The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-05 00:00:00

I.IIA RKET N E WS.—( THIS DAY.) THE REVENUE—YEAR AND
covr..T.: QUARTER.
Full average supplies of Veg.: tabli s were on sale The Quarterly Returns of the Revenue and Ex,
here this morning. Fur most, kini',s the demand
was
have not the slightest change to as in a sluggish state. In the general qu.,ta- penditute will be made up this evening, and,
tons
we are enabled to say, will be most satisfactory.
report. The sale for Fruit was tolerably steady. Jo the reasonable portion of the public it is
English Fruits—Pine Apples, 4s to 63 ; Muscat of unnecessary to observe, that even with the
Alexandria Grapes, is to 5s 6d; B1,:clE E.;anburgh greatest prosperity, and the freest consumption,
Grapes, 3s 6,1 to 4< Gd per lb; Pears, 5s to 0„; Eating we must not expect the Customs at once to fill up the
Apples, 23 6.1 to 3s 6d per half-sieve; Apples for cooking, vacuum caused by the repeal or reduction of duties.
2. to 3s Gd per bushel; Filberts, 7iis to 75; per 100,65. Since January , of last year, there have been two
Foreign Fluits—Black Hamburgh Grapes, 8d to Is; such events. On February 1 the last sliding•scale of
White t:i:to, 6d to 9:1 per lb; Spanish Nuts, 4s to 53; duties on corn, which had eventually brought rather
Walnuts,anges3
3to 10s ; Lemons sto6s ; Brazil Nuts, 3s to 4s per peck; more to the revenue than had been anticipated, gave
Or, s , 5. to lOs per 100; Bar- place to a nominal duty. On July 5 the revenue
eelons Nuts, 5s to 6s; Spanish Chesnuts, 3s to 6s; and
suffered a still more serious blow by the reduction of
Almonds 54 to Gs per peck; Spanish Onions 12s to 17s ''
6,1 per bag. Vegetables—Cape Bro oli, 4w to 8s per the sugar duties, which took effect from that day. As
duzen bundles; Cautifiowers, 2s to 4s per dozen heads; appears also from the returns of the Board of
Turnips, 9,1 to Is; Carrots, 23 6d to 43; Gr. ens, is 8d to Trade, the import of foreign sugar which
2s; Leeks, 91 to Is; Parsley, is to is 6d per dozen pays the higher duty has materially fallen
bunches ; Onions. 2s Gd to 3s 6J per bushel ; Horse. off, while that of the East and West Indies has
r,nitsh, is 61 to 3a ; Celery, is to Is 3d per bundle; greatly increased. Notwithstanding these two re. White Cabbages, 6d to 8t1; Savoy ditto, 6d to 9d; and ductions, we believe that the decrease on the Customs,
Red ditto, Is 3d to is 9,1 per dozen; Brussels Sprouts, la 6as compared with the Customs of the quarter ending
„I to is 91 per half-sieve; Endive, Is 3d to Is 61 per Jan. 5, 1849, will be scarcely more than 40,000/.
'core ; Red Beet, is to is 6d; Parsnips, 4d to 8d per We will add, that for some weeks the Customs have
dozen ; Mushrooms, 9d to is per pottle; Spinach, is 3d
to is 6d; Jerusalem Artichokes, is to is 6d per half-
been rising with unusual elasticity. On the Excise
lie"; Small Salad, 2s to 2s Gd per dozen punnets; there will be an increase of about 36,0001., and on
Sago, 2 6,1 to 3s per (ham bunches; Corn Salad, is the Stamps of about 40,000/. ; both showing resus-
-3d to Is 6d per half sieve; Shallots, to 4d per lb; citated enterprise, full employment, and wages more
Potatoes, 70s to 1203 per ton; ditto, os Gd to 3s 6d than sufficient for the necessaries of life. On the
per bushel; Sea Kai!, 2s 61 to 3a per punnet; Asparagus assessed taxes, which are paid rather by the employers
6s to 8s per 100. than the employed, there will be a decrease of about
NE WGATE AND LEA.DEAMALL. 20,0001. On the property and income-tax there will
Turkeys, 6s Od to 15s Od; Geese, 5s Od to 8s 6d ; be an increase of about 30,0001., arising principally
Ducks, is 9d to 3s Od ; Tame Rabbits, is 0,1 to on Schedule A. Though the past quarter is
18 8d ; Wild ditto, 6d to Is ; Pigeons, 6J to 9d;
not that which tests with most certainty the
-•‘ sating Pigs, 5s Od to 8s 61 each ; Surrey Fowls,
produce of this tax, there can be no doubt,
75 Od to lls Od ; ditto Chickens, 3s 6d to 7s Od;
Barndoor Fowls,
2d per lb ; Eughsh Eggs, 12s Od 3s Od to 6s OA per couple ; Fresh from the increase we have just mentioned, that
Butter, la to Is
the income, the profits, and the credit of the country
to 14s 0,1 ; French ditto, 103 Od to Ils Od ; and Irish are steadily rising. Some time since it was our
ditto, 8s 6d to 10s Od per 100 ; Pheasants, 26 61 to duty to remark on the decline of income and the
48 od ; Partridges, is 3d to is ; Hares, 2s Od to collapse of imaginary capital, indicated by a decrease
3,1 Od ; Woodcocks, 2a Od to 3s Od Grouse, is 9d in the produce of this tax. It bids fair to be soon as
to 2s 6d; Ptarmigans, Is 6d to 2s O'd ; Snipes, 9d to productive as ever; proving the restoration of income
is Od ; Teal, 64 to 101 ; Wild Ducks, is Gd to 2s Od ; and capital to their former estimate on a more solid
Widgeons Is 3d to 2s Od; and Plovers, 6d to 3d each. basis. In the Post-office the return will exhibit a
NEWPORT. trifling increase. Under the heads of Crown Land,
Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s Od to 3s 10d; Miscellaneous, and Sale of Old Store., there will
Vest. 3s 4d to 3s 10d ; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 4d
per albs. severally be a decrease, amounting in' all three to
about 80,0001., which, however, may be omitted from
the comparison of the ordinary revenue, as it is created
by the fact of 84,284/. having entered as China money
into the corresponding quarter of last year. The
comparison between the year which ends to-day and
its predecessor exhibits somewhat different results.
In the Excise there is a decrease of about 89,0001.,
arising wholly from the postponement of the hop-
duty. The Stamps show an increase of about
257,0001.; the assessed taxes a decrease of 9,0001,
and the property tax an increase of about 65,000/.
—a sum which represents additional income to the
amount of 2,200,0001. per annum ; and at 5 per cent.
an additional capital of 44,000,0004
In the present state of public opinion an improving
revenue would give but a qualified satisfaction if we
were to proceed on the old understanding of spending,
pari passu, as much as we could conveniently raise.
Happily we are not doing so. A rigorous process of
economy is at work in every department of the public
service. From the beginning of the financial year to
the end of December, including a period of nearly nine
months, the expenditure of the United Kingdom fell
short of that in the corresponding period or the pre •
vious year by no less a sum than 3,340,0001. This is
made up out of the following items. To the reduction
on the interest of Exchequer. bills we owe a difference
of nearly 150,0001 ; to the reduced expenditure in the
army we owe nearly 540.0001 ; to the same process
in the navy nearly 1,300,000/. ; in the ordnance about
740,000/., and in the services provided for by the
miscellaneous estimates nearly 300,0001. Since April
5 there has been no fresh grant for Irish dis-
tress, whereas in the corresponding period of the
previous financial year there was expended on this
account 272,382/. In other items there is an aggro-
gate difference of about 70,0001. in our favour. These
added together will be found to tally pretty nearly
with the total difference we have mentioned above.
It may be supposed that so large a saving as
3,340,0001. must put the Treasury in a very good
position. Such is actually the case. It is true that
the Treasury has not at this moment the full benefit
of that saving. 'While the repayment of advances
during the last nine months has only brought in about
880,0001., the advances by way of loan under various
British and Irish Acts have nearly doubled that sum.
In point of ready money therefore the Treasury is
only about two millions and a half better off now than
nine months ago; and the balance of 7,453,6121. in
the Treasury last April 5 has not increased much
beyond 10,000,000/. This balance however, new as
such a phenomenon undoubtedly is, must be sufficient
to assure the public that some time will elapse before
the Chancellor of„the Exchequer will have to drain
the Bank or raise the interest on Exchequer-bills.
Knowing the sanguine and excitable natures of
many for whom we are writing, it is not without
some little tremor that we make these pleasing an-
nouncements. Everybody will be ready with his
advice as to the appropriation of these newly-born
savings. Tea, tobacco, windows, malt, receipt
stamps, newspapers, soap, and twenty other burdened
commodities will besiege the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer with demands for their instant emancipation.
Then how much may be done with two or three
millions ! What emigrations, what drainings, what
national galleries, what grants and loans, will arise
to the imagination of the philanthropist, the ama-
teur, or the landowner! Stop, good people. Let
us learn to be just before we are generous. It is
but three years ago that we borrowed 8,000,0001.
and had to pay 9,000,0001. for it ; and during
the longest peace this country has ever enjoyed,
how often has it thrown away in a moment the
savings of years! A dark cloud hangs over the
future, and begins to impart dreary misgivings to
honourable and patriotic men ; for under that dark
cloud lies hidden the liquidation of our national debt.
Thoughtful men begin to be alarmed, not at the
unparalleled magnitude of our debt, but at the dismal
fact that we seem to have given up all idea of ever
trying to repay it. Let us bear taxation ourselves
that we may not tax overmuch the honesty of our
descendants. Every year that we transmit the burden
without one serious effort to discharge it, we interpose
one more year between the original contractors and
their remote representatives; and reduce a solemn
obligation so much nearer the form of an obsolete
tradition. At all events, let us first pay off the famine
debts ; and then, perhaps, treat ourselves to a few
more financial indulgences.—Times.

