The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-07 00:00:00

IMNDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANITA RY 7, 1851.

SUN,

very abundant. On call money is pressing on the mar-
lot at 5 to 6pr cent. on good stocks, and lets or, Go.
verntuent securities. The Stock market is vary firm,
with an upward tendency in the rates. The Exchange
market is quiet but firm. Sterling is 10 to 10k; trance,
5 15 to 5 121. All continental bills ate very firm.
There has been no variation in quotations for foreign
exchange since the depv tare :I tile Arctic. Drawers
arc firm, but the demand has not been very active et
for the steamer leaving Boston on Wednesday. We
quote on London 10,,,k t i 10:41 per cent. pr. whim; on Paris,
to sf. 10c.; Amsterdam, 411 to 411; Ham-
burgh, 364 to 37; Bremen, 791 to 80. The exports of
specie from this port far the week ending the 21st
amounted to 355,104 dolls., nearly two-thirds of which
were silver. Total export for 1850, 9,221,191 dolls.
Cotton—The total removal of all apprehensions of a
general war on the continent of Europe has had a very
beneficial effect upon this staple, sales being made of
2,502 bales from ti to Y ce.it advance, the bulk of the
transactions being at the latter figure. Holders appear
indisposed to put our light sleek fccely on bale, even at
present rates, anticipating still more encouraging ad-
vices by the Baltic steamer. Fair Uplands, which sold
last week at 131 MOs, are worth in.t cents to-day.
On Tuesday, 3,500 bales acre sold at an advance of
cent to c,nt, the larger advance being 03 Florida
and Gulf cottons.

Foreign Dry Goods—We have now arrived at lb,
dullest period of the season for dry goods, yet a limited
business is doing to meet the clotuing wants of Cali-
fornia and the South. Prices show much steadiness,
and expectations are strong that fur all articles of which
the stock Is not heavy higher prices will rule at the
opening of the new year's trade. The prospect is that,
with the present limited production of goods and high
prices of cotton, the spring demand will sustain and
raise prices.

Breadstuffs—The market for western and sour flour
has been very dull since the receipt of the English ad-
vices, and prices rule in favour of buyers. Canadian is
very quiet, and prices are steady at 4 dolls. 81c. to 4
dolls. 871 e. Rye flour is scarce. Corn meal dull.
Wheat meets a fair demand, but buyers and sellers are
apart in their views. Common Genessee sells at 115 e. to
116 c. A largo sale of Canadian was made at 108 c. for
good in bond. Corn is firm, with a fair demand. New
Northern brought 64c. to 64ic.; new Southern and
Jersey, 65e.; old and new mixed, 66c.; and old Wes-
tern and Northern yellow, 68ic. to 69c. per bushel.
Provisions—Our market fur old pork is less firm and
unsettled. New is firm and in demand at 14 dolls. Lard
is firm, but dull. Cheese is very dull and heavy.
Tobacco—The market is quiet fur domestic. Most
of the seed leaf is out of market, and held for higher
prices. We note a sale of 200 bales of Segue on pri-
vate terms, 70 bales of St. Domingo at 13c. to 17ic., and
75 cases of Florida at 20e. to 25c.

Freights—There is not much doing, but shipowners
are firm. To Liverpool the rates are-18d. for flour,
4id. for grain, 3-16 d. for cotton, with engagements ;
17s. 6d. for bacon, with engagements of 200 tierces. To
Havre, cotton is c,
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

The Africa steamer, from Liverpool, the Hudson,
from Glasgow, the Streit, from Marseilles, the Washing-
ton, from Malaga, the Peterel, from Barcelona, the Fre-
derick, from Bremen, the Martha Allen and the Z.D.
Gorham, from Smyrna, the Niagara, from Liverpool,
and the Irvine, from Sligo, have arrived at New York ;
the Maria, from Stockholm, has arrived at Alexandria,
Virginia ; the Revere and the Statesman, from Liver-
pool, have arrived at Boston ; the Invincible, from Li-
vfrpool, has arrived at City Point, Virginia ; the Ac-
taeon, from Liverpool, has arrived at New Orleans ; the
Raphael Arovo, from Bremen, has arrived at Phila-
delphia ; the Argyle, from Glasgow, the Oregon, from
Stockholm, and the Baring Brothers, from Newport,
have arrived at Savannah.

