The Sun. — London, England, 1837-09-30 00:00:00

LONDON : SA TURDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 30, 1837. It Ought to be generally known in the c ountr y tha, the house of Commons took one important step to Preserve open spaces for the recreation and exercise of th t peopl e i n a ll p l aces w h ere there have been open th 'ls , and w h e n henceforth it be proposed to enclose e nt• We doubt whether many of the enclosures of ZP en lands that have taken place of la te y ears have "en profitable to the landed Proprietors, who brought 11 3 into Parliament for that purpose ; whilst we are ennfident that the people of the vicinity, particularly Zi t. to wns, have suffered great loss and incon venience I , t e , re by. We therefore regret that some plan , li ke that ch Mr. BU CKI N G HAM. proposed to the House of c"i nr omons, in the last Session, had not been matured . f or t)? years ago , b e f ore t h e man ia for enclosures had tak en plac e ; as , i n t h at case , th e re would have been ii any th ousan d fi e ld s an d open grou nds reserved for .th ie exercise an d recrea ti on o f the working classes, which L 4ve been converted into fields, and shut up as private a r ° P er tY• No people in the world work so hard, or E e ennfined by th e i r severa l employments longer, than nglishmen ; and no persons, therefore, more require spar e air an d exerc i se whenever t h ey h ave a m oment to e ar e yet it i s no t or i ous th a t the more crowded a city town is, the more assiduously have every field and g ro und in the neighbourhood and skirts been enclos ed, And th e People shut out from their former places o f t - c ' -erels' p p e and play. We state this with regret—much f e o grit, as it manifests a want of attention to the coin 4-",'"av, to the health—of the working classes, which 13r !leh ari s t ocracy, an d t h e wea lthy manufactory pro klieterg, ought to have attended to—as they have been, ti ar e , the source of their wealth. We see, with pain ful feelings, the artisans and labourers in the vi liolitY t ) f populous places, creeping, on Sundays and t heir a Ys, out to the c ountry to breathe fresh air, after Ic e w eek of toil and confinement, often obliged to P the L a " dusty and inconvenient highways, instead of ng the Pia u green fi e lds and fresh sod to walk and Pr e y y_ P ° n• We think, therefore, that it is time to ant the further ex t ens i on o f that evil, arising from }lave brou g h t on the nation ; and we hail the corn wittebernent made in the last Session of Parliament, li ttle will do somet hi ng i n t h at way ; b u t i t will be but ' Sinee the general plan, as was proposed by Mr. u t(rtg GRANes Bill, ought to be adopted by the .iat ure goo azure on those high and national grounds—" the Id °f Use p eop l e :, gi rder t •le mean time, we annex the copy of a Standing t of the House of Commons, unanimously agreed ° " the • tvity motio n of Mr. HUM E, that every commu -01 it)he Z l t i a t :v g a: e of it, in order to avail themselves .te so i„ , it insures to them oasdees•feour--lea“viTnghat in all Inclosure Bills, provision an open space, sufficient for the '' P rt:P P ul at i o o n f . exer cise and recreation of the neighbouring , provid e d t h at i n any case , where the they°mmittbe required, the Bill d o not make such provision , th eirti reasoetls f oired, speci a lly, t o re p or t to the House_ or not comp l y i ng w i t h t h e O r ders of the Ord er: , That the sa id R esolut i on b e ma d e a Standing We _ h ave taken the trouble to search the Journals I,r(,:(-• r•s ,••-•,,, . • • ' fla:il. atock. ..... ''''''''''''''' ?3 per Cent. Red. •......• ,5i Per Cunt, Cows 9‘2 1% Ditto pet Cent .... ..--- — 8e1.... ..... .. ........... e eW 3 14 per Cent.. 99% w 5 pe r Cent- • --- It trilt LongA nnuitlesto espire Jan. 5, 1E160.... ........ ...- -- JaApril !(), N 59 Jann- 5. 1850 ......... . — April. 5, Na 1........... ••••••• 5, Nati ....... .... — ~J a n• 5. 1870... — pßierz co__, }._.:_ oiiE iaT.iFUNDS -- Beatrian Bonds . ................ •••••• Bra titian Bonds — Belgian Bonds .. ...- — Ditto Account ..... . ........ — ......-- — Ditto Account , ... ... ..,1 Buenos Ayres Bonds ........ .- Cllo Ditt .Accotint ........ ..... — Di 81 •11 Boma ........--•••••• Co' tto Account .. ...... . ..... •• Dl.unibian Bonds. ............ "-..— U Account ...... . ........ 7 26 Cilti(t.LlLn Ber.ds,lB2-1.. Dltta Acesiunt 0 , Bonds ••• "" GDitto Account .:. ........ reek Bonds .......... ... .... 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Per Share 20 15% 45 28% 8 19;i ipany... ..... 7ompany.... 25 0%,i flihraltar 4B Leghorn 1134 Genoz S6 15 Milan RI Venice J6 Naples Palermo per oz. 115 Lisbon 5. Oprto 51% Rio Janeiro 277 Bahia 25 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight Cmit PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, c0in........£0 0 0 Fereign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons New Dollars Sliver. Liars. standard, ~.. ...... 0 4 .9,5 i 4 119 S vr L P.RICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, SEPTEMBER 28. e tu c Ditto "s °lB 9IU Grand Canal DeLs. 6 per cent. 89% , a Reduced ! • I Ditto. 4 per cent....... ......... 3!,1*„,,,r Ditto , Stock OS% J Hibernian Rank' 22% 21, --- ..ew, IF,I O .0 per Cet. Bank % toe , Debentures 49llNational Insurance Co - " 0 311 c " 19714 j City Debentures, 4 per cent... -- Gr a , a bal Stock ~..........I.EaL___lal Stock 27 , 4 !rtv e d . NAILS. 0 ~c.:' Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due 1 o it ..eyica.......... 0 1 France 0 0 Lisbon 0 U i 3 f6 ". 1 ..... .. ..... 0 0 Guern. & Jersey 0 0 Malta _,:ienos Ayres.. 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Mexico e ,!; ( _ , ) irtt :agena..,... 0 0 Holland t, an ...» 0 0 Ostend.. ...... ... 0 .. 0 0 0 Sweden 0 0 Jamaica U k •anre, 0 n 1 eewa-d Islands 0 1 Waterford.-- 0 ........ . i • - I 'Heti WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 'lO-74.1011R0Vv% fa nutes after 2. Evening......l I ittinutrs after 3 stE SPECTATOR OF THIS DAY, (he 30th September), will begin PRACTICAL AlEA and i ` t E l B l ; en ae s. First Number will deal with the CIVIL LIST 9, Wellington-street, Strand. NOW READY, In 3 vols. post Bvo., 4ISS LANDON'S NEW NOVEL. ETHEL CHURCHILL; Or, THE TWO BRIDES. A STORY of the REIGN of GEORGE 11. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had of all booksellers. NOW READY, In 3 Tel,., post TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL, " THE VICAR OF WREXHILL," With ICrumerors Illustrations by liervieu. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. *** Orders received by all Booksellers. ONSEQUENCE OF FORMER PIRACIES, THE i n COPYRIGHT SECURED BY INJUNCTION. few days will be published, the Third Edition, price One Shilling, of CLARKE and LEWIS'S PARLIAMEN TARY and NEWSPAPER LIST, containing an accurate description of the Newspaper-Press of the Kingdom, corrected to the present period ;Itg the fo.,lieal feature of each Journal in Coloured Ink. will also con ale s correct Statement of all the Members of the House of Com puns, arr ange d a l p h a b e tically into Counties, and the opinions of fe Members conspicuously distinguished in Red and Blue. • T his List will be found to possess a greater extent of political Illformation than any other yet published, as the whole Parliamen tali Representation and Newspaper Advocacy o f th e countr y will e exhibited at one view. To be 1 nts,ehad of coClarke and Lewis, Advertisement and Crown- urt, Threadn eedle-street ; and also of all Book sellers in Town and Country. * o* Advertisements and orders received for the London, Dublin, and Edinburgh Gazettes, and all Newspapers published in the unit e d Kingdom; also for the Foreign Journals. The publication of Tn SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o'clock. *1%7 4 ') r z (7 - --`l'eAkg auu. Jf thc House, tf.) inCLZUrC- ill cszal the House after that Standing Order was agreed to, and we annex the titles of nine Bills—viz., Ashby and Hillington, Carlton and Lofthouse, Clapton, Clum Forest, Cranfield, Mansergh, Marchtnont, Newbold, Weinforth and Woal. It is to .be hoped that the inhabitants of all these parishes will take care that they have such sufficient open spaces secured to them and their successors, for ever, as the House of Commons intended, by that Standing Order, should be left. The object is so important to the health and comfort of the people, that we trust some Member will bring before the House a plan for providing, in all possible cases, grounds for exercise and recreation ; and no one more proper, if he has time, than Mr. HUME, who has made a beginning ; and who is now, as we are informed, labouring to procure admission for the working classes to see the works of Art in all public buildings ; and also to have the Cathedrals, the grandest of our national buildings, accessible, at all reasonable times, without fees, now almost universally charged. At a meeting, held at Salford lately, for the pur pose of drawing up a petition to the Legislature in favour of a system of national education, some startling facts were stated by Mr. `NYSE, the know ledge of which cannot be too generally diffused among those who have the means or will to pro mote the peace of the country, and the morality of the people. Many of the statements made by Mr. NYSE were founded on the best authority, and place beyond doubt the deplorable ignorance of the lower classes, and point out one great cause of crime throughout England. It would appear that not more than one million persons, or one in fifteen, receive even the ordinary rudiments of reading and writing, and the number being so limited, it necessarily follows that many persons who belong to what is called the respectable class in England cannot even write. The Reports of the Poor-law Commissioners give instances of many Overseers who could not sign their names ; and Mr. VILLIERS states that only about one-fourth of the Overseers in the county of Devon could write I In the manufacturing town of Boltonn, one-half receive no instruction whatever—in York, one-third are in the same condition—and in the country the state of the people is even still more de plorable. In the parish of Thome, in Oxfordshire, containing a population of 7,000, only 197 children receive daily education, and 1,200 none at all ; and in that county which the BUCKINGHAM family has especially under its care, and the well-being of whose inhabitants Lord CH ANDOS has so mueh at heart, only 10 out of every 100 labourers and their wives can read, and only lin 90 can write i Can it excite any surprise then that where such ignorance prevails there should be much crime ; that the peasantry should be little elevated above the criminals they drive to labour, or that the class immediately above them should be driven to the hustings like a gang of slaves ? The day, however, we believe is at hand when both the Government and the people will see the necessity of wiping out such a stain on the character of the people of England, and devise means for dif fusing the rudiments of useful education into every part and cellar throughout the kingdom. Salford has led the way in petitioning the Legislature ; and that ex cellent Institution, the Statistical Society of Man chester, has done much, not merely to show the abso lute want of education among a vast proportion of the poor, but the uselessnes of that sort of education which even a portion of them receive. No Madrid Papers of later date than those received yesterday have arrived. We are therefore left to the gleanings which we can make from the Paris Papers of Thursday, for information respecting the important events which are taking place on the theatre of war in Spain. We find it stated in some of these Journals that dispatches from Madrid, dated the 23d, had been received in Paris, bringing the intelligence that Es- PARTERO had announced to the Government that he had reached Fuentes, in pursuit of the main body of the Carlist army, which was retreating in disorder towards Trillo. There are no particulars given of the battle fought near Guadalaxara on the 19th ; but it is vaguely reported to have been more serious to the Carlists than ESPARTERO had represented it. This we are very much inclined to doubt. ESPARTERO is not the man to underrate his own exploits, and until we see the list of killed, wounded, and prisoners, we must suspend our judgment as to the actual extent of the damage inflicted upon the Pretender in this en counter. ORAA is stated to have been at Huete on the 21st, and to have routed a rebel corps 6,000 strong, which he was pursuing in a southerly direction. This ja rather contradictory. ORAA wag at Cuenca on the 16th. If he had defeated a division of the Carlists, and was pursuing them in a southerly direction, it -is not easy to conceive how he could be at Huete on the 21st, as Huete is only about ten miles from Cuenca, from which place it lies in a direction rather to the North of West. Who commanded the Car- lists, where they :came from in such formidable numbers, or why they fled to the south when they ought to have gone to the north, we are not told. Nothing furtherrs known of ZARATIEIGUY'S move ments. There is a report that he had taken the towns of Lerma and Aranda de Fuero, which is not at all unlikely, as they lay in his way as he advanced to the line upon which Don CA RLOS is retreating. Fears are entertained for the safety of Ceuta. The last accounts from that quarter represented that place to be in a state of siege by the Moors, and not likely, owing to the insufficiency of the garrison, to hold out long. Application had been made to the Spanish Go vernment for assistance, but it has no means of relief at its disposal. The following is the decree respecting the extraor dinary war contribution, which we stated yesterday had been issued by the Cortes, and sanctioned by the Government : " The Cortes have decreed as follows : " Art I.