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I MORNING SUN the )Ir. easy es' ) Cr' ard'' r(114 to ' Roll fA rl ,cOl 0.9v0, e• 0 larg, f5l [-DO :ing! A 9.1 • 0 , an "' 0 o f t : 110 1 0 1 . 0 ed eri o ; Le I , ° t ; 11° 7;g th o di li c i is 5113 ,tate s ' i v - el •enu oto" g reor sylvania, ever waited a day for his interest on the Stocks of either States ? The same interrogatory, in relation to every other State of the twenty-,ix now composing the American Union, must meet with the . same negative response ; except, indeed, in-the cases of Mississippi and Indiana. But in the former of these a Governor, who inculcated the doctrine that the State was not bound to pay its bonds, was severely rebuked by both Houses of his Legislature without distinction of parties. Inability to pay a debt, unexpectedly demanded, not of the - principal debtor, but of his endorser or security— and such is the character of the cases of delinquency referred to—is no evidence of Lad faith; and set down at its full extent, the charge upon the twenty-six States of the American Republic rests on the delinquency of but two, the circumstances of one of which I have related. As to Indiana, I entertain no more doubt of good faith thin I do of that of the Bank of England, which was for many years exempted by an Act of Parliament from the payment of its just debts except in its own de preciated notes, until the rate of exchange between New • York and London fell"froM an advance of 10 per cent. in favour of England to 20 per cent., the exchange of 1812, in favour of the 'United States. Indiana has not paid the interest of this year owing to a blunder in her financial le g islation, w hi c h s h e w ill repa i r at t h e next mee ti ng o f h er Legislatur e . Of the territorial governments of the United States • Florida' is singled out by your " Constant Reader" for special denunciation. Yet when the last Legislature Of that' territory terminated its regular annual session, a case .of delinquency- in the payment of interest on a 'territorial or' Florida bond had not arisen, although 1 . the bondi' of the territory neVer sold originally below, and selling sometimes above par, have been in the Lon don StoCk Market for more than six years, so that divi dends amonnting•to six-and-thirty per cent. have been paid upon a large portion of th6l. A single Florida Bank has circulated more than two millions of territorial' bonds in Europe, on which the annual interests- Mir "been at any time one day in nrrear. - • As to the distinction to which your " Constant Reader" refers, between " Federal and State" jurisdictions in AmeriCa, it . is one little understood, like many other facts g respe c ti n On America, by the British public. it, however, rests the union, the peace, and proba bly, the freedom and happiness of .more than seventeen millions of people—a people speaking the language, copy ing the institutions. civil and religious, cultivating the literature and science; and consuming annually one fourth of the manufactures of England. And, what may make a strong appeal to the " Constant. Reader," who threatens, as men high in authority have done, to em ploy force, as the only instrument competent to correct the " baseness" of America, the exports of this much abused people constitute the chief basis of British manu facturing industry. Allow me to call the attention of all your readers to but a single fact, illustrative of this state ment—a fact supplied me by the late debates of the House of Commons. It is, that the last year's Report of British exports comprehends a value of cotton cloth and yarns little short in amount of sixty-eight millions of pounds sterling. To say nothing of the navigation to which this branch of British exports gave employment, estimate, I pray you, the number of hands it busied, of mouths it fed, and the Sall total of fixed, as well as active capital, of which it paid the annual profit. I will not go after your "Constant Reader" into the merits of M‘Leod's case ; nor determine whether the United States be more to blame for detaining and trying M‘Leod, notwithstanding Mr. Fox's abrupt and laconic demand for his immediate discharge ; or Great Britain, for failing to return any answer whatever to the repeated and civil requests of Mr. Stevenson for satisfaction for the destruction of the Caroline, and the death, not to say murder, of a part of her crew. One fact, hitherto unnoticed or disregarded, I will add to this hastily written letter ; it is, that to destroy the Caroline it was necessary for the military expedition which accompanied that not very glorious achievement, to pass around a British island in the River Niagara, within point-blank cannon-shot of the Canadian shore, whereon were stationed a band of brigandists, who had set at nought the jurisdiction of Great Britain, but whom the authors of that rewarded exploit did not at tempt to disturb. One other fact, pen;nit me to add, that the United States are the only nation on earth who have a law to punish, and that severely too, their own citizens for setting on foot a military expedition against any people with whom they are at peace. For the frequent and open violation of the principle on which this law is founded, let the history of other na tions be consulted. In conclusion, let me tell you that the seeds of ani mosity between England and the United States are widely scattered over both countries, that peace is the interest of both, and no true friend of either can wish its interruption. It is true that the United States, as lately intimated in one of your columns, are not prepared for war. The policy may be questioned at least, whether, situate as they are, remote from Europe, it would be wise in them to incur a great and constant annual expense, to maintain, in time of peace, institutions hostile to the ge nius of their Government and the spirit of the people. But let war come upon them when it may, they will be found not so unprepared as you have supposed. Every man in America is accustomed to the use of a gun ; he needs no drillinc , to make him a good marksman. In courage, the descendants of Great Britain and Ireland emulate their sires ; and there is scarcely a branch of menufactur) which is not now established in America. This sort of industry needs but another war to advance most rapidly towards perfection, and to supplant abroad, when peace shall have returned, the nation least to be benefited by its improvement. A ship, the largest in the world, has long rested under cover of the largest edifice in America, which was ready to be launched on the bosom of Lake Ontario at the close of the war of 1812, when but sixty days old, from the hour at which her keel was laid at Jackett's Harbour. The go-ahead policy of an enterprising people, to which your " Constant Reader" alludes, needed in this instance no aid from British capital ; and will, even in this branch of national defence, soon supply the negligence of peace, and assume the attitude and means of hostile annoyance towards any foe that may wantonly wage war upon them. Forbear, therefore, I pray you, the expe riment of force, which is, at best, but a vulgar instru ment in this philosophic age, and do not fight simply because you are better prepared for battle than your neighbour. A FRIEND OF ENGLAND AND AMERICA LIST GF NEW PATENTS. AUGUST, 1841. Edward Morewood, of Highgate, Middlesex, gentle man, for an improved mode of preserving iron and other metals from oxidation or rust—being a communication. Sealed 27th August—six months for inrolment. Miles Berry, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery lane, Middlesex, civil engineer and patent agent, for cer tain improvements in the means and apparatus for ob taining motive power, and rendering more effective the use of known agents of motion—being a communication. Sealed 27th August—six months for inrolment. Samuel Hardman, of Farnworth, near Bolton, in the county of Lancaster, spindle and fly maker, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for roving and slubbing cotton; and other fibrous substances. Sealed 27th August—six months for inrolment. Thomas Chambers, and Francis Mark Franklin, of Lawrence-lane, London, button-warehousemen, and Charles Rowley, of Birmingham, Warwick, button ma nufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of but tons and fasteniings for wearing apparel. Sealed 27th August--six months for inrolment. A POLITICAL COINCIDENCE.--The new Mi nistry of Sir Robert Peel is but the old Ministry of '34, with some changes of seats, and the introduction of three men who had no confidence in it seven years ago, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, and the Duke of Bucking- Lam, in lieu of Mr. lorries, discarded (though an abler man by far than Mr. Goulburn), Lord Rosslyn, and Mr. A. Baring. am a. PEEL'S MINISTRY IN SIR R. PEEL'S MINISTRY IN 41. Sir R. Peel, First Lord of the Sir R. Peel,' First Lord of the Treasury and - Chancellor of Treasury. the Exch:•quer. Duke of Wellington, Secretary Duke of Wellington, a t• of Stat e f or F ore i gn A ffa i rs w . the Cabinet without tea 1n Mr. Goulburn, S ecre t ary o f Mr. Goulburn, Chancellor . of State for the Home Depart- the Exchequer. meat. Lord Aberdeen, Colonial De- Lord Aberdeen, Secretary of partment. State for Foreign Affairs. Lord Wharneliffe, Lord Privy Lord Wharncliffe, President of Seal. the Council. Lord Ellenborough, President Lord Ellenborongh, President of the Board of Control. of the Board of Control. Sir E. Knatchbull, Paymaster Sir E. Knatchbull, Paymaster- Gere:al. General. Lord Lyndhurst, Chancellor. Lord Lyndhurst, Chancellor. Earl de G re y, Fi rst L or d o f E ar l d e G rey , L or d Lieutenant • the Admiralty. of Ireland. Sir G. Murray, Master-Gene- Sir G. Murray, Master-Gene ral of th e Ordnance. ral of the Ordnance. Lord G. Somerset, Woods and Lord G. Somerset, Duchy of Foresti. Lancaster. Sir H. Hardinge, Secretary Sir H. Hardinge, Secretary at for Ireland. War. —Norwich Express. MRS. RAWLES'S CASE.—ALLEGED CASE Or POISONING AT . N EWPORT.