The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-19 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
M. JULLIEN'S CONCEit

HARRISON AINSWORTH'S ROMANCES.
Vol. XL—JACK SHEPPARD.

beyond doubt that the chief authorities view their
movements with no 'small alarm, and are preparing
in every possib:e way to protect the city from their
violence.
As regards the origin of the present outbreak, it
will be remembered that in April, 1849, large bodies
of militia were in training, as was believed, to oppose
any attempt on the part of foreigners to enter the
city. This may have been the chief object of their
organization ; but the authorities averred that they
were raised to defend the city against large numbers
of lawless persons then in arms in the provinces, and
some of the proclamations assigned this as a motive
for calling on the people to subscribe funds to main-
tain the militia. The Peking Gazettes of the above
period record the defeat and capture of 552, for which
Sii, Ye the Governor, and others, were honourably
noticed ; and 'he death of a Major slain by robbers in
Yteg teh, one of the districts in which they are at
this moment in chief face, and the magistrate of
which, with hie subordinates, was rewarded in a
decree of August, 1849. for the capture of some 140
of them ; but up to the 25th of July last numerous
memorials and rescrip's have appeared, on the other
hand, regarding the disturbed state of Hu-nan and
Kwang-si, which two provinces are conterminous
with each other and with K %yang. lung.
In December the authorities of Hu-nan reported
the extermination of 300 and odd banditti in Sin-
ning, not far from the borders of Kwang-si ' • but in
the following month an officer was stated to have been
killed in conflict with some of the band, and in April
a general officer and others were degraded for not
giving a better account of them. In May the same
province reported the destruction of five hundred and
more, and the dispersion of the Teat, who had fled into
Kwei-chau, a province also conterminous, on their
western fronts, with Kwang-si and Hu-nan. The
capture of Li Yuen-fall, the leading " rebel " in
the latter, not long after procured for the Gover-
nor-General of Hu-kwang the honorary title
of guardian of the Crown Prince, and post-
humous honours were awarded in June to a
Major and other officers killed in action with the
banditti of Hu-nan and Kwang-si. A decree of the
25th of July directed the Governors of these two
provinces and of Kwei-chau to be vigilant in pre-
venting parties of them from crossing the frontiers of
their respective jurisdictions. During the period
under review there are three notices in the Gazette of
robbers captured or posthumous honours awarded to
officers slain in their pursuit in Kwang-si. It is
utterly silent respecting their proceedings in Kwang-
tung.
The common belief is, that the band now so for-
midable is composed of natives of all three provinces.
Tney were active in the summer months in the south
of Kwang-si, and either stormed or held to ransom
two district cities, if not more, in its south-west ter-
ritory, which rests, so to speak, upon Kwang-tung.
They are said to have pushed northwards within the
limits of the former province, until they reached its
easternmost department, whence, after sacking the
district town of Ho, they appear to have passed into
the district of Ying-teh, and thence into that of
Tsing-yuen, the city of which is but 120 miles from
Canton, and only separated by two districts from
those on the common border of which the city itself