—An extraordinary war contribution is estab lished upon all kinds of national property, in order to cover the presumed deficit between the revenue and expenses of the state during the present year. " Art. 2. The amount of this contribution, and the por tion of it which each province will have to render, will be hereafter fixed by the Cortes. The provincial deputations and municipalities will undertake the distribution of it in their respective districts. " Art. 3.—The revenues of the country or towns in the possession of secular e cclesiastics are likewise comprised in the necessity of contributions, whether they be under the name of patrimonial revenue or any other, as well as other revenues of any communities derived from property which the laws in force do not declare State property, and also the produce of any industrial occupations exercised by the secular clergy. All exemptions whatever, for whatever motives they may have been granted, are to be null and of no effect for the present contribution. " Art. 4.—The_rents, either in country or town, which belong to the State, including those which have belonged to the secular clergy and have been declared national property. " Art. 5. In payment of shares in this contribution such documents will be admitted as prove that money or ma terials have been furnished, by the persons liable, to the na tional armies during the present war, provided that their documents ho duly legalized. " Art. 6. In order that the labouring classes form no exception to this general national contribution, conformably to the dispositions of the law of the 16th July last, all the other classes will have to contribute in the following man , per:— ( Articles 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, refer to the manner of division.) " Art. 14. The government shall have the power of sus pending the execution of Articles 7,8, and 9, in the ancient kingdom of Aragon, in consideration of its peculiar system of division of state contributions. " ADDITIONAL CLAUSE. " The Government shall propose to the Cortes, as soon nf 7, n plr ort,M7lt;,, finning the object of the present law, as weli as the distrt bution that is to be made in the provinces. (Signed) " THE QUEEN REGENT. " Bth Sept. 1837." _ The following are extracts from the French Papers : PARIS, SEPT. 28.—A journal says that the Court is di vided into two parties, from a cause which must affect an august personage, who with the rare penetration which dis tinguishes him, sees in it the germ of much embarrassment in the family. The different positions in which events have placed the Dukes of Orleans and Nemours, have not escaped the courtiers, and some of them already indulge in pleasantries on the splendid amusements of Compeigne, compared with the military fatigues of the expedition to Constantine. The friends of the Duke of Orleans com plain bitterly of the equivocal position in which the eldest son of the family is placed, in respect to a younger brother returning victorious from an expedition in Africa, from which he only returned ill. The Duke of Orleans is said to be seriously affected by this state of things, who, notwithstanding the tender friend ship for the Duke of Nemours, does not dissemble the ad vantages which that Prince will have over him on returning covered with the laurels of Constantine, while he, the head of the family will scarcely have soiled the epaulettes of his Lieutenant-General's uniform in shooting rabbits in the forests of Compeigne, or in the exercises on the plateau of Marigny. Accordingly it is said that the Prince has been muelihurt by a sally of an eminent diplomatic personage in the drawing-room of a Minister, who, speaking of the grand evolutions at Compeigne, said :—" II paruit que M. le Due de Nemours fait la grande guerre pendant que son frere M. le Due d'Orleans va faire le petite guerre."—La Gazette de France, Sept. 28. FRENCH FONDS.-PAets, SEPT. :28. Five per Cents., 108 f. 20c. 25e. 20c. Four per Cents., 99f. 90e. Thr. e per Cents. 79f 50c. 45c. 5(.c. Bank Actions, 2,427 f. :We. Rent° GC Naples, 98f. 97f. 95e. 9Sf Roman Five per Cents., 101 .1003 s 101. Spanish Actives, 1.1014. Spanish Passives, 4N. Belgian Loan, Fire per Cents., 104 M. Brussels Society, 1,662 f. 50c. Belgian Bank, 1..157f. 50c. Portuguese Three per Cents. 25; %. Haytian Loan, 370 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, -f. -c.; money, 25f. 47IAc. Three months, paper, -f. -c. ; money, 251. 30c Authennaue. LAST PRICES Five per Colts. ' Ingl. Three per Cents. 79f. 50c. Bank Actions, 2,427 f. 50C. Roman Five per Cents , 101. Belgian Loan, 104 1 4 . Belgian Bank, 1,457 f 50c. Portuguese Three per Cents , Haytian Loan, 370 f. Spanish Actives, 20q. Spanish Passives 4 Spanish Differes 614. New Differes, ON. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 183,-*. LITERATURE. ERNEST MAL7'RAVERS. 3 Vols. Saunders and Otley, London, 1837. - - In this story, which its author, Mr. Bulwer, dedi cates to the German people, we suppose from a feel ing of gratitude for their high estimate of his abilities ; he, as in the case of Paul Clifford—by far the best of his works, and that in which the most invention is shown—bounds at once upon his subject, introducing us to his hero on the very threshold of his narrative, and without any flourish of drums and trumpets, such as usually heralds the first appearance of a chief perso nage in a modern novel. The opening scene, descriptive of a lonely cottage on a desolate moor, which is bounded in distance by the red-gleaning lights of a hundred factories, is sketched with considerable vigour, and has a truly picturesque effect. We have often wondered that such a scene has never been attempted before, for it abounds in the most striking materials for description. Not less effective are the tenants wherewith Mr. Bulwer peoples this desolate abode. They are, first a ruffian, inured to crime, and secondly, his young daughter, Alice—a charming conception, executed in the author's most careful and spirited manner. We cannot, however, say so much for his hero, Er nest Maltravers, who has this besetting defect, namely, that he wants consistency of character. We cannot recognise anything true or life-like in this portrait, as we can in that of Pelham, which, how