The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-14 00:00:00

EVEN IN G SUN THE TIMES AND THE MANCHES TER CONYEIVENCE. We have been requested to insert the following letter. alrlressed to the Times, but refused insertion in that xnal , ATHENS. 1 up their quarters in the Gre e k inns, th e p ro p rietors oc , When, on the 6th September 1833, I trod for the ! which are Maltese ; there ma y be had th e c oloc y ntice • , a kind of pumpkin, reamed aria (lamb) pamics, anti first time the sacred path of Eteasis , an d from. the sum- other national viands. T he wine-merch a nts fre q uentl) mit of Parnassus my gaze swept over the p lains of At- . tica, Athens presented a lamentable spectac le. Shattered let a portion of their premi ses to artszsn a o f ever y call andi disordered by the reckless hand of war, she clung ing t in some you may see a tailor , a boo k ma ker, a in scattered fragments around the heka t o m p edon of M clockmaker, and a weaver , a ll q ui e t ly pursuing their i nerve. It was dawn ; the mass of ruins which the p as- avocations under the same roof , and within a s hort sage of time had heaped upon the soi l were ' slowl y distance of each other. Cafes are in great vog ue ; tie peering through the veil of darkness wh ich obscured , most brilliant of these are in the streets of ./Ealus ; them; the soft tones of the dawning light m elted down among others there is one kept by a Swiss nam ed IRo bert, a native of Berne. A Greek and a .Maltese have the harshness of their jagged forme, and brought out recently set up establishments in opposition to him. in beautiful relief the fine outlines of the lonian aschi- The business is one of great profit ; the cafes are tecture. crowded from morning to an advanced hour of At the time I speak of, the temple of Theseus 1e- the night with persons who play at demi sounded with the neighing of horses stabled in its sanctuary, and tents of the Albanians shouldered the walls noes and billiards, read the daily papers , an d talk politics. This is the great hobby of the Athenians of of Stoa. From the column of the Agora were seen the p res ent day ; the jabberers of the Agora have re floating in the wind the white tunics of their you n g g irls, appeared with the return of liberty. There is net a suspended there to dry, and a family of gypsies had taken soul, down to the poorest cobbler's apprentice, who up their abode in the l'emple of the Winds. The pro does not believe himself called upon to give his opi pylasa were converted into powder stores ; the mosaic nion on the affairs of the state, and this fever of po pavement of the Olympian Jupiter's temple vibrated be litical discussion, which agitates every human head,t:t ueath the peasant's flail; a mosque reared its head kept up by a numerous supply of newspapers. in the midst of the temple of Minerea ; while the owls, In proportion as the state organizes itself and gains in scared by the first beams of day, hastened to take strength and order, property returns into existence and shelter beneath the roof of their ancient patroness. And co mmercial relations become more numerous and ex yet, although the fury of mankind had lent As aid to tended. The place is infested with tourists ; every day the destroying influence of time, although it is true sees fresh arrivals of English , who , loaded with guide Lysander ,dealt the first fatal blow to Sparta 's rival, books and travelling-loops, promenade under the colo whose destruction was by his commands nom- nodes and inspect the monuments of antiquity. At the manned amid the flourish of trumpets—although the same time a taste for the arts is inculcated ;the Mahan Goths, the Macedonians, the Romans, and the Ottomans Opera is much frequented, and in families whose cir had in turn directed their attacks on the glorious city, cumstances areessy music is cultivate]. Every Sunday —although Lord Elgin had with sacrilegious hand ran the musicians of the garrison assemble at a short dia.. sacked her ruins, the old town of Theseus, declined and tance from the town to execute overtures, cavatinas, pillaged as it may have been, nevertheless displayed im &c. These concerts attract crowds.—Frozelz Paper. posing vestiges of its former grandeur, whereas of the Roman town, the town built by the Caesars, all that re mains unlevelled with the soil is a gate, bearing this in scription, " This is the town of Adrian, and not that of Theseus." It was on the 12th of April. 1833, that the Turk ish Commander, Osman Effendi, delivered Athens" into the hands of the Bavarian troops, and that the standard of the Greeks was hoisted on the summit of the Erechtheion. There were then not more than 20 habitable houses in it, and the intervel be tween the remains of antiquity and the modern ruins was occupied by the tents of the Albanians. Here and there were visible a few dirty coffee-shops and miser able stalls, exposing for sale the spoiled stocks of the Marseilles and Trieste warehouses. In the evening the air was filled with the barking of countless dogs or the braying of donkeys browzing in the wilderness of thistles which covered the charred soil ; and the narrow and tortuous streets, winding through heaped-up rules, resounded with the nasal chanting, of some strolling musician, as he scraped his two-stringed lyre with a piece of quill. The only locanda (inn) then to be found in Athens was kept by an Italian named Cossali, who had married a Viennese, They were an original couple, and both one-eyed, but nevertheless looked well to the main chance, and charged pretty dearly for their goat's flesh, which they served up at the table (Mote under all possi• ble shapes. They sold a small wine of Trieste, disguised under the pompons appellation of Burgundy, and for the four walls of a room, with the use of an iron bed, one chair, and a table, they exacted 5 francs per diem. Through out the whole town there was but one plaintain and one palm tree ; indeed, this was the only verdure that it was possible to descry for half a league round. This mournful picture was still before my mind's eye in all the vividness of its wretched colours, when, after an absence of eight years, I lately made my entry on board the gabarre Phoenix into the Gulf of Egina, steering towards the Piraeus. Tue wind was contrary, and we were obliged to luff the whole night. The moon threw a pale gloom over the summits of Hymetta, and the whole coast lay before us in a broad light, re lieved with massive shadows. I could distinguish a long row of houses ranged in a semicircle, and, on inquiring the name of the place, I was informed, to my great sur prise, that where I had formerly beheld only a few mean buildings the Piraeus now stood, a new town, al ready consisting of 1,500 houses. I passed the night on deck, whence I at length be held the sky light up with rosy tints. In a short time the sun appeared above the mountains, the wind freshened, and our three-masted vessel sailed majes tically into port. What was my amazement at the appearance of the Piraeus ! What activity ! What a crowd of coaches and boats coming and going ! Mules and cabriolets are stationed on the qnays, and wait for passengers to take them into the town, the entry to which is by an excel'ent road. The hackney car riages go at a round pace, and are exceedingly cheap. We made a halt midway in an olive wood, where re freshments may be obtained in wooden booths. For two glasses of Resinato wine and a cigar I paid ten leptas, or about two sous. After about ten minutes' stay, we started off again, and soon reached the height of the Acropolis, ascended the side of the Pnyx, and beheld Athens before us. We stood at the commence ment of the new street Hermes, and, in the distance, appeared the Royal caste in process of construct-on. The existing town extends to the north-west of the Acropolis, 500 metres beyond the ancient wall of enceinte. It will form a hemicycle round the Pnyx and the Acropolis, which is to terminate at the temple of Jupiter saympus, and the temple of Theseus will stand in the miadle. The street of Hermes cuts the town in a right Ike from east to west, and is 1,200 metres in length and 16 broad.. Two principel streets run front north to south, namely, the street of .tEolus, which strikes off from the Temple of the Winds, and the street of Minerva, which begins at the portico of As :Jsian The space included between the Temple of Taeseu." and that of the Winds contain none but irre gular strew d, with houses of mean appearance. The finest quarter or the town is that which stretches be tween the Temple of the 'Winds and the tomb of Lysi cates. Of the private houses, none are very remarka ble; among them, indeed, are some vast buildings, but they are constructs] without style, aid with but little solidity. The King's palace will not be completed before a lapse of four or fide years. It is a fine monument of a simple and elegant style of architecture, and not without an imposing aspect. It is calculated that in a year King. Otho will be enabled to take up his residence there, to gether with his entire household. His actual residence consists of two buildings united by a gallery, the rent of which is 20,000 drachms per year. Among the public buildings we will mention an exceedingly pretty little theatre where Italian operas are performed, the Civil Hospital, the Lithographic Printing-office, the two Barracks, the Military Hospital, the Bazaar, the Mint, the School-house, the Church of St. Irene, and the University. Two aqueducts have - been restored, and are sufficient for the supply of the inhabitanrs. In the interior of the town, as well as in the environs, are inclosed numerous gardens, and a number of canals are in course of construction, for the purpose of carrying off the impurities of the town. In the evening I visited the Acropolis. The de clining sun was darting his rich golden rays upon the Parthenon. I was seized with a feeling of reverential awe as I reflected that the very height on which I now s tood bad witnessed the meditations of so many great men, who to the present day have formed the admira tion and instruction of mankind ! Socrates, perhaps, bad leaned upon this