38 1 4 Leeds and Thirsk, 13-ox les Weste r ' yt, and G %and Wolverhampton, 16% 7 -Wakefield, Pen kki°ll,6%......°°le, 37—London and York, 4%—West Riding %, \P ene La.st and West Yorkshire, par—Great Eastern . lids tern, 4s. 6d. p—L neashire and North Yorkshire, l' ii. '434ll PL eas i r , h r ire, Yo - ikshir a e, and North . Eastern, 4s. la- - ' li IL-..5r Pool Direct ss. dis.—Leicester and Bedford, rloeliest,'„alinc‘ilie,ster, Buxt , on, Matloc . k, and Midland, 3 [ o . k i , i rth sw , aouthampton, 3 1 A—North Staffordshire, 4 3 / 4 /,'ls l ' ll l hn e e t t e . rll, 31 4—South Midlands, iielaia.. len. 10s. dis.—Wakefield and Harrogate, 16s. 3% p.—South and Sr aiallands, 2 %—York and Carlisle, ay e . LSA., b ° c4E x , ~... HULL, Nov. 14. • 14. 1 '0, 41-4 " 4 E.--The sales are—South Eastern, 34 % ktfrioltflo--0, ;..Ditto,2l-- Half Shares, 4 , —Ditto, Dalkeith, c.. . .nakii a Bu 1--Erewash alley, ".Inn eti e Y J ancao_ ,n 28 s. —Northumberland and Lanca -24%—Hu1l " ' 2 % — Wakfield and Bradford, 2L11168. 4/ 0 (!t c p.„, bIiEFFIELD, Nov. 14. 43;_ F•—The sales are—South Eastern, No. 1. b --..11e11..t1d and Lincolnshire, 3/. 9s. 4; 1 7 It t, BRISTOL, Nov. 14. 77.....•acRlanaa111.—The sales are—Bristol and Exe . ter, t li t irinl i, an rest Westera, Quarter Shares, 17 3 / I —lpswich , Il b, 4 Yarmoutk, lh d' London and York, 4 3 / 4 . - NI, 24 . 18.— t Ot ICIPI 1' EXETER, Nov. 14. 1 tid t e t ‘ teiA°ll,laNnE.—The sales are—Exeter, Yeovil, and ' li "evon,ri P.--North Dev n l / . Central Cornwall aa,.. , 4 „.....„, 0, . 2 /, Or L u l:', Jaw Vale Extension, p.,—Ashburtonand 1 ta I.)evon Junction, 1 ,4 p.—touth Wales, 44. ii i (I P tze YORK, Nov. 14. Nitta on - t n a.—The ales are—York and North Mid- Na '' 44 1 ,41-- Nevrcastle and Berwick, 12%—North ~, I;I, 4.4/4---London and York, 4 3 / 4 —Cambridge . and k"tit 'Nip "entAT Nuneaton Birmingham and Lewes- 1 ilaistie (1'44 Bnio'n, 1% Liverpool, Manchester, and , kiil644, l,llllevti°ll 3'n , l%—Liverpool, Buxton, Matlock, and ' 2A1"er111 Kent and Direct Dover, 24—Welsh ' 11441 ,1 11 Ex G LASGOW Nov. 13. inkiii•-..A; c.,114-`10P...---Th sales a Airdrie and Bathgate, 11, on, s„ 4 "trie and e • are—Airdrie —Ayr and Dumfries 4 4 , a4,... 41 . . oatbndge, - 4 . ear l: tai nt% raish and Irish Union, 70s.—Caledonian, ! 111 .4° , 451411 Extension 66s.—Caledonian and Ayrshire 4gni oro,';--Caledon' ' and Dumbartonshire Junction, 11 w47, 4g, a4 and even Cntral, 475. 6d.—East Indian 4glia;,,l,dinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 215.- 4 04, i nr,, - 4 - 4 ' ~,rerth, .1i d Greenock, —For fh ad Clyde Junction, 515.. , ko ,lasow.aelfst Union, 50s.—Glasgow an . ;ladsd to i Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 9 08 .—Gla i sgaw. ,n 111,50,. chop'rn 50 6d.-Glasgow Harbour Grand Mop a'rkefgeotjanla'ipw Harbour a ; Mineral, 575.. 6d.—Great 4 111 6 1 , 41 4 Lo ‘ ,6os.— Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 6 . 5 5 5 . . - - 5 ' ' B B e- g 475. 6 d.—Scottish Central and Caledoni 411 sl etC b d A er i ..... " 0 ' t t : r i Z , 69 s.—Perth and Inverness, 4U .an and Dunfermline, 525. 6d. kal ef lt DUBLIN Ol s 1 6 „, c ,,,, i ,.._ E , Nov.ov 13. otkl4--11,Znn The. — sales are—Belfast and Bally biaji, od ts and Bantry, 1 1 /9-Cork and Waterford, i. , gi a nd '.,aglial, DA —Dublin and Belfast Junction, 1. 1 t, Th e It. "reaeda 80—Great Great Southern and Western, , Frii rl 'ii G, -allana Great • and Railway Canal, 4% 41 ,, ia 0d eat w Western ,„it.v 'h...L. "tern, Dublin to Galway, 3N —Irish North . NI b„,4ert, plerick, Enniskillen, and Killaloe Junction, ' ult a, i r s 4 ` i . and Limerick, 74—Waterford, Wexford, , , :\,,,, 11 4 0 ii . r , ,tk ' 'l;, c ei tih," -t ;C TED RAIL WAYS. N :-,. in iijaPplication is intended to be made to Par: lildi l ' l lot ed ~,e , ensuing session, on behalf of the un 1111/4,44;t"lerneS, appearei in Friday's Gazette : t tt Lbe st ,, r rict Railways. .li,:ttt and'entbanipton, and Poole Railway. liopd‘eild4o.,lnniith Railway. W,a„ °ll an d n",SJuthern Counties Railway and Terminus. Nelister, fetTningharn Railway—Banbury line. ~4 t 1i,1.Y l `l l.'Y, and Ludlow Railwa.),. •NI 'lre Slid . windon Extension Railway. 111,3aua Li Glasgow Union Railway. i i t 1.ant,11,!9111 Direct Railway. 14 0( 4 ,ad 111 re Railwa - ~,)titil'ihilat Ziorth of England Juncticn Railways. 'kkiti l lo rke w ell, and Bolton Railway. .. n . • St4f fo i re Coal Railway. 1141ito b ey rdsbire Railway. kisiiiikt;;;°al,ii:iverton, Honitaa s and London Direct ' Lll eft tll Orated4:l - li t ~, .unction Iva an kh eariniew,„ayn:d North Western Junction. iv a.,1 1. 4 4 1 1 1 d extutrlYi. Edmund's and Direct Northwich q,, , i' Vapeaslare a y .' Ir t 'tat \ O , l , tt ‘ ,, r_lgan branch). %, 4 of En gland ‘)kf.o,l ta gland and Boroughbridge Branch Rail ask,t an m. lig/n,2o;: r : killo - a 15 r 1) ,, 11 . ,,, Direct Railway. 14i04111,f4411(1q41,Zea, vales s cl tirrtssaolic Cardiff Union. liltaaellelli:rti,4 Bolt kyallies runetioon. l',,Nrnrd cqbie ,11414 un, and Bury Canal Navigation and iila. Y-gre -et-liarborou h and Rugby. Iksi-itor, ea and Bristol g ' ,110„bleatrattdi....„anrtiacnita Elnd. Dum . barton Direct. .1:!: .4 k t i ld aim ,pwaidon. . i . .Ver, Idland •,'"ianFhester Junction. t ,tr et r o et and ilia-lawn. }sole and°l Ilk. n,rY Railway Branches. 'il'°tlv.ll4 e n -1 111 n r. l h e _ ad, Parkgate, and Holyhead Junction. I) tw,b 411,tollis_ ourn. . . lt,sl4lrrtzsilanitaryearliew4,LUjehiceessttee.rr, a D n i d re ß et i . rkenhead Junction. ,an t v e, 1/4 Junction. .fNi, kli e ,, r,ardale, and Hartlepool Union. . l,rai,..Asol:,,itester, and Holyhead Continuation. t v ti . i. ' o oni, wan plverhaTiton., and Dudley. 4 al u q, Wg,l'inton, Manchester, and .Stockport Direct i a,,i: and -01..11,g,10n, arid Manchester line). . i 154;. 4 g.„ "a-Western Railway Metropolitan Exten d',. s rtn r`-'otuati e "sr"'ead on J 1 and Thames Junction Railway Branches. ua ti Tol and T anction. , eq, e gelon , st T.'s Direct. ~ 'ent \\!°trai 1,"..'/era, Wisbeach, and Sutton. '. 4. , n cto. r st , rii alma .), Station. 1 1, I ' alid York d Windsor. ( s. a,ll)nn, (Great Northern) Railway, St. Albans, iirc' uttoiiaole Branch. t Alit:ter a„edtz and Stafford. It t tect prid Bo and I ts (tido INitlge, and Sandall Magna. tiQh, 4 Ana fhttil, Leicester and Boston. e° eili °l. a (Great Northern) Railway—Hertford ',)tit r Y, 13 t in antl a ribu , ce4a ie, p 0 „.,,r3, and Oxford Direct Junction. F l 0 4a ati c t ..N.;',ain, and Hartlepool Union. tiltla,,kiil gate.ter•lhapton. `r tuna p'l a tni J .: zi.4la-Eatern'lartlepool -Union. 4 . ,2,the eft,,and Western. M 4 )tk-411(:ntetien Mineral Railway. *111 1 111% "ertl i 144 111,114 °Midland Leeds Extension. I, , nth t , l tl am T , : affhar n I 1 4 utspt ...iirsl t j • • : ce.. st oh, 1, unction. 411 4 kllla and etersfield and London , Direct. b,efAetr,', kral,a,lsreweastle!.a i:i`:,t°ol;). hot-Chtea_r%LizerpPoecial-, an:Birkenhead Junction. l 0 41' 5 (4 and , .. Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield I l it Pan ""erb I Is etl I; entli g . . 1 1 N 4 lanohl hields Railway purchase. I t tlo n e e fr o ' ilst Retford, and Sheffield Junction. 1144 3 i 14 the S hrewsbury, Owestiy, and Chestee 1 iNtitanct s outh Nv !IS ai l i re, N s ,. ales. . t7lnht, tinvivaire, and Staffordshire Junction. . \„.le4 4 , 1 e?, sh a lleY, and Eastern and Western Junction. 'OIL: 4 1 ' 1 1 . Sof o l i tteld, and Midland Junction. 4 7 4 auP ll Gra d i4 r l tilt ootilk4ttititEalyrolird LlJuirneectti.on and Manchester and Lode. :I,:st,urdytilalecifnW ells branches). lindeerl Jlereford. inli la It k /4,, A .. , and s(%-..,..,...z..__._.....11 Siaffbram_ i , e Direct. t, aTii r it, AiLMr a ---- -------_— Yk'ti'l`l4,ll 4'-lr RETURNS. 'kl ti ''t q t „._P 4 -it ee*„-The following are the Total Receipts of Roll. Nl4 1 ,7 t '4 . ‘ raa t a ll e at , l s to say, up to the date to which the 'Ala y e , ~..1 ioaether with the receipts of the same %. I ,t N it 4 N SAISE OF RAILWAY. 111. (:'itli and F • "1414nd Itinn'irfilgalirana— • ** • • . • . b,„er and irkenhead. • ****** ••• • • ti',liill and Drogheda.. •• • ** • • • • • • ,141,1, and Xingstown .. . • • • •• • • o arh aoa Arbroath . .. • • •• I,,diktru and Stinderland ..• ****** • • • . I:mu, 4rZh and Glasgow • ——— •• ' 0ia„7,..,11 Counties and North Eastern.- Gl,-;"w• Kilrnarnock, and Ayr •.•• 0r1.741,"'t and Oreenock. .- •• " • aye'4llllction .• •• •• ••• **** • ****** • °teat T ill arkl Rochester.... .. -- %est '")rth Of XllglAnd .. *. •• ****** IlartletSte4l....... ****** ........ 4:1114,01 ..... ........ ******* .... L'l4olo 444 111rT;lingbarn '• • ..... Lorid.p and Blackwall...: •• •• *"... 10ri,i,1,! 4:kl Rrighton .......- •-•—• L.or,d ' and Croydon • • ... .. -•• •• 1,,,,,,i°,,4 and Ueonwieli: •.. • • •• " 2,14,e,i4 and South VVestern----. ka.,,t,cilttr, Bolton, and Bury .• **** • 4Zinstr and Birmingham.. ••• litidia'h!,,tor, Leeds and Rull Assoc•• ~,,_t_w_weaasatill: • icewe', Colintles „'. 4,t io and X e• • •• • • •• • q trbik . and eijaroarlistiin.i.gtS.ltelds:: •••• ...I . : ... :** porth th;.'• • • • • • .......... . • • . —* ea r i , ~ Loll and Bolton and Preston I,___ ,orbeil, and Orleans.. •• —— I,;,',.!arsttia_lid Rotten .. ..... ..-- •• Ileftlecialicl WYre ...... . ....... .. ~Ititil , and Ntanchester .... 14.11. ~l'iltern .. . . ... •• .. • • • . .. t 144; 41' "'• • : ........ .. " " .. : • ' " k No . '''• Na ...... ... ... y„k uth and NorwiCti• •••:: .. ...... %Q Iszorth Last week. a m eLa 245 2,154 3,845 1,361 663 12,024 14,567 14,509 680 4,279 1,129 5,182 824 2,822 5,318 12,719 953 1,611 326 197 1,474 5,593 4,214 294 580 4,034 717 632 4,833 o 0 ales le a loP , ase. 10 1 that s COV ;oft 3Si ° l d ot. leo6i iei 11. , enb, cre r" 10 0 Cirri U 511 e L 5 th re c 0 tha t 4s e s. ' leir 764 2,843 6,105 1,882 769 14,206 163 17,521 1,280 19,749 798 5,054 1,551 4,907 THE SUN, LONDON , MONDAY MORNJ_NG, NOVEMBER 17, 1845. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. had all her stores surveyed and delivered, she was paid off into ordinary this day, two of the men suffering from the effects of the fever, having been previously dis charged to sick quarters. We have heard it stated that Sir William Burnett's solution (chloride of zinc), which was latterly used in cleansing the Eclair, has been found a valuable disinfecting substance. Lieutenant Harston is to be immediately promoted to the rank of Commander. The Eclair is to remain at her moorings with open hatches, and without the usual ship.keepers, for seine time. Mr. Vincent Wallacv's long-promised opera was pro duced at this theatre on Saturday evening. Great ex pectations had been raised with regard to this opera, and we are rejoiced to state that they have not been dis appointed. Mr. Wallace i 3 a musician who would d o honour to any country. Like Balfe, and Rooke, and " all the better brothers," Mr. Wallace is a native of the land of song. and poetry, and eloquence, and imagina tion, " Green Erin." He was nurtured in that land of melody, and having perfected his musical education, he travelled in the United States, from whence he passed to Mexico, an' then became thoroughly imbued with the spirit of Spanish melody. He arrived in England last season, and has already acquired high fame as a flautist and a pianist, and on Saturday he proved himself a most accomplished and thoroughly educated musician. 