The Sun. — London, England, 1850-11-19 00:00:00

i ;.1 i, 1 "~ tbs tfoe 1011. The prisoner expressed his regret, and said he t r ught fie `'as knockin g a t hi s own d oor . .U. JARDIN E fined th, prise, ~ r los. or ton days' ins- Prisunnaent.— the fin e was p a id. o ES iIIA RLBR REET.—(THIS DAY.) IN ,RY AT TUE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION BUILD • IN U YDE - PARK —Thomas Miller, a carpenter, was e ta a argd before Mr. Binfi,b,:m with stealing a quantity of k,, t ,3 41 s artws and tw o p i eces o f woo d , t h e pro p e rty of ars. Fox and Henderson, builders, &c. the F, Fox We!by deposed that he was time-keeper to b a j r( entors at the Exhibition building in ii) de- Last The pri,oner was employed as a carpenter there. l ' as t night, just as he was about' leaving his work, nit s . . %as inforna el that ho (prisoner) had a quantity c f metal screws about him, cud he (niln'2') accordingly t`l)PPad him ard took him i n t o the office, where he s a t r x ,: cl hirn with robbing the prosecutor, which he t. i 37 de'rried. Witness then sent for a constable, a nd gave him in charge. The prisoner was subsequently i are hede and about three dcz. , n screws and two pieces ;abo der had ng, nr7g hto tot tb c' t the Pura foun d pert y , :St un s him. there w T e i re in evaptled on the building the prosecutors, lhoourgdiert it their others from committing ofilencev, ,endant. duty to make an example of the de n T;he defendant in answer to the charge, said he bad h o st i nte , atian of ateislirg the screws or the wood; he ha !d • had screw s in his pocket all day while about his work. M. committed him for trial. ASSAULT.—John Strnmonds was placed Me e Bingham, charged with creating a disturb n tus Q:cen's Theatre, Tentenhsm-street. iessnaklmood, the constable employed bt Mr. James, the ' v° at the theatre, stated that last Light his attention . thi:sealled to the defendant, who was standing on one of audio to in the pit, to the great inconvenience of the he f e e , and on his civilly requesting him to sit d o w n, 1, 0 „„ e "dant) assailed him with very abusive and fi lthy th a r 3 g : e, and otherwise created such a disturbance, • ho t i - „ A w taeas was obliged to eject him from the and La doi ng w hi ch toe defendant t h rew hi m d own , Zii,e,ked him with g r ea t force several times. A police th, L u , a at that ti me came u p, an d as sisted him in taking Priso n , r to the station. at } , h e Prisoner said he had no idea that he was doing led 4rt n in' standing on the seat; in fact ho was obliged 4 ° 1 . 6° t 0 gain a view of the performance. aatt e , + B , l NGEtisx said the defendant ought to have known and L 'uail to behave himself in such a riotous manner, abo,:"en civilly requested to descend from the seat, to soil„ -1 9'd assault the officer. He should tine him (pri lest,;,lUs. for the asssult, and advise him to be con- With sitting the next time he went to a theatre. TILE INCOME-TAX. S ia 7 'o THE EDITOR OF THE . SUN : tiht • r.--1 aril glad to see your attention directed to how ietolerable grievance the income-tax. No . one, lik e t o ve r, can feel the annoyance inflicted by this tax t L'ennimercial man. The lawgivers who impose tl l )44 r`st Lave no more sympathy with the sufferers porario,,ohatulsidane of the on a winter's evening, by good the fire sympathises with the traveller who, on the house, is exposed to all the pelting leh t i l e g it ,ileas storm. It is not the amount of the tax la the principal objection—it is the very pr!n . - t o r, i i of the tax which renders it arbitrary, inquisi ' anfrlual, and unjust.. I allude to the tax on Pert ale arising from industry ; not from fixed pro esite as land or building-,, because of these the in last, s fixed and publicly known, but in the case o f f p, O Ine derived from industry, what is the course o I,o o ee N ed ing? Suppose a merchant is assessed at that''' . Per annum; every man in business knows tilts credi t is _ and character are invaluable to him ; let bat:. "e, destroyed, and his business will also, as a lOC at c onsequence, be destroyed. He appeals 4,oo nst the charge because he has lost, say 2,0001. to ap peal ' instead of havince gained 1,0001. But his is not a d m i tted w i t h ou t a SE are bi ng exam i oa Y the Commissioners into the state of his affairs. cre s ls Placed i n t h e h um ili at i ng pos iti on of b e i ng Perb B questioned, o f h av i ng hi s wor d doubted, and 4,4 ti Vs requi re d to produce hi s b oo k s . Will any N a ; °f s re eptetability and good standing submit to a'hoe ia _ ni t and degradation, and to Commissioners to e la himself equal in society ? but he must so rath e c',: t s lr Pay this unjust assessment. Allow that, Lis 1 0 ; th an expos e th e situation of his affairs, reveal !flan &c., that he pays the tax, which he knows atisti r ,"kPlat tax, what is the consequence ? The in oft:.,...oteidraabniek)les in his heart, and he becomes a hater cltia,,veio:riranitnent. And this iniquitous procedure is for the Commissioner must have this in- At? theproefworeer, to prevent fraud. There is no except by the repeal of the tax d . in v 3 e - c'nlinercial man who has realised property, an Pay .sse 2 , d , i b t in land or buildings, does not object to 1)1 e ▪ E le „ t ax on such property, because that is visi fore tnilt,7ltn, and of well-known income, and ther.eh der.-;ehils not the same objection as to that which man will fr om from the precariousness of trade. No Prieop-`,l4rnely submit to anather prying into his • ell ' a urnstances, but the present income-tax ofi tn " i ses this prying, and in the most insulting and di ve ' fa rtn; in fact, it makes an Englishman a N isi ' - al/ Tellable to appear before his master, the Corn . a x i i : n er, and bound to answer every impertinent d ie lf"a'n which said Commissioner may choose to ask. 1 4 4 , - , Ye this freedom? And talk about an English -13;1'8 house being his castle, when he may be . r e o a n n i N; e 7ed to leave that castle for shall e ex pu p r o p se ose tb i ., Bt l ng every question which wie all those t o h .Private circumstances h . be . wou . ld not reveal is nearest friend. In fact, it . is just like the as' - ,„_ n 'ah Inquisition,. where the object is to make the sot Ted criminate himself, if possible. The tax can , ac tor !, Made a just tax. A merchant makes a return tip o ; u ing to the best of his knowledge, calculating %certain outstanding debts as good, and yet the 5 ' after he has paid his tax these debts prove bad, or Prod li ti 4la t of his property falls, as in railroad shares or cos t ,. ;in fact, the component elements of his . in i„''are always varying, and of uncertain value. et tr ; e 'nepossibl e to fi x a man ' s i ncome f rom t ra d e ac ee,„-'cl,Y, but th e compu l sory exam i na ti on before clee r uns sioners, like a criminal before a judge, is a 141 Y B klation to which no British merchant will will- " übm• I am, Sir, yours, &c., Li ver ZETA. Pool, Nov. 16 1850. ' Th e V OTING MACHINE. votes f 0 Tl 'vly-inve n t e d machine for taking the credit of 3 °,000 N I " Assembly, and for which a 14 a rob snag has been voted, was yesterday ex th i e bi n te d d . va ntage s 4d , joining the Chamber. It offers " u4 .,_ aoh-er,,- un doubted correctness and great rapidity. l ooz, Oil-P4aentative will be provided with a small l etters - "p ' , ta b his name will be inscribed in gold tea, five ,„,""I,",ta box will contain ten bulletins for v I ilet' s -in fe (for), and five blue (against). These r bl ue In- s i ca i naist of small oblong pieces of polished o . erese ste a ; ; ' 'Dearing on each face the name of the re 41 ,,eb ti n t i:f e • The urns, which are chefs d' ceuvre o f _ wnit e a - .1) have two distinct compartments, blucan ofd Nl'llitei:rrNed in .such a manner that the bulletin t 1 101. the -"eel cannot enter into the blue c..mpartmen in , the vot blu e bulletins into the white one. Any . error es of !tee" , i (therefore, becomes impossible. The 13'e other I ndi a -II all ing into the urn, do not lie across each toti,,-rder, but are piled up regularly, one on the .t other, so volt a a ,"PPer rod, with numbers inscribed on i , n ; l a l t*si f:`agle glance is sufficient to tell how f - I, ' t h : (31 ' against are contained in each urn. When " g e 4,4'" t ea are collected the ushers will withdraw ra - eliip er ' from each urn, and place it in a piece of ma i t a die ll ? ' ° i n the tribune, and which will immediately e. L itt iest i -e , tu e number of votes for or against. Thesecr is ; 41 4 , i ," v s only to add them up, and when the addition iltns , 41 ,111:;"eY have only to touch a lever, and the bulletins i 414 o 'cl tb at the secretaries who have counted the (31111 t rl th e2 14 aY . , without moving * from their seats, ~.. ' .. 11' ''Ialt ' a white ones, and so check each . o l ther. The .. , 11 44 6 ' a f the vote will be thus known i i a . positive eileitß';;ioPillbeforehandrn, ber inutes. By the aid of six m lists, and corresponding to a pu t4l( itia. veci ,," one of the corners of the bulletins, the t :feti p -I,,i' a e names for the Moniteur, which formerlyto ~l a ny : a co nsiderable time, and frequently le "Vig na - n rr i a . ra, will be performed in ten minutes.— ;,. 4 - ap ri , —_______________ • ' t he I: i° ,-Nre CLUB.