The Sun. — London, England, 1853-10-17 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS , NEW CANNON STREET. Although the English inability to produce fine build ngs is almost becoming proverbial there is no real neces sity for such a sentence being written against us. There is an abundant fund of artistic power in the country, needing only demand to exhibit itself in supply. There is material enough to make of architecture a great art and a noble profession. We may have in 50 years from this time a multitude of grand buildings if the professors of architecture will demand for themselves that protec tion from quakery and ignorance which a thorough education and a legally constituted professional exami nation would go far to effect. There is no branch of art so beset with impostors, there is none so neglected and ill-understood, as this parent of all fine arts. This ought surely not to be, and as surely need not be. A great nation and an antique people like ourselves, whose an cestors have raised piles which it strikes us with rever ence to enter, ought to advance and not recede in its intellectual refinement and in fine-art manifestation. We have not the excuse of raw inexperience nor of phy sical difficulty. We have had an architecture in Eng land. We ought to have one now. These considerations arise from the evident tendency which architecture is exhibiting to regain her true posi tion, as displayed especially in the improved tone of build ing in the metropolitan streets. The fluctuating search for a standard has, it would seem, at length fixed itself to that form and development whence it may once more become an interpreter of the age. Thus in passing down New Cannon-street, which is the most advanced and will be the most telling of the City improvements, the visitor may now notice with interest and gratifica tion several specimens of City architecture which would enrich any capital in Europe, and are particularly appro priate in character to the imperial commerce and trans actions of London. A few remarks upon the physiog nomy of these buildings as they necessarily occur may not at this moment be unwelcome. At the left-hand corner next King William-street the large pile of offices and shops, designed by Mr. Dawson, is an important feature, the general effect of which is quiet and good, although hardly improved by the frag ment of a fourth story perched up at one angle, nor by a shop doo r door squeezed in at the opposite end of the building on the ground floor. The ranges of windows are well proportioned, and as a fenestral design right judgment has been shown in their regular repetition, con trasting this erection very favourably with most of its neighbours. An ingeniously complex fret rues along, as a string, at the third floor level. The building next in order to this, for the Merchants and Trades man's Life Assurance Society, has a stone front, I with columned and pedimented windows on the first floors, two tiers of windows—one with running archi traves, and one with coronas—and on the ground floor an arcade of stilted segment arches. This design offers another proof of the value of repetition, the regularly spaced and uniformly-dressed apertures forming a suffi cient excellence of effect to counterbalance, or nearly so, occasional errors of composition. Among such may be enumerated the insufficient importance of the cornice, and the coupling of its console trusses. Had this coupling been carried through to the windows, the design had been weakened, as there are examples in New Cannon street to confirm. Again, the stilted segmental arches of the basement have a somewhat weak effect. A stilted segment arch is in itself an error. The impost mouldings become unmeaning. Had the window reveals been deeper, and the double-bellied ballusters removed from the first floor windows, the ensemble, we think, would have been imp rove d. However, despite these things, the building, from its aggregate effect and pleas ing tint, ranks decidedly among the best recent works in London. The blocks of houses which follow fall very far short of the buildings we have just noticed. They merely elicit the remark that the cornices are poor and meagre, and the window dressings feeble. In the next block to them the staring green advertising boards are greatly to he repre hended, vulgarising as they do the whole vicinity. Here, boo, may be noticed the loss of effect through ill-arranged windows. A triple group to each house occupies the first floor, whilst above the central opening in each case a pier runs up to the main cornice. Again, an unjudicious doorway in the centre of the block offends the eye by its crowded and incongruous decoration. Another objec tion is the wide ground-floor windows, which leave the houses standing as it were upon slender pier -like posts, which the superincumbent weight seems ready to drive into the earth. As we pass on, the same or similar faults more or less prevail, redeemed only by a general effect of magnitude and mass ; and even this is impaired by a particularly mean-looking little public-house, nearly opposite St. Swithin's Church. But when we reach the opening formed by the commencement of Watling-street, some of that improved taste meets us again, which we have observed as an increasing element in the new Lon don streets, Here the Minerva Life Office, designed by Mr. Beasely, with its circular corner of super-columna tions, and its well-recessed windows, favourably occupy a prominent position. At this point of the street the view of St. Paul's opens well, the dome and western campanile terminating magnificently the line of lofty buildings. Beyond the Minerva Life Office, and next to it, a block of warehouses in the occupation of the Messrs. Macintosh and Messrs. Saunders, designed by Mr. Hague, occurs—one of the most excellent in this street, and, we may add, in London. A general effect of repose and quiet business-like expression is ob tained by the simple management of a few features. A central mass, containing four seven-windowed stories, rises above two flanking buildings of three stories in height, the fourth floor in these flanks being an attic and purposely hidden. The ground story runs through the whole block as an uninterrupted rustic base, pierced by segmental-headed windows and doors ; and are again in stances of the value of a regular repetition of parts. On the left-hand side of the street from Watling-street, to wards St. Paul's, no building can properly be said to exceed mediocrity. At the corner of Queen-street Messrs Cowan's premises call for notice, as the last yet erected on the line from King William-street, and as exhibiting originality, if not absolute beauty. The most obviously -striking feature of the new street is the great sale warehouses of Messrs. Cooke, Sons, and Co. These buildings rise like a rampart above the sur rounding houses, and form an internal arrangement of plan, as well as in external character of design, perhaps as good a model for a commercial building of its gigantic class as the metropolis contains. Of a magnitude com parable with that of many engineering works, this pile offers a strong contrast to many of them in these days of scientific building. The architect has apparently con sidered that there is a wiser economy possible than that of saving material to the extreme—that a building in tended to last should rather submit to quiescent weight and pressure, than consist in the balance of opposing drains. He has chosen and expressed in his design the architecture of statics rather than dynamics, and he has provided his material accordingly in masses and weights. The foundation of the buildings, we have been in formed, penetrate through more than 20 feet of made soil to the natural ground level of London (in this place a compact yellow sand), below which depth they are continued in places where concrete could be with advan tage substituted for the natural soil. Beds of concrete, up wards of 10 feet in depth, sustain the weight of walls, piers, and columns, and carry it into the solid ground. From this conerete the walls rise, commencing. with a thickness of nearly three feet, to thei parapet above the main cornice, where they terminate in a thickness of two feet three inches, at 90 feet from the ground. The length of the building which lies in the direction of the length of the facade is bisected by a broad aisle, so to speak, 30 feet wide, between a double arcade. On the ground floor, the entrance door is placed at one end of this aisle, and looks on to the principal staircase at the other end. Right and left from the centre of the arcades, at right angles with them, runs the central avenue, 170 feet long, down the length of the building. This avenue is marked out by rows of columns, leaving parallel rows— also running the full length of the building—to the right and left of them, which leave again on each side 1 a bay between themselves and the external walls. There are thus five avenues produced, running through I the length of th e b u ilding. The central one forms a passage-way—on each side of it much wider avenues contain the selling counters and tables, and beyond these the fourth and fifth avenues are filled by tables or desks, or left for passages, or both. The same general plan is adopted on the basement ground, and on the first and second floors. Above the second floor level the remaining floors are carried round in a ring, forming a continuous apartment following the external walls, and thus leaving a large well-space in the centre of the build ing. This well-space is employed for lighting the four first floors, which it does by means of lantern-lights, transmitting their light from story to story down to the basement, through well-holes cut in every floor, each over each, round which the sale counters are fixed. This disposition of plan is simple to a degree. All