The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1850.

LITERATURE.
THE .311S/2.1:8 .SECRE, T; 0,, 17te Days of
Janus Vie First. An Historical I?omance. 3 TVs.
lf te3 we ere inclined to believe, the " Miser's
Secret" be the anonymous production of a practised
h end, it will add considerably to an already esta-
blished reputatisn ; if, on the contrary, it be a first
work, its author bids fair to occupy hereafter a pro-
micent place among the writers of fiction. The nar-
rative is throughout rendered excessively interesting
by the skilful entanglement and equally skilful
denouement of a very complicated plot, or series of
plots. Also a variety of characters are introduced in
the course of the " Miser's Secret," and their differ-
ent peculiarities are discriminated with considerable
care, and the various portraits are, in many instances,
endued with an air of life and individuality.
Although ostensibly a tale of the reign of King
James, many ot the facts related are equally appro-
priate to the reign of Queen Victoria. The sketch
of Normanbury and its inhabitants, for example, if a
little overdrawn, bears a strong resemblance to many
a family group undergoing that most trying of crdeals
—"keeping up appearances." Sir Hugh Ellicombe,
"a fine old English gentleman," has dissipated his
patrimony by a course of extravagance, and ruin
threatens the ancient house of Normanbury, when
the gentle, but moat shrewd and skilful Lady Elli •
com be steps forward and devotes all her thoughts
and the hest years of her life to the never-ending task
of maintaining the dignity of Normanbury with an
empty purse, and so hiding the secret of its poverty.
Sir Hugh, incapable of arranging his own affairs,
scorns the idea of being guided by his wife,
and Lady Ellicombe, very skilfully " conceal-
ing the iron hand with the velvet glove,"
actually rules the household and its master, while she
is apparently the most submissive of the submissive.
Lady Ellicombe's character is well portrayed, and it
very effectually exemplifies the baneful consequences
of deceit. Evil must not be committed even in the
hope that good may come of it ; and the Lady of
Normanbury, naturally excellent and noble-hearted,
becomes at last ready to sacrifice the happiness of
others and to do violence to every kindly feeling in
furtherance of her darling object. The lesson would
be less impressive if its subject had been less gentle
and less loveable than the mistaken Lady
Ellicombe. Contrasted with this unhappy de-
ceiver is her truthful and high-minded son.
The prosperity of his house and the happiness of his
beloved mother, cannot for one moment incline Ger-
vase Ellicombe to enact a lie. The excellence and
beauty of truth are most happily and effectively por-
trayed in this portion of the history of the " Miser's
Secret." The incident which gives its title to the
book is never actually revealed to us, but we have a
shrewd guess that the revelation of the " secret "
would be fatal to the existence of the " miser." If
our conjecture be correct, the conception of 'such an
idea is a proof of the author's talent, and is, moreover,
a mournful but not less truthful satire upon the
mammon-worship which flourishes not less fatally
in our days than in the days of King James. Like
Sir Hugh Ellicombe, Oliver Newport had in his
early days squandered his property, and, less fortu-
nate than his friend, had been (by unfair means) dis-
possessed of his estate. At the opening of the tale he
returns, accompanied by his young daughter, from a
long exile, in the hope of at length re-obtaining the
house of his forefathers. The unwelcome revenant
is received with contumely, when lo ! it appears that
he carries with him sundry ponderous and carefully
guarded chests. Of course these chests contain trea-
sure, and Oliver Newport is a miser ! Henceforth,
in his shabby apparel, he is a welcome guest. He
lives at the expense of others, a farthing of his own
money is never expended. He is rich, and that pass-
port is sufficient. The readers of the " Miser's
Secret" will, like ourselves, be disposed to doubt the
reality of the miser's wealth, and they will at the
same time recognise the truthfulness of this device,
which demonstrates how a reputation of wealth may
he the master-key which opens all doors and many
