The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

MORNING SUN. KINGSTON RACES.--MoNDAY. Bweepstakes of • 5 sovs. each, with 33 added. Heats, • about two miles. Mr. B arrow ' s Catherine, aged, 10st.. ......... 1 2 1 ... J.Bosley's Cleanthes, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b... 3 1 2 Muscott's Bircher, 4 yrs, 7st llb 2 dr Mr. Key's Fitzgambol, 3 yrs, ist 41b :4 dr Smythies' bc by Safeguard, 3 yrs, 6st 111 b 5 dr The Hurdle Staxes of 3 sovs. each, and 25 added. Heats Once round and the long length, over three hurdles. Lieut. neynard's Tipthorp, 6 yrs, 12 st (O wner ) 2 1 1 Mr. .T. Herbert nd Safety, 4 yrs, lOst 51b Mr. E. Herbert nd Wiltshire, aged, 1 Ist 91b 3 dr. The Hack Stakes of 2 sovs. each, and 25 added, the second to save his stake, and the winner to be sold for 35 1., once round, were won in two heats by Mr.. Morgan's Rambler, 5 yrs, beating four others. The Pony Race was won in four well-contested heats 1 1 Rory O'More beating Radnor Lass and two others. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. The Half-yearly General 'Sleeting of the Shareholders of the above Railway was holden yesterday, pursuant to notice, at the Station of the Company, Shoreditch. CHARLES BOSANQUET, Esq., in the Chair... The CHAIRMAN stated he had no intention of address ing the Proprietors at any length. This was the tenth fleeting they had held, and he was afraid he should be guilty of tautology if he at all enlarged upon the nature of the undertaking. Since the last meeting he was ha ppy to inform the Proprietors that, the whole of the contracts between this and Colchester were now let, and that the Works were progressing with great rapidity , and there was no doubt that the line would be opened all the way to Colchester, fifty-two miles from London, in September of the ensuing year. Independently of other difficulties, this r a il wa y, though it traversed a rich and fertile coun- Y, though it passed through many towns of great agri cultural and manufacturing importance , had not met With much support from the owners of property through the country which it traversed; now, however, that a Portion of the line (171 miles) had been opened, these gentlemen were coming round, and that favourable opi nion was now vouchsafed to this undertaking, which it so eminently deserved. There was only one other point to which he would allude ; the Directors had been charged with bringing forth deceptive accounts of the .state of the I nlet they had taken an opportunity of denying this on their oaths before the public, and they now asserted on their honour, before this meeting, the correctness of those accounts. On the estimate of Messrs. Braithwaite and Locke, the whole of the line from beginning to end, could be completed at an average expense of 45 , 000 ! per Mile; that expense included the .Lie&on viaduct, which had been a very great expense. Owiffg to the large sun ► paid for the purchase of land, excluding the London vi; tcluet, th e a verage cost would be 34,0001. per mile; the •whole cost of thedine from beginningto end would be 2,300,0001. After this, let no man say money had been extravagantly expended in this undertaking; there was not the slight est doubt that this railway would amply remunerate the Shareholders for the expense and trouble they had under gone; it would redound to their credit and private good, and, a s far as they were concerned, be one of the most lucrative proceedings of their lives.—(Loud cheerS.) The Report was then read, from which it appeared, in addition to the statements of the Chairman, that there . was now in the hands of the Treasurer a clear balance of 14,444/., affording a dividend of ss. per share;, but that this dividend would not be payable till after the next nteeting in February. W. LAURENCE iI EYW ORTH, Esq., moved the adop tion of the Report; he wished, however, to have „ no. reserved fund; he would like to have the balance at once divided amongst the shareholders. He considered the formation of a reserved fund was but the keeping back of the money of the present, for the future shareholders. After 'some further discussion the Report was unani raously adepted. , Mr. SWIFT proposed that the stint of 1001. be given 13 ,7 the Cotepany for the promotion of religiou s instruc tton amongst the labourers on the line. Messrs. RA.THBONE, GIBBES, ESDAILE, and others, seconded the motion. Mr. LAURENCE HEYWORTH, MT. COPELAND, and others, - opposed it. A good deal of discussion ensued; and the. motion was ultimately amended by the addition of:" any proprietor objecting to this outlay, and giving notice to that effect Within a month, shall be allowed to withdraw his.portion • (1 f the amount;" which amendment was carried by a. ma- Jority of one. CHEAP BREAD! CHEAP BREAD TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. the subject has been mentioned before , b ut we repeat `.',it contradiction of the Tory lie, for th e sake of our Correspondent's letter.] _,Stu—The subjoined paragraph, taken from the Man 'jester Courier, I found transcribed into the columns of e Glasgow Courier, and have inclosed it to you, in the benighted that you will have the goodness t o enli g hten the "tlighted ignorance of those two Tory journalists on the elibieet of American Currency. The shilling of which they speak, they will be pleased to note, is not sterling, but the sixth part of a dollar (Pennsylvania currency), the intrinsic value of which, rating the dollar at, say 4 8. 2d., its full value, will, of course, be Sid: English, for the loaf of five pounds' weight. Perhaps the two journalists in question, having, of Course, no other object in view - than an exposition of truth, will quote the price of America n flour, and. show O w many pounds of it may be had for a shilling, or, to att've them the trouble, perhaps, I may as well say that a barrel of 19 6lbs. weight, net, may be purchased upon ati average at something less than five dollars—say for 11. sterling, 91b. 4-sths for a shilling English money. : would simply ask these sapient reasoners, if what they argue be the facts of the case, how Comes it that "'ley are so alarmed when tie ~.I..liLivn of those intamous 1 100 r-starring laws are hinted at ? Here is 'the paragraph alluded to :-- --AMERICAN " CHEAP BREAD." The' following is a verbatim copy of an advertisement ' flan Amqican paper " LARGE BREAD.—Five pounds of baked bread for 18 . at W. S. Wilkston's bakery, 4, Madison street, cor ner of Chesnut ; warranted as good as any in the city." The ab ove cannot be too widely circulated, as it will tend to expose the fallacy of the Anti-Corn -law League in their late exhibition through the streets of this and other towns in England of , the large American shilling l oat; and , the small English shilling loaf. The best bread is sold in this town, where we are subject to a Corn -law, alOO. for the 61b. loaf, a nd in t he land of Plentri—America, where there is no Corn-law, and where We are to have so much cheap flour from, it is advertised as cheap-51bs. for 18.—very near a halfpenny per pound dearer than in this town.—lllanchester Courier. I am, Sir, your obedient servnnt, An ENGLISH RESIDENT in the UNITED STATES. Glasgow, 9th May, 1841. DiJ]ILIN CITY REGISTRY. SATURDAY. Registered. Stand. Rejected. Liberals 2O ... 10 ... 1 Tories 5 ... 1 ... 1 The Liberal claimants cases stand over on the m ost n'zvolous objections. Any case where a claimant appears to register out of a shop, although in many instance s Paying over 20/., the agents for the Tories require the ease to stand over to give them an opportunity to dis prove the value ; yet, in nine cases out of ten, they are obliged to admit the value, after having an opportunity of their hired valuators inspecting the premises. MONDAY. Registered. Stand. Rejected. Liberals 2O ... 2 . • 3 Tories 2 ... 4 ... 1 Gross majority for Liberals, 83. PETITION TO THE QUEEN. The Petitibn to her Majesty, published in The Sun on the 3d inst., was forwarded to the Marquis •of Nor manby to be presented to her Majesty. The day before Yesterday the Noble Marquis caused the following . infor mation to be conveyed to the Chairman of the petitioners: " Whitehall, Aug. 11, 1841. " am directed by the Marquis of Normanby to inform you that be has not failed to lay before the Queen .the Pedtion of the Merchants, Manufacturers, Traders, and others, agreed to at a public meeting, held at the king's Arms Tavern, Philip-lane, Wood-street, in the City of London, on the 31st of July..--I am, Sir, your obedient sertant, " S. M. PIILLLIPPS. " To John Foreman, Esq., Commercial wharf, Old Swan -lane." • TORY FEARS AND TORY PLANS. " The work goes bravely on." Some of the Ultra- ; Orange faction, who are looking forward to the restore tion, of the Tories to power, as yielding them a fair Chance of placing their iron hee l on the "-sur pliced ruffians " of the Times, cannot make Out what business the Duke of 'Wellington had at the Whig Duke of Bedford's. These men, not' being very well versed in the Peerage, and unaware that by the marriage of some of his family,- his Grace is dis tantly connected with the noble house of Russell, attrthe i bute the visit entirely to political M otives, and, with ' ~e collection 42+11829 before them, are bawling at the top of their voices, " No surrender." This and the recent meeting of the Protest ant Asso ciation, which is understood to express the sentiments of a considerable body of the Tories towards Ireland, af fords a tolera bly fair clue to what will be the Lyndhurst- Stanley policy, in conducting the Government of " the gem of the (wean." If there is any truth in the rumour that, under pretext 'Of settling the Boundary Question, one of the first acts of the Tories will be putting twenty more sail of the line in commission, John Bull, between this and the necessary measure of doubling the army in Ireland, will have a nice reckoni an to pay at the end of 1842. CHEAP FOOD AND HIGH WAGES.