The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-22 00:00:00

No. 16,877. LONDON, THURSDAY SUN, OCTOBER 22, 1846.

HALL OF ROME, GREAT WINDMILL-
STREET, HAYMARKET.

Eight doors from Coventry street.

Under DistionguishedPat;ona,,,e.—The original Poses rlastiques and

Tableaux Vivant

Professor TURNOUT, ever anxious to diversify the attractions at
the above splendid theatre, begs most respectfully to inform the
Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, that he Jhas succeeded in en-
gaging one of the finest Models of the day, wit, will appear every
afternoon and evening dnrisg the weak in Professor Tumour's cele-
brated groups of Venus liking fro n the Sea and the Lute Player.
The new Classical Groupings, which have been acknowledged by the
press as fur surpassing anything of the kind ever attempted in this
country, will be repeated during the week, introducing the THREE
COLOUR FEMALE MODELS, natives of Ilindoostan, who have
been received with rapturous applause by fashionable and crowded
houses.

Morning Performance, at Three o'clock, and Evening at Half-pas'
Eight.—Stalls, 2s. Gd.; Bases, 29. ; Pit, Is.

BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMMISSIONERS.
LOANS OF MONEY.
The Birkenhead Dock Commissioners are ready to receive Loans
of Money for periods of Five or Seven Years, under the authority of
their Acts of Parliament, at the rate of Fire per Cent. per Annum.
The Interest will be paid Half-yearly, on the Ist January and Ist
July, in London or els,•where, as the parties lending may prefer.
Sealed Tenders, stating the Amount and Term of Years for which
the money is proposed to be lent, to be addressed to the Commis-
sioners, endorsed " Tender for Loans." Br order,
Birkenhead, Sept. 21, 1846. RICHARD HIND, Secretary.

HOTEL and TAVERN KEEPERS' PRO-
VIDENT INSTITUTION for RELIEF of NECESSITOUS
and AGED MEMBERS.
RAI-nom—lL R. H. the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE.

The Friends and Members of this Institution are informed that
the EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY DINNER will take 4place on
TNEWAY, the 27th instant, at the Freemason's Tavern, (feat Queen-
street.

The Right non. the LORD MAYOR, in the Chair.

Tickets. 11. is:each. To be had of the 'tewards and Committee,
at the bar of the Freemason's Tavern, and at the Craven Hotel,
Craven-street.

STEPHEN EDWARD TAPSTER, Hon. Sec.
Dinner on Table at Six o'clock.

BRITISH WHALE and SEAL FISHERY
COMPANY.
Incorporated by Royal Charter, limiting the liability of Shareholders

to the amount of their subscriptions.
Capital 250,0001., in 2,500 Shares of 1001. each.
THOMAS BAR ENG, Esq., M.P., Governor.
GEORGE FRED. YOUNG, Esq., Deputy Governor.
DIRECTORS.
William King, Esq.
Sir George Larpent, Bart.
Michael M'Chlery, Esq.
Alexander Nairne, Esq.
Thomas M . Weguelin, Esq

Henry Uarkly, Esq., M.P.
Joshua Bates, Esq.
John G. Cattley, Esq.
Joseph B. Chapman, Esq.
Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsm!cl, Bart.
Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
AUDITORS.
Captain Sir Wm. Edward Parry, R.N.
Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Williams, Deacon, Labouchere, Thornton, and Co.
SoLictToss— Messrs. Desborough anti Young.

A detailed prospectus of the Company, which is formed with a
view to the revival of the British Whale Fisheries, may be obtained
on application to the Committee of Manaeement, at No. 72, Corn-
hill ; or to Messrs. Desberough and Young, the solicitors of the Com-
pany, No. 6, Sise-lane, Bucklersbury ; at either of which places any
further information that may be required will be afforded, and
where applications for shares must be addressed in the following
form.

NATHL. W. SY3IONDS, Secretary pro tern.
72, Cornhill, October, 1846.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. _

To the Committee of Management of the British. Whale and Seal

Fishery Company.
Gentlemen,—l wish to become a subscriber for shares, of
1001. per share, in this undertaking; and I agree to take the
said shares, Or any less number that may be allotted to me,
and to pay the deposit of 201. per share, and all calls thereon, and to
sign the deed referred to In the prospectus when required to do so.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,

Name ......
Address • •• ••• • • •• • •
Date •••• •• ..... •• •• • •
Reference- •... ••..•• • • ••

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital .f.. 500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
&item of the Policy, twe-tkiris of the premiums paid (see Table) ;
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
terests to meet other conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terns of years are granted oa tke lowest possible
rates.

• hogn,l;4
triPrens 1 ire. Boon Bonus 111 Assorei
added. Cash. —.:"•11 may
• e i
g _ Borrow.
s. d. 1837 £217 15 1..£1011 0 11X16 0 4 X 445 011
1535 191 3 Oi 57 1 41 13 10 21 395 11 1
1111i1000 3 4 1839 165 11 10, 74 191 11 311 346 2 3
1640 110 7 6 54 0 101 71810, 296 13 4
1641 111 6 6: 49 10 0; 710 4! 247 4 i

The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in
Deemsher of the present year.
F. FRIZGUSON CA3IROITX, Secretary.

