The Sun. — London, England, 1853-10-04 00:00:00

THE LATE SIR CHARLES NAPIER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN. "De mortuis nil nisi bonum vitiis nemo sine nasci tur." Sin,—lt was with feelings of profound regret that I read the most ungenerous, unfeeling, and unjust remark, as the concluding paragraph of an obituary "on the death of Sir Charles Napier," in Allen's Indian Mail of the 20th instant. The writer of the article in question, after making some slight comment on the decease of that illustrious and immortal hero, most uncere. moniously and coolly remarks, that "he (Sir Charles) WAS a turbulent, headstrong, and vindictive man. The assertion of his claim to a larger portion of the Scinde booty than was at first assigned to him, and which could be realised only at the expense of his comrades in arms, shows that he was not a disinterested one. His nepotism was the more reprehensible, seeing that it was his prac tice to accuse all persons of power or influence of abus. ing their opportunities. His career in Scinde was, in a military point of view, one of the most glorious in modern history ; but the cause was rotten ; the con quest of Scinde was unjust, and all the splendour of vic tories achieved, not by chance, but by profound military skill, cannot wash out the original stain which marks the quarrel. The general's brother laboured as hard to defend the conquest of Scinde, as did the general him self! to achieve it. Indeed, the whole family of the Napiers seem to have entered into a solemn league and covenant' to puff themselves and to revile all the world beside. Nothing could be in worse taste than the at tempt of Sir William Napier to make a speech on the solemn occasion when the bones of his deceased relative were consigned to that dim abode to which all must at some time descend. It was, moreover, an indecorum without any pfecedent, as we believe, to give it a colour. No one stepped forth under the dome of St. Paul's to pronounce a panegyric on the Great Duke ;' and mag nificent as was Sir Charles Napier's military fame, it was not enough to excuse the ill-considered step attempted by his brother." It is, I boldly assert, as malicious and shameful a libel 'as ever was written by a man styling himself an Englishman, and calls forth from your readers generally the loudest condemnation. Now, Mr. Editor, with your wonted impai Liality, allow me to make a few brief remarks, which will, lam sure, convince your readers and yourself, that the statements above alluded to are as I have represented them. I cannot conceive why such words were printed by the Editor of Allen's Indian Mail, that if he wished to please the Court of Directors of the Honourable East India Company, under whose patron age he is living, he has greatly mistaken that honour able body, as they are all too generous to approve of such illiberal criticism, and they appreciate the ines timable services of the deceased too well to allow them selves to be prejudiced by such controverse statements. Even had Sir Charles possessed the failings imputed to him, surely as the grave has closed over his remains they should be for ever buried in oblivion. The following extract from the Lahore Chronicle, dated Sept. the 24th, 1850, relative to Sir Charles Napier, will serve as a preamble to the refutation I am about to make : "The period of his Excellency the Commander-in- Chiefs stay in India is now rapidly drawing to a close, and although his career has been but short, it has been in many respects beneficial to the army at large. Indeed, it is a question if any of his predecessors have been distinguished by the same unbending firmness and perseverance in the cause of reform. He has in a great measure rid the army of some who, wearing the garb of authority, exhibited the conduct of rogues and impostors, and bore the character of drunkards and gamblers, oppressing the weak and misleading the simple, by awarding them the punishment which justice and law inculcate, thus displaying in full and indelible colours as a beacon to others the errors and consequences of their course. "That the name of his Excellency will go down to posterity with the; glow of affection and the breath of applause, none but the prejudiced reproved will deny." The attempt of the editor of the Mail, if I rightly de signated him, is like that of a pack of hounds barking on the appearance of the moon, which does not prevent its lustrous beam ; or that envious set who attempted to lessen the powerful rays of the sun by throwing dust at it. To return to Sir Charles. During his residence in India he was beloved by all honest and good men, although he certainly was a terror to the wicked. There are such innumerable instances of his liberality, humanity, and strict impartiality, that to narrate all of them would fill volumes ; therefore, I will content my self with mentioning a few of them, the truth of which I can vouch for, and no doubt many of your readers were eyewitnesses of the facts I am about to mention. A native commissioned officer, in consequence of ill health, resigned the service of the Hon. East India Company, with marks of distinction and medals. Being a young man and used to active service, when he recruited his health he went to Lahore in search of a situation, and tried all his friends, but he found it was impossible to obtain access either through them or his own resources to the authorities, who were constantly surrounded by a host of myrmidon Chuprasees ; he was consequently at the brink of starvation, and in total despair of obtaining the means of subsistence. At this time Sir Charles Napier arrived, and with his followers encamped at Lahore. The young man, with a me morial, waited in the way of his Excellency, who, seeing a petitioner, drew in the rein of his charger, took the memorial, and, without any ceremony, desired the petitioner to follow his Excellency to the tent, where he not only heard all he had to say, but obtained him a suitable appointment, which he stills fills, with credit to himself and satisfaction to his superiors, at Lahore, and thus rescued him from degradation and misery. Mr. Editor, this is one amongst thousands o instances. Sir Charles, without pomp or ostentation, habituated himself to go through the encampments, lis tened to the grievances of the soldiers, checked their de predations and extortion on villagers, and did not at any time allow their bad actions to go unpunished ; he stopped them from taking away the! fowls, eggs, fue!, and other provisions of the peasantry without payment; he was ever accessible to all, and never considered any thing too troublesome or inconvenient, if he could pro mote the happiness of others by attending to it. The result was obvious, and there are myriads who will never think of him without regretting his loss to the greatest possible extent. His courage was unbounded, he never enter tained the least fear of being assassinated ; and in time of war was frequently known to venture into the very teeth of the enemy. He prevented poor Indian travellers and merchants from being assaulted and whipped by young military officers, and made an example of one or two of the latter at Lahore. He often assisted cashiered and unfortunate officers in a pecuniary point of view, from his own private purse, although he was compelled to dismiss them from the servi ce by law and honour ; and in instances where men had transgressed, h e no bl y f orgot all pr i vate resentments, and if he cou l d do them no good by speaking of them, their faults were sunk in oblivion rather than he would be the one to expose them to the world. I am afraid I am taking up too much of your valu able tithe, and that of your numerous readers, therefore I will conclude by assuring you, Mr. Editor, that I have never in any way been personally connected with Sir Charles Napier, nor did I ever receive any favour in my life from him. The only occasion on which I was in his company was for a few moments in London, when I went with a native friend of Sir Charles's to interpret to him ; am unacquainted with his relatives, and therefore I am as disinterested in the affair in making these ob servations as the man in the moon bimself.