The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-25 00:00:00

SUBSTITUTE FOR FOOD.

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BEET-ROOT BREAD.—We (Berwick Advertiser) re-
turn to this subject accurding to our promise made last
week. To the remarks then published we have to add
that the girdle cakes made of the same material have
proved a very successful experiment, and by all the
parties who have partaken of them they aro pronounced
to be excellent. We subjoin the receipt for the manu-
facture of the bread, and shall be glad to hear that it
obtains the consideration of the householders or retailers
of bread. The saving in the cost, namely, one-third, is
considerable, and certainly at any time, but more parti-
cularly at the present, merits attention

"BAKER'S BREAD."--Take one stone of beetroot
boil it until it becomes quite soft, pound it or mash it
fine, then add one stone of wheaten flour, and bake with
yeast in the same manner as bakers do wheaten or
common flour bread.

" GIRDLE CAKE."—Mix equal parts of beet-root
(prepared) and flour, add half an ounce of carbonate of
soda to each stone, and bake. _

BoruNa PEAS.—As a substitute for potatoes, boiling
peas are one of the articles coming into general con-
sumption. The following is the best mode of preparing
them for use. They require merely to be put into boil-
ing water (if soft so much the better) : this should be
strictly observed, not cold water. They should be al-
lowed to boil slowly for three hours, adding water, if
required, in progress of cooking. They will increase to
double the quantity in size, and about three times in
weight. They make a good, substantial, lasting food ;
and if a little beef, pork, or red herring be added, a
small quantity makes an excellent pot of soup. The
present wholesale price, in a dry state, is under 2d. per
pound. To parties interested in providing food for the
million, or relief committees, peas and rice will be found
excellent articles to make good the deficiency caused by
the loss of the potato crop.

NEGLIGENCE OF STEAM-SHIP

COMPANIES.

The wreck of a steamer in the offing of Cork harbour adds
another to the long list of disasters in which the dangers
arising from uncontrollable accidents at sea are frightfully
increased by the culpable negligence of the companies
whose duty it is to provide against them. The Sirius,
Captain Moffett, struck on a reef of rocks, and on being
backed off was found to have sustained such extensive
damages as to render her sinking a dead certainty. By
what infatuation sea captains, in nine cases out of ten,
are induced to accelerate the fate of their vessels, after
a hole is knocked through them, by backing into
deep water, we never could comprehend: but that
is not the main point to which we now desire to direct
attention. When, however, the ship was found to be
filling, she was again run ashore; and the one thing needful in
the emergency was boats, for passengers and crew numbering
ninety ! The life boat was lowered—blunderingly, on the
wrong side ; but no sooner was it launched, than it was
found unable to accommodate, with safety, more than eight
persons. Twenty crowded into it in the thoughtless despera-
tion
of the moment : before the steamer was well cleared it was
swamped, as a matter of course; and every soul but one was
drowned. Those who remained on board the steamer
reached the shore through the exertions of the coast• guard.
The steam company who sent out to sea ninety passengers
in a ship having a life-boat that could carry only eight per-
sons, have been guity of a mad recklessness of human life,
differing but little from premeditated manslaughter. Had
the accident occurred at a more remote distance from the
harbour, in all probability not one of the seventy who escaped
a watery grave would have lived to relate the disaster. There
is surely some call for interference on the part of the Govern-
ment. Steam Companies should be compelled to provide
boats sufficiently commodious for their full complement of
passengers and crew in case of wreck.—Carlisle Journal.

STEAMERS' BOATS.
The wreck of the Sirius, Irish steam-packet, between
Dublin and Cork, presents another lamentable example of
the consequence of not compelling the owners of packets to
provide their vessels with boats of a size and build to live in
a heavy sea, and stow safely a large number of persons.
As usual, the best boat of the Sirius was launched only to
be swamped, and fifteen or twenty lives were lost. As the
boat was over-crowded by fifteen or twenty passengers, we
infer what the size must have been, and how unfit for the
exigency. One of Captain G. Smith's paddle box boats
would have received forty or fifty people without danger.
The boats which packets ordinarily earry are worse than
useless. It would be far better for the safety of passengers
that they had none. In this instance of the Sirius the lives lost
were lost through the boat. Had there been no bad boat to
trust to, all would have been saved. Packets should either
be provided with good boats, such as the paddle-box boat
with flat floor and wide beam, and ample stowage, or they
should have none, to serve only as a false reliance and a
snare. A thimble for a reservoir of water would be as good
a safeguard against fire, as a common ship's boat is in a
thronged packet against the dangers of shipwreck.—
Examiner.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, JANUARY 23.

