The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-24 00:00:00

NOTES FOR STRANGERS.

INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, HYDE PARK.-Monday
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, admission, ls.;
Friday, 2s. 6d. (from 9 o'clock to sunset, when the
bell rings, each day); Saturday (from 12 o'clock) 2s. 6d.
ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.-Divine service, daily at 8
A.M.; 9.45 A.M.; 3.15 P.M. On Sundays, 9.45 A.M.;
3.15 P.M. Admission daily. To view the monuments
and body of the Cathedral (gratis); the galleries, 6d.;
the ball, Is. 6d.; the great bell, modal room, library,
6d.; the clock, 2d.; vaults, 6d.-in all, 3s. 2d.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY.-Divine service daily at 7.45
A.M.; 10 A.M.; 3 P.M. On Sundays at 10 A.M.; 3
P.M. Admission to view from 9 till past 5, gratis;
with the exception of the smaller chapels, for the
whole of which there is a charge of 6d.
HOUSE OF LORDS, WESTMINSTER.-Tickets issued
(gratis) from the Lord Great Chamberlain's office
(Abingdon-street) every Wednesday and Saturday,
from 11 till 4, to view the House on Wednesday and
Saturday, from 11 till 5. When their Lordship are
hearing appeals the public are admitted without
tickets. [Closed during the progress of tho new
works.]
HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEsTMINSTER.-When the House
is sitting, admission is obtained to the Strangers' Gal-
lery by a Member's order. A limited number may be
accommodated in the Speaker's Gallery, but in this
case the name of each person must be inserted previ-
ously by a Member, in a list for a particular evening.
WESTMINSTER HALL AND LAW COURTS (when the
Courts are sitting).-Free.
THE TEMPLE, FLEET-STREET.-The Church may be
viewed daily, except on Saturday and Sunday, gra-
tuitously, and without a bencher's order, from 10 till
4. On week days prayers are read at 9; on Sundays
there is divine service at 11 and 3. The Middle Tem-
ple Hall is open to the public without payment or or-
der, from 10 till 4; also the Inner Temple Gardens,
from 6 till half-past 8 evening.
LINCOLN'S INN.-Admission daily, except on Sunday,
to the Chapel, Hall, and Library, gratuitously, by
bencher's order. Prayers aro read in the chapel on
week days at 8; on Sundays there is divine service at
11 and 3. The chapel may also be seen on applica-
tion to the head porter.
BRITISH MUSEUM, GREAT RUSSELL•STREET, BLOOMS-
BURY.-Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday, from 10 to 5 (gratis). With the ex-
ception of Saturday, the libraries may bo viewed
without orders. Admission to the print room, medal
room, and botanical department, can only be ob-
tained by an order from Sir Henry Ellis, the prin-
cipal librarian, or the heads of the respective depart-
ments.
Mr. ROACH SMITH'S MUSEUM of LONDON ANTIQUITIES
may be seen by special appointment. Apply by letter,
to Mr. Smith, 5, Liverpool-road, City-road.
NATIONAL GALLERY, TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.-Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from IU till 6
(gratis). [Closed till Oct. 27.]
VERNON GALLERY, MARLBOROUGH HOUSE.-Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from 10 till 6
(gratis). [Closed till Oct. 27.]
NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE.-Tickets (gratis) to be ap-
plied for at the house on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes-
day, and Thursday, from 10 till 2. The gallery, &0.,
to be viewed on Friday and Saturday, from 11 till 5.
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, CLEVELAND-SQUARE, ST. JAMES'S
-M.onday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, from 10
till 5, by tickets (gratis), issued by Mr. Smith, 137,
New Bond-street.
DUDLEY GALLERY, EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.-
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Satur-
day, without tickets (gratis).
MANSION-HoUsE.-To view the Egyptian Hall, Ball-
room, &c., Tuesdays and Fridays, from 11 till 2.
Visitors are required to leave their names on the Fri-
day or Tuesday previous.
GUILDHALL, KING- STREET, CHEAPSIDE.-Daily, ex-
cept Sunday.
THE TOWER.-Daily, except Sunday, from 9 till v. The
armoury, 61; the regalia, 6d.
THE MINT.-Admission by special order from the Mas-
ter of the .Mint.
GENERAL POST OFFICE.-Apply by letter to the Post-
master-General, or the Secretary, for an order of ad-
mission.
ROYAL ExcHANGE.-Open to the public from 9 till
half-past 3, and from 6 till 8, every day except Sun-
.
day
COAL •EXCHANGE, LOWER THAMES STREET.-Gra-
tuitous admission, every day except Sunday, from
9 till 4.
CUSTOM HOUSE, LOWER THAMES-STREET.-Gratuitous
admission to the long room, every day except Sunday,
from 10 till 4.
THE DOCKS.-The West India Docks, the East India
Docks, the St. Katharine's Docks, and the London
Docks, may be viewed gratuitously by an order pro-
curable at the offices of the respective superintendents.
In the case of the London Docks, the wine vaults may
be seen by presenting a " tasting order" from any
wine merchant.
BETHLEM HOSPITAL, OR BEDLAM, LAMBETH.-Apply
for an order to the president (Sir Peter Laurie), the
treasurer (Mr. John Edward Johnson), or the Home
Secretary. Visitors will also be admitted on the per-
sonal introduction of a governor; and it may be use-
ful to know, that the Aldermen of the city of London
are ex officio governors. The days of admission
from
are
Tuesday', Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,
11 till 3.
MILLBANK PRISON, PENTONYILLE PRISON, &C.-Apply
iu writing to the Home Secretary for an order.
Foreigners will procure tickets at the respective em-
bassies. Millbauk may bo seen every day except
Saturday and Sunday, from eleven till one, and from
two to four. Pontonville may be seen on the same
days from two to four. Admission to the Hulks, at
Woolwich and Portsmouth, are to be obtained by
orders procurable in the way already stated.
THE BANK OF ENGLAND.-Admission by order from
the Governor or Doputy-Governor.
THE MONUMENT, FISH-STREET-HILL.-Daily, except
Sunday, from S till sunset-3d.
DUKE or YORK'S MONUMENT, CARLTON-HOUSE-TER-
RACE.-Daily, except Sunday, from 10 till 4 on pay-
ment of 6d.
THAMES TUNNEL.-Daily, Id.
EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MUSEUM, LEADENHALL-
STREET.-Friday, from 10 till 4 (gratis). On Tues-
day and Thursday, by orders from a director.
UNITED SERVICE MUSEUM, WHITEUALL•PLACE, SCOT-
LAND.YARD.-Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs-
day, and Friday, from 11 till 5, by members' tickets
or ambassadors' cards. On Saturday by personal in-
troduction or ambassadors' cards.
SOCIETY OF ARTS, JOHN-STREET, ADELPIII.-Daily,
except Sundays, by members' orders and ambassadors'
cards, from 10 till 4.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, LINCOLN'S INN-FIELDS.
-On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday,
from 10 till 4, by members' orders. On Friday and
Saturday, foreigners possessed of tickets, prpcur-
able at the various embassies and consulates, will be
admitted.
ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.-Daily,
KEbNysloNrdGerrosN flows.AßfrGomfDeENs, HYDE PARK.-Public prome-
nade-military music daily, except Sunday, from 2