THE CIGAR WAREHOUSES, 6 and 7,
PUDDING-LANE, EASTCHEAP, LONDON.
Messrs. TOSS WILL and Co. o
• —ounnission Merchants, Importers,
and Manufacturers of Cigars, have for sale at this time one of the
largest and best selected stocks of Cigars and Cheroots in the
kingdom. FOREIGN, 17s. Gd., las. 6d., 205., and 219. per lb. ; Fine
Government Manillas, 17e. 6d. per lb. ; English made, from the
finest tobacco imported Cubas, 7s. ; Itavannabs. 7s. 6d ; Cabanas,
exi ; Silvis, Bs. 6d.; Dos Amlgas, as. 6d. ; Recampurzas, 9s. ;
9,. Gd. ; cheroots, 65., Ga. 6d., and 7s. per lb.

aAVIES'S CANDLES, 6(1. per lb. ; Genuine
Sperm, ls. Bd. ; Yellow Soap, 485., 525., and 58s. per 1121bs ;
Mottled, 60s. and 645.; Wax Candles, ls. per lb. ; German, ls. ;
Fine Wax, ls. sd. ; Transparent Wax, Is. 10d. ; Genuine Wax, 2s.
ld. ; Extra Waxed-wick Moulds, 7d.; Genuine Sperm Oil, 7s. 6d.
Per gallon ; Solar, 3s. 3d. , Pale Seal, 3s. 6d. ; Argand, or Vegetable,
4s. 6d. ; Windsor Soap, Is. I ld. per packet ; Palm, Is. 4d. ; Old Brown
Windsor, Is. Pd. ; Rose, 2s. ; Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d.
per lb. ; Hale's Superior Paragon Composite, requiring no snuf-
fing, 9} d.
For Cash—At DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, ff, St.
Martin's-lane, opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-house.

LIGHT.—CAMPHINE, CANDLES.—Patent
CAMPIIINE In sealed half-gallon cans, 4s. 9d. per gallon ;
Palmer's Patent Candles, 714 d. per lb., at WILLIAM S. BURTON'S
(late Itlppon and Burton's). 39, Oxford-street, corner of Newman-
street, whose assortment of Camphine, Argand, and Solar Lamps,
and Palmer's Magnum and other Candlesticks, with all the latest
improvements and of the newest and most recherché patterns, is the
largest in existence. All the seasonable novelties are now ready, and
selling from 20 to 30 per cent. under any house with whom quality
and style are considerations. The money returned for every article
not approved of. Detailed catalogues, with engravings, sent (per
post) free.

FENDERS, STOVES, AND FIRE-IRONS.
Tho largest assortment of Stoves and Fenders, as wel as
General Ironmongery, in the world, is now on Sale at WILLIAM S.
BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) extensive warehouses.
Bright steel fenders, to 4 feet, from 30s. each ; ditto ditto, with or-
molu ornaments, from 648. ; rich bronzed scroll ditto, with steel bar,
101. 6d. ; iron fenders, 3 feet, 4s. 6d. ; 4 feet, 65.; ditto bronzed, and
fitted with standards, 3 feet, 9s. ; 4 feet, I Is. ; a rought iron kitchen
fenders, 3 feet, 4s. fd. ; 4 feet, 6s. ; bright register stoves, with
bronzed ornaments, and two sets of bars, from 955.; ditto ditto, with
or-molu oniaments, from la. ; black dining-room register stoves,
2 feet, 18s. ; 3 feet, 275. ; bed room register stoves, 2 feet, 16s. ;
3 feet, Hs. The new- economical thermio stove, with fender and
radiating hearth-plate, from 8/. ; fire-irons for chambers, Is. 9d. per
set ; handsome ditto, with cut heads, gs. 6d. ; newest pattern, with
elegant bronzed heads, I Is. A variety of fire-irons, with or-molu
and richly cut heads, at proportionate prices. Any article in the
furnishing Ironmongery 30 per cent. under any other house. The
money returned for every article not approved of. Detailed cata-
logues, with engravings, sent (per post) free.
WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) stock
of general furnishing ironmongery is literally the largest in the world,
and as no language can be employed to give a correct idea of its
variety and extent, purchasers are invited to call and inspect it.-
39, Oxford-street (corner of Newman-street). Established In Wells-
street 1820.

FOR STOPPING DECAYED TEETH.
Patronised by her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.
THOMAS and HOWARD'S SUCCEDA-
N2EUM for Stopping Decayed Teeth, however large the
cavity. It is placed in the tooth in a soft state, without any pressure
or pain, and soon becomes as hard as the enamel, and will remain
firm in the tooth for many years, rendering extraction unnecessary,
and arresting the further progress of decay. All persons can use this
Succedanreum themselves with ease, as full directions are enclosed.
Price 2s. 6d. Prepared only by Thomas and Howard, Surgeon Den-
tists, 64, Berners-street, Oxford-street, who will send it into the
countryfree by post. Sold by Savory, 220, Regent-street ; Sanger,
150, Oxford-street ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Johnson, 68, Cornhill ;
and all Medicine Vendors in the kingdom. Mr. Howard continues to
simply the loss of teeth on his new system of self-adhesion, without
springs or wires. This method does not require the extraction of
any teeth or roots, or any painful operation whatever, and is less
expensive than others. Mr. Howard, Surgeon Dentist, 64, Berners-
street, Oxford-street. At home from 11 till 4.

