The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-21 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

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(From the Maidstone Gazette.)
MAIDSTONE.—Picking is now in full operation, but
sufficient bulk of the crop is not yet down to enable any
opinion to be formed of the weight or quantity. The
warm days and cold nights have in many cases affected
the colour, but the condition is generally good, particu-
larly considering the indifferent season we have had.
Pickers are numerous, but we fear that they will not be
able to earn much money.
MEREVVORTIL—The picking has commenced, and will
in a day or two become general. Some planters, how-
ever, say they shall not begin till the end of the week;
and those who have begun complain greatly as to the
quantity produced, in consequence of the quantity of dis-
eased hops that are thrown away, as the growers all ap-
pear determined to avoid picking any of them, as far as
possible. Most persons who are supposed to be judges
of the duty, consider it overstated at 200,000/.
BIIENCHLEY.—The hops in this parish are superior to
the average of the vicinity. A considerable portion being
sheltered from the late wind, they retain a good colour,
and are free from disease. Some of our principal
planters who had began picking have discontinued the
same, as their hops are not yet ripe enough to dry. The
hops, generally speaking, are small, having been much
checked in their progress, owing to the late wet season.
They have not recovered, and require time and warm
weather to bring them to perfection, consequently the
crop will not realize the estimate of the planters, and we
think the duty is called too high.
CRANDROOK.—The " pole puller" has pretty generally
commenced plying his avocation in this neighbourhood,
and a deficiency of condition is found to exist. While
the late propitious weather has had the effect of enabling
the fruit to profusedly develope itself on the poles, it is
universally acknowledged that there has been nothing
like a commensurate developement of condition. The
aroma, however, in some plantations, is very powerful,
and not less agreeable.

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STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER, SEPT. 19.--The depression which cha-
racterizA our market last week has been felt in an in-
creased degree today. The political events occurring
in Italy, the spread of malignant cholera in the Levant,
at Hamburgh, and other parts of the Continent, together
with a sense of the uncertainty and danger that lurk in
the entangled affairs of Germany, are adding to the in-
disposition to execute orders, not only for those quarters,
but indirectly for others also. There is, too, a growing
feeling of uneasiness and want of confidence among the
monied and mercantile classes of the metropolis, which
in some degree restricts trade on every hand. Under
these circumstances, extremely little business bas been
done by any class of buyers, either in goods or yarns,
and prices have, consequently, shown a want of firmness
at best, while, in some descriptions there is a decline of
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applies
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contracts
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and almost Equally to those for Germany.
As regards the lower number of water twist, lately so
active, the upward tendency has received a decided
check, partly from the circumstance of the season for
shipment being now far advanced. Altogether there is
a marked change for the worse.

ROCHDALI3, SEPT. 18.—The demand for flannels still
continues good, and the manufacturer meets a ready sale
for all he makes. Kerseys or heavy goods have been
dull of sale, and the number sold have been limited. The
wool market has been much the same as it was on the
previous Monday.
HUDDERSFIELD, SEPT. 19.--The market has been well
attended, and goods adapted for the season have met with
a ready sale. Throughout the whole of this district
there is a marked improvement in the condition of the
operatives. In the warehouses there is also considerably
more doing, and there is every appearance of a good
winter trade.

HALIFAX, SEPT. 16.—We have no alteration to notice
this week either in the worsted or the yarn trade. Our
last week's report might therefore, as regards them, be
repeated. The staplers complain that there is very little
demand for wool, as the kind of goods now chiefly in
request uses up but very small quantity. Prices continue
without variation. There is rather more activity in the
low woollen trade of the district; and the operatives in
that branch are more generally employed, but at very
low wages. Prices have not yet undergone any change
for the better.
LEEDS, SErr. 19.—The transactions at our halls are
necessarily circumscribed by the very limited supply of
suitable goods, most of our country clothiers having to
execute orders; we therefore have nothing particular to I
say about the business done this day, although the at-
tendance of buyers has been very good.

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In the evening of the 14th at Bagneres de Bigarre
(Hautes Ppea6es), there was a shock of earthquake so
strong that the furniture of the houses was shaken, and
the glass of windows vibrated. The inhabitants quitted
their houses, fearing that they might fall. The beat of
the day was not unusually great, and rain fell the whole
of the afternoon and the following day, the night between
being perfectly calm.

