The Sun. — London, England, 1850-09-13 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE—FRIDAY. lisp to o ur mar k et t hi s k the fresh supply of Eng 18h Wheat, coastwis-, has been good, via, 3,530 quarter s . Th e rece i pts b y l en d carr i age h a v e e xceeded 1 ,000 quarters, almost wholly of the present year's whitsEgrowth, To-day the show of samples of both red and vvas by no means extensive. Fine parcels moved , steadily, at very lull prices. In the middling end in ferior qualities only a modera'e business was transacted, Yet late r a t es were we ll su pp o rted. The imports of 6enerttlly7eigh AVheat have not ex , .e6ded 10,450 quarter-. 13 . s e k'no- the importers were film, and Mon -4 quotations were ola:ainiid in every instance. The li t( ) ek in warehouse here is comparatively small. We efontinue to have a steady sale for both English and , w t)r h! i g n Barley, at very full prices. Malt—the supply or ( eh Was mod , rate—chang , d Lands, at fully previoui. rate s . • I show of home Frown Ost.s was small:--V;at ( f foreign extemivi. sound Corn produced Monday's i l t tl e ', ltati "s, hut damp parcels were neglected. Beans, j„, 3 - . and Flour w ere quite as dear. No change in Indian Corn. ARRIVALS TIIIS WEEK Barley Wheat. .r-hgllsi t ?Mteh,. •• •' Irish ••"•• rOrei ••••• I I 1,000 411 ..• .. I 10,430 4,210 20,320 SIVZITECTIZLD. OUr 1331 1k et to-day was seasonably well supplied with e( Basta as to cumber, but their general quality was in'e -.or • The attend ance of buyers being *mull, the Beef N a d e ar e ruled heavy, at bely Monday's quotations._ 1 4 a rly three-fourttis of the supply were the re use f tole market day. Sheep—the numbers of which were d 1, t ""IY exterisive—met a very inactivie inquiry, an value rates were with difficulty supported, the extreme " of the best old Downs nut txciteding 4s per Sibs b. a ny instance. it,ther a lsrge supply of Calv es was k!°rught forward, while the Veal trade ruled du ll, at !j 4l ely last week's decline in the currencies. rigs w,ire It ti Z Moderate su p p l y, an d s l ugg i s h inquiry, at our q l z- Milch Cows were selling at from 141 5 s to to, eluding their small calf. Oats. M alt. Flour. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks 450 3,040 1,0 W Qrs. 3,530 3,220 Per albs. to sink the offal. s , d. to s. d. 111t erior n s. d. to B. d, . ..ec ond -- ctsts..• 2 4 2 6 Inferior Sheep ••,. 2 0 2 2 6 ,q u alitY 2 8 3 0 -,econd qual. Sheep 3 4 p ri ; ,arg e C 'zert•• 3 2 3 4 C arse-woolledditto3 8 310 Lit rr . Sc c'te •• •• •• 3 6 3 8 Bouthdown Wether 310 4 0 Pri,W e"rsc Calves 3 0 3 6 Ditto out of the wool° 0 0 0 guetie l so lsil ditto .. 3 8 310 L a rge Hogs •• • ... 3 2 3 6 L uat :; Calves •• 18 0 26 0 Small Porkers •• 3 8 4 0 **** ••• • 0 0 0 0 Quartar old Pigs .•16 0 21 0 Beast s . 803 AT MARKET. I Calves. 300 326 1 riga I Pif 8. 27 TOTAL SUPPLY Sheep, 11,500 SCOT Sheep. 30 Bea,t 3. FOREIGN ;UPPLY. 191 I Sheep. I Calves. 2, 184 11 EVZG 020 ATE AND LEADENHALL. prices.semarkets ruled heavy, at barely stationary Il easta 40 Beasts. Calves. At per stone by the Carcase. b eer , s. d. to s. d. I s. d. to s. d. ••••••.' ni ln i f erter...... 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 2 8 3 4 ••••••... —41111 13 • 2 6 2 8 ---- m iddling 3 6 3 8 PPrimelarge .. 210 3 0 •• 3 8 3 I(6 Pep ) ike small .• 3 2 3 4 P or k, largo" • ''•........3 0 3 6 --- mall •• ••"" - e Lamb, Os Od to 03 Od. 1844,:arge ".tOU'I3I.I3C 110 P IVIARICT. public sale of Hops, of the growth of 1846, tot e ', and 1848, took place here on Wednesday. The th e q ua ntity offered w a s 793 pockets, 70 4 being Kent, l er r emaind er S ussex. Th e atten d anc e f buyers was at I r ' and the whole of the Hops changed hands. Kent Pi e i° l3l 2 8s to 33 3 , and Sussex 27s to 45s p er cwt. and t i h il e g is now pretty general both in Sussex and Kent, produce is turning out large. The duty is called s eee Voi to 20 5,000/. Several pockets have arrived this s r ,. and sold as under:—New Kent, 61 to 81; new 511 23 to Si 16s, per cwt. A few parcels . of W eald gs have been disposed of on the following terms.- 4/10 to of Kent pockets, 1849, 5/ to 6/; Sussex, 1849, 5 . 5s per cwt. Su GA COLONIAL. A te k R.—The market has been very active again this lAised tor all descriptions, and fuller prices have been re fah • The result of the sales in Holland has been to itt ; lish a rise of Is 6d to 2s per cwt, and this has had o. ,iffk et here likewise. British Plantation has risen 6d per cwt. Barbadoes by auction went at 413 to 6el t 1 fo r fine yellow, 38s to 40s 6d for mid to good, 36s for 378 for ord, 36s for good brown, and 42s 6d to 46s ine si nY yellow. Jamaica good yellow sold at 39s 6d, Rord end mid at 36s 61 to 37s 6d. }REFINED.—The demand has been good, but prices e not been higher then 49s 6d to 50 for brown gro erY lun e , tea s i) • ti r't, .NDr.e.—Msuritius sold at 6d advance by atm. 39 9 ne Yellow 40s to 41s, good mid and good 38s to 6d, °n d 31 good to fine brown 32s to 348 6d, and ord to 10, to 33s 6d, Bengal has not been largely dealt • : as holders want a more decided advance; small i',,• s ;nY yellow of mid and good kind has realised 43s 6d b' ' es ' by *section and privately sales have boon made at i gh r at afk a t es• Manilla mid greyish yellow has been held 4 4 , low soft dark China at 30s ed to 31s; and Pe se,ng sold 6d to Is highcr, mid soft white 40s to 40s 6d, c 1 ord to fine yellow 34s to 38s. I .„, l ,°ltelost is firm; ord to mid ord white Havannah has ` l 'A i sed 27a to 29s 6il. COFFER.—There has been a steady demand fcr most ese riptions. Native Ceylon Fai been at 47s to 48s fit !ac'e'd ord. Pl an t a tion has been held fir a,further ad mid and good bold has been sold at 54s to 62s 6d, see fine ord and low mid at 50s to 535, pea berry 58i 6d, l'ege 453 to 495. Mocha has been much wante , l, and , ' 4O sup ply being scanty prices have risen. British Plan telt: ion has been held very firmly. Focoa.,—Bahia has teen sold at 29s per cwt. h .icE.—There has be en a fair demand, but priceshave 1 ;, - , e ; risen. Pinkey white Madras ha s been sold at 9s to and Bengal in pockets at 10s to 1 . 03 6d. CoTTox.—Th e mar ket has been (put end rather • 4 'eEs —Pi ento has been held for fuller p rices, hay. brealised si n d up to 6gl. Mace has bt en in demand, f t Purchases are clucked by the higher rives asked. Q lc4 n Ginger has been rather lower. Jamaica has sold at 3/ 12s to Si per cwt. b :„ El "—The market is steady, and moderate sales have ° p p — made. • ALeeee. There has been a brisk demand at ad old rates. New has been sold at 38s to 38s 3d, and GREEN FRUIT —The market continues good for all s some • veift sailing-vessel, parcel: of Grapes, ex Montrose steamer and 4 ,from Lisbon, sold by Keel in g and (111 1.1 1 1 1 5 at Public sale, went at an advauc3 for any of good s taae • i Lemons in fair demand, the stock of which is sebt:;• The accounts from Messina confirm t he short t 1 1 • 07 I ,,°F Lemon s t o b e ex pected from that quarter , and dent e ' r( In America state that Drapes will net be :shun ' and that the price is higher than was expected. BANKRUPTCY.—('THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.) Tb ts IN RE GRIFFITHS. b•inkruot h a d carried on business as a liner lutPeer i n the Stra n d, and to - day was appointed for his m zarbiration. aII a r d. l3 RowNE, on the part of the bankrupt, applied for bad J°( "lnent, as the accounts, which were peculiar, !act been prepsi Jo: ~,2 'e Solicitor to the assig uec s consented to the ad moats, t Mr 4' ' ha ild • --IGwN E said the official assignee had 3,0001. in ~',4lthough there hid been a loss of 900. on the T i ; the stock ; end there would be a large dividend. and "'We 9caroin , ,tion was then adjourned till the audit nd meeting. BO r s - W-STREET. —(IIII-- DAY .) w I the ba r, q Cannon, a journeyman tailor, .was tk el . before Mr Jarcike, charged wi placed . at th threatening tu e of -,,, • T h „ Jur. John Lucy, his bro . ther . • in-law. t r , t ,", Prosecutor stated that he lived in Fountain , court, th e ,'", carrying on business as a master tailor. r se ri l ' a st seven years he had been annoyed by !,he pu t h e 7 °cluing to his house. This Iva; the fifth time tha . t trk, -act been compelled to give him into custody, d I to 4 th° hall occasion he was imprisoned for twelve 'ln litini'cill.tibti_ser att i on he only been out a few dip, but since .., e had come to witness's . house every day, h e :worf2 that he would have his life.. sister's husband He stated that h ail REI determined not to want when his . _ etter .ay mo rn pore than he knew what to du with. Y d cve Vel oc l it n g he recommenced his annoyances about twelve tv e in i and continued them, without intermission, till Wit ; t ha eve n i ng, when he was g i ven into was custody. J Itt 4 -ss t °Et his ow. h, stated that when the prisoner k r ge he was itidanger of his lite. th e pe at 4llb itiE sentenced him to find sureties to keep ic. .Re was locked up. tx 0 .1. A 1 0 , -6 - ' 4 1,13R „ , T HIS DAY.) a „ rith „I'.—(THIS .----1 4NI .koItDINARY AND UNFOUNDED CHAR GE AGAINST hr,.k llntt oKEtt.