The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-12 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.

A meetirw, of the M3gistrates of the county of Middlesex
was held yesterday, at the Sessions House, Cletkcnwell, tor
the despAch of county busneEs. Mr. Scrgeint ACAMS in
the ehzi-.

A report of the Committee accounts was read. It stated
that the Committee had appealed amainst the present rating
of the Sessions House, the house (.7t. the Governor of the
House cf. Correction, and the house of the Keeper of the
New Prison, Clerkcnwell, to the relief of the poor of th 9 pa-
rish of Clerkenwell, and that the special Session:, before whom •
the several appeals were heard had allowed each of them, and
r duced the rating as follows : —Ses-ions house, from 2401, to '
1351., Governor's house 1201. to SOL) Kegm's house, New -
Pri,oo, 1011 to 45.

R-port of the Nisi in Justices of the House of Correc-
tion stated that there ere at prcsent confined in it 828 males,
319 fem;al,:s, :Intl 13 chldren; total 1,157. It further con,
t cioea a recommendation that in future the prison be lighted
with gas.

A
letter from the Rev. Mr. Ouseby, the chaplain of tle
H,msr_‘ of 'Currcctioa, announcing his resigaation of that office,
was read.

On the motion of Sir J. WILLIAMS the resignation waa ae.
ceptcd: it b.!ing, understood that the Rev. Gentleman would
:ci:ltlnue to d'seharge the duties of that office until his succes-
sor was appointed. •
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FOX-HUNTING.

t'
he season for this truly. 13,-itish sport is fast approach-
ing- ; in fact, it has in sOlll3 districts been partially corn-
mcnced. We are glad to. believe tliat -foxes are more. nu-
merous than they have been for some years past.. it is,
bovvever, said, and no doubt with some truth, that the late
G tme Act aimed, or we should rather say, inflicted " a
be.ivy blow" at this old English sport, inasmuch as every. .
landowner now deems himself justified in taking all. the
steps be cin to preserve his game, seeing that it is a sort of
private property ; and too many, carried away by a greedy
selfishness, have, we fear, been thus actuated' to destroy •
foxes—a step fou:al'd upon a needless or very much over- s,
strain A ;;round of clam, end a narrow, short-sighted policy. ,
ohj,ct of the Gaaie Act was to diminish poaching ;
where. sit is questionable if the crime has been decreased
at al, But, one area of it Ins been to advantage the large
landowners, many of whom have, by means of this Act,
converted the game on their tenants' farms into a lucrative
fund for themselves. .

In vcry few instances are the tenants benefited
,by the
measure. But materially, we believe, would they, as well
a 3 may others, be injured, if that measure should in-
directly lead to a disconiiquance or abridgement of fox-
buntir,g, for great is the amount which is. thereby annually
spent and circulated in a favoured country„ where this
amusement is• encouraged aud patronised, instead of being
spen t ,abro ad.

Girneke:_,l;ers, too, are slid to be often great enemies
to fix-I:Luting ; it may be so in some instances. There
ore, no doubt, a few, who receive, and of course must
obey, their masters'. orders in this respect ; but of the
better class of keepers (by which term we mean the most
active, diligent, 'honest, end- intelligcnt preservers of
game—those who are the most assiduous in the detection
and prosecution of poachers, and the destruction of vermin)
the azsortion is not true. As a proof, we could adduce so-
wnl instanc,2s of coverts, where foxes are nearly always
found,..and where also a greater qu-tntity of game is also
found,. than in-the covetts where the gamekeeper either di-
rectly or it:directly destroys the loxes. -

The late, Mr. Slitvrbrocke, of Oxton (a thorough _sports-
man, an experieuyed judge on the subject, and as good. a
p.,eirnen wltikal,ol the true.EnglU gentleman ,of his day,
.:As the Midland, or perhaps any other, counties,
_have pro-
duced) was so.conviced of the fact that the preservation
of g:ime end of foxes was perfectly eompatible, that, on
having his coverts drawn two or three times blank, he knew
that ;411110 foul play must have been practised, and. he im-
mediately sent his gamekeepers to the right about.