—Thc following ex 4 ;racts from a letter, received by a gentle- Man in Long ton, near Preston, from his brother, who is sojourning 5,n. Onandago county, State of New York, North America, will show that cheap provisions and high wages may co-exist :—" As respects America, it is the home of the poor hard-working man he is sure to raise himself here. Meat is very cheap. You may 104 beef and pork from three to five cents. per lb. Other flesh meat is cheaper, and flour is. about half the Eng lish price. Look at this, and then look at a man getting fully three times the wages he can in Longton. • • . A nutn that wishes to settle in life, and to render himself, by , his own industry, indep endent of the world, America is the country_ that I would recommend him to go to. • • . Farm labour is very plentiful here in the summer-time. A smart man may get 15 dollars, or More than three English pounds, per month, with bed and board. I myself was taken for a smart fellow one night by a farmer that was riding past in his waggon. He of fered me 14 or 15 dollars per month, if I would home with him, and almost pulled me into his waggon. Oh ! how I wished the honest industrious men in Eng land had such a chance I"—What will the advocates of Monopoly say to this ? MESMERISM___RY LAFOI TAINE. (THIRD. NOTICE.) We yesterday attended, amongst a company of be tween three and four hundred persons, consisting prin cipally of distinguished members of the medical profes sion, and the elite of that portion of the fashionable world which can afford to be in town in this season, at an exhibition of Mesmeric experiments, which, after more than three hours patient observance, was almost unanimously pronounced to be a failure. The Professor having totally failed to'procluce any result by which he could hope to satisfy the least sceptical of his visitors, readily assented to a proposition that the experiment should be renewed to-morrow (this day) at the same theatre, the Queen's Rooms, Hanover-square, and that all those who had subscribed on this occasion should be admitted without further payment. With this under standing the company separated, after a tedious and un interesting attendance of more than three hours. LONDON COURT OF CONK VANCY. OBSTRUCTIONS TO THE NAVIGATION OF THE THAMES. —Yesterday, according to appointment, a Court of Con servancy for the County and City of London was held at the Guildhall, for the purpose of selecting a Jury to examine into the condition of the river Thames, within the exact civic limits, in consequen-ee of the serious complaints made by the gentlemen of the last Middlesex and Surrey Conservancy Juries, that several encroach ments and nuisances had been made in the parts of the river to which their supervision did not extend. The Court was attended by the Lord Mayor, the Re corder, Aldermen Lucas, Sir Peter Laurie, Wilson, Farn comb (who was warmly congratulated on his recover) , from his serious accident), the City Solicitor, Mr. Secon dary Potter, the Comptroller, and other officers of the corporation. The following 'gentlemen were sworn in on the Jury: — Mr. John Brown, Foreman Mr. T. C. Newman Mr. Robert Aylwin Mr. Ralph Harris Mr.: Richard Brain Mr. J. G. Smith Mr: J. Q. Finnis' Mr. George Landman Mr. llenry Drew Mr. Charles Phillips Mr. Arthur Ryder Mr. James Hunt Mr. A. C. Johnson Mr. Edward Keeling Mr. Richard Buck Mr. Robert Hutchinson Mn G. E. Brown Mr. William Curling Mr. Robert Wrench Mr. A. C. Johnson Mr. Benjamin Bower Mr. G. B. Harrison Mr. George Childe Mr. G. D. Trimby. The RECORDER charged the Jury. His Lordship stated that the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London. had, as Conservators of the river Thames and waters of the Medway, considered it to be their duty, after, he believed, an interval of about twenty years, to convene a Court of Conservancy, to inquire into the state of the banks of the river Thames , and the nature and extent of the obstructions which might exist in it, within the boundaries of the City. The Lord Mayor and Corporation were desirous to be assisted by the Jury, in an investigation calculated to promote the public ser vice, the object of which was to keep the river in a free and unobstructed condition. They had been given to understand that several encroachments did exist. Some of them, perhaps, were such as to present advantages of a public nature, exceeding the amount of inconveni ence of which they might be productive ; others might be attended with no incenventence at all ; while others might be so objectionable as to endanger the lives of the public. The alterations which it had been thought ne cessary to make in one part of the river for the enclosure of the Houses of Parliament, had drawn the attention of the Lord Mayor and the Corporation to that particular place ; and the numerous other changes which had been made, arising . from a variety of causes and circumstances, were deeply interesting to the commercial part of the community ; and the Corporation considered that they would not properly discharge their duty to their fellow citizens, or to the community in general, if they did not call in the aid of two men of high professional eminence to assist in ascertaining the real gate of the river, and the probable state to which it might ultimately be brought by the alteration& which were taking place. It was his duty to point the attention of the Jury more immediately to the erection of the temporary land lug-place at Tlackfriars%bridge, where it was stated loss of life had taken place, and which 'formed an ob struction of no'. ordinary kind in the river at the point at which it iiu.s placed. The Lord Mayor and Corpora tion requested the Jury to look to that part of the Thames with particular care, and to examine and ascer tain how far the erection was an obstruction and a nui sance as it had been represented to be. He had already stated, that with respect to the public service, it was con sidered necessary by the Court to have the assistance of two persons fully competent to advise upon the subject of the navigation of the river, in which important changes were contemplated ; but, preparatory to the completion- of these changes, it was necessary to receive all the information which the gentlemen of the Jury could collect in their examination. It was the intention of the Court to perform in the most complete manner the obligations they considered themselves under, to make the improvements in the river adapted to the existing circumstances. The alterations referred as well to the nuisances, and destruction occasioned to the fisheries by gas and unlawful nets, as to the other causes of com plaint ; and the authorities were fully competent to carry into effect any necessary change for the benefit and se curity of the public. His Lordship concluded by stating that he was happy to see that the Jury were commercial men, chosen from the immediate neighbourhood of the river, and probably well acquainted with it, most par ticularly in the places to which their attention was pe . culiarly directed. The Jury then proceeded from Court to the river, where they embarked in the City boat, attended-by the W.L,r 111.111 IF, rot- tho pripnca of examining the various parts in which obstructions and nuisances were said to exist. . _ Upon their return to Court at three o'clock, Mr. BROWN, the foreman, handed in the following presentment : " London :—We:whose names are hereunto sub scribed, being the persons duly summoned and sworn at a Court of Conservancy of the River Thames ttnd Waters of Medway, holden before the Right Hon. Thomas Johnson, Lord Mayor of the City of London, and Con servator of the said River of Thames and Waters of Med way, at the Guildhall in and for the said City of London, on Thursday, the 12th day of August, in the year of our Lord, 1841, to inquire of certain transgressions, con tempts, and offences, committed on the said River of Thames, within the said City of London, do hereby make our presentment in manner following,—this is to say,— " We present that certain persons, being occupiers of the wharves on the banks of the said river between Lon don-bridge and the Temple, cause their barges to be placed outside the piles in front of their wharves. " In making this presentment against the said persons we beg to express our opinion that much inconvenience would be obviated by piles being driven, under the direc tion of the Corporation of London, in front of the said wharves so as to define the boimdary for mooring craft in the causeway at Paul's-wharf, as to occasion no ob struction to the public landing place at the said wharf. " We hereby also present that several persons have caused a floating pier or landing place, formed of barges, at the north-east side of Blackfriars-bridge , and which projects a considerable distance into the said river, and that such floating pier or landing . place is an encroach ment on the said river, and also an obstruction to the na vigation. And we further present the said pier and floating barges as being in a dangerous state, and not sufficiently stable for the intended purpose. " We present that a pier or landing.place, principally formed of barges, hath been erected at the western side of Southwark Bridge, and which projects from one of the piers of the said bridge into the said river. We make this Presentment, considering such pier or landing place to be an encroachment upon the said river; but at the s ame time we state that little , if any, obstruction is caused thereby to the navigation of the said river, and we also consider that such pier or lauding place, as at present constructed, is the best adapted for the accom modation and safety of the public in embarking and landing from steam-boats navigating in that part of the said river. " We also present that several persons have caused floating piers, or landing-places, formed of barges, to be erected on the banks of that part of the said river which is situate within the City of London, at Dyer's Hall Wharf, at Old Shades Wharf, and at Nicholson's Wharf, and which project into the said river. We consider such piers or landing-places to be encroachments upon the said river. "We present that several persons have caused a lighter, with a barge affixed thereto, to be placed in front of Cus tom-house Quay, in that part of the said river which is situate within the City of London ; and also a lighter in front of Adelaide Wharf within the said City ; and that such lighters are encroachments on the said river." The presentment was signed by all the Jury. Mr. ,liitowN, the foreman of the Jury, said that in making this presentment of the encroachments particu larized, he was directed by his brother Jurymen to state that all which were mentioned as merely encroachments were, if properly managed and regulated, necessary for the accommodation of the public. He was expressly de sired to mention that fact. The RECORDER—You mean that their uses to the pub lic more than counterbalance the disadvantages arising from the encroachments ? Mr. BRoWN—Most decidedly. The REconnEa--Then the objection as an encroach ment and a nuisance is directed against the pier at Black friars -bridge ? Mr. BROWN —Certainly. We present that as a most decided encroachment and nuisance. Sir P. LAURIE said that he had received a letter from the Blackfriars-bridge Pier Company, denying the truth of the statement made to him by the gentleman who was near losing his life at the pier, and declaring that nothing could be more safe.