—A histrionic club, for members . ' a Dro,, "ci universities is in course of formation,'hy whom it at th F() ged to give ' • Th, i , St. j arnees, 0 series of c . six performances every season h theatre at the West-end. li t t4 Ocl a tli le t s° , f ,th new somer clu are in circulation, and we itndeF e eo, ; _ we . first essays of the members are to be made in tit"'"g Winter. bl ,inay Z TO GET SLEEP —How to et to sleep is, to :1(18 7,,,,rusaoynes,:iszir,t;of high importance. Nervous per -11;11;1? are troubled 'tl k fiilness and exciteability, hee,i(iii stiltulat:eCl ...tendency o "twakefulness e f blood to the brain, with it i „ e Ztre ni i tie, epressu pressure of blood to the brain keeps wakeful state, / tktr are oftenand the pulsations in the to - er nitie....., painful. l.et us rise and chafe the bodyhnd the e ' O?r°1110t-.7rieta a mug., toe el, or ru smartly with the hands, '' tab loo,i .'i ulation, and to withdraw the excessive . amount . 1 , ' from the brain, and they will fall asleep in a few 4° °(l 1 14. A cold bath, or a sponge bath, and rubbing, or and ~. .4 n, ~,_ ovo, stairs ur a rapid walk in the open air, or going . up an l 14 itii, ~. a few times just before retiring, will aid in cilia - s,.„,..,'antulation and promoting sleep. These rules are simple, . 1 ° th e r s ,Y of a pplication in castle or cabin, and may minister 4, t 44 s'°lnforts of thousands who would freely expend money 4le er)." 4ll ` xl Yne to promote '‘` nature's sweet restorer, balmy D 1 „ ;Ile °,,tt, DEAL, AND CINQUE PORTS RAILWAY.-- ' l l3' N w a -e i t 'ng before hi; Honour, Master Brougham, ycster- 1 411 14; 7 t ° consider the claims of creditors, the list of con- 1 rp, rla ries avingh rbeen settled. i‘n,ebnto, 11 ga :r ni . isi C st, roysdell, the official Itailp-, reportsthat there is due from the South-La,tern . tttkeie;YfroeniclnPaanty a sum of 8 ' ,6851., the amount of an undeF NVllicel74eat of the Bill to , rep b a t y li t n h e e d ex .b pen, , ses incurred in ! Iv a ll e i c e e l i a h Ziilleicitt haddb.neeont be i .i. arliament, for the chairman, and if paid. with a ball lt,h e 0f p 1 ,', 334e1 . still s ' t n a t ri o di e r t . )t" * . m . the Commercial Bank, d w . i i , 4 " 4 of epee 41 . enable the official manager to declare a iv - e 1 ` -3 . niong the shareholders. 111%•a11y,...., 13:1;etil0 n j3 () fa ger:llll'i n o f C I Ot Park, has undergone , and b e y the skilful management of t `-` '4l, attendant is progressing favourably. in! It zbtt \ —W e are or ti „, d • GTo N AND Seances, BAthwAy.. _ rn... P,atnv are that the York and North Midland Railway Co '4 cch v,. a c' w busily engag e d in completing this railway, ai m the ill extend it to the harbour at Bridlington Quay, 4cl verti,, er eb Y afford much additional accommodation.—Hell 4 • DRURY-LANE THEATRE. JULLIEN'zi For a bold, jahl:aat, conceaticn, eona;aend us to M. Jullien. Tt.e " Army and Navy Quadrilles" have each had their ovation. Long slumbering melodies, which worked up the hearts of our grandsires, have been evoked and stirred, as in the lap of peace, with the memorias of past prowess. But Jullien is not wholly anti- Cabdenic in his sympathies. Ile can tune you the shepherd's pipe as well as the martial trumpet—nay, more, he can array trumpet, drum, and cymbal, besiie the amorou.3 oboe and the sprightly fiddle, and make them blend their voices in the hymen of peace. Last night saw him in his height of glory and pride of success. The Great Ex hibition of 1851 has begotten in his brain a grand " inspiration." To say that that " inspiration" has assumed the form of a quadrille will be enough for all who know to what superb dimensions that class of composition expands itself under M. Jullien's wand. Tier upon tier rise the merry minstrels, some in the garb of peace, others in the trappings of war. Instruments are there, various as the myriad melodies gathered from all regions. The bands of the Royal Artillery, the 2d Life Guards, and the Coldstream Guards (under their respective conductors, Collins, G. Cooke, and the ve teran Godfrey), ancient allies of M. Jultien, were on this great occasion reinforced by some score of drum ' mers of the French National Guard, under the pic turesque direction of M. Barbier, the tambour-major. This corps made the hearts of the audience leap, and brought a rosy tint upon many a fair cheek, with their pas acceleres, redoubles, reveilles, rappels, marches, end other military ordonnances of the French army. To the curious in the art of drumming, their performance is a rare treat. Tne execu• tion of a diminuendo passage in the rappel was a most masterly performance. After solos by Lavigne, Pratten, Collinet, those renowned guitarists, the Messrs. 'Ciebra ; Soualle, on the Corno-Musa ; Sommers, on the Bombardon ; Ciofil, Kcenig, Strea !her, and Baldacci, we find ourselves hurried along in the " March of all Nations." " The Morning of the inauguration," we quote M. Jullien's emphatic précis, "of the Grand Exhibition is supposed to have arrived. The great city, which, for the first time shelters such masses from all parts of tho known world, is, as yet, tranquil, when, at day-break, the festival is ushered in by the sounding of the chimes of London, echoed far and near from each surround. ing belfry. Soon the city is in movement, and the multitudes hasten towards the same goal, all eager to behold the most stupendous realization of human in dustry recorded in the history of the globe. A tre mendous shout bursts forth, and the welcomed nations, one and all, join in the cry—' God Save the Queen.'" This is epic, and it is something more; for it is in terpreted to those who might happen not to have a programme by the vivacious gestures, the flickering baton, and the übiquitous gloves of Jullien. Nothing was wanting to the most complete success, except, it may be, a little more individuality in the gigantic octo-basso, which filled a larger space in the ey es than in the ears of the audience. The most cordial wel come was given to the French corps, whose martial appearance and decorous recognition of the national feeling, when more particularly challenged upon the playing of the national anthem, commanded the ge neral admiration of a crowded and enthusiastic au dience. ing rt eking , eS 11W A br9 go eu. okn oth w orliing; yeEsel waggar floating 0 Ricoiso lerieilefd 58, s alci t i izeri.csos: wsprit, ass I &C. S {Pr , .0., 11°)P- ras; onletnoul4 St. Jc'brf4 CO ark lo eßb°4 10 t °4l°l ; 1 schoo pe / has sailed in e.r , , Ao l°4 ffe, Co e 40, i v( 1 42 4 : v0 0a 50 0 Tb°°' 0010 0' he dc ie a ll •°t r il d. be" af f bcS, bl ra n e tbe ice ° ",i to elonge" Lies. Qu° be6 d ford° 14 W. tal i _ pripc 1 O C‘ O EI 010 ;Me AY.) siv e/ , to rs dir.- ,ford , a jlo , w lowbo SD 4 Y ref pct t ioo 113 • i ll° f 1 n 3arg i be Gds a bo aed ' p 1 0 wigd4 el° If c 3f 0 Is o bo 'he )i ir , ) pa Ard c " int° !is° °c- for l6led ig inc ioPo lA lr.) ' Jo A N , ,r,l of IP ° dir Gordij 0 56 fl e ll le lo so :et- fir. pith ~er a BooU ,be ,ed 41 61 , 0 1 0 0 o e, of ' l ,l 0 so ° or , bo oe Oe'' he " b fil 0 ed our t. o ° 0 . f , to Y l l B ooteoi oo° cli ° s glr, ao obJ' o f eats, it, -II 08; e 0 boo 104. Ito r• or • i ft O odr THE SUN, LONDON. ADELPHI THEATRE. A new drama from the pens of Mr. Robert Brough and of Mr. Bridgman, a new aspirant for dramatic fame, was produced here last evening with the most complete success. It is entitled Jessie Gray, and Madame Celeste, of course, acts the part of the heroine; she is supposed to he the niece of a beneve lent apotheraey, Dr. Gray (Mr. 0. Smith), who is in practice in Loudon, and whose assistant Jokes (Mr. G. Honey) is the " funny man" of .the piece, being over head and ears in difficulties, in love (with a marchande de modes cleverly acted by Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam), and in terror, lest he should be arrested for hav ing, as he thinks, poisoned a footman by mistake. and being, moreover, haunted by that perpetual bugbear of all unfledged medicos, " going up to pass." Jessie Gray is loved by Philip Ratline (Mr. Boyce), the nephew of Sir Richard Harville (Mr. H. Hughes), a cold-blooded haughty man, who determines to prevent what he considers a mesalliance by exciting the jea lousy of his nephew. To effect this he works upon the fears of Jukes, and forces him to give Jessie an opiate, and when she is asleep to introduce himself and the housekeeper into her bedroom, so that their shadows are seen at the:window by Philip, whom he has taken care to have in waiting in the street. In agony Philip declares that he will now marry in accordance with his uncle's wishes, and he sees Jessie to take leave of her. The scene between Jessie and Philip is admirably wrought up, and was acted with intense feeling by Madame Celeste. Her expression of agony when she hears herself falsely accused was harrowing. Still, however, there is some feeling of love for Jessie yet lurking in the heart of Philip ; and the Baronet, to make all secure, determines to have her seized and conveyed away to sea in his yacht. For this purpose he engages Pro fessor Chester (Mr. P. Bedford), a gentleman who, having some years before gone to New South Wales at the public expense, has returned to England at his own, and is getting his living as the Hercules of a poses plastiques exhibition. The professor is secreted in Gray's house, and there he overhears a conversa tion between Jessie and the Doctor (Gray), from which it appears that Jessie is not the doctor's niece, but an orphan whom he had found deserted at an hotel in Paris, and had adopted. The Professor likewise discovers that Gray's housekeeper, who is assisting in the plot for the abduction of Jessie, is no other than his own wife, from whom, for various reasons, he is anxious to keep the fact of his existence a secret. The scene now changes to the house of the