The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-07 00:00:00

N°.17,901.] LONDON, THURSDAY ; EY4 G
I ; 7 FEBRUARY 7, 1850,

PUBLICATIONS.

NOTUIE.
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., post fivo.,
THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT.
By HARRIET RAIKES.
`• One of the best rowels of the year 1849."—kthenfeum.
" Displays considerable ability, knowledge, and shrewdness of 0-
servation. There is as much incident in it as Is usually found in a
dozen volumes. The description of French society is admirable."—
Britannia. . .

Rkhard Bentley, New Burnnegton-street.

NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " TWEE," AND " 03100."

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In 2 vds. post Bvo.,
HIT E-JA CK
OR, THE WORLD IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
Ity HERMAN MELVILLE.
Author of " Typee," " Omoo," " Redburn," &c.
IS rui:LisuEn THIS DAY.

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" The characters terought upon the stage arc admirable life pic-
tures, exhibiting by the ma .ic effect of a few masterly touches, each
man in the complete indivilitudity of his person and his office, from
the Commodore, who, as be paces the quarter-deck, corers up his
deficiency in the qualities necessary for command by the unbending
starchness of official etiquette, down to the meanest specimen of the
genus loblolly-boy."—JoMi Bull.
Richard Bentley, New Bur7ington-street.

NOTICE!
Now Beady at all the Libraries,
THE NEW MILITARY NOVEL,
" COUNTRY QUARTERS."
By the COUNTESS of BLESSINGTON. 3 Tols.
Second Edition, 7e. 6d. bound,
THE CIVIL WIR in HUNGARY in 1848-9;

Just published, Trice 25.,
EDUCATION in ENGLAND historically con-
sidered. By WILLIAM HENRY TEALE, M.A., Vicar of
Roystone, in the Diocese of York.
" Let none the i blame them, if in discipline
Of vertue, and in civill uses lore,
They did not form them to the common line
Of present dayes, which are corrupted sore."
Oxford : John Henry Parker ; and 377, Strand, London.

MIGRATION.-BENJAMIN EDGING-
A TON, 2, Duke-street, Southwark, London-bridge, invites
Settlers to inspect his EMIGRATION TENTS, which are fitted up
with every requisite, at a moderate cost. May be seen any day at
his Manufactory, 2, Duke-street, Southwark, one being purposely
erected, with cot slung, table, and camp-stool complete. A Ware-
house, 208, Piccadilly.

THIRTY-FIRST EDITION.
Illustrated by 26 Anawmical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA.PA.
CITY, &ND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
gew i.dition enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or
by post, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps,
PHE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
A_ the inflrmitles and decay of the generative system, from ex-
:434SiIIO indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury,
rith remarks on arriage, and ttse means of obviating certain dla-
ivalifleations. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. And
L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 15, Berners-street, Ox-
ford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange,
$l, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ;
3tarie,23, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; and Gordon, 146, Leaden-
tall-etreet.

PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
.r.tans, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessiveindni-
;ence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental
and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative neapacity.
illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings.
PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
be primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for
their treatment. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured
engravings.;
PART IV. contains a Prescription for the Prevention of Disease
by a simple applicatien, by which the danger of infection ob-
viated. This Laportant part of the Work should no eser2e the
ceder's notice.
PART Y. is devoted to the consideration of marrlage, and its
duties. The causes of unproductive union are Also considered, and
the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
THL,OHDIAL BALM or SYRIACUM Is exeinsi—lly employed in treat-
(ag nervous and sexual debility, impotgnce, sac., 11s. and 33e. per
b sale. The Concentrated Deters! re Fasence, as anti-syphilitic
remedy, for purifying the blood I- case! of infection, secondary *imp-
toms, eruptions, and the abuse of ree.:culy, 111. and 335. per bottle.
Perry's Purifying Specific rag, ifs. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 11s. per box, a
certain remedy for gonorrhoea, cleat, stricture, and chronic inflamma-
ion of the bladder. ,oustisation fee, if by letter, 11. A minute
detail of the case is iequired : age, habits, and position in society.
1 rackets, wis't advice, to be had at the Establishment only, by
which the foe, i 1.,1- saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in atten-
-snes at 19, Bcreers-street, Oxford-street, London, from Ele-
ven till T.N., awl Heir nn Rands,. 'ran- reieven to Ott•

RAILWAY SRAHE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, FIB. 6.

STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The market still continues inani-
mate, and but little business has been transacted. The
only alterations in prices were—Great Western, QuaNers,
15%—llitto, 171. Shares, 6Ni die.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 6.

STOCK ExctrANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow : —Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol., 54%—Ditto,
Fifths, 7% dis.—Lancaster and Preston, 134 p.—London and
North-Western, 115 c.—Ditto, New Quarters, 1,4. p.— Ditto,
Quarters (C), 1 tP c. p.—Midland, 44 c. Ditto, Halves,
2334 dis.— Ditto, Consol. (B. and D.), 211/I—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, B,A—South-Eastern
and Dover (No. 4), 6 t 4,.
MANCHESTER, FEB. 6.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was dull to-day, and
the tendency of prices has been downwards. The trans-
actions were as follow East Lancashire, 11 e. x. d
Lancashire and Yorkshire (Manchester, B. and Bury), 1001.,
45 dis.—Ditto, (W. R. U ), 61/1. dis. —Great Northern (B.),
guaranteed 6 per cent., 3'4 dis. London and North-
Western, Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C),
n. p.— Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, 214—
Ditto, Preference, 8 1-16—South-Eastern and Dover, 19%—
Ditto (No. 4), Scrip, 6L% c.
BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 6.
Srocx EXCHANGB.—The share market was extremely
dull to-day. North Staffordshires were quoted, buyers, at
105 dis., and sellers, at 10% dis.. ; South Staffordsbires,
buyers, at 4 dis, and sellers at 31. 16s. 3d. dis.
YORK, FEB. 5.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow : Great Northern, 6% —York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick (Newcastle Extension), 103/4—Ditto (G. N. E. Pur-
chase), 2% —North British, Preference, 5%.

