The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-26 00:00:00

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8% the Patrick Henry in the Rh er, and mast return into
13 dock ; the la ter sustained no damage.
HULL, OCT. 25.—Wind S.W., strong.—Arrd. Blue
Nose, Thornton, St. Stephen's ; Ophelia and Mary,
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upon the Stock Board and the Exchange, and every-
thing was dull. The fancies stood about as yesterday,
with a drooping tendency. Treasury Notes also stood
as yesterday, at 101, with a tendency upwards, and
101 - purchases to a considerable extent could be
made. Large sums are waiting fur these notes to fall
to par, when they would be eagerly seized, but the
faintest glimmer of peace with Mexico would send
send them up rapidly.
All out-door business was necessarily suspended by
the storm, and the Henry Clay packet-ship for Liver-
pool, and the Duchesse d'Orleans for Havre, are de-
tained by the same cause.
We hear of some engagements of Indian corn to
Liverpool at 6d. per bushel in bags, and expect to
hear of considerable shipments in the course of the
fall, when the price shall have settled down to its fair
average, in view of the great product of the year here
and the accounts from the other side, of the good
general condition of the potato root.
If, however, the disease of the vegetable should fol-
low, in Europe, the same course which it is running
here, there is no assurance that potatoes sound and
fine when dug will remain so after being housed—for
from various parts of New England, New York, and
New Jersey, we have well authenticated statements
that the rot is found very extensively in the po-
tatoes after being put away in an apparently sound
condition.
If this shall be the case in Europe, our Indian corn
will still be in considerable demand.
Cotton—The pressure to sell continues, and there
has been a further decline of / per cent., making 1
cent. per lb. decline since last Saturday. The sales
of the week amount to 4,250.
Up. & Flo. Mobile &N. 0.
2,250 bales. 1,700 bales.
Inferior
none. 9to 9i
Ord. to good ord 9l to 10-1 91 to 101
Mid. to good mid Mt to 101 10} to 10i
Middling fair to fair 11 to llf 11/ to 114
Fully fair to good
fair ..... 111 to 12 12 to 12/
Fine
Flour—The market for the week past has been
more buoyant, particularly within the last three
days. The supplies are still very light for the season,
which gives great firmness to the market. The late
advance in England does not make any material
change in prices here, the orders having come out
much below present rates. The sales of the week
have ranged from 5 dolls. 62ie. to 5 dolls. 81fc.
for old Oswego and Genesee, and 5 dolls. 75c. to 5
dolls. 87/c. for fresh ground, and 5 dolls. 87/c. to
5 dolls. 94c. for new wheat. 2,000 barrels of fancy
brands have been sold at 6 dolls. 12/c. to 6 dolls. 25c.
Southern is in fair demand with sales of 400 barrels
of Richmond country, and about 1,000 barrels
Georgetown and Baltimore, all at 6 dolls. Rye flour
is scarce and wanted at 4 dolls. 12/c. to 4 dolls. 25c.
Corn meal is less plenty, and holders of Western now
ask 3 dolls. About 2,000 barrels have been sold I
lately at 2 dolls. 73c. to 2 dolls. 94c. ; 500 barrels
Jersey at 3 dolls. 25c. to 3 dolls. 50c. The receipts
down the Hudson since the commencement of navi-
gation this season are, to sth in5tant,32722,1b2a7r,r41:17s
fl
barrels flour, 101,765 barrels corn meal. Exports
from Ist September to 6th October, 5

SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK.)
The Court sat this day for the disposal of cases
under the Small Debts Act.
COCHRANE W. SCHOLEY.
This was an action to recover the sum of 41. 14s.
for jewellery supplied to defendant. The plaintiff,
until lately, carried on business as a jeweller in Mark-
lane, and defendant is a corn factor.
Defendant did not appear, and the son of the plain-
tiff proved the order, and believed that his father
delivered them. His father and mother had both
died since the commencement of the suit, but were
not buried.
The Learned JUDGE said he was afraid he must
nonsuit for want of sufficient evidence, and also as
the witness had not taken out letters of administra-
tion; but as the time had not expired the witness had
better wait on him after the funeral, when he should
be advised what course to take, but if the defendant
owed the money he ought not, under such circum-
stances, to throw obstacles in the way.
DASSINGTON V. LATTER.
This was an action to recover the sum of 151. on
account of goods delivered. The defendant is a smith.
The plaintiff's attorney, stated the case, from
which it appeared that the defendant was indebted to
the amount of 1501., and had called a meeting of his
creditors, and proposed a composition of ss. in the
pound ; the creditors agreed to take that, or take an
assignment of his estate if defendant would produce
his books, but this he declined doing, on the ground
that if he gave up his hook-debts he would deprive
himself of the means of living. He had produced a
balance sheet, and considered that sufficient. Defen-
dant owed plaintiff 781., and it would be necessary to
bring actions on each bill as they became due.
The Learned JUDGE said the defendant could not
be put on his oath as to the correctness of his balance
sheet, and ought to produce his books, the creditors
were not compelled to take less than 20s. in the pound,
which, in fact, he might be able to pay.
An order was then made for payment at 11. per
month.
The plaintiff's attorney said, that would give 15
months to pay, whilst defendant would be defrauding
the creditors, and living on their property.
The Learned JUDGE said that he could not make
any alteration in the order.