StocK EXCHANGE.—The sales are —Ambergate, Nottingham, Bos-
ton, &c., % dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, par —Bir-
mingham and Dudley, 4% p.—Birmingham and Oxford, 7% p.—
Buckinghamshire, Is. 3d. p.—Caledonian (Clydesdale Junction), 14%
p.—Eastern Counties, York Extension, 1 p.—East Lancashire, New,
2 p.—Ditto, New Scrip, 1% p.—East Lincolnshire, 1% p. ex int.—
Glasgow and Dumfries, 1% p.—Great Northern (Nos. 1 to 108,000,
Is. 3d. dis., cx int.—Ditto (Nos. 108,001 and upwards), le. 3d. dis. cx
int.—lludderstield and Manchester, 2% p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 3%
dis. ex int.—Ditto, Preference, 1 p.—London and North-Western,
Quarters, New, 11 p.—London, Manchester, and Birmingham, Quar-
ters (B), 7 p.—London and York, 1% p.--Manchester and Southamp-
ton, % dis.—Midland, 401. Shares, 5% p.—Ditto, New, 3% p.—
North Staffordshire, 2% p.—North-Western, 14 p.—Royston and
I.lltchin, 13s. 9d. p.—Shrewsbury and Hereford, % dis.—Shrews-
bury and Chester, New, % dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B),
p —Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 18s. 9d. dis.—South-
Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, is p.—South Staffordshire
(Trent Valley, Midland, and Grand Junction), % p.—Seuth York-
shire, Doncaster, and Goole, 14 dis.—West Riding Union, 1% p.—
Wharfdale (late North-Eastern), % dis.—York and Newcastle,
Preference, 4% p.—Newry and Warrenpoint, 1 p.—Ulster, 13% p.
—Jamaica South Midland, 3y p.
MANCHESTER, JANUARY 23.

STOCK ExcaAleox.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, 9-16 dls.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 3-16 p.—
' Birmingham and Dudley, 4% p.—Birmingham and Oxford Junction,
p.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., dis. —Buckinghamshire, dis.
—East Lancashire, 2 p.—Ditto, New (scrip), 1,4 p.—lluddersfield
and Manchester Railway and Canal, Thirds, 1 p.—London and
North-Western (Manchester and Birmingham), Quarters (B), p.
—Manchester and Leeds, Extension, 15-16 p.— Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 20s. dis.—Manchester and Southampton, 10s. 6d.
dis.—North Staffordshire, 2 9-16 p.—North Staffordshire and Churnet
Valley, 1% p.—North-Western, ) p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham
(A), p.—Shropshire Union, % dis.—South-Eastern and Dover,
36!4—South Staffordshire, 13-16—South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
Goole, 3-16 dis.—West Riding Union, 1M p.

LEES JANI'AiY' 23.

SToca EXCLIANGE.—Markets are heavy, without much business,
and wear a decidedly downward aspect. The sales are—Bucking-
hamshire, par—East Lancashire, New Scrip, 245. Gd. p.—Great
Northern (late London and York), 2s. lid. dis.—Leeds and Bradford,
46 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, New, 16s. 3d. dis.—Ditto, Preference,
21s. Gd. p.—Leicester and Bedford, 4s. dis.—Manchester and Leeds,
Fifths, 5 p.— Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 9s. p.—
North British, Half Shares, 3 p.—Ditto, Thirds, 2t p.—Ditto, Ex-
tension (scrip), 14s. 6d. p.—North Staffordshire, 2% c. p. —North-
Western, 7s. Gd. p.—Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 2s. Gd. p.—
West Riding Union, 31. 125.—Wharfdale Junction, 118.6 d. dis.
SHEFFIELD, JANUARY 23.
STOCZ Exclexat.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 2% dis. —Mallon and Driffield
Junction, 17s. p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby
and Sheffield), 20/. Shan*, 1% dis.—Ditto, 121. 10s. Shares, 15s. 6d.
dis.—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincoln), 11,;1 dis.—West Riding Union,
I/. Its. Gd. p. —Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 11s. Gd. dis.

