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

-EVRNING SU'lq BOW - STREET-(THIS DA Y.) liArary Ann Collins was charged before Mr. Jardine with being drank and creating. a disturbance in Rose street, Covent-garden, and Captain Af'Donald was charged with attempting to rescue her from the custody of the police officer. Police -constable 58 F division, stated that about ten o'clock last evening he was on duty in Rose-street, and hearir- , g, a disturbance he came up to a door where the femalt prisoner was sitting with people standing-round _het% She was drunk, and making a noise. Witness told her_ to go away, but she said she would see bim d—d first. He then took her into custody. As he was taking her to the station-hcuse the male prisoner came up to him, and put his hand round the woman, and attempted to rescue her, by which he caused a great dis turbance in the street. He came down with him to the station-house, and both prisoners were 'charged. The female was drunk. The prisoner was called upon for his defence, and he stated that the officer was using the girl in a most wage and violent Manner, and he merely came up to the woman and told her to go on quietly. The officer still continued to. use her with great violence, which attracted the attention of other gentlemen who were then present to corroborate that statement. Mr. Marriott, a gentleman residing in Abbey-street, Regent's -park, stated that be was going through Rose street-last.evening, and he heard the screams of a wo man, and on proceeding to the spot, he found the female prisoner in the custody of the officer, and Captain M‘Do nUld urging her to go quietly to the station-house. The officer was using the woman in a most violent manner, taking hold of her hand and bending it back, whet eby her hand was bruised very badly, and One of the fingers rendered almost useless. So savage was the conduct of the policeman, that it raised the indignation of several gen tlemen who were passing. He saw no resistance, on the part of the female prisoner that called for violence. The only resistance was, she begged of the policeman to let go Another gentleman was called, who corroborated this evidence. Captain APDonald—When I got to the station-house, the policeman said " I will giveyou in charge." I said, "I wish you w ou l d do so, as I mean to reporz you." He dragged the girl in a most savage manner. I never saw a female so ill treated. B ".ieant Weston stated that he knew the female priso ner before. She was tipsy last night, but she was very quiet. She was never brought up before. This being the conclusion of the evidence, Mr. JARDINE said if the constable was to be believed at all he was justified in taking the woman into custody; at all events she was drunk ; there were also people assembled in the street, and it was impossible to say how far such an assembling might be carried if police- Men did not interfere, and therefore the officer did nothing further than was perfectly proper in taking the woman into custody. But he (~tr. Jardine) would deal presently with that part of the ease. It was a very serious charge against the officer as far as he (Mr. Jar - dine) could see. It was not to be supposed that it was necessary for a strong man to drag a weak woman to the station and use such violence in doing so as had been used in this case, if it was true that he had taken the woman's hand in the way described and beat it back so as to produce the bruise that was upon it. At the same time it was not for him (Mr. Jardine) to pass any censure on his conduct . That would probably be inquired into elsewhere, and if it were, it would be dealt with, and it was not for him (Mr. Jardine), to prejudge that part of the case. But he must go into the case in order to form a conclusion as to the charge against Captain M‘Donald. He was going through the street at night, and his attention was drawn to a woman screaming, and he then saw a woman, as he said, being treated with great violence, and he merely put his arm round the woman because he thought that violence was unnecessary, and never attempted to rescue her, and he (Mr. Jardine) did not tltink that a gentle man was to be dealt hardly with who thought, under the circumstances, that the constable was using more vio lence than necessary, and that he should be charged with improperly interfering to rescue a prisoner with violence. Nor did he think Captain M'Donald wished it. He (Mr. Jardine) thought there was sufficient for a man to believe that the constable was acting towards the girl in an improper manner. As it was, he thought that Captain M`Donald was only acting properly and manly, and he therefore might be discharged. He (Mr. Jar dine) • should make a note of the transaction on the sheet, as he thought it ought to be inquired into, and he hoped that Captain M`Donald would press it, as it was seldom that in cases of this kind there were persons pre sent that were able to give a just account of them. With regard to the woman's case, she was liable to punish ment, as it was established by evidence that she was drunk. But it seemed she had suffered sufficiently, and under the peculiar circumstances of the case he did not think any further punishinent was necessary. She might be discharged also. The parties then left the Court, and Captain M'Do nald said lie should proceed to report the case to the Commissioners of Police. MARLBORO U G ti -ST REET. (TIIIS DAY.) A young man, who stated himself to be a carpenter, was placed at the bar before Mr. Maltby, the presiding Magistrate, charged with committing a brutal assault, and behaving in an indecent manner to a respectable married woman, named Elizabeth Ellick. The complainant stated that about halfpast nine o'clock last evening, she was in Oxford-street, standing in - -front of a stall looking at some articles, her husband being by her side, holding their infant in his arms, when the prisoner came up, and placed his hand in a very indecent manner upon her person, and upon her re senting the insult by slapping his face, he struck her with his clenched fist with all his might on the mouth, cutting her lip quite through against her teeth, and knock .ing her down nearly stunned. On scrambling up, he again struck her a heavy blow on her chest, and she again fell on the pavement, and in a few seconds became insensible, The prisoner also struck her husband, and knocked him down with the infant in his arms. Some of the bystanders then seized him, and held him until the police came up and took him into custody. The prisoner, in his defence, said that the complain.. ant struck him first, and he thought he had the law on his side in returning it. Mr. MALTBY said he was an unmanly brute, and he should therefore fine him 31., and in default, commit him for six weeks. The prisoner said he had no money, and was consigned to the lock. up cells. - THE Ri-; ELECTIONS. BIIH)PORT. Mr. Cochrane, Conservative, was elected yesterday in the place of Mr. Warburton, for Bridport. CAMBRIDGE The Right Hon. H. Goulburn Chancellor of the Exchequer, was re-elected yesterday at Cambridge without opposition. LICHFIELD. . The election for this city, consequent on the retirement of Sir G. Anson, came off yesterday, when Lord Leveson was unopposed and declared elected. SUNDERLAND. Lord Howick addressed his constituents yesterday afternoon, and speeches were made in his favour by Sir George Gr,y, Sir Hedworth Williamson, and others, The polling com mences to-day. Mr. Attwood and the Chartists are on the alert. LANCASTER.—NORTH. ) The proclamation for a Knight of the Shire in Lancaster was made on Friday at the Castle, and the election is fixed for next Tuesday, the 2lst BRADFORD ELECTION—W ILBER FORCE DEFEATED. The following is a return of the poll at Bradford yes terday : Busfield. Wilbeforce. Half past eight Nine 124 144 Half-past nine . 216 190 Ten Half-past ten Eleven Half-past eleven Twelve 395 381 llalf-past twelve One — ' 419 416 Half -past one Two 449 455 Half -past two Three Half-past three • Quarter to four Four ••• 526 522 Bradford never witnessed such a struggle since it was enfranchised, and the exertions on both sides have been tremendous. Voters have been kidnapped to an nnpa l'alleled extent, and have been followed by Bus field's Committee to York, Skipton, and other places, a b een of 20 and 50 miles. Several bad votes have given for Mr. Wilbeforce, and the Committee of I.lr. Busfield will prosecute. , Half-past Three o'Clock.—Ten bad votes for Wilber !Circe. -,,, a This triumph is a pr oo f o f re - ac ti on , w h en we re collect rdy's majority of 72 above Lister, and 76 over Busfield. 111 E LATi; FIRE IN PICCADILLY. ADJOURNED CORONER'S INQUEST. Last evening, at six o'clock, the inquiry into the circum tutees attending the death of William West, otherwise Moses west, the fir em an m the C oun t y Fire-office, was re s umed be -,!,'te Mr. Hi ggs, t h e Deputy Coroner for Westminst e r, at the .71arley Mow public-house, Mount-street, Grosvenor-squase. ~..1 1, 1 1 e CORON ER , on th e J u ry assem bli ng , i n f ormed them that c w;tig to a mi nomer in the Christian name of the dcease to d, ad been found necessary to issue a fresh warrant,e and tornen ee the inquiry de novo. "LThe evidence delivered at the first inquest was again re 'ed• and fresh witnesses were examined. „,,tlohert Ware, police-constable 57 C, deposed that he heard in th the fire a n d h astene d to t h e spot. Th ere was t h en no fire 4 e shop, but there appeared to be upstairs. There was no at the bottom of the staircase, or on the ground-floor, but firer e kept fabing down from above. stagyY the Jury—Would swear then neither the bottom of the nor the banisters were on tire. The fire appeared to be 4 t e th top of the st a i rcase on t h e fi rs t fl oor . ° 0 '°l . ne difficulty occurring as to the proof of the insuran ces the property, e 4: Salmon, jun., sail he was prepared to lay a statement , for e the Jury, in explanation of the property and insurances, and 72•,,T0u1d prove distinctly, that by the calamitous event he lost • '• The property saved from the fire is as follows :—A tt pianoforte, b 4/.; set of dining room chairs, •201.; side bOarcf, 12/. ; pictures, 130/. • 12 mahogany chairs, 101.; 44 4k )atit of wine, SEV. 11, 41ci ng tota l 53V. ; musiebooks, 40/. ; and other articles, ny the Foreman—Could give no information as to the origin the fire, being at the time at Gravesend. Intended to have had exten s i ve r ep a i rs o f t h e premises done, for which purpose "ad removed Isis family to Gravesend. The CouoNen said they were still with ou t any p roo f as to t he origin of the fre ; and c9ns The J ury rema ,k e d i t was a very mysterious affair, and after ulting together for a shot t time, returned at a quarter past nin e o'clock a verdict " That the deceased came by his death in h. Is endea vo ur s to exti ngu i s h the fire, but h ow th e fi re ori nated there was no evidence to show." BANK OF ENGLAN MEETIN G. (THIS DAY.) The Quarterly General Court of Directors and Pro prietors of the Bank of England for considering of a Dividend, took place this clay. At twelve o'clock the Chair was taken by Sir WILLIAM PELLY, Governor of the Bank. The minutes of the last General Meeting having been read, The GOVERNOR said the present was a Quarterly Ge 7 neral Court, and one of the half-yearly meetings to con sider of a dividend ; and he had to inform the Court that the Directors, having considered the state of the Bank accounts, were of opinion that a dividend should be made, if that Court thought proper, of three-and - a-half per cent. interest and profit for the last half year, ending the 10th October next. He had the pleasure further of informing them that the dividend was taken wholly out of the profits of the half-year, aryl that a surplus remained to be added to the old rest of 7,72E1. — (Hear, hear.) . The question that a dividend of 81 per cent. be mr4l was then put. In answer to a proprietor the GOVERNOR said_ the amount of the rest at present was 2,862,066/. Mr. YOUNG thought the proprietors were entitled to know something of the affairs of the Bank,, because upon the manner in which their affairs were managed depended the increase or diminution of their dividend. He suggested, therefore, that as a Finance Committee was likely to be appointed by th. House of Commons, it be came the duty of the Company to afford all the infor mation in their power. Every Proprietor of the Com pany must have felt the depreciation of their stock re sulting feom the last charter. He as an humble indivi dual had raised his voice against it, as he foresaw that that Company would be made the scape-goat. He trusted, therefore, that that important subject would be fiuirly considered through the medium of -the Court of Directors. They were entitled to be heard, not only for themselves, but for the community at large. He considered the interests of the Company as bound up with those of the public, and the advantages which they were able to confer on the public at large would be followed by increased profits to themselves. Having made these few observations, he begged to ask whether they had sustained any further losses through the means of discounting, and to what amount ? The GOVERNOR hardly knew what the Hon. Pro prietor meant. There had been some losses from dis counting bills, but the general profits of the half-year enabled them to make the dividend he had stated. Mr. YOUNG said there was no doubt that if they had no losses their profits would have been larger ; but he would ask a question which was uppermost in his mind, and he had no doubt that of many other Hon. Proprie tors ; had there been any losses to the Company from the defalcation of Directors ? The GOVERNOR—None whatever.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. CooK was proceeding to make some observations upon an important document, a coot'• of which he had sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when The GOVERNOR reminded the Hon. Proprietor, that the question before the Court was the dividend. Did the Hon. Gentleman mean to make any amendment to that motion ? Mr. CooK said he did not. The GOVERNOR said they had beau, then, dispose of the question in the first instance, and then they would' hear what he had to say. Mr. Trtompsox wished to ask one or two questions, and on the answers would depend whether he would move any amendment. They were called there to consider of a dividend, and were asked to agree to it without five minutes' consideration. He wished to know whether the profit from the discount busineSs was not greater than it had been for some years past. The G OVERNOR said it varied. Mr. THOMPSON—Have there not been large bills drawn on parties in Dundee and Riga which have been disho noured ? The GOVERNOR said that occurred before the present half year. ThomPsoN asked whether a person named John Henry Barton, who had lately failed on the Stock Ex change, was not indebted to th e B a nk 18 , 00 C /. ? The GOVERNOR—I never even heard of his name.---: (Hear, and a laugh.) Mr. TnomPsoisi then moved, and another Proprietor seconded, an amendment to the effect that the dividend be four per cent. The amendment was negatived, and the original mo tion was carried unanimously. The GOVERNOR announced that the dividend warrants would be payable on the 11th of October. Mr. Cool E then resumed, but, from the noise made by Proprietors leaving the Court, his first observations were inaudible where we sat. Charged as they were as the authors of public mischief, it was the duty of some Director to come forward and repel such charges ; but while the Proprietary were sinking deeper and deeper, all the gentlemen on the other side of the bar re mained as if spell-bound. He contended that if there had been any blunders, they arose from Treasury or Government blunders, or from the exigen cies of the times; the whole conduct of the Bank had been intended for the benefit of the country at large. If losses had been incurred, and no doubt they had, the Proprietors had a right to see whose hands had been dipped in the Treasury : they had a right to see the bullion account. But, no; the Directors were only responsible to the Government of the coun try, and, unfortunately, they set the Proprietors et defiance. The present Charter, he did not say it was in tended to be so, but it was a cheat on the Proprietors— it ought not to have been accepted—the Institution ought to have received compensation first. Had the Government dared to treat the India House or the West India interest in the manner they had treated the Bank? —(Hear, hear.) In ans‘‘ yr to that, look at the price of Bank Stock and India Stock at the present moment, and he would ask was it wise for the Government to play the stepmother, and make chalk of the one and cheese of the other? The Bank of England had saved the country—it had enabled the Government to strike down a tyrant, and save the homes and hearths of the people, and was she now to be thrown aside as one who was now useless? Was that justice ? Was it justice to take away the substra tum of their prosperity upon a mere doubt? So im portant a thing was , Bank Stock considered, that it was treated as real property, in requiring three witnesses to its transfer by will ; and, if it were thought necessary to destroy it, surely some compensa tion ought to have been afforded to the holders of it. The Stock had been treated as if it had been the bubble of a set of swindlers. He would beseech the - Proprietors to read the correspondence.: A PROPRIETOR rose to Order. He wished to know if the Hon. Proprietor intended to conclude with a motion? Mr. COOKE thought it would be highly impolitic in him to conclude with a motion. The Hon. Proprietor was proceeding when he was interrupted by The GOVERNOR, who said that as he did not intend to conclude with a motion, he was not in order in continu ing his observations unless the Proprietors wished to hear him. Mr. CooKE was entirely in the hands of the Proprie tors. A PROPRIETOR, to bring the question to an issue, would move that the Court do now adjourn. Another PROPRIETOR understood Mr. Cooke's object to be to press upon the Directors the necessity of urging on the Government that some compensation should be given to the Proprietors if it was intended to depreciate the value of the Bank Stock. The CHAIRMAN was not aware of any such intention on the part of the Government. The Proprietors might be assured that' the Directors would pay every atten tion to the care of their interests. The Second Re port of the Committee of the House of Commons was published that day, and Hon. Proprietors who read that and the former report must be aware that the Directors had furnished every necessary information, and had done every thing in their power to protect the interests con fided to their care. Mr. COOKE considered the establishnient had been greatly injured by suffering others to establish Joint- Stock Banks, without giving the holders of Bank Stock compensation. Ile would not further trespass on the time of the Proprietors, but he had thought it his duty to mention the subject to the Court. A PROPRIETOR considered the only injury the esta blishment had suffered, and for which they were entitled to compensation, was the reduction from 8 per cent. to 3 per cent. Eight per cent. had been guaranteed by Act of Parliament, giving the Government annuity of 100,0001. a year. In 1841, the Bank had given up that 100,0001. a year for the renewal of their Charter of pri vileges, and the consequent reduction for 8 per cent. then oplace, but h e cons id ere d t h at w h en t h e term for which the Charter had been renewed had expired, then the annuity of 100,0001. had revived, and that t h e Bank Proprietors were certainly entitled to it, because the payment of that annuity had been secured to them by Parliament, until the re payment of the sums lent by the Bank to the Nation should take place. That was the only injury they had suffered that he was aware of. Ile did not consider they had been so much injured by Joint-stock Banks as by the laxity of their own Proprietors, who might, if they chose to exert themselves, and to communicate in formation to the Directors, greatly increase the business of the Bank. The minutes of the proceedings were then read, and the Court adjourned. FATAL ACCIDENT. —Yesterday morning a shocking accident happened in Walwerth to a child named Woodward, aged between 13c and seven years of age. While paging the road in East-street, the caiman of a cart belongi ng to Mr. J. Page, of Greenwich, was driving through the street, when the child was struck down by the horse, and the wheel passed over Ler chest. '1 he child had only time to say where she lived, when she fainted away, and was immediately carried to the shop of Mr. Howitt, a surgeon, in Apollo-buildings. All attempts, however, to asve life were in vain, and the child expirid atter a few minutes' suffering. CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 25.