—Mr . Wm. Rawles, Of Newport, having commenced actions against the Coroner and medical advisers who acted in this case, has addressed a • rinted letter to the inhabitants of Newport, and the public generally,' in which his purpose is to disabuse the mind at the public, preliminary to the trial, of the vari .ous insinuations which have got abroad, and which • might prove detrimental to his own interest or that of his nephew's. This, however, the exculpatory verdict of the Jury ought sufficiently to do. The action will be tried at the next Spring Assizes. Lord Western, the veteran Corn•law advocate, and impugner of our Currency system, has published a Supplement to his Letter to Lord John Russell, in which he says—" My opinions I need hardly repeat •, unhesi tating, unshaken, they are formed upon the long and anxious thoughts of many years, after availing myself of the superior information of others ; and convinced I am, that nothing but an alteration in our monetary system can relieve our present distress, or render effective any measures for our future security. That a change ere long must come, I beli eve no man o f re fl ect i on can doubt ; the Rank cannot remain for ev-r subject to perform impossibili ties. Such an alteration of our monetary system as I con template, would be felt only in the relief and benefit of all classes, in the steadiness of the markets, and the security of the merchant and manufacturer. They would be then enabled to rely upon the well-founded calculation of pro bable demand and supply, which at present afford them no protection against loss and failure." DANTZIC, AUGUST 28.—Our wheat market has been very dull this week, because we have a con - 4inuance of fine weather, and the accounts from England are discouraging, THE QUEEN AND THE MINISTE RIAL CONFERENC v: ON THE CORN-LAWS. The Rev. J. W. Massie has supplied us with a copy of the Memorial to the Queen, adopted at the Conference of Ministers, held during last month, in the Town-hall, Manchester, and the answer of her Majesty to the As sembly, through the Marquis of Normanby, which we subjoin : . , TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. May it please your Majesty—We, your Majesty's du ' tiful and loyal subjects, being Christian ministers of all denominations, and from different parts of the United Kingdom, assembled in Manchester on the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th days of August, 1841, " to consider the laws restricting the food of the kingdom," beg permis sion to approach your Majesty with an expression of our sentiments in relation to the momentous subject which has thus brought us together. In craving this indulgence, we beseech your Majesty to believe that we are in fluenced by affectionate veneration for the person, and an ardent attachment to the throne, of your Majesty, as well as by a deep heartfelt interest in the subject itself. Our unceasing prayer to the Supreme Ruler is, that Christianity will continue to smile on your Majesty, your august consort, and your illustrious offspring ; pre serving your Majesty in the uninterrupted enjoyment of health ; surrounding you with all the endearments of domestic life ; and after rendering you, through a long' course of years, a blessing to your people, giving you in the realms of eternal glory a crown that fadeth not • away. Brought by our professional avocations into daily intercourse with the more numerous classes of our fellow-subjects, it is, as it has for some time past been, our painful lot to witness scenes of wide-spread, heart-rending, and ever-deepening distress, arising mainly —as, alas ! is too obvious—from a want of ade quate employ, and a consequent destitution to a very great extent of the' common necessaries of life. In endeavouring to ascertain the cause of this most deplorable state of things, we beg to assure your Ma jesty, that after patient' and dispassionate investigation, we have been constrained to admit the conviction that it is to be found primarily and chiefly in those laws which, by unrighteously interfering with the arrangements of. our beneficent Creator, produce an artificial scarcity of food, impose shackles on trade and commerce, cramp the efforts of industry, and, even where they seem to benefit, occasion only a delusive advantage. Encouraged by the painful solicitude which your Majesty has uniformly manifested for the w e lt-b e i ng o f your subjects, we hum bly yet most earnestly solicit your Majesty's interposi-• tion, so far as it can be constitutionally rendered ; as sured that nothing more becomes the dignity or answers to the office of Princes or Potentates, than an imitation of the Sovereign Haler, who is good to all, and whose tender mercies are over all his works. (THE REPLY.) Whitehall, August 30, 1841. Sir—l have had the honour: to' lay before the Queen the loyal and dutiful address from the Christian:minis ters of various denominations assembled in Manchester; and I have to inform you, that the address was very graciously received by her Majesty. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, Rev. R. Vaughan, D.D., NORMANBY. 1, Holland Park-terrace, Notting-hill, Kensington. The number of ministers who assembled was 645 ; about eighty others had promised, and expected to be present during its deliberationS, but were prevented. Thus seven hundred and twenty -five pastors of churches gave their names as members of the Conference. During the preliminary arrangements, more than seven hundred sent in their approval, and expressed their re gret that they could not attend ; many (nearly one hun dred more) have since signified their concurrence with the views and proceedings of the Conference. Hence we are warranted in stating, that more than fifteen hundred ministers of religion stand personally pledged to carry out the recommendations of the Assemby. But, more over, many of the ministers who were convened were de legated from extensive associations, unions, &c., and were but the representatives of much larger numbers in the country who could not assemble ; the fifteen hundred may therefore be trebled.—Manchester Guardian. THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS AND THE POOR-RATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—Having had my attention lately called to a paragraph in thy journal copied from an Irish paper, in, which it is very erroneously stated that " the Quakers have declared against the payment of the Poor-rates, because they allege that a tax to support the poor is contrary to Scriptural doctrine," I shall be obliged by thy contradicting this statement altogether, as the Mem bers of the Society of Friends have always cheerfully paid the Poor-rates, besides bearing the exclusive charge of maintaining their own poor, who never receive relief from the parish. In confirmation of the foregoing, and in furtherance of the cause of Religious Liberty, I should be obliged by thy giving insertion in thy widely cir culated paper to the following petition to the House of Commons, which embodies the views and feelings of the Society of Friends, both on the duty of relieving the poor and on the importance of guarding against ex clusive and illiberal measures in reference to their reli gious instruction. I am, respectfully, thy friend, 6th of 9th month, 1841. J. H. TO THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. The petition of the undersigned respectfully showeth— That the Christian Society of Friends has now existed nearly two centuries as a distinct religious body. From their rise to the present day they have felt themselves required on conscientious grounds to refuse the payment of tithes, and all other demands of an ecclesiastical cha racter. Political considerations have had no part in this retusal; its sole ground has been the conviction that such imposts are repugnant to the doctrines of the New Tes tament, and to the whole scope and design of the reli gion of Jesus Christ. The open yet patient and peace able maintenonce of this refusal is felt, as it ever has been, to be a matter of conscience with them as a testi mony to the freedom and purity of the ministry of the Gospel, and to the spirituality of the reign of the Messiah. Your Petitioners feel that the appointment of Chap lains of the Established Church to act as the Ministers of the Union Houses under the New Poor-law, and the imposing upon Dissenters of the payment of their sti pends, however small in amount, out of the Poor-rates, are fresh violations of these religious scruples. They consider the appointment as a new addition to the Esta blishment, and the mode of payment as 'a serious in fringement of the rights of conscience. They consider farther, that the regulations and pro visions, in regard to religious care and instruction in the Union Houses, are calculated to favour an exclusive sys tem, alike unjust to the inmates of these houses, and inimical to those great principles of religious liberty, to which it is the firm persuasion of your Petitioners that the prosperity of their beloved country is, under Divine Providence, greatly indebted. And in reference to this part of the subject, they would respectfully express their regret, that other teachers than those of the Established Church are, by some recent re gulations, in danger of being wholly excluded from giving Christian instruction in the Union Houses, ex cept to the inmates of their own religious persuasion in dividually, and to them only when such inmates re quest it. It is in the view of your . Petitioners highly objection able thus extensively to collect a • portion of the com munity in one building, and there 'to restrict the re ligious instruction of them coll ec ti ve l y to a particular class, and refuse admittance to all other Christians, who in love to their Lord and Saviour, and to the souls of their fellow-countrymen, may feel it their duty to ad dress them on the solemn truths of the Gospel and their eternal interest. They are far, indeed, from objecting to the exercise of religious care over the inmates of these houses. But such is the sacred nature of the truths to be conveyed, and such ought to be the religious feelings of the in structor, that