CRIMINAL ICOURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman Gmns.)
HORSE STEALING.—George King, alias Rigg, de-
scribed in the calendar as a fishmonger, was indicted
for stealing a mare, value 201.
The prisoner, it appeared, brought the mare for
sale to Smithfield market on the Ist of Oct. last, but
having excited the suspicions of two police-officers,
inquiries were made respecting the ownership, and it
was subsequently found that the mare belonged to
Mr. Thomas Gunton, and had been stolen from a
field in the Isle of Ely on the previous evening.
A verdict of Guilty was returned by the jury, and
the Recorder sentenced the prisoner to ten years'
transportation.
LAMB STEALING.—WiIIiam Tarrant, described as
a shoemaker, was indicted with stealing ten lambs, of
the value of 9/. 155., the property of Mr. Richard
Smith, farmer, at Hayes, Middlesex. The case pre-
sented no feature of any interest. A verdict of Not
guilty was returned.

Grain—The supplies of wheat continue very light
and the demand quite active. Among the late sales
are 4,900 bushels Genesee, old and new, at 125 to
128 cents; 1,400 do. at 131 c., and 500 do. superior
and Illi-
nois and Ohio
atat 13140 too
112355cc.e;n100,,OarcobrudisnhgelstoMicicahaiglityan,;
at 100 to 105 c., and 5,000 bushels Southern in-
ferior, at 102 to 105 c., and good at 112 k to 125 c.
15,000 bushels Rye has been sold this week at 80c.
in the slip and 81 to 82c. delivered. 2,000 bushels
new barley brought 75c. Oats are lower—sales at
49 to 51c. Corn was much firmer, and a few sales
made at an advance of 3 or 4 cents, after the Hiber-
nia's arrival, but prices have since gone back. The
sales amount to about 125,000 bushels within the
week, varying from 62 to 63c. for heated, to 64 to
70c. for mixed ; 67 to 69c. for round yellow, closing
yesterday at 63c. for heated, and 66 to 67c. for
mixed, and 67 to 68c. for flat yellow. Receipts
down the Hudson since the opening the navigation
this season-1,461,404 bushels wheat; 3,080,682 do.
corn ; 218,135 do. rye. Export from Sept. 1 to Oct.
5-23,972 bushels corn ; 92,733 do. wheat ; 9,490
do. rye; 8,647 do. oats.
Freights—There has been but little offering this
week. Flour has been taken for Glasgow at ls. 6d.,
and cotton at 5-16 d for round and square bales. The
packet rates are as follow:

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.
The October adjourned sessions commenced this
morning, at the Court-house, Clerken well.
There were 81 prisoners for trial, 9 of whom were
misdemeanants, the remainder being felons. Amongst
the 81 prisoners there were 27 unable either to read
or write ; 16 who could only read, while the remain-
ing 31 were described as able to read and write
" imperfectly."
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE, in his charge to the grand
jury, said he was happy to inform them, tbat, after
this day, the House of Detention for the confinement
of accused parties, previous to their trial, would be
ready for their reception, and the result would be
most beneficial, so far as the convenience of the court
and the advantage of the prisoners were concerned.
The magistrates had made an arrangement by which
henceforth the trial of males would be taken on Tues-
day, and that of females on Wednesday, and the re-
sult would be that it would afford the prisoners who
were able to procure witnesses as to character, a
greater certainty of the advantage of their testimony,
because as only a day would be appropriated for the
trial of each, the witnesses would be certain to be
called on the first clay of their attendance, and he
knew that many a friend or employer came to speak
to character, and after losing one day without the
trial coming on, their means would not allow them to
sacrifice a second day's wages, and consequently the
unfortunate prisoner lost an important advantage.
Jane Price was indicted for stealing a gold watch,
value 101., the property of Joseph Warren, from his
person.
It appeared that on the evening of the 11th inst.,
the prosecutor was accosted by the prisoner, who
followed him, although he repeatedly desired her to
go away; and at length she made a snatch at his
watch which was in his waistcoat pocket, and having
snapped the chain ran off with both. She was,
however, stopped by a policeman, but she refused to
give up the watch except the prosecutor would let
her go ; and upon being taken to the station-house
she endeavoured to slip it into the lap of another
woman.