pillar! And now fragmentary remnants of the great epoch of the Greeks have , become spectators of the advent of a new and flourish MAIL PACKET STATIONS. The subject of the West India mail steamers occu pied the attention of the Town Council on Wednesday last ; and we hope that the matter will not be lost sight of until Government does justice, not only to this town, but to the great commercial interests of the country at large, by appointing as the station for those steamers the port which affords the greatest facilities for collecting and distributing the.letters ; and that port will be found to be Liverpool. That Liverpool affords every accommodation for large steamers, is sufficiently established by the packets to Halifax, Glasgow, Dublin, and in fact to all parts of Ireland and Scotland. It may be objected, that, to and from Liverpool, vessels will have to make a longer sea-voyage than to and from one of the western points in the British Channel. This would be a good objec tion with regard to sailing vessels, but it is of no im portance to steamers, as has been fully proved by the speed and regularity with which the Halifax packets have performed their voyages. All such considerations have been reduced to nothing by the extensive employment of steamers and railroads ; and, in future, no place can be fairly selected, as a station for mail-packets, from which there is not a railroad leading to ali the great towns of the kingdom. Neither Falmouth nor Dartmouth possesses this grand requisite; and the want of it has recently caused much delay in distributing the foreign mails. of which the merchants of this town have felt the effects, and respecting which they have loudly complained. Bristol and SouthaMpton have also put forward their claims. These two ports are more convenient for transatlantic mail stations than either Falmouth or Dartmouth ; but they do not possess the advantages that Liverpool does, whether we consider the accom modation to be afforded to the ships, the moans of building, repairing, and fitting them out, or the very important consideration of collecting and despatching the letters. In the last particular, no town in the kingdom can at all compete with Liverpool. From this po►t letters can be despatehed to Manchester,Leeis,York, Birming ham, Sheffield, and to all the great manufacturing towns in England, as well as to every part of Irel Ind and Semiarid, more frequently, and in a shorter space of time, than from any other port that can be named ; conscquent'y, by having the mails made up here, mer chants residing in most parts of the United Kingdom can have an opportunity of replying to the letters they receive by the packet from the West Indies, even when but a few hours elapse before the departure of the out ward mail. Besides the letters from the West Indies, it is more than probable that those from Mexico, the Spanish Main. the Brazils, and from the ports in the Pacific, will ultimately be conveyed by these vessels. The im portance of this correspondence cannot be overrated, and the great commerc►al communities which are in terested in it should at once exert thomselves to prevent any injudicious arrangement from being entered into. The Town Council and people of Liverpool will be greatly to blame if they fail to urge upon the Govern ment and upon the Leg►tlature the superiority of their port, in every requisite, for ensuring despatch to the packets, midi' a speedy diffusion of intelligence over every part of the United Kingdom.—Liverpool We have lately witnessed a most singular fact having the greatest interest in vegetable physiology. L the garden of John Radford, Esq., of Winehmore-hill, near London, there stands a bay tree, which appeared to be killed by the frost of last winter, and the whole of whose leaves became brown and apparently dead. Of the latter many fell off as spring advanced, and the branches gradually acquired new leaves. In this there was nothing a t all remarkable ; but the singular f act is, that the leaves—hard, brown, dry, and to all ap pearance dead—have gradually recovered their green colour, and are in some cases completely re stored to life ! The green colour makes its ap pearance at the base of the leaf in the first in stance, and spreads upwards, along, and right and left of, the mid rib. There can be no mistake about this circumstance, for so very strange a phenomenon natu rally attracted attention ; and we learn from Mr. Rad ford that he has distinguished the dead-looking leaves with notches and other marks in order to be quite sure that it is they which are restored to life. A leaf now before us, marked as dead a week ago, has now the green colour spreading along it, in the manner we have described, to the length .of rather more than an inch. That the sweet bay-tree should never be cut down after it appears to be killed with frost, is well known ; but that its perfectly dead leaves should be capable of re viving in this extraordinary manner, is to us an event without a parallel in either the animal or vegetable kingdom.—Gardener's Chronicle. HINTS TO THE CHOLERIC.—AII experiments with cups and saucers, glasses, vases, mirrors, &c., are much better performed, for obvious reasons, at other people's houses than at your own. It is very pleasant and quite pardonable to sweep a few glasses off the table in a fit of enthusiasm now and then—when you are dining out ; but it is perfectly ridiculous to proceed to such ex tremities at home, where the modes of venting rage are infinite. For a somewhat similar reason, I differ from those who systematically tear their own hair when they fall into a paroxysm ; there is no occasion for it, because you might happen to be wearing a wig, and the effect would be ludicrous. It is far better to thrust your hands desperately into the loose locks of somebody sitting next to you, tearing them Violently for the space of an instant, and then apologizing for the wildness of your excitement and the extreme sus ceptibility of your feelings. Your sensibility and the frankness of your disposition will find many admirers ; but to pull your own hair has at hest but an affected and theatrical look. The practice common to many of the choleric—that of taking off their hats, flinging them at the first object they see, and then kicking them, regardless of expense — is one that seems to have arisen out of an instinctive feeling, but until lately it was to be condemned as ruinous to those who fall very frequently into a passion. It. is less excep tionable now ; the cheap hats are immense con veniences to the choleric. It is better, however, to snatch a friend's off his head and set your foot upon it, taking care to pick it up immediately, tenderly putting it into shape a little and brushing its injured nap, and returning=-it with your unfeigned regrets. I should not forget to mention ode ingenious expedient, which is sure to produce a speedy relief to over-excited feelings. It is recommended on authority as infallib l e. You sall first lock the door of your sitting-room, and alien lie down on your back upon the rug before the fire, taking at the same time one of the bell-ropes in either hand. In this position you will find a little violent pulling very pleasant. But don't leave off merely be cause every body iu th e h o use comes rattling a t the door, desiring to know, n o t f or their own, but for Heaven's sake, what's the matt er . Iteep on tuggi n g until the door i s b ro k en o Pen at both bells —you will then come-to quite comfortably.—George Cruikshank's Omnibus. TIT FOR TAT.—A gentleman of Stockton, on Wednesday night last, was roused front sleep by a thun dering knock at the door ' - and on popping h is night capped head out of th e w i n dow, to inquire the nature of his untimely visitor's business, w a sinformed that Mr. R— had sent hi m an " objection." — Indeed !" said the gentleman, and looked at his watch. He found that it wanted a few minutes to twelve o'clock ; and, therefore, preparing an "objection" to Mr. R—'s vote, he dis patched a, messenger to his house, and had it served before the expiration .of the time allowed by . the Act of Parliament. Mr. R , when aroused in his turn, and rewarded in his own coin, was not nearly so grateful as might have been anticipated. But his friend Mr. T— will have the approbation of his own heart, in having acted upon the good old principle that " one good turn deserves another." —Gateshead Observer. CAPABILITY OF TILE IRISH SOIL FOIL Pito DUCING FINE FLax.—A sample of flax, of most supe riorstones of the same quality fineness of fibre and fairness of colour, now lies at our office for inspection. It was grown and handled in the neighbourho o d of Armagh, and a parcel of 150 figure, at the market of that town. The gentleman who left the sample assured us that a small parcel of even making and b y to u e Belfast t o x e S n o d c e a t a y d , finer flax, of home growth, was exhibited on the same m was purchased, at a very high occasion, and which he is Confident could not be sur passed by the product of a foreign soil. These circum stances ought to convey much encouragement to our flax cultivators,in the exer tionsimprove the culture of this most important crop.. Should a better now maki system of growth and management, in the course of a year or two, enhance the value of Irish flax by but ten per cent., some 200,0001. or 300,000 L would annually be expended in this country for this article alone, instead of finding its way, as it now does, into the pockets of our Dutch or Belgian neighbours, never to return in any shat e.