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London, England, 1848-08-24 00:00:00

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RACING SUBSCRIPTION OFFICE.
301, Strand, opposite " Bell's Life."
This establishment has been formed for the i.,httrr Peetitity Of par-
ties who may Willi l 0 ihVest their money in the real racing events
of the country. It will be under the d.rection of competent mana
gers, and strengthened by the guarantee of unquestionable trus-
tees, in whose joint names 01l monies will 1), lodged. The awards will
take place in public, and every subscriber will be ;Admitted on pro-
ducing his tmmb,_•r. To gentlemen or the Press tree admission will
he given. The advantages 'rising from this mode must be obvious,
as it will ensure beyond a doubt the security width Slinilat Undertak-
ings have failed to do. The money will be so placed as to secure to
the holders of the horses the sums as under. Five per cent. con,
mission on comulete subscriptions will he deducted from the holders
of the winning horses.
In all cases in which the subscriptions are not filled, the money
will be returned without arty deduction for expenses or otherwise.
GREAT ST LEGER.
FirA Second Thit•d Among Non
Subscribers. Ilotse. Horse. horse. Starters. do.
4,000 at X,lO 0 0 £:0,000 £lO 000 £5,000 £3.000 £2,000
12,000 :it 5 0 0 30,109 15,000 7,000 5,000 a,OOO
20,000 at 1 0 0 10,001 5,000 2,5 0 1,500 1,000
20,003 at 010 0 5,000 2,500 1,250 800 450
20,000 at 0 5 0 2,500 1,250 (325 400 225
20,000 at 0 2 6 1,250 625 300 200 125
CES.IIIEWITCII.
4,000 at.£s 0 0 £lO,OOO .£5,000 £2,000 £2.000 £l,OOO
4.000 at 1 0 0 2,000 1,000 500 300 200
10,000 at 010 0 2,500 1,200 600 400 300
10,000 at 0 b 0 1,250 600 300 200 150
10,000 at 0 2 6 (125 300 150 100 75
A Subscription is also open for the Cambridgeshire, same as above.
Stakes pat i as placed by the Judge.-Post-office Orders made pay-
able to Joseph Darcy, at the Strand Post-office.-Provincial Agents
required.
The Great Ebor Ihndicap waF distributed on Friday, the 18th inst.
Lists of the numbers to be had at the Office.
The Managers beg to state that, in consequence of hat•ing received
a very great number of applications for the Ebor Handicap on the
(lay it was distributed, they feel called upon to request subscribers to
apply immediately for the Great St. Leger, as it is rapidly filling, and
will be shortly closed.

JOSEPEI DARCY, Secretary.

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Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.

ON PIITSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE nicArA.
CITY, &ND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.

gew Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 64., or
by post, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. In postage +damps,
—IIIHE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex-
essive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury,
xitli remarks on Marriage, end the means of obviating certain dis-
malifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured. Engravings. By It. and
L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London.
Vublished by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row
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PeaT I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
)rgans, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
PART H. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive indul-
tence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental
and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity.
it is illustrated b) Three Explanatory Engravings.

I'AkT 111. treats of the diseases resulting from Infection, either in
the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for
their treatment. The consequences of early neglect and of the abuse
at mercury, are also clearly pointed out. This section is illustrated
by Seventeen Coloured Engravings.
. _ _

PART IV. treats of the Prevention of Disease by a simple ap-
plication, by which the danger of infection is obviated. Its action
is simple but sure. It acts with the virus chemically, and destroys
its power on the system. This important part of the Werk should
he read Ivy every Young Man entering into life.
PART Y. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its
luties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and
the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
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RAILWAY SHARE MARKET.t.S
BRISTOL, Auo. 23.

STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market appears varied and with-
out improvement. Midland 6 per Cent. Stock Shares were
done at 11.6%.