'I he title of his opera is Mariiana, and the li bretto is a version of the well-known Don Ccesar de Bazan ; and so closely has Mr. Fitzball, the author of the lib, ttio, clang to his original, that we are spared the necessity of describing the plot. The opera is scene for scene iden tical with the play. The overture is thoroughly Spanish in its composition, full of abrupt transitions, and is, what overtures seldom are, a fitting introduction to the opera, of which it forms an essential part. It is the work of a thorough musician—a perfect contt apuntist—of a man who knows exactly the capabilities cf every instrument iu an orchestra, and knows how to develop those capabi lities completely. Rich, musical, perfectly, nay, elaborately, instrumented, it is one of those composi.. Lions which are a study to an artist. There was one sostenuto movement in it which struck us particularly beautiful. It was such a movement as Corelli might have written and scored bad he lived in these days of brass instruments. The combination of the stringed and wind instruments was exceedingly artistical, and if Mr. Wallace were to follow out the idea of that movement, he might become the founder of a completely new school of instrumentation. The following was the cast of the opera:— Charles the Second (King of Spain) Mr. Borrani. 1)on Caesar de Bazan Mr. W. Harrison. Don Jose de Santarem Mr. 11. Phillips. Marquis de Montefiori Mr. H. Horneastle. Lazarillo Alcade Mr. Morgan. Captain of Guard Mr. S. Jones. Noble Mr. Burt. Boatman Mr. New. Soldier Old Man Mr. Butler. Marchioness de Montefiori ... Mrs. Selby. • Maritana (a Gitana) Miss Romer. The opera opens with a gipsy chorus and a rotnanzs, which was very nicely sung by Miss Romer. Then fols lows some dialogue, after which we have another romanza from Miss Romer, which is, perhaps, the most artistically constructed piece of music in the opera. It commences with a very simple harp symphony. Upon this simple basis is constructed a beautiful melody and a most elaborate accompaniment, but still throughout the whole is heard the simple harp symphony, the centre around which all is grouped, the string running through the pearl chain of melody and harmony. This romanza, " I hear it again— 'tis the harp in the air," is a composition of which any maestro might be proud. This is followed by an angelus, and then comes a duet, admirably given by Miss Romer and H. Phillips. The next song is a spirited cavatina given to Don Caesar, to which Harri son, who seemed out of spirits and out of voice, scarcely did justice. Then comes a concerted piece between Don Caesar, Lazarillo, the Captain, and the mob ; after which comes the gem of the opera, the beautiful chorus, " Pretty Gitana tell us," which is an exquisite composition, and which was admirably sung by Miss Romer and the chorus. This is followed by a concerted piece, which forms the finale to the first act. The second act opens with a beautiful air, " Alas ! those chimes so sweetly pealing," it hich was most tastefully and feelingly sung by Miss Poole, and which elicited an unani mous encore. This was followed by an aria by Don Caesar, concleding with a trio by Don Caesar, Don Jose, and Lazarillo, which was well given by Harrison, Henry Phillips, and Miss Poole. The cavatina, " Yet let me like a soldier fall," was evidently written for Harrison, and ..Ir. Wallace has certainly taken his measure accurately, and fitted him to a nicety. Then came a ballad, the words " by Alfred Bunn, Esq., at the request of the author and composer," which, as far as the piece is con cerned, is a hors d'ceuvre, but which, being suited to the powers of Mr. H. Phillips, has been introduced to make the part of Don Jose a better part - for that gentleman, and which introduction we can easily excuse, inasmuch as it is a beautiful melody, and is exquisitely sung by Mr. H. Phillips. Then follows a drinking chorus, by Don Caesar and the soldiers, and the scene concludes with an ensemble by Don Caesar, Maritana, and tho chorus. The second scene of this act is laid in the saloon of the Marquis Montefiori, and opens with a chorus of ladies ; then follows a dance ; and then comes a fine recitative, " Hear me, gentle Maritana," which was superbly given by Bor rani, and which was followed by an aria, " The mariner in his barque," hardly worthy to follow such a splendid composition as the recitative, but which was also most effectively given by Borrani. A lively quartette between Don Caesar, the Marquis, the Marchioness, and Don Jose succeed, and is followed by the finale to the second act. The music of this act, although beautiful in parts, is, as a whole, scarcely equal to that of the first or third acts. The third act opens with a recitative and air by Miss Romer. The air, " Scenes that are brightest," which forms one of the themes of the overture, is a delicious bit of melody, and was deligtfully given by Miss Romer. It was enthusiastically encored. Then comes a bravura air to a march tune, spiritedly given by 11. Phillips, and then a concerted piece by Don Caesar and the King, well acted by Harrison and Eorrani. Then follows a gem— the duet, "A stranger here," by Miss Romer and Harrison. The last movement of this duet, " This heart with bliss o'erflowing," is exquisite. It was beautifully sung and beautifully instrumented, and its repetition was called for as a matter of course. A her a short orison by Maritana, then follows another duet " Pity oh! sire," well given by Miss Romer and Borrani; then comes a cavatina by Don Caesar, " There is a flower that bloometh," which gave rise to almost a row in the theatre. It was sung by Harrison, and at its conclusion there was much applause, and many persons called for its repetition. This call was vehemently opposed by others, and for ten minutes Harrison stood bowing to the audience, doubtful as to what he was to do ; the ayes eventually carried it, or rather a compromise was entered into, and he repeated the last verse. Then came the finale by all the characters, and the curtain fell amidst loud applause from all parts of the house. which was crammed to suffocation. Mr. Wallace was called for, and received with all the honours ; and the principal performers were also honoured with the usual ovation. This opera is evidently the work of a thoroughly ac complished—nay, more, of a very learned musician. Mr. Wallace has shown himself worthy of the fame which had preceded his avatar. Maritana is an elaborately instrumented scientifically constructed work. Mr. Wallace takes the whole orchestra within his grasp, and plays upon it as though it were one instrument. This opera is not only excellent in itself, but it gives promise of more excellent things to come. It contains the germs of future triumphs—it will neither be the last nor the greatest of Mr. Wallace's works. We look forward to the future career of this maestro with much interest, for he may if he gives his genius fair play, become the founder of an English—a national—school of operatic music. The time is come. The man will not long be wanting. Will Mr. Wallace be that man ? SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD AILW AY. A new prospectus of this Company, which is under the sanction of the Great Western Company, and of which Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., for Hereford, is Chairman, has just been circulated. The prospectus states that a consi derable portion of the line will form part of the Worcester and Porolynllaen line, for which the Great Western Com pany are also to apply to Parliament next session, and that shareholders in the Shrewsbury and Hereford Company are to be entitled to advantages in the Worcester Bald Port dynllaen Company. The following passages of flia pro spectus will also be satisfactory to the shareholders : " That the community are fully alive to the importance of the line, may be inferred from the fact, that there is scarcely the usual amount of opposition from the proprietors alang its course. " The entire plans being now in the hands of the engraver, it is matter of certainty, and not of conjecture, that the line will be executed under the average expense, and consi derably within the advertised capital of the Company: throughout the whole of its course th ere are no e ng ineering difficulties; in fact, with the exception of Dinmore-bill, it may be stated to pass through a continuous valley, and. affording gradients which will ensure quick travelling and. less than average working expenses. "A deposit of 10 per cent. has been called for, as rendered. necessary by the new standing order of the House of Lords; and the Committee are able to assure their shareholders that every condition required by the standing orders of both Houses, to enable the Company to go to Parliament in the next session, is, or will at the proper time be, complied with." SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. I of voting in counties to the possession of a forty-shilling free mom Tilit MORNING rArEus OF SATVRDAY. ! hold, which any one who can invest a suns of fifty or sixty TIMES.—Sir Robert Peel certainly is a man for a show. pounds may purchase. Such a purchaser becomes, in Ile is a very presentable Premier. Whenever the public every point of view, moral as well as legal, as fully entitled to the franchise as the purchaser of drama supplies the opportunity of an effective scene, there he is at his post, " property" and all, in high spirits, and good an estate of ten thousand a-year. It is the mere rev working condition. He has never the least objection to take ing of disappointed faction to call such a franchise a faggot or fictitious vote. It is no such thing. The his part in a tableau representing the national history, even if real possession of a certain property is the. sole condition the reality should have had time to get rather stale. Tam- . prescribed and contemplated by the law for the enjoyment worth is the place where he comes out moat freely. In that provincial firmament he stare it with an overpowering pre- of the right of voting. A h un d re d p oun d ren t- c h arge f rom digality of splendour. The character in which he is just a landed proprietor to his son or dependent, when the transf e r . • now astonishing the natives is that of the Prince of naviga- A fifty-pound tenant c y-at- w ill, w h ere th e occu pi er d ares no t pen te know the contrary, one w is merely nominal, is a fi c titi ous an d f rau d u l en t qua lifi ca ti on . tors. So well does he act the wart that certainly conclude that that if one did not hap t , call his soul his own, i s a g oo d qualification in point of law, j though it is destitute of every characteristic which proves the Trent Valley was the very first railway in the world, property to be a test f or c h oos i ng l eg i s l a t ors . B u t th e forty and Sir Robert the Columbus who had first suggested the bold adventure. The spirit pervades the scene. Every- I shilling freehold, which the industrious tradesman or mechanic thing around expands into heroic dimensions. Tam- may purchase with his s av i ngs , i s a goo d an d h ones t qualifi cation. It marks, as far as an can, and y such qualification the worth becomes the pole-star of our earth's admiration, presence of independence, f ruga lity, an d intelligence, the the very pivot of human affairs. All England and ! right of voting which it confers is a legitimate reward and Ireland, from Manchester to London, from Dover 1 useful stimulus to the efforts of men who possess those quali to Dublin, from Glasgow to Southampton, converges to the 1 great centre; railroads and post-office direct thither their ties. We trust, therefore, that wh erever th ere i s a grea t town population it will use the means at its disposal to re the metropolis of trade on the other, make their dutiful ap- streams; the metropolis of government on the one side, and dress its own grievances. The method pointed out by M r . Cobden is simple, practical, and unobjectionable, and the preaches; the Trent spreads its riches around; and in the alarm which it has already excited in the ranks of th e Pro middle of all things, culminating over the whole civilized world, stands Sir Robert Peel. We will secure our seats in tection party should encourage us to adopt it. as rapidly and the great amphitheatre, and take care to miss nothing of the completely as possible. POST.