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The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-03

AINSWORTH S.

Three additional chapters of Mr. Harrison Ains-
worth's romance of Pendle Forest, " The Lancashire
Witches," introduces the reader t ) the Executioner, to
Wiswell Hall, and to the Holehouses. Other divided
novels of a romantic character are continued, such as
" Valdarno," " The Confederates," and " Jacob Van
der Neess." Besides which we have a " Romance of
Reality," a sailor's yarn called " R ittlin the Reefer 'a
Dream," and a love story entitled" Isabella Burton."
Duncan Craig contributes a " Legend of the Timo-
nel," and E. P. Rowsell an essay on " Bullies and
Hypocrites." These, with other minor contents,
render Ainsworth even more than usually attractive.

TAIT ' S.
Every one may remember that among the literary
proteges of Sir Robert Perl was the blind poetess,
Frances Brown. Under the title of "Rosemary for
Remembrance," the September number of Tait's con-
tains a short poem, offered as a tribute to the memory
of Sir Robi.-rt Peel by the grateful poetess. The
veraes are not so remarkable for themselves as from
the circumstances which occasioned them, and for
this reason the concluding lines are the most in-
teresting :

" Not only where
Her chiefs take counsel, or by board and hearth
Will Le be missed and mourned for as few are
That walk the world's high plmes; but on earth
lie was the muse's friend in dimness and in dearth;
Therefore her glory on his grave will rest.
a a

And one whose laden memory reckons this
Among the blessings missrd in lfifs cater,
Taut niggard time or fortune ltft NO space
To speak deep thanks and wishes, offers here
A tribute to the tomb the isles may hold so dear."
'\Vordsworth's "Prelude," and Leigh Hunt's "Auto-
biography" form the subjects of two very delightiul
critical articles. Frances Brown has contributed
another of her half-amusing, half-instructive " Le-
gends of Ulster"—" O'Reilly's Improvements."
" The Orig'n of Epping Hunt" is a ridiculous tale,
written in that atrocious style which endeavours to
convert the sublime into the ridiculous. Imagine
Richard Caesar de Lion talking the slang dialect of
1850, and singing a song commencing—
" When I'm rich I rides in bosses',
When I'm po. I walks and cusses, &c."
The bad taste of such a composition needs no com-
ment. Among the most excellent articles in Tait
are those on the "Close of the Session" and " Scottish
Drunkenness." The latter contains some severe com-
ments upon the depraved and drunken habits which
abound in many parts of Scotland, as contrasted with
the outward religion manifested by the stoppage of
railway trains on Sunday. How much better, argues
the writer, would it be for the clergy, and other
'godly men, to endeavour to amend the morals of their
fellow-townsmen instead of confining themselves to a
useless interference with their external concerns.
They are bound to consider, wisely remarks the re-
viewer, " that those professedly for whose sake they
denounce vanities are already sunk in vices, and
that those whom they affect to fear may by railway
trips be led away from the house of God, at present
frequent only the house of Bacchus."
London, England, 1850-09-03

DEATH OF A FLAG OFFICER.

The morning papers announce the death of Ad-
miral Robert Dudley Oliver, for a number of years
resident of Dublin, and an active member of the Bible
and other religious societies established in this city.
His demise, which was occasioned by a severe attack
of paralysis, took place yesterday, at his country re-
sidence, Barnhill, Dalkey. The gallant officer had
reached the mature age of 83 years.

SERIOUS AFFRAY NEAR BALLINASLOE.
The Western Star contains the following state-
ment :

" On Wednesday last Mr. John Kelly, poor-rate col-
lector, proceeded with three assistants, named Murray,
Gavan, and Kenny, to distrain fur poor-rates due by a
man named Turley—the amount 11/. 3s. After going
on the lands of Ballymana, and seizing eleven head of
cattle, several people collected and succeeded in rescuing
the cattle, with the exception of one cow. Some blows
were given at both sides, when Mr. Kelly and his men
were attacked with atones. Murray was struck by a
stone on the forehead, which forced the blood through
his ears and nose; and Mr. Kelly was hit on the back of
the head and some other parts of his body. He had a
double-barrelled pistol in his hand, and when knocked
down two or three of the rescuers' held him, wrested
the pistol from his hand, searched his side pocket for
another pistol, which they got, and when taking it out
also took 501. i❑ notes, either through mistake or de-
sign. So Mr. Kelly states. Mr. Kelly and his party,
however, got away, and came into town, when Murray,
who received such dreadful injuries, was put into the
hospital. He is the only support of a widowed mother.
We understand that the lands on which the seizure was
made were waste, and the cattle found there belonged
to a number of poor farmers living in the neighbour-
hood."
London, England, 1850-09-03

GLOUCESTER AND DEAN FOREST.

The half- yearly meeting of this company was held
at the Bell Hotel, Gloucester, on Saturday last (31st
ult.); S. Baker, Esq., in the chair.
The accounts presented to the meeting showed a
balance i,l hand of 26,.5271. 15s. 7d.

