The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-14 00:00:00

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF FRIDAY.
DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 13, 1850.

The Queen has ken pleased to appoint William Bage,
Esq., to be Engineer for her Majesty's Settle,
meats in the asnabia.
WHITEHALL, SEPT. 11.

The Queen his been pleased' to present the Reveren.
George Alexander to the church and parish of Renfrew,
in the presbytery cf Paisley and county of Renfrew,
vacant by the deposition of Mr. James Gray Wood,late
minister the:eof,
NEW WELT FOR MONTGOMERYSHIRE.

In pursuance of the directions of an Act, passed in the
twenty-fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty King
George the Third, intituled " An Act to repeal so much
of two Acts, made in the tenth and fifteenth years of the
reign of his present Majesty, as authorizes the Speaker
of the House .of Commons to issue his warrant to the
Clerk of the Crown for making out writs for the election
of Members to servo in Parliament, in the manner.
therein men'ioned, and for substituting other provisions
fur the like purpot_cs:"
I do hereby give notice, that the death of the Right
Hon. Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, late a Member
serving in this present Parliament for the county of
ontgenery, hch been certified to me in wriing, un-
der the hands of two Member.; serving in this present
Parliament, and that I shall issue my warrant to the
Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the elect-
ing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for
the said county, at the end of fourteen days after the
insertion of this notice in the London Uazcit2.
Given under my hand the 11th day of Sept.. 1850,
CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE, Speaker.

OFFICE 01? ORDNANCE, SEPT. 13.
Royal lt(,githent of Artillery—The Rev. Walter Me,
till Wright to be Chaplain, vice Tuson, resigned, Sept. I
Corps of Royal Evineers—Lieutenaut-ColanA Wil-
liam Henry Slade to be Colonel, vice Holloway, deceased,
Sept. 5.

Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ilaidingtonshire.
E.lst.L)thian Ycoinanry Cavalry—The Earl of Gif-
ford to bo Captain, vice Sandilandr, resigned; James
Kellie, M.D., t) be Surgeon.
BANKRUPTS.
George Ketcher, innkeeper, Asheldham, Essex, to
surrender Sept. 28, at half-past one, and Oct. 25, at one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official as-
signee, Basinghall-street; Wire and Child, St. S
lane; Barnes, Colchester.

James Hussey, linendraper, Poole, Sept. 30 and Oct.
25, at two, at the Curt of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official
ltsignee, Birchin-lane; Sowton, Great James-street,
Brdf ,rd-row; Garland and Fear, Dorchester.

Thomas Booker, see., and Tlysmas Booker, jun.,
merchants, Mark-lane, Sept. 25, at one, and Oct. 22, at
half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, offi-
cial assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Leigh,
George-street, Mansion-house.
Robert Westley, bootrnaker, Greenwich, Sept. 25, at
eleven, and Oct. 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook •court,
l3•.tsinghall-street; Bristow and Tarrant, Bond-court,
W al brook.

Charles Cuthbert, corn dealer, Kennington-cross,
Latnbath, Sept. 24, at two, and Oct. 29, at half•past
twelve, at th© Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
assignee, Abehurch-lane, Lombard-street; Miller and
Carr, Eastcheap. _

James Toovey, innkeeper, Watford, llertfordshire,
Sept. 25, at two, and 0,3 t. 22, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Groom, cfiloial assignee, Abehurch-lane ;
Dimmock and Burbry, Suffolk-lane, Cannon-street.

William Jefferson, painter, Kingston upon-Hull,
Sept. 25, and Oct. 16, at half-past twelve, at the Leeds
District Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull; Mose,
Hull.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Coat t, Blsieghall-street.

G. Booth, Princes-street, Lambeth, limeburner, Oct.
5, at eleven—T. Ball, West•street, Soho, licensed vic-
tualler, Oct. 4, at one—P. Broad, jun., Brighton, tallow-
chandler, Oct. 4, at two.
In the Country.

