The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-02 00:00:00

EVEN IN( SUN WESTMINSTER REGISTRATION. • (THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. ARNOLD.) The Learned Revising Barrister gave judgment this morning in several cases, in which, from their impor tance, he had reserved his decision. LORD DINORBEN'S CASE. Mr. ARNOLD said, this is the case of a party who claiM s to b e placed on the list of voters, for the city of Westminster, as being possessed of the qualifications mention e d i n t h e 27th section of the Reform Act (2 W. ,c. 43) which enacts, " That in every city or borough, which shall return a Member or Members to serve in any future Parliament, every male person, of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity, who shall occupy, within su c h c i ty or borough, &c., any house, &c., of t h e clear yearly value of not less than 10/. shall, if duly re- , gistered according to the provisions hereinafter cont i a ‘ t i ned . be entitled to vote in the election of a Member tn. city bers'to serve in any future Parliament for such t el e y: e_ borough." Then, follow the provisions thatanth_ have cuer must be rated to the poor's-rate, t a . nd have Paid such rate, and the assessed taxes,. resided for a certain time either in thocqy or within a certain di stance thereof. By the 44th section, the oyer- C_Trs of parishes in every city and borough are required to make out a list " of all persons who may be entitled, by Virtue cf this Act, to vote in the election of Member s fur bers fur' suc h c i ty or b oroug h. By the 47th secti on , it s enacted that every person, omitted in such lists, " who shall claim to have his name inserted therein, as having bien entitled on the last day of July then next preceding," may give a notice of claim according to the form set out in the schedule, by which notice the party claims to have his name inserted in the list of persons entitled to vote in the election of Members for the city. And by the 50th sec tion, the Revising Barrister is required to insert in the lists of voters " the name of every person who shall be proved, to his satisfaction, to have been entitled, on the last day of July then next preceding, to have his name inserted in any such lists of voters for such city or bo rough." Now it appears to me that the effect of these enactments is, that I ought not to insert in the lists the name of the present claimant, unless it is proved to my satisfaction that he is entitled to vote at an eketion of Members for this city. It is admitted that the claimant has a sufficient qualification under the 27th' section of the Act, as regards all the positive requisites there stated; but it was proved that he is a Peer of the realm, and Was at. on and before the 31st of last Tulv such has sat and voted in the House of Lords. The important question, therefore, that I have to decide is, whether a Peer can vote at the election of a Member of the House of Com- Mons, or whether he falls within the exception of the 27th section, and is "subject: to any legal incapacity" in that respect. The gentleman who attended on behalf of his Lordship to enforce the claim, informed me that his Lordship was already on the list of voters _in two or three of the Welsh counties, and that in one of them the question had been discussed before the Revising Barrister, who had admitted the claim. I should have been glad if I could have been furnished with any note of that decision, that I might have seen the grounds upon which it was formed ; but in the absence of any such assistance, I must form my opinion in the best manner I can from a review of the constitutional law upon the subject. I was reminded in the course of the argument that there is no statute by which a Peer is incapacitated from voting in the election of a Member of the House of Commons. Nor is any statute necessary on the subject, for if a Peer of the realm is not qualified to vote, such 'disqualification will arise from the law of Parliament. There is no statute that I am aware of by which aliens are disqualified from voting at elections, or from becoming Members of Parliament. There is no statute —at least prior to the Reform Act—by which women are disqualified from' voting. Again—there is no sta tute by which the Judges of the Superior Courts of Coinmon Law at Westminster are disqualified from be ing Members of the House of Commons. But all these are well-known and undisputed doctrines of Parlia mentary law. There is no statute even by which Peers of the realm are expressly disqualified from being elected Members of the House of Commons, but the bare enunciation of such a proposition is sufficient to show its absurdity ; b ut i t may be carried yet one step further, by r observing 4. 0 re, 0 that there i s no statute b y which the So veereign of the realm is pr ec l u d e d f rom vot i ng for a Mem bf Parliament. Into the law of Parliament, there ',' must look for the doctrine upon this subject. R I was made to the Sessional Order of the House of Commons, declaring, " That it is a high inCringement of th e lib erties and privileges of the Commons of the United Kingdom for any Lord of Parliament, or other Pier or Prelate, &c., &c., &c., to concern himself in the election of Members to serve for the Commons in Parlia ment;" and it was contended that this Order of the House of Commons could not have the force of a law, inasmuch as that House, being only one branch of the Legis lature, could not make a law—that even if it had such fo rce, it would only be of effect during the Sessions of Parliament, and that its power would expire dupon a dissolution; and that, at any rate, whatever vali ity this resolution m i g ht h ave , and whatever penalties Peer might incur by reason of infringing it, disfran chisement was not necessarily among them. With re gard to the observations that the House of Commons can riot make law, it is a plain and self-evident proposition, .for laws can only be made by the Queen and Parliament 'that is, by the Queen, the Lord s , an d C ommons ; b ut t he power of declaring what the law is in any particular e ase, is of necessity vested i n var i ous tr ib una l s, as the Power of declaring the common law is vested in the Court s of Common Law, and the power of declaring the law f p • 0 ornament is vested in either House of Parlia ment respectively and most .particularly , is th e p ower of declaring the law of Parliament, with re d to elections of Members of the House of An 1„;71„cTs, ve s t e d i n t h at H ouse, as t h e peculiarly r d " "n) P it tribun a l f or d ec idi ng upon such matters. tis found that the House of Commons have te:tl' to a clear ai:d express resolution upon a subject re bind •ng to election law, that resolution is, in my opinion, uing upon every other tribunal, and most especially • upon a person sitting in my situation, for the purpose of revising the of voters for returning Members to t. at H OO , O ;land I cannot perceive that such a resolu ion loses any of its force or effect from the circum stance of the House bringing it before the public notice e'er, the co mmencement of every Session. If this, how- Ztwere were the only resolution of the House of Commons iii.c,lth,! subject, I s h ou ld, perhaps, feel some difficulty in l ing how t o app l y it to the case of a Peer voting at 1 5 / I n t elec tion, and should doubt, perhaps, whether it was e nded to apply to such a case, or only to the pr accbof u nconstitutional and positive interference by of - r on such occasions to influence the votes obi.—tt „ others. T hat such was it; original scope and • appears, I think, from the first instance of such a esolution, which seems to have been passed as early as 1641 ( 20 th Dec., 2 Com. Journ. 337), and was directed to Peers i n t er f er i ng at elect i ons, b y sending letters " °r°l 4: l ls, directing th e m w hom th e y s h ou ld e l ec t ; a What s i m il ar interference to that recorded by the 'ne gstorian Walsingha m , on th e par t o f Ki ng Ri c h ar d t h e who is stated to have called the Sheriffs, Jus &c., to N o tti ng h am, w h ere i t was proposed to the ri'riffs that they should not permit any Knight of the nty to be chosen to the Parliament but such as the s i l l n g, and his Council should appoint, unto which the heir er iff answered, " That the Commons would keep Ah old customs which will that the Knights be elected ri the Commons."—[Ypodigma Neustria?, fo. 531, 13; t ; cited Whi te l oc k, vo l . i , c h . 42, p. 383.] : t • ) whatever ay be the effect of the resolu in question, it does not appear to me to necessary now to consider, it, inasmuch as ::q_Ple.Year 1699 the House of Commons came to a dis .7!lleect.tesolution that no Peer ad m a right to vote in the election of Members of the House of Commons. The rounistances which gave rise to this resolution will be ‘ . o . o ad in the 13th volume of the Commons' Journals, and twiteil:e briefly as follows :—On the 16th of November a pe mr'r! Ivus presented by Wm. Fitch against the return of beil Irby Mo n t ague f or M alden, in Essex, Mr. Fitch 1 0 ' 2% a candidate ; and this p e titi on was referred to ' the ID`,!rnntee of Privileges . —(l3 Com. Journ. 5.) O n th e of De cem b er f ollowing, a Report from the Com alattee was brought up, in which the evidence was de taied. I t appeared that it was insi s t e d on b e h a lf of t he petitioner (among other things) that five voters, 4L eaong whom was the Earl of Manchester, which stood b Pon the sitting Member's poll, ought not to be allowed 43 „ good votes for him." Anil it was peoved that the E ar l o f 41 anchester had voted for the sitting Member ; after tetti ng out the evidence relating to the other votes, the •kto t . Port concludes by a resolution of the Co mm i ttee , t h at " 4 , 1 % Montague was duly elect e d, an d t hi s resolution was i, ttu pted by th e H ouse u p on a di v i s i on by 171 to 96; and R -l en follows this entry :—" Resolved, nemine contradi (e, that n o P eer o f thi s Ki ng d om bath any right to earl his vote in the election f or any M em b er to serve i n ent."- (13 Corn. Journ. 63.) Thi s reso l ut i on a ppear s (13 have been adopted as a s t an di ng resolut i on i tlf t he House upon th e mee ti ng o f a new Parliament ' ll 17 b e a u oo (13 Feb., 13 Com. Journ. 