Baronet, where the denouement takes place. There is a large and fashionable party there, and the salons are crowded with dancers; the Doctor calls, and is shown into a parlour; he demands a private interview with the Baronet, 'and after some difficulty obtains one; he reproaches him with his conduct to Jessie, and his remonstrances are received by Sir Richard with sneers and contempt. Soon, however, the attention of the Baronet is awakened, the Doctor speaks of years gone by, of a secret marriage, of a wife deserted, and of a child lost —the proud man now beseeches the apothecary to say all he knows, that wife was his, that child was his, and that child is Jessie Gray. He is overwhelmed with anguish and remorse, when Jessie herself enters, accompanied by the Professor. The Professor had discovered the secret of Jessie's parentage, had saved her, and had sent his own wife to sea in her stead. Of course matters are now satisfactorily arranged, and Jessie is united to Philip, while Jukes, having " passed," is married to his pretty marchande de modes. W e know not to which of the authors the credit is due of the construction of the plot of this drama ; if to Mr. Brisigmae, he has exhibited an artistical know ledge of play building infinitely superior to that of many an old and favourite playwright. It is one of the best constructed dramas ever put on the stage; the incidents arise naturally out of each other, and all tend to the development of the plot ; while the comic characters, which usually , are mere hors d'ceuvre, are in Jessie Gray so con nected with the drama as to form necessary parts of the ensemble, and to be actively engaged in bringing about the denouement. The pieces was well acted, Madame Celeste was adtnirahly fitted in the character of Jessie Gray, and acted it in that intensely im passioned manner which is so peculiar to her, and in which none other can approach her. Mr. H. Hughes, in his line the best melo-dramatic actor on the stage, acted the contemptuous, haughty, calcu lating villain with a cool assumption of superiority that told immensely ; he seemed an incarnation of intellect without feeling ; but when the heart was touched in the last scene, his acting was full of agonizing passion. No one understands the art of contrast better than this gentleman, or employs it more Atistically or more effectively. 0. Smith, albeit unused to the melting, mood, acted the part of the virtuous Apothecary with becoming unction, and used his white pocket-handkerchief with due de carom ; and Paul Bedford, as Hercules, was very funny. The great hit of the night, however, was the Jukes of Mr. G. Honey, he acted it with a dry quaint humour that took Cher audience by storm ; he kept them in a roar of laughter the whole time he s tage, and at ‘ the conclusion of the drama h WAS OP was on the ou sed with the first call. Henceforth he takes his station among the best of the humorous actors of the day. The piece is admirably put on the stage, and is a decided hit. The theatre was crowded HARRISON AINSWORTH'S ROMANCES. Vol. X 1.---. TACK SH 1 , 3 PPARD. There. is a dignity in the silence preserved by Mr. Ainsworth in reference to his literary assailants. Jack Sheppard" appears in his new and popular form without any prefatory notice whatever. We cannot but regard the circumstance as in the highest degree honourable to the disposition of the novelist. Nevertheless, while appreciating the amenity of tern • per evinced by the omission, we cannot but regret that the author of " Jack Sheppard" has not given utterance, in some measure at least, to those senti tuente of indignation which must inevitably have been long cherished by him with regard to his literary assailants. After so many virulent attacks as have at different periods been directed against the popularity of Mr..Ainsworth's writings, with a view to deteriorate his reputation, we should have rejoiced to hear from the lips of our author himself some reply, no matter how scornful or incidental. Not that we regard his popularity as needing any vindication, iu reference either to the selection of hi 3 subjects, or to their treatment as romances. On the commencement of the present admirable re-issue of his collected fic tions we took occasion ourselves to expose the folly, not to say the egregious injustice, of assailing Mr. Ainsworth as the first offender in a style of narrative which had been tolerated more or less in most of his literary predecessors and contemporaries—in some instances eulogised even in terms of extravagant enthusiasm. It can scarcely be forgotten by the lovers of modern literature, that in answer to a charge somewhat similar to the one here hinted at, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton penned a response to the hypercritics, in the form of a most cogent and mas terly pamphlet. In that brochure the poet-novelisa taking his text, as it were, front the higher orders of imaginative composition, maintained that the CODS.i• deration of crime was the essential prerogative of the tragic dramatist, and that upon the same reasoning it was also a no less allowable theme for the tragic romancist. /Etchylus may be said, indeed, in a great measure to have based his. celebrity upon the accept ' ance of this principle. Shakspere again, with a like appreciation cf the veritable attributes of the "poet" or creator, infused the same ghastly truth into his most remarkable masterpieces. It would be somewhat difficult, we conceive, to show that the atrocities perpetrated by Clytemnestra have ever i been surpassed by the most villanous criminals whose sinister histories have been recorded in the pages of the Neugate Calendar. Neither to our thinking would it he less embarrassing to demonstrate the existence of a greater amount of depravity in the housebreaker, whose hands were never stained with blood, and whose principal shame was that of having adopted burglary as his profession, than in the re morseless thane whose investiture with the diadem of royalty arose out of one of the most dastardly inur &vs ever perpetrated—that of an aged guest slumber ing under his roof—and whose continued possession of the sceptre was attributable only to a series of bloody assassinations. The heinous infamy of Macbeth has never yet been considered suf ficient to remove him beyond the pale of our sympa thies. Yet criminals we might almost say infinitely small in comparison are regarded as altogether with out the reach even of our regard or consideration. It may be said, or rather is said, that in the one instance the grossness of the crime is in a manner sublimated by its poetic treatment, whereas in the other instance the felon is submitted to our notice in his natural as pect through the homelier medium of a prose narra tive. Tnan this we can conceive no more shallow or more preposterous argument. Instead of justifying the dramatist at the expense of the novelist, the circumstance does exactly the reverse. For, assuredly, vice may be invested with attraction and crime with a sort of diseased sublimity by their celebration in the lofty numbers of pi asy:—while the portraiture of either the one or the other in the humbler guise. of a prose description re veals their more obvious and undeniable characteris tics. Hence it is that the delineation of the darker phases of humanity by the hand of the novelist ap pears to us calculated to be beneficial rather than pernicious—revealing atrocity in its true form, and dragging before us crime in its very nakedness, not tricked out in the pump of a poetic masquerade. A fanciful theory has been advanced by Mr. Disraeli, if we recollect rightly, in his psychological romance of " Contarini Fleming"—to the effect that the poet having breathed out his soul to the world, first in ballads, then in odes, then in epics, then in drams, after employing as he medium of his inspiration all the ingenious styles of composition, the idyll, the elegy, the sonnet, the hymn, the psalm, and the la mentation, has at length, in a more perfected age of civilization, adopted, as the vehicle of his thought, the form of the rhymeless and rhythmless, but still poetic, romance. Whether this notion be strictly • correct, or otherwise, it is certain that the novelist is the child, or descendant, of the poet, and that, as one epoch spoke through the tragic or comic drama, our own speaks through the prose romance. As the heir of the poet, the novelist is, therefore, entitled to the use of those great prerogatives for merly enjoyed by his predecessor, and, among these, not one is more inestimable in its influence or more capable of judicious employment, than the preroga tive according to which crime and criminals may be delineated. Fielding felt this when he penned the history of that most despicable wretch, the thief taker " Jonathan Wild"—Godwin felt it'when he made the interest inspired by a murder the main-spring of " Caleb Williams"—Scott felt it when he caused the evil practises of Dirk Hatterick to infuse a charm into the pages of " Guy Mannering"—Bulwer when he celebrated the life of the highwayman " Paul Clifford" Dickens when he painted the grim and bloody figure of Sykes flying from the corpse of his paramour, in those powerful chapters which precede the close of " Oliver Twist." Actuated by the same sentiments, Harri son Ainsworth wrote his enthralling romance of " Jack Sheppard." A narrative of more absorbing interest we cannot call to our recollection. Once commenced, it is idle to think of putting it aside until read to its conclusion. Every leaf contains