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London, England, 1849-12-10

NOTES OS METEOROLOGY.

BY LIEUTENANT MORT-i,ISON, R.N.,

PRESIDENT OF THE METEOR',LOGICA.L SOCIETY OF LONDON.

(Read before the Society at their last meeting.)
In the present highly cultivated state of the sciences,
no excuse can be required for introducing for popular
notice the numerous topics which are embraced by
meteorology. Its importance is not surpassed by any
other science, whether we regard it in respect to the
merchant, the navigator, the agriculturist, the astro-
nomer, or the philosopher. To the merchant it is
essential to have the means of forming a judgment of
the probable effect of the season on the crops, in the
produce of which he speculates, whether of corn,
fruits, sugars, cottons, oils, drugs, wines, and a
ihoussand other substances; the navigator is pro-
verbially dependent on the alternative of fair and
favourable gales, or destructive and desolating storms;
the agriculturist relies on the regularity of the seasons
for his very existence, and while he prays for the
" early and latter rains" to instigate the soil for his
seed time, he no less earnestly desires the solar beams
to satisfy his hopes in the harvest. These are
practical men, who with one accord will
declare that to them a foreknowledge of the
state of the atmosphere would be of the highest
value. Bet not less does the man of science, tke
astronomer, look to the meteorologist for as-
sistance in his noble speculations. The celebrated
Professor Airy, in his recent splendid re-
port on the astronomy of the age, says,
" The effects of radiation have been till lately little
understood, and scarcely recognised among astrono-
mers," and he adds, " I think that astronomers
would be glad to receive simple directions for placing
a thermometer so as to indicate correctly the tempe-
rature of the air at the place of observation ;" and he
asks, " Doss the refractive power of air depend
simply on its density without regard to its tempera-
ture ?'' &c. These and other similar questions can
only be answered by the aid of meteorology. As to
the general philosopher, whether he apply himself to
medical investigations, to the multifarious ramifica-
ti-ans of chemistry, to the important problem of the
causes of the tides and their attendant phenomena,
to the nature of radiant heat and all its practical con-
ssquence3, to the laws of optics, to the mysterious
researches of geology or botany, the wonders of the
aeitnal economy, or the stupendous arcana of electri-
cal science, he feels himself at every step compelled
to consider the numerous phenomena of meteorology.
If we refisct on the uses of the atmosphere to
man, we are compelled to admit that the first
necessary of life is the air! we find health
in the breeze, and pleasure in the varying
scenery of the skies. Without the air were just what
it is all would he dull and insipid, no winds, no
clouds, no rains, not a boat could sail, or a bird could
fly ; not a sound would be transmitted, not a fire
could oe maintained, not a vegetable grow, or an
aninal exist. It must then be reasonable to study
the nature of a substance so important, so essential to
mankind.
London, England, 1849-12-10

FRAN CE.

M. de Falloux has received at Nice the reward
which he has so justly merited for his endeavours to
deliver over Italy and France to the tender mercies
of the parti-pretre. No sooner was it known that
the destroyer of liberty in Rome, the apologist of the
massacre of St. Bartholomew's, the patron of the
Inquisition, the wily Jesuit M. Alfred de Falloux had
arrived in Nice, than the inhabitants assembled under
the windows of his hotel mid greeted him with a
cicarivari of so energetic a character that he was
forced to give way before this unmistAkeable, but
pacific, expression of popular indignation, and to quit
the city. From this it would appear that the Italians
are not so priest-ridden as the French.
London, England, 1849-12-10

WOOL.

The public sales of Wool continue to be well attended;
but the advance in the quotations noticed in our last
report has not been freely maintained. However, nearly
the whole of the parcels as yet brought forward have
sold. The auctions will not close until about the 15th
inst. Last week's imports amounted to 227 bales from
Odessa, 273 ditto from Callao, 556 ditto from Algoa Bay,
132 ditto from the Cape, SO3 ditto from Port Beaufort,
159 ditto from Buenos Ayres, 1,800 ditto from Sydney,
253 ditto from Hsmburgh, 500 ditto from Hobart Town,
and 1,041 ditto from Colombo.
London, England, 1849-12-10

AUSTRIA.

The Kolner Zeitung contains the following tele-
graphic dispatch from Vienna, of the sth inst.:--
" We are informed of a crisis in the Cabinet, owing
to dissensions between the Prince Schwarzenberg and
Minister Bach. It is but too likely that M. Bach will
retire from office.

The treaty respecting the railroad between Vienna
and Posth has bees concluded. The Government has
purchased that railroad for 8,000,000 florins, to be
paid by instalments of from eight to eight years, and to
be rated at an interest of four per cent."
London, England, 1849-12-10

IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN TIIE PAST WEEE.

From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs
Rotterdam 3BB ... 1,317 ... 13) ...
Amsterdam ~ 54 ... 553
Harlingen 125 ... 1,700 .. ... 4 ... 27
Bremen. l6 ...
Antwerp
Ostend...