FRAMPTON'S PILL of
HEALTH
The manifold advantages to the heads of families
possession of a Medicine of known efficacy, that may be from the
resortedla.
to
with confidence, and used with success in cases of temporary
ness, occurring in families more or less every day, are so obviouss
to
all, that no question can be raised of its importance to every house-
holder in the kingdom. From among numerous testmonlals, the
ollowing is respectfully submitted:—
" TO lea. THOMAS TROUT, 29, STRAND, LONDON.
" 5, Cooper-street, Manchester, March 12, 1542.
Sir,—l have much satisfaction in communicating to you the re-
sult of my experience, after repeated trials, of FRAMPTON'S PILL
OF HEALTH, and I feel it but justice to state, that in the course of
many years' trial of various Aperient Medicines, I have never found
results at once so salutary and efficient in the relief of the system
from redundant bile, &c., &c.. with so little inconvenience ; I am
therefore, warranted in declaring that they supply to me a meanr
ong wanting, of being able to recommend to families, schools, and
especially mercantile men, whether at the desk or on the road, a most
valuable resource In an occasional medicine. And I shall take credit
to myself if, in giving this testimony, I am the means of making
FRAMMON'S PILLS more generally
known and appreciated.
" I am, Sir, respectfully yours, " WILLIAM SMITH."
The unprecedentd sale of these Pills, arising from the earnest re-
commendations of the many thousands who have derived benefit
from their use, render any lengthened comment necessary ; thoy are
not put forth as a cure for all diseases to which mankind is liable, but
for Bilious and Liver Complaints, with their many well-known at-
tendants, Bilious-and Sick headache, Pain and Oppression after meals,
Giddiness, Dizziness,
Singing Noise in Head and Ears, Drowsiness,
leartburn, Loss of Appetite,. Wind, Spasms, 8=
Two or three doses willl convince the afflicted of their salutary
effects. The stomach will speedily regain its strength; a healthy
aznal f the Liver, Bowels, and Kidneys, will rapidly take place;
and Instead of listlessness, heat, pains, and jaundiced appearance,
strength, activity, and renewed health, extending to good old age,
will be the result of taking this medicine, according to the directions
accompanying each box.
Sold by T. Prout, 229, Strand, London. Price Is. I%d. and 2s. 9d.
per box, also by the Vendors of Medicines generally throughout the
kingdom.
Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the
Fame and Address of " Thomas Front 229 strand, London," on tho
Gomm= t Stamp

ARMY CON naffs.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, rALL-MALL, OCT. 2, 1846.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons desirous of
CONTRACTING to SUPPLY MEAT, BREAD, OATS,
and FORAGE, to her Majesty's Land Forcas (Bread and Meat for
the Foot ,:uardi arid for the Household Cavalry excepted) in Canton-
ments, Quarters, and Barracks, in the Counties of England severally,
in Wales, in North Britain, in the Isle of Man, and in the Channel
Islands, for SIX MONTHS, from the Ist of DECEMBER next inclu-
sive; and also STRAW for PAILLASSES, at the several Barracks
and Ordnance Stations in Great Britain and in the Channel Islands,
for ONE YEAR, from ist DECEMBER next.

That Proposals in Writing, addressed to the Secretary to the Board
of Ordnance, sealed up and marked on the outside "Tender for Army
Supplies," will be received at the Ordnance-office, Pall-mall, on or
before WEDNESDAY, the 11th day of November next, and Tenders
mar• be delivered at any time during that day.
The correspondence relating to the Contracts for Commissariat
Supplies cannot pass free from postage.
Persons who make Tenders, are de,ired not to use any forms but
those which may be had upon application at the office of the Secre-
tary to the Board of Ordnance in Pall-mall.
By order of the Board,
It. BYHAM, Secretary.

In one thick vol., a new Edition, being the Ninth, much enlarged
price 163.
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MODERN DOMES IIC MEDICINE.-
A COPULAR TREATISE, exhibiting the Symptoms, Causes,
and most efficacious Treatment of Diseases ; with a Collec ion of ap-
proved Prescriptions, Management of Children, Doses of Medicines,
&c. Forming a comprehensive Medical Guide for the Clergy,
Families, and Invalids. By T. J. GRAHAM, M.D., &c.
" It is evidently the result of great professional talent, experience,
and judgment; the author every where appears conscientious and
candid. One object is prominently evident—a sincere desire to
benefit his suffering fellow-creature:. To recommend a work like
the present to our readers, is only to manifest a proper regard for
their welfare."—Literary Journal, Feb. 1843.
" It is altogether deserving of permanent popularity."—Loudon
Weekly Review.

Simpkin and Co., Paternoster-row ; liatchard, 187, Piccadilly ; and
Tegg, 73, Cheapslde ; sold by all Booksellers.

NEW WORK BY " 110 Z."
On the 31st instant (to be completed in Twenty Monthly Parts, uni-
form with " Martin Chuazlewit," &c.), price One Shilling, the
Second Number of
DEALINGS with the FIRM of DOMBEY
and SON, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation.

By CHARLES DICKENS.
With Illustrations by HABLOT K BROWNE.
London : Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars.

THE REGISTRATIONS.
MIDDLESEX.

Mr. Shadwell held his Court at the Royal Hotel
Brentford, for the revision of the lists of Acton, Brent.
ford, Ealing, Hanwell, Heston, Isleworth, Greenford
Northolt, and Twickenham.

Mr. James and Mr. Fitch attended on the part o!
the Liberals, and Mr. Payne on the part of the Conser.
vatives.

Mr. Orlando Crease, claiming for a rent-charge made
by the League, was objected to by the Conservatives.
A declaration was produced by Mr. James to prove
the qualification, in which Mr. Crease declared he had
been in possession six mouths prior to the 31st of July
last.

Mr. Payne contended that as the declaration did not
state that Mr. Crease had been in possession for six ca-
lendar months the name must be expunged.
Mr. James then put in a deed of rent-charge to prove
the qualification, which bore date the 27th day of Ja-
nuary, and also a receipt for the first year's rent.
Mr. SHADWELL said he was satisfied that the qua-
lification had been proved, and therefore retained the
name.

Fifteen other claims followed the same decision.