SIR JAMES ROSS'S EXPEDITION.
'ln addition-to the letters from Sir James WISS's ex-
pedition, which we published on Tuesday, the following
have been received:—
Extract teem a letter of v officer of the Investigator,
Arctic Expedition, dated Whalo Islands, Davis's Straits,
June 29, 1848:
" We are all nAI. The weather is very sultry, and
the icebergs in the neighbourhood are disappearing
very fast.
"We fell in with the first stream ice on-the 7th June,
in lat. 6,7- 46 N., lon. 42 5 W., and with the first berg
on the 12th, lat. 60 35 N., lon. 51 43 W., and we passed
the meridian of the south point of Greenland (Cape
Farewell) on the Bth of June, and arrived here on the
22d.

"We sail to-day for the northern cruise, sanguine and
full of self•established :faith, trusting that we shall be
fortunate enough to establish our mission successfully.
" Tne head man residing here knows nothing of the
Arctic expedition of Sfr John Franklin, beyond the fact
of his having seen the expedition on its outward voyage.
" We hope to reach the entrance of Lancaster Sound
by the ht day of August.
" The barrier ice was passed in hit. CS 5."
The following is an extract from the outline of a plan
submitted by Sir J. Ros,, of affardine•b relit f to the expe-
dition under the command of Sir John Franklin, by the
way of Lancaster Sound, submitted for the consideration
of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and adopted
accordingly:—
" Should the period of the season at which they arrive
in Barrow's Strait admit of it, Wellington Channel
should next be examined, and the coast between Cape
Clarence and Cape Walker explored, either in the ships
or by boats, as may at the time appear most advisable.
As this coast has been generally found encumbered with
ice, it is not desirable that both ships should proceed so
far along it as to hazard their getting beset there and shut
up for the winter; but, in the event of finding a conve-
nient harbour near Garnier Bay, or Cape Rem-tell, it
would be a good position in which to secure one of the
ships for the winter.
"From this position, the coast line might be explored
as far as it extends to the westward, by detached parties
early in the spring, as well as the western coast of
Boothia, a considerable distance to the southward; and
at a more advanced period of the season, the whole dis-
tance to Cape. Nicolai might be completed.
" A second party might be sent to the south-west, as
far as practicable, and a third to the north-west, or in
any other direction deemed advisable at the time.
"As soon as the formation of water along the coast
between the land and main body of ice admitted, the
small steam launch should be dispatched into Lancaster
Sound, to communicate with the whale ships at the usual
time of their, arrival in those regions, by which means
information of the safety or return of Sir John Franklin
might be conveyed to the ships before their liberation
from their winter quarters, as well as any further in-
structions the Lords Commissioners might be pleased to
send for their further guidance.
" The easternmost vessel having been safely secured
in Winter Harbour, the other ships should proceed alone
to the westward, and endeavour to reach Winter Har-
bour in Melville Island, or some convenient port in
Banks' Land, in which to pass the winter.
" From this point also parties should be dispatched
early in the spring before the heading up of the ice.
" The first should be directed to trace the western
coast of Banks' Land, and proceeding to Cape Bathurst,
or some other conspicuous point of the continent, previ-
ously agreed on with Sir John Richardson, reach the
Hudson's Bay Company's settlements, or Peel River, in
time to return with those people to their principal estab-
lishment, and thence to England.
" The second party should explore the eastern shore
of Banks' Land, and making for Cape Krusenstern,
communicate with Sir John Richardson's party on de-
scending the Coppermine River, and either assist him
in completing the examination of Wollaston and Vic-
toria Land, or return to England by any other route he
should direct.
" These two parties would pass over that space in
which most probably the ships have become involved
(if at all), and would, therefore, have the best chance of
communicating with Sir John Franklin information of
the measures that have been adopted for his relief, and of
directing him to the best point to proceed, if he should
consider it necessary to abandon his ships.
" Other parties may be dispatched, as might appear
desirable to the commander of the expedition, according
to circumstances; but the steam launches should cer-
