The Sun. — London, England, 1853-09-19 00:00:00

the 10th, and Falmouth the 26th of March. The Intel ligence, from Sunderland to Madras, spoke the bark General Wiltshire, from Liverpool for Coquimbo, April ;27, long. 18.40 W., lat. 4.4. N. April 19, signalised the hark Alice, from Glasgow, for Sunda Straits, lat. 6 IsT., long. 20 W. May 27, signalised the Bode. home ward bound, lat. 37 S., long. 20 E. 14, brig Kadree, from Acheen June 12, and Nagore July 13. Departures.—July 11, the ship Disden, to the Mau ritius ; July 12, the Sardinian ship Gange, to Calcutta ; the French brig Louis Amedee, to Bandicherry and Bordeaux. CHINA SHIP NEWS. ARRIVALS FROJi GREAT BRITAIN. At Hong Kong.— July 7, the W. S. Lindsay, from London ; 8, General Michiels (Dutch), from Hartle pool ; 12, Deutchlancl (Bremen), from Newport ; 12, Chrysolite, f rom Liverpool ; 19, Granite City, mn London ; 19, li Maestroom, from Swansea ; 21, Aden, from Liverpool. At Sha.nghae.—June 27, the Ashmore, from Liver pool ; 29, John Bunyan, from London ; July 1, Monarch, from Liverpool • 1, Lancastrian, from Lon don ; 2, Countess of Seafield, from London ; 8, Cambalu, from Liverpool ; 8, Cherokee, from London. DEPARTURES TO GREAT BRITAIN. From Hong Kong.—July 10, the Flying Childers, to Liverpool. From Whampoa.—July 4, the Sea Queen, to Lon don ; 5. William Conn a l, to Liverpool ; 13, Challenge (American), to London ; 15, Stornoway, to London ; 15, St. Albs, to London ; 16, Patna, to Liverpool. From Woosang. —July 5, the Eliza Moore, to London. VESSELS UNDER DISPATCH FOR GREAT BRITAIN. At Whampoa.—.The Hannibal, Monarch, Coromandel, John Bright, Alipore, and Cairngorm, for London ; John o'Gaunt and Chrysolite, for Liverpool. At Shanghae.—The Challenger and Nightingale, for London. LOSS OF THE HONOURABLE COMPANY'S STEAM FRIGATE MOZUFFER. We'regret to announce the total loss of the Hon. Company's steam-frigate Mozuffer, one of the finest vessels belonging to the Indian navy. She had on board a portion of the Arracan Light Bat talion, which she was to convey from Akyab to Rangoon, and which has had a ver y providential escape. The following are the particulars of the loss, by a correspondent who was on board at the time of the wreck. His lette r i s d a t e d Rangoon, the 22d July : " After leaving the Sandheads we cr t o ty ss w ed ei t i h , e w b it a h y t a h l e l right, and everything was going . on exception of the weather, which wa p s r t d e hic - k and foul. We took down from first touched at Khyouk Phyoo, there the pilot, who was well a al i quainted with the of which the cap tain and officers of the ship were inexperienced. We had remained nearly two days Khyouk Phyoo, where we were joined by the Zenobia, and the two ships embarked the Arracan Battalion for Rangoon. On leaving the port and getting to sea, we soon left our consort hull down, and held on down the Arracan coast at a rapid pace. The first night it blew half a gale, and we must have been goi ng at a very high rate ,of speed, but I believe that the ship was only allowed nine knots an hour in the dead reckoning and the log. The next day and night were so foul and overcast that no observation could be taken, and the consequence was that on the third day the captain was necessarily igno rant of the ship's position, and no one else on board was better informed. On the fourth day land was seen, but ns it presented no known peculiarity, and everything was murky and indistinct, we kept off and on, endea vouring to make out where we were, until at length approaching too close, the ship took the ground. At low water we were high and dry on a fine firm sand bank, the people from the vessel walking about and tak ing a full and leisurely view of the poor Mozuffer, from her keel up to her hammock-nettings. But her fatal hour had not yet arrived, for that night at high water she floated, we backed off the bank and anchored in safe water. Next morning we got up our anchor and set off again on a voyage of discovery, and had not made much run when the leadsman sang out 41 fathoms from the chains. At this moment the captain was busily intent in catching with his glass the Palmyra trees at the mouth of the Rangoon river, and did not hear the cry of the leadsman, who presently gave 31 fathoms, and almost immediately after 21 fathoms—and we were aground. There was a kind of Veluti-voiced boy to pass on the soundings from the leadsman to the place where the captain was, and I suppose that the squealing of this fellow could not have been heard, or we should never have been allowed to shoal in this rapid and fatal manner. In all probability this fine ship would have been saved had a broad-chested, full-voiced fellow been the medium of communication. The Palmyra trees were made out just at the moment we took the ground, and it was then obvious that we had overrun our esti mated course and the mouth or the river considerably, by the great speed at which she had been going after Khyouk Phyoo on Monday, the 11th. This time Friday, the 15th, the ship had taken up a fatal position on the Sheeing quicksands, 11 miles to the eastward of the Rangoon river, with all the fore part of the vessel, from the engine -room forward to her bow, on the bank, but a considerable depth of water astern. At night she was nearly off, nay, 1 believe was actually afloat again ; but the backing o f th e engines was, as it would seem, stopped too soon, an d th e tid e imme d i ately drove her on the bank again never more to float. At the time she was actually backing off, there was such infernal noise and confusion on board that the captain could not hear the announcement that she was going astern and the water abaft deepening, and so her only chance of escape was lost. She now began to evince unequivocal symptoms of dissolution, for on Saturday morning one of her boilers was forced up and the steam pipes destroyed in consequence, and at the same time it was obvious that her bottom under the machinery was seriously injured, and as the engines began to evince strong symptoms of a desire to part company, and there were ten feet of water in the chin, the orlop deck where the passengers' baggage was stowed being by this time under water. This day, Saturday, we started off the ship's gig to Rangoon, some 45 miles or so distant, to give the authorities there intel ]igence of what had happened, and of our position and condition, and fortunately the boat made that place the same night in safety. On Sunday morning we had the pleasure of hearing our guns answered, and before long the Pluto and Zenobia hove in sight, and it being high water, the former ran alongside of us, the Zenobia an choring at a short distance from the wreck. We were not long in shifting everything we could save and our precious selves on board the two steamers, and we reached this place (Rangoon) on Sunday night; fatigued, harassed, and dirty, as you may easily imagine. He,d Saturday night been blowy, there is no knowing what might have occurred to us all ; but the weather favoured our escape. They were busy after we left in getting everything they could out of the Mozuffer, and for a short time entertained the idea of endeavouring to float her by means of empty casks, hut the futility of such an attempt soon became obvious, for she began to settle in the quicksand on which she grounded, and is now aban doned and I believe invisible." Such is the account furnished of the loss of this fine ship. Space does not now permit of our making any remarks noon the catastrophe, and as the whole affair will necessarily come under the investigation of a marine court, we are not anxioua to say anything about it a present. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 9. deaTrtheh coiftyneewxhibits for the moment a peculiar ether political or commercial. jThe forme r Ts limited to the arrival of her Ma esty's ste am frigate syria lonfrigate Firebrand from the coast late tendenacy f o which, in consequence of the it offer insult to Christians of all denominations, been thought necessary by the commander-in -chief that a steam frigate should be dispatched. .will proceed to reioinatleis pratique to-morrow, and Oka the same evening. e British squadron at Be- The Austrian frigate Bellona arrived from Suda on the 3d, and left yeste r d aY The Peninsular and Olienta. 