The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-01 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Do, without guarantee 20

i rce n Wol;rerlf ton,
and Dudley, calls duly

Do., Manchester and

Ad vices have been received from Constantinople to
the 15th ult.

M. MUSUNUS has been recalled from Vienna to be
employed in the local administration of the affairs of
Turkey. Prince CARADJA has been named Ambas-
sador to Berlin.

The Hungarian refugees have received permission
to leave Kuteya. KOSSUTH has applied for leave to
reside at Constantinople. BEM is at Aleppo, but will
ultimately settle himself at Brusss.

TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1850.

pd, or witfiguarantja 15
Do.withoutguarAntee 15
Birming. Yirolverh'pton

and Stour Valle.); -131. 14s ... -
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.— 26
••• •••••
driatol and Exeter 100 ... .. 70
',uckinghamshire ...... 17%
Caledonian
Do. New 101. Pref..... 10
Ditto,Ciydesdale June 50
Cheater and Holyhead... 50' —
Ditto, Preference
Clark nce
Direct London & Ports-

mouth

Dublin and Belfast June. 45 ......

Dundalk& Enni3killen 30
..••
E 4st Anglian, 25/.. L. &
.....

E. and L. and D... 25
Do. 181., E. & 1-1....... 18
Do., 3/. 105., Pr0f...... 31j
Do., (51.) 7 per Ct.
Preference............ 5 ......
Ditto, (71. 175.) 7 per
Cent., Preference... 2
••
adorn ..... 20 6%6 ......
Ditto• Extension, 3 per
Cent., No.l 6/.135. 4d.... p...........w. p
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13e. 4d... ..... p
Dc., N Pref.rence,
6 er Cent. 10
Do. North. & Eastern,

o.,per Cent. _ 50

Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50
Do. New
Eastern Union, Class A

(late E. U. Shares) 25 -
Ditto, Class A, ditto... 6 - 000000 ••••••••• .--
Do., Class B & C
Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ...... ... .........
East Lancashire
Ditto, New Quarters.. 61,4 ...... •• ••••• •—•
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ..• 6,4...... --- ••• ......
East Lincolnshire, guar. _

6 per Cent. - 25
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Min., Perth, & Dundee 25 —
Ditto, Newport l5 .. ... -... ••••••
xeter Yeovil. Es Dorch 25,,, — ...... . -

Exeter and Exmouth... 21s.
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle
•lasgow,Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 ......
Do. Preference Consol.
Gloucester& Dean Forest 14
*rata Northern
Do., % A Deferred
Do., B 6 per Cent 12%. 9%
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 12%...... 11•23/4
,reat south. and West.

( [reland)
•••••• •• 00000000 •••

..... ... ~..
Ditto, Eighths 2% 3% 3
rut North of England.loo ......
Ditto, New, 40/ 4O
Ditto, New, 301 3O r
!litto, New ,15/ l5
46111_ Western 100 ......71% 72 71% 72 71%
Ditto, New 171... ...„ 15 ... -. 10
f-lull and Selby .. ...... 50 ......

Ditto, Half Shares ... 25
Do. Quarter Shares... 12% •••••••.•••
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50

Ditto, Thirds
Ltucaehireet Yorkshire.loo ...... 48 47% ..... 47%
Do. Quarters ......... 231% — ......
Do. leitthe... .. 10
Do. Thirds .... ........ 18

Do. New, Gua.6 per ct. 10
Ditto (Huddersfield
and Sheri.)
!)o. (W. Riding Union) 114 —
Leeds and Bradford 5O
Leeds and Thirsk ...... 50
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 6 ...... dis ... die.
Po., do. No. 2 17
Do., do ...N0... 3 5 ...... ... ........ -
Do., Pref. Quar., 1848 9
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport l5 -
London & Blackwell-114 68. 3d 6 53/4 6>9 5%... 538
Lon ion, Brighton, and
South C0a5t........ 1013
Do.G uarant. 6 por et.. 9
Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 -
Ditto ditto..-.. 1852 50 - ... ... —

Do., New, guaranteed
6 per Cent ...100
London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d...
Ditto, Prefeience. 2O
London and N. We.tern 100 115,4.„,.......... 115 LA
Ditto, N.!,w Quarters 17 . 19%............. 19%
lit :o, Fifth;
Da. 10/. (111.. & B.) C. 1 ...,
London &S.W,stern ...100 ...... 69% 69
Do, New 50/. ........ 42% — ...........,
Do. New 401. 34

Do., New Preference.. 5
Londonderry &Culerain. 625 .....
Do. 1Q Shares 5
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 25

Do. '4 Shares ..... .... 7%....•• -
Lowestcff, guar. 4 per ct 20
Ditto (6 par ct.)
ManoheNtor,l3uaton,and
Matlock...
/1i tnchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire ..100
Do.
Quarters (No. 1) 25 .
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Ditto, New lei. Pref.:. 10

