The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-27 00:00:00

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No. 17,142. LONDON, FRIDAY
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Ny AUGUST 27, 1847.

CONTRACTS for SALT BEEF and PORK.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport
Services, Somerset-place, Aug. 13, 1847.
The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give
notice, that on TLIMISDAY, the 30th September next, at One o'clock,
they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to
CONTRACT for the supply of a quantity of
SALT MEAT,
of the cure of the United Kingdom, or elsewhere, equal to 5,000
tierces of Navy Beef, and 11,000 tierces of Navy Pork (in separate
tenders), al: to tie cured in the ensuing season, their Lordships re-
serving to themselves the power, when the tenders are opened, of
contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof only, as
they may deem fit, or of not contracting for any part; and also an
unlimited power of selection, according to quality.
The tenders, Loth for Beef and Pork, to specify tie place where
the meat is intended to be cured.
All Beef to be delivered in tierces, and a quantity of Pork
equal to 150 tierces (and for which separate tenders are to be
made), to be delivered in casks, containing 1001 b. each, and of the
remaining quantity of Pork three-fourths to be delivered in tierces,
and the remaining one-fourth in barrels, into her Majesty's Vic-
tualling Stores at Deptford, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Haulbow-
line, in such proportions as shall hereafter be directed, and within
the following periods:—
BEEF Two-thirds 31st March,
One-third 31st May
PORK, One-third On or before the 31st March 1848
Two-thirds 31st May
and to be paid for by bills payable at sight, but not during the first
period of delivery, for any quantities beyond those specified.
The conditions of the contract may be seen at this office, or by
applying to the Agent for the Victualling at Cork, or to the Collectors
of her Majesty's Customs at Limerick, 14 elfast, Waterford, and Newry,
or to the Secretary of the Postmaster-General at Dublin, or to the
Resident Agent for Transports at Leith.
No tender will be admitted for a leas quantity than shall be equal
to 300 tierces of Beef, or to 300 tierces of Pork, except for the Pork,
to be delivered in casks containing 1001 b. each.
No tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty,
nor any noticed unless the party attends, or some person on his
behalf, duly authorised in writing; and it is to be expressly under-
stood that the tenders must contain a separate price for the Beef, and
a separate price for the Pork ; and that every tender must also spe-
cify the prices both in figures and words at length, or the tenders
will be rejected.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Ad-
miralty, and bear in the left-hand corner of the envelope the words
" Tender for Salt Meat," and "Comptroller for Victualling," and
must also be delivered at Somerset-place, and be accompanied by a
letter signed by two responsible persons, engaged to become bound
with the person tendering, in a sum equal to 251. per cent. on the
amount of the contract, for the due performance of the same.

NICOL L'S SHOOTING, FISHING, or
RACKET JACKET (Registered) is equally well adapted for
a sea-side or country stroll as for field or athletic sports. Its mode-
ra'e price of One Guinea, and the easy sensation experienced by the
wearer, together with much convenience of pockets, neatness of ap-
pearance, &c., will recommend it also for the merchant's counting-
house or student's library. Suitable waistcoats are also ready, which
correspond with the jacket in colour, &c. These can be had of the
Patentee's recognised provincial agents, and in London only at 114,
Regent-street, and 22, Comhill.

DAVIES'S CANDLES, bid. per lb. ; Genuine
Sperm, la. 9d. ; Yellow Soap, 485., 545., and 60s. per 1121b5.;
Mottled, 60s. and 645.; Wax Candles, Is. per lb.; German Wax,
Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; Transparent Wax, Is. lld. ; Genuine
Wax, 2s. Id, ; Waxed-wick Moulds, 7%c1.; Sperm Oil, Bs. per gallon;
Solar; 3s. 3d., Pale Seal, 4s. ; Argand, or Vegetable, 4s. 6d. ; Wind-
sor stud Palm Soap, Is. 4d. per packet; Brown Windsor, Is. Sd ;
Rosa, 2s. ; Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d.; Hale's Paragon
Composite, requiring no snuffing, 10d. per lb.
For Cash—At DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St.
Martin's-lane, opposite Slaughter's Coffee-house.