J. Welch, Ashby-dc-11-Z )uch, 'Leicestershire, draper,
Oct. 11, at twelve, at the Court, Nottingham—W. Jack-
son, Lichfield, wine merchant, Sept. 28, at eleven, at the
Court, Birmingham —T. Treffry, Tregoney, Cornwall,
seedvman and coal merchant, Oct. 9, at one, at the Court,
Exeter—G. Kyrke, Wrexham, Denbigh hire, lirneburner,
Oct. 15, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Totnkin-
son, Liverpool, and Runcorn, Cheshire, stcnemason and
builder, Oct. 15, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—T.
Alletson, Liverpool, and Broughton House, Cheshire,
drysalier, Oct. 14, at twelve, at the Court, Liverpool.
PAYMENTS 01? DIVIDENDS.

J. Pallor, Blavliivirr, Locasbiro, grocer, n second
dividend of in tho pound, on Tueoday, Oct. 15, or
tiny sub“.luer:t Tue,day, between eleven and ono, at the
office of Mr. Putt, Atinehester._

J. Clarice and E. Dearden, Bury and Radcliffe, Lan-
cashire, grocers, 7d. in the pound, on Tuesday, Oct. 15,
or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at
the (Taco of Air. Put►, Manchester.

W. Orrell, Man6heater, gun manufacturer, ls. 51d. in
the pound, on Tuesday, Oct. 15, or any subsequent
Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr.
Potts, Manchester.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
In the Country.
M. Murdoch, Bristol, draper, Oct. 7, at eleven, at the
Court, Bristol—T. B. Bourne, Liverpool, cotton broker,
Oc:. 11, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—B. Brown,
Newtown, Montgomery, coach builder, Oct. 11, at
eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Welsh, Ashby•de-
la-Zrucb, Leicestershire, draper, Oct. 11, at twelve, at
the Court, Nottingham—G. and Q. Holmes, D2rby,
ironmongers, o.lt. 11, at twelve, at the Court, Nutting
ham.

CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
J. Rabinson, High Holborn, bookseller, certificate of
the second class—F. Tapley, Sidmouth, Devonshire,
linendraper, certificate of the second class—B. Brook,
Sala, tailor, certificate of the third class—W. G.
Moss, High-street, Peckham, certificate of the second
class—C. Penfold, Arundel, ironmonger, certificate of
the first class—Elizabeth Appleton Peakome, Princes-
street, Cavendish-square, saddler, certificate of the first
class—T. C. Jones, Blackfriars-road, linendraper, cord-
ficato of the second class—M. Colledge, Brinklow, War-
wickshire, coal merchant—A. S. Corrick, Bristol, timber
merchant, certificate c.f the second class.
ijinNEad I
RnSII'! Vhito I, Parsley, gDISSOLVEDI;B DISSOLVED
rocers and
tea dealars—T. Poppy and M. Hewitt—J. C. Lupton, T.
Bleasdale, and H. lileasdale, Chipping, Lancashire, iron
and brass founders (so far as regards T. Bleasdale)—J.
F. Elmslie and H. J. Preston, Moorgate-street, City,
D
C. J. W. )
Morrisl
attorneys and solicitors—T. White and F. Sparrow,
Skinner-street, Snow hill, tea and wine merchants—A.
Gurney and R. Willi :ms, Great Charlotte-street, Black-
friar: -road, victuallers—J. Perry and J. Brown, Symon's-
street, St. Luke's, Chwlsoa, carpenters and builders—F.
Nunn and W. 11. Rsadett, Waterloo-road, house-agents
and appraisers—J. A. Newt' and T. Brown, Jereayn-
strcet, St. James's, outfitters and clothiers—J. Fielden,
J. Fielden, and W. Fielden, jun., Bacup, Lancashire,
cotton spinners (so fir as reaaads John Fielden)—H.
Wareing and 11. Ashworth, Chorley, Lancashire,
brewers—R. M. Hutchinson and N. Hutchinson, Grand
Junction-terrace, Eigware-road—W. W. Williams and
J. Dunn, brass-founders—R. Martin and T. Pig, New-
castle-upon-Tyne, stationers—J. Redfern, R. Davison,
and J. Davison, Cheetham, Lancashire, briekmalters—
R. Dawbarn, W. Dawbarn, and G. llawbarn, Wisbeach,
Cambridgeshire, grocers and drapers (so far as regards
W. Dawbarn)—A. Dobson and 11. J. Wingfield, Liver-
pool, forwarding agents and commission merchants—T.
Wrigley and J. Wrigley, Manchester and Budge-row,
City, paper manuf icturers—F, Adams and J. Bird,
Cripplegate-buildings, bootmakers.
INSOLVEN r PETITIONERS.
William Henry Piall, Dymchurch, Kent, schoolmaster.
George Illing, Now Woodstock, Oxfordshire, licensed
view alb r.
John Caswell Kent W
' ittm3r, Oxfordshire, baker.
John Bland, Lestergate, Nottinghamshire, butcher.
William Parr, Carrington, Nottinghamshire, tailor.
Edward Jewitt, jun,, High Jubbergate, Yorkshire,
butcher.
Pio Lewis Frederick Cianchettini, Cheltenham, teacher.
Henry Steward, Calchnore, Staffordshire, druggist.
James Sileester, Birmingham, carpenter.
Robert Tisdale, Birmingham, beerseller.
George Richards, Birmingham, plumber.
Ammon Mundin, Handsworth, Staffordshire, gardener.
Joseph Eccles, Birmingham, corn agent.
Henry Underwood, Birmingham, leather case maker.
Edward Woodhall, Birmingham, horse dealer.
Thomas Ault Kendrick, Shustoke, Warwickshire, cord-
wainer.
Fernando Villanueva, Birmingham, merchant's clerk.
Basil Baker, Birmingham, bookseller.
Eli Munn, Birmingham, baker.
William Johnson, Birmingham,metal chain maker.
John Bell, Birmingham, electro-plate worker.
John Evans, Birmingham, retail brewer.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
G. Park, Kilinun, Argyleshire, flasher and cattle
dealer, to meet Sept. 19 and Oct. 10, at twelve, within
the Strone Hotel, Klinun.

J. Macdonald, Glasgow, mason and builder, to meet
Sept. 18 and Oct. 9, at one, within the Buck's Head
Hotel, Glasgow.
W. C. Gillan, Lcith, banker, to meet Sept. 16 and Oct.
16. at two, within the New Ship Hotel, Leith.
W. Anderson, Newhigging, Lanarkshiro, wright and
carpenter, to meet Sept. 20 and Oct. 11, at twelre, within
the Lockhart Arms Inn, Carnwath.
PRICE OF SUGAR.

Debsepla viedek ending Sept. 10,
or
payable thereon
The average price- of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, corn-
p Itusted,l
efxrcolmus rveet tot
frncs madestom in
Duties
on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British possessions in America 255. 100. per cwt.
From the Mauritius ... • ••• 235. I Id. „
u
From the East Indies ... 259. sd. „

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71
Average price of the three foregoing de-
scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty ... •.• 255. 74d.
By authority of Parliament,
ITENIIT BICKN ELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company.
Grocers'-hall, Sept. 13.

The Mayor of Southampton having sent to the
n
Lord Mayor of London the beautiful silk banner which was
carried before his Lordship in the procession through South-
ampton, when be visited that town in state a fortnight since,
has received the following communication from the private
secretary of the Lord Mayor, dated " Mansion House, Sep•
tneei
rn,biel re the
says," I a am desired by the Lord Mayor to say how
much he enjoyed himself, and how gratified be feels for the
very warm and cordial reception he experienced at the hands
of yourself and your fellow-townsmen. I need not say that
t 1 i ."
Aftet. thanking his Worship for the ban-
ner,
we were all much delighted,
_and spent a happy day and
evenivg. lam pleased to hear that everything went oil to
your wish, and 1 am sure you could not but feel senstble.of
the kindly and unanimous feeling of respect and attention
shown you on that occasion, which every individual there
felt you so justly deserved. It was certainly One of the most
lively and interesting scenes I ever witnessed."

