The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-05 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

1850.

Xi 76
476

£1,409

236
1,244

1,114

438
4,108
7,151
2,008
228

752
4,596
f 097
3,551

439
1,115
1,014
480
6SI

730
3,212
14,962
1,614
3,434
2,4:11

788
3,894
13.827
2,3..8
3,957
2,924

3,021
1,059
2,551
3,114
15,583
4,039
11,947

37,9
2,948
1,071
9,333
4,609
184428
7
16,023
1,204

192
43,565

155
48,036

761
12,452
;0,5747

937
12,572
11,8m9

164
5,293

lii9
6,339

637
23,480
1,1711
2,t17
3,187
4,446

683
24,314
1,225
2,131
3,704
5,129

616
1,702

1,445
416
1,334
421
1,457
12,835

505
1,796

2,/36
721

495
2,170
15,846
1,051
1,657
2,583
913
346

223
13,14,3
7.828

222
15,146
9,451

1,G03
862
1,023
17,394
2,850
3.636
8 720
7,539
2,974

2,087
785
1,176
23,252
2,840
3,535
8,428
7,817
3,2;c,

AMERICAN NEWS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY, OCT. 4.

The Ocean Steam Navigation Company's ship
Wa.hington, Captain G. IY. Floyd, arrived off Cowes
at 3 o'clock this afternoon, bringing the United States
mails. After transshipping the mails for England
and France int. a small steamer she proceeded on her
voyage to Bremen. _ _

The Washington has performed her voyage in 13.4
days. She brings 62 passengers, of whom 22 landed
at Southampton. The freight list comprises a smell
quantity of merchandise, sp,cie value 35,000 dolls.
for Havre, and 25,000 dolls. for Bremen. She reports
pleasant weather during the passage, with a very
heavy rolling sea from the northward.
Om► Sunday, September 22, at 5 ♦.m.. in let. 41.71,
long. 65.15, the Washington passed the United States
mail steamer Pacific, bound westward. O:► the 24th
she exchanged signals at 6 A.M., in lat. 43.48, long.
57,6 W., with an English steamer, supposed to be
the Niagara. On the 26th ult. the Washington passed
astern of the wreck Mary Jane (barque), of Sunder-
land, with all three masts gone short off, decks ripped
up, waterlogged, and abandoned, apparently not long
in that condition. This wreck was in lat. 46 45,
lone. 47 4.
The Washington brings letters and papers of three
days later date than those received by the Hibernia
at Liverpool. The intelligence is not of great im-
portance.
The New York Herald gives the following
telegraphic summary of the latest news from Wash-
ington:—
" The Senate passed the Oregon Land Bill yester-
day, and then took up the General Appropriation Bill,
to which several amendments, or rather additions,
were made. One of the amendments appropriates
the sum of 10,000 dollars to be expended under the
direction of the Secretary of State for the expenses of
the Turkish Ambassador during his sojourn in the
United States. The proposition was made by Senator
Hunter, of Virginia, and we are very much pleased to
see that it was responded to by a vote of 35 tol9. We
can afford to spend that sum in entertaining such a
distinguished visitor. Considering the ignorance
which exists in the old world concerning the United
States, the mission of Amin Bey to our country
ought to be considered in the light of a very flattering
compliment, and we have no doubt that he and the
Sultan will properly appreciate the kind reception
which he has met with in Washington—a reception
which we are proud of. The conduct of the Sultan
towards the unfortunate Hungarians who took !re-
fuge in his dominions after they were betrayed
by Georgey and overwhelmed by the Russian
forces has endeared him to this country. Our people
look upon that Sovereign as a friend and an ally, and
desire that the friendly relations between them and
him shall be more intimate, and of a more friendly
character than ever. Between the United States and
the so-called Christian Powers, with the exception,
perhaps, of France, there is not a single link of sym-
pathy, except what arises through commerce ; but
with Turkey the matter is entirely different. The
Sultan is a man after the American heart, and his im-
pulses are the same as ours. Let us by all means,
therefore, promote intimacy with him.
"The sum of 500,000 dolls. was also appropriated
by the Senate for the erection of a public building in
San Francisco, to be used as a custom-house, court-
house, &c. The Senate adjourned without taking ac-
tion on the General Appropriation Bill.
" The House was. engaged with the Naval Appro-
priation Bill, which was debated at considerable
length. We are sorry to see so much opposition to
the mail contract system, and hope that it will not be
renewed. The experiment has been repeatedly tried,
and it has been conclusively demonstrated that the
Government cannot compete with our enterprising
merchants in the construction of ocean steam-ships.'