—l am yours very obediently, AN INDIAN OBSERVER. London, Oct. 1, 1853. [We gladly give insertion to these generous words of indignation and homage --homage for an illustrious hero, and indignation against his most base and despicable traducers. Thz- tath in every syllable penned by our correspondent.—ED. or THE SUN.] DEATH FROM OBESITY. —The Savannah News says : "One of our city physicians has handed us the following extract from a letter written to him by a professional brothe r in the up -country, describing a somewhat sinr gular case, we believe of rare occurrence in medical prac tice : -----` I mus put in a slip to give you a lar in stance of death from the rapid accumulation off at. We had a young man residing 13 miles from this place, who was one of the miracles of nature. At the age of 22 Years he weighed 565 lbs. He continued gradually to i ncrease in flesh until he reached a little over 6001bs. ; VI himself, able to get about with tolerable ease and comfort ° ' in iself, and attended to his planting interest ; he had asofironce restate, and looked after it with care and interest. ve our weeks ago he commenced increasing in flesh „Z f r aPidly, and gained at first I.llbs. per day, then it Week he c l he gained a little over 21bs. per day. Last muiati endired suddenly in his chair, I think from accu h- °— 0, fat around the heart. Three days prior to -is death h e ' hed the day of *weighed 643 lbs., and had he been werg 6601b5. no ou . ihilisavdeath d bt he would have gone over few moths e often seen him, an v• e dvisited his famil a Advertis n a g o er. profes s ionally.---N ew York Commerc i al GLOUCESTER BARTON FAlR.—This famous agricultural celebration Was held on Wednesday and Thursday. attls and gtock of every description have been selling ''t cry hi gh Pric(4, particularly store pig., which IT ore CICWiNir Cit Kr. C l i itt: 041 3 (I.l:ll.gicic. LITERATUBE. Ailieford. A Family History. By the author of John Drayton. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This is one of those tales that charm by their natural style, and are effective from their truthful earnestness. Not that these pages are common place records of ordinary events, the annals of the poor "are not always short and simple." Tempta tion and trial abound in the walk of life here de picted, and although circumscribed in its limits of action, passion and suffering may be boundless therein. The events are all of the past as we be hold them ; they are given to us by the solitary one of the family, who looks down from a quiet and serene old age on all the strife and strug gles of his youthful pilgrimage. On the whole, melancholy is the characteristic of the story, and it is as well that it should be so, for the end of such as Jamie is generally awful. Not that he was so much sinning as sinned against, but it will be found commonly that the easy trusting dupe of artful men falls a victim to their devices, while the origi nators of the crime escape the immediate conse quences. Although saved from outward disgrace, the wretched youth, born for better things, could not surmount the reproaches of his conscience. Not of so fine a nature, or so feeling a disposition, Tom Cockburn was able to held up his head, after ho had endured the sentence of the law. The best passages are to be found in the second volume, which describes poor Jamie's gradual downfall from a high eminence of prosperity, with brilliant prospects brightening his future, to the lowest de gree of wretchedness, an outcast flying from the light of day, pursuers on his path, his outraged master tracking his steps like an avenging spirit. The insinuating progress of the evil ever present in the conduct of Jamie, although slumbering at times, and giving rest and peace to their quiet happy little home, is most ably shown forth. Vain were the efforts of his brother giving up his projects of a home of his own for a time, and assisting him with his scanty earnings, vain the exertions of his unfortu nate young wife who strove with all her might to render him happy, vain too were the prayers of his mother, the warnings of his friends ; above all, his own sense of the danger. With everything to in duce him to keep right on the one side, and with only a brief acquaintance with people he disliked on the other, he chose to rush into the snare. In the final scenes of the unequal struggle, when the lynx-eyed Donald Clerk paces night and day by the warehouse, his interest in Jamie turned to dead:y hatred, when Sybil sits in their room above convul sively plying her needle to cheat the slow hours of her watch, when Willie enters his brother's apartment every evening from his work, fearing to learn the events of the day, while every hour may bring the catastrophe, the interest becomes intense, and the excitement is increased when nowhere can the fugitive be found. Friend and foe turn night into day, but he is undiscover able. At last, after the lapse of some days, he creeps to his home in the country, some distance from Edinburgh, and after some con sultation it is agreed that Jamie, Sybil, and their infant child shall depart by night to seek their for tunes in some foreign country, but at the eleventh hour another danger has to be surmounted. Willie, the watchful brother, sees a light in the garden, and concealed himself by the shutter at the win dow, he beholds the face of the bearer of the lan tern—it is that of their enemy, Donald Clerk. The watchful old man has come to look for himself. The officers of justice had already searched the pre mises, but he steals out by night to seize his prey. " I went myself to the front of the house, following Donald Clerk. He had found out already the un shuttered, uncurtained kitchen window. I opened softly the unused 'front door,' which the rounded projection of the staircase entirely hid ; and gliding out into the gloom behind him, stood among the trees, watching what he watched, and with still greater interest keeping my eye upon himself. " Marget has drawn her deal table before the fire that she may see better the business she is now about, for no candle aids Marget's evening labour. And spread out upon the table, its long skirts depending, and its buttons glittering in the fire light, stained with mud, and creased into many a hopeless' fold. Marget is brushing with all her might, and vainly attempting to smooth in to decent order the great coat—Jamie's well-known gar ment—which Donald Clerk has seen coming and going at his warehouse door for many a peaceful day. All un conscious of the eye that flashes out a glow of fierce satisfaction at sight of this sure token, Marget care fully smoothes and brushes with something of the half fantastic delicacy of tenderness which dictated to my mother so many elaborate prepa - a ;;ions for our poor prodigal's return. And the cheek of the spy without reddens with excitement, and his eye glows fierce and lurid under his heavy brow. His prey is in his very grasp." Not a moment was left for their eternal farewell ; they were hurried away only half prepared to seek a shelter in a new world. Jamie, the child of so much love and labour, escaped that pressing dan ger, and the morrow of that awful night saw him safe from his pursuers, but he could not escape from the effects of those horrors. Worn out in body and mind, he perished after a few