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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1844

of the soil. And I repeat what I have already said
on a former occasion in this room, that there is no
investment in the world in which a landlord can so
safely, so usefully, or so profitably invest his capital,
as in the improvement of his own farm, by money
sunk in draining, on security of the land which be-
longs to himself.—(Hear, and cheers.) I think I
give you a tolerably practical proof of my conviction
on this point when 1 say—and I say it not for the
purpose of boasting of what has been done, but of
encouraging others to follow the example, when I
say, that on my father's property in this neighbour-
hood there has been laid down at his expense, and
charging five per cent. interest to the tenants, which
I believe they most gladly and willingly acknowledge
they have over and over again received the benefit
of—in this last year we have laid down in deep
draining somewhere about three hundred miles of
drains, at an expense of between 5,0001. and 6,0001.,
and I think employed about a million and a-half of
draining tiles. By the arrangement I recomme:
;or
this purpose both parties are benefit,-1,:;
receives an ample return his the landlord
for outlay. I be-
lieve, on the why'
con-
gratulate I am in a position to con-
.," ou on the present state of this society. I
11°-,,e the period of its depression is already passed.
Undoubtedly it has been subject to some vicissitudes,
and experienced some losses; and two or three years
ago, it became involved in debts from which some ex-
ertions were necessary to relieve it. I have the satis-
faction of saying that these are paid off; and although
that object has been effected by a reduction of some
of the premiums, and thereby, in some degree, the
sphere of the society's usefulness has been curtailed,
yet we have every reasonable prospect of the income
of the society equalling its expenditure. With these
observations, and thanking you for the patience with
which you have listened to the remarks of one very
little competent to address you on such subjects, I
beg of you to join me, as I feel you will do cordially
and heartily, in drinking " Prosperity and success to
the Liverpool Agricultural Society."
The Earl of SEFTON proposed the health of the
" Earl of Derby," with three times three. The call
was most readily responded to, and the toast drunk.
Lord STANLEY returned thanks, and after some
other toasts and speeches, the meeting broke up.

WEST SURREY AGRICULTURAL
ASSOCIATION.
THE ALLOTMENT SYSTEM.
GODALMING, WEDNESDAY.—The annual meeting
of this association took place to-day, at the Red Lion,
Godalming. J. M. Molyneux, Esq., took the chair.
There were also present Mr. Trotter, M.P., Mr.
Mangles, M.P., Messrs. Drummond, Leach, Currie,
Lieut. Wood, R.N., the Rev. Mr. Boys, and a num-
ber of other gentlemen of the neighbourhood; and
nearly 200 of the principal farmers belonging to this
division of the county.
The usual loyal toasts were given and responded to.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the " Lord-Lieute-
nant and Magistracy of the county."
Mr. DRUMMOND, in returning thanks, said, that at
present a great deal of talk was made about giving
scientific information to farmers, but he must confess
that he did not place much faith in it ; and, in his
opinion, the only important question for the farmers
was how to make a dunghill.—(A. laugh.) Genuine
philosophers had devoted their attention to instruct-
ing farmers in their business, and a number of ways
were found out how they were to improve their land,
but they forgot altogether where the money was to I
come from. The farmers had no money to spare, and
it was useless to tell them to lay out 1001., unless
they could, at the same time, show how they were to
get the money back. In his opinion, these universal
remedies were of no use whatever; and he was satis-
fied there was a limit to the productiveness of the soil
beyond which it was useless for them to attempt to
proceed ; and that this limit they had almost, if not
quite arrived at, and, consequently, all: their expendi-
ture in guano, and the other new-fashioned measures
that had of late been introduced, would be entirely
thrown away.
G. T. NicnoLson, Esq., proposed the healths of the
"Members for that division of the County," and in the
course of his address he said that he hoped, before
long, the large quantities of waste land that existed
in Surrey would be made use of, and that it would
be made a means of employing the labouring popu-
lation. He agreed with Mr. Drummond that they
ought not to rely upon one general specific, but still
he could not think that there was a limit to the pro •
ductiveness of the earth, or if there was, that they had
yet arrived near to it. He must admit that the
present condition of the agricultural population was
calculated to give great pain and uneasiness. Every
day it happened to him that men of good character—
men of strong sinews, willing and anxious to work,
came and implored him to give them employment,
and he was unable to find it for them. He fit deeply
for them, and he considered it to be his duty, and
that of every man, to endeavour to do away with
such a distressing state of things.—(Hear, hear.)
Much, in his opinion, would be done by improvements
in agriculture, which would cause a demand for
labour ; and as associations of this description tended
to effect that object, he had great pleasure in sup-
porting them, and he trusted that some means would
speedily be devised to rescue agriculture from its
present depressed condition, and to improve the con-
dition of the labouring classes. He concluded by
proposing the healths of the Members.

