The Sun. — London, England, 1837-08-31 00:00:00

RAND ENTERTAINMENT at DEAL ; PROJECTED ERECTION OF A PIER. A great dinner took place on Friday last in the long room of the Royal Hotel, Deal, for the purpose of taking into consideration the expediency of erecting a pier at this ancient port to facilitate the landing of passengers from steam and other vessels, and thereby restoring to it some portion of its former prosperity. The. company consisted of the Mayor of Deal, Captain 'Harvey, Dr. Hulke and sons, Captai n Hodges, and Mr. Metcalfe (of Ramsgate), of Sir William Rawlings, of several Members of the Com mon Council of the City of London, and of most of the Directers of the Commercial Steam-packet Company. The chair was taken at six o'clock by C. Bleaden, Esq., sup ported by Mr. Deputy Peacock as croupier, and the im portant business of despatching one of the most tasteful and excellent dinners to which any company of gentlemen ever sat down was immediately proceeded with, and de apatcb.ed with the zest and hilarity which superior wines and harmonious feeling never fail to engender. After the cloth bad been removed, and the usual loyal toasts been drunk with hearty English feet: ig—particularly health and long life to the Queen----and the Army and Navy, to which last Captain Harvey replied in a strain of modest but impassioned eloquence, The CHAIRMAN rose, and proposed the health of the Mayor of Deal, to whose merits his townsmen had only done a simple act of justice in raising him to the exalted position which he now so deservedly occupied. He had always employed his best exertions in promoting the inte rests of the town of Deal, and, therefore, as he was pre sent, and he knew that his modesty was only excelled by tla alacrity in benefiting all who came within the sphere of his protection, and his alacrity by his prudence and discre tion, he should not enlarge farther upon his merits, but pro ceed, at once to propose his health. The health was drunk amidst loud and long-continued cheers. The MAYOR returned thanks in a neat speech, in the course of which he dwelt with great force upon two points; first, the great capabilities of Deal both as a port and a watering-place ; and, secondly, the good behaviour of its inhabitants, notwithstanding the deserted and melancholy position in which they had been placed since the close of the war. Not a day passed, he observed, that from 300 to 400 able4odied men did not rise from their beds, ignorant When and where they were to find employment and food, sad yet in no town in the kingdom did greater order and tranquillity reign. What was wanted to remedy this state Uf destitution was, in his opinion, the erection of such a Pier as would enable passengers to land with less inconve nience, and vessels of war and commerce to approach more nearly than they did at present—an object which could be easily accomplished, if undertaken in the spirit of good faith and determination, and at an expense of capital small 111 amount, and certain to produce a handsome return. " The Corporation of Deal" was then proposed, and drunk with the usual honours ; as well as those of the Lord Wardell of the Cinque Ports, of Sir W. Rawlings, and 'wally other gentlemen, whose names we have not time to e numerate • after which, " P ros p er ity t o th e C ommerc i a l Steam-packet Company" was given amidst the highest en thusiasm, and the most tremendous cheers. The CHAIRMAN responded to the toast in a speech of ,great eloquence. He observed that the shareholders of the Company had embarked in what was originally a specula tion, but was now a successful commercial undertaking, with no political object in view, and with no feelings of envy towards others. Their object was to employ their capital in a manner at once beneficial to themselves and Useful to the public ; and though the undertaking did not at first assume that appearance of importance which it had siace attained, yet even from the beginning it had been eminently serviceable to the public. It had rendered the communication between the metropolis and the nu tnerous ports which studded the Thames and nearest sea ports of London, b o th c h ea p an d eas y o f access ; an d al though exposed for a considerable time to an unparalleled and Unfair rivalry, the Directors had now the pride and sa tiafaction of stating that they possessed twelve instead of !We steam-vessels ; that these were unrivalled in safety and In 'Peed, and that instead of being limited to the mere conveyance of passengers and parcels to ports on the banks °f the Thames, they wafted the commerce and the enterprize . 7 ,1 the greatest metropol i s i n the world to the shores of .nlince, of Spain, of Africa, and, ere long, he bad good rea fll" to hope, they would carry them to those of India.— ra tnense cheering.) H e wou ld not , h owever , dil ate far er on this subject. He, along with his brother Directors, cas proud of th e gra t e f u l remem b rance i n w hi c h t h e i r ex were held by the good peopl e o f D ea l, an d if it was ''ought proper, by the erection of a pier, to convert it into 4 watering place, for which, by its position and its beautiful tleighbourhood it was especially adapted, he begged to as :tire them that the Company's boats should be at their _Pecial serv i ce, and at fares which, while they yielded a fair Dfit% should not be deemed by any one to partake of un fl'ut .ess o r extravagance. ApiAPtain HO DGES h ere rose an d ex hibi te d a mo d e l o f a ver which had been just put into his hands, and which he a s given to understand might be erected at an expence 'c l t exceeding 150/. or 2001. Of course, it could not be e xpected that this pier could enable steam or other vessels hesitation in stating that it would answer every requisite purpose. - The subject of the propriety of erecting a pier having been farther canvassed by several gentlemen, who all cx pressed themselves in favour of the project, Mr. ANDERSON rose and observed, that as all present "'elated to be unanimous in its favour, as well as to antici- Pate great benefits from its realization, not only to the tow n of Deal, but to the public at large, he was inclined to think that the sooner their good wishes were attempted to be carried into effect the better. If they were really in earnest, a fair opportunity was now before them, which 'night not occur so readily again. He was not in fa vour of the temporary pier proposed by Captain Hodges, !?ecause he deemed that from its insufficient and fleet lug character, the money expended upon it would be in g r eat measure thr own away ; b u t w h en h e heard i t Stated th at one of a permanent nature, which would 41 Iow vessels of a large size to approach it, might be e rected for 4,0001. or 5,0001., he could not help thinking that the people of Deal would stand greatly in their own l 'ght if they did not immediately come forward and sub- Scri be towards its erection. The Directors and Sharehol 'lets of the Commercial Steam-packet Company were ready t ° furni s h t h em with every legitimate aid ; and fro m w h a t f the y bad done t o M argate, w h ere t h ey had b een most a mefully t reate d , and the benefits which they had con rared Upon Ramsg a t e , w h ere t h e i r vesse l s h a d been joy tl"Y received, some estimate might: be formed of the ad il"tages whi c h D ea l wou l d rece i ve b y an immediate and .tilt"t communication with London. He concluded by t h Bis tiog that those present should prove their sincerity in unde r t a ki ng by immediately subscribing the number of Shares which they were inclined to have in the projected undertaking. rll . is add ress was rece i ved with loud cheers—a subscrip n Ir otnediat e l y entered into—and a sum of 6501., which a tl as afterwards carried to 1,750/. and will no doubt amount em ihs 11 sho r t t i me to the requisite sum of 5,0001., completely ara nteed. th Mr. GAME having made some excellent observations upon m s ".ieet, which we have no time to report, e GEORG E METCALFE, of Ramsgate, Solicitor of the hiZgrOercial Steam-packet Company, was glad to avail tO tl elg of the permission of the worthy Chairman to o ff er d e ' e noti ce of the meeting the health of Mr. John Bl ea - NZ, the S ecretary of the Commerc i al Steam-packet.Com tion's He had for many years previously to the lorma of i h uf th e C ompany the pleasure of the aequaintance Set, at gentleman, and was in a situation to state that the ge st ,„ e l 4 rY, at the early part of their friendship, had sug th, measures to his friends, t. Trough his knowledge of tarok do, which their Dir,ctors had so fully and fairly Of ti w ' out for its own Interests and the great advantage nr ti. e tovvn. The gentlemen around him most probably k e d s° well infartned of the business habits and merits of t ° - L - Headen that they might consider this reference 041"neceSsary ; but however that might be, he could l itlqt t o ver the occas i on w i t h out g i v i ng hi s very made hey I, l3t4 ise of the services of that gentleman, so far as bee n r ild fallen under his notice. He hoped it would have 4 ' 4 41 : I t" . 