years. William, the brother, who narrates these events, wandered about for many years abroad. He was disappointed in the object of his affections, Mary Burnet, who behaved most unfeelingly to him, and he was net more fortunate in his attachment abroad. Greta, the heroine of his fancy, to follow whom he travelled fro a place to place, was married to an English trave — er. After a long and wear life he settled down in peace in the old home of his youth. His only companion was a son of Sybil L her second marriage, whom he adopted. The of Sybil s marriage again is a painful one, and dc..; not answer any purpose in the story ; she clie:7 very soon after. Elizabeth, the heroine of so many adventures in her early days, who was taken with her parents in that perilous midnight journey, en livens by her beauty and gaiety the dreary waste of the deserted home. After her marriage, her little brother remained to cheer the lonely old man, who had seen the young, the lovely, and the loved vanish away from him in succession, till his home and his heart, alike rendered desolate, could only be re-peopled by the memories of the past. Observations on the Mineral Waters of Homburg. _ _ By F. H. Prytherch, M.D. Third-Edition. This little volume will be found to prove a manual of exceeding utility to those who resort for health's sake to the celebrated waters of Homburg. A scientific analysis is given of the different " an nen," or springs ; their respe3tive efficacies are clearly explained, and minute directions afforded for the guidance of the patients who have occasion to resort to their curative qualities. Some very valuable observations are contained in the pages of the work on cuticular and nervous disease:, indi gestion, consumption, and many of the ills ich flesh is heir to. Dr. Prytherch speaks from twelve years' extensive practice in the use of in'_neral. waters ; and the results of his observation and ex perience are embodied in an intelligent and instruc tive form. Visitors to the bracing climate and mineral springs of Homburg will find him a safe and agreeable expositor and guide. The Zoist. No. XLIII. It will be found from the October number of this remarkable periodical, the number but just pub lished, that the Jourial of Cerebral Physiology and Mesmerism still has Dr. Elliotson as its most conspicuous contributor, and certainly, of all the writers in the Zoist, the most intelligent and inde fatigable. A curious case is described by him in the new instalment of the publication with which his name has long since come to be identified—the case of a young man suffering from Delirium Tre mens, successfully treated by Mesmerism. Ile following statement is also notable : " Extraction of an Upper Molar Tooth, with pat tia consciousness of pain, on August Ist, 1853.—A very ro bust and intelligent young woman came to me from a neighbouring town to have a tooth extracted during mesmeric sleep • but as she had never before been mes merised, I doubted whether this would be practicable, for she had only a few hours to spare, and during them had to transact some other business before returaing home by the train. However, I succeeded in producing mesmeric sleep in less than ten minutes. I then applied the forceps, and endeavoured to dislocate the tooth. She screamed violently, and laid hold of my hands. I soon loosened them and extracted the tooth. She was in the act of rinsing her mouth with warm water when she awoke, and said she had felt a slight pain, but had not the least recollection of having screamed or grasped my hands." At the close of the current number of the Zoist will be found (under the d ou ble-querY " Can ro fessor Faraday never be Wro n g ? or is Tadle turning all a delusion ?") an ingenious argumen:; in opposition to the deductions of a great living 11 - losopher. PROPOSED STATUE OF PRINCE ALBERT IN TIYDII-PAR. —We see with very great pleasure that the Lord Mayor has put himself at the head of a movement for carrying out an idea suggested and more than once urged in these columns, that of commemorating the great indus:•rial gathering in Hyde-park by a statue of the illustrious Prince to whose active and energetic co-operation it owed so much of its success. Lord Granville, as vice chairman of the commission for that Exhibition, very properly, in our opinion, when applied to on the subject, considered himself disqualified from taking the initiative, or, indeed, any ostensible part in the matter, though it has, we are sure, his lordship's very hearty approval. The Lord Mayor, therefore, assumed the leadership— addressed the provincial mayors for support, we believe with great success—and maintained the right of the me tropolis to take the first place in what is nevertheless a national movement. We cannot doubt that the Lord Mayor's project will have a large acceptance, and that such a sum will be forthcoming as will secure a work worthy •of• the fact which it hAS to record,— THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1853. ,SHARE MARKETS. , -(THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. 'Paid. 100 8i Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost andtastn. Junct... Birming, Wolverh. & Stour Valley ...... Birkenhd. Lancsh. d; Cheshire Junct Do. 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New 30 104 Santiago de Calm 3 4 1 all South Australian 10 7 Tin Croft 5 7 28A all United Mexican 34 4 1 all Waller — 1 all West Granada —I d 1 all West Mariposa 1 all Yuba JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 7O 72 x d 50 all British N. American 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 4d— par 100 25 Colonial l7 100 20 Commercial of Lond — 20 10 English ScotV'h and Australian 24d lid 20 15 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia id 4 p 15 14/ 50 20 London and County 50 10 London Joint Stock 22 24 100 20 Loud. & Westminster 33 35 20 2 Loadon Bank of Aus tralia and India 50 226 National of Ireland — 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation 45 47 25 5 Do. New 100 25 Provincial of Ireland „, 10 all Do. New 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg • & Gold Imp Co.._ 4 dis— par 25 all 3outh Australia 37 39 25 all lUnion of Australia 64 66 Do. New 66 74 50 10 ' Union of L0nd0n..,,. 17 19 40 all Union of Madrid — MISCELLANEOUS 100 35 Australian Agrcuit. 33 35 20 12 Australsn.Pcific.Mail 10 8 Australn. Royal Mail 50 384 Brit. American Land 55 60 100 326 Canada — 5 5 Crystal Palace l# lip 64 4 2 Crystal Pal. of France ... 20 3 Eastern Steam.. • 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir. 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. 20 16 General Screw Steam 20 5 Irish Beetroot Sugar 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 3 Netherlands Land 1 6d 20 10 Nrth.ofEuropeSt,eam ,„ 50 all Peninsular & Oriental ,„ 50 25 Do. 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 25 25 South Austral. Land .33 35 344 3 1 all Submar. Telegraph 5 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization . . 100 284 Van Diemen's Land 14 16 MARKET NEWS--(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market is firm, with moderate sale=. The quantity of British plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 2,310 hhds, 281 tierces, 9)5 brls ; there were taken for home consumption 1,354 hhds, 205 tierces, 692 brig. The stock in the same platen is 12,865 hhds, 1,971 tierces, 4,745 brie. COFFEE.—There was more inquiry for native yesterday afternoon, but the article is expected to be duller upon the political news. RUM.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 717 puns, 32 hhds; there were taken for home consumption 213 puns, 10 hhda ; and ex ported 68 puns, 45 hhds. The stock in the same places is 8,501 puns, 396 hhds. SALTPETRE.