mm N THE ALTAR, THRONE, AND LAND WE LIVE IN. WTO. 620. WORCESTER, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1846. PRICE 5d. WEBB'S AFRICAN POMATUM, FOR RINGWORM & c. THIS simple but effectual remedy has raised itself into an extensive sale, solely bv its extraordinary powers of rapidly destroying the Impetigo or Ringworm, which appears on the head and other parts of the body. It is perfectly safe in its use, and has constantly cured where all Medical means have failed. This Pomatum'has also been found most efficacious in the cure of Scald Head, Shingles, and in removing Warts, Pimples, and other diseases caused from worms, or insects in the human skin ; it will also extirpate those disfigure- ments to the face called Grubs or Black Worms. Sold in Pots, 2s. 9d. each. And HARRISON'S PILE LOZENGES, ( an internal applica- tion). This cheap and easy Remedy has had the sanction of so many years' experience, that it is'needless to enlarge on its superior efficacy. It may be proper, however, to mention, that it is perfectly harmless to the most tender constitution; nd pregnant women may take it with the utmost safetv, as it has never yet been known to fail of success. Sold at 2s. 6d. per Packet. Also THOMAS'S UNGUENTUM, or Ointment for the Piles. ( An external application,) May be used where the Piles are more external; it has been long used with unvarying success, and never fails in allaying all inflammation and pain, quickly dispersing the Hoemorroids. Sold in Pots at 13jjsd. Wholesale agent, Mr. J. SANGER, 150, Oxford Street, and may be procured of Mrs. Deighton, High Street,. Worcester, and all respectable Medicine Venders throughout the country. TAR LING'S METALLIC INK. NOTWITHSTANDING t;, e unceasing efforts of other Ink Makers to produce an article having the approved attributes of TARLING'S METALLIC INK, it is still unrivalled. Its beautiful and permanent colour, extreme fluidity, and consequent adaptation to the steel pen, render it superior to all others. London : manufactured by H. J. Tarling, and sold wholesale bv Parsons, Fletcher, and Co., Printing Ink Manufacturers, & c., 22, Bread Street. May be had through any Stationer, in Six- penny Half- pint, Pint, and Quart Bottles. Worcester: Deighton and Co., Stratford, and Eaton and Son. Tewkesbury : Bennett, and Jenner. Ledbury: Bagster AN Additional and Important Evidence of the Salutary Effects of BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS", from Mr. Samuel Dixon, of Kingscliffe, Northamptonshire. " Kingscliffe, Northamptonshire, March 14, 4846. " To Mr. Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London. " Sir,— I feel it a duty which I owe to yourself and the public to inform you of the great benefit which I have derived by taking Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. During several years I was frequently aid up by attacks of gout, being unable to attend to business for months at a time. I had often been advised to try Blair's Pills, but it was not until a friend pressed them upon me that I was induced to take them, and from which I found speedy relief. This is several years ago, but I continue to take them whenever an attack comes on, arid am thereby enabled quickly to resume my business. " I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, " SAMUEL DIXON. The above testimonial exhibits the never- failing effects o this valuable medicine, which affords to the afflicted with gout rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, and all analogous complaints speedy and certain relief. Among the many discoveries that characterise the present age, none have contributed so much to the comfort and ease of the community, nor conferred such a boon upon suffering humanity, as the important discovery of BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS, the efficacy of which has been tested by the approval and recommendation of many of the greatest men of our day. They are effective for Gout and Rheumatism, in all its various forms, including sciatica, lum- bago, pains in the head and face, frequently treated as tooth- ache, & c. They require neither confinement nor attention of any kind, and invariably prevent the disease attacking the stomach, brain, or other vital part. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by his appointment by Stratford, Deighton, Anderson, and Lea and Perrins, Worcester; May, Evesham; Maund, and Haines, Bromsgrove; Pennell, Kidderminster; Morris, Bewdley; Williams, Stourport; Hollier, Dudley ; Wright, and Anthony, Hereford; Nicholas, and Lake, Bridgnorth; Kendall, Strat- ford ; and all respectable Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Ask for Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," impressed upon the Government Stamp affixed to each Box of the Genuine Medicine. ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL OR ACQUIRED DEBILITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM. " THE SILENT FRIEND," NINETEENTH EDITION. Price 2s. 6d., and sent free to any part of the United Kingdom, in a Sealed Envelope, from the Establishment, on receipt of 3s. 6d. in Postage stamps. AMEDICAL WORK on the INFIRMITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM, in both sexes; being an Enquiry into the concealed cause that destroys physical energy, and the ability of manhood, ere vigour has established her empire : with observations on the baneful effects of SOLITARY INDULGENCE and INFECTION; Local and Constitutional WEAKNESS, NERVOUS IRRITATION, CONSUMPTION and on the partial or total EXTINCTION OF THE RE1 RO- DUCTIVE POWERS; WITH MEANS OP RESTORATION; the ins- tructive effects of Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Strictures, and Secondary Symptoms are explained in a familiar manner ; the Work is EMBELLISHED WITH TEN FINE COLOURED ENGRAV- INGS, on Steel, representing the deleterious intiuence of Mercury on the skin, by eruptions on the head, face, and body ; with APPROVED MODE OF CURE for both sexes ; followed by Observations on the Obligations of MARRIAGE, and healthy perpetuity ; with direc- tions for the removal of certain Disqualifications: the whole Eointed out to suffering humanity as a ' SILENT FRIEND," to e consulted without exposure, and with assured confidence of success, BY R. & L. PERRY & CO., CONSULTING SCRGEONS Published by the Authors, and sold by Strange, 2L. Paternoster Row ; Hannay & Co , 6a, Oxford- street; Gordon, 146, Leadenliall- street, London; Newton, 16 and 19, Chu ch- streit, Rawl Church- street, Liverpool; Ingram, Market- street, Manchester; D. Camp- bell, 136, Argyle- street, Glasgow ; R. Lindsay, 11, Elms row, Edinburgh ; Powell, 10, We- tmoreland- street, Dublin ; Deighton, Worcester; Pennell, Kidderminster; Bromley, Kidderminster; and by all Booksellers and Patent Medicine Venders in town and country. Part I. of this Work is particularly addressed to those who are prevented from firming a Matrimonial Alliance, througe fear of certain disqualifications for the discharge of the sacred obligations of marriage, and to the thoughtless youth, whose follies, ( to speak mildly,) have entailed upon him debility, and disfiguring disease in their worst forms ; therefore the Silent Friend will be found an available introduction to the means of perfect and secret restora- tion to Manhood. Part II. treats perspicuously upon those forms of diseases, either in their primary or secondary state, arising from infection showing how numbers, who through temporary remissness or fastidious feeling, neglect to obtain competent medical aid, entail upon themselves years of misery and suffering, and of which ulti- mately those dearest to them, are innocent but equal participators. THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM Is a gentle stimuiant and renovator of the impaired functions of life, and is exclusively directed to the cure of such complaints as arise from a disorganization of the Generative System, whether constitutional or acquired, loss of sexual power, and debility arising from syphilis: and is calculated to afford decided relief to those who by early Indulgence in solitary habits have weakened the powers of their system, and fallen into a state of chronic debility, by which the constitution is left in a deplorable state, and that nervous mentality kept up which places the individual in a state of anxiety for the remainder of life. Constitutional weakness, sexual debility, obstinate gleets, excesses, irregularity, obstructions of certain evacuations, total impotency and barrenness, are effectually removed by this invaluable medicine. Price lis., or four at lis. in one Bottle for 33s., by which lis. are saved. The cases of Syriacum or Concentrated Detersive Essence can only be had at' 19, Berners Street, Oxford Street, London; whereby there is a saving of £ 1. l£ s.. and the Patient is entitled to receive advice without a fee, which advantage is applicable only to those who remit £ 5 for a packet. A minute detail of the case is necessary. THE CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, AN ANTI. SYPHII. ITIC REMEDY for searching out and purifying the diseased humours of the blood ; conveying its active principles throughout the body, even penetrating the minutest vessels, removing all corruptions and contaminations, and impurities from the vital stream,— eradicating the morbid virus ; and radically expelling it through the skin. Price lis. or four bottles in one for 33s., by which lis, is saved » lso In £ 5 cases, to be had only at the London Establishment. VENEREAL CONTAMINATION, if not at first eradicated, will often remain secretly lurking in the system for years, and, although for a while undiscovered," at length break out upon the unhappy indi- vidual in its most dreadful forms; or else, unseen, internally endanger the very vital organs of existence. To those suffering from the consequences which this disease may have left behind in the form of SECONDARY SYMPTOMS, eruptions of the skin, blotches on the head and face, ulcerations and enlargement of the throat tonsils, and threatened destruction of the nose, palate, & c., nodes on the shin bones, or any of those painful affections arising from the dangerous effects of the indiscriminate use of mercury, or the evils of an imperfect cure, the CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE will be found to be attended with the most astonishing effects in checking the ravages of the disorder, removing all scorbutic com- plaints, and effectually re- establishing the health of the constitu- tion. To persons entering upon the responsibilities of matrimony, and who ever had the misfortune during their more youthful days to be affected with any form of these diseases, a previous course of this medicine is highly essential and of the greatest importance, as more serious affections are visited upon an innocent wife and offspring, from a want of these simple precautions, than perhaps half the world is aware of ; for, it must be remembered, where the fountain is polluted, the streams that flow from it canaot be pure. Messrs, PERRY expect, when consulted by letter, the usual Fee of One Pound, ad dressed to the London Establishment, with- out which no notice whatever can be taken of the communication. Patients are requested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases, as to the duration of the complaint, the symptoms, age, habits of living, and general occupation. Medicines can be forwarded to any part of the world : no difficulty can occur, as they will be securely packed, and carefully protested from observation. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, Price 2s. 9d., 4s. fid., and lis. per Bar. The most certain and effectual cure ever discovered for every stage and symptom of the Venereal Disease, in both sexes, includ- ing Gonorrhoea, Gleets, Secondary Symptoms, and Strictures. Messrs. li. & L. Perry & Co., Surgeons, may Oe consulted as usual at No. 19, Berners- street, Oxford- street, London, daily, punc- tually from Eleven in the Morning until Eight in the Evening, and on Sundays from Eleven till One. Only one personal visit is required from a country patient, to enable Messrs. PERRY and Co., to give such advice as will be the means of effecting a permanent " and effectual cure, after all other means have proved ineffectual. Medicine Venders can be supplied by most of the Wholesale Patent Medicine Houses in London, Agent for Worcester A. DEIGHTON, Journal Office Kidderminster... THOS. PENNELL, Bookseller. Where may be had the " SILENT FRIEND." RAMAGE'S CONCENTRATED COMPOUND SOLUTION OF IRON. 1 " HE well- known tonic properties of Iron have made it a medicine of daily application in all cases of debility produced by a poor and impoverished state of the blood. THE SYMPTOMS by which the state of the system is known are the following :— General weakness, languor, inapti- ude to exertion, loss of appetite, imperfect digestion, flatulence, alter taking food, a feeble action of the heart, palpitation on the slightest exertion, cold hands and feet, irregular action of the bowels, and severe headaches. THE EFFECT of this Preparation of Iron is to act as a permanent Tonic, By strengthening and invigorating the stomach and digestive organs, the appetite is not only increased, but the food taken is properly digested, the blood is made in better quality and larger quantity, thereby the action of the heart is increased, rendering the pulse fuller and stronger, augmenting the temperature of the body, and improving the tone of the muscular fibre. This Medicine is much assisted by using RAMAGE'S LAXATIVE PILLS at the same time. Sold in Bottles, at 4s. fid. each, Wholesale and Retail, by the Proprietor's appointment, at JOHN SANGER'S, 150, Oxford Street, and may be procured of Mrs. Deighton, High Street, Worcester, and all respectable Medicine Venders throughout the country. EXTRAORDINARY CURES BY HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT. A Wonderful Cure of dreadful Ulcerous Sores in the Face and Leg, in Prince Edward Island. The Truth of this Statement was duly attested before a Magistrate. IHUGH MACDONAT. D, of Lot 55, in King's County, do e hereby declare that a most wonderful preservation of my life has been effected by the use of Holloway's Pills and Oint- ment ; and I furthermore declare that I was very much afflicted with Ulcerous Sores in my Face and Leg; so severe was my complaint, that the greater part of my nose and the roof of my mouth was eaten away, and my leg had three large ulcers on it, and that I applied to several medical gentlemen, who prescribed for me, but I found no relief. My strength was rapidly failing every day, and the malady on the increase; when I was induced to try Holloway's Medicines. After taking two or three boxes, I experienced so much relief, and found the progress of the disease was so much arrested, that I was enabled to resume my ordinary labours in the field. The sores which were so disagreeable and repulsive to behold are now nearly all healed. Having received such truly beneficial aid, I feel myself hound to express my gratitude to the person by whose means I have thus been restored from the pitiable and miserable state I was in ; and for the sake of humanity make known my case, that others similarly situated might be believed. ( Signed) HUGH MACDONALD. This declaration made before me, at Bay Fortune, the 3rd day of September, 1845. JOSEPH COFFIN, Justice of the Peace. The above case of Hugh Macdonald, of Lot 55, came person ally under my observation; and when he first applied to me to get some of the medicines I thought his case utterly hopeless, and told him that his malady had got such hold that it was only throwing his money away to use them. He however persisted in trying them, and to my astonishment, I find what he has aforesaid stated to be perfectly correct, and consider the case to he a most wonderful cure. ( Signed; WILLIAM UNDERHAY, Bay Fortune. A Cure, of Ringworm of Four Years Standing. Copy of a Letter from Mrs. Grace Moro, 6, Hemlock Court, Carey Street, London, fith November, 1845. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— About four years ago my little girl caught the Ring- worm, and although I have ever since had advice from many doctors, and tried every means to get rid of it, yet I was unable to do so. About three weeks ago I was induced to try some of your Pills and Ointment, and I am most happy to say the result has been a perfect cure. ( Signed) GRACE MORO. *„* Skin Diseases, peculiar to any part of the Globe, may be effectually Cured by the use of these celebrated Medicines. Cure of a Desperate Case of Erysipelas. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Joseph Gildon, jun., a Farmer, East Kent, near Spilsby, Lincolnshire, 8th April, 1846. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— I have the gratification to announce to you a most wonderful cure wrought upon myself, by the use of your Oint- ment and Pills. I had a severe attack of Erysipelas in my right foot, which extended along my ankle, and was attended with swelling and inflammation to an alarming degree, insomuch that I was unable to move without the use of crutches. I con- sulted a very eminent Physician, besides other medical men, but to no purpose. At last I tried your Ointment and Pills, when, strange to say, in less than two weeks the swelling and inflammation gradually subsided to such a degree that I was enabled to pursue my daily avocation, to the utter surprise and amazement of those who were acquainted with my case, seeing that I was cured so quickly. I and my family are well known here, as my father holds his farm under the Rev. J. Spencer, Rector of our parish. ( Signed) JOSEPH GILDON. The Testimony of Dr. Bright, of Ely Vlace, Holborn, as to the Extraordinary Power of Holloway's Ointment in the Cure of Ulcerated Sores. Extract of a Letter from the above celebrated Physician. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— I think it but an act of justice to inform you that I have tried your Ointment in several old cases of Ulcerated Sore Legs, which for a considerable lime had resisted every kind of treatment, but which were afterwards effectually cured by its use. In the treatment of Bad Breasts I have also found your Ointment of the greatest service. Indeed, from my practical knowledge, I conceive it to be a most invaluable remedy. ( Signed) RICHARD BRIGHT, M. D. DISTRESS, THE CONSEQUENCE OF CAPITAL. HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT will Cure any cases of Bad Legs, Ulcerous Sores, Bad Breasts, Sore Nipples, Cancers, Tumoars, Swellings, Contracted or Stiff Joints, Goat, Rheu- matism, Lumbago, Burns, Scalds, Chilblains, Chapped Hands and Lips, Bunions, Soft Corns, Piles, the bite of Moschettoes, Sand Flies, Chiego Foot, Yaws, Coco Bay, and all Skin Diseases common to Europe, or to the East and West Indies, or other tropical climes. HOLLOWAY'S PILL'S should be taken in most instances when using the Ointment, in order to purify the blood and invigorate the system. Sold at the establishment of Professor HOLLOWAY, 244, Strand, near Temple Bar, London, and by most all respectable Druggists and Dealers in Medicines throughout the civilised world, at the following prices in Pots :— Is. l^ d., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., lis., 22s., and 33s. each. There is a very considerable saving in taking the large sizes. N. B. Directions for the guidance of Patients in every Disorder are affixed to each Pot. ON NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DISEASES. Just published, A MEDICAL WORK, in a sealed Envelope, at 3s., and sent, post paid, for 3s. 6d. MANHOOD; the Causes of its Premature Decline, with plain direc- tions for its perfect restoration, addressed to those suffering from nervous debility or mental irritation, followed by observa- tions on MARRIAGE, NERVOUSNESS, and the treatment of Diseases of the generative svstem, illustrated with cases, & c. By J. L. CURTIS and Co.," Consulting Surgeons, 7. FRITH STREET, SOHO SQUARE, London. TWENTY- NINTH THOUSAND. Published by the Authors, and may be had at their Residence ; also sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster- row; Hannay, 63, Oxford- street; Mann, 39, Cornhill, London; Guest, 51, Bull- street, Birmingham; Allen, Long- row, Nottingham; T. Sowler, 4, St. Anne's- square, Manchester; ( r. Phillip, South Castle- street, Liverpool; Cooke, Chronicle Office, OXFORD ; Smith, Rose Crescent, and at the Office of the Independent Press, CAMBRIDGE ; Clancy, 6, Bedford- row, Dublin; and sold in A SEALED ENVELOPE, by all Booksellers. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. MANHOOD. By J. L. CURTIS and Co. ( Strange.)— In this age of pretension, when the privileges of the true are constantly usurped by the false and the ignorant, it is difficult to afford the sufferer from nervous debility, the unerring means of judg- ment where to seek relief. The authors of this work have obviated the difficulty. Their long experience and reputation in the treatment of these painful diseases is the patent's guarantee, and well deserves for the work its immense circulation.— Era. The numberless instances daily occurring wherein affection of the lungs, putting on all the outward appearances of con- sumption— which, however, when traced to their source, are found to result from certain baneful habits— fully prove that the principle of the division of labour is nowhere more appplicaole than in medical practice ; and we feel no hesitation in saying, that there is no member of society by whom the book will not be found useful, whether such person hold the relation of a parent, a preceptor, or a clergyman Sun, evening paper. To the married, as well as the unmarried, this little work affords consolation and cure in peculiar cases, and we are doing a service to society in recommending it to general notice.— Essex and Herts Mercury, CURTIS ON MANHOOD. ( Strange.)— A perusal of this work will easily distinguish its talented authors from the host of medical writers whose pretensions to cure all diseases are daily so indecently thrust before the public. Having for many years been the standard work on these diseases, its originality is apparent, and its perusal breathes consolation and hope to the mind of the patient.— Naval and Military Gazette. CURTIS ON MANHOOD should be in the hands of youth and old age. It is a medical publication, ably written, and developes the treatment of a class of painful maladies which has too long been the prey of the illiterate and designing.— United Service Gazette. Messrs. CURTIS and Co. are to be consulted daily at their residence, No. 7, FllITH STREET, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON. Country Patients are requested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases. The communication must lie accom- panied by the usual consultation fee of £ 1, and in all cases the most inviolable secrecy may be relied on. CAUTION. In consequence of the numerous complaints made to the Authors by Patients who have been induced to purchase spu- rious copies of this work, advertised by illiterate pretenders, under titles imitating as closely as possible the word " MAN- HOOD," PATIENTS are informed they can have this work forwarded them, by initial or otherwise, to any address, DIRECT from the Author't Hetidence, on remitting 3s, 6 » . in postage stamps. ( From apamphiet, just published, by H. C. Maguire.) That the holders of large capital should find difficulties in the way of profitable investment arises not from distress, but from prosperity. Those difficulties, created by competition among themselves, evidence this nation— insomuch as accumu- lated wealth can be an evidence— to be successful and flourish- ing beyond comparison with any other. These individuals are, every one of them, symptoms of plethora, not of inanition. It would seem a singular reason for assuming the existence of distress, to assert that there exists a numerous class that have command of more cash than they know what to do with. The fact of the owner of £ 200,000 not being satisfied with the £ 6000 a year obtainable in the public funds, added to the fact that there are so many individuals similarly situated, their competition renders the obtaining of £ 20,000 a year by other means of investment not an absolute certainty, does not amount to a self- evident indication of distress. Without attempting to depreciate the utility, to an empire like Great Britain, of these very inordinate desires and extravagant, expectations ; without denying them to be the real sources of those stupendous pro- jects and magnificent speculations, for which, as a nation, we are unequalled, and which have, in no trifling degree, assisted to raise us to the pre- eminence we hold ; we may yet refuse them our present consideration, as not belonging to the class from which immediate proofs of distress here alluded to may be derived, if they are, the principles of political economy require revision; for, so far as those principles have been applied to national resources, their avowed tendency has been to create this competition of capitalists ; and the number so created has proved the success of the application. The inquiry, however, may afterwards present itself of how far this accumu- lation of capital has affected those over whom distress, misery, and destitution now reign in indisputable absolutism. Let us take, as the next portion of the community, all those who depend on commerce or manufactures for the profits of capital invested in establishments of their own, and in which they themselves do, in some measure, superintend, or have active employment; as exercising trades or occupations of a description that permits them to purchase and use the labour of others in executing and extending their own speculations. This class does not admit any whose emoluments are received in the form of a fixed salary or wages; but comprises only the merchant, manufacturer, wholesale dealer, and shopkeeper: all of whom may be included in the general term dealer. It is not necessary, with a view to this inquiry, to treat these under separate heads: neither would it oe an easy task to do so. The four branches are, not uncommonly, directed by the same person ; are all, in proportion with the means of the individual, exposed to the same hazards and the same occasional fluctua- tions, and may, as a class, be subjected to the queries as to deterioration or decline from a position it had formerly occupied. Are their establishments on a reduced scale ? Are their shops less splendid in decoration and fitting up? Are their ware- houses less extensive? Is there a comparative deficiency in amount of stock ? Is their style of living less expensive ? Are separate town establishments, distinct from the place of business, less frequent among them ? Have they nut so many suburban villas or country houses ? In short, is there a single indication of decline discoverable as a class, or any sign of that distress, the cause of which it is the object of the present inquiry to ascertain ? Not one ! There is not the slightest ground for assuming that the portion of profits which the average of this class are enabled to expend upon the sustenance, enjoyments, and education of themselves and families is less now than at any former period. It is notoriously self- evident to all familiar with their habits, that, so far from presenting symptoms of distress, tradesmen and dealers, as a body, live more expensively and make fortunes more rapidly than ever. They are, in truth, the plants which blossom and bear fruit until they expand into the bulky capitalist before- mentioned. They are, undoubtedly, subject to the casualties attendant upon all speculations. One year they are more successful, another less fortunate; but we are not inquiring into the causes of a pressure that may be removed before this ink is dry. The distress meant is that which has been gradually sapping the well- being of some portion of our fellows, and which threatens an extension of suffering and deprivation fearful to contemplate, unless some barrier can be erected beyond which it may not pass. * * * There is now a physical change operating upon the labour of the country. The railways, under construction, or about to be commenced, will bring into being a new class of pauper for Governments to control. At the expiration of some three or five years, there will be such a number of burley navigators to provide for, as will create a crisis of sufficient consequence to insist on immediate consideration. Railways are as much accumulated labour as cotton goods, or cutlery : they are substitutes for work that would, in lault of their existence, have to be executed; and, allowing everything to the impetus that general business will derive from their creation, their com- pletion will produce a revolution in the labour market that should be prepared for. There are but three means of meeting this crisis :— preparing such a civil power as shall control the starving multitude to a forced endurance of their misery, and so undermining the prosperity of every possible description of labour, by theu° con- currence ; supporting them in idleness; or providing such employment as may utilize their efforts to the aggrandisement of the nation at iarge, and relieve the labour market from destructive competition. Of these means, the first would be the most expensive, and the most disgraceful to the legislature ; while the last presents advantages that cannot be passed over without inquiry. Let the legislature itself undertake extensive improvements, in different parts of the kingdom, so selecting as not to interfere with probable speculative enterprise from other sources. Such works as, though promising, eventually, whole or partial remuneration for the lay out, do not offer sufficient assurance of profits to tempt the investment of private, capital in their execution. Let these works be a certain refuge to the destitute labourer, and make them the labour- test of the able- bodied applicant for parochial relief, each union paying in proportion to the number of its poor so employed. An estimate may be made as to the amount necessary to supply a working man or woman with sufficient of the plainest food, coarsest clothing, and merely wholesome shelter; and let these public works be always open to receive labourers at the rates obtained from that estimate, whether on their own voluntary application, or as the labour- test of the union workhouse. These public works may be called, " The Labourer's Refuge," and be so conducted, that there shall always be sufficient employment available at a living rate of wages: consequently, no private capitalist or speculator could successfully offer less. There will be no difficulty in selecting sites for this species of enterprise. Numerous occasions for desirable and useful improvements, which would repay, or nearly repay the money laid out, although not sufficiently profitable in promise to attract the speculator, are in existence in every locality. Recovery of waste lands; recovery of lands from the sea; drainage, & c„ all demanding immense labour, offer themselves in every neighbourhood. The revenue accruing from the com- pletion of one undertaking would contribute funds towards the commencement of another. EXTRAORDINARY ACTIVITY AT SHEERNESS DOCKYARD. — An Admiralty order has been received at her Majesty's dockyard, Sheerness, for the following ships- of- war to be brought forward for commissioning with all possible expedi- tion, viz.:— The Waterloo, 120 guns; the Howe, 120 guns • the Asia, 84 guns; the Ganges, 84 guns; and Monarch, 84 guns; the Hawke, 72 guns; Achilles, 72 guns; Bussed', 72 guns; and Hercules. 72 guns. The following frigates are also nearly completed :— The Cornwall, 50 guns; Conquest- a dor, 50 guns; Worcester, 50 guns ; and Chichester, 50 guns. Many merely want but a few stores to complete them, when they are to be immediately put into commission and sent upon foreign service. The artisans and mechanics have been compelled for some time past to stop in the usual hours allowed for their meals, and to work until quite dark, so as to complete the orders of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for roreign equipment. TAWELL'S CONFESSION.— The subject of the production of the confession of J. Tawell, the Sait Hill murderer, which has been so often before the Buckinghamshire Bench of Magis- irates, was last week again introduced at the Quarter Sessions, held at Aylesbury, when Dr. Lee brought forward the. follow- ing motion of which he had given notice, viz.:—" That the Clerk of the Peace be instructed to communicate to the Rev. Mr. Cox the disapprobation of the magistrates at his conduct with respect to the statement delivered by Mr. Tawell, to Mr. Sheriff, the gaoler, and by Mr. Sheriff to the Rev. Mr. Cox, the chaplain of the gaol. That the Magistrates fully expected that the Rev. Mr. Cox would have delivered the statement to them, in consequence of their desire to that effect, as made by a majority of the Magistrates present at the Easter Quarter Ses- sions; and they consider that his conduct in still withholding this document has been uncourteous and even contumacious towards them." It was not till 1845 that he ( Dr. Lee) brought the question forward, which was not for the purpose of harassing the chaplain ( Mr. Cox,) but really to do him a service, by pointing out to him his error of judgment. His haughtiness, liis infatuation, or his supposed infallibility, was so great that he refused io give up the document, and he ( Dr. Lee) would show that he illegally kept it in his possession. What was that document? The acknowledgment of a con- victed felon, written with the county ink, upon the county paper, and in which Tawell had no property whatever, who could not have given it or anything else to Mr. Cox, even if he had wished to do so. But he believed that Mr. Cox had not even this plea to support him— that Tawell placed the document in his hands, but that it was first given to Mr. Sheriff, who handed it to Mr. Cox. The law of the case would require that a " confession" made by a convicted felon even to a Roman Catholic priest, can be recovered by law from him. He believed this court could, by mandamus, support an action against Mr. Cox by detinue, or trover, but he did not wish to take this course. He called upon them to support their dignity against the usurped authority of the chaplain. They should give Mr. Cox to understand that the magistrates would not submit to his dictation; and, as to any promise to Tawell, they had nothing to do with that, for any favour required ought to have been referred to the Governor or the High Sheriff. Tawell was not a member of the Church of England, and not likely to make to Mr. Cox any secret confession. He, therefore, entreated them not to allow it to go forth to the public that the chaplain had defeated the whole Bench of Magistrates, and concluded by proposing his resolution. The motion having been seconded by J. P. Deering, Esq., was put to vote and negatived by a majority of one ! THF LATE LOSS OF LIFE ON SNOWDON.