The Sun. — London, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

LORD J. IWSSELL AT SHEFFIELD. ! Lord and Lady John Russell, with three of their children, arrived in Sheffield on Thursday evening, his Lordship having accepted an invitation to pre side at the annual meeting of the ragged school on the following day. The noble lord met with a very hearty reception. The Town-Council met yesterday at 11 to present an address, voted at a special meeting on Monday, to Lord J. Russell. Before his lordship's arrival the Mayor addressed the Council, stating that he had received from Earl Granville, now in atten dance on her Majesty at Balmoral, a reply stating that her Majesty graciously consented to receive a deputation of the Town-Council to present an ad dress on the occasion of her visit to Fiarl Fitzwil- Lam at Wentworth-house. It was theu resolved, on the motion of Alderman F. floole, that a loyal address be also presented on the same occasion to his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. St,ordy before half-past 11 Lord and Lady John Russell arrived at the Council-hall, and were re ceived with much cheering. On their appearance upon the bench of the aldermen the cheers were ion ily renewed. The Town-Clerk then read an address welcoming Lord J. Russell's first visit to Sheffield. Lord J. RUSSELL (loud cheers)—Mr. Mayor, I Hunk you and the members of the corporation for the kindness which has prompted the hearty wel come that you have given me on my visit to the borough of Sheffield. You may be confident that I shalt continue to be the advocate of civil and re ligious freedom, of social progress, extended educa tion, and constitutional reform. The spirit of the age, the union of statesmen favourable to progress, and tho enlightened opinion of the people have enabled me, among others, to carry to a suc cessful issue many important measures. The twenty years from 1828 to 1848, beginning with tha repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts and ending with the repeal- of the Navigation Act, were remarkable for progress without revolution, while in the last of the years I have mentioned we bad in many continental States revolution without progress. Let us hope that in the future we may witness the same spirit of improvement ac co,npanied with the same reverence for institutions under whose shade the nation.has enjoyed so large an amount of liberty and happiness. It is impos siole to abstract our minds from the events which have recently afflicted our Indian empire. A revolt of the most treacherous character, - accompanied by retarders of the most savage atrocity, has filled us with horror and indignation. Yet amid these ter rible scenes it is permitted to us to hope that if, in restoring our dominion, energy is combined with a deliberate plan of action—if the sword of Justice is not separated fro :n her balance—if in providing for the future government of India we can. recon cile our duties as Christians with the most entire r ligious liberty, and a benevolent rule with the m assertion of power, we may -preserve to Great Britain and to civilisation a fairer Quid more secure empire than we have hitherto possessed. Gentle men, I beg to wish you and the town you repre• sent a continuance of your present prosperity. His lordship and Lady Russell then left to at end the annual meeting of the ragged schools. MEETING OF THE RAGGED SCHOOLS. The meeting was held in the Music hall. Lord J. Russell presided, supported by Lord Wharn c'iffe' the Hon. F. S. Wortley, the Mtyor of Shef fi •Id (Mr. Pye Smith), Aldermen Dunn, Holle Vickers, and Roloou ; Revs. T. Sale, D.D. (vicar) , J. Manners, W. Mercer, J. F. Whitty, C. Collier, C. La,rom, and J. P. Paton ; Messrs T. B. Holy, W. P. Milner, C. C tmmell, F. Newton, and others. The proceedings having opened with prayer, Mr. ELLIS, the secretary, read a report, from which it appeared that since the establishment of this institution about 1,690 destitute children had bAm instruoted in it ; that the managers possessed evidence that the schools had been a great blessing to m tiny of those children; that some had been res cued from prison, from beggary, and from wicked companions, and are now growing up as useful 'members of society—earning a honest livelihood. Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the adoption of the report, and expressed the pleasure it afforded him to see gentlemen of not only his own but all other religious bodies in the town, except the the Roman Catholics, assembled to join in promo ting education among the poorer classes of the com munity, and rescuing the young of this town from lives of infamy. (Cheers.) The Rev. T. SALE, D. D. , seconded the resolution, and urged the necessity of caution in confining the charity to the really destitute, otherwise it might bowlike a serious injury rather than benefit, by undermining the independence of those who were able to pay for the education of their children. L rd J. ItussELL, was received with loud cheers. He s tid,—Before I put this resolution to the meet i n cy, and the collection take - 3 place which is to follow thereupon, I bag leave to a tdress a few observa tions to you upon this and other institutions of a similer kind. i have had great pleasure in accept ing the invitation which was given to me by Alder man bole to come here to preside at this meeting. I accepted the invitation because I think it is of very great importance that in our large towns means such as and similar to these should be a l'opted for the purpose of promoting our progress in "social and religious knowledge. It may be said with regard to a country parish that there are per sons who are by their fortune and property bound, while others are by law bound and entitled, to con sider all the concerns of that parish ; to take into their view those who are destitute, as'well as those competent to maintain themselves,•and thus to see that education is given to all, as well as the means of sustaining life. But when we come to the large towns—end I would now more especially revert to the great metropolis of this country=we find that the employments are so diversified, and the em playeis frequently in such a position of isolation float the poorer classes, that there comes to he almost a cenina unity, I would call it, of young and poor persons, who run the utmost danger of becom ing criminal e , and th us of l os i ng all theirhopes of well doing in this world and of salvation in the next. It is to) apparent that many of those classes alluded to in the report—persons who have lostboth their parents, and whose other relatior s are, perhaps, living at a great distance ; those whose parents have been sent to prison for criminal offences ; and many of those ono of whose parents has deserted them, and the other is unable to support tl e n—there are among C r aSSO3 of this kind many young persons who wan der about the streets exposed to every temptation, and who are thus liable to fall into vice, and be the posts of the country in which they reside. T re member seeing in the gaol, at Newgate, two young boys who bad been committed for some small offence of larceny. One of them, when-questioned as to how he maintained himself in food and lodging, said he went into the streets and held gentlemen's horses, or did any odd job which any one would give him, • and thus procured twopence for his bed and the money requisite to buy food. But upon being asked how he did in the chance of not obtaining sufficient in that way, he replied, " I get it as I can," We naturally conclude that this " getting; it as I can " was none other than pilfering the pro perty of others, which he found in the streets 'where his wanderings took him. It is very easy to lament this state of things—it is still more ea iy t blame the persons who commit these offences. But I really do think it is the duty of society not only to lament and blame, but also to endeavour to• remedy the evil. It is a reproach to a Christian. nation that there should be boys and girls running. about who have no means of sustenance, no one to teaclr them theirduty to God and their neighbours,, and without the means of any honest employment by which to earn their bread. Then there comes the queStion—a vast and mighty question, upota whicn men of the greatest intellect in former times and in tha present times have employed their un4 derstandings, endeavouring to promote measures which they thought conducive to the good end— !lamely, the q nest ion whether by any system of poor I T i or any of national educatien we could provide t imi t ura iee , e ra c s a l s e es. . Hitherto . there have been fount e p o ractical objections to any sufficient or satisfactory particular rettlir7e: Of t ourse Ido not advert to a 'y tionr, but all men agree that there must be a limit to the . a,,iralassista.nce given by the State in that respect. If, d uca a ti t o o n ok at tie question of a national system e d iforaces prevail, and, anon,,'w ectiltiniedr the utmost that which is perhaps the foretnogi-, the r g n i c o e u , difficulty of indadng persons o f various denomina tions of Christians o agree, in the first place who tiler religious instruction should be given at all, and in the nest, to what extent that instruction thouict Lo given. For my part, I cannot say th an , I reAthe &was which many have felt upon this subject. In my own-mind I certainly have coma to the conel Hien that the religious part of man) as I m a y say - -- tha4 that faculty which induces us to seek religious cmsZdon, and