THE ITALIAN OPERA AT
HAVANNAH.
While most European theatres are tottering under
the influence of political vicissitudes, we see an Italian
opera-house at Havannah taking solid footing, owing
to the zealous and persevering efforts of Don Fran-
cisco Marty. This theatre, which had previously been
only subjected to the greedy speculations of needy
adventurers, was raised by Don Francisco Marty
from so low a condition and restored to its true
destination.
Convinced that the theatre, by its influence on the
multitude, might be made an establishment of great
public utility, this gentleman placed himself at the
head of the arduous undertaking, and appeared to
consider no sacrifice as too great in order to obtain
his lofty end.
Having organized his theatre according to the
imperious demands of the present times, he was
neither dismayed by losses nor enraptured by sudden
gdn ; but certai❑ of ultimate success he proceeded
with steady determination through all the fluctuations
of fortune. llis efforts have not only been successful,
but have thus indirectly tended to promote in these
regions a decided taste for music and the fine arts, for
the undertaking has become invested with a character
of natiodality. Don Francisco has not merely
enlisted a company numerically strong, but one which
is also adorned with illustrious names, comprehending
many of the brightest stars of the Italian stage. We
may mention among his principal artists—Mszini,
the colossus of basses ; Caesar Bullish, the famous
baritone ; Salvi (tenor), who has gained so high a
reputation wherever he ha appeared, and Madlle.
Steffenoni, whose graceful deportment and admirable
voice are the theme of universal praise. Thsre are
also engaged—Signors Bosio, Costini, Vietti, Bellini,
and Signori Ferretti, Corraddi, &c. To this numerous
and brilliant list the enterprising director has endea-
vcured to add the names of Alboni, Grisi, and Mario,
and his liberal offers have been t: ken by them into
due consideration. The piano director is the famous
Bottissini, professor of contrabasso, whose appearance
in England caused so high a degree of enthusiasm.
The orchestral arrangements are very superior and
extensive, and the artists are under the direction
of the well-known Signor Ardite. A great number
of classical works have already been produced, and
with such splendour as to vie with any previous
representations of the kind in the great theatres of
Europe. Don Francisco certainly deserves to receive
a full measure of credit and applause' for effecting
such grand results in so distant a region of the globe.
We must not omit to mention with particular praise
his indefatigable manager, Signor Federico Badiali,
on whose experienced discernment and disinterested-
ness Signor Don Francisco Marty implicitly relies ;
and, as will be seen by the company whose services he
himself secured by undertaking a journey to England
and Italy, that this intelligence and intrepi-
dity render him eminently fitted to stand at the
helm of the Gran Teatro Sacon, proving that
whenever one intelligent person can act without con-
trol he can dispense with the services of a host of
idlers, who usually embarrass the theatres, and who
only serve, by their unwise administration, to ruin
both proprietors and actors. The new season com-
menced with the representation of the admired
Lucia of Donizetti ; Salvi as Edgardo and
Badiali as Ashton made their first appearance,
and Steffenoni was the Lucia. The opera
was one continued triumph. Madlle. Steffenoni
reaped new laurels, the audience repeatedly saluting
her through the performance with animated
rounds of applause. Edgardo was personated by Salvi
with his usual soul and energy. His melodious voice,
clear utterance, and dignity of acting elicited con-
tinued bursts of approbation—a spontaneous acknow-
ledgment of superior talent, most deservedly shared
by Signor Badiali in the character of Lord Ashton,
whose singing, sometimes sonorous, and at others
gentle and pathetic, was always in complete harmony.
Lucrezia Borgia followed Lucia, for the delnit of the
favourite Marini, who appeared in the character of
11 Ducca Alfonso. His reception, it is almost
needless to say, was enthusiastic. The rich
volume of his voice is unequalled. Marini
is perhaps the only artist who has had
a continuous engagement for five years at La Scala,
in Milan. He will shortly appear in Roberto it
Diavolo, Ugonotti Mose, and Guglielmo Tell. Signor
Ferretti, a tenor of great continental repute, could
not display all his talents owing to indisposition ; but
when he has recovered we can predict his success as
certain. This talented and colossal company, on the
termination of the season at Havannah, will proceed to
the United States, where it is anxiously expected,
owing to its being by far the most powerful, and, as
regards names, the most talented company that has
ever crossed the Atlantic, and whose services
none but Don Francisco Marty would be
able to engage. Indeed we may observe, that, were
it not for the great fear which the Italian artists
generally have of a long sea voyage, instead of
having a sufficient number of singers to open two
Italian Operas in London, we should scarcely have
enough of first-rate talent for one, for Don Francisco
is backed by the Havannese nobility, who are deter-
mined (much to their credit) to have the best artists,
at no matter what cost, and he is, therefore, enabled
to pay them higher salaries than any European
manager could afford.

