The Sun. — London, England, 1835-10-28 00:00:00

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"it [en nafore jolt; to ' VI-I. :Oil' bliss P a b li ,rith ° o Mr. A na f o ss, ;WS/ 11 7 . : je‘l' i o t' e r!' ker at I bs 0 151 0 ,—is f s 11ent ;5, C"n : e . ter 1 / Le i C 1,4 0.! .atiOn Li d tiler) 'nu , an e ilia ,Con ith s self-3 0 0 c3 "# .nces er io a hl e win:, be is io J e w, ties, DUBLIN. ..—„,,„—___ " If to d o were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels kad been churches, and poor men's cottages princely palaces." SHAKSPEARE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) As stated in a former letter, the prevalent opinion in this country is, that the present Government is in a position enabling them to effect a salutary change, as beneficial to every class of the community, as de void of those characteristics which have marked the progress of every former revolution. But to carry into effect all th ese p l eas i ng ant i c i pat i ons , t h ere i s nee d o f vigilance and perseverance on the part of the Re formers. The vanquished Tories are still so strong, and int en t on recover i ng t h e i r l ost groun d, as to a ll ow t heir o p ponents no s i necure en j oyment o f t h e i r v i ctory . The latter must not sleep on their arms ; they must be on the alert. The enemy is for the present defeated, and his forces discomfited, but not destroyed : if they be allowed sufficient time to rally, and bring them to the conflict once more, desperation giving energy to their efforts, the balance of warfare may vibrate long, between liberty and justice in one scale, and bigotry and corruption in the other. This is certainly true as reg ar d s , E ng l an d an d S cot l an d, an d ma y no t b e w h o lly inappli ca bl e to Ireland, which must be for some time the scene of action ; that is, the adjustment of its in terests,t equally with the rest of 'the empire, must be h e primary object of struggle between the parties now contending. For, as it is here; more notoriously than elsewhere in the United Kingdom, that those monopolies and abuses which corrode the vitals of a nation have for centuries taken deepest root, so it is here the chief mean s of their extirpation should be adopted. And though the weight of numbers, property, and intelli gence be at this moment, by a happy conjunction, on th e side of Governmem, yet it is not impossible, con sidering the state of society, that differences may arise injurious to the permanency of such a state of things. It is therefore incumbent on our rulers, to be exceed ingly cautious and discreet in the management of the political materials now at their command. They have it in their power to convert them all to useful p ur .. poses, provided they take care to controul that jarring and confusion, naturally incidental to bodies rendered a °, Inewhat incongruous and disunited by the storms tnat have long beat against them. The history of mankind establishes this fact—that the number of Reformers, for. Reform's sake, is not the most plentiful ingredient in the liberal portion of any country ; and, for obvious reasons, Ireland cannot yet b e said to form an exception— ,, bonum publicum 4 imulantes, pro sun quisque potentia, certabant." A great portion of the liberal elements now in motion consists of different sectaries and classes, s horn reli gious discord or civil disappointments have made hos tile to each other, or to the policy pursued under Tory domination. This may be easily understood by all who have heard how much of civil and religious dis union has long existed amone. us. Nor will it be diffi cult to picture to the mind what is the necessary con sequence of such a state of things—great ignorance and poverty; and a corresponding want of fixed prin ciples and habits of industry amongst a large propor tion of the people—besides the corruption and vena lity of many persons not exposed to these more sensible e vils. It is this latter condition of society that comes More immediately within the reach of a Reforming Government, and to which their care should be inces santly directed. Almost the entire magistracy is paid call,y depraved—not physically nor morally, but habi tually so. By which I mean,—that however naturally avers e many of them may be to injustice, and however unconscious they are of evil intentions or misconduct, Yet, from habit and education, they become so inured to a perverted and crooked mode of proceeding in all Public transactions, that they know not how to move straight forward in matters wherein they wish to be Just. It is no unusual thing to hear in private society a man, who may happen to be recommending some Plain, simple, and honest line of conduct, on the part .3 f magistrates and other public functionaries, answered in such terms as the following :—" You do not un derstand human nature, Sir, or you would not sup- Pose such a mode of proceeding as you speak of prac ticable. We do not live in times of Arcadian sim plicity, when Truth was naked, and the honest Astrcea 'walk e d among men in her primeval robes, unadorned by art or party-coloured habiliments: There are wheels within wheels, Sir. What you say is very plain, to be sure ; but there is such a thing as tact, by which men must be guided, rather than by the old rules of truth and justice." Now the speaker means by the word tact, not mere perception, discernment, or any of those mental faculties, by which men are enabled to distin guish right from wrong, but that je ne scais quoi, that inexpressible sort of instinct, which suggests that t hings are not usually managed by the dictates of Plain honesty in Ireland, but that there are reasons for ° rdering them otherwise. In fact, the great evil in the moral condition of this country is, an obliquity of Judgment among the parties,—one habituated to ini quity, for the purpose of upholding their ascendancy and its concomitant advantages,—and the other indis- Posed, from habit also, to believe or admit anything right o n the part of their - opponents. The late Dr. 60 .Y/e, who had a most profound knowledge of his countrymen, and their peculiar state and condition al ising from ages of misgovernment and other misfor tunes, has thus described them :—" The whole frame T society, ainongst us, is disorganized, and the dis trust, apathy, fraud, jealousy, and contention which prevail universally as they derange the public will, an d prevent the mutual co-operation of all classes, :'!ast necessarily prevent the country, whilst they con "flue, from deriving advantage from any partial measure, or emerging from its present depressed, if not degraded condition." This state of the public mind and feeling is, no ,noubt, produced by the inequalit of the laws that n, ave hitherto existed, and more inmediately by the I ncessant collision and conflict of religious opinions s till kept up amongst us. No Government can all at ° nee rectify it, nor devise means of instantaneous im- Provement. It will take time, in addition to their 111 °st honest and strenuous endeavours, to adjust the Moral machinery of society, which, like a watch out Of order, cannot be immediately restored to an equal and proper movement. They should not, however,' ecause of such difficulties, be slow with the remedies, ° r relax their efforts. It is in their power, and the Present is a propitious opportunity, to promote the welfare of the many ; as the old system of mis rule is certainly shaken, tottering, and almost cr umbling into ruins, under the well-directed at tacks of more than one modern statesman. The f action which, like the creatures of Pisistratus in an elent Athens,, have for ages tyrannised over the people tif . Ireland, are