THE PROPOSED NEW ELECTRIC TE-
LEGRAPH COMPANY.
The Submarine Electric Telegraph Company, for
establi.hing that system of communication between Eng-
hind and France, propose to incorporate themselves by
Act of Parliament. The capital is to consist of shares
of 1/. each. The number of shares to be issued is
200,000; 10s. per share to bo the greatest amount of any
one call, with power to borrow to the extent of one-third
of the capital. Powers are proposed to be conferred to
exercise solely and exclusively the right and privilege of
laying down and using a system of electric printing and
other telegraphs from the coast of England to Franco.
The company propose to be empowered to enter into
agreements with foreign Governments. At the expire•
tion of ten years Government may revise the regulations
of the company as shall be deemed necessary for the pro-
tection and convenience of the public. The measure
proposing to establish a submarine electric telegraph be-
tween Great Britain and Ireland contemplates the same
amount of capital for the purposes, and contains almost
similar provisions. The European and American Elec-
tric Printing Telegraph Company is for the incorporating
a company for the working of certain letters-patent
granted to J. Brett for exclusive use in Great
Britain and its colonies for fourteen years. The capi-
tal is to consist of shaia4 of 51. each, in 40,000 shares,
IL per share to be the greatest amount of any one call,
with power to borrow one-third of the capital. The
Magneto-Electric Telegraph Company seeks to be in-
corporated to work certain letters patent granted in 1848
to W. T. Henley and D. G. Foster. The capital is to
consist of :hares of 20/. each, in 25,000 shares, 3/. per
share to be the greatest amount of any cue call, w ith power
to borrow to tt,e extent of one-third of the capital, land
taken not to exceed 100 acres, the company not to take
any assignment or license of patent until 50,0001. in
shares of the company are subscribed for. The existing
Electric Telegraph Company apply for a monetary
amendment of their Act of 1846. The Bill alleges that
600,0001. has been subscribed for, and a sum of 300,000/.
paid on the 6,000 shares; it is expedient that the 6,000
shares of 100/. each should be called in and cancelled,
and that ir.stead of each such share two shares of 251.
each should be created, and that the money paid on any
such cancelled share shall be considered as having been
paid on such two newly.created shares, and be divided
between the same in goal proportions. The borrowing
power being 200,0001, powers are sought to regulate
these powers by the amount of the capital to the extent
of oue-third for the time being, and with one-half actu-
ally paid up.

LITEIIATURE

THE CHILDREA'S OEVIV SUNDAY BOOK.
By Julio. Corner. Longnozus.
Corn,r has long been deservedly popular
the children's friend. It has been lie• especial pro-
vince to render learning not only an easy labour but
a pleasant pafttitne. ll,r graceful pen has invested
the dry facts and figures of history with the charm
and fascination of romance. Any one who is familiar
with her elaborate hut most comprehensive catechism
on the history of Europe will at once most emphati-
cally corroborate our assertion. In that invaluable
volume the histories of the various kingdoms of Eu-
rope are severally and collectively set forth in a man-
ner sufficiently conderp,ed to be easily remembered,
and sufficiently explicit to afford an opportunity for
the introduction of numerous incidental rineedoe,,,
whereby an additional interest is imparted to the nar-
rative, and its main facts are pleasantly interwoven
with One . another. Few story- b mks are more
Lightful than the school books of Miss Corner. The
young generation are now indebted to her itlust:y
ita• another and an equally valuable boon. "
Children's Own Sunday tholi," is calculated must
admirably to supply a want much felt in the nursery
and school-room on a Sunday. Fearful of falling
into either extreme, the wise teacher sometimes hesi-