The President has re-appointed Mr. J. R. Croskey
as Consul for the United States for the port and dis-
trict of Southampton.
By the subjoined paragraph, extracted from the
Herald, it wilt be seen that additional lines of mail
steam-ships are contemplated by the Americans:—
" A citiz n of Philadelphia has made a proposition
to Congress for the establishment of a line of steamers
to run between that city and Antwerp, in Belgium,
touching at Portsmouth, England, and Havre, France,
provided the Government will advance two-thirds of
the amount necessary for their construction, and to
hold a lien upon the ships for the amount for twenty
years. The ships are to be not less than 2,000 tons
burden, and so constructed as to be convertible into
naval vessels, the Government paying 75,000 dollars
per year to each ship for mail service. He also pro-
poses to establish a line of steam-ships between San
Francisco and Shanghai and Hong-Kong, in China,
upon the same terms. The latter are to be fully
equipped for war service, and to be under the com-
mand of naval officers. He requires 200,000 dollars
per year for each ship for mail service."
The Jenny Lind furor continued unabated.

A screw-propeller (the Merlin) was about to ply
between New York and St. Thomas's, touching at
Bermuda.

The Richmond (Virginia) papers mention 38 bars
of solid gold, weighing 8,885 dwts., and worth nearly
1 doll. per dwt., which have just been brought to that
city. These bars were produced in the " Booker
Gold Mine," in Buckingham, now owned by Messrs.
W. M. Moseley and Cd., and were the result of only
sixty days' work. There are two other mines in
Buckingham in successful operation.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, SEPT. 20.
Ashes—The market was steady, with a good demand
for pots, and sales of 150 barrels at 6 dolls. 12ie. for
pots, and G dolls. for pearls.
Breadstuffs —Flour—The market for some descrip-
tions of flour was easier, and the inquiry less active.

a very buoyant tone in the market, and advance prices
materially.
MARKETS (BY TELEGRAPH).
BUFFALO, SEPT. 19, 1 P.M.—The receip•s since our
last have been—flour, 4 000 barrel.; wheat, 34.000
bushels; corn, 24,000 bushels. Flour is in moderate
demand; the market is heavy, with a slight downwa•d
tendency. Small sales hate been made at 4 dolls. to 4
doll-. 6c. for Ohio, and 4 dolls. to 4 dolls. 120. for
Michigun. A moderate inquiry for wheat; the market
is, however, steady. Ohio rim been done at 85c. to 87c.
Corn is steady at yesterday's. rate.; the sales have been
6,000 bushels at 521 c. for mixed western. Prison
whisky is nominal at 24;c. No change in freights.
ALBANY, SEPT. 19.—Receipts since yesterday:—
Flour, 4,060 barrels; wheat, 2 svo bushels; corn, 4,500
bushels; barley, 17,000 bushels. The fl iur market has
been rather heavy, but we notice no material change in
prices. Wheat is firm, with a good milling inquiry.
Sales have been made f 2,500 husbels, at Il6c. for Ge-
nesee. Corn is easier, with a better inquiry; 10,000
bushels have changed hands, at 61c. to 62e. for mixed
western. Oats are improving; the sales tell up 10,000
bushels, at 401 c., to arrive in a week or ten days. 100
barrels of prison whisky sold at 27c. The transactions
i❑ barley have been 8,000 bushels, at 71c. to 72c. for
two rowed, and 78c. for four rowed.
BALTIMORE. SEPT. 19.—For Howard-street flour the
inquiry is pretty active, with free sales at 4 dolls. 75c.
The market for grain is without much alteration. In
provisions there is an improving tendency, including mess
pork at 10 dolls. 75c. There has been a good demand
for Rio coffee the past week, and we have to report
sales of 7.000 bags at 103-e. to 1140. The stock is re-
duced to 7,900 bsgs; the tendency in prices is decidedly
upwa►d.
PEILADELPHIA, SEPT. 19.—There is no inquiry for
Cotton today, but the market is very firm, and about
400 bales of New Orleans sold mostly at 14ic., cash.
Flour is drooping and dull, but the stuck is high. 500
barrels of standard brands sold at 4 dolls. 82ic., 1,000
barrels of good brands were sold at 5 dolls., and 500
barrels (a fancy article for the South American market)
sold at a price not public. Holders are anxious to sell
at 5 dolls., which price is nominally asked. For home
use there is very little doing, and prices remain un-
altered. _ _

