The Sun. — London, England, 1860-09-29 00:00:00

TEE NAVY. The screw stearn vessel Espoir, 5, Commander Sholto Douglas, '.eft Plymouth on Thursday for the West Coast of /Africa. The paddlewheel steam sloop Geyser, 6, Com mander Gerirge M. Jackson, from Madeira, arrived in Plymoutli. Sound yesterday (Friday). She left Plymouth. on September 9 with the Pioneer in tow, and arrayed at Madeira on the 18th. She departed agaiYA on the 19th. The Geyser has experienced very variable winds with heavy rains. On the 15th of Septeraber she lost an able seaman, Walter H. Brown, of Plymouth, who was washed overboard and drowned. Spoke, September 26, lat 45'59 N., long. 7.10 W., the French ship Volner. The Geyser brings home Capt. Pole and the crew, 39 in all, of the ship Conway, belonging to Messrs Baines and Co., of Liverpool, which left that port August 24 with 366 troops and passengers for Calcutta. She encountered very heavy gales and cross seas, and on the Bth of September was dismasted and aban doned about 230 miles N.W. by N. of Madeira, in consequence of her dangerous leaks. The passen gers and troops were rescued by the Chip Summer Cloud, from London for Sydney, and all safely landed at Madeira. Capt. Pole, the officers, and crew were the last to leave the ship, which then had 8 ft. 4 in. of water in her hold ; and the water casks and general cargo were all adrift though her terrific rolling. Every one of the boats was broken to pieces when the mast fell. The crew of the Conway were despatched for Liverpool yesterday afternoon from Plymouth by the hon. agent of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society. The screw steam sloop Hornet, on her way to Calcutta, was at Madeira Sept. 19, when the Geyser • left. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Commander W. Swinburn, to be an Inspecting Commander of the Coastguard, vice W. H. Jones, superseded at his own request ; Lieut. John Burgess, to the Eagle; Lieut. G. Y. R. Rattray, to the Marlborough, for disposal ; Lieut. W. P. Pauli, to the Impregnable ; Lieut. Richard P. Bateman, to the Cumberland; W. Allan, 3d class assist.-engineer to the Cumberland, for service in the Lizard ; J. S. Dobyn, acting assist-surg. to the Landrail ; W. H. Reeves, paymaster to the Donegal ; and Edward H. Key, assist.-clerk to the Formidable, for the Admiral's office, THE ARMY. The guard of honour on the occasion of her Ma jesty's embarking at Gravesend, for Coburg, was furnished by 100 men of the Chatham division of ItOyal Marines, with the bands and colours, under the command of Capt. Nepean. The range of buildings which have been in pro gress for several months past at Fort Pitt, Chatham, to be used for the purposes of an army medical school, which the Government has resolved upon establishing at that garrison, are now completed, and arrangements have been made for opening the school on Tuesday next, Oct. 2. The buildings occupy the centre of the open space near the luna tic hospital. They include a spacious room for a laboratory, fitted up with furnaces and other ap pliances, lecture and operation rooms, and micro scopic rooms, together with ante-rooms and apart ments for the several professors. In addition to the medical officers now at Fort Pitt, 35 medical candidates are ordered to join at head-quarters on Monday next to undergo a course of study under the several professors, preparatory to being ap pointed to commissions in the medical department of the army after competitive examinations. The following gentlemen have been appointed to chairs in the new medical school :—Deputy Inspector-Gen. T. Longmore, clinical and military surgery ; Dr. E. A. Parkes, hygiene ; and Dr. W. Aitkin, pathology. The non-commissioned officers of the Ist batta lion at Chatham have presented Sergeant Major J. Ford with a massive silver goblet, as a mark of their respect and esteem, on the occasion of his re tiring from the service. Sergeant Major Ford is decorated With the medal for long and distinguished service, which was awarded him by the Duke of Cambridge. Major-General Hay, Commandant and Inspector- General of the School of Musketry, accompanied by Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General Capt. M‘Kay, has just paid his official visit to the camp at Col chester, for the purpose of examining the respective returns of the rifle instructors of the depot batta lions. The gallant offilers arrived on Wednesday, and have since been engaged in their work of in spection, which was expected to conclude yes terday. Sergeant Major Purnell, 54th Regiment, who has been acting in that capacity at Landguard Fort since his return from► India, has been promoted to an ensigncy of that corps, for nearly 20 years' active service at home and abroad, for which he has received several decora tions. He was acting regimental sergeant-major on board the Sarah Sands - when that unfortunate vessel was destroyed by fire, and very honourable mention was made of his conduct in the report for warded to Government of that disastrous occur- case ; for it would be impossible for an invading army, however numerous, to exist in the face of our volunteer riflemen, supported as they would be by an armed population. Measures are being taken to secure our dockyards on the land sides, which is quite right ; but the ' seaward faces, which are by far the most important, are at present almost entirely undefended in the absence of the fleets. WILLS AND BEQUEST& The Right Hon. Lady Mary Pelham—The will of this lady was proved in London, on the 19th of September, by her brother, the Lord Bishop of Norwich, in conjunction with her sister, Lady Hen rietta Pelham, the executors, who administered to the personalty under £lO,OOO. Her ladyship, being unmarried, has disposed of this property chiefly amongst her brothers, sisters, and nephews, appointing her brothers, th e Earl of Chi chester and the Bishop of Norwich trus tees over a sum of £2,000 which she has be queathed to her sister, Lad sive use; and to her bro 7 tyhAermeAliadmfiorralhePr e e lh c a l m u C. 8., she has left a legacy of£3,soO L , u n c o y m p i el a h t a inn m g , her sisters, Lady H enrietta and Lady residuary legatees. The will contains the following charitable bequests' :—To the Church Missionary Society and Bible Society, £lOO each; and to the City Mission and Ragged School Union, £5O each. Abraham George Roberts, Esq., banker, Lom bard.street—The will of this gentleman, who died on the 6th of Sept., has just been proved, The per sonalty was sworn under £200,000 by the executors, Abraham John Robarts, Esq., his son, and Henry Christopher Robarts, the brother of the deceased. He has left his real estates to his eldest son, who also takes the residue of the personalty. To his widow he has left interest in his house in Chesham-place, together with an annuity of £2,000, and the furniture. To his younger- sons and daughters he has left to each a liberal provision, and to his brother, the executor, a legacy is also bequeathed, as well as to other branches of his family, and some personal friends. We must not omit to mention that he has left to each of the clerks in the banking establishment the sum of £lO for mourning. H. W. Tancred. Esq. Q.C., M.P. for Banbury. The will of Henry William Tancred, Esq., for merly of 105, Pall-mall, but who was late of Mar gate, where he died on the 20th of August last, aged 80, bears the date of 6th of January, 1849, to which he has added four codicils. This gentleman has left personal property amounting to £35,000. The executors are Alexander Brodie, Esq. ; John Farquhar Fraser, Esq. ; and the Rev. William Tancred, the testator's nephew. Probate was graiated by the London Court on the 18th of Sept. After making a few bequests he directs his property, real and personal, to be divided into four parts, leaving an equal part to each of his three nephews—Sir Thomas Tancred, Bart., Henry and William Tancred—and a like share to his niece Susan, wife of the Rev. T. C. Whitehead, M.A. There is a bequest of £l,OOO to John Munton, Esq., of Banbury, for his uniform kindness to the testator during his connection with that borough, which he had represented in Parliament for 25 years. He has also left to his attendant Lovelass a legacy of £2,000 for himself and wife.