The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-27 00:00:00

`' 4 llowing le tt° the Pleaso Thelders. Secretary 24, 1845 $ id 13 iIIY of tbC and al l rdcrs of PO ~d T BJ N ~~ og up.E, reet, Lulid°l4 Ile lit 01_ , : te j` r be con 1 i ve d such i. u ! ty , whichhor, Ito AS W Chairman. ------.-. G IiEAT VAX'. r with Coro offices l' ere. [tYPEN. STE L " TioN• o • s l Dere-; Do !qu oit 01_ 1 ,. ' co , : - :ssari l 9 but Ib e Y L ,A. llotitent entertained' Uun. Se. --- - 1 LER I) in, the W nor t° •atio ~..1 r, comae ai'l I. secreta/' ------ :YDIBI for Sb a# 3 OP,- Tlie coy „,e LTI ex" . pro teo " --------11 'S.'r l i v sal°, this ode ..0,01 ;,r all tb Ao t. the *" e ep o e pop nt, w ill „d 1 1:1 dun i t; 4o. ‘ r u e fothe 564 1 tile dC ecret 4l. ala G Beclib urr the )Isr so fford and 13rir ~, vOll ire o d or of :or ho pto ll ' oitr Dr tor oltj'' ✓lie C:5 coroa :j e t, 941 r 0 t" id or"'` 14.°41 ,r o f 0° itt 00°7- A Y* OF' M. ILLS 101 a THP CONSULATE AND 1 7 ',TPIRE. Se " " 9 11, - to his "History of the French hcvolution." ..NSLAYED BY D. FORBES CAMPBELL, ESQ. 'llresehlth the Sanction and Ap m proval of the Author. lat volume comprises, aong other iinportant and inte ,,,°,l2les. the Trial of Geor ges and Moreau ; suicide of Piciiegru; ,at Napoleon as Emperor by the Pope, and as Kiac of 411 ; vast naval scheme tor the Divas:on or England , ~cttt Ferrol between Ad m i ra l C a lder and Villenem , 41,1 ties b etween Prussia, Russia, - Ind Austria, and plan of the a: originally submitted :o Alexander by the Abbe Mr. Pitt's annotations thereon ; third coalition against iltlr:NaPoleon's preparations for the campaign of Austerlitz. Colburti,•. 13, Great Marlborough-street. N E W NOVELS. Now eady at all the Libraries, ATTR I'4l, ACTIVE MAN. By Mrs. TROLLOPE, Authoress vicar of Wrexh &c. 3 vols. htab i : Tale of Venice. Bv H.ORACE SMITH, Esq., Author of ...4e "louse," &c. 3 vois. S 1\:)--- • OF A ROYAL FAVOURITE. By Mrs. GORE. IF ' li I V. -llth or ~,. - PASSION, and other Tales. By T. C. GRATTAN, , '. " The Heiress of Burges," &c. 3 vols. .'t Wli t „ V. 4 1111 1 ,,,-- ,, SLAVE, TIIE RUSSIAN PRINCE. By ~ vl of 9, Revelations AND 'e<2 ........ .c m , of Russia, " &c. 3 vols. - • -- " w arn Publisher,l3, Great Marlt‘orough•street. , - • ]ti - T HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. !I• Wili i.„, THIS EVENING 1 1 , kr . R ue Performed THE ENCHANTRESS. , . ll,tiss, ~° r ralli ; Nuguez, 1; r. 11. Horlicastle; Duke d Aquila, ori es , ..oll Sylvio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Doctor Mathanasius, k'''t Meliah!,, Miss Romer. ltlt',',will be repeated a New Grand Ballet Fantastique, 6 4 ., 0 41,,,;.' 1 , 4 ,i-HRLE MAIDEN. Duke Laurent de Medicis, M. IL 11, 4 ,,, , 05m0 de Medici,, M. Petipa; Massachio, M, Albert , ~,-;• Letti.,e ; Princess Beatrice, Mdlle. Adele; the z,tatue 1 '"e• Adele Dumilatre. ~,, - . T HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. ( '''lle b ,,„ THIS EVENING " ° ed THE LADY or LYONS. Claude Meinotte, ; rln Mons. Deschappelles. Mr. James Bland; Pauline opeu 17 ) , 1 4 8 ,. , Miss H e l en Emmett. Nel u p B PRING AND AUTUMN; or, The Br!de of Fifty. e With A CABINET QUESTION. 11 1 THEATith ROYAL, ADELPIII. , t tte nm , THIS EVENING le 1 , - -, i•ed 'I HE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years VI., gi,eli Messrs. 0. Smith, Selby, Stoker ; Mrs. Yates, Xzituo.William will pet form. Wed by TAMING A TARTAR; or, Magic and Ma kitlone e w e l l iicl t , ,, 3l B, c c ssr w s . . il l l ' p a e u r l fo l r t n e , d . ford and Wright, Miss With SEEING WRIGHT. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. 1, THIS EVENING tth'i,`Peatld THE LAST OF TH. , . BRAVOES. Principal 4 4 kiVessrS. Keeley, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Bender Yar- L A fh ,..Arde n. glolf,Z Which, a New Farce, called NEXT DOOR. 1 1 74. i ~6 1b Y a New and Original Comedietta, entitled PETER k, k ktti e -, Fibbing for a Friend. Principal Characters by ~ '' A. Wigan, Turner, Meadows; Mrs. Keeley and Miss 44.1_ 4 e With ALADDIN and the WONDERFUL LAMP. 111 4 , --- he 'OESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. kl,tfori, TIIIS EVENING z ; Keen lIAMLFT, Prince of Denmark. Hamlet, Mr. cilk. '`rilde M Terirm ~ ~,„, be New • ilot it i , a repeated a Farce, entitled JACK O'BOTH I'l•-•........:Leddale, Mr. 0, berry. , i 4 ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. NI, k , THIS THIS EVENING A by •'-` the successful Drama of THE PROFLIGATE. 'at N ,' v alessrs. Browne, C. Boyce, Hamilton,, Wal- I S: e llicM G. Wild, Mrs. 6riffiths, Miss &c. 8 Ikbe DOUBLE. Dick Doubleton, Mr. 11 1 4 t 1 •- 2 tc l I la, Miss Kate l Howard. 7 ap citide with THE BOYHOOD OF BACCHUS. -kil ns, Miss Kate Howard ; Momus, Mr. G. Wild. ,4t,, kno tv b isTEW STRAND THEATRE. 1: 4 41 .14 1.1pbtRY EVENING.—BRILLIANT SUCCESS. )04 ( pis ,:•-r... will continue to repeat his wonder of MAGICAL k 6 be "•, 54 Ex.traordinary Tours d'Addresse. The Perform 'ud, e,Perspersed by a variety o Singing and Dancing. Vi,7eiv it l , a NIGHT I - PEKIN, in wh ch M. Phillidpe will °, to , hinese and Indian experiments, univrsally ac ik, ''' the most astounding Feats ever attempted by any ~._.., ' a Quarter past Seven ; to commence at a Quarter N 4 t lt tl" , /1,,„,01t A ROY ND MANAGER AL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. i ---' 4 , MR. W. BATTY. ktr o ,._ THIS EVENING ' 11 4 1 , 1 / 4 1, 1 ,,,,"ued THE BRIDE OF THE NILE, and The Lily 'l' 4 ll,i . i'lle Horse of the Pyramids, in which the whole ~N)ria l Vear. tikit meted added, an entire change of the Arena novelties, - 7 Lt ed talents of the French and English Equestrians. . 0 conclude with THE LION KING. „.........., , tk v , 4bGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. kl ite kt f THIS EVENING ii . .,0 P n ,„ed THE ROVER'S SECRET • or, The Bridge of 4 ` l l 11' a tartial, Mr. N. T. Hicks; William, ' Mr. H. Hughes; l i 0, , ,?rY Vining.. * 4 ttitellTis,i Rope. and FAMILY'S extraordinary per e W ith OLIVER ope " TWIST, supported by the whole 14r EA.THER,—SUN OFFICE, OCT. 25. Oi tt Il k , Lowest, 36; Highest, 52; Noon, 47. BAROMETER, 30.3. \ 44: 1411j:1 *.; morning, hazy: afternoon, fine. _l ,o...t; E iu li t AT es t LO I N I DO F I te E n R , GE 4 0 ,THISIII DAY. 11. e % oF I x - \ - rs.~, ]l[Ov ILI • 41 .-..„ It- AV a 44,11 V 7 7 ' .171- 4 VA•II4M 4 4 "- 4 ‘ Nb c , - ' l i, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1845. ki / lit i ..-.....--.01.--- t il lti Lk atelligence from Buenos Ayres supplies ~ Y 14 , 4 14 ' 4 altogether unlooked for, of the extreme S .4 test L et laning of Rows. On the other hand, 1 %! 1 (1 letween the rival Republics of Buenos 1 r i ,. 4 th : a te Video (to employ the designations r ; b ke taej are most generally known in this coun -1111 - a co mplication of interest and difficul -4 k sti : f t/ . e very way remarkable. In infant states Il t ‘ t : t tt , 46 tions, except perhaps in their broadest IL I principles, are as little understood—or 1141 t kt e 4ea st, which is the point to our present pur . - , li t 11 ; r ights of individuals. On this account, it i ki‘ , . 11 4-,Pepeted that the nature of„such an . armed in \oitii E ngland and France as is now in progress,. s/ttvd6 relations of the two great States of the Rio . \'s:k "it; b e . but slowly con . apreh . ended . by either, N 0 ,.. action happened to interfere with the pre i'l:tor;:pectations of the one or the other. And just i k °f th 44l t has, accordingly, ensued. The war, on :\l % ts„,' t t wo republican armies, had been conducted Llv l , i lts t „% w ith a degree of reckless violence and Oks"ts - ' l "tY from which the humanity of civilisa \""illtt's• The siege of Monte Video, in par \Olt 'and for ever infamously distinguished in 1k21,,1cr r emorseless cruelty. These barbarous 1 / 4 . 1 ; t Y,,,,.„ ti 1e outrages committed on . the property, Nitig:Nren the lives of various British and French N,N k - t e , 64 Ayres itself, or the republican territory, i k ti l l lftZacted the attention of the two greatest I ' 1 4 ts s e l l e. They remonstrated, were cajoled by 'h t of s trated again, and were insulted in the ,‘ t tll kititeit representatives, by their obscure but ~.;;Ile a°enturer, under circumstances of the most IteePasation. In dealing with these it must I \ l i tl ti , i 'qat the Ministers of the two Great Powers, sof % Il i 'it laudable desire to prevent the further o:ts,' 4 s s ;' 664 between the belligerents, and '4 '46 'Lel:l6l3 re disorganisation of the commer \ 44 het N;L:is sp ,. w een South America and Europe, to the Al. " of moderation. Their motives were ,1 11 . t ,_ I,,tut p ,,Y Ni l " President, Dictator of Buenos Ayres,. ',N p .gt ttli eat . 6l °re insufferable tone of arrogance in l at t lt te l , to -t "is with them, and fresh assassinations 0 4 ( 1 4 is jansitted on the persons of British-born ot m lte ho u e case of a whole Scotch family of eight ',7ttsC . as t :':_i assassinated in mid-day, and neither Obs ti ` l ttli o vr y earnestly looked after by the Buenos 4 0, 4 thy 464 t i tle s), completed the measure of these k oh the a 68 gressions. The declaration of Buenos k‘l 6 l heth-`eramanders of the French and English k\ l4 t : t he :,,, i o a state of blockade was held out to r ' I wAt ' ev itable alternative of his persisting in '‘ 'ts °lst • tts,tiii\-s raise Video. This siege he was required . I . 't ` ll tts and to withdraw his troops under t to fr i l t N . th e p . °ll l the territories of Monte Video ad -1,:;+4 ,iuted the Grande. Both of these demands 11 , tsjlos b "a a lternatives were immediately pro ki44' 114 1( t kls t a t s h e . French and English . authorities. 1„ . t tl i Of t "en rigorously established. The i ti . Nt td ' ill d sign" Ayres has been seized. But . 