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FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—Lord Aberdeen's difficulties grow fast
upon him. The bombardment of Mogadore has fol-
lowed quickly on the heels of the bombardment of
Tangiers. The Prince de Joinville boinbarC.ed Tan-
giers, and, having done a small modicum of mischief
to its outworks, carried off his squadron to Gibraltar.
But with Mogadore there has been bombardment
and something more. The Prince has taken
possession of the island which forms the port of
Mogadore. He is establishing a garrison in the
island. He has declared the port in a state of blockade.
Sir Robert Peel solemnly pledged himself that he
will not allow France to acquire territory in Morocco.
We take for granted that immediate and full explana-
tion will be required from the French Government
as to the • nature and object of the French Prince's
possession of the island of Mogadore. We take for
granted also that explanation has been already
required as to the French Prince's bombardment
of Tangiers before the return of Mr. Hay from his
mission of mediation to the Emperor of Morocco.
Lord Aberdeen stated, in the House of Lords, on
the 13th of June, in answer to Lord Clarendon,
that the mediation of Great Britain had been
accepted by France and Spain,—by Spain on the
earnest interposition of France. Mr. Hay is on his
way back from Morocco; having obtained, it is said,
the concession of every material point insisted on by
France and Spain; and, as he nears Tangiers, hears
the Prince de Joinville's cannon. If the Prince
had waited only four hours, Mr. Hay would have
been in Tangiers before a shot was fired. The suc-
cess of Mr. Hay's mission is immaterial. Even if he
had failed in every point, as he is said to have suc-
ceeded in every material point, a commencement of
hostilities by the French Admiral before the result of
a mission of mediation, to which France had consented,
was known, is surely a matter demanding explana-
tion. We say, then, we take for granted that Sir
R. Peel has made Lord Aberdeen require explanation
from the French Government as to the bombardment
of Tangiers before Mr. Hay's return. And now, be-
fare the French Government can have received the
demand for this explanation—before the French
Government can have notified to its royal Admiral
its view of the terms obtained by Mr. Hay from
the Emperor of Morocco, Mogadore is bombarded
-is in ruins.; the island which commands the
town and port is held and garrisoned by the
French ; and a French blockade of the port is
declared. All this makes vigilance, firmness, an
honourably bold front, on England's part, more and
more necessary. 'That it will wake Lord Aberdeen
from his slumbers, or that any additional amount of
difficulty could give courage to the craven spirit of
the Foreign-office, we do not profess to believe. But
Sir Robert Peel has now more time to give to foreign
affairs than while Parliament is sitting. And the
Otaheite question is still to settle. The tone of the
French Globe (Guizot's organ), commenting on
a rumour of- French proposals on this sub-
ject, published by the Revue de Paris, is
the reverse of yielding. However, Sir Robert
Peel is pledged that there shall be ample repa-.
ration for the outrage on Mr. Pritchard. 'Whether
the recal of M. D'Auhigny alone will be ample re-
paration, or whether M. Brunt ought to be recalled
also, the Government, who at present know more of
the circumstances than we can profess to do, are at
present better able to judge than we are. But the
question settled, everything that the Government now
know the public will know. The public will then be
able to judge how Sir Robert Peel's pledge has been
kept; and if it should then appear that M. Bruat, as
soon as he knew of M. D'Aubigny's proceedings, re-
pudiated them, and punished his subordinate, the
British public will be eager to second the British Go
vernment in doing justice to M. Brunt.
STANDARD.--The eagerness with which more
than one of our daily Contemporaries fasten upon
any paragraph of the news from Morocco, which may
appear to favour their lugubrious predictions, can
only be accounted for by the fact that " the wish is
father to the thought.' The account of the bom-
bardment of Mogadore (which can take no one by
surprise), conveyed in the telegraphic dispatch
of the-Prince de Joinville, has, afforded. ahother
opportunity for the exercise of this very patriotic
vigilance. The Prince has, it is said,-taken possession
of the island which faces Mogadore, in order to con-
vert it and its neighbourhood into a French depen-
dency. Nothing of the sort. He has directed it to.
