The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-19 00:00:00

THURS DAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1848.

so happened that the train arrived rice minutes befol o
its time, and his Lordship not observing its approach,
had just reached the intervening space between the lines,
when the engine was not above its own length from him,
moving at a quicker rate than usual when at a station,
in consequence of the extreme wetness of the day,
which prevented the breaks from catching. Mr. Cuck-
son, the supnintendant, with admirable self-possession,
instantly darted from the platform, and seizing his Lord-
ship, drew him back, just as the priderous engine
passed, and thus prevented an accident which, in all
probability, would have been fatal.—Scotsman.
THE WRONG SIDE OF THE STREET, Ott A CASE
OF ABSENCE OF MIND.—In a town of Oxfordshire,
favoured with the existence of one of those systematic
structures for the relief of the poor generally yclept
" Unions," and sometimes " Bastiles," not many years
ago the following rather singular mistake happened:—
The chaplain of the union the Rev. —, having been
called to a distance on business, engaged his friend, the
Rev. —, to perform Divine service in the chapel of the
union on a certain Sunday. The latter is an excellent
mathematician, but a singularly "absent" man; and the
latter failirg or faculty frequently brings him into queer
situations, not the least embarrassing of which arose out
of this very union engagement. Mr. was punctual
to the hour in his visit to the town on the mottling in
question; it happens that the union chapel is faced by a
Roman Catholic chapel, into the vestry of which, about
the hour for commencing service, walked a gentleman, a
stranger to the sexton, but showing enough of the "points"
of the profession to satisfy the latter that it was some
strange " holy father come to officiate at mass for the
priest, then in charge of the Mission." The stranger
being apparently chary of words, intimated by familiar
gestures his wish to be robed, and accordingly the
priestly paraphernalia was speedily displayed upon his
person. Apparently it struck him that he had donned
rather more than the usual vestments for the reading-
desk. He was absorbed in wondering at his finery, and
busily engaged in feeling the stiff embroidery of his
cope, and regarding with wonder the silky texture of his
other flowing robes, when another gentleman entered
the vestry-room, and the following colloquy took place:—
Second Comer--May I inquire who it is that I have the
pleasure to address ? First Cotner—By all means ;my
name is --, and I have come here this morning to
officiate for Mr. --. Second Comer—But, my dear
sir, Mr. is a clergyman of the Church of Eng-
land, and this is a Catholic chapel ! First Comer—A
what ! Catholic chapel I So so. I beg a thousand
pardons. I have made a very singular mistake. I
thought it was the union over the way Worcester
Herald.
FATAL ACCIDENT.--OH Tuesday night a gentleman
named Fearn was accidently killed while returning home
to Kiln:lore, from Armagh market. He bad been sitting
on a jaunting car, on the opposits seat of which
clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, and
unfortunate
wastheunateilea
vehicle was proceeding, it is supposed the nf
deceased fell asleep and dropped off the car. The driver
and the clergyman
.went on their way, never missing
their fellow-traveller, who lay on the road until a cart
which was coming in the direction passed over his skull
causing instantaneous death.—Armagh Guardian.
TIIE -JEWS IN ROME.—On the Ist of this month
the decree for the complete emancipation of the Jews of
the Roman States came into force, They are thereby
declared fit for the exercise of all civil rights. The year
1848 is an amazing one. The changes of the forms of
government are, however, less surprising than the aban-
donment of the Ghetto by the Jews of Rome.—Jewish
Chronicle.

FIRE AT DERWENTWATER.-011 Sunday morning
one wing (containing the library, with the valuable col-
lection of books, paintings, &c.) of the beautiful mansion
of 11. C. Marshall, Esq., Vicker's Island, Derwent Lake,
was destroyed by fire. The remainder of the building,
as well as the splendid timber trees by which the mansion
is surrounded, had a narrow escape.
T. S. DUNCOMBE, ESQ., ALP.—We understand
that the health of this lion. Gentleman is improving,
though slowly, and that it is hoped, notwithstanding his
severe and protracted indisposition, time and patience
will enable him to resume his public duties.