4 4 1 te,, 15 Y the forces Video may be still considered t, -, th e , 6 torce s of ORIBE, who kept the field at ‘ i l i , tkitta t, ea : t o s t ! ad vices, and was ' likely still to do so; 1 ; ss,l,Th t he letters pithily remark—" the two 's de l , r ots ts , "Prense by water, are very weak by N' to " e uat iti Re t lire or the country to be traversed, ' N O O at O R , I ,' 04 tk ME 8 forces, a considerable land A„,'qw ee. _ "e ordinary calculations of European k' tre c i_ ~,,"' t uropean troops, would, undoubtedly, ,`tit e N) ' , Gut w , i v : r4,,, i ,„ n e have a strong confidence that th e 'des (w es who had already landed at o , s:tes tis ,' 6 Presume they are British), will k . Pa uum e d „ ,‘l i . ti ttii • k !i, e a gogoadua_atry and spirit of that admira- . account of any band, however tl it c t6 tst 4 s Bu 'l l erio s 'lhs Ittsi 'whil e ~,' whl °h they are likely to encounter. 4,stta awhile e must do that justice to the fore \lt , (whicho I LY of our own Government and cotn ttle th e \ s „ several smallness of our aggregate flotilla, 1 / 4 . 1 the I, it war craft comprising it, now in the i ata, on th ~., to e first statement of them, t sti, far for ts a . . \l e ariti _ . , . too disparaging es 't k a to ru eu brigs and when up ; n a e ma cessa t r h y e , k I t h k . 'cl 3 Pri enee . \ it l lod s of _acquired by their crews during i:ltt'hs was es crul sin' service are precisely those c t itti ea essential tbaj : it t tl 4 cl e4 ,_ agai nst n the men to be employed in th e °Y the uenos Ayres itself', or the forces k, 14 axt rella e Partizans of Rosss, should possess. tiz,s_%4t,s, re,aidoinfficulty of conducting such opera • ' ricer,everywherend s eeted by in- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING OCTOBER 27, 1845. • ; •ii;t of any heating expedition on the Rio Plata, and the land defer•ces of Buena Ayres, it is highly probable that these operations may be long protracted. But the Monte-Videan flotilla of boats, being now free from all molestation by the cruisers of 13ut.nos Ayres (which are in the ,afe keeping of the combined squadron), will be able to keep up supplies, and organise convoys with out much hazard, in a country which, wild as it is, is very scantily peopled. Roses, we perceive, by a refinement of his character istic craftiness, is endeavouring to win " golden opinions" by the studied attention he is now, so tardily paying to British merchants and traders, the compatriots of those whom he had before so habitually maltreated and domineered over. And we must say we are rather grieved at the extreme facility with which some of them have fallen into so palpable a snare. They talk, not only in the memorial they have addressed to Lord ABERDEEN—but in the private letters, from which we published extracts yesterday—of the interference of France and England in the disputes between Monte Video and Buenos Ayres, on account of the wrings, real or imaginary (! !), inflicted by the latter Republic on the former, as if it were a most uncalled-for and ill advised interference. But here is the " met de tenigme." "Ile local political affairs of the country," writes one correipondent from Buenos Ayres, "do not concern us so long as we are amply protected." This is to claim too much for themselves in their character of simple merchants or foreign settlers. They ought to know that, together with their indefeasible allegiance, they carry all over the world an indefeasible nationality ; and that in respect of the superior gravity of these two properties, to any simple personal rights so far as those rights are affected, only, and directly, by their residence in a foreign state, their first duty, as well as liability, is to conform to whatever sacrifices that allegiance and that nationality exact of them. Now the protection of their flag has been insulted by Roses; and to the startling and infatuated declaration of the same correspondent, that he and the other British residents in Buenos Ayres " have hitherto been amply protected," we can only oppose the remonstrances of the merchants addressed to Mr. MANDEVILLE and Mr. GORE OUSE LEY, successively ; the treatment of General O'BRIEN ; the murderous atrocities of the Masorca Club ; the (till now) undisguised hostility of Roses, openly de clared, to all British commerce and British merchants ; and the facts of spoliation, forced contributions, confisca tions, arrests, and imprisonments, and the total extinction of their commerce between Monte Video and Buenos Ayres, avowedly exercised for so long a period by RosAs and his creatures against our fellow-countrymen, wher ever he could find them within his clutches. All the other young republics of South America are profoundly interested in this affair. Their prosperity and advance ment must be held to be identified with the bringing RO3AS to reason, and depriving him—in the mildest alternative —of all future power to insult the dignity and honour of European Powers in peaceful relations with his state, and to scandalise humanity and Christendom by a fero cious deportment anti a wanton shedding of human blood, and a detestable sporting with human suffering, such as would have disgraced even the superstitious cruelty of some aboriginal chieftain of the countries he rules over. We understand that not a few members of the " Col lective Wisdom " look forward to the meeting of Par liament with fear and trembling. Never at any former period were the representatives of the people subjected to such labour as during the last session. Almost every active Member, not exempted by office or age, was engaged in some railroad Committee or another. Frequently from fifteen to twenty-five Committees were sitting at a time, commencing their work at an early hour for men engaged, often till one or two o'clock in the morning, on legislative duties, sitting till the House again resumed business, and frequently prolonged be yond that hour, with the hope of clearing off the frightful accumulation that daily poured in, and even then a great deal was left unfinished, or lines of importance hurried through without mature deliberation. But even these were the least of the evils. They neither could do justice to their representatives, nor take care of their own health, and the consequence was, that a greater mortality ensued among Members than had been known for any year, perhaps, during the last half cen tury. But the labour of last session was nothing com pared with that which the ensuing promises. Railways, it would appear, are only commencing. There are now twenty projected lines for one brought forward at any former period, many of them too will be more difficult to arrange, because there are more jarring interests ; there are direct competing lines in considerable num bers, not a few which will, more or less, interfere vi ith the profits of those already constructed, and conse quently the time and labour necessary to investigate these circumstances, and come to a fair decision—just alike to the community and to those who had risked their property in these vast undertakings—will pro bably be increased tenfold. The Members eligible for Committees may well tremble, therefore, at the gloomy prospect, and try to invent some expedients for lightening such an amount of labour. Possibly this session the Irish division may become more tractable. Ireland is now to be intersected with rail ways as well as England and Scotland, and it is only fair that the repealers should make themselves useful, and improve a country which, according to their predic tions, will speedily be independent. But even that would make little difference, fn. admitting that many of the new lines may not be pressed at present, s till more will remain than human strength can do justice to, and the question, therefore, comes—What is to be done? Some hare proposed that a Bill 'should be passed for ex cluding all candidates at elections of a certain age, or not fit for every sort of employment, so that the House might consist, like a good regiment of soldiers, only of able-bodied, iron- framed, and hard-working Mem bers, fearing nothing, and ready for every work- But such a scheme would deprive the lower House of the experience, wisdom, and judgment of many vener able legislators, and probably would find little support either in the Commons or the Lords. The only remedy that we can discover is to make the Peers do their duty, and s begin the labours of their session at least a quarter of a year earlier than usual. Little or nothing is done in that House till the end of May, Thus nearly four months are lost which might be use fully employed in lessening the labours of the Commons and in dispatching at least one half of the principal Railway Bills. Relief, too, might be afforded, by limiting the speeches of counsel, and by compelling them to speak only to the main points, and reject all that legal jargon, which only wastes useful time, and corrupts the English language. At all events, some scheme must be devised, else it will not be possible to find candidates for Parliamentary honours. Many boroughs and counties will be unrepresented, and it will be as difficult to find a man to risk his life in a Railway Committee as in an expedition to the coast of Africa. Madrid journals of the 17th inst. have been received. In the Eco del Comercio we find the following para graph, which we believe has no foundation. Indeed that journal does not attach much credit to it ! "We have seen a letter from Gibraltar which positively announces that foreign envoys have arrived thither, whose mission is to recruit officers in all the depots of the emigrants from Portugal, Spain, &c., i❑ order to join the army of Ana-EL-FADER, and at tack the French colonies. These agents, it is said. have a considerable sum of money at their com mand, and present great advantages to such as wish to enlist. We do not place much faith in this news; nevertheless, it must be remembered that MEHEMET ALI organised his army and succeeded in throwing off the authority of the Porte by means of the European officers who emigrated from their country in conse quence of the political events of 1823." The muni cipal election for Madrid did not appear to excite much interest, as the Government would have them all their own