The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

EVENI No, OCTOBER 12 1852

60,000 to 2,000 laid agst Filbert
NEWMARKET, MONDAY NIGHT.
ENTRIES, &C , FOR TUESDAY.
Handicap tor three yrs old, and upwards. D.I.
Bordeaux, 5 yrs, Bst 71b—Black Doctor, 4 yra, Bst 71b
—Hesse Homburg, 4 yrs, ist 91b—lIarpsichord, 4 yra,
6st 12ib.

THE ROYAL STArus.--All have paid except Bing►
Popir.k, Longbow, Pouthe, hex, Martinet, Hautboy, Bob
Major, Odd Fellow, b fby Touchstoue out of Event, raid
Glealuce.

THE CLEARWELL—The following are scratched :
Mayfair, b c by Tearaway out of Margaret, Umbriel,
Nutpecker, Margaret of Anjou, c by Hetrnan "'Wuxi out
of Infideiity, Hybla, Frenzy, Exhibition, b f by Bay
Middleton out of Mangosteen, Sittingbourne, Sir Walter,
Elspeth, Koh-i-noor, Talfourd, Osiris, and Pharos.
The Selling Handicap; winner to be sold for 1001, &c.
The Moor, aged, Bst 81b—Ploughboy, 6 yrs, Bat
Sophistry, 3 yrs, "st 111b—Senorita, 3 yrs, 7st 71b---
Jewel, 3 yrs, 7st 41b—Snarry, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b.
THE CESAREWITCH.—The fCzllowing list includes all
the horses scratched up to nine o'clock to-night:—Chief
Baron Nicholson, Bird-on-the-Wing, Musician, Knight
of Gwynzie, Candlewick, Kilquade, Hyacinth, La Gs zza
Ladra, Harrier, Lady Harrier, Termagant, Stilton, Mis-
sive,
Cariboo, Cavan, Bit of Blue, Rusaborough, Sally
Warfoot colt.

Match—Dove receives from Torment.
Sweepstakes; Rutland Stakes Course.
G by Dromedary, out of Apricot, 2 yrs—Gavotte, 2
yrs—Vivarldiere, 4 yrs—dEolus, 4 yrs—No Chance, 4
yrs—Rob Roy, 2 yrs—Newport, 6 yrs.
CLOSE OF THE BETTING ON MONDAY NIGHT.

THE CLEARWELL.
1 to 10 agst Filbert 6 to 4 agst Orinoco

CESAREWITCII.
Ito 2 agst Woathergage 12 to 1 agst Ariosto
0) 16 to 1 agst Lerrywhent
7to 1 apt Lady Evelyn 20 to 1 agst Sharravogue
7 to 1 agst Indian Warrior 20 to 1 agst Lady Aymott
1 to 1I agst Knight of the 20 to 1 agat Le Juit
Shire 20 to 1 apt Richard Primer
BY.
20 to 1 agat Filbert

