The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 2 184;.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.

THURSDAY'S RACES.

Subscription Handicap Plate of 501. ; for three yrs old
&c. D.I.

Col. Peel's I-am-not• aware, aged, 7st 2lb
Salvio's Alice Hawthorn, 6 yrs, 9st 10119 0 dr
Lord G. B'utinck's Croton Oil, 3 yrs, sst 13Ib
Mr. Osbaldeston's f by Achmet, 3 yrs. sst 4
Mr. Meiltlam's Aristotle, 5 yrs, Bst 41b
Mr. Bell's Winesour, 4 yrs, Bst 81b
2 to 7 on Alice and 7 to 2 agst I-am-not-aware.
Alice Hawthorn made all the running, but was ehal-
leng, d in the cords by I-am-not-aware, and caugiAt on
the post, the judge giving it a dead heat; nothing was
near these two at the finish. A difference of opinion
exists as to this, many thinking that the mare ought to
have won, had not the jockey pulled her out of the stride,
from an idea that he had won; others believe that she
was in difficulty for the last 200 yards, and could not
have run another yard. Col. Peel and Mr. Salvin after-
wards agreed to divide the plate, and the horse walked
over.

This is the last race Alice Hawthorn will run under
the present contract, the term for which she was hired
of Mr. Plummer having expired this day.
In the evening a meeting of the subscribers was hel.d
in the Betting-rooms, and a series of rules and regula-
tions for their observance in 1845, proposed and unani-
mously confirmed. They were nine in number, of which
it is only necessary to give a copy of the one having re-
ference to disputed bets. It runs thus :—Any member
of this roam, having a disputed bet with another mem-
ber, shall be bound, if required by him, to refer such
dispute to two referee', being members of this room,
one to be chosen by each party, the referees
to appo'nt umpire (being also a member of
the room) before they proceed to hear the case,
or in the event of the referees not agreeing in the choice
of an umpire, he shall be appointed by the committee.
The decision of such referees or umpire to be final, but
should such dispute happen to involve any question of
racing law, the referees or umpire shall refer that ques-
tion only to the Stewards of the-Jockey Club, with a
request that they will determine the same, and whose
opinion thereon the said referees or umpire shall adopt,
confining their own judgment to the facts of the case.
Any member refusing or neglecting to refer such dis-
puted bet, or to comply with the decision upon such
reference, within one calendar month after notice of
such decision from the book-keeper, either personally
or by letter, to be addressed to the last known place
of re idence of such member, shall, upon complaint
to the Committee, be deemed and treated by them as a
defaulter according to the third rule. Rule three pro-
s for the exclusion of persons in default for stakes
and bets, or guilty of any fraud or mal-practice connected
with horse racing. The Committee appointed for 1845
are the Hon. Captain Rous, UP., C. Greville, Esq., and
S. Wadding:on, Esq., M.P., members of the Jockey
Club, S. Worrall, Esq., J. S. Drinkall, Esq , and R. M.
Jaques, Esq., one of the three first-named gentlemen to
go out in rotation at the end of each year, having pre-
viously nominated his successor, being also a member of
the Jockey Club, and one of the three last-named
gentlemen to go out in rotation, his successor to
be elected at a meeting of the subscribers in the.
Houghton race week.. Three to form a quoram, and the
Chairman, pro teen, to have the casting vote, in addition to
his own, as a member of the Committee. The subscrip-
tion to be one sovereign for the Craven, two Spring and
July meetings ; one sovereign for the July, October, and
Houghton meetings; and halt a sovereign for any single
meeting. A vote of thanks to the proprietor for his
public spirit in providing an accommodation that had so
long been required at Newmarket, was carried by accla-
mation, and was answered by an assurance that no pains
or expense should be spared to secure the comfort and
convenience of the .subscribers.
BETTING AFTER THE RACES.

NURSERY STAKES.-6 to 4 agst Crim Con (t), sto 2
agst Rose of Cashmere, 5 to 1 agst Ironmaster, and 11 to
2 agst Chapow (t).
NURSERY STAKES (SECOND CLASS).-5 to 2 apt Bas-
tion (t), and 3 to 1 agst Carlotta (t).
Am)LEI( END STAKES.-3 to 1 agst Glossy, and 7to
2 agst Counseller.

to 1 aast Alarm

to 1 agst Kedge!

DERBY.
40 to 1 agst Lycurgus—t
40 to 1 agst Anti-Repeteer
45 to 1 agst Idas
50 to 1 agst Laird o' Cock
pen—taken
60 to 1 agst Cabin Boy

to 1 agit Cob-Web c—t

25 to 1 agst Newsroonger
25 to 1 agst Old England
25 to 1 agst Rebecca c
30 to 1 agst Brother to E.O.
Acceptances for the Audley End Stakes (Friday) :
Ma Mie, Bst 91b—Counsellor, Bst—Mickey Free, 7st 91b
—Scalteen. 7st 71b—Revocation, 7st 71b—Needful, 7st—
Glossy, 7st—Welbeck, Est—Pergularia, sst 101 b—and
Eccola, sst 51b. Three paid.
Alice Hawthorn pays forfeit to Foig-a-ballagh.
Lord G. Bentinck's Emma receives from Mr. Beres-
ford's The Altered One.

New Match for Friday—Duke of Bedford's Oakley,
Bst 81b, agst Lord Exeter's Celia, 7st 121 b. T.Y.C.
200, h ft.

(RECEIVED THIS MORNING.)
FRIDAY'S RACES.

Match, 100. D.l.—Lord M:ltown's Scalteen, 7st 81b
(Bell), beat Lord Glasgow's Give-him-a-Name, 7st 61b
(Nat).-6 to 4on Scalteen. Won by fifty yards.
Match, 100, h ft. Y.C.—Duke of Bedford's Glen
Fishie, Bst 91b (Robinson), beat Lord Glasgow's Sister
to Pathfinder, Est (Maiden)-5 to lon Glen Fishie.
Won by three lengths.
Match, 60, h ft.—Col. Peel's Garry Owen, Bst 4lb
(Nat), beat Lord Sandwich's Plantagenet, 7st (White-
house).-4 to lon Garry Owen. Won by ten lengths.
(SECOND CL A SS.)
The Nursery Stakes of ;5 sovs. each, for two yrs
old. P.M.
Mr. E. Blake's Event, 6st 101 b (Pettit) 1
Mr. Hook's Bastion, ist

The following •also ran :—Lord Chesterfield's c by
sheet Anchor, out of Fair Helen, Est 121b—Mr. 11.
Stebbing's b f by Physician, out of Mary Ann, Est 81b—
Mr. Kingston's Sparaholt, 6st—and Sir John Trollope's
Mogadorc, sst 81b.-2 to 1 agst Bastion, 2 to 1 agst
Sparsholt 7 to 2 agst Event, and 9 to 2 apt Fair Helen
colt. The Carlotta colt, which had been backed in the
town at 7 to 4, was declared not to start.
After the first race, the reason assigned being that
the stable had been forestalled, they started abreast,
and without either having a particular lead, ran in
company to the T.Y.C. post, where Event took up
the running, followed by Bastion ; at the cords Bas-
tion reached the filly's girths, but gave way half up
them, and was defeated cleverly by a length. Mogadore
was a good third, and the others beaten off. Mason
rode Mogadora.
Post Match, 200, one to the post ; colts, Bst 71b ;
fillies, Bst 41b.—Lord Glasgow's c by Bay Middleton,
out of Miss Whip (Robinson), beat Col. Peel's Hersey
(Nat) in a canter.

