The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-24 00:00:00

FURNITURE.

r lIHE FURNITURE I)EPARTMENT of the
..la. PANTECHNICON, BELGRAVE-SQUARE. corn-
' ►rises the largest Stock of CABINET and UPHOLSTERY
FURNITURE ever exhibited for Sale. The Manufacturers'
lowest prices are affixed to every article. The Materials and
Workmanship are of the best description, will be warranted to
the Purchasers, and delivered within five miles free of expense.
Houses of the first class furnished throughout at a few days
notice, including the highly approved French Mattresses, and
all other well seasoned bedding.

ILVER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
./..7 and itOurietis metals called Nickel and German Silver
supplanted by the introduction of a new and perfectly match-
ess ALIIATA PLATE.. C.. WATSON (late ALDER-
MAN), Nos. 41 and 42, BARBICAN, and No. 16. NOR-
TON FOLGATE, ,aided by a person of science in the amt.
gation of metals, has su.,,ceeded in bringing to public notice the
most beautiful article eve,- yet offered : possessing all the rich-
ness of Silver in appearanc,"—with its durability and hardness
—with its perfect sweetness id use—undergoing, as it does, a
chem'cal process, by which all that is nauseous in mixedmetals is
entirely extracted—resist ng all acids,. may be cleaned as Silver,
and is manufactured into every ailicle for the Table and Side-
board.

s. d.
Table Spoons aid Forks, s. el.
Sauce Ladleg
per doz l6 6 Tea Spoons, tier doz... ,5 6
Dessert do., per doz l2 6 Gravy Spoons 3 6
Soup Ladles._ 6 6
C. Watson begs the Public will understand that this metal
is peculiarly his own, and that Silver is not more different from
Cold, than his metal is Yrom all others ; the Public will there-
fore have ne difficulty in discovering the animus which directs
the virulent attacks made against him, by a party who is dally
sufle'riag from the unparalleled success which has marked the
rrogre,s of sits New Plate since its introduction. C. W.,
unlike this party. courts comparison, feeling confident that the
result will establish its pre-eminence.
41 and 4./..IIARI3ICAN. and at 16 NORTON FOLGAT

work on "-.Organic Chemistry,
TRICK or GARDENERS IN 9ißiAriTtslNaGy.
p—lilcanth;n'outor
planted on a c;!Ton tree does not produce
Agriculture," p. 36, you mention', "The
lreonsleonssp;riFt
produces -roses." The existence
doubted; it is, however, not less certain, _
of. sucliplantitlaist uthne-
whole is a fraud of . gardeners, mina
following manner :—They pierce the
a citrus, aid introduce the stem -of a- rase sprig
through the hole in such a manner that the
ignadr r oinw the
under end' of- the sprig enters into the soil
deep as the rose sprig would require if planted
where it takes root, and produces blossoms in the
ordinary manner, as if it were not surrounded byan •
arti6c7lal covering. lt is evident that the rose-
branch is : not nourished by the citrus, as is the case in
grafting a. scion of an improved kind of fruit with
another of" indifferent species.----Annals of Chemistry.
and Practiod Pharmacy.
Mr. Main zer has received a requisition from Edin-
burgh, itwi ti ng him thither to expound his system for
teaching mu iic to t'ie poor. , The requisition, which
is headed by the signature of Sir Henry Bishop, was
forwarded to Mr. Mainzer by Sir James Forrest, the
Lord Provost -of the city.
.. • •