E;in3oln Union... „V. 28 - dis . dis.
Mi B . Band lOO ..... 43;4 43 42% ... 43%
Do. Consolidated Pref 100 - •••••
Do., 501. Shares ..... 35
Do , Birm. and Derby ICO
Do. Consolid. Bristol &
Birming., 6 por ct. —IOO
Ditto, Brist. & Glocstr. 46
Ditto ditto ........ 291. 161 Od
Do.,ErevrashVal.,Pref. 50
Ditto, Leiees'.& Swan-
nington, 8 per ct. guar.loo
Slidiand Great Western

Irish
aliddlesbro' and Redcar,
6 per cent. guar.
Newcastle and Carlisle.loo ......
Do. Quarters
Nvwmarket
Do. Extension V. 125....
Newport, Abergavenny,
and liereford 6 .•"••
-
Newry and Enniskillen 7
Newry, W arrenpotnt,
an A Rostrevor 2O

Noriolk ........... .......... 100
Do. New 201.
Do. Extension

Do. Guaranteed s%pc. 5 ......
Do. do. Wavenay Val. 2 ......
N .rthern Counties Union 4 ......
North British ....... ... 26
Ditto Preference
North Staflordahire ... 17% 71,4%••• •• 7I,E
North-Western ....• l7
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
Preston & Wyre 26 ... ..
Do. % Shares (A) IC% ... —
[leading, Guildford, .nd
Reigate
ttoyston and Ilitchin ... 6t4 ..... -
Do. Shepreth Exten . 114 —
.Y.lcuttisti Central .... ..... 25
Scottish Midland

Ditto, New
Srew.ibury and Binn l 3
Ditto ditto. Class B.

Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 ...... ......... ... —.
Shrewsbury and Herefd. b ...... -
Shrewsbury & Chester
( Nor. W. Min.)
Ditto Hal-res
Ditto Oswestry

Ditto New

Do. 8 per Cent. Pref. 10
Shropshire Union
Satith Devon
Do. Preference
So•ith Staffordshire B%
.outh Ealt^sl,
Do., Registered No. 410
So ith Walei
south Yorkshire, Don-

e vter, and Goole
Sheffield, Rotherham, &

Goole (N. Div.) Gua-
ranteed 5 per cent. ... 181.4 — ••• ...... a „„,
Do. do (Sou. Div.) ..• 6 -
S wane. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal. ... 10 -
Taw Vale Extension ... 91,2
Thames Haven Dock

and Railway ..... ... 1714......
Vale of Neath ... .. l3
iVaterford and Kilkenny 20 - •• --
WAterford and Limerick 4710 —.
Waterfd,Wilrd,Wickiw.
and Dublin
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed ... ... ..... 50
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Do. do. do. ... 25 . ......
Do. do. d 0:... 15 ..... ..... ... .....
West Cornwall ..... .... 7 qt... .. .--. ,-••
Whitehaven & Furness 20
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western........ 14 ...... --. ....• .. -
W ilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
York, Newcastle, and
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Berwick. ••.• 110.1.•1110.011 25
Do, Newcastle Exton. 20 ll% 11 11% .. 114
Do. (I.l•l.E.Prfsference 9
Do. do. •••••• 17 .•.••• ••••••••• .
Do. do. ..

Do. Hartlepool Dock
and Railway 100 ......
York and North 5IHland 50
Date Preference ...... 10
FORE IUN R' IL WA TIN

Ang!D Italian (late Ita-
ban and Austrian).... 6%...... ..
Boulogne and Amiens... 20 ...... 8t,i14 B%
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon)... 20 . —
Demerara ...... . ..... 171
Dutch Rhenish ..... .... 8 ... .. 9%. 9%
East Indian ••••••
Ditto ...... ..... ...
Great Indian Peninsular 5 ...... ... ......... ... ....
Do. Do. ... ...... 13/4
Louvain Ila Sambre ... 7%
Luxembourg ..
Ditto
Madrid and Valentia... 2 ......

Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... .. 71,4 714
Northern of France
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7
Paris and Orleans ...... 20
Paris and Rouen 2O ......
Paris and Strasbourg ... 14
Rouen and llavra
Sambre and Meuse 2O .....
Strasbourg and Basle ... 14
Tours and Nantes .. 14 ...... ....
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt ...... 20
West ilsneiers...... ..... 8% .... ....

MINES.
Anglo-Mexican lOO - -
Asturian ..... ......... . 15
4ustralian 4 - •• •• - .........
Barossa Range ... ... 335. - ... ...... -.- --..
Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50 -
Bolonos Scrip ...... .... _ - -
British Iron ...,„ .......... 13% - .• .-
Brazilian Imperial ...... 241/2 - .......... .. -
BrazilianComes&Cuiaba 30 - -
Do. St. John Del Rey 15 ...... 14%% ...... ...... 14%
Cobra Copper
General 2O -
Real Del Monte, Unreg. - - -
Do. Black Debentures - - -
Do. Red Ditto ... - - -
.antiago de Cuba.. lO - -
Tin Croft ... - ...... .. .. 7 .... - ...... -
inited &lexicon
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
kustralasia . 4O - ....... ....•••• -
.British North American 50 - ...... 42%
Colonial .. -.. 25 ...... - -
'ommercial of London 20 - -
.ondon Joint 5t0ck...... 10 ...... -
London & Westminster. 20 ...... - -
N itionalProv. England. 35 - -
Ditto New....... ...... 10 -
National of Ireland 22%...... -•••••••••••-• -
Ditto. NC% ... •
- •••••
,'rovincial of Ireland ... 25
Union of Australia -
Ditto. New .......... 2% ...... - . ........ -
Union of London..- ..... 10 ...... 12%.
Union of Madrid 40 -

LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.—( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, OCT. I.—Wind at noon N.W., fresh, and
cloudy at times.

