The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-23 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, SEPT. 19.
Her Majesty anti his Royal Highness Prince A.
bert walked out this morning.
In the afternoon her Majesty drove in an open car-
riage with the Princess Uoya), the Princess Alice
and the Prince of Wales. ,
The dinner party this evening will include her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene
Highness the Prince of Leiningen, Lady Augusta
Bruce, Baroness Sped), Lord James Murray, and Sir
Edwin Landscer.

SEPT. 20.
Her Majesty did not go out this morning, owing
to the unfavourable state of the weather.
In the afternoon her Majesty drove in the open
carriage ; his Royal Highness Prince Albert went
out shooting.

His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen ar-
rived at the Euston-square terminus of the Lon-
don and North-Western Railway on Saturday
morning, from Abergeldie, the residence of her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, and was received by
Sir George Couper, who conducted his Serene High-
ness to Clarence House, St. James's.

In the afternoon the Prince, attended by Sir
George Coupc.r, proceeded to the London-bridge ter-
ininup, and took his departure loy the South-Eastern
Railway for Dover, en route to the continent.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial office from the Governor of Sierra Leone and the
Gambia.

Idleness travels very leisurely, and poverty soon
overtakes her.—Eliza Cool's Journal.

Tnn SUBMARINE TELEGRAPII.—Mr. Brett, in a
letter to a contemporary, says—" Your correspondent alludes
to the fragile nature of the submarine lino from Dover to
Cape Grisnez. Much having been said upon this subject, I
would beg to state that it was intended more as an experi-
mental line than for a permanent line. And I should here
state that it was not covered according to the plans, or pro-
cess, as originally proposed by me, in which gutta-percha
formed only one of several coverings for insulating and pro-
tecting each wire, several of which art to be combined in a
large cable of sufficient, strength and durability to resist the
drag of a ship's anchor."

MINING INTELLIGENCE.
(Froru the Mining Journal.)

There has been a very general demand f.)r shares
during the week. Holders of most of the leading
mines appear to reserve them for higher prices; but
there have been considerable transactions done in

( many of the secondary adventures, which have gene-
rally maintained former quotations, whilst in some
an advance has taken place. The c.Jpper market has
continued extrtrnelv active; and, from the large
number of orders on hand, makers refuse to take more.
Spelter also conticues very firm. The directors of the
Leven Gceat Coin ols, at their weekly board meeting,
held yesterday, declared a dividend of 6,1441. or 6/.
per share, out of profits arising from sales of copper
ores sampled in May and June. After payment of
thedividend, there will remain in hand a balance of
20,066/. 12s. 5d., consisting of cash, ore bills not at ma-
turity, and Exchequer-bills, applicable to the general
purposes of the company. At a meeting of the director
of Tincroft, held on Thursday, a dividend of 10s. 6d.
per share was declared, being 7i per cent. upon the
paid-up capital of the company. At a meeting of
Wheal Margaret adventurers, held at Halsetown, on
the 13th inst., the accounts to the end of June were
submitted, showing-after payment of dividend of
91. per share, 1,008/.-a balance of 1221. At the
Wheal Buller meeting, held on Tuesday, the accounts
for July and August were presented, showing-after
payment of dividend of 20/. per share, 2,5601.-a
balance in favour of adventurers of 578/. At the
Botallack meeting, held on Tuesday, the accounts for
April, May, and June were passed, showing-after
the payment of dividend of 51. per share, 5001.-a
balance in favour of adventurers, 431. At the Tre-
viskey and Barrier meeting, the accounts of Trevis-
key for June and July showed a profit of 1,8011. for
the two months ; a dividend of 151. per share was de-
clared, carrying to credit of next account 4/., with
ore bills not yet at maturity. At Barrier there is
but little doing. The mine is looking well, especially
in the 236 and 248 fm. levels; 505 tons of ore were
sampled on the 10th instant, and about 500 tons may
be calculated on for September and October. At
Alfred Consols meeting, a dividend of 1/. per share
was declared, as advised in our last. Since we
have received the statement of accounts, by
whieh:we find a balance of 2771. 19s. 6d. is carried to
credit of next account. At the 'Wellington Mines
meeting the profits on the months of May and
June are shown at 1944 13s. 11d., which, added
to the balance from last account, allowed a dividend
of 1/. per share, carrying to credit of next account
27/. 6i. sd. At George and Charlotte account meet-
ing the statement showed a balance of 241. in favour
of the company. Very little has been done since
1847. At the Bryn-Arian meeting, it appeared that
the requisite machinery had been erected, and a pro-
fitable mine was anticipated ; a call of ss. per share
was made. At South Plain Wood meeting the ac-
counts showed a balance in favour of the mine of
404/. ; but as it was liable for August and September
cost, a call of 10s. per share was made. At the 'Wheal
May meeting it appeared the balance remaining in
hand was 21/. ; while the amount remaining unpaid
for labour and merchants' bills was 1721. At the
Lamherooe meeting the accounts presented showed-
liabilities, 576/. ; assets, 473/. ; leaving balance
against the mine of 1921. At the Exmoor Wheal
Eliza meeting the captain, after detailing the work-
ings already carried out, recommended, from the na-
ture of the indications, that operations be continued,
fof which purpose the unappropriated shares are to be
issued.