they think it derogatory to this high duty to fix that it shall be performed for money. And they further believe, that ,if the instruction be freely conveyed, if it were imparted purely from Christian love to the souls of the hearers, and wholly unconnected with pecuniary emolument, it would be more beneficial in its character, more likely to be blessed in its fruits. Your Petitioners would further submit, that whilst the Boards of Guardians are invested with a controlling power to determine what religiously concerned indi viduals shall be admitted to the Union Houses, and under What regulation s , no practical incon% enience is likely to result from the liberty for which we plead. Many of the members of the Religious Society of Friends h ave b een appo i nte d G uardians under the new law, and h ave cheerfully rendered their a id. Th e So ciety of F r i en d s f eel a lively interest i n th e temporal and tchoemir relief, fort sof an t d theyhepoora.re notT h e They indifferentrea d p a to y a t n h y e r p a t e measures tu f o al r which promotes th moral and religious im • provement of the community. They love their country, and it is their sincere des h re that pure and genuine ,blessed head of may, under and felt, and practised. in the land. the power and authority of moreC Christianity hrs tthe t fthe Church, be more and pyersoevidi g a theireffec effectual er remedy e t d h y e . Your Petitioners in thus e n House of Commons, earnestly conviction that by d o in g may be enabled to devise and desire that Parliament they have adverted and ia s n eines theto Ncychmi%c, so the real welfare of the poor will be best promoted, and the common weal of the country most advanced. f t o h r ey th ask s g k r Signed by us, Members of a Meeting appointed to re present the Society of Friends in England and Vale=, London, the seventeenth day of the third month, on e thousand eight hundred and f orty-one. BY MANY FRIENDS. The above Petition was presented to the House of therton Commons by Joseph Bro , M.P. for S a lf or d , on the 26th of 3d month, 1841. A desperate attempt was made by a man named Robert Fell, who keeps a beer-shop known by the si gn of the Duke of Cambridge, near the Robin Hood-gate, to destroy himself yesterday mornint under rather extraordinary circumstances. It appears that Fell took possession of the beer-shop about a week ago, and he was yesterday morning to have been married at St. George's Church, Ilanover-square ; and an ap pointment was made to meet his intended bride at ten o'clock, and a fly was hired for that purpose. About five o'clock yesterday morning a man named Williams, with whom he slept, heard him get out of bed, and in the course of a few minutes stagger about and fall to the floor. He immediately obtained a light, and he then . discovered the unfortunate man lying upon the ground in a pool of blood, with his throat nearly cut from ear to ear, and a razor by his side. A surgeon arr i v ed, and heimmediately sewed up the wound, but the injury is so great as to preclude any hopes of his recovery. Infor mation was conveyed to the young woman to whom he was to have been married, and her feeling may well be conceived. N . o cause whateve r a pp ears t o b e assigulble for the commission of the desperate act. LITERATURE. THE HISTORY GUERNSE. Longman, Paternoster-row. Guernsey, the chief of the Channel islands, has long stood in need of an historian, and Mr. Duncan, from his long acquaintance with the Norman policy and movements, as also having personal knowledge of most of the leading men in the island, and access to the inedited docu ments and manuscripts which their archives possessed, had advantages at his disposal which have combined towards the pro duction of an authentic and sterling Work. This island appears to have been faithful in its allegiance to the English Crown under all aspects and political changes, from the remote period of its first junction to England, in the person of the Norman William, of whose duchy it formed part. During the various sieges it has undergone, as also the later period of the revolutionary war against France, the privateers of Guernsey were eminently distinguished by the hardihood of their crews, and the rich prizes they captured. Edmund Burk e observed that the Chan nel Islands occupied no mean share in contribu ting to the naval pre-eminence of Great Britain. The present. Carey family, which is now so nu merous and respectable in the island, was planted here in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in the person of a Carey, nearly related to Anna Boleyn, a poor man, but whom the royal favour of the former Queen elevated to a fair standing in the island. They are the only family connected with the Royal blood in the island, and their escutcheons of three roses and a swan-crest be . speak the quartering of their arms with Eliza beths. The internal policy of the island affords some few points worthy of notice, as they differ materially from those of England, some for the better, others for the worse. Among the more objectionable is that of : the prison discipline, which permits the indul gence to the felonry, of daily intercourse with his associates. This non-observance of the " silent system" undoubtedly renders punish ment light, and the object of severity is defeated. Again, in the judicial courts, the method of trial proceeded upon in criminal cases appears open to a host of objections. It is an impossibi lity that a coroner's jury, who act in .con formity to the plan adopted, by which all the preliminary evidence and factS of the case are gone into, before the prisoner or his counsel are permitted to appear or state their case,, can come into Court, on the day of trial, with unprejudiced minds. This unfairness to wards the prisoner has been long acknowledged, but no reformatory measures have been taken. Tlie " Small-farm system" is, perhaps, one of the Most pleasing features of the island, as it bears upon the peculiar relation of landlord and tenant, especially appertaining; to Guernsey. To enter into a discussion of the nature of this tenure of property would far exceed our limits ; but it appears to be productive of such reciprocal ad vantages to both parties, and experience', has proved it to generate so excellent a system of in dustry, content, . and economy, that our author earnestly urges its adoption -r Ireland, stead fastly believing that if actet.Tpon there, an Irish acre would yield comfortable subsistence to five fold its present number of persons, the ratio al lotted to the same surface of ground in Guernsey. HISTORY OF THE IRON TRADE. Smith and Eller, London, 1841. To practical men, and those who take an interest in the subject, this history of he ironitrade through out the world, from the earliest records to the present period, will present many points of at traction, for it is the carefully digested pro duction of a gentleman who shows in every page that he is perfectly familiar with his subject, and who treats it accordingly 'in a succinct and luminous manner. The design of his work is—as he assures us in the introduc tion—to report from researches into ancient and later writers what they have noticed of impor tance relative to the history of iron—a design which he has worked out in detail and with much skill. THE PORCELAIN TOWER. Bentley, London, 1841. The majority of these stories have already ap peared from time to time in the - pages of Bent ley's popular Miscellany, where they attracted so much attention as to have been deemed worthy of re-publication. They are mostly narratives, founded on Chinese habits and legends; are re plete with arch drollery, and are illustrated in a kindred spirit by Leech. A more humorous or entertaining little volume has not appeared this season. DIBRIN'S SONGS. Part I. How and Parsons, London, 1841. The day of Dibdin's popularity is, we appre hend, fast passing away. He was perhaps the most successful ballad-writer of his time; but that time was one of mediocrity, when a very litte poetic talent went a great way, and made a very effective show. His happiest efforts were his sea songs, which were sung with enthu siasm by the blue-jackets, and possess a cer tain rough cordiality of manner and homeliness of sentiment, every way calculated to recommend them to the favour of those to whose sympathies and prejudices they appealed. But their great defect is, that they inculcate the blindest and unhesitating submission to authority, under every possible circumstance. They impress upon the sailor the fact that he is to consider himself a mere machine, incapable of thinking or judg ing for himself. He is to have no feeling of his own, but such as his Sovereign may be pleased to patronize. "God save the King!" is to be the alpha and omega of his thoughts—the sole prompter.of his actions; and next to this, he is to cherish a deep-rooted hatred and contempt of the French, as though they are his natural enemies, whom it is an act of insanity to attempt to conciliate. These sentiments suited the time at which Dibdin wrote, when the nation was in a perfect ferment respecting French revolution and French in vasion ; but they now wear an aspect of the most absurd exaggeration; and are only worth preserving as a curious record of the sympathies and prejudices of a past age. Dibdues sea-songs, though they may tend to make a sailor a more exemplary machine, -and raise his feelings of loyalty up to fever-point, will never strengthen and enable his sense of morality, or exalt him in the scale of thinkingbeings. EXCURSIONS IN NORMANDY. 