The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST n 7, 18-46.

official hypocrisy, or cajoled by specious and illusory
promises) has proclaimed himself ready to
afford the Government all the prestige
and dignity of his vast influence for the purpose
of facilitating their operations.
Meanwhile the Ministry are endeavouring to provide
for the threatened deficiency of provisions. Their
efforts in this particular are, we must acknowledge,
of less apparent generosity and munificence than
the interference of their predecessors. Intrinsically,
however, those efforts are animated by as much
goodwill, and are dictated, if possible, by
superior sagacity. On Tuesday the Poor Employ-
ment (Ireland) Bill passed through Committee
without amendment : the third reading is fixed
for this day. No time, indeed, remains for
any superfluous discussion upon measures of such
intense exigence, especially as the hours of the
session are numbered. That there is an absolute
necessity for that official interposition for the decrease
of destitution in Ireland, upon which during the
last few days we have felt it our bounden duty to in-
sist, we may refer to the honest and simple declara-
tions made by Lord MONTEAGLE. According to
that Noble Lord, the pressure this year infinitely pre-
ponderates over the pressure experienced in the pre-
ceding, insomuch, that he considers the grant of
50,0001. for undertaking public works as " utterly
inadequate." The Noble Lord assured the House
that his correspondence with residents in Ireland was
of the most afflicting character, and from one letter,
written by a magistrate, after travelling through the
southern districts, the Noble Lord read these most
calamitous and alarming expressions
" You cannot conceive anything so painful as_the aspect
of the potatoes. In the county of Cork, for miles, whole
fields have produced only potatoes in a diseased state. So
far from the accounts in the papers being an exaggeration,
I have read none which will enable you to form a correct
idea of the magnitude of the calamity."
Those are assertions written by a magistrate, and
read by Lord MONTEAGLE in the British House of
Peers !

Knowing these things, we cannot but feel pride
in remembering the noble munificence of Sir R. PEEL'S
Administration during the last scarcity; we cannot ?it
recollect with gratification and with gratitude the ex-
penditure of upwards of 852,000 d. for the alleviation
of the consequent distress; nor can we ever forgot
that but for the prompt directions of that
Right llonourable Baronet for the importa •
tion of Indian corn and oatmeal, no pro-
visions could have been obtained by that fa-
mishing and penniless population !
Knowing, moreover, that the deficiency will inevit-
ably be of a more extended character during the en-
suing winter, we cannot but look with the utmost
anxiety for the active and unstinting succour of
the Government. It is a wise resolution on the part
of the present Administration not to become, as the
Marquis of LANSDOWNE termed it, "the importers of
corn or meal"—no doubt it is a wise resolution.
Nor is the concentration of the burden of
pecuniary relief upon the baronies an in-
ferior instance of sagacity. We confess that by
such arrangements the Government are stimulating
individual enterprise, enlarging the chance of
assistance to the destitute, and giving a whole-
some encouragement to commerce. We grant all this
willingly; we acknowledge that the accuracy of such
reasoning is undeniable. Nevertheless, we trust the
Government iv:11 be prepared for an emergency. We
fear there may be an extraordileary demand for help
both in money and in nutriment. A Government
should never render itself liable to a provincial sur-
prise.

Befog the large expenditure contemplated, and
which is Absolutely necessary, to render Bucking-
ham Palace in any respect a fitting residence for her
MAJESTY is finally sanctioned, it is only right that
full inquiry should take place—that a minute inves-
tigation should be directed, in order to ascertain
whether the laying out of 150,0001. will really make
it a suitable abode for the Sovereign of the British
dominions.

