The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-05 00:00:00

Mariana .7' AUL

LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1846.

Sheffield has been the scene of great rejoicings.
The object, and the manner in which they were cele-
brated, are alike entitled to a few laudatory remarks.
The Free-Trade Association met on Wednesday to
receive its valedictory report, and to pass certain
resolutions, not the least significant of which was
" That in case any serious attempts be made by the
protectionist party to induce the Legislature to retrace
its steps, or prevent the final extinction of the corn-laws
in February, 1849, this Association shall be called into
renewed existence." The tradesmen closed their shops,
and a general holiday prevailed. Distinguished public
men were present—great truths were enunciated, im-
portant facts elicited. Justly proud of the consum-
mation of a vast national boon, there was a heartfelt
interchange of political triumph throughout the meet-
ing, leaving nothing to be desired at the close of the
proceedings. As a healthy and tributary stream to
the broad river of free trade, whose channel was so
admirably deepened and widened by the master spirit
of the League, it has duly followed the course of its
powerful ally, and restrained its refreshing influ-
ence within the natural boundaries of peace
and social order. Satisfied that they have
been successfully instrumental in irrigating, to a
wholesome extent, the public mind with the salutary
doarines of unfettered commerce, the Free-Trade
Association of Sheffield has now risen from its la-
bours, conscious that the principles it has enforced
will gladden the earth with abundance wherever they
shall be known and developed. Nothing is more re-
markable than the absence of all vituperation which
the assembled champions of a civil victory, without

its parallel in the history either of our
own or that of any other country, observed
towards their prostrate and discomfited foes.
But just emerged from an arduous conflict, nothing
would have been more natural than that, flushed v,ith
triumph, they should have retaliated upon the
miserable invectives with which, for so long a period,
they were incessantly and pitifully assailed by the
monopolists, and not less in their hour of strength
than when they were in their expiring throes. A
spirit of self-rectitude has, however, dictated other
feelings, and thus consecrated, in the most dignified
manner, their noble achievement. In the language
of one of the speakers, "we have loved our enemies,
and in return many of them have begun to love us."
This is the effect of the conviction of having a
righteous cause in hand. It empowers its advo-
cates, by the exhibition of a manly forbearance,
to read a moral lesson, which we trust will serve to
allay animosities, and educe harmony from amid the
disordered passions which still rankle in many a breast.
Lord MoßpEnr, whose mini is so poetical, whose
taste is so pure and classical, and whose judgment
withal is so sound, delivered an impressive
speech. The principle that Governments ought
to intermeddle as little as possible with the
impulses of individual enterprise was cogently adverted
to, and it was predicted that the present Govern-
ment would enhance their claims to public confidence
by removing every remaining impediment to inter-
national reciprocity. Ills Lordship alluded to the
spread of the potato disease in Ireland, and in terms
which, we regret to remark, amply corroborate the
melancholy truths we have so frequently of late pub-
lished on this fearful topic. We will furnish an ex-
tract from the moving language of Lord MORPETIT,
and the more so, since it affords matter for serious re-
flection to the most inveterate protectionist :
" And does not this dark and mysterious evil, which
now seems to be spreading over vast tracts of country,
seem to bring something* in the spirit of a solemn rebuke
to those who, in the earlier discussions of the present
session, without, I am sure, any intention to deal lightly
with the privations of their countrymen, yet permitting
themselves, with something like premature levity, to in-
dulge in sarcastic references to the malady in the pota-
toes ; and to those who have been lately filling the
market places and farmers' tables of our provinces with
dismal lamentations over the good old days of bygone
protection? I fear that lam presenting to!you no imaginary
picture when I say that if such measures are not taken—
especially in the sister country of Ireland— as I know
are about being taken—multitudes will run the risk of
famine."

To buy in the cheapest, and to sell in the dearest
market—a doctrine which the monopolists have so
much struggled, but in vain, to over with ridicule—
was next handled, and in the most felicitous style.
We have not time to do justice to the admirable ex-
position it received at Lord MORPETH'S hands. Suffice
it, that every sentence embodied an important truth,
and carried conviction home to the minds of his au-
dience. The most encouraging feature of Lord
MORPETH'S address consisted in the assurance
that other countries are evincing a readiness
to imitate our great example. By none more
than by Sir ROBERT PEEL can this intelligence be
received with gratification, since he predicted in Par-
liament, that if his great measure of the session were
sanctioned by law, nations, proximate and remote,
would soon he found following in our wake. Already
then we are told has Russia commenced relaxing her
restrictive policy; Sardinia and Sicily likewise;
Germany and the Rhine are starting in their slum-
bers ; the Pope of ROME is countenancing the forma-
tion of railways, those great accelerators of human
intercourse ; a Free Trade Association has been
formed in France, and our national paeans
have met with a response from the opposite shores of
the Atlantic. These are electrical signs, and England
may well feel proud of the high position she fills and
the moral sway she exercises throughout the known
world. Brilliant as has been her career in other
periods, still in none will the laurels shine so con-
spicuously as those which she seems destined to gather'
in the nineteenth century.