Wes to award " admonitiom due," lest religion
become a toil instead of a ph3asure, and, on
the other hand, fears toj lose the golden oppor-
tunity of speaking a word in season. Tire
middle path between either extreme has been happily
seized upon by Miss Corner. " The Children's Own
Sunday Book" relates some Bible story, or impresses
some good lesson, in such simple terms, and with
such lovir4g tones, as irresistibly to fascinate the at-
tention and touch the hearts of its little readers—and
not of little readers only ; wise heads may with pro-
fit as well as pleasure bend over these simple pages.
Here they will perhaps learn many facts with which
they have been hitherto unacquainted ; and here, too,
they will meet with many a well-known truth, en-
forced with new and most impressive eloquence. Miss
Corner tells us that her objects in writing have been
threefold—" to instruct, to improve, and to amuse"—
in all of which objects, to judge from the evidence of
the book before us, we feel confident that she cannot
fail to meet with success.
For the sake of variety," she adds, " I have at-
tempted to put into vet se some of the most beautiful in-
cidents recorded in the Bible, because verse is always
attractive to young people, and easily fixes itself in the
memory. The moral lessons are founded on texts se-
lected from the Book of Proverbs and the New Testa-

meet, which I have endeavoured to treat in a maimer
that may at once engage the attention of youthful
readers, and make a lasting impression on minds that
are easily impressed either for good or fur evil."
As an evidence of the very felicitous manner in which
this endeavour has been accomplished let us quote one
chapter on

THE PARABLES OF CHRIST.
"And he spake many things unto them in parables."
ST. MATTHEW, Xiii. 3.
" Many of the most delightful lessons taught by Jesus
Christ to his disciples, and intended for the instruction
and guidance of all future generations, were in the form
of interesting stories, called parables; a parable being a
little narrative which has another meaning besides that
which is expressed, like the short stories usually called
fables.

"In some of these parables, the Saviour pointed out
our duty towards Gud; in others, he endeavoured to
teach us our duty towards our neighbours; but in read-
ing them we must always remember that the people to
whom they wore addressed lived in a country where all
the usages were entirely different from those of the
Europeans, so that we constantly meet with allusions to
manners and customs that are strange to us, although
they were quire familiar to the auditors of the Divine
Teacher. For instance, we read of anointing people
with ointment, but we should scarcely understand the
meaning of such a ceremony unless it had been ex-
plained to us that it was customary among the Jews, and
indeed, among most oriental nations, when a visitor
came to a house, for a servant to bring sweet-scented oil
or ointment in a vase or box of alabaster, and rub it
over his head and beard to give them an agreeable per-
fume; and this was looked upon as a mark of welcome
and respect. Some of these ointments wore very costly;
snd rich people spent large sums of money in such luxu-
ries, consequently the trade in oils and perfumes was
both extensive and lucrative. Again, in the parable of
the Ten Virgins the point of the story turns on the
marriage customs prevalent in the East, which are very
different from]] those observed amongst us on such occa-
sions. The bride is always conducted in procession to
her new abode; and this ceremonial in the time of our
Saviour frequently took place at night, by torch light,
every one carrying a lamp or a torch to light the way,
and give the cavalcade a brilliant appearance. All the
friends and relatives of both parties aro expected to at-
tend, and many of them, instead of going to the house
where the wedding party is assembled, y oin the procession
on its way to the residence of the bridegroom, who thus
triumphantly carries home his wife from her father's
house to his own, where a great entertainment is pre-
pared for the whole company.
"In the story told by our Lord, the ten virgins are
suppose d to be young friends of the bride who have been
invited to the wedding, and go out with their lamps
lighted to await the coming of the procession that they
may take their places in the joyous train; but as the
time of its setting forth was uncertain, and it would not
have been seemly to take a purl in it without their lights,
five of the damsels had prudently taken a little oil with
them to trim the lamps in case of delay; but the others,
thoughtless and improvident, neglece.d this precaution,
and this con:ice:pence was that their lamps went out; and
while they were running about to find a shop where
they might buy some oil to replenish them, the proc,.s-
sion passed by, and was joined by their wiser com-
panions. As soon as they had obtained a supply of oil,
and relighted their lamps, the careless maidens has-
tened to the bridegroom's house; but it was too late, for
the company had sat down to supper, and the doors were
closed, not to be opened again; for it was supposed that
all who had been invited woud take care to be in time,
and the servants were ordered to keep the doors shut
that no strangers might intrude themselves upon the
party.
_ _

