The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality

THE PRICE OF COAtS. (Times.) (1:7 t'k of the price of ,coals being nearly half as mttcli --li i a- ti«usl# for want of ships to bring them from the north, while hundreds of fovoi.cn ships are arriving at the port of t ondon and returning to their own ports nearly empty- for want of car-roes! Thi- in the year 1853, after ti., I iws had been repealed, so far as regards our foreign trade! honse in or near the metropolis that consumes half-a- dozen tons of coals in a winter will this year pay several to the ghost of Protection that still haunts the shores of these Wands. We lately remarked on the fact of 200,000 quarters of grain having arrived in the pert of London in five (fovs. the greater part of them in foreign vessels. That im. idied an aggregato tonnage of at least 40,000, or a fleet of a hundred ships of 400 tens each. Most probably, 70 or 80 of •hem went out of the river in ballast or some very trifling r", w!t1¡. if the coasting trade had not been specially cx cvpto 1 fr.,m the operation of the recent act, they would have f,ili-1 to the north and returned with 4 0,000 tons of coals, We were congratulating the public the other day on the Corn I.iuvs and the Xavigati,m taws being repealed just in time. This bit of the latter, however, is kept unrepealed just too ¡"nc:. inst long enough to inflict on us a dearth of coal. Yet every!) .y complains of it-the householders of the metropolis, tti., coal-merchants, and the proprietors of the collieries, all iit'whom suffer in their respective ways by this absurd restric- tion. The only reason for retaining it is, that the coasting (\'1\,1,so we used to bo told—is the nursery of British f '-imen; bat this, it now appears, is a nursery tale, the invention of our granJmammas-the fact being ih.it only a Tory small proportion of our sailors have been nursed in colliers. tike other children, they are nursed, just as it happened, in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and wherever else the ocean he ives under the gale and sleeps under the calm. Rut that reminds us of our worthy Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, keeping off the vacation in the north, and only waking for a few speeches, in which nothing is to bo done but thrice to kill the slain carcass of Protection. De- tector" suggests why doos he not suspend the operation oftllo 1 ms in favour of the coasting trade, so far as coals are con. eevne i. Nothing would be easier. There is the precedent of the suspension before the final repeal of the Corn Laws; and as for the revenue, there would be no more opportunity for iniu^ing in a foreign vessel from London, and returning wall foal, than in a British vessel. An order in Council twenty line, Jong to this effect would redound as much to )1. Glad. stone's credit as all the speeches he mal1e last session. It would be a species of rhetoric that could not but be felt. Old Horace says, in almost the tritest quotation that can be made, that .v h at is addressed to the car effect us much less than what is represented to the eye. In the present jn3t,mce the contrast i much more striking, for it is between reading and feeling, ).et«een a pamphlet and a blazing fire. We shon!,llike to kn'iv how many householders read through Mr. Gladstone's ttn(I find themselves the better for the process; but everybody in the metropolis can enjoy a fire, especially when tie' the"l11ometer is at 10 he low freezing point, Let the f the Exchequer take this step, arid everybody in London will thank him every time he stirs the fite and throws "n more coal between this and Lady-day next; and en-n our viewable contemp oraries, as they warm their old hones at the i- W'ei't find it in their hearts to curse him quite so bit- -♦

THE ENFRANCHISEMENT OF COPYHOLD PROPERTY. (Daih) I Tie re is but one opinion as to the importance of a rneral enfranchisement of C"pyh,)ld l'mperty with nn who desire to v e advances mads in the improvement of landed property. Wo have already adverted to imperfections and short ,comin¡;s of the "Gradual Enfranchisement" Act of 1852, which came into'' fleet in July last, and to the necessity of further legisla- tion on the subject. There mnst be a gonoral as well as a com- pulsory measure t,) enfranchise all Copyholds simultaneously, and to compensate the Lords of Manors by mean, of rea, sonablo rent charges for the loss of their casual profits anc1- if it mnst be so-thcir:(¡bstl'l1cti"e powers. To most people the resistance of the owners of land to a full and complete enfran- chisement of Copyb)h1. seems 80 unre1\sonaoh. as to be scarcelv intelligible: but it is only one of the instances of the reluctant and ol"tmdil'e temper with which the landed proprietors as a body recciyc attempts to improvet?? tenure of land, where the necessity for such improvements is quite undeniable, ft is true that the pertinacity with which the landowners have resisted the general enfranchisement of copyhold is a very stiiking instance of bEm! and obstinate lmju,lice, bat it is only an instance. Let any person with an eye to the actual state of husbandry travel through Englnd in any direction, and he will see cases without number of neglected awl ill- dtivated farms, occasioned by the obstinate adherence of landowners to similar prejudices. In one place negligence and want of enterprise 111" be traced to the uncertainties "and burdens of copyhold tenure, yet the Lord of the JIanor posi- tively refuses to enfranchise. In another, slips and patches of different and indifferent crops are seen, which to the eye of the experienced observer tell of common field land, the inclosure ,,f which is prevented by the refusal of his consent hy some preponderating lauded proprietor, A case of this sort occurs '.t Hatfield, in Hertfordshire, where Lord Salisbury, lately a Cabinet Minister, prevents the enclosure of a large tract of :-eiimon field land, merely because he prefers to exercie semi- ieudal seirial rights, which afford him no profit, to permit- tin; improvement, by allowing the land to be divided. By the he would he as much benefited as anv one. Such ■; tiie temper of numbers of our territorial aristocracy, that not unfrequentiy prefer to forego benefits of their own property, rather than consent to the improvement of lands of ;:L'- minor people. So ill a thirll case, a desolate district may be seen, in which all the occupiers are yearly tenants, whose farms are overrun -.virli game, preserved by their landlord for the sake of a grand once or twice in each season. There the farmers are i-p-ritless, and the working classes pauperised and demo- r ihsed, because the owner of the soil chooses to forget, in his pass.ou for game preserving, that property has its duties as its rights. Vrain, there are innumerable estates on which the buildings dilapidated and of the most antiquated and inferior des- i-iption. svhereon the homesteads arc inconvenient and scanty, ■'■ie-re draining is pQinly required as the pre)iminary to good dtivation. Of ucij cases a Hell-known agricultural writer is speaks: The inconvenient ill-arranged hovels,the rickety o ,.1 and thatch barns and sheds, devoid of every known itn- p ventent fjr economising labour, food, and manure, which to nwt with in eycry county of England, and from which anything else is exceptional in the southern rOlmties, are a leproach to the landlords in the eyes of all skilful agricultu- res who see thc:n.' It may be asked, Why do such evils ,¡,t? Whence can such thriftless management proceed? The ausiver is ready and conclusive, The great extent to which i n led property is encumbered." Even landlords not hopelessly ■•pod in dent as so many of them are, cannot perform the nies of landlords from the difficulties created by their mort- -i-es. and other incumbrances. And even where an estate is .< -t .-■> much loaded with debt, it wiii usually be found strictly .t:le,l, so that the l'I'opl'iétor has only a life interest, and no improvements, because all the estate goes to his ..est son, if lie has one, or if he has only daughters, goes at It-:ith, Feriiins, to some distant relation. And many other entanos mi-lit be cited in which the helplessness or eapri- 'nsne:;s of landed proprietors occasions husbandry to stand "• or ,,en to retr.'?tde. The position and the prejudices of ?i, !:?, their pri?jtx?lice.% beill'7, tl r?- ?it of their p?s!tz have thus cretted a ftts, of iiii- i >rtance amongst them. They estimate a bwllol"d by the •-tent of his territory, by the number rather than the produc- of }iis acr-s, by the gross amount of his rent roll 1..tl%1 f.t" his r.et income. Ilence so many of them go on 'bner t" the extent of their estates, by means which diminish 'a-'ir real wealth: and after ,? have seen landed magnates for "n,'S buyiag up every acre they can get hold of, we often find ,-crN, :rc, tliev can get hold of, -ft?, find .