The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-20 00:00:00

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MARKET NEWS.—(THIS . DAY
- )
COVENT GriTarirstz.
el 4 87 for y s
To-da '
market was again well Sulied with most arti-
.l
Prices. Which the demand rules steady, at about stationary
Gl'lltrlTt•—t'ine Apples, English, 4s to 7s per lb; Hot-house
s
, rapes, 2a to 5s pe lb e4ches, Os toNectarines, .
totel'C' 98 per dozen • Apples, is 3d to 2s 60 ; Pears, 2s to 3,
avtilo:LpTersAitteivoLeorai;:Psdflori.s: 28 to 6s each ; Plums, 3s to 6s
spsesr
t° ''ere; Greengogos 3s to 4s per half sieve; Filberts,
—Cucumbers Id to 6d each ; Spinach, Is 6d
io 24 Od.per half sieve ; Horseradish is 6d to 6s per bundle ;
;-04icsiley, is 3d ,_ ,s
p ‘o z per dozen bunches; White Cabbages, 6d
mushy; —ed ditto, 25 to 4s; Red Beet, 6d to ls- per dozen;
84' las, is to 2s per Pottle; Cabbage Lettuces, 6,01
liper scor Turnips,2s 6d to 3 6d and Carrots, 4s to bs per
s,,zBesinnbunces; Potatoes, 40s to 75's per ton ,• ditto, 2s to
Ss ver I; Celery, Sol to is per bundle; Greens, 3s to
.
eu perodozen bunches; Artichokes, Is to 2s per dozen ,
pr_tna-; h Salad, Is to le Id, Peas, is 9d to 3s 6d persieve;
06clia'uiot1513iiie)easrotos,d.10182sseo6pd;ertwoboa2xlso.optesr, sieve ; Vegetable Marrows,
8d to 10d per 100; Spanish
Gee,,,,11,1/70471J0 AND X.EADENTI
Piu.,, ,'' " ('d t,. 65 cd ; Capons, 3s od to 5341(5dr Roasting
v 6•.:
,s Od to 7s Od each; Tame Rabbits, is id to l;
Fowls,
78 , s:i ditto, 8d to 10d; Vigeons, 9d to 10d ; Surrey ? I
OS 0 I tt" 98 °,l ; ditto Chickens, Os Od to Os 00 ; Goslings,. 42Li5.,,° ',,,8 00 ; Barn-door Fowls 43 Od to 6s 00 per couple ,
aniiiir7 'l4gS, 63 fid to Os 00 ; French ditto, Ss Od to 5s tqlto;
os
~, Iris ditto. as 3d to 58 Sd per 120; Fresh Butter, 0s to
Gro,Pe‘r lb; Leverets, 2s tid to 3s Od; Quails, Is 3d to is "A 2s 00 to 3s Od eac.b.
beef f ITEVITPORT.
vi., ? rorn 2s sd to 3s 40 ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 351310 d ;
', zs 10d to 38 ed;
13eaf, f and Pork, 3s Od to 3s 8d per 81 s.
WRITECHAPEL. 28 Od to 35 20 ; Mutton, 25 4d to 3s 10d ;
v4is 22 64 to 3s 40 ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per ilbs.
.:TtioojrbiotrsTss Od toail2sltZ;lNTßGrilSl,Gos4loTdEte Os Od ;
to 2a Rsd°(l each; Cod Fish,
Ileljet;"; Crabs, 6d to 2s Od; Dorys, is 6d to
Haddocks,
38 Ed to 6s 6d; Lobst6esrs,aoidBr:i
Flounders , Is Od to 2s each; Soles, 6d to 2s Od per pair;
_ ;
siiielt, 00
„ to Is Od per dozen ; Dried Haddocks,l
sOe_l _
per 15', 'l,OO to Os 00 per dozen ; Whitings, 95 Od too
is 2 600(1
Per 16; „,r-els, 4 to 10d; and Salmon, is °Yster '4eketel, OA per 0
each ;.
8, 64 Od to 13s Od pnerstbmusikhenl.. Herrings,°Bdstper 100;
• The prices
td to 6ii of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from_
2(1; Of Wheaten
ditto, 41hd to s;id per 41b loaf.
Market Tr REDE MARKET.
lid to ~:"ides, 5616 to 6416, lid to lid; ditto 641 b to 721 b
ggib, 2.ldt h , ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2d to 2id ; ditto, 8016 to
1041 b, '3dto 21,1
tog 2 ; ditto, 8816 to 9616,20 to 3d; ditto, 961 b to
Skins, light id; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b, Od to Od. Calf
Rom ~,, Is 00 to 2s 6d; ditto, full, 44 6dOs Od;
Ite,..rildes, 5s 6d to Oa Od; Polled Sheep, 2s 2d toto 2_sdBdto;
2, 07; brad flalf-breeds, Is 9d to 2s 40; DOM:Oh is 9
slob Skins 2s Od to 2s 3d.
%Qv, RAT MARKETS. 31 IN ~s'IML.--Iq.eadow Hay, 2l 158 to 4/; Clover ditto,load
foil '4 to 4/ 103 Od ; and Straw, 1/ Os to 1/ 8s per
t:stage supply, and a dull trie.
ditto 811411-011). Meadow Hay, 3/ Os to 4/ Os; Clover
134,3 tolerably
84 '1
, I°3 to 41 7s • and Straw, I/ is to 119 a per load.
good, trade dull.
dittollTeßArtitL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 16s to 4/ Os; Clover
Trade beery,l to 41 10s; and Straw, 11 is to 1185 per load.
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A ,—ST ORATION FROM DEATH.
Hader
rsutehrt time Since, a lad who had been bathing
134ini, Le I:1°e, Was taken out of the water, after
dad.deo •.:en immersed for some time, apparently quite
gorae-u '3/Innately Mr. Thomas Nicholson, the agent
tad
la__ of the Irish steamers, was passing at the time,t.o
other 17 the poor lad in a boat, the watermen and the
With YBtandPrs regarding him as quite dead, an
With that feeling they
the b°ollt for were taking away the body
a moment thinking of the possibility of
sseinn.Y being restored. Mr. Nicholson, however, on
w •
Vierelsrt4 bog, took steps to try whether the boy
lasp,„,,eai,'Y dead, or whether animation was only
tllO4-"Ze" and he called to his aid the assistance of
Patch- that were about him. At the same time hs dis-
deettieu Inesengers to medical men and medical stuh-
bev ' and assisted in conveying the boy to the Sont
Niein Hospital. There every
tod f°t,lB°n's assistance, was resorted to, and in the
appliance, with r.
lißhi.`"at gentleman had the great satisfaction and de.-
titio'nBft,iling his labours rewarded by seeing inch-
-4)14 acdAhi_fel and eventually the boy was restored
61tnief n' "alai. We mention this case now as an
(tau PA) to show what perseverance may do in cases.
etieetP°Beci drowning, even after all ordinary expert
:4fecis ii3tTtil 3r
lead to the supposition that restoration to
%eh l'ot at all probable. also think that such
on other accounts should be made known,foor_
kr. int been for the characteristic perseverance_oyf
Ivoiajd have been undoubtedly lost.—Plymouth Journal.
17- -