—Mr. John Morrie Wa l ter, a Ai de "' carryi ng at No. 106, on an extensive business Ilarcillgate-street, was placed at the bar beforeef Mr. The:tek, charged with stealing from the person_veis. tool')." Fe atherstone an auctioneer, residir2g . at v% 1 reiß4" do ame t%etsbire, a silk purse containing a Bove- Th_ two shillings and sixpence.. Auten'tProsecutor stated that last night about five mi me P ° ten be got into an omnibus at Kensington, for ke,,,Pse of coming to town. He had not .. hajj''ilatites whenthe defendant got in and e s s e s ated fqt V by his left side. Just before that vv . 'r ef,- had Peek et la Purse and its contents safe the () Xft3, ,s °l bid trousers. When they arrived at the end ,' ha left-hand Otlt trtreet the omnibus stopped to allow a lady to get i Ita th * l'u° bad been sitting on his right. h . and . std . aur a e ' )° first person who left the vehicle during the t ° hi" f'utn Kensingt n. Witness then put bhatnhde teed ° Pocket, and found his purse sate, but before hsteduFtor had time to shut the door, he again put his tone,lo,bia Pocket, and found his purse arid its cont b e i n ee robbed -rip immediately told the conductor he had 144 dp °L hi s purse since the la,ty got out. The omnibus thethe ~,,ruhed, but thepurse could not be found, and t!,•! Pr P'.launer was the only person vvly) had sat by I . l ' c har g a p ide . e called a constahlo tn , l gave him in ,teto.,' and went to the station with him. On hii 1 0cl g i ll to the Hidon Hotel, Oxford -street, whet() he wes In it ,tt• be went upstairs to-bed, when he found the purse 4ireetl right-hand pocket of his trousers. Witness tk e co ii llpr ti „ to 1/, 27,01 e, who o t , p a t ! , e h e e d s: t a , tion, and gave the purse . to / 0 r : l ot s was found thereain n. d the money, amounting fn litid h r y t° Mr. -HARDWICK, complainant said, wYen he th e atkepe par he did n'.t open it. but at once took it to s bits ier t. he sating ho we r. was impossible for any of the persons at his right hand to take his purse frcm el o3e t o the Pocket, hectuse as he sat with his back ,14° c 1 as k 12 clumibus he should have felt them do so, 'lt cl i t a l l' e dseu:Bendant was the only person . who sat by his P•ol.ed him, nud me him in cborge. 119 THE could not acc,:tint for his purse In jog replaced unless it was done by a confederate. Mr. Hanowrcx —You must breve made some mistake, and, tikowingiy, put your purse ia your right-hand pocket instead of the left. The prosecutor persisted in stating that he was correct in his statement, and the reason he so frequently felt in his pocket was because h e had heard that many people had been robbed while riding in an omnibus. The defendant, in indignant terms, denied the charge, and cancel shout a dozen gentlemen, amongst whom were Mr. Walter, of Great Marylebone-stre , t, and Mr. Welter, of Goswell-street (brothers of the d.-fendant), the former of whom stated that, la,t night, his brother (the defendant) called at his house to fetch two young ladies who bad teen spending the evening with him. Defendant subF,equently went to sup with a gentleman at Kensington, and on his return the present unfortunate circumstance occurred. The other genii , man said it was impossible for the defend.ints to commit such an offence as that ho was ae cusi-ei of. The complainant must be labouring under some mistake. Mr. lIARDWICK from what ho had heard, thought the statement of the prosecutor highly improbable. The complainant said he was not willing to press the charge further. Mr. ItatiowrcK said the prisoner no doubt must feel exci edingly oblige d to 3ou for such an offer, after un dergoing the indignity and inconvenience of heir g locked up in the station-house all night. I should advii.e you to make such an apology or recompense as it is in your power to do. The defendant is discharged, and haves this court without the slightest imputation upon his cha racter. The prosecutor tendered an apology to the defendant, but by the advice of his friends it wa not ace( pted. EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION OF 011PHAN CHILDREN. From the returns of the Board of Trade pre sented to Parliament, it appears that for the ten months ending sth of November, 1849, there were imported from foreign countries to the United King dom the following quantities of flax and tow, or cor dilla of hemp and flax 1,553,472 cwts. ; flax seed and linseed, 437,131 quarters; and oil-seed cakes, 43,955 tons. If in a proportionate quantity for the following two months, th It is one-fifth to the above, the quan tities for the year will be as follows :—hemp and fl 1,864,166 cwts. ; flax seed and , linseed 524,557 qrs. Oil-seed cake 52,746 tons. If these various products from land sown to flax had been produced in this country they would have given constant employ ment to above 220 000 boys and girls, or about 20 in every parish in England. A school of industry, therefore, might be established in every parish for twenty chil dren, to cultivate flax, in addition to all the flax now grown in England, Ireland, and Scotland, without exhausting the demand for these articles in our own market. Why then, it may be asked, is not flax grown to a greater extent than it has hitherto been in this country ? The reasons are-Ist. Under a mistaken notion that flax is an exhausting crop to the land, there is a clause in many of the old leases prohibiting the tenant from growing it. After potatoes, flax almost always grows in perfection, par ticularly on light loams, on clay, and on chalky soils. It is sown in the latter end of March or beginning of April, and pulled in July or early in August. This allows full time to prepare the land for an early sow ing of wheat, and wheat is more certain after flax than after any other spring crop. If the linseed is consumed by cattle on the land, and the flax also worked out, leaving the refuse on the land, only a very small proportion of the crop, viz , the fibre, is taken from the soil, and it needs not, therefore, be an exhausting crop. 2. Heretofore the flax has been fermented in pits . in order to separate with ease the fibre from the woody parts of the stem. This fer mentation in pits caused a very unpleasant smell which led the landlords and farmers to discourage the growth. Oa the new plan no such pitting is necessary, and there is therefore no smell occasioned by the process of fitting the flax for market. 3. Whilst corn fetched a high price the farmer had no inducement to let his land for a flax crop, or to put himself to the trouble and expense of pursuing a branch of manufacture to which he was not accustomed. Nor can he be expected to do it now at his own risk. If done at all it must be undertaken at first by persons who see the importance of combining their energies to confer a great advantage on those who are at present ill-trained, if not wholly neglected, in almost all the agricultural districts of the country. A successful example only is wanting to lead to a gene ral and most beneficial change in this respect all over England. In the three counties of Dorset, Somerset, and Wilts, there are 115 public charities. In 1818 the proportion of paupers in Somersetshire was as one to every three houses. In Wiltshire, one to every two houses. In Dorsetshire, the same. In the same year the amount paid for poor' s r a t es was as follows : —Wiltshire, 274,2641. 104. Oil Dorset, 129,221/. 1 Is. , Somerset, 250,8271. 3 s . 3-d. Total, 654,313/. 4s. 4id. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—On Saturday next, being St. Matthew's-day, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs, with the governors of the several royal hospitals, will attend Di: Me service at Christ Church, Newgate-street, where a sermon will be preached by the Rev. Joseph Harris, M.A., Of Pembroke College, Cambridge, assistant-master of the City of Louden School. After which they will repair to the Great Hall, in Christ's Hospital, where four orations, on the benefits of the royal hospitals, will be delivered, according to annual custom, by fur of the senior scholars:—ln Latin, by Alfred Sweeting ; in English, by C. S. D. Townshend ; in Greek, by H. C. I'. Jones; iu French, by G. W. Brown. Six poems will also be recited by others of the senior scholars, viz., a Latin Alcaic ode, on Westminster Abbey, by H. B. Patkin ; a translation of Prince Henry's Apology, and the King's Reply, from Shakspere, into Greck lambics, byj am , s Gill; Lat , n Sapphics, on Boadicea, by J. G. Gauntlett ; Latin Elegiacs, on the Death of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, by R. A. Lloyd ; Greek Sapphics, on Hannibal at the Altar, by 11. D. Sweeting; and a translation of the Apostrophe to Philosophy, from Thomson's Seasons, into Latin Hexameters, by C. G. Bell. FlRE.—This morning, shortly before six, a fire broke out on the premises occupied by Mr. Corbett, a dealer in pictures, 115, Long-acre. Messengers were immediately dispatched to the va•ious stations of the London Fire Brigade, whose engines were shortly after in attendance. The flames were confined to the premises in which they originated. The cause of the fire is unknown. GROUSE.—These birds are this season somewhat more plentiful than usual on the heath lands around here, a gentleman having informed us that he has bagged several very fine birds in the neighbourhood of Parkstone.— Poole Herald. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.