-i-ive hah' their importance fri?n the depression of these 'ound them. A thriving manufacturer, a wealthy merchant, 0'-internment improver of a small estate, and even the ener- i. an 1 enter; rising tenant farnrer-all and each of them are ''e t s of the aversion, more or less avowed, of these nominal !o i.v-iers. The bane of this country is the prevalence of "o i,i| f)n"flpr3hip, ,hid. produces a vicious system of mari- I:intlo-I projH'rty most in jurious to the community. The ii-tiMits state of our law of real property is one of the evil -aits. t'»r landowners have an instinctive feeling that la-v of real property were to be simplified "]" rational, the truth of the rural proverb, "that -jr. itest burden on the land is the landlord," would 1.1,. plainly apparent. Their cherished system is IUr':1 tl tIt:. core, nnd they know it; and hence their unwil- :¡zr. tl) alhit any amendment. This js the secret of their "U! ,u tl) l'ncr3] and complete copyhold enfranchisement. I.at boots it tii?t to prove, as Ins been proved over and over *7 "e tre.tion, that copyholds or any other portion of d = y -p m is m sc h ievous, while we permit the ].it rs to :r.i state of things which c rn'raveius that ■ u;ltun,t and municipal law, viz., that men "■ property a; not to do injury to others 01' et this rule of notnral jClstlcc is con- ;t' y violated hv our landowners. os to observe how this apprehension of "t the vigorous spirit of improvement, o.Ntic of the age we-live ht-rulls in every the landowners, even where thev arc ions of it. Even tho Council of the Roval -.r—all landowners—professing to take a scientific agriculture, last year cautioned iie itious of science to the practice of ag" ri- -nsi' erto their own localities of modes 0 management which have been adopted with success elser-herc. TIllS is not the spirit in which our merchants and manufac- turers have Mcomphshed their wondcrful triumplls of enter- prise and kill. It was once supposed that the agricultural n'mu teqimed a stimulant to active enterorise, not a sedative or a check; and such was clearly not long since the view of the landowners, m the council of the Hoval Agricultural ,ociety, But events have gone ahead of that august body, The pressure of late low prices and competition has disclosed to the tenant farmers the real pinch of their position; and they are now aware that it will not pay to give high rents for 11 drained farms without any of the conveniences and improye- ments necessary for good fanning. Heneo landowners find their tenants presenting in various shapes this demand, either improve our farms or largely reduce our rents;" and they more than half suspect that the knowledge the farmers of one district have now the means of acquiring-partly through the operations of the society—of what is going on in other tdli',e ,t,oi,pt' is likely to produce demands for outlays of fixed capital by the landlords, they will not find it altogether con- venient to make. Some such apprehension seems at one time to have come over the council of the Agricultural Society; for in their recently published annual report, we find them saying, they are aware of the great caution required in the applieatil)1J of science to the pr:lctice of agriculture; End of the guarded manner in which any new or striking facts of cultivation ought to be enunciated, in order that the particular circumstances of their occurrence may be most clearly defined. These circumstances must be accurately understood by the farmer before he can safely transfer to his own locality a mode of management which may hare been adopted with success elsewhere. Science, so called, can only mislead when its quality is unsound, or its application erroneous." It would be difficult to conceive anything proceeding from a Society pro- fessing to promote the application of science to the practice of husbandry more calculated to foster the too prevalent adherence to routine husbandry than such trite platitudes as are con- tained in the passage from the Society's last year's report we have referred to. The explanation of this, however, is, that the landowners of the Council begin to perceive that far,ncrs won't pay high rents unless landlords put their shoulders to the wheel, by making the necessary permanent improvements on their farms. Whether they put themselves into a position to effect this, while they maintain their existing territorial system, is a question they do not pretend to resolve. Yet it i, one, the 501ntion of which cannot be very long postponed.

THE ETIQUETTE OF THE MILITARY SERVICE. (British Army Despatch.) n e would desire most sincerely to find in the Military pro- fession some greater expression of soldierly feeJin, towarc1s companions in arms, than the rigid etiquette of the Service appears to concede. Of all the armies of Europe, the British Army is the least impulsive. Enthusiasm for the cloth is seldom heard of. Officer? fig heard of. Officer fiht side by side, and meet afterwards ill tI,e" mother country," and hardly recognise each other, unless some previous personal acquaintance had been formed. We have heard men remarking of a passer by-" that man was with me at Guznee, or Sobraon, or Chillianwallah," as the case may be: and yet neither noticed the other. Both cold, formal, frigid Englishmen, though introduced in scenes of valour and national honour, both standing on the same gored field, candi- dates for an immediate summons to eternity, and yet not acquainted" in the slang parlance of men of the world. What feeling of professional chivalry can exist when an officer, who commanded a regiment in the Peninsular war and afterwards sold out, oil accidentia passing through a town in which his old regiment was quartered, entered out of curiosity the bar- racks and saw the old colours trooped oil parade which he him- self had borne in action forty years before; and when it eked out who he was, not one officer stepped forward to invite the stranger into the mess room? Xoue knew him personally, a self-introduction was impossible. How would a French regiment have acted under similar circumstances? One of the most illustrious officers of the British army, re- cently passed away from time to etornity-tt man, who in his person combined the intellect of a statesman, the frugality of a Roman soldier, the self-denying attributes of a true patriot-a man dreaded by his enemies, a terror to the wild tribes of India, an honour to his country, and a hero-Lieut,-Gencml Sir Charles Xapier died almost within sight of the ramparts of one of the largest garrisons—a hero who had commanded in chief armies, and conquered territories. What shall we sty of a re- gulation which, because the hero of Scinde died not in command, denies to him the full honour of a soldier's funeml-pcrmittcd soldiers to volunteer" to attend, at their own expense (for not on duty they had to cross a toll-bridge, and pay the fare), the illustrious dead to a grave? A correspondent to a daily con- temporary thus recorded the fact, and the garrison order issued oil the occasion:— The troops who took part, in the proceedings were under- stood to he volunteers. Xo compulsion of any kind was used to secure their attendance. Most of them came from Gosport, and it is just sufficient to say that the little trip to Portsmouth must have cost each of the privates, nearly all, if not the whole, available portion of their day's pay for the ferry. And yet between 2,500 and 3,000 men of this much-abused and re. viled privates cf the British army, made the sacrifice cheer- fully to do honour to one whose great deeds and name were known to Ill.ost of them only by hearsay. fhe following is a copy of the garrison order which was issued:-—' I he non-commissioned officers and Illen, not pre- viously directed by Wednesday's orders, will parade under their Captain and Subaltern of the day, in full dress with side- arms (band# without instruments), and line the street from Landport-gates to the garrison chapel, to be formed at half-past 10 o'clock, p.m. Bands without instruments!" An insult to departed vilotir, to deny the old soldier the full honours of a military funeral, because, forsooth, professional "precedent" interposed. When, in the face of a pursuing enemy, we read of the sad obsequies of the gallant Moore, wherein Xot a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried," one wonldhardly have expected when a gallant companion, who himself fell sorely wounded at the same Corunna, and who when in after years, at the close of a career of splendid vie. tories and conquests, died in his native land, within the boom of the garrison guns, the largest garrison in England, would have been denied by his country the full honours of a soldier's funeral. If Sir Charles Xapier had died on foreign ground, a I foreigngeneralanil a foreign army, would have paid full honours to his requiem, denied to him by the" precedent" of his I "profession," Such cold blooded, unimpassioned conduct has received from the entire service a universal shout of condemna- tion. We only wish his family, upon reading the garrison order referred to, had at once declined the restricted honours offered to the remains of their gallant relative. Had they done so, the cold ashes of the warrior would have quietly descended to the grave, exhibiting by so touching an example their knowledge of his worth, and ,t proud innate consciousness, that the fame of the departed cast around the tomb a halo of solemnity which, required not unarmed columns and cmbraced drums to follow, in silent procession, the corpse of that British chieftain, whose name will live in history, while the memories of these who denied him a soldier's funeral will be forgotten, from the fact of their obscurity.