which I believe is part of onr n a- tnro, perhai s the bestpartofit, cannot be neglected in any system of educat ion And likewisa; although we have not hitherto come to an agreement upon y the subjeet—alth oug h our differences are still s) w de that there are no means of adopting a measure which w i ll b e genera ll y satisfactory, my belief, is tbat if such rev. gentlemen as the ono who has just spoken, and those who have charge of the education of young children, would attend mere to religion and less totheelogy—if they would teachthat which is really the religious sentiment, and leave the dif ferences of creed to be afterwards explained by the tuinietera of tho different denominations when the children are of riper age to understand those differ oaces—T believe if the attempt was made really to found education upon the cultivation of the religi ous sentiment, upon a belief in the Being who is the giver of all good, and in the immensity of the great sacrifice that has been made for mankind, the great religious difficulty would be found in no very long time to disappear. But we have not yet ar rived at that state of opinion, or that state of edu cation. It is therefore absolutely necessary as it appears to me, whether you will look upon it that the state of difference is for ever to subsist, or whe ther you suppose that in time we shall get overthese difficulties, thatfor the present at least the voluntary efforts of those who love mankind and who have a feeling of regard for their neighbours and the safety of society should combine to provide by what are called ragged schools, and by schools of a simildr description, a supply for the wants to which I have adverted. I believe that if those wants are sup plied, although we certainly can never hope in our most sanguine expectations that temptations will not divert many from an honest and religious course, yet that the number of those who are sent to prison, who not having originally vicious incli nations, are yet perverted by bad example and the circumstances of their position—that the number of of those who are criminally punished will very much decrease, and society be a great gainer thereby. Let us consider in every respect how much we can do by enabling those children to lead au honest life, and to obtain the means of know ledge. However elementary the instruction may be, a knowledge of reading and writing puts into their hands the great instrument by which emi nence of every kind is to be achieved. The young person availing himself of the talents which God has implanted in him will, finding that he has these instruments in his hands, pursue his own course ; and we know that in this free country, happily, from among the humblest ranks and pur suits there have arisen men who have benefited their country by their discoveries in science, and by their services in the State and in the field—by the abilities they have displayed in the law and in the church. Such being the case, in this point of view you render areal service to the country. But the moral service you render is of still far higher importance; for instead of havingthese poor persons wandering about the streets, and thus led into crime, if you can induce them to pursue au honest course of life—if they can be recommended by those who have seen their conduct, whether as shoeblacks or in_ any other occupation, as steady, honest, and faithful—if you can thus procure employment for them, you not only benefit the whole community, and add to the prosperity and stability of the coun try, but you have the consolation of reflecting that you have not neglected the immortal part of those who are your fellow-creatures. (Cheers.) Such, as I conceive, is the foundation of the effort to estab lish ragged schools in great towns. Of course there will remain those who refuse their aid, who are so involved in vicious inclination and crime that it is not possible by this means to reclaim them. But can any one say that we have hitherto done our utmost in this respect ? Is there not still a great defect, a great want of effort for this purpose I Have those who have been blessed with affluence, as a, consequence, it may be, of their own applica tion and industry in the various trades which are pursued in this country, used those means for the improvement of their fellow-creatures as well as for the enjoyment of those luxuries and comforts which wealth has placed within their reach ? lam afraid the answer must be that hitherto iu this country, however we may pride ourselves upon our know ledge, our freedom, and our power, there is still a great duty to do to our fellow-men in this respect. I know that there does exist in this country, and I have no doubt in this town, a wholesome spirit of independence, which induces those who wish .edu cation either for themselves or their children rather to pay for what they receive, and thus to be under no obligation to any one, than to receive eleemo synary grants for their education. (Cheers.) A. gen tleman who holds a high position in the House of Commons told me that in this neighbourhood he had established an evening class for elementary in struetion on matters of science. He made it, as it were, a free school. It was very little attended, and likely to be a total failure, when he made it a con dition that a certain sum should he paid by all who attended. Immediately the school began to fill, and vary soon a respectable class were in attendance, because, while the people saw that it was something worth their paying for, they felt they did not part with any of their independence, as they would have felt they were doing by receiving gratuitously in struction for which they were well able to pay. They did pay, and they received the instruction. I my self am connected with a school to which those who pay a certain sum, and are not able to pay more, May come and receive elementary instruction • but tliose whose means enable them to pay are at liberty to do so, but receive no better instruction than those who pay the smaller sum. You might suppose tied none would pay the larger sum, but the fact is that more than one-half of those who attend pay the larger sum, in order that they may retain hat which is highly valuable—that sense of inde pendence arising from the consciousness that they are paying for that which they receive, and are not placed under any obligation to those who conduct and had established the school, but that it is a free and reciprocal bargain between man and man, and that they who receive the benefit are as fully independent as those who confer it. (Cheers.) Now, it is a most valuable thing to cultivate that feeling ; E believe, as you ,have been told, that this Ragged Schools Institution ought not to go one inch beyond the purpose for which it was intended, and that if you syere succeseful in, giving education to the children a i nd parents freely and without payment, who could well afford to pay for it, you would be doing, injury instead of lemefit, and that a certain degradation If mind would accompany the reception of it. I The MAYOR moved " that the meeting rejoices to recognise in Lord John Russell the untiring advo date of education among all classes of tae commu nity, and that the best thanks of the meeting are c lue to his lordship for his kindness in coming a great distance to preside at this meeting." (Cheers ) This resolution was cordially received. Lord J. RUSSELL. (Lo u d c h eers )—l have now to return, and a very pleasant task it is, my thanks for the manner in which you have passed this reso lution. Before Ido so, let me say, with regard to jhe collection, that since 1401. has been raised in the room means will be found to induce others to add their subscriptions, and so make the entire amoun . . There is a proverb which says the absent are always in the wrong. I hope that in this case they will not be in the wreng by withholding their sub scriptions, though they have not had the pleasure :of being present. - With regard to my . coming here to-day, I am sure it has been a very little in convenience and a very great pleasure and gratifi cation. (Cheers.) lam glad to see every effort ' made to promote education, whether it be the edu cation of the highest classes, condneted at the Uni versities of Oxford or Cambridge, or others which have been founded for the education of the very poorest in ragged schools. With improvement in the mind I look for improvement in man ners, and the abandonment _of those grosser vices which belong rather to our animal than our intel lectual nature, and which degrade the name of man. Many may remember—perhaps not a great many, but I for one remember—that 40 years ago there existed a very anxious and uneasy state of society. The Government of that day had the greatest dis trust of the people. They were passing laws almost every session which a member of the Government described as laws of severe coercion, and the be ir ing of the people was full of resentment and dis trust. Daring these 40 years there has arisen a very different state of feeling—a feeling on the pert of the Government of entire trust in the people, and on the people of great loyalty to the Throne and of confidence in our institutions. We do not now find men of the higher classes spending tlL'ir evenings in a degraded way, and ladies of wealth do not gamble away their fortunes. May we not suppose that a similar change will take place in those whom fortune has not so favoured ? With education furnishing the means by which we speed our days and ev.iniegs in more intellectual pursuits, which, according to a great ()rater of antiquity, are delightful in prosperity, a comfort in adversity, which go Ai ith a man when he journeys and remain with him at home—pursuits of this kind will take the place of intemperate indulgence and vicious appetites. Though there may be some portion of the community yet indulging in such habits, we may hope they will be much diminished. I shall ever remember this day with satisfaction. lAm grateful for the manner in which I have been re ceived, and I trust•to merit the good opinion you have been p!eased to express. (Loud cheers.) Mr. JOHN WiLsoer, grind€r, then came fore and an I presented Lerd John Russell wit' an ad li e e .9, vote I to his lordship at a public meeting of the working el tsses he la on Tuesday evening. 