GOLD IN SARAWAK.—The Journal of the Indian
Archipelago publishes the f Mowing important announce-
ment. contained in a lett.r dated Sarawak, November
2, 1849 :—" The rains at the beginning of this month of
last year fell in great quantities in Sarawak, and a con-
siderable portion of the face of a mountain, called Trian,
was washed down into the plains below. The deposit
was found to abound in gold, and afforded work for fully
2,000 n- en for about a month or six weeks, and it was
reckoned that, at the smallest average, they procure I a
bunkul a month per man. The gold was in lumps, and
not in dust, and several of the lumps weighed from
three to fuur bunkals, and they were rarely less than
one or two amass in weight. This f tut may, in this
locality, lead at some future day to important conclu-
sions ; and I am induced to notice it as it corroborates
the statements in Mr. Howe's work, and at the same

time, is contrary to the received opinion, and the expe-
rience of the working in the Braz le, where gt Id is
rarely to be traced to the gold neighbouring mountains."

ESCAPE OF A TIGER CAT.--The timid on the
Crenaill aide of the water have been ,much alarmed
during the past week by the circulation of a report that
a large tiger cat which hid escaped from a vessel then
lying in Devonport harbour had taken up his abode in
Mount Edgcumbe park, where, it was said, he was de-
stroying and eating " hundreds of deer." So the re-
port went, and mother', in consequence, fearing the
animal might fancy a change in diet, have not allowed
their children to frequent the road alone, or to go there
themselves unarmed or unprotected. On inquiry we
learn that a tieer cat ha 1 effected his escape from a
merchant vessel now lying in the harbour, but that it had
Not been since seen on shore, the probability being that
it was drowned in the alempt to reach the land. It was
a very fine creature, and was valued at upwards of 30/.
Devonpor t Independent.
- - - -

SILVER LODE.—A very ♦aluable silver lode has
been discovered on Ell Bridge Estate, the property of
Mr. W. Wymond, in the parish of Landulph, about four
miles from Saltash, on the direct Callington road. Ap-
plications have been repeatedly made for the past 20
years for a grant of the sett, which however could not
be obtained until about a fortnight siuce, the proprietor
not believing his estate contained any mineral, and sup-
posing that his land would be broken up to no purpose.
Operations were commenced on Monday week last,
and when only three feet from the surface a vale-
able lode of silver lead ore was opened on, showing that
the opinions Of the practical miners were correct. The
ore taken from it, having been carefully assayed, pro-
duced 10 i❑ 20 for lead, and 200 ounces of silver in the
ton of ore. The shaft has since been sunk about four
fathoms, where the lode is four feet big, and the ore
found to be of much greater richness. This is one of
the richest lodes ever seen in our locality so near the sur-
face.—Plymouth Guardian.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT AND Loss or LIFE.—On
Saturday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, an
accident occurred to a coal train on the line of the Great
North of England Railway, about two miles south of
Darlington,l by which the stoker, John Tickler, was
killed, and the engine-driver and guard severely hurt.
Fortunately assistance was speedily procared, and the
line which had been .blocked up by the tender being
thrown on the down line was cleared so as to be pass-
able in the course of a few hours. On Monday, the 4th
inst., an inquest was held at Darlington, on the body of
the deceased, before Mr. W. Trotter, one of the coroners
for the county of Durham, when it appeared that the ac-
cident had been caused by the explosion of the boiler,
owing to there having been too little water in it and the
cold water having Lem let in when it was in a heated
state. The engine was proved to have been of excellent
construction, and to have been in good working order
when taken charge of
.by the engine-driver. After some
consideration the inqtnry was adjourned until the 12th
inst., to enable the jury to hear the evidence of the
engine-driver and guard, who were so severely injured
that they could not at present be examined. Mr. N.
News, one of the directors, and Mr. Gutch, one of the
company's solicitors, attended to si alch the case on the
part of the company, to whom, however, no blame ap-
peared to attach.

PRIUES OF SHARES
IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, ANT OTHER COM- I
PANIES' STOCK.
From the Official List.
rIIBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.
LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5.

ZOTNT-STOCK BANKS.

Name of Company.

Australasia .........
Britsh North American
Cvlon • . • ....•
C.)mrnercial of London
C donial.• ••
Gloucestershire .•
lonian
Londn and Westminstr

Ditto • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
London Joint-Stock ...
Provincial of Irelo.nd • .

Dividend
per

Annum.

Amount
of
Share.

Price.

Ditto, New.........
National of Ireland ..
Nat. Provincial of Eng.

MUG, New. .......
South Australia ......
Union of Australia....

Union et London
Union of Madrid

Albion •....... •• •. • .
Alliance Brit. and For.