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON
GAZETTE OF FRIDA Y.
INVESTITURE OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING
OF SAXONY, WITH THE ENSIGNS AND
HABIT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF
THE GARTER.
DRESDEN, OCT. 11, 1842. •
The Queen, Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of
the Garter, having been pleased,. by a Commission,
under her Majesty's Royal Sign lilanual and the
Great Seal of the Order, to constitute and appoint
the Right Hon. Thomas Earl of Wilton, Viscount
Grey de Wilton, one of her Majesty's Most Honour-.
able Privy Council, Grand Cross of the Royal Hano-
verian Guaphic Order, Colonel of the Towel'
Hamlets Militia, and her Majesty's Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, on
a Special Mission to this Court, and Sir
Charles George Young, Knight, Garter Prin-
cipal King of Arms, to be her Majesty's Pleni-
potentiaries for investing his Majesty Frederick
Augustus King of Saxony with the Ensigns and
Habit of that Most Noble Order, the said Plenipoten-
tiaries, with their respective Suites, embarked at
-Woolwich, on the 25th ultimo, and, having reached
this CiV, the Earl of Wilton had an audience of his
on the 3d instant, and the arrangements
having been subsequently made for the Investiture,
with the Ceremonies prescribed, his Majesty was
pleased to name 'Saturday last, the Bth instant, for
that purpose.
. At twelve o'clock on that day, the several persons
appointed to assist at the ceremony, assembled at the
residence of the Earl of Wilton, where M. de Langen,
one of his Majesty's Chamberlains, having arrived to
attend the Plenipotentiaries, a procession was formed
to the Palace in the following order :
A Gentleman-Rider and Grooms of the Royal
Household, in state liveries, on horseback.
A Royal Carriage conveying three of the Gentle-
men appointed to carry the Insignia.
A Royal Carriage conveying two of the Gentlemen
of the suite of the Plenipotentiaries.
A Royal Carriage conveying two of the Gentlemen
of the suite of the Plenipotentiaries.
A Royal Carriage (preceded by the King's running
Footmen) conveying her Majesty's Plenipotentiaries,
accompanied by M. de Langen.
On entering the Great Court of the Palace, the
Mission was received by a guard of honour, present-
ing arms, and upon alighting from the carriages,
ascended the Grand Staircase, lined by a guard of
infantry, being conducted by eight of the King's
Chamberlains, two Aides-de-Camp of his Majesty,
and two grooms ; at the head of the staircase it was
received by the following great Officers of the Court,
viz., their Excellencies M. Reitzenstein, Grand Mare-
chal de la Cour, le Comte de Loss, Grand Marechal
du Paluis' and M. de Luttichaw, Marechal de la
Cour and conducted to the Great Corridor, which
was lined by a guard of honour of the Royal Guards,
where a procession was again formed in the following
order, viz.:—
Hugh Lindsay Antrobus, Frederick Foster, Esq.,at-
Esq., bearing the Book tached to her Majesty's
of the Statutes. Legation at Dresden,
bearing the Surcoat and
Sword.
Captain Courtenay E. IV. Lieut.-Colonel Lord
Boyle, R.N., bearing Charles Wellesley, bear-
the Hat and Feathers ing the Hood and Col-
and Star. lar.
Edward Howard Gibbon, Esq. York
Herald, bearing the Garter and the
Ribband and George.
James Pulman, Esq„ Richard Charles Mellish,
Richmond Herald, Se- Esq., K. H., Secretary
cretary of the Corn- to her Majesty's Special
mission, bearing the Mission, bearing the
Sovereign's Commis- Mantle and Cordon.
sion.
Sir Charles Geo. Young, The Rightt Hon. the Earl
Knight, Garter Prin • of Wilton, G. C. H., her
cipal King of Arms, in Majesty's Envoy Ex.
his Mantle, Chain, and traordinary and Minis-
Badge, carrying his ter Plenipotentiary,
Sceptre, and bearing wearing the Collar of
the Sovereign's Letters the Royal Hanoverian
of Credence. Guelphie Order.
The Mission, passing through the'ante-chamber to
the first Parade Room, lined by the Infantry -of
the Guards ; through the Tower Room, lined by the
Cavalry of the Guards ; and thence through the
Banquet Room to the Throne Room, advanced into
the Royal Presence with due reverences, and was re-
ceived by his Majesty, surrounded by the Ministers
of State and Great Officers of his Court.
The Gentlemen, bearing the Insignia filed off to
the right and left; the Secretary of the Commission
advancing to a table, placed on the left hand of the
King, in order to deliver the Insignia to the Pleni-
potentiary.
The first Plenipotentiary, the Earl of Wilton, then
made an address to his Majesty, declaratory f the
object of the Mission, at the conclusion of which
Garter delivered to his Lordship the Letters of
Credence, which his Lordship presented to the King,
who delivered them to M. de Zeschau, Minister
for Foreign Affairs. The Statutes were then; in
like manner, presented to the King, who, thereupon,
delivered to his Lordship a certificate of his Majesty's
acceptance of the Order, with the usual reservations,
under the Royal Sign Manual and Great Seal of
Saxony. The Commission was, in the same manner,
presented to the King, who delivered it to M. de
Lindenau, President of the Council, who, having
read the same aloud, delivered it to Garter who gave
it to the Secretary.
Garter then took the Garter and delivered it to
the Earl of Wilton, who buckled the same around his
Majesty's left leg; Garter reading the Admonition in
Latin.
His Majesty was next invested with the Ribband
and George appendant; Garter reading the Admoni-
tion

The King then delivered his Sword, which Garter
received and retained, as an ancient fee appertain-
ing to his Office : and his Majesty, being then di-
vested of the Ribband and George, was, there-
upon, invested with the Surcoat and the Sword of the
Order.
Garter then presented to the Earl of Wilton the
Mantle and Cordon, with which-his Majesty was in-
vested by the Plenipotentiaries; Garter reading the
Admonition.
His Majesty was next invested with the Hood, and
then with the Collar of the Order; Garter reading the
Admonition.
Garter then delivered to the Earl of Wilton the
Hat and Feathers, which were presented by his Lord-
ship to the King,.who placed them on his head, and
his Lordship, immediately afterwards, delivered the
Star of the Order to his Majesty.
The King then delivered to the Earl of Wilton his
Majesty's nomination of a Proxy, under the Royal
Signet and Sign Manual, in the event of an Installa-
tion in the Royal Chapel of St. George at Windsor.
His Majesty being thus invested, Garter, making
his reverences, proclaimed the style of her Majesty
Queen Victoria, Sovereign of the Most Noble Order
of the Garter, in French, which was followed by a
flourish of trumpets and kettle drums : Garter,
after a short pause, again making his reverences,
proclaimed the style of his Majesty the King
of Saxony, Knight of the Most Noble Order
of the Garter, in French, which was also followed
by a flourish of trumpets and kettle drums : where-
upon the ceremonies of Investiture being completed,
the Plenipotentiaries, with their respective suites,
ina,':ing their reverences, withdrew from the Royal
presenzle, and were re-conducted, in the Royal car-
riages, to the residence of the Earl of Wilton, in
' the same rrormer, and with the same state in which
they were conveyed to the Palace.
The strictest observance was paid to the forms
prescribed, as suitable to the splendour and dignity of
the Most Noble Order ; and there were present during
ti.e ceremony of Investiture, her Majesty the Queen,
their Royal Highnesses the Prince John of Saxony,
and the Princess Amelia-Augusta, his Consort; their
Royal ri.'glinesses the Princesses Maria Amelia, Maria
Augusta, an •d Eliza, with the Princes Albert,Ernest, arid
George; his 1: oval Highness the Grand Duke of Meek-
lenburgh Schvve:in, his Serene Highness Prince 'Wil-
liam of Mecklenbergh Schwerin, and his Serene
Highness the Prince Woldemar de Lippe : and also
the Hon. Francis Reginald Forbes, her Britannic Ma.
jesty's Plenipotentiary resident at this Court, M. de
Gersdorif, Minister from the King of Saxony at the
Court of her Britannic Majesty, together with other
i,ersons of distinction. •
I.'he streets were lined with the Infantry from the
residei:'
ce of the Earl of Wilton to the Palace, present..
ing arms the procession passed.
A splemilid banquet, previously to which, the Earl
of Wilton pi%\•risented Garter, and the several Gentle..
men in thQ Ste of the Mission to the King, and,
afterwards to lior Majesty the Queen, took, place at
the Palace ou the same day; at which were present
their Majesti es the King and Queen, and the Princes
and Princess es be ; the Plenipotentiaries,
with their Si rites ; b.; e Ministers of .State and Great
Officers of the Court; he British resident Minister,

