The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-20 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY WVVNING, OCTOBER 2O, 1849

COURT CIRCULAR.
W tiDSUIT, FRIDAY.
The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
walked this morning in the grounds around the
Castle.

The Royal Family took their accustomed airings.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent d►ned
with the Queen and his Royal Highness.
The Earl of Carlisle and Colonel the llon. C. B.
and Mrs. Phipps had the honour of joining the royal
party at dinrer.

The Hon. Miss Stanley and the Hon. Miss Mac-
donald have relieved the Hon. Miss Cavendish and the
lion. Miss Kerr in their duties as Maids of Honour
in Waiting to the Queen.

Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, chairman, and Sir William
Hylton Jolliffe, M.P., deputy chairman, of the Direct
London and Portsmouth Railway Company, accom-
panied by Mr. Burchell, the solicitor of the company,
had an interview with the Commissioners of Railways
yesterday at their office in the Board of ade.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial-oflice for the Governors of the North
American colonies.

Dispatches were also sent off last evening from the
Colonial office for the Governors of Ilong-Kong and
Ceylon.

BEALTII of the QUEEN DOWAGER.
(From the Court Circular)
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager passed an in-
different night oa Thursday. Dr. Bright attended
her Majesty at Bentley Priory, Stanmore, on Thurs-
day, and afterwards left for town, Sir David Davies
continuing in attendance on her Majesty.
Yesterday the Queen Dowager remained in the
same state of indisposition. Dr. Bright returned
yesterday to the Priory from London, and remained
in attendance on ner Majesty last evening.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY.
Yesterday the Chairman and other members of the
committee appointed by the Corporation to make the
arrangements for her Majesty's reception upon the
occasion of the opening of the Coal-Exchange assem-
bled in the Guildhall, for the purpose of commencing
their labours. The Lord Mayor continued with the
committee during the day. His Lordship and the
committee, attended by Mr. Bunning, the City ar-
chitect, took a view of the new building and the
approaches to it from the Custom-house quay, where
it is proposed her Majesty and the members of the
Royal Family shall land from the Admiralty barge
on the 30th inst. The moment it was understood
that it was the Royal wish to go by water, the au-
thorities at the Custom-house placed the building at the
disposal of the committee, to enable them to carry out
all the details of their operations in a manner calcu-
lated to do honour to the city of London. The com-
mittee came to the determination that an ornamental
and extensive covered way should be erected directly
opposite to the centre of the Custom-house, and ex-
tending to the entrance of the Coal Exchange, suffi-
ciently capacious, after all due preparations shall have
been made for her Majesty's progress to the new
building, to accommodate a considerable number of
their fellow-citizens to witness the procession by
water and the Queen's landing. They instructed
Mr. Bunning, the architect of the new Coal-Ex-
change, to provide all the suitable decorations and
fittings in such a manner as would be calculated to
have the most magnificent effect upon the occasion.
This day the committee of the Court of Aldermen
will meet for the purpose of making such regulations
as nay be necessary to be observed in the ceremonial,
as far as their authority as magistrates extend, con-
nected with the streets and the river.
We have reason to believe that the following
arrangement, copied from the report of the proceed-
ings of the London bridge Committee, on the occasion
of the visit of William IV., will be strictly adhered
to on the 30th inst., so far as the city will be
concerned :

" To facilitate their Majesties' passage down the river,
and to prevent confusion and inconvenience, two parallel
lines of vessels were formed into a passage of about 150
feet wide, consisting of a double, and in many cases a
triple line of barges, steamers, yachts, and craft of every
description, which extended from the upper water-gate
of Somerset House, next Waterloo-bridge, to about half
way between Southwark-bridge and the new bridge,
when the line became more open, and gradually spread
to the stairs of the new bridge on each side, so as to
afford ample space for the boats in the procession to
land their inmates and retire. The termination of the
linos at these points was formed by the eight city barges,
with the Navigation barge and shallops. Each barge
had its appointed station—those of the Lord Mayor (the
Right lion. John Key) and the Stationers' Company,
were rather in advance of the bridge, and all were pro-
vided with bands of music. Flags and colours of all
descriptions were brought into requisition, and even the
vessels below bridge all appeared in their holiday deco-
rations."

Amongst the members assembled yesterday in the
Guildhall there was one predominant feeling, ♦iz.,
tlut her Most Gracious Majesty would be pleased
to introduce his Royal Highness the Prince of \Vales
to her grateful citizens of London on the auspicious
occasion.

The Fairy screw steamer, and the Elfin paddle-
wheel vessel, are ordered from Portsmouth to London,
to assist on the above occusion. The funnel of the
former vessel has been made to fall down to admit of
shooting the bridges, and the latter is having a joint
made in hers to enable her to do likewise. Captain
Crispin, the second in command of the Royal yacht,
arrived at the Admiralty yesterday, to receive instruc-
tions from the Board relative to the Royal navigation
on the 30th. The steam yacht of the Lords of the
Admiralty (the Black Eagle) has also been ordered
from Portsmouth, probably to assist at the Royal
ceremony, and arrived in the river yesterday evening.

THE TRAGEDY OF RUSKBY.
BY ANGELUS.

[The following charming verses will be perused by
our readers with pleasure—the first an earnest
lamentation over the sufferings of Madame Maders-
pach—the second an impassioned specimen of erratic
poetry. They promise largely for the writer, as a
literary aspirant.—ED. Sun.]

See where in pallid beauty stands
The trembling wife, in wounded shame:
Tearless, and with uplifted hands
From pitying God, support to claim:
Frum God—for Man has none to give,
Nor pity, nor remorse,
But only the fell curse,
The tiger's slakeless will, that she shall tortur'd live!

