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London, England, 1849-12-29 00:00:00

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N°.17,861.] LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING S N 9 DECEMBER 29, 1849.

TMPROVED DWELLINGS for the POOR
I At the present moment, when a day of National Thanks-
giving is appointed, it cannot be out of pace to bring before the
minds of the Christian public some of the efforts which have been
made, and are still snaking, to remedy the deplorable evils which
endanger both the lives and the morals of the poorer classes of
society.
The SOCIETT for the lIIPROVENIENT of the CONDITION
of the LABOURING CLASSES has now been occupied for mere
than four years past with these objects :
It has bnilt a r urge of Dwellings for tho Industrious Classes, on
sanitary principles, at Bagnigge•wells, Gray's Inn-lane. Here
twenty-three families and thirty single women are accommodated.
It has repaired and rendered fit for healthy occupation four houses
in King-street and Charles-street, Drury-lane, wherein 108 working
men are accommodated.

SEASONABLE PRESENTS.
At this festive period of the year, the following unrivalled dis-
coveries for the toilet are called into increased requisition, namely
ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, for creating and sustaining a
luxuriant head of hair.

fast to a berg; 7 P.M., let go from the berg; boats
a bald towing; 11 P.M, ceased towing, and com-
menced warping through a heavy loose pack ; Lord
Gambier in company; too busy to-day; unable to
observe the temperature.
" Saturday, 22 —Weather fine ; from midnight to
2.30 A.M., warping through the pack; 2.45 A.m., made
fast to a berg in order to give the crew some refresh •
ment ; 7 A.M., fine breeze from the southward; cast
loose from the berg and made sail, standing to the
northward amongst loose ice ; 12 at noon got into a
sheet of open water, greater part of the day lying-to
in consequence of a dense fog; Lord Gambier' in
company with us, but a considerable distance to north-
ward; temperature of sir, 37 deg.; sea, 34 deg.
" Sunday, 23—Fore part of the day foggy, latter
part clear; dodging under easy sail to the southward
of a close pack ; temperature of air, 35 deg. ; sea, 34
deg. • Lord Gambier in company.
" ifonday, 24—Dense fog during the whole of
the day ; kept tacking and wearing amongst bergs
and small floes.
"Tuesday, 25—Fore part of the day clear, latter
part foggy; made no . progress to the nothward this
day; temperature of air, 84 deg.; sea, 33 deg.
" Wednesday, 26—Fresh breeze from the south-
ward, and dense fog during the fore part of the day;
latter part clear and calm ; made little or no progress
to the northward; nothing but floes and bergs to be
seen in that direction ; temperature of air, 34 deg. ;
sea, 33 deg. This day lost sight of the Lord Gam-
bier, she standing to the south-west under all sail ;
off Baffin's Islands 74 north.
"Thursday, 27—Weather clear ; wind from the
southward; observed open water to the northward of
the peek; made every effort to get at it by carrying
sail, and warping, all to no purpose; stuck fast in
the middle of the pack ; our consort in the same pre-
dicament; temperature of air, 39 deg.
" Friday, 28—Weather cloudy; wind from the
north east ; 9 A.M. commenced warping through the
pack ; 6 P.M., got into open water, but observed
another barrier of closely packed ice to the northward
of us ; temperature of air, 39 deg.; sea, 34. deg.
" Saturday, 2C —Weather cloudy; wind from the
northward; lying-to greater part of the day; not the
slightest opening to be observed in the pack ; tempe-
rature of air, 41 deg. • sea, 33 deg.
" Sunday, 30—Weather very fine; light air of
wind from the southward; dodging about under easy
sail, to the southward of the pack; observed an ap-
parent change in it; temperature of air, 35 deg.; sea,
38 deg.
"Monday, 31—Weather fine; light air from the
northward; lying-to greater part of the day ; tempe-
rature of air, 40 deg. ; sea, 38 deg.
" August.—Tuesday, I—Weather fine; made
some little progress by sailing, towing, and warping ;
11 P.M., made fast to a berg ; temperature of air, 35
deg.; sea, 33 .deg.
" Wednesday, 2—Weather fine; wind from the
northward; ice
.drifting fast to the southward ; tem-
perature of air, 38 deg.; sea, 34 deg.
" Thursday, 3—Weather fine ; 8 eat., cast loose
from the berg ; sent boats ahead to tow ' • 2 P.M., light
breeze from the southward; hoisted the boats up, and
made all possible sail; 11 P.M., came on thick fog;
lay- to in consequence; made about 20 miles northing
this day ; temperature of air, 38 deg. ; sea, 34 deg.
" Friday, 4—Weather cloudy ; wind S.; made 10
or 12 miles northing during the forenoon ; afternoon,
lying-to in consequence of thick weather ; temperature
of air 29 deg.,; sea,_ 31 deg.
" Saturday, s—Weather fine ; wind from the east-
ward,; surrounded with ice in all directions ; 4 P.M.,
made fast to a berg in the vicinity of Brown Island;
lat. 75 ; temperature of air, 35 deg. ; sea, 34 deg.
"6, 7,8, 9—Fast to a berg ; no apparent change
in the ice during this time, wind varying from S. to
S.E., accompanied at times with heavy rain ; mean
temperature, 35 deg.
"Thursday, 10—Weather cloudy, with rain; open
water to the N.W.; 1 rat., let go from the berg,
made sail, and stood to the westward through loose
ice ; 8 r.M. ; came on thick fog; made fast to a berg;
temperature of air, 32 deg. ; sea, 29 deg.
"Friday, 11—Weather fine; let go from the berg,
and made sail ; 8 P.M., again made fast ; no chance of
getting to the northward ; temperature of air, 32 deg.;
sea, 30 deg.