—BengaI, 2,842 bags, about half sold pub licly, low mid 10.:1 to 54 per cent. refraction, at 28s 6d to 30s. The rest, good and fine, were taken in at 30s to 31s for 2 to 6 per cent. refraction. SPIOES.-958 bags Singapore black, at auction, were taken in at 44d. for mid sifted, but 399 bags white sold at nd to 82d for mid dingy. Mace-3 cases realised 3s for slightly wormy. Nutmegs-31 cases Singapore sold at 2s 7d to 3s 2d for brown, and 2s 10d to 33 for mid limed. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is firs 6d per cwt on the spot, and town 59s 6d. TEA.—The public sales are in progress. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.— Meadow hay, 3/ 5s to 5/ 5s ; clover ditto, 4/ 5s to 61 Os ; and straw, 11 8s to 1/ 16s per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ 123 to 5/ 5s ; clover ditto, 4/ 5s to N 16s ; and straw, 1/ lOs to 1/ 18s per load. Trade firm. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 3/ 12s to 5/ ss; clover ditto, 4/ 10i to 6/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1l 16s per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull. (LLOYD'S SHPPING.-(21118 DA Y.) LONDON, Oct. 4.—Wind this day at Noon, S.W. ; fresh breeze, and cloudy, with rain at time.. —The wreck of a vessel, of about 290 tons, straight stern, white streak, black dbrts, totally dismasted, decks gone , and no cargo to be seen, was passed in lat. 34 N., l ong . 48 W ., b y the Thames (a), at Southampton. GRAVESEND, Oct. 3.—The Araby Maid, from Sunder land to Mauritius, has come here with damage, having been in collision. HARWICH, Oct. 3.—The Tido, of Sunderland, frem Shields to Dieppe, foundered this morning in fathoms inside the Long Saud, having been struck by a sea yester day, when she sprung a leak. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 3.—Wind, N.W. to W. Arrived— Sutlej, London, for Cdcutta ; H.M.S. Sidon, Cork.—The brig Kingston-by-Sea is reputed to have been ran into and sunk, yesterday morning, off Hastings, by le, ship of about 800 tons ; one man killed. SHIELDS, Oct. I .—Arrived--Regent, Quelme. Sailed— St. Jago, Newhaven, U.S. Pat Back—The Ban Douglas (s), for .Rotterdam, machinery damaged. WARKWORTH, Oct. Z.—Arrived—Eleanor, Amsterdam, for Leith, with loss of sails, bulwarks, 13r,0., and topsides strained. BRIDGEWATER, Oct. 3.—Anived—Ada and Manna, Quebec. BRISTOL, Oct. 3.—Arrived—Rrilliant, St. Stephen's ; Artenus, Newfoundland. Sailed—J. W. White, and Macdonia, New York ; Romulus, North America. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 3.—Sailed—lndia, Hobart Town ; Anglesea, and Earl Derby, Sydney; Biimingham, Mel bourne ; Patriot King, Bombay; May, Punta Arenas ; David Harrison, Bahia. GLOUCESTER, Oct. 3.—Arrived—Wm. Willmett,l St. John's, N.B. ; John Walker, Quebec. BARROW, Oct. L—The Wer Aor, on shore west of Wal ney lighthouse, has been got off and into this harbour, CARDIGAN, Oct. I.—Arrived—Severn, Quebec. DUNDEE, Oct. I.—Sailed—Mountain Maid, Australia. HOLYHEAD, Oct. 2.—The Dauntless, from Clyde to Dunkirk, put in hero yesterday leaky, and must discharge. DONEGAL, Sept. 30.—A number of Deals, not long in the water, have washed ashore at St. John's Point. MARYPORT, Oct. I.—The Fortune, ashore to the south ward, has been got off, and proceeded to Whitehaven. LYNN, Oct. 2.—The Commerce, bound to Goole, has put back leaky, hating been on the Whiting Sands. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) DEAL, Tuesday, 9 A.M. Wind, S.W., blowing strong. Anchored—Bury St. Edmonds, from London, for Mound's ; Ealing Grove, from London, for Algoa Bay. Passed—Susan, frr m London, for Denia. Put Back, and remains • New F,Tr, Bedlirgt^" , Oriente, and Ocean C;em, Closing Prices Yesterday. Business this day. LATER FROM THE BRAZILS. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The clipper-ship Swordfish, Capt. Cobb, arrived in the Mersey yesterday, after another very rapid run. She left Pernambuco on the 3d ultimo, and consequently made the trip in 28 days. The general news of the Swordfish is quite devoid of interest. The rate of exchange on this country was 27g. Freight—Sugar, in cases, 455. ; and bags in pro portion. Cotton to Liverpool, Id. to 5-16ths. The Royal Mail steamer Tay, from Southampton, ar rived at Pernambuco on the Ist, and left on the 2d of September, for Bahia and Rio Janeiro, with 60,0001. in specie for the latter port. From Bahia our dates extend to the 31st Aug. There was little or no change in commercial mat ters. Sugars were said to be getting very scarce. Exchange was quoted 28d. Freights—Sugar, 40s. to 355. to the Channel and Mediterranean ; cotton to Liverpool, lc. ; rosewood, 40s. per ton. We have also advices from Rio Janeiro to the 25th August. The Prospero, from hence, arrived at Rio on the 16th. No news of interest. Ex change 28d. Fr e i g ht s t o t h e U n i ted States ruled at 50c. THE EAST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 3. The Peninsular and Oriental C ompany ' s steam ship Indus, Captain Joy, arrived this afternoon about three o'clock, with the heavy p or ti on of the East India and China mails. ---- Her latest dates are Alexandria, Sept. 20 ; Malta, 23 ; Gibraltar, 28. The Indus brings 9 passengers, and a freight consisting of-1 box containing nuggets of gold, 1 bale tobacco, 8 Egyptian curiosities ; 4 cases of opium, 165 bales of silk, and 19 cases 72 bales flax, 17 bales wool, 6 cases shawls, 152 bags of gum, 142 ditto sugar, 14 casks elephants' teeth, 7 ditto mother of pearl, 2 ditto ivory, and 30 packages general merchandise. The Indus reports passing the Tagus off Cape Finisterre. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, OCT. 2. Her Majesty, with the Princess Royal and Princess Alice, drove yesterday afternoon to Invercauld, the re sidence of Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson. The Viscountess Canning was in attendance upon her Majesty. Prince Albert went out deer-stalking. The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Kent and suite from Abergeldie. Mr. Frederick Dundas had an interview with Vis count Palmerston yesterday at the Home-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived at his official residence in Downing-street yesterday evening from Ha warden Castle, Cheshire. Dispatches were sent to the Governors of Ceylon and Hong-Kong yesterday from the Colonial-office. Dis patches were received from the Governors of the West India Islands and the Governor of Canada yesterday. HARVEST HOME ON THE ROYAL FARMS NEAR WIND sOR.—On Saturday afternoon, " the long-accustomed feast of harvest home," was celebrated on the Norfolk, Flemish, and Bagshot farms, all of which are in the oc cupation of his Royal Highness Prince Albert. The whole of the regular labourers and harvest-men, number ing altogether about 100, were regaled with a substantial repast of prime roast beef and plum-pudding, in a spa cious barn at Norfolk-farm. Mr. Brebner, the Prince Consort's farm-bailiff, presided. The rustic banquet was graced by the presence of Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, clerk-marshal to Prince Albert, Lady Mary Hood, and their youthful family. MORE PERSECUTIONS AT FLORENCE. By a letter dated Florence, Sept. 20, we learn that the sister of Miss Cunninghame and the Rev. Mr. Gor don, having received a warning from some friend that they were about to be arrested and thrown into prison, managed to effect their escape, and repaired to Leghorn, where they took refuge on board the Modeste, under the flag of Lord W. Crompton. They were charged with the crime of reading the Scriptures with some Italian friends. Miss Cunninghame, we learn, has been removed to one of the condemned cells. She has been permitted to hire her bed—a deal board being the only substitute which the cell affords. She has also been allowed the use of a bath. She is permitted to see her mother, but only for half an hour in the course of the day. The police boast that they have the names of about 50 persons enp.ged in the work of proselytism, and among the number are three or four English ladies, whose letters are opened at the post-office, without even the shadow of a disguise. RAILWAY AND MINING COMPANIES.