The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEM-BER 24, 1846.

COURT CIRCULAR.

THE GREAT BRITAIN.

soon as the Pope left the Piazza of St. Peter's, a marshal
of the court, called the soldano, bearing attached to his
saddle two sacks of money, scattered the coin with both
hands among the people, so skilfully that the more they
thronged around, the farther off the specie was thrown,
to prevent the impeding of the procession. The depu-
ties of the Jews presented themselves on the way, with
a copy of the Pentateuch, and thus addressed his holi-
ness:—" We, Hebrews, 0 most blessed father, in the
name of our synagogue, supplicate your holiness to
deign to confirm and approve the Mosaic law given on
Mount Sinai, by the Omnipotent God, to our Pastor
Moses, in the same manner as other supreme pontiffs,
predecessors of your holiness, approved and confirmed
it." The pope answered—" We praise the law, but
condemn the observance and intelligence in which you

The Queen and Prince Albert walked, in the forenoon
yesterday, in the phintations of Osborne House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
pony and walking exercise yesterday. Her Royal High-
ness the Princess Helena was also taken an airing yes-
terday, in the pleasure grounds of Osborne House.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Caroline of Hesse
took leave of her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Sun-
day, at her residence, Cashiobury-park, Herts, and pro-
ceeded to town, attended by the Baroness Scheel and.
Baron Meysenbuch, arriving at Marlborough House in
the evening. The Princess afterwards went to pay a
visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
at Gloucester House, and took leave of the Royal
Duchess.
Soon after seven o'clock yesterday morning, the Prin-
cess attended by Baroness Scheel and Baron Meysenbuch
went from Marlborough house to the Bricklayers' Arms
station, and took her departure by the South Eastern
Railway for Dover, en route to the Continent. The
Earl of Denbigh and Mr. Bedford attended her Royal
Highness from Marlborough-house to the railway station.
Baron de Brunnow, the Russian Minister, transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Military Secretary to the Commander-in Chief
transacted business, yesterday, at the Home-office.
Lord John Russell had a dinner party yesterday even-
ing at his residence, in Chesham- place.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Having read in your paper of yesterday an
article headed " Hints for Floating the Great Britain,"
which " Hints," in my opinion, come nearer to the prac-
tical effect of doing so than any of those proposed, and
with much less expense, I would beg leave of " Hints,"
&c., to allow me to tail on to his one or two of mine.
First, clear the vessel completely of every incum-
brance within her, machinery and all its appurtenances,
having ready such a number of strong empty water-
buts (tight and well bunged) as would complete two
tiers of them stowed regularly in her hold, fore and aft,
(in the manner Indiamen formerly used to stow their
water for long voyages), securing them in the Great
Britain to the keelson, either by lashing or beams
athwartship ; when the ground tier is complete, stow
the second the same way, securing them firmly by cross-
beams and upright stantions to the deck above ; when
this operation is finished then apply the brewer's vats,
in the manner proposed by " Hints, only with this dif-
ference :—they should be placed when the vessel is as
nearly high and dry as possible. When all is secure
and so far ready then the gear for heaving off should be
got ready and well manned. Allow, then, the flowing
tide to enter the hold of the ship ; as she fills the buoy-
ancy of the casks within and the vats without will float
the body. should all so far succeed all after is easy, as
when in -deep water the leaks can then be stopped by
sweeping her bottom with a sheet of the " Galvanised
India Rubber ;" having it ready, with guys and hauling
ropes, such as are fitted to a thumtree sail at sea to stop
a leak. Your admitting these suggestions a space in
your national valuable paper will oblige an
OLD SAILOR.
Woolwich, Nov. 20, 1846.

hold it; inasmuch as Him whom you say is yet to come,
the church teaches and preaches in all lands, to be already
come, and our Lord Jesus Christ." It was an incident
characteristic of these wild times (1484), that when Pope
Innocent was borne on the portative chair from the
church of St. Clement, where he had left his horse, to
the Lateran, the impetuosity of the people was so great,
that the soldiers who carried him were driven into the
church with a violence which placed the pontiff in no
slight danger, and in their way to the portal from the
high altar, many of the cardinals were thrown down
before them. When the Pope was seated at the altar,
the antipbon was raised "De atercore erigitpoperem," &c.,
to remind him that he owed his elevation to the provi-
dence of God, and not, like secular princes, to birth or
ancestry. He then scattered copper money among the
people, saying, " Silver and gold have I none, but such
as I have will I give thee." After the ceremonies in the
Lateran, he was taken to the adjacent chapel of St. Sil-
vester, and seated at the portal in a porphyry chair,
where the prior handed to him a rod in sign of correc-
tion, the keys of the Basilica and of the palace, the sym-
bols of his apostolic power; and then girded him with a
zone of red silk, from which hung a purse containing
twelve jewels allusive to the apostles, and a porticn of
musk, allusive to the words of St. Paul, "We are a
sweet odour of Christ."

