The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-16 00:00:00

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purifying and refreshing properties have obtained its exclusive selec-

Lion by the Court and the Royal Family of Great Britain,-and those
of the Continent ef Europe., together with the "elite" of the Aris-
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All other I.lCalvdora" are fraudulent counterfeits.

THE WINNING OF THE INFANTA,
A ROMANTIC BALLAD.
FYTTE FIRST.
The sun shines fair-on Neuilly, p,st the hour of dine,
Old France and his four royal sons are sitting o'er their wine;
But untasted by the monarch's side bright gleams the Clos-
Vougeot,
As he chinks his five-franc pieces, and surveys his sons
a-row.

Oh, a wily man is that old king, his whiskers long and grey,
With a twinkle in his eye, that seems " I'm wide awake"

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to Say;
And the smile that plays about his lip is just the smile that

suits _ _
The only King in Europe who has polished his own boobs.
There sits dark JOINVILLE, with moustaches right truculent
of twist,
MONTPENSIER, the muffin-faced, Mtyourts the close of fist,
And young n'AumALE, the fair and flat, a chasseur tight and
trim,
And the monarch thought " it's lucky that I've found a wife
for him."

" NE➢IOURS, thou art mine own true son—small dower thy
wife need pay.
By skinning flints and shaving close thou still wilt make thy

Way
JOINVILLE I've wedded to Brazil, her diamonds and her
dollars,
And all save one I've fitted with matrimonal collars.
"There sit two royal maidens in the Escurial towers,
Their hands his prize who mystifies the European Powers;
By St. Denis, there's one for thee, MONTPENSIER, my boy I"
And down with a crack; on his third son's back, came the
monarch's hand in joy!
- .
"For the rival knights TRAPPANI, COBURG, MONTEMOLIN,
Don FRANCISCO, Don ENRIQUE, I hold them not a pin
Let who will have HER MAJESTY, we for the INFANTA
stand:
There are,cases where one bird i' the bush is worth two birds
in hand.

" What ho, my squires ! bring forth. my horse, my armour,
and my shield!"
And 'twos rare to see the ancient kin.g how he armed him for
the field,
While his four sons gathered round him, each on his beaded
knee, •
And took- a lesson from that old Chevalier d'lndustrie.
He hatk braced his helm of humbug, his breastplate of un-
truth, •
He bath taken his shield of impudence and his lance of little
ruth ;
And his sons up to the saddle-tree give him a leg at need,
And proudly paces " Artful Dodge," his old but trusty
steed

FYTTE SECOND.
The lists are cleared, the barriers reared, the knights come
riding in,
The captive maidens sadly look, for liking is a sin ;
They may not choose, may not refuse, for such their royal
parts,
'Tis but their hands are wanted—what need to think of
hearts?

Rides in the van, the pale TRAPPA 2f, his sword is in his sheath,
The legend blazoned on his shield " I fight"—a cross beneath.
MONTE3IOLIN, his shield within, displays a crown of brass,
Which his sire Don CARLOS gave him when he found it
wouldn't pass.
Next rides COBURG- COHARY, and the QUEEN doth wish him
luck ;
For, though somewhat out at elbows, he's what ladies call a
" duck,"
And he bears the Coburg legend, which his seedy look con-

firms,
Of "Royal Marriages performed upon the cheapest terms."
Don FRANCISCO rideth after, looking fain to run away,
Right groggy is he in his selle, and anything but gay
Follows close bGld Don ENRIQUE, he hath caught the Ix-
FANTA'S eye,
He blows a kiss to h?r, and she blows hint one in reply.

The trumpets sound, the knights ride round, displaying of

their paces,
And the ladies gay, they flirt away, displaying of their faces ;
When, o'er the barrier of Utrecht, that shuts the lists below,
With lusty leap Louis Pnxurra on " Artful Dodge" doth
show.

[le-wears his crown with vizor down," Hold hard!" he erica

aloud,

" I too will ride a tilt of arms before this noble crowd:"
And he strikes on Prince TICAPPANI'S shield, who, the chal-
lenge when he hears,
Immediately is taken ill, and straightway disappears.

" Ha, ha! I guess that's one the less I Now, Sir COBURG,
for you."
And he tipped his lance with gold, for well his foe's weak
point he knew ;
A rush, a thrust—a cloud of dust—and when it left the air,
There lay the COBURG, dead to " time," and much the worse
for wear.

" Now rest thee, Don FRANCISCO, I leave the QUEEN to you.
But Don ENRIQUE, there's a crow to pluck between us two."
And he bent his lance of slander 'gainst that heart so true and
leal,
And, with a grin, the stern old king sent home the poisoned
steel.

Then silent flowed the tears of those maidens as, perforce,
Each saw her favourite champion sent, as Bell's Life says,
" to dorse ;"
But nought reeked he, the grim Louis,„pf breaking hearts, or
woe :
He'd come to win a wife, and one he'd have before he'd go.
On came 141oNTEntou9r, but aye his glance he backward
threw,
For the Constable was on his track, as well old Louis knew;
" Police !" shouts France, but their approach the Count
awaited not,
At first glimpse Of the Alcalde he bath bolted like a shot !
The jousts are done, the prize is won, old France has gained
the day,
Tho"tis in what some folks may call—a dirty sort of way;
And he strokes the neck of " Artful Dodge," "Well done
thou trusty steed!
I've worked thee hard, but never yet thou'st failed me at my
need !"

Right proudly rode he up the lists to where the maidens
sat,
And courteously his visor raised, beneath his broad-
brimmed hat,
Your hands are mine, to pick and choose: Fzelcasco
take the QUEEN;
For you, INFANTA, Pve a son, a gallant boy, tho' green."
And with a roguish chuckle, as they looked both sad and
sour,
He gave these sorry maidens each unto a husband's power;
And long Madrid shall grumble at the doings of the day
When, with " Artful Dodge," Louis Pinurn the Isp.l,lsTA
bore away.—Punch.