LIVERPOOL, Aua. 23.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market to-day has been firm,
and yesterday's quotations supported. The sales are— Edin-
burg-1i and Glasgow, 40—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late
Liverpool and Bury), Halves, 1414 dis.—London and North.
Western, 113L4 c. Ditto, New Quarters, Is. 3d. p.--Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, 51. 18s. N. dis.
—Midland Stock, 01—Ditto, New Halves. 8% dis.—Shrews-
bury and Chester (late N. W.M.). I dis.—South•Eastern
and Dover, 25—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 61. 18s. 9d.—York,
Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), IA p.
MANCHESTER, AUG. 23.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanea-
shire, Cheshire Junction, 9 3-16 dis.—North Staf-
fordshire, 4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,67 k
Caledonian, Preference, 5-16 p.—Leeds, Preference, A p.—
Sheffield, CU, 141,4—North Union (A), 2uo—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Liacoinshire, Preference, 10.
BIRMINGHAM, Auc. 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—North Staffordshire,
37 dis.—Birmingham and Dudley, 3? p.
YORK, AUG. 22.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was
as follows: Great Northern, 7% n.—North British. Thirds,
41 s. dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick. (G. N. E. Pur-
chase), 814.

GLASGOW, Aug. 22.

STOCK ExcllANotr.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 20—Cale-
donian, Preference, 535. d.—Eastern Counties, New,
Edinburgh and Glasgow. Halves, 10—Glasgow, Kilmarnock,
and Ayr, 104—Ditto, Halves, No 1,6/. Bs. 6d. —Ditto,
Halves, No. 2, 614—Glasgow and Greenock, HA—Great
Northern, 714—North British, Thirds, 41s. 6d.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
CAMBRIDGE, AUG. 21.

KING'S COLLEGE.—Mr. Russell Day has been elected a
Fellow of this society.

TIIE Cituncir.—The following preferments and appoint-
ments have recently taken place :—The Rev. J. H. Henderson
M.A. (B.A. 1843), Trinity College, to be chaplain to the Earl
of Castlestuart ; the Rev. Charles David Brereton, M.A.
(B.A. 1343), Trinity College, has been instituted to the con-
solidated rectories of Bixley and Framingham Earl, Norfolk;
the Rev. W. J. Conybeare, M.A. (B.A. 11,37), Trinity
College, to the vicarage of Axminster, Devon ; the
Rev. James Henry Henderson, M.A. (B.A. 1843), Trinity
College, to be precentor in the Cathedral Church of Ely; the
Rev. Tansley Hall, M.A. ( B.A. 1833), St. John's College, to
the rectory of Southery. Norfolk ; the Rev. F. C. Crick, M.B.
(B.A. 1830), St. John's College, and late public orator, has
been instituted to the living of Little Thurlow, Suffolk;
the Rev. A. Slight (A.B. 1845), St. John's College, to the
perpetual curacy of Alkmonton, Longford, Derbyshire; the
Rev. J. W. Binley, M.A. ( B. A. 1837), St. John's College, to
the perpetual curacy of Littledale ; the Rev. J. W. Eiger
(8.A., 1835), Queen's College, to the curacy of St. Peter's,
Birmingham; the Rev. W. T. Dixon, B.A. (1816), Catha-
rine Hall, to be head master of the Leeds Moral and In-
dustrial Training School ; the Rev. S. F. W. C.Homfrey, M.A
(B.A. 1844), of Catharine Hall, to the rectory of Pudding
Norton, Norfolk; the Rev. W. L. Manley, (B.A. 1846),
Christ's College, to the ministry of the district of
Treleigh, Cornwall ; the Rev. W. Stoddart, M.A.
(B.A. 1823), Christ's College, to the head-master-
ship of the Doncaster Municipal Grammar School
the Rev. Wm. Rigg, M.A., of Pembroke College,
to the head-mastership of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar
School, Kingston-upon-Thames; the Rev. J. Tidemore,
LL.B. (1840), of Trinity Hall, to the curacy of St. Mary's,
Leicester; the Rev. Charles Pitman Shepherd (B.A. 1846),
Magdalene College, to the evening lectureship of St. Peter's,
Manchester.

