The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-24 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDA Y EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1850.

TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.

1 Last night was the triumph of native talent. Miss
Goddard made the most successful debut as a pianiete
that has ever Leen known of late year., and we are
happy to say the success was as deserved as it was
triumphant. She has on this, her first appear-
ance in public, at once taken her station in the very
first rank of pianists. She is a pupil of Thalberg,
and never has he had a pupil who did greater justice
to his intructions. Miss Goddard performed
Thalberg's fantasia on themes from the Elixir
d' Amore, and when encored substituted for
it Prudent's arrangement of "A to o cara ;" in the
second part she performed Thalberg's Tarentalla, and
when encored substituted Blumenthal's " Croat
March." Nothing could exceed the delicacy and
firmness of her touch, or the brilliancy and accuracy
of her execution ; she was repeatedly applauded
during the course of her performance, and was called
on at the conclusion. She excited a prfectfurorc.
HAYMARKET THEATRE:

A pleasant two-actcomedy,adapted from the French,
by Mr. Charles Selby, was produced here last evening,
under the title of The Husband of my Heart. The
scene is laid in Paris, in the time of Louis XV. The
King, it appears, has ordered the Duke de Fronsac
(Mr. Howe) to marry Mademoiselle de Noailles, an
order with which the Duke is, of course, forced to
comply ; but he t urns his head from his bride during
the whole time they are at the altar, and on the com-
pletion of the ceremony leaves her without once
looking at her. The Duchess (Miss Reynolds) is,
however, sincerely and devotedly attached to him—
he is, in truth, the husband of her heart, and she de-
termines, if possible, to win his love. -With this ob-
ject in view, knowing the Duke's propensity to low
amours, she disguises herself as a market girl, and thus
attracts the attention of the Duke and of a certain
Viscount de Belletulippe (Mr. C. Selby), a coxcomb
companion of the Duke, and who had formerly been
a suitor to the Duchess, but who had been indig-
nantly rejected. The Viscount recognises her in her
disguise, but does not betray her, as he has " an idea"
of getting her into his power. The market girl suc-
ceeds in her design, and so ardent is the love of the
Duke that he actually promises to make her his
Duchess should he succeed in freeing himself from his
hated bonds. An officer of the Bastille arrives to
arrest him, by order of the King, for having deserted
his bride, and now comes the important crisis in
the life and happiness of the Duchess. She must re-
veal the truth ; and, the truth revealed, will the
Duke love the Duchess es ardently as he
has loved the market girl ? The acting of
Miss Reynolds in this trying scene was most graceful,
yet truthful withal and full of pathos, and produced
'an immense effect. The Duke does love the Duchess
as he had loved the market girl, and she has secured
the husband of her heart; whilst the Viscount, who
has chosen to make love to Eugenie (Mrs. Fitzwil-
Ham), a young poissarde, the affianced bride of
Brioche (Mr. Buckstone), is obliged to compound for
his folly by paying a large sum of money to Madame
C6quillard (Mrs. Stanley), the mother of Eugenie,
after having been soundly thrashed by the poissardes
for his impertinence. The part of the Duchess was
exquisitely acted by Miss Reynolds; there was a deli-
cacy and refinement about her personation of the
'character which was most fascinating. She was well
supported by Mr. Howe, as the Duke ; and Selby, as
'the coxcomb Viscount, was most amusingly ridiculous.
Mrs. Fitzwilliam made the most interesting of pois-
sardes, and sang a new ballad, composed for her by
Mr. German Reed, with great spirit ; and Buckstone,
as her lover, was the most grotesquely jealous and
infuriated of pastrycooks. All the artistes were called
on at the conclusion, and the comedy was announced
for repetition every evening with the hearty and
unanimous concurrence of the audience. The theatre
was very well attended.

THE PREVENTION OF CRIME•

LETTER 111.

TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE GREY,
BART., M. P., &e. &c.
Sir,—ln pointing out one mode by which my pro-
posal could be fairly carried into execution, the first
point, and assuredly it is one which I do not mean to
shirk, is the question of transportation, how far it
should he considered a proper mode of punishment,
with reference to the criminal, the mother country,
and to the colony to which the convict is transported.
After the most attentive perusal and re-perusal of
the evidence taken before Sir William Molesworth'.
Committee, I am unable to refer to one single sen-
tence, containing either a fact or an opinion, the
latter with a reason attached or anything purporting
to be one, against a proper system of transportation ;
although every page is replete with the most conclu-
sive testimony against the system adopted by Govern-
ment, proving that it has produced the most diabo-
lical results.
And again I would remark, that if ate wit of the
wittiest, combined with the judgment of the most
sagacious, were asked to reply to the question, What
is the best possible mode to adopt in order to render
a convict the greatest possible curse to the colony to
which he is sent ? there could be but one answer,
Do as we have done, adopt our system and the result
must be similar.
Before your convict is sent abroad take as much
care as possible that he is well practised in every
crime ; let him have gone the round of many prisons,
in order that his acquaintance among the votaries of
guilt may be most extensive; when you find that be
has well advanced in crime, from his first offence of
picking pockets to that of an expert housebreaker,
then send him to the colonies, and if you should
happen to be an hereditary legislator, and your assur-
ance is equal to your ignorance, express your unqua-
lified surprise, that a colony should be so regardless
of its interests as ungratefully to decline receiving
those with whose criminal education you had taken
such unwearied pains.
But at the same time be mindful of the paramount
claims of the mother country on so accomplished a
convict ; transport him in the first place for seven years
only, and then you keep his mind well occupied with
the pleasing thought, how soon the time will pass by
when he will be restored to his mother country, to
whom he will show his gratitude by recounting to an
admiring audience how delightful is the residence in
a tropical climate, where it is unnecessary to work
hard to obtain all the comforts of life.
One point you must not lose sight of ; in establish-
ing your colony take the greatest care that for the
first fifty years you send out no minister of religion,
no schoolmaster, and appoint your governors, not on
account of their capacity, but because they have been
useful to your party.
Can you, Sir George Grey, put your finger on one
line in the four preceding paragraphs, and deny that
such is the system we have practised, and I ask you
if it be not just as illogical, and just as untrue, to say
that the infamous state of our penal colonies is owing
to a wise and judicious system of transportation, as
it would be to attribute the massacre of St. Bartho-
lomew, or the atrocities of the Inquisition, to our
blessed Saviour, for having been the Founder of the
Christian Religion, in whose name such abominations
were perpetrated.
But fortunately we have on this very question,
"The Prevention of Crime," examples precisely in
point ; in Howard's work on the State of Prisons,
dated 1775, you will learn that practices just as
infamous as those narrated before Sir William
Molesworth's Committee were of daily occurrence
in every gaol in the kingdom ; yet that Christian
philosopher did not propose the abolishment of prisons,
a most easy suggestion, but devoted his time, his
energies, and his fortune to improve them.
So also with respect to the hulks. In 1785 a Com-
mittee of the House of Commons reported, "That
they had singularly contributed to improve the prac-
tice of villany." . . .." That after the expiration of
their sentences they returned into the mass of the
community, not reformed in their principles, but con-
firmed in every vicious habit; that when they
regained their liberty no parish would receive them,
and no person give them work; thakbeing shunned
by their former acquaintance, and baffled in every
attempt to gain their bread, the danger of starving
almost inevitably led them to a renewal of their
former crimes."
And yet the hulks were not abolished, but reformed,
so slowly, however, that Mr. Holford, speaking in
the House of Commons upon the subject, used nearly
the same language, at various times from 1814 to
1825 ; but the truth is that in dealing with criminals
there is only a choice of evils before us, and the only
judicious mode of solving the question, What system
will produce the least evil and the most good ? is to
compare their effects upon the criminal, upon society,
and upon the colony.
I have the honour to remain, Sir,
Your most obedient and faithful servant,
RIGBY WASON.
Corwar, Oct. 19, 1850.

TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE GREY
BART., M.P., &c., &c.