1 Steam• on threomEugland 's steam-ship Euxin e a Navigation Company's rr i •df after a fine passage, at daylight Her average out exceeded her contract' instant. half a knot per hour. She has been wasipeed by arrival of the Precursor (steam-ship of tl th ng the company), whose arrival at Suez has been e .!_ i _ al .le e known by horse express. The mails, p assen T .e aa , and cargo are expected early to-morrow, and : 1 7 e Euxine will be enabled to get away during th e clay. The inhabitants of this city and those of Cairo, were at the latter end of last month interested at the sight of a comet of some magnitude. His Highness the Pacha quitted Don El Bieyda yesterday for the palace erecting for him at Mount Sinai. By the last French steam-ship, two Italian surgeons of eminence arrived for the purpose o performing an operation upon his Highness for fis tula. These professional gentlemen are, it is re ported, retained for the period of six months at a Lalary of 3,000 dollars each per month. The Government of his Highness has, at the re quest of the American Consul General, decided upon appointing an agent to visit the Grand Exhi bition of New York. The party selected for this office is Rouchdy Bey, who having received a very liberal education in the French capital, and posses sing European ideas, is looked upon as an excellent choice. The feast of the Courban Beiram, in commemo ration of the sacrifice of the ram by Abraham, com nlexices on th e 13 t h . French engineer havin g , on the sth instant, invitedcaafierwo,fwriaes niu nudstoordtnewith him at Coulomb's itel balcony y sitting :ntride the of his apartment, the famw en. ht h e lost his balance, and was killed by Produce is still expected (spite o f the present calm) to reach higher prices, riex t mail. upon the arr i val of The Exchange on London at th ree months' date 11 ?g g 3 piasters pound. MALTA. MALTA, SEPT. 14. Tiro Overland mail hay brought dates from Lon. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1853, stantinople to the sth, from Smyrna to the 7th, and from Besika Bay to the 4th September. From Besika Bay we learn that, on the 29th of August, the French steamer Chaptal arrived from Toulon, bringing Rear-Admiral Barbier de Tinan to relieve Rear-Admiral Des Fosses, promoted, who left on the same afternoon, under the custom ary salutes from both fleets, in the Caton, for Smyrna, whence, after being joined by his family, residing thereat, he embarked on board the postal steamer the Hellespont, which passed Malta for Marseilles on the 12th September. The Jena, 90 guns, line-of-battle ship, from Toulon, joined the French fleet, in lieu of the Friedland, still under repair at Constantinople, on the Ist idem. Vice- Admiral Dundas availed of the departure, on the 29th of August, of the Caradoc, to coal at Chenah Kalessi, within the Dardanelles, to pay a visit to the Ottoman civil and military authorities thereat, returning on the same evening in the Britannia's launch. The Caradoc rejoined the flag on the afternoon of the Ist September, and on the follow ing day the Ardent steamer from Malta, for which port she left again with several invalids, &c. Cap tain Richards, R.M., promoted, arrived on the Bth September, and left once more for Besika Bay on the 13th, with the dispatches and mails to hand on the same day by the Indus from Southampton and Valetta from Marseilles. Cases of intermit tent fever continued to manifest themselves in the crews of both fleets, but scarcely any prove fatal among the English, though the French are d known uriug to have lost several men, whic h they bury the night, as if unwilling that the fact or number should be known. A misunderstanding is said to have arisen be tween the Commander-in -Chief and Captain Lord George Paulett, commanding the Bellerophon, on the occasion of her being dispatched, by reason of the sickly state of her crew, to Tenedos, where upon his lordship hoisted a quarantine flag, lest the French might suppose he had been detached for some other cause. This led to a correspondence which, on the part of his lordship, carried with it something of the nature of a remonstrance against the orders received, and subsequently two surgeons, junior in the service to the one on board the Belle rophon, having been sent to report upon the sickness existing among the crew, gave rise to a further com munication fro m hi s lordship, which, on a refusal on his part to withdraw, has necessitated a refer ence of the matter to the Lords of the Admiralty, who may very possibly order a formal investigation. The French admiral is making arrangements for wintering at Vourlah Bay, in the Gulf of Smyrna, but no positive determination seems to have been come to in this respect as regards the English fleet. Port Paradise in the north, or Port St. Antonio in the south of the Island of Lemnos, Port Olivier on the south s id e o f Myt e li n , th e losco islands at the north of the Mytelin, at the entrance of the Gulf of Adramytti, and Salamis, are severally mentioned ; but, judging from the fact of the rear admiral superintendent having, besides the ship ments recently made by the Peninsular and Orien tal Company's steamers Rajah and Douro, char tered.,the Maltese barque San Paolo and the Eng lish brig Zephyr, to convey stores and proviz,ions to Besika Bay, calling at Salamis, with faculty to discharge at the latter, it seems the most likely to be selected. The possibility of the British fleets entering the Dardanelles, and even going further, is not, how ever, abandoned ; for, as late as the 3d September, Black Sea charts were furnished and provided to each of the vessels. THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. The royal mail steamship Arabia, Commander Judkins, with advices from New York to the 7th inst., arrived in the Mersey to-night. In addition to the usual mails from the United States, &c., the Arabia brought 96 passengers, and 210,529 dollars in specie. The Arabia passed the royal mail ship Asia from hence on the morning of the Bth inst. The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, West, from hence, arrived at New York on the evening of the 3d inst. There is little or no intel ligence of importance by this arrival. The Washington correspondent of the New York He ) ald, of the 6th, states that the administration has accepted the resignation of the Hon. R. J. Walker, as commissioner to China, and that his successor will probably be appointed before the close of the week. It is also thought that the mis sion to France will be filled in a few days. Secre tary Davis having returned from the Blue Moun tains, the cabinet is again full, and we shall doubt less soon ascertain ether we are to be repre sented by a hard or a soft shell, or either, at the curt of Napoleon 111. Deaths at New Orleans are over 100 daily. Still, though the pestilence appears to be on the decrease, most probably on account of the decreased number of unacclimated persons in the city, of whom there were only supposed, at last account, to be about 6,000 to 7,000 : at Mobile the fever was increasing ; deaths nearly thirty daily. Two slaves, who suddenly disappeared from Portsmouth , Va., were found secreted on board the British ship Samuel, which was overhauled in Hampton roads. A young marine, who bad de serted from the United States ship Pennsylvania, was also arrested on board the Samuel. The fugi tives, together with Captain Morris, of the Samuel, who is believed to have taken no part in aiding the negroes to escape, were taken back to Ports mouth. The captain was committed for exami nation. A letter from Boston, dated the 3rd, says : The barque Cuba, Captain Howe, from Palermo, ar rived at this port yesterday afternoon, having on board, in irons, John Dudley, one of the crew of the ship France, Captain Teal, charged, with three others, with making a murderous attack upon Captain Teal, on the 26th July last, on board said ship. The France belongs to Philadelphia, and is now on her trip from Pernambuco, bound for New York, with three of her crew in irons, jointly charged with Dudley. During the melee Captain Teal was struck with an axe, and severely wounded. The second mate, James Knights, was shot with a pistol, the hall lodging in his shoulder, from whence it was subsequently extracted, and at last accounts Knights was doing well. Dudley has been com mitted to gaol for examination. On the 27th August, the United States ship De catur-fell in with the British ship Cleopatra, 24 days from Liverpool, for Quebec, with four feet of water in her hold. A crew was put on board from the Decatur, and endeavours were made to take the Cleopatra into Sydney ; but on the 28th she was on her beam ends and on fire, and all on board were taken off by the Decatur, which arrived at Nova Scotia. The brig Maria Aldrich, of and from Bristol for Havannah, is reported ashore on the north-east end of Beaver Tail, near the lighthouse, and has bilged. Letters have been received at Boston stating that the captain and crew of the brig Rodolph were massacred by the natives of one of the King's Mill Group, in December, 1851, and the vessel de stroyed by fire. The Rodolph was owned by Capt. Alfred R. Fisher, now at San Francisco. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Sept. 7. Business at New York was brisk, the fall trade having fairly opened. The money market, though slightly im proved, still continued tight, and money, even on the best paper, is reported scarce. Stocks steady, and in fair demand. Breadstuffs—The market for breadstuffs was in a very excited state, consequent on the news per Atlantic and Europa, of ()Teat deficiency in the continental crops. Prices had advanced very greatly, and further advices were most anxiously looked for. The following are the quotations :—W es t ern C ana l fl our , per b arre l , $6 37ic. Xs6 76c $6 50c., and very fi rm ; S out h ern w h eat, $1 36c. to Cotton-1) t i 3 ushel, B c.; Indian corn , N or th ern re d an d yellow, per whit e per barrel. a mod erate . to 78 c ., an d very fi rm ; di tto Southern to s3'B76c,ie to 78c.; co rn mea l, J ersey ye ll ow, $ 3 75c. Th e f • quite stead;e4t'el';lit a h r ae k etb been ns donequiet, ; prices,andb business however,to on l were only fair to fair, 111 e. cotton, rola. f a i r Provisions werein following are the quotations --Gulf if.)tairt;.dle2inaca.ndto, a l n 3 d c p . ; H lT ee p s la w n e d r s e , fi m rm id . . 1. Fre i ghts — Shipow ner ': of freights, the latest quotatio n g !!oendemanding increased rates per barrel, tO LiVerpo,:, bushel, to ditto, 10d. :—Flour,to ditto to 38. 9d.; grain, per 3-13 d. to id. Exchange on London was dull, at 109 Paris, 5.14 to 5.171 ; RaEoburg, 36 to _ i to 1094 ; ;s 6 i ; Brame 79 to 7 91. n, THE MAYNOOTH COMMISSION.—It is stated th a t onerous appointment of secretary to the commission tf 6 or inquiry into the state of Maynooth College has been offered to Mr. Henry West, Q.C. It is not, however, certain whether the learned gentleman will undertak e the office. THE POTATO CROP IN IRET.ANH—The last accounts of the condition of the potato crop, although not as sa,tis fict,ry as could be desired, do not, upon the whole, fur nish substantial grounds for the gloomy predictions indulged in by the alarmists during the earlier part of the week. From Kilkenny, Carlow, and Derry the reports speak of the rapid progress of the distemper; while from Sligo, where a few days since it was stated that the blight had committed fearful ravages, it is now said ipop t s l i i t a ion tt , he statement was put forward as a "mere supposition, and not from any practical examination of ?he grounds for such a conclusion." Altogether, the beliefnc continues to prevail that, owing to the great abun dance : ti o ll f the produce, some loss can be safely sustained, tio a n, nearly an average crop preserved for cousump- THEATRE' ROYAL, DRURY - LANE.- Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMIT —La:t Twelve Niehts of Mr. GUATAVUS V. BROOKE .•—First Representation of a New Play, in five acts, by U. H Raker, Esq.. entitled f Hs. it ETIX) MAL, in whi' It Mr. G. V. Bro , ke, supported by Messrs. Davenport. Belton, Edgar, Evans, Mesdames Ande. ton. Featherstone, Belton, &c., will appear. To conclude with THE FOUNT IN ON' BEAUTY, in which Miss Featherstone wilt appear. Reduced prices as usual. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster —Directress, Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 19, Will be performed the Comic Drama entitled T 1 PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Chivacters by ‘les-rs. Alfred Wigan, Cullen ford, and Keeley; Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Mary Keeley. After which, will be presented SARDANAPALITS. To be followed by THE CAMP AT CHOBRAM. To conclude with WHAT NO CAB? who have the hardihood to originate or to support such propositions. Let us just consider the present state and con dition of the affair. It is admitted on every side that Russia is the aggressor, and that without any adequate provocation. Even the organ of the Coalition acknowledges that " the policy of the Conference is unsatisfactory to the State ag grieved, and unduly deferential to the State in fault," that " there is no wrong on the side of Turkey," and that " there is all the wrong on the side of Russia," and that to decide that Russia should be requested to evacuate at her convenience a territory which she had nefariously invaded, and that Turkey should be recommended to con sider a cessation of the outrage as redress and compensation in full, is to arrange terms of very little equity between parties thus situated. But it still defends the course by adding,—" It may be so, but the result is due to the very nature of the problem before the world." There can be no doubt, then, as to the side which gave the provo cation. The SULTAN (on the advice of his faithful allies of France and England) rejected the humi liating propositions of the CZAR. The consequence was, the invasion and occupation of the Danubian Provinces, and the encouragement afforded to the local authorities to withhold their tribute. This, although an unequivocal declaration of war, was borne by the SULTAN with unparalleled mode ration. He contented himself with preparing to repel further aggression, and collecting his re sources for a final effort, if a war to the knife—a contest for existence —was forced upon him ; in the meantime trusting to the good offices of the other Powers for protection and redress. A pro position was then framed by the representatives of England, France, Austria, and Prussia, which gave the AUTOCRAT all, aye, and more than he had demanded in the first instance, through Prince MENSCHIKOFF. This was transmitted to St. Petersburgh, before even being submitted to any Turkish diplomatist. It was freely accepted by NICHOLAS, for it gave all he wanted. It was ac cepted, with some slight modifications, by the Divan--modifications which were considered as mere matters of form by the Conference, but con tumaciously rejected by NICHOLAS, because, for sooth, they had emanated from Turkey, to whom he would allow no latitude whatever. But, if this was the case, they were adopted by the Conference, and thus practically became the proposition not of Turkey, but of the collective body, and that before the proposition was submitted to the CZAR. The excuse, therefore, even setting asile its audacious insolence, is utterly untenable. The parties to the Conference are insulted as well as Turkey, and yet we are to truckle to the strong bully, and assist in forcing the bitter pill down the throat of the injured party because he is weak and cannot help himself. Is this English conduct or manly I behaviour ? Is it befitting our ancient reputa tion, or calculated to maintain our prestige or in fluence in the Council of Nations ? We await the answer patiently. When we consider the unanimous reprobation that awaited two English labourers, for driving away a poor suffering woman, whose husband was assaulting her with brutal ferocity, lest the assailant might turn upon them—when we peruse the indignant philippic pronounced by the Times against "the gallant Englishman who skulked away for fear of per sonal consequences"—we ask ourselves, with as tonishment, can it be the same journal that is recommending to the nation a course similar to that which it thought so disgraceful to humbleindi viduals, and for which it invokes the indignation of all persons on their devoted heads? How easily it perceives the mote in THOMAS TAYLOR'S eye, while serenely unconscious of the beam with which its own vision is obstructed. At all events, it cannot lead public opinion in this respect, or de grade England as a nation, to a participation in such infamous and cowardly truckling to the bullying of the Northern Despot. Colonel JEBB'S Report to Lord PALMERSTON On _ the Discipline and Management of Convict Pri sons, &c., which we have given at length in The Sun (Aug. 29, Sept. 5,7, and 9th), contains a multitude of facts of the greatest value to all who take an interest