all but--expelled. The people are and there is strength and virtue enough amongst nem, to prevent a return—provided the Government l a ,._ e rsevere in the true principles of Reform. For on the "'Parti a lity o f th e Executive authority alone can we re lY for the prevention of a new Pisistratides arising all ongst us. They must not bestow their patience 4 clusively o n a n y c lass of persons that might promote 4 f action— recen t appointments are a guarantee that tha. i r l Mulgr ave will not do so—always bearing in mind i ,ti g?eirt is not those who are most vociferous in urging claim s that have done the State good service. There is• a numerous and importunate party of this s.b de scriptio n i n I re l an d, aga i ns t w hi c h Government ti,, °'ild be on i ts guar d. F ew o f th e m ever possessed e qualities essential to patriotism. their ‘ For where was public virtue to be found If Where private was not ? promotion, to places of public trust would 1g discr e di t on t h e good cause of Refom, truth, and 1 8t ice —I all u d e no t t o individuals—those most be 11 : public eye are unquest i ona bl y p ro t ec t e d f rom the tvie w of my observations. Nor will Government be a :oss to fi n d ou t th e mos t deserving, as long as eheY bear in mind the principles which have given __ Power ; and Scipio 's maxim for retaining. oi t, P eat elicut'ose paucis end, quod nzultorum esset.' The 0 , 0 , 1 ,b0i1.,; of the people are not place-hunters ; those le u tia have eissolved the relationship of landlord and frietid or neighbour, and chosen a stranger to histheir interests in Parliament, did not do so trtb e hi s Purpose of enabling that stranger to promote o wn, or particular friend's exclusive interest. aeir s was a more enlarged policy—to effect a change 4 1 efici a l to a l l—not to favour the objects of indivi i e m : a ` la • But their views can only lie attained by the operation of Government, in estimating public, and THE SUN, LO_IDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1835 before the bank, and saluted his Majesty with repeated huzzas. The whole city was illuminated till late in the night. The Prince of Warsaw, who went the day before yesterday to Lovricz, returned yesterday in his Majesty's suite." EARL SPENCER.—As this Noble Lord has held office and does enjoy a pension, the following note respect ing one c,f his ancestors may be amusing to many of our readers :—" The Hon. John Spencer was second son of Charles, third Earl of Sunderland, by Anne his wife, se cond daughter of the great Duke of Marlborough. He was the favourite grandson of old Sarah, Duchess of Marl borough, who left him a vast fortune, having disinherited to the utmost of her power his eldest brother, Charles, Duke of Marlborough. The condition upon which she made this bequest }vas, that neither he nor his heirs should take any place or pension from any Government. This condition was, however, set aside. Ile was the - ancestor of Earl Spencer."—Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann, edited by Lord Dover ; vol. 1., p. 190.—Northampton Herald. Lord E. Stuart, an officer of the Guards, wore long mustachios, and appeared thus in the House of Commons, of which he was a member. One day Mr. C. thus ad dressed him : " My Lord, now the war is over, won't you put your mustachios on the peace establishment r .6 Id o not exactly know whether I shall do that," replied his lordship ; " but meanwhile I would advise you to put your tongue on the civil list." The Commons were at that time debating on the payment of the Civil List. BERLIN, OCT. 20.—The Journal of Odessa has a letter from Constantinople of Sept. 25, which says " Two English steam-boats, on a scientific expedition, are alter nately traversing the Bosphorus in all directions, sounding the channel, and in particular endeavouring to discover all the currents. This work, the utility of which is well known, is prosecuted with great activity, and without any impediment whatever on the part of the Government." THE HOUSE OF HELVETIUS.—The rue St. Anne was, formerly called the rue de Helvetius. The gfound floor of the house in which that celebrated character lived is now tenanted by a renomme of another kind—a res taurateur at 25 sous par tete. _ _ _ The General Steam Navigation Company's Mail Packet, the John Bull, from Hamburg, arrived off the Custom-house at half-past two o'clock, on the 27th Oct. GRAVE AND GOOD COUNSEL.—The following quaint epitaph is still visible on an ancient grave-stone, in a country church-yard in Norfolk : "Live well, die never; Die well, live for ever l" IIL Gaetano, of Milan, is stated to have discovered a method of converting all animal bodies into a substance resembling stone or marble, and susceptible of the-highest polish and perfectly incorruptible. He is even able to pre serve the materials in the same manner, but retaining a cer tain degree of flexibility.—Literary Gazette. The Orange demonstration In this city proved a complete failure. In spite of all the exertions of the Synod of Aberdeen, collectively and as individuals, Mr. Murtach O'Sullivan had the mortification of addressing a very meagre audience ; composed, too, principally of the clerical order, and its most tenacious adherents, the gentler sex.—Aber deen Herald. The ready manner in which the Government broker was supplied with stock last week, when making invest ments on account of disputed West India claims, caused some surprise at the time, as no satisfactory explanation could be given from whence the stock proceeded. It has now transpired that it was supplied by one of the assurance companies, in compliance with a resolution passed by the proprietors declaring a large surplus dividend. Any other speculation, therefore, respecting the recent heaviness of the Consol market can have no foundation, as this is quite sufficient in the present state of money to account for it. FORBIDDING THE BANS.—A recent decision of the Minister of War of Belgium is likely to create no slight sensation among the fair candidates for the holy state of matrimony in that country. The ordonnance in question forbids all lieutenants and second lieutenants, serving in the Belgian army, to marry ; and, to . the still greater displeasure of the ladies, does not extend to officers above the rank of Captain, who have grown grey and infirm under the banners of Mars. Should this Malthusian mea sure have a retrospective application, why then let his Ex cellency look to the ladies, that's all. The Common Council of Newcastle, at a meeting held last week, voted a piece of plate of the value of 100 guineas to the wife of the Mayor, as a memento of her accouchement having taken place in the Mansion-house--a rare occurrence in the civic history of the Corporation. At length preparations are making for the com mencement. of the railway at Southampton. Materials have this week been placed in the Marsh, and when suffi cient are supplied, the great work will be begun forthwith. —Hampshire Chronicle. For three consecutive sessions for this county, and one assize intervening, not one criminal case has been sent from the borough of Sunderland, which contains nearly 50,000 inhabitants.—Sunderland Herald. Some particulars are given of another attempted negro insurrection at Bahia on the 22d of July; a vague notice of which we had previously received, via Buenos Ayres. The insurrection was quelled, after a short time, but the inhabitants were left in a state of great alarm and uneasiness. SURREY RADICAL ASSOCIATION. —A numerous meeting was held last night at the Chapel, High-street, Southwark, Feargus O'Connor, Esq., in the Chair, for the purpose of forming, on the Surrey side of the water, a Radical Association. on the plan of, and to co-operate with, the Radical Association of Mary-la-Bonne. ' Several reso lutions to the above purport were passed unanimously, after which the meeting adjourned. _ TRADE WITH SPAlN.