—lllustrated London News. rence, IRON-CASED 811IPS. Colonel Hill, in a letter to a contemporary, says : I am a military man, and shall therefore be consi• tiered as altogether leaving my sphere of knowledge in presuming to know anything about naval affairs. Be that as it may, I have the honour of my own country at heart; and can only say that I wish England had at the Admiralty a few such men as Captain Halstead, when it would not be long before an efficient fleet of invulnerable iron-cased ships would be forthcoming. As it is, the French are ahead of us, and in case of a rupture between the two countries their iron-cased ships would give them an overpowering advantage over our wooden ones: in addition to which, they might with im punity M R down and destroy the shipping in our roadstead s and harbours, provided that in doing so it were not necessary for them to come within (00 or 800 ya r d s of our guns by day; and by night no thing but th e • intricacy of a channel would deter them. I believe that We Can make more powerful can non than the French, and also case our ships with better iron ; therefore, provided proper measures be adopted by the Government, there can be no doubt where superiority should lie. But, under existing circumstances, it would be impossible for one, or any number of Wooden ships, to contend successfully with a single iron cased one, unless the speed of the wooden ones were greatly superior to that of the iron, so as to enable their running a l ong _ side, when their powerful broadsides would pro bably demolish the iron casing. But we know that the speed hitherto attained by wooden ships scarcely, if at all, exceeds the speed that can hc given to the iron-cased ones. The result of every experiment against iron plated targets h been to prove that an enemy's iron-plated ships " might approach Portsmouth Dockyard and bombard it, it, and treat with contempt all the batteries existence, as well as all those it is proposed to construct on the spits of the pithead and which will various shoals around have the very serious defect of Marking the exact c hannel by which an . enemy may steam in at full speed or day without even heari ng the speed lead. at I n fact, there is no calculating the in_ j would be inflicted on England as a maritime Powel in case of ente rin g on a war with France, havin g only wooden ships to oppose to their iron -sheathed ones. There is no fear of invasion as long as our dock yards and arsenals are secure, but in case of their destruction we should be comparatively at the mercy of a powerful enemy. Jt therefore hchovcs the Governinent to render our dockyards secure, and this can only be done, as far as Portsmouth is c'neerned by buildingsteamships eased in iron,hav ingthe utm os t spee d th a t can b e g iven them. They would be the c hi e f d e f ence, s h ore batteries being auxiliary to the m; for no batteries hitherto pro posed would have any effect in defendino . Ports mouth from a night attack ships, if left undefended by a fleet. against even wooden I have isno fear o f i nvas i on w hile said that th ere 9ur annals Are safe, an d this belie.® to be the THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. Dr. Daubeny, the Professor of Botany in the University of Oxford, has put forth some "Remarks on the Sexuality of Plants , " with particular re ference to Mr. Darwin's work on the " Origin of Species," in the form of a pamphlet, in which this learned physician records his emphatic dissent from Mr. Darwin's theory regarded from its botanical side. Dr. Daubeny demurs at consider ing the distinctive faculties of the beings that stand in the higher ranks of the creation as mere developments of those which exist in the lower. He can hardly bring himself to believe that the activity, the quick perceptions, the various instincts which we ooserve in the vertebrata can have been elaborated out of the dull, vegetative faculties of of the invertebrate class ; and still less that the reason, the imagination, the moral sense of a man can have been owing to a mere expansion of the brain of the gorilla. Dr. Daubeny attacks the theorists who rely upon variation and natural selec tion as adequate causes for the multiplication of species, by examining critically the facts connected with the achievements of human skill in the do mestication of animals, to which Mr. Darwin and his followers constantly refer with confidence in support of their theory. He observes that human ingenuity has doubtless introduced many very striking deviations both in plants and animals from the original type ; it bas never yet, however, proceeded so far as to give rise to what naturalists would regard as a new species—that is, an indi vidual incapable of producing a fertile progeny with any other member of the parent stock.—The .Luncet. .RAIL IV AY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE `SEEK. Miles Opened, Receipts. r - 1860. 12 219 91 8 20 401 122 171 31 671 . 499 191 111 142 183/ 283 1839. 125 2191 401 122 17i 31 674 40U 1860. 1859. 1,'.130 1, 533 C 2,906 2,E 2,016 I,t 7,318 7,1 15,604 15,, 266 ' 1,348 1 1,! 322 1,502 1, 1,703 2,023 1,1 1,52 758 1,107 1 1,, .804 l,l 24,813 27; 7,080 7,1 3,653 3, 282 1,212 1,2 8,265 7,5 30,733 30,5 1,703 1,7 8,929 8,1 35,143 35,3 1,009 313 40,071 632 83,504 1,617 20,880 20,372 Railways, Belfast and N. Counties Belfast and County Down Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June myth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Clies.&llolylioad()vithMold) Cockermouth & orkington Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock, & Passage Cornwall Deeside Dublin & Belfast J unction Dublin and Drogheda Dub. & Wicklow(iu. Kingst ) Dundalk and Enniskillen 1 Dundee and Arbroath 1 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun.l East Anglian E.Counties,Nrik.,&E.Unionl East Kent E.Lancashire(in. Blackburn) Edinburgh and Glasgow ! Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee; Forth & Clyde Junction 1 Furness Glasgow & South-Western Great Northern Great North of Scotland : qt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind ) : Great Western [full and Ifolderness ,nverness & Aberdeen June Irish South-]astern ] Killarney Junction Lancaster and Carlisle (in ] ] Kendal and Windermere)] ] Lane. & Yrks.(in. Blackburn) Limerick and Foynes Llanelly London & North-Western 1 London and Blackwall London & South-Western ] Lond. Brighton, & S. Coast ; L'derry and Enniskillen Lond., Tilbury, & Southend & Lincolnsh Manch. S.J un.,"tz Altrinchaiu M aryport and Carlisle Midland Midland Gt. Westu. of Irind Nitnikland Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal r e ef or N N .l l v v r c: o ts r t t l , e A a b n e c r l g ( . a a rl h iii e l North British (in. Dalkeith) , North Devon North-Eastern North London North Staffordshire North-Western N. Yorkshire and Cleveland] ] o „e x e f i r e d s , Wore., :V i o t w r y . St. Helen's Canal Shrewsbury 'Necjrl t tt V ir:'l astern I . n SB 3 cc h °o rc tttt w ilsB s li b li ury and Chester Shrewsbury trosllire it !on e .. . ....... ..... Slp South Devon South-Eastern ! South Wales S. Yorkshire and River Dun Stockton and Darlington ! Taff Vale Ulster Ulverstone and Lancaster Vale of Isreath Warrington and Stockport ] Waterlord and Kilk enn y Waterford , and Limerick : ] West Cornwall W.lfartlepool ilarbr. Wiiite haven Junction Wh itehaven & Furness Jun. W'haven,Cleator,&Egr t. FottEIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam Au5trian.................. Belgian Eastern Junction Buffalo and Lake Huron Detroit and Milwaukee Dutch Rhenish .......... Grand Trunk of Canada Great Indian Peninsula Great Luxembourg Great Western of Canada Lombardo- Venetian Lyons and Geneva Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant Maria Antonia N orthern ot France Norwegian Trunk Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn Paris and Orleans Paris and Strasburg' Royal Danish Sambre and Meuse Southern of France West Flanders W. and N.W. of France_ „' [ADVERTISEMENT.] - Holloway's Pills.--Exercis e -- Pure Air.—ln numerous occupations in which persons are daily employed, these essenti a l s t o per f ect health cannot possibly be enjoyed. Hence the many m a l a di es w hi chatll ' the student, clerk, and art izan. Let all so suffering try these pm ifying pills. They will quicken the languid circulation, rouse any secretions which are slugngish, txpel all vitiated humours, improve the digestion, act as mild aperients, and le, , - , rulate the whole animal economy. These pills prevent want o f exorcise and impure air exerting their deleterious I influence over both mind and body. Holloway's pills are admirably well adapted to cure all cases of dyspepsia, hypo chondrias: s and nervous disorders, which make Elea misery. By e xpelling all impurities, they socuru sound health, an d olleerfulneve, 2,153 1,( 12,434 11,3 1,413 1,( 1,127 1,1 43,492 39,:. 