THE EARL OF YARBOROUGH.
(From the Hull Advertiser.)
One of the many ardent admirers of the Earl of
Yarborough's public and private character, with
which North Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire
abounds, kiss had the kindness to call our attention
to a series of letters in the course of publication in
an obscure Lincolnshire paper, condemnatory of the
Noble Earl's frce• trade policy. These letters pur•
port to be from the pen of an Old Tenant—a tenant
to whom age has taught such caution that we doubt
whether he has even communicated his name as a
" Tenant" to the editor of the newspaper in question.
But the letters bear internal evidence of not being
written by a tenant-farmer, whether old or young.
They have nothing of the freshness of a sturdy far-
mer's mind about them. They are manifestly the
concoctions of a tenth-rate Protectionist writer, as
unacquainted with practical firming as with the Elu-
sinian Mysteries. Their object is less to annoy Lord
Yarborough hirnself—wha in all probability, will
never see one of them—than to disquiet his Lord-
ship's tenant., who, less familiar with such party de-
vices, may fancy that one or other of them will be
suspected of thus traducing the character of one of
England's best lendlorda It is rather to disabuse
their minds of such an impression than to give any
formal contradiction of the untruths contained in these
letters that we take this notice of them.
As not one in a thousand of our readers will have
seen the letters in question—and as some curiosity
may be felt to know in what terms the character of
the Earl of Yarborough is assailed by this anonymous
champion of protection, we will quote here a rather
racy extract, containing the gist of the whole corre-
spondence. The Protectionist oracle of 80, Cornhili,
London, Mr. George Frederick Young, delicately
hinted, in a letter published in the Times of last week,
that Mr. B lines, the excellent President of the Poor-
law Board, "cooked" the poor-law returns to " make
things pleasant" to a Free- trade Cabinet ; and here
we have another Protectionist oracle, without name or
address, imputing, by the basest inuendo, a still worse
charge against the Earl of Yarborough :
Your Lordship is now a member of the Upper House
of Parliament; the votes of your tenantry, and of the
farmers generally, are not required, and you now avow
yourself a Free-trader, and, what is worse (excuse my
boldness) you actually lie under the suspicion el the
change having taken place fear money; in ether words,
that as every man has his price; your Lordship's advo-
cacy of free trade has been purchased. My Lord, Ido
not say that this is the case—l do not venture to hint
that the noble son of a noble father would sacrifice his
conscientious convictions or his honour for all the glit-
tering gems Golconda ever produced, or for all the gold
that lies hid in California's mountains and valleys; but,
my Lord, your conversion was littlo short of miraculous;
it almost seems as if you pulled ofF your Protectionist
coat (should I say cloak?) when you left the Commons,
and straightway departed and was measured for a free-
trade robe for the Peers."
This is a coarsely and clumsily fabricated false-
hood. No one before this writer ever said, insinuated,
thought, or remotely imagined that his Lordship re-
ceived so much as the smile of a Minister by way of
corrupt requital for his vote in the House of Lords
upon the Address at the commencement of the session.
Alany of Lord Yarborough's tenants were opposed to
the repeal of the corn laws ; but there was not one of
them then, nor since, nor is there one of them now,
base enough to attribute his conduct to other than
the purest motives. The character of public men is
public property ; and most assuredly it is not without
a feeling of strong indignation that the sturdy yeo-
manry of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire will learn that
a vile attempt is made to injure the reputation of a
nobleman whose private virtues and public worth and
example impart a dignity to the Peerage and shed a
lustre upon the English name. Though not disposed
to look very favourably upon his Lordship's new port
of Great Grimsby, the people of Hull take a warm in-
terest in whatever concerns the honour of the Earl of
Yarborough, to whom many of them feel disposed
to pay a qualified kind of feudal homage. His
Lordship's relations with Hull have ever been those of
good neighbourhood ; and in his place in Parliament
he has al ways been, and is now, looked to as one of
the legislative protectors of our local interests. In
the minds of half the people of Hull, the Earl of
Yarborough, before his elevation to the Upper House,
occupied the place of third representative for this
borough. Next to addressing the Members for the
borough upon any question, the natural appeal was to
Lord Worsley—nor was it ever rnade in vain.
But it is imputed as a grave offence to the Earl of
Yarborough that being, when a young wan, a Pro-
tectionist, he so far advanced with the progress of the
ago in which he lives as to discover that it was impos-
sible to maintain the corn-laws, after nine-tenths of
the working classes in this country had resolved to have
a free trade in food. We regard this imputed offence
as an act of true statesmanship. It constitutes the
halo round the head of the late Sir Robert Peel that
he directed this might consummation of a nation's