EYEBROWS, MOUSTACHIOS, and WIIIS-
KERS produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and
prevented by the use of GRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGENE-
RATOR, an essential spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers,
a few drops of which cure headache In a few minutes ; it Is also a
most delightful, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only In triangular
bottles, protected by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double the size,
7s. ; and double this size, I Is. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, con-
taining testimonials of undoubted authority, entitled " Three Minutes'
Advice on the Growth and Preservation of the llnman llair, Ace."
By post, 4s. 6d., 7s. 8,1„ and 125., for money orders only.
Sold wholesale only at Orimstone's Ilerbary, lllghgats, near
London ; and by Messrs. Barclay and Son, Farringdon-street ; Sanger,
Oxford-street; Messrs. Butler and Co.,Cheapside • Fisher and Toiler,
Conduit-street ; Mr. Johnston, medicine warehouse, 68, Cornhill •
and by all t.'hemists. Perfumers, and others For Edinburgh, J. and
R. Ralmes, Leith-walk ; for Manchester, eresehe and Son, Adver.,:
tlser-offlce.

PUBLICATIONS.

NEW WORK BY BOZ.
On the 31st inst. will be published, price Is., the Twelfth Number of
DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOM.-
BET AND SON, Wholesale, Retail, and fir Exportation.

By CHARLES BICKE/siS.
With Illustrations by lIABLOT K. BROW.NE.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverle•street, Fleet-street.

The following Works will be published on the 31st inst.
THE COMIC HISTORY of ENGLAND.
No. XV. By GILBERT A. a BECKETT. Illustrated by
Leech. Price Is. To be completed in Twenty Numbers.
VANITY FAIR.—Pen and Pencil Sketches of
English Society. No. IX. By W. M. THACKERAY
(Titmatsh). With numerous Illustrations. Price is.
DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING
MAGAZINE. No. XXXIII.
PUNCH! or, THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Part LXXIV. Price Is. Id.
London: Published at the Punch-office, 85, Fleet-street.

CHEAP EDITION OF THE NOVELS AND TALES OF
SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, BART.
MESSRS. CHAPMAN and HALL beg to an-
nounce that they are preparing for publication a Cheap issue
of the NOVELS and TALES of Sir EDWARD BULWER LYTTON,
corrected and revised throughout, and with new Prefaees by the Au-
thor, uniform with the Cheap Edition of the Works of Mr. Dickens.
The First Number, price Three Halfpence, and the First Part, price
Sevenpence, will be published simultaneously on the 30th of October
next.

Prospectuses will be ready for distribution with the periodicals on
the 30th of September.
London : Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand.

Part VIII., Semptember 1. Price Sevenpence.
HOWITT'S JOURNAL OF LITERATURE
AND PROGRESS.

Edited by WILLIAM and MARY HOWITT.
This Part contains Six splendid Engravings—Madernoisselle Ra.
chel, Henry V. trying on the Crown, Portrait of Henry C. Wright,
Glammis Castle, Don Quixotte, and Vignette of the Month.
Among the Literary Articles are a Memoir of Mademoiselle Rachel;
A Week on the Rivers of Norfolk, by Silverpen ; The Child's Corner,
by Mary Howitt ; Moment of Death, by Andersen ; Memoir of H. C.
Wright. by Mary Howitt ; Physiology of the People, by Dr. Carpen-
ter ; Origin of the Marsellaise, by Lamartine ; Glammis Castle, by
William Howitt ; Free-trade Recollections, by Dr. Bowring, M.P.,
Jeremy Bentham ; The Haunted House in Charnweod Forest ; Ire-
land at the Present Moment ; To the Readers of the People's and
liowitt's Journals ; Literary Notices, Record of Facts, &c., &c.
Published for the Proprietor at 171, Strand, and sold by all
Booksellers.

This day is published, in 2 vols., handsomely bound, price 215., with
Twelve Illustrations,
HIGHLAND SPORTS AND HIGHLAND
QUARTERS.

By HERBERT BYNQ HALL, Esq.
Author of " Spain, and the Seat of War in Spain
" Scenes at Home and Abroad," &c., &c.
H. Hurst, King William-street, Strand.

LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
SAUCE is universally allowed to be the most Piquant and
the Richest in Flavbur of any Sauce in use, and for Fish, Gravies
for Roast Meat, Steaks, Game, Sec., or a zest for Curries, Soup, Cold
Moat, it is entirely unrivalled.
The unparelleled success of this Sauce having induced imitations,
purchasers are particularly requested to see that the name of LEA
and PERRINS are upon the Label and the Metallic Capsules, as also
to read the Testimonials (which are enclosed with every bottle)
from the residence of Royalty, the principal Club Houses and Ho-
tels in London, Edinburgh, &c. &c., and from private Families in
the country. _ _ _

Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 6, Vere-street, Oxford•

street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; Messrs. Barclay
and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other Oilmen, London,
and generally by all dealers in sauces.