4,193 3,t 1,537 1,( 2,531 3,434 3,', 6,009 5,8, 566 6 42,220 41,1 2,390 2, 8,016 8,1 2,203 1,1 3,605 4,210 1,997 2,1 3,508 3,; 2,125 1,7 in 0 4,048 4,1 25,883 27, 8,036 3,035 7,977 7,: 5,193 4,; 1,733 1,769 1 1,, 4381 1,238 1,: 5,625 4,1 685 710 128 1,208 1 1, 42,597 37,; '273 1,005 4,619 3,] 4,309 4,7 15,050 10,0 2,381 2,; 2,979 2,: 11,601 0,( 6,788 6,, 17,375 11,1 602 44 840 022 1,016 53,386 50,: 1,914 .1, 89,010 85, 58,516 43,: 879 022. 1,032 613 1 1,346 1, 22,193 20, . 1,182 : 11 "- 4' .2 - si 147,! THL SUN, LONDON, MR. DALLAS AND LORD BROUGHAM. SEPTEMBER 29, 1860. tion. I confess I am not without this pride or prejudice, if you will, myself. Though I know it to be the result of education and association, it has the force of instinct. Nevertheless, I blame not others who are free from such feelings, more especially those of another country, who have not been subjected to the influences which have formed my sentiments on the subject. I think it, moreover, prudent and proper that a traveller, es pecially if he represent his own country, should conform to the customs and manners of the people he visits. Were I Minister to Rome, I would, if such be the usage, kneel and kiss the slipper of the Pope; if to China, I would observe all the frivolous ceremonial of its Court etiquette, and try to eat 1 with chopsticks. In like manner, being here, and Minister to England, and finding a negro moving in the highest circles of English society, I cheer fully acquiesce, repress any exhibition of repug nance or surprise, and should have taken no notice of the circumstance had not my attention been publicly called to it by the distinguished and noble lord, whose remarks have induced me to trespass thus much on your and this learned assembly's in dulgent attention. This is a meagre sketch of what Mr. Dallas might and could, and perhaps would have said had he deemed it right to say anything. He would have filled up and enlarged the outline with illustrations drawn from the stores of his thought and know ledge, and clothed it with the vesture of his grace ful and happy style. It is too bad that England should taunt us with slavery, and all the while grow rich on our cotton and fat on our corn—the former exclusively the product of slave labour, the latter indirectly so—for cotton produces the Eng lish demand for our corn, which makes it grow. Some of our papers are indignant at the speech of Lord Brougham ; but this is a mistake, for resent ment admits that slavery is a blemish on our na tional character—that we are insultable on that point ; whereas the institution, if not, as some as sert, a positive blessing; is a necessity imposed on us by the negro race, and therefore no reproach. The remark of Lord Brougham was, no doubt, meant for an argument, as he afterwards said it was, not out of place at the meeting of a statistical society, and as such it should have been answered if answered at all. If a covert sneer was also in tended, that may be lightly borne, if we can refute the argument. SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS. GLASGOW, SEPT. 27. , THE WORKING MEN'S MEETING. At eight p.m. a meeting of working men was held in the City Hall, in connection with and under the auspices of the association. Almost as soon as the doors were opened the large hall was crowded in every part. The president of the association, Lord Brougham, entered the hall leaning on the arm of the Lord Provost of Glasgow. His lordship's appearance was the signal for general cheering, which lasted several minutes, the company rising en masse and saluting his lordship by waving of hats and shouting loud hurrahs. Among those on the platform we observed, be sides Lord Brougham and the Lord Provost, Lord Rayn ham, Sir John Pakington, the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird. Sheriff Sir Archibald Alison, M. Louis Blanc, Sir James Campbell of Stracathro, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Sir David Brewster, &c. Miss Isa Craig, Miss Carpenter, and Miss Bessie Parkes were also present. _ _ _ Lord BROUGHAM, on rising, was received with loud and long-continued applause. He said—l assure you it gives me the greatest, the most heartfelt satisfaction to find my self in this prodigious meeting. (Cheers.) Such an assem blage I never saw before collected together in any part of the United Kingdom, and my experience of public meet ings has not been small, neither has it extended over a small space of time. (Hear.) But at no period during th, last 60 years, during which I have been in the practice oc casionally of attending public meetings—(a laugh)—not, as was told most slanderously upon one or two occasions 30 years ago, when party feeling raged very high in all direc tions, of which, happily, we have now hardly any remains —when it was said of me that I was in the constant habit of attending public meetings. (Hear, and laughter.) And we of the Association have been gratified and to a certain degree of wonder have seen the reception we have met with on this occasion, which has, in many respects, exceeded all the receptions accorded to us on the three several former occasions that we have held congresses of the association. (Applause.) We are of no party in the State, we are of no sect in the Church ; we open our arms wide to all parties, without respect of person, from the highest Tory to the greatest radical—(a laugh)—from the high churchman to the low churchman, from the Catholic to the Protestant, from the Jew to the Gentile ; we open our doors to all sects, all classes, all parties, and all conditions of men (Loud Cheers.) That you might take part, my friends and fellow-workmen I may call you—(immense cheering)—for I myself have been a working-man all my life. (Renewed cheering) I began work more than sixty years ago I have mentioned, and from that hour to this I have been a work ing man like yourselves, and a working man I will con tinue to be so long as Providence blesses me with health of body and strength of mind to continue my efforts—(great cheering)—but I claim no merit for this. (Hear.) I like it; it has become my second nature ; it has become my habit ; I cannot possibly lay it aside, and I do not see why I should lay it aside. If I saw any reason, if I saw that the public would be better served by my laying it aside, then I would lay _it aside, and take the ease I might have earned, or thought I had earned ; but till I find I can work no longer, or there is any reason why I should work no longer, I shall work, an,f, I will work so long as I live. (Cheers.) It is on that account I call you my friends and fellow working men. We belong to the same class, and I only hope and trust that you will continue to have thathealth with which I have been graciously blessed, and continue to be able to work, as I am sure you are willing to work, like me. (Cheers.) lam about to propose a resolution, which, I think, though I have dealt very much in generalities, it is better to propose, as it will meet, I think, the exigencies of the case, and give you an opportunity of declaring what I may venture to call your adhesion to our great movement of social science, to our great pursuit of that which is for the interest alike of all men, of all classes of the community without distinction, and I propose that you shall resolve "That working men, by giving attention to the principles of social science, and communicating to this association facts relative thereto coming under their own observation, will aid in the discovery of laws, on the observance of which depends the welfare of all classes of the community." (Cheers.) Many things will occur to you from time to time, and some things may occur unreasonable, ill-founded, either in sense or in fact, and upon which discussion amongst yourselves, and discussion with our committees, will throw light ; and if there be error in your suggestions, will discover that error ; and if you propose to go the wrong way, they set you the right by a full and free discussion, which, blessed be Heaven, in this country we enjoy to absolute perfection. (Applause.) I know there are here some valued friends of mine—l won't say from the sister kingdom merely, for these are our fellow-countrymen—l won't say from the neighbouring sister island Ireland only, for these also are our fellow-countrymen ; but there are from across the chan• nel some most worthy, enlightened, and able friends of mine—men who honestly hold- the opinions which we en tertain, namely, that the progress of the people in social science is the first object for a statesman and a philosopher to encourage. In their presence I abstain purposely from be tokening any unseemly emulation in the happy fortunes of this our country, to enjoy that unrestricted freedom of dis cussion in all the manner of ways to which I have just now adverted. (Cheers.) Happily we have in every way—in Parliament, absolutely unrestrained—through the press, absolutely free—in public meetings, without the shadow of a pretence that any one has the right, or, indeed, has the desire to restrain. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) In all ways, then, we have absolutely perfect freedom of discussion on all subjects in church and state. (Hear, hear.) In all matters of policy, foreign and domestic, in all branches of social science, whick includes every branch ofpublic interest —we have the most absolute and uncontrolled freedom of dis cussion. But I will venture to hope that this will not always be confined within those four seas that surround us. (Hear, hear, and applause.) I hype and trust that the country men of the excellent friends to whom I have referred are not doomed always to labour under the same obstacles, and difficulties, and obstructions to free discussions, but that they will once more have what they once had, but abused when they had it. (Hear, hear.) I would fain hope that before we part, although I have not seen them to ask their intentions, one of my most excellent friends, tkat most able lawyer, who delivered one of his speeches at one or two of our sections, as well delivered and in as good English as any man here present could do—(cheers)—will not let us part without letting us hear the sound of his voice. (Cheers.) The two friends to whom I refer are M. Desmorat, an emi nent French lawyer, who addressed the committee under the Lord Advocate yesterday on an important subject of law, and my excellent friend M. Gamier Pages, who per fectly understands English, but does not speak it like Des • merat. I do not hope that we shall hear hitn, but M. Pages, who was one of the most distinguished members—next to the late M. Arago---of the Provisional Government of 1848, and behaved I won't say how. (Laughter.) His wise and upright conduct saved the credit of the country, but had the effect, by imposing a tax which was not liked by our neigh bours, of overturning the Government. (Laughter.) I give you that as a sample of the honesty as well as the wisdom of my excellent friend M. Pages; but since that time he has not been a membei of any Government whatever. There are other friends on the platform whom I will not stop to name, because thir names are known to you, and arc not unknown to ethers who are strangers here. I will now con clude by proposing the resolution before you, which I hope and trust will receive the sanction of your approval, and that you will act upon it, each in his own sphere. (Loud applause, amid which Lord Broug ham resumed his seat.) Mr. J. WILKINSON, upholsterer, supported the resolu tion in a speech of some length. Lord BROUGHAM then said—l have said that m y friends M. Desmerat and M. Gamier Pages will six ak here , bu t as there was no mention made of that pre,vious to coming into this hall, these gptlensen have not had a moment's time to cast their ides 4 together. Yet they have agreed to tht re ooratandAtiou i have yentllTEl to thr9W Olt. (Great Cheer- 42 1731 614 k 764 9 246 461 101 102 18-1 30 29. 721 306 1714 118 123 SATURDAY EVENING, (From the North American and UnmiteedSitna meeting Gazctte.) Some weeks ago there w as a et London 1 of the International Statistical Congress. Prince present. One of the memb ers of was a coloured man from Albert presided, and t he American this Minister was assembly, also present , Lord Canada, Mr. Dallas to that fac t. Mr. Dallas made no reply. Canada, and in the co urse of hteheapttreoncteieodningos Brougham publicly called the ord erioefncteheenpabrolepdriehtiimes, onfothdeoupblts,eetosnjdudthgee. he had sufficient reasons for remainin g silent—that and it is only just to him to believe that His correctly oea e si x o p n, he did what, under the circumstances, was right to do. Had there been no such reasons, however, the objects of the society, the character of the assembly, the presence of the dusky member from Canada, and the speech of Lord Brougham, all afforded a scene, an audience, and an opportunity for telling some truths about slavery worth telling to the English people. Let us suppose that no rules of etiquette, no fears of compromising official dignity by exciting what, perhaps, might have become an unseemly discussion, had interfered, would it not have produced a good effect on the minds of the cultivated persons present arid on the public opinion of England and America, had Mr. Dallas made 1 something like the following speech ? " Mr. Chairman, —I am a guest of this learned society, rather than a participator in its proceed ings. I came here to look on and listen, not to speak. The remarks, however, of the noble lord who has just addressed you, induce me to crave for a few moments the attention of this meeting. His lordship has called on me to notice the fact. that a man of African race is here present, received and treated as an associate by the eminent gentle men around me. I will not assume, I will not suppose, that Lord Brougham intended anything offensive to me, or to the country I have the honour to represent, by what he said. His fame is so widely spread in Europe and America that all the world knows him to be opposed to slavery. He is opposed to it, I feel sure, not as an enemy to the United States, but as a philosopher and statesman, on what he deems just and reasonable grounds, and 1 he no doubt meant to say by his pointed allusion to me : ' Behold, Mr. Dallas, behold, men of Ame rica,- here, in England, the foremost nation of the world, is a negro received as a companion and an equal, in a circle composed of some of the brightest names of their country in social rank, in literature and science. Why, then, do you make him a slave ?' I must believe that the person re ferred to, finding himself, as I do, in such distin guished society, has qualities which render him in some degree worthy of his companions. It very often happens in my country that men of his race possess estimable virtues, and are remarkable for truth, honesty, and fidelity; it sometimes happens that, under favourable circumstances, they make considerable progress, and acquire knowledge which does not imply mental powers of a high order. But we have some acquaintance at home with negroes. There are 4,000,000 of them in our Southern States, and I can assert with confidence that our experi ence is like that of all other countries of all other ages recorded by history, and that examples even of the moderate endowments and attainments I have mentioned are the exception, not the rule. The race is not gifted with the force of charac ter or intellect that fits it to originate or sustain a native, independent civilisation. It does not pro duce artists, poets, and philosophers—not even sol diers, orators, lawyers, and statesmen. There are no negro Shakspeares, Raphaels, or Bacons ; no Marl borough or Wellington, no Pitt, Fox, Mansfield, or Brougham, with black skin and woolly hair, either in the past or present. Even in the hum bler spheres of business and industry the negro is disqualified by nature to conduct the commerce, the manufactures, or the mechanic arts of a civi lised community. All these require for their manage ment mental powers which the negro does not possess. As a general rule, he is fit only for manual labour which requires but little thought, and to achieve in this valuable results he must be directed by superior intelligence. He has, therefore, occu pied, wherever he has been associated with the white race, the position of a servile class or caste. He occupies this position in America in the North as well as in the South, the mental and inferior offices of society are assigned to him, or rather he falls into them naturally by the operation of laws which no social or political arrangements are strong enough to alter or resist. But in our Southern States we make him a slave. I know that this word has an unpleasant sound to an English ear. There arc many in America, also, who