For a bold, jubilant, crowd-stirring conception,
commend us to M. Jullien. The "Army and IN,vy
Qoadrilles" have each had their ovation. Long-
slumbering melodies, which worked up the hearts of
our grandsires, have been evoked and stirred, as in the
lap of peace, with the memories of past prowess. But
Jullien is not wholly anti-C..hdenic in his sympathies.
He can tune you the shepherd's pipe as well as the
martial trumpet—nay, more, he can array trumpet,
drum, and cymbal, besiite the amorous oboe and the
sprightly fiddle, and make them blend their voices in
the hymen of peace. Last night saw him in his
height of glory and pride of success. The Great Ex-
hibition of 1851 has begotten in his brain a grand
" inspiration." To say that that " inspiration" has
assumed the firm of a quadrille will he enough for
all who know to what superb dimensions that
class of composition expands itself under M.
Jullien's want. Tier upon tier rise the merry
minstrels, so:ne in the garb of peace, others in
the trappings of war. Instruments are there,
various as the myriad melodies gathered from all
regions. The bands of the Royal Artillery, the 2:i
Life Guards, and the C:ddstrearn Guards (under their
respective conductors, Collins, G. Cooke, and the ve-
teran Godfrey), ancient allies of M. Jultien, were on
this great occasion reinforced by some score of drum-
mers of the French National Guard, under the pic-
turesque direction of M. Barbier, the tambour-major.
This corps made the hearts of the audience leap, and
brought a rosy tint upon many a fair cheek, with their
pas acceleres, recloub,es, reveilles, rAppels, marches,
nna other military ordonnances of the French
army. To the curious in the art of drumming,
their performance is a rare treat. Tne execu •
tion of a diminuendo passege in the rappel was
a most masterly performance. After solos by
Lavigne, Pratten, Collinet, those renowned guitarists,
the Messrs. Ciebra ; Soualle, on the Corno-Musa ;
Sommers, on the Botebardon ; Cioffi, Koenig, Stree-
t her, and Baldacci, we find ourselves hurried along in
the " March of all Nations." " The Morning of the
Inauguration," we quote M. Jullien's emphatic
precis, "of the Grand Exhibition is supposed to
have arrived. The great city, which, for the first
time shelters such masses from all parts of the known
world, is, as yet, tranquil, when, at day break, the
festival is ushered in by the sounding of the chimes
of London, echoed far and near from each surround•
ing belfry. Soon the city is in movement, and the
multitudes hasten towards the same goal, all eager to
behold the most stupendous realization of human in
dustry recorded in the history of the globe. A tre-
mendous shout bursts forth, and the welcomed nations,
one and all, join in the cry.—' God Save the Queen.' "
This is epic, and it is something more; for it is in-
terpreted to those who might happen not to have a
programme by the vivacious gestures, the flickering
baton, and the übiquitous gloves of Jullien. Nothing
was wanting to the most complete success, except, it
may be, a little more individuality in the gigantic
octo-basso, which filled a larger space in the eyes than
in the ears of the audience. The most cordial wel-
come was given to the French corps, whose martial
appearance and decorous recognition of the national
feeling, when more particularly challenged upon the
playing of the national anthem, commanded the ge-
neral admiration of a crowded and enthusiastic au-
dience.

