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

MAllic.ET NEWS,—(THIS DAY')
COVERT Grs.E,DEAT.
To-day's markt was s, f again 4
3 •ell led with ost. arti-
cleo e demandr which th r 11Nes stesapp ud
-,i mat about stationary
prices.
FIIIIIT.—p hie
Hothouse
Arples, English, 4s to 7s per lb;
Grapes, 2s to 53 per lb ; Pe.iches, OS to Os ; Nectarines, Os3i
to Os per dozen ; Apples is 3d to 2s 6d ; Pears, 2s to
per half sieve
per
Melons, 2a to tis each; Plums,
half sieve •
, Greengages, 3s to 4s per half sieve ; Filberts, u a
3s to 6s
,m
to 65s per 1001bs.
. VzoiczaßLEs—Cucumbers, Id to Gd each; Spinach, l s a.
t 2 20 Od per half sieve ; horseradish, is 6d to CS per bundle_ .
ticiranleY, Is 3d to 2s per dozen bunches; White Cabbages, 611.
110 ; Red ditto, 2s to 4s ; Red Beet, 6d to is per dodzento,
_ hrcins, is to 2s per Pottle, Cabbage Lettuces, 6
1%ez1.4 per score; Turnips, 2a 6d to 38 6d, and Carrots, 4s to 6.s perto
_en bunches ; Potatoes, 40s to 75s per ton • ditto, " to
48 '3,1 per cwt v. 1
; -e'etY, 8d to is e bundle ; 'Greens, 3spn .
per dozen buches; Artichokes, IS to 2s per do?'" :
k.,-;,otln n Salad, la to 12 td, Peas, is 9d to 3s Gd per sieve;
fr,e%ci?. Beans, Is Gd to 2a per sieve; Vegetable Marrows,
Ur‘q l per dozen.; Walnuts 8d to 10d per 100; Spanish
union 115 to 13 per box- '
Geese3l,ll3l7l?lllit 4br,..1) LEJIDENHAL.XiIoasting
Pig, ss od
to
..to 6s 10; k;apuns, 3s 6d to 5s Ocl, , _ 90;
IVild ditt 48 °d each; Tame Rabbits, is id to 15
Fowls,
0, 84 to 10d •Pi , iod . Surrey ,
45 nd to Od • ' , Pigeons, Jd to , .
Goslings,
_ „
toga , ditto Chickens, Os Od to Os Od ,
con
.e ;
311u(t.
~,8 Od ; Ear-door Fowls,4s Od to Gs Od per Pl..
g Isggs, 68 6d ,• is Od to 5s tin ,
and Irisn ditto. 5 ' to Os 00 ; French ditto, _
b. Butter, Os to
() Od Per lb • , sddtos3 8d p 120 ; Fres
' ' to Is 6d ;
Grouse,_ , Leverets, 2s tid to 3s Od • Quails, Is ~c.,
2a 0,1 to 3 0
'
s d each.

vil3aiee,,f, fro 28 8(1 t011.3s W4(ll:°Fltillit;on,tc 3s
,le 10d to ,?,s 8(1; and Pork, 38 Od to 3s 8d per Beet; fro WililexcujixEL.
4(1 to 33 10d ;
2s 6d
8ths1.0(1 ;
veil, „
,‘ to .4 Ocl to 38 2d ; Mutton, 2s
„,hs.
'' 48 bd to 38 4(1; and Perk, 2s 6(1 to 3s 6d per 81-
Tu , ZIZZLENGsGATE.
64 turbot_ 08 Od to 12s Od ; Brill, Os Oct to Os Od ;
L bsters, 8(t
to 2, Ad each ; Cod
to 3s 6(1 to 63 6d ; --°
Gs Od ;
whillet's',/; Crabs, 6d to 2s Od ; Dorys, is 6d to r pair ;
Flound ' 1 Ud to 23 each ; Soles, 6d to 2s 0d
Os Od ;
Haddocks,
s_e, ers, od
to Is Oil per dozen ; Dried Haddocks,
Od
pewr ltoi, Os Od to Os 0,1 per dozen en Whitings, Os Od tool2s
Per lb;
' Reis, 4(1 to 10d ; and Salmon,
oysters
Mackerel, 04 to Od each ; Herrings, 8s P
,630 d to 13s Od per bushel. Is Od t
orls1060(1;
The h.:
211 LEAD.
to duo% of Pibeaten Bread in the metropolis are from
4d; of Tiousehold ditto, 41,0 to 51/2d per 41b
Market il. XEZDE liltaatiEET.
ditto, 641 b to 721 b
1(1 to 2.,'W1e5,561b to 641 b, lid to lid ; Bolb to
88%, vt; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2d to 2t,d ; ditto,
1041 b, ad3ld; ditto, 881 b to 961 b ,2id to 3d ; dittocl.96lCbatlot
Os Od ;
Ski 03, 1i..1.' aid; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b, Od tAo
to
Hera h.,,hut, 18 Oct to 2s 6d; ditto, full, 43 6
Xetts !;lids t,
ts 6(1 to Os Od ; Polled Sheep, 2s
is 9d to
2e Od; 4i11(1 Ralf-beeds, Is 9d to 2s 4d; Downs,
1) Skins 2s Od to 2s 3d.
4 flail, le 105 Od;
Skr,,,._
714:11. rvitilaiitETs. 2d to 2s 811;
er load.
3/ 10.7.1inttn.--Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s to 4 CBlsover ditto,
et_tu4 rat,
2 ,
~._.eBuPPIY, and a dull trade.
and Straw, 1/ Os toll! P
844 ditto BilLuTio--Meadow Hay, 3/ Os to 41 Os;
ioliOs to 41 73; and Straw, 1/ is to 1
WrirritelriablY good, and trade dull.
4/ Os ; Clover
ditto,
~.tpx/..--Aleadow Hay, 2/ 163 to
8s
er load.
Clover
Tilde ,` Iva to 4/ 103; and Straw, 11 Is to 1119 perp load.
Lieayy.

