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We cannot refrain from repeating this conglomeration of offences. A young Scottish lady of gentle birth. a Presbyterian, a descendant of John Knox, &c., in an Italian dungeon, damp and dirty, and on mouldy bread and putrid water—all for the sake of Bunyan's immortal, and, to our minds, most tedious, allegory. Then follows the insulted dignity of the British lion. The embassy is in a perfect frenzy—Mr. Scarlett is sent to—Sir H. Bulwer is sent for, and Florence is in a fever. The electric telegraph cracks its strings with its un wonted work. The Christian Times is in an unchristian state of ebullition ; and most likely the Illustrated London News will soon publish a portrait of the lady, seated on a straw pallet before a grated window reading a tract. Miss Margaret Cunninghame is the heroine of the hour. Nevertheless she is, in our judgment, a very wrong-headed young lady, who would have been much better employed in verifying her "Murray," or looking to her knitting needles. It is not, let us remind Miss Margaret, the duty of any Christian to break the law of the country in which he or she resides. To maketract distributing a criminal offence is very wrong, very bigoted, and, above all, v ery r idi cu l ous . B u t were it is illegal to distribute tracts, it is Miss Cunninghame's duty to abstain from distributing them. If the young lady could not bear the abominations of the land of darkness, she should not have entered. Poor Thomas Hood reasoned well with her by anticipation : " Why leave a serious, moral, pious home— Scotland, renowned for sanctity of old— Far distant Tuscany to rate and scold For doing as the Romans do at Rome? vivors have not yet 'been mustered. It is, however, thought that a great number lost their lives. The ship Joseph Walker, for New York, also went ashore off the Huskisso u Dock, thumped heavily, and sus. considerable damage. She still remains ashore. The ))rig Maria, from Prince Edward's Island, got ashore oif.' Nelson Dock, and lost masts and bow sprit. The captaiit, fearing the vessel was in immi nent danger, jumped as hore, and the cre w and a woman and five children, pas' ging ers, were s hortly afterwards rescued through the ,exertions of Captai n H ox i e , of the Joseph Walker, a, 'id Mr. Harker, a gentleman len she drifted off a n d up the connected with a tugboat company. The brig remained ashore until high water, yr'. river, and got ashore on Pimlkington Bank, where she remains. A large vessel, nenio unknown, and said to be waterlogged, is at anchor in Bootle Bay, with all her masts cut away. The ship American, Capta.in Gover, which sailed for San Francisco on Wednesday last, in attempting to put back to this port, got ashore near Southport, and at one time it was feared she w01u.1.4 go to pieces. Since the gale has moderated', however, a better result is anticilnated. The lifeboat went out to her, and remained alongside all night. The clipper ship Shooting Star, lying in the North Docks, lost all her topmasts during the gale. A fiat sunk in the Huskisson Basin ; crew saved. (From the Times.) Intelligence has reached this country of yet another act of fanaticism, folly, and cruelty on the part of the Tuscan Government. The Grand Duke has, no doubt, calculated the measure of his own weakness before ven turing upon such a step, for it is only on his own per fect defencelessness that he can rest his hopes of im punity. Had the authorities of any country which counted for something in the coutsels of Europe ven tured upon such a course, the intelligence of the outrage would no sooner have reached England than immediate steps would have been taken to call the perpetrators to account. The more beggarly and miserable a State, the greater would seem to be its readiness to outrage and insult those greater Powers which need only put forth the slightest portion of their strength utterly to crush the offender, and to dictate to him whatever terms they may choose to impose. England stands alone in her forbear ance. It was but the other day the diplomatic agents of the French Government extorted what concessions they chose from the Turkish Ministers. It was but the other day that the Emperor of Austria followed in the same course, when he thought that the just right of his sub jects were violated. At the present moment the Russian troops are in actual occupation of two provinces simply because the Czar chose to consider that the members of his church, not being his own subjects, did not partici pate in all the advantages which he desired to obtain for them. France, Austria, Russia—three of the Great Powers—understand no trifling when their subjects are outraged and oppressed on account of their religion. England alone stands aloof. It ii enough that any per son should be an English subject and a Protestant, and it is competent to any little trumpery Potentates who are dotted about the Continent of Europe to incarcerate and torture them at their pleasure. It may well become a question with our Executive Government how long these mockery-Sovereigns shall be allowed to treat the English name and the English flag with such dis dain. There are limits, we take it, even to the ex ercise of sovereign rights. The Tuscan Government forces us to remember that if only a single line-of-battle ship were dispatched with hostile intention to the port of Leghorn, their Grand Duke might reckon the duration of his power by days, even if he were left to the tender mercies of his own subjects. We know what the strength of England is ---we know what the condition of the Italian Peninsular is—we know right well how complete is the weakness of the petty Sovereigns among whom it is divided ; and yet this is the moment—with the French in Rome and the Russians in the Danubian Provinces . . • . . People who hold such absolute opinions Should stay at home in Protestant dominions." - -- - - But Miss Margaret Probably thought that she might earn a Calvinistic beatification at a cheap rate. The affair can hardly have a serious issue ; and the lady has done enough to secure notoriety at an easy figure. She will rank with the Agneses and Cecilias of another creed, at the moderate price of a mock process, and a collusive prosecution. We have small pity for her sufferings. Suffering for righteousness' sake is one thing, but a wil ful defiance of the laws of a foreign country by strangers who receive its hospitality, is another. Those who en dure bonds and imprisonment rather than deny the faith are entitled to a sympathy which ought not to be ex tended to those who wander about tampering with the faith of other Christians, to virhom they have no mission. Miss Cunninghame kneW well what she was about, for her friends judiciously warned her against her folly. But her female craving after tracts was irresistible— the hysteria of controversy was too strong. In ex tremely fanatical quarters only will the foolish young woman receive any other commiseration than that which a great act of silly vanity generally secures. So much for the law-breaker. With respect to the law itself, and to the mode of enforcing it, the subject as sumes another and more serious aspect. Policy would dictate the treatment of Miss Cunninghame with con temptuous indifference. "Go spin' you jade, go spin," as, on a parallel occasion, was the politic treatment of female missionaries. Th• Duke of Tuscany is unfortu nate in his officials, who could not understand the expe diency of shutting their eyes to the absurdity of attempt ing to seduce the faith of a whole communion by the ridiculous