— We stated in a recent paper that the Rev. Mr. Stagg, who had been on a pedestrian excursion among the mountains of North Wales, had been for several weeks missing, and we have now to add that his body has been found in a bog about half way up Snowdon. It appears he refused to take a guide, as he had been there several times before, and hence the melancholy result. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. INDIA AND CHINA. The Indian mail of the 15th September, received on Monday, is barren of intelligence of an exciting nature, but is cheering as to the state of the country in general. Trade had once more become brisk, and the money markets had become relieved of the pressure formerly experienced all over India. The monsoon at Bombay had been most favourable, and the cultivation promising abundant returns. Scinde, the Punjaub, and the Jullundur Doab continued as tranquil as every other part of the Company's dominions; but it was feared the approaching festival of the Dusserah at Lahore would lead to unpleasant consequences. A report had been circulated to the effect that Rajah Lall Singh had been shot, but it proved untrue. That he will come by an untimely death there can be no doubt. The Governor General and Commander in Chief, it w= is thought, would not leave the hills till about the middle of November, when they were to make a tour of inspection along the frontier into the Jullundur Doab. It had been stated, as was thought by authority, that Lord Hardinge had resolved on remaining at his post to watch and direct the working of his recent policy, as he would scorn to bequeath a difficulty of his making to the hands of a Whig suc- cessor after he had reaped the laurels bestowed by his country for primary success. The resolve is a noble one, and will no doubt prove beneficial to India. No further mention is made in the Indian journals of the reported retirement of Sir Charles Napier from Scinde. The rumoured assemblage of an army on our north west frontier would seem to have had its day, and to have been at least premature. A case of tyranny had been enacted at Aloulmein, such as happily is of infrequent occurrence under the British rule in any part of the world. The Moulmein Chronicle had used very harsh language towards the commissioner of the Tenasserim province in his official capacity, who seems to have laid himself open to animadversion. ' It was discovered the editor had not conformed to the " press regulations of India," and he was forthwith tried in the Commissioner's Court at Moulmein, and fined 3001. and to be imprisoned for two years ! The crime was for issuing his paper for a short time without any printer's name being attached. For speaking in his own defence, and that in a most respectful manner, the unfortunate editor was further mulcted in 50/. Captain Durand's suspension of two of his assistants had been annulled by the Deputy Governor of Bengal as unwarranted. Nothing appears to have been done in the case of the editor, who was in confinement, and his paper about to be sold to pay the fine imposed on him. Every part of India continued tranquil, the weather was cool and agreeable, and the health of the troops and inhabitants excellent. The Chief Justice of Bombay was making arrangements for his return to England in November, and Sir T. M'Mahon was expected to leave early in the year. A report had been in circulation that Sir John Grey was to obtain the command- in- chiefship of the Bombay army on Sir Thomas's retirement. It was also given out by one of the Indian journals that Sir C. Napier was to be Commander in Chief of India on Lord Gough's vacating the situation. This was, however, looked on as very unlikely to happen. HONG- KONG, AUG. 28. The late riot at Canton'has led to a long corre- spondence between the Consul and the British mer- chants. The merchants claim, as a right established by treaty, that one of her Majesty's vessels should be permanently stationed off the factories, to be at hand in the event of any outbreak ; but the Consul main- tains that according to the treaty, which provides for a vessel of war at each of the five ports, Whampoa is its proper anchorage, which, though ten miles off, he, in common with the Chinese, holds to be the port of Canton. This seems vastly absurd, and is ably exposed both by the merchants, and in an article in the China Mail for July. Any future riot, like previous ones, would probably be over before assist- ance could be procured from the outside anchorage; where, however, it must be observed, no British vessel of war has ever been permanently stationed, any more than off the factories, their occasional visits being always made after they are wanted ; so that both now, and on a similar occasion four years ago, her Majesty's subjects have been obliged to seek assistance from an American ship one time, and from a Danish another. It is the moral influence of such protective force within hail that is especially valuable; and Sir John Davis has overruled the Consul's scruples, and ordered the Nemesis steamer to lie close to the factories; aud though she has no marines or forces to act on shore, so long as she remains in sight there will be no more rioting. The British community having no assurance that they will be protected by their own Government, have resolved to do their possible to defend themselves, having formed into three regiments of volunteers, which meet regularly for, it must be admitted, a rather irregular drill. They have sent to England for 300 muskets and accoutrements, and will then oniy require a drill sergeant to teach them how to make the " best use of their weapons. The musters, however, are already productive of good effect upon the Chinese, who, while they are not themselves very knowing in military tactics, have great respect for the powers of a body of Englishmen with arms in their hands, and a design to use them. It is to be hoped our countrymen will not presume upon this to insult or maltreat the Chinese without good cause. With all their ill- feeling- against the English, they are seldom the aggressors in any row with the Fanquei. AMERICA. The Great Western arrived in Liverpool on Sunday. According to the accounts now received, it would seem that New Mexico is in the possession of the American army. An announcement had reached New York by the Western mails, stating that on the 18th of August General Kearney entered Santa Fe, and having hoisted the United States flag from the national palacc, proclaimed New Mexico in possession of the United States army, which was greeted with shouts of applause by the Mexican people. General Kearney administered the oath of allegiance to the alcaldes of small towns and officers of Santa Fe General Kearney proclaimed himself governor of New Mexico, and took quarters at the palace. Armijo, with 4000 troops fled to Chihuahua, where report says strong resistance would be made by a large army. General Kearney was preparing to march to Chihuahua. An electro telegraph communication from Baltimore announces that advices from Camargo to the 8th ult. have been received at New Orleans. At that date it was supposed that a battle had been fought at Seralvo between General Worth and the Mexicans, as a force of the latter, 1000 strong, was seen by M'Cullough advancing toward that place, and within 40 miles of it. Intelligence of the fact was sent by express to General Taylor, who immediately pressed forward with a portion of his troops, by forced marches, to the relief of General Worth. The Mexicans were reported to be rallying from all points to join the forces under Ampudia, with whom Arista was co- operating, with a determination to interpose a strong and determined resistance to the further advance of the American army. Another telegraphic communication from Washing- ton says, '' The steam- ship Ann M'Kim arrived at New Orleans on 21st instant from Texas. A letter to the New Orleans Picayune, from Mr. Kendall, dated at Seralvo, Sept. 3, says General Taylor will probably be within cannon shot of Monterey on the 18th or 20th of September. Ampudia is at Monterey with the entire control. Mr. Kendall learns that 2000 Mexican troops of the line arrived there on the 31st of August, with four pieces of field artillery. Canales is at Marine with 6000 Rancheros to dispute Gen. Taylor's march upon Monterey. These people are determined to fight somewhere. Arista is in the city of Mexico, it is said charged with cowardice and treacherous designs." From the accounts now received from America, it would seem impossible for present high prices of corn and flour in Great Britain to be maintained. Notwith- standing the famine cry from England, prices at the latest dispatch of news had receded from the advance first obtained. It is evident we can get any quantity that we may require. Wheat, flour and Indian corn, being in active demand, all the canals and railroads are busily employ- ed in transporting them to the sea board. Indian corn has advanced to 82 cents, per bushel for best white, in consequence of the demand in Europe. Flour does not sustain itself in proportion, the supply in market being much larger than at the same season in any former year ; we quote best Western Canal flour 5 dols. 50c. to 50 dols. 624c. per barrel. The New York Canal returns up to the fourth week in September, report 1,854,088 barrels of flour delivered at tide water, being an increase of 510,235 barrels over the same period last year. Of wheat to the same period, 1,368,916 bushels, being an increase of 891.386 bushels, Of barley, the receipts are 347,842 bushels, an increase of 106,743 bushels. Of Indian corn, the receipts are 1,155,654 bushels; being an increase over last year of 1,126,718 bushels ! The New York Express of the 8th says:— " The increased supplies of produce received at tide- water, through the New York canals, is truly wonderful. Since the opening of the canal there has been the following excess over the receipts for the same period last year, ending 30th Sep- tember :— " Increase. Total Receipts. Flour, 510,235 barrels. 1,854,088 barrels. Wheat, 891,385 bushels. 1,367,910 bushels. Barley, 106,743 „ 347,842 „ Corn, 1,126,718 „ 1,155.654 „ " The whole receipts of com last year were only 28,936 bushels. " The present advance of price on all bread stuffs will induce great shipments. Farmers will bring their crops to market as speedily as possible. Wheat and flour will be the great articles. Corn from the western states cannot be shipped before the closing of the canal. From this state however it will be passed forward with all dispatch. No one can look over the increased naviga- tion of the lakes, and the immense quantity of produce received at Buffalo and Oswego, without being amazed at the great and growing riches of the interior." From the port of New York alone the exports of bread stuffs to Great Britain, during September, 1846, are as follows : — " Flour, 46,531 barrels; wheat, 120,326 bushels; corn, 95,300 bushels ; corn meal, 3385 barrels. " Total merchandise exported for the three first days of October, 1st to the 3rd, 1846. 430,000 tlols., of which on the 3rd, was exported to great Britain alone, domestic merchandise to the amount of 165,000 dols." Exports of bread stuffs to Great Britain, from Oct. 1 to the 3rd inclusive :— " Flour, 8330 barrels; wheat, 40,208 bushels; corn, 10,220 bushels; corn meal, 300 barrels." This is in three days only and from this one port. The New York Herald of the 7th says — We have no doubt but that the shipment of agricultural products from this part to Great Britain, during this month, will reach a very large amount. The accounts which every steamer brings us of the deficiency in the crops of that country, and of Europe generally, will give a great impetus to exports, and immense quantities of bread stuffs will be forwarded, both on domestic and foreign account, in anticipation of high prices and an extensive demand. The markets of the United Kingdom will be glutted with produce, and we fear many speculators will be terribly dissappointed in their expectations. " The fact that prices for bread stuffs in this market are already above a shipping point, and are steadily advancing, is a sure indication of the speculative character of the movement and we have no doubt the prices will, from time to time, be paid in this and other markets of the country, for flour and grain, much above shipping points, and in this way the speculation will be carried on to an explosive point. When shipments of produce are made from this country, at prices above those ruling in the markets to which the supplies are sent, in anticipation of an advance in those markets, it requires more capital than speculators generally can control to wait for such prices, and forced sales are frequently made at great sacrifices, which almost invariably use up the parties engaged in such foolish and illegitimate operations. Movements of this nature are the worst species of speculation, and those engaged in them are usually the most desperate kind of operators." It appears that the exports of flour, wheat, and rye are taking place from New York this season, not only to the usual markets of the country abroad, but to the North of Europe, Holland, and France. STATE OF IRELAND. THE POOR REMOVAL ACT. The following important document has been issued by the Poor Law Commissioners:— Poor- law Commission Office, Somerset House, " 20th October, 1846. " Sir,— I am directed by the Poor- Jaw Commissioners to state that in consequence of various inquiries made of them as to the construction of the late Removal Act, 9 and 10 Victoria, c. 66, they have deemed it right to consult the Attorney- General and the Solicitor- General upon certain points which appeared to be of most importance in the application of the statute. " The commissioners think it may assist the guardians if they communicate to them the opinions which the Comis- sioners have obtained in answer to the qtie- aions which they submitted, and they have accordingly directed me to inform the guardians that the counsel above- mentioned are of opinion : "' 1. That the proviso to the 1st section of the 9 and 10 Victoria, c. 66, which sets forth ( he exceptions to the principal enactments that are to be excluded in ( he computation of time, is not retrospective in its operation so as to appiy to cases where the five years' residence was complete before the statute. "' 2. That an intei val between the completion of tiie five years residence and the application for the warrant of removal, filled up by one of the exceptions contained in the proviso, will not prevent the operation of the statute in restraining the removal of the pauper who had resided for the specified time. " ' 3. That orders of removal obtained previous to the passing of the act, but not then executed by the removal of the paupers, cannot now be executed in cases where the 1st or 2d section could have prevented them from being granted if the appli- cations were made subsequently to the passing of the act. "' 4. That the 2d section dots not apply to the cases of widows whose husbands died before the passing of the act. " ' 5. That the 4th section does apply to persons who became chargeable before the passing of the act, and continued to do so till the application for the warrant. "' 6. That the statute applies equally to the removal of persons born in Scotland, Ireland, or ( he Channel Islands, as to persons having settlements in England, so as to override pro tanto the provisions of the 8th and 9th Victoria, chap. 117.' " The Commissioners presume that the guardians will have no difficulty in applying these opinions to the parts of the statute to which they relate. They will see that according to the view taken by the high legal authorities above referred to, as to the effect of the first proviso, so far as it relates to the time before the passing of the act, the simple fact of the actual residence of the pauper is alone to be considered, and conse- quently that no time during which the party may have been in the receipt of relief is to be omitted from the calculation of the term of residence, while any absence during that period, such as that caused by an imprisonment or a residence in an hospital, is to be treated as an interruption of the continuous residence to which the statute applies. " With reference to the second question, I am to observe, that although in terms it is confined to an interval between the completion of the residence and the application for the warrant, the Commissioners consider that the principle of the con- struction must equally apply to intervals in the time during which the period of residence is comprised, so that, for example, a residence of three years in a parish may be united with a sub- sequent residence of two years in the same parish, though in the interval the party may have been out of the parish in prison for several months, or serving her Majesty as a soldier for several years; this observation is, however, to be qualified by the supposition that the absence is one which is protected by the proviso. " As some inquiries have been made upon the point, the Commissioners wish me to state, that in the application of this statute, no difference exists whether the cause arise between two parishes in the same union, or in different unions. " The Commissioners take this opportunity of impressing upon the guardians, that though this statute does not create any settlement in regard to the parties rendered by it irremovable from a parish, such parties will be in reference to the subject or relief, altogether in the same situation as settled paupers, and any difference in the treatment of the two classes of paupers settled, and paupers simply irremovable, with reference to the nature, quantity, or quality of relief administered to them, cannot be too strongly censured as not being warranted by law, and as being at variance with every principle of fairness. " I am also to desire the guardians strictly to caution their officers against any attempt to procure the transfer from one parish to another of the parties to whom this statute has ren- dered irremovable, by threats, or promises, or other inducements. The penalty imposed by the statute on such conduct has already been brought under the notice of the guardians by the Commissioners in their letter of the 17th ultimo. " I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, " W. G. LUMLEY, Assistant Secretary. " To the Clerk to the Guardians." The accounts from Ireland during the past week have been of a more peaceful character, but outrages are still being com- mitted upon property and person, the county of Tipperary shining most prominently in deeds of violence. We learn from the Nenagh Guardian that on Friday evening, about eight o'clock, a man, armed with a blunderbuss, entered the dwelling of J. Cormack, of Ballyhogan, within two miles of Nenagh, and ordered Cormack not to attempt to pay any rent whatsoever, and also desired hiin to tell all the tenants on the property to act similarly, and swore he would give the contents of his blunderbuss to Cormack, or any one else who paid rent. The following also are extracts from the local papers:—. A multitude of rustic labourers crowded the town of Mallow, county Cork, on Tuesday morning, at an early hour, and, dis- appointed in work on the railway, made a simultaneous onslaught upon the farm of Richard Barrett, Esq., a Magistrate, in the vicinity, where they seized upwards of fifty sheep, and proceeded to slaughter them, despite of the police— On Friday, between the hours of one and two o'clock, as C. W. Harvey, Esq., agent to the Earl of Donoughmore, was proceeding to Clonmel on an outside car, he was attacked near Mr. Bagwell's ice- house, at the Waterford side of the river, by four men, with crape covering their faces and otherwise disguised. One was armed with a blunderbuss, another with a long gun, and the other two with pistols, all of which they presented at Mr. Harvey's head, at the same time telling him to deliver up his money, or that they would shoot him. He remonstrated with them, but all was to no purpose; they would have put their bloody threat into execution, had he not delivered up his pocket- book to them, containing cheques, letters of credit, and notes, to the amount of about £ 900. One of the party called out to the other " to shoot the horse;" but Mr. Harvey and the man who drove the car interfered, and they did not shoot the horse, but backed him, car and all, over a precipice at the road side; they then made off through Mr. Bagwell's wood. Mr. Harvey was collecting rents at Knocklofty, and was on his way to lodge the money he had received in the bank. Official returns announce an increase of 50,000 inmates in the Irish workhouses, as compared with the taonth of October, 1843. And, as a set off to this distressing evidence of the progress of destitution, it is notified that 60,000 people are now receiving daily employment through the medium of public works. The Times' Dublin correspondent says—" It is, I believe, quite true that Mr. O'Connell has resolved to waive his claim this year, and that consequently there will be no tribute Sunday for 1846; at least so it is stated by the managers of the ' national debt,' as the secretary facetiously . styles this^ annual impost." We shall see. Presentments to the amount of £ 700,000 have to this tima been granted by the Board of Works, but there are still com- plaints in many counties, either that works have not yet com- menced, or that those in operation are totally insufficient to give employment to the crowds of destitute beings who prowl about seeking the means of keeping body and soul together. There are many vagabonds who take advantage of the general destitution, in organising a system of outrage; but the really destitute seldom join in these confederacies. The system of voluntary relief now is pretty generally adopted; but loud com- plaints are made that some absentees, who own large estates, are not contributing. Some meetings have been held, to urge the Government to open the ports, in order to admit all kinds of provisions free of duty. Many of the gentry are liberally sub- scribing to buy food for the destitute. Up to Saturday there were 60,000 persons employed. Some embarrassment has arisen from the scarcity of' silver; yet within the last two months the silver currency of Ireland has been increased to the extent of £ 100,000. The Government had partly anticipated this scarcity, and had sent the Comet war- steamer to deliver a considerable quantity of specie at the branches of the Bank of Ireland in Cork, Waterford, Galway, and other towns on the Irish coast. Mr. O'Connell was to have an interview with Lord Besborough yesterday ( Thursday.) REVIEW OF THE TRADE OF THE KINGDOM. SUPPLY OF WATER TO LIVERPOOL.— The Liverpool Council have decided on abandoning the Bala Lake water scheme, in consequence of being too late for next session. They have determined to adopt Mr. Hawkesiey's plan, which is this :— In the high lands above Horwich, at Rivington Pike, a few miles irom Bolton, there are half a doxen brooks — no rivers— aud these brooks he proposes to conduct into a valley, impound the water, and form an artificial lake, the contents of which are to be augmented, of course, by the drainage, when it rains, from the high lands around. From this pond a covered canal is to bring the water within twenty miles of Liverpool, and it is to flow along these twenty miles in a single pipe, of four feet diameter. The quantity is esti- maied at 10,000,000 gallons per day. AN ADROIT THIEF.— A robbery of a new description was effected a few days back, at the residence of a dentist, living near the Palais Royal. A young man entered the. operator's cabinet, and requested him to examine a tooth, which he said gave him the most exquisite pain. The dentist, after having looked at the mouth, assured him that the oniy remedy was to have the offending member extracted. The patient refused peremptorily, declaring that he could not make up his mind to undergo such an operation. After some further conversation he withdrew. He returned, how- ever, the next day, stating that he suffered so much that he was obliged to have the tooth out. The dentist extracted it in a moment; but the young man, in place of making an outcry, as might be expected, fell from the operating- chair on the ground, stiff, as if struck with apoplexy. The dentist rang for his servant to fetch him some remedies, but the man delaying to appear, he went himself for a moraeut into another room to find them. When he returned the patient was gone. The dentist at first conceived that, having recovered his senses, be had hurried away from the spot where he had suffered so much; but, on looking round, lie perceived that a gold watch and a large piece of gold had been taken from the mantel- piece. The patient has not since been heard of.— Paris Paper. Mr. Youatt, in one of his orations to the members of the Veterinary College, observes—" that by the improvements in modern chemistry, the medical profession are enabled success- fully to treat diseases which weie previously supposed as not within the reach of medicine." This truth has been manifested for many years, but in no instance of greater importance to mankind than by the discovery of Blair's Gout « nd Rheumatic Pills. Official tables of imports and exports have been published by the Board of Trade. The period embraced in the official tables is to the 5th of September, but with a comparison of the same periods of the two preceding years. Under the heads of cattle and grain some idea may be formed of the progress made under the recent changes of the tariff in the anticipated increase of our supply of provisions from abroad. It is shown that we have added to our own stores, in the first eight months of the present year, from foreign sources, no less than 3,043,505 qrs. of wheat, and 2,905,252 cwts. of flour and meal. Within the same period 58,559 head of live animals have been imported into this country. Including bacon, beef salted and fresh, hams and pork salted and fresh, 185,447 cwts. have also been imported under the head of " provisions." In timber, the increase >•> trade is enormous, being 1,117- 758 loads in 1846, againsi 9i9,429 in 1845, and 642,900 loads in 1844, showing an increase in two years of 100 per cent. The importation of linseed is extremely small. The quantity of foreign wool of all kinds retained for consumption in the present year, is fully 2,000,000 lbs. less than last year. Of th- j export trade in which the national industry is most concerned, there is in a few articles an increase, but on the whole a reduction equal to two millions has taken place. The following table will show the account more clearly :— INCREASED. Declared value exported. 1845. 1846. to 5th Sept. to 5th Sept. Inc. £. £. £. Cotton yarn 4,542,190 5,092,309 650,119 Hardwares and cutlery 1,455,884 1,501 491 45,607 Machinery 541,220 746,993 205,773 Iron and steel 2,493,963 2,944,815 451,752 Silk manufactures 557,075 614,720 57,645 9,589,432 10,900,328 1,310,896 DECREASED. Declared value exported. 1845. 1846. to 5th Sept. to 5th Sept. Deer. £. £. £. Cotton manufactures 12,920,189 11,789,662 1,130,527 Earthenware 580,045 569,917 10,128 Glass 283,021 184,318 98,703 LeunwrounhtrOUght } 237' 801 222' 768 l5> 033 Linen manufactures.'"!!!... 2,080,373 1,854,062 226,311 Linen yarn 708,500 548,121 160,379 Copper and brass 1,230,407 i998,769 231,638 Soap 137,436 106,130 31,306 Refined sugar 332,729 271,275 61,454 Wool, sheep or lambs 385,762 182,352 203,410 Woollen yarn 682,208 558,808 123,400 Woollen manufactures 5,567,349 4,601,699 965,650 25,145,820 21,887,881 3,257,939 The largest decrease in 1846, as compared with 1845, in the exports of cottons and woollens, is to Belgium, to the United States, and to China ; the increase is to Cuba, and the Brazils. There is an increase, particularly of cottons, to France— Halifax Guardian. SCHISM AMONG THE GERMAN WATER DOCTORS.— We learn from a hydropathic patient on whom we can rely, now in Silesia, under Preissnitz, that a new sect has sprung up in that district, which adopts a system directly opposite to that of the great hydropathist of Grafenberg. The new party, instead of giving the copious libations of cold water, pre- scribed in the original system, recommend a total abstinence from the drinking of water, and effect their cure by long- con- tinued thirst! They so far follow Preissnitz as to keep their patients, for a series of hours each day, wrapt in wet blankets or cloths ; but the patients are rigidly restrained from the drinking of water, and are restricted in their diet to such a few slices of stale bread daily as they can swallow without drink. On two days of each week only, they are allowed a cup of soup and a small piece of animal meat, and are kept on that routine for many weeks. The consequence of this treatment is, that patients of the most robust habits are soon reduced to skeletons. In a few desperate cases, it is said that the new treatment effects a change of the system that is for the time beneficial, whilst in most other instances it is fatal to the unhappy invalids. Indeed we understand, on the whole, that there are not any well- authenticated cases of cures being effected by either system, which would not have taken place by temperate diet and exercise, and by the remedies prescribed in regular medical practice.—. Scotsman. CHEAP FARES ON THE THAMES.— A Company called the " Thames Economical Steam Boat Company" has just been started. It professes to have for its object the providing for the public a safe, and economical steam communication, assisted by all the advantages experience and improved science can at present suggest; to ply from London Bridge to the most convenient landing places on the Middlesex and Surrey sides of the river, to Battersea, Vauxhall, and Chelsea, and from London Bridge to Greenwich, Blackwall, and Woolwich. It is likewise proposed that each shareholder shall receive free passage tickets to the amount of his subscrip- tion, which ( says the prospectus) is perfectly apparent can be given without injuring the general interest of the Company; it being a matter of no importance whatever in the working expenses of the boats, whether they carry or not every trip, free from charge, a few of their own proprietors, whilst the bonus of free tickets will increase the value of each share to its owner of £ 100 per cent., thereby offering a legitimate inducement far the subscription of capital to effect an important public benefit. HEALTH OF LONDON.— Our readers will have observed that since the cessation of the intense heat which prevailed in August, the weekly deaths in the metropolis have steadily declined, and have fallen below the averages. We this week pass from the summer to the autumn average, and the influence of a change of season will be here manifested. The weekly summer are to the weekly autumnal deaths as 898 to 1000. Diseases of the brain and nervous system appear to be now most prevalent and fatal. Contagious and epidemic diseases are reduced below the averages. The deaths from diarrhoea and typhus, taken individually, are above the autumnal average but then small- pox, scarlet fever, measles, and hooping- cough are considerably below the average. It speaks well for the extended influence of vaccination, when, out of a population of nearly two millions, there were only thres deaths from small- pox during the week, and these occurred in infants! Diseases of the organs of respiration have also just now less than their average fatality.— Medical Times. A dangerous case of Erysipelas, attended with swelling and inflammation, cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Extract of a letter, dated East Keal, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, Oct. 8, 1845 :—" I beg to announce to you a most wonderful cure wrought upon myself by your Ointment r. nd Pills. I had a very severe attack of Erysipelas in my right foot and ancle, with swelling and inflammation to an alarming extent. I was unable to move without the assistance of crutches. I consulted an eminent physician to no purpose ; however, in less than two weeks, by the use of your Ointment and Pills I was cured, to the surprise of all who knew me. Signed, Joseph Gildon ( ft farmer.) THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1 846. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with accounts of the late inundations. Two Cabinet Councils had been held, and energetic measures decided upon. The Moniteur publishes four Royal ordinances, on the reports of the Ministers of Commerce, Interior and Public Works. The first orders an extraordinary credit of 1 OOO. OOOf. to provide for the urgent expen- diture required for a special distribution of aid to the sufferers hv the recent inundations ; the second is for credit of 400.0001., for relief to the hospitals, Bureaux de Charite, and other benevolent institutions ; the third is for 200,000;. to be employed in repairing the damage cniised by the inundations to the roads, canals, embankments of livers, & c.; and the fourth orders a credit of 1,500, OOOf to be employed on roads generally. In consequence of the catastrophes which have been caused by the inundations in the south of France, there will be no fetes on the occasion of the Royal marriages. PORTUGAL. We have received from Lisbon the Diarlo do Governo of the 14th instant. Viscount d'Oliveira, Minister of Finance, having given in his resignation, M. de Souza- Azevedo has been appointed in his place. The Diario announces that the news received by the government from Castello Branco, Abrantes, Serpa, Deja, and Estremoz, is satisfactory. The population and the troops, it was said, had everywhere submitted without resistance to the Queen's orders. " It is to be believed," adds the Diario, " that her Majesty's orders will have equally been observed in the northern provinces, intelligence from which is every moment expected." UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. The Hibernia mail steamer arrived at Liverpool yesterday, from Boston and Halifax, with news eight days later than that received by the Great Western. The intelligence from the seat of war in Mexico is n ghly important, the city of Monterey having been taken by the Americans after several days' hard fight- ing and severe loss on both sides, the Mexicans making a gallant and skilful resistance. The commercial accounts from the United States are of the highest moment. A great advance has taken place in all the provision markets. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 22nd supply little of importance. The Gazette of the following day, was expected to contain a decree for the dissolution of the Cortes. All objections to the return of Don Henri to Spain have been removed, and it is thought he may render great services to the country in his capacity as naval officer. Madrid was represented as being per- fectly tranquil. Accounts from Lisbon to the l? th had reached Madrid, but the only news of importance was that the general assembly of the Bank of Lisbon had come to a resolution to lend the Queen's Govern- ment 300,000,000 reis. The Duke de Pamelia had demanded his passports to France. CITY POLICE. INDIA. THE BOMBAY MAIL. Despatches in anticipation of the mail which left Bombay on the 1st instant have been received. The intelligence thus brought is not of much political im- portance. At Lahore everything remained quiet, the troops were healthy, and were expecting an early visit of inspection from the Governor- General. Lall Singh betrayed great anxiety as the time for the departure of the British forces approached. From Cabul there were, as usual, rumours of intrigues and insurrections. A report that an English army would invade Peshawur upon the arrival of the cold season, had prodnced much alarm, and it was said that proposals for a treaty of alliance would be made to Lord Hardinge. An insurrection had broken out in Cashmere, fomented, it is reported, by the Lahore Durbar; and a force sent against the insurgents by Gholab Singh had been defeated with some loss. Several English officers who were visiting the country had been seized, and would be detained as hostages, though no fears were enter- tained for their safety. Cholera was stili raging in Scinde, and provisions were so enormously scarce and dear that an absolute famine was apprehended. At Bombay there was no news. Trade was rather dull, and all transactions on a very limited scale. A volcano had appeared on Saddle I.- land in the Red Sea. C1RCASSIA. The news from Circassia, which comes down to the 27th of August, is of great and thrilling interest A Russian deserter to the Circassians, Baki Delli seu by name, who, obtaining influence with the various tribes, has been raised to an import- ant command, has made a successful " razzia" on the Russian territory, at a period when he was the least expected ; the con- sequences were that the enemy, being attacked suddenly, made but a feeble resistance, and cannon and large quantities of ammunition fell into the hands of Baki Dellisseu Several native tribes who had submitted formerly to Russia, elated with this succes , revolted in a mass, and abandoning the Russian possessions fled to the mountains o Maden Dagli, distant about 40 miles from the frontier. The Russian General in command led in person an expedition against them. The issue was a series of disasters on both sides, notwithstanding that the Russians succeeded in taking some 200 prisoners, of whom 170 were cruelly murdered during the retreat of the army to their fortress, having been shot by command of the General This fact alone suffices to demonstrate how this cruel and disastrous war is carried on in Circassia — It is worthy of attention that there are at present in the Caucasus some 20,000 to 30 000 Russian deserters. 5000 Poles, and other foreign adven- turers, w ho have lately placed themselves under the command of this Baki Dellisseu ; consequently the Russians will here- after have to do with their own countrymen, Europea tactics, a mooniainous country, and with semi- barbarous civilized, Circassians. ( AN ADA. The following is an extract of a letter from Canada by last aiail:— u I have no time to touch on politics as I consider that there is no longer a hope of these provinces remaining much longer as attached to the Crown. The system of government has been precisely adapted to encourage treason and to trample on lovalty. I have taken the opinion of many most respectable residents, and who not only deplore the line of conduct which has been pursued, but appear to have abandoned all hope of amendment. Some ( acts became known to myself as regards the characters who have been entrusted with the commission of the peace, and who would have disgraced the office of parish constable in any other country. Several gentlemen have called on me, and expressed their regret at my having left the province, but I did not hesitate in a single case to tell them that I could not have been of the slightest service, as I would not have taken my seat at the council board with such characters as had been admitted; in fact, such a detail of outrages against the prospe- rity, loyalty, and position of the gentry of this country has no equal." SWITZERLAND. Our accounts from Switzerland announce a movement at Basle similar to that at Geneva. The republicans will thus obtain in the federal diet a majority sufficient to enact the expulsion of the Jesuits, and the dissolution of the league of the seven cantons. THE KAFFIR WAR. Cape of Good Hope, Sept 3' By a letter just received from the seat of war, from the Governor, we are happy to find that he continues in good health in his encampment near the Buffalo Poorts. The Kaffirs have avoided bringing matters to the issue of a battle; and, indeed, there is no forcing them to it with the means they have of evading it— in the knowledge of. every mountain and brake and bushy path ( which are, in fact, no other than the tracks and lairs of wild beasts which frequent these parts); and requiring no commissariat train, they can easily, by movements stealthily made by day or night, as best suits the occasion, continue to elude us and avoid anything like a general action. The General was fully aware of these difficulties from the first, but there was one which he had not anticipated— namely, the breaking down of his commissariat by reason of the great drought with which it has pleased God to afflict the colony ; and this, of course, has sorely retarded him and crippled all his movements. Writing to his family from the camp, he says " The outskirts of the camp present a sad sight; the poor oxen lie stretched all around, without a prospect of their being able to rise again. It is touching to gaze upon them, they look so meek." Five months have passed since the General left us for the frontier, during which time his health has been mercifully preserved to him, and he bears with serenity all his trials, which they who know his Christian confidence and meekness will best understand. The Kaffir chieftain, Stock, together with 40 of his followers, have come in, and given up their arms. This man was sup- posed to be always more friendly to us than the rest; neverthe- less he took part against us till he saw himself in danger of being hunted down and shot, as orders had been given to scour the bush in which he had taken shelter. - We now wait in hope of hearing some good results from the forward movement made by Sir A. Stockenstrom's and Lieut. Colonel Johnstone's divi- sion, which the General has sent across the River Kei. We are assured that the drought threatens to prove more destructive to the colony than these Kaffirs have been. For hundreds of miles not a blade of grass is to be seen. The fields are bare, and hard as the road ; and, even if forage could be procured, yet is there no water. But we live - in hope that a kind Providence will shortly send rain, and relieve us of this urgent necessity. From all we hear, it appears that the Kaffirs also are suffering much from want of corn, and we earnestly trust they will soon be compelled by their necessities to give over the contest, ar. d sub- mit themselves. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24. VAGRANCY John Groves was brought up by Policeman Doughty for begging in the streets last night. He has been frequently cautioned by the police to discontinue his practices, but as he has not attended to them he was brought up this morning, and sentenced to seven days' imprisonment. Reuben Goulthorp, sub- contractor on the railway works near this city, charged Sarah Thomas with stealing two sovereigns from him last night. Goulthorp, it appears, met the prisoner at the Navigation Inn, Lowesmoor, and after drinking with her some time, accompanied her to her house in the Blockhouse, where he alleged the money was stolen ; but as no case could be made out against her she was discharged. MONDAY. THE CAD NUISANCE George Crisp, one of the numerous fraternity of cads, was brought up on a warrant charged with assaulting Mr. Phillip Beesley, bookkeeper at the Unicorn Hotel, Bioad- street. Mr. Beesley stated that he was standing at the office door on Friday evening last, waiting the arrival of an omnibus, and on its arrival the prisoner came up and began pulling the luggage about, whereupon he was ordered off; but instead of obeying the order he began abusing Mr. Beesley in a most shameful manner, " sparring" at him, and eventually seizing him by the coat and forcibly pulling him out of the office. The offence having been proved, and he having been several times previously convicted of similar offences, he was sentenced to pay a tine of 3/., or six weeks' imprisonment. DRUNK AND DISORDERLIES— Jane Powell made her twelfth appearance before their worships for being drunk and creating a disturbance in Silver- street on Sunday evening last, and breaking the windows of the Crown and Anchor public- house, Silver- street. She appears to be quite an adept at this business, taking especial care not to injure herself in the operation, as she takes the precaution of folding her shawl round her hands before she commences. She was sent to prison for one month Phcebe Gardener was brought up by Policeman Powell charged with being drunk and creating a disturbance on Saturday night last. She is an old offender, but in consideration of her not" having paid their worships a visit for two years, she was let off on promising better behaviour for the future. FELONY.— John White and John Hargest were brought up this morning, remanded from Saturday, on a charge of stealing a parcel of'soap, about 91bs., from the shop of Mr. Hector Beeken, of the Corn Market, on Friday night last. The pri- soners and another man, not apprehended, were seen lurking about near the shop by Samuel Smith, shopman to Mrs. Nicholls. White was seen to walk into the shop by Smith, and immediately after walk across the Corn Market towards the Trinity, followed by Hargest, who is we'll known to the police, and has been previously convicted. Information having been given to the police, Sergeant Saunders and Sergeant Bateman succeeded in coming up with the prisoners in Birdport, and apprehended Hargest and White, but the third managed to escape. Hargest, when apprehended, said he had not been in the Corn Market since Friday morning, Miss Beeken proved leaving the shop for a tew minutes, and 011 her return missing the soap. The prisoners were committed for trial at the Sessions. TUESDAY. Ann Haldanby, housemaid to F. T. Elgie, Esq., Sheriff of this city, was committed to take her trial at the next sessions for stealing a bottle of port wine, two wine glasses, a gold seal, and various articles of wearing apparel, the property of her master. The articles were found in the prisoner's boxes. Samuel Lusted, " navie," was brought up in custody of Sergeant Bateman, for being drunk and disorderly in the streets on Monday night. He was reprimanded and dis- charged. WEDNESDAY. A young woman named Elizabeth Ferkins, an inmate of the workhouse, was charged by the governor with refusing to work, otherwise behaving in" an unruly manner, and using dreadful imprecations towards him. she was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour. THURSDAY. Joseph Hoar, a young fellow recently liberated from our county prison where he has been exercising on the treadmill tor three months, was charged with an attempt at committing a felony. It appears that on Wednesday the fellow had been at the shop of Air. Gibbs, baker, of St. John's, offering memoran- dum books for sale, and after leaving the shop retufned in the absence of the inmates, and was helping himself to the contents of the till when he was detected by Miss Gibbs, and handed over by her brother to policeman Grubb. He was sentenced to two months' further exercise at the treadmill. John Farr, of the Blockhouse, was charged with receiving a pocket of hops knowing them to have been stolen. The hops belonged to Mr. F. Woodhouse, of Leominster, and were missed on Wednesday. The accused was remanded until to- morrow, the thief not being vet in custody. John Wilson, a respectable looking mechanic, a stranger in this city, was charged with stealing a pair of shoes and a shawl from the the house of Alfred Wall, Charles Street. The pri- soner denied the accusation in the most solemn manner, and the case was remanded until this day ( Friday). John Phillips and John Kinsey, two bad characters well known to the police were charged with stealing a shawl from a woman of equal repute named Elizabeth Pritchard; but there being no satisfactory proof of felonious intent they were dis- charged. THIS DAY ( FRIDAY.) Elizabeth Chambers, of the Blockhouse, was brought up in custody of Policeman Grubb, on a remand, charged with making a false declaration. It appeared when the prisoner was taken before the magistrates yesterday, that she had pawned some articles for a neighbour, and delivered up to the ownef the pawnbroker's duplicate. Subsequently, however, she attended before a magistrate, and in the usual manner made a solemn declaration that stie had lost the duplicate, 011 which she obtained the goods out of pledge, and pawned them again elsewhere for a larger sum than that originally obtained by her for the legal owner. It was on this charge that she was remanded, but last evening, Grubb having seaiched her house, found a large number of duplicates of propti'ty, ot various kinds, which she had pledged at different times. On making urther inquiries, he ascertained that a portion of this property had been appropriated by the prisoner while engaged as char- woman at the houses of different tradesmen in this city, and consequently she aas this morning charged with felony, and rt mar. ded to Tuesday next, for further examination. We may mention, that Grubb has now in his possession a number of duplicates of property pledged by the prisoner, and which it is suspected she did not honestly come by. ASSAULT Thomas Aubiey, was fined Is. and 10s. costs, for assaulting Sarah Ciumpton, 011 Saturday night last, near ' lie Budge, giving her a biack eye and tearing her bonnet. Fi: LON Y. — John Wilson, remanded from yesterday, was brought up : * gain on t! ie charge of stealing a pair of shoes and a shawl, the proper of Alfred Wall, of the Blockhouse. The case was satisfactorily proved by Eliza Brundish, who keeps a lodging house in Dolday, and who stated that the prisoner came to her house between 9 and 10 o'clock on Wednesday evening, and said he wanted lodgings for the night, fie offered a pair of shoes for sale at her iiouse, and a lodger, named Williams, gave him 2. v. 6d. for them; and witness bought the shawl for 9'/. He then left saying he was going to fetch his box; but he never returned. \\ ; ill and his wife identified the property, and the prisoner was committed for trial. at the house, and having partaken rather freely of the " barley bree," represented himself to Marshall, the superintendent, as the landlord, and was at the same time very abusive. Under this misunderstanding the information was laid ; but this being the first offence, and the house and its proprietor having in general an irreproachable character, the magistrates mitigated the penalty to 5s., with 10s. 6d. costs. DESERTION A man named Swingler, a well- sinker, was brought up in custody for having deserted his children, and left them chargeable to the parish of Lower Sapey, since the 15th of July last. It appeared that defendant had already been in Worcester countv gaol for one month for a similar offence, and from which he'had only been liberated a few weeks. De- fendant offered to take his children from the union house, and provide for them, and was therefore discharged. STEALING AN UMBRELLA— A woman named Brace, the wife of a pensioner, appeared, having been previously taken before J Stinton, Esq., and discharged upon her promise to appear this day, to answer a charge of stealing, on Thursday, the 22nd instant, an umbrella from the house of Mr. John Griffiths, the Queen's Arms Inn. The magistrates being of opinion that it was not taken with a felonious intention, dis- missed the case. FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER. THE TEA DUTIKS.— We join cordially in the satisfac- tion expressed by several ot our contemporaties at learning that an association of some of the most extensive merchants connected with our trade in the Easl is in course ot formation, lor the purpose of devising the best means for obtaining a reduction 011 the impolitic and ui josi duty on tea. In whaler It- lit we view this impost— whether 111 its eff, ct on our industry 01 on the social ami uioial condition o' . he classes ciilefh engaged therein or whether we IOOK at wllal may appear to siine the LARGER interests ol the question, bearing as the) do immediately on our commercial relations with China— we cannot but allow that it is the inos impor. ant financial and mercantile question of the da\. Hie public pa\ tor tlie lea consumed in tlu> coonir\ not less han £ 10 tjOO. OOO sterling per annum, of w hich one- hall— a sum nearly equrl 10 the entire property and income tax— jjots to the state in the shape 01 dui). Oi the other hall, nearlv three filths are expended in the employment ol the people in making up manufactures suned to the China market. To the extent of this trade no limits can be placed, other than that ot the ability ol the Chinese to tive us returns. Hitherto tea lias been the chief articie furnishing such leiurns. Tea, as it is generally known, is but ihe leaves of shrubs, picked at certain seasons and ai; es of the plan:, cured and inaae up by manual labour. Industry, theietore, is the chief element of expense in the cost ot ea, and that is cheaper in China than perhaps in any other countiy in ihe world. Such beaig the case, the trade of the two countries resolves itself into an exchange of the most direct products ot each other's industry, to ihe mutual supply of which there are no natural boundaries.—- Liverpool Courier. WORCESTER ( COUNTY) PETTY SESSIONS. SHIREHALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27. Magistrates present,— John Williams, Esq., Rev. J. Pearson, Rev. J. Foley. T. G. Curtler, and C. E. Hanford, Esqrs. DESERTING EMPLOYMENT.— Wm. Hemus, bailiff to Mrs. Ann Mitton, of Norton- juxta- Kempsey, summoned William Eginton, servant in husbandry, for leaving his employ before the expiration of his term of service. The case being proved, he was fined 7s., including expenses— Mr. Roberts, of White Lady Aston, charged William Pratt with leaving his service without leave. The prisoner alleged as his reason for leaving the service of his master that he had not enough to eat. He admitted that he had plenty of bread, beer, and potatoes, but not enough beef. This was satisfactorily denied, and he was fined 6s., including expenses. J as. Gardener, driver of one of the Kidderminster omnibuses, appeared to answer a complaint of carrying more passengers than he is allowed by law. He had on this occasion ten outside passengers and nine inside, the lawful number being eight out- side and eight, inside. The offence was admitted by Gardener, and it being his first offence, and on his promising not to offend again, he was fined 5s. only, and 7s. Od. expenses WORCESTER COURT OF PLEAS— MONDAY, OCT. 26 ( Before Mr. Sidebotlom.) CLOSE v. DAVIS.— Mr. James Close sued Mr. Stephen Davis for a debt of 15/. Us. Id., due for lead supplied to the defendant, and which lead, it was alleged, the defendant had used in the repairs of the Unicorn Hotel, Broad Street. The plea was the general issue. Two witnesses were called to prove the delivery of the lead, and the value of it; after which Air. G. Finch, attorney, proved that he had written to defendant for the debt, which was originally laid at 151. 5s.; defendant, however, said that the amount was only 15/. 3s., which he would pay as soon as the job at the Unicorn was completed. The defendant was asked to give the plaintiff an order to receive the money from Messrs. Higgins, but he refused to do so, saying that he would receive his own money. The Jury immediately returned a verdict, for the 15/. 3s. BROMSGROVE PETTY SESSIONS. TUESDAY, OCT. 27. Magistrates present— Rev. W. Vernon, W. H. Ricketts, and G. F. Iddins, Esqrs. ASSAULT John Nicholls, of Redditch, charged Henry Heath and his wife with assaulting him on the 12th of October. Nicholls said that he went to defendant's house to serve a dis- tress warrant, and he was violently assaulted by Heath and his wife. The case was proved to the satisfaction of the bench, and Heath was fined 13s. ( id., and 6s. 6d. costs, and his wife was fined 6d., with 6s. 6d. costs Mr. Thomas Knight, of Hales- owen, was summoned by Thomas Edwards for an infringement of the Bromsgrove New Town Improvement Act, namely, for leaving hampers of fruit on the causeway in Worcester Street, opposite the Sampson Inn. Mr. Doogood appeared for the Town Commissioners, and stated that they did not wish to inflict a heavy fine, but merely a nominal one. Fined Is., and 10s. lOd. costs. PERSHOKE PETTY SESSIONS. TUESDAY, OCT. 27. Magistrates present— C. E. Hanford, F. Eyston, F. Holland, and J. Y. Bedford, Esqrs. Threecountrvmen, named Andrews, Huberts, and Woodward were charged with assaulting P. C. Ball, at the village of Crop- thorne It appears that on toe 23rd instant Andrews and Roberts were engaged at fisticuffs, when the complainant ordered them to cease, and requested the bystanders to aid him in keeping the peace ; they, however, not only refused to do so, but set upon ihe unlucky policeman, who was beaten and kicked ; he, however, succeeded in taking Andrews and Roberts into custody. On Saturday last Andrews was committed for three months, and Roberts for one month. Woodward was this day fined 19s. 6d. for the part he took in the proceedings. BROMYARD PETTY SESSIONS. MONDAY, OCT 26. Magistrates present— John Freeman ( Chairman) and Joseph Stinton, Esqrs, and the Revs. W. P. Hopton and W. Cooke. ORCHARD ROBBERY— Edward Chandler and George James, appeared in answer to a summons for having stolen a quantity of walnuts from an orchard, the property of Mr. Richard Ricketts. Fined 2s. 6d. each, with Is damage, and 13s. costs. BEER- HOUSE CASE — John Coucher, of the New Inn, Cradley, was summoned for suffering drinking in his house during the hours of divine service on Sunday, the I8th instant. It appeared that a supernumerary in the hop excise was lodging Black continues to be the favourite colour for walking dresses in velvet, silks, or woollen materials. Damas will be fashion- able for soirees as well as the promenade, reps brochts. Plaids and stripes, particularly the carreau royal, reps bluet, taffetas d' Italie, & c. & c. rank among the principal materials for winter toilettes. Double and triple skirts are not so much used, but the trimmings on robes de soirees are very deep in gauze, tulle, or ribbon, rendering the skirt bouffante, increasing rather than lessening the width. Many of the richer materials are made with trains for full dress a little raised in front; and the corsages with points both before and behind. The caracos, basques, and waistcoat corsages— all that has been attempted to recal the costumes of by- gone days— are now to give place to the Diana style, and a kind of tight body confined at the waist and widening on the hips. Embroidery in soutache is superseded by the new gimps of every width mixed with beads and chenille ; the zephyrine is executed in silver, gold, silk, or worsted, and is equally applicable for dresses, coiffures, bonnets, caps, cordelieres & c. Ribbon is also very generally used this season ; long broad ceintures are much worn, called tcharpes; the new ribbons are very elegant, either brocaded or with edges resem- bling blond, termed guipure ribbon. For morning wear, the finest cachemires and cloth dresses are worn, the latter with gimp trimming, the former with flounces festonnls and embroi- dered ; some are of so deep a tuck as to have the effect of a double skirt. Mantes of taffetas d? Italie, lined with sarcenet, the small sleeves lightly wadded, replace the visiles of summer; the form is pretty, reaching low behind, with one and sometimes three pelerines. Marquises of satin form short mantelets in front; the sleeves are formed in the material ; these are trimmed with a very deep flounce; the manteau Infanta is, in the Spanish style, of black velvet, with large collar trimmed with rich laces ; besides these we have the Houliire, Mauresque, Garrick, and Grecian. Bonnets have undergone but little change ; the form is small, and lace trimmings much in favour ; bavolets are added to the winter bonnet; velvet ones are much enlivened by coloured linings ; cerise is a favourite mixture with them ; the fashion- able colours for velvet, or velours ipingle, are myrtle green, violet, or blue jacinthe, and black, ornamented with velvet flowers, frequently of the same colour. For children, the gypsy form in beavers is preferred ( From ihe l. ondon and Paris Ladies' 1 Magazine of Fashion.'''') Hccai iiailfcoap Intelligence We are now arrived at the close of the month of October, and although surveyors have been seen in this neighbourhood apparently revising some of the incomplete surveys of last autumn, as yet 110 declaration of any new railway projects for this county has been made to the public. In the absence of any positive information, however, we believe we may state with truth that the Great Western Company will renew the application to Parliament next session for a lino from Wor- cester to Hereford by way of Malvern, and the London and North Western Company are said to be actively preparing for the next campaigu. A line from Weedon to Worcester and Hereford, to join the Newport, Hereford, and Abergavenny Railway, is one of the contemplated undertakings for which, according to a contemporary, powers will be sought next session, by this Company, and in conjunction or co- operation with theMidland CountiesCompany the authority of Parliament is to be applied for to sanction some other schemes for com- pleting the railway communication of this district with the east and west, including the Warwick and Cheltenham ( Ash- church) and Cheltenham and Malvern lines. On the subject of the last- mentioned scheme, a correspondent of the Hereford Journal writes as follows:—" We noticed last autumn that this project had been surrendered to the Midland Company, and that the latter had agreed to pay the expeuses incurred by the promoters of the former. It is known that the Mid- land went to Parliament for the line and were defeated on standing orders; we regret, however, to hear that they have not carried out their agreement with this Company, although the Directors on the basis of such agreement returned the deposits in full to the shareholders. We understand the Mid- land are about to renew the application for this line with certain exteni ons, but we should hope before they proceed further Mr. Hudson will see the propriety of satisfying the claim of the original promoters of this line of railway, and not drive them into a court of law." The following are last night's quotations of local railway shares in the London market:— Share I ( JO Railways, HIGHWAY ROBBERY.— On the ni^ ht of Saturday last, about seven o'clock, a man named Lewis, of the Roclc Hill, near Bromsgrove, stone- mason, was stopped by three men onjthe turnpike road between Droitwicli and Bromsgrove, and robbed of 21. 2s. ( id. He had been drinking at several public- houses in Droiiwich, at one of which he had inadvertently put a sovereign down on the table in payment for a jug of ale, mistaking it for a shilling, and being [ at the lime rather in liquor. He was knocked down in the ditch by the side of the road, and pretty well rolled in the mud, but was not hurt ; and after rifling his pockets she vagabonds made off, and no clue as to who they were has yet been discovered. THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S CHARGE.— The Bishop of London, in his charge just delivered to the clergy, said, with reference to the Evangelical Alliance, that it was " an association which contains within itself the elements of disunion, and must soon crumble into pieces, if it be not turned into a mere instrument of aggression against the Established Church." O11 the subject of the recent con- versions to Romanism his Lordship made the following remarks:— The efforts which have for some time past been systematically made to revive amongst the members of our own commtmion opinions and practices which have been usually regarded as peculiar to the Church of Rome neces- cessarily tend, as I have before observed, to perplex and unsettle sensitive and imperfectly constituted consciences and to prepare them for an acknowledgment of the paramount authority of that church, which, as it concedes nothing, nor admits the possibility of its erring, even in the minutest feature of that complicated system, which was stamped with the character of uuchangeableness by the decrees of the Council of Trent, has manifestly a great advantage in dealing with unstable and doubtful minds, when evesp one step has, been taken in advance towards that system. This is especially the case with females, the natural constitution of whose minds disposes them to rest upon the authority of others; while their livelier sensibilities are more easily excited and satisfied by an aesthetic and ceremonial form of religion. Indeed, it is in minds of this class— even in our own sex also with some exceptions— that a Romanising tendency is most perceptible. Some few there are who seem to have been caught in the meshes of their own subtility others appear to be perplexed by erudition ill- digested and misapplied; but a great number of those persons who have been, unhappily, perverted ( and, after all, how inconsiderable is that number in comparison with those who hold fast the truth without wavering) seem to have been misled bv the treacherous light of a practical mysticism, following the guidance, not of their reason, but of imagination, or to nave fallen a prey to Romish sophistry for want of sound and well- digested theological learning. We must, I fear, look for more instances of perversion occasioned by these causes, and it behoves the clergy to be prepared with a competent store of reasons wherewith to combat the delusive arguments of Romish emissaries, and to establish and settle the faith of the weak- hearted members of their flocks. The present is too plainly a time at which it is most needful for those who stand on the watch towers of the church to observe the approaches of the adversary, and to cry aloud to every soul that is given to them in charge, " Stand fast in ihe liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again in the yoke of bondage." DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES IN QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM. — This annual celebration took place on Thursday, Lurd Lyuleton, Principal of the College, in the chair. Among other successful students, the following, con- nected with ibis county, obtained prizes, viz.:— First medal ( Anatomy). Mr. C. W. Izod, Hanbury ; first medal ( Materia Medica), Mr. Samuel Hughes. Dudley ; firs! medal ( Medicine), Mr. A. H. Paterson, Stourbridge; first medal ( Botany), Mr. Samuel Hughes, Dudley; first medal ( Forensic Medicine), Mr. A. H. Paterson, Stourbridge. At the conclusion of the business, Lord Lyttelton having vacated his seat, Richard Spooner, Esq., M. P., moved a vote of thanks to the Noble Lord, and. in doing so, complimented him highly for the very great attention he had paid to the interests of the College. The Noble Lord returned ihanks, and the proceedings terminated. SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO MR. NEJVDEGATB, M. P.— On Saturday evening the most painful rumours were in circulation in Birmingham relative to the result of an accident which happened to the above gentleman while hunting, on Friday last. We are glad, however, to be able to say that, although he has met with a serious accident, and one calculated at first to cause much alarm to his friends, there is now, happily, no danger whatever to be apprehended. The facts are these :— On Friday last the Hon. Gentleman joined the hunt with the Atherton pack, and continued in the enjoyment of the sport until he came to a brook at Ansley, a distance of about three miles from his own residence. Here the water, owing to the recent heavy rains, had overrun the bank, and the Hon. Gentleman, intrying by increased exertion to clear the water, it is supposed over- stretched his horse; the animal fell, and when on the ground kicked out. struck Mr. Newdegate on the face, and fractured his jaw. The gentlemen in the hunt were instantly up, and the Hon. Gentleman was conveyed to the Rose Inn, where medical assistance was procured, and it was deemed prudent not 10 remove him for the present. However on Monday the Hon. Member was removed borne to Arbury Hall, and is now rapidly improving. He has not been internally hurt, but his jaw has been fractured in two places. The inquiries relative lo the Hon. Gentleman's health are most numerous, and strongly evince the great esteem in which he is held in the county. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE DERBY RAILWAY STATION. — On Monday last, about two o'clock, a stone- mason, named Marshall," who had been working at the. new gates leading over the railway to the Siddalls, was knocked down by an engine, which passed over his legs and one hand, nearly amputating the latter, as well as inflicting other severe injuries. He was imme- diately conveyed to the Infirmary, and prompt atlention paid to him by Mr. Douylas Fox, the medical officer of the week. Mr. Fox afterwards proceeded to ihe station, and the authorities sent a message by the electric telegraph to Belper, where the man resided, to have his wife in readiness, as a special train would be immediately dispatched to bring her to Derby. This was done, and a fly being in readiness, the poor woman was brought to the lnarmarv some hours earlier ihan could other- wise have been effected. She was also conveyed backwards and forwards yesterday. We regret to say that but little hope is entertained of the man's recovery. No blame attaches to the driver of the engine.— Derby Mercury. SECOND EDITION. Saturday Morning, October 24. 20 50 20 100 50 25 20 20 | Birmingham and Glon" P•! : Do. New ( issu < i 7i Jis, 1 Birmingham mdOxford June. Bristol ; iud Gloucester Buckinghamshire .. Great Western Do Half Shares Do. Quarter Shares Do. Fifths — . Leicester and Birmingham .. Stock' London and North Western.. Aver. | London and South Western.. 41 6 10 09 40 I Manchester and Birmingham Stock Midland North Staffordshire Northampton, Ban. and Chel Ox., Wor., & Wolverhampton Shrew., Wolv.,& S. Staf. Jun Shrewsbury and Birmingham Shropshire Union...... . South Wales Warwickshire and London Welsh Midland Paid Cluing . rices. Business Done. IU0 129 — 131 130 ' 30 — 32 j 5— 5 pm 7 30 20 — 22 pm 42s. 1 — J dis 85 51 — 51 pm 137 50 29— 31 pm 80 10 9i— l^ i I'm 191 20 1J — IL pin 30^ 22s. — dis 100 198 — 200 200 ti9 — 69 40 74 — 76 75 100 135 — 137 136 42s. — 2£ pm 2 pm 2 3— i dis 12{ 6 — 5i dis 61 3 par — % P" 1 3a 42s. 4- t dis 4 dis 5 — 1 dis 3s 1 42s. 2J If— 1J dis THE OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON.— Active operations have been commenced upon this line in the vicinity of Kidderminster. A number of men are busily- employed near the Mare and Colt public- house on the Wor- cester road, and we are informed that it is the intention of the contractors to commence in several other places on the line in the course of a few days. An unauthorised issue of scrip of the Wexford, W'aterford, and Valentia Railway Company has been discovered, to the extent of £ 17,0G0, for which sum no credit has been given to the company. The directors iutend, it is said, to make up the deficiency amongst themselves, and not to make the matter one of public inquiry. Captain Richardson, who recently figured so unpleasantly at the London Mansion House, was deputy chairman of this company.— Limerick Chronicle. IMMENSE TRAINS.— Two luggage trains passed by the Rugby station on Saturday on the London and North Western Railway, one of which consisted of 96 carriages containing nearly 400 tons of merchandise, & c., impelled by one of Stephenson's new patent six- wheeled engines and two others. The other train consisted of 84 carriages, and contained 384 tons of goods, drawn by one of the new patents and two com- mon engines. The length of the first traiu was upwards of a quarterof amtle, extending from the platform to the first bridge. SPEE D OF ENGINES.—— Competition for rajlwav speed is going on. The Great Western, it is said, are about to build an engine with eight wheels, still larger than the " Great Western," but with the weight more equally distributed over a greater number of wheels, so that it will not press on any one point with so great and incessant weight as their " Great Western," and will unite all the improvements which the working of the latter has pointed out. The engineers of the narrow guage are not idle in the work of seeking for greater speed. Mr. G. Stephenson has more than one engine ready which are to accomplish fiO miles an hour. The Brighton Company also have two engines which are to make the journey of 50 miles within an hour. STOCKS.— Bank Stock, 204; 3 per Cent. Red 93; 3 per Cent. Con., 94J; New 3$ per Cent., 95; Cons, for Acct., 9JJ Long Annuities, 10 ; India Stock, 257 ; India Bonds, — ; £ 1,000 Excheq. Bills. il. CORN EXCHANGE FRIDAY*.— At this day's market English Wheat sold slowly at Monday's prices. Free foreign held firmly, but not much passing in good qualities, although the low inferior sorts were in better request for shipment to Ireland. The Barley trade received a check, and but little progress could be made in sales witho. ut yielding to a reduction of is. to 2s. per qr. A liberal arrival of foreign oats completely frustrated any advance generally asked for Irish during the week Wh te peas in good request. Egyptian Beans Is. to 2s. dearer. No change in the value of other grain. SMITH FIELD, FRIDAY.— The supply of beasts extensive and the attendance of buyers small, the beef trade was in a very depressed state. The numbers of sheep small. Calves moved off slowly at late rates. Little business doing in pigs. Beef, 2s. 8d to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton, 4s. 2d. to 5s. 4d.; Veal, 3s. 8d. to 4s. 8d.; Pork, 3s. 8d. to 4s. 6d. BANKRUPTS. Benjamin Edward Walker, Upper Fitzroy Street, Fizroy Square, publican. John Jenkins, Blackland Lane, Chelsea, cowkeeper. Thomas Bradbridge, Wardour Street, Soho, cheesemonger. Edward Bowen, Little Bolton, Lancashire, flour- dealer. Thomas Broady, Chester, chemist, FATAL FIGHT BETWEEN TWO BROTHERS.— On the loih iustant, an inquiry was commenced at Steeple Claydon, Bucks, into the circumstances attending the death of Thomas Shirley, who, it was alleged, had died from injuries received in a pugilistic encounter with his brother Joseph Shirley. The iuquiry was twice adjourned, and did not terminate till Friday last, the 23rd instant. It appeared from the evidence adduced that, on the nij; ht of Thursday, the 14th iustant, the deceased and his brother Joseph were, with other persons, drinking until a late hour at the Milk Pail public- bouse in the village of Steeple Claydon. A quarrel occurred between the two brothers, and they went to the patish pound, where a fight took place between them at two o'clock in the morning. Both the men appear to have been intoxicated; but the deceased was admitted to be in a much worse state than his brother. After betweeu 40 or 50 rounds had been fought, Thomas Shirley became insensible, and was carried to his lather's house in the village, where he expired in a very short time. Two surgeons, made a post mortem examination of the body of the deceased, were of opiuion that death was occasioned by blows or a fall. The jtiry returned a verdict of manslaughter against Joseph Shirley, as principal, and against John Pangboume and Richard Cross, who acted as seconds to the combatants, as accessories. Shirley, Pang- bourne, and Cross, who were ill custody, were accordingly committed to Aylesbury Gaol, on the coronet's warrant, for trial at the next assizes. INCENDIARY FIRE AT THE TOWN HALL, SHEFFIELD.— About half- past one o'clock on Saturday morning, a fire was discovered in one of the cells underneath the Town Hull. An ala im was iustautly given, and one of the engines belonging to the Sheffield Fire Office was 011 the spot before a score of persons had lime to congregate, and the fire was subdued before it had extended beyond the cell in which it had origi- nated. It appears that a man named Thomas Gillman had been brought in drunk a short time before, charged with creating a disturbance at Mrs. Askey's, in Watson's- waik, and was placed iu a cell under the office, usually occupied by disorderlies. He had not long taken possession of his quarters when the office- keeper heard him bawiing out that he was cold, and wanted a fire; and ou visiting him found that the straw in the cell was on a blaze. The drunken incendiarj ( who had, it appears, set fire to the straw with lucifer matches), aud four other prisoners from adjoining cells were couvejed to Mr. Fordham's, the Black Rock, and left 111 ciiai- e . n officers. It was a fortunate circumstance that tie once had 1 tie presence ot' mind to remove the prisone » iiom toe locality where the fire originated, or the consequences iniyht have proved fatal, o wug to the suffocaiiug sujuke uhicli tilted their cells and other piaces 011 the yrounu floor. ALARMING ACCIDENT IN THE ROYAL ARSENAL.— An aecideut ot a very singular and alarming nature occurred on Tuesday at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and which proves the dauger attending experiments with ordnance, notwith- standing all the precautious used by the talented head of the' proof department, Lieutenaut- Colonei Dundas. At a few minutes before twelve o'clock, the usual hour for proving the new guus supplied by the contractors, at the butt, the men belonging to the proof department were engaged in proving a uuuiber of guns ( 32 pounders.) It is customary to arrange the guus in tiers and lo light the port tires of the whole tier at the same time. The guns in quesiion had been just received from a new contractor, and were being tested with the usual proof charge. When the port tires were ignited one of the guns burst with a loud explosion, and the fragments coming in coQtact with the adjacent gun, turned it completely round, and it went off, sending the ball agaiust the gun that stood next to it, shattering the gun, and breaking the shot to fragments. Another gun afterwards exploded, and its frag- ments striking the adjaceut guu, turned it also round. Fortunately, the port fire of this j^ un fell off, aud it did not uo off, or the consequences might have beeu most disastrous, as the muzzle of the gun was pointed directly towards the convict ship. Four guns were therefore plaied hors de combat— two from explosion and two from the fractures they received from the fragments ot the oiher gun and the effects of the shot. It is stated as a proof ot the soundness of Monk's gun, that of 3,800 proved in the Koyal Arsenal, not a single case of explosiou has . occurred. Ou the same day a labourer named Michael Mauajjan, while in the act of | loweriug a 10- inch gun, weighing 97 cwt., into a vessel loading at the Arsenal, got his hatid eutauyled in the sling, and sustained such injuries that it is thought the amputation of some of his fingers will be necessary. THE BERKELEY QUAHRELLS.— The Hon. Grantley Berkeley, Member for the Western Division of Gloucestershire, has issued a second address to his constituency, wherein he openly declares that " Lord F. tzhardinge has actually signified his intention of withdrawing his support from his brothers, the L. beral Members for Bristol and Gloucester- shire," The eight gentlemen who at a meeting appoved of the Noble Earl's views in respect of the representation of Western Gloucestershire, have published a declaration iu which they gave their chief reason for doing so that the Hon. Mr. Berkeley himself had e. vpi- essed his intention of retiring ; and it appears that a candidate to succeed him was in readiness! We suppose, therefore, that there will be a chance at the next election, it is remarkable that among all these bickerings in the Liberal cump, and the family disputes without, not a word is said concerning the unconstitutional proceeding of a peer interfering iu the election of Members of the Commons House of Parliament. Had a Conservative nobleman attempted lo exercise a tithe of the influence put forth upon this occasion, we do not think this point would be lost sight of. With reference to the representation of West Gloucestershire the Gloucester Journal says:—" We have heard, and have good reason to believe, that the candidate for the Western Division of this county, at the ensuing general election, will be Granville Berkeley, Esq,, brother of Major General Sir George Henry Frederick Berkeley, K. C. B., and second sou of Admiral Berkeley, who formerly represented the county of Gloucester in Parliament," TO THE GOVERNORS OF THE WORCESTER INFIRMARY. My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, IN order to remove the erroneous impression which I find has been industriously circulated that I was the first to begin the present canvass, I have been compelled to publish a correspondence between myself and Mr. Budd in the Wor- cester Journal and Chronicle of October 28th, to which I beg to refer you. There is no doubt that if such an impression were founded on facts, I should have been guilty of a public falsehood and of gross duplicity in attempting to conceal it. In the only case, therefore, where I was permitted to use the name of my inform- ant, I gave Mr. Budd an opportunity of removing the impres- sion he had produced by his statement, or of meeting my asser- tion that he, rather than I, was the first to commence. The correspondence between us speaks for itself as to the course he has thought proper to pursue, and I need only remark that I have permission to give up the name of my informant to any Governor making the application. Again, I assure you most solemnly that nothing should have induced me to come forward in this premature manner but the possession of incontrovertible evidence that Mr. Budd and his friends were already canvassing, and the knowledge that if they had been successful in those applications only of which I was then aware, they would have deprived me of a very considerable number of the promises I was in hopes of obtaining. For the very flattering and encouraging reception you have given me under these circumstances, which cannot but be pain- ful to all parties, 1 beg to tender you my most sincere thanks, And am, My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servant, Worcester, Oct. 27, 184( 3. J. H. WALSH. THE WORCESTERSHIRE IRON COMPANY BEG to inform the Trade and the Public in general, that they have come to a resolution to dissolve the Company. The Shop will remain open a short time for the DISPOSAL OF THE STOCK, which will be SOLD AT VERY REDUCED PRICES, the Directors having determined that the whole shall be cleared off' as quickly as possible, an earl}' inspection is therefore solicited. 21, Broad Street, Worcester, 24th October, 1U46. [ This adrert'sernent will not be repeated.] OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER- H A M PTO N RAIL WAY. Call for Third Instalment of Five Pounds per Share, making Seventeen Pounds Ten Shillings called up per Share. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Directors have _ this day made a CALL OF FIVE POUNDS per Share, payable 011 the 20th NOVEMBER next. The Proprietors are requested to pay such Call to either of the undermentioned Bankers, namely, in London to Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co. Liverpool ,, Messrs. Moss and Co. Stourbridge ,, Messrs Ruffbrds and Wragge. Interest after the rate of £ 5 per Cent per Annum will be charged on all Sums which may remain unpaid after the 20th November. By order of the Board of Directors, NOEL THOS. SMITH, Worcester, 20th Oct., 1848. Secretary. THE WORCESTER NEW GAS LIGHT COMPANY. AT a Meeting of the Directors of the Worcester NEW GAS LIGHT COMPANY, held the 3rd dav of October, 1840, it was resolved that a call of TWO POUNDS TEN SHILLINGS per Share be made forthwith, and paid to the Treasurers, Messrs. Berwick and Co., Bankers, Worcester, on or before the 2nd day of November next. M. PIERPOINT, Worcester, 3rd Oct., 1846. Chairman. OLD MILITARY RIDING SCHOOL, DIGLIS STREET. MESSRS. W. CHAMBERLAIN AND CO. BEG to inform the Public the above Room will be opened on MONDAY, the 2nd of NOVEMBER, on the WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY following, and on the same days of each succeeding week until further notice, for the SALE of an ACCUMULATED STOCK of USEFUL CHINA, to which they would direct the attention of Families, Hotel Keepers, & c. & c., as an excellent opportunity to purchase GREAT BARGAINS in DINNER. DESSERT, BREAK- FAST, TEA, TOILET, ORNAMENT AL CHINA, & c.& c. WINTER FASHIONS. 31, CROSS. R. LILLINGTON RESPECTFULLY makes known his STOCK is now replete with every FASHIONABLE VARIETY of GOODS for the SEASON, in the different Departments of HATTER, HOSIER, FURRIER, and OUT- FITTER; he having selected them with great care from the best Markets enables him to offer every Article on the very best and lowcs terms. Worcester, Oct. 30, 1846. S. STAN NAM, 43, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER, EGS to inform his Friends and the Public in general that his STOCK is now replete with all the usual PLAIN and FANCY GOODS the Season affords in LINEN DRAPERY, SILK MERCERY, HOSIERY, & c., to which he invites special attention. TWO ASSISTANTS WANTED IMMEDIATELY. GENUINE FASHIONS. MESSRS. SCOTT & COMPANY \ DVP^ RTISE to the County Families and Public V of Worcestershire the return of their two Head Milliners from selecting ( be Fi- hions. The MILL! N R Y which will be offered this Season is confidently introduced as the TRUE PARISIAN, and Messrs. Scott & Co. respectfully beg to announce that in consequence of THE FASHIONS being shown in Bath, Cheltenham, and Leamington, the first week in November, THEIR ROOMS WILL BE OPENED FOR THE SEASON ON TUESDAY NEXT. THE FIRM have great pleasure in directing the attention of their esteemed connection to the most elegant and recherche chapeau in the Fashionable Circles of her Majesty's Court, bting an entirely new shape in White Plush Velvet, elegantly Trimmed with Cerise and White Plumes, which has been presented during the week by a Royal Duchess of great influence to the Princess Royal, and having been made to her Highness's express command by the Queen's Milliner ( from whom they have just been fortunate in receiving an exact Copy) promises to be the Gem of this most brilliant Season. N. B.— The Rooms will open at eleven, a. m. CROFT FARM & LIME WORKS, MATHON. E, the undersigned, hereby give NOTICE, that from the date hereof we will not hold ourselves respon- sible for any Debt contracted in our joint Names, and that no Person has authority to make Sales, or give Receipts, for us, on account of the above Estate. JOHN W. BENBOW. GEORGE SHEWARD. Worcester, October 28, 1846. Witness,— D. W. NASH, 7, Foregate Street. PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a Cause, " STINTON v AVERN," Any Person or Persons claiming to be the next of kin of ROBERT BAYLIES, late of Cooper's Hill, Alvechurch, in the County of Worcester, Gentleman, deceased, ( who died in the month of August, 1842, J living at the time of his death ; or any person or persons claiming to be the personal repre- sentative or representatives of any such next of kin as have since died, is or are by their Solicitors, on or before the 15th day of November next, to leave such their respective Claims before John Edmund Dowdeswell, Esquire, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his office in Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, and is or are on the 15th day of December next, to establish such Claim or respective Claims before the said Master, or in default thereof, such person or persons will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Decree, and the General Orders of the Court. W. J. HOLT, 13, Chatham Place, Blackfriars. PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a Cause " STINTON v. AVERN," the Creditors of ROBERT BAYLIES, late of Cooper's Hill, Alvechurch, in the County of Worcester, Gentleman, Deceased, ( who died in the month of August, 1842,) are, by their Solicitors, on or before the 16th day of November next, to leave their Claims of Debts before John Edmund Dowdeswell, Esquire, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Office in Southamp- ton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London ; and are on the 16th day of December next to establish such Claims before the said Master, or in default thereof, such Persons will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Decree and the general orders of the said Court. W. J. HOLT, 13, Chatham Place, Blackfriars, MR. BENTLEY VERY respectfully informs his numerous Friends and the Public that he has entered into PARTNER- SHIP with MR. CHARLES H. SAUNDERS, of KID- DERMINSTER. He trusts that the very liberal patronage he has for so many years been favoured with as an Auctioneer, Appraiser, Estate and House Agent, and Timber Valuer, will be continued to Himself and Partner; and begs to assure the Public their best endeavours will be used to render themselves in every respect worthy of support and confidence. The joint Business will in future be carricd on at Worcester and Kidderminster under the Firm of" Bentley and Saunders." HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE. VALUABLE OAK AND ASH COPPICING, NEAR LEDBURY. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY BENTLEY AND SAUNDERS, At the Feathers Inn, Ledbury, on Monday, the 2nd day of November, 1846, at two o'clock in the afternoon, subject to conditions then to be produced,— TH E following FALLS of most valuable COPPICING, Tithe- free :— LOT 1 Part of NEWS WOOD, in the Parish of Ledbury, adjoining Walms Well, containing about Seven Acres, the Stores marked Red. LOT 2.— Other part of NEWS WOOD, in the Parish of Ledbury, adjoining the last Lot, containing about Seven Acres, the Stores marked White. LOT 3— The lower part of NEWS WTOOD, in the Parish of Ledbury, called the NEW LEASOW, containing about Ten Acres, the Stores marked Red. LOT 4— Part, of the East Side of the FRITH WOOD, in the Parish of Ledbury, adjoining Upper Mitchell Hopyard, containing about Four and a Half Acres, the Stores marked Blue. LOT 5— Other part of the FRITH WOOD, adjoining Bradlow Knoll, containing about Six and a Half Acres, the Stores marked Red. LOT 6— Part of HAYCLOSE COPPICE, near Clencher's> Mill, in the Parish of Eastnor, containing about Eight Acres the Stores marked White. LOT 7— Part of PENDOCK GROVE, in the Parish of Eastnor, adjoining the Fowlet Coppice, near the White- leafed Oak, containing about Two Acres, the Stores marked White. LOT 8— MARTIN'S COPPICE, in the Parish of Eastnor, adjoining Rowick's Grove, containing about One Acre, the Stores marked Red. LOT 9.— Part of a PLANTATION in the Parish of Eastnor, adjoining May Hill Coppice, near the Holts Cottage, containing about Three Acres, the Stores marked Red. LOT 10— Part of MA1NSWOOD, in the Parish of Ash- perton, adjoining the last year's Fall, containing about Four Acres, the stores marked Blue. LOT 11— Other part of M AINSWOOD, in the same Parish, adjoining the last Lot, containing about Four and a Half Acres, the Stores marked Red. LOT 12.— Part of the MILL COPPICE, at Alfrick, in the County of Worcester, adjoining Old Storridge Common and the last vear's Fall, containing about Four Acres, the Stores marked Blue. LOT 13— Other part of the said COPPICE, in the same Parish, adjoining the last Lot, containing about Four and a Half Acres, the Stores marked Red. LOT 14— Part of BLACKHEATH COPPICE, in the Parish ot Mathon, in the County of Worcester, near Mathon Lodge, containing about Two Acres, the Stores marked Red. LOT 15— Part of the SLACK COPPICE, in the same Parish, near Mathon Lodge, containing about Two Acres, the Stores marked White. LOT 16— Part of CASTLE WOOD, in the same Parish, near the last Lot, adjoining Castle Field, containing about Half an Acre, the Stores marked Blue. The Coppices are conveniently situated for the Roads leading to Tewkesbury, Upton, Ledbury, Malvern, Worcester, Mathon, and Bromesberrow. For a view of Lots 1, 2, & 3, apply to John Dance, at his Cottage on Midsummer Hill, near Eastnor; for Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9, to John Pritchard, Woodman, at his Cottage in Clencher's Mill Wood, in the Parish of Eastnor; for Lots 10 & 11, to Mr. Gwillim, of the Brainge, near Putley, who will appoint a Person to show the same; for Lots 12 & 13 to Joseph Booth, Woodman, at his Cottage on Old Storridge Common ; for Lots 14, 15, & 16, to Mr. Racster, at the Spout Farm, near Mathon Lodge, who will appoint a Person to show the same; and for further particulars, to Mr. Watson, Bronsil, Eastnor, near Ledbury. TO BE LET, AND ENTERED UPON ON THE 2ND DAV OF MAY, 1847. ALL those PREMISES situate in the BUTTS and Parish of St. Nicholas, comprising a spacious Yard, Dwelling House, Coach Houses, and extensive Stabling, now in the occupation of Mr. Daniel Meek. REMOVAL. MR. MCGREGOR, Surgeon Dentist, informs his Patients and the Public ( hat he has removed to No. 50, Foregate Street, next door to the Post Office, where he may be consulted daily from Ten till Four o'Clock. WO R C E S T E R TURNPIKES. TOLLS TO BE LET. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that A MEETING of the TRUSTEES of the WORCESTER TURNPIKE ROADS will be held at the SHIREHALL, in the City of Worcester, on THURSDAY, the 12th day of NOVEMBER next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, for LETTING BY AUCTION, to the best Bidder or Bidders, the TOLLS authorised to be demanded and taken on the under- mentioned several Districts of Roads in this Trust, under and by virtue of an Act passed in the 5th and 6th years of the Reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled " An Act for Improving and more effectually Repairing the several Roads leading into and from the City of Worcester," and to be col- lected and received in the manner directed by the said Act, for the Term of One, Two, or Three Years, as shall be then agreed upon, commencing on the lsf. day of January next, in the pike Lots or Parcels, as hereinafter- mentioned, and subject to such Conditions as will be produced at the time of Letting, which said Tolls produce for the current year ( clear of all deductions in collecting them), the Sums following ( that is to say) :— The full TOLLS arising and payable at the several Toll Gates on the LONDON, or First District of the said Roads, viz , the London, Allesborough, Brough- ton Lane, Egdon Hall, Broughton Hackett, and Radford Gates, with the Weighing Machine at the London Gate £ 2,005 The full TOLLS arising and payable at the several Toll Gates on the UPTON, or Second District ot the said Roads, viz., the Upton, Blue Bell, and Croome Gates, with the Gate and Bars at Abbott's Wood... 805 The full TOLLS arising and payable at the several Toll Gates on the POWICK, or Third District of the said Roads, viz., the Powick Gate at Saint John, the Gate in the Village of Powick, and the Gates at Newland, the Waterloo Oak, Malvern Link, Malvern Lane, and Malvern, the Twelve Mile Gate at Little Malvern, and the Gates at Hanley, llhydd Green, Cleaveload, Old Hills, and Pixham Ferry... 2,315 The full TOLLS arising and payable at the several Toll Gates on the BRANSFOR1), or Fourth District of the said Roads, viz., the Bransford Gate at Saint John, the Side Gate at the End of the Watery Lane, and the Gates at Claphill Lane, Leigh Sinton, and Storridge 870 The full TOLLS arising and payable at the several Toll Gates on the BROADWAS, or Fifth District of the said Roads, viz., the Broadwas Gate at Saint John, the Gate and Side Bar at Knightsford Bridge, and the Side Gate at Henwick, with the Weighing Machine at Saint John i 750 The full TOLLS arising and payable at the several Toll Gates on the HENWICK, or Sixth District of the said Roads, viz., the Henwick, Laughern Hill, Sapey, and Holt Gates, the Side Gate near the Blue Bell on Broadheath, and the Bar at the Porto Bello 1,030 The TOLLS as reduced by order of the Trustees, and which are now arising and payable at the several Toll Gates on the BARBOURNE, or Seventh District of the said Roads, viz., the Barbourne, Mitre Oak, and Mitton Gates, with one Half of the Weighing Machine at Claines Gate 740 The full TOLLS arising and payable at the several Toll Gates on the LOWESMOOR, or Eighth District of the said Roads, viz., the Newtown, Rose Hill, Rainbow Hill, Raven's Hill, Crowle, Coddywell, Hallow Field, and Bradley Green Gates 29ft The said TOLLS will be put up in the Eight several Lots or Parcels, and at the respective Sums above- mentioned, and subject to such Conditions as aforesaid. Whoever happens to be the best Bidder or Bidders must, immediately after being declared such, pay down One Month's Rent in advance, as a Deposit ; and in case such Deposit- money shall not be so paid down, the Tolls will be put up again and re- Let; and the best Bidder or Bidders must, at his, her, or their owt Expense, give Security, with two sufficient Sureties, to the satisfaction of the Trustees, for payment of the remainder of the Rent Monthly, and so as One Month's Rent shall at all times be paid in advance ; and such Sureties must attend the Meeting and Sign the Securities for Payment of the said Rent accordingly. By order of the Trustees, JOHN BROOKE HYDE, Clerk. Worcester, 7th October, 1846. STOURBRIDGE ROADS. TOLLS TO LET. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the TOLLS arising at the several GATES and SIDE BARS upon the first District of these Roads, WILL BE LET BY AUC- TION, for One Year, in manner following, viz.:— Lot 1 from the first day of JANUARY next, and Lot 2 from the first day of DECEMBER next, to the best Bidder, at the House of Benjamin Brooks, the TALBOT HOTEL, in STOUR- BRIDGE, on MONDAY, the 9th day of NOVEMBER next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon of the same day, in the manner directed by the Acts passed in the 3rd and 4th years of the reign of his late Majesty George IV., " For Regulating Turn- pike Roads," in the following or such other Lots as shall be agreed upon at the time of Sale. LOT 1 The TOLLS arising at Wordsley, Coalbournhrook, Holloway End, Oldswinford, and Heath Gates, and Side Bars. LOT 2 The TOLLS arising at Farfield and Sheepcoat Gtaes, and Bell End Side Bar. Being the TOLLS arising within the first District of Roads, and which are Let for the present Year for the several sums of £ 2405 for Lot 1, and £ 422 for Lot 2, above the expenses of collecting them. Whoever happens to be the highest Bidder for either of the said Lots, must at the same tiir. e pay One Month's Rent in advance, and give Security with sufficient Sureties for payment of the remainder to the satisfaction of the Trustees of the said Roads, and at such times and in such proportions as they shall direct. G. GRAZEBROOK, Clerk to the Trustee* of the said Roads, Stourbridge, Oet. 5th, 1846, I THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1846. WORCESTER INFIRMARY, Our. 30. Physician and Surgeon for the week, Dr. Nash and Mr. Carden. For the ensuing week, Dr. Maiden and Mr. Sheppavd. In- Patients. j Out- l'atients. Admitted, 16.— Discharged, 18. | Admitted, 20.— Discharged 10. In the House, 90. ACCIDENTS J^ ine Watkins, fractured clavicle; Ann Jenkins, con- tusions; John West, severe burns; Maria Jones, sprained knee; William Wall, compound fractured finger. WORCESTER DISPENSARY, Ocr. 30. Physician and Surgeon for the week, Dr. Nash and Mr. Davis. ' For the ensuing week. Dr. Streeten and Mr. Greening. Patients admitted, 17 ; discharged, 10. STOCKS.— At - io- cl. FRI. SAT. BUS. TUES. WED. THURS Bank Stock 20S 205 205 204 £ 3 per Cent. Red Ann. 93J 93 J 93i 93J m 3 per Cent Cons < Jf){ 95 91 i 91i » ifi 948 Cons, for Account.... 95i 95J 95 915 95 3| per Cent. 1818 3 per Cent. Red New 3$ oer Cent 95J 951 95J 95j 95J 95i 3 perCent. 182ti...... — Bank Lonjj Ann —— 9j 9j 9i India Stoclv. . 