The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-27 00:00:00

ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREIZ PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE.

THE COMMITTEE for CONDUCTING the
ELECTION of ALDERMAN WOOD earn, stly entreat the!r
fellow-eitlzetut to be present in Guildhall, on Saturday, the 211 h
Instmt, to suppo!t his nom( a ioa for Lord Mayor, and to proceed to
vc•te in the event of a poll be!ng demanded.
The C. intuit' te bit eonatantly at the Swan-with-Two-Neek.,, Lad-
lane, where the Friends t f Alderman Weal are equeeted to make
any Common cat.ons which Inv ha us•fal to promote the election of
the Alderman. WILLIAM COATES, Chairman.
Committos-toorn, 26th Stptember, 1844.

NOTICE.—THE LAST WEEK!
THE GREAT DRAWING for Mrs. PARKES'
HEIPTAPILEMION PRIZES will take place at the THEATRE
ROYAL COVENT GARDEN, on MONDAY next, the 30th inst.
The Subscription lists will be dosed on Saturday, the 28th, at Sir
o'clock.
Apply fbr TICKETS at the TIOWYER GALLERY, £l, Golden-
square, whore the Prizes are exhibited 11'04 ; co at Mrs. Parkes's,
City 0(1Ice, 104, Loadenhall-street.

GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.
ADDITIONAL TRAINS, AND REDUCTION OF FARES.
The Public are requested to take notice, that on and after the, let
of October the Trains of this Company will be dispatched as follows :
From Reaching
Liverpool Birmingham London
at at at
4 0 A.Y. Mall (Mixed) .... 6 JAI •• • • 1 0 r.it.
6 0 „ Second Class •• • • .... 11 36 „ •• .. 515 „
630 „ Third Class only (Slow) 2 8 p.m •... 945 „
2 0 „ First Class only •• • • • 1 21 „ 6 0 „
11 30 „ Mail (Mixed) •• • • •••• 351 „ . 9 0 „
130 P.M. First Class Mixed •• .. 543 „ • ... 10 30 „
3 0 „ Second Class • • .. .. 10 23 „ • ...
8 15 „ Mail (Mixed) .. • • .... 12 36 •• 32 „
From From Reaching
London Birmingham Liverpool
at at at
830 r.m. .... 1 10 A.M. Mail (Mixed) .• . • 10 A.m.
•• • • 6 0 „ Second Class •• • • .... 11 15 „
6 15 A.M. •••• 11 15 „ Mail (Mixed) .... 3 13 P.M.
9 0 .. 130 P.Y. Fret Class Mixed .... 445 „
10 0 „ 218 „ Mali (First Class) • . 615 „
7 0 „ • ... 830 „ Third Class only (Slow)" 10 30 „
11 0 „ . 4 13 „ First Class (Mixed) .... 8 30 „
1 0 r.m. • ... 6 0 „ Second Class .• • • 11 0 „
Socond•Class Carriages are attached to all the Trains, excepting
the 9 A.M. First Class Up, and the 4 15 Day Mail Down.
FARES.
First Class with the 9 A.M. Up and 2 15 r.m. Down Train only.
Between
Liverpool and Birmingham.. 265. I Liverpool and London•... 56e.
First Class with all other Trains.
Liverpool and Birmingham •• 235. Liverpool and London.... 505.
No difference of Charge between Four and Six-seated Carriages,
which Passengers may select according to priority of arrival, nor be-
tween Day and Night Trains.
Second Class Fares.
Between
Liverpool and Birmingham.. 18s. I Liverpool and London • • .. 364.
Third Class Slow Trains.
Liverpool and Birmingham, Bs. Gd. I Liverpool and London, 17s. 11d.
Second and Third Class Passengers can be booked through to London.
The Rates for Carriages and Horses will be considerably reduced.
New 'rime and Fare Bills containing the alterations may be ob-
tained at any of the Company's Stations on and after the 28th inst.
N .IS. The Time Bulls arc regulated according to the longitude of each
Station. By order of the Board,
MARK HUISII, Secretary.
Liverpool, September, 1844.

THE LONDON MARBLE AND STONE
If ORKIN& COMPANY, Esher-street, llolywell-etseet, Milbank,
Westminster (established 18111), are enabled, with their PATENT
MACHINERY, to execute Chimney Pieces, Monuments, Tablets,
slabs for Furniture, and every description of such Work, with an
accuracy, rapitity of execution, beauty and durability of Polish, and
reduction of cost, which cannot be obtained elsewhere.
The Public are invited to inspect their itatensive lialOW-ROOMS,
containing the largest stock in this country.
The Trade supplied with every description of Rough slab Blocks,
er Scantlings; or Blocks sent to the Works cut to order.
Please to be accurate in copying the Address, to prevent imposi-
tion, the Company having no connexion with any other Establish-
ment but that in Esher-street.