Sir,—ln The Sun paper of the 17th inst., I ob-
served a letter addressed to you, signed "Rigby
Watson," which for its deep imperial import should
be circulated through every vein of all our empire,
because it recommends an awful experiment as an act
of preventive justice--" that all persons should be
transported for the first offence." I have not the
honour of knowing the worthy writer, either person-
ally or by reputation, but, from circumstances, infer
that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and entitled to
credence when he asserts his intention to be one of
kindness to the prisoners. Be he right or wrong, 1
respect his moral courage, and will leave his concep-
tion, its consummation, and its consequences, to the
estimate of every human heart, wherever that heart
may beat and pour out the " Lord's Prayer" to
Heaven.

The power which judges now have to transport for
life for the second offence, should be, in his opi-
nion, not discretionary, but imperative. As it is pos-
sible that these suggestions may lead to a Parliamen-
tary narrowing of the meshes of the legislatorial web,
I will respectfully submit to you, Sir, as a legislator
and lawyer, the very intelligible and ingenious—some
senses are so blunted as to believe it ingenuous—plan
to make escape on the
second offence hopeless, which
has been long practised in Devon, with almost infal-
lible success.

The certificate of former conviction, written on
white paper, very frequently more spacious, con-
sequently more attractive to the eye, is affixed to the
face of the yellow parchment on which the bill is en-
grossed, and in this working state sent up to
the
grand jury, who, having doubtless well digested botb,
return them to the court, whose officer opens them
before the petty jury, who from practice will interpret
the " rider ;" but lest they should notl he tells tbem,
on arraignment, that the crime they have to try was
committed after a former offence.
I respect your judgment, Sir, and that of my
country too deeply to offer a single comment on the
consequences, for nature instinctively and intuitively
recoils from its contemplation.
th
Legislatures are often colidemdod when the error is
in the legal construction. Here, Sir, can be no doubt,
though the law be disregarded by the Court ; there it
stands, n monumentaseetionnlof of legislative
6 s
enacts "that the reading of the statement of a former
offence shalt 'be deferred until after the verdict of the
petty jury."
Why ? To prevent it from being pre-
judicial to the prisoner. ilaantidve7just lirinice. Is nvd.,
which
lour.
n
To this aw I last week respectfully endeavoured to
call the attention of Devon's Honourable Court of
Quarter Sessions, of which the Hon. Lord Viscount
Courtenay was Chairman, when I was, by his Lord-
ship, rather peremptorily put down.
which
There are few circumstances under reflective
comparisons will not afford to us some consolations;.
for bad as things are, I prefer living, even in this
and legal Bcetia, under the laws of a misguided
those of a mad
mis-
guiding " Drake," rather than under
and murderous "Draco."
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
CHARLES BIRD.

PENNY POSTAGE AND STEEL PENS.—But, during
in this year that
-•
the'last ten years, the natural desire to learn to write, of that
part of the youthful population Which education can reach,
has received a great moral impulse by a wondrous develop-
nuinenittedofKtihnegdmomos:aussseefvulenatnvd.sipxlemasitlilrioaln;le; exercise of that
power. The uniform penny postage has been established.
In the year.lB3B, the whole number of letters delivered in the
annual delivery has reached the prodigious number of three
hundred and thirty-seven millions. In 1838, a Committee of
the House of Commons thus denounced, amongst the great
commercial evils of the high rates of postage, their injurious
effects upon the great bulk of the People:—" They either act
wedatiational
—C dared
boldly
as a grievous tax on the poor, causing them to sacrifice their
little earnings to the pleasure and advantage of correspond-
ing with their distant friends, or compel them to forego such
intercourse altogether ; thus subtracting from the small
amount of their enjoyments, and obstructing the growth and
maintenance of their best affections." Honoured be tha man
who broke down these barriers! Praised be the Government
that, f
to
r legislateonce,
t.o r steppingthe
domesticout o f
happiness, fiscal t r atmh e-
progress, and the moral elevation of the masses! The steel
pen, sold at the rate of a peony a dozen, is the creation, in a
considerable degree, of the Penny Postage
stamp, as the
Penny Postage stamp was a representative, if not a creation,
of the new educational power. Without the steel pen, it may
reasonably be doubted whether there were mechanical means
within the reach of the great bulk of the population for
writing the three hundred and thirty-seven millions of letters
that now annually pass through the Post-office. —.Dickens's
" Household Words."
By an advertisement in another column it will be
seen that the plan for establishing another bank in the me-
tropolis on the Scotch system, under the title of " The
London and Suburban Bans," has been matured. The head-
quarters will be at the West-end, it having originated, as
we understand, in the desire of the inhabitants of Maryle •
to,* St. Pancras, and Paddington, to obtain greater bank-
ing accommodation than they at present possess, and who
have already taken up a large portion of the alarm

