The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-17 00:00:00

THE DINNER.

At six o'clock about sixty gentlemen sal down to a
truly splendid dinner, in the long room of the King's
Head Inn, which was provided by Mr. Peter Wilson, the
landlord. There was every delicacy that could tempt
the appetite in profusion, and the wines were of the
choicest quality. Mr. Hudson presided, and Mr. Harri-
son was in the vice-chair. Amongst the company we
recognised Messrs. W. Richardson (the Lord Mayor of
York), John Davis (town clerk of York), and Sir John
Simpson; Alderman Barber, Richard Nicholson, Alder.
man Cobb, Charles Hanson, Joseph Richardson, John
Close, all of York; Rowland Bnrdon, of Castle Eden;
the Mayor of Hartlepool, Rev. Taylor, vicar, and the
Rev. Hamilton, curate, of Hartlepool; Colonel Swin-
burne, ditto, Thomas Bolt, town clerk of ditto; J. P.
Denton, Thomas Rowell, ditto; T. B. Grey, Norton;
Thomas Richardson, Castle Eden; W. Ord, Sunderland;
Captain Bingham, R. Wilson, N. Plews. Mackenzie,
comptroller of customs; William and Charles Davison,
Hartlepool; S. Robinson and John Burrell; William
Green, A. W. Hutchinson, J. and P. Foster, jun.; and
Ald. Haggett, of Durham, &c.
After the cloth had been removed, the CHAIRMAN
gave in succession " The Queen, " " The Queen
Dowager," " Prince Albert," and " The rest of the
Royal Family ;" " The Army and Navy," which was
drank with loud cheers.
Colonel SWINBURNE, on behalf the army, responded
to the toast.
The CHAIRMAN next gave the "Health of the BiThop
and Clergy of the Diocese," and stated that, to show
how anxious the company with which he was connected,
was to do all in their power to promote the temporal and
spiritual welfare of the inhabitants of Hartlepool, it was
their intention to leave in the hands of the mayor and
vicar a sum of money to be distributed amongst the poor.
The Rev. TAYLOR returned thanks.
The CHAIRMAN next gave " The Health of the Mayor
and Corporation of Hartlepool. "—(Drunk with loud
cheers.)

Mr. W. Voi.Lux (the Mayor) returned thanks. He
said that was one of the proudest days he had ever seen.
He recollected that about fourteen years ago Hartlepool
was only a poor insignificant fishing village, but even then
it possessed charms for him; the best of feeling existed
amongst the inhabitants, but there was not a particle of
trade in the Own. The Dock and Railway Company were
the first to commence the work of improvement, and !Jich
had been the effect that a trade of immense extent had
sprung up, which had raised Hartlepool from a mere fish-
ing village to the rank of ass important and flourishing
port.—(Applause.) Possibly it might be urged that the
Dock and _Railway Company had reached its full limit of
prosperity, and he was willing to allow that, in his
opinion, he did not think it could have progressed much
beyond its present state. For the last twelve months it
had rather retrogaded than otherwise. What they
wanted was a communication with the manufacturing
districts of the country, and this they had obtained by
the connexion which bad been formed with the York
and Newcastle Railway Company.—(Applause.) And
now it would appear strange to him if that port did not
assume a proud position amongst the ports of this
country.—(Applause:)
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of Mr. Row.
land Burden, and the directors of the Hartlepool Dock
and Railway Company.—(Hear.) The toast was one that
did not require much in its favour from him. The
directors had strongly recommended themselves to the
good opinion of every one with whom they had been
is any way associated, by the manner in which
they had conducted the various works entrusted to
their management, and especially by their con-
duct upon a recent occasion. It had been deemed
a wise policy upon their part to place that railway
under the management of another company, and he for
one perfectly concurred in the course they had pursued.
—(Cheers.) His experience satisfied him most fully
that these works could not be conducted on a small scale,
for it rarely happened that undertakings of this descrip-
tion, when thus worked, yielded that remuneration to
the shareholders and accommodation required by th
public, and which could only be afforded when worked
upon a large scale.—(Hear, hear.) The Duke of Wel-
lington had said that England could not conduct a small
war, and he (Mr. Hudson) was of opinion:that they could
not conduct their works upon a small or insignificant
scale.—(Applause.) With respect to the Hartlepool
Dock and Railway Company, he felt bound to say that
he had not sought them in this transaction ; they had
come to him; but having received a proposition from
them, and having well considered that proposition, and
feeling that it would prove advantageous to the company
with which he was connected, as well as to the public,
were it adopted, he did not hesitate in agreeing to it,
and arrangements were entered into for the purchase of
the dock and railway.—(Applause.) They would also
do him the justice of saying that he entered fairly into
that agreement.—(Applause,) On the other hand, he
must be permitted to bear 1I testimony to the fair, can-
did, and honourable manner in which the negotiations
were conducted by the gentlemen with whom he had
treated.—(Applause.) Upon one occasion a slight mis-
understanding arose, and he could not forget the hand-
some manner in which that misunderstanding was after
wards explained.—(Applause.) The toast was dram!

