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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CXCVI. lin/ftbe published on Wednesday next. the 13th hist ant. CONTENTS. I. Joseph de Maistre. 11. Life and Letters of Mr. Justice Story. 111. Japan. Ty. Traits of the Irish Peasantry— Carleton. Q. Cholera and Quarantine. . R e presentative Reform. VII. Mies Pardoe's Marie de Medici. irul. Artillery end Ships of War—Sir H. Douglas and Colonel Chesney. Tim Late Ilections and Free Trade. Aeseies: Leave:Lim aad Ca. Edinburgh : A and C. Black. THEATRE ROYAL, fIAYMARECZT. Mr. B W , hAter, flif) Lessee and Manager. Old Bromptort. Being his Farewell Season as Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, W'll be performed Holerof , 's Comedy of THE ROAD TO RUIN. rrinclpal characters by Messrs. Stuart, Leigh Murray, Lambert, A, Wigan, and Miss Ross Bennett. After which, THE WO vIAN I ADORE. To conclude with YOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER. THEATRE ROYAL, kDELPHL Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Directress, Madame Celeste. Real Attraction. Ath appearance of Madame Celeste since her return from America. Tins EVENING, MI be performed THE GREEN BUSHES, by Madame Celeste, 3,1396 Woelger, Messrs. Paul Bedford, Emery, Honey, &c. Te conclude wilt the celebrated Adelphi Drama of JACK SHEP PARD. J6ne.;:.1.-..r_ Wild, Mr. S. Emery; Owen Wood, Mr 0. Smith ; Jack Skeppard, MN. Keeley; Blueskin, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Thames Darrell, Miss k:llen Chaplin ; Winnitred, Miss Laura Honey. ROYAL PRINCEss'S TIIr:ATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean. THIS EVENING, WCI be presented THE PRIMA DONNA. Principal characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, and Cathcart; 2.liss Robertson, and Miss Heath. After which a new Melodrama, entitled MONT ST. MICHEL ; or, The Fairy of the Stndg, by Messrs. Wright (his 3d appear ance here), Harley, Ryder, Graham, Cooke, Everett, and Chester ; MissesMarshall,Vi 'ash, and Carlotta Leclercq. To conclude with TIIE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER, in which Mx. Wright will sustain his original character. it till 5. The Box-oftlice is open da il y from A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITHEATRE. Under She Patronage of her Majesty and his Roynl ffighness prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager. Mr. W. Batty. E ven ing, with the Largest Equestrian Establishment Op e n Lyon,' in the World. Most Gratifying Success ! The great sensation created by the extraordinary performances i v io btly presented, surpasses all expectation. There will be an entire ehstinge of Scenes in the Arena, embracing both Foreign and British Art; stes, and the wonderful Brothers Seigrist, on " La Perche," wko are nightly hailed with thunders of applause. The Drawing-room evolut:ons of the Nicoll Family tie Globe Juggler—French Vault ing an d the different acts of Gymnastic Exercises—and the beautiful Trained Steeds —making it in all one of the most pleasing evening's amusement ever presented to the public. The doors open at Hail-past Six o'clock; the Performances commence at Seven. _ . Half-price at Hatt-past Eight. 4dmlssion—Stalls, 55.; Dress Boxes, Upper Boxes, 33.; Et, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, 6d. Tickets to be had at the Box-office trom Even till Four daily. Stage Manager, Mr. Leclelercq. PORTRAITS WELLINGTON AND SOULT , WITH MEMOIRS AND FAC-SniILES OF THEIR HAND- WRITINGS. A PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON TOGETHER WITH THE MOST SPLENDID LIKENESS OF SOULT EVER TAKEN, BY WYON, FOB WHICH THE MARSHAL SAT SIX TIMES, IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED, AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, PRICE SIXPEACE. Sun Office, Oct. 0, 1852. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tate DAY —Morning 9 rain. after 10 I Evening 51 min. after 10 To-Moasow—Morning 29 min. after 11 I Evening 0 min. after 0 THE WPATHEIL—SuIt OFFICE, OCTOBER 9. THERMOMETER, ni THE SHADS. 44—highest lance noon yesterday. as— to eat this morning and daring the night. 44 :his day, at noon _ BA ROM ETRE, 30.02. Wrm N.N.W.— cold breeze and sunshiny weather. DAILY WEATHEI TABLE. state of the Wind and Weather at each of the following pieces at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations ar' arranged in order of latitude. Poor—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Elevrrrsoa—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—overcast. SOIITHAMPTQN—Wind W., gentle breeze—foggy. F MILESTONE— ind N.W., light airs—overcast. TIMBRIDGE—Wind W., calm—overcast. BAsmasTo KE—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. GRE ENWICLI—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—overcast. &moon—Wind N., gentle breeze—overcast. Yeascotrre—Wlnd W., gentle breeze—cloudless. totsnms.n—Wind N., strong breeze—rain. SHAD—Wind N. gentle breeze—partially cloudy. itArrocK—Wind N.W., strong breeze—cloudless. 'The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Thursday morning at nine a'eock N.W. calm—cloudless. lktuttotoea— , .. ilia N.W., strong breeze—overcast. OLCHESTEB. —Wind S.W., hard wind—partially cloudy. fioLvitEAD—Wind N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. Wan - By—Wind N., strong breeze—principally clear. BRAT—Wind N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. • , - • 4.z.i ~.:1 1` • A • ;t: '''!"/_-..r.5c4: - A, • ... . mo-• Ok• sini ebTo7anilt LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1853. AnD-EL KADER'S captivity appears to be at length actually approaching the period of its termination. Unless we are grievously mistaken in our newly re vived hopes in regard to the release of the heroic pri• soner of the Chateau d'Amhoise, the Marquis of LoN- DOPDERRY has not interceded in vain in behalf of the EAtIR'S emancipation. The confidence reposed in the clemency of the PRINCS PRE.IDENT of the French Republic seems, in truth, in this particular, to have been not altogether misplaced. It will be remem bered that the promise spontaneously given to Lord LONDONDERRY by the Chief of the neighbouring de mocracy in reference to the proposed act of mingled justice and magnanimity, declared that ADD-EL SALES should, before the expiration of 1852, be re lieved from the miseries of incarceration. The pre scribed time is now rapidly approlching its conclusion and still the Arab Leader is in close confinement. But —active preparations appear to he at last in progress for the fulfilment of the engagement made in favour of the unfortunate warrior by the good sense of Louis NAPOLEON—a good sense digitated at once by the feeling of generosity and by the sympathies arising from w kindred experience. During five or six years the PRINc➢ was a close prisoner in the fortress of Ham—and the indelible remembrance of that interval cannot but have ay.:,kened i❑ his heart a sentiment of regret for the sufferings of the EMIR in the five or six years during which he has been a close prisoner in the Chateau d'Amboise. Actuated by this very com- srehensible sympathy for the miseries endured by the noble captive, the PRINCE PRESIDENT, we repeat, pledged his word to Lord LONDONDERRY that before another twelvemonth should have expired the Arab Chieftain should be once more at liberty. In yielding that encouraging assurance to the intercession on behalf of the EMIR, Louis NAPOLEON must have remembered—and not without emotion— that it was the same veteran soldier who, on the occasion of his owu calamities, bad pleaded in his favour to King LOUD PHILIPPE, then invested with supreme power as the head of the French Government. Under thes e circumstances it was that the promi se was a • given, as before-mentioned, by the Prince Louis NAPOLEON, to the effect that, before the close of 1852, ADD -EL. KADER should be aga i n enjoying freedom beyond the frontiers of the re m ' Republic. Scarcely a single quartertrt now that October has commenced, during which ai anise can witness the event of its fulfilment.aArapprole Ampl e ti m e, however, i 3 still left for th e completion of the engagement made with Lord LONDONDERRY by the PRESIDENT, so - that within the prescribed limits the Eurx may exult in the long delayed and anxiously expected incident of his liberation. It is by this time tolerably well known in diploma tic circles, that M. BACCIOCHI proceeded very re cently upon an extraordinary mission to the Cabinet at Constantinople. Conjectures were, of course, at once rife as to the pre vise nature of this mission, and hopes were very naturally excited in some quarters &at it might prove to hate iniznediate