The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-12 00:00:00

EVENING SUN: BELGIUM. tRus;T:E.7., ' 3ll r briiii L' l lo came ro •-, tag the production oi" We learn that the .tunnel of Hoo3ter, near Chaufon taine, is completely terminated. This tunnel was one of the mostimportant works of the line of the railway from t he Meuse to the PrtiSsian frontier. This section pre sents difficulties almost at every step ; it will be the ad tniration of forei g ners, and the worthy complim ent of Belgianthei • iron railways. We may at length hope that the weather wi ll c ontinue Le be fine. The sun appears to-day in all his splendour, and we have •the usual ternperature of the dog dayS. The Verdiers journal of the Gth of August says A petitioni‘atigued by the principal merchants and ma -IYacturers a Liege and Brussels, is c irculated in this r'wn to receive the signature of our principal manu facturers and - merchants. • It is addressed to the alinister of the Interior requesting him not to regard the °b ieetious which have Leen made by som e merchants and B 'lipowners against the establishment of a regular . corn- I l unication by sea between Belgium and some transat lantic ports. BRUSSELS, Auc. 9.—Tt was in vain we hoped once mo re for a continuance of fine weather. Yesterday . a Pretty fine day was succeeded by a dreadful storm, which °l 'ertook thousands of persons who were walking in the ! tl rrounding country. It was quite a deluge. the rain fell lli torrents for more than an hour, an d the li g htnin g and ist under were awful and incessant. BRUSSELS, Aud. appears that the King acid Queen will not go to Paris as was reported; but it is s aid that their Majesties will go to Ostend for a few days. The Ambassadors of Austria, France, and Great Bri tain, to the Court of Brussels, are all at Ostend. Tho marriageof the Prince of Arenberg to Princess ti l debrandini, was solemnized yesterday morning at everle. The ceremony was performed By 3,lonsignore . 'emari, the Pope's Nuncio. BELGIAN ki UNDS—Baussiti.d, Auc. 10 /actual Debt, 53 per Cent. Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cant 191% Loan of Thirty Million . ; 4 per Cent 9r% 3 per Cent. -----Thirty.seven---- .......... 71% (H4O) lOl% Loan of City, 1t3!2, 4 per Cent ......... 91 Society nt Commarce, 4 N,per Cent... 4:311 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... ........ 73;<1 National Society. Exchange on London (shot t) —Brussels INsmrs, Aug 10. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Ace. 3. livelier Cents. aletalliques Emir per Cents. Three iur Cents. bank Shares . ».»......»......« 3.523 —Allgenzeine Zeitung. DUTCH AM) GERMAN MAIL. We have received papers from Amsterdam to the 7th of August. We hear that the Minister of the Interior h as laid down some regulations for the delivery of certiti- Qat es o f origin for goods destined for the Dutch colonies, With a view positively to ascertain whether the manufac tories and manufacturers named in the certificates are teally such as they are represented ; whether they are of such a nature and extent as are calc ulated to p roduce th e quantity and qualities of goods named i n the certifi- Z tt es ; a nd whether the goods have been wholly manu 44etured by the manufacturers and in the establishments m entioned, or whether they have only under g one a *l ight and last finishing. I ,l"apers from the Hague up to the 6th August st ate that Zits. :Elizabeth Fry, who had been here for some da y s, lltdyesterday a brilliant assembly at the Hotel Be llavue. . Joseph Gurney, who accompanied her, described to th e company the state of the reform among the n e g roes ip West Indies, and was listened to with much attention. ts. Fry communicated many particulars respecting the !!tisons which she has visited in various countries, which Made a great impression on the hearers. TIM HAGUE, Ace. B.—Mrs. Fry yesterday paid se ital visits, to take leave, among others, to his Excel 'tley the Minister of the Interior. DuTefi FUNDS.—AMSTURDAM, Ave. 9. Money. Limn ' Actual Debt, `.334 per Cent Jitto, iitto 5 per cent. • lOO4, 101 1 4 Atm t Svndic, , l% per ............ 91% SI% . Ditto, ditto, 3. ; ‘, percent. 75 75 • , etantnercial Company, 4' re: cent 155'4 r5l . Atto (1635 and les37) 5 per cont. Login 1b:37, t percent....„ ................. 97;<, 975 i i Exchange on Londfm, tine month tit GC Twomonths ...... 