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London, England, 1844-07-22 00:00:00

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SPORTING INTE LL
, IPSWICH RAC F c-' -
der Ataiest pi. 11r. 80, s •,Y 8 a''''
,r ce s Coranna, 5 :yrs
si •
Th Bretes.l.)aniel, aged
e County Members'
0 . •
Plate of 504 ; 3 yrs old, 7st 21b ,
yrs, Bst Bth ; 5 vrs, 9st ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 4th. Alore
and geldings allowed 31b ; and half-bred horses, 71b. ;
Winners extra. Heats, two miles. The winner to be sold for
20a, &c.
11,:!.(l_Exeter's Crosby, 3 yrs (Pettit) 1 1
;Itr.logers's Prosody, 5 yrs 5 2
frt.. Coleman's Devil-among-the-Tailors, 5 yrs 2 3
~rirq . raerd'sDisFcraletrpioinay(,late Sir Diggory Diddle), 3 yrs 3 dr
4 dr
aged.
'Lie Steward's Purse of 201., added to a sweepstakes of 3 sovs.
V
__re• Abel's Bot Conditi
yrs y
4 heeem ons as above. The winner to be sold for 80L
.[,
VI:: Bradford'sSquabble, 4 yrs ••• (Ling) 1 1
2 dr
M r.
Remnant, 3 yrs 3 dr
Theobald's Old Chemise, aged
__The Hurdle Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added, list
Itil,
Oneo mile and a dis., were won, in two heats, by Mr.
r, w 6 3•rs (Pettit), beating Mr. Button's Faith,
'lra' and Mr- Coleman's Devil-among-the-Tailors, 5 yrs.

WLD:

,f 10t

(Boyce)

THURSDAY.
The TOM Members' Plate of 50/. Conditions as for the
Lord County Plate.
T _ Exeter's Crosby, 3 yrs ... ........... -..(Pettit) 2 1 1
'II W. Powlett's Aso p, 4 yrs
.
by AI/ -11weap of 3 sovs. each, 1 ft, with 30 added, was won
r. Rogers's Prosody, 5 yrs (Bartholomew), beating Mr.
1,,,?4'es Slow, 6 yrii, Mr. Abel's Bother'em, and Mr. Hardy's
tTh ,e
tight Dragoon Sweepstakes for officers' horses, list
ilt thorough-bred 71bs extra, were won: in two heats by
TiltllaKan's Duke, aged, in a canter.
e tlank Stakes of 2 sovs. each, and 10 added, 3 yrs old,
thorough yrs, 9st 71b-5 yrs, lOst 31b—aged, 10st 101b—
lIgh-bred, 101bs extra, winner to be sold for 401., were
b la two heats by Mr. Abel's Bother'em 4 yi? (Ling),
aneeciting Remnant, 3 yrs, Mr. Theobald's Old Chemise, aged,
Cobbold's Tiney, aged.
b e Beaten Purse was won by Discretion, beating the
evil-aziong-the Tailors and Faith.
LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING—(CONCLUDRD).
FRAY.
Thele Stanley Stakes of 15 Soya.l D
each, 10 ft, with 30 added,
kr. AA the second saves his stake. T.Y.C _
. White's Sweetmeat, 2 yrs (Darling,jun.) 1
Godfiey, 3 yrs 2
4,.lG.Benthack's Miss Elis. 2 yrs
3 he following also ran :—Lord Westminster's Fanny Eden,
l'an,Ytßir R. Pigot's The Lass of Gowrie, 2 yrs—Mr. Wil-
vt.l -"Al's Dr. Husband, 3 yrs—Sir John Gerard's Pluto, 2
Mr. Meiklam's Godfrey, 3 yrs—Mr. Watt's Pickpocket,
Alostyn's Master Stepney, 2 yrs, and Lord
anleY's Z
5 ephon.
aguLt,2 agst Dr. Husband, 4 to 1 agst Sweetmeat (t), 5 to 1
'';tiny Eden (t), 6to 1 agst Pluto, and 7 to 1 agst
The7l"B. Won easy by a length. Miss Elis a good third.
the second
St. Leger of 25 sovs. each, with 100 added ;
to receive 50/. ; colts, Bst Blbs ; fillies, Bst 31b.
torr mile and three quarters.
D ilk Stanley's Ithuriel
e of Richmond's Red Deer
b'uslio•St. Paul's Telemachus
r. IZI Westenra's Paragon
th awrth's Kilgrfn
144°. Btt Yn's Lad Sale
tett' entinck sy Emma
Weh Ling-6 to son Red Deer, and 6to 4 agst Ithuriel.
Deer y two lengths, after a tremendously fast race. Red
wits
The much distressed.
,?talid Cup of 100 sovs., added to a Handicap of 15 sow.
Mr. I each, 10 ft Once round and a distance.
1,0 r'ul'e Mickey Free, 3 yrs. (Murphy) 1
George Bentinck's Naworth, aged 2
Wo:',e, following also started, but were not placed :—Mr.
41.,uiligton's Caine, 6 yrs—Lord Eglinton's Pompey,
4 "v:sair• Meiklam's Philip, 4 yrs—Mr. Merry's Armitage,
"2-, and Sir C. Monck's Glossy, 4 yrs.
?,„so 1 agst Mickey Free, 3 to 1 agst Armytage, 5 to 1 agst
agst"PeY. 6 to 1 agst Philip, 7 to 1 agst Glossy, and 7 to 1
-Naworth
Wen •
ties, on the pest by a head after the longest, closest,
_and
i'iTesolute race ever witnessed. Pompey was a bad third.
feerosvenor Stakes of 15 sovs. each,. 5 ft, with 30 added,
Othree and four years old. One mile and three-quarters.
rd eiklam's The Best of Three, 3 yrs ............(Lye)
egikliinatoinn,s's Aristides, 4 yrs 3-
Godfrey, 3 yrs ...
2`14_1111 Gerard's Erebus, 3
who
4
Tho-,, on Best of Three, who won easy by two lengths
Lorfll°lvsler Stakes of 100 soya. each. One mile and a half.
Sellnley s Zephon, 3 yrs
"e ing Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 60 added, the second
11„ , to receive 10/. Heats, one mile and a half.
at'_• Whitelock's Fair Rosamond, 3 yrs...(Darling) 1 0 1
air Bawson's The Biddy, 5 yrs
Bowes's T'Auld Squire, 3 yrs
Robinson's April Noddy, 3 yrs 0 2 4
Morpeth, 6 yrs 0 0 5
41.4hnstone's Easingwold, aged 2 0 dr
Three well-contested heats.
LATEST BETTING AT LIVERPOOL.

9 -CI t GOODWOOD STAKES.
8 t 2 agst Franchise—taken 10 to 1 agst Best of Three—t
10 0 1 agst Era—taken 10 to 1 agst Parthian
t° 1 agst Croton Oil—tak. 10 to 1 agst Canton
t 4 GOODWOOD CUP.
- agstAliceHawthorn—t. I 10 to 1 agst Prizefighter—t.

ST. LEGER.
12 to 1 agst Red Deer
13 to 1 agst Morpeth
12 to 1 agst Foig-a-ballagh
30 to 1 agst Lightning

4 to 1 agst The Cure
4 to 1 agst Ithuriel
8 to 1 agst The Princess—t.
8 to 1 agst Bay Alomus--ta-
to 1 agsr Ugly Buck
The Ugly Buck is declared "
GOODWOOD C
Alice hawthorn, 6 yrs, 98t 51b
Robert deGorham, syrs, 9st 4
Attila, 5 yrs, gst 41b
Lothario, 4 yrs, 9st 41b
Cotherstone, 4 yrs, 9st 31b
Una, 6 yrs, 9st 31b
William-le-Gros, 5 yrs, 9st 21b
Sealteen, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b
The Altered One (late Ca-
brera), 5 yrs, Bst 131 b
Aristotle, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b
Orion, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b
Parthian, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b
Plflegon, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b
Sirikol, 4 yrs, list 101 b
Bishop of Romford's Cob, 4
yrs, Bst 101 b
Vibration, 5 yrs, Bst 91b
The Era; 4 yrs, Bst Blb
Bramble, 4 yrs, Bst 71b
Semiseria, 4 yrs, Bst 61b
Whistle Binkie, 5 yrs, gat 61b
Prizefighter, 4 yrs, Bst 51b
The Squire, 6 yrs, Bat 51b
Pompey, 4 yrs, Bst 51b
British Yeoman, 4 yrs, Bst 51b
Belem'', 5 yrs, Bst 51b
Somerset, 4 yrs, Bst 31b
The Original Match at Got
one's Larry *Hale and Los
'we been altered to be run on i
?Nruers up, Lord G. Bentinck I
(hot likely to be less than 12s1
Rive slbs.
The Ugly Buck is declared
The