THR WHAT/ma - -
have had great • .
out fine. Sur;ll —A GALE.—Sillee our last we
variety of weather. On Saturday morning,
it was shower
evening. On DloYnlvdaas•a
with a high wind early ; tut the -day turned
blew at length a str beautiful day, clouded over towards
3', much rain fell, and the wind rising,
some work for the foanrgmale from the S.W., which made
es of both oats and whea, byfhese were blown down and
threw
scattered about ;the oats, being 'lTltiitier,
scattering the shocks and
were more generally
thrown about than the wheat.
sruoforts, or huge
neighbourhood of this
city various trees were either torn ii iel)
laden
wietriediriunitp,roo-f
limbs broken off them ; and the smellier ivreteLse
portion. We saw a pear tree, heavily
which the stem near the top was broken in two bvit;ihee force of
the gale, aided by the weight of the fruit. '
mum temperature of Monday was only 58 degree :Taxi ii -
renheit. Yesterday morning the Mersey and the Irwell
were in heavy flood. The morning was fine, with slight
sprinkling showers, till about ten o'clock, when a heavy
thunder shower came on, and the rain fell in torrents. With
occasional gleams of sunshine, the remainder of the day was
wet. The telegraphic returns at seven yesterday morning,
show the variableness by the variety of the weather at dif-
ferent places. In the north " much rain ;" at Gosport the
same; while at Southampton it was "very fine :' —Edin.
burgh, .W.S.W., much rain ; Newcastle, N.W., much rain ;
York, X.W., very fine; Hull, S.W., very fine; Norm-Anton,
W. by S., very fine; Rotherham, S.E., very fine; Liverpool,
W.N.W., very unsettled; Lincoln, E. by N., very line;
Norwich, westward, cloudy; Brandon, W. fine; Yarmouth,
W. fine; Lowestoft, westward, cloudy; Nottingham, W.
fine; Derby, S.W., favourable; Leicester, W., fine; Bir-
mingham, S. W. slight rain ; Rugby, S.E., moderately fine;
London, S.W., cloudy; Chelmsford, S.W., cloudy; Colches-
ter, S E., fine; Gosport, S.W., much rain; Southampton,
S. E. , fine; Gloucester, S.W., favourable. --Manchestcr
Guardian of Wednesday.
COSISIITTAL OF A CHARTIST FOR SEDITION—On
Friday George Webber, a notorious sedition-monger, from
Halifax, was committed by the Bradford magistrates to York
Castle, under a bench warrant, to take his trial at the next
assizes for littering seditious language at a Chartist meeting
held on Toftshaw Moor, near Bradford, on the I:2th of June
last. The prisoner had for a considerable time been in con-
cealment, and he was one of the fourteen persons who were
apprehended early on Wednesday- morning last while in
secret conclave at a so-called Temperance coffee-house in
Manchester.
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Gilbert-passage, Clare-market, an adjourned inquest
upon Joseph Witney, a medical student, who was be•
lieved to have poisoned himself at the " Elysium" wine-
rooms, Bridges-street, under the circumstance already
stated. Dr. Griffin, of King's College Hospital, opened
the body, and gave it as his opinion the deceased's death
wai causer! by prussic acid. Verdict—" Deceased died of
prussic a P,ut how it came into his stomach there WAS
no eride4

