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. . Lt 1 4 - N IS Ai Tit 11, DA. Y BYRN 114 Cyr OCTOBER 2 I 47. , . . . THE MAGAZINES. and the nerves shudder. It abounded with dark and ' FRASER. THE SWINTON MURDER. • SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES, BLACK If 00D. goblin passages; it was the whirlwind blowing among The most readable paper in the present number is Edwin Sellars was brought up on Tuesday at Last night Macbeth was represented again at this I N BANKS, ASSRANCE. AND OTHER CON " Old Ebony for the month,"-" Kit North again in the cra g s of the Jun g frsu, and swarmin g w i th the forms entitled " The Praslin Family," and the following the Sheffield Police-court, charged with having, on suburban dramatic temple, by the powerful company PANIES' STOCK. the field,"-" A racy new number of Blackwood,"-as and cries of the witches of the Walpurgis• it was Eurv- ~ i . 0 - short sketch of the career of the father of the last the 4th September, wilfully, maliciously, and with whom Mr. Phelps has gathered under his banner ; From t'ze Official List, dice traversin g the corridors of hell it was midni g ht the piratical placards proclaim upon the walls of every Duke sufficiently explains the interest which the pre- malice aforethought, killed and murdered one Caleb and ne ve r was thi s g reat play better set before the rtrsLisriED EVERY TITU.SDAT AND FRIDAY EVENING. over the wilderness, with the clouds drifting before the city, and in the windows of every. print-shop in the - LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1. moon ; it was a hurricane on the deep sea ; it was United States. At least, as they are declarad to do everything horrible, wierdlike, and tumultuous. And son :- Mrs. Elizabeth Barker, the widow of the murdered stricken Thane with almost more than his accustomed NINGTOCB DANKs. by one of the merriest and smartest of the correspon- through the ver y f ur y o f t h ese p assages there would " The Duke Choiseul Praslin, father of the last Duke, man, said, that on the 4th of September, her husband, ability. The deep fervid eloquence, and the terrific ZOI man , passion and guilty fear of th e d oo m e d were ex - ondents to the Magazine-see page 430 of this num- start tones of ravishing and gentle beauty-the incense early espoused the revolutionary party; and as he sepa- who left home alone b e t we e n seven and eight o ' clock Dividend Amount ber for October. We break through the regular rou- of an adoring heart wafted to the black heavens rated himself from the nobility to which he belonged, in the evening, was brought home about eleven o'clock cellently depicted. Miss Addison i s , p er h a p s , th e Name o f C om p an y, per of Paid. I Price. tinelof the articles-on the true Fl ac cusi a n principle of through the lightnings and lamentations of Nineveh. never emigrated. He gave in his adhesion to Buonaparte with several wounds, his head being cut and bruised, best representative of Lady M ac b e th on th e s t age • Annum. share. and his left ear almost cut off. He died the next throughout she was the stern, passionate, cruel - - .4 a. d. I I. d. plunging in medias res-for the purpose of calling Again the musician changed the purpose of his im- after the 18 Brumaire. In 1805, he was named one of morning. woman drawn by the poet. Immediately on the en- Au.stralasia ••'•'• • • • • 4Q 0 0 40 0 0 - attention off-hand to the paper in question. 46 M aga provi sa ti on ;it was no longer dismal and appalling, it the imperial chamberlains; and in 1811, president of the in America"-a suggestive title ! a title fragrant of was pathetic. The instrument became, as it were, the Electoral College of Seine and Marne. His cry then Thomas Gore said that about half-past ten o'clock, trance of Miss Addison, and whilst perusing the BntshNorth American 51. per Cent. 50 0050 0 0 44,4 3 Clommercial o; London 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - on the night of the 4th of September, he was passing high-toned letter from Macbeth, she suddenly fell aolonial. - the usquebaugh of good Mr. Ambrose-reminiscent organ of sadness , it became eloquent with an inarticulate was, Vive a jamais le Grand Napoleon! In 1813, he woe ; it was a b reas t bursting with affliction, a voice gave new proofs of devotion, and on 6th January, 1814, close by Mr. Barker's potteries, near Swinton, when back in a fainting fit, and was carried off. The cur- Londonnd Westminstr Si. er lOO 0 0 20 0 0 - of the crutch of King Christopher-commemorative broken with sorrow, a soul dissolving with emotions. was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. On the Joint-Stock .• • per cent . 50 0010 0 0 - • of the Ettrick Shepherd and his boon companion of Then the variable harmonies rose from pensiveness into 31st March. 1814, when a number of Royalists in the a man walked past. We exchanged a " good night" tain, of course, immediately fell, and Mr. Marston Metropolitan - 25 007 10 0 - the Nodes. The article is in truth a delightful gos- frenzy, from frenzy into the noise and the shocks of a Place Louis XV., raised the cries of ' Vive le Roi, vi- as we passed. When I had gone on a few paces came forward and sought the indulgence of the audi- Prov incial of Ireland• • 1 Si. per cent. 100 0025 0 0 - Ditto, New.• •-• • • • 1 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 farther I saw a man lying in a ditch, and got him ence for a brief whil e . I n a b ou t half an hour the . National of Ireland .. Si. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - sipping, bantering, egotistical, querrulous, enthusias- great battle ; they swelled to the din of contending vent les Bourbons !' the answer of the Duke de Praslin, tic letter describing the ruthless manner in which armies, t o th e s t orm an d v i c i ss it u des o f warlike deeds, colonel of the fir , t legion of the National Guard, was out, but he could not stand. John Heely and Wil- performances were resumed, and Miss Addi son pro- Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - )lain Turner happened to pass at the time, and we ceeded to the end to act with her usual ability. Mr. i : M i n), New. • ( o ) f r A l t , f i na :: .... ,61 per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Blackwood is reprinted in a sort of fat-simile fashion, and soared at last into a paean such as that of victorious ',Nous aeons un ordre de chases 6:abili I' i 5 1 . per cent. so 0 0 f 0 e,...„ IDOivtiioadrenOdi Price.- " But no sooner was this ordre de chases destroyed, than carr i e d him towards Barker's house, and called for a Marston was an effective Macduff. The other cha- Union and at an intolerably reduced rate, in the United legions when- M. de Praslin turned round voile face. On the 6th of li g ht. Barker's son came out with a light, and re- ratters were well sustained. The scenery is beautiful States. The fat-simile, or Icon, as the writer, in a " Gaily to glory they come, Names of g 'Dividend C : NALS. April, six days afterwards, he gave in his adhesion to all facetious spirit of classicality calls it, is produced at Like a king in his pomp, cognised the man as his father. We carried him into in the extreme. The theatre was filled ; and it would the acts of the Senate, which pronounced the downfal of New York, with established ancies at Boston, Phi- To the blast of the tromp, the house. He appeared sensible, but did not speak. seem that the oftener the great play is represented, as And the roar of the mighty drum!" Napoleon, whom, in Louis-Phillipian phrase. he called ladelphia, Baltimore, Savannah, New Orleans, and rordre de choses-acts too which recalled the Bourbons He was much cut and bruised, and looked as if he had written by the great poet, the greater crowds does it Companies. , A per r cc' Companies. Paris; with puffs, headed by such exclamatory As the triumphant tones of the instrument rolled up ? • • been knocked down. by name. Not content with these demonstrations, which draw towards Sadler.. Wells. a 2 Annum. Annum. Ashtn& Oldh it 11 51.55. p c 70 Monmouthsh - 1 : 00 10/. ' sentences as those quoted at the beginning of this from its recesses, and filled the apartment with a torrent somewhat surprised royalty , he placarded the walls of John Heely said-I am a potter. I lodged with Ashby-d-la-Z 113 4/. Slntgemrysh 100 51. 1 - column ; with travelling agents dispatched a thousand of majestic sounds, as the musician swayed to and fro in Paris with a pr oposal for a statue 9 of Henry IV., in which, Barker, and continue to lodge with his widow. This POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. miles inland to lowa and Wisconsin ; and spreading the e ent h usiasm of his sublime inspirations and enhanced ' amidst other fustian and fanfaronade, were these words: witness corroborated the statement of the previous IVe yesterday had the pleasure of bearing, at the divine symphony by the crash of many thrilling and Barnsley• •.. 160 121. ' 180 Macclesfield 100 - 15 southwards from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to -, Oui, sublime Henri, c'est toi ce Sont lee traits chiris w i tness. He had also met a man coming from where Polytechnic Institution, a most instructive, yet pleas- Basingstoke.. 100 - 1175 ; 800 1 / 12 . 4 32 : 1 4 1. 1 s . 3404 20 4 0 6_7 8 3 5 itINNI Peakeu,a t t i h nd n Fta g ? ; e ram. .e. Regent's.... .. ti .... abrupt t discords, the Rosicrucian gazed with awe upon q u i doivent charmer nos regards. La statue de notre the body was found, but he did not think he could ing, lecture, by Dr. Bachhoffner, on the Physical :l e r r o s. m n a f o & r a s . br a . 1 1 00 50 1 5 4 / 1 .. the deltas of the Mississippi, with a prospect of ad- the responsive grandeur of his countenance. The ilia _s_4 s S' Do h i n r o o .r p Ls s ek h t F i C r d e o: l • t . 125 81. - vancing Mexico-wards to, the halls-not of Balclutha, petus of his superb imagination imparted an incon- bon Henri va nous titre rendu: bon Henri, nous rever- recognise him again. Effects of a Jet of Steam. The learned gentleman, but of the Montezumas. A more powerful argument ceivable dignity to every lineament, to his capacious rons ton image; elle nous dirs, etc.' "On the 29th of the month, the Duke was admitted to Some further evidence was given in proof of the avoiding the beaten tracts of former lecturers, con prisoner's having alighted from the train from Shef- fined himself on this occasion principally to the em- I,o D :ie u irs a ib i n e yr y es,..c. h.; 11 1 3 0 030 0 46 4 11 / .. . in favour of an international copyright has not re- forehead, to his broad and distended nostrils, to the 80 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 275 the presence of Charles X., then Monsieur, with a ful- field, at the Swinton station ,at eight o'clock on the ployment of steam as an agent in ventilation. The E:ewash •.. 