hopes. And well was it for the tenants of the
Noble Earl, and for the agriculturists of England
generally, that the House of Lords, influenced by the
sound judgment of such clear-headed, practical men
as the late Right Hon. Baronet, gave way so soon
upon that question. Had the corn-laws not been re-
pealed before the commencement of the French and
other continental revolutions, there would unques-
tionablyTo havethebeepne
earl): abundance cce
Commoners
mblood r
sshed in Eng-
land.ledepeathe corn-laws we consider England indebted for an
escape from a revolutionary. outbreak such as we
never hope to witness its these islands. We expect to
be told that the farmers are no.cravens, and that if
attacked they would know how to defend themselves.
Doubtless they would. The yeomanry of England
were ever a brave race. But is it not the bravest and
the best men who entertain the greatest horror of
civil strife ? Where is the Lincolnshire farmer who
would not rather feed a mechanic, than feel a
necessity for killing him ? But in such a contest the
farmers would not always win ; while, whether win-
ners or losers, the markets for their productions
would be utterly destroyed. Most fortunate has it
been for the British farmers that the bread monopoly
was abolished before the late King of the French ap-
peared es an exile on our shores.
But supposing no such danger to have existed, Lord
Yarborough's ultimate adoption of free trade policy
was an act of just, enlightened, and progressive states-
tnenship. This is already proved by the result of the
experiment already made. In the course of one
year of free trade there has been an increase
of trade to the enormous amount of ten mil-
lions sterling and upwards ! Pauperism throughout
the kingdom has decreased fifteen per cent., and work
is abundant and wages good in the manufacturing
districts. Bat the writer of these letters is a political
economist of the old Protectionist school, and lectures
the Noble Earl on the operation of the principles of
that science after the following fashion :
" The inability of the farmer to purchase in the mar-
ket towns has brought down the prices of all commodi-
ties vended by the tradesman, and your Lordship can
go with ready money and purchase anything you want
—furniture, clothes, food, jewellery, everythoig, from a
gold watch down to a gridiron, at 25 per cent. below the
value obtained four years ago. . • . But if, m
Lord, you can now go into the market and purchase fory 71. 10s. a table similar in all respects to the one which,
four or five years ago, cost you 101., then I want to know
who suffers from the 21. 10s. diminution in price ? Is it
not clear as the sun at noon-day that this 2/. 10s. repro
cents labour and profit, and that as much labour and
profit—as much of the sweat of the working man's brow
and the anxiety, skill, and care of tle tradesman
can be obtained for 7/. 10s. as formerly 10/.
would
pur-
chase?"
There are two great fallacies here. The first con-
sists in attributing the depreciation in the prices of
every article of manufacture, from " a gold watch
down to a gridiron," to the 'inability of farmers to
purchase such articles ; and the. second in assuming
that manufactured articles represent "as much of the
sweat of the working man's brow" now as they did
at any former period. Manufacturers of all descrip-
tions employ their heads as well as their hands. They
invent new and cheap forms of manufacturing ; and
thus they are enabled to produce superior articles
with less labour, and to sell them at an iccreased
profit at a considerably reduced price. Take the
case, for example, ef Mr. Cresskill, of Beverley, the
eminent manufacturer of agricultural implements.
lie will produce a score of cart wheels at less expense
of human toil than it would have taken, twenty years
ago, to make one-fourth the number. He can
do the same with all other agricultural imple-
ments, which he sells cheap, and yet he
pays his men better wages than ever they re-
ceived before. It is the same with the cotton
manufacturer. He now pays his spinners better
wages for cottons which sell at 31. per yard, than he
did when the same descriptions of cottons were EON
tr
for 13d. per yard. And yet his profits are greater than
they ever were before. Of course he never would
occasion
ciajcvnaegs
idone
wf sirol
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df aas
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of the cotton market, and thus taken away all
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the
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.
He will drain as Mr. Josiah Parkes
would advise him
to do—he will study the rotation of crops a little more
—he will practically investigate the mysteries of
agricultural chemistry—and,in
other
to good profitable account the co
which nature has largely endowedbur
common
sensepe
him.
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nd , turn.iif,t h
in
after having done this, he fail in obtaining all the
success which should have attended his labours, he
may, if a tenant of the Earl of Yarborough's, confi-
dently appeal to his noble landlord for prompt, and
sympathetic, and efficacious assistance. One of the
best landlords of one of the happiest and most pros-
perous tenantries in Lincolnshire will not be slow to
recognise, if not to antieid ite, the advancement
such a claim to a heart fraught with benevolent
generosity.