11 95 ./:. Hamburgh; One month 25 Pl l 4 Two months 35 56 Dutch Papers, Aug. 10. olb JiRAZILS. Ile r liejesty's packet Delight, Lieut. Lory, arrived on te, s d tt,y; her sailin dates were—from Rio, Jun e 16, Pernambuco, 7. Her Majesty's shi p s B a lua, July 2, iP u tilampton (Admiral King), Crescent, Clio , Ca meleon, artiidge, and spider were left at Rio. T he Grecian : l e ft Rio on a cruise on May 23 , and arrived back on The former 5 with a barque and brigantine , detain ed as p rizes. former was found fitting out for the coast of Africa, `ad the brigantine was supplying her with the necessary b, s thres from Rio. Her Majesty's ship Ros e left Bahia for 'ID on June 30. The Emperor's coronation wa s deferred to Au g . Is ; t he alleged cause is, that the preparations were not cora rete. A grand 'display was getting up at Bahia in °„laour of the approaching event. The following are extracts f r o m the latest Rio N J: clers ; " On May 26 the Chamber of Deputies decided on the i fa tter of the claimed indemnities on the Englis h bar q ue , °odium ) , which had been detained by the authorities. - ':he commander not having presented his license for leaiiug the port, having more than one gun on board, CI having been, in consequence of his neglect, detained , till e Chamber considers the Government exonerate d from tt ` , In consequence of armed foreigners' having landed u t liferent parts of the coast of Brazil, committing acts of hostility, with pretence of obtaining provisions or d ater, ls his Imperial Majesty - the Emperor (who in other ,; e3 Pects religiously respects the rights of all nations, and b -° t, being at %vat - with any), desiring not only to maintain -111111 paired the dignity of the Brazilian nation by the rvontion of similar acts, a s also that the vessels of I,'endly and allied nations may n ot lack such succour and di rected as they may claim from th e local authorities, has ` r eeted the following peremptory orders to be issued ' Ist. Any foreigners who may land arm ed without b - S .e on any part of 'the coast of the empire , are to be re -40d by force. 2 d. The local authorities will give to the foreign Oects of vessels belonging to friendly nations every SiStenee and succour that May be required, or the corn potent permis.sion to fetch them from shore, unarmed, e w hich measures have become the more necessary, as, in e -° o ll sequenee of a report of the existence of pirates on the ( „ 1 ", 'St of Brazil having been circulated, it is desirable not to avoid conflicts, should the local population take tt ' i elidly foreigners for such, who may land without ob thtving these precautions, as also to repel them, should tr :Y actually -be pirates, which may happen to be the 411 .• In the issuing these orders the greatest prudence th e the most scrupulous examination is recommended to " authorities to avoid disagreeable occurrences.' " The o p era tions of the Brazilian army in the Rio G rande d o Sul are represented as having consisted of marches counter-marches, halts,. a considerable number Of soldiers being sick, and nothing more. I . e l l-oeording to the latest from the seat of war , the Publican Government was at San Gabriel. The heavy atm Y of the enemy, that is carriages , baggage , and 900 !MOO infantry, were in Rage; not far fro m which d a ce was the Brazilian army, with 2,000 reb el cavalr y its fro n t, co mmanded by panto Gonzalves, Nit°, and b 4ll - I, varro ; whilst the bands of Teixeira and Amarel erikdor were on the hills. The Chamber of Deputies was principally occupied in of s Pssing the law for regulating and fixing the number Isd been forces. The reply to the speech from the throne o been adopted without amendment. From Buenos Ayres we learn that Lavalle is said to be t,lePared in the interior with 4,00 0 men to meet the ° o l'°e S of Roses. There was no demand at Buenos Ayres f mercantile wares, owing to the internal dissensions. l'assengers—Lieutenznt Oliver Jones of the South ; Mrs. Brooks (widow of the late Surgeon 7 1 , 1 ;ooks, of the Crescent, who died at Rio, June I st) , Mr. A "hras Baskerville and Mr. James Holmes, from Buenos Yres ; and six miners. On f;reight, 35,0001.; exchange, 31d. per milrei. t; Iv o have just seen a letter wh ich states that the Bri tishinerailants resident in Pernambuco have bound th emselves nnder a penalty of a conto of reis, not to sell 41 . -7cre dit. merchandise except for drafts acc e p ted at a t xt u c time an) of r Tr . . • was blocked up by a crowd eagerly pressing forward to gain admission, and in a very short time after th e doors were opened every corner of the hall was filled. The seat reserved for the members of the tribunal was even . partly taken 'possession of by many persons, among whom was M. Lacombe, recently named Curator on be half of Madame Laffarge. A greater number of females were among the audience than on any previous occasion. Precisely , at half-past 8, M. and Madame de Lco taud and the IsTicoiai family entered, and tools their seats by the side of M. Corali