20 to 1 agst Umbriel

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
CHRO NICLE.—We sincerely trust that a case
lately decided at the Southwark Police-court, on an im-
portant point of railway administration, has not been
lost upon our readers. We reported the complaint on
Wednesday, and the magistrate's decision appeared in
our number of Saturday last. The case was this:—
The driver of a cab refused to take a fare within the
railway terminus at London-bridge, and was summoned
by tho proposed hirer. The railway company de-
fended the cabman on certain special grounds. They
first asserted that a railway terminus is not a pub-
lic street, road, or place, but a private curtilage, we
suppose. They next contended that a cab
at a railway station ceases to be a public
vehicle; and finally, that a cab, under such circum-
stances, could not be held to be plying for hire. These
last averments are, of course, mere pettifogging sur-
plusage; because, it they can stand at all, they go to the
extent of showing that a cab is, pro Mc. vice, not a
hackney carriage, but a private car of the directors;
while, if it is not plying for hire, any person using it
might, at the end of his journey, refuse to pay his fare.
In other words, the railway lawyers ask us to believe that
a cab is tot a cab, and that vehicles of that description
are merely ranged at the stations by generous directors
and charitable cabmen in order to carry railway
travellers home gratuitously. The insolence of this
plea betokens its parentage. A railway official alone
could have ventured upon so flagrant an affront to
common sense. The points raised, it is needless to say,
were dismissed, and, we trust, with indignation, by Mr.
A'Beckett. It deserves notice, however, that the rail-
way company had the unparalleled indiscretion to ven-
ture on the rubterfuges we have stated in the teeth of
the law, which provides that:—" Every hackney car-
riage standing in any
. . . place, . . . unless hired,
shall be deemed plying for hire;" and which defines
a hackney carriage to be, " every carriage .
standing on hire at any place—i. e., the South-
Eastern directors plead that a cab is not a hackney car-
riage, and that their station is not " a place." This,
however, is mere legal chicanery. The plea, however,
advanced by the company is of the most formidable de-
scription, and of the largest hearings. Is or is not a
railway station a public place? Can the Queen's writs
penetrate Euston-square? Are the metropolitan sta-
tions sanctuaries or Alsaties, privileged with feudal or
canonical rights? How far do their immunities ex-
tend? Can they shut their gates, which they boast of
erecting, and exclude the Queen, her men and horses?
Have they received any letters patent which give
them monopolies? Are the old days recurring, and
have exclusive licences been conferred on these com-
panies? What is a railway company? Very serious
constitutional questions are beginning to be mixed up
with railway administration. The Queen's highway is
practically extinct. Every British subject who quits
his home takes out a licence to travel from a board of
directors. This board has created a large trading mono-
poly. It excludes the public from licensed inns and
hotels, and compels us all to eat and drink, at com-
pany's prices, at company's hostelries. A railway
board deals in books, rugs, refreshments, adver-
tisements, cabs, carriages, post-horses and in
every case by a monopoly, They :first take
and next sell an exclusive licence to supply the public
with the necessaries of travelling, and at their own
prices. Station-trading is, no doubt, a public conve-
nience as it is called, but it is no public conve-
nience to be forced to buy our goods at the company's
tariff. Sixpence is too much to pay for a cup of bad
tea or of worse coffee; and yet such is the extent of
railway monopoly that we must either pay this
or go without both through a journey of five hundred,
miles. When railway Acts were passed, did
the Legislature ever contemplate investing the
companies with monopolies as odious and as
monstrous as ever disgraced a Tudor or a Stuart
patent? Once more we ask, what is a railway com-
pany? Is it a news-agent? or an advertising agent? or
a bookseller?—is it a dealer in plaids and fleecy hosiery?
or in stale mutton pies and poisonous soup?—or does it
invest in cabs and posthorses?—or are railway compa-
nies public carriers, and are their roads public roads
—their stations public stations? lir. A'Beckett's deci-
sion has settled this latter point. Tho first
fair blow at railway ityranny and irresponsible
despotism has succeeded. The Catiline of the rail
has sufficiently abused public patience. The claim last
set up by the companies was perfectly intolerable—they
will only permit such hackney carriages as pay for the
privilege to enter their stations- With the proprietors
of these vehicles they enter into a league to plunder the
public. They permit, nay they encourage, the mono-
polist drivers to make what charges they please ; and
the company lays down as its law—in direct contra-
diction to the statues of the realm—that its cabmen
may demand extra fee for luggage, and may refuse
a fare when, and for whatever reason, they please.
No matter whether the privileged and monopolist ve-
hicles are foul, dangerous, or rickety, the company en-
forces its imperious Hobson's choice. The cabs must
be hired in euceession—either the next rotten vehicle
end blind horse, or none. Nor is it in any single de-
partment of railway business that this trading monopoly
is enforced against the public. The companies claim
the right to plaster their walls and carriages with
advertisements. Hero is a direct breach of the
spirit of the law. What right has a railway
to put into its coffers advertisement duty instead of
the Government? Why should the second-class passen-
gers be insulted as they are, by being forced to travel in
an advertising van? Why, for ten or twelve hours, are
we to be compelled to stare upon the typographic and
polychromatic abominations which are stuck up in these
" public carriages?" What a total disregard for decency
and feeling is displayed by offending our eyes in this
scandalous way. Non o/es—wherever a board can turn
a penny it will. It acts as a general commission agent—
it will take a per tentage on every sale. The company pro-
claims itself huckster and broker as well as carrier; the
boards may, and doubtless will, try to admit only their
own tradesmen into their stations; and, by putting an
exorbitant rent on the privilege, they force the public to
submit to any prices that the patentees choose to demand.
We trust that Mr. A'Beckett's decision will introduce
some measure of free trade into railway management.
The principle now laid down by authority is, that bye-
laws are for the public convenience, and not morel; for
the exclusive trading rights in literature, marine stores,
and public vehicles, hitherto claimed by the companies.
Certain regulations for the conduct of trade at stations
may reasonably be enforced, but these must be for the
convenience of travellers, not for the profit of
shareholders. If we aro reduced to the condition that
we must either travel by rail or not all, the companies
must be compelled to furnish such conveniences and
facilities for reasonable and necessary trade as an ordi-
nary public road would afford. Railroad rights entail
whi ach certain
heisfortereaddets o-
railway duties. It is an invasion of public right to com-
pel us, in a public place, to deal with
man and to pay him a vast profit,
charge in order to reimburse himself for the monopoly,
which he has purchased from the company. It is some-
thing, however, to find that the monopoly in cabs is ille-
gal. We shall probably find that the other monopolies
established at the stations are equally illegal.