THE THEATRES.
DRURY-LANE.

Italy has ever reigned supreme as the Queen of Song•
She is now putting forward strong and undeniable
claims to be considered the Queen of the Dance also.
Carlotta Grisi and Cerito by birth, Taglioni by descent,
are numbered among her daughters ; and to these must
now be added Sophie Fuoco, the beautiful, elegant, fas-
cinating Milanese, who bids fair at no distant period to
surpass all her rivals. She repeated the character of
Betty, in the ballet of The Wags of Wapping, and the
more we see of her the more do we feel convinced that the
day is not very far distant when Sophie Fuoco will be
hailed as "pas excellence," the Deesse de la Dance. She
at once takes her place among choerographic artistes, as
a genius, the originatorof a school and of a style. It is
true, that in speaking of her characterestics, we must
compare her to the originators of other schools, and say
that she approaches nearer to the school of Ellsler and
Carlutte Grisi, than she does to any other, but then the
style of Mademoiselle Fuoco differs to a much greater
extent from that of either of those two great artistes,
than they differ from one another, and yet no one
would think of classing Carlotta Grisi as of the
school of any of her predecessors. She has formed a
school of her own, so has Mademoiselle Fuoco, and ere
long her disciples will be far more numerous than even
those of Carlotta Grisi. Ease, grace and elegance, are
the great characteristics of Sophie Fuoco, and she pos-
sesses a muscular power which is astonishing in one so
light, so lovely, and so sylphlike. For instance, what
can surpass in grace and elegance that wonderful art
which she performs entirely on the points of her toes,
it is grace and elegance personified, and it is not until
that pas is finished that the spectator, on reflection, be-
comes aware of the immense muscular power that must
have been put in action during the performance of this
unique and unrivalled feat of choerographic art. Her
acting too is beautiful. There is an espiegle simpli-
city—a naive coquetry about her impersonation of
the character of Copp's niece, that is perfectly
bewitching, and to add to her fa cinations, she possesses
those two powerful magnets of attractions, youth and
beauty. No wonder then that she has created a furore
in France and Italy, and still less wonder that the furore
is surpassed by the enthusiam which she excites every
night of her appearance at Drury Lane. The engage-
ment of Sophie Fuoco is decidedly the greatest hit Mr.
Bunn has yet made.

REGULATIONS OF THE FRENCH

RAILWAYS.

The Moniteur of the 18th November contains a royal
ordonnance, issued on a report of the Minister of Public
Works, fixing the general regulations that are hence-
forth to be observed by all railway companies in working
their lines. This ordonnance contains not less than 78
articles, referring to the several sections of the way ;
working stock ; the composition of trains ; the depar-
ture, circulation, and arrival of trains ; fares ; superin-
tendence of working; regulations relating to passengers;
and general arrangements. The following are the
principal points referred to :