he occupied because the water is so shallow between
it and the town which it commands; that only ships
Of small tonnage can enter ; and because, in fact,
its temporary occupation was, under the peculiar
circumstances of the case, an absolute necessity, in ,
any ulterior operation, such as sending a military
force from Mogadore into the interior, should have
been contemplated. 'We cannot, theretbre, see in
this step even a prima facie violation of the implied
compact of the French Government with the other
.Eur4ean powers. One of our Contemporaries,
indeed, appears to have created the giant for
the express purpose of demolishing it. " If this
occupation• continue after its necessity has ceased
otl)er, places: are occupied in the same way
without. excuse, or retained after the causes
which rppy.bsupppsed to justify their occupa-
tion have ceased—then a breach of trust has been
committed—a gross wrong done, for which this coun- ,
try is bound to demand reparation and redress." If
is a great' peace: :baker, and is wisely employed in'
this instance to let down gently the writer's indignas
ticin. Without considering the contingency thus
contemplated as a probable one, we may remark that
there is at present no pretext for these apprehen-
sions ; still less for increasing the irritation which
already prevails' in France, by loud and idle boasts
of what England would do under circumstances
• which have yet to happen—the more especially as our
Contemporary hardly disguises his, belief that they
are never likely to happen. Another of our neigh•
bours, keener sighted and even more sensitively alive
to the best interests of England than the journalist we
have just quoted, has discovered in the occupation of
a small island, little -more than a mile in circumfer-
ence, by the Prince de Joinville, for the purpose, it ,
is probable, of covering the supplies which may have
hereafter to be conveyed through the port of Mogadore,
which it helps to form, for the service of the French
troops in the interior, a positive cases belli; with a dis-
tinct understandingpliowever, that we are to take the ,!e•
finition of the phrase from the col umns of the hypotheti-
cal advocate for war to whom we have already referred.
Both definitions, positive and hypothetic, are, we are
persuaded, alike unfounded, and as ill-timed as the
merriment indulged in by the Morning Chronicle

" In answer to the collective letter which was ad-
dressed on the 27th of July last by the Consuls-General
of France, England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia, the
undersigned is happy to inform the Consul of England,
that the health of the Viceroy, the state of which had
lately necessitated the .I..epartture of his Highness for
Cairo, is completely re. established, and that, thanks to
this fortunate circumstance, his Highness has been
enabled to continue the personal direction of affairs.
" The undersigned avails himself of this opportunity
to assure Mr. Stoddart of his distinguished consideration.
" ARTIN BEY."
The Guernsey papers allude to a great inconvenience
which is felt at Jersey, in consequence of the bankers
and traders not being able to come to an agreement as to
the value of the five-franc piece. Some have determined
that they will not take them for more than 3s. 11d.
British money, which is called their " real value ;" while
others insist on their being worth ld. more. All, it
seems, are agreed that this state of things ought to be
remedied, but no one undertakes the necessary reform,
which elicits the familiar remark, that what is the busi-
ness of everybody is the business of no one.
Some statistics published in the American journals
show the progress of the tollage system on the canals of
that country for the last three years. The produce of
the principal canals has increased, Albany, West Troy,
Utica, Rome, Syracuse, Albion, and Lockport, being
among the number ; while on the Schenectady, Monte-
zuma, Lyons, Palmyra, Brockport, and Black Rock the
produce has decreased. The increase in the tolls of the
Albany Company, comparing 1841 and 1844, was
815,952, the amount in the former year having been
8122,054, and in the latter year $138,096. In the case
of West Troy the increase had been $17,645, the returns
in 1841 being 891,086, and in 1844 8108,731. In the
ease of Syracuse the tolls in 1841 amounted to $21,578,
and in 1844 to $32,977, showing the increase to be
$11,399. The principal items of decrease occur in the
returns from Black Rock, which exhibit a falling off of
810,469, the amount of toll received in 1841 being
822,358, while in 1844 it reached no greater sum than
811,889 ; and also in the returns from Penn Yan and
Brocksop, in each of which there was a decrease of about
$6,000. The Oswego returns showed an increase of
s3o,s24—the difference between $16,475 in 1841 and
846,999 in 1844: Sabina and Fairfort each also showed
an increase of $B,OOO. Buffalo, above all others, gives
the enormous increase of $79,719, the returns for ]B4l
being $1 48,303, and for 1844 $228,022. The result of
the whole returns shows a net increase of $175,308 in
favour of the receipts of 1844, compared with 1841.
Other statistics of the trade of the United States for
the three' quarters ending June 30, 1843, compared with
the same period in the two previous years of 1841 and
1842, show that the exports had gradually diminished in
value from $106,382,232 to 877,793,783. Agricultural
products, including cotton and tobacco, and manufactures,
appear to constitute the chief items of decline ; and the
great depreciation in the price of cotton seems really to
be one of the most remarkable features in the statement,
since it is proved that though from 854,330,341, the item
returned in 1841, there had been a decrease to $49,119,805
in 1844, the quantity of the staple exported in that year
exceeded by 8262,000 the quantity exported in 1841.
The total exports of cotton for the three years were as
follows:-530,204,1001b. in 1841, 587,717,0471 b. in 1842,
and 792,297,1061 b. in 1843.

GENERAL 6TEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.—The
half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the General
Steam Navigation Company took place on Tuesday, at
the office of that corporation, 69, Lombard-street, and
was numerously attended. The chair was taken by Mr.
John Wilkin (in the continued absence, from illness, of
Mr. Wolverly Attwood, the chairman of the company)
at two o'clock precisely, when a report from the di-
rectors, with the half-yearly accounts, was read. From
these it appeared that the operations of the company for
the past half-year had been attended with increased
advantage to the proprietors, and that the general con-
dition of the affairs of the corporation was calculated to
give the highest satisfaction. The usual dividend being
declared, the cordial thanks of the meeting were voted to
the chairman and directors for their continued efforts in
promoting the company's interests.
