The Sun. — London, England, 1859-11-07 00:00:00

IRELAND. DUBLIN, SATURDAY MORNING THE PRIESTS AND THE POPE. Ten columns of the _Freeman of this morning groan under the pressure of priestly oratory poured oat on Thursday at the meeting of the clergy of the diocese of Dublin, presided over by the Aposto lic delegate in Ireland. The chairman was of course the star of the day's performance, and he played Lis part to the unqualified satisfaction of his cleri cal audience. Dr. Cullen, in fact, left nothing for his followers to say, and therefore, passing over the speeches of' Canons and Vicars-General and parish priests, and the dii minores generally, it will be necessary, even at the sacrifice of valuable space, to " hear the Church" at this perilous crisis of her temporal existence. The subjoined abridgement even is wofully long, but there is no help for it. After some prefatory remarks Archbishop Cullen proceeded as follows : " While, last winter, thousands of the nobility and gentry, and some of the highest personages of Eng land, were enjoying hospitality and protection in Rome, and were obliged to admire the good order and peaceable disposition of the population—while an English accredited agent was assuring the autho rities of the country of the friendly dispositions of the British Cabinet--Lord Malmesbury was drawing up his despatches, sincepublished by order of Parliament in which he instructed his foreign agents to propose to France and Austria a new arrangement, or rather dismemberment of the _Pope's States, though the proposal was so manifestly unfair that he himself was ashamed to take a direct part in its execution. Lord Loftus and Sir J. Hudson were too happy to re-echo the sentiments of their master in Vienna and Turin, and Count Cavour, the revolutionary Minister of Piedmont, was so much influenced in his proceedings by their authority that he did not hesitate to declare to Lord Cowley that 'England was mainly responsible for the present position of Sardinia, and that her statesmen, her orators, her agents, and her press had excited the passions of Italy.'—(Letter of Lord Cowley, Paris, March 28, 1859.) For the . credit of Austria it must be men tioned that we learn from a despatch of Lord Loftus, of the 20th of January last, that she rejected with indignation the projected dismemberment of the Pope's States in which Lord Malmesbury in vited her to take part, promising to uphold by English influence any arrangement that might be made to deprive the Pope of the government of his territory. The facts I have referred to are a matter of history given to the world in a Parliamentary return. Pro bably next year some other blue-book will furnish us with the despatches of the present Secretary of Foreign Affairs, which undoubtedly will not be more favourable to the interests of the Holy See than those of Lord Malmesbury. The only differ ence between the two secretaries appears to be, that the former openly avows his enmity and hos tility, while the latter, publicly professing kindly feeling, endeavours to deal a fatal blow through the hands of others. But leaving rival statesmen to justify their conduct to posterity, to their own conscience, and to God, we cannot but regret that the example given by them had a most baneful influence and has given a great impetus to the spirit of sedition and anarchy. The agents of the Bible Society, as we are informed by the Times of last Monday, have spread like locusts over a great part of Italy, and are making every exertion to undermine the attachment of the people to the Catholic religion ; while the Evangelical Alliance and the evangelical Lord Shaftesbury, for getting the maxims of the Gospel, under whose name they disguise their undertakings, encourage committees to collect money for the purpose of arm ing outlaws, and rebels, and banditti of the worst description, against a peace-loving, and humane Sovereign, who has never given to England, or to any of her subjects, the least ground of complaint, but, on the contrary, has always acted towards them a kind and friendly part. Encouraged by diploma tists and statesmen, supplied with money by Evan gelical Committees, and poisoned with a fell hatred of Catholicity by agents of Bible Societies, we are not to be surprised that the enemies of the Pope should have undertaken their work of destruction with great energy and have occasioned great evils in a short time. We cannot read, without horror and indignation, the misdeeds of the men who are favoured and protected by Biblicals and Evangeli cals. Those misdeeds are described in a late Allo cution by the Pope himself. 'The leaders of the faction,' says he, do not cease to use all their cun nuing in corrupting the morals of the people, espe cially by ;books and newspapers published at Bo logna and elsewhere, in which every license is en couraged, the Vicar of Christ here on earth is lashed with insults, the practices of religion and piety are mocked, and the prayers used to the Immaculate and Most Holy Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and to implore her most powerful patronage, are held up to scorn. Moreover, in the theatres public decency. modesty, and virtue are attacked; and persons con secrated to God are exposed to the common contempt and derision of all.' It is known, also, that every honest man is at the mercy of the assassin's dagger, that many distinguished personages have been mur dered or insulted merely because they were at tached to the Pope—that religious communities have been dispersed, and that the pretended friends of liberty have polluted the sacred name by their crimes, and especially by desecrating the house of God and stabling eheir horses in public churches. To perpetuate and to trans mit to posterity the spirit by which they are ani mated, these same men are endeavouring to draw to themselves the education of' the people, and they publicly prohibited the learned and venerable Car dinal Archbishop of Boulogne to preside at the distri bution of prizes in the schools of that excellent body of men, the Christian Brothers. The crimes and outrages to which we have referred have filled the paternal heart of his Holiness with grief and sor row, and in a few month he has been obliged to drink the chalice of affliction to the very dregs. While the rope is thus assailed by the perfidy of Evangelicals and the treacherous ingratitude of some few of his own subjects on whom he had conferred innumerable benefits, is it not meet and just for his faithful children to raise their voices in his favour, and to endeavour to console him by manifesting their sentiments of respect and veneration ? It is in this spirit that you have assembled to-day; you are anxious to show how strongly you condemn the insults that have been offered to the head of the holy Catholic Church, and how deeply you feel and resent the injuries that have been done to our lov ing and loved father, the father of the faithful, and Christ's Vicar on earth. While it is in this spirit alone that we fulfil, the truly Catholic and filial duty which we have assembled to discharge, I know that our feelings will be misrepresented, and that it will be said that we are trembling for the fate of Catholicity, and that we aro endeavouring to prop tip a system now doomed to final destruction. - Many fanatical preachers will make this announce ment to their congregations, dancing with frantic delight in their pulpits at the prospect of the fulfil ment of prophecies regarding the downfall of Rome, Which have been repeated 10,000 times, from the days of Martin Luther to the present, and as often found to be the offspring of deluded imaginations. . But what is the fact ? No Catholic is in the slightest alarm about the permanent existence of the spiritual authority of the Pope. Tfie experi ence of past ages would be sufficient to remove every doubt from the minds of the most timid. For three centuries the Popes were persecuted by all the power of the Roman Empire. They were cast into prison and driven into exile, and during that period all the holy men who filled the chair of St. Peter, with the exception of four or five, died martyrs for their faith. Yet, whether in prison or in exile, or concealed in the recesses of the cata combs, they continued to rule the Church, and their prayers, and their patience, and their suf ferings were more powerful than the arms of Rome. Idolatry and superstition yielded to the humility ~ of the Cross, whi c h was pl an t e d b y th e t r i ump h ant Pontiffson the proudest monuments of Paganism, the Pantheon, the Capitol, and the Colisseum. Before the end of the eighth century the whole of the Papal St ates were recognised by all Europe as the patrimo n y o f S t. Peter, and from that time to , the present, with trifling interruptions, the Popes have contin ue d t o en j oy its dominion. Even Protestant statesm en a d m i t that it is a work of extreme difficulty to contend w ith the successor of St. 