100 1t. 3642 1 1.: 05. 21) 2 : Shrewsbury.. 125 151. - cently appeared than ;this same paper of " Maga in fierce protrusion of his under-lip, to the mobile and 15 12 0 7 6 / 1 .. p 10 . 5 c .. I_3o some address. On the 4th June he was created a peer night of the 4th inst. America.' It may console the publishers of Black- generous expression of his mouth, to the tawny yellow Doctor stated that considerable interest had been But on the following year, when 'le petit coporal' Inspector Attwood said he took the prisoner into excited recently by the fact of the House of Lords wood with the knowledge that Maga is the only one of his complexion, to the brown depths of his noble and appeared, he did not hesitate ' to njoin his banner, and grandGe o r a r t u t d i j s s u en Unionl lt d ni: 10 000 0 01 Glamorgnsh.'l72' 13%1. - Stourbrid g e 145 201. 305 of the monthlies deemed of such importance and po- dilated eyes. There was something in unison with the - - Strtfrd on .A . v . 79 1/. 10s. was mad® one of his peers. Such flagrant conduct as - . 'Hilarity as to be copied in fac-simile-that the old glorious sounds that reverberated through the chamber, this was unpardonable, and by an ordonnance of Louis The trousers he had on were stained with blood. endeavour to show that water, in its expanded state, Grantham .. 150 1 1 121. - Severn and } 26 11. Bs. 30 even in the enormous contour of his head and the gray Huddersfield. 571 - - Wye Bail. . familiar portrait of Geordy Buchanan, encircled with X VII ., of the 25th ofJuly, 1805, M. de Choiseul-Prasiin A surgeon deposed to the nature of the injuries could, by displacing large volumes of air, contribute fIIn t & Avu 39; 7s. 6d. 5U Trnt &MI disorder of his hair. He seemed to exult in the torrentso 30/. - . its frame-work of thistle, is discoverable in all guar- of melody as it gushed from the piano and streamed out ceased to form a portion of the Chamber of Peers. From Barker had received. to a purpose so desirable as that of renewing the Lancaster... 471 1/. 10s. - sly .. 100 341. 503 Thams&Med 19 - - ters and among all classes of North America, in the upon the dusk of the evening While C • agliostro was that period, the Duke, whether in or out of France, The prisoner was committed for trial upon the atmosphere of crowded buildings. It is not in our beecis&LiYrP l Leicester ..- 1 140 10/. 75 Worcstr & 78 2/ 41 wigwams of the Redskins, among the natives of the listening in an ecstasy of admiration, he was startled by became a Frondeur ; and, as an os t e ntatious dinner- c h a r ge of committing two burglaries, but Mr. OVER.. power to follow the Doctor through the historical Leicstr &Nth 83 at. 36 Binning.] • % 1 _ b ay _ of Massa c h ussets an d t h e i mm i gran t s o f th e a sudden clangour among the b ass-notes-the music giver and patron of newspaper writers, he was not with - END, who presided, said there was not sufficient evis details of his exordium-suffice it to say, that he dis- Lough b orogh [ 142 701. 530 Wilts & Bits 67 11. 11 t Oregon, on the table of the schoolmaster in the seemed to be jumbled into confusion, and the ear was out influence in Paris in directing attention to the Duke dente to commit him on the charge of murder. tinctly proved that the plan of ventilating by steam DOMES. desk of the schoolboy, in the barracks of Jefferson- stunned by a painful and intolerable dissonance. - On of Orleans, now Louis Philippe. Hence the intimacy was not of a date so recent as many imagined, but ville, and the public libraries of Washin t in the lk' •tetl ' he ' d that the g on, Praslins were doing the work of the youngest branch of Name of Compass!. per of Paid. ' Price. . villas bordering the Hudson, and among the most had let one hand fall abstractedly upon the key-board, the Bourbons; lied that good father of a family who Yesterday morning great excitement prevailed in show the displacement of air by steam, Dr. Bach- Annum. Share. I secluded planters in the Carolinas ; but it must afford while the other executed, by itself, a passage of extra- now reigns and governs in France has always been the the vicinity of Oakley-street, Lambeth, in conse- hoffner produced a most complete set of mechanical sufficient cause for arousing their indignation by telling ,ordinary difficulty and involution. Then, for the firsthydro-machin e man to be intimate with an one, no matter how indiffe- quence of an attempt to poison the f ami l y of Mr , apparatus, and, aided b the enormous x s. d. X s. d. 1 Commercial .... - them how Messrs. Bathyllus Reprint, and of Co. ~ rent his or her character, Y who can do him an honest William Coo • M ' l Isabella-of the institution pr od uced some most magnificent East and West India.- 61. pr cent. Stock. - 1224 Alas l the supposition was too true : Beethoven was • New York, carry o ff so vast a share of the fi pro ts jo b in France, in S • part of the world. Wit- street, pain, or any h Lambeth. East effects. Among other results we saw solid bodies, C ountry ... 1/. per sh. 100 o o - - cursedw . the with loss of his most precious faculty. Those. Landon ...... - 102 j without partaking in the labour or the responsibility ness Soph i e Dawes, Madame de Feuc eres, Minos, Duke premate tho full splendour of hisigantic genius Mr. Cooper, his wife, and four children, have been such as paper, eggs, &c., drawn with immense velocity St Katharine 5 per cent. stock. - 83 Putting the profit out of the question-there is the those wh o conceive, with a distinguishe d ' of Rianzares, and Gonlazes Brabo of infamous repute' Southampton -• .. •••• ' 21. per cent., 50 0 0 0 0 0 for a considerable period into which •••• •• -•• annoyed by the visits of a through a tube, the upper part of a jet of composer now - . . ~ - glory, and that is not so contemptible. Listen to living, w that ' Beethoven began where Haydn and Mozart On the subject of the "privilege •Of suicide, as the female acquaintance. For several weeks Mr. Cooper steam was allowed to pass;_ while pieces of paste- TNSTMANCE COWIP.II26TIES. the correspondent from America :- . l e ft o ff ; ' th ose w h o co i nc id e w ith an em i nent cr i t i c, i n N a ti ona l ca ll s it, suppose d t o h ave b een accor d e d t o h a d f or bidd en h er t o come to hi s h ouse, w hi c h t ac t b o ard and tin were, by the force of the external air, , I Tlisiri...A I A.....* " The Duke Choiseul Praslin, father of the last Duke, early espoused the revolutionary party; and as he sepa rated himself from the nobility to which he belonged, never emigrated. He gave in his adhesion to Buonaparte after the 18 Brumaire. In 1805, he was named one of the imperial chamberlains; and in 1811, president of the Electoral College of Seine and Marne. His cry then was, Vive a jamais le Grand Napoleon! In 1813, he gave new proofs of devotion, and on 6th January, 1814, was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. On the 31st March. 1814, when a number of Royalists in the Place Louis XV., raised the cries of Vive le Roi, vi vent les Bourbons !' the answer of the Duke de Praslin, colonel of the fir:t legion of the National Guard, was Nous avor.s un ordre de chases 6:abilt I' " But no sooner was this ordre de choses destroyed, than M. de Praslin turned round voile face. On the 6th of April, six days afterwards, he gave in his adhesion to all the acts of the Senate, which pronounced the downfal of Napoleon, whom, in Louis-Phillipian phrase. he called rordre de choses—acts too, which recalled the Bourbons by name. Not content with these demonstrations, which somewhat surprised royalty, he placarded the walls of Paris with a proposal for a statue of Henry IV., in which, amidst other fustian and fanfaronade, were these words: Oui, sublime Henri, c'est toi ce sont les traits chicis qui doivent charmer nos regards. La statue de notre bon Henri va nous etre rendu: bon Henri, nous rever rons ton image; elle nous dir s, etc.' " On the 29th of the month, the Duke was admitted to the presence of Charles X., then Monsieur, with a ful some address. On the 4th June he was created a peer But on the following year, when le petit coporal' appeared, he did not hesitate to njoin his banner, and was made one of his peers. Such flagrant conduct as this was unpardonable, and by an ordonnance of Louis XVII., of the 25th of July, 1805, M. de Choiseul-Prasiin ceased to form a portion of the Chamber of Peers. From that period, the Duke, whether in or out of France, became a Frondeur ; and, as an ostentatious dinner giver and patron of newspaper writers, he was not with out influence in Paris in directing attention to the Duke of Orleans, now Louis Philippe. Hence the intimacy between the families of Orleans and Praslin. The Praslins were doing the work of the youngest branch of the Bourbons; and that good father of a family who now'reigns and governs in France has always been the man to be intimate with any one, no matter how indiffe rent his or her character, who can do him an honest job in France, in Spain, or any part of the world. Wit ness Sophie awes, Madame de Feucheres, Munos, Duke of Rianzares, and Gonlazes.Brabo of infamous repute." On the subject of the "privilege of suicide, as the National calls it, supposed to have been accorded to the Duke of Praslin by the authorities, the writer of this paper says— " The French people have been stigmatised by a writer in a daily paper, who evidently knows nothing of France, for being suspicious of the intentions of the French Government, and unjust to men in power, in reference to the Duke de Praslin. But French men and French women well know that in the case of the President d'Entrecasteaux, a young man of a distinguished family of the robe, a president of the parliament of Aix, and who murdered his wife with circumstances of peculiar atrocity, that the Government ostensibly demanded the delivery of the culprit wherever he might