WHITZCHAPEL.
Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to as 10d;
Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 10.-1; and Pork, 2s 8d to 4s per Blbs.
BILLINGSGATZ.
Salmon, Os to Os Od per lb ; '1 urbots, 4s to 18s;
Brills, 2* Od to ss; Cod Fish, 4s to 12s Od; Whitings,
4d to 10,1; Lobsters, 10d to Is 9d; Crabs, 4d to is 9d each;
Haddocks,
6d to 2s 6d per pair; Eels, 4d to is per lb.; Large
xladdocks, 9d to is ; small ditto, 5d to 8d each ;
Crunpf.d Skate.. 8d to 10d; and Prawns, 2s 3d to 2s 9d per
Plb. Shrimps, Is 4d to 2s 6d per gallon; Bloaters, Is 3d to
e per dozen; Common Oysters, 10s to 15s; Scotch
4-i, earl++, I6s to 20s ; and Best Natives, 42s to 60s per
bushel; Flounders, 9d to Is; and Smelts, is to Is 6d
Per dozen.

mzen.
The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are
rr iz
°4l 6id to 7d; of household ditto, 5d to 6d per 41bs
loaf.

lIIDE MARKET.
Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to ld; ditto, 641 b to
.1,21 b, lid to lit; ditto, 721 b to 80Ib, 2d to lid; ditto,
nib to 881 b, 2,,d to 2P; ditto, 881 b to 961 b. 3d to 3-id;
OGIb to 120-11 b, 3iti to 3id; ditto, 104Ib to 1121 b,
°Z+I to 4d. Calf Skin., light 2s to 3; ditto full. 5s 6.t to
6'; 11,,rn Hides, 63 6d to 7s; Polled Sheep, 5s Od to
641 Runts and Half-breds 43 Od to 5s 3d; Downs,
Od to 4s Od.

HILT MARKETS.
O —Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 31. 10s; ditto,Clover
3/ a lOs ; and Straw, 1/ 2s to
°Ild• A fair average
supply and a sluggish demand.pet
CUMBEULAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 8, to 3l 103, Clover
ditto, 3/ Oa to 4/ 83; and Straw, 11 2s to 11 9s per
load. Supply but moderate, and trade dull.
FIWIIITECHA.PEL. Meadow Hay, 2/ 5s to 3/ ;
over, dit'—
to, 31 us to 41 10s; and Straw, 112 s to 118 s per
oar]. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at our
quotatiosa.

1 8 5 0.
A FABLE FOR TO-DAY.

"My brother hath gone," said the gay young Year,
A Time's favoured, youngest born,
`1•8 he upward turned a loving glance—the look of our
opening morn;
/,"hl let me go and see the world that he is leaving now,
u Boon be back with flowers of earth to twine around
your brow."

The grey old Time leant on his scythe to rest his hoary
head,
And looked upon his favor'd child as quietly he said,
It cannot be, indeed," said he indeed it cannot be,
The world is full of woe and sin, not fit for thee to see."
"Oh! let me go," said the gay young Year, in accents
soft and sweet,
:SAs lovingly he nestled at his aged father's feet,
till let me go--I long to live up ,n the grassy earth,
J:0 clear the darkness of its woe, and light it up with
mirth,

ti Ap.
ofuoveratooll(01 me that my brother's seen of want and woe
Thari.
,all
Thai
generations past have ever seen before,
S. iietith has done naught else but make deep graves
Ti Iluee first he knew
°St earth was filled with many sad, and happy but a few,
"Then let me go to those who mourn, and gladden them
pwith Spring
:tinlnd,l(tarae all evil-doers with the goodly gifts I bring;
11131111aq raiment and twine my hair with flowers,
grant themplenteous corn sad wine to joy away
their hours. P
41'11
cgive to them the happiest days my Summer time
an own,4111 d not it seed shall wasted be that man bath rightly
sown.
8,7 Autumn gently passing, my Winter stealing on,
ualll,m bring them gilts of joy to make them bless me when
gone.
'And
:Then let meh go and see if I may not some comfort prove,
from te overburden 'd heart its weight of care
OE remove.
a' let m I'
Aro e go, 11 soon be back to join you here again
" with you in the Past to live and evermore remain.,
The greybeard Time then faltering said, with tremulous
voice and weak,
As though his hurt was far too full to let him rightly
:Yspeak,
ou leave me for a world of sin, of wickedness, and woe
8u blessings follow noble hearts wherever they may go!'

HAYMARKET THEATRE.
Thursday evening Mr. Morris Barnett's comedy,
entitled The Serious Family, was performed at this
theatre, by express desire, and the house was well
filled. The aim of this piece is to ridicule and hold
up to reprobation and contempt that ultra•utilitarian-
ism and mawkish and heartless morality which one
meets with in the world among a certain class of
bigoted formalists, and which, in the intolerable
tyranny and restraint it exercises over all who come
within its blighting and stultifying influence, makes
many a household a coutinual scene of cold and sel.
fish formalism and hypocrisy, which would otherwise
be cheered by the interchange of the sweet charities
and amenities that gladden human life. Mr. Charles
Torrens (Mr. Webster), a reformed rake, for
certain weighty considerations marries into a
serious family of Quakers, composed of
Lady Sowerby Creamley (Mrs. W. Clifford), Mrs.
Charles Torrens, her daughter (Miss Reynolds),
and Mr. Aminidab Sleek (Mr. Buckstone), as fine a
trio of canting hypocrites as ever disgraced religion
and humanity. They are thrown into strong and
disadvantageous contrast with Captain Murphy
Maguire (Mr. James Wallack), a fine, open-hearted
rollicking, generous Irish gentleman, an officer in the
Guards, a man all heart, and a former boon companion
of Mr. Charles Torrens, before his conversion. The
chief interest of the burlesque is concentrated in the
amusing encounters of Captain Murphy with the
members of the serious family, Buckstone's Amini•
dab Sleek is a faultless exhibition of art; and the part
of Captain Murphy Maguire was sustained through-
out by Mr. Wallack with equal skill.
Mrs. W. Clifford contrived admirably to
throw into the character of Lady Sowerby
Creamley enough of puritanical formality and cant to
make her as hateful as the author intended she should
be ; whilst the part of the buxom widow, Mrs.
Ormsby Delmaine, was most felicitously played by
Miss P. Horton. The piece was exceedingly well
received, and at the fall of the curtain the principal
performers in it were loudly called for. The evening's
entertainments concluded with the amusing extrava-
ganza of Box and Cox, Buckstone and Keeley's
acting in which is beyond all praise.

•
•
•
•
•
Life on the earth beneath was glad to see the sun sobright,
And the workman work'd, and the drudger druged, with
joy in the beaming light;
Abe poor man once more laugh'd to feel a gladsome hope
A to cheer,
As the earth beneath embraced in love the light of the
gay New Year;
And church bells rang, and poets sang their soft melo-
diousA rhymes,
'nd es merrily clank'd in the heart of man Affection's
sweetest chimes—
ue l love your neighbour as yourself, and deem him just
tr, as dear,
5
a the chime that was rung in the heart of man by the
, laughing, gay New Year.
•uec. 31, 1849.

We have reason to believe that the- Judicial Com-
mittee of the Privy Council will give judgment on
the appeal of Mr. Gorham against Bishop Phillpotts,
on the 15th of January (next Tuesday week), and
that the judgment will be a reversal of the judgment
of Sir Jenner Fust. It is reported that Lord Lang-
dale, Lord Campbell, Judge Parke, and Dr. Lush-
ington are for Mr. Gorham ; and that Sir Knight
Bruce and the Right Hon. Pemberton Leigh are for
the Bishop. The three Spiritual Lords unite for Mr.
Gorham. This judgment, it is thought, will not
decide the matter. A crisis is approaching. The
Tractarians are preparing for a contest, and the battle
of the Reformation must be fought again.— Western
Times.