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—There is a wonderful echo to sounds
asinine. Sir Robert Peel said 'an asinine thing
once (on purpose, of course), ana hark how bray-
ingly the sound is re-echoed by Sir John Tyrell.
At the Hinckford Agricultural and Conservative
Club, the Baronet thus gave utterance :
" I cannot conceive a more distressing scene than a
country, if it were the workshop of the world, and if
it were intersected with railroads from one end to the
other, looking out on a barren waste. I cannot be-
lieve we shall experience that state of things."
No, Sir John !—nor any one else neither ;
thou the other vocal Baronet, Sir Robert
Peel; thought fit to deliver himself of the ori-
ginal of this desolate imagery, and to talk of " a
dull succession of manufacturing towns connected
by railways," and " cultivation receding from
the hill- top." To these fancy-strokes, artfully
adapted to hit the House between wind and water,
and excite cheering without too much reflec-
tion, Sir John Tyrell has added those touches
of direct absurdity which were wanting. A
country, the workshop of the world, intersected
with railroads, and that country a bar na waste.
How exceedingly probable ! But we conceive
-and excuse Sir John Ty roll's objections to rail-
roads intersecting a country. Many a sports-
man, as lie rides to cover, entertains quite as
much aversion to them. And what does he care
for their utility to the purposes of the " work-
shop?" Sir John Tyrell congratulates his Hinek-
ford hearers on " the utter failure of the Anti-
Corn-Corn-law League."
"I believe a more thoroughly contemptible body
of persons, having recourse to measures which would
almost justify the Attorney-General in prosecuting
them for high treason, does not exist.—(Cheers.) I
believe that their joining with the Chartists to procure
the late strike could be proved beyond a doubt." ,
Pray Sir John, if this Nald be proved beyond
a doubt, why is it not proved? Are the party in
power, or those Chartists who have taken the pay
of that party, so fond of the Anti-Corn-law
League as to forbear from proving anything
against it, that the recent official inquiries had
afforded the means of proving? The man who
uses language of this sort, without proof' is
simply a slanderer; and if haply be be an ass,
be has one excuse more for slander than Lord
Abinger.
STANDARD.—We have perused with great
pain the violent and unjust attack made by Lord
Londonderry on Lord Ashley, in a letter which
the
rdly possible to
th:tasstejuastnidssutoednofroofmwthhiechpirtesiss
ifiraom his pen,
deprecate too severely. We say
this reluctantly,
because we are not insensible to the many ex-
cellent qualities of the Noble Marquis; and
feel assured that when the first effervescence
of his anger has evaporated he will regret,
as much as we do, that he should ever have corn-
mitted himself by such a publication. Of all
people in the world Lord Londonderry is one of
the last persons from whom such a
tirade ought
to have been expected ; for setting wholly aside
the spirit and character ofthe composition, so little
accordant with the courtesy we have_ a right to
look for in aristocratical authorship, good taste, as
well as good feeling, should alike have prescribed
a dignified silence on this particular subject,seeing
that his Lordship's
pecuniary interests were
more or less involved in the issue; and that he
might otherwise render himself liable to an im-
putation of selfish and sordid motives, which we
are satisfied he does not deserve. There are
other reasons, hardly less cogent which should
have induced the Noble Lord to have refrained
from such an exhibition, and to have remained
satisfied with the mutilations which Lord Ashley's
Bill underwent through his influence in the
House of Lords. Instead, however, of sitting
down satisfied with his senatorial efforts
in that House—efforts which have rendered the
measure comparatively inoperative—Lord Lon-
donderry reserves all the weapons of his anger,
which be could not conveniently employ in the
House of Lords, for a printed pamphlet, destined
to contain the concentrated essence of his ran-'
''
cour ; with which' he proposes " to open Lord
Ashley s
eyes ; and if unfeigned astonishment
'may expected to produce such an effect, the
Nslbi
author stands some chance of ace)m-
-o
plishing what he desires.