and M. Odillon Barrot, on the seat re served for the partie civile.. The President—Have the counsel for the partie civile any observations to make relative to the demand made at a previous sitting by the prisoner's counsel for a delay ? M. Odillon Barrot—The counsel for the poisoner has declared her in default . I do not think that anything further can be stated, 'Marie Capelle and her counsel having declined making any defence. The Court ordered the, trial to proceed. M. Corali—lf the Court is desirous to hear the evi dence of M. and Mme. de Lcotaud, this is the time. The President—We consider it unnecessary. It is for M. Corali to address the Court. M. Corali addressed the tribunal at very great length, going through the entire history of the case as it has ap peared in evidence, and the circumstances connected with the application made by M. Bac to Mme. de Leotaud, on the behalf of Madame Laffarge, for the suppression of the prosecution, all of which have been fully before the public. M. Corali also read the letter written by Madame Laffarge to Madame de Leotaud, in which, as our readers remember, she first mentioned the story of the pretended:deposit of the diamonds in her hands, and urged her to stay the proAcution in order to avoid exposure. After the reading of this letter M. Corali. commented upon it as he had done when the subject was alluded to on the former trial of the accused, as a work of hypocrisy and calnmny, and added, that, but for this threat, this outrage upon Madame de Leotaud, she •might have been saved. The letter had destroyed, he said, all the hopes which she could have entertained in the mercy of Madame de Leotaud. It had been intended, in deed, to produce a different effect, but she had herself destroyed her last chance of safety. He then proceeded to show that Mme. de Leotaud could have had no motive for disposing of her diamonds in the way alleged by the prisoner, having, when single, the free disposal of the income arising from a capital of 40,000 fr. in "the public funds, and, when married, the right of receiving 3,000 fr. a-year upon her own receipts. If, therefore, it had been true, as it was false, that she was desiro us of purchasing the silence of M. Clavet, where was the ne cessity for her to dispose of her diamonds to secure for him a pretended 'annual allowance of 500 or 600 francs? Was it probable that, with the means which she possessed of doing this from her own fortune, she would have allowed the suspicion of this theft to hang over fifteen servants, and lead perhaps to the condemnation of an innocent person ? How absurd was the assertion of Marie Capelle, who, in the difficulty of explaining why she had employed the pearls of the pretended de posit for her own personal use, said that she had lent a sum of 180 francs to Madame de Leotaud, who, being unable to repay her in money, had given her these pearls, which had been valued at 1,500 francs, in payment. Alluding to the story of the-box of colours sent to Al giers. and the letter announcing the circumstances, M. Corali said, " What is this letter ? What does it say ? Who discovered it ? Who produced it ? The letter is a falsehood. The 'discoverer of it, the • producer of it, was M. Pouthiers the uncle of Marie Capelle by marriage. I do not mean, however,. to say, that even the criminal is to be insulted. I have been reproached with having done this, but on one occasion only, when urged to ex tremity by insulting attacks, did I reply to insult by in sult. I said that this woman was a poisoner, and asto nishment was expressed; but I am astonished that I did not say so sooner. I said I would prove that to the title of poisoner were to be added those of thief and calum niator, and I am here to keep my word. You have said, you (here the eyes of all present were directed to hachaud), that Mme. de Leotaud. after having betrayed her husband, had robbed him, and I am here to tell you that you have not proved your words.—(Sensation.) Of what importance are the boasted brilliancy of mind, and the high degree of intelligence of Marie Capelle, if her .heart is corrupted ? This woman is enveloped in an atmosphere of vice and crime. From her infancy theft multiplied around her. When arrived at womanhood, she prepared the intrigue with Claret, and now she attacks even his reputation. At a later period we hear of Guyot, he who committed suicide at Mont morency. This also was an intrigue begun in a church. Here was also a young girl named Caroline, whose other name from generosity I will suppress, compromised by Marie Capelle, and serving as a pretext. The end of this intrigue was the suicide of a man, who said. in dy ing, " It is Marie Capelle who has killed me." At