—On Sunday afternoon a child, of about three years of age, of the name of Borland, residing in Commercial-road, Glasgow, having been left in bed during the absence of its parents for a short time, got out, and managed by some means or other to get outside the window, which is three stories in height, ant was hanging by the lands, when the father and mother fortunately came in sight, and had the presence of mind to spread out a shawl under the window, holding it by the corners at some distance from the ground. The child fell into it, and, strange to say, escaped without havinfr, sustained the slightest injury.—Nordi British Mail. DEATH OF SIR GEORGE HAMILTON.—We regret to state that Sir George Hamilton, Minister Plenipoten tiary of Great Britain in Tuscany, died at Florence on the 3d instant. A WARNING TO RATE-PAYERS.—AII old woman, in a parish near Calne, who had been receiving parish relief for forty years, has just been discovered to have hoarded up 1751. in cash, which she kept concealed in her room. On further inquiry, it was found that she also possessed 4001. in the savings banks. STATISTICS OF RUSSIA —The European provinces of Russ;a cover an area of 99,489 square miles; Transcau casia, 2,825 ; Siberia, 208,600 ; the Steppes of Kirgis 30,000; the Islands, 1,100 ; American Colonies, 17,500 ; making a total of 259,524 square miles. Reden, the geo grapher, calculates that the number of inhabitants of these vast countries amounts to 60,000,600, and among them 50,000,000 Sclavonians and 4,33,000 Poles. The census of 1763, according to Schlozer and Storch, showed a popula tion of but 20,000,000 ; that of 1782 showed an increase of 6,000,000 ; and the census of 1835 reached a figure of 55,000,060. In the European provinces of Russia the population averages 6 9 on a square mile. The most populated districts are those of the central provinces, where one square mile contains about 2,5;00 inhabitants. The mini mum of population exists in the Government of Archangel, where a square mile is inhabited by sixteen people. Of Russian subjects there are 50,552,000 (88 per cent. of the population of Russia) belonging to the Greek religion, 6,744,145 are Roman Catholics, 3,409,330 are Protestants, 1,604 767 Jews, and 566,320 Mohametans. The rest of the inhabitants belong to various sects, or they are considered as temporary residents and foreignets. 154 per.odicals are pub lished in Russia--viz., 108 in Russian, 29 in German, 8 in French, 1 in Italian, 5 in the Polish, and 3 in the old Lettish lan gun ge.—Kolner Zeitung. A story is told of Sully, the painter, a man dis tinguished for refinement of manners as well as success in art. At a party one evening, Sully was speaking of a belle who was a great favourite. " Ah," says Sully, " she has a mouth like an elephant." " Oh, oh, Mr. Sully ! how can you be so )ude?" " Rude, ladies! rude! what do you mean ? I say she has got a mouth like an elephant, because it is full of ivory. 1 nu liaavEsT IN FIFE.—The weather has been exceedingly dry and fine for the last ten days, and harvest operations have gone on uninterruptedly. The crop is almost all cut down in the lower districts, and fully three- fourths of the whole crop over the country is already secured in excel lent condition. Wheat is giving very general satisfaction and it is no doubt much the b es t crop we have. The earl; b a rley, we have been told, is threshing well out, and the ap pearance and quality of the grain are uncommonly fine. The oat crop is much complained of, and in some districts the quality has not been so inferior for years. On good land, in som e instances, the weight p er bushel is as low as 331b5., and the sample has more resemblance to fore . ga oats than the usual plump and rounded pickle. The rains which fell in the end of last month were quickly driNl up by the winds which follov ,, e; 1 , and t urni p s are now gemrally sullering much from want of moisture. If there is not a change of weather in the coin se of eight days, we suspect that this crop will not turn out such a full one as former appearances led us to expect.— Scotsman. ERRATIJM. — Th e word "engines" was inadvertently u sed yesterday instead o f " c y linders" in the description r, of the iro shouldst ea have yacht rea oi Emperor inders of sr : n u n s s t e i . The sen tence oscillating principle, 46 inches in diame ter, with a stroke of 3 feet 6 inches." EXTRAORDINARY SHOT. —A few days ago Mr. Plat•kett, brother to the Bishop of Tuam, and son cf . Lord Plunkett, while shooing seals at th e Bishop's lodge, in the county of Mayo, fired at a cormor ant on the wing.with a rule, and having shot it in the neck, the bullet cut in two a largo conger eel, which the bird bad in its throat at the time. SUN, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. CHEAT 17t P.E.SHIRE HANDICAP. 9 to 2 agst Mr. Daysson's ark Tapley—taken 5 to 1 agst Captain 111 rvey's Strougbow 6 to 1 agst Mr.O.:baldeston's Minimum 8 to 1 agst Mr. Meeson's The Castle Mark Tapley and Strongbow were the only horses in favour, and on them the outlay was trifling. Minimum had no friends. ST. LEG ER. 11 to 10 agst Lord Zt:tland's Voltigeur—taken 5 to 1 agst Mr. H. 11i11's Pitsford—taken and after wards offered 13 to 2 agst Capt. Archdall's Windischgratz—taken and atterwards offered 8 to 1 agst Lord Enfield's Bee-hunter—take 9 to 1 16 to 1 apt Mr. J. Scott's Cyprus 25 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Chatterbox 50 to 1 agst Mr. Watts's Marchioness d'Eu—taken Voltigeur was again backed at evens and a fraction of o2ds to a considerable 2rn , :unt, and several hundreds were laid on Pitsford, at 5 to 1 and 11 to 2, and on Win di,chgratz at 6 to 1 and 13 to 2, the higher price against the law- r being offered to 400/. just before the close. BeehuLter was said to have been "on the go" in the City, but was backed freely this afternoon at 9 to 1; no oth rs rn request. CESAREWITCH STAKES. 25 to 1 on the field. 25 to 1 agst Lord Anson's Knight Errant 33 to 1 apt Lord Stanleys Legerdemain 40 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Backbiter CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 40 - to 1 apt Mr. Staelley's Brightunia DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Mr. llalTord T s Prime Minister—taken to 3001. LEICESTER RACES—THURSDAY. The Hunter's Sakes of 3 sous. each, with 25 added, for bor:es not thorough-bred; four yrs old, 10,t 71b; five, Ilst alb; six and aged, 1 Ist 121 b; a winner in 1849 to carry 71b extra, and the second to receive 5 sous. Heats. Once round and a distance. Mr. Davis's Lysimachus, lost 7lb ...(E. Tomlin) 1 1 Mr. Gilbert's Rein Deer (late Unknown) 103 t 71b 2 2 Mr. Norton's Donna Anna, aged, llst 121 b Mr. Brockley's Blue Bell, aged, list 121 b Mr. Spring's b g The Cull, 5 yrs, llst 41b bolted Quec s Plate of 100 guineas; three yrs old,lst 111 b; four, Bst Illb; five, 94 91b; six and aged, lOst. Three times round. Mr. Montgomery's Priestess, 4 yrs .. (Lye) 1 Lord Exeter's Little Jack, 3 3rs 2 Captain Lowther's The Gent, 3 yrs 3 The Gold Cup of 100 goys.; three yrs old, Est 111 b; four, Bst2lb; five, Bst 111 b; six and aged,9.t; winners extra. Twice round and a distance. Mr. Montgomery's Priestess, Bst 91b (T. Lye) walked over. Selling Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 40 added, optional selling weights. Heats. Once round and a distance. Mr. James's Sarah, 4yrs, 7519 lb (501.) (W.Sharpe) 1 1 Mr. Tresham's Cogia, 4 yrs, Bst 61b (1500 Mr. Houghton's Perseverance, 6 yrs, Bst 21b (301.) 3 dr LYNN R ACES.—WEDNESDAY. The West Norfolk Stakes of 5 soya. each, h ft, with 50 added; half-bred horses allowed 71b. Heats. One mile and a quarter. Ur. Rayner's Pulcherima (h b), Bst 41b (Rogers) 1 1 Mr. Hurlestones The Baronet (h b), aged, 93t 6lb 2 2 Mr. Elliott's Lancashire Witch, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b... 3 3 The Hunter's Stakes of 2 sous. each, with 25 added. Heats. About a mile and a half. Mr. Stephens's Rosa (h b), 12st - 1 Mr. J. Able's Latitat, 12st .. ... .. Mr. Boyd's Waver, llst 71b ..... Mr. Boyd's Small Hopes, I Ist 71b The Corporation Stakes of 2 sous. each, with 20 added. About one mile and a half. Mr. Stephenson's cby Dromedary, 9st (Thurgood) 1 1 Mr. Kite's Ambassadress, 4 yrs, 9st 101 b Mr. Swan's Egalite, 3 yrs, 9st Mr. Atkinson's Mountain Dew, 6 yrs, list 10Ib 2 4 Mr. Booty's May-day, 4 yrs, 9st 101 b .. 4 5 Mr. Jones's Garrick, 4 yrs, 9st 10113 Mr. Burgess's Agnes, 6 yrs, lOst lib The Borough Stakes, of 10 sous. each, h ft, with 5J added. About two miles. Mr. Elwes's Mrs. Taft (h b), 5 yrs, 9st 51b (Rogers) 1 Mr. Rayner's Pulcherima, 4 yrs, Bst 1 llb Mr. Stephenson's c, by Dromedary, dam by Mulatto, 3 yrs. 7st 121 b The Innkeepers' Plate, of 1 sou. each, with 10 added, list each, about a mile and a half, was won, in two heats, by Mr. Stephens's Rosa, aged (Kttton), beating Mr. Boyd's Small Hopes (Owner), Mr. Reynolds's Rattlesnake, aged (owner), Mr. Bollin's The Duchess, 5 rs (Elliott), and Mr. Wool's Miss Chance, 5 yrs (Green). ABINGDON RACES.—TIIIIRSDAY. The Abingdon Stakes (15 sous. each, and 30 added; the winner to be sold for 2001., &c. Heats. Once round. (3 Subs.) Mr. Ramsbottom's Beebee Bunnow, 4 yrs, B%t Mb Mr. Southby's Vests, aged, Bst 13lb Won easy. The Berkshire Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h ft, told 5 only if declared, with 50 added. Two miles. (6 Subs., 2 of whom paid). Mr. earls' Quiver, 4 yrs, Bst (Trope, junior) 1 Mr. J. Day's Justice, 5 yrs, 7st 21b 2tol on Quiver. Won easy. The Old Berkshire Hunt Stakes, of 3 sous. each, and 25 added. Winner to be sold for 1201. Heats. One mile. (4 Subs). Mr. E. Joues's Impression, Est 31b (Thick) 1 1 Mr. 11, rtnao's bro to Elden. 