—During the year 1834, 665 vessels (total tonnage 86,918) entered the port of Cadiz ; 229 of which (tonnage 32,962) were from England, and 45 (tonnage 7,107) from France. 570 vessels (ton nage 80,822) sailed from that port during the same ye ar; 264 of these (tonnage 27 , 825 ) bound to England, and 17 (tonnage 1,773) to France. The total value of goods im ported during that year was 28,900,900 francs, 8,461,900 of which from England, and 2,778,200 froM France. The goods exported amounted to 42,628,000 francs, 26,070,900 to England, and 763,200 to France. , VERY CONSIDERATE.--A prisoner for a petty debt lately sent to his creditor, to let him know be had a proposal to make for their mutual benefit. The creditor came, and the incarcerated thus addressed him : " Sir, I have been thinking that it is a very idle thing for me to be here, and put you to the expense of twenty, sous a day. My being so chargeable to you has given me great uneasi ness, and God knows what it may cost you in the end. Therefore, I propose that you should let me out of prison, and, instead of a franc, you shall allow me only ten sous a day, and the other half franc shall go towards the discharge of the debt." _ _ OLD NEWSPAPERS.—Many people take pews papers, but few preserve them ; yet the most interesting reading imaginable is a file of old newspapers. It brings up the very age with all its castle and every day affairs, and marks its genius and its spirit more than the most la boured desCription of the historian. Who can take a paper dated half a century ago, without the thought that almost every name there printed is now cut upon a tomb-stone, at the head of an epitaph ? The doctor (quack or regular) that there advertised his medicines and their epres, has fol lowed the sable train of his patients ; the 'merchant, his ships'---could get 'no security on his life ; and the actor, who could make others laugh or weep, can now only fur nish a skull for his successors in Hamlet. It is easy to preserve newspapers, and they will repay the trouble ; for their value increases with their years; and old files have sometimes been sold at prices too startling to mention. NOBILITY.—The Marquis of Waterford, the Hon. John Beresford, Lord Rosslyn, and Colonel Dundas, who had arrived here in a splendid yacht, between the hours of three and four o'clock on Monday morning, were found by Mr. William Carter, a watchman, in Washington•street , near Morris, in' rather a riotous mood, having demolished two of the street lamps and a window, and attacked and stripped a citizen, who fled as fast as he could from their illustrious hands. In attempting to arrest them for their noise, riot, and violence, the watchman was beaten, and had his coat and pantaloons nearly torn from his body ; but calling in the assistance of two of his comrades, the no ble disturbers of the peace betook themselves to a boat, and breaking the oars, employed them as bludgeons inbeat ing the watchmen, but were finally overpowered and con ducted to the watchhousc, where they indulged in numerous expressions against their Yankee captors. In the morning they were brought befo r e Justice Hopson, who, after taking the affidavit of the watchman, made out their commitments and sent them to prison. Before the matter could be ad justed, the British Consul had been applied to in 'their behalf, as also the mayor, and the latter functionary, as head of the city police, came and ordered them to be dis charged, after instructing them to pay to the watchman 20 dollars for his clothes which they had destroyed. They were accordingly discharges'.--New York Paper, Oct. 7. Extract of a letter from Bayonne, dated Oct. 21:--- The struggle of the Basques in the cause of their liberties and,independince has lost much of its interest and liancY by admitting into their ranks suck persons as Mo reno, the murderer of poor Boyd, and by permitting their native mountains to become the area of bigoted, ambitious, and blood-thirsty tyrants, the opposers of all Constitutional liberty. The Basques are, however, beginning to feel the yoke of these tyrants, and if emigration to South America was open to them, there is no doubt that the ranks of the Carlists would rapidly diminish ; and although they would never submit to the Queen's Government, they would readily embrace the advantages held out to them by emigration, at all times congenial with the Bisque character ; but will it he credited, that although several—nay, numbers, of the rebels, have already applied to the Spanish authorities at Bayonne and Bordeaux for passports to America, they have hitherto been constantly refused, and forced back to the ranks of the Pretender, under the pretext of not wishing to diminish the population of the Peninsula by tolerating emi gration under any circumstances, notwithstanding they have been cutting each other's throats for the last two years, and thus diminishing the population with a vengeance." A general amnesty for political offences, passed on the 19th June, for the provinces of Minas Geraes and Rio de Janeiro, was extended on the 17th of August to those of Pernambuco and Alagoas. FROM Rio.—Capt. Chase, of the ship Mary, from Rio Janeiro, furnishes papers to the 21st of August. They contain but little news of importance, and are chiefly OA with reports of the debates in the general Legislative As semblies, the, principal topics of discussion being a project for the substitution of paper money for the immense quan tity of copper now in use, and a series of measures rendered necessary by the recent occurrences in Para. Scarlet Fever is at present very prevalent in the county of Leitrim. It has deprived that excellent clergy man, the Reverend George Mansfield, of four of his five children. ' THE HARVEST.—The farmers, for some time past, have been much dispirited in consequence of the almost continual rains which threatened to baffle their efforts ; fortunately, however, they availed themselves of the few dry days in the beginning of the week, so that the greater por tion of the grain, hay and flax may now be said to be se cure. The weather at present holds out hopes of becoming favourable. Indeed we never recollect our river so much swollen at this season of the year.—Ballyshannon Herald. The Strada di Toledo at Naples is supposed to be the noisiest place in the world. " Conceive (says a recent tourist) the effect of a thousand postmen's bells ringing at once, and all day long, and you will attain some notion of the music of the Strada di Toledo. By some mistake we appeared to say in our paper of yesterday that Mr. N. Goldsmidt talked of Lords Mel bourne, Palmerston, &c., as • "his- associates,"—" his op ponents," should have been the word ; and the exquisite absurdity consisted in this self-complacent gentleman's de scription of these statesmen as " his opponents." Mr. N. Goldsmidt may be their opponent, but th3y are certainly no opponents of Mr. N. Goldsmidt.