In foreign mines there have been transactions in
St. John del Rey, Copiapo, United Mexican, Cobre,
Imperial Brazilian, LinareP, and North British Aus-

tralasian. The Imperial Brazilian letters are to the
12. h of July, simply advising the gold returns from
the 13th June to the 12th July, from Gongo Soco,
amounting to 20:b. Ouz. 6dwt., and from Banana],
61b. 5d wt.—melting a total of 261 b. soz. 1 ldwt.
A remittance of about 6,400/. of gold dust has been
received. A petition to the imperial Government, for
reducing the duty to .5 per cent , has passed the
Chamber of Deputies. The National Brazilian ad-
vices are to the 13th of July. furnishing the produce
—from Cocaes, from 15th Jane to 13th July, Inks.
.5 1 5 50 ; from Cuiaba, from 18th Juno to 6th July,
inks. 4 70 6 ; total mks. 10 0.5 56. The stopes at
Cui•tkba are represented as looking promising. The '
St. John del Rey dispatches are to the Bth of July.
The produce for May is given at 22,484 oils., leaving
a profit of 3,4171., whilst that of the following month
(June) appears to be 20,750 oits., with a profit of
2,231/. only. The falling off of the returns is explained
by the manager to be in consequence of a variety of
untoward accidents during the month of June, and
further adds that "it is nearly two years since I had
to report so low a rate of profit. It is now occasioned
partly by the falling off in the produce, partly by the
high amount of costs, which affects us every second
month in the charges from Rio for export duty,
commissions, &c., on shipments of gold, and partly
by advanced rate of exchange." From Linares the
monthly report of Captain Curry has been received
to the 7th inst. The monthly returns was esti-
mated at go tons, and the produce is now found to be
on an average about 100 tons a month. The old
workings east and west of San Antonio winze have
been discovered productive, where the load is esti-
mated to yield from three to four tons per fathom.
The engine works well, and other operations are pro-
gressing very satisfactorily. The quantity of lead
weighed in stock during the week was 31 tons 14
cwt., whilst the total amount in store at the mines,
Seville and Malaga, is about 273 tons. Advices
have been received by the directors of the Barossa
Range Mining Company, dated March 12. The re-
port states that Lyndoch Valley Mines had been
worked by three pares of men, some of whom made
good wages ; 52 tons of ord had been shipped, per
John Bartlett, some days previous to date.

THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—The tragic and
comic lessees, Messrs. Charles Kean and Robert Keeley, will
be first in the dramatic field for the winter campaign. On
Saturday a meeting of the company took place, to assign the
various parts before the opening night, fixed for the 29th
inst. : Mr. and Mrs. Kean were present. The other ladies
and gentlemen were —Messrs. Robert Keeley, Alfred Wigan,
Ryder, Addison, Wynn, C. Fisher, Lloyd, Bolton, George
Cooke, Meadows, Harley, Flexmore, Cormack, Edmunds,
and George Ellis (stage manager); Mrs. Keeley, Mdlle.
Auriol, Mrs. Winstanley, Miss Murray, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss
Summers, Miss Cushnie, Miss Phillips, and Mrs. Charles
Kean, &c. The interior of the theatre has been re-decorated
with considerable care and taste. Her Majesty's box is
preparing in a style of peculiar elegance; the private entrance
for the royal visitors is in Castle-street, formerly the stage
door. The performers for the future will pass through a
house in the adjoining court, next to the theatre. Messrs.
Gordon and Lloyd have prepared a new set of scenes for
Hamlet, which will be the first Shaksperian production. A
new farce was rehearsed for the opening night.
GOVERNMENT OF THE CHIJRCII—Lord Lyttelton
has addressed a letter to the Spectator, in which the Noble
Lord says he agrees with nearly all the remarks of that jour-
nal upon his letter respecting the Church ; but he is of
opinion that a church legislature should be composed of laity
as well as clergy. " There ought," he says, " probably to
be a difference between the composition of the legislative and
judicial organs of the Church, if she become possessed of self-
government," but he does not wish to indicate the type of
such a legislature or scheme of government without further
discussion and inquiry. "I am disposed," the Noble Lord
concludes, "to think that the constitution of the American
Church might furnish a good general model."

DISTRESSING CASII OF TRIPLE BIRTII.—The wife
' of a poor man, named Eagles, a coachman, residing in Cum-
berland-mews North, Bryanstone-square, presented her hus-
band on Friday evening last with three bo3 s, all strong and
healthy. We are sorry to say that the father, having been
out of employment for the last fourteen weeks, with a family
of three young children previously and a sick wife, is unable
to procure them the necessaries of life.
TnE SNAKE CHARBIBIL—Anong the passengers
by the Indus which left Southampton on Friday with the
Indian mail was the young African snake-charmer, whose
daring feats with snakes and serpents in the Zoological Gar-
dens have excited so much attention for the last few months.
Ilia bone is at Grand Cairo. He stated that he should re-
turn to England in a shot t time with more snakes, scorpions.
and otbet wild animals. He has learnt to make himself to-
lerably understood in English since he has been here,
although whEn lie arrived he could scarcely speak a word of
the language.