to 4.
HORSE GUARDS.--Guard mounting daily at half-past 10
and 11, and on Sundays at 10.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—For admission apply, by letter,
to the Lord Chamberlain. The days for viewing the
palace arc Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 12
till 4. There is no admission when the Queen is re-
siding in the palace.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE MEWS.—ApPIY, by letter, to Mr.
George Lewis at the Royal Mews for cards of ad-
mission. The stables aro on view every day except
Sunday, from 1 till 3. Thursday,
and Friday, from 11 to 4; by tickets (gratis), issued
by Mr. Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street; Messrs. Col-
WINDSOR CASTLE.—On Monday, Tuesday,
naghi, Pall-mall East; Mr. Ackermann, 96, Strand;
and Mr. Moon, Threadneedle-street; and at Wind,or,
at the Lord Chamberlain's Office, Winchester Tower.
The Private Apartments may be seen by an order
from the Lord Chamberlain, but only in the absence
f the Court. The North Terrace is open daily, from
8 A.M. till sunset; the Grand Parterre is only available
on Saturdays and Sundays; the Royal Gardens Cat
only be seen by an order from the Office of Woods and
Forests, or any of the Queen's Equerries; the Kennel,
Dairy, and Aviary, may be seen by an order from
Major-General Wemyss, at Cumberland-lodge; the
Royal Mews are shown daily, except Sunday, between
1 and half-past 2, by tickets, to be obtained, not earlier
than 12, at the Lodge, near the Post-office.
KEW GARDEN s.—llaily, except Sunday (gratis).
HAMPTON COURT PALACE.—Daily. except Friday,
(gratis).
WooLwicu—THE ROYAL ARSENAL.—Admittance
daily, except on Sunday, and without order (gratis),
from 9 till 11; and from a quarter-past 1 fill 4, to
view the grounds, which contain upwards of
28,000 guns of various calibre, and 4,000,000

2d.; chapel, 2d.
CHELSEA LIWPITAL.—DaiIy (gratis).
DULWICH GALLERY (five miles from London).—Mon-
day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
(gratis), from 10 till 5. Tickets to be procured from
the principal print-sellers in London.
THE FLAXMAN SCULPTURE GALLERY, AT UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE, GOWER-STREET.—(Free)—Saturdays, from
1 till 6.
THE MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL .GEOLOGY, JERMIX-
STREET.—(Freo)—Monday4 Tuesdays, and Wednes-
days, from 10 till 5.
THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, LAME'S CONDUIT STREET.
—Mondays, from 12 till 4—(Free.) Divine service
on Sundays at 11 and 3; a trifling gratuity in silver
for the benefit of the charity.
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, WALDROOK.—(Free)—Mon.
days, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from 11 till 3.
CROSBY HALL, BISIIOPSGATE-STREET.—(Free)—Every

day.
THE CHAPEL ROYAL, WHITEHALL.—Sundays, at 10

and 2.
ST. SAVIOUR'S, Boaoucit.--(Free)—Sundar, at 10
and 2.

SHIP NEWS.