We learn from good authority that the Admiralty
have directed the officers of Woolwich Dockyard to sup-
ply the anchors, chains, and moorings required by Capt.
'Tyler to make the experiment of his Breakwater off
Brighton ; we trust therefore that no time will now be
lost in setting really to work with the sections before the
bad weather sets in.—Brighton Guardian.
BRIGHTON, MONDAY.—By
the arrival of the
steam-ship Magnet, from Dieppe, we learn that his
Majesty Louis Philippe,
is expected at Dieppe, to
be present at the fete to be given on the inaugura-
tion of the statue of Duchesne from the 3d to the
sth of September, and it is expected that he will proceed
thence to England. The Baron de Lagos, charged with
dispatches from the Spanish Ambassador in London to
the Spanish Ambassador in Paris, left London on Sa-
turday morning, and travelled by the Brighton Rail-
way, then across to Dieppe, and through Rouen to
Paris, performing the distance from London to Paris
in twenty hours, which includes stoppages for refresh-
ments, &c.
Ma. DYCE SOMBRE. ---..
Since writing the letter
which has been published in most of the daily journals,
this extraordinary individual has taken his departure
from Boulogne, which place he quitted for Paris on
Friday last. His conduct while at the former place was
not different from that of ordinal". persons, and con-
sequently not such as to excite any particular attention.
PRINCESS PROSPERO SCIARRA COLONNA.—It has
been erroneously stated that this Noble Princess, who
recently died at Rome, was the last surviving branch of
the Ferdinand Cortez family
of Spain. The Duke de
Monteleone, who resides at Palermo, is a brother of the
late Princess, and he has several children, and there are
two more brothers of the deceased Princess, and other
dcen family, residing at Nap
Crles and in other
part'sNEW BANK lARTER.—On Saturday next seve-
esodfaln ttasi3 0,.f the
ral provisions in the new Bank of England Charter Act
will come into operation. By the first section it is pro-
vided, that from and after the 31st of August instant, the
issue of prornisssory notes by the Bank shall be sepa-
rated, and thenceforth kept wholly distinct from the ge-
neral banking business. It is further provided by the
Act, that on the day mentioned there shall be transferred
to the " issue department " securities to 14,000,0001.,
and also so much gold coin and gold and silver bullion as
shall not be required by the banking branch of the esta-
blis ment •, and in return, a siruilarnmount of notes is
to be issued to the banking department. The following
clause has reference to gold bullion, by which it will be
seen that from and after Saturday next the Bank must
give noted for gold bullion : And be it enacted, that
h
from and after the 31st of August, 1844, all persons
shall be entitled to demand from the issue department
melted and assayed by persons ap-
proved the Bank of England notes in exchange for gold bul•
lion, at the rate of 3/. 17s. 9d. per ounce of standard
gold. Provided always, that the said Governor and
Company shall in all cases be entitled, to require such
conferred
Governor and Company, at the
parties tendering tendering such gold bullion." From
pense of the .
Bank is to be
20 000
the 31st instant theexempted from stamp
notes, and from that day the annual
duty on their pay-
gprooldvebaullbioyn
thtioi
saidbe
t for the privileges
is to
be 180,000/, instead of 1 ,
~ as fixed when the
d on the former occasion.
SIR was granted
SAL •
SIR ROBERT AND LADY . E... -- Sir Robert and
expected to arrive in Londonderry the
Lady Sale are . .
a visit to John Dysart, Esq,
ment to the Government
week after next, on .
an officer in the I,' tof thill
city, one of whose son ,
married a daughter of nbe Indiadis-
tinguished
Company's service,
Their only child, piaster George
pair.
family a his r ,
Dysart, has resided in the paternal grand-
papa father, Which
papa, since the death of its occurred some
is contemplated to invite Sir
years ago in India.
It
during his stay, Robert to a public dinner
the city d and we have
no doubt that the gentry
ofof this oy and count will
cheerfully avail themselves Prlortauondity of testi-
whose he
fying their respect for one,(__ persevey-
ingonly defence of the walls
~ ysurpa.sse
f iders of the Maiden City,"
by that of the valiant defenders
rt Sentinel.
155 years ago.—London er .1_ , _
DEFENCE FROM LIGHTNING.. .1) r.Franklin was
the first who found out that lightning consisted of electric
matter. This great discovery taug it ususto defend
h uses, and ships, and temples from lightningi ; and also
to understand, that people are .always perfectly safe in
f
a room during a thunder-storm, i they keep themselves
at. three or four feet distance from the wall!
n Saturday last, Richard n ROD FISHING.--n —en-
springwood Park, had singular sport in
nist,am, Esq.,
the Taeed, at Alakerstoun fishings, having killed twelve
grilses with the rod. We believe that few of the fishers
men in this district remember of such success with the
rod at this season of the year.—Kelso Maid

"Whitehall, August 23, 1844.
" Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th
instant, and to inform you that Sir James Graham has
laid before her Majesty the address, signed by a large
number of natives and inhabitants of Ireland, which was
transmitted by you to Sir James Graham for that pur-
pose. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"H. MANNERS SUTTON."
Ir. Martin Crean, Corn Exchange-rooms, Dublin."
Gener 1 CLOONEY addressed the meeting.
Mr. BROWNE, M.P., described the position iu
which the repeal cause stood, and eulogised the means
by which that position had been attained. It was to the
new philosophy of moral agitation that their success was
to be attributed. Their respect for the social relations
of life, and strict observance of the laws, had drawn
upon them the eyes of admiring Europe—had procured
for them the sympathy of France, and the generous and
inexhaustible aid of America. Circumstances were aris-
ing every day which gave them the highest hopes.—
(Cheers.) No moment could be more opportune for the
people to struggle for the amelioration of their country
than the present. Whether he looked to the east or to
the west, he found embarrassments crowding upon Eng-
land—from the Society Islands to the territory of Ore-
gon, from Hindostan to Algiers. In every quarter of
the world were visible the giant shadows of the coming
revolution.—(Cheers.)
Mr. J. KELLY, M.P., handed in 11., the monthly sub-
scription of Mr. Smith O'Brien, during the captivity;
and then read a letter from that gentleman, in which he
stated his intention of being in Dublin on the 3d of Sep-
tember. The following are extracts from the letter:—
" I avail myself of this opportunity to remove a mis-
conception which may arise from a statement made by
Mr. D. O'Connell, jun., at the last meeting of the Asso-
ciation. I have not recommended the adoption of any
resolution against the use of tobacco or other taxable
commodities. Though the conduct of the English Go-
vernment towards the Irish people has been such as fully
to justify this resolution, I am not prepared to ask the
repealers of Ireland to deprive themselves of any
healthful enjoyment, unless some great national object
can be promoted by such a sacrifice. It' is right, how-
ever, that both Government and the people should con-
template such a determination as a probable contingency.
" A temperance pledge, limited for the present to the
period at which the repeal of the union shall be attained,
appears to me to possess many advantages. Larger con-
tributions to the national treasury could be more easily
made by each subscriber, in consequence of the savings
effected under a system of total abstinence. Above all,
it would furnish to mankind an undeniable evidence of
the earnestness of the national determination.

" I can, however, by no means advise that the adop-
tion of this pledge should be considered as a test of
patriotism. Many individuals may be very sincere lovers
of their country and very ardent advocates of domestic
l-gislation, who would be unwilling to bind themselves
by any such arrangement.
" With regard to the use of Irish manufactures, there
is, at present, considerable difficulty in excluding from
consumption the competing productions of England ; but
it ought to be the aim of every true Irishman to give a
preference to the produce of Irish industry."
Mr. KELLY then proceeded to state that when the ac-
count reached Limerick that it was the intention of the
repealers to relinquish the use of tobacco, one of his
constituents, a manufacturer of that article, and who
paid 5001. weekly as duty, offered in the most generous
manner to shut up his stores, if by that means he could
advance the cause of repeal.— (Cheers.) The name of
this gentleman was John Spalade, or, as he was called,
" honest John Spalade." He mentioned this circum-
stance to show the determination of the people.
Mr. J. M'NEvIN, barrister, brought forward the re-
port of the Parliamentary Committee on the opening of
the Post-office letters, which denounced the system in
the most marked and emphatic manner.
The Rev. Mr. COUGHLAN addressed the meeting on
the subject of the Charitable Bequests Bill, which he
denounced, deprecating the interference of laymen in
matters affecting ecclesiastical discipline.
Mr. D. O'CONNELL then rose to make his usual
weekly return from the
.prison. He said the repeal mar-
tyrs were, as usual, in excellent health and spirits,
cheered at the tranquillity of the country, and the spirit
of perseverance evinced by all parts of Ireland.
He had learned from his father that he was de-
lighted that Mr. Smith O'Brien should have taken
the subject of the pledges into his consideration,
convinced that whatever that gentleman decided
upon would be the wisest and best course to be
adopted by the Association, who must have the
most unlimited confidence in his patriotism and wisdom.
He knew that his father felt great anxiety respecting the
Parliamentary voters ; all that was wanted was their
coming up to be registered. There were more than 150
registries still undisposed of, and if the claimants would
not come up, the court would be closed and the oppor-
tunity lost. These men could mitigate the inconve-
nience of Mr. O'Connell's imprisonment, by placing
themselves on the Parliamentary roll ; the neglect to do
so was really a crime against Ireland, who had many
cordial enemies, and ought to have a multitude of active
friends. He was happy to state that he knew it was Mr.
