The Sun. — London, England, 1853-10-14 00:00:00

MARKET 12 DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Notwithstanding that the supply of English wheat on Ter here to-day was very moderate, the demand for all kinds ruled extremely inactive, at, in some instances, a Wight decline in the quotations of Monday. The imports of foreign wheat having exceeded 47,000 quarters, the trade for that description of produce was heavy, and low qualities were ls per quarter lower . to pur chase. In floating cargoes next to nothing was doing.. We had a large supply of barley, in which very little Was doing, on easier terms. Malt was in moderate request, and the quotations were Well supported. The arrivals of foreign oats having considerably increased, the oat trade was heavy, at 6d to is per quarter less money. New beans were is lower. Old parcels supported late took bl Place . Peas, Indian corn, and flour, very few transactions PiatUgh /Kish • • Porel v i . :: Wkeat• 1,490 ARRIVAL! TIUB WEEP. :Barley. Malt. 4,070 4,220 1,300 47,150 5,780 Oats. Flour. 40 2,370 1,500 30,320 3,810brl SMITHFIELD. To day's market was somewhat extensively with beasts, the general quality of which was inferior. All breeds met a dull inquiry, and, in some instances, prices had a down ir,mrd tendency. Prime Down sheep wore scarce, and held %4 full currencies: Otherwise the mutton trade was heavy, at 2d per 8 1 bs less money. The primest calves moved off %lowly on forme r terms, but other kinds of breeds were little 6l was dull, and 2d to 4d per Blbs cheaper. In pigs very doing, at drooping prices. Mch c their itows were small very dull, at from 141. to 191. each, includin g calf. Per 81be to al the offals. s. d. s. d.' liferlor Beasts.... 2 Bto 3 0, end quality.... 3 2 3 6 . I ,' - ' 3 lO large oxen 3 8 4 0 rune Boots, d:o. 4 2 4 4 turerior Sheep ...2 10 3 2 ~.1 430/ I c l quality ...3 4 3 8 crime erse.-wlled.3 10 4 6 a. d. 0. d. rime Southdown 4 10 Large crse. calves 3 4 F 1 S Fr= ' o small d 0... 4 0 4 6 Large hogs 3 8 4 2 mall porkers 4 4 4 10 ueklingcalves ..21 0 27 0 Quarter old pigs 20 0 26 0 b._ TOTAL SUPPLY. rnStS 1,100 eeeP an . d Lamb e •• •• • 7, 410 " P 410 NEWGATE ANI Ile general demand ruled Per 81ba by s. d. s. d. tee, inferior 2 6 3 0 D., middling 3 2 3 4 •, Primo large 3 4 3 6 do. small 3 8 3 10 Pork, l arge 38 4 0 FOREIGN SUPPLY. 8ea5t5......... ........ . 440 Sheep ....•• Ca1ve5,................... 300 Pig 5............•• •• .. ) LEADENHALL. heavy, at drooping prices. tho carcase. s. d. s. d. Mutton, Inferior 2 8 3 4 Do., middling 3 8 4 4 Do., prime 4 8 4 8 Veal 3 2 4 4 Pork, small 4 6 5 0 BOROUGH HOP. The demand for all new hops, the show of which is tolera-bly good, is active, and prices are on the advance. Ne w Weald of gents have sold at from 101. to 12/.125, and N ew Sussex, 91. to 101. 10s per cwt. Yearlings and old ` 1 , 0 1 2 .2 are dearer, good 1848's having reached 84s to 90 s . 411 e duty is called 135,0001. This week's imports are 320 bales from Ostend, and 40 from Antwerp. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—There has been a good demand far British Plantation, and full prices have been obtained. Barbadoes publicly found buyers at 33s to 38s 6d for low mid to fine. Jamaica, went at 32s to 33s for brown, and at 33s Gd to 84a 6d for mid. Demerara sold at 33s to 33s 6d for grey, and at 33s to 39s for ord to good crystalised. East India— There has been a steady demand, and prices have been fairly supported. Bengal publicly sold at 378 Gd to 38s 6d for low mid to good mid white Benares, the rest being taken in at 34s to 37s for mid to fine yellaw, and at 40s Gd to 42s for inferior yellow and white. Madras brought 39a 6d to 40s Gd for fine yellow, and 41s to 43s for good and fine white foreign. At auction Porto Rico was mostly taken in at 33s to 37s 6d for low and mid greyish yellow, a nd llavannah at 37s for good yellow. Bahia in bond Partly sold at 17s 6d to 23s 6d for low foxy brown to mid yello w . Collsnir.—There has Leen a steady though rather a dull pmarket f or all descriptions. The home trade are the chi e f oera- Ceylon h as b een so ld privately at 46s to 46s 6d r native. Plantation mostly found buyers at 56s to 63s for low m id and mid bold. Colory at 54s to 55s 6d for 0 , 411 13 ord, and low mid small at 51s to 51s 6d for good ord, to 668 f or pea b erry, and at 42s to 54s for triage. Rio °ll l and good ord has been sold at 428 Gd to 45s 6d per "t. Costa Rica brought 498 to 50s Gd for good and fine (:) r ,d, and 52s to 57s 6d for low mid and mid. bag been has not been much doing, and mid Bengal -.wit:been sold at 14s. h2 Ple lt 4 •--Piment o has been rather lower, ord mixed g gold at 6d, and mid at sid to 7d. Cochin Ginger I s t ' t iken at 50s to 54s for partly worm eaten. ALTPEIRE.—This article has been cheaper. Bengal 2 ° B:Lla, mid 16 to 7 per cent. refraction has been sold at a C"ttel? o uti to 295. d ll .-The market has been rather firmer and with Itu_ d emand. 14:7 There has been more inquiry. to last :0. —prices are slightly in favour of buyers, and up Tu. g 4,128 chests sold of the 10,63 9 chests put up o . fine c iold * -- 4- ; oore has been a good demand for the go TALL O ;" 6B , but Common Congou is rather dull. the spocW--P.Y.C. has been firm at 58s 9d per cwt on GR EEN COntra r , ..: 11 _, 131 T.—The market is bare of all kinds, and Provin r ";„" Lil jg Prevent arrivals. Lisbon grapes are im % "V - Price, owing to the partial failure of the Spanish tout I . Parcel per T : mus, from Lisbon, sold by Keeling ‘a P.A._t, at p u bli c sa l e, wen t a t an a d vance o f 2s. per 4,,.ge. Chesnuts, from France, may be expected ; the mopposed, not coming under the denomination • Pu _• aned vegetables," whi c h are p ro hibit e a Aura being Ir o r rAct• The stock of lemons is diminishing. New • ga daily expected. No business doing in nuts, buyers being disposed to give the advanced price. TVRECK OF THE ANNIE JANE. The following is a list of the persons saved from the ship Annie Jane, passengers and ship's company in chided : SATED FROM THM FIRST CABIN. Captain Mason Marc Ami Francis Goold, Surgeon John Morgan Lammert Van Buren Wm. Anfield, steward Joan Francois Cornu Jas. Tailor, 2d steward Eight persons. STEERAGE I Cath. StanlEl7 Bridget Snlhvan William Kelly Mary Kelly Amelia Kelly Thomas M`Carthy John O'Brien Julia M `Carthy and child Mary Sheridan James Grogan John Kingston Mary Clifford John Clifford Alex. Walker Thomas Kavanagh James Kelly Martha Marrah Mary J. Getty Cath. Burt Mary J. Crothens Jane Farrell Thomas Hawkins Edward Donnelly Rosina Noheu Frederick Nohen Patrick Kelly Ellen Kelly Timothy Donovan Patrick Donnell George Kingston Sixty-one 'ASSINGERS. Patrick Shea Alex. Allen Matthew Toomey George Lennox Timothy Rogers John Rogers Jomes Rogers John Brooks Abraham Brooks Charles Smith Donnell Frazer William Frazer John Parry David Caullen Corney Mahony John Townsley James Admonson William Reynolds Robert Walter Edward Shaneham Alexander M'Cormic Walter Fannier Matthew Hayes John Macnarnara Agnes Mattison William Shack Rachel Barry Margaret M`Cauley Martin Donough persons. CR Torn Markham, 2d mate William Lewis William Moore Tom Mason Charles Lea Tom Tillister William Lancaster Torn Nalcrow Richard Stephens Charles Burnock James Sword Christopher Kelly Francis Welch James Wood Matthew Irwin James Marshall John Hutchison 44112 'V-three sailors.—To John Jackson Charles Garret James Allen Edward Roberts Charles Brown Anthony Lizzard Theodore Sherrett Odu Sirniez Tom Bemiez Longlinward Joe Dean Joseph Miller Archy Jameson Edward Duray Tom Gilbraith James Boyd. 61, one hundred and two. THU NDERSTORM AT DEAL.—Yesterday evening Deal k nown vi s i ted by one of the most awful thunderstorms I'llovvn for some years. It continued for more than an hour, the flashes of lightning being very vivid and wrong, accompanied by heavy rain. It appeared to Pass towards the north-east. Wind N.B. IRoIinfAsTEES QUARTERLY MEITINGS.—BIRMINGH AM : Tharsday.