ever we may dislike the class to which it belongs, is yet true to nature in every lineament. Refined senti ment and reckless libertinism, and of such is Maltravers made up, form a compound seldom to be met with in the same character, out of the pages of a fashionable novel. Having said this, we have said all that we hare to object to in this novel, which will be sure to be read with avidity ; for the intetest seldom flags, i s constantly varying, and the language in some places, where the author is least ambitious, replete with eloquence and feeling. LOCKHART'S MEMOIRS OF SCOTT. Vol. V. Cadell, Edinburgh, 1837. With the exception of the first volume, this i 3 by far the most interesting that has yet appeared. It shows us Scott in the meridian vigour of his unrivalled reputation, when he was all kindness and happiness, and exercising hospitality at Abbotsford on the most princely scale. It is also full of various and charac teristic anecdote, and contains some descriptions from Mr. Lockhart's pen, which it is impossible to peruse without the deepest interest. One allusion that he makes to a late sad bereavement overflows with simple, and manly tenderness. No small portion of the vo lume is occupied with details of George the Fourth's visit to Edinburgh, when Walter Scott attracted pub lic attention to a nearly equal degree with his fat friend. The following anecdote is irresistibly ludicrous. W e make no comment on it—for what comment can do it justice?— '° The King at his first levee diverted many, and delighted Scott, by appearing in the full Highland garb—the same brilliant Steuart Tartans, so called, in which certainly no Steuart, except Prince Charles, had ever before presented himself in the saloons of Holyrood. His Majesty's Celtic toilette had been carefully watched and assisted by the gal lant Laird of Garth, who was not a little proud of the re sult of his dexterous manipulations of the Royal plaid, and pronounced the King " a vera pretty man." And he did look a most stately and imposing person in that beautiful dress ; but his satisfaction therein was cruelly disturbed when he discovered, towering and blazing among and above the genuine Glengarries and Maeleods and MacGregors, a figure even more portly than his own, equipped, from a sudden impulse of loyal ardour, in an equally complete set of the self-same conspicuous Steuart tartans : " He caught Sir William Curtis in a kilt— While tbrong'd the chiefs of every Highlaud clan To hail their brother, Vich lan Alderman." " In truth, , this portentous apparition cast an air of ridi cule and caricature over the whole of Sir Walter's Celtified pageantry. A sharp little baillic from Aberdeen, who had preciously made acquaintance with the worthy Guildhall Baronet, and tasted the turtle soup of his voluptuous yacht, tortured him as he sailed down the long gallery of Holyrood, by suggesting that after all his costume was not quite perfect. Sir William, who had been rigged out, as , the auctioneers' advertisements say,' regardlos of expense , exclaimed that he must be mistaken ; begged he would ex plain his criticism, and, as he spoke, threw a glance of ad miration on a skene dim, (black knife), which, like a true warrior and hunter of deer,' he wore stuck into one oft is garters. Oo ay—oo ay,' quoth the Aberdon ian : e knife's a' right, mon—but fbar's your speen ?"—(where's your spoon ?) Such was Scott's story ; but whether he gave it' in the hope of restoring the Kings' good-humour , so grievously shaken, it is not very necessary to inquire." THE CI CISBE O. Renshaw, London, 1837. The author of the " Cicisbeo" should never have aspired to write a tragedy. He has not one single qualification for the task. Instead of poetry, he gives us nothing but prose run mad ; and substitutes exag gerated, and too often sickly, sentiment, for the natu ral dictates of the human heart. Here and there he puts forth a pretty idea, and something that distantly resembles fancy, but a few stray flowers of this sort will not constitute a tragedy. In a closely printed work, containing upwards of a hundred and forty-eight pages, it would be hard, indeed, if one' could not pounce upon one line worth notice. We subjoin a specitnen of what the author intended, no doubt, to be intense passion ; but which, to our thinking, is as very a piece of raying bombast, as ever fell from the pea of poor old Nat. Lee. A certain Countess Suomi speaking. She is evidently in a violent rage, but tHt. cxcu, , :c !; .^'t crr n . _~,.; J knew what he was saying, even in the fiercest whirl wind of his jealousy : " The self-entombing thunderbolt this hand Would catch, and, in defiance, toss again ! . I could the boundless deep walk throtmh undrowned, Drink lava, and explore the horrid throat Of JEtna, enter the bowcht of the earth, And at the nadir come to light again !" Mercy o❑ us, what a Virago ! - It requires no slight courage—as every one knows who has ever played the game—to catch a cricket-ball, but here is a woman who thinks nothing of catching a thunder-bolt ! Then mark the modesty of her proposal to take a lounge on foot over the ocean Why, this beats the Italia❑ adven turer who advertised the other day to walk from London to Gravesend on the surface of the Thames ! We say nothing of the Countess' desire to drink a quart or. so of red-hot " lava :" for there is no disput ing upon matters of taste, and we shall content our selves, therefore, with wondering in awe-struck silence at her preference ; , If the author of the " Cicisbeo" be be a very young man —say, not yet emancipated from his teens--there may he some hopes of him ; but if not, we give him up, without reserve or stint. SKETCHES IN L OND ON. No. I. Orr, London, 1837. The first Number of a new work from the pen of the popular author of " Random Recollections of the Houses of Lords and Commons." It is proposed to be published in monthly parts, like the " Pickwick Papers," at a shilling each. Judging from the speci men before us, which contains some graphic sketches of London beggars and impostors, we should think it very likely to be successful. It is illustrated with too highly comic engravings. DON JUAN. VoL. 11. Murray, London, 1837. This is the closing volume of one of Lord Byron's best—perhaps his best—poems. It is got - up with extreme elegance ; and is embellished with an exqui site engraving of the famous old " Brig of Balgownie" near Aberdeen, which the poet has made the subject of more than one descriptive stanza in his " Don Juan." The engraver of this print is Finden. WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS. Sutherland, Edinburgh, 1837. It gives us pleasure to see that this amusing publi cation has reached the thirty-eighth Part. It is writ tfin with a sort of rough vigour, like the prose tales of Hogg, and is the production of Mr. J. Mackay Wil son—an able and honest man, lately deceased. The work is published for the benefit of his widow and children. THE EARLDOM RESTORED. 