The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-26 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
C. Ford, jeweller, Guildford-street East, Spa-fields, Sept.
9, at twelve.

In the Country.
J. and M. Nicholson, cutlers, Sheffield, Sept. 16, at twelve,
at the Town Hall, Sheffield--J. Wild, ivory dealer, Sheffield,
Sept. 16, at two, at the Town-hall, Sheffield—E. Dale, linen
manufacturer, Burnley, Yorkshire, Sept. 15, at one, at the
Town-hall, Sheffield—W. Bullock, ironmonger, Newcastle-
under-Lyme, Sept. 16, at one, at the Roe Buck Hotel, New-
castle-under-Lyme—J. Sykes, woollen cloth manufacturer, Ne-
therton, Yorkshire, Sept. 12, at eleven, at :the George Hotel,
Huddersfield—W. Hunt, jun., ironmaster, Moat Iron Works,
'Tipton, Staffordshire, Sept. 15, at twelve, at the Star and Gar-
ter Hotel, Wolverhampton—H. Lloyd, surgeon, Machynlleth,
Montgomeryshire, Sept. 16, at eleven, at the Wynnstay Arms,
Machynlleth—F. and L. B. T. Sharp, lodging-house keepers,
Brighton, Sept. IR, at one, at the Town-hall, Brighton—J.
Price, jeweller, Birmingham, Sept. 16, at two, at the New
Royal Hotel, Birmingham—R. Bailies, draper, Merthyr Tydvil,
Glamorgsnshire, Sept. 18, at twelve, at the Commercial-rooms,
Bristol—.l. and W. Latham, cotton spinners, Ashton-in-Maker-
field, Lancashire, Sept. 16, at twelve, at the Clarendon-rooms,
Liverpool—C. A. Tate, tea dealer, Liverpool, Sept. 15, at one,
at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool—J. Itledlam, victualler,
Bristol, Sept. 18, at two, at the Clarendon-rooms, Bristol—R.,
Wilkinson,
.G. Snowdon, and J. F. Lumley, bankers, Stockton,
Durham, Sept. 21, at three, at the Greyhound Inn, Stockton.

CERTIFICATES-Si.pT. 15.

J. Canter, linen manufacturer, Barnsley, Yorkshire—D.
Crane, publican, Wolverhampton—T. Rankin, draper, Epping,
Essex—C. Poppleton, linen manufacturer, York—D. Davies
and R. F. Cox, coal owners, Lydney, Gloucestershire.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. .

W. Stagg and J. F. Robinson, linen drapers, Newington-
causeway—W. and J. Collinson, boot manufacturers, Liverpool
—l. Makeii, and H. W. Dempsey, milliners, Clifton, Bristol—.
S. Dunn an7l A. Stivens, civil engineers, Salford, Lancashire—
J. Carroll and J. Pilling, pin makers, Dundalk—C. Bull and
W. Waring, butchers, Liverpool—W. Seares and H. Atkinson,
drapers, Featherstone-street, City-road—W. Bates and 11.
Austin, kin., common brewers, Leicester—W. Williams and
W. H. Lewis, straw bonnet manufacturers, Ludgate-street—
E. Parker and J. Mackey, soda-water manufacturers, Liver-
pool—J. Oates and G. Barker, cotton spinners, Drogheda—S.
Howard and J. Howorth, worsted spinners, Burnley, Lanca-
shire—J. Fockrell and J. Watson, stationers—J. A. Kaye and
J. B. Abbott, wine merchants, Liverpool—T. Brighton and 11,
Leigh, attorneys, Downham Market, Norfolk—W. Cooper, H.
Cooper, and T. Bryson, warehousemen, Cheapside—J. Smyth,
R. B. Burton, 11. Langdon, and A. Smyth, shawl dealers, Ox-
ford-strect—J. F. Norton, E. Flersheim, T. Flersheim, and
11. Brien, stove manufacturers, Birmingham—R. Houlding,
W. Houlding, and E. Houlding, boot makers, Burnley, Lanca-
shire—B. 'f reacher and E. James, coal owners, Swansea, Gla-
morgansh:re—J. Taylor and E. Shepherd, machine brokers,
Rochdale, Lancashire—G. M. Hooley and J. Gouldthorp, coal
merchants, Heaton Norris, Lancashire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
ROBERT ALLARDICE, stationer, Leith, Aug. 31 and
Sept. 21, at two, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edin-
burgh.
CHARLES BLAIR, merchant, Dunkeld, Aug. 29 and
Sept. 19, at twelve, at Grant's Inn, Dunkeld.
JOHN BL AIR, merchant, Dunkeld, Aug. 29 and Sept.
19, at one, at Grant's Inn, Dunkeld.
DAVID HORN, cattle dealer, Perthshire, Aug. 29 and
Sept. 21, at two, at Peacock's Inn, Damhead, Perthshire.
JAMES WILLIAMSON, paper maker, Loch ill, Ln-
RatGoEne.DatOtDheS,shgirpocie,ar,veCrnan,oEdingantbeu, Ergdhin. burgAhr, Sept.i 2
andG3EOO,
turer Forfar, Aug. 31 and
Sept. CRAIK, sen., manufac _
iliitthhroww., Sept. 4 and 25, at twelve, at the Black Bull Inn, Lin-
Sept. 21, at two, at the New Inn, Forfar.

