The Sun. — London, England, 1837-10-11 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND. The session of the Federal Diet for 1837 was closed on the 28th ult. by a short address from the President, M. Amrhyn. M. Hegetschweller, the Deputy for Zurich, thanked M. Amrhyn for the able and impartial manner in which he had directed the labours of the Federal Assembly. The Government of Baden had forbidden Prince Louis Bonaparte to enter the city of Constance. " This petty vexation," observes the Helvetic', " suggested, no doubt, by tbe'French Government, is the forerunner of the persecu tions the Holy Alliance keep in store for our fellow-citizen." M. Rheinhardt, the son of the Peer of France, one of the most devoted partisans of the dynasty of Orleans, has been appointed first Secretary of the French Embassy in Switzer land, in the place of M. de Belleval. A society has been founded in the canton of Zurich, the object of which is to protect its members against the usuri ous exactions of the Jews. Each member pledges himself, under the penalty of a heavy fine, to enter into no sort of money transactions with individuals of that communion. The Grand Council of Basle City, which opened on the 2d instant, decreed on that day the establishment of a matrimonial tribunal. An article of the law provides, that out of the ten judges who are to compose the Court, two must be chosen from amongst the members of the clergy. A few days ago, a farmer at Craigherbs, near Mill of Boyndie, sent to a gentleman in Banff a small stone on which some engraving appeared ; this, on being exa mined, was found to be the seal of the celebrated James Sharpe, Archbishop of St. Andrew's. The stone is a small oval piece of fine clay-slate ; and, on taking off an impression in wax, the arms appeared most beautifully en graved, namely, the Cross of St. Andrew, as described in " Nisbett's Heraldry," with the paternal arms of Sharpe on a small shield below. Around is the legend, " Jacobus Episcopus St. Andrie." The arms—three crosslets—are perfectly distinct, and the shield is surmounted by the Bishop's mitre. The whole is in good preservation, and, considering the nature of the material, it has been a piece of most beautiful workmanship. The stone was turned up with the plough, in a field in which several arrow-heads of flint are frequently found, one of which is the most com plete of the kind that we have ever seen. It has been sent, along with the seal, to be deposited in the museum of the Banff Institution. It is well known that Archbishop Sharpe was a native of Banff. His father was Sheriff- Clerk of the county, and the lands of Ordens, not far from the place where the seal was found, were at one time the Bishop's property.—Aberdeen Herald. Our attention has been called to a vessel now lying in the West India Export Dock. She is a suspicious looking craft schooner rigged, and it is the opinion of nauti cal men that she is fitting out as a slaver. Surely nothing so infamous can be permitted in an English port, more par ticularly in the port of London, and under the immediate observation of the Government.—Mornini Paper. On Friday, as the carriage of Colonel Wood, M.P., drawn by four horses, was coming up Eign-street, in this city, the postilion, to avoid a wheelbarrow on the near side, puiled the horses on the opposite side of the street, by which the carriage came in contact with a farmer's waggon laden with coal, and fcom the violence of the concussion the lady's maid was thrown from the box, the pole of the car riage was broken, anal considerable damage done to the wheels and harness. The lady's maid was quite insensible when taken up, and was carried into a house in Eign-street, where medical aid being quickly summoned, it was soon found that, though much bruised, she had escaped serious injury.—lleretbrd Times. The first trial of the newly-constructed mail for car ;Tin.. dispatch es was ma d e at P ar i s on S aturday. Not withstanding' several unexpected delays, the mail reached Bourdeaux in six hours less than the usual time, accom plir,hing the distance in 281 hours. COURSING.—The season anticipated by the nume rous admirers of this favourite sport is now at hand, and the leading clubs in the immediate neighbourhood are Ne pali:lg to take the field, with great expectations of a brilliant campaign. Through the permission of the Duke of Rut land, the South Lancashire Club will meet on the 25th and 26th. at Haddon-field, in the vicinity of Bakewell, It is a noble open ptsture field of fifty acres. The hares are in the greatest abundance. On the Wednesday in the follow ing week the Manchester Club throw off on the domain of the noble patron of this Club, the Duke of Devonshire, at 'Chatsworth, and much diversion is anticipated. The various kennels are in high training, and spoken of by their several parties as sure to carry off more or less of the various cups and sweepstakes to be ran out. Mr. Lynn's cup, for 1.6 greyhounds, at 20 save, a-piece, will not, we believe, be run for until the month of February, at Hawker, near Liverpool. —Manchester Guardian. A couple of swindlers have arrived in this neigh bourhood, and are doing business genteely. The appear ance and manners of one of them in particular are such as to do credit to the profession, and to lull every suspicion of his respectability. Relying on these, he calls at those houses where customers dont give, but get gold and silver— where money is lent, not spent—and displays aam dl sample of the goods he travels in—jewellery, just such, and so much as a gentleman in distress might have to part with for a short time. A name and address are given correspond ing to the appearance, and a pound or two thus readily ob tained. The day of redemption, it is needless to say, is a remote one. Should any suspicion or accident lead to an examination of pledges, and the parties, finding them worthless, take them to the travellers, they laugh at them. This has actually been the case; great numbers here and elsewhere have been laid under contributions. Pawnbro kers, who have not already had the pleasure of a visit from these gentlemen, should be on their guard.