I?ES2,-----------------______
A short • °II4TI°N FROM DEATH. bathing
and th tulle lance,
after
a lad who had been
tiaviar, I,g Roe, was taken out of the water,
quite
ead.° 's',een immersed for some time,
t°
6°lll ollu"telY Mr. Thomas Nicholson, the atgme,
kid 4of the Irish steamers, was passing at thendi
other b tLhe poor lad in a boat, the
apparently
ent
and
with that regarding him as quite
viithoute feeling they were taking away thee body
the watermedn aad,
the I), fora taOlnent thinking of the possibilityY being
however, on
46,4 . g restored Mr Nicholson,
g the b '— • the boy
Were 4411 oy, took steps to try whether
was only
of
Baspend.,,Y dead, or whether animation
thcle
vsu, am L _
lie called to his aid the
dis-
patehelpt Vere about him. At the same time
e stu-
dent, keste.ngers to medical men and medical
South
assistanceh of
Devo'44l4l assisted in Conveying the boy to the. Mr.
lciiehalsll4Aital• There every
end tbaaa's assistance, was resorted to, and 1
1 _
.e.
light of4.eatleinen had the great satl
sfaction. stored
appliance, with.nhn
Nion, of11;!ing his labours rewarded bY
seeinregstored
to life 4 d'Llfe, and eventually the boy was
as an
„El4'2l3plellt-Au.ekalth• We mention this case
dnerv'n cases
vt sup - show what perseverance may
___ 1 x
eri.
tont ,I)(4ed drownin-,
lire is -44 Y lead
et•oPn to
to
tge eventinp naafitteinrnaltl
hoartd
rineaatrnyrati
badalt(lt other probable. P We also think tha
for
n °4 t
be made known of
nw. accounts should.
perseverance
kr. Th ' peen for the characteristic
Ivotkhr°l!is Nicholson, thepoor boy
such
"ye naea undoubtedly lost.—Plymouth J
-ournal•
life of the