Mr. SUADWELL said he had not received any lists for
the Perrevalo parish, but the clerk of the peace had
handed him the following letters:—
" Sir,l hereby acknoledge the recept of your precept,
and we have nobody wishes to vote in our parish as
befor. " Your, &c."

"Sir,—ln ewer to yours wishing to new what
voters we have for our parish I beleve I sent you word
directly after receiving your notices that we have non
that intend to vote tor have had for the last 2 or 3 yeare
befor. " Yours, &c.
" To Mr. Eless
" Clarkenwell
" Sessin hous."
No other case of interest occurred.

SINGULAR AND EXTENSIVE
ROBBERY.

ABINGDON, BERKS.—An investigation has been going
on for the last week into one of the most extraordinary
wholesale thefts that can have drawn the attention of
the public at any time ; and the peculiar circumstances
of the case altogether, in the number of persons impli-
cated and great extent of property stolen, as well as
the long period in which the system has successfully
operated, is the theme of wonder throughout the county.
By an accidental circumstance occurring during the
transit of some of the stolen goods through the farm of
Mr. John Badcock, near Abingdon, the suspicions of
the local authorities were aroused, and an inquiry was
set on foot which has led to the impeachment and con-
sequent incarceration of no less than seventeen persons
who are stated to have been more or less concerned in
the matter.

During the last two years, as appears by the confes-
sion of one of the prisoners, upwards of one hundred
quarters of malt have been stolen from various malt-
houses and warehouses in the town, together with a
large quantity of hops, amounting to many pockets; and
the precautions taken by the thieves have been so well
concerted and carried out that no loss of any conse-
quence appears to have been discovered.
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cher, Mr. John Hyde, and Mr. J. Tomkins, were occu-
pied the whole of the day in hearing evidence, and have
since then been engaged no less than four days, with
Mr. Frankum, the clerk, in thoroughly investigating the
facts, and their exertions throughout have been most in-
defatigable.
The inquiry is still going on, and so varied are the
details—that is, so many separate thefts have to be
spoken to—that it remains now problematical as to
when final committal will terminate the proceedings be-
fore trial. The question that may naturally suggest
itself as to the vigilance of the local police is easily set
at rest by the assertion that almost all the malt, hops, or
corn have been transported by water, the river running
round the very buillings of the town.
The confession of the principal offender is most volu-
minous as well as astounding in character, involving the
disclosure of robberies to a vast amount of money.
In the present state of the investigation it is impossible
to arrive accurately at the quantity of malt, &c., stol.n,
as further disclosures will doubtless lead to other quan-
tities being discovered.
Miss Spenlove, brewer, has been the principal loser of
the malt and hops, but others in the town are sufferers
from the robberies.
Three or four hundred separate cases of felony have
been admitted by three of the prisoners.

The Worshipful Drapers' Company have built a
most splendid house and premises in Moneymore, Ire-
land,
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pm an accommodation to the
e..annfaetory expense,
tenants on their estates.
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for a considerable time drawing from it with a pipe
whose capacity was ten gallons a minute. He had thus
not only supplied his own tan-yard, but had let out a
right to one of his neighbours,
who was ignorant whence
the water came. lie was arrested and held to large bail.
Mr. Stacey Grace, a clever practical farmer at
Springfield, in this county, seven years ago, purchased
five fine kernels of white wheat at a shilling each ; he
parted with none of the multiplied produce raised there.
from until Friday last, when he sold, in our market,
between thirty and forty quarters, raised solely from the
five kernels, at 80s. per quarter.—Essex Herald.
RUSSIAN PEODUCE.—The steam-ship Victory,
which has arrived in the river, from St. Peteraburgh and
Copenhagen, has brought, amid a variety of article', the
production of Russia, numerous packages of cucumbers,
in a fresh state, and a case of mushrooms. We do not
recollect an instance of this peculiar and esteemed pro-
duction of our own damp and dewy soil having before
been imported from any country, and its supply, even on
so small a scale, from this northern region of Europe, is
therefore particularly remarkable, and requires especial
notice amongst the numerous novel articles of importa-
tion from all parts at the present time, which almost tax
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also were increased in price to id. and 2d, rtoa ticcatiwtoeotia.del
Coals
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in home and foreign meat.
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IRELAND.

DUBLIN, OCT. 19.---The usual weekly meeting of the
Repeal Associatbn took place this day in Conciliation
Ilall; Joseph Miles M‘Donnell, M.P., in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN, on taking the chair, said it was not
usual for chairmen to trespass on the time of the meeting;
but he would take the liberty of saying, that great
blame was to be attached to Sir Randolph Routh for his
conduct during the present state of affair:.
Mr. RAY having read the minutes of the last d
proceedings.

Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL read the following letter from
his father, and moved that it be inserted on the
minutes :

" Derrynane Abbey, Cahirciveen, Oct. 16.
"My dear Ray,—l enclose you a letter which I re-
ceived from an old and much-respected friend of mine,
Mr. John Walshe, of Castlehill, near Crostnolina. He
is a man of independent fortune and most respectable
character; he resides upon his own estate, and has been,
and is, a bountiful benefactor to the labouring classes in
his neighbourhood, to many of whom he has given con-
stant employment.
" What a contrast between him and the absentee pro-
prietors of many estates in his neighbourhood.
" He wishes to be a member of the Loyal National
Repeal Association, and has the kindness to ask me to
propose him. I have pride and pleasure in complying
with his request, and beg that you will get my son John
to propose him in my name. My loved friend, Tom
Steele, will, I am sure, cheerfully second him.
" Add to the subscriptions for the week the following—
Daniel O'Connell, M.P. £l 0 0
Maurice O'Connell, Ma) .. ' 1 0 0
John O'Connell, M.P. 1 0 0
Daniel O'Connell, jun., M.P.
. .