We regret to have to announce the death of Miss
Augusta Charlotte Baillie, eldest daughter of Kerr Baillie
Hamilton, Esq., the newly-appointed Governor of New-
foundland. Miss llamilton, we believe, had recently re-
turned to England for the benefit of her health, from Gre-
nada, of which island her father was lieutenant-governor;
but the best medical skill of the metropolis, assisted by the
devotion of attached and affectionate relations, was insuffi-
cient to arrest the rapid progress of that fatal malady—con-
sumption. Governor Hamilton arrived in England only just
in time to see his beautiful and accomplished daughter alive,
for she departed this life on the Bth inst., the very day on
which Mr. Hamilton's able and faithful services in the West
Indies were rewarded by the publication in the Gazette of
his promotion to one of the most important colonial offices
under the Crown—the governorship of Newfoundland.

IRON Smrs.— As a good deal of attention has
lately been given to iron ships it may be interesting to ship-
owners to know that the iron barque Richard Cobden, now
being overhauled in No. 1, Canning Graving Dock, was, on
Wednesday last, bored through one of apparently the worst
and most corroded plates on her, Mr. W. F. Sim, the manag-
ing owner, being anxious to ascertain what the actual dimi-
nution in thickness, would prove after eight years' service
between this and the East. The result was that the plate
operated upon turned out to be precisely the same thickness
that it was when the ship was launched in July, 1844,
namely, 9-16ths of an inch on the sixth tier from the keel.
The only part of the vessel which, on examination, exhi-
bited any corrosion, and that only slightly, was the bow,
where the anchor and chain had chafed the paint or coating
with which the vessel is covered as a preservative, and
which appears to perform its office effectmally.— Liverpool
The old American firm of Timothy Wiggin and
Co. has just been re-constructed in London, Mr. Augustus
Wiggin and Mr. F. Boykett, formerly in the Paris house of
Welles and Co , having associated themselves as partners.