326), and is, I th at e ;'e, to be found as a regular sessional resolution from t ine to the present, in exactly the same words, except ti, 4 , l tom the time of the Union with Ireland, an addi- Nvhij Se i nt9ce was introduced relating to Irish Peers, k lv tl, l. t is not necessary to notice in this instance. th e 4'_ . ' B appears. to me to be a distinct adjudication by th e Zuse of Commons upon the subject, of which in cogui z i a l atlen I now occupy, I think I am bound to take tn i l 'ee; nor, I may add, would the rule be unknown for ji n u ti ° l tjog at the . matt . er merely as a common lawyer, 4 4% , by C, t he resolution imported as a proposition of t 9). 111 t 4t l i. Comyn in his Digest. Tit. Parliament (D. although such is my own opinion as to the Ppe at ° `anditv of these resolutions of the House, there njl~thr sto h - owa eve been something in the nature of a doubt upo n _them b no less an authority than a Com a/e/t: the House itself; for I find that in Lord South ,the,que34.l% to.roitwich, (Knapp and Ombler, 69), where . )s as as to the validity of the vote of an Irish air the r, ng a Member of the House of Commons (who, sa t , . eurp ose , e h of the present argument, stands upon the as... an English Peer), the Committee came to a e llO st, ti , e That they were of opinion that there was _hoed under which the Barrister could have ex -4-t'1)1131 the list the name of Lord Southwell, but rd e , 0, ,?itnselves called upon to enforce the Standing teeti on. ! , t,o , House against the interference of Peers at ~eelti,,,;tltLy struck his name off the poll." Without thinfc"".llupugn the authority of this resolution I may, 1 ah se y s , without its f or ,`'ee of an Propriety, observe—First, that the p_ r us, f r La 3r y statutory prohibition on the subject af , oof t'',o ee..already taken occasion to remark, no ttpreattentiuone o..istence of the right ; and secondly, that; lie eete d to t the the Committee seems only to have been tt-esolution against the interference of e 9t ; and th at hey do not notice the resolution expressly ing ga th ti i v s i n r g the right to vote. But still I cannot help consider the Itev. !soltion as an intitnati by l the . Committee that ;Lord solusltnhg Barzister was right in he name of e:etly called''llll on theca list ; and I therefore avint feel, if not _yr pon o so, at least justified in briefly reasons why, u ht teonstantional grounds, I pon • • ließab e a has no rig II Peer the Souse of C ram o voonte3, inTt4h; Parliament, ~_. ~-- = • it is well known, consists of the King, or Queen Regnant, as the head, and the three Estates of the realm as Mem uoanl t L ogether t e p r i b d er i3 s , ,. i t -, h •l e lic t •h o t r i d i ,s re T e L E ,m s p ta d t r e a s L ar N e — vho l b st o , ti t i he si t e . 2 chamber with the Sovereign ; and 3dly, the Commons, who from a very remote period of our history have been an elective body, and have satin a chamber by themselves. The very designation of this representative body, namely, ' th abuse of Commons or the Conintons' Housc ofl'af liament, would be alone a sufficient ind i cat i on that they were elected by and represented the commonalty of the realm, and not the Peers, who are a distinct and separate body from the Commons ; but there is abundant authority, from Blackstone up to the earliest writers, that such is the case.. [ln 1 Blackstone, p. 158, it is said, " The Cc m mons consist of all such men of property in the kingdom as have not seats in the House of Lords, every one of which has a voice in Parliament, either personally, or by his representatives."] [Crompton in his Jurisdiction of Courts, 26, says, " In the Lower House sit the Speaker, and the knights of the shires, and of cities who are counties of themselves, and other citizens of cities which are not counties, and the burgesses of towns, and the barons of the cinque ports, who (with a clergy who as semble in Paul's) represent the body of all the common alty of England."] [Lord Coke in 3 Inst. 1, has the following passage, " The third estate is the Commons of the Realm, whereof there be knights of shires or counties, citizens of cities, and burgesses of burghs. All which are respectively elected by the Shires or Counties, Cities and Burghs, by force of the King's writ, cx debito justiticr, and none of- them ought to be omitted ; and these represent all the Commons of the whole realm, and trusted for them."] Indeed the very language of the Royal writ directed to the Sheriff for the purpose of electing Members, points out that the Knights who may be elected for the county, " for themselves and the commonalty of the said city, &e. &c., may ha ve full and sufficient power," &c. Whitelock, in his learned treatise upon this writ, has several passages that arc extremely pertinent to . the present subject. He says—:" To begin with the Lords, the chief members of our public councils, it is undoubted that they have their seats and suffrages in our Parliaments, not by election of the people, but by birthright of primogeniture." Vol. 1, c. 41. p. 367; and again —"And although the Peers of England are not elected by the people, yet they were all at first chosen by our Kings, and have been invested in that rank of Peerage, either by holding land of the King by the tenure of a Baroty, or by , being summoned by the King's writ, to be MeMbers of the Lords' House in Par liament, or by being created T.ords,bythe King's letters patent, as bath been noted. And they are not capable of being elected Knights, Citizens, or Burgesses to serve in Parliament; for the writ commands the Sheriff to cause Knights, Citizens, and IZurgesses, not Dukes, Earls, or Barons, to be, el e et e d."(lb. p. 376.) A n d h e then re fers to the case of Lord Camoys, who "being a Baronet and a Baron, was elected Knight of the Shire for Surrey —(7 Rich. 2.)—and the King by his C ounc il , declared that election t o b e vo id in law." And afterwards, in commenting upon the words " Klli ghts,Citizens,ond Bur gesses," he says:—"These are the representatives of the Commons of the whole kingdom, and are all of them of the rank of Commons."—Ch. 61, vol. 2, p. 4. And, again, " The diff erence b etween the constitution of the Lords and Commons in Parliament is this :—The Lords repre sent themselves only; the Members of the House of Com mons are there for themselves, and for all the commonalty of the several places for which they serve."—ld. ch. 75, p. 87. And in another passage lie says, "It is a great trust reposed in the Knights of Shires to have the power of the whole commonalty of a county , of many thousands of people conferred on them. So that whatsoever these Knights, with the rest, shall do and consent unto in Parliament, Both bind all the commonalty, not only of the county for which they serve, but of the whole king dom. And because the Members of the House of Commons have power for ' the commonalty' of the several counties and places for which they . serve, therefore they are frequently styled the commonalty, that is by representation they are the commonalty, and their acts are the acts of the commonalty,' from whom they have their power, and who are bound by them." And then, after referring to some old Acts of Parliament in which "the common alty" are mentioned, he adds, " The like is to be seen in sundry other Acts of our Parliament, where, because the Members of the House of Commons do represent and are empowered by the commonalty of the several places for which they serve, therefore their Acts are called the Acts of, and do bind the commonalty of, the whole king dom."—Ch. 66, vol. 2, pp. 88-9. I might add innunier , able authorities to the same effect ; but I will only sub join two passages from Lord Coke, which appear to me to be strongly in point. The first is from 4 Inst. p. 4, where he says, " Commons are in legal understanding taken for the frank tenants or freeholders of the counties." The terms of this passage might seem not e x p ress l y to exclude Peers, but the author immediately . adds, " And whosoever is not a Lord of Parliament, and of the Lords' House, is of the House of Commons either in person, or by representation, partly coagmentive and partly representative." And the other from 2 Inst. p. 29 : " The general division of persons by the law of England is either one that is noble, and in respect of his nobility of the Lords' House of Parliament ; or one of the Commons of the Realm, and in respect thereof of the House of Commons in Parliament." I have been betrayed, perhaps, into an unnecessary length upon the subject, but I was most anxious to give the matter the fullest consideration in my power, partly in deference to the .intimation of the Committee in Lord Southwell's case, and partly from some expressions of opinion I have met with which seem to point in another direction. Thus, in Mr. Elliott's book on the qualification and registration of electors, there is this passage, " When the Members of the House of Peers were first excluded from voting at the election of Members of Parliament does not exactly appear. The •• returns preserved by Prynne show that, at an ca rlier period of our history, they exercised that privilege." The passage in Prynne is not referred to. I have devoted a consi derable portion of time to searching the writings of that learned and voluminous, but not very methodical, author, but have not been fortunate enough to meet with the returns alluded to. Nor do I think that " drawn," as they are stated to he, from " th e ear li er per i o d of our history," when the constitutional rights and privileges of the House of Commons were hardly settled, they would affect my present view of this case. There is a passage also in one of the speeches of Lord Redesdale, when Speaker of the House of Commons (referred to in Mr.Rogers's work onElectionLaw,p.lo2—last edition) in reference to the resolution of the House, after the Union, that Irish Peers should not vote unless they were Members of the House, which is certainly de serving of notice. His Lordship (then Sir John Mitford) said, that the policy of this resolution had been much questioned, and that Peers who were so much interested in motions of supply and taxation, ought to have votes for Members of the Commons, with whom such motions originated.