—. Northern Whig. ing era. The Acropolis is now being cleared from the rubbish with which it was encumbered, and during the progress of the work several antiquities have been discovered. The Parthenon has been treed from the modern build ings by which it was surrounded and disfigured ; its columns have been raised and restored, and its steps cleansed. The Erecbtheion has been restored, and the statue carried off by Lord Elgin will be replaced by an other, sculptured on the model of those which have been preserved. The Temple of Minerva Pales is also rising from its ruins; it had been destroyed during the last war by the fall of a bomb, and the whole family of the trai tor Cures was buried beneath it - ruins. The Acropolis is guarded by invalids. A Suliot, with a copious gray beard, officiated as my guide, and when I was about to return .he led Me to a projection of the Pelasgian wall, whence be began to . explain the magnificent pa norama which lay stretched beneath us. " There lies our Royal town," said he ; " Heaven be thanked that I have lived long enough to see it rise again•from its ashes. It has not been in vain that. my blood has flowed in fighting against the Turks." In the bazaar they were beginning to light the lamps, and the town was growing more and more ani mated. The din of evening was succeeding to the silence of day, and the inhabitants, whom the heat of the day had confined within doors, were beginning to perambulate the streets. The mode of life adopted here is Oriental with a certain admixture of German manners. Tnus the business of the day is so divided that the principal meal is taken at mid-day, as though it were in the very centre of Germany. In other re spects, in spite of the Greek hatred for all foreigners, the presence of Germans has a marked influence for the manner of the indigenous population. Thus the Greek ladies have learned to pay attention to the care of their households, and they even frequent the bazaar to pur chase provisions. Marriages between Germans and Greek girls are frequent. The ceremony takes place in privet..., be cause the holy synod have charged the clergy not t] pronounce a benediction on the union of a native woman with a " miscreant." The Greeks rarely marry European women, for no other reason than that they arc scarce; ladies in want of husbands would make a good specula tion by coming to Athens ; the article is in great re quest. There is also a want of servants, who are paid from 30 to 35 francs per month, which is a great deal in this country. Workmen here are very well off ; the price of labour is twice that of the material. German workmen are particula►ly sought after. Locandas are in great abundance, but there are few which can be safely recommended. One of the hest is that of Pullmann, who keeps a German hos telry. nolo who prefer the Oriental cuisine take THE BUST, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTENBER, 14, 1.841 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNSLS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. SlR—Une of the greatest blessings of a free country is the liberty of the press ; one .of its greatest curses is its licentiousness. Persons of the keenest sagacity have sometimes been perplexed to trace the exact line of boundary that should mark the legitimate exercise of its power, and prescribe the rule that should restrain its excesses. But, apart from minute distinctions and scru pulous refinements, some things are so obvious and pal pable, that they cannot be easily overlooked, nor safely disregarded. The concurrent opinion of multitudes — I might say of millions—is, that besides other fearful signs of the times, the high interests of morality and religion are seriously endangered by the present state of the public press. At the risk of incurring unmerited invective and misrepresentation, to which I am no stranger, and to which no man can be a stranger who occupies a situation of any prominence, and who firmly and fearlessly maintains great principles that look with a rebuking aspect upon the prejudices and passions of either political or theological partisans—l say, Sir, at the risk of incurring such reproach and hatred, I claim your attention especially, and that of other editors ge nerally, to a calm, resolute, but I trust, not undignified remonstrance on this subject. " Party divisions," to quote from Mr. Burke, " whe ther on the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government. This is a truth which, I believe, admits of little dispute, having been es tablished by the uniform experience of all ages. The part a good citizen ought to take in these divisions has been a matter of much deeper controversy. But God forbid that any controversy relating to our essential morals should admit of no decision." He adds, and with what propriety and force the same statement may apply to the present crisis, let truth determine, " Every month has brought on its periodical calumny. The abuse has taken every shape which the ability of the writers could give it; plain invective, clumsy raillery, misrepresented anecdote. No meth.,d of villifying the measures, the abilities, the intentions, or the persons which compose that body (the party of which he is speaking) has been omitted." * Words appear, as by . prophecy, to point ts very character of those vituperations by which the DM: senting body are profusely assailed in the present day. Sir, what has transpired in consequence of the recent Conference of 'Ministers of every Denomination, held at the Town Hall, Manchester, on the subject of the Corn laws, is the immediate occasion of my addressing you in this letter ; fur I wish it to be solemnly considered, whe ther slander and lying of the grossest description do not tend to disparage the character of our country, demora lise her people, blind the eyes of her rulers, and pervert the judgment of our insulted nation ? I ask whether the purposes of party are paramount to the interests of the suffering mass; whether a people starving for bread are to be required to stifle their complaints and see their children perish amidst wretchedness and want, and in silence, while the gentlemen of the press are deliberating and discussing, not how they shall devise or aid in the best methods to relieve their distresses, but how they shall must effectually hurl their thunderbolts at the heads of the Ministers of religion who voluntarily and disinter estedly come forward to attempt their deliverance; and whether the intellectual and moral state of the community at large is such that nu sigh teous laws can be maintained by unmeasured reproaches, venemous scurrility, and malig nant personalities. No sooner did the Manchester Con ference commence its proceedings than the triple-headed asonster, fsbled to be at the gate of hell, seemed to be coax instinct with real existence, and to pour forth ap propriate llowlings of fury and madness. I say it seemed so one was reminded of the classical story—not that I would :'ken men to dogs—nevertheless the fiction of Cerberus was ealled up to view by the fierce. looks and loud vouiferatiosig of thoi%e who should be rev-amia ble, candid, and well- pr iccipled men. Look, Sir, at the misrepresentation of the individual whom you emphatically, and s:'ith a studious sanction, call your " own reporter." He says "There were few Dissenting ministers present whose mimes were ever heard of before withont the walls of their o 7n chapels," except six or seven to whom he refers, of whom one was not there, and another is altogether misnamed. He declares that he " neither saw nor heard of any clergyman of the Church of England," though in the very seine brief enumeration, in pure ignorance or mendacity, he gives the name of a clergyman as one of th.e very six or seven in question. Ile affirms that the number of the auditors during the day's proceedings never exceeded forty persons, and began with eleven ; • whereas not only were the seats occupied, but multi tudes more would have entered had there been accom modation. In your own leader it is stated that " about a score of sectarian preachers have been able'.. to see no seaaner of reason why they should not incorporate them selves .!nto a synod of tabernacle sarans, by hOlding a pastoral conference' for the advancement of faction' at Manchester." ,You further describe that " neither pains nor puffs were shared to give the thing ec.et, when 10, on calling the roll of Csnected attendants, this mighty affair dwindles into a conclave of some thirty obscure zealots I" It is stated also that these ,"ere also " almost exclusively of the Lancashire brotherhood." Let me just inform you, Sir —no, You were informed—fit me just refer to the facts that nearly six hundred and sfty ministers were present ; that nearly or quite fifteen hunci.." 4 had given in their adherence, but unavoidable circums:"`mees pre vented their attendance ; and they came from %:'e most distant parts of the British empire ; that their eager at tendance on the occasion was never remitted ; that their unanimity and depth• of religious feelings were never equalled ; that leading men of nearly all denominations were associated in it ; and that to the last the hall was densely crowded by persons admittled as spectators, and no doubt always contained from ten to twelve hundred persons ! Is a four days' Convention of this nature to be de spised ? Will the witnessing thousands of Manchester be made to believe—will an insulted country anda bused truth admit the circulation of the great falsehood that six hundred were only twenty ? Can the ultimate im pression be favourable to any party in Church and State. who seek to be, or submit to be, beguiled, befooled, and led astray by audacious mendacity, prompted by hatred, or prompted by secret instructions, to make the worst that can be made of the meeting, that the effect may be neutralised." Sir, I know the press, and hail its legitimate use as an important means of moral benefit to the world. It may be the safeguard of a nation, and the handmaid of reli gion. Where used and not abused it must be productive of the happiest results to the cause of humanity, of truth, and of religion; but let it be venal, let it be false, let it be employed for purposes of party and of spleen, let it lie away a confidence it asks to obtain, and it will become the scandal of our age, and the ruin of our country. From the awful consequences of faction and anarchy, springing from the starvation inflicted by a Corn-law monopoly — from the blindness of party zeal, which sees not, for it will not see, the faults of its own legislation and the mad ness of its own oppressive spirit—above all, from the fatal effects and the too late discovery of the self-destroying power of acorrupt, truth- despising, man-hating, and God defying press, I say devoutly, " Good Lord deliver us!" I disdain to notice the vulgar questionings and prepos terous ridicule employed against me and my brethren. My aim is higher. It is to protest against a course of proceeding by which anonymous writers (though better known perhaps than they suppose) are endeavouring to prejudice and corrupt the minds of our youth, which, it not checked, may not only injure the present age, but send down their poisoned streams of influence to distant generations. You may dispute our titles, but we would not exchange them for those of falsehood and hypocrisy. You may deny our clerical character, but we will be con tent if we can resemble in spirit the unmitred apostles of a lowly Master. You may call us factious, but we shall ever believe that the worst faction in a State consists in attempting to conceal the real state of a nation from its rulers, and to hold up to scorn the friends of freedom, humanity, and religion.