The Sun. — London, England, 1850-10-05 00:00:00

got the ►rd• [4,1 RAILWAY RETURNS tie, Pet' to ,kee and ine ctei to 41 5i tO iutg.l nail ...43,181 18 .„. 3,1b3 17 1 l oaf rl• !oh is. • 10 is 0 es 41 ;jogit lowr 11' / ,lo' 1 1 ', load, On no• g e t 'e I . o' 4 0 d O l o f Oth hol e ' ") 00 t de o 0 'OO,, 3,u A ilia 13,0 0 , :, .60' 50. 0 4 er e norl if t Ag o if vo°'" :00 ted il w io: e •soo h a 014 in k ed C e l:ff. Df CO til l D. e Afr i cOv. t . 40 a iile a Ana .ogs c oiti: ed t ll5, , o s ral o sa al ;o°l TRAFFIC REM NS FOR THE PAST WEEK. Miles NAME OF RAILWAY. I receipts. opened, - 1850. 1819. 1855. BRITISH. -----• -------- 72 1 Aberdeen .................... .., ~, £ , ,76 /1,409 3 7% Belfast and Ballymena .............. 476 561 17 Belfast and County Down• ••. • . - - - 236 16 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,114 1,248 27 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York • • • • 438 752 851y2 Bristol and Exeter ...... • • .... -.• .. 4,106 4,596 160 Caledonian__ ~ ~ ~ ~,,,,,,, ~ ~ ' 7,151 6,997 9 4 % Chester and Holyhead. •......... • • .., 2,008 3,551 32 Dublin and Bell list Junction •• . . •. • • 228 439 43 Dublin and Drogheda.. - -.••-• • •• 762 1,115 7 % Dublin and KingstoWn ...• •• • •• 873 1,014 16 Dundee and Arbroath .. - - •• •• - • • - 480 31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction • 591 632 19 Dundalk and Enniskillen. • .. • • • • • • • • 110 119 675' East Ang1ian................ •••••• •• 730 788 7, Er“t Lancashire .................... 3,212 3.898 322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. • • .... 14,962 13,827 95 Eastern Union.-- .......... 571,4 Edinburgh and Glasgow .• ••••• • •• • • 3,834 3,957 71 Edinburgh, I'erth, and Dundee.. •• • • 2,431 2,928 18 Furness Railway ... •• ..••-•• • • • • - 359 100 Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr ••• • • . 224 Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock 219 Great Northern and E. L. ••••• • • • • • 2,55 1 9,3t3 1884 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 3,414 4,609 257 Great Western •• •• 90 Lancaster and Carlisle •••• • • • • ...... 4,039 4,667 2534 Lancashire and Yorkshire ••••• • •• •• 11,347 16,023 39 Leeds and Thirsk ••..•••••• • • • • •• •• 940 1,20 4 124 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 192 255 518 1 4 London and North Western .... 43,565 48,036 5 y/ 4 London and Blaekwall.• ..• ••••• • • .. 761 937 17114 Louden, Brighton, and South Coast.. 12,452 12,572 239 London and South Western. •• ...... i 0 , 5 87 11,883 15 L .ndonderry and Enniskillen ......., 127 133 11 % Manchester, Buxton, and Ai atiOck, &c, 164 189 16714 Manchester, Shettleld,and Lincolnshire 5,293 6,339 9 ~, Manchester and South Junction."... 336 462 2 8 Maryport and Carlisle ........ ~ ~ .. 637 683 491% Midland 50 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 1,179 1;225 60 Newcastle and Carlisle.. . • ........ .. *2,117 2,431 166 North British ••-.• • • • • ............ 3,187 3,704 222 North Statlorishira ....., „.,,, ~ ~ 4,446 5,129 47 North-Westvrn ........ ~ ~ ,„ , , .... , _ 6 16 45 Scottish Central .................... 1,465 1,702 32 Scottish Midland •••• • • ............ 416 505 47 Shrewsbury and Chester . ...... 1,334 1,796 30 Shropshire Union ...... - • 421 495 58 , South Devon --•. .. , ...... .... 234 South Ea5tern.......... ....... 75 . South Wales -- - - • • - 1,051 89 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .• - 1,657 40 ratff Vale ••••••-••..•••• • • • • • • • • •• 2,236 2,583 36 Ulster..•72l 913 25 • Waterford and Limerick • • .... • ..... - 346 13 West Cornwall .... •.. •• - ........ 297 '297 12 IVhitehaveu Junction .• • .• • • • • • • • • .. 223 222 293 York and Newcastle, and Berwick ... 13,146 15,146 .256 York and North Midland .... ... FOREIGN. 76 Amiens and Boulogne. •••••• •• •.•• •• 1,603 2,087 44 Dieppe .-- • • ........... ..... „ „ 862 785 63 Montereau and Troyes •• ... ........., 1,023 1,176 336 Ncrthern of France .... • • .... 143 Orleans to Bourges (Cent.) •• • 2,850 2,850 72 Orleans to Bordeaux ..........., „ „ 3 6 3 6 3,535 82 Paris and Orleans .... •............. 8,720 842$ $5 Paris and Rouen. ••••••••• • • • • • • • • 7,539 7, , 817 59% 1i men and Havre .. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS, MIDLAND RAILWAY.— Traffic Returns, including t tol and Birmingham receipts, also Leeds and Bradfo tingham and Lincoln, Syston and Melton, Stamf Peterborough, Leicester and Sivannington, Ashby Ca Erewash Valley, and Nottingham and Mansfield : Week ending Sept. 29 ... X 24,3.3 16 8 Corresponding week of last year, exclu sive of the Nottingham and Mansfield receipts 23,480 8 3 Aggregate :-1849, 305,4061. Os. 9d. ; 1850, 316,4491. Bs. fid. Miles opened for traffic : —lB5O, Double line, 468 ; single, 231 - total, 4911. 1819, Double line, 4601; single, 231 — total, 4831. be Bris ,rd, Not ford and Baal and MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week ending Sunday, Sept. 29,1850, inclusive:— Passengers, parcels, &c. • Goode, merchanlise,:&c. Total .. £6,338 15 2i Corresponding week in 1849 ... 5,293 1 0 Number of miles opened, 16;i. The above includes the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company's proportion of the receipts of the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway; also, the Grimsby Dock duties, &c., and Chesterfield Canal receipts. Number of miles opened corresponding week 1849, l6oi. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. B.V.H. Toes., Milborue Port; Fri., Buckland Kmll-11i. Tiverton Ilds.—Mon., Gibbet Moor; Thrs., Dulver ton; Sat., Bickleigh Bridge—loi. Mr. Morgan's lids —Mon., Grensfen Bridge; Thrs., Molierd Down-104. Mr. Purse's Hds.—Mon., Buckland Filleigh; Fri., Torrington Wood-10i. Tivyside Ilds.—Mon., Kerry Bridge; Thrs.,: Cced rnore—lo. Hemston Vale Harrs.—Mon., Brimpty Gate; Tues., Cherry Bridge; Wed., Chrochern Tor. Mr. Trelawny's Ilds.—Tues., Slade:Hall; Fri., Newn barn Brighton Hares.—Wed.,Race Coarse; Sat.,Dyle-104 URDER OF A WIFE BY HER HIJPBAND.—On Sunday last the town of I Vatlington, Oxon, was thrown into a state of great excitement, from the fact that Ann, the wife of John Lambourne, a labourer, had been murdered in the course of Saturday evening. Her husband was proved to be the assassin, having inflicted a deadly blow on the right side of the back part of the head, which separated the scalp and bruised the bone; another wound was discovered on the other side of the head, and a third on the right cheek, toge ther with several bruises on different parts of the body. The deceased received those injuries which terminated in her death early in the' evening of Saturday. Being afterwards left alone, she staggered into the garden, when, after wander ing about which fact was discove. able from several pools of blood in different places) she made again for the door, but fell from. exhaustion. She was found still alive at twelve o'clock, and carried into the catak,e, laid on the bed, where she died at twenty minutes past eight o'clock on the follow ing morning. ter husband, John Lambourne, who had for a number of years treated her with extreme brutality, often beating her with sti c k s an d w ith his fists, was taken into Custody. On Monday an inquest was held upon the body, and the prisoner was fully committed to Oxford Castle to take his trial at the next spring assizes, on the charge of wilful murder. THE EYANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—The Evangelical Alliance terminated its conference in Liverpool on Thursday evening. It is proposed to hold an assembly in London next year, probably during the time of the Exhibition, of Chris tians of all nations. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF WATCHES AND JEWEL LERY.—The dreadful murder at Frimley has been followed hy an extensive robbery of jewellery, &c., at the town of Wokingham, which is situated about midway between Reading and . Printley. The robbery took place on the pre mises of Mr. Porter, a highly respectable watchmaker, hying in the Market-place, on the evening of Sunday last, during the absence of himself and other inmates of the house at divine service. Some time after tkeir return Mr. Porter went into the shop, and at once discovered that up wards of 40 gold and silver watches had been carried off, gold rings, brooches, and pins, the loss in the whole amount ing to between 2001 and 3001. The thieves entered through the shop door by means of skeleton keys. J. R. Croskey, Esq , has been re• appointed Ame rican consul at the ports of Southampton and Cowes. WOOLWICLI, OCT. 4.—THE EMPEROR OF Russia's STEA)t. YACHT. This fine frigate-rigedeam-acht, named Peterh o ff, b uilt of iron, by llessrs. M a re and C o., Blackwall, from a design by Mr. Waterman, jun., and fitted with engines of 140-horse power, by Messrs. George and Sir John Rennie, went down the river to-day on an experimental trial, having on board Lieutenant Ecbapparie, Lieutenant Kurchakoff, and Lieutenant Seminoft', of the Russian Navy ; Sir John Rennie, Mr. George Rennie, Mr. Bishop, patentee of the disc engine; Mr. Dykes, engineer; Mr. Waterman, designer of the vessel; and Mr. Jones, chief draughtsman to the Messrs. Rennie. The Peterhoff is of 412 tons burthen, and draws 3ft. I lin. forward and 4ft. tin. aft; and when she started on her trial to-day she had all her rigging up, as she is to leave in the course of next week, for St. Petersburgh. Her cylinders are 461 inches diameter, on the oscillating principle, and giving a stroke of 3ft. Gin. The engines are finished in the best style, and have been adjusted with such nicety that, during her run from Blackwall to the Nore, and six times up and down the measured mile in Sea Reach, below Gravesend, .there were not the least symptoms of heating in any part, and the movement of the vessel at her greatest speed did not produce the least vibration in whatever part she was tried. The result of the six runs in Sea Reach was very satis factory. The Prince de Canino, Charles Bonaparte, ex- President of the Roman Republic, whose passage through France was last year the occasion of administrative mea sures, which had forbidden him to remain on the territory of the French Republic, is at present (says the Ordre) at Paris, where he appears not to be disquieted by the police. HMV TO MAKE THE MOST OF DISEASED POTATOES. —A correspondent sends us, all the way from Chester, the fAlowing recipe :—As soon as possible steam or boil them, and pack them, with a little salt, in barrels or air• tight ves sels; and use as required. They will keep in this state for four months.