The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-16 00:00:00

_ll4 2,N T. u _AN ANIEttiCAN NEWS ! , ..-I:;.tracts from merica3: 1 - 3:3 OF Ti ben . Fro n t the ster.m furnished was an; 'l. ii inlortuation the,. the snbicct is !me of the deepest interest, we take ad (-1;.V... graphically written letter, by one of the sur -ors, to lay sorn incidents of the occarrence before our T:he writer, addressing a lady in New York, readers, thus fl,c: Whoa )es sePnes on last, I said I thought of going to and perhaps to Chicago. I intended to have but meeting Captain Titus, a few daT since, needed but little persuasion to wait for the Erie, for we v. - ero,u:d friends. Some of my acquaintances were nd we proposed to make it. partly a pleasure ex al-:d to take along a band of music. Monday le day for starting. But the weather had beer • , 1.; the night, and in the morning t he blue. , )ea waves were dashing against the pier, as wt.- - seen them in a gale.. -1 at the usual tine, and found her well and aa-iori , the rest about one for the West, why taken an: gum, car.:ion. came. t scpv,Llly have I v h and fir on 1 deck tt - !=ir to r aged h arranging getting impatient to 11t, on then . voyar, and workmen on I.rd, the poJr painters, tll3 wishing nmed to tlic lake in al. their v+,yagt.: as c():nfortabie the Cllnton put out, notwit'ustanding th, our passengers '..er<r! anxiou; to follow gale, The ( rtnqus wero wt'r t ul6)rtanate cans, ) a; k:ing ace clamorous to strait Wei c.' iding to the wishes of his passengers, knowim fretas 110 red danger from the gale, which alsi seemed t:, lull, and not liking to be beaten by the Clio ton, the last bell was rung, the last farewell—to how many last !—the lines cast uti, and the gallant Erie, for the last time, rounded the light-house. This Was about half-past live on Monday afternoon. The Clinton was just seen in the distance. The waves were running high. bat the boat pitched easily, and the whole company was in high spirits, and those who e7:pre.ssed any fears were laughed at for their timidity. We sat down to tea, and selected our berths, expecting a pleasant morrow. At alemt eight o'clock I was sitting in the saloon. when, all at once, we heard a slight explosion, a hissint. sound, and cry of fire. So many accidents have occurred. and I had so schooled myself to the thought of such an accident, that I was comparatively cool and self possessed. spruag to the door, followed by Palmeri,•e, and we tvere met by a mass of scorching . flame. I rushed forward. Ife 1;;liowed, but no more. Or the dozen or fifteen in tin , saloon at the moment, not another survive;. In a SCCOII6 all that pert oz the boat nearest to where the flame. burst on% the boiler deck, was in flames, and they mils( have perished in the saloon, from which there was no tlic~ escape. Oe going forward, I saw in a moment the whole terra, of the scene. The flames burst out in immense masse: and were drivea back by the wind, enveloping in one minute the whole body of the ship. Titus sprung to the wheel, and headed her to the shore, and the wind not drove the dames into every part of her, and she roller' over the seas a mass of fire—for she had been lately painted, and her pannel-work varnished, so that she caught as if dipped in spirits of turpentine. Then the air was filled with shrieks of agony and de spair. The boldest turned pale at that awful moment. I shad never forget the wail of terror that went up from the poor German emigrants, who were huddled together On the forward deck. Wives clung to their husbands, Inothee , ; feantiely pressed their babes to their bosoms, lovers clang madly to each other. One venerable old man, his grey hairs streaming in the wind, stood on the bows, and stretciril]a out his bony hands, prayed to God in the Jahguage of his fatherland. d:ut if the steno forward was terrible, that aft was ap paliv..g. for there the flames were raging in the greatest fur. - . ;owe madly rushed into the tire. Others, with a yell, mach!ened with the names, which were all around them. spritny; head-long into the waves. The officers of the boat eed. crew were genet ally cool, and sprung to lower the boats., but these were every one succeesively ewamped by those who threw themselves into them, re igardieee of everything but their own safety. tried to ea t, co Dy—l kept near the captain, who smiled to take courage from despair, and whose bearing was above all praise. The boat was wearing towards the shore, but the maddened flames now enveloped the wheel house, and in a moment the machinery stopped. The last hope had left us—and a wilder shriek rose ur in the air ; at this moment the second engineer, the one at the on duty, who had stood by his machicer) as long ae it would work, was seen climbing up, black mass, with the flames curling all around him t In either side he could nut go, for it was 110 W one mass of fire. He sprung upward, came to the top, one mo. anent fit madly around him, and then fell into the flames, There was no more remaining on board, for the boat 110 W breached round upon the swelling waves a mass oe tire. I seeted upon a settee near me, and gave one spring jest tie the names were bursting through the deck where I stood—one moment more, and I should have been in the flames. One moment, and I found myself tossed on a wave, grasping my frail supple; with desperate energy. At one eeement I sate nothing but the yawning deep, and the blacteening sky—at the next the flaming mass :was before me, as the waves pitched me up, and around were my fellow.pas„,,ttr,;ers straggling with the waves, some supported by notho.7 but their strong arms—every moment teeming weaker, c hile the wild, agonisini, riekg those who were evei7 moment taking their v io last look at the upper world ; and th ,sse who were n still cKnaing t.) the bulwarks, but every ino:neht dropping with] every pitch of the vessel, made such a 5 .4;11e, nightly haunts my dreams, and can never be obli terated while memory remains. I had been in the water but a short time, though each nen t tent seemed an age, when I heard the voice of Capt. Tina's . , who, the last to leave the vessel, was now in the water, ca.. l log, oat with a firm voice, " Courage—hold on —help is cs ming !" Oh, words of hopeollow it cheered us in thot hour of gloom. A moment after I saw the lights of a steam-boat, and, in a short time, the hull of the Clinton, which, upon seeing the fire, had hastened to our assistimee. Her boats were ready lowered, and, 1 guided by the light of the vessel and the prayers for help, twenty-seven of us were saved from a watery grave. Some were terribly burned, and seine in the last stage of exhaustion, but all thankful for their pre servation. Of the German emigrants, I do not know that one was saved. Parents and children seem to have found one common grave, and lay at the bottom of the lake, all locked together. There was but one female of the whole number saved, and among the passengers were some of superior elegance and rare beauty. Oh ! never on earth may I witness such a scene of horror. It seems like a frightful dream, only too real. That pale old man haunts me. The agony of some of those beautiful girls will be impressed upon my mind for ever, and I would that I could forget the horrible sight of that poor fellow catch ing in the air for some escape from the flames which were raging ell round him. It was terrible 1 dreadful ! hor rible I can find no language which will pourtray my fee iin MB. APLEOD. The case of the Caroline,, as turning on the incarcera tion and trial of •M‘Leod still causes excitement and anxiety in the United States. We repeat a statement of the case :—M•Leod is a prisoner of the State of New York. Great Britain avows her responsibility for the net with which he is charged, and demands his release li•ore the General Government. They answer that they ,e-annot interfere except by constitutional and legal means,—and that these include the removal of the case to e. general Court, or the trial in New York State, and t ‘ at baequiint exercise of the President's prerogative. The latter seems preferred as the better mode, and British enthoriJes are asstired that if the prisoner be con victed, the nsual consequences shall not follow, but that he shall be discharg,ed, and the affair of the Caro line be referred to diplomatic agency. The question now is, should GNat Britain defer to this rather farci cal and childish proeceding—will it recognize the diffi culties of the position of the General Government, and allow it to work out of them in its own way—or will it demand immediate action and iectir the imminent hazards y ? Etiquette, and points connected with pride or p l ace , ma y be of consequence occasionally, and some per sons speak as if they should be preserve.". at every risk ; but perhaps the bravest Minister, the one moat likely to would not be • readiest to incur the abide time brunt, re sponsibility without the deepest thought. An expe7di olveon- of treasure—nations driven hack in their tore a trillions a . d . el l uge of . blood—involve course of improvement, which onperat,ii e yd , emend the most cautious eiderations course of preenedince—elera ,Scot ei'ew York Sun has the following sen the Indian troubles which still infest sible remaelcs the frontiers, and which threaten te increase under the treatment a war with planned for their sippr . ession:—" In the event Great Britain, it may not he amis s of- to inquire what is our p ros p ect with regard to our "red brethren.' Will they retu rn the compliment of the Thilanthropists who so term them, and style US their man of them; we know it, and `white brethren?'ho ever heard the name .71 , say it. There is N L t t a Id it in abhorrence, and or an American, that does not a man wbo feel otherwise. On it is not t o b e e