Rye flour and corn meal are quiet at 3 dolls., with a
very light stock. Of wheat there is very little offering
or selling. and 1,500 bushels of southern sold at 101 c.
to 115 c. fur reds and 107 c. to 10Sc. for white. Corn, no
change, and 2,040 bushels 'of southern yellow sold at
65c. Oats continue steady, with sales at 37c. to 38c. fur
southern, and 41c. to 42c. for Pennsylvania.
Bark—About 50 hhds. of Quercitron sold at 40 dolls.
for first No. 1.

Ginseng—None arriving or selling.
Beeswax—A small demand. at 24c.

Feathers—Good were sold freely at 33c. to 34c.
In groceries there is nothing new to notice, and
holders are very firm, and light stocks and moderate
transactions. Wool is quiet this week, and the trans-
actions are only about 65,0001 b. domestic at steady rates.
Provisions, not much doing. Pork is held firmly at
former quoted rates. Bacon—the only transactions is a
sale of 100 casks; shoulders at 4i.c.; sides are held at
6c.; and hams are worth Sc. to luc. per lb. Lard—sales
are making at 7c. per lb.
Seeds—No alteration in the market. Linseed is
scarce and wanted at 4} dolls., and Timothy is plenty at
2 dolls. to 2} dolls. per bushel. Whisky, no sales and
the market bare. _

NEW ORLEANS, SEPT.-17.—Cotton is quiet, with
sales of 500 bales at 13 cents. fcr middling. Coffee is
firm, with an upward tendency; sales of 1,700 bags of
Rio at 1111 c. to 12c. Sugar and molasses are firm. Pro-
visions tend upwards. Breadstuffs are quiet. Whisky
sells at 24c. Weather is pleasant and the city healthy.
SEPT. 18.—The Canada's news did not affect our cot-
ton•market; it was published yesterday. 1.000 bales
were sold at full prices—good middling at laic. Flour
has declined 25c. All oth' r markets are inactive.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, OCT. 4.

Arrived at 2.30 P.M., the steamer Washington,
Captain Floyd, from New York in 13f days, with
mails and passengers bound to Bremen. The Malmes-
bury steamer, belonging to the Southampton and Isle
of Wight Steam-packet Company, was in attendance,
and immediately proceeded alongside, embarked the
mails and twenty-two passengers, and conveyed them
forthwith to Southampton. The Washington con-
tinued her voyage to Bremen at 3.45. The Wash-
ington brought Wight mail-bags and seven packages
of specie.
Lord Godolphin has taken Sir John S. Hippisley's
house (or a month from Monday next ; his Lordship
is fitting his schooner in Mr. Joseph White's yard to
cruize about these waters during the autumn.
On Thursday evening the Danish barque Vesta,
Sabroe, from St. Croix, bound to Flensburg, with
sugar and rum, arrived at this port in a very leaky
state, having been struck by a sea, 29th September,
about eighty miles to the westward of Scilly; she
was brought into Cowes Harbour this morning, and
will forthwith land her cargo to enable her to effect
the needful repairs.

WRECK OF THE SUPERB.
VERDICT OF THE JUIIY.

SOUTHA!IPTON, FRIDAY N IGIIT.—The Jersey
packet has arrived here, and brings intelligence of
the close of the inquest in the case of the Superb.
The jury met on Thursday, when several addi•
tionel witnesses were examined, their testimony
being confirmatory of the evidence previously ad-
duced. Fleming, the mate of the wrecked steamer,
wished to address the jury, hut was refused an audi-
ence. The Attorney-General gummed up with great
care and impartiality, and the jury having deliberated,
returned the following verdict

" That Isaac Gossett and his wife were drowned in
consequence of the wreck of the Superb, on the 24th
ultimo.