tainly be employed to keep up the communication be-
tween the ships, to transmit such information for the
guidance of each other as might be necessary for the
safety and success of the undertaking.
(Signed) " JAS. C. ROSS, Captain, R.N.
" Athenasum, Dec. 2, 1847."
Since the foregoing report, Sir James Ross agreed
with Sir John Richardson, that the parties from the
ships shall proceed as stated in the following memoran-
dum :
"The first party should be directed to trace the western
coast of Banks' Land, and proceed direct to Cape Bat-
hurst or Cape Parry, on each of which Sir John Ri-
chardson proposes to leave depots of provisions for its
use, and then to reach the Hudson's Bay Company's
setttlement at Fort Good Hope,* on the Mackenzie,
whence they may travel by the usual route of the
traders to the principal settlement, and thence to Eng-
land.
"_The second party should explore the eastern shore
of Banks' Land, and make for Cape Krusenstern, where,
or at Cape Hearne they will find a cache of provision
left by Sir John Richardson, with whom this party may
communicate, and whom it may assist in completing
the examination of Wollaston and Victoria Lands, or
return to England by the route he shall deem most ad-
visable."
The last intelligence direct from Sir John Franklin
himself was written at Whale Island, whence we have
received our letters from Sir James Ross's expedition.
The following is the copy of the letter:—
"Her Majesty's ship Erebus, Whale-Fish
Islands, July 12, 1845.
" Sir,—l have the honour to acquaint you, for the in-
formation of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,
that her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror, with the
transport, arrived at this anchorage on the 4th instant,
having bad a passage of one month from Stromness.
The transport was immediately taken alongside of this
ship, that she might be the more readily cleared; and
we have been constantly employed at that operation till
last evening, the delay having been caused not Sio much
in getting the stores transferred to either of the ships,
as in making the best stowage of them below, as well as
on the upper deck. The ships are now complete with
supplies of every kind for three years; they are, there-
fore, very deep; but, happily, we have no reason to ex-
pect much sea as we proceed farther.
" The magnetic instruments were landed the same
morning; so also were the other instruments requisite
for ascertaining the position of the observatory; and it
is satisfactory to find that the results of the observa-
tions for latitude and longitude accord very nearly with
those assigned to the same place by Sir Edward Parry;
those for the dip and variation are equally satisfactory,
which were made by Captain Crozier with the instru-
ments belonging to the Terror, and by Commander
Fitzjarnes, with those of the Erebus.
" The ships are now being swung, for the purpose of
ascertaining the dip and deviation of the needle on
board, as was done at Greenbithe, which, I trust, will
be completed this afternoon, and I hope to be able to
sail in the night.
" The governor and principal persons are at this time
absent from Drisco, so that I have not been able to re-
ceive any communication from head-quarters as to the
state of the ice to the north; I have, however, learnt
from a Danish carpenter in charge of the Esquimaux at
these islands, that though the winter was severe, the
spring was not later than usual, nor was the ice later in
breaking away hereabout; he supposes also that it is
now loose as far as 74 deg. latitude, and that our pros-
pect is favourable of getting across the barrier, and as
far as Lancaster Sound, without much obstruction.
" The transport will sail for England this day. I shall
instruct the agent, Lieutenant Griffiths, to proceed to
Deptford, and report his arrival to the Secretary of the
Admiralty. I have much satisfaction in bearing my
testimony to the careful and zealous manner in which
Lieutenant Griffiths has performed the service entrusted
to him, and wofald beg to recommend him, as an officer
who appears to have seen much service, to the favourable

consideration of their Lordships.
" It is unnecessary for me to assure their Lordships of
the energy and seal of Captain Crozier, Commander
Fitzjamss, and of the officers and men with whom I
have the happiness of being employed on this service.
" I have, &c.,
(Signed) " JOHN FRANKLIN, Captain.
" The Right Hon. 11. L. Corry, M.P."
The last intelligence that was heard from any quarter
of the whtreabouts of Sir John Franklin's expedition
was contained in the following letter:T.