xpected they should •erence the English. tee other hand, they love and lei • We drive them, we slaughter u—t he English do tee' st the En neither. N o t a t r ib e raise the hatchet again. glish. Not a t r ib e did the English ever dispossess. Let us see what our chance is with them. When our Government appoints an Indian arent, it is • almost always a man who has never been among Indians, who knows nothing of their lang uage , manners, habit s, customs or fvelingt, who has no claims on their res p ect or affection e, and - who, therefore, knows not how to ma nage them. Ile may learn, indeed, but that takes time. The English ale men of experience in the wools and prairies, men who have lived in the smoke of the In slian's wigwam and shared his blanket and his boal. VLat American agent could ever do half so much 1 :Alore—the American agent has but a paltry pittance for the wants Of i,is" red children." Until the late treaty whereby ties lower Sioux of the Mississinpi were cheated (tut of that beautiful and extensive tract commonly calk(' Carver s ea rant, whereby they became entitled to a paltry anntiity. they received but 1.50) dollars a year—not a plug of tohaeco a piece. The English agents had an uinirnited supply of Indian goods, and distri buted them bountifully to all corners. We have dispossessed very many powerful tribes of tbe:r law?. It was, perhaps, right awl necessary; but it b 3 dillicult,•to reconcile them to it. The English Government, on the contrary, of Teri them a home in Canada, and uses means to attract them to it. A colony or Indians from within our borders is, even now, actually planted on the Manitoulin Islancl,;. Last year great number 3 or Indians from the Mississippi crossed the country to Canada over the D3troit River to receive pre3ents from the British agent at Malden. Did the Indians about Chippewa offer their services to Colonel )lae r)r Gen. Van Rennsellaer during the late ;rouble in '[...rpper Canada. Not to the latter, we trove. ,pers.) Ten tribes still smart from the battle of Tippecanoe bile Winnebagoes alone lost sixty men there. We have .inee destroyed half the Sague tribe, and exasperated ;he Sioux beyond measure, and they alone, in their va rheas raraLications, number thirty thousand fighting ,m n. Catlin thinks sixty thousand. There is no doubt that in any war that may take place with Indians, they must be beaten ; but still, they are capable of doing incalculable injury. Metacon, and Pontiac, and Tecumseh, and Black Hawk, and Osceola, have shown what - Indians are capable of. Territories laid waste, blood shed ingloriously, women anC chil dren piteously slain, are not agreeable objects to look forward to. " Look before you leap," is an old proverb and a wise one. Tilere can be but little doubt, that in any war with the United States, numerous tribes of Indians could be taken advantage of to their fearful detriment, if Great Britain should consider it correct for a civilised and Christian Power to make use of the dreadful expedient. War, in its least fearful aspects, is bad enough—a dread ful phenomenon in nature—but the supposition of the unbridled Indian let loose among the Saxon race, causes a feeling of unusual horror. A Member of the United states Senate, said, lately, that there were 43,f300 armed [ndian warriors ready to engage in hostilities against the Republic. Our neighbour's Indian policy must have /Oen wretched.—Thid. - THE PRESENT AGE. Doctor Channing, the celebrated American orator and writer. delivered an address to the Mercantile Company of Philadelphia some months ago ; it was entitled the Present Age, and late papers furnish some extracts. The )actor appears to have a lively faith in the improve cent of the human race, and he gathers corroboration of is views from numerous signs of the times. The sub- Dined scrap will furnish some notion of the mode in vhieh he has treated this subject : The multitude is rising from the dust. Once we ward of the few, now of the many ; once of the pre .ogatives of a part ; now of the rights of all. We are ooking as never before, through the disguises, enve opments of rank and classes, to the common na ture which lies below them, and are beginning ;o learn that every being who partakes of it ias noble powers to cultivate, solemn duties to perform, nalienable rights to assert, a vast destiny to accomplish. grand idea of humanity, of the importance of man is man, is spreading silently, but surely. Not that the ,north of the human being is at all understood as it should ; but the truth is glimmering through the darkness. A faint consciousness of it has seized ,upon the public nind. Even the most abject portions of society are ,isited by dreams of a better condition, for which they sere designed. The grand doctrine, that every human. )eing should have the means of self-culture; of progress a knowledge and virtue, of health, comfort, and happi less, of exercising the powers and affections of a man that is slowly taking its place, as the highest social truth. That the world was made for all, and nut for a new ; that society is to care far all, that no human being ,hall perish but through his own fault ; that the great Nul of Government is to spread a shield over the rights of all these propositions are growing into axioms, and the spirit of them is coming forth in all the departments of life." These are exhilirating views of our common huma nity. Too long the practice has been, among som e classes, to look upon others as so much of the rough materials of society, which might be worked up for the general benAt, with but little consideration of their own peculiar claims and feelings. ,Many of the human family hare been looked upon as so many means of production and consumption merely, and speculators exulted or complained, forgetful of what was really due to those who formed the basis of their calculations. If, accord ing to Dr. Channing, this unholy part of a commercial spirit is declining, and if man, in every' condition, is approximating to the value which God and nature stamped on the species, a great good is in coarse of de aelopment.—lbid. MURDERS.—Five • convicted murders are now in gaol in Greene County, Kentucky, awaiting sentence and exe cution. -Their names are Carrington, Simpson, Jason, Bell, and Pleasant Saddler, for the murder of the W hite family (five in number), and Josiah Johnson for the murder of Ila Johnson. There have been three arrivals at Boston frOm Ma nilla.— ships 'Unicorn and Arabella, and hark Canton packet. SEVERE PENALTY FOR THIEVING.—In Scott County, Indiana. on the night of the 14th instant, three men were shot while robbing a watermelon patch. Two of them immediately expired. The third was expected to re- cover. A remedy for a shock by lighting, was publihed in several papers some time ago. The New York San states that it had been proml efficacious, by two late in stances. It consists in carrying the superabundant elec tric matter from the apparently dead body, by extend ing it on the ground, and drenching it with water. RAILROADS IN BRAZIL. (From the Journal de Commercio, Rio de Janeiro.) The following Report from the Committee of Agri culture, Commerce, Industry, and the Arts, respecting the Memorial of the Imperial Brazilian Railroad Com pany, was read and approved of. This Company was formed under a decree of the 4th of November, 1841, whereby exclusive privileges were granted to it for a period of eighty years : " Ist. That the Brazilian Government purchase four thousand shares of the Company, equal to 500,0001., one-fourth of the capital to be raised. " 2d. That the shares of the Company shall not be liable to any embargoes, mortgages, or judicial seizures what ever, and shall be guaranteed in time of war. " 3d. That: for a period of five years all the steam-car riages, machinery, and every kind of utensil fur the use of the railroad imported by the Company, shall be ad mitted free of all duty. " Considering the magnitude of the undertaking, and the immense advantages attendant thereon to the Bra zilian empire, the Committee deem the enterprise as one which well deserves the exclusive privilege for eighty years granted by the Government, as also that it is en titled to every reasonable pecuniary support. " But as the Ist and 3dclauses of the Memorial affect the interests of the public Treasury, inure particularly the Ist, to the extent of 500,0001., the rattle of tour thousand shares, the Committee deem it judicious, in so important a matter, previous to making its final decision, that the Government be referred to. in order that every information may be granted to the Chamber and the Committee fur their better guidance. " Chamber of Deputies, July 5, 1841. (Signed) " RAMIRO. " FERREIRA. PENNA." So deplorable are the roads within the fertile provinces through which the railroad is to pass, that it is stated, on the evidence of the Government statistics, the actual expenses incurred yearly in transporting the various kinds of merchandize to Rio de Janeiro for exportation amount to ten thousand contos and upwards, a sum of money considerably above the capital required to con struct the railroad. The undertaking is so popular, that four thousand shares are already subscribed for, in addition to the same number which the Brazilian Government show every disposition to purchase, in furtherance of the interests of the empire. Not the slightest calculation appears to exist with reference to the shares being disposed of out of the country, as the funds are confidently expected to be raised among the Brazilians themselves. The young Emperor, although only sixteen years of age, appears to have a wife already selected for him. The choice lies between the daughters of the Archduke Reiner and the Prince of Salerno, whilst the Emperor's sister reported to be affianced to the son of the Duke of Modena. The Imperial family appear to be universally beloved larties of every political shade. TWENTY SEVEN PERSONS POISONED. — DEATH FROM EATING DISORDERED VEAL.