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it lost by the union. But let us examine what will be the result of this divorce to the northern provinces ? Relieved from an odious ma nufacturing system, we shall be able to establish our customs on a per. fecdy commercial system : Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Dart, Middel burgh, will become so many free ports, into which moderate duties, exempt from vexatious modes of collection, will bring back our old commerce in all its force. The duties at present Imposed upon sugar, coffee, and other articles of trade, will be revoked. The inhabi tants will purchase fuel, clothing stuffs, and all the commodities which trade, manufacture, and the necessities of a people require, in England, and wherever they can produce them upon better terms than in the southern provinces, where all these articles will be loaded with duties Ind restrictions, and will be therefore dearer.. Our country will again became the centre and mart of all the productions and riches of the world which are destined for and consumed in Germany and the provinces of France bordering on the Rhine, as well as in many other places which now escape us. The products of our colonies will be no longer carried except to our own ports, to the exclusion of all others, and they will be freed firom all the duties and charges with which they are at present burdened, and which our Sovereign has established for the advantage of the Belgians alone. Thus not only the mother country, but the colonies also, will enjoy the advantage of the separation. The duty of 25 per cent. established at Java in favour of the Belgians will be abolished; and it is thus that, wherever the standard of Holland shall be displayed, liberty, prosperity, and public happiness will prevail; and let no one present to you as a burdensome set of the debt which will remain to our charge.—Lct us first deduct from the entire sum, those parts which, when the separation takes place, must he placeoo the charge of the southern provinces, and which consist first of the Austro-Belgic and Russian debt; 2d, the half of the levies made since 1815; 3d, what has been advanced for the southern manufactories; 4th, and last, all the millions which have been expended on the fortifications made and constructed in the afore said southern provinces. With these deductions the debt, which ' will remain to our charge, will not be a very heavy burden. —Besides, although it is not for us to look after and state what will be the consequences of the separation to the southern pro vinces, it still does appear that Liege and Hainault will lose those favourable markets which they found in Holland for their raw ma terials and manufactured articles. The two Flanders and the province of Antwerp will no longer have the means of sending to Java their ma nufactures, and competing with the English ; and thus they will see their manufatories ruined, and the city of Antwerp, which will always be in contact with s tariff of high duties in favour of the Belgic trade, will soon see its ports deserted, without hope of recovery ; and its commerce, now so prosperous, will return to the provinces of the north, which are free from all shackles.'"—From Journal d'Atorers. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. Cnaowiciw.—The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Rail- way has been clouded by a most unfortunate occurrence. The under taking itself has been as successful as the most sanguine of its pro jectors anticipated; but during one of the temporary stoppages, Mr. Muskisson, who was in the space: between the carriage ways, on the approach of one of the cars, which had fallen behind, fell on codes- Touring to lay bold of the car beside him, and an engine passed over his thigh. The consequence was a compound fracture, rendering am. potation necessary. Unfortunately from the previous state of his health,' his life is considered to be in the greatest danger. Down to the time at which our Reporter's communication was sent off, he was in s state which rendered it impossible for him to under. go the dreadful operation. The Duke of Wellington seems to have been greatly affected by the accident, and endeavoured to have the business of the day postponed. This, however, after much de., liberation, the Directors did not deem themselves authorised to agree to. His Grace, however, did not join the dinner party at Liverpool.—Ac cording to our Reporter, the speed of the cars was, while he observed the time, at the rate of 18 and ID miles an hour; but he was assured by Mr. Stephenson that, when they were pushing on to Manchester after the interruption, the rate wu 24 miles an hour, and at one time even 331—This is unquestionably one of the greatest triumphs of mechanical science. It is the commencement of a new era in loco-motion. We may expect the construction of railways on all the roads where a dense population would render the speculation profitable. Already the Shares of this Company are at a premium, which is the best proof of the general opinion as to the success of the speculation. Distant cities are now brought near to each other. The ranting call of the Poet to annihilate space and time, may almost