" Hull, Oct. 29, 1845.
" I have seen Captain Dannett, of the Prince of
Waies, who states that ho was not in Lancaster Sound;

1 but whilst in Melville Bay, on the 26th July, 74 deg.
48 min. N. lat., long. 66 deg. 13 min. %V., he fell in with
the discovery ships, distant about three miles. A boat
with seven officers boarded him, but he does not know
their names; one was second in command of one of
the ships (Captain Fitzjames); no letters were left, but
the officers were all well, and in high spirits. Captain
Dannett was to have dined on board Sir John Franklin's
ship the following day, but the wind favouring him he
did not do himself this honour, otheiwise no doubt
letters would have been sent you. Captain D. was as
far as fourteen miles from Cape York, bearing east by
compass. About the 12th of July the discovery ships
were in the stream of Lancaster Sound, in Melville Bay,
intending to cross for the sound as soon as the ice
opened (this was on the 26th July). Captain I). got'
clear of Melville Bay 12th August; the ice was then
very heavy, but loose. The officers expressed good
hopes of soon completing the expedition. Captain D.
further states that during three weeks after parting com-
pany with the ships ho experienced very fine weather,
and thinks they would have made good progress.
" I have, &c.
"John Barrow, Esqi(Sgned) "J. R. DUNCAN.
~ Admiralty, London."

* " The Hudson's Bay Company, with the noble
generosity that has characterised all their proceedings,
have undertaken to provide boats and provisions for the
purpose of forwarding this party through their terri-
tories in the best manner to England."—J. C. R.

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DEPARTURE OF CONVICTS FOR NEW SOUTH
WALES.—The Eden, hired convict-ship, loft her moor-
ings, opposite the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, yesterday
afternoon, with 300 convicts on board from Millbank
Penitentiary and the Model Prison at Pentonville.
Is THIS A LEGAL APPLICATION ?—At the Mon-
mouth Board of Guardians, on Saturday, an application
was made for the burial fee of is. 6d. for interring an
amputated leg in the churchyard. Referred to the
auditors.—Merlin.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
MALTA, SEPT. 12.—A gallant thing was recently done
at Castellarnare, by Lieutenant G. S. Boys, of her
Mji:sty's ship Vanguard. A sailor, who, in a fit of
drunkkuiness, had fallen or throe'n himself overboard,
was on the point of sinking, when Mr. Boys threw him-
self overboard, and, et g eat persnial risk, succeeded i❑
b:inging the poor sailor to his ship. Acts of this kind
are well deserving of puhlie notice. Mr. Boys received
hi; promotion to a lieutenancy in 1845, after being up-
wards of ten years a mate and fifteen in the service.
Iler Majesty's steamer Meteor has finally arrived here
from Athens, and is at present purging her quarantine
of observation, seven days. This vessel, having been in
commission since 1845, is about to return to England,
where she will be paid off.
• Oa Friday last her Majesty's steamer Oberon was
towed into port (having broken down at sea) by her
Majesty's steamer Merlin, tent out to bring her in. On
her arrival her commander, Lieutenant Gardiner, sent in
letters to the Admiral, charging the engineer with re-
porting her in a worse condition than she really was, and
with refusing to disconnect the paddle-floats, which he
alleged could not be done.
On Saturday an inquiry was made on board, and her
steam was got up, bat it was found impossible, not with-
standing all the endeavours of Mr. Harnshaw, engineer
of the dockyard, to move her. As to the floats, it is
thought they might have been disconected, The
Oberon and the Antelope are both required at
Corfu by the Lord High Commissioner. The latter
has been docked; the Oberon will also require to be
docked.
In the meanwhile the Merlin carried on the mails to
the lonian Islands, and will, it is thought, be continued
on that line.
Her Majesty's steamer Ardent, it is thought, will go
into dock to have shells. coral, &c., which so much im-
pede her celerity, removed, after her return with the
❑ext India mail from Alexandria.
Officers sometimes complain of the slowness of their
promotion—seldom have we to record, that it comes
too heavily on them. Yet the following is a case in
point:—