DEATH OF SIR JOHN KENNEDY, BART.—This
baronet, for many years so distinguished in England
and Ireland by his patronage of the sports of the field,
died on the 13th instant at his residence near Rathcool,
Dublin, aged 63. He was one of the baronets created
during the Viceroyalty of the Earl of Mulgrave, now
the Marquis of Nornaanby, in 1836. He was the son of
Edward Kennedy, Esq., and married in 1819 the
daughter of William Beaumon, Esq., by whom he has
had issue five sons and one daughter. lie is succeeded
by his son Edward. Sir John was a magistrate and a
Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Kildare.
MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION.—Yesterday the lists
for the parishes of Christchurch, Hackney, Shoreditch,
Bethnal-green, Norton-folgate, and the old Artillery-
ground, were revised by L. Shadwell, Esq., at the Green
Man, Bethnal green. No point of public interest arose,
and the whole proceedings occupied little more than an
hour. The court sits to-day at White Conduit House,
Islington.
MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 15 per mine, which, at the English Mint price of
31 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex•
change of 25.52; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25.42 k. it follows that gold is 0.37 per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By ad vices from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 437 per mark, which, at
the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10p. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.11; and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.10,
it follows that gold is 1.46 per cent. dearer in Hamburgh
than in London.
FRATERNISATION EXTRAORDINARY.--A deputation
of riotous Silesian peasants came in April to the seat of
a nobleman, making unheard-of demands, and threaten-
ing to kill, burn, and destroy, if those demands were not
complied with. They were shown into the baron's study,
who immediately locked the door, throwing the key out
of the window, told the astonished mob that, unless they
immediately asked his pardon on their knees,' he would
cause the cigar he was smoking to fraternise with a barrel
of gunpowder which stood on a sofa by his side. The
effect was magical. The knees of the
peasantsfraternised
with the carpet ; they craved in humble
tone his forgive-
ness, and were at length
.allowed to make their exit
through the window, for the baron lamented that he,
alas! had lost his key.
JENNY LIND'S VISIT TO A Y FARMER.—
During the recant visit of this distinguished°RlinlßE vocalist to
this part of the country, she had expressed a great desire
to see an English farm-house, and the domestic arrange-
ment and internal
managementoe generally. Mr. George
Simpson's, of Grafit Howe, near Ilunmanby, was fixed
upon to gratify her wishes.
stantial English farmer's hat her ideas of a sub-
tle say; but her dwelling
may have been, it is
not easy
astonishment was almost un-
bounded as she was successively
to another; the shown from one room
kitchens, sitting-rooms, bed-rooms,
lardcreaseer,d and dairies, each seemed equally to excite in-
surprise,—being so unlike the inconvenient one-
'
her roomed buildings appropriated to the same purposes in
own y. S,
herh secwre
etaras attended by a travelling
female companion
The different out-buildings y , and another individual.
were also visited, and
afforded as many su • ht
Jeets of wonder. Being the day
on which Mr. Simpson had number of sheep killed and
others injured on the railer:
passing train, the
accident se( mad to interest her
much.—flub ha.— flail Packet.
THE WEATHER.---YeStOrd in the northern which
was the metropolis, a slight fallaaon3frdsnow took place, which
was accompanied by a cold piercing wind. Last
night the cold continued very intense for the time of '
year.
ROYAL MUNIFICENCE.—Ile Majesty the Queen
Dowager has been pleased to forward to the Rev. Robert
Joym s, rector of Gravesend, thesutnof2ol. towards the
erection of a new church in the parish of Gravesend
ESCAPE OF EDWARD Ilouyw D.o ln ae writer.
letter
° by h
received in town yesterday, it is stated
that Edward Hollywood, silkweaver, and whothadbeen
one of the deputation to France, had effected his escape
to Boulogne.—Freeman.
SHOT IN A QUARREL.—On Monday night a sur-
geon named Addison was in company with Mr. Thomas
on
llartnoll, a
painter, drinking at a public-house in South-
ampton.