—Morning Chronicle. In consequence of a communication from the French Postmaster at Bayonne, M. Ferere, the Spanish Consul, has just issued a notice to the masters of Spanish vessels, that if they attempt to convey private letters to Bilboa, and are convicted thereof, they will be punished by fine and imprisonment. By the regular channels, viz., by sea via St. Sebastian and Bilboa, the communication is now very uncertain and difficult, there being only one mail-boat for the service between the last-mentioned places, and which may not be able at times to put to sea for a month, and instead of facilitating the correspondence, the French appear deter mined to throw every obstacle in the way in their power, thus showing their childish and peevish jealousy at the oc cupation of Bilboa by the British Legion. The proposition of a loan for the_ Republic of Uru guay, adverted to on Monday, has caused no little asto nishment in the City, where the fact was not previously very generally known. It is not, we understand, altogether a novel project, but has been meditated for some months, though it is not till lately that matters were thought suffi ciently ripe for making the attempt. Of the utter want of security in this case, whether either the extent or the po pulation of the country be considered, leaving the ingre dient of good faith altogether out of the question, some idea may be formed by a description of this little republic. It is of an irregular oval shape, about 330 miles in length from north to south, and 22.5 in breadth from east to west, bounded on the south by the Rio de la Plata, on the north by the river Ivicuy ; on the west by the river Uruguay, and on the east by the South Atlantic, from Cape Santa Maria to the river Yguaron, and from thence to Ivicuy. In 1810 the population was estimated at from 60,000 to 70,000 souls, but in 1825 it was stated to be only from 40,000 to 50,000, including the town of Monte Video, which was formerly considered to contain 20,000 inhabi tants, but at present has only 10,000. The country is very little cultivated, and the portions of it which are attended to, are chiefly grazing farms. The great majority of the inhabitants are G nachos (cattle hunters), and not a man of any property would be found resident among them, but for the sake of carrying on the slave trade there, after the neighbouring countries have abandoned it. Some wealthy persons from Brazil have, it is said, formed establishments there for that express purpose. The lenders of money to the Republic of Uruguay would, therefore, not only be certain of losing all that they remitted thither, but have the additional mortification of seeing it applied, while it lasted, to the carrying on that most nefarious traffic in slaves, which all civilized countries are leaguing with each other to abandon and destroy. The sum proposed to be borrowed was 3,000,000 dollars, or 600,0001. ! BREAD THE STAFF OF LIFE.—" Stopping at a place for breakfast in Savoy," says Rae Wilson, in his Travels in Italy and France, " a curious specimen of the fashion of the country presented itself. We were startled by seeing a tall fellow enter the room with a bundle of rods on his shoulder, which he flung down upon the table. We stared at him for an explanation of this seemingly un courteous conduct, not exactly knowing whether it was himself or we who were to make use of them ; nor was it without some trouble that we made out what we had mis taken for sticks was bread, rolled out very thin and long before it is baked. The length of each piece was about four feet. We were amused at discovering that bread is thus literally made the staff of life f so, taking up our staves in one hand and our cups in the other, we commenced our repast in merry mood, and, as we thought, in most sin gular fashion." FASHION.—Summer toilets are quite thrown aside, and satins and velvets seem completely to have the vogue. The most elegant of these are the satin des Indes, satin Rachvel, and the velours Roxelane. There is also a new species of pou-de-soie satin, called Chatogant Gothique, which is mostly used for carriage dresses ; the pattern con sists of an elegant leaf, in bright relief on a dark ground, with gothic designs formed by gold and silver cord. Open dresses, with pelerines tying in front with lappets, made of fancy Levantine, mostly chocolate colour with straw-coloured stripes, or of silver-grey satin striped with emerald green or dark pink, are most fashionable for morning costume. Robes a la Juive, of silk cachemere or Indian muslin, cor sage half decolete, are worn in the evening. For full dress : Robe of light-coloured Turkish velvet, corsage carre, half decolete, neatly plaited into gerbes before and behind, wide sleeves, slip trimmed with large volans, and for coiffure, a turban a la Mussulmane, of the same stuff as the dress, and with a large emerald in front. At the last representation of La Juive, at the Opera, the following costumes were most admired white muslin dress, with wide sleeves and corsage montant, trimmed with English lace ; scarf of gre nadine (emerald green) round the neck, and sash flottant of same colour. Head dress : a. green chenille net, interwoven with pearls, covering only the -top of the head and encir cling the forehead ; a border of large pearls, descending in a double row on each side of the face ; the , hair in bands in front and natte behind. The other, worn by the Prin cess L—, consisted of a redingote of pink pou-de-soie, trimmed with swan's down ; pelerine trimmed with same material, larger than usual, but not meeting in front. Head dress : blonde cap, excessively low on the forehead, and garnitures very wide.—Paris Advertiser. CURE FOR TIIE RHEUMATISM.—On Thursday last, an elderly female, from the Land o' Cakes, apparently crippled in every limb, and groaning with pain from the effects of this distressing malady, presented herself before a medical practitioner, in the neighbourhood of Easing wold. Four times, accordiry , to her own account, had she been a patient in the York Infirmary ; and was proceeding on her way to make another trial of that valuable institu tion. To corroborate her statement, she produced the fol lowing elegant document, which she declared had been given to her by the gentleman whose name is appended : " To the Humane and Benevolent—Margaret Duncan a Worthy and industrious Woman has recently been deprived of her husband by Death being the only Earthly help slit had which has left her with a small Family quite Destitute and being a stranger in this country she has no other mean of support at present she has only been for the space of 6 weeks Confined to bed in York Infirmary Her intention being to return to her Husband friends I think her a fit object of relief any small trifle will be thankfully TQCPiCiPti and long remembered by her:---Margaret Duncan.—York, April 17th, 1835.—Dr. Bellcurn." A hint,us t 9 tilt: be neficial effects of the treadmill in cases of this description produced an effect at least equal to• that of Perkins' Me tallic Tractors. Her stiffened joints were in one moment relaxed to entreat forgiveness ; and the vigour of the muscles was so completely restored, iet she was out of sight in less than a minute.—Yorkshire Gazette. CAUTION TO FEMALE SERVANTS.