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WE SAY-THEY WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED. WE MERELY REFER TO THE PAST AS A PLEDGE FOR THE FUTURE, "THE SUN" OF TIIURSDAY, NINTH OF NOVEMBER, WILL GIVE A VERY FULL ACCOUNT OF THE ROYAL PROCESSION, FESTIVITY, &c. ON LORD MAYOR'S DAY, SO. AS TO REACH ALL PARTS OF ENGLAND ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING, AND SCOTLAND AND IRELAND THE NEXT. N.8.-EARLY ORDERS SHOULD BE GIVEN. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 20 minutes past Three o' Clock. LONDON : WEDNESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 1, 1837 It is an old maxim that those who have obtained a character for early rising may sleep all day. Now of all our public establishments this applies most truly to the Post-office, the management of which for the last thirty years had been cried up as the very pattern of excellence for all other departments of the Government to imitate—a very model of perfection and purity ! But behold the result of a small portion of the working system of that " well conducted" department I Towards the close of last, Session Mr. WA LLACE moved for a " Return of the number of cases which have occurred from the sth January, 1829, to the sth Jan. 1837, of letters franked or unfranked, addressed to persons in London, Dublin, and Edinburgh, or which have been applied for through the General Post-office of those cities, containing money, bills, Bank notes, or other property, which have been demanded there from by private parties, as undelivered; with the amount thereof in each case, so far as relates to the General Post-office of England," and it is now printed for cir culation—together with a similar return so far as re lates to the Twopenny Post-office in London. These returns extend over 81 folio pages, in double columns. The total number of cases may be stated at about twelve thousand; and the amount ofproperty lost at 658,2201. for England and Wales ; including 13,5411. 18s. 11d. lost in the Twopenny Post-office in London ! There are 691 cases, in which the amount of property lost is not stated. Our readers may thus judge of the wholesale plunder which is daily going on, almost without the possi bility of detection, when there have been only 28 cases out of the 12,000 " in which persons in the employ tc)f the Post-office have been convicted in England and Wales of pu r l o i n i ng l etters conta i n i ng property." We have repeatedly urged on the Government and the Post-office Authorities the necessity of esta blishing a Registry system, similar to the one which was found to work so beneficially in Ireland, previous to the consolidation of the Post-offices of the United Kingdom under one head : and we have no doubt, that in consequence of these returns, the Member for Greenock will take decisive steps to bring a subject of so much importance, haf t in a pecuniary and moral point o f v i ew , b e f ore P ar li ament. A plan to prevent these daily robberies might be easily adopted, at a cost perhaps of 500/, br 600/. for two or three additional clerks. The Post-office Commissioners, who were appointed to enquire into the management of the Post-office, ought to take up the subject ; for it is high time something should be done to abate a nuis ance which i 4 nationally disgraceful, and individually ruinous, In referring last week to a public meeting, held at Carrick-on•Suir, to enquire into the benefits likely to arise from the establishment of a branch of the Na tional Loan Fund Life Assurance Society in that dis trict of the United Kingdom, we intimated that we would take the earliest opportunity of again reverting to the subject. We observe, with much satisfaction, that it is proposed in Ireland to establish a system of weekly and monthly payments, for the greater conve nience and encouragement of such of the assured as belong to the working classes ; and we trust that a si milar regulation will be adopted in this country. There arc hundreds of artizans who could afford to pay the sum of two shillings, or half-a-crown, weekly, who would find it very difficult to advance five pounds at any given period, with a certainty of its having to be repeated every subsequent year of their lives. We likewise highly approve of the system of increasing and decreasing scales of payment. The prosperous farmer, thriving mechanic, and thrifty young shopkeeper, will find it their interest to make the heaviest payments first, in order that should the profits of their respective employments diminish they may still find no difficulty in keeping up the payments upon their policies ; whereas clerks in public offices, and men so circum- stanced as to be able to forward with confidence ,o an annual increase of income, may find it to thcir advantage to increase their payments, rather than forego the effecting of such a policy in early life as may ren der their death less ruinous to their families. But to be really beneficial to the country, this Institution must proceed on grounds totally different from those of all the Assurance Companies hitherto established. The objects of its solicitude must be the middling and the working classes—not the men of high rank and large fortune, whose prudence is employed in adding to a heap already too extensive for the supply of their own wants, and those of their offspring. What is chiefly wanted is an Assurance Company which will devote itself to the fostering of habits of economy among the poor—which will make its coffers the safe depositary, not of the pounds, but of the shillings and the pence snatched weekly from the public-house, for securing the comparative independence of the widow and the orphan. To effect this, great industry, care and perse verance will be necessary, and higher motives must guide the Directors than a narrow, selfish regard to _ _ _ their own immediate interests. In Ireland, for exam ple, such an Institution may effect incalculable good, by lending small sums to farmers on the security of their crops, at low rates of interest ; never allowing