hearts. It is not, to say the least of it, very flatter-
ing to human nature this lesson conveyed in the life
of the reputed miser, nevertheless few will venture
to gainsay its apparent truthfulness. We have re-
vealed thus much of the foundation of the tale, in
order to exhibit its interesting character; but the
more interesting portion we shall leave untouched—
namely, the love stories of Frances Coke and of
Florence Newport—two very charming, but very
dissimilar characters. The daughter of the miser is
a creature of joy and sunshine ; speaking of her own
happy temperament she says—" I never would turn
my back upon the sun and stand in my own shadow"—
a lesson which many a misanthrope and many a sen-
timental damsel would do well to learn from the
miser's daughter. The other heroine, Frances Coke,
is the daughter of the great lawyer. Were it not
that we always view with extreme dissatisfaction such
a public exhibition, whether real or fictitious, of the
records of private life, we should be inclined to be-
stow Much commendation on the chapters in these
volumes descriptive of Coke and Bacon. The pas-
sage in which the latter is depicted, unhappy even in
his triumph, is very felicitous :
" And was the Lord Keeper happier than the Attor-
ney-General had been? No; the cloud was stilt darker
upon the brow of Bacon, and lines of deeper disquietude
were upon his face. At that moment the man whose
living peace and pleasure had best consisted in laying up
future honour fur his own name, in prosecuting those
glorious schemes cf intellectual greatness which the
scope of his own great mind could grasp and his own
intellect could measure—this man was suffering the pur-
gatory of petty cares, of mean, of grovelling embarrass-
ments. . . . . The great man brought his own
punishment upon himself, because he was little in his
purposes. He, to whom science was an open book, and
to whom literature opened the gates of its own paradise,
what had he to do with the empty dross of worldly ho-
nour—the gawds and toys ot worldly vanities—or the
grasping posts of ambition—which he could only descend
to fill, since he was already far above them?"
Contrasted with this, and even more powerfully de-
scribed, is the situation of the disappointed rival of
the Lord Chancellor, the conscientious and honourable,
but unfortunate Coke—the dismissed , Chief Justice.
At the moment of Coke's failing fortunes his daughter
Frances, not yielding so much to the persuasions of
her lover as to the vehement authority of her mother,
the imperious Lady Coke, is about to fly from her
father's house and become a wife in disobedience to
his commands. But although the lady-mother has
forgotten the feelings and the duties of a wife, Frances
cannot overcome the natural emotions of a daughter.
On the morning of her intended flight, while her
mother is preparing for the journey, Frances timidly
approaches her father's room. She sees him with care-
worn brow, oppressed with gloomy thoughts. This
scene is the best written and the most beautiful in the
work. The repentant daughter throws herself in
her father's arms, and voluntarily pledges herself to
be obedient to his wishes. We have, however, said
enough, and more than enough, to corroborate our
assertion that the " Miser's Secret " will reflect
honour upon its author. The scenes in which King James
bears a part, in one of which the King's shrewdness
is very happily exhibited, we must, with many other
interesting matters, leave to the readers of the " Mi-
ser's Secret." There is a somewhat dramatic charac-
ter about the arrangement of the incidents, more
especially in the last scene, where all the actors are,
somewhat improbably, assembled together. This
peculiarity does not add to the value of the novel as
a work ot art, yet it perhaps increases the interest of
the various catastrophes. Many effective similes and
truthful thoughts are given in a few emphatic words ;
one of the happiest is the observation, that " there
was a sneer in the curl of Lady Ellicombe's lips,
wrapped up like the cankering insect in the rose-
bud." In any future production, the author will do
well to bestow a little more care upon the style in
which he relates his heroes' and heroines' very inte-
resting adventures.