GRAVESEND, SEPT. 23.—Wind N.N.E., light, fine.
Arrived Fantome, from Jamaica; Robert Peel, from
New York; Rattlesnake, from Oporto; Aurora, from St.
Peteriburgh; George Evans, from Quebec; Thomas
Henry, from Antigua; Capella, from Valparaiso; Agin-
court, from Manilla; Tevio, from Finland; Mary Mon-
tague and Jane, from Jamaica; Rosalie, from Nevis;
Sarnia, from Hamburgh.
Sailed Johanna Sophia and Elise Anna, for the Baltic;
Fury, for Memel; Fidante and Alice, for Rio Janeiro;
Twende Broders and Fadrens Minds, for the Baltic;
Lady Elythis,, for Alicante; Green Isle, for New Diep;
Giraffe, for Rotterdam; City of Boulogae, for Boulogne;
Panther, for Ostend; Eclipse, for Madeira.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
Oromocto, from St. John's for the Clyde, Sept. 10, in lat.
52 N., long. 8 W.
Acadia, from Belfast for Quebec, Aug. 21, in lat. 46 N.,

long. 43 W.
Adam Lodge, of and for Liverpool, Sept. 16, in lat. 46
N., long. 24 W.
Panama, of Liverpool, from Patagonia, Aug. 6, in lat. 10

N., long. 38 W.
Friedlander, from Liverpool for New York, Aug. 20, in
long. 52 W.
Canton, from Mobile, Aug. 26, in lat. 43 N., long. 46 W.
Gilbert, bound E., Sept. 8, in lat. 48 N., long. 20 W.
Francisca, from Callao, Aug. 21, in lat. 39 N., long 13 W.
Maple Leaf, from London for Bombay, in lat. 48 N.,
long. 7 W.
Ellen and Margaret, from Queenstown, Aug. 24, off
Cape Gaspe.
American, from Greenock, with passengers, Aug. 27,
off St. Paul's.
Rajah, from Port Philip for London, July 3, in lat. 57 S.,
long. 66 W.
Howard, from Liverpool for Rio Janeiro, Aug. 1, in lat.
12 N., long. 25 W.
Hester and Ainst9l Dutch vessels, Aug. 1.
Undine, from London for Hobart Town, Aug. 12, in let.
13 N., long. 25 W.
Prince of Walt's, from London for Van Diemen's Land,
July 23, in lat. 19 S., lung. 30 W.
Agincourt, from London for Calcutta, Aug. 10, in let.
12 N., long. 35 W.
Robert Stevenson, from Whitby, Aug. 16, in lat. 22 N.,
long. 34 W.
Lady Worsley, from Africa for London, Aug. 24, in let.
33 N., lung. 38 W.
Cosine, from Bristol for New York, in lat. 51, long. 13.
Onward Chase, from Sr. John's, New Brunswick, for
for Bristol, Aug. 23, in let. 43 N., long. 63 W.
Tyrinchatn, from New York for Bristol, Aug. 29, in lat.
41 N., long. 63 W.
Danube, from Mobile for Liverpool, Aug. 22, in lat, 43
N., long. 46 W.
Stephen Young, from Newport for Portland, Aug. 11, in
lat. 42 8., long. 33 W.
Horizon, from Liverpool for New Orleans, Aug. 23, in
lat. 19 N., long. 65 W.
Daedalus ship, with passengers, Sept. 1, in lat. 49, long.
16 W.

SEABORNE MAILS.
[N signifies that the mails are sent front the General Post-0111V
by the night—end M by the morning—dispatch.)

When made up in From what when
PLACES. General Post-aloe port die- duo.
London: patched.
America (by Brit. pkt.) N Sept. 26 Liverpool Oct. 1
America (by U.S. pkt.) N Sept. 30 .. Liverpool Sept. 24
America (by U.S. pkt.) M Sept. 24 Southampt. Oct. 2
Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month Plymouth Oct. 3
Alexandria* •• N 1911 & 30th of mo. Dover .. Sept. 26
Belgium • . N Daily .. „. Dover .. Daily
Brazil .• 9th of the month Southampt. Oct. 16
Buenos Ayres • • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Oct. 16
California(viaChagres) Al 2d& 17th of month Southam pt. Oct. 5
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth.. Oct. 3
Constantinople* ...• N 7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover .. Sept. 20
Central America M 2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. Oct. Fr
Channel Isles •• N Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Tu. Th. Sat
Chili •• M 17th of the month Southampt. Oct. 5
France & N Twice daily „, Dover .. Twicedaily
Greece* •.• N 7 th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. Sept. 3o
liamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tees. Sat.
Holland Wednes. & Satur. London .. Most.Theu
Honduras .. .• N,l7th of the month Southampt. Oct. 5
Ireland . M& N Twice daily Holyhead Twicedally
India(via Southamp.) 3.1 20th of the month Southampt. Oct. 23
Indla(viaMarseilles) NlBth& 24th ofrnonth Dover .. Oct, 1
Mediterranean (via 1
Southampton) .. 31,20 th of the month Southampt. Oct. 23
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) .. N Bth&24tk of month Dover .. Oct. 1
Mexico .. Mi2d of the month.. Southampt. Oct. 5
Madeira .• 11'9th of the month Southampt. Oct. 16
Malta* .• tlo7tthho,lf9mtho,n27thth I Dover Sept. 28
Naples* N'sth 15th 25th ofme Dover .. Oct. 2
Papal States* Nlsllllsth 25th ofmolDover .. Oct. 2
reninsuhu.. M 7th 17th 27th of molSoutharnpt. Sept. 26
Peru ••• • .. M 17th of the month Southampt. Oct. 5
Tuscany* •• N sth 15th 25 th of mo Dover .. Oct. 2
West Indies 111 17th of tho mouth Southampt. Oct. 5
West Indies (except
Havana & Nassau) ili2d of the month .. Sonthanipt. Oct. 20

Sonthantpt.lOct. 20
kod (*) are conveyed by

* The mails to those c ountries thus mar]
French packet vi{ Ai arsel-
CALIFORNIA.—DtaiIs to
aro now despatched and '

and from CaUfor
[no by every Am

via the United States
to packet.

FRENCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
The following are the last returns of the gross re-
ceipts of the principal French Railways :
NORTHERN.—From Sept. 10 to Sept. 16: Passengers,
446,5871.; goods, 255,714 f.; total, 702,301 f.
ROUEN.—From Sept. 7 to Sept. 13 : Passengers,
131,158 E; goods, 87,952 f.; totaii, 218,750 f.
IiA.VRE.—From Sept. 7 to Sept. 13 : Passengers,
51,390 E; goods, 37,425 f. ; total 88,815 f.
ORLEANS.—From Sept. 8 to Sept. 14: Passengers,
113,9581. ; goods, 114,160 E; total, 228,118 E
BORDEAUX.—From Sept. 2 to Sept. 8: Passengers,
80,290 f.; goods, 44,917 f.; total, 125,207 f.
VIERZON.—From Sept. 8 to Sept. 14 : Passengers,
43,442 E; goods, 39,970 E; total, 83,412 f.
NANTES.--From Sept. 6 to Sept. 12 : Passengers,
51,376 f.; goods, 21,451 E; total, 72,827£
STUASBURG.—From Sept. 10 to Sept. 16: Passengers.
144,777 E; goods, 87,039 E; total, 231,816 E
BALL—From Sept. 1 to Sept. 7 : Passengers,
34,433 f.; goods, 20,142 E; total, 54,575 f.
MONTEREAU.—From Sept. 3 to Sept. 9: Passengers.
12,498 f.; goods, 13,864 E; total, 26,357 E
MARSEILLES.—From Sept. 3 to Sept. 9: Passengers,
52,1941.; goods, 22,902 f.; total, 75,096 f.
LTONS.—From Aug 31 to Sept. 6 : Passengers,
258,750 E; goods, 78,010 E; total, 366,760 f.

M. TIIIERS.—M. Thiers is recruiting himself after
the fatigues of the season at the watering-places of the Py-
renees. The illustrious statesman makes long excursions to
mountain peaks, and through ravines, bent on geological re-
searches. On a recent occasion he was very near falling a
victim to the ardour of his pursuits. It appears that M.
Thiers's favourite dress, in his character of mountaineer,
consists of an entire suit of nankeen—blouse, trousers,
jacket, and even cap, are all yellow. On the 22d of last
month he was making a reconnoissance on the edge of one
of the precipices of the Pyrenees, when he heard suddenly the
report of a rifle, accompanied by a certain uncomfortable
hissing sound just above his head, which speedily brought
the historian of a hundred battles into a very humiliating
position—it plat rentre on the ground. He concluded that he
was about to be made a prisoner by the contrabandists, and
in mortal agony crouched amongst the brushwood. Turn-
ing out of his biding-place, however, he saw presently ap-
proach a band of sportsmen, who had, not very unnaturally,
when one considers the man and the nankeens, mistaken the
ex-Minister for a chamois.
PEDESTRIANISM.—On Wednesday afternoon, a
pedestrian, named I'. S. Gibson, commenced the performance
of a feat here similar to that recently accomplished at Shef-
field by Meeks. The match is, to walk 1,000 calf miles in
1,000 successive half hours, 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours, and
1,000 quarter miles in 1,00.0 quarter hor, for the sum of
150/. a side. The ground is measured od in a small garden
at Restalrig, near Jock's
.Lode,g folFteen. eireu.ts of which
are equal to one mile. Gibson has in a vigorous manner, ac-
complished two days of the above ten weeks' undertaking.
and is sanguine of its successful termination. lie is about 22
years of age, of the raiddle size, and muscular; and many
who have seen him entertain a favourable opinion of his
ability to execute the arduous task.-4;dinburyh Courant,