ACCIDENT ON BOARD A STEAM-BOAT.—On Satur-
day morning a most distressing accident took place on board
the Lady Seale steam-beat, at present lying off Cotten's-
wharf, Tooley-street, Southwark, whereby a man named
William Brown, aged thirty, one of the crew, received such
frightful and complicated injuries that he cannot possibly
recover. The Lady Stale is a screw steamer, and had arrived
at an early hour with a large cargo from Guernsey, making
fast alongside Cotton's-wharf, when the crew and others
engaged commenced unshipping the goods, The unfortunate
man and another were ordered to make some alteration in
the mainmast, and whilst sitting on an oar which bad been
placed for a seat, the vessel gave a sudden lurch, when
Brown slipped, and fell a depth of fifty feet on to the deck,
when he received such fearful injuries in the head, back,
arms, &c., that it was deemed necessary to convey him to
Guy's Hospital, where he was taken without loss of time.
Mr. Edward Cock, the house-surgeon, examined the poor '
fellow, and rendered every aid, but gave no hopes of h's
recovery.

The make of the soul is as much seen in leisure as
in business.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

DEATH OF AN HIPPOPOTAMUS.—One of the
largest sea cows ever killed in this country was shot by
Lieutenant Macpherson, 91st Regiment, on the banks of the
Kieskamma, not far from the coast, on the 22c1 ult. Mr.
Macpherson and Staff Assistant-Surgeon Barclay had gone
on the excursion chiefly with the view of encountering ono
of these unwieldy animals, and after various endeavours to
kill one in the river, the animal destroyed was tracked by
Mr. M., with the assistance of a Kafir, for some distance in
the bash on the right bank of the stream, until at length
he was decried reclining in a dry ravine. Approaching the
spot stealthily, when within about a dozen yards of Lim, Mr.
hi, fired, lodging a rifle ball behind the ear. This staggered
the huge creature for the moment, during which his assailant
had time to reload, his second ball penetrating the head above
the eye. A third shot was fired with like success, by which
time Doctor Barclay, guided by the report of the piece.
reached the spot. At this moment the wounded animal,
suddenly rousing himself, made a charge upon his assailant,
who only escaped by pitching head-foremost into the ravine.
Despite of his severe wounds, the sea cow made his way,
blecdiug profusely, through the thick bush, and into the
river, where, after some time, he wlls discovered and dragged
ashore quite dead. The carcase is estimated to weigh 5,000
pounds; the jaws when expanded are, at their extremities,
four feet apart.—Graham's Town. Journal (Cape of Good
Rope).

THE SUN,

DENMARK.

Angling Club mustered in considerable strength ou
their range of pools during the day, but with no better
success. In th evening the nets were got out, and
casts were made in the various pools. Nine salmon
and grilse and twenty-one fine trout were taken, and
the finer fish were voted by 'acclamation in compli-
mentary presents to the president and other members
of the club, who, though taking much interest in it,
had not themselves fished the river, or whose success
had not been great. After sweeping the river, the
members assembled on the island, and beside a roar-
ing fire, with music, with refreshments, with dancing,
and with fireworks, duly closed the season. Mr. D.
A. Nicol is the king of the club this season, having
captured the largest number of fish. The season,
however, has been singularly bad.
The gentlemen now assembling from all parts of
the north for the great meeting of this week, report
that the fishings everywhere have been very bad—
the fish appear to have deserted the once favourite
streams.

General Krogh, the Danish Commander-in-Chief,
has iasued the following order of the day to his army.
It is dated the 13th : _

" The enemy yesterday made an attack on our left
wing, between Missund: and Eckernforde, where a
part of the 16t Brigade was stationed. Tneir force
being superior, Colonel von Krabbe retired upon
Missande,.where a sharp conflict took place, which
lasted for two hours. The enemy retreated, but was
followed and attacked by oar troops, who drove them
back to their former position, and took 140 prisoners.
Ia stating this for the information of the army, I
thank Colonel Von Krabbe and the troops who fought
so honourably under his command, for their good
conduct and the courage they displayed during the
conflict."

GEKLIIAN Y.

The Kolner Zeitung has a telegraphic dispatch,
dated Cassel, Thursday, Sept. .19, stating that an
ordinance had been published- on that day, transferring
the seat of Goverment to Wilhelmsbad. The cause
of this is ascribed in the document to the opposition
of the chief magistrates, and further measures are
announced for the regulation of the Government.
A caution is given against any further opposition,
and all the requisite measures for the monarchical
form of government are authorized.