257 259 India Bonds —- ' - Excheq. Bills 13 r 13 P 15 r 10 P 10 t> 12 P Wtovtt& ux* FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 80, 1846. LAST WORDS OF LORD RUSSET, ON THE SCAFFOLD. " 7 did believe, and do still, that Popery is breaking in upon " this nation, and those who advance it will stop at nothing " to carry on their designs; and 1 a> n heartily sorry that " so many Protestants give their helping h in i to <;." IN* our last number we showed, by means of a quota- tion from the Quarterly Review, and figures supplied by the official returns of the Board of Trade, that the free importation of foreign grain, far from extending the exports of British manufactures, had a directly contrary tendency ; and this is the case not only with regard to grain, but also with regard to other articles of foreign produce— articles of manufacture, in which it would appear that the foreigners are enabled to beat our Free- Traders even in their own market, and at the very doors of their manufactories. Their cunning, then, by means of which they thought to aggrandize and enrich them- selves bv the sacrifice of the agriculturists, seems likely enough to prove their bane. As is usually the case with very clever people, they have over- reached them- selves by their own cunning. They clamoured for tree Trade ; they obtained it ; and the consequence is that thev are already obliged to commence closing their manufactories; and discontent and grumbling prevail throughout the manufacturing districts. We may take, as one example of the operation of Free Trade, the plate- glass manufacture. The repeal of the duty on this article was, according to the doctrine of the Free- Traders, to give encouragement to a trade not fully developed ; and to elevate an art not sufficiently under- stood. But what has been the real and practical result ? The makers of plate glass in Birmingham and other places declare that their works are neither increased in number nor extended in size, but have been, ou the con- trary, daily declining ever since the removal of the duty. Another class of goods, too, in which Birmingham had hitherto been thought to excel all the world, is suffering great depression from foreign competition; we mean light cast goods, which are now, incredible as it may appear, actually retailed in Birmingham, of German manufacture, at prices with which the Birmingham makers cannot compete. With reference to these two branches of manufacture, the subjoined extract from a local contemporary speaks with a voice not to be mis- understood :— " The action of Sir Robert Peel's tariff is beginning to be felt most disastrously amongst parties who were the most sanguine as to the results. They clamoured for Free Trade, and Free Trade is shutting up their manufactories ; and now, for the first time, they begin to doubt whether they were quite right in playing at ' follow my leader.' " The glass trade ( and the glass trade is not alone in Bir- mingham) is beginning to feel the effects of competition from abroad. It was expected that the repeal of the duty ou glass would make an immense difference in the demand for that article, particularly in plate and sheet glass of all descriptions. Doubtless it has done so, but whether to the advautage of the Englsh maker will be presently seen. The cheapening of the article must unquestionably augment the demand for it, and the superiority of the thicker descriptions of glass for all purposes of permanent wear must bring them more within the reach of the general consumer. " But what the repeal of the tax promised to the trade the new tariff has more than neutralised. The plate glass works • in Birmingham and elsewhere are not extended in size, not increased in numbers, but are absolutely on the decline. The works in operation when the tax was levied upon glass have been ' swamped and crippled' since the alteration in the duties on foreign glass ; and we are informed that foreign competition in that article has already had the effect of turn- ing the tables against the English manufacturer, and has compelled him to diminish the number of his workmen, and, as such, to lessen the, extent of his trade. So much for the action of untaxed labour against labour heavily taxed. " But there are other branches of manufacture as well as the glass trade that are beginning to feel— and will feel most severely ere long— the natural results of one- sided Free Trade measures. Oast goods of delicate workmanship, formerly made in Birmingham, are now retailed in that town, of German manufacture. This may seem like ' carrying coals to Newcastle,' but it is nevertheless a fact, and a fact that will make some of those who have struggled for abstract principles without looking at our peculiar position as a nation doubt the sanity of their former proceedings. " It may be said that the Tariff and the Corn Bill are dis- tinct measures, and that the latter might have been carried without the former. So it might, but the folly and injustice would have been all the greater. There is no reason why one class of the community should be victimised for the benefit of another. If Free Trade is good at all, it is good for all; and we suspect that those will be the first to cry out against it who are engaged in the production of com- modities in which manual labour forms an important item in the cost, as in the manufactures of Birmingham and Sheffield. " The principle may be said to be good after all, if uni- versally applied. And so we have always said, but how to get at universal application of the principle is the question. We have our doors open, and inculcate the axiom that ' honesty is the best policy;' our neighbours, on the contrary, lock their doors, laugh at our credulity, and rob us into the bargain." The news daily received from Manchester is of the same melancholy tone as that from the hardware districts. " The boasted increased trade," says the Manchester correspondent of the Morning Herald, " which Sir Robert PEEL was duped into the belief that a repeal of the Corn L uvs would effect, has all evaporated, and people are now, after the fury of agitation and excite- ' ment, beginning to cool down to their sober senses, and, consequently, to see that the home market is the most safe and profitable— that farmers, farmers' sons, wives, daughters, and servants, require clothing, and that any measure which impoverishes them is soon felt in the manufacturing districts." The same writer, conversing with commercial travellers, is invariably told that " the home trade is dull," that " in the south they cannot sell," and that the drapers depending upon farmers and farm labourers will not give their ordtrs because they cannot depend upon their former customers. Our Liberal con- temporaries will, no doubt, smile at these statements; and they might, if such statements were not accompanied with the melancholy fact of great embarrassment exist- ing at the seat of manufacture itself. The necessity of working short time is universally insisted upon. Many firms have already commenced the practice, and others have intimated their intention of at once following the example. " How or where the matter will end," con- cludes our contemporary's correspondent, " is at present unknown ; but the general opinion in well- informed circles is, that a commercial panic is at hand, and which cannot be averted by any means of the Legislature. It is true, a law to enforce limited hours of labour might do much to parry off the evil day, and prevent a recur- rence of the present circumstances hereafter ; but even that measure will come too late to effect the same amount of good it would have accomplished if adopted several years ago." THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.— As public journalist?, we notice the fact that the election of Town Councillors, in the room of those retiring by rotation, will take place on Monday next, though we do not imagine that the information will afford any feature of interest to our readers. The event this year is as void of attraction as it has been ever since the primary formation of Reformed Town Councils. Few are ambitious of the honour of election, and no one seems to care who are raised by the sweet voices of the citizens to the high dignities of municipal senatorship. In the five wards in this city twelve vacancies are occasioned as usual. In St. John's Ward Mr. Jabez Home will give place to Mr, E. A. Turley, who it seems has become quite popular with his neighbour citizens. Mr. Home has published a curious document, being an address to his constituents declining again to take office. This is not a bad move of Mr. Home's— making a virtue of necessity. In St. Nicholas' Ward Messrs. C. Bedford and J. W. Lea retire, and in the absence cf any movement to the contrary, we presume they will be re- elected. In . ill Saints' Ward Messrs. Knight, Davis, and Liughaiu, retire. We believe Mr. Knight declines being again put in nomination, but Messrs. Lingham and Davis are candidates for re- election. It is whispered that a certain clique intend opposing Mr. Lingham's election, but the public will never guess upon what grounds 1 Be it remembered, then, that in the matter of the illumination, on the good Queen Adelaide's visit to " the faithful city," as hercitizens are proud of calling her, Mr. Lingham, being Chamberlain of the Corporation, took upon himself the expenditure of some £ 18 in demon- strations of loyalty towards the beloved relict of a deceased Sovereign, and thus incurred the everlasting ire of a certain party, who now propose to wYeak upon him their vengeance by ejecting him from the Council! Need we say more to point out the claims which this gentleman has upon the support of the respectable classes of citizens? We think not. In St. Peters Ward there is much tribulation, no candidate of the right sort being available to supply the vacancies. The retiring Councillors are Mr. B. Crane, Mr. Edgecombe, and Mr. H. Webb. Mr. Crane, we believe, declines re- election, but Mr. Edgecombe is again a candidate. Mr. Webb, by some unaccountable blunder, is not upon this year's citizen list, and therefore is ineligible for re- election. Under these cir- cumstances, the Radicals called a " public meeting of the citizens of St. Peter's Ward," to be held at the King's Head Inn, on Wednesday evening, and at the hour appointed five citizens were in attendance. This number was subsequently increased to sever., and two or three parties were named by this conclave as fit and proper persons to represent the ward in Council. Hewever, nothing definitive was settled, and another meeting this evening was agreed on. In Claims Ward Messrs. Beeken, Goodwin, and Kinder retire, and there is a Councillor to be elected in the room of the late Mayor. We have not heard of any propositions for the representation of this ward. THE COURT.— Her Majesty and Prince Albert returned from Hatfield Mouse to Windsor on Saturday evening, in time for dinner. Her Majesty appeared in excellent health and spirits, and dined with the Prince Consort in private. The period of the departure of her Majesty and Prince Albert to honour with a visit the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel C. istle, which it was expected would have been this week, has been postponed for a few days. Tuesday next is the day now named as the probable period for the Court to proceed into Sussex. Her M tjesty has been entertaining a succession of distinguished guests during the week at the Castle. Lord Ward, it is rumoured, intends entertaining a select circle at Witley Court during our race week. The Right Hon. Lord Beauchamp accompanied by Captain Scott, has left Maddresfield Court to spend a few davs at Cheltenham. Viscount and Viscountess C mpden and the Hon. Miss Noel have leti Etiuland tor Mideirit, lor the benefit of the i Nuble Viscount's health. They are expected to remain i there till next Easter, and then proceed to Spain, and return j to England in the summer We have to announce the return to England of Mr. ; Barueby, M. P. tor East Worcestershire, wuh his family, wno were among the passengers that arrived in London on Monday morning, bv the General Steam Navigation Com- i pany's steam- slap Wilberforce, from Antwerp. PREF ERMENTS.— i he Rev. John Hall, Clerk, B. D., Rector o! St. Werburgh, Bristol, has been collated by the i Lord Bishop to an Honorary Canonry in the Cathedral \ Church in that city.— The Rev. G W. Murray, M. A., Oxon, Vicar of Kinlet, to the Vicarage of Shenstone, void by the promotion of the Rev. W. Villers.— The Rev. Edward Ciiilde, to the Vicarage of Cleobury Mortimer. The Rev. John Garbett, M. A.,' Rector of St. George's, Birmingham, and Rural Dean, and the Rev. Richard Seymour, M. A., Rector of Kinwarton, were on Tuesday last installed as Honorary Canons of Worcester Cathedral, by virtue of a mandate from the Lord Bishop of the Diocese. BISHOPRIC OF ST. ASAPH.— The Queen has been pleased to order a conge d'elire to pass the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, em- powering the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of St. Asaph to elect a Bishop of that See, the same being void by the death of the Right Rev. Father in God Dr. William Carey, late Bishop thereof; and her Majesty has been also pleased to recommend to the said Dean and Chapter the Right Rev. Father in God Dr. Thomas Vowler Short, now Bishop of Sodor and Man, to be by them elected Bishop of the said See of St. Asaph. SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPRL.— The annual sermon and meeting in aid of this Association were held in Ledbury last week. A most interesting discourse was delivered in the parish church by the Rev. W. M. Kyrle, M. A. The preacher selected as his text the 16th and 20th verses of the 28th chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel. After Divine Service the annual meeting was held in the Boys' National School Room, at which Earl Sotners presided. The Rev. E. W. Tufnell attended as a deputa- tion from the Parent Society, and strongly urged the necessity of establishing parochial associations as the most effectual means of securing a permanent income to the Society. Owing to the unfavourable state of the weather, the meeting was not so well attended as the importance of the cause deserved, but the collection, we are happy to state, amounted to £ 26. 5s. 6d. The Committee of the late Hereford Music Meeting have received a donation of £ 3 in aid of the Charity from Mrs. Saunders, late of Ledbury, making the collection at present £ 843. RELIEF OF THE POOR.— ST. THOMAS' DAY GIFTS.— At a meeting at the Guildhall on Tuesday last, a great majority of the clergy and churchwardens of the respective parishes of this city, agreed to distribute " The Gifts," on St. Thomas' Day, chiefly to the resident poor, preference being always given to real parishioners. It was also agreed that, while such deserving out- parishioners in Worcester as hitherto have received those gifts, shall still be eligible to them, they shall cease to be distributed to such parishioners as reside beyond the precincts of the city. OPENING OF THE NEW ORGAN AT LEIGH CHURCH.— On Sunday last a sermon was- preached in Leigh church by the Rev. James Somers Cocks, ou the occasion of open- ing the new organ recently erected there by Mr. Nicholson, of this city. The instrument is small, but of sufficient power for the church. The quality of tone and excellent workmanship displayed in the mechanism reflect the greatest credit upon the builder. Mr. Jones, organist at St. Swithin's Church, in this city, presided at the organ; and after the service a liberal collection was made towards the expenses. SANATORY STATE OF THE CITY.— Mr. Austin, Secre- cretary to the Association for promoting the healih of large towns, has arrived in this city in the prosecution of an exiended inquiry bv the society into the sanatory condition of the principal towns and cities of England. A meeting of the Sana- tory Committee was held on Wednesday, at which Mr. Austin attended, and from the commendable manner in which the commissioners have commenced tins business we anticipate the best results, from the information which will be imparted by a gentleman so fully competent to the important duties which he is labouring to see effected. WEST WORCESTERSHIRE REGISTRATION.— fhe follow- ing statement shows the result of the Registration in this Division, from which it will be seen that the Conservatives have this year registered a much larger number of claims than usual, while, on the other hand, their opponents have done literally nothing. Conservative Objections) Sustained. Failed. Total. Party and Overseers $ 190 3 193 To this must be added 150 new claims substantiated, so that the total gain of the country party in this division is equivalent to 340 votes. Mr. Maurice Davis, of this city, delivered a lecture on Pneumatics to the members of the Ledbury Literary and Scientific Institution a few days ago. ALLEGED ROBBKRY.— On Saturday night last a young man named Sherwood, the son of a respectable tradesman at Birmingham, was drinking at the Sebright Arms, London lioad, in company with Mr. Absalom Harris, of Wyre Piddle, and both becoming inebriated, they went out and were seen scuffling on the ground together, with some money lying about. On their return Harris missed his pocket- book, containing two £ 5 notes, together with several sovereigns. Sherwood was subsequently given into custody, and Monday the case was heard before Mr. Mence, who, howevur, decided that there was not sufficient evidence to commit, and indeed neither of the parties seem to ha? e been sober enough to be conscious of what they were doing on the night in question. FREEMASONRY.— A new lodge in connection with the ancient craft of Freemasonry was opened on Wednesday last at Rugby, the lodge is to be called the " Lodge of Recti tude," and was opened with a due observance of all the time- honoured ceremonials observed at such occasions. There was a large muster of brethren from all parts of that and the adjoining provinces, and in the evening the brethen dined together at the Eagle Hotel, and enjoyed a very happy meeting. A very hand- some claret jug is about to be presented to Mr. Thomas H. Wheeler by the brethren of the lodge in Leicester, as a testimony of the esteem in which he is held among the craft in that town. It bears a suitable inscription, and being ornamented with certain masonic emblems, has a beautiful and chaste appearance. It does much credit to our townsman Mr. Skarratt, who was entrusted with the manufacture. We understand there will shortly be a meeting of Masons upon a large scale in this city, bsing for the purpose of commemorating the opening of the " Semper Fidelis" lodge at the Rein Deer Inn, when it is expected there will be present brethren from all the surrounding counties, in addition to a goodly muster of those resident in the city, making perhaps the largest assemblage of masons ever known at one time in this county. ATHENAEUM.— On Monday night, the Rev. G. Elton, Master of the Diocesan School in this city, gave a lecture to the members and friends of this institution, " On the history and resuhs of the Crusades." The Lecturer described the commencement of these sanguinary expeditions at the end of the 11th century, and the succeeding occurrences up to the time of Richard the Lion- Hearted in 1190, with the subsequent conflicts and the gradual amalgamation of infidels with Chris- tians, after many millions of lives, including the flower of Europe, bad been sacrificed. At the close of the lecture the usual vote of thanks was passed. The next lecture will be in conclusion of the subject, or an essay on the resulis of the Crusades. Sr. CRISPIN— On Monday evening the Messrs. Slade, as is usual at the annual return of the festival of the patron Saint of their craft, assembled their workmen, to the number of nearly fifty, at the White Horse Inn, and supplied them with a bountiful supper and plenty of " brown October," net forgetting an abundance of that favourite compound known in the trade as " cobbler's punch." Singing and music were the order of the evening and toasts and speeches expressive of mutual esteem and confidence contribu ed to heightsn the enjoy- ments of tlit party. CONCERT.— On Friday evening, a Sigtior Poznanski gave a concert at the Natural History Rooms, Foregate Street, being assisted by Messrs. Rickhuss and Whitehouse, of this city, and two " amateur ladies" as they were not very gallantly designated in the bills. The concert consisted of violin playing by Signor Poznanski, piano- forte concertos by M. Duchemin, a very young man, and glees and duetts by Messrs. Rickhuss and Whitehouse and the ladies. The concert was very thinly attended, which perhaps may be attributed to the omission of the parties to make it known through the usual channels. There was to have been a morning concei t, but they failed in collecting an audience. THE WORCESTER CHARITIES.— A meeting of the Charity Trustees was held yesterday at the Guildhall, John Williams, Esq., in the chair. The sum of £ 30 each was voled to Charles Spooner, Edwin John Davis, William Henry Davis, and i, Henry Hurst Burrow, towards their expenses at the University, from Worfield's Charity. Sixty- six coats were voted from Thorpe's and Nash's Charities; and for these tenders will be advertised next week, as usual. One ton of coal was voted to each inmate of Nash's, Inglethorpe's, Wyatt's, and Greary's Charities. Mr. Henry Lakin was appointed collector of the great tithes of the parish of Powick, which have recently been commuted. ATTEMPTED BURGLARY.— On the night of Tuesday last some person or persons effected an entrance into the house of Mr. Purnell, builder, Lowestnoor, by forcing the fastening of the cellar grating. Their object no doubt was to obtain ingress from the cellar into the upper apartments of the house, but in this they were disappointed, the cellar door being locked and resisting their attempts to force it. Nothing has been missed from the premises. THE WEATHER.— We have this week had a foretaste of November dreariness. Tuesday and Wednesday were remarkable for very thick fogs which enveloped the earth throughout each day. At about noon we had a brief glimpse of the sun, but the vapours soon hid him again from sight. The fog was thickest about nine o'clock on Wednesday evening, when it approached in density to London periodical mists. Yesterday morning the vapours began to " lift" from the earth, and gradually vanished, last night being comparatively clear. This morning we had a slight hoar frost, and soon after ten o'clock the vapours had cleared away, the sun shining brilliantly throughout the whole d^ v. We find that the fog was even denser in London on Wednesday than in the country. In the forenoon the darkness was so great that gaslights were used in most of the shops, offices, and warehouses, both in the City and West- end. On most of the varions lines of railway much delay occurred in the arrival of the incoming trains, and numerous were the arrivals of passengers too late for the down trains, owing to delays on their way. Between twelve and one o'clock there was a partial clearance of the fog in some pirts of town lor about an hour, but it then returned with increased density, and from about three o'clock the darkness was very great. Many ot the omnibuses ceased running, and on the Thames the navigaiion of steamers, craft, and other vessels was partially suspended. The fog appeared to extend below Gravesend, and several of the continental steamers were unable o enter the river. Worcester November fair takes place on Monday next, the 2ud instant. BIIWDLEY.— On Monday John Hyde, postboy at the George Hotel, was brought betore G. M- isetield, Esq., a charge being brought against him by Mrs. Dalley for having on Saturday last, while driving a cab and horse, taken up five persons and driven them to Stourbridge, the cab being engaged for one mile. The Magistrate allowed the parties to settle it out of Court. The number of voters for the town and neighbourhood of Dudley, as certified by the Revising Barrister, John Curwood, Esq., for the present year, is 791 ; the number for last year was 813, being a reduction of 94. THE COAL TRADE.— The thick coal colliers of Dudley have given notice for a rise of Is. per day, which will make 6s. per day. THE NAIL TRADE.— Most of the nailors in the neigh- bourhood of Dudley and Kiugswinford have resumed their work. A rise has been given by some nailors on small work; but the large Dudley masters have not agreed to the scale. The Level furnaces, situated in the neighbourhood of Brierley Hill, recently re- built, have ; been re- opened; they are the property of Lord Ward, who has, it is said, expended not less than £ 100,000 in their erection. A railway has been constructed from his Lordship's coal and ironstone pits at Park Colliery, a distance of two miles, for conveying the minerals to the furnaces, and locomotive power will be introduced.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. THE SALT TRADE.— The Gloucester Journal says, " We hear that tlie Midland Company will shortly arrange for special salt trains, to carry 150 tons each, to Gloucester at regular intervals, and that they are under promise to provide slips for shooting the salt into vessels in the canal. Should these, and some other appliances for carrying on the salt trade be properly and quickly carried out, we may be able to anticipate the efforts which are being made at Hull to supplant us, and may be in a condition to put salt on board ship at Gloucester as cheap, if not cheaper, than at Liverpool." TEWKESBUKY.— RELIEF OF THE POOR.— The provident inhabitants of Tewkesbury are already taking measures for providing coals for the poor during the coming winter, at reduced rates. A public meeting was convened one day last week by the Mayor, at which the Rev. C. G. Davies presided, when it was resolved unanimously, " That a sub- scription be immediately entered into for the purpose of supplying the poor of this parish with coal, at a reduced price, during the ensuing winter." The following gentle- men were also appointed a committee for collecting sub- scriptions:— The Rev. C. G. Davies, Rev, Francis Laing, Rev. E. W. Foley, Iiev. Henry Weisford, Rev. John Berg, Rev. James Heaton, Mr. Terrett, and Dr. Beadle. A com- mittee was also appointed for purchasing coal and conducting the distribution of the charity, and Mr. Bennett was appointed treasurer and secretary. The first committee meeting for receiving tenders for coal, & c., was held on Monday last, at the Townhall. STATE OF TRADE.— MANCHESTER, Tuesday.— We have but a dull market to- day for both cloth and yarn ; but pro- ducers are firm in their demands for something like an advance equal to that on the raw material, which, by means of speculation, was still further advanced yesterday in Liverpool. It is thought buyers will, by and by, have to submit to the enhanced rates required. The Indian letters arc to hand this morning. Business was dull at Hongkong and Shanghae; at Bombay and Calcutta more business had been done, but at lower rates : exchange was unfavourable. There is still a deal of talk about the extension of the short- time system, but no further organized plans have been adopted, nor probably will be; each will consult his own interests in the matter. Mr. F. O'Connor was the purchaser of the Lowband Estate, Redmarley, in this county, at the sale at the Bt II Hotel, Gloucester, on Tuesday. The estate contains 159 acres, and was purchased for £ 8,100. We understand Mr. O'Connor was the highest bidder lor some property near Malvern recently put up for auction, but which was not sold. SUDDEN DEATH.— On Tuesday last Mr. Docker held an inquest at Kidderminster touching the death of Harriet Hazlerock, a young woman aged 25, by trade a bootbinder, residing in Union- street, in that town. It appeared she had been unwell lor some time, occasionally complaining of a pain in the head. No surgeon had however attended her, and she had not taken any medicine. On Friday last she got up about eight o'clock, and appeared considerably better, took her meals, and continued her employment as usual during the day. About eleven o'clock at night, how- ever, she cut herself some bread and cheese for supper, which she was about to partake of when she complained of a sudden pain in her head. Her fellow lodger, who was alone with her, went at this juueture to a neighbouring ale- house, and in her absence for about two minutes deceased fell down against the fire grate. She could not get up, and on assistance being obtained she was found to be dead. Dr. R jden was called to examine the body : he said there was no appearance whatever to excite suspicion that death had been occasioned by other than natural causes. From the external appearance it was almost impossible to describe particularly the cause of death, but there was liitle doubt that it had resulted from an attack of apoplexy. Verdict, " Died from natural causes." ANOTHER SUDDEN DEATH.— This morning) Mrs. Reynolds, wife of a tailor of that name, residing in St. Helen's Court, was discovered by her husband to be dead in bed, having retired to rest in her usual state of health. It does not appear that the deceased, who is an elderly woman, made any alarm in the night, and she must have died in a moment. CHOKED TO DEATH.— Charles Best, Esq., coroner, held an inquest on Tuesday, at Mr. Ailsup's, Crown Inn, near Spetchley, on the body of Mary Ann Newman, aged 15, servant to Mr. William Worrall, farmer, of White Ladies Aston. Deceased was eating some bread and butter on the evening of Sunday last, when a portion of it choked her. Verdict accordingly. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE RAILWAY WORKS.— On Friday last a bricklayer's labourer named William Allen, who was employed at one of the shafts of the Oxford, Wor- cester, and Wolverhampton Railway tunnel near this city, fell from the top of the scaffolding on to the invert, at the bottom of the brickwork, by which he broke his collar bone. He was taken to the Infirmary, and is now doing well. We are informed that the men employed on the railway works have adopted a wise and benevolent arrange- ment, whereby, in all cases of accident and sickness, they reap the benefit of an allowance of 12s. per week together with medical assistance. DEATH OF JOHN BELLAMY, ESQ.— Our obituary this week contains a record of the death of Mr. Bellamy, for upwards of half a century clerk of Assize on this circuit. He died at the advanced age of 81, after but a temporary cessation from the active duties of life. At our last Assizes the worthy gentleman appeared as fully efficient in the dis- charge of his duties as we had ever seen him, and we believe that on this occasion he completed his hundred and twentieth circuit. Mr. Bellamy was remarkable throughout his long life for activity, punctuality, and the most gentle- manly courtesy, in the discharge of his duties, and was respected and beloved by the gentlemen of the bar, as indeed by all who were connected with him in business. The appointment is at the disposal of the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Sir Thomas Wilde, in his capacity of senior judge of the circuit. MERCANTILE FAILURE.— Great surprise wasexperienced in the City on Friday, by the announcement that the old and eminent house of Messrs. Harman aud Co. had suspended payment. The immediate cause of the failure is said to be a large demand upon them from the Russian Government, who are creditors to the extent of £ 450,000. GRATITUDE OF POSTERITY.— The last pension granted by Sir 11. Peel is thus described in the pension list:—" £ 25 per annum to John Lloyd, in consideration of the services rendered by his ancestors to King Charles II, tu his escape after the battle of Worcester." ^ porting. WORCESTER RACES AND STEEPLE CHASES. The acceptances for the Grand Steeple Chase, the Worcester- shire Handicap, were completed on Saturday night, and are as follows : — Mr. Preston's b. m. Brunette 12 8 Mr. O. Higgins's b. g. Pioneer 12 8 Lord Strathuiore's ch. g. Switcher 12 0 Hon. D. Ward nas. br. g. Salute 12 0 Mr. Tilbury's ch. g. Culverthorpe 11 12 * Mr. M'Donough nas. Robin Adair 11 12 Mr. T. Oliver's Vanguard 11 10 Mr. Mosely's b. g. Jerry 11 0 Mr. Stapleford's Gilrag 11 0 Mr. C. Smith nas. ch. c. Tramp 11 0 Mr. Beville's ch. g. Lattitat 10 10 Mr. G. P. Dodson nas. Obed 10 7 Sir W. Don nas. Commodore 10 7 Captain Barnett's ch Marengo 10 7 Mr. J. Bosley nas. b. m. Sparta 10 4 Captain Boyds, b. g. Mahomet 10 4 Mr. Harrison's b. g. Little Johnny 10 0 The following therefore pay the 5 sovs. forfeit:— The Page, Albert, Mercury, Lucifer, Nimble Harry, Christopher North, Ragman, Mameluke, Belshazzar, Little Cover Hack, Thurger- * on, Little Tommy, Bold Davy, Pharoah, Jacob Faithful, Carlow, Cigar, Sacrifice, Tom Pipes. Tamworth, General Gilbert, Profligate, Chevy Chase, and Very Bad. It is reasonable to suppose that out of the above acceptances there will be a field of at the least a dozen, and the value of the stake on this event may therefore be calculated as follows:— £. Twenty- four horses pay 5 sovs. forfeit 120 Say twelve pay the full stake 240 Five pay the 10 sovs. forfeit 50 Added from the Race Fund 100 £ 510 This is the lowest computation, it being supposed by some of the " knowing ones" that the number of starters will bj four- teen. Brunette, the heroine of the last Worcester Steeple Chase is the favourite, and 4 to 1 was laid in her favour last night. The mare has arrived in this city, and this morning was taking her gallop on Pitchcroft. Allen M'Donough rides her, of course. The " ground of chase" will be over Pitchcroft Ham and the meadows adjacent. The race cards will, as usual, be printed under the direction of the Race Committee, and for the information of those who attend to see the steeple chase, orders are issued for giving with the card a correct map of the ground over which the race will be run. The Committee have wisely come to the determination not to allow horsemen on the ground on Friday, the steeple chase day, thus securing to foot people all the advantages for seeing the contests, but also pru- dently attempting to prevent any accident which might happen, by allowing parties to ride about upon such a crowded occasion- Horsemen, however, will be permitted on the ground, as usual, on Wednesday and Thursday. We hear that there have already been considerable bets laid on the Steeple Chase, and that books are opened at Tattersall's, at Liverpool, Manchester, and other sporting towns. Should the present delightful weather continue, there can be no doubt that the events of next week will, as we have already prognosticated, eclipse all former doings of the kind in Worcester. We shall take care, in our next Guardian, to furnish our readers with the fullest particulars relating to the whole of these events. We have heard nothing more about the match for a thousand guineas, between Captain Peel and Mr. Hope Johnstone, which Bell's Life stated, some six weeks ago, was to come off here on the 4th of November. * An order to scratch Robin Adair was received on the 25th. WHAT IS TRUE SPORT ? This question is put and answered by Christopher North in this month's number of Blackwood, and the veteran takes the opportunity of declaiming in no measured terms against the murderous ( system of the battue which is now become the fashion of the day. We mean such performances as the follow- ing— recorded in the local papers :— " On Tuesday, Sir Henry Hesketh, Bart., and three or four friends, enjoyed a day's sporting in the park, at Rufford- hall, and during the day destroyed 446 head of game made up as follows:—. 