TIIE MIS I-1 PACKET STATION.
TO 771 E EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—On the short sea passage question, the fol-
lowing, partly official, return will be likely to prove
of interest to some of your readers :

'Distance in Nauticaf
Miles. Area.
(Area over live
New tt low water fathoms deep
York. Halifax. Spring Tides.'at low water.
Acres. I Acres.
2.790 •..',•24
`2,77, 2,222
2,730 2,167 1.370 533

Cork to
Galway 2,222
Bantry 2,167 1.370 533
Crookhaven ~ 2,156 .350 84
Berehaven ,, 2,732 I 2,150 2.900 1.900
The distance table appears in the Irish journals,
and the area I take from Captain Wolfe's R.N.
Chart, he having, previous to his decease, a few years
since, surveyed these ports under the Admiralty.
Crookhaven and Berehaven, which appear so promi-
nent in these tables, are the one 30 and the latter 40
longitude miles west of Galway; besides the consi-
deration of their being situate on the very point,
which is the great landfall of the American packets.
The Railway Commissioners, who in 1836 inquired
into this subject, report.—" Of the very superior
qualities of Berehaven as a port there can be no
question whatever." And Captain Evans, R.N., who
surveyed and reported on the Western Coast, under
this Commission, states----" Could a railway be made
from Dublin to Bantry, Berehaven would possess every
advantage necessary for a packet station, namely,
facility of ingress and egress in all weather, that a
ship could keep the sea, a good harbour (Bantry)
under the lee when beating out, plenty of sea room
when once well outside the bay, and, owing to the
prevailing winds being S.W. and W., a vessel leaving
Berehaven would command the coasts of Spain, Por-
tugal, and the Mediterranean, as well as be in the
most desirable spot of departure for either the West
Indies or America; it is well situated for steam com-
munication with the south of Ireland and England,
and is a harbour that in a political point of view
should not be left unprotected, being the only one en
the Irish coast which an enemy's fleet would run for."
From this official testimony, given at a period when
the great " steam race which has begun for the ern-
, pire of the sea" was no way anticipated—much less
the changes in France from the Prince of Peace at
St. Eu to Louis Napoleon at Cherbourg—it is evident
that Berehaven is destined to play an important part
in the future history of the nation; and, as a port of
which very little is known in England, you may
consider •a short sketch of the locality worthy of
insertion.
The haven of Bere comprises that portion of the
fine navigable Bay of Bantry within Bere Island on
the north-west shore. Of its formation I could give
no better description than that applied by Virgil to
another harbour—

" There lies a bay,
An island shades it from the rolling sea,
And forms a port secure for ships to ride,
Broke by the jutting land on either side."
DRYDEN.
Between these jutting points the haven in length may
be eight, with an average breadth of two miles, with
14 fathoms on the two entrances, good holding
ground, and excellent shelter. A first-class harbour
light has since 1847 been exhibited at the eastern
mouth, and the shores outside will be shortly bright-
ened by the tower in prbgress on the Solitary Fast-
nett (Carrig•enar). In 1836 the Commissioners had
a line surveyed from Dublin to Berehaven. By a
different route uia Bandon the rail will be laid down
next spring on three-fourths of the distance between
Dublin and Bere.

