The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-02 00:00:00

HIDE MARKET.

Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2 dto P per lb; ditto,
641 b to 721 b, 3d to 3id; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 31c1 to 34d;
ditto, 801 b to 881 b, 4d to 40; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 4id to
sd; ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, 5d to 50; Calf Skins (each),
4s 64 to 6s 6d; Horn Hides, 13s; Shearlings, is 6d to 2s
3d ; and Lamb Skins, is 6d to 2s 6d.
NAT IMAM/CET&
SMITRFIELD.—OId Meadow Hey, Si to 31 15s; New
ditto, 21 8s to 31 8s ; Old Clover, 4/ to 51; New ditto,
31 103 to 41 10s ; and Straw, 11 8s to 11 13s per load.
Supply but moderate, and trade rather firm.
CUMBERLAND —Old Meadow Hay, 31 to Si 16s;
New ditto, 2l lOs to 31 89 ; Old Clover, 41 to 41 16s ;
New ditto, 3/ lOs to 41 8s; and Straw, 11 8s to 1/ 14s
per load. Trade rather dull, at but little alteration in
prices.

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- WHITECHAPEL—OId Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 15: ;
New, ditto, 21 lOs to 31 10s; Old Clover, 41 4: to 51;
New ditto, 3/ 103 to 41 103 ; and Straw, 1/ 13: to 11 13s
per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand.
COAL MARK ET.— FRIDAY.
Adair's Main ......... 16s 3d Belmont l9s Sd
Bate's West Hartley... 17s 6d Braddyll's Hetton
Buddle's W. Hartley 17s 6d Bell
Burnhope Hartley...... 16s 9d Crawford .. ......
Davison'sWeatHartley 17s 6d Haswell 2os 6d
Hasting's Hartley l7: 6d Hetton
Helywell Main ........ 184 8d Lambton
Original Tanfield
Ord's Redheugh
South Peareth
Tanfield Moor .....
West Wylam
Wylam
Wall's End, &c. High Tbornley
Acorn Close
Bewicke and Co l7: 6d North Tees l6s 6d
Burnhops . . 16s 6d North Durham. .....
Heaton
Hilda
Wharncliffe ......
Eden Main l9: 6d Whitworth Ns Ocl
86 arrivals-73 sold.

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BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
John Jackson, a carman, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Jardine, on a charge of knocking down
and running over a man, whose name we did not hear.
It appeared that the prisoner was driving a heavily
loaded cart through Bow-street, and the injured man
was drawing a truck a little in advance of him. The
prisoner overtook and passed the truck, and in doing
so ran against the man and knocked him down. The
man was immediately taken to the hospital, where he
is now lying. He is severely but not dangerously
hurt.

Mr. JARDINE remanded the prisoner till next
Saturday, admitting him to bail in the meantime.

LAMBETH.—(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Cheswick, a town traveller, was charged
before Mr. Norton, with embezzling 41. los. and other
money, the property of Mr. Alexander Blres, of
Buckingham-street, Strand, and also of Dresden,
wholesale stay-maker. The fact that the prisoner
received the sums stated from persons in the stay
trade on account of the prosecutor was proved; but
it appeared that he acted in the capacity of an agent
at a salary of 10s. per week and a commission of
per cent. upon the orders which he obtained having
no authority, however, to receive money, all accounts
being collected by Mr. Blres himself.
Mr. Games, who attended for the prisoner, sub-
mitted that as there was no authority to receive, there
was an end to the charge of embezzlement.
Mr. NORTON said—Certainly so; but it gave rise
to a graver charge. He thought that in the case of
the 4/. 10s. received from a Mrs. Coney, ei" Oxford-
street, there was clearly a fraud. But it was in
favour of the prisoner that there had been account
between him and the prosecutor, and that the latter
would have been satisfied if he had called and given
him an account of his proceedings. He (Mr.
Norton) would remand the case for the attendance of
Mrs. Coney, who was unable to attend through
illness ; but admitted the prisoner to bail in two
sureties in 51. each.
ROBBING COFFEEHOUSES AND HOTELS.--A. man,
who gave his name as John Philip Mon*, was
charged with stealing a quantity of sheets, shirts, and
other property, from numerous coffeehouses and small
hotels, in which he slept.
It appeared that the prisoner was last night found,
under suspicious circumstances, in an empty house in
\Val worth-road, and when taken into custody he tore
up a great number of duplicates, which he took from
his pocket. But Inspector Arnold, of the L
contrived to put some of them together, and dis-
covered that they related all to property taken from
different houses in which the prisoner had lodged from
night to night.
Mrs. Smithers, proprietor of a coffee-house in Cam-
berwell-green, proved that two sheets pawned by the
prisoner, and now produced, were taken from her
house by him on the morning of the 29th September,
he having had a bed there the night before. On the
same occasion he also took away a clean shirt belong.
onein to another lodger, and left in its place a very dirty
ideed.
Other cases of the same kind were gone into, but
as the inspector hoped to find
i the owners of the re-
maining property described n the duplicates, the
prisoner was remanded.

DUTCH CATTLE.—A screw steamer, newly placed
on the station, to run between the Dutch port of Harlin-
he and the British metropolis, has brought 1,205 sheep,
the production of Holland, being the largest quantity
imported on a single occasion from any port of the con-
tinent of Europe, and, necessarily, from any portion of
the globe. Ic.itwithstanding the large number of this
descuiption of cattle, the veBel was not deficient of
other kind of live stock, for she had also on board a
par, 23 calves, 113 cows, 100 ch,,eses, 113 bags of
and the large quantity of 1,295 casks of, butter, oats,
, the
whole the produce of Liolland,