be found. He was detected and secured at Lisbon, when a private letter to the French Minister desired his release, and permitted his escape from further punishment. " The Duke de Praslin and the members of his house were, and Marshal Sebastiani is, in possession of many secrets in reference to the house of Orleans ; and it was because some of the people of France were aware of this that the wicked thought came into their heads that the ' best of republics' might desire the release and permit the escape of the vilest murderer that has ever appeared , in France." The author of "Literary Legislators" gives up a group of Parliamentary oddities, consisting of Col. Sibthorp, Mr. Muntz, Mr. P. Borthwick, Mr. Blewitt, and Mr. John Collett; and Sam Slick con tinues his " Old Judge ;or Life in a Colony." These are the best papers in this month's Fraser. The opening paper, on " Free Church Sites," is in many respects most objectionable. The writer enters not at all into the discussion of the question raised by the title of his paper, but takes advantage of the publication of the evidence recently taken before the Parliamentary Committee on the subject, to indulge in an attack upon the character of the late Dr. Chalmers, an attack which is characterised by virulence without power, and which is as void of wit or argument as it is of good taste and good feeling. Had Chalmers been alive, this miserable effusion of bigoted malevolence would never have been published ; but the lion is dead, and therefore the hoof is lifted. The paper on " Goethe and his Critics" is dreary, albeit the subject is a good one ; and " The First of October" is a poor attempt at an imitation of Christopher North = spiritless and vapid as flat soda water. The article on the "Carlovingian Romances of the Middle Ages" is good ; and there is pleasant musical gossip in " Some Words about Music and the Modern Opera ;" but, taken as a whole, the present number of Fraser is not equal to its predecessors. " Gaily to glory they come, Like a king in his pomp, To the blast of the tromp, And the roar of the mighty drum !" As the triumphant tones of the instrument rolled up from its recesses, and filled the apartment with a torrent of majestic sounds, as the musician swayed to and fro in the enthusiasm of his sublime inspirations, and enhanced the divine symphony by the crash of many thrilling and abrupt discords, the Rosicrucian gazed with awe upon the responsive grandeur of his countenance. The im petus of his superb imagination imparted an incon ceivable dignity to every lineament, to his capacious forehead, to his broad and distended nostrils, to the fierce protrusion of his . under-lip, to the mobile and generous expression of his mouth, to the tawny yellow of his complexion, to the brown depths of his noble and dilated eyes. There was something in unison with the glorious sounds that reverberated through the chamber, even in the enormous contour of his head and the gray disorder of his hair. He seemed to exult in the torrent of melody as it gushed from the piano and streamed out upon the dusk of the evening. While Cagliostro was listening in an ecstasy of admiration, he was startled by a sudden clangour among the bass-notes—the music seemed to be jumbled into confusion, and the ear was stunned by a painful and intolerable dissonance. On looking more intently, he perceived that the composer had let one hand fall abstractedly upon the key-board, while the other executed, by itself, a passage of extra ordinary difficulty and involution. Then, for the first time, the thought struck him that the musician was deaf. Alas ! the supposition was too true : Beethoven was cursed with the loss of his most precious faculty. Those wbo appreciate the full splendour of his gigantic genius, those who conceive, with a distinguished composer now living, that Beethoven began where Haydn and Mozart left off;' those who coincide with an eminent critic, in saying that the discords of Beethoven are better than the harmonies of all other musicians;' those, in fine, who worship his memory with the devotion inspired by his compositions, can sympathise in that terrible depri vation of the powers of bearing, by which his art was rendered a blank, and the latter years of his life were embittered. They will remember with gratitude the joys they have derived from the effusions of his fruitful intellect; they will call to their recollection the joyous chorus, of the, prisoners in Fidelio,—the sublime and adoring hymn of the Alleluia' in The Mount of Olives,—the matchless pomp of the Sinfonia Eroica,— the passionate beauty of the sentiment of Adelaida,—the aerial grace of his quartetts and waltzes,—the thrilling and almost awful pathos of the dirge written for six trombones,—but, above all, they will recal to mind the noblest work ever conceived and perfected by composer, one of the greatest achievements of the human mind, the Mass in D. And, bearing these wonders in their memory, their hearts will ache for the doom of Ludwig Von Beethoven. None of these things, however, being known to the Rosicrucian, his sympathies were aroused solely by what he himself had heard and witnessed. Still that was more than enough to fill his whole soul with commiseration, especially as the sounds again burst in bewitching concert from the instrument, and a new inspiration lit up the visage of the musician. Cagliostro found himself, with profound sorrow, returning into the silent darkness, and the solemn Voice stealing, for the last time, into his brain." We commend the " Vision of Cagliostro"' to the perusal of the million : its moral should be stamped upon our hearts—" Earthly happiness is attainable through the virtuous use of our five senses r The recently published " Memoirs of Viscountess Sandon" have suggested to Blackwood a charming conver sational chapter about " The Times of George II." "Art in the Early Christian Ages" is a critical dis sertation founded on the celebrated work of Professor Gottfried Kinkel. " The Portrait," being a tale abridged from the Russian of G6gol, by Thomas B. Shaw, is a literary curiosity for which the readers of Maga will be grateful. "Hounds and Horses at Rome" is a smart contribution, telling all about the state of the sporting world in the Eternal City, and certainly proving, as the exordium indicates, that Englishmen do not do at Rome as the Romans do. Delta indites a graceful song on the Earl of Dal housie's departure to India as Governor-General. "My Friend the Dutchman" closes the number so pleasantly that we are fain to quote once more the broadsides upon the walls of New York, "A racy new number of Blackwood," and to exclaim again with the correspondent from America—" Long live King Christopher !" POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. 'We yesterday had the pleasure of hearing, at the Polytechnic Institution, a most instructive, yet pleas ing, lecture, by Dr. Bachhoffner, on the Physical Effects of a Jet of Steam. The learned gentleman, avoiding the beaten tracts of former lecturers, con fined himself on this occasion principally to the em ployment of steam as an agent in ventilation. The Doctor stated that considerable interest had been excited recently by the fact of the House of Lords being ventilated by steam ; and therefore he should endeavour to show that water, in its expanded state, could, by displacing large volumes of air, contribute to a purpose so desirable as that of renewing the atmosphere of crowded buildings. It is not in our power to follow the Doctor through the historical details of his exordium—suffice it to say, that he dis tinctly proved that the plan of ventilating by steam was not of a date so recent as many imagined, but was brought before the world in the year 1794. To show the displacement of air by steam, Dr. Bach hoffner produced a most complete set of mechanical apparatus, and, aided by the enormous hydro-machine of the institution, produced some most magnificent effects. Among other results we saw solid bodies, such as paper, eggs, &c., drawn with immense velocity through a tube, into the upper part of which a jet of steam was allowed to pass ; while pieces of paste board and tin were, by the force of the external air, brought into such close contact with the orifice, that considerable force was required for their removal. Our impression was certainly much in favour of the economy and feasibility of the plan. In introducing this subject, we ought to mention that the Professor entered very carefully and yet simply into the law of fluids, whether gaseous or liquid, and thus prepared the minds of his audience for the full appreciation of his succeeding experiments. As a whole, we pro nounce the lecture a masterpiece of sound, yet popular, philosophical instruction. Mr. Cooper, his wife, and four children, have been for a considerable period annoyed by the visits of a female acquaintance. For several weeks Mr. Cooper had forbidden her to come to his house, which tact gave the woman (Watson) much offence. However, she yesterday paid a visit to Mr. Cooper's residence during his absence, Mrs. Cooper likewise being from home at the time. She entered the front room, where sbe sat down in presence of Mr. Cooper's children, and after a few minutes had elapsed the elder girl detected her placing something white in a large pitcher of broth which happened to be on the sideboard, but which cir cumstance at the time did not cause any suspicion. The woman subsequently left the house, bidding the children " good day." Shortly afterwards Mrs. Cooper returned and commenced preparations for dinner, placing the said broth in a saucepan to warm up for the children's dinner, which they afterwards partook of rather heartily, the whole of them remarking as to its strange and salt taste. A brief space of time after they had partaken of the broth the whole of the children were seized with violent vomiting, and upon searching the bottom of that which remained in the saucepan, a white substance which had a glassy ap pearance was found. A surgeon was called in, who immediately upon examination, pronounced the child ren to be suffering from the effects of oxalic acid. The stomach-pump was at once brought into active requisition, and the whole of them were as speedily as possibly relieved of the poison, although two of them are in a very precarious condition