THE REVENUE. (Times.) .Ihc fQuarterly statement of the Revenue exhibits it still on the increase, notwithstanding the lavish reductions to which it has for some tirae been continnaIIy exposed. On the Customs of the quarter compared with that ending October, 1852, there is an increase of 120,607?., in the face of reduced duties on ngar anc1 tea. The I:eturns of the Bord of 1 rade have already prepared us for this improvement, by the great inc1"(>nsc of Importation in almost a1l nrticJes of general consumption, including sugar and tea, and particularly in whcat. In the Quarter's Excise, which has just been largely affected by the repeal of the duty on soap, it is something to report that there has been no decrease. The Stamps show all increase of 98, i 21" notwithstanding an increase of about the same amount in the corresponding quarter of last year. It is the nature of the Assessed Taxes not to rally, like other sources of revenue, after reductions, under the influence of prosperity, for they are levied on articles not liable to vapid fluctuations of use and demand. Accordingly, after the late revision of those taxes, we are not surprised to find them yield 29,99,1,1. less than ir. the corresponding quarter of last year, though that quarter still showed the effect of the measure substituting the inhabited house-tax for the window duties. A slight incrase in the produce of the Income-Tax, and decrease in that of the Post- office, are probably alike matters of "cconnt; as n180 may be said of an improvement in the receipts from the Crown Lands and Miscellaneous items. The result is, that the net increase on the whole revenue of the quarter from ordinary sources is 226,75I, Taking into.1ccount Imprest and other Moneys,and Re- payment of Advances, thi. incrcâsc is augmented to 417,727/.— n matter of great congratulation at a time whcn the prospect of a "hort harvest, war, and some possible checks to onr foreign trade, make it doubly important that the credit of the country should stand high, as it undoubtedly does at this moment. 1 hecomparison of the whole year with that ending October 10,185^2, exhibts corresponding results, except that in it there happens to be only one branch of income—that from Miscel- laneous items—which does not show an improvement. The several amounts of mereasc shmol thus:—Customs, 361,519? Excise, 372,708?.; Stamps. 27,159?.: 43.000?.; Crown Lands, 182,8S81.; while the single head of decrease is 110:0331. On all these heads, except Customs and Taxes, there was an in- crease in the year ending October 10,1S52, as comparedwit1, the year before thst. In the present instanco the aggregate increase from ordinary sources of reycnue on the whole vear is no less then 1.559,8641. Thereisalsoatarge increase in the receipts fr,nn Imprest and other Moneys, and, still more, in those from Repayment of Advances. The net increase in tile income of the year rises to the very high figure of 2,311,752?. We can hadly anticipate any attempt to explain away so pal- pable mrel gratifying a fact. It is very plain that we 1,\Vc l10t got to the end of the reductions of which the revenue is capa- Lie, t1,on.]¡. of course, the Fecise tilile for these reductions must de; end upn many considerations besides the buoyancy of the r?vk?iiue. With a revenue o sound and so productive, and with an expenditure kept well within bounds, there is not much reason for the mi.-giving that has been expressed in some quarters ast to the possibility cf the financial operation to come off next January. With a large sum of money in hand, the Chancellor of the Exchequer will probably be able to exchange the requisite amount of South Sea and other annuities for Exchequer.bills without much difficulty Tublic obliga- tions bearing 3 per cent, in perpetuity will be paid off partly by cash in hand and partly by securities can-ying interest at the rate of 31, Os. 10d, per annum, which wilt admit of being reduced whenever the money-market may be favourable for such an operation. It is still, indeed, in the power of political events to increase the difficulty and cost of the process, but no imaginary plan of conversion could havo avoided such contingencies, and, unless we give up all idea of paying off any portion of the debt, except by the ordinary process of buying stoek at market prices, we must be prepared for the casualty of the best possible plan being baulked by the inopportune course of public affairs. For our part, we entertain a confident hope that things will be better rather than worse in January next, and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will accomplish the conversion of the South Sea and other stocks without that pressure on the money-market with which we have been threatened. It is very true that the trade of this country is necessarily in an adventurous and so far dangerous state. No one can tell how the affairs of Enrope, how China, how Australia, will affect our wealth or our credit next year. Appearances are so far against us, but the country has often unexpectedly recovered from more imminent dangers, and it is a great consolation to reflect that in some of these matters we are only doing our duty; in others, only threatened with what is inevitable. England had no part in the origin of the Eastern difficulty. England has not plunged China into disorder. England has not been too prompt to risk her wealth and credit on the faith of Australian returns. If all these things should prove against her, it is not her fault, nor could they be avoided. ° m. (Morning Herald.) I ine Revenue returns for the past year and the past quarter how a satisfactory state of the public treasury. On the year there has been an increase of 2,311,7521., on the quarter of 417,7271. It seems of little use to compare the receipts from Cus- toms or Excise in 1853 with those of 1852, since all late finance ministers have kept up a running fire of continual changes, so as to make all such comparisons practically illusive. Now, this large increase has mainly risen, not from the state of trade and manufactures noio, but from their state six months since. The demands of Australia and California at the beginning of the present year were clamorous. All kinds of goods were required. Millions upon millions were manu- factured and sent out, and the payment for them will not reach our hands until next year. Hence arises much of our present commercial pressure. Our merchants and manufacturers have large sums owing to them which they cannot at present realise. This makes them just now in want of money. On the other hand, the same circumstances have operated to the filling of the Exchequer. To execute these orders for Australia and for America, our workmen have been called into unusual activity. In many cases they have asked and ob- tained higher wages. On the whole, the working men of England must have received in wages, in 1853, a much larger sum than they have been in the habit of receiving in most former years. This fact is distinctly traceable, not to free trade, but to the gold colonies. It is not to Russia or Germany, to France or Spain, that we have had to send an increased quantity of goods, but to America and Australasia. About this there can be no manner of doubt. Meanwhile the effect is as evident as the cause. Our working men have been in a condition to spend more money in beer, spirits, tobacco, tea, coffee, sugar, and other taxable commodities, than ever before; and they have spent it, Hence, in spite of continual tinkering and peddling, the revenue, on the whole, has kept steadily risin", and will probably maintain that onward progress so long as the streams of gold continue to flow in, demanding ship-loads of manufactured goods to balance the account. I These are the simple and unquestionable facts of the case. We may expect to be told, by the journals whose business it is to puff the Government, that this growing state of the revenue is all Mr. Gladstone's handiwork. With equal truth might it be said, that Mr, Gladstone discovered the gold mines of California or the North-west Passage. Whatever else may be the merits or demerits of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it is perfectly certain that with the present prosperous condition of the revenue he has had no more to do than with the defi- ciency of the last harvest.