--Last week the Turkish steamer Peeki Schewlet departed from this port for Soda, with a sabre of honour for Tahir Pacha, and several decorations for officers who particularly dis tinguished themselves in the late expeditions against the Candian insurgents. The Tairi Bahri has since arrived in this port, with highly satisfactory accounts from Candia. NEW MODE OF ADMINISTERING THE LAW• —The following case, which needs no comment, is from the Sixth Report of the Inspectors of prisons :—" A complaint was made to me by a criminal prisoner, of being illegally detained in custody-, be stating that he had, in the first instance, been committed for trial a► the Sessions, and after a lapse of some days, was called up by the keeper,. and told that he had been summarily convicted and adjudged to twelve months' imprisonment. After due inquiry, this case was referred to the Secre tary of State, who directed his discharge." THE SUN, LONDON, T.HURSDAY,fr'§EPT IRELAND'. ADDRESS TO LORD MORPETII FROM THE . REFORMERS OF IRELAND. • DUBLIN, SEPT. 14.—This day, at two o'clock, a de putation, consisting of at least one thousand gentlemen of rank and station in the country, proceeded to the Royal Exchange, for the purpose of presenting to Lord Morpeth the Address of the Reformers of Ireland, agreed to at the late aggregate meeting. On the plat form we observed the Duke of Leinster, the Lord Bishop of Derry, Lord Lurgan, Lord Fingal, Count D'A.lton, Sir William Somerville, Bert., Sir John Kennedy, Bart., Colonel H. White, M.P., Right Hon. D. R. Bigot, M.P., Samuel White, M.P., James Power, M.P., Cornelius O'Brien, M.P., M. Blake, M.P., R. M. O'Ferrall, M.P., W. V. Stewart, R. M. Bellew, M.P., Sir John Power, Bart., Sir Percy Nugent, Bart., Colonel Westenra, Richard Moore, Q.C., Leland Crosthwaite, AL., William Murphy, Thomas Wyse, Dominick O'Reilly, Thomas O'Reilly, .James Moran, J. R. Price, Peter Purcell, F.W. Conway, D. C. Brady, J. W. Fitzpatrick, Norman Mac donald, Esqrs., &c. On the motion of Lord FINoAL, seconded by the O'CONNOR DoN, M.P., his Grace thi Duke of Leinster was clled to the Chair amid the applause of the meeting. • Lord Morpeth here entered the building, and his ap pearance was greeted with the most enthusiastic applause, which continued for some minutes. As soon as silence was •restored, The Duke of LEINSTER, addressing Lord Morpeth, said— My Lord, it gave me- the greatest pleasure to have the honour of being Chairman at the meeting at which this address was voted to your Lordship. To this ad dress there are two hundred and fifty thousand names • (Applause)-54 of them are Peers, 29 are Honourables, 25 Baronets, 97 Deputy Lieutenants, 402 Magistrates, 12 Roman Catholic Bishops, together with a consider able number of Protestant Dissenting Clergymen of va rious denominations.—(Cheers.) A great number of signatures are still coming up from the country ; some came this morning, which were not in time to be attached to the address. I now, my Lord, beg to present you with this address.— (Renewed cheers.) The following is the address : " My Lord—We, the Reformers of Ireland, convened by public requisition, for the purpose of considering the most suitable means of manifesting our high respect for your political character, and our cordial attachment to wards yourself personally, cannot permit your Lordship (with our recollection of recent events) to return to your official duties in England without tendering to your Lordship formally the assurance of the profound re spect and affection which we, in common with the Irish nation, entertain towards your Lordship. " We hold in our grateful remembrance the devoted ness with which, in early life—in those dark days of bondage, when a vast majority of our fellow country men were oppressed for conscience sake—your Lord ship ranged yourself with the friends of Ireland ; and we have marked the earnestness with which your 'Lordship has ever since essayed to impart lite and spirit to the cold form of civil and religious enfranchisement whi c h you and others had created. “During your official career in Ireland, it has been your happy destiny to assist in those good measures of policy, whose object has been to raise Ireland to a just equality with other portions of the empire, and we ven ture to affirm, that whenever your official connection with this country may cease, your mind will derive a solace in your retirement from the fact, which we now proclaim, that under the Government of which you have been a part, the social state of Ireland has continuously improved, and that a .more unmixed loyalty and alle giance to our gracious and beloved Sovereign have been established, than existed towards a Monarch at any former period in history, since the commencement of British connection. "To recapitulate the various acts of public service which your Lordship has accomplished in Ireland would far exceed the limits prescribed to an occasion like the present. To enumerate the benificent designs in which your Lordship has been engaged, but which have been rendered abortive by the hostility of the enemies of Ire land, would still more transcend the boundary which have defined our immediate purpose. Let your Lordship be assured, that the people of Ireland treasure in their hearts the recollection of every benefit designed for the amelioration of their country. " To such of us as have en:oyed the opportunity of personal communication with your Lordship, it may be permitted to express our fond recollection of the kindli ness of disposition, and the frank and courteous demean our, which adorn your private intercourse. Eminent, indeed, must be these qualities to which we, your friends, advert, when their existence in your person ,receives, even from your adversaries, a full acknowledgment. " We cannot retire from your Lordship's presence without adverting to the recent event which has removed your Lordship from the House of Commons, and giving expression to our hope that no temporary impediment may turn your Lordship from those walks of honour and public utility in which it has been hitherto your pride to travel. It may be, my Lord, that in this hope there lurks some element not entirely free from selfishness—these are not times, my Lord, when Ireland can spare, from her friendly ranks, a defender so chivalrous and pure as she has proved your Lordship in the encounter with her enemies. "In conclusion, we assure your Lordship, that the warmest good wishes of our country will ever accom pany you in your future progress through life." The address was made up on a handsome mahogany roller, and must be of considerable weight. Lord Mourrni then came forward, and was again bailed with the most enthusiastic applause. When it subsided, he said :—" Aiy Lord Duke and Gentlemen— It would be wholly unnecessary, even if it were at all possible, for me to inform you with how deep and pene trating a feeling I have listened to the words of such an Address as that which has just been pronounced, made so remarkable and so precious by the circumstances of the time at which it has been presented, and by the number and character of the parties to its adoption. It cannot be said to have been merely framed upon trust, as it truly records that a connection of above six years has subsisted between us ; it cannot be referred to any interested motive, as it is addressed to a functionary de spoiled of power ; it can hardly be thought to pan der to any revolutionary tendency, when it was first ushered into notice under auspices which combine the most constitutional patriotism with the loftiest lineage of the land ; it does not confine itself to aristocratic sympathies, because I have reason to believe that it has been affirmed and echoed by the Irish people. " I trust that the pleasure I could not fail to derive from the favourable and candid appreciation of the acts and intentions of the Administration just brought to a close can only be enhanced and heightened to me when I reflect how much of the credit assigned to it must be absorbed by those under whom it has been my privilege to serve, and by those with whom it has been my good fortune to act. " Still, with whomsoever I have shared, I have at least been surpassed by none in the desire to give both permanency . and efficacy to every developement 'of the pa ramount principle of civil and religious freedom, and the practical exercise of political and social equality between man and man, between class and class, between creed and creed, between country and country. These were the sentiments which inspired the first accents which I had publicly an opportunity of uttering in this city be fore my official connection with the country had com menced. Now that it has closed, it is gratifying for me to think that they have been familiar to my practice, and to know that they are close to my heart. " It is impossible for me to refrain from mentioning, with humble thankfulness, that the sincere, though im perfect, and not wholly unobstructed endeavours to carry these principles into real operation, have been crowned with more than corresponding effect in the disposition and conduct of the nation on whose behalf they were made ; and I believe that I may affirm, without the risk of misrepresentation, that at the moment in which we are called upon to transfer the Government of Ireland to the charge of our successors, we have the satisfaction of leaving the country, with respect to internal tran quillity- and order, in a more undisturbed and promis ing condition than was hardly ever before experienced. It is my moss earnest hope that the people, by their perseverance in such courses, may invite and compel a grateful and and adequate return from any rulers under whom they may be placed. __ _ " For all that refers more directly to myself in your address, I thank you most feelingly. I have found among you everything that could most excite and rivet attachment. Through the whole course of my life I shall seize with alacrity any opportunity that passing events may supply for evincing it ; and I shall retain this honoured document as its best memorial and incen tive, and as the richest heir-loom I could bequeath to the name I bear." were, in the words of Lord Pimil:ct, aprointed to make laws, not legislatures. They had no intro right to corn 'nit suicide thszi criminal man Las to put a period to Li:; own existence. We respcclally ckny dint it was within the competency of the Irish Pailit.ment to pass the Act of UniOn. !