SIR JAMES ROSS'S SEARCHING
EXPEDITION.
The following are rough notes of Sir James Ross's
searching expedition in the Arctic regions. There is
no description of scenery, beasts, birds, or fishes; no
mention of phenomena, however strange, splendid, or
terrific. The writer is neither a geologist, botanist,
nor zoologist. He, therefore, gives nothing more than
a log of details connected with the ship's progress
during the voyage. The reader will see, by this
journal, that neither a "Jack " nor his muter had
been eating the bread of idleness during the time they
were absent from England.
The log commences from June 7, 1848.
" June—Wednesday, 7—Sighted ice, Cape Fare-
well bearing N.W., distant about 160 miles ; mean
temperature of the air, 43 deg.
"Thursday, B—Weather cloudy ; wind from N.W.,
stood through a stream of ice ; temperature 38 deg.
"Friday 9—Weather cloudy; wind from N. ;,ships
standing to the westward; no ice in sight ; „tempe-
rature, 40 deg.
" Saturday, 10—Weather hazy; light airs from the
eastward ; steering course, Cape Farewell bearing at
noon N.W. by W., 160 miles ; temperature, 45 deg.
" Sunday, 11—Fresh breeze from the south-east;
steering course, Cape Farewell bearing N.W. by W.
46 miles; no ice in sight ; temperature, 42 deg.
Performed Divine service.
" Monday, 12—Strong breeze from 5.F.., running
before it up Davis' Straits ; passed several icebergs
during the day ; -temperature, 40 deg.
" Tuesday, 13—Light breeze from S.E.; straggling
pieces of ice in sight; temperature, 38 deg.
" Wednesday, 14—Light winds from the NE ;
ships standing to the westward; sounded to a depth
of 450 fathoms,
.in order to ascertain the temperature
of the sea at that depth ; straggling pieces of ice, and
several bergs in sight ; temperature of air, 32 deg. ;
sea, 36 deg.
" Thursday, 15—Light airs from the N.W.; tem-
perature of air, 35i deg.; sea, 36 .deg.
" Friday, 16—Sighted land ; wind from the N.W. ;
ship turning to windward; temperature of air, 38 ;
sea, 37 deg.
" Saturday, 17—Fresh breeze from the northward ;
ships turning to windward ; temperature of air, 35
deg.; sea, 38 deg.
" Sunday, 18—Fresh breeze from the N.W. ; ship
turning to windward ; no land in sight; temperature
of air, 35 deg.; sea, 37 deg.
" Monday, 19—Light breeze from the southward;
temperature of air, 34 deg. ; sea, 36 deg.
"Tuesday, 20—Light breeze from the southward;
moving under all sail ; land in sight ; sounded in 30
fathoms water.
"Wednesday, 21—Calm greater part of the day;
great number of icebergs in sight; temperature of
air, 36 deg.; sea, 37 deg.
" Thursday, 22—Light breeze from the eastward ;
eight A M. close in with Whale Fish Islands. Natives
came off to the ships in their canoes, and communi-
cated with us. 8.30 r.m., anchored at Whale Island,
in 18 fathoms water, close to. a Danish settlement.
Our consort, Investigator, anchored at 9.30 P.m.,
within a cable's length of us. Temperature of air,
45 deg. ; sea, 41 deg.
" From riday 23 to Thursday 29—Moored at
Whale Fish Islands. Crew employed during that
time repairing rigging and getting the ships in order
previous to taking the ice. During our stay here the
weather was remarkably fine, thermometer sometimes
standing at 85 deg. in the sun, but averaged about 64
deg. in the shade.
" Friday, 30—Weather fine. 6 A.M. weighed
anchor and steered our course to the northward,
both ships in company; temperature of air, 49 deg. ;
sea, 45

ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, for rendering the Skin soft, fair, and
blooming, and

ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, for imparting a
a pearl-like whiteness to the Teeth.

The patronage of royalty throughout Europe, and the high appre-
elation by rank and fashion, with the well-known infallible efficacy
of these articles, give them a celebrity unparalleled, and render them
a peculiarly elegant and sea'onable present.
ss* BEWARE OF SPURIOUS IMITATIONS.

The onlyygenuine of each bears the name of "ROWLA.NDS' " pre.
ceding that of the Article on the Wrapper or Label.

It has built, in Qreorze-street, St. Giles's, a Model Lodging llouse
for working mon, where 104 persons of this class find a comfortable
habitation.

Sold by them at 20, Hatton-garden, London, and.by respectable
Chemists and Perfumers.

It has repaired and fitted up, at No. 76 , Hatton-garden, a house
for the accommodation of fifty eight females of the working•classes.
It is now building. in Streatham-street, Bloomsbury, a' range of
dwellings for mechanics and their families, wherein about 48 such
families will find good and healthy habitations.
At Tunbridge Wclls it is aiding to raise a series of cottages fo
agricaltural labourers, of which six and a lodging-house for single
men are already completed and occupied.
Besides these various works, it is in constant correspondence with
a great number of benevolent persons in all parts of the kingdom ;
who apply for its aid in the building or Improvement of cottages, or
the setting-oat of cottage allotments.
In these various works it has expended, and is expending, more
than Twenty-three Thousand Pounds. For the works now in hand
a further sum of between Three and Four Thousand Pounds is needed;
towards n hich the Committee now solicits the contributions of the
benevolent.

ALMANAC FOR 1850.

CEIRON,

Shrove Tuesday..... Feb.
Ash 'Wednesday.... ~
Easter Sunday --Mare:
Low Sunday ...... ...April

[CAL NOTE/.
Holy Thursday....
Whit Sunday......
Trinity Sunday
Advent Sunday....

~Miry
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~May 26
.Dea. 1

The following are the sums already subscribed towards the house
aow erecting in Streatham-street :

SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert - - - - -
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager -
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rent -
Her Reyal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester -
The Right Hon. Earl Spencer -
Sir Joseph Copley, Bart. -
The Right Hon. Lord Feversham
S. M. Peto, Esq., M.P. - •
Rev. E. Hoßond - - -
His Grace the Duke of Bedford -
Miss Portal -
Messrs. Barciay and Co

- £3OO 0 0
- 150 0 0
- 100 0 0

:1 0 0
- - - 100 0 0
2d donation 110 0 0
- 100 0 0
- 100 0 0
- - - leo 0 0
- 100 0 0
- - 100 0 0
- - 100 0 0
- - 100 0 0
• - - 100 0 0
- 100 0 0
. - - 100 0 0
- 46,663 I 6

Kosmos -
Abel Smith, Esq.
Lord Willoughby do Eresby
A Fr end, by L Sullivan, Esq.
Total, to Jan. 1, 1849 - -
Donations since received :
W. S., a Tribute for the Thanksgiving Day -XlO 0
Mrs. Blair - - - - - 25 0
Mrs. Lambert Blair
The Rev. Dr. Ellerton
A Friend -
R. B. Cooke, Esq.
Major CruD shank
A., per Nisbet
T. T.
C. Saver, Esq.
A. Palmer, Esq.
A. 11. Bradshaw, Esq.
R. C. Kidd, Esq.
IT. S. Angell, Esq.
The Dowager Lady Cooper - - • - 10 0
J. E. Denison, Esq., M.P. - - - 10 0
Rev. J. Ware - - - - - 20 0
Mrs. Charles Pym
Geo. Pearce, Esq.
J. Sperling, Esq.
R. H. V. Walpole, Esq.
R. A. Hornby, Esq. - - - - - 5 0
Viscount Brackley
H. B. Hickman, Esq.
Miss A. M. Cotton - - - - - - 5 0
Marquis of Blandford - - . 0
Rev. Dr. Pacey - - - - 5 0
J. 0. Harris, Esq. - - 20 •
11. Unwell. Esq. - - - - - - 5 0
Rev. Dr. Cotton, Principal of Worcester College S 0
John Hardy, Esq. - - - - - -20 0
Mr. Hargraves
W. E. Hubbard, Esq. - - - - 5 0
Lieut.-Colonel Seymour
Mrs. [lngham
Major• Little 1 0
M. 0., one who has read Lord Ashley's Letter
in the'" Times" of the 19th ult., as a Thank-
offering of herself and family from the late
Epidemic ----- 100 0
Lady Murray
W. Jennings, Esq.
R. Wilkinson, Esq.
J. Beaufort, Esq.
Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone • - - 10 0
Miss Ware
Edward Strachey, Esq.
Mrs. Dumaresque
Thomas L. Ward - - - - - 10 0
T. H. Bastard, Esq.
E. Gardner, Esq. - - - - 5 5
T. Twining, jun., Esq.
T. H. Parker, Esq.
C. V.
Mrs. Bird
J. J. Smith, Esq.
W. Penny, Esq. - - - - b 0
W. Sparkes, Esq.
Christlanus
B. Smith, Esq.
G. Harding, Esq.
J. C. Hall, Esq.
E. B. Bastard, Esq. - - - - 10 0
Members of Rev. Dr. Cumming's Congregation 10 0
W. P. Angell, Esq. - - - - - - 5 5
Mrs. Schaal
Miss Catherine Stuart - - - - - 2 0
E. W. M. L. - - - - - - - b 0
. Donations and annual subscriptions will be received by Messrs.
Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-lane ; Messrs. Herries, Farquhar,
and Co., St. James's-street ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; Messrs.
Strahan, Pa r, and Co., Tem ale-bar ; and by Hatchards, Piccadilly ;
Seeleys, Fleet-street and Hanover-street ; and Nisbet, Berrsers-
street ; or by the Secretary, at the Office, 21, Eieter HAIL

January...