1 1 some one more capable, altllough . he could IN his met it could not come with greater sincerity. k r . A ts3ast wa s received with loud approbation. an d .41.1, 11) ,_ k id asoN proposed the health of Captain Hodges, b ili °4 4 :l 4 i t gentleman a just tribute of thanks for his ex• t e4l, th "aging Director at Ramsgate, the Mayor of „° health of the Chairman ; after which, prosperity A°:;ai Hotel, Deal, having been proposed, and duly ° 'ifthi f e , e ined by Mr. Bathe, the company separated, highly even in s wi th the proceedings of the day. ere furtruniental hand was present, and the company ti t : ll 7 kothver delighted by the musieal exertions of Messrs. who were specially invited to attend upon h kr. R . --------- r4Pt r ,"'lcard Clarke, of the Chapel Royal, read a t hq tk 4 ' 4 tneeting of the Purcell Club, in which he stated Dr. - " e tuel 1, A .1111 ° dY of our National Anthem . was composed by i . en b y the 1,:- At ' arid first sung at an entertainment g . % King PahiPFUI Co mpany of Merchant Tailors in 1607, to , °l'. e(tD e a rea the First, in honour of his marvellous and happy "%it:" the powde r lot , and that it was not the com pe Otrsor,-,°' Henry Purcell, • has been averred by so i m e t , aLittely, but that it mas t have been well-known to him lii4lllip" twbrote his s onatas, in one of which an air very Th t° 't of " God save the King" is introduced. di. , e re ow -'r 1 " of Mademoiselle Clairon, of the Come ( Il a i s "taise, are about to be transferred to the Pere a 4 Ctr ei ; the Vaugirarcl Cemetery, where that celebrated -'ilV al bUried i n es 1803, being d tined to other purposes. IRELAND The Freeman concurs with his contemporaries in holding the appointment of Mr. Plunket to the office of a Judge in Bankruptcy, as highly objectionable and imprope r . ", -/ the Government,' says this jo i urnal, g-- the appoint mut Ot the Hon. Patrick p,unket, it will l e nd it se lf t o a very disreputable and a very disgraceful job." BATTLE OF THE DIAMOND.—(From the Dublin Evening Post.)—The Orange Journals—the E'vening Mail, we need not say, as the blatant beast of the pack—makes a furious outcry, be cause M r . D rummon d wrote to certain magistrates, who assisted at an Orange celebration of the return of Colonel Verner for the county of Armagh, and who drank certain toasts which, as Magistrates„ they should not drink. Wishing, from the most authentic sources, to put our readers in possession of the particulars of this " Battle of the Diamond" which Colonel Verner and cfraain Armagh Magistrates have seen it good to celebrate, we cannot this day indulge, as we should be inclined other wise to do, in comment. Just as to the facts then :—There appeared some time since, in the Newry Telegraph, a report of an election dinner, given by Colonel Verner at Armagh ; and in that report, among other toasts s sid to have been given on the occasion in question, was " The Battle of the Diamond and Lieutenant Sin clair." Lieutenant Sinclair is represented as having sung a song appropriate to the event thus celebrated. Viewing the Battle of the Diamond as a lawless and disgraceful conflict, the Lord Lieutenant directs that such of the persons, being Magistrates, as the said Journal re presented to have been present, be called upon to state whether they were thus parties to the commemoration of such an event. The individuals on whom this call was made were—Colonel Verner ; G. S. Molyneux, High She riff ; Sir Thomas Molyneux, Bart., J.P., Deputy Lieute nant ; William Irwin, J.P. ; Marcus Synnot, .T.P. ; H. W. Chambre, J.P. ; William Patin, Esq., J.P. ; Maxwell Cross, Esq., J.P. ; Thomas K. Evans, Esq., J.P. The following is a copy of Mr. Drummond's letter, and the saucy reply of one Justice, Synnot by name . " Dublin Castle, Aug. 22, 1837. " Sir,—lt appearing, in the Newry Telegraph of the 10th instant, that at an election dinner given by Colonel Verner, on the 7th, at which you were present, one of the toasts was—" The Battle of the Diamond," I am directed by his Excellency, now that the elections are all terminated, to desire that you will inform him whether it can be pos sible that you were thus a party to the commemoration of a lawless and most disgraceful conflict, in which much of the blood of your fellow-subjects was spilt ; and the imme diate consequence of which was, as testified at the time, by all the leading men and magistrates of your county, to place that part of the country at the mercy of an ungovernable mob. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, " T. DRUMMOND. " Marcus Synnot, Esq., J.P., Ballymoyer, " Newtownhamilton." REPLY. Ballymoyer, Aug. 26. Sir—l have received your letter, stating that my name appears in a newspaper, as present at a dinner when a toast was given, which has called forth the disapprobation of the Lord Lieutenant. Without entering into either the prac tice of demanding from a gentleman a disclosure of the pro ceedings of a private party, or expressing any opinion as to the toast mentioned, I hereby beg leave . to say that I was not present when it was proposed. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, MARCUS SYNNOT. Now, as to the privacy of the entertainment :—lt is well for men to invite the reporters of the . public press to record and publish their odious and intolerant sentiments, and then endeavour to escape from the responsibility, on the plea of the privacy of their meeting. What matters it to us who paid the bill : Colonel Verner, or Colonel Vernor's credi tors, or whether each individual guest paid his quota, or whe ther the Carlton Club contributed to their revels ? We care not where or how they ate or drank—whether in pot house or hotel ; if the latter be more becoming their dig nity, the former would be more suitable to their sentiments. But what concerns us deeply is this—Did Magistrates, Sheriffs, and other p u bli c Officers, connected with the ad ministration of justice, hold up to the public, through the agency of the Press, a ferocious outrage, arising out of our frightful and barbarous civil discords, as stamped with their approval, and deserving to be commemorated. If this prove to be the fact, then the letter of Mr. Drummond gives us ground to hope that such functionaries will not long disgrace the offices which they now hold. Heartily do we rejoice that the Lord Lieutenant watches, with un ceasing vigilance, the acts of men into whose partizan, as well as incompetent hands, the Tory faction—backed and supported by a servile Legislature—contrived to throw almost the entire administration of justice in this unhappy country, &c. &c. THE PETITIONS.