(FIRST CLASS.)
The Nursery Stakes of 25 sous. each. D.M.

Lord G. Bentinck's Rose of Cashmere, 7st_llb (Abdale) 1
Mr. Dawson's Crim Con, 6st 41b

Mr. W. S. Stanley's Keppel, Est 71b 3
The following also started :—Mr. Lintott's Cabin-
boy, ist—Col. Peel's f, by Slane, out of Seeksle, lOst—
Mr. May's Corinthian Tom, 6st 101 b—and Sir G. Heath-
coto's Chapow, sst 101 b.
6 to 4 on Crim Con, 5 to 1 agst Rose of Cashmere,
and 6 to 1 agst Chapow.
Cabin-boy made the running, followed by Chapow and
Rose of Cashmere, the others lying off until they got to
the T.Y.C. post, where Crim Con and the Wee of
Cashmere went in front, the latter waiting ; half way
up tilt, '-ones he challenged, got up in the last two or
three strides , a;;:,1. won by a neck. Keppel a bad third.
i Match, 100/., h N't —Duke of Bedford's Panther,
Bst 71b, beat Lord Chester':: a'3 Tiddly Winks, 71b
131 b. —5 to 2 on Tiddly-Winks. Won by a head.
Match.—Duke of Bedford's Oakley,
son), beat Lord Exeter's Celia, 7st sst Bth (Robin-
121b (Mann). T.Y.C.
200, h ft.-7 to 4on Oakley. Won by two lengths.
The Audley End Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 10 ft, if de-
clared ; for three yrs old, &c. A.E.C. (13 Subs., 3 of
whom declared.)
Mr. Wesley's Counsellor (half-bred) 5 yrs, Bst (Sly) 1
Mr. Irwin's Mickey Free, 3 yrs, 7st 9lb
Sir C. Monek's Glossy, 4 yrs, 7st
Mr. Newton's Ma Mie, 5 yrs, Bst 9lb 4
Duke of Rutland's Welbeck, 3 yrs, Est
Lord Exeter's Pergularia, 3 yrs, sst 10lb 6
Mr. Ford's Eccola, 3 yrs, sst 51b
Lord Exeter's Revocation, 5 yrs, 7st 71b
Mr. Gratwicke's Needful, 3 yrs, 7st
Betting-3 to 1 agst Counsellor, 4to 1 agst Mickey
Free, 4 to 1 agst Needful, 4 to 1 agst Glossy, 7 to 1 agst
Ma Mie, and 8 to 1 agst Welbeck.
Needful made the running, followed by Counsellor,
Revocation, and Welbeck, the others, from the badness
of the pace, lying up. In the Ab. M. bottom Glossy took
the lead from Needful, and, with Welbeck in attendance,
went on until half-way between the Duke's Stand and
the Chair ; Counsellor, who had from the first -been
pulling over his horses, then took the lead at a strong
pace, was never caught, and won easy, by two lengths.
The wide spaces between the beaten horses, enabled the
judge to place them all.
Match ; 500, 200 ft. D. L--Mr. Irwin's Foig-a-bal-
lagn, 7st 71b, received 150 sovs. compromise from Mr.
Salvin's Alice Hawthorn, 9st.
Match ; 200, h ft. D.M.—Lord G. Bentinck's Emma,
3 yrs, sst 101 b, received from Mr. Beresford's The
Altered One, 5 yrs, 7A 101 b.
New Match for Saturday.—Sir J. Hawley's Bishop of
Romford's Cob, Bst 4.b, agst Colonel Peel's Garry Owen,
Bst 11b. T.Y.C. 50, h ft.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Brighton hariers, Mon., Patcham ; Wed., Race Course;
Fri., Dyke, at 101.—Brookside hariers, Mon., New-
market-hill ; Thursday, Telscombe Tye, 9:l—Finclon
hounds, Mon., the Dyke; Wed., Thatcham Poor-house;
Fri., Applesham.—Captain Candler's hounds, Tues.,
Bishop's Wood; Friday, Spetchley, 14—Herefordshire
hounds, Tues., Harewood's End; Fri., Bradwardine, 10.
—Albrighton hounds, Mon., Aqualate ; Thurs., the
Wheel (Worfield) ; Sat., Horton Lodge.— Essex and
Suffolk hounds, 'rues., Little Bentley Hall; Fri., Waston,
94.—Essex Union hounds, Tues., Asheldham-bridge ;
Sat., South Hanningfield Tye.—Mr. Roe's hounds,
Wed., St. Anne's Chapel; Sat., Membland Summer-
house.—Mr. Archer's hounds, Mon., Hat ; Thurs.,
Liftcn Park Lodge, 94.—Montgomeryshire . hounds,
Tues., Lymley; Fri., Brindireven-bridge, 10.—Crawley
and Horsham houmis, Mon., Worth Park; Thurs., the
Nunnery, 104.—Quoro hounds, Mon., Kirby-gate ;
Tues., Grooby ; Thurs., Allexton, 101—Warwickshire
hounds, Mon., ' '
Farnborough • Tues. Weston-house ;
Bilton Grange ; Fri., Halton New Inn ; Sat,
1- 10i.—Sir W. M. Stanley's bounds,
Q-n+ - Trafford-bridge.
• rmit

Epwel I
Mon., Barton; VVed., Hawarden;
—Mr. Foljambe's hounds, Mon., Gringley•on-tne-A....-,
Tues. and Thurs., Headon Clump; Fri., Piper-wood,
S. Hellier's hounds, Mon., Hallington Cricket
Ground;-Tues., Hatham-wood; Thurs., Girsby; Sat.,
Welton Wood, 104.