--AbOUt nine weeks since, a farmer named Schofield, residing in the • f ur ther side of Spotland , had a calf dropped ilch he wished to rear, but, as it became disordered, he employed a cow-leech, who doctored it about four weeks, at the end of which tim e it was handed over to a butcher named Kershaw, who killed it, and sold the meat in cheap lots, at 21d. and 3d. per lb., to people chiefly in the neighbourhood of Whitworth, all of whom were taken more or less ill immediately after eating it. Amongst the rest were a decent working family named Sprawel , to whose share fell the head and midcalf, The former they boiled for dinner on Sunday week, and, like all the others, they were taken ill the same day, the meat I la c•jng only been sold on the Saturday. The family c on s i s t e d:sr old James Sprawel, nearly seventy years of age, his wife, an:! saveral mature sons and daughters : and the old woman %N.'s the only one who was not se riously affected oy the she having small portion of the broth. jana g , - to vomit immediately after he had only eaten a the old man, begun Thurs his dinner ; and he continued in the same sickly state un... ;1 • day week, when he died. One of the sons also 'lt present remains in a rather dangerous condition. On Tuesday last, an inquest was held on the body by Mr. Dearden, when, after a patient investi g ation, a ver dict was returned which legally exonerated the vendors of the disordered meat ; they were, however, called into the inquest room, and severely admonished, being also informed at the same time, that, if another death en sued from a similar cause, it would probably be the pain ful duty of the Jury to send them to Kirkdale for trial. The number of persons thus poisoned was about 27. — Manchester Guardian. TA. shepherds of the Pyrenees, remarked for their skill and hardihood as hunters. lately killed an enormous brown bear, an animal distinct from the black bear, which lives on herbs and roots, while the other is carnivorous, and makes ruinous depredations among the flocks and herds. These men were employed two whole days in the chase, armed only with single-barrel guns, and to finish the destruction of' their prey were obliged,' after wounding, to assail him with the butt ends of their pieces. They carried their game to Eaux-Bonnes, and, having sold the flesh to the restaurateurs, who regaled their customers with it, put the skin over the back of an ass, and paraded it through the town, making a good collection. The animal weighed from 400 to 600 pounds. MYSTERIOUS ATFAIR AT BEDFORD.—Last week, Mr. Walter Brooke, a commercial traeveller, thoe f B roi nsgrove, Worcestershire, went by coach to Swan Hotel, Bedford. On going to bed at night, he left on the•sideboard in the commercial room a portfolio, con taining fifteen Si. notes, all of the Cambridge Bank, and upwards of ' l O sovereig,ns. Next morning, shortly after entering the room, he discovered that the portfolio had been broken open, and notes to the amount of 251. taken therefrom. Mr. Jebbutt , the superintendent of police, was sent for, and a search was made by him amongst the domestics and their apartments, but no discovery of the lost property was made. It was suggested by the officer that the commercial room had better be searched ; and under the oil-cloth near the fire-place, and also under the carpet, was found the property in question ; t bt how or in what way it became concealed there, remains A rays tery.—Cambridge Advertiser. by pl TH.P. SUN, LONDON, TTICRSOAY, SEPTEmrortin la, 1'441. SPIRIT of the Pt_):LIC jOURNAL. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. G LOBE.—That the 'Whig play is at au caul, and that tile power of the Tory party ie to have no end, except by utter subversion at toe hands of the Chartists or Radi cals, is the moral of the sone of the " leading J our n a l" again this morning. If this were true, it would not be matter of much rejoicing for the wiser Tories. No party can rule for ever ; and if the end of the sway of the party now in power is to be radical revolution, unmitigated by the existence of any in termediate party, then their actual triumph may sug gest subject of awful apprehension for the future. Not many days back, a Radical Contemporary made it matter of charge against the Whigs, that, for these ten years past, they had stood between the people and the aristocracy, and - declared that when the Tories should again lose rower the Whigs would not again be suffered to protect the enemies of the people. It appears their lead ing organ is of the same opinion. The maxim "Delezda est Carthag97 has been carried out to Whiggish extinc tion. When the Tories fall (as Ministers must, sooner or later), they will throw us without reserve into the arms of the Chartists ; and Sir Robert Peel will advise her Majesty to send for Mr. O'Connor, or Mr. Vin:ent, or possibly to despatch Hielson a longer journey for states men at a distance, while the seals of office are held, ad interim, by any single Wellington of the Chartists, whom the Tories- may not have sent to join the chiefs of his party at the Antipodes. Seriously, however, we doubt whether Whieeee sin (understanding by that name the principles of 'a body of statesmen neither Tories, nor advocates of popular absolutism) is so utterly exanimate in the country as the Times repre sents. We doubt this the more, because we never meet with professed Conservatives who do not scout the very idea of governing on old Tory principles. Well ! but abandoning the old Tory principles is tantamount to adopting Whig ones ; and if this is the way the Tories speculate on putting an end to the Whigs, they act on the principle of that ancient usurper, who ruled by person ating a slain monarch. Parties put an end to in this way are apt to revive again ; because what constitutes parties is . public action on common principles ; and those whose principles are acted on hold power virtually, and must hold it finally. The more authentic morning organ of the party in power says (adopting the words of Lord Howick), that " a cautious but decided advance towards liberal commercial principles may be expected from the present Ministry." We shall have personation, then, after assassination. So much the better. If the usur pers act as well as they depose, they may pass for awhile instead of them. If they personate "-liberal commercial principles" without really carrying them out, then the very pretence of acting on them will lead back the public mind to the consistent professors of those principles, and restore them to their legitimate station. STANDARD.—In obedience to the frequent and earnest appeals of the Liberal press to the inhabitants of the manufacturing districts, to attempt •by every means in their power to obstruct and embarrass the new Cabinet, a small and comparatively insignifant portion of the householders of Manchester have signed a requi sition to the Mayor for a public meeting, having for its professed object to take into consideration the distressed state of that town and neighbourhood, and the expediency of petitioning the Queen not to pro rogue the Parliainent until a " full discussion" of " the corn and provision laws has been entered into," the requisitionists being of opinion that those laws " are the main cause of the prevailing distress." The principal -movers in this affair are Mr. Cobden and the other Members of the Anti-corn-law League. Among the requisitionists are many respectable and well mean ing persons, actuated no doubt by the best intentions ; but by far the larger portion of them are obviously of that order of politicians who are never chary of their services when the work of agitation .is to be done. Whatever their motives may be, they seem to be hut imperfectly informed of the real causes of the distress or which they complain. Were the Corn laws to be repealed to• morrow, and the• same system of over-production to continue, the condition of the industrious classes would not be ameliorated in the slightest degree ; and_ when we contrast the misery which is said to exist in our manufacturing towns among the operative classes, with the overgrown fortunes realised in' a few years by the least libe ral of their employers, it is not difficult to un derstand to what origin the evil is to be referred. Whatever modification of the existing Corn laws may be contemplated by Sir Robert Peel, he will not, we are sa tisfied, permit himself to be dictated to by people who employ the phrase " provision laws" as a watchword of faction; still less will he consent to allow such persons to suggest to him in what manner he shall per form the responsible duties which have devolved upon him. That there exists considerable distress in the manufactining districts cannot be doubted, but that the extent of that distress has been grossly exaggerated for factious purposes is equally certain. Sir Robert Peel requites no stimulus from the Anti-Corn-law League and its dupes to induce him to seek the earliest possible opportunity of applying a remedy to such a state of things ; but. the consequences of long years of Whig misrule cannot be removed in a week. COURIER.