-It is admitted on all hands that the result of the elections has been favourable to Ministers. They have a majority ! whether as numerous or as dimi nutive as is stated matters not just now—a few weeks will determine the point. That there are more Liberals than Tories in the new Parliament is indisputable. To increase the latter and diminish the former is th• sole remaining hope of the faction ; and in order to effect this they do not scruple to avow that they will run all hazards. They have some experience of the extraordinary freaks of election committees. They have seen them set law and justice, equity and common sense, at defiance ; and provided only they can succeed in procuring six members, of their own way of thinking on each committee, they shrewdly suspect that law, equity, justice, and common sense, will be set at defiance once again. In the majority of cases they not only do snot expect to succeed, but they will not even pro ceed to ballot for a Committee. The fact, however, of presenting a petition incapacitates the Member petitioned against from serving on any Election Committee, and con sequently increases the Tories' chances of a favourable tri bunal. Several of the Irish counties were contested with the Liberals,not because the Conservative candidates had the most remote chance of being declared duly elected by the Sheriff, but because they had a hope of being declared duly elected by the Chairman of an Election Committee. The sup porters of Messrs. Hamilton and West, seeing that the game was up with them on the close of the second day's poll, confessed that they never anticipated any other re sult ; but then, argued the sticklers for the freedom of election, we are sure to succeed on a petition. The begging box was accordingly sent round to collect funds, and if the Evening Mail be not humbugging our gentle friend, the public, a petition will be presented and prosecuted against the return of O'Connell and Hutton. The Conservative gentry of Longford pledged their can didates, Messrs. Lefroy and Fox, at a public meeting, long prior to the election, to prosecute a petition against the re turn. This was what Mr. O'Connell would call a foregone conclusion ; but the fact proves that the Longford Tories had a pretty accurate idea of the state of public opinion, and they knew right well that an appeal to the people's house was not near so desperate an undertaking as an appeal to the people themselves. We do trust that the House of Commons will adopt some means to prevent the Tories from benefiting by this deep-laid conspiracy against the freedom of election. The new device of the enemy is a monstrous invasion of the people's rights—an audacious attempt to transfer the privi leges of the electors to an irresponsible body of the elected. Better to resort at once to the old system of rotten boroughs, which, with all its abominations, did not, at any rate, " hold the word of promise to the car, and break it to the hope."—Freeman's Journal. THE IRISH IN LOWER CANADA.—The following is condensed statement of the principal occurrences in the province :—A. detailed account is given in the papers of a great meeting which took place in the public square of Napierville, in Lower Canada, where about 4,000 of the freeholders of the county of L'Acaidie assembled to meet Mr. Papineau—the O'Connell of Canada—who ad dressed them in the French language for upwards of two hours, urging the necessity of resisting the resolutions for the Government of Canada, which Lord John Russell introduced into the House of Commons during the last session. The flags and devices exhibited at the meeting, will show the feeling which prevailed :—" Down with the Council ;" " No Coercion ;" " Lord John Russell ! he has disgraced his family's name ;" a death's head and cross bones on a black flag with the words " Craie.! Dalhousie ! Aylmer! Gosford !" " Exports ; may Gosford be the first ;" " Our children, and our other domestic manufac tures ;" " Our schools ; shame on the Council which shut them up ;" " Be sure you're right, then go a-head ;" " Liberty, the bread of life ;" " Forward ;" " People of Canada— help yourselves, and God will help you ;" " Papineau, our country's hope," &c. &e. The Catholic Clergy of Lower Canada were exerting themselves to repress the revolu tionary feelings under which the people appear to labour. The Catholic Archbishop of Montreal had assembled the hole of the Clergy at his house, consisting of 140 Priests and 6 Bishops, and after dinner he proposed the health of the Queen, which was received with great enthusiasm : he then proceeded to impress upon hie Clergy the necessity of making every " effort to establish charity and union among their flocks ; that they were to represent to their parish ioners, that it is never permitted to revolt against lawful authority, nor to transgress the laws of the land ; that they are not to absolve in the confessional any indication of the opinion either that one may revolt against the Government under which we have the happiness to live, or that it is permitted to break the laws of the country." In order the better to understand the latter part of the above statement, we subjoin an extract of a private letter from Montreal, dated July 18 : " The Roman Catholic inhabitants of the province of Lower Canada have, to a man, declared for the British Go vernment, in direct opposition to the French, or rapineau THE SUN, LONDON, A_UGUST 31, 18:if patty, and blare thus deprived that party of any power whatever of becoming mischievous. In fact the movement of the Irish Canadians rat , - ue said to have completely set tled th.e. question in favour of British connexion. There have been two causes at work to produce this most impor tant and gratifying result. First the Irish ; who now con stitute an immense portion of our population ; have no sym pathy with the French Canadians ; who better Were friendly to Irish emigration. But the second, and the chief cause has been the policy of the present British administration, regarding Ireland, which has made the Irish and their de scendants here, the warmest friends of British connexion. Moreover, the Irish are in as good a condition here as any other class of citizens. All stand equal before the law ; and the Irish, finding themselves so well and so fairly treated, are fully as enthusiastic in their devotion to the British Go vernment as the Protestant clergy, and the English settlers. These are the causes which have deprived Mr. Papineau of the power of effecting anything beyond the delivery of some very violent speeches to a set of partisans who can do no. thing more than listen to and approve of his oratory. I pray that Ireland may soon be in the same position." TITHES.—The Wexford Independent contains an ac count of the seizure made in Spencerstown, in the county of Wexford, on the chattels and person of a widow named Fortune—of both the troops of her Majesty made a notable capture—the former consisting of one bull, horses, pigs, sheep, &c., ad libitum—the latter of an old, feeble, unpro tected woman, ten months bidridden, the victim of disease and suffering. The executors of a deceased parson, the Rev. Mr. Gore, seized her person. Her relatives feari.g that fatal consequences might ensue from the shock, if pro longed—for, on the first alarm, she had become insensible —paid the demand so lawfully and equitably due, and she was then released from the horrors of approaching incarce ration. The unoffending cattle did not escape so easily-- they were driven into Wexford, where they were placed in durance vile, under the care of the turnkey of the county gaol. On the subsequent day the police and military were under arms, and they were put up to auction. The people were at first excluded from the show, at the instigation of the Rev. claimants (Hickey) attorney, Mr. Emmerson, on the plea of intimidation. Captain Hay, who commanded the military in this glorious proceeding, thought his anticipations groundless, and pledged himself for their orderly conduct. The cattle were put up, and, except Mr. Emmerson, no 'bidder could be found—and the people, de termined that that gentleman should not be a gainer by the transaction, outbid him, and sent the property back to its former owner. Thus ended this abortive attempt to revive a system at once odious to and crushed by the deter mined and unanimous feeling of the victims to so iniquitous an impost. M‘GHEE.