an incident, and these incidents are chiefly of the most -breathless character. From the storm on the Thames, magnificently described at the outset, to the exe cution of the hero, with which, of course, the story is brought 'to an appropriate termination, • the work rivets the attention of the reader, and that too by the strong and legitimate power of the descriptions. Throughout "Jack Sheppard" the crimes of the more diabolical characters introduced are always held up to unmitigated detestation, as may be especially seen by reference to Jonathan Wild—the Jonathan Wild of Henry Fielding! Poetic justice is done to the vices and felonies of the hero by his being ostentatiously conducted to the gallows at Tyburn ; and our sympathies are excited towards Jack simply because of his possession of some excellent qualities, or through the admiration very justly ex cited by his daring and even wonderful escapes from confinement. In the person of Thames Darrell and in that of Winifred Wood, the author has well vindicated his capacity for - the de lineation of the more gentle aspects of humanity. Mrs. Sheppard herself, the mother of the burglar, is charmingly conceived, and it is impossible not to recognize fine traits of a better disposition 'than might be expected even in poor Blueskin. Among the most vigorous portions of the work, al i was s excepting the account of Jack's escapes from incarceration, is the passage relating to the assassina tion of Sir Rowland Trenchard in the well-hole, by the thief-taker and his Jewish satellite, Abraham Mendez. It reveals in the intellect of Mr. Aina -1 worth that supreme command Over the horrible which, if -he had been a painter instead of a novelist, would have induced him to portray such incidents as that transpiring in the prison of Ugolino. For our • selves one of the most masterly and interesting chapters I' in the romance is the one in which Jack is visited at Newgate by Sir James Thornhill, Gay, Figg, and llogarth.. Happily, however, for Mr. Ainsworth, fhe time has passed by when a detailed criti c i sm on - " Jack Sheppard" was requisite to introduce it to pub lic consideration. All that remains fn. us at present is briefly to notify the fact of the present republica tion, a republication the more interesting when it is remembered thet this eleventh volume comprises. perhaps, the most remarkeble of all the fictions of Harrison Ainsworth, with the single exception of the "Miser's Daughter." GREAT EXHIBITION, 1851.—Messrs. J. and R. M'Craf'ken, of No. 7, Old Jewry, have this day received a further consignment from the Russian Commission, consisting of 129 packages, which they are taking steps tc, deposit with the previous consignment under the re gulltions established by the Board of Customs for the custody of the goods from the northern ports, until the buddibg in Hyde-park be ready to receive them. LIE EXHIBITION or 1851.—Notwithstanding the additional_ gallery accommodation which it has already been s determiucd shall be attached to the building .in Hyde-park, it appears that still further Space is . deemed requisite, and to provide for which Mr. B. Edgington has, at the request of Mr. Digby Wyatt, attended several days, and given nume rous suggestions to effect the required extension by means of monsfre tents, kze., and yesterday was desired to furri,h estimates for the same. It is understood that the increased space to be thus given will comprise an area of about 350 square feet. EXHIBITIO:4 0' 1851.—Her Majesty's Commit.- sioners have received information that the President of the United States has give❑ orders to the Secretary of the Navy to place at the disposal of the United States exhibition com mittee a vessel of the national marine, of such a character es will be most useful in convevieg the articles destin..d for the Industrial Exhibition of London free of charge to the con tributors TIDE ELECTION OF LORD RECTOR or GLAGOW UNIVIIRSITY. 7 The majority for Sheriff Alison is, numeri cally, a majority greater ,than has ever declared itself since the triumphant return of the .late Sir Robert Peel. Mr. Macaulay, it is true, had a majority in each of the four nations, but his numerical majority was not so large as that .of Mr. Sheriff Alison. • The - prevailing- sentiment appe rs to be that Lord Palmerston wi!l not expose Mr. Maeatilay to the invidious task of recording his vote against so large a numerical majority of the voters.— Edinburgh Courant. in every pl PooE ofR A 4 T O E O s sluNrninC,,LnEstasalEXe'lLLsLu.ed—frOomn Saturdayierkenwe upwards n of poor g r a g t i e n , s N‘t , d h i i ff n r e h r, a t s ho l a u t s t e e h tl o y l d e in r s cr o e f m t h e lt t i e ) a r 2 i s s h . 6 fi c i t r . i n n rr e t a h r e s pound. LADVERTISEMEN T.I -- Another Sufferer from a .—The wife of a . Liver Complaint cured by Holloway's Pills ston was suffering for more than two y ears from a severe liver respectable tradesman residing in t he nei g hbourhood of hrap complaint, during which period she received the best medical advice, but without deriving the slightest benefit therefrom. She then made trial of Holloway's Pills, and by their use alone she has been restored to perfect health. The name of the party cured is not made public, but Mrs. Collier, bookseller, Thurpstone, can vouch for the au thenticity of the case. These pills are also an in fallible remedy for indigestion, bilious attacks , head aches, and disorders of th e stomach.—Sold by all Druggists and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand.' London. The largo and beentiful estate of 13,-al, in ti e Twizell d n hat jt as, it si l l s cos, t ih3it e a2n r h i to l easisae p :l bb a rbe3 r ee.s t ;,: o ars f ,f::odigr t d. : i sio s otefh,i c ie, ral heugh raes, ei p srt r ilee o nn,n p . t: e ait r ilei,b t : y ;oc IT; I f i,o,a7fre P 6loito r en i v - , Coal Exchange, London, fur the sum of 47,002/.-2i T ewcastle .rournal. William Eiye, El., master shipwright, has been directed co examine and report on the caism;oor s and docks at the new works, Keyham.—Devonport Independent. TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1850. OVERLAND MAIL INDIA AND CHINA. Diva , ohes, letters, and papers, in anticipation of the Overland mail have arrived. The dates are— Ca:cutta, Oct. 8 ; Idadras, Oct. 12 ; Bombay, Oct. 17; and China, Sept. 28. (From the Overland Bombay Times, Oct. 17.) SUMMARY.—Another newsiess fortnight forms sub ject of complaint to the newspapers, and congratula tion to the people. From the Ist to the 10th of Octo ber, thunder storms were experienced in Western India, and stormy weather seems to have prevailed all over the country from Ceylon to the extreme north-west frontier. The Governor-General and suite leave Simla on the Ist November, and proceed via Roopur, Hooshearpore, Patbunkote, and Deena nutrgur, to Lahore, and after a halt there of three weeks, to Peshawur by the usual route. Heavy rain had latterly somewhat interfered with the com forts of the noble party at Cheni, but they continued in excellent health. It is reported to be intended to fortify, arm, and garriion the principal strongholds in the Punjaub, with a view, we presume, of diminishing the number of troops at present deemed requisite for its safety. The state of the Kohat frontier is still matter of much concern, and it seems an open question whether it might not be more wise to leave this part of our possessions to the charge of the tribes themselves than to maintain it at the pre sent charge.and risk. Sir C. Napier is understood to have recommended that we should subsidise the tribes, and the gallant chief is the last man to recom mend the purchase of peace could it be obtained on any other terms. A scientific survey of the Salt Range has been ordered by the Governor-General. Mr. Pardon, who is to have charge, is ordered to he in Lahore by the let of November. Lieutenant Robertson has been ordered to commence a scientific survey of our frontier bordering Jamoo instead of the Rime . . Government have engaged the services of Mr. Murdock as engineer in the in- ward at Roor kee. The Government of Ben g al have resolved to levy a toll on the Grand Trunk-road ; no thieg could be more wise than to extend the means of intercourse in all directions, making the people pay for the roads some trifling fraction of what they directly gained by them. It is a most serious misfortune in India that Government is looked to for everything; the people will do nothing for themselves, and the country, which might so easily be so greatly improved, is left alone. Government will not venture to tax the people for their own ad vantage, and are unwilling to trust to the ordinary means of recompense for requital. Tremendous rain occurred near Midnapore in the end of September, 13 inches having fallen betwixt the 22d and 27th. This is nothing to what occurred at Rajkote on the 27th July, when 27 inches of rain fell in 24 hours-33 in two days. The heaviest fall known at Bombay was on July 25, 1840, when 13 inches fell in 24 hours. The country around ['meal) has been so flooded that the destruction of the rice crop was apprehended. The coal in Upper A.5.5..am is at present Ling exten sively worked by a Calcutta copartnery. The chief objection in the way is the difficulty of navigat ing the Berhampooter, and the expense in con sequence of bringing the mineral to market. The Meharejah Dhulleep Singh has had a residence assigned to him at Futtyghur ; he is ender the supervision of Colonel Goodwyn. The .Maharajah Goulab Singh, of Jamoo, has sent a collection