--The usu a l quar t er l y meet i ngs o f th e ' I ron s ters of thi s di str i ct have been held during the pre weak in Walsall and Wolverhampton, and to-day 11l this town. The pr ice of iron remains e xceedingly firm at the rates fixed a fortnight ago, and the demand . tierepr esented to be extraordinarily brisk for all descnp ns , tr, of make. Th e co lli ers in the neighbourhood of " est B romwich, who turned out ten days ago, have for th e most part returned to work at the old prices, and at a meeting of the coal proprietors of Bilston and the neighbourhood W as deter , held y es t er d ay at W o l verhampton, it mined, in reply to applications from the colliers for an advance, to abide by existing rates of wages. The masters are unanimous in their determination ; and there is reason to believe that, under such circumstances the ,, Men, as at West Bromwich and Oldbury, will re :lake their employment. The closing meeting of the iroinuaaters will be held at Dudley on Saturday, when t he state of the iron market can ho spoken of with greater certainty . FAL L OP A HOITSE.—On Wednesday night, at 12 ° °lc 'elc, the roof of a house, 2, Pettiford-court, a narrow Unwholesoule court, not more than six feet broad, im oitneedudiaotuelayebrehshin,d St Mary's Church, fell in with a tre nearly killing three children and two Vulta, the tenants of the upper part of the premises. I!eri ttuull telY) however they were recued from their lus position. Tile next house was being pulled ti 13171 before it was time, for both houses have been _a hazardous condition for a long time—and as the p ork k of demolition was going on, the house No. 2, e v : i ng o t:o proper shoring put up to uphold it, from sheer tja : e gave way, when the support it received from Party wall of No. 1 was removed. From the deep rszeaTations which have been carried on in the neigh otutr:ionodiefor some time past, an . d . from the old and ta l . _, g . state of' many . of the buildings, the danger to ' lultabitants is very imminent, -,~„~~ A.11,; t-' 74 'HIS DAY). BRITISH RAILWAYS. Closing rrices this day. -- 21 4 - 4i 8 - 91 13 - 11 :t 15 17 5 4 d 93 95 49 —5O 15 —l7 43:45 7i - Si 41 - 41 3 - 3 1111 - 11 36 - 40 27 - 29 61 - 63 i . : a 21 - : ii 74i -75 i 50 - 51 124 - 126 1100 - 102 I 80 i - 844 83 88 10 12 p 02 —62 i 7i— 74(1 5i 5 d 121 —12 i 7i 7i par 1 p 93 95 1021 103} id— ip 75 77 13 12 di 12 -- 11 dj 19 - 20 . . - -d 59 -59 i 33 - 35 50 53 i d par 5 4d 4i* = GO 4 - 3 Ell 254 - 264 8 - 10 3 7 6 - 5d 7i —7/ par 2 p 36 - 38 86 - 88 55 - 57 62 - 64 GO - 65 2i - 15 - 17 7i - 8i 11 - 13 15 -.- 17 58 - 59 33i - 34}i 3 - 4 28 - 30 2f 2 11 14 - 15 . ... ii - 9 61i —62 i 91 Bid 4i 4 d 45 46 58i 7i 8 RAILNYAYO. 25 25 St. 50 Paid 100 86 18} 100 100 all 1 all all 8i all 100 all 100 42 : 4 , 34 all all 100 100 - 100 474 1 17ii all 100 4 17 7i all Norihn. Counties Un North British ... ..... , Do. Stockton & Hartlepl. Thames Haven Dock and Rai1way......... Vale of Neath......... Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West C0rnwa11........ Wmbledon &Croydon Woodford .... ........ York Newetl. &Berw. Do. Extensions....... Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland.. Aberdeen ........ ---- Ambg. Nottug. Bost. & Eastn. June....... Blrmng. Wolverh & Stour Valley Birkeuhd. Lancsh .31. Cheshire Junct...... Do. Chesil. & Birk., '£so & £25 Cons.... Do., £20.... ......... .. Bristol & Exeter...... Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon.... Cork, Black. & Pass. Dublin &Belfast June. Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction . ..... . Do. New East Anglian (£25 L. & E. & L. & D.)..... Do., (£lB E. & H.).. Eastern Counties..... 'Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. 5h.... Do., do.. Do., B. & C East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk & Binning. June Edinburgh& Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edinb.Prth.&Dundee Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock ,31 Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire. y Great Western rieh South-Eastern. neaster & Carlisle. Do., Third 5.......„ „. Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un ,Leeds Northern ILiv.Crsby.&Soutbpt. Loudon & Blackwell Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond . Bright. & S. Cst. London & N. Western Do. Fifths Do. JO/. Sh 'London At S. Western IDo., £5O Do., £4O Indndny.&Colerainei Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 'Manch.Shof. &Lineln. Do., Man. &Lin. Un. Midland o. Birming. & Derby Midland G. West. (Ir. Do. Shares Newcastle & Carlisle.. Newmarket............ Do. Bury Extensions Newpt.Aberg.&Htfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint & Rostrovor Norfolk Do., New )North Devou, No.l 'Do., No. 2 Dc., A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western N. do S. Westrn. June. Oxford Worcester di Wolverhampton Scottish Central Scottish Midland_ Shrewsbury & Birmg. Do., L. & N. West'. Guaranteed Stock Shrewsby. & llerefd Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves, do Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern ( South Wales... ....... S. Yorksh. Rivor Dun PREFERENCE SHARES, 100 100 100 5 Wu all Aberdeen Do., No. 2, 7 p. c Bris. & Ex. 4 p. e. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares uuleaonia.n £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent Cork&Bandon 5i p. c Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction EastA nglian 6 per cent. Do. (RS) 7 per cent Do. (1:717s) 7 p. ct Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2 Ig• ---i.; 6 -6; 31 - 44 - 5 - Ipl Do., New 6 p. a. St.. Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent.... EastLancash. 6 p.cts. Edinb.Prth.&Dundee 4 per cent. ...... Glasgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent.... Great Northr 5 p.c. IDo. 5 p. c.,R edeem., at 10 p. c. pram.... Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths... Gt. Westn. (Barks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.).. G. West. fixed 4 p c. Lan. & York. P. k2O, Do., 6 p. c., Stock... London and:Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. 0... Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 . . 1 - 1 - lip' 13 - 14 1 18 -. 19 3 - di -- lii 1108 - 110 100 6 100 100 Do. New Guar. 6p.e London &S.Western Con. Thirds 1 7i— 8 6i 7 95 100 id Par .139 141 •• • . Londonderry& Color. Shares Londy. & Ennis Sh Mauch.,Shef., & Lin., Shares, No. 1...... Do. Now, £lO Marypt.&Carl. 4p. c Do. por cent . 10 6 12ii 1241 10:1 100 100 ID° Mid.Consol. 6 p.c. St. Do. Consol. Bristol dr Birm. 6 per cent....l Do. Pref. 4i per cent. Norfolk Extension... Do. Pref. N per et... Do. Wnv. Val. 5 p c North British North Staffordshire.. Oxford Worcester di Wolverb. £15,6p. c Do 100 100 100 100 all 100 2 - 3pl Shrews& Birm. N. G. Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min),B p. c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New 10 all 14 all IS. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of Li Os.6d. S. Yorksh.4p. c. Gnar. Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. York Newcastle and Berwick ,4 p.e.Pref Do 124 - 134 - 7 8 - 94 f- p ... York& N. Midland H. k S. Purch.. 138 - 140 - 22 - ii 100 - 102 9i -10 i 16 —l7 p 9i -10 ix 13 -- 14 par — i P 24 - 24 19 - 20 1081 10 967 95 98 41 4i id Id FOREIGN. 10 5 Antwrp&Rotterdam 3 2d 24 5 3 Belgian East. Junct. I 14 20 all Charleroi & Erquelin ._ ... 20 10 Dijon and Besnon Ili - 24. 20 8 Dutch Rhenish 20 all East Indian 2 3 p 221 i 20 2 Do. Extension — 2 5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula ! — 1 4 p 20 10 Gd. Juliet. of France 2ip 20 20? Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares 2 ld 5 3 Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref. i id 20 15 Lucxembourg 6i 7 10 10 iDo. (Railway) 4 4i 44 i i 5 2 Do ••• ••• 5 3 Do.i (Canal) 1 1j 10 5 ' Do. 6p. cent. pref. 1 li 20 12 ( Lyons & Mediterran. ... ••• 20 104,Madras f lip 334 29 Maria Antonia 10 10 Do. New — ••• 20 all Namur & Liego (with interest 6l 6 i 6 4 i 20 all Do. (ex interest) — •.• 16 all Northern of France 334 33 4 33 4 i 20 all Do. 201. 