February.

March....,

April

May

June

6
13
20
27

3
10
17
24

4
21811
'5l

13
2(:s
271

7
14
21
28,

July

4EA, FIRE, LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE.
Established by AM of Parliament,
31, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capitalloo,oool., in Shares of 20s. each, to be paid in fel ea allotment,
bearing a guaranteed interest toff. per cent. in perpetuity (irrespective
of further dividends) upoa the paid-up capital.
Application for Shares to be addressed to the Directors at the
(Maces of the Society. Marine, Fire, aad Life Assurances granted
on the most liberal terms.
Immediate and Deferred Annuities granted ea terms especially
advantageous for investment of capital.
By order,
AUG. COLLING RIDGE, Managing Director.

BONUS NOTICE —Proposals made to the
SCOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND and LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY on the Participation Class, and completed previous to the
closing of the Books for the year ending 31st December carrent, have
the advantage of a full year's claim for Bonus beyond that enjoyed
by members joining the Society at a later periol.
JOHN MACKENZIE, Manager.
Agent—HUGH M'KEAN, 4, Royal Exchange-buildings.
December, 1849.

T " JUVENILES

There's not a dress-mart to be found
Throughout the British Isles,
To vie with that of M. and Son,
In dress for Juveniles.
Moses and Son make boys' attire
In all the various styles ;
For while they strive to please adults,
They study Juveniles.
All who behold this famous stock
Bestow approving smiles ;
And thousands flock to M. and Son,
To dress their Juveniles.

➢ioses and Son can also sell
Superior Caps and tiles,
And boots and shoes, and other things,
To suit the Juveniles.
E. M. and Son, in seeking trade,
Ese-ew all artful wiles ;
And so you'll say when once you try
Their dress for Juveniles.

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August

Their trading patronage has spread
For many, many miles ;
And far and wide their fame extends
In dregs for Juveniles.
A Medal. containing an Almanac for the year 1850, wil be prc
sented to every customer.

September)

LIST OF PRICZIL ,
BEADY MADE.
Autumn and Winter Over Coats, in every
The B nlwer, handsomely and warmly trimmed 0 18 0
The Paletot, ••.. • • 0 18 0
Chesterfield, ditto.. •• •• .... •• • • 1 0 0
The Albert Wrapper, a very handsome style
of Ovir Coat .• ••• • • •
Shooting Coats •••••••• • • •• • .„ •
.• 0 8 6
Lounging or Morning Coats .. ••••.• • • • • 0 4 6
Autumn and Winter Trousers, in Tweed ...• 0 4 6
Ditto - ditto Doeskin .. 0 7 6
Ditto Vesta • • ••••••• • • • • • • 0 2 6
Black Silk Velvet Tests .• ...... ••• • • • 0 13 8
Dress Coats •••• • • . • •••• • . • • .... • • ...... 017
•
0 19 0

October

4
18
25

12
19
21;

10utilsanailioys; Over Coats, in every style,
••••••••• 0 7 0
Hussar and Tunic Suits ......... ••• .. 0 14 6
Boys' Autumn. and Winter Tests .......... 0 0 8
/WADI TO MEASURE.
Men's Autumn and Winter Over Coats ..from 1 1
The Chesterfield Wrapper, in a warm ma-
terial, lined • • • • • I 0
The Paletot, handsomely and warmly trimmed 1 16 0
The Eglinton Wrapper, a very elagant style of
•
The Strathmore Witney Over Coat, •
newest
style, lined throughout ••• • • • • • ••• • •• 2 10 0
Autsmn and Winter Trowsers, in Tweed and
0 10 6
Best Black Cashmere ditto .. ••••••• • • • • • • • 1 6
Autumn and Winter Vests .. . 0 8 6
Best Black Cloth ditto .................... 8 13 6
Black Silk Velvet ditto •••••••• • • • • .. • • .... 0 18 6
Dress Coats .• • • from 32e. M 2 18 •
•. roc ....from 355. to 3 3 9
Hussar and Tunic Stilts. ..... ••..•• • • • • iron' I 6 0
Superfine .. ••• • • • ................. • •• • 118
Men's Shooting Coat • ................... .. 0 16 0
Elegant Dressing Robes, in great variety,
from ............ •• •• •• •• •• •• •• ..16s. to 5 0 0
A Large Sleek of Fur Coats, in every shape, from lids. to 201.
Naval and Military Ifitiferins, Liveries, &s.
Mourning to any extent at Five Militates' notice.
A Suit of Mourning complete for 11. 10s.
The new book, entitled "The Minion of the Million," with nil'
directions for Self-measurement, can be had ea application, or for-
warded, post free, to any part of the kingdom.
Notice—The Far Department is now replete with every novelty
f the season.
Observe—Any article purchased, either ready made, or made to
measure, if not approved of will be exchanged, or the money returned.
E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters,
Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, 154,
155, 156, and 157 Minories, and 83, 84, 85, and 86 Aldgate, City,
London ; all communicating with each other, and forming one vast
Establishment.
Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret having to guard the public
against imposition: but having heard that the nntradesmanfike
falsehood of being connected with them, or " It is the same concern,"
has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons,
ihey beg to state that they have so connexion with any other house
in or oat of London, except their Branch Establishments, 36, Fu-
gate, Sheffield ; and 19, Therntou's-buildings, Bradford, Yorkshire;
and those who require cheap and genuine clothing, &s., should call
at or send to the Minories and Aldgate, City, London ; or either of
Os Brach Extgiblishannts, as Aboye.

INovemberl

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I December

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.

WAKEFIELD, DEC. 28.—The arrivals this week are
moderate. There is a good inquiry for wheat today,
but the advanced rates somewhat checked the demand
but ultimately a good business was done at an improve'
ment of is per quarter. Fine barley advanced is per
quarter, and the common sorts met with more attention.
Oats and shelling same as last week. Very little doing
in beans.

New.