14,4 c
--_____
It eIY-1444RS and WESTMINSTER BRIDGES
Ilttlet:terwrzt.tutuaybet for.ewarned is to be forearmed. Now,.
au b tiMi b . 0 these two great public structures, it
against
e°-, witiiine..said your columns have been close
44)11,rjtitteetsae.f
tlhne 11 r. evidenceWalkecesmmhanvnes
4,
w. ouppaßio , OUSe of 0
rg rot. a moment we
1.10 later, 4
neat July,
takenBbseofohree
;sw old oo„ g eat mass of ice coming
away all
ue pile, ~ 'be answerable it would not sweep .
111°111t1 ' aziel doWn with them the bridge
coming down thlineterf; river,
bee„, tosuredi
tL',".'es of tti Yiall. Should that happen,W
h stated that
- yea r aearriars? It has been further .
(Westminster)
thmaitn sttheern)
she
th °,` the river in that part has lowered six feetne
Ora to-'av!aat great repair. If that be so, let
,any
11846 " 6°ll/Wings Li
111,.° X 141" theY will then"
alarmhave
-seo%•-•eased is notwithout reason. Comm
hp
ea iti yu il ng a
aMt Tall:
da g
tehse report
Committees
vi.
40e., ittiog 4„_.
%hill s of thewta_.utervals during the last seven years; e
lela Year a 4 hi servals
character brought forward; and
tot With ~,. c).Yal Commission has been
produced
ore view of considering the evidence do,, tuts°
has been
~„"; th „,, c° of
and yet nothing
appoeineted doubt-
the
Itrjr 441:410y of public authority is really surp.rising ;
face ,Lte of ~ p rtant thoroughfares connected with
the risk
c,,fkef 44aevraideetropolis there cannot
encounter
eaunndbyret, in the fe
tensertae
. nee quoted, we must
the delay was
~,st
~,, "'lnter. It would almost seem a tam-
e bridge f carryingout the scheme of
of tae uridoe
Westminster,
tilt, 1 brid:e at. .W stminster, or
and thus to comp
trid,!tarneal'ateuumg carried away,
11
ss and Vauxhall
to ttell) thereb use of Charing-Jiro_
it may be in the hope
shama ph, y habituating the people of Westminster
411,1
41,e cingi? of traffic, and paving
--14er• tile double 'bridges
,2'.14r, --"--- suggestth2ed wiany 1846.

lel?,I5 t1;41.41P-PLE OF THE DEAD SEA-
B„'Illt anion a somewhat singular discovery when tra•
RE.lll..Wlier-Vlthg the mountains to the east of the Dead
th,ta:epay ti;emli ruins of Amnon, Jerash, and Adjelon
set. It was abour and fatigue encountered in visiting
LlC,lbbliti, 8 a remarkably hot and sultry day; we were,,,,,
444;1 aasd IP the mountain through a thick jungle of
b-iii,,-,,'°,, tre hen I saw before me a fine plum-
blu,"ell ''' with fresh blooming plums. I cried out to
leg pi:atraveller "lslow, then,g who will arrive &stabs!
t 11 4101,1ree? and as he caught a glimpse of so refre
I(lii4s whitleke, we both pressed our horses into a gallop.
iii.° both „"&i,ll'auld get the first plum fcom the branches..
ea rita CoriP:l'..d._ at the same
.moment, and each snatch
It.hiehlog it:' ilialost,epadut
ofit atboenceaoeiln,to our mouths, when,
delicious, juicy fruit
Lititoetitlteitt4titett,:ittPtitiehtvetcd(r,n, our the
were filled with a dry,
:3aitnurenednedr thdeointrgeeaslluwp horsesto
b e
4141 Percif: the hemming,
of this strangeoencoforttuulridt. W_.ae.
tt-vered-aeired, and to my great delight, that we had di
ti It,hialt nos apple o-f
the Dead Sea,.the existence
ti, otrixbo .01 been doubted and canvassed since the days
Altall an ei• described it. Many
mtio . era hap© iny, who first
(os IIYO given descriptions of other vegetable pro-
. 9 Pli which
441,, ay; bu.
... analogysome.
the thing
one had met
bear to the one described.
lt1;141' eithor" up to this time no
Lad ors or upon the spot
. ; toe al upon
I browthem to Eng.
awar%
upon
are a kind of gall nu',
g ht
mentioned
several
of b y the ancient
ltilit 1,,P°11 the plains of Troy; blutfobe no
tr'l4l3o ZikleVer that this is the apple thereund others
eao -
which
huemit'llu Pliny referred. Some of those which_
of Sodom, to
and a description
illtr:11111131?si&dIgland were. given to the Linnten Society,
dal'Aeir an engraving of them,
kt as tractable pecuriarities,.in their " Transac.tions; '.
tl'iattitiZhiltl4l Item in consequence
omitted to explain the peculiar interest
41' "successfully for aboveoflsthOeir
years, they ex"
4;4 ittle attention; though, as the of the
having been
evidence
most
tzit:'4'4l,.r-';:hocilitucht :won s 3 o' long been considered as a
'4llO "Y are fairl to be classed among the
the
vulgar
--"`‘1111*---Cui.z0,1vy,shmichenhaasvieeriebseefentbhreoLuegetiatnfir.om
th •tti kb. !...1...., ------
Near by
I.otf2ea-terli"4l::llB23r ETf ECTION or A SMUGGLER.-- a
14 7,1 5ai1i.,...,
.e o Loch Tay, for a series of years past, _c
4,44 e,, 51,:ter nas continued to carry on his illegal traffic
h's
f-4.4,44a1tie ~ti every opposition. Tim. e after time he has. been
Thintite vom_myY penalties, but still he has persisted in i
t4l deternal_atto.n with a resolutiofenrwhoirmthyamofehagbetthteerheaatuivseee.
ttgo atlaelletiona4to7ll,, has__ earned
°llia ° °lacers f ing of the Smugglers."
at old o Excise were garg lee rst.h"atAheswhoaretbatgitanlhne
'(l4tict "'eta a mystery. The hills and glens for manymiles
pursuits, but the whereabouts of his o r
but
Ztitilltis tWoecritessmeaorcohed dad.), after. day • every nook and corner
explored,the old
'Netqt; no trarcseanof y could be found,
rtahveinetewthe're minutely
Ranter himself -tl t lt.' h' laugh officers'
Bras
here Matters a ing is
e to a crisis sooner
larsql v.eas• , however, cam
the officer of the
,i.astleit)l7lected. Mr. Munro Kelly, .
Itt to ,tle district, hit upon the following ingenious de-
at the.
Urea 'lBcover his " Majesty's still-house."
Aboutpro
v.:(llg°, Ali.. Kelly accompanied by two assistants, e 'ortic..,.° the quarter ' onceoptd, and arrived toer
d de-
twu
.Nterg,,oter dark •h at went to a farm-house an
itisect":reihors.e and cart,e to carry. .away some whisky be had
°tat ftging to a certain individual. The ruse took, the
in,
4.114 1,11:4d cart were yoked, the officer and his men leaped "f th t Party in char e drove them almost to the
titottalorig-looked for bothy. His " Majesty" hadbarely
,
attil.astiettaPe, accompanied by two attendants;
led -o full. operatio, with all the other utensils, were
it- ittld carried off, and the house itself destroyed.
4 eq,lrAt ORTIIOPC6DIC HOSPITAL FOR THE CURE
the "1111 POO, &c. —Oa Thursday afternoon a meetin 9
tho Zalnsittee Tof the above valuable institution was heldbiane
st4tiss,Yd-rooni of the Hospital, Bloomsbury- a
q. 'lea' records of the institution showed thats
Datie Bloomsbury-square.
the en.umb.er
treey_ ats undergoing treatment.• continued. to be on the in-
of the the total for the last half-year having exceeded those
k`ci Previous simonths b uwards of one -
1) -"( twent x mon
y are weekly added to a nri
hundred.
er of
~_ yto fifty new cases
books waiting
4qci It'uctit 703, now in constant attendance at the hospital;
tlie;„ aPpears that in addition to 300 on the
titge,.. bof admission, applications
tile gent and afflicting cases continue to be received, although
tiir
. • for in-door treatment in
The haunthos-
.Pitel)rte accor.nmodation.is by far too limited. . ... i(loal now distributed its benefits to nearly 12,000 ind!
and it is grata-
lig s, resident in all parts of the kingdom,
the
ithlg to report that a most encouraging success has attended
i.efforts of the committee in raising the necessary
crippled
poor'llgb not adequate to the many claims of the
1" waiting for in-door treatment. funds