3p. c. Bds [fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.] 12i - 134 10 all I NorwecianTrnk. Prof 7 8 •, 20 10 ,Paris and Lyons 154 —164 p 20 all Paris and Orleans 45 —47 20 all Paris and Rouen 20 all ,Paris and Strasbo urg 364 364 20 4 !ParisCaen&Chorb rg . 2 4 p 104 10,Nuebec & Richmond 3 1 d 20 all !Roll= and Havre 20 all Sambre and Meuse._ Ti 81 10 6 Do. 54 per cent. pref. _ a . 20 6 Southern of France i _ i p 20 20.117pper India Scrip Eii all .West Flanders 3 4 31 20 10 'Mo. 5); per c. Pref 10 10 'Western of France 7 --Sip 26 4 :L V i rest. of Switzerland —id 1.0 12 N ow Zoaland... Business done this day. 94 4, 49! 50 15t 614 24 75i 5 49i 51 50 125 1024 80 1 i pm 62 i li 21 2 93i 1021 3.1 2i 3, T 5 i i 19i 591 9 5 2 3 10 SHA.REMA 15i 15 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Oct. 14. Wind this day at Noon, S.S.W. light breeze, and fine weather. ...PLYMOUTH, Oct. 13.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Ashert, Dominica ; Gustave Adolphe, St. Domingo, with bowsprit sprung, &c., from contact with the Sophia, Liverpool for Dram, arrived here with damage to stern. SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 13.—Arrived—La Plata (s), West Indies—on freight 8,5001. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 13.—Wind, E. Arrived—Solo, Jourahaya, for Gothenburgh ; Wane, London, for Mel bourne, and proceeded for Southampton. Sailed—Vrouw Johanna, Singapore ; H.M. st. Encounter, for Plymouth and the East Indies. COWES, Oct. 13.—Wind, strong. Arrived—Soberano, Bahia. FALMOUTH, Oct. 13.—Wind, N. Arrived—Lancashire Witch, Bahia. Off Port—John Souchay, Hobart Town ; Koophandel, Surinam, for Amsterdam; Serene, Monte Video, for Havre. PENZANCE, Oct. 13.—Arrived—Ide, London, for Cape of Good Hope ; Neptunus, Cardiff, to Leer, to stop a leak. GOTHENBERG, Oct. B.—The Expedit, Riga to Hull, has put in leaky, to discharge and repair ; part of cargo da maged. Tho Admiral Drake, Hartlepool to this port, was abandoned, the sth inst., but taken into Lysekhel by some pilots and fishermen ; crew saved. STROMNESS, Oct. 13.—The Scandinavian, St. Peters burgh to Liverpool, which put in hero on the 27th ult., leaky, &c., will discharge.—The Tweed, of Wisbeaoh, has put in here leaky. (BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Friday, 10 30 A.M. Wind, E., moderate, and thick. Arrived—Douro (e), from Oporto ; Countess of Winton, Shanghai ; Ides, Malaga. Off Port—Tagus, from Porto Cabello ; Crusader, Per nambuco (BY SUBMARINE AND RUROPEA.N TELEGRAPH.) DEAL, Friday, 9.32 a.m. Wi n d, S.W., very fine. Passed—Comet, from Madeira, for London. Anchored—Mary Bannatyne, from London, for Port Philip ; Jnstyn, from London, for Sydney ; Joven Ar mindo, from Loudon, for Oporto. Sailed—The Delfino, for Amsterdam. DANGEROUS STATE OF WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.--After all the tinkering and cobbling which the bridge has un dergone, at no small expense, it is giving additional warning that its end is nigh. For some years three of its arches have been upheld by intricate crutches, which greatly obstruct the navigation of the river, and three years ago we pointed out the threatening and dis jointed condition of the fourth arch on the Middlesex side. It was at that time patched up with cement, and the cracks filled in, but this process only hid the wrinkle, not removed it. The gap has again mani fested itself, and a wisp of hay, suspended by a rope from the parapet, gives ominous warning that it is dangerous for craft to pass under it ; but the pedes trians who go along have no note of preparation given them. If it is considered necessary to have a wisp of hay for the under traffic, it is at least equally ne cessary to have a wisp of straw for the information of the passenger traffic above. We understand the new bridge will be commenced forthwith. Messrs. Fox and Henderson are, it is stated, to have the con traet for its erection. Sir W. Cubitt is the engineer. PAUPERISM IN WALES. ----The diminution of pauperism in Wales at the present moment is very great, there being scarcely any able-bodied paupers in the various union houses. This is to be traced to the extraordinary demand for labour at present existing all over the country arising from the great number of public and private works now in course of b e i ng carried out. Tho applications for out-door relief ha ve lik ew i se very much diminished, thus showing by the quickest and surest of all tests that pauperism has much decreased. At Swan sea, Merthyr, &c., the expenditure has materially decreased, and in other districts the rates have been lowered to the extent of one quarter. In some parts of North Wales there is a slight increase in the casual ex penditure, w hich de is ri nowing characters, t o the rathergreate r than any tramps and increased pauperism in the localised population. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1853 LITBRATUBB. RAILWAYS. Leasing Compane. Closing Prices this day. Business this day. A Complete System of Arithmetic. . Trotter. Oli ver an d Bov d . The ingenious compiler of this, little volume—. descriptive of " Theoretical a metic"— has already rendero',:t his name familiar to many students in the TT nited Kingdom by his " Manual of Logaritk,ms and by his " - ey to Ingram's. Mathern:atics." Tad Practical Arith- His present work will c . on.siderably it is to thP., use of schools, it may also be em loyed e'ftend his reputation. Adapted as P advantageously in the labour of self tuitio.n. It commences by giving the whole of the fundament a l ru l es of arithmetic in 4110 succession, and having " grounded" the scholar in those, carries him onward easily to their application to mercantile computation. In this manner the promise of the title-page is fulfilled. The system here submitted to the use of students is, as it professes to be, practical as well as theore tical in its information. After explaining the fun damental rules of the science, and their ordinary application, the compiler advances to a higher stage —to vulgar and decimal fractions —and then to involution and evolution—subsequently to series —and ultimately to annuities, certain and con tingent. The amount of knowledge comprised in this volume within 300 pages, is creditable not only to the industry of Mr. Trotter in its accumu lation, but to his skill in its arrangement. While the present compilation is the latest, it is a l so something more than that—it is about the soundest of all popular works on arithmetic. By James Speeches of Kossuth. — Edited by Francis W. New. man. Triibner and Co. In this singularly attractive volume are com prised several of those remarkable speeches, by which Louis Kossuth has gained for him self the reputation of a very great orator among the Anglo-Saxon population in both hemispheres. Assuredly never before has foreigner spoken as this one has, in a tongue not learned by him in childhood among the familiar scenes of Fatherland. Seldom, indeed, have we English listened to words of more impassioned rhetoric from the lips of the most gifted of our countrymen. In this, as in so many other respects, the ex-Governor and some time Liberator of Hungary stands alone among the noble band of tho mono illustrious of the world's de magogues. After winning a great name in the midst of his own people, he has acquired a new renown in the land of his banishment. He came amongst us with a glorious reputation to support, and that reputation he has wonderfully enhanced, or rather ho has added reputation to reputation. His pa triotism he had already manifested in rousing and di recting the Magyar war of independence. His states manship he had attested by the successful acts of his humane and powerful government. His eloquence we had become conscious of, from listening to it at rare intervals through the faint echoes of inadequatt translation. At last Kossuth himself arrived in England, and we were enabled to see the man face to face of whose deeds of glory and words of wisdom we had heard so frequently —we were enabled