A magnificent entertainment (the proceedings of
which are reported in another column) was given, on
'Wednesday evening, to the proprietary of the Times
newspaper. We cannot but conceive that the various
circumstances attendant upon this demonstration
assume to themselves a public and almost national
importance. In paying so noble a tribute of grati-
tude and admiration to that extraordinary journal,
the many eminent personages who were principally
instrumental in so doing have virtually acknowledged
the power, and the dignity, and the moral influence
possessed and exercised by the press generally. The en-
tertainment given on Wednesday is at once a well-
merited panegyric upon the character of the Times indi-
vidually and a recognition of the authoritative and
beneficent force wielded by " the fourth estate " col-
lectively. For both those reasons the banquet in
question is invested with a peculiar and enduring
interest. Nothing could well have redounded more
to the honour of the Times individually, or have ac-
corded better with the vast and predominating in-
fluence of the press collectively, than the facts con-
nected with the recent proceedings at the London
Tavern. In the Royal Exchange of the metropolis
of this great commercial empire a tablet is raised in
commemoration of the exertions of the Times news-
paper in divulging one of the most extensive, and orga-
nized frauds ever attempted in the mercantile world.
The exposure of all the complicated and nefarious details
connected with that atrocious conspiracy was the
result of almost unprecedented enterprise, of almost
unexampled courage, and of almost unequalled saga-
city. That enterprise, that courage, and that sagacity
were evidenced by the Times newspaper. It was a
beautiful idea that, in gratitude for such spontaneous
and signal services in guarding the interests of the
public, and in drawing retribution down upon its
moral assassins—it was a beautiful idea, we say, that,
for the purpose of commemorating such services, a
tablet, with a suitable inscription, should be erected
in the centre of the commerce of the world, and
that two scholar hips should be established at
Cambridge and Oxford, one connected with
the City of LondOn School, the other with
Christ's Hospital.. Among those who have contri-
buted to these testimonials may be enumerated the
most eminent names in mercantile affairs—we may
say, indeed, considering their hereditary celebrity,
the most eminent names in the history of mercantile
affairs. The catalogue in truth extends throughout
the principal ramifications of commerce ; it embraces
the mercantile and banking establishments of London,
Paris, Ostend, Florence, Hamburgh, Antwerp, Co-
logne, Levant, Cadiz, Messina, Macao, Laguayra,
and Naples ; it is illumined by the signatures of
BARING, of ROTHSCHILD, and of MASTERMAN ; it is
responded to by all quarters and sections of the com-
mercial world in either hemisphere ; but, above all, it
is responded to with enthusiasm and alacrity by

" The merchants of Old England—the seigneurs of the
seas !"
As evidences of a cordial appreciation of the courage
and abilities of the Times newspaper, we congratulate
our Contemporary upon the fact of those testimonials
and of that entertainment. It is indeed an occasion upon
which no petty jealousies could possibly insinuate them-
selves, and one in which we can fully sympathise with
the honourable pride of the recipient. Such acknow-
ledgments of gratitude and respect are more than a
recompense for the arduous mental and corporeal la-
bours of years, for the anxieties consequent with a
protracted and adventurous contest, for undeserved
scurrilities and unmerited neglect. This conspicuous
and brilliant tribute to the Times must, therefore,
have afforded the proprietary of that journal senti-
ments of a most encouraging and elevating de-
scription.