—A bill is to be introduced in the ensuing session to give more extended powers to the constituencies of railway and mining com panies in relation to the acts of their directors. THE FORTIFICATIONS AT DEAL.—The works at No. 1 Battery are progressing favourably. The founda tions of the sea wall are completely laid, and enclose the whole of the battery. The foundation is laid 15 feet below the surface of the ground, and the wall is to be varied to a height of 15 feet about the surface. It is to be composed of solid brick-work, four feet thick, and laid in cement. Another wall, 20 feet high, is to be erected within this, and the centre is to be filled up with concrete ; and upon the summit of the latter are to be fixed 68-11). cannons, which from their position will command a full sweep of the Downs. THUNDERSTORMS.—On Saturday heavy showers of rain and hail fell at Manchester from an early hour, and in the afternoon several heavy peals of thunder were heard here. The rains were continuous during the greater part of the night, and frequent and heavy showers fell on Sunday. On Sunday afternoon there was a second thunderstorm, accompanied by a heavy fall of large hailstones. The sun shone out for a short time during the day with considerable power between the showers. In the evening the temperature fell very considerably, and during the night frost set in. On Monday morning a hour frost had left its impress upon the fields and hedges, and in some places water was covered with ice. SHIPMENTS OF SPECIE.—The shipments of specie by the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Euxine amount to 501,7501., of which 30,000/. is gold for Malta, Alexan- BANK OF ENGLAND.—The following return was issued dria, Ceylon, Hong-Kong, and Canton, and 471,7501. is from the Bank yesterday. It is to be presumed that the silver for Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Penang, Singa acceptance of new stock thus shown to have taken place pore, Hong Kong, and Canton. The amount of specie must have come from persons at some di s t a nt part of the b roug ht by the West India packet is not so large as had globe, who were unacquainted at the time with any un- b een anticipated, but is still very considerable, being favourable changes in the money market : about 540,0001. From New York the sum is 50,000/. BANK OF ENGLAND. A LLIA NCE CLUB OARS RACE.—The members of the AMOUNTS OF NEW STOCKS ACCEPTED THIS DAY. Alliance Club rowed a four-oared race yesterday, for a Three-and-a-Half per Cents £5,000 number of valuable prizes, consisting of oars and rudders, Two-and-a. Half per Cents Nil, and sets of valuable gold studs. difficulties The . c i_d o n u tid l . course i .w e t eihlol ,af7th, t extended hthoi:i 0 w said Exchequer Bonds Nil. from Messrs. Searle's to Nine-elms. After contesting DIVIDEND DAY AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND the preliminary heats very warmly, the following took SOUTH SEA HOUSE.—Notice was issued yesterday at their places for the grand heat :—Messrs. Jones, Barrett, the Bank of England and South Sea House that the Tenant, Sore, and Holland (cox (e sw ox a s i w n) a , in p ) i , n g k re ; en; Turner, con. October dividends will be in course of payment to the Hopkins, Wing, Hotz, Bennett public on Thursday, the 13th inst., and that the transfer stable, Greenland, Loveday, Potter, and Fawcett (cox for the undermentioned annuities, due the 10th inst., swain), yellow ; Chapman, Cooper, Dawson, Sibley, and will be reopened as follows, viz. :—Bank Stock on Wed- Tubbs (coxswain), red. They effected a capital start, nesday, the 19th inst. • Long Annuities and annuities and were oar and oar a considerable distance ; for terms of years, on inst. the 19th inst. ; 31.55. pink then drew slightly, but were closely waited upon per Cent. Annuities, on Thursday, the 20th inst. ; and throughout the race by green, who were only beaten by Reduced 31. per Cent. Annuities, on Friday, the 21st. little more than a clear length. The former mode of weighing gold in the bullion-office THE RECENT SUICIDE IN FRENCH -STREET, DUBLIN.— of the Bank of England by pounds, ounces, penny- At length a clue to the identification of the wretched weights, and grains is discontinued, and the only weights man who shot himself recently in a disreputable house now in use in that office are of denomination of the Troy in the above street has been obtained. Some time ago ounce and its decimal parts. South Sea House.—The (on the 25th of August it is stated) a clerk of the Messrs. transfer books for South Sea Annuities will also be re- Mein, wool merchants ofJedburgh, in the South of Scot opened on Wednesday, the 19th inst. land, committed two forgeries upon one of the banks THE MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION.—Yesterday, Mr. there, and absconded with the proceeds, amounting to Shadwell, the barrister appointed to revise the list of 7181. He had not since been heard of, although the voters for the county of Middlesex, opened his court at usual search after him had been made. The persona the White Home 'Uxbridge, and proceeded with the whom he robbed in Jedburgh having learned through districts of Oowiey, Harefield, Hayes, Hillingdon, the papers the particulars of the suicide here, and read Ickenham i Norwood, Ruislip, Uxbridge, and West the description of the deceased, suspected that he might Drayton. The objections on both sides amount to be the culprit ; and one of the di: actors of the Jedburgh upwards of a thousand, and there'are numerous claims bank, who is also a magistrate of that birough,. but urged 'tiy both the great political parties ; but a new whose name e twh w a: e .i c limt c . ) , i ) i i ll ed,s o ioi t t,ny a .a s fon ce rd i u . t t hh ai eas n, r a e r f rived in Dublin ca feature in these proceedings has arisen from the opera- Saturday, and having seen the miniature of the suicide, tion of the act passed in the last session of Parliament, at once pronounced it to be that of the absconding . clerk. NY:filch was introduced by the noble lord the member for He also recognised the deceased's handwriting n he the county; which limits the term of polling of Messrs. to one day. memorandum book, and states that can a t e here the in no The Registration of Voters Act, the 6th and 7th of doubt whatever as to the identity. 0 Viet., o. 18 sec. 36, enabled voters not resident in the Mein is to arrive in Dublin to-day, when the body will county to poll, upon application to the barrister, at any be again exhumed for identification. We are informed booth which might be most convenient to themselves ,• that the unfortunate man, MacFarl l ane t , aas.whifeentLwaino? and it also enabled voters resident in the county to poll be called, at the booths more immediately adjacent to their own child.—Daily ExPre-u• residences„ irrespectively of the situation of theproperty THE COMING BREVRT.