us threat
The congregation assembled last Sunday morn-
ing in the parish church, South Petherwin, in this county,
This impious
he said,
were much appalled by the following painful circumstance : :
—As the parishioners were proceeding through the vil-
lage
to church, a lad, of about 12 years of age, named
Cole, seated himself on a wall, and addressed many of the
persons passing by their names, affected to take leave
tout'
drownthem fiolirmseevlfert,huats
mit was
morning.hig .
obtained but little credit from those to whom it
addressed. Shortly after the church service had begun,was
the same boy was observed to come within the church
door, and beckon another boy named Cornish to come to
him. The second boy accordingly obeyed his call, and left
the church and joined him. This transaction attracted,
however, but little notice from the people in the church.
But towards the end of the sermon it was intimated
to some of the congregation
inthat those two unfortunate
boys had been found drownedpond in an adjacent
Criarry. This tragical intelligence quickly spread from
pew to pew, and diffused the utmost confusion throughout
the church. Every person wns much appalled and affected
at the event. It seems one.
boy was found very soon, and
medical assistance was obtained as speedily as possible, but
without avail. The other oy 7as not taken up for some
time, and consequently the application of medical means
was hopeless. The peculiar circumstances of the occur-
rence have occasioned a great seiisation throughout that
part of the country. who had expressed the
wretched thought of drowning himself, and had called
out of
the other unhappy boy
.. ..• church, was the son of a
respectable person in thentigabourhood who deals in coals,
slate, &c. Cornish was the son of a labourer in the vi-
cinity. There seems to be a fair presumption that while
one of them was sinking, the other might have gone to his
assistance and become involved in his fate.—Paltnouth
Packet.
SINGULAR B ST —Mr sQuE . . Thomas Worsley,
of Appuldercombe,
in the Isle of Wight, who was an en-
terprising traveller, about the middle of last century, in
one of his excursions, in exploring the interior of Africa,
was miraculously saved from the clutches of a lion, through
the instrumentality of a faithful dog, that always accom-
panied him in his expeditions. As the formidable beast
was in the act of springing at him, the dog seized the
former, and diverted the animal's attention from his in-
tended victim, which afforded Mr. Worsley the opportu.
nity of ascending a tree close try, thereby eluding the
danger to which he was exposed. The dog fell a victim
to his fidelity. when Mr. Worsley returned home to
England he retired to the little village of Boldre, in the
1 New Forest, Hants, where he kept for many years the an-
niversary of the day on which he so narrowly escaped
from the lion, as a holiday, going about almsgiving, and
doing other acts of charity. By his last will be left the
sum of ten pounds for ever to be paid to the vicar of
Boldre, for the time being, to preach a sermon in the
church of the above village, on the 6th of May (the anni-
versary of his escape) upon the subject that gave rise to
the bequest—a cotton] which has prevailed up to the pre.
sent tune,

THE APPROACHING BARTHOLO
MEW FAIR.