O'Connell's thorough conviction that the hour was coming
for repeal, and coming fast. The English Government
would want, no one knew how soon, " the lion heart
and stout hand of Ireland ;" and they could have both;
by the simple process of doing justice to the Irish people.
The Irish had but one resource, and that was in them-
selves, a resource that would be found quite available
when English statesmen were wise enough to perceive
that Ireland ought to be conciliated.—(Cheers.)
After some further business had been gone through,
Mr. J. KELLY announced the rent for the week to be
634/. 13s. Ild.—(Loud cheers.)
CITY OF DUBLIN REGISTRY—THE TORIES.
The state of the Parliamentary registration for this
city affords a practical evidence of the rapid decay of
that Orange fervour which preceded the last general
election. Day by day the Liberals obtain a majority,
and the Tories now can scarcely muster a claimant. On
Saturday the Liberals registered seventeen electors,
whilst the Orange party did not bring up a single man !
An effort was made by Mr. Cary, who acted as counsel
for the Tories, to induce the registering barrister to
close the session, but he peremptorily refused. The
registry is again in progress this day, and the Liberals
are still increasing their majority.
INQUEST ON CAPTAIN G. H. ELIOTT.

On Wednesday last our town was thrown into a state
of no inconsiderable excitement, in consequence of a re-
port being rather prevalent that Captain Granville Hey-
wood Eliott, of the 4th Dragoon Guards, and a small
boy, his servant, of about twelve years of age, of the
name of Curley, were drowned at the Long Island. Ac-
cordingly one of the gun-boats was immediately manned,
and repaired to the spot, accompanied by a number of
small boats. After dragging the river for some time,
the rumour turned out a sad reality. The first thing
they succeeded in finding was the boat, and within a very
few yards of where the boat was raised both bodies were
found, almost side by side, grasped in the strong arms of
death. When the boats .arrived at the Canal Harbour
the bodies were carried on a bier to barracks, where the
inquest was held by Mr. E. Lynch, Coroner. The jury,
after a short deliberation, returned the following verdict :
We find' that Granville Heywood Eliott, and his boy,
Patrick Curley, came by their neath accidentally, being
found drowned on, the 21st of August, 1844, in the river
Shannon, by falling out .of a boat, and were then and
there suffocated and drowned, and that the said boat was
the cause of the death of the said G. 11. Eliott and
Patrick Curley, and is of the value of one pound, and do
award it as a deodand to the Queen."

Captain Granville Heywood Eliott was the only son
of a retired artillery officer, Colonel Eliott, of Vale-
brook-lodge, near Hastings, in Sussex, and has also left
a mother and a sister to foment his premature death.
He joined the 4th as Cornet, at Brighton, in March,
1835. and from that period enjoyed the closest intimacy
and friendship with' all his brother officers, by whom he
was greatly beloved and esteemed, and was only in his
twenty-ninth year. We regret to say that since then
the father of Curley (the boy who lost. his life with
Captain Eliott), a poor old man residing at Athlone,
took the melancholy fate of his son so much to heart,
that he has died from grief.—Atlelone Sentinel

DISTRESSING CASE OF MISS JOHNSON.—It will
be in the recollection of our readers that there appeared
in The Sun a few days since an account of the distress-
ing case of two young ladies named Johnson, who were
lodging at the house of Mr. Stainsbury, 27, Charlotte-
street West, White Conduit-fields, where they endea-
voured to procure a livelihood by opening a small
school, and where one of them died absolutely from
starvation. We have seen a gentleman who called on
the surviving sister last evening for the purpose of con-
veying to her the donations of himself and a few friends.
Be instituted minute inquiries into the circumstances of
the case, and states that the account •which has appeared
is correct in every particular. We trust that some means
may be found to provide a permanent home for this
young lady, who, overwhelmned with grief at the loss
of her sister is dependent alone upon casual bounty to
rescue her from the same horrible fate.

PRESENTATION of NEW COLOURS
TO THE 49Tu REGIMENT.
The ceremony of presenting a new pair of colours to
the 49th Regiment took place at Winchester on Tuesday,
when the colours were consecrated by the Bishop of
Winchester, and presented by Lady Pakenham to the
troops. At one o'clock the barrack-yard was occupied
by about 600 of the 49th, and the Ist battalion of the
Grenadier Guards. Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence and a
distinguished party of the nubility and gentry of the
county were present. The Lord Bishop of Winchester,
accompanied by his son and his chaplain, and the dig-
nitaries of Winchester Cathedral, arrived soon after one
o'clock ; and at about two o'clock the interesting- cere-
monial began. The day was remarkably fine, and the
concourse of spectators opposite theground was immense.
We should suppose 10,000 people were collected.
The troops were first formed in line, and then went
through a number of parade evolutions. The band played
the national anthem and a variety of marches.
The ceremonial commenced by a large dais, covered
with crimson cloth, being placed in front of the space
where the Bishop stood.