—The for which, they vote. The privilege has not P hitherto in the way of a brevet are many infEe c o r . ed e; c , been exercised to any great extent ; but now that the our readers in general suppose. new act for limiting the polling to one day comes into given to the "quit/ nuns" at the clubs, tk force it will be found to be an extremely important and culty experienced: i t (:) o : 3 l ( 3 )s ta oitr in ieotnr t , h l e :r i ng ae 6n ' t 1 er ' is Cohanb salutary provision, and hence it is that there were yes- to the disbursement of 2s. a day !1T...a ornaor .e g reat be day a great number of these new claims to be allowed to be promoted to brevet m rna,l o, _. o „re a t ci . ft of the Tr. 1 - to vote at the most convenient and proximate ellin that a compromise will be 8 P . X 1 1 , , , V Al °f th e - -asu rY ti pl v a e c s es ; . ur. Mr. iw . T H . A . J . a J m o e n s es appe . ared for the Con p serva- g onlyeawh.ose commissions s i: •It i, ca Ptain s , as hitherto, represented tLe dud Middlesex. Registration Office ; and Messrs. Le Brecen all the captains of 1843 b' Uwein 1 842 e c aptain s I: In t 0 f hZol.:ralnbekensent i col itihobsee of i and Davies represented a new registration society, sup - positively rejecteeraidiyobyer was so s:ifcolonels ported by a section of the Liberal party in the co - untry. and it .il gene rally in ca' -, 61," 11 . e g re t to i„,include tiande, left SYDNEY RAILWAY.—The last Australian pro.,ers de- great dl ,7 l %, ec er tent in eacyeh Year. ell L o scribe the progress of the works of the Sydne•r j itailvray, 1843- the 9ts ' in tai L n o i ng the rd liaidi n the, first line attempted in the colony, and s i s o give an (lows% to, ~ brevet ge has found (ratline of its history. Its length is to be 4 ( J miles, from that .ohasrpcury we believuenuy, the ev en r ext nels and uliseeuoctlen:Jrceoaslonjelif t f ,e .oznotion t o h p osition fr 'Sydney to Goulburn, through Pai amatta ; but, although and, Mr. Sidney 1 r il : 6 I, ' , e l : d P ° 1: 4 ; t t- t h t i e : t il rt c°ll:(lllBetarn;rt. d the company obtained its act of incorpc 'ration in 1849, cost" 4 on e ,-, - e Colo will probably r:ea-I;twrhcleairi:e's by interested little progress was made until very recently, owing to wag ' —Naval and November, blit efforts the total want of competent per •sonFs to undertake a He Alert's work of the kind. The gold disco varies, however, gave in it an impulse, and, under a guar sntee of 5 per cent. irties to ha ve from the provincial Government, the first 100,0001. of A "i i /i 3 t r a :y G a a j c : te i . t p ostpo l ie lv d e ybe Sydney capital was raised, the shares for -which now command irollz a ,. a premium of 10 per cent. It ales...am:ars that the th on sanct AT A . , Government have agreed to make a . dire-A subscription do, Ibtfei conventions-../ti c4l. „,. ~, .. uoivrENTIO A of 150,0001., on condition of naming one-half of the goo d . utility, o held in the United the board of directors. At present 200 men are employed, in \ v., and another ne has just closed nited States of as.l 4 • and the first two miles of the road have . already been th e li , i nos s t il l more im that • promises some being temporarily laid down, 0),.. a , • 64 in Octob e important is to completed, wooden rails labourer is n ' the r 'ails and h• • r • The first w assemble The rate paid to the common s 6s. Der day , public • libr ar i es iblio polists -as a meet' rs . e destroto of enapoying 500 It c,,' v ast d 1 of the of America Nearly n- of and the company ar of n be finish ea to P * s " • f country , all hoped that the line may the first • . . aramatta (16. ure s (W.' p race ' ca l ormation was el' icited • were represented ; a miles from Sydney, and nand town) in about Prenqise, i -- concern ' andsolve miles übstantial ' nto all scholars devisedome znea a year and a half. )actin iug, tiindin improvements in th , which EFORM BILL ----WO THE NEW IZ _ ou . . have been ASS preserving boo t arran ~. ging, the e modes of col says the Leatningtonthu rter,. '9Olll the most reliable gatherbai of the 'r ( t . c. The second g '' natal°guin g' a nd thority, that under e provisions of the is , c au- adopt S. i • e presidents and • is to be a national Bill, Leamington will be annexed to the b evv R ef 1 , . miform p r e y and 1 deform evzse e directors of 1 rai Ys, to iirarivie , • I for the rtlrpoeg nfra 1 . Orou a measures for Che f r famp il f, rr borough of establish as a law for their in prevention f nnagement, to tion. , rPrreeent a , ! nation. ycm of careful •' o accidents and to feels vigilance ' i meta, Everybodyan,,. the n ee • throughout the ,1 Iwo/m(ses theessay of thin nu,, t ,necessity results, ' m°7e- The Grand Duke is said to have declared that he considers the discovery of Miss Cunninghame's guilt (!) as a special interposition of Divine Providence, which has afforded him the means of executing s gnal chas tisement on English missionaries. His ministers have in vain suggested a more prudent course—their in fluence is counterpoised by that of the confessor. In the meantime the decision of the English Government is awaited by Tuscans as well as English with breathless interest. Above all, the Tuscans are asking each other, can this really be an Englishwoman who is treated with such foul indignity I Will England bear it tamely, that one of her daughters shall be doomed for tei years to a felon's cell for doing that which the virtuous and good among all classes of her countrymen must justify and applaud ? If so—if she has so degenerated from the spirit of Elizabeth and Oliver— then has she become a " geographical expression," and nothing more. The Tuscan reactionary policy is but part of one great conspiracy against civil and religious liberty. The agents of that policy seek to strike terror into their own subjects, by showing them that England is now power less and despised, unable or unwilling to protect her own subjects, far less to stretch out a helping hand to the suffering in other lands. 0 Parair lady(' fiel7 SIR EDWARD BLAKENEY.—The gallant Commander of the Forces in Ireland has so completely recovered as to be able to walk out every day. WOOD PAVEMENT IN OXFORE-STREET. The works having been advanced with so much rapidity within these few days, that the removal of the whole of the wood pavement has been effected, and replaced with sub stantial granite block paving, the entire line of road, from the Regent-circus as far as Old Cavendish-street, has been reopened for traffic, to the great convenience of the immense number of vehicles of all kinds tra versing this great line of road to and from the west end of the town and the City, and the public generally. The small portion of the street between that point and Bond-street now only remains closed, which causes com paratively little inconvenierce, and which, however, will soon terminate, as the remaining portion of Oxford-street by this time entirely completed, and will immediately be thrown open to the public. The thoroughfare at the end of the street, near Tottenham-court-road, is now completed, and thrown open for traffic, and as soon as the small portion of the street . between Old Cavendish and Bond-streets is re-opened, the whole of this fine line y eh gr ar a a n c i t te er : of street will be open, and in a complete and perf ec t taonnde more bloek adaptedpaving s tate of repair, the whole of the wood and oth er pav i ng o h f av a in su g b n st o a w nt b ia e l en an r d ep dabl replaced by to one of the busiest and most important of the metro politan thoroughfares. - CLOSING OF THE TRAFFIC OF CHANCERY-LANE.— Yesterday mornin g wor k men were busily engaged in taking up the pavement of the roadway at the lower end of Chancery-lane, from Fleet-street, for the purpose of its being enti re ly re l a id , t h e traffic of that portion of the lane being entirely stopped. In Fleet-street, the whole of the granite was relaid, and the concrete infused on Saturday, but the workmen were unable to finally complete the works 11 as to admit of general traffic from the Strand to the City for omnibuses and other heavy vehicles. This morning the last layer of gravel was laid down, and the apparent imperfections in the pavement levelled and cemented, so that in a few hours the general traffic will be fairly resumed from the Strand to the City. In the Strand the general repair of the roadway has not been completed in a very satisfactory manner, so that many holes and ruts still remain, but the relaying down. of the pavement on the south side of St. Clement' Church is a great improvement, the former paver') being on a slope towards Essex-street ; but as refs' is made more level, thereby rendering less habil& horses slipping, a more certain footing being afr THE AHMY.