There is a dignity in the silence preserved by Mr.
Ainsworth in reference to his literary assailants.
Jack Sheppard" appears in his new end popular
form without any prefatory notice whatever. We
cannot but regard the circumstanca as in the highest
degree honourable to the disposition of the novelist.
Nevertheless, while appreciating the amenity of tem •
per evinced by the ornissioe, sve cannot hut regret
that the author of " Jack Sheppard" has not given
utterance, in some measure at least, to those senti
merits of indignation which must inevitably have
been long cherished by him with regard to his
literary assailants. After so many virulent attacks
as have at different periods been directed against the
popularity of Mr. Ainsworth's writings, with a view to
deteriorate his reputation, we should have rejoiced to
hear from the lips of our author himself some reply,
no matter how scornful or incidental. Not that we
regard his popularity as needing any vindication, in
reference either to the selection of his subjects, or to
their treatment as romances. Oa the commencement
of the present admirable re-issue of his collected fic-
tions we took occasion ourselvi s to expose the filly,
not to say the egregious injustice, of assailing Mr.,
Ainsworth as the first offender in a style of narrative
which had been tolerated more or less in most of his
literary predecessors and contemporaries—in sonic
instances eulogised terns even in ters of extravagant
enthusiasm. It can scarcely be forgotten by the
loiers of modern literature, that in answer to a
charge somewhat similar to the one here hinted at,
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton penned a response to the
hypercritics, in the form of a most cogent and mas-
terly pamphlet. In that brochure the poet. novelis';,
taking his text, as it were, from the higher orders of
imaginative composition, maintained that the consi-
deration of crime was the essential prerogative of the
tragic dramatist, and that upon the same reasoning it
was also a no less allowable theme for the tragic
romancist. .2Eschylus may be said, indeed, in a great
measure to have based his celebrity upon the accept-
ance of this principle. Shaksnere again, with a like
appreciation of the veritable attributes of the " poet"
or creator, infused the same ghastly truth into
his most remarkable masterpieces. It would
be somewhat difficult, we conceive, to show that
the atrocities perpetrated by Clytemnestra have ever
been surpassed by the most villanous criminals whose
sinister histories have been recorded in the pages of
the Newgate Calendar. Neither to our thinking
would it be less embarrassing to demonstrate the
existence of a greater amount of depravity in the
housebreaker, whose hands were never stained with
blood, and whose principal shame was that of having
adopted burglary as his profession, than in the re-
morseless thane whose investiture with the diadem of
royalty arose out of one of the most dastardly mur-
ders ever perpetrated—that of an aged guest slumber-
ing under his roof—and whose continued
possession of the sceptre was attributable only
to a series of bloody assassinations. The heinous
infamy of Macbeth has never yet been considered suf-
ficient to remove him beyond the pale of our sympa-
thies. Yet criminals we might almost say infinitely
small in comparison are regarded as altogether with-
out the reach even of our regard or consideration. it
may be said, or rather is said, that in the one instance
the grossness of the crime is in a manner sublimated
by its poetic treatment, whereas in the other instance
he felon is submitted to our notice in his natural as-
pect through the homelier medium of a prose narra-
tive. Than this we can conceive no more shallow or
more prepos!asrous argument. Instead of justifying
the dramatist at the expense of the novelist,
the circumstance does exactly the reverse.
For, assuredly, vice may be invested with
attraction and crime with a sort of diseased
sublimity by their celebration in the lofty numbers of
poesy—while the portraiture of either the one or the
other in the humbler guise of a prose description re-
veals their more obvious and undeniable characteris-
tics. Hence it is that the delineation of the darker
phases of humanity by the hand of the novelist ap-
pears to us calculated to be beneficial rather than
pernicious—revealing atrocity in its true form, and
dragging before us crime in its very nakedness, not
tricked out in the pomp of a poetic masquerade. A
fanciful theory has been advanced by Mr. Disraeli,
if we recollect rightly, in his psychological romance
of " Contarini Fleming"—to the effect that the poet
having breathed out his soul to the world, first in
ballads, then in odes, then in epics, then in dramas,
after employing as the medium of his inspiration all
the ingenious styles of composition, the idyll, the
elegy, the sonnet, the hymn, the psalm, and the la-
mentation, has at length, in a more perfected age of
civilization, adopted, as the vehicle of his thought,
the form of the rhymeless and rhythmlets, but still
poetic, romance. 'Whether this notion be strictly
correct, or otherwise, it is certain that the novelist
is the child, or descendant, of the poet, and that, as
one epoch spoke through the tragic or comic drams,
our own speaks through the prose romance. As
the heir of the poet, the novelist is, therefore,
entitled to the use of those great prerogatives for-
merly enjoyed by his predecessor, and, among these,
not one is more inestimable in its influence er more
capable of judicious employment, than the preroga-
tive according to which crime and criminals may lie
delineated. Fielding felt this when he penned the
history of that most despicable wretch, the thief-
taker " Jonathan Wild"—God win felt it when he made
the interest inspired by a murder the main-spring of
" Caleb Williams"—Scott felt it when he caused the
evil practises of Dirk Hatterick to infuse a charm
into the pages of " Guy Mannering"-13ulwer
when he celebrated the life of the highwayman
" Paul Clifford" Dickens when he painted
the grim and bloody figure of Sykes flying
from the corpse of his paramour, in those
powerful chapters which precede the close of " Oliver
Twist." Actuated by the same sentiments, Harri-
son Ainsworth wrote his enthralling romance of
" Jack Sheppard." A narrative of more absorbing
interest we cannot call to our recollection. Once
commenced, it is idle to think of putting it aside
until read to its conclusion. Every leaf contains an
incident, and these incidents are chiefly of the most
breathless character. From the storm on the Thames,
magnificently described at the outset, to the exe-
cution of the hero, with which, of course, the
story is brought to an appropriate termination,
the work rivets the attention of the reader, and
that too by the st.roog and legitimate power of the
descriptions. Throughout "Jack Sheppard" the
crimes of the more diabolical characters introduced
are always held up to unmitigated detestation, as
may be especially seen by reference to Janathan
Wild—the Jonathan Wild of Henry Fielding! Poetic
justice is done to the vices and felonies of the hero by
his being ostentatiously conducted to the gallows at
Tyburn ; and our sympathies are excited towards
Jack simply because of his possession of some excellent
qualities, or through the admiration very justly ex-
cited by his daring and even wonderful escapes from
confinement. In the person of Thames Darrell
and in that of 'Winifred 'Wood, the author
has well vindicated his capacity for the de-
lineation of the more gentle aspects of
humanity. Mrs. Sheppard herself, the mother of the
burglar, is charmingly conceived, and it is impossible
not to recognize fine traits of a better disposition
than might be expected even in poor Blueskin.
Among the most vigorous portions of the work, al-
way s excepting the account of Jack's escapes from
incarceration, is the passage relating to the assassina-
tion of Sir Rowland Trencisard in the well hole, by
the thief-taker and his Jewish satellite, Abraham
Mendez. It reveals in the intellect of Mr. Ains-
worth that supreme command over the horrible
which, if he had been a painter instead of a novelist,
would have induced him to portray such incidents
as that transpiring in the prison of Ugolino. For our-
selves, one of the most masterly and interesting chapters
in the romance is the one in which Jack is visited at
Newgate by Sir James Thornhill, Gay, Figg, and
Hogarth. Happily, however, for Mr. Ainsworth, the
time has passed by when a detailed criticism on
I " Jack Sheppard" was requisite to introduce it to pub•
lie consideration. All that remains for us at present
is briefly to notify the fact of the present republica•
tion, a republication the more interesting when it is
remembered that this eleventh volume comprises.
perhaps, the most remarkable of all the fictions of
Harrison Ainsworth, with the single exception of
the "Miser's Daughter."