the principal to remain unpaid for longer periods than three, six, nine, and twelve months. This mode of en couraging agriculture has long been in operation in Scotland, under the management of the National Banks ; and to it may be attributed much both of the prosperity and the prudent habits of our fellow-subjects in that portion of the empire. The banks and the agri- culturists both gain ; and as the investments of cap .al are seldom liable to the smallest risk, the former have comparatively nothing to fear from the fluctua tions in trade which so frequently ruin such Institutions, on the southern side of the Tweed. In fact it is as a Loan Society, accessible to men of small capital, that the new Institution can render the most valuable ser- vices to the sister country. It has been suggested by a Correspondent that the Loan Fund ought not to be confined to the exclusive benefit of the assured. As regards Ireland we are of a different opinion ; though we freely admit that at the commencement, the loans advanced should have refe rence rather to the amount of the policy than the money paid upon it. By limiting the loans to the assured, encouragement is given to all to cultivate habits of economy ; and as the necessity for more than individual security for repayment will thus be obviated, the as sured will be raised immeasurably in their own esteem, and thus a high moral feeling will be generated among the rural population. Nothing raises the character, and refines the feelings of a people more than placing confidence in them ; and fortunately in this case it may be done without the possibility of the most trifling risk. In addressing the meeting at Carrick.on-Suir, Mr. LAM IE MURRAY, the Founder and Chairman of this Institution, entered into some very interesting details of the advantages which it may be made to confer upon the agricultural classes, besides those we have already allu ded to—namely, the effecting insurances upon lives on expiring leases, and the measures that might be adopted to purchase the fee-simple of lands for the benefit of children. These are questions which we shall not now seek to investigate. But there is one suggestion which we have to offer which appears to us well worthy the consideration of the Society. The objects of the Institution are two-fold—to encourage and reward early habits of economy ; and to secure to those de pending upon the industry of the assured the benefit resulting from a long course of virtuous self-denial. Now, suppose the assured were to die in debt, and at the same time leave a large family of children depending upon him for support, the point we would have the Directors determine is—whether the Assurance would be paid over to the children or the creditors ? Our own impression is that that Life Policies are debts which fathers contract with their children ; and that in equity the claims of the latter ought to take prece dence of all others. - By the fact of assuring his life every husband and every father acknowledges, and as far as he can establishes, the fact of his being the debtor of his family...- The law of the land, and the usages of Assurance Societies, ought to tak e cogni zance of this fact. But then it may be urged that no person would lend money on Life Policies were such a principle admitted. Granted. Nor would such a system of borrowing be resorted to, were Assurance Offices to imitate the example of the National Loan Fund Society, in becoming them selves the lenders of the highest sums likely to be ad vanced on such securities. Upon this question, however, we would be distinctly understood as merely ' throwing out a suggestion, which we consider capable of being turned to valuable account. It is one of those of which practical men are likely to make good use ; and to such do we submit it. For details of the proceedings of the National Loan Society, we refer to an advertisement in our columns of to-day. The Bishop of ROCHESTER has published a " Charge," which he has been delivering to the Clergy in the course of a recent perambulation of his diocese. Were we to form our opinion of the Right Rev. Pre.. late's character from what may he gathered from this pastoral document, we should say that the mitre of Rochester sits upon a very empty head, and that this emptiness is by no means compensated by a super abundance of the Christian graces in that organ out of which, we arc taught to believe, arc the " issues of life." The object of the Right Rev. Charger is to make the persons whom he addresses dissatisfied with the laws lately passed respecting ecclesiastical matters; and in pursuing this purpose—so worthy of an over seer of the flock of CHRIST, and a teacher of righteous ness—he shows a desire to do mischief, which is equalled only by the ignorance displayed on some of t h e subjects which he undertakes to handle. The Bishop commences by a pompous disclaimer of any participation on his part in the measures re commended by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and a gentle hint to his brother Bishops in the Commis sion, that they are somewhat to blame for not having consulted him before they sanctioned such sweepin g changes in the Church. He then tackles to the Tithe Commutation and the Registration Acts. With the former of these measures be seems rather at a loss what fault to find. It is clear enough that he is " willing to wound, but yet afraid to strike." H e cannot deny that the Commutation of Tithe Act is " as favourable an arrangement towards the Clergy as could have been expected ;" but at the same time im putes this result not so much to the justice as to the self-interest of the laity. " Happily," charges the Bishop of ROCHESTER, " happily for the Church a powerful and influential body of the laity were also holders of tithe property to a very large amount, and were as much interested in a fair settlement of the ques tion as we were. The Clergy, therefore, in this in stance have experienced a greater degree of justice than has been extended towards them in the discussion of • ,;, 60 , 41itt - - • - 4ai_ • Zhie 2un. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNES,)AY, NOVEMBER 1, 1837. salt of the affair of the 14th, has been to enable Espar tero to place his forces between the Pretender and Zaria tegui. This latter is pursued by Lorenzo, in the direction of Villafranca, whilst Espartero returned from Barbadillo and Sales de los Infantes—(interrupted by nightfall)." The substance of the news here given, appeared in most of the London Journals of yesterday. The pas sage of the Ebro by Don SEBASTIAN is not con firmed, though the general belief in Paris is, that the Prince arrived, along with SANZ, at Estella. There is a good deal of election gossip in the Jour nals of Monday, in the details of which an English reader could not be expected to take the slightest in terest. The following are extracts : It is the Pharc which has been sent to Bona with the despatches of the Government for General Voice : it left Toulon on the 23d, at six in the afternoon. These dis patches were transmitted from Paris to Toulon by the telegraph. The Gazette du Midi of the 26th says : " The sick from Bona are beginning to arrive. Two ships anchored in the road yesterday ; they had taken on board 276 sick, of whom 108 being convalescent, were re moved at Algiers to the brig Desire. The physicians de clare that they have not observed any case of cholera during the passage." The Courtier de Lyons says : " We are assured that Napoleon Louis Bonaparte has obtained passports to go to England by way of Munich, Magdeburg, and Hamburg. We arc also assured, which is much less probable, that the Duchess of St. Leu, in the last moment of her life, made her son solemnly promise to abjure all ambitious projects, and to pass the remainder of his life in retirement. What is certain is, the Prince was still at Areeenberg on the 22d." There is nothing official in the Moniteur this morning. This is the third day that the mail from Madrid has not arrived. It was lately said that Count Gonfaloneire had received permission to reside at Montpellier, but it appears from the following lines that the permission is not so limited : " Count Mole, says the Belgian papers, has authorised the French Legation at Brussels to sign the passport of Count Gonfalioniere for his free return to France." FRENCH FUNDS —PARIP, OCT. 30. Five per Cents., 109 f GOc. 4 c. 50c. Four per Cents., 100 f. Sc.'' 30c. Thr,e per Cents., 801. 95c. Slf. Rente de Naples, 09f. 4! c. 25c. 20. c. Roman Five per Cents., 102%. Spanish Actives, 20% 21. Spanish Passives, 44%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102 g, 103. Brussels Society, 1,657 f. s'c. 1,655 f. Belgian Bank, 1,47 Cf. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 22%4%. EXCHANGIR ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 50c. • money, 25f. 47%c Three months, paper, 25f. ; Money, 255 . .30r. —Cours Authentiaue. other subjects connected with their temporal affairs." This is rather a charitable construction upon the con duct of our legislators—hereditary and elective. " Cha rity," we are told, " thinketh no evil," and here is a proof of it in a Christian Bishop I Many of the laity, it s well known, hold tithe property, but how insignificant in amount compared with that held by the Church ; yet, to give even a colour of truth to the insinuation of the Bishop of ROCHESTER, the laity ought to possess the larger portion ; for if they do not, it is clear that they would gain by the entire abolition of tithe. There are sonic things in the Act which the Bishop cannot stomach ; and one of these is, that waste lands are exonerated from the future payment of tithe. The consequence of this arrangement must be, that there will be no provision for the cure of those unhappy souls that may be located there in after times, but what " may be derived from voluntary contributions.' What a horrible calamity The mode, too, of commuting the tithe is, according to our Bi shop, liable to some suspicion, but he com forts himself with the reflection that the valu e and quantity of the tithe varied before ; and if they should do so after the commutation, the Clergy will not be worse off than they were. What gross igno rance is here exhibited The value may in future vary ; but every tyro knows that there cannot be any variation in the quantity, the very object of the Act being to make that invariable. The next subject that provokes the Bishop's ire is the Marriage Act. His Lordship of ROCHESTER IS perfectly horror-stricken at the profanity of which the Legislature has been guilty in passing this Act. Be cause, forsooth, people are no longer compelled to employ ministers of the law-established Church to tie the nuptial knot, but may " choose their own ministers"—aye, there's the rub—or may dis pense, if they think fit, with a religious ceremony, therefore " Christianity is set at nought." By way of a clincher, the absolute necessity of a religious ce remony to make a marriage valid in the sight of GOD, is proved by a misquotation of Scripture. The words, " Whom, therefore, GoD bath joined together, let no man put asunder," are, according to the Bishop of Ro- CII ESTER, proof positive that a religious ceremony is essential to marriage ! Now, the Right Reverend Father in GOD has here shown that be is not much better acquainted with the Scriptures than he is with the Tithe Commutation Act. There are no such words in the New Testament. The Bishop has fallen into an error not uncommon among persons of his cloth. He has mistaken the Book of Common Prayer for the Bible. We must, therefore, refer him to the " law and the testimony," where he will find that the answer given by our SAVIOUR, when the Ph a ri see s were a ttempting to entrap him into the decision of a point of law, had not the most remote reference to the celebration of marriage as a religious rite. It related solely to divorce, and was purposely expressed in the form of a general proposition, to which no objection could be taken by the most cavilling and snare-setting Doctor of Divinity in the whole Jewish nation. We must also inform the Bishop, that the law which connected the celebration of marriage with the Church of England is not quite a hundred years old—that certain classes of the community were excepted from its operation—and that the law of Scotland, where the people are fully as religious as in England, requires no religious ceremony to make the marriage contract valid. If, therefore, the Legislature has " set Christianity at nought" in this instance, it is not the first time that a Legislature has committed at sin. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., 109 f. 55c. Three per Cents. 81f. sc. Rente de Naples, ll.lf. 35e. Roman Five per Cents., 102,6. Belgian Loan, 103. Belgian Bank. 1,470 f. Portuguese Three per Cents., 22%. Spanish Actives, 21. Spanish Passives 4%. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The return of Grain and Flour this morning is very !mall, except of Oats from Ireland, of which there is a good quan tity. There is very little Wheat for sale, and prices remain as last reported. Barley, Beans, and Pease are unaltered. The prices of Oats are unvaricd from last report, but the trade is dull. The millers unexpectedly reduced the top price of Flour to 525. per sack, after the Market on Monday. ABB! VALS. I Wheat. Barley. English Irish - - Foreign 670 - Oats. I Flour. 1,°40 (vs 1 1.040 sacks. 10,209 1 - THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have no arrivals this morning, with the exception of the French Mails, and an Express from Paris. This being a holiday at the Bank, Stock Exchange, and Foreign Market, very great dulness prevails in the City. The Royal Exchange is open, but few Brokers or Job bers have as yet made their appearance ; and, owing to the bad state of the weather, it is not expected that many of them will come to town. To the present hour no speculations have been entered into, and the prices of the British and Foreign Stocks are nominal. The two American packets, which are anxiously ex pected, have not as yet made their appearance—no doubt contrary winds must be the cause. Consols may be quoted 93 to 931 for Money and for the Account. Be that as it may, the Bishop has great consolation in thinking that " the good sense, the piety, and moral feeling of the people will render the new law almost entirely inoperative." We thought that it was the duty of a Bishop to preach obedience to the laws—to teach the people to respect the laws as the ne cessary means of securing the peace and good order of society. We find, however, that we were mistaken. To set them at defiance, or at least to " render then inoperative," is now declared from the Episcopal Throne to be a proof of good sense, piety, and moral feeling in the people I HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. We have a vcry thin attendance at the Royal Exchange the present time. Most of the brokers and jobbers have already taken their departure, finding that no speculations were transacting. Two or three trifling bargains are re ported to have been done. Consols at 93 to ; Portuguese about 32 ; Spanish l 9 20 with Coupons. Indeed the prices are almost nominal. We have received Liverpool letters, dated yesterday evening, six o'clock, which do not mention the arrival of the American packets, or of their being in sight. A Special Court is now holding at the India House, for the purpose of granting a sum of 20,0001. for the benefe of the Marquis of Wellesley. The whole of the Paris journals of Monday have been received. The Moniteur contains in its official columns the following intelligence from Africa : THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 93 to 93k. " TOULON, OCT. 29, FIvE, A.M. " THE MARITIME PREFECT TO THE MINISTERS OF WAR AND MARINE AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL. " The Etna, which sailed on the 25th from Bona, arrived yesterday evening. The despatches were immediately for warded by estafette. I have nothing official from Bona. A number of officers who left Constantine on the 20th have reported that no fighting has taken place since the 13th. The Arabs outside the town come daily to the market, which is very abundant., and, notwithstanding the emigration, a number of the inhabitants are f a vourably disposed. The Princes are in perfect health, and are well established in the Bey's palace ; it is stated that they arc to quit Constantine between the 20th and 30th. The heavy artillery, a part of the materiel, the remains of General Damremont, and a convoy of wounded, have arrived at Guelma. There have been fib cholera eases at Bona since the 22d." Three large churches in the Gothic style are now building in the large parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney. One of them is nearly completed. A new church is in the the course of erection in the Kent-road, another in the parish of Rotherhithe, nearly two miles from the old church, where two others are to be erected, and one in Holloway. Additional churches will be shortly built in the parishes of St. George, Southwark, and St. George in the East, where there is a great want of accommodation for the religious public. We hear with much surprise that the system of education, or some other cause, operates to deprive Ro man Catholic children of all advantages from the Upper Naval School at Greenwich. Now that all ranks in the navy are equally open to the Catholic as to the Pro testant, it seems at once inconsistent and cruel to deny to the child—it may be the helpless orphan—of a Ca tholic officer the blessings of that charitable institution. We sincerely trust that we have in this matter been misinformed.—S?lnday Paper. The Archduke John of Austria and Prince Adal bert of Prussia embarked at Yalta on the Ist of October fer Constantinople, where they arrived in perfect safety after a stormy passage of three days. HOPS.