with loud cheers.
Mr. ROWLAND BURDON returned thanks on behalf o,
himself and the directors of the Hartlepool Dock and
Railway Company, for the honour done them. It was
. true, as had been stated by the mayor, that that com-
pany had been the means of raising Hartlepool from the
condition of a mere fishing village to that of a port of
considerable importance, and they had done this in pur-
suance of that English principle which had been referred
to by Mr. Hudson—namely, in furtherance of their own
interest% and the accommodation of the public at large.
—(Applause.) The directors, however, had felt latterly
that they had arrived at a point beyond which they
would not be able to raise the value of the shares, and
that they should not be able to advance the interests of
the undertaking so much as could be done if the manage-
ment was confided to other and abler hands. Under
these circumstances they applied to Mr. Hudson. e felt in applying to him they were applying to oneTh whoy ,
by his great talents, his energy, and his large and
extensive connexion with other companies, was able
to do much more for the railways of this country
than could be effected by any other individual.-_
(Applause.) They were met in a liberal and honourable

spirit, and the result was, that they made an excellent
bargain, and at the same time that they conferred a
great benefit upon the country.—(Applause.) Mr. Hudson
had earned for himself a high position in the railway
world, end he did not know of any other individual who
would be able ts, direct successfully so many under-
takings as he was engaged in.—(Applause.) Most per-
sons fancied that they could manage their own concerns
best, but it had been found that wherever he obtained
possession of any railway he had brought a system of
management to bear upon it which it had never known
before, and he felt assured that his possession of that
undertaking would tend greatly to benefit that important
port.—(Applause.) In conclusion, he gave the health of
Mr. Hudson, their Chairman.—(Cheers and applause.)
The toast was drunk with three times three.

The CHAIRMAN briefly returned thanks for the com-
pliment, and concluded by proposing the health of Mr.
W. Ord, and prosperity to the town and trade of Sun-
derland.—(Applause.)
Mr. ORD responded to the toast, and gave prosperity
to the port and trade of Hartlepool.
Mr.
,THOMAS lioweLL, one of the principal merchants,
responded to the toast, and to show the increase which
had taken place in the trade of the port, he stated tha
he recollected the time when having ventured to import
a cargo of timber into the town it was prognosticated
that he should be ruined—that is would never be con-
sumed. Last year, however, instead of importing one
cargo, between 5,000 and 6,000 tons of timber had been
brought into the port.—(Applause.) Instead of I/artle-
pool being a fishing port, upwards of 5,000 vessels had
entered the port last year, and this year they had cleared
no less than 900 bound to almost every part of the world.
—(Applause.) Traders of all sizes could enter their
port with perfect safety—from the stately East Indiaman
of 900 tons burden, whose keel ran no danger in their
road, and at the present time there were 150 vessels in
the dock, possessing a tonnage of 22,000 tons, ready to
clear out.—(Applause.) This did not look like a retro-
grading trade, but it showed that the port would shortly
become the first and most important upon the east coast.
Several other toasts were afterwards drunk, and about
half-past ten o'clock Mr. Hudson and the whole of ale
company rose and left the room. A special train was in
readiness at the station which conveyed Mr. Hudson and
his friends the same evening to York, whilst a second
train was placed at the disposal of those gentlemen who
had come from Newcastle and the other intermediate
towns upon the northern portion of the line.

PARISH OF ST. CLEMENT DANES.
A meeting of the Vestry of the parish of St. Clement
Danes was held on Thursday for the purpose of fixing
the rate of assessment for the support of the poor of the
parish for the third quarter of the current year. Mr.
R. Judkins, the senior churchwarden, was called to the
chair.