Mr. Legh, at Flowerlale, who is much attached to
sea sports, has had some excellent sea-fishing in Gair-
loch in the evenings after returning from the moors,
on which the grouse are scarce. On one evening
lately he caught 96 flat fish, 18 cods and codlings, 24
haddocks, and 4 gurnets ; and on another evening 52
flat fish, 19 haddocks, 9 codlings, &c.
A correspondent, who has charge of some of the
best fishing rivers of the north, supplies the follow-
ing remark on the season now over :
" The poorest season within remembrance is now
closed ; and it would have been better for salmon-
fishers in general had they quietly paid their rents
and given the whole rivers in Scotland (and I may
say England and Ireland) a jubilee; fur the whole
fisheries have been a loss of more than the rents of
the season, and to have given them a jubilee would
therefore have been a saving_ of so much to the
tenants. We have heard various causes suggested
for the scarcity of the salmon 'last season. Some
attribute it to-the high or low state of the rivers
—some to the number of seals and porpoises
that have this season haunted the mouths of firths
and estuaries ; even some supposed that from
the low state of the rivers, and the difficulty
the fish had in getting into them, that most of
them were killed or injured by s,a-lice. We are
aware that the size of rivers at various seasons has
the effect of encouraging or discouraging salmon is
their progress to the rivers, and that numbers of them
are destroyed in firths and estuaries by seals and por-
poises, but it is as yet unproved whether or not the
sea-lice give the salmon the least disturbance. At all
events, the whole of these suggestions are nothing
new. They are of yearly occurrence, either at one
season or another ; and yet during all these inflic-
tions we have seen very good salmon seasons. But
we have a memorable and a certain reason to give
that accounts for the scarcity of the grilses in parti-
cular last season, and that is, the effects of the tre-
mendous floods in January, 1849. These floods hap-
pened just at the close of the spawning season, and
before the spawning beds had settled into a solid
state, and the result was, that almost all the
spawn of that season was carried away,
and scattered throughout the rivers, or thrown
ashore on the dry land, to such a degree that we
could not expect to have a good fishing this season.
It is well known that the spawn of the winter 1848-
49 would have been the salmon fry in the rivers in
summer 1849, and the snaolts and grilses of 1850 ;
therefore, we must, conclule to a certainty, that these
floods, and these alone, have been the ruin of the sal-
mon fishing in 1850.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette)
RECRUITING FOR THE GRENADIER GUARDS.—III
consequence of the regiment being nearly 100 under
the strength, ten additional recruiting parties will ba
sent out on the Ist of next month.
PENINSULAR MEDAL.—The Board of General
Of at Whitehall have now completed their la-
bours in respect to applicants claiming medals for
their service in the Peninsula, and the several muster
and prize rolls, Gazettes, &c., upon which the claims
have been examined, have been returned to their re-
spective departments.
THE Altair IN CANADA.—The- Government are
desirous .that discharged soldiers should become
settlers in the colonies, and about 200 men of regi-
ments stationed in Canada have quitted that service
during the last month, and remain in that colony.
This arrangement will materially assist the plan for
forming a large body of pensioners into local com-
panies, under the command of staff officers, the men
not being actually disabled but unfit for active
service.