-0 •• - ••• 61 ... --
113 .•• --- ••• 14 .... -

Total 5!.3 ... 3,683 ... 218 .. 27
Corresponding
week in 1848 625 ... 2,432 ... 96 ... 2

Same week in

1847....... 253 1,554 .. 71
The arrivala at the northern owports have fallen off,
and those by sea from Ireland for this market have not
exceeded 20 Oxi n. The numbers of Foreign Beasts and
Sheep here to-day were tolerably extensive—those of
Calves very limited. Their general quality was by no
means good. From our own grazing districts the receipts
of Beasts fresh up this morning were comparatively
small, and in very middling condition; indeed, I early
two-thirds of the supply were beneath the middle quality.
As the attendance of buyers was considerably on the
increase, the Beef trade ruled somewhat active, at an
telvance in the currencies obtained on Monday last of
fully 2d per 81bs, and a good clearance was effected.
The primest Scots sold at from 4s to 4s 2d per Blbs.
The great Christmas market will be held here on Mon-
day next. The arrivals of Beasts from Lincolnshire,
Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire, amounted to
2.000 Shor:-horn'; from the eastern, western, and mid
laud counties, 600 Herefords, Runts, Devons, &c.; and
from other parts of England 500 of various breeds.
There was a considerable falling off in the number of
Sheep, owing to which the mutton trade was steady,
and the quotations improved quite 2d per Sibs—the
primest old Downs selling readily, at from 4s to 4s 2d
pie Bibs. We were very scantily supplied with Calves.
'JAG Vera trade was in a sluggi,.h state, yet late rati.s
were mostly supported. In Pigs only a moderate busi-
ness was transacted, at late weeks' prices.
London, England, 1849-12-10

YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND.

A meeting of shareholders in this company was
held at Manchester on Friday, Mr. RJ. Jones in the
chair, to consider the resolution of the directors with
reference to the Hull and Selby purchase shares.
It appeared that the directors, in conjunction with
a committee of shareholders appointed to consider the
matter, had determined that the guaranteed dividend
at the rate of 61. per cent. on the 101. already called
up in respect of the Hull and Selby purchase shares
shall cease from the Ist of July, 1850 ; and, for the
future; that amount of capital shall be entitled, in
perpetuity, to a preference dividend at the rate of 4i
per cent. per annum ; that the sum of 151. per share
remaining to be called up on those shares shall be en-
titled, in perpetuity, to a preference dividend at the
rate of five per cent. per annum from the respective
times of calling the same up ; that future calls shall
be made only for the purpose of completing the pur-
chase of the Hull and Selby Railway, when resolved
upon, or for paying off the debentures of the com-
pany. The holders of the preference shares shall be
entitled to the benefit of any dividend above the
several guaranteed rates of dividend which the
holders of the general stock of the company may
receive.

After some conversation, a resolution was passed to
the effect that the meeting recommend that the Hull
and Selby purchase should be completed, and that the
directors should take the necessary steps for effecting
that object; that the meeting learned with surprise
and regret the proposal for the conversion of the Hull
and Selby preference shares into capital ; that such
proposal was unreasonable, and ought to receive the
most decided opposition. A committee was appointed,
consisting of Messrs. Ashton, Jones, Joynson, and
Hampson, to take such steps as may be deemed exp.
dient to oppose the proposed measure.
London, England, 1849-12-10

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

We are happy to state that the worthy Rear-Admi-
ral Superintendent of Portsmouth-yard was decidedly
better yesterday.
The Fairy, royal yacht, Master Commander Welsh,
with Captain Crispin on board, proceeded to Osborne
on Saturday, and conveyed Lord John Russell from
thence to Southampton, en route to town.

. .
The Fairy proceeded to Osborne again yesterday,
at two o'clock.

The Sampson, steam-frigate, under charge of Mr.
Henderson, master-attendant of Devonport-yard,
navigated by a party of riggers, arrived at Portsmouth
yesterday, having on board the marines, seamen, gun-
ners, and some others of the crew of the Constance
frigate, paid off on Saturday. The Sampson will
proceed on to Woolwich to-day for the purpose of
reci-iving new boilers.
The Myrtle steamer sailed from Portsmouth for
Devonport, with superimmeraries, on Friday last.
The officers composing the court of inquiry on
board the Eurydice closed their business on Friday
afternoon at Portsmouth, and on Saturday their re-
port was transmitted to the Admiralty. It is gene-
rally known that no court-martial will take place on
the first-lieutenant, but what ulterior proceedings may
be adopted by the Admiralty towards the complain•
anti remains to be seen.

We understand that Mr. Johnson, late assistant-
surgeon of the Driver, recently returned from that
vessel in the Pacific, has received a letter from the
Admiralty, stating that they no longer require his
services, and he has consequently been discharged
from the service.

The Eurydice, notwithstanding the exceedingly
bad weather, is now nearly dismantled at Portsmouth;
she is to pay off on Thursday next.
The Contest, 12, CJnarnander the HOD. W. S.
Spencer, was taken out of the basin alongside the
Pitchhouse jetty, Portsmouth, on Friday. She has
not yet received her crew, but her complement
has been made from the guard-ships; she is ready for
their reception. She has been rigged and turned
out of hand by the dockyard riggers in a most com-
plete and seamanlike manner. All her running
rigging, even her studding-sail gear is rove, so that
as soon as her crew are on aboard she will be ready
for sea. She takes out the African mail of the Ist of
January, but whether she will remain on the coast
station is a query.
The " Sailor's Home" at Portsmouth has re-
ceived the very liberal donation of AOl. from Com-
mander Robert Coote, now studying at the Royal
Naval College; he has also consented to be placed on
the committee of management of that institution.
London, England, 1849-12-10

stated that 85. 4d. per ton is charged on certain articles
from Lincoln to Manchester, a distance of 90 miles,
frc,zo 81ki-lield t 0 drncH:..sr,
tance of 41 miles, for the same article, is 105. per
ton.; the charge for the former distance being at the
rate of lid. per mile, and for the latter 3d per ton per
mile.
London, England, 1849-12-10

SAXONY.