—(4 laugh.) Mr. BROWN—We had before us the man who was said to have saved the gentleman's life, and he mentioned to us that the gentleman jumped before the steamer had reached the barge. • A Sir P. LAURIE—nd that the gentleman totally denied to me. I knew that the Jury would ascertain whether the place was as sa fe as possible or not. The RECORDER then returned the thanks of the Court to the Jury for the man ner. in which they lad discharged their duty, and stated to them that his Lordship and the Corporation would take' immediate measures to ris 'move effectually 'such encroachments and nuisances, air they had pointed out, and as were calculated to cause clanger and prejudice to the public. The Court was then dissolved. A model of a very elegant pier, liToposed to be erected on the north-w es t s id e of BlaCkfriar's-bridg, and which will cause no more obstruction than the admirable one at Southwark-bridge, was exhibited at the Guildhall. It is b g y ive M a r. d l e V sc a r l i l p ie t r io t n h7 of en it g .. ineer. We shall in a da y or two go -- AV NEW WORK EDITED BY BOZ.-- ,e under- stand that the entire first impression of this work was taken by the London booksellers on the day of publica tion, and that another is already preparing. IRELAND. THE - REPEAL - ASSOCIATION. DUBLIN, AUG. 10.—It would be worse than useless to conceal the fact that the proceedings of this (so called) " Loyal" body of revolutionists are beginning to excite considerable alarm in the minds of well-dispose I and well-affected men of all creeds and parties. The openly avowed determination of accepting foreign aid to carry their insane projects into execution, and the frightful threats of retaliation on England for her alleged misrule of this kingdom, as declared by the rabid orators at yes terday's meeting, demand that the strong arm of power should be promptly and vigorously put forward to crush at this, its ripening, a rebellion in embryo, having for its end and aim the not-disguised plan of the elevation of one party at the cost or utter extirpation of the other. From the early hoar at which I was compelled to close my abstract of Mr. O'Connell's speech at Burgh quay yesterday, I was necessarily obliged to curtail the concluding, and by far the most remarkable portion of this inflammatory address, and in making the addenda shall be as brief as the limits of your space and the na ture of the speech itself will permit. After having reiterated his thrice-told fable of their being no blood spilt during the progress of the recent elections, the Hon. Gentleman proceeded to ask his already highly wrought-up mob auditory—" Have you not seen a paragraph in a morning paper, quoted from a journal published in Cheltenham, and known as the Cheltenham Journal and Stroud Llerald? I will read it for your edification.—(Laughter.) It is headed ' Justice to Ireland,' and thus proceeds- 4 What would be justice to Ireland ? What would be the greatest blessing that could be conferred on Ireland ? The answer to these questions is prompt, and comprised in a single word — Conquest ! Conquest ! Let them try it if they dare. —(Great cheering.) We are the Queen's subjects, more loyal, more devoted, more true-hearted, than any others under her sway. Yes, we are the subjects of her Ma jesty, and entitled to protection by the law, and if the ruffians who would enslave both her and us approach our shores with such intent, in the name of our Queen, and under the banner of our country's laws, we will meet them foot to foot, and they shall see that I—even I, who have all my life been the advocate of peace, and shud dered at the unsheathing of the sword—may pant for the hour of peril, and take my place in the front of the battle to strike the ruffians down.—(Loud which lasted several minutes.) Conquest ! Is it con quest they talk of ? Ah ! I see how it is. They fancy it is Irish serfs they will have to govern. But from this spot I hurl at them my defiance, and tell them that if they come here for conquest, and that the fbrtune of battle yields to them the mastery, it is dead bodies they AVM have to reign over, for to the last man will we resist the tyrants.—(Cheers.) What !- in the face of civilized Europe—before the whole universe—within hearing of America, where there are 22,000 Irishmen within two days march of New York—will they dare to talk of conquest? Those who confide in them—the men who rely upon their good faith, and are weak-minded enough to believe in their lenity after victory—these, and such as these, may, and no doubt will, afford them an easy' conquest ; but we who know them well, who feel that there is no hope for us, no safety—but to look for none save what is in our own valour—we, I repeat, will not be conquered by them.—(Great applause.) Ah ! no, they will not, they dare not do it. They talk of re-conquering Ire land. I wish they would attempt it,' so help me Ileav— but no ; lam a Christian man, and as such-I cannot de sire the shedding of human blood. But, if the day must come, I shall rejoice in the hour that will let me take my stand for justice in the battle-field of her liberties." — (Loud applause.) A voice—Napoleon never had more recruits than you will have.—(Cheers.) Mr. O'CONNELL." But let us turn once more to this notable production—' Ireland, though under the domi nion of England,' has never been conquered by her.' This is truth.—(Hear.) England has succeeded in domi neering over us, not by the right arm of prowess, but by reason of our interval divisions, and because we relied too confidently on her honour and good faith. Our brave men laid their arias down and trusted in the ho nour of England. She turned on them in every case, and treacherously betrayed their .confidence. We were not conquered then, but swindled.—(Loud cheers.) But they have taught us a lesson. In the warfare which they pro claim against us, let them conquer us if they can ; but they never again shall swindle us.—(Cheers.) Now, I will venture to say, that if an army came here to cut down the Queen's subjects, Wellington and his army were not in half the peril at Waterloo that they would be in. —(Hear, and great cheerio(%) If they coine here it will be without the sanction of our Queen, to whom we are devoutly attached.—(Loud cheering.) The Irish have now cause to be more devotedly loyal than they ever had in their lives; and, in tbc name of the Queen, I proclaim that if an enemy came here to cut down her peaceable and loyal subjects, Waterloo would be a cheap victory to what they would have to encounter.—(Cheers.) But I am only talking of a dream. Such an event cannot possi bly arise, except our enemies become utterly mad, and wish to rush upon their own destruction. They dare not, in the face of Europe and America, attempt anything so sanguinary and atrocious, no matter how theymay be in clined.—(Hear, hear.) We will proceed with the Repeal agitation without interrnission.—(Hear, and laughter.) All Ireland is being organized, and we will never relax our efforts to accomplish the legislative' independence of our native land. An offer might be made to have the Whigs come in again if we give up Repeal, but my answer shall be the loudest " No" that ever was heard. (Cheers.) Any one who holds back at present, merely wishes for an excuse to do so, and I tell Irish men that their only security against such a party as the Cheltenham miscreants is to become at once Repealers, and make an effort for :their country's, regeneration.— (Iltar, and loud cheers) I have spoken of resistance, but it is not resistance to th'e — legil power. But if 'an il legal and sanguinaqparty, no matter whether they be Saxon, Dutch, or French, toyadta Imo Queen's ist.od for the purpose of cutting down the Queen's subjects, the people will be found in the front of the battle, and shall conquer or die to a man.—(Cheers.) But, as I have said, such an event cannot arise unless the party who now hold out those threats lose all their senses in the madness of bigotry and fanaticism. We have the majority of Scotland with us, we have a glorious minority in Eng land with us, and the paltry cowards who now hold out those threats would be the first to fly if the hour of dan ger arrived. I call upon the people to arouse for Re peal ! We conquered Peel before, and, whilst we call for the aid of every honest Reformer in England to con quer him again, our cry for Repeal shall be augmented.— Times. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. Notwithstanding the unpropitious state of the weather reaping has commenced on several farms in the neigh bourhood of this city. _ Alarms have been raised ; but, as far as regards this and the adjoining counties, nearly all concur in representing the various kinds of grain as likely to prove - v4.3 , preiltictive, if we should now be favoured with fine iitt‘ather. Several breadths of land in the midland and takrthern districts, however, are less cheering. The app rape of the crops in the whole district between Derby au' York will nowhere bear a comparison with the forwarcl. abundance of the more fa voured districts of WorceSterShire 'and Herefordshire ; wheat, in particular iss-,tMk'wiry l •straggling, backward, and apparently diseaSed.