The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-18 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

the Georgia, Cheroheo, and the Empire City—due in a
fear da,yii, 3,000,000 of gold dust are Expected. The
winter or rainy se.2..son vvns about setting in; the miners,
with their gold dust, were leaving the wises for San
Francitco, aryl hence the unusnel shipments anticipated.
The accounts from thQ mines are good. New discove-
ries continued to be made.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.
LiVERPUOL, StiNDAy YoulsiNG.
Royal steain-ship Captain Judkins,
with ttclvtces and letters from New York to the
Gth instanv, arrived in the Meniey at half-past seven
this morning.
The Asia has 300,000 dolls. specie on freight.
'The Royal mail steam-ship ~Xfriea was passed by
the Asia at 7 A.M., on the 7th inst.
Among the Asia's passengers is Lady Emmeline
Stuart Vrfortley, on her return from a tour in the
New World.
Great interest hnd been `awakened by the great
meeting, relative to the Union, at New York. Auiong
the chief features in the report is the following letter
from the Hon. D. Webster, Se,:retary of State, in
reply to an imitation to be preset. :
" Frank he, N.H., Oct. 28.
" Gaatlemen,—Nothing in the werld bur regard to the
state of my health prevents me from accepting at once
your invitation and assraing you of my presence at the
• Union Meeting,' at Castle-garden, on Wednesday even-
ing next. I rejoice to know thax such a meeting is
cat'led; I rejoice to know that it will be attended by
thousatats of intelligent men. loves ;s of their country,
party men doubtless, but abject slaves to no party,
and who will nut suffer eitbas.r party clamour
or party discipline to dry up w tt,bin them all the
anitains of love and attachment to the constitution of
their country.—(ArOause.) Tho voice of such a meet-
ing will be beard LILA respected; it swill rebuke disobe-
dience to the laws. actual or threat rued; it will tend to
check the progress of mad fanaticism; i, will call men who
aro honest, hut who have been strangely milled, back
to their duty, and it will give countenance and courage
to the faithful frit nds of union through out the land.
%Sl:en the commercial interest of the great metro-
Fills of the country :Teaks with united hearts and voices,
expressing its conviction of the press nee of the great
danger, and its determined purpose te meet that dangtr,
to combat with it and overcome it, the example is likely
to rouse good men everywhere; and when the country
shall be roused the country will be sa le..—(Applause.)
" I concur, gentlemen, in all the pviitical principles
contained in the resolutions, a copy of which has been
sent to me; and I stand pledged to support those prin-
ciples, publicly and privately, now toad always, to the
full extent of my influence, and by the, exertf.on of every
faculty which I possess. The emin e:'it men you have
mentioned, and with whose names yo a have done me
the honour to ai:tiociate mine, are w ell worthy of the
pnai,e which you bestow on them. I shall never forget,
and I ti ust the country will never for 443 t, the patriotism,
the manliness, the courage, manitesiierl by them, in an
hour of difficulty and of p ril.—(Appl a use )
" The peace measures of the lest; session are, the
T, xan Boundary Act, the Act for Ee.ta blishing the Two
Territorial Governments of New Meiti.co and Utah, the
Act for the Abolition of the Slave Tiia.de in the district
of Columbia, and the Fugitive Slave La w. The last mea

" With plenty of gold, San Francimo and New
York can submit,. to the losses of a fire and inundation
now and then.

•' The passengers by the Alabama, as a matter
course, have considerable gold with them.

" Anta-xed is reported as the latest aspect of the San
Francisco market:—

" Flour was in good rcquest at 14 dolls. to 16 dolls.
fur Chili, in 2001 b. sacks, and sweet Western at 11 dolls.
25c. to 12 dolls. Bricks were selling moderately at 20
dolls. to 25 dolls. per thonand. Coal had a downward
tendency. Coff,,e quiet, and prices heavy, Lumber
continued in good rr quest, at steady anti rather improv-
ing prices. Tea was not plenty, and prices in conse-
quence firm. Furniture was little inquired for. Provi-
sion market generally firm; sates of mess pork at 22
dolls. to 24 dolls., and prime at 16 dolls. Butter, 25c.
to 40c. Lard, 18c. to 25c. Preserved meats were dull.
Money market firm. Gold duet, 16 dolls. 12c. to 16
dolls. 25c."