NE W TROUSERS FOR THE IN FAN TRY.—MajOr
General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
Commanding the Dublin district, accompanied by his
staff, made an inspection of the 40th Regiment, at
Great Ship-street Barracks, on Monday, to see the
new pattern of grey trousers which were worn on the
occasion.
WATERLOO TROPHIES.—It was decided some time
since to make an addition to the military trophies
which have been deposited in the Royal Military
College, Chelsea, by sending from Woolwich Arsenal
some brass guns to be placed in the grounds of that
establishment, which were captured from the French
at the Battle of Waterloo. The carriages, &0., are
not completed, and we understand the trophies will
arrive at Chelsea Hospital in the course of the ensuing
week.
Captain Halkett, of the Grenadier Guards, has
been appointed Senior Aide-de-Camp to Lieutenant-
General Sir William Gosnm, K.C.8., Commander-
in-Chief in India. By this appointment a vacancy
has taken place in the Adjutancy of the Ist battalion,
which Csp:ain Halkett held.
REWARD FOR LONG S ERITICE.—T WO or three
Gazeites back, we announced the retirement of a
major of the lino by the sale of his vitt-mission. The
position of this officer, after thirty-five years' service,
is a severe reflection on the miserable half-pay of the
service. After paying highly fur his lisutenancy
and his company, he reached the rank of major, where
he stood fast, and now, in his retirement, gets more
in the shape of interest for the price of his commis-
sion, invested in the foreign funds, than he received
as. the half-pay of his rank !
MANNING TILE NAVY.—We regret to find that the
Trafalgar, 120 ; Albion, 90 ; and Vengeance, 84 ; at
Sheerness, Devonport, and Portsmouth, do not pick
up their men as fast as we could wish. Seamen do
not like these advanced commissioned ships ; the
Albion. still wants about 70 blue jackets, and the
Trafalgar, and Vengeance have not yet completed their
meagre half or third complements.
MORTALITY ON BOARD HER MAJESTY'S SHIP
TWEED AT Rlo.—We are informed that the mortality
on board her Majesty's ship Tweed, 18, Commander
Lord F. Russell, by official returns received at the
Admiralty, was only 18 deaths, instead of 32, as pre-
viously stated.
COMMANDER OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL.—We are
enabled to state that the Admiralty have conferred
the vacant appointment at Greenwich Hospital on
Commander Thomas Colby (1814). Commander
Colby is one of the Seniors, as he is one of the most
distinguished Commanders on the List. He was at
the battle of Camperdown ; in the Centurion, when
she beat off' Linois's squadron ; was a Lieutenant in
Calder's action; at the defence of Gaeta; at the
forcing the Dardanelles and destruction of the Turk-
ish squadron ; in the Egyptian campaign of 1807 ;
and was Senior Lieutenant of the Prince of Wales at
the redaction of Genoa, in 1814. The Admiralty
deserve credit for bestowing this appointment on an
officer of such good service.
DESTINATION OF HER MAJESTY'S STEAM FRIG ATE
DRAGON.—This steam-frigate, Captain Giffard, is
under orders at Spithead to proceed direct to Malta,
and join Sir W. Parker's fleet, calling off Devonport
en route. We believe she will not start for a day or
two, in consequence of some domestic bereavement
that the Captain has sustained.
COME AT LAST.—Ber Majesty's store ship
Hercules, Master Commander Fulton, has at length
made her appearance at Spithead ; she has been about
a couple of months on the road from Malta. Three
voyages a year to Malta and back seem to be the
limits of her service. She is to come to the river to
land her stores, &c.
Moue ADMIRALTY ECONOMY.---It is well known
that, in spite of all remonstrance, the Admiralty has
persisted in bringing forward the Portland, 50, as the
new flag-ship for the Pacific, or rather to relieve an
84-gun ship. Whether the authorities at Devonport
have deceived their Lordships by representing her as
more forward and requiring less expense than any
other ship, in fitting for the Pacific Flag, we know
not ; but already has there been upwards of 2,000/.
of the public money squandered on her, and daily
is there some frightful defect discovered. Oae day
lest week her capstan was found unfit for use, and
subsequently most of her kelson and the entire of her
false keel were found completely rotten. These will
all have to be removed and replaced at an enormous
expenditure; and, after all, it will be found that she
is completely unsuited for her work. We cannot
help thinking that the Lords of the Admiralty see
that they have been deceived with respect to the ship,
and are too- much ashamed of themselves now to sub-
stitute another ship.
AMUSEMENTS AND COURTESIES AT THE CAPE.—
We extract the following from a private letter from
the Cape :—" Cape Town is rendered a gay place by
Lady Smith's entertainments; her Ladyship gives a
ball every Friday evening. The officers of her Ma-
jesty's ship Pantaloon, with Lieutenant Crowder, of
her Majesty's steamer Dee, gave a splendid ball the
first week in July; it was a grand affair, end cost at
least 2501."
Tan AFFAIR OF THE CORMORANT WITII THE
BRAZILIAN Fotte.--We are enabled to state that the
conduct of Commander Schomberg, of the Cormorant
steam-sloop, on the coast of Brazil, in capturing the
four slavers, and avenging the insult to the British
flag by demolishing the fort that fired at him, has been
not only approved by the Admiral on the station and
the Admiralty at home, but has been justified by the
authorities at Mo.

" Since the. spate on the 19th of August, the
angling has been fair on the northern rivers. On
Inver arid Kirkaig, one, two, and three salmon have
fallen to the share of each rod per day. The famed
Laxford has not done so well. Shin - has given fiur
or five a day. Ephemera' was the most successful
angler, having killed eight salmon and three grilse in
one day. Brunt .has also afforded some sport. Dr.
Bell proved king there, having killed live in one day ;
but as th = spawning appears to be early this season,
part of the fish killed lately have been very foul, and
full of spawn."

NOTES FROM THE FORBSTS.—Mr. Pryor, Strath.
vaich, has lately shot a stag. Mr. Jones, Auchintou!,
has sent in one head. A head has also been received
from Coignafearn, the stag having been shot by 11.
Elwes, Esq. From Novar a head has been sent in,
the stag brought down by Sir George Palmer. Mr.
Mackenzie has sent two stags and one hind's head,
two stags and two hinds having been shot by a party
of gentlemen at Ord. Another stag was shot on that
occasion by Captain Baring, but he escaped just as
the Captain was laying hold of him. Several other
stags were seen in the woods besides those killed.

Lord Malmesbury and Lord Edward Thynne, on
the Bth, brought down each a fine stag, and Lord
Edward has since killed a noble stag having nine
points 2} feet long, and the same betwixt the antlers.
Lord Canning killed a stag, a hind, and a roe, in
one day._

At Achnacarry there has been little sport at grouse-
shooting, owing to disease among the birds and the
late frosts in May, which carried off numbers. On
the 6th Lord Malmesbury and Lord Eddisbury killed,
on Anchnasaul hill, 22i brace of grouse and two
snipes. Mr. tlarris, in Glenkiag, on' the same day,
killed 6 brace and 8 snipes, and on the 10;11 9 brace
of partridges, 3 ducks, 2 snipes, 9 ptarmigan, &c.