WHEAT, per qr. 601bs per bushel:— a.
Suffolk, Essex, and Kent, red ... 40
Ditto, white 45
Norfolk and Hunts., red ... ... 38
Ditto, white ... ... 42
Lincolnshire and Cambridge, red ... 35
Ditto, white ... ... 42
Yorkshire, red .., 35
Ditto, white .. 42
Dantzic and Konigsburg, white .. 43
Lowerßaltic and Hamburgh, red... 38
Mediterranean, red ...
BARLEY, per quarter of 8 bushels:—
Norfolk and Suffolk... .. 29 31
Lincolnshire and Yorkshire .. 25 27
Scotch ••• ••• •••
Grinding per 30 stone
Foreign ... ... 23
BEANS, per quarter of 8 bushels 631 b :
Small, fine ... ... 29
Ticks •••
Foreign ...
OATS, per stone :
healing . 9d to 10d to 101
Feeding ... 8d to 90 8d to 94
Foreign ... —d to —4 8d to 94
SHELLING, per load of 2611 b ... 22 —23 21 —22
MALT, per load of 6 imperial bushels —— 34 —36
PEAS, per Imperial Quarter
Blue and white boilers
Grey and Feed

Old.
a. a.
40 to 43
45 48
39 —4l
43 46
88 41
42 44
38 40
42 ..... 45
42 45
38 40
34 37

AIM

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VALS.

... 27-

22 - 24

30 - 32
28 - 21
26 - 30

... 29 - 31 - - -
... 26 - 28 26 - 28

Qra.
Wheat ... ... 11,884
Barley ... ... 3 576
Oats ••• ••• ••• "go 2,152
Beans— ••• ••• ••• 978
Peas ... 4.54
NEWBURY, DEC.• 27.—The quantity of wheat pitched
to-day is small, and we have a short attendance of
farmers with samples; the demand is good, with rather
an upward tendency in price, and a good clearance
effected. Barley a moderate supply; fine malting in
good request at full rates; other sorts iu less demand,
at about the rates of last week. Beans and peas, short
supply, and in fair demand at late rates. Oits, large
supply, and exceedingly difficult to sell at rather de-
clining rates.

Qrs.
Rapeseed ... ... ... 300
Shelling ... ... 667
Linseed .. ..
Malt ... ... • • •••
Flour ... ... ... :..

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 28.—There was a good attendance
of buyers at our market this morning, and a fair extent
of business was transacted in the leading articles of the
trade. No posi.ive advance can he quoted on wheat and
flour, but extreme prices were freely paid on each.
Oats were 41 per bushel and oatmeal 33 to 63 per load
dearer than last Monday. Beans also improved 3d to 6J
per quarter. Barley and peas were unchanged iu value.
Indian corn was in good request, and full prices were
paid for all descriptions, and in a few instances a small
advance was obtained.
EXETER, DEc. 28.—Cattle Market—There was a
very small supply, which sold tolerably well—the late
prices being Cully maintained. Best beef was worth
83 6d to fully 9s per score. Barreners, 5s to 5s 61 per
score. Cows and calves, 81 to 121 each. The supply of
heep was also small; ewes, 4id per lb.; wethers, 5d to
sid per lb.—the latter figure not being general. Pork
Carcases—The supply was small—about equal to one-
half of last week's. Prices ranged from 6s 6d to 7s 8d
per score. Pannier—Turkeys, 5s to 10s; geese, 4s 61
to 6s; ducks, 4s 6d to 5s 6d per couple; fowls, 2s 9d to
4s 6d ditto; pheasants, 6s ditto; partridges, 3s ditto;
hares, 3s to 3s 6d each; woodcocks, 55 per couple;
snipes, Is 4d to is 6d; butter, Is to is ld per lb.; eggs,
123 for ls; potatoes, 8d to 10d per score; turnips, 4d
ditto. Corn Exchange—One o'Clock—Price of wheat
remains nearly the same, Is to 5s 3d per bushel, but the
farmers are nut anxious sellers. Foreign red wheat is
40s, and white 44a per quarter; malting barley about
3s 3d per bushel; oats, is 9d to 2s ditto; fine flour, 28s
to 30s per sack of 2801bs.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, DEC. 28.—There has not
been any business transacted in our market this week,
the offices being closed for Christmas holidays, and will
not be re-opened before the Ist of January next.—
Bristol Mercury.
RIPON, DEC. 27.—White wheat, 55 6d to 5s 9d,
red do 4s 6d to 53 6d; beans, 4s 3d to 4s 9d per bushel;
barley 22s to 26a ; oats 14s to 21s per quarter.
KNARESBOROUGII. DEC. 26.—Wheat, 4s 6d to 5s 6d;
beans, 4s 3d to 5s 01 per bushel; barley, 24s to 265;
oats, 15s to 20s per quarter.
ORTEULLERTON, DEC. 22.—White wheat 4s 9d to
ss, red ditto, 4s 3d to 4s 9d; oats is 6d to 2s 61; beans
3s 6d to 4s Od, barley 3s Od to 3s 6d per bushel.
SCAltooßoUou, Dgc. 27.—Red wheat 4s 6d to 5s Od, old
ditto 5s 3d to ss, 9d per 5 stones; white oats 74d to Bd,
black ditto 7d to lid per stone; malting barley 21s to 235,
grinding barley 19s to 2ls per quarter of 32 stones; super-
fine flour 35s to 365, seconds ditto 29s to 30s per sack of
20 stones.

SALFORD, DEC. 26.—There was a considerable falling
off in the number of beasts, which caused the market to
be not so animated as last week. As might be expected
from the scanty show, prices were firm throughout the
day, and at the close a slight advance was demanded,
which tended further to limit business, and a few were
tuft unsold. Beef, itid to sid; sheep, 4id to 5d ;
beasts, 1,020; sheep, 3,540.
Itrnawass, DEC. 25.—Wheat, per quarter, weighing
641 b per bushel, 363 to 40s • new ditto, ditto, 00s to 00s ;
old barley, per quarter, weighing 541 b per bushel, 20.
to 23. ; new ditto, ditto, OJs to 00s ; oats, 421 b per
bushel, 16s to 181 Od. omeal, per imperial boll, 15s Od,
second, 14s; barleymeal, 11. 8d; peasemeal, 14. to 15s; bran,
per stone, 8d ; first lion:, per 2801 341 to 36. • seenud, 26s to
28s ; oatmeal, best, per stone of 141 b imperial, 'ls6dtoOs Od ;
second, Is 4d; barleymeal, is 2d; peasemeal, Is 4d; first flour,
2s 4d cash, 21 8d credit; second, 2s cash, 2s 3d credit. Pota-
toes, per stone, 4d to Od ; beef, per pound, 4d to 7J; veal, 4d
to 6d ; mutton, bd to 8d ; pork, 4d to Gd; fowls, each, 00d to
00d ; chickens, per pair, 00d to Od ; ducks, each, Pod to
00d ; eggs, per dozen, 9d to 10d ; butter, fresh, per lb, 8d to
00d; salt, 9d to 10d ; croudie (curds) 2id to Od ; four-pound
loaf, cash, 5d to 6d, credit, 50 to 6itd; coals, per cwt, 9d;
hay, per stone, 3d to 9d.