It would indeed be an unwise economy to attempt
to patch up and alter that which cannot permanently
be retained. The British nation entertain too pro-
found a respect, too sincere a feeling of affectionate
loyalty for the QUEEN, to hesitate at any expendi-
ture by which her personal convenience or comfort
of her MAJESTY'S accession to the throne,
she has ever evinced the greatest mode-
ration, and has scrupulously refrained from making
any extraordinay demands on the liberality of
her people for the gratification of her own wishes.
The noble generosity with which the exemp-
tion from taxation afforded by the prerogative
of the Crown was waived when her MAJESTY
assumed the burden of the income-tax, cannot be
forgotten or underrated. The manner in which she came
forward on the occasion of the purchase of Osborne
House, and paid the entire of the expenses connected
with the acquisition from her privy purse, must he
appreciated ; and when at length it becomes necessary
to appeal to the representatives of the people for their
sanction to an expenditure which on all hands must
be admitted to be absolutely unavoidable, she seeks
to lessen the amount, and to make it as light as possible,
by graciously desiring that the Pavilion at Brigh-
ton should be sold and the produce applied
in diminution of the sums to be voted in
future years for that purpose. There is no sacrifice
too great, no expenditure which should not gladly be
undertaken to meet the wishes of a SOVEREIGN who
has thus acted, and who has ever respected the con-
stitutionally-expressed wishes of her people; but it
is not merely a personal matter : the dignity of this
great nation demands that the Supreme Magis-
trate should be provided with a residence
suitable for her exalted rank, and calculated
to afford proper accommodation to the illustrious
foreigners who may honour this kingdom with a visit ;
but the first and chief question that must be consi-
dered is, respecting the healthiness of the locality. If,"
danger should arise to our beloved SOVEREIGN or any
of her family, from the situation of her palace, the
nation would not readily forgive those whose duty it
is to take the matter into consideration, and who
from neglect or other cause, should omit to take
the due and necessary precautions. Now the ground
on which Buckingham Palace is built is low and
marshy, the lower apartments are frequently flooded
at high tides, and it is impossible to suppose that such
a circumstance must not be prejudicial to the health
of the inhabitants. If this be the case, it should at
once be considered decisive on the question. A
new commodious, comfortable, and becoming
palace should be provided with as little de-
lay as possible. There would be no want
of sites for such a purpose, and the money to be
thereon expended would not be thrown away ; for, in
the first place, the 150,0001. required for the altera-
tions in Buckingham Palace would be saved to the
country ; and, secondly, the palace, which would
then no longer be required for her MAJESTY'S use,
might be appropriated to public purposes.
We confess that we are strongly of opinion that by
far the wiser course would be at once to decide on an
entirely new building before any money is thrown away
on that which must eventually be abandoned. The
generosity of the people should not be bounded by
the moderation of her MAJESTY. She may be satis-
fied with the removal of the inconveniences and ob-
jections at present experienced, and so fully pointed
out in the report of Mr. BLORE ; but the whole
question having been prominently brought forward,
that which is most fitting for the SOVEREIGN
should be decided on. We regret that the
report alluded to by Mr. HUME, and which
was on Tuesday asked for (in his absence) by Mr.
BORTIIWICK, was not forthcoming. Had it been
found it might have enabled the public to come to a
conclusion on the all-important point of the salubrity
of the situation. We trust that steps will be taken
during the recess to obtain full information on the
subject, and that her MAJESTY'S Ministers may be
prepared early in the ensuing session with such de-
tails as may enable Parliament and the nation to
decide whether it would be most advantageous at
once to erect a new palace, or to proceed with the
repairs and alterations now proposed.

The New Hamburgh Gazette publishes a letter
dated Breslau, Aug. 16, the writer of which says :
"I am able to announce to you, from a source
worthy of credence, that a convention has been en-
tered into between Austria and Prussia, in virtue of
which these two powers bind themselves to tale care
that Germany be not in any way affected in its rife*

on the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. The
presence of the King of PRUSSIA at Konigswartz has
decided the question."

The Voss Gazette contains an answer from Sir R.
PEEL to the address transmitted to him, a short time
back, from the town of Elbing. The Right Hon.
Baronet expresses his satisfaction ate the approbation
with which his late measures had inspired the signers
of the address, and enters into a short explanation of
the motives which had prompted him to adopt the
course of conduct thus approved of.

Madrid papers of the 19th have arrived.
The Ministers of State and all the high function-
aries of the Court and of the capital have waited upon
Don FRANCISCO D'ASSIS, to over him their congra-
tulations. The Clamor Publico states that the question
of the marriage of Don FRANCISCO with the QUEEN
had been discussed at a Cabinet Council held the day
after the Prince's arrival, and it adds, " there are
some persons who state that the marriage has been
decided on, and is to take place immediately."
The differences with Portugal are, it is said, settled,
and the military cordon has had orders to remove.
MADRID BOMA, AUG. 19.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 24 for cash, the Four per Cents. at 21i,
the Five per Cents. at 22k, the Dcbt, without Interest
at €l, and the Coupons at 20.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The Opposition journals are endeavouring again to
raise a war-cry against England on the subject of
Otaheite• The recent elections have, however, so
completely shown the utter powerlessness of these
firebrand writers, that we entertain no serious alarms
as to the effect which these articles may produce on
public opinion in France.
The Courrier Francais thus comments on the
affairs of Otaheite