YARMOUTH, SEPT. 30.—The Joseph, of and from In-
verness to London, got on the Barber Kernol, but came
off without making water. The Loudon, of Sanderick,
and Gentle, of Sunderland, have been in contact and re-
ceived damage, and have been towed in here. The Mer-
chant, from Hartlepool to London, was assisted in here
last night with considerable damage, and leaking, having
been in contact, near Flamborough Head, with the
Indus, of Whitby. Off port, 29th, Ann and Mary,
Quebec, and sailed for Stockton.

LOWESTOFT, SEPT. 30.—The weather has been very
unt-ettled here since yesterday, and varying from
W.N.W. to S.W.. with heavy squalls. There are nearly
500 sail of windbound vessels between this and Yar-
mouth, principally colliers.
NEW YORK, SEPT. 14.—A brig, apparently two or
three years old, timber laden, on fire and abandoned,
was passed, August 25, by the St. Nicholas, arrived
here. A vessel on fire, supposed a schooner, dismasted,
and upper part of hull burnt off, was passed 29th ult.,
in a gale, in lat. 41, lon. 70, by the Margaret, arrived
here.
BRISTOL, SEPT. 30.—Wind W.N.W., strong--Arrd.
Giorga Miramiehi; Rosalind, Huirth, Moulmein, Har-
riet, Fowler, Trinidad; Invincible, Davis, Virginia;
Charlotte, Harrison, Quebec. 29.—The Marion, arrived
here from Quebec, has lost bulwarks, topmasts, rigging,
&c., having been on her beam ends in a hurricane Sapt.
12. A large ship, with loss of main and mizen masts,
&e., was passed Sept. 17, in lat. 48, lon. 45, by the
Giorga, arrived here.

rity that while the prisoner was pursuing his calling
here a relative was looking after the farm in Italy.
Mr. HARDWICK said it was shameful that such per-
sons should be admiaed into this country at all, but he
thought it would be a 3 easy to " bottle off" the Atlantic
us put a stop to it at once. Ho should, however, send the.
prisoner for a month as a warning to others of his class

GLOUCESTER, SEPT. 30.—Arrd. Annprella, Andrews.
Q UEEN SToWN, SEPT. 29.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd.
Harry, Dare, Mauritius; Hortha, Scheely, Laguna.
Gums's; SEPT. 30.—The Charity, from S aham to
London, struck on Rose Land yesterday, but was as-
-,istvd off and in here, leky, and must discharge to re-
pair.

OFF DOVER, SEPT. 27.—Acteon, Bathurst, New
Brunswick, fur Hull.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 28 —Sid. Lady Milman, New York.
LITTLEHAMPTON, SEPT. 28 AND 29.—Arrd. Atalanta
and Delme, Quebec.
SUNDERLAND, SEPT. 29.--The Lydia, of Newcastle,
has been lost at sea; crew and passengers saved. The
Colony (timber laden), arrived in the Roads here.
HARWICH, SEPT. 30.—The sloop Ann, off Portsmouth,
bound to Ipswich, went ashore on the main at Land-
guard Fort last night during a heavy gale at S.W., but
was assisted off and in here leaky.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 30.—Wind N.W. to W.N.W.—
rhe Ernest Gustav, from St. John's, New Brunswick,
put in here to-day leaky, loss of deck load, sails, and
quarter-boat, having been on her beam ends in a gale
ept. 9, lat. 43, long. 63.
CowEs, SEPT. 30.—Wind W.—Arrd. Majalcafar,
Umbaso, H.vannah.

WEY➢IOIITH, ►SEPT. 28.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. G.
Wilkinson, Quebec.

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REDCAR, SEPT. 30. —lt is blowing a heavy gale at
N.N.W., with a high sea on.—The Albert, of Fecamp,
in going out of the river Tees yesterday came in con-
tact with acother vessel, became leaky, was beached
near Saltbrow, and is likely to become a wreck; master
drowned.

MALDON, SEPT. 30.—A Welsh schooner is ashore at
the east end of Covey Island, in this river, but not
likely to receive injury.
Pants, SEPT. 30.—The Rosalinda, of Liverpool, with
loss of topmast, and the Elizabeth, Of Sunderland, with
only foremast standing, both timber laden, were passed
14th inst., let. 46, long. 49, waterlogged and abandoned,
by the Lemuel Dyer, arrived at Havre.
MILFORD, SEPT. 28.—Acrd. Hippocampi, and Pric-
cess, Quebec.

