The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-21 00:00:00

TAE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1844.

DONCASTER RACES.

(BY EXPRESS.)

DONCASTER, FRIDAY AFTEROON.

The early hour at which the races commenced ena-
bles us, by means of an express to the Swinton
station, to give the result of the principal races to-
day, the 1001. Plate being the only one undecided
when our parcel NI, as closed. The weather was
showery, and the attendance thin, but not more so
than usual on the last day at these meetings. It will
be seen that, after all, the great match between Cor-
ranna and Foig-a-ballagh came off, and that it proved
a decisive triumph for the young one.
The Scarbrough Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft, for
three yrs old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. The

winner of the St. Leger to have carried 71b extra.
One mile. (5 Subs.)
Mr. Salvia's The Cure.. (Templeman) 1
Mr. Smallwood's Prince Royal
Mr

W. S. Standish's Susan

6tol on The Cure. The running. was made by
Prince Royal at a strong pace, followed by the filly,
The Cure lying off up to the Red House, where he
took the second place. At the Stand he took the
lead from the Prince Royal, and won in a canter by
three lengths.
Match, 1,000 sous. St. Leger Course.

Mr. Irwin's Foig-a-ballagh, 3 yrs, 7st.. (Abdale) 1
Mr. Collett's Corrtnna, 5 yrs, 9st .. (Whitehouse) 2
3 to 1 on Foig-a-ballagh, who made running all
the way, and won in a canter by six lengths.
The Park Hill Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for three
yr old fillies, Bst 71b each ; the second to receiveloo
sovs., and the winner to pay 201. towards expenses.
St. Leger Course. (31 Subs.)
Mr. Osbaldeston's Sorella (J. Day, jun.) 1
Colonel Anson's The Princess

Mr. Irwin's The Pride of Kildare

Lord G. Bentinck's All-round-my-Hat
Lord Chesterfield's Joan of Arc

2tol on Princess, and 3to 1 agst Sorella. Joan
of Arc made the running at her best pace, followed
by The Pride of Kildare and the Princess, Sorella lying
off. They ran thus to the Red House, where The
Pride of Kildare went in front, and with the Princess
in attendance led to the distance ; she then fell back,
and Sorella took the second place, waiting on The
Princess to the stand, where she challenged, headed
her in two or three strides, and won cleverly by a
length. The Pride a good third.
Match, 300 sovs. each, Red House in.—Lord
G. Bentinck's br f Longitude, received ft from Lord
Glasgow's b f Sister to Deerslayer.
Match, 100, 11 ft, two miles.—Mr. Collett's
Corranna, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b, against Mr. H. Johnstone's
William le Gros, 5 yrs, Bst. Off by consent.

LITERATURE.
IRELAND AND ITS RULERS.
Newby, London, 1844.
This volume forms the third Part of a work on the
subject of Ireland and its Rulers since the year 1829.
It opens with an account of " Lord Normanby and his
Times," which is the most interesting and the most
carefully written chapter in the volume, though we
think that the author somewhat underrates the
talents of this popular Irish Viceroy, when he ob-
serves "of the delightful and amiable qualities of
Lord ob-
serves,
there cannot be the slightest doubt.
No one ever disputed them, but the question is, as to
his statesmanship. His popularity in Ireland was
very great, but it arose principally from the circum-
stances of the times, and from the good-will and
pleasure of the Irish demagogues. It originated in
the Corn-Exchange, and was supported more by his
manners and personal bearing than by his measures
or statesmanship, and finally he did not wait for the
recoil." At any rate Lord Normanby kept Ireland
tranquil during the time of his administration; and
this, we contend, is no slight proof of his statesman-
ship. The character of Plunkett is drawn with the
nicest discrimination, and the comparison instituted
by the author between him and Grattan, evinces much
skill and ingenuity.

COURT OF SEWERS.
A Court of Sewers for the City and Liberty of
Westminster, and part of the county of Middlesex, was
held yesterday at the Sewers'-office, Greek-street,
Soho-square, for the transaction of general business,
T. L. Donaldson, Esq., in the chair.
The orders of Court of the 6th and 13th of Sep-
tember having been read, the Court received petitions
and memorials, and considered the cases of parties
summoned to answer for irregular drainage, &c.
A smart discussion arose upon the hearing of one
of these as to the power of the Commissioners in
ordering the construction of a new sewer where re-
quired, and amercing the parties benefited in the

cost of the same.
Mr. SMITH, the Solicitor to the Court, said that the
majority of professional men were of opinion that the
Court could not legally exercise such power, but the opi-
nion of the present Attorney-General (SirW.Follett),
decidedly one of the highest authorities in his pro-
fession, was, that the Commissioners had full anal° •
rity under the statute to order such construction
where required. His (Mr. Smith's) own humble opi-
nion was, that the Court was possessed of such power.
Mr. SALE saw no necessity for legal opinion upon
the subject. The Act did decidedly give to the Com-
missioners the power of constructing any new sewer.
A desultory conversation followed, in which Mr.
Leslie, Col. Gaunt, Mr. Baldwin, and the Chairman,
took part.
Mr. WILLOUGHBY thought the discussion quite
irregular. The Court must, in that case, act as it
had heretofore done in cases of irregular drainage,
and that was, by cutting off the drain. If they were
satisfied by the opinions of Sir William Follett as to
the powers of that Commission, why, then let them
name a future day for the proper discussion of the
question, but let them not then waste the time of the
public, and their own, by entering upon any irrelevant
matter.

Mr. LE BRETON moved, in the case in question,
that the parties who had built the drains some sixteen
years ago, and whose right to use them Fai been till
now unquestioned, should be still allowed to retain
them.

Colonel GAUNT, after a few remarks upon the
hardship of the case, said it would be unfair if the
parties, after already incurring the expense of building
such drains, should be obliged to discontinue them.
Mr. BALDWIN moved an amendment that they be
cut off.
Mr. CH ACE begged the Court not to admit the
motion upon their books that they could for a moment
tolerate a nuisance, which was the worse, because of
sixteen years' standing. He would second the amend-
ment with a great deal of pleasure.
The original motion and amendment were put,
when the latter was carried by a majority of three.
The next notice upon the paper, to consider if any,
and what steps, should be immediately taken to re-
store the dilapidated parts of the main line of the
Ranelagh sewer in Gloucester-road, Paddington, was
deferred to a future day, the reports of surveyors
upon the subject not yet being ready.
The Court then took into consideration a letter
received from the Holborn and Finsbury Commission,
to the effect that they could not apply the funds of
that district to the deepening of the line of sewer, in
connexion with the proposed new street from St.
Giles's to Long Acre. The Westminster Court had
also ordered that their solicitor (Mr. Smith) should
take counsel's opinion upon the legality of their (the
Westminster Court of Sewers) expending the sum
required for the purposes of the Holborn and Fins-
bury district.
Mr. SMITH said that he had communicated with
Mr. Barlow, who had given it as his opinion that the
Westminster Court of Sewers could not legally incur
expenses for the works of the Holborn and Finsbury
division.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr.WiLLouGnny said, that the Holborn and Fins-
bury Commission had already told them that they
could not lay out money out of their district, al-
though for their own purposes ; and yet they expected
that Court to expend funds from which they themselves
derived no benefit. He wished to be as liberal as possi-