be said to be realised. Before a citisen of London could proceed in one of those lumbering ouches which yet disgrace the streets of this metropolis, the strong hold of so many monopolies, to the west end of the town, a Liverpool m erc h an t would have finished a journey to Manchester. The power of man over the material world has been augmented within a few years in so extraor. dinary a manner, invention having succeeded rapidly to invention, that there has been generated a disposition to believe that the elements may be made available to man to a degree far beyond any thing of which we have experience. Had rail-roads along which carriages might proceed at the rate of thirty-three miles an hour been hinted at to Swift, he would certainly have deemed the speculation adapted for Laputa. Trares.—Some of the !police Fe — ports have exhibited within these few days, a picture of the relations too often, as we are told, subsisting between the officers of East India Company's ships and their seamen, which it was impossible to look at without disgust at the system, or without serious alarm for its consequences to the public wdfare. It appears that on board these valuable merchant-ships, and in a service of such towering pretensions as that of the Holsourabte Company, a habit of foul language has been indulged in by the officers towards the sailors, wholly Incompatible with that grave self-respect which ought to characterise the demeanour of s having authority over others, and inevitably tending to uce on the minds of their inferiors a bitterness or a prostration of spirit alike unfavourable to the dis charge of a seaman's duties. The Inglis, as may be collected from the evidence offered before the magistrate, was on her voyage home, a scene of the most deplorable insubordination, and as usually—we do not say invariably—happens, the violence of the exas perated seamen may be traced to that which they had long experienced from the Captain of the vessel and his mates. It is not • fit practice.... It is not a practice which would be tolerated en board a British man of war, or indeed on board a merchantman at any nation but the English to abuse men employed in laborious offices as if they were creatures de void of feelit.g, and when they show a natural and human sense of the wanton indignities with which they en outraged, to tie them up and flog them like wild beasts. Why, if English seamen had even the benefit of the act of that generous.rninded statesman (ono* himself a sailor,) the late Lord Erskine, the act against " cruelty to animals," no skipper dons use them with a degree of harshness like th a t represented by the witnesses on behalf of the crew to have formed their ordinary treatment at the hands of the Captain of the Inglis, and one or more of his officers. On the other side of the question, we are not insensible to the difficulties imposed upon the Captain of a Company's ship, so far as regards the seamen. With all their reputed wealth, and real power, the India Company are the shabbiest set of shipowners whose vessels traverse the ocean. Their ships are the wont manned, their size con sidered, and the casualties to which in long voyages and insalubrious climates they are exposed,—the worst that clear out from the ports of the united kingdom. It is not thi'l the number of their crews are scanty ; but that from the poor wages they offer, — the small precautions taken by them as to inquiry into cha. racter,—the absence of all provision for their sailors and petty officers after age or accident shall have compelled them to retire, and the consequent bad quality of many of their seamen, as compared with those who are admitted into his Majesty's service—the crew of an India. man is often such as to ffiann the officers for the safety of the ship, and for the lives of all on board her. It is not, therefore, as against the offi cers only that we should desire to see a set of regulations, with respect to discipline, established end enforced by legal sanctions. At present there is none but what proceeds from the assumed nee's %ity of each case as it arises: when the Captain, thwarted or insulted hy his men, has recourse to violence for want of legitimate power. Teach the seaman his duties by legislative authority, and the officer will soon learn to respect his rights, because his own rights will be placed beyond the pals of controversy. The situation of a ship, and of those by whom she is navigated, is so peculiar, and the effects of crime so prompt and dangerous, as to justify the application of more direct and a P ecihe rem edies against wrong doing than such as may be extracted from the ordinary provisions of the common law. We can imagine no reason why a code of instructions similar (*stands seurantlis) to those observed on board a King's ship, should not be applied to the mercantile marine of England, and officers and men made answerable for thei r complete execution. H amenity and the love of justice will assuredly be spared, by such a charitable innovation, the pain of many a police re cital like those to which we h ave a d ve rted above. ---see-- Porr.