The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-24 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERNEN•

24eil

(THIS DAY.) , t
two o'clock, seci Court of
Guildhall,o f. ll i(ler mfenirl
ELECTION OF RECORDEIt 1! S-
oinfglazeficotradnedr, pirnoper person to fill the
consequence of the desto . e t
ee
lamented Hon. Cnarles Ewan Law, the 10
corder. le ),"‘
'The candidates to fill the high civic office,„ ii!•,•P
Sergeant Merewether, the present Town u'A-- 'Or":
z held to 4 i'et,
H. J. Stuart Wortley, .M.P. for I°7l 'OO
Mr. Montague Chambers, Mr. Bullock/
..." 5. le
Sergeant ; Mr. Russell Gurney, the 14- la
pia
Piurorrorsett..o°:: 'oteidD;pc,ee
pointed Commissioner.
sent we noticed Sir Chapman Marsto: 'ycor'
Among the alderat 1 )Ir.
Alderman Humphrey, Mr. Alderrn2',,n LI is, l‘f;:t
Mr. Alderman Copeland, Mr. Alderman Clll-,i ;IA '"lii
Alderman Sydney, Mr. Alderman Farebreo jerriO
IP,.,inteuris,LAauirr.iej Aldierr.mAalnderGnilbabns,Wilson, Pir
grove, and Sir James Duke.
The Lord Ma
, o
or entered the
and at this •
time we also observed in the b°.cv C 01111;
court Mr. Common-Sergeant Bullock, Airi. of t
missioner Gurney, Mr. Ryland,and sever! .
;
City pleaders.
14
The usual preliminary business of the CO "
• ear;
been disposed of, Mr. Aldernii L,ciochi‘;
_„0 ; 0,
Mr. Sheriff and Alderman LAwItEL-4,- ban 19
gratulatcd the Court on the dini,ingu- th11,13.,;i0
crime in the metropolis, which was DO /6.5' I be ,0-%
per cent. during the last year, and also upon oru- e
lity that had been given to the fel', coa9o
of trials at the Central Criminal Court. Tilt!! ,ecl tb
that had been adopted had materially di
. esr''
labours of the Judges, and had considerabt
dited the administration of justice. ekl
THE RECORDERS/1M 1,,, begg a
Mr. Sergeant MEREWETHER said, that 1-". was
to state, atter what bad taken place, that he
louger a candidate for the office re,
Sir P. LAURIE considered that the Court
of Recorder• after
such an announcement, ought to be cleared.
___,„tiot
Several members of the Court opposed the 317,4 the
motior7l:" veeP
Sir P. LAURIE persisted in his
Court was accordingly cleared, and had rot,
opened when we went to press.

ROBBING A BENEFIT CLUB BOX.--On '7.-0°00;
dAt rdd
had been roxbbined
evening.a last the stewards and members of the cltri:',:oerm,
tbilliantgthte thebo Dog and Partridge Inn, Barton 012, 41,s' °siva
moneyseparate
has
been l locks such as isgenerally 'on, e
etehrronyiclie'h. si cha betweentdh the
kf ue funds
.o fbaut
and
cei
hs cowi
ort y Twbbeyer
to
us t:
pear tha.t they used for clubs of this description, the
Y. e
were een examined, en cagibri
oa
eopened
prbeysenptic.rkelinecnii,nksdeay.Cst.o....rope;eootoo,

AN EXTRAORDINARI SIZED EGG. tif
c0uhty:.......A gOiOS% his
longing to Mrs. Thomas Beddall, of Finchirgnelo, log-
, on Thursday morning last, laid an egg of ti1e,,,,e4
lug gigantic dimensions:-8.1 inches round . the
out;ceg,/
Epasserts.;
.11 11.9erailhes round lengthwise; weight clew.
We are sorry to say that the project moolv
for a ..000 ,
went worthy. of the town and of Ebenezer Elliott, 11161.0!
wdlacreditably. The fact is, though Sheiffelders generl;:tlol •
ling
enough to boast of their "classic" distinction ,o;
loves their poets far less than they love their own Prri, 00
wthil:teegillidelli;:e°;
th care much more for the effects of free trsde than sit
memories of the men who broke the nation's fetters.'"
field Times.
TEA.—According. to a
and
dre is a spurious tea manufactory • .0010 f•
trade Cltbelo6
damaged tea from the bond wianrejheorusseeYe,'
purchased at the hotels of the metropolis, 04 I.'B oold for
nousea leaves of the is!and are converted into wnfi OOO4l
t !
soon
is pronounced that a tree with a green leaf goiro JP
_ will
n 1
abe as rare a sight ill Jersey 55 A 111.0).
x:, gau at Christmas.