On the 4th instant the Second Chamber voted, on
the proposition of Lieutenant MULLER, the raising of
the state of a:-ige at Dre:idon and Cruminetzichau
The Ministry were defeated by a majority of 48 votes
against only 7.
The First Chamber in its sitting on the sth instant
complained that the Ministry had not yet informed it
of the present state of the negotiations relative to the
German question, and called for explanations.
London, England, 1849-12-10

SAXONY.

On the 4th instant the Second Chamber voted, on
the proposition of Lieutenant 111cLLan, the raising of
the state of Beige at Dresden and Crummetasehau!
The Ministry were defeated by a majority of 48 votes
against only 7.
The First Chamber in its sitting on the sth instant
complained that the Ministry had not yet informed it
of the present state of the negociations relative to the
German question, and called fs,r explanations.
London, England, 1849-12-10

THE SUN,

ductor of electricity in its ordinary state, bu‘, wh.n
rarified, the electric fluid passes freely through it.

I.XTENT OF THE ATMOSPHERE.

The height of atu.ospheric air (which must always
be distinguished from the atmosphere itself) has been
variously estimeed, the general opinion being that
it extends about fifty miles from the outface; 1. think,
however, erroneously.

sistant Quoz!leirzastor,(l:.neral et Cork, 11,..:s resigned
his iii.,pointrLint, ontiLinci Pennefati.er, from
cioninei, is lo ,vaccced him

RAILWAY RETURNS

IttiswAlt TRAY/IC.- •The following, are the Total ItecelptS of Rail-
wa; s for the past •weel—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week hi the previ ORD; YeAr
London, England, 1849-12-10

'WOOL.

The public sales of Wool continue to be well attended;
but the advance in the quotations noticed in our last
report has not been freely maintained. However, nearly
the whole of the parcels as yet brought forward have
sold. The auctions will nut close until about the 15. h
inst. Last week's imports amounted to 227 bales from
Odessa, 273 ditto from Callao, 556 ditto from Algoa Bay,
132 ditto from the Care, 503 ditto from Port Beaufort,
159 ditto from Buenos Ayres, 1,800 ditto from Sydney,
253 ditto from Ham burgh, 500 ditto from Hobart Town,
and 1,041 ditto from Colombo.
London, England, 1849-12-10

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London, England, 1849-10-22

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

FORD, WORCESTER, LTD WOLVERHAMPTON-
meeting of the shareholders in this company was
at Leeds on the 18th, fur the purpose of forming
emmittee, with a view to the removal of the present
klrd of directors. Mr. Walter Stead presided.
The CHAIRMAN said that the shareholders in this
undertaking had been led to invest large sums of
money on the faith of an alleged guarantee from the
Great Western Railway Company, not-only to lease
the line, when completed, at a reasonable rate of in-
terest, but also in case of need to provide for the
actual completion of the line; but that they now
found that they had been labouring under a great
delusion, and had been abandoned both by the
company, under whose influence and authority the
line was introduced into Parliament, and by the
directors whose duty it was to protect their interests.
In consequence of the disastrous condition of the
company's affairs, he (the Chairman) thought that
xiothing but the most prompt and energetic measures
would lead to their recovery or to a more healthy
condition. He thought the most extraordinary neg-
ligence had been shown by the directors in failing
to place the guarantee of the Great Western Com-
pany on a footing free from all ambiguity, at a time
when there could be no doubt that such a course
was open to them; and their subsequent and present
apathy in omitting to use the powers they possessed
for enforcing the performance of its engagements by
the Great Western Company, coupled with the con-
nexion of some of those directors of the Great
Western board, were such as entirely to deprive the
present directors of the confidence of the shareholders,
and to call for an independent action of the share-
holders to procure a remedy for the evils by which
they were oppressed.—(Hear.)
A committee, consisting of Mr. James Ogle, Mr. W.
Stead, and Mr. James Walker, was appointed to pro-
secute on behalf of the shareholders for procuring the
removal of the present directors and the appointment
of a new board of directors.
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro-
ceedings.
London, England, 1849-10-22

ITALY•

Letters from Rome announce that General St.
JEAN D'ANGELY is about to return to France.
It is said; that the Sardinian Ministry will be mo-
dified. M. PINELLI is to retire, and to be replaced
by M. DE AMBROIS. CALVAGNO is to be replaced
by either CAvIN or DEFERRARL
The Piedniontese Gazette, of the 15th, publishes
the law authorizing the Minister of Public Works
to apply 150,000 francs to the execution of stand-
ards of the metrical system of measures lately in-
troduced.
Letters from Bastia, of the Bth, announce the
departure for Genoa of fifty emigrants at the expense
of the French Government, the total cost of their
voyage amounting to 650 francs. Every man has
received three francs besides for his maintenance
during the voyage. About 120 refugees still remain
at Bastia, in the most abject state of misery. They
receive eight sous a day from the municipality.
The Riforma of Lucca states from Florence,
October 11, that the Tuscan Government has seized
an edition of MAZZINI'S letter to MM. DE TOCQUE•
VILLE and FALLOUX, printed by the bookseller BEL •
Lim. The editor has applied to an influential per-
sonage to have the seizure withdrawn.
A letter from Naples of the 10th, in the Legge of
Turin, mentions the arrest of the Count of ANDRIA,
Archdeacon CAGNAZZI, and the son of M. CASALE.
The Marquise Turrrri had succeeded in effecting his
escape.
London, England, 1849-10-22