—Ayr Observer. LONDO N WELLs.—The deepest well in London is that sunk by Messrs. Coombe and Co., the brewers, which measures 522 feet. The next is at the Excise Office. 500 feet. . The well at Meux's brewery is 425 feet deep; that at Messrs. Pimlico, 398 feet. The Trafalgar -square well is 370 383 feet deep, and th e we ll at K ens i ngton new workhouse feet. —Builder. ' PROPOSED NEW STREET IN TEE CITY.—A snerously attended meeting of the inhabitants of the Tower Ward was held on Tuesday, for the purpose of taking into consideration a plan for forming a new street from the south side of the Corn-Exchange, in Mark-lane, to Tower-hill, traversing the site of the recent confla gration. The vast ope n i ng l e f t b y that casualty has given of M rise to a prtject for ca rry i ng a street from the east side ark-latie, between Tower -street and the Corn-Exchange, over the site of the ruins and through Seething-lane to Tower-hill. It was stated that this new line of thorough fare would speedily relieve the traffic in Great Tower street; a different plan for improving that locality had, how ever, been under consideration in the year 1846, and hence some disagreement of opinion prevailed. but the meeting adopted a resolution to the effect that the increasing traffic through the principal streets of the ward required immediate attention, and suggested to the Commissioners of Metropolitan Improvements the widening of Mark -lane nearest to Great Tower -street, as r eco mme n ded by t h e i nhabitants at a pub• lic meeting in S e pt em b e r, 1846. Th e meeting also agre e d to a separate resolution, pressing upon the attention of the Improvement Committee that the widening of the end of Mark-lane, which only required the removal of three or four dilapidated houses, should be pre ceeded with at once, in or der that the inhabitants might not stiffer more inconvenience than is actually necessary in rebuilding the premises de stroyed in Mark. lane. TIIE ADELAIDE GALLERY, STRAND —We find by a petition, very numerously signed, that a licence for music and dancing is about to be solicited from the bench of magis trates at Clerkenwell on the Bth inst. for these capacious and elegant premises. The petitioner is Mr. Simpson, the well known and hi ghly -respected proprietor of the Albion Tavern, Great Russell -street, and manager of the Cremorne Gardens. The manner in which Mr. Simpson has, during the last season, conducted the gardens in question reflects upon him the highest credit, and is, to our minds, the strongest re commendation he can offer on the present application. If licences of the nature solicited were always in such hands, Complaints would-never occur, nor indeed should they, in amtilitamt. Do utinal E 4 aal% sued iiiiiacmg, • AMERICAN NEWS. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY, OCT. 4. The Ocean Steam Navigation Company's ship Wa4iington, Captain G. W. Floyd, arrived off Cowes at 3 o'clock this afternoon, bringing the United States mail 4. After transshipping the mails for England and France into a small steamer she proceeded on her voyage to Bremen. _ _ The Washington has performed her voyage in 13i days. She brings 62 passengers, of whom 22 landed at Southampton. The freight list comprises a small quantity of merchandise, specie value 35,000 dulls. for Havre, and 25,000 dolls. for Bremen. She reports pleasant weather during the passage, with a very heavy rolling sea from the northward. On Sunday, September 22, at 5 A.M., in lat. 41.71, long. 65.15, the Washington passed the United States mail steamer Pacific, bound westward. On the 24th she exchanged signals at 6 A.M., in lat. 43.48, long. 57,6 W., with an English steamer. supposed to be the Niagara. O❑ the 26th ult. the Washington passed astern of the wreck Mary Jane (barque), of Sunder land, with all three masts gone short off, decks ripped up, waterlogged, and abandoned, apparently not long in that condition. This wreck was in lat. 46 45, long. 47 4. The Washington brings letters and papers of three days later date than those received by the Hibernia at Liverpool. The intelligence is not of great im portance. The New York Herald gives the following telegraphic summary of the latest news from Wash ington : " Tne Senate passed the Oregon Land Bill yester day, and then took up the General Appropriation Bill, to which several amendments, or rather additions, were made. One of the amendments appropriates the SUM of 10,000 dollars to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State for the expenses of the Turkish Ambassador during his sojourn in the United States. The proposition was made by Senator Hunter, of Virginia, and we are very much pleased to see that it was responded to by a vote of 35 tol9. We can afford to spend that sum in entertaining such a distinguished visitor. Considering the ignorance which exists in the old world concerning the United States, the mission of Amin Bey to our country ought to be considered in the light of a very flattering compliment, and we have no doubt that he and the Sultan will properly appreciate the kind reception which he has met with in 'Washington--a reception which we are proud of. The conduct of the Sultan towards the unfortunate Hungarians who took !re fuge in his dominions after they were betrayed by Georgey and overwhelmed by the Russian forces has endeared him to this country. Our people took upon that Sovereign as a friend and an ally, and desire that the friendly relations between them and him shall be more intimate, and of a more friendly character than ever. Between the United States and the so-called Christian Powers, with the exception, perhaps, of France, there is not a single link of sym pathy, except what arises through commerce ; but with Turkey the matter is entirely different. The Sultan is a man after the American heart, and his im pulses are the same as ours. Let us by all means, therefore, promote intimacy with him. " The sum of 500,000 dolls. was also appropriated by the Senate for the erection of a public building in San Francisco, to be used as a custom-house, court house, &c. The Senate adjourned without taking ac tion on the General Appropriation Bill. "Tne House was engaged with the Naval Appro priation Bill, which was debated at considerable length. We are sorry to see so much opposition to the mail contract system, and hope that it will not be renewed. The experiment has been repeatedly tried, and it has been conclusively demonstrated that the Government cannot compete with our enterprising merchants in the construction of ocean steam-ships." The President has re-appointed Mr. J. R. Croskey as Consul for the United States for the port and dis trict of Southampton. By the subjoined paragraph, extracted from the Herald, it will be seen that additional lines of mail steam-ships are contemplated by the Americans : " A citiz• n of Philadelphia has made a proposition to Congress for the establishment of a line of steamers to run between that city and Antwerp, in BPlgium, touching at Portsmouth, England, and Havre, France, provided the Government will advance two-thirds of the amount necessary for their construction, and to hold a lien upon the ships for the amount for twenty years. The ships are to be not less than 2,000 tons burden, and so constructed as to be convertible into naval vessels, the Government paying 75,000 dollars per year to each ship for mail service. He also pro• poses to establish a line of steam•ships between San Francisco and Shanghai and Hong-Kong, in China, upon the same terms. The latter are to be fully equipped for war service, and to be under the com mand cf naval officers. He requires 200,000 dollars per year for each ship for mail service." The Jenny Lind furor continued unabated. A screw-propeller (the Merlin) was about to ply between New York and St. Thomas's, touching at Bermuda. The Richmond (Virginia) papers mention 38 bars of solid gold, weighing 8,885 (bins., and worth nearly 1 doll. per dwt., which have just been brought to that city. These bars were produced in the " Booker Gold Mine," in Buckingham, now owned by Me6sr3. W. M. Moseley and Co , and were the result of only sixty days' work. There are two other mines in Buckingham in successful operation. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, SEPT. 20. Ashes—The market was steady, with a good demand for pots, and sales of 150 barrels at 6 dolls. 12ic. for pots, and 6 dolls. for pearls. Breadstuffs —Flour—The market for some descrip tions of flour was easier, and the inquiry less active. The demand for the home trade and for the East was limited, while the receipts were large. The sales em braced 8,400 barrels, including old sour Canadian at 3 dolls. 75c.; No. 2 superfine, at 3 dolls. 87ic. to 4 dolls.; fresh ground State at 4 dulls. 50'. to 4 dolls. 58-ic.; new common to straight State at 4 dolls. 62ic. to 4 dolls. 681-c.; new western, at 4 dolls. 62ic. to 4 dolls. 