reference to the projected release of the illustrious prisoner at Amboise. According to a statement which hes re eently appeared in the Adependance Beige, these hopes, in fact, may be regarded as by no means likely to prove altogether illusory. If we may credit the Assertion of that journal, the mission with which M. BAcctocen was entrusted by the French Govern ment, on po.otodin - . the, other day to tb3 Sublims THE SUN, Porte, was the negotiation of certain necessary ar rangements in regard to the proposed libe ration of ABD-EL-KADEE. He appears in deed to have been instructed to consult with his Majesty the SULTAN respecting the removal of the EMIR from the French to the Turkish domi nions—the PRINCE PRESIDENT having resolved to set the Arab Chieftain at liberty in a short time, accord ing to the terms of the promise contained in his well known letter to the Marquis of LONDONDERRY. We have little doubt but that, everything considered, the heart of ABDUL MEDJID will respond eagerly to the humane intentions of Louis N APOLEON in reference to the intended release of ABD-EL..K.ADER. In Eng land it cannot very soon be forgotten how nobly the young SULTAN sympathised, in 1847, in the dreadful sufferings endured by Ireland in consequence of the simultaneous appearance of Famine and Pes tilence. In Hungary, again, it must long be remembered with what heroic magnanimity the same potentate shielded Louis KOSSUTH and his glorious compatriots, when they were hunted to the death by the banded Emperors of AUSTRIA and of all the RUSSIAS. A ruler who could act thus gently towards a remote people like the inhabitants of Ireland, and thus bravely towards a defeated and fugitive leader like the ex-Dictator of the Hungarians, may assuredly be supposed, without much extrava gance, to appreciate to the full the justice and the generosity of the act by which Louis NAPOLEON proposes to effect ABD-EL-KADER'S tardy, but not the less on that account acceptable, liberation. During the ball recently given to the Chief of the French Republic by the working classes of Mont pellier, it may have been observed that numerous cries wereraised by the artizsns present of " Five TAmnistio.' The PRINCE remarked these cries, according to one who was present and witnessed the incident, but said no thing and took his seat upon the estrade prepared with a chair of state for his reception. But subsequently, on his rising to depart, and while he was in the act of descending the steps, the same cries were repeated. " The PRINCE stopped," says the eye-witness, " and in a calm and firm voice said, I hear cries of nve r Amnistie! The amnesty is more in my heart than in your mouths. If you desire it, render yourselves worthy of it by your prudence and your patriotism.' These words," continues the person who witnessed the occurrence, " were received by a shout of Vine l'Empereur P and flowers were thrown to the PRINCE as he returned to his carriage." Conditions like those abovementioned may not unreasonably be required by the Chief of the French Republic as the necessary preliminary to acts of clemency towards the ordinary class of poli tical offenders—but nothing of the kind ,is requisite or even possible in reference to the peculiar act of generosity so frequently demanded at his hands i❑ behalf of the heroic ABD-EL-KADER by the veteran Marquis of LONDONDERRY. An evidence of genero si►y, of clemency, and of magnanimity it undoubtedly will be on the part of Prince Louis Nactomiori, but it will be none the less also an act of simple justice. Supposing ABD-EL•KADER to have been liberated, instead of by the pre sent Ruler of France, by one of the Princes of the House of Orleans, his release would have been only an act of justice and a token of repentance. Authorised by the Prince Louis NAPOLEON, the re lease of the EMIR will, as already intimated, be a complex act of justice, of generosity, of clemency, and of magnanimity. Never did a fairer or more enviable opportunity present itself to a great poten tate for winning " golden opinions" from the ma jority of the population. That the PRINCE PRESIDENT is by no means willing to forego this opportunity appears to be indicated, and the indication will be welcome to the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, and still more to the Emir, ABD•EL•KADER, by the recent mission of M. BACCIOCIII to the SULTAN'S Court at Constantinople. The plan (seldom in practice anterior to the passing of the Reform Bill) of requiring the represented to have an account of his stewardship from the repre sentative, received a valuable improvement from Mr. JOHN MACGREGOR, one of the Members for Glasgow, the second city in the empire. He was the first to present himself before the non-electors, as well as the electors, and each successive meeting has only tended to confirm and strengthen the mutual confi dence which has sprung up between them. He has served them ably and faithfully, and they are grate ful to him for what he has done. No man in the House of Commons is so well acquainted with every thing relating to the Trade and Commerce of the country. His whole life, in and out of office, has been devoted to this subject, and his opinion is of great authority in and out of Par liament. In his speeches, in his writings, Mr. MACGREGOR is plain, terse, and oxplicit—he indulges in no verbosity—he aims at nothing beyond the ex pression of his thoughts, Bo that their meaning cannot be raistalien—he eschews mere figures of rhetoric, but no man more satisfactorily deals with figures of arithmetic. His proper position would be in the Ad ministration ; but he has disdained the vulgar arts by which men creQp or wriggle into office. He is too strongly attached to bis principles to compromise them by any concession to " the powers that be--he proudly prefers to occupy the highest position an honest man can hold in this country, that of an independent representative of the people. We hesitate not to say that if Mr. MACGREQOR'S principle of taxation were adopted (and it is coming into opera tion bit-by-bit), the fiscal burthens of the people would be lessened and equalised, while the Public Revenue would be greatly increased. Years before Free Trade was agitated for, Mr. MACGREGOR had published the proofs of its paramount and inevitable necessity. When Sir ROBERT PEEL revised the Tariff it was Mr. MACGREGOR (then one of the Secretaries of the Board of Trade) who furnished him with the plan and communicated the information which he required. Mr. MacGaanou has just been before his constituents and non• constituents at Glasgow. The Council of the Parliamentary Reform Association in that city have held a great meeting, at which Mr. MACGREGOR attended, by special invitation. At that meeting (where it was resolved that household suffrage, vote by ballot, equal electoral districts, triennial Parliaments, and no property qualification, were requisite to ensure a pro per representation of the people) Mr. MACGREGOR stated and explained his views, in a speech of great force and ability. He started with the admitted , truth that " Taxation without Representation is ty -1 ranny," and he showed how the people are not repre -1 sented—for out of about four millions of adult males not quite one million have votes. He said, i O We are not fairly represented ; and it gives me the greatest possible pain that we are not justly represented. We are not properly represented in Parliament, neither are we represented in the Government of England. Ireland has a Lord-Lieutenant, and a Secretary of State, who has the same salary as the Prime Minister —6,0001. a year. Now, I don't want a Lord-Lieute nant for Scotland, but I want a Secretary of State for Scotland, who should take cognizance of all the circumstances connected with Scotland, and who should hold office near the Crown, so that we may be pro perly represented in the Government. True, we have a Lord Advocate in the Parliament House of Edin burgh, who spends his time there, taking his fees, when he ought to be watching the affairs of Scotland in the Parliament at Westminster. I find that there are sixty-seven burghs in England that have exactly the same population as twice that of the Gorbals, and these send 134 Members to Parliament, each of whom has as much power in the House of Commons as each of the Members for Glasgow, and I say that it is, therefore, the more necessary that the resolution pro posed to you to-night should lay down, as it has done, that no Ministry will have the confidence of this country if they do not bring forward a great mea e of P ar l iamentary Referm. " —Not a mise rable, peddling, deceptive, nominal, make-believe, measure, such as