—Devonpol t Paper. - A serious disturbance took place a few days aqo at Villeneuve St. George, in consequence of the refusal of the Curate of the parish to perform the funeral service over the body of a lady who had been married before the civil magistrate, but whose nuptials had not received the bene diction of the Church. A conflict ensued at the door of the Church, which the Curate refused to open, and in which he was slightly woun d e d . T he enraged inhahitants, con ceiving that he was acting under the dir-ctions of the vicar, went to th e M ayor , an d declared that unless he was imme diately dischameil they would turn him out of the town by main force. The Mayor having declared that be had nei ther power nor inclination to comply with their wishes, the populace became so violent that it became necessary to call in the auth or i t i es o f Corbeil, the chief town of the arron dissement, by whose temperate firmness order was restored. Au extraordinary circumstance occurred a few days a4 , .0 at Maekery-end, near Wheathamstead, the residence of the 'Misses Sibley. Som e woikmen w ere repa i r i ng the roof of th e house, which is an old-fashioned mansion, when on taking down the turret one or two of them were stung isy bees, and it was eventually discovered that the place must have been for years used as a depository by these valuable and industrious insects. The bees were destroyed, and up wards of a hundred weight of pure honey was taken from the place, besides an immense quantity of wax.—Hertford Paper. There are said to be upwards of 8,000 (leaf and dumb persons in England; while the institutions for the especial care and education of persons labouring under this calamity are not capable of receiving above 600. In Lancaster the Reformers have gained on the revision 103 rotes—a broad hint to Mr. Marton, the Tory Representative, that he must succumb to the late Member, Mr. Stewart, at the next election, inasmuch as the latter gentleman was only beaten in August by a majority of 74. --Leeds Mercury. On Saturday evening, about six o'clock, Mr. John E. Girwood, one of the clerks in the office of Messrs. Nind and Cotterill, solicitors of Throgmorton-street, was sitting in the office, talking with another person employed in the same establishment, when he suddenly started f rom his seat, exclaimed, " Oh, my back," and fell to the ground. Mr. Jord an , th e p erson w ho was with him at the time, im mediately picked him up, and placed him on a chair, when his templ es an d c h es t were b a th e d wi th vinegar and am monia. A su r ge on w a s sen t f or , w h o arrived in a few mi autes, and attempted to bleed the deceased, but ineffectu ally, as life was quite extinct. The deceased, who was a just returned man , was i n t h e 48 t h year o f hi s age, an d h a d returned from dining with his family, and was in the act of eating an app l e, when he was suddenly seized with the fit which terminated his existence. The deceased, it appears, bad been previously attacked with paralysis. An inquest was held on the body on Monday afternoon at the Auction Mart Coffee House, Throgmorton-street, before Mr. Payne a n d a respectable jury, when, after hearing evidence in accordance with the above facts, a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God," was returned. It appears that smoking is to be allowed at the frd at Seaford, one of the Boston Tory lawyers having given his " opinion," without fee, that the concern will " end in smoke." There has already been abundance of fume.' — Lincoln Gazelle. BERLIN, OCT. s.—From the Ith to the 3th, there was in Berlin ten new cases of cholera, of which six have proved fatal : six other persons attacked at an earlier pe riod have Also died, so that the whole' nuitibor of deaths is ttrelve. Lssux.--On Wednesday, i Count- Meeting wa , s; held at the Shire Hall, Chelm ,, ford, convened by Jonathan Bullock, Esq., the High Sheriff, in complianee wth the very respectably signed requisition which appeared in our last publication, for the purpose of considering an Address of Congratulation to her Majesty on her accession to the Throne, and an Address of Condolence to the Queen Do-. wager. The meeting, which was held in the Nisi Prius Court, was very respectably attended, th e Hi g h Sheriff who presided being support on hi s ri g ht by L or d R ay l e i g h, a nd on his left by Lord Western, PRICES OF STOCKS THI: Bank Stock. - 9 per Cent. Red. 9 15 0 ,04 3 per Cent. Cons 9'15 N 3% per Cent.........._ Ditto Red _ ..__. New 3% per Cent. It 0 90yi New 5 per Cent.. Bulk LongAnnuitiestoexpire Jan. 5, - 1860 14N _ 11-16 Oct. 10, USW 1434 Jan. 5, 1860 l4 15-16 15 Jan. 5, 1010 April 5, 18z1 1 ----, Jan. 5, 1870 Omniurn pin. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds.. 103% Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chillian Bonds ..,,,„.......« — Ditto Account Columbian 80nd5..„....... Ditto Account CAumbian Rends, 1824. Ditto Account Danish Bonds ...... THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account Ditto, 3 per cent. • Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds, 192 0 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic. Spanish Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Bends, I fM4 Ditto Account — Greek Bonds.•.. • •• • 0* • SO • .4 , 00000000 - Ditto Bonds, 1825 — Ditto Account 20% 1 4 French, 5 per cent —l. —c. 4 per cent —l. .—c. -- 3 per cent. —c - Exc hang e f. Dutch, 24 per cent Ditto Account Ditto, 5 per cent. ION% Ditto Account Ditto Account ....... Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 2:itto Account ••••..•"••••" Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto Account ........ .•• ............. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Great Western Railway Company 55 63% London and Birmingham Railway Company 9O 141 Ditto 1( Shares London and Greenwich Railway Company 2O 14U% Northern and Eastern Railway Company COUESE OF EXCH Amsterdam C.F. 12 6 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 6 Antwerp... Hamburg. M.B. 1314% . 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Arrived. 0 Arno - iv-a.m..... 0 1 France. 0 0 1 Guern.. 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamby] o Carthagena...... 0 0 Holland I Dublin... ....... 0 (1 Jamaica 0 Flanders 0 0 Leewarc Due.fArrived. ~........ 0 1 0 Lisbon ....... ..... &Jersey 0 0 Malta Irg ...... 0 1 ...... n d lilandi o 0 Mexico 0 0 05tend........, 0 0 Sweden ,• 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 30 minutes after 0. I Evening......sB minutes after NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " RATTLIN THE REEFER." In 3 vols. post !Ivo. THE OLD COMMODORE, By the Author of " Rattlin the Reefer," &c. IS NOW READY. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. *,,, 4 To be had of all Booksellers, and at all the Libraries. G RAND FETE FOR THE POLISH REFUGEES ! ! Under the Especial Patronage of HER MAJESTY. His Royal Highness the DUKE of SUSSEX. His Grace the Duke of Argyle. The Marquis of Breadalbane. The Earl of Scarborough. The Earl of Belfast. Lord William Bentinek. Lord Russell. Lord Dudley Stuart. Lord Panmure. Sir Hussey Vivian. Lieutenant Colonel Fox. The Honourable Colonel Dawson Darner. Thomas Wentworth Beaumont, Esq., &cc. ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, SURREY. The use of this highly popular place of resort, having been kindly granted for the benefit of the distressed POLISH EXILES ! ! excluded from all participation in the Government Grant ; the Committee for relieving these brave patriots (many of whom are in a state of the greatest destitution,) beg to announce that a SUPERB - FETE, Under the highest patrona i ;., and combining all the principal features of the past Season, will take place to-morrow, THURSDAY October 12, 1837, when it is hoped the British Public, never deaf to the call of humanity, will step forward to assist these unfortunate men, whose only crime is STRUGGLING for the LIBERTY of their NATIVE COUNTRY. MR. GREEN'S ASCENT with the ROYAL BALLOON, The BEDOUIN ARABS' Wonderful Performance on the Floating Stage, their last appearance previous to quitting England. The LAST ERUPTION of VESUVIUS ! HUNGARIAN MINSTRELS. SPLENDID MILITARY BAND, &c. Admission, 2s. 6d. ; Children, Is. Open at Twelve. TO CORRESPONDENTS. SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE RELIEF OF TIIE UNFORTUNATE POLES. We shall feel obliged if " An Englishman at Sunderland," who ha= kindly forwarded a donation of four pounds for the Poles—and one pound for another party, which party has since turned out to have greatly imposed on public credulity—will permit us to hand over the one pound also to the brave and most deserving patriots, who perilled all but honour for their native land. The publication of Ma SUN I NEWSPAPER commenced this day at lco minutes past Three o' Clock. , (0: - ;* , • rz , .., ---,, ~ ,,,r4 . - '.4 • --,1,- - , . - i, -tr. - .....4::- . 4. ~... • Zfle aUX. LONDON : WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1837. In another part of our Paper, will be found the quarterly return of the Revenue. It exhibits a con siderable falling off, when compared with the corres ponding return of last year. For this the public , sere prepared. Men do not, at this time of day, re quire to be told that the source of national revenue is the national industry, duly developed and systemati cally regulated ; nor that, when great disturbing causes occur to derange the delicate machinery by which the operations of commerce, the regulator of industry, are conducted, the effect will be felt in the revenue. This is no recondite matter. It is perfectly well understood by the public at large, and therefore no one, looking at the commercial convulsion which has lately visited this country and its principal customer America at the. same time, can be surprised at the shortcomings in the national finances, as compared with period when the mercantile horizon was unclouded, and mercantile enterprise full of confidence and hope. The real !natter of wonder is, that the hurricane which has swept over us has not been followed by much more disastrous consequences—that it has not shaken our financial resources to the centre, instead of merely causing a temporary embarrassment—and proving the solidity of those foundations on which our prosperity rests. The greatest defalcation, it will he perceived, is in the Customs. This branch of the revenue is 917,6611. short of the corresponding quarter of last year. It is to be observed, however, that that quarter's Customs were swelled to some extent by the postponement—on the petition of the great tea importers—of the payment of the new duties on tea, consequent upon the repeal of the discriminatin g duties. The deficiency on the year under this head is 1,793,973/. The Custom house may be called the barometer of our foreign rela tions in trade, and it here indicates the interruption to which these have been subjected since October 1836. In the Excise the last quarter shows a falling off from that of 1836, of 156,5621., while on the whole year the deficiency is not more than 280,9351. This disproportion may, perhaps, he attributable to the in terruption given to our internal trade by the general election. Stamps, in a commercial country, must, of course, sympathise with commerce, and accordingly we find there has been a considerable diminution in the reve nue derived from this source. The decrease on the year is 335,1571., and on the quarter 122,489/. It must at the same time be borne in mind that when the corresponding account of 1836 was made up, the re duced Newspaper SI amp Duty had been in operati , m only about three weeks, and that the penny starip has not by any means proved an equivalent for the former duty. Taxes show an increase of 22,633/. on the year, and a decrease of 26,7951. on the quarter. In the Post-office there is an increase both on the year and on the quarter. The former is 4,7431. ; the latter is more considerable, amounting to 19,0061. If this increase be the result of more economical manage ment, it says nothing ; but if—as we are inclined to think—it arises from an increasing use of the post-allele' by the public, it is a good symptom. Under the head " Miscellaneous" there is a trifling decrease both on the quarter and the year, while the " Imprest" exhibits an increase of 293,292/. on the year, and 20,2781. on the quarter. The general result is a decrease on the year of 2,097,295/. ; and on the quarter of 1,187,7621. — a result which, if not such as we have for some time been accustomed to witness, is far more favour able than, under all circumstances, we had reason to expect. The tide which has been setting against us for some time past is now turned, and will, we doubt not, lead us on, wiser by experience, in a course of substantial, and—we may add—safe, prosperity. At a public dinner giro!' by the Uxbridge Tories on Monday last to Messrs. WOOD and PowNALL, more nonsense was talked than is usual even at Tory gatherings of this sort. For instance Mr. WOOD, in alluding to the recent struggle for Middlesex, said " the late election was a proof of the power, strength, and vitality of the principles which had called the To ries into action," meaning thereby, of course that it was the strong reaction in favour of Toryism that had driven Mr. HUME from Middlesex to Kilkenny. Now this is a fallacy so absurd, that we are surprised how Mr. WOOD--high Tory though he be—could have ventured to give currency to it. Nothing but the most flagrant bribery and corruption on the part of the expert agents of the faction caused Mr. HumE's failure. Principle had nothing to do with the matter ; he was defeated, simply because his friends and sup porters refused to have rseourse to the same in sidious and unprincipled manoeuvres, which the oppo site party practised without the slightest hesitation. If for factious objects, Mr. WooD must needs distort facts, let him at least have the discretion to distort those which are less known than the one to which he has here alluded. The remainder of the speeches which were inflicted at this dinner, which was little better than a mere hole-and-corner one, deserve not the slightest notice: They were twaddle from the be • ginning to the end. England is a mighty nation in whatever point of view we regard her ; but it is only as a Naval Power that she can assert and maintain her present command ing rank among the great nations of Europe. Her Navy is her right arm—the winged evidence of her strength and security. It is, under