THE AMYOTT' S HOME. A Tale for Cliildreu.
This is an agreeable little volume, consisting of a
series of family pictures ; and we do not doubt that it
will afford much entertainment to those for whose
benefit it is designed.

THE VALE OF CEDARS. A Tale of the
Fifteenth Century. By Grace Aguilar.
Many of our readers have, probably, seen this
beautiful tale in the pages of the Belle Assemblee,
but they will, undoubtedly, be glad of an opportu-
nity of possessing it in a more collected form. The
scene is laid in Spain, during the reign of Ferdinand
and Isabella. It is one of the most interesting pro-
ductions of its talented authoress; and the trials of
the unfortunate and persecuted, but most heroic and
upright Marie are told with great power and effect.
All readers will sympathise with the authoress in her
admiration cf Isabella of Castile, of whom she draws
a most interesting character.

as one now for a considerable time known in the
west as " The Bard of the Forest," end m the east as
" Ghtrei, the Angle-Circasiian." His previous effu-
sions have familiarised with a style singular for
its mingled quaintness and volubility. His prose
and his poetry, his " odd fancies" and "rustic lays,
his " Australasia" and his " Circassia," his " Bled-
dyn" and his " Count Glarus of Switzerland," have
each indicated some new phase in his protean and
fantastic character. The " Queer Book" before
us is the crowning indication of his talent
and facetiousness. The very dedication to Miss
Dosy Scruggs, wherein the writer tells, with the most
ludicrous particularity, an anecdote about an obese
partridge, is as droll in extravagance as the famous
testimonials to the virtue and efficacy of the Polu-
phlosboio Oleaginous Detergent Ointment! Within
two hundred pages the volume comprises three di-
visions ; first, " Adventures in the Peninsula ;" se-
condly, " Animals and their Wrongs ;" and thirdly,
" More Remarkable Passages in the Life of Gherie,
the Anglo-Circassian." Mr. Wickenden is evidently
a decided wag—one that can only be designated by
that comprehensive epithet, " a character." His wild
and infectious love of the laughter-moving follows
him everywhere, in his peregrinations as well as his
ruminations, in his travels and his literary composi-
tion. Every where he is cracking his jokes ; every-
one or almost every one he is girding at
in succession. The blade of his wit is as
trenchant as the sword of Sir Hudibras. He cuts
and comes again, and certainly after its fashion
we doubt not that the " Queer Book" will secure for
its readers a right to a similar commendation as that
just bestowed upon the wit from which it has
emanated. Those readers will not fail after cutting
its leaves to return to the perusal of the volume more
than once, if only from a sense of curiosity and be-
wilderment.;

PRUSSIA AND DENMARK.

followiog is a translation cf the note addre!vd
137 the Prus:,ian Chevalicr Bunsen, to Lora
altnt,rztoT, on till:, Eul,j6ct of the late colifcrzace on
the bffairs of S3Lieswig Holsttin

"the undersigned Plenipotentiary of Lis
Minister " London, Au* 1.
Majesty the King of Prussia, tee., has had the honour of
receiving, the day before yesterday, the note dated the
29th of the preceding month, in which the Viscount Pal-
merstor, See., invites him to a eenfereece, to be hell at
the Foreign-office tomorrow, Friday, with respect to the
draught of a protocol annexed to the note.
" The undersigned, while thanking M. le Vicomte for
-this communication, feels it his duty to inform him that,
he is not authorized to give his concurrence to any such
protocol.
" The reserve which he has deemed it his duty to
maintain in this respect on the occasion of the confer-
ence of the 4th of last month having met with the ap-
probation of his Government, and further instructions
not having been received, the undersigned can simply
refer to those observations which he had the honour of
submitting to Viscount Palmerston in his note of the 6th
of July, whether in respect to the preliminary questions
and formalities, or to the essential and special arguments
which, in the view of affairs taken by the Prussian Go-
vernment, militate against such an European protocol,
and especially against its adoption by Prussia and Ger-
many, for, the now protocol differs from the first, except
in certain verbal modifications introduced into articles 3
and 4 in consequence of the fact of the conclusion of a
peace, only by the clause added to article 1 in these
terms:—' without prejudice to the relations, Sec.'
" Now, this clause is in itself' very indefinite, but it is,
moreover, more than neutralized by an expression very
precise and significant in its effect which occurs in con-
text with it—a phrase which is new to the international
law of Europe and inadmissible as regards Germany; it
is the expression, twice repeated in the draught, in the
original integrity of the Danish monarchy: It is incon-
testable that this expression must be understood in the
sense that the duchy of Holstein forms, together with
Denmark and Schleswig, the Danish monarchy. Now,
the undersigned considers it unnecessary to repeat the
arguments and facts proving that this expression is
neither more exact in point of international law, nor loss
politically threatening towards Germany, than would be
the expression the integrity of the Dutch monarchy in
a sense implying that the duchy of Luxemburg was con-
sidered to form, in conjunction with Holland, the Dutch
monarchy. Such integral portions of Germany can
never be considered as integral portions of a foreign
state; for, if this were the case, they ought to share the
destiny of those states when those dynastic or constitu-
tional conditions shall have ceased under which alone
they can have one and the same monarch with a foreign
state. Holland might lose the dynasty by which it is at
present ruled, and the new Dutch Government might lay
claim to the duchy of Luxemburg, protesting, at the
same time, that it was done without prejudice to the re-
lations of this duchy with the German Confederation; a
new dynasty in Denmark foreign to Germany, or a new
line having no right of succession therein, might say as
much with respect to Holstein.
" Moreover, the expression integrity of the Danish
monarchy' is not a neutral expression, but one which for
the last forty-four years has been expressive of party
opinion.
" The new draught of a protocol does not differ essen-
tially from the first, in so far as concerns Germany.
" But, the undersigned is bound to call the attention
of Viscount Palmerston to the important fact, that the
treaty of peace which has just been concluded, on the 2d
of July, at Berlin, betweeu Germany and Denmark, and
the protocol thereto annexed, have settled in a clear and
positive manner the mode of communication between
those two Powers relative to the questions treated of in
the protocol, and that this arrangement not only renders
superfluous the participation of Prussia in such a pro-
tocol, but actually precludes such a participation, at
least at the present moment.
" In the first Ilan, the King of Denmark engages
himself by article 4 of the treaty to demand, before re-
sorting to arms, the intervention of the Confederation in
the duchy of Holstein, and to make manifest in such a
case his intentions towards the duchies. In the second
place, it is said in article 7 of the protocol that this mo-
narch should take the initiative as regards the measures
destined to regulate the order of succession, and that the
King of Prussia should participate in the negotiations
to be set on foot for that purpose.