" This parable was intended to show that we should
all take care to bo ready whenever it shall please the
Almighty to summon us to his presence; for the time of
our existence is uncertain, and the young as well as the
old may be summoned from this world at any moment.
Let us, then, always try to do that which is right; let
us be careful not to neglect any duty that God has com-
manded us to perform, lest the gates of heaven should
be closed against us, as the doors of the bridegroom's
house were shut against the maidens, who, by their own
negligence, found themselves at the last moment without
the light that would have lighted them to the marriage
supper."
The chapters dedicated to an explanation of thoFe
words so often on our lips from the cradle to the
tomb, and yet so imperfectly understood, and in con-
sequence 5o little appreciated by many—the words of
the Lord's Prayer, are among the most interesting
and practically useful portions of this work.
In simple and familiar language the most
momentous truths and the sublimest wisdom
are here made plain to the understanding of
" babes and sucklings." Especially at this Christmas
season the friends of the young will do well to provide
for the pleasure and profit of their little friends by
placing in their hands this very attractive and most
excellent work.

MAGAZINES, &c.—( CONTINUED.)

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.

Antony Poplar commences the first year of the
half century with a copious and excellent number.
Jonathan Freke Slingsby deservedly leads the van,
and puts forth his easy strength in an exqui-ite
ballad on " The Old Year and the New," accompanied
by a mystic but beautiful German story, entitled
" The Bells of St. Bruno." The lay is worthy of
Tennyson, and the tale, to say the least, of Dickens.
Of two specimens of poetry by other hands, " The
Absentee," and an elegy 'yclept " The we
cannot say a great deal. The verse in the latter
flows with sufficient smoothness, but such rhymes as
" other" and " gather," " withered" and " gathered,"
" moment" and " raiment," " early" and " sorely,"
&c., are not to be endured by gods or men. " The
New Nation" is a highly interesting account of the
magical progress of affairs in California. It may
be conceived with what potency the auri
sacra fames sways the ascendant when we learn
that ships in the harbour have been deserted by
their captains and crew, that the Star and Califor-
nian newspapers, published at San Francisco, ceased
appearing, as the whole staff; from the editor to the
errand-boy, had started for the " diggings," and
among the most active workers in the valley was the
" Attorney-General to the King of the Sandwich
Islands ! " Sir Francis Head's alarmist pamphlet is
attacked with great gusto and ability by a veteran
warrior, who writes with much energy and consider-
able clearsightedness, on the "Defenceless State of
Great Britain." A supplement to the curious series
of papers which have appeared in this magazine on
the subject of "Waren,, ' is given under the head of
" Dainioniac Possessicn, Oracles, and Medical Thau-
maturgy in India," and strikingly illustrates the ex-
traordinary subject-matter. In " Progress and Re-
trogression " the recent works of Laing and K'iy
on the social condition of the people in Europe are
analysed elaborately, and in a masterly spirit ; and a
short but pithy notice is given, in another part, of
Dr. Austen's Introductory Lecture on " the Roman
Civil Law." Maurice Tiernay has a famous chapter
devoted to the pranks and punishment of a ruffian
styled the " The Town-major of Castlebar." In the
following sketch of Napper Tandy how exactly is
unfortunate Smith O'Brien's character hit off:—
"If you can conceive an empty, conceited man, as
ignorant of war as of politics, rushing into a revolution
for the sake of a green uniform, and ready to convulse a
kingdom that he may be called a major-general; only
enthusiastic in his personal vanity, and wanting ever in
that heroic daring which occasionally dignifies weak ca-
pacities (Ballitigarry to wit)—such is Napper Tandy."
"The Ghost Stories of Chapelizod," three in number,
are delightful—" The Sexton's Adventure," one of
the best dashed-off legends we have encountered (and
our readiagin the supernatural decartment is respect-
able), and Washington Irving himself might be proud
trf "'Tie Spectre Lovers." Let us have by all means