is visible at a glance, but each department is enti re ly separated from the other. Thus, on entering the central door, a purchaser h as before him the silk and velvet depart ment, placed in the arcaded aisle ; on the left hand the cotton, and on the right hand the stuff department, and so on ; whil e f rom the landing of the principal staircase a light and elegant iron bridge spanning Little Carter lane, connects the pile of building in St. Paul's Church yard with a second pile facing Carter-lane, built at the back of the first. In one corner of the building a steam-lift rapidly from the top t o the bottom ioors, ca s r t r e i p e p s i g n o g od at s 1 ; every intermediate st ory if need be.Thisin the lift basement.is worked by a 6-horse-power grassh opper engine The waste steam is conducted in pipes beneath the base ment floor, to open gratings under the well holes cut through the floor for light, th rough which well-holes of comft o r n warm air are thus caused to as cen d, diffusing a t each able temperature over the entire buildi ng. of the warehouse are fire-mains co nnecte d with largeed tanks and cisterns of water on the roo f, and on every floor two 70-feet coils of leather hose, with direction pipes attached to them, are screwed on to this main, by which means an instant supply of water may be thrown upon any portion of the interior, while on the roof at each end of the building are constructed tanks holding altogether 12,000 gallons of water (pumped up by the steam-engine in the basement story), ready for perpetual or immediate supply of any kind. It may be mentioned that this vast building w as erected in two successive portions, to allow of the unin terrupted transaction of business —a work, no doubt, of considerable difficulty. The time occupied in fitting the new premises for occupation is, we apprehend, without example for rapidity in the annals even of London build- S ingt, ~the- first or western half having been occupied in ri ~ - :,-6.o3ixteen weeks from its commencement, and the secon,. -re- i'.)-/ stud larger part in twelve weeks. The builder was Mr. f l ":' - ' 4 ..% Wilson, of Southwark. -, The greater number of the London sale warehouses, 'Th , even those newly erected, we need hardly observe, t are f , 4 45, utterly deficient in anything like artistic arrangemenlo ` plan • but Mr. Knowles has shown in this huge bui d ,,,-.. 4-- ing laim effects, highly picturesque, may be produced by na - a -the thoughtful adjustment of long-neglected meang. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1853. The interior, however, is not yet finally completed—a careful and subdued colouring of the whole being, we are told, intended ; but already architectural pictures and artistic groupings of features abound, assisted mate rially by the rich and glowing colours of the silks, vel vets, ribbons, &c., which compose the " stock" of the establishment. At present the tint of the red bricks of the facade--some 30 feet longer and 20 higher than that of the Farnese Palace at Rome—is too vivid; but when toned down by a little London smoke, we shall be better able to judge of the value of its introduction. External polychromy remains yet a question. With regard to the rest of the exterior, however, there need be no ques tion. The cornice exhibits, to our thinking, a just ar tistic feeling for the true style of the revived architecture of a day now dawning. Statical, horizontal, and fenes tral are terms which will express its dominant elements of composition. In conclusion we may observe that ninety-nine buildings out of a hundred reared in Eng land struggle towards this species of architecture. Mr. Knowles, in such edifices as Messrs. Cooke's warehouses in St. Paul's Churchyard, has done a service to his art, for he has promoted and enforced its natural tendency. In this case the architect and the artist have manifestly been combined.—Morning Herald. 1 taken with them at sea. The fact will, it is believed, afford a commentary upon the marine barometers now in use which no reasoning or explanation can render more striking. " It was the opinion of the conference that it would not be impossible, considering the spirit of invention and improvement that is now abroad in the world, to whichall the m ight e conditions sol d neces saryat amoderate a a pt n k r ac re i ntaehgooda barometer,t wouldan d f reliable l fi l instrument ; and a resolution was passed to that effect, in order to call the attention of the public to the importance of an inven tion which would furnish the navigator with a marine barometer that at all times, and in all weathers at sea, would afford the means of ? absolute and accurate deter minations. " The conference is also of opinion that an anemome ter, or an instrument that will enable the navigator to measure the force, velocity, and direction of the wind at sea, is another desideratum. " The conference was of opinion that the mercurial barometer was the most proper to be used at sea for me teorological purpose, and that the aneroid should not be substituted for it. " With regard to thermometers, the conference does not hesitate to say, that observations made with those instruments the errors of which are not known are of little value, and it is therefore recommended, as a matter well worth the attention of co-operators in this system of research, whether some plan may not be adopted in different countries for supplying navigators, as well in merchantmen as in men-of-war, with thermometers the errors of which have been accurately determined. " For the purposes of meteorology various adapta tions of the thermometer have been recommended, such as those which refer to hygrometry and solar radiation ; and, accordingly, a space will be found in the columns for temperature by thermometers with dry, wet, and coloured bulbs. With these exceptions, the only instru ment, in addition to those generally used at sea, for which the conference has thought proper to recommend a column, is that for specific gravity ; the cost of this instrument is too insignificant to be mentioned. " The reasons for recommending the use at sea of the wet, the white, and black bulb thermometers are ob vious ' • but with regard to the thermometer with a b u lb the colour of seawater, and the introduction on board ship of a regular series of observations upon the specific gravity of seawater, it may be proper to remark that, as the whole system of ocean currents and of the circu lation of seawater depends in some degree upon the re lative specific gravities of the water in various parts of the ocean, it was judged desirable to introduce c o lum n s for this element, and to recommend that observations should be carefully made with regard to it, both at and below the surface. " With respect to the thermometer having a bulb of the colour of seawater, it is unnecessary to say more in favour of its use on board ship than that the object is to ascertain whether or no such observations will throw any light upon the psychrometry of the sea, or upon any of the various interesting phenomena connected with the radiation from the surface of the ocean.. " In bringing t o a conclusion the remarks upon instru ments, the conference considered it desirable, in order the better to establish uniformity and to secure compara bility among the observations, to suggest as a mere con ducive thereto, that a set of the standard instruments used by each of the co-operating Governments, together with the instructions which might be given by such go vernments for their use, should be interchanged. " The object of the conference being to secure as far as possible uniformity of record and such a disposition of the observations that they would admit of ready com parison, the amnexed form of register was concerted and agreed upon. The first columns of this form will re ceive the data which the Government of the United States requires merchant vessels to supply, in order to entitle them to the privileges of co-operators in this sys tem of research, and may therefore be considered as the minimum of what is expected of them. This condition, which it may be as well to state here, requires that at least the position of the vessel and the set of the current, the height of the barometer, the temperature of the air and water, should each be determined once a day, the force and direction of the wind three times a day, and the observed variation of the needle occasionally. " Every abstract log kept by a merchant vessel should contain at least what is here recommended. Anything more would enhance its value and make it more accept- METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT SEA. A conference was recently held at Brussels, at the invitation of the Government of the United States of America, the object of which was to con nect a. systematical and uniform plan of meteoro logical observations at sea. At this conference the report which follows was agreed to. In The Sun of the 19th of August an account appeared of a lec ture on " Combined Meteorological Ob serva ti on, " which was delivered at Lloyd's by Li eu t enan t Maury, a distinguished officer of the United States. It excited a great deal of i n t eres t i n th e mar iti me world. Lieutenant Maury has devot e d much at tention to the subject, and has prepared various charts, from which may be ascertained what winds and currents may be expected in a given month in any part of the ocean. The Government of the United States has given every encouragement to the circulation of these charts, and we understand that some negotiations have been entered into with our Government upon the matter. The conference at Brussels was held with the view of attracting the attention of commercial nations to the subject, and the report which we now publish was the re sult of it : "In pursuance of instructions issued by the Govern ments respectively