way. Senor CORTES, who had been appointed a Councillor of State. had, in consequence of that, re signed the situation of Secretary to the QUEEN. The health of her MAJESTY, it is said, is improving. No public business was done on the Bourse. The Paris Moniteur contains an official notice from the Minister of Public Works, fixing the 25th of No vember for the adjudication of the Tours and Nantes Railway and the Paris and Strasburg, with branches to Rheims, Metz, and Saarbruek. The concession for the first line is not to exceed the period of thirty-five years, and for the Paris and Strasburgh, forty-five. This an nouncement had a favourable effect on the share market, and a considerable rise took place on the northern and some other principal lines. A slight depression, however, took place towards the close of business both in shares and stock, attributed to the seizure of the books, papers, and money, of two brokers employed for the disposal of shares in the new lines. Altogether, however, the Bourse displayed more firmness on Thursday than for several days. Official dispatches received by the Minister of War from General LANORICIERE appear in the papers. These dis patches are dated Temouchen, Oct. 4, and give details of various encounters with the Arabs, but they add nothing to the previous intelligence from that quarter. The Algerie states that ABD•EL•KADErt receives all his sup plies from Gibraltar, through Morocco, and that he has an agent at Tetuan who sends him everything that he requires in arms, ammunition, etc. This journal adds that ABD-EL-KADER has at Taza, a town of Morocco, and governed by one of the Emperor's offic , rs, a powder mill, and workshops for the repair of arms and the manu facture of accoutrements. Accounts in these papers leave no doubt that SOULT will, in a few days, give up the war department, but still remain in the Cabinet as President of the Council. The Constitutionnel says General PREY AL will be appointed Minister of War. Marshal BUGEAUD arrived at Algiers on the 15th. Accounts from Milan announce the arrival of the Em peror of RUSSIA at that place on the t7th instant. There is no truth, however, in the report of the arrival of the Emperor of AUSTRIA. The Journal des Debuts gives the following account of the journey of NICHOLAS through Germany and the north of Italy, and also his arrival with the EMPRESS at Genoa;— " The Emperor of Russia arrived at Milan on the 17th instant, at eight o'clock in the evening, in the uniform of colonel of the Austrian cavalry regiment which bears his name. Before he went to the Empress he visited Field Mar shal Radetsky, commander-in chief of the Austrian forces in Lombardy, but the marshal was not at home. The Emp r, who wished to preserve a strict incognito, went away, re siring that the marshal should not be distutbed, saying that he well knew that there was only the extra Austrian colonel at Milan. The Empress, who, on reaching the Lake of Como, was perfectly unacquainted with the sudden resolution of the Eml.eror to come to her be fore her arrival at Palermo, had remained at Milan much longer' than she at first intended. She arrived on the 14th with the Grand Duchess Olga, and was received with the warmest welcome by the Archduke Viceroy and his Archduchess. She has inspected all the public establish ments, and has bren present at an extraordinary represen tation at the Scala theatre. When she was quitting the theatre, the audience applauded her. Ths Emperor passed with surprising velocity through Germany, against which country he is greatly irritated. Bavaria, in particular, has excited his discontent by the articles in the Augsburg Ga zette, which have given such precise details on the late events in the Caucasus, and reflections on the religious persecutions exercised in the Polish and German provinces against the Roman Catholics and the Protestants. There fore, he would not pass through Munich, but came by the Valley of the Inn and the Lake of Como to Milan. This sudden appearance of the Emperor Nicholas has produced a lively sensation throughout Germany. The Emperor, on his pant, has had his mind so much disturbed by the re ligious movements and liberal tendencies manifested in Germany, that he expected to meet at every point with fanatics and assassins, and took every precaution to conceal his journey, having horses ordered at each relay for four dif ferent roads. Throughout his passage he was not once re cognised. The Emperor and Empress left Milan on the 18th for Genoa, where were already arrived the King and Queen of Sardinia, and Prince Albert of Prussia, the Empress's brother. Their Imperial Majesties are lodged in a palace assigned to them by the King of Sardinia. The Empress appears to be muck fatigued by her journey. She had in tended to go by land from Genoa to Naples, because a sea voyage is injurious to her health, but the Emperor is said to be averse to it, from his unwillingness to traverse the Roman Srates, on account of his differences with the Papal Court. It is to be feared that this voyage by sea, at this season of the year, may injuriously affect the health of the Empress. It is by a Russian steamer, which has just come to an anchor in the port of Genoa, that their Majesties will proceed to Palermo. It is believed that the Emperor will not stay more than a month with the Empress, and that on his return he will visit the Emperor of Austria at Vienna. Count Nessel rode quitied the Emperor on the road, and went to the Aus trian capital, whence he will proceed to Rome, and there, as it is said, remain two or three months." The following are miscellaneous extracts from the Continental papers : The Civil Tribunal of the Seine was occupied on Wed nesday with the adjourned suit of Count Leon, natural son of the Emperor Napoleon, against his mother the Countess de Luxbourg, demanding from her a pension of 6,000 f. for his support. It may be remembered that this affair was brought on last week, and postponed to allow the counsel of the de-. fendant to take cognisance of a number of documents ad duced by the plaintiff in support of his case. Amongst others were letters from General Bertrand, Count de Las Lases, and M. Marchand, declaring that at St. Helena the Emperor had frequently spoken of the plaintiff in kind terms, and in his will had left a suns of 300,000 f. to purchase him an estate. A great number of receipts were also put in and read, showing that the Count, when in prosperity, had for years accorded provisions to the Countess, to her sister, Mlle. Zulma de Laplagne, and to the first husband of the Countess. One receipt also ackowledged a sum of 25,000 f. paid to the Countess herself. The Countess at present lives with her husband at Manheim, in the Grand Duchy of Baden. Her avone, M. Delorme, demanded a further postponement on the ground that M. Marie, her aeocat, was absent. This was opposed by the other party, on the ground that the required delay was only a part of the system of tactics adopted by the defendant in the suit ; the matter, he said, was in reality too urgent to admit of further postponement, and the proofs of the Count's being the defendant's son, on which the whole suit rested, were so clear that any delay was uncalled for. The avoid of the defendant argued, at great length, that the acte de naissance produced by Count Leon did not, and could not, in any way refer to the Countess; but, on the other side, a letter was produced in her own handwriting, in which she repeatedly named him her son, and spoke of him with great interest. In addition, another letter, dated Oct. 14, 1845, was put in from the mo ther of the Countess, now living with her at Manheim, in which the plaintiff is named "her dear grandson," and the Countess de Luxbourg is called his " mother." The letter which implores the plaintiff to terminate the dissensions existing in the family is signed "your affectionate grand mother." The Court decided that from the evidence there could be no doubt that Count Leon was certainly the son of the Conntess de Luxbourg; and that, as the case was urgent, all delay ought to be refused, and that the pleadings must be proceeded with at once. As no person appeared for the defendant, the Court condemned the Countess de Lux bourg by default to pay her son, Count Leon, an alimentary pension of 6,000 fr. a-year. " The Chambre de Vacations was on the same day occu _ . pied with an appeal brought to a decision of the Civil Tri bunal of the Seine, delivered on May 18, 1845, against Mrs. Wise, the daughter of the Prince de Canino (Lucien Bona parte). This lady, who is separated from her husband, owed in 1839 to her agent, M. Bernard de Mourcourt, a sum of 2,200 fr., for which she passed him a promissary note, due December, 1840. The money, however, was not paid at that period, and the note remained in M. de Mourcourt's possession until November, 1844, when he ceded it to M. Evette. This latter, having applied ineffectually to the Princess for the money, brought an action against her, and she was condemned to pay the amount and costs. An appeal was lodged by her, on the ground that the account of in terest was erroneously drawn up, but the Court decided that no grounds whatever existed for the appeal, and accordingly confirmed the former judgment. The following changes have been made in the Consular department. M. Limperane, Consul at Civita Vecchia, is removed to the Consulate at Venice: M. Sauveur Lacha • pelle, Consul at Ostend, succeeds M. Limperaine at Civita Vecchia; and M. de Franqueville, late Consul at Venice, takes the place of M. Sauveur Lachapelle at Ostend. The Duke de Palmella arrived at Havre on Wednesday, from Paris, to embark for Lisbon in the English steamer, the North Star, which had come to Havre from London ex pressly for that purpose. The Archbishop of Cologne, M. DE DROSTE WIS cnERING, died on the 19th, at Munster, after a long ill ness, aged 72. He was made Bishop of Munster in 1827, and Archbishop of Cologne in 1836. This is the prelate whose differences with the Prussian Government relative to mixed marriages caused such excitement in the Rhenish provinces. On the Paris Bourse the Three per Cents. closed for cash 82f. 80c. for account ; Five per Cents. for cash, 117 f. 60c.; for account, 117 f. 60e. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,345 f.; Nea politan, 101 f. ; Spanish and New Loan not quoted ; Paris and Orleans left off at 1,210 f.; Paris and Rouen, 1,020 f.; Rouen and Havre ' 847 f. 50c.; Avignon, 1,0 15 f. ; Vierzon, no quota tion ; Strasbourg and Bale, 277 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, not quoted ; Northern, 790 f. ; Fampoux, 520 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 24. Anglo-Belgian — Luxembourg Boul- - id Amiens. 11 % I Namur and Liege oulogne am .. ,_ _, _ •••• Bordeaux &Mediterran North Jamaica Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierzon Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Orleans and Bordeaux 10% Do. (Mackenzie's) .. Over Yssel ••• Central of Spain .. F% Paris& Lyons (Laffitte) 2 1 / Demerara Dendre Valley ... 1% Ditto (Calon's).... , Dutch Rhenish ... ...... 9 Paris and Orleans....„ ...... _ ___ Dieppe & Paris Junct. Paris and Rouen 391 /2 Dijon and Mulhouse ... Paris and Strasburg East Indian Grt Northern of France Do.! (Compte det'Est) (Laffitte's) ___ Ditto (ROsamers) (Rouen and Havre 3O , Do. (1... e Boeuf ) - Royal North of Spain. 1 3 / Do. Pepin le Halleur 4% Sambre and Meuse .... 6LA Great Paris and Lyons Strasbourg and Basle . Great Western Bengal 1 1 / 4 Tournay,Jurbise, Lan- Jamaica Junction — dent, and Hasselt... Do. North Midland — Tours and Nantes Do. Extension Jersey — Do. (Lefebvre's) Louvain and Jemeppe.. 3% Verona and Ancona — Lyons and Avignon.... West Flanders — DEATH IN THE WESTMINSTER HOUSE OF COR RECTION.—On Friday afternoon Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the Westminster House of Correction (late Bridewell), on the body of Mary Davis, aged 19, a prisoner. The deceased was received into the prison on the 20th of May last, having been convicted at the Middlesex Sessions of larceny, and sen tenced to six calendar months' imprisonment. Mr. John Davis, the prison surgeon, said that the deceased first came under his notice on the sth inst., having been seized with a fit of epilepsy during the night. Tie then found that she was in a pregnant state, and near the period of her confine ment. Every attention was paid to her, and on the follow ing day she was delivered of a dead male child. She re mained in an unconscious state until the 9th, when she ral lied, and appeared to be getting better until the 14th, when she suffered a relapse. She continued to gradually sink, and expired on Thursday morning from disease of the brain, brought on by convulsions. Verdict, " Natural Death." CLERGYMEN ON RAILWAYS.—When we saw the names of various clergymen in the list of directors of proposed railways, we felt that the reverend gentlemen could not be better placed. As railways are for the most part conducted, we think every company should have at least ten clergymen in its direction, one holy gentleman being compelled to travel with every train, that he might be on the spot to administer consolation in the case of mortal casualty. Indeed, every train should have its parson, as every line-of-battle ship has its chaplain. Henry of Exeter, however, has written a sort of pastoral note to a director clergyman, calling his attention to the Ist and 2d Victoria, which do not permit members of the Church to " deal for gain or profit." Taking the hint from the Bishop, may we also be allowed ;,to point nut these statutes to certain deans and chapters who show their churches for gain and profit, and, turning the penny by the exhibition of statues, &c., do certainly compete with Madame Tussaud, an d suc hlike traders ?—Punch. _ _ C b O ef n are Fr i‘ i i ii r ay lr af ll t i e a r m - G after noon H aAßproEtrAtteGteTiSnTquAiryAtloTkwe ----- place ir E. Payne. the coroner, and a jury of twenty gentlemen ' Dun Cow Tavern , Old Kent-road, Southwark, to inquire in at the the circumstances atte ndin g the death of a new born male to child, the son of Willia m Turner, a shoemaker, residing at 4, Northampton-row, Old Kent-road, who died from the want of proper medical attendance at its birth. The Coroner summed up the evidence, remarking that it was perfectly clear that the deceased had died from the want of proper as sistance, and it was a miraclethat the life of the mother had not been sacrificed also. lie (the Coroner) thought that much blame was attached to the midwife for leaving Mrs. Turner in such a state. The jury returned a verdict of" Ac cidental death ;" and about half of the jury expressed their strong disapprobatiou of the neglect shown by Mrs. Hale, the midwife. MONEY and COIVIIVIERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yes'erday were 3,000 bales, without any change in prices. Shares were withcut alteration. The letters rcceived this morning from Liverpool, Man chester, and Bristol (the principal Provincial Railway Share Markets), state that the apprehended storm had passed over or nearly so, without having led to those disastrops results that have been so eagerly sought for by the Times, so that its prophecy of a certain panic might be fulfilled. There is more caution displayed among the holders of, and dealers in, Shares everywhere, thanks to the Bank of England notes, and not attributable to the warnings of our Morning contemporary to task the limit of exciting apprehensions in the hands of the holders of Rail way Shares, at second thought, and after the Directors of the Bank of England had decided upon an it.crease in the value of money. " Let all bubble schemes sink," is the opinion of all respectable parties in the City, but the Times attempts to deal its thunder against all, so that if right in a few iso lated case, it may claim the right of saying, in allusion to putting an end to reckless speculation, " We did it all." There are accounts from Hobart Town and Launceston to the middle of June. The most material fact stated in the papers received at the North and South American Cabe-house is, that the markets for wheat were advanc ing. The state of public credit had improved. The weekly return of the Bank of England up to the 25th inst. shows the following changes as compared with the items of the last statement : A &crease in the circulation of 289,8651, or to 27,778,955/. Au increase in the rest of 48,6354 or to 3,188,641/. A decrease in the Public Deposits of 4,294,5564 or to 4,488,4191. But in other Deposits there is an increase of 1,360,7481., or to 9,835,604/. 11 the item of 7 days' . Bills, there is a slight increase only, or to 1,123,843/. In other Securities, the decrease is 1,084,4371., or to .4,049;5291. In the notes in the Banking Department there is a decrease Prom 7,037,6001. to 5,525,5101. As in the total operations of the Bank, a decrease of 2,842,5361, or to 33,1i9,507/. The stock of bullion by the last return was 14,580,6541., and by the present 14,190,2851.; decrease 390,3691. The monthly returns from the Private and Joirt-stock Banks, &c., show an increase in the gross circulation of promissory notes of 660,112/., or to 10,261,364/. A more marked fall has occurred in the Funds this from ing than we have had occasion to notice lately. Mosey stock is most abundant. Consols have 'alien rapielv from 97 to 9G 1 4, and for Account from 97% to 96%; both are now to 1 / 2 per cent. higher. Reduced Three per Cents. are down to 95 1 / 2 , and the Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. to 99% 1 / 8 . Exchequer Bills have been sold at 395. to 41s. premium. India Stock fell early in the day to 263, but rallied again to 265., Bank Stock opened the same as yesterday, viz., at 205%. The Foreign Funds in which bargains were made to-day have been sold lower than yesterday. The Portuguese Con verted are :only at 57i ; Spanish at 25i ; the Dutch Two and• a-Half per Cants. at 57fr 58; Mexican at 304; and Brazilian at 78. The Railway Share Market has been a scene of perfect confusion to-day. To attempt to analyse the fluctuations is a matter of impossibility. There are many speculative sellers anxious to take advantage of lower rates to come The official list will give the variation. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES Bank Stock 20 5 1/ 206% 3 per Cent. Reduced ... . 95%34% 96 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96% Al 1 /, 3 / 4 97 New 3 , 4 per Cents. 9B 97 1 4X 3 98 1 / 4 Long Annuities toesnireJan.lB6o 10 11-16 3 / 4 10 3 / 4 ____ India Stock — 265" India Bonds, 1,0001 — Ditto under 1,0001... Consols for Account - ...... Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1 1 ,4 d 42 39 41 pm. 41 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small ONE _ CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES Brazilian Bonds Alexkan, 5 per Cent. 1837 — Ditto, Account 3l 30 3 / 4 30 1 4 Ditto Deferred — 16% Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, Converted 571, 57 1 / 2 Ditto. Account 5 5 1 /2 55 1 / 2 Ditto, 4 per Cent — Ditto, Account — 56% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive French, 5 per Cent. Exchange —f. —c. 25f. 70c. Dutch, 2 1 A par Cent . I'RICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES Aberdeen Bimini. and Gloucester. 100 125 Birmingham and Ox ford J unction Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 22s — p 1 , 43 p Bristol and Exeter Ditto New Caledonian Ditto Extension Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 4 l /2 4 Chelmsford and Bury ... 15,i( i ...... 11 / 2 'H l% Chester and Holyhead... 15 Cork and Waterford ... 1% — . • 134 Cornwall Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir. and Leicester l l4 2 Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford 2% Direct Manchester (Remington's) 3% % V./1 3 14 Ditto (Rackstrick's)... 5 1 4 ...... 