some more authentic tales of spectredom from this ec-
complished narrator. The theme of " Cenversatione
with a Late Author" is Lard Bacoe's Essays,
are viewed by the era lite and di:logists in
a different light, the illustrious writer being, accord-
ing to the one—
" As unprincipled arid heartless, and only a less san-
guinary and less daring politician item the Cecilz and
11raisMOIL:Ins of his youth. Their infernal subtlety and
unscrupulousnes,n qualities of al the advisers of Elizr-
beth—the crowned instigator and instrument of the
school.—pervades all he writes. Surveying, nay, pene-
trating, the involutions of character, from a height like
that of Milton's Satan, or of his Archangel Miehsel, be
is without the malignant pride of the one, or the dutiful
benevolence of the other, and has actually less of man in
him than either. Sitting in the awful solitude of him-
self, there is no humanity in him but of the intelligence
—the intelligence of an ungenorous philosophy and piti-
less heathenism !" '
whilst in him, according to the otht,r,
" A marvelous cx,reric rice, a boundless ernaition,
an almost divine comprehensiveness of visdoe,
combine with a magic power, more xv,.rl,q fill than al',
of enriching all he touches, to make; boa the Inmpartii
of huinter thinkers. lie staid:is alone in his niew el
just as he stands en the eminereo of a genius that is
alone in human things. Shekspere knew rnon tied things
as they are—Montaigne as they were in himself; Bacon
alone rose to the science of there, as they were in
both! * • It is not his powers or acquisitions that
tr,tound us, but the use of them. All is intAlectual
alchemy, and of the boundless stores, not to say rub,
bish, of classic, dogmatical, and , physical litoratme he
has at command, you are never reinindod, exupt by the
priceless drops of wisdom and exposit:nee they furnish
when distilled through the magic alembic of his
science. * • He can make all saws tell new truths,
and homely words express rare thoughts. The monarch
of language, he has but to use to aggrandise. * *
There was more than a practical statesman, even a
Richelieu, lost to England in Bacon. If the pedantic
fool, cauonized as the second Solomon, had known how
to seek or to appreciate Bacon, as Henry IV. did Sully,
Charles I. would never have had to expiate parental
folly on the scaffold, and England, spared a civil war,
would have anticipated in peace almost centuries of con-
stitutional freedom!"

A couple of extracts more, and then we turn from
this suggestive paper :
" If there were no statutes of taste in force, no Magna
Chartse of established fames, so that men might judge ot
authors, as in England they affect to do ot faiths, on
their own free poisings and likings, Homer would have
to owe again his preservation to oriental shepherds,
Virgil and Milton theirs to university professors, Shak-
spere and Bacon would have no reader under thirty, and
Scott and Byron none over."
"The hate of circumstances, and the alienation of the
world, is a sort of sombre atmosphere that concentrates
the divided affections, the scattered electricity of a man's
nature, and makes it more intense as the storm around
is darker. The weakness is one of all time and of all de-
grees of moral and intellectual worth. It is as much a
rule fur cashiered officers and bankrupt merchants to
make honest women of their mistresses, as for desolate
gourmands to marry their cocks."
The concluding article, on the " Life and Correspond-
ence of Southey," reviews the " Madoc," and that fine
poem, "Roderick," of which Byron was a passionate
admirer. Many a year as it is since we have perused
" Madoc," how freshly are now recalled the vigorous
description of the combat at the stone of sacrifice,
and the following graphic touch in which the poet
describes the clearing of the elements :
" Three dreadful nights and days we drove along,
The fourth the welcome rain came rattling down,
The wind had fallen, and through the broken cloud,
Appeared the bright, dilating blue of heaven."
The number winds up with a highly vigorous and
able, but dreadfully Toryish political article. A
merciless mitraille is poured into sundry eminent

personages, hit the grind attack is directs-d against
the present Viceroy of Ireland. It would be a most
damaging were it not altogether an ex park state-
ment of charges against that distinguished nobleman.
As to the views and predilections attributed by this
highly talented but, very prejudiced writer to Lord
Clarendon, we shall only_say that we feel convinced of
a complete refutation of such allegations being given
by that high-minded and experienced functionary when
they are brought against him, as no doubt they will be,
in the Senate. Little do we doubt but th At the last of
the Lord-Lieutenants of Ireland (for that tarnished
mockery, the Court of " the Cawstle," is on the eve of
extinction), will there promptly vindicate his political
integrity, and scatter to the winds the calumnies of
his 613:Wants.