The " possesso" of Alexander VI. (1492) had sur-
passed all former ones, but the full blaze of splendour
was reserved for that of the magnificent promoter of the
intellectual interests of his age, the great Maecenas of
the church, Leo X. This pontiff ascended the throne
1513, and from the beginning of his reign displayed that
taste for the gorgeous which distinguished him no less
than his generosity towards the intellectually gifted. He
determined to ride in the procession to the Lateran on
the horse that had borne him when taken prisoner, a
year before, by the French, at Ravenna. He did not use
the ,' triregno" of his predecessor, Julius IL, but another
of cloth of gold, with three circlets of gems, and decked
with peacock's feathers. A crown of these feathers had
been used also by Innocent HI. (1198), their introduc •
tion being intended to convey a symbol of the transi-
toriness and, apart from divine aid, the feebleness of all
earthly power. In the procession of Leo, coins of gold
and silver were profusely scattered amongst the people;
two hundred horsemen in white and red livery opened
the train ; then followed the servants of the cardinals
and a hundred signors of the houses of Orsini, Colonna,
and others ; then musicians, grooms, chamberlains,
standard-bearers, two figures of Cherubim borne aloft
on poles, the Gonfe.loniert of the Roman people, of the
Knights of the Teutonic Order, and those of the Order
of Jerusalem, the standard of the church, borne by the
Duke of Murone, the horses of the papal stud, legates,
nobles, princes, and other assistants. The palfrey bear-
ing the blessed sacrament, surrounded with torches and
shaded by a canopy sustained by eight Roman citizens,
preceded the more solemn train of ecclesiastics, with the
canters of the papal chapel, and other officials. After
his body guard, rode the Pope, under a canopy, his bridle
held for the first stage of the journey by the Duke of
Ferrara, and the last in the pageant was the bearer of
the canopy called the " Ombrella ponaificale," in complete
armour, but bare-headed. As the procession moved,
the collegiate bodies of the churches it passed presented
themselves with censors and chanting of hymns. Altars
had been erected in the streets, resplendent with tapers;
and triumphal arches, with devices in which mythology
was sometimes blent with Christian imagery.
One of the above-mentioned arches presented, at one
façade, a figure of Apollo, between two fountains of
wine, and on the other, Christ giving the keys to St.
Peter. Another presented the statues of Numa Pompi-
Has and Antoninus Pius, two of the wisest monarchs of
ancient Rome with the inscription, "Non de ccesorum
numero, fusoque cruore, sed de sperata pace trophea damus."
On another were bas-reliefs, representing kings and
princes embracing each other, children burning the
weapons of war;with their torches, in appropriate allusion
to the peaceful auspices which greeted the new reign.
According to the rubrics for all these occasions, the
procession, on reaching the Gesi Church, turns in the
direction of the Capitol, where the senator of Rome, at-
tired in purple and cloth of gold, with a jewelled collar
and a sceptre of ivory, attended by his judges, officials,
and guards, receives his Holiness kneeling, and, in a
brief Latin address, promises him obedience and fealty
in the name of all the senate and people of Rome ;
to which his Holiness replies in the same lan-
guage. Descending the Capitol, the cortege passed for-
merly under an arch whose erection was the hereditary
duty of the Dukes of Parma, and afterwards of the
King of Naples, the heir of their property; and in later
times, instead of the presentation of the Scriptures, the
Jewish deputies were admitted to pay homage to the
supreme pontiff in the " Campo Vaccine," and after
wards, for motives of convenience, at the Arch of Titus,