They left ocV about two o'cl asTuesday mom.
ing, quarrelling with each other. When they arrived at
the Houndwell, a large open space in the centre of the
town, Addison took a pistol from his pocket, and shot
Hannon in the groin. The report of the pistol was
heard by some policemen, who immediately rushed to
Addison was immediately apprehended.
the spot.
llartnoll, after walking a few paces fell, and was con-
veyed to the infirmary, where be now lies dangerously
ill, and is not expected to recover. The ball has not yet
been extracted.
A magistrate has attended at the infir-
mary to take his deposition.
uS EscArE.—On Tues-
EASTBOURNE.—MIRACULO
day se'nnight, as Mr. Stevenson, jun., was walking on
the cliffs at Meads, in search of fossils and other
geolo-
gical specimens, he fancied he saw a path leading to the
beach, and essayed to walk down; but he had not pro-
ceeded many steps ere his foot slipped, and he was pre-
cipitated to the bottom, a clistanceof2lo4oos
feet.
it appears, between two rockssome on
was a most providential circumstance. As soon as ho
recovered sensibility, be crawled a little way and called
out for help. A gentleman seeing his situation, ran and
obtained the necessary assistance, and he was conveyed
to a public-house at Meads, whence Mrs. Wm. Rae"
kindly had him conveyed to Mrs. Holland's boarding-
house, where he is staying. On his arrival he was visited
by Mr. Williams, surgeon, who found that, notwithstand-
ing the gentleman had received severe contusions, no
vital injury was sustained, or any bone broken, and we
are happy to say that be is fast recovering the effects of
Guardian.
TRIBUTE perilous descent.—Brighton
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT _Messrs. Frederick and
Edmund Hinde, Commoners of Queen's College, Oxford,
and the two youngest sons of the late Mr. William
Ilinde, many years a successful solicitor in Liverpool,
have honoured their tutor and guardian, the Reverend
Thomas Stanley Bowstead, M.A., Vicar of Tervin, near
Chester, and Prebendary of Lichfield, with a small silver
font, of an octagonal form, on which is inscribed the fol-
lowing grateful acknowledgment:—" Presented to the
llev. T. S. Bowstead, M.A., Vicar of Tervin, from
Frederick and Edmund Hinde, in token of their esteem,
and in remembrance of his kindness during the two years
they were under his care, reading for college."— Chester
Courant.
SINK AND THE DEUCE.—A seal engraver, hearing
that the Thames so poisoned the atmosphere that it was
dangerous to live near it, called it " a first-rate sink for
a die I"—Punch.
THE MERRY Cuunon BBLIs.—In the Stafford-
shire Advertiser of last week there is an account of the
chimes newly fitted up in the venerable tower of St.
Mary's, Stafford, and a list is given of the tunes adapted
to each day. On Sunday, a psalm tune; Monday, "Life
let us cherish;" Tuesday, "MY lodging is on the cold
ground;" Wednesday, " There is nae luck about the
house;" Thursday, " The Harmonious Blacksmith;"
Friday, ore won't go home till morning!" Saturday
(being market day), Oh dear, what can the matter be?"

LITERATURE.
THE POCKET AND THE STUD. 1 Vol., pp.
215. By Harry Hiecver.
A jovial and pleasant writer is Harry Hieover,
and a right knowing one in all matters pertainine. to
the stable or the kennel, the hunt or the race, the
stud and its relation, in all respects, to the pocket.
Since Apperley disappeared from the sporting maga-
zines, we know no more delightful name to meet
with among the contributors than Harry Hieover.