5 1 / 2 3 / 4 4:r i Direct N orthern 9n - fe Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 20 1 / 2 15 1 4 ...... '''' , k , Ditto New 41. 16s 6 14% 6 p 6 14 p East Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Perth I I /...... 414 1 % 4% Essex and Suffolk .. ... 1%, l l /2 Grand Union l% 2 % 314 2 l /2 Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great Western BO Ditto 1 /2 Shares 5O Ditto Fifths 3 gull and Selby 1328423511: 98 Leicester & Birmingham 225. 1 3 /4 1 % 1 ,. ...••• 1 % P Leicester and Bedfard... 225....... 1 p l l4 p Liverpool & Leeds Direct 2% .. ... 3v s 3 l /2 Lpool., Mnchstr, & New . castle Junction London and Birminghmloo 215 214 216...... 216 Do. Thirds Do. Quarters Ditto Extension London and Blackwall. 161. 135.4 d 8 3 /4 Do. New . 1%.. .. 4 London and Brighton... 50 London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d — London, Hounslow, and Western Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 7l Do. New London and York 2% 5 l /8 41/ 2 .... . . . . 4 3 / 4 London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham Nianche:ter and Birmin. 40 Do. Quarters 4 ...... 14 Do. New Quarters ... 2 Manchest. & Southampt. ...... 4 1 ,- 4 4 1% 51idland 100 152 156............ 157 Do. New Midland,Binn.,Derby... 100 Newcastle and Berwick 5 Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... North British D0., New -14 1% ,:, North Devon N. Kent & Direct Dover 2 1 / 2 _ .. North Staffordshire 425....... 3% 2 3 / 4 5 / 8 p... 3 p Norwich and Brandon Ditto New 1 Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Nottingham and Boston 1% 3% 3% Oxford, Gosport, Port s mouth,& Southamptn 425. l4 p Oxford and Worcester... 2 1 ,4 75% 6% 6 14 Ferth and Inverness ... 2% — Rugby and Huntingdon 2 z•cottish Central Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2%..... 5% 4% ..... ... 4% Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union South Midland 225....... 42% p........ 3 p South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 36% 37% south Wales 21,4 5 4% 4% Tean and Dove Valley 1% 1%% ..... .., .. 1% Trent Valley Vale of Neath Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin Welch Midland -,2 ..... 3 Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth York and North Midland 50 Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do. Extension l l /4 2 4 1 /2 22 3 % FOREIGN RAILWAY, Boulogne and Amiens... 8 ...... 10% 10 Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 tiordeaux,Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ... 1% l% Do. (Espelete's) .. ... 2 .... . 1% 134 Dutch Rhenish East Indian .. ..... .... ss. Great North. of France (Laffitte's) Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 Great Paris and Lyons 2 Great Western Bengal... 55....... 1 % ll4 Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . 3 I•uxembourg... Nainur and Liege Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ...... 17 1 / 4 1 7 1% Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 Over Yssel 41 3s 4d — ,.. ,.. 1 dis Paris &Lyons( Lailitte's) 2 Paris and Lyons (Gan neron's) Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron's) 2 ...... 2% 2% Royal North of Spain ... 2 Sambre and Meuse ...... 6 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 COURT CIRCULAR. "WINDso SUNDAY.—Yesterday morning the Queen pro menaded in the pka.sure -grounds for some time. Prince Albert, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. G. E. Anson, Colonels Bowles and Grey, took the, diversion of shooting yesterday forenoon. The Royal Family were taken their usual rides and walks Yesterday morning in the pleasure-grounds adjacent to the Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took a carriage ailing in the afternoon, and his Royal If ighness Prince Alfred was taken a walk. Her Majesty and Prince Albert rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, yesterday afternoon, followed by a pony landau, in which were the Countess of Mount Edge cumbe and the Hon. Misses Stanley and Dawson, Maids of Honour in waiting. Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey attended on horseback. The Prince and Princess Nicolas Esterhazy, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, and the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, took their departure from the Castle yesterday. Her Majesty and ber 'Royal Consort walked for some time before church this mottling in the grounds around the Castle. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their accustomed airings today. Ihe Queen and Prince Albeit, and the ladies and gentle nier of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine Service in the private chapel of the Castle this fore noon. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited her Royal High ness the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday, at Gloucester lions% His Royal Highness Prince George Nisited the Queen Dowager on Saturday, at Marlborough House. Sir Robert and Lady Peel arrived at their residence in Whitehall-gardens, on Saturday afte-noon, from Drayton Manor, StaflOrdshire. Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister, transacted busi ness on Saturday at the Foreign-office. Dispatches from the Governors of Hong-Kong, Van Die men's Land, and the Mauritius, were received on Saturday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches from the Governor of Gibraltar were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Lord Bishop of London held an ordination in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning, when two gentlemen were ordained as priests, and one as delicon. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wcsley. At the daily service in the Chapel Roya', St. James's, yesterday, the prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. 11. Dakins, the lessons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the communion service by thc, Jiev. Dr. Sleath. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The anthem was, "By the waters of Babylon" (Boyce). Sir George Smart presided at the SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. The following horses have arrived at Newmarket in the course of the last three or four days :—Wolf-dog, Everton, Sir Edward, ch c by the Hydra, Moroco, Sharpshooter, Lord Saltoun, Mildew, Chertsey, Miss Burns, Connaught Ranger, Titmouse, Benevolence, Queen Pomare, Secundus, f by , Bentley out of Emma, Beaumont, Dean Swift, Mentor, Grim ston, Miss Elis, Refraction, Best Bower, Cruton Oil, Binnacle, Ennui, Alice Hawthorn, Crown Prince, Flattery, Regalia, Bourra Tomacha, Richard, Cricket, &c. Several others E , e on the road. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.—The following are scratched : —Pantasa, Garry Owen, Caen, Physalis, Kesheng, Longi tude, and The Cure. BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.-4 to 1 agst The Baron (t), 8 to I agst Alarm (t), 10 to 1 agst Wolf-dog, 13 to 1 agst Ould Ireland (t), 15 to 1 agst Chertsey (t), 20 to 1 agst Wee Pet, 20 to 1 agst Clumsy, 25 to 1 agst Yardley (t), 30 to 1 agst Titmouse, 30 to 1 agst Everton, 33 to 1 agst Flattery (t), 33 to 1 agst Croton Oil, 33 to 1 agst Best Bower (t), 33 to 1 agst Exaipple (t), 33 to 1 agst Lady Wildair. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The Second October Meeting at Newmarket was the pleasantest known for some years. The weather was delightful, the attendance most numerous, and the de light evinced by the old stagers that the character of the future meetings was not to be invaded by the threatened invasion of cocknies, which would certainly have taken place had the contemplated stands been erected, was natural and to be commended. On Monday we had nine races, all well contested, but only two of them were speculated upon to a great extent, and those were the matches bete een Minotaur and St. Lawrence, and Crcesus and Nottingham. In the former I was fortunate enough to name the winner, and as I was uncertain whether the other would be run I did not touch upon it. This, I fancy, will be the last race ridden by gentlemen jockeys for some time at New market. On Tuesday, the splendid prize given by the heir to throne of Russia brought to the post a most extensive field, which was beaten with perfect ease by The Baron who proved himself a far better horse than I imagined, be was. Wee Pet, who I said was sure to be forward, was second, and Jenny Wren, the mare I expected to win if Agis had not gone, was backed at 5 to 1 ; when I wrote she was at 12, so that her backers could not have hurt themselves. To show the estimation in which The Baron was held by the stable, it is right to observe that he was not backed for any money, as they thought the weight must stop him. The result did not please the fielders, many of whom had not got round. In the Cle.arwell, Sting and Princess Alice maintained the posi tions I thought they would occupy. Sorella and the cob, however, disappointed me in their matches—the latter was backed heavily at 6 to 5. On Wednesday, Deerchase won a sweepstakes by a head front a small field. Celia beat Espoir in a canter, as I told my readers she would. Jet won the Oat lands from Trueboy, not by speed, but merely by tem per. The Town Plate brought thirteen to the post, and was won, after a pretty race, by Metal, an animal, I opine, which will be heard of again. The day's sport was brought to an end by Prologue's winning 200 soya. from Vaudeville, who had not recovered her Irish trip. After a couple of matches, and the usual sweep stakes, we had a most excellent race for the Handicap Plate, A.F., which Ruff won in a manner that left no doubt in auy one's mind but, had he been handled pro perly in the Cearewitch, he would have been very close to The Baron—in fact, too close to be pleasant. Evenus must have been off his running, for he was beaten very soon in the race. The next that followed was for the Bretby Stakes, in which Cuckoo beat Polka on the post by a head, and the latter mare beat Ennui by the same distance. On Friday the week's sport