ble to any other Commission, but surely it did not re-
quire legal opinion as to the justice of spending the
money of that division for the benefit of another Com-
mission. Let them have the use, if they would, of
the depth required by that Court, but not an inch
more, unless they were prepared to pay for the extra
digging.
Mr. LESLIE could not understand why the Holborn
and Finsbury Commission should have sent such a
letter. They paid 1501. a year to the City of Lon-
don Commission for permission to go through their
sewers. Surely, then, when every facility was given
to them of an outlet to the Thames, by only paying
the extra expenses of digging, that Commission could
not be branded as narrow or illiberal. It could not
be conceded for a moment that it would be legal for
the rate-payers of that district to pay for works from
which they derived no benefit. The only use, then,
of the legal opinion quoted by Mr. Smith was, that it
enabled them to give the Holborn and Finsbury Com-
mission a very short answer. He must add, that the
971. of additional expense for gullies ought also to be
added to the original sum required from them for the
extra digging.
Colonel GAUNT said that he would trouble the
Court with but a few words on the subject under
discussion. In reference to the rent paid by the
Holborn and Finsbury district to the City of London,
he would remind them that the latter, by its great
influence, got a clause inserted in their Act, by which

the already mentioned sum was allowed them. But
the question was, ought that Commission, in a line
calculated to be of general and lasting benefit, to act
so very stringently ? Supposing that the three Com-
missions were acting as under the law of Henry the
Eighth, when the country, now so densely peopled,
was quite open, and when the waters -of the higher
lands were obliged to reach the Thames by their
natural channels would it be contended, at that
period, that this Commission could attempt to stop
the ancient water-courses ? The Court of Queen's
Bench would very soon settle the question, by order-
ing them to be opened. Let them look at the ca=e
now. He thought that this Commission was quite
bound to keep open the outlets for the benefit
of the upper lands. He thought that the higher
courts would decide now as they would have decided
then.—(Hear.) Why, if this Commission stopped
their outlets, if the City of London, if the Tower
Hamlets, also, did the same, then the Holborn and
Finsbury, to all intents and purposes, would cease to
act as a Commission altogether. Tinder these cir-
cumstances, he thought it was not such a monstrous
expectation that the Holborn and Finsbury division
should look to them to deepen the line to such a
degree that the sewerage of the upper portions might
find an outlet. As a Commissioner of Holborn and
Finsbury, he would not vote, but having never spoken
upon that subject in the other Court, he thought
he had a right to state his opinion in that place.
Mr. LESLIE agreed with the observations made by
the Hon. Commissioner, Colonel Gaunt, as to the re-
quirements of the Act of Henry VIII. in reference
to the ground drainage ; but supposing that the area
of Bloomsbury-square was one large cesspool—
(A. laugh)—llon. Commissioners might laugh, but
the period was not so very far removed when such a
thing was actually proposed, though in a different
locality--(Hear, hear)—supposing, then, such a
case, would they call that land drainage? (The
Hon. Commissioner then read the Act of Parliament
constituting the Holborn and Finsbury Commission,
in which it was conceded that the yearly demand of
the City of London Court was a fair, just, and proper
one.) Did that Court, then, wish anything less
reasonable ? No. They required, according to their
surveyor's statement, to go to a certain depth for
their own purposes, and every inch beyond that was
for the purposes of the Holborn and Finsbury dis-
trict. He was inclined to give every facility to the
drainage of Gower-street and its neighbourhood.
Ile had gone through that district very lately, and
he had observed the vast increase of building there.
Now let them imagine the mass of water poured
through those (the Westminster) sewers from that
closely inhabited district. Were there no expenses
attendant on that—no wear and tear, exclusive of
what their own immediate district would occasion ?
He thought, therefore, that the Holborn and Fins..
bury district was fully entitled to pay the extra
digging, and the 97/. required for the gully drains
necessary on that account, and he would propose,
therefore, that the legal opinion read that day should
be sent to that Commission, with the determination
to which they themselves had come, and that one fort-
night should be allowed them to make up their minds
finally.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BALDWIN thought that if they executed this
work for the benefit of another Commission, that
Commission might make a similar demand at a future
period. He was, therefore, opposed to affording such
a bad precedent.
The CHAIRMAN said, that while they attended to
the interest of the rate-payers in that district, it
might be well also to consider—he gave it as his
opinion merely—that their surveyors should have
taken a more enlarged view of the depth required in
the main line. He was of opinion that the collateral
sewers ought to have a greater depth of fall than they
had at present. He thought, therefore, that the eight
feet of digging should at least be borne by them, as
it was really required, but that the additional depth
of five feet should be charged to the Holborn and
Finsbury division. The 971. for gully-drains might
be afterwards considered.

Mr. LESLIE said they had taken the opinion of
the proper officers upon the subject, and he was
bound to suppose that they had duly considered the
fall reqiiired for the collateral sewers. They had
also the opinion of their solicitor, Mr. Smith, and he
thought the Court ought not to take the respon-
sibility upon itself of departing from the opinions ex-
pressed by those gentlemen.
The CHAIRMAN, without infringing upon the rights
of the officers of that Court, thought he also was jus-
tified in advancing his opinion, and he knew of no
rule which rendered it paramount that that Commis-
sion should abide by any expressed opinions of the
surveyors.
After some few observations from Mr. 'WIL-
LOUGHBY and Mr. W. L. DONALDSON, a resolution,
in accordance with the suggestions of Mr. Leslie, was
moved by Mr. HAWRES, seconded by Mr. WIL-
LOUGHBY, and carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN suggested that the list of quan-
tities for the guidance of the persons contracting for
the coming year might, where an odd figure existed,
be changed into even numbers, thereby saving to the
servants of the Court a very great degree of labour.
Mr. LESLIE had understood that the quantities
were not to be inserted in the forms, but left in the
office merely as a reference to those who might
wish to contract.
The CLERK stated that the last Court had decided
otherwise.

Mr. LESLIE complained that he had been taken by
surprise. He had distinctly understood that the
tenders were only to be for so much per foot, or
yard, as it might be. The enormous jobbing he had
exposed on the last contract was only affected by
tendering for quantities.
The CHAIRMAN said the Court had settled the
question last Court-day, and the matter was now
set at rest.

Mr. LESLIE would enter his earnest protest against
the proceeding, as he should most certainly have
done had he been aware of the decision to which the
Court had come. He was still, however, of opinion,
that a mistake had been made in this particular.
After a very warm discussion, the quantities for
the year ending Midsummer, 1844, were ordered to
be sent out without any alterations being made in
them.

Some unimportant business was then gone through,
and the Court adjourned.