The old colours were borne by the ensigns, at the head
of the regiment, which marched past Sir H. Palsenhasn,
who commanded. They were in a sadly dilapidated
state, from their long service in all parts of the globe.
These were taken charge of by the Major, and the en-
signs advanced to the dais.
The Lord Bishop of WINCHESTER then advanced a
little in front of the line, and thus addressed the troops :
—" Soldiers of the 49th, I have solicited and obtained
permission of your gallant commanding officer to address
you a few moments before I invoke the blessing of Al-
mighty God upon the colours which are never to be sul-
lied by any act of yours, and are not to be abandoned
but with life itself. And let not any man marvel that I, a
man of peace, come among you, who are men of war, for
I hold that there is not a truer man of peace than a
Christian soldier. When he conquers it is not for na-
tional aggrandizement, nor the mere raising ofyour names,
but for the insuring of peace in future time. Many
a brave man has bled on the field, or expired on a bed of
agony, that his countrymen might be preserved from the
horrors of war. With respect to the services of the 49th,
I might go back to a time antecedent to the present
century. We must remember what a debt of gratitude
we owe to your companions in arms for their prowess in
many a well-fought field. And what did we not owe
also to the naval power for the preservation of our soil
from the insults and the cruelties of our enemy ? I
must bid you look back to the recollection of those days
when you won glory in Holland, Copenhagen, and Que-
bec, and since in Affghanistan and China. I remember
well the stirring phrase used by the great captain of
the age, the Commander-in-Chief of the British army.
the Duke of Wellington, when he asked for the thanks
of Parliament to the army of India--those were stirring
phrases indeed--they were well worth living to hear,
and well worth dying to deserve ; they are for you to
treasure up, and your children yet unborn to hear from
your lips. When you unfold those banners you look
upon them as the memorials of former days, and in cen-
turies yet to come they will be memorials of your coun-
try's renown, of your country's prosperity, and of your
country's peace. On these grounds I hold that the
Christian soldier is an instrument of good to the nation
at large, and I bid you God speed in the name of the
Lord, and as a Christian bishop I would bid you remem-
ber Him who is the God of battles, Him by whom na-
tions are led to victory and preserved in peace. Be
men of resolution and men of energy, pacific in your
profession and disinterested in your patriotism, ob-
servant of your duty to your Queen, your country, and
your God.
The Bishop then proceeded to read the prayers in
consecrating the colours.
Lady PARENHAM then advanced to, and ascended the
dais, and supported by Lieutenant-Colonel Fraser and
Major Cornellan, who held the new colours, her Lady-
ship thus addressed the regiment :—I feel much inte-
rested in the scene before me, and must try to express
the high importance I attach to the present solemnity.
I consider the colours that I am about to present to the
49th as emblems of the past career of the regiment, DS
well as an earnest of their future success—they heaa- the
names of many battles extending from the Ras-ay Moun-
tains of North America to the groat aaS-1.1 of China ; but
I esteem it as one of the highest JatYileges of the British
army, that wherever they I.'sve been successful hitherto,
that success has been attended by the bright halo of
Christianity spreading abroad, where the darkness of
Paganism had formerly reigned ! May I express a
humble hope that such will be the case in China, and
that the success of the 49th at Amoy may be a pledge
of this happy result ! Receive these colours, and bear
them forward as gallantly as you have already done, and
may the Lord God, the God of battles, give you the vic-
tory.—(The company immediately behind the dais ap-
plauded, and the example was followed by those who
could not hear this neatly expressed address.)
General Sir H. PAKENLrem then addressed the troops
as follows :—I am satisfied that all who have joined in
the interesting ceremony just concluded will feel that it
is my first duty to return to the Right Rev. Prelate
who has consecrated the colours our sincere and re-
spectful thanks for the performance of that sacred
right, and for the eloquent and impressive exhortation
we have had the advantage of hearing, and which
expression of our feeling I request his Lordship to ac-
cept from me on behalf of all those who are here as-
sembled. Lieutenant-Colonel Adams, and 49th Regi-
ment, it has fallen to my lot, as commanding this
dis-
trict, to assist in the presentation of colours to several
regiments. On these occasions it is customary to advert
to the opportunities of discharging their duty and of
obtaining distinction which the course of service has
afforded to each regiment. From the lengthened peace
that Europe has now enjoyed, I have been obliged occa-
sionally to revert to times long past, to prove that our
regiments only wanted opportunity to evince their zeal
for the honour of their country. This occasion is, how-
ever, different. This is the first time I have had the
honour of addressing the officers and men who in their
own persons have, by their gallantry in action and steady
endurance of the most trying difficulties, added conspi-
cuously to the glories of the British army. The corps
stands, in one view, under particular circumstances.