" It is these two points (and especially the first) which
form, the question of peeve being decided, the object of
the solicitude of the three great non-Germanic Powers
which have agreed to this draught of a protocol.
A So extraordinary a eegree of solicitude will ap-
pear the lees called for by the circumstances of the
case at a time when the two belligeraut parties
(Germany and Denmark) have just engaged to come
to a direct and friendly understanding on the points
in question, and when a bloody conflict has broken
out afresh between Denmark and the Duchies upon
purely constitutional questions
~•—a conflict which it
cannot be expected will be brought to a satisfactory and
durable termination by a dictatorial act on the part of
three foreign Powers, declaring that it is desirable the
King of Denmark should continue at all costs to be Duke
of Schleswig and Holstein ; but, under any circum-
stances, it would appear strange were Prussia, after
such en arrangement between herself and Denmark, to
change the natural, regular, end legal order of pro-
ceeding prescribed by the treaty, in order to adopt
the new, unwonted, and dangerous course of an Euro-
pean protocol,
" It is to the King of Denmark that Prussia must
look for communications on this subject: it is; by those
communications that she will be placed in a position to
judge of the justice, and., consequently to pronounce as
to the wisdom of the measures proposed by the King of
Denmark, whether as regards the recognition and gua-
rantee of the right of the Duchy of Holstein and of the
Confederation, or touching the order of succession des-
tined at a future period to maintain in union the several
states which acknowledge him as their sovereign.
" These communications Prussia has not yet received
from the King of Denmark.
" Until these communications shall have been made
Prussia is evidently bound, by every argument, to abstain
from participation in the protocol of a European confe-
deration which has taken the initiative in this affair with
regard to Prussia.
"And on this point the undersigned must draw the
attention of the Principal Secretary of State to the fact,
that though it is stated in the preamble of the proposed
protocol that the Powers supposed to concur in it have
united for the purpose of forming such a protocol at the
invitation of the King of Denmark, such certainly is not
the case as regards the King of Prussia, who is named in
this preamble. For, as far as the undersigned is in-
formed, such an invitation has not been addressed to his
Majesty up to the present time; it would not, therefore,
be conformable with the truth as regards Prussia, were
she to join in such a declaration.
"It consequently becomes necessary either to wait
until this phrase becomes true, or erase it from the pro-
tocol. One or the other course presents no difficulty.
But it would not be so easy, especially if the signature
of a European protocol be urgently pressed at the pre-
,
sen t moment, to,efface from the public mind in Germany
and from that of every German Government possessed
of any self-respect, the following facts :
That the idea of the present protocol has been con-
ceived by the great non-Germanic Powers, not only upon
the invitation of the Ring of Denmark then at war with
Germany, but without the knowledge of Germany, she
up to the last day of the conferences and negotiations
which led to the first protocol being carefully ex-
cluded.