iIIIGAZINES—(COI".ZTINUED.)
ROOD'S MAGAZINE.
Mr. Hood here furnishes us with one of the most
spirited sketches that have ever proceeded from his
pen. It is called the " Lay of the Labourer," and
describes a visit which he paid to a rustic way-side
ale-house, where he met with a party of agricultural
labourers, who were bewailing their physical and
mental sufferings over a can of cold water in lieu of
strong beer, with which they were all too poor, to pro-
' vide themselves. The account which our author
gives of their woe-begone appearance is painfully
afflicting, and the reflections which it suggested to
him are of the kindliest and most catholic character.
In the course of this sketch he relates the sad story
of poor Gifford White—a youth, aged eighteen, who
was transported for life by Lord Abinger for having
sent a threatening anonymous letter to some farmers
in the neighbourhood, announcing his intention to set
fire to their barns unless they provided him with
work. Mr. Hool justly observes that the sentence
was a most harsh one, and pleads the poor fellow's
cause with infinite force and feeling. The " Streets
of Paris" alludes to the historical associations connected
with some of the principal streets in the French
capital. The " Brace of Birds" is a vigorously told
story, referring to the death of a poacher who fell a
sacrifice to the flagrant injustice and inhumanity of
the game-laws. The " Acorn" is Ln elegant poem,
but we prefer quoting the melancholy chaunt which
Mr. Hood has introduced into his " Lay of the
Labourer :"

A spade ! a rake ! a hoe !
A pickaxe, or a bill !
A hook to reap, or a scythe to mow,
A flail, or what ye will—
And here's a ready hand
To ply the needful tool,
And skill'i enough, by lessons rough,
In Labour's rugged school.
To hedge, or dig the ditch,
To lop or fell the tree.,
To lay the swarth on the sultry field,
Or plough the stubborn lea ;
The harvest stack to bind,
The wheaten rick to thatch,
And never fear in my pouch to find
The tinder or the match.

To a flaming barn or farm
My fancies never roam ;
The fire I yearn to kindle and burn
Is on the hearth of Home ;
Where children huddle and crouch
Through dark long winter days,
Where starving children huddle and crouch,
To see the cheerful rays,
A-glowing on the haggard cheek,
And not in the haggard's blaze !
To Him who sends a drought
To parch the fields forlorn,
The rain to flood the meadows with mud,
The blight to blast the corn,
To Him I leave to guide -
The bolt in its crooked path,
To strike the misers rick, and show
The skies blood-red with wrath.
A spade ! a rake ! a hoe I
A pickaxe, or a bill I
A hook to reap, or a scythe to mow,
A flail, or what ye will—
The corn to thrash, or the hedge to plash,
The market- team to drive,
Or mend the fence by the cover side,
And leave the game alive.
Ay, only give me work,
And then you need not fear
Tbat I shall snare his Worship's hare,
Or kill his Grace's deer ;
Break into his Lordship's house,
To steal the plate so rich ;
Or leave the yeoman that had a purse
To welter in a ditch.
Wherever Nature needs,
Wherever Labour calls,
No job I'll shirk of the hardest work,
To shun the workhouse walls ;
Where savage laws begrudge
The pauper babe its breath,
And doom a wife to a widow's life,
Before her partner's death. •
My only claim is this,
With labour stiff and stark,
By lawful turn, my living to earn,
Between the light and dark ;
My daily bread, and nightly bed,
My bacon, and drop of beer—
But all from the hand that holds the land,
And none from the overseer
No parish money, or loaf,
No pauper badges for me,
A son of the soil, by right of toil
Entitled to my fee.
No alms I ask, give me my task
Here are the arm, the leg,
The strength, the sinews of a Man,
To work, and not to beg.
Still one of Adam's heirs,
Though doom'd by chance of birth
To dress so meair, and to eat the lean,
Instead of the fat of the earth ;
To make such humble meals
As honest labour can,
A bone Lnd a crust, with a grace to God,
And little thanks to man
A spade ! a rake ! a hoe I
A pickaxe, or a bill
A hook to reap, or a scythe to mow,
A flail, or what ye will--
Whatever the tool to ply,
Here is a willing drudge,
With muscle and limb, and woe to him
Who does their pay begrudge I

ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE.

The illustrations to this Magazine—more especially
those for the present month—are of the choicest
character, the landscape sketches in particular, which
are as true to life as one of Copley Fielding's. Nor
is the literary portion of the work less carefully
attended to, whether as regards selection or variety of
subject. The " Old House at Home" is the com-
mencement of a tale fromthe pen of a writer who
signs himself " Craven." It opens well, but we must
see more of it before we can venture on a decided
opinion. " Louis Philippe and the Irish Tutor" is a
whimsical dialogue, which is supposed to have taken
place between the King of the French and one
Doctor O'Toole, during that Monarch's recent visit to
Windsor Castle. It is accompanied by a clever em-
bellishment of an Irish peasant flirting with two
coquettish young girls, who seem bent on making a
fool of him. The " Life and Writings of the Swedish
poet Vitalis" contains some ingenious criticisms on,
together with translations from, .the songs and ballads
of this popular author. A " Sketch" is an affecting
story of a wife's desertion by her husband, and her
. own consequent lapse into vice. The subject a
hacknied one, but it is well treated. In the article
headed "Some Points for a new People's Charter," we
find the following allusions to " Young England''—
" Malthus is dead in philosophy as well as in the flesh;
and Young England is born a vigorous, right-hearted
youngster, worth a dozen dead philosophers, even if they
were all real ones. How he bustles and rattles about.
What excellent things he does, though it must be ac-
knowledged, not always aware of the ulterior con-
sequences of his doing. How he brings forward a ten
hours' bill, and revolutionises a whole system of legisla-
tion; rates a minister, and breaks to pieces a party;
forms societies for the mental improvement of working
men, and thus, by removing all fair objections, forwards
might and main the advent of the people's government
that ho so abominates; abolishes distinctions of classes
in the formal worship of God in our churches, and thus
prepares the way for a similar abolition in that grander
system of prayer and praise, which has the wide world
for an altar, and which makes life itself an uninterrupted
series of Sabbaths and holidays. Young England has
faith. Let this belief be a part of his faith—that what
is begun in good, that is to say, with good motives for
good objects, cannot end in evil, Let him, therefore,
pursue. rejoicingly, his endeavours to promote the well-
being of the people in his own way ; the people will be
grateful for it in theirs; and no doubt the issues' will be
just what they ought to be, whether in the form of a
more or leas popular regime—wbether they exhibit a
vast improvement or entire reconstruction of society.
To be sure, in any case Young England will make these
issues triumphs. It stands upon the old ways ; and a
very skilful but peculiar use it makes of its position.
Does Universal Suffrage prevail? why Young England
will show you how old was the principle that taxation
and representation should be co-extensive. Are An-
nual Parliaments law ? why Young England says Of
course, it was so in former times, was it not?' Very true;
and for our parts we don't despair yet of seeing poems
from Mr. Monckton Mines, written to revive the old spirit
of democracy, or Mr, D'lsraeli taking a tour through the
provinces during a Parliamentary vacation to give a series
of lectures on the People's Charter, expatiating in due
succcession on the antiquity of its different points with
all the unction of an antiquarian who publicly unrolls a
mummy."

UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE.
Her Majesty's recent visit to Blair Athol gives
the editor of this journal an opportunity of inserting
an article on the subject of the splendid festivals that
took place in the Highlands when any of the
Scottish monarchs visited that portion of their do-
minions. The article contains, inter alia, an amusing
account, drawn up by Lindsay, of Pitscottie, of tl:e
magnificent reception which the Earl of Athol gaN e
to James the Fifth, when he at his inten-
tion of going to hunt among the braes of Athol.
" France and Morocco" is here brought to a conclu-
sion, and furnishes us with some geographical parti-
culars respecting the sea-coast and the principal
towns of the latter country. Of the remaining ar-
ticles, the most entertaining is the one entitled
"Military Anecdotes," which is contributed by
Colonel Wilkie.

POYTECHNIC REVIEW.
The object of this periodical is to blend science
with literature, so as to adapt itself tc the tastes of as
• class of readers as possible, Accordingly, in
larg ' -!--.+lfic essay on " The connexion
addition to an able soft-- _ onlintry and
between the Geological Structure of
its Natural Scenery," we have here a series of cir-

FREE CH URCII SUSTENTATION
FUND.
The following circular addressed to the sup-
porters of the Free Seceding Church, within the
bounds of the Presbytery of Kelso and 'Lauder,
shows the pressing nature of the necessities in
which the ministers ,of that Church are involved
by the scanty contributions from the majority of
their congregation to the Sustentation Fund :
Circular addressed by the Committee appointed by
the Free Presbytery of Kelso and Lauder regard-
ing the Sustentation Fund.
The Committee appointed by the Free Pres-
bytery of Kelso and Lauder to take into con-
sideration the state of the Sustentation Fund,
must lament in common with all who are acquainted
with the condition of that fund, and who are inte-
rested in its objects, that many of the congregations
within the bounds of the Presbytery have fallen far
short of the contributions that might have been ex-
pected from them ; and while they believe that one
great defect lies in the managemen t of the Associations ;
and while they would aim at stirring up these to
greater activity, they think, at the same time, that
the people generally are not aware of the deficiencies
so often complained of by the Central Committee;
they have, therefore, agreed affectionately to present
the following address to the congregation within their
bounds :
Dearly Beloved Brethren,—We crave your atten-
tion to one of the most important subjects connected
with the prosperity of our Church. You are all
aware that what is called the Sustentation Fund is
the united contributions of all our congregations, and
from this common fund all the ministers of our
Church receive their annual stipend. You can easily
see that our system can only be carried out efficiently
by the regularity of payments made throughout all
our Associations, and by the resolution made and
followed up by every adherent of our Church, to give
as the Lord hath prospered him. We regret to say
that in many congregations this has not been
attended to, and the consequence is, that the state
of the Sustentation Fund is far from being satisfac-
tory. There is, perhaps, no congregation in the Pres-
bytery who have it not in their power to be inde-
pendent of aid from the fund. That is to say, we be-
lieve every congregation might give to the common
fund as much as their minister draws from it, and yet
there is only one congregation in the whole Presby-
tery in this prosperous state, and some of them do not
yield even one-half of their minister's stipend. It is
plain that, if other Presbyteries were to follow our
example, and if this were continued, our com-
mon fund would cease to exist, and each con-
gregation would be left to support its own minister,
and a necessary consequence of this, very many
of our weaker congregations would be dispersed. We
believe that, generally, you are not aware of the defi-
ciency, and your ignorance of the state of the fund is
unquestionably the very reason that it is not in a
better condition. We think it will be enough, there-
fore, simply to make this statement of facts, confident
that, when this is done, your liberality will imme-
diately supply the deficiency, and that every congre-
gation within the bounds of the Presbytery shall aim at
being independent of the general fund, and at not
being burdensome to others. Moreover, we trust that
every individual will aim at the same praiseworthy
and Christian spirit of independence. As we would
not be burdensome to one another as congrega-
tions, we should endeavour Rot to be burdensome
to one another as individuals—not depending on
the bounty of others for the supply of those spiri-
tual blessings that God giveth without money and
without price. This suggests a fact which we can-
not pass without notice, namely—that there are in-
dividuals in all our congregations who are living
entirely on the bounty of others—individuals who
give nothing for the support of the Gospel. We
would not upbraid them—we do not seek them to
withdraw from amongst us, on the contrary, we ear-
nestly invite them to come and be partaker with us
of the same precious promises with ourselves, but we
ask them one question—What is the Gospel of Jesus
Christ worth to you ? In many families there is only
one contributor; surely every member of the church,
and every seat-holder, ought to feel his own personal
responsibility in this solemn matter.
While we crave your temporal things, dear
brethren, in return for spiritual things, we would
have you to remember that the Lord loveth a cheerful
giver, and we seek no man's silver or gold but as the
Lord desireth it to be given, even cheerfully ; and we
are assured that all who have tasted that the Lord is
gracious, and who have the spread of the Gospel of
Christ truly at heart, will esteem it a privilege and
an honour to serve our. Lord and Master with those
talents He has committed to their care till he come
again.

-In conclusion, we would have you to remember that
the cause we plead is not our own, except in so far
as we are the Lord's, and have one interest with
Him. It is IE4 cause we plead when we ask you
to. support titi. Gospel- where-it is, and to send it
where it is not. It is primarily for His sake we
do it, as wc .are bound in duty to do. It is se-
condarily -for your own sakes, because we know some-
thing of the, value.of your souls. It is your interest
much more than, ours as much more as spiritual
things are of greater value than temporal things. We
are not ashamed, then, to ask all who love t the Lord
Jesus Christ, or who profess to love him, to give proof
of their sincerity, in returning to Him 'a portion of
what he has given to them. It is a small matter to
us to be judged of man's judgment, and if any
sh9uld impute secular motives to us in making
bold to state our wants again and again, we have only
to answer, it is the Lord's doing. He constrained us
to forsake what we had for His sake, and having done
it, we are assured He will provide the Gospel for our
people by means of their own liberality.
By authority of the Committee,
ROBERT LANG, Convener.
—Edinburgh Advertiser.

SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF CHEL-

TENHAM.
The season of 1844 may be considered to have now
formally come to its close—the ball of Thursday even-
ing being, in fact, the last of its summer appointments.
The hopes of the sanguine--the apprehensions of the
timid, are problems which time has solved. In most
cases the former have ended in disappointment, while
the latter havebeen abundantly realised. The review
of the past six months appears, in truth, far from gra-
tifying; our season has been throughout a bad one,
with scarcely a redeeming exception. The spas, even
during the height of the summer, were, compared
with former years, but little frequented—water-
drinking being evidently at a discount. The amuse-
ments were almost entirely limited to the musical
promenades : with one exception at Pittville, nothing
was undertaken at all approximating to those fetes and
galas by which the course of the season was wont to
be characterised, and upon which much of the pro-
verbial gaiety of the place necessarily depended.
The balls observed their weekly appointments with
due regularity, without—thanks to the Polka—per-
ceptibly retrograding from the average of 1843 ; at
the same time nothing like a "brilliant" attendance
was observable throughout the series. The floral ex-
hibitions were, as a whole, by far the most successful
enterprises of the season; and, favoured as they were,
from first to last, with fine Weather, proved more at-
tractive, and, we doubt not, more profitable also, than
the shows of the two or three previous summers. But
this, after all, cannot be accurately known till the day
appointed for the " distribution of the prize money ;"
—the Looker-On comes to his conclusions from ap-
pearances. Altogether the season just ended may be
pronounced to have been the reverse of prosperous,
comparing, as in sueh estimates we must necessarily
do, the past with previous years. We turn, therefore,
from the retrospect, and here still pursuing " with
eagerness the phantom of hope, we expect that the
deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the
morrow"—that, in short, the gaiety of the winter will
compensate for the dulness of summer. It is, how-
ever, yet too early to predict as to the probability of
its doing do,—a fortnight hence we shall have some
data wherefrom to " arrive at conclusions,", and to
calculate the chances of the future.—Cheltenham
Looker- On.

THE OVERLAND ROUTE TO INDIA.—ALEXANDRIA,
SEPT. 26.—The English transit affairs seem to demand
the particular vigilance of the Diplomacy. It appears
that on the part of England new proposals are being
large number of copies of the made to the Viceroy for the establishment of a railroad
THE NELSON DISPATCHES AND LETTERS.—I.„. between Cairo and Suez ; the representatives of the
understand that a very ve other Powers at the same time, less or more directly,
exerting their influence to prevent Mehemet Ali from
from the different Book Clubs and Reading Societies on
granting to the English such exclusive advantages, which
the Magazine day.
first volume of this truly national work were ordered
would produce manifold difficulties, and prove detri-
SUPPRESSION or BROTHELS.—In pursuance of a
mental to him and to his country. To execute such a
requisition to the Mayor of Gravesend (P. L. Staff
costly undertaking at his own expense would be impos-
ssat
rbalti
es hs
,m
thent
, Ni ble with the miserable financial state of the country.
millions,c
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v a
tai
onnd
owf ht yh
eßs'oltitdtrao wsavtehtohuesaßnrditsisoh
medical gentlemen, and other influential inhabitants off
aEnsdq.o.)'f tshigenDedissebnytintghechcalpeerglsy, byofthtehemaEtsi
fliVl lhayh s sfpr oe nmd
the u
ten hours of time, and a few shillings of transport
the borough, a meeting was convened by him and held charges, which the poor Bedouin is earning at present
on Wednesday evening in the Town-hall, for the pura with his faithful dromedary ?We must further take
pose of considering the propriety of petitioning Parlia- into consideration what immense expenses and diffieul-
went to pass a law comprising provisions similar to those ties would accrue to keep such a railroad in order, and
contained in a Bill introduced into the House of Lords to guard it sufficiently, because the nitric vapours of the
last session by the Bishop of Exeter, entitled "Au Act desert, the moveable sands, and the Bedouins, deprived
for the more effectual suppression of trading in seduction
the earnings, would severally contr to estro
and prostitution." At seven o'clock on Wednesda
y railroad, or to render it at least fromibute time tdo timey evening the Town-hall was filled in every part by as re• useless. The representatives of several other States
spectable an assemblage of both sexes as upon any former seem therefore to have acted quite right in dissuading
occasion had met in the town. On the platform we ob- the Paeha, who formerly appeared quite willing to un-
served several of the clergy, the magistrates, and me- dertake it, from building this railroad, stud drawing, on
diCal practitioners, and the Mayor having been crier& the contrary, his attention to the practicabdityhofßz rnously called to the chair, various resolutions in favour storing and finishing the great canal between teie,en
if
of
the object of the meeting were unanimously carried. Sea and the Mediterranean.
.Thisug.orueladt work,
hand the fame
Contrary to the general apprehension in the earl onl commenced. hisduringo
and offer to qll eee•
part of the season, potatoes have turned out a very abun- of Mehemet
. Ali down to posterity, .
dant crop in the county Tipperary. faring nations, the Englis eeeep
ted (?j, incalculable
Hamner. Cpeeteme—The snbscriptiens for those edeale#eges, raising al'the sitme‘tithe Egypt to a degree
e for all Earopean nations, which would be
left destitute by the late calamity eavrarnoerit to 4,534?-•
af importance
its neutrality, because po, Witte would
es. ed. eeea large sum in appearance, but very 'small when 1,
a rkrao so© 'llia important 060 in the halide iif a I
distributed Ettnong the varioee delineate, if' it te app,,v-z
.1 c
Guly to allevNte the ftlFth9exiiilg §erstcm, eltillir ie e, Pew 4
' .ea 1' Eni•opeeti' Cloi*nitlent.--L Gezw4an ir i • 1 I
... . Am•sCl -.-, ”lti mate PrQYAg9l3,—Oeiregiti A (kerltsfrl ' Gaulle,
rence .... . ...

£30,572,226
RSHALL, Chief Cashier.
;ober, 1844.