—This creature is at his dirty work again in the Mail. FIVE DEATHS BY DROWNING.—One of the most me lancholy calamities we have heard of for some time, oc curred on the Upper Shannon near Killaloe, on Monday last, by which five human beings were almost instantaneously hurried into the presence of their Maker. Four men and a boy, natives of England, and employed as sailors on board :he steamer which plies to Portunma, went out in a small boat, on a pleasure excursion on that day, and haring mounted a squaresail, they bad not proceeded far when a sudden squall upset her, and before any assistance could be rendered, they all perished. Three of them were named Talbot, James, and Williams ; the names of the other two we have not yet ascertained.—Limerick Standard. them, when the several foremen came forward, and pre vailed upon the authorities to release the prisoners, on their guarantee that they should be rendered to justice on Monday morning. This engagement was faithfilllY dbE:ieiVed; and the men who had been marked were conducted by the foremen on Monday to Nevers, where they were put in prison: A fresh assemblage of the main body of the men *AP dollttdd; with the intention of again releasing them ; but the precautions taken by the maghtraey overawed them, and at length they were induced to return to their work, convinced that they had been misled. From that time no further disturbance has occurred. The Semaphore of Marseilles states that M. Alphonse Gay, a phys►cian of that town, has employed with success the following simple remedy for the cholera—viz., half an ounce of charcoal reduced to an impalpable powder, mixed in 21b. of pure water, administered as an injection, and a a quarter of an ounce of the same powder in a glass of warm water, taken as a draught. He was led to this dis covery from observing the fact that none of the charcoal porters were affected by the cholera, and from his know ledge of the anti-corrosive effects of that substance. An aerolite of eight cubic inches in dimensions, and alb. in weight, fell a few days ago at Esnaudes, in the Charente Inferieure. Some peasants who attempted to take it up, received a strong electric shock. GLEANINGS FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS OF TUESDAY. The Abbe Lacroix, late superior of the Ecclesiastical Se minary at Rodez, is appointed Bishop of Bayonne, in the room of M. D'Arbou, resigned. The garrison of Paris is composed of twelve regiments of infantry, three of cavalry, four batteries of artillery, and five companies of veterans, besides the Municipal Guards and Sapeurs-P om pi ers . I n th e rema i n i ng par t o f th e first military division there are twelve regiments, infantry and cavalry, and one of artillery. The Italian Opera will commence on Tuesday, the third season of October, and terminate as usual at the end of March. The list of vocalists engaged comprises the leading names of last season, namely Messrs. Rubini, Lablache, and Tamburini, and Mesdames Grisi, Albertazzi, and As sandri, with the additions of M. Zamboni, a tenor ; M. Ferlini, and M. Morelli, basses ; and Mesdames Tachinardi and Persiani. The subscribers of last season are respect fully acquainted by the Directors, that those desiring to retain their boxes or stalls must signify their intention before the 7th of September, as after that day they will be disposed of. The following is the history of the young lioness which we lately mentioned had been brought by Captain Brun to Macon :—Some Arabs, having discovered a lioness with whelps in a chasm of the rocks near Guelma, were resolved to obtain the young ones, and, for this purpose, lay in wait for four successive days, till the mother was forced to leave them in order to seek for food. They secured their prize, a male and female„ and sold them to a person at Bagia, who carried them on board a brig in the harbour. On the following night the bereaved mother was seen on the strand, roaring for her young, having traced them for up- Wards of 30 leagues by the scent. She was fired at from the brig, but escaped unhurt ; and returned for four suc cessive nights, till she was shot by some Arabs, who lay in ambush on the shore, at a moment when she was on the point of plunging into the sea, with the intention, no doubt, of attempting to reach the brig. The young lion was killed by an accident on the passage to France, but the lioness arrived safely, having become as tame and docile as a spaniel. She has just been purchased by the proprieto rs of the Cirque Olympique, and is being exhibited on the stage of that theatre in the Champs Elysees. She is suf fered to run free about the stables, and has become perfectly familiar with all the persons belonging to the establishment. A Jew, named Joseph Abraham, who has attained the patriarchal age of 102, and his wife Rachel that of 96, ap peared on Saturday morning at the Tribunal of Correctional Police, to obtain an order for a maintenance from their son Isaac, who possesses sufficient means, but having himself attained 80 years, has contracted the vice of old age —pa r . simony. The Court adjudged him to pay 40 fr. a month for the support of his parents, and reminded him of the 4:h commandment of the decalogue. In the month of June last a young woman was passing through the Rue St. Ge:main l'Auxerrois at the moment when a man was taking some horses to water. In spite of her caution in remaining as close to the houses as possible, one of the horses bit her in the arm, and actually dragged her with his teeth to a distance of twenty or thirty paces. The wound healed, but the arm became paralysed. She therefore prosecuted the man, and the owner of the horse ; the former has just been sentenced to six days' imprison ment and a fine of 16 francs, and the latter to 8,000 francs damages. A child having been some time ago run over by a cart, and having received an injury which rendered necessary the amputation of one of his legs, an action for damages wes brought by the father against the driver and his master. The Court of Assizes, a few days ago, sentenced the car man to imprisonment for six days, and to pay a fine of 40f. ; and at the same time adjudged the owner to pay damages to the amount of 12,000 f., part of which is to be paid to the father to cover the expenses occasioned by the acci dent, and the rest is to be invested in the funds for the benefit of the child. The residence of a widow, aged 64, who keeps a mar ket-garden in the Faubourg St. Denis, was forcibly entered on Saturday night by several ruffians, who, having stabbed her in many places, and left her for dead, proceeded to rob the house. She, however, recovered her senses sufficiently to alarm a neighbour and give an account of the transac tion, but remains without hope of recovery. The day before yesterday, a young man returned to his lodgings, 61, Rue Neuve les Petits Champs, and found two robbers busily employed in ransacking his own and his neighbour's apartments. One of them held. poniard to his breast, and threatened him with death if he made any alarm. lie, however, escaped from the villain's grasp, and shouted for help. Upon this, the second robber presented a pistol at his bead, and would have shot him, but for the timely arrival of persons who had heard his cries. The man with the pistol ran down stairs and escaped ; the other was secured and conducted to prison. This took place in the busiest part of the capital, at three in the afternoon. The wife of a wealthy grocer at Petit Montrouge was, two days ago, found dead on her bed, having destroyed herself by suffocation. She had previously dressed her self, with