lillieirFlllllllB and WESTMINSTER BRIDGES
GEStools .eld, to be forewarned is to be forearmed. Now,
krrerWhnt
]li saiday to these two great public structures, it
le your columns have been closed against
40oel 41:111tigs• In Mr. Walker's evidence taken before
seys tatttee of' the House of Commons, July, 1850, he
w!SuPposing for a moment we have next winter, or
4Wohl'anter, a great mass of ice coming down the river,
the pile' /3,4 be answerable it would not sweep away all
Wouid ", and down with them the bridge (Westminster)
tbs, eeteassu redly fall. Should that happen, what then
the , Illackfriare? It has been further stated that
Since ;,," of the river in that part has lowered six feet
tarn t'ue last great repair. If that be so, let any one
1418441, tilt, soundings accompanying Mr. Page's report
bop ", and they will then be fully satisfied the alarm
been 6i is not without reason. Committees have
denueebitting at intervals dining the last seveu years; evid-
this of tile highest character brought forward; and
!sae a Royal Commission has been appointed doubt-
°sfer-,:L", a view of considering the evidence produced
do
the commissienere, and yet nothing has. been.
done;o "le apathy of public authority is really surprising;
tirttfel°ere importent thoroughfares connected with the
'Lee foL the metropolis there cannot be, and yet, in the
Of 144
ithe evidence qu:-)ted, we must encounter the risk
fee thc'taer winter, it would almost seem the delay was
PCt4r aPurpose of carrying out the scheme of a tem-
of tilY bridge at Westminster, or it may be in the hope
the ;(1 bridge being carried away, and thus to compel
4rid;n3tnediate use of Charing-cross and Vauxhall
10 es, thereby habituating the people of Westminster
'the: Change of traffic, and paving the way
ifBor6the
ski
r' t)i. the double bridges suggested in 4