Toronto advices of the sth state that the Customs'
revenue to the 31st of October amounted to 2,083,608
dolls., being an increase on the like period of last
year of 866,176 dolls. At the precent rate of increase
the provisional revenue for 1850 will exceed that of
1849 by 2,440,000 dolls.

Accounts from San Juan de Nicaragua bring in-
formation of the arrest of Captain Ellery, of the
steamer Orus, from New York. The steamers
Orus and Director were up the river waiting to cross
fte bar.

Ha; ti advices of the 16th ult. report a collision be-
tween the liaytians and Dominicans on the 9th tilt.
in the piss of Bormico. The llaytians were driven
back with terrible slaughter. On the 11th tilt. the
Emperor marched with his troops for Petit Gospes
against the enemy. Two Dominican schooners of war
had captured a Haytian brig of War.
Advices from Panama report that the health of the
Isthmus was good. All rumours of revolution had
died away.
Numerous arrests have been made at Caraccas for
conspiracy against the Government.

NEW YORK MARKETS, NOT. 6.
Ashes—Continue steady with sales, 100 brls., at 5
dolls. 75c., and 6 dolls. 12ic. for pearls and pots.
Cotton—The market continues very dull. There is
no disposition to operate, and the sales are only 200 or
300 bales.

Flour and Meal—ln flour the market is hardly so
buoyant, and the movement is less than it was. Some
forced sales are being made at something off previous
prices. The supplies are moderate, and there is not much
going into store. The sales are 10,000 brls., at 3 tolls.
87c. to 4 dolls. 31c. for No. 2, and scarce; 3 dolls. 75c.
to 4 dolls. 6c. for sour; 4 dolls. 56c. too dolls. 62ic. for
common and strait State; 4 dons. 56e. to 4 dolls. 69c. for
mixed to strait Western; 4 dolls. 94c. to 5 dolls, for pure
Genesee; 5 dolls. 6c. to 6 dolls. 31c. for fancy Ohio; 5
dolls. 12c. to 5 dolls. 31c. for fancy Genesee; 5 dolls.
50c. to 5 dolls. 60c. for extra Genesee; 5 dolls. 310. to
5 dol'.i. 62c. for extra Ohio. Canadian is in steady
&mane] with sales 800 brls. at 4 dolls. 62e. to 4 dolls.
69c. In Southern descriptions the markes is very dull
with small supplies. The sales are 500 brls. at 4 dolls.
94c. to 5 dolls. Meal is 4 doll:. 6e. for Jersey, with
sales 300 brls., and 200 brls. Eastern at 3 dolls. 25c.
Rye flour is unchanged; talcs 200 brls. at 3 dolls. 19e.
i3nekwbsat is in good demand at 1 doll. 50c. to 2 dolls.
per 100l'oe.; 3 dolls. 25c. to 4 dolls, for brls.

sure, gentlemen, is not such a measure as I had pre-
pared before I left the Senate, and ty hich of course I
should have supported if I had remai,aied in the Senate.
But it received the proper sanction of! the two Houses
of Congress, and of the President of the United States.
It is the law of the I,:nd, and as such is to be respected
and obeyed by all good citizens. I have heard no man,
whose opinion is worth regarding, tie ny its constitu-
tionality, and those who counsel violee.t resistance to it,
counsel that which, if it take place, is.. sure to lead to
bloodshed; end to the commiseion of pital offences. It
remains to be seen how far the deluded and deluders will
go on in this career of faction, folly, sand crime.—(Tre-
mendous cheering.)
" Thera were honest and well-met a ling members of
Congress who did not see their way ell .arty to support
these great and leading measures of bio lest session.
You ore qaite right in saying that the motives of these
gentlemen ought not to be impeached, ut the measures
have been adopted, they have hecomai laws, constitu-
tienelly and legally binding upon us all, and no man is
likely to oppose them.—(Applause.)
" No man is at liberty to set up, or al I act to set up, his
own cen,eience as above the law—(Gr sat cheering)—in
a wetter which affects the rights of otl te.rs, and the obli-
gations—civil, social, and political—di :le to others from
him. Such a pretence saps the faun, isstion of all go-
vernment and is of itself a perfect aim J.eity; and while
all are bound to yield obedience to tb a laws, wise cad
well-dispos-d citizens will forbear fr, )in renewing past
agitation and rekindling the flames of useless and dan-
gerous controversy.—(Cheers and appl vane.)
"If we would continue one people must acquiesce
in the will of the majority cons neutral tally expressed;
and be who does not mean to do that zaeans to disturb
the public peace, and to do what he mon to overturn the
Government.—(Applause.)
" Gentlemen, I am led to the adoption of your hat re-
solutlon, in itn especial and emphatic w inner, by every
dictate of my understanding, and I embi race it with full
purpose of heart and mind. Its sentiro ant is my senti-
ment. With you, I declare that I reng a myself under
the banners or that party whose prineipl es and practice
are most calculated io uphold the cow ntution and to
perpetuate our glorious Tjeion2—(Criers of 'Hurrah!')
" Gentlemen, I cm here to recruit, my health, en-
feebled as it has been by ten months of .exeessive labour
and indescribable anxiety. The air of these my native
hills renews my strength and my spirits. I feel its in-
vigoratieg influences while I am writing: these few lines,
and I shall return shortly to my past tat t discharge its
duties as well as I car, and resolved in all events that,
so far as it depends on nip, our Union sht 11 pass through
this fiery trial without the smell of smolt e upon its gar-
ments.—(Overwhelming cheers, and way ing of hats all
over the assemblage.) -