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

(FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.)
CHRONICLE,.—AIthough we approve of the mode in
which the House of tiommons disposed, on Tuesday night,
of Mr. Herries' attempt to induct his twa.and-forty hearers
to bind over their six hundred absent colleagues to a mortal
discussion, in February next, of the Bank Act of 1844. it
from no desire to see the discussion f that measure evaded,
to exclude from publicity whatever inculpatory statements
are contained in the report made by one, and the evidence
taken by each of the HouseL* of Parliament. Assuredly
these documents deserve to be well sifted end considered ; and
as supporters of the Act, it is our desire that this should be
done. The principal grounds relied upon by the Bight
Honourable Gentleman for regarding the favourable
verdict, of Le Select Committee as disentitled to
weight, ware first, that the composition of that body
rendered it nn unfair tribunal ; secondly, that its
report was at variance with the bulk of the evidence ; and,
lastly, that the Committee of the House of Lords, whose Re-
port was framed, as he thught, more in accordance with
that evidence, had directly condemned the provisions of the
Act. In answer to the first charge much has been said
already which it seems needless to repeat. The real ques-
tion is, whether a fair proportion of all who hold prominent
views, or represent prevailing doctrines, have been ap-
pointed; and, above all, whether the Committee fairly re-
presents the entire body from which it derives its powers.
Now, according to either of these tests, the composition of
the Committee cannot fairly be impugned. Its majority
comprised the principal financial members of the past
and the present Administrations; but in its minority
were the leaders or representatives of. every sect and
school of currency theorists known to the public.
There were Mr. Wilson, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Cayley,
Mr. Muntz, Lord George Bentinck, Mr. Disraeli,
Mr. Hudson, and Mr. Herries himself. Again, that the ma-
jority of the Committee perfectly represented the majority of
the House, we apprehend to be beyond dispute. The debates
in November last, and on subsequent occasions, have clearly
manifested the state of opinion that prevails in the present
Parliament. Under these circumstances, it appears not a
little unreasonable to complain that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. in forming his Committee, did not throw the
balance of Members into the opposite scale. Next, as to the
objection that the report is contrary to the evidence. If we
measure it by quantity it may be true; and the same result
is not unfrequent even in the trials of courts of justice, since
the conclusion that is adopted is not that of the witnesses but
of the jurors, who sift the testimony and adjudicate on its
value. The most eminent and experienced statesmen of the
country were selected as a tribunal to try the merits of the
Act of 1844, with such information and assistance as the

evidence of professional and practical men could afford them ;
but if the latter were themselves more competent to de.
cide the question than the wisdom of Parliament, the inves-
tigation by a Committee at all was a vain and cumbrous
superfluity. We value and respect, as highly as Mr. Her-
ries can do, the intelligence and sagacity of those leading
members of the trading community whose opinions are re-
corded in the Blue-book, but we venture to doubt whether,
after all, the practical man, as he is called, the professional
banker, or the merchant immersed in business, however
valuable witnesses as to facts, are the persons best qualified
to form a sound legislative opinion upon the subjects in
which they are interested. We do not consider lawyers
the best judges as to what the law ought to be; we would
not be guided by naval men as to the policy of the naviga-
tion-laws, nor by schoolmasters upon the subject of
national education. The report of the Lords' Com-
mittee was evidently drawn, as Sir R. Peel observes, by no
friendly hand to the Act, for it implies an hostility which it
does not venture to embody in any broad or efficient propo-
sition. Able, dexterous, and elaborate as the document is,

it is stultified by its lame and impotent conclusion. After
convicting the Act of a material aggravation of the panic of
October, and arraigning its inefficiency to regulate the
value of money, to restrain wild speculation, or to check the
abuse of credit, it does not venture to suggest its repeal, or
even its modification, except in one respect—a power of self-
relaxation, which was contemplated at one time by the au-
thors of the law themselves, but advisedlyrepudiated by them
upon cogent reasons. And to whom is it proposed by the Com •
nsittee to entrust this power? Strange to say that after
giving an implied, though negative, sanction to the
principle of the Act, which is avowedly founded upon a dis-
trust. of the responsibility of the Bank of England, and after
exhibiting fully in their own report, with quotations from
the evidence to the same effect, that erroneous management
of the Bank authorities which precipitated the crisis of April,
1847, the Committee have concluded in favour of vesting the
dispensing power in the authorities of the Bank itself. If
the statute is to be thus amended, and Mr. Herries should
be disposed to bring in a Bill for that purpose early in the
next session, we venture to suggest to him that an Hite; ation
in the title of the Act of 1844 is absolutely necessary, and we
would propose the following amendment:—" An Act to re-
strict the Bank of England from extending its issues, and
also ter enabling the Bank of England to dispense with such
restriction."