IL
0! twofold pang of stripe and sneer;
And worse—as stung to self-sought death,
Her husband on his blood-stain'd bier
A silent rcquiem saith I
And still her wrongs dilated grow—
Her Son from honour's path
Is torn by Tyrant-wrath
To make more hopeless still, a WOMAN'S matchless wi

SUNSHINE.
BY ♦NGELUS.

What tho' lira may have its anguish—
Hopes, that all too brit fly stay;
Faith, and Joy, that droop to languish,
Dying with the pulse of day:
Shull we, while the breeze is laughing,
Bid the glee-birds sing the less?
Dash the cup, Delight is quaffing.
Scared by shadow'd bitterness?
Oh, nol

Child of beauty! Summer hours
Coming Winter cannot harm:
Let the primrose path be ours
While the sun shines out to charm.
0! se) pure and bright our gladness—
Rapture's kiss, or smile, or tear—
Thu' they call it " Love's sweet madness,"
Shall I heed, if thou be near?
Oh, no!

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—Why do not the Post-office authorities en-
gage clerks of the Jewish persuasion, sufficient to
carry on the duties on the Sunday, without infringing
on the feelings of persons, if such there are, who think
it matter of conscience to impugn the direction of the
Christian Apostle ?
The Jews, great sticklers for the observance of the
Sabbath, make no scruple of employing a Christian
servant to stir their fires on the Saturday.
ONE WHO BELIEVES SABBATICAL
OBSERVANCE PROHIBITED TO
CHRISTIANS.—See Coloas.2. 16.

DEATH OF MA OR. GENERAL MUNRO, or THE
ROYAL A RTILLE ra.— Major- General Munro, K.H., died
at liathmines on the 16th instant. He had been up-
wards of half a century in the army, having entered it
in 1795. He served in the Egyptian campaign under
Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and was present at the actions
of the 21st of March, and the siege of Aboukir. He
afterwards was engaged in the expedition to Walcheren,
and was at the siege of Flushing. He subsequently
served in America, during the campaign in 1814 and
1815.

DEATH OF SIR. THOMAS LETHBRIDGE, BART.—
This venerable Baronet, who was for many years a
prominent Member of the Lower House, died on the
17th inst., at the Royal Crescent, Bath. Sir Thomas
was Colonel of the 2d Somerset Militia, and represented
the county of Somerset in Parliament for many years on
Conservative principles. He held a large property in
that county as well as in Devonshire. The deceased was
twice married, first in 1796, to the daughter of Sir
Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh ; and secondly, in 1823, to
the daughter of Ambrose Goddard, Esq., of Swindon, in
the county of Wilts. lie succeeded his father in 1815.
Sir Thomas has issue two children by his first marriage,
and six by his second. lie is succeeded by his eldest
son John. The family claims descent from an eminent
legni functionary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
It is not difficult to content one's self with solitude,
when it is known that society may be had, if wished for.
—Eliza Cook's Journal.

NAVAL INTELLIGEN'CE.

DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL MATHEW W
Ogicial intelligence was received at the Arniraity
yesterday of the death of Vice-Admiral of ti :e Whitt:
Mathew Godwin, at the advanced ege of nearly 83
years. The gailaet deceased was what is termed a
" dotted admiral," not having served since he was
posted. He entered the navy, in 1780 as a volunteer
on board the Fewiroyant, 84, Captain John Jervis,
and on April 21, 1782, assisted as midshipman at the
capture, after a gallant action of nearly an hour,
attended, however, with no casualty to the British, of
the French 74-gun ship Pegase, whose loss, besides
being seriously damaged, amounted, out of a crew of
700 men, to 80 killed and wounded. From May in
the same year until the receipt of his first commission,
August 1, 1794, Mr. Godwin, with intervals,
served on the West India and home stations in
the Pigmy brig, Captain Wm. Mitchel ; Triumph,
74, Captain Richard Onslow ; Flirt brig, Captain
James Norman ; Prudente, 38, Captain Henry Trol-
lope ; Active frigate, Captain Edmund Nagle ; and
Royal George, 100, flag-ship of 1..( Bridport. He
then joined the Bellerophon, 74, Captains Williams
Hope and Lord Cranstoun, and was afterwards i:p.
pointed to the Commerce de Marseilles, Captain
Child, and to the Prince George, Glory, Tounde.rer,
and Tremendous, flag-ships, latterly at the Cape of
Good Hope and in the East Indies, of Sir Hugh Clo-
berry Christian. In the capacity of commander, a
rank he attained Jan. 1.5, 1102, Captain Godwin
next, on June 23, 1803, joined the Trompeuze sloop,
in which he cruised off the south-west coast of Ire-
land until Sept. 30, 1804. Having been promoted to
post rank on the Bth of the preceding May, he was
then superseded.
The Gazette of last night announces the promo-
tions in consequence of the death of Vice-Admiral
Godwin. Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill, Bart., is now
the senior Rear-Admiral on the list, and Captain
Maurice F. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, C. 8., M.P.,
A.D.C., of the Board of Admiralty, is now the
senior on the list. Captain Edward Le Cras Thorn-
borough (1827) has succeeded to the 14s. Gd. a day
half-pay ; and Captain Edward A. Frankland (1835)
has succeeded to the 12s. Gd. a day half-pay list.
THE BREVET PROMOTION.
The promotions of the officers of the navy are such
as were previously due, and must, in justice, have
been made in the course of a few months, without the
auxiliary prompting of a Royal visit to Ireland.
Captain Robert Harris entered the navy, Jan. 26,
1822, and from that time to the present has served
afloat nearly 21 years. His first ship was the Fury-
alus, 42, Captain (now Rear-Admiral) W. W. J.
Clifford, and served in her at the blockade of Algiers;
and after a few months in the Algerine, 10, served in
the Cambria, 46, at Navarino, and shared in the ser-
vice of capturing numerous pirates in the Grecian
Archipelago, ultimately suffering shipwreck during
an attack on a nest of these marauders, at Carabusa,
January, 1898. He was next mate of the Ferret,
10, and was afterwards appointed to the Royal George
yacht, and served in the tenders Onyx and Pantaloon,
in charge of a watch in their various cruises to South
America, the West Indies, the coast of Spain and
Portugal, and in surveying the coast of Ireland.
He was made a Lieutenant in May, 1833, and
after serving in the Excellent, gunnery-ship, for
three years, obtained tie highest awardable certi-
ficate. He served in the Melville, 74, as gunnery
lieutenant, in the West Indies, the Cape, and China
coast, and was promoted to the rank of commander
for his services at the capture of the forts of the Bocce
Tigris, and for commanding a rocket boat in the
operations in the Canton River. As a commander he
most ably commanded the Flying Fish, 12, in the
experimental brig trials, and subsequently on the coast
of Africa, and since March, 1848, has served in the
ship from which he has been promoted, having com-
manded the Virago steam-sloop pro tern. as the man-
of-war escort to the royal squadron last year, in her
Majesty's cruise to Aberdeen. Captain Harris studied