Providence, the sleepless protector of her territory at home---the vigi lant guardian of her trade, privileges, and honour abroad. To impair the efficiency of the British Navy, or to lose sight of its interests in the turmoil of poli• tical strife, would be to abandon the commercial wel fare, the social happiness, and even the political exist ence of the British Empire, to the mercy of our enemies. Let what party soever be triumphant in Par liament and at Court, the care of the Navy should be a prime object of national solicitude. Now we regret to say that during the last ten years we have observed on the part of the Government a growing disregard to whatever had reference to the marine efficiency of this country. An Army f)r which we have had ho earthly use, and which could be easily raised at any time at one-fifth the expense which it costs to keep it permanently on foot, has had that attention lavished upon it which should have been bestowed on providing against the inefficiency of our fleet. This comes of the penchant of country gentlemen for military reviews and sham battles, and the passion of the Scions of the Aristo cracy for figuring as Commanders before Royalty in the bloodless engagements that distinguish such fields as Hyde Park. To make this grand blunder of the Go vernment the more obvious, it is only necessary to direct attention to the fact—that six months' drilling under a well-informed drill serjeant, will transform any clown into a respectable soldier, whereas it would re quire not less than five years to make a good man-of war's man. Add to this, that soldiers are not only useless, but a positive heavy expense to a country, in a time of profound peace ; whereas no circumstances can arise to justify a great commercial nation, either on the score of economy or from a confidence in the good faith of her allies, to dispense with the protection of her fleet. We published on Monday an excellent letter from a Captain in the Royal Navy to Earl MINT°, ac companied by a plan for increasing the efficiency of the marine power of England. We hare since re ceived several communications from naval officers of high rank confirming the statement addressed by our correspondent to the first Lord of the Admiralty. In fact the vitality of the subject, and the absolute necessity of taking some immediate steps to counte ract the marine policy of Russia, are becoming so evi dent, that naval officers begin to consider it their duty to volunteer advice which may influence the future votes of the House of Commons. We have the authority of a Captain of a ship of the Line for stating, that there is at present the greatest difficulty in procuring sea men to man our men-of-war ; and that without having recourse to the most barbarous system of impress ment, it would be impossible to obtain a sufficient complement of hands, in the event of a sudden de mand for putting our naval strength into requisition. The following observations on the main causes o: such a state of things are extracted from a letter o. this gentleman's published by a Provincial Content- E SUN, LONDON, 'WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1837 forecastle, and placed under the peculiar care and gui dance of each Captain of the station. Those who had a turn as artificers under the carpenter, the caulker, the sail maker (indeed, all should be taught the use of palm and needle), should, at the end of the usual period, when the state of the ship, and ship's company, are inspected by the Port Admiral, previously to " paying off," undergo an examination by properly qualified officers : and the executive officers afloat should understand, that the im provement of the apprentices was looked for equally with the condition and state of the ship. The apprentices should then be turned over to the ship about to be com missioned. Those who had improved most in seamanship, as sail-makers, riggers, &c., should, although still considered as apprentices, receive the rating of landsmen or ordi nary seamen, and might, even before the expiration of their apprenticeship, arrive at still higher ratings ; but, in all cases, to serve out their seven years, with occa sional leave of abtence to visit home, as circumstances might arise. A class of well-dispOsed men-of-war seamen, accustomed to the cleanliness and comforts of a man-of-war, would thus be raised. They would start into manhood with seven years time for their pensions in after life, and, wedded to the ser►ice from their early habits and recol lections, would promote their whole welfare, and the advan tage of the nation. This proposal harmonizes in every respect with the outline of the plan which appeared in our columns of Monday. Upon one point we find all naval officers perfectly agreed—namely, that our fleet is neither so numerous nor so well manned as it ought to be, if proper regard were had to the best interests of the country. We have always advocated the most rigid economy; but never the " penny wise and pound foolish" economy that would suffer a ship to rot rather than incur the expense of caulking and fitting her out for sea. Besides, it is scandalous to witness the gross profusion with which the revenue is lavished to keep up a Pauper Peerage Pension List, while a " candle-end and cheese-pairing" system of economy is enforced in whatever relates to our Navy. We stated yesterday some of the measures which Lord GOSFORD had had recourse to, in order to stifle public opinion regarding the conduct of the British Government, and of the late House of Commons, in passing the Revolutionary Resolutions, by which the money was to be taken from the Treasury of Lower Canada, without the sanction, and contrary to the de termination, of the Representatives of that Province. We gave an example of a Mr. Amicr, a County Member, who had been struck out of the Commission of the Peace, because he attended a public meeting of his own constituents. We now annex another corres pondence of Lord GOSFORD'S Civil Secretary, which will explain further the grounds of his proceedings. At a public meeting at St. Laurent, resolutions were passed not to consume any articles on which duty of import (which, by the resolutions of the British Parliament, were to be taken and appropriated without the consent of•the House of Assembly,) were charged, and to encourage the introduction of articles from the American frontier by smuggling—thus intending to deprive the Governor of any revenue to take away in the unconstitutional manner proposed. Major DE LORIMIER, of the militia, was supposed to have been present, and he was questioned as to his attendance at the meeting three months after the time. The answer will show the. spirit that is now generally existing in the Province, and the danger to the British connection by persevering in the present system, of terror : Correspondence between the Civil Secretary and F. M. C. De