POST.—No one disputes the adroitness of Sir Robert Peel
vs a Parliamentary debater. It will be observed that in the

Right Hon. Baronet's speech of Tuesday, upon the Currency
Law of 1844, he commenced in a jesting tone, and talked for
a considerable time upon what he assumed to be the reme-
dial plans of Mr. Spooner, and the theories of a Scotch gen-
tleman of the name of Horner, who died a great many years
ago, and who is chiefly known to the present generation by a
monumental statue in Westminster Abbey. Having done
what he thought enough in this way, he endeavoured to
bring the motion of Mr. Herries into discredit, be' showing
how few Me►nbers of the House of Commons attended to it.
_ _

Ile had himself come down last Tuesday, in order to be pre-
sent at the discussion, and notwithstanding what had
been said about the country feeling intense anxiety on
the subject, he found only thirty-five Members present to
listen to the discussion. On the evening on which he was
speaking he had again come down, and he found there were
only forty-two Members present. Was it, he asked, to be
for a moment supposed that a resolution carried by such a
House would have any great influence with the country?
The Right Honourable Gentleman said that when the time
for discussion did arrive he would be ready to uphold the
policy of maintaining all the restrictions of the Currency Act
of 1844. Mr. liume, a member of the Committee, declared
in his place in the House on Tuesday night, that every fact
brought forward was against the Act of 1844, and all the
witnesses, with the exception of certain official persons
in the Bank of England, were against it too. He
denied that the report of the Committee of the House
of Commons was entitled to the confidence of the pub.
lie, and affirmed that had the truth been reported, it would
have been to the effect that the measure of 1844, from which
so much good had been anticipated by Sir R. Peel, Sir C.
Wood, and the rest, did really aggravate the evils which it
was intended to remedy. The public, therefore, require from
Sir I:. Peel, not a promise that he will discuss the measure
when the proper time comes—not a solemn asseveration that
he has no wish to stifle discussion, but an explanation of the
apparently dishonest conduct which prevented a just and in-
dependent decision on the part of the Committee of Inquiry
in
.the present session—an explanation of the conduct by
of
fe
.haiffsairo—.wnintmerefearseudrei.n
which he succeeded in stifling the judgment which would
have been passed. had not lie—a person directly concerned in
rutolessao:
H contempt
e ta k takes all
a care, the
however,l arY.
justice. Sir Robert Peel is very ready to testify in favour
as little as possible about tfie facts which really
test that measure. " I firmly believe," he exclaims,
that the restrictive clauses of the Act of 1844 prevented the
country from adding, in April last, to political panic the
dangers of commercial pressure." Why speak of April ? It
was not in April, but in October, that the action of the
Currency Law of 1844 was felt. The Right Honourable
Gentleman affects,
when it serves his purpose, to have much
more regard for the practical than the theoretical. Why,
then, does he bring forward his conjectures cor.cerning April,
while he keeps out of view the facts of last October. lie
supposes the case of 48,000,0004 of Bank paper being afloat
in the United Kingdom, with 15,000,000/. of bullion in the
Bank of England. It was said, he remarked, "that that
15,000,0001. was a dead weight of gold lying idle, but it was
no such thing. The issue of 15,000,000/. was a certificate
that the gold had been deposited, and the gold was a
guarantee for the convertibility of the whole of the
48,000,0(101. Looking at the facility •of this country
to obtain credit, and looking at the evidence before them, he
did not think that the restrictions of the Act of 1844 could
prove
injurious." We cannot be surprised, when we read
such passages as this, that plain men should say they really
cannot understand Sir Robert Peel? pow can a deposit of
15,000,000/. of bullion by any possibility be a guarantee for
the convertibility into bullion of the whole of 48,000,0001. hi
notes? What can be more evident than that, if it be a
guarantee at all, it is only a guarantee for six shillings in
the pound. No doubt, under ordinary circumstances, it
establishes a probability that the proportion of note-holders
seeking payment in bullion will obtain it; but it is
no
guarantee. If a general rush for payment took place, it is
clear that some would be paid in full and the
greater number not paid at all, or that all would
he paid at the rate of about six shillings in the pound.
When the working of the Act of 1844 first came into dis-
cussion, the House was told (by Lord George Bentinck, if
we rightly recollect) that it was a fair-weather measure,
but utterly unfit for stormy times. It will is not be easy to
mend this account of it. So long as creditabundant, and
there is no pressure for money. the Act of 1844 has no
.effect
at all. As soon as circumstances call its provisions into
action, then it becomes a horrible infliction upon the country,
and places every branch of industry which is at all connected
with credit at the mercy of usurers. In other words, it con-
signs to ruin all industry which is dependent upon credit.
This is the character of the measure as proved by experience;
but it suits the convenience of Sir Robert Peel to shirk all
the testimony of experience with regard to its working.
He likes better to speak of his belief and his conjecture. If
he refers to events, it is to something about a gentleman who
xvas dead and buried long befure even the Act of 1819 was in
existence. This is your practical statesman!