2 Vds. album, London, 1841. Normandy has bee n o f late years quite the rage with English tourists, as much so as even the Rhine or the Genevese Alps, and numerous are the volumes of travels we have perused on the subject. To say nothing of Landscape An nuals devoted to illustrating the scenic beauties, antiquities, &c., of this fine French pro vince, we have had Mrs. Trollope lavishing encomiums on it to the extent of two volumes; Miss Costello raking up all its wild legends and spperstitions ; Mr. Tolfrey dwelling with rapture on its various sporting capabilities; and now comes Mr. Shoberl, with a series of sketches descriptive of the characters, manners, customs, &c., of the Normans, as also of their arts, sciences, manufactures, scenery, and history. This work takes a wide range; and it is but justice to add, that it does well what it professes to do. After devoting an introductory chapter to a brief digest of the history of Normandy, and to some details respecting its wealth in natural produc tions, the author proceeds to describe the well known sea-port of Havre, of whose commercial im portance he speaks highly, observing that "nearly one-fourth in amount, and nearly one-third in total value, of all the goods circulated in France pass through the town." He adds that the mercantile class of Havre in general espouse the principles of free trade; and though in every political struggle they have shown themselves decided partizans of the juste milieu, yet on all commer cial questions they are real Jacobins, who cannot endure any monopolies or privileges, no matter whether belonging to nobility or bourgeoisie. Dieppe our author describes as being during the season " one of the pleasantest sea-bathing places in Europe," and states that it owes its celebrity to the Duchess of Bern, who for years visited it annually up to the period of the revolution of 1830. In describing Rouen, the name and deeds of Joan of Arc of course occur to the author's recollection, and he expresses great indignation "at the manner in which both French and English have treated the Maid of Orleans, and even her memory. The house in which she was born," he says, "has been turned into a cow-house ; the tower, where she was confined, has been,ptaled down ; and it has been deemed superadous to erect a monument for her, either where she lived or where she died." We close our hasty notice by one or two anecdotes of sea-bathing. at Havre : Men and women bathe here together, and I really cannot see that there is anything objectionable in this practice. The women wear bathing dresses of the most modest fashion, to which a ball-dress is absolute nudity. e a u r s v t e ri u n t g, a a h e s n h uyuolud enri,ayaupderltihapesfusiere u t ‘ l ‘ i , e ue b r e , au u - f Sometimes the pl ay f u l waves will draw out a pin, or untie tifu course, blushes, as though she did not expose a great deal more to every eye when fashion pleases to command her. From my own experience on several occasions, I have found that the bathing together of the sexes was a lucky circumstance. The sea is at all times treacherous. During the ebb, it always draws you away to a distance, and you have great difficulty to reach the shore again, when you have ventu re d out too far. One day, a beau tiful English woman, too confident in the dominion which her country assumes over this element, had swum THE SUN, LONDON. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEIVMER 8, 1841. to some distance in the sea, and 'when she attempted - to return, her strength soon failed her in the unwonted exertion. Her cry for help made such an impression on the ladies present, that they immediately hurried out of the water, to watch in safety from the shore the tragic event that was preparing, while others loudly echoed her call. Two young men, the only swimmers present, who were already in their machines, sallied forth instanta neously, plunged into the water, and in a few minutes brought the fair stranger, half dead with fright, if no thing else, in triumph to the shore. On the following day, one of these two, a friend of mine, had •the good fortune to save three ladies at once. This time it was flood. tide, which is mischievous too, and was trying whether it could succeed better in catching its prey than the ebb had done the day before. At the place where the flood has reached its highest point, it generally scoops out the ground to the depth of some feet. Be yond this hollow commences the level sandy beach, which I have described above. On that day, three young ladies had been bathing quietly on this plain, while the flood was gradually rising. When they attempted to return to•the shore, the water in this hollow was above their heads, and cut off their retreat. The nearer they approached the shore, the deeper the water became. Cries of distress were their only resource. The ladies on the shore ran, in their alarm, to and fro, aad the cry for help, echoed from every mouth, was all the assist ance they emild afford. My friend came up just at this moment, and if,' on the preceding day, he had forgotten to put on his bathing draw e r s , he had now forgotten to fling off the gown, plunged into the sea, and brought to shore the three females, who had already lost their foot ing when he reached them. A few seconds later, and they must have perished. On account of such accidents, let men and women continue to bathe together, as they have hitherto done. SACK.—In the reign of Elizabeth, and down to the end of the 17th Century, our forefathers appear to have been fond of sweet and spiced wines, as the name of sack for the sweet wines of that period sufficiently cotes. Shakspeare frequently mentions sack and mulled sack in many of his plays, and he makes Falstaff call for burnt sack. Sack is not found mentioned in the Percy Household Book. That sack was an artificial liquor, and made of various sweet wines, like punch of the present day, made of various spirits, is evident ; as we say sometimes now rum punch, whisky punch, rack punch, as specifying the particUlar spirit of which it is made ; so our ancestors said of sack ; sometimes it was simply Mentioned as sack, at others sherry-sack, Malaga-sack, Canary-sack. The following passage inserted in " Poor Robin's Almanack for 1685," gives the' names of different kinds :—"All these liquors come far short of the praise of sack, whether it be Castilian, Canary, Iberian, Sher rian, Mallagonion, Robolonian, Robdanian, Peterseman tan, or by what other name or title soever dignified or distinguished." Our ancestors liked wines sweet (whence the name sack, froth the . Latin sacCharum, Greek sac 'Aaron, sugar ) and spi c ed. " Let rich men," says Pnor Robin, " ink burnt claret, mulled sack, sherry, old Malaga, tent, ippocras, .and burnt brandy." A HARD CASE.—In the course of last week some poor men, at some risk to themselves, dragged from the river a young woman who had attempted to commit suicide. She was taken before an Alderman, and at the conclusion of her examination the poor men applied for some remuneration. With an air of lofty virtue, the Magistrate replied, that he supposed any one would save fellow -creature without reward. That may be true but these poor men had spoiled their apparel ; this was pointed out, and 4s. from the poor-box was given to the men. Now the writer of this does not blame the Alder man, though irthat high functionary had given a pound from his 'own purse, instead of 4s: from the poor-box, it would have looked quite as well ; but he does consider.. it a national disgrace that there is no fund for the re ward of the acts of heroism occasionally performed by very poor peOple. We reward people who fight— though they do it quite literally as a trade—though they are in number immense ; surely the nation would not ill spend the few pounds which would reward the comparatively numerous indeed, but, as to possible ex pense to be incurred, limited Cases of this sort. In France these poor men would have had a cross of honour ; here they exchange decent clothes for 4s. and some prosy aldermanics on the benevolent duties of men. ATTORNEYS TO WlT.—The Master of the Rolls,.Lord Langdale, has laid on the table of the House of Lords "A Bill for consolidating and amending the laws relating to attorneys and solicitors practising in England and Wales." It is a rather lengthy affair, consisting of upwards of 50 clauses, the first clause re pealing wholly or in part nearly 30 Acts of Parliament, passed since the time of Edward 11., and two even so recent as the reign of her present Majesty, to regulate and control those agents of all that is legal. It requires that no attorney shall have at one time more than two articled clerks, nor take in any until he have been in practice five years ' • that clerks be bound for five years, and are re quired to be actually serving during that period, though they may be one year with a barrister or special pleader, and one year with a London agent ; that " persons ap plying for admission as attorneys be examined by the judges or persons authorised by them as to fitness and capacity ; " that persons practising without certificates be incapable of recovering fees ; that attorneys who are " prisoners" be not allowed to commence or defend suits; that attorneys be incapacitated from becoming justices of the peace ; that unqualified persons be prohibited from acting in the county courts; that attorneys be not allowed to commence an action for fees, till " one month after delivery of their bills of costs ;" that such bills, whether paid or not, be subject to taxation; that attorneys be en abled " to take securities for costs," &c. THE WEATHER.—THUNDER STORM.—On Friday evening the metropolis and the neighbourhood for miles around was visited by . a very severe storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by very heavy rain, which lasted upwards of an hour. From the morning the atmosphere was much clouded, with the wind south west. Towards noon it became almost a perfect calm and very sultry, which continued through the afternoon. About two o'clock there was a heavy shower of rain, ac companied by vivid lightning ' which was, however, of but short duration. Ab ou t four o'clock there was another smart shower, from which time the atmosphere began to thicken, until about six o'clock, when it had assumed the appearance of a dense fog coming on, which increased until about half-past six o'clock, and the storm suddenly burst forth with great violence, proceeding ap parently from south to north, the rain descending in torrents, the lightning being of the description called ' forked, and very vivid. A few minutes after the storm commenced the wind suddenly shifted to the north, and from thence to the east, from which quarter it blew strorgly, which tended greatly to disperse the densely charged clouds and lessen the violence of the storm. We have not heard of any serious damage having been done, although we have heard of persons of both sexes having been slightly struck by the electric fluid. ANDERSTON.