to measure the height of his genius and the depth of his sensibility. And the Liberator 131 . Hungary not only came and took refuge on the soil of England, but spoke in their own language to.many thousands of Englishmen. Spoke in broken accents, it is true, but in words of winged eloquence. His triumphal. progress through England, and after that through the United States of America, will not speedily be lost to the popular recollection. If it could otherwise fade away speedily—here is a monument for its perpetuation. It has evidently been a labour of love with the editor (Francis W. Newman) the building up of this same monument. He has his reconvene° however. For if ho may be said to have raised an intellectual effigy of the great Hungarian patriot, he has availed himself of the privilege of the sculptor—lie has carved his own name on the pedestal. The History of the Taxation of England. By William Tayler. Hope and Co. How fruitful a theme for the arguments of the politico-statician The History of the Taxation of England—with an Account of the Rise and Pro gress of the National Debt. The History- of the Representative Government of the United King dom—with an account of the military and ma ritime - victories, the warlike glory, and the national crimes of the great Anglo-Saxon race. That is the correct signification of Mich annals and of such a description --of the description of the National Debt and of the annals of Taxation. It is a subject of this character and of this magnitude that Mr. Tayler, of the Middle Temple, has selected for the display of his industry and lucidity in compilation, and both of these merits he has re vealed in the present volume, in a manner calcu lated to earn for him something of a reputation. Dividing the work before us into two parts, he has treated first of the progress of Taxation from 1066, in the reign of William the Conqueror to 1688, in the reign of William of Orange, in other words, to the period of the Revolution —recounting after wards the extraordinary strides of this dread and bugbear of the British people, Taxation from 1688 in the age of William t o 1853, i n t h at of "Victoria. A resume of the whole, there given by the compiler, will be perused by the reader with advantage. Subsequently, will be found in the volume three really useful appendices, fol lowed by an account, first, of the " Public In come," and then of the " Public Expenditure." Among the persons whose names, speeches, and opinions are referred to during the course of the narrative, will be found enumerated almost all the political celebrities from the days of Queen Anne down to those of our present gracious Sovereign. The catalogue, by the way, begins with Walpole and ends with Disraeli. We can confidently com mend the book as a reliable authority upon the subject of Taxation. The London Season of 1853. By the Little St. Leger. W. It. Sams. A very inadequate notion could alone be con veyed, by that abbreviated heading, of the fun stored up in this delightful little poetic pleasantry. Therefore let us give the title-page to our readers in its entirety. Listen !—" The London Season of 1853 ; or, Lays, Musical and Lunatic : by the Little St. Leger, thirty-first cousin to the Great St. Leger." And a comical fellow to boot : one who hath his " quips and his quiddities." Read him and answer—aye, and we warrant your answer will be rendered somewhat inarticu late by your laughter. For the Little Saint Leger is most ludicrously and provokingly in coherent in his reminiscences. He never fails, from the first stanza to the last, to preserve in his own mind and in that of his reader that if his lays are musical they aro also decidedly lunatic. The review ho takes of the last season is such a droll omnium gatherum. One can't help fancying sometimes, at the end of a stanza, that it closes with an Irish whoop and the flourish, not of a pen but of a shilelah : the conceit comes forth with such a roar of animal spirit and such a startling unexpected ness. Hear him—the bon vivant, with his concert recollections : " Mons. Jullien, that comical fellow, Is gone with his band to New York, With the great wonder, young Bottesini— By Jove ! I cant't pull out this cork?" Or, again, with his appetising thoughtfulness, the gourmet ! " In September I go to Doncaster, To see the great St. Leger race, What fun we shall have, my dear fellow, — Don't forget the greengages and plaice." Is not this, however, sufficiently musical or lu natic ? Hear him a little later : " How vexing to lose dear Ferraris, And Sontag, the sweet evergreen I Her tired—hurrahaje opensstsl all s n season— I'ma ne , xt seree " After that are you not satisfied ? If not—listen to the Thirty-first Cousin to the Great St. Leger carolling elsewhere of some of the motley sights witnessed' last season by the Londoners. " Have you seen gorgeous Sardanapalus, Mont Blanc, and the idols Aztec? By Jove ! round the globe I've been roaming ; How funny ! King Cole, you're a brick." And so on throughout the whole of this length ened and fantastic celebration. After this royster ing account of the byegone season, we have in the brochure before us, " the ninth statue," being a graceful tribute to Anna Thillon ; " The Little Bateman's" being a panegyric upon the genius of those marvellous little children ; an " Acrostic" on the name of Miss Romer ; and the translation of a letter written two or three years ago byßossini —the last mentioned a charmingly humorous piece of composition. Travels in the St e p pes o f the Caspian. Sea. By Zavier Hommaire de Hell. Chapman and Hall. If ever that notable civil engineer, wanderer, man of letters, member of the Societe Geologique de France, and Knight of the O r d er o f St. Vladi mir, of Russia, called by hi s t err ibl e p a t ro nymic, Xavier Hommaire de Hell, o bt a i ns an audience, it will be now when a work relating to the subject treated din this goodly volume of his cannot fail to prove attractive. The author sets out on his rovings in Turkey, and closes them, for the time, in Bessarabia. 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South Austral. Land Submarine Telegraph Van Diemon's Land 98 - 102 48 -_ 138 —l42nd 30 32 107 109 53 54 27 28 13 —14 i 24i-251 ad, 2t - 3 98 = 100 CO - 63 140 - 145 138 - 142 2 lid 29i -30 A 95 - 100 0 d 24 -- 2i 4d dis— - par - 7 9 2i 2 2i 33 34 id par 41 43 16 11 ip 55 65 6 —7 p 2i 3 d 14 16 d — IP 2i 2 d 1 d " d 6i 74 4d. far j 3i - 4i - -- 5 - 4 BANKS. 69 - 71 .par 13 idis 24 lid A d— ip 22 - 24 33 - 34 44 45xd1 i d • par 65 - 67 q - 7i 18 - 19 EOUS. 31 -- 33 ••• ... ''''' - ad a irl 1.4 - hl id r _ — 11 3 d— d ••• ••• la lap --- : 34 in 1- - M COURT 0. COUNCIL, Yesterday a court was held for the dispatch of public business. There was a full attendance of members, there being several notices of public interest upon the paper. THE CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL. Mr. W. S. HALE, the chairman of the City of London School Committee, brought up a report on the subject of the foundation of a scholarship, to be called "The Lambert Jones Scholarship." The report recommended that they should be empowered to cause a tablet, with a suitable inscription, and the armorial bearings of Mr. Jones, to be placed in a conspicuous part of the school, at the expense of the City, in like manner with the me morials already put up by the directions of the court with respect to other similar benefactions. The report was agreed to amidst acclamations. CITY OF LONDON FREEMEN'S ORPHAN SCHOOL. Mr. Deputy HALE said that, seeing that his friend Mr. Gilpin had given notice of a motion, "That the resolution of the court of the 28th September last, 'that the head master of the City of London Freemen's Orphan School be a clergyman of the Church of England,' be rescinded, and that the general rule be altered accord ingly," he took the first opportunity that presented itself of saying that, in order to avoid all dissensions of a religious tendency amongst the members of the court, he, as chairman of the committee, should