MANCHESTEIt, WEDNESDAY.—A meeting of working
men of Manchester, convened by placard and advertise-
ments, was held last evening in the Town Hall, " To
memorialise Lord John Russell to open the ports." The
large room of the hall was filled to overflowing. At a
quarter before eight o'clock, Mr. Abel Heywood, Dr.
John Watts, and other promoters of the meeting, came
upon the platform, and on the motion of Dr. Joust
WATTS,
.Mr. ABELTEYWOOD was called to the chair, in taking
which he said:—At the latter end of last year a meeting
of tf.e working classes was called to memorialise Sir R.
reel upon a question similar to the present; and it was
thought desirable that another, meeting of a similar
character should now be called, in order that the work-
ing classes should take•the lead in a movement so impor
tent to themselves. The tune for opening the ports had
now evidently arrived, and the only question was," How
soon can they be opened?"—(clear hear.) The pressure
which must arise might and would be dangerous to the
peace of the country, if the people thought the country
had lit a sufficiency of food. To prevent outbreaks, it
was a duty to suggest the propriety of memorialis-
ing Lord John Russell, to induce him to open the ports
at once for all kinds of grain.—(A pp( :use.) He hoped
this example would be followed eiaewhero with such
spirit as to induce Lord John Russell to consider the
importance of the memorials and the state of the
country, and accede at once to the request of the people.
He believed the Governra,nt only wanted an expression
of opinion on the part of the people, who had but to
speak in one universal echo, and the thing was con-
summated.— (Applause.)
Dr. JOHN WATTS, in moving the first resolution, said
that if Sir Robert Peel had a re %son last year to repeal
the corn laws, Lord John Ru sell had a nouh!e reason
now to open the ports. Manchester :tad its vicinity
contain about 300,000 people, and if each consumer', a
41b. loaf per week, the difference in price would amount
to :3,125/. per week, which wosld put 104 tradesmen':,
shops in the receip'. of 3bl. each per week, or would (=-
ploy 2,125 men at 20s. per week. If two-fifths of the
men were thrown out of work, there would soon be 1,2.0
families, or 6,250 individuals, extra-dependents up n
parochial relief. Riot and murder had already com-
menced in Ireland ; famine was in Caithness, where they
were not only without potatoes, but the herring fishery
had failed ; and in London there were 7,000 to 8,000
journeymen tailors out of employment. This was the
first trade that felt the effects of distress ; for people
must have food, but could do awhile without new cloth-
ing. The duty last week was Bs. a quarter on wheat ;
and it was important not to have a penny of difficulty in
the way of raising supplies of food and preventing
tumult. There were two good things to be got by open-
ing the ports,—commercial relations would be drawn
much closer, and consequently friendly feelings between
nations. Then the import duty was a sort of gam-
bling-table, and people were always ready to lock up
food when the people were starving, in order to reap
3 richer harvest of profit from it. There was now
immense corn-jobbing. Open the ports, and this
gambling would be at once knocked on the head, and
food would be obtained for till. Su pose we imported
only half a million. of quarters, knocking off the Bs.
duty, the result would be a saving of only 200,0001.,
which, if turned over only once in two months for a

year, would find employm-ent for 23,077 men, at 20s. per
week, paid in wages ; and if 'these men were heads of,
families, it would relieve our parishes from 75,000 indi-

viduals, who, without such return, must become charge-
able to them. Perhaps Ministers thought the people
apathetic ; but the apparent apathy had arisen from the
fact that the people hesitated before they would throw
my impediment to Lord John Russell's carrying out
his own policy, as they had great confidence in the man.
He concluded by moving the first resolution, for opening
the ports.
Mr. Raw TEER seconded the resolution. In Ireland,

instead of opening the ports, the Government opened
the barracks, and poured soldiers in upon a starving
people, who had no disposition to riot.—(Hear.) Could
soldiers calm the storm that hunger must necessarily
produce ?—(Hear.) He hoped there would be no vio-
lation of the public peace in Ireland. He thought that
people had manifested a- degree of patience and forbear-
ance which he feared would not have been manifested in

this country. There was one thing in favour of this
meeting as regarded its influence, that it was one not of
Chartists, Whigs, Radicals, or Tories. In Manchester,
at this moment, the feeling in favour of opening the
ports was general, and pervaded all classes, from the
weaver to the richest manufacturer.—(Applause.)
Mr. CHARLES POUNTNEY said he was glad to see so
large an assemblage, and he hoped they would keep to
the specific business and duty of the meeting—to memo-
rialise
the Government to open the ports. Already
Dundee had sent up a memorial; and he hoped Man-
chester would be at all events second in calling the at-
tention of Government to this matter. They were now
constitutionally assembled in the Town-ball of Man-
chester—a circumstance which would give weight to their
memorial.—(Cheers.) _ _