S'prtinij. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. MmmAY, Renewal of TIlE SWEEPSTAKES of 50 sovs. each. Air. Combe's Nervous 1 Duke of Deùford's Riomedia 2 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Hybla .3 HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of 20 sovs. each. Mr. Sargent's Henrietta 1 lIfr, Adkins' Heroine 2 Sir. Payne's Spged-the-Plough 3 Mr. H, Hill's Ireland's Eye 4 Sir. Newland's Old Rowley 5 SWEEPSTAKES of 200 sovs. each. Lord Exeter's Miranda 1 Duke of Bedford's Beatrix 2 Lord Glasgow's f., by Melbourne 3 SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sovs. each. Mr. Mundy's Tobolski I Mr. J. M Stanley's Mirabeau 2 Lord Exeter's Mountain Flower 3 Mr. Adkin's Basquine 4 FirTY POUNDS, for 2-yr-oltls, Baron Rothschild's Twinkle I Captain D. Lane's Alas 2 lIlr. Sargent's Queen's Own 3 MATCH, A. F. 300, 50 ft. Sir. Greville's Fiantic I Lord Glasgow's Caracara 2 FIFTY POUNDS, for 3-yr-olds. Mr. Howard's Little Harry 1 Mr. Greville's Adine 2 Mr. R. Walker's Game Tommy 3 MATCH. A. F. 200, h. ft Lord Exeter's Cobnut 1 Lord Derby's Umbriel 2 MATCH. T.Y.C. 200, h. ft. Duke ot Bedford s Student received forfeit from Mr. Payne's Strutaway. MATCH. Last half of Ab. M. 100, h. ft. Duke of Bedford's Petrel received forfeit from Lord Glas- gow's Flutter. Dord Glasgow's Barbatus received forfeit from Lord Clif- den's Pelion. A.F. 200, h. ft. Lord Glasgow's f., by Don John received forfeit from Mr. Payne's Estrelhi. D.M. 200, h. ft. Duke of Bedford's Dabchick received forfeit from Mr. New- land's Cranbonrne Chase. A.F. 200, h, ft. Lord Derby's Longbow received forfeit from Lord Exeter's Stockwell. Ab. M. 200, h. ft. TUESDAY. MATCH, 200, h. ft. Lord Derby's Hobby Horse 1 Lord Glasgow's CmlJÜiol1 2 MATCH. A.F. 200, h, ft. Duke of Bedford's Pensioner 1 Lord Glasgow's Sister to Caraeara 2 ROYAL STAKES of 200 sovs. each, 120 ft. Mr. Knowles's Talfourd 1 I,ord Eglinton's Vanderdcckcn 2 Lord Exeter's Filbert 3 CLEAKWELI. STAKES of 30 so vs. each, h ft. Lord Exeter's Miranda 1 1111', Howard's c. by Cowl 2 Lord Clifclen's Astolfo 3 Ir, Russell's Ruminator 4 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Mirabeau ,5 Mr. Grevill&s Mortimer 6 CESAKEWITCH STAKES, a Free Handicap of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., with 300 added by the Jockey Club. Sir. W. Barrett's Haco 1 Mr. Drinkald's Nabob 2 Sir. Howard's King Pepin 3 SIATCII. Last half of Ab. M. 100, h. ft. Mr. Newland's Grimalkin I Lord Glasgow's Scnori ta 2 SELLING HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sovs. each. Mr. nloss's Lord Albemarle r Slr. Drinkald's Snarry 2 Capt. Scott's teybourne 3 CHALLENGE rolt THE WHIP, 200 sovs. each. Mr, Morris's Kingston 1 Sir. Slegson's Weathergage 3 SWEEPSTAKES of 5 sovs. each. Duke of Richmond's Homebrewed 1 Mr. Adkin's Heroino 2 Sir. French's Coleraine 3 WEDNESDAY. SWEEPSTAKES of 50 sovs. each., J" ft. The Duke of Bedford's Weathercock .1 Major Martyn's Cranbourne 2 Mr J. SI. Stanley's Slishap 3 The BEDFOKD STAKES.—A Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, li.ft. Sir. W. I Sir. Payne's Spinaway 2 Lord Jxeter's Phaeton 3 Mr. Mare's Fillie 4 The TOWN PLATE of 50/. Lord Clifden's Sac-kbut 1 Duke of Bedford's Gossip 2 Mr. Barnes's Waverley 3 MATCH, 100 h. ft. Sir. Slilner's Grapeshot 1 Sir J, V. Shelley's Colt 2 HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of 10 SO". cach, Sir. Butsun's Khadidjah. ,1 Ir. Suffling's Songster 2 SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sovs, cach. Mr. J. SL Stanley's Mirabeau, I Sir. R. Pigot's Sister to Filius 2 SIATCH, 2B0 h. ft. Lord Glasgow's Sliss Sarah 1 Sir. J. SI. Stanley's Nicotine 2 HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES, of 15 sovs. each. Lord Palmcrston's Austrey lIIr, Bennion's Pore Joan 2 THE OATLAND'S PLATE. Mr. Batson's Khadidjah 1 Ten ran.