The public are about to be relieved, in a very consi-
derable degree, from the annual visitation of this great
metropolitan nuisance. By a late resolution of the Cor-
poration, arising out of the Report from the Markets
Committee, containing certain recommendations, evi-
dently tending to promote the public convenience, to
which also was appended a very able report from the
City Solicitor, comprising a legal, statistical, and histo-
rical account of this fair from the earliest times, the
whole subject has been referred to that Committee to
be carried into execution.
The Lord Mayor and the Commissioners of the City
Police have received the following resolutions from the
Markets Committee, which have been adopted, under
the reference of the Common Council of the 2d of July
last, relative to the fair. They may, it will be seen, be
considered the death-blow of the Bartholomew-fair an-
noyances.
Resolved and ordered—That the fair in future be not
proclaimed till the eve of St. Bartholomew (old style)
instead of half-past twelve o'clock on the preceding
night, as has been the practice heretofore generally
adopted.
That it is the opinion of this Committee that the pro-
clamation by the Lord Mayor (if necessary) should be
made at the same time, and unattended by the state
with which the fair has been heretofore proclaimed by
his Lordship and the other City Authorities.
That the fair be permitted to continue only during
the remainder of that day and the two following days.
That booths for the exhibition of plays, interludes,
pantomimes, and all other theatrical representations, be
henceforth entirely excluded from the fair.
That a deputation of this Committee do wait upon
the Lord Mayor and Magistrates of the City, to re-
quest their assistance in carrying into effect the resolu-
tion of the Court of Common Council, referred to this
Committee for execution.
That the deputation do likewiie- hold a conference
with the Commissioner of Police, informing him of the
course of proceeding intended to be pursued by this
Committee, and requesting he will make such police re-
gulations as may be necessary to preserve the public
peace, and give effect to the objects of the Committee.
That a copy of the first four resolutions be forthwith
transmitted to the several persons who for the last two
years have had booths and standings in the fair for
shows, interludes, &c.
That during the ensuing fair no part of the pavement
in Smithfield be permitted to be taken up or disturbed,
for the placing or fixing of any booth, stall, or ether ar-
ticle for the purposes of the said fair, or under any other
pretence preparatory to or during the fair.
That no swing, roundabout, flying vehicle, or other
machinery of a like nature, be permitted in any part of
Smithfield market.

That no person who has neglected to pay the City's
charges for standings during the fair in any former year
be permitted to occupy any standing at the ensuing
fair, unless such charges so in arrear be first paid, toge-
ther with the charges for standings in respect of the pre-
sent year, and that no person be permitted to have a
standing at the ensuing fair unless the City's charges for
such standing be first paid.
That the ground which shall be let at the ensuing
fair be let subject to the tenants removing and clearing
away the dirt and soil about the same every night and
morning during the fair.
The fair will, by these regulations, instead of lasting
four days, be limited to two days and a half, and will
tconclude on S
all
the
acaht
iunrderayya
and
about
dy
paraphernalia out ten clock
may atbe night,
removed
o
's
before Sunday.
Deputy Hicks, whose exertions for the benefit of the
market and the whole of its extensive neighbourhood,
have been unremitting, and who first proposed the re-
ference to the City Solicitor, at whose suggestion the
above resolutions have been adopted, has received several
communications from persons who do not relish the idea of
a change even for the better. The disappointed parties,
who, no doubt, were in the habit of deriving emolument
from the old system, have gathered together, as it were,
all the filth of Smithfield, to fling it at the Deputy, but
it passes by him, according to his own account of it, " as
the idle wind, which he regards not." He calculates
that these regulations will probably put an end to that
which has for several years been giving symptoms of
approaching dissolution, and which the change of times
and circumstances, together with the altered habits of
the people, call upon the authorities to suppress.
The follow;ng is extracted from the report of the
City Solicitor on the subject :—" I am clearly of opi-
nion that the Corporation may lawfully circumscribe
the limits and duration of the fair, and may make rules
and regulations for its government, which will remove
the nuisances and obstructions to trade, without attempt-
ing suddenly and entirely to suppress it, a proceeding
Aw which
tehe h
of wouldte the
partt
Corporation
periods
Corp o r t o n
inimwphrio.pherhlyisttoy
orinmtearfkeerse with the
recreations of the humbler classes of the community.
of this subject, I find there were two fairs or markets
held on the spot where Bartholomew Fair is now held,
or in its immediate vicinity. These two fairs were ori-
ginally held for two or three days only, the fairs being
proclaimed on the eve of St. Bartholomew and the next
morrow ; both these fairs or markets were instituted for
the purposes of trade ; one of them was granted to the
Prior of the convent of St. Bartholomew, and was kept
for the clothiers of England and drapers f London, who
had their booths and standings within the church-yard of
the priory, closed in with walls and gates, and locked
every night, and watched, for the safety of their
goods and wares. The other was granted to
the City of London, and consisted of the standing of
cattle, and stands and booths for goods, with pickage
and stallage, and tolls, and profits appertaining to fairs
and markets, in the field of West Smithfield. At the
dissolution of the monasteries in the reign of Henry the
Eighth, the right in the first mentioned fair was sold to
Sir John Rich, the then Attorney-General, and was
enjoyed by his descendant till the year 1830, when it
was purchased of Lord Kensington by the Corporation,
and it is now held by the Chamberlain of London and
Town Clerk as trustees, so that in fact all the rights
and interests in both fairs, may now be said to be vested
in the corporation. The right to hold both these fairs
having been granted for the purpose of promoting the
interests of trade, it is quite clear that no prescriptive
right can be set up to commit any nuisance incompatible
with the purposes for which they were established ;
if, therefore, the Corporation should be satisfied that