being for the current month of October.
" I should much regret that the plan for a national
committee of landed proprietors meeting in Dublin
should be buried in oblivion. It shall not be go, if I can
help it. The mernpyy of it, at least, shall live, even if
it should fail to be rWiee4 for any active purposes.
" It is quite true that there seems no kind of necessity
for Parliament meeting sooner than the usual period ;
and, on the contrary, a more speedy meeting might, in
my humble judgment, tend to embarrass and retard the
carrying out of the plans of the Lord Lieutenant for an
immediate supply of food and wages for the people. Ra-
pidity is most necessary, else the people will die of hun-
ger before the supplies arrive.
" Another fearful calamity has been inflicted by Pro-
vidence on the remoter parts of the country. The last
fortnight has been marked by a continuance of tremen-
dous storms, with the wind blowing terrifically, princi-
pally from the west. The coasters, generally from
Liverpool and the eastern coast of Ireland, and from
England, laden with corn and maize, have been all kept,
by the adverse winds and storm, from their ports of deli.
very, and it is to be very much apprehended some of
them are lost. It is certain that all are delayed beyond
their time. The Government steamers should be em-
ployed to alleviate this calamity, as they are able to live
in a sea which would overwhelm the coasters ; and be-
sides, the steamers of.course are not much affected by
the point from which the wind blows.
" The most urgent and rapid measures are necessary
to alleviate this increasing calamity. If the national
committee were sitting, most minute details from each
locality of this increased calamity would be placed at
once before Government, and means to alleviate the ad-
ditional horror would be adopted by our energetic Lord-
Lieutenant.

" Again, if the national committee were sitting, it
is probable that some one would suggest the formation
of four sub committees—one for Connaught, one for
Ulster, one for Munster, and one for Leinster—one for
each of the four provinces ; each to report from time to
time, as occasion would require, to the general com-
mittee ; and thus, by a just division of labour, mea-
sur, s for the relief of every locality in each province
would be going on simultaneously and without inter-
ruption.
" Many would suggest that the Repeal Association
ought to select some of their members to form the nu-
cleus of a national committee. _ _

" I am decidedly of a different opinion, and am con-
vinced that the Repeal Association should have nothing
to do with the original formation of any other body.
Besides, the projected national committee should be
quite free from the colour of party feeling of any kind.
It should have, in fact, no political or sectarian cha-
racter.
" I repeat that men of all classes, creeds, and parties,
should meet, without the least apprehension of any dis-
cussion on the subjects on which they differ. The entire
mind and exertions of the committee should be given to
alleviate the present calamities, and obviate, if possible,
a recurrence in future years.
" For the present I dismiss any further consideration
of the national committee. If it take place, it must origi-
nate, and be modelled in its constitution, by other hands
than mine; in short, it must emanate from the sense of
imminent danger, and anxiety for preventing the fatal
consequences arising in the minds of great leading pro-
prietors of land in Ireland. If they do not feel the ne-
cessity for such a committee, my voice ought to be heard
in vain. To effectuate-any good, the body should have
from the nature and number of its members powerful
influence in England as well as in Ireland. In short, it
should embrace within its numbers the leading nobility
and gentry of all parties; and unless a very influential
number of men of all parties concur in forming such
body, it ought not to exist.
"This morning's post brought me the Cork Examiner,
containing a paragraph headed Conciliation,' but, alas I
alas ! little calculated to obtain that most desirable ob-
ject. It falls into the usual and deplorable fault. It calls
on those who are right—' the moral force men'—to give
in, and it calls on those who are wrong—the physical
force men—to persevere.

" It is, however, but due to the people of Cork to re-
ceive with respectful attention any suggestion coming
from any portion of them. But the association has a
duty which it owes to Old Ireland and nationality—a
sacred and solemn duty that must not be violated or com-
promised. The association must not be even suspected
of paltering in a double sense—asserting on the one hand
the principle of moral force alone, and at the same time
letting in, as if by a side wind, the destructive agency of
the physical force principle.
"It is in vain to soften the matter away—we must meet
it in all its bearings, and above all, preserve the mem-
bers of the Repeal Association from the danger of con-
viction for high treason. It will be our duty, out of
respect for our Cork repealers, to demonstrate to them
the existence of such danger. My experience, as a Crown
lawyer, gives me some title to be heard upon that point.
They may think otherwise in Cork at present ; formerly
I should, I believe, be able to command confidence as a
man and as is lawyer,
" Any alteration in the sentiments of others can make
but one alteration in mine, and that is by producing an
increased anxiety that it should please a merciful Pro-
vidence to spare me just life enough to see the restora-
tion of the Irish Parliament, and to see the attainment
of that restoration completed without one act of violence,
or the shedding one drop of human blood.
"In the meantime, my advice to the association is
this—to act by this document when received in the
manner in which we have hitherto acted towards all im-
portant documents, that is, to refer it, before it is read to
the association, to the committee, to consider its contents,
and report those contents to the association, together
with a suitable reply to be submitted to the considera-
tion of the association.
" If the committee will do me the honour of entrusting
me to prepare that reply, I will cheerfully undertake the
duty, and transmit the reply, when complete, to the asso-
ciation, which will then at once give publicity to the re-
solutions and our reply.
" I do not bespeak any favourable reception for my
reply; it will be an important act of my political life—
obedient solely to the dictates of honour and conscience,
and looking to no other temporal result but the restora-
tion of the legislative independence of old Ireland.
" Believe me to be very faithfully yours,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL.