To Liverpool—Cotton, pe rlb. 1-Bd. to 3 16d.; beef,
per tierce, 4s. to 4s. 6d.; beef and pork, barrel, 25.;
flour, ls. 6d.; turpentine, 25.; leather, lb., +d.;
heavy goods, per ton, 255.; grain, bushel, 6d.
To London--Tobacco, per hogshead, 355. to 405.;
flour, 2s. 9d. to 35.; turpentine, 35.; spirits of tur-
pentine, per 252 gallons, 30s. to 355.; measurement
goods, ton, 30s. ; heavy goods, 30s. to 355.; beef
(3041b5. and 3361b5.), ss. 6d. ; beef and pork, bbl. ls.
PHILADELPHIA, OCT. 8.
Little of interest has transpired to-day on account
of rain which, in a great measure, suspended
out-door operations. Cotton remains very quiet.
Flour is firmly held, but without sales, except in the
usual way, at six dolls. 12c. to 6 dolls. 25c. for fair
and good brands fresh ground; rye flour is held at
4/ dols., with small sales ; corn meal is more firmly
held at 3 dolls. to 3 dols. 25 c. for prime ; and brandy-
wine wheat scarce : a small lot of Western red sold
at 130 cents. Corn is in better request, with sales
of 2,000 bushels good flat yellow, at 75 cents.
Southern Oats sold at 42kc. Groceries steady—the
only sale is 750 bags (musty) Rio Coffee at 61c to.
Tic. Provisions without any particular change, and
sales limited. Whisky—small sales at 29c. to 30c.
Stocks improved much this morning : no advance
in Government securities, but the minor stocks ex:.
hibited a disposition towards recovering last
.week s
prices.

A verdict of Guilty was returned, and the AS-
SISTANT-JUDGE said that it appeared the prisoner
had been twice before convicted; he should, there-
fore, transport her for ten years.

NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 30.
The effect of the Britannia's news, received yes-
terday, had not been fully developed. The ten-
dency, however, was unfavourable to breadstuffs.
Cotton—Sales of only 200 bales were reported,
previous quotations being barely sustained. Fair
quality was worth 11c. to 1 lie. ; middling to good
middling, 10i. to line. Stock about 26,000 bales.
Flour—Sales were light, while prices stood about
the same. 500 bbls. Ohio and Illinois, good quality,
sold at 4 dolls. 50c. ; St. Louis City Mills was worth
4 dolls. 50c. to 5 dolls. 25c.
Freights
—Cotton
o at 30 1
t 0
00
Corn—Sales were light ; a few hundred sacks of
yellow sold at 65c. Nothing doing in wheat.
0,
1A d. 30
1 Liverpool, 5.8 d., and to Havre

Sterling bills, 64c. to no. Treasury notes, par.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1847.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEVVMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING,
MONDAY.

Match, 100, h ft. D.M.
Lord Glasgow's Discontent, 7st 111 b, received forfeit
I from Mr. Payne's Spider, Bst 71b.
Match, 200, h ft. T.Y.C.
Mr. Payne's Woodcraft, Bst 71b (Nat), beat Lord Glas-
gow 's f by Hetman Platoff, dam by Ardrossan, Bst 21b.
Betting-6 to 4on Woodcraft, who won in a canter
by three lengths. Time, 1 mill. 20 secs.
Match, 200, h ft. Last half of Ab.M.
Mr. Mostyn's Tamarind, Est 71b (Ritchiner), beat
Duke of Bedford's Villiers, Bst 71b.
5t02 on Villiers. Won by a neck. Run in 48 secs.
Match,
Duke of Bedford's Eiithen, 7st 71b (Pettit), beat Mr.
Gratwicke's Flitch, Bst 71b.
7 to 4 on Eiithen, who won cleverly by a length. Run
in 1 min. 20 secs.