Mr. STEELE, the vestry-clerk, having read over the
minutes of the last vestry, which were confirmed, ob-
served that at that meeting it was supposed that some
difficulty might arise with respect to the sum due to tl.e
Commissioners of Police. He was now happy to be able
to inform the vestry that he, along with the churchwar-
dens, had waited on the Messrs. Twinings, who, without
any difficulty, advanced the money.
The CHAIRMAN said, that since that time the money
had been paid.—(Hear, hear.) The object of the pre-
sent vestry was simply to fix the rate of assessment for
the quarter.
Mr. Fowl.En, the clerk to the board of guardians, said
he was instructed, on behalf of the board, to state that
the sum estimated as necessary to meet the expenditure
of the quarter would be about 1,800/. for the support of
the poor, and 300:. for the county rate.
TOO CHAIRMAN said the warrant from the bdard of
guardians had not yet been received. The expenditure,
however, for the quarter was estimated at 1,800/., which
was rather above the average. But when the high price
of provisions was considered, and that, in administering
relief to the poor, where a shilling formerly sufficed,
eightcenpence would now be required, the vestry would
see the necessity of making ample provision.—(Hear.)
Mr. BELLAMY then moved that a rate of eightpence in
the pound be granted.
•
Mr. OVENDEN seconded the motion.
A PARISHIONER—That will produce 2,400/.
The CHAIRMAN—Yes ; but we have to provide for the
police and county rate out of it.
The PARISHIONER imagined that the increased amount
of employment recently afforded in the parish would have
met the late increase in the price of provisions.
The CHAIRMAN was not aware that employment had
increased ; on the contrary, he believed that there was a
scarcity of employment, as well as the evil of a high price
of food.—(Hear, hear.)
After some observations to a similar effect, the rate
was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. PETERS said, before the vestry separated, he re-
gretted to be obliged to bring under their notice a mat-
ter of a personal nature, not that he cared much about
it, as it affected himself, but in order that such occur-
rences might be prevented for the future. Some weeks
ago, in consequence of some damage done to a wall ad-
joining his house, the matter came under the cognisance
of the district surveyor, under the Metropolitan Build-
ing Act ; and, much to his annoyance and astonishment,
instead of receiving the notice in the way prescribed by
the Act the notice requiring him to pall; down the well
was affixed to his street-door by the parish beadle. He
contended that such a thing might prove most injurious
to the credit of a tradesman, for the passer-by, without
a perusal, could not distinguish between it and a notice
of outlawry.
Mr. STEELE admitted that the beadle bad acted in the
matter under his direction ; but he had no other object
in view than to carry out the purposes of the Act in the
most effectual manner.
Mr. PETERS contended that the 113th clause of the
..et only required the affixing of the notice to the door,
in the case of being unable to find out the owner or oc-
cupier of the property concerned.
Several of the parishioners remarked that there was
much justice in Mr. Peters' complaint, and that the step
complained of should not be resorted to, except under
the contingency contemplated in the Act.
The CHAIRMAN was sorry to think that Mr. Peters, or
any other parishioner, should have been so annoyed, but
he was quite sure that no offence was intended by the
vestry-clerk, who had only endeavoured to carry out the
instructions of the Act.
Mr. PETERS having expressed himself satisfied, a vote
of thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the vestry
adjourned.