the interests of the public can be no otherwise pro-
tected than by confining the fair to its original objects
and purposes, they may undoubtedly do so, and this
would, in fact, be equivalent to its entire suppression."

THE KIRK.

PATRONAGE AND THE CLERGY.

(From the Edinburgh Evening Post.)
Pray, Mr. Candish, how did you obtain St. George's ?
Pray, Mr. Cunningham. how did you manage to find
yourself in the College Kirk ?By patronage—by this
damnable, heretical, and unscriptural tenure. Oh but
surely, having made this great and important discovery,
you have immediately vacated your livings—you have
disdained to live on the wages of sin—you have shown
yourselves above every shadow of doubt and suspicion
—you have evaded the jeer of derision, which must
ever be the portion of those whose practice is at anti-
podes with their high-sounding theories I No man has
a right to condemn patronage, allowing it to be wrong,
until he has given up the living for which he is its
debtor. W hat would we think of a conscientious pawn-
broker, who, after making a fortune by taking advantage
of the miserable and the profligate, becomes suddenly
struck with the iniquity of his profession, but instead
of giving up his goods to feed the poor, commences
abominating his brethren of the same calling ; and
purchasing with the wages of sin a snug box in the
country, commences " talkee, talkee," of honesty and
virtue ?

Poor Dr. Chalmers ! How are the mighty fallen !
Were it not in commisseration of his years, and in con-
sideration of his past greatness, how he could be shown
up! Vanity, vanity, all is vanity ! This world is but va-
nity fair on a universal scale ! A knot of sycophants have
beslavered the poor doctor over head and cars, till the
bands of his true friends cannot take hold of him. He
is Samson shorn of his hair by the Philistines ; and we
leave him in the midst of his majority, dancing the reel
of Bogie. If they mind not, he will bring the whole
fabric down about their cars.

THE WEATHERCOCK OF THE KIRK.
(From the .Edinburgh Observer.)
My Veto—dear departed shade 1
Gone to thy place of final rest :
See'st thou thy Doctor lowly laid,
Hcar'st thou the groans that rend his breast ?
We hear a rumour that it is proposed to place on the
spire tops of all the new kirks an effigy of Dr. Chalmers,
as a fitting emblem in place of the old-fashioned Neather-
cocks ; and nothing could be more appropriate. For the
space of seven years past the :ley. Doctor has afforded
to the world the most striking example of turning with
every wind that blows, which modern times have produced.
In 1833, when he propounded the Veto, he denounced,
ore rotundo, and in terms the most unmeasured, the
popular election of our parish ministers, and lauded the
Veto as the maximum bonum of legislation. During the
interval, he has adopted a variety of that crotchet—the
independence of the Church Courts of all secular in-
terference—the absolute necessity of the will of the
people being recognised as absolute—which, however,
he consented to modify into the minimum
.of a liberutx
arbitriuni in the Presbytery ; and jumbling all these

heterogeneous elements into one chaotic mass, he has
left them all behind him, and, after numbc:iess dis-
aeow•als of clerical ambition, he has finally ended in the
following propositions :
Istly, To rescind the Veto Act of 1834, which was
adopted for the protection of patronage.
2dly, To fall back upon the call, and by a series of
" righteous decisions" in the Church Courts, to nullify
the rights of presentation established by law.
idly, To obtain the repeal of the Act of Queen Anne
restoring patronage—by means of agitation, &c., and to
establish popular election by law.