icir. TROTTER, in returning thanks, apologised for
the absence of Mr. Denison, who had been in very
bad health, and who was at present in Yorkshire ;
but he had desired him (Mr. Trotter) to express his
regret that he was unable to be among them. As for
himself, they had heard him so often that he really
felt unable to say anything new to them, and he
would only assure them that he felt a pride in sup-
porting, by every means in his power, the agricul-
tural interest ; and he trusted that meetings of this
kind would go on and flourish, and that each suc-
ceeding year there would be a better understanding
between landlords, tenants, and labourers.—(Hear,
hear.) Some portions of the press had attempted to
cast a slur upon these meetings, and had attempted to
insinuate that the promoters of them were actuated
by unworthy and selfish objects, but he would say, in
answer, let them look at the meetings in Surrey, and
the results that had arisen from them, and say whe-
ther they were sincere.—(Cheers.) He did not con-
sider that the proceedings of these associations
should be merely theoretical. They ought to be
practical ; and he considered it was the duty of
the landlords to assist the farmers in their
attempts at improvement, and that landlords and
tenants should go hand in hand together.—(Cheers.)
He was deeply anxious to improve the condition of
the labourer. He believed the English labourer to be
naturally grateful and kind-hearted, and if he was
properly treated, he would exert himself for his em-
ployer. For his own part, he respected as much as
any man the honest agricultural labourer, and all who
knew him were aware that he would pay as much
attention to the complaint of the poor labourer, and
speak to him with as much pleasure, as he would to a
lord, and that no one would do more than himself to
endeavour to make him a happier and a better man.
The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of " John Leach,
Esq., of Lee."—(Cheers.)
Mr. LEACH, who is a very aged man, in rising to
return thanks, was loudly cheered. After some pre-
liminary observations, he expressed his opinion that it
was the duty of every one to endeavour to rescue the
agricultural interest from its present depressed condi-
tion, as every one who had the means which they had
of knowing the condition of the poor of England,
must feel that they were in a most distressed and
miserable state, from which it was the duty
of every man to endeavour to relieve them.
He admitted that it was difficult to say
what should be done, but still they should endea-
vour to do something. He could not himself be cer-
tain to live beyond a single day, but he did think that
some of those around him would live to see the pea •
santry of this country restored to that condition
which entitled them to be considered the pride and
boast of England.—(Hear, hear.) He was afraid
that the labourers had not the same feelings at the
present time that they had formerly, and he would
relate one fact that had come under his own observa-
tion, bearing upon this point. One of his own
labourers, named Jonathan Chilton, had brought up
a family of ten children without any parochial relief.
He was, however, attacked by a serious illness, and
the doctor's bill came to 201. The man came to him
and told him he did not know how he should ever pay
the amount. He told him, in reply, that he thought
the parish ought to pay it, and the answer that he re-
ceived was, that he would not receive one
farthing from the parish. Upon this he (Mr. Leach)
went to Lord Middleton, his neighbour, and several
other gentlemen, and mentioned the circum-
stances, and they all willingly subscribed, and before
he got home he found he had not only money
enough to pay the poor man's bill, but had also a
balance to give him ; and he assured them he felt
great pleasure in rendering this assistance to an
honest, worthy labourer.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " the Healths of the
Judges of the Ploughing, Messrs. Giles, Taylor, and
Turner," and he said that from the general excellence
of the ploughing they must have had very great
dfi-
ficulty in making their award.
Mr. GILES returned thanks.
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Mr. C. DAVISON next proposed the " Health of Col.
Sumner, and success to the Surrey Union foxhounds."
Coufaain then gave the "Health of the tenant-
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they had to contend with. They had in many parts
of that county especially a very poor soil, very small
farms, and verylittle money in their pockets.—(Hear,
and a laugh.) Still, however, they had good land.:
lords; and although he must admit that at present