" The Way.—The stations are to be considered part
of the public domain, and as such to be regulated by the
superior authorities. The entrance, the circulation, and
the standing of public or private carriages are to be
subjected to the decisions of the Minister of Public Works.
The repairs of the way and of the works depending on
it, though evidently at the discretion of the companies
are to be made known to the Government authorities
who can interfere when anything is unsatisfactory. The
crossings and passages on the line are to be subjected to
government regulations, particularly in what relates to
the barriers required for the latter. High embank-
:et' nols°,bt
clients, viaducts, and bridges over rivers and streams,
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svetol,ck&.L.,twaorhee
are to be defended by strong parapets. All stations,
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instance to be subjected to certain proofs of strength,
for the boilers, axletrees,
provided with an apparatus to catch the pieces of coke
falling from the furnace, so as to prevent their reaching
the ground. Every means must also be employed to
prevent sparks from issuing from the funnel, whereby
property along the line has, from time to time, been set
on fire and consumed. The report regrets that the
grating at present in use is not found to be efficient.
Axle-trees are in all cases to be made of wrought-iron
of the first quality.
" Composition of Trains.—All companies are bound to
furnish a sufficient number of carriages of every descrip-
tion to supply the wants of each station. The hours
fixed by the company for departure are to be rigorously
observed. As the public, in a great measure are depen-
dent on railways for their mode of transport, these two
regulations are absolute on all companies whatever ;
when any exception to this rule is permitted, as in the
case of direct trains, it is the government authorities
who must regulate the matter. In cases of like or
extraordinary movement from one point to another, the
company is obliged to provide an additional and suffi-
cient number of carriages of every class ; the number of
carriages for a sigle train is not to exceed 24, and this is
to be considered rather as the exception than the rule.
Double locomotives are permitted, as otherwise trains
would be multiplied to a dangerous extent. But when-
ever the second locomotive is employed, the cause of
such proceeding must be entered in a book. No matters
liable to explosion are to be transported in a train in
which passengers are carried. A means of communica-
tion must always be established between the conductor
and the engine-driver.
" Departure, Circulation, and Arrival of Trains.;—A
number of articles refer to the measures of precaution to
be used in starting trains at proper hours, so as to leave
a sufficient time between each ; the maximum of speed ;
the precautions to be taken in passing through tunnels, &c.;
they also regulate the passage of extraordinary trains ;
the obligation of communicating by signals ; and the
general superintend ence of the line. Registers are to
be kept at every station for marking down the causes of
all delays. No train is ever to leave before the hour
appointed in the printed lists.
" Fares.—The conditions of the concession generally
regulate the tariffs, but a company may lower its prices,
if it thinks fit, subject, however, to the condition of
keeping them so, for a certain time. As a general rule,
however, no changes: whatever can be made by the
company without first submitting them to the govern-
ment authorities. Railways that have been conceded
prier to 1835 will not be subject to these regulations
until April 1, 1847. Equality of charge is to be strictly
enforced, as. otherwise the companies could become
unjust to one locality at the expense of another.
" Superintendence of Working.—This section, which has
been already in great measure anticipated by the Railway
Police Bill, dwells on the appointing royal commissaries
and their functions. It is unnecessary to do more than
simply refer to this part of the report, since its chief
provisions are already known to the public.
" _Regulations Relating to Passengers.—All persons
unconnected with the company and the service are for-
bidden to enter the premises of a railway without per-
mission, or to stand or circulate, or to place there
objects of any kind, or to introduce horses, dogs, or
other animals, or to cause vehicles of any kind to circu-
late there. Government authorities are an exception to
this clause. Passengers are not to lean out of carriages,
or pass from one to another, or carry loaded firearms, or
leave a carriage when in movement ; the other prescrip-
tions are generally similar to those in force for common
carriages.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.---FRENCH PLAYS.
M. Perlet was to have made his debut here last even-
ing, but in consequence of the continued indisposition of
the first of artists, his debut was unavoidably postponed.
En Revanche we had Mademoiselle Brohan in three
pieces—in Le Roman dune heure, and in Les Rivaux
d'eux memes, and in Le Bonhomme Richard. The last
piece, which was produced for the first time on Friday,
is one of the best of modern French vaudevilles. It was
only produced in Paris during the last few days of Sep-
tember, and the fact of it being produced at St. James s,
so early in the season, is a proof of the enterprise of Mr.
Mitchell in catering for the amusement of his patrons.
Le Bonhomme, Richard (admirably acted by Cartigny) is
a cotton manufacturer in the provinces of France, a true
Utilitarian, who swears by Franklin, and is constantly
quoting " Poor Richard" as the modern Solomon. He
has a nephew, a certain Mons, Ovide, who- has been
domiciled in Paris to learn the' mercantile usages of the
capital. But M. Ovide has a taste. He forms a liason
with an eleve du conservatoire, whose friend Fanfinette
(Mademoiselle Brohan) is the most espiegle, and at the
same time the most open-hearted of soubrettes.
Le Bonhomme Richard receives from his Parisian
correspondent most awful accounts of the doings of
Ovide. He frequents the society of Lions, and incon-
testibly the good country relations imagine that he must
be either a Van Amburgh or a sacrifice to the carnivor-
ous propensities of the wild beasts of the desert, but
when the letter goes on to state that he frequents
divans, his uncle concludes that he must be turned
Turk, and determines to proceed at once to Paris, to
reclaim him. The uncle arrives, and finds Ovide in all
his glory. Ovide shams sick, but the uncle soon finds
out the sham. His serious lectures are, however, inter-
rupted by theespeigle Fanfinette (Mdlle. Brohan), who
invites him to supper, coaxes him into accepting
the invitation, and by her fascinations, aided by sundry
glasses of champagne, completely gets round Bonhomme
Richard, who discovers that there are other things in
the world worth living for besides getting money. The
acting of Mademoiselle Brohan throughout this scene
was the ne plus ultra of artistical excellence. She
coaxed, she wheedled the old man with the most
tascinatlig air in the world. It was impossible to resist
her frequent invitations to take wine, and then her
laugh was unapproachable. We have many good
laughers on the stage—one lady excels in the simper,
another in the sneer, another in the conventional
hysteric spasm of the respiratory organs, which gives
what the Americans would call "a pretty considerable
good imitation of a laugh," but none approach to
Mademoiselle Brohan ; hers is the honest, jocund, ab-
'olutely infectious " Haw I haw I haw I" which, with a
silvery ring, resounds through the house, and sets all
who hear her laughing for very sympathy. Cartigny
in this scene was admirable. He is fascinated with the
charming Fanfinette in spite of himself, and at last dis-
covers that there is something more worth living for
than is taught by the theories' of mere utilitarians. The
moral of this piece, which is elicited by contrasts, is ex.
cellent. It teaches us that neither mere utilitarianism
nor mere gaite de cceur is sufficient for human happiness,
but that for the judicious admixture of all the qualities
of the human mind, sentimentalism, utilitarianism, and
love of enjoyment, results common sense, that great—
that transcendant quality most praised, yet seldom ap-
preciated, but which when reached is the perfection
alike of genius, of success, and of happiness. The house
was well and fashionably attended.