The report (f the directors referred with much sa-
tisfaction to the progress which had been made in the 1
works since the last meeting, and especially to the
state of the company's finances, which showed a
balance in hand of upwards of 26;0001. up to the 30th
of June last. Since that period, however, this amount
bad been consiierably increased by the proceeds of
another call, and by payments which some of the
shareholders had made in advance of calls. The
directors, therefore, had now in their hands ample
means for meeting the demands which would be made
upon them between now and Christmas for the rapid
progress of the work. It was the present intention of
the directors to proceed with the completion of the
work so as to have the line ready for opening in the
beginning of the ensuing year, by which time, accord..
ing to the report made by the engineer to the South
Wales Company, the portion of the South Wales
line from Chepstow to Grange, joining the line at the
latter place, would be completed. By this junction a
direct line of railway communication on the broad
gauge would be established between Gloucester and
Swansea, and by a junction at Gloucester with other
railways (the Great Western and Midland) railway
communication between South Wa!es and the whole
of the kingdom would be establishei. The directors
reported that the Bill which had been promoted by
the South Wales Company, and supported by this
company, for effecting certain accommodation with
the mineral district in R-san Forest, had not re-
ceived the royal assent. This Bill was for Convert-
ing the Ballo Pill tramway, leading into the Forest
mineral district, into a broad gauge locomotive rail-
way, forming a junction with this line. At the meet-
ing last February the directors reported that an
agreement had been entered into with the South
London, England, 1850-09-03

GE RMAN Y.

-- ---
The Cologne Gazette publishes the following from
Vienna, of the date of the 2Gth August:—
" A few days since a dispatch arrived from Rime, in
which the intervention of Austria was requested in the
Sardinian affairs. A similar ne,te, it is said, Invi gone to
France. Spain as well as Naples have been quite over-
looked, although in the documents the Papal Council de-
clare their attachment to all the Catholic Powers. The
differences of the Papal See with the Court of Madrid,
on account of the Papal dispensation for the marriage of
Count de Montemolio, accounts for the one; and a tresh
quarrel with Naples, for the other. The refusal of Car-
dinal Sforza, confessor of King Ferdinand, to grant him
absolution from his constitutional oath, is said to have
originated in Rome."
Immediately after the receipt of the intelligence
Count NESSELEODE, the Russian Councillor of State,
demanded an audience of the EMPEROR.
Prince SCHWARTZENBERG went to Salzburg on
Saturday night to receive the Russian diplomatist,
and introduce him to his MAJESTY. It is this fact,
which has hitherto been kept a profound mystery,
that has retarded the return of the EMPEROR for se-
veral days. This conference, which is said to be of
.he highest importance, will take place at Ischl.
Count MEDEu sets off for Lintz to-morrow morning,
to receive the Chancellor.
General PROT; the Hanoverian Minister of War,
has sent in his resignation.
The Carlsruhe Gazette, of the 31st August, pub-
lishes the first part of a note addressed by the Baden
Government to the Austrian Government, in reply
to the latter's dispatch of the 21st July, relative to
the passage, of the Baden troops by the fortress of
Mayence. The Baden Government declares that it
considers it is perfectly justified in what it has done,
by the approval of the federal superior authority,
which alone was competent to decide in the matter.
Nevertheless it will not decline to submit to the de-
cision of any future competent federal authority
which may be established. The convention of the
28th gives it full liberty in this respect, but till then
lit will strongly repel the reproach of having failed
,n its federal duties.
King Onto arrived at Trieste on the 24th ult.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
Tne aillt-S have now possession of Suderstapel,
south of Frederickstadt ; but no other military
operations on either side worthy of notice has taken
place.
By an ordinance issued by the Copenhagen Go-
vernment, the customs line between Schleswig and
Denmark is to be done away with from and after the
Ist of September next.

BELGIUM.
BRUSSELS SEPT. I.—The intelligence of the death
of Louis PHILIPPE has been a great shock to her
MA IFESTY, whose health is in a very precarious state,
and causes great uneasiness to the members of the
Royal family.
London, England, 1850-09-03

RUSSIA.

The Prussian S'taats Anzeiger says that the Russian
Government has distributed a circular among the ar-
tisans of Vienna and Prague, stating that there is
employ for 300 carpenters and joiners in the south of
Russia. Every workman who shall present himself
shall receive a gratuity of 15 florins, independently of
the expenses of his journey.
The health of the Empress of RUSSIA is so impaired
that she will be cowpelled to pass the winter in the
south of Europe.

MOLDAVIA AND WALLACHIA.
The Turkish Government has made energetic
demands on the Russian Cabinet to withdraw the
Russian troops from the Danubian principalities, or
to declare its intentions ; whereupon Russia has in-
quired of the flospodars whether they thought that
tranquillity was sufficiently re-established to allow of
the dispensing with this occupation. Prince Gums.
hesitated ; hut STRIRBEY, who is under the influ-
ence of Russia, demanded two years for reflection.
Accordingly, .i.vloldavia will remain occupied by 6,000
Russian troops, and Wallachia by 7,000.

PERSIA.
We have dates from Tabrees to the 31st July, an-
nouncing the important fact that the SHEIK UL ISLAM,
ot Aaerbaidjan (ot which extensive district Tabreez is
the capital), a very influential personage, as being one
of the highest dignitaries of the Church of Persia, has
been arrested, and forcibly conveyed to Teheran, by
special order of the Emir NIIAM, together with his
son, under a charge of intriguing to s,cure an exten-
sion of power to the clergy, to the manifest detriment
of the State.
Babism, notwithstanding the recent execution of
its chief and founder BAB, the soi-disant representa-
tive of MABOMMED MEHDI, the twelfth and last
claimingclomnatrn,ues.o
increase,d i rect succession
ts
f 0
ilfor own: r
sMaAr oe
sMaikidEDto,
population
satitohneirof stronghold,B ,000, i
nc
number. in Persia alone 50,000. The village of
cZoeuntdaian.ni ludthinogugwhoomnelyn
gwahipehopui
and children, continues to hold out against five regi-
ments of well disciplined troops, which have closely
besieged it for the past three months, and in a late
sortie, 200 of the latter were massacred. It is said
that the inhabitants have put themselves in a position,
as regards provisions and warlike stores, to hold out
fur at least two years, against even a much superior
force.