"We publish an article from the Portefeuille, which
we entreat M. Guizot to contradict as soon as possible.
If he remain silent—if he be obliged to admit that the

diplomatic reviewer has spoki n the truth—we cannot
find expressions sufficiently strong to stigmatise the
shameful conduct which the Minister for Foreign
Affairs has held with regard to England on the question
of Otaheite. We should first of all observe that the
review informs us that the question is finally arranged.
a. Guizot opened in London negotiations which
ended in a magnificent result—viz , that the French pro-
tectorate is to be maintained in a part of the archipelago;
as to the other islands, Huahine, Bora-Bora, Ragateia,
find Maupiti, they are decidedly not included in
this protectorate; they were restored to the sovereignty
of Queen Pomare, or in a word delivered over to the ab-
solute dominion of England, in whose hands, as is well
known, Pomare is but a mere instrument. The conven-

tion adds, indeed, that these islands cannot be given up
to any European power. But this is an impudent
mockery. Whom is it necessary that we inform at the
present day that Queen Pomare wishes not to shake off,
and that she cannot shake off, the yoke of the English?
If unfortunately this convention exists—and the Porte-
feuille positively asserts such to be the case—if it should
have received the signature of M. Guizot, we should
henceforth be surprised at nothing that emanated from
such a man, or feel astonished if he were again to ask,
in the name of another Pritchard, an indemnity for the
trouble which might have been taken in spilling the blood
of French soldiers!"

The Constitutionnel follows in a much milder strain,
endeavouring merely to turn the events in Otaheite
to account as a weapon to be used against the Minis-
try. "In a word," says the Constitutionnel, "it is
evident that we are held in check in Papeiti by the
insurgent natives. It is somewhat remarkable that
their revolt broke out a short time after the arrival of
the English forces sent to that coast, under the orders
of Admiral SEYMOUR, to pacify the country. It is,
moreover, said that the Ministry finds itself in great
embarrassment on the subject of Otaheite. The new
Governor demands considerable reinforcements, in
order that he may not be subjected to the same checks
which his predecessor had experienced. Will the
Chamber sanction the sending of fresh forces, and
the expense which it will entail ? Will it permit a
fresh sacrifice of men and money for this ridiculous
conquest ? Those are the awkward questions which
it appears the Ministry cannot solve."
The Ministerial journal, the Epoque, thus com-
ments on the articles which have appeared in the
Opposition papers on this subject :

" Several of the Opposition journals are making ob-
servations on a hostile collision which has taken place
between our troops at Otaheite and the inhabitants of the
island of Huahine. However much the loss we experi-
enced in the affair is to be regretted, it must
not be thence inferred that our influence in the

Society Islands has been in the slightest degree
affected by it. On the contrary, the French and Eng-
lOU o'o V wrinuems were never better agreed on a ques-
tion which may be henceforth regarded as completely
settled. There is no doubt that disorders and conflicts
will still disturb our new establishment ; the natives, at
first badly advised, will not without difficulty return to
feelings of friendship ; and with perseverance, and par-
ticularly by adopting a new line of policy, at once ener-
getic and conciliatory, all these differences, which have
only arisen from casual misunderstanding, will com-
pletely cease. The prudence with which Commandant
Bruat conducts himself, and the anxiety which he
evinces to avoid all effusion of blood, when it appears
to him unnecessary for the consolidation of our pro-
tectorate, is to us a new guarantee of the realisation of
our hopes."
The Semaphore de Marseilles of the 21st inst. con-
tains the following letter, dated Tunis, the sth :
" England has been long intriguing here to destrcy
the good understanding existing between the Bey of our
Regency and the French Government, but hitherto her
endeavours have not availed. She does not, however,
give up all hope. Her representative, Sir Thomas
Reade, had, a few days ago, a conference with
the Bey, at which he warmly complained of
the non-execution of the treaties, and of the al-
leged ill-treatment of the Maltese by the agents
of Ben Ayet, and ultimately demanded the dismissal and
punishment of a relative of Ben Ayet, the Caid of the
markets. He, however, left the palace of the Bey
without obtaining any satisfaction. It appears—and we
consider it more probable—that the ill-humour shown
on that occasion by Sir Thomas Beade was caused by
the indifference with which Ahmet Bey viewed an incur-
sion, lately executed on his territory, in the interest of
peace, by General Bandon, commander of the sub-divi-
sion of Bona. The English Consul-General had greatly
dwelt on that affair, which is of no importance."
The Arab chief of the Trans, who is accused of
having enticed Colonel, MoNraGNac into the ambush
at Sidi Brahim, has surrendered himself, declaring
his innocence, and demanding a trial.
On Monday the Marquis of NORMANBY presented
to the KING of the FRENCII his credentials as Ambas-
sador from her Britannic Majesty.
The Paris Bourse was on Monday more flat than
could possibly have been expected from the satisfac-
tory state of affairs in France and throughout the
world, with the sole exception of the lamentable re-

turn of the potato disease generally in Ireland, and

partially on the continent. The Five per Cents. de-
clined because of the increasing belief that that stock
would be reduced (converted) by the new Chamber.
The Three per Cents. suffered from large sales made
in anticipation of the liquidation. "Northern shares
fell because of various rumours to which the company
disdained to reply" (as we are assured). " The
.hares of other companies suffered, through sympathy
it may be said; but the truth is, that the dulness of
the market was solely owing to the absence of specu-
lators, the great majority of whom had left town to
enjoy the shooting season, or for the various watering
places."