—At the late fair at NiVeyhill the prices turned out to fall short of what the majority of the growers anti cipated some of whom, however, had the good sense to remember that the largeness of the old stock in hand was such as could by no means justify those expectations. A Correspondent, who has had some experience upon the subject, recommends persons who use omnibuses, especially during dark weather and short days, to be always supplied with loose silver, and never to use or show a purse. FRENCH LITERATURE.—The number of works of every description printed in France during 1836, was 5511, which may be thus classified ; Science and Art Belles Letters History Theology Jurisprudence If the French succeed in gaining the confidence of the natives, they will have little difficulty in keeping possession of Constantine. The cruelties of the BEY rendered him an object of terror rather than of reve rence to the inhabitants, whom he ruled with a rod of iron ; nor is there a Governor whom they would not prefer to him, provided proper respect be paid to their religious observances. When the French entered ACIIMET'S Palace, they found it occupied by twenty of his wives, and eighty female attendants, whom the Princes gave orders should be treated with the utmost respect. The officers who were honoured with an in terview with the fair inmates of the BEY'S harem, were not impressed with any lively idea of his taste in the selection of female beauty. The following extract from a letter from Bona, dated the 21st ult., contains some interesting details of the capture of Constantine not found in the accounts hitherto published : " The chiefs of two of the most important tribes in the environs have made their submission. They state that the leading men have been massacred by Achmet Bey; be cause they refused to assist him. Nearly all the tribes who had joined him, and more particularly those along the coast, have also come in. Several persons, suspected of having been emissaries of the Bey, have disappeared from Bona. Some of the Arabs of the plain have made offers to supply the army with cattle, and to give hostages for their faithfully delivering them. Several staff officers are about to sail for Toulon, whence we are expecting reinforce ments and supplies, necessary for maintaining Constantine and the camps during the winter, and for preventing our communications from being intercepted. We have still a great many sick, though the general state of health is much improved. All the wounded at Constantine are doing well, but those belonging to Achmet's army are dying fast away. We have not 500 killed in all ; but four or five times as many of the Africans and Turks have been de stroyed, although a great number escaped from the town be fore and during the assault, which succeeded on the first effort, and was not necessary to be renewed four or five times, as has been stated. This report may have arisen from there being three columns of 300, 600, and 1,000 men, pre pared ready in the trenches, and who mounted the breach in succession, and irresistibly drove the enemy before them. Seven or eight bags of gunpowder, of 1001bs. each, placed on the breach, to be used if wanted for burstir , open the doors of the houses, caught fire, and by the explosion some of our men were killed. This has given rise to a report that they had blown up by a mine formed by the enemy. All the inhabitants of Constantine are venting their curses on Achmet, who may probably be murdered by the Arabs, to whom he is now obliged to entrust his safety ; for his regular paid troops are by no means either so good or so many as was believed. No money was found in Constantine, at least none belonging to the Bey ; but the mosques are still rich, though plundered by Achmet. There are large stores there provisions and merchandize." From Spain no news of any interest is contained in the French Journals of Monday, except the following telegraphic despatch, which is Incomplete : " 1301IDEAUX) OCT. 26, Half-past Six, r.m.....Th9 re —Statistical Journal. 5511 HEREFORDSHIRE CATTLE.—At the sale of Mr. Jellicoe's Herefordshire cattle, by Mr. Cooke, on Monday last, at Beighterton, near Si►iffnal, six cows averaged 521. 3s. 4d. each ; two bull calves, 601. 10s. each ; four heifer calves, 261. 2s. 6d. each ; and two yearling heifers, 421. 10s. each. One of the bull calves was purchased by J. R. Smithies, Esq., of the Lynch, Herefordshire ; the other by John Walker, Esq., of Burton Court, One cow and a cow calf were bought for 1191. by Mr. Price, of Poole House, Upton-on-Severn, from whose stock the late Mr. Jcllicoa bred nearly the whole of his herd. The six calves were by Mr. Price's bull O'Connell, and were all calved since the 4th day of March last.—Gloucester Journal. REVENGE OF A BULL.—About two years ago, a farmer residing near Fort George had occasion to beat a young bull on his farm, to turn him off a field. The animal appears to have retained a keen sense of his ill usage, for, whenever his master happened to come near him, he evinced a disposition to attack him. 011 Sunday last, while fold ing the cattle, the farmer was driving in the bull amongst the rest, when the enraged animal suddenly sprung upon him, threw him down, and tossed him round the court. If not rescued in time by a servant who came with a pitchfork to his release, the individual in question would, in all probability, have been killed on the spot. He was much injured, and his clothes were torn in shreds.—lnver ness Courier. There arc fewer English of distinction at present residing at Naples and Castellamare than has been known for several years, and the approaching winter is not expected to be distinguished by any brilliant entertainments by the British visiters. The melancholy deaths of Lady Drum mond and Sir Richard Dolberg Acton, who had for many years contributed to the gaieties of the Neopolitan circles of fashion, by their balls, concerts, and evening parties, have been severely felt there. The Court and the corps diplo matique will, however, do what they can to enliven the fashionables ; and San Carlos will be open three times a week —Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. THE QUEEN. BRIGHTON, TUESDAY.