The Sun. — London, England, 1841-11-03 00:00:00

MORNING SUN SPAIN. (OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.) PROCLAMATION OF THE REGENT. " Basques—Those who so often abused your credulity and good faith, have sought to do so aga in ; but they have failed in realising their projects. You, Basques, having learned to be cautions in the school of disappoint ment, six years of cruel war did not suffice these wretch ed persons ; they sought to alliance it anew with the force left them by the treaty of Bergara. But that the nation abhors those who would again raise the standard of civil war is seen from the shout of indignation raised against them in every province, by the repentance of the troops which they seduced, and the rapidity with which faithful battalions flew to the province to chastise traitors. No, Basques, you must no longer be under the yoke of a dozen persons, whose interests are not yours. It is my duty to free you from this, and I will do so. You ought- to be, and shall be, freemen ; and I promise you shall be. You shall no longer nourish with your sweat the sordid class that would have betrayed you to death. On them shall be taken ven geance. They detest the Constitution which your re presentatives concurred in forming, because it elevated you to the rights of freemen, instead of remaining the patrimony of a few families. And as it is my duty, as, first magistrate of the nation, to labour for the good of Spaniards, you who are Spaniards shall enjoy all those benefits which the fundamental law of the State con cedes to all. Without peace there can be no happiness for nations. Our country has entered into the path of prosperity; it will become as great and powerful as it deserves to be. And I repeat, what ye said to our adored Queen, Isabella the Second, theßasques shall contribute, like all other Spaniards, to the fortunes of the country. " EL DUQUE DE LA VICTORIA. " FACUNDO INFANTE. " Vittoria, Oct. 23." " CAPTAIN-GENERALSHIP OF THE 12TH MILITARY DIS- TRICT.-ESTADO MAYOR. " Excellent Sir—ln my communication of the 17th instant, I informed your Excellency of the position I had taken u? in Andoain, and of my resolution to defend it as long as possible. There I remained till twelve o'clock last night, when I received information that three bat talions of the revolted regiments of Bourbon and of Burgos had advanced as far as Villabona, an hour's dis tance from me, and that their intention was to attack me in the morning. " I immediately gave my orders to prepare for battle, and when, at half-past three o'clock in the morning, the troops were beginning to move, Don Jose Maria e. Bousinalt, Captain of the Regiment Of Toledo (who had been taken prisoner by the rebels on the night of the 4th instant, whilst bearing an express from Ber gara to Bilbao for the Commandant-General of Biscay), presented himself to me, and stated that the four batta lions, in mass, were determined to re-acknowledge the legitimate Government of the nation, and to place them selves instantly under my orders ; trusting, at the same time, on my being convinced that they had been led astray by an act of obedience to the Generals who com manded them, and nut from any ill intent, that I would pardon the irregularity in wnich they had been mixed up, seeing that they had nos taken any active part in the in surrection, and that they were prepared to wash out the stain by to be the first to do battle with the enemies of the national cause, wherever they might pre sent themselves. My situation—the perspective of the evils which might be averted from my country by grant ing the prayer of the petitioners—the entire sub mission with which they implored mercy, and the natural generosity of a liberal and beneficent Go vernment—all decided me at the moment to address to the Chiefs the communication which I enclose to yuur Excellency, which I seat to them by Captain Bousingalt. In conclusion, at ten o'clock in the morn ing all the battalions, led by the Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment of Bourbon, Don Martin Colmenares, presented themselves to me, with repeated acclamations (well replied to) fer the Constitution, the Queen, his Highness the Regent of the kingdom, and with all the proofs of the most extreme enthusiasm. - "Among those soldiers, who had fought along with me, and to whom I was personally known, I could per ceive a degree of joy lighting up their asfects at our meeting, which I could well interpret as the true ex pression of what was passing in their hearts. " The Generals Ulavaria, Urbistondo, Lardizabal ; Brigadier Larobha, the Conde Montemor, the Foral De puties Paiaeios and Lardizabal, the chiefs and officials of the convention of Bergara, which were in this province (and who, with very few exceptions, joined the rebels), the •Miguelites of Guipuscoa part of those of Biscay, and severa l chiefs, officers, and pea sants who adhered to them, all fled out of this city at midnight, in the direction of Pampeluna. It is known that at noon to-day they passed by Lecumberri, and, as I supposed they had taken the road to France, I have or dered a party of people of the country to cut off their retreat, and warned the military commandant of Irun to guard the frontier by way of Vera. " I hope that your Excellency will do me the honour to make known this happy event to his Highness the Regent of the kingdom, of whom I humbly pray that he will please to approve my conduct this matter. " FRANCISCO Dll PAULA ALCALA. " Cuartel General of Tol:,,sn, 10 o'clock at night, Oct. 20. " To the Mir Aster of War." (Enclosure). "GENERAL ORDER, "Captain-Generalship of Military District No. 12, at Andoain, Oct. 20. Soldiers,—The Regiment of Bourbon, No. 17, and the Provincials of Burgos, who yesterday stood opposed to us, and whom we considered as enemies, arc now again amongst us ! If they have been led into error by obedience to the severe rules of discipline, of which un grateful Generals availed themselves, and thereby for an instant withdrew themselves from their obedience to Government, it has only been until an occasion should arise of enabling them to make known to the whole nation that those who had spilled their blood in a hun dred combats for the defence of liberty could not be traitors • Soldiers,:a the name of the Queen and of hi 3 Highness I offer you alutal oblivion of the past. Already there exists no yesterday. Already we have no more to think of than to march and finilt with the evil-doers who remain. The Enkliers of the Prince, of Bourbon, and of Burgos are :Already one and the same. We shall all combat unitedly, Qncl ail present ourselves to his Highness the Regent of the kingdom, as loyal and worthy to be pointed out as the soldiers uha exterminated the ominous standard of despotism. " FRANCISCO DE PAULA ALCALA. " FRANCISCO ALCALA." The despatch of,the Minister of War contains two other letters, se , :reely less important, viz., one from the principal atiiiiiistration of the Correo (Post-office) at f l :4ted the .20th of October, informing the Chief similar department at Burgos " that the city of ifittoria is now in possession of Brigadier Zurbano, and that the city of Bilbao has submitted to the Government of her .Majesty Isabel 11., and the Regency of the Duke .of Vittoria," and thereupon praying the correspondence addressed to Bilbao remaining in Burgos to be for warded without delay. The Postmaster of Burgos, in reply on the 21st inst., states that he will the next morning- forward all the let ters, being obliged to keep the newspapers for the pre-' sent, as such a quantity had . accumulated—adding, as news to what is stated above, " that Aiunagorri had been . .delivered up. by the people of the countu, and shot ; by .at they consider the communication with France h tuld, one moment or the other, be entirely set free ; t th ati. e.T.,they had already forwarded by . Vittoria the mails strztt or rive by Bayonne, thereby gaining much time over Gove Wider route—an object to which the Admini ordinare , th e Posts was devoting all his energies. The rn l esnt has published the following Gaceta Extra ,4 supEg A-cisive of the fate of the revot of Oribe : -- , :41,, " OFFICIAL ARTICLE. " Sir—At e; t yOLITICAL GOVIMNMENT OF ZAMORA. have received‘‘k " MADRID, OCT. 24, 1841. General of this •,‘ instant (4 o'clock in the afternoon) I in which he inforri Jrnmunication from the Commandant- Jose Oribe, with 2 ince, dated yesterday, at Alcanices, armed in the Puelle that the traitor, Brigadier Don authorities, on the ert o en who accompanied him, was dis the said Commandant.: f Mallades by L the Portuguese to Braganza to reclai n i of the 20th i ns t., w h ereupon - chests, and other effect s , ral, with eighte en h orse , ro d e The public peace has be e ' . retake the arms, military tion here, a decided proof Otiltming to the sa id f orce . . , 44 1 / 4e - the traitor Oribe, despite hi shout the slightest altera forts to make proselytes. , , bad reeerion given to " Zamora, Oct. 22, 1841. ;miser istrd constant ef " NICHOLAS C , "To the Secretary of State." \ - --4.