DEBTS RECOVERED, FREE OF COSTS.
A Solicitor, of upwards of 20 years' experience, undertakes
the RECOVERY of DEBTS, free of cost to Creditor, save a com-
mission of 10 per cent. on the amount of debt recovered.
Conveyances prepared on the following low terms, viz.:—Leases
and Counterpart, 21. 10s. ; Assignments, 21. 2e. ; Bills of Sale, 30e. ;
Wills, Bonds, and Deeds in general, on equally moderate terms.
Apply at the Offices, I, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street.
Arrangements made with Creditors on behalf of Insolvents, and ad-
vice given on the New Bankruptcy Act. Letters for H. M. attended to.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANcs SOCIETT,
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital 2500,000.
empowered by Act of Parliament.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The steady samosa and increasing prosperity of tke Society kas
enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, t• declare a
second Bonus, averaging 60 per cent. on the amounts invested on each
Policy effected on the Profit scale.

XXAMPL/Ifi.

77:1
0.0

~i

Praniami 2

Bantu'
added.

Bonus in
Cask.

S s. d. P. d.
1837 171 9 3
74 2 4 1138 144 1
1829 116 16 •

£ s. 41.
77 i 1
64 6 6
61 5 11

.1/ s. d.
12 8 9
, 9 16 4
7 11 91

I ic
24 •
'.°
'.'.l
lill/1

X .. ds
346 2 3
296 13 4
147 4 6

LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITIES.
The following are Specimens of the LQW RITES of PRE-
MIUM charged by the AUSTRALASIAN COLONIAL AND
GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY COMPANY.

Ag

Annual ?rem

£1 10 1

L 2 0 7

La 15 2

£4 1 i

£6 3 9

and of these Premiums one-third may remain unpaid in the hands of
the Assured, at interest to be deducted Il'om the sums assured, when
they become claims.
Peculiar facilities are afforded for the assnranee of the lives of per-
sons proceeding to or residing in Australasia and the East Indies.
Immediate and Deferred Annuities are granted by the Company,
on very favourable terms, and it is a peculiar feature in its constitu-
tion, that ♦nnuitants participate in the profits.

DIIIIICTOU.
E. Barnard, Esq., F.R.S. Gideon Colauhoun, Esq.
Robert Brooks, Esq. C. E. Mangles, Esq.
Henry Buckle, Esq. Richard Onslovr, Esq.
John Henry Capper, Esq. William Walker, Esq.
SBCIETAZT—E. Ryloy, Esq.

For prospectuses and other parth
Bishopgate-str‘et, corner of Cornid

. .. . _
lculars, apply at the °faces, N 0.126
Itll.

lETTS'S PATENT CAPSULED BRANDY
CONSUMERS of BRANDT are respectfully informed tha
J. T. BETTS, jun., and Co., will not be responsible for any BOT-
TLED BRANDY that is not protected against fraudulent substitu-
tion, by the Patent Metallic Capsules, embossed with the words,
" BETTS'S PATENT BDANDT, 7, SMITHFIELD BARS." Sold
by tile most respectable \Yin• and Spirit Merchants in town and
country, at 3s. 6d. per bottle, the bottle included.
lIE'I'TS'S PATENT BRANDT is used, in preference to Foreign,
at GUY'S, ST. GEORGE'S, and the other principal hospitals, Scc.,
throughout the kingdom. Attention is especially requested to the
seciu-ity afforded by the Patent Metallic Capsules.

SILVER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
and injurious Metals, called Nickel and German Silver, sup-
planted 1,7 the introduction of a new and perfectly matchless
ALBATA PLATE.
C. WATSON, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton Folgate, aided by
a person of Science in the amalgamation of Metals, has succeeded in
bringing to Public Notice the moat beautiful Article ever yet offered ;
possessing all the richness of Silver in appearance, with all its dura-
bility and hardness—with lie perfect sweetness in use, undergoing, as
it does, a Chemical Process, by which, all that is nauseous in mixed
Metals is entirely extracted—resisting all Acids—may be cleaned as
silver, and is manufactured into every Article for the Table and
Sideboard:—

Threaded. King's.
Table Spoons and Forks, IGs. 6d. iez. SOs.
Desert DIU*
Tea Spoons bi. 6d. —12 s. 61. 13s. Gd.
Sugar Tongs ••• • • •
C. WATSON begs the Public will understand that this Metal is
peculiarly his own, and that Silver is not more different from Gold
than his metal is frost all others—on its intrinsic merit alone he
wiskes it to be tested, and ft ont the daily increasing ealogiums he re•
calves, he is convinced that nothing can prevent its becoming an
sgrticle of universal wear.
C. Watson's handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Currant
is just published, and Families who regard economy and elegance
should possess themselves of this useful Book, which may be had
Gratis, and Poet Free, fl-om the above Address.
PATENT PARAGON CAMPIIINE LAMPS.
The perfectien of these Lamps over the Vesta has been
happily attained by the invention of two parallel flat rings—a larger
and a smaller forming a cone round the margin of the wick, which
cause a rapid reverberation of air against the flame—this condensing
every particle of volatilized vapour, it is free from smoke or smell,
having perfect combustion, and ita hill action, emits a light equal to
lG wax candles.
C. Watson's Warehouses, 41 and 41, Barbican, and 16, Norton
Foliate, will contain, throughout the season, all the most elegant
recherche and new patterns, comprising Or-taolu, China, Glees, and
Opal.
Old 011 Lamps fitted with the Paragon Head for lie. And the
Paragon Apparatus applied to the Vesta for 6s. The Spirit analysed
and recommended by Dr. tire, is delivered in screw cans by C.
Wateon's carts, at 4s. per gallon.
41 & 42, BARBICAN, and 16, NORTON FOLGATE.