the memorial of their overthrow, a strikingly signifi-
cant, if accidental, arrangement. The ceremonies within
the church have long been observed according to an in-
variable order, whether the use of horses in the preces-
sion was dispensed with or not. (Amongst all the Popes,
only nineteen are recorded to have gone otherwise than
on horse-back.) The chapter of the Lateran meet his
holiness outside the church, with two crosses and two
pavilions borne before them, implying the pre-eminency
of their church over all others, " Orbis Ecclesiarum
Mater." After receiving their homage, his holiness enters
the portal, kneeling at its threshold to kiss a golden cross,
presented by the cardinal arch-priest, then ascends a
throne, where, after vesting for the rites within the church,
the same cardinal presents him with the keys of the Ba•
silica, one gold, the other silver, in a gilt basin filled
with flowers, addressing him, at the same time in Latin.
The clergy of the Basilica then pay homage, and his
holiness is carried into the church on the portative throne,
first to the altar of the blessed sacrament, where all
kneel to adore, whilst the Te Deum is sung, afterwards to
the high altar, for a second act of worship before the relics
of St. Peter and St. Paul: thence he passes to the throne
in the tribune, and on receiving the obeisance of the car-
dinals, places in the mitre of each the "presbyterio," a do-
nation of two medals of gold and silver. The first cardi-
nal priest, with the auditors of the Rota and Concis-
torial Advocates, then passes to the altar, where the
lauds, " Exaudi Christe, &c." are sung. His Holiness
then repairs to the same altar, and gives the benedic-
tion, leaving a purse of silver money as the accustomed
offering at the confessional, or shrine of the apostles.
The cardinal deacon then places the triple crown on his
head, and re ascending the portative throne, he is borne
to the loggia of the grand facade, where the benediction
is given to the people in the usual form. The procession
returns to the apostolic palace in the same order.—
Abridgedfrom the Roman Advertiser of October 24.

General Arrangements.—No person can sell any
thing within the precincts of a station without permission
from the authorities. When a line crosses several de-
partments the attributions conferred by the present
regulations on the several prefets may be concentrated
in one. Every person employed by a railway company
must wear a uniform, in order that the public may at
once see, in case of need, to whom they are to apply.
Signal-men, guards, and barrier keepers may wear a
sabre. At each station a book must be kept to receive
the complaints of passengers. Copies of the present
regulations are to be constantly kept placarded in all
stations ; copies are also to be given to each person em-
plo.‘ ed, and whatever relates to passengers is to be hung
up in each carriage."

THE STIRLINGSHIRE WOOLLEN

MANUFACTURE.

The manufacture of tartan shawls and plaids from
wool may be said to be a branch of trade indigenous to
the north. The Highlanders of Scotland were the first
of whom we know anything who wore chequered gar-
ments composed of that material ; and so well acquainted
were they even centuries back with a becoming arrange-
ment in striping them, that each feudal lord and his
vassals had fixed upon a certain composition of stripes
with certain colours, by which they were distinguished
from all the rest ; hence the origin of the clan tartans.
They were worn, as is well known, only in the lower
part of the dress chiefly, though all who could attain to
it had coats and vests of their favourite check. And so
proud were they, and tenacious of their clan, and this
their showy garb, that a Highlander has been known to
wear them in the olden time to shreds, rather than lay
them aside for other apparel.
The Government of George the Second, after the dis-
astrous battle of Culloden, in passing the Disarming
Act, declared that it was as essential to prohibit the
wearing of the tartan• kilt, in order to restore and ensure
a continuance of peace in the Highlands, as it was to
take away from the hardy Gael his gun, his skein-dhu,
or his broad-sword, and so the wise legislators of those
days decreed accordingly. How altered, indeed, are the
times, when even Majesty itself will wear them, and
thereby encourage their growth ; and now, besides all
the clans, from Frazer to Campbell, or Mac Kenzie
and Mac Lean, we have the Queen's Welcome, and the
Queen of Beauty, and scores of other fanciful checks,
the result of exquisite skill, taste, and arrangement.
If we then can admire all this—and if we then regard
it as it ought, in an important commercial point of view,
we must—we are compelled—to laugh at the silly idea
of our legislators at all interfering with the colour or
shape of the clothing which the people, or any portion of
them, may feel disposed to wear. Had that part of the
Act succeeded in its working out, probably no such
kind of work would have been now seen amongst us ;
but the mountaineer, while he might be refted of his
kirk or claymore, could not be stripped of his clan kilt,
unless they proceeded to turn him adrift in his native
nudity, to browse on the heath with his own mountain
roe. He had no other kind of cloth, and would have
none.
Laying aside his predatory habits and mixing more
freely with the people of the low country, the latter, in
course of time, became attracted with his flaunting plaid
as he strutted proudly by, and the looms that were em-
ployed in the weaving of course home-spun, or blankets,
were soon turned to the production of tartan shawls, of
various kinds and qualities. It is, however, only within
these few years that the trade has ramified to such an
extent, and reached our town; and as it is likely still far-
ther to increase, and may, as it has done already, super-
sede other kinds of the loom's productions, we will give
some account of how it is carried on, in detail, in Stir-
lingshire, the principal seat, as yet, of its manufacture.
And here, we may remark, that it is not the native grown
wool which is used. The Cheviot and the sheep of the
far off Australasia are mingled together in the product
of a shawl in Stirlingshire.
The fleece or bail is obtained, it is picked, and often
classified er sorted, as it is termed, into three. It is
spun, dyed and scoured, woven, dressed, or waulked, if
necessary, and made fit for the wearer, and all shcse
processes are performed under the same establishment.
From this, it will be seen at a glance, that those
manufacturers possess a superiority over the Paisley
manufacturer, who buy their yarn from the spinners and
know nothing at all of the first operation of the trade.
We once heard a Stirlingshire manufacturer say, who
had fallen behind with his yarn in consequence of the
fitting up of some new machinery in the room of the
old, that it would be better for him, for a little to give