named below, the officers whose names are hereunto annexed assembled at Brussels, for the purpose of holding a conference on the subject of establishing a uniform system of meteorological observa tions at sea, and of concurring in a general plan of ob servation on the winds and currents of the ocean, with a view to the improvement of navigation, and to the ac quirement of a more correct knowledge of the laws which govern those elements. ,‘ The meeting was convened at the instigation of the American Government, consequent upon a proposition which it had made to the British Government, in reply to a desire which had been conveyed to the United States that it would join in a uniform system of meteoro logical observations on land, after a plan which had been prepared by Captain James, of the Royal Engineers, and submitted to the Government by Sir J. Burgoyne, Inspector-General of Fortifications. "The papers connected with this correspondence were presented to the House of Lords on the 21st of February last, and have been further explained in the minutes of the conference. And it is here merely necessary to ob serve, that some difficulties having presented themselves to the immediate execution of the plan proposed by the British Government, the United States availed them selves of the opportunity afforded by this correspondence of bringing under the notice of the British Government a plan which had been submitted by Lieutenant Maury, of the United States navy, for a more widely-extended field of research than that which had been proposed, a plan which, while it would forward the object entertained by Great Britain, would, at the same time, materially contribute to the improvement of navigation and to the benefit of commerce. able, " The remaining columns are intended principally for men-of-war to fill up in addition to those above men tioned, but it is believed that there are many officers in the mercantile navy also who are competent to this un dertaking, and who will, it is hoped, be found willing to distinguish themselves in this joint action for the mu tual benefit of the services. " In the compilation of this form the conference has had carefully in view the customs of the service and the additional amount of attention which these duties will require, and it is believed that the labour necessary for the purpose, at least to the extent specified in the in structions for filling up the columns, is only such as can be well performed under ordinary circumstances, and it has considered it a minimum, and looks with zealous confidence to occasional enlarged contributions from zealous and intelligent labourers in the great cause of science. "An improvement of the ordinary-sea route between distant countries had long engaged the attention of com mercial men, and both individuals and nations had pro fited by the advances which this science had made through a more correct knowledge of the prevailing winds and currents of the ocean. But experience had shown that this science, if it did not now stand fast, was at least greatly impeded by the want of a more extended co-operation in the acquirement of those facts which were necessary to lead to a more correct knowledge of the laws which govern the circulation of the atmosphere and control the currents of the ocean ; and that the sub ject could not receive ample justice, nor even such a measure of it as was commensurate with the importance of its results, until all nations should concur in one general effort for its perfection. But, could that happy event be brought about—could the observations be as extensive as desired, and receive that full discussion to which they were entitled, the navigator would learn with certainty how to count upon the winds and currents in his track, and to turn to the best advantage the experi ence of his predecessors. "Meteorological observations to a certain extent had long been made at sea, and Lieutenant Maury had turned to useful account such as had from time to time fallen into his hands ; but these observations, although many of them good in themselves, were but isolated facts, which were deprived of much of their value from the ab sence of observations with which they could be com pared, and, above all, from the want of a constant and uniform system of record, and from the rudeness of the instruments with which they had been made. "The moment then appeared to him to have arrived when nations might be induced to co-operate in a general system of meteorological research. To use his own words, he was of opinion that the 'navies of all maritime nations should co-operate, and make these observations in such a manner and with such means and implements, that the system might be uniform, and the observation made on board one public ship be readily referred to, and com pared with the observations made on board all other pub lic ships, in whatever part of the world ; and, moreover, as it is desirable to enlist the voluntary co-operation of the commercial marine, as well as that of the military of all nations, in this system of research, it becomes not only proper, but politic, that the forms of the abstract log to be used, the description of the instruments to be employed, the things to be observed, with the manipula tion of the instruments, and the methods and modes of observation, should be the joint work of the principal parties concerned.' " These sentiments being concurred in by the Govern ment of the United States, the correspondence between the Governments was continued, and finally each nation was invited to send an officer to hold a conference at Brussels on a given day. "And that the system of proposed observation and of combined action might become immediately available, and be extended to its widest possible field of operation, it was determined to adapt the standard of the observa tions to be made to the capabilities of the instruments now in general use in the respective naval services, but with the precaution of havinc , all these instruments brought under the surveillance of parties duly appointed to examine them and determine their errors ; as this alone would render the observations comparable with each other through the medium of their respective standards. "The direction for filling up the columns, and for making certain observations, it will be seen by th e minutes, were limited to such only as seemed necessary to the conference to insure uniformity of observation. This subject received the benefit of much discussion be fore the meeting, and it was considered most advisable to confine the matter to hints, which it is hoped will be found sufficient, when embodied in the instructions which each nation will probably issue with the forms, to insure that most desirable end—uniformity. "The conference, having brought to a close its labours with respect to the facts to be collected and the means to be employed for that purpose, has now only to express a hope that, whatever observations may be made, will be turned to useful account when received, and not be suf fered to lie dormant for the want of a department to dis cuss them ; and that, should any Government, from its limited means or from the paucity of the observations transmitted, not feel itself justified in providing for their separate discussion, it is hoped that it will transfer the documents, or copies of them, to some neighbouring power, which may be more abundantly provided, and willing to receive them. " It is with pleasure that the conference has learnt that the Government of Sweden and Norway has notified its intention of co-operating in the work, and that the Bing has commanded that the logs kept by his Swedish sub jects to be transmitted to the Royal Academy of Science at Stockholm, and that also in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Portugal, measures have been taken to establish a department fox the same purpose, and that the Admi ralty of Great Britain has expressed its intention of giv ing instructions for meteorological observations to be made throughout the Royal Navy. "The conference has avoided the expression of any opinion as to tile places or countries in which it would be desirable to establish offices for the discussion of the logs, but it is confidently hoped that, whatever may be done in this respect, there will be always a full and free interchange of materials, and a frequent and friendly in tercourse between the departments, for it is evident that much of the success of the plan proposed will depend upon this inter..hange, and upon the frankness of the officers who in the several countries may conduct these establishments. "Lastly, the conference feel that it would but inade quately discharge its duties, did it close this report with out endeavouring to procure for these observations a con sideration which would secure them from damage or loss in time of war, and invites that inviolate protection which science claims at the hands of every enlightened nation ; and that, as vessels on discovery or scientific research are by consent suffered to pass unmolested in time of war, we may claim for these documents a like exemption, and hope that observers, amid the excite ment of war, and perhaps enemies in other respects, may in this continuo their friendly assistance, and pursue their occupation, until at length every part of the ocean shall be brought within the domain of philosophic research, and a system cf investigation shall be spread as a net over its surface, and it become rich in its benefit to com merce, navigation, and science, and productive of good to mankind. " The members of the conference are unwilling to separate without calling the attention of their respective Governments to the important and valuable assistance which it has received from the Belgian Government. That the conference has been enabled to draw its labours to so speedy and satisfactory a close