HEARTBURN, Sce.—Certain and immediate
relief in the hours of business, by night, or on a Journey, is
given by the Pure Alkaline Preparations of 111-CARBONATE of
SODA and POTASS, compressed Into pills by Brockedon's Patent
Process. They furnish an ever ready and instant remedy t• those
painful diseases of the digestive organs, heartburn, Sick headache,
Indigestion, &c , produced by Acidity.
Sold wholesale by Barclay and Sens, Farringdon-atreet ; and by
every Chemist and Druggist lu the United Kingdom. Price Dins
Shilling per Box, or la Family Boxes, fialf-a-Crown.

CURE OF NERVOUS DEAFNESS.-Dr.
CRONIN may be consulted daily from Two to Four, on the
I: SE of ARNICA MONTANA, in the succentfUl treatment of NER-
VOUS DEAFNESS. The following extreme cases have been cured
by this medicine :—Mr. Ryan, jun., 13, Rolland-street, Soho-square;
Mr. J. W. Vogel, Morning advertiser-office, Fleet-street ; Miss Moun-
sey, Oxford-road, Manchester ; Mr. Price, Adelphi Shellfish-house,
Strand; Miss Bleneoe, Pittville, Cheltenham; Mrs. Fowler, 1,
Ileatheote-place, Strand; 11. Woodburn, Esq., St. Martin's-lane ;
Mr. Connor (the firm of Marley and Connor), Holborn ; Mrs. Richard-
son, Grosford, Cheshire; Miss Wiliott, Aldermanbury ; Signor Do-
nato, 8, Lodge-street, Bristol ; Master Jones, Lydia Ann-street,
Liverpool ; Lewis, Esq., Curling, Esq., Dupre, Esq., Jersey ;
lir. Lowe, jeweller, Chester, Ike,
Dr. Cronin's Treatise, price 2s. GA., may be had at the Dispensary,
113, Strand, or at the author's residence, 6, Craren-street, Strand.

ALTERATION OF TIME

GRATE SEND STAR PAC't~E'I'S.
FITItTIIER REDUCTION OF FARES.
SIXFENCR AND NINEPRNCE,
Boat and Blackwall Railway Included.
From tho Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall,

D ally ( iundVs included) at Ten, Eleven Twelve, Three, Your,*
and Half-past Six
• Except oa runtlays.
From the Terrace Pier, Gravesend,
At Seven. Half-past Nine, Twe,• Four, Five, and Ks.
• Except oil Sundays.
Fare—Yore Cabin and Soconi-class Carriage, Sixpeuoe; Saloon and

First-class Carriage, Nbiepen ce.
Star Office, Gravesend, Sept. 27, 1544.

IRJOPAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The PROTEOSCOPE, ac original Optteal Instrument, unli-
mited in its appliances to Nature and Art, a highly valuable addition
to LONGBOTTOM'S OPAQUE MICROSCOPE. The Pictorial Il-
lustration of the Passions, from Collins's Ode, with ♦ocal and Instru-
mental Music, is the first subjcot exhibited by the PHTSIOSCOPE,
at a Quarter to Fire o'clock in the Afternoon, and at a Quarter to
Ten in the livening. Dr. ETAN'S presant daily Lecture is on
POISON aid their ANTIDOTES, at half-past Three, and oa the
Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at a Quarter to
Nine. Professor BACKNOFFNEIt Lectures on the alternate Eve-
nino. The Lectures abound in Interesting Experiments. 'rho
lITDItO-14LECTRIC DIVING-DELL and DIVER,
&c..—The Music is Cemposed and Conducted by T. WALLIS, Mus.
Doe.

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL.
THE HAGUE, SEPT. 23.

DUTCH FINANCE.

A notice of the Minister of Finance states that the
amount of the Treasury Bonds in circulation on the
Ist of September, 1844, was 3,138,300 florins.
CONVERSION.

According to a notice published yesterday evening
by his Excellency the Minister of Finance, the mea-
sures presented by the royal resolution of the 21st of
August last, relative to the repayment or the con-
version of the public debt, bearing interest at 5 and
41 per cent., have led to the following result:-
1. Of the sum of 15,052,000 florins, designated by
drawing lots, repaid or converted, there will be repaid
according to the desire of the parties concerned—
On the Ist of October, 1844 3,718,50011.

To be converted into inscription in the great
book of the national debt, at 4 per c0nt....11,333,500f1

Total 15,052,000 ff

2. According to the declaration of holders of obli-
gations of the national debt, bearing interest at 5 per
cent. (as far as they are yet known), the conversion
into inscription at 4 per cent. interest, and an indem-
nity of four florins for every hundred florins principal,
will be effected, dating from Oct. 1, 1844, for the sum
of '2.5,988,400 florins.
3. It results from the declaration made by the
holders of bonds issued by the late Syndicate at 4i
per cent. interest, that the conversion of their bonds
into inscriptions at 4 per cent., and indemnity of
3fl. 50c. for every 100 florins principal, has been
asked for a sum of 23,634,200 florins. This conver-
sion will likewise be effected from the date of the Ist
of October, 1844.
From the above statement it appears that a further
capital of at least 60,956,100 florins of the national
debt, bearing interest at 5 and 4} per cent., will be
converted into inscriptions in the great book at 4 per
cent. ; and that the sum of 3,716,500 florins, bearing
interest at 5 per cent., will be repaid.
Three months only have passed since the adoption
of the law as the repayment or conversion ; and the
State may already congratulate itself on the redemp-
tion or the conversion of half of that portion of our
national debt which the Government proposed to
subject to that operation. This result, so favourable
to our financial prospects, is too evident to need any
observation.