—About half past eleven o'clock on Monday night last, as Captain Whewitt, of St. John's-wood, Marylebone, was retiring to rest, he fancied that he heard some persons talking in a low tone in his garden ; he immediately threw up his bed room window, and calle out ; but receiving no answer, and feeling convinced, in his own mind, that the thieves were about the premises, he took up a pistol from his dressing table, blew out his light, and stationed himself near the window, to watch their proceedings. He had not been there long before he perceived two persons cross the foot path at the lower end of the garden. Upon this Capt. W. again called out ; but receiving no answer to the second call, he fired. A dreadful scre.im, as if from a female, now the garden i r n d en lva plainly l p a e n r d c e e i s v c e a d p e a a m e a ro n s , s i na fiseollddie4rt'stiuienibfoaremk,osfctahlee issued f rom t h e di rect i on i n w hi c h h e h a d fi red, and the C • private worth, while providing functionaries - for the public service. Should they lose sight of those plain principles in administering the affairs of Ireland, they must forfeit the support of public opinion, and verify the predictions of their enemies, by letting in that con fusion and desire of constant change necessarily arising out of the continued dissatisfaction and discontents of the people,- That there is no great danger _of such a calamity, however., and that in averting it, and provid ing for the universal good, Government will have the support of the nation, independently of the aid of the drummers and trumpeters of any faction; I shall be able to show in a future communication, by the testi mony of some facts and events peculiar to this country, that have not been as yet genenilly observed by the üblic ress. COURT CIRCULAR. His Majesty will come toTtown this day from Windsor Castle, and will hold a Court.at St. James's. -Viscount Melbourne arrived in town yesterday afternoon from Oatlands. His Lordship afterwards received visits in Downing-street from Lord Glenelg, Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, and Mr. Oswald, M.P. The Greek . Minister visited Viscount Palmerston yes terday at the'Foreign-office. The Attorney-General arrived at his residence in New street, Spring-gardens, yesterday, from Scotland. Sir Frederic Lamb arrived in town ow Monday, from the seat of the Earl and Countess Cowper, at Pansanger, Hertfordshire. PAVILION THEATRE. On Monday night, after the performance of Venice Pre served, and a laughable interlude, y'clept The Bankrupt Mason, a masonic squib, the drama of The Miller's Maid was revived, for the purpose of introducing Heslop, as the love-smitten rustic, Giles. To say that he performed it well, would not be saying enough—he performed it admi rably. When force was required, he was forcible, without being _vehement ; and.in his scene with the gamekeeper, and where he appears on the bridge, carrying Phoebe, keeping George and Old Granger at bay, he worked upon the au dience most powerfully. His last scene elicited tremendous applause. Miss Grove was the Plicebe, and she performed the part with a great deal of sensibility and spirit. Moreton as Malty Marvellous was ludicrously entertaining ; and a better Old Granger than Goldsmith could not well have been selected. LAW NOTICES. ECCLESIASTIC ( Sittings in Michae ARCHES CAL COURTS. Amas Term, 1835. ) COURT. Ist Session, Monday, Nov. 2 4th Session,Thursday, Nov. 26 2d Session, Wednesday, 11 Bye day, Thursday, Dec. 3 3d Session, Wednesday, 18 ADMIRALTY COURT. Ist Session, Thursday, Nov. 5 4th Session, Friday, Nov. 27 I '2d Session, Thursday, 12 Bye day, Friday, Dec. 4 3d Session, Thursday, 19 PREROGATIVE COURT. Ist Session, Friday, 2d Session, Saturday, 3d Session, Saturday, Nov. 6i4th Session, Monday, Nov. 30 141 Bye day, Tuesday, Dec. 8 21 APPEALS. Ist Session, Saturday, Nov. 7 4th Session, Tuesday, Dec. 1 2d Session, Monday, 16 Bye day, Wednesday, 9 3d Session, Tuesday, 24 CONSTSTORY COURT. Ist Session, Tuesday, Nov. 10 4th Session, Wednesday, Dec. 2 2d Session, Tuesday, 1/ Bye day, Thursday, 10 3d Session, Wednesday 25 Caveat day, Prerogative, 'Wednesday, Dec. 30. Extra Court day, Consistory, Wednesday, Dec. 30. Default day, Admiralty, Thursday, Dec. 31. We are happy to state that the health of the Duke of Wellington continues to improve. On Monday last the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, Earl and Countess of Wilton, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, and the Stanley family, left Flintshire for Eaton Hall. The Hon. G. Berkeley, M.P., has sufficiently re covered from his late severe fall to • enable him to take the field as usual.. The Earl of Eglinton is expected to take the field at Melton early next month.' The late Earl of Plymouth's hunting-seat, Lysonby Lodge, has been taken by Sir David Baird, Bart., for a term of years. Lord Francis Egerton has returned to his residence at Oatlands Park, from his newly-acquired estate at Wors ley Hall, in Lancashire, whence he visited his friend the Earl of Wilton, at Heaton Park, near Manchester. _ _ Viscount Valentia, eldest son of the Earl of Montnorris, accompanied by the young Viscount Jocelyn, eldest son of the Earl of Roden, who are on a tour in North America, were, at the date of the last letters, in com pany with Sir George and Lady Cockburn, visiting the Falls of Niagara. Sir Francis Freeling still continues very ill, and with little hope of his recovery. W. Conyngham Benton, Esq., has resigned the En signcy of the Yeomen Guard, which the Lord Chamberlain has given to George Houlton, Esq. Lieutenant-General Hodgson has succeeded to the Colonelcy of the 4th Regiment of Infantry, vacant by the death of the late General, the Earl of Chatham ; and Major-General Hastings Fraser has obtained the Colonelcy of the 83d Regiment, vacant by General Hodgson's ap pointment. SIR JOHN CAMPBELL.—Our townsman, the present Attorney-General, having been in the. course of the week on .a short visit to his brother, Sir George, at Edenwood, the circumstance excited a pretty general de sire, on the part•of the inhabitants, to compliment so dis tinguished a native of the place, by giving him a public dinner. Accordingly, a meeting for taking the necessary steps was held in the George Inn, on Monday evening, when an invitation, signed by the Provost and others, was dispatched to Sir John, who, however, in consequence of his pressing engagements in London, has, we understand, felt himself ob4iged to decline, in the mean time, the proffered honour ; promising himself, however, the pleasure on some future opportunity.—Fife Herald. BRUNSWICK, OCT. 10.— ' We are in hourly ex pectation of the return of M. Von Amberg, our Minister of Finance, from Hanover, with the accession of Oldenburg, duly signed, to the Hanoverian and Brunswick Commercial Union and Tariff. BERLIN, OCT. 20.—Her Majesty the Empress of Russia with the Princess Olga, coming from Frank fort, arrived at Breslau on the 16th, and was received with great rejoicings by the inhabitants. Her Majesty intended to set out for Kalisch the next morning. James Dawkins, Esq., late Resident Minister at the Court of the young King of Greece, and suite, arrived in town on Saturday from Athens, where be is succeeded by Captain Sir Edward Lyons. Mr. Dawkins came home through Germany and France. Prince Czartoriski, with his nephew, Count Zamo riski, and Lord Dudley. Stuart, arrived at Bretton Hall, the seat of T. Wentworth Beaumont, Esq., M.P. for South Northumberland, yesterday week, and on the following day took the diversion of pheasant shooting. The game had been driven out-of the thick woods into the thinner coverts, where they had excellent sport. The Prince, though now ad vanced in years still retains much of his activity. The Count is a remarkably good shot; and seldom missed. The Prince, the Count, and Lord Dudley Stuart passed through Leeds on Sunday.—Leeds Mercury. The following notice was posted up in the Admi ralty Office yesterday :—" Lord Minto will hold a Le vee on Saturday, the 31st of October, at 11 o'clock. If what we have been informed be true, that the average receipts of the first week have been 1,400/., the reduction of prices adopted at Covent-garden will turn out to be a profitable experiment. A new comedietta, in one act, to be entitled Forget and Forgive, and to be brought out on Sat urday next, was yesterday put into rehearsal at Drury-lane. The principal characters have been allotted to Messrs. Warde, Bartley, Cooper, Meadows, Mrs. Yates, and Miss Tree. FLIGHT ACROSS THE CHANNEL.