Match, 100, h ft. T.Y.C.
Sir J. Hawley's Lovelace, Bst 71b . (J. Mallon) 0
Lord Strathmore's Passion-flower, Bst ... (Nat) 0
2 to 1 on Lovelace. A dead heat. Run in 1 min.
14 secs.
The Criterion Stakes of 30 sous. each, 20 ft; for two
yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 51b. From the
Turn of the Lands in. (45 Subs.)
Mr. Mostyn's Loadstone (61b extra) ...
Lord Exeter's Tisiphone
Mr. B. Green's Flatcatcher (31b extra)
Mr. Pedley's Lady Mary (31b extra)...
Duke of Rutland's Paladin (31b extra)
Mr. Hargreave's Sunny Side
6 to 3 agst Loadstone, 2 to 1 agst Flatcatcher, 6 to 1
agst Lady Mary. Tisiphone made the running, followed
by Flatcatcher and Sunny Side, the favourite lying up
with them. They ran in this way till halfway between
the Duke's Stand and home, where Flatcatcher gave
way, and Loadstone took the second place. About
halfway up the cords Loadstone challenged, and a good
race home ended in his favour by half a length; Flat-
catcher, who was reported to be " off," a bad third. Run
in 1 min. 20 secs.
Match, 300, h ft; Bst 71b each. T.Y.C.
Mr. Greville's Tanic received forfeit from Duke of
Bedford's colt by Elis, out of Tuft.
Match, 200, h ft. D.M.
Duke of Bedford's Bridle, Bst 71b, received forfeit
from Lord Exeter's Cosachia, Bst 41b.
Match, 100. T.Y.C.
Mr. Sandford's Laura, 2 yrs, 6st 1216, received forfeit
from Mr. Gordon's Queen Mary, 3 yrs, Bst 101 b.
Match, 100. T.Y.C.
Lord Exeter's Bishop of Romford's Cob received for-
feit from Mr. Mostyn's Wilderness, Bst 51b each.
Match, 200, h ft; Bst each. T.Y.C.
Lord Strathmore's Sincerity received 25 soya. forfeit
from Mr. May's Senza.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each; for three yrs old, 7st 71b;
four, Bst 31b; five and upwards, Bst 81b. Criterion
Course. Winner to be sold for 3501. (5 Subs.)
Mr. Merton's African, aged .., ... (Robinson) 1
Mr. Rogers's Jolly Dick, 3 yrs ... • 2
2 to 1 on African, who waited till within fifty yards
from home, and won cleverly by a length. Run in 1 min.
22 secs.
Match, 100, h ft. Last half mile of Criterion Course.
Mr. Osbaldeston's Vice Consul, 7st 71b, received for.
feit from Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Rough and Ready;
Bst 71b.
BETTING ON THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES,

... (Nai

The Beacon-hill Stakes were divided by Sir J. Bos-
well's Royalist and Mr. A. Graham's British Lion, and
the Everley Stakes by Sir J. Boswell's Anna Theresa
and Mr. Fowles's Phoebe.