JOHNSON BARKER.

DIAMOND DUST.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal)
tolt is in general the natural refuge of mortified vanity,
44 Persuade itself that it retorts contempt upon those that
the Wit, and to pass off upon itself the auger it feels, for
6,1110 re dignified passion of scorn.
Repro!.rve others, but correct thyself.
k, lying on our own resources, we require mental
iiiite,stltth; but when we lean on others for support, we are
an invalid who, having accustomed himselt to a
crutch
, finds it difficult to walk without one.
iLlenes3—the sure pilot fish of crime and shame.
as right,u to, yourself for that which you recognise
- be ready, not merely to die, for that is easy;
at
.to live, and that is almost always difficult.
bett room
the large upper garment of a person, it
IntS4YB the habits, and somewhat of the character re-
ch4l impressed upon it. It is for this reason the
vietoers of famed or loved individuals are so much
' "e seems to look into their minds.

ELECTION FOR WINDSOR.—It is fully anticipated
that there will be an election at Windsor immediately
after the meeting of Parliament, in consequence of the
expected retirement of Lord John Hay, one of the Lords
of the Admiralty, recently appointed Superintendent of
Plymouth Dockyard. Lord John Hay, is will be re-
membered, was returned without opposition, in con
junction with Colonel Reid, at the last general election.
The appointment (which is fur life) conferred by the
Government on his Lord,hip is one which subjects the
holder to orders and instructions from the Board of Ad-
miralty. It would, therefore, be an anomalous position
to be placed in, were the two appointments, the super-
intendent of a dockyard and a Lurd of the Admiralty,
held by the same individual. The names of two or
three candidates opposed to the present Ministry have
been mentioned, and " soundings" have been taken in
thy town, but, from the powerful influence of !he Go-
vernment at Windsor, there appears to be very little
prospect of a successful opposition to the Ministerial
candidate, even should an opponent, under such circum-
stances, bo found disposed to offer himself.
SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Somaasar•HousE.—There is
to be an exhibition of the works of the students at the
School of Design next week. We understand that
several of the masters intend to exhibit ornamental
designs of their own, in proof of their ability.—Builder.
UXBRIDGE UNIoN.—At the last weekly meeting
of the board of guardians of this extensive union (em-
bracing a large agricultural district) a very gratifying
report was laid before the board, relating to the state of
pauperism which now prevails, compared with the cor-
responding period twelve months ago. Last year the
number of paupers in the workhouse was 301, while
this year there are only 237; diminution 64. Of this
number there is not a single ablebodied agricultural
labourer. The 23 ablebodied paupers now in the house
are all brickmakers (with which the neighbourhood of
Uxbridge abounds), who earned large wages in the
summer months, and neglected the opportunity of
" laying by for a rainy day." Last year there were 43
ablebodied men in the house, several of whom were
husbandmen. There is also a very considerable diminu-
tion in the number of out-door paupers, Last year
relief, reducing
at the present time there are but
7thBelrereeweeivre 9ing4 reducing the weekly expenditure,
for out-door relief only, from 84/. (which it was at this
period last year), to 70/. In consequence of this im-
proved state of affairs, the weekly expenditure of the
union, compared with the corresponding period of last
year, is reduced to the extent of between 201. and 30L
The Duke of Manchester
REDUCTION OF REN Ts.—
has made the following reductions in the rents of his
estate- in the county of Armagh, namely, upon all
rents at 255. au acre and upwards, 3s, in the pound; on
all at 245., 2s. in the pound; and on all at 233., ls.in the
pound.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sta,—Your views upon the alteration of the
present legal establishments and system of Ireland
have my full concurrence.

Any change of the kind which you propose must
serve even the legal profession of Ireland, who,
instead of being attached to occupation or pursuit
attended with honour or profit, are degraded to the
calling of mere eavesdroppers, beggars of employment
from a half starved gentry, or supplicants of a Ge•
vernment which has nothing to give to the numerous
legal ravens that cry for food.
Strike away then; and if you were even to do no
other good than turn the attention of the rising
generation of Ireland from the folly of risking their all
upon a horse-hair wig, or the probability of obtaining
a Chancery suit, you will entitle yourself to the
gratitude of many a young man of promise.
I remain, Sir, dtc.,

tier it
coutribu2)4l Highness the Duchess of Ken,t. has
iierbersiT "a hundred pounds towards Mr. Sidney
A Hi:'ut'd for promoting female emigration.
la b s,-;1:11° THE BUICUERS.—A number of persons
bate:er—°aad, considering that the present price of
resohnie Meat was rather extravagant, came to the
!e,Yor-" a few days ago of acting as their own pur-
syllel' and for this purpose they clubbed their shillings
tilers and purchased a couple of Hhland wethers,
tea tk
ititeue, "eY employed a person to kill for them, with the
5,,,,. "lon of afterwards sharing the mutton according to
coat 'Y on interest. After slaughtering the sheep, the
14 of labour attending which, as well as the time lost
fossl4a3ling the division, was taken into account, it was
ec?sid that the mutton cost just 4d. the pound. It is
deed that, owing to an extra demand for butchers'
meat at this season, the purchase of the sheep was made
uPori
1,01,u rather unfavourable terms, and that, if bought
iro,,h, Sheep were more plentiful, the cost per pound
,idruligiwillattive been about a hellpenny less.—Perth Con-
-4 M"ItOPOLITAN SEWERS COMMISSION.--Yesterday
,Vneral court was held at the office of the commission,
-lirreek street, Soho. Sir John Burgoyne presided, and
the Other commissioners present were Mr. T. Hawes,
.
notch4ll es, Mr. Stevenson, Captain Dawson, and Captain
tic,• The only business of publia interest transacted
thl_ng the sitting was the increase of Mr. Woolrych,
s„,__ 'ecrtarys, salary from 600/. to 8004 a year. It
,p 43 stated that when Mr. Woolrych was appointed it
belt! Understood that after the first year his salary should
~, nercased to the amouut at which it now stands, and
realch was what his predecessor iu office, Mr. HertAct,
but the
The year of probation has not yet expired,
ILO .1." The
expressed themselves so highly
ditch '6cd with the manner in which Mr. Woolr3ch had
oriuged his duties that they ligd no hesitAtion in at
h.?. raising his salary. At its rising the Court ad-
-411104 ki l'riday next, at twelve o'clock.

SAMUEL. GORDON.
40, Aungier•street, Dublin, Jan. 3, 1850.

SUDDEN DMA TH IN THE STREET.—Yesterday
Mr. 'l'. Higgs, the Coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster,
held an inquest at the Milford Arms, St. Clement's
Churchyard, on view of the body of Mr. Nathaniel
Landers, aged 67 years, a Jew, who died under the fol-
lowing very melancholy circumstances. It appeared, is
evidence, that the deceased had for the last quarter of a
century carried on his business at No. 53, Holywell-
street, Strand. On Thursday morning, about twenty
minutes to seven o'clock, the deceased was passing along
Tavisteck-street, Covent-garden, on his way to the
Synagogue in Maiden-lane, when on reaching the shop
of Mr. Broad, an oilman, he was seen suddenly to stag-
ger and immediately fell backwards with considerable
violence upon the ground. Several persons hastened to
his assistance, and he was picked up senseless. He was
carried into the shop of Mr. Simmonds, when life was
found to be quite extinct. Verdict--" Died by the visi-
tation of God."