agency of a young apostoless dropping penny worths of nonsense in bad Italian out of a carriage win dow. The Tuscan authorities, however, have again summoned the'attention of Protestantism to the exist ence of a bad law, for which they had a l rea d y sm a rte d more than enough.. . —that the Grand Duke has chosen for incarcerating a young English lady upon so frivolous a pretext - that we may well wonder how he could procure the assent of even a Tuscan Minister to so preposterous and mon strous a proceeding. The facts of the case we will here recapitulate, lest they may have escaped the notice of our readers. There was a Scotch lady—a Mrs. Cunninghame--staying, with her two daughters, at the Baths of Lucca. When they were about to take their departure, Mrs. Cunning hame, accompanied by one of her daughters, went to the usual office to have their passports vised, as their personal appearance bad been required. The local po lice agent inquired why Miss Margaret Cunninghame had not presented herself. The answer was, that she was unwell and confined to her bed. This, however, would not suffice,—the police agent had a communica tion to make to the young lady of the highest im portance, and she must. There was, of course, no remedy. Miss Cunninghame attended in due time at the police-office, and no sooner bad she arrived than the police agent informed her that she was a prisoner. Her crime was, that she had given to some Tuscan peasants an Italian Bible and an Italian translation of the Pil grim's Progress. Witnesses had been summoned to Lucca, to prove the crime, and, in obedience to "higher orders," the police agent had no option but to remove her from the Baths under armed escort to that town. The gendarmes were called out in great force—no doubt lest the young lady should engage in hostilities with Tuscany ; and, in company with Sir William Millar, she was removed to the Penitentiary at Lucca. As the report runs, the young lady took the matter coolly enough, fortified, no doubt, by that feeling of intense contempt for the canaille who had her in their power, which any rational being would have felt under the like circumstances. The mother, however, was half distracted. The spectacle of oppression is harder of endurance than oppression itself. While all this was going on Sir William Millar had given himself the unnecessary pains of going to the half-witted fanatic by whose order the outrage was committed, judging, as any reasonable man might, that the whole affair was a mistake--a mere blunder of the most impure and cor rupt of his police agents. Not a bit of it. There was his Royal Highness at one end of the business, and a young English lady in a prison-van at the other, the link of connexion between them being an Italian trans lation of the Bible. Of course, information of all this infamy was given to Mr. Scarlett the English Chargé d'Affaires at Florence, and, as it is stated, this gentle man has exerted himself with the utmost possible acti vity in Miss Cunninghame's behalf. The result of his application at head-quarters is briefly given in the re port, —" his Royal Highness is inexorable I" Tremend ous fact ! The Grand Duchess, too, was applied to, in the hope that her womanly instincts would be sugges tive of something like decency and propriety. But, no ! she had been taught her lesson, and there was nothing in her own heart or head which moved her to tenderness or justice. "The Grand Duchess expresses regret for the situation of Miss Cunninghame, but refuses to in terfere." The Ministers of this precious throne seem to have a little more sense in their heads ; at least, it is said—with how much truth we know not—that " the dispositions of the individual Ministers are more favour able." The expedient that has suggested itself to their ingenuity is to hurry on the trial as fast as may be, allow Miss Cunninghame, of course, to receive an adverse sen tence, and then throw her upon the " Royal" clemency. And it is in the middle of the nineteenth century that such an outrage has taken place, and the perpetrator of it is among the most trumpery Potentates in Europe ; while the nation which has been so grievously insulted— ' we may say it without vanity—stands at least among the powerful in the world. If the question were one of reason, the Grand Duke would be much more likelyto find himself on an English treadmill than Miss Cunninghame in a Tus can Penitentiary. If it be taken as one of force, we should ,be well content to leave it to the Ayrshire militia to decide the question between their fair countrywoman and the standing army of Tuscany, with the Grand Duke at its head. The law is doubly bad—first, because it is persecuting and bigoted, and next, because it is short-sighted as well as useless. The faith which reposes on such petty persecution, must have very little dependence in its own strength ; and if—as is notorious—the enactment is only retained in the Tuscan code at the instance of ecclesiastical influence, it proves the hopeless decadence of the religious system which it is meant to uphold. The learning and religion of Italy had better resort to other arms against proselytism than the infliction of ten years' imprisonment in the ergastolo. Romanism has not, in truth, much to fear from the Cunninghame tactics. Giant Despair and Mr. Great heart may suit the Gothic mind, but it will be long before Bunyan's frigid allegory, or scraps of Calvinism thick as the leaves of Vallombrosa, tell on the suscep tible Italian mind. This Rome cannot see. The Italian Church has always been weak enough to make martyrs of blockheads. Miss Cunninghame's imprisonment will do more to shake Romanism than her pocketful of tracts. The lady will take rank with the choicest hero ines of Presbyterianism ; even with her of stool-throwing notoriety. The State of Tuscany will have to bear the odium of bigotry, and the Italian Church, careless of warnings, and blind to its own interests, will reap the discreditable advantage of having imprisoned a fanatical young woman for nothing. We think we are but expressing the opinion of this country when we say that it is high time some order should be taken in this matter. If a man believes in the Emperor Nicholas, or Mahomet, or the Pope of Rome, or Buddha, he will find somebody to take up his cause if he gets into trouble about his religion. An English Protestant is an exception to the rule, and we do not see why he should continue the exception. Again we should say, if a question of this sort should arise between ourselves and any of the great European Powers, we should resent it in a different spirit. We might think them barbarians, fanatics, madmen, what you will ; but the fact of their power, and the respect due to their power, would induce a more serious, though not less indignant, tone. The mastiff is half ashamed at being roused by the lap-dog. In the present instance contempt mingles with the indignation which all rational beings must feel at such stupid ruffianism, for the Tuscan Government is a mere twelfth-cake business at best, and has no more right to be treated as a European Power than Messrs. Fortnum and Mason, who import the Lucca oil which it is the highest privi lege of the Tuscan Government to educe from a kindly soil. One thing is clear enough,—that a stop must be put to this sort of thing. We hear much about Turkish fanaticism, and Russian fanaticism, and Roman fanati cism—we may be driven at last to try a little English fanaticism, as Queen Elizabeth and Cromwell tried it , before us, and it answered in their hands. ( From the Morning Chronicle.) Specimens