is situated. A note, received this morning (28th),
states that on the 4th inst., a party of them sacked
Kinchau, a district town Lien-cbau, the West De-
partment of Kwang-tung, the chief city of which
was still in a state of siege. The place in question is
not far from the borders of Kwang-si and Tonquin.
We have of course no better authority for stating
their progress and present position than native cor-
respondents, who differ widely in dates and details.
Two, however, who have no connexion with each
other, agree in stating that the Government troops
have been frequently beaten during the last two
months; that reinforcements are being sent out with-
out intermission; that Shap-'ng-tsai and another ex-
pirate, who had been, like himself, taken into the
army, had been captured and held to ransom by the
insurgents, and a large body of reclaimed pirates
who had accompanied them cut to pieces or dis-
persed ; that an expectant prefect, a civilian of some
importance, had fallen into their hands, the men under
his command, who were from the east of the pro-
vince, and a most disturbed region, having deserted
in large numbers to the enemy ; and that the gentry
and people had responded to the invitation of the
Government to arm themselves for the protection of
the city. Rewards have been offered for the appre•
hension of suspicious characters ; and all amusements,
processions, &c., calculated to attract a crowd of
people, forbidden. Sand and stones are said to be
piled up inside the gates, which would be thus rendered
defensible, when closed, if an alarm were given; and
water vats have been filled near public buildings, in
case any attempt should be made to fire the city.
Of Su, we hear that he has been, and is seriously
indisposed ; but that the Emperor has refused to sanc-
tion his retirement, requested on the plea of ill-health.
Both our native correspondents declare that he is de-
graded four steps, but desired to remain at his post,
and that the Governor of Kwang-si has been sent pri-
soner to Pekin, in obedience to an order contained in
a rescript, to answer for his mismanagement. One of
them writes that an Intendant in Kwang-si in despair
had destroyed himself by swallowing gold ; also that.
Sii himself had in July last accompanied a portion of
the force known as the Governor- General's division,
to the district of Tsing-yuen, and havii.g sustained a
defeat, had fallen back upon San Shwui. This last
item of intelligence deserves little credit. Those pre-
ceding it are entitled to more, but a late account con-
tradicts a previous report that the Governor of
Kwang-si had poisoned himself, and shows him to be
actively engaged in opposing the robbers on the
Eastern border of his government.
It is further rumoured that some time since Su
represented that Kwang-si was in a state of rebellion.
The term employed, however, would be applied to
any body or individual offering a continued resistance
to constituted authority and by no means warrants
the assumption that this movement is of the revolu-
tionary character with which some foreigners are;dis-
posed to invest it. The chiefs, as is common on such
occasi,ns, have taken to themselves titles of awful
grandiloquence, such as " The Realm-subduing Gene-
ral," " Generalissimo of the whole Empire, sweeping
clean to the North, rising up as the Dragon," &c. &c.
Dangerous as may be the temptation to the disaffected
if these vagabonds continue to hold their own for some
months, we have as yet no shadow of ground for be-
lieving that their aim is the subversion of the Tartar
dynasty.
Some disturbances, but purely of a local nature,
had taken place at Shanghae.