--.70 Y GUATL PORT UGC . law l.:'‘ LISBON, bounty Ira • for abolr e ,' the diffe rential du a favour of pang' tie o s, c'r. 25.--The . A. . 4 forwhich T was p Aguese ship ping, a copy 0 e , a subjoin, Diario do Govern° , i Tuesday last. Th i s la s :!d in the effect for goods to a iree months from the time of7, l „ l e ta b k li e cation from P•i Jrts in Europe and North America,La s i x anon.ths fr .',m; all others. The Senate has been iamost excar;,,aely occupied in discussing the project vvhic a i m _ _poses a tribute of ten per cent. upon the salaries ol all public employees civil and military ; this project, net,. Ivithstanding its having passed the Lower House, mei with considerable opposition in the Upper, on Account of the 4th Article, which also places a de eima upon the script of the Board of Public Credit. Senator Manoel Antonic•Nellez Caldeira (ex -Minister of State) has protested measure pass, he w-111 prepare an amendment, whereby the banks of In the House that should such a cial compan;. es, Li 7:oon and Oporto, as well as the commer . may be subjected to the same. Little worthy has occurred in the Chamber of Depu rjr notice ties, ' el dwe except the pr . ~ ,s, Ferreira proposal of Coutat da Taipa for de .aring va can t t h e seat o f M. Florio() Rodr i gu es c Ferraz, who has been lately appointed, pro tempore, Com znissary-in-Chief of the Army, in the room of .1.1. Luiz Jose Ribeiro, who, as mentioned in my last, has been dismissed. This proposal was approved of the House, bat da being sent to a Special Committee, was negatived, • 1,0 that M. Florid() 'retains his seat in the Chamber of Deputies. This decision was founded on the recent pre cedent of the Minister of Justice, M. Costa Cabral, in favour of his brother, Jose Bernardo da Silva Cabral, and Joaquin Jose Pereira de Mello. The ai 3 eussion of the project for the sale of national property in the bore lslands and Madeira still conti nues, and the debate relative the project No. 2, which is to decide the fate of the inactive classes, commences this day. Th e Opposition deputy, M. Sa Nogueira, made an interpellation to the Minister of Finance, in quiring whethe r he intended to discuss the budget cr not ? The Minister answered in the affirmative, and ad ded, that he had had already several conferences with the Select Committee of the Rouse, and expected shortly to present the budget as called for. The telegraph announced yesterday, that on Friday last a Spanish battalion, of 960 men, under the command of a Brigadier-General and seemed other officers ; entered J 3 ,ragsina,, as refu gee ; they e, i t would appear, are compromised in the late Cir istina movements, and their entrance into this country was caused by their finding no sympathy at Zamora and Toro, whence they were driven by the National Guard. The men were disarmed by the Portuguese authorities, and the Minister fee Foreign Affairs here has officially communicated to the Spanish Envoy at this Court, M. Aguilar, that orders have been given to re move them all into the interior. The revenue of the Lisbon Custom-house and Excise office, and Custom-house of Oporto, for the month of September last, paid in debentures, ex-paper money, and coin, amounts conjointly to 304,018,987 reis (equal to 69,6711. Os. 4d. sterling), showing a decrease on the pre ceding month of August, of 13,9141. 4s. sd. sterling. Exchange upon London, at 30 days' sight, 53id. to 54d. per milrei. M. Joaquim Ferreira Borges goes by this packet, as Portuguese Envoy to St. Petersburgh. " FINANCE OFFICE—THIRD DEPARTMENT. " Donna Maria, by the grace of God, and by the Con stitution of the Monarchy, Queen of Portugal and Al grieves, &c., make known to all our subjects, that the General Cortes have decreed, and we have sanctioned, the following law : • " Article 1. The premium of 15 per cent. granted by the first article of the decree of the 16th January, 1837, upon goods, merchandise, and manufactures imported in Portuguese vessels admissible into the custom-houses of the kingdom and islands adjacent, is hereby abolished. " Par. 1. The goods, merchandise, and manufactures shipped in places or ports where the Portuguese flag is not admitted, imported and cleared for consumption, shall pay the respective entry, and further, one-fifth of the amount of the said duties. " Par. 2. The goods, merchandise, and manufactures, shipped in places or ports where the Portuguese flag shall be admitted, and not be subjected to differential duties, imported in foreign vessels not belonging to the place where the goods, merchandise, and manufactures are produced, upon clearance for consumption shall also pay the respective duties, and further, one-fifth part of the amount of the said duties. ''Par. 3. The goods, merchandise, and manufactures shipped in places or ports where the Portuguese flag shall be subject to differential duties, imported in foreign vessels and cleared for consumption, shall pay the re spective duties, and as much more as the Government may be under the necessity of imposing, in accordance with the Bth article of the General Custom-house duties, established according to the Act of the 11th of March, 1841. _ _ " Art. 2. The provisions of the present law shall come into operation three months after its publication, as re gards goods, merchandise, and manufactures imported in vessels coming from the ports of Europe and North America ; and in six months as respects all other ports. " Art. 3. All other laws to the contrary are hereby revoked. " We, therefore, command that all authorities to whom the cognizance and execution of the said law may be 'will fulfil and act upon it, and cause it to be ful filled and acted upon, according to the full intent and meaning thereof. " The Minister of Finance shall cause the same to be printed, published, and distributed. - " Given at the Palace of Necessidades on the 18th of October, 1841. " THE QUEEN. " ANTONIO JOZE D'AVILA." THE DISTRESSED PRINTERS OF LONDON. AN APPEAL TO THE NOBILITY, GENTRY, &c. " When sorrows come they come not in single pairs, But in battalions." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—In soliciting the favour of insertion in your Journal of the following observations, I trust the pressing urgency of the subject herein discussed will be read not as mere matter of detail, but one that shall receive at the hands of the public generally that benevolent atten tion which its appeal so justly entitles it to : " Gentlemen—The humble individual who has taken upon himself the onorous task of submitting a few plain remarks to your candid perusal, is one who belongs to that numerous but depressed body styled Letterpress Printers. It is no supposititious averment when I say, (and hundreds can attest the fact), that during the lengthed period of the art of printing (about four cen turies), there never has occurred a time in which such distress from the want of employment has been felt amongst its members as in the present year, 1841. Like other trades, there is always a portion of the year in which work is scarce, particularly when Parliament is not sitting ; but for the whole of the last six months the Letterpress Printers have been driven nearly to their wit's end by a stagnation in their calling the oldest man among them never remembered before. " As a working body, they are the first to respond to the calls of charity, whether amongst their individual members, or to those who belong to other professions; but as it respects themselves, they sensitively flinch from appeals to public sympathy—not from a feeling of p4de, but of honest endurance of ills, which they fondly hoped time and circumstances would have ameliorated. But hope has proved delusive ; yet, while they make no ob trusive claims upon the benevolence of any, they may be allowed to say, without being chargeable with presump tion— " ' The mercy I to OTHERS show, That mercy show to ME.' "Even in the year 1826, a season which presented a most 'tragic picture of destitution amongst the printing profession, yet it fell infinitely short in the number of cases of absolute want, as well as the period of its dura tion, when compared with the present time. One fact will illustrate it—that all the time of the present dearth nothing has been done in the shape of pecuniary relief. Then it received almost immediate attention, uhich was extended to FORTY \VEERS' SUBSCRIPTION from those in employ, which produced 9481. 