THEATRICALS.— Last week Mr. Charles
w
Kea ha an interview ith Prince Albert relative to the
theantricald s which are to take place at Windsor Castle next
winter.
THE .111A11.8.—The Royal Mail Steam-packet Com-
pany's ship Dee, Captain W. Allan, sailed yesterday after-
noon with the usual mails for the West Indies, Spanish Main,
and Gull o.f Mexico, in charge of Lieuteaint Hay, R.A.,
Admiralty Agent. She takes out sixty passengers, among
whom is Bishop Hynes, of Demerara. She has( a large
cargo of :general merchandise and specie, value. The
Penitn,ulAz and Oriental steamer Montrose, Captain Bowen,
may be c.x,pected to reach Southampton in the course of to-
morrow. - -

C•MBRIDVE, SEPT. 2.— CLARE I.IALE.—At
meeting of the Master and Felluws of the above society,
this day the Rev Arthur Wolfe, M.A., was trans-
_ - 41.
London, England, 1850-09-03

MANCIIESTER.

First Innings.
E. Wright, Esq., c Guy, b
Clarke
J. Earl, Esq., c Hoare, b Clarke 3 b Clarke 6
E. Pagden, Esq., b Clarke.... 2 a Box, b Clarke 0
Buttery, c Parr, b Clarke ... 6
run out
R. Crankshaw, Esq., c Felix,
b Wisden
R. T. Bell how e, Esq., b Clarke 1 c Parr, b Clarke ...
G. F. Cooke, Esq., b Wisden 1 b Wisden
S. Birch, E.g., e Hoare, b
Clarke
J. H. Earl, Esq., run out 8 d Clarke.... 1
V. Tinley, b Wisden ... l4 b Clarke..
T. T. Bellhouse, Esq., c Box,
b Clarke .. ..... ... 0 b Wisden
S, H. Braybrooke, Esq., c and
b Wisden ... ... 1 c Pilch, b Wisden 1
P. Birch, Esq.. b Clarke 0 b Clarke
Jas. Rowley, Esq., st Box, b
Clarke .. 1 run out ..............
T. G. Blain, Esq., c Felix, b

Second Innings.

Wisden ... 0 b Hillyer ......... ........ 9
Jos. Rowley. Lsq., b Clarke 1 b Hillyer .......... 0
W. Lillywbite, not out ...... 4 b SVisden ........ 0
R. A. Barlow, Esq., b Wisden 0 not out
Byes

Tot al 42

T0ta1......... 69

ARGYLL-ROOMS.—This popular salon de clause hts
aglin opened its doors for the season, having been closed for
a few days, to be entirely re-decorated. Last night the ex-
citement in the neighbourhood consequent on its re-opening,
was intense, some four or five hundred persons waiting
around the doors to see the company enter. The coup (rail,
on entering the ball-room, is beyond description, so elegantly
and so tastefully is the salon arranged., The decorations
are pearl white, emerald green, gold and, tinsel crimson.
The whole of the embellishments were pronounced to be, by
all present, sausfaute. The addition of a third magnificent
chandelier is a beautiful improvement. The rooms were
crowded.

AYRSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY.—The directors
recommend a dividend for the half-year, ending 31st July
last, at the rate of 2Q per cent. per annum,
London, England, 1850-09-03

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 28th ult. have arrived.
The Gaceta publishes a decree, countersigned by
the Duke of VALENCIA, which opens an extraordinary
credit of ten millions of reals to the Ministry of the
Interior, for the purpose of organizing the plan of a
direct and rapid communication with Cuba and Puerto
Rico.
Lord IIoWDEN is, it is said, extremely popular at
Madrid.
MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 28.—Three per Cents. 33i ;
Five per Cents. 14g. Exchange o❑ London, 50 40.
London, England, 1850-09-03

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.

The following ti and g
uinstructions
instructthe
tpublic,
.offi c e ,
- - - —.
to all postmasters, sub-postmasters, and letter receiver;
,n,oGeciaeer to
General
h has been issued by command of the Postmaster-General;
" Henceforward all letters addressed to the United
States, and not directed to be otherwise sent, will be
transmitted by the first packet, whether British or
United States, which is dispatched after they are posted.
" Letters specially directed ' by British Packet,' ' by
United States Packet,' or by any partioular vessel named,
will be forwarded in accordance with the desire thus ex-
pressed by the writers.
" The postage upon letters and newspapers is pre-
cisely the same, whether tbey are conveyed by British
or by United States' packets.
" Postmasters will bear in mind that all letters to be
transmitted by the packets which start from Southamp-
ton must be forwarded to London, and not to Liverpool."

iann Man-
chester, FAILURE IN MANCHESTER.—We. regret to have to
cainiensotueztehtahteoffamiluersesros! alvlairtgiaencotat.no.dn.-Dspaivnindintigofirrrmis
of Salford and Chorlton. The liabilities are variously stated
at from 40,0410!. to 60,0001.. but we believe they will be
found not to exceed '25,000/. Mr. William Morris was an
alderman in the corporation of Salford, and has sent in his
resignation.
THE:I3RADFOED MILL-HANDS AND THE FACTORY
ACT.—During the last week disputes and dissatisfaction, und,
in some places, turns out have been the result of the recent
Factory Act coining into operation, extending the period of
working two hours a week. The hands have demanded a
proportionate advance in their wages, and such demand has,
in many instances, been acceded to.—Leeds Mercury.
An hydropthic est iblishinent is about to be opened
by an English surgeon at A!elcandria, on the Graefenburg
system. It is expected. to derive its maul support from in.
valids arriving from India.
London, England, 1850-09-03

THE ECLECTIC REVIEW.