4thly, To punish the seven ministers of Strathbogie
for not giving effect to the Veto Act which is now pro-
posed to be rescinded.
These are the four things which Dr. Chalmers says
the Church ought now to do ; and although he has ex-
pended CA pages of print in explaining his last visions
and day-dreams, he now avows, in terms the most un-
equivocal, that although the call and the election by
the people are very fine things, yet, after all, the Kirk
Courts are to have absciule power of control in the
settlement of ministers! We have neither time nor
space to deal with this melancholy farrago of inconsist-
ency ; but it is our duty to announce Dr. Chalmers's
tergiversation on the Veto to all within the range of
our influence. We have not the heart to strike a fallen
man, and for the present leave him in the hands of his
quondam associates—waiting with some curiosity to see
how they will deal with him.
" Retract ? No, not a hair's-breadth ! !

THE MOCK MARTYRS.
(From the Aberdeen Herald)
Our Non-lntrusionists are determined to make the
most of their case. They first court martyrdom, and
then boast of it. An amusing instance of this is
furnished by what took place at Huntly the other day,
and the account of it given by one of the orators at
the Edinburgh " engagement" meeting. The Rev.
Gentleman spoke pathetically of the interdict
being served by a Messenger-at-Arms on an
Elder " who had gone to carry the vessels at the com-
memoration of the sacrament." Now, the fact is that
the Non-Intrusion clergy who went to Huntly to ad-
minister the sacrament, actually requested the messen-
ger-at-arms to serve the interdict on the elders ; and
one of the elders himself was so anxious that this should
lie done, that he presented the officer with his card, and
gave him the names and designations of other two elders
who had conic on the same errand, desiring them to be
served with the interdict also. That there may be no
mistake about the matter, we shall give the names of
the elders. The one who presented his card (and we •
have it now in our possession as a sort of relict of one of
the mock martyrs) was Mr. William Wingate, Glas-
gow ; the other two were designated Captain Trotter,
elder, Ballendean—(he might have trotted to Huntly
in a better cause)—and Dr. James Russell, elder,
Edinburgh. The speech of the Rev. Mr. Buchanan at
the Edinburgh meeting affords a sufficient explanation
of the anxiety of the worthy elders to be interdicted.
When they next concert means for getting up a pious
sensation, they should take care to conceal their motives
a little better. It was not the way with the sensible
among the old martyrs to go and bid their persecutors
punish tiaem, in order that they might make an ostenta-
tious display of their sufferings at a meeting of scented
saints and pawkey priests.

COMMISSION OF ASSEMBLY.

REASONS OF DISSENT BY DR. COOK AND OTIIERS.

We dissent from the resolution of the Commission of
the General Assembly to libel for contumacy, and with
a view to deposition from the ministry, the seven minis-
ters of the Presbytery of Stratbbogic, mentioned in
that resolution :
I. Because we are convinced that this violent mea-
sure, inflicting such grievous hardship on individual
clergymen, and such serious evils on extensive and po-
pulous parishes, is not necessary for the full assertion of
the spiritual authority and privileges of the Church.
2. Because we regard this measure as subversive of
the principle of an Establishment, requiring, as such a
principle must do,obedience to civil authority in all mat-
ters lawful, and pronounced by the Supreme Courts of
Law to relate to civil rights ; and apprehend that it
must lead to consequences most injurious to the tran-
quillity, morals, and religious interests of the people of
Scotland.

f 3. Because, even where there was the conviction
that the Civil Courts had infringed upon the spiritual
jurisdiction of the Church established by statute, re-
dress should have been sought by an application to Par-
liament ; or, if that was not adopted or not successful,
by withdrawing from the Establishment.
4. Because we are firmly persuaded that there has
been no such infringement ; and that had the ministers,
who arc to be served with a libel, acted as enjoined
by the Supreme Judicatories of the Church, they
would have violated the duties which, as loyal subjects
and good citizens, and so conscientiously attached to
our Ecclesiastical polity, they were bound sacredly to
respect.
.5. Because, in asserting, directly or indirectly, to the
resolution adopted by the majority of the Commission,
we should, to the best of our judgment, act unfaithfully
to those engagements which bind us to support the
Constitution in Church and State, and involve ourselves
ix the responsibility of resisting lawful authority, in
contravention, as we firmly believe, of our duty to God
and man.