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Ev
. SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. ' I
t,..,,...b..AANT1E535, TASSITTRAICNF;EST,ot ON:FT
NY.) THE MAGAZINES. ' and the nerves shudder. It abounded with dark and FIIASER. THE SWINTON MURDER.
g The most readable paper in tine present number is Edwin Sellars was brought up on Tuesday at Last night Macbeth was represented again at this ( ~1
to and B LACKII' 00D. goblin passages; it was the whirlwind blowing among
" Old Ebonhe month,"-" Kit North again inp, • 7 - g
it entitled " The Praslin Family," and the following the Sheffield Police-court, charged with having, on suburban dramatic temple, by the powerful company
the crags. of the Ju.n,frqu and swarmin with the forms
and cries of the witches of the Walpurees; was Eury- „ 4th `e ' "tee -- l'e,ll maliciously,
-Arrd. the field,"-" Amer Ara new nurnher of Blachzcood,"-as , . ebort sketch of the career of the father of the last the ~., po./..1 .., e nte..y, and with whom Mr. Phelps has gathered under his banner ;
igstou, the piratical placards proclaim upon the walls of every dice travorsincr the corridors of hell i 'it was midnight
over the wilde"rnese, with the clouds drifting before the Duke sufficiently explains the interest which the pre- malice aforethought. killed and murdered one Caleb and never was this great play better set before the eteneisreLDNEDVOE
ENISG.
erara ; city, and in the windows of every print-shop in the moon ;it was a 'hurricane on the deep sea ;it was sent Royal Family of France have manifested for the Barker, of Swinton, labourer. public. Mr. Phelps enacted the sturdy conscience-
York ; son :- Mrs. Elizabeth liarker, the widow of the murdered stricken Thane with almost more than his accustomed -me United States. At least, as they are declared to do everything horrible., wierdlike, and tumultuous. And
trnley,
by one of the merriest and smartest of the correspon- through the very fury of these passages there would " The Duke Choiseul Praslin, father of the last Duke, man, said, that on the 4th of September, her husband, ability. The deep fervid eloquence, and the terrific arOINT-STOCX B-1.273i5.
pondents to the Magazine-see page 430 of this nom- start tones of ravishing and gentle b:auty-the incense early espoused the revolutionary party; and as he sePa- who left home alone between seven and eight o'clock passion and guilty fear of the doomed man, were ex- Dividend Xmount
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iuStry, which he belonged, in the evening, was brought home about eleven o'clock cellently depicted.
bar for October. We break through the regular roue of an adoring heart wafte to the black heavens rated himself from the nobility to Miss Addison is, perhaps, the e ale eof Company. per of Paid. isi,.,
aica. ' Hegave in his adhesion to Buona arte with Alumna. Share.
-Arrd. ' tine:of the articles-on the true Flaccusian principle of through the lightnings atd lamentations of Nineveh. never emigrate,. p several wounds, his head being cut and bruised, best representative of Lady Macbeth on the stage ;
I,ll7,r,g'ng in medi.zs res-for the purpose of calling Again the musician changed the purpose of his im- after the 18. Brumaire. In 1805,. he was named one of and his left ear almost cut off. He died the next throughout she was the stern, passionate, cruel --
x s. d. .I„.' s. d. 1
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Ara-
it the imperial chamberlains; and in 1811, president of the
New attention off-hand to the paper in question. ...maga provisation ; it was no longer dismal and appalling,
His , morning. woman drawn by the poet. Immediately on the en- Australasia •••-• •• •• I 40 0040 0 0 -
Electoral C llof
were, the o ege Seine and Marne. cry then WItS pathetic. The instrument became,. as it.. , Thomas Gore said, that about half-past ten o'clock, trance of Miss Addison, and whilst perusing the le,
Commercialriaoi
of American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 1 44%
iswick. in America -a suggestive title ! a title fragrant ofGrand N 1 i In 18' 3 1 ,London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
of sadness it became eloquent with an inarticulate was, Vice a jamais le apo eon . 1 , it
on the night of the d-fli f' . I'
...... o. -ep.em_er, he was passing high-toned letter from Macbeth, she suddenly fell ecaomain .....- •. 51. par cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
iwick ; the usquebaugh of good Mr. Ambrose-reminiscent organ
it , .
with „„,. . • gave new proofs of devotion, and on 6th January, 1814,
woe • was abreast
enton, of the crutch of King Christopher-commemorative broken' with sorrow a soul dissolving with emotions. was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. On the close by Mr. Barker's potteries, near Swinton, when back in a fainting fit, and was carried off. The cur- fi,on‘dn and Westminstr 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
kshire, of the Ettrick Shepherd and his boon companion of Then the variable harmonies. rose from' • • into
pensiveness 3lst i 1814, when a number of Royalists in the a man walked past. We exchanged a "good night" tain, of course, immediately fell, and Mr. Marston N.,ieentreoepnoenotaiiiiitfe.i.ock ... 61. per cent. .2550
(0) 0 10 0 0 -
•• •• •• - 7 10 0
idland. the Nodes. The article is in truth a delightful gos- frenzy, from frenzy into the noise and the shocks of is Place Louis XV., raised the cries of ' Vivo le Roi, vi- as we passed. When I had gone on a few paces canee forward and sought the indulgence of the audi- Provincialof Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
icotia ; sipping, bantering, egotistical, querrulous, enthusias• great battle ; they swelled to the din of contending vent les Bourbons !' the. answer of the Duke de Praslin, farther a man lying in a ditch, and got him once for a brief while. In about half an hour the National e
a 'No' of Irelandw•• •••
: : :f.. leerr
cceennt..
5100 0 0 10 0 0 -
ope, of tic letter, describing the ruthless manner in which armies, to the storm and vicissitudes of warlike deeds, colonel of the first legion of the National Guard, was out, m he could not stand. John Heely and Wil- performances were resumed, and Miss Addison pro-
Blackwood is reprinted in a sort of fay-simile fashion, and soared at last into a pman such as that of victorious `eNous avons un ordre de choses iitabili !' liam Turner happened to pass at the time, and we ceeded to the end to act with her usual ability. iMr. •
Nat. Provnclal of Eng. Si. per cent. 1100 0 0 35 0 o
Ditto, New.- •• • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
shore ; ,
.
and at an intolerably reduced rate, in the United legions when- e But no sooner was this ordre de choses destroyed, than carried him towards Barker's house, and called for a Marston was an effective Macduff. The other chit- ('Unionnlon
ofof ALuosotia.... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
L0nd0n..... 51• per cent. ,50 0 0 10 0 0 -
: I,i .• M. do Praslin turned round volts face. On the 6th of light. Barker's son came out • h light, with a and re- ratters were well sustained. The scenery is beautiful
[llford, . . States. The fat-simile, or Icon, as the writer, in a " Gaily to glory they come,
April, six days afterwards, he gave in his adhesion to all
red in - facetious spirit of classicality calls it, is produced at Like a king in his pomp, cognised the man as his father. We carried him into in the extreme. The theatre was filled ; and it would CANALS.
the acts of the Senate, which pronounced the downfal of
To the blast of the tromp, the house. He
e appeared sensible, but did not speak. seem that the oftener the great play is represented, as
New York, with established agencies at Boston, Phi- Napoleon, whom, in Louis-Phillipian phrase, he calledle !
And the roar of the mighty drum!" He was much cut and bruised, and looked as if he had written by the great poet, the greater crowds does it Names of 2 Dividend „,. Names of 6 Dividend'
aizeati ladelphia, Baltimore, Savannah, New Orleans, and P ordre de choses-acts too, which recalled the Bourbons Companies. 2 per ''''''' Companies. ti per Price.
Paris ; with puffs, headed by such exclamatorythe instrument
As the triumphant tones of rolled up
by name. Not content with these demonstrations, which been knocked down. draw towards Sadler's. Wells. ee Annum. ~2, Alumnae
i went sentences as those quoted at the beginning of this and filled the apartment with a torrent -. '
from its recesses, . . .
somewhat surprised royalty, he placarded the walls of John Heely said-I am a potter. I lodged with - -
x
Pratt, column ; with travelling agents dispatched a thousand of majestic sounds, as the musician swayed to and fro in
Paris with a proposal for a statue of Henry IV., in which, Barker, and continue to lodge with his widow. This POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Ashtn& Oldh 97 5/.55. p c 70 Monmouthsh 100 10/ ,
with-the enthusiasm of his sublime inspirations, and enhanced .
inland to lowa and Wisconsin ; and spreading ..• • amidst other fustian and fanfaronade, were these words: witness corroborated the statement of the previous We yesterday had the pleasure of hearing, at the Ashby-d-la-Z 113 4/. i - Itintge 'sir 100 Al.' -
milesthe divine syrnphony by the crash of many thrilling and , . ! -
southwards from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to abrupt discordi, the Rosierucian gaztid with awe upon _ Oui, sublime Henri, c'est poi ce sont les traits ch6ris witness. He had also meta man coming from where Polytechnic Institution, a most instructive, yet pleas- Beawriniigsizo.k.e.... lgoo 121. 180 Macclesfield. 100 - , 1.5
haven, the deltas of the Mississippi, with a prospect of ad- ' •of his t The •
the
responsive grandeur - qui doivent charmer nos regards. La statue de notre the body was found, but he did not think he could ing, lecture, by Dr. Bachhoffner, on the Physical Brkiik&Abrg 150 5/. 8-5- .leath •.
Nottingham.... (5)(()) f2l. 1 340
h yes-bon Henri va nous titre rendu: bon Henri, nous revere recognise him a • . gain. Effects of a Jet of Steam. The learned gentleman, eromeora..•• 100 147
-.- Peak Forest. 78 31. 40
vancing Mexico-wards to, halls-not of Balclutha, petus of his superb imagination imparted an into'-Du*iley lOO 47
rend)" cons ton •mage; elle nous dna etc. Some further evidence was given in proof of the avoiding the beaten tracts of former - - Regent's .... 33 11. 4s. 20