Apart from the religious controversy raised in the
Eclectic in reference to •‘ Foxton, Froude, and New -
man," apart even from the purely geographical papers,
such as the review on Aubrey de Vere's " Sketches
of Greece and Turkey," and another on Byam's
" Western Republics of America," there are subjects
of p-culiar interest brought under discussion in the
present distinguished periodical. A concluding no-
tice of the recent edition of " Pepys's Diary and
Corresplnden,lte,"edited by Richard Lord Braybrooke,
will be read of course with undiminished curiosity,
and being read, will be relished. Scarcely justice is
done to the elegant and classic drama of " tie Virgin
Widow," by Henry Taylor; but full and ample
praise is a warded to that i-xquisite volume, "In
Metnoriain," to which we have already ourselves
given the meed of our admiration. The critic
in the Eclectic is evidently one competent to appre-
ciate poetry of that pure and elevated character. A
memoir of Dr. Hugh Heugh is commented upon with
evident predilection. Together with a capital paper
on " Building Societies," we have also in the
Eclectic Review an article on the punishment of
death, and a summary of thelast session of Parliament.
London, England, 1850-09-03

THE CATHOLIC MAGAZINE.

Additional recollections are given of Bishop Baines,
one of the most eminent men among the Roman Ca-
tholics of England. Our editor himself pens what he
calls a " Sunday Chit-chat," full of humour, learning,
and intelligence. The " Diary of Martha Baliol" is
continued, and the number of the Catholic Magazine
and Register for September is wound up with a well
condensed summary cif recent occurrences
London, England, 1850-09-03

AINSWORTH S.

Three additional chapters of Air. Harrison Ains-
worth's rofnance of Pendle Forest, " The Lancashire
Witches," introduces the reader t,) the Executioner, to
Wiswell Hall, and to the Holehouses. Other divided
novels of a romantic character are continued, such as
" Valdaino," " The Confederates," and " Jacob Van
der Neess." Besides which we have a " Romance of
Reality," a sailor's yarn called " Rattlin the Reefer 's
Dceam," and a love story entitled " Isabella Burton."
Duncan Craig contributes a " Legend of the Timo-
tied," and E. P. Rowsell an essay on " Bullies and
Hypocrites." These, with other minor contents,
render Ainsworth even more than usually attractive.

TAIT'S.
Every one may remember that among the literary
proteges of Sir Robert Peel was the blind poetess,
Frances Brown. Under the title of "Rosemary for
Remembrance," the September number of Tait's con-
tains a short poem, offered as a tribute to the memory
of Sir Rob::rt Peel by the grateful poetess. me
verses are not so remarkable for themselves as from
the circumstances which occasioned them, and fur
this reason the concluding lines are the most in-
teresting :

" Not only where
Her chiefs take counsel, or by board and hearth
Will he be mised and mourned for as few are
That walk the world's high places; but on earth .
He was the muse's friend in dimness and in dearth;
Therefore her glory on his grave will rest.
a• a •
And one whose laden memory reckons this
Among the blessings missed in lfe's cal eer,
That niggard time orfortune lift no space
To speak deep thanks and wishes, olfers here
A tribute to the tomb the isles may hold so dear."
Nordsworth's " Prelude,".and Leigh Hunt's "Auto-
biography" form the subjects of two very delight'ul
critical articles. Frances Brown has contributed
another of her half-amusing, half-instructive "
gends of Ulster"—" O'lteilly's Improvements."
" The Origin of Epping Hunt" is a ridiculous tale,
written in that atrocious style which endeavours to
convert the sublime into the ridiculous. Imagine
Richard Coeur de Lion talking the slang dialect of
1850, and singing a song commencing—
" When I'm rich I rides in busses,
When I'm po I walks and cusses, &c."
The bad taste of such a composition needs no com-
ment. Among the most excellent articles in Tait
are those on the "Close of the Session" and " Scottish
Drunkenness." The latter contains some severe com-
ments upon the depraved and drunken habits which
abound in many parts of Scotland, as contrasted with
the outward religion manifested by the stoppage of
railway trains on Sunday. How much better, argues
the writer, would it be for the clergy, and other
godly men, to endeavour to amend the morals of their
fallow-townsmen instead of confining themselveS to a
useless interference with their external concerns.
They are bound to consider, wisely remarks the re-
viewer, " that those professedly for whose sake they
denounce vanities are already sunk in vices, and
that those whom they affect to fear may by railway
trips be led away from the house of God, at present
frequent only the house of I3acchus."
London, England, 1850-09-03

SLAVE TRADE,

(From the London New Price Current of this day.)
It affords us great pleasure to announce that our
Government has at last come to the determination of
using the most energetic means to put a complete
and final stop to the African slave trar!e ; and that
they have the power of accomplishing this object, does
not admit of any question. First, either by com-
pelling the Governments of Spain and the Brazils
faithfully to carry into effect their treaties with this
country fur the abolition of the trade ; or, secondly,
by directing a m. re efficient force than they have
hitherto done against the slavers themselves.
The evidence taken before a Committee of the
House of Lords for the suppression of the slave trade,
with the report of that Committee, which was pub-
lished last month, throws more light on the subject
than any previous publication; moreover, it shows
that the accomplishment of the final abolition of the
trade is an object of much easier attainment than has
hitherto been supposed.
It becomes, therefore, a matter of much importance
to consider, what effect a complete suppression, or
even a further limitation, will have upon our colonial
interests.