JilMlait!). Release of Miss Cunninghame.—Intelligence reached Lon- don on Wednesday to the effect that the Tuscan Government have released Sliss Cunninghame from custody. Proposed Shipwreck Asylum at the Goodwin Sands,-It ilf proposed to establish by subscription an asylum for shipwrecked crews and vessels near these celebrated sands, by constructinf a breakwater of 2,000 feet, 70 feet high, with a tower of 100 feet, a lighthouse, and asylum. Serious Accident to Mr. Edwin Janes,Q.C.—An accident, which might have been attended with very serious consequen- ces, happened to this gentleman on Tuesday, while hunting in the Downs with the Worthing liariers. His horse, a very valuable one, suddenly fell down dead, and is supposed to have ruptured some vessel of the heart. The animal, in falling, rolled upon Mr. James, who was removed from the Downs to the house of Sir. John Day, the trainer, at Findon, in a state of insensibility. Mr. James, though seriously bruised and injnted by the fall, it is hoped will be speedily convales- cent. The Barnstaple Bribery Commission.—A novel proceeding has been adopted in this town with regard to the extensive bribery proved before the Commissioners to have prevailed at the last election. The Chief Commissioner (Sir. Jlichael Prendergast), at the termination of the proceedings, delivered an address, in which lIe expressed his sorrow at what had been proved to have taken place in a town where the gospel was preached from the pulpits of the various churches and chapels. Several of the Dissenting ministers, in consequence, agreed last week to hold special religious services for humiliation, v.raycr, and exhortation, in reference to the recently-manifested cor- ruptions in the borongh." Sleetings for prayer wer accordingly held, and addresses were delivered on moral purity." It was proved before the Commissioners that several of the professors of religion had accepted bribes of 61 each; and it is said that these meetings were intended as a rebuke to those venal pro- fessors. Another Bright Comet.—The comet discovered at Berlin on the lltli of last month promises to be almost as conspicu- ous as the one which has just left us. On Monday morning it was distinctly visible to the naked eye; the head equalled in brightness a star of the fourth magnitude, and the tail could be traced about one degree. The comet is increasing in brilliancy cach morning, but its rapid southerly motion will prevent our seeing it more than three or four davs longer, until after the perihelion passage. Possibly, like the last, it may be discovered near the sun on the 15th or 16th inst. About the 4th of next month it will be again visible in the morning, close to the equator. Australian Postage.—A correspondent of one of the daily papers, writing upon the subject of Australian letters, says the pre-payment of Is. here renders the Post-ofifce employes in Australia quite indifferent about distributing the letters from England, on account of there being nothing to pay. This is not so. All letters from England are charfed (if by ship) 8d., if under the ounce; Is. 2d. if over; by the overland route, Is. on delivery. The same correspondent as!,s why the letters should be charged Is. here, and only 8d. from the colonics. Letters by the Harbinger steamer, which closed on the 5th. are only charged 8d., if not exceeding half an ounce, and this is the rate of all ships not taken up by Government. The Australian Post-office charges 6d. on pre- paying a letter for England, not 8d.; and, when it is delivered in London, fid. 01' 8d., as the case may be, is charged. Learned Ladies.—Several ladies being in company with the literary bear, Dr. Johnson, it was remarked by one of them that a learned woman was by no means a rare character. "I have known," replied Boswell, a gooll many ladies who knew Latin, but very few who knew English." A lady observed that women surpassed men in epistolary correspondence. Johnson said, I do not know that." At least," said the lady, "they are most pleasing when they are in conversation." No, madam," returned Johnson, I think they are the most pleasing when they hold their tongue."—Literary Journal. A Witty Tailor—Sheridan sometimes met with his match, and that in quarters where it might have been least expected. He was one day endeavouring to cut a suit of new clothes out of a tailor's shop in the city. Flattery was the weapon he employed. "Upon my word," said he, "you are an exceJJent finisher; you beat our snips in the west-end hollow. Why don't you push your thimble amongst us? I'll recommend you everywhere. Upon my honour your work does you infinite credit." "Yes," replied the tailor, I always take care that my work gives lony credit, but the wearers ready money." Daring Robbery.-A most impudent robbery was committed on Tuesday evening last, about 7 o'clock, at the house of a cattle dealer named Slonk, residing within two miles of Faversham, by four men. Mr, Monk returned home from Ash- ford-market a little befere seven, and, after attending to his horse and cart, went into his house to supper-tlie only in- mates of the house were himself, housekeeper, and a little boy. He had not been in longbeforc four men entered the house,having crape over their faces, and immediately commenced tying th; hands of Mr. Monk and the other inmates behind their backs. Having accomplished this, they led all of them into the cellar and locked them in, having, however, first fetched a bed from upstairs, which they gave to the housekeeper, telling her she might make herself comfortable for the night. It appenrs, however, that before entering Sir. Monk's the robbers went into the cottage adjoining, where they found a man named Howling and his wife, and a young farm-servant. Having tied all their hands, they proceeded, with the exception of one who was left guard over these three, to Monk's house, and, having secured all the inmates, as above described, they returned and conducted Howling, his wife, and the young man to Monk's house, and confined them in the cellar with the others. The robbers then regaled themselves with three bottles of wine and all the eatables the house contained, and having ° robbed Sir Monk of about 501, in notes, two or three watchesa large quan- tity of clothing and other things, they had the effrontery to take his horse and cart from the stable and use it in conveying away their booty. A man who lives near, seeing the horse and cart standing close to Mr. Monk's about 9 o'clock, and suspect- mg,from what he saw, that something was wrong, went to. the residence of Silver, a blacksmith, a short distance off, and on their return towards the house the robbers drove by them. Information was immediately given to the superintending con- stable, but, although the parties were pursued, they have not yet been taken, nor the horse and cart recovered. From first to last, the thieves remained in the house for about two hours, How to Catch a Burglar.—A housebreaker forced his 'way nto the shop of Mr. David Falk, jeweller and watchmaker, Market-street, Manchester, on Sunday morning, about 2 o'clock, under tlw following circumstances. Having climbed up a gaspipe outside the building, he entered the warehouse of Messrs. John Harding and Sons, manufacturers, by a window at the end, from New Cannon-street. Here he broke open a desk and a chest, obtaining the halves of notes to the value of 751. These notes he treated as valueless and threw upon the floor. The other halves had been taken home by Mr. Harding, He next took a saw, being well provided with proper imple- ments, and made an opening through the first floor into the shop of Mr. Falk underneath. To make as little noise as possible he lowered a piece of cloth through the first opening made to catch all the pieces of ceiling that might fall while lie enlarged the hole. Taking a piece of fine strong cloth from Sir. Harding's warehouse, and tearing it into shreds, he next constructed a convenient rope ladder, by which he descended into Mr. talk's shop, where all thejewellery and valuables were now placed at his command. He filled his pockets with the more portable and valuable property, and selected a large quantity more which lie placed in a tablecloth found in a sitting-ioom behind the shop. There was no one residing on the premises, and therefore no doubt ail this was done with due deliberation. The valuables in the table cloth having been carefully tied up, a cord was attached to the bundle, and one end of the cord was carried up into Messrs. Harding's ware- house, so that the house-breaker, when he left the premises, might draw it up through the opening in the ceiling after him. All was now complete, and the way to retire was doubtless that by which he had entered, Were thieves teetotallers, probably Sir. Falk's shop had been robbed, and the valua- ble property safely carried