'Peter. In a despatch of L or d Cowley, English Ambassador in Paris, of the 19th of January last, p!tbli..,h e d by Parliam , nt, we find the following re i4iarpko e b o l Ti e ord words_,' It was a sayin g o f th e fi rst somewhat paradoxical, no d ou b t, i n hi s mouth, that the Pope be treated with as if he had 300,000 menat his b sa-j ins , how ever`,-showed th e difficulty which flint firm, mind" had to contend whentinieoneinrreheatd. li.l of the R oman Catholic Church wa s his or . on and Andin if s uc h was the case those daya' or irreligion what must it now be when' the Roman COliolic Church his recovered so much of its then lost authority ? In truth, the Pope's strength lies'in his weakness, and we may ask, what can you do with a man who, the moment the pressure . is put upon him, exclaims ' Do with me what you Will—drive me from Rome, both remember that I am as much the Pope, wheer seated on a barren rock, or on the throne of St. Peter.' So far Lord Cowley, who writes like a man who had not shut his eyes to great passing events, and wlao speaks very differently from fanatical preachers and evangelical supporters of treason and sedition. The noble and generous Emperor of Austria has boldly broken the chains which bound the Church in his vast empire, and given a death- blow to the tyrannical innovations of Joseph 11. France, too, is cordially devoted to Pius IX., and we may be confident that Napoleon 111., wbo sent his victorious legions to drive sedition and anarchy from the walls of Rome, will be always faithful to his antecedents, and persevere in the course on which he entered in the year 1848. Spain, Portu gal, Brazil, Belgium, are all now sincerely attached to Rome. Sardinia is the only plague-spot on the Catholic map of Europe; but that unhappy coun try is groaning under a military despotism, and the people are ground to the earth by enormous taxa tion, and suffering from the misdeeds of their ex communicated rulers. As to the mixed Powers, they, or at least many of them, are friendly, or must find it their interest to act in conformity with the feelings of their Catholic subjects. In a speech de livered some years ago by Lord Lansdowne, in the House of Lords, he proclaimed the principle that it would be most impolitic for any English Ministry to insult the Pope, or to assail his rights while there are, perhaps, 15,000,000 Catholics depending on the British Crown who look up and venerate him as the head of the Catholic Church. Though the present Secretary for Foreign Affairs may not be of this way of thinking, yet I hope that a regard for the welfare of the empire and for the feelings of so many millions of Catholics will compel him and other statesmen to discountenance all attacks on the Pope, or at least to abstain from giving en couragement to the treason and sedition of the Pope's rebellious subjects. Undoubtedly all Catholics of influence, and especially our mem bers of Parliament, will not fail to resist any attacks that may be made on his Holiness. But to return from this digression. What shall I say of the love and affection which are every day manifested towards the Pope by all Christian nations, and nowhere more than in Ireland, Eng land, and America, where in the last century either there were no bishops, or religion was groaning under the weight of cruel penal laws ? What shall I say of the feelings of the Catholic clergy through out the world ? Never was there a Pope so much loved and respected by all as his Holiness Pius IX. How edifying also the conduct of the Catholic bishops in every country. Jansenism, and Zebro nanism, and even Gallicanism, have completey dis appeared ; there is no prelate in the church at pre sent who would walk in the footsteps of a Zebromus or a Ricci; there is no jealousy or rivalry; all are devotedly attached to the common father of the faithful, and all appear to vie one with the other in their anxiety to defend him, and to protest against the insults which have been offered to him by his enemies. While the Church presents to us so cheer ing a picture, while so favourable a feeling pervades 200,000,000 of Catholics and their spiritual heads, may we not be confident that the present storms will pass away, that the clouds now darkening the horizon will soon be dispersed, and that our glori ous Pontiff will have happiness and sunshine to brighten the evening of his days ? But at present he is in sorrow and affliction, and it is the part of dutiful children to console, as far as possible, their loving father, and especially a father invested with such spiritual powers, intrusted by Christ himself with the keys of the kingdom of Heaven. It is in this spirit, I repeat it, that we have assembled; we entertain no fear for the permanency of the Pontifi cal authority, which is founded on Christ himself; we are confident that even the temporal power of the Popes will rise more glorious from its present difficulties, but at the same time we feel deeply the affiictioss of his Holiness, and we are anxious to express our sympathy with him. This is the highly commendable and truly Catholic object of our meeting. When our youth was menaced with the dangers inherent to mixed education, he raised his warning voice, and excited the vigilance of the pas tors of the Irish Church, teaching them to uphold the necessity of a truly Catholic education, and never to sacrifice principles for expediency or utility. The eye of the Pontiff is ever watchful over the in terest of the Universal- Church ; he is anxious to promote all its interests and to provide for all its wants. With the scanty means at his disposal, he has done more for religion and for literature and the arts than many rich and powerful sovereigns. In Rome he has founded a noble college for all the dioceses of his States, and under his fostering care, colleges for France, Spain, South and North Ame rica, have_been called into existence. Encouraged by his patronage, the learned Father Thenier has commenced the continuation of the " Annals of the Church of Baronius " and the publication of the Acts of the Council of Trent, as ;well as the cor respondence between the Emperors of Russia and the Popes, and an account of the assistance granted by Pius VI. to 24,000 exiles, French bishops, noble. men, and others, whom he supported for several years. It would be impossible to describe all that the Pope has done to repair, or complete, or orna ment the churches of Rome, as well as to promote the works of public utility and Christian charity. AlI I shall say is, that his Holiness's life is altogether devoted to the good of the Church, and that all those who had the happiness of approaching him were in structed and edified by his meekness, his humility, and all the virtues which should shine forth in Christ's Vicar on earth; for I learned last Lent from one of his chaplains, that after saying mass, his Efoliness heard another mass each morning, and then joined in reciting the Litany of the Saints, the prayers for peace and any other public prayers which were prescribed. so that he devoted nearly two hours each day to prayer snd to communing with his Creator before he entered on the usual routine of business. The character of the Pope is impressed upon all his ministers, and his whole court breathes, like their master, a true spirit of Christian virtue. Is it not a glory for us, and a consolation, to have such a head for our Church, and may we not expect that, as his predecessors in the early ages of Christianity, by their patience and suffering, defeated the enemies of the Cross, so he, by his prayers, his humility, and his meekness, will draw down upon himself and the Church the bless ings and protection of Heaven, and obtain all that assistance that will be necessary to vindicate the rights of religion and maintain the independence of spiritual power? If the titles upon which the Pope holds his territory be set at nought now will the nobility or gentry of this country be able to maintain their rights ? Besides, the enemies of the Pope—the agents of evangelical and Bible societies —are teaching continually that in Italy there is no obligation of obedience to established authorities, that the people at every whim can resist their law ful sovereign, and they loudly proclaim that trea son, treachery, and rebellion are great and noble virtues in the subjects of the Pope. Let their prin ciples be widely spread, indoctrinate the inhabitants of the colonies and dependencies of Great Britain with such dangerous teaching, and may we not fear that treason, and sedition, and rebellion will soon rule throughout the land ? He that sows the wind will reap the