2 VoLs. Smith, London, 1837. A pleasing story enough, not devoid of incident, but containing few characters that are above medio crity. Some of the dialogues are written with feeling and simplicity, but as a whole the story is too much wire•drawn. It might easily have been comprised in one volume. The author signs himself " Edward Lakehy," which we suppose is a 910,11 de guerre. The Sheriffs for London and Middlesex are sworn in at Westminster this day. The ceremony on this occa sion in the Court of Exchequer, which vulgar error supposes to be an unmeaning farce, is not so, but the observance of ancient tenures. The Sheriffs have not the least connection with the cutting of sticks or counting of bob-nails. The tenants of a manor in Shropshire are directed to come forth to do their suit and service ; on which the Senior Alderman below the Chair stands forward, and chops a single stick, in token of its having, been customary for the tenants of the said manor to supply their lord with fuel. The owners of a forge in the parish of St. Clement Danes, which formerly belonged to the City, and stood in the high-road from the Temple to Westminster, but which no longer exists, are then called on to do their suit and service, when an officer of the Court, in the presence of the Senior Alderman, pro duces six horse-shoes and sixty-one hob-nails, which he counts over in form before the Cursitor Baron, who, on this particular occasion, is the immediate representative of the Sovereign. It appears from Maddox's History qf the Exchequer that this ceremony had its origin from a zrant made in the 19th of Henry 111. (anno 1255) to Walter Le Brun, a farrier, of a piece of ground in the parish of St. Clement Danes, whereon to erect a forge, he rendering the Exchequer annually for the same a - quit-rent of six horse-shoes, with the - nails thereunto belonging. The rent was twice paid in the rein of Edward 1., and is still rendered annually at the Exchequer by the citizens of London, the said piece of ground having fallen into their possession by a subsequent conveyance. Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, a dreadful accident, attended with the loss of two lives, and serious injuries to several others, occurred on the premises of Messrs. Vidler and Co., the extensive coach-manufacturers, . _ of Milbank-row, Westminster. Within the last few days a number of labourers have been employed in pulling down dilapidated buildings, preparatory to new erections being made. At the time above stated ten or twelve men were occupied in removing a high wall, when it most unexpectedly gave way, burying nearly the whole of them underneath. An immediate alarm was given, when every possible assist ance was brought to the spot, and, after some time, several of the unfortunate men were extricated, most of them in an insensible state, and the whole more or less seriously in jured. Two men, named Michael Donovil and John Hand ley, were the last that were taken out of the ruins. They were quite dead, and their persons presented an appalling spectacle, being mutilated in a dreadful manner. Their bodies were removed to Westminster Hospital, as were also the survivors, where they received prompt medical aid. Two men, named Sullivan, have experienced such severe fractures that their recovery is quite hopeless. The cir cumstances that led to the calamity have not yet been as certained, or whether there is blame attached to the super intendent of the men, or to any other party. Donovil, who was 31 years of age, has left a widow and five children. Handley was a single man. The inquest on the two men is appointed to take place this day (Saturday.) The Genetal Steam Navigation Company's packet the Countess of Lonsdale arrived at the Tower yesterday morning at eleven o'clock. The John Bull and Caledonia reached Hamburgh on Tuesday last. A very outrageous attack was made upon the car riage of Madame Grisi, just as she was leaving Birming ham, on Friday afternoon. Immediately after the close of the morning performance, her carriage drew up to the door of her lodgings, in Paradise -street, and such was the curio sity of the crowd assembled in the street to obtain a sight of this distinguished vocalist, that the vehicle was speedily surrounded by a dense mob, some of whom were not over delicate in their expressions, or over scrupulous as to the manner in which they evinced their prying curiosity. The valet behind, finding that the carriage was obstructed by the density of the crowd, and being a foreigner, unac quainted with the habits of an English mob, it is supposed, fearing for the safety of his mistress, commenced beating the people with a stick ; and it is even said, presented a pistol. Upon this, the crowd immediately commenced a furious attack by stoning the carriage —and, had it not been for the timely and vigorous assistance of the police, who had not quitted the neighbourhood of the Town Hall, and the rapid speed at which the postillions proceeded down New-street,the most lamentable consequences would in all probability have resulted from the aroused fury of the populace.—Birmingham Paper. The President's message was received by the packet ship Roscoe, Captain Joseph Delano, which sailed from New York on the Bth of September, and arrived off Kinsale on Monday last. Three passengers landed. Yesterday morning a large supply of cattle, consist ing of oxen, sheep, and lambs, were brought to Chalk Farm landing-place, from Boxmoor and Watford, for Smith field market, in large cattle carriages, by the railroad. The animals, on being landed, appeared remarkably fresh. The butchers calculate that all descriptions of animals will_ save a stone weight by this mode of conveyance, About eleven o'clock on Thursday night, as of o f the vehicl es , ca ll e d " b ac k d oor ca b s ," waspas;tng along Castle-street, Lon..-acre, the passenger, who seemed con siderably intoxicated, fell with great violence into the road, cutting his face and hands severely. It was supposed that he had been leaning against the door, which, not being pro perly fastened, had given way, The violence of the fall seemed to bring the gentleman to his senses, and assistance being procured, he was again placed in the vehicle and and conveyed to his residence, which he stated to ha in Dean-street, Soho. Fortunately. for him the cab was pro ceeding at a moderate pace, or the consequences .night have been more serious. We have beard inat a writ has been served on the over the overseer of the ville of Christ Church, Canter ! bury, for neglect of his duty in putting up. the list of ob jections. The penalty is 5004—Kent flerald. The red-breast has been heard for a fortnight past, and the sar4liews are congregating and leaving the 99rtb. INSOLVE,NT GOURT.