IRRIGATION AND THE PRESER-
VATION OF MANURE.
At the recent annual meeting of the Stewponey Agri-
cultural Society, Mr. Whitmore, the President, adverted
to several interesting experiments which he had com-
menced :—" I am carrying the new plan (the four feet
deep drainage) into effect to a great extent on my own
estate, and my mode of applying it is open to all of you
for examination, and I hope it may be found useful.—
(Hear, hear.) lam also at present carrying on largely
a system of irrigation conducted upon the most improved
principles, from which I expect great results. It is right
that I should mention that I have tried irrigation before
without success, nay, even with injury ; but then I had
never found out the way of applying it properly ; and
now that I have got hold of the proper mode, I have no
doubt that I shall be amply repaid. Taught by former
failures, now, when I desire to practice any improved
mode of husbandry, I look to that part of England where
it is carried on ; I am ready to admit that a great deal
of information may be got from books ; but you may
read to all eternity without becoming practically ac-
quainted with the matter; if you are to have a practical
knowledge of the process, you must go and learn it
where it is practised.----(Hear.) Accordingly I went to
Kent to acquire my knowledge of deep draining, and I
went for irrigation to the water-mills of Dorsetshire,
which are very beautiful works, and no one desirous of
putting the plan in practise but will be repaid by seeing
now it is carried on there. lam also of opinion that in
carrying improvements into effect it is necessary to have
some party who has been engaged in them where they
are carried on; accordingly, I have brought workmen to
effect the improvements on my estate, and when the plan
is fully in operation, and I have instances of it to show
the members of the Stewponey Society, I shall then con-
sider that I have been of some use.—(Hear, hear,)
With regard to the manufacture and storing of manure
I have tried the system referred to in the report,
namely, box feeding, but on a small scale. lam
convinced that it is an immense improvement
on the usual plan of making and preserving
manures. In box feeding the animal is in no degree in-
jured, nor its health in the least impaired, though, per-
haps, it might look brighter in the eye when fed other-
wise. You are aware that there is a cavity below the
box which is fitted up with a grating, and becomes filled
with the dung. Now, although I have left that for six
months without emptying, the animal has thriven and
experienced no ill effect, nor shown a single symptom of
disease. It is true the labourers who took it out felt it a
little; it made their eyes water and their noses sneeze,
but no greater harm. I think it must be apparent that
this dung, not having been dried by the sun, nor watered
by the rain, but all its solid and liquid parts retained,
must be vastly more efficacious than that collected on the
old system. What is the usual system of manufacturing
manure? The turning a few poor miserable animals into
the strawyard, and when the straw is rotten you call that
manure. It is nothing of the kind. I have seen straw ac.
tually thrown into the streets, to be converted into some.
thing black and dirty, and than it was called manure.
Thjs is absurd, and I contend that a most material point
in farming is the proper preparation and preservation of
manure. There is an immense field open, lam certa'n,
to those farmers who will take pains to apply themselves
to the proper cultivation of the land, and you will do
best in the application of improved processes to seek for
information in those parts where they are now actually
practised. The cost of applying irrigation I find to be
From 12/. to 151. an acre ; but what is the result ? Sup-
pose my improvements in this way to be at all compar-
able to those in the rest of England, I shall obtain a bite
of grass in the month of March, when it is nowhere
else to be had, and I shall have an extra ton of hay to
the acre, so that land that formerly let at 40s. per acre will
be richly worth 80s. I think also that where agriculture
is carried on to a high pitch, a system of double manu-
ring goes on, and, provided your land is clean where
that takes place, very large crops will be yielded.

Hors.—The change of opinion upon the duty is as
remarkable as the vicissitudes of the weather. Last
week we reported a small diminution in the amount. It
is our duty this week to name a larger sum than we
have yet announced. Who is in the right we are at an
utter loss to guess, but a most extraordinary diff.reme
prevails. A high duty backer, who is a large dealer,
sends us the following average :—Canterbury, 45,0001. ;
Rochester, 66,000/. ; Sussex' 63,0001. ; Worcester,
:10,000/. ; Farnham, 16,0001. ; Kingdom, 4,0001. Total,'
224,0001.—Kentish Gazette.

SAVE-ALL.—Mr. Budd, of Swansea, has taken cut
a patent for the application, in the manufacture of iron,
of clinkers produced in the combustion of coal, and here-
tofore regarded u useless,— The Builder.

TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEY OF

SCOTLAND.
(From the Inverness Courier.)
We have been favoured with a copy of the following
communication from the Treasury to the Duke of Mon-
trose, as President of the Highland and Agricultural
Society of Scotland:— s
" Treasury Chambers, Aug. 28, 1846.
" My Lord Duke,—The Lords Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury having had under their consideration
the two memorials of the Highland and Agricultural
Society of Scotland, signed by your Grace as President
of the Society, calling the attention of the Government
to the Ordnance Survey of Scotland, and praying that
the sum of 25,0001. annually may be placed at the dis-
posal of the Board of Ordnance for carrying on the
survey in question, I am commanded by their Lordships
to acquaint your Grace in reply, that it has not been
owing to the want of funds that greater progress has
not been made of late years in the surrey of Scotland,
but to the want of qualified surveyors, caused by the
number of railways which are being executed in diffe-
rent parts of the United Kingdom.
" Exertions are, however, being made to prepare a
sufficient number of well-trained assistants, and it is
their Lordships' intention that the sums which may be
hereafter set apart in the annual estimates for carrying
on the Ordnance survey of Scotland should be strictly
appropriated to that object, and that the sums so set
apart should be increased to the extent which may be
justified by the demands of the service, and by the funds
which may becothe available by the completion of the
survey in other quarters. _ _

- " I hitve the honour to be. &c. ,
(Signed) " C. E. TREVELYAN.
" To his Grace the Duke of Montrose."