—It is very satisfactory to find that in one iin show. The railroad itself is a good one. It is a natural line. portant agricultural county no grounds exist for alarm with It does for those two great lines, the London and Birming respect either to the grain or rotate crop. We have on more ham, and the Grand Junction, exactly the same service that Oxfordestreet East (if that is its name) does for old Oxf o rd- than one occasion stated our impression that on both these street and Holborn. It makes them one. It also follows the subjects there had been much of exaggeration; and we re natural valley of the Trent; and rivers, which have lost the joice to find, on the autboiity of practical men, that in Essex the crop of wheat and other grain (with the exception of only use which Brindley could discover in them, have now nothing to do but to indicate lines for railways. But the oats) is an average one, and that the produce has been well railroad is a very third-rate character in the present perform- got in ; whilst as a set-off against the partial failure of the ance—no more than "Wall," or the Moon, in Pyramus and potatoes we have the fact that so much larger a breadth of Thisbe. It is only part of the " property." So we will I land than usual was planted this year, as to go far in the way confine our attention to the principal character. The of compensation for the falling off occasioned by disease. Premier decends, not from the clouds, but from We feel little doubt that the state of things ascertained to the steps of his carriage, and treads the favoured soil exist in Essex will be found much more g eneral throughout which, under his auspices, is to become the world's new the country than has lately been supposed; at all events it centre. It is with real concern that we discover he is lame. would be well to know what are really our prospects of a Some people offer the vulgar solution that it is the gout. We supply of food, and we think that other counties ought to =mot believe it. The grandeur of the occasion suggests a follow the example of Essex in this as in other matters re mere ;mysterious cause. The corn-laws and " political lating to agricultural questions. Reports from committees friends" are at the root of that sore. That is the fatal sting. of the various agricultural protection societies might very Th ere is the serpent which has bitten the Pbiloctetes, who, easily be drawn up; and we feel assured that the affect helpless as lie is himself, yet holds the fated instruments of would be to remove from the public mind a great deal of un- OlEr common deliverance.. However, to what's before us, necessary anxiety. The Essex report to which we have Next to Sir Robert Peel, the most remarkable object in the alluded is in these words:— "Your Committee, finding the enemies of British agricul lield is a wheelbarrow, bearing of course the same propor tion to the common specimen as the Premier does to coin- tore were anxiously propagating . a report that the country was on the very verge of a famine, have instituted inquiries, moon men. 44 A very handsome mahogany navigator's wheelbarrow in order to,ascertain the probable produce of the late harvest, was prepared for receiving the turf, which was to be dug by and the state of tax potato crop in the county of Esser, and th e Right Hon. Baronet; it was designed by Mr. Holmes, they confidently press their belief that in the county of of Liverpool, and was richly carved ; it bore on each side Essex an average crop of wheat and other grain (with the of it the arms of Sir R. Peel, with his motto—" Industria." exception of oats), has been produced and well secured ;that, The spade appears to have been still more idealized. It consequently there is no ground to apprehend any scarcity of was fitting sceptre for a railway king. So great an anxiety food for the sustenance of the people. In addition to this was - felt that it should be worthy of the occasion that the ar- gratifying result of their inquiries, they would also add that tide first made was rejected. We should like to know why? from the lateness of the harvest not morethan eleven months' It is not usual for Sheffield to yield to its Warwickshire consumption will be required from the present crop. rival in matters of taste. Did the original spade contain " Your Committee are of opinion th a t th e p o t a t oes will give any offensive emblems—one of those mystic wheat-sheaves about half the usual yield per acre, but this will in a great which procured the summary rejection of a splendid measure be compensated by a larger breadth of land than velvet waistcoat after it had actually adorned and coin_ usual having this year been planted, an d an ex t ra quan tit y forted the Premier's bosom? However that may be, Bir- of turnips and other vegetables grown. mingham was snore successful, and supplied a beautiful fabric, " Your Committee beg to observe that the present price of representing the conversion of the shield of war into the wheat barely exceeds the average of the seven years preceding spade of peace, and modern industry crowning ancestral the year 1835, upon which the Tithe Commutation Act was based; and that, notwithstanding the clamour that has been honours. "The spade originally intended for use on the occasion was raised, the price scarcely exceeds the average avowedly con manufactured expressly for the purpose in Sheffield, but upon templated by the framers of the existing Act that governs being inspected by the Committee appointed to attend to the importation. " g • arrangements, it was not approved by them, and at a very Your Committee, takin all these circumstances into con sideration, cannot but congratulate themselves that their late period Messrs. Elkington and Co., of Birmingham, were requested to make one in electro silver plate, which they efforts, in conjunction with those of other societies, have not succeeded in finishing in time. The metallic part of the been exerted without a corresponding benefit, as from the spade is in electro-silver, and shaped somewhat in the form returns that have been made, it will be found that this coup- of a heraldic shield, still preserving the characteristics of a try, under the system of protection and encouragement given spade. On the front are engraved the arms, crest, and to agriculture, is at the present time, by the blessing of Pro motto of the Right Hon. Baronet, with the following in- vidence, less liable to suffer from scarcity than any of the scription underneath :-..' The works of the Trent Valley Rail- Continental States; and your Committee are satisfied that way from Stafford to Rugby were commenced on the 13th the advance that has taken place in several descriptions of day of November, 1845, on which occasion the first sod was grain since last harvest has arisen more from the demands of turned by the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., 3.1. P., upon those Continental States than from any deficiency of our lands in the parish of Tamworth, and county of Stafford,' growth. and on the reverse the official seal of the Trent Valley Rail- " Your Committee ha ee the fullest reliance that the way Company, together with the names of the Chairman, framers and promoters of the present corn-law will not be Mr. Edmund Peel, the Directors, Engineers, Solicitor, and intimidated into measures that would produce effects so Secretary, &c. The shaft or tree of the spade was formed ruinous that they cannot be contemplated without the from a piece of old English oak, the upper part dividing into deepest apprehension ; for, if confidence should at this time two branches, forming the handle, appropriately carved with be destroyed amongst the cultivators of the soil, the inevitable oak leaves, acorns, &c., and highly polished." result would be to deprive the agricultural labourers of em- The Chairman of the Company, Mr. Edmund Peel, is quite ployment, and to inflict distress and suffering on every class alive to the importance both of his railway and of his illus- of the community." trious relative. "The nation," he said, "was now looking In the latter part of this document we have a remarkable to him (Sir Robert) with the utmost anxiety, but with the practical commentary on the senseless cry that has lately utmost confidence "—an amalgamation of alarm and re- prevailed in favour of opening our ports for the admission of pose which will pass the fusing powers of Hudson him foreign grain. What supply could possibly be looked for self, or even of the ingenious compounder of her Ma from people who are, at the present moment, supplying in oig• k of their own harvest ? jesty's Ministry. The confidence Mr. Edmund Peel feels marets the deficien HERALD.—Some cy of our Contemporaries, in default of in his railroad, happily for the shareholders, is considerably other grievances, have been complaining of the metropolitan less alloyed with anxiety. On this point he speaks with a improvements, wide streets, fine shops, plate-glass windows, very comfortable degree of assurance. In fact, we must con &c., &c., &c. Now we can see no great harm in all these. fess he goes a little beyond us; he says, " I believe that It costs little more to build a handsome house than an ugly there is little doubt that Tamworth will be the centrical stn- one, or to build houses regularly than to huddle them to tion of England, and I have reason to expect that the post office will be placed in this town." As for Sir Robert, it is gether in disorder • and as to wide and straight streets, they quite delightful to see him with his spade and his wheelbar- must be acknowledged a general convenience. Laudatol es temperis acti as in some sense we are, we must defend from row. If he does not handle them very dexterously, his mind is in the work. He is to have the toys for his private amuse- the charge of innovation the taste for building handsome com ment, and evidently appropriates the railway into the bar- mercial houses. There yet remain simnel noble mansions in gain. It is the Premier's own. " I have given," he sa e the most mercantile part of the City, and eve nin the desola " a cordial support to this undertaking." ye' tion of Bethnal-green and Spitalfields there stand the re " I gave it that support from a sincere belief that it was mains of dwellings that might well have accommodated a calculated to be beneficial to this district, in to n; interests of peer, though it is plain they must have been occupied by which I must take naturally a warm concern ; but I sup- persons engaged in trade. In proportion to the extent and ported it also from a conviction that the success of this wealth of the metropolis it probably has now a smaller num undertaking would be condecive to the public welfare. I bar of fine shops and tine counting-houses than it had two thought the public welfare would be promoted by establish- centuries ago ; for, after all, how few are the fine streets ing a more direct and immediate communication between the compared with the extent of this overgrown city ? They metropolis on the one hand, and Dublin and a great part of are the more noted, because, being the principal thorough fares, they present the strongest motive for decoration, and Ireland on the other; between the metropolis and the west of Scotland ; between the metropolis and that great coin- are most frequently traversed. The denouncers of fine streets mercial and manufacturing district, of which Liverpool and and fine shops, however, take a line of argument that requires Manchester are the capitals. It is probable that on the coin- to be considered with a little attention. The fine wide pletion of this railway, Dublin will be brought within, in streets, say they, are made at the expense of the dwellings point of time, 14 or 15 hours of London—that a letter posted of the,poor, for whom no other place is provided. This is, to some extent true, though not to any very great extent, in London in the evening of this day can, be answered from Dublin on the morning of the day but one after—that is to for probably the number of the dislocated poor does not ex ' .