—(7 Woodfall, Deb. 236.) Now if the fact were that such motions not only originated with the Commons, but that they had the power of making laws on the subject, binding the Peers, there would be great weight in the observation of Lord Redesdale ; but inas much as the Commons cannot bind the Peers in any matter of supply and taxation, the House of Lords always having a veto on Bills relating to such matters, the reason seems to be altogether insufficient to invali date the policy of the resolutions in question. Independently, therefore, of that resolution, I con ceive that from the principles of constitutional law the following conclusions may be drawn : That the House of Commons represents the common alty of the. Kingdom alone ; that none but a commoner is entitled to vote for a Member of that House ; and that, inasmuch as a Peer is not a commoner, he is not entitled to vote at the election of a Member of the House of Commons. It follows, that as I can only insert in the list of voters the names of parties who are so entitled to vote, the claim of Lord Dinorben, being a Peer, must be disallowed. Mr. AnNoLV also gave judgment. in the case of Wel bore Ellis Agar, Lord Norrnanton, LORD NORMANTON'S CASE. This case stands upon a very similar footing with the last. It was an obj ec ti on aga i ns t re t a i n i ng hi s Lord ships name upon the list of voters, by reason of some supposed want of qualification. The qualification was. however, established in all respects ; but, in the cour se of the inve s ti ga ti on , i t transpired that his Lordship was an Irish Peer, and was not a Member of the House of Commons during the last year. There is no doubt that before the Union with Ireland, an Irish Peer having a sufficient qualification, might have voted for a Member of the British House of Commons, and it was con sistent with all the principles of the Constitution that he should do, otherwise .he would have been unrepresented in respect of his property in this country, as he had to voice, either personally or by representa tive, in the British House of Peer;; ; in other words, he was a commoner in. Great Britain, not being considered in law as an alien. By the Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland (39 and 40 Geo. 111., c. 67), the 4th art i c l e provides for the election for life by the Peers of Ireland of twenty-eight Lords Temporal of Ireland, " to sit and vote on the part of Ireland in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom." It Was also declared that any. Peer of Ireland not so elected to sit in the House of Lords " should not be disqualified from being elected to serve, if he shall so think fit, or from serving, if he shall so think fit, as a Member of the House of Commons, but such Peer so long as he continued a Member of the House of Commons was deelared " not to be entitled to the privilege of Peerage, nor capable of being el ec t e d to serve as a Peer on parttt t e hatisa oft the Irelanedl,oeotrionof of any at any such election" Peer) ; and that in all proceedings Commoner.civilandc criminal he b i e t Was to be proceeded against was further declared that‘ "the as a hePeers of Ireland shall, as P ex e c e;of u t s he a U for n e i s te a d id l , .:i a n i g il d i o s T a b ll e sued enj an a d li tr p ie i d vi a l s eg P e e s er o s i. Peers as fully as the Peers of Great 03 0 . r Britain, ord _ r c , th a e n rightd the and privilege of sitting in the House . L privileges depending thereon, and the right of of s t lt ' e t s in e g ar o t n ie t l h e e s trial oePeers only excepted. Now the effect is this—that all Irish Peers who are not Members of the House of L or d s are to b e cons id ere d as Peers of the realm for all purposes except that of sitting and voting .e in th e H ouse of Lords, and except also that t h ey ai eligible as Me m b ers o f t h e H ouse o f C ommons ; but it is only in the event of their being so elected, and think ing fit to serve, that they lose their character and privi lege of Peers, and become practically commoners. It would follow from these premises, and from time princi ples laid down in Lord Dinorben's case, .that an Irish Peer, not being a Member of the House of Commons, could not vote at the election of Members of the House of Commons ; for if h e d oes not sit personally in the House of Lords, he bas a voice there by representation, and in accordan ce w i th this view, the House of Commons after the Act of Union,varied the terms of their sessional order as follows:—" That no Peer of this realm, except such Peer of that' part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, as shall for the time being be actually elected, and shall not have declined to serve for any county, city, or borough in Great Britain, bath Italy right to give his THE SUN, LON IiON, SATT 7 RDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1 41. vote in the election of any Member to serve in Parlia ment." Which resolution, of course, must be taken to refer only to M e mbers of the House of Commons, inas much as the Act of Union empowers Irish Peers to give their votes in the election of the Members to serve in, the House of Lords in Parliament. Now this is the case of an objection, and by the 50th section of the Reform Act it is enacted that where the party objecting shall appear in support of his objection, the Revising Barrister " shall require it to be proved that the person so objected to was entitled on the last day of July next preceding to have his name inserted in the list of voters for such city or borough, in respect of the qualification described in such list ; and in case the same shall not be proved to the satisfaction of such barrister, or in case it shall bo proved that such person was then incapacitated by any law or statute from voting in the election of Members to serve in Parliament, such Barrister shall expunge the name of every such person from the said lists." Now, considering that Lord Normanton stands in this respect on the same footing as an English Peer, and that for the reasons stated in Lord Dinorben's case, he is " a per son incapacitated by the law of Parliament," from voting in the election. of Members of the House of Commons, I am of opinion that his Lordship's name must be expunged. DUDLEY MONTAGUE PERCIVAL'S CASE. The Learned Barrister also gave judgment in this case, ordering the name of Mr. Percival to be retained on the list of voters. Mr. ARNOLD also gave judgment in the cases of Thomas Fitzburgh, Henry Beauelerk, John M'Mahon, and Henry Trott Fisher, ordering their names to be re tained on the list of voters for St. George, Manover square. The claim of Mr. Robert A. Watson was disallowed. Mr. James Brent's claim was allowed. The Learned Revising Barrister then proceeded with the further revision of the lists for St. George's Hanover square. In the course of the day, Mr. Arnold intimated that he should, if possible, proceed with the revision of the lists for St James's Westminster, on Monday. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. pitoM . THE _ MO RNING PaeimS CF THIS VAY• POST.-- Our attention is called to a subject which has not, we think, been sufficiently reflected on by the dif ferent Railway .Companies in operation throughout the country. We desire to bear testimony, to the fullest ex tent, to the zeal and spirit displayed by the managers of this novel and rapid mode of conveyance, which aro not we believe to be surpassed. There is, however, a po7nt connected with their proceedin gs that should not be overlooked by Rail way B oards of Directors. It is to be borne in mind that the Acts of Parliament, by virtue of which railways have been constructed, are concessions nut for the benefit of the projectors solely, but for the good of the public, whose interests may be combined with those of the parties to whom the privilege may have been granted. It is, we repeat, i m p or t an t that this principle s h ou ld be kept in view. But observations have been addressed to us on the management of certain lines which furnish good reason to doubt if it is in all cases. It is, for instance, represented to us, in that of the Brighton Company, that the convenience of those who reside between the termini has not been adequately considered ; and if the charge be well founded, as it cert a i n l y appears to be, we shall be ren• dering a servic e t o t h e Company , by pointing out the circumstance ; nor can we question that a remedy will be afforded. The practice more particularly complained of relates to the regulation of the trains, as regards time and stoppages. One of them leaves Brighton at • a quarter betbre seven in the morning, and another at half past eight. The latter stops nowhere on the line except at Croydon. The next train starts at a quarter before deem, so that, for four hours, people living intermediately along the line have no communication with the me tropolis although trains are passing their very doors., This is a hardship to which exception is in our opinion justly taken ; and when the reason for the want of accommodation is considered, 'it seems so puerile that we wonder the Board of Directors should have made so ridiculous an arrangement. The non stopping one is dignified with the title of " express train," and is made to perf orm t h e di stance in one hour and three-quarters, whilst the train stopping at the principal' stations does the journey-in two hours. The 'quickest journey perfikmedAy the tOmmon stage s coaelf was in from five to fieeetWa-half hourseyht those who are to be accommodated:-With the express train are so selfish as to grudge- ohe little quarter , of an hour for. the conve nience- of the public in traversing a distance of 50 miles, which hadit still to be run by coach would require three and a half hours beyond. Measures will surely be taken for the correction of an abuse so fairly open to complaint from a class of persons who have done much to promote the passing through Parliament of Bills, by the sanction of which the various lines have been formed. TIMES.