they were in a desponding state, yet he did not
despair, and he believed that with the assistance of
the landlords they might still struggle sueeessfulle
with the difficulties they had td encounter. They
had reason to be proud of their county, for it was
well known that in Mark-larie some descriptions df
Surrey wheat fetched higher prices than any other
that was grown in the kingdom. He had no doubt
that very great good yet remained to be done, and
that draining, if extensively carried out, with the co-
operation of the landlord, would alone gd d great way
svi them
behalf of
to find employment for the labouring population. Hebeelgge se d to rememberthpothorat
mthaen,wad
winter was
vr(aitipridtlyo
approaching, and he begged them all to exert them-
find him employment, and keep him from the union
workhouse. lie regretted
to observe the tone of de-
spondency that appeared tz, prevail, but he trusted
that by i:~cverance
the agricultural interest would
be enabled to better its condition.—(Cheers.)
Mr. MANGLES, M.P., next rose, and proposed the
"Health of the Agricultural Labourers,"and he assured
the meeting that he spoke sincerely when he expressed
his opinion that this might be considered the toast of
the evening. He felt great difficulty in addressing
the meeting upon the subject to which ho had in-
tended to allude, viz., the allotment system ; not
merely on account of the difference of opinion that
prevailed respecting it, but that in the course of the
evening he had been alluded to, and represented as
having made it his particular study. He could not
say that he had done this, but he had no hesitation in
stating that it was a subject of great interest to him,
as connected with the welfare of the agricultural
labourer. He did feel that the owed a deep debt of
gratitude to the agricultural labourer—a debt of
which only a very small portion had been dis-
charged, and of which much remained unpaid.—
(Hear.) When he visited this class in their cot-
tages, and saw their miserable condition, and the
privations they endured, while surrounded by persons
enjoying every comfort and luxury, he must say that
he could not help honouring their honesty, their in-
tegrity, and their forbearance. He thought the time
was come when they ought not to be satisfied with
mere professions in their behalf, and giving them re-
wards, and expressing sympathy for their condition,
but that some practical exertions should be made to
benefit their condition. He was sure they would
allow that their noble neighbour, Lord John Russell,
had never said a truer word than when he stated that,
looking at the increase of the wealth and luxuries of
the country, without looking into the causes of the
result, it was impossible to deny that the agricultural
labourer had not advanced in physical comforts in
proportion with the rest of the community. He was
not one of those who considered that the insti-
tutions of olden times were necessarily better
than the present ; and he did not mean to sug-
gest that the labourer was any worse off now
than he was formerly, but certainly his condition
had not improved in the same proportion as the other
classes of the community. He agreed with Mr.
Drummond that it was not likely that one general
remedy should succeed, but he did think that means
might be devised by which the sufferings and priva-
tions of the agricultural labourer might be alleviated,
and his condition improved. He would not go into
the various subjects that had been mentioned as likely
to effect this, but should confine himself to one mat-
ter—the allotment system, by which, if fully carried
out, he believed the condition of the agricultural
population would be very much improved. At the
same time he wished it to be understood that it was
his opinion the system should be carried out judi-
ciously, and with the concurrence of the higher
classes. He would not give the labourer enough of
land to make him independent of the wages of labour,
but the latter should always be considered as the
principal, and the allotment merely as a resource
to fall back upon when overtaken by sickness,
or being out of work ; and he begged it to be
distinctly understood that he did not at
all desire to increase the farmer's field for the demand
of labour. He must, at the same time, observe, that
there never was a system which had more obtained
the general sanction of all classes, and he did not be-
lieve that the allotment system had failed in any one
instance where it had been tried, whether in York-
shire, Sussex, or this county, where it had been car-
ried out very extensively by Colonel Sumner, who
spoke in the most favourable manner of the result.
He held.in his hand the details of some most surpris-
ing crops that had been grown by the labourers.
These documents had been furnished him by Mr.
Drummond, and he must say, that they appeared en-
tirely to refute his own argument—that there was a
limit to the power of the production of the soil. There
could be very little doubt that the system would have
the effect of improving the physical condition
of the labourer. At present, he was not suffi-
ciently fed, and they all knew that, if
a man was under-fed, he could not work.—
(Hear, hear.) He knew of one case where a
labourer had been doing the intense work and exer-
tion of mowing upon bread and water, and he put it
to them whether such a state of things ought to con-
tinue. He thought there could be very little doubt
that giving a small portion of land to a labourer very
much tended to improve his moral condition, and he
knew several cases where desperate poachers, and
even suspected highway robbers, had been reclaimed
by being put in possession of a portion of land on
which they could occupy themselves, and be induced
to feel that they had some stake in society. This
being the case, Jae did entreat them not to submit to
the taunts that were thrown upon them, and to show
that it was not true, as was asserted by a portion of
the daily press, that the agriculturists said everything
and did nothing. Let them commence a plan for in-
troducing the allotment system into every parish of
the county, and he was sure that if they put their
shoulders to the wheel the task would be effected.
He should propose that a committee be formed for
the purpose of establishing the allotment system
throughout the county, and he should be happy
to give both his time and his money in further-
ance of the object. He suggested that commu-
nications should be opened with the clergymen
of every parish, with a view to ascertain the extent
of land that would be available for the purposes of the,
allotments, and that the tenants and the proprietors'
be requested to co-operate with the committee in
carriiing out their views. The Hon. Member con-
cluded by stating that he would render all the assist-
ance in his power to carry out the allotment system
fully throughout the county.
Mr. DRUMMOND begged permission to be allowed
to say a few words in answer to what had been stated
by the Hon. Member. He had tried the allotment
system twenty-five years, and therefore ought to
know something about it. He allowed his labourers
to have as much land as they could cultivate with
their own spade, and although certainly it had been
the means of giving them some additional comforts,
yet in his opinion it had produced no public
good or benefit whatever. lie was at the
same time, however, quite ready to lend his
assistance to Mr. Mangles in his endeavour to
carry out the experiment on a more extended scale.
In his opinion the great difficulty they had to con-
tend with was improvident marriages among the la-
bouring population ; and he did not believe that in
France, or in any other country in the world, the
labourer contracted a marriage as he did in England,
without having any means to provide for either his
wife or his family. lie knew of a case recently
where a boy of 19 married a girl of 16, on the Wed-
nesday ; he had but ten shillings, which were spent
on the Thursday and Friday, and on the Saturday
they both went into the union workhouse, to be
passed to their several parishes.
The healths of the Mayor of Godalming, and of
Messrs. Rand and Marshall, the Secretaries of the
Association, were then proposed and responded to,
after which the meeting broke up.