6s. 100.; from the master printers in the metropolis, 3151. ; from masters and journeymen in the country, 43C/ 14s. id.; two excursions to the Nore, 4(2/. 15s. 103-d. ; benefit at the Cobourg Theatre, 531. 155:; ditto concert at Crown and Anchor. 71. ls. ; public donations and ••subscriptions, 332/. 11s. ; total, 2,1371. 12s. 100. This was a notable offering at the altar of benevolence; may a kindred feeling again be shown. "But how stands the matter now, when four-fifths arc destitute, and when the appeal is made, most must be ready to say 'my poverty, not my compels me to refuse my mite. That they have commenced a sub scription among themselves, and will make a public ap 7 peal, is true ; but only look at the following statistics:— The number of journeymen compositors in London is stated to be about 2,500, besides apprentices, at the present period (about one-fourth more than in 1826) ; the number of pressmen about 1,000, many of whom are as destitute of employment as the compositors, the one depending upon the work which the other prepares to his hands. In the composing branch upwards of 1,000 are seeking employment in vain, besides about 500 ave raging about 10s. a week. This deplorable state of things must astound every lover of literature, but who may scarcely think it possible, while he is feasting his mind with his ever-swelling stores, that London has such a plague-spot. "At this stage of the discussion, it may not be out of place to 'say, that there is not an individual member of civilized society but who owes much, very much as to what he Is, to the handicraft labours of the press, con trasted with what he MIGHT have been had the art of printing not been the agency for improving his mental, moral, and social condition. Then, as the benefits of this mighty engine have been so widely diffused, en lightening and refreshing in its intluence all upon whom it sheds its radiant beams, and as they find the highest mental gratification they can fre e ly i n d u l ge i n to ar i se from the compensating power of literature, in all its rich and luxurious variety of incident, let them by all means satiate themselves in this ' feast of reason and flow of soul,' but itl the mean time give a practical de monstration of that heavenly injunction, which is an epitome of benevolence Freely ye have received, freely give.' "The art of printing is none other than the key which has unlocked the gate of knowledge ; it is the sun of the moral system, which has dispersed the mists of ignorance, that, like the Egyptian, gloom, is ' a darkness which might be felt ;' and, as one of its noblest features, it has taught man his duties and responsibilities to his Creator and to his fellow-man. Ere the dawn of this effulgent luminary, ' darkness covered the earth, and gross dark ness the people.' "Will any one then apathetically sit down content with a barren admiration of this mighty lever, which moveth all things, HIMSELF EXCEPTED, and permit this humble statement (if 'they have the means to 'do good and to communicate'), to evaporate into the callous con duct of the priest and Levite of old, rather than cherish a Samaritan feeling, by binding up the wounds of those who are stricken with penury, and too weak to help themselves ? The thought is _too harrowing to be in dulged —nay, it is a libel upon human nature—nay, more, it is an insult to the generous dispositions of English men ! Shall the whirlwind moans of distress be wafted across the ocean from foreign shores, and find an entrance both into their hearts and their purse, and no listening the very age and ear and helping hand be lent to the necessitous letter press printers, who are now completely identified with Po be ! The benevolent body their natures ere they eanpGeoria'slee of the times, its FORM and PRESSI3III:,' ready to perish at our very doors ? It can- The benevolent upon their hearts and exemplified(w'rhtaltlllsr'sni ond indeliblymustth eh. changegeneral e neerna ouduct, that mercy It blesses him that gives, e i a and iimt v h e at takes.' twicbless'd, "above 'With the humbl e hope that the statement. of facts Amy receive y our h umane and prompt consideration, eration, beg leave to subscribe myself, gentlemen, "Your most obedient servant, " J. P. S. BICKNELL. " 63, Be 7 rbican, Nov. 1, 1841. 6, N.B. A general meeting of the trade Was held on the 9 8th ult., at tbe MechanieS'lnstitute, Southampton -build ings, Holborn, sand a Committee formed fur the purpose of rece:vin:; subscriptions and relieving the unemployed. -ioom, Red Lion, Red Lion -court, Fleet.. On Sunday the Sist ult., the Right Rev. Bishop 'F e rret inducted the Rev. T. G. Suther, A. 8., t o th e pastoral charge of St. George's Episcopal Chap e l, York place, to which he had been unanimously elected by the vestry, as successor to the Rev. R. Q. Shannon, A. 13., now one of the Prebentlariekl of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. On the 0 - Lt the Right Rev. Bishop de livered a learned and impressive charge to the pastor nd congregation. Th ,-. Rev. Phillip . Kelland, M.A., Professor of Mathemati , .Ys in the University, read the morning prayers, and officiated as Chaplain to , the Bishop.—Edinburgh rarer. A FORTUNATE K EP ORTER.—A Yankee edi tor, describing the bursting of a cannon, by which several persons were badly wounded, says—" Our re porter, who had his hand blown oft; was fortunately ou the spot, and has narrated to us the full particulars of the cata,trophe." • N, LONDON, NVEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1841. T il E 13, Great Marlborough-street. lAr , HOOD'S COMIC A N'N U A 1., -LtIEL FOR 1842, In 1 col: elegantly bound, with 37 Illustrations by the Author and :tin Leech, will be ready in a few days. 2, „,* Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW NOVEL EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, ESQ. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bve., THE PARISH CLERK. By the Author of " Peter Priggitis,"_ Just ready, in 2 Vols., post Bvo., with numerous Illustrations, by Leech, &c., including several fac-similes of rare and unique old Prints, MERRIE ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME; Or, PEREGRINATIONS with UNCLE TIM and Mr. BOSKY, of LITTLE BRITAIN, DRYSALTER. By GEORGE DANIEL. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. NEW ROMANCE BY J. FENIMORE COOPER, ESQ. Now ready, in 3 vela. post Bvo., THE SECOND EDITION OF THE DEER-SLAYER. A ROMANCE. By J. FENI3IORE COOPER, Esq., Author of "'The Pathfinder," " The Last of the Mohicans," &c. &c. " The character of The Deer-slaver' is su'tained with re markable spirit. The insident in the story is skilfully wrought up, and with startling dramatic effect. The descriptive por tions are admirable throughout."—Sun. Also, by the same Author, I. 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A very useful little statistical work, called " Facts and Figures," published by HOOPEII, contains the following remarks:— " The total population of the United Kingdom this year, will be about 26,856,000 (without army and navy) ; in 1831, it was 24,133,000. and in 1821, it was 21,193,000. " The increase in 1831 over 1821, in.the United King dom, was 15 per cent. ; but the increase in 1841 over 1831 is under 111 per cent. " This is a most unexpected and starling result: " Had the population continued to increase at the same ratio as during the previous ten years, it would have been a million larger. The decrease in the ratio has been principally in Ireland ; but even in England and Scotland, it has undergone a much greater diminution than was expected. " A variety of causes will, doubtless, be assigned. One of the most prominent will be, probably, that of the pres sure of poverty ; and during the last two years such a cause will unquestionably have operated. The period, however, extends' over ten years, and includes times of eminent prosperity and abundant harvests ; so that the solution of the phenomenon cannot be effected simply by the fact of poverty during a recent portion only of the ten years." The result, which is said to be surprising and startling, can be, so only to those who have paid no attention to the progress of public affairs. We, at least, were prepared for it, and we think it can be neither startling nor surprising to the readers of The Sun. Many months back we directed attention to the coming census as afford ing the most conclusive proof against the starva tion system which Sir ROBERT PEEL, to his eternal opprobrium, has taken office to main tain. We were sure that such would he the re sult, and our expectations have been realised. At the same time, what is said in the para graph about the recent date of the pressure of poverty, and the existence of some years of abundance, is tolerably correct, •and supplies tos otfh t te h h a e t the imagination with the means of drawing a', frightful picture of the woe which has been in, flitted on our people, by a so-called paternal littlepfi c r r s i t t yfizann3o'de doubta Government, within the last five rears. The close th period e porfa w gl e . 