iL I
yAswcroei LTRE.
FACTS AND FIGURES FROIII ITALY. Ily
Don Jeremy Savonarola.
Everybody knows that Don Jeremy Savonarola
amneda,nksnFowrdihnegr Prout, and that Prout means Mahony •
this, "everybody (as the old saying,, iss
who can
rbteebsecfroonnisidletreld as:anybody" has read Facts
qanudelFitgoll
Dickens. FatherPoiPfc
of classic lore, antiquarian
facetiousness in the correspondencertauaoyurdeltsahi bferioning a
Istoarlty,of pboyli tical
Charlesse-
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in the columngs‘
letters which from another
gossip might foundmerely ephemeral budgets ofhave
o r provedth
of a distinct appearance on their completion. A huny-
dred years hence posterity will turn to these merry
pages of Father Prout with a zest such as that with
which we ourselves pore over the small-talk of good
Mr. Evelyn, Secretary to the Admiralty during the
days of the erry Monarch. We will not undertake
to assert that the gossip of Mr. Mahony is in like
manner to be looked upon as gospel. Indeed, it was
scarcely possible that chapters written on the first
whisper of some novel and startling intelligence from
the. Eternal City should not occasionally be marred
by inaccuracies or misrepresentations. In a
clever criticism upon the Peruvian works of
Prescott and Tshudi. the Quarterly Review has just
observed that South America is fortunate in her
historian, and that Mr. W. H. Prescott is fortunate
in being the historian of South America. With the
necessary alterations of name and place, we might
say the same of Father Prout and the Italy of Now-
a. days ; for modern Italy has been fortunate in her
vivacious and sagacious observer, and Father Prout
is peculiarly fortunate in being able to comment upon
such events and movements as have latterly transpired
in that noble peninsula. Of the materiel of " Facts
and Figures," and particularly of the style of their
composition, it would be needless to say anything;
the materiel has been noised abroad and welcomed
with enthusiasm by all the lovers of liberality on the
habitable globe, and the style of the composition has
become familiar to the readers of the j ournals—being the
manner peculiar to the prose writings of this Rabellais
of feuilletonists—a style racy of Milesia, sweet in the
honey sucked from bookdom, and abounding with
graceful turns of rhetoric and felicitous snatches
of rhythm. Father Prout always writes with
a gusto, but he has penned the present
chapters with a relish beyond all description, for his
whole heart has been in what he has written, and his
whole nature has been aroused with exultation by
the circumstances that have illustrated the new Pon-
tificate. The account of Don Jeremy himself; which
is prefixed to the volume, is, however, a laboured
piece of pleasantry, which forms an indifferent intro-
duction to a very attractive work. That work is
divided into two parts : Part the First being " The
Fag-end of an Old Reign," and Part the Second
being "The Bright Dawn of Better Days." The
brief interregnum between the Pontificates of Gre-
gory and Pius is described in " A few intercalary
blank leaves between the Old Regimen and the
New," purported to be filled up by the Booksellers
Hack in Ordinary. Of those two most memorable
epochs for Italy—the stagnant and effete one of
Gregorio XVI. and the effulgent and vigorous one of
Pio IX.—how much is there of a suggestive cha-
racter that might be hinted by a commentator! The
depressive glooms of the Past—the propitious beam-
ings of the Future ! The remembered sorrows, and the
anticipated joys ! The prolonged opprobrium of the
one and the sudden glory of the other ! Father
Prout has here commented upon the reminiscent an-
guish and prospective happiness of the Italians in a
I spirit of congenial liberality. And, while he depre-
cated the absolute policy of the late Pope he had
gentleness and generosity enough to dismiss him with a
panegyric, where he wrote, on the 24th of May, 1846,
" When he (Gregory XVI.) dies, you may fairly
reproduce the words of your Lord Ilacon concerning
his namesake and predecessor,—' Gregory XIIL ful-
filled the age of eighty-three years, an absolute good