FAMILY COLONIZATION LOAN SOCIETY.
A public meeting of emigrants about to proceed to
Australia by the Athenian, a vessel chartered by the
Family Colonization Loan Society, was held on Mon-
day on board. The ship lies in the East India Docks,
whence she is to start on her voyage for Adelaide
and Port Philip to-day. Tne society was origi-
nated by Mrs. Chisholm, and has for its object the
foundation of a self• supporting system of colonization.
One third of the passage-money has b-en advanced
to the emigrants, the loan to be repaid within two
years ; but the more remarkable feature of time so-
ciety is the arrangement under which emigrants are
formed into groups, each member of which is to a
certain extent respcnsible for every other, no one
being admitted except after due inquiry. The society
has prospered greatly, and the Athenian is the third
ship it has sent out. She is a fine vessel, of 670
tons, and looked extremely well. As the meeting
on Monday was open to the friends of the emigrants,
and the time of departure was so near, a sery large
company assembled ; and at two o'clock, when the
Earl of Shaftesbury, who was to preside, came on
board, almost all the available space on deck was oc-
cupied, including such parts of the rigging as lands-
men could venture upon.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in proceeding to ad-
dress the assembly, said he desired to express the
respect he felt for the emigrants before him, who had
made such industrious exertions to better their con-
dition—creditable not only to themselves, but to the
class to which they belonged.— (Hear, hear.) He
met them with pleasure, but with pleasure not un-
mixed with regret that our native land was to lose the
labour and the presence of so many of its honest inha-
bitants. At the same time, he felt that we were ful-
filling the great law of Providence, and " replenish-
, ing the earth," and that, although there might be at
the moment some slight disruption of domestic ties,
yet in the end the great family of mankind would be
largely and permanently benefited.—(Bear.) Per-
haps he might be allowed to take the opportunity of
mentioning that he had received a letter from Sydney
complaining of his having represented, at a meeting
in Edinburgh, that Sydney was not a place to which
members of cur families could be safely sent; he had
certainly been under the impression that that was a
place to which it was not so advisable to send re-
spectable women as to our other colonies, but, if he
had been misinformed, he was extremely sorry for the
wrong he bad done, and anxious to retract the asser-
tion.—(Hear.) He could not suffer the occasion
to pass without adverting to the remarkable intelli-
gence from Australia, announcing that fields of gold
of almost unlimited extent had been discovered, and
promising—it must be remembered it was only
promising—unbounded wealth to those engaged in
the pursuit of the precious ore. It was not for him to
say that mischiefs must necessarily result from these
discoveries ; all he asked of the emigrants was to be
careful, to weigh the matter deliberately, to exercise
self-control, and let experience and principle be
beard, before suffering themselves to be absorbed by
the tide which was about to set in to the district of
Bathurst in Australia.—(Hear.) He would ask
them to go out with their eyes open, and with a de-
termination that by God's blessing nothing should
supersede that without which there could be no se-
curity or honour for realms, no peace or happiness for
families—honest, steady, regular, industrious exertion.
—(Hear, hear.) For the strength and security of a
nation all the gold that ever should be found would
not be equal to the honest industry of a moral, pa-
tient, religious population.—(Hear, hear.) He
would not say that there might not be great benefit
involved in this discovery; it might be the method of
Providence for peopling those vast regions.—(Hear.)
He trusted the emigrants before him were going out,
not like colonists of ancient times, but with all the
experience and science and power of modern civiliza-
tion—with the advantage of a good education, with
the word of God in their hands, and, he hoped, in their
hearts—(Hear, hear) ;—and that they might be
enabled to turn to permanent and useful account
those blessings of Providence, those gifts of God—
for His gifts they were, or they would not have been
found in the soil for man—gifts to be used for His
honour and for man's benefit.—(Hear, hear.) The
Noble Earl concluded his remarks by expressing a
hearty wish for the peace and prosperity of the emi-
grants, and uttering a fervent prayer that God would
bless them in this life, and lead them to everlasting
happiness in the world to come.
Mr. L. FOSTER, late member of Council for Port
Philip, then addressed the emigrants, and said that
they would find many branches of industry open to
them ; indeed, he knew none which was not amply
remunerative: and, so far as he bad observed, what-
ever distress existed was confined to cases where it
had been brought on by idleness, intemperance, dis-
honesty, or profligacy. There was no quarter of the
world where honesty was more appreciated. The
very fact of the presence of a class expatriated for
their crimes, and their having a name for dishonesty,
made honesty the more prized. Character would be
more valuable to the emigrant than a pocketful! of
sovereigns.— (Hear, hear.) Comfortable circum-
stances were not, indeed, to be attained without work
and frugality ; but their was ample opportunity for
the industrious.—(Cheers.) The truth was, too,
that people liked Mrs. Chlsholm's emigrants better
than any others, and he trusted the present party
would keep up the character earned by those she had
sent out.—(Cheers.)
Mr. SIDNEY would state to the visitors the nature
of the society under whose auspices these emigrants
were going out. It was well known that Mrs. Chis-
holm, who went to Australia many years ago for the
benefit of her health, took a great interest when there
in the welfare of the emigrants. She established a
temporary home for females in Sydney, and headed
parties into the interior with a view to place the emi-
grants in respectable situations, and distribute them
where labour was demanded. When she returned to
this country she devoted herself to giving advice and
assistance to emigrants. The constitution of this
society, instituted by her, was of the following de-
scription :—Persons belonging to the working classes
disposed to emigrate were advised to lay by money
weekly or otherwise, till it amounted to two-thirds of
their passage money; the remainder was to be lent to
them, without interest, to be repaid in the colony
within two years after their arrival. But it was de-
sired that they should know something of one another ;
and accordingly the emigrants wore formed into
groups of not less than nine individuals. Every ap-
plicant was referred to one of these groups, and the
group made themselves acquainted with him, and
'ascertained whether his promise to repay the loan
might be relied on, every member of each group being
liable to pay 103. for any member of it who should make
default in repayment. Friends and relatives were
thus united, and individuals were introduced as to a
family.—(Hear, hear.) The socie on the other
hand, took great pains to maintain comfort and order
on the passage, and to secure health and a good moral
tone among the emigrants.—(Hear, hear.) The
berths were enclosed, and suited to the various parties,
whether a married couple with young children, or
single men and women; the lads and girls of a family
would be placed near the parents ; every single woman
would be under the care of some one of the mothers
who went out. This ship would take out but 208
adults ; she had taken out as many as 350 troops.
Mr. R. LowE, late member of Council for Sydney,
tendered some practical advice to those who were
going out. He counselled them to employ the period
of the voyage carefully, in acquiring knowledge and
self-discipline. When they arrived, they would hear
a great deal about gold discoveries;—be would say,
" Let other people go gold hunting, you will derive
the benefit of the discovery in the advanced rate of
wages in the market, from which so much labour will
be withdrawn."—(Hear, hear.) The gold-field wain
lottery, in which a vast number would draw blanks,
and in a country where there was a number of
persons who had been transported for their crimes,
and whose sentences had expired, but who had not
all become reformed men, there would be congregated
in the gold-field a desperats and reckless set, whom
every prudent man would wish to avoid.—(Hear.)
Probably, before the requisite force could be applied
by the Government, there would be scenes that would
rival those in California.—(Hear.) The superior
class of emigrants sents out by Mrs. Chisholm would
command high wages and situations of trust. The
great demand was for people who could be trusted
when the employer's back was turned, and the economy
and self-denial which must have been exercised by
the emigrants present, in order to take advantage of
this society's offer, would be some guarantee for their
good conduct.—(clear) It was to be regretted that
the funds at Mrs. Chisholm's command were not
equal to the demand and the numbers requiring aid,
hut, by working a little longer, they might raise the
whole capital themselves, and have the matter in their
own hands.—(Hear.)
A vote of th Inks to the Earl of Shaftesbury, to the
committee, and to Mrs. Chisholm having been passed
with acclamation,
The Earl of SIIAFTESBURT expressed his admira-
tion of the intelligent zeal and indefatigable exertions
of Mrs. Chisholm.—(Cheers.) The audience had
probably heard something of " Bloomerism," which
meant that ladies were to walk about in man's attire.
_(A laugh.) Mrs. Chisholm had attained the highest
order of Bloomerism ; she had the heart of a woman
and the vnderstanding of a. man.—(Cheers.) He