MONEY MARKET and CIT Y NE WS.
FROM TILE MORNING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
TIMES.—The house of Evans, Foster, and Lang-
ton, the failure of which has been announced on
'Change, was one of respectable standing, and was
connected with Manchester and the Indian trade.
Their stoppage Las, it is understood, involved the firm
of Hemsley, Brothers, a concern of minor importance.
carried unanimously at the meeting
Although the resolution f)r altering the attendance
lolneld'Cahafen‘ days
gvewas ago at the London Tavern, there are
still several persons who are not satisfied, and who are
inclined to be of the same opinion as the one gentle-
man who preferred half-past four to four o'clock as
the closing hour. Among these, the impression is,
that the interests of a few were. rather represented at
the meeting, than that of the generality who assent-
ble on 'Change. The gentlemen who formed them-
selves into a Committee being, for the most part, near
residents of the Exchange, it is objected that they
cannot sufficiently know the wants of those whose
business ',calls them to the more distant docks, or to
composed of gen-
tlemen public sales which are not over till a late hour
tthleemCenommrm.hiotteneeviesr, thatatteintdis,Cchhmtiaheinefigge
iyhrt,
in the afternoon. Another peculiarity observed in
except on foreign
post-days, some of them being large takers of foreign
hours of business,
if they pleased,
hbasailvi:NelOintlladTdehheas
making such an alteration as should affect the whole
These,
eeclsi
suited
alterations
dicinvyn Convenience, without

On account of the great importance of the news
usually brought by the overland mail from India, a
suggestion has been made that steam-vessels should
be employed to bring up to Bombay the latest ac-
counts from China, to connect with the departure of
the regular mail. What may in this manner be
effected was ascertained at this period of last year,
when the mail from Bombay of the Ist of October
brought intelligence as late as the 24th of August
from China, which arose from the dispatch of a steam-
boat direct for Bombay, which made the passage in
37 days, and put the merchants in possession of China
letters in 73 days, the shortest time on record. As
there is no expectation of the employment of such
assuming means
for
itthetomlaeailvaebßouotmtboayn the Ist inst., that it
will bring dates from Calcutta to the 13th ult., and
arrive,o the calculation is,
from China to the 25th of July, at the latest. The
date from China by the last mail was the 10th of
June. In the communications beyond Bombay it is
clear that much yet remains to be done by the use of
steam navigation, not only as regards China, but the
whole of our Eastern possessions. In the instance
of China the urgency of the case, and the general
desire of the merchants, will no doubt lead the at-
tention of the Government immediately to the sub-
ject. If steam-vessels cannot be found for the ser-
vice, fast sailing vessels might in the mean time be
selected, allowing a proper time for the voyage, the
main object Wing to bring the communication with
China as nearly as possible to the same regularity as
that with India.

POST.—The new rule with regard to 'Change
hours was very generally observed to-day. The mer-

This may be illustrated by a conversation that is
reported to have taken place at the Horse Guards
upon the comparative discipline of two regiments.
The Commander-in-Chief is stated to have referred
the Colonel to the orderly book of another, wherein
scarcely a breach of duty or punishment was recorded
whilst his contained many cases. The answer given
by the Colonel was,, " I use constant vigilance, and
prevent the growth of disorder by discovering it when
it first appears ; but if your Lordship requires a clean
orderly book I will keep my eyes shut in future."
Something like this feeling will always prevent
the Customs reforming the Customs, and it has
long been felt a somewhat useless task to make
representations at the Treasury, because they are
always referred back to the Board of Customs. An
exception occurred a few months since. A gentle-
man, who had retired from the tea trade, and had
leisure to reflect that cheating the revenue caused
an increase of taxation, wrote to the Chancellor of
the Exchequer to inform him of a laxity in some of
the departments, an l that he had reason to know that
frauds had been, and no doubt were continued. The
Chancellor politely'referred him to the Board of Cus-
toms, but he declined to communicate with it, alleg-
ing that experience told him that the Board lent an
unwilling ear to any communication which informed
them that their orders and regulations were evaded.
The result was that the Chancellor gave the gentle-
man several audiences on the subject.
The want of a well-organised detective force is
manifest in the department of the Customs, and the
want of encouragement from the higher powers is
now complained of when officers do discover a fraud.
It is therefore hoped that the inquiry will, if possible,
admit of evidence being received, where practical men
may be attended to who single out the vulnerable
points, and not be required to turn informers, which
is now the case when a useful hint is given to prevent
the fraudulent dealer from cheating the revenue and
ruining the honest trader who is in the same line of
business.

CHRONICLE.—The national securities still exhi-
bit great firmness, with an indication to a further rise.
The immediate cause of this buoyancy is the abund-
ance of money and the absence of demand for com-
mercial investment. Some symptoms of a revival of
the home trade have been noticed lately, in conse-
quence of the timber duties having come into opera-
tion, and the appearance of country buyers in the
produce markets. But with these exceptions, torpidity
still hangs over trade and manufactures, which forces
the moneyed interests to seek employment for capital
in the public funds, owing to the extremely low rate
of interest offered on commercial paper, and thus the
price of Consols forms a very uncertain and false cri-
terion of the real state of the country. Public credit
is not only maintained, but however paradoxical it
may appear, is actually forced and pampered by the
low condition of individual credit. This is the key to
the constant rise which we have daily to record in
the price of the British funds, and, as a truth of the
statement, we have to notice this day that the price
for money is equal to that for time, Consols, both for
immediate transfer and the account,being now quoted
93i- to

LAUNCH' OF THE CUMBERLAND
AT CHATHAM. .