`.3. The people of Ireland, by an alriiost universal votce,-protested against th 6 pissing of that Act. Up wards of 700,000 of that pewde actually petitioned the Irish Parlbgnent . not to. pass. the _Act of Union, while there were not 6 , o oo.petitioners fouild to favour it in any respect. 4. The Union Act was passed by the most criminal means—by the direct application of military I;ree, and by corruption the most extensive and profligate that ever was practised. " 5. The Union was passed at a when Ireland was staggering and exhausted from the ends of a re bellioa fomented fur the very purpose of. weakening and dividing the country, in order that that Act should be carried into effect_. " 6. It was passed when the Const : itution.was sus pendcd, the Habeas Corprzs Act abrogated, the trial by jury practically martial • tiitting in all directions, and consigning to the abolished, martial-law proclaimed, courts scaffold the victims of their caprice or bad passions, whilst pr o p er t y and l i fe were totally insecure, and all con stitutional guarantees annihilated. ""7.The Act of 'Union w as p asse d by the suppression by military violence of all constitutional opposition. The County Court of the Queen's County, duly convened by the. High Sheriff, attended by the Magistrates and gen try, as well as many other freeholthTs duly convened, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament against the Union, was dispersed- by ruffian military force, and a similar outrage was committed on a similar meeting con vened by the High Sheriff of the county of Tipperary.• " 8. The most profligate corruption and bribery were used in purch as i ng t h e votes of the Members of the Ir i s h Parliament. More than 3,000,001:1. were expended in direct bribery ; 1 ,275,000/. were paid for the purchase of boroughs, and there was no limit to the open and pro fligate offers of bribery, of .every hind, made to those Members who still remained faithful to their country. " 9. That all these means were found insufficient to obtain a majority of the Irish House of Commons to vote for the measure, but several of those who would not vote for it were induced by bribes to vacate their seats, I and those seats (being nomination boroughs) were pur chased by the Government, and filled with English and Scotch officers, who had no property in, and no connec tion with, Ireland, save their casual military command therein. " That your petitioners are ready to prove all their allegations at the bar of this Honourable House ; and, ' as there is not the'least.rational pretext for saying that the Union was or could be beneficial to Ireland, may it therefore please this lldnonrable House, if any doubt be entertained of the 'allegations of your petitioners, wl:ich are all of historical truth, to appoint a Select Commit tee to report thereon. Or, if these facts be undis puted (as they really ought to be), then your peti tioners submit that an Act of Parliament, obtained by such fraudulent and atrocious means, ought not to be allowed any longer to subsist, but that her Majesty's most dutiful and truly loyal subjects of Ireland, attached as they are, from the purest principles of allegiance, and emotions of respectful gratitude, to the throne and person of her most gracious Majesty, should be re stored to their legislative and judicial independence, by the repeal of the cruel and unjust Act of Union." The motion was carried unanimously. Mr. O ' CONNELL ,then announced that on the next day of meeting he would bring up a petition on some other point in which the repeal question might be regarded— and that petition should be followed by one for the amendment of the Corporation Bill, which would test Lord Eliot.—(Cheers.) The amount of repeal rent for the week was an nounced to be 1461. 17s. 11d. ; after which the meeting adjourned. P NIONEI 7 MARKET and Cll Y NEWS. FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—The Manager of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company has communicated the statement made by the London agents of the con dition of that Company's account, at the time they re fused to pay the bills that fell due on Saturday. His object is to show that the account was in such a state as to render the conduct of the agents harsh in the extreme, and he says that if the agents had but given twenty four hours' notice of their intention, no difficulty would have been experienced. Th following is the statement referred to : Draughts accepted £11,400 Balance, cash £6,600 Draughts unaccepted... 8,160 Short bills Acceptances overdue... 1,480 Received on Saturday, Acceptances due on Sa- ccsh. turday, and forwarded 930 Remittances, cash Notes, &c., paid on Sa turday 5OO £22,5001 £19,260 Assuming that the item of "short bills" is equal to cash, an assuption which is by no' means granted, the first glance at this statement would show so small a diMrence between the two sides of the account, that un necessary harshness on the part of the London agents might be hastily conjectured, since this statement, though it does contain the actual state of the account, is just such a statement as is calcula:ed to throw blame on the agents, the facts which caused them to refuse payment of the acceptances naturally finding no place in it, while it is given by way of making out a case favourable to the Banking Company. In addition to the sums which ap pc:a. on the debit side of the account, the London agents, it appears, have negotiated • for• the Bankin;; Company foreign hills to the extent of 12,30(1. which they are liable to pay, although such bills not having been.imesented, the amounts cannot appear on the debit side. Bills under dis count make an additional amount of 8,60 C/. which likewise cannot appear in a statement like this. These facts show that the statement by no means gives the real state of the case between the Banking Company and their agents, although literally true as far as it goes, and that the items that cannot appear fully justify the agents in not making further advances. But even if the statement were such as to exhibit the relation between the Nottingham Banking Company and the London agents, still the request to pay the acceptances that fell due on Saturday was one with which the agents were by no means bound to comply. They had not previously been aware of the existence of such bills, but were, it is said, first advised of them on the morning of Saturday, when they were requested to advance 17,20 C/. for the purpose of meeting them, without being allowed any time to deliberate, although many of these bills had been drawn by American houses, and accepted by the Notting ham Company. and therefore represented no legitimate banking transaction. As for the observation that no dif ficulty would have been experienced had the Company had 24 hours' notice (,f their agent's intentions, it may be remarked, that some months ago the agents sent such a letter to the Company as could not induce the latter to believe that there was any great disposition .to assist them with advances. It is essential to know clearly the merits of this case, as attempts have been made in va rious quarters to rest the condition of the Banking company solely on the conduct of the London agents, which, considering how small a concern this was, ap pears to have been very prudent and proper. A letter has been received by a party in the city from Surra y Bull, the Spanish Minister of Finance, wherein he states that all rumours of another military insurrection to restore the Queen Regent are unfounded, and that the Government possesses the means of preserv ing public order. The Cortes having closed, he says he shall now have more leisure to think on the means of adopting a plan fcr the settlement of the whole debt and the reform of the finance administration. He expressly declares that it is not the intention of the Government to contract fresh loans, but to adopt such a system of re trenchment and economy as shall enable it to meet its claims. ADVERTISER—From Canada we have various items of an interesting, though, perhaps, not important character. We regret to observe that the boundary busi ness is still the fruitful source of local bickering and ill feeling. The excessive drought which had prevailed in Canada for a considerable time past, began to excite uneasy ap prehensions for the coming harvest. The cattle were said to be suffering severely, the pastures being cOm pletely, parched up; and as a natural consequence of the excessive heat, in several parts of the surrounding coun try the woods were on fire. In a letter from St. Anne de la Perade, it is stated that for ten days previous to the 23d inst. the bush in that neighbourhood had been on fire, by which much va l ua bl e woo d h a d b een de stroyed. One individual, who had purchased a large tract of woodland, from which he expected to derive in the ensuiug winter 400 cords, had lost all by the devour ing element. Several houses are likewise said to have been burnt in the back part of the parish. They had likewise. had severe frost in that section of the country, by which it is stated several fields of .buck wheat and potatoes had been frozen ; and the crops, which up to this period gave promise of a more abundant return than last year, are said to be suffering much fur want of rain. Their hay crop was very large, and had been stacked in good order. It is stated also that there is much bnrning near Ber thier, and that two entire fields of oats had b een con sumed in that neighbourhood. POST.