4 yrs, B.t 51° 0 2 Mr. lteac's Batswing, 3 yrs, 7,t 41b 0 3 Mr. Smith's Wren, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b Won easy. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1850. DOVER RACE.-TUESDAY. The Town Plme of 30 sovs., tdded to a sweeptt ike of 3 sovs. (rich, one mi'e and a. distance (5 Subs.), v. a.; won in three heats by Mr. Wotton's Marchioness, 4 yrb (Eatwtll), beating Mr. Formby's My Mary awl!, Mr. flornsby's Old Fux, 4 yrg, and three others, atter a fine race. The Hurdle Rare for 101, &c., one mile and a distance (3 Subs.), was won in two licit; by Mr. Land's General, 6 yrs (Owner), beating Lad) Fordwick, aged, and Bel lord, 4 yrs, by a neck. TOTNES RACES.—FIRST DAY. The Borough Members' Plate of 50/. Heats; two miles. Mr. Cm:Ws Selina, 4 yrs, Bst 111b...(Carlisle) 0 1 1 Captain Crofton's Mr. Toots, 4 yrs, Bst 71b 0 3 2 Sir W. Carew's fby Jack in the Green, Bst 71b 1 2 dr Mr S) mes's Veteran, 5 yrr, Bst 111 b 2 dr Mr. Hex's Partial Eclipse, 3 yrs, 7st llb Mr. Graham's licebe, 4 yrs, Sat 71b The Ladies' Plate, added to a Sweepstakes, was won, in two heats, by Selina, beating Mr. Toots, Veteran, aid two others. SECOND DAY. The Town Plate or 351. (handicap). Heil's; two miles. Captain Roebuck's Fusilier, Bst 10Ib (Carlisle) 4 1 1 Sir W. Carew's tby Jack in the Green,4yrs, Bst 1 3 4 Captain Crolton's Mr. Toots, 4 yrs, Est 31b 3 2 2 Mr. Graham's Hcobe, 4 yrs, 7st 51b The South Hama Steeple Chase was won by Ben Bow Bell, beating seven others. CRICKET. MARRIED v. SINGLE OF MIDDLESEX. This u :itch commenced yesterday at Copeuttagrn House. The following is the score:— MARRIED-FIRST INNINGS. Chadband, b Burden E. Paul, b Hughes ... Goulding, b Burden Rogers, c Haines, b Gilbert Thompson, 1 b w, b Hughes 2 Dewdney, b Hughes ..... Lillywhite, run out Inwood, c Andrews, b Gilbert l3 A. 1%•ul, b Burden ...... 5 Hardy, b Burden Bridges, not out Byes 8, wide 1, n b 1 Total 153 SINGLE- FIRST INNINGS. 4 Hon. R. Grimston, b Lillywhite Ililyard, c E. Paul, b Lillywhite 0 Gilbert, c Inwood, b Lillywhite Haines, b Lillywhite . •.. • Burden, c Paul, b Lillywhite . 2l Hughes, not out Verral, not out .. Byes 4, wide 1 ... ..... 20 Total ARTFUL Bonnewr.-:—Yesterday afternoon Mr Millman, of Ehury-street, Pimlico, was walking in St. James's-park, when opposite Buckingham Palace, he was accosted by two men, who made numerous inquiries as to the palace, informing him that they were strangers, having arrived in London that morning. Whilst thus engaged a well-dressed man, who passed them, was observed to drop a purse heavily filled with gol I and silver. Mr. Millman and the strangers made him acquainted with his loss, and gave him his purse. He said they were three honest fellows, and insisted on treating them to a bottle of wine; they ac cordingly adjourned to a tavern in James-street, Bucking ham-gate. Here the owner of the purse produced a roll of notes, announced that he had just come into a fortune of 5,0001., and, in gratitude to them for restoring his money, he would, providing they could prove themselves respectable, present them with 101. each. The two others produced what appeared a consi , 'erahle sum in notes and gold, and Mr. Millman shovr ed fifty-three sovereigns he had just re ceived. The stranger at once drew out three 10/. notes, and wrar t ing Mr. Millman's gold up in one, he returned it to him. They all then lett the house. Mr. Millman felt a e o c f e 2 d a a b g y en a misgiving, and put his h and to his p ocket; the three fellows in s tantly took to their heels and g ot clear awa y , leavin g Mr. Millman with a note on the b ank of ele g ance and some g ilt teloeuniliatenrsin. the en fellowsGN\e'oerdgneesid,aaNy,ertnh,ecosannlmelerciar o , e like stratagem. FATAL ~STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday afternoon considerable consternation prevailed in the vicinity of the London Docks and on the opposite shore, in conse quence of the sudden swamping of the Wasp, pleasure steam boat of about three tons burden, the prverty of Mr. Enstace Anderson, a gentlemau, residing at Rosythe-cottage, Black heath, who was on board at the time, with Mrs. Andel sin, his three infant cl,ildren (of the respective ages of 2i, 4, and sa), a lady named Broe n, the servant-girl, and a water man. The boat had proceeded as far as the London Docks, which it was passing, going with the tide at a very rapid rate. At this part of the river the Wasp was met by the Emerald, Boulogne, and Dundee steamers, one other steam boat having pi er iously passed. There was a heavy swell of the water betore the approach of the Dundee /red Emerald steamers, which was much increased by these powerful ves sels. The Wasp gave a sudden dip in the water, which run over her gunwales, and, before she was righted, a second wave completely ingulpned her. Ina moment the vessel disappeared, and the whole on board were observed struggling in the water. Assistarce was immediately afforded them by the watertnen on both sides of the river, and by boats, which were specclily manned, from ships in the different tiers. One by one, with the exception of the servant-girl, they were rescued. She bad only been in the service of the farailY ilb9Vlt A l'f WC, LITE RA T URE. MR. IIUDSON'S EVIDENCE AT YORK. " A Revised and Complde Report of the Recent Trial for Libel, Richardson v. Wodson, pub• lisher of The Yorhshireman with Preliminary Observations, 6•c." London: C. Mitchell, 1850. " Report of the Evidence of George Hudson, Esq , 111.1)., on the Trial of the Cause, Richardson v. Wodson, York Summer Assizes, 1850. Edited by a Barrister." London, John Hearne, Strand, 1850. [CONCLUDING NOTICE.] The weakness of a case against a person unjustly accused of some grievous mi ,, detneanours, is often de tected in the mod e o f pre f err i ng th e a ccusation. IF, instead of singling out and isolating some individual fact of striking and decided character, unembarassed by collateral issues—on the merits of which a fair judgment could be more easily formed—a number of disconnected charges and complicated details are brought forward in a menacing phalanx, the impartial observer is apt to suspect that the patties moving as accusers depend more upon clamour than upon proqf and bring forward these supplemental accusations for the purpos es o f pre j u di ce an d myttitication,— trying to " make up iu number what each wants in wei,;ht".—having, as it were, several barrels charged in anticipation that some will miss fire, and that not a few shots will miss the mark ! We have already investigated two of the princi pal charges on which Mr. Hudson was examined in the progress of the cause, Richardson v. Wodson, at York, and have afforded our readers the means of judging how far they were just, or unjust. No un biassed mind can hesitate in pronouncing that, so far, ! Mr. Hudson has succeeded in setting himself right with the public, and in fairly putting down his ac cusers. Sergeant "Wilkins was instructed to press against Mr. Hudson no less than five other charges, arising out of transactions connected with the York, ' Newcastle, and Berwick and the York and North Midland Railways. For the particulars of these charges, and the several answers to them, we -must I refer to the report of Mr. Hudson's evidence, pub lished by Hearne ; but we cannot close our notice of so remarkable a passage in the career of this public man, without glancing at each of the five remaining counts in the quasi indictment against him. It was insinuated that Mr. Hudson had paid divi dends, in the two companies mentioned, out' of ca pital; see how he meets the charge in the face of his opponents. In answer to a question from Sergeant Wilkins, Mr. Hudson replies, before judge, jury, bar, public, and press : " I distinctly deny that I ever paid their dividends out of capital. lam ready to be examined upon any balance sheet that has ever been furnished to the shareholders. If I had been dealing dishonestly I would not have kept shares to the large extent I held when I left these com panies." And again, on his re-examination,— " Q. Do you now persist in saying that you have never paid the dividends out of the capital? " A. I never have. " Q. Never? " A. Never. " Q. And that you swear? " A. I do, most solemnly." - - Now, on referring to the " preliminary observa tions" prefixed to the "revised and complete report" issued by the York paper, we find no apology to the public or to Mr. Hudson that such an unfounded charge was suggested;—there is no retractation, no admis sion that Mr. Hudson had got rid of the imputation, and that, in this point at least, he had been misrepre sented; but, instead of anything of this sort, which was surely to be looked for at the hands of any one entrusted with the use of a public pen, we find the same general charge of having declared " false and unearned dividends" put forward in the pamphlet! Does"not this speak volumes? The next accusation was ushered in with a great flourish of trumpets. It was to the following effect ; —that on the 30th December, 1845, cheques were drawn for the payment of six several sums of money due from the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Com pany for land purchased by the company,-4,0001. to Lord Tankerville, 10,0001. to the Duke of Northum berland, 5,000/. to Earl Grey, 3,0001. to Sir Matthew Ridley, 7,0001. to the Earl of Carlisle, 2,0001. to Lady Mary Stanley ;—that these cheques were at once cashed by Mr. Hudson, but that the money in each case was withheld from the parties named till May, 1849, being passed to Mr. Hudson's account, while from the books of the company it would appear as if the accounts had been settled. Two observations arise naturally when one hears this charge :—first, is it pretended that the company lost anything or suffered in any way by Mr. Hudson's arrangement in this matter ?