The importance of this question will at once be seen
by a reference to the amount of sugar and coffee pro-
duced in the Spanish slave colonies, and in the Bra-
zils, which would be more or less affected by the
complete or partial abolition of the slave trade, viz.:—
Sugar. Coffee.
In Cubs .......220,000 tons ... 8,000 tons.
„ Porto Rico.. 50 000 ... 10,000
„ Brazils ....100,000 ... 85,000
London, England, 1850-09-03

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TA TTERSA LL'S —YESTERDAY.
THE LEAMINGTON STAKES (WARWICK, THIS DAY.)
5 to 1 agst Mr. Gains's Kennington—taken and
afterwards offered
7 to 1 agat Mr. Meeson's Doubt—taken and after-
wards offered
8 to 1 agst Mr. Dawsoa's Priestess—taken and
afterwards offered
8 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Tophana—tako 10 to 1
9 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Miss Ann—take 10 to 1
10 to 1 agst Mr. Elwes's Fernhill—taken and after-
wards offered
16 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Glauca—take 20 to 1
20 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Ribaldry—taken freely
20 to 1 agat Mr. IV ilkin's Langton
The betting on this event was flat, but
showed a great
improvement in Kennington, and a strong feeling against
Priestess, Tophana, and Langton. Minimum is scratched
COUNTY STAKES (WARWICK, WEDNESDAY.)
Offers to lay 2 to 1 agst Lanais, and 5 to 1 agat any
other, but no blow struck.
GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
5 to 1 agst Captain Hervey's Strongbow—taken
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Hobson's Rhedyeina—taken
Even on Lord Zetland's VOlti gu
ST. LEGER.
5 to 1 agat Mr. H. Hill's Pitseforrd—field for choice
6 to 1 agat Capt. Arehdall's Windischgratz-7 to 1
taken freely
r.
j. Scott's
coo offered
e d
8 to 1 agst Lord Enfield's Bee-hunter—taken and
afterwards m
16 to 1 agstCyprus
20 to 1 agst Mr. W. Edwards na Bolingbroke—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Murphy's Cruiskeen colt—taken
and afterwards offered
Several hundreds laid at even between one and the
field, the field always having the call; 9 to 1 taken freely
about Beehunter; 20 to 1, to 200 L, or 3001., about Boling-
broke; and I,ooo's to 30 and 20 about the Cruiskeen colt.
DERBY.
20 to 1 agst Mr. J. Powney's Lamartine—taken and
afterwards offered
25 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichols's Newminster—taken
afterwards offered
25 to 1 sgst Lord Eglinton's Hippolytus—taken and
and afterwards offered
30 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Phlegothon—taken
33 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Storm
40 to 1 agst Mr. Halford's Prime Minister—t freely
40 to 1 agst Lord Caledon's Aaron Smith—taken
3,000 to 60 agat Mr. Liley's Old Ralph Burns—taken

COPPER COINAGE.—The town-council of Sheffield
recently memorialized the Treasury for a new issue of copper
coinage; and, last Friday, they received rather a curt reply.
" I am commanded," says Sir Charles Trevelyan to the
mayor, " to inform you that as there is a superabundance of
copper coin in London, of which parties at Sheffield, or other
towns, experiencing a deficiency, can avail themselves through
a banker or other agent, my Lords do not consider it exPe
client to comply with the p raver of the memorial."
London, England, 1850-09-03

CLE.RKENWELL.

Yesterday, John Elvery, a costermonger, of
Lamb's-court, Clerkenwell-green, was placed at the
her before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged by the Rev. J.
Wilde, of Richmond-terrace, Islington, with cruelty
to a donkey.
The rev. gentleman, having been sworn, said that
on Saturday night last, between eight and nine
o'clock, he was arm-in-arm with a lady, walking in
the Holloway-road, when he saw the prisoner with a
donkey and cart, belabouring the poor animal with a
stick in a most wanton and cruel manner. Witness
remonstrated with him on the impropriety of such
conduct, but this only led to increased violence and
abuse, when the prisoner lifted up his stick and made
a blow at witness's head with it, but it missed him and
fell on the head of the donkey. The prisoner then
took out a knife, and held it as if about to stab him,
and he (witness) became so alarmed that he felt
it necessary to use every means to pacify him in
order to prevent violence. The prisoner then ex-
claimed, " What are you going to give me for striking
me in the face? " when a gentleman who witnessed
the affair told witness not to be intimidated, nor allow
the prisoner to extort money from him, which was
evidently his object. Witness aaw a policeman in
Liverpool-road, he gave him his card of address, and
explained the conduct of the prisoner. The constable
asked whether he would charge the prisoner with
cruelty to the donkey or attempting to stab him ?
charged him with cruelty to the animal, and said he
would consider as to making the charge of attempting
to stab him.

The prisoner denied the charge of cruelty to the
donkey ; but
Mr. TYRWHITT considered it proved, and sentenced
him to pay a fine of 10i., or go a fortnight to prison,
and told him he was extremely lucky in not having
the charge of assault pressed against him.
The prisoner was locked up, abusing the prosecutor
in low language, but afterwards paid the fine and was
liberated.
London, England, 1850-09-03

THE RAMBLER.

Similar in character to the foregoing perioJical,
the Rambler is equally deserving of considera-
tion. While the first contribution, by the very
nature of its theme, " Religion and Modern
Philosophy," assumes to itself a general im-
portance, the second being a notice of " Celebrated
Sanctuaries of the Madonna," is important only to the
hwlievers in CAllolicism. " Brief Notices of some
Writers of the English Franciscan Province since the
era of the Reformation," form the prelude to the
theological re-views contained in the September instal-
ment of the Rambler, from one t'f which, a criticism
on the recent writings, of the Abbe Gaume and Dr.
Miley, we extract the following remarkable introduc-
tory passage :7
"When the glorious tempi,. of King Solomon arose in
allits q!eodour upon Mount Sion, neither hammer, nor
axe, nor any tool of iron was heard within the sacred
precincts during the building. In fitting though bumble
emulation due works of the God of nature, its massive
London, England, 1850-09-03

TO CORRESPONDEN TS.