—Mr. Graham the aeronaut, meditates an aerial voyage in his balloon from Dover to the French coast, on the first favourable oppor tunity. A correspondence has been formed for the purpose of effecting the necessary arrangements. 'An illuminated balloon passed from the heights over the town and harbour, to sea, on Wednesday night. We are ignorant whether it was intended to visit our continental neighbours or not ; but, at any rate, its brilliant appearance was gratifying to the spectators, many of whom fancied it a messenger from the Comet.—Dover Telegraph. , WARSAW, OcT. 16.—Our Journals say—" The most ardent wishes of the inhabitants of the capital of the kingdom of Poland are gratified. Yesterday afternoon they received the happy intelligence that the Emperor, our King and most gracious Sovereign, would arrive at Warsaw in the evening. Immediately all lighted up their houses, and hastened to fill all the streets through which our honoured Monarch was to pass. This desired moinenti.arrived at a quarter past eight o'clock. On the approach of their kind father a cordial acclamation of joy resounded from the mouths of all. His Majesty drove to the Royal Lapinski Palace, where he put up for the night. General Paukratieff, the Military Governor, received his Majesty at the gate of the Palace. The most distinguished citizens had assembled .`:;~-_- premises. Captain - W., accompanied by his man-sdrvant, immediately proceeded to seArch the garden, and at the lower end, crouched up in a corner, he discovered his ser vant girl Bridget almost frightened out of her wits. It ap pears that the imprudent girl had contracted an intimacy with a soldier ; and, visitors not being allowed by Capt. W., the garden was the only place where the gallant son of Mars could enjoy the society of his beloved. Bridget's amatory propensities, however, had nearly cost her her life, for the pistol-ball entered the hind part of her bonnet, aid actually struck the comb from the back part of her head. , DISTRESSING CASE.—Yesterday, morning, ne tween seven and eight o'clock, a poor woman, aged be tween 40 and 50, was discovered by one ©f the police belonging to the D division, lying on the gravel path, in the Regent's Park, in a state o insensibility. On the po liceman finding her lying prostrate on the ground, he at first thought she was in a state of intoxication ; but he quickly discovered that the unfortunate sufferer was in a state of total insensibility from cold and hunger. She was immediately conveyed to the St. Marylebone Infirmary, in a hopeless state. For the present it is not known who she is. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Thursday even ing last, about seven o'clock, as Mr. W. Watts, farmer, of Uxbridge-moor, was returning home from Uxbridge market, he was met by two men, who knocked him down, when one knelt on his chest, while the othei robbed him of a valua ble silver watch (maker's name John Share), with a gilt chain and a gold seal attached, and 15s. in silver. Mr. Watts has given a description of the robbers, and offered a reward for their apprehension. THE ROBBERY AT GREENWICH HOSPITAL.— FURTHER EXTENSIVE DISCOVERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY. —Two young men, named John and Thomas Bayley, car rying on with their mother the business of plumbers, at Deptford, were yesterday brought before Adam Young, Esq., and a Bench of Magistrates, at the Greenwich Petty Sessions, charged with feloniously receiving a large quantity of sheet lead, the property of the Commissioners of Green wich Hospital. Mr. Young, in remanding the prisoners, observed that it was evident a wicked and extensive system of plunder had been carried on in the Hospital, and the police deserved great credit for their endeavours to detect it. WANTON CRUELTY.—On last Thursday night some evil-minded ruffian cut off the ears of a valuable mare, belonging to a widow, in one of the town parks, near Moate. Although active inquiries were made by the police to find out the perpetrator of this inhuman act, we. regret to say that he still remains undiscovered.—Athlone Sentinel. FATAL ACCIDENT.—A few days ago a girl, named Catharine Paffy, while herding cattle belonging to Mr. Mathews on the lands of Fordrum, near this town, having approached too near a vicious brood mare with a foal, which was grazing in the field, received a kick in the stomach, from the effects of which she died a few hours after. There was no inquest held on the occasion. Why?— Athlone Sentinel. • STAGE COACH ACCIDENT AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—On Sunday last as the Emerald, Bath and Bris tol coach, was proceeding through Marlborough Forest, the rain beat against the horses with such violence as to frighten the leaders, and they became quite unmanageable. The coachman finding such to be the case, was in the act of getting doWn to lay hold of their heads, when they sud denly turned round. Every person was expecting momen tarily the coach to upset. Mr. Gould, a gentleman occu pying the box seat, unbuckled the reins which held the leaders, and they running off at a furious rate, soon came in contact with a gig, and with such violence that it was broken to pieces, and all three horses lay on the ground in a lifeless state. The coach shared the same fate as the gig. In the scramble from the roof all escaped unhurt, with the exception of a few bruises. FATAL AFFRAY.—We have heard a rumour tnat Major John H. I. Wynn, Member elect to the Legislature from Limestone county, was killed in Athens, on Saturday night last, in a reneounter with Mr. W. K. English. The particulars, as we have heard them, are as follow :—Mr. English had a difference, and perhaps a rencounter with one of Major Wynn's friends, on some subject connected with the recent election. Mr. Wynn arriving in town a few minutes afterwards, went to the house where Mr. English resided as a clerk, and made an assault on him ; English finding that he was about to be overcome, drew his dirk and stabbed him to the heart. Major Wynn was a Member of the last Legislature. He has left a large and respect able family to mourn his loss. We understand English has left the country.—North Alabamian, Sept. 13. DUEL EXTRAORDINARY.—A Lieutenant in the navy, while ascending . the river in a steam-boat, became in volved in a quarrel with three persons from Arkansas, two of them brothers. He was challenged by one of the bro thers and endeavoured to " back out," but the other party insisted upon a fight, and a gentleman volunteering to be second for the officer, they went ashore to settle their dif ference. At the first fire the Lieutenant received his ad versary's ball in his hip, and asked if he was satisfied, to which his antagonist replied, " No, not until one of us is killed." They took another shot and the Lieutenant's ad versary fell dead. His brother then insisted on a fight, which the second of the Lieutenant •endeavoured in vain to prevent. They fired and the other brother was shot dead. The second of the deceased, becoming enraged with thc: Lieutenant's second, shot and killed him, and was in turn shot dead by the Lieutenant, who was conveyed from the field much exhausted by the loss of blood, and is now at Louisville, recovering, under the care of his physicians. Thus four men were left dead upon the field. We give the above as we heard it from a respectable source, but fo - ebear to mention the names of the parties, as no good collie, result from it, and we presume their relatives have beets already advised of their fate.