Friday (the anniversary of the battle of Tra-
falgar) was chosen for the launch of the Cumberland,
70 gun-ship, at Chatham. The weather was un-
usually fine, and a great crowd of people attended to
witness the launch—a matter at all times peculiarly
interesting to Englishmen, whose flag, to make prose
of a verse, as "familiar as household words," has braved
the battle and the breeze for a thousand years.
As usual the most ample accommodation was af-
forded the public to witness the spectacle. The dock
gates were thrown open, and the customary booths
had been erected on either side, and in the rear of
the vessel ; and a very brilliant assemblage the booths
presented of fashionably-dressed women, attired, per-
haps, for the first time duting the season, in their
winter dresses, which a fine brisk easterly wind must
have taught them the value of long ere the vessel was
launched.
The time fixed for the launch was half-past one
o'clock. Within a few minutes after that time every-
thing was declared realy, and Mrs. Airey, the lady
of Professor Airey, the astronomer royal, christened
the vessel amidst very hearty cheering. The band
immediately commenced the National Anthem. The
boats in the river were now warned to take wide
berths; and at twenty minutes to two o'clock the ex-
citing notes of the bugles, from the stern of the newly-
christened Cumberland, announced to the anxious
multitude that she was about to make her " first
move." In a few seconds simultaneous shouts of
" she moves," broke from all quarters, and, ere they
had died away; the stern of the launch was ploughing
its way in "her native element" to the good old tune
of " Hearts of oak are our ships." Three cheers were
given her as she went off, which were right heartily
returned by several thousands of persons on board,
and re-echoed from the shore. Having run her length,
she was almost immediately brought into dock.
The Cumberland is constructed to mount 70 pieces
of ordnance, with dimensions unusually large for that
force, and was originally intended for service in the
Baltic Sea. Her principal dimensions are as follow :
Feet In.
Length on the gun-deck lBO 0
Do. of keel for tonnage 146 8
Breadth, extreme
Do. for tonnage
Do. moulded
Depth in hold
Burthen in tons 2,214
The following is her appointed armament :
No. of guns. Cwt. Ft. In.
Lower deck... 4... 8 inches 65 ... length 9 0
- ..22...32 pounders 56 .. 9 6
Main deck ... 2... 8 inches 65 ... 9 0
- .26...32 pounders 50 ... 9 0
Quarter-deck
& forecastle 16...32 pounders 39 ... 7 6
With these dimensions and armament, and a clean
shape below water, her draught of water will be very
moderate. The stern differs slightly from that pro-
posed by the Committee of Master Shipwrights ; it is,
however, very elegant, and appears adapted for effec-
tiveness. in service. The general contour of the ship
is good ; and her figure-head is a fine bust of Sir .
Graham, who, at the time she was ordered to be built,
was first Lord of the Admiralty.
The whole of the arrangements were made with a
view to the greatest cccommodation of the public; a
large number of spectators were present; many were
on board the ship at the time she was launched ; and
the whole went off, we are happy to say, without the
slightest accident.
It is due to Mr. Fincham, the master shipwright,
to state that yesterday, as at previous launches, every
accommodation was afforded and every courtesy shown
to the press.

Lord Wynford has arrived at Weymouth, to reside
there during the winter.

DEATH of the LORD ADVOCATE.
(From the Caledonian Mercury.)
We sincerely regret to announce, that the Right
Hon. Sir William Rae, Bart., expired yesterday after-
noon at St. Catharine's, his country seat, in the vici-
nity of this city. For a considerable time past his
health had been rapidly declining, and we need
scarcely add, that the numerous cares and anxieties
incidental to his high and important office visibly
preyed on his debilitated constitution and aged frame.
Sir William, who was called to the bar as far back as
the year 1791, wasa schoolfellow and contemporary of
Sir Walter Scott, who ever entertained a high regard
for him, as frequently appears from his recorded sen-
timents. In 1819, and when Sheriff of Midlothian,
Sir W. Rae was promoted to the office of Lord Advo-
cate,
on the elevation of the present Lord Meadowbank
to the bench. He held this office until the accession of
the Grey Ministry in 1830, and was after wards re-ap-
pointed in 1834, and continued during the brief official
tenure of Sir R. Peel. During the intervals in his
official career the Right Hon. Baronet remained in
Parliament, and was the acknowledged adviser of
the Opposqion on all matters relating to Scotland.
Perhaps no individual ever held this office so long,
seeing it is the key to the official patronage of Scot-
land, and the occupant of which is, of course, entitled
in due time to secure an honourable promotion for
himself. Sir William might have on various occasions
claimed a seat on the bench, but he very honourably
declined the judicial office, on the ground that he did
not consider himself sufficiently qualified as a prac-
tising lawyer. He was, however, allowed by all, in-
cluding his political opponents, to he most assiduous
in his official duties, and many remain to bear testi-
mony to the efficient services he rendered in local
matters. It may be considered almost certain that
Mr. D. M'Neill, the present Solicitor-General, will
be immediately appointed Lord-Advocate, and it is
highly probable that he will also become candidate for
the representation of Buteshire. Mr. Adam Ander-
son, late Sheriff of Perthshire, it is expected, will
succeed Mr. M'Neill as Solicitor-General.

THE INCOME-TAX_IRELAND.
" I have exempted Ireland from the Income Tax."