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
at 83f. 70c. ; the Five per Cents., 121 f. 75c. ; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,275 f. ; Rouen, 9601. ; Havre,
700 f. ; Great Northern, 708 f. 75c.; Avignon, 910 f.; Vierzor,
6251.; Bordeaux, 566 f. 25c. ' - Troyes and Montereau,
3621. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4961. 25c.; Tours and
Nantes, 506 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 526 f. 25c. ; Lyons and
Avignon, 492 f. 50c.; Bordeaux and Cette, 4821.50 c. ; Spanish
Domestic Debt, 3214.

The following are the quotations for new lines:—
MARSEILLES, Auu. 19.—Marseilles and Avignon, 905 f
Northern, 705 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 523 f. 75c. -;
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUST 23.
Boulogne and Amiens, 13 —Direct Bombay and Madras,
Dutch Rhenish, 61i —Luxembourg, 1% —Namur and Liege, 3—Over
Yssel„2% dis.—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 5%.

PRIVY COUNCIL.—A special train has been ordered
for this morning, to convey the ➢Ministers by the South-
Western Railway to Gosport, en route to Osborne
House, Isle of Wight, where her Majesty will hold a
Privy Council, at which the Queen's Speech (to be deli-
vered by Commission), on closing the session of Par-
liament, will be arranged.
BANE ROBBERY, BERWICR.—We are happy to an-
nounce, from authority, that by a letter just received
from Berwick, the whole of the property stolen from
the branch of the North of England Joint-Stock Bank
had been discovered secreted on the premises.

Mr. Buckingham left town yesterday, for Marseilles
and Genoa, to attend the Literary and Scientific Congresses
to be held at these cities in September, to each of which he
had been invited, as the director of the British and Foreign
Institute of London.
THE COLOSSEUM. The above establishment was
illuminated last evening in the following manner, in honour
of his Royal Highness Prince Albert's birthday :—A mag-
nificent star in gas in front of Regent's Park, iinothe! in
Albany-street, and the summit of the building with thirty-
two celums, forming a beautiful temple in gas.
SINGULAR CRICKET MATCII.—A match between the
doctors and lawyers of Notangham will cettle Off IleAt Week.
r-ftlitikrd Time%

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(]from The Sun of last Night.)
There was a quiet market for Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday. Sales 5,000 bales, including 2,000 American
for export. Previous rates were obtained. Shares
were not brisk, but realised about previous rates.
According to advices received from the Continent, the
Government at St. Peterslourgh have just concluded
a treaty of commerce with Turkey, which is ap-
parently more favourable even than the last: Among
the stipulations we find that the duty in Turkey upon im-
ports from Russia is to be 3 percent., and foreign produce,
consigned in Russian vessels, is to be similarly favoured :
goods exported from Turkey by Russian merchants aril/
to be relieved of various internal dues, and to pay in-
stead a fixed impost of 9 per cent. For all these
and other advantages the liberal Cabinet of the
Emperor Alexander does not accord entire reA-
procity, because that is against the law of the realm,
but graciously allows Turkey to Trade with Russia ou
the same footing of the most favoured nations ! Tkte
treaty is for ten years.
The very gratifying information reached the City this
morning, that the whole of the property stolen from the
Great North of England Bank at Berwick has been
found secreted on the premises, a fact which it is unne-
cessary at present to comment upon.
Money in the City is worth about 31 to 31 per cent.
on first-rate security. Last year, about this time, it
was as low as 23- to 24.
There is very little doing in thelPublic Securities, and
prices aro without alteration. Consols 9.5 i a ; New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 97i to 98i; and the
Three per Cents., 96 to 96i. Bank Stock has been firm
at 209. Exchequer-bills have realised 10s. to 13s.
premium.
The F oreign Investments have not been much dealt
in, but Portuguese are somewhat lively, at 41i to 42k.
Mexican have a slight tendency to advance again,
being 234 to 24*; Spanish Three per Cents. are 36j.
In the Share Market there is but little doing, but the
previous values are generally maintained.
BRITISII .FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Rank Stock .. .• • • .. • • 209 209
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. • • 961,E 96
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 95%% 95%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Amis. 98% 97A, 97A,
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 7-16
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 10 1-16 10 1-16
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. • • • • • • • •
Ditto, under 1,000/. .. • • • . 24
South Sea Stock ..
Ditto Old Annuities 95% 95%
Consols for Account .. 95%%• 95%
Exchequer Bills. INd. 1146.
1,0001... .. .... 10 13 pm. 13
500/. .•
10 13 pm. 13
Litto, Small .... 10 13 pm. 11