not object to the words "clergyman of the Church of England" being omitted, and the following words substituted for the original resolution :—" That the head master of the City of London Orphan School shall be elected from such three candidates as shall be specified to be best qualified for the office by the head master of the City of London School, the head master of King's College School, and the head master of University College School, London, or the majority of them." (Hear.) Mr. GILPIN expressed his willingness to agree to the resolution, and atter a short discussion it was put, and carried. It was then agreed that the assistant-master's salary should be 1001. per annum. OPPOSITION TO THE REMOVAL O➢' TEMPLE BAR. The Chairman of the City Lands Committee brought up the report of the committee upon the allegations of the petition of the inhabitants of the parish of St. Dun stan-in-the-West, against the removal of Temple-bar. The following are extracts from the report : " That the said petition is signed by Messrs. Child and Co. (bankers), Messrs. C. Hoare and Co. (bankers), Mr. C. W. Lees (churchwarden of tho said parish), Messrs. Simp son, Graham, and. Co. (tea-dealers), and 52 other persons, and alleges that they have heard with great concern that a motion was about to be submitted to your honourable court, having in view the immediate and entire removal of that ancient barrier and landmark of the City, and that in the judgment of the petitioners it is most undesirable that all visible mark and token of the City westward should be re moved, and that the two cities of London and Westminster should in future appear to be one and undistinguishable. That they do not plead for the perpetuation of the present barrier without repair or improvement. They admit that it is probable that modern art may devise a structure which shall be more pleasing to the eye, while it presents no obstruction to the traffic ; but they humbly submit that any such project of improvement should be maturely and sufficiently discussed before any steps shall be taken for the removal of the present structure. " That meanwhile, however, as inhabitants of that part of the City which is alleged to be injured by the obstruc tion offered by the present edifice, they beg to submit to your honourable court their sincere opinion that the total removal of this venerable landmark of the City is neither rendered necessary by the requirements of trade and com merce, nor is yet desirable with a view to the City's ap proaches. Hence they regard its removal as a step which will be viewed by the inhabitants of the City generally with feelings of sincere regret and dissatisfaction. The petitioners further observe that, from long observation, the obstruction complained of does not arise from Temple bar, but at the end of Chancery-lane, from the immense number of omnibuses, &c., passing and ropassing from and into Holborn. " That we, your committee, have not only maturely con sidered the said allega,tionss but we have reason to believe that similar opinions aro entertained by a large portion of the inhabitants of this City, and particularly those of the pariah of St. Bride, in Fleet-street (adjoining the parish of St. Dunstan-in-the-West), who had signed a petition to your honourable court on the subject ; but which latter pe tition was not presented from a feeling that what was stated by the inhabitants of St. Dunstan-in-the-West would be sufficient to induce your honourable court not to consent to the removal of Temple-bar. Your committee also con sidered the several arguments which had been adduced for the entire removal of Temple-bar but found they principally consisted i n it s b e i ng alleged to be an unsightly structure, although erected by Sir Christopher Wren, and that its destruction would increase the carriage and foot way accommodation. But, upon the fullest consideration of the subject, your committee were of opinion that unless great expense were incurred in the removal of houses on each aide of the bar, the bare removal of it would not in crease the carriage way sufficient to allow more than two carriages to pass, as at present, without encroaching more upon the foot pavement than the piers of the centre arch now extend ; and that the continuance of such piers affords a protection to passengers, and that if the bar is substan. tially and handsomely repaired, according to the plan prepared by the City Architect, it would still be an in teresting structure, indicative of the boundaries between the ancient cities of London and Westminster, and that the obstruction to passengers and traffic arise chiefly at the end of Chancery-lane and Fetter-lane, and not at Temple bar, where one regular line of carriages pass each way with out that confusion which would ensue from attempting to pass more, unless the sides of the street at that spot were enlarged. " Your committee therefore directed Mr. Architect to prepare estimates of the expense of restoring and repairing the building, who has reported to us that the cost of per fecting the building in all its parts will be from 1,2001. to 1,5001., and we are of opinion, and recommend, that Temple-bar should be restored according to the plan pre pared by Mr. Architect, at an expense not exceeding 1,5001. " All which we submit to the judgment of this honour• able Court. " D. CORK. " B. BOWER. " T. FARRAR. " J. HILL. "L. REDHEAD. "W. RAYMOND. "W. ARCHER. "G. TAYLOR. " H. BLAKE. " G. VIRTUE. " W. RATEIBONE. " J. JOHNSON." On the motion by the CHAIRMAN that the report be agreed to, Mr. Cox moved, as an amendment, "That the report be sent back for further consideration, and that the plan now submitted, or any other plan having for its object to obtain further roadway and footway on that portion of Fleet-street, be considered." Mr. Cox said that he looked upon Temple-bar as one of the very great number of nuisances that existed in the City, and that, if he were to classify these, he should place this erection at the top of the list. (Laughter.) It answered no good or useful purpose as it now stood, it created a great stoppage of carriages. (No, no.) He affirmed this from personal observation, and after having given the subject a great deal of serious consideration. It had been said that the antiquity of Temple-bar ought to save it from destruction ; its antiquity only extended to 150 or 160 years, and even if it extended to 1,600 years, it ought no longer to be permitted to remain, seeing that the great traffic of the City rendered its removal abso lutely necessary. Mr. Cox produced, and laid upon the table, some plans which he had prepared at his own ex pense, showing how on the present site a modern struc ture could be formed, answering the purposes of the ex isting one, and preventing all the inconvenience and pres sure at present experienced at that part of the City. Mr. LAMBE seconded the amendment. Mr. Deputy Holm thought the court ought to pause before expending a sum of 1,500/. upon an erection that was evidently distasteful to a groat number of the citi zens. He was in favour of the amendment. (Hear.) Mr. Deputy BOWER, after denying that Temple-bar was an obstruction to traffic, said the question was not between one plan and another, but whether there should exist any boundary at all between London and West minster. (Hear.) They were told by their architect that the present structure must be repaired. If alto gether knocked down, there would be such a united force of the press against its being rebuilt, that another erec tion would be totally out of the question. (Hear.) Were there boundaries enough to prove that the City had a distinctive mark, then he apprehended the cor poration would not be so particular with regard to the removal of Temple-bar, but this was the only gate now left, and ought it to be sacrificed ? (No, no.) It was such things as these that kept together the old land marks of their rights, and the old privileges belonging to the corporation. (Cheers.) Mr. Deputy HARRISON had no apprehension of the liberties and privileges of the corporation being de stroyed by their taking down Temple-bar. (Laughter.) He considered that the corporation must be maintained for more useful purposes than any that could be identi fied with Temple-bar, otherwise the sooner they were swept away the better. He was of opinion that the sooner the corporation removed this obstruction, the more would they be honoured and respected by persons resorting to the City for the purpose of business or otherwise. (Hear.) Mr. Deputy BLAKE strongly opposed the removal cf Temple-bar, and said that a ceremony there took place whenever the Sovereign visited the City, which was, at all events, appropriate while there was the existence of a bar. That ceremony had been greatly ridiculed both by the press and by the members of that court, who had little thought of what the ceremony was the symbol. (Hear, hear.) That ceremony was more pregnant with instruction to the court and to their fellow-citizens than could be found in any ceremony performed within the City—it was the last homage within this realm paid by the Sovereign to the free institutions of the great city of the world. (Cheers.) Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said he would not advocate the re tention of Temple-bar on any account ;he was most anxious to remove all impediments to the traffic and com merce of the City, and, at this time of day, it was too bad that the corporation should attempt to sustain such au obstruction as Temple-bar. (Cheers.) The subject of redecorating the bar had been discussed before the City Lands Committee, and the City's architect had emphati cally stated, "Down it must come," (Hear, hoar.) He (Mr. Taylor) thought the corporation would not be doing their duty to the citizens if they did not seek to remove the obstruction. (Hear, hear.) He asked the court whether they were prepared to incur the censure of the public press, which they most assuredly would do if the report were received at the very time when the Royal Commissioners would not be able to come through Temple-bar on their way to Guildhall. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Mr. Deputy CORK having briefly spoken, the court divided, when there appeared— For the amendment Against it Majority —l2 The court then adjourned. Signor Gaetano Giardini, the eminent jurisconsult, condemned to death by the Criminal Court of Naples for political offences, has arrived safe at Turin, having .re mained concealed four years in his native country. without letting you know by a pleasant experience that he is the most lively and instructive of com panions. He is this principally for the two rea sons, namely, because while he is a man of educa tion, he is a man a l so o f v i g il an t o b serva ti on. He sees thinkingly —a commendation not always appli cable with truth to your lettered traveller. Under t his simple title of " Travels " in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, in the Crimcea, and in the Caucasus, M. Xavier rommairo de Hell has compacted to gether an extraordinary mass of valuable and curious information. THE PEACE MOVEMENT. (From the Times. ) Mr. Cobden's position at Edinburgh is this— that, because we have no cause to fear an attack from the French Emperor at the present moment, and because the fleets of the French and English nations are now acting in alliance, therefore there was no reason at any time to fear danger in this country on the side of France. lie speaks confi deafly, and as though under the full conviction, that, because the Anglo-French fleet is now acting in amicable union at Constantinople, therefore we were wrong in putting the country in a state of defence at a time when it was absolutely defence less, and when the political fortunes of Europe were in such uncertainty that our wisest statesmen were living, as it were, from hand to mouth. Would Mr. Cobden get ten men to agree with him in opinion if he should endeavour to per suade a constituency that, because the relations between France and England are at the present moment what the most politic and prudent men in either country would wish them ever to remain, therefore we should disband our land forces, give up the organisation of the militia, send . our s hi ps i nto ordinary, and leave the liberties of Europe under the protection of the French Emperor's sense of forbearance and Mr. Cobden's rhetorical genius ? Mr.Cobden is pleased to be facetious upon a subject on which we feel little desire to jest, He draws a picture of an in dividual who should have left his native country for Australia at the time when Mr. Cobden was hyi ng a wager with General Brotherton, which we will venture to say few men in his position would have had the bad taste to accept. We were orga- nising our militia—we wAre fortifying our coasts— we were raising our Ordnance service from its then deplorable condition—we were contriving the best methods of carrying on commissariat operations in case of need. Against whom were these prepara tions made ? Clearly against a possible attack from France. There is no use in disguising the point. This country has nothing to fear from invasion save from our powerful neighbour. Well, then, Mr. Cobden's Australian traveller returns, and finds not only that a French invasion has not taken place, but that actually the bonds of friendship and alliance have been happily drawn so close be tween the two nations that their fleets are acting in combination, and that they are endeavouring together to maintain the peace of the world. The inference drawn by Mr. Cobden's Anglo-Australian member of the Patent Peace Association upon this state of facts is so startling, that we will give it in his own words : "The first thing he would naturally ask would be, Can you trust this individual whom you were not long ago calling a brigand and a pirate ? (Cheers.) Has anything happened to prove that the Peace people were right in their views ? (Hear, hear.) What has this man done ? Has he given you any guarantee that when you go into action with the Russian fleet he has not previously bad an understanding with the Emperor of Russia, and that, instead of joining you in pouring your broadsides into the Russian fleet, he will not aid- Russia in demolishing yours ? Unless he has undergone a great change he may conic back, after having destroyed your fleet, 'land on your coast, ravage your towns, burn your houses, seize the Bank, and carry off the Queen. (Great laughter.)" This foolish creature of Mr. Cobden's imagination is so highly amused with the result of the precau tionary measures, that he never thinks of asking if they had not some slight effect in producing a result which must give satisfaction to every friend of humanity. England is strong—England is secure. She is rendered secure and strong by her fleets and by her armies, and for this very reason it is that her alli ance is sought and valued, and that, in union with France, she is able to uphold a policy of peace in Europe. We say it without fear of contradiction, the peace of the world is at present due to the at titude that England has assumed, and to the power with which she is enabled to menace whoever would disturb that peace. With what force could she have intervened in the deliberations of Europe if she had only presented herself in the attitude of a mild ethical philosopher, suggesting peaceful con clusions, and hinting rather than asserting against I men of violence and blood the remote contingencies of another and a better world ? And yet Mr. Cobden claims a triumph for the peace party as he looks at the present condition of Europe and the history of the movement. "I have never," says Mr. Cobden, " alluded, in the House of Commons or elsewhere, that I am aware of, to that most consummate triumphwhich thisConfereuce has effected, in the change that has taken place since we met at Manchester on the subject of a French aggression." The language is somewhat mystic— dark as an oracle—but we, who have no occasion to shroud the simple truth in oracular garb, can simply