HULL, JAarussit 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE..—The sales are—North British, Quarters, G3s.
6d.—Ditto, Extension (scrip), 14s. p.—Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, 2 —Great Northern (Direct Northern), 14 dis. scrip—Nortia-
Western, 9e. p.—Northern Counties Union, 2Gs.—West Riding
Union, 3%.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JAKTLARY 23.

STOCK EXCKANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, New, 18s. 9d. dis.
—Newcastle and Berwick (North Shields), 14 p.—North British,
Quarters, 2 p.
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EDINBURGH, JANUARY 22.

&roar EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 231. 10s.-Airdrie
and Bathgate, 41.8x.-Arbroath and Forfar, 281.--Ditto, Half Shares,
151. 55.-Armagh and Portrush, Ga. 6d.-Ayr and Galloway, 21.-
Caledonian 271. 155.-Ditto, New, 21. 65.-Caledonian and Dumbar-
ton, 21. 55.2-Clydesdale Junction, 391. 55.-Deeside, 3/. ss. -Direct
Northern, 21. 135.-Dunblane, Define, and Callender, 11. 155.-Dun-
dee and Arbroath, 421. ex new-Ditto, New, No. 1, 321.-Ditto,
No. 2, 251. 10s.-Ditto, No. 3, 51. 7s. 6d.-Dundee and Perth, 261.
155.-Ditte, New, 131. 153.-East of Fife, 21. 35.-East Lothian
Central, 21. 2s. 6d.--Edlnburgh and Bathgate, 21. 17e.-Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 751. 108.-Ditto, Half Shares, 201. 55.-Ditto, Quarters,
181. 55.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 201. 55.-Ditte, Preference,
211. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, 131. Hs. 3d. ex new-Ditto,
New, 41.-Ditto, Newport, 51. 15s. ex new-Ditto, ditto, New,
21. 125.-Edinburgh and Perth, 11. 18s. 6d. -Ditto, 21. 55.-Glasgow
and Ayrshire, 661.-Ditto, New Stock, 351.-Ditto, Quarter Shares,
161. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, 71. 155.-Glasgow, Dumfries. and Carlisle,
61. 7s. 6d.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 11. 165.-Glasgow and
Garnkirk, 411.-Glasgow General Terminus, 121. 10s.-Glasgow and
Greenock, 191.-Ditto, Halt Shares, 91.-Ditto, Preference, 81. 56.-
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 61. 58.-Great North of
England, 2391.-Great North of Scotland, 21. 55.-London and York,
31. 55.-Ditto, Extensions (scrip), 21. 155.-Manchester and Leeds,
111/.-Ditto, Sixteenths, 81.-Ditto, Extensions, 31. Bs.-Newcastle
and Berwick, 351. 55.-North British, 351.-Ditto, Halves, 15/. 21.
6d.-Ditto, Thirds, 31. 10s. 6d.-Ditto, Quarters, 31. 55.-Ditto, New
Quarters;(scriP), 1/. 75.--Ditto, Fifths, 71. 2s. 6d.-Scottish Central,
221.-Scottish Grand Junction, 11. is.- Scottish Midland, 141,-
Shrewsbury and Hereford, 155.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Ches-
ter, 71. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, New, 1/. U.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 31. Bs.
-Stirling and Midland, 2/. 10s.-Strathern Junction, 31. I Is.-
Wishaw and Coltness, 501.-Tork and Newcastle, 3M. ex new-
Ditto, New, 151. 55.-Ditto, Preference, 71. 12s. W.-Direct Bombay
and Madras, 3s. 34.-East • Bs.-Great North of India, 3s.
6d.-Great Southern of Madras, 45.-Madras, Nellore, and Ar-
cot, 2s. 6d.