of shawls, and other articles of Cashmere manu facture, to Lahore, for the great London Exhibition of 1851. They are valued in all at 10,0001, and are bestowed in free gift on the trustees. The contribu tions of the other Hill Chiefs around are numerous and costly; amongst them is a suit of steel armour inlaid with gold, from the Raja of Nabs. Amongst other things ate models of weapons and implements such as ought to be interesting. Nanuck Shahaie rupees to the value of 320,0001. are now on their way from Lahore to be re-coined at Bombay into Com pany's rupees. One of the parties condemned for murder at the late Criminal Sessions was executed on the 11th ; the other criminal was reprieved, and will, it is supposed, be pardoned, from the questionable nature of the evidence against him, and the fact of the man who was executed having distinctly declared the day before his death that he was not present in the house at the time the murder was committed. A ser geant of the Bengal artillery, by name Maeoun, has been convicted at Bareilly of the murder of his wife ; he ran her through with a sword while under the influence of opium. Severe sickness has of late been prevalent at Hansi and the country around. There were in the end of September 300 of the Hurrianah Light In fantry and 180 of the 11th Irregular Cavalry in hos pital, with scarcely a man of either corps at the station fit for work. The rain, which had begun to fall in quantities on the 28th ult., would, it was hoped, improve matters. Cholera had been raging around Agra, and some fatal cases had occurred in the city. The foundation-stone of a new church on the Mount-road, Madras, was laid by the bishop on the sth instant. The Great Indian Peninsula Railway has advertised for contracts for the em bankment across Sion Marsh, six miles from Bom bay ; it is about half a mile long, and is the prin cipal work on the line. Major Kennedy, private secretary to Sir C. Napier, has been appointed consulting railway engineer to the Bengal Govern ment, in room of Mr- Simms, returned to Europe, on a salary of 2,500r5. a month, or 3,000/. a year. The French frigate Yoursuivante having completed her repairs went out of dock on the 6th instant. Her stay amongst us is said to be dependent on instruc tions expected by next mail from France. A splendid entertainment was given to the admiral and officers of the Byculla Club on the 4th. The ball, which took place at the club last night, is understood to have been mainly got up on their account. They, visit the Caves of Elephanta on Saturday under the auspices of Commander. Jenkins, gunnery instructor; 'a splendid enterteinuient awaits them in the caves. They have expressed themselves much gratified by the attention bestowed upon them while among us. Mr. J. S. de Vitre, deputy collector of customs, died at the presi dency on the mornin g o f Saturday last. A large body of the merchants and others of Bombay have memo rialised the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury to extend the mail communication to the most northern ports in China at present opened to fo reign commerce—natnely, —aalighae and the other ports on the north-eastern coast. ---.... . • CI 4 INA ~ The intelligence respecting the rebellion in China is, to say the least, vague and imperfect. We give below, from the Chin a Mail, a sketch of its supposed origin. 'We extract the following summarY ''' 'neWs cid T en h t e s p o a f s m t m om on en th t, haansd r i l i o tt t ia b i e s en g lef p t ro u l from the Hon-Kong Overland R e ister : summary. sifictoosftaatneYiliii:l; The general h ea lth of the troops i n the garrison has improved, and m or t a li ty has not b ee n so rife asit was in the two pre ce di ng months. The sick of the s9th, removed on b oar d ship' rapidlyrecovered, and the sick list daily continues to diminish. We should trust that during succeeding seasons, p roper precau tionary measures b e i ng adopted at a proper time, we shall not have cau se to cotninent on • a nd lament over the foarful mortality w hi ch has b aen witnessed in the garrison this s eason . Toe French s hip Alb ert, w i th C o olies from Cum singtnoon to C a ll ao, CAITI3 i nto t his harbour yester day, the Coolies having risen and murdered the cap tain .and others; a detailed account will be found below.' A serious mutiny occurred on board the Kelso, on her passage from California to this port. The movements of a rebellious body of men from the province of Kwang-si has created some excite ment among The Chinese in Canton. Very correct accounts of their doings and intentions are not readily obtainable. It is said that some of the Imperial troops with some officers of distinction, having bee-n led into an ambuscade, were all captured. Toe foreign trade has been in some degree injured, the Chinese .drea& ing the'safety of goods in transmission to the interior. The Rustomjee CowaSjee has not arrived. No hope ia now entertained of her safety. Her Majesty's screw -sloop Reynard sailed for Loochoo and the northern ports on the . 17th inst., having the Lord Bishop of Victoria on board. Her Alsjesty's brig Arab sailed for England on the 18th. (From the Overland Friend of China, Sept. 28.) The Chinese autumnal and other festivals have been celebrated in the colony this year with more than usual splendour. The overland mails arrived on the 10th instant. ''News of the melancholy death of Sir Robert , P( el caused genera l di s tress, and was feelingly dwelt upon by the L or d Bi s hop on the Sunday followi ng th e re ceipt of th e i n t e lligence. \\' vessel,e htahveeNhyaidlitseveral arrivals from Calif orn i a , one wooden houses. T a ttnet,K h,, (:•l,sing oarrtiiivreede m embers of her c rew i n irons, from San Francisco on the 14 t h ins one of them being shot through the breast by the captain (tones), whose life the miscreant, w ith t h ree others, appeals to have' determined on taking. For the details of this case, so far as we have them, we rater our readers to the extracts in another part of Ithis pager. DISTURBANCES IN KWANG-SI AND KWANG-TU.NG. (From the China Mail.) Reports of the outrages committed by . ba n ditti d w i i s t t i r i l i c l t ltrwnms,ileasndorsuteticuecssityaogfaCin!intt°tnh% the cap ture o f Government forces sent to subdue them, continue to arrive daily. There i 4, a 3 usual, much discrepancy between the ac counts, both as regards time and place; still it is beyond doubt that the chief authorities view their movements vcith no small alttrui, and are prepring in every possible way to protect the city from their violence. As regards the origin of the present outbreak, it will be remembered that in April, 1849, large bodies of militia were in training, es was believed, to oppnse any attempt on the part of foreigners to Enter the city. This may have been the chief object of their organization; but the authorities averred that they were raised to defend the city against large numbers of lawless persons then is arms in the provinces, and some of the proclamations assigned this as a motive for calling on the people to subscribe funds to main tain the militia. The Peking Gazettes of the above period record the defeat and capture cfsr49, for which Sii; Ye the Governor, and others, were h onoura bl y noticed ; and the death of a Major slain by rubbers in Yieg•teh, one of the districts in which they are at this moment in chief force, and the magistrate of which, with his subordinates, was rewarded in a decree of August, 1849, for the capture of some 140 of them; but up to the 25th of July last numerous memorials and rescripts have appeared, on the other hand, regarding the disturbed state of Hu-nan and Kwang-si, which two provinces are conterminous with each other and with Kwang' tung. In December the authorities of Hu-nan reported the extermination of 300 and odd bat - Alta in Sin ning, not far from the borders of Kwang-si ; but in the following month an officer was stated to have been killed in conflict with some of the band, and in April a general officer and others were degraded for not giving a better account of them. In May the same province reported the destruction of five hundred and more, and the dispersion of the rest, who had fled into Kwei-chau, a province also conterminous, on their western fronts, with Kwang-si and Hu-nan. The capture of Li Yuen-fah, the leading " rebel " in the latter, not long after procured for the Gover nor-General of Hu-kwang the honorary title of guardian of the Crown Prince, and post humous honours were awarded in June to a Major and other officers killed in action with the banditti of Hu-nan and Kwang-si. A decree of the 25th of July directed the Governors of these two provinces and of Kwei-cbau to be vigilant in pre-' venting parties of them from crossing the frontiers of their respective jurisdictions. During the period under review there are three notices in the Gazette of robbers captured or posthumous honours awarded to officers slain in their pursuit in Kwang-si. It is utterly silent respecting their proceedings in Kwang tung. The common belief is, that the band now so for midable is composed of natives of all three provinces. They were active in the summer months in the south of Kwang-si, and either stormed or held to ransom two district cities, if not more, in its south-west ter ritory, which rests, so to speak, upon Kwang-tung. They are said to have pushed northwards within the limits of the former province, until they reached its easternmost department, whence, after sacking the district town of Ho, they appear to