CALIFORNIA AND THE CURRENCY.
[Extract from No. 94 of the Quarterly lievicte en
the Rights of Industry and the Banking System.]
" 111 r. Jacob's summary is as follows:
" ' We have estimated the stock of the coin in exist-
ence (iu Europe, including Russia in Asia and Arnerien),
at the end of the year 1809, to have been 380,000,000/. ;
and the additions made to it between that period and the
end or 1829, at the rate of 5,166,8004 annually, would
make 103,736,0004
" From the 380,00J,000/. of coin left in
I St 9, we deduce for loss by abrasion,
at the rate of one part in 420 in each
year, which in the twenty years
would amount to 18,005,2201., thus
letiving in 1629 ...
to which may be added the supply from
the mines ..-

... X 361,904,780

... 103,736,000

thui v,howing,
..• .E1G5,C40,78
from which deduct,
that convui
into titt•mils and
ornaments ... X 5,61.2,611
and that tranet cr,A
to 2,C00,000

.C 152,252,220

£313,385.560
... 66 611,440

I COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, J. 6.
The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
in the grounds around the Castle.
His Royal Highaess Prince Albert went out shoot-
ing this morning, attended by Lord Camoys, Sir
Edward Bowater, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and
Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
arrived at the Castle to-day, on a visit to the Queen
and the Prince.
The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady C. Leveson
Gov, it are expected to arrive to-day on a visit to her
Majesty.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her Royal highness the Duchess Of
Kent, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady C. Levesou
Gower, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth,
and Lieut.-Colonel the lion. C. B. Phipps.
The bend of the Royal Horse Guards attend
during dinner. The Queen's private band will atter-
vb ards attend in the Castle.

His Royal Ilighncss the Duke of Cambridge left
town yesterday tor Windsor Castle.
A mating of , the Royal Commission for the pro-
motion of the Exhibition in. 1851 of the Works of
Industry of all Nations was h:-]d at twelve o'clock
yesterday in the New Palace of Westminster. Pre-
sent—Earl Granville (in the chair), Sir Richard
‘Vestinacott, Sir Charles Lyell, Mr. Cubitt, Mr. F.
Gibson, and Mr. John Shepherd (Chairman of the
East India Company),
Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee, and Colonel Loyd, Special Commissioner, were
present.

Mr. Scott Russell, Secretary to the Royal Com-
mission, and Mr. Bowring, were in attendance.
The meeting broke up at two o'clock.
Mr. Abbott Lawrence, the American Minister, had
an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office.

Yesterday a deputation of patentees of new inven-
tions in the West Indian colonies, consisting of the
Hon. F. Berkeley, M.P. for Bristol, and Messrs.
Rotch, of London ; Carpinael, for patentees in Bar-
badoes ; Bessemer, of London ; T. D. Rotcb, of
London ; Archibald, of Porto Rico ; 'Wilson, of
Lon-
don ; Gadsden, of London; }laze), of Bristol ; Hard-
man, of Liverpool ; and Brown (representing Dr.
Schoffern), of London ; accompanied by Mr. Augus-
tus Mason (solicitor), had an interview with the
Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, at the Board of
Trade, on the present state of the law as regards
Royal grants of letters patent fur inventions in the
colonies.

The Rev. B. Donne attended at the Home-office
yesterday to present a petition from the parish of
"Weston, Herts, for transmission to her Majesty
against the Papal aggression.
Sir J. Emerson Tennent had an interview with
Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Mr.
Howe had also an interview with the Noble Earl
yesterday.
A deputation, consisting of the Hon. Mr. Berkeley,
M.P., Mr. Philip Miles, M.P., Mr. E. Drew (Chair-
man of the Local Marine Board of Bristol), Air. R.
P. King, Mr. W. Patteson, and Mr. F. Green, had
an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Henry
Labouchere.
The Duchess of Sutherland left town yesterday
afternoon, for Windsor Castle.
Dispatches from the Governor of Gibraltar were
received on Sunday, at the Colonial-office.