GLASGOW, JANUARY 22.
atom EXCUANOZ. —The sales are—Aberdeen, 231.—Ayr and Gal..
loway, 398.—Caledonian, New, 468 Caledonian and Dumbarton-
shire, 44e. 6d.—Dundee and Arbroath, New, Ico. 3, 51. —East of Fife,
41s.—East Indian, 9s.—East Lothian Central, 42s.—Edinburgh and
Glasgow. Halves, 203{ —Ditto, Quarters, le 4 —Edinburgh and Perth,
478.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 65;6—Ditto, Halves, No. 2,
936—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 61. 3s. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmar-
nock, and Ardrossan, 636—Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monkland Junc-
tion, s;6—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 52s.—Manchester and South-
ampton, 30s. 6d.—Midland, Halves, 6 g —North British, Thirds, 70s.
—Scottish Central, 22;6—Scottish Midland Junction, 14;6—Stirling
and Dunfermline, 71s. —York and Newcastle, Preference, 71.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Baron Rothschild's stghds., Thurs., Littlecote-11.
Albrighton hds., Thurs., Middleton; Sat., New Inn, Rudge
Heath-10.
Bepale hds., Wed., Skipton Bridge; Fri., Constable Bur-
ton-10%.
Berkshire hds., Wed., Wytham ; Fri., Step Farm.
Mr. Brand's hds., Wed., Silsoe ; Fri., Warden Mills-10i.
Cleveland lads., Thurs., Surrey Cross ; Fri., Hutton Lew
Cross-10%.
Mr. Drako's hds., Tues., Barley Mow; Thurs., Edgcot
Village ; Sat., Byfield Toll.
Durham County hds, Wed., Stoney Gate ; Fri., Esh-10i.
F. B. hds., Fri., Antra Gate.
Heythrop hds., Wed., Tar Wood ; Fri., Addlestrop Gate ;
Southlawn Lodge.
Holderness hds., Thurs., Brandes Burton ; Thurs , Hough-
ton Hall ; Sat., Burton Constable--1 to 11.
Mr. Horndon's hds., Thurs., Hornacott Chapel-101A.
Mr. S. Lowndes' lids., Sats, Nash Common-11.
Mr. Roe's lids., Wed., Whitemoor Cross; Sat., Worswell.
Hurworth hds., Tues., Hilton ; Thurs., Entercomtnon ;
Sat., Low Middleton-10%.
Sinnington lids., Tees., Cawton ; Fri., Catter Bridge-10.
Sir H. Seale's lids., Wed., Holm Park ;
Fri., Somerby
Cross, near Ashburton.
Suffolk hds., Thurs., Beyton Green-101A.

SUN EXPRESS.—About ten o'clock on Wednesday
morning: we received from Mr. Horn, news agent, a copy of
the Express Sun, containing the debate in the House of
Commons up to half-past eight on the previous evening,
another proof of the determination of the proprietors to
gratify their readers with the latest news.—Newcastle
Chrontck.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE,._ Considerable excitement
prevails respecting the debut of Mr. Travers at this theatre on
Thursday next. Not merely from the high reputation this
artiste has obtained on all the principal stages of Italy, but
from the great want of a tenor singer, capable of sustaining
the lyrical drama of our country. We look forward with
much interest to the event, and wish him every possible sue-

N

SIEGE OF OPORTQC't-7----7
From the month of September, 18344' th`at
August, 1833, the " heroic and invincibi 11_ e4l-•
~y of i•
Oporto, with a force which, including ‘-
zens, never exceeded eight or nine thousa
encou-
raged by the prtsenve of the great Ona 'Pedro,
defended itself against the whole power of Dow... Miguel,
who surrounded it with an army of more '4l3:aftl :thirty
thousand men, excited by all the arts of the
ancient bigotry, and supported by a most
powerful artillery. During ihe painful interval of
those eleven months the inhabitants su&red an amount
of privation and distress from famine and disease, that
must have reached an indescribable intensity of misery,
but for the efforts of private charity. A soup kitchen,
such as ought now to Le seen diffusing its grateful
odours over every town in Great Britain and
Ireland, was established on a scale to supply
six thousand rations daily, and afforded - a relief that
rescued the city from the agonising cries of starvation,
and the garrison from the dangers of panic and terror.
Cholera afflicted the devoted city for nearly eight of the
eleven months of its severe probation, in the course of
which, it endured frequently bombardments, and two
most determined assaults, the latter costing the besiegers
from three to four thousand men on each occasion.