VvTHE APPLE OF THE DEAD SEA.
„4011.1,114ade a somewhat singular discovery when tra-
aett.l-6, Ramon the mountains to the east of the Dead
Relwaere the ruins of Amnon, Jerash, and Adjelon
i4414.1.5Pay the labour and fatigue encountered in visiting
%Itettnkjt was a remarkably hot and sultry day; we were
Iktiheultlig up the mountain through a thick jungle of
tree_ ;I and low trees, when I saw before me a fine plum-
-0 ?Med with fresh blooming plums. I cried out to
,1"0,-traveller, " Now, then, who will arrive first at
Lticil•tree?" and as he caught a glimpse of so refresh-
Li) 13.1a0t, we both pressed our horses into a gailop
NI: Which would get the first plum from the branches.
1°8(411 arrived at the same moment, and each snatch-
% riLl fine plum, put it at once into our mouths, when,
iiecug it, instead of the cool, delicious, juicy fruit
;at t.: We expected, oar mouths were filled with a dry,
;hie (Nat, and we sat under the trees upon our horses
tejleuating and hemming, and doing-all we could to be
'afet,"" Of the nauseous taste of this strange fruit. We
11016 r.,lltaaived, and to my great delight, that we had dis-
of qtfu the famous apple of the Dead Sea, the existence
Et!" haa been doubted and canvassed since the days
laielj;lso and Pliny, Who first described it. Many
Imtleti44 have given descriptions of other vegetable pro-
:7/3E which bear some analogy to the one described
4460"17; but up to this time no one had met the thing
,Ati either upon the spot mentioned by the ancient
,Aikera.kor elsewhere. I brought several of them to Eeg.
'NEL' '"eY are a kind of gall nut. I found others after•
e 0413;, upon the plains of Troy; but there can be no
ilthk" whatever that this is the apple of Sodom, to which
hrou-"°, and Pliny referred. Some of those which I
Ithaltnt to England were given to the Linnesn Society,
Of ti Published an engraving of them, and a description
1)14 1;4 vegetable peculiarities, in their " Transactions;"
4‘ttk„"iss they omitted to explain the peculiar interest
v'ed to them in consequence of their having been
MtPlteht
for unsuccessfully for above 150 years, they ex-
Nth little attention; though, as the evidence of the
Itbl Of what has so long been considered as a vulgar
88th' they are fairly to be classed among the most
11,11 , 4 Productions which have been brought from the
' Curzon's Monasteries of The Levant.