--The men of the revolution have, it is certain, themselves of all the good things in France, with a degree of rapidity Thiel) might have been thought incredible had it been asserted upon any arthority inferior to that of an official and detailed statement of the Prime Alinister of the Revolutionary King. The revolutionists have, 7deed, sh own an insatiable avidity foe o ffi ce in every department of this mate but two. In the Military department, in the departments of to hterior, of Justice, of Foreign Ankh.% there has bees no modes& no respect to former service, however ancient, faithful, disaeet "r meritorious—no merciful consideration for the families of the old s !;<apants of offi ce , h owever temperate or inoffensive may have been '"nr political sentiments or conduct. Here the revolutionary blec en_— has in all conscience swept clean eno ug h. B ut i n the Maks* , n. n!l Finance departments it had been exer c i se d mote s p ar i ng l y , an d f or thin comparative lenity the Minister offers apologies which ought to satisfy the Revolutionists even who panted the most ardently to become naval commanders or receivers general, while their mitosis cannot fail we think to amuse all the rest of the world. The men of the Revolution are necessarily deprived of their expected harvest of promotion in the de partments of Marine and Finance, because, to use the words of the Duke De Broglie, the Marine is a " body which by its nature requires the union of special knowledge and long experience ;" and because " the situation of the Minister of the Finances, as to the personal, was extremely delicate, inas much as the Officers entering into this department have confidence to gain, and these is some danger in removing men of established credit." Whatever we may think of any other part of the reasoning ache French Minister, this at Iftst we believe to be founded on indisputable fact. The Duke is unquestionably right in his opinion, that the political ad venturers, the Plea-- hunting Journalists, the vagabond loungers in coffee-houses, the prating petits-stailres of the Wows, who have been the principal instruments in exciting the French people to revolution, are the very last men in the world who ought to be entrusted either with naval commands or with any portion of the public money. Hznat.n.—Some of our contemporaries have endeavoured to depre ciate the courage of the Belgians, and ridiculed them, partly by bunt assertions of their own, and partly by their Brussels correspondence, which, from its invariable partiality, and general ignorance of the sub ject appears to be of home manufacture. The Belgians have ever been famous for their husseur bclhgeuse. Without going back to the records of Roman History, which extols the valour of the Belgian cavalry on many occasions, and particularly for the protection it afforded to the Roman Legions on their disastrous retreat from Persia, under Crassua, we need only advert to the high renown the Walloon regiments acquired in the Austrian service during the late revolutionary French war, these facts being perfectly within the recollection of the present generation , with the exceptio c n o I A , oil very young men, young politicians, and some newspaper ta, whose recollections are, perhaps, as limited as their . The regiment of Latour (dragoons) served with the greatest disdnetien, and was long the terror of the French army. Four times was this regiment renovated during the cam pk= between 1793 and 1801, every and man having been either kilted or put bore de combat, it being always indulged with the post of honour—that is, the t nearest to the enemy. 'The Belgian infantry was equally celebrat ed, and not only their regular regiments of foot in the Imperial service, but even the contingent of the Ecclesiastical Prince of Liege, under Colonel Wasseige, fought most saliently upon all occasions, especially at the celebrated lines of Weissenbourg. Many of the best Austrian Generals were Belgians. Geneva]. Clairefait, Beaulieu, Belicgarde and Prince de lAgne, to wit; and the regiment of Duke Albert of Six. Teschen, one of the finest cuirassier regiments in the Austrian army, was recruited and officered from Belgium, as well as that of Bossy Chasseurs a Cheval, who suffered so much by their charges on their Consular Guard at Marengo had been recruited in Belgium. On the other hand, let us inquire into the testimony of facts as to the warlike spirit of the modern Dutch, either for themselves or for any one else. lo 1794 and 1796. the French overran all Holland, and scarce a shot was fired. In 1799 the Texel fleet struck to a regi ment of English dragoons, and the Angio-Runian army advanced to within seven leagues of Amsterdam, the Batavians retreating before them, till a French force hastened from the Upper Rhine, by forced marches, to their assistance, and nand the fortune of the campaign ; and afterwards when the Bstavians formed separate corps in the French army, under Gen. Dunionceau, and even under Marshal Augereau, the Duke of Castiglione himself, they never achieved any brilliant fait d'armes ; for Napoleon, who knew how to form a very correct judg ment, seldom intruste d them with any military operations of conse quence. As to the patriotism of the Dutch, the inhabitants of this dwelt:al land of liberty, sold gunpowder to Louis XIV. to blow their own