" Saturday, July I—Weather cloudy. Wind S.E.;
running under all possible sail to the N.W. 12
noon. Wafgate Strait abeam,. lat. 70 20 N.; great
number of bergs in sight; temperature of air, 45;
sea, 46.
" Sunday, 2—Weather cloudy; light airs from the
eastward, steering course to the northward along the
land; number of bergs in sight; temperature of air,
44 deg. ; sea, 4} deg.
• " Monday, 3—Light breeze from the northward;
ships standing to the westward; 10 30 A.M. our pro-
gress in that direction arrested by a pack of ice ;
tacked and stood in-shore; temperature of air, 39
deg. ; sea, 39 deg.
_ _ _

Tues lay, 4—Light airs from the N.W. ' • ships
standing in-shore towards the Woman Islands, they
bearing, at 12 noon, east; distance 30 miles; temce-
rature of air, 45 deg.: ssss, 44 (leg
" Wednesday, s—Weather clear and fine; calm ;
9.30., A.m. called away all boats to tow. Twelve,
noon, light breeze sprung up from the eastward ;
hoisted the boats up. Four, r.at observed from the
mast-head five sail of whalers standing towards us,
which proved to be the Lady Jane, of Shields ; True-
love, of Hull ; Joseph Green, of Peterhead ; Princess
Charlotte, and Alexander, of Dundee. Communi.
cated with them by boats, and delivered into tke
hands of the masters papers stating the terms of Lady
Franklin's reward ; at the same time they informed
us that it was impossible to get farther to the north-
ward at present, as an impenetrable barrier of
packed ice extended from the middle ice to the land ;
ten, r at , all the whalers bore away to the southward,
in the hope of being able to force a passage through
middle ice in about 70 north ; temperature of air, 46
deg.; sea, 42 deg.

"Thursday, 6—Light wind from the westward;
one, r.m., boats ahead towing"; six, p.m. hoisted the
boats up; eleven, r.m., shortened sail and made fast
to a berg for the first time, close under the land;
temperature of air, 48 deg. ; sea, 44 deg.
"Friday, 7—Weather fine; cast loose from the
berg and towed the ship ten miles to the north
ward and eastward, and moored her to a berg off the
Dani:h settlement of Appernwick ; communicated
with the natives; temperature of.air, 50 deg. ; sea,
46 deg.
" Saturday, B—Weather remarkably fine; sent par-
ties away in boats to shoot sea-fowl and gather eggs.
In the evening boats returned, having shot a great
number of birds and gathered a great many eggs,
which were equally divided amongst the officers and
crew; in the afternoon observed four whale ships
pass to the southward ; temperature of air, 64 deg.;
sea, 52 deg.
_ _

" Sunday, 9—Performed Divine service ; after-
wards gate the crew a row on shore ; temperature of
air, 54 deg.; sea, 54 deg.
" Monday, 10—Weather fine ; crew variously em-
ployed ; temperature of air, 54 deg. ; sea, 46 deg.
" Tuesday, 11—Sent the ice masters of both ships
in a boat to survey and ascertain the state of the pack ;
temperature of air, 56 deg. ; sea, 46 deg.
" Wednesday, 12—Weather cloudy ; shortly after
midnight ice masters returned ; reported no appa-
rent change in it ; temperature of air, 46 deg.; sea,
49 deg.

" Saturday, 12—From midnight to 5 A.M., blowing
rather hard from the eastward, which made it dan-
gerous to hold
.on to the berg; 5.16 A. 1.1 let go and
stood to the ~southward in open water under three
reefed topsails; no opening to the northward ; 9 P.M.,
again made fast to.a berg; temperature, air, 32 deg.;
sea, 31 deg.
Sunday, 13—Weather cloudy, with rain ; wind
from the southward, at times blowing fresh ; tempera-
ture, 34 deg.; sea, 32 deg. ; performed Divine service;
lat. 74 20.

Monday, 14—Weather cloudy, with rain ; 7 A.M.,
let go from the berg, and made sail, standing to the
southward ; dense fog during the latter E art of the
day ; temperature, air, 31 deg.; sea, 31 deg.
" Tuesday, 15—Weather fine ; ship standing to the
N.W. • temperature, air, 31 deg.; sea, 31 deg.
" Wednesday, I6—Weather cloudy ; wind N.E.;
snowing occasionally; dodging of the pack under easy
sail ; 7 A.M., killed a polar bear; temperature, air, 28
deg. ; sea, 29 deg.
" Thursday, 17—Weather foggy during greater
part of the day ; lying to off the pack ; temperature
of air, 31 deg. ; sea, 31 deg.
" Friday, 18—Weather fine ; wind from the north-
ward and eastward-, observed an opening in the pack;
made sail, and beat to the northward; twelve, mid-
night, got through into open water , temperature of
air, 26 deg.; sea, 29 deg.
" Saturday, 19—Weather clear during the first
part of the day; wind from the southward; from
eight to twelve, noon, steering course to the north-
ward ; 1 r.m., in consequence of thick weather, got
hampered amongst ice; hauled on a wind for the
remainder of the day ; temperature of air, 31 deg. ;
sea, 31 deg.
" Sunday, 20.—Weather cloudy ; wind from the
north-east, blowing strong; twelve, noon, took the
pack, and dashed fearlessly through it, under a press
of sail, getting at the same time many a hard knock ;
4r. at., lat. 75 N. got into open water, and shaped
our course for Pond's Bay ; temperature of air, 34
sea, 34."

(To be continued.)

" Thursday, 13 'Weather cloudy with rain ;
blowing fresh from the southward. 7 r.m.—Danish
brig anchored off the settlement. 8 P.M.-Shift of

wind compelled us to let go from the berg; made sail
and stood to the offing, having previously sent
dispatches on board Danish vessel; temperature of
air, 39 deg.; sea, 3il deg.
" Fridr.y, 14—Weather cloudy with rain ; wind
from the southward, sailed through an immense num-
ber of large bergs ; made an attempt to effect a
passage inside what appeared to us a cluster of many
small lislands, ; and found ourselves embayed,
surrounded by precipices and glaciers. 7 P.m.—Wind
blowing on the shore rendering it impossible for us
to get out; made fast to berg; temperature of air,
39 deg.; sea, 38 deg.
" Saturday, 16—Weather cloudy with heavy rain,
wind from the southward. 8 P.M.—Began to blow
fresh, accompanied att imes with a thick fog; iceberg
partially breaks up ; we are rather in an awkward•
predicament, having ice and bergs drifting and closing
on us from all directions, and a sunken rock is within
100 yards of us.

"Sunday, 16—Weather hazy, blowing fresh with
heavy rain, ship and barge drifting with the current ;
compelled to let go from the berg; made sail in order
to get hold of one aground. 5 ♦,M.—Made fast to
one. 12 noon----Weather clear, still surrounded with
bergs and ice ; temperature, 41 deg.; sea, 37 deg.
"Monday 17—Weather fine and clear; 12 noon
calm, and although beset among bergs and heavy ice,
very warm, thermometer as high as 75 in the sun;
7 r M , light air of wind from the northward; ice and
bergs cleared away ; made sail and stood into open
water.

NATAL INTELLIGENCE.
The llon. W. Cowper, M.P., has proceeded on a
visit to Lord Palmerston, at Broadlands.

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenants—James Saumarez Mann, to command
the Torcross, coast guard station, vice W. T. Stan-
bridge, superseded.
Master W. S. Hele to be in command of Peter-
head coast-guard station, vice Lieutenant A. Sims,
resigned.

Mate—Robert J. Winneatt, to the Investigator,
Arctic ship, fitting at Woolwich.
Clerk—Samuel %V. Sadler (1844), in charge of the
Janus, at Gibraltar, to be acting paymaster and
purser of the Contest, 12, at Portsmouth, for the
coast of Africa.