BEAUTIFUL TEETH.

ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or PEARL
DENTIFRICE.
Patronised by the Queen, the Court, and the Royal Family of Great
Britain, and the several Sovereigns and Courts of Europe.
A.FRAGRANT WHITE POWDER, prepared from Oriental herbs
of inestimable virtue for preserving and beautifying the TEETH and
strengthening the GUMS. It eradicates tartar from the teeth,
removes spots of incipient decay, polishes and preserves the enamel,
imparting the most pure and pearl-like whiteness, arid gives sweet-
ness and perfume to the breath. Being an anti-scorbutic, the gums
also share in its corrective powers ; scurvy is eradicated from them,
and a healthy action and redness are induced, so that the teeth (if
loose) are thus rendered firm in their sockets. Price 2s. 9d. per box.
ROWLAN ALSANA EXTRACT,
_ . .

For immediately relieving the moat violent Toothache, Gum Boils,
and Swelled Face, and which, by constantly using, prevents those
maladies. It is perfectly innocent in its nature, and is under the
sanction of the first physicians. Price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and I Os. 6d.
per bottle.

CAUTION.—To protect the public from fraud, the lion. Commis-
sioners have directed the Proprietors' name and address, thus, " A.
ROWLAND and SON, 20, Hatton-garden," to be engraved on the
Government stamp, which is affixed on each article. Sold by the
Proprietors, and by all Chemists and Perfumers.

MR. TRIGGE R, THE SPORTSMAN,
Let me give you a sketch of my friend, Mr. Trigger,
A sportsman who outs a respectable figure ;
When only a boy, Mr. Trigger reveard
A firm predilection for sports of the field;
And still he retains (as he ever has done)
The highest respect for his dog and his gun.
Mr. T. takes the highest delight, as he ought,
In whatever may chance to pertain to the sport.
He rubs up his " stock," and he sponges his barrel,
And he takes special care of his sportng apparel;
He brightens his flask, and his pointer and setter
Are healthy and active, and none are train'd better.
As soon as the season for sporting comes on,
Mr. Trigger makes friends with E. MOSES and SON ;
And many a coat for the field has be bought,
Neat, novel, and fitting, and durably wrought.
He went to the warehouse a few days ago,
His favours on MOSES and SON to bestow;
For MOSES and SON'S are the coats he prefers,
And ne'er on their dress does he cast any slurs.
My friend, Mr. Trigger, has often avow'd,
That any but these could not pass in a crowd.
May every good reader who sports with a gun, •
Learn duly to value E. MOSES and SON ;
And dress for the field like my friend, Mr. Trigger,
Who cuts such a very respectable figure.
LIST OF PRICES.
MADE TO NIZAISIIRE.

Cashmere Codrtngton, from X 16 6
Taglionis, silk collar and cuffs •1 2
Cambridge Coat, lined throughout 2 5 0
Tweod Coats •• • ............. ...... ..... Ol6 0
Sporting Coat •• .. ........ .................... 013 6
Dress Coat.... • ...... • ....... .
Bost quality manufactured . • .............. 2 15 0
Frock Coat ...... ••• • • • ..... • .................• 1 15 0
Best quality manufactured .......... • • 3 3 0
Rich pattern Vests • • .... •• • • .... • • ................ 0 8 0
Cashmere. or cloth.• ••..•••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • •• 0 8 6
Tweed Trousers •• : •..• • . .•.• • • . •• . • 0 8 0
Doeskin ditto .• •••• • • • • ...... 1 2 0
Best, or Dress ditto .. ••• • .. •• • • ..... •• •• •••• • • • • 1 6 0
Boys' Hussar or Tunic Suits ..... ••••• • • • • .. • • 1 5 0
sasnz X•DE. _ _ _

_
Blouses Prom• •••••• • " • •
Cashmerette Codrington •••••••••••••• • • • • • • •• • • •• 0 18 6
Cambridge's, Chesterfield Polka's, and all the newest
patterns
Tweed Coat .... ........ from 0 8 6
Sporting ditto •• •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • •
Dress Coat ............................ ..... .•• •• 1 0 8
Extra Superfine, a superior coat .... • ••• • • • •• • • •• • • 1 IS

- ............ - - - - -
Extra Superfine, a superior coat 2 2 0
8011-Collar Vests .. •• • ............................ 0 2 0
Fancy Satins 0 6 6
Cloth, or Cassimere .• • ................. ..... .• • .... 0 4
Tweed Trousers. . ..... • . 0 4 6
Fancy Cassiinere or Doeskin ......... ..... • ... ••• • • • 0 10 6
Boys Tunic and Hussar suits.... .. • •
A new Work, entitled " FASHIONS FAVOURITE," with a
List of Prices, and Directions for Self-Measurement, can be had on
application, or forwarded post-free.
Observi•--Any article purchased, ready made, or made to mea-
ure, if not approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the
money returned.