A PLEA FOR THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE TIMES.
Sir,—We have had our laugh, and a very hearty
one too, at the absurdities uttered by some of the
" strong-minded women " at Syracuse—at the extra-
vagant demands made upon our patience and forbear-
ance. Perhaps we have felt indignant at the attempt
made to overturn the order of nature, and break in
upon the relations of social and domestic life ; or we
mey have been tempted to round off the whole con-
troversy with the intuitive argument which once
closed a debate epon the subject—" After all, a man
is a man, and a woman is a woman." But the in-
quiry still forces itself upon our attention—is the
relation of woman to society in all respects what it
ought to be ? Has she no genuine wrongs to com-
plain of; when we have put aside the question whether
' she should be a magistrate and a police-officer, a
iegislator and a gaoler, a general and a private sol-
dier, n merchant on 'Change and a draywoman,
a commissioner in bankruptcy and a sheriff's
officer ?
Single women and widows, holding the proper
qualification, have votes for parish officers; why not
for members of Parliament ? Why should their pro-
perty
be unrepresented? Why should they have no
voice in choosing those who shall make laws for
them in common with men ? If they bad the right
to vote, and shrunk from its exercise, they need not
vote. But they du bolder and more courageous
things than it would be to present themselves at the
polling-booth continually, and society applauds them
for so doing. Clear perception of what is right, and
a conscience unflinchingly supporting the decisions of
the understanding, are by no means confined to men.
I doubt if women would cry cut for the dark secrecy
of the ballot-box. If they voted, it would be in the
face of day. Give the femme sole the right to vote,
and you would at once do justice and infuse a purify-
ing element into those scenes of bribery, corruption,
and intimidation, which are the staple of our Parlia-
mentary e!ections.
But perhaps women are virtually represented in
Parliament with the other unenfrauchised members of
society; still, have they nothing to complain of in their
legal position ? Are the laws set around them as a suffi-
cient defence ? The unmarried woman and the widow
it is true, hold property on precisely the slime
tenure as men. So far good. No father, brother, or
cousin can despoil them, except with their own con.
sent. I speak of property which is theirs by gift or
inheritance; it is absolutely theirs, but no longer
than they remain single. If they marry, their pro-
perty becomes absolutely their husband's, or that
transfer, by legal right of the husband, is evaded by
the interposition of trustees. When the priest has
pronounced his blessing, and she and her yet lover
are enjoying the sweets of the honeymoon, he pro-
perty passes as effectually out of her control as if she
were already dead. She is lost in the person of her
husband, or in those of her trustees. The proceeds
of her settlement are nominally to be paid over to her
for her sole use and benefit ; but, as soon as they
come into her hands, her liege lord may demand that
she should deliver up such proceeds to be disposed
of at his discretion, or indiscretion, or worse. Her
settlement is of use only in case of her husband's in-
solvency, to save them both, with their children,
from poverty, or is the rare case of a legal separation.
But let us grant, further, that the settlement of a
married woman, clumsey expedient as it is to cover the
injustice of the law, has its compensating advantages,
that by it a woman is to a certain extent defended
from the consequences of the unthrift or profligacy,
of her husband. Let us grant that a woman's ab-
sorption in the legal person of her husband makes
her and her trustee-held property free from liability
to his creditors, if she have drawn a worse than blank
in the lottery of life, or have recklessly thrown her-
self away upon the unworthy. Still, what shall we
say to the unpropertied woman, the virtuous, indus-
trious, striving woman of the middle and lower
classes, married by fate or folly to an idle, spendthrift,
dissipated husband ? And there are such. He will
not earn a living for her and her children. Why
should he ? Well, then, she will ; and she has not
lost all love for the father of her little ones. She re-
members the days of their courtship, and the first few
sweet months of their married life; and she will work
for him too, if he will let her. Such is often the
prodigal love of woman. But, let her labour, let her
deny herself rest, and leisure, and sleep, and everything
but what is necessary to keep up her strength for
daily duty—let her rejoice and thank God that
she has power to gain bread for the mouths that she
has brought into existence—when she has toiled, and
gathered, and is looking with complacency upon her
gains, considering with joy what necessaries and com-
forts they will purchase for those dearer to her than
her life, her husband may come in and sweep off all
her hard earnings, leave her and her children penni-
less, and spend her precious gains upon his idle and
selfish vices. She has no legal right to withhold
them. She depends altogether upon the energy of
her maternal will and the little remains of grace that
may yet cling to the debased heart of her lord and
master.
I need go no further. Whatever absurdities may
be spoken about woman's rights, a deep feeling of
shame must attend the contemplation of woman's
wrongs ; and surely the Times will give its powerful
support to the demand that such wrongs should be
earnestly considered, and at an early period, with a
view to their redress, that it may no longer be the
opprobrium of our laws that, being made by the
stronger sex, they leave the weaker defenceless just
when they have the deepest need of protection and
the strongest claims upon our sympathy.
Bristol, Oct. 4.