The brillient services rendered by the regiment in the
late war at Egmont-op-Zee under his Royal Highness
the Duke of York, at Copenhagen under the immortal
Nelson, and at Queenstown, and in other hard con-
flicts in North America, under my much-loved friend
the gallant Sir Isaac Brock, memorials of which are
blazoned on the colours, and for which latter services
the regiment obtained the honour of being designated
Princess Charlotte of Wales's Regiinent—these have
been so eclipsed by the late exploits of the corps in
China, that were it not grateful to every soldier to re-
flect upon and recount such feats, we might be tempted
to pass them over, when considering the inappre-
ciable service of forcing the hitherto impassable gates of
the mysterious empire of China. As long as civilization
lasts the results of the glorious services performed by the
49th Regiment and the other gallant corps associated
with them under the command of Sir Hugh Gough will
be felt throughout Christendom, and the entrance then
opened into the Celestial Empire will never again be
permanently closed. This day two years the regiment
highly signalized itself by the assault and capture of the
important fortress and city of Amoy, when the Chinese
dragon was lowered before the red cross of Britain.
The mighty consequences of these victories are yet to be
developed ; but the proud emblazonment of the dragon
in the colours will always bear record of the noble part
taken by the 49th in this most important war. Since the
return of the regiment from long foreign service, it has
evinced the most patient and praiseworthy assiduity in
completing its reorganization, and I have observed, with,
the greatest satisfaction, the kind and encouraging as-
sistance the corps has received from the battalion of her.
Majesty's Guards quartered here, and I have the gratifi-
cation of returning my thanks to Colonel Clive and the
officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the Ist
battalion of the Grenadier Guards, as well as to Lieute-
nant-Colonel Adams, the officers, non-commissioned
officers, and men of the 49th Regiment, for the high state
of discipline to which the corps has arrived. I now wish
you all honour and prosperity, and when your colours.
are unfurled before an enemy, may the Almighty nerve
your hearts and strengthen your arms as heretofore, and
carry you forward to honour and to victory.— (Cheering.
followed the energetic address of the gallant General.)
Colonel ADAMS, of the 49th, then advancedrci to the,_,t shall Lord
Bishop, and thus addressed him :—My Lord,—lt
be my duty to instil into the ininds of
the soldiers of this
regiment the reverence that at ail times is to be paid to
have this day those banners that you, mycLord,rps I thank you for the
h
conse-
crated; and in the name of the o
honour you have conferred upon it, by the part you have
taken in the interesting ceremonies_ of
_the day.
Turning to Lady Pakenham, Colonel ADAMS. addressed
you, the 49th Regiment feel the
her Ladyship
this morning presented us
deepest gratitu'reTfoor:hoau;in
with what all soldiers hold ing the greatest veneration—
the colours of their regiment. Most carefully shall they
be guarded, and we will endeavour, should our Queen re-
quire -our services, to add to those honourable badge
with which those colours are adorned. Many now there
are in our ranks who assisted to gain one of those
honourable records of good and faithful service ; this day
two years we were under the fire of the enemy, and
though, perhaps, during their servitude they may
never
again be required to fight in their country's cause, still
they will leave, as their gallant predecessors have done,
embers that only require to be gently breathed upon, to
brighten up into a flame that will inspire all ranks with
that enthusiasm for deeds of' gallantry that has ever
marked the British soldier.
The Gallant COLONEL then addressed Sir Hercule:
Pakenham :—Your kind and considerate remarks re-
specting this corps call forth from me on.the part of the
officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, our warmest
thanks. You have brought to our recollections .the en-
gagements in which this regiment has signalized itself
from its formation to the peace concluded at Nankin, in
July, 1842 ; and as there is in our records honourable
mention made of some individuals, I think it will not be
out of place if I remind those around me of one or two
instances of most undaunted gallantry, AS it keeps alive

THE LONG RANGE AND INVISI-
BLE SHELL. -
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.
The importance of Captain Warner's invention is
incalculable. Like all extraordinary discoveries, a
host of sceptics has arisen, and, as was the case when
gas was first introduced, thousands are ready to scorn
and ridicule the discoverer of this irresistible power,
who are quite unable to appreciate the value of the
secret. The prejudice of naval and military gentle-
men of the olden school, who are unwilling to be put
out of their usual way, can be readily accounted for,
but with others the opposition can only proceed from
an unworthy jealousy of an original and persevering
individual ; and it shows a great want of liberality In
men of education, if it is not approaching•to malice, to
attempt running down Captain Warner by insinua-
tions and assertions altogether gratuitous and un-
tenable. Its adoption as an arm of war, it is evident,
would disturb our present tactics in both land and
sea service, the consequences of which may be rea-.
dily conceived, even were the secret to be preserved
by a country where the utmost freedom is given to
foreign Powers to inspect our arsenals and manufac-
tories. It is most probable that if Government is in-
duced to purchase it, the object will be its suppres-
sion, as is understood to have been the case with an
invention of the late Michael Logan, engineer, who
had discovered a mode of gunnery, which would, if
adopted, have rendered useless the present science of
projectiles. The celebrated Napier of Merchiston,
who invented the Logarithms, it appears, possessed
the power of an engine, or power, by which a whole
field could be cleared of an enemy at one fell dis-
charge ! When urged to divulge the secret, he ob-
served that there were already too many methods
for the destruction of human life, and he would be no
benefactor to mankind were he to multiply them; it
accordingly died with him.