E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters,
loslers, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for
Ladies and Gentlemen, 154, 155, and 156, 157 'Wineries, and 83,
84, 85, au , Alelgate, City, London.
eautior S. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the
agLimst impostors, but have learned that the untradesman-
Hi c falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern,
has oeen resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons.
They have no connexion with any other honce is or out of London;
and those who desire genuine and ches clothing, &c., should call at,
or send to, Minories and Aldgate, City, London.
Notice.—No business transacted at this establishment from sun-
set Friday, till sunset Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve
o'olock.

A R R I A E.
m One half the world are desolately single, and the other
supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
sense or right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em-
bitter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea
of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
comprosing hurry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
and social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set-
tlement. Honour and justice demand tkat health should form an item
in the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Bligle ted hopes or
neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if
these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S little
MEMOIRS " On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vols., Is.
each (by post, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively
refined, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered
by misinterpretatioL of their supposed contents, fro in obtaining
them. They are not intended certainly for mere Idle curiosity, but
for the closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to whom
they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash lint forth on
the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or
together, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore. two other
little publications claim your attention (same prico Is. each,
by post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and
Avoid," and .` How to be Happy." They are not merely
pamphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor tire they the
mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
life, who owes his present existence, health, and poeltiox to this ob-
servance of the maxims he would inculcate—tl do unto ethers as he
would be done unto—to live alter nature's laws—and to keep always
on the " sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of
Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet •sti vet ; Mann,
39, Cornhill ; Nelson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by pc ist or other-
wise) from the author (who may be conferred with personally,
mornings and evenings), 10, Argyll-plate Regent-streot ; and all
Booksellers.

ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT PREYS ON THE
HEALTH AND SHORTENS THE DURATION or HUMAN
LIFE.

ILLUSTRATED WITR COLOURED ENGRAVINGS,
Just Published, in a Sealed Envelope, price 2s. 6d,, or free
by post, 3s. 6d.
CONTROUL OF THE PASSIONS : a Popular
Inquiry Into the Concealed Cause of its premature Decline,
with Instructions for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to those
suffering from the destructive consequences of excessir .3 indulgence,
terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or 0 onstitutional
Weakness, Indigestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehen-
sive Dissertation on MARRIAGE, Incontinence, an d Celibacy.
Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various
Cases, &c.
By C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Newman-
street, Oxford-street, London.
Member of the London College of Medicine, &c. &c,
CONTENTS OF TIM WORE,
Chap. I..—Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced b, v inordinate
Indulgence of the Passions, illustrated with Coloured i ?.ngravings.
Chap. 2.-13aneful Results of a Secret Vice on the Mint t and Body,
evidenced in the production of Consumption, Epilepsy., and other
convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping Melancholy, Indiges-
tion, Stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observati ons on the
Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitful
Unions. Chap. 3.—Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Vital
c eat, itsd symptoms,a
Functions, the nature and treatment of Impotence and Stt ,rility, and
d
e the Prostate.
the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused byt 11,e practice
oemplica-
Chap. s.—Syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatme at. Cases,
tofosneslf.-11,ididturlegaetnicnee.nt,CGhatepe.t4, 4.—Gonorrhoea,
and concluding observations, Plates, &c.
Sold by Brittain, 54, Paternoster-row ; Gord m, 146, Li !adenhall-
street ; Hannay and Co. 63, Oxford-street ; Noble, 114, Chancery-
lane;
Mansell, 115, Fleet-street; Winhal, 78, High-s treet, Bir-
mingham; Whitmore, 119, Market-street, Manchester ;
54, Church-street, Liverpool ; Robinson, 11, Greens .ide-street,
Edinburgh ; Powell, 10, Westmoreland-street, Dublin.; and all
Booksellers.
Persons desirous of
obtaining the above work, and not • wishing to
may, to insure secrec, 7, have it
apply to a bookseller for the same,
Gd., 4
direct from the Authors, by enclosing 3s. or Postage tamps.
Messrs. Lucas and Co. are to be consulted from Tent' 11 Two, and
from Five till Eight in the evening, at their residence No. GO,
Newman-street, Oxford-street, London, and country pat rents :may
be successfully treated, on minutely describing their case, a ad eneleo-
iog the usual fee of N. for adTice.