E. C.

THE SUFFERINGS OF WOMAN.
(From the Leader.)
"Whatever absurdities may have been spoken about
Woman's rights," says " E. C.," a correspondent of
the Times, " a deep feeling of shame must attend the
contemplation of Woman's wrongs;" and the writer
claims the assistance of that journal in exposing the
injustice of the law which makes a woman lose all
hold over her own property if she be married, or
which makes the unproportioned woman, however
virtuous, thrifty, and solicitous she may be for her
children, see all her earnings swept away to supply
the vices of a debauched husband. We are too apt
in reading communications of this kind, to let our
minds rest only on the ultimate fact, without calling
to our perception the misery which is inflicted in the
process towards that ultimate fact. We do not dis-
cern, as we should, the condition of the woman who
toils against hope, who carries back in her hand the
humble exchange for bread and clothes to her chil-
dren, who sees them snatched from her by the man
that once said he loved her—we do not feel the gloomy
uncertainty, the sinking heart, the exasperation, the
rage, all rendered vain by the hopelessness—we do
not attain to the distinct perception of this scene,
happen as it does, to a greater or less extent, in thou-
sands of houses right about us, every week, every
year.

- But independently of these civil disabilities, there
are certain personal rights which would not last a day
after woman should be politically enfranchised, or
man should attain to the full sense of the justice which
he owes. Occasionally the wrong bursts forth in
some flagrant scandal, as in the recent " tragedy" at
Paris ; but if such overt tragedies are exceptional,
how much less exceptional are the cases which never
come before the public eye I Even when they do dis-
play their horrors, one reels that there is something
more. In this Paris case, we hear not the beginning.
A man is murdered, and a romance of real life flashes
upon the public; but the narrative has not the com-
pleteness which belongs to fact not less than to
fiction.

We find two English gentlemen in Paris, with
habits of frequent association • one of them, the
younger man, has a wife, amiable and engaging; is
a child-bed fever the lady declares to her husband
that her infant child is not his, but his friend's; the
two men meet immediately afterwards, and the hus-
band kills his rival and flies, and the lady is lodged in
a madhouse. That is very frightful, but it is far from
being all. There is a practice of bushing up the
truth about these matters, though the truth is gene-
rally better to be known than half the truth with a
complement of false inference.
One fact is remarkable ; at the desire of the physi-
cian, the husband bad consented that when his wife
became dangerously ill, the friend should be sum-
moned, and that he should tend her several days and
several nights. Surely the moral necessity for such
attendance must have suggested to any man of the
world enough to prevent that surprise which can
alone justify or extenuate the murderous attack. A
man who is prepared to take vengeance into his own
hand so rigorously, usually courts explanation before
events come to suchia pass.
But still this is not all. It is perfectly well known
in Paris that the intimacy which led to this fatal re-
sult had been the subject of remark. We do not
say these things to aggravate the burden of to exposehefugi-
tive, but we say them because they tend
that barbarous routine in such affairs which makes
the point at issue a mere matter of quarrel between
two men, without any regard to the interests or feel-
ings of the woman. She is the helpless plaything of
others' passions. The very candour of a mind help-
lessly alienated by sickness could not disarm the fe-
rocity of personal pride. What mattered the mortified
" honour" of a man, compared to the wreck of the
woman's reason, life, and affections ? They are made
of no account.

Nor are we, in the absence of all evidence either
way, to presume that the transfer of the woman's of was a mere caprice. Without repeating any
of the stories current in the whisper which accompa-
nies the published reports, we content ourselves with
saying that we must not so presume. Was there any
reason for the change ? and if so, what was the rea-
son ? Did it leave the balance of blame to her or to
the "injured " husband ? Was he or she the more
materially injured, the more outraged ? The facts
which would be the reply to these questions seldom

come out on the post mortem inquiry ; the woman's
case is seldom stated, far more seldom made good ;
yet assuredly, in the eye of real justice, she should
stand on an equality of right with the man.
But the discussion of these subjects continues in the
Times ; however superficially, the relation of woman
to man is discussed in the most public journal of the
world ; and the facts will gradually draw discussion
beneath the surface.