The town, 18 miles due west of Glengariffe, ex-
tends along the shore on the N.W. angle of the
haven ; and, from its very neat appearance, every
house being well slated and white-washed, adds to
the beauty of the picture as seen from the Bantry
road—thNmajestic bills stretching along the shore
from Knockoura to Dade—the ridge on
-Bare Island
rising 700 feet, dotted with numerous martello
towers, the noble basin of Berebaven outside, the
vast Atlantic sinking into mist, and within the
grandeur of that noble Bay of Bantry—all make up a'
highly sublime panorama of Nature. Castletown
contains a post-office, fish curing establishment of
the Society of Friends, and the usual Irish adjuncts
of church, chapel, and poorhouse. The chapel is an
old building, both the others new and rather hand-
some structures, the poorhouse being the neatest I
have seen in Ireland. The hotel (Harrington's) is a
large concern, but will bear some improvement in its
internal accommodation.

Cork, Oct. 19.

I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
G. P. O.

* Second Report R. C., 1838.

MEETING OF THE CABINET.

The Cabinet, which would not otherwise have as-
sembled till the 6th of next month, met yesterday, at
a very short notice, on a question of considerable
urgency. The disgraceful conduct of Prussia, in
helping to protect the Schleswig-Holstein war, not
only in spite of a treaty of peace with Denmark, but
actually under cover of the treaty, and by means of
it, has led to a very natural—we might almost say
:egititnate consequence. The Governments of
Russia and of France have jointly proposed to the
Government of this country, that the three Powers
shall peremptorily require Prussia to fulfil her recent
engagement with Denmark, and withdraw the sup•
port she still continues to give to the Schleswig-liol-
stein army. In the event of Prussia hesitating to
comply with this reasonable demand, Russia and
France are proposed to back it, not by an unprofitable
march to the territory under dispute, but in a way
more congenial to their tastes,—by an invasion of the
Silesian provinces of Prussia on the one side, and the
Rhenish on the other. In the first instance, how-
ever, they require the co-operation of Eng-
land in the remonstrance with Prussia, with-
out which they are not prepared to move at
present. The answer of the British Government may
perhaps be anticipated. It declines to join with Russia
and France in such a note as we have described, but
proposes that all three Powers shall separately re-
monstrate with Prussia on her present breach of faith
with the Danish Government. Whether their triple
remonstrances will be of more avail than all the rest
of the diplomacy that has been lavished on this affair,
is a question on which we will not venture to give an
opinion.
The interests of justice and of order require that
Prussia should be compelled to desist from a course
dangerous to the faith of treaties anti the peace of the
world ; nor is it likely that a weak Government
under popular influence will listen to a mere verbal
expostulation. It is too possible that the Court of
Berlin may yet have to endure the indignity of a me-
nace, and no respectable Power will threaten where
it is not also ready to execute its threats. But the
administration of justice and order ought to be clear
even from the ft uspicior, of interested motives if it is
to have any moral weight, or even the most
moderate success. To check the designs of Prussia
by forwarding the designs of Russia and France
is not furthering justice, but substituting one act
of injustice for another, and making one underhand
wrong a pretence for two manifest outrages. There
is a want of logic in the whole proposition. What
have the Rhenish provinces and Silesia to do with the
Schleswig-Holstein affair, already sufficiently com-
plicated on its own merits ? The motive is intelli-
gible enough. Both Russia and France have lately
been doing some knight errantry of a most thankless
and disagreeable character, and it is very natural they
should begin to think Europe rather in their debt.
The two provinces we have mentioned would be very
appropriate guerdons for our two great Conservative
neighbours at St. Petersburgh and Paris. There is a
necessity too under which all Presidents and Consuls
unfortunately labour. If they wish to be re-elected,
or to have a name in history, they must mark their
brief tenure of office with some glorious feat,or valu-
able acquisition. With Cologne and Coblentz occu-
pied by French troops, Louis Napoleon would be safe
for another four years, at least, and be able to dis-
pense with half the garrison at Paris. But it is not
so easy to say when and where the matter would end,
and whether the judicial,mutilation of Prussia at both
her extremities would be the last act of the drama.
Germany would probably be more alive to the claims
of national sympathy than of public justice, and even
Austria, notwithstanding her tremendous obligations,
might not be, able to resist an appeal to the common
fatherland.
That such an offer should be made to the British
Government, and that such,results as we have alluded
to should be brought within the compass of possi-
bility, is enough to mark the very serious character
of the part which Prussia is new playing. The mul-
titude of all countries invariably measure the acts of
a nation solely by its end, and if the end is to their
taste they think the means sufficiently sacred. Of
course, therefore, so glorious an end as the rescue of
Schleswig-Holstein from the Danish yoke will be
held to justify the interference of all Germany in the
quarrel. But, if nationality is a fact and independ-
ence a blessing, faith is something more than tither,
for it is a duty. There was an armistice, which was
concluded by a treaty of peace between Prussia and
Denmark. Forthwith, on the signing of that treaty,
Prussia released from military service hosts of
officers and privates, who, it was notorious,
were desirous to join the Schleswig-Hol-
stein army. In effect, she desisted from open
war in order that she might take to mere brigand-
age. The war is now carried on by Prussians, and,
if General Willisen is more brilliant on paper than in
the field, it is not for want of the best intentions on
the part of his master, who would much prefer a con-
quest to a treatise on war. It is impossible that
Europe can go on for ever seeing a small though gal-
lant people wantonly destroyed by a neighbour at the
same time unscrupulous and powerful. There will
be some interference in the end, if Prussia will not
submit to be advised, and we see that an interference