but of the Montezumas. A more powerful argument ceivable dignity to every lineament, to his capacious rmer lecturers, con- Derby .•• - 100 6/• 63 Roohdale...• 85 41. 54
29th of the'
month, the Duke was admitted to •
On the - fined himself on this occasion principally to the sill ensmreeechs 133 4/. 54 Shropshire.. 125 81. -
Werke in favour of an international copyright has not re- forehead, to his broad and distended nostrils, to the
the presence of Charles Y. then Monsieur, with a fug- field, at the Swinton E.7ewash ••• 100 321. _
station, at eight o'clock on the ployment of steam as an agent in ventilation. TheSomrset Coal 150 71.105. 130
Forth & CI
yd 100 4/. - Do.LkEdSt 12 61. p. c
tirway cently appeared than
.this same paper of " Maga in fierce protrusion of his under-lip, to the mobile and
some address. On the 4th June he was created a peer
of
America." It may console the publishers of Black- generous expression of his mouth, to the tawny yellow
But on the followingwhen , .
year, le petit coporal' Doctor stated that considerable interest had been GrandJunom 100 6/. so Stffrd&Worc,l4o 281. • 275
mtivy, wood with the knovvledge that Maga is the only one of his complexion, to the brown depths of his noble and
appeared, id not
his
to rejoin his banner, and Inspector Attwood said he took ',,the prisoner into excited recently by the fact of the House of Lords t.rand Mll°lllloo 11. 10s. 213., Shrewsbury.. 125 151. -
'lamorgnsh. 172 13%1. - Stourbrld e . 145 201.
Lndere of the monthlies deemed of such importance and po- dilated eyes. T hhere was something in unison with the
was made hone of his peers. Such flagrant conduct as custody on the 15th upon another charge of burglary. being ventilated by steam ; and therefore he should tt:listr&Brltly MO - Strtn•dongA; 79 1/. lOs 305
glorious sounds t at reverberated through the chamber,
polarity as to be copied in fee-simile-that the oldthis was unpardonable, and by an ordonnance of Louis The trousers he had on were stained with blood, endeavour to show that water, in its expanded state, Grantham - Severs and} •
elvina, familiar portrait of Geordy Buchanan, encircled with even in the enormous contour .
of his head and the gray >
XVII of the 25th of July, isos m. de Choiseul-Praslin A surgeon deposed to the nature of the injuries could, by displacing large volumes of air, contribut teLunanetersmuld. 579
7s. -6d. -
5 Rye Rail.
26 11. Bs. 30
ee Trnt & Mr- 7
Lynet, its frame-work of thistle, is discoverable in all quar- .disorder of his hair. He seemed to exult in the torrent ' "
ceased to form a portion of the ahamber of Peers. From Barker had received. to a purpose so desirable as that of renewing the Lancaster 47 1/. 10s. - say .... j5O 301. -
, New d it gushed •of 'melody y as
that period, the Duke, whether in or out of France, The prisoner was committed for trial upon the atmosphere of crowded buildings. It is not in Leeds& Livrp 100 341. 505 Thams &Med 19 - -
tars and among all classes of North America, in the upon the dusk of the evening While Ca liostro was OUT Leicester 140 01 5 Worcstr &7 st thisbecame a Frondeur ; and, as an ostentatious dinner- charge of committing two burglaries, but Mr. OVER- power to follow the Doctor through the historical Lei •••••
• • 5 78 21. 4134
wigwams of the Redskins, among the natives of the listening in an ecstasy of admiration, he was startled bestr &Nth 83 41. 36 Birming.
t bow- Y •
giver and patron of newspaper riters, he was not w
Duke •
bay of Massachussets and the immigrants of the a sudden clangour among the bass•notes-the musicEND, who presided, said there was not sufficient evie details of his exordium-suffice it to say, that he dig- Loughborogh 142 701. ' 530 WUtsak Brks, 67 11. II
.un on out influence in Paris in directing attention to the dente to commit him on the charge of murder. tinctly proved that the plan of ventilating by steam
s dia.. Oregon, on the table of the schoolmaster, in the seemed to be jumbled into confusion, and the ear was
of Orleans, no Louis Philippe. Hence the intimacy DOCKS.
desk of the schoolboy, in the barracks of Jefferson- stunned by a painful and intolerable dissonance. On Praslin. The was not of a date so recent as many imagined, but
between. the families of Orleans and ATTEMPT TO POISON. was brought before the world in the year 1794. To I Dividend Amount
vine, and the public libraries of Washington, in the looking more intently, he perceived that the composer
Prasl ns were doing the work of the youngest branch of
ir.) villas bordering the Hudson, and among the most had let one hand fall abstractedly upon the key-board,
the Lurie family
Bourbons; and that good father of a who Yesterday morning great excitement prevailed in show the displacement of air by steam, Dr. Bach- Name of Company. per
Annum. Share.
of Paid. , Price.
secluded planters in the Carolinas ; but it must afford while the other executed, by itself, a passage of extra- n .
now reigns and governs in France has always been the the vicinity of Oakley-street, Lambeth, in conse- hoffner produced a most complete set of mechanical
ordinary difficulty and involution. Then, for the first
, s. d. X s. d.
to 2s; sufficient cause for arousing their indignation by telling
time, the thought struck him that the musician was deaf. man to be intimate with any one, no matter how indiffe- quence of an attempt to poison the family of Mr. apparatus, and, aided by the enormous hydro-machine .
Commercial .... ••.• • 3/. per cent. I Stock. I - , -
os for them how Messrs. Bathyllus Reprint, and Co., of Ale. ! thn cimrtngitinn wsic tun frna • Roathnvan crag his
rent or her character, who can do him an honest William Cooper, an engineer, Mary's-place, Isabella- of the institution, produced some most magnificent East and West 'lndia __ 51 nr rout 1 Rt,,,,ir I _ I in.,/
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153 ;
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" Old Ebony for the month,"—" Kit North again in
the field,"—" A racy new number of Blachuoed,"—as
the piratical placards proclaim upon the walls of every
city, and in the windows of every print-shop in the
United States. At least, as they are declared to do
by one of the merriest and smartest of the correspon-
pondents to the Mazazine—see page 430 of this num-
ber for October. We break through th:. regular rou-
tine:of the articles—on the true Flaccusian principle of
pll7-g'ng medizs ;es—for the purpose of calling
attention off-hand to the paper in question. " Maga
in America"—a suggestive title ! a title fragrant of
the usquebaugh of good Mr. Ambrose—reminiscent
of the crutch of King Christopher—commemorative
of the Ettrick Shepherd and his boon companion of
the Nodes. The article is in truth a delightful gos-
sipping, bantering, egotistical, querrulous, enthusias•
tic letter, describing the ruthless manner in which
Blackwood is reprinted in a sort of fac-simile fashion,
and at an intolerably reduced rate, in the United
States. The fac-simile, or Icon, as the writer, in a
facetious spirit of classicality calls it, is produced at
New York, with established agencies at Boston, Phi-
ladelphia, Baltimore, Savannah, New Orleans, and
Paris ; with puffs, headed by such exclamatory
sentences as those quoted at the beginning of this
column ; with travelling agents dispatched a thousand
miles inland to lowa and Wisconsin ; and spreading
southwards from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to
the deltas of the Mississippi, with a prospect of ad-
vancing Mexico-wards to, the halls—not of Balclutha,
but of the Montezumas. A more powerful argument
in favour of an international copyright has not re-
cently appeared than this same paper of " Maga in
America." It may console the publishers of Black-
wood with the knowledge that Maga is the only one
of the monthlies deemed of such importance and po-
pularity as to be copied in fac-simile—that the old
familiar portrait of Geordy Buchanan, encircled with
its frame-work of thistle, is discoverable in all quar-
ters and among all classes of North America, in the
wigwams of the Redskins, among the natives of the
bay of Massachussets and the immigrants of the
Oregon, on the table of the schoolmaster, in the
desk of the schoolboy, in the barracks of Jefferson-
ville, and the public libraries of Washington, in the
villas bordering the Hudson, and among the most
secluded planters in the Carolinas ; but it must afford
sufficient cause for arousing their indignation by telling
them how Messrs. Bathyllus Reprint, and Co., of
New York, carry off so vast a share of the profits
without partaking in the labour or the responsibility.
Putting the profit out of the question—there is the
glory, and that is not so contemptible. Listen to
the correspondent from America :•
" I can pardon Mr. Blackwood should his temper be
a little ruffled, when he compares his trouble and re-
sponsibility, and limited sale, with the sans souci and
universal market of Reprint and Co.; but surely, old
Christopher North should smile with inward satisfaction
when, not by cannon or carnage, but as the result of a
greatness thrust upon him, he finds his empire, like her
Majesty's, the girdle of the earth, and his sovereignty
recognised, in the world of letters, where hers can claim
no subjects, and demand no homage. That crutch is
now the sceptre of bookdom. Its shadow stretcheth over
all lands, whether the dawn project it athwart the broad
Atlantic, or the Boreal light send it overland to farthest
India. Who reads not Maga ? You shall find the
sniutched lieutenant turning over its pages by the camp.
ire, after a terrible scratch with the Seikhs; and within
the same twenty-tour hours you may fairly surmise that
some green mountain volunteer, on the wrong side of
the Rio Grande, has lighted a pine knot, and is reading
one of the Marlborough articles to bis mess, with ex-
temporary paraleltisms in favour of General Taylor,
which the shade of the great Churchill must not venture
to overhear. Swinging in his hammock, the midship-
man holds Blackwood to the smoky lamp of the orlop,
as he plunges and pitches around Cane Horn. Lounging
in his state-room, and bound for Hong-Kong, the sea-
sick passenger corrects his nausea with the same spicy
page, and bewitched with the flavour, forgets to sigh for
Madeira, which he has passed, or to look out for Sr.
Helena, which is somewhere on his lee. It keeps the
old Admiral from the deck as his keel scrapes the coral-
reefs of the South Pacific; and a stale back number, from
the bottom of a seaman's chest, is purchased as a prize,
by him who cruises among seals, icebergs, and sper-
,taaeeti whales.