CEO-MARTY. SEPT. 27.—The schooner Arrow, of
Stornaway, from. Barrow to Newcastle, put in here very
leaky, and has been run ashore for repairs.
HOLYHEAD, SEPT. 30.—The Active, from Dublin to
Liverpool, carried away all her sails in a squall yester-
day, and was obliged to anchor in Cemlyn Bay; she has,
with assistance, been hauled on the beach there.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
Bay 81AX15,12105. •
SKITHHELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 15s; Clover
3/ 33 to 4/ 103; and Straw, 1/ 43 to 1/ 8, per load
A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand.
CUMBERLAND.—Moadow Hay, 2/ 8i to 3?
Clover, 3/ 03 to 4/4s; and Straw, 1/ 43 to 11 9 per load.
Supply tolerably good, and trlds dull.
WHITECHAPEL. Meadow 113 y, 2/ 7s to 3/ 15s:
Clover, 3103 to 4/ 12s; and Straw, 11 33 to 11 83 per load
trade dull, at the above T3otatit,n3.

COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation continues
very firm, sales about 600 hhds, &c., at the extreme
rates previously current; 4,870 bags Mauritius went
briskly at very full prices, and for crystallizt‘d sorts
rather dearer. Two small floating cargoes of yellow
Haysnnah have changed hands. The quantity of Bri-
tish Plantation landed last week at the East and West
India Docks was 2,789 hhds 246 tierces 426 barrels;
there were taken for home consumption 1,783 hhds 247
tierces 578 barrels. The stock in the same places is
14,684 hhds 2,200 tierces 4,028 barrels. Refined is
steady at 50s to 51s for brown lumps.
COME.-600 casks and 580 bags Plantation Ceylon
offered by auction only partly sold at previous rates;
200 bags native kind realiz.d 575, and about 3,000 bags
have changed hands privately at 56s 6d to 575, according
to quality. About 400 bales clean garbled Mocha were
taken in at 70s per cwt.

COCOA.-88 Lags Trinidad were taken in at 48., as
were also 300 bags Para at 325, and 100 bags Guayaquil
at 345.

Ruhr.--The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 319 puns 30 hhds. There were
taken for home consumption 187 puns 59 hhds, and ex-
ported 914 puns 58 hhds. The stock in the same places
is 14,906 puns 1,137 hhds.

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SPlCES.—Pepper was in bripk demand, and prices
have advanced full id per lb, clear sifted Sumatra being
sold at 3i 1 per lb.

TALLoiv.---New P. Y. C. is 38s 9,1 to 39s per cwt on
the spot, and Town 41s. The article is not quite in so
much request.
TEA.—There is a fair business doing ; ord and good
common Congou is to Is id. Several parcels of Green
sold at full rates privately.
COTTON.—Rsithor more is doing, at about previous
rates.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Count De Witt, late secretary to the Duke of Brunt-
wick, was placed at the bar before Mr. Jardine, charged
under the following circumstances:
The prisoner, upon being placed at the bar, violently
demanded that, as he was not Englishman enough to de-
fend himself in a court of justice, the case should be
postponed until such time as his legal adviser should be
present.
Inspector Wilkinson remarked that the case required
no postponement, as it was merely a charge of drunken-
ness and creating a disturbance.
The prisoner—Cannot my word be taken in prefer-
ence to an inspector's?
Mr. JARDINE—I cannot see why it should.
Inspector Wilkinson then stated that last evening the
prisoner came to the station-house door, very intoxicated,
and created a great disturbance. He went out to him
no less than four times, and even begged of him to go
away. At last he went a few paces from the door, and
witness thinking he had gone home returned to his
room. In a very few minutes the prisoner returned, and
bouncing through the passage again presented himself
before witness, and created if possible a still greater
disturbance than before. He was ultimately obliged to
be placed in a cell, at the door of which he knocked and
kicked so violently that it was feared he would break it
through. His conduct was riotous in the extreme.
The prisoner spoke very largely about an inspector
daring to lock him up, and actually in a cell in which
felons were placed.
He was fined los., which was immediately paid.

THE ITALIAN OPERA AT PARlS.—Great interest
is felt at the present moment in the negotiations going on
with respect to the next campa'gq of the Italian Opera in
Paris. The situation of M lionconi, the director of I,.st
season, is such that it is understood that he cannot resume
the position, and he is known to have contracted engage-
ments at the Opera at Madrid for two months. In the
meantime, Mr. Lumley, the well-known director of
Her Mit;esty's Theatre in London, is in Paris, and
it is understood that he has made propositions which
are likely to prove acceptable to all parties. The
success of Mr. Lumley will be very gratifying to the
Paris public. Since the revolution the Italian Opera has
been little better than extinct, and Mr. Lumley is considered
the only person possessing sufficient of the public confidence
to be able to revive it Since the above was written (says
our correspondent) I a-n glad to say that these hopes have
been realised. I understand that the contract was concluded
and signed on Friday evening, by which concession of the
Italian Opera is given to Mr. Lumley for several years. The
house is to be opened on the Ist of November. A great
number of eminent names are spoken of as being already
engaged, but it is probable that the arrangements are not 3 et
fully completed.
CURE FOR GOITRE.----Dr. Grange, of Geneva, who
has devoted a great part of his life to the study of the
causes and cure of cretinism, has just published the result of
his observations. It appears that both cretinism and wens
proceed from the same cause, and that these disorders are
particularly endemical in countries where the soil and waters
are very rich in magnesia. Dr.-Grange asserts that any
person may get a wen, if such be his fancy, by drinking at
springs highly impregnated with magnesia. He states
iodurated kitchen salt, used for culinary purposes for the
space of a year, to be a certain cure for, and preservative
against the :wen, without producing any other infirmity.
Dr. Grange recommends his Government to d etribute
iodurated salt in those places where the goitre is most pre-
valent. He also shows from statistical accounts, that wens,
contrary to universal belief, are more frequent in flat than in
mountainous countrieo.

MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
CAUTION TO THE BENEVOLENT—CONVICTION OF ♦N
IMPOSTOR.—A miserable-looking lalian, who professed
to be deaf and dumb, and who has for many years been
preying upon the benevolent portion of the public, was
brought before Mr. Hardwick charged with begging in
the public streets.
Colley, oee of the blendicity constables, stated that
about half-past eight last night he was proceeding along
Oxford-street, when his attention was called to the pri-
soner, whom he had known for the last nine years as a
notorious impoaor, pretending t'► be deaf and dumb,
grinding away most ferociously at a kind of hurdy-
gurdy. In censt quence of the instrument possessing
only three strings the tones elicited were anything
but musical. Witness, having seen the prisoner re-
ceil e several pence, took him into, custody. The con-
stable added that two years ego he took the prisoner
before Mr. Combe, at Claktnwell Police-court, for a
similar offence, when he promise) in right good
Italian to return to Lis native country; he did so and
purchased a farm for 1001., which sum he had made in
this country by begging. Thap prisoner remained upon
his farm till about nine months ago. when he returned to
this country and immediately resorted to his old way of
raising the wind. Witness had heard from good autho-

THE NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF FOR INDIA.—Sir
William Gomm, accompanied by Lady Gomm, and Captain
Yates, his aid-de-camp, left town on Saturday for India.
He slept at Canterbury on Saturday, and crossed over to
Calais on Sunday. He will remain on the Continent until
the departure of the packet from Trieste, and will proceed to
Suez in the Haddington, about the Bth of November.
IRON SHIP BUILDING ON THE TlNE.—Messrs. )
Coutts and Parkinson, in addition to the noble East India-
man now on the stocks, have received an order from an
eminent shipping house in the Clyde for a vessel for the
India trade of about 1,000 tons register. This vessel will be
the largest iron sailing vessel that has yet been constructed
here, or, it is thought, in any other port. Mr. Toward has
also launched two most beautiful steamers for the Rotter-
dam trade within the last month, and, it is understood, is
about to start with another. These facts speak for them-
selves, and confirm our anticipations that this branch of
business will become one of the great staples of this (New-
castle) district.
HOWDEN (YORKSHIRE) GREAT HORSE PAIR.--*
The business of this annual horse fair, the largest in the
kngdom, commenced by pre-arrangement amongst the prin-
cipal dealers and purchasers on Thursday last. At no fair of
late years has there been a larger show of horses or a better
attendance of foreign and of 'home buyers. Some of the
best hunters have been purchased in the stables at prices
varying from 1001. to 2001.; carriage horses were eagerly
sought for, and have gone off at from SOL to 100/. ; good
nags, 701. to 801. each. This important mart is the grand
depot for the supply of the army, and, as usual, several offi-
cers from the various cavalry regiments have been present,
amongst whom were Lord Cardigan (11th Hussars), Colonel
Shewell, Major Irwin, Captain Shaw, &c. Messrs. Dyson,
Dickinson, and Collins, the troop-horse buyers, have pur-
chased extensively, and the presence of eminent dealers
from Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Herefordshire, War-
wickshire, Essex, Suffolk, the midland and western counties,
has created more than the usual amount of competition for
the possession of really first-rate animals. The German,
Prussian, French, and Danish dealers have also purchased
largely.
SUPERANNUATION ALLOWANCES.—The following
salutary provisions appear in an Act of the last session (13th
and 14th Victoria, chap. 95):—."fhat when any sum of
money shall have been or shall be granted annually or other-
wise
to any person who has been, or shall have been, em-
ployed in the service of the Customs, as a superannuation
allowance upon the retirement of such person from such
service, or as compensation for'past services, it shall not be
lawful for the grantee of such allowance or compensation to
assign or dispose of the same to any person or persons
whomsoever, and that all such assignments or dispositions
of such allowances or compensations made after the passing
of this Act shall be wholly void to all intents and purposes,
and shall not be enforced in any court of law or equity.'
NARROW ESCAPE.—Two days ago, while a hearse
was proceeding along High-street, the horses in it took
fright and ran along the pavement at a furious rate. Three
little children happened to be amusing themselves, uncon-
scious of danger, in the course of the maddened animals,
when a person seeing the imminent jeopardy in which they
stood, rushed forward, seized One in his arms, gave another
kick, which sent the poor child nearly to the middle of the
street; the third he succeeded in frightening off the pave"