Mr. GEORGE FREDERICK MANDLEY also supported
the motion. He said he had for some time abstained
from politics, but observing that the price of the people's
staple articles of food had been enormously advanced, he
could not, as the head of a family, and one sympathising
with working men, refrain from coming to make some
statement of facts, which, from his peculiar position and
means of information, had come to his knowledge. It
was to him a delightful circumstance that he could stand
there, and (though there were high prices of edible
stuffs) vindicate the providence of God, by denying that
there was famine. Nevertheless, he could support this
motion, because he doubted not that if the ports were
opened there would be a check given to that large
amount of speculation in corn which had run it up to the
present high price, and was doing enormous mischief to
the working classes, and all who were engaged in the
regular trade of the, country. Every one who had
heard the speech of Mr. Watts must be satisfied
that every shilling extra taken from the working
man in tee shape of food must operate to the dis-
advantage of those engaged in textile manufactures; it
must affect our home trade, and he was assured, on
most undoubted authority, that it was doing so to an
alarming extent.—(Hear, hear.) The whole of the fall-
ing off in trade he did not mean to say was owing to
this circumstance, because there was the war in Mexico
and the rising in Kafirland had some influence upon
trade.' His main object was to show that the high price
of food was not the consequence of scarcity, and he had
in his hand tables which would show that there was at
the present time in this country a larger amount of
wheat and wheat-flour than was ever known in this
country.—(Hear' hear.) The document he held in his
hand, and which he should quote from, was not a mere
newspaper paragraph, but a return issued by Mr. Porter
of the Board of Trade ; and it would show that at this
time, when people were talking of the impending famine
—when owing to the abundance of money speculators
were advancing the price of food se rapidly that the
price of the 41b. loaf had gone up from 6d. to 80. in six
or seven weeks only—there never was such an abun-
dance of food in this country. The table which he held
in his hand to quote from, first was, a return giving a
three years' comparative statement of the quantity of
wheat and wheat-flour imported into this country, and
entered for home consumption, and of the amount ex-
ported, during a period of seven months in each year
ending on the sth of August, namely the years 1844, 1845,
and 1846. The imports of wheat and flour were, for the
seven months ending sth of August—
Quarters of wheat. Cwts. of flour.
1844... ........ 809,667
1845 201,761
1846
—(Loud cries of "Hear, hear.") Now, then, the next
item was the amount entered for home consumption
within that same period of time in each year, and he
would call their attention to the circumstance iet there
was entered for home consumption in seven months, end-
ing the sth August--
Quarters of wheat. Cwts. of flour.
1844
1845 72,720
1846 1,798,329 .
And this last year, let it be remembered, was the year
of famine!—(Applause.) The quatity of oats imported
in 1844 was 85,198; in 1845, 234,857; and in 1846 (in
the same period of seven months), 328,886. Add to this
that in 'the present year there had been imported 92,689
quarters of Indian meal, whilst there had been none of
that article imported during the two. previous years.—
(Hear.) It was an interesting fact, before they went
further, to see what stock of grain and flour there was
in the country at the commencement of the periods he
had named. There was in bond, then, on the sth De
cember, 1845—wheat, 794,250 qrs.; oats, 108,600 qrs.;
wheaten flour, 405,455 cwts. Any gentleman who hadn
have observant
n corroborations
o f
v'hat was going on around him, would
of this excess of food, for it
bee
seense rva
was a subject of remark that there was a larger amount
of wheat-flour traversing our streets at this time than
was ever seen before.—('fear, hear.) This was not a
period of famine in wheat, then. The Farmer's Maga-
zine corroborated this statement, for it said the crops of
the present year were well got in, large, and that the
quality and yield of the wheat were never finer.—(Ap-
plause:) The parties who were causing high prices,
then, were the speculators. And let it not be supposed
that he was inveighing against speculators, because he
held that capitalists had a right to invest it as they
thought to the best advantage, and it might be a ques-
tion whether, in times of real scarcity, the heightening
of the price did not do good by keeping the people from
at once exhausting their stock of provisions, and by
spreading the consumption over a longer period. He '
was anxious the more to make these facts known, be-
cause the editors of newspapers, who are men engaged
personally in commerce, and consequently dependent
upon interested parties sometimes for iliformatien, had
been putting abroad grossly unfounded, or at least mis-
leading, statements. The Times had stated some time
since that there were not more than 700,000 quarters of
corn in bond, but said nothing about the fact that
2,700,000 quarters had been released from bond in two
mo nt
increased
h s.— (l l e
ar, , h ear.) But the poor were being robbed
ofthe
quantity
that individuals might have
the advantage of an increased price.
He held in his
of September
mil-
no
16th which
atr,
wh ehoiNfehfeaezv maYri
nroeerh,kafrCoarotueirdt: ehrsaiasidn Enquireradttehtae:m tehe
rothere was
crops of grain
that
there exceeded this year the crops of last year, and that
the people of the states could not, by many tens of mil-

" The Memorial of the Working Classes of the Town o,
Manchester, assembled in Public Meeting in the
Town-hall,
" Humbly showeth—That from the present extraor-
dinary price of bread, and of food generally, your memo-
rialists apprehend great distress, the addition of a single
penny to the price of the 41b. loaf requiring an increased
outlay of 1,0001. per week for bread alone in the town of
Manchester. The rise in the price of bread within a few
weeks has been nearly three-fifths of the whole cost, or
nearly 3,0001. per week for this town alone; which sum
is, of course, abstracted from the receipts of the general
tradesman, and is thus operative to the destruction of
the home market for manufactures. Your memorialists
fear that a continuance of such prices, with the prospect
of further increase, will, in the present state of trade, by
putting bread out of the reach of many of our country-
men, endanger the public peace ; your memorialists
conceive it, therefore, a matter of paramount importance
that every possible facility should be immediately given
to increase the amount of provisions in the United King-
dom. Your memorialists, therefore, respectfully, but
earnestly, entreat you to call an immediate Council, with
a view to opening the ports of the United Kingdom, and
admitting all ,kinds of provisions duty free.—And your
memorialists, &c."
It might be said that Government could not do this; but
a Minister had stated that Indian corn had been ad-
'mitted into Ireland duty free, by order of the Ministers,
and surely they might do this-again, and in England.
Sir Robert Peel had given us total repeal, but not im-
mediate. Lord John Russell had now the opportunity
of giving the rest, by making the repeal immediate.
Mr. JAMES COOPER, in seconding the adoption of the
memorial, remarked upon what he termA the singu-
larity of the fact. that whilst there was such an abun-
dance of food in England, according to the returns read
to the meeting, the poor of Ireland should be impove-
rished and -dying. He denounced the speculators in
corn and cotton as 'guilty of dishonesty, and supported
the view taken by Mr. Mandley, that there was no de-
ficiency in this country at the present time, and that it
was only necessary to open the ports to put a stop to the
practices by which so much evil was occasioned.
Mr. MANDLEY, in explanation, read the weekly re-
turns of the amount of wheat entered for home consump-
tion from the week ending on the 9th of July up to the
last return, and argued that the amounts had only de.
creased because of the high rate of duty, but that corn
bad still been bonded, and was ready to be released
when the duty had diminished. He advocated the
opening of the ports, because it would have the effect of
causing an immediate fall in the price of grain, although
he promised the meeting that in less than six weeks
they would have corn much cheaper; but the opening
of the ports was desirable, since it would cause what he
termed the speculators in the wants of the people to burn
their fingers.
The Rev. Mr. WIIFrE, from Ireland, made a few re-
marks on the present condition of the population of that

country, asserting that where 500 or 600 persons who
had no means of subsistence applied at, a Government
works for employment, only fifty or sixty could be en-
gaged, and the remainder had to return to their homes
without money or food.
The memorial was unanimously adopted, and thanks
having been voted to the chairman, with a request that
he would forward it to Lord John Russell for presenta-
tion, the proceedings terminated shortly after ten o'clock.