TEE
.HAGun, SEPT. 24.—We published a notice ox
the Minister of Finance, that in conformity with
the declaration of the holders of Five per Cent. Stock
and Four-and-a- Half per Cent. Bonds of the Syndicate,
The sum to be converted into Four per Cent. Florins.
Stock, amounted at that time to
The Minister has now published another
notice, stating that it appears, from subse-
quent declaration, that the conversion of 634,200
Five per Cent. Stock, and of a sum of 2,092,900
Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Bonds of the Syn-
dicate, has been applied for, so that the
whole capital to be converted into Four per
Cent. is
—Journal de la Haye.
TIIE HAGUE, SEPT. 23.—His Majesty returned
to the Hague from Tilburg :yesterday, at noon.—
Dutch Papers, Sept. 25.

- 63,683,200

ADMISSION OF A ROMISII CONVERT INTO THE
CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—An interesting service took
place in the new chapel, at Ellerker, in this Riding, on
Thursday, last week, in the admission of a person, pro-
fessing allegiance to the Bishop of Rome, into commu-
nion with the Church of England. The convert was a
young man—Mr. Boham—who was attached to a party
conducting the Government Ordnance survey of the
county of York. He had been for some time in a course
of discipline and instruction, milder the care of the Rev.
G. F. Townsend, the incumbent of Ellerker ; and on
Thursday wai admitted, in the presence of the Venerable
Archdeacon Wilberforce and other clergymen, into the
holy communion of the National Church. At the con-
clusion of the Litany, the Venerable Archdeacon Wil-
berforce proceeded to admit the convert into the Church
of England.—Hull Packet.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.
office, from the Governor of Cape Coast Castle.

AGRICULTURAL MEETINGS.

LICHFIELD AND MIDLAND COUNTIES, '7,
LICHFIELD, THURSDAY.—Yesterday the much talked
of agricultural dinner at Lichfield came off, but, as
was expected, without the presence of Sir Robert
P.A. The absence of the Premier, the President of the
Society, after his solemn pledge last year to attend,
caused the greatest disappointment, many persons having
come from a considerable distance to hear what the Prime
Minister had to say on the present crisis of agricultural
affairs. Why, Sir Robert Peel's known absence was not
made equally public as his expected presence can be best
answered by the officers of the Society, who doubtless
thought it well to draw a large number of visitors, with
but little regard to the inducement for so numerous an
attendance. As there appears to be no sufficient reason
for Sir Robert Peel keeping away, his daughter being
sufficiently well to be left alone at Drayton Manor, it
was generally conjectured that he wished to avoid the
necessity of speaking out, or of saying nothing, either of
which alternatives might have led to inferences rather
delicate at the present moment. The consequence was,
that the whole affair was as dull as could be, and, in the
absence of their great leader, the secondary actors were
at a complete nonplus, and resolved not only to say
nothing themselves, but to prevent anything being said
by others. Under these circumstances, you cannot be
surprised at receiving a very bald report, for the reporter
can but repeat what occurs ; and was it not that a
number of the representatives of the London papers
were present in the expectation of Sir Robert Peel's
speech, the whole might be properly passed over as one
of the least interesting of the many meetings of this
description which take place at this period of the year.
The exhibition of stock and implements, which took
place in the morning, was not equal to that of its prede-
cessor of last year in point of numbers, but in quality
was highly creditable. The Leicester sheep were un-
commonly fine, and many of the implements were much
admired, especially those manufactured by Messrs.
Deane, of Birmingham; but all these have been previ-
ously noticed in the report of the great meeting at
Southampton.
Amongst the visitors on the ground were Lord Ha-
therton, the Right Hon. W. Yates Peel and Lady Jane
Peel, Lord Alfred Paget, Lady G. Beresford, Mr. Ad-
derly, &c. Mr. Yates Peel, however, following
the example of his brother, did not attend the dinner.
The dinner took place at the Town-hall, and was at-
tended by 300 gentlemen, and by the successful agricul-
tural labourers who had contended for prizes; and up-
a ards of 100 more tickets were applied fur, but could not
be supplied for want of accommodation. Colonel Anson,
M.P., the Vice-President of the Society, took the chair
in the absence of the President, Sir Robert Peel, and it
is but just to say that the manner in which he fulfilled
Isis presidential duties won for him golden opinions from
an audience, the majority of whom were evidently of
very opposite politics.
The dinner, supplied by Mr. Dunn, of the Swan
hotel, was superb, and was enlivened by the admirable
singing of Messrs. Harrison, Gaunter, and Sherwin, of
the Lichfield choir.
After the removal of the cloth, the usual loyal and
honorary toasts were drank with the customary marks of
respect.
The CHAIRMAN then rose and said that, in proposing
the toast of the evening, he found himself placed in an
unexpected position, one that he as little expected as he
desired. He had been in hopes that he should on that
occasion have had the assistance of his Right Honourable
Friend Sir R. Peel— that lie would have had the benefit
of that Right lion. Gentleman's renirrks on agriculture
at that particular moment, and ho could assure the meet-
ing that the absence of his Right Hon. Friend was as
great a disappointment to him as it was to any one then
present. In fact, the loss of the Right lion. Gentleman
was oue which could not be replaced on that occasion,
as his presence, which had been announced, was, no
doubt, an inducement to many persons to give their
attendance. In occupying the post he now filled, lie (the
Chairman) felt deeply the great responsibility thrown on
his shoulders ; and through whatever cause the meeting
had been deprived of the valuable aid of his Right Hon.
Friend, no doubt they all deeply deplored his absence.
Every one knew that the weight of public business, and
the difficulty which a man in his position had to com-
mand his own time, were often insuperable, and all knew
that a member of the Right Hon. Baronet's family was
suffering from a most severe and afflicting illness ; but
he (the Chairman) sincerely hoped that the absence of
his Right Hon. Friend was attributable solely to public
business, and not at all to that cause. Ho (the Chairman)
felt quite confident that nothing but the duties of his high
office could have prevented his Right Hon. Friend from
fulfilling his engagement for that evening. The Gallant
Chairman then made complimentary allusions to several
individuals who had distinguished themselves as pro-
moters of scientific improvements in agriculture, recom-
mended the system of garden allotments as conducive to
the welfare of the labourer, and concluded by vroposing
" Success to the Lichfield Agricultural Society.'
The toast having been drunk with all the honours,
The labourers and farm-servants were called up, and
appropriately addressed by the Chairman.
Amongst the healths drunk toward the close of the
' evening, was—" The Exhibitors of Agricultural Imple-
ments."
Mr. DEANE returned thanks, and suggested that, in
the face of the statements of an influential body, which
had been called " a great fact," it would be advisable to
prove that the statement on which they mainly relied
was a great falsehood. It would be easy to show that
this country could annually produce much more than
enough for its own consumption—(Hear, hear)—and
when sin:array of tax-gatherers went about to ascertain
every man's income, it would be easy for the same men
to ascertain the amount of stock produced, and of corn
grown ; and he believed, if such a return were made,
it would satisfy the most sceptical of the capabilities of
our own soil.—(Hear, hear.) He took the liberty of
suggesting that statistics of this kind would be most
valuable.—(Hear, hear.)
The CILiIIIMAN proposed—" The health of Lord Ha-
therton."
Lord HATHERTON returned thanks, and dwelt at some
length on the advantage to be derived from the employ-
ment of boys upon farms fur picking stones, weeding,
hoeing, and the various other employment, usually in-
trusted to women. Not only had he found it to be more
economical, but it had the double advantage of breeding
up the boys in an excellent school of agricultural labour,
and it also kept at home those women who, as mothers of
families, had important ditties to perform in their cot-
tages, and he believed it was for the welfare of all that
those duties should not be neglected.--(llear.)
Lord ALFRED PAGET proposed " The health of the
Committee of Management of the Society and Mr. Chal-