8r r e e sds 30t- eatsthere epoe . p o uc f la p ant iO o n wasat least commensurate • 1 its progress in the previous ten years, if it were not wholly unex ampled. A succession of abundant harvests f)nowing previous deficiencie witch had, clone their work in starving down the people, allo- , ved' i r the population to expand to the end of 1836. Then begun deficient harvests ; then the law for strangling the people, which shut them out from the food. •of the United States, and which pre vented the people there or elsewhere from culti vating food for our people, came into full and too terribly effective operation. The growing trade with the United States was suddenly checked, the prosperity of our people was rudely arrested. In 1837 they began to suffer bitterly ; in 1838 their sufferings were great; in 1839 they increased, because the previous dreadful year had deprived them of their means; in 1840 they were aggravated; and in 1841, if some change be not speedily made in their condition, their fate will be unspeakably calamitous. The check, then, which the population has received, dates from the end of 1836; and during those years the people have undergone all the sufferings which are coincident with being starved out of existence. The untenanted houses at Stockport, Bolton, Paisley, Manchester, and Leeds, which were built on the scale of progress which the population had made to the end of 1836, though a fool of a Commis sioner could see in them only an evidence of greedy over-speculation, testify to the deep dis tress and desolation which have fallen on the po pulation and arrested its progress since 1836. How can it be otherwise ? We have.a law to limit our people, as nearly as possible, to the food which our own territory can supply; and fifty years ago ADAM SMITH informed our legislators, though he informed them in vain, that such a law was tantamount to starving out of existence all the population who might be able to obtain food from other quarters. We shall not, however, have a complete view of the horrible effects of the. Devil's laws, unless we take into consideration the natural law of population, which increases in a geometrical ratio, pr at least an accelerated ratio. instead, therefore, of the increase of population having been less during the last half of the decennial period, it ought to have been greater. Nor is there any reason, except the Corn-law, why it should not. The facility of communication with all parts of the empire, and with foreign countries, has in the same period been much increased. New fields have been brought into cultivation at home, and vast fields have been opened to us abroad. Millions of acres across the Atlantic smilingly woo the industry of man, and the infamous and impious law has forbidden man to cultivate and fertilize them. Our merchants and monied men lent their capital to make railroads, construct canals, and open up the far West to the enterprise of the world, and then the law forbade them, and forbade the world, to reap the rich re ward that was prepared. Had our na tional policy not shut our ports to grain from other countries, and diverted the stream of emigration from the fertile plains of the Mississippi to the Southern Pole and half barren Canada, the population might have continued to increase, according to the natural law, in an accelerated ratio, to this year. The infamous law has prevented it, and caused all the misery which ever marks a stationary or de clining population. If it be said, as it sometimes idly is, that a manufacturing is a poor and a degraded popu lation, is it not, let us ask, the business of Government to inquire into the causes of such a degradation, if it exist, and, if possible remove them ? Than the smiths, miners, colliers, bricklayers, carpenters, engineers, prin ters, carters, &c. &c., who abound in the manu facturing districts as well as hand-loom weavers, and over-wrought factory girls, there are no finer men, both physically and morally, in the em pire. There is no reason, whatever, therefore, why the rest of a manufacturing population should not be equally sturdy, were the manu facturing towns drained and built with some re gard to the health of the people. Whatever may be the lot of the population, it is clearly the duty of Government not to place any obstacles in the way of their supplying themselves with food ; and the Government which does so forfeits the cha racter of a protector, and acquires that of a mur derer of the people. • It will be observed that the progress of popu lation has been most retarded in Ireland, where there are few or no manufacturers. Here we see the exemplification of the clearing system of the BRUENS and the BERESFORDS, and the sad ef fects of a people being reduced to live on lumpers. The Irish have been killed off by typhus and famine, consequent on being deprived of food and shelter. After all that can be said in favour of the starvation system it does not increase the agricultural population, for besides the compara tive little increase of the Irish, who are , almost all agriculturigts, it is in evidence that the agricul tural population of England has not increased at all tantamount to the inhabitants of towns'. The Post, which, no longer ago than last Thursday, talked of settling the affairs of Spain by marrying the young QUEEN to either one. of three Princes, including . a Prince of the House of Coburg, used the 1 4 ollowing language yesterday :—" THE WRETCHED CHILDREN OF QUEEN CHRISTINA, SHOULD THEY BE SPARED THE SILENT INROADS OF POISON ; OR MORE SUD DEN DEA.TII, AMIDST THE MURDEROPS ti 0,14- Fmcrra or corettfiliitru FACTIONS—AiiE MERE PUP-; PETS, THE TAINTED OFFSPRING OF AN ABAN DONED womArt." What a lofty idea of Royal feeling and Royal moral dignity must this Tory writer, who has undoubtedly been admitted at Court, entertain ? He proposes to marry one of three Princes to one of " the • wretched chil dren of Queen CHRISTINA"-.-" the tainted off. spring of an abandoned woman," and hesupposes that either of these Princes would, for the sake of a Crown, take up with, that kind of woman which a Man of ordinarily decent feeling would shun with the utmost care. What respectable man would like to unite himself with the tainted offspring of an abandoned woman ? Three Princes, accOrding, to the Post, would be competitors for the disgraceful alliance. Such a sentence, in a preux Ministerial Journal, gives the people more insight into the corrupted feelings, and corrupted manners of Courts, than a whole volume of scandal. At the same time this delicate•minded writer one is o of those persons whose claims on the respect and obedience of other men are much more vast than his genius. He is also a politi cian of great eminence in his own conceit, and has a plan to "settle definitively the affairs of Spain by 'a Congress of the Great Powers.'' Does such a proposition einanate from the Mi. nistry 2 Is it intended as, a feeler ? We believe it is; but Tories have quite enough on their hands without embroiling the affairs of Spain, in order that they may set them right after their own OtShien. If 1 7 - Tha proposition deserves to be stigmatised as infamous. At this moment ESPARTEiI.O is session of the Government ) to which he has been elevated by the nation. In his high office he has -shown more skill than the world gave hint t?.itdit for. lie ,has juSt s u c cee d e d in stilling a formidable rebellion, organised by the "abandoned woman" of the Post and her ambitious kinsman. The corrupt and worthless intriguers of the Courts of Paris and Madrid, aided by some cut-throat sol diers, who, when they stir up war instead of put ting it down, are a disgrace to human nature, have completely failed in their endeavours to change the Government of Spain into the tool of their base purposes. At this moment an Eng lish Writer, but a true Tory, proposes that Es- PARTERO shall be deprived of the advantages of success, and that a Congress of the Great Powers, in Which England is to take the lead, shall do that; or something like that, for Loufs Pm- LIPPt and the " abandoned woman" which