not to go to Goodwood.
:UP WEIGHTS.
Wiseacre, 5 yrs, Bst 11b
Revel, 6 yrs, 7st 121 b
Khondoez, 4 yrs, 7st I llb
A:istides, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b
Arundo, 4 yrs, 7st 81b
g by Hindoo, out of Sister
to Aolus, 5 yrs, 7st 71b
The Princess, 3 yrs, 7st 71b
llessai ina, 5 yrs, 7st 61b
lonian, 3 yrs, 7st 41b
Antler, 3
yrs, Ist 41b
Discount, 6 yrs, 7st Olb
Brunel, 3
yrs, Bst 131 b
Red Deer, 3 yrs Est 131 b
Milton, 3 yrs, Est 131 b
Little Vivian, aged, 6st 131 b
Giges (bred in France), aged,
6st 121 b
Cameleon (bred on the Conti-
nent), aged, Est 121 b
Lightning, aged, Est 101 b
Stomacher (the Castor filly), 3
yrs, Est 61b
The Ashtead Pet,3 yrs, Est 31b
Rowena, 3 yrs, 6d llb
Broken Down, aged, paid.
Daddy Longlegs, 5 yrs, paid
The Ugly Buck, 3 yrs, paid
oodwood, between Lord Maid-
rd G. Bentinck's Captain Cook,
the first day, over the course,
to ride what weight he pleases
t 71b), and Lord Maidstone to

Lot to run at Goodwood.

- practice of transmitting.portions of the human
y
'4"e
ever e through the Post-office is an outrage so revolting
to
that feeling of our nature, that we are not surprised
to many psons can with difficulty bring the
itstheme exis
ttehneee • We feel it our duty, therefore, to give more fuly
tai particulars of this shockiug case the packet con-
eleg the human flesh arrived at the General Post-
re •
to ,ee, in the mail-bag from Amersham, and was addressed
tiesklt• Quain, Esq., Surgeon, London
. University." The
is " vvas wrapped up slightly in flax, and then enclosed
ITT
,31 a thin covering of paper. The envelope was
flesh,y
daniaged by the oozing out of blood from the
_t t
r„ • ,;_other letters were contaminated to an extent i
should
st?ras Us to allude to. If, however, any persons
tel_trernain sceptical on the point, we would refer them. to
o
17: Post-office. We understand that a communication
bas made to the medical authorities of the London
loah:ersity on the subject, of such a nature as is likely
• thp'event any further resort to the practice, as far as
A' are concerned.—Observer.
AETION TO TRESPASSERS UPON RAILWATS.—A
Isir•
-c Alan named Richard Oldfield was charged before
Vrederick, Bait., at the Kingston Police-court on
W tlrcat the instance of the Directors of the South.
tr..-"ero Railway Company, with having unlawfully
Via Peak led upon the railway on the 9th inst. Mr. Jasper
and 3% the superintendent of the railway stated the case,
the info deformed the magistrates that on the day in questa?n
il_.ant had got down the embankment of the raal
p_, and walked from Esher to Kingston. The superio.
_
the d was about to prove the case by witnesses when
Rnt expressed his desire to plead guilty. Mr,
41bYai;said that when the defendant was stopped upon
IvrorN`way, be said that he was not aware he was doing
4g- The Compauy bad no desire to pres.s therotee.
"hi ' b •
tio 3, ut they felt it to be their duty for the
oft:ef tbe
d public to proceed against all persons Pwho so
importn'ed- The magistrates observral that it was very
teant such trespasses should be punished, and at
the
Conn thee said that if the defendant had been Wed,
hirja7 woad in all probability bave been blamed,
ray aley remarked that the only objed. of the
hae waa to protect the public. He added that, .;_r
haveebc'e° up. in all probability the defendant mus.,
traia.
-e en killed. The defendant having expressed his
, 14,4► jet at the occurrence, the bench fined him in the
itated Penalty of ten shillings and costs.
tile 1.4111'14.Y MISADVENTURES.—On Sunday afternoon
had 'Mega up train, which leaves the station at 2 A.M.,
fice_Pf()Ceeded about three quarters of smile beyond the
lert,wabridge, at Cowley-bridge, when the engineer ob-
' he a cow on the line, but, thinking that long before
liton'ani_e up to it the animal would move off, he did not
teet":_nowever, such was not the case, the engine caught
eks
ro,,‘,Tl_, and knocked it down, the whole of
.the
.trua
_e
roe;,"lg over it, and bruising it into an undistinguish bl _
bein4. It belonged to C. Cross, Esq., of Duryard, and
It ;„g a very fine animal had been let out to a dairyman.
iitz-ttlPPosed that it broke the fence of the field adjoin-
lte;4o line, and so wandered to the place where it was
hew • The value of the cow is estimated at 181., and
of tt!4:3 this, great damage was done to the rails, several
rap by cross pieces, connecting the sleepers, being torn
cot;v the trucks thrown off the line. On Saturday, the
riset rain, due at 5 20, P.M., not arriving in proper
meat it an engine, with engineers, was dispatched to
watfearing some accident had occurred. At Bridg-
t,,_, it was found that the engine which had been at-
-07.7
td to the train was rendered useless by the bursting
train hbe. The engine sent up was then put on, and the
layHarfived shortly before 8 P.M., thus having been de-
au°llt two hours and'a half.—Somerset Gazette.
roan d ;t•iceroN,....-A. dreadful accident occurred to a
day rivalg a heavy unloaded timber carriage, on Fri-
cast. A
4. bundle of hay was placed on the front of
4"1.7_
carriage for the horses to eat whilst loading, and the
whveef :very incautiously seated himself on it. The
em.rins Pa4aink over a large stone in tho road threw the
froni"o,ao Pugh on one side as to cause the hay to roll
N__,nunuer bhp, by which he was thrown off, the wheel
;,:tt,g over part of his head, and taking off the ear
thegsal side of his face, close to the nose, and part of
stiffsueeer.aill The poor fellow lies in a dreadful state of
er; rag the Wellington Union, where he has every
re,o0"„"°11 shown him,with some hopes of hie pltiToll
'er'3%--Sonterset Gazette.

CAPT. WARNER'S EXPERINENT
AT BRIGHTON WITH THE NEW DESTRUC-
TIVE POWER.

It being generally understood that Capt. Warncr was
n Saturday to put to.the test, oft* the' beach of Brigh-
power of

ton, his _ _r .ca, Com-
pletely and instantaneously, immense numbers of per-
sons proceeded from London to witness the experiment.
By the train which left town at half-past eight the num-
ber of passengers could not have been less than 500,
while the several succeeding trains were also crowded to
an unusual extent. As early as twelve o'clock the Steine,
which, as many of our readers are aware, extends
nearly two miles along the sea-side, presented a scene
of unwonted animation and bustle. Thousands of
pede,trians were seen walking about, and eagerly
looking in the direction of Shoreham —five or six miles
off—for the vessel on which the interesting experi-
ment was to be made. The beach was also crowded
with fashionable equipages, while all the vehicles
which were to be let in Brighton seemed to have been
engaged for the occasion. The crowd increased until
two o'clock, at which time many expected that the ex-
periment would be made. Never, we will venture to
say, did Brighton before present so exciting an appear-
ance as it did at that hour. Let the reader only ima-
gine that he sees along the beach one continuous stream
of persons, among whom were a very large number of
elegantly attired ladies, while the outside of the foot
pathway was crowded with carriages, &c., and he will
form some idea of the very imposing scene which
Brighton presented on the occasion. The windows too,
it ought to be mentioned, of the houses along the beach,
were all occupied, as was indeed every spot whence
could be commanded a view of the extraordinary occur-
rence which was expected to take place. The numbers
were variously estimated. Some supposed there could
not have been less than 40,000 persons present. We
feel convinced the number must have been upwards of
30,000. The day was exceedingly fine, which gave
additional interest to the scene. Though the impression
was that the experiment would be made by half-past
three o'clock, the immense concourse of spectators
exhibited no signs of impatience up till four, but a fear
then began to, be expressed that some accident had taken
place, orthat some circumstance would, after all;occur to
prevent their receiving the gratification which they had
been promised, and which they were so anxious to
obtain. Another, hour and upwards passed away, and
still no symptom of preparation for the important
experiment were perceptible. The ship was still to be
seen lying iu her moorings,while neither of the two steam-
vessels, which it was known were to accompany her,
exhibited the least appearance of motion. A little after
five, however, the ship, the name 'of which was
the John of Gaunt, was seen to leave her place
off Shoreham, towed by one of the steamers, and
followed by the other. A feeling of delight
was now visible in every countenance, inspired by the
gratification which they were about to receive. The
progress of the ship, which, it ought to be mentioned, is
three-masted, strongly built, and of 300 tons burden,
was watched with the most intense interest. About fif-
teea minutes before six, the steamer which had towed
the ship from Shoreham was seen to make a pause, and
then return to the ship about to be destroyed The
other steamer was about a quarter of a mile behind the
John of Gaunt. The first steamer having returned for a
few seconds to the vessel, quitted her, and proceeded in
the same course as before. The vessel and the steamer
were soon about a mile out in the sea; as near as might
be opposite to the Old Ship Tavern. A little farther to
the westward is the battery, where Lord Ingestre, Cap-
tain Henderson, R.N., Captain Breton, RN., and Captain
Dickinson, RN., had stationed themselves for the purpose
of giving the signal when the ship should be blown up.
This they distinctly declared was left entirely to themselves,
without having had any concert or understanding with
Captain Warner. When the first steamer had got about
fifty yards ahead of the vessel, the Noble Lord and the
three Gallant Officers whose names have just been men-