'tlit-:"NIOUS DETECTION OF A SMUGGLER.—Near by
, 4104,"etern shore of Loch Tay, for a series of years past,,a
'ltlde"ABHlaggler has continued to carry on his illegal traffic
lailr"4nce of every opposition. Time after time lis has.beep
tiotie!di in heavy penalties, but still he has persisted in his
the
Yocation,with a resolution worthy of a better cause.
..,,tertnination has earned for him among the natives
tikttl tkPellation of " King of the Smugglers." A short time
ttill,," officers 'of Excise were aware that he was again
*ltaj, at his old pursuits, but the whereabouts of his bothy
• , ketita) them a mystery. The hills and glens for many miles
Wu,' were searched day after day ; every nook and corner
,111:„r°Fits, moors, and ravines were minutely explored, but
Vitirtjam, no trace of the bothy could be found, the old
"fiat himself quietly taking his laugh at th.e. officers'
(a.fauccess. Matters, however, came to a crisis sooner
Bread" expected. Mr. Munro Kelly, the officer of the
Vitt albane district, hit upon the following ingenious de-
. rlveekt: discover his "Majesty's still-house." About two
t.tai '‘go, Mr. Kelly, accompanied by two assistants, pro-
"aort' to the quarter most suspected, and arrived there
444,Y after dark ; he at once went to a farm-house and de-
etiz ged a horse and cart, to carry away some whisky he had
114,14, belonging to a certain individual. The ruse took, the
Akilhatid cart were yoked, the officer and his men leaped in,
illti),7? Party in charge drove them almost to the very door
'44,teb; "mg-looked for bothy. His Majesty" had barely
4110"..'9, escape, accompanied by two attendants; however,
fleiz,',,"ll in full operation, with all the other utensils, were
t,`" and carried off, and the house itself destroyed.
ti.ov
As 0 •AL uRTHONEDIC HOSPITAL FOR THE CURE
the FOOT, &C. —On Thursday afternoon a meeting of
,(mitnittee of the ab me valuable institution was held in
' ,Ite,trard-rootn of the Hospital, Bloomsbury square. The
it b,B,t,inal records of the institution showed that the number
treV"ents undergoing treatment continued to be on the in-
if th:e, the total for the last half-year having exceeded those
Previous months by upwards of one hundred.
her roh, lOUS six
-`„, twenty to fifty new cases are weekly added to a num-
Scf,'„ahout 700, now in constant attendance at the hospital;
delaPpear3 that in addition to 300 on the books waiting
tirk,b' 'urn of admission applications for in-door treatment in
thi—h t and afflicting cases continue to be received, although
Pits] accommodation is by far too limited. Thehot.s-
oidu4a now distributed its benefits to nearly 12,000 Ind!-
fin, Q`4 s, resident in all parts of the kingdom, and it is grata-
thsig to report that a most encouraging success has attended
stlth edOrts of the committee in raising the necessary funds,
kopt°l,l, "gh not adequate to the many claims of the crippled
‘AY Waiting ter in-door treatment.

TIRE

LITERATURE

SUN,

OVERLAND JOURNEY TO TRE GREAT
EXHIBITION. By Richard Doyle. •
Having long seceded from the pages of Punch,
Richard Doyle is doubly and trebly welcome to us on
the occasion of his present re-appearance. For
bizarre and eccentric extravagance he stands altogether
without any competitor among the brilliant group of
our native caricaturists—a word of commendation not
without some emphasis when it is remembered that in
their ranks are comprised such draughtsmen as John
Leech: the inexhaustible, and our old favourite George
Cruikshank. Invigorated in fancy, it would seem,
by his prolonged absence, Mr. Doyle, in the comical
panorama before us, displays, with a liveliness more
than ever conspicuous, that drollery for which he has
already :rendered himself so remarkable, and what is
more, so popular—especially, be it not forgotten, in
his memorable sketches of the " Manners and Cus-
to►ns of ye .Englishe." .Here we have a long proces-
sion of visitors to the Exhibition, headed by Mr.
Bull himself, conveying, most of them, sundry extra
,articles not hitherto deposited among the miscellaneous
collection in the Crystal Palace. All of them have
big bulbous looking heads, and little attenuated ex-
tremities—their upper moiety being Brobdignagiau,
and their lower Lilliputian. First appears a miscel-
laneous group of foreigners, gaudily painted, hirsute,
shaven, black, yellow, and red, a very cadaverous
Jew bringing up the rear, in whose mouth it may be
seen that—

" Buzzing twangs the iron lyre."
Next is a very barren and naked tree, bight one of
Liberty carried i❑ triumph by a party of French-
men. The character of the nation is humorously
indicated, here a fish fag with her scarlet petticoat,
her sabots, and her high Normandy cap, there a gen-
darme in a livery of yellow and blue piebald—while
on the bare boughs, like extraordinary fruit, are
dangling such significant appendages as a barn-yard
cock, a couple of crowns imperial and royal, a
bonnet rouge, a three-cornered cocked hat, a pair of
jack boots, and an exceedingly tame eagle. In all
this there is an agreeable and ludicrous satire. Then
come the Italians, singing themselves into a state of
delirium, some of the faces being capital photographs.
A buy -a broom girl, with her chicks, is followed by
a posse of Scotchmen, and these again by a Cuban
Spaniard, sweating under a bundle of gigantic
cigars. A German street band blowing itself into fits
through brass, a German swigging party drinking
itself blind drunk, and a German smoking gang
puffing itself into a fog of the densest stupidity,
follow. Then, last and best of all, the embodied
Liberty of Yankeeland. Such a keen, sharp, shrewd,
knowing effigy of Libertas never winked before
under the cap of Phrygia. She shoulders the fasces
and drags at her heels a couple of manacled negroes.
Her sons come after her, bearing the trophy of their
emancipation—the knout with which they wollop
their helps. Of the closing group, bringing up
the rear, a group representing the birds and beasts
symbolical of the various European races, we can say
nothing beyond this, that they are exquisitely
humorous. The " Overland Journey" will be long
remembered after the Great Exhibition has be-
come a thing of yesterday.