—the cheques were drawn at the time they were due, and Mr. Hud son was responsible both to the company and to the landowners for the amount; indeed it would be difficult even to imagine a state of things in which the company could have been prejudic:Lif by the transaction. In the second plar,+, is lo!' terous to suppose that the landowLersA wenl foregone their claims for ev e r; , of knew that at any moment these parties might ask for payment of the money. But people chose to forget the peculiar position that Mr. Hudson occupied in respect to this railway. H e was the originator of it; but fur his lion-like resolution it never could have been constructed ; to him the task was assigned of beating down opposition, and overcoming all obstacles ; he had to conduct all the delicate negotiations with landowners, and to make terms with municipal corporations; the company believed it was for their interest to entrust him with extraordinary, we might say unprecedented, powers, and great latitude of discretion. He had the management of millions in his hands, and was placed in a position of great responsibility and au thority. In emergencies he had never hesitated to advance his own money when necessary ;—he had been in some cases in advance for the company as much as 100,0001. On him devolved the payments to the landowners,—in many cases he was personally re sponsible to them ; and when the cheques were drawn they were paid in to his credit, the settlement of the accounts with the l an d owners b e i ng l e ft to him. " I Wll9 (said Mr. Hudson) in the habit at that time of paying large sums f or t h e company, frequently in advance for them to the extent of 100,000 L I h e ld this money , for the purpose o f sett li ng with the severa l l an d own er s ." And again,— " I had managed the purchrue from the Duke—l was personally responsible to him for the purchase motley. I settled with landowners for the company to the extent of many thousand pounds—the purchase money was paid by me. All those cheques. and many more, were given to me to settle with the landowners; I paid them into the Bank to my own account, and when I retired from the board, in 1849, I accounted for every penny so placed in my hands —ad the moneys I had either paid or received on account of the company were then settled." In reply to another question, Mr. Hudson remarks " It was usual for ire to buy the land for the company, and tettle with the principal landowners. I received from the company the money due to the landowners. When I ceased to be connected with the company, as a matter cf course, all these transactions were settled. I paid interest on money I received, and was paid interest on money I advanced —I was paid interest on cheques I gave on account of land, which I had omitted to charge egairat the company. It is quite absurd to suppose any imputation can rest on me in reference to those cheques." It only remains to add that Mr. Hudson him self called the attention of Mr. Pews the direc tor who investigated these items, to these matters, requesting him to examine the vouchers and receipts with the accounts ; when it was discovered that these payments made by the company were yet to be settled by Mr. Hudson, with the exception of the claim of Earl Grey, to whom Mr. Hudson paid his money soon alter the cheque was drawn, and immediately afterwards the landowners were paid in full. Again, on reference to the " revised and complete report of the trial," we find that a great part of Mr. Plews'a important evidence is omitted! The next accusation was of the same kind as the preceding—that Mr. Hudson had held in his hands cheques signed by the company for payment of certain contractors, but it admits of a different answer : " When I was handed that chi que Rush and Lawton kept their account at the Union Bank; the end of 1847 will be recollected as a time of peculiar pressure. Rush and Lawton had overdrawn their account 50,0001, and for this advance I was security to the bank. When I received the cheque en their account for 30,0001, I , I brought the matter before the Board, and I cont i nued security to the bank for 50,000 /., and held as a secur i ty the cheque for 3 0 , 0001 . I f I had not done thi s th e rail ay stopped There has, perhaps, never been a case in whi c h ex traordinary powers have been intrusted t o an indi vidual, in a great emergency, where he has n o t, a f ter 7works the their w ° a u d l v ci n ,havece advances." There as th e b ank would hate the crisis has passed over , been accused of high cr i mes and misdemeanours. All the smothered en v y th en , foiled in andevery one who wa s di sappo i nted i n his aims, crossed i n hi s li tt l e p l ans, burstsh his schemes, who was snubbed, or passed over, or who fancied that his merits were neglected, comes forward as accuser or a railer ! In the case of more than one Governor- General of India, but for whose energy and decision the Indian empire' would have been lost, enemies, as it wer e , c we have seen the man , who had conferred pri ce l ess services on his country, on his retu rn h ome, likeassailed a bees, a d s a a n m d alef malefactor,—beset subjectedcto r, impeachments,— t b o e t s hs e au t t bhya cloud o f imputa tions the publi c b egan to think that the man they had honoured as a hero had been a very oppressor au(' a plunderer I It has, how judgment till all the facts how ever, happened that these public men have outlivt d the slanders heaped upon thorn, and the world have eventually found out that it is necessary to regard with extreme caution the clamour raised against men placed in posts of unusual dliculty and responsibi lointYt;(7hdstiode7 are le nfdulltyhebirefore them. We dismiss as unworthy of notice the charge that in February, 1848, Mr. Hndson had sold 400 Hall and Selby shares to the York and North Midland Railway, at 101. per share above the market price; it is simply Else, they were sold at their then value -981. a share, as near the market price as possible ; these shares have since been sold at 1001. The last remaining charge refers to the Brandling shares—and such a charge! Let us hear how Mr. Sergeant Wilkins puts it:— "In 1844 the Newcastle and Darlington Company purchasA the Brandling Junction. In order to raise capital fur that purpose, it was found necessary to create new shares, and 22,000 were accordingly raised. Only 20,000, however, were necessary at that time, and the remaining 2 000 were confided to the care of the directors to lay out for the company. What do you think Mr. Hudson did wish them? He appropriated to his own use 1,600 out of the 2 000, and 51r. Richardson had 100 as his share—so on this transaction Mr. Richardson made about 2,1001. and Mr. Hudson about 36,000/. to 40,0001. Yet my friend has the coolness to etand up and say it was agreed that these should be made a present to him. At any rate I believe Mr. Hudson had to dligorge the money for them; and if he did, what becomes of the pretext that they were given to him?" In 1844 the Br3ndling railway was purchased by Mr. Hudson on his own responsibility ; he was for some time individually the owner of the line, —he himself raised the money and paid for it without any Act of Parliament. The purchase money was 550,0001. Mr. Hudson agreed to transfer the pur chase to the Newcastle and Darligton Railway, with all the profits, on terms which must he admitted to have been exceedingly liberal on Mr. Hudson's part, —terms which show anything but a disposition to take advantage of his own influence in the board of directors. Here is the minute of the dire6tors "16th Aug., 1844. Pret , ent—George Hudson, Chair-• man, Rob..rt Davie, Deputy-Chairman, James Richard son, and Edmund Oxley "In consideration of Mr. Hudson transferring the above purchase (the Brandling line) to the Newcastle and Darlington on the same terms that he purchased it, that 500 new shares be allotted to him, to pay the re mainder of the purchase"? There was a general meeting of the shareholders of the Newcastle and Darlington Company held on the 4th Feb., 1845. The transfer of the purchase of the Brandling line was then confirmed. It was resolved that 22,000 shares should be created to raise the capital necessary for the purpose, and that these new shares should he appropriated to the shareholders of the York and Newcastle,—one new share to each ori ginal share. Of course the parties who accepted the allotment of the shares were bound to pay up the ca pital upon them. After allotting the shares in the manner mentioned, 2,000 new shares remained undisposed of. A proposition was made at this general meeting, that these 2,000 shares should be placed at the disposal of Mr. vfomtsttgrs H oohhheeofi racseaavt u t rtoetorehdkhsdlenntesuueeshdhot,trtcteenephi surrender eernmnenhghodTmidaeepuwbmnlreahgyipayingaeruneoahstirmytotan:amfi