steam in 1842, at the college, and publi.,hed on his
return from China some "Remarks on Heaving Down
a 72. gun Ship" (Melville, at Chusan).
Commander Protheroe, promoted from command of
the Crocodile, receiving ship at Cork, has been in the
navy since 1811, and has served afloat 19 years. He
passed his examination in 1819, having served in the
Swiftsure, 74, Mediterranean ; Stately, 64, off Cadiz ;
Impetueu, 74, Lisbon ; Eridinas and Cerus, frigates,
Chatham ; Orontes, 36, West Indies; Horatio, 38,
East Indies. As mate be served in the latter ship on
home station • Ferret and Helicon, sloops, North
America and West Indies ; and subsequently Doterel,
Britannia, and Rattlesnake. He was acting lieute-
nant of Beaver, 10, West Indies, when he was con-
firmed, and paid off from her in 1826.
Commander Bedford has been in constant employ
since he first entered the navy in 1824, and proceeded
on surveying service, at Newfoundland, in the Snap,
10, with Captain Bullock. He is the son of that dis-
tinguished veteran officer, Lieut. Bedford, of Green-
wich Hospital; was made a lieutenant in 1838 ; was
engaged in the survey of the coast of England, and
recently in surveying on the coast of Scotland, where
he has frequently piloted the Royal yacht when her
Majesty or Prince Albert has been on board.
Commander Oliver Jones, son of the late Major
General Oliver Jones, who commanded the 18th
Hussars under Sir John Moore in the Peninsula,
entered the navy September, 1826 ; passed his ex-
amination in 1832, and remained seven years as mate.
As a lieutenant he served in the Southampton, 50,
at the Cape; Calcutta, 84, Lisbon; as first of the
Snake, 16, in the Mediterranean; additional of the

Queen, 110, same station; and as senior of the Pilot,
16, in the East Indies ; and since May, 1848, as
senior of the Ganges, to which he is now reappointed,

APPOINTMENTS.

Commander—Oliver J. Jones, promoted from First
Lieutenant of the Ganges, 84, to be Commander of
that ship, vice Harris, promoted.
Lieutenants—J. B. Massie (1838) has been ap-
pointed to the command of the Crocodile, at Queens-
town, vice Prothero, promoted; George 0. Popple-
well (1642), to the Ganges.
Master's Assistant—Robert Todd, to the Ganges.
The Wolverine, 16, Commander M. Falcon, arrived
at Sheerness from Chatham on Monday, and sailed
on Tuesday, after adjusting her compasses,
.for Spit-
head, where she arrived on Thursday evening. She
saluted the Port-Admiral of Portsmouth yesterday
morning, and sailed about ten o'clock for Plymouth.
The Scourge steam sloop, Commander the Right
Hon. Lord Frederick Kerr, was undocked at Ports-
mouth on Thursday, to make room for the new screw
steam-ship Termagant, which is being advanced for
commission, and receiving the model coaling galley of
Thomas Grant, Esq., of the Clarence-yard. She has
not yet received her ordnance ; the 13-inch mortar
will not be put on board; she will be armed with the
usual pivot guns, one forward, a 10-feet gun, 68-
pounder of 94 cwt. for solid shot, and a 10-inch shell
gun of 85 cwt. aft. She will have two broadside
guns, 32 pounders, 42 cwt., and two 24 howitzers for
her paddle-box boats. The mortar bed will remain
ready in case of the mortar being required.
THE ADMIRAL'S GOOD-SERVICK PENSION.—The
vacant pension of 3001. per annum, by the death of
Sir E. IV. C. R. Owen, G.C.8., G.C.H., will be con-
ferred upon Admiral of the Blue Sir Thomas Cape),
K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, who
was Nelson's lieutenant and signal officer in the Van.
guard at the battle of the Nile, and who brought the
iispatches of that memorable victory to England in
the Mutine. He was captain of the Phcebe, 36, at
Trafalgar ; captain of the Endymion at the forcing
of the Dardanelles, in 1807; and of the Hogue, on
the coast of North America, in 1812 and 1814.
fo• morrow (the 44th anniversary of Trafalgar) will
he a proud day for Sir Thomas Capel and the other
,urviving veterans of that great and glorious victory.
the gallant old ship in Portsmouth harbour, which
bore the dead hero's flag in the strife, will be gar-
landed and festooned once more in honour of the
auspicious day, long yet to be remembered by
Englishmen.