from the ac ti on of the deadly mineral. The mother and the two elder children were out of danger, .but the youngest are still in a great state of sufrering from the effects of the poison. A paper labelled "oxalic acid poison " has since been found in the room, which leaves no doubt as to the nature of the poison. " I can pardon Mr. Blackwood should his temper be a little ruffled, when he compares his trouble and re sponsibility, and limited sale, with the sans souci and universal market of Reprint and Co.; but surely, old Christopher North should smile with inward satisfaction when, not by cannon or carnage, but as the result of a greatness thrust upon him, he finds his empire, like her Majesty's, the girdle of the earth, and his sovereignty recognised, in the world of letters, where hers can claim no subjects, and demand no homage. That crutch is now the sceptre of bookdom. Its shadow stretcheth over all lands, whether the dawn project it athwart the broad Atlantic, or the Boreal light send it overland to farthest India. Who reads not Maga ? You shall find the smutched lieutenant turning over its pages by the camp fire, after a terrible scratch with the Seikhs; and within the same twenty-tour hours you may fairly surmise that some green mountain volunteer, on the wrong side of the Rio Grande, has lighted a pine knot, and is reading one of the Marlborough articles to bis mess, with ex temporary paralellisms in favour of General Taylor, which the shade of the great Churchill must not venture to overhear. Swinging in his hammock, the midship man holds Blackwood to the smoky lamp of the orlop, as he plunges and pitches around Cape Horn. Lounging in his state-room, and bound for Hong-Kong, the sea sick passenger corrects his nausea with the same spicy page. and bewitched with the flavour, forgets to sigh for Madeira, which he has passed, or to look out for St. Helena, whi c h i s somewhere On his lee. It keeps the old Admiral from the deck as his keel scrapes the coral reefs of the South Pacific; and a stale back number, from the bottom of a seaman's chest, is purchased as a prize, by him who cruises among seals, icebergs, and sper maceti whales. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price. Annum. Share. , - £ s. d. , £ s. d. Albion • • • • • • • •................Si. 10s. 500 0 0 5O 0 0 75 Alliance Brit. and For. per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 - Ditto Marine. • • • • • • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 - Xtlas • • • British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 (3% Glericl,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 2 10 0 20% County - - - - - • • • • 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 i;rown .. • • .. • • • • • • • • 12s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 11 eagle . • .... Eng. & Scot. Law • ... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - European Life • • .... I% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. - Freemasons' . • • • • .. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe .. •....... 61. per cent. Stock. - 124 Guardian • . • . • • • ..... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 46% Imperial Fire • • • • • • • 61. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 210 Imperial Life • • • • • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Indemnity Marine.... 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 5 13 1 - Law Life ............ 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 - Landon Fire • • • • • • • • 108. 25 0 0 12 10 0 - London Ship • .• • • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 - Marine.. ........... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 - Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 4%1. per et . 50 0 0 2 0 0 21.859 d National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 - National Life.... - Palladium Life ...... - Pucenix .. 3/. p. ct. & bs. - - 185 Protector Life • • • • ... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 3s. Prorident,Life • ....... 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Rock Life • • • . • . • . • • • • 43. 5 0 0 0 10 0 4% Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. - 181 Sun Fire • • • • . • . • • .. - - - Ditto Life • ... - - - Victoria Life .. • • - - 4 0 0 - LIST 01' SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. . Price. Annum. Share. ------ ---., £ 5. d. £ s. d Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 167 Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 150 British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 200 Commercial Bank .. • • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 162 National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 0 13% Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr sent. - 50 0 0 88 Western Bank • • • • • • • • 6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 81 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 6 3 i Clydesdale Bank. • • • • • 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 12% Eastern Bank.. • • 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 11/ 58 Caledonian Bank - 2 10 0 41. Rs Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. - 5 0 0 61. lOs City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 121. 8s Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 235. Od Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1254 Insur. Co. of Seen/2d • • Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 8% Korth British Insur. • . 5% /. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 25 4( Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent.loo 0 0 10 0 0 22% Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 1100 0 0 12 10 0 18 Edin.&Glasg. Railway 1/.los. pers. 50 0 0 50 0 0 51xd Ditto, 54 Shares 7s. 6d. p. s. ' 12 10 0 All paid. I 13 Edits., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 i - las'gw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. I - laspy & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 18% '.315,1,*w & Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. I 39 Dundee& Arbroth Rail. Cl. per cent. ; 25 0 0 All paid. 1 39 Standard LifeAssurnce.r 51. per cent. l 50 0 0 1 2 10 0 i SN • Qais jatn locus, inquit, Achate, Qum regio in terris nostri non plena laboris I' "Yes—who reads not Maga ? The flayed Radical of Parliament—the rasped Balaamite of Congress—the spanked Cockney of an author—the jaundiced editor of some new no-go periodical—even these must cut the leaves of each new number, if they die for it, or if their only reward be to find their own sweet selves hung up in its pages, like sham Socrates in his basket, but not looking on like live Socrates with philosophic com posure. And if they whimper , who will sympathise ? Like the Shepherd at Awmrose's, the testy public may now and then rebel, and rail for a season at the cawm, cauld, clear, glitterin' cruelty in the expression of his een,'—but who can keep up a quarrel with North ? Again, like the Shepherd, they relapse into a broad good humour, and, before they know it, are drinking with all the honours, Long live Bing Christopher I' So then, in spite of Cockneys, Chartists, coxcombs, rebels, radicals, and rascally reformers, yea, arid the whole alphabetical list of what is Whiggish, vulgar, and vexatious— EAST SURREY REGISTRATION. Summary of Results of this year's proceedings of the East Surrey Free-Trade Qualification and Registra- tion Society:— BERMONDSEY.—CIaims made, 80; failed, 2; sustained, 78. Objections made, 104; withdrawn, 10; sustained, but claims amended, 28; sustained, and claims ex punged, 66. CAMBERWELL.—CIaims made, 50; failed, 4; sustained , 46. Objections made, 90; withdrawn, 4; failed, 1; sus tained, but claims amended, 41; sustained, and claims expunged, 44. CROYDON.—CIaims made, 94; failed, I ; sustained, 93. Objections made,.B7; withdrawn, 11 ;jailed, 3; sustained, but claims) amended, 26 ; sustained, and claims ex punged, 47. KENNINGTOPL—CIaims made, 51; failed, 6; sustained, 45. Objections made, 109 ; withdrawn, 9; failed 1; sus tained, but claims amended, 20; sustained, and claims expunged, 79. . ' Maga still sitteth on Edina's crags, And fr'm her throne of beauty rules the world!"' What a delightful piece of deserved and conscien tious egotism ! Even to us " Radicals and rascally Reformers," the cry is some what contagious, " Long live King Christopher !" The number, of which this epistle from the western shores of the Atlantic is a portion, opens with a very agreeable and genial criticism upon the works and character of Hans Christian Andersen—the most child-like genius of the age. Although the critic observes that the writ ings of Andersen are entirely without " traces of the higher operations of the intellect, of deep or subtle thought, of analytic power, or of ratiocina tion of any kind," the review is eulogistic, and its commendations are as generously toned as they are well merited. No autobiography certainly ever tended so much to propitiate its readers, and to dis arm ridicule as that of the ill-educated son of a poor shoemaker of Odense, in the little Danish island of Funen. Hans Christian, it must be remembered, set out from his native place to seek his fortune in Co penhagen, with thirteen rix dollars banco (thirty shillings) in his pocket, and with only one dreamy notion as to the manner of acquiring celebrity, namely that " People suffer a great deal of adversity, and then they become famous." Hans Christian Andersen has become famous in spite of everything—he has gone through a great deal of adversity and become famous —and with such marvellous rapidity that, although he was born in 1805, and commenced his education in the bottom class among the little boys when he had attained his eighteenth year, he has in his time spent his evenings with the Royal Family of Denmark, dined with the King of Prussia (who has decorated him with the order of the Red Eagle), and during his recent visit to England received an especial invitation to Osborne House, and subsequently to the Highland residence of her Majesty, from the illus trious Prince, the Consort of Queen Victoria. Ho nour to the Danish poet—the son of the poor shoe maker. Blackwood has discerned the true bent of the genius' of Andersen in observing that his tales for children will gain him "an immortality in the