Ws jam locus, inquit, Achate,
Qum regio in terris nostri non plena laboris
"Yes—who reads not Maga ? The flayed Radical
of Parliament—the rasped Balaamite of Congress—the
spanked Cockney of an author—the jaundiced editor of
some new no-go periodical—even these must cut the
leaves of each new number, if they die for it, or if their
only reward be to find their own sweet selves hung up
in its pages, like sham Socrates in his basket, but not
looking on like live Socrates with philosophic com-
posure. And if they whimper, who will sympathise ?
Like the Shepherd at Awmrose's, the testy public may
now and then rebel, and rail for a season at the cawm,
cauld, clear, glittPrin' cruelty in the expression of his
eon,'—but who can keep up a quarrel with North ?
Again, like the Shepherd, they relapse into a broad
good humour, and, before they know it, are drinking
with all the honours, ' Long live King Christopher
So then, in spite of Cockneys, Chartists, coxcombs,
rebels, radicals, and rascally reformers, yea, and the
whole alphabetical list of what is Whiggish, vulgar, and
vexatious—

Maga still sitteth on Edina's crags,
And•from her throne of beauty rules the world 1' "
What a delightful piece of deserved ar►d conscien-
tious egotism! Even to us " Radicals and rascally
Reformers," the cry is some what contagious, " Long
live King Christopher !" The number, of which
this epistle from the western shores of the Atlantic is
a portion, opens with a very agreeable and genial
criticism upon the works and character of Hans
Christian Andersen—the most child-like genius of
the age. Although the critic observes that the writ-
ings of Andersen are entirely without " traces of
the higher operations of the intellect, of deep or
subtle thought, of analytic power, or of ratiocina-
tion of any kind," the review is eulogistic, and its
commendations are as generously toned as they are
well merited. No autobiography certainly ever
tended so much to propitiate its readers, and to dis-
arm ridicule as that of the ill-educated son of a poor
shoemaker of Odense, in the little Danish island of
Funen. Hans Christian, it must be remembered, set
out from his native place to seek his fortune in Co-
penhagen, with thirteen rix dollars banco (thirty
shillings) in his pocket, and with only one dreamy
notion as to the manner of acquiring celebrity, namely
that " People suffer a great deal of adversity, and
then they become famous." Hans Christian Andersen
has become famous in spite of everything—he has
gone through a great deal of adversity and become
famous—and with such marvellous rapidity that,
although he was born in 1805, and commenced his
education in the bottom class among the little boys
when he had attained his eighteenth year, he has in his
time spent his evenings with the Royal Family of
Denmark, dined with the King of Prussia (who has
decorated him with the order of the Red Eagle), and
during his recent visit to England received an especial
invitation to Osborne House, and subsequently to the
Highland residence of her Majesty, from the illus-
trious Prince, the Consort of Queen Victoria. Ho-
nour to the Danish poet—the son of the poor shoe-
maker. Blackwood has discerned the true bent of
the genius •f Andersen in observing that his tales for
children will gain him " an immortality in the nursery
--not the worst immortality a man can win !" The
second article in old Ebony for October is a paper
entitled "The Vision of Cagliostro." We will not
analyse the construction of the paper, as we are soli-
citous that the majority should read it for themselves,
and we are so solicitous, because it is 'calculated to
render the reader happier if he read it rightly. The
Vision might have been called a tale of the five senses
—for, under the symbol of a dream, it proclaims a
new and glorious truth, that earthly happiness is at-
tainable through the virtuous use of our five senses !
The vision itself is beheld by Count Cagliostro, the
Rosicrucian, and illustrates the morale of the story
in the persons of Tiberius, Agrippa, Milton, Mira
beau, and Beethoven. As a specimen of the compo-
sition and (character of this contribution, we trans-
cribe thefragment of the Vision relating to Beethoven :