do not like it. Nevertheless, slavery exists there and must exist in some form or . other, for many years to come—perhaps for ever—by reason of the natural laws of race to which I have alluded. We have 4,000,000 negroes in our South, very different in deed, with few exceptions, from him to whose pre sence here my attention has been called. They constitute, in fact, a vast mass of ignorance and barbarism, which cannot govern itself, either for their good or ours, and which, therefore, we must govern. We, the superior race, have the right, by reason of our superiority, to govern them for our own safety and interest, not, neglecting, at the same time, their wellbeing. Thus justified, and for the purpose of accomplishing these objects, we have established slavery as a system of govern -66 meat for the negro race, wherever it exists in such 84 numbers as to make slavery necessary, or, ti speak ,49 ,o 4 with more philosophical as well as historical ac ,7B curacy, slavery has arisen naturally from the con ,,- ' tact of the two races. It furnishes, without ex pense to Government, an efficient magistracy and police to maintain order and subordination ; it enforces industry and temperance, without poor houses or prisons ; it promotes the happiness of the negro by connecting the interest of the master with the health and strength, the cheer fulness and contentment of the slave. Slavery, therefore, with us means care, guidance, just con trol, and protection for the negro ; it means also security, order, enterprise, wealth, and progress for ourselves. The presence of the negro race in vast numbers among us renders slavery a necessity, not a choice. It would not have been our choice, for we are quite English in our love of liberty. Being a necessity, we have used it, not cruelly or oppres sively, but in a manner worthy a people that is proud to number Alfred and Hampden among its ancestors, and regards Magna Charta and the com mon law as its ricest inheritance. The theoretical harshness of the system is modiffed and softened in practice by the character of those who apply it. 'F he negro has been confided by Providence to the care and keeping of the magnanimous Saxon race, of that race which has built up in this island such a splendid edifice of knowledge, liberty, wealth, and power, which has based its mighty and beneficent civilization on the eternal maxims of truth, justice, and humanity, and which has erected on the same secure foundations on an empire in the West,. the giant proportions of which are as yet faintly traced by the hand of time. These two great branches of this noble family I humbly hope and trust and be lieve are destined to inherit the earth. May they grow and prosper and be united in friendship as in blood, and may they rule in the East and in the West for the good of the world. The-care of the negro has been thus confided to us in America as a trust. We have power over him.; we are therefore responsible for his welfare. I will not not speak of the perils and difficulties that accompany this trust, or of the evils and calamities it brings with it. We know these well enough at home, and those present may know something of them too from many popular works in the current literature of the day. Nor will I deny shortcomings in the per formance of our duty. Irresponsibl power is ever liable to abuse, and mercenary motives are not the best protection for helpless weakness. In proof of this, if proof were needed, I might point to Ireland and India, cases where an inferior race has been subjected to the power of England, of whom Eng land has been and is the trustee. I refer to them in no invidious spirit, for I believe that all here pre sent will agree with me that in the government of each of these dependencies there has been much to deplore and much to condemn. So it has been with our treatment of the negroes. Nevertheless we are not ashamed of slavery. We do not apologise for it ;we justify it by pointing to its results. Such is the necessary imperfection of all human institutions that in speaking of a system that operates on large classes of men we must be satisfied with general effects, though particular cases of hardship are to regretted, and, if possible, remedied. Slavery is an outgrowth of Africa, which with Africa has been transported to our shores. There is nothing excellent or desirable in the nature of either, but the presence of the one has made the other neces sary. Without Africa we should not have lied slavery, but having both we must make the best of them, - disarm them, so far as we can, of their mis chievous tendencies, convert them, if we can, into instruments of good. The justification of ',slavery lies in the evils it has prevented and the - benefits it has confer' ed, not on us alone, hut on the world. It has made of the negroes an orderly and indus trious labouring class, well fed, well clothed, on 1 he whole kindly treated. Of the suffering that is caused by want, by excessive toil, by unrestrained vice, ( a i nd urebly p ess u t n h i a shm na e n n y t inflicted iabouring 1)cyl-astshe in law, Europe. they ei i ff 1r or d deprived .a l o i f y tl s l l e protection,and dull , some restraint them selves, and d e s a t s : h . r s 3 . t . i e t e lle y paupers through indo'cr - • speedily into Afrier lYolll s d become c helpless While slavery ;7:ice and license, and relapse An barbarism, wretched the shelter of - providing Jr f his wants and supplyincr to hit' 1 ell' to the social fabric under they now live and thrive. thus a benefit to the negro by Iftb° ll r time intelligent guidan ce it • I I requires, y mestias 82,041 1,650 of that labour vast tracts of fertile land have been cultivated that would else have remained a wilder derness, and made to contribute to the comfort and accommodation of man. I need not enumerate all the products of slave labour which freight so largely the commerce of all nations, which employ therefore so much capital and industry and supply so many wants and luxuries, I will mention only cotton, that wonderful plant, which, in some of its forms, enters every household, however high or however humble, in Europe and America. How much of comfort, cleanliness, and refinement has it given to the poor ; ) how much of these, and of elegance and beauty too, has it furnished to the rich ? Cotton is the basis of the wealth and prosperity of our Southern States, and enters largely as an element of the growing power of the North. But an article of such universal use becomes necessarily a part of the foundation of general commerce and of the wealth of nations. If it has enriched us, has it not enriched England too, and in ampler measure P Look at your newspapers, and the - daily reports of your Markets ; at your statistics of commerce and manufactures, and see what a lordly and commanding part cotton plays in your affairs. It gives to us who grow it, who have the responsibility, the risks and the evils of the system of labour that produces it, an annual income of less than 200,000,000 dols. ; it gives t® you who manufacture it, who send it abroad in your ships over all the world, a yearly profit of many hundred millions of pounds sterling. Some of the richest towns and counties in England owe their wealth to cotton. It affords food andemployment to many thou sands of Englishmen who else would want both ; it furnishes profit on many millions of English capital; it had helped, therefore, in no small degree, to erect the towering structure of English manufactures and commerce. By creating a home market and a supply of manure cotton has also latgely promoted the growth of English agriculture,and has thus supported the splendour of many a noble home as well as the comfort of the farmhouse and the cottage. This wondrous growth .of population, industry, and wealth, thus produced by cotton, must be sustained by it. Take away from beneath the massy fabric the delicate fibres of this little plant, and I have the authority of your own leading journal for say ing that the power and prosperity of England, the order of society, and the stability of the Throne itself would be in danger. I say this from no envious or grudging sentiment. You are welcome to our cotton—nay, it is a matter of business; you pay for it. If you make more out of it than we do it is a' fair reward of your ingenuity, skill, and statesmanship. I allude to the subject merely to remind you that cotton is the result of slave labour; that without slavery that labour would be ineffi cient