216,

S N,

LITERATURE.
OVERLAND JOURNEY TO THE GREAT

LXIIIBITION. 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-
toms 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 Brobdignagian,
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
mean that—

" Buzzing twangs the iron lyre."
Next is a very barren and naked tree, hight one of
Liberty carried in 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 Scotahmen, 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 CIF CULAR.
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,
Leman, and Bsrmuda.
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
he 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 on 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 I 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-
IVORTH.—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. llill, Esq., architect of
Birmingham. The style is plain, consisting of massive brick-
work, with stone coigns and dressings, the interior having 1,
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-
lied 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, fronfthe 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.—Rose 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 congregatPunch.
RECAPTURE OP 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.-011
Thursday week last, while Mrs. Nasmyth, of Dundonald,
was returning from Cardenden Station to her own house,
she observed a child floating 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 Aevertiser.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—On 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. Relton, 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 11. D. Sweeting ; in English, by
G. W. Brown ; in Greek, by R. A. Lloyd ; in French, by G.
C. Bell. 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 lambics, 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 " England's Invitation to the Nations," by H.
Jevers; an English poem, on " Rome," by IL Ludlow.
THE QUICKEST MAIL TRANSIT TO CHINA EVER
.K"vaN.—The mail of the 24th May, from London, reached
Hong 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 from
COaryielnontaltoalindonMgaKltaonsgteiallmtehresi,r new steamer Singapore. The
mail of the 24th June, which would be convoyed by the
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.