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE
TATTERSALL'S.—YzszERDAY.
There was a very fair attendance yesterday afternoon,
and several horses were in demand for the Derby. The
three leading favourites, however, were not of the
number, and we may pass at once to the Sister to Cob-
web colt, Allertonian, Glentilt, Lunedale, and Old Port,
who were in good favour with several parties. Glentilt
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30 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's.Glentilt—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Lunedale—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Worley's Old Port—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Allertonian—taken
40 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Marpessa colt—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Tantivy—taken
40 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigot's Conyngham—t and aft. off.
40 to 1 agst Mr. Jardine'sJohnny Armstrong—ditto
1000 to 20 agst Mr. Mostyn's Projectile—taken
1000 to 20 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Will o' the Wisp—taken
2500 to 50 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Hart—taken
3000 to 60 agst Mr. W. Scott's Christopher—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Liberator—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack—taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Mostyn's West India Planter
1000 to 10 agst Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle—taken
1000 to 10 agst Mr. L. Fox's Wild Boy—taken
1000 to 15 each in one bet agst Projectile and Cossack—t.
500 even on the field agst the following twelve :—Van
Tromp, Epirote, Planet, Glentilt, Old Port, Wanota, Red
Hart, Lunedale, Johnny Armstrong, Sister to Cobweb cult,
Allertonian and the Liberator.
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10 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Slander—taken.
SALE OF BLOOD STOCK AND HUNTERS.
The following thorough-bred horses, the property of Mr.
Mytton, were sold with their engagements yesterday after-
. noon, by Messrs. Tattersall and son : guineas
The Duke of Sussex, a yearling colt, by Plenipo, out
of Red Rose 340
Clarendon, 2 yrs, by Lanercost, out of Cara l7O
Auricula, 3 yrs, by Talleyrand
Shalizadee, 2 yrs, by Cusar, out of Leod
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' Hunters the property of Mr. McKellar:—Rocket, 100 gs;
' Wild Goose,lso t.,s ; St. Laurence, 120 gs.
F Hunters the property of Sir B. Hall;—Bramble, 170 gs;
The Pentitf,l2o gs; Hazard, 150 gs.

THE POSSESSION of the LA.TERAN

1 his idle weavers a small compensation, and go about,
rather than buy yarn and keep them working. The
motive power of the machines for the most part is
water instead of steam, which was at first doubtless a
great inducement to their location, and unless in the
long droughts of summer the streams afford a plentiful
supply. It is very pure, also quite free of chemical
analysis, and therefore well adapted for dyeing and
scouring. Thousands of gallons pouring down the
dark-winding Carron, or the clear-winding Devon, classic
streams, contribute in this way to a great purpose in
the social economy of life, instead of, as in by-gone
days, wasting themselves in the ocean Firth below, or
at most serving as themes for the hero's wail or the
poet's lute. _