During the first assault the defence was gallantly
directed by the brave Duke de Terceira, who is now a
prisoner at Oporto ; and the second assault, commanded
by the French General Bourmont, was repulsed by the
intrepid Duke Saldanha, who has since changed places,
and, although engaged in the same cause, is now the
assailant of that interesting city—vicissitudes that give a
romantic character to the changeful phases of civil war.
After exhausting the powerful means at his disposal,
it is well known that Dom Miguel was obliged to raise
the siege of Oporto, and subsequently to abandon Por-
tugal. Yet, in the face of this striking evidence of the
defensibility of Oporto, most of the letters just received
from that city appear to have been written under the
apprehension that an immediate attempt would be made
to enter it by assault, although the present gar-
rison consists of a force in number nearly equal
to, if not so well disciplined, as the assailants,
and possesses the enormous advantage of nume-
rous batteries and entrenchments, which, if not
of a perfectly scientific character, are, nevertheless,
the same that baffled every attempt of an army four
times the number of the besieged. Everything that
courage and skill could achieve might be expected from
the brave Duke Saldanha ; but, with a force not ex-
ceeding eight thousand men, including the isolated corps
of Cazal, and wholly without battering artillery, it may
be confidently assumed by those who have friends at
Oporto, that they are exposed to no immediate peril, as,
with such limited means, all military experience forbids
any attempt to enter such a city by force of arms.
Nevertheless, the situation of Oporto is one of pain-
ful interest, and its commercial prospects of the most
gloomy complexion from the probibility of a lengthened
blockade, by sea and land, suspending all business and
deeply affecting British property to a large amount.
Yet is that gloom relieved by the brilliant traits which
experience constrains us to recognise in the character of
the much injured Portuguese, who by their prudence and
integrity during the severe ordeal of the last siege, which
endured beyond the usual term of commercial credits,
presented an example, unprecedented in the annals of
commerce, of a seaport cut off from all intercourse with
the interior, and deprived of its resources from in-
numerable debtors in the provinces, without the occur-
rence of one single bankruptcy, during the awful
trial of eleven months. This astounding result
may in part be ascribed to the indulgent conduct
of the Bank, and of individuals, as honourable
to their forbearance, and to the good faith of their
debtors, as it is worthy of imitation by all commercial
nations, when suffering under extraordinary pressure.
But the blockade may cut off supplies of provisions to
an extent sufficient to cause great distress to the inha-
bitants, without reducing the garrison to military ex-
tremities ; nor can any early compromise be expected
between thecontending p irties, both being so deeply com-
mitted to their several systems that nothing short of
utter despair could induce either to yield.
It is true that Oporto may be reduced to severe straits,
but it must not be forgotten that the Queen's Govern-
ment is also much distressed for money, the recent pay-
ment of the dividends having bean made with great dif-
ficulty, and at a heavy sacrifice ; so that mutual weak-
ness may protract the struggle, by leading each party to
hope, from the chapter of accidents, for some change in
their favour.

Can England, as the old and faithful ally of Portugal,
be considered as a feeling and prudent witness of such
a state of things without making some effort to rescue a
gallant and suffering people from impending,
ruin, involving her own present and future in-
terests, both commercial and political, to au
extent that may not be estimated, even by the
known benefits of the past connexion, but rather with
reference to the altered state of Spain, and the obvious
and important changes, which the French have for a
lung period been lavishing their blood and treasure to
prepare, on the shores of that fairy lake, which in per-
spective, their ardent fancy paints as all their own, be-
yond the pillars of Hercules.—PHlLO JUSTITI.X.

ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF

STONE FENCES.

Common, or dry stone walls, for durability, and an effec-
tual saving to the crops, are not surpassed by any other kind
of fence. Their construction is somewhat expensive, but
the benefit resulting from the removal of nuisances in the
shape of weeds, which are too often allowed to luxuriate un-
molested under the common hedges, will more than counter-
balance the extra expense. Another important point is the
saving of land; and the security stone fences afford against
the ravages of hares, rabits, &c., is not less beneficial.
Although the advantages of stone fencess are obvious, yet
with many they are not in very high repute. They object
that they are every year falling, and that, therefore, they
require much labour to keep them in repair. This objection
has some force, from the fact that many of the fences are
very unskilfully built. In this country the stone is generally,
abundant, of the best quality, and of suitable form, for the
purpose of dyke building. Those who follow it as a trade
should select the smallest stones for a foundation, with which
the wall should be raised to the height of eight inches or a
foot from the ground, This will take up the greater part of
the rubbish, as small stones is generally considered to be.
Afterwards a larger size should be selected, and laid in
double rows on each side of the wall, which may raise its
height to about eighteen inches. Next the largest and best
stones should be taken and laid across the wall, so as firmly
to bind together the two sides—reserving smaller, but well-
shaped stones to complete the structure. In using small
stones for the foundation, it may be as well to throw up a
spading of earth so as to form a kind of embankment against
the wall, and at least a foot high. By this means the small
stones are all covered, will be but little affected by frost, and
will lie as firmly as the largest materials within common se-
lection. Even if no larger than the stories on a macadamised
road, they would make a firmer and surer foundation than
broad, flat stones. They will settle uniformly and equally
into the earth ; and, being pressed upon by larger stones
above, will lie steady and unmoved in their place. When
large stones are used as bottoming, the heaving of the frost,
and the softness of the earth in a wet season, will cause them
to settle more on one side than another, and thus disturb the
structure above them. The method here recommended may
appear strange to some; bnt those who have doubts may
have an opportunity of comparing walls that have been so
constructed with others differently built, when the former
will be found to have stood the test of time, while the other
has become delapidated. Some fall into an error through
the pains they take to lay the smooth surfaces of the stones
outward, that the dyke may have a handsome appearance.
To effect this they often lay the stones in the most unfavour-
able positions. A long and smooth stone set edgeways into
a wall seldom fails to be crowded out by the superabundant
pressure, to the destruction of the fence. Whatever efforts
may be made, no great beauty can be given to a dry stone
wall; and here, as in other cases, utility ought not to be
sacrificed to beauty. The wall will eventually look best that
lies best. Every stone should be laid in the position in
which it can have the solidest bed, and bind together most
effectually the stones beneath and about it, without regard to
the beauty of the structure when ,completed.—.elyrshir
Agriculturist.