and unproductive ; that, therefore, the hoes of our slave gangs on the Mississippi are building up the edifice of English wealth and power, as the trowl of the stonemason erects the walls of a palace ; that if slavery be an evil, we in America bear all the brunt of it, and receive a part only of the gain ; and that if it be a wrong and a crime, England shares with us the guilt, for she does as much to sustain it as we do. It may be said, more over, that the origin of slavery belongs to the colo nial period of our history. England landed the first negro on our shores, and planted there anin stitution which has struck its roots so deeply, and bears such tempting and golden, though also bitter fruits, that it seems to be part of our destiny for ever. If slavery be a crime, therefore, England is particeps criminis, and it does not lie in her mouth to reproach us with it, more especially as she enjoys its abundant harvest, bearing herself none of the heat and burden of the day. In one of the noblest dramas of your—l mean of our, greatest poet, a guilty king tries to pray but cannot. "Forgive me my foul murder — That cannot be, since I am still possessed Of those effects for which I did the murder, My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardoned, and retain the offence I " If we are guilty, so is England; and both to her penitence for her share of the crime, and to her con demnation of our share, the mills of Manchester are an answer. It would ill become me, however, in such a presence as this, w hen attempting to justify slavery, to confine my argument to the mere mate rial view of the question, momentous as that really is—to say that slavery is a source of wealth to us, and to the world ; that it maintains social peace and order in a large portion of our country, and that it secures also the physical well-being of the subject race. The reply is obvious, that being, as we are, the guardians of the negro, we are bound to look to something higher than our own selfish good or his bodily needs, and to provide for his moral and intellectual improvement. At least, we may fairly be required to show that slavery is no bar to such improvement. It would be a sad thing indeed, if true, that these 4,000,000 negroes of ours are well fed and clothed only that they may toil for our mercenary advantage, and at the same time by our laws and our practice are intentionally kept in a state of mental and moral degradation. I ad mit that no temporal good to them or to us could _justify - such tyranny. And herein lies the difficulty of the case, felt in America more deeply than any where, because to us it seems well-nigh hopeless. But the evil arises from the nature of the negro, and not from slavery. He makes no spontaneous moral or intellectual progress, whether a slave or free; he never has made any in his native regions. He has never risen, at any period of his history, even to the low grade of Chinese civilisation. He acquires no arts, he builds no cities or ships, he in vents no machinery, he paints no pictures, he writes no books, he forms no organised communities, he makes no laws, he cannot appreciate truth or beauty, and he is a fetich worshipper at all times and all places if left to himself. He is naturally a savage and a heathen, and may enjoy in Africa such happiness as belongs to that condi tion. But in that conditian he cannot remain when he forms part of a civilised community. We cannot permit him to remain in it, both for his own sake and for ours. What, then, are we to do ? He cannot raise himself to our level—he cannot take care of himself amid the energetic struggles of a superior race. He would si n k t o l ow er depths than his original barbarism, and our 4,000,000 of his race would become a da ngerous an d i n t o l era bl e mass of ignorance, degradation, and pauperism. He must, therefore, be governed, g u id e d, c ared for ; and slavery, which gives him a governor and care taker, does not depress but elevates him. It sup plies the want of his nature—a directing mind. Without slavery he would fall into a state far worse for him—that of a slave without a master. In con tact or competition with the white race he would be everybody's slave, and no one would be bound by duty or induced by interest to support or pro tect him. Our slaves in America are not without religious instruction, and the arts of industry which they are taught, and association with the white race, ale an education, imperfect indeed, but superior to that of Africa, and without slavery they would get none at all. They have been ele vated by this education. Th e race now w ith us is superior to its brethren in Africa, to its ancestors who first landed on our s h ores . Thi s i s we ll known, and is made manifest whenever the native African is brought to our country, as ho sometimes is, in captured slave-ships. I have said that I could not but believe the " coloured gentleman" from Canada to possess talents and education which makes him a very rare exception t o th e g eneral character of his race, else he would not be found in such good company. What fortunate circumstances in his history have produced such a result I do not know. I would not venture to assert that slavery encou rages, or even permits, such a development of mind as he, no doubt, exhibits ; for I have never seen a negro, slave or free, whom I considered worthy to be a member of this learned society, or the companion of the cultivated and distin guished gentlemen around me. Nevertheless it is true that negroes do often, as slaves, rise to em ployments which require thought and skill, and which imply integrity. Many can read and write ; they become mechanics, sometimes book-keepers, and are frequently intrusted with the management of farms and plantations, and with the direction and control of their fellow-labourers. Slavery, therefore, if it depresses, also elevates. It elevates the mass, and works well on the whole. That it is the best possible system, as now constituted and administered, by which to govern the large and increasing numbers of the negro race in America I will not affirm. Time and experience may improve it. But it is that which we now think the best, though we are not entirely satisfied with it, for it produces evil as well as good. We would gladly exchange it for a better system, did we know of one; but the interests at stake are too important for experiment or rash innovati on . We therefore maintain slavery, not because we do not love liberty, but because we believe the negro unfit for it, and because we believe slavery in some form, or the complete subo r di na ti on o f the black to the white race, in harm o ny with natural laws, and essential to the social security, and to the wealth, progress, arid power of our country. For all these reasons a system o f cas t e has grawn lip In the North and South of the United States similar to that which prevailed for so many centuries in the . grand a n d no bl e civilizat i on o f anc i en t India, founded on i nequal i ty o f race, t h e black having beenhere, ac with us the servi!e and lowest. With this syst em t h e exc l us i v eness of caste has beenintroduced. It i s n ot the custom in the , United Stat es f or white an d bl ac k to meet on terms of ( quality ; and this arises, not from hatred or contempt of the neg desp icable, but f rom the who is neither hateful nor the pride of race. 1 his feel ing is by no m eans i ncons i s t en t w ith mutual re spect and affection between individuals of the two races, for such sentiments are very common, more especially butween master and slave, and throw a softening vc., 41 over the, Wisher features of the xela- 1831 283 58 22(5 466 173} 9 28 C,144 177 764 9 233 46& 291 721 302 1711 108 119 ing.) M. Pages will now address you, and afterwards M. Desmerat. (Cheers.) M. G. PAGES then came to the front of the platform, and on making his appearance he was greeted with immense cheering. He spoke in French, which was interpreted to the meeting by the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P. M. Pages said—lt is with profound feelings of thankfulness towards your excellent President that I find myself in the position of addressing an audience such as this. (Cheers.) The son of a workman, it is through the working people that I have gained the position which I now hold, and it is in that character that I now wish to address you. (Cheers.) It was with the people that I engaged in the struggle, but unfortunately when I addressed them, and