750., and pure Genessee, at 5 dolls. to 5 dolls. 6c. Southern flour was inactive, but steady, with sales of 900 barrels, at 5 dolls. to 5 dolls. 18ic. for new. Rye flour was steady, with a good demand, and sales of 600 barrels, at 3 dolls. 121 c. to 3 dolls. 25c. There was less firmness in the market for meal. We note sales of 200 barrels of Jersey in lots, at 3 dolls. 11*. to 3 dolls. 12ko. The supply of wheat was limited, and holders were firm. in cluded in the transaction were 7,000 bushels of hand some Canadian, to arrive, at 1 doll. Bc.; 2,800 bushels of ditto, on the spot, but of an interior quality, at 1 doll. 100.; and 2,600 bushels of heated Genessee, at 1 doll. 10c. Rye was in good demand, and steady, with sales of 6,000 bushels, at 72e. to 73c., afloat and delivered. Barley was scarce, end much wanted; prime four-rowed would bring 80c. to 81c., if here to-day—for future delivery it was offered much lower. Oats continued scarce and wanted, at 40e. to 43c. for Jersey, and 42c. to 44ic. for State and Canandian. There was loss corn offering, and prices have improved. The demand was brisk for the east, and for export. The transactions amount to 14,000 bushels, pert from store and to arrive, at 64c. to 64ac. for mixed, and 65c. for round yellow. Coffee—With a good demand sales were made of 300 bags Laguayra at 1 I ic. to 11;.2c., and 100 bags Java, at 122 e. Cotton—The business to-day amounts to about 1,200 bales; about one half taken by the homo trade. Fish—A cargo of new mackerel just arrived. About 1,000 barrels were sold to-day, at 11 dolls. for No. and 9 dolls, for No. 2's. Freights-To Liverpool, 8,000 to 10,000 bushels of wheat were engaged, at Sic. For cotton, 3-16 d. was offered, and 7-32 d. asked. Some 6,000 or 8000 barrels flour were engaged, at Is. 10d. to ls. lOid. Dead weights ruled from 17s. 6J. to 20s. A lot of 700 bar rels flour was taken at 2s. Oil was taken for Glasgow at 225. 6d. There was no change to London or Havre. Leather-The stock continues very light, while the demand is fair. The quotations for all descriptions are as as follows:-15-1c. to 16c. for light and medium weights hemlock sole; 14c. to 15c. for ditto heavy ditto; 13c. to 14c. for good damaged; 10c. to 1 le. for poor ditto; 22c to 25c. for oak slaughter, light weights; 20c. to 22c. for medium and heavy ditto; and 17c. to 20c. for Spanish onk. Oils-Linseed was in good demand, with sales of 5,000 gallons English and best American, at 75c. in casks, and 77c. in barrels. Whale was quiet, without change in price. Provisions--Pork - For this article the market was more firm, while the transactions were limited; mess was held firmly, at 10 dolls. 50c., with buyers at 10 dolls. 44e.; and prime at 8 dolls. 37ic., with buyers at 8 dolls. 31-Ic. Beef was in good retail request, at 7 dolls. 25c. to 9 dolls. 50c. for mess, and 4 dolls. 75c. to 5 dolls. 75c. fur prime. Cut meats were quiet, but firm. There was an active inquiry for lard to go out of the market, and sales of 800 barrels have been made at ;ie. for prime. Butter was very firm, with a good demand fur prime State, at 15c. to 16c. Cheese was more buoyant, at sc. to 6ic. as in quality. Sugars-were pretty active, with sales of 20 0 hogs hs ads Cuba, at 6ic, to 7c., and 200 ditto New Orleans, at 7c. to 7,-te. Tobacco-The demand from the south was lees *ratite, while all descriptions of leaf were very firm; manu factured has been in good request for consumption, and with a poor assortment prices still tend upward; sae have been made within the last two days of 400 hogs. heads domestics leaf, principally Elentutky, at Tic. to B±c. to 9Ac., including KO hogsheads Maryland, at tee. to 51e., which is an improvement. The stock of foreign Rai light, while the demand was fair ; the sales have been chit fly from second hands, and at pri vate bargains. The Stock market remains firm, but rather quiet, al though the general tendency is towards improvement. The amount of c2pital seeking investment is unusually small for this period of the year, a fact which may be accounted for in some measure by the diversion of sur plus rceans in Californian speculations, which have tembted many to embark every dollar they could spare, in the hope of realising those enormous profits which have attended some of the Fhip mentt to that quarter. The steadiness of quotations, both in the dividend-pay ing railroads and iu those which are yet unproductive, indicate a more confident feeling; and it is quite evident that on inoteate of the investing demand would create THE SUN, , a very buoyant tone in the market, and advance prices materially. MARKETS (BY TELEGRAPH). BUFFALO, SEPT. 19, 1 P.M.—The receipts since our last have been—flour, 4 000 barrel-; wheat, 34 000 bushels; corn, 24,000 bushels. Flour is in moderate demand; the market is heavy, with a slight downward tendency. Small sales hate been made at 4 dolls. to 4 dolls. 6c. for Ohio, and 4 dolls. 6 to 4 dolls. 12c. for Michigan. A moderate inquiry . for wheat; the market is, however, steady. Ohio tali been done at 85c. to 87c. Corn is steady at yesterday'S rates; the sales have been 6,000 bushels et 521 c. for mixed western. Prison whisky is nominal at 2*. No change in freights. ALBANY, SEPT. 19.—Receipts since yesterda, : Flour, 4,000 barrels; wheat, 2 suo bushels; corn, 4,500 bushels; barley, 17.0'0 bushels. The flour market has been rather heavy, but we notice no material change in prices. Wheat is firm, with a good milling inquiry. Sales have been made t f 2,500 bushels, at 116 c. for Ge nesee. Corn is rash r, with a better inquiry; 10,000 bushels have changed hands, at 61c. to 62c. fir mixed western. Oats are improving; the sales tell up 10,000 bushels, at 40c., to arrive is, a week or ten days. 100 barrels of prison whisky sold at 27c. The transactions in barley have been 8,000 bushels, at 71e. to 72e. for two rowed, and 78c. for four rowed. BALTIMORE, SEPT. 19.—For Howard-street flour the inquiry is pretty active, with free sales at 4 dolls. 75c. The market for grain is without much alteration. In provisions there is an improving tendency, including mess pork at 10 dolls. 75c. There has been a good demand for Rio coffee the past week, and we have to report sales of 7 000 hags at 10-Ic. to 11-c. The stock is re duced to 7,'!00 bags; the tendency in prices is decidedly upward. PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 19.—There is no inquiry for Cotton today, but the market is very firm, and about 400 bales of New Orleans sold mostly at 14ic., cash. Flour is drooping and dull, but the sleek is high. 500 barrels of standard brands sold at 4 dolls. 82ic , 1,000 barrels of good brands were sold at .5 dolls., and 500 barrels (a fancy article for the South American market) sold at a price not public. Holders are anxious to tell at 5 dolls., which price is nominally asked. For home use there is very little doing, and prices remain un altered. Rye flour and corn meal are quiet at 3 dolls., with a very light stock. Of wheat there is very little offering or selling, and 1,500 bushels of southern sold at 101 c. to 115 c. fur reds and 107 c. to 108 e. for white. Corn, no change, and 2,040 bushels of southern yellow sold at 65c. Oats continuo steady, with sales at 37c. to 38c. fur southern, and 41c. to 42c. for Pennsylvania. Bark—About 50 hhds. of Quercitron sold at 40 dolls. for first No. 1. Ginseng—None arriving or selling. Beeswax—A small demand, at 24c. Feathers—Good were sold freely at 33c. to 34c. In groceries there is nothing new to notice, and holders are very firm, and light stocks and moderate transactions. Wool is quiet this week, and the trans actions are only about 65,0001 b. domestic at steady rates. Provisions, not much doing.. , Pork is held firmly at former quoted rates. Bacon—the only transactions is a sale of 100 casks; shoulders at 4-ac.; sides aro held at 6c.; and hams are worth Bc. to 10c. per lb. Lard—sales are racking at 7c. per lb. Seeds—No alteration in, the market. Linseed is scarce and wanted at 4} dolls., and Timothy is plenty at 2 dolls. to 2 : 1 dolls. per bushel. Whisky, no sales and the market bare. NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 17.—Cotton is quiet. with sales of 500 bales at 13 cents. fcr middling. Coffee is firm, with an upward tendency; sales of 1,700 bags of Rio at lit r e. to 12c. Sugar and molasses are firm. Pro visions tend upwards. Breadstuffs are quiet. Whisky sells at 24c. Weather is pleasant and thw city healthy. SEPT. 18.—The Canada's news did not affect our cot ton•market; it was published yesterday. 1.000 bales were sold at full prices—good middling at 13&c. Flour has declined 25e. All other markets are inactive. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, OCT. 4. Arrived at 2.30 P.m., the steamer Washington, Captain Floyd, from New York in 13i days, with mails and passengers bound to Bremen. The Malmes bury steamer, belonging to the Southampton and Isle of Wight Steam-packet Company, was in attendance, and immediately proceeded alongside, embarked the mails and twenty-two passengers, and conveyed them forthwith to Southampton. The Washington con tinued her voyage to Bremen at 3.45. The Wash ington brought eight mail-bags and seven packages of specie. Lord Godolphin has taken Sir John S. Hippisley's house for a month from Monday next; his Lordship is fitting his schooner in Mr. Joseph White's yard to cruize about these waters during the autumn. On Thursday evening the Danish barque Vesta, Sabroe, from St. Croix, bound to Flensburg, with sugar and rum, arrived at this port in a very leaky state, having been struck by a sea, 29th September, about eighty miles to the westward of Scilly ; she was brought into Cowes Harbour this morning, and will forthwith land her cargo to enable her to effect the needful repairs. WREgli OF TBE SUPERB. VERDICT OF THE JURY. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY NIGHT.—The Jersey packet has arrived here, and brings intelligence of the close of the inquest in the case of the Superb. The jury met on Thursday, when several addi• tionul witnesses were examined, their testimony being confirmatory of the evidence previously ad duced. Fleming, the mate of the wrecked steamer, wished to address the jury, but was refused an audi ence. The Attorney-General summed up with great care and impartiality, and the jury having deliberated, returned the following verdict : _ " That Lane Gossett and his wife were drowned in consequence of the wreck of the Superb, on the 24th ultimo. " That the wreck of the Superb was the result of culpable imprudence on the part of Captain Priaulx in taking the Superb in a dangerous place, without knowledge of its ordinary course. " That John Fleming, the mate, is guilty of impru dence, in attempting to take the said vesEet on that course." THE REPRESENTATION OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. ELECTION OF MR. WIGRAM. CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 4.—The Vice- Chancellor having appointed this day (Friday) for the election of "a burgess" to represent the University in Parliament in the room of the late Mr. Law, a Convocation took place in the Senate-house for that purpose. The at tendance was but thin, there being only about .50 members-of the Senate present, with a few spectators in the galleries. There were but few ladies present. Among the members of the Senate we noticed the Masters of Jesus, Catharine-hall, and Trinity ; Pro testors Challis and Clark, Doctors Woodham, Paget, Broadley, and Drosier ; Rev. W. Carus, M.A. Tri nity College; Rev. J. E. Dalton, Queen's College; Rev. F. W. Harper, St. John's College; Rev. Harvey Goodwin, Corpus Christi College ; Rev. Charles Clay ton, Caius College ; Rev. \V. B. Hopkins, St. Catha rine's•hall ; Rev. Mr. Dodd, Ma g d a l ene ollege ; Mr. Stokes, M.A., Caius College ; Bumpstead, M.A., King's College, &c. 31r. Wigram was present, and during the proceedings entered into conversation with his• supporters and other members of the Senate. A Congregation being called, the senior proctor (Mr. Middleton, King's College) proceeded to read the writ and the Sheriff's precept enjoining the election of "a fit and discreet burgess" to represent the in terests of the University. The Act against bribery and corruption having been read, the oaths were ad ministered to the Vice-Chancellor, as returning officer, by the senior proctor, the Master of Catharine hall acting as witness. A number of members of the Senate including most of the above-na me d, th en handed in their cards, whereon was inscribed the name of Mr. Wigram, his more influential sup porters voting first, and there being no opposition, a scrutiny was taken, and Mr. Wigram was declared by the senior proctor to be duly elected. The neces sary official documents announcing the return of Mr. Wigram having been filled in by the Rey. the Registrary and duly executed, the proceedings ter minated. SINGLETON FONTENOT, R.N. BY JAMES HANNAY, Esq.—We have no hesitation (says the Morning Resold) in pronouncing the present tale a decided hit ; it is a good sea novel, and something more, combining all the dashing vivacity and pleasant variety of Cooper and Marryat, with the shrewdness and judgment of one equally fitted to catch the phosphoric effulgence that floats upon the surface, and to ' fathom the depths of the great sea of human life, and bring up the treasures it contains for our information and amusement. Thestyle is smart, pointed, and epigrammatic ; the incidents striking; there is an amusing jumble of politics and philosophy with fun and frolic ; at one time tickling our ribs with the broad humour of the midshipman's berth, at another spitting the vices and defects of our naval system and its representatives and agents afloat upon the sharp point of his steel pen. The love passages between the hero and Miss Welwyn equal anything which Sir Bulwer Lytton I ever wrote, in depth of passion and gracefulness, and beauty of imagery. BANKRUPTCY IN BATAVIA. The laws of bank ruptcy in Batavia are somewhat stringent. A letter from Java to a merchant in Boston giv e s thi s outli ne .—" To be bankrupt here is a somewhat different affair from what it is in the United States. Immediately on becoming bankrupt the names of the parties are placarded about the town, and in the Exchange, as if prima facie infamous. The books are then examined by the public ‘fficer for that purpose. If the estate does not pay sixty per cent., and the bankrupt can be proved to have dune business after he knew the fact, he is put into prison as a criminal fiSr a number of years, and de clared " aloost," which signifies infamous or without cha racter. After this the "aloost" person is indeed excommu nicated. His word is not to be taken ; he is not, allowed to be a witness, even on oath ; and if a man trusts him he does it at his own risk—he has no legal remedy against him. On the other hand, it a man takes his books to the public officer and declares he has given all he has, and it does not appear that he has been doing business knowing he was a bankrupt, and after a strict investigation there are no suspicious cir cumstances, his creditors must sign his papers. Thus the creditor is protected without oppressing the debtor, the rogue is distinguished from the honest ; and a person is obliged, by a terrible penalty, to know the state of his affairs, and, when once embarrassed, to refrain from speculating to retrieve him self.' This law came into operation in May, 1848, end it was not long before it caught something in the shape of an Eng lish concern, who pay about one quarter of 1 per cent., and wilco partners are 119 W expiating their offence in prison." LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1850. MAGAZINES, &c.—(CON TIN UED.) DAVID COPPERFIELD. No. Xrl.ll. By Charles Dickens. Almost all the mysteries and difficulties of the nar rative are cleared up or abruptly terminated in the present number of Co/pertietd. Scarcely anything, indeed, remains to be explained by the autobiographer in the double number which, on ttie Ist of November, will unfortunately bring this exquisite work to a _con clusion. Nothing, in fact, appears to require elucidation in the story, if we except the inevitable union of Agnes and Trotwood, some incidental refe rence to the Murdstones and the annihilation of two horrible monsters, Rosa Dartle and Uriah lleep, by, we trust, some excruciating and terrible retribution. \V are hopeful, moreover, that before the story is closed " the dearest girl in the world" may become the partner for life of Mr. Thomas Traddler, of the Inner Temple. As to the progress made in the true history of the adven tures, experience, and olcaervations of David Copper field, it is surprhing to find how much is condensed within the compass of a single monthly instalment. Beyond all, the prominent feature: iii the present number is the account of the great tempest at Yarmouth—than which Charles Dickens has never penned anything more eloquent or more stirring in its vividness. Some passages in this very powerful description may be extracted without injury to the context, and cannot fail to jus tify what we have said upon its excellence. David is travelling down to Yarmouth, on the box-seat of the mail-coach : " Don't you think that,' I asked, the coachman, in he first stage out of London, a very remarkable sky ? [ don't remember to have sPen one like it.' . . " ' Nor I—not a qusl to it,' he-replied. That's wind, sir. There'll be mirchief done at sea, I expect, before long.' It was a murky confusion—here and there blotted with a colour like the colour of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying clouds, tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way, an d w ere frightened. There had been a wind all day ; and it was rising than, with an extraordinary great sound. In another hour it had much increased, and the sky was more overcast, and it blew bard. _ " But, as the night advanced, the clouds closing in and then very dark, it dc came m n s e e l o y n o t v o e r b s l p o r w e a ding harderth e and whole h a sk y , rder It still increased, until our horses could scarcely face the wind. Many times, in the dark part of the night (it was then late in September, when the nights were not short), the leaders turned about, or came to a dead stop, and we were often in serious apprehension that the coach would be blown over. Sweeping gusts of rain came up before this storm, like showers of steel ; and, at those times, when there was any shelter of trees or lee walls to be got, we were fain to stop, in a sheer impossibility of continuing the struggle. " When the day broke it blew harder and harder. I had been in Yarmouth when the seamen said it blew great guns, but I had never known the like of this, or anything approaching to it. We come to Norwic h very late, having had to fight every inch of ground since we were ten miles out of London ; and found a cluster of people in the market•place, who had risen from their beds in the night, fearful of falling chimneys. Som e o f these, congregating about the inn yard while we changed horses, told us of great sheets of lead having been ripped off a high church-tower, and flung into a bye street, which they then blocked up. Others had to t e ll o f country people, coming in from neighbouring villages, who had seen great trees lying torn out of the earth, and whole ricks scattered about the roads and fields. Still, there was no abatement in the storm, but it blew harder. " I put up at the