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

The Breslauer Zeitung of the 15th inst.: announces
the arrival at Breslau of General Klapka, the late
Commander of Comorn. Letters from Vienna of the
11th inst. announce the arrest of the ex. Minister,
Baron Pillersdorf, whom the Austrian police appre-
hended at Riisslau. The arrest, it is stated, took
place on the information of Dr. Fischhoff, an ex-
Commissioner in Baron Pillersdorf's Cabinet, and
who stands indicted on a charge of high treason.
M. Peginar, the Adjutant of the King of Naples,
left Vienna on the 11th instant for Warsaw and St.
Petersburgh, to confer with the Czar concerning his
master's affairs. M. Peginar was accompanied by
two French officers of high rank.
The German papers state that the crown of St.
Stephen has been sent to London. They assert that
Szemere, the Hungarian Minister, had Kossuth's
instructions to take the Hungarian crown and the
insignia of the empire to England. This statement
explains and contradicts the late malicious rumours
which have gone abroad in the Austrian press of
Szemere having robbed Kossuth.
The IColfzer Zeitung contains the following expla-
nation of the alleged Hungarian plans for revolution-
izing the east of Europe :
" Our readers are aware that the Oesterreichische
Correspondent has lately published the minutes of a
conference which it was stated, was held in Paris,
in the house of Prince Czartorpsky. The authen-
ticitytphrea Los& spr
uiZzsekitya:gass
erting published
thae declaration of this document was violently assailed, and
of the document. M. Pulzsky's declaration h charactero f
hi r.
as induced
London, England, 1849-10-22

FRANCE.

All the Paris journals which are not bound to
support coute qui coute the cause of the reaction, speak
in the most eulogistic terms of the admirable speech
of M. Victor Hugo on the Roman question. The
National says :
" M. Victor Hugo is not one of us, and that is why
we shall not be backward in praising him; he has not
hesitated to point out the truth to a prevaricating Mi-
nistry; to express contempt for a clerical Government;
to recognize the rights of the Roman people; and to
give to the honour and to the principles of France the
satisfaction which they expect."
The following is from the Republique :
" We render our hearty homage to the noble accents
of M. Victor Hugo, who yesterday, for the first time,
elevated himself to the most magnificent inspirations of
eloquence, which will be repeated in numberless echoes
in every corner of Europe; in every breast in which
beats a human heart. He branded with the red-hot iron
of ignominy those infamous supporters of absolutism
Rho wallow in the blood of martyrs, and fatten under
the shade of gibbets and of stakes."
We read in the Presse :
" The speech of M. Victor Hugo is more than a suc-
cess ; it is the enfranchisement of the President of the
Republic. The deplorable state of slavery in which the
coalition of intrigue and of fear has held Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte has just been broken by the power of elo-
quence. M. Victor Hugo yesterday definitely acquired
the titles of a great orator and a statesman. He has
added a generation to that glorious race of thinkers who
have raised themselves by genius, by study, by courage
and by independence to the height of power. The re-
storation was justly proud of M. Chateaubriand; the
monarchy of 1830 found its greatest Minister in M.
Guiz )t; the Republic of February had a day of eclat in
the glory of M. de Lamartine. Why does not the elect
of the 10th of December, after delivering himself from
the men of the past, from those who have already over-
thrown two Governments, turn towards the future and
support his popular magistracy, who are above all gene-
rous and who best personify its faith and its hopes."
London, England, 1849-10-22

BAVARIA.

In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of the
13th Oct. a project of law was presented for the abo-
lition of sentence of death, of punishment in the
stocks, and branding.
In the exposé of motives accompanying the project
for the new loan, being the third within two years, it
is stated that the new financial operations proposed
the reduction of the army expenditure, which absorbs
800,000 fl. per month, or nearly one-third of the total
receipts of the State. The sum of 1,600,000f1. is also
demanded for defraying the expenses of the matricu-
lated contingencies due by Bavaria in its quality of
member of the Germanic Confederation.

RUSSIA.
ARRIVAL OF FUAD EFFENDI.

FUAD EFFENDI, the Turkish Minister, arrived at
St. Petersburgh on the sth inst. He had not re-
ceived an audience, nor had a day been fixed for his
being received. He had, however, remitted a copy
of the SULTAN'S letter to the EMPEROR, to Count DE
NESSELRODE, with whom he had a long interview.
The Austrian Minister, Count BRUHL, arrived in
St. Petersburgh the same day.
The Paris Presse says that the Russian Govern-
ment, which engaged to reduce the Russian army in
the Danubian provinces to 10,000 men as soon as the
Hungarian war should be terminated, have since the
conclusion of that war increased its army.
London, England, 1849-10-22

ITALY.