- lIIS Daniel Solomon:, who described himself as a general dealer, applied upon his petition to be discharged. He Was not opposed. The insolvent had been a bankrupt and a.► insolvent, having been discharged under the Insolvent Debtors' Act in 1834. He now owed upwards of 8001, and ascribed his second appearance in tics Court to having a large family. The COURT said the insolvent seemed an experienced man in the art of getting into debt, and becoming insol vsnt ; but as his creditors did not oppose him, he must be discharged. William Hall Dawes, a grocer, late of Ashby-de-la- Zouche, but latterly carrying on business, as he stated, in the general line, whose case was before the Court on a former day, was again brought up this morning. An opposition had been made at the instance of the de taining creditors, but the insolvent's father having paid them 10s. in the pound, together with their costs, they %.% ithdrew their opposition, and the insolvent was ordered to be dis charged. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAT.) We are still without any fresh Imports at the Port of Lon don of East or West India produce. The whole of the im ports just now are light, and consist of Northern produce, Irish, and that of the South of Europe. 5,239 casks of Russian Tallow is the heaviest import of all. During the week which is now rapidly closing there has been a very fair business done in merchandise of all descrip tions; but more of that of the East and West Indies than any other ; and prices of all kinds have proved themselves to be firm by repeated trials of their strength ; and, on the whole, they are much as they were this day week. Since the taking of the Government contract, Rum has been quiet, but is firm. Raw Sugar receives a steady business at firm prices ; and in refined there is rather more doing far export at 335. for fine crushed. Lumps to pass the standard, 735. to 745. TEA has became quiet, but nothing is offered lower. Come.—At lengths all kinds of British Plantation must be quoted 2s. per cwt. lower. Ceylon and Turkey are unal tered in price. SPICES.—The only kind in which any alteration in price can be quoted is in Cassia Lignea, which is rather higher. Oms.—Both Fish and Seed are in good demand at ;all prices. NDIGO.—The trade are now chiefly occupied with the show of the sales which come on on the 10th. TOBACCO.—There is a good demand for export ; but for home consumption not much doing. TxLLow.—Lower prices are accepted, and to-day P. Y. C. has been 395. to 395. 3d. SPlRlTs•—English, Scotch, and Irish are steady at 103. per gallon. Foreign Coffee and Foreign Sugar continue to be much enquired after; but we do not hear of any extensive opera. tions, and this is the case with pepper. SALTPETRE continues to be very firmly held. 4k refraction sold at 255. 6d. per cwt. 31 refraction was taken at 265. 6d., which is above its value. The late extensive seizure of Cochineal by the Government on the premises of parties who have been speculators and dealers in the article for years, in consequence of some infor mation laid against the house by a discarded clerk, has en• grossed much attention. The fraud on the revenue can be but trifling, but the value seized is very great. The trade express their strong disapprobation of the seizure under such circumstances. The Cochineal market is very dull in con sequence. FOREIGN CONINIERCIAL The accounts received yesterday afternoon from Hamburg, state Sugar and Coffee to be held very firmly, and a small hut partial advance was obtained for Coffee. The demand for Cot ton had a little abated, in consequence of the flattering ac counts from here, but prices were maintained. Butter conti nued in lively demand, and was taken for export at high prices. In Wool little is doing, owing to the high rates demanded of the holders, and business to a good extent would be done if it was more freely met. The grain market was rather better, but few transactions had taken place. At Trieste, Raw Sugar was in steady demand, but the stock on the spot being rather indifferently assorted, business of any moment was prevented. Coffee firm, and full prices paid : the total stock to the Ist of September was estimated at 94,153 cwt., and consisted of 60,000 Rio ; 13.000 Ha vannala ; and 12,000 Cuba. Cotton secured a good sale, and prices were fully maintained. Spices rather flat, and very little going ou. Olive Oil sold freely at the late advanced rates, and the accounts from Greece and Candia, stating the crop to be short, causes holders to be very firm, and the quo tations are looking up. The accounts from Marseilles state the market for Olive Oil quiet, the manufacturers only buying for their immediate wants; prices are however maintained, and holders do not evince any disposition to accept lower rates. At Havre, Cotton, Sugar, and Coffee continue in little re quest, and the market is very quiet. Rice ( Carolina) was in better demand, and advanced rates were refused by the holders, who are stated to be very sanguine in their expectations. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, SEPT. 29.—Wind E., fresh breeze.—Passed through the Downs last night, the Ocean, Fell, from Shields, for De merara. Came down from the River and proceeded, the Touen, Ricardo de Talleche, for Cadiz ; Toronto, Greswold, for New York ; Little Catherine, Hogarth, for Sidney ; Are thusa, Wakefield, for Rio Janeiro. PowrsMOUTH, SEPT. 29. —Wind E., fresh. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 29.—Wind E.—Arrived her Majesty's ships Peako and Wellesley, from Portsmouth. DUBLIN, SEPT. 28.—Her Majeity's ship Lucifer, in going to sea last evening, ran into the John and Grace, bound to Runcorn. By assistance her cable was slipped, and the vessel run aground in Old Harbour. Her side is cut down, and she must discharge. FOWEY, SRN'. 27.—The Bristol packet, Powest, arrived here, 25th inst., from Newport, leaky, and has been laid on the beach. FALMOUTH, SEP. 28.—Wind E., fresh gale.—Arrived, the Norway brigs Odin and Redderindern, from Porsgrouud; the Hercules, Clarkson, from Quebec ; the Panther, Shepherd, from Odessa. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 29.—A severe gale was experienced at Turk's Island on the Isth ult.—Arrived, the Hero, Heard, from Riga; the Alexander, from Dantzig; theCarle Henrick, from Stralsund. The Rob Roy, for Toulon, has not sailed, as stated yesterday. GLOUCESTER, SEPT. 28.—Arrived, the Caroline, Kalling, from Riga. BRIDGEWATER, SEPT. 28.