CLOSING
PRICES.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Yesterday was the birth-day of his Royal Highners
Prince Albert. At .even o'clock in the morning the
band of the 74th Highlanders, from Gosport, performed
a serenade at o:borne House. _

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, arrived
early from :Barton, to pay a visit of congratulation to
the Prince en the auspicious return of his natal day.
The Royal Duches3 breakfasted with her Majesty and
her Royal Consort, at o,berne House.
The Queen and Prince Albert afterwards promehaded
in the pleasure grounds and pEntations. After the re-
turn of her Majesty and his Royal Highness, the band
of tIY) 74th Highlanders attended at Osborne House, and
performed a number of favourite pieces during luncheon.
Their Real Ilighne,,,ses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
their accustomed walks and rides yesterday on the sea
beach.

A Cabinet Council was held at four o'clock yesterday
afternoon at the F,reign-office. The Ministers present
were Lord John liapisell, the Lord Chancellor, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Viscount Pal-
mers'on, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Excheqrn,r,
the Earl of Auckland, Sir john Hohhouse, Lord Camp-
bell, the Earl of Clarendon, 'Viscount Mori,eth, the

Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right lion. 11
Labouchere.

Sir George Grey substquently joned his colleagues.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
Mr. J. Oswald, M.P., and a deputation from Glasgow,
transacted business yesterday at the Treasury.
Sir Harry "Verney had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday at the Home-office.
The Earl of Besborough left town yesterday fcr
Ireland.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office, for the Governor of Gibraltar.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
THE TURNER FAMILY.

The Turner family, consisting of three infant sisters,
Caroline, aged eight, and Rosina, aged six, harpists;
and the little Sophia, aged four, a violinist and harpist,
whose musical performances in private have recently
created a great sensation in the fashionable world, gave
yesterday afternoon their first and only public perform
ante for the season at this theatre. These children
are natives of Somersetshire, and they have, we
understand, had no musical instruction, save that
which they have derived from their father ;
and yet they play pfirt music in a manner which, for ac-
curacy of tune, for accuracy of time, for fair, honest, un •
trickey playing, might put performers of double their
united ages to the blush. To the mere common obser-
ver, the performances of these children are very wonder-
ful—to the musical tyro, who is acquainted with the
mere A B C of music, they are astonishing—and to the
accomplished musician, who is perfectly acquainted with
the difficulties of his art, who knows how hard it
is to get even professors to play together so as
to produce one whole as contradistinguished from an
inharmonious conglomeration of solos, the performance
of these children is miraculous. That which it takes
long years of toil to drill into others, these children
have by intuition. They have the divine gift of ge&us,
" And toiling art pants after them in vain."

Not that they nre wanting in art. Everything that ar
can teach they have—they are artistes in the highes
sense of the word.

" Ars est celare artem,"

is an adage which does not apply to them—they have
nothing to hide. Nature in them has done the work of
art, and done so more effectively than mere unaided art
could ever have done. They—we will not say under-
stand, for understanding comes of reasoning and of
study—but they intuitively perceive that which to
ungifted mortals comes only by years of study and re-
flection and practice ; and they are gifted with
such power of execution on their respective instruments
as to be enabled to develop perfectly those intuitive per.
ceptions. We have in a former notice described the
manner of the performances ; such, for instance as the
two sisters performing on one harp ; and with regard
to the matter of them, whatever was done was perfectly
done, and there is nothing in the way of harp music
which these children could not perform in a manner
equal to the most celebrated professors, save
those pieces which as yet it is physically
impossible for them to compass—that is to say,
it is impossible to give to a child of eight years of age a
hand equal in width, from the thumb to the little finger,
to the hand of a man of forty. This advantage the
grown up professors of the harp possess over these
children, and this is the only advantage they possess;
but for taste, for expression, for accuracy, ay! and for
power too, as far as their stretch of hand goes, we will
back the little Turners against any harpist of the present
day. And then with regard to little Sophia, the little
violinist of four years old. Her performances are even more
wonderful than those of her sisters. The violin is dif-
ferent from the harp. In the harp the instrument is at-
tuned—you strike the chords, and you know beforehand
exactly the sound you will produce. In the violin, on
the contrary, all depends upon the player. If each note
is not accurately stopped by the fingers of
the left hand and a hair's breadth differ-
ence in the stopping makes a sensible differ-
ence in the sound—if the bow is not most accu-
rately applied to the strings, all is discord. Yet this
child of four years old performs on this most difficult
instrument in the most perfect and masterly manner.
She laughs while she overcomes difficulties, which
nothing but the most constant practice can enable a
professor to overcome. There was no shrinking—no
slurring over of hard parts, which one so con-
stantly meets with in juvenile and amateur
performances—every difficulty was fairly met and
fairly conquered. Every piece was played in the
most prononce style. The bowing was full, sweep-
ing and free, and the stopping close and accurate. We
have chosen rather to describe the general system of the
performance of these wonderful children than to criticise
minutely the different airs performed. 'With inferior
artistes a particular criticism might be necessary ;
but with such artistes as these it is not neces-
sary to descend to particulars. They have no crack
tunes, into the performance of which they have been
drilled, and beyond which they cannot go. They are
nature's own musicians, and are not to be " cribbed,
cabined, and confined " to any particular programme.
The house, notwithstanding the lateness of the season,
was most fashionably attended.