Letters from Rome announce that General St
JEAN D'ANGELY is about to return to France.

It is said, that the Sardinian Ministry will be mo-
dified. M. PINELLI is to retire, and to be replaced
by M. DE AMBRoIs. CALVAGNO is to be replaced
by either CAVIN or DEFERRARI.
The Piedmontese Gazette, of the 15th, publishes
the law authorizing the Minister of Public Works
to apply 150,000 francs to the execution of stand-
ards of the metrical system of measures lately in-
troduced.

Letters from Bastia, of the Bth, announce the
departure for Genoa of fifty emigrants at the expense
of the French Government, the total cost of their
voyage amounting to 650 francs. Every man has
received three francs besides for his maintenance
during the voyage. About 120 refugees still remain
at Bastia, in the most abject state of misery. They
receive eight sons a day from the municipality.
The Riforma of Lucca states from Florence,
October 11, that the Tuscan Government has seized
an edition of Mazzlistes letter to MAL DE TOCQUE..
vILLE and FALLoux, printed by the bookseller EEL-.
LINI. The editor has applied to an influential per-
sonage to have the seizure withdrawn.
A letter from Naples of the 10th, in the Legge of
Turin, mentions the arrest of the Count of ANDRIA,
Archdeacon CAGruzzi, and the son of M. CASALE.
The Marquise TVPFETI had succeeded in effecting his
escape. • • -
London, England, 1849-10-22

BAVARIA.

In the sitting. of the Chamber of Deputies of the
13th Oct. a project of law was presented for the abo-
lition of sentence of death, of punishment in the
stocks, and branding.
In the expose of motives accompanying the project
for the new loan, being the third within two years, it
is stated that the new financial operations proposed
the reduction of the army expenditure, which absorbs
800,000 fl. per month, or nearly one-third of the total
receipts of the State. The sum of 1,600,0001 is also
demanded for defraying the expenses of the matricu-
lated contingencies due by Bavaria in its quality of
member of the Germanic Confederation.

RUSSIA.
ARRIVAL OF FUAD EFFENDI.

FUAD EFFENDI, the Turkish Minister, arrived at
St. Petersburgh on the sth inst. He had nct re-
ceived an audience, nor bad a day been fixed for his
being received. He had, however, remitted a copy
of the SULTAN'S letter to the EMPEROR to Count DE
NESSELEODE, with whom he had a long interview.
The Austrian Minister, Count Baum., arrived in
St. Petersburgh the same day.
The Paris Presse says that the Russian Govern-
ment, which engaged to reduce the Russian army in
the Danubian provinces to 10,000 men as soon as the
Hungarian war should be terminated, have since the
conclusion of that war increased its army.
London, England, 1849-10-22

.14,4_ WO ' Mbitton

NEWMARKET RACES.
(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
Plate of 501.

Defaulter

Wanota .

Matches.

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... 2

Antonio received from CEdipus—Sagacity beat New.
port—Le Beau beat Sultana—Damask received from
Lords Glasgow's filly,
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. for two yrs old.
Filly out of Thug's dam
Remnant
Wren

•. • ... .•• ...
Handicap for throe yrs old.

Abd• el• Kader
Telegraph

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... 3

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Match—Rosalia beat Cockermouth.
Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each.
Paquita and Laundry Maid ran a dead heat, and
divided.
London, England, 1849-10-22

MARRIED.

, Alfred Crawshlf
the 17th Lancers, to Jessy, fifth daugk
Esq., late Captain of
On the 18th inst., at Caversham Church
ter of William Crawshay, Esq., of Caversham-park, Oxon.
Piccadilly, James She?
herd,lizabeth, third daughter 0
the lin., atto St.Fr Frances
James'sE
D. Damont, Esq., of Framling
On
Esq., Botth Rome,st
linn, Suffolk.
On the 18th inst , at St. Pancras Church, Mr. Edward
White, of Camden-road-villas, to Mary Ann, only daughter
of tha late Mr. R. Ashby, of Crowmar:h Benson, Oxon.
____,

,
On the 16th inst., at 80,DIED
Bread-street, London, Mr. John
George Watson, aged 42, for many years the highly re-
spected representative of Messrs. J. and A. Crocker.
On the 17th inst , at Royal-crescent, Bath, Sir T. B. Leth-
bridge, Bart.
On the 16th inst., at WaNvorth, Mrs. Mary Dent, aged 81'
sister o' John Sanford, Esq.' of Wimbledon.
On the 16th inst., Maria Sophia, elder daughter of James
Stone, Esq., of Bexley-heath, Kent, aged 12.
On the 16th inst., at Bath, Abigail Erving, daughter of
the late Colonel Erving, and cousin to the late Lord Western.
On the 17th inst., at Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, aged
70, Harriet, widow of James Davies, late of Oxford-street.
On the 18th inst., at Totness, Devon, Jane Tree's Wool
only daughter o the late 'Mr. Daniel Wood.
On the 18th inst., at St. John's-terrace, South Hackney,
Mrs. William Man, aged 'O.
At Eversham, Worcestershire, Mr. Raymond P. Danford,
late of Aldgate, London, aged 48.