267 bares, 51 rabbits, 125 pheasants, 1 partridge, 1 woodcock, and 1 owl. The same party went out on Wednesday, and shot over the worthy Baronet's land at Holmswood; and although the day's destruction was not so numerically great as that of the preceding one, it must have made a tolerable thin- ning in the stock of game on the farms, the number of heads amounting'to 289, of which there were 152 hares, 45 rabbits, 84 pheasants, 5 partridges, 1 woodcock, and 2 snipes ; thus making a gross total destroyed in the two days of 735 head." It would not have been an inapt punishment for this whole- sale slaughter to compel the butchers to carry their own game : we fancy the " 267 hares, 51 rabbits," saying nothing about the " 125 pheasants, 1 partridge, 1 woodcock, and 1 owl," would have pretty well tried the Hon. Baronet and his three or four friends before their morning's work had been done. We ask now, in the name of mercy, is this sporting or is it murder ? Old Christopher— for he confesses to age now— says in reply, " Not the first certainly, unless the term can be appropriately applied to the hideous work of the shambles. Indeed, between knocking down stots or grouse in this wholesale manner, we can see very little distinction ; except that, in the one case, there is more exertion of the muscles, and in the other a clearer atmo- sphere to nerve the operator to his task. Murder is a strong term, so we shall not venture to apply it; hut cruelty is a word which we inay use without compunction ; and ~ from that charge at least it is impossible for the glutton of the moors to go free." The same writer, in the article in Blackwood above alluded to, has the following on the subject of the battue, while review- ing a book from the pen of Mr. C. St. John, a true sportsman : " Most devoutly do we wish that there were many more sportsmen of the same stamp ( as Mr. St. John). For ourselves we confess to an organ of destructiveness not of the minimum degree. We never pass a pool, and hear the sullen plunge of the salmon, without a bitter imprecation of our evil destiny if we chance to have forgotten our rod; and a covey rising around us when unarmed, is a plea for suicide. But this feeling, as Mr. St. John very properly expresses it, is mere natural instinct — part of our original Adam, which it is utterly impossible to subdue. But give us rod or gun. Let us rise and strike some three or four fresh run fish, at intervals of half an hour— let us play, land, and deposit them on the bank, in all the glory of their glittering scales, and it is a hundred to one if we shall be tempted to try another cast, although the cruives are open, the water in rarest trim, and several hours must elapse ere the advent of the cock- a- leekie. In like manner we prefer a moor where the game is sparse and wild to one from which the birds are rising at every twenty yards; nor care we ever to slaughter more than may suffice for our own wants and those of our immediate friends. And why should we ? There is something not only despicable, but, in our opinion, absolutely brutal, Jin the accounts which we sometimes read of wholesale massacres committed on the moors, in sheer wanton lust for blood. Fancy a great hulking Saxon, attended by some half- dozen game- keepers, with a large retinue of gillies, sallying forth at early morning upon a ground where the grouse are lying as thick and tame as chickens in a poultry- yard— loosing four or five dogs at a time, each of which has found his bird or his covey before he has been freed two minutes from the couples— marching up in succession to each stationary quadruped— kicking up the unfor- tunate pouts, scarce half- grown, from the heather before his feet— banging right and left into the middle of them, and for the butcher shoots well— bringing down one, and sometimes two, at each discharge. The red. whiskered keeper behind him, who narrowly escaped transportation, a few years ago, for a bloody and ferocious assault, hands him another gun, ready loaded ; and so on he goes, for hour after hour, depopulating God's creatures, of every species, without mercy, until his shoulder is blue with the recoil, and his brow black as Cain's, with the stain of the powder left, as he wipes away the sweat with his stiff and discoloured hand. At evening, the pyramid is counted, and lo, there are two hundred brace !" NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. MONDAY, OCT. 26. Match.—£ 200, 8 st. 7 lb. each, A. F. Mr. Larabden's Chance ( Nat) 1 Mr. Onslow's Ruff 2 Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs each, D. M., 9 subs, Mr. John Day's Miss Slick, 3 yr's, 6st. 101b ( A. Day) I Lord Chesterfield's Free Lance, 3 yrs, 7 st. 51b . 2 M r. Shelley's Campanile, 4 yrs, 7 St. 10 lb 3 Sir J. Gerard's Curiosity, 3 yrs, 6st. 7 lb. 4 Sir G. Heathcote's Japan, 3 yrs, 6st. 6 lb 5 Match.-£ 150. T. Y. C. Lord Strathmore's Secundus, 7st. 7 IL> ( Crouch) 1 Sir J. Hawley's Bishop of Romford's Cob, 8 st. 9 lb 2 The Cambridgeshire Stakes, of 25 sovs each, with 100 added. The second to receive 50 sovs out of the stakes. Last mile and a distance. 141 subs., 73 of whom declared. Mr. Nunn's c. by Touchstone, — Sister to Joanna ( A. Lord E, Russell's Sting 2 Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair 3 The following also started, but were not placed:— Mr. Greville's Alarm, Mr. Meiklam's Lightning, Mr. Mytton's Sorella, Major Yarburgh's Red Robin, Col. Peel's Garry Owen, Col. Anson's lago, Sir J. Gerard's Pantasa, Mr. Wigram's Kesheng, The Duke of Rich- mond's Refraction, Sir J. Gerard's Grimstou, Sir. Wyatt's Laundry- maid, Mr. Peuiberton's Best Bower, Lord Kglintouu's Sotades, Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy, Lord Milltown's Due an Durras, Mr. R. Boyce's jun., Colleen Bawn, Mr. Treen's Buttress, Mr. Crockford's Terrier, Lord Exeter's Sister to Pergularia, Mr. Rolt's Alexa. Betting.— 3 to I agst Sister to Joanna eolt ( taken), 5 to I agst Alarm, 9 to 1 agst lago, 14 to 1 agst Best Bower, 10 to 1 agst Lady Wildair, 18 to 1 agst Red Robin, 18 to 1 agst Coaspiracy, 25 to 1 each agst Garry Owen, Refraction, Sister to Pergularia, and Alexa, and 33 to 1 each agst Sting and Kesheng. Won by half a length; Sling, who ran out at the finish, beating Lady Wildair by two lengths ; Terrier fourth. Mutch.— 200. First half of Ab. M. Colonel Peel's Vert Vert, 8 st. 61b ( Nat) 1 Lord Glasgow's Discontent, 8st. 2 lb 2 Match.— 150. T. Y. C. Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair, 8st. 21b ( Nat) 1 Mr. Neville's Remorse, 7st. 61b.. 2 A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each. Criterion oourse. 10 subs. Lord Orford's Blackie ( Nat; 1 Mr. Mostyn's Winchester 2 Sir J. Hawley's Bishop of Romford's Cob 3 Lord Lonsdale's Joy 4 The following also ran:— Sir G. Ongley's Queen of the Gipsies, Mr. Pedley's Miss Burns, Mr. Wortliington's Dr. Husband, Mr. Wigrain's Hereef. Betting.— 2 to I agst Winchester, 5 to 1 agst the Cob, 5 to 1 each agst Blackie and Joy ( taken). Blackie made all the running, and won by a length; Cob a bad third. TOE3DAY. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each. Last half of Ab. M, The winner to be sold for £ 80, & c. Nine subs. Lord Chesterfield's Arkwright, 3 yrs ( Nat) 1 Mr, Wreford's Wooden Wall, 3 yrs 2 Mr, Crockford's Kiili Krankie, 3 yrs 3 Five others ran. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for two- vear olds ; colts Sst. 71b„ and fillies 8st. 41b. D. MT Eight subs. Mr. Mostyn's Circasian Maid ( Abdale) 1 Lord Chesteriield's c by Hornsea, — Industry 2 Mr. Jaques'Dipthong 3 Three others ran. Handicap of £ 100, for three- year olds and upwards. D. I. Lord Orford's br c Footstool, 3 yrs, 7st. 2 lb ( Mann) 1 Lord Sandwich's Plantagenet, 5 yrs, 7st. 61b 2 Sir J. Hawley's Prospect, 3 yrs, 5st. 7 lb 3 The following also started, but were not placed:— Mr. S. Standish's Little Hampton, Mr. G. Ongley's Fama, Sir C. Monck's Glossy, Sir G, He& thcoto'J b c by Hetmau Platotf, — Nannette, Mr. Combe's Sister to the Nob, Mr. Mostyn's Ennui, Mr. W. Oate's Driffield. Mr. Drinkald's Farthing Candle, Count Bathany's Tragical, Mr. W. S, Stanley's Leaconfield, Lord Albermarle's Little Vulgar Boy, Sir S. Spry's ch f by Sir Hcrcules, — Taglioni, Mr. Greville's Polka, Mr. S. llowlett's Libation, Mr. Francis' Seven's- the- Main, Mr. I. Day's Zela. Betting.— 7 to 2 agst Footstool, 5 to 1 agst Plantagenet, 7 to 1 agst Glossy, 12 to I agst Sister to the Nob, 14 to 1 agst Ennui, 15 to I agst Leaconfield. Libation and Seven's- the- Main made the running along the flat, the others spread all over the course. At the turn of the lands Plantagenet went in front, and with Prospect, Glossy, Footstool, Ennui, and Seven's- the- Main in attendance, kept the lead to the Duke's Stand; Footstool now showed in advance, was uever after- wards caught, aud won cleverly by a length, Plantagenet beating Prospect for second by a head, Glossy fourth, and Seven's- the- Main fifth. The Criterion Stakes of 30 sovs each, 20 ft,, for two- yr- o! ds; calls 8st. 71i).; and fillies, 8st. 51b.. From the Turn of the Lands in. Forty- one subs. Lord Stradbroke's Coningsby ( F, Butler) 1 Mr. Payne's Clementina ( 71b. extra) 2 Mr. Gully's Mainbrace 3 Mr. Steer's ch c by Redshank — Dublin 4 Betting.— 6 to 4 agst Coningsby, 7 to 4 agst Clementina, 3 to 1 agst Mainbiace. Match, 100, h ft, 8st. 71b. each, D. M.— Duke of Bedford's Captain Phebus ( Butler), beat Duke of Rutland's Paultons. Match, 100, h ft, last half of Ab. M.— Duke of Bedford's Betliphage, 2 yrs, 8st. ( Butler), beat Mr. Osbaldeston's Giselle, 3 yrs., 8st. 71b. Plate of Fifty Pounds. The winner to be sold for 300 guineas if demanded, & c. Last three miles of B. C. Lord Eglintoun's Eryx, 2 yrs ..( Treen, jun.) 1 Mr. Wreford's Witsend, 3 yrs 2 Mr. Crockford's Mistress Jean, 2 yrs 3 The following also started but were not placed:— Mr. Walker's Columbus, Mr. Ewbank's Louisa Newell, Lord Exeter's c by Hetman 1' latoff, — Marmora, Mr. Merton's Missed Stays, and Mr. Daley's Dromedary. Betting.— Even on Witsend, and 5 to 1 each agst Eryx and Louisa Newell. Eryx made ali the running, was never approached, won by five lengths, and was claimed. WEDNESDAY. Match.— 1,000. B. C. 8st. each. Mr. Greville's Alarm ( Nat) I Mr. Mytton's Sorella 2 Betting.— 6 to 4 on Alarm, Won by five lengths. A Handicap Sweepstakes of 30 sovs each. Five subscribers, two of whom declared. Mr. Bowes' Mowerina, 8st 51b ( Butler) I Lord Chesterfield's Free Lance, 8st 71b 2 Mr. Merton's Peasant, 7st 101b 3 Match.— 500. Ab. M. 8st. 71b. each. Mr. O'Brien's The Traverser ( Marlow) beat Lord Glasgow's Miss Sarah. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for two- year- olds, colts, Sst. 71b.; and fillies Sst. 41b. First half of Ab. M. 10 subs. Mr. Murson's Bedouin ( Marson) 1 Mr. Mostyn's Jollity 2 The following also started, but uere not placpd :— Lord Caledon's Maid of Lorette, Mr. Pedley's Pocket Venus, Lord Chesterfield's Hollowback, Mr. B. Green's Be'idigo, JMr. Grutwicke's L. ilti<: Julia, Mr. Merton's Mouseling, Mr. Worley's Wiutonia, and Lord Nur- manby's Queen of the May. Match. 150 sovs. First half of Ab. M. Mr. Payne's Sir Francis, 4 yrs, 7st 101b ( Nat) 1 Lord Strathmore's Secundus, 5yrs, 8st71b 2 Match.— 200. T. Y. C. Colonel Peel's Garry Owen, 8st. ( Nat,) beat Mr. Mostyn's Win- chester, 7s t. 121b. Handicap Plate of 50 sovs, for three- year olds. A. F. Sir C. Monck's Flattery, 4 yrs, 7st81b ...( Simpson) 1 Mr. Mostyn's Ennui, 3 yrs, 7st 2 Eight others ran. Match.— 100. A. F. Lord E. Russell's Dulcet, 4 yrs, Sst 71b ( J. Marson,) beat Mr. Mostyn's Wilderness, 3 yrs, 7st 51b. Subscription Plate of £ 50 ; for two- year- old colts, Gst 71b; three- years, 8st 101b. T. Y. C. Lord E. Russell's f by Theon, 2 yrs....( Hutchinson) 1 Colonel Peel's Vert Vert, 2 yrs " 2 Mr. Barnes'Blackcock, 2 yrs 3 Mr. Rolt's Collingwood, 3 yrs 4 Lord Exeter's c by Hetman Platoff — Toga, 2 yrs 5 Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each. T. Y. C. Sir J. Hawley's Bishop of Romford's Cob ..( Butler) 1 Mr. Wyatt's The Mangier, 4 yrs 2 Nine others ran. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs each, h. ft. T. Y. C. 3 subs. Lord Or ford's c by Clearwell, — Angelina . .( Butler) 1 Duke of Bedford's Free Gift, 8st 71b 2 THURSDAY. Match.— 200, h. ft.; 8st. T. Y. C. Mr. Greville's Apricot ( Nat) beat Lord Maidstone's Atropos. Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, for two- year olds. D. M. Seven subs. Mr. Merton's Mouseling, 6st 41b ( Kitchener) 1 Lord Chesterfield's Brother to Stitch, 7st 91b 2 Mr. White's Infringe, 7st 91b 3 Lord Exeter's ch cbylJ. Platoff, — Toga, 7st 91b 4 Mr, Moore's Watchdog, Sst 71b 5 Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for two- year olds. Last half of Ab. M. Seven subs. Mr. Mostyn's Jollity ( Nat) 1 Mr. Shelley's His Serene Highness 2 ' Mr. Pedley's Pocket Venus 3 Mr. E. Dyson's Leporella 4 Mr. Booth's ch f by Elis, — Antler's dam 5 Mr. Francis's Mogulustan 6 Sweepstakes of 59 sovs each, h ft, for two- year olds. Ab. M. Six subs. Mr, Phillimore's Saddle ( Butler) 1 The Duke of Richmond's Halo 2 Match— 100. A. F. The Duke of Bedford's Leopard, 4 yrs, 7st (. Petit), beat Mr. Mytton's Aricula, 3 yrs, 7st 41b. Match.— 200. Last half of Ab. M. Colonel Teel'- s Isis, 2 yis, 7st ( Chappie), beat Lord Glasgow's Physalis, 5 yrs, Sst 91b. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for two- years old. T. Y. C. Four Subscribers. Mr. Mytton's Millwood ( Whitehouse) 1 Mr. Newton's Redwing 2 Sir J , B. Mill's Margaret of Anjou 3 Colonel Peel's Sorrel 4 Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each ; for two y. ar olds, / st; and three- years Sst 121b. Fillies allowed 21b. ' T. Y. C. Seven subs. Mr. Gully's Moodkee, 2 yrs ( A. Day) 1 Mr. Leigh's Hyderabad, 2 yrs 2 Mr. Worley's Wintonia, 2 yrs 3 All ran, Subscription Handicap Plate, of£ 5u, lor three- year olds and upwards D. I. Lord Exeter's ch f Hydrangea, Sister to Pergularia, 3 yrs, Sst 91b, ( Treen, jun.) 0 1 SirC. Monck's Glossy, 6 yrs. 7st 121b 0 2 Mr. Francis's Seven's- the- main, 5 yrs, Gst 41b 0 3 The following also started— Counsellor, Boarding School Miss Auid Lang Syne, Subduer, Princess Royal, Jenny Wren, Radulphus> and Curiosity. » Seven's the- Main and Hydrangea made running to the turn of the land, where the mare went in front, and the pace, which till then had been indifferent, became very good. Hydrangea kept her lead, followed by Seven's- the- Main and Glossy almost to the chair, but stopped in the last stride, and was caught upon the post by the old mare, the judge's award being a dead heat. Sevtn's- the- Main a moderate third, and all the others beaten off. Deciding heat.— 2 to 1 on Hydrangea, who won easj', J. Sharpe rode Hydrangea in the deciding heat. The Glasgow Stakes of 100 sovs each, h ft; for two- year old colts, Sst 71b. Last three- quarters of R. M. 15 subs. Mr. Mostyn's Planet, ( Nat) 1 Mr. Gully's Mathematician 2 Lord Albemarle's logoldsby 3 Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each. A. F. 6 subs. Lord Exeter's Demetri, 3 yrs ( Mann) 1 Sir C. Mouck's Fattery, 4 yrs 2 Lord Lonsdale's Joy, 3 yrs 3 Mr. Trean's Buttress, 3 yrs 4 Mr. Booth's Titbit, 3 yrs 5 The Prospect Stakes, of 10 sovs each. D. I. 4 subs. Duke of Rutland's Sister to Flambeau, 8 yrs, Pettit 1 Mr. Ilesseltine's The Slayer's Daughter, 3 yrs 2 Lord Eglintoun's Thersites, 3 yrs 3 SHREWSBURY AUTUMN RACES, FRIDAY, OCT. 23. The Astley House Stakes of 5 sovs each, and 25 added, were won by Mr. Haines' brgby Y. Cadland, beating six others. The Abbey Stakes of 3 sovs each, and 20 added, were won by Mr. Price's Sailor, beating Hector and six others. The Salop Hack Stakes of 2 sovs each, and 10 added, were won by Mr. Palmer's The Bird, beating Tottenham and several others. HUNTING APPOINTMENT. THE WORCESTERSHIRE HOUNDS.— At half- past ten. Tuesday Nov. 3 Monk Wood Green. Saturday — 7 The Kennels. THE HEREFORDSHIRE HOUNDS.— At half- past ten. Tuesday Nov. 3 Credenhill Friday*. — 6 Cornet's Bridge THE LEDBURY HOUNDS.— At half- past ten. Monday Nov. 2 Newer's Wood Thursday — 5 Acton Green THE LUDLOW HOUNDS.— At te7i. Tuesday Nov. 3 .... Pipe Aston LORD REDESDALE'S HOUNDS.— At half- past ten, Monday Nov. 2 Heythrop Wednesday — 4 Ensham Hall Friday — 6 Bourton Bridge Saturday — 7 Kiddington Gate THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS.— At half- past ten, Monday Nov. 2 The Kennels, Kineton Tuesday 3 Mitford Bridge Thursday 5 Newbold Pacey Friday 6 Wroxton Abbey Saturday 7 Goldicote THE ATHERSTONE HOUNDS,-^ Eleven. Monday Nov. 2 Bosworth Wednesday 4 Cricket Inn Fnday Sutton Park Saturday 7 Gill's Corner LEAMINOTON STEEPLE CHASES.— The ensuing Military Hunt and open Steeple Chases at Leamington, nromise to be very brilliant and productive of excellent sport. Tlie Hon. W. II. Leigh, H. Pevton, Esq., and W. H. Wilson, Esq., will officiate as Stewards; and the'eontests are to take place over the Warwick Race Common. It is understood that thirty horses are already entered for the open race, twenty- seven for the aristocratic, and fifteen for the hurdle sweepstakes. GKEAT STEEPLE CHASE FOR. £ 1000.— The match made between a noble earl, connected with the turt', aud J. II, Cornwall, Esq., is now fixed to come off on the 30th of December, over four miles of Market Harborough country. The stakes, £ 500 a- side, are in the hands of C. Richardson, Esq. PRESENTATION OF A BELT TO THE CHAMPION OF THE THAMES. — On Tuesday, Robert Coombes, ttie celebrated sculler, was pre- sented with a richiy made belt, to be worn by him as champion of the Thames. The ceremony was performed at the Queen's Arms, Dartmouth- street, Westminster. DUTY ON " DOG CARTS."— The question of liability to pay duty for those sporting vehicles called " Dog Carts," although the original cost did not exceed 19 guineas, was determined by the Commissioners of the Assesed Taxes at Kensington a few days back, ou an appeal by a Colonel in the Guards against the assessment. The Commissioners decided in favour of the assessment, ou the ground that the Act only applied to persons " in trade or business," using it for that purpose. This decision is in accordance with that of the Court of Queen's Bench. DEATII OF A VETERAN JOCKEY.— John Scott, father of John and William Scott, the ceiebrated jockeys, died on Thursday morning last, in this town, at the advanced age of 97 years. He was himself a jockey in early life, and afterwards kept the Halfmoon in this town for many years. Latterly he has been supported by his sons, and was placed under the charge of Mr. Thoburn, at whose house, in Upper North- street, he died. He bad kept his bed for some time, but retained his senses to the last. It was only two years ago that he lost his wife, who was then SI years of age.— Brighton Herald, HORSE STEALING.— On Monday last a man who stated his name to be Chas. Jones, from Madley, Herefordshire, was taken before Capt. Jones, at Ledbury, on a charge of stealing a horse, the property of Mr. George Pye, horse dealer, of Madley. Mr. Pye deposed that on the privious Thursday he gave the prisoner 3s. to take the horse from Ledbury to the Crown Inn, in Scutt Mill Road, near Hereford, and directed him to deliver him to the landlord. Prosecutor had bought the horse the day before, for 2SL Mr. T. White, of the Trumpet Inn, Pixley, deposed that the prisoner came to his house on Thursday evening the 22nd October instant, about four o'clock with a bay horse, which he offered for sale at his door. Witness asked him whose horse it was, and what was the price. Prisoner said it was his own horse, and the price was 25J. Prisoner asked witness what he would give for the horse, witness offered him 15/. which he afterwards agreed to take, prisoner said his father had bred it— and he ( prisoner) would warrant him sound, and a good worker. VVitness had a warranty written, and placed the money in a neighbours hands. Prisoner was to have the money on the following morning if the horse was all right. Prisoner came again in the morning to see the horse geared and to sec if he would work. Witness asked the prisoner if it was not Mr. Pye's horse, and he then said it was. Witness then had him taken into custody. Committed to Hereford Gaol for trial at the Sessions, The will of the Right Rev. Wm. Carey, D. D., bishop of the Welsh diocese of St.. Asaph, was proved in the Preroga- tive Court of Canterbury, on the 2lst instant. He has left the whole of the property, real and personal, to his v/ idow, and appointed her, together with the Venerable Archdeacon, H. C. Jones, the executors. It bears date the 29th of March, 1843. His personal estate was estimated at £ 40,000, The late venerable and learned prelate died at the age of 77. He entered hoiy orders in 1802, and was made a prebendary of York, and in 1809 was. installed as prebendary of Westminster. On the translation of Dr. Pelham to the see of L; ncoln, in 1820, Dr. Carey was consecrated Bishop of Exeter, the value of which was £ 2700; and in 1830, on the death of Dr. Luxmore, ha was translated to St. Asaph, with an income of £ 5300. SHOCKING DEATH.— On Tuesday, last an inquest was held at the Rose and Crown, Audnam Bank, near Stour- bridge, on the body of Richard Povner, whose death was occasioned by the following circumstances. It appears that on the evening of Friday last there was a large meet- ing of glassmakeis at the Turk Inn, Audnam Bank. Two of the parties named John Poyner and Richard Boswood, having become intoxicated and quarrelsome, were turned out of the room, aud went into the tap- room, where a scuffle ensued, and Poyner was knocked over the iron bar in front of the grate. In falling he laid hold of the bar of the grate first, and afterwards of a boiler which hung over the fire, full of boiling water. The boiler fell upon Poyner, the heated water was thrown over him, and he was so dread- fully scalded that he died the following evening. From tha testimony of David Thomas, the first witness called, it appeared very doubtful if the deceased and Boswood were fighting with any intention of injuring each other; and this evidence was confirmed by the next witness, George Hancocks, who, in answer to questions from the Court, stated that he had never heard of any dispute between the parties. The time was not a minute Irom first to last. The inquest was adjourned until this day ( Friday) in order to afford time for an examination of the body by a surgeon. AWFUL EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE AT BILSTON.—• A fatal accident happened in a mine in a field near Bilston on Wednesday morning last. It appears that on that morning, seven men and boys met at the top of the shaft, for the purpose of proceeding to their work. Mr. F. Armstrong, residing at Bilston, who is the butty, saw them get into the skip, and they were gradually lowered. When about ninety feet down, Mr. Armstrong, who was standing by the side of the pit, heard a shrill cry of agony, and a loud report, and turning hastily round, observed a hu » e " body of flame dart up the shaft. He ran into the engine- house, and gave the alarm; and the engine- man, although quite unconscious of what had taken place, instantly reversed the engine and the skip was drawn to the top. The five boys were dreadfully burned, but the two men were missing, and were subsequently found at the bottom of the pit quite dead. An inquest was held, and a verdict of " Accidental death" returned. SUICIDE AT A POLICE STATION.— On Wednesday a man named Edmund Edwards, who was in custody at the police slation iu Kennington- lane, on a charge of stealing two saddles and some harness from a stable in King- street, Old Kent- road, committed suicide by hanging himself by a handkerchief to a bar in the cell in which he was confined. The man had not been left alone in the cell for more than three or four minutes when his attempt was discovered ; and though he was instautly cut down, and medical aid was imme- diately obtained, all efforts to restore animation were in- effectual. GUN COTTON.— We have to record the occurrence of an accident to the son of the eminent gun- maker of Bond Street, which might have been attended with serious conse- quences. Mr. Lancaster was engaged with Mr. Taylor in making some experiments on the projectile power of gun cotton, and several charges of 50 grains each, with 1 Jounce of shot, had been fired from a strong 14- gauge gun with perfect safety, when on increasing the charge to 83 grains and 1 ounce of shot, the gun burst with great violence. The sleeve of Mr. Lancaster's coat was torn through, and he received several slight wounds on the fleshy part of his arm, none of which, we are happy to add, are of a serious character. In some previous experiments which Mr. Laucaster had made with the cottou of Dr. Schonbein, in the presence of that gentleman and professor Faraday, the same quantity of cotton had been fired with perfect safety. We, therefore, caution those who may be trying experiments with this powerfully explosive compound to be exceedingly cautious, as an accident has occurred even in such experienced hands. The gun used by Mr. Lancaster had been previously proved with an ounce of powder and a ball fitting the bore.— Times of this day. We understand that it is in contemplation by the Protectionists of Somerset to invite W. Miles, Esq., M. P., to a public dinner, in testimony of their personal esteem and admiration of his political character. In the event of the invitation being accepted, we understand that Lord G. Bentinck, Mr. D'Israeli, and other eminent politicians of the same principles, will also be invited. We hope the rumour is correct, far the consistency of character, the manliness of conduct, and the persevering industry in the service of his country, displayed by the Hon. Member for East Somerset, entitle him largely to the esteem and gratitude of all who consider that consistency, honesty, and courage are essential qualifications in the character of public men.— Sherborne Mercury. SALMON IN THE TKME.— When the flood on the Teme was at its height on Friday morning last, the 23rd instant, Mr. John Wade, of the Paper Mills, Ludlow, found a fine salmon enclosed in an eel- trap. It was a male fish, nine pounds in weight, an( l appeared to be in very fair season. Mr. Wade, of course, immediately restored the fish to his native element, and being totally uninjured, he darted down the stream towards Tenbury. During the same flush of water, two eels were taken in the trap, of the extraordinary weight of 4|! bs. each. COMMITMENTS TO THE COUNTY GAOL.— By J. Roberts, Esq.: Mary Ann M'Ghie, charged with burglary, at Dudley.— Bv the Rev. A. B. Lechmere : William Andrews, charged with stealing a gun barrel, at Hanley Castle, the property of B. Hall.— By J. Bradley, Esq. : John Southall, charged with stealing wearing apparrel and money, at Kidderminster, the property of J. Bint and A. Skinner.— By J. Roberts, Esq.: Joseph Leich, charged with stealing copper coin, at Dudley, the property of Jas. Forbes.— By G. Masefield, Esq.: Hannah Welsbury, charged with stealing money, at Bewdley, the property ofS. Crockett. KIDDERMINSTER, OCT. 29.— Wheat 7s. 4d. to 8s. 4d. j malting barley, 5s 4d to 6s. In other descriptions of grain, the rates of last week were maintained. WORCESTER HAY MARKET OCT. 24.— Tiiere was rather a large quantity of hay and straw for sale, which, met with a slow demand at the prices underneath,— Best old hay per ton, £ 3 to £ 3 5s ; new hay, £' 2 15s to £ 2 17s 6d; straw, £ 1 IS to £- 2. BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 27-— Best hay, per ton; new ditto, £ 3 10s per ton; straw, £ i 10s; clover, £ 3; packing straw, £ 2 5s. BIRTHS. Oct. 22, at 10, Chesham Place, London, the wife of W. S. Dugdale, Esq., M. P., of a son. Oct. 24, at Brighton, 47, Old Steine, the lady of the Rev. W. Lister Isaac, of a son. Oct. 26, at the Vicarage House, Kington, the lady of the Rev. W. Jones Thomas, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. Oct. 19, at Dudley, Mr. William Webb, Strait's Green Cottage, Sedgley, to Mary Ann, youngest daughter of the late Mr. James Hadduck, of Dudley. Oct. 19, at Aston Church, Mr. Wm. Martin, butcher, of Sherlock Street, Birmingham, to Ann, only daughter of Mr. Samuel Sheaf, of Hinton Mill, near Evesham. Oct. 20, at Gloucester, Richard Gibbs, Esq., of Knowle Hill, Evesham, to Elizabeth Mary, second daughter of Mr. Charles Marklove, of York Buildings, near Gloucester. Oct. 22, at Pershore, Mr. Amos Cross, painter, of Pershore, to Ann, daughter of Mr. J. Berriugton, Wesley an Minister, of Wyre Piddle, near Pershore. Oct. 22, at Ripple, by the Rev. G. H. Clifton, Rector, Thos. Jeffreys, Esq., of Ryall Grove, to Miss Sarah Davis, of Bushlev. Oct. 22, at Ledbury, Mr. John Mayer, Gent., formerly of Gloucester, to Miss Caroline Phillips. Oct. 27, at Wellsbourne, Warwickshire, by the Rev. J. Knipe, Richard Hemming, Esq., of Bordesley Park, in this county, eldest sou of William Hemming, Esq., Foxlydiate House, ( High Sheriff of this county), to Catherine Hester, only daughter of Hugh Davies Griffiths, Esq., Caer Rhyn, Carnarvonshire, and his late wife Hester. Oct. 28, at St. John's Church, Bromsgrove, by the Rev. William Villers, Vicar of Bromsgrove, Mr. Henry Bulling- ham, butcher, to Sarah, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Chas. Gould, coal merchant, of this city. Oct. 29, at Claines, Mr. George Stephens, of York Build- ings, to Miss M. Ramkin, of Tallow Hill, both of this city. DEATHS. Oct. 10, aged two years and nine months, Mary Ann, youngest daughter of Mr. Thomas Galliers, solicitor, Pride- wood, near Ledbury. Oct. 20, at Clungunford House, Constance Isabella, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Beale, Esq., of the Heath House, Salop. Oct. 21, the Ilev. George Woodhouse, aged 50, twenty- two years of which he was Vicar of Leominster. Oct. 22, in childbirth, aged 35, the lady of Samuel Holden Blackwell, Esq., of Russell's Hall Works, Dudley, ironmaster. Oct. 22, after a long and severe affliction, Mr. Wm. Umbers, of Weston Hall, near Leamington, in the 75th year of his age, deservedly regretted by his family and friends. Oct. 23, at Stratford- on- Avon, Mrs. Court, aged 75, for upwards of twenty years the occupant and exhibitor of the house in which Shakspeare was born. Oct. 23, in John Street, Bedford Row, John Bellamy, Esq., Clerk of Assize on the Oxford Circuit, aged 81. Oct 23, aged 20, Alfred, youngest son of the late Mr. Jog. Hooper, of Bridge Street, in this city. Oct. 24, after a long and painful illness, Mrs. Hammond, wife of Mr. Hammond, of the Turk's Head, Audnam Bank, near Stourbridge. Oct. 25, aged 24, Mary, daughter of Mr. S. Jennings, of the Swan Inn, Yardlev, deservedly regretted by a numerous circle of relatives and friends. Oct. 26, at her residence, in St. George's Square, at an advanced age, sincerely lamented by her family and friends, Susanna, relict of Mr. A. Pointon. Oct. 26, suddenly, Mrs. Elizabeth Lane, of Bevere, near this city. Oct. 26, at the house of his son- in- law, J. C. Shelton, Esq. Foregate Street, Henry Clifton, Esq., of Ronks Wood, near this city, aged 61. Oct. 26, at Hagbourn Vicarage, Berks, in the 17th year of his age, Richard, eldest son of the Rev. R. Meredith, Vicar. Oct. 27, at Greenliill, London Road, Mary, relict of Mr. Thomas Huxley, of this city. Oct. 27, at Bronsil, near Ledbury, of typhus fever, Samuel Summers, groom to W. C. Watson, Esq., much respected and lamented. Oct. 27, after a short illness, Mrs. Lee, wife of Mr. Josiah Lee, baker, Bond Street, Dudley. Oct. 29, at Bredon, in this county, in the 74th year of his age, Mr. Benjamin Boulter, formerly of Tredington Farm, Gloucestershire, and late of Tewkesbury. Lately, at Dudley, aged 87 years, Esther, relict of Edward Guest, Esq. T H E W O R C E S T E R S H I R E G U A R D I A N , SATURDAY, O C T O B E R 3 1, 1846. WILD AUTUMN W I N D. Wild autumn wind! thou bring'st again The dreams of youth, a shadowy train; And thy deep voice with magic power, Summons the thoughts of childhood's hour; An& words of love, not spoke in vain, And the light laugh of frolic glee, And silvery accents, sorrow free— All these I seem to hear again In thy mysterious harmony ! Wild wind! thy spell recalls a tone Of scenes and feelings past and gone; Striking within the breast a chord, Whose music long hath sigh'd unheard: And o'er my burthened heart once more The memories rise of days of yore. And thou, whose love was once so dear, Though long a tenant of the tomb, Thine image lightens through the gloom Of many a sad and by- gone year ! And her's, who in the careless day Of boyhood shar'd my childish play, Though many a mile of stormy sea Now darkly rolls ' twixt her and me! In the wild chorus of the gale, As it sighs with low and feeble wail, Or hundred- voic'd with Ipity strain, Sweeps o'er the loudly- pealing main, Forgotten tones again I hear Of those whose mem'ry still is dear; It tells full many a mournful tale Of faded hopes, and years of pain ;— Of schemes a dim, fantastic train, Long shrouded in time's misty veil,'— And friends I ne'er shall meet again ! Its plaintive music sounds to me A requiem to their memory; While with a deep, prophetic tone, It bodes a future sad and lone. Remembrance thus beguiles the heart With dreams that all too soon depart, Leaving the solitary breast Still with its lonely cares oppressed: Then, autumn wind ! recal no more The voices of those days of yore ! VARIETIES. THE BENEFITS OF LAUGHTER.— Another resource for family amusement is the various games that are played bv children, and in which the joining of older members* of the family is always a great advantage to both parties. All medical men unite in declaring, that nothing is more beneficial to health than hearty laughter; and sure our benevolent Creator would not have provided, and made it a source of health and enjoyment to use them, and then have made it a sin to do so. The prevailing temper of the mind should be cheerful, yet serious; but there are times when relaxation and enjoyment are proper for all. There is nothing better for this end than that parents and older persons should join in the sports of childhood. Mature minds can always make such sports entertaining to children, and can exert a healthful moral influence over their minds ; and, at the same time, can gain exercise and amusement for themselves. How lamentable that so many fathers, who could be thus useful and happy with their children, throw away such oppor- tunities, and wear out soul and body in the pursuits of gain or fame! THE FIRST VISIT TO A MARRIED CHILD.