nursery —not the worst immortality a man can win !" The second article in old Ebony for October is a paper entitled "The Vision of Cagliostro." We will not analyse the construction of the paper, as we are soli citous that the majority should read it for themselves, and we are so solicitous, because it is !calculated to render the reader happier if he read it rightly. The Vision might have been called a tale of the five senses —for, under the symbol of a dream, it proclaims a new and glorious truth, that earthly happiness is at tainable through the virtuous use of our five senses ! The vision itself is beheld by Count Cagliostro, the Rosicrucian, and illustrates the morale of the story in the persons of Tiberius, Agrippa, Milton, Mira beau, and Beethoven. As a specimen of the compo sition and [character of this contribution, we trans cribe thefragment of the Vision relating to Beethoven : "When the reproachful accents ceased, Balsamo felt his feet once more pressing the earth, and the breezes rustling against his domino. Hew 0,1 wandering in the garden of what is ter me d the SchA , arzpanier House, situated on a slope or glacis in the outskirts of Wahring. The evening was so far advanced, that candles already twinkled from the upper windows of the building, while the fires of the kitchens checkered the shrubs and gravel with patches of glaring light. Through the flower beds, and along the intricate paths of the shrubbery, the Alchemist strolled at a languid pace, musing upon the things he had already witnessed, when his vigi lant ears caught lthe tones of a musical instrument. Although it was scarcely audible from the distance, Cagliostro was struck by the extreme beauty and espieglerie of the performance. He hurried forward in the direction from which the sounds proceeded, and at each step they became more distinguishable and be witching. After a momentary feeling of indecision when he reached the walls of the Schwarzpanier, the Alchemist ascended a flight of steps, and passed through the open casement of a French window into a modest sitting-room. The musician whose skill had attracted him was seated in the gray twilight at a piano. Cagliostro scarcely noticed that he was a man of short stature but of muscular proportions; he scarcely re marked, indeed, either the apartment or its occupant; his whole consciousness was absorbed in the melody that streamed from the instrument. "At first, the fingers of the player seemed to frolic over the keys, as though they toyed with the vibrations laf the strings. The sounds were sportive and jocund ; limy rippled like laughter ; they were capricious as the merriment of a coquette. Then they merged into a sweet and warbling cadence—a cadence of inimitable tenderness, the very suavity of which was rendered more piquant by its lavish variations. The measure changed, with an abrupt fling of the treble hand : it gushed into' an air q ua i n t an d spr i g htly as th e d ance of Yuck—comic—odd—sparkling on the ear like zig-zags : It threw out a shower of notes; it was the voice of agility and merriment; it was grotesque and fitful, droll in its absurd confusion, and yet nimble in its amazing inge• nltity. Gradually, however, the humorous movement re tsoi'vs4d itself into a strain of preternatural wildness—a gtrae4 this ilailde the b 1924 =die, owl the flesh creep, CIVIL AND MERCANIILE JOURNAL. No. I. Edited by James Irving Scott. This is the first number of a new monthly journal, which is intended to be the organ of all employed in the civil service of the State at home or abroad, and in the great mercantile pursuits of this country, whether in connexion with banking, wholesale or retail houses, railways, or law. The idea is an ex cellent one, and if properly carried out, which from the experience of Mr. Scott in conducting works of this nature there is every reason to expect it will be, success is certain, inasmuch as this journal will, in such case, supply an acknowledged want. KINGSTON.—CIaims made, 16; sustained, 16. Objec tions made, 68; withdrawn, 6; failed, 2; sustained, but claims amended, 7; sustained, and claims expunged, 53. REIGATE.—CIaims made, 26; failed, 1; sustained, 25. Objections made, 66; withdrawn, 9; tailed, 3; sustained, but claims amended, 23; sustained, and claims ex punged, 31. WANDSWORTEL—CIaims made, 32; sustained, 32. Ob jections made, 96; withdrawn, 11; failed, 2; sustained, but claims amended, 28; sustained, and claims ex punged, 55. Total claims made, 349; failed, 14; sustained, 335. Total objections made, 620; withdrawn, 60; failed, 12; sustained, but claims amended, 173; sustained, and claims expunged, 375. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. KELSO RACES—THURSDAY. The Kelso Club Cup of 100 sovs., added to a Sweep stakes of 10 sovs. each, for three yrs old, &c. The second to receive 25 sovs. out of the stakes. Once round and a dis. Gentlemen riders. Mr. Merry's Marian Ramsay, 5 yrs ... 1 Mr. Dawson's Magnet, 5 yrs ... 2 Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Roper's Daughter, aged ... 3 501. given by Sir H H. Campbell, for three yrs old, &c. Once rcund and a dis. Mr. Merry's John Harris, 5 yrs (11. Robertson) 1 'Air. Johnstone's Hornet, 3 yrs ... ... 2 The Kelso Plate of 501., for three yrs old, &c. Heats. Once round—about a mile and a quarter. Mr. Binnie's Titus Oates,4yrs (Holloway) 5 5 1 1 Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Roper's Daughter 3 1 5 3 Mr. Dawson's Maghet, 5 yrs ... 1 3 3 4 Mr. Meiklam's Susannah, 3 yrs ... ... 4 6 2 2 Mr. Dawson's Pleasure Trip, 4 yrs ... 2 4 4 dr Mr. Merry's Badinage, 5 yrs ... 2 dr LINCOLN RACES, FRIDAY. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats, two miles. Mr. Bell's Amasina, 3 yrs ... ... (Owner) 1 1 Mr. E. Peck's Sally Maggs, 3 yrs „, 2 2 Mr. Brooks's Luminous, 3 yrs ••• ••• 3 dr The Blankney Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 10 added, for two-year-old colts Sat 51b, and fillies Bst 21b, &c.; half a mile. Mr. Hawkes's Miss llarrison ••• (Ho'mes) 1 Mr. B. Eddison's b c by lletman Platoff, Bst 51b 2 The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added. Once round. Mr. llayes's ch f by Hetman :Platoff, out of Ma cremma, 3 yrs ••• ••• (Gunton) 1 Mr. Wilder's Spem Gregis, 3 yrs „, 2 Mr. Whitworth 's Chapeau Rouge, 3 yrs •... 3 The All Aged Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 10 added. One mile. Mr. Brooks' Luminous, 3 yrs ••• (Simpson) 1 Mr. S. Hawks's Miss Harrison, 2 yrs 2 Mr. Wilder's Lucy Neal, 4 yrs „, 3 The Hurdle Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added. Heats, 2 miles. Mr. Walters' Cavendish, aged (Mr. Scott) 1 1 Mr. Davy's Sister to Dapper, 4 years 2 2 Mr. Gibson's King of the Slacks, aged ... 3 3 BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY. CESAREWSTCH STAKES.-10 to 1 agst Rob Roy (t), 10 to 1 agst Reminiscence, (t), 15 to 1 agst Ulysses (t), 15 to 1 agst War Eagle, 20 to 1 agst Lady Wildair, 20 to 1 agst The Tartar, 20 to 1 agst Miss Whip filly, 20 to 1 agst Tuft-hunter, 20 to 1 agst Vanity, 25 to 1 agst Bingham, 25 to 1 agst Inheritress, and 25 to 1 agst Lightning. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.-10 to 1 agst The Prior of St. Margaret's (t) 15 to 1 agst Reminiscence (t), 18 to 1 agst Rob Roy (t), 25 to 1 agst Queen May (t). BANK OF ENGLAND (From last night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 25th day of September, 1847. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes 155ued........ 22,190,875 Government debt • • 11.015,100 Other securities •• • • 2,984 .900 Gold coin and bullion '1,185,845 SUver bullion ••• • • • l.OO-4,030 £22,190,875 I £ 22,190,875 M. MARSUALL, Chief Cashier. T. 1847. Dated the 30th day of September BANKING D: Propr;etors' capital.. 14,553,000 'test •.. •••• • • • • 4,043,012 Public deposits (in eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say ings-banks, and Di- , EPAILTMEN T. Government securi ties (including pead Weight Annuity') • • 11,036,340 Other securities • • • • 20,007,232 Notes . • • • • • • . . • • • 4,112,290 Gold and silver coin • • 591,828 vidend accounts).. 9,437,851 Other deposits •• •• •• 7,484,042 Seven day and other bills •• •• •• •• •• 819,785 £36,347.690 £36,347,690 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. :r, 1847. Dated the. 30th day of Septembe The Earl of Ashburnham being in the constant habit of receiving applications from parties desirous of visiting the house and gardens at Ashburnham, and of inspecting the royal relics of Ashburnham church, inti mates to the public generally, and particularly to par ties residing in the county of Sussex, that they are henceforth at liberty to view the same on applying at the lodge gate on the Nindfield road, between the hours of ten and two o'clock, every Monday and Thursday. Lord Ashburnham particularly requests of visitors that they will confer no gratuities whatever on his servants. Respectable parties are permitted to shoot as usual on the outlying lands at Ashburnham, on sending their cards in to the bailiff's house on the Nindfield road. — Brighton Gazette. The testimonial to D. W. Wire, Esq., from the Reformers of Boston, will, we hear, be presented shortly. It will he a piece of plate every way worthy of being, presented and accepted.—Lincol n Times. 'dsto, &c. —Plymouth Journal. We hear that it is the intention of the merchants, import, direct from Hol tiraandde,rcsh,e&esez :ZMittieLeLainNdEnostriers connected with the AssociAmort FOR THE AID AND BENEFIT OF 10,fealluse:Honopiloariat Yesterday evening a D me ß e E t S in S g M Ao theß S above aq.sociation was held at their office in Clifford street,tiinogn l o a f s ' t g e y n e e a r r al l,2 b u l7 - reollief afforded to 83, and nt of 591. 15s. 6d. The whom 467 were pro daily increasing, and Bond street, for the transacti on youngs pvm i i enceiceemusdnsb.iwea personsir: pecuniary hfs relief tethu r l i e eae p t ri report stated weres . provideth:e registered,lea Medical — ncoad much gOod had been ffected jrln reducing the hours of s colonies, and go other parts of the con labour, and the gener al funds of the institution were fa vuurable ; but, with the extensive objects in view, re quire additional aid. Durin g tahpepoeulaatrsetadsfeidnwretmhsse public journal , s, z nt l e t . n b t e o r s t hf o oe f r v3a.oruiadvertisements persons had tinent, represented under the most favourable opportu nities, but the society discovered that these advertise ments had been used for the purpose of entrapping young females, and by their active counteraction have prevented the completion of such nefarious schemes ; and saved many interesting females from destruction." The society is under the patronage of her Majesty the The King of the French has decided upon placing the portrait of M. Coletti in the gallery of the celebrated men of Europe in the museum at Versailles. THE MERCANTILE CRISIS.