HOME COLONIZATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sll4—The general sympathy excited by the existing
popular distress will probably lead to the adoption of
measures for permanently improving the condition of
the labouring portion of the community ; at such a
moment you will perhaps allow me to call attention to
certain industrial establishments, founded a quarter of a
century ago, in calamitous times, by our neighbours the
Dutch. Attempts are, apparently, about to be made on
a small scale to introduce somewhat similar associations

into this country ; one of these, a " Self.supporting
Village Society," connected with the Church of England,
purposes to found a village in the centre of not less than
1,000 acres of land, which shall accommodate 300
families, where the inhabitants may be enabled, " by the
produce of their own labour, not only to support them-
selves, but also to defray the expenses of the establish-
ment. Each person, besides being more or less engaged
in agriculture, will also be employed in that kind of
work for which he is best suited." We know that com-
plete success has followed various well-directed ex-
periments in communism in different parts of the world.
With reference, for example, to the Moraviane, U.
Breuttel, the principal director of the colony of Hern-
hutt, asserts that with regard to "the commercial con-
cerns of the settlements in his experience of twenty-five
years, ho never knew one to fail." But perhaps the
most apposite illustration of the benefits to be derived
from self-supporting institutions is to be seen in Hob
land. The following account is taken from a " Sketch
of German and Dutch Husbandry," published in the
Journal of Agriculture, No. IL, New Series:—
" The colonies of Fredericksoord and Willemsoord
were established when, after two years of great scarcity,
a large proportion of the population was reduced to ab-
solute destitution. A society was, therefore, formed by
a few benevolent individuals, the object of which was to
give employment to men in this deplorable condition.
In carrying out their purpose they conferred not only an
immediate and lasting benefit on the individuals in ques-
tion, but effected great national advantages--first, by .
stemming the spread of vice, and, in the second place,
by increasing the national resources in converting to
arable land a waste on which even a sprig of heather
was scarcely to be met with. Such was the origin of
these colonies twenty-four years ago, and no one can
travel the road along which they are situated without
noticing the great change that has been effected on the
face of the country by their establishment. From a
wild, barren country we elate.* at once a little oasis, which
bears every mark of prosperk—neat cottages, crops as
luxuriant as if nurtured by a better soil, and gardens
stocked with useful vegetables, and adorned with a
variety of flowers. The quantity of land attached to
each house is about seven acres.; The colonists are all
supplied with implements on entering on their plot,
besides a cow and a pig. There is a regular debt( r and
creditor account kept ; everything they receive on
entering is marked down against them, and whenever
they are enabled to pay off their debts from economy
of living, they are allowed to rent their plots. Attached
to the colonies are schools for the gratuitous education
of the children, and worshops in which they are taught
some useful trade. I passed one of these shops, in which
there were from thiny to forty looms worked by the
children, and adjoining it was another room, where
some were engaged in spinning, mending shoes, and
other occupations. I was attracted to the place by the
busy clatter of the shuttles and the sounds of music
and on coming up to it, found the children engaged at
their respective occupations cheering on one another in
their work by a sprig. What health, wh tt happiness
shone in these pauper children's faces! Their looks
were a sufficient proof of the benefits derived from such
an institution. How strikingly does a sketch like this
contrast with Crabbe's picture of the interior of an
English parish poor-house!"
We spend upwards of seven millions of money annu-
ally for the mere purpose of keeping the poor alive ;
since the conclusion of the war, in'lBls, no less a sum
has been levied upon the rate-payers than 200,000,000/.
There are thirty millioss of acres of waste land in
Great Britain and Ireland, of which fifteen millions are
considered as reclaimable. The valeQ set upon the pos-
session of ground by the poor may be estimated from
the fact that, according to Mr. R. B. Sheridan, the
labouring man in Dorsetshire actually gives as high a
rate as 91. per acre for a small plot ; and it has been
stated on good authority that recently reclaimed land in
Lancashire and Sussex has yielded a produce, under
spade cultivation, that has realised 401., and even 50/.,
per acre. With what apparent facility, then, might the
waste places of the land be made contributory to the in-
crease of the wealth of the nation, and, at the same
time, ministrant to the comfort and happiness of the
destitute ! What we seem to need is the intervention
of some master-spirit, who, out of the elements of good
which we suffer to lie around us unimproved, untouched,
shall educe a new order of things, and confer upon the
nation what Wordsworth calls the " English dower of
inward happiness.' Before the end of the present cen-
tury the population of the empire will have doubled
itself ; will England in that day be a fountain of health
and fertility, or will it be " a fen of stagnant waters,"
filling the atmosphere with baneful influences, and gene-
S•
rating misery and death ?

SERIOUS ILLNESS Or Mn. COLQUHOUN, M.P.—lt
is with sincere regret we have just heard of the serious
illness of J. C. Colquhoun. Esq., M.P., and that, although
now pronounced out of immed►ate danger, he is still in
a very precarious state. The attack appears to have
been that of gastric fever, and of unusual severity. From
the last accounts from Killermont, we fear his recovery
must be a work 9f time,