- A vacancy having occurred in the Marine Hospital at
Plymouth, Dr. Andrew Millar, of the Hibernia, was ap-
pointed to the vacancy, and Dr. Vaughan, of the Sidon,
was appointed to the Hibernia, vice Millar, by the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty. Before the news of
the promotion reached this place, Dr. Watts, of the Naval
Hospital here, died, and again Dr. Millar had the good
fortune to receive the vacant appointment by Sir Wil-
liam Parker. The latter is certainly the best, but it re-
mains to be seen to which of the two Dr. Millar will ul-
timately be appointed.
PORTSMOUTIE, SEPT. 20.—The Driver steam-sloop,
1,050 tons and 280-horse power, Commander C. R.
Johnson, left last night after sunset for Cork. When
Sir Charles Napier inspected this vessel at Waterford,
he expressed himself in terms of high approval of the
manner in which she is fitted, and said that she was the
most efficient steamer in the service afloat on account of
the arrangement of her armament and the protection af-
forded to her crew by the high gunwales built up all
round her quarters—an improvement, for which we be-
lieve the service is indebted to Lieut. Julius Roberts,
R.M.A. This vessel was refitted in the construction of
her pivot gun carriages, quarters, &c., at Woolwich last
autumn, and after the Admiralty had inspected them
their Lordships so highly approved of them that all ad-
vanced steamers were ordered to be similarly fitttd for
the protection of the men when firing. The revolving
guns, instead of fighting over gunwales as low as the
knee, by which the crew were exposed to every kind of
projectile, grape, canister, musketry, or what not, are
now protected by a stout gunwale nearly six feet high,
with hammocks all around, and the gun revolving
(though not fighting on the rniclihip pivot) as before, is
brought into action through ports, one on each side, and
one on each quarter, by which a very direct range is
obtained. The above officer has earned much credit for
the advantage these gun-carriages possess over the old
ones, he having succeeded in lowering the heavy guns
bodily to the height of three feet only from the deck,
thereby considerably reducing the top hamper, and
giving many mechanical improvements in addition. The
Admiralty has also ordered the adoption of the sockets
invented by Colonel Colquhoun, of the Royal Artillery,
generally in the service, as removing many of the delays
attending the old system of pivoting these guns, and
which we have before bad occasion, when the experi-
ment was made on board the Odin steam-frigate, to
notice.
The Dwarf screw steam-boat, Lieutenant Osborne, to-
gether with the Sprightly, Lieutenant-Commander Ber-
nard, has been most expeditiously prepared for sea by
the officers of the steam squadron and the employes of
this dockyard since Sunday, will leave this evening for
Ireland with stores and supernumeraries. She was taken
out of the basin at three o'clock this afternoon. An ac-
cident happened this morning to a boy named Francis
Nuttall, aged 14, one of her crew, which, but for the
prompt gallantry of Lieutenant-Commander Osborne,
would have terminated fatally. The boy was getting
from the vessel on to a stage alongside when his foot
slipped, and he fell into the basin; the cry of "a man
overboard" being instantly raised, Lieutenant Osborne,
seeing the boy struggling in the water, immediately
jumped after him, encumbered as he was with his
uniform, sword, &c., and after a few seconds' groping
about seized the boy and brought him to the surface
insensible; he soon afterwards recovered, however, and
was quite well at three o'clock in the afternoon. An
act of this kind would not be enhanced by eulogy.
Tho Devastation steam-sloop, 1,100 tons, and 400-
horse-power, Commander B. C. Michell, was paid off
this afternoon. This fine steamer since the Ist of March
last has gone over a distance of 15,000 miles, partly by
steam and partly by sail, having only coaled three times
and worked her steam expansively. During this time
she has met with several gales, one of which lasted many
days, off the Cape of Good Hope, where she was laying
to under storm sails ; during its continuance she laboured
so in the tremendous sea, that her seams opened, she
started her water-ways, and made so much water that
the pumps could hardly keep her free ; her quarter boats
were washed away, and the seas swept the "galley" from
her deck, carrying away with it all the planking of the
paddle-boxes and upper works. The ship's company had
nowhere to cook their provisions except in the stoke
hole, doing it by turns. She is shorthanded, 30 of her
men having been sent away in prizes, and her present
crew are weak from tho effect of serving in the most
deadly and fatal climate in the world. Notwithstand-
ing all these drawbacks, the Commander-in-Chief,
on inspecting the ship, found her in perfect order as
to cleanliness, discipline, and the exercise of the great
guns, and made the remark to Captain Michell, that be
never saw sailors better trained to the musket and sword
exercises. Commander Michell has been a commissioned
officer since 1829, has been constantly serving in every
part of the world since that period, and has the reputa-
tion of being an active and intelligent officer. He has
commanded the Devastation the last year; her two former
commanders (Crouch and Levinge), younger men than
himself, having perished in the prime of life from the
effects of the pestilential climate to which she had been
sent.