" That the wreck of the Superb was the result of
culpable imprudence on the part of Captain Priaulx
in taking the Superb in a dangerous place, without
knowledge of its ordinary course.
" That John Fleming, the mate, is guilty of impru-
dence, in attempting to take the said vessel on that
course."

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.)

DATID COPPERFIELD. No. Xl'llL By

Charles Dickens.

Almost all the mysteries and difficulties of the nar-
rative are cleared up or abruptly terminated in the
present number of Copperfield. Scarcely anything,
indeed, remains to be explained by the autobiographer
in the double number which, on the it of November,
will unfortunately bring this exquisite work to a con-
clusion. Nothing, in fact, appears to require
elucidation in the story, if we except the inevitable
union of Agnes and Trotwood, some incidental refe-
rence to the Murdstones and the annihilation of two
horrible monsters, Rosa Dartle and Uriah Heep,by,
we trust, some excruciating and terrible retribution.
We are hopeful, moreover, that before the story
is closed "the dearest girl in the world'
may become the partner for life of Mr.
Thomas Traddles, of the Inner Temple. As to
the progress made in the true history of the adven-
tures, experience, and observations of David Copper-
field, it is surprising to find how much is condensed
within the compass of a single monthly instalment.
Beyond all, the prominent feature in the present
number is the account of the great tempest at
Yarmouth—than which Charles Dickens has
never penned anything more eloquent or more
stirring in its vividness. Souse passages in this
very powerful description may be extracted
without injury to the context, and cannot fail to jus-
tify what we have said upon its excellence. David is
travelling down to Yarmouth, on the box-seat of the
mail-coach :

" • Don't you think that,' I asked, the coachman, in
the first stage out of London, a very remarkable sky ?
I don't remember to have seen one like it.' _ _ _

" Nor I—not (pal to it,' he replied. ' That's wind,
sir. There'll be mischief done at sea, I expect, before
long.'
' It was a murky confusion—here and there blotted with
a colour like the colour of the smoke from damp fuel—
of flying clouds, tossed up into most remarkable heaps,
suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were
depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows
in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to
plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws
of nature, she had lost her way, and were frightened.
There had been a wind all day ; and it was rising then,
with an extraordinary great sound. In another hour it
had much increased, and the sky was more overcast, avid
it blew hard. _ _

" But, as the night advanced, the clouds closing in and
densely overspreading the whole sky, then very dark, it
came on to blow harder and harder. It still increased,
until our horses could scarcely face the wind. Many
times, in the dark part of the night (if was then late in
September, when the nights were not short), the leaders
and we were often
i n turnedserious about,
apprehension
came to a
that d
the e stop,
coach
would be blown
over. Sweeping gusts of rain came up before this storm,
like showers of steel ; and, at those times, when there
was any shelter of trees or lee walls lo be got, we were
fain to stop, in a sheer impossibility of continuing the
struggle.
" When the day broke it blew harder and harder. I
had been in Yarmouth when the seamen said it blew
great guns, but I had never known the like of this, or
anything approaching to it. We name to Norwich—
very late, having had to fight every inch of ground since
we were ten miles out of London ; and found a cluster
of people in the market-place, who had risen from their
beds in the night, fearful of felling chimneys. Some of
these, congregating about the inn yard while we changed
horses, told us of great sheets of lead having been ripped
off a high church-tower, and flung into a bye street,
which they then blocked up. Others had to tell of
country people, coming in from neighbouring Villages,
who had seen great trees lying torn out of the earth, and
whole ricks scattered about the roads and fields. Still,
there was no abatement in the storm, but it blew
harder.