-*%Woreater, Journal. • During the last feW days the weather continued showery. We have had, however, an occasional gleam of sunshine, but scarcely sufficient to redeem the injury done to the growing crops, particularly the wheat, which, we regret to perceive, is completely prostrated in many places in the neighbourhood ; indeed we fear the serious apprehensions felt will, unfortunately, be too surely realised. Similar weather has prevailed in Tipperary, Kilkenny, and Wexford, and the same fearful results. A favourable change took place about mid-day on Sunday; the atmosphere cleared up, and the weather continues of ' a most cheering description.— Waterford Chronicle. The crops of all descriptions in Somersetshire appear in a state of profuse bearing, and fine weather is alone wanting to secure 9 ~harvest of the most luxuriant cha racter.—Taunton Catrier, Since the last no pitigress.has been made in the harvest ; rain, and a strong fronillie south-east, has still in creased, scamblingVie wlleat; and though we hear the actual damage to the crops is not increased, still a week is gone without any improvement or any progress in ripening, and the, wheat harvest must now be very late. The barley and oats were very strong and good, but are now laid flat in many situations, and the seeds getting through them fast. The peas were very good, and many pieces have been cut some time ,• the continued rains have injured them considerably.—Brighton Gazette. CHICHESTER.—The harvest is now pretty generally begun in this neighbourhood, but the corn in some places looks very green. SOUTH HANTS.—Notwithstanding the showery wea ther, the hay harvest has been earned in fine condition. The heavy rain on Tuesday last has thrown down the corn in many places. Should it prove fine, harvest wil be general here in the course of the week.— Western! Luminary. UNLUCKY NAMES.—On Friday last, after a few days illness, died at Petworth, William Death, the eldest son of Mr. Death, of that place; and on the fol lowing day, at Shoreham, Mr. Deadman, landlord of the Star Inn. The surgeon who was examined at the In quest on the body of Mr. Deadman, stated that the death of Mr. Deadman was caused by the breaking of a blood vessel. AGE OF ANIMALS.—A bear rarely exceeds twenty years; a dog lives twenty years; a wolf twenty; a fox fourteen or sixteen; lions are long lived. Pom pey lived to the age of seventy. The average age of cats is fifteen years; a squirrel or hare seven or eight years; rabbits seven. Elephants have been known to live to the great age of 400 years. When Alexander the Great had conquered one Phoras, King of India, he took a great elephant which had fought very valiantly for the King, and named him Ajax, dedicated him to the sun, and let him go with this inscription, "Alex ander the sun of Jupiter, hath dedieated Ajax to the Sun." This elephant was found with this inscription 350 years after. Pigs have been known live to the age of thirty years ;• the rhinoceros to twenty. A horse has been known to live to the age of sixty-two, but ave rages twenty-five to thirty. Camels sometimes live to the age of one hundred. Stags are long-lived. Sheep seldom exceed the age of ten. Cows live about fifteen years. Cuvier considers it probable that whales some times live one thousand years. The dolphin and por poise attain the age of thirty. An eagle died at Vienna at the age of one hundred and four years. Ravens fre quently reached the age of one hundred. Swans have been known to live three hundred years. Mr. Mallerton has the skeleton of a swan that attained the age of two hundred years. Pelicans are long-lived. A tortoise has been known to live to the age of one hundred and seven. W HAR F AT BLACKWALL FOR STEAM. BOATS. —A Correspondent, who mentions one or two ac cidents at this place, suggests that either a rail or a guard should be placed on the spot after dark, to prevent similar occurrences, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1841. BELGIUM. Bnosszu, AUG._ B.—Among the nmerous visitors of our brilliant exhibition we observe many Englishmen who came to Brussels solely for the purpose of examin ing the production of our manufactories. We learn that the tunnel of Hooster, near Chaufon taine, is completely terminated. This tunnel was one of the most important works of the line of the railway from the Meuse to the Prussian frontier. This section pre sents difficulties almost at every step ; it will be the ad miration of foreigners, and the worthy compliment of the Belgian iron railways. We may at length hope that the weather will continue to be fine. The sun appears to-day in all his splendour, and we have the usual temperature of the dog days. The Verdiers Journal of the 6th of August says , " A petition, signed by the principal merchants and ma nufacturers of Liege and Brussels; is circulated in this town to receive the signature of our principal manu facturers and merchants. It is addressed to the Minister of the Interior requesting him not to regard the objections which have been made by some merchants and shipowners against the establishment of a regular com munication by sea between Betium and some transat lantic ports. BRUSSELS, AUG. 9.—lt was in vain we hoped once more for a continuance of fine weather. Yesterday a pretty fine day was succeeded by a dreadful storm, which overtook thousands of persops who were walking in the surrounding country. It was quite a deluge. the rain fell in torrents for more than an hour, and the lightning and thunder were awful and incessant. BEUSSELS, Aua. io.—lt appears that the King and Queen will not go to Paris as was reported; but it is said that their Majesties will go to Ostend for a few days. The Ambassadors of Austria, France, and Great Bri tain, to the Court of Brussels, are all at Ostend. The marriage of the Prince of Aremberg 'to Princess Aldobrandini, was solemnized yesterday morning at lleverle. The ceremony was performed by Monsignore Fomari, the Pope's Nuncio. ti.Nui.; lAN I. UNDS—Danssit.e. Ave. 10. Actual Debt, 94 per Cent. .............. ...... 53 Rothselnid's Lean, 5 per Cent ........•••«•«•• 101 !4 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.......... 3 per Cent.......... ..••••••-•••••-- •• ...... 640) .................. 101 2 ,4 Loan of City, 1:32, per Cent .............. 91 Society of Comm 45.iper Cent. ........ 03% Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... .....».«»••• '73N, National Society . Exchange on London (short) ........... 11. 95 =Brussels Papers, Aug 10. DUTCH FUNDS.—AnsTERDAM, Avo. 10 Money. Hills. Actual Ocht, €;..% per Cent »..... 52 tA -Mtn, ditto 5 per cerit. ...... 101 101 k Amsrt B. , ndic, 4N, per ........ ill% 92 Ditto, ditto, aix,, per cent .................. 75 76 Commercial C'cmpany, •1‘- per cent . . ........ 155 , 4 156 IVtto (1135 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... 101) ki :02 Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97% 97% Exchange on London, One m0nth............ 12 07 % Two months ......... 11 97% Hamburgh, One month 35 SI% 'f wo months 35 btik Dutch Papers, Aug. 11. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vtinena, Atm. 3. rive per Cants. Metalliques Foal per Cents. 9f Three par Cents. 1523 (task 3har6s ..«........»....».«•••••••••:••• ititizenteine &flung, Aug. 7 - • Thirty zoven• SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYDS. LONDON, AUG. 12.—Wind this day at noon W. to N.W. DEAL, Atm. 11.—Wind S. by W. to S.W., blowing strong.—Arrived the Fortune, Norris, from Sydney, New South Wales; Dryad, Rickerby, Valparaiso ; Ra navalo, Mangatha, Cape Coast; Eddystone, North America ; Mandane, Murdock, Sydney, New South Wales. Arrived from the River and sailed, the Robert Small, from Calcutta, and since put back to Margate Roads. Arrived from the River, the Finqucton and Brunswick, for Quebec ; Prince George and Marquis Huntley, for do. Put back the Hebernia, for Dalhousie, with loss of anchor and cable. RAMSGATE, AUG. 11.—Arrived the John, from Shields, for Gibraltar, with sails split, &c.; George, Hartlepool; Caranton, with loss of main-boom ; Mary Reay, Dundee; Hanfleur, Castilian Maid, Shields, for Alicant, with loss of anchor and chain ; Ruby, Yarmouth, for Cardiff, with loss of two anchors and chain.. OFF THE NORTH FORELAND, AUG. 9.—The Auguste, Maine, from Bremen for Calcutta. • LIVERPOOL, AUG. 11.—Wind N., fresh.—Arrived the Science, from Grenada; Antonio, Havannah ; Lyra, Tortola; Charsalia, New Orleans; Jessie., Talmagouche; Wellington, Foster, Miramichi; Mary and Harriet, Mon treal; William Rippon, Jane, Wakefield, Commodore, Devereux, and Erin, Quebec; Eliza Cornish, Leghorn; Selina and Susannah Wilhelm, Danzic; Rubicon, Alex andria. Sailed the Eliza, Kellick, for St. Domingo; Pal myra, Demerara; Brigand, Antigua; Sweden, New Orleans; Lady of the Lake, Calcutta; Mary and Julia, Newfoundland; Chief, Rowell, and IV oodstock, St. John's, New Brunswick; Grenville, Bay, and Blonde, Quebec; Ann, Grant, Sierra Leone; Swift, Leghorn; Das Dunn, Naples. Arrived off, Calista. DovEa, AUG. 9.—Arrived Call Hennich, from Monte Video for Antwerp. It blew a gale at S.S.W. last night and early this morning. A boat marked Aquila, Whitby, W. Tyerman, has been washed ashore to the westward, all to, pieces. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 11.—Wind S.W. 'to W., fresh.— Arrived Saladin, Tenney, , from Havannah, with loss of main and mizen chains, and starboard quarter damaged, having been in contact 29th ult. with the the Poutaic, from Havre to New Orleans, lat. 43, lon. 27; the latter lost bowsprit, &c. Put back the Emu for Port Philip. It blew a heavy gale at S.S.W. all last night, and mode rated this morning. COWES, AUG. 11.—Arrived the Fortuna, from Mexico, with loss of main-topmast head. IN THE ChANNEL, AUG. 4.—Arrived the Brothers, Mosey,-from the Laurence _Dorothea, Monte Video, for Amsterdam. Pomp., AUG. 10.—Sailed the Hearts of Oak, 'or New toundland. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Cape packet, London, for the Cape of Good Hope. Arrived off the Ross, Hull for Miramichi. It has blown a gale from W.S.W. all night, but has shifted to N.W., and is very squally. FALMOUTH, 'AUG. 10.