TIIE COURT' MARTIAL ON LIEUTENANT RICHARDS.
—The sentence and finding of the court having been
confirmed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admi-
ralty, Lieutenant and Adjutant P. H. FeHowes,
proceeded yesterday morning to Lieutenant Richards'
quarters, and read over the proceedings and finding of
the court, being an honourable acquittal of all the
charges upon which Lieutenant Richards was tried.
Owing to his still labouring under illness, that officer
by desire of the medical officers, went into Melville
hospital yesterday.
CHATHAM, OCT. 19.—The following promotions
have taken place consequent upon the decease of Mr.
S. Vinell, first class clerk at this yard :—Mr. Charles
Slade, from second to first class; Mr. H. Alms, from
third to second jclass ; Mr. Finmore, extra clerk, to
third class ; and Mr. Wood appointed extra clerk.
The Pigmy steam-vessel sailed on the 17th inst.,
with a [number of men and boys from the ordinary
ship Poictiers, to join ships in commission at Ports.
mouth.

The Poictiers, 72, depot ship of the ordinary,
Captain Peter Richards, was paid wages on the 18th
inst., down to six months ; and this day large placards
were posted at the Dockyard gates, that a number of
able seamen and artificers are wanted for the royal
navy. All applications are to be made on board the
said ship.
The Cumberland, 70, the Warspite, 50, and the
Terpsichore, 18 guns, were severally inspected yes-
terday by the rnapter shipwright and other officers.
It is reported that these ships are to be prepared for
commission.

Woor.wicu, OCT. 19.—The Stromboli, steam sloop,
Commander Lord Amelius Beauclerk, left this port
at eleven A.M. today for Portsmouth.
The Monkey, the Jasper, and the Advice steam-
ves,els left Woolwich this morning, for Deptford, to
tow the St. Lawrence, 4G-gun,frrgate, to Sheerness ;
Mr. Gosnaan, master of the Irsgard, in charge of the
frigate. The St. Lawrence was taken from Sheer-
ness to Deptford, to serve as a temporary hospital

ship while the Dreadnought was undergoing a
thorough repair at Woolwich.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 18 --The Ganges is ordered to
be s#o:ed for foreign Fervice, but her destination is not
yet made known. She is to have 68-pounders, instead
of 32 pounders.
Toe Octavia, new 50 gun frigate, in charge of Mr.
Henderson, Master-Attendant of this dcckyard, left
Pembroke la-t week, but the strong wind from the
eastward prevented her from getting up Channel until
yesterday, when the Confiance steamer towed her in.
When of Scilly she fell in with a:strong wind from
the east, will a heavy sea, which carried away her
foreyard, and she put back into Mount's Bay.
'the Conflict, on her way down the harbour, on
Saturday, while under halt-steam, went aground on
the mud accumulated in St. John's Lake. She re-
mained there for twelve hours and a half, during
which time a party of shipwrights from the dockyard
were using their exertions to get her off. They
removed from on board of her water, shot, and guns,
amounting to about 100 ton., ar.d on the tide 11,;wing,
by the assistance of the Confiance steam-tug, they
succeeded.

The Piiilomd, 8, at DE.vonport, is to have Stirling's
metal sheathing tried on her bottom, instead of copper.
She will be taken out of d :vk on the 6 h of November.

The Trident was paid wages yesterday by Admiral
Sir John Louis, and went out of harbour. S!le sails to-
day for Liverpool, for men. While she has been in
this, port she has b;-en payed over with 111r.,Ilay's
composition, which has proved so successful. Mr.
flay superintended the work, the Admiralty-having
ordered him from Portsmouth foAhat purpose.
The Hound brig is ordered to be got ready for com-
mission.

The Spiteful steamer is to be taken into dcck, to
Pave her bottom cleaned.

SPORTING IN-;fEar6ENCE.

CURRAG II OCTOBER MEETING.—THURSDAY.
Sligo Stakes (renewed) of 25 sovs, 10 ft, for two yrs
old; colts, 8.0 71b; fillies, Bst 31b. Anglesey Post.
31b allowed to untried stallions or mares, 51b to both.
The Club will add 40 soya. The winner of the Angle-
sey Stakes to carry 51b extra. No produce no ft.
Mr. Irwin's ch c Pio Nono, by Retriever...(Chifuey) 1
Col.Westenra's b Whisper Low ...(Doyle, jun.) 2
Mr. Watts's b > Marchioness D'Eu (Lilly)- 3
Won cleverly.
His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant's Plate of 100 gs;
two yrs old, 6st 51b; three, 9st 21b; four, 10st; live,
lost Sib; six and aged, 10st 61b. Red Post. ;3113;111-
lowed to mares and geldings..
Mr. Armstrong's Doll Tearsheet, 2 yrs (Nfonaghtn) 1
Mr. Disney's Captain Grant, 2 yrs (L. Kwegan, juil.) 2
Mr. Irwin's ch g Pio Nono, 3 yrs (Lynch) 3
Mr. Wallace's br fby the Major, 3 yrs ...(Murphy)' 0
Mr. Farrar's bl c Visc,unt, 3 yrs (Farrell)' 0
Mr. G. Power's b c 13ullion, 2 yrs ...(James Wynne) 0
Mr. Newcomer's bc St John, 2 yrs (Fallon) 0
Won easy. Pio Nono a bad third.
Curragh of Kildare Cesarewitch Stakes, a Free Handi-
cap of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft. 50 sovs. added. About
two miles and a quarter; second horse to save his stake
Mr. Murphy's ch c Dough, 4 yrs, Bst 61b (Magee) 1
Mr. J. Hyland's Allegrette, 4 yrs, Tat 21b ...(Foley) 2
Lord Waterford's Brother to Rattrap, 5 yrs, Bst 81b 3
Mr. Irwin's ch h Ballinafad, 5 yrs, Bst 61b (Chifney) 0
Won by a length.
Selling Stakes—Sweepstakes of 5 soya, each, with 25
sovs. added, for all ages; three yrs old, ist 41b; four,
Bst 71b; five, 9st; six and aged, 9st 41b. Waterford
Post. All horses starting are subject to be sold for
200 sovs; entering to be sold for 150 sovs allowed 51b;
100 sovs, 91b; 50 soya, 141 b; 25 sovs, 211 b. 2 sovs each
for entrance.
Mr. Mangan's b f Portia, 3 yrs, 501 (E. Keegan) 1
Mr. Wynne's ch g Elemi, agd, 501.. (Wynne) 2
Mr. Irwin's b c Red Knight, 4 yrs, 251 (Ducie) 0
Mr. St. George's ch g Accident, 5 yrs, 50/ (Foley) 0
Mr. licegan's b c Maraschino, 4 yrs, 251 b (Miller) 0
Mr. Nolan's bl m by Friar—Dust, 6 yrs, 100/ 0
Mr. L. Byrne's b f Revoke, by Retriever, dam by
Napoleon, 3 yrs, 501 (J. Wynne) 0
Lord Waterford's eh cby Birdcatcher, 3 yrs, 50/ ... 0
A good race.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.-7 to 1 agst Rathmines
(take 8 to 1), 8 to 1 agst Baby (taken), 10 to 1 agst
Ribaldry, 14 to 1 apt Woolwich (taken, and after-
wards &red), 15 to 1 agst Glauca, 15 to 1 apt Cruci-
ble, 15 to 1 agst Vanguard, 18 to 1 agst Collingwood,
20 to 1 agst Rienzi (taken), 30 to 1 agst Prior of St. Mar-
garet's (taken), 1,000 to 15 agst Malton, 1,000 to 15
agst .Bhylock (taken), 1,000 to 15 agst Legerdemain.