We have received the communication of William
Driver on the subject of a paragraph headed "A Shabby
Thief," which appeared in The Sun of the 30th ult.
The substance of his communication appeared in a letter
signed " J. Sturch," which appear, din The Sun of yes-
terday. Mr. Driver was not the author of the original
paragraph.
London, England, 1850-09-03

RUSSIA.

The Prussian Staats Anzeiger says that the Russian
Government has distributed a circular among the ar-
tisans of Vienna and Prague, stating that there is
employ for 300 carpenters and j.)iners in the south of
Russia. Every workman who shall present himself
shall receive a gratuity of 15 florins, independently of
the expenses of his journey.
The health of the Empress of Russia is so impaired
that she will be compelled to pass the winter in the
south of Europe.
London, England, 1850-09-03

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBES 3.
THERMOMETER, IN THR SHADE.
69—highest since noon yesterday.
49—lowest this morning and during the night.
61—this day, at noon.

BAmomrrEß, 30.27.
Wm) W.N.W.—dull, cloudy weather.
London, England, 1850-09-03

ROYAL MARINES.

Colonel Parke, C. 8., Commandant of the Woolwich
division, has an additional month's leave of absence;
Captain Fleming an additional month; Capteig Maxwell
fourteen days; Captain Onslow, Lieutenants Usher and
Gwyn, three months, and Lieutenant Pratt an additional
month—all dated August 30.
London, England, 1850-09-03

MISCELLANEOUS.

Among the periodical light literature of the day,
there are so many as to render a detailed criticism of
each impossible, but very few of such inferiority as
to deserve no mention whatever. It is, therefore,
only practicable to evade the difficulty which must
obviously arise from these two facts by a sort of
monthly omnium gatherum. Almost each profession
and nearly every class of the community has its se-
parate organ, and to each and all these respective
organs must be especially interesting. The maritime
reader, for instance, may always derive instruction
from the pages of the Nautical Magazine, and ladies
receive the . most useful and delightful hints in
regard to the toilet from the elegant designs of Le
Follet. The lover of religion must ever find his
tastes gratified by the contents of the Church of
England Magazine, and these who are solicitous in
regard to the dependencies of England obtain all re-
quired information from the Colonial Magazine. The
tiarieuituript will of course turn immediately to the
Farmer's Magazine for his facts and figures ; while
the frequenter of Inc turf will linger longest over the
lucubrations of the Sportsman. In the cur-
rent number of the last-wentioned publica-
tion, we observed some excellent contribu-
tions by Craven, Castor, Venator, Druid, Saran,
Foxglove, Itamrod, Oxonian, Gelert, and, " last but
not least," by Harry Hieover. Among those periodi-
cals which appeal to no particular section of the com-
munity, to all alike, we must refer of course espe-
cially to our old favourite, Cha be • Edinburgh
Journal, to the amusing and bountifullym2s' supplied
cßaelllfed Assembles,
eemPbleeoept People's
another elegant addition toLtah°dewielt.tat.hile
tahieladoluily popular miscellany
he
of the most estimable of theNacheCa Journal,
o of
t boudoir
or the drawing-room, the
pub-
lications is the Household
paperu condensingoos which
have pomppsiainodioinoa. l
Onerrative of Current
aEllvtehnets'oaccurr
month just concluded. Another nsearinala,rrow compass
transpired during the
though of a
London, England, 1850-09-03

THE FRENCH FLEET AT CHERBOURG.

The ships composing the squadron have been for the
Tait few days constantly exercised, but the heavy rain
that has fallen has bee❑ a great impediment to the evo-
lutions. The day before yesterday the whole fleet ex-
ercised at general quarters, and the firing was perfect.
At two o'clock P.X. a sham attack, by gun•boata, was
made upon the Flemish fort. Forty boats, each carrying
a carronade, from a 12 to a 30-pounder, were formed is
line ready for the attack, when an immense wave rolled
in and prevented the mancauvre from being executed, to
the very great disappointment of the numerous body of
spectators, who had anxiously gathered to witness its
being carried into effect. _ _

Ve regret exceedingly to relate that the gunnery
practice of the morning did not pass over without a very
serious accident, which unfortunately occurred on board
L'Hercule. It appears that afttr one or two discharges
the vent of one of the guns was not properly attended to,
and the consequence was that an explosion took place,
and two of the gunner's crew, while sponging the gun,
lost their arms, and the gunner's mate has since suffered
amputation of the thumb. The sufferers were immedi-

ately removed to the naval hospital, where they are now
lying in a very dangerous state.
The town is quite full. No lodgings can be procured
for love or money. In fact, we are really suffocated
with visitors. Our jetty presents a most unusual ap-
pearance. It is perfectly crowded with visitors, and our
only regret is that it is to be so soon doomed to return

to its usual state of dulness. We have visited the various
ships of the squadron, and can bear testimony to the po-
liteness we, in common with all strangers, have met with
from all the officers with whom we have been brought in
contact.—La Marine.

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Wilton, late of the Honourable East India Company's service,
and for nearly 25 years employed on the Bengal establishment,
suffered most intensely from an affection of the liver, indiges-
tion, and sickness of the stomach, which appeared to be rapidly
undermining his constitution, notwithstanding the treatment
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- - -

The Sardinian Government has just presented Mr.
E. A. Weod, a young gentleman only eighteen years of age,
with a splendid gold medal, for courageously taking com-
mand of a Sardinian brig from the Brazils to Genoa, when
met at sea, with captain and mate dead, and several of the
crew dead and dying, from the yellow fever raging on board,
and safely navigating her to Gibraltar, upwards a 1,090
miles, and thence to Genoa.
London, England, 1850-09-03

MOLDAVIA AND WALLACHIA.