,stros mg

tioned, gave the signal, which was the hoisting of the
Union Jack. In a moment afterwards an immense
quantity of smoke of an unusually white complexion,
and evidently very thin, was seen to ascend from the
vessel. In -a few seconds, indeed, she seemed to be en-
veloped in a cloud of smoke, the only part of her visible
being her mainmast. In a moment more, for it was li-
terally the work of a moment, the main and mizen-masts
were seen to fall over the vessel into the sea. A few se-
conds more, and a rumbling sort of noise, which it is dif-
ficult to describe, was heard to proceed from the ship,
and ere yet the sound had died on the ear, the
vessel was a complete wreck. She went almost in-
stantaneously to pieces, no trace of her being visible
but the top
.of her foremast. The spectators were not
only astonished but astounded at what they saw.
They could scarce believe the evidence of their
eyes, that so fine a vessel—one which but ten or
twelve seconds before was riding majestically on the
waves—should have been totally destroyed. The in-
stantaneous completeness of the destruction seemed to
indicate something magical. Under other circumstances,
loud cheers would have doubtless burst from the vast
assemblage. But they were too much confounded by
what had so rapidly passed before their eyes, to give a
single shout. It was some time before many of them
could exchange words with the friends who stood be-
side them. We conversed with gentlemen of great
naval experience—men who had seen ships blown up
and destroyed under all circumstances, and by every
variety of means—and all of them concurred in saying,
that no agency ever brought to bear in this way can
stand a moment's comparison with that of Captain
Warner; which, after what they witnessed, they could
not but regard as possessing, in some respects, an almost
omnipotent power. Nothing, certainly, ever constructed
by the hand of man, could resist. the agency which on
Saturday produced such destructive effects.
'the fact to be illustrated in the experiment of Satur-
day is the power which a vessel containing the projec-
tiles of Captain Warner could have over other ships
which might be chasing her. Captain Warner wished
to prove that if a ship of war were nearly falling into
the hands of the enemy, either because not a sufficiently
fast sailer, or not able to defend herself, she would only
have to use his projectiles -to insure the immediate de-
struction of that ship, or of several ships. If what he
did- on Saturday could always be done with infallible
certainty, there cannot be a doubt that all that Capt.
Warner says of his discovery is true.
On this point, however, we express no opinion. We
have no idea how far Captain Warner's agency could be
made available in actual warfare with a rival power. That
must he left to the decision of competent judges after
due inquiry. The question in every body's mouth
is, by what agency Captain Warner produces such won-
derlbl results. That, we believe, is known only to
Captain Warner himself, and if he be wise he will keep
the secret until he has the reward of his genius in
his pocket.. But though nothing definite is known as to
the mode of operation, there is no lack of conjectures
on the subject. Some persons fancied they could dis•
cover, by means of a glass, a rope which communicated
the steam-vessel in which Captain Warner and his
friends were to the ship destined to destruction. We '
cannot contradict this, because we had no glass ; but
certainly nothing of the kind was visible to the naked
eye. The prevailing opinion among scientific men was,
that the work of destruction had been done by means of
-an electrical battery. Others contend that the ship
was destroyed by means of a line connected with a trig-
ger, and that when this trigger is pulled, a concussion
takes place which shakes the ship to pieces. There is a
third class of persons who are equally confident that a
case, about three feet square, containing the materials
by which such wonderful results are produced, is placed
along the ship, and that the contents being by some
means or other eisploded, instantaneously shivers the
vessel in pieces. But all this, t 0 already remarked, is
mere conjecture.
The experiment of Saturday is only one a a series
which Captain Warner means to make, having for their
object to prove that he possesses the knowledge of a
source of naval power which-would destroynn entire,
fleet at once. The present experiment has been made at
his own and his private friends' expense ; but he is now
to apply to Government for the necessary means to
enable him to make the experiments.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
The subject a the supposed new destructive power,
invented by Captain Warner, has recently been revived
in the public mind by an announcement that an experi-
ment upon a grand scale would take place off -Brighton,
the inventor undertaking to destroy and sink a ship of
between 300 and 400 tons burden by the simple force of
one discharge (so to speak) of his shell," as
the invention has been termed. Saturday, the 13th inst.,
as our readers are aware, was the day originally ap-
pointed for the experiment to be made, and, as stated
in this journal of last week, the extraordinary nature of
the undertaking had the effect of attracting a very large
number of naval and military officers, noblemen and
others; from London, for the purpose of witnessing it.
Adverse winds, and other accidental circumstances com-
bined, however, prevented the ship from reaching Brigh-
ton on tie 13th, and the "curious" were disap-
pointed, at any rate fer *time ; but all concurred in re-
lieving Captain Warner fro'n the Opp of intentional

neglec..
On Wedne:,44Yl , the ship intended to be expert nenta
lised upOn, a fine ;zone o. f. between 300 and 400 tons
and belonging to Mr.
burden, named the John of
'A it for the pur-
Somes, of London, who liberally gran.,.._
pose, arrived off Shoreham, and the necessary ar:2.".
ments having been completed, Saturday was fixed as the
most convenient day for the trial to come off, principally
to allow the attendance of the Members of the House of
Commons, many of whom had expressed a wish to be
present.
The mail train, which left London at half-past ten,
brought down a perfect host of visitors. Amongst those
travelling by it we observed—Lord Brougham, the Earl
of Miinvers, Lord Ranelagh, Viicount Ingestre, lion.
Captain Murray, RN., Colonel Dundas, Captain Ryder
'Burton, R.N., Mr. Mackinnon, M.P., Mr. Montagu Gore,
M.P., Mr. Somes, the ship-owner, Mr. G. Tomlin, M.P.,
Mr. Lindsay, M.P., Mr. R. Neville, M.P., Hon. Sydney
Pierrepoint, Chevalier Benkhausen, Captain E. Lloyd,
R.N., Mr. Redhead Yorke, M.P., Sir Montagu Chol monde-
ley, Hon. Henry Fitzroy, M.P., Viscount Alford, M.P.,
Captain Boldero, M.P.. Mr. Emerson Tennent, M.P.,
Lord Tadcaster, Captain Henderson, RN., Mr. William
Peel, Mr. J. Sheppard (the Chairman), and the follow-
ing Directors of the East India Company—Mr. Robin..
son, Colonel Sykes, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Warden, and Mr.
Cotton, &c.
`Upon arriving at Brighton most of the company pro-
ceeded to the chain-pier, from which point the vessel
destined to be destroyed was seen riding at anchor off
Shoreham harbour. The greatest excitement prevailed'
in the town, and nearly the whole population seemed to
be collected on the cliffs and 'upon the pier. Three
o'clock was the time appointed for the experiment to be
made, and, long before that hour the pier head, the bat-
tery, and every other point cothmanding a good view of
the sea, was crowded with gentlemen and fashionably
dressed ladies, whose observation was anxiously directed
towards Shoreham,_ Among thew la se sent Vve bbiervpd
the Wittis of Eiteter„Loyd.A,ylmee, ZiotitCOMbermere;
Lord Templetown, Hon. General Upton, the Marquis of