old inn, and went down to look at the sea; staggering along the street, which was strewn with sand and seaweed, and with flying blotches of sea foam; afraid of falling slates and tiles; and holding by people I met, at angry corners. Coming near the beach, I saw, not only the boatmen, but half the people of the town, lurking behind buildings; some, now and then braving the fury of the storm to look away to sea, and blown sheer out of their course in trying to get zigzag back. whose " ' Joining h u sba n t d h s e s w e e gr were o awayu , n found n bewailing t mighter w boats, o h m a e e f w o h u i n c d h e r t h e d e r b e e ‘ f v o a r s e t t o h o e ymcuocuhl could e r a u s n o n i n a o n y think ere for safety. Grizzled old sailors were among the people, shaking their heads, as they looked from water to sky, and mut tering to one another; ship-owners, excited and uneasy; children, huddling together, and peering into older faces; even stout mariners, disturbed and anxious, levelling their glasses at the sea from behind places of shelter, as if they were surveying an enemy, " The tremendous sea itself, when I could find suffi cient pause to look at it, in the agitation of the blinding wind, the flying stones and sand, and the awful noise, c infounded Die. As the high watery walls came rolling in, and, at their highest, tumbled into surf, they looked as if the least would engulf the town. As the receding wave swept back with a hoarse roar, it seemed to scoop out deep caves in the beach, as if its purpose were to undermine the earth. When some white-headed billows thundered on, and dashed themselves to pieces before they reached the land, every fragment of the late whole seemed possessed by the full might of its wrath, rushing to be ga.hered• to the composition of another monster. Undulating hills were changed to valleys, undulating valleys (with a solitary storm-bird sometimes skimming through them) were lifted up to hills; masses ,of water shivered and sh ook deminegds t ,t h or e beach w ith a booming sound ; ever itsysha shpetTe and place , rolled o n , as soon as wade, to change place, and b eat ano ther shape and aptonlawdeeetrhsaway; I b buil dings , ideal oas rote shore eaan dor rending fell; dtihneg theha onrdi cloudsznp , h e flewwa vii fast os its tf all nature." This tremendous hurricane, which the novelist . calls most " memorable," " for," says he, " it is still re membered down there as the greatest ever known to blow upon that coast," results in the *rack of ; a schooner laden with wine and fruit from Spain or Portugal, and in the drowning of poor Ham while ineffectually endeavouring to save the life of Emily's 'betrayer, the wild and unfortu nate James Steerforth. Going down to the beach after the climax of the storm, David discovers the fragments of the old boat scattered over the shingle, and there, he exclaims, " among the ruins of the home he had w ronge d , I saw hi m l y i ng with his head upon his arm, as I had often seen him lie at school. The scene in which David imparts to Mrs. Steerforth the intelligence of her son's death is most touchingly d ep i c t e d —only the fiendish ferocity of Rosa Hartle renders a considerable portion of it most repu l s i ve . Turning to the other portions of the narrative, we find Mr. and Mrs. Micawber in the very zenith or apogee of their a mbitious day-dreami ng . T he way i n which Mrs. Micawber, speaking in behalf of her husband, addresses the imaginary inhabitants of Aus tralia, by exclaiming, " This country Have you to conquer ! Have you honours ? riches ? llave you posts of profitable pecuni ary emolument? Let them be brought forward. T hey .. disap I am come are mine ! Enough of delay ; enough o f That was pointaient ; enough of limited 1 me ans. . is the was i n the old country. new. Produce your reparation. Bring T wa y in which Mr. AlicaW I "—the way ' the accumulated for tunesobserves of the possibility of his g accu of Britannia ber himself i cattle driving, It o rw l A s : t d h " flowing ultimately into the coffer s chance hirelings she—" Britannia —must take her ch in which Master Micawber issues ae lo is . ng walking-stick, for the purpose of pr d r i v i ng , " when permitted by the render ragan y volun tary says( t ;: s vi n h ir ie r t ' u mstance, " r I . who had the beasts in charge to h M assistance in that direction" • Micawber, .when alluding to ourd i n t h i m r nature, imprecation~, i o n n o s t , regret to say, for the credit of to desist"),—the way in which a ll family `often —be being generally warne d, ii ls this is told is in of the all respects delightful. twine, are already on emigration, together their Ali c a w w b a y e rs t , 0 e t v h e e n r i e n g c i l n u n d including i h n . e t ru l lrs ' very beautifully with G mmidge, Emily, and with Mr. Peggotty, Martha. The number close s e „ . vcber circumstances, the record of their departur; entioned in the October not yet particularised, are a' of dear Aunt Betsey's instalment, such as the rer er husband in a hospital, f Uriah Heep among the m etropolis. In the double weeks, will bring David p an ro d pe t r h ty e , d t i h sa e pp d e ea ar th ane o e f variegated and exquisite completed, and, if only parable to the eighteen c nc r no o mp w ph d ee e r. fir d , ewi population dhitnoh ,a icn.loas of e , t he ,n f ew h the variegated 11 r his latest work the web of the narrative IN ,. comparable finished in any manne r ' masterpiece of our gee11:..„...—_ ....—...... . preceding instalments, will n ovelist. ren de ese Abassador cloth of sent to ag ul nificen m t robe of -_-=-- __-- THE NEFAULESE AsiOASSADOR AND LOLA MON- Ths.—The Evencnient treats its readers with the following : `t•hßeefeoerleebqruaittetdinig,ollaisisontthese NenPiaa gold. Lola Montes is the only woman in France or in and, Jung Eng gland with whom the P rince Jung Bahadour could converse in the language of his country, the charm which he found pß a a u h l a ; d o but, ur signed, after i. in the conversation wa s very great. There was for a time a p question of the departure of the of three years Countess with Engl de Lansfeldt for the name name of the Sultan, his cousin, a treaty with Greet 13ritain, by which it is prohibited to any European to enter the empire of Nepaul under any pretext. I Even E ng li s h subject s are not exempt from this clause, wh i c h the India n Prince dee p l y re g rets ; for, but for th at, he would have taken w;th him two hundred pe rsons to spread in his country the ii N i var intelligence arid civilisation of Europe. The English Go vernment is said to have dreaded that Lola Montes would have in Nepaul the success which she had in Bavaria, and the two English Captains must have made some observations which prove that the Nepaul treaty was made alike for men and women, for LOl4 Montes remains in Paris to plead at says Galignani, is what the French call law against a fickle, if he is not art unfaithful, husband." This paragraph , familiarly a canard. Th e .N epaulese ambassador, if it should be translated to him before he quits France, will be equally amused and astonished to learn that he made a present to the Countess of Lansfeldt, in Paris, and conversed with her in his own language. We believe that the Countess has not been seen in Paris for more than a month. SIIEBIFFiIOP OF Ross AND CRONIARTY. This office, vacant by the death of John Jardine, Esq., has, we understand, been conferred on George. Deas, Es ( l,.the senior depute-Ativestet-4nverness Courier. LITERATURE. EMERIGON ON INSURANCES. Translated from the French, with an Introduction and Notes, by S. Meredith, _Esq. Butte? worth. Tnii is the most comprehensive, able, and interest ing work upon the important subjects of which it treats that has ever come under our notice. The legal treatises extant on the subject of marine and maritime insurance are very meagre, and we think the present book calculated to supply a defect which must be deeply felt in a country like England, whose trade and commerce are of world-wide extent." The ancient city of Marseilles was the scene of the success ful labours of the amiable and gifted Frenchman, Balthazar Marie Emerigon, whose great treatise has been so admirably translated by Mr. Meredith. Emerigon was born in 1716, at Aix, in Provence, and after the usual course of study was admitted an advocate in the Parlenient of Aix, where he very soon showed promise of his future greatness. But it was at Marseilles, then the great maritime power of sou thern France, that he attained the highest point of eminence. Here it was that in the exercise of his profession lie was frequently brought into contact with subjects connected with maritime law, and seeing how little on this subject was contained in any system of jurisprudence then known, be determined to fix his attention upon this one point. The result of this determination has been the production of the great work, known and recognised by the members of the legal profession in the old world and the new. The translator has introduced a biographical sketch of his author, which will be read with deep interest by the aspirant to legal or literary fame, and while doing justice to the brilliancy of the advocate and orator, he does not forget the worth and virtues of the man. We can excuse this agreeable episode even in a legal work, and the more readily when we reflect how very seldom eminent genius is crowned with its merited rewards, and how, when sometimes men of splendid in tellect reach high points of worldly glory, their success cannot be always attributed, as in the case of Emeri gon, to the inflexible integrity of their lives, as much as to the brilliancy of their genius. The book is divided into seventeen chapters, comprising the fol lowing subjects :—Contract of Insurance—Form of the Contract—The Premium—Persons capable of being Parties to the Contract—Parties Contracting— The Ship—The Captain—Things that may be In sured—Value, &c., of the Effects Insured—Proof that the Subject insured has been placed at Risk—Mari time Risks—Time and Places of the Risk--Proof of Loss—lnsurance made after Loss or Safe Arrival — Return of Premium—Abandonment. There are three other chapters of the French author which Mr. Meredith has not translated, viz., those on Payment of the Sums insured, on Prescription, and on Judg; ments, which, though their omission does not leave this work, as far as he has gone, either imperfect or incomplete, it would,yet be desirable to see added in the next edition, which we have little doubt will be speedily called for. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS. In our advertising columns will be found the pro spectus of the Executive Committee of the above con certs. A perusal of its contents will at once convince our readers of the unprecedentedly vast scale upon which those concerts are to be. conducted, and the great and highly beneficial influence they are calcu lated to exercise upon the progress of native art and the musical taste of the British public in general. The committee is, we understand, composed of noblemen and gentlemen, who, uninfluenced by sor did motives, have, in entering upon this colossal un dertaking, been animated solely by an honourable desire to encourage art and artists, and to disseminate a love for the works of the best masters. Such persons are, in our opinion, the most fit to direct so important a movement. Placed by their resources and position above the state of complete dependence upon popular patronage in which the mere speculator must necessarily be placed, and equally removed from all professional tracasseries and intrigue, they can proceed with confidence and consistency in their important administration. The programme presents so formidable an array of distinguished names, so much that is novel and inte resting, that we cannot attempt to follow it through all its details. Most of the artists are established fa vourites with our London public, and, with the names of those who have not yet been afforded opportuni ties for becoming so, Fame's trumpet bas already made it familiar. ...... The following particulars, which we extract from The Builder, relative to the alterations taking place in the theatre, may prove interesting to our readers : " Considerable changes are being made in the interior, to fit it for a series of promenade concerts. All the seats in the pit have been removed, and the partitions in all the tiers of boxes, with the exception of the grand tier. The promenade will remain on the level of the pit floor, and have a flight of steps on each side up to the level of the stage. .The otchestra, to hold ninety musi cians, will be partly on the stage, partly in the prome nade. All the machinery over the stage, &c., has b.en rt-moved, to admit a tentlike covering, to , form a grand saloon, which will be adorned with statues, &c. Mr. Johnson is the architect, and Mr. Wint the builder em ployed." To this wo will add that the works are in a state of great forwardness,'end that no doubt whatever is -en tertained - of the theatre being opened on the evening announced, viz., the 15th of this month. We heartily wish the directors success in their ar duous and liberal undertaking. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, OCT. 3. Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert remained yesterday at " the Hut," Loch Muick. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Princess Alice, and Prince Alfred, attended by Mr. Birch and din Hildyard, drove over to Invercauld. Meetings of the Metropolitan Local Commissioners accompanied by Secretaries of the Local Committees, took place yesterday with the Executive Committee of the Exhibition of 1851. Colonel Reid, Mr. Cole, Mr. Dilke, Colonel Lloyd, and Dr. Boyle were pre sent on the part of the Commission. The following Local Commissioners assembled : As representing Paper, Paperhangings, Bookbind ing, Leather, and Straw—Mr. R. Horne, Grace church-street; Mr. W. Haselden, Whitelands, Chel sea ; Mr. IV. Faxon, Hampstead ; Mr. S. M. Hu bert, Marylebone-lane ; Mr. G. H. Drew, secretary of the Westminster Committee; Messrs. E. IV. James and C. H. Hopwood, honorary secretaries to the Finsbury Committee ; Mr. H. G. Bohn, York street; Alderman Sidney, M.P., Ley ton House, Essex ; Mr. W. Hickson, Smithfield ; Mr. H. Vyse, Wood-street ; Mr. A. Wilson, Queenhithe. As representing Furniture, Metal Work, Glass, and Pottery—Mr. W. Smee, Finsbury-pavement ; Mr. J. Bettridge, Halkin-street Nest; Rev. S. R. Cattley, secretary of the City Committee; Mr. J. G. Grace, Wigmore-street ; Mr. T. B. Simpson, South wark ; Mr. Apsley Pellatt, Southwark ; Mr. C. Red path, Poplar ; Mr. W. De la Rue, Bunhill-row ; Mr. W. J. Rogers, Carlisle-street; Mr. W. B. Simpson, West Strand ; Mr.. W. Binn, Poplar ; Mr. E. Cole man, Poplar ; Mr. E. Cowper, King's College ; Mr. C. Cowper, Southampton-buildings ; Mr. E. Sayer, Clifford-street ; Mr. S. Gerraud, Penton-street ; Mr. J. Evans, King William-street; Mr. H. Spicer, Bridge-street. As representing Raw Materials in the Mineral Kingdom—J. Spurgin, M.D., Guildford•street ; Pro-. fessor D. Ansted ; Professor Brande, Royal Mint ; Mr. W. Freeman, Millbank-street ; Professor Gra ham, Gordon-square; Mr. H. Roper, Spital-square ; Mr. J. Casey, Spital-square ; Mr. R. Hunt, Museum of Practical Geology ; Mr. J. A. Phillips, Greenwich ; Mr. J. J. Bunning, Guildhall ; Mr. W. Baker, Bat tersea; and Mr. C. Francis, South Lambeth. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has returned to his seat, Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire. Dispatches from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and also from the Governor of l i Malta, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Co lonial-office for the Governors of the North American colonies. if di o) leer- DEBE-STALKING. The exciting sport stalking increases as the season dr aws to a close. We have seen a number of beautifully ant lered beadsaent in from the forests lately, fit companions to the.trophies of former years. Mr. Mackenzie and a friend have c l ose d their sport at Tor ridon ; nine good deer have fallen to their rifles. At Inver broom, A. K.. George, Esq., and Mr. Blackburn, have shot five; the last was shot by Mr. George on ' Ben-Darig on the 30th September, has a nobl e head of ten points. Mr.- M GI .P., has shot five good -headed stags in Glenquoich. In the Island of• Harris, Mr. Campbell, of Jura, has killed forty-three deer, mostly stags. In the corries of Strathco non, Mr. Balfour shot five stags last week in four days —one of them had 14 points ; two of 12, or royal ; one of 11; and one of 10 points, all heavy deer, and the five counting 59 antlers. One of the royal heads is•the finest of the season. The horns are 334 inches long, 64 in thickness, and the brow antlers 6.i thick. At Ilalladale S. E. Colby, Esq., has shot several good deer ; the last was a heavy stag of 25 stones clean, with a handsome head of ten antlers, those at the brow double and spreading in a half-circle. Mr. Ross of Cromarty killed a stag. with a neat head ; and in the Forest of Inchnacardoch E. Digby, Esq., shot a very heavy stag, with a splendid • royal head. At Invetlail the Messrs. Pryor hare had ex cellent sport, having killed a stag on each day of stalking. At Dunbeath John La Touche, Esq., shot a goo d s t ag an d hind last week. John M. li, Jones, Esq., and S. D. Pen roso, Esq., have killed 7 stags at Achintoun. At Corriemony the Hon. Captain Gough got a stag with a neat head of horns. From Leith Hall, Old Rain, we learn that partridge shooting had afforded good sport, and that from 20 to 30 brace had been obtained per day. —lnverness Courier. STRANGE DETECTION OF SMUGGLING.—On Friday evening as the Enterprise steamer, which plies between Rotterdam. Ipswich, and Yarmouth, was entering the latter harbour, she ran against the pier, and carried away part of the woodwork of the paddle-box, discovering to the asto nished Custom-house officers about 1601 b. of manufactured tobacco dangling down among the paddle-work machinery, in such a position as no mortal would have ever dared to search. Bradley, the engineer; is now in custody, on the charge.—Esses: Standard. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Rear-Admiral De ms Dundas, C.B , M.P., left the Admiralty yesterday, for Chipping Norton, for a week or ten days. Captain Cockburn is waiting at Portsmouth, to take command of the Rattlesnake surveying-ship, on her arrival from Sydney. Dragon, 6, steam-frigate, Captain H. W. Giffard, left Devonport on Thursdn , at noon, fur Lisbon and the Mediterranean. Firefly, 3, steam-vessel, Commander Seymcur, completed her defects at Devonport, was paid advance by the master-attendant (Mr. Henderson), and left for the coast of Africa on Thursday evening. Thetis, 38, Captain Kuper, at Devonport, was to have been put into No. 5 dock. She was painted, and entered the dock about thirty feet, when it was seen that the tide ceased to flow, and she was taken back and moored alongside the jetty to wait till the morning tide, when it was hoped it would rise suffi ciently high. The Admiralty, at their last visit at Devonport, inspected a modal and witnessed the trial of an inven tion of Lieutenant Seccombe's (late First Lieutenant of the Trincomalee), by which the laying out of a bowur anchor, with a chain cable attached, from a large boat or launch, can be performed with perfect safety. Hitherto it appears that such operations have always been attended with considerable risk to life and property, from the want of complete command over the chain in running out over the davit at the stern of the boat • but this risk by the above inven tion, which is a clutch, clasping the chain, and acted upon by a lever, will be entirely obviated. In fact, the chain by this method can be stopped at a moment when it has acquired the greatest velocity, and of course can be lowered fast or slow, at pleasure, which is a great desideratum. The Admiralty were so sa tisfied by its success, that at the trial above alluded to they paid the inventor a very high compliment, and requested him to forward the model of it to White hall. PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The Bulldog steam-sloop, in dock, is ordered to be re-coppered. The Dauntless steam-frigate, Captain Halsted, hauled opposite the stream to-day for the purpose of adjusting her compasses. She received her crew from her hulk to-day. The Medea and Vixen steam-sloops are having their engines taken out to undergo a thorough repair. The Hecate steam- sloop, Commander Hand, has been removed from dock to the stream to-day. It is reported that the Blenheim steam-guard-ship, Captain Henderson, C. 8., is to take the place of the Illustrious; and the Britannia, 120, fitting as ordi nary guard-ship, to take the place of the Victory, the Victory going over to the old flag-ship moorings off Gosport. FALMOUTH, OCT. 3, 9 A.M.—We have just received information of the arrival off the Lizard yesterday of the sh:p Great Britain, Hume master, from Bombay, bound to London, and having on board the master, H. Leitch, mate, and part of the crew of the ship Kingfield, of Belfast, from Bombay, which vessel was abandoned on the 12th of July, in lat. 37 27 S., and long. 26 30 E., with loss of rudder, and in a sinking condition. The entire crew were rescued from the wreck by the French vessel Louise, of Havre, and landed at St. Helena on the 9th ult., where the master, mate, and part of the crew, embarked on board the Great Britain. The Seagull packet, hourly looked for, has not yet arrived. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, OCT. 4.—Midshipmen Robert F. Scott and F. W. Hallowes to the Wasp steam sloop at Woolwich. _ _ Naval Cadet Thomas Seute, to the Impregnable flag-ship, at Devonport. PRIZE MONEY. 41, Norfolk-street, Strand, Sept. 30, 1850. Notice is hereby given to the officers and company of her Majesty's ship Penelope, L. T. Jones, Etq., Captain, that, on the 23d of October, 1850, they will be paid as above, their proportions of bounty money recieved for the Jacinto, captured the 3d of January, 1849, and the shares will be recalled every Wednes day and Thursday for three months to come, agree ably to Act of Parliament. Flag Captain. Commander l2O 11 4 Third class Fourth class l2 1 Fifth class Sixth class .. - 7 4 8 Seventh class . . 6 0 61 Eighth class . 4 16 Ninth class Tenth class 2 8 2} Eleventh class ... 1 16 1 Twelfth class ..... 1 4 11 Thirteenth class HALFORD and Co., Agents. London, October 3, 1850. Notice is hereby given to the officers and company of her Majesty's steam-vessel Tenzer, Jasper H. Sel wyn, E.g., Lieutenant Commanding, that they will he paid, on Tuesday, the 15th instant, at No. 22, Arundel-street, Strand, their respective proportions of slave and tonbage bounties, for the Catherina de Bom Fin, seized on the 4th of March, 1849, and that the list will be re-called on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the three following months. Flag proportion Lieutenant Commanding 541 16 8 Fourth class Fifth class .. l2l 18 3 Sixth class Seventh class Eighth class .. 54 3 8 Ninth class . • Tenth class.... .... 27 1 10 Eleventh class Twelfth class ........ Thirteenth class lO 3 3 J. G. and T. STILWELL, Agents. EXPERIMENTS AT CHATHAM. A number of officers of the Royal Engineers and officers of Engineers in the East India Company's service assembled on Thursday afternoon at Bromp ton Barracks, and proceeded to a ditch in the Chat ham fortifications to witness experiments with six different kinds of scaling-ladders—the first, the old common kind, made of wood ; the second and third ladders also made of wood, one on a plan by Major- General Pasley, and the other by Colonel Blanchard. The fourth, fifth, and sixth ladders are on a new principle, submitted by Captain Addison, of her Majesty's line service ; and the sixth was sent to Chatham from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. One of Captain Addison's ladders is formed of wrought iron circular tubes, and the interior filled with wood two inches in diameter and eight feet long ; the other is made of wood, with an iron band along the outside. The ladder from the Royal Arsenal is made of wrought iron tube in an oval form, and when the parts are separated the cross bars or steps, also made of wrought iron tubes, can be all placed inside the supports. Captain Addison's tubular ladder has the cross bars placed outside the tubes, and moving on pivots, the two supports, adjusted when in use by two diagonal bars on the other side, can be made, by loosening the two diagonal bars, to lie close to each other, and occupy very little room. The ladder is formed of three pieces, the middle tube being smaller than the lower, and the upper smaller than the mid dle, and are as easily and quickly joined as the lower. parts of a fishing-rod. The wooden ladders consist of one of two pieces, one of three pieces, and one of four pieces, but their steps are axed, and cannot allow the supports to be placed close to each other as in the twos iron ladders. The experiments commenced by, Sergeant Major Allen selecting six parties of six men each from the Royal Sappers and Miners at Brampton Barracks, having each party as nearly similar in size and strength of the mrn as possible, and they proceeded to the ditch. During several trials the circular tube ladders of Captain Addison were put together and let down into the ditch about 20 feet deep, and the m en d es cended on it i n less time than by the others. The ladders were also taken down into the bottom of the dit c h a n d rai se d t o the other side, and the wall scaled several times with the greatest activity by the men on all the ladders, with the exception of the oval tubular ladder, which, being of equal dimensions throughout its en tire length , the six men employed could not raise it against the wall of the ditch, and it required four men extra to raise it when it was taken out of the ditch on the experiments being concluded. The only ob jection to Captain Addison's tubular ladder was the difficulty of drawing it out of the ditch after the wall had been scaled, owing to the projection of the diagonal bars on the back, but Captain Wlierlie suggested the expediency of these bars being made to move inside, and Mr. Webb, blacksmith, from Woolwich, who attended on Captain Addison, was detained at Chatham to have that alteration effected. CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 4.—There will be Congrega tions on the following days of the ensuing Michaelmas Term:—Thursday, Oct. 10, at ten; Monday, Oct. 14, at eleven ; Thursday, Oct. 24, at eleven; Wednesday, Oct. 30, at eleven; Thursday, Nov. 14, at eleven; Wednesday, Nov. 27, at eleven ; Wednesday, Dec. 11, at eleven ; Monday, Dec. 16 (end of term), at ten. ABEitInEN MAILS BY TUE MIDLAND RAILWAY.— On Tuesday last the morning mails from Aberdeen and Strathmore arrived by the Midland line, agreeable to the new arrangements, in about three hours and ten minutes from the former place, and were forwarded by the usual mail train to I.9nd , n by the Scottish Central, at 9.25, A.M. The r same afternoon the London mail, which arrives about three o'clock, p.m., was dispatched by the same line to Aberdeen and all the intermediate towns excepting Dundee - the mail for which goes as before—by the Dundee and Perth line, as well as the alternate daily mail to and from London. —Perth Courier. The Lord Mayor entertained, last evening, the Masters, Wardens, and Court of Assistants of the Worship ful Company of Tallow-chandlers (being his Lordship's com pany), and a select party of private 'friends. IRELAND. THE BISHOPRIC OF MEATH. DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNIN G .—T P Very Rev. Thomas Townsend, D.D., Dean of Waterford, has been appointed to the Bishopric of Meath, vacant by the death of Dr. Stopford. Dr. Townsend bears an estimable character, and his appointment has given much satisfaction. lie is a highly-accomplished scholar, a hard-working and pains-taking clergyman. He will, in all probability, he called to the Eccle siastical Commission and some other public boards in Dublin, according to the usage in respect to his pre decessors in the see of Meath. THE MONAGHAN MEETING. The Tenant League conspirators indulged in lan guage at the Monaghan meeting on Tuesday night, which out-Notioned the speeches before dinner, and that is saying quite enough about the oratorical part of the soiree. Mr. Lucas read a letter from Dr. WHale, which was to the following effect " St. Jariath's, Tuam, Feast of St. Michael, 1850. "My dear Sir,—lt is consoling to every friend of humanity, of p eace , and of order, to find the great and long neglected question of tenant and landlord at length so seriously taken up by persons of all creeds and classes, with a view to its practical settlement on principles of justice and equity, conducive alike to the real interests of the occupants and proprietors of the land. For, without going so far as to assert that the unheard-of sufferings of the tenantry of Ireland are its only .grievance, it must be owned that they are one of such hideous magnitude as that without their removal no hope can be inspired from the most elaborate efforts of "To talk, then, of the condition of Ireland as a political and social problem that baffles solution, whilst the chief instrument that has laid her prostrate is palpable to all, is nothing else but an insulting yet clumsy aggravation of the original and persevering cruelty of which she has been and continues still to be the victim. The Learned Sergeant Shea has placed this system in its proper light at the late meeting of Kilkenny, to which he gave the weight and advantage of his great legal acquirements. The cause of the sufferings of the tenants he rendered as intelligible as if written on the walls of the Assembly house, and, like the unheeded writing of old, it is now more clearly understood in the terrible retribu tion it is bringing in the ruin of the very descendants of those who were the first agents of this hereditary injustice. .