Earnestly and truthfully, however, as we sym-
pathise with our Contemporary upon this interesting
and auspicious entertainment, we are disposed to
consider the circumstances of that testimony of
public approbation as illustrative of the character,
the influence, and the position of the Press, rather
than as an exclusive compliment to a solitary
member of that estate—of the Press generic, not
individual. The occasion of this testimony, presided
over by the LORD MAYOR of the City of London, and
numberin..; amongst those present several of our Bri-
tish Legislators and of our merchant princes, may, with-
out hyperbole, be designated an epoch in the annals of
a free press, a starting point in the history of a vast
intellectual revolution. Such an acknowledgment
of the benefits conferred upon the community by an
emancipated press, and especially by the daily news-
papers, does not unquestionably (cannot, in fact,) tend
to their elevation ; but it is at least a signal confession
of the elevation which they have already attained, of

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAIt MORNI

the marvellous powers which are entrusted to them,
of the sacred responsibilities which are thereby
entailed upon them of being the conservators of
public morality, the stimulants to national intelli-
gence, the upholders of the rights and privileges and
immunities of every individual in this gigantic com-
munity. Invested with such prerogatives, it is but
just, nay, it is but honest, that the precise position
of this so-called (and aptly so-called) " fourth
estate should be duly recognised and appreciated.
And, to proceed again from generalities downwards,
it is but just and honest to offer encouragement and
congratulation whenever those prerogatives have been
exercised valorously and conscientiously. They
were so exercised by the Times in the notorious me
of BOGLE versus LAWSON.

Throughout the proceedings at the Landon Tavern,
on Wednesday evening, the utmost decorum and
propriety were preserved. The speeches were in
every instance dictated by the best taste imaginable—
that delivered by Mr. WALTER, was remarkable for
its combinatinn of sound sense and elevated earnest-
ness. No individual connected with the establishment
in Printing-house-square, at all entitled to such a
specific mark of approbation, escaped the deserved
eulogium of those who were assembled together in their
honour. M. J. T. DELANE, as one of the principal
editors ; Mr. ALSAGER, as the leading writer of the
" City articles ;" and Mr. DOBIE, as solicitor to the
Times, were each recompensed, or, we should rather
say, rewarded for their brilliant exertions in sustain-
ing the ieterests of the public—their guerdon for so
doing being the approving voices of their
fellow-citizens and of their own hearts. Since the
invention of printing the benefactions consequent
upon a liberated and conscientious Press have never
been so memorialised in this country as upon the oc-
casion of this spontaneous tribute to the Times. We
congratulate our Contemporary upon this occurrence,
and we moreover congratulate those who, with our-
selves, are anxious for the spread of enlightenment
and civilisation among all classes of the human race.

Letters from Leghorn of the 27th ult. announce
that at fifty minutes past nine in the morning of that
day another shock of an earthquake had been expe-
rienced, which had occasioned so much damage that
several of the inhabitants had been compelled to aban-
don their houses.

It is stated to be the intention of the Empress of
RUSSIA to proceed, in the course of next month, to her
delightful villa of Orianda in the Crimes, on the shore
of the sea of Azof. Her MAJESTY will pass the
winter at Orianda.

Letters from Vienna of the 24th ult. state that
Count STADION, the Governor of Trieste, has left his
post without leave, having given only a few hours
notice of his intended departure to the director of the
police. His flight is attributed to the circumstance
of his having entered into a contract for provisions,
which the Aulic Council has refused to ratify.

Madrid papers of the 28th ult. have arrived.

According to these papers the QUEEN had, on the
preceding evening, been solemnly betrothed to her
cousin, Don FRANCISCO D' ASSTS.

The recal of GONZALES BRAVO from his post of
Ambassador to Portugal is officially announced. It
is believed that Senor DONOSO CORTES will be his
successor. Portugal has, it is announced, agreed to
deliver up fifteen of the Spanish refugees, on the
pretext that their papers were not regular. Are the
papers of the CABRALS regular ? Will Spain deliver
them up should Portugal demand it ? This trans-
action is very disgraceful to all the parties con-
cerned in it.

MADRID Boma, Auc. 28.—The funds had risen in
consequence of the report of the betrothal of the Queen.
The Three per Cents. were done at 348 for cash ; the
Four per Cents. at 22 ; the Five per Cents. at 22 ;
the Passives at 612; and the Coupons at 201.