13e;I .t eMLorCrla ilrznix LEVY ani Mr. mn Sau as a depu tation f rom th e Jews resident in Sheffield, also pre an adds: S 3 thankinff Llrd J. Russell for his e xertions iu b..half of religious and civil liberty. I had no sented tj).e x itUSSELL—Whcn larrived hereyeAerd iy ?e f a t t h ions of having any Sou should gives tut e . flattei ing now received. addresses pre now which I have tion thatmettle highest gracifica• of being lave thought any efforts of my ne worthy commemorated in the terms that you have nsec -7 0 o o f w n t p h pars, measuresr r i , , ep l roe c fs a e n cn i i i tv o ai t l_ ilvaaßbroreiy: my fortune to taka a p b a u r t t p i e n rc l l a v r a lia t m ha e t n i t t ill n trade and witic.liniag, t a i n o d n, r o el f ig th io e us re commerce, to which public opi n i on ti w P? and in favour of which a preponderating bette r men: at length prevailed. Very many abler and bet e t than myself had faited in those endeavours. They e: n failed because at that time eithe r the nation was engaged in the overwhelming interest of war, o r that the prejudices and false theories of writershad 617 0 N I E 4 O'M SAT U . P'r". , ' ri so far prevailed as to prevent those men (my prede cessors) being listened to. That to which I owe the success of any efforts I have made in conjunction with the - House of Commons was, that public opinion was ripening at that time, and finally declared in favour of those measures of which I have been the humble advocate. (Loud cheers.) We all know, and we have seen it in the present year, that upon the decision of those who possess the franchise depends ultimately the solution of the great and important questions which from time to time agitate the country. The House of Commons may be of one opinion, the House of Lord of another ; the Crown may be dissatisfied with the decision of one of those bodies; the opera tion of the constitution may seem to be suspended for a time ; but all persons ultimately acquiesce in the decision of those who possess the franchise. Now, gentlemen, in allotting the franchise in the Reform Act, we who framed the act were solicitous, while we made a large extension of the franchise, while we destroyed nomination—at the same time to carry those changes into effect peaceably and quietly, because, whatever other classes may suffer in the course of violent changes, I am persuaded that those who belong to the working classes of this country are the most likely to suffer in any change which sets at war with each other the different classes of the community. That lam sure the work ing men feel,land therefore it was that in the Reform Bill, though at the time it was thought unduly bold, and though many characterised it as rash, Lord Grey and those who acted with him knew that they framed their measure in a spirit of caution, and that it was better to frame it in a spirit of cau tion than to run any risks to the peace of this great community. Gentlemen, I believe the time has come—and the Government of the day has allowed that the time has come—when the franchise may be further extended, and I think, nearly in the words of the Prime Minifter, that large classes who have not hitherto possessed the franchise should in future enjoy and exercise that privilege. You will not doubt, I hope, that I shall be very glad to see a measure introduced by Government by which the franchise will be thus extended: And lam persuaded that the time which has elapsed since the Reform Bill of 1832 has enabled many classes to so improve themselves and their means of judgment as to exer cise that franchise for the benefit of the community. it is the difference between this country and many others that its institution rests upon a large basil, and that not only for the special purposes of an election, but likewise in the constant and daily operation of our constitution. You see it in your municipal franchise ; you see it in the proceedings that take place in various parts of the country, in the expressions of public meetings, in the writings of the daily press. It is thus in fine, and together, that those changes that took place expressed the will of the community. Perhaps it would be diffi cult to name another nation which exercises that power with equal calmness, equal sobriety, and equal temper and judgment. (Cheers.) But such I am persuaded is the character of this nation. You may differ from me, I may differ from you, on dif ferent occasions and on separate measures ; but I go heartily with the working men of this country to see their franchises extended, and that all classes of the people may have increased satisfaction in the working of their institutions. I think there has been from time to time an undue jealousy between one class and another. I have often seen with pain that attempts were made to deprive those who are in the ranks which entitle them and their descend ants to seats in the House of Lords of the good feel ing and sympathy of the country. My opinion has always been with one of our poets, that— "They who on glorious ancestors enlarge Produce their debt instead of their dicharpe." (Cheers.) lam convinced that they who have an _castors to boast of are only more bound to consult the welfare of the community ; and that, knowing that this country has never flourished except in the enjoyment of liberty, it ii their duty especially t promote the liberties of this country. (Cheers.) I trust, therefore, that in all future changes that may take place, as well as in previous changes, while we extend the bounds of religious liberty, and I trust it will be done soon—while we extend to the Jean that liberty which has been given to the Protestant Dis senter and the Roman Catholic—while we extend and fortify our institutions, that it will be done with the common consent of all classes in this country and that thus this country may continue to flourish ; that we shall not see, as some envious persons have presumed to conjecture—that we shall not see our power in any part of the globe diminish. I am convinced that it would be a great cruse and injury to mankind if the power of England were to be in any way crippled. I trust that we may con tinue to grow greater and greater, and that we shall use that power for the benefit of all mankind. (Cheers.) I hope gentlemen, that I may allude ins few words to a subject which has greatly occupied the public mind. "trust no on.ewill believe that we are about to suffer a diminution of our tt rritory in the East. 1. believe, on the e - mtrary, that if our ex ertions are well directed, we shall find that that empire will be established with greater solidity than it has ever been before. I knowvery well that some of the Sheffield blades—(laughter)—and those blades cut sharp—will be employed in the service of their country, and like every Yorkshiretnan, and like every manof this country, I have nodoubt that th y will do their duty. We shall know in futureto whom we can truss, and we shall knovv in whose hands we ought to place arms again. We shall be then enlightened by experience, and I have that ' faith in the courage of this country, and that faith in its justice and humanity, that I feel sure that while it has strength to gain the victory it will have moderation to make a good use of that victory. (Cheers.) There are other questions- which will re quire the most careful deliberation and the appli cation of the greatest wisdom on the part of Parlia ment. Upon those questions, of course, I shall not touch at present; but we ails:gee—we in this root'', we in all parts of the country agree, that when an effort is to be made we must not shrink from it. We must be prepared to meet it, and then this na tion will come triumphant out of the struggle. (His lordship resumed his seat amid loud applause.) A call was made for " three cheers for Lord John Russell." This was heartily responded to, and the meeting then broke up. THE MAIN DRAINAGE OF THE METROPOLIS. Yesterday a meeting of the Metropolitan Bowd of Works was heti in the Council Chamber, Guild hall—Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair. The following document was presented to the Board from the First Commissioner of Works, : " Office of Works, &c., 8 , 0. 24. " Sir,—On the 22d Dec. last the chairman of your board presented to the first Commissioner of her Ma jesty's Works, &c., a plan,_ marked B, fur the main drainage of the metropolis. This plan was for warded on the 31st of that month to Capt. D. Galion, R.E., and Messrs. Simpson and Blackwell, civil engineers, who were appointed to consider and report upon the plans of the main drainage of the metropolis in clnfiraiity with instructions sent to you. (The letter here set forth the instructions given to the referees.) " d. copy of these instructions was sent upon the same day for the information of your board. " On the 31st of July last the First Commissioner re ceived a report from the engineers to whom the instruc tions wore given, and a copy of nat reprt was for warded to your board on that day. The app.