—No further particulars have transpired beyond what we were enabled to communicate yesterday respecting the horrible attempt at assassination in Paris of the Duke of Orleans, or one of his royal brothers who finned part of the cortege entering Paris in triumphal procession with him. But this atrocious event cannot but re-awaken the most painful reflections on the moral and religious state of a country where assassination is reduced to a system, and trained assassins themselves sympathisingly mourned over as'martyrs, when, on pro vidential failure of pistol or dagger, the miscreants are delivered over to the tribunals, and finally condeMned to expiate their sanguinary intents on the scaffold. In re• viewing heretofore on various occasions the official statistics of crime and education in France, we have had occason to show from irrccusable authorities that in pro portion as the modern theories of education without religion have been adopted as the basis of legislation for the instruction of the masses, so also has crime be come rateably on the increase. Of late, indeed, the French Government hare been made pain fully sensible of the fundamental error of their educa tional policy, and have laboured, not without success, to retrace their steps by more specially associating the clergy with the administration of a system which has signally failed in all its promised fruits. Bat the foundation being unsound—the tree being rotten at the core—it were vain to hope by grafting on it more wholesome shoots from a sounder stem to make it bear meet fruit in good season. The whole system requires to be revised and recast, with Christianity not only for its basis, but as the pervading cement of every part of the social structure. With this conviction no one, we believe, is more deeply impressed than that good man and able statesman, M. Guizot himself ; nor is the conviction confined to him alone, for the philosophic mind of France has been irresisti bly impelled to the same conclusions, notwithstanding all the force of former prejudice against what were deemed and treated as monkish superstitions of the olden time. The recent writings of M. Chevalier, one of the ablest and most enlightened men of the age, and peculiarly a creation of the school of La Jenne France, with those of other equally distinguished men who might be named, tend to show how decidedly they have been converted from a cherished attachment to former speculative anti cipations of social perfection to be arrived at by means of a system of popular education based on purely secular principles of ethics or morals. The frightful results de veloped by the official returns of educated and non-edu cated France have produced this change of convictions ; returns which confirm the melancholy truth of the ex traordinary spread of crime following on merely laical instruction. THE LATE FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE IN PICCADILLY. (ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.) About five o'clock on Monday afternoon a large por tion of the wall between the houses Nos. 86 and 87, fell down with a frightful crash, carrying the various floors along with it, but providentally no person was hurt, the fronts still remaininr , up. On Tuesday, it being evident that the front of b No. 86 would soon come down, and probably bring with it the front of Nos. 87 and 88, a hoard was commenced round Nos. 86 and 87, and supports were placed under the bow-windows of the house of Mr. Nixon, No. 88, and under those of the house at the corner of Half Moon-street. About hale past five o'clock in the afternoon a loud crash was sud denly heard, and instantly that part of Piccadilly was en veloped in a dense cloud of dust, from which hundreds of persons might be seen hastening in all directions. On the dust clearing away a little, it was found that the fronts of Nos. 86 and 87 had at last fallen ; fortunately no one had been hurt. Since the adjournment of the inquest it has transpired that the name of the deceased was not William West, but Moses West, in consequence of which some diffi culty has occurred as to the registering of the death, to obviate which an application on the subject has been made to Mr. Higgs, the Deputy-Coroner for ilre:!mitister, who being aware that should it turn out at the conclusion of the inquiry that the fire had not been accidentally occasioned, the misnomer might opentte to the frustration of justice, has issued another warrant in the name of Moses West, and on the Jury re - a ssembling on the adjournm ent da y , the inquisi tion will be again gone through de nave. The body will, therefore, remain at the workhouse in Mount-street, until ugain viewed by the Coroner and Jury. The other unfortunate sufferer, James Weaver, still remains at St. George's Hospital in a most precarious state. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER, SEPT. 14.—There was a decidedly bet terpemand for yarn yesterday than on the preceding Tues day, and though no advance was obtained, prices were tolerably firm. In the goods market there was a tolerable demand for fustians, domestics, and long-cloths; but shirtings and printing cloths continue much depressed. MONDAY, SEPT. 13. BoCHDALE FLANNEI:MARKET, The flannel market continuos good, yet not quite so many pieces have been sold as upon former Mondays. Prices remain still very low. There is no change in the wool market ; yet prices are firm. HUDDERSFIELD ILLIMET, SEPT. 14.—A fair amount of business was done to-day, yot not so much as last week. Nor is there quite so much confidence felt in commercial stability, partly owing_ to numerous failures in most part s o f th e cou ntry, and the foreign demand being on the wane. The principal demand was in middle and low priced woollens and kerseys, In plain superfines there was more animation ; and in light fancy goods, generally, the demand was equal to the season. Prices are firm, and business in the warehouses continues tolerable. Very large supplies of foreign corn are arriving in the ports daily, and it is now reckoned that not less than 1,500,000 qrs., including flour, will be cleared for home consumption before the duty can rite again.— Liverpool Times. SURREY SESSIONS—YEsTERDAY. (11:-fore Mr. ruexi,E and a Bench of Magistrates.) Wit urn DanglZe Ava,: indicted for steaiing, on th 14th August last, 120 pence, 120 halikpenee, and certain quantities of bread and meat, the property of Richard Bashford. Richard Bashford, the prosecutor, is a grocer resin ing at Battersea. On the morning in question he left his house at six o'clock, and returned shortly before seven, when he discovered that two papers of half-pence and certain quantities of bread and meat had been stolen from his cupboard during his absence. On his return home he met the prisoner at a short distance from his house, walking away. Jordan—ls a carpenter, and was at work on the morning in question on the house next to Bashford's, and on looking into Bashford's house, between si and seven o'clock, he saw the prisoner there. He went for a policeman, but Dungate was not taken into custody at that time. He knew the prisoner, for he had been at work with him in the same premises. They had both worked for Mr. Cox. On his cross-examination by Mr. Corner, the witness said that he had on that morning told the prisoner that if he came, on the premises again, Mr. Cox had given orders that he should be taken into custody ; 110 was in consequence of a quarrel which had taken place be tween the prisoner andMr.' Cox. The boy Hutchins was with him at the time. On their way to the Magistrate's at Wandsworth, had had some conversation with the boy Hutchiis on the subject of tho charge; had told him to speak the truth, and had denied before the Magistrates that he had had such conversation, but admitted it now. He had merely asked the boy about the day of the month, which he had-forgotten. Had worked for Mr. Cox fin- three years. Had previously worked for Mr. Spencer. Had left him because he had no more work for him. Had never been accused of stealing tools. Did not say when he heard the prisoner was taken into custody that he was glad to hear it. That he should like to hang him, for he owed him him a grudge. Had never said any thing of the sort. Edward Hutchins, the boy, corroborated the evidence of Jordan in every particular. James Howard, a policeman, was told by Jordan on the morning in question to take the prisoner into cus tody. He saw the prisoner walking away, and missed him at the turning of a lane. The prisoner was walk ing, not running. Police constable M‘Malion took the prisoner into cus tody on the 22d of August. Mr. CORNER addressed the Jury for the pri soner, who had, since this occurrence, enlisted in the Marines ; and on obtaining leave of ab sence from his commanding-of - Hoer at Woolwich, had come back to the neighbourhood•where this had oc currz.,d to see his fattier, which he would certainly not have done had he been guilty of this charge. The Learned Counsel also commented severely en the testi mony of Jordan and Hutchins, and put it to the Jury whether they could convict on such evidence. Several witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent ratter. The CHAIRMAN summed up, and the Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty. IT'Sium Edmonds a little urchin, who was scarcely higher than the bar, was convicted of stealing a cheese. On inquiry, it appeared that although at the time he committed the offence he was in company with a wed known thief, yet he was not known to the police, and that his parents were hard working people. His mother, a respectable-looking woman, was in 'Court, and said she was not aware her son, who she ha) always kept at school until lately, when he had worked with his father, had any bad acquaintances, and that he had been in custody fourteen days before his parents were aware of where he was, during the whole of which time his father had been searching for him. The CHAIRMAN sentenced him to fourteen days' im prisonment in the House of Correction at Brixton, to be kept in solitary confinement the whole time, and to be once privately whipped. Elizabeth Horsley was, indicted for stealing 12 yards of printed calico, the property of Eleanor Williams. The prosecutrix keeps a drapers' . shop in Lambeth walk, and on the night of Saturday, Aug. 21, between the hours of 11 and 12, the shopman of the prosecutrix received information which led him to look outside the door, e hen he observed that a piece of calico, which was ex hibited outside the shop on a chair, was gone. He saw the prisoner walking away; apprehended her, and the calico was found in her possession. The CHAIRMAN, in summing up, commented severely on the imprudent conduct. of drapers in exposing goods outside their shops at so late an hour - as between eleven and twelve at night. - - The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended her to mercy on the ground of the temptation which had been thrown in her way by the imprudence of the pro secutrix in permitting the goods to be exposed in the street at so late an hour. Two previous convictions having been proved against her, she was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with hard lab our. - The Court refused allow the expenses of the pro secution, on the ground that the incautious exposing of goods in the street at so late an hour was holding out too great a temptation to persons in the situation of the prisoner. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A case of very gross immorality was exposed yester day in the Justice-room, before Sir Peter Laurie, who stated that in the whole course of his experience he had never been called to adjudicate under circumstances at all similar to those which were candidly avowed by the two parties who appealed to him for his decision. A man of very decent appearance, named Wm. Wright, who said that he was a yeast-maker, was placed at the bar, with a female infant in his arms, having been taken into custody by a policeman for having stolen the child from a Mrs. Harriet Elphy, the mother. The complainant, a comely well-dressed person, stated that she had been obliged to leave her husband, who had been respectable, but was now a costermonger in the perrywinkle line, on account of ill-treatment. By her husband she had had four children, three of whom were under his protection, and the fourth was under hers, un til the-defendant thought proper to take possession of the little girl, upon the pretence that she was his own child, which the Alderman might be assured was not the case. Sir P. LAURIE—Does he mean that he is the father of the child, you being the mother ? Defendant—Just so, Sir. That's just the case, she is the mother and James is certainly the father. In fact, she gave me up the child herself, and as it is mine, I shall take good care of it. _ _ _ Complainant—l do assure you, Sir P. Laurie, whatever he may think, that he is not the father. My husband is the father of my four children. Sir P. LAURIE (to the woman)—Do you mean to ad mit that this man has had any reason to suppose himself to be the father of this child ? Complainant—Why, he may suppose so to be sure, but I assure you, upon my honour, he's very much mistaken. It is not, nor is any one of my children his, whatever may be his opinion. DefendaPt—Tut, tut ; I've been a much greater fa vourite of hers than her husband has been for the last five years, and its rayther odd that she should deny that lam the father of this baby. As far as matters go, she and I am a greet deal more man and wife than she and her husband are, and no mistake. Complainant—Not now, not now. Tdon't want to have anything to do with you more ; and if my husband pro mises to treat me well, I'll go back and live happily with him. _ Sir PETER LAURIE—I never heard of anything more abominable. Defendant—Correct, Sir ; you're quite correct. Its very bad indeed. Sir •P. LAuntE—Why, woman, is not your husband jealous of this sort of participation ? Defendant—Jeal ous ? Not at all. He knows all about it as well as I (10. Sometimes I lodged with them, and sometimes they lodged with me, but wherever we were there was always a complete correspondence between her and me. Lord bless you, its no use to disguise it. Sir P. LAuftm—Well, you are certainly the most barefaced profligates I ever beheld, both of you. Defendant—You are quite right, Sir, quite correct. I know it. Its all bad as sure as this dear baby is mine. • Complainant—You shall not have it, I tell you. The child is my husband's, I .tell you; and I have often told von so. _ _ Defendant—There, now. Why, your Worship, the reason she wants the child, is because she knows if I keep it I shall never go to see her any more. All she wants is that I should go back to her ; but, as your Worship says, that would be very incorrect, and I'll do nothing of the kind. Sir P. LAURIE—Why, you and she and her husband are not a tittle better than brutes of the field. Defendant—Correct. Sir : you're quite correct, I do assure you. Yon never spoke a more true word. Complainant—Your Worship is not aware that this man, who wants to persuade me that the child is his, is now living with a Mrs. Brown, with whom he has lived at least thirteen or fourteen times. She's here waiting for him. Sir P. LAURIE.--Let Mrs. Brown step forward. Mrs. Brown, a steady, sober-looking woman here made her appearance") Sir P. LAURIE—WeII, Mrs. Brown, do you happen to know that gentleman at the bar with the child in his arms ? Mrs. Brown (looking towards the bar)—Dl) you mean that gentleman, your Lordship? (pointing to the policeman.) Sir P. LAURIE—NO. I mean the gentleman next to him. - Defendant—Yes, yes (to Mrs. Brown). Don't you deny it. Mrs. Brown—Oh, yes, please your Worship, I know Mr. Wright. Sir P. LAURIE—Do you live with him ? Mrs. Brown (evidently shocked)--Live with him !• Oh, tie, no. I hope the good lady as did live with him stint been taking away my character. Sir I'. Lauitir.—She only says that y o u and he now live together as man an d wife, and that you have done so 13 or 14 different times. Defendant—l did not live with her half so often, I'll be on my oath. Mrs. Brown—Your W ors hip, I hope you'll protect me. lam a widow that lives by hard work, and I was ust taking care of th e dear baby for Mr. Wright. I hope the child could not do me any harm. The policeman said that lie apprehen ded the. °defendan at Mrs. Brown's lodgings, t w h ere Wright appea red to be master. Complainant—Please your Worship ho lived with Mrs. B ro wn, as modest as she is, when his ow n wife was alive. I know all about it. Sir P. LAURIE—The defendant must give up the child to the mother, as she desires it, and a worse mother never had a child. I must say that I never beheld more dis gusting profligacy. Defendant (giving the child to the mother)—Correct, Sir, you're quite correct. Its all bad. Now she thinks I'll go back to her because she has got the child, but I never will, and I'll tell her husband so. Sir P. LAunv, that the 'Justice-I - Jura sh:mh.; be cleared as soon as possible of such vermin. Thus the case, which excited great disgust and laughter, t6r- ininated. THE CORN-LAWS AND THE IRON- TR tWV,. The following letter IS --- ii;niSir 3. J. G test, Bart., one of the greatest iron masters in Wales : Sir—l am sorry that I have been prevented, by ab sence from this place from giving an curer answer to your letter of the 4th inst. With respect to the action of the present Corn-laws upon the iron trade, there can be no doubt of their injurious effect. A very large por, tion of the iron manufactured in this country is exported to the United States of 'America, and the present very distressed state of the trade is mainly caused by the diminished export to that country, not only of the raw material, but of the articles of hardware and cutlery— and this state of depression would have been very mutt: obviated if we could have taken from the United States the corn and flour, of which they have much t, spare, in return for our iron and hardware. The pro hibition of their corn in this country has alio had, and • will have, the effect of causing the establishment of iron works aiid other manufactories in their own country, and protecting them by a hi,zher duty on the importa tion of those articles which we have been accustomed to supply them with, and which we refuse to exchange for the corn of which they have a superabundance. 1 should think that the iron trade of this district (of Gla• morgan and Monmouth) employs at least 50,000 per sons, and give; subsistence to 100,000 in addition to that numter of operativ. s. Their wages range from 12s. per av eA (for libourcrs) to 18s. and to 255, for colliers and miners, and for persons employed in the processes of iron making from 20s. to 30s. per week. Boys and women proportion:ably less. I should think that the amount paid in the iron trade of the districts falls little short of from one-and-r•-half million to two millions sterling per annum. lam sorry I have not been able to go More fully into the question, and sincerely hope that your meeting at Manchester may be of service to the cause of humanity, and.remain, yours, faithfury, Rev. C. Thompson. J. JOHN GUEST. I am sorry to say, that at this moment, we have a practical example of the fallacy of the argument of high corn giving high wages, and the reverse. The wages of the neighbourhood have, within the last three months, been reduced 20 per cent., whilst flour has ad vanced from 4e. 8.1. per 281bs. to Gs. Gd. Dowlais, Aug. 14.1841. .1111 t. DAWSON. (From the Devmport Independent.) As soon as the list of Sir It. Peel's Ministry was published, the eves of all Mr. George Robert Dawson's supporters anxiously turned to the office they fondly hoped he was to fill. They could hardly believe their senses when they found his came not there. This was rather curious they thought, but the first draft of a Ministry is. never to he dependei on. A week's exer cise of the virtue of p.ttit.,cce was therefore