—The second veto message of President Tyler clearly proves how his mind has been made up against all that, in the usual acceptation of the word, can be called a National Bank. In vain have some of the de tails of the former scheme been modified in the hope of conciliating the President ; he states that in his former veto message he declared his opinion to be against the power of Congress to create a National Bank to operate per se over the Union, and he now affirms that the Bank proposed to be cranted by the new Bill is open to the same objection. The details also of the measure, which are the incidents of a Bank of Discounts in the United States, are likewise subject to his objection. He perceives that the right of dealing in Bills of Exchange drawn in one State and payable in another, may lead to the most objectionable form cf accommodation, by drawers in one place becoming the acceptors in another. He uses the following. words to express his objections to a no th er fea ture of the' Bill : "There is no limit prescribed to the premium in the purchase of Bills of Exchange, thereby correcting none of the evils under which the community now labours, and operating most injuriously upon the agricultural inequalities States, in which the equalities in the rates of exchange are,most severely felt. Nor are these the only conse quences ; a resumption of specie payments by the Banks of those States would be liable to indefinite postpone ment ; for, as the operation of the agencies of the inte rior would chiefly consist in selling Bills of Exchange, and the purchases could only be made in specie or the notes of Banks paying specie, the State Banks would either have to continua with their doors closed, or exist at the mercy of this national monopoly of brokerage. Nor can it be passed ever without remark, that whilst the district of Columbia is made the seat of the princi pal Bank, its citizens are excluded from all participation in any benefit it might afford, by a positive prohibition on the Bank from all discounting within the district." This part might have been more clearly expressed, but its force is obvious, namely, that the proposed "fiscal agent" could not relieve the evils which it is designed to counteract. Mr. Tyler also bears in mind the important fact, that while the evils of the Bank are in its very foun dation, the Charter world give it an existence, and that as a monopoly, during the long, period of twenty years, and thus render the evils irrevocable. He is still in hope that some plan may be adopted for the appointment of a fiscal agent," and his sanction to• the repeal of the sub-treasury shows that that did not accord with his views; but, at all events, whatever may be the nature of the " fiscal agent" at last decided on, it will scarcely bo a national bank. In the meantime it may be remarked, that the United States can hardly expect to establish confidence abroad in their financial system till something of >i definite nature in this respect is make knoWn.. • HERALD.—It is not ne e esia r y a t p resent to di sc u ss the special causes which may have influenced the .con duct of the President on tins occasion, further than to state that a strong and general impression prevailed among the community that his course and final resolu tion, discreditably distinguished for disingenuousness, double-dealing and gross inconsistency throughout, were attributable much more to private and selfish considera• tions than to any large, conscientious, and upright con siderations of public interest. Mr. Tyler, it appears, bsforc his fortuitous advent to the Presidency, was a person in very humble circumstances as regarded fortune, and it is charged against . him that he enter tains the design of repairing this accident of an ob scure and unendowed social• position by running hard for a second presidential term of four years on the termination of his present holding. His intrigues of this end, it is said, were directed to disunite the Whig party, and by conciliating at the same time the Jackson or Anti-Bank:party, by his hostility to a national bank, to attach such a majority as should secure his re-elec tion in due time. Such are the speculations of the Ame rican press. It is a fact, which 'here, as everywhere else, will be learned with astonishment, and a fact neither creditable to him as a man or a high functienary, that not a single Member of his Cabinet was acquainted with, or had the slightest intimation of the contents of, his veto message until it had been laid before Congress. The general te uour o f tho money and commercial intelligence by thi s arr i va l i n the Un i te d S t a tes, h as already been particularised in the second edition of the herald to. day. The final declaration of the insol vency of that mighty institution, the old United States Bank, ought not however to be passed over in silence. The Directors by th e assignmete of all its remaining . property to trustees for the liquidation of its debts have consummated now irretrievable bankruptcy—a bank ruptcy more prodigious, it may be said, titan ever the world witnessed. For it is the bankruptcy of a magnifi cent establishment which started with a capital of thirty five millions of dollars, or upwards of seven millions sterling ; and so total is the wreck that it may be doubted if a single cent of surplus property will remain, after the indispensable payment of debts, for division among the Shareholders. The famous Al ississippi As sociation in France, or the South Sea Bubble in this country, were not on their final explosion to be compared with this gigantic failure of the United States Bank, for neither one nor the other were based upon such a vast amount of real capital. • SUN.—There was some abatement of the pressure for Money in the Stock Exchange, but the expectation of ac counts from America checked business Operations ' a:ld when they came to hand th e M ar k e t c l ose d flatly. Con sols realised BSi to 89i, and for the Account 8944. Money was still tight, and Exchequer Bills were not higher than lls. to 13s. premium. India Bonds, how ever, improved to ls. premium, but East India Stock fell to 2451 and 245. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 98-1., to -1 4 The accounts from Madrid to-day were again looked upon as very favourable, and this gave a further lift to prices. The Active Spanish Bonds were 22-k to 1 for Money, and 22 to b for Account. Portuguese New Five per Cents., owing to the advertisement respecting the dividend, were at 304 for Money, and to 31 for Account. Mexican Stock was flat at 25. Danish Bonds were firm at 781 ex dividend ; and Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. at 51i to 1. The share market was rather flat for Brighton, but the others were much the same. Great Western i nay realised 1 l ; the New, 4i . ; the York and North Midland, 27 ; the Birmingham, 67 . ; and th e S ou th Western, 12i premium ; Brighton wer © s to 53 ; ; Greenwich, 121 . North Midland , New, 7A. ; South and Easter n Cr eint i es, 15 Eastern, 93-1- ; Croydon, ; discount. London and Westminster Bank shares were to l premium. The Foreign Exchanges were firm again this afternoon. Bills on Paris were taken at 25f. 65c. to 61e. ; Hamburgh, 13 10 :11 to 11 Amsterdam, 12 4 7 :- to ; Frankfort, 149 ; Antwerp, 12 3 ;to 3 • , and Trieste, 9 52 to 53. SECOND EDITION THE FUNDS-(CL.OSING PRICES) BRITISH FUNDS. - , 13 i - i k Stock i ' India Stock ... 3 per Cent Red. 4 Ditto Bonds • 1 dis 3 per Cent Cons B 9 /1 Ditto Old Annuities ... 3h. per Cent 1 - Zed — 'Ditto New Annuities... 86i New 31 per Cent 9Bl 'Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 13 pir New 51 cr Cent — I Ditto 5001— ..... 13 pre Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small. ...14 pm Jan. 1860 .. Bank Stock for 0pg.... • Oct 1859 !lndia Stock for Acct._ _ Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... . 'Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 'Ditto, New Ditto 3IA Brazilian 80nd5.......... IPrussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 'Russian, 5 per cent — Mbar', 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic — Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 23 Ditto, I e 24 ... ..... 201 Ditto Deferred ... I Dinish, 3 per cent — 'French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent — 'Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 25i French, 3 per cent —f. c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625, 1 Dutch, 21 per cent. ... 514 Peruvian, 1 a 25, 6 per ct. 151 I Ditto, 5 per cent SHARES Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ... ...... 27 GreEt Western Railway (65 paid) 761 London and Brighton (50 paid)... 444 London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid) 93 ' London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ... .. 561 . Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) .. 76 • South Eastern and Dover (38 paid)... 134 SPIRIT of the. PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—Sir Robert Peel's grand plea for his present refusal to propose measures for the country's good is, " that he is without the information that official power alone can bestow," and which it is absolutely necessary for him to possess before he can affori the relief that he promised, - or must at least have been held to promise virtuar, y he would on his accession to office at once ,ad minister. Now this is not a very honourable plea to be urged by a statesman who, .for a long series of years, has devoted .his whole attention to:public affairs ; but we must admit that the defence which Sir R. , Peel , has put upon the record, his Grace the Duke of Wellington ha; fully borne out by hi. evidence. If the illustrious meM ber of the Tory Cabinet, whose anomalous position of a seat without an office is typical of the whole body who are advisers of the Queen, without advising her—if, we say, the ignorance of the Duke as to what should be done is shared by all his colleagues, we must at once allow not only their self-acknowled ge d unfitness to bring for ward any measures for the next six months, but we will even go further, and express a doubt whether six years' meditation would be sufficient to qualify them for per forming in these difficult times the duties of Government. The Duke of Wellington, who has already distinguished himself by the laying down of two or three dogma& re markable for their positive tone and their superlative unseasonableness, thought proper last night to declare, that though distress necessarily prevailed in some parts of the country, he was quite sure that there was no dis tress from want of food among any portion of the com munity. We confess that, even after th e a ll ega ti on of ignorance, and the demand of time for inquiry, which the Tory Ministers have put forth, we were somewhat startled by an assertion, from one so justly distinguished amongst them, which bespeaks such a frightful necessity for information as is exhibited in the sentiment uttered last night by the Duke of Wel lington. He admits there is distress, but he will not allow it is occasioned by want of food. What on earth, we would ask his Grace, brings thousands of poor fa milies within the walls of the workhouses ? For if it is not want of food, it must, we suppose, be want of so ciety, or an insatiable appetite for workhouse fare—not to supply a necessity, but to gratify a taste for parochial cookery. STANDARD.