OUR MARITIME RES 0 URCES.-1 VA-
TIONAL DEFENCE.
• We read in a Liverpool journal a few days since
an extract from a work of some authority, in Which
it was stated that in 1799 the merchants of Liverpool
fitted out 120 privateers, amounting to 31,385 tons,
which carried 1,986 guns and 8,754 men. This
squadron realised upwards of a million sterling prize
money. If Liverpool could do this in 1799, she
could doubtless in the present day furnish for defen-
sive and offensive purposes at least five times the
force—one-third of it steam vessels, with 40,000
stalwart fellows to man them.
Here then is the reserved naval force of the coun-
try; but the question is how to make it available in as
short a time as a steamer can cross the Channel?—
and if these 40,000 men were ready on an emergency,.
where are the armaments ? and if the guns were
ready, how will the seamen know the way to
handle them ? They would do well enough
if they could run alongside of the enemy.
The same daring and headlong courage and grim
determination that irresistibly carried all before
them during the war, would tell with the same
disastrous results to the foe; but how would they
manage with a skilled enemy, who could choose his
distance ? They would be in about the same predi-
cament as men armed with old snips' pistols encoun-
tering others with the modern hair triggers : with
this disadvantage too, that not only would their shots
be random ones, but they would not, as in the late war,
be enabled to du any injury by hurling their weapons
at their opponents, for the enemy would be out of
reach.

• There is no doubt that we have both materiel and
. personnel to resist the combined attack of the whole
world, but for the moment they are comparatively
useless. The announcement of hostilities will be a
powerful dash, and it cannot be denied that to meet a
coup de main we have no ships besides those of the
Royal Navy adapted for the service, and no organised
force of trained sailors to man the ships if they were
everything that could give the country confidence in
the protection they would be expected to afford.
It is, then, adaptation of vessels and organization
of men that are wanted to give security against
foreign aggression. To meet these requirements we
have two committees, nominated by the Admiralty,
at present at work; the first is inquiring into the
capability of the merchant steam navy to receive a
war equipment; and the second is collecting evidence
to guide them in propounding to the Government the
best and readiest means of manning the navy. To
what extent these committees have proceeded, we
know not; but we trust that they have already ar-
ranged for the Royal Mail Packet steamers to be
fitted for the emergencies of war, and that they have
obtained the unanimous consent of the seamen be-
longing to those steamers, to be instructed in the use
of great guns and small arms, and that having given
the necessary orders to the Ordnance Departments
for the supply of the armaments, they are ready to
extend their sphere of inquiry at the great ports of the
country, with the view of organising defensive squad-
rons from amongst the hundreds of other steam-ves-
sels belonging to Great Britain, and of not only ob-
taining the promises of the seamen to serve in time
of need, but of making themselves really efficient
and powerful—we may say invincible, by commencing
to receive instructions in the use of the great gun and
the cutlass.
If only one seaman in ten, or even fifteen, were
proficient in the gunnery exercise, the seamen of the
ports of London and Liverpool alone, as auxiliaries
to our Royal fleet, would settle an invasion in a
more summary manner than even the Spaniards did
the attempt on Cuba by the American fillibusteros.—
Herald.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
SAILING MATCH BETWEEN THE CELE-
BRATED AMERICAN YACHT AMERICA AND
THE SWEDISH YACHT SVERIGE.
COWES, Om 12, 1852.—This match, which is for
1004 a sido, was to have come off on Saturday, at 11 A.M.
The Swede was at her post, ready for starting, but the
owner of the America objected to sailing as he con-
sidered that there was not a 7-knot breeze, which being
supported by the Secretary of the Royal Yacht Club, the
America did not get under weigh; but the Sverige
started alone, and reached off to the Nab. Soon after her
return the America got under weigh, and they beat down
the north shore off Cowes, the America having, we
thought, some advantage as she laid nearer the wind.
Her sails stand like boards, while the Swede's bag like
the English yachts, or nearly as bad. The Sverige re-
turned to Cowes Roads on Saturday evening. This
morning she proceeded again to the starting point, but
there not being a 7-knot breeze, she tried her powers
with the Wildfire yacht, which the sailor's say sails like
a " little devil." The little un had the start, and they
proceeded to the westward, the wind being from the
northward; with the light breeze blowing she was likely
to keep it. The Russian yacht and several schooners of
the R.Y.S. are also trying their sailing qualities.
The Swedish yacht has returned to her anchorage in
our roadstead; to-morrow, at 11, she will be at her post
again. when may a stiff breeze attend her.
A FLOATING BRIDGE FROM WEST TO EAST COWES.
—This long wished-for and highly desirable mode of
joi❑ing these two towns is likely soon now to be carried
into effect. A company is being formed, engineers are
on the spot, traffic takers are busily employed at the
ferry, and there is every appearance of the subject being
taken up in a business-like manner, and being well sup-
ported by the inhabitants of Cowes, Ryde, and indeed
the island generally.