towns about their ears, better satisfied to turn a penny in this way than to drive a trade in unprofitable patriotism. LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT TO MR. HUSKISSON ! We sincerely regret to announce that a lamentable acci dent has occurred to that valuable Statesman, Mr. Hus- Kissow. Our Express is to the following effect:— MANCHESTER, Sara.. 15. A most melancholy accident has occurred at the opening of the rail-road this morning. Mr. HUSKIBSON having left the carriage at Newton, was walking on the line, when he was run down by an engine, and his thigh was severely fractured. In consequence of this accident, all the car riages, except those which contained the Duke of WEL LINGTON, Sir ROBERT PEEL, and the other distinguished 1 ns' hors returned to Liverpool. The DUKE and hi s p ar ty proceeded to Manchester. I am sorry to add that amputation has been deemed necessary, to afford even a chance of recovery ; of which, however, there is at present but slight hopes. In order to prevent the alarm which might be caused by the non-arrival of the Steam Carriages, Sir ROBERT PEEL has ordered bills to be issued, announcing the melancholy fact; and it was determined to proceed to Manchester, and immediately to return to Liverpool. We have to add, that no other accident has happened. To the above, which we published last night in aS econd Edition, we now add the following particulars, from a COM.. spondenco in the Morning Herald : SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT THE OPENING or THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.-Xl. =MIMI DANGEROUSLY MAIMED. The rail-road has been opened to-day, with all the pomp and drawn. stance which might be expected on so important an occasion, graced as it was by the presence of so many persons of distinction, amongst whom the Duke of Wellington stands proudly foremost. But the day's pro ceedings have been dashed by a melancholy accident. Mr. Huskisson, the member for Liverpool, has been most dangerously injured by an ac cident which I have only time briefly to describe. The carriage In which the Duke of Wellington. Earl Wilton, Lord Lerman Gower, Mr. Hnskisson, and other persons of rank, were conveyed, was on a different line of mad from the other vehicles, which lines, however, are separated by a very trifling distance ; and the Wellington ferriage, as it is called, went :sometimes at so great a rate as to far outrun the whole of the cavalcade. On one of these occasions, on arriving within about seven miles of Eccles (which village is about four miles from Manches ter), several of the party alighted. amongst whom, unfortunately, was Mr. Huskisson; but thereat bad returned to their eats, when the Dart engine, with a carriage attached, was observed rapidly approaching, and Mr. Huskisson so far lost his presence of mind, in the fear that sof& dent room was not left foe the engine to pass him without inflicting fatal injury, that hems& s hasty grasp at the door of the Wellington carriage, which gave way to his effort with such unexpected suddenness, in consequence of its not being fastened, that he fell backwards, under the body of the engine, one wheel of which, and subsequently two wheels of the carnage attached, passed over his rightleg, occasioning fracture of the most shocking description, both the leg and thigh bones having been shattered! Amputation has since taken place, and the worst fears are entertained for the result. He is now lying at the house of the Reverend Mr. Blackburn (son to the member for the county,) at Eccles. Mrs. Huskiuon was in another carriage at the time, but was soon made acquainted with his misfortune, and hastened to the spot. The Duke was seta to betray so much emotion throughout the evening, that he spoke to no one without accompanying it with some expressions of regret for the calamity that had befallen Mr. Huskhson. (rum Anon= conasmownster.) Liverpool, Wednesday. I need not inform you that this was the day appointed for the opening of the Liverpool and ilancester rail-road, and, that we have on the oc casion been favoured with the company of the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Huskimon, and numerous persons of the highest rank and distinction, whose names I need not, on the present ocasion, men. tion, but for which I must refer you to my communication of to-morrow, with every other particular respecting the procession, &c. for owing to the afflicting and distressing accident that has befallen our highly talented , and worthy representative, Alr. Huskissun, I am, from personal feeling, unable to enter into any other particulars, for be is now, while I write, I fear, no mote. When the procession art ived at Eccles, a few miles from Manchester, it stopped, and Mr. Ruthisson alighted, and, on his enter. ing the carriage again, the door of which being of great breadth, and an engine coming up on the adjoining rail, struck the door, and knocked him down on the rail the carriage was traversing on, and the following engine on the same line coming up, went over his thigh and kg, and nearly severed them from his body, and left them suspended by the flesh. There appeared no hopes of life being sustained, and he is, poor man, resigned to