—The Poor-law Commissioners are tyrants, to put an end:to the Commission without making any other arrangement would be simply to " embalm their tyranny." It is proper to repeat it, that the Bill passed last night is not a Bill to prolong the New Poor law ; that is already a permanent law ; but to pro vide for its continued administration until Parliament shall decide upon the course to be pursued . with respect to it ; and were the Bill resisted by Mr. Fielden to fail, the only effect must be a kind of posthumpus administration of the law by the present Commissioners—an occasion, questionless, of much confusion, but of more cr ue lty—f or o f l ate t h e Commissioners have been compelled by public opinion to abate, however reluctantly, the rigour of many of their regulations. Mr. Fielden could not wish that a power which has recently been exercised chiefly in mitigating its severer regulations, should be extin guished at once without any substitute to exercise the same power of mitigation. Had the question before the House contemplated the continuance of the law, instead of contemplating only the con tinuance of the Commission, it would still be a question whether an unqualified negative would be the proper mode of meeting it. A great part of the efficacy of the old law, which old law we agree with Mr. Fielden in thinking to have been grievously calumniated, rested upon habits and associations obliterated during seven years. These- habits and associations cannot be re stored, and it would be no less impossible to destroy at once the other habits, and a ssoc i a ti ons by which they have been replaced. COURIER.—The recent intelligence from America is of a more than usually interesting cliaracter.as regards this country. M'Leod's trial was t o have commenced on Monday last at Utica, and from the anxiety of the federal Government to defeat the object, when it failed to silence the pretensions of the sovereign state of .New York, and to remove this cause of dispute between the two Govern ments, there seemed but little doubt of M'Leod's ac quittal. But the point really at issue between Great Britain and the United States' Government—for with the State of New York we had nothing whatever to do—was not as. to M'Leod's participation, or non-participation in the destruction of the Caroline, but as to the. ame nability of M‘lscod to an American tribunal, for an alleged share in an act authorised and avowed by his own Government. And what complicates the affair still more, and sharpens the insult offered to Great Britain, is the fact that the Federal Government, through its accre dited minister, had months ago disavowed the claims set up by the State of New York of its competency to try M'Leod, and admitted that he was not amenable to American. law, and therefore not triable by American juries. His acquittal under such circumstances, although tending to allay excitement, and diminish the chances of an immediate rupture, will be far from offering a solu tion of the questions at issue between the two countries, or from reconciling Great Britain to the outrage offered to her honour and dignify. We agree with a Morning Contemporary in thinking that the great acknowledged fact that a British subject, avowedly not amenable to an American tribunal, has actually been put to trial, in volves the honour of her Majesty's crown as much as if he were sentenced to death. COURT CIRCULAR. - --- WINDSOR, FRIDAY.--71 - lis Royal Highness Prince Albert passed an hour in the forenoon shooting in the Little Park ; but the weather, has been so unfavourable, that her Majesty and the Princess Royal have not left the Castle to-day. .Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Colonel Wylde, and Capt. Francis Seymour, arrived at the Castle at three o'clock this afternoon from Woolwich, where her Royal High ness arrived about noon from Ostend, in the Firebrand, Capt. S. B. Cooke, which left Ostend at eleven o'clock last night, and had a fine passage: The Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse, arrived at the Castle on a visit to the Queen. Colonel Bouverie has succeeded Major-General Sir Edward Bowater as the Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Lord Charles Wellesley, the Clerk Marshal, has suc ceeded Colonel Wemyss as the Equerry in Waiting on her Majesty. Colonel Arbuthnot, 72d Highlanders, will have the honour of joining the Royal Dinner Party at the Castle this evening. One of the coaches belonging to the Steam Coach Company was, by permission, exhibited to-day to her Ma jesty and her illustrious Consort in the Quadrangle of the CaStle. The carriage was under the superinten dence of Mr. John Squire, the Company's Engineer. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were graciously pleased to express themselves gratified by this novel and interesting piece of mechanism. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Sir George Couper, Bart., and Capt. Frencis Seymour, landed a t Wo o l w i c h Dockyard yesterday morning from a Government steam packet from Ostend. Her Royal Highness was received on landing by Col. Wylde, Equerry to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and immediately entered one of the Queen's carriages and four, and left the Royal Dock-yard for the metropolis. Her Royal Highness arrived at the Royal Mews, at Pimlico, at one o'clock, and after a very short stay proceeded to Windsor Castle, attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Colonel Wylde, and Capt. Francis Seymour, on a visit to her Majesty. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, at tended by Baron Knesbeck, left Cambridge House on Thursday evening on their return to Kew. His Excellency Chekib Effendi, Turkish Ambassador at this Court, has left London f.n. Paris, and Foad Ef fendi, First Secretary of the Embassy, is appointed here Charge d'Affairs pro tern., by the Sublime Porte. Despatches from Lord Sydenham, Governor of Ca nada, and also from the Governors of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, were received yesterday afternoon, at the Colonial-office. Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colo ninl-office, fur the Governors of the West India Colonies. Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires, and the Prussian Charge d'Affaires visited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. Foad Effendi, Turkish Charge d'Affaires, also transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. WESTMINSTER HARMONIC SOCIETY. The Westminster Harmonic Society gave a grand con cert of Sacred Music, last evening, at the Temperance . Hall, Broatiway, Westminster. This is one of those Societies which hare been formed of late years for the cultivation of choral music, and which are destined to form a - prominent feature in the future history of music in England. If a taste for fine and clas sical music is ever to Pe regenerated amongst us— it we are hereafter destined to attain, and to maintain the same high rank in music we have already attained in other liberal arts—it must be mainly through the in strumentality of such .Societies as these. Sincerely, therefore, do we. rejoice to record their triumphs—cor dially do we bid them " God speed," and gin would we see a Choral Society established in every town and vil lage of the empire. The concert of last evening con sisted of a grand selection from the oratorios of the Messiah and Judas Maccabees, the solo pas sages being given by professional vocalists, one of whom, Miss Cubitt, was in excellent voice, and sang with exquisite taste and expression, while the choruses were sustained by the members of the Society. The manner in which the choruses were given reflects the highest credit upon the 'Westminster Harmonic Society. There was a firmness and precision exhibited which isnot often met with even in the regularly trained chorus of our public esta blishments. It was evidently a labour of love —every one who took part in it had become imbued with the spirit of the sublime master. Each thoroughly appre ciated the composition as a whole, and the consequence was that all the choral effects were completely under stood, and as completely developed. We have never heard the grand Hallelujah chorus better given. The orchestra, which was full and efficient, was ably led by Mr. Pringle, and the concert was conducted by Mr. Webb. This gentleman would be an excellent conductor if he would break himself of the evil habit which he has contracted of slapping his baton audibly upon his book at the conclusion of every.bar. This mars the effect of the finest passages, and the "Westminster Harmonic Society is composed of those who are far too good musicians to stand in need of such auctioneer-like practices to keep them to their time. We sincerely con gratulate the members of the Westminster Harmonic So ciety on their triumph of last evening, and hope to have the pleasing duty of recording many a similar one. The audience was numerous, and, we are glad to say, most attentive. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered in the week ending Sept. 25, 1841." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General : CAUSES OF DEATH. Weekly Total. Average 1838-9-4 - 0 Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases l6B 204 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 159 151 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Heat and Bloodvessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 69 60 Diseases of the Kidnoys &c. Childbed, Diseases of th e Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Museles Diseases of the Skin, &c 0 • 1 Diseases of Uncertain Seat.-- lll 103 Old Age, or Natural Decay 52 71 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 31 25 Causes not specified Deaths from all causes 857 Average Weekly Deaths . .. 926 Deaths in the Average Weekly Week. Deaths, 1838-9-40 Western Districts ... 112 —:.— 139 North Districts Central Districts 204 ..... 190 East Districts 224 ...... 211 South Districts ... 181 223 - - Total 857 926 It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon don 11th and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out-pari s h es w i t hi n t h e B i l ls of Mortality-- and the parishes of St. 31ary1ebone, St. Pancras, Kensington, Fulham, Hammersmith( Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camber • ell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The populatim, as enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890. The weekly averrge for 1838, 1839, and 1840, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the three years by 156. TESIPERATUKE IN THE WEEKS ENDING Sept. 18. Sept. 25. 79 70° 50 51 66 61 30, 1811. Highest ..................... Lowest ................ General Daily Mean ........ d ce, Segister Offiept. SERIOUS ACOIDENT.