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING.—Durinv, the first trial
of Mr. Kevin O'Dohertc, at the Commission Court,
last week, the t:olicitur:General, Mr. Ilatchell, made
some observations in reference to strictures upon the
conduct of the Attorney-General, which Mr. Butt, the
counsel for the prisoner, looked upon as containing per-
sonal reflections upon himself. When the commission
closed, Mr. Butt, it is stated, made a communication,
through a third party (Alderman Hudson), requiring an
xplanation of those remarks. The Solicitor-General,
it is said, gave a reply to the effect that he did not in
tend any personal imputation whatever against Mr. Butt,
and thus the matter has terminated. Mr. Butt has
published the correspondence as follows:
" THE STATE TRIALS._.. IR. BUTT AND THE SOLI-
CITOR-GENERAL.
"TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING PACKET.'
"Sir,—l will feel obliged by your publishing the following
correspondence, AS the observations of the Solicitor-General,
which occasioned it, have appeared in your journal, and am,
your obedient servant,

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sembled. A very beautitul and appropriate
representing an immense anchor, with a tar seated on
the stock huzzaing, came off on the lake, under a saluteeon
from the castle; the band playing " Rule Britannia,"
and the boys giving three cheers for the emblem of
Britain's supremacy. The concert, both vocal and in-
strumental, gave the greatest satisfaction, and we need
scarcely say that the fireworks were matchless. We
should in justice mention that the proficieLcy of the
juvenile band was very conspicuous; they played several
concerted pieces in first rate style. Altogether the scene
was most delightful, and the boys took their departure
highly pleased with their holiday.
TILE SoUTIL DEVON RAILWAY.—We hear that
the line will be completed into the town in five months
from the time the plans are given to the contractors ;
and further, we learn that the Torquay branch is to be
finished in three months from the present time. The
terminus will be opposite Mount Pleasant•terrace, where
a commodious and elegant station will be erected.—
Western Luminary.
Lord Newport paired in favour of Lord George
Bentinek's clause and amendments, in the third reading
of tho sugar Dutiea Bill, with Lord Norreys,

"3, Gardiner's-place, Aug. 2" EDWARD HUDSON."
2, 1848."
(Copy, No. 1.)
" 72, Leeson-street, Saturday evening.
" Sir,—The commission having now terminated, and the
cases in which I am opposed to the law-officers of the Crown
having for the present closed, I do not lose a moment in
calling your attention to language which you used in your
reply in the case of Mr. John Martin.
" Upon the general tone and demeanour which you
thought proper to adopt towards me I make no comment ;
but in the course of your observations you made use of this
expression He (the Attorney-General) was a man who had
made his profession a profession, and not a trade.'
"As this language, under the circumstances attendant on
its utterance, appeared to convey an indirect insinuation that
I had made a trade of my profession, I beg to ask you dis-
tinctly whether you intended, by this language, to convey
such a meaning?

"My Friend, Mr. Hudson, will hand you this note, and
will be the bearer of your reply.
" I have the honour to be, your obedient servant,

"ISAAC BUTT.
"To John llatchell, Esq.. Solicitor-General."
(No. 2.)
" Mr. Hudson presents his respects to the Solicitor-General,
and not having found him at home this evening, now leaves
the accompanying note from Mr. Butt, and for a reply to
which Mr. Hudson will have the honour of waiting on the
Solicitor-General
half-past morning, the 21st instant, at
I
,oclocll,onorday any
other
time which may meet
the Solicitor-General's convenience.
- e eleven on
" Saturday, Aug. 19, 1848, 3, Gardiner's-place."
(No. 3.)
Quarter-past Eleven, Monday, Aug. 21, 1848.
" The Solicitor-General presents his compliments to Mr.
Hudson, and acknowledges the receipt of his letter dated
Saturday evening, and left at his house in Merrion-square,
yesterday, but which has just come to hand. The Solicicor-
General is obliged to leave home, but will leave an answer
for Mr. 11. at his house, at three o'clock this day.