L or d J onN RUSSELL had the bold ness and impertinence to introduce during last Session, but a real and substantive Reform, which will give extended and e qua l represen t at i on . N o thiq Ministry, neglecting Ministry CO hope f o r p ermanenc y granting it, any Y may reckon on popular sup port and gratitude. Should the present Ministry a system of taxation which will sk to introduce a further relieve the Agriculturists the i du s by imposing restrictions and burdens unindustrious and manufacturing trading p classes.. Mr. MACGREGOR will Oppotse it, He says, " Now, we will not consent to anything like indirect burdens on free trade, If there is a surplus revenue, I want to apply it to other purposes --.to those general purposes from which the whole population will derive an advantage. I wish that the people of this country should have their tea as cheap as the people of the United States of America and of Australia. At present tea is sold at three hundred times more than its value; that is to say, that you pay 3s. upon every one shilling's worth of tea to the public treasury. I want to reduce it in price, and instead of drinking, as a friend of mine termed it, stained or coloured water, I want the people to have good wholesome tea. I think the surplus revenue should be applied to reduce the tea and other duties on articles of consumption. There is nothing in the world so obnoxious as dirt. At present we have to pay 1,500,0001. for having our linen and our skins clean—that is the duty upon soap. That duty ought to be abolished. I will not give the surplus to the CHANCELLOR of the ERCHE QUER for the purpose of relieving the agricultural classes, because I deny that the agricultural classes have any peculiar burdens at all."—ln fact, the Le gislature, chiefly composed of landlords, have carefully provided the Agriculturists with numerous exemp tions from the burthens which therefore fall un equally upon other classes. We need only mention two instances out of many —fire insurance and the income-tax—in which the Agriculturists have been favoured by Class Legislation. Like other publicists, who have seen and felt in what manner the Whigs in office have failed to act up to the professions and promises they made when out of it, Mr. MACGREGOR is for giving the DERBY Ministry a fair trial. Of the late Ministry and their clique he says—" We have, on the other hand, great biddings for political capital from members of the late Government in the way of liberal principles ; and I shall be delighted to find that they are sincere in their democratic aspirations, but I shall never con sent to give them power, but I would like first to form a social contract with them, that will prevent them from forming a family clique or compact, which the moment they get into office would despise the actual wishes of the people, inasmuch as they have a hereditary tradition which leads them to entertain the idea that they alone have a divine right to breed the statesmen of the British empire. I want to show them that such a Government cannot now possibly exist in this country."—This is pungent, because it is true. The "snug hmily party" which recently were "at home" in Dowsing street are much deceived if they think that Oifile is to be theirs by hereditary right and mutual agree ment. We find Lord JOHN RUSSELL now bidding largely for office, at Perth and Stirling, by holding out great expectations of Liberal measures, if tLe country will only try him once more—but the coma. try has a right to ask, how it happened that, in the six years which have passed since Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Cabinet was dissolved, these Liberal measures were not introduced ? What security can the Noble Lord give that, on return to office, he would not re sume the do-nothing policy ? If the Past is to be the prophet of the Future, there is no hope that the RUSSELL-GEEY-ELLIOT clique will adopt the principles of Progress. Mr. MACGREGOR, who knows them well, emphatically declares that " such a Government cannot now possibly exist in this country." _ _ We have described Mr. MACGREGOR'S oratory as being plain, expressive, and free from tinsel orna ment. At times, however, this plain-speaking man produces effects such as the most eloquent might be proud of. Truth is the " great fact" of his speeches, and its expression sometimes rises into what, in effect, is highly poetical. His definition of Democracy is an example, and to our taste is preferable to the familiar simile of the ship " reposing on her own stately shadow," in CANNING'S celebrated speech. We sub join Mr. MACGREGOR'S words : " There is a wide difference between a democrat and a demagogue—a democrat is one of the people. Demo cracy is not well understood, because it is confounded with the word demagogue; but democracy properly un derstood is the most sound, most constitutional, and most healthy of all the denominations that, under Pro vidence, possibly dwells upon the earth. We borrow it from an old Greek word, ' Demos,' which means 'the people.' I have always said I was a man of the people; that I was one of the demos,' and consequently I am a democrat. Now, when I bear people speaking against democracy I want to know what they that have opposed democracy, and who spurn us, the people, have done; and I put the question to myself, what has democracy done? Now, I wish to explain that word to you be cause a great deal of evil goes forth in reference to the word without explanation. Democracy means all those engaged in industrious pursuits, whether in science or labour, in tilling the ground, in digging the ditches—whether as merchants, manufacturers, or navigators—whether they are engaged in mechanical operations, or whether they are those ingenious men who have made the discoveries of those powers which God has given to the intellect and hand of man, to exercise in great and good works, and I put the question to myself, what have they done? In the first place, democracy were the inventors of and dis covered everything connected with agriculture, manu factures, and navigation. Columbus discovered Ame rica, and Vasco di Game discovered the new route round the world. Who have constructed our ships and canals? It was the democracy. But I come back to your own river Clyde. Who have deepened it and made it navigable up to the Broomielaw? It was the democracy. Who opened up the mineral riches between the Forth and Clyde, and to bring forth your coal and iron. It was democracy, and I defy those who oppose you to say anything to the con trary. Who built the great steam-ships that bridge the Atlantic? The democracy. Who are constructing your iron ships on the banks of the Clyde? It is the demo cracy. Who were they that invented printing, the steam-engine, the power-loom, cut the canals through the kingdom, constructed your docks, railways, built your cities, and brought your cotton, cloth, and iron manufactures to such perfection? It was the democracy. Who have made your fashionable attires in cotton, and silk, ha d and i wool? It has been thedaetmi nation, a a n cy d . en F ab r l o e m d wedriveallthe power of a n the Government to tax a people, and to exhibit the gran deur of princes and of kings? Was it not from the labour of the democracy?" We envy not the man who can read the foregoing (and particularly the practical illustrations with which it concludes) without having his soul stirred within him. It is eloquence of the highest order, and what makes it so is, the fact that every word of it i 8 tru: SIR CHARLES AND SIR WM. STE WART. [We are anxious to direct the particular attention of our readers to the subjoined communication ad dressed to us by Lord Londonderry —as, in our lead ing article of the 2d instant, inadvertent mention was made of the gallantry of Sir W. Stewart, in seizing Colonel Lamotte in the cavalry skirmishes at the battle of Fuentes d'Onore, instead of particularizing the daring charge at the heights of Benevente where, in the midst of the mil4e, General Lefebvre-Des nouettes, commander of Napoleon's Imperial Guard, was taken prisoner by Sir C. Stewart, now the Mar quis of Londonderry. This inadvertency, as must be obvious at a glance, originated in the circumstance of the Peninsular Wars being illustrated by the per sonal bravery of two distinguished officers of the same name—mentioned by Alison, and others, somewhat confusedly as " General Stewart," without the prefix of the Christian name, which would at once mark Sir William Stewart as the brother of Lord Galloway, and Sir Charles Stewart as the brother of Lord Cas tlereagh.—En. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9 ‘ 1852. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, —Permit me to remark that an error has crept in in your too flattering review of my humble services. I was not at Albuera, but with the Duke moving from the Agueda. It was my valued, gallant, and ever to be lamented friend General Sir William Stewart, brother of Lord Galloway, an officer, null semitha, who was in com mand under Berestord at that battle. It was sot in the many successful cavalry skir mishes and attacks with my gallant comrades in ad vance of Fuentes D'Honor, that General Le Fevre (not Lamotte, of Bonaparte's Imperial Guard,) was taken ; but when I commanded and charged, and in the milie with the picquets and rear-guard of Lord Anglesey's cavalry, at the affair of the Heights of Benavente, covering the movement of our then gallant and incomparable chief, Sir John Moore, through Galicia. The public dispatches of our greatly distinguished Commander fully explain all these details. ngllrmemayainb,e Sir, pardoned your v efro very obedient these al allusions to servant, s facts,ier of Garron, C oun t y A n t r i m, the T h oo Tower VANE LONDONDERRY. Oct. 5, 1812. The Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Secretary of State for the Home Department, arrived here last night by express train from London, and leaves to-day for Bal moral, to relieve Sir John Pakington, Colonial Secretary, as Minister in Waiting upon the Queen.—Ethinburgh Paper of Thursday. We regret to learn that Edward Auchmuty Glover, Esq., still continues indisposed. The Learned Gen tleman has been ordered to take a sea voyage for the benefit of his health, and left South ampton on Thursday by the Peninsular and Oriental CQmpany's steamer, the Tagus, for theMediterraneari THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The Government has received the following tele graphic dispatches Toulouse, Oct. 6, Three in the Afternoon, "Yesterday evening, at eight o'clock, the Prince went to the Capitol, and having appeared at the balcony was received by upwards of 50,000 spectators with cries of Vivo l'Empereurt' Vire Napoleon III.:' At the theatre, which presented a fairy-like coup d'ceil, the en thusiasm was of an indescribable energy. The ladies waved their handkerchiefs to the cry of ' Viva l'Empe reurl On his return the crowd encumbered the streets to see the Prince, and greeted him with the same ac clamations. This morning, at seven o'elock, his High ness quitted Toulouse. Notwithstanding that it rained heavily, the populatio❑ was collected on his passage, and greeted him most warmly. Language fails to express the enthusiasm of his reception at Toulouse." " Agen, Half-past Five in the Evening. "The Prince is now entering the town, and is re ceived with the greatest enthusiasm by the population and the garrison. The acclamations are unanimous, and the cry of l'Empereur I' universal. His High ness is in perfect health." " Half-past Six in the Evening. " In spite of the rain, his Highness was received by an immense crowd, who cried ' Viva l'Emperenr.".rhe clergy, with the bishop at their head, received the Prince at the cathedral. His arrival at the Prefecture was the occasion of a new explosion of cries of Viva l'Em pereurr and of an avalanche of bouquets and wreaths of flowers." " Oct. 7, Seven in the Morning. " The Prince gave a dinner of forty covers last evening at the Prefecture. The presentation of the authorities took place afterwards, and the ladies were received. Everywhere the presence of his Highness produced the most lively enthusiasm. The Fires des Graviers was magnificent, and at night the town was brilliantly illu minted. The Prince has just taken his departure in the midst of the most enthusiastic acclamations. No where did his Highness receive a more cordial reception, and he appeared much moved at its warmth. The state of We weather promises an easy passage." " Bordeaux, Oct. 7, Half.past Four Evening. " The Princo has just arrived at Bordeaux. Every where the people on the two banks of the river saluted hit with enthusiastic manifestations and with cries of Viva l'Earpereur l' The entry into Bordeaux ex ceeded anything that could have been imagined." " Seven in the Evening. [ _ .‘ Bordeaux has surpassed all that we have hitherto seen, and I shall renounce the idea of describing the pomp and enthusiasm of the reception given to the Prince. The vessel which bore him landed him at the Quinconce; his Highness then mounted on horseback, and went to the Place, where the filing off immediately commenced, amidst repeated cries of ' Vive l'Eaaperenr!' Vive Napoleon lII.I' The deputations of the com munes were unanimous in their enthusiasm. The Prince afterwards traversed the city to go to the cathedral. He arrived in Bordeaux at half-past four, but did not reach his palace until half-past six. The imposing re ception was favoured by the most delightful weather." The Journal du Puy de Dome says it appears cer tain that the arrests made in the department of the Haute-Loire are connected with the plot discovered at Marseilles. It is said that letters of a most com promising character have been discovered which bad been exchanged between the two parties whose arrest has been mentioned. One of these letters, written from Brioude some few days before the discovery of the infernal machine, states, from a coincidence which may have serious consequences for the writer, that in a very short time "on allait es finir avec la bour geoisie," and it recommended the person to whom it was addressed at Puy to take courage and to be pa tient for a few days. Two Morstagnard ex-represen titives, the most violent in the department, had visited Brioude within the last month, where they had held meetings as secretly as possible, but not without their movements having been noticed by the police. It is generally thought that M. DE Sr. FERREOL will be im plicated in the plot of Marseilles, and transferred to Aix to be tried with the others it the Court of Assizes. A decree of the PRINCE PRESIDENT, dated Carcas sonne, the 4th, opens an extraordinary credit of 500,000 f. to the Ministry of Public Works for the repair of the damages caused 13! the inundation of the Rhine. The Monitetur publishes an immense number of addresses from different Councils and other pub l i c bodies to the PRINCE PRISIDErt expressive of grati tude for the important servicesthat he has rendered to society, and of their desire tosee his power placed on a sure and durable foundation. In addition to these addresses several more Courcils of Arrondissement have passed resolutions in femur of the re-establish ment of the Empire. Nine Government engineers are,with its permission, at present employed in executing public works in foreign countries—namely, Poirel, employed in the works of the port of Leghorn ; M. Lalanne, em ployed in laying out railways i n Wallachi ; Lamarle, in Belgium ; M. B.g u i n , emp l o y e d in form ing railways in Moldavia ; M. Mougel, employed in barring the Nile ; M. Michei, in the Roman States ; M. Faraguet, in Peru ; M. Fresnaux and M. Leferne, charged with improving the navigation of the Ebro, in Spain, and with irrigations in the provinces com prised between Saragossa and the sea. It may be remembered that on the 27th August last, the well-known somnambulist ALEXIS, and eight females of the same profession, named DESYONTAINES, V TA L and RT, R OaEE, OCTAVIE, JOUISSIN, VALERIE AssEuI JOUISSIN,PIREN E , w e r e c it e d b e f ore the Tribunal of Simple P o li ce , on t h e charge of having deceived the public by the e xerc i se o f their art. N. JULES FAVRE, on their behalf, argued at great length that somnambtlism is no t fortune telling, or divining of dreams, which are prohibited under pain of fine and imp!isonment by the penal code, but a regular science, which, though still en veloped in mystery, has attracted the serious atten tion of, and is believed in by, many very learned men. The Tribunal took tine to consider its judg ment, an d yesterday was fixed for the delivery of it. It declared that even if the accused had, as they re presented, the power by meins of a magnetic fluid of see ing with their eyes bandaged, of indicating the nature of maladies, of giving information respecting absent persons, and of stating where stolen things are to be found, they did not the less violate the pen a l code, inasmuch as all such things constitute what is called fortune-telling an divining. It accordingly condemned each of the defendants to five days' im prisonment, 15f. fine, and the costs. The Bourse was remarkably firm, with a great deal of business doing. The Eour-and-a-Half per Cents. opened at 105 f. 35c., and closed at 105 f. 400., for the end of the month; the Three per Cents. closed at 78f. 90c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,475 f. • Rouen, 900 f.; Ha v r e, 40Ef. 75 c.; Great Northern, 742 f. 50c ; Avignon, 537 f. 50c.; Basle, 327 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 770 f.; Paris end Lyons, 872 f. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon' 647 f. 50c.; Western of F rance , 683 t. 75c.; St. Meier to Gray, 546 f. '4 . 5c. BUSIINESS DuiNk_lN teuREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Ocr. 8. Charleroi and Erquelinea 15%—Dijon and Besancon, 3% —East Indian, 28—Luxe7bourg, B—Lyons and Avignon, 1034—MadraF, 7 —Faria, Caen, and Cherbourg, OA Rouen and Havre, 165 , 1—Sambre and Meuse, lOys—West Flanders, 43A—Western of France, 131. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 3d contains a royal decree, which enacts that " the holders of the new deferred debt, who may solicit it, shall be allowed to convert their vouchers, at the rate fixed by the Govern ment, into other vouchers of the Consolidated Three per Cent. Stock ; that every six months the Council of Ministers shall fix th 3 price at which during the six months the conversion may be effected, and the sum to which it may amount ; that every month the demands of the holders shall be submitted to the Junta on the debt, and that the Junta shall point out to the Government ttose which present most ad vantage, shall declare if the amount fixed by the Go vernment be exceeded by the total demands or not, &c.; and that in foreign places the propositions for the conversion shall be made in sealed letters addressed to the Financial Spanish Commissions at London or at Paris, or to the Spanish Vice-Consul at Amsterdam." The decree also regulates sundry formalities respect ing the said conversion. The 3d being Sunday the Stock Exchange was not open. GERMANY. The journey of the King of HANOVER to Munich and Stutgardt has produced a good deal of excitement, as it is attributed to the Customs question. It is thought that there is much disagreement on that question between the respective Sovereigns and their Ministers. The Elector of HESSE has also gone to Munich. The Cologne Gazette says that all the conferences on the Customs affair are suspended, and that Han over is to disposed to withdraw, and is thought to be unwilling to continue the negotiations by diplomatic paths. The Diet of Brandenburgh was closed on the 4th by the Royal Commissioner. The New Gazette of Prussia was seized on the 4th, but the impression was restored to it on tho fol lowing day. The topic of the day in Dresden is the resignation of M. DE FRIESEN, the Minister of the Interior, which his MAIESTY accepted. The Finance Minister, M. BEILEB, also wished to retire, but the KING would not permit it. The Augsburg Gazette eontradiets ..a report that Count ADAM POTOKI had been set at liberty. He has, however, been allowed by the Government to proceed to Trieste for the benefit of sea-bathing. Th e proceedings commenced against him are not yet ter minated. A letter from Vienna, in the Journal de Frankfort, says : " The news of the discovery at Marseilles of an in fernal machine, intended to be directed against the Prince PreAdent, has caused an extraordinary sensation here. It has revealed the criminal proceedings of the fa natical adversaries of all public order in Europe. It Las again opened an abyss which will spread 0 , -.;bolation and dettfa crer all our ccutismat if all the Governments, united together, do not oppose an insurmountable ob stacle to it. Prince Louis Napoleon is really, for Franco and even for the whole of Europe, the incarnation of the Conservative principle, and he appears to be des tined by Providence to serve as the instrument to pre serve order in the world. The danger which he has in curred cannot but render him dearer to France; he is re presented to the French nation as the symbol of a sacre d principle, the realization of which is connected with his person. The nation will unanimously decree him the Imperial crown, and will probably add to it heredi tary rights and the right of adoption, in order that, when he shall be no more, it may continue to enjoy the order and security which have been founded by him. As the infernal machine, formerly directed against his uncle, only tended to hasten his accession, so will the dangers which threatened the life of Louis Napoleon hasten his elevation to the Imperial dignity. There exists, however, a great diff-rence between these two events. Whilst the uncle had adopted the principle of conquest, or whilst, at least, he never hesitated to resort to arms, the nephew, since he has been called on to direct the destinies of France, has proved in the most incontestable manner, that be respected actual interne tivnal rights, and that he did not follow a political sys tem contrary to that of Europe. Thus, the accession of the uncle gave rise to apprehensions for the future, whilst that of the nephew opens the perspective of a long peace, and of the unalterable maintenance of the political system of Europe." The Austrian Lloyd's of Vienna announces that all the Frenchmen residing in that city have been in formed that their passports will only be considered good for a year, and that at the expiration of that period they must apply to the French Embassy for a new permission to remain. General Vox HAYNAU has returned to Gratz ; he is having a handsome mausoleum erected in the churchyard of St. Leonard. DENMARK. O❑ the night of the 3d the following bulletin was published : " A very severe cold has compelled his Majesty to keep his bed for the last week, and the state of the Royal patient is such that it is indispensable for him to keep it for some time longer. (Signed) " CHRISTIAN BORG, M.D." Major Tuscn, who was at the head of the Schles wig-Holstein corps of Volunteers in 184 k, has, after a long investigation, been deprived of the pension which he had formerly enjoyed. Last Sunday night and the following night a storm from the S.W. raged with tremendous fury. Such a hurricane has not been known in Copenhagen since 1827, the destruction of property caused by it is im mense. During the hurricane a fire broke out in the Winstrup Mill, which in less than an hour destroyed the mill and all the buildings near it. ITALY. The Opinione of Turin quotes a letter from Rome, mentioning a rumour that General GEMEAU was about to quit the French service, and enter that of the POPE as Commander-in-Chief of the Papal army. The reasons adduced in support of this rumour are, Ist, his well-known attachment to the POPE, and, 2dly, his advanced age. As generals of division are pensioned off at the age of 64, General GEMEAU, who is still strong and healthy, might, by changing mas ters, avoid that fate ; while the Pork: would be glad to have such an experienced officer for his army. It is added, however, that Austria is opposed to such a course. _ _ The POPE held a secret Consistory, on the 27th, at the Palace of the Vatican. After his allocution his HOLINESS conferred on Cardinal Louca AMAT, Bishop of Palestrina, the offices of Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, and of Semmiste of the Apos tolical letters, and assigned him the Commendam of S. Lorenzo-in-Domazo. The Oaservatore Triestino recounts the following awful tragedy which occurred at Colomea, on the 231 ult., when, it being the day of Expiation, and the Jewish community being assembled in the Syna gogue, a sudden cry of " fire" was heard, and caused a universal rush to the doors, particularly in the upper gallery, reserved for the ladies, where the fire was said to have broken out. Here the crowd was so dense, that thirty• three ladies, a boy of eight years old, and two little girls, of from three to four years of age, were suffocated. Physicianq, functionaries, and gendarmes, were soon on the spot, but too late to give effectual succour. The cry of fire turned out to be a false alarm. The King of the Two SICILIEB, by a recent de cree, removes the prohibition to import foreign horses into the kingdom, and allows all such horses to be imported, with the exception of a peculiar sort from Dalmatia. The decree fixes the duties which are to be paid on importation. The Opinione of Turin of the sth gives the fol lowing from Asti :—A house in the quarter of San Giuseppe, at present inhabited by a few veteran officers and a vivandiere, had an open communication with the adjoining convent of Theresians. A few days agog at a very early hour, one of the officers saw two friars retire into the convent through the said communication ; and the direction whence they came forcibly reminded the observer of the fact that the fair Divandisire had her apartment exactly on that side. The matter being reported to the Colonel of the corps, the latter ordered the communication to be walled up. But while the masons were at work, a whole bevy of friars came swarming about them, and expostulated so strongly with them on what they were about, that the workmen desisted and went away, whereupon the friars pulled down what they had been building. The Colonel, however, watched his time, and got the door walled up while the friars were out walking, and thus put an end to all discussion. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. 9.—Wind at noon N.W., light breeze, and fine clear weather. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. B.—Wind N.W. to W.N.W.—''Sid. Sutlej, Calcutta; American Eagle, New York. CowEs, OCT. B.—Wind N.—Arrd. Ariel, Callao. TonsAv, OCT. B.—Wind N.N. W.—Sid. Island Home, Melbourne. FALMOUTH, OCT. B.—Wind N.E., moderate breezes.— Arrd. Helena, Rio Janeiro. PILL, OCT. B.—Wind N.E.—Sid. Ryle, Melbourne; Ann Fisher, Rio Janeiro. W ATE RFORD, OCT. 7.—Wind N.N.W. to W.N.W.— Sid. Gem, Newfoundland. QUEENSTOWN, OCT. 7.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Cinde rella, Rio Grande; Adeline Cam, St. John's, New Brunswick. ANTWERP, OCT. B.—The Guerria French sloop, St. has been wrecked near Texal; Valery to Ne wcastle, crew saved. The Elsabe, Sunderland to Amsterdam, foundered, 2d inst., off Whitby; crew saved. TREPTOW, NEAR RIGA, OCT. 4.—The Oberon, Bahia, to Stettin, which was stranded off Cannim, Sept. 24, has been declared a wreck. LITERPooL, OCT. B.—Wind N.—Arrd. Elizabeth Bebby, Bonn y, lett 13th July; Petrel, Old Calabar, left 22d July; Star of t he West, New York; Urania, New York. Off port, Hermia. Sld. Prins Hendrick, Mel. bourne; Doresanie, Singapore; Dundonald, Bombay; Swiftsure, Africa; Cashmere, San Francisco; Paraguay, Guatemala; Reward, Lima; Seringapatam, Valparaiso; Falcon, Buenos Ayres; Othello, Rio Janeiro; Taymouth Castle, Rio Janeiro; Woodland Castle, Rio Janeiro; Crusader, St, Thomas; Britannia, Hayti; George, La Guayra; Uriel, New Orleans; Queen, New Orleans; United Kingdom, Savannah; John S. de W o lf, Sa vannah ; Joseph Porter, Charleston ; Switeerland, Charleston; Newaro Shenandoah, Philadel phia; Australia York; Emma Fields, New York; Australia, Olive, St. John's, New Bruns wick;Western Star, Greyhound, Newfoundland. FOLESTONE, OCT. B.—The Great Britain, of Whitby, foundered off Hythe this ni , ,rning; crew saved. DUNBAR, OCT. 8.--The Catharine, Hull to the Frith of Furth, struck on the bar of North Berwick daring the gale of the sth inst., and went to pieces. RAMSGATE, OCT. B.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Fanny, Wicklorap, Shields, leaky; Marie Emilie, Hartlepool, for Singapore, with damage. DEAL, OCT. 8.--Wind N.W.—Arrd. Cecilia, Berbice. Sld. Vreendshap, Port Philip; Early Bird, Hong Kong. BURNT ISLAND, OCT. B.—The Jack Tar, Aberdeen to Hamburgh, has put in very leaky and strained, &o.; mast discharge and be docked. HARWICH, OCT. S.—The Ondine, of Whitby, has not been lost, as reported 6th inst. ----- ACCIDENT TO A STEAMER AT LIVERPOOL..--Yes terday morning, the Bangor steam-boat Prince of Wales was lying at anchor in the Mersey, when she was struck by a heavy swell, which forced her into collision with another vessel, lying at anchor. The concussion was so violent that the funnel of the Prince of Wales was cut clean away by the boards, and it was found necessary to tow her immediately into dock. No personal injury was sustained. APOTHECARIES'-HALL. —Names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Tharsday, October 7 :—Thomas Peete, London; henry Yandyke Carter, Scarborough, Yorkshire; Robert Whitby, Maun ham St. Peter, Norfolk; Robert Newcombe Day, Harlow, Essex. A GOOD DAY'S SPORT.—On Monday, at eleven in the morning, the Earl of Strathmore and party, consisting of six guns, repaired to his Lordship's extensive and well stocked rabbit-warren, in the immediate vicinity of Glam mis Castle, and, by half•past five in the afternoon, they killed 227 rabbits, 20 hares, 8 partridges, and 1 woodcock. YACHT MATCH —A sailing match comes off this day (Saturday) at Portsmouth, between the celebrated America and a new yacht built in Sweden, named the Sverige. The latter vessel is of abeautiful build, very much resembling the America, but possessing more power. The last few days she has been on White's slip at Portsmouth, having a new keel put on, and her bottom cleaned. The match, which excites the greatest interest at Ports mouth, is for 400/. The challenge was offered by the Swede. TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE.-O❑ Tuesday afternoon a meeting was held in the Court-house, Leeds, to form a society for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge. A letter was read from Mr. Baines, expressing his adhesion to the movement, and a committee was formed, with power to add to their number. On Tuesday evening a public meeting was held at the Mechanics' Institution, Wakefield, to hear a lec ture on the taxes on knowledge. After the lecture a committee was appointed to conduct the agitation of the question. Lord and Lady Blantyre passed through Inver ness on Tues,iay, en route h 63 from Dunrobin Castle. 9r t e Sou , THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. ABERDEEN, THURSDAY EVENING. The Prince Albert has just arrived, bringing no accounts of Sir Joh❑ Franklin. She wintered in Baffin's Bay, searched Prince Regent's Inlet, disco vered a channel on the west of North Somerset, traversed it with sledges, and round by Port Leo pold, but found no traces of the missing expedition. The Prince Albert got as far north as Beechy Head. On the 19th of August last she fell in with the North Star. The expeditions had passed up Wel lington Channel early in the season. The channel was open, and quite free from ice. The Prince Albert left the ice on the 23d of Au gust, and brings dispatches from the North Star. The officers and crew were all well. The Davis' Straits fishery wa3 a failure. Up to August only six fish had been taken between all the ship. The Regalia, of Kirkcaldy, had been lost ; also an American whaler. The following are fuller particulars of this expe dition : The Prince Albert left Aberdeen on the 221 of May last year, the search being under the direction of William Kennedy, Esq., who had long been connected with the Hudson Bay Company. The main object of the expedition was to get if possible on the track of Sir John Franklin, assuming that he had fol lowed out his instructions to seek a passage going south-west by Cape Walker. The Prince Albert made the ice on the 22d of June, and crossed to the west side in 72.30 north latitude ; got to Ponds Bay on the 24th of August, and there saw four natives, but found that they had heard nothing of Sir John Franklin. They then proceeded up Lan caster Sound, where they encountered heavy gales of east wind, and by the time they reached Barrow Straits, on September 4, the ice had barred the pas sage. They then made for Port Leopold for shelter, and here Mr. Kennedy landed in a boat with six men, and was proceeding to make inquiries, when a barrier of ice got between the ship and the land, and the weather being still bad, with a strong current, the vessel was carried up Prince Regent's Inlet as far as Batty Bay, leaving Mr. Kennedy and his boat's crew on shore. Unable to return to Port Leopold, Captain Leask tried to reach Fury Point, but did not succeed, and getting into Batty Bay came to anchor there, where M. Bellot, the French gentleman who accompanied Mr. Ken nedy, left the ship with four men for Port Leopold on the 17th of October. Here Mr. Kennedy and his men had remained in a state of great anxiety for six weeks, but getting at the provisions which were left by Sir John Ross they enjoyed excellent health. Returning with M. Ballot to Batty Bay the ship was housed for the winter, and preparation s made for searching during the time she would be fast. They started with sledges on the 24th of February, with a party of 14 men, stopped a short time at Fury Point, then crossed Melville Bay, got as far west as Brentford Bay, and here discovered a channel, about two miles broad, leading westward, and opening up a bay by the northern coast of North Somerset. A fatigue party of six men pushed up this new channel, walking and sledging it, in 72 deg. north latitude and 100 deg. west longitude, while eight men returned to the ship from Brentford Bay. Mr. Kennedy and M. Bellot were of the advanced party, traversing the north coast of Somerset, round by Port Leopold, and arriving at the ship on the 30th of May. This wa a most difficult and