—The Columbia steamer, well sustaining the inco of n inconclusive n iZ in its character which the line has Hitherto borne, h as b rought advices from New York to the I st instant. Ina Fiscal com mercial point of view the intelligence is but of li tt l e im portance, although it brings the sanction of th e P res i dent en actments (t a : B t ia T t ih k i a er formerl n p to benefitß il e l m , aandtsou measure ehe creditor c an possibly' there sult t is so plan from it; the debtor alone having the power either to avail himself of the provisions or to remain under a;.? old law. The construction of the bank was arra t i cw i s to coincide with the views of the lire§id„„sß e deve- loped in the late Message on the sobjco o ft.",V e 4 ;' former solely to be confined to the transactions O . the b t v, i i n a ss Bill. The present establishment, carried i nto e f kt, is of Government and the Exchanges; local discounts are to be totally prohibited, its ere also fitreigners front hold ing the stock. Persons here ought to view this clause as a privilege, when it is shown in some of the papers that on a capital of 62,217,000 dollars paid up on accts- that Banks, a depreciation of 5 6,76 7 ,990 h :as E AP taken place in three years, iod iN i tl The accounts frqzii T,tvqipool had induced several holders of to submit to a reduction of half a cent, tlteneted at wilichlarge purchases had beeii made,‘ both for ship ping and home consumption. Flour was on the edvence, and several parcels had changed hy.nds 4 pally for the country. piinci- BERALD.--. : ly the C)olumbia, arrived at Li verpoo l , Keepunts been received to the Ist instant. from New tOrk,' the 2d from Boston, and the 4th from Halifax. The Presiden t h a d g i ven his sanction to the Bill, whi c h i s to ta k e e ff ect f ro m th e 14 of February next. Eith er purpose l y pcitlentally i t i s so worded that th e p art i a Wltom it .will affect h ave the choice of availlpg themselves of its. provisions, or o f the existing laws of the indi v id ua l States, so that, —laarupt to a great q_I4'MITER 16, 1841. extent, the benefit to the public generally will be greatly curtailed. A more one-sided measure can scarcely be imagined ; by it the creditor is completely at the mercy of his debtor, he having the privilege of declaring himself a bankrupt, and thus clearing scores or by making an assignment, which is done every day in America, and then coolly informing his creditors that not a cent is left foe them, some friend or relation having Possession of the whole of his property. To -. such an extent has this swindling been carried that, d ur i ng th e panic of 1837, a house hre, who had 11,000/. owing to them by one party, were obliged to accept their share of assets, which, in the whole, was but 2601., to pay a dividend upon.a large amount of debts, while at the same time it was notorious to all parties interested in the estate that the debtor had assigned to a favoured few property more than sufficient to satisfy ,all dermas in full. A bill for a "fiscal bank," drawn up so as to obviate the objections made by the President to the similar measure lately rejected by him was before tee house of Representatives. Its operations are to be strictly con fined • to the transactions of Government business and to dealings in foreign and domestic exchanges ; local dis counts ere to be prohibited. The capital proposed is 21,000,000 dollars, and foreigners are to be precluded from holding the stock. This clause would appear to be unnecessary, when it is stated that the shares of the United States Bank had been sold at 8:1, and that the larger portion, of them are held by the English. It may be mentioned incidentally, that aliens are not prohibited from subscribing to the new loan ; and in the bill which lately received the veto, there srvas one clause prohibiting finepignsrs from becoming subscribers to the Bank, and another ;permitting the sale of the Stock to any person, who ndght choose to become a purchaser ; this was added upon the principle of free trade, the mover of it, when the absurdity of retaining both was pointed out to him, using an argument which proved successful— " Would you prevent a citizen of a free State from dis posing of his property to whom he pleased ?" The Land Bill, after protracted and angry discussions, accom panied with much personal recrimination, had passed the Senate with amendments, which, it acquiesced in by the House of Representatives, and it was expected that such would be the result, would render it almost inoperative. A complete panic had taken place among the holders of the Stocks of the suspended Banks. United States Bank Shares had suffered in the greater degree, but had rallied from q, the lowest point, to 11:I, which was the highest quotation at the sailing of the packet. All persons who by any chance have had the - official handling of the cash, appear to have considered it their duty to help themselves as largely as possible to the funds entrusted to their care. The Directors have natur ally had the first opportunity—Biddle and his coadjutors for example, and now that the inferior officers, cashiers et !we genus• °nine. have been following in their steps, they are to be held up in terrorent. One among many, the cashier of the Mineral Point Bank, has been ar rested. He was fiiund to be in possession of about 100,000 dollars belonging to the Bank, most ingeniously secured under the blank or fly leaves of some books. SUN.—There was a flatness in the Market this after noon, in consequence of the tenor of the advices from the United States ; but as regards ourselves, we think the depression unfounded, and therefore not likely to be permanent. Consols for immediate transfer realised 89* to 4,and for Account 90* in the early part of the day, but closed at 801 sellers for Money, and 90 to * for Account, being a shade lower. • Exchequer Bills were 12s. to 14s. pre mium. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. realised 99 to 98*, and the Annuities for thirty years were at 121. The Market for Foreign Stocks was dull, the only feature being the settlement of the Account, which went off without any failures. Spanish Bonds rallied to 214 and 22* ; Mexican were at 25k ; Colombian at 2q; and Brazilian at CBf. Russian Bonds were firm at 1121 to -a ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., at 51;4 to y. A moderate business was done in Shares at previous rates to a slight decline. The Great Western were marked 141- to 13,;,1 premium ; the Brighton, , 1 1 4- to 4 dis count ; and the isiorth Midland, 35 discount. It appears that it is true that Mr. Richard Thornton, the indefatigable and strenuous supporter of the inte rests of the foreign creditors of Spain, has received offi cial despatches requesting him to take upon himself the agency and banking operations for the Spanish Go vernment, as far as relates to the due payment of thitt portion of interest now promised to the bondholders. We need hardly state that Mr. Thornton will not an nounce the payment of any interest until he has the cash in hand. The Committee of the Portuguese Bondholders held a meeting this afternoon, at which it was resolved to ad dress a letter to the new Foreign Secretary, the E a rl o f requesting Aberdeen, requesti n his Lordsip to continue diploma tic intercession with the Ministers at Lisbon, for the purpose of obtaining fur the British holders of Portuguese Bonds their rights. THE NEW FIXED LIGHT ON THE GOODWIN SANDS. DEAL, SEPT. 15.—The frequent dangers arising from the Goodwin Sands to the mercantile shipping of all nations has at length rendered it imperative to neglect the general sifety no longer, but to e..ect upon them a fixed light, which shall serve as a guiding beacon, and the accomplishment of which is en trusted to Mr. Bush, the civil engineer. To such readers as are not naval or seafaring, it is nem• sary to state that a mile westward of Deal is the village of Up per Deal, opposite which lies that channel of the sea celled the Downs. It is a safe and commodious roadstead of about eight miles in length and six in width, excepting when a W.S. wind blows in the Goodwin Sands. On the opposite side of this channel, on a parallel line with Deal, are the Goodwin Sands, which are divided into two parts, though the channel or swatch between them is not navigable except by small boats. 'l'lw length of these sands, from the south sandhead opposite Walmcr Castle to the north opposite the North Foreland, is nearly 10 miles, and the breadth nearly two. The material of which they are composed is soft, porous, and tenacious, and tradition ary testimony, the records of history,'" and living experience, all go to show that, should a ship of the largest size stoke on the Goodivins, it would be so wholly swallowed up by the quick sands that in a few days no vestige of it would remain to be seen. Here millions upon millions of property have been swallowed up, and thousands of lives lost. When the water is off, these banks be come hard and firm, but the moment the tide begins to cover them they are again soft, and shift to and fro with the waves, occasionimg that redness of the w a t er w hi c h i s p l a i n l y discover able from the town of Deal and the neighbouring shore. The immense losses sustained by the commerce of England on the Goodwins about half a century ago induced the Trinity-house immediately afterwards to direct their attention to the practi cability of erecting a lighthouse upon them. With this view they sent down several experienced engineers, but these gentlemen deeming the design impracticable, it was given over. A floating light was, however, placed at the back of the North Sandhead, which, although of advantage, still leaves everything to desire, whether in relation to commerce, Science, or humanity. It was not, however, till the latter end .of the past, or the beginning of the present year, that Mr. Bush, civil engineer, actively engaged in this humane undertaking, which every lover of his species desires to tee crowned with success. The idea, which he hopes in a very short time to see accomplished, had long inceel been floating in his mind, as