SPORTING INTELL IGENCE.
TA TTERSA LL'S —YESTERDAY.
If the we Inv judge from the absence of complaint, and
o Ereadiness ehown to speallate on future events, the
ctv° ak-ttling on the aincaster race; must have been
a
Isfactcry: the deficiencies, we believe, are small. The
rin,;iPal feature of the betting was the advance of
pitilLugrave to 8 to 1 (taken several time,,), leaving off
„ the call of the Irish horse, whose friends were very
Bha
I'.". The Italian was in force for the .Cambridge-
betre, for
which also Loadstone, after 20 to 1 had been
re Itq, improved several points. The bettsg, in other
aPteta, was wither heavy nor important..
i
BEDFORDSHIRE STAKES.
6 to 4 agst Mr. Charlton's Kissaway
NEWMARKET TWO YRS OLD TRIENNIAL.
3 to 1 asst Lord Caledon's Aaron Scaith—taken
NEWMARKET THREE YRS OLD TRIENNIAL.
3 to 1 agst Lord Enfield's William the Conqueror
—taken fceely
4 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Harding°
Even on
FOUR YRS OLD TRIENNIAL.
"en on Sir J. Hawley's Vatican,
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
8 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Landgrave—taken and
afterwards offered
8 to 1 agst Mr. Mangan's Russborough
9to 1 aget Mr. Edwards na Bolingbroke—taken
and afterwards offered
10 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Backbiter-11 to 1 taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Legerdemain—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Chantrey
25 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Miss Ann—taken
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
6to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's The Italian-7 to 1
taken freely
10 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's Mulgrave
!I to 1 agst Lord J. Scott's Turnus
14 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Loadstoeo
17 to 1 agst Mr. Jones's Ilagley
25 to 1 agst Cspt.Arehdall's Rhesus
DERBY.
12 to 1 agst Mr. Halford's Prime Minister
25 to 1 agst Mr. Osborne,'s The Black Doctor—taken
and afterwards offered
83 to 1 agst Lord Caledon's Aaron Smith—taken
to 200/.
40 to 1 apt Mr. St. George's Brother to Chanticleer
—taken
1".10 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Lightfoot
kod4eridian, Izto the property of Count Hahn, met with
tot:!eident at Hatubleton on Saturday, and was obliged
The shot.
RICHMOND RACES.—MONDAY.
tiat Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft, and 20 added;
4,.'1111er to be sold for 100/. To start at the turn at back
let Stand a-id run in. (8 Subs.)
kr. Gill's Esculapius, 3 yrs ... •••
harton na Tity, 4 yrs ... •••
The Six started.
-c4,1 asby Stakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if
tiilL;lcired, with 20 added, for two yrs old colts, 6st 71b;
to-e•oe.,a. 6.it 31b; three yrs, Sat 711); and fillies, Bst 31b;
Gre'

... 1

eclici to save his stake; winners extra, 80. --
4r toecin. (6 Subs., 1 of whom declared.)
kriliehard na Black Doctor, 2 yrs '•'
The S. Davidson's Jack Leeming, 2 yrs
nichuaond Handicap of 20 sovs. ea-1, 10 ft and 3 It,
ith 7
W
d added. Two miles. (15 Subs., 5 of whom
ealated.)
.tr. 8 1
• Davidson's Fleur de Seine ..• ••• •• 2
Radulphus ••• ••• •"
koge Voltigeur Stakes were won by Gardenia, beating
tJlasian and several others.
ttE
our LYING DUTCIIMIN.—It may interest some of
104 readers to know that this famous racer has bean_
En to four noblemen and gentlemen by the Earl of
116it°11 for 7,0001. He is not intended for the turf
1)3,i", and will only be kept for breeding purposes. The
beerig, Dutchman has won fourteen races, never baying
then twaten till Friday last, for the Doncas-er.Cup, by
Aeth ad. of Zctland's Voltigeur, an event attributable,
frer:P3, to the great weight the favourite was compelledo_t_
bur his acre to carry—namely, 191bs. more than V li7
Olto: The Dutchman has realized the sum of 17,7251.
PlutZether for his late Noble Proprietor, exclusive of
Cups, and other trophies of the race-course.