—:AboIIt twenty years ago one thousand hand-looms were employed in this district. By a recent survey by Captain Wilson, only 209 were found in the entire burgh ! and of these 26 were without webs. Glisgow Argus. Some alarm was created in the establishment of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at Bushy House, on Friday last, by the discovery of the dead body of an infant, under circumstances tending to induce a suspicion that it had come to its death by unfair means. On the day in question one of the domestics saw some appear ances in one of the water-closets that induced him to obtain assistance, and ultimately the dead body of an in fant was removed from the soil. A young female, who had been acting in the capacity of laundry-maid, named Sophia Thorpe, was taken into custody on suspicion, and was conveyed to the station at Kingston upon the charge. On Monday a Jury was empanelled before the Coroner for this division of the county, but the Jury, after a somewhat lengthened inquiry, returned a verdict that the deceased child was found dead, but that there was no evidence before them to show by what means it had come by its death, or who was its mother. The young woman was the same afternoon taken before Mr. Carpenter, a Magistrate, at Sunbury, where a further inquiry took place, the result of which was that the ac cused was set at liberty. . . _ The greatest blots, however, upon the Peel Go vernment are the renegades Stanley and Graham. At one period of his life the latter went far beyond the ma jority of the Reform party in Parliament in the ultra libe rality of the opinions which he promulgated, and of late years he has shown himself one of the bitterest foes to the progress of Reform. Lord Stanley, a member of that Ad ministration which brought forward the great measure of Parliamentary Reform, is now the colleague of:the same Sir Robert Peel, who declared' of the Reforth Bill, in 1832, that " Time and good 'patience may reconcile me to physical pain or moral danger, but to this measure I never can become reconciled. The more I consi der it, the more I am satisfied of its dangerous and mis • chievous character." The new Colonial Minister suc ceeds to the seals held by the foremost member of the late Cabinet, and it is greatly to be feared that the mo dern Hotspur, the author of the Bill fur coercing Ireland, will make sad havoc with those great interests so zeal ously watched over by Lord John RusSell.—GLlsgoic Argus. The worst feature in the new Administration is the prominent place given in it to the, avowed. enemies of commercial freedom. What reasonable groUnds can any one have to hope for a real improvement in the Corn-laws with such men as the Duke of Buckingham 'and Sir Edward Knatchbull in the Cabinet? or, for a relaxation in the sugar and other colonial monopolies with Mr. W. E. Gladstone virtually at the head of the Board of Trade. Unless they _ are prepared to surren der their past opinions to preserve their places, which there is no reason to believe, their appointments must of corn and b su e g e a o r n , s t i l e i l a e t re n d o nothing n p g l eedffeecst tou mi t hsehtinf) tllb a9 e l) (l ° O li n s e ts tq deliver the trade and commerce of the country from the ,-evils which are filling the Gukette with baukr u pt ep pd" the country with wretchednesS.—Liverpool, ' EXTRAORDINARY INVESTIGA'TION'AT NEW . CASTLE-UNDRR - LYNE. — ApULTERATION OF FLOUR BY MiLLEns.—Great excitement hasprevailed in Newcastle under-Lyne for the past week "in consequence of the seizure of a number of sacks containing a mixture re sembling flour, which popular report represented to be plaster of Paris, on the premises of the Union Mill Com pany in that town. An investigation of the affair took place on Tuesday, at the Town-hall, before 1 two county Magistrates, and excited an extraordinary I interest among the populace, who crowded into the hall I in a most unequivocal state of indignation and excitement. A circumstance that added great gusto to affairs in the opinion of the people, was that the chief Magistrate of the borough, the Mayor of Newcastle, was one of the mill owners implicated in the charge. It appeared that Mr. Cottril, the vigilant head police-officer at Newcastle, found a cart belonging to the Union Mill standing at Copeland's door. Ten sacks, apparently of flour, were I put into the cart, and conveyed to the Union Mill, but I upon its arrival there the suspe:_qed cargo was seized by the police, the bags weighing 23 cwt. A portion of the contents of the sacks was then taken out, and analysed, by Ml 4 `. Jones, chemist, of Hanley, who declared tti , the Magistrates his opinion , that the substance in the bags was sulphate of lime. Upon being burnt and mixed with water, it became solid, exactly like plaister of Paris: There was but a Very ; slight mixture of vegetable matter in it. Mr. Bull, one of the Union Mill Company, in answer to the charge, said he would take all the blame, if there were any, on his own shoulders. He then pro ceeded with a statement that he had been in want of pig meat, that Copeland had been recommended to him by a respectable miller at Madely, but it appeared from the Magistrates' questions that Mr. Hill, in the course of his business, had never met with pig meat of a like descrip tion before, that manufactured by the millers being fine bran, the refuse of flour. The charge of having a mix ture on the premises, seemingly for the purpose of mixing with flour, was considered by the Magistrates to be made out, and the defendants, Messrs. R. Bull, T. Turner, and R Mayer, were fined IC/. with costs. There was also a charge against another flout-dealer, named Beardsmore, whose cart had , been often seen by the officer at Cope land's door by four o'clock in the morning. ThiS per son acknowledged having made pretty ex tetAive use of Copeland's precious composition, but stated that on finding its deleterious effects he had burned what he had not sold, and endeavoured to get back from his customers what was not consumed. The Magistrates, taking into consideration this acknowledgement of the defendant, fined him in the mitigated penalty of 31. 6s. Bd. When the defendants left the Court they were assailed by the populace with loud threats, and even by showers of stones, and had to be escorted out of the town by the police.--Liverpool Times. THE HUMAN PANORAMA.—Mankind moves onward through the night of time like a procession of torch-bearers, and words are the lights which the gene rations carry. By means of these they kindle abiding lamps beside the track which they have passed, and some of these, like the stars, shall shine for ever and ever. The villages throughout Renfrewshire are now suffering to almost as great an extent as Paisley. In Johnstone, where there are 15 or 16 public works, only four are at present in operation.—Glisgow Argus. During the storm of thunder and lightning, on Friday afternoon, a man named Suckling fell down at Roxwell, and was taken up lifeless ; and a labouring man, at Hatfield Peverel, in the employ of Mr. Ellis, was struck senseless to the ground, but he soon after reco v a-ed.—Essex Herald. A BEACON. ON BEMER ROCK.—Scaffolding is at present erecting for placing a beacon on this rock. The builder is, we believe, the well-known Mr. King horn. Certainly there is not in the whole Frith any which stands more in need of something to warn the mariner of its proximity, as within but a few years eight or ten vessels have gone upon it, suffering much damage. —Edinburgh Courant. SINGULAR CHARACTERS.—AIderman New man, who had scraped together. out of the grocery line, sixty thousand pounds, enjoyed no greater luxury, the last three years of his life, than to repair daily to the shop, and, precisely as the clock struck two (the good old-fashioned hour of city dining), eat his mutton with his successors. The late Thomas Rippon, chief cashier of the Bank of England, was a singular oddity. Once only in a service of fifty years did he venture to ask fur a fortnight's holiday. He left town ; but after three days' unhappy ramble through beautiful green fields, he grew moping, and prematurely returned to the blissful regions of 'l'hr.'adneelle-street, to die at his desk. SEA WALL AT EXMOUTH.—At an early hour on Monday morning last the good folks of Exmouth Were awakened from their slumbers by the roar of can ' non and the enlivening airs of their own excellent band of music, which gave note of preparation for the ap proaching ceremony of laying the foundation •stone of the great sea wall lately commenced at that place, and which is to be built at the expense of the Right Hon. Lord Rolle. The influx of visitors was very great. At eleven o'clock a respectable and extensive procession was formed, consisting of the Masonic brethren, Union, Humane, and Samaritan Clubs, United Brethren, Friendly and Temperance Societies, and the children of the National and other Schools ; each Society bearing its various ban ners, the whole being preceded by a band, constables with staves, sergeants of the Royal Devon Cavalry, &c. &c. After having perambulated the town, it proceeded to the works, where it was met by 11. James, Esq., of Exeter, who, in the absence of Lord and Lady Rolle (now in London), delivered an animated and appropriate address, and the stone was laid amidst the firing of can non, the cheers of the people, the enlivening airs of the musicians, and the mysterious finger movements of the Masonic brethren.— Western Times. A FRENCH FRIGATE AT CRONSTADT.