We trust that this national wcrk will ere long be
proceeded with in a manner commensurate with its im-
portance. Scotland has considerable cause of complaint
in this matter, for while the survey of England has cost
nearly 600,000/., and that of Ireland above 750,000/.,
the whole expenditure in Scotland has been under
30,0001. This difference is not attributable to any Juke-
warmness evinced on this subject in this part of the
empire, repeated representations having been made to
Government by most of our influential bodies.

MAUCHLINE, AYRSHIRE.
(From the Dumfries Courier.)
Mauchline is a changed village since the time when
Burns resided in its neighbourhood. The parish church
is a handsome building, and the tower commands
a fine view of the surrounding country. The village
is now celebrated as the seat of a very in-
genious manufacture originally prosecuted at Cum-
nock. In the principal work at Mauchline upwards
of 100 persons are employed in the formation of snuff-
boxes, memorandum books, and various knick-nacks,
beautifully finished. Many of these articles are painted
quite in artistic style, and no traveller who has an hour to
spare in Mauch line should omit to visit the.workshops and
warehouse of Mr. Andrew Smith. Within the last few
years an entirely novel branch of the business has been
added, in the manufacture of wooden. buttons, which is
' now the most important of the whole. The buttons are
made of beechwood, and after being roughly shaped out,
are hardened by exposure to a high temperature. They
are then polished and painted, varnished and dried, every
button undergoing twelve different processes under the
hands of as many separate persons. A large portion are
painted in tartan patterns, and this process is very inte-
resting, the lines being drawn by machines, insuring the
utmost precision and regularity. I was shown some very
beautifully. executed by the hand, will pictures of game
birds and hares, which were intended for the Parisian
market, where they are in great demand. The Mauch-
line buttons are chiefly used for summer clothing, such
as shooting-jackets, and are found to be remarkably
durable. Many boys and girls are employed in this
work, and receive fair wages. In addition to its ordinary
population, Mauchline has at present a couple of hun-
dred navies, employed on the extension to Cumnock of
the Glasgow and Ayr Railway, chiefly from the High-
lands, squeezed into every available corner. They have,
on the whole, conducted themselves very well, and a
number of them have saved money.
Mossgeil, the residence of Burns for several years,,
and where be composed many of his finest poems, is
about half a mile from Mauchline, and is very little
changed since that period. One improvement has been
made, however, as a large part of the farm has
been drained; the want of which was one great cause
of the poet's failure as a farmer here, as the land lies
upon a cold retentive sub-soil, and in his 'day the clay
tubes, which have added so much to the wealth of
Ayrshire, were not. It was while the poet resided
here that he wooed his bonny Jean. Their first intro-
duction was somewhat curious. The poet had attended
a dance in Mauchline, accompanied by his dog in place
of a fair partner, and, in reply to some remark, he
said, " he wished he could get any of the lasses to
like him as well as his colley did." A few days after-
wards, when the poet was strolling down the banks of a
burn which runs through the village, a lass who was
engaged on the bleaching-green inquired " if he had got
a more loving sweetheart than his dog yet ?" This
was Jean Armour, and this the first time of meeting be-
twixt the future husband and wife.