STATUE OF HER MAJESTY.—The package which
was landed at the St. Katherine's Dock, out of the ship
Effort, from Leghorn, and which her Majesty's agent
requested might remain unexamined until her pleasure
should be known on the subject, was removed to Windsor
Castle on Thursday, in charge of an officer of the Customs,
and there opened and examined. The package in ques-
tion contains a full length marble figure of the Queen,
and was executed in Italy by, it is understood, the same
English artist, Wolff, the sculptor of the statue of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, which was imported from
Leghorn, and removed to Windsor Castle about a month
since.

CLOSE OF THE SALMON FISHING.—The salmon
fishing closed here on Saturday. For some time prior,
few fish were taken, and these not in the best condition.
The season, however, on the whole, has been a favour-
able one. We need not remind anglers that rod or any
other mode of fishing is illegal till February next, and
that a heavy penalty attaches to any violation of the
law.—Ayr Observer.
In consequence of the extensive preparations to be
made for the reception of the King of the French, it is
not expected that the state apartments will be open to
the public after Wednesday next.
THUNDER-STORM AT BANFF.—On Tuesday, 3d
current, a terrific thunder-storm visited Banff, com-
mencing at seven o'clock, P.M., and continuing till ten.
The lightning struck and knocked down a house near
Macdutf. Three large stacks of hay, near Whitehill,
were also struck and consumed, and the loss is estimated
at about 50/. sterling. The chimneys are knocked off the
tops of some houses in the burgh.—Edinburgh Witness.
MANCHESTER ATHENIEUM.—The members of the
Manchester Atheneum intend holding a grand soiree at
the Great Free-trade Hall, Manchester, on the 3d of
next month. Benjamin D'lsraeli, Esq., M.P., has pro-
mised to preside. The following noblemen and gentle-
men have already accepted the invitations of the Com-
mittee to be present :—The Right Hon. the Earl of
Ducie, the Right Hon. Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., the
Right Hon. Lord John Manners, M.P., the Hon. George
Sydney Smythe, M.P., Mark Philips, Esq., M.P., Thos.
Milner Gibson, Esq., M.P., Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P.,
Richard M. Milnes, Esq., M.P., Joseph Brotherton,
Esq., M.P., S. A. M'Geachy, Esq., M.P., John Bowring,
Esq., LL.D., M.P., Edmund Buckley, Esq., M.P., John
Bright, Esq., M.P., Rowland Hill, Esq.. Wm. Cooke
Taylor, Esq., LL.D., Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall. It will
be seen from this list that the meeting has nothing what-
ever to do with party, but is to be a purely literary ga-
thering, and one of the greatest interest and importance.
It is expected that upwards of 3,000 ladies and gentle-
men will be present.
Sir Robert Peel, accompanied by two of his sons,
left Whitehall-gardens yesterday for Brighton. We
are happy to state that Miss Peel is daily improving in
health and strength.
BRIGHTON, THURSDAY.—The Prince of Wales and
the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady
Lyttleton, drove to the pier again this morning soon
after nine o'clock, and alighted at the entrance of the
promenade. Their Royal Highnesses remained on the
pier for about half an hour, and were then taken for a
carriage airing. The Earl of Denbigh and Viscountess
and Lady Mary Fielding arrived yesterday at the Nor-
folk Hotel. Lady Fludyer arrived yesterday on the
Marine Parade. Sir John and Lady Pelley, and the
Right Hon. George Dawson and family are among our
arrivals. A detachment of the Scots Fusilier Guards
have arrived, under the command of Colonel Moncrieffe,
and have relieved the Inniskillen Dragoons on Palace
dut)7_.
THE WARD or CORNHILE.—It was rumoured in
the City on Thursday that Sir John Pirie had resigned,
or intended to resign, his Aldermanic gown, in conse-
quence of having received an appointment as a Com-
missioner of one of the Revenue Boards.
The Lord Bishop of Winchester has instituted the
Rev. John Lister, M.A., formerly of St. Catherine's Hall,
Cambridge, to the vicarage of Thorpe, Surrey, on the
nominative of the Lord ChancellOr

IRELAND.
ADDRESS OF THE CORPORATION TO
MR. O'CONNELL.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 18.—The members of the Town-
council of the city of Dublin assembled this day, at
the Corporate-house, in William-street, in order to
nresent to Mr. O'Connell the address congratulating
Lim on his liberation from unjust captivity, which
had been agreed to at the meeting of the Corporation
on Saturday.
The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Town-councillors,
wearing their official robes, left the Assembly-house
about half-past two o'clock, and the procession, con-
sisting of a considerable number of carriages, pro-
ceeded to the residence of Mr. O'Connell, in Merrion-
square. A large crowd assembled, and the members
of the Corporation were greeted with repeated accla-
mations as they passed along. The procession reached
its destination shortly before three o'clock, and the
gentlemen composing it were ushered into the large
dining-room of Mr. O'Connell's house. The mem-
bers of some provincial deputations arrived about the
same time, and the scene altogether was a very en-
livening one.
The Lord Mayor read the address from the Corpo-
ration of Dublin in a very emphatic manner, espe-
cially the following passage :—" In the hour of your
captivity we condoled with you, in the hour of your
victorious liberation we rejoice, and we indulge the
firm belief, and fond hope, that the day is not far
distant when we shall again address you on the con-
summation of your labours—the restoration to Ireland
of her Parliament."

Mr. O'CONNELL delivered a verbal reply, remark-
able for warmth and earnestness. After referring to
the State trials, the reversal of the judgment of the
Court of Queen's Bench, and the popular triumph
over injustice, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman
dwelt, with manifest delight, upon the new spirit of
conciliation which was abroad, and which it was their
duty, as well as their disposition and their interest, to
foster and encourage. This glorious spirit existed in
quarters heretofore decidedly hostile, and the result
was almost daily accessions to their ranks, with the
most cheering prospects for the future. The senti-
ments of Mr. O'Connell on this subject were received
with much applause.
When Mr. O'Connell had concluded his reply to
the address from the Corporation of Dublin, similar
addresses were presented from Sligo, Newry, and other
places.
The address from the Corporation of Sligo was read
by the Mayor of that borough, who was accompanied
by Mr. Somers, M.P., and several members of the
Town Council.
_ _ _

Mr. O'CONNELL, in his reply to this address, ob-
served that much had been said of the kindly dispo-
sition and anxiety of the English people—the people
as contradistinguished from the English Government
—for justice to Ireland. The proceedings to be
taken to render amenable to justice the persons who
had been guilty of the recent violation of law and
justice to Ireland would very soon bring the real
feelings and sentiments of the English people to a
test the most unequivocal. Would they join in the
effort to obtain justice for Ireland for the outrage on
her rights by the functionaries to whom he had
alluded ? If the people of England did join, why, of
course, it would afford him gratification ; but even if
they did not, Ireland possessed within herself, keep-
ing quite within the bounds of the law and the con-
stitution, energies quite sufficient for the achievement
of her national independence. The gentlemen of the
deputation had heard the lines—
" Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.'
It was nearly four o'clock before the gentlemen
composing the deputations had left the residence of
Mr. O'Connell.
IMPORTANT DECLARATION AGAINST
THE CHARITABLE BEQUESTS BILL.