BETTS'S PATENT -METALLIC
CAPSULES.
We were highly delighted on Tuesday by a visit to Mr.
Betts's Patent Metallic Capsule Manufactory, 1, Wharf-
street, City-road, The metallic capsule is one of the
most useful and i'inportant inventions fur securing bottles
ever iatrselsced; it is applied to bottles of every descrip-
tifsis ':;ith the greatest facility and rapidity, and when
once applied the bottle cannot be opened without de-
stroying the capsule. It is formed of the purest tin,
and is therefore non-corrosive and incapable of being
affected by acids. With regard to the strength of the
capsule, we mention the fact that we saw at the manu-
factory a bottle of soda-water, the cork of which was
secured by the capsule alone, without the interveation
of wire or string. The capsule was torn off, and the
cork instantly flew out, the soda-water being in the
highest state of effervesence. The cork had been thus
secured for some days. The process of manufacturing
these capsules is excedingly beautiful, and at the same
time remarkal4 simple. We may premise that they
are manufactured at about the rate of thirty a minute,
and that the apparatus is set in motion by a steam-engine
of eight-horse power.
The metal of which the patent metallic capsules are
manufactured, is the celebrated banca tin, the produce
of the East Indies, which is entirely free from any oxi-
dation or other sort of corrosion. A sufficient number of
pigs of this metal, being melted in a furnace of peculiar
construction, is drawn off through a common tapping
cock into a portable vessel, surrounded by a charcoal fire,
to preserve the intensity of the heat, and conveyed on a
miniature railway, and cast, on a metallic platform, into
bands, preparatory to being rolled. The bands are then
conveyed to the rolling, or laminating mill, to which, as
well as to the other machinery, motion is given by a
powerful steam-engine. This mill comprises several sets
of rollers, each reducing the ribband of metal, to which
the first has given a new form, little by little, until it is
thin enough for the subsequent operations, and at the
same time giving to one side of the ribband a brilliant
and uniform polish. The metal, now wound up into
regular and extensive coils, is taken to the cutting ma-
chine. There the machinery grips one end of a coil,
and, without any aid from the workman, cuts it into
circular discs, suitable in diameter to the capsules in-
tended to be produced from it, and continues to make
and deliver them until the whole coil of metallic
ribband is expended, when another coil is supplied. This
operation is somewhat similar to the process used at the
Mint in the preliminary work of coining; but the motion
is infinitely more rapid, the discs being cut and carried
through with such speed that it is impossible to keep
time with, or count them. These discs are now dropped
into a hopper, from which they pass into a recess, where
a plunger, or stamp, grips each into a partially formed
capsule. By the next operation, which is perfectly self-
acting, and exhibits an application of the eccentric mo-
tion exceedingly beautiful and novel, the capsule is taken
upon the first of thirteen stamps, or plunges, placed ho-
rizontally, and to which, forward, receding, and lateral
action is alternately given ; and the capsule, having thus
received a partial elongation or improvement in form, is
passed on to the.second, and so on, one by one, to each
of the thirteen stainps, until it is delivered by the last in.
a perfect state, having embossed upon it the name of the
firm by whom it is to be used, with a description of the
contents of the bottle or other vessel it is intended to
protect. It will be readily understood that each stamp
or plunger presses against a corresponding mould or die ;
and that all have capsules upon them at the same time,
in their various stages of progression. The precision
with which these stamps pass on the capsules from one
to the other, and, in the intervals, perform their own im-
mediate portion of the work—is another almost marvel-
lous proof of the high inventive genius and consummate
mechanical skill of the present day: There can be very
little doubt but that these capsules must eventually su-
persede the old, and we may now say, barbarous method
of securing corks in bottles and wine—indeed, the prin-
cipal wine and ale merchants, confectioners, perfuiners,
chemists, sad, Italian warehousemen, have already
adopted them.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

The following are the results of "A Table of Mortality
in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from
all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the
24th of August, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office
of the Registrar-General:—

Weekly
Total. Average of
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 263 Five years.l73
Diseases of variable or uncertain 5eat....,.,.. 103 111 •
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... 141 157
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ........................ 1.94 286
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels.....,
32 21 .
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and oth.er
Organs of Digestion .. ........................ 85 69
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c ............... 8 5
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ll 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles... 9 6 '
Diseases of the Skin, 1 1
Old Age, or Natural Decay 63 71
By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance
Causes specified
Deaths from all Causes 936 946
DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER

CAUSES OF DEATH.

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