ALTERATIONS IN THE POST-
OFFICE.
CARLISLE.—The following notice of important altera-
tions in the arrival and departure of mails on and after
the Ist of February next, has just been issued by the
Postmaster of this city :

ARRIVALS.

Whitehaven at 10 15 a.m.
London (First Mail)
Newcastle

Wigton
Glasgow (First Mail)
Edinburgh
Dumfries and Portpatrick
Longtown
London (Second Muil)... 10 15 p.m.
Glasgow (Second Mail,
Bags)

Tith Edinburgh

2 0 Midnight.

PATCHES.

Box Closes for
Paid Letters

London (First Mail)
Edinburgh
Glasgow (First Mail)
Dumfries and Portpatrick
Wigton
Newcastle
Whitehaven ................••
London (Se and
Mail)
Glasgow, (Second Mail,
with Edinburgh Bags)...
Longtown

10 0 p.m.
10 24 a.m.
10 24 a.m.
JO 24 a.m•
10 24 a.m.
11 10 a.m.
2 43 p.m.
2 43 p.m.

Mails
Dispatched

10 0 p.m.
10 0 p.m.

12 40 4"66
11 6 a.m.
1 5 a.m.
11 5 a.m.
11 10 a.m.
11 35 a.m.
3 30 p.m.
3 23 p.m.

10 35 p.m.
10 45 p.m.

d at 8 50 a.m.,

The Newcastle Mail will be disratch
and arrive at 8 25 p.m. on Sundays.
The messengers to Wetheral, Kirklinton,Port-Carlisle,
and Low Hesket, will arrive at 10 a.m., and be dis-
patched at 11 20 a.m.
Tht Dalston Messenger will arrive at 9 p.m., and be
dispatched at 11 20 a m.
The Thursby and Kirkbampton Messenger will arrive
at 2 30 p.m., and be dispatched at 11 10 a.m.
Money orders will be granted and paid from 9 a.m. to
6 p.m.—except during the intervals of dispatching 'the
Mails.

Letters to be registered must be brought to the Office
half an hour before the closing of the box..—Carlisle
Journal.