" To Mr. T. M. Ray."
The rent for the week amounted to 671. 103.
PEEL versus RUSSELL.

The Drogheda Conservative —no friend of the ex-
Premier when the llon. Baronet held the reins of power
—thus joins its repeal contemporaries in the cry for his
restoration to Downing-street:—
" Never was the incapacity of the Whigs for the go-
vernment of this country so apparent as at the present
momentous crisis, when Ireland is bordering on a state
of insurrection for the want of food; not that there is
not a sufficiency of grain, but from the spirit of specu-
lation engendered by the late Treasury minute amongst
the corn gamblers both on this and the other side of the
Channel. Sir R. Peel, last year, when the wants of the
people were not so pressing, come forward, and by the
establishment of depots kept the markets at a fair rate;
and, from his known determination and wisdom, corn
speculators were prevented from resorting to those nefa-
rious arts which tend to starve the poor. Lord John
Russell must either act or resign the reins of Govern-
ment into Sir R. Peel's bands; for the united voice of a
starving people will shake even Downing-street, and be
heard within the walls of the royal palaces. The poor
of this country want cheap and wholesome food, and
when this is to be had. by a little energy on the part of
the Government, they have a right to demand it. If
the money to be expended on Buckingham Palace—on
royal steam-boats—and other useless luxuries, were
English rulers to-
wcountry—their
applied to the purchase of corn for the consumption of
the Irish poor, the money would be better applied, and
the country secured from outrage! The Times may
taunt us with our poverty--but we owe it all to the
hridrnsb this
unfortunate
pursued
abandoning it to
by
the rule of unprincipled leaders, who sold the people's
6tele-rig'
legislation
interest for their own aggrandisement."
DAY OF HUMILIATION.
The following is a copy of a circular addressed by
the Lord Primate to the clergy in the archdiocese of
Armagh:—

Palace, Armagh, Oct. 16.
" Reverend Sir,—In consequence of the great distress
which prevails so generally among the poorer classes,
by reason of the destructive blight of the crop on which
they principally depend for subsistence, a wish has been
expressed by many members of the church that a special
day should be set apart on which Public Prayers should
be offered up in acknowledgement of the Divine hand
which has sent this calamity. I therefore request that
you will celebrate Divine Sonic(' in your church, on

Friday, the 30th of October, in the manner following :
After using the accustomed and prescribed form of
prayer, together with the special form set forth by the au-
thority of the Lord-Lieutenant in Council for the pre-
sent time, to be read before the Litany, you are to read
the prayers in the Communion service, from the be-
ginning of the 51st Psalm to the end of that service. I
recommend that a sermon be preached suitable to the
occasion ; en i, if there be singing in the church, that the
penitental psalms be selected.
" I enclose a notice, which it is my wish that you
should read after the Nicene Creed, on Sunday, the
25th of October.

I remain, Rev. Sir, your faithful servant,
" JOHN G. ARMAGH

" The Incumbent of
"Notice of Divine Service on Friday, the 30th of Oc-
tuber, 1846, to be read on Sunday, the 25th, after
the Nicene Creed ; with an Exhortation for the
people to attend, in token of their humiliation under
the chastening hand of Almighty God.
"You are requested to take notice, that, by direction
of the Lord Primate, there will be Divine service in this
church, and in all the churches of the diocese of Armagh,
on Friday next, the 20th instant. And lam desired to
exhort you, dearly beloved, to assemble and meet together
on that day, that we may make our common supplica-
tions to our Heavenly Father, as a public acknowledg-
ment, in this time of dearth and scarcity, that we despise
not the chastisement which He has laid upon us, in with-
holding the wonted provision of food cn which the poor
of this country principally depend for their subsistence.
We are taught in His Holy Word (Psalm cvii. 34),
that it is for the wickedness of them that dwell
therein' that he maketh a fruitful lane barren.' Our
transgressions have kindled the anger of the Lord
against us, and have drawn down his displeasure. It
is our duty, therefore, to humble ourselves under the
mighty hand of God' (Peter i. v. 6) ; to confess our
manifold sins and wickedness with an humble, lowly,
penitent, and obedient heart ; to beseech Him that lie
would not remember our offences, nor the offences of
our forefathers, neither take vengeance of our sins ;' but
that He would graciously look upon our afflictions,'
pitifully behold our sorrows,' mercifully forgive our
sins,' and favourably hear our prayers ;' that he would
make speed to save us,' and make haste to help us.'
And while I exhort all of you, my dear brethren, to join
together in these ' our common supplications,' I am
especially to encourage the poor and needy to draw
near the throne of grace, and call upon God in the time
of their trouble, who hath promised to hear their cry
and to help them. Let them come into His courts,'
and pour out their hearts before Him, and make known
their requests unto God,' that he may ' grant them
patience under their sufferings, and a happy issue out of
all their afflictions.'