in the great subject of crime, its prevention, and punishment. In the opinion of some politicians, the sole province of Govern ment is negative, for the protection of life, liberty, and property to which they would restrict it, is simply to be able to say with effect to the violent and the fraudulent, "Thou shalt not." Such po liticians ought to give their chief attention to per fecting our system of criminal legislation and ad ministration. compulsory --labour, and ii g poin of those who have complet e d th e i r ss term of punishment, these things being in their view the ultima ratio of Government, ought to engross their chief attention. But all considerate persons, whatever their abstract theory of Government, will feel that these painful subjects are amongst the most important of which it should be master. Happily, the question of disposing of the best of our criminals has been made only to the smallest possible extent, a party question. The Leaders on all sides have felt that the penal sufferings of their unfortunate fellow citizens were not the field for political warfare. There have been, indeed, no lack of kind-hearted and well-meaning theorists on the subject of se condary punishments, and they have been zealous enough in defence of their crotchets or their really excellent plans, but the names of our great political parties have not yet been heard in the discussion. We trust they never will, and that the spirit of Sir BALDWIN WALKER will preside over every appointment in a "service" inferior in importance to none. We have already noticed Colonel JEBB'S Report generally, in the terms of consideration it so well deserves ; there are, however, oue or two points to which we shall advert specifically. We think iwtilgloensovt,eryin all far to justify the expectation of Lord PALMERSTON, that the cessation of transportation probability, be felt painfully in this country. Our reason for thinking so is, the little addition, if any, which will be made to the number of convicted criminals, -whose liberty, after undergoing punishment, is dangerous to the community. It may even appear that, if our whole system be harmoniously and judiciously modified, we shall gain rather than lose in the evils to be ap prehended from criminals who have finished their terms of imprisonment. The small proportion which will be added t o th e c l ass j us t men ti one d, b y re taining our convicts at home, is one consideration. Only about one in fourteen on an average of those brought to trial have been actually transported, about 2,000 out of 27,960 in 1851. And it does not seem likely that when the entire 2,000 are retained at home (at present a part of them are to go to West Australia), the addition of one fourteenth to the amount of that part of our population which has been convicted of crime can be perceptibly felt. It may be thought that those who are sentenced to transportation must be of a class far less likely to be reclaimed and to amalgamate usefully again with society than those sentenced to briefer punishments at home. W e must agree with Lord PALMERSTON, perhaps as advised by Col. JEBB, that the inference is by no means- correct. Though the remark was not well received by the legal profession, we think it is perfectly true that the sentences to seven u y p ea o r n s't e r ri an m sp in o a r l t s a , wtiohnoasned offencesupwards vary in almost have been passed affecteinautdhosperocibracbuinliitsytanocfetsialetirlearsetfowrhmicah te vuen every y t d h 3 T r a h ny e hope years ago, a gentleman, well known for his actual success in reclaiming convicts of whom he had the charge during their voyage to , New South Wales, assured us that the key to his success was a firm belief that the " men " under his charge (he would allow no one on board to call them convicts) were no worse than those they had left on the land. The practical result of his creed was, that the majority of those under his care were on their arrival in New South Wales, not only worthy of any liberty which the convict regulations per mitted, but their conduct and deportment actually drew tears of pleasure from the eyes of the Go vernor. This, however, brings us to the next reason for apprehending no injury to England from doing justice to Australia. Colonel JEBB pro poses for all a reformatory system which has been proved to be successful in the vast majority of cases in which it has been tried. The separate system, judiciously carried out during the first year of long sentences, combined with associated labour, under strict regulations, during the latter part of it, has not disappointed his hopes. At Portland, the results of employing the convicts on the formation of the breakwater, an invaluable national work, must be considered, the Colonel says, to be " highly satisfactory ;" not merely in the lower pecuniary sense of the convicts almost paying their own cost to the country, but in the far higher one of their decided moral improve ment. The Chaplain speaks on this subject in the most decided terms, and the small amount of the punishment inflicted in Portland Prison, and the willingness and cheerfulness with which the men work, though under the strictest discipline, cor roborate his testimony. Their industry is such that the five-sixths actually employed do work of a value nearly equal to the cost of the establish ment. The tone of feeling amongst the men is such, that while some persons feared lest a body of 6,000 men at such a place might prove dan gerous in case of an invasion, Col. JEBB, after ad ditional experience, re-asserts an opinion he had formerly expressed, that of " the 6,000 who were there under sentence, 4,000 could be produced who might be relied on to go wherever they were ordered, and to be as serviceable in the field as others who had had an equal time for drill and exercise." Indeed, Colo nel JEBB proposes, amongst other modes of em ployment, that when the men become eligible for a ticket of leave, such of them as were of suitable trades and occupations should be formed into a kind of military corps like the Sappers and Miners, and thinks they would be invaluable in such an auxiliary character in those colonies where labour is dear. It is at least abundantly evident that the Pentonville discipline of separate confinement, followed by the Portland one of associated labour, has produced, as the result of the three or four years' discipline, a class of men very much more safe to restore again to society than the vastly greater numbers annually poured forth upon it from our own prisons. It remains to provide the best means for enabling the discharged and reformed criminal to find again self-supporting occupation. The fact of reformation becoming the rule, and the con trary the exception, the care which Governors and Chaplains will exercise in not giving good characters unless they feel safe in doing so, the openings which Government itself can make for the labour of " good-conduct" men who on their discharge cannot promptly obtain employment, the assistance which friends will render when hopeful that it will not be in vain, the facilities afforded by emigration to escape from painful associations, the endeavours of generous indivi duals like Mr. WRIGHT, of Manchester, and of Refuge Societies—endeavours which Government most judiciously encourage—are all in the view of Colonel JEBB, and surely, with good reason, so many grounds to hope that the great majority of those who have gone through the course of dis cipline will be no burden to the community. We shall return to the Report. MOVEMENTS OF MINISTERS.—The Earl of Aberdeen and the Earl of Clarendon are the only members of the Cabinet at present in London. The two earls were closeted together several hours during the past week. The Premier was engaged until a late hour on Saturday evening at the Treasury. His Excellency the Russian Minister had a long interview with the Earl of Aberdeen on Friday last. THE 1:0NDON STREET BLOCKADE.