—The Leeds Mercury of this day says :—From the communication of oar Manchester Correspondent, it appears that the failures in London and elsewhere have produced a very serious effect on credit in that city (for Manchester is now a city), and the stoppage of several eminent houses, in addition to those mentioned early in the week. Among those specified are Messrs. Birley, Currie, and Co., East India merchants and brokers ; Messrs. Edward Potter and Co., twist merchants ; and Messrs. Wilson and Ebor, general merchants. Further mischief is appre hended, and the panic is described by our correspondent (who has had long experience of the Manchester trade) as exceeding anything he has k nown for thirty years. BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—The ordinary meeting of this society was held last evening at the Society's Rooms, 20, Bedford-street, Strand, Dr. Ayres in the chair. It was announced that several very valuable parcels of plants had been received since the last meeting. A notice was read of the discalsery of Zostera nano new British plant). A specimen was presented. BURSTING OF A BOILER AT TIVIDALE.—Two MEN KILLED.—On Monday last an inquest was commenced at the house of Mr. Timmins, the Boat Inn, Tividale, before George Hinchcliffe, Esq.,, Coroner, and a respect able jury, on the bodies of two mechanics, named George Carter and William Mow. It appears, that on the pre ceding day the deceased were at work on or near the boiler, when it exploded, and they received such serious injury as to cause death shortly afterwards.—Birming , hum Advertiser. Queen Do - wager. FOLKSTONE.—During the performance on Friday evening, at Batty's circus, a portion of the boxes, upon which about 200 persons were sitting, fell down with a tremendous crash, precipitating the whole of them on the grass beneath. The screams of women and children, and the rushing of hundreds to the entrance, was ap palling. We are, however, happy to state that no inju ries were sustained beyond a few bruises. After order had been somewhat restored, the performances con tinued. The cause of the accident was the unevenness of the ground upon which the seats were erected. REhIARICABLY QUICK TRAVELLING BY STEAM BOAT AND RAILWAY. A gentleman of Liverpool crossed in the Brighton and Continental Steam Packet Company's boat, Newhaven, from Havre to Brighton, on Saturday last, and reached Liverpool within 24 hours of his quitting Paris. It must be understood, too, that the time occupied by railway from Paris to Ilavre, although 120 wiles only, was six hours and a half. A St. Peteisburgh letter states that the amount in value of the corn exported from Russia since the last harvest is 32,891,622 rqublos, mailing about 132,000,0001. BENTLEY. This is an excellent number of Bentley. The open ing paper, " The Wandering Fiddler," by Abraham Elder, Esq., is the best magazine article we have read for many a long day. We do not remember to have met before with any of the productions of this gen tleman, but we hope frequently to have the pleasure of meeting with them for the future.ln order to give our readers a taste of his quality we select the following:— " The ball was now drawing to a close, and the last quadrille was abont to be danced, when the fiddler, having finished his flourish, thus addressed the circle that surrounded him Ladies and gentlemen, I feel so grateful to you for your kindness and liberality to me this evening, that I will attempt to play you a piece of music that I never attempted before in public. It is the tune that Patrick O'Howlegan played on the pipes when he made the table dance. The story goes, that he was engaged to play at a ball, but, arriving a long time before his company, his fingers itched to begin his tunes. So he determined to play to the table. At first, the table took no notice of him or his music; then it seemed to get a little fidgetty or ricketty, as they call it in a table; then it kicked out its right foot like this (giving a jerk out with his own foot), repeating the kick at re gular periods in tune to the music; then the left foot kicked out, and it went right, left, right, left; then the third leg kicked out, and it went one, two, three, one, two, three; then the fourth leg, one, two, :three, four, one, two, three, four; and it waltzed round the room at a terrible pace, till it tripped over the coalscuttle, and smashed itself to pieces against the fire-place. The landlord brought a❑ action against Paddy, and got da mages; and it is said, that the Irish Chancellor granted an injunction against Patrick Howlegan, to restrain him from ever playing that tune again in a furnished apart ment.' Loud cheers, and cries of Bravo, fiddler.' " The gentlemen in the orchestra are tired; and with your permission, ladies and gentlemen, I will endeavour to twist the tune into a quadrille.' " You must bring your fiddle into the middle of the room,' cried several voices. _ " The musician declined producing his worsted stock. ings and hobnailed shoes to the broad lamplight. "' You must, you must!' and several of the young people of both sexes took him by the arms and by the coat, and fairly pulled him off his chair, and led him to to the middle of the room, and there they seated him again. " I am getting quite nervous,' said he; I really cannot do it; Patrick O'l-lowlegan was the prince of pipers, and I am but a poor tramper.' " After a little pressing he consented, on condition that nobody should dance that was not merry, and that they would humour the music as far as they could. "The dance commenced; it was rather a funny, quaint air, but nothing extraordinarily merry in it. At length there popped in a little jerking note; most of the dancers took the hint and gave a kick; the second time they kicked all well together—they kicked in the grand rond—they kicked in the pastoral—the kicks grew double and treble and fourfold, and on the last grand rond' they all fairly kicked themselves out of breath, and sank down exhausted on the benches, when the notes of the fiddle were fairly drowned by the merriment and laughter of both dancers and spectators." Cooper gives us the 12th chapter of " Captain Spike," which is full of interest. The Swash arrives at the Dry Tortugas, and Spike goes to the lighthouse and lights the lamps ; Rose and Mulford who are in the lighthouse escape discovery in the most marvellous manner ; and Jack Tier takes the opportunity of again getting on board the Swash. Having recovered the anchor and cable of the schooner, Spike sails for the wreck, intending to weigh her if possible. The Poughskeep arrives at the island, and Mulford and Rose are married by the chaplain of the frigate. Bentley this month is rich in tales of travel. Mr. John Duncan, the African traveller, gives an inte resting account of the last expedition to the Niger. Mr. J. Marvel, under the title of "A Gallop through Southern Austria," gives an animated description of a visit to th e caves o f Ad e l s b erg ; w hil e th e au th or o f ~ A Sketch of Personal Adventures during a Trip overland f rom S y d ney to P ort Phili p " f urn i s h es us with much valuable information as to the topography of one of our most important colonies. The " Senti mental Journey throu g h N orman dy" i s con ti nue d ; but this is interestin g rather to the antiquarian reader than to the reader of voy ages an d t rave l s . Th e " Coffin-maker is a translation from the Russian of Pushkin—of one of a quaint, half horrible, half bur lesque, and gravely . humorous ghost dream ; anti the lover of horrors will find yet another treat in Alfred Crowquill's " Demon Bowler." The lovers of fun are catered for by Albert Smith, who takes M r . Straggles out shooting. There is more variety in this month's Bentley than in any of its contem poraries, and every article is, without excepti on , good of its sort. The portrait of Mr. John Duncan, with which the account of the Niger expedition i s illustrated, is admirably engraved , and i s one of those I characteristic portraits that you feel must be a likeness. WATEE-WORKS. Dividend Name of Company. , per Annum. East London •• • • • • 81. Grand Junction ...... 31. 10s. 31. Vauxhall West Middlesex . . . 51.15s.prcnt.1 Amount of ; Paid. Share. 1 s. d 100 0 0 , - 41 13 4 - 100 0 0 - 100 0 0 - 63 12 9 - MARKET INTELLIGENCE (From the London New Price Current of Oct. - SUGAR.—To-day there was a decrease in the demand for all kinds of Raw Sugar, both for home con sumption and export, although there was a desire on the part of merchants to further reduce their prices. The amount of business transacted in West India Muscovado for all purposese was small, and the private sales did not exceed 200 blids and trcs, at easier rates. At public sale 93 hhds 13 trcs 15 brls Barbadoes were all taken in at easier rates. REFINED.—Today Refined goods were operated in with caution, although .there were sellers of brown grocery Lumps at 53: 6d to 545, and of Standard Lumps at 54s 6d. In Bonded Crushed Sugars a further fall took place, but 29s to 30s having been accepted for first sort, occasioned a good deal to be done. MAURITIUS—This afternoon there was only a limited demand for Mauritius, and a public sale of 7,725 bags 28 casks went at a further fall in prices of 6d to is per cwt, but chief part sold. EAST INDIA..—The white and strong yellow sorts of Bengal have sustained the former currency, and met with a good demand; but for soft yellow and brown qualities the market has a dull appearance, and there are sellers upon rather lower terms. The parcels offered at auction were nearly all sold, and amounted to 3,620 bags. Madras has been operated in with caution by the home trade, although there are sellers even upon rather lower terms; but common qualities continue in request for exportation. FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of Fo reign Sugar, and privately there was little desire shown to do business. COFFEE.