is in a great mea sure owing to tine facilities and conyeniencies for meet ing and deliberating which have been afforded by hi s Majesty's Government. " Signed at Brussels, this Bth day of September, 1853. QUETELET, President. "Belgium, LA HURE. "Denmark, F. ROTHE. " France, DELAMARCHE. "Great Britain, F. W. BEECHEY. Te re.JAMES. " Netherland, JANSEN. "Norway, IHLEN. " Portugal, DE INIATTOS CORREA. " Russia, GORKOVENKO. "Sweden, PETTERSSON. "United States, MAURY." "The conference opened its proceedings at Brussels on the 23d of August, 1853, in the residence of M. Piercot, the Minister of the Interior, to whom the thanks of the conference are especially due. "M. Quetelet was unanimously elected president. "Before entering upon any discussion, it was the de sire of all the members of the conference that it should be clearly understood that in taking part in the proceed ings of the meeting they did not in any degree consider themselves as committing their respective Governments to any particular course of action, having no authority whatever to pledge their country in any way to these proceedings. " The objects of the meeting having been explained by Lieutenant Maury, the conference expressed its thanks to that officer for the enlightened zeal and ear nestness he had displayed in the important and useful work which forms the subject of the deliberations of the conference. "In concerting a plan of uniform observation, in which all nations might be engaged, the mo s t obvious difficulty which arose from the variety of scales in use in different countries. It is much to be desired that this inconve nience should be removed ; but it was a subject upon which the conference, after mature deliberation, deter mined not to recommend any modification, but to leave to each nation to continue its scales and standards as heretofore, except with regard to thermometers, which it was agreed should, in addition to the scale in use in any particular service, have that of the centigrade placed upon it, in order to accustom observers in all services to its use, with a view to its final and general adoption. " The advantages of concert of action between the meteorologist on land and the navigator at sea were so obvious that, looking forward to the establishment of a universal system of meteorological observation upon both elements, it was thought that the consideration of scales could with greater propriety be left for that or some such occasion. [AnvEr rt risnmlird—Fifty thousand Cures have been fifty times its cost in otherremedies).—"Twenty-five years' ~ As to th e instruments to be recommended, the con- i effected by Du Barry'sdelicious RevalentaArabica Food, fere n c e determined to add as few as possible to such nervousness,w in i t e h o c u o I t ulld medicine, r Ine e,osnsv et inconvenience, iopratri ee relieve, e, vindigestion,e , hav e o b r e ee been p ne e dff n ed s c e etbu ( a ial sli effectually y i a t , , c s fu a rro v em e d s which had suffered great misery, and which no were in common use in vessels of war, but, regarding accuracy of observation as of paramount importance, the conference felt it to be a matter of duty to recommend Du Barry Food in . a very short time. W. R. "Fight years' medi thedys- adoption of accurate instruments, of barometers and n' nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and thermometers especially that have been carefully corn- by ' pared w ith recognised standards, and have had their Reeves, Pool Anthony, Tiverton." errors accurately ; and that such instruments pepsia, only should b e use d on b oar d ever y man-of-war co-ope- nausea, for which my servant had consulted th e a d v i ce rating in thi s sys t em , as well as on board any merchant- o f man y, have been effectually remove d b y Du Barry ' s man, as far as it may be practicable. delicious food in a very short time. I shall be happy " The imperfection of instruments in use at sea is noto- ito answer any inquiries. Rev. John W. Flavel, Rid rious. The barometer having hitherto been used prin. lington Rectory, Norfolk." "Three years' excessive cipally as a monitor to the mariner—to warn him, by its nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and fluctuations, of the changes in prospect—its absolute general debility, which rendered my life very miserable, indicati on of pressure has been little regarded ; and has been radically removed by Du Barry's ex ce ll en t these instru men t s , makers seldom, if ever, determined the real errors of food. Alexs. Stuart , A rchdeacon of Ross, Skib bereen." or, if known, still more rarely ever —" Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, furnished the corrections with the instruments them- n er vousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, selves. a n r s i t n r e u nlent s u barometer r rude spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomittings, has er;oc r a h s at th a e u m i uin Northam L . near Diss, Norfolk."— Copies of testi enearanldl be ouasbe should, lant in been rem m ove l d ng by y Du Barry's excellent food. Maria Jolly, this age of invention and improvement, found on board monials of 50,000 cures (including those of Lord Stuart any ship, will doubtless be regarded hereafter• Thomas King, Drs. - de Deems, Major-General . Ure, prise ; and it will be wondered how an • In canisters, with full instrument so ' Shorland, and Harvey (gratis). important to meteorology and so useful to navigation instructions,llb 2s. Pd. ; 21b , 4s. 6d. ; 51b., lls. ; ~ • should be permitted to remain so defective that lolb 335. mete°. 121 b., 225. ; super-refined, 51b., 225. ; ~ The rologists, in their investigations concerning the laws of 101 b. and 121 b. carriage free. Barry Du Barry and Co., atmospheric pressure, are compelled in a great measure 77, Regent-street, London ; also, Fortnum, Mason, and' to omit all reference to the observations which havebeen Co., purveyors to her Majesty, Piccadilly. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVAL OF THE CHANNEL FLEET. Rear-Admiral Corry's squadron came up to Spithead on Saturday morning in splendid style. Prince Regent made her number over the Bembrid,ge Light at 8.5 a.m., and at about one-third of a mile apart came the rest of the squadron in succession. They came up to, Spithead under canvas in the following order : Prince Regent 9O (flag) (sail) Captain Hutton. Duke of Wellington 131 (screw) Commodore 'Martin. London 9O (sail) Captain Charles Eden. St. Jean d'Acre lOO (screw) Capt. Hon. 11. Keppel. Arrogant 47 (screw) Capt. S. G. b?remautle. Amphion 34 (screw) Capt. A.C. Kciy (pro tem.) Highflyer 2l (screw) Captain John Moore. Cruiser As each ship took up her position, it was vary manifest the advantage of the Channel cruise. It certainly was a gallant sight to see this beautiful line of screw ships of war, reaching from Spithead to the Nab, preserving their exact distances ; and the wind at S.W., blowing a smart topsail breeze, showed them in a most favourable point of view. With regard to the sailing qualities of the respective ships, St. Jean d'Acre appears to have been the best of the present squadron, having, in a four hours' trial, on a wind, under all plain sail, beaten the Duke of Wellington, 1880 yards; Highflyer, 2,145 yards; Amphion, 4,680 yards ; London, 6,543 yards ; Prince Regent, 7,462 yards. And on another occasion, off the wind, the same ship beat the Duke of Wellington 1,020 yards ; London, 1,850 yards ; Prince Regent, 4,770 yards—so that it is proved that the screw ships have fairly beaten the sailing ships under canvas on every occasion. This is highly gratifying to the country, and shows that the art of ship-building has improved by in creased length and tonnage, notwithstanding the scoffs and sneers of a prejudiced few, who were always count ing the cost of any such improvement as the science of the present day shows to be so absolutely necessary if we wish to compete with our jealous neighbours. All sorts of rumours are afloat respecting the destina tion of the squadron, although it i s p re t ty genera ll y be lieved that the London and Prince Regent will go to the Mediterranean with troops ; and be further available in case of need, having each a paddle steamer attached ; and that the screw squadron will complete for active service, and be ready to proceed up the Baltic. Being all screw ships they can keep the deep water in the in tricacies of the North Channel, which sailing line-of battle ships or heavy frigates could never accomplish. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. The Channel fleet, under Rear-Admiral Corry and Commander Martin, C. 8., returned to Spithead on Saturday morning and anchored. The latter officer struck his pendant on approaching the anchorage, a senior captain to him being in the port. The several ships came up under sail according to seniority, thus : Prince Regent, 90 (flag) ; Duke of Wellington, 131 ; St. Jean d'Acre, 100 ; London, 90 ; Arrogant, 47 ; Highflyer, 21 ; Amphion, 34 ; Cruiser, 14. The London and Highflyer were immediately telegraphed to prepare for foreign service. Since leaving Queenstown several trials of sailing and steaming have taken place. On the 3d, under all plain sail, of four hours' duration, showed the following result : St. Jean d'Acre beat Duke of Wellington 1,880 yards, 1) „ Highflyer 2,145 21 JP „ Amphion 4,680 „ 1, y, London 6,548 „ ;; Prince Regent 7,462 This trial was on a wind. On the sth, in a trial off the wind, in a fresh breeze, heavy weather, starboard studding-sails set, the St. Jean d'Acre beat Duke of Wellington 1,020 yards. If „ London 1,850 „ „ Prince Regent ..... 