will be seen in the evidence given by him before the Committee on Shipwrecks, of which Mr. J. S. Buckingham was Chairman; but no practical steps had bet n taken to put it into action till within the last few montl.s. When, however, he secured tha favourable attention of the Duke of Wellington, he commenced in right earnest, and caused to be made at Thorncliffe Iroaworks, near Rotherham, in Yorksbi e, the immense base or shaft of the pillar on which " the Light" is to be placed. Formed of cast iron, and hollow within, this base or under shaft, on which the column is to be raised, is 64 feet in height and 90 feet in diameter, and above 200 feet in circumference. The whole is divided into three parts with a view to facilitate the transport. The base is 64 feet long, the column Bd, and the summit, which is surmounted by a cast-iron statue of her most Gracious Majesty, is forty feet in length ; the total altitude will there fore be 190 feet. The weight of the lower shalt alone is 120 tens ! and it at this moment lies near two Government stea• roe: s, which arrived here yesterday from Woolwich in order to to .v it to the North Galloper Sand-head, where Mr. Bush proposes to sink it thirty feet below the sands, on a chalky substratum. The North Galloper is situate midway between the North . and• South Sand-head, about twelve miles distant from the North Foreland, and three miles from the Gull Steam Light. hi this shaft there is a cell large enough to hold 100 men, with provisions, store-houses, magazines, &c. ; and in the npper portion or capital, if it may be so called, there is room for twenty men, whose atte..d a n ce will he constantly ne c e ssa ry t o manage the light. Preparations at at this moment actively going on fur its ffe part ut e. For the last twenty-four hours the gr. atcst possible bustle has prevailed in the town of Deal, and not a bed was last night to be had at the hotel for love or money. the Go vernment anti Trinity steamers are not the only hart s which t . will .• at'endai.t sail" on Mr. Bush. 1 here arc a couple o yachts row floating their canvass to the breeze in order to share in his hoped-for triumph, and partake of his gale. The Deal boatmen sport. many different opinions as to the probability of Mr. Bush's success. Some of them think his lighthouse will undo their trade, and they therefore interestedly rail against it. About sixty men ore now engaged, with all appliances and means to boot, in getting the light afloat, SQ that it may be lashed between the steamers. The low state s' the tide has hitherto opposed a slight obstacle to this under taking, but in about an hour this feat will be surely, though slowly, accomplished. There is a large party of seamen here, who see some sort of goodness in things evil, and who contend that the Goodwin Sands are not without their uses. It is probably owing their position in reference to the Downs that the lat' -of 13 SO :.msidered as a excellent a roadstead. The Goodwins may be c and even at high pier or break -water in all the easterly windy water and in the stormiest weather, thO heaviest sea cannot pass over them without being broken and dispersed. At 12 o'clock yesterday the weather, w h --- ; "..t, had been threaten ing for some time previously, suddenly ; s oanged. The rain fell in torrents, accompanied by syvers • claps of thunder, but, never theless, the workmen cors . i . rimed joyously at their labour, and about half-past ele':en o'clock the base of the light was got afloat, and. •'moored off the pier-head exactly at twelve. • The rain Continuing, however, to fall in torrents, with somr hazi nr.ss, it vitt deemed safer and better to postpone the floating 1 ,4 1 ot l .4 o VfioW, when it will take place at nine o'clock in the tipping. Thousands of spectators were to-day saturated with wet in witnessing the getting afloat, but their enthusiasm was in no degree damped, and they hailed the mooring to the Oar heacl with three distinat rounds of applause. The Government steamers Fearless and Sheerwnter assisted at the opuraiion ; the former got on shore, but this contretemps was soon remedied by the skill and science of Captain Bullock. " See Somner's Roman Ports," p. 20. " Lewis's Thanet," P. 16$, The late Hon. Alfred Assheton Harbord, who died in the East Indies on the 9th of June last, was second son of the late Lord Suffield by his first marriage with the Hon. Georgiana Vernon, onlydaughter and heiress of George, second Lord Vernon. He was brother of the present Lord Suffield and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, wife of Mr. George E. Anson, and was born 29th January, 1819. The deceased was serving in the 3d Light Dragoons, in which regiment he was Cornet. CAB ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, about twelve o'clock, as a cab was about to pass through Vic toria-gate, Bayswater, a boy named I'hwaites, between nine and ten years of age, attempted to jump up behind, but failing to do so, his right leg became entangled in one of the wheels of the cab, and the limb was broken in three or four places. The poor boy was conveyed to St. George's Hospital. DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. TFIE HAGUE, SEPT 11.—In the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States-General to-day, the Central Sec tion presented its Report on the Project of Law for con verting the Defined into Active Debt ; and also its Report on the Project of Law fur the Redemption of Debt in If4l. The debates of those Projects of Law are to take place after that on the General Chamber, which is fixed on Monday next. tiEPT 12.—1 t is now known that the French steamer stranded on the sth of this month, between Yellin and Calantroog, was the Neva, Capt. Tercapol. It is deeply imbedded in the sand. is affirmed that Rear-Admiral Pillachielsen is ap pointed Commander of his Majesty's naval force in the East Indies, and Inspector of the Marine in that country. 13.—The debates on the project of law relative to the General Chamber of Accounts commenced in the Second Chamber to-day. Nine Members spoke. The debate will be continued to morrow. BEnLIN, SEPT. 4.—Two couriers from the Emperor of Russia have already arrived, and it is confidently ex • pected that his Majesty will pay a visit to our King be tire the end ef the reviews in Siberia, The Grand Duke and Duchess of Saxe Wien . = left the Palace at Potsdam this morning, where they had stopped to recover the fatigues of a stormy passage by sea, which seems espe cially to affect the Grand Duchess. Their daughter, Princess Charlotte, follows them to Weimar the day af ter to-morrow. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Russia will also pass some days there on her return to Berlin, after taking the waters, while her august consort ' goes to Austria for the inspection of the contingent which has been so often spoken of. We learn, from good authority, that one Power un willingly consented to the reciproCal inspection in the manner now arranged. It is added that Count Von Munich Bellinghausen, President of the German Diet, has rendered essential services to all the States of the Confederation, in the drawing up of the document on this subject. All the Generals to whom the inspection is confided are posi tively - forbidden,to express any blame on the spot, or to require alterations ; but they may state their objections solely in a general report on the inspection, to be com municated directly to the Military Committee of the German Confederation.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 9. DUTCH FUNDS.—AESTERDAM, SEPT. 14. onet. bills Actual Eight, ‘2.5i per Cent M 51% :,.‘.l . Jittn, ditto 5 per cent. A inwi t nyndic, -14 per cent 91% 02 Ditto, ditto, 3j per cent 75 L 4, :5N Commercial Company, 4 1 4 her cent 1551,1. Ibti% Ditto (MIS and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan IFili, 5 per cont. Exchange on London, One month l2 ON Two months Hamburgh, One month 35 75 Two months 35 5) • Dutch Papers, Sept. 15. BELGIAN I! UNDs—riaussELd, SEPT. 11. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C,nt Jul Loan of Thirty Milions, 4 per Cent. 93 3 per Cent, ----.Thirty.seven . -- 7134 ----- (1-40) • 10134 Loan of City, 1:::',2, 4 per Cent. 90% Society of Cornea, rce, 45a per Cent 03.4 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent. ............ 74 4 NationalSaciety. Exchange on LondoN (shalt) —Brussels Papers, Sept. 14. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, SEPT. 6 f ire per Cants. Metalliques Foist per Cents. 97% Three inx Cent5.............................._._._.., 75: ;/ B. nk :Altus /572 •—/Inkerneine Zeitung, Sept. II 11 AMBU tIG BO!(ENHALLE, Serr.ll. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares l6OO A uglo.ltussian Loan lO-i 10855 If tr,sian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cc.rtilicate Inscription, Ist Se: les 1024 102 ktus,:ian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series 98% 93 Ditto in Certificates Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 864 66 Dutch actual Debt, i 5 pe Cent 1034 zog Ditto 5 per Cent - _ Polish Bonds New picket Anglo-tianish Loan, 3 per C ce . 