AQUATICS.
Th ST. GEORGE'S REGATTA.
ago e deciding heat in this regatta, about two months
Bk far several prizes contributed by the residents of
‘xec,
rge 3, Hanover-square, and St. Peter's
kitc gave rise at the time to a dispute, was yesterday
doe 4,rovved, and finished most satisfactorily.
4,oerPu Tucker and Henry Harvey
Joh g° Royal and Emmanuel Martin
Tholl Sullivan and Charles Seedman 3
.4iles Mills and John Wing
eLY rowel from Battersea-bridge down through
liEtt,;(,°°ll, up the Middlesex shore, back to King WH
IN the Fourth, Thames-bank. They bad a good start,
low:,e,l'Y shortly the winners took tho lead, closely fol-
Cae-4 °Y yellow, the second pair, who never lost their
lEngths ", although making a capital race. Won by four
•
111"; „,• CHANDLER'S PAIR. OARED RACE.
veto: aa" Tom Chandler, of the Feathers, Hun-
k bLu'rnarket, yesterday gave a boat and other prizes,
tow:. rowed for by young tradesmen, and a very nume-
assemblage was the conseqw3rice.
kierst Heat— M•Evoy and Turner (green), 1; M'Carthy
(NCr°nes (black and white), 2 ; Baxter and Bell
lita,e;'), 0; Manning and Corm ack (red), 0. A capital
h,'rern Hungerford-market was followed by a smut
114,t0 Westminster-bridge, whore green took the lead
apt it, winning by three lengths.
Vennd Heat—Chandler and Cadwallada (blue), 1 ;
(Ljtl'iegton and E. Gale (black), 2; Friswell and Piner
Ve,z and white), 0; Constable and Smith (pink), 0.
le e ',inners took the lead and 'wept it. Won by two
Atha.
Third Heat—M‘Evoy and Turner (green), 1; Har-
,cle„
,Nte° and Gale (black), 2; Chandler and Cadwallaoa
0. The heat was gallantly contested, the men
tenethea.ll together for some distance. Won by four
,

Th II OF SHERIFF JARDINE.
kern,.learned gentleman, who was one of the senior
embers of the Faculty of Advocates, suddenly ex
Ito--; at his residence, Great King-street, on Saturday
ab„ nkg• lie had retired on the previous night,
'Fare
frail ntlY in his usual health, which was,atthe best,
feun, and when called on Saturday morning, was
app dead
,°Plexv in bed, as is supposed from an attack of
aotr• Jardine: was the son of Professor Jardine, who
"(Th. ng and ably filled the Chair of Logic in the
fis.ovarsity
_ Dar in 1799, Scot-
au()f Glasgow. Ile W called to the
and through rife was a consistent
10Porter of the principles of Fox—in short, a zea-
blootennstitutional Whig. When the project was
Pubred,, about the year 1825, of effecting two leading
by 6_° improvements in Edinburgh, viz., the approach
toutt.e°rge the Fourth Bridge, and that by the
baetut ante of the Castle, through a general assersd-
}lilt -op" the inhabitants, Mr.. Jardine signilise
byache an uncompromising opposition to the
th,C,',e, telling the authorities atid other promoters
e:etenttutelei ylsrhould follow the example of Glasgow, and
ri
improvements by means of the joint
ophreY of those mainly interested--at all events never
%rill:3 the inhabitants by a tax, the benefit of which
When ly go to a section of the community. Many,
Who "ley have since felt the grievous effects of this
hav9sale job in the annual visits of the tax-gatherer,
Jitrd.bitterly regretted that the wise counsel of Mr.
havelLne was not adopted at the time. That there
the, "", n improvements effected, no one denies, but
itlb'4hoave been inadequate to the burden laid on the
nf Af itants, who should have listenA to the advice
Jardine.
bfieiveral years since, on a vacancy in the Sheriffdom
tistrQa, Mr. Jardine was appointed under the admi-
ttfiepati'n of Lord Melbourne, and he has held this
tioe And actively discharged the duties, until the pe-
Yearc°l Pia decease. He was in his more vigorous
hit); good practice at the bar, but latterly confined
the ed' to the duties of the Sheriffdom. We believe
(of him last occasion in which, apart from his official
he took a share in public matters was when,
Ineeting of the Faculty,he advocated the claims
bea: Present Lord Advocate, to the office of the
of, )4er-clirt. Faculty in the year 1841.—Caledonian