of a most questionable character has been actually
proposed. The ball is now with the British Govern-
ment, which, having declined one suggestion, is ex-
pected to make another. All depends on the nature
of the remonstrance to be addressed to the Court of
Prussia, which ought, of course, to have due regard
to the dignity of a great military power, but ought
also to leave no doubt that Prussia must consult her
own dignity,as well as her faith with Denmark.—
Times.

IRELAND.

SALES OF ENCUMBERED ESTATES.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING.—The business of
the second session of the Encumbered Estates Court
commenced yesterday, when no less than seven pro-
perties changed hands io the brief space of four hours.
The first sale was of lands in the county of Tipperary,
the property of Mr. Cooper Crawford, yielding a net
profit rent of 3641. 4s. 10d. It was set up in sepa•
rate lots, but there being no bidders the whole was
offered, and purchased by the petitioner in the case for
the sum of 6,0001. An estate in the county of Cork
was put up in eight lots, all of which were disposed
of, the whole producing 10,7001. The aggregate
rental was 851/. 2s. 4d. The third sale was also of
property in the county of Cork, part of the estates of
Mr. Robert Warren, together with houses and pre-
mises in the city of Cork, the latter of which realised
8001. The property in the county yielded an annual
rental of 558/., subject, however, to several heavy
annuities which materially deteriorated the value of
the whole. It was disposed of in four lots, and brought
4,4601. A small estate in the county of Limerick,
producing a profit rent of little over 1001. per annum,
sold for 1,5201. Some lands in the county
of Dublin, yielding a yearly profit rent of 1881.,
were sold, after a brisk competition, for 3,0001. A
property in the county of Kildare was offered i❑ four
lots, but one of which found a purchaser at 2,625/.
The sale of the other lots was adjourned, the sums bid
being deemed below the value. The last and most
important sale was of an estate in the county of
Wexford, the first lot consisting of 865 a. Ir. 7ip.
statute measure, and producing 1,1971. ls. 3d. per
annum, including the value of land in owner's pos-
session. Mr. N. M. Power bid 10,0001.; Mr. Edward
Carlton, 10,500/. ; Sir Robert Beeson, 11,0001.
After some advances Mr. Power bid 16,0001. Sale
deferred to a later period of the day, and was pur-
chased by Mr. Power for 17,500/. Lot 2.—The fee
and inheritance of and in the lands of Bolderan, con-
taining 488 a. lr. 16p. statute measure, and producing
a perpetual head rent of 461.35. ld. per annum. The
following were the biddings :—Mr. Carlton, 500/. ;
Mr. Daniel Thorpe, 800/. ; Mr, Power, 1,000/. ; Mr.
Benjamin Conn, 1,050/. ; Mr. Power, MOO/. The
latter was declared the purchaser at 1,1601. The
three remaining lots produced over 1,600/. The
court adjourned at four o'clock.