his fate. Thus we have bees deprived of lour valued representative, and of a gentleman who has rendered him- I self dear to us all. We consider him not only a loss to this great and flourishing town, but to the country at large ; and all arUing from a puffing disposition in the managers of this undertaking. It has bees by maay called a national work ; hut it cannot, from the first until the present moment, be called any thing but a sordid ems; for, by rations puffs and experiments. the shares have been raised from 1001. to the vales of 2101 before one penny has been earned, or before it is known what it will produce. They stated, at first, that they could carry inside passengers to Manchester at 2s. 6d. each, and they have already received 7s. each for to leave in the morning ; bat this was before the fatal ace t was known ; and rather than suds a loss should have taken place, it would have been better had the rail. , read never been founded. What east it will have on the value of the shares, time will show, as passengers can be carried safely by hosts at , the mane prier. (FROM A TUMID COARESTONDMIT.) Liverpool, Right .'(lock. , The procession has just returned from Manchester, but I am *eery to inform you of, it is feared,' fatal accident to Mr. Huthissen. the popu lar and highly respected Member of this town. As I said before, the procession went on smoothly, for the first half of the journey, and the distinguished passengers, and the company generally, appeared highly delighted with the steadiness and velocity of the engines. Me Northum brian, which drew the Duke and his distinguished suite showed different rates of speed. and appeared to be under the most perfect command. As that engine and the Duke's company were on the right hand line of the railway, and the engines and carriages containing the shareholders and ticket holders on the left line, each part of the pro ion had an ex cellent opportunity of observing the command erns power of the ma chines. At length the Duke's party, which had shortly before passed the others at a rapid pace, stopped to take in same water and fuel, and several of the party alighted. The other party were a considerable dis mace behind, and, from the level of the railway, did not apnea to be coming very fast. Prince Esterhasy, Mr. Huskisson, and several other gentlemen, in inspecting the engine, came round into the spa= between the two lines of road. As they were very much struck with some parts of its construction, they were too much interested to think of the engine that was bringing the first portion of the other part of the cavalcade. The space between the inner rails of the two lines of road is not more than three feet six inches, or four feet ' • and the body of each carriage projects about a foot over the wheel on such side, thus reducing the space, when one carriage is passing another. to about two feet and a half. The noise of the approaching engine at roused the company to their danger, but not, however, before they time time to have got out of the way. Several gentlemen who were there did so, and bad no more time for retreating than those who remained. Among the latter were Prince Esterhasy, Mr. Huskiasoe, and several others, among whom was a very stout gentleman, who seemed to stand much the worst chance of the whole. All those who remained, except Mr. Huskisson, seemed to do so from choice; but the latter gentleman seemed very nervous, and in great trepidation. Per haps his late illness and previous debility contributed to deprive him, in some measure, of his presence of mind; but whatever was the immediate cause, Mr. Huskisson reeled round, and fell, with his thigh on the rail which the approaching carriages were to traverse. The engine whizzed past without being hardly inconvenienced by the obstruction. Mr. Huskissou had his thigh terriby crushed. The injury was a compound fracture; but, from his recent illness, and very doubt ful convalescence, it is feared it will produce his death. The whole company was in the greatest possible state of alarm. The Duke of Wel lington, Sir R. Peel, Prince Esterhazy, and indeed every one alighted and rendered what assistance they could. Dr. Hunter, professor of ana tomy from Edinburgh, and several other medical gentlemen then pre sent Immediately decided on the nature of the injury, and the neces sity of removing the unfortunate gentleman to some quiet place with the greatest despatch. Mr. Huskissun appeared to feel most poignantly front the fracture--indeed so much so that he begged them for Gon's sake to let him lie on the ground and bleed to death. His Grace the Duke of Wellington advised an immediate re. torn to Mr. Huskisson's house at Liverpool, and this course was also advocated by several other gentlemen, friends of Mr. Huskisson. It was contended, in opposition, that thegreatest danger would result from disappointing hethousands of people who were assembled at the Man cheater end of the line. At last one gentleman respectfully informed his Grace, that if the procession returned it must be on his responsibility, as, from the late feeling of the Manchester people, who had retrained from work on purpose to see the procession, it was to be apprehended that they.would tear:up