And that is saying a vast deal, with all the rol-
licking scribes who adorn that section of our
periodical literature with their lucubrations. In the
hilarious tone of his effusions, and in the bonhommie
which beams forth in almost every page, "Harry
Hieover" is akin to " Nimrod," and not only in
bonhommie brid hilarity, but in shrewdness and in a
perfect familiarity with his subject. These qualities
have not only been conspicuous in his miscellaneous
papers as a magazine writer, they have been also
particularly manifested in his capital work called
" Stable Talk and Table Talk ; or Spectacles for
Young Sportsmen"—a work in two goodly volumes,
tilled to repletion with the nuts of amusement and
the wine of information. Those who ar.,reciate John
Dlills's" Old English Gentleman" will have wiled
away many an agreeable hour over the chapters of
" Stable Talk and Table Talk." The volumes are
imbued with the same gusto ir. everything relating to
the rural scenes and field sports of old Albion. Here
however, is a book of a very different character; not
that it has less vivacity of manner, hut that it con-
veys a much greater abundance of "facts and figures"
in a very portable and compacted form. Those who
are habitual readers of the principal sporting periodi-
cals may fancy from the mere title-page of the pre-
sent volume that it is chiefly a reprint of contribu-
tions which have already appeared. Their conjecture
will have been nevertheless in a considerable degree
erroneous. Nearly four-fifths of " The Pocket and
the Stud" being in reality here printed for the first
time—three chapters alone having been previously
published. In as far as the economy of private horse-
dealing—not the wholesale horse-dealing of Tatter-
sall's, but that moderate speculation in horseflesh in
which so many thousands of our population are in the
habit of indulging—are concerned, the book is a very
encyclopaedia. Its advice is not merely elementary,
it goes to the heart of a hundred difficulties and
establishes beacons and buoys in all directions.
Scarcely a quicksand or a sunken breaker is left un-
marked. Yorkshire jockeying is gibbetted. The
cunning sharpers against whom the late lamented
Lord George Bentinck waged such an unrelenting
and successful warfare, meet with no sympathy and get
no mercy, no not even the smallest, from our author.
He flays them in an allusion and goes on in his droll
and unflagging way along the path of pleasantness.
He exposes their tricks and subterfuges in a sentence
and proceeds in his accustomed vein of pleasantry.
After apologizing for his apparent "impertinence"
in giving his advice unasked—a course which he trusts
will not lay him under any " imputation of conceit or
arrogance"—he enters boldly upon his task ; first of
all treating of "stable management" and afterwards
of "stable economy; first telling us how we may be
best enabled to purchase a horse and then explaining
the different modes of keeping him. in the chapter
on stable management we have sections on ventila-
tion, on dryness, on wide doors, on stall •posts, on
racks, on windows, on balls, on mangers, on head
collars, on collar shanks, on muzzles, on lofts, on
boxes, on stoves, and on all the multifarious requisites
of a stable, including chamois, sponges, dressing tools,
water-brushes, mane-combs, and bandages. In the
chapter, again, on stable economy he explains to us
the ordinary cost of keep, the occasion upon which
veterinary surgeons should be consulted, the choice of
grooms, the ingenuity of servants, and the like
subjects of importance. The following extract will
be read with interest and deserves the widest circula-
tion :
"To show the difference between practically knowing
the expenses of a stable, and listening to being told by
interested persons what they ' must be, at least,' I Rill
just take a pair of sixteen-hands carriage-horses, and
see what their expense, not ' must be,' but should be;
and here I show no presumption in saying I care not
what all the grooms or coachmen in London may say—
I know I am right: not from any talent, ingenuity, or
peculiar mode of treatment; not reasoning upon even the
best theoretical principles, but on the broad, plain,
homely facts of experience and practice—that not
arising from having had the management of any one or
two classes of horses, or those under one or two different
situations or circumstances, but from having had the
direction of all sorts of race-horses, hunters, carriage•
horses, hacks, machiners, and cart-horses, and at one
period all at the same time ; what I say, therefore, on
the subject reflects about as much credit on me in point
of intellect as we should attach to the man who had
been all his life emptying coal-waggons telling us how
many sacks went to the chaldron, and the chance of our
being in error would be about equal. It will be re-
membered I am now taking a pair of horses that are
more expensive to keep than any others used for private
purposes, for I allow each six quarterns of corn per day.
No two hunters living eat as much, take the year
throughout ; for though the name of a hunter to some
persons conveys an idea of great expense—though
hunting is expensive, it is not the keep of tho hor:o
that makes it so—a good well-worked 401. cover hack
costs quite as much, and more, than you can get sows
hunters to cost you.
Two horses, 6 quarterns a day each, at 1/. 4s.
per qr., say
14lbs. of hay per day each, at
41. 103. per ton, say .......