— Generally speaking, if there is a moment of unmixed happiness, it is that in which parents pay their first visit to a married child, and that in which children receive the first visit from their parents. The pretty, half childish, half matronly pride with • which the young wife does the honours of her domestic arrangements; the tearful joy of the mother as she inspects and admires; the honest happiness of the father; and the modest exultation of the bridegroom who has installed the creature he loves in all the comforts by which she is surrounded, render the moment of pleasing interest to the most careless bystander. WEIGHING BITTER. — A pedlar, in the Highlands of Scotland, having run short of butter, applied to a farmer's • wife for a supply. " How much do you want?" said the woman. " One pun' will do," said the pedlar. " I cannot mak you a pun'," replied the woman, " I have na a pun' • weight." " Well, what weight hae he?" said the pedlar. " Twa pun', said the woman. " And which is the weight?" said the man. " O ! it's jist the tangs" ( the tongs !). " Well,'' said he, " put ane leg in the scale and the tither oot, and that'll be a pun'," The woman did as requested ; but - when it was weighed she looked doubtfully at the butter, and said, " it looks a muckle pun'," " O ! its all richt, woman," said the pedlar, " How much is it?" " A saxpence," was the reply, which the pedlar paid, and departed rather hastily, lest the good woman should discover that " ane leg iu, atie leg oot" was not the exact way of weighing a pound of butter. THE ASII A CURE FOR AGUE.— Speaking one day to an old woman, a native of Worcestershire, respecting your articles on ' Folk- Lore,' she furnished me with the following infallible receipt for the cure of ague:—" Of course vou know what a maiden ash- tree is. Well, if you are troubled with the ague, you go to a grafter of trees, and tell him your complaint; ( every grafter notices the first branch of a maiden ash). You must not give him any money, or there will be no cure. You go home, and in your absence the grafter cuts the. first branch." Upon this I asked her " How long it was before the patient felt any relief?'' " Relief!" said the old lady," why he is cured that instant that the branch is cut from the tree."— G. P. Athenceum. KILLING MADE EASY.— Mr, Dixon, of Lynn, Massa- chusetts, has made a cannon which, by the simple movement of a brake, will prime, load, and discharge itself. We learn that a similar invention is shortly to be brought out in this city. It is worked by machinery, like clock- work. When loaded it moves off on a rail track to a distance of 300 yards, fires ten shots and returns to its first position to be wound up again. Another improvement is being added to the rotary gun, which was recently exhibited at the Brooklyn Navy- yard. It consisted of an engine, similar to a locomotive, mounted on four pair of wheels. It is made to throw 500 balls in a minute, without the use of gunpowder. It regulates itself, and also moves on a rail track to the distance of a quarter of a mile, fires its load of 2,500 balls in five minutes, mowing down all before it in a quarter of a circle, then reverses its wheels of itself, and returns to be replenished with balls, coal, and water.— American paper. THE BLIND TRAVELLER.— The celebrated blind traveller, Lieut. Holman, has just returned to this country, after an absence of upwards of six years, during which time he visited Portugal and Spain, Algeria, and all the places in the Mediterranean, penetrated Egypt and Syria, crossed the desert to Jerusalem, and finally made an extensive tour through the least- frequented parts of the south- east of Europe, including Hungary, Transylvania, Servia, Bosnia, & c. As on all former occasions this extraordinary man travelled perfectly alone. He has returned in perfect health and spirits. IMPORTATION OF TEA.— One of the largest importa- tions, we believe, of tea, if not absolutely the very largest ever known to have taken place in one vessel, has now been brought from Canton by the ship Buckinghamshire, which has arrived in the East India Docks from the Chinese port named. Her immense cargo comprises 18, lo6 chests, 8110 half chests, 2243 boxes, and 562 other packages, altogether the unprece- dentedly large number of 29,071 packages of this esteemed and valuable article, in addition to other merchandise. This magnificent ship, speaking as to size, is one of the old East India Company's vessels, and is understood to be by far the largest at present employed in the trade. She has a crew of 131 men, and her officially certified tonnage is 1731 tons, but we understand that her present cargo amounted to upwards of 2000 tons. She has had rather a long passage home ( about six months,) and has been a considerable time effecting her lvay up the river from Gravesend to Blackwall, in conse- quence of the great depth of water required to navigate her eafely, rendering it only practicable for her to be advanced for short periods during each day at the top of the tide, which is rather a novelty in the River Thames, bearing as it does such a vast amount of property along its stream iu the course of the year, but which was nevertheless the case in the present instance. Having arrived in the basin or outer entrance of the East India Docks, it was from the same cause considered necessary to lighten her of a portion of her cargo before she could enter the dock to complete her discharge. Presuming, which is but reasonable, as the remainder of the cargo was of a very trifling description, that there must have been in the packages enumerated— nearly 2000 tons weight of tea on board, the value of the cargo must be very great indeed, independently of the sum accruing to the revenue as the amount of duty due from them. Altogether this is a most remarkable arrival, and well worthy of an especial notice in our columns. BIRDS AND THE. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.— A paragraph liaviug lately gone the round of the daily papers, stating that birds sitting on the electric telegraph wires would, were the instruments at work at the time, fall dead to the ground, we have been informed by a party who is thoroughly conversant with the electric telegraph that such cannot be the case. The only reason he assigns for the above supposition is that birds in their flight fly against the wires, and being stunned fall to the ground to all appearance lifeless. The fact is simple enough, there being nothing to connect the birds with the earth, which mu3t be the case for such an occurrence to happen. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS.— M. Arago has communicated an important paper to the Paris Academy of Sciences, on some of the effects of lightning upon the electrical telegraphs in the, United States of America, observing that the facts had been communicated o him by M. Eben Mariam, of Brooklyn, and were entitled to confidence. On the 29th of April of the present year the lightning fell on the wire of an electric telegraph at Lancaster, without melting or breaking it. In the room, however, where the electric battery, by which the line is worked, is placed, a noise was heard like" that of the discharge of a pistol, and several sparks were seen. On the 18th of May, a telegraph wire was broken by lightning, and several of the posts supporting the line were split. In this case there was a report equal to the discharge of two or three muskets. On the 3rd of June, the wire of the telegraph from Washington to Baltimore was so broken, that the communica- tions between the towns were suspended for several hours. On the following day, during another thunder- storm, the wire was not snapped, but at every stroke of thunder the hands of the telegraphic instrument moved as if the battery was a work. IMPORTANCE OF LLOYD'S.— The vast resources of [ Lloyd's establishment to merchants, shipowners, underwriters, and others in maritime affairs, may be easily gathered from the fact that on Monday there were received no less than fifty- seven British and Irish manuscript shipping lists, with fifty- eight foreign ditto, together with newspapers to the same extent. This is not by any means a solitary instance of the receipt of so vast a mass of shipping and mercantile intelli- gence in one day. MILLINGTON, ADMINISTRATRIX v. CLARIDGE. " To the Editor of the Worcestershire Guardian. " Pershore, 26th October, 1846. » Sir, It is stated in the Worcestershire Guardian of last week, in the address to correspondents, " That a new trial is to take place next Term." You will oblige me by contradicting this statement in your next publication. No new trial has been granted by ( he Court, nor can any new trial be moved for till the next Term. " I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, " EDWIN BALL." WORCESTER CITY COMMISSIONERS. The meeting of this body, convened by advertisement, to appoint a Collector, in the place of Mr. Thomas Turner, resigned, took place on Tuesday, and was unusually numerously attended, there being 45 Commissioners present, F. Hooper, Esq., in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been read, Mr. Thomas Harrington, Broad- street, and Mr. Lucy, Sidbury, severally qualified ; after which a desultory conversa- tion ensued respecting the eligibility of Messrs. Harrington and Lucy to vote on the present occasion, in which Messrs. Whiting, Corles, Jones, Picrpoint, Gutch, and others severally took part, when Mr. Bedford stated there was an order on the book, prohibiting parties from voting on the morning of their qualification, though he must at the same time admit this principle had lately been departed from. J. M. Gujtch, Esq., then rose, and said he had an individual to propose who had been resident in the city for nearly half a century— one who had for many years carried on a respectable business, and whose moral standing in society was such that he need only to be mentioned to receive the support of that meeting. He therefore begged to propose Mr. George Sterry as a fit and proper person to till the office of Collector, which was seconded by the Mayor, with a few remarks confirmatory of Mr. Gutch's observations. Mr. J. Hood, College- yard, with equal satisfaction begged to nominate an individual who in every respect had an equal claim to their support, and considering it superfluous to eulogise a man so well known and so much respected, he should at once propose as a fit and proper person, Mr. John Cox, which was briefly seconded by Mr. Harrison. On the state of the poll being announced, the numbers were, for Sterry 24, Cox 19, exclusive of the votes of Mr. Harrington and Mr. Lucy which were recorded in his favour, but objected to upon the ground above stated. A few appeals were then heard and determined, after which a motion was proposed by Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., seconded by J. B. Hyde, E^ q., that in future the qualification of Com- missioners should be the last business transacted ; considering that this motion would settle the right of voting on the morning gentlemen qualified to sit as Commissioners. The Street Committee then presented their report respecting the application of Mr. Griffin, for about six inches of land in Lowesmoor, in addition to which he had purchased of Mr. Hill, in lieu of which he was willing to give up an equal quantity, or even more, in in the front of his intended dwelling house. The Commissioners though anxious to meet the wishes of Mr. Griffin if the public were not inconvenienced thereby ; yet thought it highly important that uniformity should be observed if practicable ; and it having been stated by Mr. Priddee that Mr. Hill had sold Mr. Griffin four feet, of land more than he had a right to do. Mr. Parry, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Hooper, Air. Stallard, and Mr. Pierpoint, one of the Turnpike Trustees, were appointed a Committee to examine into the truth of Mr. Priddy's statement, and have full power to hear and determine the matter in question. The meeting was then adjourned. THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS AND THE WORCESTER GUARDIANS. There has been quite a stir in this city in reference to the conduct of the Poor- law Commissioners towards the Board of Guardians of the Worcester LTnion. Early in the month of June last, nearly four months ago, the Worcester Board of Guardians passed a resolution in favour of adding 10/. to the yearly salary of their clerk, Mr. Thomason, and the resolution was forwarded to the Poor- law Commissioners for their approval. No reply has been received, and the Guardians have accordingly held an extraordinary meeting, at which they have passed the following resolutions:— " 1st. That the Guardians of the Poor of the Worcester Union are fully sensible of the beneficial tendency of the Poor Law Amendment Act, if carried out on soundprinciples, to raise the character and independence of the labouring classes, and to produce great good to the country. " 2nd. That, influenced by such feelings, it has been their prevailing endeavour to administer the law with justice to all parties, but with the exercise of such judicious discretion as the peculiarities of the casts have required, and of which the Guardians consider themselves competent judges. " 3rd. That, at a meeting of the Board of Guardians, held on Thursday, the 4th of J une last, it was resolved .6 That, in consideration of the long and faithful services of Mr. William Thomason, as Clerk to the Union, since its formation, and previously, for many years, as Master of the old Union Work- house ; and also of his able and hitherto gratuitous manage- ment of Orders of Removal, thus effecting a great saving to the funds of this Union, and precluding the necessity of appointing a special officer for this purpose, as proposed in the Governmentc Bill to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the removal of the poor,' an addition of 10/. per annum ought to be made to his present salary.' Which resolution was duly forwarded by the Clerk to the Poor Law Commissioners for their sanction ; but this Board has to express its regret that the Com'missioners are not pleased to take any notice of their communication. " 4th. That the Guardians are fully aware of the vast cost of the Poor Law Commission in the salaries of the Commissioners, and of their numerous staff; they think, therefore, that every communication, however trivial its nature may be, which issues from a Board of Guardians to the Poor Law Commission Office, should meet with a prompt reply; and that when no reply is made, it is a proof either of neglect on the part of public officers, or of contempt of the parties from whom the communication issues. " 5th. That the Guardians have had their attention drawn to the evidence adduced before the Andover Union Inquiry Committee of the House of Commons, in which they are surprised to read the following statement of Mr. Chadwick, the Secretary to the Commission :—' I believe Mr. Mott, Mr. Clements, and Mr. Tuffnell, Assistant Poor- Law Commis- sioners. have been deterred from representing abuses and violations of the law because those already exposed had dis- pleased the Poor Law Commissioners;' which evidence was corroborated by Mr. Gulson, at present Assistant Commis- sioner of this district, who states ' Nothing can be more pain- ful to me, circumstanced as 1 am, being placed under the Commission, than to be compelled to state that the manner of Sir Edmund Head to me has been such as to discourage me from making any further reports as to the state of his former district.' ' The effect has been that I have not made any report since.' " 6th. That the Guardians have also observed by the evi- dence above referred to, that the Commissioners have culpably departed from the letter and spirit of the 4th and 5th William IV., c. 76, constituting the Board of Poor Law Commissioners of England and Wales, which only empowers any two of them to sit from time to time as a Board of Commissioners for carry- ing that Act into exepntion; whereas it appears in evidence that single Commissio:' , s, sitting in their private rooms, have frequently, without la* J authority or delegation, and without proper minute or re : d, given directions and instructions therefrom relating to aiportant proceedings in the administra- tion of the Law for the Relief of the Poor. " 7th. That a main object of the appointment of the Poor Law Commissioners being to ensure an administration of the law in conformity with its letter as well as its spirit, and these Commissioners being for these purposes vested with extraordi- nary powers, any departure or culpable deviation either from the letter or spirit thereof, is fraught with great injury in the bad example, as well as in the direct effects on the whole of the executive administration of the Poor Laws. " 8th. That these facts as set forth in evidence, combined with the report of the Committee of Inquiry as presented to the House of Commons, ' That the conduct of the Poor Law Com- missioners has been irregular and arbitrary, not in accordance with the statute under which they exercise their functions, and such as to shake public confidence in their administration of the law,' clearly demonstrate the necessity imposed upon the Legislature of taking immediate measures to restore and to preserve public confidence in this important branch of admi nistration. " 9th. That a copy of these resolutions he forwarded to the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart., her Majesty's Chief Secretary of State for the Home Department." RURAL FETE AT HATFIELD HOUSE.— On Friday last while her Majesty and the Royal visitors to Hatfield House were engaged inspecting its beauties, a characteristic scene was being enacted in the park opposite the north front, and in the presence of some 2,000 or 3.000 people. A bullock which had been roasting having been pronounced quite done, the ponderous iron frame in which he was enclosed was shifted on a moveable truck, to which, amidst the cheers of the rustics around, some nine or ten stout smockfiocked youngsters harnessed themselves. They then formed, with the aid of the shouting crowd, and escorted by a few of the yeomanry, a sort of procession of triumph up the park to the place where the tables were laid for those who were to discuss the carnal merits of the broiled animal. Presently, amidst redoubled shouts, there came rolling into the arena a long line of barrels of beer, to quench the expected thirst of the privileged partakers of the feast. On the tables were placed large hunches of bread, mugs, platters, and knives and forks; and it was said that there was accommoda- tion for between 4( j0 and 500 eating men, women, and children. A party from the house, consisting of the Prime Minister, the Duke of Rutland, Lord Brownlow, Lord Marcus Hill, and Lady Spencer, came down to witness this rude rustic banquet. THE GUN- COTTON.— An English surgeon, Mr. Thos. Taylor has discovered that the gun cotton can be made with the ordinary nitric acid of commerce, by previously mixing it with about one- third of its volume of sulphuric acid. The cotton when immersed in this mixture quickly becomes whiter, more opaque, and loses its elasticity. After having assumed this appearance, which it does in the course of a few minutes, it is to be taken out and well washed in water, to remove the slightest trace of acid. It may then be squeezed in a linen cloth, dried, and carded. Thus prepared, the cotton differs very little in appearance from ordinary cotton, except that it is more harsh to the feel. On the application of an ignited body it explodes without leaving the slightest residue, as well as readily when struck by a hammer, and could be fired over gunpowder without igniting the latter. Dr. Otto has also published an account of the process of manufacture. He says—" In order to obtain explosive cotton, I steep it for half a minute in strongly concentrated nitric acid, which I prepare by the distillation of ten parts of dry saltpetre and six parts of oil of vitriol. I then wash it immediately in water, renewing the water so as to get rid entirely of the acid, taking care to separate the portions which adhere too closely together. It is then dried, and the process is thus completed. The effects of this preparation have astonished all who have witnessed them. The smallest quantity of the cotton placed on an anvil, and struck with a hammer, produces an explosion equal to that of fulminating mercury. When a light is set to it it explodes like gunpowder, and in a gun it produces all the effects of gunpowder in much smaller quantities. The explosive cotton is to be used precisely in the same way as gunpowder. It is made up in a kind of plug, after which a wadding is introduced, as with gunpowder, and over this a bail is placed, and all are rammed down with a ramrod. The explosion of the capsule produces that of the cotton."— [ Parties making these experiments cannot be too careful in doing so.] BOTANICAL PAPER. The following burlesque on the proceedings of the " British Association" appears in Albert Smith's " Christopher Tadpole," now publishing in periodical issues. It is entitled— " MR. SAUNDERS'S PAPER. "' Ladies and gentlemen; « ' The science of botany— like the beauty of an eminent political character— requires only to be known to be appreciated.' " Here Mr. Buffles, who had not recovered the late excite- ment, took a moss rose from a tumbler of water, drank the water, replaced the rose, and then began to write. " 1 For want of botanical knowledge,' continued Mr. Saunders, ' scarcely a week passes but our friends— nay, those dearest to us— sit down upon the leaves of the nettle, ignorant of its peculiar properties ; and cooks, in their noviciate, ingeniously serve up steaks with toad- stool sauce for the refreshment of the weary traveller in picturesque roadside inns.' " There was here a great manifestation of feeling; and one old lady in front shed a tear, overcome by Mr. Saunders's touching pathos. In the short space of one lecture, it would be as impossible to teach you the whole science of botany, as it would be to put the sun and moon into a pill- box, one to be taken every twelve hours.' " Mr. Saunders waited an instant, very properly, for the company to laugh, and then proceeded: " ' I shall, therefore, just lay before you as much as I happen to think of; skipping, like a flea— if the ladies will permit me to use the industrious entymological simile— over the whole body of my subject.' " A gentleman of nervous susceptibility, in spectacles and gaiters, on the platform, scratched his leg from the force of imagination. " k Allow me,' said Mr. Saunders, ' in the first place, to contradict, a popular error. Green peas are not the produce of the mint plant. Ladies often think they are, because the leaves of mint are usually found boiled with peas ; but it is not so. Having set you right on this point, allow me humbly to hope that I am not taking up your time— that valuable time that grows upon no bank, either wild or otherwise.' " There was very loud applause and laughter, and they all said,' Go on !' except Mr. Buffles, who did not see much in it, and never liked Mr. Saunders. That gentleman resumed :— "' Plants, like maids- of- all- work, have a wonderful power of adapting themselves to strange places. I shall follow up my remark by talking about something else.' " Here somebody's hat fell down from the gallery upon the head of Mr. Buffles; and there was a general laugh, but it was not known whether it was at the lecture or the accident. Dr. Aston knocked his hammer loudly on the table. "' Trees,' Mr. Saunders went on, ' are of various kinds; some are termed mechanical trees ; such are termed the boot tree, and the axle tree. In addition to these we have the pewter tree, the fruit of which serves lor measures at our various public houses. There is a very fine specimen to be seen in the yard of the White Hart.' " Applause from the umbrella of the landlord, who was in the room, and decided that Mr. Saunders should be asked what he would take to drink the next time he passed. " ' The pewter tree ( arbor puterifera of Linnaeus), is easily transplanted. It requires very little industry or science for its cultivation, and is, therefore, I regret to say, very suitable for those sad neighbourhoods where malt liquor is in too great request.' " The landlord here rescinded his determination; but a teetotaller in the pit applauded rapturously. Thus it is in every position of public life; to please one party it is necessary to offend another, in which act much of the imparted gratification lies. '" You have heard of the sensitive plant,' Venus's fly trap,' which catches blue- bottles as well as the laziest schoolboy, or as ladies' smiles capture hearts. ( Here Mr. Saunders gazed at the young lady, and all the younger committee- men applauded loudly, as each looked at his particular attraction amongst the audience.) In the wilds of North America there are trees which possess the power of entrapping men on a similar principle, or rather on no principle at all, for none is known there, except that of vitality. This tree was much cultivated by the venerable Mr. Justice Lynch, since deceased, whence its appellation of ' Judge Lynch's rat- trap.'' " An impressive silence, broken only by subdued expressions of horror reigned. "' Some plants,' continued Mr. Saunders, possess intoxicating properties. Here is a shrubof this species, the Frutex Curiosus, the ' strange plant,' or to speak more familiarly, the ' rum shrub." "' Plants, when not properly attended to, will frequently transplant themselves. Geraniums have a singular dislike to front gardens, and will frequently remove therefrom with remarkable celerity, unless the gates be kept locked to prevent their egess. The inhabitants of London are aware of this, and remove their front parlour hanging- gardens every evening, by which means alone are nasturtions and mignonette pre- served.' " A gentleman from town told a lady that it was a fact. "' Some plants are wonderfully long lived ; the common flag is of this description. There is a tradition that an English flag has been known to brave a thousand years. They are a hardy race altogether ; and in a district of London called Fleet Street, the flags, there used as paving- stones, are transplanted every week without deterioration. Elder shrubs, however, have been known to attain a still greater age, which I trust, ladies and gentlemen, may be the lot of all of you." THE POET BURNS The Elgin Courant says:—" A very interesting document, relating to the excise services of Burns, has been kindly handed to us by James Melville, Esq., collector of excise in this district. It is the diary of the Dumfries collection and district from 17th January to 5th March, 17^ 6— the district in which Mr. Findlater, the friend of Burns, was supervisor. The entries, which are very nume- rous, relate to the routine duties of an excise officer, in the performance of which Burns was always highly commended by his supervisor. Indeed, from the humblest officer to the head of the local department in the Dumfries collection, testimony is borne to his efficienct and mild deportment. Burns is recorded as being indefatigable in the performance of his duties. The diary, however, reports Burns on duty ; but it appears that from October, 1795) to the January following, he was confined to his house. He is shortly after ( 5th March) represented in declining health. Rheumatism and loss of appetite, deprived of refresh- ing sleep, and in dejected spirits, form a summary of the imprints of death on this neglected luminary. Writing under this impression to Thomson, he states:—' I close my eyes in misery, and open them without hope.' Only four months from the date of Collector Melville's diary— days and nights, weeks of serious reflection— earth was restored to earth— the eyes of Burns having closed on this world the 21st of July, 1795. ' A spirit of independence,' says Wilson, ' reigned alike in the genius and the character of Burns,' a meet finale to our brief relic of his laborious manhood." THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.— A patent has been secured by Mr. W. Greener, of Birmingham, and Mr. Staite, of Peckham, for an improvement in the means of obtaining light from electricity. Carbon and platinum are here employed after the manner of King's patent, but the patentees state that carbon in general gives out various extraneous matters, which interfere with the continuity of the light, and darken the glass vessel by the deposit on the same; and from plane- surfaced platinum only a feeble light is obtained; they, therefore, digest lamp- black, or pulverised coke, in nitro- muiiatic acid, strain, and repeatedly wash, and finally form it into cylinders, or prisms, by a hydraulic press, and then bake in an intense heat for 24 hours. Numerous acute points are then formed on the surface by means of a saw, or by casting them in suitable indented dies; and these acuminated surfaces maintain a steady light without abatement. In some cases thin strips of charcoal, separated by platinum foil, and bound together by platinum wire, are used ; and when platinum or other difficulty fusible metal is employed, as many points are formed upon the surfaces as possible ; and the patentees claim these rough services, the purifying of carbon, and the joint use of carbon and platinum. LIABILITY OF LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS TO PAROCHIAL RATES.— Ou Saturday the trustees of the Greenwich Society for the Acquisition and Diffusion of Useful Knowledge appeared by their solicitor, Mr. J. M. White, before Mr. Traill, at the Greenwich Police Court, in consequence of a summons obtained by the parochial authori. ties ot St. Alphage, to show cause why they should not pay a sum of £ 4. 18s. 4d. for poor's rate, and £ 1. 8s. highway rats. Mr. James, solicitor to the parish of St. Alphage, attended to support the summons. The amount of the rate was not disputed, but the point at issue was whether the institution came within the Act of 6 and 7 Victoria, c. 36, which exempts buildings erected solely for the advancement of literature, science, and the fine arts, from contributing to the local rates, but requires that such buildings shall not be let for any purpose which may give a dividend or profit to the members. It had been held by Lord Denman, in the case of the " Queen v. Jones," that, in order to claim this exemption, it was necessary that societies should include among their rules a regulation precluding the payment of a dividend to their members. The Greenwich Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge had not, until within a very recent period, adopted such a regulation, and hitherto they had paid the rates. Recently, however, they had adopted a rule ( the 19th) to the effect that no dividend should be paid to the members " in respect of such membership;" and the amended rules had been sanctioned by Mr. Tidd Pratt. Mr. James, on behalf of the parochial authorities, contended that the latter five words of the 19th rule excepted the case from the exemption of the 6th and 7th Victoria, because an arrange, ment might be made by the society with a member who might give lectures or entertainments for his own profit. It was proved in evidence that the hall had been let for various purposes— for meetings on the subject of church rates and of the corn laws, and for the exhibi: ion of Tom Thumb, the Ojibbeway Indians, & c.; but it wss alleged that the receipts were applied to the support of the institution. Mr. Traill considered that the terms of the 19th rule did not preclude the society from allowing one of its own members to use the rooms for lectures and receive its profits. As the matter could not be decided there, the better plan, he thought, would be to let the warrants of distress issue, and then the question could be raised in another court. After some discussion it was agreed that the warrant should issue, but should not be acted upon at present; and it was understood that the ques- tion would be brought before the Court of Queen's Bench on appeal. MACHINE FOR MEASURING VELOCITY OK RAILWAY TRAINS.— Mr. M. Hicardo laid before the late meeting of the British Association a model of his very beautiful machine for registering the velocity of railway trains. The object of it is to furnish the railway companies with a record of the work done by each train, and the measure in which it has been done. By this means they would be often enabled, in case of any accident, to assign correctly the nature and cause of the accident, and so prevent its recurrence. The machine is closed up under the seat of a railway carriage, and when placed there it marks on a strip of paper the speed of the train, the time of its passing every half mile, and the length of every stoppage at a station. It is, in short, a mechanical inspector of trains. He described the apparatus, and stated that it had gone some thousand miles without accident. He also showed the working of a machine for registering the resistance of trains. Some discussion ensued, and several questions were put by the president as to the nature of the machine, which appeared to be satisfactorily answered by the inventor. SUBSTITUTE IOR CREAM IN COFFEE.