REPRESEN TA tION OF HERTFORDSHIRE
We stated on Monday that a requ sition had been
presented to Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, and that he had
consented to stand for Hertfordshire. The following
are the documents :
" TO SIR EDWARD BULWER LITTON, BART.
" Sir,—Believing that you coincide with us as to
the destructive tendency of the best interests of our
country of that pernicious system of legislation lately
pursued, and as to the necessity of arresting its pro-
gress, and affording encouragement to all branches of
native industry, by a judicious revision of our system
of taxation, we, the undersigned electors of the county
of Hertford, request that you will consent to support,
on the earliest opportunity, these our views, as our
third representative in Parliament.
" May 31."
To this requisition, signed not only by most of the
principal proprietors in the county, but by large
numbers of farmers, tradesmen, and other electors,
Sir Edward returned the following reply :
" Gentlemen,— I thank you sincerely and respect-
fully for the distinguished honour which
requi-
sition to become a candidate for the county of Hert-
ford, at the next general election, confers upon me.
" You rightly judge of my sentiments with re-
spect to the policy, erroneously called free trade,
pursued by the present Parliament. your "
Ever since 1834, when a motion by Mr. Hume
first brought practically before my attention the
question of a repeal of the corn-laws, I have been
uniformly opposed to the experiment of admitting
foreign grain, duty free, into these kingdoms. I have
never consented to accept that experiment which
strains and risks all the resources of an immense pro-
portion of my countrymen as a settlement that can be
advantageous to the permanent interests of the rest;
and I have never for an instant despaired of its revi-
sion. My convictions on this question are confirmed
by the utter falsification of the assurances and pre-
dictions upon which the experiment was based; by
my deep sympathy with the distress it has occasioned
throughout the agricultural class ; and by my per-
suasion that the continuance of such distress cannot
fail to inflict a corresponding injury upon every
branch of trade and commerce that depends on the
national home market. For lour producers are also
consumers, and whatever tends materially to diminish
the income derived from the capital invested in the
soil, must of necessity decrease the demand for all the
articles which the producers and owners of the soil
habitually consume. Common sense tells us that
whatever impoverishes the customer must ultimately
impoverish the tradesman.
" Nor, with respect to the labouring class, is it less
clear that the distress of the employers must at last
fall upon the employed; and must lower wages to a
far greater amount than the reduction at present
effected, or than can be compensated by the differ-
ence in the price of the loaf, since the rate of wages
depends on the extent of the fund for the mainte-
nance of labourers, compared with the number of
labourers to be maintained. And it follows, there-
fore, as the inevitable consequence of any long• con-
tinued agricultural distress, that the wages of the la-
bourer (if the population be not considerably lessened
by emigration) must be eventually lowered, not
merely to the relative price of the loaf, but in pro-
portion as the fund from which the wages come is di-
minished. This truth is self-evident to the most or-
dinary understanding. If 1,0001, in any given dis-
trict, has hitherto been sub-divided into wages among
50 labourers, and 5001. of that fund is lost, while the
50 labourers remain, there is only half what there
was before to go to the maintenance of the same
number of persons. And though wages may fall
slowly, still to a level with the loss in the fund which
supplies them must wages obviously and unavoidably
fall at last.
" Gentlemen,—l do not disguise from you the pain
which I naturally feel, that my consistency on a
question that I regard as all-paramount should sepa-
rate me from a party to which I formerly rendered
some humble service, at a time, indeed, when its chiefs
seemed as much opposed to a repeal of the corn-laws
as myself, and had not reviewed that policy under
which, while the agriculture of this country made
the most signal progress, its manufactures and its
commerce had attained unparalleled eminence. Such
pain at the rupture of ancient ties, from a sense of
duty, every man of generous spirit will comprehend,
and he will feel that the greater the pain the deeper
and more honest the convictions by which it is con-
quered or consoled.
"Assured in my conscience that the time has come
when all who entertain my opinions must (whatever
their regard for individuals who differ from them),
exert all their efforts to arrest the progress of a system
which I concur with you in believing to be destruc-
tive to the best interests of our country, I accept your
support in the same spirit with which you generously
tender it. All practical public men recognise those
principles of action by which minor considerations are
merged in the union necessary to secure such mea-
sures as they deem meat essential to the safety and
prosperity of the State.
" If returned to Parliament as your representative,
you may rely therefore on my zealous endeavours to
procure and maintain for British industry that vital
justice, lost in the principle now pursued, which con-
founds free trade with free imports, and has for its ob-
ject the compulsory reduction of natural prices in a
highly taxed community to the level of foreign labour
free from our burdens, and for the encouragement of
foreign markets rigidly excluding our products.
" Permit me to add, also, that, regarding the
rights, liberties, and glory of England, as the espe-
cial charge of English statesmen, I shall endeavour,
while friendly to all wise and well-considered
measures for the improvement of our laws, for
the relief of taxation, or the more equitable
distribution of its burdens, and for the social
progress of our people generally, to maintain the
institutions with which those rights, those liber-
ties, and that glory are inseparably identi-
fied ; that, while advocating freedom of conscience in
religious opinions, I shall uphold that Protestant
least y
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pride expressed
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tablished ; and both as Protestant and as English- ,
man, I shall watch with jealousy and resist with
tconceived.
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to undo the work of the Reformation, and render this
kingdom of England subordinate to the Papal see.
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prising so large a portion of the most honoured
and influential names in this county, I submit my
cause, which I believe to be that of all who live in
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the land, and would fain live by it, to the sense and
judgment of the important constituency to which you
have invited me to appeal.----I have the honour to be,
gentlemen, your most obliged sad faithful servant,
" EDWARD BULWER LITTON.
" Knebworth, August 1, 1851."