Assistant Engineers—William Austin and John
William Smith, to the Fisgard, flag-ship at Wool-
wich ; J. C. Robinson, to the Blenheim, 60, steam
guard ship at Portsmouth ; and D. Fry, to the Ter-
rible, steam-frigate, in route to Devonport.
Midshipmen—Edward W. P. Boileau, to the
Photon, 50, fitting at Sheerness ; C. G. F. Knowles
to the Contest.

The Contest, brig, 12, Commander the Hon. L.
Spencer, went to Spithead
,on Thursday afternoon,
saluting the flag, of the Commander-in• Chief at the
harbour's mouth. She received her powder the same
evening, and was to have been advanced yesterday, but
owing to the boisterous state of the weather the
payment was annulled by signal this morning.
In a tremendous squall of wind, hail, and snow,
yesterday morning, just before daylight, the Excel-
lent, gunnery-ship, Captain Cbads, in Ports-
mouth Harbour, carried away one of her mooring
chain bridles, and tailed on the mud at low water.
The dockyard riggers were soon afterwards sent off to
her with a spare chain, and she resumed her former
position at noon.
The Devastation steam-sloop wili be taken out of
dock about Monday next, and the Argus new steamer
will be taken in.

" Tuesday, 18—Weather fine ; nearly calm ; ther-
mometer at noo❑ standing at 80 deg. in the sun ;
boats towing ships greater part of the day ; 12 mid-
night, made fast to a berg; temperature of air, in
shade, 5G ; sea, 48.
" Wednesday, 19—Weather fine ; calm, 10 A.M.-
Cast loose from the berg; sent boats a head to tow.
2.30 r s,..—Light breezes from the northward ; hoisted
the boats up; remainder of the day besting to wind-
ward amongsi, loose ice; temperature 44; sea 34.
"Thursday, 20—From midnight till 5 P.M. turning
to windward amongst loose ice. 5 30—Made fast to a
berg. This day Lord Gambier whale-ship joined
company with us; temperature, air, 36 deg.; sea,
37 deg.

"Friday, 21—Weather fine; 10.45 A.M., light
breeze from the southward; cast loose from berg;
made sail, and sent boats a head to tow; unable to
make any progress for want of wind ; again made

PORTSMOUTH, PRlDAv.—Messrs. Brooks and Moss-
berry, second class clerks in the storekeeper's depart-
ment in this dockyard, are recommended for superan-
nuation. Messrs. Pouldon and ilelby, the seniors in
the next grade, are supposed to be promoted in conse•
quence, which will cause vacancies for two clerks in
their department.

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themselves for service in the vessel commanded by
the senior officer in the first instance have now entered
for service in the Investigator.
Letters received by the Brittomart, recently re-
turned from the Coast of Africa, state that serious
accidents had happened to the second and third engi-
neers of the Firefly steam-vessel serving on that
station. The accidents occurred within three weeks
of each other, and it is said that each of these engi-
neers lost a hand. There were on board at the time
the first engineer, the second and third engineers, and
a supernumerary engineer.
Considerable misapprehension exists as to the move-
ment of Bishop's disc engine, recently experimented
with in the Minx steam•vessel. Many persons imagine
it is a rotary engine, but such is not the case. The
ball, with a handle attached to one side, describes a
similar motion to the shoulder joint in the socket of a
person when the hand is giving a sling a continuous
circular motion, previous to discharging its contents.
The hall of the 10-horse power engine is 11 inches
in diameter, and the disc 27 inches in diameter. The
case in which the ball of the engine works is of a
drum shape, and the motion of the disc in the groove
it occupies for the admission of steam is similar to
an unbroken wave moving with great velocity from
one side of the groove to the other, and bearing so
correctly on the parts it touches on either side as no
to be liable to be put out of order.

A TICIPATED HIGH TIDES.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY. -- The anticipated high
spring tides which are expected to take place to-
morrow, have occasioned the greatest commotion in
this locality, and the people inhabiting the streets at
Point, and the lower parts of High-street and the
lower parts of Portsea, have been busy for the last
two or three days in removing all their perishable
goods frora the cellars and basement floors to the
upper rooms. Should the wind, however, that now
blows hard from the north, continue, there will be
little to be dreaded, for it is directly out of the har-
bour, and will prevent the tide rising to any injurious
height. Some necessary precautions have been taken
in the dockyard to prevent accident ; the Sidon steam-
frigate and Sprightly tender have been additionally
secured, and warps run out to prevent their rubbing
and chafing against the edge of the jetty. From the
Stirling Castle, convict-ship, two anchors have been
run out—one from the bow, the other from the
quarter, to prevent her surging against the wharf;
and the lighters and boats have all been addi-
tionally secured. At various intervals, high
spring tides at Portsmouth have done very much
damage. The highest on record, we believe, took
place in 1819, when the whole of the streets
at Point and nearly all High street were under water.
The people at Point communicated by boats, the
cellars and basement floors were under water, and
a vast quantity of property of various kinds was
destroyed. The water overflowed the whole of
Southsea Beach, from the town to Southsea Castle.
The whole of the common was one vast sheet of
water, that overflowed Hanabrook-street, the terraces,
and Wish-street, filling all the cellars, washing down
walls and fences, and doing much damage. At the
tavern, called (then as it is now) the Wheelbarrow
Castle, and at the lodging houses adjoining, the people
had to escape from the upper story windows in boats,
as it was then supposed the houses would be washed
down. A vessel, of considerable burden, was drifted
and partly floated over the beach at Southsea, near
Mr. Hollingsworth's rooms, and was left there by the
receding tide, and a canal had to be cut, to get her
afloat again. This spring tide was accompanied by
a strong south-westerly gale, which no doubt con-
tributed much to the high rise of the tide. At the
present time Southsea Beach, that part extending
from Portsmouth to some distance outside Southsea
Castle, forms a better barrier against the sea than
formerly. For many years past the shingle has
been gaining on the sea. The shingle has been
thrown higher up, and the new esplanade forms now a
sort of darn or sea-wall. On the other band, from
Lumps Fort to Cumberland Fort, the sea has been
continually encroaching on the land. Lumps Fort,
formerly occupied as a coast-guard station, is now so
near the influence of the sea that the buildings are
considered unsafe, and they have consequently been
abandoned. For the last twelve years Southsea
Common has not been overflowed by the tide, but
before that period it was a thing of common occur-
rence. To-morrow will be another test, but should
the northerly wind continue we have no fear for the
result. Should the strong northerly gale continue to
blow, the tide cannot be very high on the coast of the
English Channel, but the reverse will take piece on
the French coast, where it will probably ri'e to a
fearful height. The Portsmouth pilots are of opinion
that the strong wind to day decreased the height of
the morning tide (at the least) two feet.
The following are the respective heights of the tide
during the present and last springs, as gauged by the
dockyard authorities

Height of tide.
Date. Ft. in.
Dec. 11 17 9 ... •••
12 ••• ... 18 0 ... •••
27 . 18 2 .. 1 0
28 .
... 19 10 . 1 10
The northerly gales have caused much damage to
property at this port and neighbourhood. Many
chimneys have been blown down, and numerous
houses unroofed. Numerous windows in the dock-
yard have been blown in, and similar damage done to
private dwellings.