of judicial blindness are not rare in his tory. Popes and Emperors—the old French noblesse, and the Anglican bishops—King James 11., and the late Protectionist party, all have, in turn, afforded ex amples of the incapacity of profiting by a hint. At the present moment, the Duke of Tuscany is the most strik ing illustration in Europe of that infirmity. Allowance is certainly to be made for him ; for when a great man sees only courtiers, or cardinals, or chaplains, he does not see the world. Many well-meaning princes commit grave errors only because in palaces and great houses the rough natural air of heaven never blows. They see their fellowmen as the blind man in Scripture saw them—" as trees walking." They cannot be brought to believe that public opinion exists or that it is a power. They do not see that their conduct produces conse quences, and that they are responsible for those conse quences. Their vision is confined within the narrowest limits, and they do not attempt to extend it beyond than. • Now, this Duke of Tuscany may be a very well-dis posed person, but unquestionably the world in which he lives is not the great actual European world. He no more belongs to it, or moves with it, than if he dwelt in Uranus. Hardly has he tided over the Madiais mischief, when he, or the simpletons about him, contrive to tumble into a mess just twice as awkward. The Madiais were, as far as we could learn, an amiable dull couple, who were elevated to the rank of second-rate martyrs by the incredible folly of their Sovereign and his advisers. The blind bigotry of the Church which could elevate Holy Maids of Kent, and Anne Askews, and nine-tenths of old Foxe's heroes into martyrs, we can understand in the days of Tudors ; but that this sort of thing should be possible in the Italy of the d'Azeglios, and Mais, and Mezzofautes surpasses human comprehension. The Madiais' imprisonment was a mistake huge enough for one generation of Italian bigots and blockheads. But Rosa and her husband were Tuscan subjects, and their sufferings were, after all, no concern of ours. England might, and did, remonstrate upon the subject ; and we, among others, defended in this journal the English claim to offer a friendly, if an intrusive, hint to the Grand Duke upon the impolicy of religious persecution. But now the Tuscan authorities have repeated their blunder, and with a difference—and such a difference ! They have, as Bishop Burnet would have said, " clapped up" a Miss Margaret Cunninghame for distributing Pro testant tracts ! It would have exc,eied the ingenuity of any but a Tuscan official to commit such a combination of unpro fitable outrages on our most cherished prejudices. To imprison a British subject, and that British subject a lady, and that lady one of the " perferred race of Scots," and that Scottish gentlewoman a true blue Presbyterian —one, as her friends phrase it, of "the stern breed," a scion of the old Covenanters' stock—and, to complete the wickedness, a descendant —yes, a lineal descendant, we are assured—of John Knox, is surely too much. A. lineal descendant of John Knox in a Tuscan ergastolo, causd religionis, and for the dearest privilege of religious ladies, that of scattering tracts, and sowing controversy THE CHOLERA. ( From the _General Board of Health, Whitehall.)' NEWCASTLE. Deaths on the 24th of September : Cholera 72 Diarrhoea 6 Deaths on the 25th of September : Cholera .... Diarrhoea.. GATESHEAD. Deaths on the 24th of September : Ch•lera l4 Diarrhoea 1 • The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea at Newcastle during the present outbreak has been 1,187. 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Van Diemen's Land =7 id 30 7- - 32 •.. - 14 - 16 AfA.RIET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.- Meadow hay, 4/ Os to 5/ lOs ; clover ditto, 4/ 15s to 6/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 16s per load. A full average supply, and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 4/ Os to 51 IGs ; clover ditto, 4/ 10s to 6/ Os ; and straw, 119 s to 1/ 16s per load. Supply but moderate, and trade firm. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 4/ Os to 5/ 8s; closer ditto, 4/ 12s to 6/ 6s ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 16s per load. Trade firm. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market is quiet, but not much is pressing for sale. Foreign has been in a firm position. Floating cargoes are in good demand. Refined does not improve ; brown lumps 44s to 44s 6d. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 2,717 hhds, 347 tierces, and 1,343 barrels ; there were taken for home consumption 1,632 hhds, 144 tierces, 359 barrels, The stock in the same places is 11,909 hhds, 1,895 tierces, 4,472 barrels. COFFEE.—There is a firm market for Plantation, with a fair demand. Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India docks was 684 puns, 5 hhds ; there were taken for home consumption 168 puns, 1 hhd, and exported 205 puns, 119 hhds. The stock in the same places is 8,266 puns, 374 hhds. . . SPlCES.—Pepper, 2,540 bags Allepi, at auction, partly sold at 4d for good, the rest being taken in at 40 to sd. Long pepper, t 9 bags, realised is 4d to is 4id per lb. Cassia buds, 100 boxes, partly sold at 71. 12s 6d to N. 15s for damaged, the sound being taken in at 9/. Cassia Vera 25 bales were taken in at 58s for ord coarse. Nutmegs, 4 cases, sold at 2s id to 2s 6d for ord mall, and 3 cases mace brought 2s 10d. for mid. SALTPETRE.-2,63 bags Bengal partly sold at 28s to 29s for good and fine 91 to 11 per cent., the rest being taken in at 29s 6d to 30s for 4k to 1 per cent. refraction. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 58s 6d per cwt. on the spot, and town 535. TEA.—The market is well supported for all kinds. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(TRIS DAY.) LONDON, Sept. 27.—Wind this day at Noon, W.S.W. ; light breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, Sept. 27.—Wind, W. Arrived from the River— Burgomaster, Jensen, for Melbourne; Camiila, Launceston, V.D.L. The homeward bound are under weigh, together with the French squadron, which is proceeding to the westward. Arrived—Kent, from Bengal. MARGATE ROADS, Sept. 26.—Arrived—Victoria, Now York. DOVER, Sept.. 26.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Voyager, London, for Melbourne. FALMOUTH, Sept. 26.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Bell saire, Martinique, for Havre. Off Port—Samuel Badger, New York ; Amazone, Mazatlan, and sailed for Bremen, after landing 12,000 dollars. PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 26.—The Plata, Sunderland to Ha vannah, which put in here leaky, on the 16th inst., after being on shore, has been towed to Southampton. WHITSTABLE, Sept. 26.—The Martha Andrea (Norwe gian brig), from London, run on the Main, and was aban doned, drifted off on her beam ends, and the crew have returned to her ; if the weather moderates she will be brought in. MARYPORT, Sept. 26.—The Alexander, from Quebec, struck on the Bank outside, and is discharging her deck load. GLA.SSON DOCK, Sept. 26. -The Chieftain, Quebeo to Lancaster, is on shore at Barnard's wharf, with main and mizenmasts cut away. WELLS, Sept. 26.—The Mary Ann, of Stockton, is on shore at Blakeney ; also the Endeavour, of Goole—crew of the latter supposed to be drowned. OFF BONCHURCH (Isle of Wight), Sept. 26.—Typhoon, Melbourne. OFF NEW ROMNEY, Sept. 26.—Renown, Geelong. SHIELDS, Sept. 26.—Wind, N., a gale. Arrived— Junius, Miramichi ; Felton Park, Quebec ; Lord Lamb ton, do. QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 25.