—The weather is delightful to day. At half-past two o'clock, the Queen, accompanied by the Countess of Mulgrave, drove out of the south gates in a pony phaeton, and proceeded through East-street to the Cliffs. The Royal equipage was followed by another phaeton, containing Lady Gardiner and Miss Dillon. Colonel Cavendish attended her Majesty on horseback. Her Majesty returned at four o'clock. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by Lady Mary Stop ford, took a carriage airing this afternoon at two o'cloCk. Lieut.-General Sir Thomas M‘Malion, Mr. L. and Lady Jane Peel, Colonel Jodrell, Lord and Lady John Russell, the Hon. C. A. Murray, and the Hon. W. Cowper, dine at the palace this evening, Lord Melbourne has deferred his departure for town till to-morrow morning. Her Majesty honoured Sir David Wilkie with another sitting this morning. The Royal dinner party yesterday evening, by invitation, comprised Lord and Lady Ashley, Hon. William Cowpe-, Lady Frances Cowper, Colonel Jodrell, Hon. C. A. Mur ray, and Admiral Otway. Lord John Russell will leave Brighton to-morrow morn ing for town. Lady Russell will not leave till Saturday. Among our fashionable departures for town are t'..e Earl of Sefton and family, and the Earl of Bandon and family. The Dowager Countess of Rothes has returned to her seat near Dorking. Dr. Clarke arrived last night and joined the Royal suite. MAGAZINE DAY• --..C.1.-- BLACKWOOD. We mentioned the other day in our brief n otice of the " Quarterly Review" that the chi ef feature of Chris topher North's humour, was its unexpectedness; and his article in - the present number of Maga, entitle( 3 Poetry by our new Contributor,' we find a sit3olar illustration of the justice of our criticism : " Let the scamew be thy guide up the glen, if ill the de' be in peace profounder than ever sat wit h her on lull of summer waves ! For the inla nd loch seems but a vale overflowing with wondrous light—and realities the, all look—these trees and pastures, and rocks, and hills, awl . clouds—not softened images, as they are, of realities th!ll.t are almost stern even in their beauty, and in their subli mity overawing ; —look at that precipice that dwindles into pebbles the granite blocks that choke up the shore! No all this, and a million times more than all this, have We t n . ° done in our Youth, and yet 'tis all nothing to what we d whenever we will it in our Age. For almost all Mal Ig passion ; spiritual passion indeed—and as all emotions aria akin, they all work with and into one another's hands, o°' however remotely related, recognise , an d welcome one an () ; thcr, like Highland cousins, w henever they meet. an nation is not the Faculty to stand aloof from the rest, Duci gives the one hand to Fancy and the other to Feelin , a n sets to Passion, who is often so swallowed up in himself a i l to seem blind to their vis-a-vis, till all at once he hags all the Three, as 'jibe were demented, and as suddenly snri: ing dos-a-dos—is off on a gallopade by himself right she away over the mountain-tops." Who would suppose that a passage like the oh°v c ' thoughtful, eloquent, and impassioned in its descrip tions, would terninate with a ludicrous allusion to $ grotesque ball-room gallopade ? But the k a rticle 'f ill f question is full of these sudden " quips and cras humor—these odd turns and jostlings of thog,ht--- which come upon us at the very momen t of all other 9 when we least expect them. The poetical specimens which Kit North so amusingly intro duces to our notice, arc some of them very beautiful. We el j tract a few stanzas from a poem entitled " The pen.- tent," which from its stern, vigorous, Rerribran'dt-hke colouring, is worthy to take rank beside Crabbes " Sir Eustace Gray :" .. There comes a thought at dead of night, And bids the shapes of sleep be gone, A Thought that's more than Thought, a sight On which the sun has never shone. A pale, stern face, and sterner far, Because it is a woman's face; It gleams a waning, worn-out star, That once was bright with morning grac e. An icy image calm and cold, The sprite of vanished hours it seems; It brings to me the times of old, That look like, but that are not, dreams. It brings back sorrows long gone by, And folly stained not washed with tears" Years fall away like leaves, and die, And life's bare bony stem appears. Repentance clothes in grass and flowers The grave wherein the Past is laid; And close to Faith's old minster towers, The Cross lights up the ghostly shade." The lines which we have marked in Italics are hi a the true spirit of poetry. The Latin epistle her "'ll'of Amicum Cantabrigiensem," is an imitation rat Horace than Ovid. It affects his graceful neg g l gencc of versification—we allude, of course , to his '', a ‘ tires, not his Odes—but not, we think, su ccessfulo for effort is visible throughout. " Malibran," by mons, is a striking poem, but penned in rather T; exaggerated a strain. Had the author been chauntingd th praises of St. Cecilia herself, he could not ha ve p itchc his note in a loftier key. The ingenious diatr ibe' CleP d c t " The No-Patronage Government," convince s usl~ills Cle f ha the art of manufacturing mountains out of mole is by no means so difficult a one as we had imag in i ; Throughout this plausible tirade the writer "spins t 1 . 