—Major-General James Jacks conclude, resigned the Cape command, to been appointed. In the "Army List" month neither the general nor his aide the places assigned to them in lap' Lieutenant-Colonel Routh and Li rick have exchanged places, the 1 rackmastership of Bristol, and Brevet Lieutenant -Colonel deputy quartermaster-gen, Major Rose, of the 551.3 - extra aide-de-camp to Captain the Hon../ Guar d s . Dr. D. r as s t a ff surgeon Lieutenant D tenant Ear , of the G' .id i f to th l .orded. Jll has, we .vhich he had of the present 4-de-care p re sent eute nant py t month's ".List." G. IGold termer taking the bar cral ,obet,he l a t ter of Canterbury. C. 8., h as ceased to be at Mauritiu s. Brevet 4 Foot, has been appointed as the Governor of Gibraltar, vice 4. P. Egerton, of the Grenadier .oambreck has succeeded Dr. Rawkey a of the London recruiting district. "ling, 20th Foot, has succeeded Lieu. ,er, 40th Foot, as superintending officer .as,gow district. Our readers may remember raPh inserted in our paper a short time since re. to the existence of grave dissensions between & a officer and a junior major of one of the crack corps _a Dublin garrison, which ended in the admonition ot both parties. We regret to hear that recent events of a. Most serious nature have been a subject of mutual re. crimination between the.partiee, and, unless stayed at on ce, are likely toe nd in a most unpleasant manner. It is said, however, that the authorities, not liking the complexion of the affair, have signified their readiness to accept mutual explanations, and that it may yet be hushed U. We regret to find that desertion still con. tinues in the nth Regiment, and, since the arrival o the corps in America, upwards of 60 men have deserted, Ithree -fifths of whom have been from the head -quarters at Frderickton, owing to the ready facility afforded themey the country people in guiding and assisting them into the States.---United Service Gazette. CHARON OP WILFULLY PROPAGAZ/NG SX4IL-PDX.--- A serious case, under the new 'Vaccination Act, has just arisen in Devonshire. A woman, living in the village of Tedburn St. Mary, a few miles from Exeter, wished her children to have the sreal/-pox, and, according to a custom which seems to have prevailed in the rural dia. i tricts, she determined that they should receive it bycon. tagion. Accordingly she sent her children, in the care of a nephew, named William Peimsaul, to Crediton, that they might get it from the servant of a respectable farmer, who was ill of the disease. The farmer's wife took a handkerchief which had been worn by the sore. ant, and tied it round the children's necks. They soon afterwards caugh the disease. The wife of the farmer, and the mother of the children, were brought up before the megisrates of Crockern well, sitting in petty sessions. and charged with the offence. The former was comma witted to prison for a week, but the latter escaped, it ift hew, who west believed, through the perjury of the nep thereupon charged with the offence. On Monday last he was brought up, he was so dangerously ill that the charge could not be gone into. The chairman (Baldn told him that the magistrates were Un . , Fulford, Esq.) willing to proceed against him in the present state of hit* health, but he wished it to be understood that in all cases where persons were found to endanger the lives of their children, by exposing them to the small -pox in the way narrated above, the magistrates would inflict the extreme penalty of the law. If death had ensued to theb children, the parties! ctlnr.,l.„ 11,,:,1111 b „ ,.. , . . ~ Qtyn triel for their lives, COMMITTAL OF TWO OMNIBUS DRIVERS FOR MANSLAUGNTER. Yesterday Mr. Brent resumed and concluded, in the Middlesex Hospital, an adjourned and very protracted inquest upon James Mason, aged 53, who for many years kept a shell-fish stall at the corner of Mortimer street, near Portland-street, and who fell a victim to the reckless furious driving of two omnibuses. During the two days' inquiry, the inquest room was crowded, espe ciaLlly by omnibus proprietors and their servants, anxious for the result. Mr. Humphreys attended on the part of the proprietor of the Hackney and Clapton omnibus, and Mr. Lewis for the proprietor of the Islington and Chelsea omnibus, the two vehicles that caused deceased's death. M r . Neale watched the proceedings for de ceased's widow and orphans. In answer to a question from the Coroner, Mr. Tibbetts, summoning officer, said that, although summoned, the drivers of the omnibuses were not present. William Bowles, residing at 5, Chandos-street, deposed that on the night of the 17th ult. he was standing near deceased's stall a few minutes before nine o'clock, when two omnibuses came racing up Mortimer-street from Regent-street, and turning sharply round into Great Portland-street, one of them, the Chelsea and Islington, which was the nearer to the footway, came upon de ceased and his son before they could get out of the way. The wheel caught deceased, and crushed him with such violence against the street-post that the resistance almost brought the vehicle to a standstill. The driver Lacked the omnibus, and deceased, who groaned piteously, and was partially insensible, was released and removed to the hospital. The driver alighted and waited until his badge number was taken. The driver of the other om nibus, the Hackney and Clapton, continued his furious course up Great Portland-street. Deceased's son was also injured. The omnibuses came up Mortimer-street nearly abreast, the Islington being a little a-head. De ceased could not get out of the way, so rapidly were they going, and the affair was so instantaneous. Wit ness could not state the pace the omnibuses were going at. They were evidently racing. Other customers as well as witness were at deceased's stall when the catas trophe occurred. James Mason, deceased's son, who still suffered greatly from his injuries, stated that on the night in question he was assisting his father at the stall, when he was alarmed by the loud rattling of the omnibuses as they rapidly approached him, and he instantly drew himself upright to escape them, but before he could get out of the way the roof step of one of them struck him on the head, and the wheel dragged off the skirts of his coat. Upon re covering from the fright h e f oun d t h at t h e spectators had released his father from his jammed position. Had not witness drawn himself up he would have met the same fate with his father. So sudden was the affair, that it was impossible for his father to escape. Other evidence having been adduced, The jury, after a brief deliberation, returned a verdict of manslaughter against Titus May and John Wood. The Coroner accordingly made out their committal to Newgate, and handed the warrant to Mr. Tibbetts for the apprehension of the accused. THE MIDLAND OBSERVATORY. At a special meeting of the town council, held in the Nottingham Guildhall, on Saturday, it was unanimously resolved that three acres of land on the Forest, or six acres on Mapperley-plain, be presented to the Observa tory Committee, as a site whereon to erect the proposed Midland Observatory, on condition that, should any other site be preferred, the corporation be allowed to purchase their land back again for the sum of 5001. With this