" I put up at the old inn, and went down to look at
the sea; staggering along the street, which was strewn
with sand and seaweed, and with flying blotches of sea-
foam; afraid of falling slates and tiles; and holding by
people I met, at angry corners. Coming near the beach,
I saw, not only the boatmen, but half the people of the
town, lurking behind buildings; some, now and then
braving the fury of the storm to look away to sea, and
blown sheer out of their course in trying to get zigzag
back.
whose ‘ " Jo
husbandsini ng the s
we e gr
er o
awayu p s,
n f ohu enrdr n bewailing
o r o y ate r women
boat
which there was too much reason to think might have
foundered before they could run inlanywhere for safety.
Grizzled old sailors were among the people, shaking
their heads, as they looked from water to sky, and mut-
tering to one another; ship-owners, excited and uneasy;
children, huddling together, and peering into older faces;
even stout mariners, disturbed and anxious, levelling
their glasses at the sea from behind places of shelter, as
if they were surveying an enemy.
" The tremendous sea itself, when I could find suffi-
cient pause to look at it, in the agitation of the blinding
wind, the flying stones and sand, and the awful noise,
confounded me. As the high watery walls came rolling
in, and, at their highest, tumbled into surf, they looked
as if the least would engulf the town. As the receding
wave swept back with a hoarse roar, it seemed to scoop
out deep caves in the beach, as if its purpose were to
undermine the earth. When some white-headed billows
thundered on, and dashed, themselves to pi, ces before
they reached the land, very fragment of the late whole
seemed possessed by the full might of its wrath, rushing
'to be gathered to the composition of another monster.
Undulating hills were changed to valleys, undulating
valleys (with a solitary storm-bird sometimes skimming
through them) were lifted up to hills; masses of water
shivered and shook the beach with a booming sound;
every shape tumultuously rolled on, as soon as made, to
change its shape and place, and beat another shape and
piecetor away;towers and but the
iindge sa,l
and thick; I seemed to see and
rsoteoraendonfelit;hethheocrliosuonds,
flweiwth
fast
a rending upheaving of
all nature."

This tremendous hurricane, which the novelist calls
most " memorable," " for," says he, " it is still re-
membered down there as the greatest ever known to
blow upon that coast," results in the wreck of ;a
schooner laden with wine and fruit from Spain or
Portugal, and in the drowning of poor Ham while
ineffectually endeavouring to save the life
of Emily's betrayer, the wild and unfortu-
nate James Steerforth. Going down to the
beach after the climax of the storm, David
discovers the fragments of the old boat scattered over
the shingle, and there, he exclaims, " among the
ruins of the home he had wronged, I saw him lying
with his head upon his arm, as I had often seen him
lie at school." The scene in which David imparts to
Mrs. Steerforth the intelligence of her son's
death is moat touchingly • depicted—only the
fiendish ferocity of Rosa Dartle renders
a considerable portion of it most repulsive. Turning
to the other portions of the narrative, we find Mr. and
Mrs. Micawber in the very zenith or apogee of their
ambitious day-dreaming. The way in which Mrs.
Micawber, speaking in behalf of her husband,
addresses the imaginary inhabitants of Aus-
tralia, by exclaiming, " This country I am come
to conquer ! Have you honours ? Have you
riches ? Have you posts of profitable pecuniary
emolument? Let them be brought forward. They
are mine ! Enough of delay ; enough of disap-
pointment ; enough of limited
is the
was in the old country. This
it forward"—
new. Produce your reparation. Bring
i ber himself
the way in which Mr.
I‘i cew
ululated observes of the possibility of his nie ans. That
accumulated
Britannia
for-
tunes flowing ultimately into the coffers ~,
with a
in which Master Micawber issues forth..
of practising cattle.
she-4. Britannia—must take her chance. the. way'
walking-stick, for the purpose
ragged
voluntary
assistance had the beasts in charge to render,..„ any
66 v,,bicn, says Mr.
assistance in that direction" (
driving, " when permitted by the ra ed hirelings
circumstance, " I
Micawber, when alluding to
this is told is in
the nature, was not
suchdea sath the
ofo.
tl.: recovery
weeks,
weeks
regret to say, for the credit of
to desist"),—the Way in which awthillen.s,
our
rwith imprecations,
family of the
often—be being generally warned,
are already on
all respects delightful. But •
therutmemigration, together
Micawbers, even including
beautifully with
their way to the regioniuclis.tshl.
very beautifully
Emily,
and
with Mr. Peggotty,
Martha. The number closes Other circumstances,
the record of their departure.
mentioned in the October
not yet particularised,
are
eeeery of dear Aunt Betsey's
husband in a hospital,
instalment,
t'the Urh Heep among the
and the disappearance of
wteidll
aburdinegxqDuaisviitde
metrpolis. In the double
crowded population
Copperfield to a close,.
number, which, in a few
t,e vsriaga
web of the narrative
"r comparable to the eighteen
finished in any manner ill be completed, and, if only
I render his latest work the
preceding instalments,
t novelist.
masterpiece of our grea„—...--.....