- Grain—there is a good demand for wheat for export,
and sales for homo trae. The supplies are good of Ca-
rmclian, but home grain is not very plenty; sales 26,000
bushels Canadian :at 104 c. to 106 e. for mixed to white,
2,500 bushels mixed Ohio at 103 c. For corn the mar-
ket is a shade e,,,sier and dull; sales 7,000 bushels at
70e in store for mixed, 71e. delivered, 71ic. for round
yellow— the supply offered is small. In rye the market
is buoyant, with sales 6,000 bushels at 74c. to 75c. the
inside price to arrive. Barley is scarce and firm; sales
3,003 bushels good four-rowed at 91c. Oats continue
without change; sale:, Northern at 40c. to 41ic., Jersey
36c. to 39c.

Iron is firmer, and 200 or 300 tons Scotch sold at 20
'oils. 50c., 6 m,,nths 19 doll. 50c. cash, with a sale on
long time at 22 dolls._ _ _

LiS,y is rather better for prime tote, with sales 3,000
bales 45e. to 60c.

Lime—Further tales 4,000 brls Rockland at 85c. cash.
Naval Stores—Crude :turpentine is steady and quiet.
Sales 500 brie. Wilmington Rosin at 1 doll. 45e. deli-
vered, and 500 ditto white at 2 dolls. 75c. Spirits are
33c. with sales 150 brie.

Oils—Linseed is firm, and 1. to have been picked up
to the extent of 10,000 gals. at 78 to 77c. The market is
now held at 78 to 80c. Whale is steady at 53 to 55c.
Sales of a few hundred brls. Crude Sperm at the East at
1 doll. 25c. Manufactured is firm.

Seed—Small sales of new Clover are making at Bc.,
and old at 7 to 7:lc. Timothy is 15 to 18c. for mowed.
Flax is scarce arid high.
Whisky is rather easier, and 150 brls. Prison sold at
27/Ic. Drudge is 27c.

" I am, Gooch-maen, with very sincere regard, your
obliged fellow-citizen and obdient servaut ,

" DAME', G WEBSTER.
To Messrs, F. S. Lathrop, Gerrard H. 4 Hoek,

Charles G. Carleton, P. L. Duryee, Cut Limit-
tee, New York."
Accounts from Washington, of the vening of the
sth inst., say—
" The Republic denies officially that tilt President has
ordered troops to Boston, with the view ca f enforcing the
Fugitive Slave Law. It states that no communication
has been received by the President from the Marshal at
Boston, or any other Marshal, as to at ticipated vio-
lence; nor has the President .any informs tion that leads
to the belief that any peculiar dispositi an of military
force will be rendered accessary for the tecution of the
lam. The Republic adds that. should any exigency
however arise, no doubt the President wil 1 discharge his
duty; but expresses its belief that no fort ibie resistance
will be offered to the laws."