grant the amount required has now been made up to within a little more than 1,0001. of the sum required ; and, as the committee appointed to carry out the undertaking are prepared to guarantee that the de ficiency shall be supplied, Messrs. Lowe, Bradley, and Chapman have been deputed to wait upon Mr. Lawson, at Bath—the munificent donor of the instruments and 1,000 guineas towards the erection of a suitable build ing—and upon the Lords of the Treasury, for the pur pose of making final arrangements. The council were much gratified upon being informed that his Royal Highness Prince Albert had forwarded a donation of 100 guineas, and that the Lords of the Treasury are prepared to grant their promised contribution of 2,0001. This 2,0001. is given on condition of the remaining 8,0001. being raised by private subscription, and on the under standing that meteorology is to form the main and most important object to be attained by the establishment. Mapperley-plain, the site which it is generally believed will be preferred, is situated at the northern extremity of this borough, about a mile and a ha!f from the town. I Being high, and remarkable for the dryness of its atmo sphere, as well as for the surpassing beauty of the land scape, it will, no doubt, in a few years, be one of the most attractive places in the midland counties. The elevation is so great, and the air generally so clear, that Belvoir Castle, and even Lincoln Minster, may be seen thence with the naked eye. 49i 7i 8i a d 15; i in i i i 73 122 102 104 80 79i pm 62i ii 3 60.1 10i 12 111 7i 8 93 2 31 102 A i li 58i 8 9 7i 37 8 xd xd 63 4 59/ 7i 81 7I 34 la f pm Inn 131 101 10 8 :GN. DEATH OF LORD ANDERSON. The announcement of the death of this excellent judge and amiable gentleman will be received with ge neral regret, not only by his personal friends and the members of the profession of which he was a distin guished ornament, but by all of the general public who may have come in contact with him in private or pro fessional intercourse. The melancholy event took place in London at an early hour on Wednesday morning. His lordship was on his return to Scotland from the Continent, to resume his duties as one of the judges on circuit, and though on landing at Folkestone, on Mon day, he felt indisposed, he proceeded after a day's de lay to London, where, however, fever supervened and terminated fatally, as we have stated. Lord Ander son, whose valuable life has thus been suddenly cut short at the age of 55, was a sound lawyer and a hard worker, as all those who sought his professional ser vices, and especially those who employed him as a consulting counsel, well know. He was a Constr. vative in politics, and obtained his distinctions as a member of that party ; but he was not a prejudie d or even a very keen politician, his profession ai d art and general literature having more attractions for him than political life. He was called to the bar in 1818, and became Sheriff of Perthshire when, in 1834, on account of the singular movement which gave Sir Robert Peel a brief lease of power, Mr. M'Neill became, Solicitor-General. To that office Mr. Anderson suc ceeded on the death of Sir William Rae in 1842, wilt at Mr. M'Neill became Lord-Advocate. Mr. AnderFon's own tenure of that high office last year was more brief than even the momentary elevation of the Protectionists, with whose fortunes he identified himself, and now it is our sorrow to record that his career on the bench, for which he was so well fitted by his talents and his con scientious use of them, has been equally short. For some time before the Protectionist Ministry came into power he had been chosen by the Faculty of Advocates as their Dean, and this office, by affording much oppor tunity for encouraging the younger members of the pro• fession, brought into notice his kind and amiable dis position and gentle manners. These were attributes thoroughly founded in his character which no success or elevation in life could affect, and few men have left a more pleasing recollection among those with whom he was brought in contact through his active and useful life than Adam Anderson.—. Scotsman. JENNINGS v. THE SCREW SHIP COMPANY. On Saturday a case of great importance to the ship ping interest of England came before Mr. Ryland, who presides at the Sheriff's County Court, Guildhall. The case is, per se, a simple one ; but a great principle with respect to the construction of an act of Parliament is in volved. We may premise that by what was considered the custom of the trade, engineers and firemen on board steam-vessels going foreign voyages are entitled to a per centage or commission on all coals shipped at foreign stations in the course of the voyage. To this charge, which amounts to and is claimed at is. per ton upon all coals shipped during the voyage, whether put on board by the labours of the engineers and firemen, by the crew of the vessel, or by any other persons, great objections were made by the great steam companies, who consi dered that all they ought to pay was the wages that were agreed upon, and in order to test this question, it was resolved by the men that one of their own mem bers should bring an action. An action was accord inglyen o G n e b n o e r a a r t s h e e r e M w a u s r i b t i i u p s a c t o e a m m p e a r n , y w . h i c lht appears that this vessel sa il e d from Southampton brought by a man of the name of George Jen nings, in belongsg s , a fir to ein th a under the command of Benjamin James Elder ' and was bound for Calcutta, and that d ur i ng the voy age she took in coals at St. Vincent, the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Madras, and Calcutta, and on her homeward voyage took in coals at Ceylon, the Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, and St. Vincent. By the plaintiff, as representative of the engineers and firemen, it was contended that on every ton of coals taken in at foreign stations they were entitled to ls. per ton. The number of tons taken during the outward and homeward voyage was 4,575, the amount on which, at is. per ton, would be 2231. 155., of which sum 331. 4s. had been paid to the seamen, and the re maining sum of 1951. lls. was claimed by the engineers and firemen. Mr. Smith, attorney for the plaintiff; claimed 101. ss. as his share, with 19 others, of the sum of 1951. 11s. According to the usual arrange ments of the trade, the engineers and firemen were entitled to Is. on coals shipped at foreign ports, whe ther they had assisted in getting the coals into the ship or not. Mr. Sleigh contended, on the other side, that the plaintiff should be nonsuited. The claim was not tenable, because a release of all claims due to the plain tiff had been given by himself. He was engaged at 41. a month, with a special reservation that in case of his giving a release he should be bound to abide by it. Upon returning to Southampton he gave that release, and he contended that the release being in conformity with the 98th section of the act of Parliament, the plaintiff had no further claim against the company. After a great deal of discussion, the Judge (Mr. Ryland) decided that the act of Parliament left him no discretion, and the summons must be dismissed. By this decision, a question affecting several thousands a year has for the present been set at rest. 18i 100 100 all all all 25 25 18 20 St. 8 100 42;, 34 all all 100 8/26 too" 100 47?. 17!„ all 100 6 25 50 20 20 20 10 St. 17? all 10 100 St. St. St. St. 100 100 100 1100 13 20 20 50 20 20 50 20 21s. 103 20 116 100 1 0 0 ( 0 1100 5 100 all 100 100 100 6 100 100 100 100 100 100 all 100 10 25 10 1.0.6 10 all 1:! all* 100 all 3 100 10 20 20 20 20 20 20 10i 20 61 2 76 7 1t i 60 1i 10i 45 61 102 15 32 i 25 4i 36 i 7 i 12i 20 St. 11? 100 100 181,1 9A