CRITERION STAKES.
2to 1 agst The Nigger (t) sto I agst Pitsford (0
4 to 1 agst Nutshell (t)
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Brighton harrs., Mon., Patcham; Wed., Race Course;
Fri., llyke—loi.
Brookside harrs., Mon., Newmarket-hill; Thurs.,
Telscombe Tye-101.
F. B. hds., Mon., Ladock; Fri., Perran Wharf-10i.
Mr. Littleton's hds., Tues, East Taphou9e-14.
York and Ainsty hds., Tues., Ribstone Park; Thurs.,
Oulston; Sat., Crocity-hill-101.
Bramham Moor hds., Mon., Harewood House; Wed.,
Bramham Park; Fri., Bickerton Bar; Sat., Keddle-
lane-101.
Sir Tatton Sykes's hds., Mr,n., Settrington Rouse;
Wed., %Mit:moor Build; Fri., Raisthorp—lot.
Holdetness hds., Mon., Burton Constable; Tues.,
Everiugham Park; Thurs., Rise; Fri. Lund Village
Captain Lewis's harrs., Tues., Morton Bridge; Fri.,
Mr. Coates's, Pasture House—n.
Cleveland lids., Mon., Upleathatn; Thurs., Hutton
Low Cross-14.
Darhatn County hds., Elemore Hall; Wed ,
Plawsrvorth Bar; Fri.. Tunitall-10i.
Harrogate harrs., Mon., Saltergate-hill; Fri., Cross-
roads on Thornton Moor-10i,
High Peak harrs., Mon., Brassington Wharf; Fri.,
Hurdlow House-11.

Mr. Trelawuey's hds., Tues., Cadover Bridge; Fri.,
Kennell, 10i.
Mr. Fursei' hds., Mon., Friar's Hall, near llattersly;
Fri., Hunshaw Weed-101.
Mr. Morgan's hds., Mon., Deer Parks; Thurs., Dun•
terden.

North Devon hds., Tues., Leworthy Post; Fri., North
Melton-10k.
Tiverton hd9.' Mon., Spurway Miil, Oakford; Thurs.,
Hayne Moor, Bampton-10.
Dulverton hrrs., Mon., Steeple Cross, near Hock.
worthy; Fri., Bampton-101.
Mr. Powell's hds., 'rues., Commercial Inn; Fri.,
Clegy frau Bridge-10.
Dal:idly lids., Mon., Mansant; Fri., Biggin-10.
Tivyside hds., Mon., Eglwyrsw Viltige; Thurs. Llan-
dytrimg Mill-10.

Show hds., Tues., Dihewyd; FEL, the seventh
milestone on the Cardigan road-11.

SPORTING.
Lord Lovat, the Master of Lovat, and Sir Philip
Egerton have had splendid sport in the deer-forest
during the past week. The deer were seen in great
numbers; and the party succeeded in bringing down
ten stags and a hind. The Deanie party—Mr. Wells
and Mr. Leslie—have had excellent sport in deer-
stalking. During the season they have succeeded in
stalking 21 stags and 7 hinds. At Langwell (Caith-
ness), on the SI inst., the sport of the season was
concluded by beating the covers, when a fine young
stag and three roe-deer fell by single bullets.
At Castle Leod, Mr. R. Clinton and Capt. Bennett
have had four and a half days—beginning on Tues-
day—of splendid sport, perhaps unsurpassed this
season. The returns for those days were-1 fallow
buck, 2 roe-deer, 170 grouse, 10 black-game, 11
ptarmigan, 98 partridges, 24 pheasants, 12 snipes, 5.
woodcocks, GO hares, and 46 rabbits—in all, 438
head. The buck was a very large one, and was
stalked on Wyvis on Friday. The head was very
good. A head has been received by Mr. Snowie,
from Sir IL Meux, evidently that of a stag of ex-
treme age. The horns have all the characteristics of
very old age, being long, Thin, and almost clear of
antlers, only the brow antlers being left. It is a
curious instance of the careful provisions of nature,
that the brow antlers, which alone are used in de-
fence by the deer, are the first to come, and the last
to disappear before advancing years. Mr. Webb, at
Lech Itosque, has sent three good heads—stalked
last week. Mr. Fraser, Fort William, has also sent
an excellent head to be preserved.
We learn from the island of Lewis that since the
_ .