„ Supposing straw to be scarce, 1
cwt. of straw per week, 1/. los ,
per ton, say
„ Shoeing both, 10s. per month,
28 days
„ Wear and tear of chamois, spon-
ges, brushes, &c. 6d. per week 1 6 0
„ Wear and tear of clothing and
head collars, 6d. each

6 10 0

2 12 0

£
When our author is previously enterin 75 10 0
g into a more
detailed account of the cost of keeping a horse, he
describes the advantages and disadvantages of the
various kinds of food from bran to carrots, from
barley to chaff, from beans to oats, and from malt to
all other sorts and descriptions of horse nutriment.
We must observe that the work is embellished with
a portrait of Harry Ilieover on his favourite horse
Harlequin, engraved by Hacker, from a painting by
the author. Besides the useful information contained
in the volume, there are an abundance of illustrative
anecdotes such as impart piquancy to the recom-
mendations. Speal-ing of his success in matters
which some regard as subordinate, Harry Hieover
facetiously saith :—" We should have been sorry to
see John Kemble sing a comic song between the acts
of Hamlet. Now, I certainly could not play Hamlet,
but I fancy I could manage Jim along Josey.'
Well it is better to be encored in that than hissed in
hamlet." Heartily coinciding in this we say encore
to works as pleasant and as much to the purpose as
" The Pocket and the Stud," by Harry Ilieover.

CLARE.NDON ; a Tale of Recent Times. By Eliza
Smith.
" Clarendon " is an interesting addition to that al-
ready popular class of works—" Religious Novels."
To the Roman Catholics this little tale will be pecu-
liarly acceptable, the writer being evidently an
enthusiastic and zealous member cf their faith ; while,
to the dispassionate and inquiring general reader, it
will be hardly less so, inasmuch as that the arguments
are carried on in all fairness, are untarnished by the
least acerbity, and place in candid juxtaposition the
chief grounds upon which the contending churches
base their respective creeds. In the opening and
closing chapters there are aome exquisite touches of
nature. The incidents are well conceived, arid re-
lated with a pleasing and earnest simplicity. Claren-
don, the leading character in the tale, is the very
beau ideal of Christian perfection. The moral of his
life appears to be the memorable injunction of the
Great Teacher,—" Seek ye first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness, and all these things shall be
added unto you."

HECATOMBS OF PORTRAITS.-Our next-door neigh-
bour over the water, the Charivari, informs us that
portraits of the French Members swarm all over Paris.
One house, it says, is quite blockaded with them—the
exterior is covered all over. The house may well hide
its face for putting on so bold a front! It seems there are
no less than three editions of these endless portraits.
Now, there are upwards of 900 Members, which only
makes the pretty number of 2,700 heads. The most
Dantonian Red Republican could not wish to take off a
greater number. Never did such a number of patriots
put their heads upon the block before! Imagine having
them all hung about your room! What an ugly view it
would give of Universal Suffrage ! The portraits, we
are told, are so diversified, that there aro not two alike.
This makes the collection all the richer, and is only an -
other proof that no politician is himself for two days
together. However, it must be a festering epingle to
every Frenchman's vanity, that his belle France should
possess such a cabbage-garden of portraits, and scarcely
one good head amongst them. We would r. commend
vigorous weeding. At all events, France cannot com-
plain of being badly represented—in the shop windows.
—Punch.

Notices have been issued by the commissioners of
the metropolitan police to the superintendent of each
division of the police force,i
that the men should make
reports of the various nuisances n existence in their
respective "beats," and that the same should be for-
warded to the commissioners every Monday morning.
Upon a complaint being made,. the party offending is
cautioned ; but should the evil not be removed, it is
stated that the commissioners intend to take legal steps,
in order that as iar as possible, under the present cir-
cumstances of the visitation of the cholera, nothing may
exist to cause a malaria in any locality.
PRINCESS'S THEATRE,—We are requested to state
that there is no truth whatever in the reports that this
theatre was damaged by the alarming fire which took
place yesterday in Winsley-street, Oxford-street. By
the exertions of the numerous persons employed on the
establishment, who were at rehearsal at the time, the
flames were kept from injuring the theatre, and the
usual entertainments were represented last evening.