told them the truth, they did not exactly agree with me, and did not sup port me in all my views. That the people may have what they desire—that they may go at a steady step with the general advance—not too hastily—is my hope, as it is only by that means that they will obtain what they wish. (Cheers.) The future is in the hands of the people ; but the people, in order to gain that position which I wish them to gain, must only support and encourage that which is morally right and just, and their demands should be in accordance with what is just and right. (Great cheering.) Allow me, in one word, to say that it is for the people I have lived, and for the people I am ready to die. (Im mense cheering). M. DESMERAT, who spoke in English, likewise thanked the audience for the reception they had received. He pro posed that the subject of social science should not be con fined to Great Britain alone, but that the matter should bo a European one. (Cheers.) He referred to the presence of M. Louis Blanc at the meeting, and expressed the pleasure he felt at seeing such an illustrious countryman, who was suffering for his well .grounded principles. At the mention of the name of M. Louis Blanc, the im mense assemblage like one man rose to their feet, and cheer upon cheer issued in massive volume from thousands of throats, the owners of which at the same time waved hats, caps, and handkerchiefs in the air for several minutes. Lord Brougham also rose to his feet, and looked towards that part of the platform occupied by the illustrious foreigner, on which M. Louis Blanc crossed towards his lordship, and both gentlemen heartily shook hands. The excitement and enthusiasm at this moment was very great. The Hon. ARTHUR F. KINNAIRD, M.P., next addressed the meeting, after which Lord BROUGHAM said—The resolution moved by myself, seconded by Mr. Wilkinson, supported by my friend the Hon. A. Kinnaird, but which especially received the signal and most gratifying support of my friends M. Gamier Pages and M. Desmerat, I take your sense whether or not you agree to that resolution. (Great applause.) I should wish the same unanimous assent to a proposal to testify our re spectful thanks to M. Gamier Pages and M. Desmerat on the present occasion. (Prolonged cheering.) lam sure the reception which you have given to my proposition will be gratifying to my two friends. (Cheers.) One word in my own defence. (Laughter.) My remarks on the House of Commons have been referred to ; but it must also be re membered that I spoke of the House of Lords, and though what I said of them was short in point of length of time, it was not much less sweet. (Laughter.) I charged the House of Lords, of which I am an unworthy member — (laughter) —I charged them distinctly with having acted according to the just letter of the law, but against the con stitution—(hear)—against the interests of the people, and against the diffusion of knowledge, by rejecting most impro perly, though lawfully, the proposition which the House of Commons had passed to repeal the duty upon paper, and to render knowledge cheap and accessible to all. (Applause.) Dr. LANKESTER moved—" That great improvements have been made in the sanitary condition of this city, but much yet remains to be done, in order to diminish Vie causes of disease, poverty, and crime." Mr. M. M'FARLANE seconded the resolution. Mr. HASTINGS, the general secretary, then made a few remarks in support of the motion, which, having been put to the meeting, the chairman declared carried unanimously , I le FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST _EVENING. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, SEPT. 28. Orders for the Court's going into mourning on Sunday next, the 30th inst., for her late Royal Highness the Duchess Dowager of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, widow of his Royal Highness the late Duke of Sake -Coburg-Gotha, father of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, and uncle and father-in-law of her Majesty the Queen, viz : The ladies to wear black silk, plain muslin or long lawn, crape or love hoods, black silk shoes, black glazed gloves, and black paper fans. The gentlemen to wear black cloth without buttons on the sleeves or pockets, plain muslin. or long lawn,cravats and weepers, black swords and buckles. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 28. It is hereby notified that the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received from his Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio, the Sardinian Minister in London, the following communication :- 23, Park-lane, Sept. 20, 1860. My Lord,—His Majesty's Squadron having arrived be fore the fortress of Ancona, has placed the town and port in a state of effective blockade. I have received the order of the Minister for Foreign Affairs to communicate this fact officially to your Excel- lency. Count Cavour desires me at the same time to inform your Excellency, that the principles of maritime law, established by the Congress of Paris, will be scrupulously adhered to in this instance. Accept, my Lord, the expression of my highest consi deration. (Signed) V. E. D'AzEGLIO. The Lord John Russell, &c. DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 27. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas Elliott, Esq., to be Registrar in the Colonial Secretary's Office in the Island of Mauritius. BANKRUPTS. William Smith and Robert Walls Sinclair, linen factors, Pancras-lane, City, to surrender, Oct. 9, at eleven, and Nov. 15, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Frederick Johnstone b arding-house keeper, Eastbourne terrace, Paddington, Oct. 11 and Nov. 16, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Marks Leopold Muller, watch manufacturer, Alderman bury Postern, City, Oct. 6 and Nov. 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John Ashdown, draper, Porsford-terrace, Middlesex, Oct. 11, at halt past eleven, and Nov. 16, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. George Taylor, West Bromwich, timber merchant, Oct. 12 and Nov. 2, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Edwin Lindop, Knighton, Staffordshire, farmer, Oct. 12 and Nov. 2, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Francis Edward Shipley, jun., brickmaker, Giltbrook, Nottingham, Oct. 9 and Nov. 1, at cloven, at the Shire hall, Nottingham. Charles Frankcom Lear, baker, Fishponds, Gloucester shire, Oct. 9 and Nov. 12, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Wm. Elliott, builder, Chelsea, Oct. 11, at half• past twelve, and Nov. 16, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. James Willats, upholsterer, Finsbury-pavement, Oct. 12 and Nov. 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Joseph Philipson, milliner, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oct. 9 and Nov. 7, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dis trict Court. Isidor Selke, provision merchant, Tower-hill, 0ct..9, at half-past eleven, and Nov. 13, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Robert Folkhard Adams, pipe maker, Stowmarket, Suf folk, Oct. 9, at half-past twelve, and Nov. 15, at one, at the Cout of Bankruptcy. William Foxcroft and George Wellock, the 3 ounger, cotton spinners, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, Oct. 12 and Nov. 8, at eleven, at the Commercial-buildings, Leeds. John Yaxley, cab proprietor, Vauxhall-bridge .ro ad, Oct. 9, at half-past one, and Nov. 15, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Charles Tuck, butcher, Ely,Cambridgeshire, Oct, 8, at half-past one, and Nov. 15, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John Leng, licensed victualler, Bridlington Quay, East Riding of Yorkshire, Oct. 17 and Nov. 7. at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Alexander Couper, farmer, Drumfolds, Old Rain. Thomas Sommerville, wool merchant, Glasgow. Archibald Low, plumber, Partick, near Glasgow. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday ? the 26th day of Sept., 1860 : ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued .......£29,937,085 Government Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities .. 