Lorimier, Esq. Castle of St. Louis, Quebec, Aug. 17, 1837. STR,—The attention of the Governor-in-Chief having been lately c,tlled to a report contained in the Vindicator newspaper of the 15th May last, of the proceedings of a meeting holden the day before at St. Laurent, at which you took an active part, and at which resolutions were passed, some of which distinctly recommended a violation of the laws—his Excel lency enjoins me to command you, as one of those holding Commissions from the crown, to say if you were present at that meeting, and if you concurred in the resolutions which wore adopted thereat ; for, in that case, I must ask you if you have any explanations to offer on this matter. I have the honour to be, Sze. S. WALCOTT, Civil Secretary. Major Do Lorimier's Answer. Montreal, 19th August, 1837. SIR,-1 acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated 17th inst., in which his Excellency requires me to say if I was present at a meeting holden at St. Laurent on the 15th May last, and if I concurred in the resolutions passed there. I should not reply to that letter, except by denying his Excellency the right of interrogating me on a subject of this nature, did I not fear to increase still further, by a re fusal of explanations, the doubt which my absence from the meeting in question might leave of my political opinions. I therefore inform his Excellency that my domestic occupa tions alone could have prevented my attendance ; that I was !here in heart, and concurred, with - all my spul,in the reso- lutions which were passed there. It is the hatred of my enemies which, no doubt, causes them to read what the Vindicator of the 16th May, to which you alluded, never published. If it was desirable to take advantage of the presence of one of the members of my family at that meet ing, as a pretext to draw from me an explanation sufficient to conceal the injustice of a dismissal, and to cause me to lose my Om:mission as lifajor, I rejoice at it. That com mission is all that the envy and injustice of the British Go vernment granted me in memory of my very long services in the last war a , !ainst the United States, and I shall not regret an office which serves only to remind me daily of in gratitude.' (Signed) F. M. CHEVALIER DE LORIMIER. S. Walcott, Esq. Dr. WOLFRED NELSON, a Magistrate, had at tended a public meeting of the County of Richelieu, assembled to express their opinion on the proceedings of the British Parliament, and of the Governor, Lord GOSFORD : the correspondence we annex will show the system of coercion and terror now reigning in Canada. We ask Lord MELBOURNE how long this system of terror and proscription is to continue ; and what he can expect from such offensive proceedings ? Let him look back to Ireland ! Correspondence between the Civil Secretary and Dr. Wolfred Nelson, J. P. The Civil Secretary to Dr. Nelson. Castle of St. Louis, Quebec, Aug. 10, 1837. Sia,—The attention of the Governor-in-Chief having lately been called to a report in the Vindicator newspaper, of the 12th May last, detailing the proceedings of a meet ing held on the 7th of the same month in the County of Richelieu, at which you are stated to have been present, and to have taken an active part, and where resolutions were passed, some openly recommending a violation of the laws, and others advancing doctrines of which the seditious and unlawful nature cannot for a moment be doubted, I am directed by his ExCellency to call upon you, as one holding a Commission from the Crown, and whose peculiar duty, therefore, it is to uphold, and inculcate obedience to, the laws, to state whether you were present at that meeting. If so, I am to inquire whether you have any explanation to offer in your justification. I have the honour to be, &c. S. WALCOTT, Civil Secretary. Wolfred Nelson, Esq., J. P. St. Denis, County of Richelieu. Dr. Nelson's Answer. St. Deni•, Aug. 16, 1837. SIR,--I consented to have my name placed in the Com mission of the Peace, oul , y after the urgent and repeated solicitation of the inhabitants of this place and vicinity. To maintain the situation at the sacrifice of prin ciples I cherish and deem correct, and of my rights and privileges as a British subject, I never will. Wherefore, I request that the " Commission I hold from the Crown" may be forthwith cancelled. A vast responsibility, in my mind, rests with those who have counselled his Excellency in some of the late pro• ceedings of the Executive Government. His Excellency the Governor may possibly recollect the conversation I had with him in January, 1836. To your categorical letter of the 10th inst. I cannot vouchsafe any other answer than the present. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant, WFD. NELSON. S. Walcott, Esq., Civil Secretary, Quebec. The Civil Secretary's Reply. Castle St. Louis, Quebec, Aug. 22, 1837. Sir,—l am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th inst., in which you decline to give the explanations required of you by my letter of the 10th, and requesting that your Commission as a Justice of the Peace might be cancelled. In reply, I am to acquaint you that the Governor-in-chief cannot perceive that in calling upon you to disavow doctrines, encouraging smuggling, and ex citing to unlawful acts, he was requiring you to sacrifice any principles that could be deemed correct, or any rights or privileges enjoyed by a British subject. Your Commission as a Magistrate will be immediately cancelled. I have the honour to be &c. S. WALCOTT, Civil Secretary. W. Nelson, Esq., St. Denis. The whole of the Paris papers of Monday have reached us. On Sunday evening the Government re ceived a telegraphic announcement of the death of the Duchess of ST. LEU, who expired on the sth inst., at five o'clock in the morning, at Arencnberg in Swit• zerland. The despatch, which appears in the 31oni teur of Monday, is accompanied with the following biographical sketch of the deceased : " Hortense Eugenie de Beauharnais was born at Paris on the 10th April, 1783. She was the daughter of Viscount Alexandre de Beauharnais, who died on the scaffold in 1793, and of Josephine Taschor de la Pagerie, subsequently married to the Emperor Napoleon. On the 4th of January, 1802, she was married to Louis Buonaparte—a match ef fected through the influence of her mother, and which, like most political matches, was a source of domestic unhappiness to both parties. Louis, who was then twenty-two years old, ascribes to this union all the misfortunes of his life, every hour of which it saddened. Both before the nuptial:, and during the ceremony, they felt that they could never agree, and yet they'complied with the wish of Josephine and the will of her husband. From the 4th of January, 1802, to September, 1807, when they finally separated, they lived together scarcely four months, at three long intervals. Three children were the issue of this ill-fated