Tenor."
Mr. CUALLENOR said the object of the Society was
quite as much to better the condition of the agricultural
labourers as to advance the interests of the landlords aid
occupiers of the soil. The funds of the Society were
supplied chiefly by the tenant farmers, and not by the
landowners.
Tho CuAinslAN admitted the fact, but hoped that in
future the support of the landlords would be more fre-
quent. lie thanked the meeting for the favour they had
accorded him, and offered to show them some of the best
thorough-bred horses if they wished it.
The meeting then broke up at half-past eight o'clock.

MANCHESTER
(Abridged from the Manchester Guirdian.)
The annual meeting, exhibition, dinner, and distribu-
tion of premiums and rewards of this society took place
in this town yesterday.
The stock show was smaller than that of last year. Of
sheep the show (with one exception of the Leicester
breed) was, as usual, very poor. The agricultural imple-
ments were very much more numerous than usual, and
bore significant testimony to the growing desire for im-
proved methods of agriculture and the production of
various articles of farm produce.
The members of the society, the judges, and a number
of friends, in all about a hundred gentlemen, dined to-
gether. George Wilbraham?, Esq., of Delamere Lodge,
president of the year, and high sheriff of Cheshire, pre-
sided ; at his right was P. Ainsworth, Esq., M.P. for
iciFt-president
near en t of
Botlhtoen ; meet-
ing l
ayßolton, chairman elect for the ensuing year ; John Cross-
osfq .e, George
No'' reii
fflear
tth1(1)1 now'iu scoeh? s vin,
under sheriff of Cheshire,
Holland,
&c. On the chairman's left were John Greenall, Esq.,
of Middleton, Winwick ; Egerton Leigh, Esq., of Jod-
t
drell Hall, Cheshire ; Richard Simpson, Esq., cf Mellor
Lodge
F•LS., Cornbrook, Ste.
al loyal toasts, gave
h e ;
CHAIRMAN,John Moore, r e
a, f Esqter he
'
" Success to the Manchester Agricultural Society." lie
was glad to see a number of gentlemen met together,
and glad to dispense without jealousy whatever infor-
motion they possessed to each other. If he were to
judge of the Cheshire farming by what ho saw along
the railroad, he should form a very erroneous opinion of
it ; and he could now show in every parish near North-
wich, Chester, and Knntsford, farmers who would do
credit to any body of agriculturists--and whe were im-
proving agriculture in every way. He then alluded to
the condition of the farm-labourer, and to the care and
attention which it was the duty of the landlords to pay
to his welfare. He would not contrast the condition of
the manufacturing and agricultural labourers ; but there
had been symptoms of late in different parts of England
and Wales that the people of the country had a deep-
rooted feeling amongst them of discontent with their
social condition.—(Hear, hoar.) It was our duty to take
them into serious consideration. People would say, and
justly, "Why don't you educate them, and teach them
the difference between right and wrong ; their duty to
God and man ; that honesty is the best policy, and that
it is only by thrifty end sober habits that an agricul-
tural labourer can ever arrive at independence ?"—and
all this was true. But it was the business of every man
to give the labourers every instruction in his power ;
but what was the use of preaching the doctrines of
political economy to a man deprived of the first
necessaries of life ; when he could not send his children
to school, and could only feed them on half-mouldy pota-
toes ? Give them physical comforts first.—(Applause.)
I lie had no nostrum, no specific. Much had been said