THE NEW LAW APPOINTMENTS.

The Right Hon. James Henry Monahan was yes-
terday sworn in before the Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas. At the same time Mr. John Hat-
chell took the oaths as Attorney-General, and Mr.
Henry George Hughes was sworn in as Solicitor-
General. Mr. Edmund Mooney has been appointed
to the office of clerk to the Attorney-General.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, OCT. 23.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness, and the
younger members of the Royal Family, were pre-
vented by the inclemency of the weather from taking
their usual early walk this morning.

A Cabinet Council was held at one o'clock yes-
terday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Minis-
ters present were Lord John Russell, the Lord
Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George
Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John
Hobhouse, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, and the
Marquis of Clanricarde.
The Marquis %of Lansdowne came to town to at-
tend the Council from his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts.
The 'Council sat three hours.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed the 2d of Nov.
for the reception of the Lord Mayor elect, in order to
signify her Majesty's approbation of the choice of the
Livery of London. The ceremony will take place
at his Lordship's residence in Eaton-square, at eleven
o'clock.

On the same day, at twelve o'clock (the first of
Michaelmas term), the Lord Chancellor will receive
the Judges, Queen's Counsel, &c. The Noble and
Learnet Lord will afterwards proceed to Westminster
Hall.

The Attorney-General had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday, at the Home•office.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BRIGHTON RACES.

BRIGHTON, WEDNESDAY.—In consequence of the bad-
ness of the weather, the races are put uff to Thursday.
WILTSHIRE CHAMPION COURSING MEETING.

WEDNESDAY.
The Druid Cup (continued).
Mr. Jebb's Ringdove bt Mr. Eddleatone's Sefton.
First Ties—Racer bt Cerito (drawn), Ebb It Sincerity,
Maggie Lauder bt Garibaldi, Ringdove bt Wencb, Com-
pact bt Columbine, Estelle bt Beau (drawn), War Eagle
bt Switch, Mocking Bird bt Lady Mary.
Tho Great Western Cup.
First Ties—Cobra bt Eddy, The Nailer bt,Catalani,
Whiff bt Mann inillia, Irish Girl bt Lethe, "Vestal bt
Retnnant,Marce ivrer bt Bluebeard, Egypt bt Lady Loch-
leven, ruzzl&em bt Sontag.

The Beacon Hill Stakes.

Captain Bezant's Bhurtpore bt Mr. Bowles's Hudbiras.
Mr. Clowes' California bt Capt. Wyndham's Westwind.
Mr. Etwall's First bt Mr. Randall's Run-again.
Mr. Miller's Magistrate bt Sir J. Boswell's Bradshaw.
Mr. Paxley's Pbelim bt Mr. Majoribanks' Malt.
Mr. Lawrence's Lopez bt Mr. Parkinson's Sharp Shooter.
Mr. Bowles's Jack's the Lad bt Sir St. G. Gore's Argentine.
Mr. Randall's Rory O'More bt Mr. Noyes's Nelson.
The Elston Stakes.
Mr. Randall's Victoria bt Sir J. Boswell's Cornclips.
Sir St. G. Gore's Panoply bt Mr. Etwall's Saga.
Captain Wyndham's Victory bt Mr. Moreton's Medora.

LITERPOOL POLICE.--The grand jury attending at
the quarter sessions now being held, on Tuesday made an
important presentment, signed by their foreman, Mr. H. C.
Chapman, in which they refer to the following topics:-
1. They recommend the establishment of a penitentiary in
Liverpool for the reformation of juvenile offenders. 2. They
complain that the police establishment has been reduced to
the extent of 300 men, 17 which felonies and assaults were
encouraged, and great difficulty found in meeting with an
officer when wanted. B. They complain of the general in-
structions to the police, by which officers are prohibited from
taking offenders into custody unless they actually see the
offence committed ; and they suggest as a remedy that the
magistrates should swear in resident 101. householders as
special constables, whose evidence the law would recognise;
and thus a detective police would be established without
cost, and vagabonds deterred from committing outrages i❑
the streets and suburbs of Liverpool. At a meeting which
the county magistrates held on Tuesday, it was unanimously
resolved that a mounted police force should be at once esta-
blished for the protection of the outskirts of the town during
the winter months, the organization of which is again en-
trusted to Robert Neilson, Esq., of Hazlewood.