have passed into the district of Ying-teb, and thence into that of Tsing-yuen, the city of which is but 120 miles from Canton, and only separated by two districts from those on the common border of which the city itself is situated. A note, received this morning (28th), states that on the 4th lust., a party of them sacked Kiachau, a district town Lien-chau, the West De partment of Kwang-tung, the chief city of which was still in a state of siege. The place in question is not far from the borders of Kwang-si and Tonquin. We have of course no better authority for stating their progress and present position than native cor respondents, who differ widely in dates and details. Two, however, who have no connexion with each other, agree iu stating that the Government troops have been frequently beaten during the last to o months; that reinforcements are being sent out with. out intermission; that Shap-'ng-tai and another ex pirate, who had been, like himself, taken into the army, had been captured and held to ransom by the insurgents, and a large body of reclaimed pirates who had accompanied them cut to pieces or dis. persed ; that an expectant prefect, a civilian of some importance, had fallen into their hands, the men under his command, who were from the east of the pro vince, and a most disturbed region, having deserted in large numbers to the enemy ; and that the gentry and people had responded to the invitation of the Government to arm themselves for the protection of the city. Rewards have been offered for the appre hension of suspicious characters ; and all amusements, processions, &c., calculated to attract a crowd of people, forbidden. Sand and stones are said to be piled up inside the gates, which would be thus rendered defensible, when closed, if an alarm were given ; and water vats have been filled near public buildings, in case any attempt should be made to fire the city. Of Su, we hear that he has been, and is seriously indisposed ; but that the Emperor has refused to sanc tion his retirement, requested on the plea of ill-health. Both our native correspondents declare that he is de graded four steps, but desired to remain at his post, and that the Governor of Kwang-si has been sent pri soner to Pekin, in obedience to an order contained in a rescript, to answer for his mismanagement. One of them writes that an Intendant in Kwang-si in despair had destroyed himself by swallowing gold ; also that Si i himself had in July last accompanied a portion of the force known as the Governor-General's division, to the district of Tsing-yuen, and having sustained a defeat, had fallen back upon San Shwui. This last item of intelligence deserves little credit. Those pre ceding it are entitled to more, but a late account con tradicts a previous report that the Governor of Kwang-si had poisoned himself, and shows him to be actively engaged in opposing the robbers on the Eastern border of his government. It is further rumoured that some time since Su represented that Kwang-si was in a state of rebellion. The term employed, however, would be applied to any body or individual offering a continued resistance to constituted authority and by no means warrants the assumption that this movement is of the revolu tionary character with which some foreigners are:dis. posed to invest it. The chiefs, as is common on such occasions, have taken to themselves titles of awful grandiloquence, such as " The Realm-subduing Gene ral," " Generalissimo of the whole Empire, sweeping clean to the North, rising up as the Dragon," &c. &c. Dangerous as may be the temptation to the disaffected if these vagabond s ehave a s yet n continuee shadow of be lievingowntoholdtheirgrou d f for mths months, w that their aim is the subversion of the Tartar dynasty. Some disturbances, but purely of a local nature, had taken place at Shanghae. MASSACRE ON BOARD THE FRENCH SHIP ALBERT. (From the Overland Friend of China of Sept. 28 ) Our issue of the 24th August recorded the depar ture of the French ship Albert, of Dieppe, Captain Jcan Pain, from Cumsingmoon for the west coast of South America. That vessel was chartered to carry 180 coolies, some of whom, shipped for Don D. Elias through the firm of A. A. Ritchie and Co., received previous to departure the sum of 8 dolls. each, re payable out of a salary of 4 dolls. per month, accru ing on their arrival at Lima, for services to be ren dered as general servants, the contract being made for a period of five years. Besides the captain, chief mate, boatswain, cook, and a crew of six seamen, there were two passengers on board. In latitude 32 N., longitude 139 E., on the 7th in stant, about six A M., the coolies, who had secretly possessed themselves of arms, rose en masse. The captain, driveti from his cabin to the top of the round house, had his throat cut, and was thrown overboard immediately. One of the passengers was murdered in his cabin, the cook shared the same fate in his galley, and the mate—chased up into the main top, eeeing no chance of escape, desperately precipitated himself among the miscreants, one of whom he killed instanter, and desperately wounded another. The poor fellow was immediately dispatched and consigned to the deep. The boatswain, Luis Argeetine, was then directed to steer the ship back to China, end the course was altered from N.N.E. to S. by W. ac cordingly. Five days afterwards, in let. 28 N., long. 133.37 E., a severe gale was experienced fit= the S.E., veer ing to S.S.W., during which the top-gallant masts went over the side. On Thursday, off Pinghoy, pilot went on board who was directed by the Chinese to steer for Canton. One hundred of them left the vessel in the first boats going alongside. Forty left yesterday morning, and the remaining forty came into this harbour with the vessel in the afternoon, when they were immediately taken from her to the police-station. She is in a sad state. Packages of silk shawls, tea, lacquered ware, vermillion, medicines, &c., have been broken open and divided into lots, of which several still remain on board. Before leaving, some of them Very quietly removed the barometer, a chron ome t er , and compass from the captaie'e cabin, and took them away altogether. Twenty-four of them are supposed to have arrived here as soon as the vessel. Pour men were captured by our indefatigable Deputy Superintendent of Police Mr. Caldwell, just as they were leaving for Macao. Their packs, containing bide shawls and agreements with the Albert, leave no doubt as to their being part of the gang.—Sept. 28. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. CASUALTIES BY DEATH IN THE Auxins OF INDIA, RE pARTED SINCE THE DEPARTURE (F THE MAIL, OCT. 3. Queen's Troops—Captain F. B. Bayly, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, at Galle, Sept. 17. tdadras Troops—Lieutenant W. 11. Jowett, 10 , 1 Na tive Infantry, at Saugor, 11; Ensign J. Gage, 23d Light Intantry, at sea, en board the Earl of LtardAiek, .F6t). 25. Bengal Troops—Lip.uteno,nt VV. Young. 7th Light Cavalry, at Landuur. Sept. 16. Ensign A. F. :U. Camp bell, 69th Native Infantry, at Agro, Sept. 23. Licute nant-Colonel E. P. Ladlow, Artillery, at Dum-Dorn, Sept. 26. APPOINTMENTS, I'M:MOTIONS, &C., ANNOUNCED SINCE DISPATCH OF LAST OVERLAND MAIL, OCT. HER MAJESTY'S TROOPS. Infantry—,-60ili Regiment (Rifles)—Lieutenant Ni cholson has been allowed leave to 31st December, to en able him to rejoin. 86th Regiment—Captain Rawlins has obtained leave to Bombay from Ist November to 31st ~December. 94th Regiment—Lieutenant G. N. Bredm has been tried by general court-martial at Ban plore, and tentenced to be severely reprimanded; 'son tence approved and confirmed. 98th Regiment—En sign P. E. Quin promoted to Lieutenant, from 21st -Sep tember, vice Moller, deceased. COMMERCIAL 11`;'IsELLIGENCE. (From the Bombay Times.) BOMBAY, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. 6. There is DO alteration iu the mosey market to re mark upon. The share market continues quiet, and the following may be called the rates cf the day :—Bank of Bombay, 194 per cent. premium; Oriental Bank, 12 per cent. discourit ; Commercial Bank, 11 per cent. discount; Agra Bank, 5 per cent. discount. The Oriental Batas has just declared a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum. Government securities are rather dull, at—for the Five per Cent. Open Loan, 99-; and for Company's Fours, 84 4 1 ; Transfer Loan may be quoted at 116 to 117; and Sicca Fours, 88k; in Sicca Fives we hear of nu transactions. Business in our import market during the past fort night has been less active even than during the period reported on our last, and the sales effected have been to a very small extent considering the season of the year. which has heretofore been generally active during the month of October. This state of matters will probably continue till the termination of the Dewalee holydays, which take place early next month. Tlee aceounts re ceived from the interior of the prospects of the harvest have not been such as to encourage the native dealers to speculate. In the export market considerable activity has prevailed during the past week, and large quantities of cotton have been purchased fur the home market. In other produce little has been done. Cotton Piece Goods—The market for pleats goods has been duller during the past 'ortnight than it has been for some time, and prices of nearly all descriptions have fallen to a greater or less extent. . Grey Goods—Domestics have sold to an extent of 4,400 pieces, at prices varying from sr. la. to 12r. per