The Adelaide steam tug, for Australia, Master Com-
mander Forbes, was towed out of the harbour this morn-
ing by the Echo, and was afterwards taken in tow by
the Dover steam-vessel, who is to convoy her to
Madeira, whither, it is reported, she conveys Sir James
Bremer for the renovation of his health, Lady Bremer
accompanying him.
The Cormorant steam sloop, after an extensive refit,
has removed from the old into the new basin to-day to
receive new boilers, which will be put into her by the
new crane on the margin of the basin, and constitute the
first work done by the staff of the new basin factory,
under the superintendence of Mr. Murray, its directing'
chief.

Wind—S.S.E., moderate breezes, and fine weather.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 19.—Her Majesty's steam-frigate
Cyclops came in last night from Portsmouth, and sailed
this morning fir Cork.
The Madagascar, 44, store-ship, employed for the last
two years as a provision depot at Tarbert in the Shan-
non, came in here last nigh;.
Orders were received yesterday for the following su-
perannuations at the Devonport Dockyard :—Leading
men of shipwrights, Thomas Ankers, and John Dens-
ham, 341. each per annum; shipwrights, John Parrot,
Phillip Batten, and William Peters, 241.; joiner, Henry
Treheny, 241.; sailmaker, Henri Harris. 241.; smiths,
Thomas Sheener and John Broad, 341.; Henry Verco,
William Hannaford, Daniel Marsh, and Nicholas Fre-
deric, 28/4 William Roberts, Thomas Williams, John
Geake, John James, and John West, 241.; sawyers,
Richards Curtis, 30/.; and William Hicks, 241.; police-
man, John Stroud, 12/., compensation.
Considerable reductions are making in the establish-
ment of the Royal Naval Hospital here. One lieutenant
(2301. per annum), one acting-lieutenant-surgeon (127/.
Bs.), one clerk, and three labourers (Bs, per week, with
rations), are to retire. This, it is said, is but a prelude
to further reductions, which may include the entire re-
tirement of naval officers, and cause the establishment to
become an exclusively civil department. The hospital
can accommodate 1,200 patients; the number now in the
wards is under 100, the larger half of which are
Marines.

DEVONPORT, TUESDAY. - The Cyclops, 6, steam-
frigate, Captain Hastings, came into the Sound yester-
day, and left again at six o'clock in the evening, for
Cork.

The Madagascar, temporary provision-ship, and Tri-
dent, steam-sloop, arrived from 'rebind and came up har-
bour this morning.
The squadron of Sir C. Napier is hourly expected
here.

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. A private of the 28th
Regiment, quartered in the Citadel, Plymouth, received
fifty lashes on Friday last, by sentence of a regimental
court-martial, for absenting himself without leave aad
making away with some of his necessaries.

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tered Matelot, Nicoll's Chlamys Paletot, &c., to all of
which garments it is applied free of additional expense.
THE POTATO CROP.—From a careful inquiry
throughout the Isle of Ely, it appears that at least thr
fifths of the crop are entirely unfit for use. I ee-
n some
places the diseased potatoes aro selling at ls. per sack.
Some parties have offered their crops at 201.
without obtaining a buyer; even those that per
acre,
appear at
present sound, it is feared will, after • a time, be found to
be diseased.—Cambridge Advertiser.
about
SUICIDE
o'clockOF A FEMALE. yesterday morning,
nine , a laundress
named Mack, who for
some time past resided inAberdeen-place, Maida-hill,
was found drowned in the R egent's canal; she had par-
taken too freely of drink
' ng about on the previous night, and on
her husband being the bed. to get up he missed her from