man, sound in mind and in body, temperate, full of
good works, and an almsgiver.'—(Novum Oryanum,
chapter on Life and Death)." On the Ist of the
June following the Benedictine monk, Don Mauro
Capellari, Gregory XVI. expired, and immediately
afterwards Count John Mastai Ferretti was raised to
the pontifical chair by the name of Pope Pius IX.
That event, so glorious for Italian independence, an
event, indeed, which has already resulted in the
emancipation of the Italian peninsula, and in the en-
viable celebrity of Pope Pius, has found a passionate
applauder in Father Prout. He it was who first
pronounced that noblest of all panegyrics upon the
reforming Pontiff,—" Fuit homo missu.s a Deo, cad
nomen erat Johannes," (see p. 299.) His
voice was among the first that proclaimed to
England the glorious and most memorable crusade
of liberality which was commenced by Pius in the
City on the Seven Hills. For this alone the volume
would be an acceptable addition to the libraries, even
were it not rendered attractive by the caustic satire,
the agreeable drollery, the spontaneous wit, and
perpetual and imperturbable good humour of its
accomplished author. Of the drollery of " Facts and
Figures," a drollery rendered pungent by a dash of
!sarcasm, we need say nothing when we refer to the
mention, at p. 78, of Prince Metternich as " the old
Mephistophiles of Vienna." A stoithewa
is t
wit, hoelrtealisy
a single sentence :—" The state of Modena
what a gradual ossification of the heart would be to
the human system,"
(see p. 20.). The book is ele-
gantly bound in the Ferretti colours, white and
orange, and cannot impair the literary reputation of
Mr. Mahony, alias Prout, alias Savonarola.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al-
bert walked this morning in the slopes.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, took walking and pony exercise this forenoon
in the grounds around the Castle. Her Royal
Highness the Princess Helena was also taken an
airing.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied
by the Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Westmorland,
and Sir Robert Peel, and attended by the Earl of
Morley and Colonel Seymour, enjoyed the sport of
shooting this morning.
The Queen rode out this forenoon in a pony car-
riage, attended by the Countess of Desert. The
Equerry in Waiting attending on horseback.
Mr. Brooke, Raja of Sarawak, is expected:to
arrive at the Castle this evening, on a visit to her
Majesty.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left her
residence, Frogmore House, at half-past nine o'clock
this morning, for London. The Royal Duchess re-
turned to Frogmore House, in the afternoon, from
town.
The Royal Dinner Party at the Castle this evening,
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Earl and
Countess of Westmoreland, Lady Anna Maria Daw-
son, Baroness de Speth, the Right Hon. Sir Robert
and Lady Peel, Mr. Brooke, Lady Emily Seymour,
Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Miss L. Daw-
son Darner, and Sir George Couper.
The Band of the Grenadier Guards attended during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band will afterwards
attend in the Castle.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived
at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at half-
past eleven o'clock yesterday morning. Her Royal
Highness left town at half-past three o'clock, on her
return to Frogmore House.
Mr. Masterman, M.P. and Baron Rothschild had
interviews with Lord John Russell yesterday.
Captain Harness, Secretary to the Railway Com-
mission, transacted business yesterday at the Treasury.
A deputation from the Windsor Railway Company,
consisting of Lord Barrington, Mr. Charles Russell,
Captain Bulkeley, Mr. C. A. Saunders, Mr. J.
Pilcher, Mr. A. Fowler, and Mr. Henry Daniell, had
an interview with Viscount Morpeth yesterday, at
the office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods
and Forests, in Whitehall-place.
Sir James Carnegie had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday. tor. Lushington had also an
interview with the Right Hon. Baronet at the Home-
office.