they have failed to accomplish lbr themselves by their scandalous attempts at provoking rebellion. The Spaniards are not, according to the Tory writer, to 'Settle their affairs in their own way, but it is proposed that There shall " assemble immediately a angress of the great Powers, to settle definitively the afiairs of Spain, Austria, Rtissia, aauf - Pruiiia, who have ceased all di ploulatie intercourse -with that wretched land, easily in. • • ; dnced to meet without her boundaries, would wield their'ffiffluence in her behalf, and by their presence allay. any latent jealousy betwixt England and France. From such a jury a definitive sentence of arbitration would be obtained, the result of the courteous collision of diver gent opinions ; and with this great advantage, that, from the very first meeting of the Conference, a vigilant, controlling influence, would be established over - the Peninsula." What would Englishmen say, if, after having quarrelled, they had established a Government which suited them, though it might not suit their neighbours, Congress of the despots of the Con tinent, who had taken no other part with us than to make our dissensions as bitter as possible, should assemble at Paris to alter our arrange ments, and settle them according to the views of the opponents and enemies of England? Eng lishmen would spurn the dictates of such a Con gress ; yet an English journal proposes such a one to control ESPARTERO and the Spaniards. They, like Englishmen, will, under the pre sent circumstances, spurn the interference of the Great Powers ; and the Minister of England who should now unite with them against ESPARTERO to settle the affairs of Spain, would deserve to be impeached and exiled to the genial Court of the CZAR. If such an infamous policy be con templated by the Tories, oppressed as the Go vernment is with difficulties at home, they must design to embarrass and distract the whole of Europe. The result of the. municipal elections through out the country, so favourable to the Liberal party, prove that .hatred of Toryism is as strong as it was ten years ago. The apathy of the late Government threw a damp on the spirit of Re formers. Sir ROBERT PEEL, ..tvith his rene gades in the Cabinet, took advantage of the circumstance, and turned the MELBOURNE Ad ministration out of office, on pretence of saving the country. Some believedil others doubted his sincerity. The test has been ap plied. High Tories' have been appointed to important places; no relief for trade is held out; the great body of the operative classes are bor dering on starvation, while the Minister and his colleagues are occupied in giving grand dinner parties. The returns for Leicester, Derby, Leeds, and numerous others, show what the electors think of the Do-nothing Government. Of political news there is an absolute dearth in the French Journals; for there is no novelty in stating that discontent exists in the French army—that Louis PHILIPPE and CHRIS TINA Mu oz are deeply disappointed by the failure of the insurrection in Spain—that French influence has declined on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees—and that the recent inundations have greatly augmented the general distress in the southern provinces of France. The policy of France towards Spain this year is quite as ill judged as her policy towards Turkey in the years 1839 and 1840. Espousing the cause of re bellion in Turkey and revolution in Spai n , she has obtained by her double failure the hatred of the Spaniards and Turks, and the Monarchical States of Europe. For in the eyes of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, the abstract claims of Madame MuNoz to the Regency are not a jot better founded than those of ESP AR _ TERO ; while the 1 tter, from being firmly estab lished, is infinitely a more direct representative of the Conservative principle. But Louis PHI LIPPE saw nothing hut the dazzling prospect of placing a Crown on the head of the young Duke D'AumA LE. To be the father of a brace of kings was more glorious in his eyes than to have his praises celebrated by Europe as the Pacificator of the Peninsula. What crimes that poor am bition of giving tyrants to the world has pro duced ! HoW many of the most powerful princes, and the wisest pontiffs, have been ren dered contemptible by this vice of nepotism! From private accounts, we learn that a con flict between English and French interests, adds to the disturbances in Syria. The English have . espoused the side of the Druses, the French that of the Maronites. In conflicts between them blood had been shed, and the peace of the Mountains in the vicinity of Beyrout seriously disturbed. In addition to this intelligence, which has reached us from Constantinople, we find the following account in a French Journal of - Sunday : A letter, written by an officer of the squadron of Ad- Mira - La Busse, gives the following account of the state of things in Syria :—" The English have installed them selves, as in a fixed residence, at Acre and Beyrout. Their flag flies by the side of that of the Porte, and their soldiers look on themselves as in garrison in English towns. There are only about 150 at Beyrout and 400 at Acre. The others (between 300 and '400) are dis tributed in several small posts occupied by Turks. "The Turkish-Governors fancy themselves in a con quered country, leaving the English to do as they like with respect to military and political matters ; while they themselves seem to think only of extorting all they can from the inhabitants of the towns, and from the mountaineers, who bring provisions, in or der to enrich themseves as speedily as possible, for they judge that their occupation is but temporary. Thus the English left in the fortified towns as instructors of the soldiers and directors of the works, do their ut most to establish themselves in the country. Their com mercial countryman have not been idle, and there are now at Beyrout English goods enough to supply all Syria and even Egypt for six or eight years. Accord ingly the French houses, which are not in favour, are settling their affairs in order to leave this melancholy country. "As for the Mountaineers, they are animated by a spirit of independence, and it will not be possible to place them again under the despotism of the Turks or,the Egyptians; ttlty,Obgtinately refuse to submit to the most moderate Writ i e:afdel* is one concession made to them when they demaiifi olbetSi irerything serves them as a pre tence to have recourse to Minis, and they will continue to act in this manner till their independence is acknow- • ledged, and till the two ci;:,:icts of the Leanon are left at liberty to choose their own Ennr, to vote the taxes, !And to determine tlie nmount of the tribute which shall pay to the 6 1 61i:flit 11 1 .'fitntt most not lose sight of the inhabitants of Lebanon—they must ritiblif the deve lopment of the antipathy which they feel to the Eng lish."— Courrier Francais. THE LATE FIRE IN THE TOWEE..---CORO NER'S INQUEST.— j lesteictiY bteliitig; gt fivn o'njoek, an inquest was held at the King's Head,• in the Tower of London, before Thiselton Dyer, Esq., Coroner for the Liberty of the Tower, on the body of Richard Wivell, aged 24, one of the Fire Brigade, who lost his life on Sunday last, at the calamitous fire in the Tower. Wm. Childs being sWorii, ,in gardener and beadle of the Tower. On the first alarm of the fire, I pfbeetqled with others with the Tower engine. About 12 o'clock on Sunday, whilst the Armoury was in flames, I saw the deceased take a branch of the engine from a soldier. At the time a quantity of stones and bricks fell from the top of the Armoury upon the head of the deceased, wito fell apparently lifeless. I assisted some of the firemen and soldiers in carrying the deceased into the Spur guard-room, where he was attended by Mr. English, sur geon, of Graceeltureh •street, and also Mr, Bowling, sur geon of the let Regimtnt . of Scots tusilier Guards, but he died a few minutes after the aptiident hopened. By the Coroner—The stones and bricks that fell upon the deceased came from the front wall of the Armoury. Mr. Braidwood, Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, the surgeon, and gotne Other Witnesses, were examined, but their testimony was merely a corroboration alb above; after which the Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death‘" Y >sdil~Pt tai Mr. ir ' etifgili d'Uolltior and the Rev. Mr. Brewster having challenged one an other tO debate the relgtiVe merits of moral and physical fored as tlle Intilintent ticji se6dring the People's Char ttf., tettms were arranged last Wtek tittif rtspective friends; and a g,ralid gladiatorial Eotftliat e't tools took plaCe betWeeh the tihaittpioits till Stlthfdtit latt; in the 'optth M PaisleY, in the Presence of aboti 4,Mtl ptdple. Both gentlemen spoke at great length in support of their respective creeds EIS Chartists, and both claimed the majority when the vote was talteni It eves then proposed that the field shaild be divided ; and Mr. O'Connor, wav ing his hat, called upon all his friends to follow him. This was immediately done, and Mr. O'Connor climbed a tree, and made it his rostrum. It was now evident that Mfr. Brewiter had an overwhelming majority. The Ivhole affair must have been supremel, ridiculous. ROYAL SOUTH LoNliol4 }LORICULTURAL Soment.