position that peace was yet to be concluded, re-appears
"That this project,
with modifications inspiring but little confidence.
" That it re-appears not only after this peace has
having been drawn up on the sup-
been concluded, but after the mode of proceeding in the
direct communications between the two powers relative
to the order of succession and the federal bond have
been settled in a clear, positive, and provident manner.
" That Prussia is, after all this, invited to abandon
an impregnable position in law and polity before the
King of Denmark has made those communications in
which he promised to take the initiative with regard to
Germany, and before he has manifested his intentions
relative to the duchy of Holstein.
"The undersigned has no doubt that Viscount Palmer-
ston will take into serious consideration the arguments
which he has had the honour to submit to him, as ren-
dering it incumbent that he should abstain from com-
plying with his invitation to the conference tc-morrow,
and takes this occasion, &c.,

" BUNSEN.
" P.S.—August 2, ten o'clock A.M.—The Undersigned
has kept back this note until the arrival of to-say's post.
He now has the honour to a(ld that he has just received
rositive instructions from his Government not to take
psrt in the conference, and to set forth the motives for
so doing to Viscount Palineiston, in accordance with the
considerations which he has had the honour to submit
to him in the present note.-

SUDDEN DEATEI. PENRITH, SUNDAY. This
morning a person of gentlemanly appearance, and seemingly
about 55 years of age, who arrived at Penrith on the preced-
ing evening by the snail train from the south, and who stayed
the night at the White Hart Inn, obtained a ticket at this
station for Carlisle by the mail train. He walked out of the
station-house across the line to the western side, where the
passengers get into the down trains, and sat down on a seat,
awaiting the arrival of the train, and presently a young lady
observed that Isis face turned red, when he leant his head on
his walking stick and died instantly. Dr. Graves was sent
for, and his opinion was, that as the deceased gentleman had
walked or run hurriedly from the town up the steep hill to
the station, he had died from palpitation of the heart. The
body was removed to the Fish Inge, Great Dockray, where it
now lies. On his person being arched a bill was found,
stating that W. Chambersbees had
purchased some white
neckcloths, &c., also a printed hymn, bearing the name
of " Chambers, printers, Eccles, near Halifax," four clean
shirts marked with the initials, "W.C. ;" 31. dd in money
were also found in his pockets. He was dressed in black.
THE EMIGRATION TO CALIFORNIA.—According
to present appearance there will be a tremendous emigration
from the Atlantic States to California during the present
year. Up to the 17th of June last, we are authentically informde
that come thirty thousand adventurers passed Fort Lara-
mie, on the overland route to the modern El Dorado ; and
the rush by the way of Chagres and Panama is still very
great. The probability is, that the new state on the Pacific
will receive an accession to her population of between sixty
or seventy thousand within the present year. The accounts
recently received from the gold region warrant the belief
that the proceeds of gold digging this season will be im-
she got disgusted with
mense. That state, with such wonderful resources, need care
and withdrew her
very little whether she is admitted into the Union or not.
thelnd enesda'n manner would
n application for admission altogether.—New York Herald.
HARROW SCHOOL.—We are authorised to state that
which
tsh bee shuarsp
been
nd
treated
ated,
her Majesty having been graciously pleased to confer on
Harrow School an additional week's holvdaye, on the occa-
sion of the birth of his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, the
school will re-open on Wednesday, the 18th of September,
instead of the 11th, the day previously fixed.

THE UNITED STATES.

New Yon IE, JULY 31.—1 t is asserted in political
circles in Wii.Aingt3n that the difnfrcr.c•s betweal
this Government and that of Pertugni have I;een
adjusted. The terms arc not given, riot are
formed where or when the adjustment took place.
The reports first received a week or two since excited
some attention ; since then, however, but little has
been heard of the subject, and I am not aware of its
having occasioned a single remark in either Chamber
of Congress. The tone of public opinion generally
is strongly opposed to hostile demonstrations, nor is
it probable they would be sanctioned by Congress,
and much doubt has been expressed as to the equity
of any claim for indemnity on account of the capture
of the General Armstrong privateer at Fatal. Had
such a claim been well based, it is considered that it
would have had more attention from former Adminis-
trations, particularly from that of President Jackson,
who certainly was most zealous in discharging that
branch of his duties.