a later period, we find the extraordinary marriage, so promptly effected, that it seemed to have for object only to escape from the suspicions of theft, which had crept into the family of this woman. Disorder and trouble follow her into her new family. It is not here a man who commits suicide, but a man who is poisoned ; a man, who dies exclaiming, " It is Marie Capelle who has killed me." It is time that entire justice should be clone. Your judgment cannot physically affect this wo moman. but • society demands a vengeance which will punish her more than the sentence which has been pro-. nounced against her. Society demands for her the ob scurity and oblivion in which she is about to sink. Let her be buried in it alive, and come out of it after death only like La Brinvilliers 1" M. Odillon Barrot stated that he should not have come forward to give his professional assistance in this cause, had he not been strongly requested to do so by Mine. do Leotaud. That lady had written to him, and the Court would excuse him from reading the following passage from her letter :—" I am in a state of great suffering, and if I had not on my side the moral tranquillity which your aid gives cue, I should be alarmed at these severe and fatiguing emotions ; certainly I have not any dis quietude, and I have never had any, as to the issue of the affair; but I am happy when I think that you will be by my side, when we must hear unfolded that theme of lies and calumnies invented by the defence of Mme. Laf farge." His purpose was not to say anything in defence of Mine. de Leotaud ; such an idea would be an in sult to her - but he rose to fulfil a mora l dut y which lay upon him, and he did so with full confidence. The Learned Counsel then observed that the theft of the diamonds might now be said to be not only proved. but even admitted by the Counsel for the prisoner. You are called before the tribunal in order to purge your self of the charge of robbery, and you exclaim that you are persecuted. And you say that this tribunal, which has given you such a proof of its impartiality, is an ex ceptional tribunal. You cry out, " I am dead—ask no more of me." You are dead, but you still calumniate — you are dead, but your defamations continue—you are dead, but you prepare your calumnious memoirs, in which will be embodied your greedy and low specula tions—you are then only living for evil. This tribunal and the Court of Cassation have replied to you with reason and law, for legal fiction vanishes before reality ; there is no question here of an aecumulation of penalties; there is a decision to give, and it must be given, for you are liVing still and continuing your calumnies. The good sense of the public has sanctioned this decision. Odillon Barrot then adverted to the fresh demand for delay ; he confessed he had thought that the counsel for the prisoner would have had more good faith than to make such a demand ; but in this obstinate refusal to submit to a discussion of the case in a court of justice, lie only saw an implicit admission of guilt. He added, after justice shall have pronounced its decision, after the curtain shall have fallen on this scene so full of pain and scandal, when entrenched in the inviolability of that eternal punishment which the law has inflicted on you,. you promise yourself, we are aware, to pursue your vic tim and to torment her life. Still alive for hatred and vengeance, you attach yourself to this world by those cruel satisfactions which rather seem to belong to the regions of darkness. But indulge no such hopes. This out rage against the laws and justice has already endured long enough ; it is time for it to cease. Hope nothing from the inviolability attached to the punishment inflict ed on you, for I here solmnly engage that, if after refu sing to enter into any defence before justice and the laws, you have the cowardice to continue your calumnies in e. defamatory publications , l wi ll p resent m y self before the justice of the country, and will claim a striking repa ration, not from you, but from those whom cupidity shall make your instruments. In doing this I should have on my side the justice of my country, the concurrence of those charged to watch ever public morals, and the cordial assistance of every rightly-disposed mind. The decrees of Providence must be accomplished. It has permitted two young females to be brought together in this scene, which fixes the attention of the world, and to be placed thus in evidence for the instruction of society. The one you know by her intimate disclosures, by the declaration of her who brought her up, of her mother ; by her timid and gentle conduct. bhe only asked from God to pass a calm and