Lorne, the Marquis of I Mir,o, Lord Lovaine, the Bishop
of rd, aul a great atany others whose •names we
cannot now particularise. The above hour passed without
any apparent movement on board the ship, which still rode
at anchor gdlantly, with twa attendant steamers within
a short distanc of her. Four o'clock arrived,
and still the anchor r. mained fast, and some
feeling of impatience was manifested by the spectators.
Before five, however, the crew on board were observed,
by the aid of a powerful glass, to be busy weighing an-
chor ; and shortly afterwards the vessel was taken in
tow. by oze of the steamers, and hove down towards
Brighton. There was something in the appearance of
the gallant barque, riding proudly on to its destruction,
which created a feeling of deep interest among the spec-
tators ; and, although another hour elapsed before the
experiment was made, no further impatience was mani-
fested. The John of Gaunt arrived off the battery at 20
minutes to six o'clock, and in a few moments the two
sailors- who had remained on board of her up to this time
were taken off by a small boat from the steamer. The
most intense anxiety now prevailed among the spectators
on shore, and every movement of those on board the
tug-beat was watched with the greatest interest. -Capt.
Warner was himself on board the tug, and it had been
arranged that when the signal was given from the
battery the crew of that vessel should go below,
leaving no other persons on deck but the captain
and the mate. This arrangement was observed ;
and immediately afterwards the steamer, which
had hitherto been towing the ship by a hawser, put
back, and came abreast of her—a position which she
maintained for a.very few moments,.and then again pro-
ceeded to her former situation, about a quarter of a mile
eastward of the John of Gaunt. At five. minutes to six
o'clock, Captain Warner answered the signal from the
battery, by lowering the flag at the mast head of the
steamer ; and this being generally understood as the
immediate prelude to the explosion every eye was ri-
vetted on the ship, which, it should be stated, was at this
time exactly opposite the battery on the west cliff, about
two miles distant from the shore. A little delay, how-
ever, took place—five minutes only—and at six o'clock
precisely (the vessel being at the time bearing down
channel to the eastward), and still (as it is believed) in
tow of the steamer, the explosion took place, effecting
the wreck of the ship in the most complete and perfect
manner, not a vestige of her hull being visible above
the water within about two minutes after she Was
struck. The first intimation which, the spectators had
of the destruction of the ship was by a low
dull sound, immediately succeeded by a column , of
white smoke, which appeared to rise from be-
neath the vessel. This smoke cleared away in a very few
moments, and left the wreck exposed to view. The
mainmast was broken off quite short, within a very few
feet of,the deck, the mizen mast-being almost wholly gone,
and the foremast alone remaining entire. 'The bulwarks
on both sides the ship were blown completely away, the
greatest injury appearing to have been effected on the
larboard scle, as the vessel immediately heeled over in
that direction, and gradually went.down, As her hull
disappeared, the success of the experiment was greeted
with the most enthusiastic cheering-from the crowds as-
sembled on the battery and the pier. She sunk in about
thirty-five feet water, and when her 'keel touched the
bottom about half the fore-topmast was visible above the
water. Several officers interested in the experiment im-
mediately put off to make an examination of the wreck,
and the Sir William Wallace, the steamer in which Capt
Warner had been, remained in tbe vicinity for some time.
The masts, and other large portions of the wreck, were
clearly observed from the shore, floating about in the

water.
And now a few words as to the modus operandi. It is
not to be supposed, after hearing all the statements cir-
culated as to the destructive power of Captain Warner's
invention, that even the anxiety of a reporter to obtain
the most accurate information would carry him within
ordinary shot distance of the ship about to be, shattered
by the supposed new element, and,.in common with many
thousand others, the writer confesses to a weakness
which kept him safely ensconced on the battery height.
Hence, through a powerful telescope, an excellent view
of both the steamer and the John of Gaunt was obtained,
and the appearance of the wreck after the explosion as-
certained with tolerable distinctness. The distance from
the shore (nearly two miles) was far too great, however,
to discern whether "the instrument *of destruction was
propelled by any machine on the steamer to the ship, or
whether the destruction of the vessel was accomplished
by some hidden power beneath the surface of the water
placed exactly in the track of the vessel.
In this dilemma, as to the real facts, the opinions and
statements of various scientific and other individuals
who have long been curious as to the means employed,
will be read with interest. From an extended conversa-
tion among this class of persons, the writer obtained opi-
nions at variance with each other on many points ; but
the prevailing impression certainly was, that no " pro•
jectile force" is adopted by Capt. Warner in carrying
out his discovery. The difficulty of controlling any
power possessing sufficient force to destroy a ship instan-
taneously.with such a degree of accuracy as to ensure
its explosion at a given moment, and at the same time
to prevent its bursting by the act of propulsion, may
have induced many to come to this conclusion, and there
is some show of reason in it.

The prevailing impression
.is, that two " detonating
shells ' secured together by means of a chain or rope,
are suspended at a certain distance beneath the surface
of the water, directly in the track of the vessel, which
upon meeting with the obstruction offered by the chain
or rope, forces it forward, a motion which inevitably
draws the " shells " against the sides of the ship, upon
coming in contact with which they are so constructed as
to explode instantaneously, and by such explosion de-
stroy the vessel.
A close observation of the whole proceeding this day
led the writer to believe that some such mode' of pro-
ceeding must be adopted. There certainly was no ap-
pearance of an explosion from the hold of the vessel,
and, so far us could be ascertained,' the injury the ship
sustained appeared to be about the centre on the lar-
board and starboard sides. It is true that two of her
masts were destroyed, and that her back appeared to be
broken, .but this might have very well arisen in the
manner described.
A few individuals were of opinion that a galvanic
communication existed between the steam tug and the
vessel destroyed, and they backed their opinion by the
fact that Captain Warner had declined to allow any
person to go on board the ship immediately before the
experiment. It was very generally urged that this latter
arrangement was not quite satisfactory, but Captain
Warner met the objection by stating, that if he allowed
one individual he should be overwhelmed by applica-

tions.
The result of the examination of the wreck will be
looked forward to with the greatest interest by all parties.
The Directors of the Railway Company had liberally
offered to send a special train up to town for the conve-
nience of those who came down to witness the experi-
ment, but the time at which it occurred fortunately en-
abled all who desired it to return to town by the half-
past six train, which brought up twenty-nine carriages,
containing nearly 600 persons.—Sunday Paper.

COURT OF REQUESTS,
GUILDHALL.
LLOYD'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER V.:TIIE TIMES.
On Saturday the Commissioners of this Court adjudi-
cated upon a case of some importance to newspaper pro-
prietors. It was brought at the instance of Mr. Edward
Lloyd, proprietor of Lloyd's Weeny Newspaper, to re-
cover the sum of 155., from John Joseph Lawson,
the printer of the Times newspaper, as follows:—
Mr. Samuel Robins, overseer to Mr. Lloyd, appeared
to support the case on behalf of Mr. Lloyd, and Mr.
Alexander Dobie, an attorney, on behalf of Mr: Lawson,
of the Times.
Mr. Robins said that on Friday, the sth of July, he
took an advertisement to the Times.office, for insertion
on Saturday the 6th. The advertisement contained a
bill of contents for Lloyd's Ifeekly Newspaper of Sunday,-
the 7th., The same advertisement was also sent to other
morning papers, and appeared on Saturday, the 6th.
The one in the Times, however, did not appear until
Monday, the Bth, and then had been altered by their
printer, in order that it might read correctly. 'This
being of no use whatever to Mr. Lloyd, he (Mr. Robins)
had on behalf of Mr. Lloyd taken out the present sum-
mons, to recover the sum of. 155., which had been
charged by the Times for the insertion.
A COMMISSIONER—What is complained of is an every
day occurrence, and I do not see that, Mr. Lloyd can re-
cover the bum he seeks.
Mr. Dobie contended that the advertisement had ap-
peared, and therefore answered the desired effect, namely,
that of giving publicity to the paper.
Mr. Robins—lf a bill were made out for a particular
day for a benefit at a theatre, or advertised any parti-
cular exhibition for a certain day, what use would it be
to the proprietor if the advertisement of the benefit or
exhibition appeared on the day after it was over 7
A COMMISSIONER—Yes ; or a sale by auction appear-
ing the day after it has taken plaee.
Mr. Dobie—lf he had applied on the Saturday and
rescinded the advertisement, as it had not appeared, his
application would have been attended to.
Mr. Robins—l did not consider it necessary • and
when saw it IP the Monday's paper, I thought Of the
utter inutility of its appearance,
One of the CestsmisrowEas observed that its having
appeared would be the means of additional copies being
, •

Av. •
Mr. Robins galti that the intention was to sell the
papers on. the Sunday named in the tikivertisement.
Another CciAINTSSIONEB said that he was perfectly of
the same opinion, and it was evidently inserted to in-
crease the sale on that particular Sunday.
Mr. Dobie denied that any particular day bad been
named for the-insertion.
Mr. Robins replied that he had particularly named the
day to be the next day (Saturday), besides the circum-
stance of their own printer baying altered the adver-
tisement, was a sufficient corroboration of what he had
stated.