Ditto Marine. • • • • • .
Atlas . • • • • • • • •
British Commercial ..
ClericLMedia Gen. Life
Caunty .. • . •••• • • • •
Crown ..............
Eagle ......
Enropeaa Life ••• • •
General • ....•
GluLe
Guardian ............
imperial Fire • • • • • • • •
Imperial Life ........
Indemnity Marine....
Law Fire • • .• • • •• •• ••
Law Life • • • • • • • • • • ..
Legal and General Life
Licensed Victuallers ..
London Fire • • • • • •
London Ship ,
Marine ..... • • • • ..
Med. Invlid & Gen. Life
gational Loan Fund..
gational Life-. • •
Palladium Life
Pelican ••••• • • • • • ••
Phcenix • .
Pi otector Life........
Provident Life........
Kock Life • • • • .• • • • . ••
Ltoyal Exchange
San Fire..
Ditto Life .......
United Kingdom. L....
l,miversal Life........
Vietoria Life ....

Name of Company.

East and West InVa ...
East Country
London .... .

al. per cent.
51. per cent.
71. per cent.
61. per cent.
51. par cent.
151 per. cent.
61. par cent.
61. per cant.

61. per cent.
81. per cent.
Si. per cent.
51. per cent.
61. per cent.
51. per cent.
51, per cent.
61. per cent.
6/. per cent.
61. per cent.

31. 10..
7114 s 6d&bs
61. per cent.
138.6 d. pr
7s. per share
pr ct.& bs.
31.
14s.
, 6..
4;4 per cent.
61. per cent.
51.
121. per cent.
12s.
11.. h. & be.

11. 16s.

10s.
10s.
112s.per share
4%1. per ct.
51. per cent.
8/.per cent.
51. per cent.

31. p. Rh. & bs.
51. per cent.
11. ss. & bs.
53.
1 61. per cent.
61. 108.

it. 6..
41. per cent.
10% pr cnt.
.51. per cnt.

61. pr cent.
205. per eh.
5/. pr cent.
41. per cent.
4 per cent.

Ditto 80nd5........
41 t. K atharino ........

Ditto, Scrip .......

Ditto Bonds.. •• .
Southampton ••

Oil. pr cent.
21. per cent.

s. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0

IMPS;

Amount
of
Share.

A s. d.
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
1100 0 0
1100 0 0
50 0 0
60 0 0
20 0 0

Stock.
100 0 0
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
5 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0

20 0 0
100 0 0
6 0 0
Stock.

Amount
of
Share.

X a. d.
Stock.
100 0 0
Stock.

Stock.

50 0 0

Patti.

£ I. 4.
50 0 0
11 0 0
5 0 0
5
5 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0
5 0 0
0 0
All paid.

36 10 0
30 0 0
10 0 0
8 13 1
2 10 0
10 0 0
2 0 0
1 0 0
19 10 0
12 10 •
15 0 0
2 0 6
2 10 0
0 0
2 0 0

1 0 0
10 0 0
0 10 0

4 0 0
9 0 0
4 0 0

Paid.

X P. d.

$5 0 0

50 0 0

Price

6%
10
122

228
lb%
37
2%
42

161/2-k
16N
9
2%

-
21 Om.

210
207

Price.

141%
21
1175(

BRIDGES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Shari.
.-......
£. s. d. Z. 9. d.
Charing-cross • • • • .. • • - - -15 U
Southwrk, Nw Sub. Av. - 632 12 $ - 2
Ditto Nw of 734 p.c. 353. per cent. 50 0 0 - 6
Waterloo .......... • • - 100 0 0 -3%
Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 11. 4s. Od. - 60 0 0 28
Ditto Nw ditto of 71• 11. Is. Od. - 40 0 0 25
Vauxhall .... ... Av. 11. 70 10 3 - 18
WATER-WORMS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of raid. Price
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ 9. d.
East London...• ••• • • • 81. 100 0 0 - 176
Grand Junction .. .. - 41. 7.er cnt. 50 0 0 - 81
Kent................ 21.10 x. 100 0 0 - 75
Lambeth ...... ••.. •• 51. per cnt. 100 9 0 - 99
New itivr Lndn Brdge i 21. 10s. - - 85
Vauxhall ............ 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 98
West Middlesex . .. i 61. Os. pr cnt. - - 116
GAS-LIGHT AND COLE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---- -
X. a. d. Z. s. d.
British ••••••- • • • • • • 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 14
Ditto rrovincial- - 11. Bs. 20 0 0 20 0 0 IS
Brighton ••••..• • • • •• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 - 12
City of London .. •• • • 101. 100 0 0 150 0 0 230
ContinentalConsolidat. 923. pr share 75 0 0 31 5 0 34
Equitable.... ••..• • • • 501. pr shared 50 0 0 50 0 0 27
Imperial .• .... ••• • .• 21. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70
Independent ....... •• 61. per cent. 140 0 0 40 0 0 , 60
- 50 0 0 40 0 0 I -
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Do., Parl. Preference 61. per cent. 25 0 0 210 0 -
Phoenix . ............ 434 L per ct. 50 0 0 49 0 0 28
Retell IT ..... ........ 51. 100 0 0 90 0 0 75
United General .. •• • • 78. 6d. 50 0 0 50 0 0 13N
Westminster Chartered 31. 50 0 0 - 4436
Ditto, New .• • • -... 12s. 50 0 0 .10 0 0 ' 8%
CANALS.
.; 1
Names of te, 'Dividendl Names et
Price rt IDividend
.
Companies. : ' per i Companies. 2, Ann u r p- r 4 ce.
m.
fr. AI11111111.; in
------- ......-. --......
.0 I 4
Ashtn t Oldh 97 71. 113 Macclesfield . 100 21. 105• 50
Barnsley •• • • 160 121. 180 Neath .. .. • • lon 161. 340
Brknk&Abrg 1501 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. 185
Birmingham 40, 41. 87 Peak Forest. 7g 31. 18s. 70
Coventry.... 100 25/. 210 Regent's •• - 33 11. 2s. 18
Derby •• . - 100 61. 63 Rochdale.... 85 I 41. 5034
Ellsinre&Chs 1331 565. 41 Somrset Coal 150 7/.105. 130
GrandJunctn 100, 5/. 8434 Do.LkFd St 12 61. p. c. -
Grand Surrey 100, 11.10 s. 30 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 410
Grand Union 100, 11. 105. 24 Shrewsbury.. 125 151. -
Grantham .. 150 - - Stottrbridge.. 145 201. 300
Kennt & Avu 39 75. 6d. 534 Severn and 21. Os. -
Lancaster . 130 21. 323' Wye Ball. j 26
Leenls& Livrp 100 301. 31734 Warwick/is-1
100
Leicester .... 100 Si. 63% Airming. j 41. 63
Lerestr &.Nth 83 41. 46 Warwick&l
100 3L 40
Lougbborogh 142 701. 510 Napton. •
Monmouthsh 100 81. - Worcstr &.} 78 EL 43
Mntgemrysh ; 100 - - Birming.
MeitnMwbry 100 - - Wilts lk Brks - 142. 9