ADELPHI THEATRE.
A new dr.ma from the pens of Mr. Robert Frough
and of Mr. Bridgman, a new aspirant for dramatic
fame, was produced here last evening with the most
complete success. It is entitled Jessie Gray, and
Madame Celeste, of course, acts the part of the
heroine; she is supposed to he the niece of a benevo-
lent apothe, a.:r, Dr. Gray (Mr. 0. Smith), who is in
practice in London, and whose assistant Jukes (Mr. G.
Honey) is the " funny man" of the piece, being over-
head and ears in difficulties, in love (with a marchande
de modes cleverly acted by Mis- Kathleen Fit zwilliam),
and in terror, lest he should be arrested for hav-
ing, as he thinks, poisoned a footman by mistake, and
being, moreover, haunted by that perpetual bugbear
of all unfledged medicos, " going up to pass." Jessie
Gray is loved by Philip Harville (Mr. Boyce), the
nephew of Sir Richard Harville (Mr. H. Hughes), a
cold-blooded haughty man, who determines to prevent
what he considers a mesalliance by exciting the jea-
lousy of his nephew. To effect this he works upon
the fears of Jukes, and forces bi:n to give Jessie an
opiate, and when she is asleep to introduce
himself and the housekeeper into her bedroom, so that
their shadows are seen at the:window by Philip, whom
he has taken care to have in waiting in the street.
In agony Philip declares that he will now marry in
accordance with his uncle's wishes, and he sees Jessie
to take leave of her. The scene between Jessie and
Philip is admirably wrought up, and was acted with
intense feeling by Madame Celeste. Her expression
of agony when she hears herself falsely accused was
harrowing. Still, however, there is some feeling
of love for Jessie yet lurking in the heart
of Philip ; and the Baronet, to make all secure,
determines to have her seized and conveyed away to
sea in his yach►. For this purpose he engages Pro-
fessor Chester (Mr. P. Bedford), a gentleman who,
having some years before gone to New South Wales
at the public expense, has returned to England at his
own, and is getting his living as the Hercules of a
poses plastiques exhibition. The professor is secreted
in Gray's house, and there he overhears a conversa-

tion between Jessie and the Doctor (Gray), from which
it appears that Jessie is not the doctor's niece,
but an orphan whom he had found deserted
at an hotel in Paris, and had adopted. The
Professor likewise discovers that Gray's housekeeper,
who is assisting in the plot for the abduction of
Jessie, is no other than his own wife, from whom, for
various reasons, he is anxious to keep the fact of his
existence a secret. The scene now changes to the
house of the Baronet, where the denouement takes
place. There is a large and fashionable party there,
and the salons are crowded with dancers ; the Doctor
calls, and is shown into a parlour ; he demands
a private interview with the Baronet, and after
some difficulty obtains one; he reproaches him with
his conduct to Jessie, and his remonstrances are
received by Sir Richard with sneers and contempt.
Soon, however, the attention of the Baronet is
awakened, the Doctor speaks of years gone by, of a
secret marriage, of a wife deserted, and of a child lost
—the proud man now beseeches the apothecary to
say all he know., that wife was his, that child was
his, and that child is Jes-ie Gray. He is overwhelmed
with anguish and remorse, when Jessie herself enters,
accompanied by the Professor. The Professor had
discovered the secret of Jessie's parentage, had saved
her, and had sent his own wife to sea in her stead.
Of course matters are now satisfactorily arranged,
and Jessie is united to Philip, while Jukes, having
" passed," is married to his pretty marchande de modes.
We know not to which of the authors the credit is
due of the construction of the plot of this drama ; if
to Mr. Bridgman, he has exhibited an artistical know-
ledge of play building infinitely superior to that of
many an old and favourite playwright. It is one of
the best constructed dramas ever put on the stage; the
incidents arise naturally out of each other,
and all tend to the development of the plot ;
while the comic characters, which usually
are mere hors d'oeuvre, are in Jessie Gray so con-
nected with the drama as to form necessary parts of
the ensemble, and to be actively engaged in bringing
about the denouement. The niece was well acted,
Madame Celeste was admirably fitted in the character
of Jessie Gray, and acted it in that intensely im-
passioned manner which is so peculiar to her, and in
which none other can approach her. Mr. H.
Hughes, in his line the best melo-dramatic actor
on the stage, acted the contemptuous, haughty, calcu-
lating villain with a cool assumption of superiority
that. told immensely ; he seemed an incarnation of
intellect without feeling ; but when the heart was

MASSACRE ON BOARD THE FRENCH
SHIP ALBERT.