—l am your; &c. Hackney, Aug. 27, 1841. F. A. COX. A short Account of a late short Administration (1766). The following account of a riot in St. Vin. cent's, and ultimate punishment of the rioters, appears in the Barbadoes Mercury. We cannot help observing that this is the only country in which the oppo sers o f a legally-constituted force go unpunished. One of the Nobles, of Engla n d, an d a C o l one l i n h er 3ni ,,, ty , s service have been punished for thi s o ff ence ; a nd in St. yinoent it appears that it will no t b e t o l erate d with impun it y . —" We published, i mme di a t e ly a f ter re ceipt of t h e intelligence, the particulars of violent out rage perpetrated by the mobocracy of the Island of St. Vincent, on t i ll . e 9 4th of May, in which they attacked an d completely r outed the police, and were only checked from further rebellions conduct by the prompt appear ance of the mi litary in aid of the civil power. The _Royal Gazette o fthe 26th ult. of that island, informs us of a Special Court of Oye r and Ter of the proceedings miner for the o f the rioters, who were ably de fended by counseTa l True bills were foun Seven d for were riot sen and. assault against t nine of he priso tenc t .d imprisonment for eighteen calendar months with hard labour, and two, under circumstances in miti gation, to twelve months, al so w ith hard labour , and at the expir a ti o n of the time. to give security in 501. each, to bo of good behaviour and keep the peace for twelve months."—St. Ago Gazette, July 31. THE WEATHER.—PABIS, SATURD AY. —The heat has return e d, and become very op day morning at four o'clock, M. Chevparleisesri've. Yester day' thermome ,4„,le, or 57 of thermome ter was at 13 8-lOths of the Centrigrade C., Fahrenheit; by midday had risen to 27 1- 10 t2 1 81 F., and by two had reached 29 6-10ths C., 3 jl" F. The •_ beat on Sat ur d a y was i n t ens e, an d there of settled weather. w as every On Thursday evening last, a man named Mum Cummins, fabouiw, of lletton, while in a public housie company in that township, offered in a drunken bravado, to allow any one of the company to chop oaf one of his ting,ers for a quart of ale, or two fingers for two quarts of ale ; the landlord of the house, John Cowey, took him at his word, and by the most cheerful acquiesccnce of Cummins, implied a knife to one of his little fingers, which was .voluntarily laid upon a table, told with a poker struck the knie, and severed the finger 1)y the first joint. Such was the agony of the poor un fortunate wretch that it took three men to hold him. When recovering out of a fainting fit, in which he thought he was (lying, he excl a i me d, "If I die, don't hurt Jack Cowey. The wound was dressed by a sur geon, anal he is recovering.;--Sundertind Herald. During the week ended 2d September, 5,286 passengers travelled on the London and Brighton Rail way, and 5.145 on the Shoreham branch. The receipts from the former were 2,0771. 95. Gd., and from the latter 1721. Os. sd. During the same period the receipts for the merchant-lin traffic On the branch line were 581. 11s. (A-e., malijng the total receipts 2,3051. 03. 111 d. —.l3riqkto; t7azet7E: FROM THE DAILY PAYERS OF YESTERDAY. STANDARD. —We refer our readers with sincere satisfaction to the correspondence which has t ken place Between Colonel Crichton and Sir Robert Peel, in allu sion to the insult said to have been offered to the feelings of the Roman Catholics of Ireland by the High Sheriff of the county of Fermanagh on a recent occasion, when a seal of a highly improper character was affixed to some 'public document emanating from his office. We are assured that this outrage, so properly de precated .by the Right Honourable Baronet, was committed by some underling as yet undiscovered, and that, had the letter demanding an explanation from the High Sheriff been couched in decently respectful terms he would have shown that he had no knowledge of, or connection with, the affair. However this may have been, the leading Protestant residents of Fermanagh have been convened by Colonel Crichton, the Lieutenant of the county, for the purpose of taking into consideration the remarks made by Sir Robert Peel on the subject, and have signed an energetic protest in condemnation of the act, expressing their total disapprobation of any conduct calculated " to im pair the kindly feelings which so happily sub sist between all classes of her Majesty's subjects in that neighbourhood." This document further states that in " no part of the empire does greater tranquillity or more marked obedience to the law exist than in that loyal and united county." The reply of Sir Robert Peel, whilst it disclaims the belief that the conduct com plained of could have been otherwise than dis approved of by the Protestant gentlemen of Ferma nagh, confirms the impression which the Right Hon. Gentleman's original allusion to the affair was calculated to convey—that he will discourage to the utmost all " provoking and irritating demonstrations of party feel. ing," come from whichever side they may. As on all oc casions in which the conduct of the Protestants of Ire land has been impugned, a most ridiculous hubbub ap pears to have been raised in regard to the indiscretion in question. The person morally responsible for the folly was clearly a subordinate of the High Sheriff, who, be tbre the excitement consequent on the election had sub sided, thought proper to adopt this very objectionable mode of giving expression to his individual feeling. Why it should have been attempted to identify this person with the Protestant people of Ireland we have yet to learn. COURIER.—The opposition tactics are beginning to develop themselves, although who is to be the leader of the Opposition is not so clearly apparent. Mr. Roebuck, indeed, put in his claim, and took the field early on the strength of it, by way of hint significant that he at least would bear "no rival near the throne," much less crouch before a superior. Lord John Russell, meanwhile, would seemed to be dropped by common consent, as unceremo niously as in 1835 he was hoisted over Mr. Spring Rice, his then leader, upon the dictation of Mr. Daniel O'Con nell, and in pursuance of the Lichfield House compact, to whose purposes that gentleman was not deemed likely to be an instrument sufficiently subservient and obsequious. All that transpires about the late Colonial Secretary is that his Lordship contemplates rusticating for the present amid the sylvan shades and bowers of some Devonshire cottage. Mr. Roebuck, however, on the first onset has so irretrievably damaged himself by his coarse and insolent onslaught on the editors and proprietors of the Times Journal, for which the provo cation was assuredly so slight as ought only to have evoked a passing smile from a man of mind, that it may be doubted whether, however disposed to play the commander-in-chief, an army can be found to follow under his banner. The ludicrous exhibition of division and distraction among the passengers by the Radical dilly, on the first Radical motion this Session of Mr. Sharman Crawford, would seem to argue but small com mand in the self-assuming leader, whose solemn stalking out of the House on that occasion with Mr. Ward only bringing up the rear, was ludicrous enough. That, how ever, Mr. Roebuck means mischief of some sort may be assumed from his notice of motion for the abolitiOn of the New Poor-law Commissariat of Somerset House, and transference of all their rights, powers, privilegeS, and dominion to the Homeo-ffice. It may be guessed that the single aim, with " malice prepense and afore thought" of this New Poor-law manmuvre, is to endea vour to damage the Home-office in popular accepta tion by_ transferring to it, along with all other appur- ' tenancies, the mass of that unqualified odium which the Somerset House people have contrived to accumulate upon the present Administration of the New Poor-laws. Whilst such is the first dawn of Radical tactics in Par liament, the • Whig-Radical clique, we perceive, are showing signs of life out of it. Manchester and Leeds represent the tail of this Whig-Radicalism, and the first named joint of it is at this present moment expending the last remnant of lingering vitality in a little super fluous agitation about Corn-laws, by way of dying hard, or dying game, as the ease may be. The fact is gra ciously commemorated in " a requisition to the Mayor of Manchester, requesting him to call a puldic meeting of the inhabitants of the borough, for the purpose of considering the present distressed state of the population of that town and neigh bourhood, and the propriety of memorialising the Queen, praying her Majesty not to prorogue the two Houses of Parliament until they have entered upon a full consideration of the corn and provision laws, which, in the opinion of the requisitionists, are the main cause of the existing sufferings of the people, was drawn up on Friday last and signed by upwards of six hundred respectable firms in a few hours. The Mayor fixed a public town meeting for Thursday next." Thursday I next then is the day " big with the fate" of the three immortal C's—Curtis, Cobden, and Corn-laws, and q'huritlay next, too, is the eventful day fur the re-union o f ti ;: Commons. Ministers are not to have it all their own way b y j . s.stig the supplies in a hurry, shooting the pheasants at thy_" leisure, and coming back to give their attention to the II: tianal distress at their very latest convenience. The city of Manches!er has set an example which every large towii shpuld immediately follow—by petitioning the Queen not th . prorogue the Parliament until something has been ehe:ted.' or at least proposed, by the new Government to rein, sufferings of the people. We all remember the pro' ve the fessional tone in which Sir Robert Peel refused to prescribe " till regularly called in," and until he had got the fee in his pocket ; but he is a pretty quack in.