ment, so that he fell into the kennel, and while lying there
the carriage whirled past at a furious speed. But for
the energetic presence of mind shown by the party in ques-
tion, in getting the children out of harm's way, it is all but
certain that they would have been seriously
injured •, as it
was they escaped altogether unhurt.—North British Mail. •
Mr. George Hudson, M.P., hes, during the past
week, been on a visit to the town of Sunderland, where he
was received by all classes of the constituency with the most
respectful and enthusiastic feelings. The Hon. Member Was the guest of the Mayor ( Ord, Esq.,) at whose hos- •
pitable mansion a sumptuous banquet was given in honour
of the occasion, which was attended by the magistrates,
gentry, and some of the principal merchants of the town and
neighbourhood. OI Thursday Mr. Hudson inspected the
splendid docks at that port, of which he was the projector,
and which had recently been completed. A great marl
ships both in the foreign and coasting trade were in the dock,
and, amongst others, a most beautiful iron steamer, the
Ivanhoe, launched a few days ago in the Tyne, built by
Taver, and intended to trsue with passengers and
goods, between Leith and Rotterdam. She is the property
of Mr. Smith, of Leith, who invited Mr. Hudson, the Mayor,
and:other gentlemen to j gin a party on board, where 0!
" Health of the Hong. Member," " Success to the Docks,"
and other toasts were given and responded to; after which
a salu e was fired from the vessel, and on Mr.
Hudson lee'
ing he was heartily cheered by the crowds who had assern"
bled to witness the scene.
THE Davies FRUlT.—potatoes were first intro"
ducal at Moscow by a Mr. Rowland, about sixty years ago.
At first the people would neither plant nor touch them, sa)'-
ing they were the devil's fruit. given to him on his corn'
plaining to God that he had no fruit, when he was told to
search in the earth for some, which he did, and found pota-
toes.
A curious BerwickAire legend, which, however, is •
palpably anachronical, attributes the introduction of potatoes
into Scotland to that famous wizard of tke north, Sir Michael
Scott. The wizard and the devil being in partnership, took
a lease of a farm on the Mertoun estate, called Whitehouse.
The wizard was to manage the farm ; the devil advanced
the capital. The produce was to be divided as fellows
first year, Sir Michael was to have all that grew :;hove
the
ground, and his partner all that grew below; the second
year their shares were to be just the opposite way. His
satanic majesty, as is usual in such cases, was fairly over-
reached in his bargain; for the wizard cunningly sowed all
the land in the first year with wheat, and planted it with
potatoes the second; so that the devil gut nothing for his
share but wheat stubble and potato tops; and his scourging
notation Sir Michael continued, until he had not only beg- '
gored his partner, bait exhausted the soil. In spite of this
legend, however, we must continue to give credit to Sir
Walter Raleigh for having been the introducer of potatoes
into this country. The first that tried them, we are told,
fell into the very natural mistake of eating the apples, an
disregarding the roots.—The Agricultural Magazine.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND BURGLART.—Yester-
day the authorities at Great Scotland-yard, and the metro-
politan police generally, received information that
the residence of the Rev. Edward Holiest, of Fritnler
green, oa the borders of Surrey and Hampshire,
and the scene of the late fatal prize fight, was entered ors
Friday night last by a number of men, two of whom were
short and stout and disguised in masks. They presented
themselves at the Rev. Gentleman's bedside, and one of then'
shot at and wounded him. The villains afterwards ransacked
the house of watches. Jewellery of various descriptions, a con-
siderable sum in money, and plate to a great amount, with
which they got clear away. Three suspicious men war. seen in the village of Frimley, which is distant a mile and II •
half, in the afternoon of the same day; they were dressed or'
srectably, and one carried a large black bag. 501. reward 11
offered for their apprehension.
THE QUEEN'S COILEINE, BIRMINGHAM.—On SR"
turday week last the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Lord Pre-
sident of the Committee of Council on Education, visited
the Queen's College, and was received, in the absence of the
Warden, by the Dean of the Faculty, Dr. B. Davies, Mr.
Edward Townsend Cox, Mr. Edward Armfield, and other
members of the Council. His Lordship inspected the chapels
library, arid students' rooms, and expressed himself highlf
Pleased with the arrangements. The; college has been
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spected during the week by the Hon. Spencer Lyttelton, the
Rev. Dr. Peel, Dean of Worcester, Mr. William Gladstone
the Rev. Boyer Adderley, the Rev. Vaughan Thomas,
Rev. J. Ellis, and other influential friends of education.