tempest. ForPatholics, rev, brethren, the course is clear. Though we have often reason to complain of grievance, yet, when complaining and insisting on redress, we never can forget the teaching of the Scripture, and the Church which commands submission to established authorities for conscience sake—we are to condemn secret societies of every kind, illegal combinations, and especially all publications tending to promote treason and se dition. The anti-Catholics, while impugning the authority of the Pope, may propagate the most baneful and destructive principles—they may assail the foundations of civil society. We can not prevent them ; but let us, as far as we can, counteract their evil tendencies by teaching patience under suffering, obedience, submission, and respect to every just law. By acting in this way we shall show that we are truly imbued with the spirit of the Apostolic See and the Catholic Church, always the enemy of sedition and insubordination; and we shall be better able to secure the assistance and co operation of all reasonable and liberal men, and to obtain the redress of the grievances which we suffer. But it is now time to hear the resolutions that arc to be proposed." The oratory having been fairly exhausted, the following Address to the Pope was adopted nent.con. " Most Holy Father,—We, the undersigned Archbishop and clergy, secular and regular, of the diocese of Dublin, beg to approach your Holiness, and to testify our sincere attachment and profound veneration for your Holiness's most sacred person and throne. " The devotion to your Holiness and to the Chair of St. Peter, which we have always cherished, and cease not to instil into the willing hearts of our faithful, we feel it our duty to manifest in an espe cial manner under circumstances like the present of peculiar trials and difficulties which menace our hcloved father and Pontiff, as members of one body, solhitous each for the other, so that the humblest cannot suffer without occasioning pain to all (1 Cor. xii ), how can we not feel the most acute anguish when the head itself is afflicted ? " Portion, too, of the Church of a nation which God in llis inscrutable designs has permitted to be severely tried for its constancy and unswerving attachment to the Holy Catholic Faith, we owe an especial debt of gratitude to the Apostolic See. " During long ages of persecution, the voice of Peter sp3aking to his successors directed and supported us—their benediction consoled and en couraged us, their boundless munificence aided us in the necessities of our Churches ; finally, when, at a still later period the horrors of i famine and a devastating pestilence swept over the entire face of our island, it is in the remembrance of all, how, among the earliest acts of your ever memorable and glorious Pontificate your voice was raised to enlist in our behalf the sympathies of the entire Christian world, and you even contributed munificently to the relief of our misery from your slender and over-taxed resources. " With unspeakable horror, therefore, and regret THE SUN, LONION, MONDAY EVENING, NOVeMBER 7, 1859. we daily hear how the wicked and factious, avail ing themselves of a disturbed condition of political affairs; mainly occasioned by their own machina tions, are increasing in their efforts to destroy the temporal Sovereignty of your Holiness, and to alienate the Patrimony of the Church, with the fur ther design, which does not escape our observation, of subverting, were it possible, the Apostolic Chair itself, and the Holy Catholic Church, of which it is the foundation ; and we are overwhelmed with sorrow at the thought of the profound affliction into which so much ingratitude and perversity of some of your children, and the apprehension of so many evils to religion and society have plunged the paternal heart of your Holiness. " But, fear not, most Holy Father : if yet to chil dren it be permitted to address to their august pa rent the language of exhortation, the faith, which through the lips of the blesses Patrick our foie fathers received from your Holiness's predecessor, St. Celestine, and our confidence in the Divine goodness, allow us not to doubt of a speedy and glorious termination of the difficulties which your Holiness has to encounter. " We know that Christ's kingdom upon earth, of which you are the visible head, must endure un failing to the end of ages, and hence the winds and the waves of the fiercest persecution shall beat in vain against the firm solidity of the rock, fixed by God himself, in the foundation of His Church, and unsupported by which no structure can have per manence or stability (St. Leo). " We do not apprehend that Divine Providence, who so wisely ordained the temporal authority of the Popes for the Church's welfare and the freedom of its government, will cease still, as heretofore, to protect your Holiness in the full possession and the undisturbed sovereignty of the Patrimony of St. Peter, and the temporal dominions of the Church ; rather do we feel assured that, emerging from the difficulties that surround it and menace its exist• ence, this all-important prerogative of the Holy See shall be still more firmly consolidated than before, not so much by the artificial accessories with which the wisdom of the world would surround and support it, as by its own inherent righteousness and its tenacious fidelity to the providential mis sion for which it has been ordained. " Vain, too, and devoid of foundation are the pre texts of a mis-called liberty and fancied social ameliorations, which the impious disturbers of all human and divine order would fain have us believe they would originate, ceasing not, moreover, in their efforts to poison the public mind, as they fill the ear with calumnious and most exaggerated, but, at the same time, studiously vague and unsubstan tial reports of evils which they pretend call loudly and in vain, except at their hands, for a remedy. " We do not believe, most Holy Father, the world does not in its inmost heart believe these calumnies. They are falsified by the records of impartial his tory bearing testimony to the civilising influences of the Sovereign Pontiffs, felt even from the re motest periods all over Europe, and to the untiring solicitude and energy with which they have inva riably sought the greater good of the people sub jected to their temporal sway. "Never, however, have accusations such as these been more groundless, never so utterly undeserving the attention of any reasonable mind as the present time, when the unexampled exertions of your Holi ness for your people's welfare, made from the com mencement of your glorious potificate, and, despite of innumerable obstacles, persevered in, are still fresh in the remembrance of all, or even actually present under men's eyes. " Confide, then, most Holy Father. Now as oft heretofore, ' The Gentiles may rage, and the power ful ones of the earth conspire against the Lo r d and His anointed; but He who dwelleth in the Heavens shall laugh them to scorn and mock them.'—Ps. The Immaculate Virgin, destroyer of all heresies, will intercede for the church and protect her Divine son's Vicegerent, who has been so solicitous for her honour. The blessed Peter and Paul, princes of the Apostolic College, and special defenders of the church, will guard its sacred inheritance and the residence of its supreme pastor. Those pious and religious monarchs whom God has endowed with valour and strength for the welfare of Christendom will not fail to regard the protection of Christ's Vicar and the service of His church as at once their duty, their interest, and the surest guarantee for their own security, the stability.of their thrones, and the endurance of their dynasties. The whole Catholic world, in fine, will unite to visit with just indignation, and to stigmatise as a wicked and cri minal invasion of rights the most venerable and sacred, every attempt made to undermine the go vernment and authority of your Holiness. " Joined by our faithful people, now as ever ready to sacrifice themselves and all things for the sacred cause of religion, we daily supplicate, at the throne of Divine grace, that God in His mercy may cause your Holiness's bitter afflictions speedily to cease, and that the church, soon restored to tranquillity, may enjoy the blessings of peace under a long and glorious continuance of the pontificate of your Holi ness. " Prostrate, in fine, before the throne of your Holiness, we humbly implore for ourselves and our, beloved people the apostolic benediction." . (Signed on behalf of the meeting), " tPAUL CULLEN, Archbishop of Dtiblic, &c. "L. CANON FORDS, " Secretaries. "JAMES MURRAY, Meanwhile there is still balm in Gilead. All is not lost. The Freeman's Journal has a crumb of comfort for Dr. Cullen. In its number of this