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May 9, 1849 To Professor Holloway. Sir, I had been
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THE SUN, LO .N DON, SATURDAY EVENING, J ANUARY 5, 1850

MAGAZINES, &e.—(CONTINUED.)
NEW 16ION7'.HL Y.
The contents of the New Monthly for January are
of a lighter and more diversified character than usual.
‘• The Arctic Voyages" is the subject of the most
serious and interesting article, and "Mr. Jolly
Green's Ideas on some of the Leading Questions of
the Day" form the topic of the most entertaining.
" Christmas in Italy," by Mariotti, is not to our taste;
religious ceremonies, however mistaken we may deem
them, are never a fit theme for flippancy and derision.
Nicholas Michell has commenced a serial tale "Hester
Somerset," which promises to be interesting. Horace
Smith's contributions continue to grace the pages of
the New lifonthly—that which appears in the present
number is entitled " Love at First Sight," which
appellation is somewhat of a misnomer, seeing that
the interest of the tale turns, not upon "love at first
sight," but upon a very tragic incident. The unfor-
tunate hero had erected an observatory, brilliantly
illuminated, upon some cliffs overhanging the sea
shore; it was mistaken for a light-house, and a
shipwreck was the consequence—a shipwreck in-
volving the death of a lady passenger, the betrothed
of the unfortunate author of the accident.

I It this month contains -a portrait and a memoir of the
1 to Mr. Thomas Bates.--Sharpe's .711a,g14ziye is de-
lighrul AS- --ii;iial-: -It opens with an excellent
article on Goldsmith'. Our favourite " Diary
!of Mrs. Milton" is continued, and as usual
i contains some exquisitely simple natural
1 touches.—The Church' - (y. England . _Magazine
presents its customary variety of religious and id; '
structive reading.—The land the Live In,exhibits to
us Hull and the Humber, York and Beverley. The
pictorial contents are most beautiful. This truly
national work has now reached its third volume.—
Mr. Knight's National Library of Select Literature
contains the sixth part of the Bible History.—Frank
Farleigh, the adventurous and delightful Frank
Farlcigh, illustrated by Cruikshank, still con-
tinues in course of monthly re-publication.—
The People's Journal is, as usual, replete with a
variety of interesting tales and essays on popular
topics ; the illustrations are much improved.—The
Belle Assemblee is embellished with a charming por-
trait of Amy Robsart.—Le Follet maintains its grace-
ful character.

ECLECTIC REVIEW.
The Eclectic Review begins the now year under
its new editor, whose opening address promises well.
The present number contains (as usual) some inte-
resting and well written articles, among which is one
on " England and Hungary." Yet, excellent as the
nine articles in this number may be individually, we
cannot but think the interest of the whole collectively
would be augmented by the introduction of more than
one ,literary criticism, such as the very delightful
paper on Dr. Southey. This article is the only one of
an otherwise than religious or political character. In
itself it is excellent, but it should not stand alone of
its kind. The article in question opens with the fol.
lowing gracefully sketched group :
" A little after the commencement of this century there
was one remote spot in Britain, which almost divided
the intellectual interest of the community with London
itself. This was the vicinity of the Lakes. Beautiful
exceedingly as the region was, it bad acquired a charm
which no combination of the elements of material love-
liness could bestow. Round it had clustered some of the
wisest and finest spirits then breathing. A very constel-
lation of genius shone around the mountains of Cumber-
land, as it reflecting that great Plough which turns up
for ever the fields of the Northern sky. There wandered
Wordsworth—his eye seeing more in nature than other
men,' and his deep voice murmuring to the running
brooks a music sweeter than, their own.' There, like a
dreaming flower, reposed the wizard Coleridge—not yet
arrived at the darkest hour of his chequered story.
There sate in his study, with its windows looking toward
Skiddaw, the indomitable Southey—passing at the sound
of a clock from the wildest poetry to the calmest prose.
There Bishop Watson gave good dinners, sauced, it is
said, with not a little of what Lord Jeffrey calls excep-
tionable talk.' There, a wild Norland meteor, with
floating hair and flashing eyes, fluctuated to and fro--
young Christopher North. There, poor Charles Lloyd,
not yet a lunatic, speculated and poetised for a season.
And there was to be seen, walking with Wordsworth be-
side the tarns, or reclining with Christopher North
under the Moray woods, or starting with offended feel-
ing, as Bishop Watson, at the first interview, slapping
him on the shoulder, exclaimed, What little fellow is
this you have brought to-day, Wilson?' a small, thin,
pale faced being, with sharp features, and eye profound
as death—De Quincey, the gifted and unhappy English
opium. eater. And there, for et few weeks, sojourned a
tall, shadowy form, with a hectic flush on his cheek, a
wild, shy fire, like that of a solitary bird, in his eye,
with dress neglected, and hasty, impatient step—it was
poor Shelley, spending some of his last days of hap.
piness, with his first wile, by the brink of the peacefu.
Cumberland Lakes.

" This brilliant cluster has been entirely dissolved.
Coleridge died far from the murmur of Grasmere
springs, and the rustle of the heath of Helvellyn.
Southey's mind, alas! departed before his body. Wat-
son (fame, works, and all) is long since buried. Lloyd
too is dead. Professor Wilson lives--but his noble form is
seldom now seen on the banks of Windermere. De Quincey,
one of the most learned and highly endowed men of the
age, has nowhere to lay his head. Shelley slumbers in
the Eternal City. A year has nearly revolved since
Hartley Coleridge, partaker of much of his father's
genius, and •f more then his father's frailties—. his
cojfin as light as that of a child,' was carried to his last
resting-place. And now it is a solitary star which shines
over the classic region—solitary but immortal—the star,
so beautiful and large,' of Wordsworth. We turn
somewhat pensively to our task of estimating the
genius, and reviewing the life, of Robert Southey."
The following paragraph is eminently truthful:—
. Finally, Southey was virtuous, but perhaps it had
been better if his virtues had hung about him in softer
and easier folds; if they had not been gathered in
around him with such austere and Roman precision;
and if they had rendered him more tolerant of the fail-
ings of others. His was a virtue—the type of which
we cannot say we have much desire to see perpetuated.
Like his genius, it was sufficient for himself, but has
had few followers. We want, now, not a man to fold
his arms, to go apart from the crowd, to say, ' Stand
by, lam holier than thou;' to stoop, when stoop he
does, like a fancied god rather than an t xalted man;
we want one who shall willingly merge the Demi. god in
the Brother, and seek rather to circulate than simply to
preserve his character. We want not a sanctimonious
Southey—but a sanctified, a Christian Shelley."