- deed, if, these conditions being complied with, he coolly tells the patient that he is going out of town for five or six months, that he will turn the matter over in his mind, and prescribe when he comes back again. If the Tories, on coming into office, had no intention of immediately bringing forward some measures of their own, how gross an imposition must it have been to declare that their instant installation as Ministers was necessary for the nation's welfare ! If they are to postpone operations for nearly half a year, their eager ness to get into place six months before they purpose taking any steps on behalf of the people must have arisen from a greediness of pay, which did not scruple to use any delusion, however gross, in order to give them the position by virtue of which they will obtain their salaries. No—as we have got them, let us at least have something for our money ; and though the prescriptions they will offer may do the patient no good, it is not to be permitted that they should avoid discharge from their new functions by abstaining from exerting them. We like the idea of the people of Manchester, and we recommend its adoption by all those cities in -which a necessity is felt for obtain ing from the Legislature an immediate measure of relief for the necessities of those who may—for what the new Government cares about the matter—be starved to death before the next year's meeting of Parliament. THE NEW MINISTRY. The summonses for holding a Privy Council at Windsor Castle to-day at two o'clock, were issued yes terday morning. Lord Eliot transacted business with Sir R. Peel yes terday morning, at his residence, in Whitehall-gardens. Several of the Ministers also had interviews with the Right Hon. Baronet. In the course of the morning, a messenger was sent off with despatches for her Majesty, at Windsor. The French, Russian, Prussian, Austrian, and Turkish Ambassadors, had a long interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday morning at the Foreign-office. Sir James Graham is expected in town to-day from Dorchester. Lord Stanley leaves town the end of this week for Lancashire.—Evening Paper. THE ELECTIONS. TAMWORTH. TAMWORTII, SEPT. 12.—The nomination for this bo rough will take place at ten o'clock to-morrow (Monday) morning. Sir Robert Peel will not attend in person. NORTH LANCASHIRE. The election for the northern division is fixed for the 21st inst. Lord Stanley will visit the electors at the close of the week. There is to be no opposition to the return of his Lordship. SOUTHERN DIVISION Op LINCOLN. ••• • There will be no opposition whatever to the re-elec tion of the Earl of Lincoln for the southern division of this county. The electioc, however, will not take place until about Monday, the 20th inst. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—Our recent letters from Malta mention an affair of honour which had just taken place in that island, and which ap pears to have excited a great sensation hi V a l e tt a . The brother of a Noble Duke (Lord Sussex Lennox) arrived in the Great Liverpool, under an assumed name, at Malta, and having immediately waited on Major S. H., of the 19th Regiment, and all preliminaries having been arranged, proceeded to fight a duel wish another mili tary gentleman holding a situation in the Staff of that garrison (Captain Narcote, of the Rifle Brigade, Mili tary Secretary). Lord Sussex Lennox fired without effect, and his adversary having discharged his pistol in the' air, his Lordship was, with difficulty, induced to lis ten to an accommodation, the terms of which are said to be of a somewhat singular description. This done, Lord Sussex Lennox left the next day for England. During the time the parties were on the ground they did not ex change a syllable. The circumstances in which the dis pute originated, together with the corresp"ndence, will, it is further affirmed, in all probability, be published. This affair was the one topic of conversation at Malta when the mail came away.—United Service Gazette. A full snipe was shot by the Rev. C. G. Owen, on Blackdown, in the parish of Loddeswell, on the od of September, weighing upwards of half a pound —very nearly nine ounces.—Dev,onport Chronicle. A N E D ITORIAL GENIUS. —The New Era, American Paper, says, "There is an Editor down d eas v t, who is n o t on l y hi s own compositor, pressman, and eil, but keeps a tavern, is a village schoolmaster, Captain in the Militia, mends his own boots and shoes, makes patent Brandreth pills, peddles essences and tinware two days in the week, and always reads sermons on the Sabbath when the minister happens to be missing. In addition to all this, he has is wife and sixteen children." . MIDDLESEX SESSIONS-MONDAY. Before Mr. WALESEh and a full Bench of Magistrates.) The calendar contained a list of 56 prisoners, of whom 33 were charged with felonies of a trifling nature. In the case of Wiliam Scabs, the shipowner, Jeoffreb Scabs, the master of the Emerald Isle, and William Cowell, the shipowner and linen-draper of Liverpool, whom it will be recollected were charged with an assault at the Brunswick Pier wharf, on the 19th of last month, upon Captain Patterson of the Railway steamer, and Mr. Dyer, the Pier Master, Mr. BALLANTINE prayed the Oourt to discharge th . e recognizances of the prosecutors in consequence of the defendants having consented to pay ten guineas to the Dreadnought hospital-ship, five guineas to the widow of a late servant of the Railway, and the costs of the pro secution, in addition to acknowledging themselves to have erred. It will be remembered that the defendants attempted to leave the Railway steam-packet without tickets, and that led to the assault. Mr. PRENDERGAST, for the defendants, concurred in the application, which was granted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.. A case of some interest came on before the Lord Mayor. A charge of embezzlement was made against the traveller of a mercantile house in Lawrence-lane, but as the conduct of the defendant was evidently in fluenced by the mare principle of securing to himself an amount of compensation to which he considered himself entitled, and acted upon legal advice, we omit the names of the parties. The solicitor to the complainants stated that the de fendant was liberally paid by them for travelling in the country for orders in their business, and that it was considered necessary to call him off his last journey, and to require from him an account of the goods and money he possessed belonging to his employers. With their demand for the particulars, however, the defendant most p ysitively refused to comply, although he admitted that he had in his possession both money and goods which were the property of the complainants. The defendant's solicitor stated that his client had, while in the country, received information that all the clerks employed by the firm had been discharged, and that his OWR fate would be similar to theirs upon his arrival in town. Being convinced that he was, con sidering the nature of his connexion w;th the com plainants, entitled to a more ceremonious notice of dis charge, he determined to retain in his hands as much property as would recompense him for the time for which he thought himself justified in demanding pay ment, more especially as the complainants had disposed of their business to another person. It was his (defen dant's Solicitor's) advice to his client to give up all the stock unsold by him, with the exception of just as much as would be likely to cover a verdict in a court of law ; and the defendant had declined giving an account of the particulars of his account. in the belief that legal advan tage might be taken of it to defeat the argament of the liability of the complainants. The solicitor to the complainants insisted that the de fendant had no right whatever to detain either goods or money of his employers. 'Whatever might have been the intention of the complainants with respect to that gentle man, before he refused to give in his accounts, that re fusal would certainly cause his dismissal. If such con duct were to be endured, there would be no security for any house, however extensive. The first • mercantile houses in the country would be at the mercy of their servants, upon the pretext that the latter were appre hensive of being discharged without due notice. . The defendant's solicitor said that his client never en , tertained a thought of detaining more than the small amount requisite to cover costs. Everthing else he was ready to give up, and he was ready also to go into a Court of law to show his right. The first thing he had done upon arriving in town was to endeavour to obtain an interview with the principals of the firm, but he never could accomplish that object, and the customers with whom the defendant transacted business were those which were male by himself. It would he monstrous to suppose that a man engaged in such business could be discharged without notice; and he knew that possession was nine points of the law. The solicitor to the complainants stated that his clients were ready to pay whatever claim for delay of allow ance the defendant might be justified in making, and that in the present case they had both a ci vil and a cri minal remedy. The LORD MAYOR said he considered it to be the duty of every traveller to make weekly returns of the cash he received to his employers, if it were for no other reason than for the credit of the customers, who should always appear in the ledger as having paid their accounts oppo site to their names. No man could be justified in with holding cash upon any pretext. That was a maxim of his as a man of business. 