DI. Scribe his presented a comedy to the Franviis
which km been receiyed with Acchunaticu.

14, 1850.

GLOUCESTER AIL'S/CAL FESTIVAL.
GLOUCESTER, FRIDAY.— The Festival, FS regards
the strictly musical portion of it, was brought to a
close this evening, at four o'clock, and will conclude
with a grand fancy and full-dress ball, to-night, at
the C mlity-hall.
Last night's concert at the County-hall was fully
and fashionably attended. The concert opened with
Beethoven's Egmont overture. Herr Formes then
sang the " Pitt; paff," from the Huguenots. Madame
Castellan and Miss Dolby next executed a duct of
Rossini's, from his opera of Bianca Taller°. Mr.
Sims Reeves sang " Fra poco" with great pathos.
Madame Sontag, in Bellini's aria, "Care cornpagnej
from the. Sonnambula, excited the greatest enthusiasm.
Miss Lucombe and Sims Reeves sang the duet " Tor-
nami a dir" with good taste and perfect intonation ;
but, following the brilliant performances of Sontag,
did not receive the applause it merited. Miss Wil-
liams then sang a graceful ballad, written by
a namesake, " I've sat in Gilded Palaces." Madame
Castellan's rendering of Ressini's rcananza, " Orpa
gentil," displayed her powers to greater advantage
than anything she had previously performed. Mr.
Lackey was encored in the well-known Irish ballad
"The minstrel boy." Madame Sontag then sang that
charming inspiration from \Veber's Der Frei-
chutz " Wie nachtemia der schlummer." Mozart's
graceful Tiartett, " Placid° e it ma," sung by Ma-
dame Castellan, Miss Dolby, Mr. Lackey, and Herr
Formes, was followed by Mendelssohn's Wedding
March from the Midsummer Night's Dream,
which concluded the first act.
The second part opened with Mendelssohn's over-
ture to the Midsummer Night's Dream. Cursch-
man's trio, "Ti prego," was beautifully sung by
Miss Lucombe, Miss Williams, and Mr. Lockey.
The aria, " Ah, non giunge," was sung by Madame
Castellan in her best style. Mr. Phillips rang Han-
del's song, "Revenge, Timotheus cries," in his own
masterly manner. The duet, "Egli modia," from
Donizetti's Lucia, sung by Madame Sontag and
Sims Reeves, was well given. Miss Lucombe
then sang the Scotch song, "Bonny Jockey,"
with such archness and grace as to elicit an
encore. At the request of several persons attend-
ing the concert Madame Sontag kindly aang,
" Home, Sweet Home?." Morley 's ballad, "My
Bonny Lass," was sung much better than any of the
previous madrigals. It was encored, as was also Miss
Dolby in the Scotch song, t‘ The Lords of the Con-
vention." Sontag was magnificent in her delivery of
Rode's air and variations, and Herr Formes in the
buffo song from 11 Barbiere,—the " Largo al Fac-
totum," developed the full power and majesty of his
bass voice.