COURT CIRCULAR.
beer BALMORAL, SETT. 21.
°en Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al-
itWent out walking this morning.
/48 'loyal Highness afterwards went out shooting.
Illthe afternoon her Majesty took a drive.
their e Younger members of the Royal Family took
..0..118ual exercise.
1/0v - dinner party this evening will include her
al Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Augusta
Earoness Speth, Lord James Murray, and Sir
Landseer.

Th OSBORNE, SEPT. 23.
e royal children take exercise and drives daily in
csro 4,16 and park, and are quite well.

of 4 Patches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
ee
4041 from the Governors of Ceylon, Labuan, and the
" American colonies.

THE SUN,

SIR ROBERT PEEL, HIS POR-
TRAITS, AND HIS PAINTERS.
(From the Weekly Dispatch.)
Many characters have been drawn of Sir Robert
Peel, many pictures limned, many busts chiselled.
Some of them bear a tolerable resemblance to what
he seemed—not one of them present the least likeness
to what he was. His nearest friends, his greatest and
least discriminating admirers, never knew, or at all
events never either disclosed or appreciated his most
valuable qualities. Their worship consisted of the
magnification into virtues of his most questionable or
most trivial accomplishments; they missed entirely,
they did not know of the existence of the higher ex-
cellencies which he really possessed. We ought not,
therefore, to be surprised that art should miss the fea-
tures which friendship and reverence failed to discern ;
or to feel disappointed that the painter should fail to
characterize that which the politician or the statesman
had only caricatured. In truth, friend and foe seemed
resolved to spell him backwards—to turn him inside
out—to misapprehend the significancy of his being—
to take the husk for the kernel. We address many
who never saw Sir Robert Peel. We warn them
not to trust to any portrait, mental or physical,
which is presented of him. Neither statue, minia-
ture, half-length, nor full, penetrate to the depths of
his expression. They all indicate hardness, coldness,
vain pride, worldly savoir faire. Lavater would
have made no such mistake. There is a certain
cat-like aspect given to his features, of which there
was no trace in the original. There is a particular
precision in the cutting of his face, and a certain
Jemmy-ness in his aspect, attitude, and figure, in all
the busts, statuettes, and engravings or paintings,
which have been attempted (for nothing has been
achieved) of him, which had no part in the original.
The whole "cut of his jib" was that of a plain and
thorough Englishman. He was neither a fop nor a
sloven. His clothes hung somewhat loosely on him ;
his hat slouched; his countenance thoughtful, if not
abstracted; his gait slightly removed from shambling;
his frame large, but not much filled up; his figure
rather tall, and his limbs slender. Nothing was fur-
ther removed from pomposity or formality than his
ordinary bearing, which was tinged only in the
slightest degree with the apparent consciousness that
his position required it as a duty, rather than that his
individuality desired for himself that a certain plain and
simple dignity should be transfused over his social at-
titude. His countenance—we think we see him now, we
have the very man before us—had only to be read a
little to be liked. It was least pleasing when engaged
in the excitement of Parliamentary dialectics. But
studied in its ordinary aspect, it expressed thought-
fulness, sincerity, refinement of nature rather than of
culture, goodness of heart, an entire absence of the
capability of malignity. And this was really the
man's nature. We look back with astonishment at
the total misreading of his whole character and ac-
tions which the bitterness of foes triturated upon the
public mind, and the silence if not half acquiescence
of friends left uncontradicted. As a father, a husband
a neighbour, a friend, a private member of society,
even as a political antagonist, it would be only a nig-
gard and grudging parsimony of speech which would
stop at the epithet exemplary or praiseworthy. No
son was ever more dutiful, no father was ever more
affectionate, no husband was ever more devoted. He
spared the public purse, but lavished his own on his
relatives and friends. He never taunted, but he never
imitated a nepotist. His charity and public-spirited
liberality were only less remarkable than the
studied privacy with which he "did good
by stealth and blush'd to find it fame." His
acts of generosity were betrayed to the pub-
lic by the impulsive and garrulous gratitude
of the recipients—by the last letter of Hayden, and
the irrepressible reverence of Wilderspin. His very
love of art was another development of his love of
humanity and of his country. He spent his money,
not on picture dealers and dead masters, but on
living artists, who were made comfortable by his pa-
tronage, and on English scenes, which were com-
memorated by his liberality. You cannot find a
taunt, scarcely a sarcasm, in the whole of his volu-
minous utterance. Such was his mastery of debate,
that he could afford to dispense with the use of all the
offensive weapons of faction, and even in self-defence
to use the shield without assistance from the dagger.
In all that trying time, when friends grew cold, when
the revengeful had a charter to he bitter, when enemies
ceased to measure their malignity, and every art of
rhetoric was turned upon that one object of the hatred