the utmost care, in a rich robe of gros de Naples, a handsome bonnet trimmed with the finest ribands, and wearing her best silk stockings and shoes. Her suicide is perfeetly inexplicable, as she wag in society the preceding evening, and remarked for her extreme cheerfulness and vivacity. The week before last the iron-works at Fourchambault, in the Nievre, became a scene of tumult, from the jealousy excited by some evil-disposed persons in the minds of the French workmen against some artisans from England, who have been employed there from the first establishment of the forges, .and to whom the others are Indebted for their instruction in the various branches of the manufacture. On Saturday, the 19th, the turbulent party surrounded the dwellings of the English workmen, and would have com mitted some acts of desperate violence but for the inter ference of the Deputy Mayor and the Commander of the National Guards, who had sufficient influence to prevail upo❑ them to desist ; but the night passed amidst great disturbances, and a renewal of the attack was threatened on the following morning. Early on Sunday the Prefect of the department arrived, with the Procureur du Roi and other Magistrates, and a detachment of Lancers. Six or seven of the most violent were arrested, and were put into conveyances to be sent to Nevers ; when the whole body of the workmen assembled with a determination to rescue the captives. The Lancers Were prepared to oppose THE CAMP AT COMPIEGNE. COMPIEGNE, AUG. 27.—1 arrived here this day from Paris, and found the town and adjacent country so com pletely alive with military of every description, that one had little difficulty in believing himself transported to the seat of some grand campaign. Embrowned faces and for midable mustachios, with " all the pomp, pride, and cir cumstance of glorious war," met you in every direction. Since my arrival, ten minutes have not elapsed without the tap of drums being heard in some direction or other, by way of reminding the soldiers through some one of the numerous varieties of " roll-call, or reveillie, oh !" that al though it is Sunday, a day prescriptively consecrated to the laissez aller, and to amusement of every description in France (church-going being reckoned one of those amuse ment's), they are not to forget what is due to their own characters as staid and respectable militaires, assembled in camp, under the supreme command of the eldest son of France. To render more complete the military aspect of this beautifully situated and interesting town, from every second window a spear and banner of some description, usually tri-coloured, is conspicuously displayed ; every half-clothed urchin you meet affects a military port, and here and there you encounter a ragged " gamin," humming the Marseil laue, wishing, from the bottom of his soul, he could march away as a " dashing white sergeant," and ostentatiously cocking upon three hairs the cast-off bonnet de police or foraging -cap of some military protector, who was recom pensed with its reversion some score of trifling services. His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans arrived here yesterday, accompanied by his amiable Duchess, the Dow ager Duchess of Mecklenburg, and a numerous suite. The Royal party has taken up its quarters in the Chateau of Compie gne , w h ere hi s R oya l Hi g h ness purposes entertain ing each day at dinner a select party of Ministerial and official personages, together with the officers of the eat major. By the 20th of next month his Majesty the King of the French will reach Compiegne, and proceed to give a number of entertainments at the Chateou, consisting of dinner parties, concerts, balls, and military fetes, on the plan which was found so effective at Fontainbleau--that of successive p ar ti es o f v i s i tors. L ou i s Phili ppe intends sig nalizing his present visit to Compeigne by the formation of an historical gallery at the Chateau, on the model of the galleries at Versailles, in which the residence of Louis XIV. and Napoleon at this chateau, together with the events historically connected Kith the castle, will be duly commemorated. Numerous artists are at this moment em ployed at the Chateau upon works necessary to the realiza tion of this project. The arrival of the troops being completed this evening, an army amounting to 20,000 men is encamped in the im mediate vicinity of Compiegne. The troops are distributed in two encampments ; one pitched in the skirts of the forest of Compiegne, about a quarter of a mile from the town, and the other at the opposite side, on the banks of the beau ful river Oist, upon which the town is situated. It is im possible to describe the fine effect produced by the sudden view of the Camp du Foret de Compiegne, as seen by us from the diligence, when it emerged from the last thicket upon the Paris road. A beautiful valley stretched for a considerable extent before you, bordered all round by the forest, except in one direction, where the town of Com peigne, with the spires of its picturesque church, and Ho tel de Ville, with the beautiful winding Oise, were seen to peep from amidst the trees. Of this valley, a space inclu ding at least 70 English acres, is composed of green-sward, and upon this the tents of the first encampment arc pitched. Imagine the effect produced by 600 of these graceful struc tures, all composed of snow-white canvass, with tri-colour streamers floating from the top of each, and the rays of a brilliant sun heightening the lustre of the canvass, and glancing from piles of arms heaped up in every direction. Horse, foot, artillery, Tirailleurs, Genie, Lanciers, met the eye in every direction in graceful and animated groups, and in front of the tent occupied by the Marechal du Camp was seen that distinguished officer himself, accompa nied by the officers of the etat-major, and gratified at inter vals by military music, which is no-where performed so well as in France. As we passed in the diligence through the small village of Lacroix, situated on the Paris road about two leagues from Compiegne, we were gratified at the sight of one of those fetes champettes in which the French delight. It was completely a fete for the lower order, but not the less graceful and amusing. What contributed greatly to enliven it was the appearance of a great number of soldiers, who participated in the dance with infinite zeal, and were gra tified with a numerous succession of blooming partners. The costumes of the paysanncs were singular but pretty, and to the eye of the stranger there was something very pleasing in this gay admixture of the military and bour geoisie.' Some of the females wore a very remarkable costume—military caps, red trousers, like the soldiers, with corsets and long skirts of blue. Upon inquiring, I found that these were the Cantinicres of the camp, dressed thus Fancifully at the expense of the Colonels of the regiments which they respectively serve with drink. The scene was altogether as unlike as possible to anything I have ever witnessed in England.