NORTH AND SOUTH WALE! BANIE.-•-We under-
stand that a branch of this banking company is about to
be opened at Birkenhead, land having already been pur-
chased for the erection of a bank. Another banking
company, also in connexion with the Liverpool, is about
to open a branch in this improving township.—Chester
Courant.
....SUICIDE Of AN OLD SPORTSMAN.-011 Monday
night an inquest was held before Mr. C. J. Carttar, at
the Tiger's Head Inn, Lee, next Lewisham, Kent, upon
the body of Charles Morton, aged 76, who was found
dead, hanging from a rafter in a barn belonging to a
gentleman named Russell, residing at Lee. It appears
that the deceased was formerly huntsman to the Earl of
Derby, and that subsequently he kept the Derby Arms
Inn, Croydon, the Magpie Inn, on Hounslow-heath,
and latterly was landlord of the Leaping Bar, Black-
friars-road, where be was robbed by his housekeeper of
a considerable sum of money, since which he had in-
volved himself in a lawsuit, which ended in his ruin. Of
late he had become very eccentric and strange in his man-
ner. The following evidence was adduced :—Richard
Charles Mullett, auctioneer, of No. 8, Blackfriars-road,
deposed that he knew the deceased as an innkeeper for a
great many years ; had seen him frequently of late, and
observed that he had become singularly strange in his
manners. Rosa Howard, of Camden Cottage, Lee, deposed
that she was walking with her aunt, and on passing the
barn she observed the deceased suspended by a halter,
with his knees nearly to the ground. It was about one
o'clock on Saturday. She was exceedingly frightened,
and gave information of the circumstance. John Covill,
hurdle-maker, Lee, deposed that he was called by last
witness, and cut the deceased down ; he was a powerful
man, of about eighteen stone weight. Mr. Mullet was
recalled, and said that deceased had lost a great sum of
money in the public-house trade ; he had since become
strangely eccentric. During the last year and a half he
had been amply supplied by Mrs. Tattersall with pecu-
niary means, &c. That lady having died, his circum-
stances got worse. Deceased had written a letter to the
party with whom he was at law, threatening to destroy
himself. He was, however, by no means in want. Be
dealt in horses and hounds. Mr. Tattersall, since his
wife's death, had assisted and served him much. The
landlord of the Tiger is a son of the deceased. Tbis
being the whole of the evidence, the Coroner summed
up, and the jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased
destroyed himself while labouring under a fit of tempo-
rary derangement."

SIR JAMES GRAHAM'S MEDICAL
REFORM BILL.
TO TIIE zniran oF THIS eL7IIII
Sin,—The question of medical reform is one of
interest}} not merely to the medical profession] but to
the public at large. It is ofthegreatetAimpottante tb
society that skilful medical aid should be easily acces-
sible to all classes.

Many complaints are made that the proposed
Meastite Janies Graliani Will tend tO give
greater encouragement to quackery in medicine,
and that the excluding of all but registered practi-
tioners from public offices, is not a sufficient protec-
tion, inasmuch as the wide field of private practice is
left open to the fraud and cunning of daring impos-
tors. The necessity of restraining unqualified parties
from tampering with the health of the community is
insisted on. It is suggested that a fitting remedy
would be found in a process of summary
conviction before a bench of magistrates. But,
however plausible such a proceeding may at first
appear, a little consideration will show that the
task of putting down quackery by legal enactment
is impracticable. Such. is the anxiety which every
invalid feels to purchase at any cost the blessing of
health, that when all remedial agents have been em-
ployed by skilful hands without avail, as a last re-
source he is willing to embrace any scheme—to adopt
any nostrum which promises some alleviation of his
malady. The patient is the dupe of his own credulity ;
and hence in every age the province of physic has
been overrun with impostors.
You may prohibit the sale of patent medicines, un-
less the composition of the same has been made
known to competent authorities, and approved of by
them. You may drag every unqualified practitioner
into court under whose hands a patient may
have died. You may compel every druggist
in the kingdom to become a registered member
of a college, that he may not be guilty of
prescribing in ignorance across the counter.
But you cannot stop here. You must have an in-
quisitor in every family, for unqualified parents will
dose their children ; and the family medicine chest,
with its store of calomel and jalap, be placed under
strict surveillance. Even then it is to be feared some
will be found weak enough to try the cold water
cure, the hunger and thirst systems, or it may be to
resort to the disciples of Mesmer.
But happily for the professors of medicine, they
have stronger claims to public support than that of
possessing the exclusive privilege to practice in these
realms. Their high attainments, which have placed
them in the foremost rank of scientific men through-
out Europe, are the best evidence of their fitness for
the important trust confided to them.
Let the education of medical men be rendered as
complete as possible. Give them every facility for
acquiring an intimate knowledge of disease in all its
varied forms ; submit every candidate to a most
searching examination; and by that means you
will induce the public to place that confidence in
their skill and superior knowledge, which will prove
their best protection against the aggression of igno-
rant quacks. To incumber the noble science of
medicine with penal enactments, is a degrading pro-
position, which its votaries should not stoop to enter-
tain for a moment. It cannot suppress the trade in
quackery; it cannot elevate the profession in the eyes
of the public.—Yours, truly, A LEECH.
York, Oct. 21.