-ndix an plan referred to in that report were not then ready, but they were received here yesterday evening, and I am directed by the first Commissioner to forward them to you to be submitted to the Metropolitan Board of Works. "In sending in a complete form the report of Captain Douglas Galton, and Mes-rs. Simpson r..nd Black w,ll, with the appendix and plans, I am requested by ay.:: First Consmiviener to request the c insideration of your board to the propositions thus laid before them, which having been maturely considered and recommended by such eminent engineers as the gentler on to whom thi,, important question has been referred, must be well worthy of attention. "I am also directed to inform you that the Fir,t Commissioner does not approve of the plan D.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, " GEORGE RUSSELL, " A. , si , tant Secrotar-. "To the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works." It was moved and seconded that a copy of the report of Captain Galton and others, tegether the appendices and plans, be sent to each member. The motion was unanimously carried. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR complained that the letter from the First Commissioner of Works, wh'ch had been received on Thursday afternoon, hail n‘A been made known to the members. After a short disclus!on, it was agreei that t' o plans and appendices should be taken into con sideration on a future day. The rest of tLe business was entirely of A routiLe character. The Edinburgh Express says :—" The Highland B .r derers, or 90th Stirlingshire Militia, have vuluuteered for India. The officers have engaged to mists the re- . ginent to 1,000 rank and fil.." 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It appears that a meeting of the magistrates of the town and neighbourhood of Belfast is to take place this day, at the instance of the Marquis of Donegal, to consult upon the best means of pre serving the peace of the town under the existing state of excitement. Refeiring to tit's step, the Banner of Ulster says,.7. " We have reason to believe that some resolution will be come to in reference to open-air preaching, and espe cially to the proceedings which took place ou last Sab bath, in consequence of the telegraphic message fent to our worthy mayor by his Excellency the Lord Lieute nant. We believe if another such message be sent his Excellency will find such difficulties in the way of its execution as will make him pause betore he sends ano ther. We can inform his Excellency that obedience to ais order on last Sabbath was not the most agreeable duty the magistrates have performed in Belfast, nor one which they would like renewed again." _ _ Mean While the head and front of the excitement, the Rev. Hugh Hanna, the would-be modern John Knox, has addressed the subjoined manifesto to the mayor mid magistrates of Belfast : " Gentlemen,—l know that by this time you are kesnly aware that on the past Sabbath you exceeded your commission, and made grave infraction on the con stitutional rights of a large body of the most orderly and respectable citizens of Belfast. I dispute your authority to remove any assembly of peaceable citizens from the private unenclosed ground whereon upon the past Sab bath I first encountered you. I dispute the power of the Lord Lieutenant to invest you with such authority. But, whatever may be the law on this point, any com pe'ent lawyer will inform you that you had no right to enter on and expel us from the enclosed yard, the ulti mate position I occupied with my open-air congregation. In a rude, and almost a barbarous way, you dispersed an uroffending people, dealing more rigorously with them than you ever did with any riotous mob that da maged and disgraced the town. One of the men under your command cocked his carbine and levelled it at my breast, and many have to complain of the outrageous conduct of the police under your command. What course the hundreds whom you dispersed—each of wheat has ground of action against you —may adopt, I cannot tell ; but for my own part, I now respectfully demand from you an acknowledgment of your error and an apology for your conduct. I am one of those who look with extreme jealousy on every stretch of executive power, and I will strenuously resist in a con• stitutional way its every infraction on constitutional right and privilege. Your compliarice with this demand will vindicate the liberty of the subject and avoid the necessity of litigation. " Yours respectfully, " HUGE( HANNA." Referring to the snail's-pace progress of the Go vernment investigation the following observations of the Belfast Mercury are but the echo of public feeling, at least as far as persons at a distance from the scene of action can be supposed competent to form an opinion : " It is really full time that the commissioners should interfere to stay the interminable flow of irrelevent evi dence which is fast tending to bring the whole inquiry into disrepute. What object is to be gained by heaping evidence upon the top of evidence, the whole purport of which is merely to prove that rioting took place ? It is not, as we understand it, the duty of the commissioners to report on the point whether a greater amount of vagabondism exists in Sandy-row than in Pound-street —their object is not to discriminate the minute shades of criminality that may exist between the desperate fac tions that are a disgrace to our town—on the-contrary, the plain purpose of their inquiry, according to their commission is to investigate into the origin of the riots, and to report on the same, with such suggestions as they may consider calculated to guard against their repetition. There can be no doubt that the state of the labouring population in Belfast is one favourable to such riots : hut we opine it does not form any part of the duty of the c ommissionera to examine into the sanitary condition, considered morally and religiously, of that population. We therefore discard the subject from present considera tion, and desire to give a practical aim to the inquiry. At present the commissioners, amidst the vast mass of wholly irrelevant evidence, have done nothing more than ascertain the cause of the Jelly. rioting. They have not advanced much beyond 'this point. They have consumed nine days, far 'the must part in listening to very ridiculous and inconclusive evidence, and this, too, while such a protracted inquiry is calculated seriously to injure the trade and prosperity of our town. It appears that up to the present the inquiry has been without practical aim, while it has not been conducted according to any system, legal or otherwise. It is altogether a hodge podge' affair ; and the result will be a ponderous blue book of evidence, from which the public in general will turn in disgust—it will never be read. Our de sire .is, and we are certain it is shared by the influ ence and intelligence of the town, that the commis sioners should ascertain as fully as possible the causes of the rioting, and then take evidence as to the most effectual means by which a recurrence of such semi barbarous conduct shoull be in future guarded against." EP SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER RACES-FRIDAY. LATEST BETTING. CESAREWITCH. 100 to 8 agst M. Dobler (taken) 10 0 1 agst the Pluth colt (taken) CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 30 to 1 agit the Pluih c,lt (taken to 501.) E M - B E 26 The Chesterfield Handicap of 5 sous. each, with 50 added, for 2-yr-olds. Winners extra. Tne second to save his stake. Three quarters of a mile. (10 subs.) Mr. Barber's Prince of Denmark, 7A, (inc. 51b ,extra)' (Dales) I Mr. J. Merry's f by Chanticleer, 7st (Plumb) 2 Mr. Allisou's Madame Ristoli, 7,t 71b (Charlton) 3 The Trafford Handicap of 5 sov'. each, with 50 added. Winners extra. The second to receive 10 sovs out of the stakes. One mile. (12 subs.) Mr. Dods worth's Skycutter, 3 yrs, 7st 21b(Challoner) 1 Mr. Dawson's Red Whits and Blue, 3 yrs, 7st 215 (Bullock) 2 Mr. Barber's Lord Nelson, 3 yre, Bst (Dale.) 3 Mr. G. Robinson's Attorney-General, 3 yrs, 64 111 b (Piercy) 4 The Wilton Handicap of 100 save, added to a sweep stakes of 5 sovs each. Winners extra • second to re ceive 10 sove out of the stakes. Mile and three quarters. (23 subs.) , . Mr. J. Osborne's Tiff, 4 yrs, Est 101b......(Challoner) 1 Mr. Ridley's Hospitality, 4 yrs, 7st 61b (Bullock) 2 Mr. James's Kenerdy, 3 yrs, 54t 8:b ..... . —(Pritchard) 3 The City Handicap Plate of 60 move. Winners extra. Half-a mile. (25 subs.) Mr. Henry's Greenwich Fair, sit 61b (Plumb) 1 Mr. Jackson's Julia, 2 yrs, s+t 21b (Madden) 2 Mr. Jackson's Gbika, 4 yrs, Est 911) (Bullock) 3 HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE• MENTS. On the 15th inst., King of the Forest out of the Cam bridgeshire, having been left in by mistake. On the 16th inst., all Sir J. Hawley's horses out of their engagements this year, except Adeliz. On the 181 inst., at 1 a.m., Imp.aieuse out of the Park-hill Stakes. On the 18th inst., at 2 . 