5 the thread of his verbosity finer than the stap le of hi argument"—a defect of by no means uncommon °•e; currence among ultra-Tory politicians. The aecn n of the " Trip to Calais " is written in the lively An d amusing manner of Fielding's " Trip to Lisbon, turns the veriest trifles to account with n early cirr i. ingenuity. " A little wayon," says the Tourist, "" beheld a dog, apparently of the terrier breed ; and , he e : ing something of a naturalist, I felt a great desire '- ascertain whether it would bark with a French accent' or not. For this purpose I followed it in its per e g ri .; nations, and presently had the good fortune to lio r i f utter a short, sharp bark, precisely after the manner It an English dog. This I carefully noted , and wio maintain against all gainsayers." This is a gra" ironical joke, worthy of that exceeding wag who once ; h . pressed his astonishment that he had never yet met w h i n , a waiter who " combined the magniloquence of ° son, with the attic salt of Addison." Of a surety ; the " Trip to Calais" is the production of that virtnesii and venerable sage, O'Doherty. " Circassia " 15., 10 admirable paper, and put forth • at a most seasoinwer period. It lays bare the despotism and tresch..,:r of Russia, and unhesitatingly predicts that, with all her finesse, and all her multitudinous armies, she Will ' le g . be able to subjugate the provinces of the Cane° " The Word We Live In," contains, as usual , Ilia o f pungent and caustic remarks on the passing topics id, the day. " The Story of Bab-ey-buk " is we ll Z r e though it might have been curtailed her e and with advantage. " Homer, the Favourite of 11"..lesi is a translation from a German criticism on the PTA father of poetry. It is too obscure in some p laces ' throughout, far too much is made of the subject' NEW Ai aN T lILY MAGAZINE. The " Gurney Papers" are rather heavy this 0 1 ° I ' til ' butde doge e as H H e o u k m e; sometimes aL ife ih ntohdes, )Vast,"w shouldhy by Mr. (213,1,76 contains some stirring and graphic descriptions. "- writer's regrets that he could .never by anY P °ssib :o catch sight of a petticoat in Turkey, for " 'twas man everywhere," are expressed in a spirit of chi ve he that would have thrown Burke into extacies. i n . 1 i 0 " Recollections of Guy Fawkes , " which is Pe"net c s most vigorous manner, we have been J srrold' struc l ‘ • ht of 1 with one thought, which is too good to be lo st Sig ,A _cc When the full-grown thief is han g ed, do we _findnot sometimes forget that he was the child of miserY ? vice—born for e gallows, nu rsed for the haltfrolit. Did we legislate ) a • little more for the cradle,....7rrs is we not be spared some pains for the hulks?" I.strate well said, and should be logged by every mag i ~, is in the kingdom. 'r he " Manager's Note 1 3 ° °1 ‘ $ amusing. Among other curious matters, it c onti' , ine , 0 who, Qrr ita? letter from the well-known actor " Gentleman i•-/ - les 1 0 b" ' ' Surface in the " School for Scandal," a nd w " s a d, it may be remembered, was the original Char ing eloped with a certain beautiful actress, thus dressed himself on the subject to his wife :---- " Ina public journal of the 31st of Nay , 17 ,7L l ie s t I te : inserted this :—. The following is said to be part o'elop. ment with a beautiful actress :—" ' written by a gentleman to his wife, previous t hi s ___rt M y dear Lov ss c_ ...e a a t and I have long lived happy together, and b e e _i n ul in th e this very moment I love you more than anY. °lam goivg world. When you hear of the little excurstov .A s a su dden to make with Mrs. ll—, be not alarmed 'ad impulse of passion which I own I have n ot h ntrencinint: to resist . There is something so bewitchingsoal: tious ; bu r ! ing in beauty, that it baffles our strongest re . .,_ u mo t 1; 3 _ 0 it is an infatuation that will soon be over. !"dechtre, plat don me this one slip, and believe me when hurry to, treeinto though a momentary gust of passion maY,,._;t„ an d .... trifling indiscretions, I never can find real dear L° you' happiness but in your arms. I am, my ae ever affectionate." i t hout e xeeli :" If this document be authentic, it is, vy tleoan , - TQ -, o ,i ge ntler .. $ tion, the most original we ever read. ,-, have heel. • It must l „lg . could possibly have written it sentimental scamp of the host "Pr°Vnetts cO -'ll ° —°l36 Alpine Sketches," by Grattan, is arra nt co ntill aii i : junole" is a place. The " Great *estern t, . h l ve b ee which ` but tion of those racy Sporting Papers, so deservedly admired. The article on the contrary, increases in interest. doesono.th felei_j'ivi.vg COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Gloucester has returned to town from Gorhanibury, near St. Albans, .the residence of the Earl and Countess of Verulam. Her 139yal Highness dined on Monday evening with the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge. The Rev. J. R. Wood and a small party were present to meet her Royal Highness. The Duchess of Cambridge took a carriage drive yes terday afternoon. Her Royal Highness walked in the parks in the morning, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge. Despatches from Sir A. Woodford, Governor of Gib raltar, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Earl of Minto, Viscount Duncannon, Sir John Hobhouse, and Mr. Poulett Thomson were expected to arrive in town last evening. Viscount Palmerston and the Chancellor of the Ex• chequer are expected in town to-day. Despatches from Sir Edward Disbrowe, Minister Pleni potentiary at the Netherlands, were received yesterday at the Foreign-office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. CHANGES. The Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Dawson Darner, from Park lane, for Came Hall, Dorchester • Mr. Henry Weymouth, in Bryanston-square, from a tour; Colonel Hawkins and Mr. and Mrs. Macnamara, from Paris, in Brook-street ; Lord Bray broke, in New Burlington - street , from Audly End ; Sir Ronald Campbell, at the Bath Hotel, from Edinburgh ; Colonel Anthony Stratton, in Old Burlington-street, from Portsmouth ; Raikes Currie, Esq. - , M. P., and the Hon. Mrs. Currie, on Hyde Park-terrace, from Lord Wodehouse's seat, Kimberley; Miss Wright Wilson, from Drayton Lodge, Andover, on a tour ; H. Bunbury, Esq., at Batt's Hotel, from Portsmouth ; J. Tomlins, Esq., at ditto, from Litch field ; Mrs. and the Misses Wilson, from ditto, for Woke field House, near Reading; R. C. Jenkyns, Esq., from ditto, for Chepstow ; Captain and Mrs. Rose and family, at the Pulteney Hotel, from Hampton Court ; Dr. Gorman, at ditto, from Spain; Sir John Barker Mill, Bart., from ditto, for Mottisfont Abbey ; Mrs. Richardson, from ditto, for Bath. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland arrived from Derbyshire at Lilleshall on Monday last, and on Friday morning they will leave that place for Stafford House. Same of the German papers have circulated a report that the eldest daughter of the Duchess of Berri is about to give her hand to the hereditary Prince of Modena. The Archduke John of Austria, now at Constan tinople, is said to have it in contemplation to visit Jerusalem, Cairo, and Alexandria, before his return to Vienna. The yearly income of the late Queen of the Ne therlands was 150,000 florins ; of these she is said to have regularly distributed 80,000 florins in acts of charity. The Princess of Vasa has renounced her intention of spending the ensuing winter in Italy. This has given great satisfaction at Vienna, as the house of the Princess was almost the only one in which they look for any very brilliant entertainment. The French Ambassador's lady remains in Paris ; the Russian Ambassador, it is known, intends to live in a very retired . manner for some time to come ; and the English Ambassador's hotel is opened only to a very exclusive circle. The hotels of the other Ambas sadors arc not calculated to serve as places of general as sembly for the fashionable -world. The Court balls, and the entertainments of Prince Metternich and the Princess of Vasa are those on which the hopes of the bean monde are chiefly fixed. The Prince and Princess Gagarin, with their family, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, left Gould's London Hotel, Albemarle-street, yesterday, at one o'clock, for the purpose of visiting Kew Palace and the gardens. The party returned to dinner. The apartments in the old Palace at Kew, lately occupied by his Majesty the King of Hanover, while Duke of Cumberland, have been r.ssigned, it is understood, to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge and his sister, the youthful Princess Augusta, and suite were present at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, on Monday even ing, to see the performances of Macbet h, T h e Indian Girl, and the second act of Der Freischuiz. The departure of the Duke and Duchess of Bed ford and the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and family, on a trip to the South of France, will take place in a fortnight or three weeks. The Marquis and Marchioness are still at their villa at Stanmore. A vacancy has occurred in the office of head Barge master to her Majesty, in consequence of the death of Mr. James Masterman, who died yesterday, after holding the situation for forty years, during which he served in four reigns. The appointment is in the gift of the Lords of the Admiralty, and has for very many years been bestowed on some individual in the family. The last occasion on which lie attended upon Royalty in his official capacity was when his late Majesty took water at Somerset House and proceeded to London-bridge ; he then acted as coxswain to the Royal barge, as Deputy to Sir Byam Martin, who is principal coxswain. Mr. Masterman was only fifty-eight years of age, and died much lamented, through having caught a severe cold. The marriage of Miss Anna Maria Pare, sister of Lord Petre, of Thorndon, Essex, to H. Hughes, Esq., is expected to take place immediately. The gentleman is of the Roman Catholic persuasion. Lady Petre and her eldest daughter have been for a short time on the Continent. They returned last week, and will probably honour the ceremony with their presence. Lord and Lady Frances Egerton intend leaving Bridgewater House, near Manchester, on the 15th instant, for town. The number of bills of indictment presented to the Grand Jurors and returned during the present Central Criminal Court Session is 312, upon which were examined —first day, 166 witnesses ; second, 323 ; third, 232 ; fourth, 309 ; fifth, 55 ; total, 1,085 witnesses. From the Ist of September to the 10th of October the number of travellers by the railroads in Belgium was 260,544 ; and the receipts for that period amounted to 262,002 f. 60c. The railroads now laid down in Belgium cover a length of ground equal to 143,720 metres, or about 36 post leagues. The total number of passengers by the railway of St. Germain, in sixty days from its opening, was 362,463 ; and the receipts, 440,216 f., or about 17,6001. sterling. The Aberdeen Herald says that an antiquarian friend has handed him the following extract from an Act of the Scottish Parliament, passed in the reign of Queen Margaret about the year 1288 :—" It is statut and or dainit that during the reine of hir maist blissit Magestie, ilk maiden ladye of baith highe and lowe estait shall hae libertic to bespeek ye man she likes ; albeit, gif he refuses to tak her till be his wit*, lie sail be mulctit in ye sume of ane hundreth pundis or less, as his estait mai be, except and alwais gif he can mak it appeir that he is betrothit to ane ither woman, that then he sail be free." Captain Morris, the bard of that celebrated assem blage of wit and talent, the Beef Steak Society, now in the ninety-second year of his age, is in possession of every faculty, and able to enjoy himself in the centre of his family, at his pleasant retired villa, Brockham Lodge, in the county of Surrey ; where he frequently indulges in the recollection of the many social hours he has passed with his old friends who compose that body—the happy memory of his best days. The Thames Tunnel, we are happy to hear, is making slow and sure progress. The engineers have pro fited by their experience to arm themselves against the efforts of Father Tames at all assailable points, and no w wilbnot throw away the smallest chance. The Russian Journals announce that Colonel Anosoff has conceived the idea of melting, instead of wash ing, the sand in which gold is found, and afterwards, by means of oxyde of sulphur, separating the gold from the iron ore contained in the sand. From his experiments a quantity of gold 95 times greater than by the old system of washing may be obtained. The Deal and Walmer Ball took place last Thurs day, and was honoured by the presence of the Duke of Wellington, Sir Henry and Lady Emily Hardinge, Sir Thomas Hardy, the officers of the garrison, and upwards of 200 of the principal inhabitants and visiters.