Sir R. PEEL.
The sly and cunning Peel never uttered a grosser
humbug to the so-called representatives of the people
than when he said he exempted Ireland from the In-
come Tax ; but he had not the candour to tell them
that, at the same time, he gave them the new " Stamp
Duties' Bill."

The (now) old Stamp Duties were always consi-
dered oppressive in this country • but what has Sir
Robert done ?—He has doubled the old Stamp Du-
ties. Has he stopped there ? No ! There is a fiction
in law which renders it necessary that on the grant of
any freehold, there should be a previous Deed of Bar-
gain and Sale: this Deed of Bargain and Sale was usually
executed in the olden time, when there were no Stamps ;
but it was found so intolerable a nuisance that an Act of
Parliament was brought in, about the year 1710, to
remedy the inconvenience, by which it was declared
that the recital of the bargain and sale in this
grant should be sufficient evidence of it. Sir Robert
has raked up this vision, which had slept for ages, to
impose a tax-upon his great difficulty—lreland. A.
word to his Tory backers—l mean the Irish Orange
landed proprietors :—Most of youhave large properties,
and a good many of them a little "dipped: When some
incumbrancer squeezes for his charge, you must raise
the wind, and when you come to pay your solicitor's
bill, then, and only then, when it touches your
pocket, you will find out whether Sir Robert Peel
has exempted Ireland from the Income-tax.—Southern
Reporter.

JOHNJA—MESAUD ÜBON.
A. few days ago there arrived at the hotel erected
near the Niagara Falls, an odd-looking man, whose
appearance and deportment were quite in contrast
with the well-dressed and polished figures which
adorned that celebrated spot. He seemed to have
just sprung from the woods. His dress, which was
made of leather, stood -dreadfully in need of repair,
apparently not having felt the touch of the needle-
woman for many a long month. A worn-out blanket,
that might have served fora bed, was buckled to his
shoulders, a long knife hung on one side, balanced
by a long rusty tin box on the other ; and his beard,
uncrepped, tangled, and coarse, fell down upon his
bosom, as if to counterpoise the weight of the dark
thick locks that supported themselves on his back acrd
shoulders. This strange being, to the spectators seem-
ingly half civilised, half savage, had a quick glancing
eye, an elastic, firm movement, that would, no doubt,
cut his way through the cane breaks, both of the wil-
derness and of society. He pushed his steps into the
sitting-room, unstrapped his little burden, quietly
looked round for the landlord, and then modestly
asked for breakfast. The host at first drew back with.
evident repugnance at the apparition, which thus pro -
posed to intrude its uncouth form among the pito( 1
visitors; but a few words whispered in his ear
speedily satisfied his doubts. The stranger took his
place in the company, some staring, some shrug-
ging, and some laughing outright. Z. reader,
there was more in that single man than in all the
rest of the throng. He was an American woodsman,
as he called himself; he was a true, genuine sort
of nature, yet who had been entertained with dis -
tinction at the table of Princes ; learned societies,
which the like of CM/kr belonged, had bowed down
to welcome his entrance ; Rings had been compli
mented when he spoke ; in short, he
fame will be growing brighter whenfashionable 3
who laughed at him, and many such,
than they, shall have perished. l'rom greater even
and every deep shady grove, the bird thoseevery hill-top,
of the air, will sing his name. The birds,
blossoms ,
pipe it with her matin-hymn about little wren will
our house; the 1 oriole carol it from the slender
dows ; the turtle-dove roll it through thewas ne
of the meis.-
bird
pourt he seictr secret
ofnoi
many-voicedmperiaull Zberkrlien,gthe bird of Washing -
t;he and
the
rthesetsair
ton, as he sits in
mountains, will screamh t t
his
icraggy home, far up the blu e
o the tempests and the star .;.1
He was John James Audubon, the ornithologist!---
American Paper.

A gentleman of Black Torrington has an otter th at
is quite domesticated, and so tame that it accompani es
him about like a dog. The animal is so under coml—
mand that it will go into the river, catch fish, an d.
bring them out to his master.—Western Luminary.