Much anxiety existed at Washing ton relative to
:he peace of Boston.
Rumours of an outbreak against the slave hunters

lud been current. The President, ho ever, was re-
sclved to suppress the disorderi and e c iforce the law.
Several slave hunters had been shot i.r r various parts

of tne I,,nion. A proposition had Lean presented to
the Virginia Reform Convention for r.lle expulsion of
all free negroes.
On the 4th inst. a grand dinner was, given to Amin
Be:v by the merchants of Boston.
The Secretary of the Treasury had Issued the usual
quarterly statement of revenue for the U niter]. States :
Tremory Rcceipti end Exp,ndicures o.orn the Ist cf
January to the 30t1t of September, 1850.
RECEIPTS.

DoDan'.
From customs 14,764,043 05
From lands ••• ... ••• 0... 317,082 96
From h,au of '47 (Treasury notes funded) 116,050 00
From miscellaneous sources ... 425,264 64

EXPENDITURES.
Civil, miscellanTouP, and foreign inter-

course ••• •••
On account of the
army, &c.
Fortifications ...

Dolls.

15,622,440 65

Dolls.
... 1,909,33.7 60

1,792,997 35;
92,331 14

Indian department, &c.
Pensions •. •••

148,521 54,
1,007,694 94,

1,885,328 49

Navy ... ••• •• •••
Intereat en public debt and Treasury,
notes ... ... ... . . ...
Reimbursement of Treasury note 3 ...

1,156,216 48
1,408,732 73

5,289 34
116,050 00

6,480,954 73
Treasury Thpartrnent, Register's-office, Oct. 31.
TOWNSEND HAINES, Register.
Mr. George Thompson, the corn-law lecturer, had
arrived at New York.
Upwards of 60,000/. sterling value of gold had
been reported en route from San Francisco.
Late accounts had been received from California,
by telegraph, via New Orleans, announcing another
great conflagration at San Francisco. We extract
the following resume in detail from t he journals:—
" The steam ship Alabama, Captain :Foster, arrived at
New Orleans on Friday, the bit inst., from Chagrcs,
with late and important intelligence from California.
The Alabama brings ICB
passengers.
" According to our brief telegraphic dispatch, dated
on Friday at New Orleans, there has been another de-
structive fire in San Francisco—the third conflagration
that has visited that city within the list six months.
This last disaster ended in the destruction of over 100
buildings. The loss is estimated at 50D.000 dollars.
"These repeated disasters by floods stud fires in Cali-
fornia have fallen heavily upon some of our commercial
houses; and it is not unlikely, from the immense accu-
mulation of goods for the fall and winter trade in San
Francisco, that the losses upon our merchants will be as
heavy from this third conflagration as from either of the
preceding, if the purport of our brief dispatch may be
relied upon.
" San Francisco has to contend with two great disad-
vantages. It is built of wood, and chiefly of pine, the
most combustible of all timber, which, after ex-
posure of six or seven months in the dry season becomes
as inflammable as tinder. The location of the city, too,
is perhaps the windiest in the world, a strong gale for
the most of the day blowing in from tae sea, a suction
6'.
created by the intense heat of the great interior valley.
Besides, there is of necessity es yet an imperfect
pollee system in San Francisco, a large and ivereasing
loose por.ulation, and a great want of fire-:.ngines and an
efEent fire derailment. The city, therefore, has to run
all the chances of its combustible materials, the effect
Of the lyre dry B,,w,en, the winds, and e large idle popu-
lation; and the only wou.der is that it has escaped so
wen. This last destructive fire was immediately to be
be
retrieved, and although it fell heavily upon the enter-
prisinghe new state, it (lid not add much to
reor le 0 f t
the finr.ncial crisis mentioned by the last arrivals.
" But There is another side to the licturr. The good
and bad come together. By the regular aticamera—

MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1860.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, Nov. 16.
The Queen and hi'; Royal Highness Prince Albert
walked this morning in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
in the Slopes and Windsor Park.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went to London
this morning, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Hen. C. B.
Phipps, Colonel Hon. -Charles Grey, and Lieut.-
Colonel Hon. A. Gordon.