For these and other reasons, to be urged in the As-
sembly, we dissent and protest for liberty to complain
to the ensuing General Assembly, that the Commis-
sion, in adopting the resolutions now come to, have ex-
ceeded the powers entrusted to them by the Constitu-
tion of the Church ; and we further protest that we
shall not be held in any way responsible for the conse-
quences which must slow from the adoption of such a
measure.

George Cook, D.D. ; D. M‘Farlan, D.D. ; Norman
M'Leod, D.D. ; James Bryce. D.D. ; John Cook,
Laureneekirk ; A. B. Murray, Mousewald ; James Ha-
milton ; A. B. Campbell, Kilwinning ; James Donald.
son, Canonbie ; David Wilson, Stranraer ; George
Brewster, Scoonic ; J. S. Barty, Bendochy ; J. Glegg,
Bervie ; William Cron, Menmuir ; D. Johnston of

Bighead ; Thos. Hill, Logic Pert ; S. Richardson,
Penninghame ; G. P. Kenmay ; James Hay of Belton ;
J. Jaffray ; J. Robertson, Ellon ; John Duncan, Abdic ;
Lewis W. Forbes, Bohram ; James Peter, Leslie ; Ro-
bert Moore ; Alex. Hill, D.D. ; Walter Cook, elder ;
Walter Malcolm, elder ; Wm. Goldie ; W. Smith,
elder ; James Forsight, Moreham ; Archd. Francis
Stewart, Craignish ; Thos. Smith Goldie Coldstream ;
Patrick Booth, Innerleithen ; And. Sym, D.D., New
Kilpatrick ; Robt. Stirling, D.D., Galston ; A. Lawson
Creich ; Wm. Boswell, elder ; Alex. Stevenson, elder ;
John Thomson, Maxton ; David Stewart ; Wm.
Jaffray, Dumbarton ; Duncan Clerk, Torosay ; Alex.
Mackenzie, Strontian ; Robert Bayne Dalgleish of
Dura ; D. M'Lauchlan, North Knapiale ; Francis
Cannan, Lintraten ; James M'lnnes, elder ; John
Cruickshank, elder ; James Allan, Newhill ; Meeduff
Rhind, elder ; J. M. Cunninghame, Kinglassic ; James
Bisset, Bourtie ; David Cannan, D.D., Mains; W.
Macdonald of Powderhall, elder.

Lord Ward has arrived at his shooting. quarters
in Scotland, from Himley Hall, Warwickshire. His
Lordship purposes staying in Scotland several months.
TIME WIZEN THE IRISH CORPORATION ACT
COMES INTO OPERATION —The 211th section enacts :
" That within ten days after the passing of this Act the
Poor-law Commissioners shall certify under their hands
and seals to the Lord Lieutenant, the name of each of those
boroughs named in the said schedule ( A ) in which any rate
for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland shall have been
then made, and as soon as any rate for the relief of the desti-
tute poor in Ireland shall have been made in any other of the
boroughs named in the said schedule ( A), shall certify under
their hands and seal, to the Lord Lieutenant that such rate
shall have then been made, and such Commissioners shall
state in every such certificate the day on which such rate
shall have been made ; and upon the Poor-law Commission-
ers so certifying as to any of the boroughs named in said
schedule (A) the Lord Lieutenant shall cause such certifi-
cate to be publ;shed in the Dublin Gazetle,with a declaration
that upon the day happening next after the expiration of
twelve calendar months from the day so to be stated in
such certificate, this Act boroughsheaallbeediniefortcheeineesrutcifihoate;
ati
or boroughs d
upon
named
come into cperaottiotnh,neacmo3mel
sd-t
suehdavrespectively
this
Act
mence, and be in force in the borough or boroughs
in such certificate." Now in the City of Cork the rate
was made on the 30th of December, 1839, n
as erroneously stated in our last publication—consequentlyr
the Act comes into operation on the 31st December,
1840 ; and the Lord Lieutenant will have the immediate
e
appointment of a Sheriff, unless it should be deemed neces-
sary, in point of law, that the nomination should first be
ls 41. made by the Judge of Assize, m which case
Assizesthese
appoint-
ment cannot be made until after the Spring
Southern
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Williams.diff , investigateto
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deathoftheat cr
evidence adduced that a person had been
sent to the shop of Mr. Edwards, druggist, for three.
leanurnceydswt cause
fromowratsh the held
of tincture of rhubarb in a bottle labelled
pe
" tincture of rhubarb," but that the apprentice at the shop
served him with six drachms of laudanum instead of rhu-
barb, which was taken by deceased, and whereof she died.
much The Coronerstres s
uponsu mm
telt
dangerous poisons freteheol
bearings
evidence, and dwelt with
7mpropriety of druggists leaving
accessalin to
07%7 apprentt,ihceest; and
e
went minutely over
Jury returned the following vesrdictt " case,
sd
from the
effects of taking six drachms of laudanum in a mistake for
six drachms of tincture of rhubarb, and that the six
drachms of laudanum were purchased at the shop of Mr.
Edwards, druggist, of Cardiff, and accidentally and incau-
tiously served by his apprentice, Howell Harris."— Welsh-
! - man.