Ardecia;;;;nstrongly. condemning this Bill, as
most unjustly compromising the doctrines and disci-
pline of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, has
been signed by fourteen bishops, and an immense
number of the second order of the clergy. This very
important declaration is soon to be published. The
Bill is not to come into operation until the Ist of
Janua7 next.
MEETING OF THE CITIZENS OF CORK.

A very numerous meeting took place in the city
Court House in Cork, on Monday last, for the pur-
pose of adopting a congratulatory address to Mr.
O'Connell, " on his late triumphant restoration to
liberty and his country." The Mayor presided. Mr.
Callaghan, M.P., and many of the leading merchants
were present. The address was unanimously adopted.
A resolution was also adopted unanimously, de-
claring that the repeal test should be acted upon at
future elections of 'representatives for the city of
Cork.
TORY EXCLUSIVE DEALING.

The Kilkenny Journal contains the following :
" PROTESTANT REGISTRATION OFFICE.—ExcLy-
SIVE DEALING.—The plot thickens on us. Through
the kindness of Colonel Bryan we have just received
some documents, in which the saints' recommend
all Protestants wholly to discontinue the employment
of Catholic servants, brand the latter as perjurers,
liars, and by other opprobrious epithets. In sending
such documents to Colonel Bryan the ' saints' mis-
took their man. Fiendish persecutions of this sort
must not pass with impunity."
THE NEW JURY LISTS.

The following letter has been addressed by Mr.
Mahony (one of the solicitors for the defence on the
late State prosecutions) to the clerks of the peace for
the city of Dublin :
" 23, William-street, Dublin, Sept. 18, 1844.
" Gentlemen,—Not doubting your compliance with
the provisions of the 3d and 4th William IV., c. 91,
intituled An Act for consolidating and amending
the Laws relative to Jurors and Juries in Ireland,' I
must assume that you have, on or before the 22d day
of July last, issued and delivered your precepts, ac-
cording to the form given in schedule A, addressed to
the several collectors of grand jury ces3 within the
Dublin, which Act (sec. 4) re-
quiresrespectively to prepare and make
month then next ensuing, a true list
oocounty
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all
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`within
then one collectorsi city
residing c yo f
within the respective districts qua.
lified with respect of property, and liable to serve on
juries, according to this Act as aforesaid, and also to
with all other the requisitions in
perform n
the said preceptsad ycom pclontained ; and which precepts con-
tain the following words, that is to say, and when
you have made out such ists, you are authorised to
order a sufficient number of copies thereof to be
printed, the expense of which printing will be allowed
you by the county, and you are required within one
month from the date hereof to deliver a true copy of
such list to the clerk of the peace,' &c. &c. ; and.
which precept ends with the following remarkable
words And these several matters you are in nowise
to omit, upon the peril that may ensue.'
" I beg to apprise you that out of ten collectors, two
alone have performed that duty, by delivering their
lists to you within the time prescribed by law ; and
that no one of them has up to this hour complied with
that important direction of the Act which requires,
for the information of the public, that said lists should
be printed by each collector as soon as made out; the
fact being, that instead of having a sufficient number
of copies printed, as said Act intended, for circulation
in each district, not one printed copy exists.
" After having complained of this neglect so often
within the last year, before the highest legal tribunals
in England and in Ireland, I cannot delay the ex-
pression of my great surprise that public officers could
continue to pursue a system so contrary to their
duties, as prescribed by the statute I refer to. And
I now call upon you, as clerks of the peace for this
city, to insist on the immediate fulfilment of your
precepts, as it is manifest that the chief protection in-
tended for the public by the Legislature will l. e de-
feated, unless those lists are printed and generally
circulated as the law directs.

----
"In the hope that no circumstances will again
arise to justify the highest legal authority in the em-
pire toa mockery," declare
I am, thatar
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snare:
gentlemen,your humble servant,
"PEIRCE MAHONY."
DASTARDLY ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION.—One of
the most heartless and unmanly attempts to assassi-
nate, in the opportune darkness of night, an unoffend-
ing gentleman and
a stranger, occurred near Ship-
quay-gate of this city, in the beginning of last week,
which, for treachery and audacity, may rank with the
vilest deeds perpetrated by the Spanish stiletto. Mr.
Jones Henry, one of
was returning alone, about
the officers of Excise, at present
stationed in this city,
P.M., to his lodgings, which are at Miss
East-wall. He had to pass through
eploeivieonoko:s c,lNocok.,
5,
Shipquay-gate, and to get on the Wall, by the steps
opposite the back entrance to Floyd's Hotel, and
when he had placed his foot on the first step he was
struck from behind on the back of his head by a
heavy stick or colt, and the effects of the blow felled
him to the ground, where he lay for some time wholly
insensible. Having partly recovered, he endeavoured,
with great difficulty, to reach his lodgings ; and, on
undressing, found he had been stabbed by some sharp
instrument on the left side, nearly opposite the heart.
The violence of the blow had indented his hat close by
the rim, and caused a rent of two inches. The next
day a surgeon examined the wound, and found in it
the point of some sharp instrument, and gave it, as
heart;hs opinion,was well aimed for the
a nd thatad th
against the fifth rib,
death would have been inevitable. The perpetrator
enwotea.sptorun.ck
of this infamous act is, for the present, unknown ; but
we hope, for the credit of Derry, where such an oc-
currence is altogether unprecedented, that the villain
will be brought to condign punishment. We under-
stand that Government has offered a reward of 401.
for his detection. Mr. Henry,
we are happy to say,
was so far recovered as to be able to be out yesterday;
aswi, having performed no public duty since his ap-
pointment, is not aware of having given the slightest
provocation for this wanton attempt on his life.—
Derry Journal of Tuesday.

BALL IN HONOUR OF LADY SALE.—The ball in
honour of Lady Sale comes off this evening. Sir
Robert and Lady Sale returned yesterday by the mail
from Dublin, in order to be present at the ball.—
Derry Journal of Tuesday.
FRACAS AT THE THEATRE.—The following addi-
tional particulars appear in the Freeman's JOI4Pi4II of
yesterday :
" On Monday night an officer belonging to the
11 th Hussars entered a box at Hawkins'-street
Theatre during the performance. In the box, which
was filled in every part, were some ladies, who were
accompanied by a gentleman named Saunders, from
the county Kerry, and who lately filled the office of
high sheriff for that county. The officer stood in the
door-way, and kept the box-door open. A current
of air was thus admitted, which caused great annoy-
ance to the ladies, upon which Mr. Saunders requested
the officer to close the door. With this request he
refused compliance, and Mr. Saunders then rose from
his seat and closed it. The door was again pushed
open by the officer. Mr. Saunders remonstrated, and
some angry words passed between the parties ; the
result was, that Mr. Saunders is said to have struck

the officer a blow which knocked him down, and on
his getting up he was knocked down a second time.
Another account has it that the officer gave the first
blow ; certainly there was an exchange of hits ; but
the officer was not the most successful. Lord Car-
digan and several of his officers, who were in a private
box, and who, it is said, witnessed the transaction,
went round at once to their brother officer; some
discussion then took place, in consequence of which,
we have heard it stated that the officer apologised for
his conduct, upon which Mr. Saunders explained that
his knock down was intended for a gentleman who
would not act with propriety, and who would insist
upon annoying ladies, by subjecting them to drafts
through open door-ways ; but as to the gentleman who
had apologised, he was very sorry that the misconcep-
tion had produced him inconvenience. _