—Wind S. to S.W., fresh gales. —Arrived the Delight packet, from-Rio Janeiro, sailed on the 16th June, Bahia 2d, Pernambuco ith, with 180,000 .dollars in freight ; King Alfred, Bristol, for Alicant. Arrived off—Th e Leech, Le Pasquer, from Monte Video, and sailed for Antwerp. PENZANCE, AUG. 9.—Sailed the Brazilla, for Q uebec ; Celerity, Malaga ; Charlotte, Zante. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, AUG. 11.—The Liberty, from Portsmouth, got in contact last night with the Lord Beresford steamer, from Southampton, carried away her stern rail-bulwarks, stanchions, &c. YARMOUTH, AUG 11.—The Frances and Mary, May, has put in with loss of anchor and chain, and hawls of windlass upset ; Albion, of Whitby, with bows stove, and loss of anchor. WHITBY, AUG. 11.—The Erin, Hack, coal laden, got on Whitby Rock this morning, but was assisted off with out apparent damage, and proceeded. Coax, AUG. 9.—Arrived the Martha Ann, Alexander, from Halifax ; Bridgetown and Champlain, Quebec ; Dash, Newfoundland ; Louisa, St. John's, New Bruns wick ; Gossipium, London for Quebec, with rudder pintles damaged. SHIELDS, AUG. 9.—Sailed the Ann, Metcalf, for Calcutta. SCILLY, AUG. 10.—The Rapide, from Rio Janeiro to re paired,sNs,ANesaErAg,o A re u -s G h . ip l p o e .— d, A an rri d l i . s ed rea t d h 3 e , fo l r ,er se ri a e . r, sll Antwerp, which put in here May 2d, in distress, has B RIS TOL, AUG. 11.—Arrived the Sybilla, Jamaica.irk e, 'rem Cuba. Sailed the Hercules, for Quebec. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.--A brig in ballast, private signal three blue and two white perpendicular stripes, 21st ult., let. 47, lon. 29 ; Anna Liffey, of Dundee, for Que bec, Ist, 1at,48, lon. 17, by the Pollock, arrived at Hull. Woodville Castle, of and from Cork, lat. 26, lon. 44, by the Dyks, arrived at Kinsale. Alexander, bound to Con stantinople, 30th May, off Malta ; Eliza Sanders, for Constantinople, 13th ult., let. 37, lon. 13, by the Speck, arrived at Cork. Iris, Clyde to Bay Chaleur,' 7th, let. 51, long. 15 ; Abigail, St. John's New Brunswick, 30th ult., let. 47, on. 42 ; Emerald, of Kinsale, 18th, off Cape Sable, by the Louisa, arrived at do. A barque, with red ensign, and castle on it, and a white flag with "No. 94," in black letters, on it, was passed on the 4th ult. in let. 42, lon. 56, by the Louisa, arrived at do. Thomas Hunter, America to Liverpool, 9th ult. ; Royal Exchange, 19th ult., lat. 40 W., lon. 12 ; Brighton, 26th, let. 43, lon. 12, by the Rubicon, arrived at Liverpool, Whitby, London to New Zealand, 6th May, let. 45 N.. lon. 11 IV. ; Clarendon, London to Singapore, 27th, lat. 13, lon. 25 ; Dora, Newcastle to Rio Janeiro, 30th lat. 6, lon. 22 ; Sybil, Liverpool to Bombay, 31st, lat. 5, lon. 21; Waverley, Limerick to Hobart Town, Ist June, let. 4, lon. 22 ; Seahorse, Flushing to Batavia, 9th, lat. 4 S., ion. 29, by the Australia, arrived at Batavia. Drake, of St. John's. Newfoundland, from Viana, 11th ult., let. 42, lon. 35, by the Beau Ideal, arrived at New foundland. Gardiner, Liverpool to Calcutta, 6th, lat.. 51, lon. 6. by the Jo hn Carlin g , arrived at Bristol. i the Neptun e , ar rived Eliza Haniburgh for Bahia , 10 th ult., lat. 3 N., ion. 23,. at by the M ar yb o rough, arrived at ditto. Broth ers , Que bloen. c t l o 6a C , t l b y• yd ditto.et , h e Ist, iLl aalnvanit Lavinia, 48, arrived l ol Clyde eed32t oewfoundland, 6th, Pwelheli. Princess, b Royal, of Quebec, bound east, lon. 55 ; William Shep herd, Quebec to Yarmouth, 30th, lon. 34, which had spoke the Leo, Holdforth, from Quebec, off the Grand Banks ; barque Kangaroo, of Cork, 2d, lon. 27, by the Marwood, arrived at Dublin. , John Walker, Scotland to Cape Breton, 25th ult, let. 46, lon. 42, by the Hunt clitfe, arrived in the River. Anna Maria, of Sunderland, timber laden, with bowsprit end broken, 4th, lat. 49, l on . 22, by the St. Vincent, arrived at Bristol. Isabella, of Irvine, 15th ult., in the River St. Lawrence ; Brig Ra mona, of Dublin, 16th, and Sir Walter Scott, of Mull, 17th, both going up the River St. Lawrence ; barque Victory, Hull to Quebec, 18th, off Bee, by the Sophia, Wells, arrived at Milford.l Agnes, Gilmore, of Was- Ow, 21st ult., lat. 45, len. 52, by the Isabella, arrived at ditto. . - GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week ending A ugust 9, 1841 : Passengers Merchandise Darlington, Aug. 11. 1,465 16 9 D. O'BRIEN, Secretary. THE BAREBONES P ARLIAMENT..---(From a Correspondent.)--In one of the Morning l Tory Journals the Conference of Ministers at Manchester, in order to endeavour to procure a repeal of the Corn and Provision-laws, is designated a "Barebone" gathering. That designation may with great propriety be applied to their opponents, who admit the bare-bones (for manure) at a mere nominal duty, whilst they prohibit their im portation with the flesh upon them. Should the present Parliament resolve to continue these unjust laws it may, with the greatest correctness, be denominated a second 13arebones Parliament. THE DWELLINGS .OF THE POOR IN LONDON. If it were required to - draW a. strong pictifie of man Morally and socially degraded by misery, the savage tribes of distant zones would in all probability IT se lected to sit for it. Yet such darkly-shaded originals, such painful realities, need not be sought in remote Lands. Let the street beggar or the London thief be fol lowed to his home (if he have one), and mankind will be seen existing in degradation, as great, enduring misery as sharp, as the South Sea Islanders or the South Africans in their worst aspect. Amongst them poverty, vice, ig norance, have no contrast to heighten their effects; but here—in England, in London, perhaps at our own back doors—wretchedness the most acute, infamy the most shocking, exist upon the same square acre with a high condition of luxury and wealth ; and despite this near neighbourhood, it may be safely conjectured that the British public know more of the social miseries of the sa vage nations than they do of their own poor. it is a fact that in St. GileA's, in the back streets of Drury-lane, mound Westminster Abbey, in the parishes of Bethnal-green,Shoreditch, nearly all along the Surrey Shores of the river, and in the similar neighbourhoods of great towns, a state of social civilization exists, as low in degree as it is found in the far-off regions of Africa ! This is no rhetorical flourish—we have seen it. • Beggars, street jobbers, and the poorer classes otherwise employed, either hire a room by the week, or seek shelter in a nightly lodging-house. We visited last week, Charles, King, and Parker streets, Drury-lane ; many of the houses are without fore doors ; some of the rooms are in the last stage of dilapidation, and exhibit fewer conveniences than the basket-work cone of a Bechuana, or the wig-wain of a Red Indian. The stairs are in a few cases broken away ; the out-offices— where there are any—are rendered useless from ac cumulated filth, and the sewerage is frequently stopped up. Some of the rooms hai% no grates, and large holes let in cold from without. The best of the habi tations manifest in some part or other traces of ruin—all afford but imperfect shelter, and no convenience, there not being any fixtures, such as stoves and cupboards, but those belonging to the tenants ; the accumulation of dirt, refuse, &c., exhales effluvia scarcely tolerable (in entering the passages ; it is quite unendurable to a visitor, especially after a shower of rain, and can only be borne by the inhabitant from long habitude. "2hcse wretched abodes are either let in separate lodgi ags by their immediate landlords, or are rented by persons who sublet them; a speculation which seldom fails -to be a most profitable one ; for what does the reader suppose each of these dens produces per annum ? It may :startle him to hear, from thirty-five to fifty pounds ! Thus : for the two cellars, 3s. per week are charged ; the par r lours fetch 4s. per week ; the. first floor, 4s. 6d.; the second, 45.; the attics, 3s. The Secretary of the London City Mission has calculated the rental of Charles-street, Drury-lane, and finds it to exceed 2,000/. per annum. To show still further how profitable the subletting sys tem is, and at the same time the horrible encouragement and temptation to crime it creates, it is only necessary to state the manner in which it is carried on. We will take the example of a blind man who has now become the sole proprietor of some houses near Drury-lane. Some of the houses he originally rented of a superior landlord, and to make a profit he proceeded thus :—A single man or woman would apply for lodgings; he would ask what they could pay; if the answer were " Two shillings- a week," he would say, " You can have a lodging for one and sixpence a week, furniture and all, if you 0.6 not mind a couple of companions—the bed is very large." The bargain is struck; and thus the old man would get three lodgers at eighteen pence a week each for a room that probably stood him in less than a shilling. By this means he gradually accumulated money enough to pur chase the five houses he now owns, : and will doubtless die rich ; but, by what means ? Let us see: the ap plicant for lodgings is possibly a young man who has some situation of from teu to fifteen shillings per week, without friends to provide any other home than such as his narrow income drives him to seek in a poor neigh bourhood. He is honest and well disposed; it is more ..... than likely, however, that one, perhaps both his bed fellows, seem to him gay, pleasant persons, who live he does not know how, but, at all events, are seldom in want of cash. They take him to a " free-and-easy" now and then, introduce him to a female companion or two, whom he takes to the tea gardens on a Sunday. Being up late at night, he rises late of a morning and neglects his employer, who, of course, discharges him. His rent soon gets into arrear, and the landlord is troublesome ; but his companions pat him on the back when he des ponds, and ask him if he have "pluck" enough to do as they do. What is that ? The question is not long in being answered. Look for the hitherto well-disposed young man, who