"When the reproachful accents ceased, Balsamo felt
his feet once more pressing the earth, and the breezes
rustling against his domino. He was wandering in the
garden of what is termed the Schwarzpanier House,
situated on a slope or glacis in the outskirts of Wahring.
The evening was so far advanced, that candles already
twinkled from the upper windows of the building, while
the fires of the kitchens checkered the shrubs and gravel
with patches of glaring light. Through the flower-
beds, and along the intricate paths of the shrubbery,
the Alchemist strolled at a languid pace, musing upon
the things he had already witnessed, when his vigi-
lant ears caught the tones of a musical instrument.
Although it was scarcely audible from the distance,
Cagliostro was struck by the extreme beauty and
espit)glerie of the performance. He hurried forward in
the direction from which the sounds proceeded, and at
each step they became more distinguishable and be-
witching. After a momentary feeling of indecision
when he reached the walls of the Schwarzpanier, the
Alchemist ascended a flight of steps, and passed through
the open casement of a French window into a modest
sitting-room. The musician whose skill had attracted
him was seated in the gray
twilight at a piano.
Cagliostro scarcely noticed that he was a man of short
stature but of muscular proportions; he scarcely re-
m:asked, indeed, either the apartment or its occupant;
his ohole consciousness was absorbed in the melody that
stream,°4 from the instrument.
"At fi.'st, the fingers of the player seemed to frolic
over the keys; as though they toyed with the vibrations
of the strings. The sounds were sportive and jocund ;
they rippled like laughter; they were capricious as the
merriment of a coquette. Then they merged into a
sweet and warbling cadence—a cadence of inimitable
tenderness, the very ti u avi ty of which was rendered
more piquant by its lavish variations. The measure
changed, with an abrupt fling of the treble hand ; it
gushed into an air quaint and sprightly as the dance of
Puck—comic—odd—sparkling on the ear like zig- zags :
Jt threw out a shower of notes; it was the voice of agility
semi merriment; it was grotesque and fitful, droll in its
absurd confusion, and yet nimble in its amazing inge-
nuity. Gradually, however, the humorous movement re-
isolved itself into a strain of preternatural wildness—a
gitealia that oade the blind curdle, and the flesh creep,

As the triumphant tones of the instrument rolled up
from its recesses, and filled the apartment with a torrent
of majestic sounds, as the musician swayed to and fro in
the enthusiasm of his sublime inspirations, and enhanced
the divine symphony by the crash of many thrilling and
abrupt discords, the Rosierucian gaztid with awe upon
the responsive grandeur of his countenance. The im-
petus of his superb imagination imparted an incon-
ceivable dignity to every lineament, to his capacious
forehead, to his broad and distended nostrils, to the
fierce protrusion of his under-lip, to the mobile and
generous expression of his mouth, to the tawny yellow
of his complexion, to the brown depths of his noble and
dilated eyes. There was something in unison with the
glorious sounds that reverberated through the chamber,
even in the enormous contour of his head and the gray
disorder of his hair. He seemed to exult in the torrent
of melody as it gushed from the piano and streamed out
upon the dusk of the evening. While Cagliostro was
listening in an ecstasy of admiration, he was startled by
a sudden clangour among the bass•notes—the music
seemed to be jumbled into confusion, and the ear was
stunned by a painful and intolerable dissonance. On
looking more intently, he perceived that the composer
had let one hand fall abstractedly upon the key-board,
while the other executed, by itself, a passage of extra-
ordinary difficulty and involution. Then, for the first
time, the thought struck him that the musician was deaf.
Alas ! the supposition was too true : Beethoven was
cursed with the loss of his most precious faculty. Those
who appreciate the full splendour of his gigantic genius,
those who conceive, with a distinguished composer now
living, that Beethoven began where Haydn and Mozart
left off;' those who coincide with an eminent critic, in
saying that the discords of Beethoven are better than
the harmonies of all other musicians;' those, in fine,
who worship his memory with the devotion inspired by,
his compositions, can sympathise in that terrible depri-
vation of the powers of bearing, by which his art was
rendered a blank, and the latter years of his life were
embittered. They will remember with gratitude the
joys they have derived from the effusions of his fruitful
intellect; they will call to their recollection the joyous
chorus_ of the prisoners in Fidelio,—the sublime
and adoring hymn of the Alleluia' in The Mount of
Olives,—the matchless pomp of the Sinfonia Eroica,—
the passionate beauty of the sentiment of Adelaide,—the
aerial grace of his quartetts and waltzes,—the thrilling
and almost awful pathos of the dirge written for six
trombones,—but, above all, they will recal to mind the
noblest work ever conceived and perfected by composer,
one of the greatest achievements of the human mind,
the Mass in D. And, bearing these wonders in their
memory, their hearts will ache for the doom of Ludwig
Von Beethoven. None of these things, however, being
known to the Rosicri cian, his sympathies were aroused
solely by what he himself had heard and witnessed. Still
that was more than enough to fill his whole soul with
commiseration, especially as the sounds again burst in
bewitching concert from the instrument, and a new
inspiration lit up the visage of the musician. Cagliostro
found himself, with profound sorrow. returning into the
silent darkness, and the solemn Voice stealing, for the
last time, into his brain."
We commend the " Vision of Cagliostro"' to the
perusal of the million : its moral should be stamped
upon our hearts—" Earthly happiness is attainable
through the virtuous use qf our five senses l" The
recently published " Memoirs of Viscountess Sandon"
have suggested to Blackwood a charming conver-
sational chapter about " The Times of George II."
" Art in the Early Christian Ages" is a critical dis-
sertation founded on the celebrated work of Professor
Gottfried Kinkel. " The Portrait," being a tale
abridged from the Russian of GOgol, by Thomas B.
Shaw, is a literary curiosity for which the readers of
Maga will be grateful. " Hounds and Horses at
Rome" is a smart contribution, telling all about the
state of the sporting world in the Eternal City, and
certainly proving, as the exordium indicates, that
Englishmen do not do at Rome as the Romans do.
Delta indites a graceful song on the Earl of Dal-
housie's departure to India as Governor-General.
"My Friend the Dutchman" closes the number so
pleasantly that we are fain to quote once more the
broadsides upon the walls of New York, " A racy
new number of Blackwood," and to exclaim again
with the correspondent from America—" Long live
King Christopher !"

job in France, in Spain, or any pall of the world. Wit-
ness Sophie Dawes, Madame de Foucheres, Munoz, Duke
of Rianzares, and Gonlazes Brabo of infamous repute."

`On the subject of the "privilege" of suicide, as the
National calls it, supposed to have been accorded to
the Duke of Praslin by the authorities, the writer of
this paper says—
" The French people have been stigmatised by a writer
in a daily paper, who evidently knows nothing of France,
for being suspicious of the intentions of the French
Government, and unjust to men in power, in reference to
the Duke de Praslin. But French men and French
women well know that in the case of the President
d'Entrecasteaux, a young man of a distinguished family
of the robe, a president of the parliament of Aix, and
who murdered his wife with circumstances of peculiar
atrocity, that the Government ostensibly demanded the
delivery of the culprit wherever he might be found. Ile
was detected and secured at Lisbon, when a private
letter to the French Minister desired his release, and
permitted his escape from further punishment.
" The Duke de Praslin and the members of his house
were, and Marshal Sebastiani is, in possession of many
secrets i❑ reference to the house of Orleans ; and it was
because some of the people of France were aware of this
that the wicked thought came into their heads that the
best of republics' might desire the release and permit
the escape of the vilest murderer that has ever appeared
in France."