I'Ve have received the Paris papers of "Wednesday.
On Tuesday MM. BUSIERES, OGEE, SAGLIO, and
LANJUINAIS, were elected Secretaries to the Cham-
ber of Deputies. The election of M. OGER iS " a
heavy blow and great discouragement" to the war
party in France. This is the gentleman who was so
constantly denounced by the _National as a Prit-
chardiste, and who, in consequence of these denuncia-
tions, was rejected by one of the divisions of the
Parisian National Guard when he was a candidate
for the colonelcy. The war party continued their
denunciations, but ineffectually—the rejected of the
National Guard was elected a Deputy, and now has
by the Chamber been chosen Secretary. The other
Secretaries are all Ministerialists. The officers of the
Chamber were installed on Wednesday, on which occa-
sion M. SAPRY, the temporary President, made a fare-
well speech on resigning the chair, and M. SAUZET, the
permanent President, made an inaugural speech on
taking possession of it. The following Deputies
were to prepare the addresq, in reply to the Speech
from the Throne :—M. MURET DE BORT, the Duke
D'lsLy (Marshal BUGEAUD), Count D'ANGEVILLE,
and Messrs. LAS CASES, VITET, COURTURE, DES-
MOUSSEAUX DE GIVRE, DEJEAN, and DARu. They
are all Ministerialists.

OVERLAND MAIL

We are sorry to find, from the accounts in all the
papers, that the harvest has been deficient in every
part of France. According to the statements of the
produce of the harvest, published in the Presse,
France will require to import one month's supply
for the whole of her population, between this and the
time of the next harvest; nearly half the largest
quantity of corn that all Europe has ever collected
in her stores. The price of bread is rising in Paris,
fish is scarcely to be purchased, and meat, vegetables,
and eggs are all very dear. Eggs are fourteenpence
a dozen, and fillets of beef, eighteenpence a pound.
A Toulon letter of the 29th ult. says :

INI)IA•

Accounts have reached us, brought by the India
mail. Sinde had been ravaged by the cholera, be-
tween the 13th and 25th if June; 8,000 persons
have died of it, of whom 885 were Europeans (in.
eluding 815 soldiers), 585 sepoys had died, and 7,000
natives. The malady had ceased, and was remount-
ing the river.
A mortal fever had appeared at Sukkur among the
European troops; death occurred in less than six
hours after the attack. Already 70 deaths.
No political news.—Times.

AMERICAN NEWS.

EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.

" The corvette transport Rhin, Captain Berard, has
just arrived here from New Zealand, whence she sailed
on the 15th April last, touching at St. Helena and Oran.
From the latter place she brought Bishop Pompalier and
his vicar-general. The Rhin has been absent from
France four years, during which time her crew has
enjoyed excellent health. The corvette Egerie, which
has only just returned from carrying a supply of stores
and provisions to the Mediterranean squadron, has
ordered to get ready to proceed to Bourbon and the
island of Mayotte, with a reinforcement of marines and
1,000,000 f. in money. This will make a sum of 3,000,000
which has been sent to those places within the last six
months. A steam-frigate is to be shortly dispatched to
Senegal with the corps of Spahis, which has been formed
to do duty at that place, and 500,000 f. in money. The
Castor steamer has just left for the island of St. Mar-
guerite, having on board some Arab prisoners, lately
brought from the north of Africa. The Labrador steam-
frigate left yesterday for Algiers, with the mails and
some passengers; amongst the latter is Lieutenant-Ge-
neral Vaillant, who is going to inspect the engineer de-
partment in Africa."

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Wednesday at 84f. 15c. ; the Five per Cents., 122 f. Sc. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2781. The; Rouen, 9651.;
Havre, 707 f. 50c. ; Great Noi•thern, 715 f. ; Avignon.
922 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 627 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 577 f. 50c. ;
Boulogne, 490 f.; Troyes and Montereau. 363 f. 75c. ; Basle,
220 f. ; Fampoux, 400 f: • Paris and Strasburg, 4971. 50c. ;
Tours and Nantes, 507 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 530 f..;
Lyons and Avignon, 4921. 50c.; Bordeaux and Cette, 485 E ;
Spanish Actives, 34; Ditto Domestic Debt, 33%; Ditto
Passives,
The following are the quotations for the new lines :-
LYONS, Aua. 31.-Paris and Rouen, 957 f. 50c. ; Avignon
and Marseilles, 915 f.; Northern, 708 f. 75c.; Paris and Lyons,
525 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE, SEPTEMBER 3.
Central of Spain, h -Direct Bombay and Madras, % -Dutch
Rhenish, 6IA -East Indian, % -Gl', at Indian Peninsular, eye-Italian
and Austrian, 114-Louvain a la Sambre, 1U -Luxembourg, lIA -
Northern of France Constituted, 13% - Paris and Lyons Consti-
tuted , 5% -Rouen and Havre, 27%.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING.