THEAmIBASSADOR AND LOLL MON..
Paris the Nepaulese Ambassador sent to
" Before quitting N
E r AITESS
nts.—The Evenement treats its readers with the following :
the celebrated Lola blontes a magnificent robe of cloth of
M gold. Lola entes is the only woman in France or in Eng -
gland with whom the Prince Jung Bahadour could
converse
-
in the language of his country,and the charm which he found
the name of the Sultan, his cousin, a
in the conversation was very great. There was for a time a
question of the departure of the Countess de Lausfeldt for Ne-
paul ; but, after a war of throe years with England, Jung
Bahad
treaty our signed, in
with Great Britain, by which it is prohibited to any
European to enter the empire of Nepaul under any pretext.
Even k:nglish subjects are not exempt from this
clause, which
the Indian Prince deeply regrets ;
for, but for that, he would have taken with him
two hundred persons to spread in his country the
intelligence and civilisation of Europe. The English Go-
vernment is said to have dreaded that Lola Montes would
have in Nepaul the success which she had in Bavaria, and
the
proveenEnglish
that the Nepaul
must have made some observations
which Neeaul treaty. was made alike for men
and m
Loll Montes remains unfin Parisithful to
hu plesba ad at
w of
for
r
This paragraph, says Gulignani, is what the French call
law against a fickle, it he is not an
a, nd."
familiarly a canard. The Nepaulese ambassador, if it should
be translated to him before he quits France, will be equally
amused and astonished to learn that he made a present to the
Countess of Lansfeldt, in Paris, and conversed with her in
his own language. We believe that the Countess has not been
seen in Paris for more than a month.
SHERITISIIIP OF Ross AND CROMARTY. -- This
office, vacant by the death of John Jardine, Esq., has, we
understand, been conferred on George Deas, Esq., the senior
depute-atlyocate.—lnrerne.ss Courier. •

EMERAGON ON INSURANCES. Translated
from the French, with an Introduction and Notes,
by S. Meredith, Esq. Buttes worth.
This is the most comprehensive, able, and interest-
ing work upon the important subjects of which it
treats that has ever come under our notice. The
legal treatises extant on the subject of marine and
maritime insurance are very meagre, and we think
the present book calculated to supply a defect which
must be deeply felt in a country nice England, whose
trade and commerce are of world-wide extent. The
ancient city of Marseilles was the scene of the success-
ful labours of the amiable and gifted Frenchman,
Balthazar Marie Emerigon, whose great treatise has
been so admirably translated by Mr. Meredith.
Emerigon was born in 1716, at Aix, in Provence,
and atter the usual course of study was admitted an
advocate in the Parletnc,.nt of Aix, where he very soon
showed promise of his future greatness. But it was ,
at Marseilles, then the great maritime power of sou-
thern France, that he attained the highest point of
eminence. Here it was that in the exercise of his
profession he was frequently brought into contact
with subjects connected with maritime law, and seeing
how little on this subject was contained in any system
of jurisprudence then known, he determined to tix his
attention upon this one point. The result of this
determination has been the production of the great
work, known and recognised by the members of the
legal profession in the old world and the new. The
translator has introduced a biographical sketch of his
author, which will be read with deep interest by the
aspirant to legal or literary fame, and while doing
justice to the brilliancy of the advocate and orator,
he does not forget the worth and virtues of the man.
We can excuse this agreeable episode even in'a legal
work, and the more readily when we reflect how very
seldom eminent genius is crowned with its merited
rewards, and how, when sometimes men of splendid in-
tellect reach high points of worldly glory, their success
cannot be always attributed, as in the case of Emeri-
gon, to the inflexible integrity of their lives; as much
as to the brilliancy of their genius. The book is
divided into seventeen chapters, comprising the fol-
lowing subjects :—Contract of Insurance—Form of
the Contract—The Premium—Persons capable of
being Parties to the Contract—Parties Contracting—
The Ship—The Captain—Things that may be In-
sured—Value, &c., of the Effects Insured—Proof that
the Subject insured has been placed at Risk—Mari-
time Risks—Time and Places of the Risk--Proof of
Loss—lnsurance made after Loss or Safe Arrival—
Return of Premiums—Abandonment. There are
three other chapters of the French author which Mr.
Meredith has not translated, viz., those on Payment
of the Sums insured, on Prescription, and on Judg-
ments, which, though their omission does not leave
this work, as far as he has gone, either imperfect or
incomplete, it would yet be desirable to see added in
the next edition, which we have little doubt will be
speedily called for.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.