say that the great council of the nation, with the full and hearty assent of nineteen twentieths of the population of these realms, adopted a course upon the occasion directly in the teeth of Mr. Cobden's suggestions. It was pre dicted at the time by those who recommended these most wise and salutary measures of precau tion, that if their recommendations were adopted, there would be an end of all aggressive and ambi tious thoughts upon the part of the French Go vernment as against this country. The recom mendations were adopted, the nations have re mained in perfect accord, and the greatest military nation is associated with the greatest naval power in the worthy object of preserving the general peace. Mr. Cobden's advice was disregarded, and we have found ourselves so much the better for disregarding it that we have actually attained the end he said we should attain if we adopted a diametrically opposite course. But then Mr. Cobden tells us—and here comes a revelation of la haute politique—that if there had never been any apprehension of an invasion here from the other side of the Channel, the Russian Czar would never have been guilty of his aggression against Turkey. We would simply remark that the dates, unfortu nately, overthrow this ingenious little theory. Had the invasion of the Principalities occurred two years ago, we might have supposed that the Emperor Nicholas had calculated upon a hypothetical mis understanding between the French and English. Governments as likely to further his designs. Eng land, he might have thought, in her then defence less condition, might have been compelled to remain a reluctant spectator of events which she was power less to prevent. But now, with our fleets on every sea—with no war up on our h ands —what a dull dog the Russian Czar must be if he relies upon such a calculation ! No wonder Mr. Cobden imagined he could crumple him up like a sheet of blotting-p aper I The peace movement, as it is ca ll e d, h as been from the first the ruin of Mr. Cobden's reputation as a statesman, and remains so still. Every time he touches it he complicates his position, and brings himself into still greater discredit. THE PEACE CONFERENCE AND MR, HENRY DRUMMOND, M.P. The following letter has been addressed to the Secre tary of the Peace Society by Mr. Henry Drummond M.P., in reply to an invitation sent to him to attend its meetings about to be held in Edinburgh : " Albury-park, Sept. 30. "Sir,—You have invited me to go down to Edinburgh to assist at a, conference of persons calling themselves The Friends of Peace ;' and you have desired me, if I cannot be present, to send you my written adhesion to the objects of the conference. "All people want peace. If the Emperor of Russia, be 1 allowed to keep possession of Walla c h ia and Moldavia, ' and to detach the subjects of the Porte from their duty to their own Sovereign, no man will be more p e aceable than Nicholas. The title, therefore, of the body is not ver y appropriate nor distinctive. "In your address there are many trite truisms describ ing the evils of war, against which co mmon -places no thing can be said. You consider it as a 'Utopian dream to bring about suddenly a miraculous transforma,- tion of human nature.' the indulgence of which ysm di e . claim ; but your whole address pro ves that the only part of the dream you differ from is the suddenness of the `miraculous transformation , ' and that y ou d o propose to yourselves to be the mean s of usherin g in a uni versal reign of peace by means o f conferences . Of the first t wo men born into the world one kill ed the other ; and in thi s way human nature' has manifested itself ever since that period, and ever will, unless it und ergoes a ' miraculous transformatio.n. "You endeavour to cast obloquy on the profes sion of arms, and are i nd ignant successful war riors occupying posts of distinction in Courts and Cabinets.' Take the army and the navy as a class, and take any other class of men in this country—mer chants, tradesmen, manufacturers, savants, lawyers; com pare them together for talents, patriotism, honour, virtue, disinterestedness, kindness, self-devotion—for, in short, every quality that enno b les man—and I assert that the military class is, beyond measure, superior to any other. You would prefer to see statues erected to those who have been most eminent in the money-making arts of peace ; and, instead of statues to Marlborough, Wel lington, Duncan, and Nelson, you would prefer to see statues to the inventors of spinning-jennies and rail roads, or t o K ant And Jeremy Bentham. You think a broadbrim in bronze more picturesque than a cocked hat. You are severe upon Mars and Moloch, and pre- 'PAPF 11 44 ( 41, • '44'lea \-'P\ fer Mammon to both. Idolatry, like stat affair of taste, but Milton, who seems to kno - about devils as you do, tells us that Mammo '7;4( 4. I basest and meanest of all. i d Pgs , " You quote the opinion of Lord John Russ lc:. I the last war was unnecessary. It was not undertAn until the French Government had proclaimed war upon every crowned head in Europe ; and they who were loyal urged their Sovereigns to reply to these manifestoes with grape shot—the only arguments with which revo lutionists should be treated. The Whigs said it was not necessary, merely as every faction not in power takes the opposite side of every question from the ono that is; but when they came into office, although they had co quetted with treason and palliated sedition (as they have ever since continued to do, whenever by so doing they could strengthen themselves), they were not one whit less alive to the true safety and honour of the country under Mr. Fox and Lord Grey than their predecessors had been under Mr. Pitt. ~~ " It requires matchless impudence to speak of the de fenceless state of this country, and the sense of its dan ger, to which the people were with difficulty awakened, as absurd and fabulous tales, for which there was not even a shadow of foundation.' The President of the French Republic had reiterated assertions, with oaths, that he would preserve the Republic entire ; it has been since manifested that at the very moment he was making those assertions he was plotting to seize upon the Government and make himself Emperor. Yet on this man's truth and professions of peace, you advise us to rely in lamblike security ! He made no secret of say ing that he would, at a proper time, invade this country, A plan. for its invasion was given in to him while he was President of the Republic, which he would not look at then, because he had other business in hand. After he was Emperor he referred that plan of invasion to his Ministers,' who replied that the plan was good, if it had been carried into effect at the time, but now that the English were roused, and their military spirit awakened, as had been proved by the calling out .of their militia, the time had gone by. He himself proposed a plan for the repartition of Europe, which was put an end to solely by the Emperor of Russia. Louis Napoleon has raised the largest number of screw war-ships that France ever possessed, which cannot be to protect its colonies and commerce, because it has none. He has been long practising his troops in embarking and disembarking by night, which cannot be for going to Vienna, Rome, or St. Petersburgh, and which can be solely for a descent on our shores. The French people prefer glory to gain, hate the English with a perfect hatred, and long to re venge their defeat at Waterloo. While such facts as these stare us in the face, who shall say there is no need' of common sense to hold up to scorn and derision that party in this country which ' excites public opinion ' to meet such dangers by a conference for peace ? " You state that ' the flower and strength of Euro. pean manhood is living in coerced idleness at the ex pense of the rest of the community, in order that they may be ready to fight :' it would be more true if you had said, in order that the rest of the community may be able to spin - cotton and grow