was brought to a close by seven good races ; none, however, call for any particular observation. The Prendergast was carried off by Princess Alice, according to my idea, and in the three matches which followed I was lucky enough to point out the winners. The Houghton Meeting commences under most fa vourable auspices on Monday. I never knew the Cam bridgeshire Stakes, from its establishment, excite so much interest as it does at present ; an unprecedented number of horses have been backed for it, and nearly all will go. I will endeavour, as far as lies in my power, to assist my readers in the difficult task of selecting the winner. In spite of The Baron's splendid performance in the past week, I do not really think with 7st. 51b. he can win, but that he will be either second or third I have no doubt. Gorhambury, Garry Owen, Needful, and Trueboy I will not hear of. Neither do I think Perkin Warbeek, Ironmaster, Nottingham, Caen, Hope, Vaudeville, Duc-an-Durras, Valerian, Secundus, Longitude, Lady Wildair, Comrade, Physalis, Mongrel, Prairie, Chertsey, Devil's Dust, Example, Event, Remorse, Kesheng, Clumsy, My Mary, or Dean Swift, have the slightest chance. Miss Elis, Midlothian, Pantasa, Mentor, Extempore, and Lothario, are not likely to go. The latter horse I preferred from the moment the handicap came out. It should be recollected he won the cup at Liverpool with Bst. 51b., and was only beaten a neck for the Derby Handicap directly after wards, being crossed in the race. In the Goodweod Stakes, with Bst. 131 b., he was third. Discord, Coranna, Queen Mab, and the Cure, are situated in the same manner. Refraction and Lightning are stopped by the weight, and what remains now worth picking from, are only Semiseria, Yardley, Ould Ireland, Wolfdog, Wee Pet, Flattery, Croton Oil, Best Bower, Jenny Wren, Everton, Paintbrush, and Jet. Shonld Semiseria run kindly, as she did at Doncaster, I think she will be found in a very good place at the finish. Yardley should run well with Bst. from his recent public doings. Ould Ireland, with 7st., is a most dangerous animal to bo heavy against, and in my opinion he has been kept for it. The distance will exactly suit him, and the weight is very favourable to him. To Wolfdog the same remarks will apply, although it must be born in mind that the Alice he beat in the Curragh last week was a very different animal from Mice, the pride of the southern and northern sportsmen. Neither the distance or weight will hurt Rowena. Ever ton is supported from his running second to Coheiress at York, but as he has been subsequently beaten by infe rior animals, I would not recommend my friends to stand too heavily upon him. Jenny Wren will like this course better than the Cesarewitch. Best Bower w ill be a powerful favourite, and with 6st 21b ought to be there or there abouts. Flattery and Paintbrush I have no doubt will run well, but are not quite good enough to win. Croton Oil, when I think of his running, for the Surrey Cup, which he won from the Wreck and Lotha rio should be very near. Of the light-weights Jet is the best, and will beat the others. Wee Pet is a certain starter, but an uncertain winner. In conclusion Imagine, either Ould Ireland, Wolfdog, or Best Bower will be the winner of the Cambridgeshire Stakes for 1845. That The Baron will be second or third I feel most confident, and next to him I think Semiseria, Rowena, and Yardley or Jet will be found. Should Lotbario be started, I would hare him in preference to Wolfdog or Best Bower. The length I have gone into the Cambridgeshire Stakes must necessarily render my remarks on the other races brief. In the 300 sov. Stakes, Mr. Herbert's colt I prefer to Lord Glasgow's. Captain Phoebus will beat the Miss Whip cat; Miss Elis, Oakley; and Refraction, Prologue; at least I think so, after mature reflection. The Criterion, I should imagine, would go to Princess Alice, Sting, or West Countryman. Motilla should have no trouble in beating Black Cat, nor Prologue in beat ing even the Altered One. For the Glasgow Stakes I should take Arkwright; and in the match between Garry Owen and Secundus, I lean to the former. TELEGRAPH. London, Oct. 25, 1845. Bishop of Romford's Cob, Garry Owen, Trueboy, St. Bernard, Due an ; urras, Needful, Yardley, Semiseria, Young Lochinvar, The Baron, Nottingham, Ironmaste-r, Rowena, Hope. Wolf-dog, Vaudeville, Ould Ireland, Wee Pet, Longitude, Physalis, ./Egis, The Dart, Croton Oil, Hartshorn, Mongrel, Jenny Wren, and perhaps Alarm. Now I consider nothing but Jet, Yardley, Semiseria, Nottingham, Ould Ireland, Wee Pet, Croton Oil, Mongrel, and Jenny Wren, have the shadow of a chance. This last batch, beyond a doubt, contains the winner's name—the favourites I fancy"lnight as well stop in their stables for all the good they will do their respec tive masters. Jet or Wee Pet, whichever may be Lord Exeter's intended starter, will cut a very good figure, doubtless getting placed. Semiseria, should she run kindly, ought to be very handy, and at the present ex treme outside odds, well worth backing; Nottingham, with only ist. 41b., will beat more than beat him; Jenny Wren, with sst. 61b., ought, and perhaps will win, her chance is one of the very best, and must not be despised. Ould Ireland, if he goes, will show off to better advan tage than he did at his last appearance in public. Should Lord G. Bentinck make Croton Oil his horse, with 6st. 61b., if it has any running in it, it ought and will be ' either first or second. Mongrel, a very fine well-made animal, with 6st. 2lbs. on his back, just suited to the course, will be found a difficult customer to stall off, and, from his previous running and present appearance, will be at the least placed. To sum up, I shall expect to see the winner spring from the following fuur:—Wee Pet, Mongrel, Semiseria, and Croton Oil. _ The 300 Soya. Stakes will go to Lord Glasgow. The match between Captain Phebus and the Miss Whip colt, to the former. The match between Oakley and Miss Elis, to the latter. The match between Refracticn and Prologue, to the former. On Tuesday.the Criterion Stakes of 30 sovs. each,2o ft., will bring out about twelve, say the following :—Princess Alice, Arkwright, Science, Mecca colt, Sting, Retriever colt, Polka, Pet colt, Joy, Cuckoo, Malt, and Stockport filly ; Sting having to carry ilbs. extra, and Princess Alice, Arkwright, Polka, Joy, Cuckoo, and Malt each 21bs. extra. I shall not attempt to analyse the field, that having been done before, but jump at once to the conclu sion, placing the redoubtable Sting first, Joy second, Arkwright third, Princess Alice fourth, and Cuckoo fifth. The match between Motilla and Black Cat will be won by the former; and the match between Anna Bullen and Blanchie, by the latter. On Wednesday ?rologue, Bst. ?lbs., will beat The Altered Oue, Bst 51bs. On Thursday Radulphus, Borghese, Arkwright, Ignis-fatuus, Prospect, and Oxberry, will show for the Glasgow Stakes, which will most assuredly be won by Arkwright. The match between Garry Owen and Secundus will be won by the former. On Friday the colt by Dulcimer receives forfeit from LeChourineur; and the match between the Retriever colt and Collingwood will be won by the latter. On Saturday, by way of a finish, Oakley will receive forfeit from Nix- my-Dolly. I shall, in the course of a week or two, give my readers a review of the doings of the two year olds this year that are in the Derby or Oaks of 1846, and likewise the condition and capabilities of many dark animals. The three principal two year-olds that I have recommended at various times to the attention of my readers, this year have proved themselves well worthy of support, for Where will you find better animals than Princess Alice, Arkwright, and Sting? The last I prophesied would win the New Stakes, Lavant, Molecombe, Clearwell, and Criterion Stakes ; he won three out of the five easily, run second in one through bad riding, and the other Stake is at present undecided.—l am, Sir, yours, THE SPIRIT' OF THE TURF. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Mr. Ilornionclds:,:iiion., Trebartha Village; Thur., Ta- merton Bridge-16i. Mr. Roe's hds., Wed., Round House; Sat., Whitmore Cross -10. The Tiverton hds., Mon., Hayne Moors ; Fri., Gibbet Moor. Mr. Elliott's harrs., ed„ Roultonhead ; Sat., Chester's Smithy-10k. Hon. J. E. Elliott's beagles, Mon., Muirfield; Sat., Southall —ll. Heythrop hds., Mon., Heythrop ; Wed., Tar Wood; Fri., Evford ; Sat., Kiddington Gate-10k. Mr..Farquharson's hds., Mon, High Hall. Mr. Lushington's hds., Mon., Long Beach ; Fri., Key-street —lok. Thanet harrs., Mon., Sarre; Wed., Vincent-10. Mr. Deacon's harrs., Wed., Cadaford Bridge; Sat., Bobo rough Rock-10. The Whitecross harrs., Tues., Broughton Farm; Sat., Tring Fishery-10. Carlisle harrs., Mon., Wetheral ; Wed., Stanwix ; Fri., Cha pel Hill-8. Brookside harrs., Mon., Newmarket Hill ; Thur., Telscombe Tye-10 1 . Brighton harrs., Mon., Patcham ; Wed., Race Course; Fri., Dyke-11. Findon lids., Tues., Parham Park ; Thur., Washington Com mon ; Sat., Dyke-11. Eastbourne harrs., Mon., Friston Mill; Thur., Willingdon Old Mill-10i. Sir J. Laugham's hds., Mon., Ringmer Green; Fri., New haven Brooks. Union hds., Mon., Abinger Hatch; Thur.,' West Wood; Sat., Bear Surrey stag-lids., Tues., .Red Lion, Smitham Bottom; Sat., Sutton. Crawley and Horsham hds., Mon., Worth Park; Wed., Denne Park ; Fri. Handcross Gate-104. Devon hds.. Mon., Lindridge; Thur., Bradley-11. East Devon harrs., Mon., Blagdon ; Thur., Stockland Hill —lO. The Fowebscomb or Forest harrs., Tues., Duckbill Ridge ; Thur., Hayford Kennel-10. Brushford harrs., Mon., Winsford ; Wed., Frogwell Cross ; Fri., Chilton Cross, Bampton-91. York and Ainsty hds., Mon., Escrick ; Tues., Street Houses; . , Thur., Markington ; Sat., Shipwith. Earl of Harewood's hds., Mon., Cross Roads, Brambam Moor; Wed., Searcroft ; Fri., Ribston Moor-10i. Badsworth hds., Mon., Barnsdale Bar ; Tues., Womersley Park ; Thur., Aket on Hall ; Sat., Ackworth Moor Top--10i. Earl of Yarborough's lids., Mon., Croxby Village ; Wed., Somerby House ; Fri., Claxby Wood-11. Lord H. Bentinck's lids , Mon., North Carlton •, Tues., Stam field Hall; Wed., Lea; Thur., Ashby Bar; Sat., Fiskerton Long Wood-11. Boro'bridge harrs.jues., Roecliffe • Fri., Windsor Castle Inn. Mr. Candler's Ms., Mon., Crowle ; Thur., Witley ; Sat., Cli ffey-10i. Shropshire lids., Mon., Cloverley ; Wed., Montford Bridge; Fri. The Kennels. Mr. Meyn all Ingram's hds., Mon., Sudbury House; Thur , Chartley Castle ; Sat., Woodford Rough. Donnington hds., Mon., Clipston Village; Wed., Stanley Vil lage ; Sat., Louat Toll Bar-104. Lord Elcho's hds., Mon., Paston •' Tues., Rowchester ; Wed., Etal ; Fri., Haggerston ; Sat., Lady Kirk-101. Mr. Fane's harrs., Mon., Cut Mill ; Wed., Ipsden Field ; Sat., Sheepleys. V. W. H. (late Lord Gifford's), Tues., Fairford Park; Thur., Swindon. Town ; Sat., Leashdale Manor House-101. Berkshire hds., Mon., Blowing Stone ; Wed., Cokethorpe Park; Fri., Coleshill House-104. Mr. Morrell's hds., Mon., Northmoor ; Wed., Scotland Ash Gate; Sat., Norcott. MINES. Real del Monte Unregd. ..... ...... ... 