_HE LATE MR. LILLINGSTON, OF LOCHALSII.—
Mr. Isaac William Lillingstor, of Lochalsh, who died at
Balmacarra on the 3d ultimo, and whose decease has pro-
duced so general a regret throughout the whole Western
Highlands of Scotland, was a gentleman of considerable note
among the proprietors of the north, both on account of his
many exemplary qualities as a landlord, and the many
Christian virtues which adorned his private life. Mr. Lil-
lingston was the eldest son of Abraham Spooner, Esq., of
Elindon Hall, Warwickshire, who took the name of Lilling-
ston by sign-manual, on his marriage with Miss Lillingston,
of Ferriby Grange, Yorkshire. In early life he was desirous
of becoming a landowner in the Highland,, and to attain that
object he, in 1830, visited Harris and Uist. On the occasion
of this journey he was the guest of Sir Hugh Innes, Bart ,
and there became acquainted with Miss Lindsay, neice of Sir
Hugh and heiress of Lochalsh, to whom, in 1832, Mr. Lil-
lingston was united in marriage. Sir Hugh Innes, at his
death, left Lochalsh under trust, and the property did not
come under Mr. Lillingston's sole management until 1844.
At this period in Mr. Lillingston's life commenced the course
of conduct which we deem it important to notice. One of
his first acts on coming into full possession of Lochalsh was
to relieve the tenantry of all responsibility to the trustees for
arrears of rent. Two years after this deed of generosity the
failure of the potato crops involved the people labouring upon
the Lochalsh estate in deep distress. The lamented
subject of this notice purchased 2,600/. worth of
meal, 2,0001. worth of which he gave to the support of
his labourers. And to stimulate his tenants to reproductive
labour, he allowed each crofter to expend half his renti a
improving his land, admitting the amount expended i n re-
duction of the rent at the ensuing payment. Nor did his
benevolence stop here. A number of persons desired to emi-
grate, and sought the aid of the proprietor of Lochalsh. In
refereence to this appeal Mr. Lillingston opened his purse
wide, and on the occasion of the last emigration from Loch-
alsh he gave 1001. to assist the emigrants. These few facts
will show that Mr. Lillingston was a landed proprietor. But
we may observe that throughout the Hebriees, and where-
ever he had an opportunity of doing good, his extraordinary
benevolence extended. But his charities were generally
dispensed through parties bound to secrecy, and their details
can never be published on earth. To do right appeared the
supreme aim of Mr. Lillingston's life. This intention was
sustained by a fixed religious beliet, and by a strict attention
to Christian ordinances. " What ought Ito do?" was his
one question, and his convictions of duty were embodied in
all his relations—in the husband, in the father, in the friend,
in the master, and in the proprietor. At home and abroad he
endeavoured so to live as to please God, and those who have
known him best have ever seen him faithful to this end as
the needle of the compass is true to the pole. Mr. Lillingston
died at the early age of 48 years. His remains were deposited
in the churchyard of Lochalsh on the 12th ult.. in the midst
of a large concourse of sorrowing tenantry. His widow, the
proprietrix of Lochalsh, and three children, one a son, sur-
vive him. It is hoped the father's mantle may fall on the
son, so that the name of Lillingston may in Lochalsk and its
vicinity long be what it now is—that good name which is
better than a world of riches.