• " It was from the absence of the spirit of a right ful and Christian legislation that the intolerable suf ferings of the tenant classes sprung. When the mer ciful spirit of the Gospel taught the landlords and tenants of other countries that they stood to each other in the light of parents and children, to be mu tually cherished and protected, in Ireland, the former class were placed by the law itself in the odious po sition of exterminators and oppressors of the latter. And though some of those hateful laws have been recently repealed, their spirit survives with such faithful energy as even to pass to several of the new proprietors, who, from the force of the sympathies of caste, disregard the precepts of humanity and religion, and adopt all the hereditary notions of the old penal ascendancy. " Amidst the general prostration of the tenant class of Ireland, it was fortunate that there has been hi therto one portion to which policy extended those rights of which the natives of the other provinces were cruelly despoiled. Those rights have since served as beacon lights to others, pointing the attention of all to the comparative comfort which even partial justice never fails to bring in its exercise, and exciting just aspirations that those rights—the feeble transcripts of the rights of the Gospel—should be extended to all the tenantry of Ireland, invested with the guarantee of a Parliamentary enactment. In the present movement there is fortunately no sympathy with Socialism, no affinity with Communism. Those odious dogmas, as revolting to religion as they are ruinous to social order, will never find favour with the people of Ire land. Their principle is simple. Let the landlords act towards the tenants as they would wish to be treated were they in their position ; and again, let the tenants act towards them according to the same Gospel maxim; and instead of the cruelty that now springs from the cupidity of proprietors, and the crime of which cruelty never fails to be productive, Ireland would soon exhibit a benevolent rivalry between both classes, which would soon obliterate the recollections of past sufferings and wrongs. " Wishing your patriotic body every success in its truly benevolent and patriotic efforts, and hoping that the means resorted to will continue to be as legal and constitutional as the object in view is laudable. " I remain, my dear Sir, your very faithful servant, " tJoHN, Archbishop of Tuam. " Frederick Lucas, Esq." This letter gave, we are told, very great satisfaction to the meeting, composed as it was of Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, and st ft• horned Protestants. Here is another Bishop's letter cheering on the Tenant- League conspirators _ _ " Mußinger, Sept. 28, 1850. " Dear Mr. Lucas,—Your favour of the 2Gth has just come to hand. In reply, I hasten to say that, i❑ my convictions, the salvation or annihilation of our unhappy country depends on the equitable and speedy settlement of the present monstrous relations between landlord and tenant. How deplorable to see Government and Parliament insensible or indifferent to the rapid ruin in which it threatens to involve all classes of our countrymen. An equitable settlement, while it respects the just rights of the landlord, must be based on justice and protection towards the tenant. At present the tenants have not by law the shadow of either. Hence a system of cruelty, injustice, and oppression, which bas produced an amount of crime and guilt well calculated to excite the horror of every Christian, and sufficient to provoke and draw down the heaviest chastisement of the Almighty. " The noble efforts of the Tenant-League to ob tain by peaceful and constitutional means a legal remedy against this ruinous and widespread ca lamity, entitle them to the gratitude and encourage ment of every friend to humanity. In the unex pected but most happy combination of Irishmen, distinguished by their brilliant talents and disinter ested patriotism, who form the council of the league, I see the most cheering elements of hope for our mis governed and of listed country. "I congratulate you on the success which has hitherto attended tfe labours of the Tenant League, and will close by fervently imploring Heaven to crown its efforts by that glorious consummation on which depend the peace, happiness, and prosperity of Ireland. "I have the honour to be, dear Mr. Lucas, your obedient and faithful servant, _ I JOHN CANTWELL. " To Frederick Lucas, EN , Stc." A terrible accident happened at Glengarnock Iron works on Saturday night last, by which one man lost his life, and another was so severely injured that he is not ex pected to recover. It appears thA after the melted metal had been run out of the furnaces into sand moulds, which is called casting, those two men were employed in plugging. up the hole of one of the furnaces were the metal had issued During such operation the blast must necessarily be kept off; but in this instance, by some mischance, it was put ou and forced out a large quantity of melted metal, causing the death of the one, and likewise, it is to be feared, of the other. —North British BritAlail. THE " EXTRAIIRDINARY " NUMBER SEVEN.—On the 7th of the 7th month a holy observance was ordained to the children of Israel, who feasted 7 days and remained 7 days in tents—the 7th year was directed to be a Sabbath of rest for all things; and at the end of 7 times 7 years com menced the grand jubilee—every 7th year the land lay fal low; every 7th year there was a grand release from all debts, and bondsmen were set free. From this law might have originated the custom of binding young men to 7 years' apprenticeship, and of punishing incorrigible offenders by transportation for 7, twice 7, or three times 7 years. Anciently a child was not named before 7 days, not being accounted fully to have life before that periodical day—the teeth spring out in the 7th month, and are shed in the 7th year, when infancy is changed into childhood. At thrice 7 years the faculties are developed, manhood com mences, and a man becomes legally competent to all civil acts- at four times 7 man is in full possession of his strength —at five times 7 be is fit for the business of the world—at six times 7 he becomes grave and wise, or never—at seven times 7 he is in his apogee, and from that day decays—at eight times 7heis in his first climacteric—at nine times 7, or 63, he is in his grand climacteric, or year of danger and ten times 7, or three score years and ten, has by the Royal Prophet been pronounced the natural period of human life. ROBBERY , IN GLASGOW.—Last week a constable having had his attention directed to the movements of a man who was carrying a portmanteau along Trongate, followed him for a short distance, when the former, noticing that he was followed, darted down a close in that vicinity, as it to escape. He was, however, captured by a watchman, who observing that the man had thrown away something as he entered the close, searched for it. This was ascertained to be a bundle of bank notes, to the value of upwards of 90/., and the man, on being taken to the central police-court, was found to have an additional sum on his person, making the total amount 1121. A little inquiry soon made it clear tbat a robbery had been committed, and it was ascertained in a short time that the person apprehended, who is named Duncan M'Leod, was a waiter at the }luck's Head Inn. It appears that he had plundered an English gentleman who was staying at the hotel of the above sum, and was endea vouring to make out of the town with it when thus cleverly apprehended.—North British Mail. - - A swindler has lately been attempting to dupe the Loudon brewers and distillers, and has in some instances succeeded. His plan is to fix on some respectablepublican residing in the vicinity of a brewery or distillery , and to learn w e h h e e q t u h e e r o he n a d e L a o l u s dowith n b a t T h i k e iftiTgm messenget: the es.o,ftohrgeinswgintdhleerdra.ws publican's name on the back of it, and th e n sendin g lfou tt S w orld be obliged by cash for the cheque." If grant ed, it so the name of the publican , that I on appears that the bankers garb of a potboy with a request., I to th e brewer or distiller, in have no account with the drawer. TAT DUKE OF N E WCAsT.LE.—We exceedingly re gret to state that his Grace the Duke of Newcastle still con tinues in the same precarious and unsatiblactory state of healths ttceohei ,ma, rearelde a nu s , orn w bbrio e eeniu i pai a ats ;: i e eannn a gt l d : describ ed. e il a nti d o : brt r ahe3re.tierrsaf t()tre Cli nton,nht attentions I na n st iGddret Grace's te d het , ,he b s eLiriseraredeomic:oir: recovery are much-es teemed now considered very doubtful. The Earl of Lincoln, Lords offered up on the Sabbath at Worksop, and other churches in the neighbourhood of Clumber.—kiticobi Gazette Of ,Tta. tetday.