40 p.m., Sermon out of all his engagements this year. On - the 19th inst., after 6 p.m., Leamington out of the Eastern Counties Handicap. Oa the 21st inst., at 9 a.m., Ibex out of all his Leices ter and Monmouth engagemehts. On the 22d inst., at 9 a.m., General Williams out of all his engagements. On the 22d inst.,, at 9 a.m., Warlock out of the Northallerton Handicap. On the 22d inst., at 4.10 p.m., Lord Derwentwater out of all his engagements. In the article under this head, last week, Cultivation should have been out of all her engagements this year only ; and all Baron Rothschtl.t's horses out of their Doncaster engagements except Scribbler. Skirmisher, after the Houghton Meeting, will leave George Abdale's stables for John Scott's at Whitewall, where he and the remainder of Capt. Saville's horses will in future be trained. • NEWMARKET.--Cave Adulam and Brazen, 2 yre, have arrived at J. Robinson's stable, to be trained for their engagements. Black Tommy has been sold to Mr, Sutton for 2,000 zuineas, and half the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire Stakes should he win them. From the London Gazette of Last Night. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 23. The Queen has bawl pleased to make the following ap pointments, under the provisions of the act 20 and 21 Vic., cap. 71, for thq rogulation of thc care and treatment of lunatics, and for the provision, mainten trice, and regula tion of Lunatic . A.sylutni in Scotland, namely ;-17npaaid Commissioner and Chairman of the General Board 'a Coro, missioners in Lunacy for Scotland—Wm. Hugh Elliot, Esq., (commonly called Viscount Melgund). Paid Com missioners—James Coxe, Esq., M.D. and William Francis Browne, Esq., M.D. S ecre t a ry —William Forbes, Esq. The Queen has also been pleased, under the provisions of the above-mentioned act, to appoint, by Warrant under the hand of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State—Sir Alexander Charles Gibson Maitland, Bart., and George Young, Esq., Sheriff of the county of Inverness, to be unpaid Commis sioners of the General Board of Commiseioners in Funacy for Scotland. • WHITEHALL, SEPT. 23. The Queen has been pleased' to appoint John Kinlocb, Esq., to be Inspector, under the Act of 20 and 21 Viet., cap. 72, to render more effectual the Police in counties and burghs in Scotland: WHITEHALL, SEPT. 21. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the night Hon. W. Francis Cowper to be President of the General Board of Health. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 24. • The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. James Campbell to the church and parish of Balmerino, in the presbytery of Cupar, and ceunty of Fife, v acan t by th e death of the Rev. Johnl Thompson. The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev. John Barnett to the church at Shieldbag, in the parish of Applecross, in the presbytery of L)chcarron, and county of Ross, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. Roderick Nicholson to the church anti Parish of Applecrose. REPRESENTATION OF OLDFIANT. By virtue of an act, passed in the 24th year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, iutituled, " An act to repeal so mach of two' acts made in the 10th and. 15th years of the reign of his present Majesty, as autho rises the Speaker of the House of Commons to issue his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown for making out writs for the election of members to serve in Parliament, in the manner therein mentioned, and for substituting other pro visionsp for the like pu r p oses :" I do hereby give notice, that the death of James Platt, Esq., late a member serving in this present Parliament for the borough of Oldham, hath been certified to me in writ ing, under the hands of two latembeis serving in this pre sent Parliament, and, that I shall issue my warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the elect • ing of a member to serve in this present Parliament for the said borough of Oldham, at the end of 14 days after the insertion of this notice in the London Gazette. Given under my hand this 17th day of September, 1857. JOHN EVELYN DENISON, Speaker. BOARD OF TRADE WHITEHALL, SEPT. 24. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade anti Plantations have received, through the Secrata'y of.Stlto for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from Her. Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, enclosing copy of a French Imperial Decree, increasing the quantity of salt permitted to be taken on board vessels for U.° fisheries in Yarmouth Roads, and on the coasts of France, from 90 kilos. to 100 kilos. per ton measurement. BOARD OF TRADE, • WHITEEIALL, SEPT 25 • . . The Right Honourable 'the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Tra , e and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Agent and Consul- General in Tunis, reporting that the Duty of 12. per cent. ad valorem, lately levied upon the importation of Palse into that Regency, has been withdrawn. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, SEPT. 25. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lientenant John Joseph Corrigan to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sarel, whose promotion from the 9th Light Dragoons on the 25th August, 1857, has been cancelled. 7th Light Dragoons—The cornmiaaion of Captain Sir Wm. Russell, Bart., to bo Major, without purchase; to bear date 13th instead of 14th August, 1857, as previously stated. Bth Light Dragoons—John Mathew Bid lie, Gent., to ba Cornet, without purchase, vice Hanbary, promoted ; Sergeant Thomas Richar,is, from the I+3th Light Dra- gcotis, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Haymes, promoted. 11th Light Dragoons—Riding Master R. R. Harrison Dungate is permitted to resign his commission. Military Train—Lieutenant James Powell to be Captain, without purchase,' vice Penton, appointed to the Bth Light Dragoons. To b 3 Lieutenants, without pnrcbase Ensign Frederic Bond, vice Powell ; Ensign John Bruen Rutledge, vice Caldwell, appointed to the 7th Dragoon Guards. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Phillip Davos Margesson to bo Captain, vice P. F. G. Scott, de- ceased ; Brevet-Major Win. Henry Randolph Simpson, from the Supernumerary List, to be Second Capt., vice, Margesson ; Captain Frederick Alexander Campbell, on the Supernumerary List, to bo Lieut.-Col. ; Capt. Henry Philip Goodenough to b 3 Lieutenant-Col., vice Thomas, retired upon half-pay ; Second Captain James Frederick D'Arley Street to be Captain, vice Goodenough ; &mon .1 Captain George Kepple Taylor, from the Supernumerary List, to be Second Captain, vice Street; Second Captain, Archibald Motteux Calvert to be Captain, vice Brevet- Lieutenant-ColoneJ. C. W. Fortescue, promoted to b 3 Mejor Unattached, under the 13th clause of the Royal Warrant of 3.1 November, 1854 _; Lieutenant George Sisson Harward to be Second Captain, vice Calvert ; Lieutenant William Frederick Moore has been permitted to resign his commission. Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant John Paynter, to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Viscount Kirkwall, who retires; Ensign and Lieu tenant George W. Knox to be Lieutenant and C + pta,in, by purchase, vice Robert Farquhar Shaw Stewa-t, who retiree ; Robert Alfred Cnoliffe, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Paynter; Gerard Smith, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by pur chew, vice Knox. 21 Regiment of .Foot —Ensign Alexander Robert A. Boyd, from the 92d Foot, to be Errign, vice Gray, whose trans fer from the 97th Fuot cancelled ; Robert Hamilton Simpson, Esq ; late Paymaster, British Italian Legion, to be Paymaster. 14th Foot—Cape. Wm. Heywood, from half pay 14th Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major John Dwyer, whcse Brevet rank has been couverted into substantive rank, uuder the Royal Warrant, 6th Oct., 1854. 13th Foot—Captain W. 0 Try en Taylor, from half-pay 18th F o ot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major John Cormiek, whose Brevet Rank -has been converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal" Warrant of 6th October, 1854 Lieut . G. B. Pocklington to be Captain, without pur chase, vice Borrow, promoted; Ensign Hugh Shaw to . be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Pocklington ; Sergeant-Major Thomas Watt to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Shaw. 20th Foot—The • surname of the Captain restored to full pay on the 30th July, 1857, in the Gazette of the 7th ult. is Meares, and'not Mears, as therein stated. 2111-Foot — Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Pym Harding, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lient.-Colonol, vice Boileau, who exchanges; Brevet Lieut.-Colonel H. B. Harvey, from Galfepay..3Bth Foot, to be Major, vice Brevet Liet.V.- Colonel Francis Pyrn Harding, whose Brevet Rank has been convertcld into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of,Oct. 6, 1851; Ceptein Sir G. A. Robinson, Bart., to be 4ajor, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieut.-Col. Harvey, who e retires ; Lieut. Boner Millett Deane, to be Captain, by eturchaeo, vice Sir G. A. Robinson. 27th Boot—Freilerick Alexander Campbell, Gent., to be Ensign, wiihinit purchase, vice Venour, deceased. 28th Foot--Ensign William Seaton is permitted to resign his commission. 41th Foot—ileuiy Gal land Matthews, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchasp r idee Salle, promoted. 