THE POOR MAN'S CHURCH.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

- _
Sia,—l am not generally in the habit of reading
noreia tomargJes, but I hare lately been induced to
read one of each class ; the first a novel by Mrs.
Trollope, entitled " The Vicar of 'Wrexhlll ;" the
second a romance by the Rev. W. G. Ward, Fellow
of Balliol College, Oxford, rightly named, " An
Ideal Church." I have made several extracts from
pages 420, 421, 422, and 426, which are at your ser-
vice for publication, should you deem them worthy of
notice, on the principle that no reasonable man
would hesitate to stoop to pick a sovereign out of a
gutter.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.
Ilfracombe, Oct. 22. A PROTESTANT.

" It has been so generally professed of late years,
that a Christian society is bound to be a Poor Man's
Church,' and that it is the high and peculiar preroga-
tive of the Church to alleviate the misery of the
humble and oppressed, that the task seems incumbent
on me—however ungracious—of estimating th• praises
heaped on the English system by this standard. Let
me ask, then, while all the frightful and accumulated
mass of misery which now oppresses our land was
gradually, during the last sixty years, growing to
head, where was the voice of the National Church
heard drawing attention to its growth ? That the
civil Government, who are obliged to cope, day by
day, with present and passing emergencies, should
not have had the leisure or the thought to take a de-
liberate and far-seeing view of our social condition,
this is hardly a matter-of blame : but where was the
Poor Man's Church ?' How is it conceivable that
she can, at that time, have really thought or eared
for the poor, without becoming cognisant of the fatal
disease in progress, and loudly proclaiming its exist-
ence to the country and to the world ? What other
appellation than that of grossly and miserably corrupt
can we give to a system under which such monstrous
neglect was so much as possible ? Well—at length,
through no agency of hers, the attention of the whole
nation has been called, in some insufficient measure to
the perils under which we lie; all honour to Lord
Ashley, and his precursors and coadjutors in the noble
task ! Has the English Church at least exhibited the
grace of humiliation and repentance ? Has the blush
of shame been visible on our cheek ? Have her
ministers sorrowfully and contritely confessed their
sinful and unpardonable dereliction of duty, and taken
on themselves bitter shame, as fact after fact was
brought to light ?—facts which it was their bounden
duty long since to have dragged into the face of day,
and which place in still stronger colours the godless-
ness and depravity of vast portions of her flock. In-
credible as it might have appeared, the very con-
ception would seem never to have occurred to them :
with unruffled brow and complacent voice they have still
repeated their insane watchwords, ' pure and aposto-
lical,' holy arid venerable' Church, and have dared to
speak of the corruptions of other Christian bodies, when
they should rather have been in lowly and penitential
abasement, mourning those of their own. By what
process of effrontery can we bring ourselves so much
as to breathe the name of the 'Poor Man's Church' in
connexion with our system, if we are compelled to
acknowledge that nothing like this has been the case ?
For more than ten years the great principle has been
echoed from mouth to mouth, that our Church is no
creature of the. State, that she derives her duties and
her privileges from a far Higher and more August
Authority. Has the zeal displayed for this principle
been only caused by our desire of having something
to say which shall close the mouth of Roman Catholic
and Dissenter? Or, if not so, how is it that we have
failed to see, that the more triumphantly we vindi-
cate this great truth, the more plainly we publish our
own shame ? For if it be directly by God, and not
by the State, that the poor are committed to our
charge, no supineness or neglect of our civil gover-
nors can do ought but even aggravate our own guilt,
in that we did not compensate for their slackness and
insensibility, by a double measure of zeal and watch-
fulness. When members of a Church, which has thus
basely betrayed her trust, find it difficult to conceive
that some among their brethren can, without the
most serious moral delinquency, abhor and denounce
the system under which such betrayal was possible;
when they accuse us of violence, eccentricity, and
paradox, because we cannot consider a Church pure
which neither bears witness against wealth, nor pro-
tects poverty, I can only say, that our hatred of the
existing system cannot more offend them than their
toleration, nay, admiration of it, perplexes and asto-
nishes us.

"To be lukewarm, to be insensible of her own cor-
ruptions, to be loud in her own praise, are the notes
given in Scripture of that Church, which our blessed
Lord will spue out of his mauth.'—(Rev. iii., 16,
17.) What is His judgment of our Church's practical
system ?—a system under which she tolerates almost
every variety of condemned and branded heresy ; and
under which her authorities seem really offended and
disgusted at only one class of opinions, those which
speak of her present condition as corrupt and almost
apostate. The closest approximation to denial of our
Lord is permitted without protest, much more, with-
out condemnation ; but an imputation on HERSELF she
eannotforgive."