GI N.—The following testimonial is sufficient
proof of the vast superiority in purity, flavour, and all other
respects of Messrs. BETTS' PATENT GIN over every kind of Gin
that has hitherto entered into the consumption of the British public.
" 82, Blackfriari-road, August, 1847.

" Messrs. Betts and Co.,
"Having examined the spirit with which you prepare your Paten_
Gin, and also the ingredients with which it is flavoured, and having
witnessed the whole process of its distillation and preparation, I am
prepared to state that it contains nodeleterions matter whatever, and
that the non-existence of various prejudicial ingredients commonly
employed in the manufacture of Gin, in my opinion gives yours a de-
cided preference.

"JOHN THOMAS COOPER."
Professor of Chemistry.
Sold !n quantities not less than Two Gallons, price 14s. per gallon,
DISTILLERY, 7, SMITHFIELD-BARS, LONDON.

COLLINS'S ODE on the PASSIONS will be
recited by Mr. J. RUSSELL, with Illustrations in a Series of
DRAWINGS magnified by means of the OPAQUE MICROSCOPE,
accompanied by Music by Dr. Wallis, on the Mornings of Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday, and on the Evenings of Tuesday and
Thursday, at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Dr.
Bachhoffner's LECTURES on NATURAL PHILOSOPHY will.
LECTURES by Robert Hunter Simple, Esq.,
comprise the subject of the ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS, &c. CHE-
MICALnings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The beautif OPTICAL
EFFECTS include the last DISSOLVING VIEWS. DIVING BELL
and DIVER, with EXPERIMENTS, &c. &c. on the Eve-
Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

VINAIGRE DE BORDEAUX.—The first
quality of FRENCH WHITE WINE VINEGAR is a pure
vinous acid, and surpasses all other in delicacy of flavour and strength.
It is sold, throughout the kingdom, at a moderate price, by Chemists,
Grocers, and Wine Merchants, whose names may be learnt by ap-
plying to the importers, W. and S. KENT and SONS,
Upton-upon-
Severn, or W. S. Ramsey, 3, Queen-street-place, Cheapside, sole
Wholesale Agent for London and surrounding Counties.

CLERKENWELL COUNTY COURT, Aug. 26.
(before TitOMAS STARKIE, Esq.)
CLERC V. JONES.
John Samuel Clerc, George the Fourth, Copen-
hagen-street, Islington, plaintiff; and John Henry
Jones, of Church row, High-street, Islington, and of
the New Bunhill-fields Cemetery, Church-street,
Islington, defendant.
This action was brought to recover the sum of
51. 18s. 6d., which the plaintiff claimed of the defen-
dant as follows-31. 3s. for money paid by the plain-
tiff on the Ist of May last for the purchase of a grave
in the New Bunhill-fields Cemetery, and 2/. 15s. 6d.
the burial fees charged for the interment of plaintiff's
mother Mary Clerc.
Mr. mother,
said his client complained that he
had paid his money in consequence of the defendant's
representations that the burial-ground in question
was consecrated ground.
The defendant called his brother, Evan Jones, who
stated that Mr. Clerc called upon him, a day or two
after taking the ground, and expressed his dissatisfac-
tion. He thought he had taken ground to bury his
mother in that was consecrated ground, and that the
service would be performed by a clergyman of the
Church of England. He found it was not so, and he
therefore required his money back again, which was
not given.
The JUDGE—WeII, I think this proves that Mr.
Clerc did consider that he was about placing the
remains of his mother in consecrated ground, and
that the Church of England service was to be per-
formed by a clergyman of the Church of England,
and it appears that this was not the case ; and, there-
fore, I think the plaintiff is entitled to have his money
back. The Learned Judge then gave a verdict for
the plaintiff for 51. 183. 6d.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 26.