His Royal Highness and suite travelled by a spe-
cial train on the South-Western Railway, and re-
turned to Windsor Castle about two o'clock.
The Earl and Countess of Granville arrived at the
Castle to-day on a visit to the Queen and the Prince.
The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
drove in a pony phaeton in Windsor Park this after-
noon, his Royal Highness driving. Colonel Buckley
and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. A. Gordon attended on
horseback.

The Royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
the Earl and Countess Granville, the Lady in Wait-
ing on the Duchess of Kent, Baroness de Speth,
and Colonel Bouverie (Royal Horse Guards). •
SUNDAY, Nov. 17.
The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
walked this morning in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took their accustomed airings.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert, her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, the
ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic
household, attended Divine service this morning in
the private chapel. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley
officiated.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also
attended the service.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided at the
Council fur the management of the Duchy of Corn-
wall, at the Duchy-office, Somerset-house, on Satur-
day morning.

Mr. Macgregor had an interview with Earl Grey
oa Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
The Oxford University Commission met on Satur-
day, at the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury, in Downing-street. Present the Bishop of
Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pem-
broke, the Rev. H. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq.,
the Rev. Professor Powell, the Rev. G. H. S. John-
son, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (secretary).
Lord A'hley had en interview with Sir George
Grey on Saturday. Lieutenant-General Sir John
Grey had an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet
on Friday, at the Home-office.
Dispatches for the Governors of the West India
Colonies were sent off on Friday evening from the
Colonial-office.

The Earl and Countess Grey had a dinner party
on Friday at their residence, on Carlton-terrace. The
company consisted of the Belgian Minister, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Carlisle, Viscount
and Viscountess Palmerston, Lady Elizabeth Bul-
teel, Sir Charles Wood, Mr. Henry Greville, and Mr.
I Harry Grey.
The Countess Grey afterwards received an even-
irg party. The company included the Sardinian
Minister, Lady Truro, Mr. and Mrs. Ricardo, Lady
Georgina Bathurst, Miss Pon3onby, Mr. F. Calvert,
Mr. Napier, Mr. Parker, Sir John M'Gregor, Miss
Hardy, Mr. and Miss Bulteel, Count and Miss
Flahault, Sir George and Lady Grey, Mr. Pierre-
pont, Mr. Whitbread, Mr. and Mrs. Hawes, Mr.
Fox Millie, Lady F. and Mrs. Bentinck, Mr. Holmes,
Lady Ashley, Mr. Cowper, Lord Campbell and Miss
Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Osborne, Col. Rawlings, Mr.
Bathurst, Earl and Countess Granville, and Mr.
Montgomery.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
THE ASHDOWN PARK COURSING MEETING.
The Derby (18 Subs.), was won by Mr. Etwall's
Egypt; Mr. Morant's Merryman ran up.
The Oaks (14 Subs.) were divided by Mr. Lawrence's
Lucy Ashton and Mr. Bowles's Cashmere.
The Cup was won by Mr. Etwall's Elb; Mr. Law-
rence's Lallah R-okb ran up.

A NEW

REMEDY FOR SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS.

BY DOCTOR TURNBULL.