naeanrconsiderationebantl.odl allotment publiclyesr lep. thei of n:tof6l: i a occno l pptkhpug l ohrrod proposed tats h snohovowe e osftenenhhs h e oettsaoi go a ndhba Irfaf p aeeaenhsv i sbsefr t aedieyaen a slits cs l fdoahpg. \rt. upon them. The away amlhohtoraaohri prospective dp a nhdc ß t eooeo4scwww a lneo t td r rsaie h i : s vivtr e d t rhi iee y o o tcspe f l periri nsasert l whtsosa a ite e aenohnh n r nistndod d e e est accla mationl as an acknowledgment of his prudence and disinterestedness in the affair; but when it is con sidered that this premium was mainly owing to the goodness of the bargain that he had voluntarily foregone, and to the prestige of his own name, is there anything so very wonder ful that a general meeting of proprietors should have allotted to him shares at par, which, but for his exer tions, would have remained at par, or probably have fallen to a discount ? But because the shareholders chose to be generous, was Mr. Hudson therefore cri minal in accepting their free gift ? " Fie on't, oh, fia !" Well might Mr. Martin, Q.C., exclaim that to insti tute a Chancery suit to recover back the premium on these shares was as paltry and mean an act as he had ever known in his experience at the Bar ! The object of those who called Mr. Hudson as a wit ness at the late trial at York has thus been completely defeated. They hoped to have overwhelmed him with obloquy ; but the manner in which he demeaned him self in the presence of the Court struck every one with surprise, and excited sympathy in his favour, while the clear and explicit answers which he gave to every question of Sergeant Wilkins will tend materially to remove many of the prejudices against him. The speech of the learned advocate against the ex-railway chief will be looked upon as a fine rhetorical display, but the reader in admiring its brilliant invective will remember that there is often a wide difference be tween what a counsel tells a jury he hopes he will be able to prove, and the facts which afterwards are substantiated by his witnesses ; and having examined the proofs for themselves, pro and con., the public will, we confidently anticipate, give a true verdict according to the EVIDENCE! A LETTER TO THE ELECTORS OF _ WESTMINSTER FROM AN ARISTO CRAT. Third Edition. John Hearne, 81, Strand ~ T his is an extremely. clever pamphlet, end we are ;.-not at all surprised that it has already run to a third edition. It is written in such a vein of satirical hu mour, and with so much real wit and eloquence, that it bids fair to rank among the most popular jeu d'esprits of our time. The author is evidently a gentleman and a scholar, and though, to keep up the essurned and exclusive character in which he is writing, he calls himself " an Aristocrat" (thereby, as he pleasantly says, expressing the " semi and political bias" of his mind), he is, we believe, a man of profound thought, of enlarged and liberal principles, and of well-cultivated understanding. This pamphlet belongs to the same class as Arch • bishop Whately's " Historic Doubts," and Burke's plea for " Natural Society." Better to expose the fallacies of the Protectionist party, their strongest and most favoured arguments are stated in such a manner as at once to exhibit their hollowness, even though they are pointed by a re fined wit, and set off with the seductive colourings of a gay and exuberant fancy. Indeed, while we perused these admirable pages we could not refrain from a secret expression of regret that an author so able and so accomplished bad not addressed himself to some more serious task, and employed his masterly pen in a more appropriate and dignified manner. The commencement of the letter cleverly exposes the dark forebodings and gloomy prophecies of the Protectionists : Gentlemen,—The cold-blooded conspiracy against our working classes, which Fraud and Folly have combined to call Free Trade,' is raising such a spirit of discon tent, and threatens us with such appalling disasters." &c. ' Two fictitious characters, " PROTECTION " and " ARISTOCRAT," are then introduced, who keep up a smart dialogue, the point and irony of which is ably maintained throughout. It is a game of " battledoor and shuttlecock." The sophistry of Protection being thrown and returned from one to the other, till at last the game is ended just as the feathers are giving way, and the little bauble is going to pieces ! The following is an inimitable hit at the language of Protectionists on the subject of Political Economy —a science which it has been thought prudent of late to disparage, because the great truths it teaches in culcate commercial freedom, and tend to the peace and brotherhood of the nations : ARISTOCRAT speaks : " Ah! Madam, it was indeed an evil day for England, when her public men, from the vanity of proving them selves proficients in a new science, narrowed their minds, and sank the statesman in the political economist. As long as political economy was subservient to political science, the statesman, less attentive to the theory of the production of wealth, than to the laws which affect its distribution, pursued his high career unfettered, and regarded as his paramount object the happiness of the people committed to his charge. But from the time that Adam Smith treated political economy as a distiuct branch of the science of legislation, he degraded it, cor n ectly indeed, to the mere theory of the increase of wealth; a subject, which the purest minds turned from in disgust, which the highest intellects would not condescend to study, and which deeding hearts could not bring th emse l ves eve' ri to understand. How interesting is that anecdote of Fox in Butler's charming Reminiscences " PROTECTION. "I cannot say I remember it. " ARISTOCRAT. "It runs thus, Madam. 6 lt was the good fortune of the Reminiscent, to have the honour of ►pending a day tile-a-tete with Mr. Fox at St. Alai's Hill. The Remi niscent mentioned what certainly was of no consequence, that he had never read Adam Smith's celebrated work on the Wealth of Nations.' To tell you the truth,' said Air. Fox, nor I either. Thtre is something in all these subjects which passes my comprehension; some thing so wide, that I never could embrace them myself, or find any one who did.' " PROTECTION. " Ah! I have a great regard for the memory of Fox. I wculd pardon ten times his profligacy, could I discover in the cold-blooded theorists of the present day but one of the generous emotions that animated his heroic heart. But now-a-days every petit suflisant, who has slang enough at.commitud, sets to wink to traduce the labour ing classes, and p!umes himself on every penny he can pilfer from the poor." The absurdity and weakness of the Protectionist argument is next shown by An illustration from New market, H hich the supposed Aristocrat employs, and we have also a gentle insinuation that much of the Protectionist warmth and zeal arises from party pique and vanity e•frethled, the sneers and language of their oppont : competiti, if There's on you please, Madam ; bu t where are ' the sound principles of Free Trade?' What an uprcar amongst the jockies st Newmarket would such principles excite ! Who und , ratands better than those worthies, quid ferre recusent, quid valeant, humeri ? Is not eucb horse weighted accord ing to his age,' and ascertained powers ? and is it to be tolerated that the Russian. or the American, with a weight on his back of only half a pound, should be allowed to ewer for the same stakes as the Briton, who is sinking under the oppression of thirty pounds ? In other words, that their lightly-taxed corn should come in duty free, to compete with ours, that iota 1;1011 heavy taxation to boar ? By all mcars, admit all foreign com modities ; but levy uu them, as they coma in, a toll, equal to the grit , vans burdeas which Debt imposes on us, of necessity. at home. " Pr OTECTION. " Well, Sir; I may be partial, from being so deeply interes'ed in th!s question; but, indeed, I thiak you make out a very strong case in my favour. And yet, if your views are correct, I am still more confounded at the insolent coadt.ct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to me, last May. " ARISTOCRAT. " What! Madame,'did he venture, even in that merry month, to take any unwarrantable lib-? " PROTECTION. " Judge for yoursel; Sir. He positively had the as , surance to call me, to my face. before the whole House— an exploded sophi•m: There's language fur the Trea• Bury-teach'!'' Out of so much that is excellent selection is diffi cult, but perhaps one of the best things in this pam phlet is the argument (pp. 71-73), in which "Protec tion " contends that the scheme of M. Proudhon in 1848 for " An organization of a reciprocal credit among citiz:ns" is, in fact, a compound of the united views of Sir J. Graham and the late Sir R. Peel ! With this difference, that Proudhon's " is the most comprehensive, and consequently the most just!" The climax with which the pamphlet winds up is a piece of cutting irony, showing, as it is no doubt in ten.led to do, the extremes of fully and intemperance in loAic and language into which the Protectionists are desperately and deplorably lapsing. "Farewell! then—but n, t without a parting sigh of indignation at this sc.indalous ' experiment,' which Wealth is making at the cost of Labour; degrading, with ' universal benevolence,' the bulk of our working