47th Foot—He4y Willisni Marshall, Gant., to bo Ensign, without purchase, vice Thomas Bailie Thomson; for whose services her Majesty has no further occasion. SEPOY ATROCITIES. The Eventing Post quotes from - the Car/ow Sen /dux/ the following paragraph respecting tho fate of a lady for many years well known to the citizens of Dublin. Indeed, it may be asked, who hat visited the Irish capital at any period during the last 25 years or more that has not heard of the beautiful, but somewhat ecc3ntric Mrs. Farquharson, the wife of Col. Farquharson, late of the 7th Fusiliers : "Many of our readers will recollect Zdrs. Farquhar. son, the wife of Col. Farquharson, of the 7th Fusi lien., during her residence in Dublin some few years since, as the spirited driver of a phaeton drawn by a pair of beautiful piebald ponies. Her husband com manded another regiment on his return from °lnca. She joined him in India with her chillren, and by letters lately received in England it appears that daring the late rebellion the Sepoys—the high-caste pCompany—bu rn t h er alrvea,dl soldiers of her the t a m E ily a : t alftnedriacommitting the moat frightful and revolting atrocitiei on her person." The Post adds that a private letter has been re ceived in Dublin, giving anothe r vers i on o f the fate of the hapless lady, which was st ill more horritde than that above mentioned. The statement is that after suffering a series of indescribable barbarities, she was placed alive between two boards, and cut through with a saw ! UNIVERSITY INTBLLIGENCE. OXFORD, SEPT. 25. On Friday, October 23, there will be an election at Oriel College of one exhibitioner ou the founda tion of Mrs. Elizabeth Ludwell, late of Charing, in Kent, with a preference—first, for candithtes of the kindred of Mrs. Ludwell ; next for natives of Charing ; and next, for natives of Kent, not hav ing taken any degree at the University. Cartifi cat/s of bitth and baptism and testimonials of good c aicltict to be presented to the Provost of Oriel on or before Monday, 0,/t)ber 19. An election to one Fellowship, now vacant in All Souls College, will take place on the 3d of . November next. Candidates are requested to. call on the Warden on Saturday, th e 24th of Octo b er , Letween the hours of 11 and 4, brii g i ng with them the following papers :-1.. Testimo n i a l s o f goo d conduct from their College for three years. 2. A certificate of baptism. 3. A certificate of having passA all the examinations required by the Uni versity for the degree of 8.A., and eith er o f h av i ng been placed in the First Class in one at least of the public examinations, or of having obtained some prize or scholarship within the University, un attached to any College or Hall, and open to general competition. On Thursday evening a lecture was delivered in the Radcliffe Library by the librarian (Dr. Auland) to the workmen • engaged in erec'ing the new museum, on the subject of that building and its uses. There were present, besides the workmen, a large number of the citizens and their fainilie, together with a few members of the University, the entire number being upwards of 600. The learned lecturer was heard with great attention, and greeted with frequent rounds of applause. At the close of his address the Vice-Chancellor proposed a vote of thanks to the lecturer, which was 'econded by the mayor. Refreshments for the guests were provided by the Vice-Chancellor in the pillared space beneath the library, and books of pints, stereoscopic views, microscopes, and skele tons of fish were placed in various parts of the build ing, fur the inspection of the curi /Us. • shortly of er 10 o'clock the National Anthem was snug, arid the company separated. • LONDON UNIVERSITY. M.B.—FIRST EXAMINATION-1857. EXAMINATION FOR HONOURS. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. Kempster, F, H. (Exhibition and Gold Medal) University College Crawfoot, W. Miller(Gold Medal) St. Barth°l9l-Jew's Hos. Ringer, Sydney University College :11:oxan, Welter Guy's Hospital Fla-ley, Jobn.. King's College Durham, A. Edward Guy's Hospital Cater, Robert 1 equal 5 University College Cayley, Win. King's College CHYMISTRY Kempster, F. H. (Exhibition cud Gold Medal) University College Moxon, Walter (Gold Medal)... ..Guy's Hospital Dui ball, A. Edward Guy's Hospital ltivington Walter London Hospital Harley, johu King's College MATERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACEUTICAL CHYMISTRY. Moxon ' Walter (Exhibiti on an d Gold Moda) Guy's Hospital Eivin;ton, Walter (GAd Moda.l) London Hospital Durham, A. Edward Guy's Hospital Harley, John.. Kenipstar, Felix Hen r y U n i vers it y C o ll eg e Adams, gamuel Hoppus U u i i i i i i v e Pilo, William STRUCTURAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL BOTANY. v ei r es s i i t t y y College College Adams, Samuel Hoppus (doicl ---- Medal) Univeraity College Crowfoot, Vim. Miller } Equal St. Bartholomew's Hos. Harley, John Durham, Arthur Edward Guy's Hospital Thompson Edmund Symes King's College • Jeffcoat, James henry St, Mary's Hospital I 8 5 60th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John Mathew Biddle is per mitted to resign his commission. C 6 t 1 Foot—The Commission of Ensign John Mahony to bear date 25th, and not 26th, August, 1857, as previ ously stated. 67th Foot—Charles Henry Blachley Turner, Gent., to be Ensign. without purchase, vice Loftus Reade, who resigns. 75th Foot -Bentinek L. Cumberland, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Pym, promoted. 79th Foot—The surname of the Captain, restored to full pay on the 7th Aug. last, in the Gazette of that date, is Harrisson, and not Harrison, as therein stated. 94th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John Wallace, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Fitzgerald appointed to the Staff. 98th Foot—Percival Herbert Dobbs, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Brett, promoted. 2d West India Regiment —Assistant-Surgeon Edward Joseph Crane, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Clutterbuck, appointed to the Staff. St. Helena Regiment—Lieut. John H. Prandervillo, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Mare chaux, deceased ; Ensign Adolphus W. Campbell to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Prenderville ; En sign James W. Mitchell to be Lieutenant, without pur chase,vice Campbell, whose promotion oa the 28th Aug., 1857, is cancelled. DEPOT BATTALION. Quartermaster William Goldby, from half-pay, British Swiss Legion, to be Quartermaster, vice Thomas Walker, appointed to the 60th Foot. UNATTACHED. Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Fz'ancis Pym Harding, 22d Foot, to have his Brevet Rank converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th, Oct., 1854. Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Tyrrell Matthias Byrne, Ist Foot, to be Major, without pur chase. Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel John Charles William Fortescue, of the Royal Artillery, to have the Substantive Rank of Major, under the Royal Warrant of 3d November, 1854. Brevet-Major John Dwyer, 14th Foot, to have his Brevet Rank converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant 6th October, 1851. HOSPITAL STAFF. Inspector-General of Hospitals, with local rank, Daniel Scott, M.D., to be Inspector-General of Hospitals. Deputy nspector-General of Hospitals James Barry, M.D., to be Inspector-General of Hospitals, with local rank, vice Scott, who retires upon half pay. Assistant-Surgeon James E. Clutterbuck, M. D., from the 2nd West India Regiment, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Idatchell, appointed to the €oth Foot. Assistant-Surgeon"Francis L. Fitzgerald, from the 91th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Wallace, appointed to 94th Foot. To BE ACTING ASSISTANT-SURGEONS—Robert Dade, Gent., and Harvey Rowe, Gent. BREVET. The following Officers to be promoted to the Brevet Rank of Major in the Army:— Capt. William L. Merewether ' of the 3rd Regiment of Furopean Infantry on the Bombay Establishment. , 1 Capt. Edwin B. Johnson, of the Bengal Artillery. • ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 24. The following promotions, dated the 10th instant, con sequent on the death of Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir William Henry Dillon, K.C.11., on the 9th instant, haaie taken place: Vice-Admiral of the White Sir Henry Prescott, K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Red. Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir Fairfax Moresby, K.C.B-, to be Vice-Admiral of the White. Rear-Admiral of the Red William Walpole to be Vice- Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White Sir Henry Byam Martin, K.C.8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, Ba't., to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain John Kingcome to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. _ COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS. County of Lincoln.—Sir Edmund Gonville Bromhead, Bart, Henry Lionel Dymoke, Esq., Richard George Elli son, Esq., George Henry Haigh, Esq., Henry Handley, Esq., John Hood, Esq. ' George Morland Hutton, Esq., Herbert Ingram, Esq., William Parker, jun., Esq., Geo. Charles Uppleby, Esq., Richard Septimus Wilkinson, Esq., and Thomas Dallas Yorke, Esq., to be Deputy- Lieutenants. Royal North Lincoln Militia.—Henry Metcalfe, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Robert Henry Owston, promoted. Royal South Lincoln Militia.—Robert Cecil Kearney, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice William Barry Drew, re signed. Royal Bucks King's Own Militia.—Russell England, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Baines, resigned. Huntingdonshire Militia.