"We were informed, in the course of yesterday,
that a court of military inquiry was sitting on the
subject at the Royal Hospital, Sir Edward Blakeney
having taken that prompt step, as well for the honour
of the military, as to protect from outrage or annoy-
ance the civilian subjects of the Queen. The name of
the officer engaged in the fracas with Mr. Saunders
was, we have heard, the Hon. Mr. Dunconsbe, a son
of Lord Feversham.
THE LATE RIOT AT CARTOWN.
At Pallaskenry Petty Sessions, on the 9th instant,
the case of Hanrahan v. T. E. Langford, Esq., J.P.,
Denis Ryan, and several others, was heard before the
following magistrates :—Stephen De Vere, Esq., in
the chair ; Rev. Mr. Waller, Spring Rice and Thomas
Davenport, Esqs.
Michael Hanrahan deposed to proceeding to the
lands of Cartown, to make a seizure for non-payment
of rent. Mr. Langford told him that the stock and
crops were already in the hands of the sheriff. Wit-
ness replied that he did not care, and left two keepers
on the premises. Mr. Langford told him to go to the
sheriff and he would pay him. He (witness) saw the
sheriff the day after the distress, and asked him for
the rent. He said he would not pay it, and that
witness had no right to go there at all. Subse-
quently witness attempted to go into a corn-field,
when he was assaulted by a party of men armed with
large bludgeons and sticks. Witness then went for
the police, and brought them to the ground. Mr.
Langford said, " Don't strike him, boys, but prevent
him from selling." Francis Naugton, Thomas
M'Mahon, and Denis Ryan, and others, leaped inside
of the field, and said they did not care for the police.
Mr. Langford gave them into custody, telling them
he would have them out in half an hour. The police
took charge of them. He desired one of the crowd
to go for his horse. I then asked the police to leave
me one man to protect me, and they said they could
not. Mr. Langford mounted the horse. He said to
the crowd—either before or after, I am not sure
which—" Clip him before you let him in." The corn
was sold by Mr. Crowe from the road. There were
cattle seized, and I was in dread of mylife to go into
the land. They threatened to have my life if I did. W.
Naughton, Galvin, and another young man did so.
On my solemn oath I was afraid of my life. Ido not
exactly understand the meaning of the word 'clip,'
but I think it meant to hurt me."—(Laughter.)
MONDAY, SEPT. 16.—The case, after an adjourn-
ment, was resumed this day, when, after the examina-
tion of some witnesses, one of whom, Conner Mul-
cahy, a keeper on the lands, deposed to having been
assaulted with sticks.
The Chairman announced the decision of the
B?nch to be as follows :—ln this case some of the ma-
gistrates are of opinion that informations should be
taken against all the parties mentioned in the sum-
mons ; but other magistrates are of a different opi-
nion, and the result is, that the complaint against
J. E. Langland, Esq., is dismissed, and also against
all the others, except Thomas M'Mahon, William
Naughton, Francis Naughton, and Denis Ryan,
against whom informations are ordered for an assault
upon Hanrahan, and for a riot and assault in the case
of Connor Mulcahy.
The Chairman further intimated that the case of
Mr. Langford against Hanrahan, &c., for trespass,
was dismissed.—Limerick Reporter.
CAPTURE OF AN EX-COLLECTOR OF

POOR-RATES IN IRELAND.
Francis Long, of Carlingford, ex-collector of poor-
rates in the union of Dundalk, who stood indicted at
the late quarter-sessions in Dundalk on several
charges, for unlawfully obtaining money under false
pretences, assuming to be a poor-rate collector, and
against whom there was a magistrate's warrant and
three bench warrants, was arrested after many fruit-
less attempts, on the night of the Bth inst., by head-
constable Patrick John Cullen, and constable Chris-

topher John Murray, of Carlingford, having eluded
their vigilance for nearly six months. This delin-
quent, although his act was notoriously injurious to
the country, was nevertheless, from that natural and
national characteristic feeling of sympathy prevalent
among the people, joined to their hostility of every-
thing under the name of police execution, carefully
secreted by them, and every expedient used for his
concealment; in many instances they supplied him
with horses for escape, when intimation was given
that the police were in search of him, and so success-
fully, that although the latter went frequently on
cars, and disguised in coloured clothes by night and
day, they were as repeatedly foiled, the object of their
search scarcely ever remaining in one house the
second night. It appears, however, that Mr. J.
Cullen adopted an ingenious plan, he and his men
having for some time particularly patrolled the
eastern (where Long was in the habit of residing),
and carefully shunning the western district of the
parish where his house was situate, to give him thus
an opportunity of settling there. This proved success-
ful on the night in question ; the head constable
abruptly posted men near the house, at different
places adjacent, and at the lanes and leading roads,
and, in the event of failure, intended to search every
suspected house in the district. On approaching
Long's house they perceived, at a short distance from
the house, Long escaping from the mountains. He
was, however, after some trouble immediately cap-
tured by these active officers, who have, as well as the
commissioners and board of guardians, experienced
great annoyance and trouble by him. Last Satur-
day he was brought before A. M. Rutherford, Esq.,
J.P., Carlingford, and committed to Dundalk gaol to
take his trial at the next quarter-sessions. Long was
bailed as collector of rates, by Joseph Anderson, of
Mullatee, and one Robert Ross Gyle3, of Castletown
Cooley. The Carlingford constabulary, particularly
the two officers abovenamed, are certainly entitled to
particular consideration, not only from the official
department with which they are themselves con-
nected, but from the commissioners and the board of
guardians of the Dundalk union, for the zeal and tact
manifested by them in the discharge of their duty on
this occasion, attended as it was by considerable
trouble and difficulties invidiously thrown in their
way up to the
_moment of the arrest.—Drogheda
Conservative.

PROCLAMATIONS or OUTLAWRY.—Thursday being
county day, the sheriff's officer made the following
proclamation of outlawry :—William Hilton to answer
John Westcott Bamfield ; William Baines to answer
Isaac Riddle and James Dearn ; H. T. Ryda to
answer Alfred Bradley Bloxam ; Thomas Read
Kemp to answer Sir William Pilkington, Bart. ;
John Charles Trevanion to answer Jacob Con-
nop ; George Clarke to answer Joseph Ivi-
mey ; Thomas Delahay to answer William Gra-
ham ; Thomas K. Channell to answer John Wilkinson;
William Fyne to answer John Carlow; Sarah Gregson
to answer Esther Simpson; Sarah Gregson to answer
William Wood; William Francis Ellaby to answer Mi-
chael Timbleson; Thomas Hawkes to answer William
Adams ; E. B. Lake to answer Joseph Smith; George
Croke, to answer Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll; the Rev.
John Croke to answer the same; Sir John Scott Lillie to
answer the same.