viz.:-

MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED
WIFE'S SISTER, _
(FROM__A CORRESPONDENT.)
Only part of England, and that a very small part,
was visited in 1846, at the expense of private persons,
by competent gentlemen, to ascertain .the_ hardship of
individuals suffering. under Lord Lyndhurst's Act,
The districts consisted, Ist, of some of the manufac-
turing portions of Lancashire and Yorkshire ; '2d,
Norfolk and Suffolk, and parts of Lincolnshire and
Essex ; 3d, parts of Warwickshire and Stafford Shire,
including Birmingham and the Potteries; 4th, parts
of Hampshire, Dorsetshire, and Devonshire, including
Portsmouth, Southampton, Winchester, Dorchester,
Plymouth, and Exeter ; and sth, the towns of Bristol,
Bath, and Cheltenham, andtheir immediate vicinities.
The summary of information thus obtained may be
stated as follows :—Of only this small part of the
United Kingdom, viz., 1,364 marriages between
parties within the prohibited degrees; yet of this
nine-tenths have been contracted with a deceased
w ife's sister ! There were 88 cases only in which
the Act had prevented an intended marriage ; and of
these 88 cases 32 are stated to have resulted in open
cohabitation, w ithout the sanction of any form or
ct-rernony.
Toe Commissioners then proceed to say—" We
forbear to make any calculation deduced from this
inquiry ; limited in time and extent, as it necessarily
was, as to the number of marriages within the same
degrees which have probably been contracted since
1835, and down to the present time, throughout the
whole of England and Ireland; but it is probable
that they would bear a proportion to those ascertained
in the districts already referred to."
The Commissioners then go on to say that "We
cannot avoid the conclusion, that the statute 5 and 6
Wm.IV, c. 54, has failed to obtain the object sought
to be effected by its prospective enactments. It has
not prevented marriage with the sister or niece of a
deceased wife in numerous instances from taking
place ; whether more or less numerous than before
the passing of the statute, we have not, as was before
observed, sufficient data to enable us to form an
opinion. But without reference to any comparison of
this description, the number of these marriages is so
great as to justify us in saying that the provisions 0:"
that statute, rendering them null and void, have not
generally deterred parties from forming such con-
nexions."