—A general meeting of the above Society was held at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, on Thursday evening last, W. T. Riff, Esq,, Vice-President, in the chair, There ivad a very foil attendance of members, considering the unfavourable state of the weather. The annual report was read by the Secretary, froth which it appears that the Society is in a very flourishing condi tion, having, at the present time, between 200 and 300 members ou the books. During the past year five flower shows have been held, being one in addition to those held in former years, and 276 prizes of gold and silver medals, cups, &c., were awarded for successful productions in floriculture and horticulture. It was also stated that the Society had received a great accession of Royal patronage in the person of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, and his Royal Highness the Duke Of Cam- . bridge. After several resolutions had been passed, et pressing thanks to, and the re-election of the Committee -of Management, a vote of thanks to the Chairman was proposed by J, P. aurnard, Esq., and carried unani mously, and the peo<tlng adjourned. K K g A fra 11, ti 5a d 1 s . li FRI s A.. " i .,) y 0 . . AND Vithitt 69 Anton. • " Who runs may read." FOIZET.GriT. The passion of the Church of England for building; places of worship, and endowing them with goodly in comes, in places where there are no Protestants to fre quent them, is not confined to Ireland. Letters from Constantinople of the 10th ult. assure us that the Porte has refused a demand made by Lord Ponsonby, for per mission to erect a Protestant Episcopal Church at Jeru salem, to which the Archbishop of Canterbury was to ap point a metropolitan Bishop, although Jerusalem does not boast of ten Protestant residents. The Porte has acted very wisely. The appointment of an English Bishop to Jerusalem would only light up the torch of religious discord in Syria, and involve us in endless broils with Moslems, Greeks, Armenians, Copts, Druses and other oriental sects. If Lord Ponsonby's piety prompt him to endow a church at Jerusalem, we see no objection to his making application to the Porte for per mission so to do ; but we protest against any such inter meddling on the part and in the name of the British people. It is a mockery at the over-taxed and starving millions of honest artisans to talk to them about estab lishing a nursery of proselytism at Jerusalem. The Sultan has forwarded to the care of the British Ambassador, to be delivered to Admiral Sir R. ford, and to Colonel Hodges, her Majesty's late Consul- General in Egypt, sabres of honour, enriched with dia monds, and a rich diezior.d neshan for the former. A highly compliment 4a7 letter, from the Porte to the Gal lant Admiral, accompanied this proof of the Sultan's sa tisfaction. Have the intrigues of British agents at the Porte been carried so far, as to deprive the Gallant Com modore, Sir Charles Napier, of the distinguished testi mony of merit once designed for him by the Sultan . ? Lord Ponsonby, for one, was no friend to the Commo dore on this occasion. On the 24th ult. the Madrid Government was offi cially informed that the insurgent Brigadier Oribe, with 250 of his followers, escaped into Portugal, where they were seized and disarmed by the Portuguese authorities. Now that the insurrection h as f a il e d, the Portuguese Government is most eager to disavow all previous know ledge of it. There are seven soldiers at present under sentence of death in Paris. A wide-spread spirit of disaffection pre vails throughout the French army. There was a report circulated in Madrid on the 25th ult., that the Pope had excommunicated Espartero for his answer to the A4locution. We do not think that Gregory XVI. could be guilty of such a piece of folly. Espartero after settling matters at Vittoria, arrived at Bilbao on the 24th ult. He at once ordered a contribu tion of 60,0001. sterling to be raised upon the town. This will cure the inhabitants of their passion fin. insurrections. The editors of the lidscougado fled, but one of them has been retaken, and brought into San Sebastian ; as have the Marquis and Marchioness of Santa Cruz, the Mar quis of Valmediano, the Count de Corres, Goiri, Arleta, Larrondobino, the two Uhagons, Toledona, &c. The citadel of Pampeluna has definitively surrendered, though a French journal, the Memorial dee Pyrenees, ex pressed a hope that it might hold out General Lahera has been taken at Santander ; but Narvaez, it seems, has escaped on board the brig that brought him . to Cadiz. Immediately after the capitulation of the Christine garrison at Pampeluna, Messrs. Rodrigues and Salsedo, a mercantile firm at Bayonne, received from Paris three millions of francs for the use of the insurgents. Will Christina Munoz tell us whether it was herself or Louis Philippe that advanced this money? A Contemporary has the following account of Gene ral Vandersmissen, one of the Belgian conspirators:— " At Waterloo, that person was a Major in the Dutch Artillery; after the peace, he left the service, married the daughter of an English naval officer, and became a manufacturer of vermicelli, but was unsuccessful. On the breaking out of the Belgian revolution he joined the insurgents, and was for his services appointed by the Pro visional Government General-Commandant of Antwerp. He was, however, dismissed the Belgian service in May, 1831, on a charge of being engaged in a plot to give up the town to the Dutch troops under General Chasse. He then sought refuge in England and France. It is certain that he is poor and wholly without influence in Belgium." —We shall only add, that he has neither improved his fortune nor increased his influence by attempting to de throne King Leopold. The Augsburgh Gazette gives a letter from Vienna, which contains the following details relative to the Aus trian population :—ln 1840, deaths in the provinces, 659,840 ; 9,501 more than in 1839. Births, 177,200 ; 861 suicides, 53 cases of fatal hydrophobia, 473 assassi nations, 9,369 accidental deaths, and 28 executed. A ,,,, 0....,,P 1 . * ' . 7. , - ...., ~ 0 , ~,.., 4 ,. 1 A .. 4.4 v, . ,- ; ;-(cc,',7,,,,.0.•,_______ ..e .4-1c:;;r: , .= ',V I Z"' .:. ' ••• , ,ja , -.W.' ifi. 0 • ... A ... , - • - t-.'?PtltwN-Tt..._ - - -‘,.. T et THE THIRD VOLUME OF A GNES STRICKLAND'S LIVES of the QUEENS of ENGLAND, IS NOW READY, price 10s. 6d. bounn, with Illustrations, " These volumes hai' , e the fascination of romance, with the integrity of history."—Times. 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Dale • Henry, ' Mr. Seaman • Old Primrose, Mr. Cullen - Ralph, M r. Gard. ner ; Agnes, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Do mestic Drama. After which, a New Domestic Drama, entitled KATTY O'SHIEL, the FOLLOWER of the FAMILY. O'Dwyer, Mr. Dale ; Augustus, Mr. Seaman ; Guyton Gray, Mr. James; and Katty O'Shiel, Miss Vincent. To conclude with, RAFFAELLE the REPROBATE. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, 13.—uallerl, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. To. tnorrovt, Wreck of the Heart, Katty O'*hlel, and flaf faelle the Reprobate. TO CORRESPONDENTS. "J. C. K.," who writes from Worcester, must be a very inattentive reader. The prices referred to were given three times at least in the course of last week. "A Subscriber."—A party paying a sum in earnest would be liable to an action for not cccupying the premises, and therefore he cannot claim the deposit till he fulfils his part of the contract; but in all cases of this kind, it is better to consult a solicitor. SL PUBLIC OPINION. In the following passage the Times endeavours to turn into ridicule the late public displays at Wakefield, of sympathy with Lord Morputh :—" We were rather sorry for Lord Morpeth, when, at the late general election, he found himself ousted from the representation of the West Riding, and took leave of his old constituency in a strain of gentle regret. But we cannot sympathise with an absurdity such as that which was got up for him at Wakefield last Thursday; at which time and place the Whigs of that county convened themselves to mingle their tears with his, over the doleful event which sent him back to private life, and to the lite rature of the Annuals If the Yorkshire Whigs and Whiglings were pleased with his Parliamentary services, it was very fit that they should subscribe their money to buy him something fur his sideboard— a flowered vase, or a group of Muses —or, still more ap propriate, of Graces. But an address of condolence was two ridiculous a thing."