ILLEGAL DETENTION OF THE
BRITISH CUTTER HERON.

GIBRALTAR, OCT. 12.---Mr. Hay, her Majesty's
Consul-General at Tangiers, has officially intimated,
in a letter dated the Bth, from Ceuta, where he had
accompanied, in the Spanish steamer Andaluz, Mr.
Beramendi, the Spanish Charge d'Affaires and Consul-
General, that in the terms of the late treaty between
Spain and Morocco, the Spanish lines, which extend
to several miles beyond Ceuta, and which, previous
to 1837, had been occupied by Spain for such a
length of time, have again been established.
The Governor of Ceuta, Don Antonio Ordonez,
with the Sheick of the district of Augers, as well as
Mr. Hay and Mr. Beramendi, were present on the
occasion. The very marked attention and politeness
of the Governor are spoken of in high terms, and the
fine appearance and martial bearing of the Spanish
military, employed in the re-occupation of the lines
(which was effected without any untoward popular
demonstration) would have done credit to the best
drilled troops in Europe.
The case of the Heron, British cutter, formerly
possessed by the Hon. Captain Ponsonby, which came
here the day before yesterday, after her liberation
from Almeria, is the last among many instances of the
galling surveillance, illegal detention, and, to use no
harsher term, unjust confiscation of cargo practised
on our regular traders, and it can therefore be a
matter of little surprise if, in the protection of our
commerce, accidents occur similar to what befel the
Spanish war-schooner last week, more particularly
when, as in that instance, the aggression was com-
mitted with such barefaced audacity under the very
guns of the batteries.
The Heron sailed from this port on the sth of last
month, with a general cargo, and her papers regularly
made out for Algiers • when on the 9th, about 30 to
40 miles south of Carthagena, she was chased and
searched by a vessel of the Spanish coast-guard, which,
after some hesitation and delay, ultimately conveyed
her to Almeria, where her cargo was landed, and
placed in the Government store.
On the circumstance being communicated to the
owners here, and formal application made by them in
the proper quarter, the Warspite, which was about to
proceed to Barcelona and Malta, received instructions
to call at Almeria to demand her liberation ; but the
authorities there anticipating, it is conjectured, the
unwelcome visit, released her the day before the War-
spite arrived, and she only reached this the day before
yesterday (the 10th), of course with the loss of her
cargo, which, before it is given up, will entail legal
and other expenses, equal, it may be, to the value of
the seizure.

A company of 68 men of the Royal Sappers and
Miners arrived here yesterday by the Royal Tar
steamer ; and Captain Gordon's company (the 6th),
which has been stationed in this garrison since 1837,
being now relieved, will embark for England by the
same vessel to-morrow.

The inspection of the different regiments in the
garrison by his Excellency the Governor, which had
lasted during the greater part of the week, terminated
to-day with that of the 79th Highlanders. Although
the hour was early a considerable assemblage of spec-
tators was on the ground, and among strangers of all
different nations, not a few of our fair countrywomen
appeared to grace with their presence the inspection of
this highly-disciplined crack corps. The general ap-
pearance of the regiment was picturesque in the ex-
treme, and the fine bearing of the men, who are all
young, as well as the faultless precision of their varied
evolutions, excited a general and almost enthusiastic
admiration. The military display of the day termi-
nated with artillery practice from the saluting bat-
tery, on the Almeida, when three rounds of shot and
two of shell were fired from 25 guns, at a buoy placed
at a considerable distance out in the bay. Although
the buoy was not actually destroyed, so very correct
was i
its
with was the firing, that had any
place, almost every shot would have told
small
vessel
occupied
effect.

The Gazette of Tuesday night contains a Treasury
Warrant, dated the IBth instant, directing that, on and
after the sth of next month, British and Colonial news-
papers'will be taken in packet-boat to Venezuela, in South
America, free of postage ; but if in private ship, they
will be subjected to a charge of Id. each. A similar
permission is granted to Venezuelan newspapers brought
to England or the British colonies.

MONDAY'S HOLIDAY.—THE BAN/O.—At a meet-
ing of the Committee of Bankers, held on Monday last,
A. W. Robarts, Esq. in the chair, it was resolved,—
" That from the unavoidable obstruction to business
which must necessarily take place on Monday, Oct. 28,
the day appointed by the Queen for attending the open-
ing of the Royal Exchange, it will be desirable, in con-
currence with the Bank of England, to close the several
banking-houses at twelve that day. The Committee,
therefore, recommend the adoption of such regulation."