(From the Overland Friend of China of Sept. 28 )
Our issue of the 24th August recorded the depar-
ture of the French ship Albert, of Dieppe, Captain
Jean Pain, from Cumsingmoon for the west coast of
South America. That vessel was chartered to carry
180 coolies, some of whom, shipped for Don D. Elias
through the firm of A. A. Ritchie and Co., received
previous to departure the sum of 8 dolls. each, re-
payable out of a salary of 4 dolls. per month, accru-
ing on their arrival at Lima, for services to be ren-
dered as general servants, the contract being made for
a period of five years.
Besides the captain, chief mate, boatswain, cook,
and a crew of six seamen, there were two passengers
on board.

In latitude 32 N., longitude 139 E., on the 7th in-
stant, about six A.M., the coolies, who had secretly
possessed themselves of arms, rose en masse. The
captain, driven from his cabin to the top of the round
house, had his throat cut, and was thrown overboard
immediately. One of the passengers was murdered
in his cabin, the cook shared the same fate in his
galley, and the mate—chased up into the main top,
seeing no chance of escape, desperately precipitated
himself among the miscreants, one of whom he killed
instanter, and desperately wounded another. The
poor fellow was immediately dispatched and consigned
to the deep. The boatswain, Luis Argentine, was
then directed to steer the ship back to China, and the
course was altered from N.N.E. to S. by W. ac-
cordingly.
Five days afterwards, in lat. 28 N., long. 133.37
E., a severe gale was experienced from the S.E., veer-
ing to S S.W., during which the top-gallant masts
went over the side. On Thursday, off Pinghoy, a
pilot went on board whO was directed by the Chinese
to steer for Canton. One hundred of them left the
vessel in the first boats going alongside. Forty left
yesterday morning, and the remaining forty came
into this harbour with the vessel in the afternoon,
when they were immediately taken from her to the
police-station. •
She is in a sad state. Packages of silk shawls, tea,
lacquered ware, vermillion, medicines, eta., have been
broken open and divided into lots, of which several
still remain on board. Before leaving, some of them
very quietly removed the barometer, a chronometer,
and compass from the captain'a cabin, and took them
away altogether.
Twenty-four of them are supposed to have arrived
here as soon as the vessel. Four men were captured
by our indefatigable Deputy Superintendent of Police
Mr. Caldwell, just as they were leaving for Macao.
Tneir packs, containing silk shawls and agreements
with the Albert, leave no doubt as to their being part
of the gang.—Sept. 28.

touched in the last scene, his acting was full of
agonizing passion. No one understands the art of
contrast better than this gentleman, or employs it
more artistically or more effectively. 0. Smith,
albeit unused to the melting mood, acted the part of
the virtuous Apothecary with becoming unction, and
used his white pocket-handkerchief with due de-
corum ; and Paul Bedford, as Hercules, was very
funny. The great hit of the night, however, was the
Jukes of Mr. G. Honey, he acted it with a dry
quaint humour that took the audience by storm ; he
kept them in a roar of laughter the whole time he
was on the stage, and at the conclusion of the drama
was honoured with the first call. Henceforth he
takes his station among the best of the humorous
actors of the day. The piece is admirably put on the
stage, and is a decided hit. The theatre was crowded
in every part.

GREAT EXHIBITION, 185 I.—Messrs: J. and R.
Yl`Crticken, of No. 7, Old Jewry, have this day received
a further consignment from the Russian Commission,
consisting of 129 packages, which they are taking steps
to deposit with the previous consignment under the re-
gulations established by the Board of Customs for the
custody of the goods from the northern ports, until the
building in 11)de-park be ready to receive them.
TIIE EXHIBITION OF 1851.—Notwithstanding the
additional gallery accommodation which it has already been
.determined sl.all be attached to the building in Hyde-park,
it appears that still further space is deemed requisite, and to
provide for which Mr. B. Edgington has, at the request of
Mr. Digbv Wyatt, attended several days, and given flume-
roils suggestions to effect the required extension by wane of
nioistre tents, &e.,
and yesterday was derived to
estimates for the same. It is understood that the increased
space to be thus given will comprise an area of about 350
square feet.