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London, England, 1849-10-22

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—This being the 44th
anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar, the flag-ship
Victory, in this harbour, was, in accordance with
annual custom, decorated with garlands of laurel, &c.,
at each mast head, and her crew received additional
rations and grog in commemoration of the memorable
day.
London, England, 1849-10-22

LYCEUM THEATRE.

-
A bustling farce' from the pen of Mr. Bayle Ber-
nard, vtas produced here on Saturday under the title
of A Practical Man, with great success. The Prac-
tical Man is a certain Mr. Cloudesley (admirably
acted by Mr. Charles Mathews), who is a sort of
juvenile bustling, rollicking, chattering, volatile Sir
Abel Handy, in a perpetual fidget himself, and
a sore torment to all with whom he comes in contact,'
an English Alnaschar. Plot there is none, the
imaginative vivacity of the hero does the whole business,
andmr. does
Charlesit
Mathews
well.will be Weto the doubt not
full
as buttb apopulart
in Cloudesley as he is in Captain Patter. The farce
went briskly oil', and at the conclusion Charles
Mathews was called for and loudly applauded.

FLAX COTTON—It perhaps may not be generally
known, even by those engaged in flax, that by com-
pletely robbing the fibre of all its gum, we get imme-
diately a fine downy material like raw cotton, only rather
stronger. The strength of the flax is rather diminished
by this process, but still the fibre is superior to cotton;
and it may be passed through all the present cotton
machinery in the subsequent processes. This cannot
tail to be highly interesting, now that we are threatened
with a scarce and consequently dear and inferior supply
of cotton; and since much flax stalk is thrown away,
both at home and in India, the plant being cultivated for
the seed, it follows that we have here, prima facie, a
much less expensive raw material than cotton.
ERIZATUIIL—In the report of the county meeting of
Middlesex magistrates, on Saturday, the name of Von
Orloff Brink should have been printed " Carl (Charles)
Olof (Olave) Brink," that gentleman being a Swedish
barrister-at-law, and Secretary to the Royal Board of
Prisons in Sweden. Mr. Brink is at present in this
country on a special mission ,relating to the examina•
tion of the system of police and prison discipline in
England.
London, England, 1849-10-22

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

-- - .
The Kolner Zeitung publishes an account of the
reception which General Klapka met with at Ham-
burgh, where he arrived on the 17th inst. Large
crowds of people met the Hungarian General at the
railway terminus, and accompanied him to his hotel,
where he addressed them in the followifig manner :
" Gentlemen,—l thank you for your sympathy
with a wretched ,
nation, which was conquered while
struggling for its liberty. We, its champions are
exiled after the combat. It is a comfort for me and
for all my comrades that the respect of true patriots,
and especially that of the inhabitants of Hamburgh,
accompanies us into exile.', In the evening General
Klapka visited the Hamburgh Theatre, when the
manager and the audience received him as they might
have done a sovereign prince. The orchestra struck
u,p, and the public rose as one man when General
lilapka entered the house.
The Wiener Zeitung publishes a long list of
Russian officers to whom the Emperor of Austria has
been pleased to grant Austrian orders. The king of
Denmark, too, has been decorated with the Grand
Cross of the Hungarian order of St. Stephen.
tcooltmhhoeer
Comore.
benefits ofthe ' •
.arrison of Peterwardein have been admitted
capitulation of the garrison of

General Francis Lichtenstein has been appointed
Civil and Military
General Haynau's absencef
Commander of Hungary during
The .Allgemeine Zeitungrsotni that country.
that it is not the
sende another Am-
bassador Colloredo.
intention of the Austrian Courtplaat
ee :estf
future
of
A ffairteos be
kept up by means of an Austrian Charge d'
to London in the
The diplomatic intercourse between
St. James's and Schonbrunn is for the futue

roRTsMoUTH, OcT. 21:—Her Majesty's steamer
Stromboli, from the River, in coming in last night, ran
ashore on Hamilton's
peatßnk, came off at two o'clock this
morning, and brought Splthead.
London, England, 1849-10-22

week had the effect of producing very large arrivals of
country killed ►::eats for these markets. The total quan-
tity rt ceived, since Monday last, L,s been little short of
10,000 carcaes, chit fly of Sheep st,d Pigs. With
London-slaughtered meat we have been seasonably well
supplied. All kinds have met a very dull sale, and in
some instances prices have further declined, without
effecting a clearance. From Hamburgh 12 baskets of
meat have come to hand, and about 1,800 carcases of
.foreign meat, killed in the metropolis, have been on offer.

At per stone by the Careave.
s d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Beef, nf0rt0r...... 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior •• 2 8 3 0
middling .... 2 6 210 middling.. 3 2 3 4
- primelarge •• 3 0 3 2 prime 3 6 3 ✓i
- prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, large. ••.. 3 0 3 6
Pea 1...•.....•.... 210 3 6 - small •.• 3 8 4 2
London, England, 1849-10-22

ITALY.