cor n in qu iet. " Agreeably td the cant of the age, you try to mix up some fragments of Holy Writ to sanctify your folly ; and, imagining that you are to be the means of intro ducing the millennium, you ask if there is nothing which Christian men .can do' towards that end You want a universal peace without the Prince of Peace ; you want the world more quiet, that men may be left more undisturbed in the enjoyment of selfish gratifica tion ; and you think that no one can penetrate the dark ness in which you have enveloped history, both sacred and profane. Yes ; you can do something to bring about universal peace. Join together to beseech the Prince of Peace to come again, as He has promised to do, in the same way as that in which he was seen to go, and He will come and bring Peace with him ; but with out him ye shall do nothing. " At this moment every Sovereign in Continental Europe has usurped over the rights of their nobles and of their people ; the Emperors of Russia and Austria, the Pope and his priests, the King of Naples, and all the minor absolute German Princes. For this usurpa tion the people are vowing vengeance ; and from Eng land their leaders have issued proclamations calling on all subjects not to war with each other, but to unite in warring on all the reigning fanulies, and put them to death. If you have any honesty and sincerity among You, tranfer your conference to Moscow, Vienna, or Constantinople, in all of which I can venture, though ` unauthorised, to promise you a reception much more consonant with your deserts than the urbanity of the Weoteli is likely to give you in Edinburgh ; and when the inhabitants of that city, and of Manchester, have been brought to dismiss their magistrates and police, and to rely upon the pacific disposition of the rabble in those towns, it will be time enough to begin to think about what may be done with the rest of Europe.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, " HENRY DRUMMOND. " Rev. 11. Richard, 19, New Broad-street." 50 IDo . 'l2 100 100 18i all 13.5 24 50 50 100 100 20 10 20 35 1071 53t 701 70 23i 3 441 il x d J~ THE CHOLERA. ( From the General Board of Health.) MIDDLICSBOROI7GH. The threatened outbreak of cholera in this town has been so alarming, that three medical visitors have been stationed there to carry on daily and active house-to• house visitation. FELLING. An outbreak of cholera is reported to have taken place in this township, and an immediate inquiry on the spot has been made to ascertain the real facts of the case. WARKWORTH. Dr. Gavin, in company with the Poor-law inspector of the district, Mr. Hurst, visited this town on the 12th, in order to arrange with the board of guardians the measures rendered imperatively necessary by an out break of the epidemic. GATESHEAD AND NEWCASTLE. The epidemic, though kept in check and deprived of its force, still lingers in its favourite haunts, in these towns, and unremitted vigilance is still required in watching it. Twelve deaths from cholera and one from diarrhcea were registered in Gateshead on the 10th, and the visitors discovered in NeWcastle on the 11th 125 new cases of diarrhcea and three approaching cholera. Additional information, illustrative of the intensity of the localising causes in both these places, continues to be received. All observers concur in representing the physical and moral degradation produced by residence in the worst districts of Newcastle, and by the habits en gendered in its dens of filth and squalor, as strongly de picted on the countenances of the people and characterising their conduct. "I was much struck," says a competent witnese, " with the manifest effects of the pestilence upon the countenances of the people. Some attacked with diarrhcea, and others not so attacked, had all the marks of extreme terror, and would have grasped at anything to save themselves, except leaving their wretched abodes. On the other hand, there weremauy, even in the houses where the disease was most busy, who seemed to treat the matter with indifference and scorn. This was the case with both young and old, and their whole conduct was an exemplification of the words, " Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. ' Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oct. 11: Deaths. Cholera 2 Diarrhoea 1 •• The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhcea in Newcastle during the present outbreak has bees 1,477. In the same period (viz., the first 41 days) during the prevalence of epidemic cholera there in 1831-2, the number of deaths was 280. „ . Gateshead, Oct. 11 : Cholera Deaths. The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea in Gateshead to the present date has been 498. During the like period (viz., the first 35 days) in 1831-2, the deaths amounted to 144. Ulverstone, Oct. 11 : Diarrhoea Deaths. ... 1 METROPOLIS. Mr. Hall, of the Poor•law Board, and Dr. Milroy, medical superintending inspector of the General Board of Health, had interviews yesterday with the boards of guardians of Lewisham and St. Olave's, Southwark, with reference to the adoption of precautionary measures for the preservation of the public health. In each in stance the guardians appointed their medical officers to be sanitary inspectors of their respective districts 'during the existence of the Order in Council putting in force the extraordinary powers under the Nuisances Re moval and Diseases Prevention Act. Two deaths from cholera have been reported this day to the Board of Health, by Mr. Yardley, of the Metropolitan Police Office. CAPTURE O 7 00 1 A BANKRUPTY. WITH ABOVE 01 yesterday morning intelligence was received by the firm of Messrs. Ashurst and Son, solicitors, of the Old J owl y, of the capture of Michael Thomas Stacey Welsh, at Southampton , under the followin g c i rcumstances : Some years ago Welsh was made a bankrupt upon the petition of Messrs. White, Son, and C o. , w h o l esa l e ware housemen, 108, Cheapside, but he had pieviously dis posed of his stock, (to., as a draper, which business be had carried on in the town of Romford in Essex. He absconded, and in due course was proclaimed an outlaw, and nothing more was heard of him until about three weeks or a month ago. From information then received by some of the very clever London " detectives" it was ascertained that Welsh, after his bankruptcy, had gone to Dieppe, and finally made Australia his place of refuge. Here h e became a dealer in gold, and was so successful as to amass above 8,0001. He returned to England about a month since in the Indus, having travelled by the overlaid route. He visited the metropolis, having a large sum in his possession, and he was " tracked" with great in genuity from place to place by the " detectives." He gave champagne dinners and suppers at the Tavistock, the Saracen's Plead, and other first-rate hotels • and his lavishness to the employe., impeded in no small dep.* the officers in eliciting information. A satisfactory clue was at length obtained to his movements, and Mr. John B. Walker (of the eminent firm of Boyd and Co., Friday-street), one of the trade assignees under the bankruptcy, proceeded on (Wednesday) last night to Southampton, and found that Welsh had taken a berth on board the Hermisne, lying in those dots. Mr. Walker succeeded in effecting the capture of Welsh, when it was found that he was possessed of above 7,0001. in gold and other property. This morning Russell, a detective officer, was dispatched with a warrant, signed by Mr. Commissioner Evans, to bring the delinquent up to London, with the view to his committal to N e wgate. Of course, all the creditors under the bankruptcy will now obtain their debts in full. GALLERY' , pp ILLUSTRATION.— The Russian Boys.' family, aCeompanied by the Baroness Brunow, honoured with a , wisit , yesterday the diorama of the &eau Mail, at the Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent-street. ant .an 'he iat , ne ar 3at na 50 25 100 St. 1100 ,100 100 ,100 all all 14 51s. 100 20 11i 100 100 all 3i 100 16 321 111# 111 i 45 i `N