COURT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, OCT. 10.
Her Msjesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
went yesterday to the Balloch Bhuic Deer Forest.
The Right Hon. Spencer Walpole has arrived at
Balmoral, and will remain in attendance upon her
Majesty.
The younger members of Mr. Farquharson's family
came over from Invercauld yesterday afternoon to
spend the evening with the Princess Royal and the
Royal children.

Mr. M'Donnell, Governor of Antigua, had an in-
terview with Sir John Pskington yesterday at the
Colonial-office. Mr. Joshua Walker had an interview
with the Right Hon. Baronet on Saturday.
The Duke of Leinster and the Marquis of Clanri-
carde had an interview with Lord Colchester yester-
day, at the Board of Trade.

LOSS OF THE RED ROVER STEAMER.
The Dutch range of coast appears to have experienced
the recent Equinoctial gales as severely as our own
shores, perhaps more so as regards the number of dis-
asters and the loss of life and property. The havoc
amongst the shipping was most considerable, and of the
many vessels wrecked daring the storm was the cele-
brated Red Rover steamer, which for many years, it may
bo remembered, was a favourite passage boat between
London, Herne Bay, and Margate. The unfortunate
event took place during the height of the gale on Friday
night while on her first outward trip to Grongen. The
Red Rover some short time back, was purchased off her
old station for the purpose of being converted into a
screw boat, and to be employed in the Dutch trade, the
conveyance of cattle and general merchandise; she under-
went a thorough overhaul, hull strengthened, paddle-
boxes removed, new engines put into her, and fitted with
the screw propeller. Other alterations and improve-
ments were made in order to render her a sure sea-boat,
and under the command of Mr. Cullam, master, she left
the Thames on Wednesday on her first voyage across to
the Dutch coast. Scarcely had she got into anything
like sea-room before she encountered the gale which has
proved so destructive in all directions of the coast. She
steamed on in the hope of weathering the storm, and she
was reported by two vessels, since arrived, to be making
all way to her destination. Friday afternoon, however,
brought more fearful weather, which tried the vessel
severely; and she was blown ashore on the beach about
two miles from Schevengen, and the master and crew,
and some persons who had been permitted to take a
voyage in her, were saved. On the same night another
vessel, called the Sirene, bound to Stettin from Cher-
bourg, went ashore near the spot where the Red Rover
was wrecked, and, melancholy to add, only two out of
the ship's crew were saved. In the vicinity of the Dooms-
dens 50 fishing boats, each containing five men, were out
when the storm set in, and out of that number only five
had returned when the mail left. The worst
fears are
entertained for the fate of the remainder of the
fisher-
men.

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THE LATE J. C. NEILD, Ese..—The death of Mr.
Neild has placed a mass of papers in the hands of his execu-
tors. lie was in the habit of safely storing the various com-
munications he received, and also copies of the answers which
he sent. From these it is clear that although he was rigidly
careful and penurious, he was not without sympathy for his
fellow men, but that he did at times distribute portions of
his great wealth in acts of benevolence and charity. To the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum and the Bucks Infirmary he was a
contributor; and, notwithstanding his stern and repulsive
mode of receiving personal solicitations, it is known that the
deserving needy were, when in distress, often assisted by
him. It has been said that the persons who found him at
North Marston, when he cut his throat some 25 years since,
and but for whose interposition he must have perished, were
not rewarded by him. This, it transpires, is
incorrect, inas-
much as in his life-time, the family were from time to time
assisted and some of them were by his aid enabled to emi-
grate.—Oxford Chronicle.
CHILD MIIRDEIt.--Yesterday (Friday) morning,
while one of the labourers at
P
the manure from the depot in present engaged in removing
adgeoaddewaads
bemocipylooyfeda
in digging up the earth he discoveredarn
male child. It appeared to have been about a month old at
the time of death, and when found was in a very advanced
state of decomposition. No traces have as yet been disco-
uered of the perpetrators of the unnatural deed.—Glasgow
Constitutional.

THE TEA TRADE, OCT. 11.—The deliveries of tea
in London last week were rather larger, amounting to
630;0001bs.