marriage. The eldest, Napoleon Charles, died in Holland in May,lBo7. The second, Napoleon Louis, was christened at St. Cloud, by Pope Pius VII. It is he that Louis endeavoured to raise to the Throne of Holland, when he abdicated, in 1810. He was killed in the insurrection which took place in Romagna in 1832. The third son, Charles Louis Napoleon, is the youth who made the late attempt at Strasbourg. On Louis Buonaparte's arrival at Rome, in September, 1814, he in sisted upon his eldest son being sent to him. Hortense re fusing to part with either of them, he applied to the Tri bunals, which, after much discussion, issued a decree in his favour. Napoleon had, in the meantime, re-ascended the Throne, and it was only on his second abdication that young Napoleon Louis was restored to his father. " Hortense's health had long been declining, but her death has been hastened by the alarm and anxiety caused by her son's rash expedition to Alsace, and his subsequent impri sonment. The title of Duchess de Saint Leu, which she had borne since the fall of the empire, is derived from the estate of Saint Leu, near Paris, which, after being the pro perty of Louis Buonaparte, was purchased by the late Duke de Bourbon, and by him left to Madame de Fcu cheres, who has sold a part of it. On his abdication Louis Buonaparte assumed the title of Count de Saint Leu, un der which he was wont to travel. It was by Louis XVIII. that Hortense was created Duchess de Saint Leu." The accounts from Africa are expected to be soon very interesting. The BEY of Constantine has en trusted the defence of his capital to the AGA, being himself resolved to keep the field at the head of 6,000 cavalry, in order to harass the enemy. A confirma tion of the arrival of 5,000 Turkish troops to reinforce the army of the BEY has reached the French Govern ment. The French invading force consists of 14,120 infantry, 2,500 cavalry, and 48 pieces of ordnance. This force is exclusive of camp-followers, the medical staff and assistants in the hospital department, and the troops appointed to guard the two camps between Bona and Constantine. The following comprises the latest news from Africa received by the French Government Toulon, Oct. 5, at Noon. " On the Ist instant the three brigades crossed the Soy house with his Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours and General Damremont, a part of the artillery, and of the administration convoy. " The weather was fine. The remainder was to depart next day with the fourth brigade. It is hoped that all will be assembled under the walls of Constantine on the 6th. " The health of the lath of the Line is materially im proving. " Three hundred horses and two hundred gunners landed on the 2d from Marseilles, and have been moved to the camp." Tile accounts communicated to the French autho• ritie.s from Spain will be best gathered from the ac companying telegraphic despatches : " Bayonne, Oct. 7, Eight P.H. " An expedition which has partly succeeded, and in which Lord John Hay has co-operated, left St. Sebastian on the 3], in order to surprise Guetaria ; _it returned to St. Se bastian on the 4th, with much booty. It was said at St. Sebastian that Don Carlos had re-entered Navarre. " The bands of Sanz who hare left Cabrera to join again Don Carlos have intercepted tilt! Madrid road for some days." " Bayonne, Oct. 8." " Espartero was on the 29th at Penacerrada. Lorenzo having arrived on the 28th at Aranda, found it occupied by Don Carlos and Zariategui, who retreated the next clay towards Gumiel de Izan. On the 3d inst., 1,700 Carlists occupied Ochogania, after having defeated a handful of national guards, who took refuge in France to avoid b eing • compelled to lay down their arms." The following is from the Correspondent of the Con stitutionnel at Burgos, and confirms the account pub lished yesterday from the Madrid Correspondent of the same Journal. Be it remembered, however, that we do not vouch for the authenticity of statements copied from our Paris Contemporaries : _ _ " Burgos, Oct. 3. " We have around us above 6,000 men. The Carlist Junta of Camille, which has fortified San Leonardo, came yesterday to establish itself at Santo Domingo de Silos, General Espartcro pursuing the Pretender without inter mission. Don Carlos is at Pinilla, Tras-os-Montes, at his last gasp, while our General, having divided his army into two columns, occupied the day before yesterday, in person, Sagos ; Buerens occupied Bregus ; Lorenzo was rapidly marching, after occupying Avanda, in order to cover the Arlanza, on the side of Cobarrubias. Baron Carondelet is to arrive this day at Villodrijo, seven leagues off. Thus we' are about to have near us, perhaps in 48 hours; above 24,000 men, determined on driving back the Pretender into the Basque Provinces." The annexed extracts from the French Journals of Monday all have reference to passing events in the Peninsula : Among the numerous journals which we have received from Madrid in the last few days, we find a fact which it is important to point out. On the sitting of the Cortes on the 26th September the following proposal was read : " The undersigned having learnt that the Government had, at the instance of the Ambassadors of France, first granted to that power, the use of the little islet of Reyan, Portmahon, for the purpose of forming there a depot of coals, and considering this measure us prejudicial to the in terests of the island, requests the Cortes to order the Go vernment immediately to submit to the Assembly all the documents and information concerning that affair, and to suspend the execution of the above-named measure. (Signed) " CAMPANER and BARDAXE." The proposal was approved, as the telegraphic despatch of yesterday took care to state that not one of the new Spanish Minister was a member of the Cortes. We must infer that the Senor Bardaxe who signed the proposal, which betrays great towards France, is not the new Minister for Foreign Affairs, which would have been a bad sign for our relations with the newly formed Spanish Cabinet. The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the sth says : The Consul-General of Spain at Bayonne has sent 100,000 francs to Navarre on the plate from Pampeluna. This money is intended for the troops. The troops that could be spared from St. Sebastian are gone to different points of the line of Hernani to reinforce it. It is affirmed that 900 English are expected from Lon don at St. Sebastian.