After a long consultation between the Commissioners,
the Chief one said—" We are of Opinion that the money
ought to be refunded to Mr. Lloyd."
Mr. Dobie said he thought Me advertisement duty
should be deducted from the amount.
Mr. Robins said that Mr. Lloyd had. brought this cases
forward upon principle; he should;- therefore, agree 'to
the reduction, but should press for costs.
To this the Commissioners acceded, and thus the affair
terminated.

CAUTION TO PARENTS, o children were
brought to the Dispensary, Barnstaple, on Tuesday last,
each of whom had gat a cherrystone in his ear. The
first was a boy from TaWstock, to whom the accident
had happened on the preceding Sanday; "and several
abortive attempts had been made to get out the stone;
by which the ear was very much irritated,. and it was
not without much difficulty .that. ttieetiEds at the
I)ispenitarvouceeeditl'in extraoting.lt« klearcelY had he
bebh ielievechwheiV the second came into the house, and
in-his case also, which had only just occurred, extraction
was performed.—Somerset Gazette, .

THE WORDS OF WISDOM.

OVER-TRADING-OVER-POPULATION-AND
OVER-PRODUCTION.

Our wise men and sages—our public orators and
Writers--:our Dr.'s—our LL.D.'s— our M.A:'s—our
A.M.'s and A.S.S.'s, and our numerous host of learned
men, with many words and little knowledge, have been
for years labouring most profoundly to make us under-
stand the wisdom and sublimity of the above motto.

Another very knowing and active set of gentlemen are
trying to enlighten our understandings by preaching and
talking to us about free trade—in everything but money
—but that it is necessary to retain the money, to afford
the wealthy capitalists an opportunity of exhibiting their
great goodness in allowing us, when it suits their pur-
pose, the honour of making trousers for sevenpence per
pair, and shirts for one penny farthing each, &c.
Also to show us, in the fulness of their wisdom, how
they can increase the markets by destroying the demand
and starving the consumers.
And the people, inspired by the aforesaid, cried
Amen, so let it be.
Some few silly people said, the Money Currency had
much to do in retarding or promoting the well-being of
the people.
But the people, at the bidding of the Wise Men and
Philosophers, turned a deaf ear, and laughed at the
want of knowledge on the part of these simple people of
sublime sayings and doings, of the learned. Philosophers
Political Economists.

- And in, and behold, it came to pass in the year 1844,
that the few silly people, notwithstanding they were
laughed at, continued to say the wise men and philoso-
phers, commonly called political economists or wisdom
persbnified ; and who also boasted of much learning
one filling a professors chair in Gower-street (*Cul-
loch), another scattering wisdom from Oxford (Senior),
others from the haunts of law and commerce (Tooke,
Torrens, Lloyd, and others).
Yet the few silly and perverse people continued to
say, notwithstanding you have much learning, you have
very little knowledge of men and things ; and these
silly people denied the truth of an assertion put forth by
their great, philosopher whom they called Malthus, who
said the people had no right to live when they became
too numerous, and must be starved out of existence in
obedience to the new philosophy.
In vain did the people say, let us produce, consume,
and exchange with each 'other, and we will provide
enough and to spare. We contend you philosophy
promotes immorality and crime, and creates envy, ill-
will, and strife among men ; but one leurned philosopher
said (Senior, see Note 1) they had nothing to do with
morality, their business was with accumulation.
. Another wise man made known his wisdom and know-
ledge, by saying he had never thought about it (Jones
Loyd, see Note 2) ; yet, notwithstanding, the philoso-
phers continued to say the people had no business to live
unless they understood the wise doctrine promulgated
by them of supply and demand, and the more they pro-
duce the less they ought to consume,-&c. •
Supply depends on demand, they said,.and demand is
governed by money ; and to increase the demand we will
lessen the money..
Two more daring than the rest (Loyd and Peel by
name) said we will show our wisdom practically, con-
sequently Loyd wrote a book, and Peel framed a law from
that book, and they said thus :
We will set up a golden calf, and the wondering,
cheated' multitude will worship the invention.
We will give bits of gold in small quantities at a fixed
price, and only with these will we allow them ;to make
their exchanges. It shall not be more than 20s. per
head for the population, and small as is the amount com-
pared with the people's wants, we can manage to mono-
polize it in the hands of a few, and thus will the people
soon know and feel the true doctrine of our • friend and
predecessor Malthus. There will be too many to live
under these crippled arrangements—consequently some
will starve.
Others will fight and tear, and kill each other, with
cares and anxieties in these money scrambles. Some
will become cheats and swindlers, others will steal, and
thus we shall promote emigration.
And the people, through their representative, shouted
and cried " hurrah ! for the wisdom,
,philosophy, and
learning, of Lloyd, Peel, and Company.' W. K..
Note I.—The preface to Mr. Senior's Books on Poli-
tical Economy.
Note 2.—Mr. Jones Loyd, in his examination before
the Committee on Bank Issues, is asked among other
questions, as follows :
.2. " Have you ever considered what would be the
effect upon the minds of the trading and working-
part of the community if the value of stock and wages
fluctuated, and were subject to sudden depressions by the
action of the currency.
" Answer.—l must admit I have never reflected on such
topics ; because I feel assured if I was to make the
attempt I should only lead my own intellect into
great confusion, &c."