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 14.—The Wasp, 16, Commander
Sidney 11. Usaher, arrived this morning from the Coast
of Africa station, whereon she has been employed
during the greater part of the last four years in the
suppression of the slave trade. She is ordered to sail, at
daylight to-morrow, for Sheerness, to be paid off. She
sailed from the Congo (Kabenda) station on the ith of
August, leaving there the Larne, 18, Commander Bris-
bane, and the Bittern, 16, Commander Hope. She ar-
rived at St. Helena on the 21st of August, but brings no
more recent news of interest from that island than we
reported by the Maria Soames. She sailed from Ascen-
sion on the 9th ult., leaving there the Actaeon, 26, Cap-
tain Mansell (from whom she brithys Admiralty dis-
patches, which have been forwarded by rail this even-
ing) ; the Favourite, 18, Commander Murray ; and the
Cyguet, 6, Commander Montresor : the latter had been
surveyed and pronounced fit for further service.
The island of Ascension was healthy, as was the
squadron on the coast generally.
The Benguela division of the coast squadron, at the
above date, consisted of the Espoir, 10, Commander
Hand ; and the Rapid, 10, Commander Gooch.
The Congo division, where the slave trade is carried
on more perseveringly than at any other part of the
coast, consisted of the Larne, Bittern, Waterwitch, 8,
Commander Birch; the Heroine, 8, Commander Ed-
munds; the Hecate steam-sloop, Commander West; the
Prometheus steam-sloop, Commander Hay ; and the
Kingfisher, 12, Commander Brown.
At the Bight of Benin—The Styx steam-sloop, Com-
mander Chaos; the Ranger, 10, Commander Anderson;
the Flying Fish, Commander Dyke; Pantaloon, 10.
Commander Douglas; and the Hydra steam-sloop, Com-
mander Young.
At the Gallinas The Nimrod, 20, Commander
Dacres; the Alert, 6, Commander Ellis; the Ferret 8,
Commander Sprigg; the Star, 10, Commander Hockin;
and the Rolla, 10, Commander Simpson.
The Lily, 16, Commander Newton, was off Congo.
The French squadron had been active in detecting
and detaining slavers, and the American corvette Ma-
rian lately detained an American vessel at Kabenda,
the Casquet, on suspicion of being engaged in the slave
trade.
T.l.‘e Wasp brought home Commander Ilockin, late of
the Wasp and Star; Lieutenant Munton, late of the
Actmon; Mr. Jones, late paymaster and purser of the
Cygnet; and the late paymaster and purser of the Lily.
The Echo steam-tug and Drake, lighter, brought the
depot companies of the 91st Regiment from Park-
hurst barracks to-day to assist in doing the garrison
duty at Portsmouth.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 14. The Wildfire steam-vessel,
Second Master George Brockman, arrived at Woolwich
yesterday from Sheerness.
The Garland, Dover steam-packet, Captain Smithett,
arrived at Woolwich to. day frem Dover, to have some
defects made good, which she sustained by touching
Dover Harbour.
Captain Houston Stewart, C. 8., Superintendent of her
Majesty's dockyard, Woolwich, is on have at present.
Commodore Sir Francis A. Collier, C. 8., and K.C.H.,
viited Woolwich. dockyard to-day, and remained some
time at the office.

APPOINTMENTS,
Thomas Johnston, Master in Command, to the An-
dromache.
C. A. Jenkins, Clerk in Charge, to the Andromache.
William Broad, Boatswain, to the ..e"Etilus.
Robert Pete, Carpenter, to the
Joseph Deighton, Gunner, to the Andromache.
James Luke, Boatswain, to the Andromache.
Richard Hardy, Carpenter, to Vie Andromache.
George Russell, Acting First Engineer Styernumerary,
to the William and Marc.
1). C. 0. Slaughter, lqicLih;pman, to the Qicen.
George Boulten, Second Eugin,er, to the "William
and Mary.
Willoughby W. Lowell, Naval Cade, to the Rattle-
snake.

PR omoTroNs.
Peter Cracrort,Lieutvnant, to be Commander.
Thomas Eyre, Commander, to be retired Captain.
Henry Leslie Grove, Lieutenant, to be retired Com-
mander.

ADMIRALTY, Ocr. 13.
APPOINTMENTS.
Edmund Edward Tumour, Lieutenant, to the Por-
cupine.
E. L. B. Williams, Master's-Assistant to the Sidon.
H. G. Thomsett, Master's-Assistant to the Sidon.
11. W. Giffard, Captain, to the Penelope.
T 1

1E GREAT WESTERN'S LAST
VOYAGE.
The following account of the voyage of the Great
Western will show the imminent peril she experienced.
She sailed hence on the 12th ult.:—
On Saturday, the 19th, the wind began to freshen,
and in the evening had increased to a gale. 1)n Sunday
the fore staysail was split and the vessel lay to under
bare poles. At four P.m. the wind had increased to a
heavy storm, and a great quantity of water got into the
engine-room. The passengers in the morning assembled
in the cabin, seriously alarmed at the dangers that en-
compassed them: At eleven a heavy sea broke over the
starboard wheel house, and started the ice house and iron
life-boat from their fastenings.
" The wind was veering northward, and they attempt-
ed to wear ship, but were obliged to desist, meantime the
squaresails blew away. The lee quarter boats were torn
away from the davits by a heavy lee lurch, and the
others seemed likely to follow. At noon the storm still
raged in all its fury, and a heavy sea striking the lar-
board paddle-box, smashed it to atoms, sprung the spring
beam and shattered the parts of the ship attached
thereto. A splinter struck the Captain on the head, and
would have let:coked him overboard, but he was caught
in the nettings.

" The water was gaining on the pumps ; all the
hatches were battened down except those used in pump-
ing into the engine-room, and the weather continued the
same until midnight, when there was a lull of half an
hoar.

" The sails were blown from their furls and streamed
out to leeward in ribbons. But about one o'clock a
sea struck the vessel and a tremendous crash followed ;
torrents of water deluged the cabin through the skylight.
The passengers in total darkness, sprang to their feet,
and a scream of agony told the terrible apprehensions
that prevailed. The crash was caused by the wave which
swept the quarter-deck of all the wood-work upon it.
" Night closed in, the wind increasing in fury. The
whole ocean was covered with foam. In the evening the
Rev. Mr. Balch administered the sacrament to about 60
persons. The scene was most solemn and impressive.
"On Monday the storm still raged with terrific fury
till eight in the morning, when the clouds began to
break, and the squalls were less severe. The ship's head
was got to the N.W., and the yards hauled around. At
noon the storm ceased, and at 2 P.M. the sea abated, the
storm having lasted 36 hours.
" At half•past five on Monday morning the vessel was
in the greatest danger from a tornado, which buried the
gu:iwales of the ship in the sea. At this critical mo-
ment the engine was true to its duty, and brought the
ship up to her course. The wind had veered 20 points
in 36 hours.

" On Tuesday morning all assembled in the cabin,
when religious services were performed by Rev. Drs.
Smucker, Beecher, Balch and other cler,zynien on board.
A meeting of the passengers was also held, Archibald
Gracie, Lg., being called to the chair, and resolutions
were adopted suited to the circumstances of the case.
" A letter of thanks to the Captain and other officers
of the ship was also drawn up, and the sum of 200/. was
raised to present to the officers and crew, of vthich the
Captain was asked to accept 80/. A fund was also
started for the support of the Widows and children of
those who perish at sea, to be called, The Great Wes-
tern Fund.'"