piece. They are in moderate inquiry by the Arab dealers for dyeing, but the prices offered by them are far from their real value. Shirtings—Sales, 1,150 pieces, at 5r.15a, to 6r. 6a.dull, and prices less by an anna or so a piece than at date of last report. T Cloth— Sales, 700 pieces, at 2r. 14a. Demand extremely dull. In longcloths we have heard of no sales. Madapollems —Sales, 6.000 pieces, at 2r. 11fa. to 2r. 12ia. per piece. For both these and jacconets a reduction in price has been submitted to, but of the latter no sales have been reported. Dhoties—ln small request, the only sale re ported beiug one of 966 pieces, at lir. per piece. Bleached goods have been almost totally neglected, the only sales we have heard of being jacconets 400 pieces, at sr. 2a. to Bir., and 802 pieces lappets at lr. to 21r. For longeloths of good quality a little demand has existed—no sales, but the coarser descrip tions are uninquired for. The same may be said of madspollams and mulls. Dyed and fancy goods— There has been scarcely any inquiry for Turkey red, good of the only sale reported being one of 100 pieces twills at 11r. Of coloured prints 3,350 pieces have been sold at 2r. 9a. to Sr. 13a. A fair inquiry exists for mulls, purple and bleached, and Turkey red starched, low bock muslins, dboties, low lappets and lappet scarfs, prints of suitable patterns, and dyed orange usadapol lams. For Swiss lappets of the better qualities, harries mulls, book muslins, and orange and zebra dresses s there has been no inquiry. Cotton yarn—The sales amount to3o bales mule and :ho same quantity water twist, with 55 cases hall thread. In eiyed 3 ern we have no salsa to report, though orange is in some little demand. In the sales efficted a decline in price has been submitted to. Metals—Copper—Nearly all descriptions have de (lint d in value, except South American, which retains its former price, but it is very dull. Iron— English bar has further given way, while hoop and nailrod are dull at former prices. Sheet has somewhat improved. No trans a ction s have taken place in Swedish bar on the spot, but a sale " to arrive" has bud effect at previous quota - rions.• Sweedish steel uninquired for. Pig and sheet lead are in slight inquiry. Tin plates are steady, and speller dull. Cochineal—We have not heard of any salts, but the price has somewhat improved. Stocks still continue very heavy. saffron—We hear of a sale of 775 lb. at 124 per lb. The better quality is in tolerably good inquiry. Woollens—The only sale reported is one of 3,312 yards flannel, at Ba. per yard. Beer—Allsopp's continues steady at 80r. per hhd., and is very scarce. Of Bass's about 100 hhds. have been disposed of, at 75r. per hhd. Spirits—Very little doing. The only sales effected have been in brandy, as follows:-90 hogsheads, at 2r. 5a.; 100 at 2r. 6a. per gallon: and 1,000 dozen cases, at 7r. per dozen. Marine Stores—No sales. Canvas and cordage dull. Oil of linseed, spirits of turpentine, and white paint, in inquiry. EXPORTS. Cotton Wool—The pLrchases amount to 5,950 bales and 2,675 candies, chiefly for the English market, at a considerable reduction on the former extravagantly high rates, dealers having been induced to accept of much lower prices owing to the large supplies daily coming to market, and the last advices from England giving a com paratively unfavourable account of the home markets for the staple. The exports during the present year to Eng land and China have been respectively about one-eighth larger, and one-fourth smaller than during 1849. Opium—About 800 chests of the drug will be taken on to China by the steamer starting for Hong-Kong on the 19th. At the date of our last the price of opium was 1,250 r. per chest. Last advices being unfavourable the price has fallen to 1,175 r. Freights—The rates of the day are 21. 12s. 6d. to 21. 15s. to Liverpool; to London, 21. 12s. 6d. per ton; end to China, Sr. to 9r. per candy. These rates have been ruling during the past two days, being a consider able improvement on those obtainable a week back, veral thousands of bales of cotton having then been shipped for both London and Liverpool at 21. 10. There are now six vessels on the berth fur London and 10 for Liverpool. Exchange—The rates of the day are—six months' sight, 2s. 1-14.; and 60 days' sight, 2s. Oid., with a ten dency to rise still higher, as the market is abundantly supplied with first class paper. The transactions for the present Mail have been to a limited extent. • CANTON MARKET, SEPT. 26. IMPORTS. Cottons,—The account of high prices ruling in Eng land brought by last mail has induced importers to hold for higher rates, while the disturbed state of the pro vince preveats the Chinese from increasing their stocks. Raw Cotton—The sales of Bombay amount only to 14,000 bales, at 7.0 to 7.3 for No. 1, 7.7 to 8.0 for No. 2, 8.0 to 8.5 fur No. 3. Bengal we quote 8.1 to 8.4; sales, 1,200 bales. Of Madras some 4,400 bales have been sold, 7.0 to 7.6 and 8.1 to 8.5. Cotton Yarn has declined. We quote Nos. 16 to 26, dolls. 25 to dolls. 26 50; 28 to 32, dolls. 26 50 to dolls. 28; 38 to 42, dolls. 27 50 to dolls 29. Stock, 3,900 bales, against 6,560 at the same period last year. Long Cloths—During the month 40,000 pieces grey, and 15,000 pieces white have been disposed of, at, for the former, 565. weighing 5} to 51 catties, dolls. 2 5 to dole 2 20; 645. to 665. weighing 61 to 64 catties, dolls. 2 35 to dolls. 2 40; 68s. to 725. weighing 71 to 7i catties, dolls. 2 55 to dolls. 2 60; and whites dulls. 2 to dolls. 2 10 for 545. to 585., dolls. 2 40 to dolls. 2 60 for 645. to 663, and dolls. 2 70 to dolls. 2 95 for 68s. to 725. American Goods—ln drills no transactions are re ported; prices nominal at dolls. 2 20 for 30 yards, and dolls. 290 foi 40 yards. We quote sheeting dolls. 2 30. 4,000 pee. jeans sold at dolls. 2 70 to dulls. 2 20. Woollens-:—First quality goods remain as last reported, but inferior have declined. Spanish §tripes.—Our quotations are, scarlet dolls. 1 20, purple, dolls. 1 10, dark blu-, 98c., black 82c., brown, dulls. 1 11, light blue, dolls. 1 02, yellow, dolls. 1 02, green.93c., ash, dulls. 1 03, geutionella, dolls. 1 45 fur best marks; and other qualities 20 to 25 cents lower; sales 6,000 pus. Long E4ls-6,000 peg. of these have been also disposed of et the following quotations:—Scarlet, dolls. 7 60; purple, dolls. 70; 6dark blue, dolls. 7 45 ; bl ac k , d o ll s. 5 95; brown, dulls. 7 80; light blue, dulls. 7 60; yellow, dolls. 7 25; green, dabs. 6 70; ash, dolls. 6 05; gentian, dolls. 7 10 for first quality, and other goods at 25 to 30 cents lover. Genitors-400 pcs. English and 200 pcs. Dutch have been sold at dolls. 20 to dolls. 2'3 50 and dulls. 16 to dolls. 21 respectivaly. Habit Cloths , -Dolls. 1 10 to dolls. 1 20. Medium Cloths—Dolls. 1 30 to dolls. 1 40, and dolls. 2 10 to doll!. 2 50. La,tings—Dolls. 6 75 to dolls. 7 for 25 inch, and dolls. 13 to dolls. 16 for 31 inch goods. Metals — lron—Nailrod. dolls. 2 40 to dolls. 2 60; hoop, dolls. 2 60 to dolls. 2 80; bar, dolls. 2 50 to dolls. 2 60; small round, dolls. 3 80 to dolls. 4; wire, dolls. 725 to' dolls. 8 25. Lead—American, dolls. 660 to dolls. 6 70 nominal; English, sales, 1,000 piculs, at dolls. 640 to dolls. 6 50. Spelter, dolls. 5 10 to dolls. 5 20; tin plates, dolls. 9 50 to dolls. 10, sales 300 boxes; steel, dolls. 4 to dolls. 4 80; tin, no stock. Ginseng—Dolls. 70 to dolls. 90 for crude; dolls. 120ito doll,. 140 for clatified. Cochineal-- I Jays, dolls. 80 to dolls. 90; Mexican, dolls. 130 to dolls. 140; stock moderate. Straits and Indian Produce—Rice—Arracan, dolls. 1 30.. - -- - _ Rattans;-4,000 piculs sold at dolls. 2 80 to dells. 3 50 for Straits, and dolls. 3 70 to dolls. 3 80 for Banjer massing. Pepper—Sales, 300 piculs, at dolls. 640 to dolls. 650. Bretlennt —in the beginning of the month, 3.500 piculs sold at dolls. 3. Present quotations, dolls. 2 75. Sandalwood—Sales of all descriptions, 3,200 piculs. We quote South Sea dolls. 470 to dolls. 5 10. Sinde, doll. 2 70 to dolls. 2 90; Malabar, dolls. 9 to dolls. 10 50; and Timor, dolls. 3 80 to dolls. 5 80. Opium—A considerable demand for Patna has ex isted throughout the month ; previous to the 31st ult., prices were as high as 465 dolls., but on the arrival of the Clippers with the 9th sale drug, they immediately fell to dolls. 447 50 to dolls. 451 50. In Malwa, there Is no change to note. Turkey has declined. To-day's quotations are—Malwa 590 dolls., Patna dolls. 451 50, Benares dolls. 457 50, Turkey 440 dolls. EXPORTS. Teas —Black—Throughout the month the tea mar ket hai been in a state of considerable activity, a brisk demand prevailing for - all kinds of tea. and generally at full rates, the exceptions being Ning Yong and Kokue Wloonas, which have been settled at easier rates. Congou—The total quantity bought since the opening , . . iof tho market is about 330 chops at 15,-i teals for fair;` 18 to 20 taels for good second class Mining, ai:d 24 1 tW. 26 taels for finest first class. Stock in Canton about 160 to 170 chops, and fresh arrivals are stopped by the dia. turbances in the interior of the country. Souchong-35 chops in all sold st 154 tacis for cora mon, 22 taels fbr'air, and 26 to 32 -teals' for good to flue—leaving &6 chops in stock. Flowery Pekoe— About 1 000 chests sold during the month at 32 to 45 for flowery to • good flower; , 2 , 500 chests left. Plain Orange Pokor-800 to 1 : 000 'half•ch6sts taken fbr America, ut 18 to 21 (anis, Ica‘inz I,OCO. Plain Caper--3,000 b , xes and 400 half-chests fog' the Cape, t 18 to 19 tael2; about 100 boxes in stock. Ankoi Souchonr , und Pouchong-2,500 half.ebestg taken for the Unit e d States, at 18 to 19 tads, leaving in stock about 5,000. sing Yong and Kokue—Fully 20,000 packages have been taken, principally for the United States, at 22 taels for Sing Yong Oolong, and 23 to 26 taels for superior to fine Kokue Oolon'. The stock in Can ton is about 35,000 hall•cheste, and the quantity arriv ing small. Scented Orange Pekoe and Caper—The demand for these kiads still continues, a quantity equivalent to 5,000 half-chests for the former being settled during the month at 16 to 20 taels for fair to good in half-cheats, and 24 to 32 taels for fine to finest in boxes. Of the latter, caper, 6000 boxes have been taken at 16 to 23 taels for fair to fine. Green—Cauton Young Hyson; nearly 5,000 half-chests ere reported st 12 to 15 taels fur fair to good, and 22 to 30 taels for the best. Of gunpowder, 5,000 boa-cheats, at 13 to 15 taels for common to fair, and 20 to 25 taels for good. Raw Silk—No. 1. 