—Cincinnati Post. MURREL'S ATTEMPTED RESCUED---We have been shown a letter, dated Marion (Ala.), Sept. 19, from a highly respectable gentleman of Tennessee, which states that a daring attempt had been made to liberate Murrel from the State Penitentiary. The letter says that four or five hundred strangers gradually, and seemingly without concert, appeared in Nashville, but that the influx was so great as to excite suspicion, and eventually public opinion settled down into the belief that they were confederatr : s of that arch fiend Murrel, which suspicion was soon confirmed by an unsuccessful attempt at his liberation. The letter states that about four hundred were under arrest, and un dergoing trial, for their participation in the matte , .., and that a number had already been sentenced for vari'aus periods to the Penitentiary. AWFULLY SUNDEN DEATH.--On T uesday last Mr. James Richmond, a general factor, residir ig at Wolver hampton, left home in perfect health and a , ?irits, for the purpose of transacting business in Birmingh4 , .m, where be arrived about twelve o'clock. In about hale an hour aftetr wards he called at the warehouse of INio 'ssrs. Fiddian. Brothers, merchants, in Broad-street, and of ter a short cor _ versation with Mr. Fiddian, sin., left for the purp , ase o f procuring a stamp to negotiate the businQs s • res pe c ting ; wl . .i c h he had called. In a few minutes he mtarm ,d, and a' ?pr ,ared in a great heat. He then sat down, tool : out the % stamp% stood up again, and handed it to Mr. Fid dian, e' 4 Aaimin.g at the same moment, " Oh I what a strange p l i a my ' heart." Mr. Fiddian left for the pw•pose of getting him some brandy, but before he could return from Vac. adjoining room Mr. Fiddian, sen., perceived him reel; o and re ' sently went over and took him in his arms, wl, , p ,e g n he calmly turned round, smiled as it were, and instantly • expired, stand ing, without uttering a syllable, or indicatia' • the least in ternal struggle. Two surgeons were instar lily sent for, and in a few minutes arrived, but life was f0).. - „, Ito be totally ex tinct, and all assistance was unavaili- .. An inquest was held on Wednesday, when the ah mve 6 it i substance having been given in evidence, the iL, ry r ,, t , g" Died by the visitation of tu od. ,,___ Z zrtninahani Journal. - . 61 1 ) EXTRAORDINARY A MELD __ _ rned a verdict of NCIIOLY OccUR RENCE.—An inquest was held, a t wk,: .1?rell, near Chester field, on Wednesday, '..in tlid body of : !Ann Cordell, an in dustrious and peaccablo -,,, 0m „ , .who with her husband lived at the toll-bar bans': at Southg a t e , and w hose death was occasioned by exce ss i v e f r i g h t. Th a cause of this melan choly event war s a man named Ware(ler, who lived in a small farm house near t h e to ll - b ar, and 1 vho has long been ad ' dieted to habits of drunk:,nness, v rhich caused great dis agreements between ',;;mself and 7 is wife. On the 13th instant he went 11 , ~me very d r u n k al i d b egan t o quar rel with his wife, and j A • inally to heat her ;sl te fled for assistance to the tqr,:nar house, when having ‘ ~ , ,a l led up James Cordell, she besought him to gct up and go to her home and endea vour to pacify her husband, and o n his promising to do so, she passed on. Cordell immediat 3 1y went on his peaceable errand, desiring his wife to lock tl Je. door after him, which she did. He had not gone far w belt be met Warener, armed with a plank, who fiercely le: u.anded his wife, who he insisted was concealed in the toil. .1 gar Mouse. Cordell endea voured to appease him, and asst it ed 1, i t n she was not there, but the drunkard would not lis to e to reason, but going up to the toll-bar house, began w' th lion id imprecations to in sist on his wife coming forth, a n d batti :red the door furiously with his plank. At this time t be unfo . Aunate deceased, who was alone in the house, was h eard to scream violently, and her husband begged Waren s• to be quiet or he would kill his wife with fright. Way ~ ..si* howl ;ver, continued his vio lent conduct, and in orde ' eu ' vim. ;e him that he was mis taken, Cordell called to . h r . to ce to • open the door and let is wife Warener in to satisfy •1 was not there. The himself th at 1 ,le poor terrified woma- t the moment of letting . *I obeyed, ar a• a and fell them in, exclaime oh on the ground. . Hoi husband '0 imediately raised her up, but she was quite dead. Au ' inquest has been held before Mr- J. Hu' ,chinson, Corone* when the verdict retu rned ~ was, " Fr . ‘g l itened to death by John w aren er. The law has pro.h e did not go sided no punishment fo: ! Warener , as with 'a malicious intent, but in . lursuit • of his wife•—Derbii shic Courier. DUN CAN M , NEILL, ESQ., LATE SO- LICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND. (From the Edinburgh. Evening Post.) Mr. M'Neiil having accepted an invitation to dine at the George Inn with .the Society of Procurators before the Courts of Law in Perthshire, at their annual dinner on lb: 16th inst., and that having been his first visit to the count: since he resigned the office of Sheriff, a general meeting of the Society was held at Perth in the forenoon of that day, at which it was moved and seconded, and carried by accla mation, that the Society should take that opportunity for expressing to Mr. M'Neill their satisfaction with the mance in which he had discharged the duties of his•office, and that an address to that effect should be presented to him. After dinner, when Mr. M'Neilrs health was proposed by Mr. Reid, the Secretary, who introduced the toast with much good taste and feeling, the President of the Society pre sented to Mr. M'Nci!l the address which had-been agreed to at the meeting in the forenoon. We regret that we are unable to give a report of Mr. I\l'Neill's reply,- which is described in all the Perth papers as distinguished for feel ing, power, and eloquence. The Perthshire Advertiser adds :—" Mr. M'Nelli's speech was listened to throughout with the most intense interest, and made a deep impressien on every one who heard it. It must have been gratifying to the Society of Procurators, to find that that expression of their approbation which they considered it to be their duty to convey to their late sheriff, was so highly appreciated by him ; and it must also have been gratifying to Mr. M'Ncill to receive from the mem bers of a Court over which he presided for ten years, so unanimous and unqualified a testimonial of their approba tion of his conduct." The following is the address : " To Duncan M'Neill, Esq., Advocate, late Sheriff of Perthshire ;—We, mernberi of the Society of Procura tors; practising heft)! e the Courts of Law in Perthshire, cannot allow the connection which for so many years existed betwixt you and this county to terminate, with out expressing to you our respectful but unqualified approbation of the manner in which you discharged the duties of the office of Sheriff of this important county, during the ten years for which you held that office. In the civil business of the coanty you, on all occasions, displayed the most rigid impartiality and profound legal knowledge, and the general confidence in your decisions may fairly be estimated by the comparatively small number of cases in which your judgments were advocated to a higher court. When presiding in the criminal court, you have in variably displayed the strictest integrity and impartiality ; and it has been a matter cf congratulation to the inhabitants of this county that they had, as their local criminal judge, for so long aperiod, one who for his talents, his eloquence, and his extensive legal knowledge, stands unrivalled as a criminal lawyer at the Scottish bar. By the alteration which was made a few years ago in the system of representation in Scotland, new and