LANCASTER AGRICULTURAL I ofairching it over through nearly its whop
MEETING. ; .friend Mr. George Burrow, through whose
(From the Lancaster Gazette.) ite iadh receptacle of the sewers floes, has .
On Thursday this meeting tool; place, as usual, in the compelled by its offensiveness to cover itex expense of upwards of one hundred pounds. a VA
Prince William Henry's field, at the top of Penn =street thati) sum, or less, might have the requisiteoctof flood-gatesil
aim,when every accorninollaticei was provided for the tree- and other' youmachinery erected at the the stream
On the ground were J. Wilson Patten, Esq., which would ensure a constant and more rapid flow o
.; J. T. Clifton, Esq., M.P.; T. Greene, Esq., M.P.•, the whole mill-course intothe revert—for the sums that
'E. G. Ilurnbv, Esq , J. Satterthwaite, Esq., J. Roth- must have been expended in bringing over the whole ex-
wed, Esq., W. Lamb, Esq., John Stewart, Esq., W. tent of time mill down from Gernaanyshridge to Bridge-
Armstrong, Esq., T. Rawsthorne, Esq, J. Stuart, Esq., lane, •
yon might have established an efficient system of
E. Dawson, Esq., &c., &c. The stock shown was not so
sewerage for the whole town, admitting also of its appli-
numerous, but it was decidedly superior to former exhi- cation to the agriculture of the adjacent lands. And
bitions. It may be taken for granted that as these exhi- what has been gained by thus hiding this noisome feature
bitions rise in quality, they will diminish in quan- , of the sewerage of Lancaster from public view?
thy; for mere speculation a ill be put an end to ; so that
! s
farmers will not be at the expense and trouble of sending
" Itideele but skin and film the ulcerous place,
cattle to such exhibitions when they know that they W piles rank corruption, mining all within
hey° not a " shadow of a chance" of obtaining a prize. Infects unseen."
The re-assembling of the friends of .
W. Patten, agriculture was I find the records of the public infirmary and the testi-
at dinner under the Assembly Room. J
many of every medical man in private practice concur in
Esq., took the chair, and was ably assisted as Vice- Pinting out the vicinity of the mill-course, as the most
Chairmen by those two most enlightened and valu-
common and fertile source of fever. I hold in my hand
able " practical farmers "—Mr. Ellison, of Sizergh
a pamphlet, published in 1575, by the late highly re-
Castle, and Mr. Thomas Jackson, of Borwick sPe"t"d Dr- Campbell, giving an acconnt °fa typhus fever,
Hall. Amongst those at table were—Talbot Clifton, which raged in Lancaster in the years ITB2 3 and 4, of
, E. Dawson, Esq.,
Esq., M.P., T. Greene, Esq , M.P
which 500 cases fell under the doctor's observation at that
E. D. Salisbury, Esq., T. RawsthOrne, sen. and jun.,
eaily period of his career. The sources of febrile mines
Esqe., A. It Ford, Issq., J. IL Bateman, Esq., W. Gar-
mama from imperfect sewerage, bad ventilation, and the
nett, Esq., J. Clark, jun., Esq., J. Walmsley, Esq., W. accumulation of privy-middens, in crowded and ill-
Lamb, -Esq., J. Stuart, Esq., &c. On the cloth being built courts and alleys continue unaltered, unabated
removed,
to the present day. There needs but the coincidence—
Tile CIiAIRMAN gave the usual routine toasts—Her a very possible one—of certain conditions of atoms-
Majesty the Queen ; the Duchess of Lancaster ; the phere, with unfavourable seasons, with the existing local
Queen Dowaeer, Prince Albert, and the rest of the Royal causes, to excite an equal or more extensive outbreak o:
family ; and Fowden IlindleaEsq., the High Sheriff of t 3 plms, or of some other and more fatal form of contae
the county ; the Lord Lieutenant of the county, the Earl gams disease. I shall merely repeat that the natural
of Derby. advantages of Lancaster are such as to render the adope
[The meeting was a very good one, and several good tion of an efficient system of drainage and sewerage
speeches were made by the Hon. Chairman, Mr. Raves- and here I beg to say, that the sewerage of the Castle
thorne, Mr. Ford, and others, but we have not room for and the town must be combined into one and the same
a word. The Lancaster meeting happens to fall the last efficient system—that such a system, removing the evils
in order of the many inWortant gatherings of a similar and dangers of the present, and involving the 'benefits of
character we have to report this week, and hence this the application of the products to the adjacent lands,
very reluctant curtailment. Professor Owen was pre- may be carried out with every prospect of a remenera-
e interest for the capital expended. 'rime permits
sent, and as everything coming from so high an autho- tive,
rity must needs be valuable, we have found space for not now fur an exposition of the facts and details which
the speech delivered by that gentleman, on his health bear out and demonstrate the truth of that asser-
being drunk.] tion. I trust I shall be able to make it clear in the
Professor OWEN returned his best thanks for the report on the sanitory condition of this town,
.hearty manner in which his health had been drunk, and I which I shall have to-submit to the Commission for
for the honourable and grateful duties which had been those inquiries, of which I have the honour to be a mew-
confided to him in proposing success to the Lancaster ber. In the meanwhile I have sent copies of the
Agricultural Society. Although he had a vote in two report laid before the I louses of' Parliament last session
counties, his freeholds were not of that nature or extent to the library of the Amicable Society, and to the Medi-
which entitled him to any consideration at an agricul- ell Book Club, and 'recommend to those more especially tural meeting, neither had he any claim to their atten- interested on the subject. the evidence of Mr. Ilawkes-
tion from a practical acquaintance with the business of ley, Captain Vetch, and Mr. 'James Dean. Gentlemen,
agriculture. lie believed he owed the present distinc- the investigations requisite for a right knowledge of the
tion to the circumstance of having devoted a great pod- best, and cheapest. and most effectual mode of improving
tion of his life to the pursuit of science ; and, if he were the health of towns, and applying the sewerage to the
assured, and he could not hesitate in feeling that assur- advancement of agriculture have been carried on and
ante in the presence of the intelligent and energetic completed to such an extent, the means of being ac-
agriculturists here assembled—that the reception be had quainkal with these investigations and discoveries are
here met, was the expression of the conviction of the so easy, that ignorance can no longer be pleaded as an
present meeting that scientific principles were the only excuse for passiveness and inert supineness in those who
true basis for the successful practice of agriculture, are intrusted with the important trusts connected is itli
he should rejoice in the opportunity which the Lan- the health of a town, or the productiveness of COIIOOIOII
caster Agricultural Society had seized to add their lands in the neighbourhood, for the benefit of that town
public testimony to the now almost .universal re- and its inhabitants. Gentlemen who accept such honour-
cognition of this most important and fertile able and important trusts should look well to the re-
principle in the production of vegetable and sponsibilities which they incur by that Act. Supine in-
animal food. The development of vegetation from the activity in remedial measures tli.r the imnprovement of
surface soil, and the fattening or accumulation of nutri- health, or in agricultural operations for the improve-
flails matter in the bodies of cattle, are both great die_ meat of the land, can oily be excused by the plea of jabs
norance. But ignorance is now impossible, or if wind,
mical and physiological processes : the endeavours to '
accelerate and improve. these processes are essentially most culpable. And knowledge has its ditties ea well as
its delights. It is a serious thing if, attar tit'acquisition
great chemical and physiological experiments. lie who
of the knowledge of an evil, of its nature and of its easy
best understands the principles of those sciences will,
ceteris paribus, have the best success with his experi- and practicable removal, any unnecessary delay be per-
ments. Practical farming is the carrying on of these milted in commencing the cure. I would that every
chemical and physiological experiments • and where the preacher, of whatever sect and denomination, would aid
practical farmer has had an eye to the results and
in bringing home to the bosoms of those men who have
taken upon themselves the official trusts ems which the
modified his processes according to the indications of
success, he has gone beyond his neighbour, who may health and prosperity of a community essentially des
have continued stationary and content with the results Pend, the awful nature of the responsibility of such
which his forefathers had obtained for him. But the trusts. I trust, and most willingly believe, that the ma-