Mr. Winthrop, and not Mr. Everett, has be©n ap-
pointed to the vacancy occasioned by Mr. Webster's
retirement from the Senate. He was Speaker of the
last House of Representatives, and was the promi-
nent candidate of the Whig party for the same office
this year.
The Senate are still occupied with the Compro-
mise Bill, and the part of it now under discussion
refers to the boundaries of Texas and New Mexico.
The proposal to leave them to the adjustment of Com-
missioners was negatived by an even vote and a sub-
sequent motion to authorise Texas to bring an action
in the Supreme Court was lost. The voting was
quite sectional, and showed an absence of Whig or
Democratic influence. A hope is daily expressed
that the final vote will be taken on this question, and
daily disappointment is felt that no decision has been
come to. It is evident that a large majority of Sena
tors approve of the late determination of President
Taylor to prevent any hostile movement of Texas in
the region claimed by that state, for a motion
of Mr. Rusk to " declare null and void
all orders of the Unitedel,States' officers in
New Mexico concerning the foundation of a
State Government, and all action therein," was re-
jected by a vote of 42 to 12. The claims of Texas
are generally looked on to be as fictitious as they
well can be, and would not exist were it not for the
unscrupulous character of a large portion of her po-
pulation, made up, but within a few years, by re-
fugees and outlaws from the other states, whose ac-
quisitiveness has lately been excited by the possible
chance of a large payment in money for their aban-
donment of these pretensions. Imaginary as they
may be, however, they receive the very general sup-
port of the Southern States, where it is considered
that every acre secured to Texas extends the field of
slave territory and enhances the influence of slave
states. Fortunately the interest ends there, and, as
the vote proves, no attempt at forcible occupation
will be sanctioned ; nor would such a demonstration
find favour with their constituents, even if it were
seriously favoured by the minority, who endea-
voured to prevent the interference of the general
Government for the purpose of securing the public
tranquillity.
Another proposal before the Senate is for allowing
drawback on foreign goods transported by land into
Canada. Heretofore this drawback was obtainable
only on such merchandise as was sent round by sea,
thus causing great delay as well as risk to the shippers.

It is also under consideration to create a rank of
Lieutenant-General in the army, and to confer it on
General Scott in acknowledgment of his services in
Mexico. The highest grade at present is that of
Major- General.
The returns of revenue from duties during the past
fiscal year, ending on the 30th of June, have not yet
been completed, but it is ascertained that it will ex-
ceed 41,000,000 dolls. ; and prospects for the present
year are said to be equally favourable. All, and more
than all, will nevertheless be required, if appropria-
tions are made for some of the heavy expenditures
contemplated in California, and rendered necessary
by the enormous trade which has sprung up in that
quarter.
. . .

The wheat harvest throughout the country has been
gathered, and the quantity produced is said to be far
greater than ever before. In many of the Western
States, where Indian corn has heretofore been the
principal crop, a large amount of wheat has been
grow❑ this year. Missouri, which is one of the
smallest wheat7producing states, has an estimated
surplus of 500,000 bushels. The corn crop has un-
fortunately suffered somewhat in almost every direc-
tion, owing to drought; as, however, this occurred
before the grain was formed, the injury will be amply
retrieved if the weather in August be favourable ; but
under any circumstances it is merely a question of
price,' as the supply is far more than is requisite for
the consumption of beast as well as man.
Private advices from Havannah to the 22d confirm
the idea that the sugar crop will be considerably less
than was anticipated at the beginning of the season.
Both demand and prices were steady, bat supplies
were restricted notwithstanding these inducements as
well as the great facilities for bringing the article to
market. Much anxiety is reported to exist among plan-
ters on account of the progress of cholera, and the
effect it may produce upon the next and subsequent
crops. Nor does this alarm appear unfounded, for
though the disease has not become general it continues
to spread, and its ravages in some districts have been
appalling. The period of the year is not favourable
for arresting the disease, and the most efficient hands
are generally the victims. The loss is thus irre-
parable, owing to the impossibility of replacing the
deceased blacks or substitating other labour.
Accounts from the cotton-growing districts are
more favourable, but this should not be construed into
any indication that the crop will be a large or even
an average one. The report is merely noted and
quoted in contradistinction to the unfavourable ones
already sent over.' It cannot, however, set aside the
fact that the average date of bloom did not take place
before the sth inst., which is twenty days later than