17534 753 Nstwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent... Spanish, New 5 per Cents. l6 THE COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS AND TEIL BLA CK WALL RAILWAY CO3IPANY. There has been a difference of opinion of late between the City Commissioners of Sewers for the City of Lon don and the Directors of the Blackwell Railway Com pany, which has caused a great deal of conversation and conjecture in the. East-end of the town, and it is ex pected that very shortly the subject will come before the public through the agreeable medium of a Court of Law, The following is a pretty fair version of the two sides of the case. It is known that in the Court of Common Council a vi g orous opposition was made to the intro duction of the railway into the City via Iklineries upon the ground of the injury likely to arise from the passing of the trains through the heart of a populous neighbour hood and from other objectionable circumstances con nected with the speculation, and that the inhabitants of Portsoken ward argued strongly against the formation of a terminus in the Minories, It is also known that a further extension of the railway through Crutchedfriars and Cooper's lane, terminating in the immediate vicinity of Fenohureh-street, was, after a considerable struggle, carried against the voice of the inhabitants, and that one of the objections started to the undertaking was the annoyance to which the people in that part of the City would be exposed from the noise of the engines and the hubbub of the numerous passengers at all the busy hours of the day. For the purpose of meeting those objections on the line of extension, the Blackwall Railway Company de unnined to raise a wall with skylights from the Mino- Iries to the terminus next to Fenchurch-street, a distance of upwards of 300 yards, by means of which they might smother the sound of the steam apparatus, and enable the merchants and traders in the locality to transact their business in perfect quiet, and without apprehension of being overwhelmed, in the event of any mismanagement or unavoidable contingency as to the locomotive power. A short time ago the whole of the covered way, which had been considered by the Company not only to be cal culated to remedy the evil dreaded by the opposers of the prqject, but to be a very great additional benefit to the passengers, was opened to the public, and, it is said, that the proposed object of the Company has been fully answered. . The matter, it appears, is not, however, likely to be so easily settled. The Commissioners of Sewers, in going the rounds of the City, for the purpose of ascertaining whether surveyors and builde rs were i nterfer i ng with the public he a lth, fixed upon this very inclosed portion of the line of railroad as an exceedingly dangerous check to the ventilation of this dense neighbourhood, and ac cordingly presented an indictment to the Grand Jury, representing it as a nuisance, and as directly opposed to the provisions of a Bill introduced by Lord Norrnanby to Parliament to secure the health of the citizens of Lon don. The bill of indictment was, after the statements of the witnesses in favour of it, thrown out by the Grand Jury, but the Commissioners of Sewers being determined to have a legal investigation into the merits of the ques tion, have stated their intention to commit a trespass upon the inclosed portion of the line, in order that SP Im portant a matter should meet with titte deliberafto n from the highest authorities. It is whispered that the inhabtants of Portsoken Ward, who at first complained so bitterly of the esta blishment of a terminus 4 .71 tile Alinories, had been made by use so far reconciled to it, that they are now actually enraged at its removal to the immediate neighbourhood of Fenchurch- street, The Blackwell Railway Company are, it is said, will ing to try the question before any authority, convinced that they have done no mischief by raising a wall which may have the effect of partially shutting out the salu brious breezes of Petticoat-lane and other fragrant loca lities. We find the following in the Quotidienne, rela tive to the Cafe Valois, in the Palais Royal :---4"rhis Cafe, the stock and furniture of which have just been sold off, in consequence of failure, had been established sixty-eight years, and existed ten years before the gal lery of which it subsequently formed part. Its first denii-tases were served under the secular chestnut-trees planted by tho Cardinal de Richelieu, and the name of Valois was assumed after that borne by the present King of the French until he was 12 years of age. In the great Revolution the Cafe Valois was the rendezvous of the Royalists who frequented thePalais Royal, and the head quarters of the newsmanfvers, after Dr. Metra, the physi cian, had takoo retlige there, when the famous Art, e i t i e Cracovie, wider the shade of which he had 40 drown plans of battles i n san d had be r years cut down. Dr. Metra was succeeded at the Cafel :ttlois by the brave and eard, known by his Agonie de witty Journiac de (1 ....1•1t1g the dreadful massacres of the trente-six heures, month of Se-',,ern er, and still better as the President of b the S , • 1 :etc des G o e-, !ouches, of which he was the . ~under. Saint-Meard, who was a Chevalier de Saint Louis, and a Captain in the Ring's Regiment, made the fortune of the Cafe de Velois, by the gaiety of his cha racter and his originality up to his death in 1827. After the 18th Brumaire, the Cafe Valois became the rendez vous of the returned emigrants, and the remnant of the army of Conde ; and, under the Empire, was a sort of branch establishment to the Faubourg St. Germain by its opposition to Bonaparte. Under the Restoration it was the place of meeting to the Royalists, and was often exposed to outrage from the liberal canaille. The Revo lution of July was fatal to the Cafe Valois, and the name of the Prince of Orleans, under whose patronage it had first becom e ce l e b rate d , could not preserve it from de sertion and ruity' A gentleman writes from Bombay that he reached India from Spithead in thirty-fou; and a half days, and found the trip, as far as Suez, very pleasant. At Suez, however, the heat was awful, and no air stir ring ; the number of passengers also, going and coming, had eaten and drank up everything ; a bottle of Bom bay water was retailed from an Arab dow at half a rupee.. Through Jabal Straits and the Red Sea, as far as Aden, every one slept on deck until run-rise, when the whole were obkr,ed to go below, where the thermo meter stood at 100 deg. They were obli.;ed also to take nineteen additional passengers, left behind by the former steamer; which increase of numbers pressed sorely upon food, and when the steamer reached Bombay, the eat ables and drinkables were entirely exhausted.—liamp shire Telegraph. • FATAL A ccinENT.--Bni sT or, SEPT. 14.-- A dreadful accident happened this morning on our quay. Seine very heavy steam machinery, engines, and boilers, were shipping on board the Great Britain for Trieste, and while a large part (weighing about 16 tons) was sus pended by the shear s, one of the chains p arte d , and the whole came down upon the deck of the vessel, and, melan t ch e o s l3 o , n t o o r f e relate, fishmonger mate, t a ) f e h r i y s port, WAS respectable young literally man, the crushed to atoms.—Shippiny Gazette. DINNER TO LORD AIORPETIT. The National Banquet to Lord Morpeth will take place this evening, in the Theatre Royal, Hawkins's• street. The Marquis of Clanricarde will preside. So great a number of tickets as 700 has been sold, although the price is 1/. 12s. 6d. Reformers from all parts of Ire land have come up to attend on this most interesting occasion. The address to this justly popular Nobleman has been numerously and respectably signed by the inhabitants of Clonmel, and duly forwarded to the committee. On this day the men of Carrick-on-Suir will hold a special meet ing for the purpose of addressing Lord Morpeth on his retirement from office. Since Lord Fitzwilliam's time there never were English Noblemen more anxious to do justice to Ireland than the Marquis of Normanby and Lord Morpeth ; and they have the only reward which hearts like theirs can covet or appreciate—the lasting af fection, the unpurchaseable gratitude, of a brave and high-spirited people.—Tipperary Free Press. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—MONDAY. At the meeting this day Mr. O'Connell made a long speech in favour of Repeal, and then moved the adop tion of the following petition " To the Right Honourable and Honourable the Com mons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled. " The humble Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of Ireland— " Humbly showeth—We approach this Honourable House in manner the most respectful, but with a deter mination the most resolute, to obtain, by peaceable and constitutional means, the restoration of the Irish Parlia ment, and the judicial independence of her Majesty's most faithful subjects, the Irish nation. What we seek for is, in its nature, perfectly constitutional, and would be, we assert, most beneficial to the security of the throfte, etaail,nield andhe r lerecala p Ireland.' wicly , and the prosperity of all the people o f the British realms. What we respectfully b ut fi rmly demand is the re peal Of a statute passed withi n th e memory of living men, An Act for th e L eg i s l at i ve Union of Great Bri we ilsk fp r that, repeal are briefly these 1. The Parliament of Ireland was extinguished by that Act against the wish, and without the authority of the Irish People, 2 The Irish Parliament that passed that Act had 110. power or authority to eztiiitul§t themselves. They EVENING ST-N COURT CIRCUL • WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—'Tie, Q, ep aud PrilCe Albert walked this morning to4delaid Cottage, thris'ogb the Slop 6, and returned by the Home 4iic to the Castle in a pony phaeton. • Prince Albert, attended bp the Marq ,of Exeter, Earl Delawarr, Mr. George Edward Alif64,, anal dward Bowater, enjoyed the sport of shooting tilis morning at the _Flemish F arm . The Duke of Wellington Lords Wharncliffe, Had dington, Ellenborough anti Aberdeen, Sir R. Peel, Sir E. Knatchbull, and Mr. Greville, took their departure to-day. Her Majesty and Prince - Albert rode out in a pony phaeton this afternoon, the Prince driving. In a second carriage were the Count ess D e l awarr, Lady Elizabeth West, " Viscount Sydney, and Earl Jersey. In a third carriage were Lady Portman, lint:. Misses .Paget and Lister, and Earl Delawar:. In a hearth carriage were the Marquis of Exeter, Viscount Sydney, and Sir Robert Otway. Si; Edward lio:;ater attended on horse back. The Princess Royal, who is lacking very well, was taken an airing to-day. The Earl o f Li verpoo l and the Hon. C. Mu rra y ro;fe ort on horseback this afternoon. Ac the Privy Council hell at Windsor Castle on Tues day afternoon the Right Hon. the Marquis of Lothian was, by command of the Queen, sworn of her Illaesty's Most Hop. Privy Council, and took his place at the Board. The Marq'tis .Lothian, as Captain of her Illajcsty's Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard, has appointed Mr. Ellerthorp, the Clerk of the Cheque, as his Secretary. His Royal Highness the