The author of " Literary Legislators" gives up a
group of Parliamentary oddities, consisting of Col.
Sibthorp, Mr. Muntz, Mr. P. Borthwick, Mr.
Blewitt, and Mr. John Collett; and Sam Slick con-
tinues his " Old Judge ;or Life in a Colony." These
are the best papers in this month's Fraser. The
opening paper, on " Free Church Sites," is in many
respects most objectionable. The wriber enters not
at all into the discussion of the question raised
by the title of his paper, but takes advantage of the
publication of the evidence recently taken before the
Parliamentary Committee on the subject, to indulge in
an attack upon the character of the late Dr. Chalmers,
an attack which is characterised by virulence without
power, and which is as void of wit or argument as it
is of good taste and good feeling. Had Chalmers been
alive, this miserable effusion of bigoted malevolence
would never have been published ; but the lion is
dead, and therefore the hoof is lifted. The paper on
" Gathe and his Critics" is dreary, albeit the subject
is a good one; and " The First of October" is a poor
attempt at an imitation of Christopher North—
spiritless and vapid as flat soda water. The
article on the "Carlovingian Romances of the Middle
Ages" is good ; and there is pleasant musical gossip
in " Some Words about Music and the Modern Opera ;

but, taken as a whole, the present number of Fraser
is not equal to its predecessors.

CIVIL AND MERCANTILE JOURNAL. No. I.

Edited by James Irving Scott.
This is the first number of a new monthly journal,
which is intended to be the organ of all employed in
the civil service of the State at home or abroad, and
in the great mercantile pursuits of this country,
whether in connexion with banking, wholesale or
retail houses, railways, or law. The idea is an ex-
cellent one, and if properly carried out, which from
the experience of Mr. Scott in conducting works of
this nature there is every reason to expect it will be,
success is certain, inasmuch as this journal will, in
such case, supply an acknowledged want.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
KELSO RACES—THURSDAY.
The Kelso Club Cup of 100 sovs., added to a Sweep-
stakes of 10 sovs. each, for three yrs old, &c. The
second to receive 25 sovs. out of the stakes. Once
round and adis. Gentlemen riders.

Mr. Merry's Marian Ramsay, 5 yrs ... 1
Mr. Dawson's Magnet, 5 yrs 2
Mr. W. 11. Johnstone's Roper's Daughter, aged ... 3
501. given by Sir H H. Campbell, for three yrs old, &c.
Once rcund and a dis.

Mr. Merry's John Harris, 5 yrs -(61. Robertson) 1
Mr. Johnstone's Hornet, 3 yrs 2
The Kelso Plate of 501., for three yrs old, &c. Heats.
Once round—about a mile and a quarter.
Mr. Binnie's Titus Oates,4yrs (Holloway) 5 5 1 1
Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Roper's Daughter 3 1 5 3
Mr. Dawson's Magnet, 5 yrs ... 1 3 3 4
Mr. Meiklam's Susannah, 3 yrs ... 4 6 2 2
Mr. Dawson's Pleasure Trip, 4 yrs ... 2 4 4dr
Mr. Merry's Badinage, 5 yrs ... 6 2dr
LINCOLN RACES, FRIDAY.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats, two miles.
Mr. Bell's Amakina, 3 yrs ... ... (Owner) 1 1
Mr. E. Peck's Sally Maggs, 3 yrs 2 2
Mr. Brooks's Luminous, 3 yrs ••• 3dr
The Blankney Stakes of 10 sous. each, and 10 added,
for two-year-old colts Sat 51b, and fillies Bst 21b, &c.;
half a mile.
Mr. Hawkes's Miss Harrison ... (Holmes) 1
Mr. B. Eddison's bc by Hetman Platoff, Bst 5113 ... 2
The Selling Stakes of 5 soya. each, and 20 added. Once
round.

Yesterday morning great excitement prevailed in
the vicinity of Oakley-street, Lambeth, in conse-
quence of an attempt to poison the family of Mr.
William Cooper, an engineer, Mary's-place, Isabella-
street, Lambeth.

Mr. Cooper, his wife, and four children, have been
for a considerable period annoyed by the visits of a
female acquaintance. For several weeks Mr. Cooper
had forbidden her to come to his house, which fact
gave the woman (Watson) much offence. However,
she yesterday paid a visit to Mr. Cooper's residence
during his absence, Mrs. Cooper likewise being from
home at the time. She entered the front room, where
she sat down in presence of Mr. Cooper's children, and
after a few minutes had elapsed the elder girl detected
her placing something white in a large pitcher of broth
which happened to be on the sideboard, but which cir-
cumstance at the time did not cause any suspicion.
The woman subsequently left the house, bidding the
children "good day. Shortly afterwards Mrs. Cooper
returned and commenced preparations for dinner,
placing the said broth in a saucepan to warm up for
the children's dinner, which they afterwards partook
of rather heartily, the whole of them remarking as
to its strange and salt taste. A brief space of time
after they had partaken of the broth the whole of the
children were seized with violent vomiting, and upon
searching the bottom of that which remained in the
saucepan, a white substance which had a glassy ap-
pearance was found. A surgeon was called in, who
immediately upon examination, pronounced the child-
ren to be suffering from the effects of oxalic acid.
The stomach-pump was at once brought into active
requisition, and the whole of them were as speedily
as possibly relieved of the poison although two of
them are in a very precarious condition from the ac-
tion of the deadly mineral.
. . _ _ _

The mother and the two elder children were out of
danger, but the youngest are still in a great state of
suffering from the effects of the poison.
A paper labelled "oxalic acid poison " has since
been found in the room, which leaves no doubt as to
the nature of the poison.

EAST SURREY REGISTRATION.
Summary of Results of this year's proceedings of the
East Surrey Free-Trade Qualification and Registra-
tion Society:—

BERMONDSEL—CIaims made, 80; failed, 2; sustained,
78. Objections made, 104; withdrawn, 10; sustained,
but claims amended, 28; sustained, and claims ex-
punged, 66.

CAMIIERWELL.—CIaims made, 50; failed, 4; sustained,
46. Objections made, 90; withdrawn, 4; failed, 1; sus-
tained, but claims amended, 41; sustained, and claims
expunged, 44.
CROYDON.—CIaims made, 94; failed, 1; sustained, 93.
Objections made, 87; withdrawn, l l ;;failed, 3; sustained,
but claims) amended, 26 ; sustained, and claims ex-
punged, 47.

KENNINGTON.—CIaims made, 51; failed, 6; sustained,
45. Objections made, 109; withdrawn, 9; failed 1; sus-
tained, but claims amended, 20; sustained, and claims
expunged, 79.
KINGSTON.—CIaims made, 16; sustained, 16. Objec-
tions made, 68; withdrawn, 6; failed, 2; sustained, but
claims amended, 7; sustained, and claims expunged, 53.
REIGATE.—CIaims made, 26; failed, 1; sustained, 25.
Objections made, 66; withdrawn, 9; failed, 3; sustained,
but claims amended, 23; sustained, and claims ex-
punged, 31.
WANDSWORTH.—CIaims made, 32; sustained, 32. Ob-
jections made, 96; withdrawn, 11; failed, 2; sustained,
but claims amended, 28; sustained, and claims ex-
punged, 55.
Total claims made, 349; failed, 14; sustained, 335.
Total objections made, 620; withdrawn, 60; failed,
12; sustained, but claims amended, 173; sustained, and
claims expunged, 375.