—On Saturday the whole of the roadway in Fleet-street, from Fetter-lane to Farringdon-street, was closed ; all vehicles coming westward to the City were compelled to proceed by Chancery-lane and Holborn, returning by Fetter-lane. On the same morning a number of workmen were em ployed in taking up the pavement on the south side of Strand, near St. Clement's, preparatory to repair, and all traffic on that side of the roadway was stopped for vehicles. COMMAND OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY AT GIBRALTAR. —Colonel H. W. Gordon, formerly in command of the Royal Artillery at Corfu and the lonian Islands, where he superintended the mounting of upwards of 700 large pieces of ordnance, and was subsequently superintendent of the carriage department of the Royal Arsenal, was recently appointed to the Royal Artillery at Gibraltar, in the room of Colonel C. C. Danseg, C. 8., deceased, and will embark at Southampton on the 6th of next month for a passage to that important station. THE WELLESLEY ESTATES.—The whole of the *states of the Earl of Morninoton, which are situate in six of the Irish midland counties, are advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. The sale has been ordered on the petition of Lord Wellesley, son to the present holder of the title. The encumbrances on this estate are of an enormous character. The Dangan estate has long since passed out of the family. STATUE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON FOR THE EAST INDIA-HOUSE.—The East India directors have just commissioned Mr. Noble, of Burton-street, to exe cute a statue of the late Duke of Wellington in the finest marble. The figure of the hero will be repre sented, we understand, in a military costume, and to represent him about the period of the battle of Waterloo. The statue will be rather above six feet in height, and placed on an appropriate pedestal. DEPARTURE OF THE AMERICA FOR LIVERPOOL.—The British and North American! Royal Mail steam-ship America, Leitch, commander, sailed on Saturday for Boston at 11.30 with a full cargo, the usual mails, and 150 passengers, among whom was Mr. W. Chambers, of Edinburgh, who is about to make a tour in the United States. MEMOIRS OF HAYNAU.—A publisher at Gratz, in Syria, has given to the world a biography of the late Marshal Haynau, that "immortal hero," as he is called in the advertisement. The author is said to be a general of high reputation in the Austrian service, and the pub lisher affirms that the popularity of the work made a new edition necessary on the second day of sale. POOR RELIEF AND HOUSES.—A return was published on Saturday of the amount of property assessed to the relief of the poor within the Metropolitan Police, with the number of houses. The rateable value of property assessed to the poor-rate in the year ended Lady-day last was 10,663,0331. within the Metropolitan Police. The amount of rental on which the police rate was assessed in 1852 was 10,546,8741. The population in 1851 was 2,541,410 ; the number of houses in 1851 was 372,942 ; and the number of houses assessed to the relief of the poor in 1839 was 268,295. DEATH OF SIR H. ONSLOW, BART. We have to record the demise of this member of the baronetcy, who died a few days since at an advanced age. He was son of the first holder of the title, and was directly descended from Speaker Onslow, who was raised to the peerage. The deceased was for several years connected with the Royal Artillery. CHILD MURDER.-- On Saturday morning, a young woman, named Eliza Moon Davies, aged 22 years, was seen to enter the Victoria-park, Bonner's-fields, Bethnal green, and while she was proceeding along the gravel walk, by the ornamental water, she was suddenly seized with illness, and fell to the ground. Several persons ran to her assistance, and carried her to one of the seats close by, where she seemed to be suffering extreme pain. She was conveyed to the workhouse of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, where she asked permission to go into the yard, which was acceded to. After she had remained a considerable time, one of the nurses went to the closet, and found her in a state of great exhaustion. Immediate suspicion was arotsed that she had given birth to a ehild. She was accordingly removed to the infirmary, where she was seen by Mr. Smart, a surgeon, who or dered her to be placed in bed, as she had been confined. Search was subsequently made by the workhouse ser vants, and in the soil of the closet they discovered the body of a newly-born male child, quite warm ; but there were several cuts or scratches upon the face and neck, and bruises on the head. Mr. Smart was of opinion , that the child was born alive, and died either from stran- ' gulation or from suffocation, by falling into the soil. An inquest will be held on the body tomorrow. DONCASWAR RACES.—ACOIDENT TO THE EXPRESS TRAIN.—An accident happened on Friday to the express train which leaves Doncaster for London at 4.30 p.m., about half a mile from the Doncaster Station. The fore wheels of the engine got off the line at a point where there is a sharp curve, and five of the foremost carriages were dragged entirely off the rails. Fortunately the train was stopped quickly, and with no further injury to the passengers than a shaking more or less severe. The train contained a great many gentlemen returning from Doncaster Races. Amongst them was Sir R. Peel, Bart., who occupied a seat in the carriage next to those that were thrown off the rails. The terrified passengers rushed out of the carriages as quickly as possible on one side of the train, the doors on the other side being locked. A train of empty carriages was brought from Doncaster, by which the passengers, after a delay of , about, half an hour, were forwarded, and arrived on the main line of the Midland Company at Masborough just in time to join the ezprepa uprtrain• THE LATE ACCJDEXT IN THE STRAND, ADJOURNED INQUEST (THIS DAY) This morning, Mr. Longhorn, deputy e,roner Westminster, resumed at St. Clement Dolies Vestr : room the inquiry into the circumstances attending th, deaths of Robert Thompson, Sarah Thompson, George Dunn, and George Rowe, who, it, will he remembered were killed by the fdling of a house (No. 184), in OF Strand, on Thursday, the Bth inst. Mr. Bodkin appeared for the Messrs Lucas, Mr Few for the Duke of Norfolk, Mr. Aldrige and Mr Ballantine for Mr Abrahams, the surveyor, and Mr Hawkins f,,r the relatives of the deceased. The Coroner said, that he had received the report of the three surveyors appointed by him to examine th ruins, but he thought it advisable not to have it read until the evidence bearing most immediately upon deaths of the unfortunate persons was adduced. The Jury then, at the request of the Coroner, pr - ceeded to view the ground, which had been cleared away since the former day's proceedings, to enable the sur veyors to pursue their investigation. Mr. Stevens, the surveyor, deposed that, pursuant to the Coroner's instructions, he had examined the pr, mises. He had eight feet cleared away, and he found that the flooring had fallen about a foot and a half. The witness then went into a scientific explanation 4,f his drawing of the premises. The workmen had gone below the original footing in excavations one foot six inches. John Fordham Stanford, 9, Arundel-street, Strand, architect and surveyor—Saw the premises on the Tue, day before the occurrence. He considered that the workmen had sunk the earthwork too low, and en dangered the party-wall, and he called on Mr. Phillips, Mr. Abrahams' clerk, and informed him of it. He n( ticed on the Tuesday that the wall was out from 9 to 18 inches. The wall was supported by several shoreQ, but he considered that no shoring could render that wall safe. Had the flooring been shored up it would not have been safe, as the joists of the wall ran into the rooms, and with the excavations then going on the wall must have brought down the floors. By the Jury-Had the wall been underpined before the commencement of the excavations, it might have rendered it safe. By Mr. Ballantine—On his oath he did not see any jack-shores. He recommended that the excavations should be done by piecemeal. William Shripnell—A. jack-shore is a short shore un der the raking-shore. It takes the wall lower than tht raking shore, and there were five feet of them, and all put up by himself. There were five double shores, Ore. single, and five short or jack-shores. Mr. Rowe, on.