the railway. At length the unfortunate gentle. man was taken to Manchester, and every possible attention paid to him. It is feared his leg must be amputated. The Duke will not now, it is expected, dine with the company. Every body seems to regret sincerely such an unfortunate accident on the first day of opening therailway, to one of its best friends. (vacua • 101:111TH COILILESPONDZWI). Liverpool, Nine o'clock. Report states that the Railway procession was very ill received at Manchester, with hissing, and hooting., and even mud thrown at some of the carriages. His Grace of Wellington has not returned to Liverpool to the dinner with the proprietors, in consequence of the melancholy ac cident to Mr. Huskisson. REPORTED DEATH OF MR. HUSKISSON. _ __ _ --------- The following was received last night from the Agent to the North and South American Coffee House s Liverrool, Sept. 15. This day has long been looked forward to as forming a memorable epoch in the annals of Liverpool, in consequence of its being ap pointed for the opening of the Railroad. The Duke of Welling ton and a large cortege of the Nobility and Gentry, amongst whom was our Right Honourable Representative, proceeded to Manchester. The journey thither passed off to the high gratification of every LW viduaL It is, however, my painful duty to record a very melancholy ac cident which occurred to Mr. Huskisson in the course of the journey bark. The particulars, as far as 1 have been able to collect them, are as follow : On arriving at Kenyon Cutting, the party stopped to take in water, and the passengers alighted. On Mr. Huskisson's getting out of the car between the two lines of the road, the door of the car was open at his back, when the Rocket engine with its train of carriages came up, and one of them struck the door, by which means it was thrown against Mr. Huskimon's back, who was knocked down, and the wheels of one of the carriages went over his leg and thigh, and fractured them in a dreadful manner. Dr. Bmndreth and two other medical gentlemen im mediately came to his assistance, when it was found necessary that the Right Hon. Gentleman should be removed to the first convenient dwel ling; the engine was therefore detached from the Duke's carriage, and the seats taken from one of the others and fixed on the engine, on which Mr. Huskisson was placed, and carried to the residence a the Rev. Mr. Blackburn, Vicar of Eccles, where I regret to say, be now lies in a very oisatiorows situation. P.S. The Duke of Wellington, who was with blm in the carriage, is in a moat distressing state. Ten o'clock, p. A report has just reached na that Mr. Huskisson is no more. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Frederick VI. from China, pu Into the Mauritius on the 10th of May, to repair. The Sir Wm. Ashton, Storer, from Dublin to Quebec, was totally wrecked in Fortune's Bay, Newfoundland, on the 9th ult. Crew and passengers saved. The Denton, Denton, from Quebec, arrived at Newfoundland 12th nit leaky, and would be obliged to discharge part of her cargo. The Scotsman, &butes, bound to Dundee, put back to Memel 31st ult. leaky, and discharged part of her cargo, with damage. The Philadelphia, from Singapore and Batavia, is supposed to be arrived in the Channel. Sm. 16.—Arrived the Active, James, from Gijon. Madataan, Sam 16.—Arrived the Larkins, Campbell; Morley, Harrison, and Surrey, Kemp, from China ; Eamont, bl•Cauley, front Buenos Ayres; Golden Spring, Bridge, and Woodmanstein, Calms, from Jamaica ; Phoclon, Shamway, from Wilmington ; and Father, Findlay, from Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, 4 Snv. 16.-.. Arrived the Minstrel, Arcot; from Da. tavia—sailed 23 April, Mauritius 3d June, and St. Helena 44th July. Faueoorw, Sam 15.—Arrived the Sanwich packet, from Lisbon— wailed the 6th instant; Creole, Symons, from Pernambuco; Isabella, Thomson, from Jacmel ; and Liverpool Packet, from St. pe. tersburgh: PLYMOUTI. Sm. 1 5.—Arrived the Fly, Egg. from St. John's, N.B. Dome, SIFT. 14.—Arrived the Alert, Davidson, and Welcome, I Kirk i from Quebec. PLYMOUTH, Szrr. 16. His Majesty's ketch Vigilant, 12, Lieutenant R. Loney, arrived so Thursday last from a cruise. The (Wes, tender to the Talavera, 74, sailed on Thursday last for the Downs. His Majesty's sloop Racehorse, 18, la ordered to be commissioned at this port. The Supply naval transport, arrived on Saturday from Woolwich. The Diligence naval transport arrived on Tuesday, with the caulkers from Pembroke, and sailed again for Chatham after landing them. In liamosse—Caledonia, Heat, Ariadns, Weazle. Bramble, Ante lope tender, Hermes steam-vessel, Iniustry, aad Supply. At the Island—Brim:Dart and Vigilant. In the Sound—Wolf. Capt. dlanyatt, C.B. has resumed the command of the Ariadaa. The Admiralty having ordered a yacht to be built on the plan of Captain Hayes, at Portsmouth, the one lately in use has been trans. fared. as Cummissinners' Yacht, to this Dock-yard. A Coast-Guard Court of Enquiry has been held in Hyland, up Lieut. Mc. Gladdery, R.N. chief officer of lslandmorc, County May on o, and Lieut. Hudson, R.N. commanding the Skylark revenue cruiser, oast of Ireland, which has terminated in the honourable acquittal of both these