awav, while darkness still favoured the design; but unfortunately the thief in this case had met with a bottle of brandy in Sir. Falk's shop, and having completed his selection of valuables as described, he again descended from Messrs, Harding's warehouse to drink to his own success. The result was that he drank too much, fell asleep and did not awake until broad daylieht on Sunday. JSvot willing to hazard an attempt to retreat in the day, in view of such a public thoroughfare as Market-street (for the window he had entered by, in New Cannon-street, is only a few yards from Market street, and is seen by people passing down it became necessary to remain on the premises till 111ght returned; and here he was found, about half-past 4 0 > cl1 ock on Sunday afternoon, by Issac Jacobs, Sir. Falk's shop- man, who called at the shop at that hour as usual to see if all was safe, the thief was behind the counter when Jacobs entered, Md endeavoured to pass him and escape, but was pre- vented and an alarm having been given to the police, he was secuiei without difficulty. The prisoner who gave the name of John Norton, is about IS or 19 years of age. He was brought m before the magistrates at the Borough Court, and was comnÙted for trial at the next Liverpool assizes. The s a cmcnt above given of his proceedings, and the reason he did not escape with the property, is taken from his own account to lie police, which is fully corroborated bv the state of the premises and other circumstances. A Romance of the Trowel and Mallett.-A trowel and l mallet use.! by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, on the lltli of Jun", ISH. in laying the foundation-stone of the Hospital for Consumption, at Brompton, have just realised, it may be sai.1, for the hospital, the luuidsomo sum of nearly 15,0001" in a way so singular as to be w Æ worth recording in ?ctm?T'? '?' was '?- a ??ilt trowel, manu- fachued by Messrs. Eikington, was made use of by the Prince. At a then held, in aid of the institution, this trowel was exh.btted and a gentleman who saw it, Mr. John M'Cu))om, of Bedford-place, purchased it for thirty guineas. A few davs ?tenvards it became first known to the committee that 'it was usual to request the layer of the stone toaccept the trowel, and all concerned were desirous of repairing the error and re- gaining possession of the implement, that it might be offered to the Prince. A representation was made to Mr. Sf'Cullom, and though very reluctant to part with it, he at length con- sented, but refused to take back the thirty ¡;uineos, The trowel, being sent to the Prince, was accepted. Sir, M'Cullom was presented with the handsomely-carved walnut-wood mal- let, also used by his Royal Highness. These circumstanees, trifling in themselves, seem to have made a lasting impression on Sir. M'CulIom's mind. So far from feeling aggrievcll at the loss of the trowel, the transaction appears to have strengthened his interest in the charity which he thus, for the first time, became acquainted with. On his death a short time since, he left-liis property to his sister, his only surviving relative; but a memorandum in his desk conveyed his desire that, at 1lOrdeath, she would bequeath it to the Hospital for Consumption. This wish the lady held sacred; and by her will just proved, she leaves it to the hospital. Her estate is being realized, and will leave a net surplus not far short of 15,0001. Equipment for a Week's Walk.—I should recommend any one in want of a good home walk not to stop out longer than about a week. He may let the raiiway bke him quickly to the new ground—it does not in the least matter wbatorwherc; there is no dull ground anywhere for the potlesti-iiii-tind then let him step out. He shonld never look up to the sky in fear, but in love and enjoyment. The more changcs there are in it, the more variety and pleasure is provided for him. Let the sun beat at him, anil the rain dash cheerily in his faec, and the wind blow an ill-humours out of him. lie should go out im- peded with nothing; have no knapsack, nor eVen a sly scrap of luggage in his hat, no second coat upon his back, and no umbrella in his hand. He should go out nothing but a bold unfettered man, to have communion thoroughly with nature. He must make up his mind for the week to disiegard his per- sonal appearance. In fine exciting stormy weather he will get a little draggle-tailed: lie must not mind that. He must be content lor the week with a comb, a tooth-brush, a towel, and a pair of socks, in one coat pocket, and a single reserved shirt in the other. That last named garment will very likely have been wet through once, and certainly be crumpled by the time he puts it on. Its appearance docs not matter in the least; the purpose of cleanliness will be for the once sufficiently answered, and he must demand no more. Every morning he should bathe in the first sparkling stream with which he meets, and that is why the towel should he carried. Slore impediment he ought not to take with him. Unless attached to it by habit he ought not to take even a stick; hands absolutely free are altogether preferable. I need not say that he must have a little money in his purse; it ought, however, to be little, and should be used only to satisfy simple wants.—Dickens's Household II o rds. Let Him Alone. If your husband looks grave, let him alone; dont disturb or annoy him." Oh, pshaw, when I'm married, the soberer my husband looks, the more noise I'll make about his cars. Dont disturb him I jrlt(!ss sot I'd salt his coftèe-and pepper his tea—and sugar liis beaf- steak—and tread on his toes—and hide his newspaper—and sew up his pockets—and put pins in bis slippers—and dio his cigars in water—and I wouldn't stop for the Great Mogul, till I had shortened his long face to my liking. Certainly he'd get vexed;" there wouldn't be any fun in teazing him if he didn t, and that would give his melancholy blood a good healthy start, and his eyes would snap and sparkle, and he'd say, "Fanny will you be quiet or not?" and I should Jaugh, and pull his wiskers, and say, decidedly, No and then I should tell him he hadn't the slightest idea how handsome he looked when he was vexed, and then he would pretend not to hear the compliment, but would pull up his collar, and take a sly peep in the glass (for all that) and then he'd begin to grow amiable, and get off his stilts, and be just as agreeable all the rest of the evening as if he wasn't my husband, and and all because I didn't follow that stupid bit of advice let him alone." Just as if T didn't know! Just imagine me, I-anny, sitting down on a squab in the corner, with my fore- finger in my mouth, looking out of the sides of mv eyes, and and waiting till that man got ready to speak to me!—Fannv Fern. Machine for Bending Timber.—One of the most impor- tant inyentions of the day is a machine for the bending of timber for ships and other uses, and it will produce is great a revolution in the moulding of wood for the innumerable pur- poses for which it is used as Wordsworth's planing machine has in its operations. This machine was invented by Sir. T. Blanchard, and a company has been formed for the purpose of purchasing the rights for the United States, and for conduct- ing, on an extensive scale, the business of bending ship timber and timber for any use, in any required shape. It is the in- tention of the company to erect extensive works, adapted to the full development of this important invention. The cost of ship timber will be materially lessened, while that required for smaller vessels will be cheaper than ever before known. For cabinet use this invention will prove no less valuable, and we may now haye light cabinet. fnrniturc of great strength; the entire hack of a chair may be made of one piece and of any form, without losing the great strength always consequent upon the use of parallel fibres instead of angular cuts or curves, within which the end of the grain of the wood is ex- hibited. Indeed, two or three joints may take the place of eight or ten, and reduce the liability to break.—.Yew York Herald. A Novel Hare Hunt.—On Friday last, as the two shepherds on the farm of Lamberton, Berwickshire, were walking near the coast, their dogs started a hare. It bounded down the bank and dashed into the surf, autl the sea being very rough at the time, the shepherds thought it was drowned, but to their surprise it immediately appeared beyond the surf, pursuing its way steadily and swiftly to sea. It was afterwards picked up a mi1e from shore by a Bournemouth fishing-boat, On being taken 011 board it began tobiteitscaptors?whoki;iedit,and after coming on shore they found its weight to be .<bove8.?1bs Pedestrianism—Jackson, the American Deer, ran on Wed- nesday, at Portsmouth, 11 miles in 58 minutes and 40 seconds, being a minute and twenty seconds under the stipu- lated sum.