- of the deceased, acted as clerk of the works, and Mr. Phillips and Mr. Abrahams came frequently. By the Jury—Did not think there were three cart loads of earth in the slip from the angle of the wall. Does not exactly know how much earth w s removed, but did not think it could have been more than a cart load. On a former day he called it a small bit of earth, and that he meant to apply to about a cart load. Then, were about 26 feet, or two top floors above the top of the shores, and that extent had no support. The Jury decided that Mr. Abrahams should not be present. - The witness Shripnell, cross-examined by Mr. Hawk. ins—He had sworn to the correctness of the plans, though he had not gone into the details of the drawing. He spoke to their correctness from a bird's-eye view. Mr. Tatman, dealer in building materials—His at tention was called to the buildings at two o'clock, the day before the accident. He was then laying a lead flat on a house, about fifteen feet from the building. He was so struck with the appearance of the building at half-past two o'clock, that he went into the excavation.. He saw the place where the made earth had given way. The workmen appeared to him to be cutting a part out of the wall, and upon looking more closely it appeared to him that they were digging below the foot ing of the shores somewhere about two feet. The shores were not high enough for the house, as they did not gi up more than half the elevation. There were no jack shores ; there were slanting shores, but no jgck-shores. He did not coinmunicate with Rowe, because he did not see him. Was positive that he saw no jack-shores. By Mr. Ballantine—How is it that you did not speak of your fears of danger before the accident ? Witness—lt is a very delicate thing to interfere with other persons' work, and they would not thank him foi doing so, as he was not a builder. As the shores stood they were not long enough. The short shores ware not jack-shores, because jack-shores must be upright, and the short ones were slanting. The inquiry was proceeding when we went to press. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SEPT. 16. Yesterday afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Princess Royal, Princess Alice, Princess Helena, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Alfred, drove to Braemar Castle, and hon- oured the Braemar gathering with their presence. Her Majesty was received by the Laird of I n vercauld, at the head of the Farquharson Highlanders, Mr. James Duff and the Duff Highlanders, and Sir Charles Forbes with the Forbes Highlanders, from Strathdon. In at tendance upon the royal party were the Hon. Mary Bulteel, the Earl Granville, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon. In the evening her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Count Alexander Nlensdorf, and Lady Augustus Bruce, joined the Royal dinner party. September 17. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and Count Alexander Mensdorff, drove yesterday to Corrieinulzie Cottage, to see the encampment of the Forbes Highlanders. Mr. and Lady Agnes Duff received her Majesty and the Prince at the Cottage, and conducted them to the encampment, where Sir Charles Forbes had drawn up his men. Her Majesty walked down the line, and in spected the men's tents. The Hon. Mary Bulteel was in attendance upon her Majesty. The dinner party yesterday included her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, Count Alexander Mensdorff, the Hon. Mrs. Gordon and Sir George and Lady Couper. FIRE AT BALMURAL. On Friday afternoon one of the cottages occupied by the masons engaged at the new palace at Balmoral was discovered to be on fire, and, being contiguous to the Royal residence, the utmost alarm for a time prevailed. In a short time a number of men were on the spot, the Royal family being not only present, but actively en gaged in efforts to extinguish the flames. "We are assured by a spectator," says the Aberdeen Herald, " that when a line of men was formed to convey water to the burning pile from the river, Prince Albert at once took a position, and continued working steadily throughout shoulder to shoulder with a sturdy Highland man. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred were al-o actively engaged while her Majesty stood by the whole time and gave such directions as she thought would tend to assuage the fire, and deeply interested by the efforts of the men to save their clothes' chests in which many of them had considerable sums of money." The fire is supposed to have originated by a spark getting among some brushwood in one of the cottages were a woman was baking, and as they were all five composed of timber, the flames were speedily beyond the power of control. No damage has been done to the new buildings. MR. PETO, M.P.—This enterprising gentleman, who is one of the representatives of his native city, Norwich, in Parliament, has taken a 14 years' lease of the old castle and grounds of Murthly, Perthshire, from Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart., at an annual rental of 8001. Mr. Peto will enter into occupancy of this de lightful residence in the course of next year. It is be lieved that, consequent upon his location in that county, there is every probability of a Baptist chapel being erected in Dunkeld, the member for Norwich being one of the wealthiest and most liberal laymen belonging to that body. THE LATE COL. HUTCRINSON.—A mural monument, in beautiful white marble, has just been executed in memory of this officer, and it is said will be erected in Trinity Church, Cheltenham, THE MAILS.- SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday, Sept. 17. — The Royal mail steam-ship Magdalena, Captain George Abbott, sailed this afternoon, with the usual British and foreign West India mails, and the mails for the Pacific, Central America, and California, in charge of Lieut. Brydges, R.N., Admiralty agent. The Magdalena takes out 120 passengers, among whom are Major Wynne Lieutenant Dennison, Assistant St a ff- surgeon Shi e ll , &c. ; also a large cargo, and specie value 84,0001. ster ling. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Tagus, Captain J. K. Joy, left at two p.m. to-day, with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, 47 passengers, a cargo of general merchandise, and specie value 25,2051., for Liston. The Ripon, Captain It. Moresby, will leave on Tuesday, the 20th inst., for Gibraltar, Malta, and Constantinople, taking out the heavy portion of the East India, China, and Mediterranean mails. A NEW COMET.—On the night of the 11th of the present month Mr. C. Brubns, of the Observatory at Berlin, discovered a pretty large nebulosity in the con stellation Lynx, near the stars A: and t of Ursa Major, which was ascertained to 'oe a new comet by its motion. At 1 hour 12 minutes after midnight its right aseen ion was 126 deg. 59 min., and its declination 44 deg. 52 min. north ; the former was increasing at the daily rate of 1 deg. 27 min., and the latter was diminishing about half a degree. This object was easily seen with the " comet-seeker." THE LAST OF THE BETTING-OFFICES.—Within the last few days, owing to the Doncaster Races, the betting offices have revived, and probably next month, on ac count of Newmarket, they will show symptoms of vitality before their extinction. By the Ist of December they must cease to exist. In England and Ireland, such places must not be kept or used, unclog stringent penal ties or imprisonment. They are declared by the new act to be a common nuisance, and contrary to law. Scotland is exempted from the operation of the new law, and it is open to persons who have not been cured of the mania to resort thither. E TTYe' AL —VI ArAL COUNT. (T•iIS DAY.) OLD COURT. The Sc-pteui..er sessions of the Central Criminal C9urt, eiiig the eleventh of the present mayoralty were opened t`iis moving before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor tie Recorder, Aldermen Farncomb, Sidney, Wire, and C cr len, attended by the sheriffs of London and Middle :ex and other civic functionaries. The first edition of the calendar contains the names of 74 prisoners, being 21 fret') London. 38 from Middlesex. 