—Tinies. HANOVER. HANOVER, AUG. '24. —ln the absence of the King po litics are here completely at a discount. The question of the Constitution is no longer discussed. The general opi nion is, that it is his intention to present the Constitution to the Chambers with certain modifications, and whether those modifiCations, will be accepted is the point at issue. As the principal feature in these changes is supposed to refer chiefly to the regulation and controhnent of finances, it is not likely that the Chamber will welcome their intro duction. During the last reign the Hanoverians were free from the expenses of a royal establishment, or its burden at least was very slightly felt, but the accession of the pre sent King, and his residence amongst his subjects, neces sarily entails additional charges, and if, as it is reported, his Majesty determines upon increasing the army, the im position of new taxes must be the natural consequence, and these the Chamber will be unwilling to countenance, especially if it is debarred from exercising that control which forms the most prominent feature of representative Government. The King still remains with the Queen at Carls bad, and will continue there till about the middle of Septem ber, when he proceeds to Berlin, to be present at the grand review which is to take place there ; he will return to Ha nover about the 25th, by which time a camp will be formed,. and he will pass the whole of his troops in review. It is expected to be a very splendid affair. Every one speaks of his intention to alter the present dress of the Hanoverian array, and all are sorry for it ; for, besides the national dis tinct►on which all troops are proud of, there is little love existing between the Hanoverians and Prussians ; and the last wish the former would entertain, is that of assimilating in appearance to the latter. The King's inclination in this matter supercedes his policy ; for this is surely not the moment to be unpopular with the army, when there is a prospect of being at variance with the representatives of the people. His Majesty's new subjects evince anything but disregard for his person, though, of course, it is not possible for him to be so popular a man as his brother the Duke of Cambridge, whose long residence here, whose amiable disposition, and the mildness of whose sway have justly endeared him to all classes of the people. His Royal Highness has just left Wiesbaden, where he has been stay ing for some weeks, and is now at Rumpenheim, near Frankfort-on-the-Maine. It is said that he will remain there till the middle of October, when he goes to England. Prince George of Hanover (Kron Prinz), is still at Norde ney, accompanied by his preceptor and his physician. Af ter trying the effect of the sea-bathing for a month or two, Baron Graef will return with the Prince to Berlin, where an operation on his eye will be performed, in the presence of several of the most eminent of the faculty ; but it is much feared without any good result.—Morning Herald. SWITZERLAND. The Republicain of the :ad inst. announces that the Ca tholics of Nmfels and Urnen Dessus, in the canton of Gla ris, had at last consented to elect their authorities agreeably to the new constitution. The Catholics of these two dis tricts were encouraged in their resistance by the hope of receiving aid from their co-religionists of Schwytz. An emissary of: theirs, M. Landolt, and a member of the coun cil, had gone through the canton a week before, and had had interviews with the principal leaders of the Ultramontane party. Tho Landrath of Schwytz had met on the 18th, to clelll3Cl;aii.; o'n the expediency of marching troops to the as sistance of the Cathdllo: of Glaris, and inviting Uri and Un terwalden to follow that example. Zug was also disposed to si,de with the disaffected. the Goternment of Glaris, however, availing itself of the powers vested in it by the landrath, called out the first contingent on the ?oth, and the greond on the .2.lst, toge ther with all the carbineers from '2O to 50 years of age. It. also demanded the federal aid of St. Gall and Zurich, con sisting of a battalion and a company of carbineers each, and sent to Zurich for a battery of artillery. Those troops, by the last accounts supplied by the //arctic, were then on the frontiers, ready to enter the disaffected districts. The Catholics of Glaris and Neltshall, on the other hand, so far from espousing their cause, took arms to march, with their evangelical brethren, against the revolters, who, find ing no use in resisting any longer, at last accepted the con stitution. The body of an English naturalist was lately discovered in a pond situate at the foot of Mont Tendre, in the can ton of Vaud. It appears that he fell into the water from a rotten plank on which he had advanced to collect some aquatic plants, and was drowned. TURKEY. (From the Correspondent of the Times.) CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 9.—The following imperial mandate for the better administration of justice appeared in the Turkish Gazette of the sth inst. The profession of the liberal and wise intentions animating him, which the Re former Mahmoud therein, for the first time, makes before his subjects and the world, renders this document one of foremost importance : " Each day the vigilant solicitude of his Highness dis covers a new cankering sore in the body of the State, and each day a fresh act of mercy serves to re-call to the minds of the poor and the weak that the august Reformer of the Empire above all places his glory in consolid . ating their welfare, and thus meriting the blessings of every class of his subjects. But in the career in which he is engaged, that sweetest of rewards is won only after an arduous struggle with ever-recurring difficulties, and through a perseverance which no obstacle is able to damp. When a nation, owing to the concourse of propitious circumstances, favoured by the slow and salutary influence of time, has arrived at the appreciation of its real interests, at the conviction of the expediency of a new order of things, it becomes in a great measure identified with its Chief; called upon to guide it towards new destinies, and the task of the legislator becomes simple, and of easy execution. His hand every where meets with materials of a pliable nature, prepared already to as sumo the forms into which he thinks necessary to mould them, and, ever engaged in the path which he has traced out, ho opposes the wishes of the mass to the partial re sistances he may chance to meet with. " Such are not, however, the conditions under which may be accomplished the immense labour of this country's regeneration. Above all, and this difficulty is assuredly not the least, it is necessary to bring conviction home to the minds and to the consciences of its population, and while familiarizing them with innovations of which they do not, nor cannot, comprehend the tendency, to wean them imperceptibly from a past to which they as much by the in fluence of long-established custom as that of their igno norance of the views of the reformer are rendered blindly partial. While operating this radical new-moulding of cus toms, institutions, and habits, consecrated by the sanction of centuries, it imports especially, on the other hand, never to lose sight of this truth—that the established domestic man ners are a sanctuary into which place it is never to gain ad mittance, and into which reform may penetrate only by de grees, and when preceded by the torch of reason ; for if, neglecting to secure these guarantees of success, the legis lator calculated solely on the extent of his power and su preme will, he would expose himself to reap a scanty liar vest, the production of a soil whose powers of vegetation have been overstrained. " These grave thoughts have, up to the present day, in variably guided the march of the Sovereign whose compre hensive intellect has conceived the plan of, and strives to open, a new era for these regions. Less anxious to obtain the applause of contemporaries than to obey the necessity of giving solid foundations to his undertaking, he proceeds slowly, and, imitating the tardy but infallible operation of nature, confides to time the care of unfolding and of strength ening the fruitful germs destined to shed one day over the empire the blessings of a salutary reform. " One of the branches of the public service, the import ance of which merited especially to draw the attention of his Highness, is the administration of justice, and every class is equally interested that the most scrupulous regularity should preside over the acts of the judiciary body ; but here, as in every other country, it is unfortunately but too true, that, generally, the weak has the least chance of caus ing his voice to be heard, and it has often occurred that