The steam -ship Great Western, Captain Matthews,
arrived here last night at eleven o'clock, bringing
New York papers of the 20th ult., five days later
than the Hibernia, which arrived here on this day
week. The Great Western had seventy-five passen-
gers. The Caledonia steam-ship reached Boston on
the 18th of August, after a passage of fourteen days.
By this arrival there is not any news of importance.
The papers come to hand are totally devoid of in-
terest.

Some extensive reforms were being introduced into
the navy. Mr. Bancroft, the secretary of that de-
partment, had determined on making merit the sole
ground of promotion, even to subordinate offices, in
connexion with this department. It was found that
the cotton crop would be below an average. Rumours
from almost all quarters were reaching New York
as to the extent of the defect in the new crop. The
grain crops were represented as being most luxuriant
and abundant.

The following are extracts from these papers :

(From the New York He, ald.)

EXPRESS FROM THE SANTA FE EXPEDlTlON.—ln-
telligence from Fort Leavenworth to the 9th instant, has
been received at St. Louis. An express had arrived
from General Kearney's camp. When the express left,
he was within 130 miles of Bent's Fort. all his forces
progressing rapidly and comfortably. Nine deaths had
occurred among the volunteers during their progress
across the prairies. Rumours were circulating among
the traders and the Mexicans, to the effect that General
Urrea was marching at the head of a large Mexican
force for the protection of Santa Fe. General Kearney
was pushing on with all possible dispatch, and if his pro-
vision waggons kept up, he would not delay at Bent's
Fort, but go direct on to Santa Fe.
FROM THE PACIFIC VIA NEW GRENADA.—By the
barque Bogota, Captain Thomas, we have received news
from Valparaiso of late date. United States ship Con-
stitution, Captain Percival, left Valparaiso June 19th,
for Rio Janeiro and home. The news of the war with
Mexico had arrived, and there was a report at Callao,
which created a great excitement, and there were three
privateers fitting out, two at Guaquil and one at Pita.
Mr. Linsey, bearer of dispatches from the United States
Government, arrived at Panama on the 23d of July, by
the way of Jamaica, bound to Mazatlan. We learn
from Captain Thomas that the difficulties between Equa-
dor and New Grenada had been amicably settled to the
satisfaction of both parties.
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.
SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, AEG. 20.
1,000 dolls. N Y S s's, 1858 ... s3 98
1,000 Ohio G's, 1860 b3 94
5,000 Penn. s's
50 shares City Bank N 0 3ods 68
15 ditto Ohio Life Tr
100 ditto Farms Trust
50 ditto Long Island RR blo 3114
50 ditto Nor and Wor blo 576/4
175 shares Morris Canal
200 ditto Harlem RR s4lj,
50 ditto Reading RR
SECOND BOARD.
200 shares Reading RR
25 Canton Co.
100 shares Morris Canal
50 ditto Harlem RR s3 544
20 ditto Nor and Wor 57%

SPAIN.
(From the Times.)

We have received by extraordinary express from
Madrid the following important communication from
our correspondent in that city:—

MADRID, AUGUST 29.

El Herald() published a supplement I.lst night (the
28th) stating that the Queen had selected the Infante
Don FranciFco de Assis for her Consort, and had
communicated her choice to the Council of Ministers,
w Ito met yesterday in consequence, and were still sitting
at five o'clock P.M., and also that the present Cortes
will be convoked for the 14th of next month to receive
the information thus communicated; that they are to be
immediately after dissolved, and the new Cortes con-
voked in December.

The same journal anticipates the most perfect state of
felicity for Spain as the result of the marriage.
El Tiempo says, " The matrimonial question has been
resolved in the Councils of the Crown, and her Majesty
has accepted as her consort her august cousin, his Most
Serene Highness Don Francisco de Assis. We accept
respectfully the wishes of her Majesty; and we desire
that this alliance be productive of many days of felicity to
Spain. It is also asserted, that, at the same time, the
marriage of the Infanta her most Serene Highness
Donna Luisa Fernanda, with the Duke of Montpensier,
the youngest son of the King of the French, was de-
cided on. The first news is certain and beyond all
doubt. The second appears to be false, incredible.
The present Cortes are to be immediately convoked,
in order to be informed of the determination of her
Majesty."

El Eco del Comercio declares that the state of the
country is most sad. If France approve of the mar
riage of the Queen with Don Francisco, on the condition
of the Infanta marrying the Duke of Montpensier, it is
merely a pretext, and a proposition made without hope
of its being admitted, to keep the country in its present
state of anxiety and difficulty.
The Gazette publishes a decree, signed by the Queen,
and counter-signed by the Minister of the Interior, an-
nouncing that she has determined to contract matrimony
with her cousin, the Infante Don Francisco de Assis
Maria, and commanding that the Cortes be convoked
for the 14th of September next, in conformity with the
47th article of the Constitution.