important duties were devolved upon you, and we feel it difficult to express, in language sufficiently strong, our admiration of the manner in which these arduous and difficult duties were discharged by you. In addition to that talent and legal knowledge which you brought to bear upon every part of your duty, you exhibited in the registration courts, at times when party feeling had been. highly excited, an impartiality so pure and so unvarying, and a determination to do justly between each party, regard less of the political opinions of the one party or the other, so rigidly carried into execution, as to call forth the unanimous approbation of all. We cannot allow this opportunity to pass without also expressing to you our satisfaction, and our gratitude for the manner in which you have discharged one of the most important of your duties--the appointment of a sheriff substitute . . When you were appointed to the office of sheriff, you found in the office of substitute an individual whose memory will ever be revered in this county as that of a Judge who was justly consiaered one of the first sheriff-substitutes in Scotland. You renewed his ap pointment ; and when by his lamented death you were re quired to appoint n successor, ycra gave us that man upon whom, when the vacancy occw.red, the eye of every Mem ber of this Society turned, the most fit and proper per son to succeed our former sheriff-substitute. We have found our opinion confirmed in the fullest manner, by the experience which we have now had of that gentleman ; and. we rejoice to say, that in that we are supported by the ge neral confidence in his talents and integrity as a Judge, and esteem for him as an indi v id ua l, w hi c h are felt throughout the whole of this county. We beg to assure you that, in your future career, the Members of this Society will al ways take a warm interest. They will ever look back with pride to the time when this county had the honour of hav ing you for its Chief Magistrate. And confidently trust ing that you will, ere long, attain to those honours for which your briP.iaut talents and great legal knowledge so eminently fit you, we beg to express our sincere and earnest wishes for your future welfare. " THOS. DUNCAN, President." Signed by appointment, and in presence of the Society. AKECDOTES OF MEHEMET ALI. (From the German Papers ree;eived yesterday.) The following fact has been related to me by eye-wit nesses. During his tour in Upper Egypt on the breaking out of the plague, IVlehernet • Ali summoned all the Pre fects and Burgomasters (Schech el Belad) of several pro vinces, and in the presence of the Court c ailed on them to discharge an old arrear of debt to the Government. In vain they represented the impossibility of paying this d . eht, because after the harvest, scarcely enough was left for their own subsistence. The Pacha assumed a look of anger ; cursed, threatened, and swore he must have the • Money, which be demanded within a fortnight. When the poor Arabs fell at his feet with tesss, and implored him at least to wait till after the harvest, I, e said to his officer, • " Away with these people out of my sight." 'They i d m s m a b e r d e i s a , t e a l n y d b a e s g a t h n e t o doorstr i l e / t t h h e e ap p a e r o ta p n l e e n w t i i t n h w t h h i e c i h r l sticksl the sitting was held was very P.arr ow, there was a horrible pushing, crowding, and serearAing, before they could all get out and recover froth their f irigb t and the blows they had 'received. Hereupon troops wr.ge sent into these provinces), who seized every thing t'ney could find ; provisions, house hold furniture, agricultural implements and cattle, which they conveyed to the 4irovernment Mager:nes. Of course they all again hastenr.cl to the Paella, some with their re ceipts, which proves', that they had long since paid what they owed ; othe' :s with vehement lamentations at the cer tainty of their p' ar i s hi ng with hunger, since all their provi sions and imp',lements had been taken from them. The de cision of t}... re Viceroy was as follows : ' ct A „ . you are unable to pay your debts, I have a right to take f eorn you all that.you have ; but as in that case you w (1. lid certainly perish , I w ill be merciful unto you, will 15- Ave you now, and in future sufficient provisions (i. e. beans, onions, durra, &c.) to keep you from dying with hunger, and besides this, you shall have the cattle, seed, and imple ments necessary for your labour, that you may work for the support of your lives, and the benefit of my treasury. But, properly speaking, you have no right whatever to anything." The same -scene, with a similar result, was repeated at Schubra. While the Pacha was in quarantine in Schubra, one of his Eunuchs died of the plague. The Pacha was very uneasy, and enquired if any body had transgressed the sanitary regulations. One of the courtiers said that the deceased had . a flock of sheep, and it was possible that he might have communi cated with his shepherd. A certain Chassan Beg, Super intendent of the Palace., immediately sent for the shepherd, and asked him what he had brought or sent to the Eu nuch ? ' The innocent shepherd protested that he bad nei ther seen the Eunuch, nor had any intercourse with him, since the beginning of the Quarantine ; besides, added be, "it would. have been quite impossible for me to penetrate through the triple sanitary cordon." He was, however., thrown on the ground, and though the suspicion agahst him had no foundation whateve'r, he was beaten till he was carried off without any signs of life. Similar punishment is daily inflicted, on the most improbable suppositions, at the desire of the great man, upon inferior persons. While the plague was at the height, a I\lahometan mer chant dreamt that eleven persons would die of the plague in his house. When lie awoke he remembered. his dream, and there being exactly eleven persons in his rouse, himself included, he became very uneasy. His alarm increased, when on the following day his wife, two ferr.aie slaves, and three children, died ; but he became certain that his death was at hand, when on the fourth his turn re maining child ren, a man servant, and an old man ser 'ant, sunk into the grave. He accordingly made his preparations to pass into eternity, related his dream to some of his friends, and begged them to make enquiry every morning, and in case lie should be 'lead, to have him burieet with all the usual ceremonies. A c unning chief who heard of the circum stance took . advantage c- the merchan es fright, to open his door in the night, aria when the te'rified man called out, " who's there' s :" t(1 answ er, " I an'. the angel of death," in order, while the merchant bid himself under the bed clothes, and was quite beside himself, to - pack up what effects he found in the house and carry them a way. Unluckily he was himself seized with the plague, and died on the stairs. The merchant, however, did not venture even for many hours to put his head from. under hi.: bed clothes, till at length his friends came, heard from him what had happened, found the effects, recovnised the thief, discovered the truth, and confirmed the stsange aecomplis'ament of the dream. The merchant war; then as sure of his life as he was before of his death, ana be was not mista'iten, for he himself re lated this anecdote which his friends and neighbours declare to be a fact.--All)gcmcinc Zeit ung, Oct. :21.. A duel was Taught yesterday morning at Blackrock, between two of the olli , ,;ers of her Majesty the Queen of Spain, which ended hi on , e of them, a Lieutenant R—bs—n, we understand, being snot in the Leg.—Cork Repute). of Saturday. LL