NEW ACT TO SHORTEN ACTS OF PARLIAMENT:"...
Among the statutes of the late session was one " for short-
ening the language used in Acts of Parliament." It con-
tains eight concisely worded sections, and, according to the
provisions, very considerable improvements are expected to
be made in future Acts. Subsequent Acts, it is expected, will
not contain a provision to alter or amend. They will be di-
vided into sections, without any introductory words. It Will
be sufficient to cite the year of the reign of a former Act;
the word " expedient" will become obsolete. There will be
no need of interpretation clauses, nor of others respecting
repealed provisions, and all future Acts are to be deemed
public Acts, unless expressly declared to the contrary. The
Act is to commence and take effect from and immediately
after the commencement of the new session of Parliament.
BELFAST LINEN TRADL—We have to announce *
reduction of 3d. per bundle on tow yarns, with the prospect
of a decline, at an early date, in the prices of the finer de-
scriptions. This, it may be presumed, will prove satisfactory,
and may have the effect of placing the trade in a position
better than it has been for some time past. The reports from
the leading cloth markets are dull. Little business was trans'
acted during the past week. In Ballymenna, on Saturday,
another decline took place on all kinds of 4-4 light linens
and in Armagh a considerable quantity of cloth was taken
from the market unsold. The export of linen cloth from
Belfast during the past week was again small, amounting
only to 613 packages, at an estimated value of little more
than 20,0001. Be fast Paper.
ANNUAL AGRICULTURAL MEETINOS.—The pro-
vincial papers of Saturday record the following agricultural
meetings to have taken place during the week, in addition to
those already noticed in this journal ;—North Staffordshire,
South Hants, Burton, Brecknockshire, Wetherby, Abingdon,
East Suffolk, West Suffolk, outh Beds and North Herts,
Stow •in-the-Wold and Chipping Norton, Watlington, Car-
marthenshire, Bolsover and Appleby, and Kirkby Stephen-
As a test of the workings of the agricultural mind, it rasY:
he said generally, as regards the after-dinner addresses, that
Protectionist doctrines were far less prevalent than at simi-
lar meetings last year. The farmers do not find free trade
so very terrible, after all.

ITALIAN SWINE.--A ship which has arrival from
Naples has brought some pigs as a part of her cargo, which
licy el mad unusual importation frog that place.

HALF AN HOUR WITH 31. SOYER

We announced last week that the chef de cuisine,
the Napoleon of the kitchen, the hero in ten thou-
sand broils, the conqueror in stews innumerable,
who has stood amidst blazing fires, that would have
melted the heartiest of stalwart generals, and achieved
triumphs even at Spithead ; he who has roasted an
English Bull, given those of Ireland a turn, singed a
Scottish sheep a head, and sported with Welch
rabbi's, the conqueror o'er all "the ills that flesh is
heir to," and the subduer to our palates of all the
creatures of the deep, would visit Southampton on
sdav last —a day to be recorded in the calendar
of forgetful time. Oa that eventful day the culinary
Sift showed to a host of delighted gourmands that
Ldliputia was not an imaginary creation, for he pro-
du;ed in the metter• of-fact ware-rooms of Messrs.
Keniston and Shalders the veritable magic stove end
Lilliputian apparatus, which has been the fancy of
childhood and the dreams of hungry years. The
entri of the Gulliver of cooks bad been proceeded
by a fl)ur's`i of posting-bills, and his levee was
crowdedly attended during the afternoon of Tuesday,
and the morning of Wednesday last. To those who
have not had the pleasure of an audience with the
celebrated professeur. we may mention that he is al-
most a% fine a fellow as the portrait in his great work,
has the dress and manners of a French gentleman, full
of aneed ite, and untiring in his endeavours to please
his audience. Par example—he complimented the
two countries very ingeniously—the reason why the
French were superior cooks to those of England was
in the fict that the meat gas of such a superior
quality to that in France that it was delicious, how-
ever pldnly dressed, while in France the tough and
dry meat there required all the refinements of art
to make it attractive and digestible. The chef then
proceeded to the cooking by his mimic batA'rie
de cuisine. We described this elegant apparatus
last week, but M. Soyer is pleasant from his account
of the difficulties he had to encounter in producing
it ; he was ten months before he achieved his blow-
pipe in the interior. The rapidity and neatness of
the cookery is astonishing, the CEufs au Mirior were
priduced in less than a minute, a dish of four cut-
lets and three kidneys was served in three minutes.
The ozmazone is entirely preserved, and the surface
of a beautiful colour, the chef calling it" carbonised," a
term to which he attaches a different meaning from our-
' selves. The company tasted, of course, and the flavour,
aided by M. Soyer's sauce, was delicious ! While the
cookery was proceeding, the chef told the company that
he had come from Manchester on purpose to redeem his
promise to revisit Southampton, and must tear himself
away next day; then described the great dinners he
had dressed, and the honours he had received;
the warm reception he had received when be cooked
upon the Exeter stage ; the lessons he had had the
honour of giving to the Duchess of Sutherland, the
Countess of Wilton, Lady Ellesmere, Lady Carlisle,
and a host of dazzling names—his great condition
being that they must consent to take up the salt with
their finger and thumb, and throw it on the meat—
'without which it was impossible to be accurate. The
chef told us that 18,000 of his " Modern Housewife "
had been sold during the last twelve months. Good
cookery, he demonstrated, was economical and health
ful—and his stove enabled them to substitute hot for
cold meat at home and abroad. On the moors, in
the field., in boating or fishing, in the batchelor's
chamber, or ladies' travelling carriage, here was a
modern tripod that would become more celebrated
than all those of the ancients. Mr. J. Clark, a pro-
minent advocate cf the Temperance principle, ex-
pressed his approval of it, because the professeur
burnt.the spirits, instead of drinking them—so far
would spirits of wine, rum, brandy, and gin be in
future valuable. The cookery was continued for the
gratification of fresh parties, and to oblige one gentle-
man who could not leave his carriage, the chef went
down and cooked an omelette on the seat. We left
ourselves highly gratified with half an hour with M.
Soyer.—Hampshire Advertiser.