44 Galvanised Iron The Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynn, M P., has of late greatly imp -oved in health, and was able to attend the eview of the Montgomeryshire cavalry last week, under the commfuld of Sir Watkia Williams Wynn, Bart., M.P. . «•• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Strt,—The Houghton Meeting at Newmarket, the last of any consequence in the year, commences this day with a full bill of fare, somewhat above the average, and I confidently expect to see some first-rate sport; the attendance will be large should the weather continue fine, and the number of horses there and en route, amounting in all to about six score, will make the meet ing as brilliant as any of its predecessors. The Cambridgeshire Stakes this year have nearly four score acceptances, and, as a matter of course, will bring a large field to the post—between twenty-eve and thirty— which will be the following, viz.:—Jet, Queen Mab, GUILDHALL-(SATURDAY). Mr. Alderman WrisoN attended to hear a counter-state ment to a complaint made before him last week, by Messrs. Lewis and Lowe, newspaper advertisement agents, relative to the vexatious detention for a week of a cheque for 2001., drawn in favour of Messrs. Lewis, and as to Mr. Lewis being refused permission to see the directors when he applied for the balance of his account. Mr. Hill, the deputy-chairman of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company, said his attention had been called to the report of the appli cation on Tuesday, but as Mr. Miller, their solicitor, was out of town, he refrained from moving until he returned. He had given Mr. Lewis notice of his intention to appear this day, and he had strong ground to complain that Mr. Lewis had made a statement calculated to prejudice Mr. Miller, without notice. When the account for advertising was brought to him by the solicitor, he asked if he intended to present it at the next board, and if the bill was correct. The solicitor replied it was not. The charges were exorbitant, and he heard that Messrs. Lewis and Lowe had charged other parties 50 and 100 per cent. beyond the amount actually paid to the newspapers ; and in this case there were charges from 15 to 25 per cent. beyond the proper amount. This was ascertained by applying to some of the country papers. Mr. Hill, upon this, required that the account should be ex amined with the vouchers, and, up to this time, Mr. Lewis had declined: to produce the vouchers. Sir James Duke, the Chairman of the Company, said the agents had at all events expended a considerable sum, and he proposed that a check should be drawn for 2001., the amount of the bill being 6271. Mr. Lewis had notice:of this, but neglected to call fora week. Mr. Lewis had stated the cheque was obtained by Mr. Miller, but this was untrue. It remained in the possession of the applicant (Mr. Hill), and it was Mr. Lewis's own fault that he did not have it. The Company was ready to pay what was justly due, but it was the duty of the Directors to see that the money of the shareholders was not improperly expended. With respect to what passed at the last meeting, when a policeman was sent for to remove Mr. Lewis, nothing could be more quiet and circumspect than the behaviour of _Mr. Miller towards Mr. Lewis, and there was nothing to justify a complaint to a magistrate. Mr. Alderm an WILSON had no doubt the newspapers that noticed the matter before would do so again. The fairness of the charges must be discussed in a civil court. Messrs. Lowe and Lewis came in -just as Mr. Hill had finished his statement, and Mr. Lewis stated, in explanation, that Mr. Hill was mistaken as to tickets being givenfbr sums paid for each advertisement. No such vouchers could be produced. The newspapers had a scale for charging such advertisements, which might be seen at his office, and the truth of which might be tested by inquiry at the offices of the respective newspapers. His bill was a fair one, and he should enforce payment of it. The parties then withdrew. MORWINSTOW. — GuAxo.—Mr. Baker, yeoman, Morwinstow, has at present a field of cabbages, part of which he manured with farm-yard dung, and the other with guano, which was procured from a rock near Marshuul Mouth, on which sea-gulls have for ages built their nests. A quantity of guano has accumulated there, which enabled Mr. B. to try the following experiment on his cabbage plants when set. He devoted to every plant a pound of guano, which was spread around the root of the plant mixed with earth. In the adjoining part of his field he placed farm-yard dung at the ratio of fifty loads per acre; the cabbages manured with the latter weighed from 151bs. to 201b5., while those manured with the guano weighed from 281bs. to 301bs. He has thus saved 20 per cent. in carriage of manure, and realised 20 more in the produce from guano.— West Briton. EXTREMELY HIGH TIDE.—The tide of Tuesday morning, at Ipswich, was one of the highest known in the river Orwell. It rose with much impettfosity, and reached an altitude of 19 feet 7 inches, being 2 feet 6 inches higher than its usual height, and 6 inches more than the great tide of January last. The tide of Tuesday broke through the bank upon the marshes, the lower bank at the end of the wet dock, and through several other embankments down the river. We understand that a vessel, name unknown, is i high and dry at Pin Mill, so high , ind eed, as t is feared no ordinary flow will reach her. A few sheep have perished and a bullock.—Suffolk Chron i cle. FIRE AT BARROW.—On Sunday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, a barleystack belonging to Mr. John Place, of Barrow Hill Farm, standing in the fields, with a peastack only near it, was discovered to be on fire. The Suffolk and Norfolk engires being fetched from Bury, with the active assistance of all present, extinguished the flames, and the peastack was preserved, though within fifteen feet of the other, but the barley, the produce of about seven acres, was nearly all consumed. Major Griffith attended in the course of the day to inquire into the origin of the fire.— Suffolk Chronicle. ALE AND BEER. The Egyptians are said to be the inventors of ale, their soil producing an abundance of corn. In Great Britain, malt liquor was used as early as the fifth century, and considerable breweries existed in London before the Norman conquest, supplying ales of different qualities and degrees of strength. Ale is men • flow din the laws of Ina, King of Wessex. It was the favourite drink of the Angle-Saxons and Danes, as it was of their ancestors, the Germans. It very soon found a place at the table of royalty. We are told that it was one of the liquors provided at a banquet in the reign of Edward the Confessor. Chaucer, who lived in the reigns of Edward the Third, Richard the Second, and Henry the Fourth, has celebrated the Southwark ale of those days as " the strong ale of Southwark." It is probable, however, that the drinking of beer was not a general custom in England until the reign of Henry the Seventh, in whose time the breweries, which then stood on the banks of the Thames, at St. Catherine's, and are distinguished in the map given in the " Civitatts Orbis" by the name of beer-houses, were twice " by the king's officers, either for sending too great a quan tity abroad unlicensed, or for brewieg it too weak for house consumption. During the whole reign of EU zi beth the foreign demand for English beer continue d to increase, and the liberty of export was only occasion , .l , y checked by the occurrence of scarcity or dearth at home. What we call beer is of later origin than ale. Thus sings the poet:— Ale for antiquity may plead and stand, Before the conquest, conquering in this land; Deere, that is younger brother of her age, Was not then born, nor ripe to be her page. The Philosopher's Banquet, 1633. Taken regularly and moderately, ale is nourishing, wholesome, and conducive to longevity. The epitaph on Brawn, the famous Irish beggar, who died at a great age in Cornwall, is a testimony in favour of this beverage:— flare Brawn, the common beggar, lies, Who counted by his tale, Some six score winters and above— Such virtue there's in ale. Ale was his meat, his drink, his cloth, Ale did his death reprieve ; And could he still have drank his ale, He had been still alive. _ Every reader of romance knows that it was the custom of our Saxon ancestors to drink their ale out of skulls et their feasts. Such were the rode ale-bowls of antiquit) . At Braintree and Bocking, in Essex, when topers partake of a pot of ale,the measure they have it in is a peg tankard divided into three parts or daughts, the first of which is called neckum, the second sink um, and the third sivorthurs. For the origin of bottled ale, we suppose we must receive the quaint account given by Fuller in his " Worthies of Lancashire." He relates