POPULATION or THE WEST INDIES.—The popula-
tion of Antigua, as taken by the last census, was 16,722
males and 19,456 females, total 36,178. St. Christopher
10,523 males, and 12,654 females, total 23,177. St. Vin-
cent the population is 12,600 males and 14,648 females,
total 27,248. Trinidad the number is 59,815, the males
exceeding the females by 1,611. In Jamaica the returns
had not been completed, and in Grenada the provisions
of the Census Act renders it necessary that the returns
should be laid before tha Council and Assembly, and be
approved of by them previously to being published. In
St. Vincent it is stated that considerably more than a
fourth of the whole population appears under 10 years
of age, and nearly half the population under 20 years.—
St. Lucia Independent Press, Aug. 22.
ENGLISH POLITICIANS ABROAD.—The Whigs are
all gone upon their travels, the country having left them
quite free to aller prornener as long as they find it agree-
able. Speculation is very busy as to the motives by
which some of the leading politicians are influenced ; and
it is roundly asserted that Lord John Russell has been
into Germany with the intention of " warming up old
animosities against France." This seems to be a most
unprofitable ranch of political cookery ; for, whoever
tries to warm up old animosities, is likely to make a
pretty hash of it.—Punch.

MR. CLARKSON'S SECOND LEC-
TURE ON ANCIENT EGYPT.

(From the Cambridge Advertiser.)
In furtherance of his promise Mr. Clarkson gave
a second lecture on the manners, customs, and
amusements of the ancient Egyptians, at the Town
Hall, Cambridge, on Thursday, on behalf of the
Mechanics' Institute. There were two important
omissions, which tine compelled him to make in the
former lecture ; one relating to agriculture, the other
to manufactures—embracing the implements and
products of agriculture, and the tool of the artisan—
which he should now fill up. He had remarked in
his former address, and had always maintained
that Egyptian antiquarian discovery comprises facts
andinquiries from which the utilitarian and political
economist may di w and necessary informa-
tion. It lays
_lie whole progress of early
agriculture, art, dde, and manufacture—the pro-
gress
from serfdom to freedom—the origin of judi-
cial institutions, colonisation, and taxation—of the
corn-laws--of the first division of the land, and of a
single land-tax, a tax of 20 per cent. (a tax recom-
mended by political economists as the best), appro-
priated to all the purposes of government. The sub-
ject opens out new and momentous views of early
history—(or rather creates a new volume of history,
and necessitates the introduction of a new element in
the ground-work of education)—fills up vast chasms
in the invention and progress of art and science, and
embraces perspicuous views of the foundation, the de-
velopment, the progressive tendencies, and, conse-
quently, the ultimate destinies of political society.
It is but recently that a conviction of the truth of
these propositions had reached the public mind ; but
the conviction was daily acquiring new force, and the
exciting attraction of the subject was now proved by
its growing popularity. A singular proof of its close
connexion with the political economy, and corrobora-
tion of his argument. was just put into his hands ;
the organ of the Anti Corn-law body of political
economists (the League paper) having last week
founded a discussion of Egyptian agriculture with
wood-cuts, derived from Rosselini's illustrations
before them, and promising next week a similar
review of Egyptian manufacture. These were the
two points to which he had promised briefly to call
their attention previous to a survey of the 18th
dynasty of Egyptian Sovereigns, which would com-
plete his view of Egyptian society, and terminate
his course of two lectures. Mr. Clarkson then
threw a rapid glance over the agriculture of the
ancient Egyptians, exhibiting large drawings of
the various agricultural implements, and exhibiting
illustrated scenes on a large scale, copied from the
Theban tombs of ploughing, hoeing, sowing, reap- '
ing, carrying, and storing the harvest. The writer
in the League had made three mistakes in a short
passage, which was perfectly excusable, considering
the novelty of the subject to ordinary political
writers. He asserted that the wheat was not
stacked in sheaves—that gleaning was not allowed
—and that the agricultural labourer toiled in
melancholy slavery, and was denied all amusements
and enjoyments. There is no evidence like that which
is submitted to the eye ; and Mr. Clarkson produced
numerous evidences that gleaning was allowed—that
the corn sheaves were stacked—and that the pro-
prietor rewarded his labourers with liquor—en-
couraged their pastimes (as Homer describes on the
shield of Achilles), and that our harvest-home revels
and songs (an Egyptian harvest-home song, probably
with musical notes, is extant) were derived from
theirs. Some of those pastoral and agricultural scenes
exhibited by the lecturer were calculated to remind
the audience of Thomson's Palaemon and Lavinia, and
of Boaz and Ruth.