unjust sentences have aggravated his position already but too entitled to compassion. On various occasions the Sul tan had, through rigorous orders, awakened the vigilance of the inferior authorities to prevarications of this nature, that took place in districts under their jurisdiction, and thanks to these reiterated admonitions, and more especially to the examples of severity that accompanied them, when proofs of the delinquency could be obtained, Government had succeeded in repressing a disorder, the deeper to be branded, as directly in contravention of the national religion. " Nevertheless, in some districts, particularly in those which their situation seemed to place beyond the reach of inspection, this disorder continued yet to exist, and even became aggravated, through the introduction of another abuse, the origin of the most injurious consequences— namely, the right assumed by the judges of revising and annulling the decisions of their predecessors whenever the party condemned had the means of purchasing a new sentence. " It is especially in lawsuits about properties of Vakooss that the abuses were most frequent. An ancient regula tion, yet in existence throughout the empire, consecrated to the heirs of preachers, imaums, and other servants in the mosques, the right of succession to the offices they filled previous to their decease. It was only in the event of their dying without heirs that strangers could obtain admission to these offices, provided they could bring forward authentic testimonials of their good behaviour and capacity. Heedless of this wise proviso, magistrates unworthy of the name, used for a stipulated sum to come to an agreement with indivi duals whom every consideration should have kept aloof from duties so sacred, and to deliver to them certificates which enabled them to obtain the appointment, to the prejud,ce of persons equally recommendable for their information and virtuous conduct. In consequence of this guilty traffic it often happened that the students from the provinces aspic* ing to these offices, who attended the schools in the capital, on finding themselves unable to satisfy the cupidity of the Judges, either had to make fruitless applications, or to have recourse to unfair means, such, for example, as to swear that the titulary deceased left no legitimate heirs. When, however, after obtaining their nomination, they repaired to take possession of their situation, the latter would come forward, and disputes arose, which ("aye a source of scan dal, of confusion, and of fresh sacrifices ' for both parties. " This system of arbitrary misrule and of shameful ve nality in a branch of the administration which most of all requires disinterestedness, received its chief support from the very authorities appointed to oppose it, and even from their acting in collusion with the Judges themselves. This system stood the more in opposition to the reforming views of the Sultan, as it ranked invariably among its victims in dividuals belonging to the least favoured classes. " It became urgent to remedy an evil so prejudicial to public morals ; and no sooner did his Highness become ac quainted with its existence than an Imperial Edict ordered the execution of the dispositions as follows : " Ist. Judges are strictly enjoined to pay the most scrupulous attention to the observance of laws, and in the discharge of their judicial functions to pay no regard to the rank of the disputants. Judges convicted of having, through motives of interest or other considerations, been led to betray the principles of equity, will be removed from their offices, and their names razed out of the list of Ulemas. " 2d. They are formally forbidden from re% ising or an nulling the verdicts returned by their predecessors. Those who may infringe this order will be deposed, and their names blotted out of the list of Ulemas. ." 3d. Every sentence or certificate delivered by judges in cases relative to Vakooss is in future to be signed by the directors of the property of the mosques residing in the sandjak where the judge exercises his functions, or, in the event of their absence, by the governor of the district. " Firmans countersigned by his Highness the Sheik-al- Islam have been distributed to let this, the Imperial will, be made known to known to all." GERMAN PAPERS. BERLIN.—One of the many journals with which the Liberal Judaism visits Germany, has under the head of Hanover, " Our Constitution is saved—saved by the Jour nals ;" wher e up on we are told how the South German jour nals especially have manifested their energy and integrity —have aroused the minds of the indifferent Hanoverians, and inspired the people with such l ove for the Constitution, that it now forms a" moral powe r. " It is quite indifferent whether the correspondent overrates the services of the journalists (of course including his own), and wh e th er we do not find there a repetition of the old trick, of taking wishes for facts ; nay, we may even leave out of the question what kind of a moral power it i s . B ut w h at a wretched production must the said Constitution be, what a thoughtless and apathetic mass must the Hanove rian people be, if, after the Constitution has been in vigour four years, they have need o f th e S out h G erman j ournals to discover its excellences, an d t o reso l ve to a bid e b y i t. No thing but the grossest ignorance or perversity can announce that by this result-the Constitution is saved. We will not I discuss the malicious part of the assertion. Suppose that ~:s.;::, : . T.,;,7" ( ..;7 , :::,-',.., -! 44 -: ,-- i 2 .1 - , • - • i - - . .., the examination ordered by the K:V. , sliould lead to the , conclusion that the law is not bindink,on him, is it not a i complete absurdity to suppose that a '‘Uonarch-who , ltati,; strength of mind to take the first step willqvideleir . Fd . froin taking the second by the declamations of some South Ger man journalists, and the impression they may make on some weak minds among his own subjects? If, on the other hand, the examination should lead to a different conviction, we have greater confidence in the honour and probity of a German prince than in the power of the German journalists. BELGIAN I. UNDS—BoussEts, Am 29. Actual Debt„ 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. 9934 Society of Commerce, 4 i.",per Cent 149 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent l4O Hrussels Papers, Aug. 30. A USTR IA N FUNDS.—VIENNA, A ca. 21. Five per Cents. Metalliques Fo ir per Cents. Three per Cents. , r% Isank Shares 1376% —Allgenarine Zeitung, Aug. 26. DUTCH FUNDS—Arssreawam, Atm. 28. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2 1 4 per :'ant Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A mort Syndic, 4% per cent 93% 94 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 7548 76 Commercial Company, 4L percent. 159% 160% Ditto (1, , 32 and 1833) 5 per cent. ... ...... Loan 113, 4- tier cent. 97% 91% Ditto P. 1.37. 6 per cent. Lxchange on London, One month l2 7% Two months HAMBURG BOItSEN HALLE, Ana. 25. Bills. Money. Austrian Metp.Piques, 5 per cent. Ditto sntto 4 per cent Di.'_ ditto 3 per cent. Litt° Bank !Shares lc63 ISCU Anglo-Russian Loan 106% 106 Paper Inscription, 6 per cent — Russian 5 per cents. Metal. Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto, Certificates Portuguese aegency Bends, 5 per cent 4l Ditto, 3 per cent. 25 Dutch 2% per Cents. 52% 52% Ditto 5 per Cents 1...% Polish Bonds, 3 per cents. New Tickets ls'% 152% Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 7O 69% Norwegian Loan of 1834, 4 par cents Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents — Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent Greek 4 per cents. 1533, guaranteed by France 93 92% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, AUG. 25.-13 11 y 1 ; two months, 13 9%. ST. PeTcksatrentr„A.UG. fa—Three months, 10 i 7-32 BREMEN, AUG. 22.