— The Danae frigate, which is to bring back to France Baron de Barante, entered Cronstadt on the 12th ult. This is the first time for 17 years that a French man-of war has been seen here. She was hailed with acclama tion by the populace.and by the authorities. Her Cap tain, M. 011ivier, and some of the officers, were pre sented to the Emperor, who invited them to dinner, as also the Ambassador and Ambassadress of France, and treated them with marked distinction. Next day the Emperor went to Cronstadt, taking Captain 011ivier with him. He showed him the port, a new fort in construc tion, and a division of the fleet. When his Imperial Majesty passed by the Danae, the second in command hoisted the Imperial standard, and fired a salute of forty guns; the whole crew were in full dress. Prince Mentschi koff, Minister of Marine, twice went over the vessel, and examined all her details with the greatest attention, ad dressing several questions to the officers, whose know ledge and capacity produced on him, as he said, the most favourable impression. On leaving the frigate he re turned the salute and hoisted the French flag. Two officers of the Russian navy, the Emperor's Ades-de- Camp, the Grand Master of the Horse, Prince Dolgo roucky, and other distinguished personages also came on board. Next day the Grand Duke Constantine, the Emperor's second son and Grand Admiral of Russia, was brought on board by his tutor, Admiral Lutke. On the 21st M. de Barante embarked, and a few hours after wards the frigate set sail for France. She will cast anchor fur a few dayS at Copenhagen.—Moniteur of Sunday. A few days ago a man, dressed as a waggoner, having a whip in his hand, applied to a money changer, in the Cloitre St. Honore, for change of a 500 f. note of the Bank of France. The money-changer, perceiv ing that although the note was genuine, the vignettes had been removed and re-pasted on other paper, re quested the man to go with him to the Bank, to have the note examined, to which he consented with apparent cheerfulness: At the Bank he was interrogated by Count d'Argout, the Governor, and stated that he had received the note from a person who had it from a dis counter in the Rue Gadot Mauroy. As this was found to be untrue, further inquiries were set on foot, the man being in custody all the time, and it was soon ascer tained that his name was Adelaine, formerly a book binder in Paris, who had lately disappeared from Ar pajon and Lonjumeau to escape from his creditors. With some difficulty his lodging was discovered to be in the Rue des Carmes, and here were found convincing proofs of the fraudulent operations which he had been carrying on. It appears that, after long study as to the mechanism of the Bank of France, Adelaine had con ceived the idea of splitting them in two, and transferring, by means of ink, essences, acids, a press, &c., the im pression of the vignettes from the front of the note, upon the divided paper, thus making two notes out of one. Although Adelaine, when detected, wore the dress of a. waggoner, as we said above, a rich and elegant ward robe was found at his lodgings, as also many articles of jewellery, works of art, albums, &c., and a curious cor respondence with some gamblers at Baden-Baden, with a drawing, on large paper, of gaining-tables and the cy linder of the roulette, on which he was apparently study ing some combinations, as was done by M. de Labour donnaye, in his games of chess with England, Germany, and India. After these discoveries Adelaine was handed over to the Procureur du Roi. " Two days ago," says the Moniteur Parisien, " the owner of a hotel in the Rue du Bouloi had removed to the Hopital de la Charite, Madame Rey, an actrice of talent, who was found in a dying state on the floor of a small room, which she occupied in the hotel. This lady had been reduced by the backruptcy, or breach of con tract, of some managers with whom she had engagements, to a state of destitution, and was too high-minded to so licit charity. When her removal to the hospital became known, several persons came forward to assist her, but it was too late, as she expired almost immediately." A suicide of an extraordinary nature took place at Coignieres, in the Seine-et-Oise, a few days since. A peasant, who had been accused unjustly of getting his livelihood by poaching, was so Much depressed in spirits by the imputation, that he went into the middle of a wood, got on a pile of about 400 faggots, and then set ting it on fire, allowed himself to perish in the flames. On the inhabitants coming to the spot, alarmed by the conflagration, they found a letter near the pile, explain ing the man's intention, and stating that it was not true that he was a poacher,—that he found he could not fol low the line he wished, and that he preferred death ; but adding that he was not poor, for he had left 600 francs to his widow. On the fire subsiding, a black shapeless mass in the middle of the ashes confirmed the indications of the letter.• The Mayor drew up a certifi cate of his opinion that the poor man had been deranged, and, on the presentation of this document, the cure of the parish gave his remains Christian burial. The Gazette des Tribunaux gives the following account of a shocking murder and suicide at Mortagne, in the department of the Orne, on the 29th ult. :—" A female named Vallorey, who had been living for three years at l'Aigle, as the mistress of a married man, the father of three children, at length quitted him and came to Mortagne. The man, whose name was Gorman, fol lowed her, and an apparent reconciliation being effected, he went to sleep at a house of bad fame in which she re sided. In the course of the evening screams were heard, and the Commissary of Police, who was by chancepass ing the house, saw the woman rush forth streaming with blood. She had no sooner reached the street than"she fell dead, having received a stab with a knife, which passed through the body to the back. The Commissary having entered the house, found the assassin, Gorman, weltering in his blood, and insensible from the wounds he had inflicted on himself. On the following morning Gorman was for a moment able to speak, and inquired whether the woman was dead? On being answered in the affirmative, he smiled with satisfaction, and almost im mediately afterwards died." Last April the diligence between Rochechouart and Limoges, when conveying a number of witnesses to appear on a trial to come on before the court at Limoges, was overturned, as we stated at the time, and many of the passengers were more or less seriously injured. All arrangements for a compromise having failed, actions were brought against M. Penicaud, the propeietor of the diligence, and the following sums have been awarded to be paid by him for the damages occasioned. The list is curious: for a broken thigh, 3,300 f.; a bruise on the abdomen, 800 f.; a wound in the head, 600 f.; the entire loss of a nose, 4,500 f; a bfoken rib, 1,000 f.; a broken shoulder, 1,0001.; a rupture, 2,000 f.; a wound in the head, 600 f. ; a contusion, 500 f.; ditto, 400 f. ; total, 14,7001. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, SEPT. 3, 1841. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Honour able the Earl of Liverpool, Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household, vice the Right Honourable the Earl of Erroll, K. T. resigned. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, AUG. 12. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Eleanor Stanley to be one of the Maids of Honour in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of the Hon. Harriet Elizabeth Pitt. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 4. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting to the Right Honourable Henry Goulburn the offices of Chancellor and Under Treasurer of her Majesty's Exchequer. The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, ap pointing the Right Honourable Edward Lord Ellenborough her Majesty's Commissioner for the Affairs of India. The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, ap pointing the Right Hon. George Earl of Jersey to be Master of the Horse to her Majesty. The Queen has also been pleased to constitute and appoint Maj ,r-General the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, K.C.8., to be her Majesty's Secretary at War. The Queen Ills also been pleased to grant the office of her Majesty's Advocate for Scotland to the Right Hon. Sir William Rae, Bart. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 6. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, constituting and appointing the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart. ; the Right Honourable Henry Goulburn ; James Mines Gaskell, Esq. ; Henry Bing ham Baring, Esq. ; Alexander Perceval, Esq. ; and Alex ander Pringle, Esq., to be Commissioners for executing the offices of 'treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland. The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, con stituting and appointing the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Haddington ; the Right Honourable Sir George Cock burn, G.C.8., Admiral of the White Squadron of her Ma jesty's Fleet; Sir William Hall Gage, Kat. ' Vice-Admiral of the White Squadron of her Majesty's Fleet ; Sir George Fran cis Seymour, Knt., Captain in her Majesty's Navy; the Ho nourable William Gordon, Captain in her Majesty's Navy ; and the Right Honourable Henry Thomas Lowry Corry, to be her Majesty's Commissioners for executing the office of High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dominions, islands, and territories thereunto belonging. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 6. The Queen has been pleased to order a writ to be issued under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for summoning the Right Hon. William Lowther (commonly called Viscount Lowther), to the House of Peers, by the stile and title of Baron Lowther, of %Vhitehaven, in the county of Cumberland. WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 7. 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. C. H. Key , from the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Ede, who ex changes, Sept. 7. Ist Regiment of Dragoons—Cornet C. C. W. Sibthorp to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Field, who retires; Ensign R. C. Noake, from the West India Regiment, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Sibthorp; Cornet R. C. Noake to be Ad jutant, vice Ficli, who resigns. 