From agriculture, Mr. Clarkson proceeded to an
exhibition of ancient trade and manufacture, com-
menting on them, with numerous large illustrations,
which he produced, as he proceeded. Volumes of
written detail would not give us so complete an in-
sight into the Egyptian workshop, laboratory, or
manufactory, as those plates. Every process of art
and manufacture then known is elaborately and
minutely laid open. The shops of the Egyptian fish-
mongers and poulterers in the act of buying and
selling, plucking, trussing, scaling, and salting, are
also exhibited. The mode of making shoes, and of
blowing glass, of staining leather, and the whole
business of the linendraper and tailor are brought
before our eyes. The fuller, dyer, and currier, are
exhibited in their daily craft. We see the potter
with the " potter's wheel" in the act of making his
vases—the turner in the act of modelling his woad—
the coachmaker in manufacturing all the details of
the splendid chariots of the Egyptian aristocracy.
The whole process of wine-making from training
the vines on trellises and gathering grapes, to the
stage of pressing them in the wine press, and storing
the wine in amphovie during and after fermentation,
is accurately exhibited, and the most minute details
respecting the process of " treading the wine press,"
to which reference is so often made in the Scrip-
tures, are brought in the same obvious manner before
our eyes. The Scriptural "corn floor" is exhibited
with the same vivid accuracy.
There is a subject connected with the extensive
trade of pottery and brickmaking in Egypt which
demands attention. Mr. Clarkson exhibited an illus-
tration wherein the Jews are represented making
bricks with straw, under a taskmaster, in Egypt.
Subsequently, they appear as warriors, either incor-
porated in the Egyptian army, or warring against the
Pharoahs. In the tomb of Petamon Osiri, opened by
Belzoni, they appear as types of the Caucassian
family of the human race. Their last appearance is
in the person of Reboboam, King of Judah, at Kar-
nack. Their first appearance, however, on the monu-
ments, is most remarkable, as bearing the most
startling evidence to the truth of the Mosaic record.
A grand tableau, of which Mr. Clarkson exhibited
copies on a large scale, has been recently discovered
on an excavated tomb at Beni Hassan, of an Egyp-
tian governor of Goshen (the Wadi Tomylat), a
" Royal Scribe" (so called in the inscription) or
secretary of state, whose name, phonetically, is
read " Yoseptha," or " Noseptha," is introducing to
the Viceroy of Osirtesen (who reigned in On in
1897, and was therefore contemporary with Joseph),
ten llebrew brothers (clearly identified as such) with
one lad and their wives, amounting to thirty-seven
persons. The Secretary of State, Yoseptha, produces
a decree of the reigning Pharoah, in which is recorded
the arrival of these strangers across the Syrian
desert, in the sixth year of Osirtesen. They bring
with them Syrian presents, the gazelle and ibex of
Judea. They are called " bond slaves" after the
Chinese fashion, but they are well armed. One is
playing on a lyre—one bears a royal pedum, or
sceptre—and one carries the Jewish cow-horn trum-
pet—all marks of triumph and rejoicing rather than
of bond slavery. Two carry the desert water-
bottles, slung over their shoulders, and accompany-
ing asses carry the large water-bottles, now borne
by those animals in crossing the desert between
Egypt and Syria. Few persons, on inspecting the
tableau, will doubt that it is a pictorial repre-
sentation of the first colonisation of the Jews in
Egypt—of the arrival of the " lad " Benjamin, with
his brothers, to be introduced to the Vizier, their
brother Joseph, to redeem Simeon, who was, in fact,
in "bond" till their return, under a gaoler, as re-
corded in this most striking illustration, and to enter
on the possession of the land of Rameses, where the
picture is located.
Time would fail, said Mr. Clarkson, were I to at-
tempt to lead you seriatim through the whole details
of the magic lantern of trades and manufactures here
exhibited. To the trades naturally follow the tools
therein used. Many of them resemble entirely those
used in modern times. The mallet, the bent and
straight chisel, the saw, the axe, the adze, the centre-
bit, the gimlet, the awl, the file, the wimble, the
lathe, the trowel, the leather-slice, &c., &c., come
under this description. The common saw resembles
precisely the modern. The shuttle, the distaff, and
the spindle, resemble entirely those which were used
before the late improvements in machinery.
At the various institutions, metropolitan and su-
burban, where he had lectured during the last ten
years, Mr. Clarkson said that the tools and imple-
ments of manufacture and agriculture and the deve-
lopement of trade, had been considered specially fitted
for Mechanics' Institutes, and the exclusive novelty
of the subject was certainly equal to its appropriate-
ness ; the Egyptian room at the British Museum con-
taining the tools, being only recently opened, and
the great Tuscan Commission's work, representing
the tools illustrated before them, not being attainable
in Cambridge, and one copy only being at the Bri-
tish Museum.
Many of the implements are painted yellow, or
copper colour, in the illustrations. The saw is
generally painted red, and was most probably made
of copper. There are many tools of the same de-
scription, made of copper and brass, preserved in the
Egyptian room of the British Museum. They are
elastic, do not oxydize, and cut the hardest granite.
The chemical knowledge:aiied displayed ptlial3e-ecdhienintihc
chemical
l kno fabricationNNied
knowledge
of
evinced tTl'e arasetisan,ci the tradesman, and the maim-
fthetoobyls
facturer. The " fine linen ' manufacturers employed
540 threads to the inch in the warp to 110 in the
warp; the famous Dacca. muslin looms being only
100 to 84. They employed metallic ox 'des, vegetable
and mineral dyes, both substantive a adjective, and
acetates of iron and of alum. The yers use the
/
saf-
frum indicum, the earthamus tinctorius, and the re-
seda luteola. The tanners had equal chemical skill.
It appears from remnants of leather found in the
tombs, that they employed the bark of acacia in tan-
ning, and the periplaca secamora, which grows near
the Red Sea. The painters employed vegetable ex-
tracts and mineral oxydes, and the relics of glass ex-
tant or attested, prove an equal chemical knowledge
among the glass-blowers. The emerald hue which
they gave to glass appears from chemical analysis to
be imparted by oxyde of copper, and the reds used
in ornaments, imitating rubies, appear to have been
derived from minium. They must have used oxyde

of gold to produce the rich purple of those factitious
gems, oxydes of cobalt or of calcined copper and zinc
for blue, oxyde of silver for yellow, and oxyde of
copper for green. Of the pure ruby colour which
they produced we have lost the art.
Mr. Clakson then proceeded to the main subject of
the present lecture. The trades and manufactures of
ancient Egypt belong to the magnificent 18th dynasty
of Theban sovereigns, of whom Rosellini furnishes us
with details of the most ample and accurate descrip-
tion—details which may be justly said to constitute a
new volume in the history of the world. He had exhi-
bited, at the last lecture, the model of a private dwel-
ling. He now exhibited the model of the temple
palace of one of those splendid and ambitious monarchs
with whom all human civilisation begun. Numerous
large diagram drawings of Karnac, of the gigantic
hypostyle Hall, a the-simile model of the Obelisk of
Osirtesen (the oldest extant), and a perfect Portrait
Gallery, on a large scale, of all the kings and queens
of the magnificent 18th dynasty, accompanied this part
of the lecture.

Mr. Clarkson brought before the audience proces-
sions and pageants ; the nature of the military force ;
horse, foot, or chariots ; the countries warred upon ;
the costume and arms of the hostile nations; the
triumphant processions consequent upon victory; and
the prisoners, the enslaved captives or the sacrificed
victims, and the booty in the produce of the various
countries subjugated by the Pharoah's arms. All
these things are detailed and with that minute pre-
cision, and in that indisputable form, which leave no
matter for question. They are in fact sculptured
bulletins. We have next the costume of the court
and army, not brought before us as that of our old
chroniclers, including Froissart, accurate as they are,
but in a more certain form—Tor much is left to
imagination by description, nothing by the sense of
sight. With the power of an enchanter, as if he
wielded the serpent wands of the very Egyptian
theocracy, which he describes. Egyptographer
Rosellini brings before us from the grave the kings,
the heroes, the sages, the legislators, entombed for
4,000 years. No dreamy and mysterious vagueness
as that which hangs round the line of Banquo's
exorcised dynasty, or that which, half concealed
the lineaments of the magnates of the ancient world,
which Faust is described as summoning before
him ! The vision here produced from the sleep of
forty centuries is as clear as the light of day; and
the " kings of ancient name" of which Homer's
Syrens sung to the man of wisdom—the optimates of
the earth's youth—stand before us in garb, in fea-
ture, in lineament, in physiognomical expression, as
precisely pourtrayed as those of any of our contempo-
rary kings. Not they only, hut with them come in
equally perspicuous form their generals, their pontiffs,
their priests, their counsellors, and all the various
splendid appendages of the courts of the ancient
Pharaohs and all the female aristocracy of their courts
—queens, mothers, wives, sisters, princesses, all in
the various costume of their graduated ranks—some
magnificent in dress, some resplendent in beauty—all
marked as portraits, not by difference of feature only,
but by difference of physiognomical expression.
Use wears off the edge of wonder, but if the event
of this discovery had suddenly taken place—the cir-
cumstance by which the youth and old age of the
world may be considered as joining hands after
a long interval of oblivion—it would have startled
the world as by a sudden and substantial miracle
realised before its eyes. Mr. Clarkson referred
to the triumphant processions as evidences of
the extent of the conquests of the Pharaohs. The
Scythian bear and the Indian buffalo, the ape and
the parrot of India are there. The cameleopard,
native of middle, and the ostrich of southern, Africa,
are among the spoils. The people of Lydia, Messo-
potamia, Armenia, Aracan, Arabia, Judea, Tyre,
India, Scythia, Russia (Mosck), are ascertained. Is
the Chinese type among the combatants and the cap-
tives depicted in the representations of the great bat-
tles of Sesostris and the more warlike of the Pharoahs
bearing the common name of Ramesses ? Some of
the combatants in cars have decidedly the Tartar cha-
racter, with long locks of hair at the top of the head,
as the Tartars wear at the present day. Their cars
resemble the war waggons of the Scythians described
by Herodotus. In some of the magnificent golden
vases which adorned the banquet tables of the victo-
rious Pharoahs, there appear Caryatides figures resem-
bling the modern Chinese. But that the victories of
the conquering Pharoahs extended to China has been
latterly proved by an extraordinary discovery. A
Chinese scent-bottle with characters capable of being
deciphered, has been found in one of the tombs, the
date of which is contemporary with the monarchs of
the immediate line of Ramesses.