Ist of September the weather has been highly
favourable for all out door work, whether harvesting
or sporting. Mr. Denys killed a good stag on the
6th ; on the 25th he killed two, right and left shots ;
and on the 26th a full royal. On the 2,1 and 4th
October he killed a stag each day, making in all six
stags, and the number could easily have been doubled
had the effort been made, for some times as many as
seventy or eighty deer were seen in the course of the
day's walk. Mr. Cornwall Leigh, on the Ist inst.,
shot a splendid royal stag of twelve points, and a yeld
hind; and on the 3d he killed two stags. The
grouse shooting averaged about twelve brace a day—
the highest being twenty brace for one gun.
In Harris the slaughter of deer has been immense.
Mr. Campbell of Jura and party have killed thirty-
five stags and ten hinds I This excessive destruction
of deer must surely be injurious ultimately to the
fore s t.—lnverness Courier.

The PacLz. of Egypt having entrusted an order for
an English carriage, which should combine all the
recent improvements of British wol kmanship, to some
gentleman in this country, the selection has fallen upon
Mr. Horne, of Long-acre, who, in a segmental
Brcugham, has brought to bear most of his well-known
and valuable patents. This carriage, which will leave
for Egypt on Saturday, is most unique and handsomely
ornamented, and bears the national crest of the crescent
and stars.
Woodcocks are coming in plenty in the coast of
Devon. William Holland Bickford Coham, Esq , of
Dunsland House, Icille.l one on the 15. h, and two the
following day. A fine woodcock, weighing nearly 16
ounces, was shot on the estate of John Stranger, Esq.,
Lower Sutton, South Brent, by the Rev. Mr. Owen, on
Tuesday morning, the 16th. On Friday last a fine
woodcock was shot on Hawkerland estate, the property
of J. B. Cresawell, Esq,— Western Times.

A generous man will, in his treatment to an enemy,
resemble the sun, which pours light all aroand it—even
upon the clouds that strive to dim its lustre.—Eliza
Cook's Journal.

. .. ,
CROWN PROPERTY IN NORTH
WALES.
(From the Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald) . ..

A pamphlet is now in the course of publication, by
Ridkway, Piccadilly, printed at the office of this
paper, by Dr. 0. 0. Roberts, of Bangor, entitled
" Crown Property in North Wales; its Manag,rnent
and Appropriation: with a Reply to Mr. James
Slryatt's (the Penrbyn agent) Letter to the Times,
touching the Hundred of Haat:"

The work is addressed by its author, to the Council
of the-Liverpool Financial Reform Association, in his
capacity of deputy ranger of the Forest of Snowdon;
and is well deserving of attention, not only by that
influential body, but by the people of these kingdoms
generally, no less than by the inhabitants of North
%Vales in particular.
had it not been that the quarterly sessions business
in the several counties over which we range, together
with an important public meeting in furtherance of
fLancial and political reform, combined with some
delayed correspondence, to. pre-occupy our columns,
some little space mould , have been devoted in our
pre_ent Herald in order to illustrate amply, both by
extracts and analysis, the nature of the pamphlet
alluded to. As it is, we must be content with
promising a digest of its contents in a future number :
simply recommending its statements in the mean time
to the most careful and dispassionate perusal.
As far as we have seen, from the brief glance
bestowed upon its contents, they are of the utmost
importance in a national point of view, and such as
ought not to be lost sight of, in any meeting or pub-
lication, intended to promote the great aims of finan-
cial reform, inasmuch as they demonstrate the fact
that vast sums of public or crown property are an-
nually usurped by private individuals, which, if duly
accounted for, and paid over to the Crown, would go
far to render the yearly outlay, under the head of
civil list, less burthensome to the people, without in
the least intrenching upon the actual enjoyments, dig-
nity, or expenditure, however lavish, of the Sovereign.
This is of the highest national importance. If a
certain amount of income be necessary in order to
support the Regnant Family in that style of luxuri-
ous enjoyment, and sovereign dignity, which is felt to
be due to royalty,and if, at the same time, the amount
of taxation necessary to procure this income be felt to
press heavily on the people, it is surely manifest that
the hereditary and personal revenues of the Crown
should be duly conservated and accounted for, so as
to aid alike in maintaining the cost of royalty, and in
mitigation of the heavy taxes now imposed upon the
community, or rather upon the industrial classes.
What must then be the feeling of honest, candid
men, when they are credibly informed, upon the solid
testimony of undeniable facts, not only that the
greater portion of the Crown revenues arising from
woods, forests, shores, estuaries, mines, minerals, Sac ,
are alienated, or in the course of being alienated
but that the perpetrators of these systematic and in

creasing frauds are the very parties in whom is lodged
the legal and moral trust of looking after them on
behalf of the Crown, as bailiffs, agents, collectors, or
trustees ?

Whenever a robbery is perpetrated by a servant,
or other agent trusted with the management of pro-
perty, the judges of assiite or chairmen at sessions
visit the delinquent with a heavier penalty than would
be incurred by a common untrusted thief; and if
the statements in these pages be borne out by facts,
a similar sentence of augmented infamy ought to
attach to the felonies which they disclose.

THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH.
Since our last the weather has been dry, and on the
whole very favourable for the leading of the yet out-
standing grain. Nearly all the active farmers whose
lands lie low have completed the work of carrying
several days ago; but a few have not taken advantage
of the weather, or have been delayed by other causes,
and have still some work before them ere they can
consider the crops secure. We have heard of nothing
of the least interest respecting the crop in addition to
what has already been reported; but the potato
disease seems to be slowly and surely proceeding with
its fell work. We learn from Tait) that in that neigh-
bourhood evi a the cups have suffered to some extent.
The kinds known as "London Blues" and "Lady
Mary's" are rapidly decomposing.
Our correspondent at Fort William writes that the
weather continues fine ; there has been only one day's
rain for eight weeks, a thing almost unprecedented.
The crops have all been secured a week since. Part
of the potatoes are lifted. On the Ardgour side of the
country the,disease will only affect about a fifth of the
crop, while about Fort 'William it will cause the loss
of from one-half to three-fourths. The poor people,
however, will be better off than they were last year,
owing to the quantity sown, and also because the
corn and pests were never housed in better condition.
We are favoured with the following note from
Kirkwall, dated October 12 :—" The weather since 1
formerly wrote you has been very unfavourable fur
harvest work, so that very little corn has yet been
stacked. The greater part, however, is now cut, and
as the last two days have b.-en somewhat frosty, with
a fine clear sky and sunshine, a great proportion of
the crop will be secured if it continues dry for a day
or two longer. Lady Franklin left Orkney last
week by the Lighthouse steamer for the south. A
salute of sixteen guns was fired as her Ladyship went
on board."

In Argyleshire—a correspondent writes us on the
12th—the harvest is not yet over, but a few fine days
more will see it fairly at an end. Thu potatoes are
very much diseased all over this district. Herrings
(which form a large portion of the food of the labour.
ing class) are scarce just now ; but it is drawing near
the time when they are usually taken in great quan-
tities.—km7ness Courier.

SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF

LIFE ON THE EASTERN COAST.

It is with regret we announce that as many as
sixty wrecks are reported to have happened on the
eastern coast during the raging of the recent equinoc-
tial gales. They scarcely moderated from their com-
mencement until Tuesday or \Vednesday, and many
very deplorable losses have become known, accom-
panied by several most disgraceful acts of plunder by
wreckers.

On Sunday morning, while the gale was raging
with tremendous violence, a large barque was seen on
the Gunfleet sands, on the outside ridge nearest the
channel known as the Swin. She was encompassed
by a terrific sea, which now and then swept over her
masthead, first pitching her one side on the sands and
then on the other with a force that speedily dashed
her to pieces. There were four or five smacks outside
the sands, the crews of which deplored the impracti-
cability of saving the unfortunate persons on board
the barque, who were doomed to a watery grave.
The smacks got in as close to the sands as was
deemed prudent, in order to render assistance to any
of the crew who might be attempting an escape
from the vessel over the breakers. Suddenly the
helpless vessel was carried by a sea over
one of the sands into deep water, when the
next moment she heeled over, and instantly dis-
appeared. There were, it is supposed, between six-
teen and twenty persons in the rigging, not one of
whom escaped. It was evident, from the rapid
manner in which she went down, that the bottom of
her hull had been driven in, and she was otherwise in
pieces, for shortly after she had foundered, her cargo
—articles of every description—floated out of her.
' For miles the sea was literally studded with portions
of her freight, but, strange to say, although a consi•
derable quantity was picked up, no trace could be
found of her name, or the place to which she be-
longed, till Thursday morning last, when the ship's
papers were picked up, and placed in the hands of
Lloyd's agent at Wivenhoe, by which it was ascer-
tained that she was the Conqueror, of Glasgow, 300
tons burthen. As soon as the wreck became known,
the wreckers—and it is now a notorious fact that a
large gang of these depredators infest the Essex
coast—bore down to the spot where the vessel went
down, and, notwithstanding the vigilance of some of
the revenue cutters, they managed to get away
with a considerable quantity of her cargo.
The depredations of these wretches of late have
been such as to , excite general indignation along
the coast. In the case of the wreck of the
German emigrant ship Floridian, with the loss of
nearly 200 emigrants, on the Long-sands, some
months since, the bodies were plundered of the gold
which many were known to have about them, and
afterwards cast adrift again to escape detection. An-
other instance of their daring character happened OD
Tuesday, when they made an attack on the wreck of
a vessel from St. Petersburgh, which the Scout
revenue-cutter, Captain Saxby, had got off the Gun-
', fleet, and in a few minutes cut away her rigging,
were
captured succeeded in escaping with the plunder. Some
captured on the following day,
.and are imprisoned in
Ilarwich gaol. Through this infamous conduct, the
sailors of the cutter were unable to preserve the
vessel ; she was
got into . afloat to be brought this
port, and had her rigging been left, there is no
doubt it would have been accomplished. The gale,
however, drove her on the stone beach near Walton,
and not a vestige of her remains. Two other vessels
were lost near the spot where the Conqueror went
down; one is supposed to have belonged to
Chatham, laden with timber, and all on board perished.
The other unfortunate ship was the lloyen, a barque,
from Gefle for London. The crew, providentially,
were more fortunate ; they were taken off the wreck
by some Wiveaoe smacks, which landed them safely
at that place. The mass of wreckage that has been
picked up along the coast belonging to different vessels
is enormous. The accounts from Lowestoffe, Yar-
mouth, and even from different points on the Lin-
colnshire and more northern portion of the coast,
communicate a very sad list of the amount of life
and property lost by the continuance of the gales.
Steamboats put in at the different ports, either from
being disabled or to seek shelter from, the fury of the
gale. The Dutch and Belgian mails describe the
gales to have been very destructive on their respective

•=, : : -
, coasts. Numerous vessels Were lost ; and the Licn
stea►ner, which reschel the Thames in the middle of
the week, brought over th..?, crews of two vessels which
had ban lost. The F team-ship reports a
most fearful hurricane visiting Cronstadt on the 6 h
and ith inst., and a consequent serious damage to the
shipping.