- say, that Dublin in respect to post-office communication will ceed a few thousands. and the evil—for though a small and transitory evil, still an evil it is—has some compensating stand exactly on the same footing as this town stands on at present. There is every reason to believe that Manchester advantages ; among these advantages we must count the will be brought within six or seven hours of London. I said breaking up of several fomites of disease and vice. For our part, though we do not agree with the Times that distemper, on a former occasion that it would be brought within eight demoralisation, and. death, are the proper and desirable drains hours, and that statement was received with incredulity. I of a metropolitan population, or, rather, because we do not am sure I am not guilty of any exaggeration when I say agree with the Times in this respect, we cannot weep over that Liverpool and Manchester, at probably no remote the exenteration of St. Giles's, or e sigh at the threatened fall period, will be brought within six or seven hours of London. It was in the conviction, therefore, that great public benefit of Field-lane and Saffron-hill. To remove the poor from such styes, even at the cost of a little inconvenience to the would result from this undertaking that I gave it my warm and unremitting support." poor themselves, can be hardly regarded as a serious injury. For our own part, we think Sir Robert might prophecy One of our Contemporaries calls upon the Government to more very safely. That London and Manchester are not af interpose in this matter. But what can any Government do ready within five hours is owing to the disgraceful bungling in such a case ? Here we have two millions of human of our railway system in that very part of the country where beings compressed within five or six square miles it ought to have been the best. We are involved in a lab built over with bricks : is a Government to say— y- " You must not let in light and air upon this living fur rinth of railroads, and it is as much the Premier's fault as any other man's that we have not more direct lines. The lines nave. You must; continue to preserve your stiff ac cumulations of wretched dwellings until they shall create a between London and Manchester are only of the same mile• pestilence that will soon provide house-room enough for you age as the very circuitous line between London and Exeter. all ?" This no Government will dare to say, or be wicked The latter journey is performed every day in four hours and a half. We may safely, therefore, go beyond the Premier, and enough to meditate. The metropolis must be permitted to expand as it has been expanding; and within the last twenty prophecy that Liverpool and Manchester will be brought years the metropolis has extended locally in a ratio far be within four or five hours of the metropolis. The rest of Sir Robert's egotism—and there is quite yond the increase of population, enormous as that has been. Still comes back the question of the dwellings of the poor. the usual amount—is of a more venial, because It is quite true, as stated by the complainants to whom we more sentimental, character. We pass it, and can refer, that the labouring poor cannot, without great expense only notice with sincere approbation his advice of time and labour on the part of many of them, take up to the directors to make their carriages, especially the devoted their abode in the remoter suburbs. It will not answer for third class, more comfortable and humane. The comfort of a labouring man to lodge at a distance of from four or five the public will, at last, we hope, become a condition of rail miles from the proper place of his, labour. Upon this con way monopoly, or an item of railway competition. One good sideration we have long suggested the erection of what we thing the Premier did say, and as the air of Tamworth seems called " labourers' barracks" in the central part of the City. favourable to boldness of thought, and to candour of expres. And we have shown that the erection of such barracks might sion, we quote it for the benefit of those free trade allies with be made a profitable speculation, though estimating the rent whom the speaker must before long stand or fall : of a single room at no more than one shilling - and sixpence "We must always admit that the passage of a railway a week. Such barracks we have little doubt will arise, may be productive of some individual and partial disadvan- sooner or later. Meanwhile, we see other elements tage—that some inns may have reason to complain of the of improvement approaching, that will, we think, go loss of their traffic, and some retail dealers of the diminution a great way to make room for the poor of the metropolis. of their trade. It is impossible to deny it—it is impossible Take the range, north about, from the West India Docks to not to regret that that is the case; but what is it but saying Chelsea, and; survey the myriads of neat streets of small that for the great body of the community you have substi- houses that have grown up within a few years along the line tuted a cheaper and better mode of communication, and of the Blackwell Railway, at Horton, Islington, Somers given them access to wider markets." Town, CamdenTownePortland Town, Paddington, Bayswater, If Sir Robert does not perceive the obvious application of Kensington, kb. &c. Make a corresnding circuit on the this sentiment to the most important problem of the day, he ' south side, and you will find a proportionate amount of neat is, to use a a poetic license, the dullest of his hearers. small houses in neat streets. Within the entire circuit are CHRONICLE.—In our notice of the Birmingham dinner many such streets and many such houses of a little older yesterday, we could only refer to one or two of the many standing. Now here, we predict, will in a few years be found striking points in 11Ir. Cobden's admirable speech, but it was ample accommodation for the labouring poor, not by re v speech abounding with matter of the most stirring kind, moving them from, but by even bringing them nearer to the and one which will assuredly awaken a response in the heart and mind of England. Mr. Cobden's oratory may be said to scene of their labours. The process by wich this prediction is to be fulfilled is simple, and, in our opinion, certain. All men love be all bone and sinew. There is no waste or surplus matter about it. It is pervaded by a spirit of life and energy which the fields better than the streets, and to occupy a cottage and garden rather a numbered in a small street. It is imparts freshness and interest to the most familiar things. the economy of ti than me necessary house to a close attendance upon Mr. Cobden disclaimed argumentation on the merits of the business which determines a great proportion of the present g eneral question, and in doing so expressed the sentiment of inhabitants of London to remain where they are. But let the nation. The reasons for and against the corn-laws have us suppose the termini of all the railroads to have found done their work, and may be laid. on the shelf. They are, their way into the heart of the City, and the clerk or menu like arguments on the question of religious toleration, of his- facturer at his own home, who now has his residence in torical interest merely. Qpinion is settled as generally and Walworth, Horton, or Clerkenwell, will be just as near his as decidedly as it ever can be by mere discussion. All that place of business, as regards time and convenience, anywhere remains is to bring legislation into harmony with it, and this at this side of Edgeware, Barnet, Croydon, or Richmond. This is a mere question of time, and of the strength and tactics will cause an immense emigration of the humbler middle class of adverse parties. For a brief space within the last just that class whose retirement will make room for the la month, Mr. Cobden, like all the world, cherished the bouring poor. There is one order of the community whom we delusion that the end was at length come, have not enumerated among those whose emigration we antici- He, too, suffered himseisi to imagine that " Peel was the pate. We speak of shopmen and shopwomen. Whenever good man." But that dream over. Sir Robert is the same sense and humanity, nevertheless, shall be so far successful man he always was—great on small occasions, and small on as to enforce a' much earlier termination of the hours of great ones; oracular and decisive upon a question of aim shop business, these, too, will be among the emigrants, and peting railways, but dubious and procrastinating in the not the least interesting or the least happy of the retiring presence of a great conflict between opinion and institutions, body. At present the only railroad which approaches the and without a particle of that resolute temper which might centre of the City is that which debouches at London-bridge, settle all by one bold and skilful stroke. Peel, it is clear, and from the vast population that has accumulated upon is not the man." Fortune opened to him a splendid pros- Blackheath and its neighbourhood, and in the direction of peck, a little dangerous and difficult perhaps, as the openi Croydon, one can calculate with some approach to certainty to great things are apt to be. He surveyed the perils andnlE the prodigious drainage of people from every heart faileehim. It is not of such stuff that heroes and metropolis when all the railroads east, deliverers are made. The man who would liberate the south, shall have found their way to its centre. vals V do not commerce, and sweep away the nefarious impost from the exaggerate extravagantly indeec if the remo die laced bread of England, must be ready to tell the Duke of Wel- west, ia l it e north, must exceed four or five fold the number of p o cis displaced by lington and Lord Stanley to do their worst, and to trust him- the beauty, corn those improvements that add so much t self, with entire reliance, to the indomitable spirit of that peo fort, and health of the metropolis. pie with whom, as Mr. Cobden truly said, the Duke of Wel- ADVERTISER.