Duke ot Cambridge has re turned to his residence at Kew. The Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Wharncliffe, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Ellenhorough, and Sir Edward linatclibull, returned to town yesterday morning, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Welling on, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Wharncliffe, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, Earl of lladdington, Earl of Ripon, Lord El-. lenborough, and Sir Edward Knatehbull. The Council sat upwards of two hours. Sir George Arthur and Mr. G. C. Young (irom Nova Scotia) had interviews with Lord Stanley yesterday, at, the Colonial-office. Sir Alexander Grant had an interview with Sir James Graham yesterday, at the Home-office. Despatches were received yesterday afternoon at the Colonial-office, from Lord Sydenham, Governor of Canada. TEACHING BY REALITIES. The public have hitherto knoen little more of Mr. Lovett than that he is a clever, honest, sturdy Chartist, who submits to imprisonment rattier than comprofflise an iota of his opinions. We Pew beg to introduce hint to them in a new characi7er. Bred up a ropemaker, he has taught himself the art of cabinet-making, and has become a finished .workman. - 'While he has been a most active politician, he has also been devising plans of education, to which his skill as a cabinet maker has been subservient. His efforts to awaken the. bulk of the working classes to a proper sense of the in knowledge, are already known to our readers by the clever work which he and Mr. Collins wrote while they were in Warwick gaol. His present production may be said to carry out in detail one recem-, mendation of that book, and is intended to assist pa rents and teachers in imparting easily useful knowledge, to their children and pupils. It is a series of first 1 - ss . sons in spelling, connected with a view of the actu a l ob ject of which the name is spelled. Mrs Lovett has constructed a. heat box of the Shape and appearance of a book, which tontains three or four alet a bets, and a proper frarae, into which the lette7:s can he easily placed. le << drawer, divided into a great number of comparteLents, are numerous speci mens of natural and artil 4 .eial objects, such as steel-pens, wafers, peas, pepper, celfee, corn, copper, tinfoil, sponge, India rubber, &e. Animals and birds are represented by pictures. The objects may be as numerous and diver sified as any person pleases, and they may be ar ranged in, a scientific order, so as to instruct the youngest child in some of the great scien tific divisions. The object of this apparatus is to give children correct ideas of words by teaching them in connection with things ; to teach children to spell each word as the idea is presented to them, instead of burthening their memories with tasks of words, the meaning of which they do not understand ; to call forth their observing faculties by their examination of things in order to ascertain their qualities and uses ; gradually to accustom them to composition, and the elements of Eng lish grammar. The mode of teaching is this: the teacher should select an object from the drawer and present it to the children for their examination, first asking oe tell ing them its name, which when told, one of them should be instructed to compose such name with the letters in the frame, inside the lid ofthe box. After they hare thus learnt to compose the names of different objects, they should be taught to compose the names of'their most obvious qualities, thus —A Pea is round and hard—Cork is soft and light. As the children progress they should be taught the more difficult qualities of objects as well as their uses, thus—Glass is smooth, bright, and brittle. and can be made elastic, so that dresses can be made 'of it. India rubber is opaque, elastic, flexible, inflammable.* and tough ;it is made of the juice of a tree, anti is used for making cloth elastic, waterproof, &c. Copper is heavy, sonorous, fusible, elastiesmalleable, ductile, com pact, and tenacious ; it is a mineral, tr,d is used for mak ing boilers, pans, money, &c. To ascertain all the va rious qualities of objects, ths, children must be taught to exercise their senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touchier, and when practicable, experiments should be made render every quality obvious to their senses. Tittei should not be taught to compose a word till they understood its meaning.", M. Lovett makes no pretension to the merit of first. proposing teaching the use of words in conjunction wide objects. That plan has been acted on for many year* and is no w genera l ly adopted in infant schools ; but , Lovett's apparatus theilitates the carrying it into e• . ;„„_ Lion. It will supply, we think, a delightful m r tins fez parents to i ns t ruct t h e i r ch i ldren and enable til, oto to has part their own knowledge, acquired ie_ practice, in a graceful and useful way, to their offsyr:Ang. Mr. Lovett is untired in endeavouring to do good, and he deserves all the encouragement which i 4(l :de to modest and perse vering merit. DISE -4 ..SED MEAT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. noticed a paragraph in your paper of Tuesday last, copied from the Liverpool Chronicle, which states that an old ittan died from eating bad or diseased meat, and that thirty-one others were sensibly affected. It is a common practice for farmers, dairymen, and the like, to dispose of the carcases of their diseased stock to salesmen, for which they receive about half or quarter the value of the animal when in a healthy state. The meat so disposed of as wholesome, is retailed as such by some of the most respectable butchers in Lon don. Thu most dreadful consequences —as that which I have just instanced—are the result of this abominable system, by which a great number of the working classes are severe sufferers. It is high time that the attention of the Legislature should be called to this growing evil—an evil rendered the more pernicious by the chance of diseases being en gendered, to say nothing of the risk in which our lives are placed. I hope, Sir, your able pen will ever be exercised against a system so base as that to which I have briefly adverted.—Your obedient servant, J. LS. —_-- - - DREADFUL COLLISION AT SEA.—Late on Sunday night last a collision of a most fearful character, attendant with the total loss of the schooner Surprise, a. fine sailing vessel belonging to Jersey, took place in the roads off Yarmouth. It appears that the unfortunate vessel above mentioned was commanded by a Captain Inley, and was on her voyage to Cadiz, having left New castle on the previous Thursday. On Sunday evening she arrived off Cromer Lighthouse, and in bearing down the Channel a violent ale came on f rom the north west, which by 1 0 o'clock had increased to a hurricane. The Surprise weathered the storm admirably, and was ma king about .10 miles an hour, when she was run into by a collier brig called the Robert and Ann, belonging to Sun derland. The collision was dreadful, the Surprise being cut down to the water's edge and the bows of the brig partially driven in. lir,tediately they were disentangla it was discovered thr.:,, the Surprise was in a sinking state, re. and the crew, took to thervpurups, which they worked vigorously for in. (ne hope of running the ship on shore. tome tin r..,, but to ito purpose ; the water gained the long upon. tnent, and they were compelled to take t o l , i ln 'kit:at and stand clear of the vessel. In about half where hour after she drifted on to the Cross Sands, up at day-break by a vessel passing, and quickly became a total wreck. The crew ‘e Ttaheycost of the landed. The other vessel was saved. Surprise is stated to be 3,00 a. —Almost all the. THE WEATHER AND CROPS. be cut ; and'. to grain in this neighbourhood a ppea fi t t -s present enjoy, the with such delightful weather as we Glasgow a similar harvest will proceed rapidly. Sunday the thermometer were i,ez.e p s i a c f k e e l., d . change has taken place. On the early soil:: cutting process is in the vale of Clyde the . et the quantity saved is not pidly to a close, though as stood at nearly 80 deg. in iv of the weather last week ; great, from the fickle nau this time would effect a nm'si be ti(-I)en•shadei:ocess is drawing ra.-.. but ten dry days from make man y a farmer independent be neficial clearance, andhowever fitful it might be. Harvest of the future season, counties mac' and _Nairn. general in the In the neighbourhoodt there is a great quantity of corn cut of Inverness, also s , in general, throughout the country, down. The crops less from the long-continue 4 rain have suffered Aberdeen,oper atiens 3 a i r o e ra n , o ,, w ;ined,th than might preLty . have been feared.—Edinburgh Advertiser,. woman called on Dr. B----- one lay in a great , , d a penny. "Pray, Madam " her son the thee had swag."` • A good woman of trouble,and p,, eo 7 l • . 'her son 0 Sir, certaiultr " .as the reply. " Then i .. 't w;'' - ' not, n I pass, of course," was Wednesday h. Court of Directors was held at facetious ni - -• • of the facet ysician Indiaiii.is. it a counterfeit , P:ofise, when Christopher Webb Smith, E sq . was appointed a provisional members of the Council of India ; and James Henry Crawford, Esq., who took his sect in the Council of Bombay, on the coming away of Sir James Carnac, but 'evil° will vacate the same we t the tphoe OcErt reply l a pr s : t lyV :(' the assumption of the Government by Sir William t Council io- Macnaglat that Presidepnpiten, was re- a cy ointed a provisional meta:or-OV' FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—Yes, terday afternoon, as a merchant -vessel was coming 'up the Thames, she suddenly struck on a sunken P,lioal, which caused such a concussion that the masterovho was at the helm, was strut(( suddenly by the tiner, which laid him senseless on the (leek. It was found that Ilia: jaw -bone w as broken, and also several of his ribs. No, time was lost by them ate and the crew in getting- him t into the boat, when they conveyed him on board the Dreadnought hospital-ship, where every assistance was afforded him by th e surgeon, but he expired an hour afterwards. iJ 4 op