It appears, from a return lately issued, that on the ISth of April there were in gaols, houses of correction, &c.,iii England. 20,143 prisoners. In consequence of an application to the Home-office from the visiting justices of Leicester gaol, requesting that an op- portunity may be afforded to them oftendering further evidence on the srtbject of the stoppages of food for non-performance of the crank labour, Lord Palmerston directed that the commis- sion should be re-opened; and the commissioners according"ly resumed their sittings at Leicester on -Monday. The Queen, on the recommendation of the Premier, has just granted a pension of 1001. to Sir Francis Head, and of lool. to the widow of the late Sir. Sloir (Delta). The Queen has presented to the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, 1001 in aid of its diminished funds. It is in contemplation to purchase the Duke of Bucking- ham's late residence, Chandos-house, Pall-mall, for the site of the Junior United Service Club; in Wllich event, Chandos- house will be taken down, and upon the ground a new and magnificent structure will be erected. The Commercial Steam-packet Company have placed a new vessel on the station, to run to and from London and Hams- gate, inliell of the ill-fated Duchess of Kent, which it will be recollected was run down and sunk off Grays some time since On Sunday morning notices were read in the various Koman Catholic places of worship in the metropolis, that in conse- quence of the threatened visitation of the cholera, Cardinal Wiseman had granted dispensation to the faithful of his dio- cese from fasting, or abstaining from flesh meat on Friday's. Her Iajesty's staghounds commenced the season on Mon- day, when the meet was near the Itoyal kennels at Ascot. The pack will, as usual, hunt the forest country for the first two or three weeks, after which the. regular fixtures will be announced. The liritish and North American Royal Mail steamship Asia, Lott commander, took her departure from Liverpool for Xew York on Saturday, with 160 passengers, a full cargo, and the usual mails on board. The number of eeras imported last month was 11,481,163, against 7,634,274 for the like period of 1852. It appears from an official document just issued, that in the month ended the 5th ult. there were 9,838 cwt. of pota. toes imported, against 1.896 Cltt. at the same period of last year. They are free of duty, It is shown by official returns that in the month ended the 5th ult. the declared "alue of steam-engines and parts of steam-engines exported was 63,9981, while at the like period of last year the amount was 36,7101. The following gentlemen, having undergone the necessary <,xarnin,1tion for the diploma, were admitted members of the Hopi College of Surgeons, at the last Court of Examiners:- J,Iessrs, Charles Yarwood, Birmingham; Edward Greco- Noott Gosport; Robert Cirr Brackenbnry Holland, Bristol; John Swift Walker, Sheemess; Theodore Duka, Calcutta* Henrv Chambers, Sonth Australia,* James lies tor, Oxfo1'1; and George Whitefield Sparke, Finsbury. At the same meeting of the Court, Sir. John Felix Johnson passed his examinationfor naval surgpon. The Ojl,i,,l ?f t7,? T?,o Siilie? inii?unc(,d tllat on the 24th nit her Koyal Highness the Countess of Trapani ^id^rira°fapnnce' '?"? the nU

THE PEACE CONFERENCE AND MR HENRY 11 "I DRUMMOND, M.P.   hn<; lJeen Ild,]re>scù to the Sccr tn,y of the Po.ce S'?i? yby ?. Hcnry^6581''1 A'° Secrc'tllr>' to-invitation Sent to him to Edi?l- bn!h'- ¡, AJlmry-pnrk, Selot, 30. I -"il?-Y()Il in,it?d me to 90 (1??l to Edinburgh to assist at a conference of I ?d:? P:;c:T? of person; ca¡¡in, th'nbch'cs 'The F 'ends of I race; and )'o ¡lave ùesired me, ? I cannot be present, to send y. u m?y ?'.?""t?? ?"?"toth.objectsofthe conference. Ih j "!ts of tile AH people want peace. If tim Emperor f r,"??ia b R"SS'a bs 'i' to keep possession of w?c.?? ??, ,?.?"M, av.a, and to detach the subjects of the P.?t? tl ?"? to their own S?yere:gn, no man w,II hern? ? '"? :iiicho13s. The title, therefore, of the wT7 S ery al'P«>Pnate nor distinctive. llV'°?r a,1Jl'CSS there re m3ny trite truisms describing t'.eci.so war, agai. nst which common-places nothing canbf s ud You consider it as a Utopian dream b bring about suddenly a miraculous transfonnation of In,-man nature; the inonigence of which you disclaim; hut your whole address proves that the only part of the dream you differ from is the sudden- ness of the miraeu.ous transformation,'and that you do pro- rs ? ? ?'" ?'" of "??'? '? "? JZgn oy f peace by means of <'<?"?. Of the fimt two men bom into the world one killed the other; and in this way human nature has manifested itself ever shice that period tion/,C un)? ,t uiide?g?s a 'miraculous transfom1a- l'oii indi!3r cast 0bI°!ly on the profession of arms, as a eki? o'n fr?'? ? ?? ?'?? ? ?"' P'?'°" ? ?s, d st:,? '??f.f ?rrM,.s occupyj-ng posts of as adas 1 Bny other class of men in this counltry- merchXantm s t ™r:ni- 1CtUrers' s Wers;m- for p.t,i,)tisll" lioiiour, virtue, dlsl!terestedness, kmùness, seH devotion-for, in short cvery disinterestedness, kindnL s sdf dCTot T.7 » J-. m: y °IaSS quality that ennobles nvm- and I »» that the military class is, beyond measure, snper10r to any < Yon would prefer to see statues erected to those who hiv 'V.. ou'li l)refer the money-making arts of peace- ai Id d Tt- *'a,nent Mar)bor.?h, Wellington, ?",n vT SUtUeS prefer to see statues to the inventors of s^min^L™^ .ailroads, or to K? and Jeremy B? )? ??' ?? rail dz,, or to l?.,t and J?r?,.), think a bro:dbrim in bronze more picturesque t]mn a ?,1-,d hat. You are ,,?d .?id p ?-,f, to both. IdoHtaryhkc statuary, is an affair of taste! but who scons to know as much about d?,il' as you do, tells us that Maminom was the basest and meanest of aJI, "You quote the opinion of Lord John Rusecll, that the last war was unnecessary. It was not undertaken until the French Government had proclaimed war upon every crowned head in i-urope; and they who were loyal urged their Sovereigns to reply to these manifestoes with grape shot-the onh ar-mncnts with winch revolutionists should be treated. The \Yhi"s said it was not necessary, merely as every faction not in power takes the opposite side of every question from the one that is, but when they came into office, although they had coquetted with treason and palliated sedition (as they have ever since continued to do, whenever by so doing they could strengthen themselves), they were not one whit less alive to the true safety and honour of the country under Mr. Fox and Lord Grev, than their prede- cessors had been under lr, Pit t. "11 requires matchless impudence to speak of the defenceless state of this country, and the sense of its danger, to winch the people were with diincutty awakened, as absurd and &bu)oM tales for there was not even a shadow of foundation.' The President of the French ?''?"?"' ?? '??"'? assertions, with oaths, that ? he would preserve the Republic entire: it has been since man?ested that at the very moment he was making T" VT "S to ?'