PROPOSED NEW STATION.

Since our last Saturday's news we have learned
that the deputation from the London and North
•
Western board examined the " quarry," together
with draft plans that had been prepared, but that
they gave the preference to a site nearer
the city walls, where it appears the levels
are better, and where there is room for a
more extended undertaking. The deputation was
struck with the facility which the latter situation af-
fords for connecting the London and North-Western
traffic with that of the Shropshire Union Company,
and for getting thereby a cheap transfer of the
Welsh goods. They also found the place particu-
larly suitable for a coal dep6', being connected
already with the canals and the river to a certain
extent and being capable, by an addition to the
size of the basins and docks, of doing trade to any
• extent whatever. What would the Cestrians say,
if they saw the London and North-Western Company
promoting a Bill in the next session of Parliament
for deepening their river ? Stranger things have
happened, and the Mold districts may prove better
feeders to the Chester and Holyhead line than was ex-
pected. However, fresh plans were ordered adapted
to the new position, with a view not only
to the passenger traffic, but to that in goods
and minerals. The estimates for the passenger
station are ordered for a perfectly plain building,
but of white stone ; and though no money is to be
expended on what may be termed mere ornament,
the building will present a handsome appearance
from the a aUs, and will not cut off that splendid view
of Mod Pamma and her range for which we ere so
justly accustomed to claim the admiration of strangers.
As public chroniclers, we of course feel ®bound
to convey the earliest possible information
of anything affecting our city ; but we cannot but
deplore the existence of that ill-feeling which it is
manifest must exist, to hive driven the London
and North-Western Company to the determina-
tion to have an independent station ; and we are
credibly informed that the application made to
the Court of Chancery by the Shrewsbury and
Ches•ur Company for the committal to the Queen's
Bench Prison of three of the gentlemen on the gene-
ral station committee opposed to them in views, has
done anything but improve that friendly feeling that
at one time did, and ought still to exist.—Chester
Chronic?e.

Zibtro Ebtttott

NEWMARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Newport .
White Lady

Handicap. T.Y.C.

Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each. T.Y.C.

'lazy
Iliad of the Forest

Ilardinge
Tomboy .

Rernandez
Merry Peal
Payment

Grand Duke Michael Stakes.

...
Third Triennial Stakes.

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... 2

... 1

... 2

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... 1

Match—Wal'flower recd ft from Collingwood.
Match—Bordeaux beat Hippia.
Hoi eful Stakes.

Venus filly
Buclhound

... 1

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Match—Sicyon received from Teeswater.
Match—Santiago received frogs Brunnow.
Match--Taurina filly reed from Queen of Cyprus filly.

... 2

DECREASE OF CRIME IN LEEDS.—From SOME
criminal returns just issued in Leeds it is shown that the
nornber of persona apprehended by the police of that borough
during 1819 was smaller than in any previous year since
18•42, with the exception of the year 1824, and that the de-
cyease since 1836 has been exceedingly great. During this
time, also, there has been a constant and large increase in the
Population, which numbered in 1821 83,796 persona; in 1831,
123,3 f 3; and in 1841, 1.51,874. The Leeds Mercury points
out that if the population of the borough should have in-
creased at the same rate to 1849, it would now be 179,146 ;
and if the number of prisoners had kept pace with the popu•
lotion since 1823, it would have been 3,667 in 1849, whereas
the actual number was only 1,830, or just about half the pro-
portion of crime to population in 1823.
AN AMIABLE SPOUSE.—A. woman of the name of
Catherine A.'Dowall, married to a carter of that name, who
resides in Dempster-street, being seized with a determina.ion
to do something desperate to her husband, caught hold of a
pan of boilif3g water from the fire, hurried into the apartment
where the unconscious wight was sleeping, carefully removed
from his side her voung son, and then, without compunction,
and with unerring; aim, threw the whole of the scalding fluid
full upon the unhappy sleeper. The poor fellow, thus sud-
der.q and unceremoniously aroused by a feeling of intense
pain, bawled out in such acony that the room was soon
filled with neighbours, anxious to tender their services to the
injured man. Tire police were soon called and the woman
apprehended. The unf“rtunate husband is in a very dan-
gerous state.—North British Mail.
CANAL PROPERTY IN WARWICK AND STAFFORD:—
At the meeting of the Coventry C.nal Company, on Tues-
day,i a dividend of EL per 100/. share was declared for the
half-year. The general halt-yearly meeting of the pro-
prietors of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal was held at
the Woolpack inn, Warwick, on Tuesday, when a dividend
of 2/. per cent. for the half-year was declared. The half-
Yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Warwick and Napton
Cqr anal took place on Wednesday, at the Woolpack Inn, War-
k, when a dividend was declared for the half-year of
Pie 0e IL—Birminglaam Gazette.