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THE OLD HOUSE or Costmoiss.—The carcase and
interior fitting-, of the old House of Commons are in a rapid
state of transition front Old Palace-yard to various localities
in and around the metropolis. The roof of the house has
been entirely removed, and a considerable portion of the
walls of the house and the adjoining buildings have been
already taken down. The porch and canopy within which
the Speaker's chair was placed has been removed, not, as
was reported. to a Mr. Jones's country-house, but to the
Ship Discussion-hall, in the Kennington-road, where it has
been fitted up as the seat of honour far the president of that
institution. A great many of the foreign and country
visitors to the Great Exhibition, who daily frequent Wt
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in which the Imperial legislation was carried on. The whole
of the materials are not expected to be cleared away before
ve or six weeks' time, and when cleared
away the space
will be closed in from the courts of law ton to the Victoria
Tower.

The following counsel appeared on behalf of the
several candidates :—Mr. Roxburgh, Mr. James, Mr,
Chichester, Mr. Sweet, Mr. De Gex, Mr. Rogers,
Mr. A. Hill, Mr. Reid, and a large number of so•
licitors.

Mr. Sweet, in explanation of the alleged discre-
pancy, as counsel for Mr. Ainger, read some volumi-
nous affidavits which entered into the matter with

great circumstantiality. The affidavit of Mr. G. W.
Chinery, solicitor, of Robert-street, Adelphi, agent of
Mr. W. P. Roberts, of Manchester, the solicitor to the
National Land Company, set forth that all the lists of
proposals for the appointment of Mr. Alfred Ainger
were received through the post-office from the several
secretaries connected with the local branches of the Na-

tional Land Company in different parts of the country,
sent to the late Land Office in London to one of the
late directors. The genuineness of the signatures
was relied upon, nor was it noticed at the time that
many different names were written in the same hand-
writing. Since last meeting affidavits have been ob-
tained from the secretaries of the branches in Lan-
cashire, Cheshire, and other places, explaining how
the signatures were obtained, and vouching for their
genuineness, but admitting that many of the names
were written " for" the shareholders, but by their au-
thority. The affidavit of Mr. W. P. Roberts, next
read, represented that he was appointed solicitor to
the whole body of shareholders, and was not, as had
been alleged, private solicitor to Mr. O'Connor, and
that he is concerned as attorney on behalf of a large
number of persons holding shares, who have not been
located on any of the lands of the company, and who
would be entitled to receive a dividend out of the
surplus assets in respect of their shares. That be ad•
vised the application to Parliament, and procured the
Act of Parliament on behalf of the creditors and
shareholders for winding up the company, and not
for the benefit of Mr. O'Connor or the directors.
Had received no money from Mr. O'Connor
or the directors for the expenses, but had
spent between 2001. and 3001. for Parliamentary
fees, exclusive of his own professional charges. Be-
lieved that before the Act passed in the House of
Lords, Mr. O'Connor left England for the Continent.
and believed that a letter had been received from him
with the post-office mark of " Leghorn." Was "not
aware that Mr. O'Connor knew that the Act had