POOR RATES IN CLEREENWELL. —On Saturday
upwards of 400 summonses were issued from Clerkenwell
Court against different householders of that parish for arrears
of poor rate, which has latterly increased to 2s. 6d. m the
pound.
[AovErrrisEmENT.l -- Another Sufferer from a
Liver Complaint cured ty Hollowa)'s Pills.—The wife of a
respectable tradesman residing in the neighbourhood of 'I hrap-
ston was suffering for more than two years from a severe liver
complaint, during which period she received the best medical
advice, but without deriving the slightest benefit therefrom.
She then made trial of Holloway's Pills, and by their use
alone she has been restored to perfect health. 'lhe
name of the party cured is not made public, but Mrs.
Collier, bookseller, Thurpstone, can vouch for the au-
thenticity cf th,i case. These pills are also an in-
fallible remedy for indigestion, bilious attacks, head-
aches, and disorders of the stomach.—Sold by all Druggists
and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, °44, Strand,
London.

EXHIBITION or 1851.—Her Majesty's Commis-
sioners have received information that the President of the
United States has given orders to the Secretary 01 the Navy
to place at the disposal of the United States exhibiti,n com-
mit tee a vessel of the national marine, of such a character as
will be most useful in conveying the articles destined for the
Industrial Exhibition of LOndon free of charge to the con-
tributors

The large and beautiful estate of. B -al, in V e
north-eastern part of this county, the property of Fri'
deaux John Selby, Esq., of Twizell House, Belfurd, con-
taining, 1,320 acres, and hitherto let at a rental of 1,7601,
and which has been for several months in the market,
his, it is stated, been sold to Hugh Taylor, jun., Esq., of the
Coal Exchange, London, for the sum of 47,00j1.—Newcastle
Journal. _

TOE ELECTION OF Lf'RD RECTOR OF GLAsGOW
UNIVERSITY.—The majority for Sheriff Alison k numeri-
cally, a majority greater than has ever declared itself since
the triumphant return of the late Sir Robert Peel. Mr.
Macaulay, it is true, had a majority is. each of the foilr
nations, but his numerical majority was not so large as that
of Mr. Sheriff Alison. The prevailing sentiment appe rs to
be that Lord Palmerston will not expose Mr. Macaulay to
the invidious task of recording his vote against so large a
numerical majority of the voters.— Edinburgh Courant.

- - . .
Witham E lye, EA , master shipwright, 1.1. s been
directed to examine and report on the eaissoors and docks at
the new WV1,10: beyham. ---Devonport Independent.

TRE SUN, LONDON, 11 ti ES OA Y EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1850.

nant-Colonel E. U. Ludlow, Artillery, at Dom-Darn,
Sept. 26.

APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &C., ANNOUNCED SINCE

DISPATCH OF LAST OVERLAND MAIL, OCT. 2.
HER MAJESTY'S TROOPS.

Infantry-60.n Regiment (Rtfles)—Lieutenant Ni-
cholson has been allowed leave to 31st December, to en-
able him to rejoin. 86th Regiment—Captain Rawlins
has obtained leave to Bombay, trom Ist November to
31st :,December. 94th Regiment—Lieutenant G. N.
Bredin has been tried by general court-martial at Ban-
galore, and sentenced to be severely reprimanded; sen-
tence approved and confirmed. 98th Regiment—En-
sign P. E. Quin promoted to Lieutenant, from 21st Sep-
tember, vice Moller, deceased.

COMMERCI&L INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Bombay Times.)
BOMBAY, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. 6.
There is no alteration in the money market zo re-
mark upon. The share market continueri quiet, and the
following may be calk d the rates c f rte day :—Bank of
Bombay, 191 per cent. premium; Oriental Bank, 12 per
cent. discount; Commercial Bank, 11 percent. discount;
Agra Bank, 5 per cent. discount. The Oriental Bank
has.just dr dared u dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per
annum. Government securities are rather dull, at—for
:he Five per Cent. Open Loan, 998; and for Company's
Fours, 841; Transfer Loan may be quoted at 116 to
117; and itcca Fours, 888; in Sicca Fives we hi ar of
nu trar.sactions.