3,459,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 15,482,015 Silver Bullion .... - £29,957,085 £29,957,085 BANKING D Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,00 0 Rest Public Deposits (in chiding Exche quer, Savinqs' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac counts) 7,092,681 Other Deposits 12,973,222 Seven Day and other Bills 722,132 , EPARTMENT. Government Secu rities (including, Dead WeiglitAn - nutty) Other Securities Notes Gold and Silver Coin 773,866 £39,130,321 I £39,130,32 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated Sept. 27, 1860. AVERAGE PRICES: OP SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com pue t d from Returns made in the week ending the 25th d ay of Sept., 1860, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain : Muscovad o, the produce of the British pos sessions in America .................. 27s 6/(1 Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius .. 22s 2id Average price of the foregoing .......... 27s 14-1-(1 --- [ADvEnTisvutrr.] Pills anal medicine invariably ag te and perpeluate diseases ; their annoyance, dis ,,, rava appointment, and expense may be avoided by persons in indifferent health sending only their address to E. s. Barry, Esq., 77, Regent-street, W., London, and they will receive gratis and free by post the "INVALIDS' OWN GUIDE," or Natural Restorer, without medicine or ex pense, of perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, an d refreshing sleep, to the most enfeebled insuring the removal of indigestion ( dyspepsia), constipation, liver complaints, nausea, epilepsy, paralysis, d e bi lity, nervousness, palpitation, cough, asthma, consumption, dropsy, flatulency, diarrhoea, dysentery, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, .colds noises in the ears, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessnses, acidity, pales, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, tation, heartburn, headache, deipondency, cramps, 81) ... a -2 8 d e sinking, ts, fi ronolaitie,—" Unquestionably the eldest wii , to heltiV! POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Sept. 28. CLERK ENWELL.---:IMPORTANT BASTARDY CASE.—THE RIGHT OF THE JEWS TO DIVORCE, THEMSELVES.—Henry Nathan, a man about 50 years of age, described as a general dealer, and at tendant at auction sales, residing at 43, Bowling green-lane, Clerkenwell, appeared before Mr.. Corrie to show cause why he should not be ad judged the putative father of two children - which had been given birth to by Elizabeth Isaacs, of 6, Oldham-place, Clerkenwell. The case excited a great deal of interest, and the court was filled by members of the Jewish per suasion. _ Mr. Thomas Wakeling, solicitor, appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Sleigh, barrister, for the defendant. Mr. Wakeling opened the case at some length, and from his statement it appeared that in August, 1844, the complainant was married to a Mr. Morris Abrahams, and lived with him five years, having two children by him. The complainant's husband then left her and went to live with another woman, and the complainant, some time afterwards, co habited with the defendant, who was then living in Crown-street, Soho. On the 24th of May, 1854, the complainant. had a child by the defendant, she, at that time living with the defendant in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. On the 20th of July, 1858, the complainant had ancsther child by the defendant. They both lived together as man and wife, when the complainant left him. The de fendant promised the complainant he would marry her if she got a divorce from her husband, and in December, 1858, th e comp l a i nan t was divorced ac cording to the Jewish religion, by the Rabbi and 12 of the Jewish Synagogue, in Leadenhall-street, and her husband then gave her £4O at the time, and took his two childr en w ith hi m , an d since then he has married another woman. The defendant paid for both children, and always treated them as his own. The whole of the money which the com plainant had received when she was divorced had been spent while she was cohabiting with the de fendant, and as he now refused to support the chil dren the present summonses were taken out. Mr. Sleigh said the husband of the complainant was still alive and in London, and as for the com plainant and her husband being divorced according to the Jewish religion that was not valid, for a divorce must be according to the law of England. If the husband or the complainant had married again they might be indicted and convicted of bigamy. He then cited the cases of " Queen v. Wymond," 2 Queen's Bench Reports, and " The King v. Collam," and contended that, as the com plainant was a married woman she could not be entitled to the benefit of the Bastardy Act, and that by swearing in her information that she was a single woman, and that the defendant was the father of her children, she had committed perjury. Mr. Wakeling said there could be no moral doubt that the defendant was the father of the complain ant's children, and he ought to support them. Mr. Corrie said he had got all the cases before him, and the point seemed to him tc, be—whether there was access or not on the part of the husband. Mr. Sleigh said that no person was entitled to the benefit of the act unless she was a single woman or a widow. Mr. Corrie—The difficulty is that both the hus band and the complainant both live in this town, and access might have been had by the husband. In all the cases before him the husband was beyond the seas, and in one case at the birth of the child the husband was transported, and had been so for some years. Mr. Sleigh—Another question is whether the husband might not be prosecuted under the Poor law Act. What answer would he have to the com plainant ? Mr. Wakeling—No doubt he would plead the adultery of his wife, which, if proved, would be sufficient. He should be able to prove that the complainant and the defendant lived together as man and wife, and now the defendant, in the most heartless manner, refused to pay one farthing to• wards the support of his children. Mr. Corrie, in dismissing the summons, said the mere fact of a man having intercourse with another • man's wife did not bastardise the issue. Mr. Wake ng would have great difficulty in proving the ques on of non-access. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-SEPT. 28. Tho harvest is still progressing slowly in this part of the county, and generally throughout the kingdom, owing to tho unsettled weather. The arrivals are insignificant. There was a large attendance of both millers and dealers at this morning's market, with an active consumptive de mand for fine wheat, which may be quoted at Id to 2d per 1001bs advance on the week ; oaty red American in slow sale at former prices. Flour was difficult to buy, with a dull sale. Oats in moderate request, at late rates. Beans more neglected. Oatmeal was at easier rates. Barley and peas scarce, and brought more money. In Indian corn there was a brisk business doing at late rates. WAKEFIELD-SEPT. 28. The show of wheat was small, and fine old was is to 24 dearer ; the same may be said of good new sorts ; but mil lers bought with reserve. New barley more plentiful, and at about previous rates. Other articles steady, and prices unchanged. LOUGHBOROUGH-SETT. 27. The trade was rather excited to-day, with a limited show of wheat, at 3s per qr over late rates. The supply of barley scarce. White ruled at 64s to 675, red 608 to 64s per qr. Barley, 29s to 45s ; oats, 28s to 32s ; beans, 47s to 52s ; peas, —s to -SEPT. 28. the corn market to-day, at EXETE A dull business was done the following prices : Wheat, white 8s 3d to 8s 6d I Barley. ..4s 6d to bs Od Ditto red 8s Od to 8s 3d Oats .. 3s 4d to 4s 01 New white wheat, 7s tO 7s 6d; red, 6s 9d to 7s. Flour, fine, 46s to 47s ; seconds, 44s to 45s per sack. CATTLE. There was a small attendance of dealers at the market. Business dull. Fat beef,p score, lis to 11s6d Ewes, per lb .... 6d to 6id Pork carcases,do 12s to 12s 6cl Wethers, d 0...... 6id to 7d Sheep, per lb. 7d to —d Fat calves, d 0.... 7d to 01 Rough fat, 4d per lb. pRisToL SUGAR—SEPT. 28. We have had but few sales for raw sugars this week, and prices aro with difficulty supported. [AnvEterisEmeNT].--It is ever a pleasing duty of a journalist to introduce to his readers some new discovery calculated to benefit that vast portion of our fellow-crea tures, which has the strongest claims upon our sympathies. It is with this feeling that we call the attention of invalids to the following extracts from Du Barry's interesting report of Cures without medicine by Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. Cure No. 52,422.—Bridgehouse, Frimley Surrey, 3d April 1854. 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