was till lately earning an honest living, and you will find him busy in some crowd seeking pocket handkerchiefs and other stray articles. He makes more money at this kind of industry (for a thief's is by no means an idle life) than he did in his formei pursuits, till he gets known to the police, which generally proves the " beginning of the end ;" for after this stage of his career the step is hut short to the hulks. This picture does not apply to the male sex only. A young girl, perhaps a milliner's journeywoman, a tambour worker, or a bookbinder's stitcher, seeks lodgings' in the same way. The landlord advises economy, and says how much better it would be for her to save sixpence a week by joining " the respect able young girl that lives in the two pair back ;" who is in fact a prostitute, and so will her new companion be in a very short time. These are no fancy sketches ; we can put our finger on the originals any morning in the week, from six o'clock till twelve. We have insensibly passed from the houses to their inmates : let us proceed. It will mostly be found that the basement of these houses, the kitchen or cellars, are preferred by thieves, for the con venient nooks - armi crannies they afford for hidinr , stolen property. The parlours are often occupied by :labour ing man, wife, and family. A journeyman, who works at ' home with his wife and family, will perhaps live on the first floor. The front room on the second floor houses a couple of street walkers ; the back room a beggar ; and so on. Here is a mixture of vices in full operation, and of virtue surrounded by temptation ! The man on the ground or first floor may be labouring hard to bring up his family with credit, but is obliged to live where he does, because, from poverty, he cannot procure lodg ings in a decent neighbourhood. One of his daughters gets gradually intimate with one of the girls above, without perhaps knowing the course of life she pursues, and, through evil counsel, soon becomes vitiated. Per haps it is one of the sons who makes the fatal acquaint ance, and the consequences are, if anything, worse ; for the prostitute most likely introduces him to the young thief in the collar, who is sure to be a friend of hers.— London and Southern Advertiser. EXPEDITION up the EUPHRATES. (From the Liverpool Times.) Some few of our readers may be aware that a vessel belonging to a leading firm in this town was sent to sea under sealed instructions, about eighteen months ago, having on board two iron steam-boats, and other cargo of a similar unusual description. The destination of the vessel, it now appears, was the Persian Gulf, the steamers having been constructed by order of the East India Company, to act as a flotilla for ascertaining the navi gability of the river Euphrates. The expedition has been highly suceessful, having traversed,the course of the stream ' 1,100 miles from its mouth, an achievement never before accomplished, and fully establishing the superiority of modern skill and science over the ruder resources of the ancients. We have been favoured with the following extracts from a private letter written by Mr. Floyd, the surgeon of the flotilla, to a professional friend, Mr. Samuel Potter, of this town, and brought by the last overland conveyance. They will, we think, be found well worthy of perusal by those who take an interest in scientific operations, and in the remarkable countries to which they relate. The letter is dated Belis, June 6 : " I have travelled over the greater part of Mesopota mia, got licked and phindered. I have traced the expe dition of the 10,000 Greeks under Cyrus the Younger, and identified many of the cities in their route. I am now near Aleppo with the flotilla, having completed the ascent of the river Euphrates, without doubt one of the noblest rivers of Asia; here, at a distance of 1,100 miles from its embouchure in the Persian Gulf, it is 400 yards broad and very deep. What a boast for England, upon whose flag the sun never sets, that the British ensign now floats in the breeze in the very centre of the land of the crusades and of the Courtenays, one of whose castles, ‘Jiaber,' said to be founded by Alexander the Great, towers majestically over our heads. " The 31st of May, 1841, was the happy day which crowned our efforts with success, and the distant Taurus Eon re-echoed the Royal salute which we fired in ho nour of the occasion. • " In a former letter I think I gave you a slight de scription of the Tigris river and surrounding country. The Euphrates differs little from the Tigris up to Huila, a Turkish-Arab town, built near the site of ancient:Baby lon, except that its banks are much better cultivated; and in some places the date tree (the palmus dcfctiliferus) adds to the picturesque meanderings of the river ; while in others a mosque, with its lacquered dome, rising from a grove of willows, is a leasing variety from the mono tony of the surrounding district. Winding its way through the ruins of fallen Babylon, the river passes Perisalom, then the ,field of Cunaxa, where Cyrus fell, and the 10,000 commenced their ever-memorable retreat. Then come Umbar, once the seat of a Christian bishop; hen Charmand, some ruins opposite the Pylor of Zeno .phon ; and then Hit, the Is of Sc ri pture , an d . famed for its fountains of bitumen and naphtha, which is in such abundance that it spreads itself over the earth. The river now is inclosed within a valley of high rocks, which extends from its source to below Hit. They are composed of gypsum, sandstones, and con glomerates with mica and felspar. The ancient Anatho, where Julian lost part of his fleet, is the next place of importance then comes Ezri, the river Chabour of Ezekiel, Al Deir, the Thapsac of Scripture, and the an cient part of Palmyra ; and lastly, the ruined castles of RaCcaba, •Tenobia. Bacoa, and Jiaber, all situated upon isolated rooks, - commanding the passes of ..th e river. These fortresses, from their differing entirely from a l others of a like nature in this country, and from the Roman arch prevailing, appear to me to have been the frontier posts of that empire against the Parthians. The natives have a tradition that they were built by the English during the crusades, and it is not improbable hut that they were occupied by the enthusiastic followers of Courtenay while he reigned at Orfas. Besides the towns which I have enumerated, there are several islands, many of which are well wooded : amongst them I may mention Juba, Haditha, and Aloose, strongly . fortified, having each 500 inhabitants, and beautifully situated in the valley of the Euphrates, between Hit and Anna. This climate is delightful, and produces all the va rieties of European fruit, besides many of the tropical ones lower down the river. Here is the only obstacle to the navigation of this river. It consists in the remains of the water-wheels used for irrigation. In the short space of 130 miles we found nearly 300 of these wheels, about one-third o f w hi c h are in operation at the present day. They consist, of large parapet walls built into the s t ream , directing ".he current of the river to the wheels, which are the m ost _ clumsy pieces of mechanism, made of branches of t reel, and having slung round them 150 clay vessels to r use the water in. The wheels are forty feet in diameter,, placed at the end of an aqueduct raised upon. well-built Gothic arches. They are the nearest approach to pe . tpetual motion that I have seen, and it is surpri.3ing the quantity of. water which they raise to the surface-. They cause a (Jurrent six or seven knots with a fall of .two or three feet, where they are, so that this part of the river is difficult and somewhat dangerous ; but as it is, we .have surmou nted all ; I should rather say, the genius and .skill of M fr e ssrs . J. L a i r d an d Macgregor. who furnished tt c boats and en&ines, have overcome obstacles which baffled the ivell-disciplined legions of Trajan and Julian, when they went to besiege Ctesiphon, and failed to drag their flee is against the stream on account of the current. " The Tigri s to Mosul, the site of the ancient Nine veh, and the Euphrates to Baulus—l might say to the heart of thr., Taurus (for we may go hither)—is now proved no:cigable. May British enterprise drive from this field I ;he Austrian and Russian who now occupy it, and may ( ivilisation, flying on the wings of commerce, carry with, it the blessings of the Gospel salvation ! Yea, here is a fine field for the missionary and the merchant. To the fo rimer it opens rip the Christians of a thousand hills—th a Armenians, • the Chaldean, the Nestorians, the Maronites, the o.isciples of St. John, the worshippers of the -Devil (who inlribit the "Tinjar Hills), and the Arabs ; but the time for the conversion of the latter, I fear, has not yet corae. . To the merchant it offers a market for the cottons of Manchester, the cutlery of Birmingham, and al.! sorts of trinketry ; in return they might get the spl , ,ndid wool of Arabia, far superior to anything I ever F Ail' at home ; the Cashmere wool which is brought to B Agdad, gall-nuts, the gum sandrac, myrrh, the balsams from the , south, pearls, diamonds, and tor poises crow .Persia; all which might be conveyed by steam up the Eur 2 brates to Belis, thence to the Mediterranean, a four dayF; journey. "So much for the comm erc i a l Advantages to be derived from the opening of the Euphrates ; let us now look to the, political. A communication is kept up with our 1n (1...an possessions, independent of that of Egypt—a great ,- advantage in our late broil with that Power ; India is reached in a much shorter time than thatsby the Red Sea ; the mission in Persia is brought much nearer ; and the means exist of throwing an Indian army either into the heart of Persia cr Syria, in the space of a few weeks. Surely these things, • taken collectively, reflect credit on the wisdom of those "mho have4lesigned and supported this expedition throughout, and placed- it upon - its pre sent prosperous footing." HIMLEY HALL, THE SEAT OF LORD WARD. The mansion is beautifully situated in the midst of an extensive and rich park of 600 acres, abounding with deer, and enclosed with a