Mr. Hayes's ch f by Hetman
.Platoff, out of Ma-
cremma, 3 yrs (Gunton) 1
Mr. Wilder's Spew Gregis, 3 yrs 2
Mr. Whitworth's Chapeau Rouge, 3 yrs ... 3
The All Aged Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 20 added.
One mile.

Mr. Brooks' Luminous, 3 yrs
Mr. S. Hawks's Miss Harrison, 2 yrs ... ..• (Simpson)
2 ..
_ ..3

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 25th day of September, 1847.
ISSUE DTPASTKENT.
X.
Notes issued.... • . • . 22,190,875

Government debt • • 11,015,100
Other securities •• • • 2,984.900
Gold coin and bullion 7,185,845
Silver bullion ••• • • • 1,00,030

Mr. Wilder's Lucy Neal, 4 yrs 3
The Hurdle Stakes of 5 sots. each, and 20 added. Heats,

£22,190,875

Dated the 30th day of September

X 22,190,875
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
;r, 1847.

'AITMEN T.

2 miles.
Mr. Walters' Cavendish, aged
Mr. Davy's Sister to Dapper, 4 years
Mr. Gibson's King of the Slacks, aged ...
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.— FRIDAY.
CESAREWITCII STAKES.-10 to 1 agst Rob Roy (t),
10 to 1 agst Reminiscence, (t), 15 to 1 agst Ulysses (t),
15 to 1 agst War Eagle, 20 to 1 agst Lady Wildair,
20 to 1 agst The Tartar, 20 to 1 agst Miss Whip filly,
20 to 1 agst Tuft-hunter, 20 to 1 agst Vanity, 25 to 1
agst Bingham, 25 to 1 agst Inheritress, and 25 to 1 agst
Lightning.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STARES.-10 to 1 agst The Prior
of St. Margaret's (t) 15 to 1 agst Reminiscence (t),
18 to 1 agst Rob Roy (t), 25 to 1 agst Queen May (0.

(Mr. Scott) 1 1
2 2
3 3

Government securl- —.
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity)• • 11,06,340
Other securities •• • • 20,007,232
Notes .. .••••• • • • • • • 4,112,290
Gold and silver coin• • 591,828

The King of the French has decided upon placing
the portrait of M. Coletti in the gallery of the celebrated
men of Europe in the museum at Versailles.
THE MERCANTILE CRISIS.—The Leeds Mercury
of this day says p—From the communication of our
Manchester Correspondent, it appears that the failures
in London and elsewhere have produced a very serious
effect on credit in that city (for Manchester is now a
city), and the stoppage of several eminent houses, in
addition to those mentioned early in the week. Among
those specified are Messrs. Birley, Corrie, and Co., East
India merchants and brokers ; Messrs. Edward Potter
and Co., twist merchants ; and Messrs. Wilson and
Ebor, general merchants. Further mischief is appre-
he❑ded, and the panic is described by our correspondent
(who has had long experience of the Manchester trade)
as exceeding anything he has known for thirty years.
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—The ordinary
meeting of this society was held last evening at the
Society's Rooms, 20, Bedford-street, Strand, Dr. Ayres
in the chair. It was announced that several very valuable
parcels of plants had been received since the last meeting.
A notice was read of the discovery of Zostera nuna (a
new British plant). A specimen was presented.
BURSTING OF A BOILER AT TIVIDALE.—TWO MEN
KILLED.—On Monday last an inquest was commenced
at the house of Mr. Timmins, the Boat Inn, Tividale,
before George Hinchcliffe, Esq., Coroner, and a respect-
able jury, on the bodies of two mechanics, named George
Carter and William Mow. It appears, that on the pre-
ceding day the deceased were at work on or near the
boiler, when it exploded, and they received such serious
injury as to cause death shortly afterwards.—Birniing-
hum Advertiser.

A St. Petersburgh letter states that the amount in
value of the corn exported from Russia since the
last harvest is 32,891,622 roubles, equalling about
132,000,000 f.

We yesterday had the pleasure of hearing, at the
Polytechnic Institution, a most instructive, yet pleas-
ing, lecture, by Dr. Bachhoffner, on the Physical
Effects of a Jet of Steam. The learned gentleman,
avoiding the beaten tracts of former lecturers, con-
fined himself on this occasion principally to the em-
ployment of steam as an agent in ventilation. The
Doctor stated that considerable interest had been
excited recently by the fact of the House of Lords
being ventilated by steam ; and therefore he should
endeavour to show that water, in its expanded state,
could, by displacing large volumes of air, contribute
to a purpose so desirable as that of renewing the
atmosphere of crowded buildings. It is not in our
power to follow the Doctor through the historical
details of his exordium—suffice it to say, that he dis-
tinctly proved that the plan of ventilating by steam
was not of a date so recent as many imagined, but
was brought before the world in the year 1794. To
show the displacement of air by steam, Dr. Bach-
hoffner produced a most complete set of mechanical
apparatus, and, aided by the enormous hydro-machine
of the institution, produced some most magnificent
effects. Among other results we saw solid bodies,
such as paper, eggs, &c., drawn with immense velocity
through a tube, into the upper part of which a jet of
steam was allowed to pass; while pieces of paste •
board and tin were, by the force of the external air,
brought into such close contact with the orifice, that
considerable force was required for their removal.
Our impression was certainly much in favour of the
economy and feasibility of the plan. In introducing
this subject, we ought to mention that the Professor
entered very carefully and yet simply into the law of
fluids, whether gaseous or liquid, and thus prepared
the minds of his audience for the full appreciation of
his succeeding experiments. As a whole, we pro-
nounce the lecture a masterpiece of sound, yet popular,
philosophical instruction.

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Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
Phcenix - - 185
Protector Life.... • -5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 3s.
Provident Life - .... • • 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Rock Life..
Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - 181
fun Fire • ........ - - - -
Ditto Life 11. 6s. - - -
Victoria Life . - - 4 0 0 -
LIST OP SCOTTIS3I COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price.
Annum. Share.
-- -
£ a. d. £ a.
Bank of Scotland - 100 0 167
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 150
British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 200
Commercial Bank - 100 0 162
National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 13%
Union Bank of Scotland NI. pr sent. - 50 0 88
Western Bank.. ••• • • • 61. per cent. - 50 0 81
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 6%
Clydesdale Bank.. •. • • 61. per cent. - 10 0 12%
Eastern Bank •••• • • • • 5/. per cent. - 10 0 11/ 5s
Caledonian Bank ...• • 7341. pr cent. - 2 10 4/. 84
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 61. lOs
City of Glasgow lank . 51. per cent. - 10 0 12/. 8s
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 23a. Od
Hercules Insurance Ce. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 12%
Incur. Co. of Scetlnd•• 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 8%
Korth British Insur.- 5% /. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 25%
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22%
Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18
Edin. & Glasg. Railway 1/.los. per 1. 50 0 0 50 0 0 5l xd
Ditto, 14 Shares.... 7s. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 13
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 -
Glasgw fk, Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. -
cllasgvr& Greenckßail. 21. per cont. 25 0 0 All paid. 18%
Grlsgw &Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39
Dundee& Arbrothltail. 61. per cent. -25 0 0 All paid. 39
Standard LifeAssarnce.l 51. per cent. 150 0 0 1 2 10 0 9%
WATER-WORKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X s. d.
East London..• •••.• • • 81. 100 0 0 - 195
Grand Junction ••• • • • 31. 10s. 41 13 4 - 90
31. 100 0 0 - -
Vauxhall - - - -
West Middlesex . . - 118