Sesostris extended his conquests to the borders of
Scythian, Tartary, and China, and Tartars, with
shaved heads and long single locks of hair depending
from the crown of the head, as well as figures much
resembling the Chinese in physiognomy and dress,
appear among the captives in his sculptured triumphs
or thrones, and Caryatides, supporting the golden
and jewelled banquet cups on his table. Other his-
torical desiderata suggest themselves. Are the red
and beardless people who appear among the conquered
nation of the Nubian monuments the red and beardless
race of the American Indians ? Recent discoveries
have proved that a contemporary nation in America,
now extinct, were in an equally high state of civilisation.
They had copper tools and weapons, pyramids as large
as those in Egypt, sculptured temples, palaces of con-
siderable taste, and magnificent subterraneous sepul-
chres, granaries, and treasuries. From the extent of
the conquests of Sesostris, including the three coloni-
sations during the 18th dynasty—(lst, Jews ; 2d,
Argives ; 3d, Athenians)—and the consequences of
those great events on all modern civilisation, Mr.
Clarkson proceeded to the great result of the whole
inquiry. The question of the lost art of hardening
copper led to' the question of the " lost arts" gene-
rally, and to the extent of the chemical and scientific
knowledge of the Egyptians. Mr. Clarkson maintained
that independent of many arts that we have not reco-
vered, the Egyptian men of science were familiar with
the Artesian well, with the railroad, and with steam
power. In the latter assertion, he supported himself
by a recently published memoir of M. Arago.
With reference to the " lost arts," one unavoidable
inference occurs. A perfect chemical science implies
an equal knowledge of the whole circuit of sciences.
'The contest of the Sophoi, or magician order of
scribes with Moses, before Pharaoh pays striking
tribute to their " union of knowledge with power."
No supernatural aid is intimated. Three of the
miracles of their natural magii (as affirmed by Sir
David Brewster on Natural Magic and Demonology),
the jugglers of India and modern Egypt can and do
perform now. In the fourth, an attempt to produce
the lowest form of animal life, they fail. From the
whole statement, one inference is safe, that the am-
bition of the priestly chemists and anatomists had led
them from the fictitious immortality of embalming,
and the triumphs cf chicken hatching to a Franken-
stein experiment on the vital fluid, and on the prin-
ciple of life. A similar ambitious assumption of
creating—not re-producing—the galvanic Acari—
the lowest form of life—has been recently ascribed to
a modern savant.

This being the elevated range of their knowledge,
how and why were these powers and these discove-
ries lost ? Because the men of science of that time had
no press to record them—because they adopted
Jesuitical principles of secresy—because they fatally
bound their god of letters in insidious chains on the
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patolotkpardnuesolsa‘pyrooleinftic purposes. The fact furnished a great na•
tional lesson, and far from giving ground for despair
of the human progress, furnished the most urgent,
safe, and cheering auguries of an illimitable extent of
improvement, social, moral, and intellectual.
Mr. Clarkson concluded, by expressing his opinion
that lectures of this description ought to be given on
a public stage, assisted by the effects of scenery and
machinery, in order to do them justice. The lecture,
which was given extempore, and lasted one hour and
three quarters, was received with warm approbation.,
throughout. The large room in the Town-hall, which
will hold 1,000 persons, was the whole time filled with
a highly respectable audience of ladies and gentlemen.

PEAT" OF MR. BALLS, COMEDIAN.—Mr Balls,
the celebrated light comedian, died last night of delirium
tremens. lie had just terminated an engagement at the
Abbey-street Theatre, Dublin.— Standar d.
SUPPOSED SUICIDE THROUGH FEAR OP POYENTY.
—Thurslay Mr. William Baker held an inquest at the
George the Fourth, Green-street, Bethnal-green, on the
body of Harriet Downs, aged fifty-eight years. It ap-
peared the deceased was the wife of a Spitalfields weaver.
In consequence of the slackness of work, and deprecia-
tion in weaver's wages, she had lately become very
desponding. on Friday last, in the early part of the
day, she said to her husband, " Jack, I don't like to
see you work so hard, and not live better." He en-
deavoured to soothe her, but she was very low and de-
jected, and said she should not live till Saturday. At
five o'clock she left home, and was not again heard of
until Tuesday last, when her body was found floating in
the water of the Regent's-canal, near the Ferry-bridge.
The husband deposed their altered circumstances had
preyed much upon her mind. There being no evidence
of how deceased came into the water, the jury returned
an open verdict of "Found drowned."
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Married, on the 18th
instant, at 13ramham, by the Rev. Wm. Harcourt, son of
his Grace the Archbishop of York, Frederick Aeclum
Milbank, Esq., of Hart and Hartlepool, to Alexiana,
daughter of the late Sir Alexander Don, Bart., of New-
' ton Don, Roxburghshire. The lovely bride, whose
beauty and elegance attracted universal admiration, was
given away by Sir Maxwell Wallace. She was attired
in a superb dress and veil of Brussels lace, and attended
by six bridesmaids, viz., Miss Milbank, Miss Lane Fox.,
two Misses Vavasour, and two Misses Fane. After the
ceremony the marriage party returned to Chesnut Grove,
I the residence of Sir Maxwell Wallace. After the
dejeuner the happy pair set off to Thorpe PQIIOW, the
splendid seat of Mark Milbank, Esq., who, with Lady
Augusta and her fawily, are at present residing at Barn-
ingham Park.