" Merrion-square South.
" Hudson, Esq."
(No. 4.)
" Two o'clock, Monday.
"The Solicitor-General regrets that ;he was unable to en-
close to Mr. Hudson the accompanying reply to Mr. Butt's
letter on his receipt of his and Mr. Hudson's notes this
morning, the Solicitor-General having been obliged to attend
at the Chief Baron's on professional business, which detained
him until half-past one. " J. H.
" errion-square.
" Hudson, Esq."

(No. 5.)
Monday, Aug. 21, 184 S; Two o'clock.
"Sir,—You letter dated Saturday evening did not, in con-
sequence of my absence from Dublin, reach me until eleven
o'clock this morning, on my arrival here; and I should have
immediately replied to it, but I was obliged to leave home on
pressing professional business.
" NVitli respect to the words referred to by your letter as
having been used by me in speaking of the Attorney-Gene-
ral in my reply in the case of John Martin, on Tuesday
last, I have no hesitation in saving I did not intend to cast
any imputation whatever on your professional conduct or
character. .
" I have the honour to remain,
" Your very obedient servant,
" lierrion-square. " JOHN HATCHELL.
" Isaac Butt, Esq."
(No. 6.)
" Mr. Hudson presents his compliments to the Solicitor-
General, and begs to acknowledge the receipt of his letter of
this evening, enclosing a reply to Mr. Butt's note, of which
Mr. Hudson was the bearer. Mr. Hudson, on the part of
Mr. Butt, accepts the letter of the Solicitot“leneral as a
sufficient assurance that the expressions complained of was
not intended by him to apply to Mr. Butt; as, however, Alt.
Hudson believes that these expresion3 have left a different
impression on the public mind, he considers it right to pub-
lish this correspondence.
" Monday evening, Aug. 21, 3, Gardiner's- place."
TUE CLEARANCE SYSTEM.
The Dublin Lvening Post contains the following ac.
Count of evictions in Meath:—
" The sheriff attended at Clondoogan on yesterday
(Aug. 16), accompanied by a numerous police force, and
levelled to the ground seventeen houses, sending the un-
fortunate inmates, eighty-four in number, adrift upon the
world.
"The following are the names of these wretched creatures:
—Charles Ash, wife, and five children ; Edward Morris, wife,
and two children ; Thomas Brennan, wife, and seven chil-
dren; Michael Fitzsimons, wife. and live children ; Patrick
Salmon, wife, and one child ; Richard Hannon. wife, and
three children ; Mary Fegan and child ; Henry King, wife,
mother, and three children; Edward Murray, wife, and
seven children ; Widow Kelly, two children ;
White, two children ; Patrick Stones, wife, and two chil-
dren; Bridget Shauness, five children, deserted by her hus-
band ; Widow Connell, two children ; Widow Gilligan, two
children ; Richard Gilligan, wife, and two children; Patrick
Monaghan, wife, and two children ; Widow Johnson, two
children.
" I should feel obliged by your giving publicity to the
above statement. I pledge myself to its accuracy."
The last account from the recent scene of insurrection
in Tipperary is the following:—
" ExTiiitur OF A LETTER FROM BALLINGARRY.—MON-
DAY, AUG. 21.—We bad a violent gale here last night. It
rained incessantly. Nearly the whole of the tents of the
74th Regiment were being blown down— even the mess-tent,which was well secured, could not withstand the violence of
the storm. Although the country is apparently tranquil,
still few arms are delivered up. The encampment is ex-
pected to be struck in eight or nine days."
THE HARVEST.
The weather continues better, but still far from settled.
The reports of the grain crops are, in many instances,
very discouraging; but the injury caused by the rain is
only partial. The potato blight is still making
At the Dublin Corn Market there was an advance on
all kinds of grain, and the new wheat at market to-day
as indifferent in quality. progress.