1 of the good effects of allotments, and he looked on them
with favour, as giving the labourer some feeling of pro-
perty and independence ; but this in itself was not suffi-
cient. lie knew no more melancholy sight than a num-
ber of stout young men applying for relief to the union,
willing and able to work, and unable to find a farmer to
employ them.—(Hear.) We must not lose sight of the
evil because it was difficult to meet it. Ho would call on
all men of capital to meet (such a meeting had beea held
last week in Suffolk, driven to it by incendiary fires)—
he would call on men of property. Perhaps farmers
had great difficulty in making out their rents—(Hear,
hear)—but men of property must take this into consi-
dertion, for he held that property had its duties, as well
as its rights.—(Applause.) Employment was wanted.
If every one had a good day's wages for a good day's
work, King Lud and llebevc I might be set at defiance.
—(Applause.) lie never saw the farm (except show
farm) to which a great degree of husbandry labour
might not be applied with the greatest advantage, for
there was no machine that could be compared to a pair
of stout human hands, especially if directed by an
intelligent head.

GLOUCESTER MUSICAL
FESTIVAL.

WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 25.—The perform-
ance of this morning may be regarded as an attempt
to rescue some of the music of Handel from neglect
and possible oblivion. That a writer who was constantly
compelled, for more than thirty years, to produce a
succession of operas or oratorios, written to poetry of
the highest or the lowest kind, for singers of European
fame or no fame at all, and to seek popularity at the
occasional expense of good taste, should exhibit the
effect of such influences in his compositions is not
very wonderful. But the result has been, that many
of them are as much forgotten as if they had never
existed. Of one entire, and that the largest class,
the oblivion was complete; for a revival of one of
Handers Italian operas is a vision which probably
never floated across the mind of any living musician,
although these contain the songs which he wrote for
the best singers of his time. His secular dramatic
compositions are all doomed, with a single exception,
to the same fate, for where, when, or how should
Hercules, Semele Alexander Bales, or Alcides be
performed ? Unfitted alike for the theatre and the
church, there is no chance of their revival, although
the first of these dramas may rank among its author's
most perfect works. And even of his oratorios there
is but one which could now be performed entire with
any chance of success. In fact, the Messiah only
is so performed. We must either, then, be satisfied
with disjointed fragments from these works, or they
must be regarded as a mine of musical wealth,
from which the pure and sterling ore may be selected
and recoined. The substitution of other libretti would,
in most cases, be a profitable exchange, since those
which Handel was content to adopt are, for the most
part, clumsily constructed and badly written. Of
some, Susanna for example, the subjects are indis-
creetly chosen—of many the language is feeble,
common-place, and often vulgar. The poet (so to
call him) has sunk the composer. The task of re-
constructing Samson was, on this account, an easy
one, since the original drama of Milton (which may
be said to unite the spirit of Hebrew poetry with the
classic dignity of the Greek tragedy) was presented
to the adapter, and was fully available for his pur-
pose. A succession of musical beauties, collected
from the copious store that Handel has bequeathed to
us, are now united to appropriate music, and a work
in which the sister arts meet in befitting union is pro-
duced. The main incidents of the drama are retained,
such especially as are fitted for musical expression,
and the successive scenes are completely realised to
the imagination. The announcement of the festival
in honour of Dagon opens the drama, and in the fol-
lowing scene Samson, Micah, and Manoah appear.
Here, in addition to the pathetic lament of Samson,
" Total eclipse," a song of great beauty is introduced
—" These sightless orbs no more." Hobbs, who sus-
tained the part of the Hebrew champion, sang these
with the feeling and gave to them the expression of a
true artist. The morning sacrifice of the Jews com-
mences with a hymn, solemn and majestic in the
highest degree. This is followed by a lovely quartet,
" .Lord, thy all-commanding might," Samson's well-
known song, " Why does the God of Israel sleep ?"
and the chorus, " Immortal Lord of earth and skies."
In the second act Samson encounters Herapha, the
Philistine giant, and the scene is then removed to the
Temple of Dagon, where, after a march which an-
nounces the approach of the priests, the Pagan rites
begin. A song and duet of a festive character excite
the assembled multitude, who break into a chorus of
rude revelry and impious defiance. Samson is then
led in, guarded, and a shout of derision and triumph
follows. Herapha again reviles him, and then comas
the hero's concluding prayer, " 0 Lord, remember
me this once." The companions of Samson assembled
near the Temple of Dagon, hear the chorus in honour
of the pagan deity, and reply to it by asserting the
power and glory of Jehovah. Manoah's expression of
hope at his son's delivery is suddenly interrupted by
the crash of the Temple, through which the shrieks
and groans of the Philistines are heard. The third