substantial stone wall.' -To the west a magnificent sheet of water of about 17 acres is seen, and there are the various lakes which cover about 50 acres, filled with numerous aquatic plants. In the background on the left, a steep rocky hill, finely clad with ancient and modern trees, appears, while the fields and hills gradually rise towards the horizon, where the spire of Sedgeley Church, and the windmill towards Dud ley, lift their heads amidst the picturesque scene, here so totally secluded by a barrier of hills from the manu facturing towns beyond. The upper part of the park, the woods and water on the right, appear to great advan tage ; the village church is a pleasing object, and the rising background over Swindon Common and Ashwood is enriched by the distant hills and woods at Enville, the seat of the Earl of Stamford. The walks through the woods and plantations extend between six and seven miles. Walking along my intention was taken by an old veteran Yew that had stood the vicissitudes of many centuries ; and I was afterwards furnished with the fol lowing lines written by one of the late Lord's visitors, W. T. Fitzgerald, Esq. : " This stately Yew, which has for ages stood, The gloomy monarch of its native wood, Perhaps some Norman Baron planted here, Who lived by rapine and who ruled by fear ; The tree a symbol of its master's mind, Emblem of death, and fatal to mankind. Beneath its boughs no verdant plants are seen, Its baneful branches poison every green ; And thus the feudal tyrant's hated reign Oppress'd the village and laid waste the plain. To these dire scenes a happier age succeeds, No despot threatens and no vassal bleeds ; At Himley now the poor man finds relief; Forgets his poverty and checks his grief, Raises his languid eyes and drooping head, To bless the lib'ral hand that gives him bread ; While in the mansion mirth and song attend, To cheer the stranger and delight the friend. But still the Yew, though hastening to decay, Retains the venom of its pristine day ; Its branches still their gloomy nature show, And frown upon the cheerful scenes below." This old Yew is likely to survive many ages yet ; it measures at one foot from the ground, 24 feet 10 in dies in circumference. Some distance on, is a Yew re markable for its fine trunk, its extreme height is 80 feet, at two feet from the greund it is 12 feet 6 inches in cir cumference, and at 27 feet 6 inches, 11 feet in circum ference. The Oak, the pride of England, towers above its humble neighbours in majestic style—a sure proof of the rich iron and coal mines below its roots. When a boy, trampling over the Glamorganshire hills and vales, I always admired the splendour of the oak, where its bark shines as if varnished when its roots penetrate the coal and iron mines. Adjoining the park are spacious woods, through which are commodious carriage drives inter secting each other, for many miles. On the south and west sides of the house are well-arranged gravel-walks ; disposed about the lawn are various clumps of flowers, such as roses, geraniums, verbenas, hydrangeas, fuchsias, salvias. tropmolums, pansies, and petunias, in masses ; and several beds of American plants, all forming a pleas ing and cheerful contrast to the lofty monarchs above the house. From this we walked for some distance to the westward, and entered a lofty greenhouse, and con servatory, and orangery, whose inmates were mostly turned out for the summer. In the kitchen-garden are three peach-houses, six vineries, one stove, three pine pies, well stocked with healthy plants, large mushroom houses, five ranges of pits, and three new houses erect ing for propagating and forcing early flowers. Mr. Whit tle, the gardener, has not been there many months, but appears an intelligent young man, a true lover of British plants, which he is collecting from all parts.—Gardener's Magazine. The Lambeth Reform Festival is to take place en Wednesday next, the 18th inst. FALKIRK TaYsT.,The August, oSArst Tryst for 1841, took place at;. , ttenhousemuir upda% Tuesday last. It is supposed that from 18,000 to 20,000 black cattle were upon the ground. The weather, inAhe morn ing, was unfavourable ; for- the appearance of jstock, but sales commenced briskly for heavy cattle in good condi tion. The first lot, consisting of sixty-one tine beasts, was sold by Mr. Fawn: They were of the 4ngusshirc breed, and brought 111. per head. The next lot was 20 small three-year-olds from near Perth, which, were sold for 51. per head. The best lot in the market', was eight polled stots from Methvcn, Fifeshire, bought 43 , Mdssrs. Laing and Thompson, Glasgow, 46 stone trot, at 231. 10s. Mr. Mitchell, Mcarns, sold a very fine lot of 30 at 121. 10s. to Mr. M'Gill, Edinburgh. The second lot was sold by Mr. Walter Finlay to Mr. Brown, Glasg,ow, con sisting of 40, at 201. per head. A great numbtr of small West and North Highlands were sold at from 31. 10s. to 5/. each. A splendid show of horses was at the Tryst, but sales appeared, during the day, very dull.' Draught horses brought from 101. to 20/. ; and a great number were unsold. Mr. Mtrerte4,,eff.-.llyerary, had a lot of about 60 fine Highland ponies fiat/7'61.4,p fI years old, which met with a ready market at from 3.11...W5/. 10s. TESTIMONIAL TO J.BELLAMY, ESQ., CLERK or AssizE or TIIE Oxronn CIRCUIT.—On F r id a y , evening last, a numerous and respectable body of Solici tors and other gentlemen connected with the Oxford Circuit, presented to J. Bellamy, Esq., their highlj and deservedly respected Clerk of Assize, a testi monial of their regard and esteem for his professional and private character. The testimonial consisted of a splendid silver salver, two smaller ones, a pair , of elegant candelabra, and a pair of dishes. On the largest salver was the following inscription, "To John Bel lamy, Esq., Clerk of Assize of the Oxford Circuit, in tes timony of sincere respect for his professional and private character, and as a mark of personal esteem contracted and confirmed during a period of lengthened intercourse, this salver (with two smaller ones, a pair of candelabra, and a pair of dishes) is presented by his professional and other friends to perpetuate their sense of the promp: titude, urbanity, integrity, and learning displayed by him in the discharge of the.onerous, important, and ar duous duties of his office for nearly 30 years. August 6, 1841." The duties of the presentation Were ably per formed by Thomas Davis, Esq., of Gloucest er , s o licitor Among the fashions prevailing just now in Paris. is that of wearing ten breadths in the skirts of the dress. In one of Jauy's papers he makes an old lady declare that the brocade of her wedding suit was afterwards made into covers for a sofa and a dozen arm-ehairs, and it seems likely that so curious an epoch of fashion will be now renewed. RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—A professional gentleman left Baniv)ell on Saturdaymorning, after break striking twelve a , nd fast, passed by St, t h r n e t o il% to reach home by Paul's in London,whilst the clock was ance in town, dined and transacted business of import- For w db,ui omnibus at a time mteea.ttimo tiele:_l3Balaint;elsutartlticioln. weeks past during the gloomy weather, . e complained e many p ersons hav omplain of difficulty in their re spiration an d of being otherwise effect• ed• Medical men of experience attribute the cause to the want of a due portion of oxygen gas hi the atmosphere, and the air not being properly rarified, occasioned by the absence of sunshine for many days. LEwES.—The good folks of this town and its neighbourhood, particularly. the Conservatives, have been exceedingly disappointed this Assize. They were led to expect, from the bills issued by Mr. Thomson on the 25th o f June last, that he would have brought to trial the party charged with " gross bribery," who, he an nounced, had been that day detected, on the Whig side, But, lo I and behold ! the Assizes are gone and passed, and no trial has taken place, thus proving that no charge could be substantiated against the party accused, how ever easily one could be trumped up. This is the second disappointment the leaders of the Conservatives have sub jected their friends to, and a third will speedily follow. By-the-bye, what will become of the 25 sovereigns which Mr. Thomson stated he held possession of ?—Brighton Guardian. AN IDIOT'S HAPPlNESS.—Barnaby's en joyments were to walk and run, and leap, till he was tired; then to lie clown in the long grass, or by the grow ing corn, or in the shade of some tall tree, looking up • ward at the light clouds as they floated over the blue sur face of the sky, and listening to the lark as she poured out her brilliant song. There were wjld- MO RNA SUN. red poppy, the gentle harebell, the cowslip, and th e rose. There were across the distant pathway in th e woo d , flowers to pluck—the bri g h t -birds _ to match ; fish ; ants ; worms • hares o r ra bbi ts, were dasli g ed one ; minions of liv ing t hi ngs to have an it as nd th s e o y interest in, and lie in wrdt for, and clap hands and shout in memory o f, whe n the y had disappeared, la default of these, or when they wearied, there was tho :nerry sunlight to hunt out, as it crept ugh leaves and b oug h s of trees, and hid f deep, in holl ow places—like a s i a n i Irl a .e s r l d an op t woon t_h l :S o,w Zere nodding branches s jeet sc ents o f summer scaeirnibedreathto or clover ; th e p er f ume of wet trees, • and shad ows bathe and sport • ing over fields ofbeans leaves or moss ; th e lif e t .' . f waving always changing. Wh en thC se or any of the m ti re d , or in excess of pleasing tempted h... 1 to shut his eyes, there was slumber in the midst of all the. - ;e soft delights, with the gentle wind murmuring like =Lie in his ears, and everything around melting into one delioious dream. —.lloz. POPULATION OF TURK Augsburg Gazette states that the total population of Turkey is twenty-three millions o of whom sixteen are Musselmans, and seven Christians or Jews. In some quarters of Con stantinople the population has been tripled since the commencement of the last reign. MAIL GvAnDs.