The Senate of Lubeck has authorised the following
Consular appointments in Ireland :
Mr. Whitmore Scovell to be Consul in Dublin.
Mr. S. King to be Vice-Consul at Cork.
Mr. Wm. Smyth to be Vice-Consul at Limerick.
Mr. John Harrison to be Vice-Consul at Belfast.

Mr. John Thompson to be Vice-Consul at Westport
Mr. W. Marchand Ardagh to be Vice-Consul at
Waterford.

Mr. Bernard O'Slaherty to be Vice-Consul al
Galway.
The Right Hon. Sir Stratford Canning had an in-
terview with Lord John Russell yesterday. Mr.
James Wilson had also an interview with his Lord-
ship yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing-
street.

Lord Campbell left town on Saturday, on a visit to
Lord Melbourne, at Brocket Hall.
__ _ _ _

The Right Hon. Edward Strutt,ChiefCommissioner
of Railways, has left town for his residence, Kingston
Hall, near Derby.
Dispatches for the Governors of Hong-Kong and
Ceylon were sent off last evening from the Colonial-
office.

THE LORD BISHOP or LONDON.—We have been
requested to correct a statement which appeared in this
journal a few days since, announcing the serious illness
of the Bishop of London. The facts of the case are
these :—The Bishop's foot having slipped on a polished
floor, his Lordship fell, and received a violent blow on
his right temple, which rendered it necessary for him to
submit to medical treatment, and to avoid unnecessary
fatigue. The _Right Rev. Prelate's general health, we
are happy to say, is in no degree affected.—Post.
THE ARMY AT THE CAPE.—The following is an
extract from the letter of an °Seer at present stationed
near Graham's Town :—" The abominable Kafir war is
not over, nor do I see the end of it. The troops are ex-
posed to hardships that few at home have any idea of
Fancy going on patrole for 19 days, with no tents, no
waggon, wet weather, and nothing but bullocks to eat.
There were at- one time 36 officers sick at Graham's
Town. There are very few tents in the country, though
the war has lasted above a year. Such is the bodily
condition of our troops engaged in protecting the
colony ; the spiritual, as may be guessed, is not more
efficient. Here there is no chaplain for the troops, none
to comfort the sick and the dying ; alike Sunday and
week-day come round, nothing to remind them that
there is a God above and a judgment to come, a heaven
or a hell ; none to baptize the children—none to bury
the dead. Port Natal, a rising settlement, nothing done
to show that we are a Christian people. Nay, so dread-
ful is the state of this whole colony from neglect, that I
heard it stated a short time ago by the newly appointed
Bishop of Cape Town, that the Mahomedans were
making converts to the creed of Mahomet from among
those who were (nominally) Christians."
A final dividend of sd. in the pound has just been
paid, through the medium of the Court of Bankruptcy,
under the estate of Messrs. Hopkins and Drewitt, of
Arundel, Sussex, bankers, who failed in the month of
October, 1641. This, with previous payments, makes a
THE DIVER HYDE'S APPARATUS—
gross dividend distributed among the creditors of 15s.
l id. in the pound. HEINKE'S PATENTS.
T h
is Hyde a new submarine conversing
e principal novelty in the present series of ox.
With reference to certain acceptances of Mr.
Lackersteen having, on Saturday, been refused pay- hibitions here
ment at his banker's, we are requested to mention that apparatus, the object of which is chiefly to enable a
such refusal arose from a difference between the parties, diver to communicate more frequently and more
by which anticipated facilities were suddenly withdrawn freely with those who above water assist his sub-
On application at the counting-house of the acceptor, it marine operations, and have his safety and relief
is stated that all bills were promptly discharged; and under their control than he can do by the contrivances
such, we are informed, will continue to be the case. heretofore in use. The construction and the applies..
Mr. Colburn commences his new publishing season, tion of Mr. Hyde's invention were last eveuing very
we understand, on the Ist of November, with the
lucidly explained by Mr. Cripps in the course of his
eleventh Volume of Miss Strickland's " Lives of the
v.th the diver and diving-bell. So far as the object lecture and illustrations upon submarine operations
Queens of England ;" a new work by William Howitt,
with called " The Hall and the Hamlet ;" and a new novel by
Mrs. Trollope, entitled " Town and Country." Mr. in view is concerned, it may be said, generally, that
Colburn has also several Historical and Biographical it is effected by the apparatus. Persons a bove
_
Works of great interest immediitely forthcoming. the water converse freely and easily through
DRAlNlNG.—lmperfect under-draining is verycom- a tube with the person who is submerged, even to a
mon. The following may be taken as a good rule:— great depth. Yet the question must suggest itself, is
"If water stands on the surface of a field three hours not this attained with greater risk and complication
after rain has ceased to fall, that field is not sufficiently than the object itself is worth ?Is there not b.
ano_.
drained for the cultivation of grain."
Two HOUSES FALLEN IN.—An accident, demand- additional air-tube (for such it is) to rupture,
vious danger to the diver from. the liability oftn this
ing the most serious attention, occurred on Sunday night
week, about eleven o'clock. Two houses at the top of
that as all the requirements of a submarine operator,
very probable destruction ? Is it not further obvious,
Chapel-street, Devonport, upon the building of which
" "
satisfactorily supplied by means of the signal-dial at
Mr. Weary, builder, and Mr. Grant, builder, have been
by are quite
engaged about eight months, fell in with great noise ; way of communication with above,
present in use, it is not desirable to add to the difficul-
the beams and joists were fixed and both houses justo ties of his hazardous and toilsome employment, by
manage,
ggehim another set of apparatus to attend to and
ready for roofing. What could have been the cause f
the disastrous accident it is difficult to say, or whether
blame attaches to the builders, but the middle wall
rt , when the fact is that he already finds his
this new contrivance it seems to be forgotten that