Increase.
Ft. in.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
CAMBRIDGE, DEc. 28.—A grace having passed the
Senate to the following effect :—That those to whom
the Sunday afternoon turns at St. Mary's and the turns
for Christmas-day and Good Friday are assigned, shall,
from the beginning of October, 1849, to the end of May,
1850, provide no other substitute than such as are ap-
pointed in conformity with that grace,
The following persons have been elected, each for the
month to which his nama is affixed :-
1840. October The Ilulsean Lecturer.
November Prof, sior Blunt,
December... The Rev. Tbeyre Smith, Queens'.
18.50. January ...The Rev. F. W. Collipon, St. Johii's.
February ...The Rev. J. A. Jeremie, Trinity.
March ......The Rev. Daniel Moore,St.Cuthetine's
April The Ilulsean Lecturer.
May The Rev. W. Selwyn, Trinity.

DEATH OF A CZNTENARIAN.—Yesterday an in-
quest was held by Mr. Membury Wakley, at the
Coopers' Arms, Hampden- street, Somers-town, on view
of the body of Ellen Limmer, a widow, aged 100 years,
who died at No. 8, Brill-terrace, Somers-town, where
she was living on a small annuity. It appeared from
the evidence that the deceased was for many years in the
family of the late Lord Ventry, an Irish peer, us lady's
maid, her husband, who died about seven years ago,
having been valet to his Lordship. They were left a
considerable sum of money by the Noble Lord, and she
received 14a. a week through the hands of Mr. Sergeant
Shee. She died on Monday morning last, and up to the
last moment of her life was in the possession of all her
faculties, her last words being responses to the prayers
which were being offered up for her. Her chief support
latterly was wine and sago. The cause of her death was
inflammation of the right lung, as found upon the post
mortem examination. Verdict—" Natural Death."
A LADY BURNT TO DEATIL—We have to record
this week a shocking accident, which occurred to Lady
Pynn, a well-known resident of this town, and by
which her ladyship suffered so severely as to cause her
death in a few hours. The deceased lady was the
daughter of the late Mrs. Bruce Jackson, one of the
leaders of the fashionable world in Cheltenham twenty
years ago, and had been for many years married to Sir
Henry Pynn, who at the time of the accident was in
Paris. It appears that on Thursday se'nnight Lady
Pynn had met with an accident while walking up the
Promenade. Her foot having slipped, she fell down
and sustained a fracture of one of the bones of the
arm, was conveyed to her residence in the Promenade,
and was still under surgical treatment for the fracture
when the more serious event occurred which caused
her death. On Monday last, being Christmas eve,
the deceased was in her private sitting-room, and about
three o'clock she partook of lunch, being habited at
the time in a morning dress of light muslin. Her ser-
vant had only left the room for a few moments when her
ladyship threw up the window to change the air of the
apartment, and it is supposed that the draught of air
from the window drew her dress into the fire, for in a
moment afterwards the most piercing screams were
heard to issue from her apartment, and on one of the
men servants running up to ascertain the cause, the un-
fortunate lady was found enveloped i❑ flames. The man,
with great promptitude, took off his coat and wrapped it
round her, by which means the fire was speedily extin-
guished ; but it was at once evident that her ladyship
had sustained very serious injuries. She remaiced per-
fectly conscious of what had taken place up to a late hour
in the evening, and had again a brief interval of reason
on the following morning, but shortly afterwards nature
gave way under the intensity of the injuries, and about
nine o'clock the unfortunate sufferer breathed her last.—
Cheltenham Examiner.

_ TRADE OF ARBROATII.—To all appearance trade
never was brisker nor carried on with more spirit in this
place than it is at present. Nothing is to be heard but
the busy clank of machinery in almost every quarter of
the town. The power-loom has taken the place of the
poor hand-loom weaver; and, with two or three ex-
ceptions, the whole of our manufacturers have got
machinery introduced into their works, not in one
department, but in all.—Brechin Advertiser.

'We understand that the purchaser of the bed on
which Sarah Thomas murdered her mistress, in Tr-n-
-chard-streq, Bristol, by a bidding of 2s. 6d., has dis-
covered 700 f. stowed away therein.— Sherborne Journal.