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. W. C. Forrest to be Captain, by purchase, vice Levett, who retires; Cornet B. Harrison to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Forrest, Sept. 7. 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. S. L. Horton, from the 49th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Peter son, who retires, Sept. 7. 15th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. G. A. Ede, from 2d Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Key, who exchanges, Sept. - 7. Ist Regiment of Foot—G. G. Carlyon, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wasp, appointed to the 43d Foot, Sept. 7. 20th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel C. Stisted, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice H. Thomas, who exchanges, receiving the difference; Major W. N. Hutchin son to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Stisted, who retires; Capt. F. Horn to be Major, by purchase, vice Hut chinson ; Lieut. J. B. Sharpe to be Captain, by purchase, vice Horn ; Ensign M. Cane to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Sharpe; G. Tomson, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cane ; Ensign R. 13. Smith to be Adjutant, vice Crawley, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, Sept. 7. 33d Foot.—Gentleman Cadet John Edward Taubman Quayle, from the Royal Military College, to he Ensign, by purchase, vice Greenham, appointed to the 13th Light Dragoons, Sept. 7. 40th Foot—Ens ign J. W. Thomas to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Johnston, who retires ; R. A. Lindsey, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Thomas, Sept. 7. 43d Foot—Ensign the Hon. P. E. Herbert to be Lieutenant, by purchsse, vice Cole, promoted ; F. H. Synge, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Herbert ; Ensign J. Wasp, from the Ist Foot, to be Ensign, vice Wood, who retires; Ensign J. Wasp to be Adjutant, vice Primrose, who resigns the Adju tantcy only, Sept. 7. 47th Foot—Lieut. E. B. Frith, from the 25th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Clarke, Sept. 7. 49th Foot—Ensign W. H. C. Baddeley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Horton, appointed to the 14th Light Dra g .ons ; C. S. Glazbrook, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase vice Baddeley, Sept. 7. 54th Foot—Lieutenant-General Sir H. S. Keating, K.C.8., from the 90th Foot, to be Colonel, Vice General Gascoyne, deceased, Sept. 2. 63d Foot.—Ensign S. F. C. Annesley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hardie, whose promotion has been cancelled, August 17. 71st Foot.—Lieutenant the Hon. F. H. P. Methuen, from the 76th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Bayly, who exchanges, Sept. 7. 76th Foot—Lieut. G. A. Bayly, from the 71st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Methuen, who exchanges, Sept. 7. 19th Foot—Ensign J. Newbury to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Walker, deceased, Aug. 21 ; A. E. Hill, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Newbury, Sept. 7. 90th Foot—Major-General Sir A. Leith, K.C. 8., to be Colonel. vice Sir H. S. Keating, oppointed to 54th Foot, Sept. 2. 2d West India Regimeut—Ensign W. M'Carthy Murray to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Findley, deceased, Aug. 4; Sergeant-Major R. C. Noake, from the Ist Dragoons. to be Ensign, vice Murray, Sept. 6 ; L. P. Bouverie, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Noake, appointed to the Ist Dragoons, Sept. 7. Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment.—Lieutenant J. Brannan, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant, repaying the dif ference, July 23. UN A TTACHED.—Lieutenant A. L. Cole, from the 43d Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, September 7. AIEMORANDUM.—Captain C. Richardson, on half-pay . of the 59th Foot, has been allowed to retire from the Army, with the sale of his commission, he being about to become a settler in Canada, Sept. 7. The name of the gentleman appointed to an Ensigncy in the 99th Foot, is " George Jean de Winton de Winton," and not -1 De Winton Wilkins," as previously stated. Erratum in the Gazette of the lith August last. 63d Foot—For W. Mayne. Gent., to be Ensign, vice Hardie," promoted, read, vice " Annesley," promoted. Commission by'the Lora Lieutenant of Cheshire. T. J. W. Swettenham, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, August 24. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Rutlandshire. Rutlandshire Regiment of Alilitia,—The Hon. W. M. Noel to be Captain Commandant, March 31. WHITEHALL, AUGUST 30. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John James Gutch, of MeMil Mowbray, in the county of Leicester, Gent. to be a Mastcr Extraordinary in the high Court of Chancery. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. JOHN SAUNDERS, JAMES FARMER, and THO MAS HOSIER SAUNDERS, woollen manufacturers,•Ba singhall-street. BANKRUPTS. GEORGE POTTER and SAMUEL POTTER, calico printers, Manchester, to surrender Sept. 27, and Oct. 19, at ten, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. Sale and Worthington, Manchester; R. M. and C. Baxter, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. WILLIAM CATON, ironmonger, Preston, Sept. 21 and Oct. 19, at. one, at the Town-hall, Preston. Bower and Back, Chancery-lane, London; Price, Deakin, and Dent, Wolver hampton. GEORGE POTTER,.SAMUEL POTTER, and JOHN KRAUSS, calico printers, Manchester, Sept. 27 and Oct. 19, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London ; Milne and Suns, Manchester. THOMAS BARLOW, shoe dealer, Manchester, Sept. 23, and Oct. 19, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Man chester. Wilson and Harrison, Kendal; Addison, Mecklen burgh-square, Middlesex. ANDItEW ABERCROMBIE NESBlTT,stuff merchant, Leeds, Sept. 14, at. three, and Oct. 19, at twelve , at the Corn niissioners-rooms, Leeds. Battle, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chan cery-lane. London ; T. and J. Lee, Leeds. THOMAS RICHARDSON, tobacconist, Manchester, Sept. 21 and Oct. 19, at ore, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Deane, Chancery-lane, London ; Forshaw and Blundell, Liverpool. JOHN MOLINEUX, sen., music seller, Liverpool, Sept. 15, and Oct. 19, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Vincent and Sherwood, Temple, London ; Deane Liverpool. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. R. Southee, innkeeper, Hertford, Sept:. 30, at twelve—C. Bailey, W. 11. Potter, and T. Clift, wholesale druggists, Gar lick-lull, Sept. 29, at twelve. In the Country. E. Jeanes, bookseller, Exeter, Nov. 2, at one, at the New London Inn, Exeter—T. Howell, builder, Brighton, Dec. 16, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Brighton—J. Lea, butcher, Glou cester, Oct. 4, at two, at the King's Head Inn, Gloucester—J. Beardsworth, builder, Wrexham, Denbighshire, Oct. 8, at one, at the Wynnstay Arms Hotel, Wrexham—J. J. Bulman, oil merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sept. 30, at twelve, at the Bankrupt Commission-room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—S. B. Woodhouse, kce manufacturer, Nottingham, Sept. 30, at one, at the George the Fourth Hotel, Nottingham—J. Madley and 11. Courteen, brewers, Redbrook, Monmouthshire, Sept. 29, at twelve, at the Beaufort Arms Inn, Monmouth—J. Beding field, surgeon, Stowmarket, Suffolk, Oct. 30, at twelve, at the Crown and Anchor Inn, Ipswich—J. J. Schenck, lace manu facturer, Nottingham, Sept. 29, at one, at the Flying Horse Inn, Nottingham—G. Inston, builder, Birmingham, Oct. 1, at one, at the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham—T. Linty, draper, Lynn, Norfolk, Sept. 29, at twelve, at the Office of R. Pitcher, 1 1 King's Lynn—E. Smith and D. Chalmers, linendrapers, Great Yarmouth, Oct. 7, at eleven, at the Crown and Anchor fa.- vern, Great Yarmouth—D. Little and D. Chalmers, linen drapers, Great Yarmouth, Oct. 7, at twelve, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Great Yarmouth—J. and E. Millard, uphol sterers, Cheltenham, Oct. 5, at two, at the Royal Hotel, Chel tenham—R. Whittaker. brazier, Bury, Lancashire, Sept. at eleven, at the Swan Inn, Bolton. CERTIFICATES—SEPT. 28. R. Griffiths, mercer, Newport, Shropshire—J. Bates, coach maker, Worship-street, Finsbury-square—W. Strange, merchant, Abingdon, Berkshire—F. Banne r, straw (iie - hat s mermanu facturer, Luton, Bedfordshire—W. and J. M . Dou r chants, Liverpool—T. Pickard, cabinet maker,Lei Leeds—M. Bone, ship owner, South Shields —W. and •Day, G racechurch-st rect. — Co j r ' n PARI H 'NE L R o SII e G ia l t o e uc ß es e t y e a r l — A A m . J. F o x an d A. H. Lowe, solicitors, chards and S. Pidwcll, common IJu l TroWw . en H d i andl w. J. West,R Powell,l,ro; Proprietors ra o i f se t r i s m , manufacturers, Basford, Nottingham —J. Amphi theatre, Astley's, Westminster -bridge-road, I.ambeth—G. D. and H. Carey, hat man and J. Dean, ta il ors , Liverpool—J. and R. D. Fretwell, grocers, Gainsburgh, LirICO%I - S. and M. Johns, milliners, Ware, Hertfordshire -31. Hum p hre y s and E. C. Biddle, mer chants, Liverpool—A. Bradbury and H. Morten. pawnbrokers, London-road —B. Bostren, S. Dutton, 1. Dutton, J. P. Beane, and J. 11. M'Kiunell, Manchester (so far as regards p . p e ane)—T. Heaton, H. Hilton, E. Hilton, and G. MORNING SUN Heaton, coal merchants, near Cherley, Lancashire (so far as regards T. and G. Heaton)—H. AI. Griffiths and E. Gilpin, atturneys-at-law, Birmingham—C. and M. A. Field, school mistresses, Camberwell—R. Barber and J. P. Clarke, cotton winders, Leicester—N. Batten and W. Pettit, cheesemongers, Ship Tarern-passage, Leadenhall-market—J. and S. Shaun, cloth finishers, Leeds—J. G. and Langman, linendrapers, Launceston, Cornwall—H. James, S. Hardwick, and C. Tom linson, warehousemen, Friday-street—J. Deek, D. Frost, and W. T. Jackson, booksellers, Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk—J. and J. Watson, tailors, Kingston-upon-Hull—H. Sidney and 11. Sherwood, engine-makers, Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yolkshire—E. and D. Turner, drapers, Wymondham, Norfolk —G. Bannister, T. Banks, and W. Bannister, coal masters Sedgley, Staffordshire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. HUGH SKINNER, saddler, Tain, Sept. 10 and Oct. 1, at one, at the Balnagoun Arms Inn, Tain. WILLIAM GATENBY, hair dresser, Greenock, Sept. 1 and Oct. 2, at twelve, atthe Tontine Hotel, Greenock. SUPPLEMENT TO LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, SEPT. 7, 1841. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lord Ernest Bruce Vice-Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household. The Queen has been pleated to appoint Captain Henry Meynell, of the Royal Navy, one of her Majesty's Grooms in Waiting. CHINA. CAPTAIN ELLIOT AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE ISLAND OF HONGKONG. PUBLIC NOTICE. Captain William Caine, of her Majesty's 26th (or Cameronian) regiment of infantry, is appointed Chief Magistrate of the island of Hongkong, pending her Majesty's further pleasure, and all persons repairing thither are required to respect the authority in him vested, agreeably to the annexed warrant. (Signed) CHARLES ELLIOT, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, charged with the government of the island of Hong-kong. WARRANT. By Charles Elliot, Esq.,• her Majesty's -Plenipotentiary, &c. &c., charged with the government of the island of Hongkong. Pending her Majesty's further pleasure, I do hereby constitute and appoint you, William Caine, Esquire, Captain in her Majesty's 26th (or Cameronion) regi ment of Infantry to be Chief Magistrate of the island o f Hongkong ; and I do further authorise and require you, to exercise authority, according to the laws, customs, and usages of China, as near as may be (every descrip tion of torture . excepted) for the preservation of the peace, and the protection of life and property, over all the native inhabitants in the said island, and the har bours thereof. _ And I do further authorise and require you, in any case where the crime, according to Chinese law, shall involve punishments and penalties exceeding the follow ing scale in severity, to remit the case for the judgment of the head of the Government for the time being. . . Scale :—lmprisonment, with or without, hard labour, for more than three months ; or penalties exceeding 400 dollars. Corporal ptznishment exceeding 100 lashes. Capital punishment. And 1. do further require you, in all cases followed by sentence or infliction of punishment, to keep a record, containing a brief statement of the case, and copy of the sentence. _ • And I further authorise and require you, to exercise Magisterial and police authority over all persons what ever (other than natives of the island, or persons subject to the Mutiny. Act, or to the general law for the govern ment of the fleet), who shall be found committing breaches of the peace, on shore or in the harbours of this island, or breaches of any regulation to be issued from time to time by this Government, according to the cus toms End usages of British police law. And I do hereby authorize you, for the police pur poses herein before specified, to arrest, detain, discharge, and punish such offender, according to the principles and practice of general British police law. And all persons, subject to the Mutiny Act, or the general law for the government of the fleet, found com mitting police or other offences, shall be handed over to their proper military superiors for punishment. And I do further authorize and require -.you, to de tain in safe custody any person whatever, found com mitting crimes and offences within the Government of Hongkong, amounting to felony, according to the law of England; forthwith reporting your proceedings herein, and the grounds thereof, to the head.of the Government for the time being. And for all your lawful proceedings in the premises, this warrant shall be your sufficient pro tection and authority. Given under my hand and seal, office at Macao, this thirtieth day. of April, in the year 1841. (Signed) CHARLES ELLIOT. PUBLIC NOTICE AND DECLARATION. Arrangements having been made for the permanent occupation of the island of Hongkong, it has become necessary to declare the principles and conditions upon which allotments of land will be made, pending her Majesty's further pleasure. With a view to the reservation to the Crown of as extensive a control over the lands as may be compatible with the immediate progress of the establishment, it is now declared that the number of allotments to be dis posed of, from time to time, will be regulated with due regard to the actual public wants. It will be a condition of each title, that a building, of a certain value, hereafter to be fixed, must be erected, within a reasonable period of time, on the allotments ; and there will be a general reservation of all her Ma jesty's rights. Pending her Majesty's further measure, the lands will be allotted according to the principles and practice of British law, upon the tenure of quit-rent to the Crown. Each allotment to be put up .at public auction, at a certain up-set rate of quit-rent, and to be disposed of to the highest bidder. But it is engaged, upon the part of her Majesty's Government, that persons taking land upon these terms shall have the privilege of purchasing in freehold (if that tenure shall hereafter be offered bY her Majesty's Government) or of continuing to hold upon the original quit-rent, if that condition be better liked. All arrangements with natives for the cession of lands, in cultivation, or substantially built upon, to be made only through an officer deputed by the Government of the island ; and no title will be valid, and no occu pancy respected, unless the person claiming shall hold under an instrument granted by the Government of the island, of which due registry must be made in the Go vernment office. It is distinctly to be understood, that all natives, in the actual occupancy of lands, in cultivation, or substantially built upon, will be constrained to establish their rights,. to the satisfaction of the land officer, and to take out titles and have the same duly registered. In order to accelerate the stablishment, notice is hereby given that a sale of town allotments, having a water frontage of yards, and running back yards, will take place at Macao on the instant, by which time, it is hoped, plans, exhibiting the water front of the town, will be prepared. Persons purchasing town lots will be entitled to pur chase suburban or country lots, of square acres each, and will be permitted for the present, to choose' their own sites, subject to the approval of the Govern ment of the island. No run of water to be diverted from its course without permission of the Government (Signed) CHARLES ELLIOT. Macao, Ist May, 1841.—Canton Register. EGYPT. .ADDRESS OF THE BRITISILMERCHANTS OF ALEXANDRIA TO HIS HIGHNESS LIEB.E- 111 ET ALI, VICEROY OF EGYPT. The merchants of Great Britain, resident in Alex andria, have witnessed with unspeakable satisfaction the re-establishment of their national flag, and the resump tion of unrestricted amicable relations between their Government and your Highness. On returning to their national protection they hasten to lay before your Highness the sincere expression of their gratitude for the protection which your Highness has afforded to their persons and property during the past crisis 'of political affairs. In time gone by they have witnessed the sincerity of your Highness's wishes for their well-being, and the efficacy, of the protection afforded to them by your Ilitil'e ness's Government, in occasions of trouble and p oss , i irritation '; and they reposed in the security offered ti.tem by the enlightened and generous character of )our Ilighness.• . . well-regu - They have endeavoured, on their part by a , s lated and inoffensive behaviour, to merit , your llignne s s confidence. , • `They have now to express their for the weita.e for th-?. prosperity of yourlli,ghness, Loy our care of the people whom God has committedebin your High and they trust that the friendly ties that. e of both, may ness to their own country, to the advantag never again be severed. earnest good wishess The following Statistical Table3m2oolßf,BT6:ll.-ietiorins Com merce of the Austrian Empir justh foreign Powers, from 1829 to 1838 inclusively, has been published by Dr. Sigfield, at Vienna :- 70,012 EXPORTS. 1829 1830 1831 98,937,0 22 120,867, 94,106,471 1832 115,017,352 110107:528564,17443 florins 107,825,991 1833 1834 . . 1 835 1836 1837 1838 ....... 134,918,654 761 127,445,295 199059161,5245'289 1,111,542,304 1,151,555,334 The principal articles exported were wool, woollen stuff=, and raw silk. The imports were chiefly in cotton and cattle. During the above period, the exports of wool and the imports of cotton were doubled. The ex- P • orts of raw silk and woollen stuffs.inereased about 33 per cent., and the imports of cattle 14 per cent. Licut.-Gcncral Sir J. S. Keating, K.C.13., is to be removed from the Colonelcy of the 90th Light In fantry to that of the 54th Regiment, which. has become vacant by the decease of the late lamented General Gascoyne ; and Major General Sir Alexander Leith, K.C.8., succeeds to the Colonelcy Qf the 90th. THE WEATHER.—A most welcome and bene ficial change has taken place in the weather, and liar vest operations, have proceeded extensively in this district. Dry bracing weather, and the influence of the sun by day, and the harvest moon by night, is cheeringly appa rent in bringing the crops to maturity. There are few farmers in the more fertile parts . of Lanarkshire w h o have not made a beginning ; some have nearly con cluded. Should the weather continue propitious, harvest will be almost universal in this part of the country by the end of the week. New barley was .expOsed,, and sold in our market on Wednesday last.— Glasgow Herald of Monday.