STOCK EXCHATOE7-.111(5 sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
hire, and Cheshire 311. Shares (late Chester and Birkenhead,
5 per cent. on 22/. till 1849, 3% dis. cx int.—Chester and
Holyhead (preferentials guaranteed 51 per cent.), !4 p.
Eastern Counties, 18% ex div.—East Lancashire, New, 4
a. dis.—East Lincolnshire, 11/2 p.—Fleetwood, Preston, and
West Riding, 214 dis.—Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 18
New, 8% p,—Midland,
H
—Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 1,4 P.—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, Fifths (late West Riding `Union), % dis.—Lon-
don and
2 prso nd North-Western, -
and Cheshire, Preference (guaranteed 8 per cent.), 2 p.
ii lyt
he s tern,
Staffordshire,Quarters,
p.—Shrewsbury, Oawes-
try,
—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Preference (guar. 6 per
cent. till 1850), 3 p.—Cork and Bandon, 20 dis. ex int.
LEEDS, AUGUST 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—East Lancashire,
New, 403. dis.—Ditto, New, Scrip, ss. dis.—Great Northern,
3% dis.—Huddersfield and Manchester, par—Lancashire
and Yorkshire (West Riding Union), lls. 6d. dis.—Leeds and
Thirsk, 10s. dis.—Ditto, Preference, 15s. dis.—Leeds, Wake-
field, and Midland, 19s. dis. —Newcastle and Berwick, New,
21. 16s. 3d. p.—North British, Thirds, 1% p.—Ditto, Quar-
ters, 16s. 3d. p.--Ditto, Extension, 2s. 6d. p.—North Stafford-
shire, 21. ls. 3d. p.—North Western, 575. dis.—Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Goole, 21 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover,
No. 1, par.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The Duc de Praslin has committed sui-
cide in the cell of his prison in the Luxembourg. The
necessities of justice and the indignation of the people
have been equally defrauded of their legitimate
desire. How, or when, or where the wretched
murderer obtained the poison which enabled him to
escape from the indignities of a trial that could have
had no result but the scaffold for himself, and infamy
for the children of the unfortsfnate lady whom he so
barbarously put to death, the French journals give us
no satisfactory account. The palpable insinuations,
however, of the anti-dynastic party, and the flimsy
excuses of the organs of the Chateau, seem equally to
point at the same conclusion—that it was not without
permission from a high quarter that the Duc de
Praslin obtained the means of putting an end to his
most wretched existence. It is impossible, with every
desire to be credulous, to attach much credit to the
statements, put forth on autbority, of the manner
in which the Duke committed suicide. Up till the
account we published to-day it was generally be-
lieved that laudanum was the particular poison he
had employed. He was represented as having swal-
lowed the fatal draught at his own house. The most
eminent physicians in Paris were called in to ad-
minister remedies, but until yesterday evening we
heard nothing of any doubt as to the nature of the
particular poisons. More than this, no mention was
made of this attempt at self-destruction until after he
had been in the custody and under the watch of the
police. Cn referring back to the accounts which we
published from day to day, it will be found that there
was no talk of poisoning at all until the Duke had
been put under careful surveillance. M. Allard and
his agents are not men from whose vigilance it is
easy to escape. The prisoner could not have moved or
breathed without their connivance or their permis-
sion. We can ourselves have no doubt that the
Duke de Praslin swallowed poison on two distinct
occasions. The first time was at his own house;
and when he had been recalled to life by the efforts of
the physicians it was necessary to call in, the means
were furnished him of repairing his first failure in his
cell at the Luxembourg. We have but little doubt
that on the first occasion the Duke swallowed lauda-
num ; on the second, arsenic. An explanation put
forth by the Journal des Debats, that after his arrest
a phial was discovered in the pocket of his dressing-
gown, which had contained a mixture of laudanum
and arsenic, appears utterly incredible. Do men
ordinarily commingle these poisons ? No, it was ne-
cessary to explain away the laudanum in the first,
and the arsenic in the second instance ; and, there-
fore, the idea was devised of the Duke swallowing a
mixture of the two poisons.ln order to free the Go-
vernment from suspicion, it has been further declared
that the:swallowing of this compound potion took place
at a period antecedent to the arrest of the Duke. The
facts, however, do not stand so, or all the accounts
we have received hitherto must be incorrect. With
regard to the second dose (if a second dose was in-
deed taken), it must have been in the prison of the
Luxembourg, under the very eye of M. Allard and
his lynx-eyed agents, that the potion was taken.
Can we, then, resist the conclusion that, in permit-
ting the prisoner to commit an act of self-destruction,
Allard was acting upon high authority ? If this
he so, we much doubt whether the Government have
been well advised in permitting the prisoner to escape
from the sword of justice. It was quite competent
for them to treat this as an isolated crime, in which
they or their policy were no more concerned than in
the atrocities of the lowest culprit who might
be arraigned before the criminal tribunals.
Consider for a moment the facts of the
case—what had they to do with politics
or political men ? A man no way distinguished in
the public affairs of his country, except by the chance
accident of station, in the dead hour of night entered
the chamber of his sleeping wife, and with a deadly
weapon, and under circumstances of peculiar cruelty,
put her to death. The cause of the crime, as far as we
can understand it, was that the Duchess had, on the
night of the murder, violently reproached him for an
improper intimacy with a lady who had been the gover-
ness of their nine children. Nothing more—nothing
less ;—these, in few words, seem the facts of the
case. Let justice be done to the Government. It
is difficult to decide how far the commission of a
particular crime may be attributable to the moral
atmosphere and influence by which the guilty
party is surrounded. We cannot, therefore, with
accuracy determine whether or no, if the Duke de
Praslin had been a peer of the Court of Queen
Victoria, he might have committed a similar crime.
But certainly nothing could be more contrary to the
interests of the Government than the scandal result-
ing from such an act at the present moment. It is
more likely to exercise an unfavourable influence upon
their fortunes than a systematic sapping and mining
of the public liberties for twenty years. The Go-
vernment had but one only chance, which was to
hand the Duke de Praslin over to the public indigna-
tion. The blood of the murderer as it flowed upon
the scaffold would have washed away whatever share
even malice might have attributed to them in his
guilt. That was the only means of compurgation left
them, and that they have refused. Far be it from us
to join in the cry, but we foiesee that this most
injudicious withdrawal of a culprit from the jus-
tice of the public tribunals will be turned against
the French Government, in order to father upon
them vices other than those they possess. We
do not, however, even by an insinuation, mean
to attribute any share to the leading people of Paris
in this most horrible and revolting crime. But it
would be in vain to deny that a profound demoraliza-
tion does at this moment exist in the very heart of
French society. Take the recent State trials, and
let the French officials be judged by the opinion en-
tertained of them by the French public. Look again
at the transactions which are now taking place at
Madrid. The intrigues of a brothel have there been
substituted for the policy of statesmen. It has be-
come impossible, from a regard to decency, to review
with the severity it deserves the Spanish policy of the
Rue des Capucines. We will not, however, pursue
the subject further in connexion with the suicide of
the Duke de Praslin. If the French Government
have connived at it, they will soon find cause to re-
pent their error. It is not probable that we have yet
come to the end of this disastrous tale.