SCOTCH BANKMG.
The understood intention of the head of de Gem,
vernment to Interfere, by means of a legislative mea-
sure, with the currency and banking system in
Scotland, has excited a feeling of apprehension as and as strong as when a similar attempt was
made eighteen years ago, the overthrow of which
was chiefly attributable to the caustic letters of
Malachi Malagrowther, the nom de guerre assumed
by Sir Walter Scott. Meetings have been held, and
remonstrances carried with unanimity, in every part •
of the kingdom. A considerable number of the
most influential counties—Edinburgh, Lanark,
Perth, Forfar, Aberdeen, Moray, Inverness, Caith-
ness, &c., have already taken up the 'sub-
ject, and passed resolutions condemnatory of the
threatened interference. Town Councils, Cham-

bers of Commerce, and other public bodies, have also
recorded their disapproval of the Government propo-
sition ; so that we may venture to hope the Premier
will see the wisdom of withdrawing his intention, in
the face of such overwhelming manifestations of re-
sistance.

No Ministry, however strong, can with

safety provoke the hostility of a whole nation ; even
were the question one of far less importance than the
abolition or alteration of a Ilong-cherished system,
the working of which has been found by the ex-
perience of nearly two centuries to be unexception-
able
and satisfactory, adapted to the habits of the
people, and conducive to the prosperity of the country.
The arguments against the proposed change, stated
from the press and the platform, are so cogent, so -
convincing, that we presume to think, when deli
berately considered, their force must appear irre-
sistible.
The dangers and disadvantages of tampering
with our currency, and the proposal to do away with
the circulation of one-pound notes, were clearly and
powerfully set forth in the series of resolutions passed
by the Chamber of Commerce at Glasgow about a
month ago, as well as in those submitted by Sir Jas.
Gibson Craig to the county of Edinburgh, and more
recently by the Merchant Company at their meeting
yesterday. At a similar meeting of merchants and
manufacturers in Dundee on the 15th instant, one of
the speakers gave a luminous explanation of the posi-
tion of the currency question as affecting the various
interests of the country, and pointed out the ruinous
consequences which must result to those inte-
rests, by meddling with a system which had so
effectually answered the purposes of commerce. The
over-issue of notes in Scotland is guarded against
by the checks which have been established by the
system of exchanges ; and were bankers to be re-
stricted In the issue of their notes, as is the case in
England, the facilities now afforded by cash credits
and discounts must be limited or withdrawn, and A
fatal injury would thus be inflicted upon the whole
industrial economy of society. The question does not
affect banking interests alone ; it is mixed up indis-
solubly with every department of public business. It
applies equally to the agricultural, the manufacturing,
the commercial, and shipping interests. The entire
trade of the country would be effected by it, and all
this without conferring a single benefit on any in-
terest or any class whatever. Would it be prudent,
then, in the Government to urge their measure in the
teeth of such palpable mischief, such unanimous re-
monstrance ?—Edinburgh Advertiser (Tory paperl-
-

'HE THIRD PART OF MR. BURKE'S DICTIONARY
OF THE LANDED GENTRY has just appeared, and carries
the subject down to letter R, inclusive. One more Part
will, consequently, complete this great national under-
taking, which will comprise the vastest store of genealo-
gical and historical information ever contained in a
single work. Almost every distinguished actor, in
public as in private life, is recorded in its pages ; and
the details it affords of the antiquity and eminence of
the families of our country gentleiten go far to prove
their superiority to the much vaunted Noblesse of the
Continent. The present Pita is replete with much cu-
rious matter regarding the Sefts and Clans of Scot-
land and Ireland, and the information and anecdote
connected with the English iGenealqies is equally inte-
resting. Among the latter are the ancient he:alb:Ps of Main-
waring, Manley, Manse], Markham, Marsham, Martin,
Massie, Massingberd, Master, Matthew, Maude, Main-
sell, Maxwell, Meyrell, Meyrick, Milbank, Milnes, Mit•
ford, Morewood, Morgan, Morris, Mosley, Mundy,
Myaors, Mytton, Neale, Nevile, Newdegate, Leaper
Newton, Northey, Nowell, Okeover, Orde, Orlebar, Or-
merod, Owen, Parke, Packington, Palmer, Parker,
Parry, Partridge, Wilson Patten, Peirse, Pendarves,
Penn, Pennant, Peter, Phelips, Phillips, Pigott, Plow-
den Plumptre, Pochin, Chandos Pole, Peley„ Pol-
whele, Ponsonby, Popham Portal,
,Powell, YOwys,
Pratt, Price, Pye, Radclyffe, Rashleigh, Riddell, Rogers,
Rokeby, Rolleston, Roundell, &c., &c.
QuorriNG —ENGLAND v. SCOTLAND. —On Wed-
nesday the return match between two English and two
Scottish players, for 1001. a-side, came off at Shrews-
bury. The day being fine, there was a great gathering
of the " fancy,' the match having excited considerable
interest in the sporting world. After a contest, which
at no time could be characterised as keen, owing to the
marked superiority of Messrs. Dunlop, Pollockshaws,
and Turnbull, Parkhead, the Scottish players—the re-
sult was as follows:—Scotland, 61; England, 33; majo-
rity for Scotland, 28.—Scotch Paper.
EXTRA ORDINARY AND DANGEROUS FEAT.—SatUIb•
day evening, about four o'clock, a large crowd of persons
were collected in Sackville-street, in consequence of see-
ing two young men standing on the top of Nelson's
Pillar. One of them, a fine young fellow, about sixteen
or seventeen years of age, began to ascend the figure,
and after " tugging away" for some time, he succeeded
in getting on the " capstan" which is placed behind
the colossal statue of the great naval hero ; from
this position it was not very hard to ascend the .
figure itself, which the lad accomplished, and having
looked round him for a moment, he seated himself
with the greatest apparent complacency on the head of
the figure, where he continued several minutes waving •
his cap. He then raised himself and stood on the head
of the figure, first on both and then on one foot, in
which perilous situation he remained several minutes,
whilst the most painful anxiety existed amongst the
observers for his safety. Having descended, his
companion, who appeared somewhat his senior in •
years, and who was dressed in a frock coat, went
through a similar evolution •, and then both ascended
the figure together, and taking hold of each other's
hand, they stood, with one leg (each) for a con-
siderable time on the granite head of the immortal
Nelson. It was blowing a very strong breeze, and it
was painful to witness the dangerous position of the
youths at this moment; but they descended without any
accident, and on coming into the street they were loudly
cheered. They refused to give their names—nor would
they say if the feat was done for a wager, which is sup-
posed to be the case.—Dublin Freeman.