EGHAM RACES—TuEsnar.
That the attendance was tolerably numerous must be attri-
buted to the fineness of the weather, and not to the appearance
0: the list, which. as well in the number as in the quality of
the entries, was below the average. It is fortunate that the
Stewards introduced heats in two of the stakes, cr the sport
would have fallen short. As it was there was barely enough
to satisfy ever a moderate appetite. The following are the
names of the principal visitors :—Earl of Albemarle, Earl of
Erroll, Earl of Uxbridge, Lord W. Lennox, Lord Paget, Lord
Francis Gordon, Hon. G. S. lltng, lion. H. Rous, Hon.
Captain Paula, Colonel Bouverie, Colonel Wood, Colonel
Peel, Colonel 'l'. Wood, Colonel Challoner, Sir G. Heathcote,
Sir W. Fremantle, Sir C. Payne, Sir J. Gibbon, Captain
Seymour, Captain Gardnor, Captain Ives. Captain Dclme,
Captain Martin, Mr. Codrington, Mr. P. Williams, Mr. Gre.
nine, Mr. Gasceigne,
The racing came off as follows :
The Runnymede Stakes of o sons. each, With 31 added; three-
Year olds. 7st 61b ; four, Sst 41b : five, Sst 11lb; six and
aged. fist ; mares, &c., allowed 3lbs. ; the winner to
Les sold fur 1001., &c. Heats, three quarters of mile. (4
Subs. )
Alr. Wright's ch f Folly, by Nonsense—Elfrid, 3 yrs 1 1
Mr. Byng's Larabbas, 4 yrs
Sir H. Bruce's Candia, 6 yrs.
First Heat.-2 to 1 on Barabbas, who, after making nearly
all the running, was beaten by a neck. Second Heat.-5 to 4
on Folly, who won easy by a length.
Two-years-old Sweepstakes of 20 sous. each, h ft. Threo-

quarters of a mile. (5 Subs. )
Mr. Faulconer's t by Tulip, out of Geoigiana.......walked over.
A Plate of 401., given by the Members for the western division
of the county of Surrey, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 son.
each ; thret-yrs, 6st 121 b ; lour-yrs, Bst 71b ; five-yes, 9st I
six-yrs, and aged, 9st 31b. Mares, &c., allowed 31bs.
The winner to be sold for 200/, &c. Heats, two miles.
(4 Subs.)
Captain Gardnor's Mungo Park, 3 yrs (Mann) I I
Mr. Goedman's Colchicum, 4 yrs 3 2
MI . Payne's Willesden, aged
Mr. S. Scott's Tenebrosa, 4 yrs
First Heat-5 to 4 agst 31ungo Park, and to 1 agst Wil-
lesden. Tenebrosa made play till near the disti.nce, whet e sh•
fe I back, and Mungo Park and Willesden went on waiting on
each ether. The .ast one hundred yards were well contested,
31ungo Park winning rather cleverly by half a length. Second
Heat-3 to lon Mungo Park, whu won easy by two lengths,
fuvi was claimed.

'rho Gold Cup Stakes of 10 sons. each, with :20 added. Two
miles. (3 Subs.)
. . . _

Sir G. Ileatheote's f by Emilius, 3 yrs' walked over.

STOURBRIDGE RACES.-MONDLY.