necessary. and on the appearance of the authentic list, a second scrutiny took place ; ohs! with n) better success than the first. The obtuse faculties of the Tories are slowly end painfully awakened to the fact that the Right Hon. G. R. DAwson is nut a Member of his brother-in-Ws Ministry ! This, as.tlie organ of the party stated on Wednesday, " has very nr,turally excited some sur prise in the borough." If the party posseised the smallest amount of perception, they would have felt no surprise at the circumstance. We stated some months ago our firm persuasion that should Sir lt. Peel obtain power, Mr. Dawson would form no part of his Ministry. Sir George Grey stated the same thing during the last election, and the evert has confirmed it. The Tories of Davonport arc vexed and disappointed for them Mr. Daws. - in might as well not exist et ali as not ba in office ; the " crowning rose" is absent from the Ministerial wreath, and tf:e official list ex= hibits, as we hint above, in the stale of quotation the Right Hon. Gentleman i 3 so fond of— " A gap and vacancy most sorely wept." FLAGRANT DESECRATION OF THE CEREMONIES OF THE ROAIISH CHURCH. (From a French Paper.) On the 28th of July, at about two o'clock, the inha bitants of Tontvannes were surprised, on passing near the church, at hearing chants from the Liturgy sung with a most energetic and extraordinary power of lungs. They at first thought that the curate was going through a sort of rehearsal, but were speedily undeceived. Those whom they found in possession of the church were truly somewhat strange vicegerents. Two men were in the reading-desk, and two more walking to and fro ; they had substituted lot the sacerdotal vestures the cloths of the altar, which were thrown over their shoulders in the form of a surplice. They then— making, instead of the salutations and external signs used in the Catholic ritual, grimaces and ridiculous distortions of countenance— formed in procession, and preceded by a broom instead of a crucifix, they, in this way, marched round the church. After a scandalous ".confessional" scone, in which the priest and the penitents were most grotesquely delineated, and in which the symbol of con fession was represented with mockery and derision, the ' new officiators sprang up, caught hold of the bell-ropes, and, pushing themselves backwards and forwards, they I swung immediately in front of the altar ; the others, displacing the confessional, carried it in triumphal pro cession round the church ; these latter, roaring and singing, broke the chain and the wax taper of the lamp ; the others, breaking to pieces beneath their feet the seat of the curate, male the church the theatre of the most culpable sacrilege and desecration. But the ex cesses of this gang of maniacs did not stop here. One of there, being wounded by too prolonged a swing on the bell-ropes, jumped down, utte lug horrible oaths, and approaching the statue of the Virgin, he ad dressed it in highly' disgusting langu ige, and. finally, gave it a blow on tho cheek. It will hardly be believad, but it is, nevertheless, the fact, that these wretches had not even the mieera bh excuse of intoxication to extenuate their inlaarous conduct ; on the contrary, they acted with calmness, reflection, arid perfect sang livid, and were so we;l aware of the consequences of the unheard-of offences which they were committing, that two of the gang kept " watch and ward" at the door of the church, in order to prevent the apps oach of the curious, as well es to give notice to their companions in case of need. It is impossible to account for the above conduct by alleging the ignorance or stupidity of t hose accused, the latter being, for the most part, inern'oers of effluent fami lies, and of tolerably good education. One of them, Earned Braley, is a professional singer; another, CI eda nor Pernet, has been for some time clerk to a huissier ; and his accomplices are for the most put owners of pro perty, and sons of affluent parents. The eight accused all belong to the commune of Estksac. The prosecution was instituted on the complaint of the assistant-curate of the Church of Fontvannes ; and that worthy. ecclesiastic made his deposition with great calmness, endeavouring to extenuate the revolting con duct of the accused. In spite, however, of. the able addresses of their de fenders, MM. Berthelin and Masson, the accused, upon whom M. Robert (the deputy ;Attorney) slemanded that the severest punishment of the tribunal should be irdlicted, were condemned as follows :—The principal ringleader, Galley, to 40 days' imprisonment, and to a fine of 100 francs; Bra ey, the singer of Estissae, to a month's imprisonment and to a fine of 100 francs ; Cie danor Pernet, the hussier' s clerk, to 20 days' imprsor.- trent and to a fine of 20 francs ; Hoot alias Bidet, and Niels, to 15 days' imprisonment and a fine of 16 francs ; Sutot, Armand, Boutet and Dimanche were discharged. A CORN SHIP STRANDED IN THE RIVER. —On Tuesday considerable excitement prevailed in the river below bridge by a report that the brig Isabella, a Hamburg trader, laden with 1,400 quarters of wheat and a considerable quantity. of wool, had gone ashore near the Shadwell entrance of the London dock, and had be come a wreck. It appears that the Isabella intended to • enter the London Dock and discharge her cargo there, and was to have entered at the lower entrance at Shad well at high water yesterday morning a few minutes be fore one o'clock. The shi p , however, had not arrived on the top of the tide, and the dock-master and the lock men not expectitv her afterwards until the next high wa ter, left the entrance and went home. About an hour after the Isabella arrived off the dock entrance; the tide had then fallen c onsiderably, and, as is usual with ships deeply laden which arrive after the tide has begun to ebb, the plot and men attempted to moor her to the Dolphin, off the dock entrance. By some mismanagement, how ' ever, the ship was suffered. to drift between the Dol phin and the shore, and her heel caught the ground abreast of 'Shadwell Dock Stairs, where there is a causeway for tie use of the ferry. The vessel grounded at this place, and stuck fast, and at low water she was left dry in , a very awkward position, and was very much " hogged" (back thrown up, and her seams opened sufficiently to enable any one to insert their hands in the openings. Her' scams were caulked as well as the exigencies of the accident permitted, and tile Collincrwood steamer was sent for four lighters to keep her afloat on the rising of the tide, in conse quence of her leaky condition, and it was for some time fared she would break up, and become a total wreck. The lighters succeeded in lifting her, and she was taken down to New Crane Dock, about 200 yards above the Shadwell entrance, in the afternoon, with four feet water in her pumps, where she commenced dircharging her cargo into barges alongside. The ship is a perfect wreck, and a great part of her cargo spelled. TEETOTAL LECTURE. — John H ockings, the Birmingham blacksmith, who lately delivered several lectures in this town on total abstinence. delivered the first of another course in the theatre of the Mechanics' Institution, Cooper-street. last evening. He spoke for upwards of an hour and a-half ; and, though an unedu cated man, and, as he himself states, brought up " in the college of drunkenness, where neither grammar nor logic taught," he has evidently a strong and vigorous mind. His manner of treating 4 , tis subject is original ; his illus trations are striking and forcible, and he relates them. with no small degree of piquancy and effect. He was heard throughout with the greatest attention, and was frequently much applaucled.—Ma nch este Guardian. " A short time back," says the Marietta Ant, "the dead body of a man was found in a wood, Nvith the weapon that slew him in his stiffened hand—a rum bottle !" THE EGYPTIAN KITCHEN - FOUR THOIIeAND YEAe S AGO. (From the WasinzinsL.T I?evicte.) Front ti,e various h lichen ut-rnsils and din ler ses siees (some of which are ol elaborate streeture) in the aew Egyptian-room at the Braish Museum, ;t may be Teddy surmised that the culinary art among the Eeyp ians under the e ghteenth Theban dynasty had arrived it a considerable degree of perfection. In effect, by a somparison instituted between these extant relics of the Egyptian kitchen in the above room and the illus trations referring to the same subject, which are placed eefore us in the works of Champollien and Rossellini, we shall be able to arrive at very precise conclusions as .o the entire organization of the culinary department at 'he remote epoch (1800 8.C.) both as to the mode of mounting," as the F; each professionally call it, an Egyptian dinner-table under the Pharaohs, and as to •he ge,neral cultivation of the gastronomic art. From he illustrations it appears, that, to the kitchens of the aoyal and aristocratic class were attache I shambles for .htoghtering and jointing the meat, and poultry-yards, with cages for fattening the poultry. Butchers are Tpressnted alaughtering oxen in the manner usual low, viz., by knocking them on the head with an axe, %rid by bleeding the jugular vein. Assistants are em played •in cutting the meat into joints, while others Ire occupied in carrying the joints so d.vided to the kitchen. In some cases, men are represented selecting the fattest poultry from the poultry-cages, and convey leg then to tte same department. Butchers appear again to he employed in the kitchen for the purpose of turther dissecting the the .t under the superintendence of the "chief bikes." In Resseltni's Civil Monuments of Egypt (plate 83), one of these assistant butchers is sharpening his knife upon a steel suspended from his waist, and which is ex.a