A letter from Leghorn of the 12th inst. states that
a boat belonging to the British ship-of-the-line Bel-
lerophon, with a midshipman and twenty-two men,
was upset on approaching theland. Notwithstanding
withstanding the assistance afforded by the boatsin the
harbour, the midshipman and ten of the men were
drowned.
A letter from Florence of the 14th inst. states that
some crowds having been collected in the streets, the
Austrian sentinels fired on the people, and several
persons were wounded.
London, England, 1849-10-22

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE

OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON.
A meeting of the shareholders in this company was
held at Leeds on the 18th, for the purpose of forming
a committee, with a view to the removal of the present
board of directors. Air. Walter Stead presided.
The CHAIRMAN said that the shareholders in this
undertaking had been led to invest large sums of
money on the faith of an alleged guarantee from the
Great Western Railway Company, not only to lease
the line, when completed, at a reasonable rate of in-
terest, but also in case of need to provide for the
actual completion of the line ; but that they now
found that they had been labouring under a great
delusion, and had been abandoned both by the
company, under whose influence and authority the
line was introduced into Parliament, and by the
directors whose duty it was to protect their interests.
In consequence of the disastrous condition of the
company's affairs, be (the Chairman) thcught that
nothing but the most prompt and energetic measures
would lead to their recovery or to a more healthy-
condition. He thought the most extraordinary neg-
ligence had been shown by the directors in failing
to place the guarantee of the Great Western Com-
pany on a footing free from all ambiguity, at a time
when there could be no doubt that such a course
was open to them ; and their subsequent and present
apathy in omitting to use the powers they possessed
for enforcing the performance of its engagements by
the Great Western Company, coupled with the con-
nexion of some of those directors of the Great
Western board, were such as entirely to deprive the
present directors of the confidence of the shareholders,
and to call for an independent action of the share-
holders to procure a remedy for the evils by which
they were oppressed.—(Hear.)
A committee, consisting of Mr. James Ogle, Mr. W.
Stead, and Mr. James Walker, was appointed to pro-
secute on behalf of the shareholders for procuring the
removal of the present directors and the appointment
of a new board of directors.
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro-
ceedings.
London, England, 1849-10-22

ITALY.

Letters from Rome announce that General S
JEAN VANGELY is about to return to France.

It is said that the Sardinian Ministry will be mo-
dified. M. PINELLI is to retire, and to be replaced
by M. DE AMIIROIS. CALVAGNO is to be replaced
by either CAVIN or DEEERRARI.
The Piedmontese Gazette, of the 15th, publishes
the law authorizing the Minister of Public Works
to apply 150,000 francs to the execution of stand-
ards of the metrical system of measures lately in-
troduced.

Letters from Bastia, of the Bth, announce the
departure at the expense e
departure for Genoa of fifty
of the French Government, the total cost or their
voyage amounting to 650 francs. Every man has
received three francs besides for his maintenance
during the voyage. About 120 refugees still remain
at Bastia, in the most abject state of misery. They
receive eight sous a day from the municipality.
The Riforma of Lucca states from Florence,
October 11, that the Tuscan Government has seized
an edition of NlazzlNl's letter to MU. DE TOCQUE-
VILLE and FALLoux, printed by the bookseller BEL •
LINT. The editor has applied to an influential per-
sonage to have the seizure withdrawn.
A letter from Naples of the 10th, in the Legge of
Turin, mentions the arrest of the Count of ANData,
Archdeacon CAGIcAZZI, and the son of M. CASALE.
The Marquise TUPPETI had succeeded in effecting his
escape.
London, England, 1849-10-22

TURKEY.

The Levant mail brings advices from Constanti-
nople of the sth instant. M. DE TITOFF and Baron
STUEMER were still residing in the city, although all
diplomatic communications with the PORTE remained
suspended.
On the 2d the Turkish army, stationed in the
neighbourhood of Constantinople, was reviewed by
the SULTAN in person ; a sham fight took place, in
which the whole of the troops took part. The num-
ber of soldiers on the ground was upwards of 53,000
besides 150 pieces of artillery, and their appearnce, as
well as the enthusiasm they showed on the occasion,
is described by the Constantinople papers in glowing
terms. The English, French, Prussian, and other
Ambassadors were present on the occasion. The
Russian and Austrian Envoys were absent.
The disturbances at Samos had not been put down.
Additional troops had been sent to the island, and a
Turkish frigate had been ordered to cooperate on the
coast.
M. DE SARTIGES, the French Envoy at Teheran,
who had been obliged to leave Persia in conse-
quence of some differences with the Government,
was still at Constantinople, but was about to start
of
for France.
The English war steamer Odin, under the com-
mand Captain PELHAM arrived at Constantinople,
from Corfu on the 3d, with dispatches for Sir STRAT-.
FORD CANNING.
The Journal de
Constantinople states from Beyrout
taken
that distubances had place at Tripoli, in Syria,
in consequence of the Gov
measure taken by the inhabitants
wishing to revoke a
to prohibit the
exportation of corn, and he compelled to revoke
his orders. Oa the news reachingwls Beyrout,
composing the garrison of that place the troops
were dispatched
to Tripoli. As a measure of precaution some Turkish
troops had been sent there.

GREECE.
The Queen of GREECE returned to Athens on the
2d, after an absence of four months.
London, England, 1849-10-22

BAVARIA.

In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of the
13th Oct. a project of law was presented for the abo-
lition of sentence of death, of punishment in the
stocks, and branding.
In the expose.of motives accompanying the project
for the new loan, being the third within two years, it
is stated that the new financial operations proposed
the reduction of the army expenditure, which absorbs
800,000 fl. per month, or nearly one-third of the total
receipts of the State. The sum of 1,600,000f1. is also
demanded for defraying the expenses of the matricu-
lated contingencies due by Bavaria in its quality of
member of the Germanic Confederation.