The East Worcestershire Stakes of 15 sm. each, 10 ft, and 5
only if declared ; with 50 added by the Members for the
Eastern Division of the County. Two miles. (7 Subs, 3
of whom declared.)
Mr. Walters's King Cole, aged, 9st ...(Marlow) 0 1
Mr. Fowler's Prudence, 5 years, Bst 41b
Mr. Copeland's Chantilly, 4 yrs, ist 9lb
The Maiden stakes of 5 sous each, with 20 added, for borsea
that nerer won a Plate or Stakes of 501. Heats, twice round
and a distance. (7 Subs. )
Col. Smith rd br f Sister to Sir Ralph, 3 yrs, 6st 12.1 b 1 1
Mr. W. Trow tid bc by Priam—ldalia, 3 yrs, 7st
Mr. W. Foster, jun., ~a ch c Solomon Bennet, 3 yrs, 71b 2 3
'three ethers started.
_ _ _

The Stand Purse of 50/., for all ages. 111ile and quarter heats.
Mr. Saunders's b m Miss Kitty Cockle, 6 yrs, 9st 1 2 1
Mr. Collett's f Juvenile, 4 yrs, 9A llb 0 1 2
Mr. Flintoff's gr h The Friar, 5 vrs, Sst 1•2 lb
Mr. \Valters's ch c Sir George, 3 yrs, ist 71b
Captain Lamb's ch h Chit Chat, 6 vrs, 9-it 21b

MAILS (ALEXANDRIA).

.cturn to an Order of the Honourable the House of
Coil:mons, dated 11th August, 1840 ;—jor,

Copy of the Report of the Committee appointed by the
Lords of the Admiralty to inquire as to the best
Port of Arrival and Departure for Steam-vessels to
be employed in the Conveyance of Mails between
England and Alexandria direct.
Admiralty, Somerset House, 11th August, 1840.

Sta,—ln complying with the directions-of my Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty, conveyed in your
letter of the 30th May, 1840, desiring us to inquire and
report, for their Lordships' information, as to the best
port of arrival and departure for contract steam-vessels
of not less than 400-horse power, intended to be em-
ployed in the conveyance ct her Majesty's Mails be-
tween England and Alexan'tria, once each way every
calendar month ; and in obedience to their Lordships
further commands, that we should be guided in this in-
vestigation by the general instructions issued to us on
the ?oth May, 1840, relative to the choice of a port
in the British Channel for embarking and landing the
West India Mails :

We have to request you will be pleased to solicit
their Lordships' attention to the reasons assigned in
our Report of the Gth instant for the selection of
Dartmouth as the most eligible port in the British
Channel fur embarking and landing the West India
Mails ; and as similar considerations have governed
our decision in the preference we again give to that
harbour, we beg briefly to report, for their Lordships'
information, that we are unanimously of opinion that
Dartmouth is the most desirable station for the depar-
ture and arrival of the steam packets intended to be
employed in the conveyance of her Majesty's Mails to
and from Alexandria*. With reference to the Appendix
attached to our iteport of the 6th instant, we beg to
observe, that the Alexandrian mail steam-packets will,
in their departure from Dartmouth and arrival in the
British Channel towards that port, pursue more south-
erly tracks than those steered by the West India mail
steam packets, and consequentiy they will pass much
nearer Ushant. .

This deviation from the assumed berth off that island
will therefore materially affect the sea distances to Fal-
mouth, Plymouth, Dartmouth, and Southampton.
The difference in the distances shown as favourable to
Falmouth and Plymouth, when compared with Dart-
mouth, will in the first case be reduced a moiety, and
in the other nearly to the same extent, while between
Dartmouth and Southampton there will be but a trifl-
ing advantage in favour of the latter port.
All the calculations relating to the transmission of
the mails inland remain as set forth in the Appendix to
which we have now referred.
We have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) JAMES A. GORDON:,
Rear Admiral, Chairman.
RICHARD DREW,
Elder Brother of Trinity House.
THOMAS LAWRENCE,
Asst. Sec. General Post Office.
M. DIXON,
Commander R.N., Secretary.
R. More O'rerrall, Esq., &c. &c.
In the Appendix which accompanies the Report of
the 6th August, there is the following note relative to
her Majesty's mails between England,Vigo, Oporto, &c.
We now beg leave to report, fur the information of their
Lordships, that the merits of the harbour of Dartmouth,
as set forth in our reports of the t;th and 10th instant, have
again influenced our decisions in this more recent exami-
nation ; and we are thereby induced to recommend it as
the best port iu the English Channel for the departure and
arrival of steam vessels employed in the conveyance of her
Majesty's mails between Englund, Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon,
Cadiz and Gibraltar."