MR. BURKE'S HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY
Or ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. —This im-
portant, and truly national work is just concluded by the
publication of the Fourth Part, and may now be had com-
plete in two volumes. This work has been undertaken as a
Companion to Mr. Burke's " Dictionary of the Peerage and
Baronetage," and upon a similar plan, in order that the two
publications may embrace the whole body of the British
Peerage, Baronetage, and Gentry, and may furnish such a
mass of authentic information in regard to all the principal
families in the Kingdom, as has never before been brought
together. It relates to the untitled families of rank, as the
"Xeerade and Baronetage" does to the titled, and forms, in
fact, a peerage of the untitled aristocracy. It embraces the
whole of the landed interest. The landed gentry of Eng-
land are so closely connected with the stirring records of its
eventful history, that some acquaintance with them is a
matter of necessity with the legislator, the lawyer, the his-
torical student, the speculator in politics, and the curious in
topographical and antiquarian lore ; and even the very
spirit of ordinary curiosity will prompt to a desire to trace
the origin and progress of those families whose influence
pervades the towns and villages of our land. This work-
abounding in interesting anecdote, and displaying deep re-
search, must rank among the first class of those publica-
tions which elucidate, or connect themselves with the annals
of our country, and is indispensable to the library of every
gentleman.
EARNINGS BY CONYICTS.—In the year 1844, upon a
daily average of 874 prisoners in Millbank prison, the earn-
ings amounted to 3,7481. 63. 65/01., and deducting the
expense of the manufactory, 1,002/. 2s. 1%d., the net
earnings were 2,7461. 4s. 51-,d., showing the annual earn-
ings per head to have been 31. 2s. 10,id. Last year, upon
a daily average of 954 prisoners, the earnings amounted to
5,191/. 15s. 113%d., of which 925/. 17s. Ild. were the
expenses of the manufactory, leaving a net profit of
4,2651. 18s. Oid., showing the annual earnings per head
to have been 4/. 9s. 54d. The inspectors of the Mill-
bank prison, in their report for the year 1845, state that the
conduct of the prisoners, taken as a body, has been orderly
and submissive.