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived— Simeon Hardy, Barbadoes. (BY ELECTRIC TELGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Tuesday, 10.45 a.m. Wind, W.S.W., moderate, and cloudy. Arrived— ' Grecian (s), from Malta ; Anna, Prince Edward's Island. Sailed—Australia, New York. Off Port—Edward Stanley (ship). I(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) DEAL, Tuesday, 9.25 a.m. Passed—Jossy, from Westward, for Elver. The :lip Hooghley, from Sydney, for London, put in and an chored, with loss of two anchors and chains, one of which has been supplied. from Margate. 93 - 100 50 - 52 140 - 145 30 - 32 107 - 109 1 53 - 55 27 - 28 134 - 141 25 -26 i 2i hxd .64 - 101 59 - 61 ... Xd 140 - 145 140 - 145 2 - 28 - 30 98 - 102 Business this day. MANCHESTER. A violent storm of wind and rain commenced in this neighbowhood on Sunday afternoon, and' continued during the night. The wind blew chiefly from the west, but occasionally chopped round several points towards the north. We heard of no loss of life, but the roofs of buildings were greatly damaged, and a good many trees were blown down. On the Cheshire side of the city the country doa it to Dunham-park, the seat of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, is well wooded, and in this direction many fine trees were blown down. Sunday was the first day of Durham wake, which is always resorted to by great numbers of visitors, who come from a distance by private vehicles, as well as by railway. Unfavourable as the weather was from the earliest hour of the morning, it hod not deterred many people from venturing forth ; but the storm placed many serious obstacles in the way of their return home. In places along the turnpike roads the drivers of vehicles found their progress frequently impeded, and sometimes entirely stopped, by fine trees which had been prostrated by the storm, and many people trying to find their way out of the difficulty by threading bye-lanes, after encountering drenching rains and suffering great ex haustion from the violence of the wind, had to retrace their course, and wait in the more frequented roads until a passage could be cleared. In the intense darkness of the night it is surprising that some serious accidents did not occur, but we have not heard of any, though a good deal of individual suffering was witnessed from long ex posure to the weather. FOLKFSTONE. SUNDAY EVENING.-A heavy sea has been rolling in the Channel since daybreak this morning. The weather was calm and fine yesterday, and a great fleet of outward-bound vessels sailed to the west ward. About three o'clock this morning a south west gale sprang up and drove most of the ships back. A large number, probably between 50 and 60 vessels, are riding at anchor under the Ness light ; others have been driven round into the Downs, and two or three ships are placed in a position of great risk and danger at the present moment. The first of these is a corn-laden barque, bound for Havre; she came ashore this morning near the new pier at Dover. Her crew, consisting of a father and four sons, were saved with some difficulty by a fishing lugger shortly before the vessel struck the ground. From the state of the tide it was hoped, if the ship had held together, she might float at high water, and several steam tugboats have been engaged in endeavouring to head her off the beach during the afternoon. Another fine bark, bound for Quebec, and laden with 500 tons of coal, is lying in a position of imminent peril off Sandgate. She passed this port two days ago, but was driven back yesterday afternoon ; and, finding herself in difficulty from want of wind, let go her anchor within about a mile of the beach. There were two or three other large ships at anchor near the same spot, and in the then state of the wind there was no apparent danger. She communicated with a lugger belonging to this port, and received on board a quarter of fresh beef. Her captain had some conversation with the boatmen, and mentioned that his wife was on board, and had just been confined. Her sails were made snug, and she lay-to for the night. About three o'clock this morning the wind got up and blew a stiffish gale from the southward. At daybreak the other ships weighed anchor and ran for the Downs. For some reason not yet explained this ship kept her position, and, as the wind increased, let go her second anchor. About 8 o'clock the wind had increased to a gale ; and, as it now blew direct from the southward, there appeared every proba bility of the vessel parting from her anchors and coming ashore, in which caseshe would inevitably have been dashed to pieces on the rocks. Her dangerous position was observed from this port, and one of the coasting tug-boats left the harbour to offer assistance to the captain. The tug got sufficiently close to hold communication, but the commander declined to accept assistance, and the steamer was compelled to run back for shelter. It is quite certain that no assistance could have been ren dered to the barque unless she had slipped both her cables, and, with the sea running as it did close under a lee shore, it is more than possible the captain exercised a sound discretion in not trusting to the steamer's tow warps, the breakage of which must have been followed by an immediate wreck of the ship. Up to 12 o'clock the vessel continued in the greatest possible danger. The inhabitants of the quiet village of Sandgate were greatly excited at the painful position of the ship, and the beach was lined with anxious groups of spectators. A great many persons also went over from this part, and Mr. Lathorn, Lloyd's agent at Dover, arrived at Sand gate to see if he could render any assistance—a re port that the ship had actually gone ashore having reached him. After 12 o'clock the wind got round a little to the westward, and the ship has since laboured less, though she still rolls terribly. Her hatches are closely battened down, and only the anchor watch is observed on deck. Every sea washes over the ship, and her safety depends entirely upon the absence of any flaw in her cables, which up to this time (6 p.m.) have done faithful service. If she ever gets safely ender way again, her underwriters will have good reason to congratulate themselves. The usual communication between this port and Boulogne has been interrupted to-day, owing to the gale. The outward-bound packet has not left the harbour, and the Pavilion is crowded with weather bound travellers. A telegraphic message was received about 1 o'clock, via Calais and Dover, to the effect that the usual boat would not cross from Boulogne to Folke stone in consequence of the weather. She did, how ever, arrive most unexpectedly about 4 o'clock, bringing nearly 100 passengers, and having made the run across the Channel in about two hours.—Morning Post. LONDON MODEL YACHT CLUB. The second race of the season amongst the yachts of this very excellent and popuiar club took place yester day, on the Serpentine, in Hyde-park, and was a most interesting and closely-contested race. FIRST HEAT. Yachts. Owners. The Levant Nelson Whitehead. Water Kelpie Beffen. Nil Desperandum Hunt. Won by Nil Desperandum—Levant second. SECOND HEAT. Gannett. — Flood, Esq. Weathergago Messrs. Bertram. Atalanta Gannet had sunk, but was got up excellently in time for the heat. The Weathergage was first ; Gannet second. THIRD HEAT. Won by the Nelson—Nil Desperandum second. GRAND HEAT. Nelson won—Nil Desperandum second. A capital race, the wind having much abated. STATE OF TRADE.