The Turkish Government has made energetic
demands on the Russian Cabinet to withdraw the
Minim troops from the Danubian principalities, or
to declare its intentions ; whereupon Russia has in-
quired of the Hospodars whether they thought that
tranquillity was sufficiently re-established to allow of
the dispensing with this occupation. Prince GIIIHA
hesitated ; hut STRIRBET, who is under the influ-
ence of Russia, demanded two years for reflection.
Accordingly, Moldavia will remain occupied by 6,000
Russian troops, and Wallachia by 7,000.
London, England, 1850-12-14

TriZATRE ROYAL, trAYMARKF.T.

Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, oitiEtromptoil.
MR. MACRE:A.I)Y.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed KING LEAR. •King Lear, Mr. Macready.
Alter which A RADICAL CURE.
To be followed by AN ALARMING SACRIFICE.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADEIXIII.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,

_ .
Will be performed a new and original Drama. entitled JESSIE
GRAY. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Boyce, 0. Smith, P. Bed-
ord, Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam.
After which a new Ferce called THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS •
or, The Shilling Hop. Captain Kiteflyer, Mr. Boyce ; Major Stiff,
Mi. Worrell; Mr. Panels, Mr. Wright; Alexander Panels, Miss
Chaplin.

TO be followed by a new and original Farce, in the Vulgar
Tongue, to be called JACK IN THE GREEN ; or, Hints on Eti-
quette.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Kelm and Mr. Keeley.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed the First Part of HENRY IV. Falate!, Mr.
Bariley.

To Conolnde with THE WONDER.

Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr.
Massingharn ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office,
Oxford-street, from Eleven till Four o'clock.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
•
Under the Management of Madame Vestris.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,
Will be nerformed SIMPSON AND CO.
To be followed by A DAY OF RECKONING.
To conclude with A PRACTICAL MAN.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
THIS EVENING,
STIR be performed OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. G. V. Brooke.
To eonlude with ALLOW ME TO APOLOGISE.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Wader the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
•
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Last week of the gorgeous Spectacle.
Ex4raolthutry series of attractive novelties. Second week of the
Revival of TURPIN'S RIDE to 'YORK.
THIS EVENING,
The Grand new Spectacle of THE ENCHANTED PALFREY; or,
The Warrior of the Crescent.

Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes .of the Circle, introducing
the Magnificent Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes.
The whole concluding with the Equestrian Drama (tbr the first
time these live years) of TURPIN'S RIDE to YORK.
By particular desire, shortly will be produced, KENNILVi ORTH
or tne Golden Days of the Virgin Queen, with new and costly cos
tusies. .

xtensive preparations are now being made for the production of
a new and original Equestrian Comic Pant _mime, written expressly
for this Theatre. by G. H. Rodwell, Esq.
Box-oftlce open from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson.

lIIGII WATER Al LONDOI BRIDGE.
Tine DST —Morning 34 min. after 9 Evening 7 ;min. after 10
Tu.-Botany —Morning 38 min. after 10 I Evening 9 min. after 11

• THE WEATHER.—StrN OFFICE, Dicsaumn 14.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
46—highest since noon yesterday.
• 39—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 19.66.
WIND S.W. - Morning, fine sunshiny weather; Afternoon
strong breeze and cloudy.
London, England, 1850-12-14

FRANCE.

The following proposition hal; just been presented
by 18 representatives of the Assembly
:
The importation of foreign wheat to b. converfel
into flour for exportation, according to the law of sth
July, 1836, cannot be granted 20 long as wheat is under
20f. per hectelitire in all the regulating markets. Ail
ordonnances, decrees, and authorisation contrary to the
present proposition are abrogated."
London, England, 1850-12-14

NOTICE.
DISRAELI'S CHARLES I.
Tile New and Revised Edition of
THE LIFE AND REIGN OF CUAELES I.
By J. DISRAELI.
Edited by his Sou, B. DISRAELI, M.P.
Will be ready Immediately,
• In' 2 vols. Svo., price 28s.
Orders received by all Booksellers.
lleary Coburn, ru;,lisher, 13, Great Ilarlborough•strest.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
THE GRAND
IS EVE NIN NATIONAL CONCERTS.
THG.
The LAST WEEK BUT ONE of the present mum.

Labltzlry's Quadrille of " All .cations."
The Solos in " God Save the Queen," in the Great Quadrille •f All
Nations, will be sung by Madile. Angri. The Military Bands, the
Corns of Side Drums, and the English-Choristers.
Overture to Anacreon, Cherubini.

The Grand Fest Overture Lindpainter.
Grand Seleetion from Halevy's New Opera, " La Tempesta
Angri, Miss, Poole, Molique, J. and H. Labitzky, Franc, Richard-
son, Remusat, Prospere, Arban, Zeiss, Bamnann, Barret, Mayeock,
and Miss Goddard.
Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—M. Balfe.
Conductor of La Musique de Danse—Herr Labitzky.
• Promenade (admitting to the Half-Circles, Calleryl , 6
and Pit Stalls) •
-S
The Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concerts will com-
mence at Eight, and terminate about Eleven.

Boxes and Stalls to be had at the Box-oittce, where Programmes
of the performance n ay be obtained.
_ _

Mr. 1 howls Madtihs or the Polytechnic Institution, the Coloseuni
and Royal Rotel& and Zoological Gardens, 'iv ill supply the Retree
mehts and Wines, &c., &c.
London, England, 1850-12-14

YORK, DEC. 10.