LORD BROUGHAM.
(Froth the Kendal Mercury.)
On Monday afternoon, one of the richest scenes
ever witnessed in the northern counties, took place
about three o'clock, in the shape of a desperate
struggle in the river Eamont, near St. Ninian's
Church, and not far from the Giant's Caves, in the
parishes of Brougham and Edenhall, between eight
or ten members or friends of the Eamont -and
Eden Angling Association, and about an equal
number of netters, supposed to be in the employ of
Lord Brougham. Here we must remark that the
aforesaid angling association was formed about
eighteen months ago. Its object is to prevent • the
wholesale destruction of trout by illegal netting in
the aforesaid rivers; it is supported principally
by gentlemen resident in the neighbourhood—keen
anglers—and watchers are regularly employed to
carry out its objects. The society found little diffi-
culty in dealing with the poor fellows who were in the
habit of making a living by netting; these, if unable
to pay the fine, were unceremoniously handed over to
the tender mercies'of the governor of Carlisle gas-A; but
in the course of the last and present autumn, the so-
ciety began to fear that they would have to contend
with another invader of their prerogatives—that
invader no less a personage than Lord Brougham
and Vaux, ex-Chancellor of England. If men
employed by Lord Brougham, or who said they were
employed by him, were allowed to fish for his Lord-
ship with an illegal net, then, of course, every other
person—no matter how poor—had an equal right to
do the same, provided he could secure the sanction of
the landowners. Consequently the society' must
either tackle Lord Brougham or become a nullity.
The former course was resolved upon , and about
nine o'clock on Monday morning eight or ten men
belonging to the society, with two of Sir George
Musgrave's gamekeepers, secreted themselves in
some furze bushes, on the Cumberland side of the
river Egmont, near the caves of Isis Perlis, which
are remarkable for their distinctness of echo. Shortly
after three rM. Lord Brougham's men, amongst
whom was old John Robson, the Vulcan of Eamont-
bridge, proceeded down the other side of the river to
have a draw ; and rfter them came two carriages, con-
taing Lord Mougharn, the Marquis of Douro, Mr.
William Brougham, Lady Brougham, Lady Mallet,
Mrs. William Brougham and children. The car-
riages drew up and his Lordship' and party de-
scended and took their stand on the bank of the river.
The men then put in their net, and were just begin-
ning to draw, when the watchers, who had laid in
ambush for upwards of six hours, ran down the
Cumberland bark of the river. " What business have
you here ?" said one of them, addressing the netters.
" Fishing for Lord Broughamn—fishing for Lord
Brougham," said old John Robson. The netters
were then ordered to cease their unholy crafc, and
quit the river immediately, a mandate which they
entirely
bdyisroengeardoerdt.he Twoaetchisetrrs j
u g
ugmlepinthgdominto"tulh;
water and seizing the cord which
an insult which old John re
a.
lasubpporte the net,
p
by giving him a
rattle under the ear. Another
of the watchers then
jumped in and seized the net; but old John,
who had
his wits about hry Promptly cut the o d, and
the party on the Brougham (Westmoreland) cord,
kof
the river were putting the net out as fast as possible,
when Dick Jameson sprang over the heads
of the other two watchers and seized
A regular rush was
than made into the
water—Jackson Mounsey making a splash like
the launching of a vessel—and the spree caul_
menced. We shall here give John de Penrith's ver-
sion of the story ; and here we must remark that
John always claims for himself the sole credit of
capture; for being bsiliff
every great and important
of the waters,- be can bear no rival Hear him. Well,
says John, "I went up to his Lordship, with the Act
• ord, I
of Parliament in my hand, and I said, my Lord,
suppose because you are a Lord, you think that you
have:a right to fish in these rivers ; but, my Lord, you
are wrong; I will show you that the mesh of your
net is illegal, and if you will study the Solway Act,
as I have done, you will find that what I say is correct,
and I would not like to lead your Lordship into
an error." " What," said my Lard, "do you
come here to lay down the law to me ? Get away
you
filth !" Such is John's story. In the mean-
time Dick Jameson had hold of the net in the middle
of the river. Dick was a trump card ; for, although
a stentorian voice from the opposite bank was
sounded in savage accents, and in a tone of ferocious
execration, "Pull d—n you, pull 1 the blackguards,
the poachers, are going :with the Let ; pull, pull,
pull ! D—n you, you scoundrel, at your peril, you
touch that net. Pull, pull !" Still Dick held his ,

~~..~

rIE FISHERY.

MOUNT'S B.ll".—Tho Fortune seine has taken 200
bhds., and the Success, 200. The driving boats have
taken during the week about '3OO hhds.
IvEi.—Tee boats on the mackerel fishery
during the past week have taken from 100 to 500
mackerel per night, which sold at 133. and 14!. per
hundred of six score, for the home market. The two
seines shot last week, as notic.,ed in last week's Gazette,
both missed, it being .considered that they were all
sprats. Nothing has been done in the pilchard fishery
tither by the seines or drift boats. Since that period
the drift fish now under shipment have not been sold,
and are about to be ventured. They are calculated
to he about 550 or 560 hhds.

POKTI:OI3.—On the 13:;11 Mr. J. Blarney's seine
brougZit in about 14 hhd;.,- and Mr. P: Dunstan's 15
hbd-,. 01 Saturday M. Luke Williams's seine
brought in 30 hhds. ; all fine fish. • The strong wind
ha 3 provented the drift boats from doing much. The
seises are lid up for the present, and the men paid off.
LOOE.—The seines are put out of pay for the pre-
sent, having dons nothinz for some time. The drift
bo.flta on Monday and Tuesday nights caught from
1 to 5,000 par boat, which sold at about 119. per
thousand.—Royal Cornwall Gazette.