of party, baited by wit, sarcasm, insinuation, ran-
corous bluster, rude jibe, and vulgar insult, it is im-
possible to conceive a spectacle more worthy of the
veneration of mankind than the noble equanimity,
the " patient merit," the self-commanding presence of
mind which carried that great man through the most
trying circumstances of an eventful life, with an
imperturbability which was entirely removed
from callousness, and a dignity which sought no
assistance from pride, and which nothing but the
consciousness of the sacrifices which patriotism and
duty demanded could ever have sustained. Nothing
but the sordid worldliness of the age could so long
have suffered such a character to be so fatally misun-
derstood. We envy the grave its treasure, that it
may sender back its tribute to show him that his
countrymen in the main are worthy of him and of his
sacrifices, by being at last, from the inherent virtues
of their nature, fully alive to his own. The cant of
editorship marked with what pomposity he delivered
himself, and with how intense an egotism he exhausted
the use of the personal pronoun. But this was the
very excellence of his public character. He referred
his policy to himself, because he alone was willing to
take its full responsibilities. He was master of his
Cabinet, and therefore it was that his administration
was consistent. He left nothing to others, and there-
fore he had nothinr, to modify. His career was
marked by no "murder of the innocents." He ef-
fected everything he undertook, because he matured
before he attempted to accomplish it. He was
daunted by no difficulties about majorities. What
was necessary for the ends of good government he
adopted, and was ready to stand or fall by. He with-
drew no measures because he could not carry them.
He "screwed his courage to the sticking ,place, and
did not fail." Where Melbourne thought a po,litici
" mad to attempt to repeal the corn-laws," at the
very time he declared they ought to be repealed,
Peel insisted upon the attempt because it was un-
just to retain them. Everything about his acts,
whatever may be said of his manner, was thorough,
hearty, complete. If a tax was bad, he took it all off.
If a criminal code was sanguinary, he made a sweep-
ing reform. If the Catholics were unjustly treated,
he would not render justice by degrees and bits, but
at once and altogether. If the nation was in debt, he
would not put on a five per cent. or a ten per cent.
addition to the burdens of the poor, hut go at once
to property and income to pay it off. If a sliding
scale was objectionable, he would have no fixed duty.
His policy filled the imagination, and satisfied the un-
derstanding. There was no cobbling, tinkering, bit-
by-bit reform about it. Ile governed upon principinot
es.
He was a lawgiver, not a mere minister ; a ruler,
the mere head of a department. He first set the ex-
ample of awarding patronage to merit and fitness of
whatever party, and of hundreds of relatives, and bound-
less opportunities, not one of the former was quartered
on the public, not one of the latter was abused to his
own purposes. In a word, raised by his blameless life
and towering abilities to the highest step in the ladder
of power to which the constitution could elevate him,
and by his personal character and solitary talents to
the pinnacle of influence in social and public opinion,
he died a commoner, was buried in private in the
country churchyard of the family parish, and en-
joined in his will his wife and children to decline the
acceptance of all the titles which royalty could bestow,
as equally above his own estimate of his deserts, and
below the greatness which has been awarded him by
his country.
Have we substituted an eulogy for an elegy—flat-
tered when we should have criticised, and engraved
an
epitaph when we should have sketched a lifer
of
s
we may—where a citizen has earned the gatitude
his country by noble acts and great services, perhaps
the heartiness of respect somewhat runs away with
the lights and shadows of a more sober, if of a more
parsimonious discrimination. The fact is, the world
has overlooked the solid basis of this statesman's mind
and soul, and caricatured his faults where it should have
characterised his whole personality. Like all men who
are tenacious of principles and deep in convictions,
he was slow in perceiving and long in adopting
them, because, with such a man opinions were not
speculative, to be put up in pigeon-holes till they were
wanted, but real and living, to be enforced when they
were acknowledged. His was essentially a slow mind,
without the intuitive quickness which marks most
leaders ; and this accounts for the long resistance
which he made to the admission of principles which
ultimately formed the great features of his adminis-
tration. But he never went back. He never cooled
down. Every step which he made was a step forward.
All his progress was towards the light. He did not,
like Pitt, begin life a Radical and end it a Legitimist
4113 Tory. Nor, when he put his hand to the plough,
did he ever look back to the pleasant fields of ease.
Ile was Lancashire bred; he carried its ascent to
the last, likt!, his northern complexion, red, turning
grizzled, and his northern strength of sense and
practical sagacity.
Had he lived—but he is dead—
it is in vain to speculate—we can but conclude with
the exprsssion of the universal feeling, that there is
no moan whom England could have worse spared
than the citiz,n whose loss been only not more
sincerely than justly mourned.