LICENSED VICTUALLERS' PROTECTION SOCIETY.—
At a Committee meeting of the above Society, held at the
Office, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, on Friday, the 19th
instant, Mr. Edmonds in the chair, a reward of one guinea
was paid to Wm. Latham, F 45, for apprehending Thomas
Dignum, for robbing Mr. Marriott, the Old Crown, Broad-
street, Bloomsbury, of an ale glass. At a previous meeting
the following sums were also awarded ;--To John Sayer,
285 N, one guinea, for apprehending John Williams for rob-
bing Mr. Rouse, White Conduit Tavern,,Pentonville, of a
pewter pot ; to Wm. Horsford (an active officer of the Men-
dicity Society), one guinea, for apprehending Benjamin Jones
for robbing Mr. Jenkins, Catherine-wheel, Little James-
street, St. James's, and Mr. Beavans, Duke of Albemarle,
Stafford-street, Bond-street, of several pewter pots—the sen-
tence in this case was ten years' transportatiori; and to J.
Burford, servant to Mr. Sandy, Green Dragon, King-street,
Golden-square, half-a-guinea, for detecting John Cannaway
in robbing his employer of a knife and fork.
PILGRIMAGE TO THE TOMB OE' JOHN RAY.—A
pilgrimage was made on Wednesday last to the tomb of
John Ray, the naturalist, at Black Notley, Essex, by
the President (the Lord Bishop of Norwich), and several
fellows of the Linnean Society. 'The party left town by
the first railway for Witham, where they were joined by
J. H. Pattison, Esq., who being the proprietor of the
house in which Ray spent his last days, invited these
gentlemen to take luncheon beneath its roof.. Proceed-
ing to Black Notley, about six miles distant from
Witham, the party reached the village church about
twelve o'clock. On the south side of the church rest
the mortal remains of one of the greatest of British
Naturalists. The tomb is of a pyramidal form,
and is inscribed with an elegant latin epitaph
from the:pen of the Rev. W. Coyte. It is in good pre-
servation, but the inscription is rather illegible, and it is
said that the Linnean Society intends to restore that
portion of it. The Bishop of Norwich appeared to take
especial interest in the scene, but was obliged to leave
early. About one o'clock the party assembled at Dew-
lands, the house from which Ray's pure spirit took its
flight in 1705 ; it is now a farm house, and here they
sat down to a cold collation provided by Mr. Pattison, at
which that worthy gentleman and his lady presided.
The memory of John Ray was drunk in reverential
Norfolk Chronicle.
signatures in a work belonging
tto separating Mr. Pattison.—i°
dpßaelins of Ray ;" which will doubtless
that gentleman as an interesting memento
a.trtiseenornd._ed,, troheerir.
FIRING IN HYDE PARK.—A notice has been posted
in Hyde Park, about midway between Victoria-gate, Bays-
sbhoifealenittnhrecseeaL:suiisrfieeTt.diabneyNo
water, and the Serpentine, by order of his Grace the Com-
mander-in-Chief, to the effect that the troops, when exer-
cising and practising, are not to fire within 200 yards of the
Magazines situated in that portion of the park, which are
stored with gunpowder.
RATHER PARADOXICAL.-011 Saturday last, as the
bellman was parading the streets of Huddersfield, an-
nouncing to the inhabitants that, in consequence of the
continued drought and scarcity of water, they would, in
future, be limited to two days supply per week, the
rain-fell in torrents, and literally drenched_ the poor
bellman !--Zeids Timm
The tax on wool being now wholly repealed,
foreignets can send their wool to the British market
duty free. The consequence will be that, as our manu-
facturers can get wool cheaper, they 'will make cheaper
cloths. These will be sent to foreign markets, and
being cheaper, will be sold at a less price than foreigners
oats make them. An impetus will thus be given to
trade, more hands will be employed, and being em-
ployed, they will be able to consume more agricultural
produce. ,The demand for agriculturalproduce will en-
hance the price, and thus moving in a circle all classes,
even the British wool growers, whose wool cannot be
used except mixed with foreign wool, will be benefited,
We wish that the same principle was applied to every,
thing as well as wool. It is stated by Pe Pontemporafy,
that it is indisputably certain the more we draw. front
foreigners, the less we shall grow of our own. This is
false.; for in proportion as foreign wool bas been im-
ported, the growth, mq.nufacture, and consumption of
our own have inceased also.—Brighton Herald.
THE ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY.--011 Thursday,
the 11th instant, a special meeting of this society was
convened by the Rev. Edward Blencowe, one of the
Rural Deans for Lynn Marshland, to meet at his rectory
at West Walton, for the purpose of oxdinini,_
g the
churches of West Walton and Walsoken. The members
of the society, together with other guests of to.. Blun7
cowe, arrived at. the parsonage about twelve o'e k, and
Proceeded to the churoll whial is said to be the finest
earlyVnglish architecture specimen cif . in this part
of the aountrY• The majestic and beautiful tower!
which stands apart from the church, has suffered
little from either time or ill.-usage but the church
itself has been 50 cruelly mutilated, that of all the
beautiful windows which once adorned the buildings
one alone remains to tel the tale. The roQfs, both of the
nave and the twe ?Alegi have been Sham of their fair pro-
portions; and windowg Of every and of no shape, have
to time inserted,
been from time without the slightest
regard to the character of the
8) all this is in-.
deed deplorable; and ar't the less so, that' it has been
th'e fate of half the fine churches in the country. But,
on the other hand, much still remains of Unrivalled
beauty, particularly in the interior of the Aura,
The clustered columns of the original building still
extend the entire length of.: ~ th% h from west
to east. Under the auspices of t e
Rector, centuries,
of whitewash and filth have been cleared away, and
'many of the pillars now display their original marble ;
and such has been the effect merely of careful cleaning,
that the light, flowery, and diversified capitals of the
columns appear as if fresh from the chisel, One of these
fine pillars has been entirely rescued vc;
• -7 lileneowe,
from a bed of plaster id whichit had' ,been walled up
time out of mind and 0110 e again its finished and beau,
tiful workmanship is displayed as it model to the artists
and workmen of modern times,—.../vor
ft; Chronicle.
Holorry.—A, pleasing instance of honesty in a
farrnino• labourer occurred last week. A.,. gentleman
not far'from us dispatched per pos4,4etth-r, teciosieg a;
notejiddressed.-"'lrr, HepsVorth." By a
*suite in the postToffiee,the letter was sent to Epworth,
where it was delivervd to a poor man, a
,farming labourer, of a similar name. The next post
brought back the 10/. note to the sender, with a remark
from the poor man that he was sure it could not have
been intended for him—Bury Post.

FROM THIS ETENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—When speaking on Irish questions, Lord
Lyndhurst is singularly unfortunate. Whether he ad-
dresses the House of Lords as a politician, or deliver an
opinion when presiding therein, in his judicial capacity,
the Noble and Learned Lord is led to employ phraseology
which fails to convey the meaning he intends to express.
For instance, the Noble and Learned Lord's memorable
description of the Irish people—" aliens in blood, reli-
gion,
and language," which was concise and pointed as
an epigram, meant anything but what, to ordinary ears,
the words seemed to convey. Whereas, the words them-
selves affirmed—and their connexion. appeared to justify
the construction—that the Irish people had neither claim
to, nor fitness for English institutions and privileges,
which, by virtue of the Act of Union, they claimed
from the Legislature. Lord Lyndhurst subsequently
explained that the construction given to the words,
so far from being justified, was forced, unnatural, and
foreign from his purpose. The Noble and Learned Lord
was not, it is true, extensively successful in his at-
'tempts to persuade people that the -phrase had been
misunderstood. But this obstinacy in adhering to what
they asserted was the plain and obvious meaning of his
words, might arise from the proverbial power of preju-
dice—unless, indeed, the aphorism be accepted, that
" language was given to man to enable him to
conceal his thoughts ;" and Lord. Lyndhurst, acting
up'm this principle, employed. the offensive phrase to
conceal his deep affection for the Irish people, and his
earnest wish that they should enjoy privileges and
immunities in all respects equally extensive with
the other subject's -of the United Kingdom. Then, an
observation of the Lord Chancellor, 'during the recent
are'minent before' the House of Lords on the Writ
of Error has also been the subject of a most un-
fortunate misconstruction, which it became necessary for
his Lordship to set right by an elaborate exposition of
his real meaning. This the Noble and Learned Lord
did last night—with what amount of success, we leave
those who read . the text and the , comment upon the
words, as last night supplied by his Lordship, to deter-
mine. While Mr. Hill was pursuing his argument on
the omissi'in of names from the special jury panel,
and explaining the manner in which the jury had been
composed, and which had been made the ground of
challenging the array by the defendants, the Lord
Chancellor interposed ;--" There is no dispute about
the facts. It is clear from the record that there was a
fraudulent list; that the book was made up from that
list ; and that the panel was made out from the book."
At a subsequent period of the argument, the Lord
Chancellor observed—" The only question was, whe-
ther this was the right course of proceeding—whether
the fraud formed a ground of challenge of the array."
The Lord Chancellor has explained. But in so doing
has, to our view, rather mystified than rendered clear,
that which he conceived required elucidation. The
obvious meaning of the words his Lordship has " ex-
plained," was previously-clear to every one who is in
the habit of taking words in their plain and obvious
sense. His Lordship states, 'that.when he said, "It is
clear from the record that there was a fraudulent list,"
he only meant, " It was so admitted for the purpose of
legal argument. It could not be denied. His statement
went to the fact that the admission was made for the
purpose of argument, and of argument only. But he
never said, or intended to say, ,nor could their Lord-
ships or any .other person suppose he could intend to
say, that these facts, admitted for the purpose of argu-
ment, were in reality true.'
STANDARD.—We shall not be suspected of a wish
to limit the functions or to disparage the importance of
the public press, but we are bound to say that the tenor
of the debate upon Mr. Milner Gibson's motion last
night confirms us in the opinion we have long enter-
tained, that if ever the people of this conntry shall come
to think the press an intolerable nuisance it will be when
the public journals send roving commissions in pursuit of
grievances into remote places, where a temporary excite •
ment may, from any cause, exist. There is no part of Eng-
land which has not an ably condtictedlocal press of its own,
amply supplying all the uses of a press to the
district. The conductors of this local press are men who
must have much better means of information, and of
forming a correct judgment, than any itinerant who visits
the neighbourhood as " our own reporter," and they
must be responsible in character, which our own re-
porter " cannot be. To what extent does it affect
the interests of a London journal, if all the
statements of its " own reporter" should be,
at the six months end, proved absolutely false
or grossly exaggerated, as generally happens ? Mean-
while misrepresentation and encouragement of disorder
do their work. The local journals, on the other hand,
cannot dare this policy; they depend for existence upon
their local character for veracity and eircumspectness.
The temptation to send down " our own reporter" to any
excited quarter, is no doubt strong to vanity and not in-
considerable on the side of profit—but the practice is
unquestionably a great public evil.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The settlement of the Consol account wag
the chief feature at the Stock Exchange to-day, in the
absence of more important business, and the result of the
adjustment -gave rather a favourable tendency to prices,
whi.:ll previously showed some symptoms of weakness.
Money was exceedingly abundant at merely nominal
rates, and hence not the least difficulty was experienced
in the final arrangement of the business. At the close of
the day the market appeared to be very firm.
The Illinois bondholders held a meeting to-day to
consider the plan proposed by the indebted State for
restoring its, credit. This plan has been too often set
forth under this head, in every stage of negotiation be-
tween the interested parties on both sides, to need a
description now. The result of the meeting was, that a
resolution was unanimously carried, approving of the
scheme, and recommending all holders of Illinois bonds
to subscribe to the funds required for the completion of
the canal. This proceeding, according to the opinion of
the meeting, was absolutely necessary to secure the early
restoration of credit.