tly similar to the steels esia ploy ed at the present time. We believe there is an in strument of this kind among the numerous and curious examples of cutlery preserved in the new Egyptian room. Dwarfs and ridiculously deformed persons are often seen employed in the lower departments of the kitchen, as they were in the time of Roman imperial luxury. In the same plate to which we have referred, a large stove is exhibited, near which a cook is putting a bullock's heart into a cauldron (similer in ferm to the bronze cauldrons with a swing handle in the Egyptian room), while another is adding a joint of ribs of beef. in an adjoining plate cooks are trussing the geese which are brought to them from the fattening cagCs. Two of these assistants arc in the act of boiling geese in a caul- Aron, another is boiling a trussed goose over a grate aid blowing the fire of the stove beneath with a bellows, while a third appears to be salting or spicing seine deli. (racy. The preparations for a great dinner on a sump tuous and extensive scale arc evident from the tomb of Menoptha at Saccareh. Rossellini (page 4, plane 83) represents two cooks occupied, the one in moulding, and the other in baking delicacies of a round and fist form, which, beyond a doubt, represents tartlets or patties, delicacies which seem to have been much in use among • the Egyptians, and for which the modern pastry cooks of Cairo (see " Arabian Nights") are also famous: They appear alter on tables laid out for din ner, intermixed with roast and boiled meats and %nee sables of all descriptions. A pastrycook appears with a tray of these patties on his head, to which the symbol implying the arithmetical number one thousand (orientally, the man of a thousand tarts) is appended, no doubt, a iih a view of signifying the large consump _ tion of his trade. In one instance cooks- are employed in forming dishes, appal estly meet pies, with raised crusts, in the share of aaia als, rams, bullet, and gse• - e, Zee. Two bakers, else attacued to the kitchen depart ment, and under the superilittndence of a chief baker (see Genesis, chap. xl., verses 16 and 17), are working the dough with their feet, and going through the various operateona of bread-making. Loaves of " fancy brawl" subsequently appear in various ornamental shapes, tri angles, squares, circles, &e. Tne hiero e lypilies near them intimate that they are made of barley, wheat, millet, &e., like the cakes still preserved in the Egyptian Room. They are often seen piled in profusion amidst the various dainties of the banquet table. It does nut appear, from the numerous representations of dinner tables, that the Egyptians, at the era above stated, used dinner cloths for the " festive board." Slaves, however, are represented bringing napkins and water in vases to the euests. Ewers and basins for holding water, of elegant construction, appear sometimes on the tables. In one instance supplied by Rossellini, a graceful youth, ornamented with sandals, and iu a . tasteful dress of Greek character (possibly, therefore, a Greek slave), is bringing water to the guests in a golden and highly-or namented basin. He has an elegant ewer of spotted green porcelain slung by a cord to his arm. Knives aid spoons were used, specimens of both 'of which are in the Museum, but no utensils approaching to the form of a fee k. The dishes appear usually to have heen pi!ed confusedly on the table ; and vegetables, roast ducks, fruit, fish, meat, and bread are placed to gether with little arrangement. There are instances, I however, of more regtear distribution. In plate 88 (CAel Monuments of Rossellini) a table appears laid • out systematically with tureens of soup or bailed meat, fish, roasted ducks, vegetables, and fruit ; vases far wine, cups, and goblets are iiitermixed, arid in the midst is an epergne (an ornamented basket of precious metals) with flowers in the fashion of modern banquet tables. Plates and dishes were certainly used by the Egyptians, inasmuch as Rome'- tins exhibits a sideboard with dishes and plates appa rently of pottery, and of an elegant fashion (like some of the Wedgewood ware) arranged upon it. In the new Egyptian room will be found a profuse variety of all the dishes used upon the ordinary Egyptian table ; aid among them are curious chaffing wishes, with a place for a sinall stove fir hot water beneath for keeping the viands hot. Same, of the tureens and covered dishes in that room (which are in pairs) are of exceedingly tasteful form. Tney are usually of pottery or of porcelain. But the golden and jewelled banquet services of the Pharaohs are indeed magnificent in materials, form, and decora tion. The st te of the culinary department of an Egyptian private residence may be gathered from case T, which is filled with bronze vases used for the various purposes of cookery. Some of these resemble stewpans, some the common saucepan, and some large boiler:. Bowls, knives, spoons, and cups appear in cases K, U ,and W. Specimens of the earthenware plates and dishes of this ancient people are to be found in case R. The cases N and Q contain an immense variety of ban queting cups, tureens, and vases in porcelain, glass, earthenware, and alaaaater. Same of them are equally splendid and curious, and worthy of adorning the ban queting tables of the magnificent line of princes who ruled at 'Thebes. THE FINANCES OF TURKEY. The Allgemeine Zeitung of September the B th Con tains the following extract of is letter from Constan tinople, dati'd August the 17th :—" The fieances of the Porte are at presect in a very bad state. Almost all the chests are- empty, acid the civil officers are, for the most part, two or three months in arrear Olte Turks aectibo the great embarrassment entirely end elme to, t he new system of administration introduced by Redschid Paella, not considering that the principle of separating the administrative from the executive po-Ever in the provinces was in itself good and advantageous for th' people, and that it has failed only in its practical application. In this respect three grand mistakes have been committed. In the first place, by far too great a number of officers has to en nppointel. In each province there is a Muhasil (civil governor), who has his vekil (deputy) in every town. These depeties again have sub-deputies in all the smaller towns and villages, so that there is no end to the subdivision of offices. Each of these officials is sur rounded by a horde of seer( tides, bookkeepers, cashiers, and Livasse; (armed men), all of whom rece:ee monthly allowances from the Government. Secondly, the sa laries of these officials are too high. For instance, the defterdar (chief accountant) of the province of Aleppo receives a monthly allowance of 20.000 piastres besides provisions and rations for his horses, Ike. The Musahils have generally from 8,000 to 1 9 ,000 piastres monthly. In the third place, these individuals are, generally speaking, a plundering set, who squeeze all they can out of the people and betray the Government, so that, as .the Turks themselves say, there are no:v some hundreds of tyrants and bloodsuckers in each pro vince instead of only one, which there formerly used to be—namely, the Pacha. That dignitary, instead of drawing a salary from the Government, sent annually large sums to Constantinople, re!aining for himself merely a per centage on the taxes. I shall give an ex ample of the effect of all this. Tile supreme direction of Topehana (artillery) draw the sums requisite for their use from the Pachelic of Kutahia. Not having re ceived any supplies from the civil governor of that pro vince for six months, and finding themselves ingrreai. great ,want of funds, they wrote to Mustap ha Pacha, the n litery governor of the Pachalic. After some delay an answer was receive I from that officer, stating that on a eireul examination of the books of the Muhasil and of his vekil, be had found that the taxes collected for the previous six months bad not been sufficient t i pay the s,d tries of the officers of the Pacha'ic, to several of whom twe or three mo nths' pay was due, notwithstand ing the murmurs of the people against the 111411 taxes arid their forcible c ollection. They are now beginning to think of the means of remedying there abuser, but those means will bc very difficult to find, since the grand evil lies in the bavnese of the great er num b er o f t h e officials. In t he mean tune, the administration of some of the provinces has again been provisionally placed in the hands of the Paci,a.” L E rrif.—The reduction of duty upon wheat, from 6s. Bd. to 2s. Bd., on Saturday last, produced, as might have been expected, great excitement and specu lation here. Merchants whose stacks were low, and those who prefer availing themselves of the present. rate or duty to waiting the chance of it falling to one on Saturday next, were; busy clearing percels from bond the whole of Saturday. The great bulk, however (nearly one hundred thousand quarters), remains, upon the expectation of being relieved at the minimum rate. Seven entire cargoes changed hands on Friday, and every tide is adding to the quantity already in bond. Biiii 3 VlNG INTELLIGENCE. 1 7 P Nri NCT SIJN ___._ (LD)f J'6.) Sroxr,:; WlTlL—llighwl;rtli, of G.-ecnock, or Dein:Tara, 3d lat. 48, lon:2;. 10, bv the Goilie .)org, arrived off th , ver. Ilarrow, Savannah to Malta, 29th ult., off Cape St. Vincent ; Helen Broughton, fa rilauritins, 6th inst., let. 41, long. 4, by tho Adventure, arrived at Plymouth. Sir John Rae Reid, July 17, going into St. Helena ; barque Lavinia, 12th inst., by the Munster Lass, arrived off Falmouth. Horatio, Ply mouth to Quebec, 10th ult, in the Gulf of St. Law rence ; barque Roquee, Neath, 20, lat. 46, lon. 50 ; Reaper, Poole, 7th inst., let. 46, lon. 24, by the John Clifton, arrived in thelliver. Eleanor, Leith to Calcutta, July 27, lat. 7 N., lon. 23 W., by 6%." Herschel, arrived in the River. Thomas Sparks, Liverpool to China, July 9, let. 17 S., lon. 35 W., by the Lu.thania, arrived Off Portland. Pacific (whaler), from Lunch n, .Tuly 24, hit. 36, lon. 13 ; Main, of London, for Port Phillip. 