'ass.. OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
•••••••••••• 0M....
£ a • d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 233
Caledonian Bank •• .
City of Glasgow Lank. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13
Clydesdale Bank ••..• • 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 14
Commercial Bank •• • • 71. per cent. 500 0 0 [lOO 0 0 174
Eastern Bank .. •••• • • 61. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 0 9
Edinb.ft Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 50 0 51. 17s
Exchange Bnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 50 0 0 22
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 70 0 -
National Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 10 0 0 15%
North of Scotlandßank 41. percent. 20 0 50 0 3%
North British Bank • • - - - -
Royal Bank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 100 0 0 136
Union Bank of Scotland Al. per cent. 100 0 50 0 0 923{
Western Bank .••• • • • • 71. per cent. 50 0 50 0 0 7534
Aberdeen Fire and Life 7%1.pr cent. 12 1 0 20 0 2
B. Accord. Lifeand Fire - 20 0 010 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. 4/. per tent. 10 0 10 0 17.1 Od
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 10 0 0 21
Church of England Ins. - 50 0 2 0 0 -
City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 20 0 21. 12.
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 12 10 0 20
East of Scotland Life - l'O 0 015 0 95.60.
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 217 6 -
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 10 0 0 -
Insur. Co. of Scetlnd- Si. per cent. 100 0 10 0 0 -
Life Assoc. of Scotland Gl.per cent. 10 0 1 0 0 11. 108
Mercantile Life .. • •
National Fire and Life M. per cent. 10 0 • 1 0 0 208.6 d
North British Incur 5341.pr cent. 200 0 20 0 0 24
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 10 0 -
Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 011 0 -
Scot. Alas. and Gen. Life - 0 015 0 -
Scattish Union Insrace. 61(1. pr cent. 20 0 10 0 241.0 d
Standard Life ...... • 51. per cent. 50 0 45 0 9%
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 10 0 16s Od
MISCELLANEOUS.
• •
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-
Z. a. d. X. I. d.
Auction Mart ........ 21. ss. 50 0 0 - 25
Australian Agrictiltnrl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 16
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. les. 10 0 0 10 0 0 21%
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 -
Canada ..........- .. Gl. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 26
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per.cent. - - 89
fifty Navigation .. - - - 91
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp.c. & bs, 21 100 0 0 180 0 0 94
Equitable Reversienry 5/. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 103
Gen.SteamNavigation 11. Bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 27%
London Institution ... - - 78 15 0 -
Russell Institution.... - - 26 5 0 -
Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0, 50 0 0 80
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4141. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 91
Royal Mail Steam.... 61 18..4. p. c. 100 0 01 60 0 0 51
South Australian ... • • 11. per share. 25 0 0' 25 0 0 -
Van Dieman's Land.. - 100 0 0I 29 0 0 -

SCENES OF THE CIVIL WAR IN HUNGARY IN 1848-9.
saysre already
made its appearance. " None
the United Service Gazette, " and
BY AN AUSTRIAN OFFICER.—A second edition of this
bliutttleavosloulmdieerh!,s al
he an eye-witness of the exploits he narrates, a sharer
in the sufferings he depicts, could have written such a
dashing volume. It is full of military adventure of a
thrilling kind." And the Britannia remarks, that " the
romance and peril of war, with its wild joys and deep
but transient sorrows, never had a better narrwr. The
volume completely exhibits the character of the Hunga-
rian contest, and is the more to be admired from the
soldierlike and gsllant spirit it evinces."
To INDIA AND BACK IN THREE MONTHS.—
Lieut. R. M. Taylor, of the 25th Regiment, embarked on
board one of the Peninsular and Oriental steamers on
the 20th of October last, for Alexandria, and having
hastened thence tO Madras, remained there twelve days,
when he returned and reached Southampton by the
same steamer on the 25th ult.

HURRICANE AT LIVERPOOL.