The East India and China Association have published
their comparative statement of the number of British
ships, with tonnage, entered inwards and cleared out-
wards from and to places within the limits of the East
India Company's charter, from the Ist of January tq tho
30th of June in the years 1843 and 1844.

The statement of-vessels entered inwards shows that
the number arriving at the port of London during that
pent) • d was an increase of ton vessels, with 6,084 tonnage,
compared with, 1843, there being 280 vessels, with
116,632 tonnage, in the former six months, and BYO ves-
sels, with 110,548 tonnage, in the latter six months. In
the case of Liverpool, the increase was only two vessels,
with 710 tonnage, the number of vessels arriving in the
first six months of 1843 being 85, with 36,6131 tonnage,
and in the same period of 1844, 87, with 87,031 tonnage.
The ports of Bristol and Hull show an increase of five-
vessels, with 1,915 tonnage, the number in 1843 having
been 9, with 2,982 tonnage • and in 1844, 14, with
4,197 tonnage. The Clyde and other pnrts show a de-
crease of two vessels, with 2,046 tonnage, 27, with 9,868
tonnage, having arrived in 1843, while in 1844, 25 ar-
rived, with 7,822 tonnage.
A general revision of the entries inward shows a total
increase in the first six months of 1844 over the same
period of 1843 of 15 vessels, with 6,663 tonnage. The
'chief increase has been in the 'arrival of vessels from
China, Singapore, the Philippine Islands, and New South
Wales, while there has at the same time been a consi-
derable decrease in the arrivals from Calcutta.
The clearances outwards show an increase in the
arrivals at the port of London of 38 vessels, with
12,545 tonnage, in 1844, compared with ma, the re-
spective numbers in the six months being 233 vessels,
with 92,459 tonnage, slnd 185 vessels, with 79,914 ton-
nege.• --Livorpani shows the large increase of 87 vessel%
with 40mA-tonnage, the numbers being 117 vessels,
with 45,371 tonnage in 1843, and 4% vessels, with
75,761 tonnage, in 1844. Bristol also shows an increase
of 18 vessels, with 4,514. tannage, only 1, with 367 tan.
nage, having arrived in the first six months of 1841,
whereas 18, with 4,522 tonnage, arrived in the -first six
months of 1844. The Clyde and other ports show an
increase of 10 vessels, with a decrtiise of 555 tonnage,
the arrivals in the first six months of 1844 being 89 ves-
sels, with 28,947 tonnage ; and in the first six months of
1643,:79 vessels, with 20,402 tonnage.
A general rovicly c f the clearances shows a total in-
crease in the Ars; sib months. of 1844 over the -same
peripilin 184 a of 153 vessels, with 46,902 tonnage. The
increase incladea 4f vessels for Calcutta, 15 vessels for
80mbay,.24 vessels for the Mauritius, 87 vessels for the
Cape of Good Hope, and 5 vessels for the South Seas,
In the clearaws gni New South Wales the great de-,
crease of 20 vessels is to be noticed. •

BOROUGH OF LAMIRTH.---NOTICE TO LODGERS.—
The churchwardens and overseers -of the borough of
Lambeth have just issued a notice to lodgers, which they
have caused to be posted all over the parish, as well
as, on the doors of the several chUrches and various
rlaces of worship, stating their willingness to carry
ota effect the intention of the Legislature relative to
placing the names of lodgers on the list of persons
qualified to vote for Members of Parliament; and that
all lodgers who occupy rooms or apartments of the
yearly value of 101., or four shillings per week, and
have occupied such rooms for twelve months previous
to the 6th of April last, may, on giving notice to the,
churchwardens- and overseers of the parish, have their
names entered on the register, but must pay up all
rates and taxes due on or before the 20th inst., the
amount of which twee and rates so paid the lodgers may
deduct froth the rent due to their respective landlords,
The above notice is issued in pursuance of the eth and
nth William. IV., cap. 60. Numerous lodgers in the
parish of Lambeth have availed themselves of this no-
tice, and caused their news to be inserted accordingly,
by which Wens the- constituency of. Lambeth will be
inereased by considerably more than a thousand voters.
The right of lodgers to be rated to the poor, and placed
on the list of voters, has hitherto not been generally
known.

THE CROPS nt IRELARD.—We have been informed
by a person who recently travelled from Dublin, and passed,
on his way to this city, through parts of the counties a
Meath, Louth, (2avan, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, that every-
where On wheat promises to be an excellent exp. Barley
Also looks well, but the quantity sown is very limited. Early
oats, particularly that on gond ground, appears well headed%
and will be more than an average crop. Late sown oata,
however, appear short, but thick in the ground: The early'
sown flax, in general, looks well, but thg of late growth is'
likely to prove a failure. The hay pep is both thin and
abort, and will, in all pTph.lhility, not be half so abundant as
that of last season, In the potato crop, in some places, par-.
tial niiSlei appear; but on the whole it appears promising,
especially those planted at an early period Oft iiuson. The
pasture grounds have lately, improvtd eoosiderably, yet it
must be admitted that it has been a very bad season for
grass.—Derry Sentinel.
USE OF .THE FLESH BRITSII.—HOW many are they
who keep a number of groolwi eiwi,v their horses, who
would add, ton years to eomfbrtabie existence, if they
would employ ono of them to curry themselves With a fie
brcish night and moral% i---Sinelair's cbcpcif g(441414,

CHINESE DOMESTIC ARCHI-
TECTURE.

Extract of a letter from Shanghae, dated the 13th of
February
" As soon as Icould get a place I removed on shore.
My house is neither very large nor very handsome ; it
consists of six small rooms, namely, dining.room, sitting-
room, and office (all in one), bed-room, muster-room,
store-room, and two rooms occupied by my linguist and
Shroff, so that all are in use. The upper part of the
house is built entirely of wood; the rooms about nine
feet high at the sides, and 15 feet in the' centre (top of
the roof); and the tiles visible, there being no ceiling to
cover the rafters. By dint of papering the walls, and ,so
stopping up, or rather covering, the chinks between the
planks, putting curtains to the windows and doors,
making a ceiling of mats, by nailing them to the rafters,
and carpeting the rooms, I have made the place mode-
rately comfortable, at least habitable, and by the help of
a small stove, and a pan of charcoal, or rather a compo-
sition of charcoal and other substances, which is used
here, I keep myself from freezing ; but it is utterly im-
possible to keep draughts out of a Chinese houie, and I
occasionally get a twinge of rh. umatism. However, by
next winter, I hope I shall have things more com-
fortably arranged.

`• The weather is very cold, and snow lying on the
ground. The thermometer, when I got up this morning,
was 28 deg. in my room. lam sometimes cold at night
with four blankets and a quilt over me, and frequently I
find the water in the basin, nail-brushes, &c., frozen in
the morning. Although not very pleasant to me, after
being accustomed to a,tropical climate, it is bracing, and
will, I trust, strengthen me to stand the hot weather.
I have been told that the thermometer sometimes stands
at 127 deg.. here in the shade. I suspect it must be ex-
aggerated. Fortunately it does not last long, not more
than three months, or it would be impossible to exist."