'With respect to the deten tion of .any part of the stock as security for compensa tion for any injury which might be made matter of dis pute in, a Court of Law, he should deliver no opinion upon that sort of way of securing a man's self against contingencies. The solicitor to the complainants said that the defen dant admitted that he held a sum of money, the very course which his Lordship had so strongly condemned. The defendant's solicitor—l should be glad to know what specific charge you bring against my client ? The solicitor to the complainant—l charge him with embez zlement of his masters' property. The defendant's solicitor—Can you produce a witness as to any item ? The solicitor to the complainant—l cannot, for he refuses to give his master the particulars, but I have his admission as to the detention of the money, and I call upon the• Lord Mayor to remand him. The defendant's solicitor—l deny that there is the least ground for the accusation of a fraudulent dealing upon the part of my client. The Lora) Miyon—l cannot remand the defendant in such a case. I can only advise that the whole of the money be given up, and that the accounts be imme diately rendered, as business subject to irregularities of such a nature cannot be properly carried on. I really think the parties had better retire and settle the affair. The parties accordingly retired, but his Lordship was not informed whether any arrangement resulted from his equitable proposition. A sturdy rough-looking native of the county of Cork, named John Mack, who said lie travelled about the world with bits of goods to sell, was charged with having vio lently assmilted a policeman. The policeman said that as he was on duty on London Bridge, he saw the defendant and three or four other men who, from their gentlemanlike manner, appeared to him to have coma from the same side of the water shoving the people off the pavement. He went up to the defendant, who was evidently the most rebellious, in the hope of prevailing upon him to allow the rest of the public to get out of the way of the coaches, but he met with a sort of opposition that astonished him. The de fendant not Only abused him with words but struck and hit him, and in the midst of the conflict between them another of the party seized the complainant's rattle, and broke the complainant's head and rattle against each other. The defendant was, however, the only one of the assailants who was apprehended. The statement of the officer having been confirmed by a gentleman who was passing, The LORD MAYOR asked the defendant what he had to say. John Mack said that God knew he would tell nothing but the truth. He and two men and another woman were walking very quiet over the bridge, when somebody pushes up against him, and as he wasn't likely to be knocked about without asking what for, he first civilly put the question, but the only answer he got was from the policeman, who caught him by the collar. Now he wouldn't deny that Tom Walsh, who was of the party, did just the very thing the policeman accused him of having done, so that he felt very sore at being seized like a thief when he was only . acting like a gentleman, and then, to be sure, as his passion was up, he wasn't very particularly tender in his conduct to the man who pro voked him. The Lotto MAYOR—But what have you to say about biting the policeman ? John Mack—Faith, as he put his finger in my mouth I didn't think he put it there for any other purpose, and I bit him as well as I could. The policemen said that the defendant bit him to the bone. The LORD MAYOR declared that the conduct of the defendant was most brutal, and ordered him to pay 20s. to the poor man who had been so desperately assailed. The money was paid. KINGSTON POLICE. The following case will serve as a caution to, the gentry living in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, and may prevent them from being imposed upon by de signing persons : Mary Anne Jones, a young woman, respectably dressed in a suit of mourning, was brought before Sir Richard Frederick, charged with obtaining, by false pre tences, five sovereigns from Miss Combe, the sister of Mr. Henry Combe, of Cobham. A professional gentleman attended in support of the proceeding against the defendant. Mary Coleman deposed that she was lady's maid to Miss Combe, and on Thursday last the defendant came to Mr. Combe's residence, and gave her a paper, or peti tion, to show her mistress. The petition represented that the defendant's father had carried on the business of a builder at Cobham for fifteen 7,years, and that, by his death, his family had been reduced to a state of great distress, and one child, eight years of age, being blind, some benevolent persons were endeavouring to get up a subscription, in order that it might be placed in some asylum. She showed the petition to her mistress, who said, that if the petitioner was known in Cobham, doubt less some of the respectable inhabitants would assist the subscription, and she should then herself be happy to do so. The defendant being told this, went away with the petition, and brought it back shortly after wards, when the signatures of several influential persons, with sums of money attached to their names, appeared to be appended to it. Among the signatures were those of several of the principal tradesmen, Mr. Saunders, the brewer, and also that of Mr. Currie, a gentleman of for tune, residing in the neighbourhood. She showed the document to her mistress, who immediately gave her five sovereigns, which she handed over to the defendant. The witness . added, that shortly after the defendant had gone away, one of the parties. whose names had been affixed to the petition, came to the house, and on the sub ject being mentioned, the fraud was discovered. Mr. M. Currie deposed that the prisoner called upon him, and upon her making a representation similar to that spoken to by th e l ast w i tness , he gave her f i ve shillings. The signature to the paper and the pretended amount of 21., represented to have been paid by him, were both false. Witnesses were then called, who proved that the tale of distress told by the prisoner was a pure invention, and that no such persons as herself or the pretended family had ever resided in the parish of Cobham. Sir RICHARD FREDERICK asked the prisoner what she had to say in answer to the charge ? She replied that a woman who lived in London had applied to her to take the paper to gentletnen'6 houses, And had promised that she should be well paid fin• it. She said she could not read or xvrite, and did not know die contents of the paper, and Wa3 not aware she was waq, doing wrong. Sir RICHARD FREDERICK said the offence was duly proved, and it was one of a most mischievous description, He therefore felt it to be his duty to commit her to the House of Correction for three calender months. CALAMITOUS OCCURRENCE AT THE HERRING FISHING. 1 (From the Berwick Warder.) We regret to have to record this week an accident of a peculiarly distressing nature which has taken place on .this part of the coast, in addition to others, involving the loss of property to a greater or less extent, caused by the state of the weather, and tending at once to cripple the exertions of those engaged in that important branch of industry, the herring fishing, and to cast around them the gloom of affliction arising from the loss of relatives and friends. On Friday evening last, although the sky was overcast, the weather was • yet so fine that it was scarcely possible to anticipate the slight est danger to the boats engaged -in the fishing, and all of them at the various stations on this part of the coast put out to sea as usual, while some, as in the dis tressing case more immediately under notice, were en couraged by the apparently settled calmness of the night to risk their floats nearer to the rocks than is their prac tice. The aspect of the weather continued unchanged till about 12 o'clock, when a tremendous gale sprung up from the north-east, placing the lives of the boats' crews in the greatest jeopardy. Most of them hauled their nets, mt.ny of which being full of herrings, were lost in the hurry and confusion consequent upon the exertions of the fishermen to escape the danger. One of them, however, the Jebus, of Eyemouth, having unfortunately taken up a perilbus position near the shore at Marshall Mea dows, from which the crew were unable to extricate themselves, the consequence was that the whole on board, five in number, perished. The details of the accident have not, of course, been ascertained ; but it is supposed that while the crew were in the act of hauling their nets, and before they could sail, the boat had been caught by the gale, and driven amongst the rocks, after which it had capsized. The crew con sisted of Thomas Dougal, the skipper, aged 52 ; John Dougal, his son, aged 15 ; George Dougal, sen., and George Dougal, jun., his nephews, both aged 3S ; and John Grieve, a labouring man, aged 24. The body of the•boy and one of the I)ougals, who, it is thought, had attempted to swim ashore, were found on the beach on the following morning, and conveyed to Marshal Mea dows barn. The body of the other George Dougal was recovered during the day, and the other two were found entangled amongst the nets in the water. On Monday morning an inquest was held by the Coroner on the bodies at Marshall Meadows House. The evidence related entirely to the finding of the bodies by the servants at Marshall Meadows. There being no evidence as to the cause of death, the Jury, in com pliance With the technical requirements of the lass, gave verdicts of "Found drowned" and "Found dead," ac cording as they were taken out of the water or picked up on the beach. On the same day the bodies were put into coffins and removed by their sorrowing relatives, and on Tuesday the remains of John Grieve were in terred in Ayton churchyard, and those of the other four were deposited in Eyemouth burying-ground. By this lamentable occurrence three widows and seventeen chil dren have been left in destitute circumstances. Thomas Dougal has left three sons and two daughters, the • youngest about five years old ; George Dougal has left a widow and five children, the youngest four months ; the other George Dougal has left a widow, at present preg nant, and seven children, the youngest eighteen months old ; and John Grieve has left a widow without chil dren. We are happy to, learn that a subscription has been opened for the relief of these destitute families. CORONER'S INQUEST. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER. Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, a Coroner's In quest was held before Mr. Carter, and a highly respect able Jury, at the George public-house, Bankside, on the bodies of John Clemence, aged 27, John Joseph Oxley, aged 34, and Robert Clarkson, aged 27, who, with Joseph Thomson (not yet found), were drowned in the River Thames, about half past one o'clock on the night of Friday last. The following witnesses were called : Edward Reader sworn—l am waterman on board the Pearl Gravesend steam-boat, which was lying off South wark-bridge, on Friday night. About ten O'clock Clarkson, Oxley, Thomson, myself, Wheeler, and Mr. Gunn, the steward, went to the George public-house, where we re mained until half-past one o'clock, when we all left to go on board of the Pearl, as we all slept on board. Clemence was a stranger to me. On saying he wanted to go on board of the Orion, to which he belonged, he was offered to be rowed to her. The boat belonging to the Pearl, which was a skiff, was then unfastened from the stairs, and Clemence entered, followed by Clarkson, Oxley, and Thomson. Wheeler then said, "row, and put three on board, and then return for the rest." I then pushed the boat off, Clarkson having the sculls. When the boat had gone about twenty yards from the shore I heard some one call out that either Clarkson, or Thomson, was overboard, but which I cannot say, and the rest seemed to go over. I heard no one cry out. There was barely any light at the time of the accident. An alarm was in stantly given, and the drags were procured, and in the course of half an hour Wheeler and another man found the body of Clemence. The other two bodies were after wards found, but the body of Thomson has not been re covered. I cannot say what caused the accident. We were all sober at the time.. _ _ _ Ingram Gunn—l am steward of the Pearl, and the evidence given by the last witness is perfectly correct. CORONER—DiaI you see anything in the conduct•oF Thornton or Clarkson to lead you to suspect that either one or the other of them intended to destroy himself ? Gunn—No, I am quite satisfied the deaths of all was the r,-!suit of accident. The Jury returned a verdict that the three deceased persons were accidentally drowned in the River Thames. STOP?ING THE SUPPLIES. (From the Manchester Times.) A rumour has reached us of the intention of holding a preliminary meeting in this town, to deliberate on the grave question of refusing to pay any direct taxes to the Government, until the Corn-laws be abolished, in imita tion of the course adopted by Earl Fitzwilliam and others, durin g the agitation for the Reform Bill. We think any such course would be illegal, if carried out by a public meeting, or recommended by any Association. Individuals may refuse to pay assessed taxes in money without violating the law, which provides for such cases by a distraint and sale of the property of defaulters. To stop the supplies, so far as the assessed taxes go, it would be only necessary for the Corn-law abolitionists to obey the law by quietly and peaceably letting its officers take their course. We question if any auctioneer in Man chester, or other towns of Lancashire, would be found willing to sell goods so distrained, and we are sure there' would - be no purchasers. A respectable Correspondent has furnished us with the following note on this important subject :—" We have heard from several quarters repeated intimations that in this town parties of the highest respectability have re solved they will not voluntarily pay any more taxes to the revenue till the trade in corn is free. We believe the resolution is not confined to secular persons. How will it appear if Ministers of religion, whose hearts bleed for the oppression of their brethren, and who have resolved to mingle their sympathies with the poor and suffering, shallbe dragged to prison, or their property confiscated, for the maintenance of an unrighteous system." DEPENDING ON ONE'S WITS.—A journey man tailor, who left this neighbourhood on tramp a short time ago, played off the following not very creditable trick. Being " hard-up," (as the phrase goes), and rather fatigued, he rested his arms upon a gate leading to a corn field; and.was ruminating, when a body of Irishmen came up. Fancying, from the tailor's manner, that he was the owner of the field, and in the act of looking at the crop to see if it were ready for the hook, they at once asked for " the job." The tailor hesitated for a moment, as if in deep thought, and then (rave a half negative. The hesi tation of the tailor caused the poor Irishmen to renew their entreaties, and at last the tailor said he had an ob jection to Irishmen, having employed some last year that did not do their work properly. The reapers assured " his honour" that they would behave " dacently" and do the work as it ought to be ; but his honour was not disposed to trust them, unless they would deposit a cer tain sum in his hands. The poor fellows raised several pounds, the fruits- of their industry, which they placed in his honour's hands, receiving, in return, orders to commence cutting the wheat on the following morning. We are sorry to add, the tailor, who practised the decep tion, got clear away with his booty before the " mistake" was discovered. lie may yet receive his deserts.—Der- Nish:re Chronicle. SIR ROBERT PEEL AND LORD e A x p s l i a i i L ni E n Y l: 7 l, The following letter from Lord Ashley, reasons for not accepting office with` Sir Robert f has been communicated I t n o a u n s, swe i h . a request _ n o u i l , r, on behalf of the operatives of sertion :—" Mr. --, Peel. that r La to n our ) I have R to ob r e e r p t l3r Having, however, l from him that his opinions • tory question aesvert,enadsecreerdtaciatnos:m; by Sir on the subject of the factory ac were not matured, and that he required further time for deliberation, I declined the accep tan ce of any place, under circum s t ances w hi c h would impede, or even limit, my full and free action in the a dvancement of that measure, which I consider to be vital both to the welfare of the working classes, and the real interests of the country. In taking this course, however, I neither express nor feel despair. It will be your duty and mine, not only to preserve, but to redouble our efforts; and I still entertain a hope that her Majesty's advisers, after an investigation conducted with sympathy and can dour, will, under God's good providence, give to us all an answer of happiness and peace.—l remain, your very obe dient humble servant, ASHLEY.—September 4, 1841." Manchestcr Chronith. On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held at the William the Fourth, Lewisham-road, before Mr. Carter, on the body of Mr. Archibald Trollope, aged 53, wild committed suicide by hanging himself under very afflicting circumstances. The deceased was in early life in the merchant service, and for a number of years com manded a West Indianian. After leaving the service he became a general merchant, and carried on business in the Commercial-road. He retired about four years back. The Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary derange ment." We were amused the other day at a little boy (says the John o'Groat Journal). He was seated on the step of a stair weeping bitterly, and had just recovered from a rather severe illness, which had left him very weak. " What is the matter, Andrew ?" inquired a person of him in passing. "My legs winna gang," was the reply, EVENING SUN • SHIPVING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) <4l' VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL—TIIO Brothers, from •—• John's to Cork 21th ult., lat. 47, lon. 37 ; Mida, 3d inst., lat. 48, lon. 21, by the J. Walker, arrived at Liverpool. Urania, London, to Monte Video, July 19, lat. 3 4 6. 0 lon. 52 W. ; Ca.mbysses, Liverpool to Singapo re, 11th ult., lat. 12 N., lon. 23 ; Georgians, Jamaica to London, 7th inst., lat. 48, lon. • 11, by the Christian, arrived at Cowes. Tanyore, London to Bombay, July . 0 3, lat. 16 S., lon. 33 W. ; Ducondie, Buenos Ayres to Cowes, sth ult., lat. 11 N. lon. 27 ; Rosanna, Bombay to London , 23d ult., lat. 35, lon. 44, by the Cigar, arrived at Liver pool. Ruby, of Newcastle, for Miramichi, 6th inst., lat. 48, lon. 18, Lady Grosvenor, Naples, 9th ult., lat. 490 lon. 7, by the Havana, arrived at Falmouth. THE MIkRKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. the highes' ri. eof Kre in the Macor,lls Is 10/(1 for the 4lb Luta. Gam. d Brew may be had at J.I. OF SEEDS Per Quarter Per Cat. 1 Any English /ten Clover...sos Ws St. Fein ---, '255 41i+ Old t W.., Div° —s —s —8 Rye G•ast; ..' "... New Foreign Di-to ...... —s stis Ris Pacey Grass —H 01 tDitoDi to —s ---s —s Unwed, for fe. ding ~,—s 50s 1. 1 : New NVhite Clover 4gs Iss 72s Dit o, for sowing ......—. 3 b°' Cj , Old Dia., Div() —s —s —s Ditto, for crushi..g ..,...—s 4' -,:, •ew 'lre oil .... —s '26s 46s H Inc —s -Igs 5 Old i.itto —s '24s -lis Canary —sl'Os WU 'fr folium - s -;ts 7081 Per B.shel. English Carraway —s 46s 505 White Mustard.... 2s Od to 15s 06_ Foreign Ditto . 44s 50s'Brown Ditto Ns 04 to 17s Coriander —s s —siTares PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per I fown Tallow .. £2 51 61Melting Stuff 121b.. ,X 1 11 (,), Yellow Russia Whiteo le .... it U CiGraves Soap Ditto 0 0 OlGood Dregs 0 b PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of :Sibs. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) .................... 