— Beat the white of an egg to a froth. Put to it a small lump of butter, and turn the coffee to it gradually, so that it may not curdle. It ib difficult to distinguish the taste from fresh cream, THE " GREAT BRITAIN." — Captain Hosken has addressed to the Directors of the Great, Western Steam Ship Company ta detailed report of the occurrences which led to the wreck of the Great Britain in Dundrum Bay, and of the unsuccessful attempts which have been made to release her from her present position. Captain Hosken attributes the loss of the vessel to a westerly set of the tide, which placed the ship more than a mile and a half an hour ahead of what the log gave, to an indraught in Dundrum Bay, and the light on St. John's Point not being laid down on the charts. The Directors of the Company have unanimously agreed to a resolution in which they express an opinion " that the ship was stranded in consequence of an error in judgment, into which it appears her captain was betrayed, through the omission of a notice of St. John's Light in the chart of this year, by which he was navigating, and of the want of know- ledge on his part of such a light being established''— it being to the Directors obvious, that, had that light been laid down, Captain Hosken would have known that the judgment which led him at eight o'clock to put his ship in the proper course for the North Channel ought to have been persevered in. The Directors mean to appeal to all insurance companies, all merchants, shipowners, and masters of ships to aid them in urging upon the Legislature an enactment, with heavy penalties, against all Admirality agents who shall, after the passing of the same, sell charts without an annual certificate ; that they have been examined by a person or persons in authority, either from the Hydrographer's Office or the Trinity House, or as may be appointed ; and that they con- tain all the known lights, buoys, or beacons, up to the date of the said certificate. The owners are making preparations for the wintering of the vessel on the beach. A fender of woodwork is to be made to defend the ship's quarter, and a small floating breakwater will be constructed to guard her from heavy seas. Capt. Gabriel, R. N., has written a letter to a Belfast paper, in which he declares that he is fully prepared, if supported by those interested, to place the Great Britain once more afloat, and that within a space of from 14 to 21 days. THE LATE SUMMER AND THE FORTHCOMING WINTER. The following article, from the pen of Professor Stieffel, appears in the Carlsruhe Gazette, and will be found deserving of attention:—" The summer of 1846 lasted fiom the 1st of June to the 13th of September— 106 days. It generally numbers 90 days ( seven more than in 1834), with a tempera- ture of 20° ( Reamur) and upwards, and 91 days with an average temperature of 15° ( 12 less than in 1834). The greatest heat was 27.5° on the 1st of August ( 29 3° in 1834;) — 56 days followed, consecutively, with an average temperature of 15° ( in 1834 there were only .34), from the 26th of June to the 20th of August; including a group of nine extremely hot days, with an average temperature of 20° and upwards, from the 30th July to the 7th of August. In 1834 there were only three such days. The mean temperature of the three summer months, par excellence ( June, July, and August), was 17u7 ( in 1834 only 17° 1). The five months from May to September had a mean temperature of 16° 0 ( against 16° 1 in 1834). The first 13 days of September all belong to ' the hot summer days. In 1834 there were 11 such, besides five hot days from the 17th to the 21st of September. The temperature of the 106 summer days was 17° 5. From the 1st of May till the 30th September, there are numbered 87 serene days, and amongst these 25 perfectly free from clouds ( the numbers in 1834 were, respectively, 83 and 25). Of rainy days, or days In which rain fell, there were 61 between May 1 aad Septem- ber 30 ( in the summer of 1834 there were only 4; 1); there fell, during the five months above mentioned, only 1,070 cubic inches, against 1,130 iu the year 1834, and 1,009 in the year 1780. If we exclude the wet month of May, there fell, during the 106 summer days, only 483 cubic inches, and up to the end of September, 648 cubic inches ( against 1,048 in 1834, and J38 in 1780.) It hence follows, that since 1779 we have had no summer hotter, brighter, or drier than that of 1846. The vines blossomed from the 12th to the 2lst of June; the grapes were ripened in August and browned in September, so that the vintage had already begun in many districts on the 21st of September ( in this neighbourhood on the 29th), and the grapes have never presented a richer, softer, or sounder appearance. The important and highly interesting question now suggests itself— are we to expect a severe winter? Expe- rience alone can supply an answer thereto. For comparative purposes, eight years present themselves with hot summers, which were also favourable to the vine, namely, 1780, 1802, 1807, 1811, 1822, 1826, 1834, and 1842. All these years register but few snowy days; only three were remarkably cold, and these far less cold than the winter of 1845; the other five were not colder than the winter of 1844 ; and the winter of 1835, to which that of 1846 ( this present year) ought to present the closcst resemblance, especially belongs to the mild ones, even if it should set in earlier than usual." The writer concludes by arguing against the false inferences drawn from the early flight of birds of passage, and appears to dis- credit any supposed necessary reaction of the temperature of the earth aft r a hot summer. SEVERE STORMS ON THE CONTINENT.— The Journal des Debates publishes the following letter, dated Munich, 20th instant:—" On Friday afternoon last, between 3 and4 o'clock, a terrific storm, accompanied by lightning, burst on the village of Schlehdorff, situated at three leagues distance from our capital, and in less than two hours it completely destroyed that large and handsome village, of which no trace remains. The greater number of the houses were broken to pieces by the tempest and the remainder were set on fire by the light- ning and totally consumed. The flames communicated to the neighbouring forest, which continued burning for four days. Duriug this disaster the thermometer marked at Munich 24 degrees lieaumer, and suffocating heat was experienced, an extraordinary fact iu the month of October. The sky was of an ashy hue." Some very severe storms and floods visited other parts of the continent last week, and committed great destruction. FRIGHTFUL STEAM- BOAT ACCIDENT.— On Saturday evening, about half- past six o'clock, the Citizen steamer G was ou her way down the Thames, making her last passage from Chelsea to Loudon- bridge, and iu avoiding a collision with a wooden steamer, ran foul of the floating engine of the London Fire Establishment, moored ou the south- west side of Southwark- bridge. Oue of the paddle- wheels was shat- tered by the collision, and the steamer slewed round, and before the funnel could be lowered it came in contact with the arch of the bridge, and fell upon the deck with a tremen- dous crash. A lady named Kent, the wife of a gentleman residing at Greenwich, who was seated on the middle of the deck near the steam- chest, was knocked down by the funnel, which struck her over the head and face, and mutilated her in a most dreadful manner. The steamer's engines and machinery were completely disabled by the violence of the shock, and the vessel was brought up in the middle until another steamer came to her assistance and towed her to London- bridge, where Mrs. Kent was landed and conveyed in a cab to the house of her mother, where she has since remained, and we regret to add, that she is in a most pre- carious condition. jBultuin in # ari3£ » . Ten thousand bags of flour have arrived from Canada, and one hundred from the East Indies. Snow has very generally fallen on the hills in the North. To encourage the study of sacred literature, the Council of King's College, London, has instituted a Diviuity Scholarship of £ 30. A chimney lias been elected by a chemist at YVigan, which is 420 feet high, and contains 3,000,000 bricks. On Wednesday, two publicans were lined at Liverpool, 40s, each, for refusing to receive soldiers provided with billets, into their houses. A number of Liverpool gentlemen have organised themselves into a provisional committee to form an Anti- Tea- Tax League. The potato disease has caused an immense increase in the demand for milk, owing to the extensive use of rice, meal, & c. Many farmers along the railways about Liverpool have abandoned cheesemaking. During the nights of Saturday and Sunday, sixteen prisoners were lodged in the Birkenhead Bridewell, out of which number there were no less than fifteen Irishmen. An Association has been formed in Bristol, under the title of the " Bristol Free- Port Association." The object aimed at is to buy off the incubus of the extravagant dock charges, & c., and make the trade of the port free. 1,200 members are already enrolled. Thomas Edwards, of Newport, alias " The Welsh Rat Catcher," has caught 900 rats during the last summer, at one farm. The Daily News on Wednesday announced the intention of the proprietors to increase the price of the paper to threepence. The object is to defeat a combination against that paper by the other morning papers, and to enable the Daily News to run the Indian expresses solus. A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Trinidad on the evening of the 8th ot September, a little before eight o'clock. It is announced by a contemporary that Mr. Pugin has been looking at Mr. Crockford's shut- up " hell," and it is surmised that it is to be con7erted into a Roman Catholic Chapel. A vessel arrived at one of the quays adjoining the Custom House, has brought an entire cargo of chesnuts lrorn St. Malo. They are of excellent quality. Lord John Russell is about to take up his residence in Cheshain Place for the winter. Tne Niger, new screw steam- sloop, will be launched on Tuesday afternoon next, at Woolwich Dockyard. Mr. M. Short is appointed Police Magistrate in the room of Mr. Bond, deceased. The King of Prussia has, it is stated from Berlin, devoted no less a sum than £ 120,000 to the formation of a covered garden in the centre ot' that city, to be used as a winter promenade l* y its inhabi- tants. A regulated temperature is to be maintained, and rare exotics of warmer climes cultivated in this truly royal design, A whale measuring fifty- one feet has been captured in the Ilumber by the crew of a fishing- vessel. It was sold for £ 10. A remarkable phaenomenon in the vegetable world may be seen in a garden at Liege, where a vine, after having borne grapes twice, is now iu blossom for the third time. The Wyoming, from Philadelphia, entered the Mersey on Tuesday, with loss of maintopmast. In the Atlantic, a heavy sea had struck the ship whilst twenty hands were in the yards; five men were knocked overboard and drowned, and three others were seriously hurt. The members of the Royal Yacht Club have determined to erect a monument to the memory of their late commodore, the Eail of Yar borough. Lord Palmerston has appointed to a clerkship in the Foreign- office, a son of the Rev. Dr. Wolff, whose recent visit to Bokhara must be fresh in the recollection of our readers. General Pasley inspected the Lynn and Ely and the Lynn and Dereham Railways last week, in order to their being opened. He expressed himself satisfied with the sufficiency of the works. The Lord Primate has issued a circular letter to the clergy of the diocese of Armagh, appointed this day ( Friday), as a day ol humilia- tion, and directing the form of service to be then read. The Bishops of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, have followed the Lord Primate's example. A disastrous collision has happened between two French vessels in the Frith of Forth, near the Bass. They came into violent collision, and one was sunk: four of tliu crew perished, but others were taken on board the ship which escaped. A^ hiphas recently arrived at Liverpool, from Calcutta, with a miscellaneous cargo, part of which consisted ol 100 bags of flour, the produce of the East Indies, said to be a novel importation. It is now undeist. osd that Captain Brandreth, R. E., F. R. S., now the Admiralty direcic- of engineering and architectural works, is to be appointed a member o." the new Government Railway Board. We understand that the Rev. Gilbert Elliot has been appointed to the living of Trinity, Marylebone, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Penlold, The Lord Bishop of Oxford purposes to hold his next ordination on Sunday, the 20th of December. The Protectionist party in Monmouthshire have gained atleast409 on the result of the registration ol' voters, just completed, for that county. On Thursday last a stormy petrel was picked up in Broad Street, Halifax, in a very exhausted state: it remained alive until evening, and had no doubt been driven so far iuland by the recent stormy weather, A fire on farm premises at Renington, near Boston, has destroyed grain, straw, and buildings, to the value of £ 1,200. A man is in custody charged with wilfully causing tba diaster: strongly sus- picious circumstances exist agalqst him, Agricultural Intelligence. WARWICKSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF AGRICULTURE. The annual meeting of the members of this association was held at the Warwick Arms Hotel, Warwick, on Wednesday last. C. M. Caldecott, Esq., occupied the chair. The follow- ing report was read and adopted :— " Since your Committee last addressed you, circumstances have transpired calculated most materially to affect the condi- tion of the agricultural classes, who, it is feared, must ulti- mately seriously suffer from the withdrawal of that legislative protection they have hitherto enjoyed. Had the measures been the result of an appeal to the country, your Committee would have considered it their duty, however painful, to have acquiesced ; as it is, they cannot but remark upon the great injustice of forcing through a House of Commons, on the eve of dissolution, such important measures, upon which the elective constituencies should have been allowed a voice; and they must protest against the unconstitutional principle asserted in the House of Lords, that that body exists merely for the registry of the other two branches of the Legislature. " Your Committee have the painful duty of observing upon the departure from the line of honourable consistency of some of the Members of Parliament from coustituencies in this county, who have been induced to violate principles, the assertion of which gained them the confidence of their con- stituents ; but it is with the greatest satisfaction that they view the manly, able, and honest conduct of some of the Warwickshire Members, whom all the allurements of power and patronage could not lead from the path of duty. Deeply sympathising in the privation of those of our fellow- subjects who have hitherto depended for their subsistence upon that very inferior class of food, the potato, your Committee consider the'ill effects of the failure of that crop as but temporary, and have no doubt that the agricultural interest in Parliament would willingly have afforded a temporary remedy, and one which would have been, at the same time, more effective than the present. This failure, combined with the remnant of protection still existing, has tended to keep up the price of the agricultural produce to a remunerative standard; but it is feared this must materially give way, when we come fully into competition with foreign nations; with those who have less expensive establishments to maintain, and are less burthened with hereditary debt, or whose sense of moral obligation offers no impediment to their cscape from such pressure. " Your Committee cannot consider the duties of your associa- tion at an end, as the Malt Tax, and many burthens peculiarly oppressive upon the agricultural classes, still remain ; and were the hope of regaining protection more obscure even than at present, we must not rest till those burthens are removed. ( Signed) E. GREAVES, Chairman." The following were the chief resolutions adopted at this meeting:— " That Mr. Greaves's resignation of the Chairmanship of Committees be received, and that the Secretary, in acknow- ledging his letter, do express the regret with which the meeting accepted it, as well as tender their thanks for the efficient aid he has so long rendered to the objects of the Society. " That Mr. Thomas Umbers be appointed Chairman of Committees." The name of W. S. Dugdale, Esq., M. P., was expunged from the list of committee men, upon the motion of Mr. Hodson, of Stockton. This may be attributed to the course pursued by the " honourable" gentleman in Parliament. THE POTATO DISEASE. Mr. Jasper W. Rogers, C. E., of Nottingham Street, Dublin, who recently addressed a letter to the Worcestershire Guardian on the subject of the potato disease, has just issued an address " to the Peasantry of Ireland," pointing out the means to be employed for saving the potato for the future. The following are the chief of his recommendations :— " Lose not a moment in planting your potatoes; and for this year use beds or ridges, with deep furrows between, so as to let all the water run off. " Manure the ground just as usual; cover the set, at least six inches, with fine earth; that is, do not put on clods; make the covering snug and close, and finish your ridges off evenly. " Run the beds so that the water may get off readily; and do not plant in any ground which will be flooded in winter. " Follow this plan, and, please God, you will have a good crop early next year. " Do not be afraid of the frost— it will not injure the set; and even should the shoot come up and be cut off, it will come again, and give you a sound potato early in the season, if you but cover the seed as I have told you. And I shall now show you why, because I wish you to know as well as myself. " When you put your potatoes into pits in autumn and cover them closely up with straw and clay, and that they are a little time lying together, they begin to heat, just as you know a green rick of liay would; but they can't take fire, because they are so very wet in themselves— still they heat. Well, the consequence is, as soon as they get warm, they shoot and grow; and if the winter should be mild ( as it has been in Ireland for several years) they shoot more; and so, by the time spring comes, the whole pit is filled with shoots, some a yard or two long. " Just think of this. Must it not take away almost all the strength of the potato? And when you pull off the shoots which are the principal part of its life, and then put that' potato for seed into the ground, you cannot surely wonder that it either misses entirely, or that what is produces must be weak and diseased." He goes on to point out that the planting of the sets in spring is contrary to nature, and that by planting in the autumn a great deal of the power and vigour of the seed, now wasted in the sprouting, will be saved. In conclusion he savs :— " Do no hesitate, then, to plant your potatoes now ; next year you will have a good crop, and a year or two will, with the permission of Providence, make the potato as sound as it ever was, if you so continue. " Now, if you can contrive, in addition to this, to burn a little of your turf into charcoal, which you all understand can be simply done; and after breaking it up about as fine as sand, throw a small handful or even dusting of it on each set, you will fine that the crop will be stronger and better; for the charcoal will give to the plant, when it begins to grow, that which the disease has taken from it, and the next crop will be quite sound. But if you cannot do this, plant the seed just as I have before described, and no matter what kind you have, do not be afraid of using it. Let the sets be as sound as you can get them, but don't fear to use diseased potatoes, if you plant them in dry weather, and at once— that is, this month or the next— but in no case later than Decem- ber; and, if you follow this advice, please God! you will have good potatoes next season." The following is a brief account of a successful experiment recently tried:— Mr. Bradburne, of Pipe Place, near Lich- field, a young gentleman farmer, planted six or seven different sorts of potatoes in a field of about ten acres ; and he top- dressed thein abundantly with quick lime as they were coming up, having an idea that excessive moisture, or soqae worm or insect, was more or less the cause of the potato disease. This he did whilst his neighbours of all shades and degrees laughed at him, and shook their heads, and intimated that when he had more years he would have more sense than to waste his time and capital so. The result of this experiment is said to be an abundant crop of good, sound, and fully grown pota- toes of the six or seven different sorts he planted, none diseased; whilst all those of his neighbours are absolutely destroyed. His field of ten acres was the only one top- dressed with the lime as mentioned, and is now the only one that has produced a good and abundant crop of potatoes in that neighbourhood. HOPS. WORCESTER, OCT. 30.— There was again a brisk demand for the best hops in our market on Saturday, which sold readily at previous rates; the only change to be noticed being in the inferior sorts, which were bought rather lower. Present prices: fine, 86s. 92s. to 96s.; low and middling, 63s, to 78s. Weighed in the week: new, 1121 ; on Saturday, new, 1196. HEREFORD.— The total number of pockets of hops pitched at our recent fair was 656, weighed up to this date 541 ; remainder 115. Prices ha\ e rather retrograded than advanced, for we have heard of a capital sample having been bought at 82s. per cwt.— Hereford Journal, Wednesday. SOUTHWARK, OCT. 26.—- We have had a heavy trade during the past week, except for the choicest sorts, which command a ready sale at firm prices. Duty £ 225,000 to £ 230,000. THE DUTY.— In a late number we published an estimate of the duty of the kingdom, as calculated by the backer of a high figure, we this week give the state of the business as now doing by the speculatists :— Rochester £ 74,000 Canterbury 45,000 Sussex ..*. 64,000 Worcester 31,500 Farnham 14,000 Kingdom 6,000 £ 234,500 — Kentish Gazette. FAIRS. BROMYARD.— This fair, held on the 22nd instant, furnished a fine show of cattle of all kinds, particularly in steers, and the sale was brisk at an advance in price of nearly 10 per cent, as compared with recent fairs. Horses sold remarkably high, and there was a great demand for good animals of the cart kind, but there were very few in the fair; sucking colts went very high, cart ones fetching £ 14 to £ 15.; ponies £ 8 or £ 9 each. Sheep also sold well, and there was a good supply. Pigs were somewhat lower. Bacons and porkers averaged from 6d. to 6Jd. per lb. FAIRS IN THE ENSUING WEEK. Worcestershire.— Worcester, Mon. Herefordshire.— Leintwardine, Fri. / Warwickshire.— Coventry, Mon.; Southam, Mon. Horticulture. OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. Protection of Half- hardy Plants,— As the winter approaches, pro- tection of some kind should be provided for plants and shrubs of tender character; almost any material is eligible, provided it will, in a considerable degree, throw off wet. Canopies for this purpose should be so contrived as to admit of one or two sides beiug opened at pleasure. If only one, I would place it on the north or west side- certainly not ou the south ; as the excitement occasioned by fits of sunshine, is apt to prove very prejudicial. The covering, or'canopy, should by no means be allowed to touch the plant; and the greater the space allowed between it and the plant the better will it afford protection. It is a very bad practice to bundle the shoots together like a besom, in order to make them occupy a more limited space ; such may save trouble and material, but is a most injurious proceed- ing. More injury is occasioned by confined damp, in a majority of cases, than by lowness of temperature. Hoodings of straw, so formed as to overlap the protecting material beneath, are very good and simple protectors, and if rightly contrived, may be removed with as much facility for ventilation, as the top of an ordinary hand glass Oil- cloth will form a good protection also, formed into a kind of cone, on the sides of which a small flap or two may be made to open without admitting the rain. CONSERVATORIES, STOVB, & C.— Conservatory •. Proceed according to former directions. Cleanliness, free ventilation, and clever arrange- ment, are the main points. If severe weather should occur, do not hesitate to use a little fire- heat at times, especially where many plants are blooming; as by these means a free ventilation may be indulged in, to expel damp and stagnant air. FLOWERGARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES.— All walks, djives, SEE., should now have a thorough cleaning ; this will carry them through until next May, or nearly so. Let the lawns be well rolled, and receive a clever mowing close on the heels of it; such will keep them in repair for a long time to come, unless unusually mild weather takes place KITCHEN GARDEN FORGING.— The Mushroom beds made as directed in September, will now be bearing ; it is a good plan to sprinkle or syringe tke surface of the bed, a week or so before the Mushrooms make their appearance; more especially in Mushroom houses, where a fire may have been used occasionally : this is far better than wateriug after the Mushrooms are through. The water, however, must not be allowed to penetrate the manure— merely to soften the soil. Late beds or portions may still be made in- doors; let the droppings be made somewhat drier than those of September, and do not mix any soil with them. In spawning the beds, it is good prac- tice to wrap the lump of spawn in a mass of half- decayed, half- moistened, strawy manure; in case of overheating, the spawn is not so readily destroyed. Let all the process be made as firm as possible by treading or ramming : light and porous beds will neither endure so long nor produce such good Mushrooms as those of a solid character. FLORISTS' FLOWERS.— We need hardly urge on our readers the necessity of taking advantage of the first favourable opportuuity to get their main bed of Tulips in the grouiiii ; every week that they remain unplanted will be prejudical to them, though we make no doubt many will put it off till the middle of November. All bulbs winch have been reduced , n size should be removed lrom the posi- tion they held in the best bed, and be planted on a side bed to recover their strength previous to being reintroduced, and their place should be occupied, if possible, by some other variety which will nenrly correspoiiu w ith the one taken away. The amateur must ever keep in mind the necessity of promoting the uniformity ol his collection. In another week or teu days we would advise no oue to remove Carnations ; it will then be gelling late indeed for them, and it is so important that they sboulu be well estaulislied previous to the coming winter : therefore, no time should be lost. The plants already potted we hope have been sheltered from the late excessive rain, according to the directions we have previously given. Auriculas also must be carefully preserved lrom similar visitations, and a watchful eye must be kept on the surface ol the pots, which will speedily inuicate where the drainage is bad. Agricultural aim otijer jiiartm*. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK- LANE. MONDAY, OCTOBER 26. A good show of English wheat, and although no quotable advance can be noted, it was readily cleared off, and in partial instances the rates of this day se'nnight was slightly exceeded. Foreign was firm, an i brought lull prices. Flour was unaltered. Malt is higher. Barley in belter supply for mailing purposes, and a good trade expe- rienced for all kinds at 3s to - Is per qr. more money ; scaicely any- feeding sorts on sale. Beans and peas were each is to is per qr. dearer. Outs ruled firm, and for the best old horse corn ( id to is advance was obtained, but the demand was limited. Per qr. Wheat, Essex, Kent, St s. s. Suffolk Red _ 64 to 70 White _ 70 74 Lincolnshire & York- shire Red 61 64 White 67 70 Scotch _ 59 63 White _ 60 68 Irish - _ 57 60 White _ 58 64 Barley, Essex and Kent, Norfolk and Suil'olk Malting - 37 39 Distilling _ 36 38 Chevalier _ 39 44 Grinding - 30 33 Irish, Distilling - 28 31 Grinding - - 27 29 Rye, Distilling - 38 40 Grinding 36 38 Malt, Norfolk & Suffolk 65 08 Brown - 58 6d, Fer qr- Malt Kingston and Ware 66 Brown - - - 60 Oats, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, Feed - 25 Pota. aud Poland - 29 S* otch - - _ 20 Devonshire and Welsh id Londonderry, Newry, and Cloninel ditto - 27 Limerick aud Sligo - 28 Cork and Waterl'ord Black White- Gal way Extra Beans, Tick - Harrow and Small Peas, Essex, Boilers Blue - Grey, Maple, & Ho Extra - - - - 25 - 20 • 21 • 23 42 • • 57 60 40 43 70 fii 27 32 30 27 29 30 26 29 22 25 45 46 62 80 45 46 WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28. The supplies of English wheat have been only small, but the business was limited, and the few sales made were at the prices of the last market day. The supplies of bariey were again small, and for fine samples full prices were paid. The supplies of oats also small, aud the prices without change; and of Indian corn, although there* were numerous buyers, there was a great scarcity. All the duties on foreign corn have reached the minimum. IMPERIAL AVERAGES. Average Price of Corn, per Imperial Quarter, for the Week ending October 17.3 Wheat .... 5' Js lOcl I Oats .... 25s 8d I Beans .... ' 45a oil Bailey .... 38s 8d j Rye .... 38s 3d | Peas .... 47s3tl Aggregate Average of the Six treeks which regulates the Duty. Wheat .... 51s 2d ( Oats .... 24s 2d I Beans .... 42s l'ld Barley .... 30s 6U J Rye .... 35s I'd | Peas .... 43s LM Duty on Foreign Corn. heat .... 5s Od [ Oats .... Is 6d I Beans .... 2s Od Barley.... 2s Od i Rye .... 2s Od | Peas .... 28 0d SEED MARKET, OCT. 23. Very few sales to report in rapeseed, either English or foreign yet prices were well supported. So little doing iu clover seed that the quotations were almost nominal. Linseed in good request at higher rates. Black Sea 48s, Arcliaugel 43s to 44s, and Petersoui" 4'" s to 43s per qr. There was a good demand for English linseed cakes at extreme figures. In foreign comparatively little was doing Kape cakes firm, but not dearer. Clover, red Eng. cwt., 46s to 48s • white 44s to 50s; foreign, red, 44s to 48s; while, 44s to 50s; Ca'rraway' 43s to 44s; Linseed for sowing 55s to 6Js ; Linseed cakes ( English)' per 1,000 £ 13 10s to £ 13 13s; foreign, £ 8 10s to £ 10 15s, ° WOOL MARKETS. LONDON, OCT. 26.— The impoits of wool into London since Mon- day last have amounted to 583 baits from New Souih Wales - 14 ditto from Rotterdam; 126 ditto from Hambro; and 30 dilto from Hudson's Bay. By private contract, the supply of all kinds of wool on oder was good; while the general demand was in a slu^> isli state, without alteration iu value. LIVERPOOL.— A good business done in foreign wools at reduced prices. LEEDS.— The woollen cloth market was thinly attended by buyers and the quantity brought to haaii exceeded the demand. LEICESIER.— Business flat this week. Few buyers in the market who purchased only in limited quantities. Yarns and woois remained steady. SM1T11F1ELD CATTLE MARKET. OCT. 20. At this day's market the number of foreign beasts ou sale con- sisted of 180; of sheep, 260; audof calves, 18; the whole of which sold at full prices. With home- fed beasts, a moderate supply. Ou the whole, the beef trade was steady, at prices about equal to those obtained on Monday last, aud at which a good clearance was effected. The numbers of sheep were by no means large; yet the mutton trade was iu a sluggish state, at barely, but at nothing quotable beneath, last week's prices. In calves, only a moderate business was doing, at late rates. Pigs ruled dull, at our quotatioas. PRICES PER STONE OF 8LBS. TO SINK THE OFFAL. d s d Inferior Beasts 2 10 3 0 Second quality ditto 3 2 3 4 Prime large Oxen .... 3 6 3 10 Prime Scots, & c 4 0 4 2 Inferior Sheep 4 2 4 4 Second quality ditto 4 6 4 8 Course- woolled ditto 4 10 5 0 Prime Southdown . 2 5 4 Prime Southdown in s d s d wool 0 0 0 0 Lamb 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 4 Prime small ditto 4 6 4 g Suckling Calves, each! 8 0 30 0 Large Hogs 3 8 4 6 Small Porkers 4 8 4 10 Qr. olu store pigs, each 16s a 19 SUPPLY AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts, 3,812 | Sheep 26,020 | Calves, Ii'i | Pigs 430 WORCESTER, OCT. 30. Our market on Saturday was well supplied with wheat, and the trade ruled very dull at barely the currency of this dav se'nni'ht Barley, both malting aud grinding, 2s per ' ' ' c ' New Foreign Wheat, led New Foreign Barley, grinding.. Ditto new Maitiug Malt Old Oats, English New ditto s d s d 7 4 7 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 4 7 6 0 0 0 0 7 0 7 4 4 3 4 6 5 0 5 6 8 6 9 0 4 6 4 9 0 0 0 0 s and peas Is to 2s dearer; some qr. s d d Old Oats, Irish . 4 0 4 3 New Oats, Irish 4 0 4 3 Beans, old, English . . 6 6 ti 8 Ditto, Foreign 6 0 6 4 Ditto new, English . Peas, Feed Boilers, white 5 8 fi 0 , 5 fi 6 0 7 ft 8 0 Vetches, Winter ... 5 fi 6 0 ditto, Spring 0 0 0 0 Rye, new 5 fi 6 0 INSPECTOR'S WEEKLY RETURN OF CORN SOLD. Total quan. Av. perqr. ! Wheat534q; s 0 bu. £ 3 2 1 I Rye ., Barley 170 7 2 1 6i Beans . Oats. . 0 0 0 0 0 | Peas . Total quan. Av. perqr, . Oqr. 0bu.£ J 0 0 52 0 2 7 61 . 6 2 2 6 7* COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 28.— During the present week there has been a lair sale ot wheat, at last week's prices. Malting bailey 2s per qr. dearer. Grinding also realised a similar advance. Beans and oats lirm, at former rates.— Averages: Wheat, 3,006 qrs. 2 bush £ 3 Is 7d ; Barley, 1,062 qrs. 0 bush 0s 5jd ; Oats 242 qrs 4 2 bush £ 1 9s Sjd; Beaus, 230 qrs. 0 bush, £ 2 8s 9jd; 1' eas 25 qrs 0 bush. £ 2 9s 4Jd. ' GLOUCESTER, OCT. 24.— There was an abundant supply of sam- ples of English wheat, but they were held with great firmness, and for these, as well as foreign, last week's rates were fully maintained. Barley, both for malting and grinding, is in great demand, and from Is to 2s perqr. dearer. Oats and beans firm at fully last week's rates, the turn being in favour of the sellers.— Averages: Wheat 416qrs. 4 bush., 60s 2d ; barley 153 qrs. 4 bush., 36s ; oats, 6U qrs. l 3is ; beans, 160 qrs., 42s. 7d. HEREFORD, OCT. 24.- Wheat ( old) 7s 6d to 8s Od; barley ( new) 4s ud to 5s 3d; beaus ( old) 6s ; peas, ( old) 5s to 5s 6d • oats ( old) 4s 6d. SHREWSBURY, OCT. 24.— Sellers demanded higher rates for wheat, but buyers would not coirply. Barley sold freely, and oats were uncommonly scarce. The trade closed dull, as follows: — Wheat, 5s 7d to 8s 4d ; barley, 4s 3d to 5s 6d; oats 2s 3d to 3s 8d per imperial bushel. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 27.— There was a very dull market for wheat and fiour, at a decline on the former of 2d per bushel, aud on the latter, both free and bonded, of Od per barrel, Barley, malt, and beans advanced in value, Indian corn not much ottering, and prices unaltered ; Oats and meal scarce and each dearer. Sneoiuent anC bankrupt Hiegteter, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23. BANKRUPTS. James Plumley, Reading, Berkshire, stone- mason. George Robotliam, Lane- end, Staffordshire, currier. Robert Williams, Manchester, publican, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27. 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