—The tribute paid the other day to the lington " never yet entered into a contest in which he was net beaten." The great work which Sir Robert Peel Member for Wolverhampton , w as one which that g entleman shrinks from doing is one that he will be obliged, before long, most justly deserved. There is not. te be found in the ranks to see done. " Some one else will have to do it," and the of the corn-law rspealers, a single individual who has man will not be wanting when the time arrives. That time laboured more zealously or unremittingly in the cause of cheap bread and free tra( h ie,aud assuredly no one surpasses will be when the intelligent middle classes of England show him in the consistency .d w e i n t ' Tet which he has advocated that themselves resolved to carry out their own principles. The cause. Ever since he . ti: himself with the anti-mono contest has become a mere trial of strength between them polist principle, Mr. Villiers__ has boldly and uncompromisingly and a portion of the landed aristocracy ; and it continues maintained his views.. Opposition did not daunt him, nor only , so long as the overwhelming powers of one of the did the still more discouraging circumstance of the apathy parties are suffered to lie dormant. The upholders of corn of pretended friends, divert him from his purpose. For seve ral years he stood almost alone in his championship of the laws now hold their ground through the forbearance or the anti-corn-law . cause. To his annual motions and speeches inertness of their opponents. They are like a spaniel snatch ing a bone from a lazy mastiff ; the prey will not be dropped in opposition to the corn monopoly, is in a great until the saucy robber feels the teeth of the plundered owner in his flanks. Mr. Cobden is right in saying that theprotection- measure cause 0 f ascribed the encouraging aspect which supporting aristocracy will not give up their privileges without a the corn-law repeal now presents. It is fitting, therefore that the services of such a man, now that the struggle. Every hour of the struggle maydo them mischief, and in the fight for the bread-tax far more prec ious advanta g es will question is evidently on th e eve o f b e i ng carr i e d , s h ou ld re be endangered if not sacrificed ; but still the struggle will go c eive .e demonstration whi c h t oo k p l ace a t Bi rming h am , on to bring it to a conclusion. M r. Cobden, therefore, and the some ackno w l e d gement f rom t h e country genera ll y. , Ii on. The people will have to manif est their stren g th in order The demonstration must h ave b oon hi g hl y gra tifyi ng t o M r . Villi ers . League are right in concent ratin g their attention and their 1 The expression of th e sense w hi c h th ose p resen t en t er tain of efforts upon the Parliamentary franchise. T he counties in 1 his services in th e cause o f corn -l aw re p ea l, was no t, lik e which our great towns are situated ma y all be won , and many votes, of a com pli men t ar y ki n d, pa sse d a t p u blic meet their accession to the principle of free trade would be deci- 1 ings, a mere matt er o f f o r m . It was honest and s i ncere. The sive in Parliament. The divisions o f counties, for instance, 1 assemblage felt what they expressed. And, it is right to add, which surround London, Manchester, and Birmingham , they but expressed the prevailing feeling throughout the might, by the process which Mr. Cobden describes, be rely- ! country respecting the services which the Member for Wol dered strongholds for free trade. The law annexes the right ' yerhampton has rendered to the cause of an unrestricted DANGER OF FAMINE. DUBLIN, Nov. 13.—The following is the letter addressed by Lord Cloncurry, as Chairman of the Mansion house Com mittee, to Sir R. Peel, and the Right Hon. Baronet's reply:— " Mansion-house, Dawson-street, 7th November, 1845. " Sir,—As Chairman of a Committee consisting of highly respectable gentlemen of all classes of political and religious opinions, appointed at a recent public meeting of the citizens of Dublin, the Bight Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair, it devolves upon me, as a public duty, to address you as re sponsible adviser of our most gracious Sovereign, and which I do with unfeigned respect, and in the most anxious man ner, to call for your fullestiand most immediate considera tion to the preaent afflicting and most dangerous state of the people of Ireland. We can assure you that our infor mation is both accurate and extensive ; that it reaches over all parts of Ireland, and is derived from sources altogether unaffected by any political party motive whatsoever. Be assured, Sir, we tell you but the simple truth when we inform you that the danger of famine is immediate and pressing, and if not averted by the activity of man and the blessing of a merciful Providence, must result in a . pestilence of the most frightful nature. " We do solemnly assure you of our perfect knowledge that the destruction of the potato crop is extremely ex tensive, with some slight mitigation in particular localities; but as a general calamity is extending to all the provinces and counties of Ireland—nor does the evil rest here—for day after day the disease is extending. Quantities of pota toes apparently in the most healthy state one day are found, on the ensuing, partially if not entirely, unfit for human or even animal food. the disease is in its nature expansive, and it is to our knowledge daily and hourly expanding; nor is there any rational evidence to show that that this wide-spreading rottenness will find any other limit than in the destruction of the entire potato crop. We do not intend you any disrespect, quite the contrary; but we do wish to impress upon your mind the awful responsi bility which, as her Majesty's principal adviser, you incur if your Government hesitates to adopt the most speedy and extensive possible modes of alleviating the impending cala mity. Whilst you hesitate, if hesitate you shall, the people of Ireland are about to perish in countless numbers. May we respectfully refer you to Lord Devon's report of last session, where you will find, or, indeed, whence we take for granted you are already informed, that the Irish agricul tural labourers and their families are calculated to amount to more than four millions of human beings. whose only food is the potatoes—whose only drink is water—whose houses are pervious to the rain—to whom a bed or blanket is a luxury almost unknown, and who are more wretched than any other people in Europe. We respectfully call your at tention to the fact that the foregoing description of the state of the Irish peasantry was published long before there was or could be the least suspicion of the most afflicting visitation of Providence in the destruction of the present crop. If then such was the condition of a large portion of the Irish people even in favourable harvests, you will in your humanity easily judge what must be the horrors of their situation if the approaching famine be allowed to envelope the entire population. "We implore of you, Sir, not to allow • yourself to be persuaded that we exaggerate the horrors or certainty of the approaching famine ; we have no motive under Heaven of misleading or misinforming you, and even if we had you may believe we are utterly incapable of acting on such a motive; our only object is to impress on your mind what we know to be the fact, that famine and pestilence are at our door, and can be averted only by the most extensive and active precautions. The season for receiving supplies of foreign food is rapidly terminating, the northern ports of Europe, as also the ports of the British American colonies, as well as of the Northern American States, will soon be closed, until it will be too late to receive supplies from these countries. Other foreign countries—afflicted by a similar calamity—have already been before us in the market, and are daily enhancing the price of those supplies, which our Government might otherwise calculate on. The lives of the people of Ireland are in the hands of your Government, if you determine not to take immediate precautions, we are unable to contemplate the extent of the horrible consequences re sulting from the destructiou of the people's food, and from the neglect of the protection of Government. We are incapable of using any language that could be construed into dictation, but we respectfully declare it to be our conviction that it is the imperative duty of the Government to adopt some or all of the following measures, together with such other's as that Government may deem advisable to meet the impending ..... " 1. The opening of the ports of Ireland for all kinds of human food, free of duty. "2. The closing the ports of Ireland against the exporta tion of oats, either ground or whole. "3. That the consumption of oats by cavalry regiments in Ireland be diminished as much as it possibly can with safety to the public service. "4. That the distillation from grain be suspended in Ireland, due precaution being taken to prevent illicit dis tillation. " 5. That there be immediately raised money, by way of loan, to the extent of one million and a half at the least, and chargeable upon Irish resources—such as the department of Woods and Forests, &c. ; and that the amount of such loan be applied, in the first instance, to the increasing the quantity, and decreasing the price, of food in Ireland. " 6. That we earnestly recommend the forming of granaries in each of the poor-law unions, and other localities through out Ireland, so as to bring food within the reach of all its inhabitants. "7. That we also earnestly recommend the setting the people to work without any delay, by urging on and assist ing the construction of railways, and also in works of drain age, as recommended by Government commissioners, and other works of general or local utility. " I have the honour to be Sir, " Your obedient servant, " CLONCURRY." " Whitehall, Nov. 10, 1815. "My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the re ceipt of the communication of the 7th November, which bears your Lordship's signature, earnestly calling the atten tion of her Majesty's Government to the calamity with which Ireland is threatened by the failure, through disease, of the potato crop, and suggesting for the consideration of the Government the following measures : " 1. The opening of the pats of Ireland for all kinds of human food, free of duty. " 2. The closing of the ports of Ireland against the ex portation of oats, either ground or whole. " 3. That the consumption of oats by cavalry regiments in Ireland be tdiminished as much as it possibly can with safety to the public service. " '4. That the distillation from grain be suspended in Ire land, due precaution being taken to prevent illicit distillation. " '5. That there be immediately raised money, by way of loan, to the extent of one-and-a- half million at the least, and chargeable upon Irish resources, such as the department o Woods and Forests, &c., and the amount of such loan be ap plied in the first instance to the increasing the quantity and decreasing the price of food in Ireland. " 6. The forming of granaries in each of the poor-law unions and other localities throughout Ireland, so as to bring food within the reach of all its inhabitants. " 7. The setting the people to work without any delay, by urging . on and assisting in the construction of railways, and also in the works of drainage, as recommended by the Government Commissioners, and other works of general or local utility. " I give full credit to the assurance that in making this communication, your Lordship and those who are parties to it are influenced by no other motive than the desire to aid the Government in the efforts which they are making to avert or mitigate the impending evil. " I shall without delay submit this, as I have submitted all other representations which have reached me on this painful subject, to my col'eagues in the service of her Majesty. " Although considerations of public policy and of public duty prevent me from entering, in this acknowledgment of your Lordship's communication, into a discussion in respect to the advantage of the particular measures recommended for immediate adoption, yet I beg so assure your Lordship that the whole subject is occupying the unremitting atten tion of her Majesty's confidential advisers.