morning the organ gives all due prominence to the subjoined copy of a communication received from its Paris correspondent : "Paris, Nov. 2. " I hasten to communicate to you a fact which I am certain will be heard with unmixed satisfaction by all liberal and Catholic Irishmen. I am now able to assure you in the most positive manner that it is, and has been throughout, the firm and unal terable determination of the Emperor to maintain the temporal power of the Pope in its full int?grity, and that he is resolved to have the Legations re stored. I intimated this to you before as my con viction. lam now certain of it, having received my information from the most authentic and re liable sources. You may state this with the utmost confidence as the fixed and unalterable determina tion of the Emperor. No congress, no folly, no event, or combination of events, will turn him from this his fixed resolve." DEPARTURE OF LORD CARLISLE FOR THE SOUTH. His Excellency the Earl of Carlisle left the King's-bridge terminus of the Great Southern and Western Railway by special train for Shanbally Castle, the seat of the Earl of Lismore. His Excel lency will proceed on the 7th inst. to Kenmare house, on a visit to the Earl of Kenmare. He will leave Killarney on the 10th for Cork, and will leave for Castlemartyr on the 11th, where he will remain on a visit to the Earl of Shannon up to the 14th inst. when he will return to the Viceregal Lodge. FREEDOM OP THE PRESS. (From the Times) The power of the Press in any country can only be measured by the weight of that portion of the community whoss opinions- it represents. In this country, where freedom of speech is no crime, the Press can only exist by reflecting, and in some de gree moulding, the ideas which animate the most intelligent portion of the community, however modified by the different political sections into which it is divided. It is emphatically the organ l i of a self-governing people ; and, while it faithfully exposes their political differences, their quarrels, and their weaknesses, it no less truly represents their united sentiments upon questions which touch the dignity and welfare of the nation itself.• It is therefore generally in advance of the Government as an exponent of public opinion, and, whether its conclusions be right or wrong, the Government is in no way responsible for them. Hence the opinions which it pronounces on the policy and conduct of foreign rulers, however much in accordance with the sentiments of the community at large, are not to be regarded as expositions of the views of Cabi nets, nor can they in any way compromise the Go vernment of the day. It is far otherwise with the French Press. That institution exists—it cannot be said to grow—in a close and murky atmosphere, in which free dis cussion cannot breathe, and can only be said to represent public opinion so far as that opinion is in accordance with the policy of the Govern ment. The practice of signing each article with the name of its 'writer, which the French law re quires, and which the few avowed enemies of the English Press would fain borrow from it, strips journalism in France of its impersonal character, and suffers it to assume no higher authority than that which belongs to each individual who contri butes to it. Yet, what the French Press loses in weight as an organ of public opinion it gains as an exponent of the wishes and policy of the Go vernment. M. A. or 8., indeed, dips his pen in the ink, and signs his name, but the Emperor or his Ministers suggest, invite, admonish, warn, curtail, Modify, or prescribe what is to be written. This is the obvious consequence of the French law on the subject, and there is no getting over it. Hence the incessant tirades of a portion of the French press against this country have a signifi cance far greater than the mere names of-its contri butors could possibly justify, They are taken to represent the views of the Government, and the Government is absolute. It is not surprising that the hostility thus evinced towards England, coupled with preparations of a more formidable character elsewhere, should have produced their natural results. They have succeeded in doing what nothing else has ever done—what the ripe experience and immense authority of the Duke of 'Wellington him self failed to do—that is, in convincing the people of this country of the absolute necessity of being armed and prepared at all times to encounter foreign war, come it from what quarter it might. Whether this was precisely the state of feeling that the writers in question meant to produce may be doubted. They would have been glad, we can easily believe, to work upon the martial ardour of their countrymen without exciting ours, and to leave us in all the supineness of infatuated security while they spurred them on to all the bustle of preparation. This they could not do, but they have succeeded perfectly in inflicting upon England in time of profound peace many of the evils for which war is dreaded. They have doubled our income-tax, and they have at last convinced us that we must garrison this country with at least one hundred thousand effective well-trained soldiers. They have sat us forming rifle corps, whose mem bers are already counted by hundreds of thousands, and may soon be reckoned in millions. They have set us to regenerate our navy, and to maintain a Channel fleet in time of peace, and when we, at least, are conscious of being actuated by the very best intentions towards all the world, and of desiring nothing so ardently as to devote our undivided energies to peaceful industry and com merce. Then, there are the Armstrong guns, whieh we are manufacturing by hundreds, and the rifles, which we turn- out by thousands, and yet far too slow for the demand for them, and the drilling and the competition and the training at Hythe, and all the din and preparation which make England a place like the England of Elizabeth or William 111., hardly to be recognized by one who dwelt there in the halcyon days of William IV. or the first fifteen years of Queen Victoria. Let not the French jour-. nals whose labours have been crowned with this remarkable result exult overmuch. If they have succeeded in alarming es into taking those means for our protection which we ought to have taken long ago, they 'have done this not by their own strength, but because they were believed to speak the sentiments of a Power much stremgbiand mon formidable than themselves. It' is because the French Press is placed under severe restraint— " invited' not to speak of this and "advertised" for speaking of that,—because Government is always • keeping an account against it, in which it is debited with everything and credited with nothing ; be cause the Press must not, only suppress what Go vernment dislikes, but must insert what Govern. ment desires,—these are the reasons that have made the long and steady abuse of England appear so formidable in our eyes. The French Press is in vited not to touch on ecclesiastical questions, and is warned not to deal with treaties when their con struction grows delicate; but abuse of England.— that is a topic against which it is never warned, to drop which it is never invited. People have con cluded, and not unreasonably, that as Government in Franceltave allowed nothing to appear in the Press which they do not like, and as they allow abuse of England to appear there to any extent, they have no objection to see England heartily, and not always fairly, abused. • This conclusion was not in itself unnatural, though we are far from thinking it was correct. It is, indeed, the misfortuno of Princes that the world, which views at leisure that which they aro often compelled to do in haste, or not do from pre occupation, persists in ascribing to them motives by which - they were never actuated and intentions which they never entertained. It is another mis fortune of Princes that they must bear the blame of many things ignorantly done or omitted to be done by persons whose actions are identified with their own, though they may possess very little of their confidence. • More especially is this the • case with the Emperor Napoleon, who is emphati cally his own Minister, and who trusts his ultimate views and intentions less than any Sovereign in' Europe to the keeping of others. We are bound in candour to say, that whenever any question has come before the Emperor personally he has always shown the utmost goodwill to the English Govern. ment and nation, and we the more willingly resign ourselves to the agreeable impression that all this trouble and expense has been incurred under a false impression, as we are rapidly arriving at a point in our preparations which will, as it ought, relieve us from anxiety for the future, and make us not un reasonably confident in our strength