THE EGYPTIAN CHALLENGE TO
THE JOCKEY CLUB.
An English sporting gentleman has taken the
trouble and incurred the expense of measuring accu-
rately the piece of ground laid out for the race ex-
pected to come off between his Highness's horses and
those proposed as competitors by the English Jockey
Club. It is on the desert, within a few miles of
Cairo, and consists of heavy sand, from five to six
inches deep. The distance to be run is equivalent to
English miles, and was accomplished by Bedouin
and other Arab orses, at the recent race meeting
there, in from 18 to 21 minutes--a pace there is
every reason to suppose can, notwithstanding all the
difficulties of the ground, be well attained by any
well-bred English hunter. There are, nevertheless,
some beautiful animals among the Viceroy's exten-
sive stud still untried; but the opinion of knowing
sportsmen in the country, acquainted with the capa-
bilities of English cattle, is decidedly favourable to
the success of the latter. Bell's Life, from which
we take the above, gives the following interesting
account of a somewhat similar match in Russia,
which, although it has been before published, may be
interesting to many of our readers :
" On the 4th of August, 1825, took place a race
between two English thoroughbred horses and two
horses, said to be of the Cossack breed, from the
Don. The English horses were Mina, by Orville,
bred by Lord. George Cavendish ; and Sharper, by
Octavius, bred by Lord Egrernont. One of the
Russian horses was a fine animal, and showed high
blood ; the other, to an Englishman's judgment,
looked like a thorough rip. The stake was 1,0001. ;
the distance to be run (681 versts) 38 English miles
and one-third. The English horses carried about
Bist. each. The Cossacks were ridden by lads,
weighing respectively about 6st. or 7st. I was to
ride a portion of the distance with the racing horses
to see fair pl ty, &c., and was stationed on the top of
a pretty steep hill, called Pulkova, about eight miles
from the starting post. The horses rose the hill at a
moderate speed, the two English leading by about 40
yards. I had a thoroughbred English mare, and had
no sooner begun to gallop with them than I found
the pace, as I thought, too great, as I was obliged to
keep my mare nearly at full speed to keep up with the
Cossacks, who soon dropped nearly 300 yards behind
the English horses, and were flogged severely to pre-
serve even that interval. -I vainly called to our
jockeys to slacken their pace ; they either did not hear
or attend, and it was not till after the race that I dis-
covered the reason. William Arthur, who rode
Sharper, had broken his stirrup in the eye, and could
not hold his horse; whilst Alexander Eve, who rod.,
Mina, and had been ordered to lead, was acting up te,
the letter of his orders, and racing against Sharper,
who was all but running away. Had thu
boys who rode the Cossacks known the state
of the case, it is more than probable they might have
won the race, by sparing their horses whilst ours
were exhausting themselves in struggling with each
other. This state of things lasted all the way to
Zarskoe Selo, where I had to await their return. I
saw them leave me, holding the same tremendous
pace ; and, though not much more than one-third of
the entire distance was yet accomplished, one of the
Cossacks was greatly distressed. I had waited rather
more than an hour, when I saw the gentleman who
had taken them up from the point at which I stopped.
He came up to me with a most woebegone face, and
said that Mina had pulled up, and that Sharper was
so distressed he did not think he would get home !
He seemed to know nothing about the Cossacks. In
another minute appeared the lad who had ridden the
Cossack' horse, whose distress I had noticed when
they left me ; he was on a Cossack soldier's horse,
and shouting for water. Close behind him came the
racing Cossack and Sharper, nearly neck and neck,
but as they neared me the Cossack lost a little
ground in turning the corner at Sophia. There now
remained twenty-two versts out of sixty eight and a
half to be run, and really neither horse looked as if
he could go another mile. Arthur, the jockey, was
tired and dispirited, and seid to me that he should be
beaten, to which I replied angrily, that that was im-
possible, and that if he said another word
of the sort I would knock him off, and
ride his horse in myself. After getting over a
little more than a mile Sharper seemed to re-
' cover a little, and by my direction the Cossack was
suffered to take the lead for about four and a half
miles. During this space, the people who rode with
him changed his rider, flung away his saddle, and
made the child they put on him, who could not have
weighed sst., strip to his shirt. The Cossack Jail
who had ridden the horse which had given in took
more than once fresh horses from the soldiers who
kept the course, and rode with the long bridle of the
running horse over his shoulder, thus taking him in
tow, and was further assisted by a Calmuc horseman,
who lifted him along by the tail ? To my own and
companions' remonstrances at these unfair proceedings
we got answers equivalent to the English ' Go and
be d—d.' On reaching the top of Pulkovo hill, trust-
ing to Sharper's good legs, and the little breathing
we had been able to give him, I told Arthur to get
along, and we soon went ahead of th Cossack, gaining,
I should think, nearly 100 yards in 600. In fact, the
b,y who sat on tie Cossack's bare back, basing no
bridle, could not hold him together, and the towirg
system rather tended to bring him on his nose, which
would in all likelihood have been his fate had he ven-
tured out of a trot in the descent of the hill. Finding
my mare fresh, I determined on riding to the win-
ning post with Sharper, and in company with Mr.
8., took turns in riding alongside of him. having
shortly increased the distance from the Cossack, we
ventured to pull up for a few seconds, wipe out
Sharper's mouth and nostrils with a wet pocket hand-
kerchief; and draw his slackened girths. At the side
of the road below the hill there was a sort of tramway
for the Empress Mother to travel upon, composed of
three-inch planks, about two feet in width, and on this
tram I got Arthur to ride his horse. Whether it wss
the wiping out of his mouth or the new medium on
which he galloped I cannot sey, but Sharper recovered
in a wonderful degree, and we soon had the immense
satisfaction of seeing the distance gradually increased
between ourselves and the Cossack. We at last lost
sight of him entirely, and reached the winning pest
in 2h. 48m. 17 s. from the time of starting. The
Cossack horse came in just 17m. after Sharper. It
may interest the reader to learn that Sharper, though
much distressed, took his gruel after being bled.
Mina, whose condition had never been so perfect,
lost a good deal of blood from his having split his
coronet, which obliged his rider to pull him up in the
race, and was longer amiss. Both eventually re-
covered, as did the Cossacks; and I saw one of them
I subsequently run a very good race against time. The
Russians were a good deal surprised at the result of
the race, and assured us that their horses had per-
formed as great or greater distances in less or propor-
tionally less time. It will, I think, be the opinion of
any one that, considering, first, the disproportion of
weight; second, the bad riding on our part (for so
must, no doubt, be styled the racing of our two
jockeys, in consequence of one of them having broken
his stirrup), the superiority of the English blood vt as
sufficiently proved. The race was run along the high
road, which the Russians insisted on, as they appre•
hended being jockeyed on a circular course. The
road selected was from the third verst post on the
Zarskoe Selo road to Gatchina and back ; and the
measured distance was, each way, 344 Russian versa,
equivalent to 38 1-3 d English miles. The course
was kept by more than 1,200 Cossacks, and they had
arranged a telegraph, by pike motions, to give notice
when the Cossack horse took the lead, which led to a
few bets being cleverly made while we were between
Zarskoe Selo and the winning post."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.
Only two bets laid, viz : —5OO to 15 agst Black Eagle
and 500 to 10 agst Repletion for the Metropolitan
Stakes.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
F. B. hds., Mon., Perron Wharf; Fri., Stithians
Church-town-10i.
Cambridgeshire, Mon., Sandy Warren; Fri., Eltisley
Green-10f.

Oakley hds., Mon., Snelson; Thurs., Chicheley; Sat.,
Clapham Turnpike-104„
Mr. Brand's hds., Mon., The Hyde; Wed., Hexton;
Fri„ Colney Heath-101.
Puckeridge hds., Mon., Barkway; Wed., Widdington ;
Sat., Throcking-101.
Southdown hds., Mon., Hellingley Workhouse; Fri.,
Langton Pound-10i.
Crawley and Horsham lids., Mon., Rowfont Ii) taa
Wed., Rusper Village; Fri., Wakehurst House.-10i.
Mr. Napper's hds., Tues., Loxwood-bridge; Fri., The
Compasses-10f.
York and Ainsty hds., Mon., Rioeall; Tues., Red
House; Thurs., Copgrove; Sat., Oulston-10i.
Captain Lewis's harra., Tues., Cowsby Mill; Fri.,
Buller Moor-11.
Sinnington hds., Tues., Horiegharn; Fri., Rime-
bridge-10.
T F-

_HE - LIGHT OF A GIG MAIL.—On Friday
evening last the gig mail which run between Kegworth
and Derby was on its way home to Derby, driven by a
young man, the son of Mr. Newham, mail con ra :tur.
When on this side of Lockington the horse took fright
and ran away. Upon nearing the toll. bar at Caveadish-
bridge the gatekeeper heard its approach, and ran to
open the gate; but, before ho had time to unfasten the
bolt the horse sprang at the gate, which be not only
cleared unhurt, but also took the vehicle safe over
without the slightest damage being done to it. More
singular than all, the driver was able to keep his seat;
but it was not until after he had proceeded a considerable
distance further that he succeeded in stopping the horse.
We understand the only damage done was a trifling in
jury to the bolt of the gate.—Derby Aferculy.
A RICH BEGGAR.—John Hughes, an exceedingly
wretched looking street mendicant, brought before the
magistrates at the City Court House, Limerick, on
Thursday, bad in his possession 14 sovereigns, four IL
notes, 21. in half-crowns, and 9s. 11d. iu smaller coin !
Ho wept bitteriy on Leing informed (jocosel)) that his
booty was forfeited to the C. own, and was sentenced to
ten days' imprisonment, to be maintained at his own eat•
sense.

BLACK SHOWER.—AIong various parts of the braes
of Angus and Mearns we have heard of late that a black
substance has been noticed, and which, it is supposed,
has fallen from the heavens—so great in some pi:sees
that it could be shovelled up like a thin coating of snow
from the ground. The sheep had, in many cases, their
fleeces quite blackened by it‘—l3rechin Advatiscr.

TilE WEATHER.—SuI OITICE, DEC. 29.
rffERMoDIETER, Lowest, 16; iiighost, 27; Noon, 32.

BAROMETER, 29.57.
WIND W.N.W.—fine frosty weather.