(From the Second Edition of the Liverpool Courier, of
yesterday.)
We stated in our early impression that the barometer
had fallen seven-tenths of an inch in the course of yes-
terday, and that there was Every indication of a coming
storm. Tho gale came as was anticipated, and was morn
serious than any we have had singe the memorable
storm of January, 1839, when so large au amount of life
and property was destroyed.
The wind began to rise yesterday about five o'clock,
and continued t) increase in violent guests till three or
four o'clock this morning, when it had attained its max-
imum strength, and blew with tremendous force, rocking
the houses in exposed sitir;t:ons like cradles. In many
exposed places so great was the violence of the gale that
families left their beds and sought shelter in the lower
rooms of their holifte=, preferring, an imaginary safety
there to restless tossinga in bed,
.and the multitude of
thoughts et' a sleepless night.
In the town the ravages of the gale have been much
less severe than might have been expected, though a con-
siderable number or chimneys are dismantled, ald slates
are scattered about ,the streets. In some places the
windows of houses have been blown in. One of the
windows of Trinity Church is riddled of the glass. Be-
tween six and seven o'cl,ck this morning a chimney
was blown down at the Crooked Billet, in Exchange
street East, and fell upon the roof of a room in which a.
servant maid slept, but happily without making its way
into the apartment.

The force of the gale was severely felt about the
Old Church, especially upon the new range of offices
known as Tower-buildings, from some parts of which
the lead has been stripped like paper, and is now hang-
ing from tie roof like ribbands.
Various chimneys were blown down in the neigh-
bourhood of Matthew-street and Stanley-street.
At Bootle the gale was severely felt, and broken glass
and damaged chimneys are plentiful.
The storm was most severely felt at Birkenhead, and
on the Cheshire side of the Mersey generally, whe:e it
raged with extraordinary violence. In Grange-lane, and
those r eighbourhoods exposed to the action of the wind,
the roads were literally strewed with the wrecks of
fallen chimneys and dismantled rod's. Christ Church,
in exton-road, has suffered severely from the gale,
about three yards of the spire being thrown down into
the body of the church, and the base of, the spire being
so seriously injured as t ) make it a matter of necessity
to take down and rebuild the remainder. The pinnacle
of the Scotch church, in Grange-lane, has been blown
down, and thrown through the roof. A house near
Grange-lane, in an exposed situation, has suffered so
much from the gale as to have the entire roof carried
away, leaving nothing but the bare raft-rs standing. In
Grange-lane a small chapel has been much damaged by
the wind, the windows being completely blown out.
The new market at Birkenhead has sustained consi-
derable injury, the roof being stripped of the lead, and
it has been found necessary to keep the doors closed to
prevent the roof being entirely carried away. A con-
siderable portion of the roof of this structure has been
blown off.
On the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, near the.
Bebbington station, a luggage train was thrown off the
rails by the violence of the wind, and impeded the way

for some time.
In the George's basin two fiati sunk this morning
about seven o'clock. On the river, one of ,the largest
hulks, the Akbar, lying in the Sloyne, was shifted from
her moorings, and now lies stranded on the Devil's Bank
near to Rock Ferry. The boats plying to,Woodside and
Tranmere have sustained a little injury by coming in
contact with the landing places. At Seacombe the land-
ing stage was carried away about half-past seven this
morning by the violence of the seas, and it now lies at-
tached to the ship only by the chain. This casualty
prevented the boats malting their usual trips, and pas-
sengers from this ferry, as well as from Egremont,
where it was also impossible to effect a landing, had to
go rcund to Woodside.
The thickness of the morning prevented a communi-
cation by telegraph before nine o'clock. At 9 45, A.M.,
a signal of distress was made, to the effect that a large
thre:-masted steamer had a signal f distress flying on
the Burbo bank. The steam-tug immediately proceeded
to her assistance, with a life-boat in tow. The vessel
proved to to the screw-steamer Diana, from Waterford.
The crew and passengers were saved, but the fate of the
vessel is uncertain. .

The City of Dublin Steam-Packet Company's steam-
boat Trafalgar, wal expected at three o'clock this
morning, but has not yet arrived. Doubtless she and
many other vessels will be kept back by the severity of
the gale. _ _

About eight o'clock a fore and aft-rigged schooner,
named the Sailor's home, and laden with stone, on ac-
count of the Corporation, hove round the Rock Perch,
having on her mast a flag cf distress. As soon as the
vessel came within view of the Half-way-house, or life-
boat station, a boat belonging to the active and ever-in-
ch fatigable body attached to the life-boat station be-
tween EgremoNt and New Brighton, put out to her as-
sistance. We have Learned that scarcely had the crew
lest the schooner when she sunk.

At !he noi tts end of our dock 4, that portion north of
the Clarence Dock, and which from their exposed posi-
tions to gales from the \V.N.W.. affords but little shelter
for such crafts as may be found abreast their commo-
dious harbcurs, the gale blew with terrific violence.
Many of the houses in the vicinity of the North Shore
have suffered considerable damage ; and the neat ma-
rine villas in Bootle Bay have all of them been injured
in some degree by the violence t.f the storm. The
shipping in; e N,lson and Collingwood docks have not
sus.ained much positive injury, but nevertheless, they
encout.t?redi n no small degree the fury of the elements,
and had not their rigging been made taut in anticir ation
of the event which has occurred, there can be no doubt
but that serious ccidents would have occurred in those
dock,.