RUSSIA.
ARRIVAL OF FUAD EFFENDI.

FUAD EFFENDI, the Turkish Minister, arrived at
St. Petersburgh on the sth inst. He had nct re-
ceived an audience, 'nor had a day been fixed for his
being received. He had, however, remitted a copy
of the SULTAN'S letter to the EMPEROR to Count Dia
NESSELEODE, with whom he had a long interview.
The Austrian Minister, Count BRUHL, arrived in
St. Petersburgh the same day.
The Paris Presse says that the Russian Govern-
ment, which engaged to reduce the Russian army in
the Danubian provinces to 10,000 men as soon as the
Hungarian war should be terminated, have since the
conclusion of that war increased its army.
London, England, 1849-10-22

lONIAN ISLANDS.

A letter from Trieste, dated the 31st instant, states
that order had been re-established in Cephalonia: The
Lord High Commissioner had promised to proclaim a
genoral amnesty as soon as the principal leaders of
the insurrection had been delivered up.

WARTS.—The Liverpool Mercury says :—" Ned"
sends us the following recipes for the cure of warts:—
American Recipe : The ashes from the bark of the
common willow, mixed with strong vinegar, and ap-
plied to the parts, will remove warts, corns, and
other excrescences. Welsh Recipe : The scum of
the water in which potatoes have been boiled is
said to have removed warts; whilst washing the hands
in the same water will produce them. English Recipe:
Rub the parts with the inside of the hull or pod of the
edible Windsor bean. When I was a boy, my left hand
was covered with warts, and in ten days, with repeated
applications, the warts disappearced, and I have not been
troubled with one since. "Chemicua" says—The best
remedy is to apply a concentrated solution of iodine,
with a camel hair pencil, once or twice a day.
WASHING LIQUOR.—A correspondent, who calls
himself the " Washerwoman's Friend," says:—" There
is now washing liquor sold in Sheffield at the most ex-
tortionate price—beautifully labelled; but for the benefit
of washerwomen, who are generally the really deserv-
ing poor, we will impart the wonderful secret which has
baabisuyeanraretocipsbuootioarfrienwde.adtefTrroh;miasnhead-quarters, viz., Mr. Twelvetrees.
Ilb. of soda, -11 b. of lime, and ill). of soap. The soda
and soap are boiled together, and the lime alone, in two
receipt
e ethen,ipt acfatne r b beinge s
well
boiled, ar e used
manufactured
.. . _ washerwoman as by a scientific chemist.—
Liverpool ,Ntanard.
London, England, 1849-10-22

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little experience removes, and most earnest thanks artrproffered for
the kind indulgence bestowed on the errors which have occasionally
marked the Editorial and Practical Departments. The best proof of
the Editor's feeling will be found in her endeavours to render the
Journal far more worthy of the flattering patronage it receives,
and without any fallacious boast, she can promise her leaders a
future supply of sound and valuable matter.

The most gratifying circumstance attending the extensive circula-
tion and cordial reception of the Journal has been in proving that a
large reading public can be found for a cheap Serial who do not
require unhealthy excitement and mere ephemeral entertainment to
gain their attention. Right glad has the Editor been to see that
her plain and simple wish to elevate the morals and invigorate the
mind, leas been graciously received : for, though amusement Is one
of the chief essentials, not only of periodical literature, but of our
whole lives, it should ever be blended with a principle and purpose
tending to advance humanity.

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plea, ure in presenting her First Volume as a Journalist to those
whose generous perceptions stamped her first attempt as a Poet.
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TURKEY.

The Levant mail brings advices from Constanti-
nople of the sth instant. M. DE TITOFF and Baron
STURMER were still residing in the city, although all
diplomatic communications with the PORTE remained
suspended.
On the 2d the Turkish army, stationed in the
neighbourhood of Constantinople, was reviewed by
the SULTAN in person ; a sham fight took place, in
which the whole of the troops took part. The num-
ber of soldiers on the ground was upwards of 53,000
besides MO pieces of artillery, and their appearnce, as
well as the enthusiasm they showed on the occasion,
is described by the Constantinople papers in glowing
terms. The English, French, Prussian, and other
Ambassadors were present on the occasion. The
Russian and Austrian Envoys were absent.
The disturbances at Samos had not been put down.
Additional troops had been sent to the island, and a
Turkish frigate had been ordered to co-operate on the
coast. _

vv
M. DE SARTIGES, the French Envoy at Teheran,
who had been obliged to leave Persia in conse-
quence of some differences with the Government,
was still at Constantinople, but was about to start
for France.

mand of Captain PELHAM, arrive
The English war steamer oddina,tucnodnesrtatnhteincooprnle:
from Corfu, on the 3d, with dispatches for Sir STRAT.•
FORD CANNING.
The Journal de Constantinople states from Beyrout
that distubances had taken place at Tripoli, in Syria,
in consequence of the Governor wishing to revoke a
measure taken by the inhabitants to prohibit the
exportation of corn, and he was compelled to revoke
his orders. On the news reaching Beyrout, the troops
the garrison of that place were dispatched
composing
to Tripoli. As a measure of precaution some Turkish
troops had been sent there.

GREECE.
The Queen of GREECE returned to Athens on the
2d, after an absence of four months.