e iesty may
'QUEEN AT EDINBURGII.—Her
kwx Peeled here either on or before the 7th proximo. Her
Jest ,
bighs.. 5 stay here will probably not extend over a couple of
Ivliet`,s and it is extremely doubtful, we believe, as to
'4' a lueevr_?r not her Majesty will hold either a drawing-room
Scotsman.
latatel. JAMES'S PARK.—We (Times) are requested
to
°n authority that the only alterations contemplated
,etee„4,l!:le4's Park are those at 'present in actual progress of
'ace —l°n, viz., the enclosure present in actual progress of
Viz., the enclosure of the forecourt of the la-
rieic,nd the formation of an esplanade in the Park in con:
rubli With a slight change in the boundary fence of th.,
ttheend
on the one side and of the Green Park. on
tenu `,`lr- The railing to enclose the Palace now
.w ill ex-
siqed4unut 70 feet in advance of the enclosure which sub-
the b reviousiy to the erection of the new eastern front ot-
portion of the ground within the present
as t,. ti 'hoarding' will be restored to the Park, inasmuch
Nvithi‘n-thirds of the intended railing will occupy a line
prn the hoarding. As regards the fences which are now
41110(14erill. Kress of removal, the formation of the intended espla-
, g,e to the public on one side of these fences. the
then, r Laken from the other. The arrangements NI Alin'
,'!ntrer ‘,-,that is, in the arden and in the Green Park) will
tom change whategver. It is not intended to fill up any
„,"t• .19—m" the water, or to form any ornamental garden in
"rdeari--„e3 Park, and the plan for the formation of such a
Tts_"ever contemplated the exclusion of the public.
14 zor Partisl strike of factory workers in Glasgow
Y" tertunlated.

EXTENCION OF THE SOUTII WALES RAILWAY.—
The directors have been memorialized on this subject, but
the answer has been to the effect that until the line between
Gloucester and Chepstow be completal, they cannot take
any steps for the constructing of the line from Swansea.
This decision has caused great dissatisfaction in Carmarthen-
shire and Pembrokeshire. Proceedings have been threatened,
should the directors ultimately refuse to accede to the wishes
of the inhabitants.

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1850.

the American Art Union to a private view of the ex-
hibition. The pictures honoured with her notice are
all minutely &scribed. The party is then walked
into an adjoining room, where they find a magnificent
collation, a crowd of "fashionable ladies," and a host
of officials with singular nameE+. Speeches ensue.
Jenny Lind is enrolled a member amid a shower of
compliments, and is with difficulty driven back
through the crowd to her hotel. The near approach
of the ticket auction, fixed for Saturday, creates in-
tense excitement.