classes to the 'continental level;' and, with cheap foreign corn' throwing our lands out of cultivation, and our cultivators out of bread; plausibly pretending to lighten the springs cf Industry,' yet, in reality, clogging every wilcol in the machine: but, to the most sceptical, ere lung, will Truth be revealed: every lie-'in-aid' is well nigh exhausted; and soon will eve •y knee be bent, and every hand uplifted, to implore, for millions of loyal men Pictection from a scheme which did require the head of the Devil to contrive, which will require the heart of the Devil to carry into execution, and which—in firm reliance on the Divine Justice-1 leave, with hope and confidence, to the unerring ven geance—not of man, but—of God, to repay. "Voms—supplicii eorum spectaculum, non moth') non acerbum, sod loetunz etiam—Sl SARA DIEMS REDllT—debet esse ; de nullis enim, guam de vz,Bzs, infestins aut ininii cius consuluerunt." We have now given a brief and hurried notice of " A Letter from an Aristocrat." Seldom has our pen paid even this homage to an anonymous writer, but no name, however great or respectable, can add to the value of that which is so intrinsically excellent. We cannot close, however, without observing that a contemporary, of Protectionist principles, gravely asserts this work to contain the true and genuine sentiments of the author! that by " Aristocrat" is intended a friend to an hereditary monarchy and a constitutional peerage, and that under the name of " Protection" the genius which inspired Bentinck, and presides over Stanley, is verily and indeed sym bolised and expressed ! ! If this be so, and seeing how prejudice and error lift their heads among us ; how sophistry has its re presentatives in Parliament ; how the " ldola Tribus" haunt and infest high places, we cannot deny its pos sibility, however we may doubt it, or believe the con trary—if, we repeat, this be so (and sooner or later the truth must, be declared), we can only lament that so much wit is linked to so little wisdom ; that such real eloquence is united with such real ignorance, and that the gifted author of this remarkable letter is himself blinded by the " darkness" he has made so " visible." COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SEPT. 10. Her Majesty rode out this morning on a pony, accompanied by bis Royal Highness Prince Albert, who afterwards went out shooting. In the afternoon her Majesty drove in an open car riage, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice. Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson, of Invercauld, will have the honour of dining with her Majesty this evening. OSBORNE, SEPT. 12. The royal children take their usual drives and airings daily, and continue in the enjoyment of good health. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President of the Council), It fc town yesterday, for his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. SIR CHARLES NAPIER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,-Sir Charles Napier's observations upon the court-martial which, it is said, caused the melancholy death of Colonel King, of the 14th Dragoons, need neither apology nor illustration ; but the shameless efforts of writers, evidently tools of more powerful persons, to abuse the public mind as to his aptech, wade six months before, when invecting that regi ment, shall be exposed in all their malignant re:lief. "The 14th Dragoons would go anywhere if pro perly led.'"rhese are the words put into Sir C. i Napier's mouth—but they never came out of t ; and if they had, would not of necessity imply more than that some officer had failed in judgmen', unless some thing known or surmised hsd given them force and peint. However, Sir C. Napier never uttered them; they are the invention of calum n i a t o r s , w h o , in their eagerness to lower him in public estimation, do not hesitate thus to forge insults against the unhappy officer they pretend to defend and bewail. Some of those writers have spoken also of a last letter to the Commander•in-Chief, predicting that it will be suppressed. It is as follows Sir,—You asked me the weight of men mounted on the 16th December, 1849. I answered 17st. 51b. You said—` Ehat is three stone lighter than at home,' which I accounted for by saying the men were young, and tall men were not sent out from England to India. When you asked about the swords, I said we could not keep them so sharp as the natives, who use leather scabbards. 'Was it judicious in you to repeat my words before the men, perverting their meaning ? You bore testimony to the discipline cf the regiment that day under my command. Your remarks before the regiment sowed the seeds of discontent, which have ripened into mutiny. You are the cause of the stripes and punishment which that mutiny has led to, and distraction and death to one who once had friends; now disgrace and misery to those friends. I have not been an accountable being for this last month. "J. W. KING." This letter, the result of insanity, as I shall pre sently show, would have been thus replied to, if the writer had been living when it was received : When a General-in-Chief is publicly told by a commanding officer, in the hearing of his men, against whom a cry had gone forth for misbehaviour in action, that they were very small men and not strong—that their swords would not take so sharp an edge as their enemy's swords, and were so heavy the men could not use them—for these were the real expressions used— when such language was employed at such a time, it was nut only judicious, but necessary, that Sir C. Napier should address the regiment as follows Soldiers, the Colonel says you are small men, and your swords are too heavy for you, and not so sharp as the Seikhs' swords. I beg the Colonel's pardon. I see before me men with big hearts, and broad shoulders, and strong arms, and if we have another war I would give them an opportunity to show what they are made of. That Colonel King's letter was the result of in sanity is but too easily shown. He says, remarks made six months before caused mutiny and drove him to suicide—but th ere was no mu ti n y, nor an idea of mutiny, in th e 14 : h D ragoon s, and th e following letter to th e C omman d er -i n -Chi e f' s secre t ary , written immediately after the inspection, proves that the writer, Colonel King, was pleased and gratified with Sir C. Napier's address, and the assertions in his last letter are the hallucinations of a distempered mind. " We were not . a little gratified by the expression of the approbation of this morning of the most discern ing, as well as deserving great captain in India ; but I beg of you to believe that it was no friendly veil which the dust threw around us, concealing good a, well as evil." No more need be said. W. NAFIEB, Major-General. A NEW COMET. TO THE EDITOR O F THE TI MES. Sir,—Mr. Charles ltob2rtson, of Mr. Cooper's pri vate observatory, Markree Castle, Ireland, detected a new comet in the constellation Camelopardus, about midnight, on the 9th inst. The observations gave, at 13h. 4m. 33 , ., Greenwich mean time — Comet's right ascension .... 6h. Om. 51.53. north declination ... 53d. 29m. 225. The hourly motion in R.A. is 40 seconds of time, increasing; and that in declination about three minutes towards the south. Your most obedient servant, J. R. HIND. Mr. Bishop's arkObserva t toryl2., Regenti p, Sep. Suicinr.—Yesterday afternoon an irquest was held by Mr. W. Baker, coroner, at the George and Vulture, nateliff-highway, oil the body of Frances Flaherty, aged 17, who committed suicide by throwing herself into the water of the London Docks. It appeared that the deceased was a most profligate character. She had been 'confined in every prison in and about London during the last five years no le;s than 50 times, on charges of stealing and violent assaults on the police. On Monday evening last she met her mother by accident, and as she refused to supply Ler with money for drink, deceased said she would drown herself. About live o'clock the nest morning a heavy splash was heard in the water of the London Docks, and on Police-constable Knight, 313 K, who was on the spot, looking over the Gravel•lane bridge, the deceased was seen struggling in the water, but before the arrival of the drags the body had sunk.