—l have the honour to be, my Lord, your most obedient servant, " ROBERT PEEL. " The Lord Cloncurry." OUR INDIAN CORRESPONDENCE. —The army has succumbed, and Runjeet Singh's grandmother ascends the Punjab, with the title of Provisional fiegum of the Grand Duchyof Tar tary. The Divan is under a cloud, probably on account of that immense cigar, Ben Bolin, who is fuming with vengeance. The Sheikh had fallen sick at Alicampane, and was not expected to rise for the present. His maternal aunt has promised to aid him ; but the perfidious woman is said to be in league with Runjeet Singh, who has given himself up to the wildest excesses, drinking gallons of Carrara water and eating the shells of the delicious cocoa-nut with extra vagant recklessness. Should the Sheik rally, the contest must be fearful; but the British resident has received in structions to look on with his arms folded as long as possible. If a blow is aimed it him, he is to demand his passport, and retire to the frontier to await further orders.—Punch. CORONER'S INQUEST. —Friday evening an inquest was held in the Committee-room of the Visiting Magistrates, in Horsemonger-lane gaol, before Mr. Carter, one of . the co roners for the county of Surrey, on view of the body of Thomas M‘Namara, a wire-worker, apd trapmaker, aged 32,wh0 was an inmate of that prison, and the particulars of whose case on a charge of stabbing his wife, have so recently been before the public. The first witness called was Mr. Jolm Keene, the Governor of the prison, who produced the warrant of commitment for the prisoner's remand from Monday last to that day (yesterday), and said that the prisoner had been in his charge from the 3d instant. On Thursday morning last he was informed by the principal turnkey that the de ceased bad hung himself, and he, in consequence, hastened to his cell, when he found the decased quite dead and cold. He, however, dispatched a messenger to Mr. Meymott, the prison surgeon, who promptly attended, and pronounced him to have been dead for several hours. Mr. Keene, at the con clusion of his evidence, said the present was the first occur rence of the kind that had happened during his residence there as Governor, a period of twelve years. The jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdict to the effect, that the deceased had destroyed himself by hanging, but that they had no evidence to enable them to form any accurate opinion as to the state of his mind at the time he committed the act. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, NOV. 14.—The sup plies of all grain are liberal, more especially barley. The wheat trade was firmer this morning, and all fear of any pre sent alteratian in the corn-laws having subsided, we 'lliad a good demand for the old and new wheats, at an advance of ls. per quarter; common sorts also were easier sales. Fine barley Is. and inferior qualities 2s. per quarter cheaper. Oats rather lower, and shelling in limited request. Malt as before. ILLNESS OF THE DOWAGER LADY HOLLAND.—We regret to announce that her Ladyship, who has been indis posed for some time past, is in an alarming and critical situa tion. Her Ladyship's symptoms are of a kind which give but faint hopes of her recovery. Sir Henry Webster and Colonel Fox (her Ladyship's sons) arrived in town on Friday . from Paris, having left that capital immediately upon the re ceipt of the alarmin g intelligence. George Finch,Esq., of Burky-on-the-hill, in ac cordance with his promise in the spring, "that the game upon his estate shall be destroyed, so that the quantity sur viving shall not be injurious to his tenants," has given par ticular instruction to his keepers to extirpate the hares as nearly as possible. Sir Gilbert Heathcote also, it is confi dently stated, will shortly issue similar orders (though, per haps, not to the same extent), as far as relates to the lord ships of Normantort and Empingham ; and other landlords, it is hoped, will evince consideration for their tenants by adopting a like course; for, under the present gloomy pros pect, when the farmer's interest is so fearfully menaced, and his difficulties in regard to seasons, insects, &c., are so great, a continuation of the " game nuisance," as it has long been appropriately termed, must become odious and intolerable.— Lincoln Mercury. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Porn:stolen', Nov. 14.—Her Majesty's steam.sloop Geyser Commander E. Carpenter, arrived at Saithead yesterday afternoon, from Malta and Gibraltar. She had not a particle of news, the usual mail having announced that she was on her passage to Eng . Some supernumeraries and invalids have been transferred o the flag-ship, and the Geyser has been ordered by telegraph to proceed to Woolwich to be paid off, having been nearly four years in commission. The Dee steamer, and an Ordnance vessel, arrived yesterday [room Woolwich, having the field guns and ammunition to be shipped on board her Majesty's ship President, for conveyance to the Cape of Good Hope or Mauritius, as may be required. Rear- Admiral Dacres, his family and suite, have embarked this day, and the Admiral having got his sailing orders, the President will put to sea to.morrow. Rear-Admiral Dacres is to relieve Rear-Ad miral the Hon. J. Percy in the command at the Cape of Good Hope, and that officer will return to England forthwith In her Ma jesty's ship Winchester. The second trial of the Scourge steamer with the 13-inch mor. tar and 56-pounder long gun took place yesterday, and was of. much longer duration, but equally satisfactory as the first trial She left the harbour at 9 A.m., with a number of officers from the Excellent, and Naval College, and seamen gunners (the Marine Artillery were dispensed with). Captain Chads, C. 8., again had the direction of the proceedings, and Captain Stevens, R. M.A., and Mr. Taplin, engineer and mechanist of the dock-yard, were on board to attend to the engines, &c. On getting outside the Nab Light the shell practice commenced, and fourteen shells, with a full charge of 201bs. of powder, were dis charged from the mortar, the range was nearly 5,000 yards; not the slightest impediment in the steering of the vessel, or in the working of the engines, took place ; she was kept under steam all the time, but the precaution was taken of moving the men from the after wheel to the midship wheel. The result of the shell practice being most conclusive and satisfactory, the Scourge was anchored and the people went to dinner. After this was concluded, two boats were carried out 3,000 yards from the vessel, and moored about 150 yards apart, and the practice at them with the 56- pounder gun commenced, the full charge of 141bs. of powder was used, and 42 shots were fired with great precision, but without striking the boata,the shot pitching close to them at every fire ; this concluded the experiments for the day, and the boats having been got on board, the Scourge returned to the harbour about six o'clock in the evening. The shell-room and magazines were admirably worked, and Captain Chads expressed to the officers and seamen his high approval of their skill and dircipline. Not a single ca sualty took place. The Scourge is in harbour, and will doubtless be soon put in commission, and if two carronades are added to her present armament, she will be a most formidable vessel, as she is very swift. A general garrison court-martial has assembled this day in the mess-room of the Royal marine barracks, for the trial of Second Lieutenant George Sheddon Dunbar, Royal Marines, charged with " ungentlemanly conduct on the afternoon of the 39th October last, being in a state of intoxication at the Victualling-store Barracks." The following officers compose the Court :—Presi dent, Colonel John M'Callum, Royal Marines; Lieut.-Colonel E. J. Crabbe, 74th Regiment; Lieut.-Colonel Gibsone, Royal Marine Artillery; Major J. .1. Wipes, Royal Marines; Major H. Smyth, 68th Light Infantry; Major J. Fordyce, 74th Regi. went; Captain W. L. Dawes, Royal Marines; Caitain the * Honourable F. O'Grady, 74th Regiment; Captain W. G. Gillman, 68th Light Infantry ; Captain P. J. J. Dusantoy, Royal Marines); Captain H. Evans. Royal Marines ; Captain J. R. Wesley ; Royal Marine Artillery; Captain J, F. Holmes, Bth Regiment:; Lieutenant C. J. Hadfield, Royal Marines ; Lieutenant F. W. Evans, 74 Regiment. Lieutenant and Adjutant Langley, Royal Marines, officiating as Judge Advocate. The Court have this day been examining witnesses in proof of the charge. The prisoner will be allowed until to-morrow or Monday to prepare his defence. The proceedings and sentence will be laid before the Commander-in-Chief, before the result is known to the public. Lieutenant Dunbar is a son of the late Captain Sir J. Dunbar, Bart., Royal Navy, and has only been in the Marine corps since March. 1842. SHIMILNILIS, Nov. 13.—The Eclair steam-sloop, Lieutenant commanding C. Haraton, steamed down from Standgate Creek, and took up moorings in the harbour on Tuesday. Having SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. COCKNEY UNION (EVERLEY)COURSING MEETING. The Derby (Class 1) was won by Mr. Chitty's Conrad; Mr. Palmer's Priam ran up. The Derby (Class 2) was won by Mr. Chitty's Confidence; Mr. Long's Loadstone ran up. The Oaks (Class 1•) was won by Mr. Jones's Jenny Lind; Mr. Long's Let-me-try ran up. The Oaks (Class 2) was won by Mr. Cooke's Careless; Mr. Miller's Mischief ran up. The Puppy Cup was won by Mr. Pyke's Pauline; Mr. Long's The Libel ran up. The Everley Cup was won by Mr._Long's Sam Slick ; Mr. Ferris's Tyrant ran up. The Elston Stakes were won by Mr. Chase's Kotzebue ; Mr. Miller's Elston ran up. . The hinter Stakes were divided between Mr. Miller's My Lord and Mr. Chase's Chambermaid. THE SURREY STAG HOUNDS.