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el abstinence from strong drink- is practicable in
connexion with the most arduous toil, and promotive of
health, comfort, independence, and politicl, social, and moral
elevation." In the course of his introductory speech, the
chairman dwelt with great energy upon the advantages of
temperance. They were to have a great gathering in the
Crystal Palace this year, a building which he would call
" The Temperance House." He called it the Temperance
House because the Commissioners had determined that per-
sons contracting for the supply of refreshments should not be
allowed to sell any intoxicating liquors in the building. Be-
sides, as if out of respect to the teetotallers, the contractors
would be obliged to supply filtered water in abundance to every-
body who asked for it. Thus, crystal beer only would be
found in the crystal palace. There would be a great many tee-
totallers there with their wives, from the country, to whom
a good reception should Le given. He was anxious, there-
fore, when these hard-working men came up to London, that
every facility should be afforded to them in the way of finding
lodgings, as they could not go to boarding-houses or hotels.
Let committees, then, be formed to obtain the names of
housekeepers, total abstainers, willing to afford accommoda-
tion to the teetotal visitors, who should be furnished before-
hand with tickets to insure them a welcome reception, at
moderate rates, :upon their metropolitan visit upon this glo-
rious occasion. Nine or ten working men, coalheavers, brick-
makers, compositors, gas-stokers, glass-blowers, brass-
founders, fellmongers, shoemakers, and other trades, then
addressed the meeting iu succession, whose testimony wan
unanimous that total abstinence is practicable in connexion
with the hardest toil. Some of their experiences were very
interesting, and most of them spoke with energy and even
enthusiasm. The proceedings ihroughout were very animated,
and they gave entire satisfaction to the vast auditory.

DEATHS FROM INTOXlCATlON,ElypiinDiguduenaGdili
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stair in Cowan's-close, early on Friday
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An elderly man, named Noble,
morning. He had been seen going about for some days
East Cresscauseway,
apparently the worse of liquor, and when in that condition
he seemed to have fallen in the stair, his head being cut and
foundAT
bleeding. On Thursday night William) Penn,
chimney-
sweep, Causewayside, Edinburgh, was found lying in a close
in Dalkeitb, in a state of utter insensibility from the effects
of liquor. lie was carried to the County Police-station,
Dalkeitb, and medical aid was called in, but the wretched
man expired in about half an hour. Drs. Lucas and Jeffe-
ries, who were called in, attributed his death to excessive
drinking, accompanied with cold.

ROBBERY AT BENTLEY'S BREWERY, ROTHERRAM.
—lt was discovered last Tuesday morning, that during the
preceding night the counting-house of Mr. Bentley's brewery
at Rotherham had been robbed of 961. The money had been
taken out of a nest of drawers in the counting-house under
the care of a clerk named Harrison, who was in the habit
of keeping a key of the counting-house door. Suspicion fell
upon him, and he was questioned closely by Mr. Bland, super-
intendent of police. He denied having paid away any amount
of money from Monday to Tuesday evening, either on his
own account or on account of his employer, but it Was ascer-
tained that he had within that time paid away about 80/.
on his own private account. He is now in custody on sus-
picion of being the thief. None of the stolen money has been
recovered. We understand that when the robbery was dis-
covered a gas light was found burning in the counting-house.
In such a position as greatly to endanger the safety of the
premises by setting fire to a desk. The practice appears to
be to leave the gas burning at sights. This would enable the
robber to operate to advantage, without the fearof attract-
ing the attention of work-people engaged during the night.
Yesterday Harrison was taken before the magistrates, but
on account of Mr. Bentley being from home the prosecution
was not proceeded with, and for the present at least the pri-
soner was set at liberty.—Sheffield 7'imes.

The Duke of Newcastle, in answer to inquiries
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without the slightest hopes of the Noble Duke's recover".
The Earl of Lincoln and Lords Charles and Robert Olin**
are in constant attendance on their noble parent.
THE LATE DISTRESSING ACCIDENT AT CRA.ROIIII.--.
We understand that up to Friday forenoon the body of Jars.
Cadell—the lady whose melancholy death from falling tato
a mill-lade on the Almond river on New Year's morning was
noticed in our last—had not been recovered, although (svt.rY
exsrtion had been made to obtain it. The only trace gaimed
of her has been her husband's overcoat, with which she lied
protected her head and shoulders from the cold and rain on
leaving the ball, and which coat was recovered among awns
bushes near where the lade falls into the stream.—Edinbur.
Courant.
The following members of royal families` died,
during the year 1850 :—Louis Philippe, Archduke Fere ataxia
of Austria, puke of Cambridge, the Queen of the Be! &tali
and the Princess Juliana, aunt of the King of Dense,/ k.