—We are requested to con tradict a paragraph which has recently gone th.e round of the papers, that the mail guards, having rece.;ved an increase of salary, were no longer allowed to receive gratuities from passengers. Such not being the case, the guards hare unfairly been deprived of the fees they were in the habit of being favoured with from passengers desirous of rewarding their attention.—York Herald. During the deluge of rain in the storm of Tues- - day night last, there was a slight mixture of snow; it did not, however, lie on the ground, but melted as it All. To • have snow in August is indeed unusual in LincLln.— L , ncoln Gazette. JEwrsu MARRIAGE.—Married, on the ist inst., at his residence in High-street, Sunderland, Mr.. Jacob Joseph, a highly respectable Israelite, to Miss Elizabeth Samuel, of Rotterdam. This marriage way solemnised according to the rites and ceremonies of the Jews. The bride was led into the room closely veiled, elegantly dressed, supported by her mother and a female friend, and led round the bridegroom under a canopy thrice, when theraarriage service commenced, and was closed by the bridegroom putting on the bride's finger a ring, when he declared that he took her to be his wife according to the custom of the' children of Israel, and also put in• her 'hand the marriage contract written in Hebrew, and signed ; after which the bridegroom drank a little wino out of a glass, and when the bride had also partaken, he,. dashed the glass to the floor with great fome, and. •.\ stamped with his feet on the fragments. We are as sured bysome that were not only present, but understand the Hebrew language, and their antiquities and enstoins„ that the service was very impressive and highly interest-_ ing. About eighty persons were present, both Jews, ele gantly dressed, and Gentiles, when they sat down to a plentiful dinner. The graces were chanted in Hebrew, and afterwards the seven blessings. Every attention was given to such of the Gentiles as were present.—Northcrn. Times. A. few days since a fisherman named Masey, re— siding at New Romney, discovered in a pell at low water, and about mid sands, a curious old measure resembling copper, and holding about .a pint, having a bell-metal handle with the figure of a lion or some other beast thereon. On minutely examining the bottom of it, the date 1412 was deciphered. Some time ago two metal spoons were found on the same spot, marked IY B. It will be in the recollection of some of our readers that about 20 years since the keel of a wreck was dug out from this place, and brought up to the town, but the name and date of the vessel could not be ascertained.— Kentish Gazette. AN UNREDEEMED PLEDGE.—About nine o'clock on Tuesday night a fine female child, about three weeks old, was left in the side slip of the shop of Mr. Cottle, pawnbroker, Borough-road, Southwark, dressed in a white calico bed-gown, white checked muslin night-cap, with three borders, and the skirt of a brown merino gown. The inhuman mother had put a piece of muslin, with sugar in it, into the child's mouth, to pre vent its crying, and it was only by being kicked against by a girl coming with a pledge that it was found. The parochial authorities were made acquainted with the circumstance of the finding of the infant, which, after a little delay, was taken into St. George's workhouse. THE SIMPLON.—A correspondent, just re turned from Italy by the Simplon, informs us that although that magnificent route received much damage, between the years 1834 and 1839 from torrents and other causes on the Italian side, yet it has been sufficiently repaired and is in good condition, although in parts rather narrower than it used to be. There is only one stream, also on the Italian side, where carriages have to be ferried over. We mentioned some time ago (from the Swiss papers) that the Sardinian Govern ment, with that spirit of public improvement by which the King and his councillors are so much distinguished, had determined on again applying aportion of the large sums annually expended in that country on works of national utility, to the further repair of the Simplon ; and the operations will, we have no doubt, be carried on with activity.—Galignani. The Colonial Governor of Bermuda had issued an order, that after the 6th July the only charges to which all vessels would be subject on entering or clear ing at the various ports in that colony would be, to the Governor, 1/. 45.; Secretary, 1/. Os. 4d.; the - Clerk, 6s. Bd. On all vessels reporting inwards or outwards, ts:t the Governor, 6s. 8d; Secretary, 13s. 4d; and the clerk, 6s. Bd. The 245. Bermuda currency to be equal to 16s. sterling. The Colonial Secretary to receive is. for each of the crew, and a fee of ss. 4d. for -the bond granted.by all masters of vessels not owned in Bermuda against leav ing sick or disabled seamen, which is required both the entries and reports.—Hcrald DISAPPEARANCE OF A STUDENT OP I-10- MERTON COLLEGE.—Yesterday information was received at all the metropolitan police stations of the mysterious disappearance of Mr. Thomas Hinds, a student at Ho merton College. It appears that the gentleman in question, who is about twenty-three years of age, left. Gravesend for London on the morning of Saturday last, where he arrived in safety, having called at the College about six o'clock the same evening ; since which time he has not been seen nor heard of. He is described as being about five feet eight inches in height, with a full. face, and hair light and curly ; no wiskers, light blue eyes, and in person full bodied. Was dressed in a suit of black clothes, a satin stock with long ends, fastened with a Peruvian diamond pin' -;.• linen marked, "T. Hinds." Had in his waistcoat pocket a gold chronome ter watch, made by Frodesham, &c., London, with the initials "T. IL" on the cases, worn with a gold guard chain. In his pocket he had also 5/. and a Russia leather pocket-book containing memorandums. Wednesday the policemen's old great coats were distributed for the use of the poor to the different metro - politan parishes, by order of the Commissioners of Police. Many of them are very decent, and willbe of great service to the poor men who are exposed to the inclemency of the weather. CORN DEAtints.—The Tory Journals have republished the case of a man :who was convicted of an attempt at Cambridge, in the year 1741, to raise the price of corn. They call the article punishment of Corn-jobbers. Do they mean, then, to revive the punishment for forestalling and regrating ! Or, do they mean to confine the Corn-trade, as well as the growing of corn, to the hands of the rent-owners, and their depen dent tenants at will ? NEWSVENDERS' BENEVOLENT AND PROVI DENT INSTITUTION.-011 Tuesday the subscribers and friends of this excellent charity had another aquatic trip, being their second excursion this season, when a numerous party proceeded in the Laurel steamer to partake of the festivities which had most bountifully been provided for them, at the celebrated tavern at Tvvickhenham Ait. The weather fortunately proved propi tious, and at ten o'clock the vessel, under the direction f of Captain Reynolds, her experienced Compla.ndebrr, t her moorings at the Old Swan Stairs, Lonedsoen; calling for company at Hungerford and Chelsea ! arrived at The company, shortly before three o'clock, sat down to the Alt, and after promenading. the t iii. groundshest style. At dinner, which was served up seven o'clock the company, e m in barked, and arrived at eCghamher of Commerce at A meeting of the to a resolution to petition Con gress New Orleans bad co o m at e s b of the Royal West India Steam a late hour, after a day d E t e it - fully and well spent. to place the upon upon the most favourable sition were acceded to, a direct re it' this- take place every twenty-two days, ceipt of news w ould commence on the Ist of October. f N oo av ti i n ga g and the re footing. CompParoepoY "ne -e ' re laid down thus :—No. 1. .London to of Corunna,Funchal, Barbadoes, and Returning, Havannah ta London, by way of Nassau. Barbadoes. No. 2. On the arrival a the London steamer Barba • Savannah, one steamer would leave for Honduras, a t Vera Cruz, Tampico,New Orleans,and Havannah. Another would leave at the same time for New Orleans iTilasveanronuahte,sbyw way Anot direct, thence to Tampico, Vera Cruz, Honduras, Ha vannah. No. 3. Halifax to Havannah, by New York and back. No. 4. Barbadoes, Leeward Islands, Jamaica, and back. Lady Mary Morgele expired on Saturday •at Charlton, Gloucestershire. The deceased, who was second daughter of the late, and aunt of the present, Earl of Lis towel, was born in 1780, and married, first, 15th of Ja nuary, 1803, Mr. C. M. Balders, and after that gentle man's death, married 7th August, 1824, Mr. Thomas Ro,yse Morgele. A great nuriber of labourers employed on the London and Brighton Railway, crossed the Channel to work on the Paris and Rouen line, having been engaged at a high rate of wages. Several of them have lately returned, declaring they could not perform the laborious 'work in that country, as they were unable to procure their accustomed beverage, beer. PITHY AND PLEASANT.--A recent writer, giving an account of British dependencies, thus speaks of Bonaparte's " frightful rock," as he was wont to call it:—" bt. Helena, on its first discovery, contained sea fowls, and some seals and turtles, with a forest of trees and shrubs, all peculiar species, with one or two excep tions. It is now a mere rock:'devoured by rats!" AssAM TEA.—A stile of 35,000 chests of Assam tea took place at Calcutta on the 26th May. It was conducted in the Chinese fashion. The leaves were infused in hot water, and the beverage tasted by intend= ing purchasers. The lowest lots sold for a rupee four annas, that is 2s. 6d. the pound. The highest, for three rupees four annas, 6s. 6d. The tea was pronounced to be excellent. METEOR.—A very beautiful meteor was ob served from Carcluie-hill, on Wednesday evening, about a quarter past eight o'clock. It appeared in the form of two balls of fire, and passed slowly in a straight line from north-west to south-east. It had no tail, as most meteors have, and was visible for the space of nearly half a minute.—Correspondent of th e A yr Observer. - r