"And such as are possessed of wealth and abundance,
I exhort, not only to pray for those who are in distress,
but to relieve them to the utmost of their power ; to
open their hands wide unto their brethren' (Dent. xv. 8);
to deal their bread to the hungry, and when they see
the naked to cover them' (Is. lviii. 7); that the blessing
of them that were ready to perish may come upon
them' (Job xxix. 13).
" And, that I may be pure from the blood of all
men (Acts xx., 26), it is also incumbent on me to warn
those who are still impenitent and hardened in heart,
that they continue not to sin with a high hand. Let the
calamity with which we are now visited lead them to re-
pent, and to remember (as admonished by the Church in
her Commination Service) how dreadful is 'the judg-
ment hanging over our heads, and always ready to fall
upon us. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of
the living God. For, 10, the Lord is come out of His
place to visit the wickedness of such as dwell upon the
earth. But who may abide the day of His coming?
Who shall be able to stand when He appeareth? His
fan is in His hand, and He will purge his floor, and
gather His wheat into the barn; but he will burn the
chaff with unquenchable fire. Then shall it be too late
to knock when the door shall be shut; and too late to
cry for mercy when it is the time of justice. There-
fore, brethren, take we heed betime, while the day
of salvation lasteth; for the night cometh, when none
can work. Let us not abuse the goodness of
God, who calleth us mercifully to amendment, and
of his endless pity promiseth us forgiveness of that
which is past, if with a perfect and true heart we return
Unto him. For though our sins be as red as scarlet they
shall be made as white as snow ; and though they be
like purple yet they shall be made white as wool. "furn
ye,' saith the Lord,' from all your wickedness, and your
sins shall not be your destruction.' Although we have
sinned, yet have we an advocate with the Father Jesus
Christ the righteous, and he is the propitiation of our
sins. For He was wounded for our offences, and smit-
ten for our wickedness. Let us, therefore, return unto
Him, who is the merciful receiver of all true penitent
sinners ; assuring ourselves that He is ready to receive
us, and most willing to pardon us, if we come unto Him
with faithful repentance ; if we submit ourselves unto
Him, and from henceforth walk in his ways ; if we will
take His easy yoke and light burden upon us, to fol-
low him in lowliness, patience, and charity, and be or-
dered by the governance of his Holy Spirit, seeking al-
ways his glory, and serving Him duly in our avocation with
thanksgiving.' This, if we do, Christ will not only de-
liver us from the 'bitter pains of eternal death,' but will
cause our light affliction, which is but for a moment,' to
work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of
glory' in his everlasting kingdom, unto which He vouch-
safes to bring us all, for his infinite mercy. Amen."