Having said so much in respect to the manufacturer,
turn we to the weaver, and we perceive at a glance the
advantages which he possesses in the working of wool
over the Paisley operative. The whole of the plans are
different. He glues his own web ; this may be thought
by some no advantage, but it is, as he can size it accord-
ing to the quality of his yarn, and an experienced hand
is, in this operation, very particular. How many excel-
lent warps have we seen in Paisley rendered nearly un-
workable by being too firmly glued, and how many of a
softer texture, that would have required a quantum more.
and. might have given to the weaver 3s. or 4s. a-week ad-
ditional wages. In bad weather it is indeed a tantalising
matter to the Stirlingshire operative the Blueing of his
web, as the operation is performed in the open air. but
when it -is fine we have seen it gone through in
about two hours, and the method of doing' it is the beg
calculated to do the least injury to the yarn.. After
his glue is boiled, say one pound of sheep-skin to
twenty pounds of warp, he makes up a quantity suf-
ficient to wet the warp through ; not all at once, this
would be too much, but about the fourth part of it. He
then wrings it out with the assistance of a neighbour,
in the same way that a woman wrings her blanket or
petticoat, it is then stretched at its length along hori-
zontal stakes, a coarse rail is put through it, and when
these webs are carefully handled, we have seen them
when taken off, put upon the beam as quickly and with as
little broken yarn as any cotton warp, this is seldom or
never the casein Paisley. The loom of the north is also
very different to that of ours, the pace or benting
power does not hang as with us, there is on the yarn
beam a row-head just as we have in Paisley on the fore
beam, a string is attached to the clink or hook thereof,
and is led to the front, so that the weaver can ease it
when he pleases wiihout leaving his seat, besides the
beam on which the yarn is, a square beam is placed
about 15 inches behind the heddles over which the warp
passes. By this means the yarn sustains the least pos
sible amount of friction before it comes to be acted upon
by the reed, lay, and shuttle, which as every weaver,
who is in the least acquainted with wool; knows to be of
the utmost importance. The cloth passes over a beam
of the same description, and is taken on upon one below.
This is also an advantage, as it does not bulk up to alter
the place of action in the reed on its floating on the lay.
Their shuttles, too, are vastly larger, they will take in a
pirn holding a full number of yarn, so that the labour in
this alone is abridged, when they are compared to Pais-
ley shuttles, seven-eights, at least.
It is with these and other advantages rest the reasons
why the wages of the north-country woollen weaver are
superior to those of his Paisley brother for the same
kind of work. The prices per yard are about the same,
but the former will double nearly the latter in quantity,
and with short hours, too, their time being from six,
A.X., till half-past six, P.M. with forty-five minutes for
breakfast and as many for dinner ; and although the shop
or factory be open, during these intervals of labour, no
one is permitted to sound his shuttle on any account.
Their wages are good during the busy season, which
generally occupies from seven to eight months in the
year—that is from the beginning of March till the latter
end of October. The remainder is short time to all, un-
less an order comes to hand, which is certainly superior
to the Paisley method of some going entirely idle, while
others may be fully employed ; but, let it be remarked,
we speak of factories, and such alone, or nearly so, ob-
tains in Stirlingshire. We may remark that the wages
will run from 15s. to 20s. a-week, and many of them who
are very expert will keep up, during the busy season,
from 44 to 51. a-month, and even sometimes more. Nor
does this in the slightest degree tempt the cupidity of
employers to break the wages—no, indeed ; on the con-
trary, their remarks to the weavers tend rather to stir
up and keep alive a spirit of emulation amongst their
workers. They tell them not unfrequently to keep high
up on the pay roll, for they feel a pride in it.
Nor will the weaver—while he works with a long
stretch, fretting his yarn before it comes to the shuttle,
and making it as frizzley as a sentimental wig, with his
hanging pace straining the thread, while at the same time
it is yielding, and will not assist the heddles in opening
up a cou'-se for his shuttles, while these shuttles are so
small that in the changing of pirns alone his labour is
increased seven-eights—ever be able to count the wages
of the northern artisan, be his skill and ingenuity in
other respects what they may.
But here we feel we must stop for the present. The
importation of this thriving branch of our national in •
dustry, which bids fair yet to command customers in the
furthermost quarters of the globe, ought to be looked to
by all taking an interest in the prosperity of our town,
with a wistful eye, while men of influence and capital
would do well to turn their attention fully upcn it ; and
sure are we, that while it would prove a source of
wealth to themselves, it would improve the condition of
the operative vastly, who now, poor man, languishes on
6s. or 7s. a week, while they would reap the reward of
this besides, in a joyous heart, in a conscientious feeling
that they had done something to smooth a rugged path
of life, and mitigate to some extent the catalogues of
human woes.—Glasgow Satuiday Post. •