TUE LATE SIR GEORGE Munaar.—The will of
the late Right Hun. Sir George Murray, late of Belgrays-
square, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Hon, Military
Order of the Bath, a general of her Majesty's forces, r nd
Master. General of the Ordnance, was proved in London
on the 9th instant, by his executors, Sir William Gee rge
Hylton Jolliffe, Bart., of Merstham, Surrey; Mr. Gee rge
William Hope, Curzon-street, Mayfair; and Wiliam
Smythe, advocate, Edinburgh. The will was executed
on the sth of January last, together with a deed of
settlement of the same date, in favour of his daughter
and only child, wife of Lieutenant Henry George Boyce,
of her Majesty's 2d Regiment of Life Guards, by which
the deceased has settled upon her various soar, in the
whole exceeding 26,0001., besides the house in B Agree,-
square; and further by his will leaves her the furniture,
pictures, prints, &c., as also the residue of his estate, to
enjoy a liCe interest over the whole of the said property,
money, and effects, and at her decease to descend to her
children; but if no children or child should obtain a
vested interest therein, then in trust for the children
that may be living of the late Hon. Sir Patrick Murray,
Bart. There are pecuniary bequests to his sister and
aunt, and to his son-in-law, Lieutenant H. G. Boyce, and
legacies to his servants. In the 54th year of his age,
Sir George married Lady Louisa Erskine, sister to the
Marquis of Anglesey, of whom he was bereaved in
January, 1842, having had issue one daughter.
THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAMER.—AII the attempts
made to get this fine vessel off the sands at Dundrum
Bay having failed, Captain Hosken, on Tuesday, had all
her sails set, and drove her higher up on the beach, as
she was then making two feet of water more per hour
than the pumps could keep free. From the latest accounts,
it appears that all chance of getting the Great Britainatleast
osfft
is nearly at an end. It is supposed she must
wait fur the high tides of the spring.A protecting
breast work is to be constructed round her. We learn
that she has been insured in London for about 20,0001.
An insurance has also, it seems, been effected in Glas-
gow, but to what extent we do not know. It is, how-
ever, believed that the whole insurances fall far short of
her cost—that is, about 120,000/.; and beyond this, we
hear that the underwriters refuse to pay, on the
ground that the vessel was lost through gross negligence.
The position of the Great Britain, down to Friday last,
was then nothing better, and the spring tides having
passed away without the efforts made during their con-
tinuance having been attended with sum.ss, the destruc-
tion, to a very great extent, of this fine property, is
almost inevitable. Her condition is described as bad,
no less than 14 feet of water in the hold.—Liverpeo!
Courier,