The National Anthem concluded the last concert
of the festival just before midnight, and the city was
in another half-hour wrapped in quiet. The citizens
of Gloucester have vied with each other in showing
their hospitality to their friends, and the festival of
1850 will long be remembered as one cf the gayest
recorded in the history of these highly interesting
meetings.
To-day, the last day of the festival, has afforded a
crowning victory. The bustle in the streets and at
the place for obtaining tickets gave note of what fol-
lowed. As early as ten o'clock patties were throng-
ing to the cathedral to hear the Messiah. At
half-past eleven o'clock, when the oratorio was com-
menced, the cathedral was thronged in every part.
A special train from London brought a large number
of strangers from the metropolis, Oxford, and other
intermediate places, and the coup erwi/ as the audience
seated themselves on the raising of ,the conductor's
baton was most imposing. The utmost devotion ap-
peared to be paid by the audience, many of whom
were affected to tears.

At the conclusion Of the overture, Mr. Sims Reeves
sang the opening recitative, and the subsequent air,
" Every Valley." Mr. Lawler gave the recitative
" Thus saith the Lord." He seemed to be suffering
from indisposition. Miss Williams sang the recita-
tive and air, " 0 Thou that telleso.," in her usual cor-
rect manner, and the chorus wes given splendidly.
Mr. Lawler gave the recitative, "For behold dark-
ness," in capital style, and in the air he sang admira-
bly. The chorus, " Unto us a child is born," was
highly satisfactory. The pastoral symphony followed,
after which Madame Castellan gave the difficult reci-
tatives announcing tho birth of a Saviour vtith en-
thusiastic energy. Madame Sontag's execution of
" .11,:jiiice greatly" was admirable. Miss Williams
sang " He shall feed his flock," and Madame Castellan
"Come unto Him." It would be tedious further to
particularise the different plrtions of this familiar
oratorio, but we may say that on the whole it was a
most effective performance.
The collection was very liberal, amounting to no
less than 3441. 3i., rraking the whole of the collec-
tions 8641. G. 61., nearly 2001. more than at last
Gloucester festival.

SUNDAE TRAINS on SCOTCH RAILWAYS.
The knot of per.iona whq have bought shares in
some of our Scotch railways for the purpose of glo-
rifying themselves and annoying the bona fide share-
holders by making motions about Sunday trails, are
making secret efforts to effect a surprise at some of
the half-yearly meetings to be held within these few
days. Here is one of the manccuvres—a circular
sent by one of the faggot-voters to his brethren and
others supposed (often erroneously) to be like-
minded :

"Ramornie, Kettle, Sept. 3, 1850.
"Dear, Sir,—l write a line to remind you that the
meeting of the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Rail-
way is fixed for Monday next, the 9th instant, at two
o'clock, when I hope it will be convenient for you to
attend and support my motion against the running of
trains on Sabbath.

"Last meeting the numbers were 43 against 43 ; so
you see a single vote would have given us a majority
of those present.—l am, dear Sir, ever yours truly,
" FRED. L. MAITLLND IIERIOT."
Mc. lleriot forgets to mention that this result was
obtained only by the bulk of the shareholders having
been driven away before the division ; and that, after
all, the votes of those present were 386 against 132
figures which, looking at the equality of persons,
show that the real or ordinary shareholders are on
one bide, and the fictitious on the other.—Scotsman