officers. The onyx, 10. Lieut. Dawson. has been unsuccessful in her endea. yours to find what was represented to have been seen and named Alt. kin's Roth. The supposed danger, it is evident, has no existence. The On ix will return to Spitbead fors Sew days. PROMOTIONS, AppoINTISSIITs. Am—Lieutenants C. Burnett and Richard L. Warren are appointed to the Racehorse, ordered to be brought forward fee strike. Lieutenant G. W. Smith to the Wel -Iy. r. John Walters of Plymptoe, is appointed Purser to the Wellesley. The following midshipmen passed their examination, and qualified for Lieutenants last week, at the Royal Naval College :—/t. D. Aid. I rich, of the Hyperion ; R. M. Robertson, T. C. Ross, T. R. H. G. Pearce, F. H. Thompson, of the &ma; J. B. Kinsman, of the Astres ; A. Kennedy, of the Donegal ; lion. B. C. F. P. Carey, late of the Briton ; and J. 0. Moore, of the Wellesley. At a of the proprietors of the Brunswick steam packet, held Friday, at the ga t Lieut. H. C. Goldsmith, R. N. was elected master at that vessel. mmersim Awarding to an official return, by order of the House of Coannoaa, there are at but 281 plen a or worship belonging to the lEetabdisbud Church la die d Lancaster. That are oleo 690 plies eiollsbip net et the Church, with 258,4 , 11 TOM. bars. 7 above swamies not include the Dissenting Chapels in a p•pdadso arKllllB, ken erbieb there are no Mop. According to the ceases tabs ha 1821, dui poplatke of Laiwootdro anowited - to 11,181,7411. THE KING'S COURT. BRIGHTON, SEPT. 16. The Dinner Party yesterday of their MAJFATI Es, in Addi tion to the Royal Suite, consisted of— Le Prince TROUBITSKoI, Baron and Baroness Bt Low, Colonel LE COUTEUR, and Lieutenant-Colonel KosA EASY. The Evening Party, at the Pavilion, included The Countess Of WA RW IC , Sir W. and Lady JOLLIFFL, Lieutenant .Colonel LTG o Colonel JODDRILL, Duke and Duchess of Alta YI.L, Lady G. PAGET, Captain and Lady AGNES ByNG, Count REDEBN. Colonel and lady C. Buck Ley , and Lord and Lady PONSONBT. The Prague Minstrels had again the honour of cont al , u.- ing to the amusement of the evening. This day his Royal Highness Prince LEOPOLD, BAND STOCK MAN,IIIXI Lord JAMES OItRY EN, arrived at the Ps - Pillion on a visit to their MAJESTIES. This day, also. the Count and Countess of MUNSTER, and Captain FITECI. A - ItturcE took their departure from the Royal residence. This day the Prince and Princess of CA ROLUTII, and Lady JoLLIrr had audiences of the QUEEN, and Sir DVSS! MARTIN had an audience of the RING. In the afternoon his MAJESTY, accompanied by the Lind gravine of HESSE ROMBERG, and the Princess Auu us EA. rode out in a carriage. The QUEEN, accompanied by the Prince and Prinrass CAROLATIT, rode out also. Colonel and lady AUGUSTA FITZCLA RENEE rode out i.; a carriage. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE. rode out on hors - back ; and the Landgravine of HESSE Hom BERG took a bet:. at WILLIAMS'S. COURT IN7'ELLIORNCII Prince Leopold, attended by Baron Stockman, left his r. - sidence at Claremont, in his carriage and four, yesterday morning, on a visit to their Majesties, at the Palace at Brighton. The Duke of Dorset, the Duchess of Richmond, Lord Rivers, and a select party, were present at the dinner given by tin. Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, on Wednesday evening, at the ir residence at Kew, to Prince Leopold, to meet his Royal Highness. The Spanish Minister had a conference for upwards of an hoar with the Earl of Aberdeen, yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign Office. The Mexican and Neapolitan Ministers visited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. VICE-RRO•L VISIT TO THE GI A !VT'S Ca USEW A T.—His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, with the Duchess of Northumberl an d, accompanied by Archdeacon Singleton and Captain Doyle, A.D.C. ar rived n Casdeblaney on Friday evening, at six o'clock. They drove through the beautiful and romantic demesne of the Right Hon. Lord Blaney, and were received with a grand salute of thirteen guns front a schooner, splendidly decorated with streamers, on the lake. The noble proprietor of the town, and his lordship's famUy being in England (we believe) their G races, the Duke and Duchess, proceeded to Rule's nest and commodious inn (the 's Anne) where they dined and remained for the night. His second highly de. lighted with Lord Bianey's demean, sod passed a encomium on the appearance sad general cleanliness of the town, which his Ex cellency attributed chiefly to the residence there of the noble proprietor. After breakfast, the following rooming, their Graces proceeded north. words, by Caledon, and litackm we understand , at the Earl of Cale don's, from when ce they set out for Northland House, Dungannon, when they remained until Sunday, when they resumed their journey. LETTER FROM DUNGANNON, SEPT. 13.