298 dolls.; No. 2, 272 dells.; pl. low, 262 dolls. to 288 dolls. Silk Piece goods—No change. Cassia—Sales continue for America at dolls. 16 25. Camphor.—Dolls. 14 50. Rhubarb—No. 1, 55 dolls. Cassia Oil-203 dolls. Annie Oil-108 dolls. Vermillion-47 dolls. Star Annie—Dells. 10 75. Cassia Buds-18 dolls. FREIGHTS. On England, 3/. 3s. to 3/. 10s. To the United States, 13 dolls, to 20 dolls. EXCHANGE AND BULLION. On London, first class bills, 4s. 9d. to 4s. 100.; on India, Co.'s bills accepted, 226 r. to 227 r. California gold, 16 dolls. per cz. troy. Gold-leaf, dolls. 22 90 per tael. Sycee, 3.8 per cent. premium. Carolus dollars, 1.5 per cent. premium. Mexican, 2.5 discount. CHINA. ♦RRIVALS FROM GREAT BRITAIN. At Hong-Kong, August 31.—The Sunda, from Lon don; Sept. I—the Lord Ashley, from Sunderland; the Admiral Zuutman (Dutch) from Newcastle; the Crisis, from Liverpool; s—the Zuleike. from Liverpool; the Metropolis, from Sunderland; 6—the Albert Edward, from Liverpool; the De Roomtrot (Dutch) from New castle; 18—the Randoll, from London; 22—the Eu phrates, from Liverpool. At Shanghai, Aug. 26.—The Emily, from Liverpool; Sept. I—the Equator, from London; 2—the Emma Colm, from London. DEPARTURES FROM GREAT BRITAIN. From Hong-Kong, Aug. 25.—The Superb, for Liver pool; 29, the Aden, for Liverponl) Sept. 16, the Mi nerva, for London; 17, the Anne Madean, for Cork; 18, her Majesty's brig Arab, for England. From Wbampoa.—The Janet (American), Aug. 25, for London—the Magellan, the 26th, for London—the Queen of England, the 27th for Liverpool—the Argo naut (American), the Oriental (American), the Ar chitect (American), and the Menzies, the 27th, for London—the A-terte, the 28th, for Liverpool—the Thomas Sparks, Sept. 7, for London—the Naomi, the 9th, for the Clyde—the Forfarshire, the 10th, for London—the James Watt, the 10th, for Cork—the Eliza and Hester, the 10th, for London—the Roman (American), the 11th, f London—the Sir R. Sale, the 17th, for London—the James B,bby, the 23d, for Liver pool—the Ganges, the 24th, for London—the Fortitude and the Sotneauth, the 26th, for London. From Shanghai—The Fanny, Chapman, Aug. 12, for Cork—the Mencius, the 13th, for Liverpool —the Plan tagenet, the 13th, for London—the Cornhill, the 14.6, for London—the Orix4 and the Salta, the 21st, for Lon don—the Palembang (Dutch), Sept. 9, for London—the Elizabeth Moore, the 12th, f. r Liverpool. 'IN EGYPT, ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 8. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Haddington arrived at Suez on the sth inst., with the Calcutta mail of October 7, and 82 passengers, who proceed this morning to Malta and Southampton by the Ripon. Lord and Lady Torrington, from Cey lon, are among the passengers. Sir W. Gomm, Commander-in-Chief in India, and Lady Gomm, arrived here on the Ist instant, by the Austrian steamer from Trieste, and are to embark at Suez on board the Haddington, for Calcutta. There has been much fever prevailing here, at tended with unusual mortality. Among the deaths last week were those of Mr. W. 13. Le Gros, Private Secretary to the Consul• General, Mr. Murray, Dr. P. O'Connor, and Mr. Finnie, surgeouedentist. Her Majesty's sloop Racer arrived here on the 3d, and left again on the 6th on her beat along the coast of the Mediterranean. Hassan Pasha, President of the Council of Cairo, is shortly expected on his return from Constantinople, where he has been well received by the Sultan, to whom he explained satisfactorily some little differ ences which had existed between Abbas Pasha and the Sublime Porte. Trade here is tolerably brisk, but prices of wheat and brans are kept too high in proportion to the pre vailing rates in England. Cotton is well supported. Shipping is wanted. Exchange on London-97 piastres per pound sterling. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 18. The unfavourable state of the weather prevented her4Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert taking their usual early morning walk. The same cause prevented the Royal Family taking their accustomed airings. The Royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Earl and Countess Granville, the Lady in Wait ing on the Duchess of Kent, and Baroness de Speth. The Rev. Charles Marshall (Vicar), Mr. Alderman Sidney, M.P., and Mr. Deputy Obbard, with Mr. A. H. Smith (Vestry Clerk), a deputation . from St. Bride's parish, accompanied by Mr. Masterman, at tended at the Home-office yesterday, to convey to the Secretary of State for the Home Department the petition to her Majesty against Popish aggression. The Chairman of the Poor-law Board had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing -street. The Oxford University Commission met yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Dowing-straet. Present—the Bishop of Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pem broke, the Rev. H. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., and the Rev. Professor Powell. A deputation from the Whitechapel Association for Promoting Habits tending to the Cleanliness, Health, and Comfort of the Labouring Classes, had an inter view with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home office. The deputation consisted of the Rev. W. W. Cbampneys, Rector of IVhitechapel ; the Rev. John Lyons, Rev. C. B. Gribnle, Mr. C. 'H. Freeman (Churchwarden), Mr. W. H. Black, Mr. G. Byron, Mr. J. Liddle, Mr. Hill, Mr. Christie, Mr. Venables, and Mr. G. H. Simmonds (Secretary). The Bishop of Jamaica bad an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Lowe, from Nova Scotia, h a d a l so an i nterv i ew w i th the Noble Earl yesterday. Mr. Mastertran, M.P., had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. B. Har rison had 'Also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet yesterday. The Earl of Suffolk bad an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey. Mr. Edward Harman bad also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet yes terday. DEATH OF SIR LUMLEY ST. GEORGE SKFFFING• TON, BART. - This Baronet, so lobg known as the &labor of many dramatic pieces, died a few daya since, at the advanced age of 82. The deceased inherited the title on the derniso of his father in 1815. DEATH OF MR. RAPHAEL, M.P. FOR ST. ALBANS. —We have to record the derniie of this gentleman, who ex pired on the 17th inst. at Surbiton-place, Surrey, aged 75. Mr. Raphael was a Whig in politics, and was returned for St. Albans on the last general election by a large majority. By religion he was a Catholic, and was a munificent sup porter of the Romish Church, to whose ministers within the last few years he, it is said, presented for building purposes the sum of 100,000/. The deceased was very wealthy. Mr. Raphael was the only Roman Catholic 31. P., save Mr. Moore, of Mayo, who oppsed the Jewish claims. Some years since he was returned for the county of Carlow - , in conjunction with the late Mr. Vigors, but was unseated by petition. The alleged misappropriation of the sum of 2,000/. by the late Mr. O'Connell, in connexion with the return, gave rise to a pro tracted inquiry. The deceased was of Armenian extraction. Re possessed property in Sussex, Surrey, and other English counties, and was the builder of the new town of Suititon, on the South-Western hallway. MISS KAVANAGH'S NEW NOVEL, "NATHALIE.”--. In its notice of this charming work, the Athenceum says— "' Natlialie' is the love• story of a wayward heart. The tale is by much Miss Kavanagh's best, as it is her longest, ima ginative effort. Its manner is gracious a nd attractive; its matter is good. A sentiment , a tend erness, specify g the touches, We delicateelegant. all are commanded by hder whichnot soon a e taoree shout and attractive pictures which place o n come re as to o n di an v i e d n u d a l were. as t h w e Nathalie' high among books of its class." In extracting specimen of Miss Kavanagh's descriptive powers, the re viewer even declares it is one "to which neither Chateaubriand nor De Lamartine need have disdained to affix their sig. natures." BOSTON BATE( COMPANY.—Yesterday his Honour, Sir William Horne, having settled the list of contributories, Mr. Head, official manager, stated that in order to pay off the liabilities a call of 151. per share OR 250 shares would have to be made, amounting to about 3,750/. in making this call, credit will be given to those who paid 51. per share. The promoters of the undertaking expended considerable sums in buildings on two acres of ground, and in Loring for spa ani mineral springs in Boston 13 va S