14 P itlOE OF OIL.. Rape Oil, brown, per ton £0 10 Ditto, refined Linseed Oil 32 0 Lins.ed Oil Cake at th 4 Mill (per 1000) l3 IP Ilk e ake, per tou 7 7 COAL MARKET. • Ships arrived since last market day, 82, ~ a. Adair's Carr's Hartley Chester....... l5 3 Dean's Primrose l5 6 Liolywell Ma n l7 0 New Tanlield Moor l5 0 Old Tanfii 1.1 Pontop W indsor l5 9 Wylam Walls E ti 13;tivieke avid C lB 6 Walls End Clennell - lfi 1, Walls End Heston lB 0 walls End Killingworth Walls End Newmarch l7 r W. E. Braddyll'oHarton s. d i Walls End Hetton l9 Walls End Lamlston l9 7, Walls End Stewart's t, it ,° Walls End Adel,ide 1 Walls End garrets 10 3 ‘' Walls End Brown's Deanery I 4 6 q 1N ails Ead Seymour Toes Wal a End 'lees Walls End Tees Hetton Blythe IS Cawptn - Hartley ll " 1 —• ef Howard's Netherton Main.. ' 1, 5 4 Newton Main lO 11 ''' ~ South Pelton HAMBURG MARKETS. GB. AIN. rs to 195 Woeat, Marks 4:6 to 501 Barley, Mecklenburgh 1--. ~., .1 0 --- Magdeburg - Rlagdeburgh... 1 ~ 195 -- Anhalt, wnue 46:: to 510 1 -- Holstein ........ 1 0 141 red ~, 45rt to 501 ----- Summer ll4 to , d -- Brunswick 46 to 501 Oats, Elder 75 1 ° . p 0 ---Mecklenburg.. 41)6 to 510 -- Mecklenburg „, 114 t o , t z„) -- Polish 456 to 516 ---Holstein ll4 !„ 105 -- Holstein - Esst Irie,land... 9 ' 4'486 Rye, Mecklenburg --* Dantzi2S to 255 B B eans 2O t ° -- Elbing c 2 and Ka. uck Wheat 166 1 2 !VI I' nigsburg ...... .. 224 to 23f! Rapeseed, Hanover --' 1 150 Upland Riga 2 .24 to 236 Tares corroN. 7.ra tog Carolina and Tennessee 7 tpto 9% Nlarvnham f4eorgia. Ist suit 7% Madras ~.. 5 % 5 241 7% 7N Surat; 3d and 4th ... 5% 6% Domingo .....•Os COF FEE. 111.4cIta I' to 1:1% Domingo 4% t° s 7 ' Batavia S uma tra Porto Ri co 6% .. Rio 4 5 1 Havannali 4% Bahia SUGAR.—(With 8% Discount.) too Havanna)), White 3to 4 Bahia, White ..............._. G 3 Brown 2 2X Brown .............. !Ll*. 3 Rio, White. 2% 4 Pernambuco, White ... 2 /i ,4 Brown ,. 0 26 Brown ..2 Manilla. Brow -- i. 2!4 to 234 J. BEALL'S MACHINE FOR SWEEP II4I7 . STREETS.—The following description of this mach ine given in the words of the inventor, we have no t se ~e, it, and therefore can give no opinion as to its use, N.,' the purposes intended.) It may be used with tbr t i. • shovels or scrapers, and eighty beesoms or brushes, in a peculiar manner,—or forty shovels, with for' o if beesoms ; the number being more or less, as the n i l. d the machine may require. The machine is to be w onte with horses. Oxford-street might be swept at one.swe t if; collecting the mud, &c., close to each curbstone, in t time which it would require for the horses to walk fr°l - one end to the other ; or, if more convenient , (--):‘; ford-street might be swept by going once up and 01c , down, collecting the mud, &c., at each side, and in middle of the street. It is easily contracted, so as allow carriages to pass. In snowy and thawing weet': by using the machine about seven o'clock in the 0 1( 1, - ; ing, it would make a clear carriage -way, and prevent t" d necessity of having additional horses to omnibuses coaches, &c. There are four large American vessels in t ,f Menai Straits, all loading with slates for Boston • , ri ffr. the barque Thatnes,•of Portland ; the ship Dronio:11:t. the Louisa, Snow ; and the barque Junius. —LiverP — Chronicle. err Copy of a Letter from the late Henry Coq Esq., of Tewen.waters, Herts., to Mr. W. F. France, who r o t siding at 2.2, Spring.gardens. "Tewen-waters, Herts., Marceo, 1840. Sir, In justice to the Messrs. Solomons about the time wor tioned in the extract of the advertisement which you Illoot ) me, I beg to inform you that I certainly did write to the° tniaerS effect ; before I possessed the Voice Conductor Sound 13g eltil ye a , I had been stone deaf. lam within two months of my .• ere and can still feel the comfort and benefit of the Sound blag n- g . Invisible Voice Conductors. I am, Sir, your obedien t lir '' , vant, Henry Cowper."—Messrs. S. and B. Solomon:' 3 - rid Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Ho te ': o vii- 76, King William.street, City, state that their 1 ,„ . ,p r• invented Invisible Voice Conductor Sound Magnifiers enal ) 7. - o - g e of sons at an advanced age, and of forty and fifty years' 5t 0 ",.. 1- 1 , the extreme deafness, to join in general conversation, and td cat r - e - the • sound of a distant low speaker at a public assembly. The/ 3- ow size of a very smll gold seven.shiding piee, and when. cavity of the ears, a they are not the 'cast prc c eptitile nor In° uic et, 4 comfortable than having a small piece of fine wool in it s P oft • Messrs. Solomons' newly-invented Spectacles, immediately t hey r , ; laced before imperfect vision, that mkt and dullness which al r ao before the eyes is at once removed, every object becoming Flearright distinct, so that the most aged defective eye- s i g ht become , a° l d ) 0 0. and brilliai : t, and is brought to its youthful, natura l, ginal state. ol d 'To E. Solomons and Co., Opticians,• 36 %. 10 01, Bond.street, and 1, Old Jewry, City :—" In accordance w"idoc. premise to report on the efficacy of your Invisible Voic e C°lffora tors, I have much gratification in Ling able to say that they ;3ot me the greatest possible cmfort and assistance. Thel me to hear distinctly remo t e and mixed sounds—to dii,t ir tber without the slightest effort the faintest inflections of t he Pre" 0 at church (although distant from me) ; in short, by th eir aid oVii, blessed with most perfect and acute hearing ; and in such an o w• nate case as mine has b ee n of thirty years' standing, when "ova fore I had not power to hear the ticking of my watch, when alfl o os closely to the ear, and after having submitted my severe de% to various eminent aur i s t s w ithout the slightest relief, I "%clic deed to congratulate my s elf on my good fortune in hearing at• high character, and in having so much profited by your ski lfu ., tention. I deem it my duty to give the fact all the publicity ve er power, and every inquiry to me (directed to No. 1 1 , ConeF-_,.' l iged York), shall be promptly answered.—l am, gentlemen, your 11.0 servant, Michael Walker.-11, Coney-street, York, Aug. Is PLATE SUITED FOR PRESENTA.Tw — Committees or private individuals requiring splendid or articles of PLATE fur presentation, may, by address,i'" It paid letter as under, have drawings sent for their appr o . i l l to t, a is desirable letter s s hould state about the sum intendest expended. T. COX SAVORY. 11 0 11 ' Silversmith, &e.,47, Corriliill (Seven doors from Grac ce—u of street), Lyndon. ; es N.B. A Pamphlet, containing a detailed list of Pr;erstist Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be 1 0 . 6 ,s p pli or will be forwarded, post fre e , in answer to a post-pai ti cation. —.OlO uNar London: Printed and Published by MURDO 1 " Stra ' Th No. 112, Strand, at e Sun O ffi ce, No. 1 12 ', the county of Nliddlesea, Tuesday, September 1 4 '"")* MARRIED. Ol e Isie l 1 On Saturday, the 11th instant. Lieut -Col. B. f:, ~,D e rl. Browne (late of the Sth, or King's Own), only " n la " Ist', Williamß r 00 0 m an p tt t h r h e e e €: gt h Waller, inst., st . , eldest son of Gilbert Gore Browne, to Hannah Eliza, only daisia Capt. Nicholetts,i s c h h t e r l r e tt o s f , E t h s e cl ' 'II use street, Bloomsbury, to Cornelia, eldest daughter o f tbe Bth inst., Aillerr.ef&rdatirse.Edwards, of Great P s t* Esq., of Elverton, near Feversham. Ws at Walcot Church, Bath, Richard Let o *, Borne, Esq., of the Bank of England, Bristol, to Mary n i p, . e ld es t daughter of the late Willi am Bastin, Esq., of St . Cheltenham. . e dd r O n the 9th inst., in Scotland, Adam Yates Bird, of Te l w e m i ns ter, Esq., to Miss Louisa Harper, a :I"' Wyndham Bryanston-square. t 1 111.4 On the 10th inst., at Cahn., near Belfast, William'larr son of John Heriot, Esq., Fellowhills, Berwickshire, t o ' second daughter of the late S. Young, Esq., Dalkeith. :,,, eg On the 11th inst., at St. Pancras, Mr. James 11 1 4P";e5 1 Sidmouth-street, Regent-square, t o H e nrietta, r u,.,— daughter of William Killbe, Esq., Li me - s t re et, City. drOf On the 12th of June, at Cal c utta, at St. John's Catijkot• the Hon. H. F. H. Peru, third son of the late Lord, god , worth, and grandson of the Earl of Limerick, to Amt' s second daughter of Captain Rowland Money, B.N.C'v___:_.-.--"" DIED. : hat On the 10th inst., at Melville Castle, North Britaio' Viscountess el. n the 4th M inst vill , e at Ramsgatc, Mrs. Kincaid, r elict (II" Kincaid, Esq., of Edinburgh, aged 84. . elde st Oh the 7th inst., at Baden Baden, Frances Mary , . ... e t, daughter of the late William Tustin, Esq. , of Fludyer s" Whitehall. to late On the 7th inst., at Ipswich , Mrs Stud d, relict of Edward Studd, Esq., aged 72. ' $ On the 9th inst., at (litton, Jane, wife of the Rev. Bi ch r a Quarrel', Cheltenham. b Or tlig On the 9thitht., at Ealing-terrace, Ealing, Eliaa e vrt wife of Mr. James Treher n . ar On the 10th inqt. , at Hampstead, Louisa, daughter of °' Barker, Esq. , of Edgeware-road, aged 9. wife of On the 1 0 th inst. , in Re g ent-street, Ellinor Barnes, Mr. Amos Linney, aged 47. On the 11th inst., Miss Webb, of Cliftondowe. Bris t°l o . deft On the 11th inst., Elizabeth, the daughter of Willis" , Esq., of Court Lees, near Canterbury. re k Ge o rg s On the 13th init., in Oxford-terrace, Hyde-par ' • Johnston, aged 82. os Esq. , On the 13th inst., Edward, son of Fi anc is Ttivaa , - Hollywood-grove,iNt.,ewati3SmtmckPetfNnewa-ginedgtsi:n, Mr. E-:. SWl°' O ❑ the ate of the Bank of England, _.... BIR7HS. oi te a daughter. rf 0( v b On the 13th inst., at Biagleswaite, Mrs. John N. i . „ O f ' On the 4th inst., in Bedf or d- s t ree t, Bedford-W s "' ' 1 Ta On the 12th hourdin, of a son. o f it , 1 inst., in Ch ar l o tt e - street , Bloomsbury 4 Mr 4. Brooke Turner, cf a daughter. Wrig b ! t On the 12th inst., at Hamilto n -t errace , M rs . H. •• of a son. ee*, On the 12th inst., at the Avenue House, Tottenham' the lady of K. Rickman, Esq., of a daughter. tbe Of , On the 13th inst., at Russell-plac e . Fi tzroy - s quares e # 4 of John Pover Poyer, Esq., of a daughter. w ells On the 13th inst., at Clapham, Mrs. Thomas 1 1 ° ,....„,„ ,.. daughter. I