—This afternoon at public sale 308 bags of Ceylon Coffee were offered, and sold at 51s for low middling coloury, which is the full value. Privately Native was only in limited request at 34s 6d to 355. for good ordinary, and which are lower rates. TEA.—For public sale on Tuesday 5,000 pkgs are de clared. The market for all sorts of black Tea has been quiet this week, and rather lower rates have been taken. The purchases made in Green have been of little mo ment in any kind, and holders are willing sellers. Pekoe Tea has been sparingly dealt in, moderate as prices are. Orange Pekoe is only worth 9d to is 4d, and better sort is 6d to is 10d ; Pekoe, black leaf is to is 10d, flowery is 6d to 4s. SPICES.—This afternoon Nutmegs met with attention, and 27 cases of Penang at public sale sold at stiffer rates —fine brown went at is ki to 4s 4d, good middling 3s 2d to 3s 3d, middling 2s iod to 3s id, ordinary 2s 6d to 2s Bd, very ordinary is 9d to is 10d. Of Mace 13 cases sold at firm rates, middling and good 3s 2d to 3s 7d. RICE.—To-day the business transacted in all kinds of East India Rice was extremely limited by private treaty, and at public sale 1,610 bags of Java were taken in, but sold afterwards at 16s for good bold white, and at 8s 6d to 15s for damaged, which are lower rates by sd. SPIRITS.—There are still free sellers of Jamaica Rum, but merchants submitting to a reduction on last week's rates of Id to 2d per gallon, tempted the trade to operate with more freedom, and a large business has been trans acted. The sales amounted to 400 puns. Demerara met with little attention, and was obtained upon rather lower terms; the sales amounted to only 100 puns at 3s 3d to 3s 4d for 34 to 36 per cent. over proof. The business concluded in Leeward Island has been ex tremely limited, although there has been a desire on the part of holders to accept 2s Id to 2s 2d proof strength. East India met with little attention, and proof with cer tificate is only worth Is 10d to Is 11d. Havo.nnah is dull of sale at is 7d to is 8d proof. There are further arrivals of Rum, still the stock is not so large as it was in the past year at this time; home deliveries continue to be greater, but for exportation they keep smaller. Prices are, however, under those that existed at this time in 1846. Holders of brandy are willing sellers, an w d hils of fer large of kinds old thelanded supply s o rts is fo r oo d sale ,. O n patrtooff ethx! younger parcels the porters and the home trade there has been little done. COCHINEAL—This afternoon Cochi neal met with little attention, and at public sale 114 bags of Hon duras went at a decline on former rates of 2d to 3d per lb., but the whole sold. OlLS.—This afternoon at public sale 40 tuns So u th e r n Oil sold at 231 t o 2 5 1 15s for low to good, 20 tuns Hump back 221 15s to 241 ; an d 181 casks Palm 30s to 35s 3d for low to fin e , w hi c h are at l ower rates. TALLOW.—For Russian prices have improved, and on the part of the home trade more desire has been manifested to operate. On the spot a good demand has been experienced, and 46d 9d to 47s 3d have been the rates obtained for fine new Petersburgh Yellow Candle. For forward delivery many contracts have been entered into at 4536.1 to 46s for P.Y.C. Home made sells more freely at 47s ed to 48s nett cash. All other kinds of Tallow are more required, and former rates are fully supported, but the supply continuos to be good. Price, COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and his Serene Highness Prince Gustavus of Saxe Weimar, attended by the Earl of Denbigh, left Osborne at half•past twelve o'clock yesterday, for town. The Queen and Prince Albert accompanied their illustrious visitors to the pier, whence the Queen Dowager and party embarked on the Fairy for Ports mouth, to honour the Admiral with a visit, and afterwards to inspect the " Howe." The Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, and the Duchess Ida and Prince Gustavus of Saxe Weimar, arrived at her resilience, Marlborough House, at a quarter-past seven o'clock last evening. The august party left Gosport at half-past four o'clock, by a special train on the London and South-Western Railway, and proceeded to the terminus at Nine Elms. Sir Edmund Head had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday. Mr. Craven Berkeley had also an interview with his Lordship, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson arrived in town yesterday. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial Office for the Governors of the West India Colonies. _ . Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from the Governors of Hong-Kong, the Mau ritius, Gibraltar, and Malta. RAILWAY LIABILITIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. - - SlR,—There would appear to be a very palpable I and positive delusion prevailing in the public mind, just at the present moment, in reference to railway liabilities in connexion with our monetary affairs. Gentlemen at Newcastle complain of a restriction of the means of legitimate trading ; and committees are formed, or forming, at Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, and many other places, to wait upon directors of railway companies, with a view to induce them to suspend all calls for the present ; and a currency con gress is now sitting in London, to devise the means of staying the plague, if possible. Now, Sir, with all possible respect for the opinions of these " practical " men, I would beg to suggest that, as regards railway liabilities, the public are much in the same situation as the clown in the fable, who called upon Hercules to help him to get his waggon out of the rut, and received for answer that it would be as well to try, in the first instance, the effect of his own shoulders to the wheel. Do the shareholders in railway companies want to limit, restrict, or suspend the calls, nothing is easier. The law gives to the shareholder, in all companies formed since 1845, the power to call extraordinary meetings, and to control and regulate the acts of the directors. If, then, the shareholders in any particu lar company are convinced of their folly—if they are unable to pay the calls, or carry out the works—let them meet and apply the remedy, but let them cease to complain of a burden which their own supineness only renders intolerable.—l am, Sir, your: obedient servant, W. F. SPACKMAN. Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall• street, Oct. 1, 1847. CHARLES BUTLER AND MR. SERGEANT ADAMS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIE,—I fully expected from the notes in my case, given to Mr. Wilde on Tuesday last by Mr. Sergeant Adams, that I should have obtained some clue to the parties who, he stated, attended at my sentence to make other charges against me, but I am left, as heretofore, to deal with a shadow, as they do not contain the least information on the subject; I am thus compelled to challenge Mr. Sergeant Adams to produce a single person who attended for the purpose he stated; failing to do this, how will he attempt to justify his destroying sentence upon me of trans portation, for an admitted first conviction, the just sentence for which, I am assured in my case, should have been three or six months' imprisonment. The detention of the notes for so long a time from Mr. Wilde is unaccountable, and particularly as I am prepared to prove that the Learned Sergeant was at his chambers, in Sergeant's Inn, and in Connaught square, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of last week, and the reason far from conclusive. If, however, the Learned Sergeant's memory is so treacherous as to make such mistakes after an interval of three days only, no one can be surprised at his judicial mistakes on the hench.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, CHARLES BUTLER. 111 Saturday, Oct. 2, 1847. INCENDIARY FlRES.—Yesterday (Thursday) morn ing, about four o'clock, a fire broke out in the stackyard of Mr. Lister, of Coleby Heath. A wheat stack, three straw stacks, and two or three fother stacks, were con sumed. An incendiary fire occurred at Ropsley, near Grantham, on Wednesday night, on the premises of Mr. John Swain; three corn stacks and a straw stack were destroyed.—Lincoln Mercury. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 1. The Oriental Company's steam-ship Indus, Captain Soy, arrived in the river early this morning, and landed the remainder of the overland mails, under charge of Lieutenant Brady, R.N., which was forwarded to London by the express train at 9 A.M. She left Alexandria on the 13th of September; Malta, the 18th; and Gibraltar, the 24th. The Indus brings a full cargo of silks, &c., also 100 passengers, among whom are Lord Cochrane, from Cbina, and Mr. Brooke, from Borneo. Shipping at Malta—Her Majesty's ships Ceylon, Hibernia, Trafalgar, and Superb; steam-frigate Gladiator; steam- sloops Bull Dog, Ardent, and Volcano. French steam •ships, Panama and Cerbere. Shipping at Gibraltar —Her Majesty's steam-sloop Virago. INGENIOUS EOBBERY.