STOCK EXCIIA.NGE. —The transactions to-day were ai
follow:—Caledonian, 10%—North British, S—Scottish Can-.
tral, 13—York and North Midland, 24%.

PENNY BANKs.—These admirable institutions have
already taken firm root in the metropolis, and are fast ex-
tending over the country. We regard them as schools. in
which the people are taught the best practical lessons of fore-
thought and economy. They are the schools of temperance
also, for most of what is deposited there is rescued fron
the
beershop. In Whitechapel, 8,000 depositors have presented
themselves in less than nine months; and their united accu-
mulations amounted in that time to about 2,0001., or an ave-
rage of ss. to each depositor. A small sum, truly; but, re-
member, it is only a beginning. The man who has once
learnt to practise self-denial, and to economize, will be en•
couraged to proceed, by the grateful feeling of satiefact,'on
which it invariably yields. lie will go forward, and his
strength will grow. Every lean will act in his sphere es a
missionary of providence. Habits of forethought will thu a
extend through society, and all classes will, in course of time,
experience its blessings and benefits.—Eliza Cook's JouniaL.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—At a meeting of
the Council of this institution on Thursday the follewin
members of the College were admitted Fellows, having an •
dergone the necessary examinations on the 3d and sth inst. :4
—Messrs. William Ilutherford Aucram, Valparaiso, South
America, diploma dated October 11, 1539; John Orsboru,,
Bitterne, near Southampton, January 10, 1840; and JIMMIE;
Robert Lane, Grosvenor-place, itay,2B, 1847.
London, England, 1850-12-14

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

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Streets, Churches, &c.; with the Cab Fares, and other necessary
i nforma Lion. _ .

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York, Dec. 12.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
I❑ the early part of the day the Court was occupied
in trying cases unfit for publication.
William kamsden was charged with having forged an
acceptance to a bill of exchange for 91. 155., with intent
to defraud John Bincks. There were other counts,
charging the prisoner with uttering the same bill of ex-
change, knowing it to be forged.
Mr. Shaw prosecuted, and Mr. Overend defended the
prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutor resided at Wakefield,
and on the Bth of last August the prisoner brought him
a bill of exchange for 91. 155., purporting to be drawn
by the prisoner on and accepted by Joseph Wilby and
Son, of Ossett, near Wakefield. The prosecutor, how-
ever, declined to discount the bill; but eventually, on
the prisoner's assuring him that the acceptors were
most respectable men, gave him cash for it, and the pri-
soner endorsed it to him. On the bill being presented
for payment when at maturity at Messrs. Denison and
Co.'s, bankers, London, at whose bank it was made pay-
able, it was dishonoured, and it ultimately turned out
that there was no such firm as "Joseph Wilby and Son,
Ossett."
It was suggested for the defence that the prisoner
knew nothing about the bill being a forgery; that he had
taken it from a person named Cook, who had since ab-
sconded; and it was proved by a brother of the prisoner
that, according to his belief, the body of the bill was not
in the prisoner's handwriting.
his LORDSHIP directed the jury that, if they were of
opinion that the bill was made by the prisoner, writing
the acceptance of a person who did not exist was forgery
as much as imitating the signature of a real party.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
ll° was sentenced to be transported for ten years.
Henry Bowers was charged with having stolen a mare,
on the Bth of September last, at Raistaorpe, the pro-
perty of John Jewison.
Mr. Simpson prosecuted ; the prisoner was unde-
fended.
It appeared that on Sunday morning, the Bth of Sep-
tember, the prosecutor missed his mare from the field
where it was turned out, and thereupon caused an ad-
vertisement to he published describing the mare lost.
About twelve o'clock the same night a policeman saw the
prisoner riding the mare bare-backed near Doncaster,
and suspecting that all was not right accosted the pri-
London, England, 1850-10-26

PROTECTION AGAINST BURGLARS.

Sir,—The recent melancholy murder at Frimley,
and the numerous alarming attacks made by house-
breakers on the inmates of detached country houses,
has induced me to trespass on your valuable columns
with a plan I adopted to give alarm when beset by
several of these burglars.
Some years since I resided in a detached house, at
Snaresbrook, Epping Forest. On taking possession
I was informed that the former occupants had been
all of them, more or less, robbed, and was advised by
one of the horse patrol to keep some signal crackers
in my bed-room, and instead of trusting to fire-arms
alone in case of alarm of robbers, to light one of
the crackers. Accordingly one very dark morning,
about three o'clock, I was disturbed by footsteps
and other noises, which convinced me there were
several men about the grounds. I gently got out of
bed, lit the touch-papers of two crackers, and passed
to the window in such a manner that my shadow from a
burning lamp should not be seen by any one outside.
I then very gently raised the lower sash of the win-
dow, and threw the two crackers on to the lawn. In
a second or two the crackers began to explode ; 12
explosions took place, Rich with the report of a pistol,
and aroused all the inmates. Five men were seen
immediately rush to the gates, and scrambling over,
with dreadful imprecations, made their way into the
forest.

The reports set the dogs barking and the cocks
crowing, until the whole neighbourhood was dis-
turbed. Such was the effect, that on the arrival of
the Norwich mail at the Eagle Inn, Snaresbrook,
about o' o'clock, the guard inquired what had been the
matter, as the dogs had been barking and the cocks
crowing for many miles on the road. From that
night until I changed my residence, four years after-
wards, I remained undisturbed by any intruders of
that description. Thus, my first experiment was
most successful, and needed no repetition. You may
be assured no gang of thieves will remain a moment
on any premises after the explosion commences.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
W. J. HALL.
17, Trinity-square, Tower-hill, Sept. 24.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.