act consists of the funeral obsequies of Samson.
Of the general merit of the oratorio there can
scarcely be two opinions. It comprises some of the
finest music that Handel ever wrote, and is, therefore,
beyond the reach of criticism. Many of the choruses
now woven into this work have been often sung in
separate and detached selections, such as " Immortal
Lord of earth and skies," and " See, the proud chief
advances," from Handel's Deborah. But the prin-
cipal introductions are the songs, which come from
those neglected sources of musical wealth, his Italian
operas. To these Handel himself had not unfrequent
recourse, and Dr. Arnold, in his compiled oratorio
Redemption, has largely and successfully availed him-
self of them. In fact, the only chance of hearing some
of Handel's best songs must be presented by such op-
portunities as these.
The oratorio was, with a few exceptions, admirably
performed. In the hymn, which the organ alone
accompanies, the power of the instrument was not
sufficiently developed to sustain the pitch of the
voices, and the composition therefore suffered, but in
general the choruses were sustained with precision
and spirit. The principal singers all appear to have
thoroughly studied their characters, and therefore sang
them with more than mero correctness. Hobbs, in
the difficult part of Samson, expressed the deep sorrow
and the remorse, as well as the stern dignity and un-
shaken trust, which checker Milton's portraiture of
the Jewish hero, with admirable truth and heartfelt
expression. Madame Caradori Allan infused into the
less arduous character—the Israelitish woman—
great sweetness and grace ; and Miss Williams, in
the Philistine woman, acquitted herself most credit-
ably. Weiss's fine voice told well in the songs of
Manoah, and Machin ably represented the Philistine
giant. A numerous and fashionable audience at-
tended the performance, and the deep attention with
which it was received was a convincing proof of the
interest it excited.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.
YORK, SarT. 25.—The first meeting of the General :
Committee was held this afternoon at the Council
Chamber, in the Guildhall. The chair was taken by
the Right Hon. the Earl of Rosse, the President at
the last meeting at Cork, who was supported by the
Marquis of Northampton, Earl Fitzwilliam, the Earl
of Enniskillen, the Deans of Ely and Manchester,
Professor Whewell, the Master of Trinity; the Rev.
W. Vernon Harcourt, the Rev. Dr. Scoresby, and
most of the leading members. On no previous oc-
casion was the attendance more numerous and efficient.
Colonel SABINE, the General Secretary, read a re-
port of the Council for the past year. In reference to
a recommendation of the General Committee at Cork,
meeting last year, an application had been made to
the Board of Ordnance requesting their aid in making
experiments with captive balloons, and from which
orders had been issued to the commandant at Wool-
wich to afford every facility for carrying out their
plans. Another recommendation to her Majesty's
Government respecting the Ordnance maps in Ire-
land now in progress had also been attended to. It
was to introduce a series of contour lines, which,
showing the elevation of the surface of the count 7,
would be useful to a variety of mechanical and engi-
neering purposes. Amongst other cases of their pro-
bable utility was that of subserving mining operations,
being instrumental in the formation of cheap roads and
the improvement of farms ; in facilitating drainage and
irrigation, and improving the sanatory condition of
towns ; in sinking Artesian wells, and expediting the
formation of roads, railways, and canals, and other pur-
poses of public utility. If such were introduced now
by means of the large and efficient disposable staff
which the survey had at command, it would save a•
great expense in the future special surveys for public
works and the undertakings of private enterprise.
The additional expense to be incurred would not ex-
ceed 10,0001., and it was suggested that the electro-
type manipulation might be easily adapted to the
purpose. An interview which a deputation from the
council had held with Sir G. Clerk on behalf of her
Majesty's Government, respecting the publication of
' the results of Professor Forbes 's dredging in the
.lEgean Sea, had also been successful. Professor
Forbes, who had been appointed naturalist to the
Beagle surveying-ship, had in the course of those oh.
nervations dredged those seas from the surface to a
depth of 130 fathoms in order to determine their
animal and vegetable inhabitants, for which purpose
he had been aided by a grant of 1001. from the funds
of the Association. In his researches he had dis-
' covered 150 species of animals new to science, and as-
' certained the existence of a greater number previously
unknown in that locality. The object of their appli-
cation to the Government was, that they would pub-
lish the results of these very valuable researches, so
that they should not be lost to the world, and Sir R
Peel agreed that 500 copies should be printed by the
• controller of the stationery, of which 50 should be pre-
-1 sented to different libraries, both at home and abroad,
: 50 to Professor Forbes, to be given to those who had
• assisted in his researches, whilst the remainder
should be sold to the public at much below the cost
• price. The treasurer had also received 1,0001. from
' Her Majesty's Treasury for the publication of La-