THE MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE AND THE EAST INDIA SALT
MONOPOLY.
(From the 111anchest r Courier.)
The subject of the salt monopoly of the East India
Company begins to attract very general attention. There
have been meetings on the subject in most of the large,
towns, and last week the movement commenced in Li.
verpool, where, on Friday, meetings were held at the
Shipowners' Association, and the East India Associa-
tion, when in each case memorials were determined on
to the President of the Board of Control, and the Court
of Directors of the East India Company. The follow-
ing is the copy of a memorial agreed to by the Man-
chester Chamber of Commerce, which has been for-
warded to the Court of Directors of the East India Com-
pany. It will be remembered that we have previously
given a copy of a memorial from the Commercial Asso-
ciation on the subject :
TO THE CHAIRMAN, DEPUTY•CHAIRMAN, AND DIRECTORS
OF THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY.
The Memorial of the Directors of the Chamber of
Commerce and Manufactures, at Manchester, respect-
fully showeth—
That your memorialists consider the system under
which salt is distributed in India to be so fraught with
evil as to demand from your Honourable Court immee ,
diate attention and correction.
That in placing their opinions before your Honourable
Court, your memorialists wish, at the same time, to ex-
press their perfect respect ; but believing that the salt
monopoly, as exercised by your Honourable Company,
is evasive of, if not repugnant to law, is indefensible in
principle, and injurious to the trade between Great Bri-
tain and India, they feel themselves bound in duty to
make such a representation to your Honourable Court
as they think the circumstances warrant.
That your memorialists consider the circumstances
under which salt is distributed in India to constitute a
monopoly, becaase although by law foreign salt may be
imported, yet have the regulations and duties attached
to the impost been so framed by your Honourable pre-
decessors, as to foster unduly your own manufacture of
that article, as is evinced in the letter from the secret
Committee of the Honourable Court of Directors, to the
Governor-General in Council, dated the 10th of May,
1816, and the answer thereto, from Bengal, dated the
11th of October, 1816.
That your memorialists consider such manufacture of
salt (or any other commodity, to be evasive, if not re-
pugnant, to law, because the Legislature, in constituting,
by the Act 3d and 4th Wm. IV., cap. 85, your Honour-
able Company trustees for the Crown of England until
April 30, 1854, distinctly enacts that your Honour-
able Company: shall discontinue and abstain from all
commercial business that shall not be incident to the
closing of your actual concerns, and into conversion
into money of the property thereinbefore directed
to be sold, or which shall not be carried on
for the purpose of the said Government. Your memo-
sgalists recognise in this extract no power in your Ho-
nourable Company to commence or continue any ma-
nufacture ; but they find a positive prohibition against
continuing commercial business longer than may be ne-
cessary to close your then actual concerns. Your Ho-
nourable Company can have no more right to an exclu-
sive manufacture of salt, than it has to the manufacture
of sugar or indigo, or to the sole growth of cotton or
silk ; and your memorialists cannot look upon your con-
tinuance of any monopoly but as a contravention of that
condition under which your last charter was conceded,
namely, " your consent to suspend all right to trade for
your own profit in common with other his Majesty's
subjects."
That the salt monopoly in India appears to your me-
morialists to be indefensible in principle, because it mi-
litates against the first duty of a paternal government,
and is otherwise chargeable with many evils which can
and ought to be avoided. Your memorialists hold it to be
the first duty, as it is assuredly the wisest course of Go-
vernment, not to place obstructions in the way of a suffi-
cient and cheap supply of food for its subjects. The food
of the people of India is so little nutritive, and of so insipid
a character, that the use of salt in abundance cannot be
dispensed with without injury to the strength and health of
the people ; and is, in fact, of such necessity, that your
memorialists would hold it to be more humane to forbid
by law the sale of rice, without an adequate cpst ntity of
salt, than to deprive the poor of that necessary condi-
ment through dearness. Your memorialists are con-
vinced that the retention of the sole manufacture of salt
by your Honourable Company adds greatly to the dear-
ness of it, irrespective of duty, because nothing ever has
been, or can be, produced so cheaply under a system of
monopoly as when left open to competition. The manu-
facture of salt by your Honourable Company is not only
not an exception to this infallible axiom, but has, at the
same time, been the cause of mu,li oppression and cruelty.
Holding rice and salt combined to be one species of food,
your memorialists think that the interests of your
Honourable Company, not less than humanity and jus-
tice, require that salt should be offered to the people
of India freely—without duty on that which may be
imported, and without restraint on those who have it
at their doors. If the revenue hitherto raised
from salt be necessary to your Honourable Company,
it would be better and wiser to raise it from anything
rather than the daily food of the people. It cannot be
satisfactory to a Government to make the use of an
article so necessary as salt require the expenditure of so
large a portion of a year's labour as the Indian ryot mus t
now expend if he us© salt, honestly acquired ; it cannot
add to the gekel order of society, or to the respect which
a Government demands from a people,
.if, through the
stringency of that Government a necessary article of
food be only attainable by many through fraud or theft,
or in a state of noxious adulteration, or perhaps not at-
tainable at all. Your memorialists believe all this, and
more, to be true of your salt monopoly in India, and
therefore say that it is not defensible in principle.
That your memorialists believe the salt monopoly to
be injurious to the trade between Great Britain and
India, because the excessive price at which this article is
retailed to the consumer, absorbs. in the mass of the
people, means which would otherwise be applied to the
purchase of clothing. Large as is the income which your
Honourable Company derives from this source, it forms no
indication of the amount of pressure which bears upon the
consumer, nor would an approximation be obtained by
adding to that sum the cost of manufacture and collection;
a grievous aggravation which baffles all calculation
takes place in the hardness of price consequent upon
the existence of a submonopoly, and through adultera-
tion requiring the purchase of larger quantities in order
to obtain the necessary amount of antiseptic matter.
Your memorialists do not hazard an estimate of the
extra sum thus drawn from the consumer, nor do they
venture to guess to what extent the abolition of all duty,
and the introduction into universal use of better and
purer salt, would diminish the present expenditure; but
it is most certain that a very large sum would remain,
which, whether applied to the culture of land at home,
or to the purchase of manufactures, or other commodi-
ties which India receives from Great Britain, would add
greatly to the industry of both nations, and, acting re-
productively, bring increased comforts to the one, and
enlarged commerce to the other. Your memorialists do
not forget that if the tax should be removed from salt,
the necessities of your Honourable Company may render
it necessary to obtain a similar amount of revenue front
other sources, whereby the same proportion of their
earnings might: be abstracted from the natives as is now
done through salt. The reply, that they do not think
it possible that your Honourable Court could find any-
thing to which to transfer taxation that can so deplorably
depress the people as does the system now applied to
salt; nor do they for a moment suppose, that your Hon.
ourable Court would desire to perpetuate a system of
raising revenue, handed down to you, which is founded
on principles repudiated by the wisest statesmen, and
for which prescription is the sole, but most insufficient
excuse. Nor are your memoralists unmindful of the ob.
jection which has been started, that the sudden abolition
of your manufacture of salt might expose India to greater
distress than she now experiences; from an assumed im-
possibility of finding an amount of tonnage sufficient for
1 a due supply of salt. Your memorialists have no wish
to place the interests and comforts of India in jeopardy,
but they must be allowed to observe that they have as
yet known no instance in which, where competition was
open, supply had failed to meet all the reoprements of
demand. Your memorialists ask not for such a sudden
change of system as would endanger the fullest supply
for ndia, nor for any exclusive i privilege for
Great Britain ; the interests of India and the
voice of humanity alike demand that she should draw
her supply of this first necessary from whatever quarter
she can most profitably obtain it ; but they have that
confidence in the resources of Great Britain, thaMeads
them neither to fear competition, nor to feel apprehen-
sions about scarcity of tonnage. An inducement to carry
salt to India would not only furnish present outworn
bound vessels wi'h a freight, which they now seldom
obtain, but would call into existence any new means of
transport that might be required. Indian ports which
now, from the balance of trade, frequently experience a
want of vessels, would receive a large increase of them;
the rates of freight homeward could, with equal or
greater profit to the shipowner, be reduced, and the pro-
duce of India be thus relieved from considerable charge
in the markets of consumption.
That your memorialists hold it to be impossible that,
in the existing state of commercial intelligence and in-
quiry, your Honourable Court can hope to retain much
longer a system so fraught with evils, and so irreconcil-
able able with sound policy, as is your salt monopoly.
plea, the immediate consideration f
fl
for the Crown of
will lament if your Honourable Courut_etrs
idpeurrtaannyt
question. Believing that, as trustees)ge Iv; w
tenure,n len t
of your trust, during the
England, you will be
which
those principles are acceptable both to the Crownglsandortto aremppaliyndteortohfe
and Parliament, your memorialists respectfully pray,
that your Honourable Court may forthwith take such
will lead to a relinquishment of your salt
measures as
Monopoly. at as early a period as possible, consistent
with the interim full supply to the people of India ; and
that the regulations regarding the import of salt be at
once so modified as to permit it to be stored in bond
(not as bonding is practised in India, but as it is in use
in England), in any quantity, and for any length of
time ; and they further pray, that the deliberations of
your Honourable Court may be so directed, that it may
be enabled soon to promulgate through India, that all
duty on this essential article of food has been fully and
finally abandoned, and that the sale thereof is allowed
without restraint or limit.
Manchester, Oct. 8, 1846.

NEW ER A.—We have had several eras; for in.
stance, the Elizabethan era, the Georgian era, &c. The
statue of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington will be
known, we are afraid, when it comes down, by the awful
name of F.M.-era (ephemera).—Punch.
TIIE HERRING FISHERY.--It is gratifying to learn
that for the last four years the take of herrings at the
Terry-side has been gradually increasing. This useful
fish had before that period been a comparative stranger in
Carmarthen Bay, but now shoals frequent our shores, and
are easily captured by the fishermen. The siza of the fish
k this year has been much larger than previously.

13, Great Marlborough-street.
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MEN OF CAPITAL,"
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SECOND EDI
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CAP FAIN NEILL'S RECOLLECTIONS of
FOUR YEARS' SERVICE in the EAST.
With a Portrait of General volt, from the Original Painting by
T. Brigstocke, Esq. _ _ .

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(Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.)