In our advertising colunins will be found the pro-
spectus of the Executive Committee of the above con-
certs. A perusal of its contents will at once convince
our readers of the unprecedentedly vast scale upon
which those concerts are to be conducted, and the
great and highly beneficial influence they are calcu-
lated to exercise upon the progress of native art and
the musical taste of the British public in general.
The committee is, we understand, composed of
noblemen and gentlemen, who, uninfluenced by sor-
did motives, have, in entering upon this colossal un-
dertaking, been animated solely by an honourable
desire to encourage art and artists, and to disseminate
a love for the works of the best masters.

Such persons are, in our opinion, the most fit to
direct so important a movement. Placed by their
resources and position above the state of complete
dependence upon popular patronage in which the
mere speculator must necessarily be placed, and
equally removed from all professional tracasseries
and intrigue, they can proceed with confidence and
consistency in their important administration.
The programme presents so formidable an array of
distinguished names, so much that is novel and inte-
resting, that we cannot attempt to follow it through
all its details. Most of the artists are established fa-
vourites with our London public, and, with the names
of those who have not yet been afforded opportuni-
ties for becoming so, Fame's trumpet has already
made it familiar.

The following particulars, which we extract from
The Builder, relative to the alterations taking place
in the theatre, may prove interesting to our readers :
" Considerable changes are being made in the interior,
to fit it for a series of promenade concerts. All the
seats in the pit have been removed, and the partitions
in all the tiers of boxes, with the exception of the grand
tier. The promenade will remain on the level of the pit
floor' and have a flight of steps on each side up to the
level of the stage. .The orchestra, to hold ninety musi-
cians, will be partly on the stage, partly in the prome-
nade. All the machinery over the stage, &c., has been
removed, to admit a tentlike covering, to form a grand
saloon, which will be adorned with statues, &e. Mr.
Johnson is the architect, and Mr. Wint tee builder em-
ployed."
To this we will add that the works are in a state of
great forwardness, and that no doubt whatever is en-
tertained of the theatre being opened on the evening
announced, viz., the 15th of this month.
We heartily wish the directors success in their ar-
duous and liberal undertaking.

COURT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, OCT. 3.

Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert remained yesterday at " the Hut,"
Loch Muick.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of 'Wales, the
Princess Royal, Princess Alice, and Prince Alfred,
attended by Mr. Birch and Miss Hildyard, drove
over to Invercauld.