EXTRACTS PROM THE INQUIRY
INTO THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE
LABOURING POPULATION OF GREAT
BRITAIN."—(CoNTO TIED.)
Many of the miners, including young persons
and boys, will go three miles and upwards from
their own homes in the morning to work in the
mines, or to wash the ore, and return again after
their work at night. Some miners, who are too
far off to be able to go and come in this way,
find lodgings for the tour nights in the week,
and the washers for five nights, at some houses
ridttlso far from the mines. The usual pike is
sixpence a week each, for which sum there is a
bed between two of them, leave to make thlir
dtti
nal
ilajgeecv:..
Fe:
„ris. vßTiohddnheuaydie:'
potatoesy
bn.
mornings
oneb tg.elialitfireni
eirgibeevsinoari:islaniepltndeiryitroeflstso,eioirni
themnoi
oini
neoressre:
oni
ands
agt
oldt,
walletht ahbesnoea dsieneakte%th,
ueooeonr
on
d
f
them very large, in remote situations in the Fells,
ingsfar a wmai yg
might
obnei ahl
dd, w
ae idn gt-hheo ups er
oS ,p
r7ehteo wheres lhoadvg;
erected fbr their miners and washers buildings
called " lodging-shops," which I now am• about
to describe :—The first one of them which I
visited was about nine miles across the Fell,
south from Stanhope. It was a plain building,
constructed of sandstone, covered with a coarse
slate; and all very substantial. There was no
opening or window at either end, nor at the
back, nor on the roof. .On the front or south
side was a door towards the west end, and two
windows, one a little above the other. On en-
tering the door, it was seen that the lower part
was one room, lighted by one of the windows,
and had a great fire burning at the east end. By
pacing the floor thel.ength was ascertained to be
about eighteen feet, and the breadth about fif-
teen feet. Along the one side. that next the
window, was a deal •table, extending the whole
length of the room, 'and alongside of it was a
form, and there were two other forms in the
room. All along; the other side. on the wall were
little cupboards, forty-eight in number, in four
tiers above each other; six of the cupboards with
the doors off, but the most of the rest carefully
locked with padlocks, and in which the several
miners had deposited their wallets with their pro-
visions for five days.—Page 109.
It is a singular fact, which has been noticed
by several writers, that fever is more fatal among
the higher than among the lower classes. Dr.
Braken states, in reference to the fever which
prevdiled at Waterford during the years 1817-
-18-19, that " it would be difficult to adjust the
rates of mortality to the upper -classes, but it
seems probable that one-fourth, or perhaps one-
third of all those persons that were attacked with
fever fell victims to its power." Drs. Barker
and Cheyne, in their historical account of the
Irish epidemic, state that, •" in every part of the
country, fever was reported to have been much
more fatal amongst the upper than the lower
classes." To what is this difference of mortality,
so generally remarked by experienced hospital
physicians, to be attributed, and which in Ireland
seemed to be very ,remarkable, namely, in the
lower classes about one in twenty-three cases,
and in the upper classes one in three or four ge-
nerally, but in other places about one in seven?
Can the difference in the mode of living account
for this anomaly? as the first live very much on
potatoes, while the others use a larger or smaller
proportion of animal food; and the lower classes
almost everywhere in this country use less ani-
mal food and simulating dishes than those who
are more wealthy and in a higher sphere of co-
ciety.—Pages 145, 146.
The progression of the population and the in-
creased duration of life in Geneva were attended
by a progression in happiness : as prosperity ad-
vanced .marriages became fewer and later; the
proportion of births were reduced, but greater
numbers of the infants born were preserved ; and
the -,,roportion in manhood became greater. In
the early and barbarous periods, the excessive
mortality was accompanied by a prodigious fe-
cundity. In the last ten years of the seventeenth
century, a
,marriage still produced five children
and more; the probable duration -of life attained
was not twenty years, and Geneva had scarcely
17,000 inhabitants. Towards the end of the
eighteenth century there was scarcely three chil-
dren to a marriage, and the probabilities of life
exceeded thirty-two years. At the present time
a marriage only produces 21 children ; the pro-
bability of life is forty-five years, and Geneva,
which exceeds 27,000 in population, has arrived
at a high degree of civilizatiou and of prosperite
materielle. In 1836 the population appeared to
have attained its summit; the births barely re-
placed the deaths. M. Mallet observes, that it
is difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish the
different causes, and the different degrees of in-
tensity of each of_the, causes, that have tended to
Produce this result. It is, however, attributed
generally to the advance in the condition of aI I
classes; to the medical science of the public
health being better understood and applied; to
larger and better and cleaner dwellings ; more
abudant and healthy food ; the cessation of the
great epidemics which, from time to time, deci-
mated the population ; the precautions taken
against famine; and better regulated public and
Private life. As an instance of the effects of
life, he
of female
mentions
that,regin in an in
the
tabli
u.
t of
for the care
orphans taken from the poorest classes, out of
ess preservatione
establishment
eighty-six reared in twenty-four years, one only
had • died. These orphans were taken from the
poor. The average mortality on the whole po-
pulation would have been six times as great._
Pages 175, 176.
CAMBORNE MINE.—In the parish of Cam-
borne, in Cornwall, great attention is paid to
obviate agencies injurious to the miners. Care
is there taken in respect to ventilation in the
mines. The ventilation in Dolcoath is particu-
larly good, and the men are healthier than in
most other mines; there are more old miners.
Care is taken for the prevention of accidents.
" Our ladders," says one of the witnesses exa-
mined by Dr. Barham, " are about two fathoms
and a half in length, generally with staves one •
foot apart. We use oak staves; old ship oak we
find the best. We formerly used the haft; of the
picks and other tools, but found these unsafe, the
wood being sleepy and flawed, and sometimes
breaking off in a moment, without having shown
any outward sign of unsoundness. Iron staves,
besides being at times very slippery, are apt to .be
corroded, so as to cut the hand. We have had
no accidents on our footways for a long time."
They have introduced the safety fuse, and the
witness says—" Very few accidents now arise
from explosions; they used to happen frequeny
formerly:" Care is taken of the miners on 2
on the
quit-
ting the mines; hence, instead of is.suian
from
prevent chill and exhaustion, they ywarm room,
their underground labour intod
bleak bill side, and receiving beer
tie issue from
to
supplied from
warm water, and even
baths
the instance of this
the steam-furnace,
and,
hot beef-soup, instead of
where well-dried clothes artehrseaareyfor them, and
mine, a provision of
beer, is ready
made this change is stated to
honour of having j
Lady Basset, on the
be due to the Right 110 •
" Hence in this
of Dr. Carlyon.
suggestion p
mine," saysof beneficial arrange-
for them, in another room. The
" we may fairly attri-
bute to. time
noticed,c that in Dolcoath, where 451
which could not I be-
underground, only two
individuals are. employed
-*thin the last three years of miners'
have died within
consumption,
made
statementrl Barham,tio i 1
respect of an equal number of
with truth nor
arrange-
ments just r°.
• lieve, be be nearly ap-
proached same term
min( in any other
Cornish district.' The sick-club of the mine "is
comparatively rich, having a fund of' 1,5001.'
When "care" is mentioned as
iletirloilnugts , and that when
taken for sanitary
io:turi.o)a:carl:l etddi
measures, it is to be remembered that it is care
br eeqcui imr er id
citse really
iezael yalsemss,eaannsdftolriemmroei
da
in habitual ac-
tsiuoin.estlsiheocualrde
ing care and trouble and diminishing pecuniary
loss. . . . . The improvement in Camborne
had not reached the residences, where the miners
kept pigs, in sties close behind the house, and a
dung-heap is carefully fostered in a catch-pit
adjacent. Dr. Barham, and the medical men
practising in the vicinity, attribute to the decom-
position of vegetable matter in the " soaked
soil from the receptacles near the dwellings a
form of fever which has been hanging about
Camborne, and has often passed into the typhoid
condition, and has been attended with great
Pacres 197, 198.
prostration of strength.— a