and resources. We are bound to admit that the burdens we have undertaken seem to sit `upon us very easily, and that the Country will not for a moment regret them, if in exchange for our heavy expenditure we can oniy receive the consciousness, not that we are able to do evil to others, but that others are no longer able to do serious mischief to us. One main cause of our preparation has un doubtedly been, as we have shown, the liberty , en joyed and abused by a p or ti on o f the French Press of vilifying England and everything English. Yet we do not iu any degree complain of that liberty, nor wish to see the Press of France silenced on this subject, as on so many others. It is not. by the intrinsic worth of their reflections that the English Government and people have been moved, but rather by the indication which such attacks were believed to afford of the true feeling of the French Government. It was not liberty, but exceptional liberty, that we misunderstood. If the Emperor of the French really wishes to give a proof of his goodwill towards this country, let him prove it by doing away with this exceptional liberty, that is not liberty, but the exception. We do not ask that England and English politics should be added to the long Index Expmgatorius which has been framed for the use of the French Press, but rather ,that the French Press may be left free to discuss other questions from which it is now excluded. Were the field of discussion larger, Eng land.would probably come in for less of it. The Emperor has really no right to be surprised if, not withstanding all his good intentions, he finds him self, after all, misconstrued by the English people. We are the least metaphysical of mankind, and not only should never dream of making war for an idea ourselves, but are utterly unable to understand how anylxKly else can do so. Moreover, having the good fortune to possess a free press, which is allowed to write on any subject it likes, to take any side it' pleases, and which can neither be silenced nor forced to speak by the order of a Minister of the In terior, we are in the habit of attaching to statements in our own newspapers an importance very different from that which ought to be attached to the lucu brations of a press existing on the barest sufferance, and writing only up to the point that is permitted. It is to be feared that the intellect of our blunt islanders does not always discriminate between the two, and that, from our own inveterate habit of publicity, w e are apt to forget the conditions under IFFu Frenchmen ra an ha with themselves. ,es lindifferenceimportance as d do n i t is st treated at serve. by much which forei gn j ourna li sts write, and attach to their in gl s it elv t e o s. learn lve to Nv treat lwill t t t h o e d p o r s e o s a fo o t !. the future, and to b e li eve th a t if th e y French Go vernment tolerates a freedom of comment on Eng land-which it does not, for instance, perinit on Rome, it'is because it believes the opinion of Eng land to be robust enough to bear the abuse which it is conscious is undeserved, while infallible Rome trembles at the very breath of criticism. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Nov. 5. (Before the Assistant-Judge.) Abraham Davis and Emmanuel Davis, brothers, and of the Jewish persuasion, were indicted for as saulting Nathan Ilyams, also a Jew, a greengrocer, carrying on business at 136, Wentworth-street, Whitcehapel. The court was crowded with Jews, and the case was one of regular hard-swearing on both sides. Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted. Mr. Ribton and Mr. Dickie were for the defendants. The prosecutor came into court well made up for the occasion, his nose—not at all a small one—was covered with plaister, from the end of which a little streak of blood appeared, and his arm was in a sling as if it was or had been broken. His appearance was that of a man who had been dreadfully ill-used, but to the astonishment of the whole court, which resounded with laughter at the incident, all this turned out to be sham. The surgeon in the case said the prosecutor had received a laceration on the nose and a contusion on the elbow. At the sugges tion of the Court the strapping was remove d from the nose, when, if there had been a scratch, it was found that not the slightest trace of it remained, and when told to exhibit his elbow the prosecutor took his arm from the sling, and without the least difficulty threw off his two coats, and the elbow had not the least mark of having been hurt. The counsel for the defence characterised this as a disgraceful and disgusting imposition upon the Court and jury. It appeared that the parties were rival green grocers, living opposite each other, and a good deal of ill-feeling had existed between them. The pro secutor charged the defendants with having, with out provocation, struck him down and ill-used him. The defence, which was supported by many wit nesses, was, that the prosecutor had passed upon the mother of the defendants, an aged and feeble woman, an insult of a character no idea of which can be conveyed by the words shocking and filthy, and that the sons interfered to resent an abo minable and disgusting outrage upon their parent, when a general fight took place among the men, and women too, in which Hyams used an iron bar, and Mrs. Davis received very serious injuries, which necessitated her being an inmate of the hospitaljor a fortnight. After a long trial the jury found the defendants Guilty, and the result seemed intensely gratifying to the other party. The Assistant-Judge sentenced each defendant to a month's imprisonment, without labour. (Before Mr. Creasy.) William Henry Clark, a smart and intelligent looking youth, was indicted for stealing a tele graphic alarum bell, a clock, and other articles, the property of Charles James Breese ; and Samuel Jones, an old man, keepin g a m ar i ne s t ore - s h o p i n Brick-lane, was indicted for feloniously receiving the same, well knowing that they had been stolen. Mr. J. 0. Doyle app eared for the boy, who by his advice pleaded guilty. Mr. Ribton defended Jones. Mr. Dickie conducted the prosecution. The boy was admitted as an approver against Jones, and it appeared that he had been in the ser vice of the General Credit Company in Goswell-street. The prosecutor was the resident secretary to the company, and the boy was employed to go errands. There were some telegraphic materials on the pre mises, and the boy had been in the habit of stealing portions and selling them to the other prisoner, who told him that he would buy all lie could bring him. Some were found concealed in his possession. The Jury found Jones Guilty, and the learned Judge sentenced him to 18 months' hard labour, and the boy to two months. Mr. Creasy said the jury, in giving their verdict, had recommended the prisoner to mercy. That cir cumstance, and consideration for his years, 65, had alone prevented a much severer sentence being passed upon him. TILE CitTEEN V. FARINI.—This was a prosecution instituted by the Associate Institute for the Pro tection of Women, against Pietro Parini, for inde cent conduct in the Regent's-park. It had been postponed several times, the defendant not having surrendered to his bail ; he had gone to Madrid. An application was made to the Court by Mr. Metcalfe for the recognisances of the bail to be dis charged. The .Court directed the application to be renewed in a fortnight. Mr. Sleigh was counsel for the society: POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Nov. 5. . - LAMBETH.---EXTORTION OF A CAB-DRIVER.— The driver of the hackney cab, No. 876, appeared be- fore Mr. Selfe to answer to a summons taken out against him by Mr. Henry George Bohn, the well known bookseller in York-street, Covent-garden, and charging him with unlawfully demanding and receiving more than his lawful fa re . Mrs. Elizabeth Bohn deposed that on Friday week her daught er an d h erse lf engage d d e f en d an t' s cab on the stand near the Surrey Chapel, at 40 minutes past two in the afternoon, and desired the defendant to drive them to Leadenhall-street. From there they drove to Conduit-street, Regent-street, then to the Burlington-arcade, got in again at the Piccadilly end, from thence to the Blackfriars-road, and finally drove to the Waterloo Station, which they reached at a quarter past six. The defendant then demanded 14s. as his fare, and on her remon stratsn 0. with him on such a charg e , h e sa id h e should take 12s.' She then offered him 7s. 6d. and her card, when he replied " that this was no use to him, but would take 10s. and nothing less," and she paid him that sum. Mr. Selfe—Did the defendant use insolence of any kind Mrs. Bohn—No, I cannot say he did. His tones were insisting and determined, but that was all; and by his attempted imposition I was very near losing the train. The defendant, whose face was much disfigured, and who had a pair of black eyes, caused appa rently by a recent mill, in reply to the charge, said, if he made a mistake it was by miscalculation and not intentionally. Mr:Selfe said he could not believe this, as he must have felt satisfied that the sum he demanded in the first instance, namely, 145., was a shameful im position, and even the amount he received, saying he should not take a farthing less, was an excessive overcharge. It. was his duty to have taken the is. Gd., and the lady's card, and if he found that the money did not amount to the fare he had his remedy. He then ordered the defendant to refund -6s. Gd., the excessive fare and the expenses. li SOUTIIIVARK.