4,770 „ The St. Jean d'Acre and the Duke beat all the others, and the Arrogant was last in a trial of the frigates. On the 6th the Cruiser joined the fleet. On the Bth the Duke, St. Jean d'Acre, and Arrogant had a trial of steaming. A worse day in the week (Saturday) could not have been selected ; all the limber boards and engine room and stoke-hole hatches (in number upwards of 200) of the St. Jean d'Acre were up for the purpose of cleans ing the bilges, owing to which delay her steam was not up by the time ordered (8 - 30). At nine Rear-Admiral Corry went on board of her, and hoisted his flag in her to witness the trial. It was impossible to get steam up in the St. d'Acre to more than 121bs, in consequence of which the Duke headed her about 400 yards in a run of 15 miles, light wind on the bow, force 3. On the 12th the Duke and Acre had another trial of steaming and sailing by the wind ; average speed 101 knots. The St. Jean d'Acre was fast gaining on the Duke, when the engines of the latter stopped, and the trial was put an end to. The St. Jean d'.Acre was at the time making 59 revolutions, having 201 b pressure on her boilers. We shall not be surprised to hear of men "running" in num bers from the Spithead fleet, for they complain loudly of being "harassed to death." PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 15. Yesterday being the anniversary of the birthday of his Majesty the King of Prussia, and there being a Prussian frigate (the Gefion, 48, Commodore Schroeder) refitting in the harbour, M. Vandenbergh, his Majesty's Vice- Consul at this port, waited upon the Port Admiral and the Lieutenant-Governor to notify the fact. The Gefion hoisted three Royal standards at her mastheads ; the Victory hoisted the Prussian standard at the main, St. Georges ensign at the mizen, and the Admiral's red flag at her fore, but no royal salute was fired by those ships in honour of the occasion, the Gefion having no powder on board. The Lieutenant-Governor fired a royal salute from the Platform Battery. The crew of the Gefion were regaled on board. The Commodore entertained his officers in honour of the day, and M. Vandenbergh re presented his Majesty on the occasion. The Russian frigate Aurora, 44, Captain Islamatiff, and the corvette Navarin, Captain Istomin, arrived at Spithead yesterday from Christiansand, bound to Kams chatka. The customary salutes were exchanged. A third was expected, the brig Niemen, from Cronstadt, but she was wrecked off Riga beacon on the sth inst. In the course of a few days the Russian frigate Diana is expected. The Aurora and Navarin will come into this harbour and be docked and refitted as soon as the per mission of Government (which has been applied for) is received. Commander Sanderson, of the Lily, 12, on the China station, was tried by court-martial at Hongkong prior to the 23d of August, on a charge of attacking and sink ing a piratical junk on the coast last year. He was honourably acquitted, and his conduct found not only far from blameable, but highly praiseworthy. Captain Hall, promoted from the command of the Styx steam-sloop, on the China station, has come home by the mail. It is reported by letters from Malta that some seamen belonging to the Retribution, 23, paddle-frigate, Captain the Hon. J. R. Drummond, were lately on leave at Constantinople, enjoying themselves in a tavern, when some seamen of the French fleet came in also, and, on being asked for payment, after partaking of wine, said they never paid while there were English sailors to do so. Upon this a general melee took place, in which one of the Retribution's men were stabbed in four or five places, but the wounds were fortunately not of a mortal nature. The matter was being investigated by the two Admirals. Mr. Ozzard, paymaster of the Niger, has been inva lided, and Mr. Shanks, clerk of the Britannia (flagship) has been given the acting order. Mr. Stuart, Master of the Trafalgar, 120, has been invalided. The Magicienne, 16, paddle-frigate, Captain Fisher, returned to Devonport yesterday. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 15. Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess of Russia arrived at Torquay from London yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty's ship Queen, 116, Capt. F. T. Mitchell, was towed, on Thursday afternoon, by the Avon and Confiance steamers, from Hamoaze into the Sound. Her rigging was sparred for rattling down, and her topgal lant-masts were on deck. Yesterday she took in pow der and shot, and to-day active exertions have been used for getting all her crew on board. The foremast of the Desperate, 8, screw-corvette, Captain W. W. Chambers, having been repaired, was sent on board yesterday. The Lucifer, 2, steam-vessel, arrived from Portsmouth on Friday with those riggers and seamen riggers who left this port to navigate the Cmsar from Pembroke. A two-decked rmi - n-of-war, under single reefeitop sails, was observed at 10 p.m. on Friday, two leagues inside the Eddystone, going up Channel. The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's packet, Lady Jocelyn, Captain Bird, sailed this afternoon with mails for the Cape, Mauritius, and Calcutta. A large screw-steamer, all black, barque rigged, was observed at half-past 7 this (Saturday) morning, under single reefed topsails, strong wind from south-west, going up Channel inside the Eddystone. Subsequently reported from New York for Bremen. WOOLWICH, OCT. 15. APPOINTMENT. Lieut. Nelson G. Spencer (1847), formerly serving in the Cygnet, 8, sloop, on the West Coast of Africa sta tion, to the Hogue, 60, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth. PROMOTIONS. Commander Robert John Le Mesurier M'Clure (1849), in command of the Investigator discovery ship since December 18, 1849, to the rank of Captain for services performed in the Arctic Regions in search of Rear- Admiral Sir John Franklin and the officers and crews of the Erebus and Terror discovery ships, and the dis covery of the certainty of a north-west passage. Commander Edward Augustus Inglefield (1845), in command of the Phoenix screw steam-sloop, to the rank of Captain for services performed in that vessel in con veying stores for the relief of Sir Edward Belcher's ex pedition, and depositing them at Beechey Island, and returning the same season, bringing to this country Lieutenant Cresswell, of the Investigator, with the in telligence of the discovery of the north-west pr.ssage ; and for his previous exertions, at his own expense, during his voyage in the Isabel screw-steamer up Smith's Sound to the open water of the Polar basin. The Tyne store-ship, Master-Commander Peter Wel lington, is to he paid off here on Monday, the 17th ingt., instead of to-day. The Rhadamanthus steam store-vessel, Master-Com mander Belam, passed through the Downs on Friday evening on her way to Devonport with the machinery of the Nile, 90, screw stea m - s hip. The Cyclops steam-frigate, in charge of Mr. Alexander Pope, assistant master-attendant at Sheerness dockyard, is in the basin here taking on board machinery for con veyance to Portsmouth. THE MEDITERRANEAN. Galignani states the French commander-in-chief " Vice-Admiral Hamelin, on his arrival in Besika Bay, caused the officers of the fleet to occupy themselves in making hydrographic plans of the bay and the inmer diate environs." The British commander-in-chief, Rear- Admiral Dundas, had, we believe, previously employed the officers of his squadron in making and completing surveys of the neighbourhood of his long anchorage. By the last accounts the fleet at Besika is far healthier than it was a month ago, but sickness still prevails. On board the Vengeance two fatal cases had occurred, and she had been sent to Tenedos to recruit the health of her crew. Lord W. Russell, who had been seriously ill, and on leave at Therapia, had rejoined, having fortu nately recovered. The launch of the French ship Bayard, with a crew of 30 men on board, had foundered on the Ist inst., when within • a short distance of her ship. She had been watering ; five men perished, 13 had been saved by the Rodney, and the remainder by other boats. The crews of both fleets exerted them selves nobly on the painful occasion. The Leander, 50, Captain King, on her way to Malta, arrived at Lisbon, from Devonport, on the 9th, and re mained on the 10th, with the Odin, 16, steam-frigate, Captain Scott. The Vesuvius, 6, steam•sloop, Commander Powell, was at Gibraltar on the Bth. THE BRAZILS. The following of her Majesty's ships were lying at Rio Janeiro, Sept. 14 :—Centaur, 6, steam-frigate, flag of Rear-Admiral Henderson, C.B. ; Bonetta, 3, Lieut.- Commander Parish ; and Crescent. Sept. 10.—Sailed, the Express and, 11, Trident, steam-vessel. Cruising at Bahia, Sept. 19, the Star, 8. The French frigate Galathea sailed from Rio Sept. 12 for River Plate, The French corvette Le President, at Bahia Sept. 19, from the Pacific, bound to France. The United States brig Perry was at St. Vincent Sept. 30. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION- HOUSE.