[-From the Lancet and London Medical Gazette, Nov, 15.]
A few months ago, I observed that persons who are
short-sighted, when looking at objects at a distance,
partially close their eyelids, for the purpose of over-
coming the difficulty they find in discerning them.
This action is instinctive; it is a natural effort to•adjust
the eye to an increased sphere of vision. It is well
known that short-sightedness depends not only on con-
vexity of the cornea, but also on convexity of the lens;
and having no hope of being enabled to effect any
alteration in the structure of the lens, my attention was
directed to the iris, which I found to be, in such persons,
generally much dilated. It then occurred to me that
contraction of the iris has the effect of apparently
lengthening the convexity cf the cornea, which ap-
proaches a circumscribed plane, that permits the rays of
light to eater only in a straight line. The effect of this
is obvious. The length of vision hereby necessarily be-
comes increased, and distant objects are brought within
its range. It therefore struck me, that if we could dis-
cover any substance which could be so applied as to con-
tract the iris, one cause of the defect of short-sightedness
would be remedied. The result, lam happy to say, has
been most satisfactory. In the first instance, I applied
the extract of ginger, which was rubbed for five or ten
minutes over the whole forehead, with the view of acting
upon the branches of the fifth pair of nerves. After-
wards I substituted a concentrated tincture of ginger, of
the strength of one part of ginger to two parts of spirit
of wine, decolorised by animal charcoal. The success of
this application was remarkable. In many cases it had
the effects of doubling the length of vision. In some
persons I found the iris was not much dilated, but very
torpid. In these cases I applied the concentrated tinc-
ture of pepper, made of the same strength, and in the
same manner, as the tincture of ginger. This I used
until I observed that the ids had obtained a greater
power of contraction and dilatation, after which I had
again recourse to the tincture of ginger.
This plan of treatment has been attended with the
most signal success, and persons who were extremely
short-sighted have very soon been enabled to lay per-
manently aside their concave glasses. The best method
I may observe, of testing the improvement of the sight
during this treatment is not by taking a printed book,
and holding it near, and then at a greater distance from
the eves; this range ef vision is much too limited. It is
better to fix the attention of the patient upon a distant
object, such as the brass key-hole cf a door, and by his
stepping some paces backwards, so as to place himself
at a greater distance from it, he will soon discover the
progress he is making.
So important a discovery as this will, I hope, he fairly
tested by the membere of our profession, who may rely
on the success of the treatment I base recommended, if
it be only jediciously and carefully carried cut. It is
possible- that the advantege derived from the tincture, as
above described, may be ascribed to the alkaloid prin-
ciple of piperin which is held in solution in the tincture
of pepper.
Manchester-square, Nov. 9, 1850.

FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY COLLISION.—On Friday
night last, about six o'clock, a fearful collision took place
on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, near the Hudders-
field Junction, by which, although fortunately no lives have
been lost or much personal injury sustained, an immense
amount of damage has been done to the stock of the com-
pany, three engines being destroyed and a train of carriages
kiaercked to pieces. As far as we could learn at a late hour
on Saturday night, the accident appears to have arisen as
follows :—An engine which had been undergoing repairs in
the engine shed on the main line, close to the junction, was
being driven ~n in order to its being shunted on to the line
on which it was to be worked. In consequence of some sin-
gular mismanagement, it was brought into violent collision
with the passenger train from Bradford. The shock was so
violent as to smash completely the engine and tender, as well
as the engine belonging to the passenger train, bringing the
train itself to a dead stop. The passengers in alarm jumped out
of the carriages, but had hardly time to become conscious
of their fortunate escape when a goods train, we suppose from
Leeds, dashed into the standing train, doubling up all the
carriages in a moment and knocking them to shivers. The
scene that presented itself after this second catastrophe is
described as the most terrible that ever a railway accident
produced, the entire line being blocked up with a huge mass
of fragments of broken carriages and engines. It was re-
markable that none of the passengers were killed or injured
by the flying splinters. The line was completely choked up,
and men were immediately set to work to make a temporary
line of rails for the transit of the usual traffic. It will be
impossible in the meantime to estimate the extent of the
damage. An inquiry will be promptly instituted into the
circumstances connected with the catastrophe, Captain Laws
having repaired to the spot immediately on , receipt of the
telegraphic news of the accident.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.--CON.•
TRACTS FOR CARRIAGES.—The contract for extra carriages
for the Exhibition of 1851 was let on Saturday. The
directors had before them tenders from seven of the most
respectable carriage-builders in the country, and they ac-
cepted that of Mr. Wright, of Salting, near Ringborn,
which was 25 per cent. lower than the highest, and about 5
per cent. lower than the next lowest tender. The price
given for a carriage holding 40 persons is perhaps the lowest
ever before submitted to, and is understood to be 1541. per
carriage.
TRANSATLANTIC PACKET STATION.---A letter was
received on Wednesday from one of the Transatlantic Packet
Station Commissioners, an officer whose views were strongly
expressed on this subject in the report of the Irish Railway
Commissioners in 183 S. In this letter he states that in de-
termining on the Irish port most suited to the purposes of a
packet station, "the claim of Cork should certainly not be
omitted." The letter further stated that the commissioners
were at present engaged drawing up a series of queries for the
purpose of eliciting information, but they did not purpose
making a tour or receiving oral testimony, as they did not
believe that the truth could be best determined by the
examination or cross-examination of local parties. The ar-
rival of this letter was the occasion of another meeting of the
joint committees of the Corporation, Harbour Commissioners,
and Committee of Merchants, 'at which the Mayor was re-
quested to write is Lord Hobart, the Secretary to the Com-
mission, for copies of the queries.— Cork Constitution.
Loss OF THE EMPEROR or Rusues SrEmu•YACIIT.
—The loss of the Emperor of Russia's steam-yacht Peterhoff
is confirmed. She ran on shore on a fine moonlight night,
mistaking the south-west of the island of Oesel for the north •
east. Mr. Waterman, jun., who designed the yacht, was on
board, and so,
we believe, was Sir John Rennie, the con-
tractor and engineer. They were proceeding to Russia to de-
liver up
the yacht to the Emperor. Parties have left Eng-
land to endeavour to recover the machinery. Those on
board, we believe, were in very little danger, and comfortably
enough got into the boat and landed. A Russian naval
officer was in company. The yacht was insured to nearly
three-fourths of her value.