PROGItiSS OF MANNERS.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal)
The progress of temperate habits among the bulk
of the working classes is now very decided. So
general had become the habit of drunkenness among
the English people in 1606, that it was found neces-
sary to pass a law,_ constituting it a criminal offence
against society. Drunkenness, nevertheless, went on
steadily increasing in the face of this law, and about
the middle of last century the vice had grown to a
hideous magnitude. Some idea of the low state of
the national morality may be formed from a fact
stated by Smollett, and repeated by the Bishop of
Salisbury during a debate in the House of Lords,
that on some of the publicans' signs in London it was
announced to the public, " Ern may here get drunk
for one perm', dead drunk for twopence, and hare
clean straw for nothing." " They accordingly" says
Sinolett, in his "History of England," "provided
cellars and places strewed with straw, to which
they conveyed those wretches who were over-
whelmed with intoxication. In these dismal ca•
verns they lay until they had recovered some use of
their faculties, and then they had recourse to the
same mischievous potion ; thus consuming their health,
and ruining their families, in hideous receptacles
of the most filthy vice, resounding with riot, execra-
tion, and blasphemy." Although at that time the
populatien of London was not one-third of what it is
now, there were computed to be no less than 20,000
houses and shops in which spirituous liquors were
sold, besides those in which fermented liquors only
were kept. Whereas at present, the total number of
public-houses, spirit-shops, beer-shops, and hotels in
London, is stated not to exceed 7,000. If other evid-

ence were needed, we should find it in the moral and
orderly aspect of the London population of the work-
ing orders on all days of the week—in their improved
tastes and habits, which now lead them to frequent
reading-rooms and news-agents to buy their weekly
paper or family journal, in preference to wasting their
means on debasing self-indulgence. Much drunken-
ness there yet assuredly is; it is still the daily vice of
the degraded, the outcast, and the ignorant; we think,
however, it must be admitted, that although formerly
the most conspicuous and prevailing vice among the
working classes, as it was among the middle and upper
classes, it is so no longer, but has given way in a
great measure before the progress of public morality
and intelligence.
The progress of temperance has been equally
decided amongst the Scotch people. One could
scarcely suppose that in the following description by
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, he could have been
speaking of a people new considered so moral,
orderly, and intelligent. And yet here was the
moral condition of the Scotch at the early part of last
century. "At country weddings, markets, burials,
and other the like public occasions, both men and
women are to be seen perpetually drunk, cursing,
blaspheming, and fighting together." Thanks tee
the Scotch parish schools, such fearful abominations
have been to an immense extent abated. Drunk-
enness was at the same time frightfully prevalent
among the Irish people; and to such an extent did
the rage for usquebaugh proceed in Ireland in the
reign of Philip and Mary, that the people converted
so much of their grain into spirit as to cause great
famine and privation throughout the country
from time to time. Deplorable though the
condition of the mass of the Irish people
still is, they are no longer chargeable with the
national vice of drunkenness, Father Mathew having
succeeded in nearly banishing it from amongst the
poorer classes of the people.
But the steady decrease is best proved by the g
v ernment returns of the quantities of British and
foreign spirits entered for home consumption at dif-
ferent periods. Thus we find that while the con-
sumption of coffee has increased from 7,593,0011b5. in
1821, to 34,293,1901b5. in 1845, and the consumption
of tea has increased from 20,358,7021b5. in 1800, to
44,193 4331b5. in 1845, the consumption of spirits is
now, in the whole of the United Kingdom very little
more than it was in Englan alone in 1742 ! The
amount consumed in England in the year last named,
or about a hundred years ago, by a population cnly
one-third of that of England now, was about
20,000,000 gallons. The quantities consumed have
very much varied according to the tax on spirits—
the lower the tax, the greater the consumption. But
if we take the last few years, during which ttee duty
has been stationary, we find that the increase i❑ the
consumption of British spirits has not at all kept pace
with the increase of the population, but the contrary.
Thus in 1831, the consumption of British spirits was
21,845,408 gallons, and in 1841, 20,660,847 gallons,
and in 1845, 23,122,588 gallons. The consumption
of malt also is stationary, if not on the decline. The
quantity of hops charged with duty in 1835 was
49,08 G 709;b3. ; in 1 45, the quantity charge) was
of.ly 32,974 750313. The consumption of brandy,
rum, and other foreign spirits hadlP.also declined from
4,883,596 gallons in 1831, to 3.464,074 gallons in
1841, and 3,549,589 gallons in 1845. The quantity
of wine consumed remains also as nearly as possible
stationary.
These results are, we think, of a very satisfactory
character; and they prove a remarkable progress in
the manners and habits of the people. The marked
diminution of intemperance must be attributed in no
small degree to the efforts of the Teetotallers, of
whom there are estimated to be no fewer than
1,360,000 in England, Scotland, and Wales; but it
is also to be attributed to the improvement in the
moral tone of society, and the advance of intelligence,
of which indeed the Temperance movement itself may
be regarded as one of the indications. There are nume-
rous other proofs of this. Our elections are not now
the scenes of debauchery that they formerly were.
The Eatanswill boroughs have now shrunk into a very
small number; and the finger of public reprobation
is generally pointed at them. Funerals are now con-
ducted decorously. Workmen are gradually giving
up their system of " footings." Commercial tra-
vellers no longer think it necessary to coax an order
out of a customer by inviting him to a drinking
bout. The friendly societies and clubs of the labouring
classes are more and more discountenancing the
practice of meeting in public-houses for the transac-
tion of their business ; and before many years are
over, we look to still greater improvements in all
these respects.