u rapidity and the certainty of the success which attends gistrates who regulate the internal economy of the gaol,
improved practice are much more striking,
when the ex- and the gentlemen of the town who form the Commis-
periments have been based upon a knowledge of the shiners of sewerage and pavement, and manage the corn-
scientific principles of agriculture. As an exemplifies- mon lands for the benefit of the town and the aged free-
tion of this fact, he would cite the condition of the land men, need no such exhortation ; but that considering
now farmed by Mr. Rawsthorne, at Heysham, and ask impartially the evidence in proof of the practicability of
them to compare it with that of the neighbouring an improved sewerage, and its application to agricul-
fields which continue to be cultivated upon the ture, they will not wait for the application of a compui-
old system. Some may say, perhaps, that sarY superior power to commence the requisite opera-
this is the effect of the application of capital Cons. It would be a source of just pride, if Laneester
beyond the means of the generality of farmers in that should take the lead in the adoption of the measures re-
neighbourhood, or in this part of Lancashire ; he would commended by the Commission for the Health of Towns,
leave his friend to state how little foundation there was toil afford, as it undoubtedly would, from its great na-
for the idea that money and not science had been at time tural advantages, the example of a sufficient water sup.
bottom of the successful farming to which he had al- ply, an effective sewerage, and a valuable and perms-
hided. It frequently happened that the sagacious and malt source of productiveness in the neighbouring lands,
active agriculturist who had fried himself from the obtained by an outlay, which would prove to have been a
fetters of the practice of his forefathers' not unreason• most profitable investment. Should he prove to have
ably rejecting what custom sanctioned, but trying all been at all instrumental in promoting this most impor-
things, ho'ding fast to that which was good, it generally tent and desirable effect, Professor Owen concluded by
happened that he attained that perfection, the reason of observing, that he should feel that he had done some-
which could only be explained by scientific principles, thing more than merely wish the welfare of the Lan
which then justified and established the practice. Ile caster Agricultural Society.--(Loud cheers.)
could give many instances of this sort, did time permit ;
they were very striking in regard to the opinions held
by the best breeders of cattle on the good and bad points
of the animals reared for food or draught—but as he was
desirous of saying a few words on a more important sub-
ject connected with agriculture ; the application of
the sewerage of the towns to the improvement
of adjacent lands—he should limit himself to a
single instance. lie 11,1(1 been struck by an
observation he had heard at York, in 1838, Peottt
his friend Mr. Bates, the celebrated cattle breeder
of Kirkleavington, that a beast with a quiet good-natured
eye fattened sooner and more kindly than ono with a
restless startled look. What, it might be asked, had the
character of the eye to do with the acquisition of fat ?
The physiologist knew that the eye was the index of the
susceptibility of the brain within to outward impressions.
The restless fiery eye indicated that greater degree of
susceptibility ; everything startled the beast so charac
terisecl, and it was constantly on the move. The muscu-
lar action quickened the respiration, a greater amount of
oxygen was admitted into the system, and the organic
combustion went on so rapidly, that the carbon and
hydrogen, which formed the basis of fat, were exhausted
as fast as they were supplied to the system, by the vege-
table food. The animal with the qniet good-natured eye
took things much more easily, and accommodated itself 1
with as little trouble and movement as possible to the
circumstances in which it found itself, Its digestion
was not affected by excitement, its breathing was regu-
lar and not too quick—there was no waste by undue mus-
cular action, and no excess of oxygen ; and conse-
quently the combustible elements of the vegetable food
were rapidly accumulated, and the beast brought, with
great saving of time and expense, to the condition prized
by the butcher. Gentlemen, I have said that I wished
more particularly to offer to your notice on this occa-
sion, a few observations on the benefits to agriculture de-
rivable from connecting with it the best principles of the
drainage and sewerage which it has lately been my duty
to consider in relation to the improvement of the health
of towns. I know no place better calculated to illustrate
the reciprocal benefits which the inhabitants within and
the lands without a town may derive from connecting
the improvements of sewerage with those of agriculture,
than the town of Lancaster. It is situated on a bill, al
most every house has the advantage of a natural declivity
for its drainage, and a rich tract of land intervenes be-
t Ween the hill and the river, which winds round the
base. I allude to the marsh land; and it is not without
feelings of regret, not unmingled, as a townsman, with
feelings of shame, that it still deserves the name which
it.has always borne. The thick mist that shrouds it at
early dawn, and settles upon it at eventide, told too plainly,
as I viewed that rich expanse from the windows of my
present abode, that the common principles of effective
drainage, now universally recognised to lay at the
foundation of the productiveness and full value of' the
land, had still to be applied to fields held in trust for the
benefit of the town and its ancient freemen. In their
present state the best land, yielding what is called the
marsh grass lots for 4/, per acre, the greater part of the
low land which has not the advantage of a natural de- ,
clivity, for about 30s. per acre. In Edinburgh the low
land to the east of the city produces 151. per acre,
Yet by nature that land Is of a poorer quality than our
marsh lands. Here, then, is a capital fact, How is it
to be explained ? Simply that the Sootoh, premising
deep and efficient drainage, irrigate those meadows with
sewer-water. . Gentlemen, our town marsh lands are
neither efficiently drained nor irrigated ; nor is any part
of the sewer-water applied to their fartilleation; the soil
has become adhesive and deteriorated by the long action
of superfluous moisture, which might so readily be drained
offinto the neighbouring river. But without drainage,
irrigation is impracticable. I fear that this word, which
must become so important and significant in the science
of agriculture, is new in that sense to many here pre-
sent. Mr. James Dean, whose evidence before the
-Health of Towns Commission your will find in the
volumes which I have deposited in the public library of
the town, states that at Ashburton in Devonshire, where
they have carried on the practice of irrigation for more
than forty years, they have grass for the ewes and lambs
a full month earlier than in most other situations not so
treated, and at a time when lambs produce double or
treble the price they usually sell for at other periods. In
its present exhausted and undrained condition your
marsh lands, I perceive, produce rushes, carex, and the
comparatively innutritious stoloniferous grasses. You
now can only amend the produce by the rude, laborious,
and comparatively expensive application of solid manure
as top-dressing. Efficient drainage alone would produce
a diminution, and ultimately extirpation of the rushes
and oarex ; irrigation would produce or promote
the vigorous and effective growth of the peas, the
fescues, and the vernal grass all abounding in nutritive
matter, Consisting of sugar, mucilage and extract.
Irrigation with sewer-water would be Followed by such
a degree of productiveness as would unquestiens
ably raise the value of the present marsh land, situated
as it is near a populous and manufacturing town, to the
value which land similarly treated has acquired in Edin- I
burgh. Under the present system of sewerage of Lan. f
caster, this lest and most important application to the
neighbouring land is impossible. The contents of the
town soughs and drains—which are as valuable when
rightly applied, as they are noxious and detrimental
when detained in or near a town by a bad system of
sewerage—are ultimately received into the old millrace;
this race, so named on the principle of the &ems a non
lucendo, commencing from Dalton-dam extends through
the lower pert; of the town from the Green Area to the
old bridge, where it empties itself into the tidal river,
At low water its contents flow sluggishly towards that
outlet ; at spring tides they ark driven• back towards
their source I 00 liTlieisMAtlk. then. rise abundantly from
Y(111V 1in441110 gullPholeS i the decomposed matter is
hell mixed and agitated by this flux and reflux ' • and the
vile odours of the stream, which is, in fact, an elongated
tress-pool, have led by degrees to the expensive operation