COURT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, THURSDAY.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
drove out yesterday morning, and his Royal High-
ness afterwards went out deer-stalking.
In the afternoon her Majesty drove in the open
carriage, accompanied by the Princess Royal.
Sir Edwin Landseer arrived at Balmoral yesterday,
on a visit to her Majesty.
The dinner party yesterday included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Augusta and
Lady Frances Bruce, Mr. Fox Maule, and Sir E.
Landseer.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday, from the Colo-
nial-office, to the Governors of the North American
Colonies, the Governors of Hong Kong and Ceylon,
the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands,
and the Governor of Malta. Dispatches were sent off
to the Governors of the Mauritius, Newfoundland,
Labuan, and Bermuda. _ _

Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colo.
nial-office, from the Governor of Heligoland.

IS " THE SAXON" TO BLAME ?—A correspondent
of the Cork Examiner, who was, we presume, attracted to
Bantry by the regatta in that locality, gives the following
harrowing description of a scene which he witnessed in the
graveyard :—" I visited also the abbey graveyard, an un-
protected sanctuary of the dead. Will your readers credit
the subsequent facts, supported, as they can be, by honour-
able testimony? I counted 28 coffins (if such they might
be designated) exposed to view—a sight which awakened
feelings of thrill and horror. The shell intended to hold the
mortal remains of some hapless parent, brother, or sister was
broken into; its contents unquestionably devoured by dogs,
which apparently have long revelled at their horrible feast.
Pigs, from the manner in which the ground had been rooted,
and the fragments of dead bodies exposed in the different
stages of decomposition, giving off miasma, appear to have
found their way here also, and glutted madly perhaps on the
wrecks of their owners. Inhuman recklessness ! I observed
a few pieces of boards rudely nailed together--an attempt to
form a box—containing the remains of a child, lying oa the
bare surface, a few large stones placed on the lid, but nothing
more; no shallow grave was scooped to receive the happy
but unfortunate dead 1 The feelings of humanity are more
than outraged in the magnitude of this wilful improvidence.
To think such a graveyard, within three or four hundred
yards of an Earl's mansion, on the borders of the town, in-
habited by respectable and influential individuals, could for
a moment exist in such a state of Christian neglect, reflects
lasting disgrace on all parties." Commenting upon this
dreadful narrative is unnecessary. One remark, however,
may be hazarded —the much-abused " Saxon" is guiltless of
the unnatural neglect of the dead here described.
THE WEATHER IN PARIS.—It appears, from the
observations made at the Paris Observatory in August last,
that the average temperature in that month was 19.03 cen-
tigrade (about 66 Fahrenheit). In July the average was
17.08. The highest temperature in August was 31 degrees
(about 80 Fahrenheit) on the 23d, and the lowest 70.50 on
the 30th. The depth of rain which fell in the court of the
Observatory was 2.824 c., and on the southern terrace 2.604 c.
The average of the oscillations of the mercury in the baro-
metric tube at noon each day was 758.06. The wind at noon
blew 13 days from the north, 11 from west, 6 from the
south, and 1 from the east. On 22 days the sky was cloudy,
on 7 it was fine, on 1 nearly fine, and 1 rainy.
THE NEW SURREY COUNTY GAOL AT WANDS-
WORTH.—This edifice, erected as a substitute for the gaols of
Guildford, Kingston, &c., is at length completed, and is now
ready for the reception of prisoners. It is built upon an ele-
vated and salubrious site—Wandsworth-common, and from
its extensive outline has a most commanding aspect. The
external walls enclose an area of thirteen acres, a large por-
tion of which is appropriated as airing grounds, &c. The
building itself, which is of an irregular pentagonal form, oc-
cupying the remainder,' about 1,000 feet in length, and 660
feet in depth. The design is by D. Hill, Esq., architect of
Birmingham. The style is plain, consisting of massive brick-
work, with stone coigns and dressings, the interior having
all the modern improvements and arrangements as at Pen-
tonville and similar prisons; it is, moreover, entirely fire-