—STEALING HORSES' TAILS.— Joseph Ireson, Edward Kent, and James Johnson, three respectable-looking lads, about 10 or 12 years of age, were brought before Mr. Combe, charged with cutting the tails of several horses, belonging to Mr. Jackson, the distiller, Messrs. Pickford, and others, in the public street, and Benjamin Mussard, a marine store dealer, of 75, Fair-street, Horsely down, was charged with purchasing the hair, well knowing it to be stolen. The case having been proved, Clarke, 108 M, said that the boys acknowledged cutting the flair off and selling it to the man . They had sold him some before, wich they had cut off Pickford's horses and others. The elder prisoner denied having purchased any from them before. He gave one boy a halfpanny for some and another boy a penny. The parents of the lads informed his worship that they had cut the horsehair off at the induce ment of the man, for the sake of getting a penny or. so to buy fireworks on Guy Fawkes' night. Mr. Combo said that they were very bad boys for committing such a serious offence, and they de served to be punished with great severity. They, however, appeared to be decent lads, and most likely they were induced to steal the hair by the man. He should therefore fine each of them 10s. or seven days, and Mussard £5 or two months. AN ENGLISHMAN IN DISGUISE.—CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—WiIIiam Henry Douglas Cooke, a nervous-looking young man, in the employ of Messrs. Taplings, of Cheapside and Gresham -street, and who displayed a large quantity of beard and moustache, was charged with committing an assault on Mr. Thomas Parke, the deputy chairman of the vestry of St. George's, Southwark, and threatening to do f)r him. The complainant, an r;ldorly gentleman, residing at 134, Blackfriars-road, that on Thursday morning, the 27th ult., about 11 o'clock, he was leaving his house, when he met the prisoner coming up the steps. Witness stopped him and said, " Mr. Cooke, I.wish your address, as I must put a stop to your violent tongue." The defendant then called him a scoundrel, a housebreaker, and a fence. Witness put his hand up to the defendant's breast, and told him that he should not go until a con stable came up. The defendant then struck him under the ear and knocked him down. A mob col lected, and as he was getting up the defendant struck him again. The defendant here became very much excited, when Mr. Combo asked him whether he was a fo reigner. Defendant (indignantly)—No, sir. I am an Englishman to the backbone. (Laughter.) Mr. Combo told him he could not see his back bone, but he did not behave much like an English man. In cross-examination by defendant, Mr. Parke said he was a gentleman, and not a bill discounter. He never went to his house to challenge him to fight. He went to see if it vas his right address before he summoned him. Wit ness took his bill of sale out of his house and saved his goods, to keep a house over the head of his ill-used wife. Mr. Combe told the defendant that it, was quite clear that he was a very violent man, therefore he should order him to find bail in the sum of and in default to be committed for one month. WESTMINSTER.—FORTUNATE DISCOVER.Y.— David M'Auliffe and Elizabeth Laws were charged with the following robbery of a watch : They went on Friday morning, at one o'clock, to a coffee and lodging-house at 17, Tothill-street, Westminster, kept by William Hawes, and, as man and wife, hired a bed and retired to their room. During the night Mr, Hawes had occasion to leave his bedroom, owing to his wife's illness, and on coming back forgot to lock the door. At seven o'clock the watch was safe, tied to the bed-post, but shortly before tea in the morning Mrs. Hawes missed it. Nothing was heard of the robbers till half-past two the same afternoon, when, while police-constable Tufrey, 364 A, was having his dinner at a beer-shop in Marylebone-lane, near the police station, the pri soners came in, and had some ale. The woman asked the man for some money for sleeping with him, to which he replied, he had spent it all, and she said if he did not pay her she would " split." This having no effect, she told the constable, who was in uni form, that she and the male prisoner had " nailed" a watch that morning where they had slept, in Tothill-street, and if her companion did not " whack" the money she should " split." Upon this information the constable told the man he must consider himself in his custody. He took him to Mary lebone station, a n d l e ft hi m in charge of Wrn. Wilson, 89 D, while he went with the woman to make inquiries, and during their absence the male prisoner told Wilson he had pawned the watch for 155., and torn the ticket up. He had spent the money, and had not meant that his companion should know anything about it. Mean while the woman went with Tufrey, and having shown him the house in Tothill-street, she accompanied him to Mr. Geo. Attenborough's, 204, Fleet-street, where the watch had been pawned for 155., between 9 and 10 o'clock that morning. Tufrey then brought both the prisoners to the station attached to this court, where they were charged with robbery. While Tufrey was making his inquiries, the woman volun tarily admitted to him that her companion first woke up, and going out of the room he shortly afterwards returned, and telling her there was a watch hanging up in the room the landlord and wife were sleeping in, asked her to go and take it. She went into the room and cut the watch from the bedpost, but dropping it on the pillow she de termined to have nothing to do with it, and he went into the room and brought it out. Not the least remarkable part of the case was the great contrast between what each of the pri soners said in defence. The man's answer to the charge was—l went to the house with a friend of mine, and there were two females sitting there. They asked us to treat them, which we did ; then they asked us to go to bed with them, and I slept with the female pri soner all night. She woke up and said she wanted something to drink. I got up and said, we'll have something, and while I was putting on my coat she went out, and was gone about three minutes, when I followed her down stairs. Went out and had something to drink. I told her I was going to my lodgings in Fetter-lane, .Holborn, when she said, " I have got a watch of my husband's at Wel lington Barracks, will you go and pawn it ?" I said, " I will if you like," and I went and pawned it for 155., and gave the money to her. She went into a public-house where several more prostitutes were, and spent a great deal of money. That is all I know about it, as God is my witness. The female's story was a totally different one, and was as follows :—I saw this man in the Hamp shire Hog, Charles-street, Westminster, on Thurs day night, and he asked me to have a glass of ale, which I did, and we remained till they shut up. We then went to the coffee-house, and I slept with him. In the morning he woke me up, and I asked him if he was going to give me the half-crown he promised me, and he said he would presently. He left the room and went down stairs and came up again as I was putting on my bonnet. We both went down together, and he took me into the room where the coffee-house keeper, his wife, and child were asleep. He asked me to take the watch, and I untied it from the bedpost, and left him in the room, and went down stairs. He overtook me at the bottom of the stairs, and we went to a public house in Tothill-street. There he showed me the watch, and said if I said a word about it he'd smash me; he was going to pawn it. We went to the Strand and he pawned the watch and tried to get away from me. I asked him if he was going to give me some money, and he said, " No." We then took a cab and wen t t o severa l p u blic -houses ; and he said he had missed a half-sovereign out of his pocket. We then went to the public-house where we saw the constable. They were fully committed for trial. DUBLIN STOCK-EXCHANGE. The opening