1 from the A •iniralt,,, 4 from Kent, and 10 from Surrey. Ile case from the Admiral y is that of Henry Branchett, , scribed as a labo.irer, who stands charged with steal ing 580 ozs. weight of gold upon the high seas. The grand jury having been sworn and empannelled, The RECORDER proceeded to charge them. He said it this season of the year, when the husbandary Lions connected with the harvest afforded a greater amount of employment to the industrious population t an usual, they generally found the calendar compara tively light, and he was happy to cotigratulst; them upon this fact, that the present calendar was no excep tion to that rule. On the contrary, he found, on looking over the calendar, that the number and character of the offences were of a light description as compared with former years, and the labours of the grand jury would tiierefore not o ccu py any l engt h ene d perio d o f time. there was one circum s t ance connec t e d w ith this calen dar which he could ref er t o w ith par ti cu l ar sa tisfaction , and that was this. It was genera ll y suppose d , that while the increased p ros p er ity o f th e country h a d di m inished ,rimes against prop er ty, it h a d i ncrease d t h ose o f v iolence and cruelty, b u t th e recor d s o f t hi s court wen t t o eh° that such an impression was founded in error, for whil e ' it was undoubtedly true, hat offences against property nad decreased, it was equally clear, that so far a s th e metropolis at least was concerned, crimes against the erson had diminished in a corresponding degree. Ne ne of the cases in the present calendar called for remark but one single exception ; and that was the case of person named Mobbs, who was charged upon the return of the coroner's inquisition with the murder of his own wife. There had been no preliminary investigation be' fore a police magistrate ; but, nevertheless, if the el' lence at all bore out the statement in the depositions Laken before the coroner, the grand jury would have no lifficulty in returning a true bill against the prisoner. .Much attent.on had been lately called to cases whe re .ssaults hard been committed by a husband and s wife, both by the Legislature and the public press, and an impression prevailed that suc h uses were greatly on he increase ; but on looking over lie records of this court he did not find the slighte st vidence of any increase of that description. On th e ..:ontrary, there was reason to believe—and this was no t Las own opinion only, but the opinion of all the °thee ° the court— that the great improvement which had re' eently taken place amongst the classes where thes e ~utrages upon the wife were generally found, had ended materially to reduce this character of offences' He was rather disposed to attribute the increase whic h lied taken place in the number of cases brought befor e the public, not to any actual increase in the crime itself , out to the readiness which the press afforded fo r ; lying publicity to them, coupled with the facilities which were now given to the injured parties for bring' mg the offenders to justice. On that account, there' fore, he did not think it would be necessary or wise to • call upon the Legislature to magnify the punishmen t which attached to these cases, as that would only iry crease the indisposition of the wife or her friends to pro' secute. It would be much safer and more prudent to let the law remain as it was, and he was eati s• tied that, combined with the power which public opinion exercised over the minds of persons who were predi s. posed to resort to acts of violence against their wives , it would be found sufficient to meet all emergencies. i t was unnecessary for him to detain them with any corn' ments upon the nature of their duties, and therefore, with these observations, he would at once request theta to retire to their room, where there were cases ready to be brought before them. The grand jury then withdrew, and in a short time several true bills having been found, the trials were int" mediately proceeded with. afARLBO.ROIN.H-STREET.—(TILIS DAY). A DISHONEST SERVANT. —Mary Regan was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged witu stealing a purse con' taining some silver and copper coin, the property of Mr• Wm. John Sanders, landlord of the Three Tubs, Bey wick-street. Prosecutor stated that the prisoner had been in his service as cook for about a fortnight, during which time he had been constantly missing money from the till. Not being able to detect the thief; he communicated with the police, and Serjeant Godfrey, a detective officer of the C division, advised him to mark some silver and copper money, and place it in the till, which he did on Saturday night. On Sunday morning Godfrey called upon him, and in his presence he examined the contents of the till, when he missed ss. 6d. in silver and eleven pence halfpenny in copper, all of which he had previously masked in the presence of the officer. Godfrey deposed that he went on Sunday morning to prosecutor's house, where he saw the prisoner, and in the presence of the prosecutor asked her what she bad done with the money she had taken out of her master's till. At first she denied doing so, but afterwards she admitted that she had taken elevenpence halfpenny , which she had in her box up stairs. He then went up stairs to her room, and in a work box he found the purse produced, cootaining ss. 6d. in silver and elevenpenc e halfpenny in copper, ail of which prosecutor identified as belonging to him. Witness then took her into custody. The prisoner was remanded fur a week. DEATH OF THE EARL BROWNLOW.-- This noblenisit died on Thursday last, at his seat Belton House, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, in the 75th year of his age. The noble lord was the father of the late Lord Alford, who-e heir has ju t Established his claim to the estates left by the last Earl of Bridgewater. His lordship sli s well known for his munificence in furthering the design° and extending the influence of the Church of England, in various parts of the country, and was always amongst the first to assist any scheme which met with th• 1, 1” proval of the bishop of the diocese in which the greatest portion of his large estates are situate ; and in London many churches of recent erection owe much to his libe rality. Particular mention may be made of the district church of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, the foundation st ollo of which he laid. DEATH OF COL. COLQUHOUN, R.A.—Col. James Nis' bet Colquhoun, of the Royal Artillery, and Inspector of the Carriage Department at the Royal Arsenal, Wool wich, since April, 1852, died on Saturday the 17th lost. , at his quarters in the east wing of Woolwich-barrack s, of disease of the lungs. The deceased was of very active habits, and introduced many valuable improvements int o the department under his superintendence. He also spared no exertion in recur ng the means of rendering the naval, garrison, and field guns as efficient as the nature of the duty they were constructed for would per' mit them to be made, and spent many an anxious hou r , with the work men i n i ns t ruc ti ng th em as t o the bop manner in which they could carry out his numerous plans and suggestions ; the men, knowing they bad a competent judge of their work when it was finished, entered cheerfully into his views, and the carriage d e :, partment is now in a high state of order ; and about B O u hands being employed in it, is able, by the aid of ma chinery, to complete or repair an incredible quantity the stores required by the services which bad p r eviously been supplid by contract. Colonel Coiquhoun served 1 . Spain from 1812 to the close of the war. He was emp lo 9 e under Lord John Hay during the civil war in Spain' and he served also at, the Syrian campaign of 1 840-41 ' The deceased entered the service as second lieutenant, June 1, 1808 ; was promoted to first lieutenant Septet °. ber 8, 1810 ; Captain, Nov. 6, 1827 ; brevet major, De cember 2, 1836 ; brevet lieutenant-colonel, November 10, 1840 ; regimental colonel, Nov. 9, 1846 ; and brevet colonel, Nov. 11, 1851. DEATH OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF HONDTRAS--":. We regret to announce that her Majesty's steamer /3na zard, which arrived at Port Royal on Saturday e vening last from Ilondura4, brought the melancholy intelligence of the death of B. E. Woodhouse, Esq., her Majesty superintendent of that place. The Buzzard not having brought letters or papers, we are unable to give furthe particulars of the lamente d gentleman's demise. Ile ar pears, however, to have died after a very short illness. Jamaica Paper. FIRE IN MIRK-LANE.