•
/ •
1
lande's and Lacaille's catalogue 44 .
11e stars. The
council reported that they had presented their col-
lections illustrative of railway sections to the Museum
of Economic Geology, with the understanding that
they should be open for public inspection, and they
were glad to announce, that in their estimate for the
year they had placed down 2501. to this account. In
the course of the meeting reports, at the special re-
quest of the council, would be made from the Earl of
Itosse on the progress of his telescope, and on the
operations and observations made at the British As•
sociation Observatory at Kew. Invitations to hold
the next meeting in 1845 had been received frum the
Mayor and Town Council of Southampton, the autho-
rities at Bath, as well as from Cambridge, where the
Senate of the University had, by a grace, placed all
the senate buildings at their command.
Colonel SABINE, in the absnice of Mr. J. Taylor,
Fat S., read his accounts as treasurer They an-
nounced the total receipts of the past year as 2,6571.
155., of which amount there had been received from

life compositions, 1601.; annual subscriptions, 44361.;
ladies' tickets, 160/. ; sectional tickets, 33/. ; composi-
tions fur book subscriptions, 66/.; sale of reports,
131/. 9s. 11 d. ; dividend on stock, 165/. ; balance at
the last reports, 4961. ss. Id. ; and the sum of 1,000/.
received from her Majesty's Tressury. There had
been expended by the treasurer at the Cork meeting,
and for incidental expenses, 317/. 3s. 3d. ; printing the
reports, 344/. 12s. 6d. ; engraving, 42/. 75.; salaries
for the secretary and accountant, 450/. ; and on va-
rious grants, 1,047/. 10s. Bd., leaving a present balance
of about 4601.

The following officers were next appointed for the
different sections at the present meeting : •
Section A.—Mathematics and Physics. President
the Earl of Rosse ; Vice-Presidents, Professor M'Cul-
lagh, Rev. Dr. Robinson, Professor IV heatstone,and
the Master of Trinity; Secretaries, the Rev. Pro-
fessor Steveley and Rev. W. Hay.
Section B.—Chymistry and Mineralogy. Pre-
sident, Professor Graham ; Vice-Presidents, the Mar-
quis of Northampton, Dr. Daubeny, and Professor
Grove; Secretaries, Dr. Lyon Play fair, Mr. Barker,
and Mr. E. Solly, F.R.S.
Section C.-6-eology and Geography. President.
Mr. H. Warburton, M.P.; Vice-Presidents, the Earl
of Enniskillen, Sir Henry De la Beche, Professor
Sedgwick, and Mr. Greenborough, F.R.S.; Secre-
taries, Professor Ansted and Mr. Bunbury.
Section D.—Zoology and Botany. President, the
Dean of Manchester ; Vice-Presidents, Professor
Owen, F.R.S.; Mr. Hugh Strickland, Mr. W.
Spence, F.R.S., and Dr. Falconer; Secretaries, Dr.
Allman and Dr. Lankester.

Section E.—Medical Science. President, Dr.
Pritchard ; Vice-Presidents, Dr. Hodgson, Dr. Alli-
son, and Dr. Simpson ; Secretaries, Mr. Erichsen and
Dr. Sargent.
Section F.—Statistics. President, Colonel Sykes ;
Vice-Presidents, Sir John Johnson, Bart. • Sir
Charles Leman, Bart.; Thomas Tooke, Esq., and G.
R. Porter, Esq. ; Secretaries, Dr. Laycock and James
Heywood, Esq.
Section G.—Mechanical Science. President, Mr.
G. Rennie; Vice-Presidents, Mr. E. Hodgkinson,
F.R.S., Mr. J. Scott Russell, F.14.5.E., and Mr. J.
Taylor, F.R.S. ; Secretaries, Professor Vignolles and
Mr. T. Webster.

A long discussion took place on the appointment
of a sub-section on ethnological science, on which
some very interesting communications had been re-
ceived. through the exertions of the Ethnological
Society in London this is a subject attracting much
attention, and the papers announced were very varied
and numerous. It was at last resolved that they
should be discussed in the zoological section, to which
matters of this kind had been previously referred.
The Committee of Recommendations for the several
reports and grants of money was next appointed.
Amongst the members of the various Committees
appointed were the Hon. Mr. Everett, the American
Minister; the Chevalier Bunsen, Professor. Liebig,
Sir W. Jardine, Bart. ; Sir D. Brewster, and Sir J..
Rosse.

A vote of thanks to the Earl of Rosse, for presiding,
was proposed by the Marquis of Northampton, seconded
by Earl Fitzwilliam, and carried by acclamation, after
which the meeting adjourned to next Monday, when
the place of the next visit will be resolved upon.
There is a spirit of very lively anxiety in this city
on account of this visit. The attendance of visitors is
already more numerous than was anticipated, and
their arrival has been welcomed by salutes from the
bells of the different churches during the day.
Amongst the members in the town, in addition to
those above mentioned on the various Committees, are
Lord Ranelagh, Hon. Captain F. Grey, lion. B. It.
Lawley, General Austin, Rev. Dr. Bosworth, Pro-
fessor Oliver Byrne, Sir R. Steele, Mr. Griffiths,
Geologist of Ireland ; Mr. AV. Jerdan, Dr. It. King,
Sir J. Simpson, Mr. It. J. Murchison, Mr. It. Hutton,
Mr. It. 11. Schombergck, &c.