tranquil life ' • she sou ght for internal peace ; eclat and noise alarmed and destroyed her. The other, on the contrary, loved in trigue, and sought notoriety, at any price ; she despised the weaknesses of her sex and of her situation. Ambi tion, which, according to her own expression, reigned in her woman's heart, lightened on her quick nd ardent imagination, and, fatally led . by that organization beyond the ordinary paths of life, she found herself at the brink of an abyss, into which she closed her eyes and fell. Well ! the former of these females, mis trustful of herself, strong in her weakness, has passed with honour and firmness through one of those situations which may compromise a whole life ; she has come through it esteemed and loved by all those who know her and surround her. She has seen closed around her those ties which are so dear to her ; she has, in fine, come through that great and cruel trial unsullied and honoured. The fate of the other you well know. The reason of this is, that the former has strictly followed through life that old and good maxim of our • mothers, that the wpman the most honoured aril most truly happy is she who 13 the least talked of ;as pursued tem even through crime. The moral of all this is, ith at t he he laws of nature cannot be violated w ith impun has assigned to each sex its respective course of action; the woman wh o h as th e misfortune ,to quit thle Nth as signed her becomes one of those monsters of moral 4eaer who may someti mes b ecome ti l e admiratio n of the world, but who more freq uen tly, af ford it sad andcruel dieu the moral examples. its, Ale t() be deduced from this trial. It is for you, as via Mesieme Laffarge, to give to this moral its laSt . soiction, the sanction of your j eiv T ile he hu P d re a s i i i d y en co t n iz o ir n e s d ustice ! partie to make, to state them. ni th a e lo C , ot , : n n 4 s , cl if fo s r o t , he M. -Moussur demanded that the diamonds should bK given up to Mina. ale Leotauds that the judgment should COUP CIRCULAR. • the weather WEVNESDA Y.—The unfavourable state of Weather has prevented h er Ma j est y and Prince Al bert from leaving the ,Castle to-day. „The Earl and C,-mutess of Erroll and L ad y Ida Hay 1 % t' s expected to arrive on a visit t o her 3.lajes ty,and ( : ()ls d aid Lady Leve3on have arrived thi s morning at the Itt le on a visit to the Queen. , r , the ir Marquis and Marchioness of Cla nricarde took eir departure from the Castle-this-morning. will include loyal dinner party at the Castle this evening include, in addition to the visitors staying at the It.'-'4tle and th e Royal Suite, the Noblemen and Gentle el who arrived this forenoon to attend the Privy Cc nnincluding the Marquis of Normanby, Viscount qnerston, Viscount Duncannon, the lion. E. J. Stan y, and Mr. C. C. Greville. 'L , ll e Queen held a Privy Council at two o'clock yes teri.aY Afternoon at Windsor Castle. It was attended by his Royal highness Prince Albert, 11 1 . 1 ' Pirst :Lord of Treasury, the Secretaries of State for e Fiu me I,nd Foreign Departments, the First Commis votier of the Woods and - Forests, the Lord Chamberlain, 44d the Payn , ias+.er-General of her Majesty's Forces. • C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in attin g . ttri Th e Nf ar quis of lleadfort was t he Lor d in Waiting, Major the Hon. Cleo. Keppel the Groom in Waiting. tt Their Royal IlighmSses the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady , o _ u gnsta Somerset, returned to their residence at Kew zi Tuesday The Marquis of Normanby, accompanied by the Hon., * :T. :Stanley, left town yesterday morning , to attend the . t ilicy Council, at Windsor Castle. I \ ,.` iseount rahnerston left town yesterday forenoon for t ndsor Castle, to.attend her Arajesty's Privy Council. t (I MAIL GUARDS.—We are requested to con ra • Ic't a para,, , rraph which has recently gone t he round theof Papers, that the mail guards, having received an inc rease of s a lary,- we re no longer allowed to receive f atuities from passengers. Such not being the case, the guard s have unfairly been deprived of the fees t he y r'''eal' ill the habit Of bettyg favoured with from passengers desirous of rewarding th b eir attentions —York Herald. During the deluge of rain in the storm of Tues. .2y night last, there was a slight mixture of snow; it did Z't, however, lie on the ground, but n elted as it fell. To Pe snow in A ugus t i s indeed unusual in Lincoln. — — ` 4o Pbt Gazette. TR1...11, OF MADAME LAFFARGE I rublisbed in 1,000 copie, - ,, and that it should be in the Jommais of Paris and the Correc. ; •,, • —; 11!4 , accused, who did not fail to put fee weed as bah . :er prosecution the civil death