Business in our import market during the past fort-
night has been less active even than during the period
reported on our last, and the sales effected have been to
a very small extent con,idering the season of the year,
which has heretofore been generally active during Vle
month of October. This state of matters will probably
continue till tte termination of the Dewalee holy days,
which take place early next month. Tke aceounts re-
ceived from the interior of the prospects of the harvest
have not been such as to encourage the native dealers to
speculate. In the export market considerable activity
has prevailed during the past week, and large quantities
of cotton have been purchased for the home market. In
other produce little has been done.
Cotton Piece Goods—The market for piece goods has
been duller during the past fortnight than it has been
for some time, and prices of nearly all descriptions have
fallen to a greater or less extent.
Grey Goods—Domestics have sold to an extent of
4,400 pieces, at prices varying from sr. la. to 12r. per
piece. They are in moderate inquiry by the Arab
dealers for dyeing, but the prices offered by them are
far from their real value. Shirtings—Sales, 1,150
pieces, at 5r.15a, to 6r. 6a.dull, and prices less by an anna
or so a piece than at date of last report. T Cloth—
Sales, 700 pieces, at 2r. 14a. Demand extremely dull.
In longcloths we have heard of no sales. Madapollams
—Sales, 6.000 pieces, at 2r. ilia. to 2r. 12ia. per piece.
For both these and jacconets a reduction in price has
been submitted to, but of the latter no sales have been
reported. Dhoties—ln small request, the only sale re-
ported being one of 966 pieces, at lir. per piece.
Bleached goods have been almost totally neglected,
the only sales we have heard of being jacconets 400
pieces, at sr. 2a. to 84r., and 802 pieces lappets at
lir. to 2ir. For longcloths of good quality a -little
demand has existed—no sales, but the coarser descrip-
tions are uninquired for. The same may be said of
madapollams and mulls. Dyed and fancy goods—
There has been scarcely any inquiry for Turkey red,
good of the only sale reported being one of 100 pieces
twills at 11r. Of coloured prints 3,360 pieces have been
sold at 2r. 9a. to 3r. 13a. A fair inquiry exists for
mulls, purple and bleached, and Turkey red starched,
low book muslins, dhoties, low lappets and lappet scarfs,
prints'of suitable patterns, and dyed orange madapol-
lams. For Swiss lappets of the better qualities, barnes
mulls, book muslins, and orange and zebra dressess
there has been no inquiry.
Cotton yarn—The sales amount to 30 bales mule and the
same quantity water twist, with 55 cases ball thread.
In dyed yarn we have no sales to report, though orange
is in some little demand. In the sales effected a decline
iu price has been submitted to.
Metals—Copper—Nearly all descriptions have de-
clined in value, except South American, which retains
its former price, but it is very dull. Iron—English bar
has further given way, while hoop and nailrod are dull
at former prices. Sheet has somewhat imps oved. No
transactions have taken place in Swedish bar on the spot,
but a sale " to arrive" has had effect at previous quota-
tions. Sweedish steel uninquired for. Pig and sheet
lead are in slight inquiry. Tin plates are steady, and
speller dull.
Cochineal—We have not heard of any salts, but
the price has somewhat improved. Stocks still continue
very heavy.
Saffron—We hear of a sale of 775 lb. at 12i per lb.
The better quality is in tolerably good inquiry.
Woollens—The only sale reported is one of 3,312
yards flannel, at Ba. per yard.
Beer—Allsopp's continues steady at 80r. per hhd.,
and is very scarce. Of Bass's about 100 hhds. have
been disposed of, at 75r. per hhd.
Spirits—Very little doing. The only sales effected
have been in brandy, as follows:-90 hogsheads, at 2r.
5a.; 100 at 2r. 6a. per gallon: and 1,000 dczen cases, at
7r. per dozen.
Marine Stores—No sales. Canvas and cordage dull.
Oil of linseed, spirits of tuf pentine, and white paint, in
inquiry.