that the learned and pious Sir Henry Wotton, having one day left his usual piscatory companion, to wit, a bottle of ale, in the grass beside the river Thames; be found it some days after, when, lo and behold, it was " no bottle, but a gun, such the sound at the opening thereof." This anecdote reminds us of an Indian, who, being at an Englishman's table at Surat, expressed his surprise by loud exclamations, on seeing a vast quantity of froth ooze out of a bottle of porter as soon as the cork was drawn. Being asked what surprised him, he replied, " I don't wonder at all that the froth comes out of the bottle; but how the deuce did you ever contrive to squeeze it all in?" For centuries past, la bonne mere d'Angleterre has been spoken of in raptures by Frenchmen, Belgians, Ger mans, and other people. When the Persian Ambassador and his suite left England a few years since, many of them shed tears. One of them, struck v ith the quiet of an Englishman's life compared with that of a Persian, de clared that he could not desire a better paradise than Chelsea Hospital, where, for the rest of his life, he could wish to sit under the trees, and do nothing but drink PS much porter as he liked. Madame Malibran, like' many other foreign a; tastes of both sexes, preferred bottled porter to any other beverage. Her favourite repast, at the conclusion of an evening's arduous performance, con sisted of oysters and bottled porter, 'yclept stout; not a very pernicious indulgence, but her fondness for it gave rise to a very ludicrous mistake on her part. Malibran, hearing the name of the Honourable Craven Berkeley announced in company, exclaimed with great animation, as she seized his hand, " Ah! Mr. Barclay and Perkins, I do owe you so mach!" The Berkeley family pronounce their name Barclay—hence poor Malibran's mistake. The last time Madame Pasta was in England, a literary lady of distinction asked her whether she drank as rime!' porter as usual. " No, mia care, prendo half-and-hi:lf adessa," she replied. At Munich beer is regarded by the King and his people as indispensable to the health and comfort of the entire community. Within the last few months that capital was the scene of a riot, arising out of popular indignation against the brewers for rais ing the price of beer. If a Bavarian peasant is not at work he is sure to have a can in his hand. Beer is to him what it was to Boniface—meat, drink, sleep, arid clothing; for, notwithstanding this penchant fer beer, no signs of poverty are visible, from one end of the Ba varian dominions to the other. llogarth's print of Beer Street has the following lines appended to it : Beer, happy produce of our isle, Can sinewy strength impart, And, wearied with fatigue and toil, Can cheer each manly heart. Labour and art, upheld by thee, Successfully advance ; We quaff the balmy juice with glee, And water leave to France. Genius of health! thv grateful taste Rivals the cup of Jove, And warms each generous English breast With liberty and love. . . . „ _ . The celebrated Professor Liebig says, that wine, spirits, and beer, are necessary principles for the im portant process of respiration ; and it would seem that the stomachs of all mankind, teetotallers included, Niil secrete those articles from the food which is catty. We see frequently interesting evidence of this fact in the case of a horse, after a feed of corn, resuming his journey with readiness and energy, although quite knocked up and out of breath a few minutes before. The simple fact is, that the horse converts the corn into bee; which facilitates his powers of respiration, and gives him fresh vivacity. If any man is resolved to carry out total abstinence strictly, he must refuse every sort of ♦egetable food, even bread itself; for all such diet contains more or less alcohol. In the Gco • graphical Society's Journal (vol. ii. p. 286), it is recorded that during a severe wit ter on the west coast of Africa, the crew of the lEtna suffered so much from scurvy, that the least scratch had a tendency to become a dangerous wound. Capt. Belcher states, that " fish diet was found to aggravate the complaint ; and it is worthy of remark, that when our ships used to suffer so much from scurvy, stockfish was a portion of their allowance. The only thing which appeared materially to check the disease was beer made of the essence of malt and hops ; and I feel satisfied that a general issue of this on the coast of Africa would be very salutary, and have the effect especially of keeping up the constitutions of men subjected to heavy labour in boats."--Quarterly Journal of Agriculture. OPENING OF THE SEW HALL, LINCOLN'S INN.— Extensive preparations for opening the new hall of Lin coln's Inn, on Thursday next, the 30th instant, are going forward, and nearly 100 workmen a r e d a ily em ployed. The opening will be honoured with the presence of her Ma jesty Queen Victoria, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Cabinet Ministers and great officers of State, and the chief officers of her Majesty's household, the whole number ing eighty persons. Her Majesty will leave the Palace shortly after twelve o'clock, and arrive at Lincoln's Inn at about one, where her Majesty will be received by his Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England and other authorities of Lincoln's Inn, when her Majesty 'will be conducted to a splendid room adjoining the great hall, that has been fitted up expressly for her Majesty's reception. It was originally the intention of the authorities to receive,her Majesty at the chief entrance of the hall, opposite the old square, but on a close examination of the size of the area in front it was found too confined to allow the royal state carriage, with eight horses, to drive up and return, and this part of the arrangement was neces sarily abandoned. Consequently her Majesty and herillus trious Consort will be received at the students' entrance, next Lincoln's Inn-fields, which will be covered over with scarlet drapery, and the steps will also be covered with the richest carpets. Upon her Majesty and Prince Albert taking their seats at the banquet they will bejoined by the company who will have that high privilege. It is expected that her Majesty's stay will be about two hours. The students who are not privileged to the royal banquet will dine together in the hall of the Court of Chancery at six o'clock on the same evening. The whole of the decorative portion of the work of the interio r h as b een i ntruste d t o M r . Palmer, of Piccadilly, and is spoken of in the highest terms of commendation. The thoroughfare through Lincoln's Inn will be closed on the above day, and a large body of the A division of police will be sent down to assist the police of the district in preserving order, and for securing the free access for the numerous guests invited on the occasion. EXPERIMENTS IN WOOLWICH MARSHES, OCT. 24. — Colonel Lacy, Director of the carriage department in the Royal Arsenal, Lieutanant-Colonel Dansey, C. 8., Lieut.- Colonel Dundas, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmer, Assis tant Director-General of Artillery, Lieutenant-Colonel Har • dinge, K.H., Lieutenant-Colonel Colquhoun and Captain Palliser, of the Royal Artillery; Lieutenant-Colonel Barney, Commandant of the Royal Engineers; Brigade-Major Sand ham and Captain Wynne, Royal Engineers, assembled in the Marshes at two o'clock, P.M., to witness experiments with a newly-erected one-gun battery, constrncted, under the superintendence of Lieutenant-Colonel Barney, on a principle suggested by Colonel Abbot. The battery was made 10 feet in th:ekness, by about 21 feet in front, and 8 feet high, with tie embrasure faced with stone inside, into which was fixed an iron bolt attaching a traversing platform 16 feet long, on which an 8-inch gun on a ship or garrison carriage was mounted. The base of the embrasure is very high, on Colonel Abbott's principle, being within half an inch of the under part of the gun when run out for firing, and directed against an object about six feet high at2so yards' range. The firing took place with hollow 8 inch shells,weighing4Blb. and 561 h., and the charges of powder were in the first instances 81b., and afterwards 101 b. to each round, and the last shell fired burst from the effect of the large charge, although it did not contain any explosive materials inside the metal of which it was formed. 17 rounds were fired into the mound, and the shortest recoil of the gun and carriage on the platform was 6 feet 1 inch, the whole giving an average recoil of 7 fret ce inches. The masonry of the embrasure appeared to answer very well and proved very secure. The . wheels of the traversing platform are supported on circular p ieces of iron screwed down upon wood imbedded in the earth, similar to railway sleepers and about the sa me dimensions. The other parts of the ground are left in the usual state, with a i small quantity of sand and gra vel p acked upon t to render it dry. The experiments were concluded for the day at four o'clock, Sue R. MUSGRAVE.—WhiIst we are every day re ceiving letters as to the treatment of the poor by their land lords in a certain locality, we are most proud to learn that this true lrishman and benevolent landlord i s act i ng ac cording to the principles and tenor of his life. His disinter ested conduct at this peculiar crisis is worth laying before the public. He has given orders to all his tenants not to sell a grain of corn, that the people of the district may be so far preserved from any approaching scarcity of food. Would that other landlords in his neighbourhood would go and do likewise.—Cork Examiner. We understand that on Thursday evening two scientific gentlemen, well known in London, were dispatched by the Government to Ireland, in order to examine into the real state of the potato crop, and to make a report upon the subject. —Post. at t o 0,01 01. , . °O at. 100'1 , rr tl ij o ,8"r Zl , O t r in g, to ° I ntke r° Of iXeff Off l~ -4vt