passed, or that an order had been obtained by the de-
ponent for winding up the company, although the
order had been obtained by deponent nominally fur
him, the name of Mr. O'Connor being prominently
mentioned in the Act as the party to obtain suds
winding up, nor did Mr. O'Connor, deponent verily
believed, know of the proposal of Mr. Ainger to act as
official manager to the company." The irregularity
in the signatures had arisen in consequence of the
shareholders being illiterate persona and unable to
write their own names. Deponent was not connected
with one T. M. Wheeler, formerly secretary to the
company. A number of affidavits speaking to the
same points were also read from the secretaries of the
late branches in the provinces, including one front
the " O'Connor brigade branch" at Preston.
Mr. James observed that from the tenor the
proceedings had taken, it would be seen there was
manifest connexion between Mr. Roberts, Mr.O'Cone
nor, Mr. Chinery, and Mr. Ainger, independent of the
point of the fictitiousness of the signatures.
Mr. Roxburgh complained that, since the last
meeting, a circular, signed by Mr. Roberts, had been
sent "to the shareholders of the National Land Com-
pany" calling on them to support Mr. Ainger, and
recommending, where the parties could not write, to
make the sign of the cross thus—" The mark of
John Noakes."—(Laughter.)
Mr. James contended that the manner in which
the order to wind up, from the court, had been ob-
tained, was altogether anomalous. The petition was
presented by the solicitor of the company as the pe-
tition of Mr. O'Connor; the same solicitor, in his
affidavit that had been read to the court, asserting he
" was not aware that Mr. O'Connor knew that an
order to wind up had been obtained." Mr. Roberta
had not only been solicitor, but treasurer to the com-
pany, had been party to all its illegal transactions,
and now had a large claim against it. He was also
one of the accounting parties. The deed was signed
by 25,000 persons, for which Mr. Roberts charged
2,5001.
His Honour the MASTER said he was of opinion
that, under the circumstances, a grave question might
arise as to the mode in which the order had been ob•
tained from the Court. There might be ground for
supposing it had been obtained improperly, and if so,
he should feel it his duty to suspend all further pro-
ceedings until the transaction was reviewed by a sue
perior court. He wished to know bow Mr. Roberts
came to present the petition to the Court of Chancery
in Mr. O'Connor's name ?
Mr. Sweet replied that it was necessary toluse Mr.
O'Connor's name in all the transactions of the com-
pany. In all the land affairs Mr. O'Connor was the
recognised agent. Since the last meeting 1,900 addi-
tional signatures had been obtained for Mr. Ainger.
It was desirable in winding up the affairs of this un-
fortunate company to obtain as large a dividend as
possible for the shareholders, and he believed that none
of the candidates were better able to effect this than
Mr. Ainger, who in another instance bad realised a
profit of 5,0001. for the shareholders.
The MASTER—Does he hold out any such hope
with reference to the estate of the National Land
Company ?---(Laughter.)
Mr. James submitted that should it turn out Mr.
Roberts had presented the petition in the name of
Mr. O'Connor without his authority ho ought to be
struck off the rolls. In the additional signatures
for Mr. Ainger many were included in the old list.
The MASTER thought it quite possible that Mr.
O'Connor, who had apparently been the prime mover
in the application to the Court, might, on his return,
move the Court to set aside the order, on the ground
that he was no party to it. Any official manager
be, the Master, might appoint would act, so to speak,
as his delegate, and the first thing he should direct
him to do would be to draw out a full explanatory
report of the state of the company's affairs.
Mr. James; on behalf of Mr. Price, another of the
candidates, denied that that gentleman had any con-
nexion with Mr. O'Connor. The fact was, as ap-
peared from the evidence given before the House of
Commons, that Mr. Roberts was not only solicitor,
but treasurer, and had violated the provisions of the
deed of settlement he himself drew out. Mr. Roberta
was held out to the world as treasurer, though Mr.
O'Connor in reality got all the money; and it was
Mr. Roberts who, through his agent, Mr. Chinery,
was now putting forward Mr. Ainger. The recom-
mendations from Mr. Price were from 2,403 share-
holders, representing 7,956 shares. The fictitious
signatures appeared to have been procured in
64 batches," and one of the affidavits stated that " ales
and spirituous liquors" had been dispensed to obtain
them, which the deponents submitted, if not a con-
tempt and contrary to the usages of the High Court
of Chancery, was synonymous with the sin of
66 bribery and treating."—(Laughter.)
It was contended at considerable length that Mr.
Price, having been manager of the Land and Labour
Bank, which was in connexion with the National
Land
.Company, would be ineligible for the alp Ant-
ment from that circumstance. It appeared that the
progressive stamps to the Land Company's deed,
which was of enormous length, cost 1,000/.
After considerable further discussion, his Honour
said he should not appoint an official manager until
he was perfectly satisfied, by the most explicit de-
claratory affidavits, that the order on the petition to
the Court above to wind up the company had been
obtained by Mr. Roberts, with the authority of Mr.
O'Connor. It was possible he might appoint an in-
terim manager. The whole circumstances connected
with the matter must be fully and unevasively ex-
plained.
The proceedings then, at three o'clock, NI era ad-
journed to Tuesday next.

Generally speaking, the potatoes are tolerably fret
from disease in this district; occasionally, however, we hes,r
of cases in which the scourge has appeared with all its old
virulence ; and at Gillor, in Herefordshire, we were informed
that potatoes were dug perfectly sound from a Piece of
ground in the evening, but that the following morning not
one in ten turned up was free from disease•'—"Gloucester
.41•171 d.