CHARTIST DISTURBANCES.
At a full meeting of the Somers-town Chartists, the
following resolution was adopted :
Resolved—" That this meeting, being convinced of the
truth and justice of the principles contained in the
document called the People's Charter, and believing that
its recognition as the basis of society would effect not
only the political emancipation, but also the social
amelioration of the toiling masses, we therefore cannot
but express our deep and heartfelt regret that this sacred
cause should be damaged and brought into odium and
contempt by the insane conduct of a few (no doubt
honest, but) misguided and unthinking
men, who allowed
themselves to be stimulated on by those who were
actuated by the most vile and basest of motives, and as
we, the Chartists of Somers-town, have never counte-
nanced or been connected as a locality with the proceed-
ings alluded to in the evidence of the informer Powell,
we consider it to be our imperative duty to protest
against all secret proceedings, and we hereby repudiate,
denounce, and condemn the conduct therein detailed, as
subversive to the great cause of progression and liberty,
this meeting being confidently of opinion that incen-
diarist)), anarchy, and bloodshed will never eventuate in
redressing the wrongs or achieving the rights of the
working classes." JOHN ARNOTT, Secretary.

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Ana. 24.—Wind W.S.W., moderate breeze and
cloud)'.
AUG.
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22.—The Salacia, James, from Drogheda
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rocks, 19th inst., is being discharged damaged state.
AUG. 23.—The stern of a vessel marked
r"epV‘Lo'iraNtkelo'dinw2°'
a°2odfLinNset.wctiasetlme,."Twhase tvadakoonnas, shore at
eawtcasHtalret,lr
sin, as
sailed from this port for Baltimore Ist ult. The Oak, for Port
Adelaide, South Australia, has put back from twelve mils.,
south-east of Taskar, with bowsprit and main-yard sprung,
having encountered heavy gales.
STORNOWAY, AUG. 21.—The Witch, Brown, of London,
from Liverpool to Danzig, has been towed in here water-
logged and on her beam ends.,wh.a_viAntgtiscatnif
tknonsuaansun,
Ilia_ken
off tho west end of Shant Isles.
CowEs, AUG. 23-19 ind, s
tanzas.
LIVERPOOL, Aua. 23—Wind, N.N.W.—Arrd.Mary Black,
Camaroons. Sld. 6th May, and from Princes 2cl' June;
Sandford. Houston, Barbadoes ; Bengal, Bray, New Orleans;
Marmion, Freeman, New York; Deborah, Pettigrove, St.
George's, N.B. Sid. 23d, John Brougham, New Orleans;
Queen, St. John's, N.B. Off Port.—Arrd. Ben Lomond,
Callao; Elizabeth, Shediac, Oregon, Quebec; Dizabeth,
I.ontreal ; Esther, Montreal.
DEAL, AUG. 23—Wind, W.F.W. to W., fresh and squally ;
P.M. ditto, and moderate. —And. Creole, Colford, Dominica;
Maranham, St. John's, N. IL ; Wallace, Morton, Quebec; Sir
Robert Campbell, Baird, St. John's, Newfoundland. Pit
back, 23d, Superior, for Demerara.
RAMSGATE, Ana. 23—Wind, W.S.W, fresh; P.M., W. by S.
—Sid. 25th, Amphitrite, Jansen, Boston.
OFF ritz NORTH FORELAND, AUG. 23.—Trafalgar, Ro-
bertson, Madras and Calcutta.
PWLIIELLI, AUG. 22 —The Defence, Rowlands, is a total
wreck at Penrhynder ; crew saved. The Aratus, of Sunder-
land, parted irom her anchors during the gale last night, and
struck several times, but came in this morning with appa-
rently little damage.
HARWICH, AUG. 22.—The Beatitude, Hodgson, from
Emden to London, has put in here with cargo shifted, boom
fore sail split, and bulwarks damaged. ,. x
..r,
SAUDDERSFOOL, AUG. 21.—The Hope, Curtis, of al.
mouth, in running for this port, split mainsail and ran on the
Leach ; if the weather remains fine she may begot off. The
Maria, Finch, of Cardigan, parted fron Caldy Roada, and is
on ahem hear the same place.