FIETII D.Y.
Jenny Lind's personal appearance, her intellectual
qualities, her religious sensibilities are now minutely,
discussed, and fully appreciated. It is ascer-
tained by an immense comparison of observation;
that she is not what is called beautiful, but a
great deal better. The generous public had
taken alarm at the prospect of her b3irig fleeced in
the way of charity performances, but is now consoled
at the thought that they help to make up that spi-
ritual ideal, in which consists her great charm. The
press also makes the agreeable discovery that by its
glowing descriptions of Jenny Lind it contributes to
the same happy result. It is reported that the exist •
ing engagement between Barnum and his fair protige
is cancelled, and a new one substituted, by virtue of
which Jenny Lind and Barnum are to divide the net
profits—not only in the United States but all over the
world—to the end of that lady's career. To obviate
any momentary alarm this announcement may occa
sion, we may as well mention that Mr. Barnum is a
married man. The priz3 of 200 dollars for the
best poem on Jenny Lind's -visit is now
awarded to Mr. Bayard Taylor, out of 750
competitors. The other topics of Friday, are
the foe simile of the card to the balcony,
with directions to the bearer ; an indignant denial by
Mr. Howard that he had bribed Jenny Lind with
1,000 dolls., to put up at Irving's Hotel; more mon-
ster bouquets, multitudinous visits by ladies and
great functionaries, some adventures of Jenny Lind in
quest of "a semible old horse ;" and speculations on
the made in which she will pass next Sunday.
SIXTH DAY.
Saturday morning is occupied with anticipations of
the auction to come off in that day. The policy of
this price or that price, the produce of the sale, and
the peculiar character of the musical world in New
York, as compared with that of London, are discussed
with financial vigour. The Weekly Herald, which has
always been beating down the money value of Jenny
Lind, while it cried up her talents and virtues, says
that one dollar would be about the figure that would
pay best, and reduces it to arithmetic. It now ap-
pears that the 750 disappointed competitors for the
Jenny Lind prize are all deeply disgusted, and, what
is worse, that Jenny is equally disgusted with the
successful poem which she is expected to sing, and
which is a fulsome eulogy of herself. The choice is
declared to be a job. It was known before who was
to have the prize, and the only merit cf the poem is
in its adaptation to music. More bouquets. Jenny
Lind's choice of a private secretary is announced, and
we are told about him ' • as also that " she spends to-
morrow with the Rev. Mr. Baird."
SEVENTH DAY.

Sunday is devoted to a review of the auction, the
previous day. It was attended by 3,000 or 4,000
notwithstanding a heavy rain, and the unexpected
imposition of one shilling a head for admission to the
garden. Mr. Barnum and the auctioneer had much
trouble to dispel some mystifications which rumour
had raised. The latter took his stand in the very
spot where Jenny Lind was to stand, and " pro-
ceeded to sell the first ticket, having the right
to the first choice seat to the first concert of Jenny
bind in America." After a tremendous competition,
it was knocked down to a hatter, for 225 dolls., amid
vociferous cheering. The next choice seats went at
much less prices. The names of all the purchasers,
the numbers of their tickets, and the sums given, are
published at length, and would occupy two columns
of this paper. We must be content with the results.
On Saturday there well?, sold 1,429 tickets, at the
average price of 6 dolls. 38.:, amounting to 9,1191
dolls.

EIGIITH DAY.

The hatter's reasons forgiving 225 dolls. for the first

ticket, and his expressed determination to give 500
dolls. if necessary, occupy the attention of New York,
to the exclusion of all other topics, and even Jenny
Lind is forgotten. As he lived next door to Barnum's
Museum, many people thought it a juggle; but
that does not account for rive others bidding
against him. The place selected by the hatter
was by no means a good cne, being
directly under Jenny Lind, and one next to
it only went for 10 dolls. " There is a better solution
for the mystery," says the Weekly Herald, " than to
charge it to Peter Funk." What do our readers sup •
pose that to be ? They remember, probably, the hat-
ter immortalized by Carlyle, for sending about the
town a monster hat, with his name and address un-
der it. It now appears that Mr. Genie's object was
the same. His ticket will he worth 1,000 dulls. to him,
he says. There were others alive to its value. Three
of the five unsuccessful competitors were patent medi-
cine vendors. The name of Genin now stands before
us at the heal of the most portentous list of names
ever published in America. He intends, it is said,
to follow up the idea on the night of the concert, by
sitting in the front of the audience with an immense
hat suspended over his head.

NINTH D Av.
Monday began with the adjourned auction, when
3,055 tickets were sold for 15,319 dolls. The event
of the day, however, was the first rehearsal, on which
we will not venture at present, only observing that
Jenny Lind seems to have created quite as much
enthusiasm as in her first debiat in the British me-
tropolis.