—The accounts of the state of trade in the manufacturing towns during the past week show that the last movements of the Bank, combined with the political alarm in London, have had a decided effect not only in checking the disposition to speculative ship ments, but also in producing a determination on the part of employers generally to resist those demands for higher wages which have of late become more inconsiderate with each concession. At Manchester there has been a gene ral decline in prices, while the working classes are insist ing upon an indiscriminate advance of 10 per cent. ; the consequence being that all the principal manufacturers at Preston have notified an intention to close their mills on the 15th of next month, in which measures they are expected to be supported by other firms throughout the district. The Birmingham report mentions a continuance of the steady demand for all descriptions of manufac tured iron, although some doubts are now entertained as to the expediency of carrying out the contemplated rise of 20s. per ton ; here, likewise, although a com parative immunity from strkes had hitherto been enjoyed, various trades are now being disturbed by claims which it is felt essential to resist. The tin workers require an advance of from 20 to 25 per cent., and the journeymen carpenters have insisted upon an extra sixpence per day. At Nottingham, although it was thought all differences of the kind h a d recent l y been adjusted by a large Foncesien on the pa r t o f employers, renewed dissatisfact.on is already manif es t e d , notwith standing the fact that the trade of the town during the past week has been severely affected in all its branches. It is hoped, however, that the approach of wi n t er, an d the prospect of comparatively high prices for bread, may induce the people to pause before they risk the great advantages they have attained. In the Woollen districts, for the first time for many months, a tendency to reac tion is reported. The markets are said t o b e extreme l y dull, and additional misgivings appe ar t o have been caused by the tenour of the private advices received from Australia. In the Irish linen markets no adverse effects seem as yet to have been experienc e d. T he demand has again been very active, and the sto c k s on hand are lower than at any former period. GOLD FROM CALIFORNIA.—It appears that the ship ments of gold from California during the first half of the present year have amounted to 5,800,000/., aga i ns t 3,870, 000 i., in the corresponding period of 1852, and 2,570,000/., in 1851, and that this amount was distri buted as follows : To Now York £4,934,000 To New Orleans . 30,000 To London 700,000 To China 74,093 To Australia To Valparaiso To Manilla, Sandwich Islands, Cal cutta, Panama' Stc lON 4,300 HEXHABE. The secretary of the sanitary committee in this place has been attacked with the epidemic. During the last two days four deaths from cholera have taken place. Choleraic diarrhoea is almost universal, and it is only by prompt and energetic treatment that the disease is arrested in tins stage. Mr. Fait.bridge has fallen a victim to the disease, and his wife and two daughters were afterwards attacked, and the latest accounts state that they also have since died. BAYSWATER . Cholera of a malignant type, and what thL' faculty designate Asiatic, has broken out in Elms-lane;. Bays water, where five fatal cases hAve occurred, and seve ral are now under medical treatment. Elms-lane, which is the lowest part of the parish as regards site, abuts upon the Bayswater Tea-gardens, and cov slats of 21 one-storey cottages, occupied by poor . but respectable families belonging to the working classes, who are crowded and huddled together, so that the locality is never free from disease of some kind or another. The lane itself is in a horrid condition, being neither flagged nor paved, and the yards or gar dens at therear of the hovels are filled with every species of filth and rubbish, which, according to the residents, emit a stench in weather sufficient to poison and knock them down ; in addition to which there are mush room beds in front of the cottages, the stench from which, in rainy weather, is overpowering. The fright ful disease broke out most suddenly, and the parties fatally at tacked died within 24 hours, although the moment they were first attacked, Dr. Mackenzie, and Mr. Palmer, surgeon, Upper Southwark-street, were in attendance, and did everything to save their lives. Two of these fatal cases were removed to St. Mary's Hos pital, where they soon afterwards died ; Mr. Lawson, the house-surgeon, having no doubt that their disease was Asiatic cholera, in which opinion the other medical gentlemen fully agreed. ST. PANCRAS . In St. Pancras, diarrhcea and low fever are very pre valent, especially in Agar Town, that den of filth and mire, where some cholera cases, savourin g of an Asiatic type, have already appeared ; but owing to the energy and promptness of the medical officers, none terminated fatally. Still, in that district diarrhcea, the forerunner of cholera, is very rife. The diarrhcea that prevails in the district is of so frightful a character, that unless in stantly met it becomes cholera. In one house in Suf folk-street, Mr. Sutheron found 33 people, of both sexes, and all ages, occupying five rooms ; and such has been the filthy, disgraceful, and unhealthy state of the locality for years. It is, however, satisfactory to know that the disease is confined to the filthy localities in question, which proves that it owes its origin to loathsome filth, and the most unpardonable neglect of those to whom the public health and the public safety are confided. MANCHESTER. Sept. 26.—Two more fatal cases were reported here this morning, but our information warrants us in be lieving that they are of doubtful character. One, in deed, has since been declared as a case of delirium tremens, and will be registered as such ; the other is a fatal case of the English complaint, and not Asiatic. In both cases there was everything favourable to the approach of the epidemic ; and one of the deceased had been drinking hard for three days, and lay out of doors for two nights. The atmosphere at the present time is remarkably clear and pure, having been completely changed within twenty-four hours by the action of a heavy gale of wind, which has extended from here far into Yorkshire. LEEDS. Throughout this borough the most active measure are being taken by the several bodies of authority, in anti cipation of the visitation of the diseese, with a view to its mitigation if not prevention in this district, and there can be no doubt that these labours will be attended with the most beneficial results. At present, though fever and dysentery to some extent prevail, there is no thing to indicate the immediate presence of more serious diseases, and by a timely and judicious co-operation on the part of the inhabitants with the board of guardians, and the nuisance and other committees of the town council, there is every reason to hope that the virulence of the cholera, should it visit us, will be by no me a n s so I great as in 1849. HACK_NEY UNION. Though the parishes composing this union are to a great extent of a suburban character, they were by no means exempt from the ravages of cholera on its last visitation. Its violence was principally felt in thore low lying districts which abut on Hackney-brook, and in streets where the drainage is neglected or imperfect. Warned by the experience of 1849, the guardians have lost no time in taking vigorous measures, in compliance with the order of the Privy Council of the 15th inst. HOLBORN UNION. Yesterday a special meeting of the guardians of the Holborn Union was held to take into consideration the directions of the General Board of Health of the 20th of September, 1853 ; Mr. John S. S. Hopwood in the chair. Mr. Sandland proposed that the guardians be formed into commfttees of four for the purpose of visit ing the whole of the union, and, where nuisances were found to exist, to take means for remedying them. He said, now that the guardians had the power, under the Order in Council, which they did not formerly possess, it was their duty to ferret out nuisances wherever they existed, and lose no time in applying a remedy. Mr. Low seconded the resolution. The chairman, Mr. Goldsworthy, and several other guardians having made a few remarks, the resolution was adopted. Resolutions were then adopted for carrying into effect the rules and regulations of the General Board of Health. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Sir James Graham and the Board of Admiralty, on the inspection tour, are still at Queenstown, whence they proceed to Kingstown and Holyhead to-morrow. The First Lord will join Lady Graham at the Castle, Dublin, where her ladyship is on a visit to the Lord Lieutenent. Vice Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., is now the only naval member of the board at Whitehall, with Captain W. A. B. Hamilton, the secretary. Rear Admiral Berkeley, C. 8., has left Whitehall, for Chichester. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 26. The Prussian corvette Anlazone, 12, sailed to-day from Spithead for Prussia. She saluted the garrison on leaving. The Princess Royal, 90, screw, got up steam for the first time to-day in the steam basin dock, to prove her boilers. In a few days more she will be coppered and ship her propeller, and by the 14th of October will be at Spithead ; thus showing that by the excellent ar rangements of the officers, and skilful application by the artisans belonging to the dockyard establishment at this port, any amount of work, if stated to the Lords of the Admiralty can be completed by any stated time, is inva riably performed ; and this is effectually carried out from the gallant Rear Admiral Superintendent Fan shawe down to the meanest labourer attached to this important and chief of arsenals. Letters from the fleet at Queenstoirn announce a court martial, ordered for this day, to be held on Second-Lieu tenant Toms, of the Queen, on a charge of drunkenness. The whole of ships in the outer roads, comprising both the sailin g an d t h e screw divisions of the Channel fleet, have been placed under the command of Rear- Admiral Corry by the Lords of the Admiralty. WOOLWICH, SEPT. 26. APPOINTMENTS. Paymaster--James B. Hay (1846), to the Madagas car, receiving ship at Devonport. Clerk in Charge—Richard Allen (1847), from the Trafalgar, 120, on the Mediterranean station, to the Triton steam-vessel, employed in the conveyance of the mails between Malta and Marseilles. Clerk—F. A. Cave (1853), to the Magicienne, 16, paddle-wheel steam-frigate. Midshipman—J. IT. N. Spalding, to the London, 90, at Queenstown. The Cyclops steam-frigate, in charge of Mr. Alexander Pope, Assistant-Master Attendant at Sheerness Dock yard, arrived at Woolwich on Saturday evening, from Devonport, and reports having passed in the Downs a French fleet, consisting of three line-of-battle ships and three war-steamers. The figure-bead of the Royall Albert, 131,screw steam ship was put up at the bow of that ship to-day. When viewed as a profile, it has a commanding and correct resemblance, combined with the dignity of attitude ob served by all those who have seen Prince Albert in military uniform ur dressed in the robes of State. THE NEW PENNY RECEIPT STAMP.—The new uni form penny receipt stamp conies into use on the 15th of October. The Stamp-office has already issued a notice that it is prepared to supply them, or to stamp paper and forms. Although not yet announced, we presume that bankers will sell to their customers, at the cost of the stamps, cheques having the penny stamp, and made payable to order, instead of to bearer, not the least of the advantages that will result from the new post. Penny receipt stamps will now be as convenient a small coin for transmitting small payments as penny postage stamps. We have no doubt that the revenue will gain by the change, for every receipt will now be stamped, whereas at present not one receipt in fifty is stamped. Remember that the payer of money, providing the stamp, is empowered by the act to deduct it from the pay ee.— igl4o .844:410. 43 5 11i 11 57i 7 8 6i 102 1 15 wd 101 -4 THE EQUINOCTIAL GALES. The destructive storms known as the equinoctialgales, which are generally experienced at this period of the year, have set in with more than usual violence. They commenced from the south-west early on Sunday fore noon, and, by the telegraphic messages which were re ceived at Lloyd's in the course of yesterday, it seems that the storm has visited almost all parts of the coast. Towards evening the wind veered round to the north west, and at midnight raged with the fltry nearly of a hurricane. As may be imagined, great uneasiness was felt among the underwriters and owners, and, as the messages were received and entered during the day, the " books " were surrounded by eager crowds. Although many disasters were announced, there were none which involved loss of life. The fearful character of the gale, however, has led to an anticipation that to-day's mail will furnish details of some deplorable catastrophe during the night. In the vicinity of the Downs, between the North Foreland and Dungeness, most terrible weather was encountered. Outward-bound ships, which had sailed from off Deal on Saturday, were caught by the gale while making their way down Channel. They made short work of it in running back. Some, when brought up, were driven from their anchors, and lost cable and all, besides being exposed to great peril while drifting. Several distressed vessels were, after much difficulty, got into Ramsgate harbour. A ship called the Barnard, Mr. Delnano, bound to London, from the St. Lawrence, while endeavouring to ride out the gale, had a narrow escape of being lost on the Goodwin. While the wind was raging with its greatest force the Barnard went from her anchors. Her destruction was almost inevi table, and as a last expedient, her main and mizen masts were cut away. This had the desired effect, and ulti mately she was got into Margate roads and securely brought up. The Margate and other boatmen report that no fewer than 15 ships were blown away from their anchors from under the Foreland. Their names could not be gleaned. The Channel squadron of the French, which left Cher bourg on Wednesday to do honour to the Emperor and Empress on their arrival at Calais, and brought up in the Downs on Friday afternoon, has not escaped injury. The fleet, which consists of three line-of-battle ships— Jean Bait, Duguescliu, and Hercule—and three steamers —Pomone, Caffarelli, and Roland—were understood to be under orders to get under weigh on Sunday, so as to be in readiness to receive the Emperor at the port. The sudden springing up of the gale, however, rendered a delay prudent, and perhaps it is fortunate that they did not attempt to cross the Channel, for with such a heavy wind directly upon their own (French) dangerous coast, it is more than probable that they would have encountered some sad misfortune had they endeavoured to make it. As it was, their position in the Downs was