—Yerdict, 4 4 Temporary inacity." LOUIS PHILIPPE'S PROPERTY. A letter from Paris, of the Bth, in the bidellendaitce of Brussels, says :—" Since Louis Philippe s death, the journals have been speaking of the fortune which he has left, and it has been even said that the lega c y duties would amount to some millions. I find the exaggeration which I suspected in these accounts is greater than I had supposed. The landed property belonging to the late King contains about 86,000 hectares (the hectare is nearly 2} English acres) thu s divided: 45,000 comprised in the donation made by the King to his children on August 7, 1830, and of which he reserved to himself the life interest ; 13,000 belonging to the King himself; and 28,000 be queathed to him, for his life only, by Madame Ade laide, his sister. The gross revenue of this property, calculated on an average of 10 years, is 2,989,000 f. Since 1848 it has been smaller, and for 1851 will not, it is supposed, amount to more than 3 ,900,000`. But from all this it is necessary to deduct the expenses of taxes, insurance, management, agency, &c., amountin g t o 1,6 11,000 f. There therefore re mains a revenue of 2 ,378,000 f., which, at 3 per cent., represents a capital of nearly 79 millions. In this valuation I do not comprise non-productive property, such as chateaux, parks, and gardens, which it must be admitted, are not without importance. For instance, the park of Monceaux, in the Faubourg du Roule, close to Paris, is altogether unproductive, and contains 19 hectares, worth, say, 2 , 0 00,000 f.; also the Park of Neuilly, containing nearly 186 hectares, gives no revenue, yet, if sold in lots, it would give at least 4,000,000 f. I ought to mention that I have in cluded in this statcm, nt the property of the Duke d' A.umale's domain, of which the Queen Marie- Amelie has the life use, and which. gives about 137,000 f. a year. In fine, to be exact, I ought not to pass over in silence the movable property of the King, consisting of matters held in common by him and Madame Adelaide, arising from canal shares and ton tines, which, without any exaggeration, must be worth 325,000 f. a year; also Government securities, belonging to Louis Philippe himself, amounting to 100,000 f. a year, including 30,000 f. a year in the Five per Cents., for the Chapels of Dreux and Neuilly. But this situation, so brilliant in appear ance, is considerably diminished by the enormous debts contracted almost exclusively for the works un dertaken at Versailles and in the Royal palaces. The names of the executors of Louis Philippe are now known ; they are MM. de Montalivet, Dupin, sen., De Montmorency Laplagne, Barris, and Scribe, for merly advocate at the Court of Cessation." MOOLRAJ IN PRISON. The following is an extract from the letter of an artist in Calcutta, dated June 2 : * * * " I have lately done what a whole British force could not do for about six months—l have taken Moolraj. In plain English, I have had the honour of a further and double commis sion from the Governor-General to make for his Lordship portraits of Moolraj and the prisoner called the Bhaee, in the same style (say my in structions) as the portrait recently executed by you, for his Lordship, of the Nepaulese Minister, Jung Bahador.' Of course I shall not suppose you ignorant as to who Moolraj is—the celebrated defender of Mooltan ; but you may not be so familiar with the Bhaee, or Gooroo. A Gooroo is a priest, or spiritual adviser ; and this man, I may briefly mention, was one of a peculiar influential cha racter amongst the Seikhs ; a circumstance conse quent in some measure on his supposed sanctity, but tar more so on the fact of his being believed by many of the Khalsa, or Seikhs, to be the actually resuscitated body and spirit of the great original Bhaee, or Bii, or Gooroo, who, if I mistake not, was killed in battle. The present worthy has, at any rate, been sufficiently influential to prove a source of great trouble to the British Government; hence the pains bestowed on his capture, and the care take n of his person when once secured. " Orders having been given that every facility should be afforded me for carrying out the wishes of Government,' I had, of course, freedom of access to the Gooroo's cell at all times; bu*, go when I would, the austere inmate was ever on the same spot, and in the same attitude --seated on the ground in one corner, with his face to the wall, he appeared absorbed in prayer or in meditation, an occasional very low murmur, as if he were chanting, and the clank of his heavy chain as he chanced to move a limb, being the only sounds that denoted the presence of his life. Colonel . . . . declared that he had hardly ever seen his face, as he regarded no one's entrance, and continued in the same place and attitude all day. A very different being was his companion (commonly called his disciple) in confinement, namely, Khurruck Singh, a fine, stout young fellow, who, being unhappily found in the Gooroo's society (and, perhaps, offering resistance) was arrested with him, and alike condemned to banishment--a stout oppo nent, no doub•, with a blade in his hand, but otherwise a peace'ul, good-humoured, contented mortal. He alone knew Hindoostanee, but, either influenced by the presence of his ghostly master, or naturally taciturn, he spoke but little —tbe GJoroo never! Yes, during some seven visits I paid him, he opened his lips twice; one to ask (Kur ruck Singh interpreting) whether I was taking all who had come down, and whether Moolrej also was to be sent over the ka . a. panes , ' (' black waters'—the sea); and, on a sec , nd occasion, to complain by one brief monos3llable c f pnin or weariness of standing. Oaly fancy me, seated on a stool, my drawing board on my lap, a cell-floor for my studio, a low embrasure fo,. a light —my sitter, beads in hand, gloomy, silent, and in heavy chains seated in front of me, with a sentry, bayonet in hand, Ftanding over us. I succeeded in securing both the likenesses and figures (being induced, though not commissioned, to introduce Khurruck Singh also) the day before their departure, leaving the rest, and by far more laborious part, of the picture to finish at my leisure. 11, on seeing the captain of the vessel which took them to Singapore, told him, 'IF you don't take care, your pas senger will drown himself when he gets down the river near Gunga Segur, for that part of the Hooghly, as a part of the Ganges, being holy, he as liindoo will consider himself beatified to die in it.' H—y's prognostication proved correct. At that identical spot the Gooroo was discovered making the attempt to get overboard ; for, despite a European sergeant and ten European privates as a guard, he had contrived to get two or three of the bars out of his cabin window. Poor fellow ! I imagine he is by this time sate in Singapore, where, I told his com panion, I should be happy if I were going for a time too—the climate being so healthy. " The Gooroo being disposed of I next waited with Colonel on Moolraj, and was not a little sur prised to find in him the quiet mildness and humility of a Calcutta Baboo!"fhe character of face (at least in my picture) has given rise to such varieties of opinion that I can only tell you, some think it is very mild ; others, very melancholy ; others, that there is much design in the expression ; and °theta, much cruelty in the eye. He is about forty-five years of age, I should say ; of middle height, rather thin - than otherwise; of fair complexion; features holdly, squarely formed, denoting perhaps physical firmness; whilst, on the other hand, a varia bleness of expression, added to a peculiarity in the tone of voice, led me to conceive that I could trace some thing of that weakness which might, indeed, render him the victim of circumstances' be has been repre- sented and pronounced to be, but no murderer. In telligent, but not enlightened, and with all the ortho doxy of Seikh Hindooism in his learning, in his philosophy, and his theology, it was of course no easy ,matter to convince him of even the simplest truth in our philosophy. I think it was after the se cond or third sitting, when be had become more sociable, that, seating himself on the edge of the table, he said, You have drawn many faces; did you ever draw the face of God ?' Here was a question. No,' I replied. We cannot draw that which we have never seen ; God is a spirit, and not confined to one place ; He is in all places." How do you know that,' said he, 'if you never saw him ?' and so I found myself plumped into an argument which it was easier for an unlearned linguist to enter into than to get out of. However, I managed, or at least endeavoured to lead him off into an illustration of the power and nature of spirit, by reference to the modern science of mesmerism, in which the superior power or nervous influence of the stronger party seems to invade, enter into, overwhelm, or assume dominant power over the mind and system of the weaker. This he could perfectly understand; for mesmerism, as you perhaps know, has been practised in India by the nitives from time beyond date. You mean,' said he, ' juat as wine overcomes the senses of the drunkard.' Our next discussion was on geography, in which I soon found that the Hindoo tnind of Moolraj continues as dark, as it well can be, arid wedded as strongly to old systems and notions as the old shoe is nailed to the stable-door post. But it is written in our Shastas, &c.,' was the invariable and knock-down reply to all my practical illustrations, with globe and map in hand. G." THE CONVICT HANNAH CIIRTIS.—The sheriff of the city of Gloucester (Mr. W. H Barrett) has received a letter 'rem the Under-Secretary of State for the Home De partment, in answer to a memorial from the Society of Friends, stating that the sentence of death passed upon Hannah Curtis will be commuted to transportation fur life. --Cheltenham Joun4al. THE MUSSEL TRADE. -- During the last three weeks, the boatmen of Lyrnpstone and Starcross have been reaping a rich harvest, by supplying mussels for the London market. From 20 to 30 tons are sent off every evening, a#4 for these the men are remunerated at the rate of ls.per their bushel, which make them a h andsome return f or, labour. The mussels are retailed in London at one penny per quart. A monument is to be erected at Weymouth to the memory of the late Duke of Cambridge. PHONOGRAPHY,--A lazy boy out in Indiana spells Andrew Jackson thu4;—&ruJasa. /