SPURTING INTELLIGENCE.
CHESTER SPRING MEETING, 1850.
The following is a complete list of the nominations for
the Chester Cup. (189 Subs.)
Bon-mot, 4 yrs—Arab, 4 yrs—Honeycosnb, 4 yrs—
Cockermouth, 5 yrs—Chorister, 5 yrs—Lozdstone, 5
yrs—Essedarius, 4 yrs—Ballinafad, 6 yrs—St. Antonio,
5 yrs—Pitsford, 3 yrs—Fugleman, 5 yrs—Collingwood,
aged—Rhesus, 4 yrs—Vesta, 6 yrs—Epirote, 6 yrs—
S yMarisn_Efoldeu
, 3
yrs.-Born
—ldle Boy, 4 yrs—Luxor, 6 yrs—Sir
Richard, 4 yrsorn of Chase, 6 yrs—Fleur de Seine,
—Damask, 34 yrs—Roland, 4 yrs—:Eagle's Plume, S
yrs—Clermont, 6 yrs—Ellerdale, 6 yrs—Hagley, 5 'yrs
_yrs—Alp, 4 yrs—Shamrock, 3 yrs—
lanthe, 33rs—R.y Gladiator, colt out of Lily, 4 yis—
xury,Yrs—King of Otrde, 3 yrs—Yardarm, aged—
Minimum, 4 yrs—SUnnyside, 5 yrs—Melody, 4 yrs—
Harriott, 3 yrs—General Sale, 4 yrs—Laura, 3 yrs—
Diana, 4 yrs—Lady II) lds, 6 yrs—Backbiter, 5 yes—
Bro to Dough. 3 yrs--Tarn Wadlin, 4 yrs—Legerde-
main, 4 yrs—lnheritress, aged—Chsrissa, 4 yrs= Wood-
ier k, 4 3 rs —Langton, 4 yrs— Mounseer, 4 yrs—G ulliver,
4 yrs—Snowstorn, 4 yrs—Knight of Gwynne, 3 }I-4—
Due de Brabant, 4 yrs—Anthony, 4 yrs—Chantrey, 4) rs
California, 3 yrs—By Gladiator filly, out of Sprite, 3
yrs—Jack Briggs, 3 yrs—Glauca, 4 yrs—Lady Evsly n,
4 yrs—Giselle, aged—Chatterer, 4 yrs—Post Ternie,re,
4 yr.—Peep o' Day Boy, 6 yrs—.Larnbswuol, 5 yrs—
rant, 3 yrs—Testator,
yOrsst_erElelyk,r4dise.,rss—yCroi 1
—le
yrs—Ca
na pltia 1
in i u s
G, 8 yrs—Jobe Cosier, 5
4 yrs—Reception, 4 yrs—Swindler, 3 yrs-I'i xpatrick,
4 yrs—Pantominse, 6 yrs—The Miner, 4 yrs—Velox, 4
yrs—Wallace, 3 yrs—Sylvan, 5 yrs—Lisznahago, 4 yrs
—Media, 4 yrs—Chief Baron, 4 yrs—Baroness, 4 yrs—
Dulcet, aged—Fern, 4 yrs—Sauter le Coupe, 4) ri.....
Team Augean, 3 yrs—Chanticleer, aged—Van Diemen, 4 yrs
—Hotspur, 4 3rs—Darter, 5 yrs—Grief, 4 yrs— Caw-
yr irrse_, 4N
yrs—rdN(ehwbc), 6 y °urt,rsag—esci
. Valentine,Msid f Twich, 4 yrs —Thringarth, 4 yrs—Deception, 3 yrs—Lady
Superior, 4 yrs—lmperatrix, 4 yrs—Countess of Albe•
aged—Maid
3 s
yrs Valley,
14.
m
marls, 3 yrs—Witchcraft, 3) rs—Abbot of Meaux, 4 yrs
Lady-Lam-off, 5 yrs—Little Jack, 4 yrs—Sidus, 3 yrs—
By Vulcan filly out of Lodola, 4 yrs—Era,4 yrs—(Eiipus,
4 yrs—Wild Rose, late Latclilug, 4 yrs—Teflis, 4 yrs
—Vatican, 4 yrs—Kissaway, 4 yrs—St. George, 3 3 rs—
Emma, 3 yrs—Dough, 5 yrs—Baby, 4 yrs—Priestess,
4 yrs—The Cocktail, 4 yrs—Strychnine, 4 yrs—Eye
the Boys, 3 yrs—Modesty, 3 yrs—Primrose, 5 yrs—
Montague, 4 yrs—Saucy Dick, 4 yrs—By Lanercost,
colt out of Concertina, 3 yrs—Rodney, 4 yrs—Eguira,
3 yrs—By Verulam, colt out of Whim, 4 yrs—Cossack,
6 yrs—ldle Boy, 5 yrs—The Flea, 4 yrs—Keleshea, 6
yrs—Ada Mary, 4 yrs—Loupgarou, 4 yrs—Solon, 4
yrs—Seneca, 3 yrs—By Pantaloon, colt out of Decoy,
3 yrs—Andalusian, 4 yrs—Old Fox, 4 yrs—The Castle,
3 yrs—New Forest Deer, aged—Gaffer Green, aged—
Cabman, 3 yrs—Doubt, 4 yrs—Queen of the Commons.
1 4 yrs—Cadger, 3 yrs—Melbourina, 4 yrs—Seignor of
Holderness, 3 yrs—Osbaldeston, I yrs—Westow, 4 yrs
—Glenalvon, 4 yrs—Miss Ann, 4) rs—Baroness, 3 yrs
—Brennu,, 3 yrs —Rathmines, 6 yrs—Wanota, 6 p&—
Surplice, 5 yrs—Quinine, 4 yrs—Defaulter, 5 yrs—
Seaman, 3 yrs—Justice, 5 yrs—Wensleydale, 4 yrs—
Mark Tapley,3 yrs—Pity the Blind, 4 yrs—Quiz, 6)rs—
Steppingstone, 4 yrs—Strongbow, 4 yrs—liriel, 4 yrs
—Vanguard, 4 yrs—Theodore Hook, 4 yrs—Kenning-
ton, 4 yrs—The Knout, 4 yrs—Nunnykirk, 4 yrs—
Mulgrave, 3 yrs—Greenwich, 3 yrs—Michael Brunton,
3 yrs—Pelham, 4 yrs—Gleam, 3 yra—Flatcatcher, 5
yrs—Present, 4 yrs—Malton, 5 yrs.
LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING, 1850.
Nominations for the Grand National Steeplechase
Handicap of 20 sous. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared
by the 15th of February. (72 Subs.)
Farnham, 6 yrs—Kilkenny, aged—Robin Gray, aged
—Shamrock, aged—The Hero, 6 yrs—Yardarm, aged—
Sobriety, aged—Miss Collingwood, aged—The Victim,
aged—Pantasa, aged—Quadruped, aged—Philip, aged—
The Mouse, 6 yrs—British Yeoman, aged—Sir Arthur,
6 yrs—Bayonet, 5 yrs—Peter Simple, aged—Vainhope,
5 yrs—Vengeance, aged—Veritas, 4 yrs—Ben Lomond,
aged—The Iron Duke, 5 yrs—Grande Lumiere, aged—
Bajazet, 4 yrs—Maid of Athens, aged—Miss Cooke, 5
yrs—llerring, 6 yrs—La Sylphide, aged—The Oaks, 5
yrs—The Silent Friend, 6 yrs—Meatb, aged—Hope,
aged—Knight of Gwynne, aged—Spring Buck, oged—
Sylvan, 4 yrs—Lismshago, 4 yrs—The Thrush, aged—
Johnny Barrie, agod—Columbine, a,,,e d—Rescue,
ag, d—Lansquenet, aged—Master Robin, aged—
The Duchess, aged—Agitator, aged—Rat-trap, aged—
ttory be Asy, 6 ps—The Odd Fellow, 6 yrs—St. Leger,
aged— Abd-el-h.ader, aged—Mulligan, 6 yrs—Tippe-
rary Boy, aged—Sir Juhn, aged—Shiurone, 6 yrs—
Rainbow, 6 yrs—Tom Jolly, aged—Fanny Grey, aged
—Maria Day, aged—Mahomet, aged—Pegasus,, aged—
V. nture, 5 yrs —Fisticuff, aged—Hurlestone, aged:--
fhe Pony, aged—Little Mary, aged—Little Paul, aged
—Evertou, aged—Venice, 5 yrs—Sparta, aged—Laurel,
aged—Chandler, aged—Little Houghton, aged—Wols
verhampton, aged.
Nominations for the Liverpool Spring Cup.
Lamb's Wool, 5 yrs—Yardarm, aged—Present, 4 yrs
Augcan, 3 yrs—Anthony, 4 yrs—Osbuldiston, 3 yrs—
Curiri, 5 yrs—Doubt, 4 yrs—Andalusian, 4 yrs—
l3allinafad, 6 yrs—The Alp, 4 yrs—Modesty, 3 yrs—
Wilmont, 3 yrs—Quiz (late Raisthorp), 6 yrs—The
Conjuror, aged—Ormsby (late Telegraph), 4 yrs—lm•
peratrix, 4 yrs—Wild Rose (late Latchlug), 4 yrs--
Portia, 4 yrs.
NORTHAMPTON RACES, 1850.
Entries for the Northamptonshire Stakes,
Minto, 4 yrs—Backbiter, 5 yrs—Acomb, 4 yrs—Ada
Mary, 4 yrs—Windiscbgratz, 3 yrs—Alp, 4 yrs—
Priestess, 4 yrs—Roland, 4 yrs—Giselle, aged—Snow-
siorm, 4 yrs —Elthiron, 4 yrs—Black Doe, 5 yrs—
Woodlark, 4 yrs—Clermont, 5 yrs—Clarissa, 4 yrs—
Abbot of, Meaux, 4 vrs—Vesta, 6 yrs—Velox, 4 yrs
—Ballinafad, 6 yrs—Sunbeam, 4 yrs—lron Rail, 6 yrs
—Traitress, 4 yrs—Tophana, 5 yrs— Testator, 4 yrs—
Quiver, 4 yrs—Sylvan, 5 yrs—Cayenne, 4 yrs—Lam-
mermoor, 4 yrs—Fernhill, 5 yrs—Lismahago, 4 yrs—
Quiz, 6 yrs—The Miner (h h), 4 yrs —Sunnystde, 5 yrs
—Cawrire, 4 yrs—Dulcet, aged—Timothy, 3 yrs—The
Castle, 3 yrs—Bushranger, 3 yrs—Pelham, 3 yrs—Hel-
ter Skelter, 5 yrs—Andalusian, 4 yrs—Teflis, 4 yrs—By
Sir Hercules, g out of Empress, 4 yrs—Firi-eater, 4 yrs
—Strychnine,4 yrs—ln herity ess. aged—Vampire, 6 yrs—
Damask, 3 yrs—Retail, 4 yrs—Collingwood, aged—Pius
the IX., 5 yrs—Wild Rose, 4 yrs—Legerdemain, 4 yrs—
Nunnykirk, 4 yrs—Vanguard, 4 yrs—tiontague, 4 yrs—
Champion, 4 yrs—Second Sight, 4 yrs—Tarn Wadlin,
4 yrs—West India Planter, 6 yrs—Borneo, 4 yrs—
Defaulter, 5 yrs—Woolwich, 4 yrs—Rabelais, 3 yrs—
Puffy, 4 yrs—Dover, 5 yrs— Mounseer, 4 yrs—Quinine,
4 yrs—Melody, 4 yrs—La Malhereuse, 5 yrs—Jellyfish,
4 yrs—Glenalvon, 4 yrs—Mahratta, 4 yrs—Harriott, 3
yrs—Old Fox, 4 yrs—Mrs. Taft, 5 yrs—Eagle's Plume,
5 yrs—Salute, 3 yrs—Ariadne, 3 yrs—Cossack, 6 yrs
The Flea, 4 yrs—Westow, 4 yrs—Chantrey, 4 yrs—
Halo, 6 yrs—Equiria, 3 yrs--Rubins, 3 yrs—BuscoS
(h b), 4 yrs—The Knout, 4 yrs—Epirote, 6 yrs—Wa-
nota, 6 yrs—Glutton, 5 yrs—Ellendale, 6 yrs—By
Lanercost, colt out of Concertina, 3 yra—Belus, 4 yrs—
Midis, 4 yrs—Drakelow, 4 yrs—Cheerful, 4 yrs—Oster-
lay, 4 yrs—Thringarth, 4 yrs—Tuscan, 5 yrs—Glen
Saddel, 5 yrs— Bastinado, 3 yrs—Nutbrown, 3 yrs—
Lady Baegtail, 5 yrs—Anthony, 4 yrs—Little Jack, 3
yrs—Chorister, 5 yrs—Yard Arm, aged—St. Antonio, 5
yrs—Flatcatcher, 5 yrs—Cockermouth, 5 yrs—Modesty,
3 yrs—Mantle, 4 yrs—Solon, 4 yra—The Baptist, aged
—Rathmines, 6 yrs—By Vulcan filly out of Lodola, 4
yrs—Grief, 4 yrs.