—Two months, 605. STOCKIIOLII, AVG. ;£3.—Two months, 12 29. BERLIN, AUG. 22.--Three m.r.ths, 6.25%. —Hamburg Papers, Aug. 25. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-13setix, Aua. 22 Bills. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent 1023i Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 101 1 % Exchange on London, three months 6 25% —Prussian State Gazette, Aug. Z. Money. loN 100 At THE HARVEST. Broken as the weather has been of late, harvest labour proceeds apace. On Saturday we took a brief run to the country, and were highly gratified to find stooks of no dwarfish stature, (Inuit).- every second field. At Carnsal loch, wheat was stacked on the 23d current, and should the weather remain at all dry during the present week, every barn-yard in the Vale of Nith will present an earnest of future abundance. Stirring winds and diminished tempera ture have prevented the grain from ripening with inconve nient rapidity ; and every farmer with whom we have con versed, seems duly grateful that he is freed from the neces sity of going to work like the locomotives -between Liver pool and Birmingham. On almost every farm a great deal of work is done with the scythe, and from all we can learn, the implement advertised by the Messrs. Drummond is pre ferred to every other. Wherever the crops are strong they are more or less laid ; but wherever the land is dry they are filling so admirably notwithstanding, that very little loss is anticipated from this casualty. Had the season been late, the case of course would have been very different ; in fact, fields might be pointed to within less than three miles of this town, so completely flattened, that lateness would have ruined them out and out. Betwixt Friday night and Saturday morning, the heavy rain that fell was mixed with hail, which is unquestionably rather a singular circumstance, considering the burning heats of the beginning of the month. Shearers, in a general way, receive 18d. a day with, and 2s. without victuals, and from the present time till the middle of October, all who are able and willing to labour bid fair to obtain full employment. One intelligent farmer we conversed with gives it as his opinion that the grain crops will be under an average in bulk ; the barleys are irregular—here good, and there in different ; the early sown oats share the same character ; but on the other hand the heads are so large, and the pickles so plump, that our informant is hopeful that any apparent deficiency will be amply compensated on the barn-floor. Quality must be looked to as well as quan tity, and by and bye we will hear of samples of grain closely bordering on, without eking, the weights required in the markets of Liverpool. As to turnips and po tatoes, our friend is of opinion that they form a crop and a fourth, keeping in view the average of fertile sea sons, and farther observes that the bulk of green crop, with which the earth teems at presect, will be found three times greater than it was last season. On various small farms in the neighbourhood of Dum f.-ice, and other parts of the Vale of Nith, the operation of shearing is already completed, and in a few days leading and stacking will be as common as reaping. Even up as far as Sanquhar portions of crop have already been cut, and in a general way the hills and moors will not be more than a fortnight behind the valleys. From the lower part of Kirkcudbrightshire a friend writes nearly as follows :—" Harvest is getting on briskly here. Some fields of barley are excellent, and from 50 to 55 bushels per acre are expected. The grain, perhaps, is ripening too equally—not in the same, but in separate fields, and reapers will soon he in great demand. Fewer Irish appear in quest of work than usual, and every person in clined to labour may now find employment at fair wages. Last week there was a brisk demand for Galloway cattle for Woolpit Fair, and good prices realized. The St. Faiths cattle are in fine condition, and great things anticipated when selling time arrives." From Wigtown we learn as follows :—" Harvest has commenced partially in this quarter, and will be general along the sea-coast during the present week. The crops seem abundant, and the weather hitherto has been very favourable. The influx of reapers from the Sister Island is considerably smaller than on previous occasions ; the Irish undoubtedly are improving in their circumstances, which of course keeps more of them at home ; but allow ance must also be made for cheap and expeditious water communication from Ireland to Glasgow, Liverpool, &c." Since the above was written we have learned that the half of the grain in Kirmanhoe has been cut down. A good many stacks also appear in that parish. Mr. Goldie, March field, inned both wheat and oats yesterday.—Dttnifries Con: ice•. CORONER'S INQUESTS. . Yesterday afternoon a Coroner's Inquest was taken before Mr. Higgs at St. George's Hospital, on view of the body of M. Fitzgerald, aged eleven years, who met with an ac cident on the Great Western Railway. W. Tustin, an excavator on the Great Western Railway at Hanwell, de posed that on Monday afternoon, the deceased was assisting to drive a horse for a man. The horse was attached to a waggon, which was on an inclined plane, when while on the descent. the deceased's foot caught ag ainst a check rail, which flung him off his feet. He laid hold of the horse by the bridle. Witness ran for that purpose, but before be got up to him he fell, and the cart went over him. He was immediately assisted up and brought to this hospital.— Verdict —” Accidental death ;" deodand 101., with a re commendation to the Company not to allow a waggon to be used without a break. _ Yesterday an inquest was held at the Salutation Tavern, Woolwich, before Mr. Carttar, the coroner for Kent, and a jury, on the body of John Matthews, aged 18 years, tho apprentice to Mr. Corson, the gunpowder-lighterman , who was blown up on Wednesday by an explosion of powder in his master's skiff, while lying alongside the Maltese brig Guiseppe, in Woolwich Reach, which was sunk at the time, the boatswain killed, and several other persons se riously wounded. The body of the unfortunate lad was found by a seaman named Richar d Brewer, belonging to the Diamond, a collier, in the upper part of Woolwich Reach, on Tuesday morning, while the crew were engaged in uomporing the ship. The body was in a very mutilated state. - The chest, shoulders, and face were blown away, and the father and relatives of the unf or t una t e b o y cou ld only recognise the remains by the trousers and boots the deceased was wearing at the time of the explosion. After some discussion among the jury the coroner summed up, and a verdict was returned—" That the deceased was kill e d by an explosion of gunpowder in the River, but that there was no evidence to show how the powder became ignited." We learn from a source likely to be well informed en the subject, that her Majesty intends honouring Brighton by her presenca about the first week in October.—Brighton Guardian. Last night the metropolis was again visited by a thunder storm, which, although by no means so severe as that of Saturday, was very violent during the short time that it lasted. The north-western suburbs suffered most by it. The rain fell in torrents, doing considerable &image to gardens, and flooding . several houses in low-lying situations. There were some heavy claps of thunder, with very vivid lightning, but we have not beard that any serious accident was occasioned by it. There was a report .towards the evening that a hay-rick had been fired by the lightning in a field at Kensall-green, on the line of the London and Bir. mingham Railway ; but on inquiry we find that there is no foundation for the rumour. The fields within six or seven miles of town look much refreshed by the abundant showers that have recently fallen. The effect on the potato° market has been to lower prices very considerably.