At an early hour this morning, a small smack, named
the Duchess of Km', the ca2tain of which found that his
light anchors would not withstand the fury of the storm,
attempted to make t\e entrance of the Nelson-dock, in
the basin of which he expected t) find shelter; but, un-
fortunately, the tempest was so violent, that the little
craft became untnanagr able. and the result was that she
sunk near to the entrance of the harbour of refuge for
which she was making.

A flit from Runcorn was sunk this morning opposite
the Collingwood-dock. There w ere two men and a wo-
man on board, all of. whom were saved through the able
assistance of some boats.

There was not, fortunately, much shipping in the
river, and even the few large ships which were moored
there lay more to the Cheshire than the Lancashire
ccast, and consequently escaped, as the gale came from
the not th-A e3t, as usual in this latitude. However, all
the large ships in the river made much lee way, and in
ono or two instances we observed this morning that the
vessels had made considerably to the east; and theie is
no doubt that, had not the gale abated with the top of
the tide (six, A.m.), more than one of the few vessels in
the river would ha‘e.dragged their anchors.
We should state that all the life-boats from Egre-
mont vrere out during the morning rendering all •the
assistance in their power, and that they wore ably
assisted by one or two of the steam-tugs belonging to
the river.

The N .W. light-ship broke adrift at noon, but was im-
medist,ly replaced.

The barometer is more elastic, and the convex bulb
indicates a change in the weather, but the wind is till
violent and gusty.

TERRIBLE STORNI IN NOTTINGIIAMSHIRE.—A
storm, of an unusually violent and destructive character,
visited Nottingham and its neighbourhood on Tuesday
evening, commencing about seven o'clock, and did not
by
subside until abdut ten A.I. yesterday (Wednesday.) It
was ushered in with flashes of lightning and thunder at
intervals, being followed heavy rain fur a time, during
which and afterwards the wind blew in fitful but tre-
mendous gusts from the welt, with a degree of violence
perhaps never before experienced during the present
generation in the midland counties. The consequence
was that upon the inhabitants r f Nottingham arising
from their beds yesterday, they found many of the streets
strewn with chimney-pots, tiles, slates, and portions of
brick chimneys; and soon afterwards damage of a more
serious nature became known. About half-past seven
o'clock in the morning a tall chimney, attached to
Mr. Smythe's house in the Park, fe!l with a tre-
mendous crash upon a wing of the building, two stories
high, carrying in the roof and forcing the whole,
,with
a bedroom floor and the contents of the room, into
the kitchen below. Mr.: and Mrs. Henry Smythe
were sleeping in the room at the time, and were buried
in the ruins the crash had created, but happily they
were extricated withoUt either of them sustaining serious
injury. Of three servants also who were in the kitchen
at the time of the accident, two escaped with slight
bruises; but the third, Sarah Britton, aged fourteen, who
was engaged lighting a firo at the time, was buried for
more than halt an houebeseeth nearly two tons' weight
of bricks and other materials. As soon as possible
assistance was procure 4, .a number of workmen were
employed in clearing away die brokea timbers, and all
parties were freed from the debris. Unfortmately, it
was found necessary to convey the poor girl, Britton, to
the General Hospital, Ler legs especially being dread•
fully crushed. Early in the morning also William
Woodward, of North Bridgford, was carried to the hos-
pital, be having been seriously hurt on the head, right
arm, and back, by the falling of a hovel in which he was
engaged milching cows. Several of the cattle were also
much bruised, tied some parties who were assisting him
deseron were to be met but very wary
description at the time sustained injuries of a less serious nature.
These are the most serious cases that had transpired at
similarthe t time dispatcheinocuidrentsofa
left Nottingham,minor
with on every hand.
SUPPOSED INCENDIARY FIRE, NEAR ROYSION.—
A correspondent writes—" I regret to inform you of a
dreadful fire, which occurred on Saturday night at Ash-
well, near Baldcck, supposed to bo the act of an incen-
diary. Several farms were burnt down and a number of
cottages; and damage done to the amount of 10,000/.
and upwards. A high wind added much to the confla-
gration, which it was painful in the extreme to behold
People seem at a loss to account for the act of :the villain,
as there is nut a single able-hodied man in the union,
nor has there been during the winter, all the labourers
having been well employed."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Raleigh, 50, Car-
tain the lion. C. Hope, was paid oil this day into ordi-
nary. It is a pity that so fine a ship should have been
condemned t so unworthy a service as mere hulking in
the River Plate, where her anchors were doWn for three
years. We think Sir Thomas Herbert might have
changed the scene a little with great beneSt to filo heal,h
and efficiency of the ship's company, and without the
!asst detriment to the service.

Lieutenant the Hon. Fra 163 Eg4rt Hi, lite fl ig lieu-
tenant to Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, i 3 promoted
to the rank of Commander.

Strong gales have been blowing on this coast all nigh
and day.

APPOINTMENTS.

Chaplain—Rev. Edward S. Phelps (1836) to the I
lustrious, 72, depot ship of ordinary, Portsmouth.