We will now proceed to give the opinion of Dr.
Adler, the Chief Rabbi in this country. This
opinion was elicited by an answer received from tbat
learned divine to three questions submitted to him,

" Ist. Whether the marriage of a widower with the
sister of his deceased wife is understood by the Jewish
nation as prohibited by the Divine law ? A.—That it
is not only not considered as prohibited, but it is dis-
tinctly understood to be permitted ; and on this point
neither the Divine law nor the Rabbis, nor historical
Judaism, leave room for the least doubt.
" 21. Whether such marriages are solemnized
where both parties belong to the Jewish nation, and
whether they are frequent ? A.—That in all the
countries of civilized Europe, where the law of the
land offers no impediment, such marriages very
frequently take place; and from h:s experience
during twenty years that he held the office of Chief
Rabbi in Oldenburgh and Hanover, he can affirm,
that the marriages in question have almost invariably
proved happy.
" 3d. Whether supposing that such a marriage is
allowed by the Jewish law, it exposes the parties to
any want of respect, or at all affects their position in
society ? A.—That, according to Rabbinical autho-
rities, such a marriage, so far from exposing the
parties to any reproach, is considered proper, and even
laudable ; and where young children are left it is
allowed to take place within a shorter period from the
wife's death than would otherwise be permitted."
Here, then, we have the opinion of the highest
Jz.. wish authority in England; and next, in succession
of time regarding the ancient Churches of the world,
the Roman Catholic Church presents itself. Let us
see then what the Right Reverend Nicholas Wiseman,
D.D., Roman Catholic Bishop of Melipotamus, and
Pro Vicar Apostolic of the London district, says on
the subject:—
" What is the practice in your Church with regard
to marriages within the degrees that have been
spoken of? A.—Such a marriage, of course, is
considered unlawful ; and a marriage contracted
by the parties within those degrees would be null.
Supposing that two persons wished to contract such a
marriage, that a person, for instance, wished to marry
his sister-in. law, no priest could marry him until he
first obtained a dispensation. A dispensation would
not be granted upon general grounds, but only upon
a particular consideration of the case. If the mar-
riage had been already contracted it would also be
considered null, and a dispensation would also be
necessary ; but of course the facilities would be
greater; it would be granted with much less difficulty
than in the first case.
" When you say ' unlawful' you mean unlawful
by the law of the Church ? A.—Yes.
" And when you think proper to dispense with
such unlawfulness you think proper to dispense with
a regulation of the Church, and not with a prohibition
of Scripture ? A.—Most certainly.
" Then the Commissioners are to understand that
in your Church the general prohibition of these mar-
riages is a matter of discipline; and permission to
contract such marriages is granted or not, according to
what you may think most advantageous and proper ?
A.—Certainly."
Here, then, is the whole argument. The Jews, to
whom the whole injunction in Leviticus was addressed,
do not consider it unlawful to marry a wife's sister,
but rather praiseworthy ; and the Roman Catholic
Bishop expounds the whole morality of the question
on the having obtained a dispensation !—which simply
means, in the language of Protestantism, " a bringing
grist to the mill," after the fashion of the indulgences
of old, which first paved the way to the great
Reformation.

- BATH RACES, 1850.
Nominations for the Somersetshire Stakes.
Cossack, 6 yra—Quiz, 6 yrs—Epirote, 6 yrs—Seagull,
6 yrs—Halo, 6 yrs—Glendower. 5 yrs—SL Antonio, 5
yrs—Black Doe, 5 yrs—Lady Bangtail, 5 yrs—Sunny-
side, 5 yrs—Deceptive, 5 yrs—Fernhill, 5 yrs—Eagle's
Plume, 5 yrs—Bagley, 5 yrs—Cockermouth, S yrs—
Ellerslie, 5 yrs—Sylvan, 5 yrs--ited Doe, 5 yrs--
Chorister, 5 yrs—Thug. 5 yrs—La Malheureuse (late
Cybelv), 5 yrs—Hotspur, 4 yrs—Mounseer, 4 yrs—
(Edipus, 4 yrs—Chantrey, 4 yrs—Puffy, 4 yrs—Wool-
wich, 4 yrs—The Knout, 4 yrs—Melody, 4 yrs—Ably
Day) 4 y-rs—Golden Pippin, 4 yrs—Sauter la Coupe, 4
yrs—Old Fox, 4 yrs—Yard Arm, aged—c by Herkaway
out of Haida, 4 yrs—Strongbow, 4 yrs--Glonalron, 4
yrs—Midis, 4 yrs—Montague, 4 yrs—R, arguard, 4
yrs—Bun-mot, 4 yrs—iissedarius, 4 yrs—Duc de Bra-
bant, 4 yrs—Wont-you-cosAe-out-to-night, by Venison,
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MANCHESTER, RACES, 1850.
Nominations for the Manchester Cup.
Chantrey, 4 yrit—liielus, 4 yrs—Solon, 4 yrs—Smug-
gler Bill, aged—Seaman, 3 yrs—Legerdemain, 4 yrs—
Fernhill, 5 yrs—Backbiter, 5 yrs—Ellerdale, 6 yrs—
Candlewick, 3 yrs—lnheritress, aged—French Susy, S
yrs—Raby, 4 yrs—Roland, 4 yrs—The Knout, 4 yre—
Priestess, 4 yrs—Chorister, 5 yrs—Ardwick, 3 yrs—
Lady Godiva, 3 yrs—Andalusian, 4 yrs—Sea Gull, 6
yrs—Quiz, 6 yrs—Nunn) kirk, 4 yrs—Chanticleer, aged
—Osbaldeston, 3 yrs—Flatcatcher, 5 yrs—Marriott, 3
yrs—Westow, 4 yrs—The Alp, 4 yrs—Malton, 5 yrs—
ch fby Gladiator out of Sprite, 3 yrs—Emma, 3 yrs..
Seignor of Holderness, 4 yrs—The Arab, 4 yrs—C(4t_k_
tail, 4 yrs—Baroness, 4 yrs—Ada Mary, 4 Yr 6-4"
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to S
agst Lady Superior, were the only bets on this
event.
Nothing done on Metropolitan or Derby.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
East Kent hds., Mon., Horton Park; Barham-
Street-10i.
Cambridgeshire hds., Mon., Sandy Warren ; Fri.,
Childerley Gate—to}.
Somerset Subscription hds., Tues., 'Willett Hill; Fri.,
Raleigh's Cross-10}.
Mr. Poweles hds., Tues., Plough and Harrow; Fri.,
Llandissilio-10.
Shon Quilt lads., Tues., Sinol Inn ; Fri., Cefn
from

Llanelly hds., Mon., Pembrey House ; Fri., Kid.
welly-10.
F. B. hds., Mon., Ferran Wharf ; Fri., Killegrow
Hill—loi.
Cheshire hds., Mon., Aston Hall ; Wed., Chilton
Park; Thurs., ale Royal; Sat., Booth's Obelisk—tot.
Sir W. W. Wynn's lids., Mon., Aston;' Wed., Hawk-
stone; Thurs., Acton Reynold ; Sat., Malpas Moor--
10:}.

!Shropshire hds., Mon., Cross houses; Wed., High
Email; Fri, litcbaw—lol.