24, lat. 28 S., lon. 31 ; Drusilla, Boston, 'United States, to Boor' bay, 12th ult., lat. 37, lon. 60 ; Pilot, Singapore to Lon don, May 5, in the Strtdts of Banca ; Rapid, Mauritius, July 20, lat. 12, lon. 11 ; Laurel, Clyde to Mauritius, 6th ult., let. 11, long 23 ; Grecian, Hobart Town to London, July 27, let, 40, lon. 33, by the London, ar rived in the Downs. CAIZIAR. AUG. 30.—The Alexander, from Riga to London, got on shore on the Island of Oland, 24th, but came off next morning, and proceeded. CORN AVERAGES GENEItAI, AV ERA (E PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended 5.: 1 4.10, 18.11,,made IT Itom the Hanna et the Inspector: .n the dinerent Cities and Fwwni in Englatp4 and Wales, per imperial Quarter. Wheat 7ls. "d. Oats 3i3. 101. I Rya AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. W.oc Pnding WHEAT. HARLEY.' OATS. I RYE. DEANS. PgA gi" 41 . '44 0 42 1 43 1 41 3 40 S 43 9 4• 4 44 0 4 5 44 8 44 . Aug. 7 ... 7U 5 al 6 ' ..',3 14 2I ... '414 Sept. 3 74 31 1 21 10 9135 ii 6 36 3 7 3l 5I 0 0 1.10 I 6;39 1 • IMPERIAL • AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WFFICS I i Ntwat... ...... 73i. mod. l Oats Rath: y. 373. 61. Rye DUTIIS ON FOREIGN coats. Whcat ls. Od. Oats I Carley 6s. td. Rye THE MA COAL M LRKETS. ARK ET. last market day, 11 Ships arrived since I. 4 Walls End Stewart's Walls End Whitwell Want End Kelloc O3 - Wall: End West Kelloc .• l6 Walls End Adelaide 1:1 Wails End Barret, Walls End Brown's Deanery IS - Walls End Evenwood Walls End Richardsan'ATeesl7 g Vt. ai;: Eta Seymour T.e% l7 „• • Walls End South Durham 1 % r Wal s End 1 ees Blythe l3 41 SouthPelton . Adair's Buddle's West Hartley 6 I.lolywed Ma n l7 0 New 'ramield Moor l5 0 Old Tanli I.i South Hartley Wylam %Nails End .4040 - tn ... Walls End Heaton lB 0 Walls End Killingworth 17 6 W. E. Braddyll's Hettoa 20 0 .End HaTwell. 0 Walls End Hetton l9 9 Wall: End Lamhton Walls End Russell's Hetton L 9 COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. _-~ I'e: re. Wheat. 1 Harley. I Oats. Beans. I.c, re. ......_ .........: Per Quarter. s. to s. a. to .. e. to e. a. to e. s;0 a Moans . draintiee 52 70 27 31 93 29 31 38 35 4. 3 ighton 69 84 128 33 25 28 4L 43 40 4 1 Cambridge — fI. 33 21 40 , Chiche,ter 62 74 30 34 24 29 44 4e ns .' Dunmow 53 61 38 37 23 25 33 37 37 4 " Grantham Grimsby 56 71 29 33 IS 21 36 40 •:,,, Hailsham 63 79 t:6 30 22 25 37 39 24 ." Hitchin ,50 73 28 34 I ‘.:2 30 34 45 --, Ipswich !50 7d 29 : , 5 21 26 37 411 36 ,IL ucwi.'s IC2 6 . 3 '213 19 ‘..,2 25 34 34 3 4 f,',. Lynn ,(3 63 30 34 20 24 •34 :s 34 .' 4taidstone !59 76 :36 • 39 i 26 3.2 38 40 Norwich Pet worth Ro in fo rd Sandwich 62 71 :10 31 28 fin 35 43 33 1 ; Tnettord Wisbcch Witham BO 70 32 37 i 27 31 37 42 31 39 Yarmouth 160 74 30 32 ,24 30 38 40 'U 4d 1 1 11 E BOROUGH MEETING.—DISTRESS A:4F 33 49 35 40 40 41 53 41 37 43 1 7 4 36 36 41 34 S S 3& 3 , 1 40 40 41 S 32 34 41 38 44 37 THE BOROUGH MEETING.—AASTRESS AND TTIE CORN-LAWS.—A preliminary meeting of the sitionists was held yesterday in the Boroughreevc ' room, Town /;all, for the purpose of making the nec3s sary arrangements for the public meeting of the inha't • tants to-morrow, on the subject of the present distress , " state of the population. Ih the absence of the Ma,O r i the chair was taken by Mr. William Rawson. Sev-' r gentlemen were appointed a Committee to 'prepare re solutions, and a Memorial to her Majesty, and thei retired to another room for that purpose. On their rsturn, the resolutions were read, and submitted to the meeting, and, with some verbal alterations, we re unanimously adopted, as was a draught memorial t O her Majesty. The first resolution briefly, yet power fully, described the various- grievous proofs of wide' spread suffering and privation which are visible upon the face of our social condition ; the second, for various. reasons assigned therein, ascribes this state of distress mainly to the evil operation of the corn and provision' laws. The memorial, based upon these resolution s, adverts to the growing convictions of the peopli: throughout the country in favour of the abolition of these restrictive laws, as evinced by the yearly-inere s , g- , ins number of signatures to petition for their rePet: respectfully'directs her Majesty's attention to that s ib nificant sign of the tim'. s, the assemblage of 650 gi n " - ters of the Gospel in solemn conf,rence on the Corn - laws, and their unanimously- declaring those ]aws to be anti-scriptural and unjust; and concludes by praying that her Majesty would be graciously pleased not tO prorogue Parliament until the due deliberation and con sideration shall have been given to those passages in the recent Royal speech having reference to the Corn a. nt Provision lawS.-11:knrkester Guardian. DEFAULTERS.—The Alton Telegraph of the 21st ult. says :—" The suit of the State v. William as one of the Public Works, was tried last week ill the Sangamon Circuit Court, and resulted in a verdict in favour of the State for $lO,OOO and upwards. THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.— We are r 4" que‘tAl to state, that the following interesting 11. works have just been published by Mr. Colburn, Great Marlboro ug'i-Street, and may be had of all book sellers :-1. Exc trsions in Normandy, f oas the JJurna l of a Recent Traveller; edited by F, e lure Shoberl, Esti" 2 vols. small The Midiat d and Southern SP -I ' of E 'gland, by Er. Granville, 2 vols., with 25 i!lustra tions, 18s. bo 1)r. Grranvi.le's Guide to the Spas of Germary, cheaper edition, in 1 thick vol., with map and 30 illustrations, 123. bound.-4. 'Lie Idler , France, by the Countess of Thessington, 2 vols. 8vo , " 5. The Hon. Mrs. Damer's Diary of her Tour in Greece , TO k ,v, Evvpt, and the Holy Laud, 2 vole, small 81')-P with. illustrations.-6. Miss Landon's Life, with Lite" rary lie.nains, edited by Leman Blanchard; Eq., 2 small Bvo.,wit's portrait.-7. The Life of Tetrarch, by Thomas Campbel', Esq., 2 vols. Bvo., with portraits, Sze' _B. Three Years in Persia and Koordistan, by Georg° Fowler, Esq., 2 vole., small Bvo., with illustrations.- -9 ,: Trollope's Summer in Western France, 2 vols. Bvo., v 6 ; 11 • illustrations.-10. The Personal History of George I N by the Rev. G. Croly, 2 vols. small Bvo.-11. The Book without a Name, by Sir Charles and Lady Morgans 2 vols. small Bvo.-12. Swinburne's Letters from th e Courts of Europe, 2 vols. Bvo., With portrait. [ADVERTISENENT.j Ladies travelling, or temporarily subjected to any deviation of equable temperature, will find in nor" land's Kalydor a renovating and refreshing auxiliary'' dispelling the cloud of lagour from the complexion' and immediately affording the pleasing sensation atte nd ' in restored elasticity of skin. The distressing an d unsightly varieties of cutaneous eruptions are also promptly eradicated by the Kalydor. Spots, pimple s ' freckles, discolourations, and Sallowness, yield to it s , specific qualities, and are succeeded by a smoothness anti , transparency of the skin, giving rise to the most plea' I surable sensations. Rlll7 HS. On the 11th inst., at Coanaught•place West, the wife o f %V. Coningham, Esq., of a cLughtet. On the 13th inst., Mrs. Luke James Hansard, of South ampton-street, Bloomsbury-square, of a son. On the 15th inst., the ady of Thomas Brown, Esq., o f CJe brooke-park; Tunbridge- l wells, of a son. On the 15th inst., at Hornsev, Mrs. C. Hitchcock, of a 0 1 ' On the 15th inst., Sirs. J. Si. Lce, of a daughter. On the 15th inst., Sirs. Thomas Maton, of High Holborn/ of a daughter. MARRIED. e S f u o slex, to Emma e t n h t i f s ! On the 7th inst., at St. Pancras New Ch urc h, R o b er t Chat ., field, daughterE sq. , e o t, of W. r ea Derby,th a m House, Esq , snab Ma ria, Regents' urg-street, eg park. On the Bth inst., at Milton, near Gravesend, the Rev. 13° ' water James Vernon, of Wh e atl ey , O xon, to H ar riette AO Mason, only daughter of th e l ate H enry H i rst , E sq . a yit daughterPenson , Vicar of lateof C R l i a e n h fi a e r l d d s , a O m x i e o r n ; E t sz.,ef Catherine, East-hill, t On the 14th inst., a t B amptcn, Oxo n , the Rev. J o hn F wurth, Surrey. of On the 14th i ns t . , at C roy d on, Ed war d Stenning, F! 4 "1" f Godstone, t o E m il y , d aug h ter o f t h e l at e T. H ea d, Eitl" °• Croydon. third On the 14th i ns t., at Paddington Church, James, th e son of J. T. B e tt s , E sq ., o f Cl a pham-common, to Mary , ‘ - ' n YW"anngdes6-•- daughter of Lharles M. Woodycr. Esq., of harrow. road. ur ,, On the 14th inst., at Niintlsich, William Kent, Esq goon, of her 'Majesty's ship L'Aigle, to ( harlotte, elder daughter of Richard Deane, Esq.. 13arbadoes. On the 14th inst , at Boston Church, Edwaid Hodgkins rill Esq.. of Doctors' Commons, and of Kilburn, to Sarah, daughter of William Porter, Esq., of Rochford-tower , coltishire ; and on the same day, Samuel Brandram Hodg, iteo_ son, Esq., of Greetwell, in the county of Lincoln, t o youngest daughter of W. Porter, Esq. On the 14th inst., at H.lmpstead Church, .T. M. Esq., surgeon, or Northampton, to Elizabeth, eldest dau,,hte of S. Wise, Esq., of Hardingstene, in the same county. , s 4, On the 1541 inst., at Christchurch, New ate-street, Geri' , seNind son of J. Parnell, Esq., of Bennett-street, St. James s t and Waltham Abbey, Ei•stx, to Jar:e Alice Malvina, young est daughter of the late W. King, Esq., of Brixton. C Faire..loth; DIED. 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