POST.—The Duke of Newcastle is assailed with
sneering abuse by two " Liberal" journals because
he has corrected an error promulgated by the Times
regarding his conduct as a public man, and has ex-
pressed his indignation at the unjust aspersions which
have been cast upon him. The Times stated in one
of its leading articles, some short time ago, that the
Duke of Newcastle had dismissed Lord John Manners

from the Parliamentary representation 'of Newark.
The words were, that " Lord John did not stand in-
spection at Newark, and has been cashiered, and he
is now looking for a more generous and more modern
patron than the Lord of Clumber." This was written
in ignorance of the real facts of the case, and the
Times is displeased that its ignorance in any matter,
whether great or small, should be exposed. But
though the Times may, after its manner,
cast ridicule upon the Duke of Newcastle,
the fact remains that the Times pub-
lished what was not true. Lord John Man-
ners never owed his seat for Newark to the

patronage of the Duke of Newcastle. The pa-
tronage under which he was introduced to the elec-

;ors of that borough was that of the uncle of one
)f the present Members. The Duke of Newcastle
:►either gave nor took away the seat for Newark, and
:he Times made its statement under erroneous infor-

mation. But the Times has too much pride and too
little honesty to confess this. It cannot, indeed,
maintain that what is said on the 13th instant was
true, but it evades the point, in order to prattle some
very heavy pleasantry about Dukes, and to make
another blunder respecting Lord John Manners. The
Times, without confessing its error, attempts to ac-
count for it by stating that " Lord John
mani-
fested certain free-trade tendencies," and
thatas
the
Duke of Newcastle loathes the system." The Times
is wrong. Lord John Manners has not manifested
free-trade
tendencies, and the Duke of Newcastle ap-
proves of everything in his public character except what
his Grace regards as the Noble Lord's bias to Roman-
ism. The Duke of Newcastle " wished him to remain"
Member for Newark because he believes that "a more
promising young man, one of more exalted views and
higher principles, of more inflexible integrity, with
perfect amiability and all the best qualities of head
and heart that can adorn the Christian and patriot
senator, would with difficulty be found in her Ma-
jesty's dominions." This is what the Duke of New-
castle says, but the Times said, on the lath instant,
that Lord John was cashiered from Newark because
the Duke of Newcastle no longer approved of him.
The Chronicle, which must try also to be sarcastic
on the occasion, evidently still labours under the
same misinformation which induced the Times to say
what it did on the 13th. Unquestionably, the Duke
of Newcastle has very considerable influence in the
borough of Newark, which influence he uses to the
great advantage of the House of Commons and the
country ; but that both Members for Newark owe
their seats to his influence is no more true than that
two and one are similar numbers.
CHRONICLE.—The tide of popular discontent
in France threatens to rise to a still more formidable
height, in consequence of the death of the Duke de