— William Mason, the cripple, who was charged with having uttered several forged 101. and 51. notes, was brought up for final examination. John Rockhain, shopman to Mr. Cavern, of Stock well-street, Greenwich, said— On Wednesday, the 14th of September, the prisoner came to our shop, and asked for some calico, the same as his wife had purchased pre viously, at bad. per yard. I had never seen him before. I sold him 14 yards, at 6d. per yard. He then choose other articles, the amount of the whole being 10s. 6d. He put his hand in his pocket, and pulled out silver and pence to the amount, as it appeared to me, of 9s. 6d., and said he had not enough of change, and he asked me whether I could change a Si. note for him. I took the note produced from him, and .handed it to the cashier, who changed it. I wanted to send the articles for him, seeing that he was lame, and he agreed to that propo sion, but he afterwards said that he would take them himself, as he would get into a cab, and be driven home to Deptford, with them. The prisoner said he had good authority to prove that the note he had given on the occasion had got into other hands, and he expressed surprise that the case had not been brought forward on the first day of examination. There was a mystery about the business which he did not at all comprehend, but, added he, "It is not for me to open my mouth too wide yet." (Laughter.) Mr. Wybeard, inspector of bank notes at the Bank of England, said the 51. note produced was a forgery, and had been struck off from the plate which had been used in striking off the other 5/. notes which had been iden tified on the first examination. D. Evans, 459, said that on the 7th of October he apprehended the prisoner at the White Hart, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, while sitting at cards with seven or eight others. He said to the prisoner, " Mason, I am an officer, and I take you into custody for uttering forged Bank of England notes." He said. " All right, lam coming. Don't take me for the Windsor job. Do it for Townend, in Bread-street, as I do not want to go out of town." (Here the prisoner laughed.) - Witness then put the prisoner into a cab, and cautioned him not to say anything particular, as it might be used against. him. The prisoner said he was aware of all that, and he then said that he had done a job at Greenwich, and one in Oxford-street, and one at Woolwich, but he had not heard anything about that." The Lord Mayor—Prisoner, do you wish to say any , thing ?____ The Prisoner—Not at all, my lord. The Lord Mayor—You aro committed to take your trial upon this charge as well as upon all the former charges. Ifinry Bartley, a shabby-looking, dark, curly-headed young man, was brought before the Lord Mayor, in the custody of Daniel Forrester, the officer, charged with having attempted to utter a forged cheque, with intent to defraud the Royal British Bank. Mr. Mullins, assistant-cashier at the Royal British Bank, said—At 12 o'clock this day, a boy, named Fletcher, presented the cheque I produce for payment at the counter. The cheque is signed "John Dickin son," and is for 8/. 4s. We have a customer John G. Dickinson and Co., but no John Dickinson. I imme diately found that the signature was not genuine, de tained the boy, and informed the senior cashier. George John Fletcher, who is 13 years old, said—As I was going to Lemaner's to-day for a loaf, I saw the prisoner in Lothbury, who stopped me, and asked me if I would go to Tokenhouse-yard, No. 16, and get cash for the cheque. He toll me he would give me 3d. for my trouble, and I consented, and took the cheque and presented it at the counter. I was to bring him the money to the place in which he had given me tl ie cheque. I was detained for some time in the banking-house, and I afterwards went to meet the prisoner, under the direc tion of Mr. Forrester, and he met me on the, spot and said, " Well !" when he was taken bold of. I swear that he is the man who employed me. I never, to my knowledge, saw him before. Daniel Forrester—l was sent for to the Royal British Bank and informed of the forgery, and I save Fletcher, heard his statement, and took the prisoner into custody at the corner of Princes-street. The prisoner told me that he thought something was wrong about the cheque, with which he had been sent by another party to the bank, who promised him sixpence to go and get it cashed, and that he had employed the boy to do the business. I found in his possession a cheque-book of the Royal British Bank, and a cheque-book of the Union Bank, and several papers. The prisoner—l was employed by another person to present the cheque, and he gave me the c'aeque books and papers that were found upon me by the officers. I know the party well who gave them to me. The prisoner was then remanded. Gustavus Frederick Maynor was charged upon suspi cion of having stolen a large sum of money ( according to the police-sheet 2,500/.), the property of gb gentleman connected with the Russian Legation. Mr. Mullins (of the firm of Bush and MI allins, solici tors), said the case was one of an extraon linary kind. The prisoner was the keeper of an hotel at Berlin, at which some of the members of the Russian Embassy had put up, one of whom had a considerable sun of money in his possession. The prisoner, it appear id, had not been able to resist the temptation to appropr i.ite part of that money, which had been placed in his crt,r e, and had come to this country with it. The departure of the pri soner from Berlin, however, had excited susT icion, and that suspicion was rapidly communicated to London, and here the man was apprehended. The police had, with the assistance rendered by the solicito engaged, got hold of the prisoner before the money h: ec 1 been dis posed of, and an immediate and almost oomph !te restitu tion had been made. The international arr; ingements were not, it was to be regretted, made with a 11 the cau tion in such a manner that the offence could be recog nised in England, and the Lord Mayor woul d deal with the case according to his own judgment. It: was satis factory to know, however, that the prisoni?r had re stored all the stolen property he had been po es essed of. The Lord Mayor said that Mr. Mullins w a.,9 very for tunate in obtaining so much of the property )1 'his clients as had been given up by the prisoner, whom. the laws of this country could not detain in prison, but who cer tainly deserved a very heavy punishment. The prisoner was discharged. GUILDHALL.—.Tantes Collins and Jane 83 Middleton were charged with robbery in Smithfield. William James, a cowkeeper, said he was in the market, buying a horse, and while in the cm 'ad collected round him, he felt a hand at his pocket, a od missed a black bag containing 81. He immediately tr tr ned round to see who was the thief, when the prisoner • Middleton put his hand before his face to prevent him 'teeing Col lins. A lad of the name of Crickett said he saw Di )11ins take a black bag from prosecutor's pocket, and pz is 3 it to one of his " pals," who made off with the booty. The prisoners were searched, but, as n el ,ping was found on them relative to the charge, the were re manded for the officer to make further inquiry . BOW-STREET.—George Clement, a lett 43 r carrier, was charged with stealing a letter, containingc !ash. Mr. Peacock, Post-office solicitor, attended to prose cute. It was proved by Harper, inspector of letter • carriers at the branch office, Charing-cross, that the prig oner was employed in sorting letters at 12 o'clock on Saturday. While he was thus occupied, Mr. Harper n o' deed that he was running a small envelope through b is fingers, with the view, apparently, of ascertaining if i t contained any money. He then placed it under the pa aket of let ters in his hand, and held it there some tiny 3, instead of sorting it in the usual manner: After this be took out his pocket handkerchief and raised it to his nose, at the same time contriving to shift the letter in to it. The handkerchief, with the letter inside, was then 113 turned to his pocket. During the whole transaction, t h e prisoner kept his eye rigidly fixed on the senior insp, 2tor, Mr. Edwards, having no suspicion that he was 1 ieing nar rowly watched by Harper. When the sorting was over, the prisoner was taxed with having put a letter into his pocket, upon which he put both hands into his coat, and drew out the handkerchief with one hind and the letter with the other, placing the latter upon the sorting table. Mr. Harper immediately picked up the letter , saying, " this is the one," but lie professed to knovi , nothing whatever about it, and declared that the letter 1 which he took out with his handkerchief was one addr eased to himself. The letter in question, which had never been d slivered, was now opened in the presence of the magists ate. It was addressed to a Mr. Ellary, of Westminster, and con tained half a sovereign. It was proved that it did not belong to the prisoner's walk. Mr. Jardine committed him for trial. A NEW WAR ROCKET.—We understand ' that an extensive order has been received by the authie rities of the Royal Arsenal for the completion of a la rl ;e quan tity of war rockets, on an entirely new prin .c pie, and which are expected to supersede those former i y in use. In consequence of this, a number of hands 41,re to be entered in the course of the next week.—Ke7 i 1 iBh Me n . cury. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WARWICK OCTOBER MEETING. TUESDAY._ THE FLAT RACES. GREAT WARWICK HANDICAP of 15 sous. each, 5 fit, with 100 added, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. After winners extra. The second horse to save his stake. Once round, starting at the stand. Age st lb Goldfinder 5 8 7 Kochinoor 4 6 12 Revolver Alp a 6 10 Father Thames Montague Little Fawn 5 6 7 Ethelwolf 4 6 5 Gadabout Orpheus 4 6 2 Doubt a 6 2 LEAMINGTON WELTER Cup, value 100 sovs., the rest in specie by subscription of 15 soya. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared. After winners extra. Gentlemen riders. Professionals, 61b extra. Once round. Age st lb Little Davie May-day Annie Sutherland 3 5 12 Radcliffe Hero Massa Mungo Corybantes 3 5 9 .Taney 3 5 4 Ar. Baththa Dear Polly 3 5 0 Angelo 3 4 9 Age st lb Revolver 4 12 2 Orpheus 4 11 12 Agis a 11 10 Titterstone (h b) 5 11 9 Farmer's Boy 4 11 7 Clothworker a 11 5 Dolly's Brae a 10 10 Captain Flash 4 10 6 Age st lb Janey 3 10 4 Lady Isabel a 10 4 Sally 4 10 4 Ar. Buththa 3 10 2 Dear Polly 3.10 2 Gerard 4 10 2 The Dandy 3 9 2 SWEEPSTAKES of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added ; for 2- yr-olds 7st 31b ; and 3 yr-olds, Bst 121 b. Selling prices, allowances, &c. SWEEPSTAKES of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added, for 3-yr olds and upwards. Optional selling weights. One mile. COMMITTEE STAKES, a Free Handicap of 5 sovs. each, with 50 added, for 2-yr-olds. A winner of a handicap after the declaration of the weights, value 1001., to carry 51b extra. T.Y.C. st. lb. st. lb. Village Lass 8 7 Lioness 7 5 Blakely 8 1 Antonia 7 3 Lurley 7 10 gby Sir Isaac, dam Campstool 7 7 Heron . 