? upon ""? Government and make himself Emperor. Yet on this man's truth and professions of peace, you advise us to rely in ]amblikc security! He made no ?ceret of saying that he would, at a proper time invad. this countn A plan for its invasion was given in to 'l/I? W:'SIl'csldent of t,lc Republic, which he would 1 not t loo? at then, because be had tl?,, business i?? hand 'After he was Emperor he referred that plan of invasion to his Minis- ters, Who replied t hat t he plan was good, if it had been can-ied into ellect at the time, but, now that the English were roused, and their military spirit awakened, as had been proved by the calling out of their militia, lhe time had gone by. lie himself proposed a plan for the repartition of Europe, which was put an end to solely by the Emperor of Russia. Louis Xapoleon has raised the largest number of screw warships that Franco ever possessed, which cannot be to protect its colonies and com- merce, because it has none. He has been long practising his troops in embarking and disembarking by night, which cannot be tor going to Vienna, Rome, or St. Petersburg, aud which can be solely for a descent on our shores, i he French people prefer glory to gain, hate the English with a perfect hatred and long to revenge their defeat at Waterloo. While such facts as these stare us in the face, who shall sav there is no need' of commou sense to hold np to scorn and derision that party 111 this country which 'excites public opinion' to meet Is by a conference for peice You state that the flower and strength of European manhood is living in coerced idleness at the expense of the rest of the community, in order that they may be ready to fight; it would be more true if yon had said, in order that the rest of the may be able to spin cotton and grow corn in quiet. Agreeably to the cant of the age, you try to mix up some fragments of Holy Wi-it to sanctify your folly; and, imagining that you are to be the means of introducing the millenium you ask'if there is nothing which Christian men can do' to- wards that ciid ?Y. want a universal peace without the lraiee of Peace; you want the world more quiet, that men may be left more undisturbed in the enjoyment of selfish gra- tification; and you think that no one can penetrate the dark- ness m which you have envcioped history, both sacred and profane. Yes; you can do something to bring in universal peace. Join together to beseech the Prince of Peace to come again, as lie has promised to do, in the same wav as that in which He was seen to go, and lie will come and bring peace with Him; but without Him ye shall do nothing At this moment every Sovereign on continental Europe has usurped over the rights of their nobles and of their people the Emperors of Russia and Austria, the Pope and his priests, the King of Naples, and all the minor ibsulutesieriiiin Princes. For this usurpation the people are vowing vengeance; and from England their leaders have issued proclamations calling on all subjects not to war with each other, but to unite in warring on all the reigning families, and put them to death. If you have any honesty and sincerity among you, transfer your con- ference to Moscow, Vienna, or Constantinople, in all of which I can vent me, though unauthorised, to promise vou a recep- tion much more consonant with your deserts than the urbanity of the Scotch is likely to give to you in Edinburgh; and when the inhabitants of that city, and of Manchester, have been brought to dismiss their magistrates and police, and to rclv upon the pacific disposition of the rabble in those towns, it will he time enough to begin to think about what may be done with the rest of Europe. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "HENHY DLIUMMOXD. u ncv. H. IUdJ:ud, UJ, Xcw nl'oaù-strcct.'

MR. BRIGHT ON THE EASTERN QUESTION. I He toll owing correspondence has possd between Mr. Bright, M.P., and certain gentlemen in Manchester desirous of hoiding a public meeting on the Eastern question:— "October 6, 1853. "Sir,—Your attendance is particularly- requested at a pre- liminary meeting, to be held in the Manchester AthcnJum' Xo. 10 room, on Monday next, October 10, at 4 o'clock prompt to consider the propriety of holding a public meeting in Man- chester, to denounce the conduct of Russia, and to encoiu-ace the British Government to protect the interests and preserve the integrity of Turkey. "We arc, Sir, your obedient servant, J. W. HUDSON, Ph. D. ISAAC GREGORY. S. 13. JOHNSON. "John Bright, Esq., M.P., Rochdale." "Dear 811'1 h:l1'e your circular calling a mceting Oil the Eastern question. I can conceive nothing more unwise than to endeavour to excite public opinion to drive the Government into a war with Russia in defence of Turkey. If such a war should be undertaken, I believe our children and posterity will judge us precisely a; we now judge those who involved this country in war with the American colonies and with France-with this difference only, that we shall be held to be so much more guilty, inasmuch as, having had the blunders and crimes of our forefathers to warn us and to guide us, we shall have wilfully shut our eyes to the lesson which their unfortunate policy has left us. Manchester and the two millions of people in its district will, I hope and believe, regard those men as their worst enemies who by any act at this moment shall weaken the efforts of Lord Aberdeen to preserve the peace of Europe. If men would let their reason guide them rather than their feelings, I am sure the pressure of public opkion would be for peace, and not for war. War will D„t 6ave Turkey, if peace cannot save her; but war "ill brutalize our people, inc,rease our taxes, destroy our industrv, and pos? ^promised Parliamentary reform, it may be:f? ?ny I cannot attend your meetiiiz, but I send you some of my views on the Eastern question. I am very respectfully, •; J, W, Huùson, Esq., Athene JOIlX IJRIGIlT, .Manchester,

APPALLING SHIPWRECK-348 PERSONS LOST. Intelligence has reached Liverpool of the total wreck of the cmigiant ship Annie Jane, Captain Mason, from Liverpool to Quebec, lhe unfortunate vessel sailed 011 the 9tk ult., and meeting with some casualty in the Channel, she put back to Liverpool, and after fitting up re-sailed with about 380 pas- sengers and about 30 of a crew. About 36 hours after leaving that port she was entirely dismasted, and drifted as far as lat. 60 X, and on the night of the 28tll she was totally lost on the Island of Barra. 0nc hundred and two of the passengers and crew (including the captain) were saved, and the remainder drowned. Only three of the cabin passengers were saved. Captain and Mrs. Rose (passengers) were drowned, and their bodies washed ashore; as well as 230 others. The ship went to pieccs five minutes after she struck. The captain remained about the wreck, on part of the poop deck, for six hours after the casualty, endeavouring to save as many "as possible. A letter from the captain, dated Barra. Oct. 3, speaks in the highest terms of the kindness of the islanders, who used tliciy best endeavours to save the lives of those 011 board.