—A gentleman residing in the New-road was recently robbed of a frock-coat and a shooting-coat by the following manoeuvr e:—The above a rticles, which he h ad ordered of his tailor, were duly delivered at his house, and about ten minutes after wards a man, representing himself to come from the tailor, called and stated he had been sent for the purpose of seeing whether they fitted. He was shown up-stairs, and the clothes were tried on i n his presence. He found fault with the fit, and with many apologies requested leave to take them back to be altered. This was as sented to as a matter of course, and the fellow went off with the bundle under his arm. It was afterwards as certained that no messenger had been sent from the tailor, and in short that the man was a swindler, and had been replenishing his own wardrobe at the expense of the gentleman. DR. CUMMING'S LECTURES AT EXETER-HALL. These lectures, which have awakened so wide and in tense an interest, and which are now being published have been sent for trout the highest place in England' and are at this moment read, there is reason to believe by the mo t &Alicia rump ig the rmliuf DEATH OF MISS GRACE AGUILAR. To communicate evil tidi7g;Privately is one of the most painful talcs we have to perform in the course of our lives. But to be the medium of announcing to the public a heavy national loss is a duty so sad and hears-rending, the extent of which can only be felt by the messenger of the mournful event. Such, we lament to say, is wur duty this day, in recording the death of Miss Grace Aguilar, at the age of 32. We do not in the least exaggerate the loss in calling it a national one, as the numerous literary productions of that lady were not only appreciated in England, but also in America, Germany, and France. Indeed, we may go so far as to state, that her works were much more appreciated by the Jews on the continent than by those in this country. Her " Women of Israel," a work every page of which is stamped with the most ardent zeal and fervent piety—in every line of which breathes that national sense and true patriotism which. is the great. characteristic of all her writings ; her " Women of Israel," which are teeming with powerful, lessons to her own sex, and eloquent exhortations to the opposite one—parts of that work have been trans lated into the German, propagated by her true friend the Rev. Mr. Leeser of Philadelphia, on the other side of the Atlantic ; hut, alas, our Jewish brethren in England }lace not appreciated its value : Had it not been for the kindness of an excommunicated philan thropist, her works would hardly have become known, much less disseminated, among the Jews of England. Her " Spirit of Judaism," " Jewish Faith," &c., are likewise works of great merit, and full of that pious fervour and filial affection which carries the reader along with her alike in sympathy with the writer and conviction of the argument. The "Jewish Faith" betrays signs of no mean acquaint ance with Jewish and Christian philosophers and divines, and its logical reasoning is far from betray ing the sex of the author.—Jewish Chronicle. COURT-MARTIAL AT CHATHAM. Yesterday at Chatham Barracks, the officers, con sisting of two majors, five captains, with seven lieu- , nants, assembled in the General Court-martial Room, as members of a general Court-martial, of which Co lonel Charles Menzies, KAI., Royal Marines, was president, for the trial of private John Hare, No. 2,262, of the Bth Regiment of foot, who was arrainged. for having at Chatham, on or about the 16th of Sep tember, 1847, struck and offered violence to Lance sergeant Thomas Hennesley, of the 86th Regiment, his superior officer, then and there being in the exe 'cution of his office. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Sergeant Thomas Hennesley, of the 86th, was then. examined, and his evidence NA ent to show that on the 16th of last month he was on duty at the Battalion. Barrack-guard, and the prisoner, with others was there confined, when a sergeant and an escort of the prisonees regiment came for their prisoners, as they were to sign their accounts previous to their embark— ation the next day, and as an order had been given. by the commanding officer, that in case the prisoner was wanted he was not to leave without the handcuffs being put on him, and in the execution of that order the prisoner struck him over the forehead with his fist, and then escaped into the guardroom, and on. being retaken the prisoner again struck him in the face. Captain W. Kirby, 94th Regiment, and Acting Staff Captain of the Provisional Battalion, produced the battalion court-martial hook ; in that it appeared that the prisoner was tried by a district court-martial, held at Chatham on the 13th April last, on two charges—first, for desertion; second, fur re-enlisting when in a state of desertion, and he was convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and to be marked with the letter D. ; two months of that sentence were remitted by order of his Grace the Commander-in-Chief. The issue of this trial will not be known until con. firmed by the Horse Guards. ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY. A board of officers, consisting of Major-General J. Webber Smith, C. 8., Director-General of Artil lery, president; Major-General John Boteler Parker, C. 8.; Major-General Edward Fanshawe,C.B., acting in place of Major-General Sir J. Burgoyne, K.C.8., who is at present employed on the poor-law measure in Ireland; Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon ; Lieutenant-. Colonel Dundas, C. 8.; and Lieutenant-Colonel Jones, of the Royal Military Academy, assembled yesterday at the Cadets' Barracks in the Royal Arsenal. Brigade- Major Cuppage, Royal Artillery, Captain Stotherd, Royal Engineers, and a number of officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers being als o present to witness the examination of forty-one gentlemen cadets of the first or practical class, to ascertain their fitness for being passed for commis sions in the Royal Regiment of Artillery and Royal Engineers. The gentlemen cadets were drawn up in line at eleven o'clock A.M., under the com mand of Captain Harrison, and inspected by Major-General Parker, and immediately after marched to the hall for examination, whiclz continued until nearly two o'clock, when the follow ing were recommended to the Master General for commissions :—Samuel Digby 'Wright, Alexander Ross Clarke, Edward Bainbridge, James Murray, Francis Horatio de Were, George Ranken, Augustus Young Earle, Hon. Leonard Allen Addington, Henry Raymond Pelly, Robert Mann Parsons, Frederick Brine, Arthur Vandeleur, Arthur A'Court Fisher, Andrew Spottswood Orr, George Montagu Stopford, Edward Bridge, Charles Rowland Hill, Henry Reynolds Luard, Patrick John Campbell, Francis Cornwallis Maude, Arthur William Twiss, Reginald Curtis, Allen Sievwright, Frederic South cote Seale, John Boulton, John de Luttrell Saun derson, Montagu Stopford Whitmore, Moutray Anketell, Philip Dickson, .Mneas Clark, Francis Place, Edward Jackson Bruce, 'William Powell Richards, John Edward Hope, Henry Walpole John Dashwood, Algernon Brendon, James de Havilland, Sidney Carden, William Walker, George Allix Wil. kinson, William Windham Augustus Lukin. At the conclusion of the examination a regulation sword was awarded to Sidney Carden, for general good conduct ; and the second prize, consisting of a handsome pocket sextant in case, to Francis Heretics de Vere. CHARIN G-CROSS HOSPITAL. The medical session of the Charing cross Hospital was opened yesterday at three o'clock, by an intro ductry address from Dr. Rowland, in the lecture room, which was fully attended. Dr. ROWLAND, who was listened to throughout with great attention proceeded, in an interesting and lucid composition to develop the gradual steps by which medical science had risen to its present eminence, and to point out its future prospects, and the obstacles which would be likely to impede the progress of its professors. It would be impossible, consistently with a due regard for our space, to give any detail of the subjects which the Learned Doctor handled with such good sense and ability, though it might be considered of public and not merely professional interest. His contrast between Hipp o . crates and Sydenham, the one the restorer of tha ancient, the other the founder of the present school of fe medicine, exposition w o xa f s t p h a e rti d c e u p la e r n l d y en h a p py ;th nor was e several b ra nches of medical science, such as pathology, phy siology, and chemistry on eac h ot h er, l ess trut hf u l and effective. After a rapid, but clear and conse cutive survey of the p rogress o f me di c i ne an d o f the. impediments which stood in its way, the learned lec turer turned his attention to its future prospects, and making every allowance for the vast pitch of excel lence to which it 'night attain, and of whioh we had as yet but a distant view, as it were, from.somevan tage ground, concluded with the expression ?r his opinion that there were secrets in our physiology which none but He that made us could ever know, and with an exhortation to the students he addressed, to pursue with assiduity and perseverance a profession of such vast importance to mankind, so f raug h t with blessings to society, and so p rodu ctive of pleasure and. delight to its zealous an d p hil osophical professors. OM I.—Rear -Admiral Sbireff Poßrimotm , his flag this morning on board her Majesty's hoistea ellent, and relieved Rear-Admiral Parker to ship Exc • the duties of admiral superintendent of this dockyard. Captain Yates has also superseded Rear-Admiral Pasco in the command of her Majesty's ship Victory. The customary salutes were exchanged with the Victory and Excellent on the new superintendent hoisting hia, flag. REFOR M IN THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUES.--In cow. sequence of a printed circular which has been distributed. among the sons o f I srae l, annrunc i ng that a few gentle men being desirous of associating themselves together for the purpose of organising a society to t:tiat the throwing open the vestries of the various ~ :inagogues of the me tropolis, with the ultimate rjoject of a thorough reform of the several boards of management, and requesting the favour of their presence at a select and preliminary meeting on Tuesday evening last, at the committee-room in the Sussex Hall, Leadenhall-strcet ; a great number of persons favourable to this movement assembled: Dial' Davies, Esq., took the chair, and briefly stated the Opel they had met to consider. Resolutions expressing ill.* object of this preliminary meeting were passed unani mously, to await the consideration of the boards, and their answer previous to a general meeting being called. to o other hays CURRENCY REFORM.—We u n d ers t an d that meeting of merchants, manuf ac t urers , an d other parties interested in a reform of our cur r enc y systep, has bee . n, called by circular, and will b e h e ld at Dees Hotel, in this town on Monday next. Invitations have been for.. several membersin the question, o f 1 as wh wardedt ken to interest a n parties; and the meeting is likely to be of an interesting and important character. The members for the northern division of this county and for the borough ha ve pro _ mised to be present and take part in the proceedings. The present condition and future prospects of the mcs cantile interests would lead to the conclusion that the movement about to be commenced will soon assume very inraso claracte; —Birmingham Advertiser. ~ t ~