the latest season on record ; nor can it Cobliterate the
remembrance that in no case has late bloom produced
a large crop.
United States' Stocks have been in moderate de-
mand, and a decline has been submitted to. State
Stocks are also dull, and but little activity exists in
any branch of trade. There is no change in the
money market, and the export of specie appears to
have ceased. The quotations at the close of business
yesterday were—United States' Six per Cents., 1856,
107 i; 1862, 110 to 111 ; 1867-68, 114 to 11,q;
1868 Coupons, 116/ to 1164 ; New York Six per
Cents., 1865, 118*; Ohio Six per Cents., 1875, 1141
to 115 ; Illinois Canal Dollar Bonds, registered, 55 ;
Internal Imp. Stock, 1847, 50 to 501 ; ditto Interest
Stock, 27 ; Indiana Canal Loan, 85 ; State Five per
Cents., 77fi to 78 ; Maryland Five per Cents., 87 to
89; Alabama Five per Cents., 82 to 84; Pennsylva-
nia Six per Cents., 1879, 107 to 1071; Five per Cent.,
92:1 to 934.
The demand for bills on London is moderate, and
the rates tend downward ; the transactions have been
1091 to 1104; Paris, 5.224 to s.234.—Times' Cor-
respondent.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.

Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

Sir,—On Monday the 12th, the principal debate
was on a motion of Mr. Hume for printing the evi-
dance laid on the table from the Committee on Ceylon.
As language has been averred to have been given to
man to enable him to conceal his ideas, so the object
of a Parliamentary inquiry looks as if it was to con-
ceal the results. The argument advanced, is that the
evidence is " private and confidential." At those
model committees which are held by twelve men and
a Judge of Assize in the chair, is there anything
known like the suppression of evidence for being
" private and confidential" ? The fact is, there is a
routine in these cases; and it is, that no men in office
shall be punished or exposed more than can be helped,
for anything he may do. But he shall be put away
privily, to the extent of what his misdoings may
make absolutely convenient for the Government.
After all the bluster that is made about " the Anglo-
Saxon race," it is not impossible it may turn out,
that they are one of the most incompetent races in
the world, for everything requiring the mixture of
justice and intelligence. They cannot govern Ire-
land, they cannot govern the Cape, they cannot
govern Cephalonia, they cannot govern Ceylon ; for
it is not governing, knocking people on the head.
They are capable of nothing but a bare fighting.
So they must be left to fight it out with one another ;
and by and by the young breeds will eat up the old.
the House at rising adjourned till Wednesday.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, Aug. 14, 1850.

AN INSECT SCOURGE.—One of the finest and
richest valleys of Savoy has just fallen tinder a devas-
tating scourge. A host of insects, which are confounded
by the people with the locusts, alighted some time
since in the valley of the Isere, near Saint Piere
d'Albigni. These herbivorous insects are a thousand
times more destructive than the locust ; they are
crickets (acidium). Their presence has been already marked
by deilorable ravages in the crops of maize, which were at
first remarkably promising. They increase and multiply in
a most frightful manner; each of the females deposits in
little holes in the ground several thousand eggs, which are
soon hatched. When they have cleared ono spat of every
vestige of herbage, they proceed to another, and, unless
some efficacious measures are adopted, the whole of Savoy
will be devastated. These insects are as much to be dreaded
when dead as when living ; for, if killed by a cold rain, their
bodies exhale an infectious miasma, which causes epidemical
diseases.— Galignani's Messenger.
HALIFAX AND QUEBEC RAILWAY.—The inhabitants
of New Brunswick have presented petitions to the House of
Commons, in favour of passing the Bill for constructing this
line.
NEw COLLEGE IN CANADA.—The Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge are about making a grant
of 6,000/. to the Bishop of Toronto, towards securing the en-
dowment ofitenwth the church
acollege,
inis ofha dpieorcmesane.ent character, in con-
nexion