VISIT OF LORD ASHLEY TO TILE
RAGGED SCHOOLS, DUMFRIES.
Lord Ashley, on his return from Edinburgh, where
he has been on a commission in connexion with the
General Board of Health, examined the Industrial
School, Burns-street, on Friday morning last, in pre-
sence of a number of its supporters. The meeting
was opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Wallace.
The children sung a hymn at the commencement of
the proceedings with great accuracy and spirit, and
two classes were afterwards examined in reading.
The senior one read a chapter of the New Testament
as correctly, if not more so, as the classes similarly
advanced at any of the ordinary schools of the town,,
although they have only been under Mr. Ramsay 's
training for some seven months, and the majority
scarcely able to read previously. Questions in con-
nexion with their lessons were ans%sered also with
promptitude and correctness ; end altogether, al though
they did not seem the most favourable subjects, their
appearance was highly satisfactory. Lord Ashley
expressed himself as highly gratified.
When the children were dismissed Baillie Nichol.
son was called to the chair, and
Mr. STEWART, the secretary, read a report of the
progress and condition of the society.
Baillie NICHOLSON then called upon Mr. Hender-
son, convener of the work committee, who stated that
some months ago it was deemed necessary to depute
one of the committee to visit the industrial schools in
Aberdeen and elsewhere, that some method might be
adopted for the industrial occupation of the children.
Having entered into a number of details regarding
that deputation, Mr. Henderson mentioned that there
was a division of opinion in the society on the ques-
tion whether the children should be taught trades, or
whether they should confine themselves to giving
them industrious habits; and concluded by requesting
his Lordship's opinion on these points.
Lord ASHLEY then rose, and said that it appeared
to him the society had every reason to be satisfied,
and might heartily thank God for their success.
When he came there he was prepared to find some.
thing very inferior; but the children seemed to have
made great progress not only in those matters bene-
ficial to their condition here, but their more Un-
important hereafter. They had got a very suitable
building too, and with a little ventilation it would
do much better for their purpose than one the supe-
rior architecture and adornments of which might
raise the taste of the pupils above what must be their
condition in life. This he believed to be a great er-
ror in modern arrangements. Their great difficulty
would be the maintenance of the funds for
their annual expenses. They must take the
children the whole day if they wished effectually
to benefit them ; and if they did so, they must sup-
ply them with food. The most of these children had
no way of getting food but by begging or steal-
ing, and, therefore, unless they fed them they could
have them only in the evenings, and it was difficult
to teach them to any purpose in three hours each day.
It was, therefore, absolutely necessary that the chil-
dren should be fed, which added very mach to the
expense. In London they were unable to do it under
a cost of 41. 10s. for each child per annum ; although
he believed, from the difference of habits, it could be
done in Scotland for about half that sum. Again, in
all these ragged schools it was necessary to have in-
dustrial classes—in all schools for the children of the
working classes these were necessary, but more espe- '
cially in ragged schools. The children attending
these institutions must be shown that labour is honour-
able. The character of the employment given was of
no great importance, if it was of such a nature that
the children could understand it as a useful and
profitable one. In the Edinburgh school they
employed them in picking oakum, but the children,
looking upon that merely as employment to keep
them out of mischief, did not enter upon it with the
ardour with which they applied themselves to work of
which they could see the benefit. They ought to
confine the children to one or two very simple occu-
pations, preferring those suited to the district, as
net making was to Aberdeen ; but tailoring and
shoemaking were the best generally. After re-
marking that the children were much superior in
appearance to those of the London schools, he
mentioned that at the schools in Westminster the
managers took all that offered themselves ; and ex-
cept where they had to burn their clothes the chil-
dren received nothing. They were put into classes and
given what they earned ; and, after making clothes for
themselves and their schoolmates, they were allowed to
make for their friends ; and seven or eight who were
sent out as free emigrants to Australia, conducted
themselves so well on their passage, that a gentleman
had informed him the captain said that he had never
seen such well-behaved passengers. Such persons