ROBBERY OF THE SERGEANT'S MESS OF THE
13TH FOOT.—Information has been forwarded to every
police station of the desertion of a private of the 13th
Regiment of Foot, named Anthony Heath, who, when
he absconded from Portsmouth on Sunday, took away
with him the sum of 391., the property of the sergeant's
mess of his company.
In consequence of the eminent services of the
" Old Sailor," (the late Mr. M. 11. Barker,) Lord John
Russell has been pleased to appoint his only surviving
son to a situation in the Customs. Mr. Robert Barker,
the individual referred to, was apprenticed to Messrs.
Pattison and Hine, builders, in this town.—Nottingham
Review.
WEST RIDING REGISTRATION.—The result of the
revision of the lists for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
which is jast completed, is to give the Liberals again of
1,683 on the revision of last year. The present liberal
majority on the whole constituency is 4,100.
PROCLAMATIONS OF OUTLAWRY.—The following
parties were, at the Sheriff's Court, on Thursday,
called upon to surrender to their various creditors,
or be severally outlawed :—Thomas Harries Wilson,
at the suit of John Garrod ; J. L. Wellesley, at
the suit of Benjamin Spilsbury ; Richard Augustus
Seymour, at the suit of William Henry Vernon ;
W. H. Gardner, at the suit of George Augustus
Brown ; Mary .A.nn Perryman, at the suit of James
Edward Pye ; George Hicks, at the suit of W. H.
Savage ; Arthur Wellesley Williams, at the suit of John
Miller Duffield ; Samuel Bertie Ambosse, at the suit of
George Samuel Ford ; George Pitt Rose, at the suit of
Seneca Hughes ; Richard Samuel Mayer Spry, at the
suit of John Forbes ; and Samuel George Beamish, at
the suit of William Sylvester Wilson.
GREAT BELL OF HOWTH.—The Ballast Board
has adopted the very useful engineering suggestion of
our friend Mr. Steele, and has decided upon placing a
splendid bell, that will cost about four hundred pounds,
on the Bailly Rock on the Mountain Promonotory of
Howth, to be rung as a warning to vessels approaching
the rocky cliffs in heavy fogs.—Dublin paper.
MILITARY SPREES.—A transaction, very dis-
creditable to some of the parties engaged in it, took place
about ten o'clock on Saturday evening, on Pope's-quay.
For some time past a house of rather adoubtful character
has existed in that locality, which has caused much annoy-
ance to the respectable inhabitants residing there. They
being desirous of abating the nuisance, hired a boy, who
was instructed to parade the quay with a lighted torch, for
the purpose of deterring parties from resorting there. A
few evenings since an officer of the Royal Dragoons,
passing in that direction, called to the boy and asked
him his reason for carrying the torch, when the other
very civilly informed him what his object was. Upon
this the chivalrous son of Mars told him he should not
annoy the ladies, and attempted to wrest the torch from
him, but this was resisted by the boy, who made a blow
of it at him. Having demanded the boy's name for
the purpose of indicting him, the officer went
away, and nothing more was heard of him until Sun-
day evening. About ten o'clock on that night several
officers of the regiment, assisted by some of their ac-
quaintances, amounting in all to nine persons, sallied out
armed with sticks for the purpose of avenging the insult
offered to their brother officer on the previous evening.
Having arrived at Pope's Quay, they made an attack on
the poor boy, about fourteen years of age, who began to
cry out for help, when a man who was in the neighbour-
hood ran to his assistance, and called on them to desist
beating him, but he was answered by being knocked
down with a blow of a stick from one of the party, while
another of them having, placed his knee on his
chest got his hand in his neckerchief, and
struck his head against the ground. On this a young
gentleman residing in the neighbourhood also went
to render assistance, but was also knocked down,
several of them striking him in front and rear to-
gether. At this juncture of the proceedings constable
Porter and another sub-constable made their appear-
ance, and called on the officers to give their names and
addresses, which they at first refused. but on being told
that if they persisted in the refusal they should be taken
into custody, some of the party gave their names, while
others succeeded in making their escape. We are in
possession of the names of the parties engaged in this
affray, but as the transaction is likely to engage the
attention of the courts in the course of a few days, it is
deemed advisable not to publish them until it comes in a
proper form before the public.—Cork Reporter.
LECTURES ON ART.—At the Western Literary
Institution on Thursday last, Mr. R. W. Buss, the ar-
tist, delivered a lecture on fresco, and the British school
of Historical Painting ; and will complete the subject
next Thursday. At the Islington Literary Institution,
Mr. Samuel Nixon will give two lectures on meddling
and sculpture, December 10th and 17th. At the same
place on January Ist, Mr. John Hawksworth will read
a paper on art, considered in its ancient, mediaeval, and
modern manifestations, with a view to the development
of its prospective tendencies. On Tuesday, Nov. 3rd, at
the Literary Institution, Newbury, Baits, Mr. George
Godwin will lecture on the architecture of the middle
ages. Professor Hosking commenced his course at
King's College, on Tuesday last , and Professor Donald-
son's will begin at the London University on Tuesday
next —The Builder.

HUDSON'S BAY PRODUCE.—The annual arrival of
furs, skins, &c., from the territory of the Hudson's thy
Company, bas just taken place, by the vessel Prince
Albert, which has just arrived in the London Docks from

the district named, extensively laden with furs and skins
of the most valuable descriptions, all of which are now
free of duty, in addition to a large quantity of feathers,
oil, sea-horse teeth, whalebone, and other productions of
that northern region.
REDUCTION OF RENTS.—Lord Rossrrore, " tread-
ing in the footsteps" of the Earl of Erne, has just issued
a circular, apprising his tenantry in the county of Mo- '
naghan, of his Lordship's determination to return 15 per
cent. on the year's rent now in the course of payment