—Arrived off, the Magnet, Ni cholson, from Orega. DUNGENESS, SEPT. 29.—Arrived 01T, the Union, Weller, from New York. PHILADELPHIA, AUG. 28.—1 t blew a hurricane at Ragged Island the 4th instant. A Spanish schooner parted her cables, drove on shore, and bilged; cargo (salt) lost. The vessel subsequently got off. The Penelope, Grimes, from Jamaica, arrived at Philadel. phia, in distress and leaky, bound to London. The Rosebud, from Havannah to London, has been aban domed at sea, having been capsized in a gale the 17th ult. two of the crew drowned. The Augusta, Blaidsell, from Cadiz to Boston, was aban doned at sea the 7th ult. The Duke of Manchester, from Jamaica, arrived at New York, with loss of main and mizen-masts, &c., bound to London. The Mimar, Coston, from Gibraltar, arrived at Viginia in distress, part of the cargo thrown overboard, bound to Vera Cruz. The Caledonia, from Trinidad, arrived at Havannah, part o 1 the cargo thrown overboard, bound to Hamburgh. The crew of the Norval, from Honduras to Cork (alsandonetfl arrived at New Orleans on the 2d ult. _ _ _ The Ida, Tilley, from Jamaica to London, was abandoned at sea on the 22d ult., with twelve feet water in the hold. The Maria of Hull (supposed from Honduras) was abandoned at sea on the 20th ult. The Cyrus, Ruder, from Nev Orleans to Liverpool, was totally lost at Hellsbro' Inlet on the Ist ult. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CIO 'or. The arrivals received from the United R t at,„ are very unfavourable in respect to the measures al-,outi.o be adopted by the President of the United States; It is considered as a death-How to the mercantile in!.,regt. severe terms ru t u h , e s ri s c p a e n ak p s a i p u e su p morning, on y nu Bouf Bd r i ch i e nst A an m t conduct. TH.F. FUNDS. Consols e l .osed yesterday at 91i for Money ; for the Ac count, 92 tq Exchequer Bills, 49 prem. Indian Bonds, 50 pren. Cginols opened this morning at 928 for the Account. SpD'aish Active closed 191 with Coupons, opened at same. Portuguese closed 398 ; Three per Cents. 25k.. Dutch Two and a Half 53. Lloyd's books exhibit bad accounts of the homeward Jamaica vessels. HALF-PAST ONE. Consols have continued during the morning at 913 for Money, and 92 to 92i for the Account ; Exchequer Bills, 47 49, premium ; India Bonds, 43 50 ; India Stock, 2604. In the Foreign Market, to within a short time, Spanish Active continued inactive at 494-, with Coupons—since which they have been done at l9i ; this little improve ment is attributed ,to the prices coming somewhat higher from Paris ; Portuguese, 404 ; Three per Cents., 2.54 26 ; Colombian, 264 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 58. TR RidA O'CLOCK. I Consols for the Account, 92 92k. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 29.- Thera has been a great falling off in the demand since our last, and consequently r. very inactive market, which has enabled the few buyers who have attended to make a better selection of quantity, and at easier prices, those of last week being scarcely supported. The sales are to-day ,500 to 3,000 bags of all kinds, at about id. decline. Among other attractions announced for a benefit night at one of the second-rate theatres is " a pas ate deux in savior WINDSO:I-FRIDAY. 'This morning the Turkish Ambassador had an audiet.te of her Majesty. His Excellency was i,'roduced by Lczd Viscount Palmerston. _ _ The Queen, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, Ledy Mary Stopford, and Ml:s Murray, rode through the Park this afternoon to Virginia Water. Lady Charlemout and Miss Lister followed in a carriage and four, and the Hen. Mrs. Brand drove hi a pony-chaise. The following had the honour of joining the Royal dinner party of yesterday :—Colonel Jodrell, Colonel Barnard, and Captain A. W. Torrens, of the Grenadier Guards ; Colonel Sir Henry Wyatt and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, of the Life Guards ; and the Hon. Mrs. and Miss Cavendish. The Queen Adelaide is expected to arrive at the Castle to-morrow, to pay a visit to her Majesty. For companies of the Grenadier Guards, under the com mand of Colonel Jodrell, marched from Windsor this m nn ing, for Brighton. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. CHANGES. The Duchess of Marlborough, from Hastings, to Green street, Park-lane ; the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, from Ens ille Hall, in Staffordshire, for Dunham Massey, in Cheshire; Lord and Lady Kilmaine, and the lion. Captain Browne, at Cheltenham, from Leamington Spa; the Earl of Darlington, at his seat near Shrewsbury, from Perthshire ; Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford, on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth, from Ryde, Isle of Wight ; the Hon. P. Ash burnham, at Brighton, from a Continental tour; Lord and Lady Saumarez, at Cheltenham, from Malvern Wells : Lord and Lady Rendlesham, at Rendlesham Hall, from Aldeburgh ; Sir C. B. Vere, Bart., M: P., at Leamington Spa, from Broke Hall, Ipswich ; Sir H. and Lady E. Hardinge, at Warrington Park, near Launceston, from a visit to Sir R. and Lady Peel, at Drayton Manor, Staffordshire ; Viscount and Viscountess Gort, at St. Leonard's, from Loughcooter Castle, their seat in Ireland ; Lord and Lady Wodehouse, at Kimberley Hall, Ws mondham, from Yarmouth ; the Marquis of Westminster, at Heaton Park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Wil ton, from Derbyshire ; Lady Hippesley, at Weymouth, from Bath ; Lord Haddo, in Egypt, from Venice ; the Hon. Major Scarlett, at Malvern Wells, from Abinger Hall, Dorking ; the Earl of Rosso, at Worthing, from a tour ; the Hon. Cap tain and Mrs. Somerville, at Leamington, Warwickshire, from their seat, Horley Hall, North Wales ; Lord George Bentinck, at Heaton Park, on a visit to the Earl and Coun tess of Wilton, from Yorkshire; the lion. Edward Fellowes, M. P., and Mrs. Fellowes, at Haverland Hall, Norfolk, from their seat, Ramsay Abbey, Huntingdon ; the Hon. Edward Taylor, at Ardgillan Castle, Balbriggan, from a Continental tour; Lady Owen, at her seat, Windlesham, from Brighton; the Earl and Countess of Annesley, at Dublin, from their seat, Douard Lodge ; the Baron de Haber, at Baden, from Paris ; Lord and Lady Cooper, at Buxton Wells, from Bath ; the Earl and Countess of Lismore, at their seat, Shanbally Castle, Tipperary, from Lancashire ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Wadesford, at Cheltenham, from Leamington Spa; Lord Edward Howard, at Surrey House; Sussex, from a Ccntinental tour; Lord Exmouth, on a Continental tour, from his seat, Trevery, Cornwall ; Lord Bayning-, at his mansion, Broome Rectory, . Eye, from Aldeburgh ; Sir Alexander and Lady Bannerman, at Buxton Wells, Derby shire, from