• • TENTII DAY.
On Tuesday was the second rehearsal, " when the
great northern luminary of song," vv,s are told,"
" was still more successful than on the previous day ;
being, as the reporter explains, entirely satisfied with
the building, the audience, and herself. " A curious
incident occurred, when she was commencing the
Casts diva.' She had not got through half a-dozen
notes when a gun was heard. She immediately
stopped and laughed. She went on again, and then
the roar of another gun brought her to a complete
halt, when she could not retrain from laughing a se-
cond time. She had to give it up. It turned out to
be the firing of the 100 guns from the Battery, in ce-
lebration of the admission of California into the
sisterhood of States. During the firing, two or three
wreaths of the smoke from the guns were borne right
over Castle-garden, and had a very pretty effect.
When she was informed of the cause of the interrup-
tion, she said it was to her a very agreeable inter-
ruption, as it was for the good of the country." Here
we must break off. The results of the first public
concert, which was to take place 011 the Wednesday,
we have yet to learn.—Times.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ELECTION.
CAMBRIDGE, SEPT. 23.—The following; is a Copy
of a letter which has been this day addressed by the
Rev. F. W. Harper, M.A., to the Rev. the Master of
Clare Hall, in reply to the letter bearing the Master's
signature, which appeared in the London journals of
this morning :
" Cambridge, Sept. 23.
" Rev. Sir,—Your letter of the 21st instant is based
on the supposition that Mr. Cowling has been opposed
from hostility to a particular college. Allow me,
therefore, to point out to.you—
" 1. That, of our seventeen colleges, fourteen have
contributed to Mr. Wigram's committee, from tl-.0
lists of their resident Fellows ; ten from those of their
college officers.
" 2. That, exclusive of his own college, Mr. Cow-
ling's committee contains resident Fellows of only
three colleges, and but three college officers.
" Are you, sir, prepared to say that the general
tone and temper of our University are such as to
leave these facts reconcilable with your supposition ?
" On the absence from Mr. Cowling's committee
list of certain influential names I forbear to dwell.
'! Bath at public meetings and in private conver-
sation I have had abundant means of becoming ac-
quainted with the feeling of Mr. \Vigram's supporters.
And lam satisfied that a large majority of them
would have preferred that Mr. Law's place should
have been filled by a member of St. John's.
" I have the honour to be, reverend sir,
"Your faithful servant,
"F. \YUALEY 1 lARPPR (late Fellow of
St. John's College).
" The Master of Clare Hall."
Mr. P. 11. Frere, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of
Downing College, and Mr. 11. L ttham, M.A., Fellow
and Tutor of Trinity have been added to Mr.
Wigram's committee.

TLIE NEW NAVAL NOVEL, "SINGLETON FONTENOT,"
by James Hannay, Esq , is published this day by Mr. Cul-
burn, and may now be had at all the Libraries. Also, now
ready, 2. The Luttrells; or, The Two Marriages, by Folke-
stone Williams, Esq. 3. Claude, by 31i.7s Maleswerth. 4.
Petticoat G ,vernment, by Mrs. Trollope. 5. Our County,
by John Mills, E,q. G. Adelaide Lindsay, edited by the
author of Emilia Wyndhain. 7. A Spcond Edition of " Regi-
nald Ihstings," by Eliot Warburton, Esq. U. La Vendee,
an Historical Romance, by A. Trollope, Esq. Also, just
ready, " Light and Darkness," by Mrs Catherine Crowe,
author of "The Night Side of Nature," Bz., 3 vols.
FOREIGN CATTLE.—A qeam•ship, named the
Tiger, which has been just placed on the station for the con-
veyance of foreign cattle to this country, has brought 226
head of oxen and cows and 10 sheep from Tonningen, being
the largest arrival of the kind which has taken place the pro.
duce of Denmark. The steam-ship Adonis, which simulta-
neously arrived from Bremen, brought 193 head of oxen and
cows, and 56 sheep of Hanseatic produce; and the ship Wil-
berforce, from Tonningen, 204 head of oxen and cows, form-
ing the entire cargo, of Danish produce. Such large arrivals
of cattle from Denmark and the Hanseatic port of Bremen,
besides the regular arrivals of the same nature from Ham-
burgh, are a most important feature in the supplies of the
kind now taking place from abroad.

Hop-picking will commence in the RAford district
in a few days. The crop i 9, in both quality and quantity,
superior te that we have had fur some years past.— Shejfidd
Times.