DEATH OF MISS GRACE
AGUILA.II.
To communicate evil tidings privatfly is one of the
most painful tasks we have to perform in tie course
of our lives. But to be the medium of announcing to
the public a heavy national loss is a duty so sad and
hears-rending, the extent of which can only be felt
by the messenger of the mournful event. Such, we
lament to say, is our duty this day, in recording the
death of Miss Grace Aguilar, at the age of 32. We
do not in the least exaggerate the loss in calling it a
national one, as the numerous literary productions of
that lady were not only appreciated in England, but
also in America, Germany, and France. Indeed, we
may go so far as to state, that her works were much
more appreciated by the Jews on the continent than
by those in this country. Her " Women of Israel,"
a work every page of which is stamped with the most
ardent zeal and fervent piety—in every line of which
breathes that national sense and true patriotism which
is the great characteristic of all her writings ; her
" Women of Israel," which are teeming with powerful
lessons to her own sex, and eloquent exhortations to
the opposite one—parts of that work have been trans-
lated into the German, propagated by her true friend
the Rev. Mr. Leeser of Philadelphia, on the other side
of the Atlantic ; but, alas, our Jewish brethren in
England have not appreciated its value. Had it not
been for the kindness of an excommunicated philan.
thropist, her works would hardly have become
known, much less disseminated, among the Jews of
England. Her " Spirit of Judaism," " Jewish
Faith," &c., are likewise works of great merit, and
full of that pious fervour and filial affection which
carries the reader along with her alike in sympathy
with the writer and conviction of the argument. The
"Jewish Faith " betrays signs of no mean acquaint-
ance with Jewish and Christian philosophers and
divines, and its logical reasoning is far from betray-
ing the sex of the author.—Jewish Chronicle.

COURT-MARTIAL AT CHATHAM.
Yesterday at Chatham Barracks, the officers, con-
sisting of two majors, five captains, with seven lien-,
nants, assembled in the General Court-martial Room,
as members of a general Court-martial, of which Co-
lonel Charles Menzies, K.H., Royal Marines, was
president, for the trial of private John Hare, No.
2,262, of the Bth Regiment of foot, who was arraingsd
for having at Chatham, on or about the 16th of Sep-
tember, 1847, struck and offered violence to Lance-.
sergeant Thomas Hennesley, of the 86th Regiment,
his superior officer, then and there being in the exe-
cution of his office.

The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Sergeant Thomas Hennesley, of the 86th, was then
examined, and his evidence went to show that on the
16th of last month he was on duty at the Battalion
Barrack-guard, and the prisoner, with others was
there confined, when a sergeant and an escort of the
prisoner's regiment came for their prisoners, as they
were to sign their accounts previous to their embark-
ation the next day, and as an order had been given
by the commanding officer, that in case the prisoner
was wanted he was not to leave without the handcuffs
being put on him, and in the execution of that order
the prisoner struck him over the forehead with his
fist, and then escaped into the guardroom, and on
being retaken the prisoner again struck him in the
face.

Captain W. Kirby, 94th Regiment, and Acting
Staff Captain of the Provisional Battalion, produced
the battalion court-martial book ; in that it appeared
that the prisoner was tried by a district court-martial,
held at Chatham on the 13th April last, on two
charges—first, for desertion; second, for re-enlisting
when in a state of desertion, and he was convicted
and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and to
be marked with the letter D. ; two months of that
sentence were remitted by order of his Grace the
Commander-in-Chief.

The issue of this trial will not be known until con-
firmed by the Horse Guards.

ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY.
A board of officers, consisting of Major-General
J. Webber Smith, C. 8., Director-General of Artil-
lery, president; Major-General John Boteler Parker,
C. 8.; Major-General Edward Fanshawe,C.B., acting
in place of Major-General Sir J. Burgoyne, K.C.8.,
who is at present employed on the poor-law measure
in Ireland; Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon ; Lieutenant-
Colonel Dundas, C. 8.; and Lieutenant-Colonel Jones,
of the Royal Military Academy, assembled yesterday
at the Cadets' Barracks in the Royal Arsenal. Brigade-
Major Cuppage, Royal Artillery, Captain Stotherd,
Royal Engineers, and a number of officers of the
Royal` Artillery and Royal Engineers being also
present to witness the examination of forty-one
gentlemen cadets of the first or practical class, to
ascertain their fitness for being passed for commis-
sions in the Royal Regiment of Artillery and Royal
Engineers. The gentlemen cadets were drawn
up in line at eleven o'clock A.M., under the com-
mand of Captain Harrison, and inspected by
Major-General Parker, and immediately after
marched to the hall for examination, which
continued until nearly two o'clock, when the follow-
ing were recommended to the Master-General for
commissions :—Samuel Digby Wright, Alexander
Ross Clarke, Edward Bainbridge, James Murray,
Francis Horatio de Vere, George Ranken, Augustus
Young Earle, Hon. Leonard Allen Addington,
Henry Raymond Pelly, Robert Mann Parsons,
Frederick Brine, Arthur Vandeleur, Arthur A'Court
Fisher, Andrew Spottswood Orr, George Montagu
Stopford, Edward Bridge, Charles Rowland Hill,
Henry Reynolds Luard, Patrick John Campbell,
Francis Cornwallis Maude, Arthur William Twigs,
Reginald Curtis, Allen Sievwright, Frederic South-
cote Seale, John Boulton, John de Luttrell Saun-
derson, Montagu Stopford Whitmore, Moutray
Anketell, Philip Dickson, lEneas Clark, Francis
Place, Edward Jackson Bruce, William Powell
Richards, John Edward Hope, Henry Walpole John
Daahwood, Algernon Brendon, James de Havilland,
Sidney Carden, William Walker, George Allix Wil-
kinson, William Windham Augustus Lukin.
At the conclusion of the examination a regulation
sword was awarded to Sidney Carden, for general
good conduct ; and the second prize, consisting of a
handsome pocket sextant in case, to Francis Horatio
de Vere.

CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL.
The medical session of the Charing-cross Hospital
was opened yesterday at three o'clock, by an intro-
ductry address from Dr. Rowland, in the lecture
room, which was fully attended.
Dr. ROWLAND, who was listened to throughout
with great attention proceeded, in an interesting and
lucid composition to develop the gradual steps by
which medical science had risen to its present
eminence, and to point out its future prospects, and.
the obstacles which would be likely to impede the
progress of its professors. It would be impossible,
consistently with a due regard for our space, to give
any detail of the subjects which the Learned Doctor
handled with such good sense and ability, though
it might be considered of public and not merely-
professional interest. His contrast between Hippo-
crates and Sydenhain, the one the restorer of the
ancient, the other the founder of the present school
of medicine, was particularly happy ; nor was,
the exposition o f the dependence of the several.
branches of medical science, such as pathology, phy-
siology, and chemistry on each other, less truthfur
and effective. After a rapid, but clear and conse,.
cutive survey of the progress of medicine and of the
impediments which stood in its way, the learned lec-
turer turned his attention to its future prospects, and
making every allowance for the vast pitch of (Ycel-
lence to which it might attain, and of which we had
as yet but a distant view, as it were, from souse van-
tage ground, concluded with the expression. 4-.)f his
opinion that there were secrets in our paysiology
which none but He that made us could over know,
and with an exhortation to the students tar.l addressed
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