7 2 by Spanish Jack— fby Epirus dam by Espoir 7 7 The Magnet (h b) 6 9 WEDNESDAY—THE STEEPLECHASES. GRAND OPEN STEEPLECHASE, a Free Handicap of 15 sovs. each, 5 ft, with 100 added. The second horse to save his stake. Five horses to start, or the public money will not be given. Penalties for winners. Gentlemen riders, and those who have never ridden a whiner in any public steeplechase, value 1001., to be allowed 51b. Over about four miles of fair hunting country, under the usual steeplechase conditions. Age st lb Age st lb Peter Simple a 11 10 Spring 5 9 8 Peter lO 9 Ringleader 9 8 Oscar a 10 7 Melon 9 6 Bourton a 10 4 Forest Lad a 9 4 Vainhope a 10 2 Gnlnare Montague a 912 Friendless Maurice Daley Labyrinth (h b) Half-and-Half..., a 910 The Old Rake 5 810 Maria Day ....... 9 9 FREE HANDICAP HURDLE RACE of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added ; over five flights of hurdles. A winner of any hurdle race, after the declaration of the weights, to carry 51b extra. Two mi . Age st lb Dandy Jim, by Darnley (h b)... alO 8 Star of England... 6 10 3 Sally 4 9 12 c by Drayton— Spring's dam 4 9 12 Wee Mickey a 9 11 Squire of Mahon a 9 11 FREE HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE of 5 EOVS. each, with 25 added. Optional selling weights, &c. Three Age st lb Rob Roy a 9 11 Gerard 4 9 10 Sir Philip 6 9 10 Neeawood ..... 9 8 Ca,shreere by St.. Martin—Scarf 4 9 7 Wings (h b) Age st lb Age at lb Pride of the North gr g by Sir Reu (30/) Gulnare (301) a 11 0 Fazeley (301) alo 2 Slashing Painter Theodine (301) (301) Rob Roy (301) Wee Mickey (30l) 10 5 lEsculapius (301).. 6 912 Sir Philip (301) The Monk (301) 6lO 3 (301) . a 9 8 HUNT CuP STEEPLECHASE, subscription of 10 sovs. each, the surplus to go to the whining horse, for horses that have been regularly hunted, &c. ; list 71b each. Certain penalties and allowances. Gentlemen riders ; professionals 61b extra. Three miles. Mr. Gay's Qua simodo, aged (1001.), Mr. Jordan's Fourteen Two (501.), Captain Gordon's The Nun (501.), Mr. Stewart's The Monk, 6 yrs (501.), Mr. Stewart's _e'Esculapius, 6 yrs (5014, Mr. Adlington's Lady Bird (h b), aged, Mr. Ro bert's Dandy Jim (501.). A SCURRY HANDICAP of 5 Boys. each, 2 ft ; gentlemen riders, as qualified to ride in the Welter Cup ; profes sionals 61b extra. T.Y.C. To close and name on Tues day, and the weights to be declared as soon as possible. RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.—BY GREAT WESTERN.-- On Tuesday and Wednesday the express trains up and down will stop at Warwick. An excursion train will also leave Paddington on those days at 8 a.m. for Warwick, returning at 7.15 p.m. BRIGHTON HANDlCAP.—Michaelmas Maid, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b, should be included in the list of nominations for this handicap. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. QUARANTINE • NOTICE. OPORTO, Oct. 7.—Notice has been given that all ports of Sweden are considered suspected, from the Ist inst., of cholera morbus ; Liverpool, from the 30th of August ; London and Southampton, from the Ist of September. GRAVESEND, OCT. 15. Arrived—Mercur, Capt. Walter, from Dantzic ' • James Bales, Captain Brown, Dantzic ; Deo Glori a , Captain Nieman, Riga; Defiance, Captain Irvine, St. Petersburg; Oberon, Captain Gohrbands, Dantzic ; Einhacht, Captain Diesmar, Dantzic ; Bessel, Captain Rental, Dautzic ; Ocean, Capt. Bald, Cronstadt ; Clio, Capt. Iverson, Fred rickstadt ; Panther, (steamer), Capt. Balliston, Ostend ; Atlas, Captain Talk, Guernsey ; Vesta, Captain Stock fletz, Cronstadt ; Marchin, Margretta, Captain Hurst, Konigsberg ; Abelone, Captain Furgnson, Dantzic • Her mena, Captain Ergenbart, A rc h ange l ; Si r i us , daptain Roske, St. Petersburgh ; Ann Powell, Captain Medg wick, Cherberm ° ; Neptunis, Captain Waisted, Arendal ; Diana, Capt. Hutchins, Seville ; Catherine, Capt. Wil liams, Mogador ; Bnlfinch, Capt. Wood, St. Petersburg ; Thiela, Capt. Mader, ITleaborg ; Albert, Capt. Osterberg, Gothenberg ; Numina Foh, Capt. Gronbico, Dantzic ; Flora, Capt. Newgard, Holmsund ; Rose, Capt. Evelyn, Dantzic ; Odessa, Capt. Berrraman, from Batavia ; Comet, Captain Avitt, front Madeira; Ocean, Capt. Muller, from Rostock. Sailed.—Britannia, Capt. Young, for Geelong ; Elbe (steamer), Capt. Behrends, for Ham Burg; Belgian (steamer), Capt. Taylor, for Ostend ; Concordia, Capt. Shanack, for Rotterdam. LIVERPOOL, OcT. 16. Wind, W., fresh breeze and showery. ArriN ed—The Medina, from Savanilla ' • Persian (s), Con stantinople ' • Industrie, Trieste ; Eclipse, Ostend ; Gazelle, Antwerp ; St. Lawrence, Montreal ; Anglo-Saxon, St. John's, New Brunswick; Auguste, Ghent ; Andrew Fos ter, New York ; Jovan Pepita, Santander ; Urania, Monte Video ' • Hebe, Charente ; Camillus, Now Orleans ; Ray mond, Smyrna ; Onward, Quebec ; Henry Clay, Constitu tion, and George Washington, New York; Queen, Dordt. Off Port—The Underwriter, from New York ; St. John, Glen Helen, Elizabeth Bentley, Snmroo, the barque Triton, and the brig Secundina. Sailed—The Mooresfort, for Melbourne; Phoebe (s), Gibraltar ; Sachem, Boston ; Wynnstay, Baltimore. QUEENSTOWN, OCT. 14. Wind, S.W., moderate. Arrived—The Guiseppe, Sacker, and the Sarah Durham, from Odessa ; Preciosa, Alexandria ; Aboyne, Tenez. Sailed—The Alexander, for London. • VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Prince of Wales, Port Philip to Singapore, June 14, in the Straits of Bancn,. The Mary Catherine, Batavia to Falmouth, Aug. 23, lat. 25 S., long. 10 E. The Town of Liverpool, Liverpool tcbßallia, Sept. 7, lat. 5 N. long. 26 W. The Robin Gray, Bahia to London, 9th, lat.lo N., long. 27 W. The Kestrel, Liverpool to Lima, Aug. 25, lat. 10 N., long. 24 W. The Idalia, Liverpool to Lima, 26th, lat. 11 N., long. 25 W. The Cynthia, Cardiff to Rio Janeiro, 29th, lat. 12 N., long. 26 W. The Rowena, Rio Grande to Queenstown, 31st, ht. 13 N., long. 27 W. The Emily, of and from Leith to San Francisco, lat. 13 S., long. 31 W. The Monarchy, London to Calcutta, let. 28 S., long. 35 W. RAILWAY `SHARE MARKET. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 15. STOCK EXCITANGE.—The market has been extremely dull, but prices are nominally higher, although the busi ness transacted has been very slight. Caledonian 25_; Lanl ' ashire and Yorkshire , 62 1 ; Midland, 59i • South Eastern and Dover, 17 s ; York and No r th Midland, 23. MANCHESTER, OcT. 15. - - --- STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been rather firmer, with but a moderate business. Calelonian, 24 13-16; Eastern Counties, 11 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 62i ; Lancashire and Yorkshire West Riding Union, 4g d.; Lon don and North-Western, 1034 ; Midland Railway Consols, 60 n. ; South Eastern and Dover, 17i. BIRMINGHAM, Oar. 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was very little business trans acted in this market to-day, but prices remained at Fri day's quotations. Shrewsbury and Birminghams closed at 62i to 63a. LEEDS, OCT. 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market to-day has mani fested no symptom of recovering from the prevailing de pression. Transactions have been confined to Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock at 634. Other shares are nominally as yesterday, in the absence of business in them, though buyers at existing quotations are scarce. COUNTRY MARKETS. :es of grain at our market HADDINGTO. The following are the prio to-day : I N-OCT. 14. WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS. BEARS. First Second . 7ss 2d 39s lld 278 4d 548 4a, Third 6 03 Od , 38 1 Od 25s Od 520 00. Total quantity of wheat bl. Market, 319 qrs., 237 sold, ff PP barley . „ 611 qrs ., 611 sol d ~ oats 476 qrs., 370 0 01 1 Pf ff beans ~ 59 qrs., 56 o lu Average of wheat £3 8 7 11-12tb0 Ditto of Barley Ditto of Cats -12ths Ditto of Beans ....... .......... DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—Ocp. 13. Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior, 267 Wheat 79s Oil 1078 Oats 31s o,i 26s 8d 925 Barley 44 s 6d 3Bs Od. 253 ''' 55 Peas & b eans 58 s Od s3s 6d Average of wheat, 3/. 5s Sid. ABERDEEN—ObT. 14. The prices of grain are—Old oats, 25s 6d to 26s Of 401bs per bushel; new oats, 23s 6d to 25s Od, 40114 Pe r bushel ; here, 35s Od to 36s Od, 531bs per bushel ; barleft 34s Od to 36 5 Od, 531b s per b us h el ; wheat, red, 50s 0( 1 ,, ' r 62s Od, 621133 per bushel ; whe a t, w hit e , 70 8 Od t o 75s u" 621bs per b us h e l - oatmeal, 19 8 6d. to 20s Od per b° ,i ' flour, 53s Od to 57 s Od per sack. Provisions—Beef, per 1 1 /' 6d to 8d ; mutton, ditto, 6d to 8d ; veal, ditto, Od. to B a, t pork, per lb, O s 5d t o O s 7 d ; sfilmou, per lb, _ Os Od to Os rabbits, each, Od t o Od ; tallow, per stone, 58 9d to Os potatoes, per p ec k, Od to 8d ; otter, per lb, 10d to 1 1 11, eggs, per doz, O s Bd. to Os 9d ; hens, per pair, 2s 6d 3s Od ; chickens, ditto, 1s 3d t o 2 s Od P ; ducks, ditto, 10 """ to 2s ; ducklings, ditto, 2s 6d to Os Od ; tnrlo9* each, 33 Od to 4s Od ; geese, ditto, 3s Od to .13 Od ; for exuortation (present cure), per cwt, 88s to OOs u" ditto (summer cured), OOs to 00s Od ; eggs, wholesale Pricl,4, ' per dozen, 7d to Od • 41b loaf, Bid ; 21b loaf, 4icl ; P°„,, r fine small, Os Od to Os Od ; p or k, large, Os Od to Os vi a ' lamb, per lb., Os 6d to 8d ; cheese, per imperial st° l " 5s 6d to 7s. SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Poi,— by the night—and M by the morning —dispatch.] COUNTRIES. From what Port Dispatched. Whet due EnrisP", gat h boa Day wh€n made up in General Post- Office, London.* Amerlea(byßrit.pack)N America (by United Sts. packet) ..........N America (by U. States packet) ..........N Australia (via South ampton) .......... Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of Wed Hops) ............N Africa (West Coast) ..N Alexandria..........N Alexandea ..........M Bahamas ...........M Belgium .......... • •N Brazil • • M Buenos Ayres.... • • • • M Cape of Good Hope ..N Cape of Good Hope ..N Cape de Verds ......N Ceylon (see India) Ceylon Channel Isles China (see India) Constantinople Constantinople ........ Cont. of Europe 114 & N Egypt (see India) France ........ M & Gibraltar Greece (see India) Greytown Hamburgh N Havaunah M Holland M Honduras M India (vlaSouthampt.)M India (via Marseilles)3l lonian Isles (see India) Ireland ........M & N Lisbon ........ M Madeira Madeira .. N Malta (see India) Malta ...... • N Mauritius (see India) Mauritius Nll4th o f th e month Plymouth ..0ct. 26 Mexico ...... 3.112nd of the m on th.. Southamton 1101%.3 Naples .• •• • • N sthlsth2sthofinon. D0ver......0ct. New Granada .. • M2d & llth of month Southampton N o/ :rti l l New Zealand .. ißy private ship .. Various ports Un c `3l Papal States Nstllls t h2 sthoffnon. Dover Oct. Peninsula M '7th Pith23thotinon.;Southampton Oct. 21; Peru .. ..... . M2d & 27th of mon. I South ampton Nov 26 Port Natal ..... N 14th of the month Plymouth .. Oct. S N sthl,n2sthotmon, Dover ...... Oct 22 23 ilY ruecany , N sthisth2sthofmon.ll)over Oct Venezuela 2d Si 17th of month Southampton I.4°'r. Van Diemcn's Land (see Au-tralla) ........, wpst Indies . ,2d BL Nth of month Southampton ," l Every Friday .... Liverpool ... loct. 18 ...... lOct. 26 .......... 'Nov.4.. .••••••• INov. 8 •• Dec. 4 `l3d of the month.. 8,9, 24, & 30 of m., 4th & 20th of mon. 17th of the month' 9th of the month.. 9th of the month.. 14th of the month 14th of the month. 14th of the month. 14th of the month Mon ~Wed.,&Flld. i 2d & 17th of month 1,8,17,24,&27 of m. 4th & 20th of mon. Twice daily .... .. Twice daily ...... 4,7, 17, 20, 27 ofm. GiTerpool ... Southampton 1 !Southampton Dover •• •• •• Plymouth .. Plymouth .. Dover ...... Southampton Southampton Dover ...... Southampton Southampton Plymouth .. Southampton, Plymouth 2nd & 17th of mon. Tuesday & Friday 2nd of the month Wednesday & Sat. 17th of the month. 4th & 20th of mon. 8 th& 24th of month (Twice daily ...... 7,9, 17, & 28 of m. 19th of the month 19th of month .... Plymouth Southampton Southampton Dover .• .• •• Southampton Dover ...... Dover Buuthampton loco. 2b rov. 2 1 Oct. Oct. 11 ErncatO Nov 11 Oct.. I S Oct. 20 r- - " .1 NOV Daily . g Nov. Nov. 16 Oct. 2 ‘; Oct. I °, lOct. 2 6 Oct. 26 ai Nov. 1 Oct. 2 ? Oct. 2 !„,n1 Twim' Tvrtee didi Oct. 26 Aouthampton L0nd0n..... 7:roY. t t t; Toes.r Nov*. I pr 1i0n.121 Nov. l b Oct. 21 Nov , 1 Oct. xv,,tl Holyhead lce," Southampton Oct. 2 5 Southampton NO. 16 Plymouth Nov. 19 Dover .. Oct. is Southampton L0nd0n..... Southampton Southampton Dover •• .• •• 17,17,19,28, 30 of m. * When any of these dates tax on a Sunday, the me.' l' dispatched on the following day, with the exception of the , Southampton), and the Malta, both of which will be dlSpet" - , lay preceding. Tun PACKET QUESTION . — The members of the her of Commerce meet on Tuesday next to nie r ' r- o ubt the authorities on this question. There fan s e n : d IF; as to the superiority of the situationofthi 1 3t ° + o that of Southampton as a packet station ; and it 1 0 " - p g regretted there has hitherto been so much supi ll .l4 s on the part of these most deeply interested in prool, ;0 1 the necessary pier and dock accommodation for the 8 70 of the great company anxious to have made PlY r liof the principal place of rendezvous.—Plymouth, M ail Saturday. l i r NEWSPAPERS AND ADVERTISEMENTS.—Froraw , " gr o liams's late return to th e H ouse o f C ommons , it aPPdever that in 1851 the stamp duty on newspapers an d so.; tisements amounted to 362,224/. ;i n 1852 , t o 396)6 0 and in 1853 (year ending . the sth of Januarli f 594,152/. 0 . 4 [ADVERTISEMENT. ]—A L IEUTENANT OF DR A N O 4 CURED OF RHEUMATISM BY HOLLOWAY'S OIS"' AND PILLS.—This officer, who is i n th e D u tch ' a re° states that Holloway's Pills and Ointment have 1 0 him of rheumatism, whi c h appeare d to b e incurable{,.n neither sea-bathing, vapour-b a th s , nor preparations 0 7t d as sure remedies, did him an y goo d , an d the trea W the doctor, after several months' trial, was withoutrilpf teas. At this juncture he commenced taking these , e r o , and rubling the Ointment into the complaining r. O twice a day, which effectually cured him in the coarf,ifor six weeks. The truth of this statement can be youo . , 11 1.0( by Mr. J. B. Stratman, of Bois-le-Duc.--Sold by all 2.141 gists ; and at Professor Holloway's establishments Strand, London. [ADVERTISEMENT. j —DA RIC DAYS AND , NIGHTS.—The necessity of ha v i ng th e most per feto sight and hearing, and b r i g ht an d b r illi ant spe eSe Persons can be well suit e d a t a di s t ance, &c.—The.Wil —39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.—Observe, oppoto York Hotel.—Optical Improvements to enable porwie an advanced age to read w ith ease an d t o di sc rn objects with perf ec t distinctness. Messrs. S. a ll e ot l . , Solomons, opticians and ocu li s t s , h ave invented 5P,°4013 Lenses, with pan o pti c f rames t o see over at a dreo while reading, writi ng , & c . , o f th e greatest traosl?„" , vell' power. The valuable a d van t age d er i ved from this Lt tion over the specta c l es now in common use is, JP; oil stead of vision bec om i ng s t ra i ne d , h eated, weakened' in numerous cases seriously injured, it is preserven od strengthened ,- and very aged persons are enabled ty oe° ploy their sight at the most minute occupation ; with those lenses of a much less magnifying power ; that which is a matter of the greatest consequence ise ffe, do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous i f of further powerf u l ass i s t ance.-- The Royal Exh,i3",iiiiv: —A valuable, n ew ly-i nvented, very small powerful rare, coat-pocket glass, th e s i ze of a walnut, by which aIV can be seen and known one mile and a half 00; they answ er every purpose on the race-course, t, opera-houses, count r y scenery, an d sh i ps are clearvaeo; at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting , p et stalking, yachting, to sp or t smen, gen tl emen, game lcee rt , and tourists. Telescopes —A new and most iroP ° ., , invention in telescopes, possessing such extrao powers that some, 31" inches, with an e x t ra eye-piel ir3 show distinctly upiter's moons, S a t urn ' s ring, aviin double stars ; with th e same t e l escope, weighing °iir ounces, can be seen a person's countenance three 1 6 ' and a half distant, and an o bj ec t f rom 1 6 to 20 j'elo': They supersede every other ki n d f or th e wa i s t coa t-1 3° A and are of larger and all sizes, with increasing 13 S e r , 1,' , accordingly. Opera and race-cou rse g l asses, with ,0r11,7, power; an object can be clearly seen, from 14 to lo,; distant. Deafness—New Discovery—The Orgall'ott,i brator, an extraordinary powerful an d new l y -40 instrument, for Deafness, entirely diff eren t froo V be e others, to surpass anything of the kind that hal ; os or probably ever can be, produc e d. Being 'Ol same colour as the skin, it is not perceptible ; it C l io e; deaf persons to hear distinctly at chu rc h an d at foLce# semblies ; the unpleasant sensation o f singing w3l. oeiotr the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all tho slop' ante that possibly eould be desired.—S . an d B . S o loo4 , Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemarle -street, rico' Observe, opposite the York Hotel. MARRIED. On the 13th inst., at Donca s t er , H enry Wm . 13TP,b1A4 Esq., Captain Royal Engineer s , thi r d son of the late Barlow, Esq., and grandson of th e l a t e Admiral Su . eby Barlow, G.C.8., to Harriette Rebecca, Elizabeth, only of John Wm. Sturges, Esq., of Beechfield, Mu Dencas_at'eti,,d On the 11th inst., at Greenock, Mr. Andrew b y the Chronicle office, Kelso, to Elizabeth, youngest d*'" of the late John Brown, Esq., Park, Berwickshire. DIED. job ° On the 16th inst., at publisher of Blackfriar o : o , Adkins Tibbitts, Esq., publisher of the Morning Ch i ; 4 ,15 01 eldest so. of John Tibbitts, Esq., of East Lodge, v . 1/ and only brother of J arv i s Tibbi tts, Esq., aged 37' Ldroi' On the 12th inst., a t Cli fton, i n her 75th Ye es b P Way, widow of the l a t e M a j or -G eneral Sir Grego se man Bromley Way, K.C.8., K.T.S. the I'l3 On the 14th in s t., W m . H enry, eldest son W Lieutenant Sir Wm. Anning Hungate, Bart., B.' . le s 32. At St. Germain-en-Laye, Major Wm. Edicor i late Major in the service of her Majesty, ageof ... l: - 10 61° -9•0 LONDON : Printed and Published 13y MEWL/ - 14104 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The San Office. oalil strand, in the Precinct of the S avo y, L A " M 44100; Jlbuciv a October 17,156,3• n The h 'aPtain , oger ( Qaaries coin's George Ofniar '' • U. bThe 'RON' i p k h „ • (1, tf nn tc,,41/ Charles illi zo Dll Q. II Arth The D ._ 1 wenalt dsauree tSsoc *100( 501 „ * EXA ty t i:!4/. 1, N l 3 l tof ,1 • 1( c ya s O tl il r l y on b ne e Every r ••Irectol Just oN relati Q,llerat BIRTHS. OF A BON. O gO I On the 13th inst., at Forton, the lady of Lieut e Charles John Elli s, R oyal Marine Forces. o On the 13th i ns t. , at Bromley-common, Kent, the it of R. W. Townsend, Esq., of Dublin. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 13th inst., at Glenorchard, near Glasgow, th ° of Colonel Slade, Inspecting Field-officer. s fiP On the 14th i ns t., at 29, Chesham- s t ree t, the • Captain Gladstone, R.N., M.P. )3 „ fle 30 da and 1 chars A brig anti 7 leant Th ntld CtLl Dane; LA ! Lte GE.o i Np,w Prick Lac • 40vb„stie ODei Chno --____. E „Iv' T] the en, pre init 14 the Eve ! of the °' his Rad k , tither J. e arn Itiebar, ,_ U''' Far Ear P ar Vizl