between the two houses appears to have been the art equipments more ctiomplicated than enough ? In
that first gave way, and the stones used in the building
the situation in It
the helmet-diver has to
were taken from those of the old houses that occupied
work calls for the constant and steady concentration
the site. Happily no individual was injured by the fall.
—West Briton.
f a clear and resolute mind, and should be kept as
EARTLinuAKE IN
—lt appears by a letter
free°
as :possible from auxiliary distractions. The
from an inhabitant o FRAN" f
Sierac, in the department of the
experiment, however., is an interesting addition to the
Dordogne, that a pretty sharp shock of earthquake was
felt there in the morning of the 15th. illustrations of the subject in this institution, and
WESTERN JEWISH Gram FREE SCHOOL.—The proves very attractive. The helmet and diving dress
first public examination of the pupils of this institution to which the conversing tubes, &c., are attached, are
took place yesterday, at Mr. Caldwell's Academy, No. those of Mr. E. Meinke's latest patent improve-
-20, Dean-street, Soho. His Royal Highness the Duke ments, and although the improved contrivances
of Cambridge, patron of the institution, arrived at are as simple ras they are ingenious, the
twelve o'cloeic, and took the chair amid load applause, are of the very- highest importance to the safety
The attendance was very numerous, and included the and comfort of the. diver, and to the facility of hrs
Reverend the Chief Rabbi, the Baroness de Rothschild,
tTishpoxsinevwidheod have
with segelnasstehse
edvievrintheh elyes,
Lady Montefiore, Baron A. de Rothschild, Mr. J. M.
operations.
g e met
and it may be supposed that these are liable to be
Johnson. Mr. S. L. de Symonds, Mr. J. P. Salomons, &c. know that i
broken, not only from being subject to an enormous
The proceedings were of a very interesting character.
pressure at certain depths, but from the accidentsrni and
The examination continued for three hours, and included
exploded
collisions which, may occur to
scripture history ; catechism, comprising the decalogue,
the thirteen articles of the Jewish faith, the feasts, and
fasts, &c. ; Hebrew reading, and translation of prayers ; the debris of an the operator amongst
English reading, grammar, arithmetic, writing, geogra- or rock. In
the helmet and dress becoming
of tahbeougtlasfisetlhslerdewewasitbbr
fact, . wreck, or sand bank,
pity, history, and needlework. A preliminary prayer at Whitstable, one yearsowka e t
broken,
, r , ago,
andth e
in English, and an ode were also recited by the pupils,
man was draw
fitnt:dP in an exhausted state ; nor was
Though the school is only twelve months in progress.
the responses were all given without the slightest error
he
has
. e pronounced ia
or hesitation, and in a manner which excited the acre:- 11t, of danger far several months. Mr.
ration of all present. In no instance do we recollect
having ever seen children display more intelligence, and which in the e Vent Patent slides to the helmet, by
the state of the institution certainly confers the highest tune is closed of the glass giving way, the aper-
credit on the teachers, and the committee of ladies by incurred is titl instantly, and the only inconvenience
whom it is managed. There are at present forty pupils, very e t e want of light. This would not be
but the number would be much larger if the funds were The gr.a of course, if only one glass gave way.
sufficient to enable the committee to pro addition of new
cure a school- with pate connecting screws to the hose,
room capable of accommodating all the a r patent safet
pp 'cants on y caps is another im rovement of
their books. Prizes were distributed to great value for ' ' P
serving'of the pupils by his R l 11. the more de- ensuring safety, and a regular and
oya ighness. After uninterrupted communication of air. But should
which the Chief Rabbi addressed the assembla there be an i te
length on the importance of pro - ge at some • _ y n rruption of the communication, by their poorer brethren, moting education among aceivient to the hose or otherwise, Mr. Heinke has THE WESTMINSTER ABBE prxwided another very beautiful contrivance to avert
Dean and Chapter are o' T ALTERATIONS.—The •aie danger at the moment •In the upper part
•
standing the tolerably loudging' their own way, notwithe iof the dress there is a reserve of air sufa-
been expressed in all ut dissent from it which has cient to support life for twenty minutes or
done in the transeptsqbaurt quarters. Nothing has yet begrn more, and the moment the supply from aboveht
put up, down to and against the carved stalls are bei'og is suspended, a double-acting valve is
thberoug
head-
yen, so as to get fifty,i east side of the or into play, and passes the air reserved ilnveto
the diver's
The seem to be nicely dr instead of thirty, as before. piece. By the working of the same vs
it will not
which formerly surmounted
wtnh and carved. The e•egan, comfort and health are provided fotii,leas
helmet, so as
and placed half on each side of° it reen is to be ilivided, allow the air to be collected within
of the head and chest.
under one a the main to produce heat and oppression
arches. Additional room is to b
Dr. Bachboffner de-
question.— gamed, thfey say, for In the course of the evening 800 persons, by the alterations in t- 1 lecture
isprogress,-- -how many livered an interesting and ins rue ive e.c re upon
of them will see and hear what going or, is another and the mode. of formation of the
question.—Builder. the properties
EXTRAORDINARY SALMON.--On Monday morning •• -1 His illustrations were, as usual, of
principa gases.
most satisfactory kind, and very brilliant. 'They
the
a large salmon was caught at Sandstell flattery at the
were much applauded. The new series of dissolving
inches, and the girth at the thickest
mouth of the Tweed, of the extraordinary weight of 3
views are very attractive, and the new mu.,ic with
stones and 3 lbs., or 45 lbs. Its length was 4 feet 5
part 2 feet 2f which they are accompanied, reflects great credit on
inches. This immense fish was said to be the largest the skill and taste of Dr. Wallis, the able. director of
ever caught in the Tweed.—Berwick Warder. music to the institution.
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