ANuTIIER ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

The Lords of the Admiralty, on obtaining the sanction
of the House of Commons yesterday evening, have lost
no time in deciding on the plan to be adopted for ano-
ther expedition to proceed in the direction of Davis's
Straits, Lancaster Sound, and onwardi to Melville
Island in search of Captain Sir John Fronkin and the
officers and crews of the Erebus and Terror, and an ex-
press messenger was dispatched from the Admiralty this
afternoon to Woolwich, with orders to Commodore
Henry Eden to get the Acorn, 12, sloop, and Minx
steam-vessel ready fir sea at the shortest notice. The
messenger was also bearer at the same time of dispatches
for Captain Sir John Hill, superintendent of the vic-
tualling-yard, Deptford, to have the necessary provisions
ready to be sent to Woolwich and put on board those
vessels. The Acorn-is at present at Chatham, but she
can soon be brought round t i Woolwich and made ready
for sea. The Minx is a steam-vessel propelled by the
screw, and the last trial she had when fitted with the
disc engines gave a remarkably favourable to suit, with a
very small consumption of fuel—an object of the urestest
importance in a voyage to the Arctic regions. The disc
engine has since been tried for a considerable number of
hours consecutively, and found to continue to work w ell,
without being liable to get out of order, and appears to
be in every way adapted for the undertaking the Minx
is now ordered to be employed upon, if their Lordships
should decide on using those engines now on board the
vessel."

DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION

IN LAMBETH.

This morning, shortly before one o'clock, a fire broke
out in the extensive timber-yard belonging to Mr.
George Myers, of the Ordnance-wharf, Belvedere-road,
which, in the extent of its ravages, has very far ex-
ceeded any catastrophe of the kind with which the me•
tropolis has been visited fir many years past.
The exact locality may be thus briefly described :
The York-road is a well-known thoroughfare, extending
from the Waterloo-road to Westminster-bridge-road.
Within about 200 yards of the latter a narrow turning,
known as Guildford-street, forms a communication be-
tween York-road and Pedlers-acre. Both sides c f this
street were formerly occupied by the extensive premises
of Messrs. Grissell and Peto, the celebrated builders
and contractors, and a cast-iron bridge thrown across
the thoroughfare connects the workships on either side.
Mr. Myers' timber wharf extends across York-road, and
occupies a very large space, bounded on the south by
the rear of the houses in Pedlars-acre, on the east by
the fictory formerly occupied by Messrs. Grissell and
Peto, on the west by Heath's extensive livery-stables,
°poling to the north on the back of the houses in the
York- road.

The fire is supposed to have broken out in this tim-
ber-yard, and so rapidly did the flames extend that
the whole of one side of Guildford-street, and no less
than eight large houses in York-road are levelled with
the ground. _ _

The flames were first discovered by a policeman of
the L divison, who lost no time in dispatching messen-
gers to the various stations of the fire brigade, and in a
very short time Mr. Henderson, the foreman of the
southern division of the farce, arrived on the spot with a
good supply of engines from the Southwark-bridge-road
and adjacent stations. Before, however, water could be
procured the flames had attained so great an ascendancy
that the atmosphere was illuminated fur miles around,
and the utmost alarm was occasioned among the inhabi-
tants of the neighbourhood. In less than half an hour
from the period of the outbreak, the premises on the
west side of Guildford-street, formerly occupiel by
Messrs. Grissell (now in the tenancy of Messrs. Nickels
andeo., india-rubber-web manufacturers) became ignited,
and ull efforts to stay the ravages of the flames proved
utterly futile. In a very short period the window frames
at the back of the houses in York-road caught fire, and
More any effective means could be adopted to prevent
it, the whole range numbered 7, S. 9, 10, 11, and 12
was one mass of flame. The awful progress of the
fire for some few minutes previously had forwarned the
inhabitants of the danger to which they were ex-
posed, and a very large quantity of furniture sifts
hastily thrown out of the houses into the centre
of York-road, as the only chance cf saving it from
being reduced to a hes. The firemen worked bravely,
but the extent of the catastrophe was so great that it
soon became-evide.t the fire must exhaust it
It is quite impossible, owing to the confusion that pre-
vailed, to give an}-thing approalhiog an estimate of the
damage that must accrue from this frightful disaster.
The great quantity of furniture strewed about all the
thoroughfares in the district gives too much reason to
(err that the poorer classes will suffer very severely. On
the que-tion of insurance, also, no certain information
could be obtained.

The atmosphere was very brilliantly illuminated by
tie reflection of the flames, and about half-past one
o'clock almost every metropolitan church steeple might
have bsen clearly discerned. The new Houses of Parlia-
ment, with their exquisite Gothic tracery, seen from
llungerford-bridge, famed one of the finest pictures it
is possible to imagine.
The number ospectators was not excessive, owing to
the lateness of the hour. •
Mr. Inspector Beckerson, of the A division of police,
and Inspector Evans, of the L division, were in attend-
ance, with a very large holy of constables.