—Le Commerce. A letter of the 30th September to the Sentinelle des Pyrenees is to the following effect : " We have learnt that the Pretender has been completely beaten in two actions. What, in our opinion, confi rms this news, is the departure of the Carlist troops, whi c h, for some days past, had occupied !,lie line of Zubieri, and which was to attempt a division, in order to attract the at tention of the Christino troops. " The Carlists, before they retired, carried off some flocks in the valley of Salagne, and also burnt some houses at Irre barri, but they were repulsed at the Bridge of Aribe, by the Escoanos. ,‘ On their return they threatened Valcarlos, all the fa milies from which have sought refuge in our territory, ex cept the men, who are goae by the Col d'lba.neta towards Itoncevaux, to combat the enemy if he should approach. A company of Grenadiers has been sent from this place to the frontier, and returned this morning, they having ascer tained that the enemy had disappeared." The same journal says : " The women and children of Valcarlos and the cattle have been conducted into the French territory. The vo lunteers have retired into the forts, fully resolved to defend themselves. The Spanish Consul ut Bayonne has sent to the fugitive families rations of bread, wine, and meat. It is affirmed th a t the Carlists have entered the first houses of Valearlos." The Saragossa journals of Oct. 1 contain the follo wing facts : Comman dant " The factious arc pursued eve r y where. Boned does not give them a moment's respite la Lowcier Arragon ; he every day ifcouldti Carlist General, Moreno, had not joined Cabrera he t captures some of them. infallibly have taken him prisoner. Cabrera arrived a Cantaveija almost alone ; he has lost all his cavalQueen.' ry: Public spirit is much rev ived in favour of the Constitutionnel. FRENCH FUNDS—PARIS, Our. 9. five par Cents., 108 f. Sec. 75c. Four per .ettls,, 100 f. 15c. three per (A.Nnts., 80f. 15c. 10c. 2Cc. Bank Actions, 2,445 f. Crete de Napl es, .09e. 20c. Fc. 15c. 25c. Roman Five per C e nts., 101. Spanish Actives, 207 f, 111, Spanish Passives, 4%. Belgian Five per Cittntr, 102 Brussels Society, 1,072 f. 50c, Belgian Bank, 1,435 f. I,4tinf. 1,457 f. 50c. P or t ug uese Loan, Three per Cents. 25k 'l5. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 5:, e• kaytian Loan. 36:f. EACIIANGR ors Lorthog. One month, paper, —f. —c.; money, 25f. 475,ic ree months, paper, 25f. 32 lie. • money, 25t. 30c. —Cours Authentiaue. --•- LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., 10f. Sec. Three per Cents. 80f. 25c. Rank Action.. 2,443 E Roman Five per Cents., 101. Belgian Loan, 10'2. Belgian Bank, 1,4331 Brussels Society, 1,672 f. .50c. Portuguese Three per Cents., 24%. Haytian Loan, 3656 .riallish Actives, 21. Spanish Passives 4%. DUTCH FUNDS— AmsTNnosm, OcT. 9. Money. Bills. 54 - 4 Actual Debt, 21-4 . per Cent 101 4 Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. ..................... ••• Amort Svadie, 4 per cent 93)Y 764 Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent • 16041 Commercial Company, 4'o per cent l6llll 99 % Ditto M 32 and 1833) 5 per cent. ......... 0314 Loan 1836, 4 per cent .1% Ditto 1437, 6 per cent. 12 07v Exchange on London, One - month Two months PRUSSIAN FUNDS—BERLIN, OcT. 5. monef• Bills. 10•2 3 i, St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent ... 102 g; !CPA Prussian English Loan, IS3O, 4 per cent. 101% Exchange on London, three months ... 6 23% —Prussian State Gazette. Oct. 6. i DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. lndia Stock...—. .... ........... Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock Old Annnities — New Ditto .- 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 — Exch. Bills, £1,000... ...... 50 52 pm. Ditto .... ...........500 5O N pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial — pm. Ditto Advertised pm [tank Stock for Account... ..... India Stock for Acc0unt......... Consols for Acconnt 92 IA 4 porary " Whilst considerable increase has taken place in the size of the mast and yards, ships are now sent to sea half manned, and even half-armed. From this system of re ducing the complement, the ordinary duties of working the ship, the anchors, and the cables, become to the crew heavy and harassing labour. The yards and sails, which formerly flew to their different evolutions at the word of command, are now slowly dragged aloft, and, when there, it is equally tedious and difficult to reduce them to their original positions. Sailors know where the work is hard. Men-of-war's men have been a ccus t ome d _ _ to find their duties light and easy in full manned ships, and cheerfully have vied with each other in smartness and dexterity of evolution. The advantages gained by this emulation are incalculable. But this profitable rivalry no longer exists. The men feel the weakness of the crew. They and the officers bow to circumstances. The zeal, the activity, and the energies of both, are beaten down : and when once the system of a long drag and a slow drag is established, it is not easy to get out of it. If an officer tries to do Me thing in the old way, he fails. The ship's company are disgusted. Men will not enter for a vessel of war, with the masts and yards of a line-of-battle ship, and the complement of a small frigate. To persevere in such a practice is the ruin of both men and officers. A good seaman, who had served in the Pique, being asked by one of his officers to re-enter when th a t s hi p was re commissioned, made this pithy reply--" No, no, Sir ; I have done with line-of-battle ships in disguise." In a 74 gun-ship we are now allowed a complement of 520 officers, men, and boys. The war complement is 600. Of the present reduced complement, fifty are boys, sent into the ships for the avowed purpose of makin g seamen . But when a servant for every officer is deducted, few of these boys remain as available hands, and these few are stuck on the mizen-topsail-yard, and a very small propor tion ever arrive beyond a bondsman's rating. The ship is paid off at the end of three years. These boys are turned adrift ; and by the time their money is spent, and their friends are anxious to be rid by them, they are beyond a boy's age, are rejected as seamen, and soon forget the little they have been taught. It follows that they are forced to other employment, snd are compelled to abandon the service." So much for the baneful effects of the present svg tern—or rather of the prevailing indifferenc e to the efficiency of a Navy once the pride and glory of Englishrneu. Now for the proposed remedy : I propose that every ship should be completed on the peace establishment according to her numerical vvar esta blishment, by apprentices bound to her Majesty's service for seven years ; these apprentices to be taken at th e age an d rating of first class boys; to be distributed i n diff erent parts of the ship, in the fore and main tops, from thence to the Due THE MARKETS-(THIS DA CORN EXCHANGE. o icle' The arrirnls of most kinds of Grain this week arc co tra de rable, and of Flour there is a fair quantity. The Wheat remains extremely dull, and hardly supports Monday's P' ia ,,, Barley, Beans and Peas meet very little demand to-auri,iet Oats also are heavy in disposal, at the terms of last m ar day. There is scarcely any sale for Flour this week. A roll VALS. Wheat. Barley. , Oats. flour. ~,. _ 90 1 15"' E:tgllgh - Irish - Foreign 1,850 510 ....--• LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS D DEAL, OCT. 10.—Arrived the Marcus Rundle, f r°11•1 York ; Brunswick, Tully, from Quebec'; I3etsey, R ich a " -6' from oughal. CH Y ATHAM, OCT. 10.—Arrived the Champion, Classen, from Archangel. MARGATE, OCT. 10.—Arrived off port, the Charles fir°°lte' Bell, from St. Vincent's. n leS, PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 10.—Arrived the Cambridge, '-'Y from DARTMOUT n d e , f from H, OCT. 10.—Arrived the KuniB . si co re FALMO UTH, OCT. 9.—Arrived the Ada, Hill, from A ux- Cayes ; Penzance packet, from Cork. nue DUBLIN, OCT. B.—Arrived the Isabella, Miller , from " bee ; Elizabeth, Weddell, from Leghorn ; and Mary Swe- Sweet, from Oporto. Creel HULL, OCT. 10.—Arrived the Red Rover, Brown , • , St. Petercburgli ; Einighiet, Orloff, from Memel; Claussen, from Dantzic. fraffi ALDBOROUGH, OCT. 10.—Arrived the Alexander, - Archangel, and Normanby, Tate, from St. Petersburg's._ rk, LIVERPOOL, OCT. 10.—Arrived the Mozambique, ..,Cr%g, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Sir W. Scott, 1° ,,, u- t b from Dalhousie ; Dyrope, Hamilton, from Montreal ; an e Hercules, —, from Onega. from CLvnu, OCT. 9.—Arrived the Catherine, Hindman, re t, Jamaica ; Science, M'Lellan, Mom Honduras ; M Ar g a ie • Cornell, from Barbadoes ; Jane, Jameson from St. Glt , nifer, —, from Trinidad ; Acadine, from St. J°Pri and the Corsair, R;tchie, from Quebec. ' E Henrietta ST. JOHN 5, NEW 13RUNSWICK Arrived the Ann, e — i r , from Bristol ; Ward, Masters, from Liverpool ; Mary ' a 0; line, —, from Londonderry ; and the Jas. Bailie, Oliver, fr o m Belfast. el, CORK, OCT. B.—The Masters, Le Bas,-arrived from j acll ; o ss reports that the day previous accounts were received of the l o ss at Aux Cayes of a French vessel, which sailed fo r the utit States a week before the Masters. frog' s GRAVESEND, OCT. B.—Arrived the Kingston, Styleg,gebe, Bombay ; Gentoo, Black, from Calcutta. Oct. 9 , h - pes- Malcolm, from Singapore ; Patriot, C. G. Hope, I'l' o 'l 4th tongee; Romance, Bombay, sailed from the Sand ileac' June. t, - to CHARLFATON, SEPT. B.—The Comet, Faber, fro rn ble Kinsale, put into this port a few weeks since with c onsiuc' damage, having been run foul of; cargo discharging. THE FUNDS.—(THIS DAY.) oar' CITY, TWELVE O'Ci- fit ly We have very few arrivals this morning—consequg there' is a very great dearth of intelligence. •ers l Money begins to be more in demand than for V at ic days past, and the Foreign Exchanges are steady, with - doing. h• itea In the British Funds the business doing is • of a --cli f no eY description. Consols closed yesterday at 921 * for and Account. They were chiefly occupied in the linnt• in making up their accounts for to-morrow, wh ich is °- Cling day for Consols. THE FUNDS. 4 jeGICY Consols opened this morning at 92*effect . The deu e " kt• in the revenue has not had much on the n ittr : • Exchequer Bills 50 53 prem.; India Bonds 52 5a Pre-. India Stock 260 i ; Bank Stock 21 0 i. In the Foreign Market Spanish A c tive closed at "Wu with Coupons ; without ; opened at 201 I- with r . s :ts., pons ; Portuguese 391 ; opened at 393- • a per j ° tir 251 26 ; Dutch Two-and-half per Cents., 53 b' ` 1 " . hien 26. state The commercial accounts fr om Calcutta to Jen.,,,e - ' npe ati that trade was very dull there, the transactions i n r il.- re po goods being of a very limited d e scription, and the reP of the Indigo crops not very d favourab LF-PA,-,- le. ° a te - A We have seen a l e tt er thi s m orning from Lisbon again the h 4th inst., whi c h s t ates th a t the Ministers havei‘not tendered their res i gna ti ons , b u t her Majesty au eve ' r thought prope r t o a ll ow t h em to re tire. It Vr pe e , a a believed that u p on th e re t urn o f S da Band eir Cabinet will b e formed. decl ine The Consol Market has experienced little or no eh , re' during the morning, on account of the deficiency of H on ey venue. Consols are at present 92* -I, both for 'Nov, and for the A c count. Reduced, 91* - ex-dividend ;ia nods, 998 ; Exchequer Bills, 50 52, premium ; In 52 54, premium ; B a nk Stock, 208, ex-dividend ; Stock, 260 i In the Foreign Market very little doing. - 13 , r a hr e e Per tive, 201 * with Coupons ; Portuguese , 30} ; "--patell Cents, 254- 26 ; Brazilian, 831 ; Belgian, 103 i ; Two and a Half, 53-k. the The various British Funds are all op en to-day, a public will receive their dividends on FridaY• o f the The Batarier has just arrived. Amsterdam Pr ices ; 9th—Two and a Half, 52i ; Five per Cents, Spanish, 181. VOLOC K. Consols for the Account, 921 *• Pleas, to be succeeded The Hon. Judee Comlll°ll u(i tr:tyir Attorney-General(l‘:,iorr.eretire from Limerick Chronicle. w o iN u lr. Ball, M.P., it is expected, will succeed 3 t, of lfe in the office of Attorney-general, and Mr. E''',i' r o f s T i h dvv e . r t e : li u6 a ad. Liverpool, is to be provided a seat in the borourg Cashel.—Limerick Chronicle. 00T.. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCA .4 per lb. The sales are under 1,000 bags, mostly to-day, a" s been very little enquiry for C Cotton i n prico• principal the market is quite inactive, but no ange n, r., 0 03 A Ame ric an, e laoslfie ~1---r. , f the lower part of the town have lately lost some 0 f the n customers,erst t d o b n y e o t I r ., e two ir b becoming 0 In the in g. p u 1) 1 i c - h o u s their in Tee-total T Society.—Lincoln Gazette , nsis t The band of Drury-lane Theatre is said to co _, of l nea r ly 100 performers, many of them first-rate musician:3. ta n ~ be times of Garrick and of " N os ey," the orchestra co i d scarcely more than a fourth of this number. to„ We are glad to find that a fete is to take plac e e ,, o f morrow at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, for t he ben n e ' ro , the distressed Poles, who do not participate in the g°' ~r id ment grant. It can scarcely be necessary to rcoil:o:re. those poor exiles to the humanity of the B r itish Pu u l l e , members o Their misfortunes are too well known to require any o u. O scription from us ; and the abject state of destituti o 1. 1 . . which some of the noblest spirits of Poland a re rlow r e s , duccd, will in itself be sufficient to induce all who aPP. t ., ass' to ciate valour and patriotism in a dversity, to lend an ag r in e g nd h e a r n a d. pub l l ' i l c i , e a d pipsetraelsnseoefesinsaarn3yr. of them is So grea" A gold coin of the Emperor Nero, , g o, and in excellent preservation, was found a few wee by a woman hoeing turnips, in a field near Durham. /, head of the Emperor is as fresh and prominent a s , Wir e , it was struck. Obverse, •" Avgvstvs Nero etcsar: k...- Cvstos. verse, Jupiter sitting on a throne, " Jvpiter Aretocastle Chronicle. of great heantP , ..-