ACCIDENT TO LADY EMILY FOLEY.—On Saturday
morning as the carriage cf Lady Emily Foley, with four
beautiful grey horses, entered the High Town on their way
to the Show Ground, in consequence of the slippery state of
the road one of the leaders swerved, slipps€l, and fell, by
which the boy who was riding was thrown off and fell under
their feet; the postilion on the wheeler, however, imme-
diately pulled up, and the boy was extricated from his
perilous situation, with his arm and face slightly cut and
bruised. Her Ladyship and a gentleman who accompanied
her alighted and remained in the shop of Mr. Phillips,
bookseller, until the poor boy bad been attended to and the
horses removed, when she again entered the carriage and
was driven to the Show Ground in her accustomed happy
spirits. A considerable crowd assembled at the time of the
accident, and it appeared a source of pleasure to all to find
that her Ladyship was eaabled to leave the carriage in safety
and with but little alarm.—Hereford Journal.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE SOUTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY TEIMINUS.—At the Waterloo-road station yester-
day a number of men were making ready the five P.M. train
for Southaqipton, when Thomas Martin, one of the porters,
made an, attempt to cross through a vacuicy between a
number of carriages. Unfortunately, at that instant six or
seven men pushed a number of carriages forwards with such
violence as to force the poor fellow against the buffers both
back and front. The unfortunate man uttered a faint shriek,
and fell across the metals of the line, and the carriages
having been detachedllartin was extricated, but quite in-
sensible. lie was immediately placed in a cab and re-
moved to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he died soon after his
admission.

LETTICE ARNOLD.—Readers of every class will be
gratified by learning that one of the most popular of our
writers of fiction, the gifted author of " Emilia Wyndham,"
" Two Old Men's Tales," Ste., is before the public, with
another of her deeply interesting narratives. Her new work
is called " Lettice Arnold," and besides being one of those
touching portraits of female excellence, which only her
graceful pen can accomplish, embodies a story of singular'
power and beauty, in which the defects of our social system
—particularly as regards the treatment of young females in
certain positions—are forcibly illustrated.
DEATH OF AN OPULENT CROSSING SWEEPER.—
Yesterday Mr. H. M. Wakley, the deputy coroner, held an
inquest at the Marylebone workhouse on the body of Andrew
Riley, an aged crossing sweeper, who had for many years
officiated at the corner of Baker-street, Portman-square, and
whose ready wit and quaint replies had gained him many
friends amongst the residents of the neighbourhood. It ap-
peared that upon Thursday last, whilst pursuing his avoca-
tions, he was knocked down by a four-wheeled cab, and sus-
tained injuries which in the end proved fatal. The deceased
was in the habit of saying that he had fought under his Ma-
jesty in the Rebellion of '92, and since then in the Peninsula,
and had often come across Master " Boney," whom he de-
scribed as a "rare 'cute, but slippery customer." He had
succeeded, in his crossing, an old gentleman who had amassed
a large fortune. Riley himself resided at a lodging-house in
Henrietta-street, Manchester-square, where he occupied the
best apartments. He frequently boasted of his wealth, and
was wont upon grand occasions to regale his comrades with
the best of everything. He is stated to have paid a heavy
' sum for the goodwill of the crossing, which, however, amply
remunerated him for his outlay. The verdict was " Acci-

dental deutb."
LAW AGENT FOR. THE CITY.—We understand
that, at a private meeting of the Town Council yesterday, it
was agreed to accept the resignation of Mr. Peter Anderson,
W.S.. as law-agent for the City, and to appoint Mr. Patrick
Graham; W.S., as his successor. Mr. Graham, we may
mention, has, for a number of years past, conducted the chief
,part of the law business of the city, and with much satisfac-
tion to the Town Gonna—Scotsman.