quotations of the funds in Eondon to-day exhibited a decline of but subsequently, upon the announcement of an understanding having been come to by the French and English Govern ments on the subject of the proposed Congress, a rally took place, and Consols finally closed at an advance of t- upon yesterday's final quotations. The Stock-Market here has been firm, but limited, Consols improving y,. and. New Three per Cents. to I. Bank Stock receded I per cent. There were offers to buy Hibernian Banks, and to sell National Bank Shares. Steam shares were steady. Buyers of City of Dublin £lOO Shares, for which an ad vance was asked. The Shares of 1836 were steady at the previous price. Grand Canal Stock was offered, and at a reduction there were buyers. Gas , shares were steady at 1-16 improvement. No deal ings have taken place in mines. Buyers of Wick. low Copper Shares at 10s. advance. In railways the business transactions were inconsiderable. Great Southern Stock was not dealt in ; an advance was demanded. Midlands firmly maintained their pre vious value. Waterford and Limericks are frac tionally better, and in request. Dublin and Wick lows are a shade better. Irish South-Easterns were steady at 1-16 improvement. Waterford and Kilkenny Stock was firm at the previous price. Sellers of Belfast Junctions, Dublin and Droghedas, and Dublin and Kingstown stock. There has been no alteration in preference securities. A fair amount of business was transacted in Great Sou thern Four per Cents. at the previous quotations. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—The following are not the least re • mailable among the numerous extraordinarycures without medicine effected by Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalento, Arabica Food, of indigestion (dyspepsia), flats - leucy, constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaintp, cough, asthma, consumption, and debility. Cure No. 47,121—Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Wal tham-cross, Hefts : a cure of extreme nervousness, indi gestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure 4 48,311—Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverpool: a cure of ten years dyspepsia and all the horrors of nervous irritability. Cure 18,216—Dr. Andrew Ure, of constipa tion, dyspepsia, nervous irritability. 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LOSS OF A BRAVE TO MVO SAILOR, Last week we stated in the The Sun that much sympathy was expressed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with the loss sustained by Mr. Belt, of the Groat market ; his son Anthony, a noble-hearted young sailor, having perished by the wreck of the Royal Charter. In the early part of this year; Mr. Belt lost a son in England by drowning, and the y oung man lost in coming home in the Royal Charter had been sent by his two brothers in Australia to com fort their parents under their severe bereavement. Mr. Belt, the father, has been across at the scene of the wreck of the Royal Charter, and has ascer tained that his son, with 200 other passengers who were in the- forecastle, perished when the vessel parted. Young Anthony Belt was no ordinary person. In the month of July, 1853, he shipped as third officer on board the ill-fated Bourneuf at Mel bourne. The vessel was bound for Bombay, and on the 2d August in that y ear , an d w hi le attempting to run into Torres Str a it s , a s t rong current came and carried her cut of her proper course, and she struck upon a reef. Captain Bebies, with his wife and several of the crew , put o ff i n the port lifeboat, but it was dashed to pieces against the side of the vessel by the fury of the storm, and the whole of those who took to the boat immediately perished, with the exception of a seaman, named Booth, a native of Newcastle. Mr. Anthony Belt, at the commencement of the voyage, had committed to his care by the capt a i n a y oung m id s hi pman, who received some injuries from the water-cask, which had broken adrift in consequence of the pitching of the vessel. The gallant sailor attached his own-life belt to the unfortunate youth, carried him on deck, and placed him in a boat which the crew were in the act of lowering. Anthony Belt stood by the vessel till the last. On a general rush being made to the cutter, he endeavoured to persuade a part to remain with him and make an attempt to launch the boat which remained amidships. On the cutter getting clear, he and the carpenter cut away the masts to give the vessel the only chance of holding together until daybreak. About three o'clock in the morning she broke in two, and as they did not get the boat amidships launched, they had to remain exposed to the storm until daylight. Twice did young Belt plunge into the sea with a line to esta blish a communication by means of a lifebuoy be tween the wreck and the cutter, which could not approach within a hundred yards on account of the sea, and by which he succeeded in saving many lives. •He also saved the life of a Frenchman who had been thrown into the sea by the breaking of the line. For his undaunted courage and heroic con duct on that occasion he was afterwards awarded the gold medal of the Shipwrecked Fishermen's Royal Benevolent Institution, and the committee of ma nagement also passed a resolution couched in terms of high praise. Those saved from the wreck succeede d in reaching Raine's Island, and were picked off by a Dutch East Indiaman and landed at Batavia. After his return from a voyage to the East Indies, Mr. Belt was entertained by a large number of friends at a supper held at the Crown and Thistle Inn, Newcastle ; and presented by the Mayor, in the name of Mr. Belt's fellow-townsmen, with a sextant, telescope, compass, and a set of drawing instruments. Is CONSUMPTION INCURA.BLE F —lnvalids labouring under Consumptive Maladies, and families who have suffered from the ravages of Consumption (and what family in the empire is there who has not to deplore a loss caused by this scourge of the human race ?) will find a satisfactory answer to the question, " Is Consumption In curable," in an original article by Dr. DENIS CRONIN, M.D., 35, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, W. Published in the "household Physician," in numbers, one penny each, by G. Berger, 19, Holywell-street, Strand. From Ito 9 now ready. [ADVEILTISEMENT.]—The Fatality of Disease.—Hollo way's Pills.—lt is distressing to look around and see the numbers that aro hourly carried prematurely to their graves who might easily be saved by medicines suited to their complaints. In the majority of cases diseases originate in impure of impoverished blood, Holloway's Pills act on that vital fluid : they expel from the secretory organs and the circulation the morbid matter which produces in flammation, pain, fever, debility, and physical decay. When taken according to the printed directions they have never been known to fail. Under a course of these pills the sick man soon rises from his bed, and the feeble be come robust. The cure is not superficial or temporary, but complete and permanent. THE ORDER OF AGRICULTURAL WRIT. (Front _Punch.) Jacky Says old John Hodge to young John Hodge, says h e, thee come here ; I've lived, and worked here, man and boy, for more nor dree score year; on o; Thy mother brought mo ten on 'ee ; I rared them e ver y They be all at sarTus or at plough, 'cept thee, 2 , 2 y younges zon. Ten children have I bred and kept, ten:children clothed And ved, N An in d e sar on v ' e e t m h larns and labours vor to git their daily bread ; And thee bist number ten Jack for a soger thee'st to goo,. There's twelve y Queen n us and th country,boys an and d ga p s wife, And I never cost the parish not a verden all mY life' d Not a loaf and nare a blanket—on my own leas here I stand , On which I've clod-hopped all my days, on' Fanner man's land. 1 and Now what dost think I've got at last for all my g B-5 boys ? r f m a ) rm ,sei t f hy a Li t i y aw to fn e i Look here's a golden suvrau, and a pair of c orduroy's , . se A pair of bran-new breeches and a pound, my boy , lik" 11 The Hagriculterl Ziety has gied me for a prize. Zo much for never costun 'em the valley of a straw A pound, a pair o' lreeches, and a power o' purty jaw' e I Why even the fat pig, Ja c k, as weighed over vartY scor He only won a ten-pound prize, he didn't win • for I shan't wear them there breeches, Jack, but keep ol a to show, By way of remembrance, I regards the honour zo ye Mind they be to be thine, Jack, when as I be dead and c s ; , e And, Jack, thee keep 'em for my zake, and zunitimes 'em on. hv wait Thee'st avian for a soger, Jack ; thee'st ha' to vight day; Med'st come to be a general, and a lord, mayhaP, zuT Thy quoat all over ribbons stars and that are serf a But tack thy brightest medal to thy veather's corduroys' no more. Then, when thee gist a bankut to nobility and squires, And are a one a cross or star upon thy breast adm ires Have in thy veather's breeches, Jack, and tell how they won, ton' To let 'em know how proud thee bist to be thv veathel a My - nether, you may tell 'em, fdught a battle praoi" a s r d A fight as lasted all his life—this hero was his re w Besides a pound, and that he spent, but left what 1 enjoys, This Order o' the Breeches—this here pair of cordial COUNTRY MARKBTS. YORK—Nov. 5. ne ° A fair show of wheat, with a slow sale at th e curre a ej A of last market day. Malting barley in good denl e :vas former rates ; grinding qualities the turn easie transacted were at higher prices. Very little business was in oats, at late rates. 