, THE RIVER FISHING-F.
I.Eroin the Inverness Courier.)
TaE Kass.-0,3 Saturday, the concluding day of
the-season, the river, from the head pools downwards,
wL.o:'P,3rseveringly 4ngled, hut with a singular want
oecsuccas. In the evening Sir J. R. Carnac and
party drew the nets through their pools and succeeded
in capturing fifty thh, one of which was a noble sal-
mon. weighing 231bs. The party celebrated the close
of the. season with spirit, and dancing on the river
hAfiks to real Highland music was kept up for some
time. The total number of salmon and grilse caught
by the party with the rod this season has been fifty-
nint, of 15 were killed by Sir John, 25 by Mr.
WlAdmen, and 20- by Major Richards. The Ness

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1850.

=i LICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Jane Truman was again brought tp,chargz.,d with
stealing two 1001. Bank of Eng!arid; notes, one 201.
ditto, one 101. ditto, one 51. ditto, 71. 10s. in gold, and
a cheque for 371., from the person of Mr. John Win-
penny, a woolleridtaper, lately residing at the C4stle
and Falcon-, in rAldersgste-street.

Thi3 case was remanded from Saturday week last,
in order to obtain information with regard to the
notes, no difficulty in that respect being anticipated,
es the numbers of all the notes were known, and in-
Lrmation forwarded to the Bank to stop payment of
them when presented.

Mr. Woniner, who attended on behalf of the pri-
soner, said that the prosecutor was not in attendance,
and he believed that he had no intention of prosecut-
ing the case any further, considering the great doubt
he felt with regard to the• prisoner's identity. He
knew prosecutor was anxious to return to America,
and that this affair had alone detained him. He
would, therefore, apply for the prisoner's discharge,
as in all probability the prosecutor was already on his
way to the far West..

Sir G. CARROLL said the charge was too serious to
allow him to discharge the prisoner until he had
more satisfactory information regarding the prose-
cutor's intention of proceeding with the case. He
would remand it till Thursday next, and if the pro-
secutor did not appear then, he would at once dis-
charge the prisoner.
BOW-STREET.
Antonio Moltini, the foreigner who was las Satur-
day charged with having in his possession a number
of forged notes in imitation of the notes of the Vene-
tian Lombardy Bank of the Austrian empire, was
brought before Mr. Henry for re-examination. The
prisoner is a native of Como, and has been employed
in this country for some time as a glass and china
dealer.

Mr. Bush, solicitor to the Bankers' Protection
Society, conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Ballan-
tine, assistel by Mr. Humphries, appeared for the
prisoner.
Vincent Bsyerd and Rodolph de Felsenthal, the
Commissioners of Police from Vienna, who gave evi-
dence at the former examination respecting the value
of the notes, were present to watch the case.
Mr. Lawrence Lee, who is in partnership with his
father as an ornamental lithographic printer, and
carries on buiiness at No. 245, High Holborn,
proved that on Monday, the 2d inst., the prisoner en-
tered his shop and inquired the expense of engraving
3,000 tickets similar to the one he produced. Wit-
ness informed him they would cost about 2/. 15s. The
ticket was printed in Italian, and witness -did not
understand the purport of it. Oa looking closely
and observing a water-mark, he inquired whether
the prisoner desired to- have that imitated; to
which the lattei replied, " Yes, as near as pos-
sible to the copy." IVitness then informed him that
the watermark would cause an increase of 10s. in the
expense, and the prisoner assented to pay the extra
charge, as' he desired to have the engraving well exe-
cuted. His next inquiry was as to the price of two
steel dies for the stamps at the corners of the tickets,
but witness could give him no estimate, and requested
him to call again on the following day.
Mr. HENRY having here inquired the purport of the
words on the tickets, one of which the witness pro-
duced, was informed by Mr. Bush that the translation
was as follows :