—On Wednesday evening; at seven o'clock, as the omnibus called Taglioni, running between King's-cross and the Elephant and Castle, was approaching the foot of 131ackfriars-bridge, it came in contact with a cab coining in the Opposite direction ; both vehicles being furiously driven, the collision was dreadful. ;['he cabman was thrown headlong. to a consi derable distance, and was conveyed in a senseless state to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The near horse of the omnibus was killed upon the spot, while the cab-horse was so injured as to be for ever rendered unserviceable. It is impossible to say with whom the blame rests. RIOT IN DURNESS, SUTHERLANDSIIIRE.-- Information has reached us, that, on the night of Satur day the 11th instant, the Sheriff-substitute and Procu• rator-fiscal of Sutherland, with a party of Sheriff-officers and constables, were deforeed in the execution of their duty, and attacked by a mob of about 400 people, con sisting of men and women, armed with bludgeons and other weapons, at the inn of Duthie, in the parish of 1 ) in Lord Reay's country ; th e w h o l e party were less injured, and some narrow l y escaped with 6,--hvertlC6B Courier. more t ti e r i r n o r Ys POOR LAW BILL. MINORITY of TWENTY (Tellers included), ite w h o voted for nie, George the Amendment of Mr. Fielden, " 'I hat the Poor L aw Bill be read a third time that day three months." Brotherton, J. Grant, Sir A. C. Callaghan, Daniel Harford, Summers Walker, R. Cobden, hickard Hesthcoat, John Williams, W Collins, W. Hindley, Charles • Yorke, H. Redhead Crawford, W S. Hol ond, Robert TELLERS. Dick, Quintin Humphery, J. Fielder J. Fleetwood, Sir P. H. Napier, Sir Charles Pechell, Captain and executed , of the num exceuted for pt. COMMITTALS, &c. FOR MURDER . On the motion of Hr. Eaart a return ha s b een l a i d be bfoerrl e ef ) a p r e l i r a s m e s n t e , em datedmit ted, ct onvi t e S !i e , p t . murder in England and Wales during the twenty years ending December, 1841. It appears that during that period the total number convicted was 330 , and the total number executed 247. I f or the Ev e years ending December 1825, the executions were 76 ; , 1830, 65 ; 1835, 66 ; and 1840, 40. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT GRAVESEND.— Yesterday morning, as the ten o'clock boat was about to leave the town pier at Gravesend, for London, the fol lowing melancholy accident occurred. T wo very re spectable young women, in running down to tbe steps to catch the boat their feet slipped and both fell into the waren One was immediately got out drenched to the skin, b u t t h e ot h er was carried come dist ance down the river a n d di sa pp eare d. It was elicited f rom t h e com panion o f - th e . un f Qr t u nate .deceased that her name was Emilia Jane Tompkins, and that she resided with her mother, a widow lady, in Herbert's-buildings, Waterj9o rogd: .. ... UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. C.A.mnrancli, OCT. 2.—Yesterday being Ist of October, the following gentlemen were elected Fellows of Trinity College:— E. J. Lawrence, 29th Wrangler, and 12th in the second class of the Classical Tripos, 1839. H. L. G uillebnad, 15th Wrangler, 1839. G. If. Hodson, 31st Senior Optime, and 3d Classic. 1840. Tom Taylor, 18th Junior Optime, and sth Classic, 1840. H. C. Jones, 2d Wrangler, 1841. The Lord Bishop of Lichfield has been pleased to collate Walter Augustus Shirley Clark, M.A., Arch deacon of Derby, to the Prebend of Uffton, in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, v. John Kempthorne, B.D. deceased. Thomas Cross Peake, Esq., 8.A., Mathematical Lec turer, of Sidney Sussex College, in this University, has been elected a foundation Fellow of that Society ; and William Richard Ick, Esq., 8.A., Mathematical Lec turer on the foundation of Mr. Taylor. His Grain the Archbishop of York has Appointed the Rev. Styr hen Creyke, vicar of Sutton-in-the-Forest and his Lordship's domestic chaplain, to a canonry in the Cathedral Church of York. The Rev. Thomas Nunn, M.A., of Sidney College in this University, and Curate of Longhorn, Essex, has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Norwich, to the rect9ry of Clayton cuin Akenham, Suffolk, on the pre sentation of Miss Drury of Claydon. Rev. C. J. Vaughan, M.A., of Trinity College in this University, has been presented by the Lord Chancellor to the vicarage of St. Martin's, Leicester. Sir James Graham and Lord Ashley have been appointed Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Sir George Cockburn has been returned by Miss Lawrence, of Studley Park, Member (so called) for Ripon, in the room of Sir. Edward Sugden. It is thus the Peel Cabinet and other officials creep into Parliament. UNITED STATES BANK BUILDING.—The extinction of the United States . Bank leaves that magni ficent edifice in the hands of the assignees, as a part of its available property. To what use it will now revert, is matter of conjecture. This splendid pile was com menced in 1819. h was five years in building. The original expense was pOO,OOO, but when the old bank charter expired, it was sold to the present institution for $300,000. The building is purely of white marble, and both inside and out scarcely any wood is to be seen. From Chestnut-street the bank is reached by a lofty flight of marble steps. It presents a splendid front of 80 feet in width, with eight Doric columns, four feet six inches in diameter, and 27 feet high, 'The building is 161 feet long, and the porticoes at each end correspond. Both internally and externally the style and finish are equally massive and beautiful. The principal banking room is 48 feet wide and.Bl feet long, with an arched ceiling, supported by rows of marble columns. Aside from this, there are a multitude of apartmedits. f►r the use of the different officers and directors, as well as for engravers and copperplate printers. It is admired for its beau tiful proportions, as well as for its imposing size and classic architecture. BRUTAL FROLIC.—On Tuesday last an in. quest was held before Mr. Wilde, on the body of Isaac Banhan, aged five years, whose death was occasioned in the following manner :—Four men were doing some repairs in a house in Heigham, belonging to the father Of the child, and when they were drinking their beer, at four o'clock in the afternoon, they induced the child, by offers of money, to drink four halt pints of beer ! He.was taken home in a state of intoxication, was seized with violent convulsions, and lingered for three weeks, when (loath put an end to his sufferings. The Coroner stated that in strictness the case was one of manslaughter. The Jury returned a verdict, " That Isaac Banham died from the effects of drinking a quantity of beer, given to Trim by' Samuel -Hall, William Towel, Robert Pirinock, and Samuel Ficod;:aad that they are highly blameable for so doing."-rThe:parties were then called in and the Coroner gave them a severe reprimand.—Bury Post. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 29. 1841. The Queen has been , pleased to nominate, constitute, and appoint the Right Honourable Sir James Robert George Graham, Bart., to be one of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Friglatid. The Queen has also been pleased to nominate, constitute, and appoint Anthony Ashley Cooper, Esq. (commonly called Lord Ashley), to be one of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England. CROWN OFFICE, SEPT. 30. 3IEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. BOROUGH OF RIPON.—The Right Hon. Sir George Cock burn, of High Beech, in the county of Essex, G.C.8., Ad miral of the White Squadron or her Majesty's Fleet, in the room of the Right Hon. Sir Edward Burtenshaw Sudden, who has accepted the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. COUNTY OF TYRONE.--The Right Hon. Henry Thomas Lowry Corry. BououGll OF PORT ARLINGTON.—The Right Honourable Colonel George Lionel Dawson Darner, of Came-house in the county of Dorset, and of Ironmills, in the Queen's county. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey. 2d Regiment of 1103 al Surrey Alilitia—Frederick Thomas Duren, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Lonsdale, July 31. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. JOHN DONE, paper hanger, Lowes Moer, 'Worcestershire BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. BENJAMIN BRETNALL, miller, Aston, Warwickshire. BANKRUPT. WILLIAM BROOME, linen draper, Oxford-street, to surrender, Oct. 15, at eleven, and Nov. 12, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, Abchurch.lane, official assignee ; Turner and Hensman, Basing-lai:e, City. CHARLES HENRY THOMPSON, music -seller, Liver pool, Oct. 15, and Nov. 12, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. De Medina, Bishopsgate-street, London ; Kent, Liverpool. CiESAR MOTT, wine and spirit merchant, Loughborough and Leicester, Oct. 16, at one, and Nov. 12, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, Frederick's. place, Old Jewry, official assignee ; Michael, Red Lion- square . WILLIAM WEBB OGBOUPNE, warehouseman, Honey lane, Cheapside, Oct. 15, at two, and Nov. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, official assignee; Beaumont and Thompson, Lincoln's Inn-fields. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. T. Riley, printer, Gough-square, Fleet-street, Oct. 22, at eleven—.G. Aldred, bookseller, Southampton-street, Blooms bury, Oct: 22, at twelve—H. 'Webster, manufacturer of lamps, Bedford-stieet, Covent-garden,.Qct. 22, at half past twelve— R. March, litter, Cheapside, Oct, 22, at half-past-one—J. ' and E. Barber, stockbrokers Cowper's-court, C orn hill, Oct. 22, at half-past twelve—T. Bush, H. Ferguson, and D. M. Liddell, merchants, London-street, City, Oct. 22, at twelve D. Freeman, W. Sykes, and J. Freeman, leather factors, Ber mondsey, Oct. 22, at one. In the Country. J. Newman, saddler, Lewes, Sussex, Dcc. 16, at ten, at the Town Hall, Brighton—J. Willertun, wool buyer, Swineshead, Lincolnshire, Oct. 28, at eleven, at the Red Lion Inn, Boston —J. Ramshay, grocer, Bradford, Yorkshire, Oct. 29, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds--G. K. Geill, calico printer, Whittle-le-Woods, Lancashire, Oct. 25, at twelve, at the Town Hall, Preston—J. Lewis, draper, Tredegar, Mon mouthshire, Oct. 25, at twelve, at the Westgate Inn, Newport —W. Baker, carpet manufacturer, Kiddermi ns t er , O c t. 28, at twelve, at the Lion Inn, Kidderminster—W. Preedy, grocer, Oxford, Oct. 26, at eleven, at the Mitre Hotel, Oxford— J. Sykes, music seller, Leeds, Oct. 28, at one, at the Com missioners'-rooms, Leeds—R. Tovey, pawnbroker, Bristol, Oct. 29, at three, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol—P. W. Smith, merchant, Liverpool, 0ct.23, at one, at the Clarendon rooms, Liverpool. • CERTIFICATES—Ocr. 22. F. 111'Neill, general merchant, Clement's-lane, City—R. Johnson and E. B. Dawson, wholesale ironmongers, Grace church-street. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. M. Lonsdale and S. Rawlinsan, ladies' school cond uc t ors , Barwick-in-Helmet, Yo r k s hi re —F. It. L'Estrange and 'l'. Dyer, surgeons, Euston-place, Gower-street, Middl esex — G. Blogg and . F. Aston, merchants, Bucklersbury—E. P. Thompson and T. Wright, wine merchants, Dover—W. Giles and T. Hooper, common carriers, Frome Selwood, Somerset shire—R. Richardson and G. Smithson, linen drapers, Leeds —J. E. and T. M. Nash, oil merchants, Bristol—W. Boutcher, W. Mortimer, and S. Branscombe, commission agents, Liver pool (so far as regards S. Branscombe)—J. Shepherd, J. Green, and T. Hatfield, common brewers, Sheffield (so far as regards T. Hattield)—W. Satchwell and E. Arnold, letter-press printers, Tabernacle.walk, Finsbury—C. and J. Dill, hosiers, Oxford-street—C. and J. King, grocers, Abingdon, Berkshire --J. Parkes and J. Mousley, maltsters, Birmingham—J. Judson and R. W. Slack, calico printers, Manchester— T. Tattersall and W. Clare, cotton brokers, Liverpool—J. Wrigley and W. Wild, bleachers; .Bury, Lancashire—J. Har nett and A. Defferrez, naturalists, Museum-street, Blooms. bury—S. Hinde and J. Watkins, milliners, Oxford-street— R. Smith and F. Reynolds, milliners, Wimpole-street, Caven dish-square—C. F. Darwell and J. Potter. attorneys, Walsall, Staffordshire—H. Scorer and W. Acomb, hosiers, Nottingham —M. A. and T. Ba3nes, booksellers, Paternoster-row, City— J. Churchill and R. Hewson, surveyors, Upper Gloucest?r place, Dorset-square—J. Fielder, sen., J. Fielder, jun., and B. B. Fielder, grocer s , Li ss , S ou th amp t ons hi re — W. Hare and F. Hale, jun., carpet manufacturers, King-street, Cheapside. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. JOHN ANDERSON, jeweller, Edinburgh, Oct. 6 and Nov. 3. at one, at the Ship Tavern, Edinburgh. JOHN FLEHING and ALEXANDER FLEMING, cattle dealers, Drumacharan, Perth, Oct. 6 and 29, at one, at the Chambers of Mr. M'Farlane, Crescent, Perth. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending Sept. 28, 1841, is 335. 9V. per Cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. ( From the London New Price Current of October 1.) SUGAR.—There has been an increased desire evinced on the part of both grocers and refiners to purchase British Plantation Sugar this week ; for bright yellow and strong grey qua lities the demand has been brisk, and nearly all the parcels on show have found ready purchasers at prices is., and in some cases Is. 6d., above those of last Friday; inde e d the supply is not ample for the wants of the trade. Low and brown kinds have met with more attention ; a good demand has prevailed, and the rates paid are generally equal to those of this day week. To-day there was less life in the West India mallet, still purchases to a fair extent were made for both grocery and re fining purposes; holders were firm, and former rates were fully supported ; good and fine yellow sorts are, however, still wanted, but of such few samples were on show. The total purchases for the week arc 2,800 hhds and trcs. HanNan.—The market fur Refined Goods was in a dull state in the early part of the week, and prices declined Is per cwt, but during the last two days buyers have been more on the a!ert. For Dutch Crushed Sugar there has been a much better demand, and 400 tons have been sold at 27s 3d on board in Holland. To-day Refined Goods met with a good demand for home use at firmer quotations; Standard Lumps 80s 6d per cwt. Crushed moved off slowly at 29s 9d for first sort. In other articles no change. This afternoon there was a good demand, and at public sale 6,694 bags 50 casks were all sold with spirit at is advance on last sale's rates for yellow kinds ; brown forts sent rather higher; fine yellow fetched 6.5 s to 675, good GOs to 645, mid to good mid 54s to 595, low 53s to 53s 6d, low brown 36s to . 445, mid 45s to 475, good to fine 48s to 52s 6d per cwt. LAST Isana.—Prices have been fully supported for white qualities of Bengal, and for home consumption a good demand exits, especially for the better sorts; in brown the operations have been on a more extended scale, prices being sufficiently low to enable shippers to make purchases. This afternoon there was no public sale of Bengal, but by private treaty purchases to a fair extent were made at full rates. Of Manilla 277 bags were offered at public sale, and sold at 14s for damp. MOLASSES.—This afternoon at public sale 186 puns Foreign were nearly all taken at full rates, Viz. Martinique at 6s 6d, and Cuba at 8s per cwt. FOREIGN. —The market for yellow Havannah has been in a quiet state ; holders have been more desirous to realise, and have submitted to a reduction on former rates of 6d for good, and is for the lower sorts the operations privately have been 500 boxes at 21s for goad mid quality, but of old importation. low white Bahia at 21s, good and fine dry brown 17s to I 7s6d, soft brown I'ernams 14s 6d, and a floating cargo of low white Paraiba at 2ls 9d, deliverable at Amsterdam. For public sale on Thursday 190 chests 130 brls 850 bags Pernambuco, and for Friday 241 cases 56 brls 874 bags Maceio are declared. TEA.—The operations in Free Trade Tea have been upon a small scale this week, and the market has presented a quiet appearance ; low common Congou has been disposed of at Is 9 1 0 per lb. In the speculative market, however, a fair business has been transacted, and Company's Congou have produced Is 10d to Is 10id, cash. There have been further arrivals. The deliveries of Tea, however, are on the increase, and last week reached 527,0001b5, 68,418ibs of which were damaged, cx Westminster, and were allowed to be taken for home use at a duty of Is 4id to I s bi per lb. The Overland Mail is daily expected. To-day there was an improved demand for Free Trade Tea, and holders displayed more firmness. Of the total quantity passed the sales to•day amounting to 12,000 packages, 6,000 were actually disposed ot. Congou, ordinary, sold at is. 10d, good ord I s 104 d to is lid, middling blackish leaf 2s Id to 2s 11d, strong blackish leaf 2s 2d to 2s 4d, fine and Pekoe kind 2s 5 1 ,0 to 2s 3 1 / a d ; Gunpowder, ordinary, 2s aid, good 4s 3d per lb. ' Company's Congou met with a good demand, and closed firmly at is 10id cash. For public sale next week 18,000 packages are declared. Cocoa.—This afternoon the public sales consisted of 1,000 bags Guayaquil and 130 bags West India ; the former sold at 36s dd to 37s for good quality, being cheaper ; the latter nearly all taken in, low Trinidad at 40s per cyst; COFFEE.—The West India Coffee market has been in a quiet state all the week, the trade continuing to purchase barely ample for their present wants. This may be attributed to the large stocks of Coffee remaining in bond, and which are equal to nearly two years consumption at this port; prices have been supported this week for all middling sorts, the supply of which having been small, but for ordinary to fine fine era kinds, prices have suffered a depression of 4s to 6s per cwt. This afternoon the home trade were cautious in their proceedings, and the market presented a dull aspect for all kinds of Coffee. Importers were generally desirous to realise, and offered at public sale 1,000 bags La Guayra from the Cape, 450 bags St. Domiage, 1,984 bags East India, and 150 casks British Plantation; La Guayra all taken in, good ordinary pale at 44s 6d to 455, fine ordinary 64s 6d ; St. Domingo fetched 40s to 41s for good ordinary colony ; East India only partly sold at 2s decline, good to fine ordinary Semarang went a t 41 s to 455., and good ordinary Pedang 36s ; West India only partly sold, but prices underwent no further depression, middling and good middling Jamaica fetched 106 s to 114 s, good to fine fire ordinary 63s to 95s per cwt. Russ, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-The Rum market has been in a dull state since this day week, and the total pur chases this week have not exceeoed 130 puns, at a reduction on former rates of Id per gallon—proof Leewards selling at Is 1 l(1, 11 per cent over good brown 2s 3d, 15 over 2s 4d,_ 21 over 2s sd, 31 ove r 2 s Bd, 37 over 2s 10d, Jamaica goo c! , clear flavour 33 over 6s 2d, and proof Calcutta Is bd per gallon ; some p arce ls of the latter with certificate areof rum ex. pected towards the close of the month. The arrivalo since large, and ha v e amounted to 2,537 puns a" hhds the accounts are still very unfavourable the this day %seek. Brandy has sold to a fair efxortetnhteaetrtip-m racteogs.; 1636, hhds at Cog nac first brands of the vinte of ss 6d puncheons Lis 4d ; 5s 10d, puncheons 5s 8d; hhds 4s - 11 d, puns 4s 9d ; lesB, hhds 5s 4d, puns 5s 2d ; 1839, hhds Geneva has become 1840, libels 3s 10d, puns 3s Bel per gallon. down, 1837, hhds sellers of shipping dull of :ale, and prices are looking Corn Spirits have met with a good de mandquality a t s e a s le o , f I boob o a r gs S E co as tc te h. rn sri at t E I s o . 5 4 . 1 dh British afternoon,. h i t i ; s h s i p Pimento were offered—the former only Pepper and 150 bags thteuptusbupliepli partly found buyers at 3 d to 3&d tter so ld rather cheaper ; mid went at 3d f o rmer value ; the a for low quality, being the Rim —Th e market for Bengal Rice has exhibited a. dull to 3d, low to good ord 2d to 2;d per lb. ap pearance all the; week, and rather lower rates have b een ac cepted,- LOs to lOs 6d is the value of middling white. Jav a a t easier rates. Siam and Madras have been difficult of sale. Carolila is now quoted at 30s to 365. EVENING SUN • INnzoo.—Priees remain the same - as previously quoted for East India. The demand has been limited both for home con sumption and export, the attention of the trade mostly being directed to the tale of 13,900 chests, which commence on Tuesday, at which the common sorts are expected to decline in value, but for good and fine k ',lds prices are expected to decline in value,- and to differ little from those of the July see. At public sale 15 chests Manilla soid at 2s 7d to 4.s 2d per lb for low to mid quality. To-day accounts were received from Amsterdam, stating that the public sales of Indigo hadgone off with spirit at higher rates. Ores.