BRITISH SHIPPING.—On Tuesday a return was issued
(obtained by Mr. Bouverie) of the number and tonnage of
British shipping entered inwards at ports of the United King-
dom from British colonial ports and from ports of foreign
Powers in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, and cleared
outwards to such ports in each year since 1820. It appears
that in 1821 the ships entered inwards at ports of the United
Kingdom from British colonial ports numbered 2,582, and
tonnage 656,213; whilst those cleared outwards numbered
2,698, and their tonnage 663,145. In the year 1845 theihips
entered inwards were 5,685, and the tonnage 1,895,529; and
those cleared outwards 5,046, and the tonnage 1,706,835.
In 1821, the number of British vessels entered inwards from
ports of foreign Powers in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Ame-
rica respectively was 6,669, and their tonnage 863,891;
whilst those cleared outwards numbered 5,766, and their
tonnage 757,295. In 1845 the number of the first descrip-
tion was 13,817, and their tonnage 2,289,744; and of the
second 14,008, and the tonnage 2,427,552.
AN OLD MONSTRIL—It may be remembered that an
old man, seventy-nine years of age, named Lacombe, was
taken up at Niort, on July 12, for having fired four pistol-
shots, and killed the servant-girl of his daughter, and
wounded one of her workwomen. The case came on for
trial last week before the Court of Assizes at Deux•Sevres.
The prisoner, though of such advanced age, appeared
vigorous, with an eye of unusual brightness. Ile was dressed
respectably in black, and wore a white cravat. It appeared
from the evidence that Lacombe lived at Niort with his
daughter, a marekaade des modes. He had on several occa-
sions paid attentions to one of the workwomen, named Vic-
torine Dubois, aged twenty-three, and at last absolutely per-
secuted her with his prayers to become his miltress. The
young woman, who was perfectly well conducted, constantly
refused. It would appear that the prisoner pursued pre-
cisely the same course with the servant-girl, named Celeste
Simonet, aged twenty, and always met with a similar re-
pulse. He at last became exceedingly irritated, and threat-
ened to do them an injury. On July 12 he went out early in
the morning and bought a pistol, having already in his pos-
session three others. He returned home and charged them
all, and then entered the part of the house inhabited by his
daughter. Finding Celeste Simonet in the first room, he at
once fired at her and missed. He then took better aim, and
shot her through the heart. lie quietly proceeded towards the
salle a-manger, and perceiving Victorine Dubois through a
glass-door, he took aim at her and fired also. She saw his
intention, and mechanically put her hand before her face.
She received the ball on one of her fingers, which was dread-
fully shattered, though in all probability it saved her life.
lie then fired the fourth pistol. and the ball struck her on
the side of the forehead, but glanced off. The prisoner was
then going tranquilly out of the house, when the neighbours
rushed in and arrested him. On his trial he declared that he
knew nothing whatever of what had taken place on the
morning in question, and be could not have been in his right
mind. This was, however, disproved by the tes! imeny of
a number of witnesses who had spoken to bias during
morning, ai:c! who declared that he was perfectly calm and
collected. I e was found guilty, and sentenced, in con-
sideration of his great ago, to only solitary confinement
for life.-+Galignani's Messenger.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
2GHAM RACES—WEDNESDAY.
The list, as we intimated in our last, improved vastly on
the first day, bringing out horses of a superior grade, and
realising an amount of sport that gave an eclat to the meet-
ing, which, truth to speak, had but an indifferent commence-
ment. The weather was extremely favourable, aed the at-
tendance, not so large, perhaps, as we were in the habit of
meeting when Egham rejoiced in Royal patronage. but still
numerous and fashionable. The course was well kept, and
the general arrangements were creditable alike to the stew-
ards and their officers. The racing commenced shortly after
one o'clock, and was brought to a conclusion before half-past
five. We subjoin the results :
Sweeps of 10 sovs. each, with 25 added ; for 2 yrs old colts,
Bst 71b, and fillies, 9st 41b; winners once 41b, and twice
71b extra. T.Y.C. (7 Subs.)
Baron Rothschild's The Daughter of the Star...(H. Bell) 1
Sir G. Heathcote's br c by Liverpool, out of Carolina 2
Mr. John Day's The Tartar 3
The following also started. but were not placed :—Mr.
Death's La Danseuse, Duke of Richmond's Pell Mell, Count
Bathyany's Teresina.
Betting-7 to 4 agst Tartar, sto 2 agst Pell Mell, 3to 1
agst Carolina colt, and 4to 1 agst the winner. The Tartar
took a lead of three or four lengths, and made strong play to
the distance, where the Carolina colt and the Baron's filly
joined him, and the trio raced home together, the filly
winning by a neck; the same between second and third;
Pell Mell a bad fourth. Run in 1 min. 17 sec.
The Surrey and Middlesex Stakes of 25 soya. each, 15 ft, and
only 5 if' declared, with 50 added. The winner of the
Brighton Stakes 7lb extra, of the Queen's Plate at Brighton
or any other handicap amounting to 1001. 41hs extra. Two
miles and a distance. (35 Subs., 21 of whom declared.)
Mr. Ramsbottom's Pineapple, 6 yrs, Bst 71b (Sly) 1
Mr. Worley's Example, 5 yrs, Bst 31b
Sir S. Spry's fby Sir Hercules—Taglioni, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b 3
Mr. S. Scott's Mosque, aged, Bst 31b 4
Betting-7 to 4 agst Mosque, sto 2 agst Pineapple, 3to 1
agst Example, and sto 1 agst Taglioni filly. Mosque made
the running, followed by Pineapple, the Taglioni filly
third, and Example last. No change took place till they
reached the distance, Mosque then gave way and Pineapple
went on with the running and was never afterwards headed,
and won by half a length. Run in four minutes and four
seconds.
The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas; three yrs, 7st 51b; four
yrs, 9st Ilb ; five yrs, 9st 111 b ; six yrs and aged, lOst 21b ;
Two miles and a distance.
Mr. John Day's The Hero, 3 yrs (4 Day) 1
Mr. Moor's Wolfdog, 4 yrs ... ' 2
Sir G. Heathcote's bc by Hetrisan Platoff—Nannette 3 yrs 3
Count Bathyany's Tragical, 3 yrs
Mr. Winch's Oliver Cromwell, 5 yrs . 5
5 to 4 on The Hero, and 6 to 4 agst Wolfdog. Oliver
Cromwell went away with the lead, •and made the running
for about three parts of a mile; it was then taken up by The
Hero, who made the pace severe, had it all his own way, and
won in a couple of lengths. Run in 3 min. 29 sec. The
Hero and Wolfdog were entered on Monday instead of at
the ordinary time of entering for the plates, and were pro-
tested against on the ground that this plate, being paid out of
the Queen's privy purse, instead of out of the fund allotted
to the Master of the Horse, it must be subjected to the com-
mon regulations of the meeting, and that therefore entries
on Monday were bad. Different opinions having heen.given
by Lord George Bentinck and the Hon. Captain Rous, the
horses ran . under protest, and the point is reserved for the
proper authorities, Mr. Winch also made an objection, on
the ground that his was the only horse shown at the entry
on Peiday.
The Amateur Stakes of 10 soya. each, and 25 added; for
three yrs old, 9st 101 b ; four, lOst 101 b ; fivEYS llst 51b ; six,
and aged, list 121 b; gentlemen riders; the second to save
his stake, and the winner to be sold for 150/. Heats, one
mile. (9 Subs.)
Mr. P. Rolt's Collingwood, 3 yrs • (Owner) 1 1
Count Bathyany's Master Stepney, 4 yrs
Mr. A. Ricardo's The Widow, aged
First heat-5 to 2 on Collingwood, who won by a bead.
Second heat-4 to lon Collingwood ; won by a neck.
The Egham Stakes of 5 soya. each, and 10 added from the
fund, and 20 by the South-Western Railway Company;
3 yrs old, 7st ; 4 yrs, Bst 41b ; 5 yrs, Bst 101 b; 6 yrs and
aged, Ost llb ; mares, &c. allowed 31bs, &c. Heats, one
mile and a half. (4 Subs.)
Mr. West's Rowland, 6 yrs, 7st 51b (Mann) 1 1
Mr. Death's Subduer, 6 yrs, Bst 31b
Count Bathyany's Master tepney, 4 yrs, •7st lib 3 3
Both heats won in a canter.
THE ST. LEGER.
14 to I laid agst lago, and 20 to 1 agst Free Lance, whose
backer would have gone on at the price.
THE LATE BENTINCK STUD.—It is now determined that
the corning sale at Tattersall's shall he on Monday and
Tuesday, the 7th and Bth instants. The first day will be
confined to the three yrs old and upwards, in training, 10
lots; 3 yearlings, 10 mares, covered by Emelius, and 5 co-
vered by Slane. The second day will be confined to two yrs
old, 4.7 lots; which being deeply engaged, must be seen at
Goodwood.