would not be a week in that colony before they
would obtain an engagement of 103. a week and their
rations. All they could look to here would be to
give the children industrious habits, and the reforma-
tion of their moral character. There was a very im-
portant question, whether they ought to make the
labour of the boys profitable. That raised the
question whether they had a right to bring the labour
of these children, whom they partly supported,
against those who cannot meet them upon equal
terms. He believed the wretched condition of
the sempstresses of London was mainly caused by
bringing the labour of the inmates of gaols and
asylums into competition with them—pitting what
he might term slave against free labour. In a short
time also they would come intoicollision with the
parents and guardians of the children, who would
think they were making a profit out of the labour of
the boys and demand a share in it. And only when
they could make the impression upon the boys and
their guardians that they were teaching and sup-
porting them from charitable motives alone would they
come out freely. As for the expense they must con-
sider what they could do in the way of exciting their
neighbours to contribute. They had nothing to
complain of as far as they had gone; for in ten months
to do what they had done was extremely creditable
to the burgh of Dumfries; but if they relaxed their
efforts for one instant they would fall back. They
must show the people that this question is not only
one of humanity, but one on which depends the material
advantage of Dumfries. In London they had ap-
prenticed out a number of boys, and their conduct
had been very good. But in all places there was a
great pressure on the market of labour, so that if they
got ten of their boys out to trades they would have
excluded some other ten. With the view of obviating
this he had proposed a resolution in the House of
Commons for the purpose of getting a certain number
of these boys transplanted to some of her Majesty's
colonies. That motion was lost, bet the Government
had volunteered to send out 150 children yearly ;
and this had been attended with the best effects. If
they followed that system they would relieve of
Dumfries a great body of children, and if they could
raise 1001. that would pay for the transplantation
of ten to fifteen. They would thus at once relieve
the labour market and transport those children
out of mischief to where they would consume
much more of the manufactures of this country, and
thus give a stimulus to its trade; and if he could
render them any service he should be most happy to
do so. In conclusion, he would impress upon them
his conviction, that if ten years longer were to pass
with the same inattention to the condition of the
lower orders, it would be beyond the power of any
statesman or combination of statesmen to maintain
this empire in its present condition. He thought the
lessons they had lately from Europe might teach them
that when the people were disaffected and determined
to rise in mass, the finest standing army in the world,
under the most able officers, must fall before them ;
and if those who possessed property and station did
not look to it, the people would rise some day against
them or their children, when regret that the present
opportunity had been lost would be unavailing.
The Rev. Mr. MANN, after stating how much the
meeting had been delighted by the able and instruc-
tive speech of Lord Ashley, and offering him its
thanks, on the part of the committee, requested an-
other conference with his Lordship before his depar-
ture. And as they had never yet laid their, scheme
before a meeting of the inhabitants, perhaps his Lord-
ship might be induced to give his countenance to such
an undertaking.
His LORDSHIP requested time to consider, and
would answer the committee from Cumloden, to
which he was about to proceed.
The meeting then separated.—Dumfries Courier.

DISCOVERING TUE LONGITUDE.—The Sea Serpent
has been seen again; persons declaring it was several
i
miles n length. We should not at all wonder if it was
a stray column of one of Mr. Anstey's speeches, for we
know as a fact that that gentleman has been at sea for a
long time.—Punch.
SINGULAR FATALITY.—On Friday an investigation
took place at the Guildhall, Falmouth, relative to a young
man, a steward of an English vessel, unders orders for
Antwerp. It appears that, about half-past ten o clock
on Wednesday night, the captain, steward, and a lad,
left the pier in a boat, to return to the vessel in the
harbour. It is reported that the captain and steward
were drunk, and that a quarrel took place, and a fight
ensued in the boat, and, in the struggle, both captain
and steward fell overboard. The captain succeeded in
regaining the boat, but the steward after much struggling
to do so, sunk to rise no more. It appears the poor
steward came on shore to post letters to his parents and
sweetheart in London. The body bas not yet been re-
covered.— Western Luminary.