IRELAND.
THE EARL OF TIESI3OROUGII.
Dunus, OCT. 30.—1 t appears by the following com-
munication, addressed to us this morning, that Lord
Besborough is not Mu t 3, to suffer any serious conse-
quences from his recent accident :

" Carrick-on-Suir, Tuesday Evening.
•
" In reference to the accident met with by the much-
esteemed Earl of Besborough, mentioned in my last com-
munication, I am now happy to be able to inform you
that the symptoms have much abated—that his Lordship
is greatly relieved from the severe pain under which he
has been suffering for the last three days—and, also, that
the apprehensions which his medical attendants enter-
tained at first or serious injury being done to his hip
joint, are now nearly removed. That your readers
iu
general will rejoice at this, and that they will unite with
the people of this locality in cordially wishing for his
Lordship's perfect and speedy recovery, I can have no
doubt."

SUBSCRIPTION FOR FATHER MATHEW.
A meeting of the Irish Total Abstinence Associatiox
was held yesterday evening, in the Arena, Abbey-street.
Mr. MAURICE O'CONNELL, M.P.' addressed the inc..-et..
ing at some length. When (he said) the blessings which
resulted to the country from the labours of great
and good man became so apparent that they qi.)uld not be
denied by any one, a meeting of the !).7-eat ones of the
land was held for the purpose of emoting an enduring
testimonial to Father Mathew. This project he (Mr.
O'Connell) always considered a presumptuous and ab-
surd one, for Father Mathew's own virtues had already
raised to him a memorial which would endure as long as
one particle of common sense, or of common gratitude
existed in the hearts of Irishmen. The undertaking,
however, such as it was, caused a great deal of noise at
the time ; but what was now found to be the fact ? It
now turned out that of all those exalted personages who
had sanctioned the proceeding, and talked so much about
it at the time, not more than one-twentieth part had
paid their subscriptions.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") So
much for the aristocracy ! lie would answer for it, that
amongst the defaulters there was not to be found a single
Irish peasant, nor a single Irish tradesmen.—(likar.)
It was the tradesman and the peasant classes of Ireland
who had derived the most benefit from the philanthropic
exertions of their great benefactor ; and now, that he
was unfortunately in pecuniary liabilities, which ware
incurred by his devotion to their interests, temporal and
eternal, it behoved them to make some move with a view
to rescue him from his difficulties. It would be a foul
stain upon the Irish peooe—yea more, and upon human
nature generally—if such a man as Faker Mathew were
to be permitted to suffer in his purse, his person, or his
peace of mind, for his glorious exertions in favour of
humanity at large.—(Hear.) Something must at once
be done. Money must be procured, and that, too, in a
large sum, and by the accumulation of many items. The
contributions should be small ; no man's subscription
should exceed one pound, but the smallest offering—
even to a penny—should be accepted. They should go
systematically to work, and if they dRI success was cer-
tain. If every man in reland to whom Father Mathew's
philanthropic exertions had been the cause of content-
ment and happiness were now to come forward and to
resolve upon giving him the value of one day's work, a
sum would be accumulated which would not only extri-
cate him from his present difficulties, but would make
him independent of all contingencies, and would afford
him the means of gratifying his natural benevolence of
disposition to his heart's content for the rest of his life.
—(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) The Hon. and Learned
Gentleman concluded, amid loud cheers, by reading the
resolution proposed by Dr. Gray.
The motion was put from the chair and carried una-
nimously.
Mr. MAURICE O'CONNELL moved a resolution to the
following effect:—

" Resolved—That every individual teetotaller present
do pledge him or herself to devote one day's wages, as
his or her contribution to :the fund for the relief of
Father Mathew, and do urge the same upon every tee-
totaller of his or her acquaintance."—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. JAMES IhuvarroN seconded the resolution, and
having offered some brief remarks upon it, read the fol-
lowing correspondence, which was received Frith lona
cheers:— _ _

,4 35, Eccles-street, Dublin, Oct. 23, 1844.
" My dear Sir—Father Mathew is in pecuniary diffi-
culty. The country must relieve him. I want your
powerful assistance to effect this worthy object without
delay. Will you write me such a letter as I may pub-
lish, calling on the clergy and people of Ireland to come
forward at- once, and subscribe small sums ? Let an
amount sufficient to pay off all the good man's engage-
ments, and to purchase for him an annuity, that wilt-
enable him to go forward in his heavenly mission
impeded by pecuniary difficulties in future, be collected=
'un-
and placed in the hands' of a committee vlo
1 will
-ci
date his debts and place him again in a plll-
useful to his country and to the human -rtitie.°lllftoyoben
will kindly send me your own contribution to this
tionaliath
eefr
subscription,which I would denominate 'the
und,' I think it would have a good
effect.

"I hope you are in the enjoyment of health and hap-
piness ; and, with sincere prayers that you may long
enjoy those blessings, I remain, my dear sir, faith--
fully yours, ",TAMES ITA LTG HTON
" Daniel. O'Connell, Esq., M.P."
" Derrynane Abbey, 26th October, 1544.
" Nty dear Friend—Father Mathew must be rt.:lft•ved
from Al his difficulties—difficulties brought on in the
performance of that astonishing moral miracle, of which
he has been, under Providence, the instrument. It
would be the basest ingratitude in the -world not to
make him perfectly independent in ileenniary circutu-
stmea. It must not be.

" Let us set about at once afibrdinl
think 3ou had better at once write tn

the remedy. I