REFORM in the RU lAL SOCIETY.
(From the Lancet.)
Saint Andrew's Day is drawing nigh—the day on
which the official programme of the Royal Society will
be drawn up f'or another year. The present would,
therefore, be a fit season for reviewing the proceedings
of the society during the scientific year, which closes on
the 30th of November. But we can only refer to parti-
cular points. Besides a numerous array of minor lathes,
we have charged those in authority, with three specific
outrages upon the constitution of the Royal Society.
In the first place, they have doubly violated the re-
gulations under which the Royal Medals are awarded—
regulations which have received the sanction of her Ma-
jesty, by giving a Royal Medal to a paper which did not
legally come within the cycle of years for which the
award was made ; and for a paper which did not appear
in print in the "Philosophical Transactions" until nearly
a year after the medal was given away. In the second
place, we charged the secretaries and the Physiological
Committee with having broken the statutes by allowing
the author of the paper to which the Royal Medal was
illegally awarded, to receive back and alter his paper,
without the permission of the council. And in the third
place, we have charged the secretaries with trampling
under foot the whole constitution of the Royal Society,
by printing an extended communication from a person
not a fellow of the Society, and which had neither been
read, nor referred, nor considered by the Council in any
way, having, in fact, as the printed date proves, been
sent to the secretary subsequently to the last meeting of
the Council for the year. We stop not to enquire into
irregularities of former years—it is enough to say, that
all these subversions of the statutes belong to the
present year alone. , These charges, as our readers know,
were made distinctly, nominatively ; it would, indeed,
have been a treason to truth not to have done so. We
charged the parties concerned in the court of public and
professional opinion, and they have acknowledged the
competence of the tribunal by pleading to the indict-
ment. They have all responded, have all held up their
hands—some with the plea of not guilty, some with ex-
planations, some with equivocations, and all with ad-
missions f one kind or another. Besides the corres•
pondence of the injured parties, letters have been elicited
from Dr. Roget, the senior secretary; from Mr. 8011, the
secretary of the Physiological Committee; from
Drs. Todd and Sharpey, the two referees in the case of
the recent medal; and from Mr. Beck, and Mr. Newport,
the two royal medallists by favour, but not by right or
desert; and, lastly, from the Noble Presiden, the Mar-
quis of Northampton himself; while the rest of the par-
ties engaged have been busy with private repudiations
of all part in the discreditable transactions, and members
of the Council have been running to and fro to examine
into the truth of things about which they had judged in
the absence of evidence or inquiry. Never before, in
the annals of the Royal Society, has there been such a
series of charges—never such a series of replications.
Such has been the contradictory nature of the communica-
tions, that we have sometimes bee able to stultify the state-
ments of the individual writers, by bringing them into self-
collision—the facts and acts of the same party at dif-
ferent times or places being in inexplicable contradic-
tion. At other times we have proceeded by the equally
easy mode of knocking the statements of one party
against the opposing facts of another. Their official
conduct has reduced them to such a condition, that the
mere touch of truth has been sufficient to throw them
into a state of moral polarization, particle instantly re-
pelling particle, and mass opposing mass.
But the profession have seen the changes, the evidence
adduced in their support, and the defences set up. The
parties implicated are, with the exception of the Pre-
sident, all of them professional men, and with the r
fession rests the verdict. Let them, then, throw their
pebbles into the urn of the republic of medicine,
and decide for punishment or acquittal. We do,
not wish to aggravate the matter, but we ask—What
would be said to the secretary of the Medico-Chirurgical
Society, ,if he could have dared to assume in his
own person all the functions of the society, and to print
papers without the sanction of the society, or sanction
of any kind; in the " Medico-Chirurgical Transactions?"
Or what would be said if the treasurer of the Bank of
England were shown to have malversated the funds at
his command ? And are not science and scientific fame
things as dear to the rightful possessor, and as important
to the nation, as ever mere money can be ?
We say it advisedly. At the present time, the whole
system of scientific polity in this country is rotten at
the core as regards those who are charged with its ad-
ministration, and as regards the code to be enforced.
That the men in power are either lax to an extreme de-
gree, or utterly unprincipled, we have shown again and
again; and the machinery entrusted to these infirm or
impure hands is equally to be condemned. Science ad-
vances with an increased impetus from every century and
from every generation; yet the polity of the Royal Society,
our chief scientific institution, clings pertinaciously to its
venerable regulations, clogged as they are by time, and
by the altered condition of knowledge. Where Science
formerly numbered its tens, it now numbers its thou-
sands of cultivators; advances which were formerly the
feature of a generation are now the events of a day.
Science never sleeps; yet the Royal Society hybernates,
or rather falls into perfect torpor, annually, from June to
November. It still moves on in the antique round, when
the London year commenced with the fogs, and ended
with Midsummer. To the savans the 30th of November
is still the beginning of the season, as it was in some
remote era, the date of which can hardly be specified.
Dot the resultant mischiefs aro icoalculable, when to