Meetings of the Metropolitan Local Commissioners
accompanied by Secretaries of the Local Committees,
took place yesterday with the Executive Committee
of the Exhibition of 18M. Colonel Reid, Mr. Cole,
Mr. Dilke, Colonel Lloyd, and Dr. Royle were pre-
sent on the part of the Commission. The followifig
Local Commissioners assembled :
As representing Paper, Paperhangings, Bookbind•
ing, Leather, and Straw—Mr. R. Horne, Grace-
church-street; Mr. W. Haselden, Whitelands, Chel-
sea ; Mr. W. Paxon, Hampstead ; Mr. S. M. Hu-
bert, Marylebone-lane ; Mr. G. H. Drew, secretary
of the Westminster Committee ; Messrs. E. W.
James and C. H. Hopwood, honorary secretaries to
the Finsbury Committee ; Mr. H. G. Bohn, York-
street; Alderman Sidney, M.P., Ley ton House,
Essei ; Mr. W. Hickson, Smithfield ; Mr. H. Vyse,
Wood-street ; Mr. A. Wilson, Queenhithe.
As representing Furniture, Metal Work, Glass,
and Pottery—Mr. W. Smee, Finsbury-pavement;
'Mr. J. Bettridge, Halkin-street West; Rev. S. R.
Cattley, secretary of the City Committee; Mr. J. G.
Grace, Wigtnore-street ; Mr. T. B. Simpson, South-
wark ; Mr. Apsley Pellatt, Southwark; Mr. C. Red-
path, Poplar ; Mr. W. De la Rue, Bunhill-row ; Mr.
W. J. Rogers, Carlisle-street; Mr. IV. B. Simpson,
West Strand ; Mr. W. Binn, Poplar ; Mr. E. Cole-
mae, Poplar; Mr. E. Cowper, King's College; Mr.
C. Cowper, Southampton-buildings; Mr. E. Sayer,
Clifford-street ; Mr. S. Gerraud, Panton-street ; Mr.
.J. Evans, King William-street; Mr. H. Spicer,
Bridge- street.
As representing Raw Materials in the Mineral
Kingdotn—J. Spurgin, M.D., Guildford-street; Pro-
fessor D. Ansted ; Professor Braude, Royal Mint ;
Mr'. W. Freeman, Millbank-street ; Professor Gra-
ham, Gordon-square ; Mr. H. Roper, Spital-square ;
Mr. J. Casey, Spital-square ; Mr. R. Hunt, Museum
of Practical Geology ' • Mr. J. A. Phillips, Greenwich ;
Mr. J. J. Bunning, Guildhall ; Mr. W. Baker, Bat-
tersea; and Mr. C. Francis, South Lambeth.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has returned to
his seat, Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire.
Dispatches from the Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands, and also from the Governor of
Melts, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Co-
lonial-office for the Governors of the North American
colonies.

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DEER-STALKING. The exciting sopfse. t olwe peer-
stalking stalking increases as the season draws
sent in from theto
seen a number of beautifully antlered heads
forests lately, fit companions to the trophthieesirofspfoorrmt e
a r t years. Tor.
Mr. Mackenzie and a friend have closedtheir rifles. At Inver-
ridon ; nine good deer have fallen
to
broom, A. K. George, Esq.,
and
five ; the last was shot by Dlr.
Mr. Blackburn, have shot
of Georgehead
ten o n B en
points. - D a
Ar.
igr ou
Ellice,he
30th September, has a noble In
M.P., has shot five good-head of Jura, has killeded stags in Glenquoich.
the Island of Harris, Mr. Campbell,
forty-three deer, mostly
stags. In the cornea of Strathco-
non, Mr. Balfour shot five stags last week in four days—one
of them had 14 points ; two of 12, or royal ; one of 11; and one
o points, all heavy deer, and the five counting 59 antlers.
Of 0
One of the oral heads is the guest of the season. The horns
1/ inches long, in thickness, and the brow antlers
6a7 3th3iel.At Bath:dale S. E. Colby, Esq., has shot several
good deer ; the last was a heavy stag of 25 stones clean, with
a handsome head of ten antlers, those at the brow double and
spreading in a half-circle. Mr. Ross of Cromarty killed a
stag. with a neat head; and in the Forest of Inchnacardoch
E. Digby, Esq., shot a very heavy stag, with a splendid
royal head. At Inverlail the Messrs. Pryor have bad ex-
cellent sport, having killed a stag on each day of stalking.
At Dunbeath John La Touche, ill., shot a good stag and
hind last week. John M. E. Jones, Esq., and S. D. Pen-
rose, Esq., have killed 7 stags at Achintoun. At Corriemony
the lion. Captain Gough got a stag with a neat head of
horns. From Leith Hall, Old Rain, we learn that partridge
shooting had afforded good sport, and that from 20 to 30
brace had been obtained per day. —lnverness Courier.
STRANGE DETECTION OF SMUGGLING.—On Friday
evening as the Enterprise steamer, which plies between
Rotterdam, Ipswich, and Yarmouth, was entering the latter
harbour, she ran against the pier, and carried away part
of the woodwork of the paddle-box, discovering to the asto-
nished Custom. house officers about 1601bs. of manufactured
tobacco dangling down among the paddle-work machinery,
in such a position as no mortal Would have ever dared to
search. Bradley, the engineer, is• now in custody, on the
charge.—Essex Standard.