Leamington Spa ; Lord Hatherton, on a tour, from Teddesley Hall, Penkridge ; the Hon. H. A'Court Holmes, at Heytesbury House, Warminster, on a visit to Lord and Lady Heytesbury, from his seat in the Isle of Wight; the Hon. A. Saville, on a tour on the Continent, from Sus sex; Lord Stafford, on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire, from a tour of visits ; Lord eorrester, at his scat, Willey Park, Salop, from a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Long shawe Park, Leicestershire; the Hon. Dudley Macdonald, from a tour, to his chambers in the Albany ; Lord and Lady Emily Ashley on a tour ; Sir Charles and Lady Lloyd, from Cheltenham, for Brighton; Mr. Adam Askew, from The Woodlands, at Stanmore, for Redborough House, Gateshead, Durham ; Sir John and Lady Campbell, from Newport, in the Isle of Wight, for Brighton; Mr. John O'Neill, from Southamptcn, for • Brighton ; Captain Rous and Major Blackett for the Fenns, in Lincolnshire ; Sir John, Lady, and Miss Shelley, from the Duke of Richmond's seat, Gordon Castle, for Scone Palace, Perth, the residence of the Earl of Mansfield ; Lady Munro, from Farrance's Hotel, for Edin burgh; the Hun. Mr. and Mrs. John Smythe, at ditto, for Worthing. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to consent :o be the Patroness of the University College Hospital, late North London Hospital. . The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Mrs. Murray, of Portman-street, Portman-square, dress maker in ordinary to her Majesty. Sarim Effcndi, the new Turkish Ambassador to the British Court, left Constantinople on the 28th ult. for Sem lin, where he will have to perform quarantine before he will be allowed to proceed to Vienna. Count Philip de Rohan Chabot, of the French Fo reign Office, has just been appointed Second Secretary to the Embassy in London, instead of M. Brenier, who is ap pointed Consul at Warsaw. M. Agenor de Grammont, attache to the Embassy, is appointed Second Secretary of the Stutgard Legation. Her Royal Highness the Princess A ugusta of Saiony eft Mivart's Hotel this morning, for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by his Excellency Baron de Reitzentern, Grand Marshal ; Coun tess de Dobrzycka, Lady of Honour ; and Baron Gersdorff. Her Royal Highness received visits yesterday, at the above hotel, from the following distinguished foreign diplomatists : —Baron de Cetto, Count Seekend or ff, M. D e d e l, C ount _ _ . . Mandelsloh, Count Kraskinski, M. Hurntnelauer, &c. • The Earl of Derby has been entertaining a party at Knowsley, since the scientific meeting at Liverpool. Lord 1-hill has returned to town from Windsorr Lord and Lady Stanley have left Lord Greys, Howick Hall, on their return to Knowsley. The Earl of Winehilsea will preside at the annual meeting of the Ashford Agricultural Association, which takes place on Wednesday next. Count Grammont, lately second Secretary to the French Legation, will not return to England, having been appointed Secretary of Embassy at Stutgard. — Lord Sefton's health continues daily to improve ; the family are going to Brighton. General Sir Charles and Miss Doyle have left the Hague for Vienna. HASTINGS, SEPT. 28.—The Rev. Sydney Henry Widdrington has been licenced by the Bishop of the gocese to the perpetual curacy of St. Leonards. There are two very fine vessels building here, one a schooner, at the yard of Messrs. Ransom and Ridley, the other a large brig, by Messrs. Thwaites and \\Tinter. In the latter yard there is also building a pleasure yatch for our worthy representative, Rob. Holland, Esq. Lord and Lady Brougham and daughter are still sojourning at St. Leonard's. Sir Robert Peel, who is considered one of the best shots in the kinghm, pursues his favourite sport of shooting. A deputation from the Mico Charity transacted business yesterday at the Colonial Office. Despatches were sent off yesterday from the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for the Hon. J. D. Bligh, Minister plenipotentiary to the Courtof Stockholm. The Dean and Chapter of Westminster have given instructions for a church to he erected at Kensington - Gore, at their expense, for the accommodation of their numerous tenants in that neighbourhood. The funeral of Duk- d Charles of Mecklenburg Stielitz took place at Perlin on the 23d instant. The de ceased had not he',.l the rank of Field Marshal, but the King ordered. Onit all the honours usually paid to an officer ofthat rant should be rendered on the present occasion. 'The Prussian army goes into mourning for 8 days. Itie matrimonial alliance between Lady Mary Fitz 'iuy and the Hon. Mr. Phipps, the brother of the Earl of Mulgrave, which was to have taken place next week, will, we hear, be postponed, in consequence of the demise of General Phipps. At the grand ball at Gottingen which closed the secular jubilee of the University, 2,000 persons were pre sent, including ladies. The wine consumed by this merry little party amounted to 3,096 bottles. Sixty supper tables were laid out, and completely cleared by the non dancers before the regular time ; but this had been fore seen and provided for ; the tables were-covered a second time, and on this occasion ladies alone were allowed to sit down, their partners standing behind, and taking a standing supper. Mr. M'Gregor and Mr. Frederick Lack, of the Board of Trade, left town on Wednesday lust for Vienna, in order it is understood to arrange a commercial treaty be tween this country and Austria. Before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen went to church yesterday morning a consultation was held, relative to the buSiness of to-day, which is the customary day for swearing the newly elected sheriffs. It appears to be the opinion of the Rabbi that Mr. Montefiore cannot with a safe conscience take the oaths on the Sabbath-day. It is understood that the Barons of the Exchequer will he ap prised of the fact in the course of the day, so that the ceremony will be postponed to Monday. A meeting was yesterday held in the Town-hall, Brighton, convened by the high constable, for the purpose of adopting an address to the Queen on her arrival there. An address was accordingly drawn up by a committee ap pointed with that view, and adopted by the meeting. is to be presented to her Majesty by the high bailiff, and the members for the borough. The ij G ene ral on ah Br S . c a Natavi3ifaactki:taiilCo:nesptaerndyays at one o'clock, after a fine passage from Edinburgh of forty-five hours. A correspondent of the Salem Gazette gives the followink as the substance of Dr. Alcott s work :—" For b r eakfast eat two cents.' worth of dried fipples without drink. For dinn er drink a quart of wattst o swell the apples. Take tea with a frieutl,"