—We see nothing ridiculous in an , address of condolence to Lord Morpeth, by those who had known him long and appreciated his public and private worth. On the contrary, we think the ad dress does credit to both parties—to those who spon taneously offered it, and to him to whom it was offered. Addresses to ousted Tory Ministers are common enough; but free-will, unpurchased addresses, such as that got up at 'Wakefield in compliment to Lord Morpeth, are of the rarest possible occurrence. The following is from the Morning Herald :—" 'When we hear treasonable appeals openly addressed to the Irish soldiery not to go out in the ranks to which they belong, against the subjects of America, in the event of a rupture between this country and the United States'—when we see these appeals re sponded to, as they are, by the countrymen of the incendiary who thus addresses them—when we see them responded to as they are, by the American sym pathisers with the disloyalty of Irish repealers—and when we find the cunning demagogue, as he hugs the dirty dollars of his democratic lovers, promising them IN RETURN FOR " his" " VALUE RECEIVED," that the Irish soldiery shall not, in any case, take the field against America ; we must be excused for suspecting that the connection between cause and effect may be nearer to demonstration—whether in Devonport yard or on Tower-hill than some may imagine. Agita tion, like the curses' of the Greek proverb, and the young chickens,' (everywhere but in Ireland) come (home) to roust, at last.' We live in lively expectation of that day." The Chronicle makes the following remarks on the meeting at Stockport, on Friday evening :—" The dis closures were of the most heart-rending nature. Po verty. is advancing with ra pid s t r id es i n t h at once flourishing seat of industry. Week after week the quan lhod distributed to the necessitous amounts to a tity •on that of the preceding week. On the great inereas, notatoes, 441bs. of bacon, ere given away to the necessitous sth of August there making a total of 1,5001b5. b'f bread, asolhieece. 9ctoher, the 3471b5. of meal, and Nibs, of' butte., 2,3631b5. of food. By the 214 ot * bread distributed had increased to 4,513105: ' • the potatoes to 2,4951b5., the meal to 1,0501b5. ; butte. 31bg.; Making • a total of 8,0611b5. Mr. Coppoeh, the Town-defit; stated that this increase had not come upon the lJnlon all at once, but had gradually and steadily increased, so that rthere was reason to fear that it had not by - very far reached its height. Mr. Coppock cited the reports of several tuedital gentlemen of the place to show the rapid in crease of tilmete, But the distress is unfortunately universal. In Norwich sad Nottingham, and indeed every manufacturing town, the distress is overwhelming. The whole of what the people who are employed earn is expended on food, and little or nothing remains to ex pend on clothes. Never was the picturesque language of Burke more appropriate—' It is a whole people stretching out their hands for food.' "—And what is Government doing •• all this time ? The Premier is exerting the powers of his French cook in Whitehall gardens ; and of the rest we hear little or nothitig,; except- that one has got the gout, another is rustiettilia ill the eountry, and a third is busy organ ising couriers fill' Witticism- Castle. Not a word of pro mise esetti;'s the Minisletitil journals respecting a plan for remedying, or at any rate considering, the present state of the country ! Tno Times, acknowledging the distress; breathes hot a syllable a 4. ut a remedy ; the Herald is equally reserved ; and the ...".4,98 t boldly tells the petipl4i thilt the best thing they can do, to starve coolly coolly and quietly oil, teit the Legulature has seas Pe ly any power to relieve them This state of things cannot last. The " straw is being moved,' ee Colebett once said, and then, away goes Toryism for ever nzONMlC—Tuaman—COnuvroartcz. The consumption of malt in London and its vicinity for 1840 was 776,219 quarters,and in 1841, 734,295 quar ters, showing a decrease of no less than 41,924 quarters. NAVAL .a.vria raia.rznam It is said to be the intention of the present Govern ment to establish the new Police in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. ;„. The recent boisterous weather, and the advanced period of the season, have caused the sinking of the great caisson of the Lighthouse on the Goodwin Sands to be postponed to the spring. Very great exertions are now made in the neighbour hood or Blackburn for procuring recruits for the army, and :with c onsiderable success. The recruiting party i n that town have already enlisted a great number of men. LAW AND P 0 =Cll. At two police-offices on Monday three different parties were brought up charged with giving offence to police constables. The crime of the first was for singing a duet or trio in Holborn, which annoyed the police man ; the next was for speaking to a policeman ; and the third for refusing to obey the word of command to ,‘ move on." The charges were all dismissed, and the policemen admonished. • At Union Hall, two students of Guy's Hospital were charged with knocking at the doors of some bumes in Th o mas-street, Southwark. It appeared that four dif ferent. accident cases had been brought in in the course of the night, and they were in quest of a medical friend to assist them. Instead, how ever , o f b e i ng a ll ow ed to tied - their friend; or attend t o th e acc id en t s , th e y were looked - up in - a. _ova for tho night. This charge WO5 MORNING SLI;!!,T -----__ also dismissed, and the students,when complainingito this harsh treatment, were told by the .Magistrate' state the case to the Commissioners. - An extraordinary . case came On for' hearing in the Bankruptcy Court yesterday, at the examination a good salary. He started a mining Cave, who had been for many years in. the iliar-office;,ll,,_ specu lation in 18 0 ' 0 '' with about 14,0001., and an estate,mortgaged f0r20,0 1,. and loan. raised 360,0001., all, as he saidi.frur " ".., 1 1 1 teerS." No less than 121,0001 was advanvid by 3 this'c' moderate number. of the clergy. The details f t Mining mania will be found at length under the grope head. Plenham, it is reported, bas le it . L d s mirrant.a.ny AND SoXVlsTirlriCi lf, or . of Murdock, late ' his chief secretary', it, publish a mon of his administration in Canada. 600 to .1 The East Sussex S f( l2 :x ° -h 77- otTe 2: d x s I G iLI an excel lent r Saturday; and after . a c h a s e of f i fteen Miles fr ei Brighton race-course, captured two foxes. IrREATRICAL. The friends and theatrical admirers of that erei one tragedian Mr. Charles Young, have expreseed 'nh'' a nd desire to witness. his chief characters onc e n a requ est have met for the purpose of addressing a. forM to him on the subject. COUET--=-FASHIONA 2I .; te r at ir t o h , Viscount Burghersh, who is appointed Yin's Berlin, took his departure yesterday for GeraialTeo s till We regret to state that the Countess of Rou continues indisposed at Ttillyinore Park. h e The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansitcoi le gone on a tour of visits. lice 00 Lord Ellenhorough returned to Grosven orP " Th The marriage ursd. i s to of Lord Walpole with Miss Fellow be solemnized on Monday next. eAlorio On Monday at St. George's Church, V i scou nt CON to eldest son of the Earl of Gainshorough, was u ni i rr.e the Lady Ida Hay, daughter'of the Earl of Rrr°' MISCELLANEOUS. tie3e s On the first day of term, the Judges ill 0 411 er k went down to Westminster Hall on heroh3ccieer grand procession. Cardinal Wolsey, when 14". 