The late Lieut.-Col. Tomlinson, who is reported in
the last accounts from China, as having been killed
whilst gallantly leading his men through the door-
way of a temple in. which a body of 300 Tartars were
desperately
commission
ne fet nh e
tb nlgBtthemselves,
Royallrish
r Regiment very was appointed to a
early in life, and served constantly with that corps
till he obtained its command, and thus fell nobly at
its bead, in the service of his Sovereign and coun-
try, at the age of thirty-eight years. As his con-
duct ensured the affection .and 'esteem of all with
whom he was connected through life, so it was ma-
nifested to the last, by the soldiers of the 18th being
with difficulty restrained from putting the prisoners
to, death, so exasperated were they at the loss of their
Colonel, and by his remains being honoured with a
public funeral. Two days after the battle they were
placed on board a steamer, which putting a little way
out to sea the body was sunk in deep water, the Gene-
ral and Admiral, Commanders•in-Cluef, and a nume-
rous body of officers attending ; and the flag ship firing
minute guns.—Brighton Gazette.

Now ready, in 2 vols. small Bvo., with Illustrations, 21s. bound,
NARRATIVE OF THE
EXPEDITION to CHINA,
from the Commencement of the War to the Present
Pei iced, with Sketches of the 3lanners and Customs of that
jugular, and hitherto almost unknown country.
By Commander J. ELLIOT BINGHAM, R.N.,
Late First Lieutenant of her Majesty's ship Modeste.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

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6,200 Money Dividends, amounting to 892,900 Florins, or
£74,400 Sterling Money.
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Month the price will rise to £l4, and the Sale will close in the
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HAMBURGH, October 4, 1842.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 24,
Will be presented Shakspeare's Tragedy of MACBETH.
Macbeth, Mr. Vandenhoff ; Macduff, Mr. Charles Pitt ;
Bangui°, Mr. Cooper; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Salzberg ; Hecate,
Mr. Leffler ; First Witch, Mr. Bartley ; Second Witch, Mr.
Meadows; Third Witch,Mr. Harley.
After which, the New Farce, called COUSIN LAMBKIN.
'mire Mulberry, Mr. Bartley; Captain Bantam, Mr. Walter
Lacy ; Doctor Lionel Lambkin, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Bantam,
Miss Cooper ; Rose Maynard, Miss Lee ; Dainty, Mrs. Humby.
To conclude with the Ballet Divertissement of THE
WOODEN LEG. Characters by Mr. Gilbert, Miss Bailin,
Master and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and T. Ridgway, and
Miss Jackson.

Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com-
mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. ,id. ;
First and Second Circles be., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s;
Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is.
Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit-
low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season
Tickets may be had.
Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ; of Messrs. An-
drews, 167, New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street;
and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 24,

Will be presented THE MISER'S DAUGHTER, which
has been for some time in preparation, and will be produced
with New Scenery, Dresses, and Novel Effects, combining all
the resources of the Theatre. The Piece dramatised from the
popular Work of the same name, by Mr. Edward Stirling, by per-
mission of the Author, W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq., who, in
coniunction with George Cruikshank, Esq., will personally
superintend th,, numerous Tableaux, &c., as illustrated in
" Ainsv. orth's Magazine."
After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE.
The Imp, Mr. Wieland ; Fleur-des-Champs, Mdme. Froche
Glut ilei ; " The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs.
H. P. Grattan.

To conclude with NORMA. Pollia, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ;
Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford; Adalgisa,Mr. Wright.. ._

Boxes, 43. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 11 -Doors open at half-past
commence at seven o'clock.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 24,
1% ill be acted a New Drama, entitled ESTELLE DUMAS,
supported by the entire Company.
After which, the Nautical Drama of POOR JACK ; or,
THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. Poor Jack, Mr. T. P. Cooke,
whose performance attracts nightly overflows. Eleanor Mrs.
H. Vining.
To conclude with Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called
BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with most decided
success. Neville Andely, Mr. H. Hughes ; Hugh Laneret,
Mr. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Evenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanch.
Heriot, Mrs. R. Homier.
Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at
the Box-office, from eleven to four.

HIGH W A.TER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Ilovning ...... minutes after 4 i Evening 40 minutes alley 4.