MORE INCENDTARY Pintrt
NOTTINGHAM, WEDNESDAY.--LUt v Vetting, SuUlit
before-ten o'clock, a large. haysthck, standing in 0'"-,,,Ct"
shore distance from the Southwa!l-road, en We- °";
skirts of this town, was discovered to be on fire. A Dr 4.,
banger was immediately dispatched for an engine, and
the meantime, although many of the lower class refo4e"
to assist, several parties were found who were veryln(T
tive in throwing water upon the flamee, which were tout
kept from obtainingthe head they otherwise would 101,
11
done. A portion the Nottingham fire brigade, .
one engine and the fire cart, arrived soon after ten; l'"t.
unfortunately, some time elapsed before a good aupPit
water could be obtained.
The fire was not thoroughly extinuished until be''
tween four and five o'clock this morning. "'clef'
stand the property (which was worth about 1401) we
partly insured. A man was seen running away from we
stack the moment the flames burst out.
On Saturday morning an extensive fire broke ea
Gleadthorpe, on the premises of Mr. Turner, farmer;
when, according to the official report, the following' Pr°.
perty was destroyed :—A small stack of oat rathings!,
one stack of oats, the produce of about nine acres; one
stack of flood meadow hay, containing thirty-sir or
thirty-tight tons; one stack of barley, quantity out ra
certained; one stack of wheat, the produce of ehil-
acres; and one other stack of wheat, the produce of foul'
teen or fifteen acres. No porting of these six stacks was
saved, except a few cart loads, fit only for the str3"..;
yard. Fortunately, however, the property was insureu
in the Norwich Union.
On Sunday last the property undermentioned we. de'
he
stroyed by an incendiary fire, which took place upon t .
premises of Mr. Noep, of Clarborough, near Retford;--•
The produce of eighteen acres of wheat, seven of clover,
two of wits, four of peas, and eleven of hay. The gal
was not burnt, but spoiled with water. Mr. NeeP /Isl
insured in the County Fire-office for 3001.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, SErr. 20.
•
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Share Market ;.3 an improve
one as to prices, but holders cf stock are unwilling W setf
Great Western, Quarter Shares, were done at 5 dia.
LIVERPOOL, Sarr. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions are limited, but the
demand is steady. The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 31/. Shares, 911 d,
Caledonian, Preference, 83.9 d. c. dis.—East Anglian, 34 I''
Shales (guar. 6 per cent.), 2%—Lancashire and Yorkshire
(late Manchester and Leeds), Fifths, 3% dis.—Liverpolly
Crosby, and Southpsrt, 278 dis.—London and North-
Western' 109—Ditto, New Quarters, 3i dis.—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,Eighths, 714 dis.--blidland Stock,
New Halves, 9/. IBs. 9d. dis.— Shrewsbury and Chester
(late N. W. M.), 10/. Preference, 13—South-Eastern *nu
Dover, 23%—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 6/. 18s. 9d. dis.
MANCHESTER, SEPT. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Midland, 50/. Share,
10 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 6 15-16—Liver'
pool and Newcastle Junction, 4s. dis.—Sheffield, Preference'
93/ —Huddersfield, 281. paid, 84 dis. —North Staffordshire'
5% dis.—Grimsby, Quarters, 7 dis.
BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE. The sales are—North Staffordshire'
5/. 3s.Bd. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 6% die'''.
Ditto (B), 414 dis.—Ditto, Preference, 'A p.
GLASGOW, SEPT. 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Glasgow, Meal'
nock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 1,5/. ft.—Glasgow and
Greenock, 15—Ditto, Preference, 7—Great Northern, 61' 18;
—North British, Thirds, 51.103. 6d.—Paisley, Barrhead,lll3'
Hurlet, 20s.