STOURBRIDGE RACES.—MONDAY.
The Prestwood Stakes of 3 sous. eacb, and 20 added. Heats,
one mile and a half. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Davenport's Florine, 4 yrs, Bst 4lb (Denman) 3 1 1
Mr. Stubb's Hyacinth, 3 yrs, 7st llb 1 2 2
Mr. Parr's Felix, 3 yrs, 7st 41b
The Stourbridge Stakes of 7 sous. each, 2 ft, if declared, with
35/. added. Mile and a quarter. (34 Subs, 19 paid.)
Mr. Parr's Dulcet, 4 yrs, 7st 91b ..........(Whitehouse) 1
Mr. Flintoff's The Rhine, 6 yrs, 7st
Mr. Fryer nd Sweetbriar, 3 yrs, sst 61b
The following also ran :—Mr. Whitworth's Lady Sarah,
Mr. J. Knight's Jolly Beggar, and Mr. Hook's Buttress.
The Stand Purse of 251., added to a Sweepstakes of 3 soya.
each. Heats, one mile. (4 Subs.)
Sir C. Cockerell's Amazon, 3 yrs, Est 111 b (J. Sharpe) 1 1
Mr. Davies' Kitty Wee, 4 yrs, Bst 41b.... 2 2
Mr. Raworth's Engineer, 3 yrs, 7st 41b
The East Worcestershire Stakes of 3 sous. each, and 30 added.
Heats, one mile and a half. (5 Subs.)
Mr. Barton's Reliance, 4 yrs, 7st 41b
Mr. Whitehouse's Charlotte, 3 yrs, 6st 31b
Mr. Jones's Sailor, aged, Bst 3lb 3 3 dr
BETTING AT MANCHESTER--TUESDAY.
THE LEAMINGTON STAKES.-3 to 1 agst Mongrel, 7to 1
agst Roderick.
ST. LEGER.-5 to 1 agst Sir Tatton Sykes (taken)-15
to 2 agst The Traverser (taken)-15 to 2 agst Brocardo-11
to 1 agst Fancy Boy (taken)-14 to 1 agst Grimston-15
to 1 agst Poynton (taken)-15 to 1 agst Sting-20 to 1 agst
Erin-go-Bragh.