—William Whitter Goldicutt, Esq., to be second Lieutenant. 4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Regi ment of Royal Lancashire Militia.—Hallowes Henry Bolton, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Corlett, resigned ; Frank Jefferson, Gent„ to be Ensign, vice Daly, resigned; James Hardcastle ' Gent., to be Ensign, vice Bennett, resigned ; Robert Edmund Haworth, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Fitzpatrick, resigned ; Ensign George Ainsworth, to be Lieutenant, vice Worrall, resigned. Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery Regiment.—Charles Williams, Gent., to be Lecond Lieutenant, vice McCandie Campbell, promoted. County of Surrey—George Thomas Nicholson, Esq., to be Vice-Lieutenant. 3d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—To be En signs Frederick Goulburn Walpole, Gent. ; Adolphus William Murray, Gent. Ist Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Archibald William Ramsay Davidson, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Henderson, promoted. 2d Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Captain John Gordon Campbell, late 42d Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, vice Trapaud, resigned; Ensign Francis Wallis Lipscomb to be Lieutenant, vice Wilson, promoted. Forfar and Kincardine Militia Artillery—Captain Robert Todd Boothby to beldajor, vice L-iird, promoted. Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia Artillery — Major David Laird to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, vice Ramsay, resigned ; First Lieutenant Alexander Mon erieff to be Captain, vice Booth by, promoted ; Secon't Lieutenant James Beattie to be First Lieutenant, vice Mcncrieff, promoted. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Samuel Blackburn and Elwin Blackburn, cloth manu facturers, Littlo Gomersal, Yorkshire. BANKRUPTS. Daniel Nazer, hatter, Dover, to surrender, Oat. 7, at twelve, and N o v.lo, a t e l e v en , atthe Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld official assignee; Murray, London-street, Fen church-street. William Savage, florist, Winchester, Oct. 10, at half past twelve, and Nov. 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbary ; Ashurat, Son, and Morris, Old Jewry. hard Sydney Lambert, manure dealer, Bristol, Oct. 6, and Nov. 3, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol Ashurst, Son, and Morris, Old Jewry; Bevan and Girling, Bristol. Thomas James Dore, innkeeper, Stour Provost, Dorset shire, Oct. 7, at eleven, and. Nov. 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman street-buildings ; Yenning, Naylor, and Robins, Token- . house-yard ; Sever, Shaftesbury. Montague Moss, fruiterer, Borough Market, Oct. 6, at two, and Nov. 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall street ; Gant, Nicholas-lane. William Rees, bookseller, Glastonbury, Somersetshira, Oct. 8, and Nov. 2, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignnee, Bristol; Bullied, Glastonbury; Abbott and Lucas, Bristol. Isaiah Robertson, boot maker, Upper Sydenham, Kent, Oct. 7, at twelve, and Nov. 5, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Bristow, Greenwich. ' Jn. Woolliscroft, dealer, Leek, Staffordshire, Oct. 5 and 30, at teu, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Richardson and Sadler, Old Jewry-chambers, London ; 'Southall and Nelson, Bir mingham. Thomas Garniss, tailor, Victoria-street, Great Grimsby, Oct. 14 and Nov. 18, at twelve, at the Townhall, Kings ton-upon-Hull. Carrick, ()facial assignee, Hull; Preston, Hull. Thos. Wright, wine merchant, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, Oct. 14, and Nov. 18, at twelve, at the Townhall, Kings ton-upon-Hull. Carrick, official assignee, Hull; Merri field, Wainfleet.; England and Sazelbye, Kingston-upon- Evan Davies, linen draper, Swansea, Oct. 6, and Nov. 3, at eleven, at the• Bristol District Court. Miller, offi cial assignee, Bristol : Sturt and Mason, Gresham.-street ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol. SCOTCH SEQ UESTR A.TIONS. Alexander Mill, merchant, Glasgow. John Simpson, slater, Glasgow. BANK OF An Account pursuant to the Act the Week ending on Sittirdn: ENGLAND. Ith and ath Victoria, cap. 32, for the , 9th day of Sept., 1857. &Iat.:LENT. min DEP . Notes Issued • • ...... 25,009,945 Government debt .., 11,015,1(0 Other securities. 3,459,9 0 Gold coin and bullion 10,534 946 Silver bullion • • • • • • • • -- £25,009,9 t 5 ' £25,003,945 51. MARSUALL, Chief Cashier. 57. :2AZTKENT. Dated the 24th day of Sept., li BANKING DE Proprietors'capital .. 1 4,553,00 e Rest ................ 3,914,656 Pt/bile deposit. (in cluding Exctioguer, Commissioners- of Government securities (Includg.Dead Weight Annuity) .......... 10.593,653 Other securities 18,962,051 Notes . ............. 6,108 'PO Gold and silver coin .. 653 . 615 National Debt, Sav7 ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 8,045,099 Other deposits ...... 9,002,624 Seven Day and other Bills •• •• •• ••• 802,670 £36,318,049) £36,318,049 I‘l'. MARRIALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 24ilf day of Sept , 1857. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR,. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending Sept. 22, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid n payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : s. From the British Possessions in America 35 8 Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 24 10 Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 36 8 Average of the above descriptions. AN' ATLAS GRATIS WITII TIIR DISPATCII -On and after Sun day, Oct. 4th, 1857, each copy of the Dispatch will .be hc - c oat ',allied with a Coloured Map, a Chart, or the Plan of a Principal Town,so as to furnish to each subscriber, gratis, a most comprehensive, complete, and useful Atlas. The size, of the engravings will be that of one page of the newspaper, six maps and two plans; in eac h y ear, w ill b e of double the viz . It is hoped, in the course of a short time that the Dispatch Atlas will contain more names an d positions of places than any other publication of the kind. Tho counties will be given separately, and, when large, divided. With n the trst f.)ur months, India will I . e snore accurately and completely delineated, in a series of nine maps, than in any British Atlas. The names of the artists will be the best guarantee for perfect accuracy. The engravings will be in the highest style of art, involving a cost of many thousauda of pounds, Mechanics' Institutes, Educa ional Establishments, Hotels, Reading-rooms, and •Coffee-houses will, in p-ssesing the Dispatch Atlas, ba supplied with a daily want. The Dispatch Atlas will be forwared gratis, with the p a p er, a t the usual price -sd. per copy, or 61. stamped. The Fr iday Evening Edition may be received In the most dista nt parts of the kingdom on Saturday inorning.- - -Oftice, 139, Fleet-street, London. Country Markets. LIVERPOOL-SEpT. 25. There was a moderate attendance this morning, and the transactions were insignificant, excepting Irish new wheat, which was difficult to sell at a further decline of 2d to 4d per bushel. American barrelled flour at late rates. New oats gave way id to 2d per bushel, and new oatmeal 6d to is per 240 lbs. Indian corn sold in retail at slightly easier prices. No other change in quotations. WAKEFIELD-SEPT. 25. Wheat was held at last week's rates and mold slowly, ex cept choice parcels. Yine barley was in fair demand, but other sorts dull, and is lower. No change in any 'other article. Average prices of grain—Wheat, 59s 14d; bailey, 43s 31d ; oats, 283 Od ; beans, 49s 3id ; peas, 403 6d ; rye, —s. Od. EXETER-SEPP. 25. CORN.—Wheat, 63 6d to 7s 3d ; barley, 58 to 5s 3d ; grinding do., Os Od to Os Od. Oats, 3 s Od to 3s 3d. Beans, Oa to 0 Od. Peas, oas Od to 008 FLOUR.—Fine, 40s Od to 428 Od ; seconds, 36s Od to 40s Od per sack. CATTLE. —There was a small supply of bullocks. - Best beef, from 10s 6d to lls per score ; inferior, 7s Od to 8s per score ; fat calves, Od to 7d per lb ; barrenners, Os Od to 0; Od. per score ; cows and calves, 121. to 201. ts; butchers' calves, Od to 7d per lb., rearing calves —8 to -- s each; sheep, ewes and lambs, 21. 5s to 31. 58 per couple; ewes, Od to 6d; wethers, 7d —d; lambs, to 0 per lb. Pigs, large size, —s to —s; second size, —s to —8 ; slips, —s to —s ; suckers, —s to —B. Rough fat, 5d per 11'. Pork carcases from Os Od to lOs 6d per score. BRISTOL SUGAR-SEpi , . 2.5. Tho market is decidedly firmer this week, and although we are not able to quote any advance in prices, still tho dealers find it more difficplt to purchase suitable qualities on as good terms as they were able to do a few days ago. Refiners' produce finds a ready sale, at rather improved rates. Rum is much wanted, but there is very little offer ing. COAL MARK M.-SEPT. 25. Prices of Coals per ton a the close of the market Wallseuu, S. d. Holywell . ... ..... ... ...,16 C Howard's West i • lariley_ _ .. s d Rough Hall 17 6 Lam bton lB 6 lostorth l6 3 Russell's Hetton 18 3 Eden 17 6 Retton Lyons Main l6 3 Cassop 17 9 ;, 24 ; sold, 15. Netherton 17 6 Tan field Moor Butes 13 9 Morpeth West Hartley 17 (,) Ward's West Hartley _l6 Wylam Wallbottle Hartley 15 6 Ships at market COURSE OF EXCHANGE.- YESTERDAY. km5terc1am...........• 11 16 Gibraltar ......•....... Ditto, three months .. 11 194 Leghorn 30 2 36 gotterdam ••••••• • o• •• 11 I,IA Genoa 00000000 •• •• •• 25 71% Antwerp .............. 25 42% Milan Brussels •• •• •• .