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Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage,
and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c.,
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Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place,
favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectthily
requested to be addressed.

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previous to their being offered ; and aavices of results will be
forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds !sum-
dittely disposed of according to instructions.
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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS' EVENING
Will be performed Balfe's celebrated Opera, entitled THE MAID
OF ARTOIS. Marquis de Chateau Vieux, Mr. Borrani ; Jules de
Montagnon, Mr. W. Harrison; Sans Regret, Mr. Burdini ; Synnelet,
Mr. Weiss ; Ninka, Miss Isaacs ; Isoline, Madame Anna Bishop.
After which, the celebrated Ballet of THE DEVIL TO PAY,
In which will appear Mons. Bretin, Mr. Wieland, Mons. Theodore.
Mr. W. H. Payne, Mr. Chapin°, &c. ; Mille. Fabbri, Mdlle. Louise,
Madame Theodore, Miss A. Payne, &c.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Finder the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a New Comedy, in three acts, entitled QUEEN
MARY'S BOWER. Principal characters by Messrs. Webster,
Hudson, Howe, Brindal, Braid ; Miss Fortescue, Mrs. Seymour, &c.
During the evening the Band will perform " Les Mousquetaires
de la Reins" (Overture) ,;
" Old English Airs" (Fantasia); and
the " Musketeers" (Quadrille).
After which a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord
Courtington. Mr. Boll; Sir Arthur Level, Mr. Howe ; Scoreup,
Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup,
Miss Julia Bennett.

To be followed by the popular Farcc entitled LEND ME FIVE
SHILLINGS. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Buckstone ; Capt. Phobbs, Mr.
Tilbury; Mrs. Captain Phobbs, Miss Telbin.
To conclude with a Sea-side Sketch, called THE FORTUNE
HUNTER; or, A Morning at Margate. Captain Mountgarret, Mr.
Hudson ; Griffin, Mr. Tilbury ; Borupas, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss
Griffin, Mrs. W. Clifford.
Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of
Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley.
THIS EVENING
'The last Week of " The Magic Horn."
The performances will commence with a New Comic Drama,
TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Principal characters by
Messrs. A. Wigan, Meadows, and Keeley; Mrs. Woollidge, Mrs. A.
Wigan, Miss Hicks, Miss Turner, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley.
After which, a new Farce, called WHICH MISTER SMITH ?
Characters by Messrs. Vining, F. Mathews, Emery, Bellingham,
Butler, Collier, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, and Miss Turner.
To conclude with a New Graad Operatic, Melodramatic, Romantic,
Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of "Oberon,"
entitled THE ILAGIC HORN. Principal characters by Messrs.
F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Kinlech, Collier, Yarnold, Bender, Silver,
Richards, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, Miss Villars. Miss Fairbrother,
Mrs. Wsollidge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidlaw, Miss
Bromley, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE.
THIS EVENING
Wlll be presented a new domestic drama, entitled EUGENIA.
CL AIRCILLE ; or, The New Found Home. Frederick Stan-
more, Mr. Worrell; Mr. Rugleigh, Mr. Cullenford ; Toffey, Mr. Paul
Bedford ; Mr. Buzzard, Mr. Lambert ; Hugh Matlock, Mr. 0.
Smith ; Pegg, Mr. Munyard ; Mrs. Toffey, Mrs. F. Matthews ;
Eugenia Clairgille, Madame Celeste.

After which., a new Extravaganza, in two acts, called THE
JOCKEY CLUB. The principal characters by Messrs. Paul Bed-
ford, Wright, Redmond Ryan, Selby, Waye, Mitchenson, &c. ;
Miss Woolgar, Mrs. F. Matthews, Misses Ellen Chaplin, Harding,
Fleming, Turner, Taylor, &c.
To conclude with the popular Barletta of TAMING A TARTAR.
Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar ; Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wright,
Selby, Worrell. &c. will sustain the principal characters.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Last Night but One of Madams Vestris and Mr. Charles Mathews

THIS EVENING
Will be performed a new Comic Drama, in three acts, entitled
LOVE'S TELEGRAPH. Count Theodore, Mr. J. Vining ; Arthur
de Solberg, Mr. C. Mathews; Baron Pumpernickel, Mr. Compton ;
Princess Blanche, Madame Vestris ; Alice, Mrs. Hughes ; Mar-
guerite, Miss Emma Stanley.
After which Mr. Charles Mathews' Farce of PATTER VERSCS
CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews.
To conclade with a New Drama, entitled A CURIOUS CASE.
Twiggleton, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mrs. Aubrey, Mrs. Stirling.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SIIRREY THEATRE.
Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed Bulwer'e Play of RICHELIEU. Cardinal
Richelieu, Mr. Maoready; Count de Baradag, Mr. Cooper; Che-
Yeller de Mauprat, Mr. Leigh Murray; Julie de Montemar, Mrs.
Charles Gill.
To conclude with the favourite Drama of THE CHARMING
POI,LY. Principal characters by Messrs. Neville, Webb, Heslop,
Saville Fredericks, Tyndall ; Miss Richardson, Mrs. W. Daly, and
Miss E. Terrey.

Box-office open from eleven till four o'clock,

ASTLErg ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
FIRST WEEK OF THE WINTER SEASON.
?damnified by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince
Albert, the Prince of Wales, and Royal Family. By special
desire, Lord Byron's " Mazeppa," for twelve nights only.
THIS EVENINu
Will be performed the Dramatic Spectacle of MAZEPPA, AND
THE WILD HORSE.
After which, brilliant feats of TIOP.SEIIANSIIIP. Herr Amodio
Neupert, from Amsterdam, the extraordinary Bottle Equilibrist,
and other Novelties.
Mr. BATTY has much pleasure in announcing that he has effected
engagements with several continental artistes :—Messrs. Joseph
Paul Cone, Lorentz Wolff, Roseline Wolff, Polaski, with the po-
pular vaulters, Messrs. Henderson and T. Lee, who will appear in
rapid succession. In active preparation, a new Equestrian Spec-
tacle and Dramatic Romance. of unequalled effect, performing with
immense success in Paris.
Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six
and c )mmence at seven o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 15.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 47; Highest. 55 ; Noon, 63,
BAROMETER, 29.03.—W1ND S.W., showery.

NIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 26 minutes after 11. 1 Evening .. 53 minutes after 11.

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