somewhat critical. In order more securely to ride out the gale, the Admiral signalled to strike topgallantyards, and to let go a second anchor. This was quickly accomplished, but in the course of the night a Dutch schooner, called the Pauline, which was running back for shelter, came in contact with the Jean Bart, line-of-battle ship, and both sustained much damage. The squadron bad not left yesterday (Monday) morning ; nor is it probable that the Admiral will de part until more favourable weather sets in. Lower down the Channel the gale is described to have been equally, if not more severe. Numerous disasters are looked for on the French coast. The City of London steamer, with the Countess de Neuilly and several of the ex-Royal family of France on board, put into Ply mouth, as has already been noticed. The eastern coast is also reported to have suffered much from the storm ; and Harwich and neighbouring ports are filling with vessels which have lost anchors, cables, spars, &c. Most of the seagoing steamers which arrived in the river yesterday were late. They speak of experiencing very boisterous passages. The gale had a curious effect upon the midday tide of the Thames. It should not have ebbed at London-bridge, according to the tables, until nearly two o'clock. Instead of going over to that time, the water suddenly began to flow shortly before 12 o'clock, nearly two hours before its time. This remark able occurrence is attributed to the circumstance of the gale driving an immense body of water up Channel, and so up the numerous rivers. In the metropolis the storm was most severe between 11 o'clock on Sunday night and 2 o ' c l oc k yesterday morning. The " wind gauge" on the top of the Royal Exchange indicated the pressure to be 181 b. on the square foot. VIOLENT HURRICANE ON THE MERSEY, AND LOSS OF LIFE. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—This town and port were yes terday visited by a fearful gale blowing from the north west, accompanied by occasional heavy showers of rain, which continued to an early hour thi s morn i ng. In the town the wreck of chimney-pots, tiles, &c., in nearly every street, gave evidence of the violence of the storm. The scaffolding to some new houses in Mersey-street, was blown down. The time-ball, on the summit of the Telegraph-office, Castle-street, was much strained, and would have been torn away had not the danger been perceived in time to secure the shaft with ropes. The river throughout the day was in an unusual state of commotion, but in the evening it lashed itself into a perfect fury, and all the ferry-boats, with the excep tion of those plying to or from Woodside, ceased run ning after 7 o'clock. Several ship s i n th e r i ver dragged their anchors, and were obliged to be taken in tow by steam-tugs. The bark Intrinsic go t ashore near the Sandon Dock, and susta ined considerable damage, being severely injured in the bows, an d h av i ng lost rudder, &c. She still remains ashore. During the height of the gale two small vessels, names unknown, were seen to founder off the North-west lightship, and all on board perished. The ship Neva still remains ashore near the Huskisson Dock, thumping heavily, but it is not known how many of her passengers were drowned, as the sur. TILE QUEEN'S YACHT. --.---- - (From the Hampshire Advertiser and Portsmouth Herald.) . We are sorry to see every evidence of perpetrating the bungle we alluded to in our last, relative td altering the Queen's steam-yacht Victoria and Albert. She is along side Portsmouth dockyard jetty discharging furniture, stores, &c., and being bored to ascertain her soundness, as it is her Majesty's wish, if sound enough to undergo the operation, that she be lengthened 63 feet amidships. This will make her sharper in body certainly, and as Penn, the eminent engine maker, of Greenwich, says, with engines on his most improved and approved prin ciple, he can guarantee realising a speed of 15 knots an hour, there is no doubt but that the botching, will be done. How often have we seen in our walks, espeei. ally through a poor district, the small signboard hung out over a dingy dark area, advertising "Mangling done here." The announctment strikes us as peculiarly apropos for adoption by naval authorities in all matters of construction, or nearly all, and in none so pointedly as in the continuous alterations of the Queen's yachts. The first cost of the Victoria and Albert was 69,9411. ; this was to the 9th of September, 1843 ; hes subsequent exp ense was 43,8061.—making a total of 113,7471., but this expense was incurred up to the 19th of April, 1848, only. Beyond that .period to the present we have no official return, but as five years have elapsed since the last was published, and the yacht has undergone refits, alterations, additions, and improve ments, yearly since, we may fairly set down a large sum in thousands of pounds for those annual refits ; and after all, what do we find ? Why, that three-deckers and two-deckers go ahead of her when put upon their mettle, and her Majesty very naturally does not like to see her model vessel eclipsed in fleetness by lumbering men-of war ; and so, with a consideration for expense which every Englishman ought highly to estimate, prefers having her old yacht altered to putting the nation to the expense of a new one. We proclaim this is highly creditable to the Queen, but her Majesty should not be suffered to make such shifts, nor would such be advocated by any other than a Scotch-headed Government (general as well as naval). If the ordered increase of length would make the Victoria and Albert more efficient, more comfortable for her officers, or more permanently serviceable as a seagoing family ship for the Sovereign, we would be the first to hail with approbation the contemplated patching, but when we know that no amount of alteration short of th'it applied to Paddy's worn-out gun (which needed a ne w stock, lock, and barrel) will ever make the Victoria and Albert what the Queen's seagoing steam-yacht ought to be, we cannot but deeply regret that so much money will be added to that already thrown away upon her in so futile an endeavour. Her Majesty prefers a paddle wheel steamer to a screw, owing to the former giving less vibration astern than the latter, and therefore we imagine that the more sightly screw yacht will not be adopted for the Royal pleasure ; we would therefore like to see an efficient paddle steam-yacht carrying the Royal standard. and this the presenc Victoria and Albert never will be made. It is almost beyond belief, but it is nevertheless the truth., that this Victoria and Albert, which should have been a 0 model of perfection from the first, has the most beggarly accommodation for those who are obliged to berth themselves permanently on board of her of any vessel afloat. Fancy the noble and esteemed Commo dore being berthed in a dark cupboard, as it were, below the water line, with certainly a scuttle-hole to admit what little light and air can penetrate through it from just above the surface of the briny element without ! Yet this is, and has ever been so ! Again, imagine two gentlemen (her principal officers) being apportioned only one berth in common between them—the one obliged to undress and turn into bed on a sort of shelf over the other !