0 0 44 Wheat, red .38s to 44s Oats.... ........ --3 to 4s White do .44s to 50s Beans ........... 44 8 i o .4 Barley .34s to 38s Peas ........ •••• • ....... 3 Malt, 66s to 68s per qr. ; rye, 30s per qr* LEICESTER—Nov. 5. able' There was a middling supply of wheat to - day, a toter 480 attendance, and a quiet sale. White wheat, 45 6 ,,,. gas —red, 40s to 46s per 36 stone; a very fair inquirY ' ° "" d r.; t ba e rley, grinding, 28s to 30s; malting, 28s to 4s P er oj 0 h oat trade was dull, at quotations ranging frg i per 38 34s per 24 stone. Beans a firm sale, at 48s to 0 " 5 stone. ato ne' Fine flour, 33s I Seconds, 31s I Thirds, 29s per 20 NORWICH—Nov. 5. of the Here, to-day, there was rather a full attendai l lsoiest , trade, and a firm feeling . There was a less show 0 ' ",.,,tee , but prices for both old and new were at fully W ili d e p r iis7eri a° supply of barley was considerable, Tho and the 1,..r es.. of this grain hero are now larger than at anY other late change in the kingdom. The demand was brisk, and fully maintained. White wheat 46s to 48s I Red wheat ..... to 4 41 ... 415 3 80 Ms to Malting barley 42s to 47s I Chevalier barley. • 'iii. to P S Distilling do.. 228 to 27s I Oats.. . ........ !.,. -'''' Flour, 29s to 29s 6d per sack from the Willer' GLOUCESTER—Nov. 5 attendance, spa At our market there was rather a good c rrel l. a firm business was done. Prices were at fully tilt pat 46 0 cies of this day sennight—viz., Enoiishlvh ite w l; AT:li tle. to 47s ; red, 42s to 44s per qr. Foreign m aintains 1 110 0 ' Barley is in fair request, a t 35 s to 38s for malting q 0 English oats, 26s to 278; Irish, 1 ,2 s to 235. NOTTINGHAM—Nov. 5. a aft We had a small attendance at to-day's market, all s e ver+ supply of grain. The extreme prices of last week, in,wer were maintained. Malting barley fully sustain i'r prices ; grinding sorts a fair supply, and rather Batao ' to buy. Oats a small show and dull sale, at previous Beans a small show, and rather higher prices. 9 7 to 3 " White wheat, new, 45s to 52s Barley, grinding. •— 5 40 3 51 Red do. 418 to 468 Oats, old, .. ..... 0 2 , to Old white sos to 54s New do .......... I Q. , to 51 0 Red do.. 44s to 43s I Beans.. .......... 4" Barley, malting.— 34s to 44s I Beans, new ...... 14 to 44' Super. flour, 358 to 398 ; fine, 30s to 34s per 20 steno STFORD—Nov. 5. t At our market ye AM sterday wheat obtained the fu ll rrie of last week, with an average supply. Barley 01. , r 000 instances obtained the extreme prices of last week i ° A o ff qualities. In oats not much doing. Beans 'Ov en higher terms. CAMBRIDGE—Nov, 5. Oth er There was a fair supply of wheat, and, with a, '480; slow demand in the trade, white moved off at 46s L o . 4 tor r b e a d r 1 , e4yo at t m o a 4 r 4 k s e p t e ; r m 3 6 a l a t t i o n n g e , 25 5 t ° to . 40s A to fa 4 i 4 r o ld o ats, 3 80 per 30 stone. Oats at 22s to 26s for new ; —s. Beans in limited supply,and heavy sal e-11° 0 'y' P er a 36a to 4 - s to 40s ; old, —a to —a per 38 stone; peas , - 36 stone. sp.rogpriornttingof sur 300 Wheat met a brisk demand , ae an y DUBLIN—Nov. 4. ; n The market was moder t l lied with gra -- o° ll late quotations. Barley moved off slowly at tho !ies of Tuesday last. Indian corn in small demo improvement in price. adapaPdvanced 6d to is 0. „” • d "tol, 0 2 6 Do., new •• • 13 0 to 22 6 Bere ........ ° Rapeseed •• • • 20 12 6 1.4 6 to 0 0atmea1...... 6to g Bakers' flour .: 2 4 0 to 31 Indian corn • Wheat, white 22 6 to 27 0 Do., red 2l 0 to 24 6 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black l4 0 to 15 0 FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIS' Itch In the following table E signifies that letter s are dent- go,ed by evening mails from London, and 3 f by 'Horning liia by evening mails from London, and 31 by raorni . E , - _ t r • next DESTINATIONS. Despatc h Port (4 ,. due. of Mails. Ijespate ll__________ ....------" Australia and Mauritius, via is'ov 1 0 • Southampto n Nov. 12,111 Southall* so r• Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New ' York Nov.2s, El 1 . , oyerdU Canada, di e . (by Canadn. pckt ) Nov. 8, E'Liverpoo Cape of Good Hope, Ascen- ~, Der d ile China, Penang, and Sing a- aO 1 P• •° V 12 pore, via Southampton .. a Nov. 4, M South So •, 110 Ditto, via Marseilles Nov.lo, E ....... o 1 6 Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov. 4, M SouthanlP• Nov. Honduras and Blewfields India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, over d a via Southampton Nov. 4, M Southarue NoV• Liverpool.. Sof. 216 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South- SoV• 19 ampton Nov.l2, M South Sol. 4 Ditto, via Marseilles Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, Nov. ° J. 1 and F. Islands Vov. 0, M South:ollP' Nov. Lisbon, Vigo, and 0p0rt0.... Nov. 7, M SouthaniP• nv erd? slalta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Nlexico and Havana Newfoundland United States and British N W. Nov. Nov — 4, , 3EI 5„0.u.t.h.a.111P.:. Nov. ; 1. • America (by British packet) Nov. 5, E Liverpoo --- Ditto (by U. S. packet) West Coast of Africa, Ma- West India, California, Vene- Sol% 9 deira, and Teneriffe l6 zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey town, oy' town, New Granada, .ti e. . . Nov. 17, M Solie ...yt• - 31.-• Nov. 23 E Liverpool.• g TILE LATE FEARGUS O'CONNOR'S LAND -- e I- 10 00 —A meeting of the members of this company wasecoicisli Nottingham a few days ago, for the purp ose of Nation intelligence as to the sale f the estates of th ° r. It sr Land Company. Mr. Clarke occupied the c hair. usrg ee re peared from the correspondence read tha t the ch ant c' gr. 3 1 of the estate of the above company had been send ° also t oil ov ot Roberts, of Manchester, for £IB, OOO . It was I.opertP that, after the paying off the mortgages on. tho i t. o y tll O there would not be suf f icient funds in h and to ay' winding-up costs chem ist) [AnvERTISEILENT.]—EPPS's (Ifomceop a thic nr n 00C0A.—This esteemed prep ara tion is sold by t:nvefilb. cipal grori at ls. 6d. per lb., in 11b.1b. , jor no3 o ' ct packets. Each packet is labelled ccJames'EPlo, pathic chemist, London." NAPIER.— On the 2d inst. BlRTHS. tm.irk R Milliken Napier, ofada a ghter. l en' ellfrewlalirei af, di eigh' OUVRY.—On the 4th inst , at Wing Vicarage, dou r— ~,, of pi t c o: R ß D uzz o ar n d, th t ehe4twhife inst.,of the at Rev. Peter Tb o s• 491/Irrji Picard, of a son. Geneva, of a daughter. the wife PAR '0 -a IN S.—On the sth inst ,at Ashted, Surrey, of Henry Parsons, Esq., of . a son. MARRIAGES. i. SAO DOUGLAS—DOUGLAS.—On the 3d inst. at .-'''' no f the _C a h te apel, Edinburgh, Edward 0. Douglas, ' Esq . s°— leo tcßohai,iritra. Church, il if iTi S n p h r ieg i r n he ; as w b o r o i dd Lister,.- pelrdlk.a.i 52, Woburn -place, gedatne I_ Henry A. Douglas, Esq., third brother Of Char.,: fifth Marquis of Queensberry, to Hannah Charlotte,r; RoucnoguettsTt_daLuigahTtzel_ofotnhethlaatestShiriJaoshtu Sacto_f_n° HA Y Lister and Lady Theresa Le ul N l v gia i h s lut . eirr oefrnthon: . i i Sainte o rt ra ' 13 : 1161.: tairTAin CHAPPUIS.—On the 2d inst., ition°' DEATH atNe S ullin Antoine Chappuis, aged 65. -, Atoll Cooxr ..---On the 2d inst. at Torquay, Devon 113 Cooke ! Esq., of Carr House, Doncaster. aged '56. A Ca' CuliTi ss.—On the 31st ult., at B M EdWar- Bognor, r. tiss, aged 62. ...., rm viefit DAVIPs.—On the 2d inst. at Kenilworth, Mr. W • ' near Paris, of 30, Walb k L roo , ondon aged 74. ~,,,Is t o* MA.NuEL.—On the 4th ins; •., at 5, Albion-square, -,/‘" the R W . ll . ev. 1 tam Manuel, D.D., age 74. ,r; ri soll MEYER,—On the 4th inst Joh Meyer Esq. at SY • Lodge n " n ' • of , ear irmingham, aged 70. eliet MAILTER.—On the 2d inst tE• 11 Frances, r ... 0 ~ a we , Dila 9 Edward I‘l‘ arter, Esq., formerly of Cherries, aged 91. _.-.---r"..--- 141° LONDON : Printed and Published by BITTRDOO 1/ 1129 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun OiECer Of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the ° ch.— Middlosex, Monday, Noveraber.7, 1859. I