THE SALE AT MARLBOROUGH HOUSE,--Marl-
borough House was on Tuesday crowded wit') fashionable
company, assembled to view the effects of her latq la-
mented Majesty the Queen Dowager. The imitations
were, from tin to four o'clock,• and during the whole of
that period the principal rooms cf the mansion were
filled with a con,ta9t succession of visitors; including
many leading connoiseurs and collectors, all of whom
appeared desirous to possess themselves of some relic of
the departel Queen. Among the more distinguished
company we remarked the Duchess of Norfolk and Lai),
Adei za Fitzalan Howard, the Duchess of Sutherland
and Lady Constance Leveson Gower, the Marquis of
Stafford, the E irl of Jersey and Lady Clementine,
Villiers, the Right Honourable Sidney Herbert
and Mrs. Herbert, the Countess Dowager Wal-
degrave and Mr. Harcourt, M.P., the Vis-
countess Forbes, Lord Harry Vane, M.P., Colonel
Sibthorp, M.P., Mr, Quintin Dick, M.P., Lord Ernest
Bruce, Mal., the Marquis of Douro, Lady Charles
Wellesley, and Lady A. Pierrepont, the Duke and
Duchess of Northumberland, Admiral Sir George Sey-
mour, Sze. The .company, on entering the mansion,
passed int) the dining-room, where an immense display
of linen of all descriptions was exhibited for sale, includ-
ing some very superb table napkins bearing the royal
arms and cypher, which were eagerly bought at prices
ranging from three to four guineas per deem. A very
handsome dessert service of ruby glass and some china
services were displayed in this room, which also contained
full-length portraits of King George 111. and Queen
Charlotte, marked at 50/. Passing through an anteroom
the company entered the drawing-room, which. from
the valuable nature of the property it contained, firmed
the chief point of attraction. The demand in this room
was so great during portions of the Cay that nearly a
d-zen salesmen were kept actively employed, and it was
with some difficulty the property was cleared away, so
rapidly were sales effected. The upper floors of the
mansion were not thrown open to the public, it Le;ng in-
tended to remove their contents to the Tower rooms as
the sale proceeds. We believe that a much larger quan-
tity of property remains to be disposed of than was ori-
ginally expected, owing to her Majesty the Queen having
declined to purchase the effects contained in Bushey-
house. The We will continue to-morrow arid during the
succeeding days of the present week.
PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF MRS. MARGARET
MAITLAND, OF SUNNY SIDE. WRITTEN BY HERSELF.
—We' are pleased to notice that a second edition of this
charming and touching story has already been required.
We may truly say, with the Athenceum, that Mrs.
Margaret Maitland has been to us a welcome guest.
The tale has given us much pleasure. As regards
purity of mind, generosity of heart, and quiet observa-
tion of character, Mrs. Margaret Maitland. of Sunny-
side, might claim cousinship with the Rev. Micah
Balwhidder without the good man being in any point
or principle discredited by his kinswoman. There are
Mistress Maitlands in real life, but we are not sure that
the maiden must has ever before found so favourable a
representative in print. Some of the other personages
are marked out with a touch t like firm and delicate.
Grace, Mrs. Elphinstone, her son and the Dominic
are all real persons."—Athenceum.

A KEEN ATTORNEY.—Mr. Torn Chippendale by
no means exaggerated his title to such knowledge of the
world as can be acquired by long and sharp practice in
the law. He knew the seamy side of the world at well
as moat men. He was one of the underling, working
agents of the old Tory party, and a subtle band at eke-
tioneering politics. He justly enjoyed the repu'a'ion of
being one of the keenest men in a prcf,esion which af-
fords the most favourable opportunities for the exercise
of a low sagacity, and which seldom rewards as they
desarso its honourable and honest members. By the in-
d fatigable exercise of his special talents, ho had accu-
mulated a handsome fortune, and was at the top of the
intercourse
with in his particular line. An extirsive
with all classes bin
the educated his natural shrewdness n
the quick perception a character, and few men knew
how to turn that detective faculty to great r advantage.
Like most persons of his stamp, lie' had' tso sets of
manners—the one to freezl and repulse, the other to
conciliate and cajole.—The "Ladder of Gold" in Bentley's
Miscellany.

[PRICE SD.

COURT OF COIVOION COUNCIL
On Tuesday a court was held for the dispatch of
business.
Alderman Hamphery was re-elteled governor of the
Irish Society. Mr. Dakin was elected deputy-governor,
in the room of Mr. T. B. Simpsor.
Upon the application of soma of the members,
The Loan MAYOR sent the magic-bearer to the Com-
missioners of Sewers, who had just commenced their
sitting above stairs upon important public business, to
order their at endance in the c:Jurt. The order was
peremptory, and the Commissioners were obligel to ad-
journ the appointed business, which included the elec-
tion of the u.edical officer, and other matters of general
int !rest in the city. The court was by no means nume-
rously atfended—a circumstance mainly attributable to
the expected discussion upon the o'd theme of corpora-
tion reform.
The TOWN Cnitnx irrortned the Court that he had
received the amounts of the Commissioners of Sewers,
audited by Messrs. Begley, Chatteris, and Kendal, from
the auditors.
Referred to the Commissioners ( f Sewers.
MEASURES FOR INCREASING THE FRANCIIISF.
Mr. Deputy BEDFORD moved that Vie pitltion pre-
sented on the 17th of January. on behalf of the citizens
of the IVard of Farringdon Without, for the adoption
of measures for increasing the franchise, to taken into
consideration.
After some discussion, in which the arguments which
have been so frequently used upon the subject of corpo-
ration reform were repeatel with additional force, the
Court determined by a large majority that the further
consideration of the petition be adjourned until the sense
of the freemen of the city on the subject shall have been
ascertained in the respective wards.
REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX.
Mr. ANDERTON gave notice of a motion that the
Court petition the House of Commons to repeal the
window tax.
SUPPLY. OF WATER TO THE METROPOLIS.
The report of the Navigation Committee, delivered in
on the 17th of January, on the report and survey by
engineers, relative to notices of application to Parlia-
ment for taking water from the Thames, was taken into
consideration, and referred back to the committee, with
directions to watch the proceedings of tie water coin-
panics, and report to the Court the steps which might
appeir to the committee to be expedient to be taken.
Adjourned.