Tar COUNTRY or JENNER.—On looking at the
registers of York, he (Dr. Laycock) found that twenty
children had died from small-pox, and on visiting the School
for the Blind the other day, he ascertained that one-•half of
the pupils were blind in consequence of having had the
small-pox. It was well known that such need not be, the
case in this land; and when he remembered that this land
gave birth to Jenner; he blushed for the neglect whieit was
manifested; and well might a foreigner express his surprise
that so many should be the victims of that disease Sn this
country, when in Hanover and Prussia he never saw i single
instance of blindness from the small-pox.---Dr. haycock's
..s'peech at York, Sept. 12, 1846.
BANKRUPTCY OF TIIE LEEDS AND WEST,• RIDING
BANK.—We understand that the application to Fet aside the
adjudication of Mr. Commissioner Burge in this case will pro.—
bably be heard at the Court of Roview on Wednesday next,
the 27th inst.—Leeds Mercury.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
The following outline of the ARRANGEMENTS for the SEASON
:847 Is respectfully submitted to the Nobility, Patrons of the Opera,
and to the Public. It is presented with the confident hope, that the
successful exertions made to secure, under circumstances of peculiar
difficulty, a company still more worthy of the first Theatre in
Europe, and of its distinguished Patrons, will Insure the continuation
of their support.
KNGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA.
Mdlle. Jenny Lind (her first appearance in this country), Madame
del Carmen Montenegro (her first appearance at this Theatre) ;
Mdlle. Sanchloll, Mdlle, Fagialli, and Madame Solari (their first ap-
pearance in this country) ; the Contralto, Mdlle. Vietti and
Darla Nagel° (their first appearance in this country) ; and Madame
CastelLsn. Signor Fraschini, the great Tenor of Italy (his first ap-
pearance in tali n ; and the favourite Tenor, Signor Gardonl,
stow of the Italian Opera, Paris, having lately withdrawn, at a great
pecuniary sacrifice, from the Academic Royale de Musique (his first
appearance in this country) ; Signor Superchl, the distinguished
Baritone (his first appearance in this country) ; Signor F. Lablache ;
Signor Borella (his first appearance in this country) ; Signor Corelli ;
the eelebrated Basso Cantante, Herr Staudigl (his first appearance) ;
and Signor Lablache. In addition to the above, arraggements are
pending with Signor Coletti, of the Italian Opera at Paris.
That great composer, the Chevalier Meyerbeer, has arranged to
visit this country, to bring out the CAMP DE SILESIE, and
another of his admired chefs-d'oeuvre ; the principal parts in the
Camp de Silesie, by Mdlle. Jenny Lind and Signor Fraschini.
The celebrated Dr. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy will likewise
visit Englund, and produce an Opera expressly composed for her
Majesty's Theatre, the libretto founded on THE TEMPEST of
ShAkspere; written by M. Scribe.
Mdlle. Jenny Lind.
Ferdinand ........ ..... ....... Sig. Gardoni.
Callban Herr &audio.
...Pros.pero Sig. Lablache.

It Ls likewise announced, with great satisfaction, that Signor Verdi,
baying recovered from his severe illness, has expressly composed for
this theatre a new Opera, of which the plot is founded ou the ROB-
BERS of SCHILLER.

Rc.saini's Opera of ROBERT BRUCE, lately produced at the Aca-
dEmle Royale, has also been secured.

Mesdaties Castellan, Sanchioli, and Montenegro ; Signors Gar-
don!, Bnperchi, and Fraschini, will appear before Easter.
Mdlle. Jenny Lind, whose engagement commences in March, and
extends until the end of the season, will appear immediately after
Easter.

Director of the Music and Conductor, 31. BALFE.
In addition to the above, several Operas, new to this country, will
be produced, and the repertoire will be selected from the chefs-
d'ceuvre of Mozart, Cimarosa, Rossini, Donizetti, 31ercadante,
Bcc.

The strictest attention has been paid to all the details, so that an
ensemble may be presented perfect in all its parts.
A NUMEROUS ORCHESTRA,
of the most distinguished talent and power, has been selected from
some of the best Orchestras of Europe, combined with former
meritorious Artistes of the Establishment ; amongst whom may be
mentioned :—M. Tolbecque, Leader ; M. Nadand, Leader of the
Ballet ; M. Deloffre ; Mr. Collins ; M. Ploys, of the Conservatoire,
Brussels ; Mr. W. Watts ; Mr. Pigott ; M. Roessel, Ist Basson, from
Linz ; M. Bahr, Horn, from Linz ; M. Marin, Trombone, Royal
Theatre, Brussels ; M. Lavigne, Oboe, from Vienna ; The Chevalier
Auglois, First Conke-Basso of the Royal Theatre in Turin ; Signor
Piatti, Ist Violoncello, from Parma ; Signer Templini, Ist Basson,
from Palermo ; M. Burgoin, Violoncello, Aeadimie Royale, Paris ;
M. Pickart, Contre-Basso, Acaelemie Royale, Paris ; M. Elie, Flute
and Piccolo, of Paris ; M. Delruomo, Clarionet, Conservatoire,
Milan ; M. Ista, Timbalier, Opera Comique, Paris ; M. Zeiss, Trum-
pet, Professor of the Conservatoire, Brussels; and other distin-
guished Artistes.
THE CHORUS has been chosen with the greatest care from Italy,
Germany, and England ; and will comprise upwards of Eighty Per-
formers.