-EXTRAORDINTARY RUN. On several occasions since the establishment of the above pack, the most splendid runs have been recorded, but that of Thursday last was considered to be almost unprecedented in the annals of sporting, both as regards speed and the country rode over. The meet took place at the Swan, at Peckham, when the celebrated hind called " The Fairy " was uncarted in Mr. Crittle's meadow. After taking a quiet survey of the field, and apparently chosen her line of country, her lady ship went away at racing speed across Haves-common away to Hayesford, then by Bromley, Mason's -hill,. Wedmore, Chiselhurst, and through Sir Samuel Scott's park. Up to this time there had been a fifty minutes' run, at a tremen• dons pace, and the hounds were whipped off, and ten minutes was given to them to get their wind. The country was most severe, and a great many of the field got a puzzler. In going over a gate the horse Mr G. Tollett was riding hit the top rail, an fell over upon his rider, who was a good deal bruised, but fortunately escaped without any serious injury. At the expiration of the period allowed the hounds were laid on again, and her ladyship, who seemed as fresh as ever, and quite to enjoy the fun, took them away by Mottingham, Eltham, Lee, and Woolwich, travelled back to Shooter's-hill, Welling, and East Wickham, leaving Erith to the left, went away nearly to Dartford, where she headed back, and was taken at Mr. Collier's farm at North End, between Dart ford and Erith, after a most splendid run of two hours, the pace being first-rate throughout. " The Fairy " is the same hind that was taken last year on board a vessel off the Essex coast, when attempting to cross the river after an extraorlinary run of three hours. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Cambridgeshire lids., Mon., Childerley Gate ; Fri., Potton Wood—lol. Oakley hds., Mon., Kenhold Village; Thurs., Kivotting Fox ; Sat., Sherrington Toll Bar-104. Tinoale hds., Mon., Riding Mill; Thurs., Garret Hott. Mr. Watson's hds , Mon., Pigdon ; Wed., Lindon ; Fri., Longlurst-10i. 'York and Ainsty hds., Mon.. Elvington ; Tues., Dring house ; Thurs., Copgrove; Sat., Strensall-10i. Sinnington lids., Tues., Cawton; Fri., Catterbridge-10. Whitecross harrs., Tues., Betloe Lane-10. Findon hd'., Tues., Applesham ; Thurs., Kennel; Sat., Patcham. Haydon hds., Wed.. Dinnetley Wood; Sat., Judas's Crag. Brushford harrs., Mon., Stream Common ; Wed., Gutter hole; Fri., Windsford Hill-10. Surrey stag hds., Tues., Ripley, Sat., Nuffield. Baron Rothschild's stag hds., Mon., Meritmore ; Thurs , Hardwick-11. Holderness hds., Tues.. Londesbro-gate, York-road ; Thurs., Brandesburton oor ; Fri., Hatton Cranswick toll-bar ; Sat., Bessingten-hall---104. Earl of Harewood's hds., Mon., Spacey- hones ; Wed., Becca-hill ; Fri., Tadcaster-bar—lOi llurworth hds., Tues., Middleton Onekor ; Sat., Northal lert on. Raby hds.,lllon., Walworth Castle ; Wed., Kennels ; Fri., Mansfield-10i. Mr. Roe's hds., Tues., Babland-gate ; Fri., Creycombe village. Duke of Rutland's lids., Tues., Belton-park ; Wed., Croxton-park ; Fri., Claythorpe ; Sat., Piper Hole. F. B, hds., Mon., Trazoning, in St. Ewe ; Fri., Pelean croo4i, Pytchley bunt, Mon., Stanford-hall ; Wed., Finedon ; Fri., Latnport ; Sat., Lilburne village. Mr. S. Lowndes's hds., Mon., Swanbnurne ; Wed., Wol verton Great Ground ; Sat., Meibrook Beds), Dur ham county ; Mon., Thorp; Wed., Mainsforth ; Fri., Stots fold-101. • Cleveland hds., Mon., Kitton Mill; - Thurs., Roseberry -101. Berkshire lids., Mon., Uffington Village; Wed., Tar Wood; Fri., Coleshill House. Beiale hds., Mon., Constable Burton; Wed., Wood End; Fri., Streathrm Village-10 j. Boroughbridge harrs., Tues., Windmill Inn, Hutton Moor; Fri., Albrough-101. astbourne harrs., Mon., Friston Mill; Thurs., Willingdon Old Mill-101. Glyndebourne harrs., Mon., Newhaven Barn ; Fri., Brovle. Fowlescombe harrs., Wed., Buller's Arms, Dean ; sat., Hanger Down. Mr. Morrell's lids., Mon., Goosey Green ; Wed, Kennel ; Fri., Gibraltar-11. Norfolk harrs., Tues., Billingford ; Fri., Basonstborpe. Linlithgow and Stirlingshire lids., Mon., Midcalder ; Tues., Barton House; Wed., Dundas Castle; Fri., Bangour-101. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.---This night, to-morrow' Wednesday, and Thursday, are positively the last perfor mances of bldlle. Adile Dumitatre, as she is recalled to Paris, and is compelled to leave. London early on Friday morning. CHEAP HERRINGS.—On Friday the crier announced for sale, on the Market-hill, Woodbridge, a cargo of Yar mouth bloaters, 24 for one shilling.—Siffolk Chronicle. CAMELFORD FAlR.—This fair, on Wednesday last, was well supplied with cattle, and many sales were effected, but the demand was far from being brisk. Fat cattle sold at about 50s. per cwt., and Stores at 255. to 305.-- West Briton. We understand that Mr. Feargus O'Connor and Mr. Joshua Hobson have split upon some point of difference, and that the connexion of the latter with the Northern Star has, therefore, altogether ceased.—Leeds Mercury. DEVIZES.—The Duke of Buckingham is reported to have issued orders to stop all surveys over his estates near Haddesden. Surveying operations have been put an end to by main force, and the fieldsmen have to return to town for further orders.— Wiltshire Ind: pendent. A SHORT CUT !—The cutting of a small canal only a mile and three-quarters in length, through the neck of the peninsula of Cantyre, in Argyleshire, will diminish the length of the voyage from Glasgow to the entrance of the Caledonian Canal and the western islands of Scotland, not _ fewer than 140 miles. - • There was on Friday exhibited in Mr. Nutting's seed-shop, Cheapside, a cabbage weighing nearly 301bs. The same day was signalised by the appearance of the first num ber of the Tailors' Advocate. COLLIERS' STRIKE.—A meeting of the coalmasters of the district was held at the Talbot Hotel, Stourbridge, on Tuesday last, to take into consideration the demands of the men, when it was determined to accede to the demand, and advamse the rate of wages to ss. per day.— Worcestershire Chronicle. DARING ATTACKS NEAR LIMERICK.—On Sunday evening, at about half-past six o'clock, eight houses were attacked in the neighbourhood of Ahane, by fourteen armed men, some of whom had their faces blackened. They carried off; we are informed, about 20 stand of arms. Amongst those which were attacked were the following :—Bunton, in the neighbourhood of Ahane, Carey, of Newrod, Bradshaw, of Coolriree, Lynch, a process-server, of Drominboy, Coghlan, of Ballyvara, near Barringtons' Bridge, Hogan, of Ahane, and Molonv, of Ballyvara. The last-mentioned after being placed on his knees twice to be shot, received a blow of a pistol from one of the party on the head which caused a fracture ; his arms were also taken. There was also a cut of a sword made at Molony, which he luckily escaped. The in mates of Coghlan's house were forced to lie on their face while the ruffians were beating him. They swore Coghlan as to his having arms, when he replied in the negative. A servant boy of Coghlan's when rendering some assistance was also violently beaten. We believe the police of this district were called into this city to do duty in consequence of the threatened breach of the peace here last week on the Limerick and Waterford Railway. We have been also in formed that the party warned those whom they visited not to dare pay any rents.—Limerick Reporter. HER MAJESTY'S BUCK HOUNDS.—Notwithstand ing the extremely dense fog which prevailed from an early hour, the meet, which took place on Friday at Riching's Park, was attended by a field numbering upwards of three hundred, amongst whom were the Earl of Rosslyn, Captain Seymour, and several of the officers of the 2d Life Guards and the Grenadier Guards stationed at Windsor. The cele brated deer, Rory O'More, which. afforded several excellent runs last season, upon being uncarted near the Crooked Billet, at Iver, made for Black Park, where it twice crossed the water, and thence in the direction of the Great Western Railway, which it crossed near Two-mile Brook, between Slough and Maidenhead. Rory then made away through ' Mr. Aldridge's farm, at Cippenham, crossing Chalvey-diteh, to Dorney common, and was taken near Salt-hill, after a capital run of two hours and a halt. In some places the fog was so thick that the hounds could not be discerned at a dis tance beyond 80 or 100 yards. Several falls and some half-a dozen duckings occurred at Chalvey-ditch, a locality well known by the sporting gentlemen who hunt with the Queen's hounds for mishaps of that nature. The pack was whipped off, and the stag secured, before it had suctained the least injury. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT A PRINTING OFFICE.-- On Saturday, a frightful accident occurred to a lad named John Morris, aged twelve years, whose parents reside in the Waterloo-road, Lambeth, which it is supposed will terminate fatally. It appars that the unfortunate lad was engaged in the machine• room, belonging to Messrs. Clowes and Co., the printers of Duke street, Stamford-street, and whilst laying on the sheets fur some new publication, he turned round to speak to another boy, when the cog-wheels or band of the machine caught his head, which was drawn in between some portion of the wheels, :and before the machinery could be stopped, he sustained a dreadful lacerated wound of the scalp, extending from the base of the skull or back part of the neck to the forehead, which portion of the scalp was torn from the skull and hanging over his eyes. The poor fellow was removed in great agony from his frightful posi tion and carried to a neighbouring surgeon's,- where it was deemed advisable to remove him with all speed in a cab to the accident ward of St, Thomas's Hospital, at which place he was immediately put under the care of Mr. South, the house-surgeon, who gave but very faint hopes of his recovery. commerce in corn. Mr. Cobden's speech was the speech ofthe evening. He hit Sir Robert Peel some bard blows—blows which the Right Hon. Baronet must feel for many a day to come. Mr. Cobden's refer2i.ce to the " responsibility "of the Minister, must be gall and wormwood to the latter. The Hon. Member for Stockport plainly told the Premier, that he is not to be deterred from holding him responsible for his measures, by a red.embrance of a celebrated clap trap affair in the Commons, when Sir Robert broadly insinuated that he was instigating persons to assassinate him. The Minister did not himself believe what he sought to impress on the Ha and the country. It was not only a most reprehensible expedient to silence an opponent, and crush him as a public man, but ex ceedingly clumsy withal. For a moment, it must have been painful to Mr. Cobden ; but the thing was soon seen through, and then the attempt to injure Mr. Cobden recoiled on the Premier himself. This was righteous retribution. It is to be 11 ,, ped it will operate as a warning to other public men, not, in their anxiety to crush a troublesome opponent,' to have recourse to mendacious expe dients. The responsibility of Sir Robert Peel every day be comes more and more grave. It was, at the time the memo rable incident we have referred to occurred, simply a respon sibility for the injury done to trade and commerce, by the Minister's maintenance of the corn and other monopolies. It is now a responsibility affecting the lives of millions. The corn-law question has at last assumed an appalling aspect. It has become a question of life or death to vast masses of her Majesty's subjects. And should any of them perish through his obstinate adherence to a monopolist course of policy, he will be made to feel that there is a meaning in the word " responsibility" h e never di scovere d before. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. 1 'Osi s .—The tendency of the foreign exchanges is just now worthy of the most careful observation, since it would appear to have, as, in fact, it must, so immediate an influence on the movements of the Bank. With a decline in the rates on the principal points of Europe, the Directors would, perhaps, have no hesitation in again iucreasenw ' their mini mum o f d i scount on an early beard day, pos s ibly the very next. A proper re gard for the public interest, as well as a reasonable view to the profits of their own proprietary, might have seemed to be a sufficient justification of the measure. But, with the market for foreign bills still greatly in favour of this country, and the indication there is of a continued advance, they can not, without incurring censure, venture at present to create renewed alarm by persevering in the restrictive course they have been lately taking. Three months' paper on Paris was again negotiated this afternoon at 25 95, or nearly a franc above par, while, on Amsterdam also and other leading cities, somewhat more was paid for the pound sterling than on the last foreign post-day. At the Stock Exchange money was not only easy, but in very considerable abundance. On the authority of several leading brokers, we may state that loans, on the deposit of fair guarantees, were to be had, for limited periods, at the rate of four per cent., an d, a t th e reduced value of stocks and other descriptions of security, a preponderance of buyers is beginning to be perceptible. The share and foreign stock accounts have proceeded in a very satisfactory manner, and may be said to have been virtually concluded. Two failures were named in the course of the day, but they were not of a magnitude to make any im pressicn. Only a very few thousands will fully cover the liabilities of the parties in default. An immune aggregate of differences has, therefore, contrary to the general expec tation, been adjusted without any sensible derangement of the markets. MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND. (From the Easton Counties Herald.) The neighbourhood of Mill-street, where a great portion of the Irish poor reside, in Hull, was the scene of m,.ch ex citement throughout Sunday last, in consequence of the death during the night of a poor woman, the wife of a labourer, under circumstances detailed in the following evidence. It appears that the husband was habitually irritable, of inebriate habits, and frequently cruel to his wife, who was the mother of an infant of three months. That he had affection for his child is not doubted, but his conduct towards his wife ap pears to have been unreasonable, tyrannical, and cruel. When the child cried it was his habit to kick his wife. One of these kicks, on Sunday morning last, about one o'clock, inflicted upon a most sensitive part of her person, caused an effusion of blood, which resulted in death in three hours. The husband was found at the Lord Durham public-house at half-past one, and when told of his wife's condition, pro fessed to go for a doctor, but did not return home; and he had not done so up to the hour of the inquest, which was held before Mr. Thorney, at the Joiners' Arms, in West-street, on Monday, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, when the follow ing witnesses were examined : Mary Fullerton,ovile of Michael Fullerton, of Mill-street, labourer, deposed—l lire in the same house where the de ceased and her husband, Patrick M'lntyre, resided. I saw the deceased at nine or ten o'clock on Saturday night last. She was then very well. She went out between eleven and twelve o'clock to look for her husband, and while she was out her husband came in, sat down in my room, and smoked his pipe. In a short while he went upstairs to the child, which was crying, and then he went out to look for his wife. Ile had been drinking plenty. I then went upstairs to the child, and as I was bringing it down stairs I saw the de ceased coming into the passage, and when she saw me she said, " Oh, Lord, Mrs. Fullerton, I'm flooding away ; the one kick he gave me has cured me." After that she went into my kitchen, and I got her to sit down upon a chair. Blood was running from her person upon the floor, and in about a quarter of an hour after she had been in the kitchen, old Mrs. Judy M'lntyre came in, and also Catherine Butler, who sopped up the blood, and then the deceased walked upstairs, into her own room.. I took the child upstairs. The de ceased laid herself down on the floor at the fire-side. never saw Patrick M'lntyre after he went out to look for his wife. While I was upstairs with the deceased she fainted, and I gave her some water. I remained upstairs about a quarter of an hour, and then left her in the care of Judy M'lntyre and Catherine Butler. I never saw her afterwards. On re-examination this witness added—When I was coming down stairs with the child, Mrs. Nancy M.lntyre was the first who spoke, and she said, " Oh Lord, Mrs. Fullerton, I am flooding away." I then said, " Did you see Paddy?" and she said, " Don't you see I did ?" and I heard Patrick M'lntyre call out from the end of the passage in the street, " I'll make you stop in the room, and mind the child, and not he running out after me." I am sure it was the husband's voice I heard. Michael Fullerton, of Mill-street, labourer, deposed—l live on the low flia,r of the house in which the deceased lived. The deceased was in my room as late as one o'clock. She was then well. She went out to look after her husband, and while she was out the husband came back, and then he went out again, and in a few minutes she came back bleeding into my room. I heard no noise or quarrelling. I heard her say, as she was in the street, "In the na me o f G o d, l et me come into the house," and then she came in. She afterwards went up stairs. I found her husband in a public-house, and told him to go for a doctor. This was in a few minutes after the woman had come into the house. Ile went for a doctor; he had been drinking. The public-house was the Lord Durham. The husband made no observation to me about his wife when I told him to go for a doctor. The deceased did not shout or scream, or I should have heard it. I have never seen the husband since I sent him for the doctor. Joseph Agar Locking, surgeon, deposed—About two o'clock on Sunday morning last, I was called to the deceased. I found her sitting upon the floor near the fire-place, so very much exhausted that she could scarcely speak. I examined her and found blood issuing from the lower part of her per son, which was bruised, and which might have been occa sioned by a kick. Her death was caused by loss of blood, but I should wishto have a further examination. The inquest was then adjourned to Wednesday afternoon for a post mortem examination to be taken. The additional evidence taken at the adjourned inquest was as follows :—_ Mr. Joseph Agar Locking—l have made a post modem examination in pursuance of the order given t o me at the last court. I examined the wound, and found a large lace rated wound about the size of a walnut. [The witness pro ceeded more particularly to describe the wound.] I could not be certain that I saw ruptured veins and arteries. That part of the person is composed of a great number of those vessels. I have no doubt that the bleeding came from that part, and from the injury there, which bleeding, together with the shock to the system, was the cause of death. The injury was such as might have been inflicted by a kick and a shoe. The lungs were congested, as also the lining mem brane of the windpipe. I should not say that the congestion of the lungs caused death. Catherine Butler, 62, Mill-street, single woman, deposed —She heard the deceased tell Mr. Render that it was her husband who had hurt her. This was after he had given her extreme unction. James Jennings, of Mill-street, labourer, deposed—l saw Mthityre and his wife together in Mill-street, about 1 o'clock on Sunday morning. I was in my own house looking out of my window. She was lying still on the flags, against Charley Dodd's wall, and he was kicking her very hard. He kicked her several times. I am positively sure of three times, but could not speak to four, before he let her get up. He did not speak. Before he gave her the last blow (with his hand) she called on him, for the honour of God, to let her get up, and get into the house. He made no answer, but let her get up after the last blow ; as she was creeping to get up, he struck her another blow with his fist, and knocked her head against the wall. She then got up, and walked into the house. lie went up Mill-street, and I kept looking out of window, for I had seen so much I could eat no more supper. There were several other witnesses in attendance, but as they could speak only to the same things, the jury d id not call them. The Coroner read over the evidence, The jury returned a verdict of W i lful murder" against Patrick Mintyre, the husband of the deceased. A curious fact is mentioned in a letter to the Evening Post, 'dated at Wexford, that "no potato, so un d when dug, and which accidentally had been cut with the spade, became spoiled in the house, but remained perfectly untouched, fresh, and sound." the al I ae death any f n REPRESENTATION OF ANTRIM.—It will be seen by r a ei n n o e t s ic en e tpautibolshoefd the elsewhere, co unytha theretAntrim, b i y s K t h r e . Irvine, a Scotchman, the late Member. Mr. Watson, the dismissed of Lisburne, said he would contest a seat on the first vacancy, in order to have an opportunity of manifesting his gratitude to Government for his discharge from the ma gistracy. Here, now, is a c h ance in Ant rim for the old " Commodore."—Dublin Pilot. WESTMINSTER COURT of SEWERS.—On Friday a special Court of Sewers for Westminster was held at the Court-house, in Greek-street, Soho-square. Mr. Willoughby in the chair. At the last meeting of the Court, Mr. Leslie moved the appointment of Mr. J. Phillips, as assistant-sur veyor ; to which an amendment was moved and eventually carried by the casting vote of the chairman, which resulted in the meeting of to-day being held "to consider as to the efficiency of the surveyor's department, and as to the expe diency of making a change therein." Mr. Lebreton brought forward a series of resolutions reflecting on the efficiency of the surveyers' department, and proposing various changes therein. A very long and somewhat desultory discussion ensued, the result of which was that motions were carried abolishing (subject to confirmation) the offices of assistant • surveyors, and limiting the establishment to a chief surveyor and a consulting surveyor. A motion declaring that the resolutions passed should not be acted upon until they should have received the sanction of another Court, excited consi derable opposition, Mr. Leslie and Captain Bogue stating that such a notice was a stultification of the previous proceed ings of the Court. A number of commissioners might come down at the next Court. not having attended the present, and defeat the decision which the Court had come to to-day. The Chairman thought that resolution was consonant with prudence and good sense. Ihe motion for the confirmation at the next Court was then put and carried by a majority of, ten to five. The Court then broke up. 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