—Prices have been firm for all sorts of common Oils this week; pale Seal has produced 361, brown 291 to 311, yellow and straw 331 to 341 lOs ; Cod 281; Southern ordinary to fine 291 lOs to 321 Os per tun ; Sperm a t 941 to 96 1 for fine quality, at which holders are firm. Linseed Oil 32. per evrt. Rape pale 545, and brown 535. Olive has be en ! aug h t after; 78 , to 801 for Gallipoli, and 751 to 76/ for Spanish. Palm is held for 33210. to 341 for first sort. Cocoa Nut Oil at full rates. This afternoon at public sale 120 tuns Southern Oil sold briskly at 301 to 33/ for ord to fine quality, being higher prices. 97 pipes 50 hhds 20 casks Ceylon Cocoa Nut Oil were offered ; first quality went at 41s to 41s Gd per cwt. TALLOW.—There has been more activity in the market_for Russian Tallow this week ; on the spot, Petersburg Yellow Candle, at 47s 9d to 48s from the scale, and 48s to 48s3d from the warehouse. For delivery at 47s 9d to 483, and 48s 6d to 48s 9d for January, February, end March next. St,uth American at 40s to 47s for low to good quality. Town Tallow has sold steadily. •This ufternoon purchases to a fair extent were made in P.Y.C. - at 48s on the spot, and 47s 9d to 48s for delivery up to the end of the year; at auction 25 casks 66 skins Cape were sold at 53s 3d to 50s Gil for very fine. PRICE OF BREAD. the htgheat price of Rreed in the M..trorolla Is 10d, fbr the. 41b. Loaf. Gocd Bread may be had at f3g PRICES OF SEEDS. Per Cwt. 1 Per Quarter, Sew English Rea Clover...sos /30s St. Fein ..—s —. —s Old Ditto Ditto .........—s —a —s Rye Grass...... ..... .....—s 255 40s New Foreign Ditto —s 56s tOs Pacey Grass .—s —s —s Old DPI() Ditto —s --.8 —s Linseed, for feulivg ..,—, f,o* 51, New White Clover 4Rs rss 72a Ditto, for sowing —s 50, C3s Old Ditto Ditto --s —s —s Ditto, for crushi..g ....—s 48a a New Tre oil —3 26s 46s'Hem- .............—a 4$ Sze Old Litto —s 24s 458'Canar) . . .--sl2os lals 'Fr folium s 4Ss 70s Per Bushel. Es.glish Carraway -..11 46s 50s White Must..rd ....,28 Oct to 1580 c Foreign Ditto —.B 448 50s'Brown Ditto. ... .....14s Od to 1780 d Coriander --5 —s —*Tares .......... ..... ... tis Cd tc I Is Cd PRICE OF TALLOW, SO.AP, &c. per 1121 b. Town Tallow ..t2 10 Of Melting Stuff XI 17 0 Yellow Russia White .. 0 C Graves ............. ............ 0 IS 0 Soap Ditto 0 0 0 Good Dregs —......... U S 0 PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of nibs. Price of Tallow (as stated by,thc Tallow Me1ter5)..............:a. OM PRICE OF 011... Rape Oil, brown, per ton ................C5O 10 Ditto, re fi ned Linseed Oil :32 0 .Lins.:ed Oil Cake at the Mill (per 1090) l3 10 Rape • ake, per ton 7 7 COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market day, 9. d. i s. d. Adair's Molywell Man l7 6, Walls End North Durham... 1 , 6 Old Tanfield l5 0 Walk Eliot IttiAsell',. Hetton 21 oi Tanfied Moor Bute's l5 6 Walls End Whit Well l2 6 Tow tiley... .. .. Walls Ei.d Bewickc and Co. 12 3; Tennant's Hartlepool tO 6 Walls End Hilda ... IS fl; IVal s End lecs Walls End Hotspur ...... .... 17 tit COUNTRY MARKETS Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Beans. n — se Per Quarter.' A. to A. la.to s. a. to s. a, to s. bath ..... 58 72 32 34 21 24 40 50 Slandford 52 12 31 32 ti 3 26 j 46 itridport 68 —•— Chard 53 72 2113 32 22 3S 42 Exeter Gloucester 62 76 i2B 37 123 S 8 40 42 Guildford 62 7/ 30 35 ;4 30. 40 45 Newbury 50 70 kS 34 24 32 42 48 Reuling 5O is 30 86 24 32 j 42 46 Salisbury 52 62 27 34 20 28 40 50 ShErborne 6B 72 28 31 24 32 40 44 StieptonMallet 53 72 32 37 123 26 44 50 Uxbridge 37 43 23 28 ...- Warminster 53 71 35 38 25 a) 44 48 Winchester 145 66 eovil 158 74 32 31 121 30 40 44 S. tot, 4U :,5 40 4e 44 48 40 44 rs 48 38 92 42 80 38 - -- . LEEDS CORN MARKET. . 1719;... ttt; 33:641;.. ii Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. - York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfnlk and Suffolk - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding Beans 63lb. 40s. to 41n. I , a Oats, Pntatoe . 935. to 2t33. V -Alealing, For. lid. told Eng. ild. Aft 12 4d. per stone shelling 26s. to 27i. per lead DEVIZES CORN MARKET. - - - Per Sack. s. d. s. First Wheat. 34 0 to 35 0 Second 3l 0 S 2 6 Third ......... V 0 sa 0 ..... 30 0 33 C Per Quarter. s. d. s. d. Oats '22 0 to 32 0 Beans (per sack) kO 0 24 0 Flour (per bag) 0 M Bread (pergallor) 1 5 0 CHELTENHA Per Bushel. s. d. to 8.6. Wheat ........ ........... 7 6 8 6 Beef darley ... 3 0 3 9 Mutton Oats ............. ......... 3 0 3 9 Veal Beans Pease 5 0 8 0 Lamb Hay ..... —........ 4[. Os. to 41. 10s. Od. per ton. CANTERBURY MARKET. Wheat, white........... 60e. to fig 5......,. 01d.... 755. to —s red--... 5.45. to 655.....•. 01d.......77 —..e. to ~ Barley, Ma1ting..,,,,,. 30s. to 36s ........ (ir•nding.. —s. to -3. Oats .... 'll:e. to 285....... 041-- —a. to —s. Beans 33s to 405...,.,. 01d...—. —s. to s. Pease . 36s. to --5..... Grey...—. Sls. to —l6 CHELhfSFORD MARKET. Wheat, White tli to 76 Oats ............. ....... .. ..... Red Barley ll 35 'White Chevalier 35 33 Beans, Tick . Grinding ..... .... 27 31 Mazagan ,M IMARKETS. Per lb. 6. tt d. 6 7 6 7 6 7 6 8 7 9 23 to 30 34 34 38 32 4 90 3 WOOLWICH-FRIDAY. ROYAL ARTILLERY. The promotion consequent on the death of Lieutenant- Colonel Story has raised Lieut.-Colonel Faddy to a Lieutenant-Colonel's pay, and Lieut.-Colonel Crut tondo& is posted to the 7th battalion on Major's pay, per general order cf September 280841. Colonel Trolawney will shortly proceed to St. Helens, over which island he has been appointed Governor. Captain Garstin embarked yesterday for a passage to Gibraltar, to take the command of his company stationed there. Captain Markland will proceed in a few days to Corfu to join his company. Lieut.-Colonel Hutchinson will proceed in a few days to Leith Fort, to assume the command of the Royal Ar tillery in North Britain, vacant by the death of Lieut.- Colonel Story. ROYAL ENGINEERS. Lieutenant R. C. Moody, of the Royal T. ngineers, baying been appointed Governor of the Falkland Islands, will embark, on Monday next, with two non-commis sioned officers and twelve men of the Royal Sappers and Miners, and sail immediately afterwards for their destination. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Monkey steam-vessel, Second Master W. Roberts, arrived at Woolwich September 28th, and sailed again for Chatham on the 30th. The Falmouth arrived at Woolwich Yesterday. The Fearless steam-vessel, Captain Frederick Bullock, proceeded up the river to-day on business connected with tht contemplated survey. The Volcano steam-vessel, commissioned by Lieut. West, is expected to leave next week. THE MANCHESTER MEMORIAL TO THE QUEEN.—We understand that the memorial to- the Queen, adopted at the lato public meeting of the inha bitants of this borough, was, in compliance with the re solution of the meeting, forwarded by the Mayor t o M ar k Philips, Esq., for present,a!ien to her Majesty; and that it, was placed by Mr. Philips in the hands of Sir James Graham, her Majesty's Secretary of State f or th e Home Department The following communications to Mr. Mark Philips have been transmitted by him to the Mayor : " Whitehall, Sept. 24, MI. " Sir James Graham presents his compliments to Mr. Phi lips and Mr. Gibson, and has the honour to enclose the official answer to the address from Manchester, which they placed is his hands for presentation. " Mark Philips, Esq., M.P. " T. M. Gibson, Esq., M.P. " Whitehall, Sept. 24, 1841. Sin—l am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to inform you that he has not failed to lay before the Queen the address from Manchester, signed by you as 11ayor and Chair man of a public meeting of the inhabitants. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) 4.. S. M. PHILLIPPS. " The Mayor of Manchester.'" MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A YOUNG FE' MALE.—On Wednesday at twelve o'clock an inquest was held before Mr. T. Wakley, M.l'., Coroner, and a Jury, at the sign of the Old Greyhound, Fulham-fields , on view of the body of Mary Welch, a fine -looping young woman, 23 years of age. It appeared th!t L . _ / ..d deceased was the wife of a labouring maa named 1 -11 T h l er Welch, residing at the above house,. and was months she she confinement with her first child. For some L had been suffering from a bad 1e ,, , and, on the of Saturday last, between five and six o lf ,1' friends, o'clock, her dressing her leg in the presence of some s o e or applying and pulled off the bandage for the pu.rP,?_ wound came some ointment, when the contents of B. t bleed profusely. away with it, and the wound began to 3 mea7ns in their The persons in the house tried e ;it r i:ont effect; when, power to stop the hmmorrhage, but into 4 1, fainting fit, they finding the deceased had fallenn i sheafternoon was one of the smaller had bled to death, having rup said it was a great pity The Corona in all of vessels of the leg. known, that sent for a surgeon, but before it was not more generally extremities, instead of per tiiiirsedarrival the deemed be laidthe floor chairs they ought to on sons being seated in rse been adopted in the instance floor ; and had that coli .f might probably have been her ii e of the deceased, 'Bled to death from the rupture of a Verdict - ' , bursting blood-vessels in the saved. . TorEs ,A meeting o f the bankers THE " TIM Es' the City of London, was held yester merchants, 6 ‘ .c " Mansion House, to take into consideration p r-ovPerl ; s:lin in the ex le p s o . ln a ,conspiracy, by which the d b a lo y od ibu ' rsing the Times news •Ay of rein paper, for • -* e• a its e xertions English commercial world was so largely benefitted. Tlie Lord M ayor presided. The representatives of se veral commercial firms were present. His Lordship at the Man . btrhieefly adverted to the objects of the meeting, and eulo gised in terms of warm encomium the exertions of the Times paper in the case alluded to. These sentiments were concurred in by the movers and seconders of the resolutions, which were declaratory of the objects of the meeting. A piece of plate was suggested as a present by which to convey a sense of the sacrifice made by the Times, great as it was, in the expense incurred in the case of Bogle v. Lawson. As this was considered im practicable, as the Times Was a proprietary concern, a subscription was ultimately agreed upon, arid a Cored mittee was appointed to carry out the objects of the re solutions. • DOVER THEATRE.-- Tlle company here are the best that have appeared for several seasons. First and foremost, then, among the stock hands, without meaning anything invidious, we must name that engaging little Miss M. A. E gan. who in all her parts is ever and in s ome o f them exce ll ent; w hil e h er singi great, is swot and harmonious,--Dow singing, actress, asi fi Chronicle,