Captain Barclay's annual sale of pure short-horn
bull calves and other stock came off on Tuesday at Ury,
and was, as on former occasions, attended by a large as-
semblage of agriculturists from all parts of the country.
The captain's stock even surpassed its former high cha-
racter, and was much admired by the judges present.
The prices obtained for the bull calves (of which the fol-
lowing is a list) showed that it had lost nothing in public
estimation X. s.

I. Mr. Lyall, Drumelune 36 15
2. Mr. Craighead, Perwinnes 3B 17
3. Mr. A. Wilkie, Ormiston Mains,
near Edinburgh 34 13
4. Mr. Moir, Tartie 36 15
5. Mr. Gow, Raith, Fifeshire
G. Mr. J. Miller,Ballumbie, Forfarshire 24 • 3
. Mr. J. Gladstone, of Fasque
8. Mr. Watt, Rannieston,'Ellon 2l 0
9. Mr. Garland, Cairnton
21 .0
10. Mr. Walker, Fortlethen 25 4
11. Mr. Scott, AChath (very young)
There was considerable competition for the polled cows,
which had been served by a short-horn bull. Prices
varied according to size, age, and condition ; but we ob-
served that some of them brought upwards of 18/. A
sumptuous lunch was laid out for parties as they arrived
in the forenoon ; and after the sale the captain enter-
tained his friends to dinner in his usual hospitable man-
ner.—Caledonian Mercury.

THE MEDICAL BlLL.:—Yesterday, in pursuance of
a resolution passed at the aggregate meeting of the me-
dical profession, held at Exeter Hall on the 29th ult., a
deputation of the medical practitioners of the metropolis
attended at Apothecaries' Hall, for the purpose of hold-
ing a conference with the Master and Court of Assist-
ants of the Company. The Master and Court stated,
they had given this subject their best and undivided .at-
tention, and, in the course of a few days, would again -
address the profession, and explain the plan of medical
reform which they would recommend. This plan was
conceived in the most liberal spirit, and conceded the
principle of self-government to its licentiate, for which
the deputation were such strenuous advocates. The de-
putation at considerable length urged the necessity of
protection against illegal practice by summary convic-
tion, and that the welfare of the public, as Well as of the
profession, demanded it. They also submittd
theo
im-
perative necessity which existed for the establishmentnera
I racti-
a college of medicine and surgery for g
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conference, the utisos
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ST. FAITH'S FAIR.—At our great and annual fair,
edraectiloanraotfiotnheol!ituheestio
on Thursday
last, the show of Scots was not so large as
last year, but the quality and condition were very supe-
rior; and all the beasts came up free from the epidemic,
doing great credit to the different drovers. The number
of buyers present during the day was smaller than has
been known for several years, and they all acted with
the greatest caution, being determined, if possible, to se-
cure themselves a good profit for winter grazing. Many
of the beasts required not more than two months' keep •
to make them fit for the butchers, but the top figure did
not exceed ss. per stone; the more general were 4s. to
4s. 6d. The business done was limited, and the prices
obtained anything but satisfactory or profitable to the
breeders and dealers. There was a great falling off in
the short-horn and other horned cattle. Many lots were
very inferior, and remained quite unnoticed; those half
fat made from 4s. to 4s. 6d. per stone, with great diffi-
culty to find purchasers. There were about five score
Ilerefords, which exchanged hands, the price for which,
like that for numbers of the horned beasts, was terrible.
The salesmen and dealers exerted every nerve to obtain.
more money, but without effect ; and although the day
closed so badly, we still hope the worst is over, and sin-
cerely wish the buyers well paid, and better spirits for
the next coming fair. In the horse fair scarcely a good
animal could be found, and middling ones are at
a discount, there being no demand for them. There was
a little racing, but no money stirring worth mentioning.
—Norfolk Chronicle.