—to wash, &c., before the other ! But so it is on board the Sovereign's pleasure yacht Victoria and Albert ! I Such a state of things is not only derogatory to the cha racter of the Court movements afloat, but is altogether indecent. Such ill accommodation might be expected in a merchantman of "economical" proportions, but when there is, as in the present instance, neither lack of materials, workmanship, nor labour, and moreover ample funds from the national treasury willingly pro vided for the support of the Queen's dignity and comfort afloat, we cannot permit such glaring inconsistencies and improprieties to escape stricture. We are quite sure that with the limited complement of officers her Majes ty's yacht carries (she has neither an officer of Marines nor a chaplain, strange to say), ample room might be provided for all the Royal circle, the Court attendants, and domestic retinue, and still leave proper quarters in which to berth her own staff; and whether the present yacht be lengthened or a new one built (and this latter course we would earnestly recommend), we trust she will never again put to sea with the Queen on board under such undignified and unwholesome circumstances as those we have related. (From the Morning Herald of this day.) We have yet some hopes that common sense and good taste will prevail, and that the Queen of England will not have a patchwork yacht for the Royal aquatic excur sions, but a handsome, comfortable, easy, and roomy ship, of unrivalled speed—a vessel worth showing to the world as a specimen of British naval architecture and engineering skill. The Victoria and Albert was a bung ling affair from the commencement. She was bad in design, and bad was made worse in the unauthorised alterations that were made by her builder. Her machi nery was neither adapted for the vessel, nor the vessel for the machinery. Tier accommodations on the whole were execrable ; for although the Royal apartments were roomy, the other portions of the yacht were miser ably cramped. She ought to have been faster for the power placed in her, but she had always hot bearings, and nothing but new boilers almost every year could make her go at a respectable pace. Moreover, she always had an ungainly list, and nothing could bring her to a graceful trite, for, do what they would, she dropped down by the head, and they were obliged to raise her bulwarks forward to " keep up appearances." Take away the gingerbread, and the gilding, and the painting, and she was the ugliest tub afloat. We firmly believe that nothing but the most extraordinary and in cessant care and attention, shiftings, and contrivances on the part of all on board, from the noble commodore downwards, and especially we may say from Captain Crispin's skill and ingenuity, has saved her from con demnation for many years. And it is for such a faulty constitution as this that the Navy Office doctors are called upon to prescribe. The task is an impossible one. The case is hopeless. Spend 100,0001. and she will still be "a mess and a cobble." She may go faster, but she will have the same tug-like bow and barge-like stern. Her Majesty has most condescendingly put up with the inconveniences of the yacht, and has been silent as to her imperfections. But the time has arrived for the country to show their gratitude to the Sovereign, and to provide her Majesty, the Mistress of the seas, a vessel worthy the Royal acceptance—worthy to be called the floating palace of the Queen of that empire on. which the sun never sets. (Front the Times of this day.) Her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain Crispin, flag of Rear-Admiral Lord Adolphus Fitzcla rence, G.C.H., is under the shears in the steam basin, having her engines taken out preparatory to being docked for lengthening 63 feet, which we believe will be done. THE GOVERNORSHIP OF GREENWICH _HOSPITAL. A. great push seems to be making to impress the public with the 31aiins of Rear-Admiral Sir James Gordon for the governorship of Greenwich Hospital—his services are now being paraded through the newspapers. We regret this, for although Sir James is a gallant and very dis tinguished officer, and has seen a great deal of hard fighting and sharp service, and, moreover has suffered loss of limb in engaging the enemies of his country, it cannot fail to be known that they will not bear compari son with the services of his seniors, Lord Dundonald, G.C.8., and Sir William Parker, G.C.B. It is a pity that Sir James Gordon is not allowed to enjoy his pre sent position. He must be very comfortable where he is as the lieutenant governor, and his friends are acting a most indiscreet part in thrusting him before the public as a rival candidate to the two officers above men tioned. We are compelled to say that, whilst Sir James Gordon has been nursed in successive shore berths for the last twenty years, with a pen sion of 3001. per annum for his wounds, in addi tion to the emoluments of his appointments—half pay and salary, both Lord Dundonald and Sir William Parker have been actively employed on foreign stations the latter in Lisbon, China, and the Mediterranean, and the former in the West Indies, where he spent all his pay in reforms and improvements. The comparison of claims and services is most invi dious. With the utmost bad taste it has been repre sented as against the appointment of the noble earl that he is too old, and the inference is suggested that he is only fit for the infirmary. The only reply to this incon sistent and unfeeling allusion is that the admiral is as active, perhaps more so, than most of the flag officers on the list. He is in full possession of all his extraor dinary faculties, and has a mind fresh enough and energy sufficient to detect, root out, and reform any prescriptive abuses that may exist in the Royal Hospital, Greenwich. We repeat that if service claims are considered to have their just recommendation in the selection of the officer to fill the vacancy at Greenwich, Admiral then Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8., gazetted on no less tha ine oc casions for his daring exploits, will be the new governor of the hospital. —Morning Herald. THE NAVY CONTRCT.—The quantity taken on Irish account is very large, and a considerable portion of it will be made up in this city by the house of Messrs. Gould and Co., Mr. Selby Clare, Messrs. George Madder and Co., and Messrs. P. Murphy and Son, the two lat ter firms having been so fortunate as to have their ten ders accepted at higher figures than any other contract. i Ilig parties, The q uantit y to be made u p in Irela nd is 4,050 tierces and 1,100 barrels of beef, and 7,800 tierces and 3,900 barrels of pork; on French account, 1,000 tierces and 500 barrels of beef, and 1,300 tierces of pork ; on American account, 1,100 tierces of beef, and Dantzic account 400 tierces and 600 barrels pork. The making up of such a large quantity of the contract in the city, and the extensive labour it will afford to the coopering trade, &0., as well as to other branches of employment, will be of no small advantage during the winter season. —Cork Constitution. ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTER".—A new branch of this excellent and flourishing institution will be opened on Wednesday evening, at the house of Br. D. H. Whiting, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, Charles-street, Hat t )n-garden, by Br. Feta 3, District Chief Ranger of the London United District. A large number of the most influential members of the order will be pre sent on the occasion. I I , -4 of ',cede N - ote auti. CoW l y to the the and War- ; It is a ving 1 p Of Ile S °' ,d be t 3 into her 4 [dry"' , t igte° re i 3 1S 4 3 5 9 3 06 1 64 25 50 20 20 20 10 St. Bt. 20 15 5 St. at. 20 St. 10 25 •10 1.0.6 St. 20 5 St. 10 20 20 20 20 20 20 PLO,, 33" 37i i 50 25 12 12 20 all all all all 100 11; 100 100 18fi i' 4 111