trying journey, the weather being thick and stormy. The di rect distance from the ship to this channel would be 600 miles; the distance traversed was fully 1,200 miles. But in all this search, which included also a search of Cape Walker, no new traces were found of Sir John Franklin. During the time that Mr. Ken nedy was out, Dr. Cowie, with a party of four men, crossed Cresswell Bay to the water on the west side of North Somerset, but was alike unsuccessful. Scurvy now unfortunately appeared among the men, and they had a sickly time of it from May to July, but a party getting down then to Port Leo. pold, Mr. Kennedy was able to procure anti-scor butic medicines and food, and the crew then gradually got better. On the 6th of August last summer they got out of Batty Bay, and proceeded northward, intending to go to Griffith's Island. They reached Beechy Is land on the 19th of August, and falling in with the North Star, stationed with provisions for the use of the Franklin Expedition, and learning that the other vessels had passed up Wellington Channel, Mr. Kennedy deemed it useless to proceed further north and concluded to return home. At the time he left Beechy Island, Wellington Channel was open and free from ice as far as the telescope could command a view, and it is the opinion of Mr. Kennedy, as well as of the officers of the North Star, that from the remarkable openness of the season, the searching squadron would occupy a more ad vanced position than any of the previous expeditions could reach. Describing the state of this channel to Captain Penny, who is at present in Aberdeen, that gentleman expressed his firm conviction that if the steamers are pushed forward with energy they might get through at Behring's Straits. The crew of the Prince Albert are all in good health and spirits. Mr. Kennedy has brought dispatches for the Admiralty from the North Star, and proceeds with them to-morrow morning by first train for London. The expedition it will be remembered was fitted out entirely at the expense of Lady Frank lin, and, although it has not been successful in the main object of its search, the discovery of this new channel and the search of Prince Regent's Inlet and North Somerset will tend to concentrate efforts now entirely on Wellington Channel as . the only hope of discovering Sir John Franklin. DAVIS'S STRAITS FISHERY. The accounts brought by the Prince Albert are of a very discouraging character. The Regalia, of Kirkcaldy, and the American ship M'Leland were wrecked ; crews saved. The True Love, of Hull, had three fish ; the Ann, of Hull, two. The ships did not get to the westward, and were fishing in Cumberland Straits. _ A heavy snow storm has fallen in the north of Scotland. On Thursday the mountains on Dee-side were covered with snow, and winter appeared to have set in thus early. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. The following information has been received at Lloyd's : " Aberdeen, Oct. 7. " The Prince Albert, Kennedy, arrived here to day from the Arctic Regions, has heard nothing of Sir John Franklin. She spoke the North Star steamer in Erebus Bay sth Sept. The Prince Al bert had been beset i❑ Batty Bey eleven months pre vious to 6th August. Her crew are all on board, but some are in a weakly state. She has brought a report of the whalers early in the season. The fishing appears to have been unfavourable up to Ist J u ly. The Regalia, of Kirkcaldy, and M'Lellan (American) are said to have been lost." n oon a dense volume of smoke i ssue d from etrheaydeepafatreera-s F IR E IN LANCASTER-PLACE.—YeSt d in front of the houses in Lancaster-place, Waterloo- bridge. The engines soon made their appearance and the fire, which turned d o u s t t r t a o w b i e n a t hleo wplate-glass se s td b r e y s the in t h i g e n i a t r i o e n of a til some en- en trance to which is from Savoy-street, Strand, was soon ex tinguished. Eleven crates of the Tyne and Tees Glass Company's glass, and the flooring of the stores, were de stroyed, but no other damage was done. STAMPS IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY.—The Lord Chancellor is empowered by the 15th and 16th of Victoria, c. 87, to order fees not to be received in money, but by means of stamps. The Commissioners of Inland Revenue are to provide stamps, and, after order made, no document is to be received or used in the Court of Chancery unless stamped. SOJOURN OF THE DUCHESS OF KENT AT DON CASTER.—We understand that her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, mother of her Gracious Majesty the Queen, will arrive in Doncaster from Balmoral I by the ex press train at 5 . 10 P .M. on W e dnesday, the 3th from whence she will proceed to the house of Mr. Pye, Royal Hotel, where she will sojourn for the night. Her Royal Highness will be accompanied by her daughter, the Princess Hohenlohe (by her first husband, the Prince of Leiningen), Princess Ada, Princess Feedore, Prince Heiman, Lady Augusta Bruce, Colonel Sir George Couper, Miss Jung, governess of the young Princess, and her usual retinue. On Thurs..ay, the august visitors will take their departure by the 11.20 A.M. train. Sir George Couper, comptroller of the household and chief equerry, arrived in Doncaster by the express train, on W ednesday, in order to make arrangements with Mr. Pye for the reception of the illustrious party. It is almost unnecessary to ssy that there will be no demonstra tion of a public character.—Doncaster Chronicle. THE PLANET OF AUGUST 22, 1851.—Mr. Hnd, the discoverer of this planet, has given it tk, name o f FOLD, THE INCOME TAX. To THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—One of your carresp.mderi;s, " it. C.," 1 : e. correctly asserted some ti me b ac k th at the `6actuarl6 and the " economists" are at issue on fundamen t ' principles ; this is perfectly true, but it must aloe', remembered, that while on the one hand a ll the 0 ` tuaries agree amongst themselves as to princiP l (differing, as might be expected, only in details) ( the other leend the econtanis•s severally p ro poll schemes which are wholly at variance and antagoal s to each other. One of these schemes may be considered as sire! disposed of; in your leading article of to-day Y,` have most ably discussed this much-vexed questl e ' and have, is to he both hoped and believed, for e t set at rest Mr. Babbage's absurd proposition to It equally the received incomes of each year, witlw reference either to their source or to their duratioa. Another fallacy, however, still more subtle obscure, remains yet to be disposed of. I allude' that propounded by Mr. Warburton in his evide before the committee; and as Mr. Warburton's r potation stands high as a first class University se t and as he, moreover, carries with him all the weiF of an ex-M.P., I will venture, with your perrnisei 6 very briefly to recapitulate his views and to exP their utter a bs ur dity. It i s qu it e t rue that Mr.W" , burton has been already replied to by some of actuaries who were examined, but as their letter, Mr. Hume was necessarily very technical, I imse that your non-mathematical readers will be bet a pleased to have the subject discussed in some ' 6 learned form. Mr. Warburt on ' s reason i ng, str i pped of atl i p l technicalities, would seem t o amoun t t o this—if 1. income-tax b e i intended as a t emporary impost mete the present mode of levying it is unsound and uail l ; but if it be pl ace d as a permanent burden on country, it is in such case both fair and just t o tail an equal rate a temporary and a perpetual incaol and, he would seem to argue, for this reasonr', proprietor of a perpet ua l i ncome w i ll pay a perpet", tax, while the proprietor of a temporary income 11 , pay only a temporary tax, and thus they will 10 ; contribute equally to the necessities of the counts, This is plausible eno ug h ; an d will, I doubt P;, pass current with many people, but it is uar °: tunately also untrue. The confusion in the minds, Mr. Warburton and his followers would seem have arisen from the use, or rather, I s h o uld i from the abus e , o f th e word " income." It mai. received as an axio m , th a t rea l i ncome i s a profit P'` duced by, and not out of, capital apparent inell on the other hand, is partly made up of real e l : come, and partly made up of capital, each pay 1 : 13 ,,, contains within itself a payment of interest or J; income, and a repayment of a portion of the cail l t: which produces it. It is obvious that land will I ) , duce rent for ever, without diminishing the vala e ; the estate ; therefore such rent is real income. .A.1° 13 in the funds w ill pr o duce i n t eres t f or ever w itb o diminishing or