FAIR SUFFERERS.
(From Punch.)
By fair sufferers we mean about ninety-nine out of
every hundred of those poor dear young ladies,-con-
demned, thrcugh the accident of their birth, to languish,
in silk and satin, beneath the load of a fashionable ex-
istence. Ah ! little think the gay licentious paupers,
who have no plays, operas, and evening parties to be
forced to go to, and no carriages to be obliged to ride
about in, of the miseries which are endured by the
daughters of affluence ! It is a well-known fact, that
scarcely one of these tender creatures can be in a
theatre or a concert-room ten minutes without being
seized with a violent headache, which, more frequently
than not, obliges her to leave before the performance is
over, and drag a brother, husband, lover, or attentive
young man, away with her. If spared the headache, how
often is she threatened with a fainting fit (nay, now and
then seized with it), to the alarm and disturbance of her
company I Not happening to feel faint exactly, still
there is a sensation, " a something," as she describes it,
•' she doesn't know what," which she is almost sure to be
troubled with. Unvisited by these afflictions, neverthe-
less, either the cold, or the heat, or the glare of the gas,
or some other source of pain, oppresses or excruciates
her susceptible nerves. And when we take one such
young lady, and put together all the public amusements
which she must either go to—or die—in the course of a
London season ; and when we add up all the headaches,
and swoons, and the somethings she doesn't know what;
the shiverings, burnings, and other agonizing sensations
which she has undergone by the end of it ; the result is
an aggregate of torture truly frightful to contemplate.
Suppose she is obliged to walk—this is sometimes
actually the case—happy is she if she can go twenty
yards without some pain or other ; in the side, the back,
the shoulder, the great toe. Thus the pleasure of shop-
ping, promenading, or a pic-nic is embittered : thus is
colocynth infused into the eau sucree of bliss! If she
reads a chapter in a novel, the chances are that her
temples throb for it. She tries to embroider a corsair ;
doing more than an arm of him at a time strains her
eyes. Employ herself in what way she will, she feels
fatigued afterwards, and may think herself well off if she
is no worse. Nine days out of ten she has no appetite ;
on the tenth she enjoys her dinner, and is taken
Then comes that horrid physic She cannot take pills;
she objects to powders ; draughts are insufferable to her.
Poor unfortunate ! `hat is she to dog Without a
care to vex her, save, perhaps, some slight misgivings
respecting the Captain, she is unable to rest, though on
a couch of down. Exercise would procure her slumber;
but oh ! she cannot take it. Whether a: little less con-
finement of the waist, earlier hours, plainer luncheons,
more frequent airings in the green fields, and mental
and bodily exertion generally, than what, in these re,
spects, is the fashionable usage, would in any wty *alle-
viate the miseries of our fair sufferers, 11 be questioned.
It may also be inquired how fltr sue miseries are
imaginary, and to what extent a trifling exercise of reso-
lution would tend to mitigate them r Otherwise, sup-
posing them to be ills that woman is necessarily heiress
to—unavoidably, irfemediable ; gracious powers ! what
torments, whgs anguish, muit fishwomen, washerwomen,
charwomen, and haymakers, to say nothing of servants
of all-work, and even ladies' maids, endure every day of
their lives

BANKRUPTCY EXTRAORDINARY
Before SIB C. F. WILLIAMS.
At the sitting of the Court, a figure entered, looking
as pale as death, and begged to be allowed to surrender
himself as a bankrupt.
The figure represented himself as the statue of Nelson,
now and far some time past of Trafalgar-square. He
stated that a few friends had been desirous of setting him
up in the neighbourhood of Charing cross, where he had
hoped to have cut a good figure, bat want of money had
for a long time kept him down, and he had been com-
pletely laid upon his back for a very considerable period.
Sir C, WILLIAMS—What do you want here ? I sit
here to do justice, and if justice is not most thoroughly
done in every sense of the word, it is no fault of mine.
The figure observed that he came to surrender, and to
ask for protection against the numerous jokes that were
being made at his (the statue's) expense, and which
were really enough to break a heart of stone.
Sir C. if. WILLIAms--/ can give you ne protection
against jokes, I can't protect myself. I have been nearly
joked Of this chair on several occasions. What is the
extent of your liabilities ?
The figure said he really could not tell. A man
and a boy had been employed, who had left no stone
unturned, but he (the figure) was not aware whether
they had been paid for their labour.
Sir C. F. WILLIAM asked if there was any truth in
the report that the statue contemplated throwing himself
off the lodostal, in consequence of his awkward position ?
The figure, with large drops of stucco standing in his
eyes, observed that he had never thought of throwing
himself on the public by jumping down; but he admitted
that, if he had had sufficient rope, he might as well have
hanged himself.
Sir C. F. WILLIAM,—How much rope have you, then?
The figure said he had got a coil of about a yard, till
some of it was out away, for what reason he did not
know—far he was just as much tied by the leg now as
he had been always.
Sir C. F. WILLIAms asked if the statue had nofriends
who would set him up respectably ?
The figure replied that his best friends were for
withdrawing him altogether from public observation.
He would sooner pave the public street than be knocked
about and taken to pieces as he had been lately.
Sir C. F. WILLIAMS—I sit here as a Commissioner,
and I really can do nothing.
The figure said he had heard so before •, and having
thanked the Commissioner, he was carried out by the
man and the boy who were appointed. assignees under
the bankruptcy,--Punch.

THE BOY JONES AND THE BOY
JOIN VILLE.
(From Punch.)
The eyes of Europe are ent.‘e more upon the Boy Jones.
Well, the eyes of Europe have very often been turned
upon more insignificant persons. We confess it—we
have a regard for the Boy Jones. Whether he be redly
nephew or nut of George Jones, of Ancient America,
Esq., we have nevertheless a regard for the youth, who
at so early an age associated his name with the annals
of his country; for what future History of England, we
ask, will be complete, omitting all notice of Jones?
Poor boy! If fortune were not as perverse as a prima
donna, the Boy Jones would have been born in some
western square; would have learned his humanities at
college, and so been regularly trained for public place.
Only think of the Boy Jones, as Home Secretary, at the
Post-office! As it is, we have only the heavy Graham.
At least, we should have had sprightliness casting its
charm over illegalities; Jones would have broken a seal
with a whim apologetic of the felony, whilst Graham—
but we will not pursue the contrast.
Jones is a genius. That of the millions who gaze upon
the awful walls of Buckingham Palace, shut out from
them as from Paradise, Jones should have been the only
daring spirit that conceived a design to pass them—to
dip his plebeian fingers in the custards of the royal lar-
der—to creep up the royal chimneys—to crouch beneath
the royal sofa, thereby (as his uncle, George Jones, has
written to Punch) " causing her Majesty so much
alarm;"—that he alone should have done this makes
Jones—whatever his real time of life may be—far in
advance of his age. And her Majesty—bless her!—saw
the daring in its proper light; and therefore, as it now
appears, sent the Boy Jones on board the Warspite
(whence the world has just heard of him), with a recom-
mendation to the captain to watch " his dawning me-
rits," that Jones may, in good time, sport epaulets.
A recent letter tells us that Jones fell overboard off
Tunis in the first watch ; when the life-buoy, "which
blazed away with a steady and beautiful light," was let
go, and Jones clinging to it, called out to the boat's
orew, " Here I am—look lively !" However, the writer
insinuates that Jones jumped overboard, " and that for
no other purpose than to see the life-buoy light burning,"
This is a slander. The truth is, the poor boy had been
reading in the for clams. his uncle Jones's' Ancient
America;" whereupon he naturally fell into a sleep,
which lasted many hours, and in his sleep fell overboard!
life was saved for greater things.
However, we are happy to have heard thus incidentally
of the Boy Jones; as his whereabout is a sufficient evi-
dence of the watchfulness of Ministers as regards the
designs of France on Morocco. Sure we are that neither
gie Charles Napier nor Lord Minto would have twitted
the Admiralty with neglect had they only known that
the Boy Jones was on the Gibraltar station. We at
once acknowledge the profound policy of Ministers: it
is their intention to meet Joinville with the Boy Jones!
There is. if we mistake not, a minor theatre drama called
The Prince and the Chimney Sweep ; and we have no
doubt that this pieoe will, sooner or later, be revived on
the high seas, with--as Mr. Osbaldiston has it—" new
and startling effects;
the whole to conclude with the
destruction of the enemy's fleet!"
Yes : let Joinville hover on the coast of Morocco,
Britannia, may be as mild as a Quakeress, for has she
1104 at Gibraltar her babe of glory—the Jervis of the
ohimuey—the Nelson of the larder—her Boy Jones 10

It may, possibly, wound the self-love ~f the ;Torch td
learn that we pit our Jones against their Roya I Admiral;
nevertheless, up to the present moment, is not the
achievement of greatest daring on the 5..10 ~f oin' her. I'
We taste the fulness of content to ki.o.:v T,
quote the sweet song of a sweet singer—
`• Ai, the pause upon the ceasing of a thousand-voiced psalm,
Is our mighty satisfaction and full eternal calm,"

to know that wheresoever Joinville is, there beneefo. t.h
will be Jones; that whensoever it may please tho French
Admiral to attempt a descent on Brighton, Margate, or
Ilerne Bay, Jones,
"Like a sweet little cherub will sit up aloft,
And keep watch for the life of John Bull !"
And when some twenty years have passed away, pleas-
ing it will be to see the Boy Jones—then Post-Capta;n
Jones—kneeling to receive the honour of knighthi od
from our darling Queen, surrounded by her seventeen
sons and daughters; most pleasant will it be to mark the
sly yet benignant smile with which her Majesty dubs
the hero who" once caused her so much alarm ;" the in-
truding boy, who, according to his own report., once
heard the Princess Royal " ak."
We put it to Mr. George Jones, as a man and an an-
cient historian—should so likely an event come to pass,
would he then deny his nephew, the Boy Junes ?
Punch thinks not.