proof, and the whole details of the plan have been ably car- '
ried out by Messrs. Locke and Nesham, of Theobald's-road,
the builders. This gaol is calculated for 500 prisoners
335 males and 165 females; a separate cell for each, mea-
suring 13 feet by 7 feet, and 7 feet in height ; and there
are also 47 reception and punishment cells, the whole of the
floorings of which, in order effectually to exclude damp, are
laid with Orsi and Armani's patent metallic lava. The chapel
has 394 separate sittings, and, from:the.flooring being laid in
chequered blue and white Staffordshire tiles, has a very neat
appearance. Throughout the whole building similar appa-
ratus to Pentonville is applied for warming, ventilating,
cooking, drying clothes, &c. ; while the kitchen, cooking
apparatus, laundry, &c., are isolated from the main building.
The magistrates' room, and the apartments for the respec-
tive officers, are neatly, but not expensively fitted.
THE MIRACULOUS CABBAGE.—RO3e Tamiser, the
miracle-monger in France, asserted that she was ordered by
Heaven to plant a cabbage in a convent-garden, and that in
a few days the miraculous vegetable grew to so enormous a
size that the whole community dined off it. Vast as this
vegetable must have been, Father Newman, of Birmingham,
is ready to swallow the cabbage, and all the community who
ate it, and the story into the bargain, and to preach without
inconvenience afterwards to a select congregation.—Punch.
RECAPTURE OF A CONVICT. On Friday last
three convicts of the Hebe and Wye, for work at the Royal
Arsenal, while employed in the mud on the banks of the
river, took the opportunity of a boat being near to escape to
the opposite side of the river, and landing on the Essex
side, eluded the vigilance of their pursuers. One of these
convicts was recaptured yesterday at Chiselhurst, and will
probably be immediately sent out of the country in conse-
quence of his attempt to escape the sentence he was under-
going of ten years' transportation.
DUNDONALD.-INTREPIDITY IN A LADY.—On
Thursday week last, while Mrs. Nasmyth, of Dundonald,
was returning from Cardenden Station to her own house,
she observed a child floaticg in a pond which supplies the
engine with water, when she immediately threw from her a
parasol and leaped into the water, and saved the child, al-
though at the risk of her own life. Dr. Johnston was im-
mediately sent for, and used the necessary means to restore
the apparently drowned child to life, with, we are happy to
say, the desired effect.—Fifeshire Advertiser.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.-00 Monday, the 22d inst.
(as the 21st, St. Matthew's-day, falls on Sunday), the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs, with the Governors of the
several Royal Hospitals, will attend Divine service at
Christ's Church, Newgate-street, where a sermon will be
preached by the Rev. E. W. Belton, M.A., perpetual curate
of St. Bartholomew's, Bethnal-green. After which they
will repair to the great hall in Christ's Hospital, where four
orations, on the benefits of the Royal Hospitals, will be de-
livered, according to annual custom, by four of the senior
scholars : —ln Latin, by H. D. Sweeting ; in English, by
G. W. Brown ; in Greek, by R. A. Lloyd ; in French, by G.
C. BM. Seven poems will also be recited by others of the
senior scholars, viz. :—A Latin Alcaic Ode, on "Columbus,"
by Claude Perez;. a translation of "The Chief Justice's
Apology and King Henry's Reply," from Shakspere, into
Greek lambice, by H. B. Parkin; Latin Elegiacs on
" Lucretia," by H. H. Stone ; Greek Sapphics on "Queen
Elizabeth," by G. I. Gauntlett ; a translation from " Camp •
bell's Pleasure of Hope," on Scepticism, by W. Doran; Latin
Sapphics on e England's Invitation to the Nations." by H.
R. Jevers ; an English poem, on "Rome," by H. Ludlow.

THE QUICKEST MAIL TRANSIT TO CHINA EVER
I:Now:v.—The mail of the 24th May, from London, reached
'long Kong on the Bth July, being only 44 days in its tran-
sit. It was conveyed from Suez to Ceylon by the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steam-ship Hindostan, and fr, m
Ceylon to Hong Kong in their new steamer Singapore. The
mail of the 24th June, which would be conveyed by the
Oriental and Malta steamers, was expected to reach China
in about the same time. The time allowed in the contract
with the company is 56 days.
We understand that the Lord Bishop of Glouces-
ter and Bristol will hold his visitation at
_Bristol Cathedral
on the 23d September.