e xhausting the ca pit a l w hi c h prod it; therefore interest is real income. But a tee' l)c rary profit, whether it take the sh a p e o f an e nact, certain for a term of years or of any other form, i 5 real income, as each payment is made up partly of t o income and partly of a return of capital, so that real capital, which at the outset of the term reP O seated the value of the a p parent i ncome , B t', dually disappears year by year from the original vestment, and, as it were, as gradually re-aPP e year by year in some other and new investo 3e v Now, whe n M r , W ar b urton compares a perpetua l come with one, say , f or ten years only, he argue s to because the temporary profit is only taxed ten tai, while the perpet ua l pro fi t i s taxed a perpetuity o f tae; you are tr ea ti ng t h e i r proprietors with evenha v justice ; he forgets, however, that you are not °; taxing the ten temporary real inccomes, but t . you are, at the sam e ti me , t ax i ng t h e capital dutlio; the process of its reproduction, which capital is ce i be again taxed in perpetuity w h en reprodU,o If, indeed, this unfortunate capital (which to been thus taxed in full, while its more fortat l oil brother, which took a perpetu a l f orm , h as b een avb i ;! untouched) could be rendered for the future wh° ol exempt from taxation, there would then be e cl 4i justice in the reasoning Mr. Warburton has down ; but as, in truth, this forms no portion 0 scheme, and would be impracticable if it dik Iv reasoning which seemed so impregnable, and on WP ict o i, so much stress has been laid, and which so gladde„s, the hearts of the opponents to an adj us t e d i nc ome' must, I fear, be pronounced unsound. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient sergl i°l ONE OF THE ACTUARIES EXAMIIO P London, Oct. 6. THE ARMY. GENERAL ORDER. Horse Guards, Oct,;, ° i' e f, General Vi scoun t H ar di nge, C omman di ng -in-L/I'e will hold a levee at the Horse Guards, for the recerd of officers, on Tuesd a y next, t h e 12th of Occober, S td o'clock. By his Lordship's command, G. A. WETHERALL, Doputy Adjutant.Genor9 RAILWAY RETURNS TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEE S ' Miles NAME OF RAILWAY. 1 ......... t . tt .... ...../ ) lp tg 1852. ' , opened, 4651. I'i s') BRITISH. --.-- 4 4 , 72 Aberdeen .... • ....... - ...... ..... £1,436 X 1.96 37% Belfast and Ballymena • • ............ 6u5 41 17 Belfast and County D0wn.......... ~22 i 161 33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,386 ',,3; 26% Bolton, Blackburn, and West York -.. 762 ,10 85% Bristol and Exeter • • .......... •• •• .. 5,232 "' y O 189% Ca1ed0nian.„........... ......., „ - 8,505 9, 0 94% Chester and Holyhead.• •.. .. •... - _ 4,108 4, 16 6% Cork, Blackrock, and Passage •• - - 162 196, 20 Cork and Bandon ........., „ 56 Dublin and Belfast Junction. •....... 613 ,ig 53 Dublin and Drogheda-- - ... •• -.. 1,061 "10 6 Dublin and Kingstown ............•• 1,046 l'i3O 16% Dundee and Arbroath .......... „.. 476 991 31 Dundee, Perth, and Ab er d een Junction 604 id 19 Dundalk and Enniskillen.... - - .... 159 •11) , 68 East Anglian. 79 East Lancashire - .......... ••• • • 322 Eastern Counties and N0rf01k....., .. 17,524 ~ .,"650 95 Eastern Union - .... .... -„••. • . • . . 2,673 4 ' 3 0 89% Edinburgh and Glasgow .... ........ 3,970 ~4 ' 5 7 ; 78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee...-. 2,490 . 1 0 6 Exeter and Credlton.... „,, ~, ~ ~ „ 113 1 76 19 Furness Railway ... -„ „ ....... 457 ,60 1713 i Glasgow, and South-Western.•. .... • • 4,551 ",' l 9O 285 Great Northern and E. L• . • . 12,886 I'o'6l 188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 4,665 5.,' 1 0 277 Great Western ••••••--.• • • • • • • .. 26,237 2. - 1 91 25 Irish South Eastern .... .... „„ „ „ 155 0 90 Lancaster and Carlisle.-- ........, 5,071 0 5+ 3 i , 260 Lancashire and Yorkshire • ... 16,021 • ," I ‘Ow 70 Leeds Northern ..............., „ ~1,307 1, , - 01 is Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 360 , l it 539% London and North W e5 t ern,........ 61,749 5n li 5% London and Bl ac k wa11•..........„, 1,155 "" 17314 London, Brighton, an d South Coast.. 14,773 14 ,.,' Ad ,4 - 9 4 244% London and South W es t ern. ..... 15,649 1 . - 79 34% Londonderry and Enniskillen ........ 170 05 11% Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. 169 9 94 A 167% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 7,223 6'i a),, 93. Manchester and South Junction ...... 518 " 7 95 2 8 Maryport and Carlisle •• • . 772 05 5 , 498% Midland ..... 66 ...... • • .......... 25,321 2- ; , s ? 126 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 2,409 2 ' 6 3i 37 Monklands •••••••••••••• •• •• •• •• •• 914 9 40 2 • 60 Newcastle and Carlisle.. - .......... 2,170 '., , ,9 149 North British . . . .. 232 North Staffordshire • ............... 5,029 0 09 47 North-Western , ..... ..... „ „ „ ~ .. „ „ 674 l el 45 Scottish Central •• •• •• -.„.. .. •• . 1,866 9 630 32 Scottish Midland ........ , , 9 579 9 91 • 29% Shrewsbury and Birmingham... „ 6OB a ll 47 Shrewsbury and Cheater ........•• •. 1,805 10 4 ' 1 1 29 Shropshire Union .. - 705 58 South Devon••. .. ... . 2,116 1, ,61 28S 4 sout t, Eastern •••• •• •• 100% South Wales .. •• • • 77 South York., Doncaster, and Goof° .. 1,238 1 ?"09 40 Taff Vale ••••- • • • • •.... ....... .... 1,985 2, 7,0 36 Ulster .•• - •• ............... „„ „ 849 1, 1 " . •1 4ts 50 Waterford and Limerick .... . ... 16 West Cornwall ...... .........., ~ 166 "4 1, 12 Whitehaven Junction ............... 220 A ~•;• 304 y, York and Newcastle, and Berwick ..• 15,703 I „*.iil 279 York and North Midland ... 'FOREI. 2 5 . 7 1 ,E Dutch Rhenish - - GN • • .... -•••• • • • • 1,214 1.13 91 21 % Maria Antonia •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 223 ~,74 ,6) 63 Montereau and Troyes 934 1, 63 Namur and Liege .. ••.•••••• • • • • • • • 1,024 I , 'o 4 49 4 3 2 20,158 22, 0 ' 9 i 240 Paris and Lyons ••• • .. Orleans Northern and of C Francee ntral:::::: : : : : : : : : : : 27 ' 84 6 28'°48° 84 Paris and Rouen. ••••••••• • • • • • •• •• 7,992 23,- 0 392 Paris and Strasburgh •••••"'• • • •• • • 9,254 1 8, 41 59 Rouen and Havre .• •• •••••••• •• •• • 2,949 30 , , , i t 99 Western of France •••••••• • • • • • • • • 4,055 5/.4 CORK AND BANDON RAI LWAY.—(2O nines opeom,„„gettO of Traffic for the wee k ending Oct. 2, 1852 Passengers, parcels, &c. £153 8 1 Merchandise, cattle,&c.... 42 8 10 Total £195 16 U. Corresponding week in 1851 (10 miles open):— Passengers, parcels, &c. 34 0 3 Merchandise, cattle, &c.... 0 7 9 Total ... £34 8 0 ANOTHER BETTING -LIST TRAGEDY.-.—OH day night Mr. Brett held an inquest at the Twyford Bemmerton-street, Islington, on the body of C. Cooke, 3 e'e z 5, who was most respectably connected. It appeared t deceased, who had lately arrived from Plymouth, where I i) family resided, supported a highly excellent character tl' o g within the past few months, when he commenced visiti ve betting-houses, where he lost several wagers, which dr° 0 him to drink. On Sunday night he retired to his bed ' 4 lO very low, dejected state. N ot making his appearence usual hour the following morning, his bed-room door_ i r li f burst open, when he w as f ound a lifeless corpse in bed. Neer him was a recently empt i ed laudanum bottle, also a l e t directed to his father, i n w hi c h he confesssed that he recetLite led a wild life, betted l arge l y, and drank heavily. 1 1 ° 1 0 5 ther said that he res o l ve d upon suicide in order not to be t / disgrace upon his fa m il y, an d thus concluded the epist,eo " Here goes in half a minute!" It was proved that d ell o was produced by laudanum, and the jury returned all ('p to verdict, stating that there was no evidence to prove the 5t of his mind when he destroyed himself. in bib Zoonomia I N A W ASP —Dr. Darwin, Zoonomia relates an anecdote of apparent ratiocination Jt i e l. wasp, which had cau g ht a fl y nearly as big as itself. 1C:13e,,0c/ ing down, the docto r saw the wasp dissever the head "iie tail front the trunk of the fly, and attempt to soar with ' oc j, latter; but finding, when abott , , two feet from the gr ° ,eci that the wings of the fly carried too much sail, and e o ;ye its prize and itself t o b e w hi r l ed about, by a li tie br e re y, that had arisen, it dr o p pe d upon the ground with its yO,O and dedberately sawed ofl; with its mandibles, first wing and then the other ; having thus removed thes e 'iti pediments to its pro gress, the wasp flew away wit h, A , bcroty, and experienced no further raolestagon Luc the Abe, Amt Jur Bir., Val Birk late Dittl Aberd Do. 1 Eris. 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