Captain Sir George Otway, and Captain Edward Spar
shot t, K. 11., Royal Navy.
Captain Lord Ingestre, C. 8., visited Woolwich Dock.
yard yesterday.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROU THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS IMF.
CHRONICLE.—The Dublin Fi cemon's Journal of
Saturday last, in an article occasioned by the opinions
we have promulgated respecting the. C.ispoial of the
waste lands (opinions to which, as we are pleased, but
not surprised, to find that influential paper gives its cor-
dial assent), bears the following valuable testimony to
the complete practicability of the reclamation of those
lands by peasant labour :
" A week's ramble through Connemara, or Erris, or
Kerry, and we presume the same to be true of other
counties where the waste lands abound, will convince
the most sceptical that labour can be profitably employed
in the reclamation even of such lands as would not
prove remunerative to the large capitalist. The Irish
peasant's labour was hitherto of little value in the mar-
ket. Labour was abundant, employment scarce; and
whenever the peasant found an opportunity of mingling
his labour with the barren soil, he did so, though with
no better prospect than that of having the owner of the
soil come in and possess himself of the permanent fruits
of his toil, before he had himself reaped even what would
Pay him a tithe of the value of his labour. We have seen
this process repeated many times by the same peasant
family. We have seen him reclaim a patch of bog,
enjoy it for a brief period, and then yield it to a rent-
payer ; then retire to another patch, to reclaim and
yield it up in like manner, and so on, labouring with the
full conviction that one day or other his lord would have
all the benefit, but ever hoping, even against experience,
that the evil day might be far off. The peasant family
did this because their time was valueless, and by such a
process they were enabled to make it yield them a sus-
tenance equivalent, perhaps, to a fifth of its market
value. Yet that fractional payment kept them from
begging, and rendered what would otherwise continue to
be barren soil, productive and valuable."
Sic vos non vobis! Are time the prirposes for which
landed property is ordained in a country pretending to
civilisation ? Is it that he who sows may not reap—
that not he who toils, but some other, may receive the
benefit ? We all know the foundation and justification
of the institution of property to be precisely the reverse.
The moral and social basis of the right of property
is the right of the labourer to the fruits of
his labour. All other proprietary rights exist for
the sake of this. The millionnaire, who never
did a day's work of useful labour with head or hands,
who is society's debtor for everything, and its creditor
nothing, has his property protected, not for its own sake,
nor for his, but because to meddle with it would be to
violate the right which some ancestor or predecessor,
who did work for it, had to transmit it freely to his de-
scendants, or to persons of his choice. If all property
rests upon no other than this foundation, landed property
does so pre-eminently. Land is not the produce of la-
bour. No landlords ancestor made the land. Why,
then, is land appropriated? Wo do not mean why was
it appropriated, for we know that the most usual ground
of possession was force and conquest : but why is its
appropriation rightful? Why is property in land a
recognised necessity of society? on what ground have,
not usurpers and tyrants, but sages and philanthropists,
defended it? On this—that land, although not made by
labour, can only be rendered useful by it, and because
labour will not be applied in the most useful manner by
the exertions of any others than those who have a per-
manent interest in the land. Land might be held in
common, or, what would be less irratioral, it might be
granted out on yearly leases by the State. It is con-
ceded to individuals in permanent property for one legi-
timate reason only, because a permanent proprietor has
the strongest motive to be an improver. Proprietors
exist in order that they may be improvers, not
in order that they may profit by improvements
made by others. When the proprietors of land, gene-
rally speaking, are not improvers, the purposes for
which landed property exists are not answered. When
instead of being improvers, they are an obstacle to im-
provement—when, without any public purpose in view,
they keep land waste which others are eager to culti-
vete, or suffer it to be made valuable by those who have
no permanent interest in it, in order to seize on the value
—we do not say that they are culpable. The law gave them
the land, attaching no conditions to the gift, and
none but an extraordinary man is a law to himself, ac-
cording to a higher standard than custom. But we do
say that landed property, thus used, exists to frustrate
the ends which it is designed to promote. It is insti-
tuted that improvement, may not be hindered ; it exists
as the hindrance. It is instituted that what is created
by industry may abide with the creators ; it exists that
what their labour alone has called into being may be
wrung from them. Seeing what the " indolent Celt." is
already found capable of achieving, without the stimulus
of property—seeing that the mere prospect of a few
years precarious possession has so often induced him,
without science, without capital, without aid from the
possessors of either, not under the encouragement
of law, but in violation of it, eith no re-
source but his own hands, and those of his
tuerform what is regarded as ono of tho.rnost
arduous feats of agricultural improvement, the conver-
sion of peat-bog into arable land ; we are justified in
believing that if the primeval waste had stood open
in the primeval manner to the first occupier, as the
prize of him who succeeded in making it valuable, it
would long ere this have been covered from one end to
the other by a hard-working, frugal, peaceable, and, in
all probability, prudent and self-restraining peasant pro-
prietary. Let the Legislature, then, repair its error.
The rights it has conferred, mischievous and anti-social
as they have in fact proved, let it not resume without
compensation. Those rights have a market value, and
let that value be paid to the last penny, But let it be
the present value, not a speculative price, grounded on
the improvements which are only to be effected by means
of the purchase. The value of the bogs and mountains
to their nominal owners is but a trifle. They are en-
titled to no more ; what more the Legislature can spare
is required to feed the industrious improvers, while they
work for their own future independence, and the State
will be amply repaid by a fraction of the value which
their labour will bestow on the now worthless land.
TlMES.—After the meeting of Parliament, and the
first general intimations permi:ted to ooze through the
lips of Royalty, the next great event, waited for with an
interval of deep expectancy, is the Ministerial announce.
ment of taxes to be remitted or imposed—of reductions
or augmentations of the national expenditure. Two or
three millions a year are the utmost range to which the
uncertainty extends. In point of fact, however, an appa-
rent remission to that amount must be covered by the
imposition or retention of some temporary burden. A
Minister thinks himself exceedingly fortunate if he can
relieve the people of so much as one million on the whole
account. By the side of this annual question we may
see the magnitude of that other of which not the month
of February, but the month of October, is the chief
crisis—the annual estimate of the food of the people.
The problem, taking into account the harvest and the
consumption, both of these islands and of the whole
world, measured by money, is ten or twenty times as im •
portant to these islands alone as that which the Minister
has to decide in his annual expose. A difference of ten
shillings a quarter in wheat denotes a total expense
to the British consumer of about 10,000,0001. ; very
considerably more, taking into account the correspond-
ing rise in other descriptions of grain. It denotes, also,
a corresponding amount of hunger, weakness, disease,
and crime. Of course the question does not merely
concern this or that class, the agriculturist, the mill-
owner, the corn dealer, the stockbroker, or the amateur
alarmist ; it concerns the whole people. Nor is it
merely a matter of interest or curiosity. It is of the
first importance that we should know at once our pro-
spects. Every person, from the Premier forecasting
the utmost horizon of the future, down to the labourer
engaging himself for the next twelvemonth to his master,
is equally concerned to know the ruling prices of corn
for that period. On such a subject probable conjectures,
daring as they may be, are better than none.
It is wisdom in this instance to lean to the
gloomy side. A few weeks, or even a few months,
of exaggerated Edam, are a far less evil
than a dreadful surprise, when it is too late to avail our-
selves of the knowledge which time has brought to our
unwilling apprehensions. What is excessive alarm, in
comparison with downright famine? What is wheat at
70s. now, in comparison with wheat at 100 s. next sum-
mer or spring ? If all parties honestly set to work cal-
culating the gigantic, but by no means inscrutable,
problem, there would bo such a general agreement as
would take away the necessity of conjecture. But,
without any inviduous comparison between the general
intellect of the different parties, it cannot be denied that
they who are in the position of sellers at this time of the
year are a class of persons much less accustomed, and
much less qualified, to consider the problem as a whole
than the much smaller body with which in the first
instance most of them have to deal. The farmer, with
rare exceptions, does not enter into national or rather
the universal question. He is generally unacquainted
with the great data necessary to anything like an approxi-
mate result. This is proved by the extraordinary and im-
possible statements which they are ready to accept on
respectable authority. While one party is too unin-
formed, and the other too interested to enlighten us, it
becomes the duty of all who have means and leisure for
the inquiry, to give the nation the benefit of their con-
jectures. The sooner we know exactly how we stand
the better for all. If it be probable the food will rise
before next harvest to famine prices, Ministers, farmers,
manufacturers, shipowners, speculators, will all act ac-
cordingly. But already, in our humble opinion, enough
is taken for granted to put all these parties on the qui
vine. The estimated deficiency of 4,000,000 quarters,
as compared with our probable wants, is itself a matter
for the most special and anxious provision. Even if
there existed so large an aggregate superabundance over
the demands of the corn-growing countries within reach
of British capital, its transport to these shores is itself
a matter of positive difficulty. The conveyance of
4,000,000 quarters to these islands, within the time that
will answer our purpose, is a task possible indeed, but
which has no precedent. A quantity not far from that
amount, including all descriptions of grain, was eared for
home consumption during the first eight nv,r,tl;trs
year. We are not, however to
411r)Ptshae tchoantaal°rlyf ,hhoulastt
was imported within that pelrinci, On
,100,000 quarters of wheat,
of this quantity mart) Shaul
With It leis, though oousiderrible, luantity of other