RAISING OF THE THIRD BASSO-
RELIETTO ON THE NELSON COLUMN.
On Friday morning, the third basso- relievo, em-
blematical of the victories of Nelson, representing an
event of the battle of Copenhagen, was raised to the
place intended for its reception, on the east side of the
pedestal of the column, in Trafalgar-square (3 brief
account of which appeared in The Sun of Saturday.)
It is from the studio of Mr. John Ternouth, the
sculptor, and was cast in bronze by Mesers. Moore,
Fressange, and Moore, of Beldwin'a-lane, Holborn.
The subject is founded on an event which occurred
after the battle of Copenhagen, when Nelson wrote a
letter to the Crown Prince of Denmark, which con-
tained the following passage :—" Vice ,Admiral
Nelson has been commanded to spare Denmark
when she no longer resists. The line of defence
which covered her shores has struck to the British flag ;
but if the firing is continued on the part of Denmark,
he must set on fire ail the prizes that he has taken,
without having the power of saving the men who
have so nobly defended them. The brave Danes are
the brothers, and should never be the enemies, of the
English." To this note the Crown Prince replied,
and inquired the particular object cf Nelson's note,
who wrote ns follows :—" Lord Nelson's object in
sending the flag of truce was humanity ; he there-
force consents that hostilities shall cease, and that the
wounded Danes may be taken on shore. And Lord
Nelson will take his prisoners out of the vessels,
and burn or carry off his prizes as he shall
think fit. Lord Nelson, with humble duty
to his Royal Highness the Prince, will con-
sider this the greatest victory he has gained, if it may
be the cause of a happy reconciliation and union be-
tween his Most Gracious Sovereign and his Majesty
the King cf Denmark." The group represents Lord
Nelson standing on the quarter-deck, handing the
letter to Sir Frederick Thesiger, the bearer of the flag
of truce, who is about to depart on his mission of
mercy, while on the right is seen Captain Foley
anxiously observing the dispatch of his commander.
Other officers and seamen fill up the background,
while two wounded sailors and a powder-monkey oc-
cupy the front extreme points. The expression in
the :several countenances is excellently portrayed,
and prove that the artist has truthfully caught
up the spirit that characterised this impor-
tant event. The several figures are upwards of
eight feet in height, and the whole are finely moulded.
The spires of the cathedral and the principal buildings
of Copenhagen are seen in the distance, and are very
finely executed. This memorable battle was fought
on the 2,1 of April, 1801, and it was on this occasion
that the Commander-in-Chief (Sir Hyde Parker),
fearing, from adverse winds, that he should be unable
to join Nelson with his squadron, ordered signals to
be made for his return. The action at this time
was becoming exceedingly warm, when the signal-
lieutenant reported that a signal was thrown
out by the Commander-in-Chief for discontinuing
the action. Nelson, on being apprised of it,
requested it to be acknowledged, but not repeated,
and kept the signal for close action still flying, and
ordered it to be kept so, remarking to Foley, "
have only one eye; I have a right to be blind some-
times ;" and then, putting the glass to the blind eye,
exclaimed, " I really do not see the signal." He
added, " Keep mine flying for close battle : that's the
way I answer such signals. Nail mine to the mast!"
The result was a complete and signal victory, and
near the conclusion of it he wrote the letter which has
fir feed the subject of Mr. Ternouth'e present highly
meritorious design. In the course of the day many
hundred persons inspected this interesting and nationa
work.