Praslin, under the circumstances related in another
column. Even in ordinary times, when popular sus-
picion had not been awakened, the escape of so
atrocious a criminal from the vengeance of the law
renderwould havesneh baeeennnattributedculpable
imtopnassible. negilfe, cats
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on
the part of the authorities, whose first duty And
it was to
the present instance, exalted station had been com-
bined with almost incredible brutality, the imputa-
tion would not have been unnatural that the autho-
rities looked upon suicide as one of the indefeasible
privileges of the peerage, and that the opportunities
left open for its commission were nowise accidental,
but accorded as a special right. Of course on the
present occasion such suspicions are aggravated a
hundredfold; and there is no extreme of prejudice
and misconception which the popular sentiment is
not prepared to accept as fact. It is unnecessary to
say that we do not ourselves participate even in the
more modified form of these suspicions, or attribute
the facility of which the Duke unfortunately availed
himself but too successfully to any connivance of
aforethought on the part of the authorities, or even
of the inferior officials who had charge of the culprit's
person. It is impossible to believe that the
French Government could have had any
part in facilitating an event which must
tend not a little to add to their unpopu-
larity, and increase the difficulties of their
already most uncomfortable position. It is not,
however, in the isolated changes of which it may
hereafter become the pretext, but in its general effect
on the temper of the public mind, that the ominous
nature of such an occurrence at the present juncture
can be appreciated. Taken by itself, there is nothing
very surprising in the fact, that once in a hundred
years the peerage of England or of France should
number among its members a murderer like Ferrers
or like Praslin. The wonder to us is rather that
there should not be more frequent instances of crimi-
nal atrocity among a class who are exposed to such
powerful temptations, and whose career, at the age
when character is formed, is too seldom subjected
to wholesome restraints. Fortunate it is, indeed, that
such instances are infrequent, for society is so con-
stituted, that one act of this nature, committed by a
man of exalted rank, not only makes more noise in
the world than would hundreds of such crimes com-
mitted by the needy, the ignorant, and the obscure,
hut it is attended likewise by political consequences
which would never flow from successive generations
of common-place vulgar villains. Instances of all
this are plenty, if we had time or space to recount
them. This identical history of France, of which we
are this moment chronicling the latest chapter, sup-
plies enough and to spare. It was not, for instance,
the selfishness, or stupidity, or voluptuousness of
Louis XV. that made him odious to his people, but
the incredible falsehoods which they believed of him.
It was not the actual part aux cerfs, but the imaginary
baths of human blood with which that monarch was
supposed to refresh his jaded powers, that first
began to make the name of king abhorrent to the
most loyal and devoted people in the world. It
was not the average condition of the inmates of the
Bastile—often not only endurable, but luxurious-

but the special indignities inflicted on De Latude,
that made that prison the symbol of unjust authority
to such an extent, that in its fall the knell of the
monarchy itself was sounded. It was not her actual

pardonable coqueteries, but the abominable;l;K;
of which Rohan was the pretext, and Egalit6 the
abettor, that brought Marie Antoinette to the guillo-
tine. This is the secret of all revolutions. It is not
the facts which the populace believe, but the mytho-
logy of incredible imputations with which they
generalise those facts, that undermines that basis of
public reverence on which alone all law and authority
can safely rest. It is thus that the isolated offences
of Teste and Cubieres, and the guilt of Praslin, may
feed the fuel of the popular discontent, and become
the source of the most sweeping and indiscriminate
condemnation of the classes to which they belonged.
It is a long time, ind'ed, since individual offences
have found public opinion in France so morbidly
jealous and susceptible. Not perhaps since that un-
paralleled case of the diamond necklace, which, just
sixty years ago, damaged irretrievably for her life•
time the fair fame of Marie Antoinette, lost her the
respect of her people, and became to thinking and ob-
servant men the herald of inevitable revolution.