El Espectador says that the moment the Carlists see
all hope lost of the Count of Montemolin marrying the
Queen, they will rush forth to the street, appeal to arms,
and renew the civil war.

El Espanol declares that the British Cabinet de-
clined to propose a Coburg as its candidate, saying
that the Queen's marriage was purely an affair per-
taining to the Spanish nation to decide on, and that
an intimation to that effect has been received. It asserts,
as most positive, that it has been decided, that the
Queen's sister shall be married to the Duke of Mont-
pensier.

The Progresistas intent publishing a manifesto to the
natio❑ and to Europe, protesting in the most decided
manner against the marriage of the Infanta with the
Duke of Montpensier. They demand Don Enrique for
the hand of her Royal Highness.
The funds have improved in consequence of the offi-
cial announcement of the Queen's marriage. Three per
Cents., 35i 36 ; Five per Cents., 23 ; Four per Cents.,
22 ; Passive, 61 ; Coupons, 201 ; Exchange on Lon-
don, 36i.

WEST INDIA MAIL.—The Royal West Indian mail
steamer Dee arrived at Southampton yesterday morning
at eleven o'clock. She brings no news of importance.

THE GREAT EASTERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY.
—ln our report of the meeting of the shareholders of
this company on Thursday, we represented Mr. Spack-
man to have stated that the managing committee
were squandering 40,0001. or 50,0001. of the money of
the shareholders; the statement sl.ould have been 401. or
501. a day in unnecessary advertisements, which exp:m-
diture was declared to be illegal under the Act, until
after a general meeting had i.een held.
MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY.—The Sixth Volume
of the entertainiug " Diary and Utters of Madame D'Ar-
blay," is at length on the eve of publication. Accord-
ing to report, it will prove to be one of the liveliest and
most interesting volumes of the series ; for, besides the
charming writer's unique pictures of court life in the
days of George the Third and Queen Charlotte, which
are resumed with many additional traits of character of
different members of the royal circle, she carries the
reader to the Court of Napoleon, when First Consul,
and makes him acquainted with many of the celebrities
of the French capital in the stirring times that succeeded
the Revolution.

The Ist of September was a glorious autumnal day
for our sporting friends who early rar.ged the fields with
dog and gun." The partridges were plentiful on the whole
though here and there was a scarcity; the birds were wild
and strong on the wing, the season having been favourable
for early hatching; in some places, however, the hay har-
vest had destroyed the first hatches, and here the case was
different. With a delightful day, a clear country, and no
failure of birds, that day produced more than the average of
sport. `Ye hear that the hares are not expected to be au-
MMUS this 1304913.-. WO:usterehire Chronicle.

BURKE'S GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE
LANI•ED GENTRY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND'
Part IV.—This is the concluding Part of one of the
most useful and interesting works we have fur a long
time encountered. It comprises a general history of that
class in society which holds the next place to the privileg-
ed order—the untitled country gentlemen—a class nut
one degree below the other in antiquity of descent, per-
sonal accomplishment, and n.itiolial usefulness ; nay,
the very chiefs of the houses from which the Nubility
spring, are generally to be found in this division of the
aristocracy. This, indeed, must occur in a country like
our Own, and for the simple reason that the eldest son
and heir being already provided for, the field of adven-
ture belongs almost exclusively to the junior members
of the family ; who, thus forced upon the arena,
achieve by their prowess or their talents, the sword or
the
pen, fame, wealth, and eminence. The work is
one of the most complete of its class, and evinces the
deep research, indefatigable perseverance, and unre-
mitting labour of its 'able authors in its prcduciion. We
trust that so useful a national publication will meet the
encouragement that it merits, and that the spirited pub-
lisher will be amply compensated for the heavy outlay
he has so liberally incurred in giving this valuable work
to the public.—Messenger.
The following nut very probable shooting adven•
ture is given by the Journal de la Meuse :—Two days
ago M. Bachet, of Consenvoge, was out with a party,
when he saw his dog running a hare hard, and behind
the dog a ferocious wolf, following with evidently sinister
intentions. Preserving his coolness, he fired his double-
barrelled gun, and first killed the hare, and next the
wolf, by a shot from the other barrel. The dog appeared
completely astounded at being thus "at once di prived of
his prey, and delivered from a formidable enemy.
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