" April 1, 1849.
" Lomhard•Venetian Kingdom. Note sof the
Treasure, Austrian Lire Five.
"The present note of five lire shall be :,•ccepted in
payment as hard coin at the central offices, at all the
public offices, and at all the public offices of the Lom-
bard-Venetian Kingdom.
" The Imperial Commissary Plenipotentiary,
" MON TEC ITOLI."
Mr. Bush added that each lire was worth about
33. 41. English.
Ttie examination of Mr. Lee was then proceeded
with. He stated that he requested a deposit from
the prisoner, who promised to call and bring one the
next day. Witness was informed by the prisoner
that the tickets were used on the continent by the
labourers to obtain provisions before receiving their
wages; and that then they paid them back to their
employers. In fact the process he described was si-
milar to the truck system in this country. The pri-
soner called .on the following morning and left a
sovereign as a deposit, requesting witness to proceed
with the work as quickly as possible. Witness then
told him he could not make the dies for less than
one sovereign each, upon which the prisoner said he
would try to get them cheaper elsewhere, and wit-
ness gave him the address of several diesinkers who,
he thought, would be able to make them at less ex-
pense than he could get them done. The prisoner
then left, but called several times afterwards td see
how the work proceeded, and in the mean time witness
had communicated (through his father) with a foreigner,
who translated the ticket for him. At length a nearly
perfect proof was shown to prisoner, who expressed
himself well satisfied, and then produced a note for
the sum of 60 lire, which he desired to have imitated,
and to have 1,000 copies struck off immediately.
Witness consented to do these for 51. 103. On the
10th inst. the prisoner called and ordered 3,000 of the
first tickets to be struck off immediately, as he con-
sidered the proof shown him was quite perfect. He
paid a deposit upon the second job, and examined an
imperfect proof of the plate for the same, in which he
ordered some few alterations, and promised to call for
the 3,000 impressions of the first job on the following
Friday. He did not come, however, until Saturday,
when witness (in the presence of John Forrester, the
officer, who was in private clothes, and with whom
he and his father had been in communication all
along) handed the notes to him, and received the sum
agreed to be paid for them, and gave the prisoner an
acknowledgment-for the same. Witness was in the
act of showing the prisoner a proof of the second
job when Forrester took him into custody on the
charge.
John Forrester, the Mansion-house officer, repeated
his former evidence-as to apprehending the prisoner,
and proved having found a bundle of papers at his
lodgings at the George public-house, Brook-street.
Mr. HENRY reminded Mr. Bush that the evidence
of some persons in the Austrian service would be ne-
cessary to show that the tickets were fee .similes of
the Austrian notes of a like value at present in cir-
culation in that country. The evidence of the Com-
missioners of Police he did not consider was sufficient
for that purpose.
Mr. Ballantine said the question would ultimately
be, whether the prisoner acted with a guilty know-
ledge, or whether he was, in fact, only the agent of
another. He (Mr. Ballantine) felt bound, from the
instructions he had received, to state, that the pri-
soner's defence was, that he had no guilty knowledge
aistawctoiu be unwise at present to
acting
gld
as agent for another, whose
name,whatever,
o f zlcourse,
and w
divulge.
Mr. Bush intimated that he was in communication
with the Austrian authorities, and he trusted at the
end of another week to be in a position to satisfy the
Court upon the point hinted at by Mr. Henry.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded for an-
other week; and the witnesses who have already been
examined were bound over to prosecute.

CLERKENWELL.
Threees Sophia ho gave the
names Mary Ann Wicks, and Sophia
Burton, were put at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt
well-dEremsmseed Emmett„tt rung warner,.
charged with robbing Mr. John Smith, a naval
officer, of 18 sovereigns and some other money,
whilst he was under the influence of some deleterious
matter administered to him when in their company.
The prosecutor said that between ten and eleven
o'clock at night he met the prisonerS in Goswell-
street, and being asked by them to "stand treat," he
accompanied them to .a public-house called the
Maidenhead, and gave each a glass of gin and some
pork pie. He afterwards went with them to another
tavern, the Golden Lion, where they were supplied
with a pot of ale only, and after partaking cf one
glass he became so very ill that he was incapable of
waking any exertion, and in a, helpless and almost
unconscious state they pulled him outside the house,
and took him under a gateway adjoining, and there
he was pushed, or fell down when utterly insensible.
He revived some few ho.urs afterwards, and found
himself in a most wretched state, with his pockets in-
side out, and deprived of his cash as stated.
By Mr. Comas--lie could not tell how they got
him down. Was not in the company of the prisoners
half-an-hour. Had not been drinking. Saw his cash
safe five minutes before he lost his reason. When he
was led from the publid-house he was right to a cer-
tain extent, but too helpless to resist. Was satisfied
that something of a narcotic nature was administered
to him. There was a fourth woman in their company.
John Reeve, 424, A division, said he received in.
formation of the robbery, and first apprehended Bur-
ton. She skid, when told what she was wanted for,.
" Don't make me suffer for all, for I only had a part ,
of it, and am not the worst." On telling her that the
others would be taken, she observed, "Oh, very well ;
let us all share fate alike." After locking her up be
took Wicks into custody at her house, No. 25, Baltic-
street, St. Luke's. The moment he had made known
his errand she began Crying, and asserted that all she
had of the setolen money was 2s , adding that " Jenny"
(a woman well known to the police), who was the
worst, was .out of the way. In company of Haw-
kins, 191 G, witness subsequently sought after and
secured Elliott, who, being informed that the.other
prisoners were locked up, expressed her satisfaction,
hoping that all would suffer alike, and trusted that
" Squinting Jenny,"
a
who was with them, and hadbsconded, would be taken.
Mrs. Elizabeth Isaacs, wife of Charles Isaacs, of 21,
Attfield-street, St. Luke's, saw the prisoners and the
woman at present at large lead the prosecutor from
the Golden Lion to the archway. She knew the
women well, and listened at the entrance, when she
distinctly heard Burton exclaim, " Come along, I've
got it, and the three prisoners and " Jenny" then I
ran away, leaving the prosecutor behind. She did not