DUNFERMLINE.—We rejoice to state that the deep
gloom which has so long enveloped our commercial
, hemisphere seems to be dispersing, and the dawn of
prosperity again breaking on our half-famished commu-
nity. Mr. Erskine Beveridge cn Friday last employed
nearly a hundred men, who had been without work, and
it is understood more will find employment from him.
We also learn that Mr. Robertson of London and Dun-
fermline, who had failed for a vast amount, and who has
lately obtained a settlement, has given an offer to re-
purchase the extensive factories and works which he for-
merly possessed, and it is expected that he will com-
mence manufacturing immediately on an extensive scale.
—Fifeshire Journal.

LA RGE SHOALS OF HERRINGS.
l Weeks have now elapsed since the most multitu-
dinous of all the finny tribes appeared in unwonted
shoals in the Solway Frith; and, should the weather
continue calm and settled, an opinion prevails among
residents on the coast that they bid fair to people their
present habitats perhaps a month longer. In
the olden time marine industry rewarded well
continued exertion; although, even then, from
all m e can learn, herrings, in any great num-
bers, were never exactly annual visitants, as
they are in Lochfine, and many other estuaries
and
arms of the sea. But, from whatever cause—
neglect on the land, or desertion from the waters—
there was little to boast of in this branch of service
for a period of more than forty years. Octogenarians
and others, however partial to the past, in recounting
with glee the splendid hauls taken in their young
days, at the same time admit that they remember
nothing at all to be compared with the present
extraordinary season. 'The shoals, it is said,
extend to miles on miles ; and from beyond
Whitehaven, as far as Sarkfoot, every tide that
flows is instinct with myriads of scaly life. in
repeated instances the nets have been torn by the
weight of their loads ; and vt hen the tide recedes
they present not a glimmering, but an opaque sur-
face, with no daylight visible through the tiny count-
less meshes, every on? of which contains its herring.
Nor is this remark confined to one; for it is equally
applicable to several border parishes—such as Ruth-
well, Cummertrees, Annan, Dornock, and even por-
tions of Gretna. Along the coast of Cumberland, as
far as the sea flows from west to east, the fishermen
are equally busy, and, we believe, still more success-
ful; for in place of relying altogether on stake nets,
many piscators push boldly to the Scottish side, and
often fill their boats between the flow and reflux
of a single tide. From the difficulty of disposing of
so many cargoes in a fresh state, salting is resorted
to by all. On Saturday last we rounded the well-
known peninsula, of which Dumfries is the handle
and Caerlaverock the blade; and at every little
distance were at no loss for ocular demonstration of
the teeming abundance of the herring harvest. In
a former article under this head we stated that from
forty to fifty persons, young and old; were engaged
in taking, gutting, and salting herrings; but their
numbers have increased greatly since, and Mr.
Anderson now estimates them at fully 200, including
all the farmers and cotters in the parish. Many of
the latter are profiting day after day by the great
windfall ; and our informant doubts whether there
will be any necessity for imposing a poor•rate in
Caerlaverock during the approaching winter! Would
that the Irish were similarly situated, although many
of them, it is to be feared, are too lazy to avail
themselves of the blessing, were it placed within
their reach. Up to Saturday, the tenant of Sher-
rington had consumed a ton of salt, and cured 25
barrels in all, apart from the quantities he was
importuned to sell fresh; in fact, he had run short of
cooper's gearing, and accordingly ordered a fresh
supply. That they will keep well in salt he has
no doubt; and, as regards quality, he considers
them preferable to the Orkney herrings which are
sold at 225. per barrel. That herrings visited the Sol-
way in no inconsiderable quantities, last year, is a
fact no longer doubted in Caerlaverock. Fair warn-
ing was given at the time by the veteran Mr. Grier-
son and others ; but from the lengthened suspension
of use and wont, the disappearance and impaired con-
dition of nets, no exertion was made in the slightest
degree commensurate with the opportunities offered.
But no similar mistake will he committed hereafter,
now that fishing material has been amply provided,
but on the contrary, herring statistics, diligently
watched, and advantage taken of appearances so long
as they continue favourable, and promise rewards
worthy of the labourer's trouble.—Durnfries Courier.