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
w oLvER LI A. MPTON RACES.—TUESDAY.
C!c,..01e.:t1 Cup r f 1.00 st:vk. with Zo second to re-
(lace yea:s old, 6.4 101 b; iota, Sat; 71);
five, 9:4 11b; six end aged, 9.it- Sib; mares and geld-
ings alif,wed 511 s; winners, extra, &i. Three mile:.
Mr. Clark's Made Safe, 3 yrs... ...
it r. J. B. Minor's Medestina, 3 yrs ...
Mr. Ey ke's Risk, 3 yrs...
Won by a nt.ek ; time, 6 min. 6 secs.
Patshull Handicap of 15 says. each, and 30 added, 10
ft, and 5 only if declared. One mile. (14 Subs., 5 of
whom declared.)
Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress, aged, ist 51b
Mr. Copeland's Candlewick, 3 yrs, sst 61b
Mr. W. Callum's Seagull, 6 yrs, Est 41b
Won easy.
Chillin4ton Stakes of 10 soya. each. and 50 added for
two y,srs olds; colts, Sat 71b; fillies, Bst 51b; winners
extra. T.Y.C. (10 Subs.)
Mr. J. H. Parker's Calculator •••
Mr. Sharratt's Melbourne filly ...
Mr. John Fowler's Reaper
Won by half a length.
Bilston Plate of 50/,, added to a free handicap of 5 sovs.
each. Once round and a distance. (10 Subs.)
Herbert's Spot, 4 yrs, Bst 31b I
Parr's Clothworker, 4 yrs, Bst 71b ... 2
Fowler's John Dory, 4 yrs, 7st 51b ... 3
Won by a length.
The Borough Members' Plate of 601. Heats one mile
and a hal&

... 1
... 2
... 3

... 1
... 2
... 3

... 1

... 2
... 3

Mr. Baylis's Colocynthis, 5 yrs (Cheswas) 0 1 1
Mr. Fowler's Cosachia, 6 yrs 1 2 2
Mr. Price's Sister to Legislator, 3 yrs 0 0 0
Mr. Giles's Gaffer Green, aged ... 0 0 0
Mr. Painter's bm by Jereed, 5 yrs ... 0 0 dr
Mr. Jones's Flirt, 4 yrs 2 dr
EGHAM, 1850. _ _

Acceptances for the Surrey and Middlesex Stakes.
Repletion, St. Rosalie Escape, Jellyfish, Cheerful,
Van Diemen, Little Jack, Jester, Ballet Girl.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-TUESDAY.

EBOR HANDICAP.-4 to 1 agst Caneaou (taken)-6 to
1 agst Cantab (taken)-6 to 1 agst Coßingwood (taken)
—8 to 1 agst Mark Tapley (taken)-10 to 1 agst Cloth-
worker (taken)-12 to 1 agst Inheritress (taken).
GREAT YORKSHIRE ►TAKES.-6 to 5 on Pitsford-
-5 to 1 agat any other.
ST. LEGER.-5 to 4 agst Voltigeur-7 to 1 agst Win-
dischgratz (taken)-9 to 1 agst Clincher (taken)-9 to 1
agat Pitsford (taken)-12 to 1 agst Beehunter.

CRICKET.

ELEVEN GENTLEMEN OF SURREY v. THE

TWELVE C2ESARS.

To Mr. Alexander Marshall, of Godalming, and his
family, the cricket world is indebted for this curious
match. Indeed, we doubt whether a contest having on
the one side twelve, or even eleven of one family, could
be made up. A few years since there were eleven gentle-
men in Norfolk (,f the name of Coleman who put forth a
challenge against any other family all of the same name,
and with that exception until the present match we do
not at this moment recollect an instance of such a family
eleven having been congregated. The present match
was got up by Mr. Marshall to introduce all the Cresars
together—three brothers and their respective sons—and
it was played upon the ground which has been formed in
Mr. Marshall, sen.'s, park, known as Broadwater, a short
distance on the London side of Godalming. The final
score stood thus:—