1 , - ;.'il door cellor of England, proceeded in state " to the-I°,ooe, on a mule, trapped all in crimson velvet, wit h e di t ed: of the same." He was "apparelled in red like a Cant vferd, John Henderson, B.A. of Pembroke College, v;031, an eccentric character, died on yesterday in 178 8,11 4 35 50; His acquisitions as a scholar were immense, end 'n o * e` ciated with the first literati of the day. W° lire was singular. He generally retired' to re s ' i a fee" daybreak, and rose in the afternoon, and w °l b e d is quently soak his night-gown in water, and go ~, aro that condition. He was a great " opium-ea swallowed vast quantities of noxious drugs an" silver. • teW ber At Hythe, the quantity of rain that fell in 01 been was 3.61 inches ; and during the last- m o n th it nit' 5.48 inches, nearly 5/ inches. . and the The Scotsman, with its vile Scotch e conornY , , oil"; Chronicle, imitating the bad example, are lot" nant that Lord Heytesbury should have been s r,0131)- too Governor-General of the Isle of 'Wight. cruel. An old faithful servant of the Tories ~5 0 e rlu pointed in 1835 by Sir Robert Peel, Governor-u„'ils of of India, with dominion over one hundred Inill'e,eble inhabitants, and these political economists now gr e deo at his appointment to govern an island not bigg er Sancho's, with only thirty thousand inhabitan ts. 7 ,e-gif MONEY and COMMERCIAL 1` .-- O ° the • CITY, TUKSDAY BY No further communication has been received fr°osiP Treasury . in reference to the Exchequer Bil l diy. Matters in the City generally look rather better t e. m ore The accounts from the Continent are ratlit l bt of; satisfactory. The Belgian emeute is scarcely thong t oe and as respects Portugal, matters have for a .1°4004 been in so uncertain a state that they are not coll o id to be worse now than ever they were. If Spain r eeill sr tranquil, this will go in favour of the sister P(1 4 111 0 1 1 ' kingdom. Our trade with Lisbon is not expeetu— vive yet, after the many recent failures. r root{- In the Funds there wax to-day an appearance 010 elasticity, and on the whole a fair amount of busi lle o done. The Consols for immediate transfer weeps gao to 881, and for Account 881 to 881 There vi t 10 0 not a single bargain in Exchequer . ; Et t : s 4l o 3 ' Bonds were rather better, being at par to 25. P1.9811° The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. vverett:„, 98-a ; and the Three per Cent. Annuities at 87 I d fa Bank Stock was more buoyant at 164 to 1641; a ri Stock advanced to 244 and 245. r 0 61 : The news from Spain is looked upon in a 1 : 11°- factory light, and it is intimated that, ere 1122%0 remittances will be on the way to this country, seli, payment of the interest agreed upon in Stilled!! last proosition. The Active Bonds rose;too26oo.Po43,:sci Me l9l xican an Stoc kat2 sl a;_s and steady a i d i eri a lv t ia s u 7 a ; t C o lombi a° • - 13 011 ' were . at 1001, ex-div., having partly recovered th 6 o 9 lo°: sion of yesterday. occasioned by the news of th e , emeute. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents we e a ' o esin e w In the Share Market there was also some BO of improvement. f r ' We cannot yet notice any rally in the so re ,l s e, 65c . changes. The negotiations of Bills to-day were 3/ o f to 70e. on Paris ; 12 41 to lon Amsterdam; Triese" Antwerp; 14 91 on Frankfort; and 9 5 4 to 55 °II (From The Sun of Last Niet.) b o sin e l * LVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. I. —J-I. " e in the Cotton Market has been to a fair extept. de 0 sales comprising 3,000 bales, wholly to t s tr liii red , 6 Friday's prices. The intelligence from LL'-,,fi ll ens, States, by the Acadia, appears have had no lu g ee' upon holders or purchasers. In speculation 01. e nothing to report. si c' LIVEReouL SHARE MARKET, Nov. 1, The t i rn ,i s teo; tions at the Stock Exchange this day have been " 1 7 a nd i They . comprise Eastern Counties, 7* ; Birmingham, 1561 ; London and Manchester, Shares, 911; North Midland, Half Shares, 321- __There MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, NOv• 1• to-asl. is no material change to note in our M ar ket., per Prices remain steadily. Our sales are—Bank 01 1 ,61; chester, 41. 18s. 9d. ; Union Bank of Ma neheste Manchester and Salford Waterworks, 54. Money continues very scarce in the Discount .f; nor is it at all likely to be easier until after !t i e de . : which is a very heavy day, so many bills eon:lnletis First. rate bills cannot be discounted underes cent. Both the English and Foreign Stock vraP- ye t; for opened firm this morning. AO ft Consols are 881 i f for Money, and 8 8 1 Spanish Active Stock is 20:121, which is an ad If i per cent. upon the leaving-off price of yesterdat;:a tuguese Five per Cents. are 2944; Do. ThreeS, The Braga= steamer, with the Mediterran, '` ,e'; J has arrived ; the dates are from Gibraltar Y o4 „es "' Cadiz 22d, Lisbon 25th, and Vigo 28th ult. l‘e ;ce importance from either place. The Levenside has arrived at Liverpool Al a , )0 which place she left on the 18th of Sep t l, t he 0, 1 ,",, Flamer steamer was to leave on the 20th, "inhere on ' for St. Thomas and England, which were due 27th ult. a nd Both Stock Markets continue firm. A 01 11 ' J. ; Consols have advanced lo 88;1 for the e' ec „ sir nk 888 for Money ; Three per Cents. Reduced,, e a; . , ( 15, Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, Avi4.,,.13e" Stock, 1641 ; India Stock, 244 245 ; pe• 2 prem. par. Spanish Active Stock is now 21; Passiv. n e .„' fined, 10-it ; Belgian Bonds, 1004 ex div.; Mexican, 25-il; Brazilian, 57. eitt in. b° There has been a pretty good business do — e f th Markets. . ce 0 w ill Very little doing in Shares. In consettneri announcement that the London and Brigh t loo" - c el be opened again to-morrow throughout, the o dait n ge d edvanced to 131 discount. Great Western W e Anal - to:781 per Share ; Ditto New, 57 ; Birmine Gloucester, 561. CLOSING PRICES= el 5 f BRITISH FUNDS. .•. Bank Stock ... 1644 India Stock ...... ."'" 3 per Cent Red. 874 Ditto Bonds. ...... e . 3 per Cent Cons BBl Ditto Old Annuit,9o,.. "al 34 per Cent Red 974 !Ditte New Ann a ;3d ~vA New 34 per Cent 9Bg Ex. Bills, 1,00 0 , - „.. New per Cent Ditto 500:••''. Long Annuities to expire I Ditto Sna'' • Jan 1860 .. 121 Bank Stock for t...• se Oct 1859 l2i India Stock fort.Nee tt .... Jan. 1860. FOItEIGN FUNDS. - cecwt'Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, r - .. • . ••• Belgian, 5 per cent lOO4 Ditto, N ew Ditto e l;i. Brazilian Bonds 57 Prussian, 5 per .... Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per c e ,••...•- 2 1 Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto,,Metallic••••t ..... j oi Colombian, 6 per cent — 'Spanish, a per ceu .. .„.. Ditto, 1824. Ditto,. Deferred .. e. Danis, 3 per cent 7 Bl French, b per ce rl .. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — ,'.Eachange ...... ••" t Mexican, 5 per cent — F i eneh, 3 ear e fl;..e.' gOi p D e i Ditto, a ti n r a r B2s 7 6 t, p l e B r 2 c s t , — 134 D p ii ii t t t ,. o - , h, 24 Per 5 per ... SHARES, , o c o e p tl) .. Birmingham and D er by R a il wa y ( e B 4 Birmingham and Gloucester Railway • -°°P Great Western Railway (65 paid) •••-• ...... Ditto New Shares (50 paid............ , ..... Sir Ditto Fifth (4 paid) ..................... 56 London and Brighton (50 paid).. ......... 156 ;10 Lpnclon and Birmingham (90) ......... Lont.: ll and Greenwich Railway (2 0 Ditto .t,"ve Shares (20 paid) ....... ••••• )14 London m a i nj an C d : Rail way ovdnlla ( ilway (Trun k) ••••' 65" : North 6 Ditto New Shares 6... q COURSE OF EXCHANGL—(YESTBR . 4. y. Amsterdam .....0 F. 12 74 Gibraltar ••••••••*" ..... . 5° - r3: 7 ' ... •••• Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...... -.2 U l2 8 Genoa ...... •• ..... 41 Antwerp A ll i a t ro on b:rgh 5l. B. 1 1 13 3 2 1164311NI‘Vieaan:lile .......................... ...... ....... Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55 IPalerrno, Per " ..... • : • 1 ' e Ditto, 3 months 25 80 (Lisbon ................... Marseilles ..... . 25 85 Oportol ................. .. Bourdeaux 25 85 Vito Janeiro ......... ........... Frankfort on Alaine.•. 1504 .......... .--• 4 e4 Petersburgh, 3Us ... 374 Buenos A k yr: l 3 c i; y " s S lr 46 lierlin..... Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 956 Philadetp . Trieste, ditto ........ 953 ,raicEs coi T J .. ' f ; old C M a a d d i r z i d . .... .. .. User 13ars ..• ............ 36 S t he B B a i r b e a e o l 0 . . n . a . eville . so We are happy to learn. that , r• .NiN7oeer7eviDgntlooll,Giaroold..,. ........... 1 11/ 11 rc+ very successful proprietor of, the Stirreuxin" peototes, select circle of friends, on which occasionsei ior 011 . 1 fsaiornia-eistodruetdiesto. health w a sdatoys b b %a ek bl a h l t e l b g ' i r: e : b a . e l p e r e e ; ene i tet ici to his medical attendant, 1)r. Marsdeun, va lue P,P_ was engraven a high compliment ti) I ,# gofuitnheeaisi:ocyoanitlith'reeng.Haospspitlaell,idTatable sn Ly on, 00 racter of that entleman! gold me lout, .w.!. u 4, , •. ~.~' `~ ~~ Sl' . ' . l li " 1 ;111 ! Itn i x ti a+ilt; !I - I(th lihht