—Y,sietdriy (Sunday) n cgs al at a few minutes before seven o'clock, a fire of a ve r y alarming character, broke out in a spacious range or premises, numoered 12, in Mark-lane, City. Th e pro perty in question was tenanted by several merchants a s offices, amon.zst the owners were Mr. Brodock, a colo nial merchant ; Messrs. Crawley and Masters, of t Winhe e merchants, &c. The fire was discovered by one City police, whose attention was attracted to the pre mises by a strong smell of burning wood. The eng ine belonging to her Majesty for the protection of the C us „ tom-house, two of the parih, that of the West of E n g -, land Company, and six of th e L on d on Brigade w ere speedily on the spot, and a pl e ntif u l su pply of water w as obtained, the fire for a consid era bl e period defied th e ex ertions of the brigade. Th e flames w ere not subd ue until Mr. Brodock's premises, together with those 01 Messrs. Crawley and Masters, were damaged by fire and water. The counti ng -h ouse o f M r . Lane, another mer chant, was also severely injured by fire and w..ter. It was impossible to learn whether the property destroyed was insured, as no one slept on the premises. ADVANCE IN T HE P RI CE OF WHISKY. — Th e Cork dis tillers have advanced the price of whisky threepence per gallon. REPRESENTATION OF GALWAY. The report gains ground that a vacancy in the representa ti on of the borough is on the eve of taking place by the a ppointmen t to a colonial situation of Mr. Anthony O'Flaherty. Tht following persons are said to be already in the field as candidates for the seat :—Sir Thomas Redington, Mr. Henry Grattan, Mr. John Reynolds, and Mr. Richard A, Eirwan. ROYAL OL Y HPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren. For the BENEFIT of frs. A. PHILLIPS. THIS EVENING, Slur. 19, Will be performed THE sCHOOL FOR sC , NDAL. Charac'ers by Messrs. Farren, F. Robson, W. Farren, Mrs. A. Philips, Miss Anstey, Sze. To be followed by (never acted) SIT HUSBAND'S WILL. With SIIYLOCK; or, THE MERCHANT OF " VENICE PRE SERVED." ASTLEY'S ROYAL VbIPHITHE.tTEE. Solo Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. The unanimous voice of the public Pre.s has pronounced the New Classical Burlesque to have reached the acme of perfection. Rio spectacle produced at the Vraphitheatre has ever created so great a sensation. The Dresses and appointments have met with un qualified approbation, while the Classical Groupings and Grand Ballet are nightly received with demonstrations of delight from fashionab e and crowded audiences. Mr Cooke will (by desire) introduce his highly-trained Barb steed, whose matchless per formance is pronounced perfect. Miss Emily ooke will continue her ele<ant Equestrian Act on a rapid seed, concluding with her wonderful Feat of Leaping through 16 Balloons. Continuation of the Battle of Waterloo. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 19, And during the week, will be presented (the Bth time) the New Classical Burlesque, entitled JUPIT ER'S DECREE, AND THE FALL OF PELETON; or, HIE FIERY COUR -ERS OF THE SUN, with its magnificent Tableaux, military evolutions, and grand ballet. To be followed by Mr. W. Cooke's Scenes in the CIRCLE, in which that matchless wonder, Miss Emily Cooke, will appear on her rapid Courser and Marvellous Flight throu ,h 16 balloons. Concluding with (80th time) THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Boa-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. LAST WEEK OF THE SEASON. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 19, The Brilliant Routine of Entertainments on this occasion will include the Panorama of CHUSAN, "plendid MENAGERIE. First Exhibition of the rare Baboon, "Hamadryas," Promenading capa risoned Elephants. EXHIBITION of the MARINE AQUARIUM, a Collection of Sea and Fresh Water Fish in large Glass Tanks. Vocal and Instrumental CONCERT. Two favourite Songs by Miss Poole, the popular English Vocalist. The whole concluding with 'THE " FEAST OF LANTERNS," ortlliant FIREWORKS, and EXPLOSION of CHINESE WAR JUNKS. Concert at Six. Fireworks at Nine. Admission, is. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. MONDAY, SEPT. 19, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following laces at nine o'clock on Saturday morning. The stations tr.- arranged in order of latitude. SOUTHAMPTON N., gentle breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE—N., calm—partially cloudy. GREENWICH—N., gentle breeze—overcast. STRoou—N.W., calm—partially cloudy. SWINDON-N., light breeze—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE-N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. HOLYHEAD—S. W., gentle b yeze—very fine. LANCASTER -W., calm—foggy. DARLINGTON - S., gentle breeze, overcast—foggy. SHAD—E., calm—principally clear. he returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Friday morning at nine o'clock : LIMERICK—S., strong breeze—overcast. MULLINGAR— S.E., strong breeze—rain. FOLKESTONE-N., gentle breeze—overcast. LANCASTER-W. calm—partially cloudy. SHAP—E., calm—overcast. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tar DAT —Morning 1 min. after 3 Evening 18 min.aft. 3 To-Mon.aolv —Morning 34 min. after 3, Evening 50 min.aft. 3 THE WEATHER.—Suit OFFTCN, Sr. 19. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAWL 68—highest since noon yesterday. 55—lowest this morning and during the night. 67—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'28. WIND, W.S.W. - Fine clear weather. tbt sAtat. LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1853. It has recently been the fashion in certain quarters to endeavour to cast at least a consider able portion of the responsibility of the present gloomy and lowering aspect of the political hori zon on the SULTAN and his advisers. Plausible arguments are adduced to show that the moment Turkey displays a bold and independent spirit, she is to be not merely deserted by those who have betrayed her into the trap set by the AUTO CRAT, but that the arms of the Western Powers are to be turned against their ancient ally, and that she is to be coerced into every concession demanded by the insolence or cupidity of the invader of her territories. This would, indeed, constitute a degree of infamy on the part of the Governments that participated in a transaction in every respect so nefarious, that we cannot yet be lieve in such incredible baseness on the part of any public man, or body of men. Our foreign policy bas been unfortunately disgraceful to our country, and it is difficult to say whether the honour or the interests of the United Kingdom has been most seriously compromised under the vacillating and timid conduct of the excellent ABERDEEN and his colleagues of the Joint- Stock Administration. But there is "in the lowest depths, a deeper still," and al though it is scarcely possible that even the " Coalition" would dare to let England sink into that bottomless pit, and her name to become a bye word and reproach among nations, it , is still right to be prepared for the worst when wo find such significant hints, such palpable feelers, put for ward by the organ of the Ministry as appeared in the leading article of the Times on Saturday last. What can be the meaning or object of asserting that " the question of European peace rests mainly at this moment with the Government of the Slat• TAN," followed, too, by the statement, that " the obligations of the crisis are manifestly reciprocal ;" that "if Europe has its duties towards Turkey, Turkey has its duties towards Europe. If Europe owes protection to the Ottoman Empire, that Empire owes consideration to the peace of Europe!" For what purpose is it that intimations are given of the wrongs and injuries already inflicted on Turkey—that we are reminded that long since she has been stripped of considerable portions of her dominions which no longer owe allegiance to the SULTAN—that Algi'ars, Egypt, Greece, the Archipelago, and Bessarabia have been transferred to other rulers—and that in every instance of in tervention "the interposing States have enforced conclusions theoretically irreconcileable with the rights of an independent monarchy ?" Surely those insidious suggestions have not been put for ward without a deliberate design ; and if so, what can be their meaning but that we should partici pate in another act of grievous injustice, if not of spoliation—that. we should join in an unholy alliance with the Northern. Despot for the purpose of completing the humiliation, and destroying even the semblance of independence, on the part of the PoRTE--1 that we should participate in forcing her to acct 'pt propositions more degrading to her honour, and pregnant with more perilous consequences to her fi ature safety than those we long since counselled 'tier to reject, and before she had in curred the encirmous cost of preparing to repel f urther aggres: dons by her own unassisted force. 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