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST CHOLERA.— ORDEN 111
COUNCIL.—A communication has been received by to?
Commissioners of the Customs department, through their
secretary, from Mr. Greville, one of the clerks of .144
Council, stating that with reference to his communlee.
Lion dated the 13th June last, directing all vessels arar'
ing in the United Kingdom, having foul bills of heel'
(with reference to cholera), to be released from quarto):
tine without any medical visit, provided that CO case oI
cholera had existed on board any such vessel for •
period of ten days previously to her arrival, he (/,',
Bathurst) had been directed by the Lords of t.
Council to state, for the information of the Comer-
sioners of the Customs, that it is the expressed "ea
sire of their Lordships that the before-mentioned re;
gelation should still continue in force. Mr. Bathe_irs:
also states that he was now further directed by the Uri:"
of the Council to inform the Commissioners that their
Lordships are of opinion that instructions should he
forthwith transmitted to the different ports in the
United Kingdom, directing that in the event of the
arrival of any vessel, on board of which a case of cholera
shall have occurred, such vessel shall he detained under
the restraint of quarantine, until the clothing and bedding
of the following persons shall have been thoroughly lay
mersed in water, under the direction of an officer of the.,
Customs, viz.-1. Of all persons who shall have died of
cholera on board such vessel, at any foreign port, or on
shore at such port. 2. Of all persons who shall have died, et
who shall have had an attack of cholera on board of suet;
vessel during her homeward voyage; and that, 812" l
any vessel arrive with cholera actually on board, such
vessel should be detained under quarantine at her poll
of arrival, until further orders from the Lords of the
Council are received. In pursuance of this communica-
tion from, the Lords of the Council, with a view to
prevent the introduction of cholera into this country by
vessels arriving from abroad, express directions have be!sl

forwarded by the Commissioners to the officers of the
Customs' deparment at the several ports and places
throughout the United Kingdom, as well as at the port
of London, to take care that their Lordships' orders be
duly obeyed.
YAL BUCKS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.--•
BEACONSFIELD, SEPT. 20.—The annual meeting of this
important and influential society was held here yester-
day. Although upon the borders of the county, a more
than usual number of members attended, and the meet•
ing was one of a most satisfactory and practical character.
An additional interest was given to it by the eircuni•
stance that is well understood amongst the most prowl"
nent members of the various agricultural associations
that now pervade the country, that a new effort is about
to be made to revive protective agitation. In this re'
spect, however, little was done at this meeting, but the
general resolution of all present was 'that the tenant
farmers, as the chief employers of labour, should take
the matter into their own hands, and thus exonerate the
landlords from the imputation which would otherwise
be cast upon them, that they had commenced a course of
agitation for mere selfish motives. The proceedings of
the day commenced by a ploughing match ; an exhibi•
tion or the garden productions of cottagers was the se-
cond feature ; the rewards bestowed upon farm labourer'
the third ; and the dinner, with its accompanYieg
speeches, formed the climax.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE FROM LOSSES ON THE Sr'
LEGER.—Yesterday morning, between ten and eleven
o'clock, considerable excitement was created in the
neighbourhood of Piccadilly, by the report that a young
gentleman had committed suicide by shooting himself in
a cab under the following distressing circumstances. 1$
appears that the deceased, a young, person named Nor-
man Howard, twenty-one years of age, lately residing ill
John-street, Tottenham-court-road, having
spout the
whole of Tuesday night in visiting the different saloons
and places of nocturnal resort, entered a cab at the
above mentioned hour, at the Regent circus, Piccadi'll'
where in a few minutes he committed suicide, by die-
charging
the contents of a loaded pistol at his he"'
The deceased who had until the time of the melancholy
occurrence held a lucrative situation in a large tailor 0
firm at the West-end, had during the last few days ex'
hibited great depression of spirits, owing to some hear/
losses arising from the. recent St. Leger at Doncaster.
To this circumstance, coupled with general pecuniary
embarrassment, the rash act is attributed. The deceased
twats iwmhmed ia e
remt e removed
Mr.
steg
g a l l, to
the t he
residentC hari nCg
medicalros s Ho
officer, s
pronounced life to be quite extinct. It was found on ex-
amination, that the ball had passed through the bone of
the skull, at the back part of the head, having been die
charged into the mouth.

DEATH OF TWO CMILDREN By POISON II
GLOU C E STE R. —Considerable sensation has been excited
in this city, in consequence of the death of two children
of the name of Kent, on Friday last, by poison, which
was administered in the shape of gruel. It appeared
that an elder brother of the deceased went up to his
mother (the wife of a journeyman currier), and miked
her whether he might make some gruel, for himself and
brothers and sisters, from some white stuff which he bad
found in a paper bag, and which he took to be flour.
The boy, aged about twelve years, accordingly did Op
and after having partook, with a brother, of a portion
of it, became very sick, and was obliged to go to bed.
The younger children then partook a portion of it, two
of whom died. A coroner's inquest was held on the
bodies of the two children on Tuesday last, when the
the minerainquestl evidence,of
po
w
adjourned till next Monday.