—Saturday evening, their Graces arrived at Northland House, the residence of Lord Northland, where preparations had been made for their reception, and the inhabitants of the town of Dungannon were anxiously look. ing for their arrival.; A large party has been invited on the oc casion. Amongst the company were the Gael and Countess of Ca ledon, Lord Alexander the Bishop of Deny, Sirs. and the Misses Knox, Sir James and Lady Strong, Colonel and Mrs. Caul field, &e. &e. Lc. Their Graces arrived at four o'clock, at which hour the Park was crowded with the townspeople and others. Lord Northland received the Viceregal party at the entrance, and escorted them to the house. In the evening, the town of Dungannon was illu. minated, and enlivened by the frequent discharges of fire-works. His Grace, accompanied by Lord Northland, drove through the town during the evening, amidst the cheering of the people. Two persons, one an apothecary, and the other a revenue officer, who did not think proper to join in the general compliment by illumin ating their houses, were nearly suffering from the anger of the populace; and had not their houses been protected by a party of police, their windows, at least, would have been all broken. On Sunday morning, • charity mermen was preached by the Rev. Mr. O'Sullivan. Their Graces and the whole party attended, and were, I need not say, very liberal contributors. About five o'clock his Grace accompanied by the Viscountess North. I land, drove through the town in a pony phaeton, followed by the distinguished personages at Northland House ; they were loudly greeted by the populace, his Grace seemed highly delighted, and acknowledged the marks of respect by frequently taking off his hat, and bowing in the most gracious manner, and in some instances shook hands with the persons close around him. At half past ten o'clock this morning his Grace and cavalcade left Northland House; the avenue through which he waste pass was lined on each side by the respectable gentry of the neighbourhood, who greeted him as he passed with marks of respect. On his arrival at the entrance-gate, the populace were with difficulty prevented front talon;; the horses from his carriage, and drawing him in triumph through the streets ; thus his Grace lett town amidst the plaudits of the mumbled multitude. Yesterday morning the Royal Charlotte yacht left King*. town harbour for Stun fo rd Lough, to attend upon his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and Duchess of Northumberland during their tour to the North of Ireland. ELECTION OF CORONER.—EtanTn DAY. STATE OF TUE POLL AT FOUR O'CLOCK THIS DAY. Baker Walley . OLD litllLllY.(_nis Day.) [Trial of Joan Bitty'', altar Sarwsta.,„fer the murder of Jon Lona, Me Po/ieemen 1 The Judges took their seats on the Bench at ten o'clock, when John Smith, alias Win. Seward', was put to the liar, charged with the wilful murder of John Long, a policeman, on the 15th day of August, in the present year, at the parish of St. Andrew's, in the County of Mid. dlesex. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. Alr. Ce•axsoe opened the use for the prosecution, and detailed the facts of it to the Jury. Mr. ADOLIIIIS appeared as Counsel for the prisoner. Petit Milligan deposed to being present about ten minutes to twelve o'clock on the night in question, and seeing three men speaking to the deceased Long, near the burial ground in Gray's len-mad. lie subsequently saw three men walking at a very brisk peer, 'and immediately after saw a policeman running after thou, l as if out of breath. When the three men passed witness thy looked very hard at him, but seeing the policeman coming, he stopped. The policemen asked witness which way the men went,and having been told, followed them. Witness also went up and Paw the three then hustle round him. The prisoner was the nearest to him on the kit side, and the policemen having staid them what they were after, one of them struck him. Minns could not swear which it was that struck the blow, but was certain that doe prisoner was the nearest to him. Mary Ann teriMths was the neat witness called, and deposed to having been in the Gray's Inn Road about twenty minutes to twelve deloelt, and seeing the prisoner and two others in company of the pet. liceman Long, whom she knew by sight. Tice three nit n sun. et did the deceased ; one of the two on the right ran away. Ti.is ntan sore a blue coat, with a very large cape !o it, and was rather brad in the shoulders. The coat wits not of • modern make, ar d buttored straight down. This man seemed to be rather intoxicated, and appeared to her to stagger considerably. The other man wore • brown coat, which was unbuttoned. This titan struck a back.handed blow at the deceased, and immediately ran sway also; he close by the wiener& who had a clear view of his features t the exclaimed, it For Oon's sake stop him, lam a dead man !" Witness did not lose sight of the man who struck ti e blow until he was brought back; the words witness used wire " Good Goa 1./ that's the man I ^ but he made no answer that witness beard. Witness had not then, °Tat the present time, any doubt that the prisoner is the man who struck the blow. After further minute evidence, the Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the Recorder hnineeliataly paned the awful sentence of death on the prisoner, and ordered bias tti . be executed on Monday next, at Nowt,. POIWT, •WD IVO PolYT.—What is the greatest reert i. Beatles that wanes and children are alike equally subject% ?...Tbe an. slur is obvious. A beach of t~ t R 4 1' 'da.2ll A.L. ~~