EASY RECEIPT TO MAKE VINEGAR -Otte
pound of coarse brown rugar to a quart of water; boil them
t lgs tiler, taking off the ecu n ; when that ceases to rise, pour
off the liquor ; and when it has cooled down to the same tem-
perature as beer in the process of brewing, .throw in a piece
of hot toasted bread spread with yeast. In twenty-four hours,
put the whole into an iron-hooped barrel, placed near the fire ;
or in summer, where it may have the I.cat of the sun the
greater put of the day. The barrel must rot be bunged up;
only place a tile; or anything else that will keep out dust and
insects, over the bung-hole. In three months, or sometimes
less, the,vin,gar will he clear P.r.d fit for ine; it should then
to bottled off. end the longer it is kept in bottle the better it
wi 1 be.—Labourer's Friend.

CHRISTIAN SEcrs.—Mahe Brun estimates the
Roman Catholics throughout the whole world'at 116,000,000,
the Greeks tt 70,000 003, and the Protestants et 42,000,000.

OPENING OF THE DUNDEE AND ARBROATH
RAILWAY.-=This railway was opened from Arbroath to the
temporary station at Craigie, near Dundee, on Saturday, the
6th inst. The fineness if the dill and the general interest
which the inhabitants of Dundee aaa Arbroath, and the nume-
rous towns and villages along the line, take in this greFa work,
brc.ught out an imatenie concourse ci spectators oa every part
of the line. T::c fim train, consisting of eleven carriages,
started from Crait!ie station precisely at twelve o'clock, and
reached Arbroath :.t ten minutes to enc o'cLck, and, deduct-
ing a stoppage of five minutes to oil the axles, leave the time
of travelling precisely three quarters of an hour, giving an
average speed of twenty miles an hour. After taking
in a supply ,of water and fuel, the train returned to the
Dundee
.temporary station, which it reached in ferty.thrce
minute;, and travelling frequently, on several parts of the
line, at 26 miles an hour. In the course of the journey
th • train passed the Aberdeen mach travelling at full speed,
which, to the passengers in the railway train, appeared al-
most stationary. These carriages were crowded with pas-
sengers, in all about four hundred, ly:_;idcs the principal
officers of t'ie' Company. Among the passengers we ob.-
served Lcrd P.i.rimure (who has all along taken a IiYVY
interest in the concern, and through wlie;e property
one half of the lice is carried), Sir John Ogilvie, the
Hand
Mr. Howard, Colonal Kinlock, the Provost Of
Db
la uenr: the
the other Directors of the railway, and nony
Town Council. At two o'clock the eng
-i3;:at number of
for Arbroin n 'rd
h, with a train of car; men:Tu started
uta-tion at Craigie,
passengers, and returned to the tempornaLutes,
than on the
p. rforming the trip in less time, by
'eced of about ten
former occasioin or at an averagree
m'Pade to contain thirty-fiveypmiles en boor. The carriages ere
Arbroath and Forfar Rail.
tengers each. The wockgsno,
on the
state, and are expected to be
way are also in a very ade •
o months. The steady motion
be partly ascribed to the gage
of the carriages and
completed in the c
which Iris been adoptedethan the principal English railways, but
°i'giuni:cio.mnttr.wlY.iis railway, which is nine and a
half inches
narrower than the Great Western Railway.
The stmerts of the day were admirable, and
• ,s;ed off the most satisfactory and gratifying
everytiziug p•,..
manner. —Glasgow Cot; per.
geec:;erinacibita:er°9l.3an,
Two women have ju'.t been sentenced to hard la-
hour at the hulks for life by the Court of Assizes at Tarbes,
for the murder of a man who was the husband of one of them,
and the brother-in law of the other ; and whose body they cut
into pieces after committing the crime, and threw into a pit.