• •• •• • • 25 42% Venice • • • • •• •• •• •• - ilamburgh ............ 13 8% Naples . ...... 42% Altona •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• • • Palermo •••• • ..... •• •• 127% Paris 25 25 illessina ... 128 Do. three months .. 25 62% Lisbon 9Larseillas ••••••• • • • 25 65 . Oporto •••••••••• .• • . •• 1.2% B3urdeaux •• • • •• •• • • .. Rio Janeiro Frankfort-on-Maine 118% Buenos Ayre5........ Berlin •• •• •• •• •••• •• • • New York,6o days' sight --- Vienna • • .... 10 35 Philadelphia Trieste•• •• •• •u•• •• sip.% 10 36 PRICES OF BULLION. FEB oz: Petersburg •• .• 36% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 idrid .... 49% Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Culiz 50 Ifexican Dollars .... 0 0 0 B %melons New Dollars 0 0 0 Seville • .. Silver in bars ...... 0 0 0 LOCAL SHARE MARKE - T d. BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 25. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market to-day has been steady, but little business doing, Shropshire Uni(ll9 47—Great Westerns, 414--Birmingham Guaranteed, 704 4—London and North Western, 96i —Stour Valleys, 8 6—Midland, 80 —South Staffords, 94--North Staffords, 4 dis. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 25. STOCK ExcHANGE.—The transactions in this market in the leading stocks are steady, and prices about the same --London and North-Westerns, 94—Caledonian, 42.4• —Great Western of Canada, 203--Midland, 80i 804-- London and North Western, Eighths, new, dia.—Lan cashire and Yorkshire, 96 a—North Eastern, Berwick, 2'4 Eastern Counties, 14— Dutch Rhenish, dis— Grand Trunk of Canada, 14—Ditto 6 per Cent.' Debi', 84 —South Eastern, 19i—Sheffield, 31 per cent. ! 64—Ditto, 6 per cent., ili—North British, 121. MANCHESTER, SEPT. 25. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was inactivo to-day, and prices rather easier. Eastern Counties, 11 7-16 - -Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 44—Ditto, new 31 per cent., 65—Dovers, 19i—G rea t Western, 541—East Lancashire, fifths, 5-16•p--Grand Trunk of Canada, 11d —London and North Weste r n s , 97 Midl an d s , 80- - Leeds, 96—Preston and Wyre, 43f—Great Western of Canada, 20 9-16. DUBLIN, SEPT. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Three per Cent. Consols, 89i — i s ravr Three per Cent. Stock (shut), 89a „ ditto for account, Oct. 13, 894 2—Mining Co. of Irelana (7/. pd), 15 14i—Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway, 38l—Irish South Eastern. account, 7$ - Midland Great Western and Royal Canal (50 pd), 492. PRESENTATION OF A LIFEBOAT TO MAIO ATR.—OaT readers may still remember the loss of the Victory lugger at Margate, and all her crew, while endeavouring to rescue the Northern Belle ; and they may be aware that it was known and stated at the time that if the services of a lifeboat could have been obtained 12 lives would in human probability have been spared. Natural regret was felt at the melancholy occurrence, but no steps were taken by those immediately interested to avert the pro bability of another such accident. A stranger to Margate and its neighbourhood has, however, been more consi derate of the lives of her sailors, for on Wednesday tba local authorities were informed that a lifeboat would leave the builder's yard to-day (Friday) for Margate, a present to that town from Miss Burdett Contts. When this was known the authorities immediately voted a letter expressing their thanks on behalf of the town for this munificent gift, and their hopes that it might be made of. such use in saving the lives of distresiied ners and of their helpers as would satisfy the donor that her gift bad not been made in vain. The boat cost up wards of 500/. It is expected that there will be a public) demonstration upon its arrival in the harbour. • BOTANIC REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION.—The attention of our readers is requested to an advertisement in our paper headed ‘! A Fact for Physiologists," in which the Nottingham Medical Reform Society propose to ,send free to all applicants the BOtanic Remedy for Indigestion, Bilious and Liver Complaints, lately discovered Professor Webster, of Philadelphia. • [ADVERTISEMENT].—Nothing can be more interesting than the numerous extraordinary cures without medicine of Indi gestion (Dyspesia), Flatulency, Constipation, Nervous, Bili ous, and Liver complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption,' and Debility effected by Du Barry's delicious Health -Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food. We give a few.--Winchester, De cember 3d, 1847. Gentlemen,—l am happy to be able to inform you that the person for whom your Revalenta was procured has derived a very great benefit from its use ; dis tressing symptoms of. Dropsy, Dyspepsia, and Constip at i on of long standing have been remo ve d, an d a f ee li ng of restored health induced. Having witnessed the beneficial effects in the above mentioned-case I can with confidence recom mend it, &c. JAMES SHORLAND, late Surgeon, 96th Regiment. 65, Piccadilly, London, Bth Nov., 1847. Gentlemen,—Hav ing been for a long time a great sufferer from piles and severe constipation of the bowels, I commenced taking, about three weeks ago, Du Barry's " Revalenta Arabica" twice a day. The, result induces me herewith t') express my unbounded ratitude. My bowels and stomach begin to remind me of what I was years ago ; 'in fact, I am fast approaching com plete restoration to the enjoyment of functions without which life is but a painful burden. No medicine has ever done me the good I have derived from the " Revalenta." Digestion has, in my case, began anew. With thanks, &c., War. PATCHING. Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professors of Chemistry, Dr. Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey ; Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Wurzer ; Dr. Ingram ; Lord Stuart de Decies; the Dowager Countess of Castle* Stuart; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectable persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other means of cure had failed. Suitably packed with full in' structions. In canisters, 11b, 2s. 9d. ; 21b, 4s. 6d. ; 51b, 11s ; 121 b, 225. The 121 b canisters are sent carriage free, on receipt of Post-Office order.—Barry Du Barry, & 77, Regent-street, London. IMPORTANT CAUTION against the fearful dangers of spurious imitations :—The V:ce-Chancel lor Sir William Page Wood granted an Injunction on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevill, for imitating " Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." BIRTIIS. . OF A SON. On the 23d inst., at Balls-park, Hertz, the Lady Eliza beth St. Anbyn. On the 24th inst„.at 2 1 , Albert-square, Clapham-road , the wife of Mr. Wm. Payne. OF A DArGHTER , On the 24th inst., at 11, Cumberland-street, Bryanstort square, the wife of T. W. Watson, Esq. On the 24th inst., at 13, RoseberryVillas, Tuffnell-park west, N., the wife of Henry B. Hoy, Esq. MAItRIED. On the 24th inst., at the church of St. Thomas, Stam ford-hill, Middlesex, Richard Bradbhaw, Esq ,of Upper Homerton, to Elizabeth L. K. Butler, oldest daughter of Charles S. Butler, Esq., M.P., of Cazenoves, Upper Clap ton, Middlesex. On the 24th inst , at IMO:1ton, Mr. John Adam, jun., of Pudding-lane, London, to Louisa. elder daughter of the Rev. J. B. Skipper, of Mardon, Wiltshire. DIED. On the 22,1 inst., at Wells, Somerset, deeply regretted. Edward Lovell, Esq., in the 53d ye: r of his two. Oa the 24th inst., at Wished), Mr. Johu Lawson, mer chant, sebd On the 241 inst., at 2, F, a nc i s - s t ree t , Regent-squa re r James K. Pyne, sq., many years the celebrated tenor singer at the Coient-garden and Drury-lane theatres. On the 2.'d inst., at Church Cottage, Kennington, at' Edward Jones, late of 157, Strand, aged 65. On the 20th inst., at Millbr oo k, S ou th am pton, the Dowager Laily Li s l e . Ou the 231 June, at Kurrachee, Scinde, 'Wm. H. Hall, third son o f th e l ate J o h n Hall, Esq., of the Excisc-office , Broad-street, Loud , n, aged 31, On the 29th May last, at Dissar, in the N.W. Provine_g , John W e dd er b uru, o f the Bengal C.S., Alice, his wite and John James, their infant son. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG of No, 112, Strand, Printor, at The Sun Office, No 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Saturday, September 26, 1657. DANK London. I ng Money are uePosit. Prosp AAPlication. THE I shortest and Germany, Through Tral. Company, start Fitly pounds c Further part! Company's Lon( Street. FUND f SIT RgeltlPT Hon, the Lord land and all its their branches by the Provlnci brancheg. The Committ Precisely. Mansion-hou 4 'NM S.W. This Compa 600,e001., with Dite applicatioi !ePreiented. . business. Further infol any, at the Of TO GE] call the Goods, consists Rcotch and E Waistcoatings, Goods.—GEO] rfH E CRE M hAY, Sept. 2t his numerous 1 Grand Closing When the who ances within t acting under t urges the co•o deuce that it N and support of WOrßen who a tinder cireum Personal exerl voted to rend( Pestival of thi A RGY7 Ilayn Past patromq zealous servic friends and tl tis estsblishn f uished artist that he has el AuTomr LAM Valentino, at the City of 14 rewar( being the onl: of honour ai orchestra are OPen every E QCHW WATT e!isees of th( the Na.sau S WATERS ai tottle is prof Manufacture Du FOC 'ALID& SI More easily Milk ; acidit flees, scr.itil the system a have reale to, and a col a stamped a Regent-strei at 21s. 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