already pronounced egaine her, when she had an interest .in stifling a discussion which was to inflict upon her an additional brand of shame, had no hesitation in availing herself of her posi tion of civil death to send forth new defamations. Ile liad , no hope, therefore. that Marie Capelle would resign herself to silence, and expected that she would protest against the sentence which the tribunal was about to pronounce. He did hope, however, that this protest would not be made by the organs of her defence in a way which would be insulting to the tribunal. For his own part, he would announce beforehand that the law officers of the Crown would no longer tolerate such conduct. The Procureur - du Roi then observed that, although in the exercise of his duty, arising out.. of the evidence which had been brought before the tribunal on the pre sent occasion, he had call for a verdict of guilty, he had no proposition of punishment to make, for the law prohibited the addition of punishm ent in le lower de gree upon the criminal who in an anterior trial hail received a more severe condemnation. Thus. Marie Capelle having been condemned to hard labour for life for the crime of poisoning, would be declared guilty of theft committed before the perpetration of that crime, but for this theft no punishment could be inflicted. The Procureur du Roi then went through the facts of the case, commenting strongly -upon them, as M. Corali and M. Odillon Barrot had done, and remarking upon the patience and moderation shown by the family of Madame . de Leotaud under the defamation and odious calumnies of the accused. After the explanation which had .been given as to the sending of the box by Mine. tie Laroche foucauld to her son, and the mysteries of the park of Mousseaux, there could no longer be said to be any refuge for Madame Laffarge in public opinion. • In con clusion he said, "It is impossible not to have a ,ceding of deep grief and secret humiliation for the human mind, • When we behold this young female, possessingeso many gifts of nature, so high a degree of intelligence, and such • eminent qualities of mind, fallen so low in vice. 'The name of the brave Colonel Capelle, so venerated by all his companions in arms, would, one would have thought, have sufficed to keep her within the path of rectitude. In a few months, in a few days, this unhappy woman, tarnished all her hopes in the world, and sank to the deepest degradation. It would be a great moral lesson to study how this woman had proceeded from falsehood to intrigue, from intrigue to theft, from theft to poisoning, and from poisoning to calumny, which is moral assassi nation." The Tribunal retired to deliberate, and at the end of three quarters of an hour returned, when the President delivered the following judgment : " Considering that the proceedings have been legally revived against the Curator appointed for Marie Capelle in so far as regards the conclusions directed against the said Curator, the Tribunal declares the prosecution re vived—considering in so far as regards the complaint laid against Marie Capelle respecting the robbery of the diamonds ; it has been in the - result sufficiently proved by the previous examinations, that between the 10th and 15th July, 1839, a set of diamonds was stolen from the chateau de 13usagdy, belonging to M. and Mme. de Leo taud ; that pursuits and investigations have been made, the effect of which has been the discovery in the hands of Marie Capelle, or in her residence, of the abstracted diamonds —considering that Marie Capelle, called upon to account for this possession, pretended that she acquired them by donation from one of her uncles, that afterwards she advanced other motives for justifying this possession ; the examinations before the examining in agistrates,and be fore the Tribunal, have proved that these means of defence were founded on false allegations, some of which were defamatory towards the Leotaud family. Considering that the divers exceptions and other means of defence derived from an intercourse asserted by Marie Capelle to have existed between Mine. de Leotaud and Felix Clavet, justifying her possession'of the diamonds as being their depositary, with a trust that she was to execute, have been totally destroyed, and that cn the contrary it is established that this was a new defamation. On these motive the tribunal declares Marie Capelle attainted and convicted of having fraudulently - abstracted the set of diamonds in question ; but considering that by her con demnation to hard labour for life by the Court of As sizes, the penalty she has incurred is merged in the pre eteding sentence, there is no reason for pronouncing a new penalty. The Tribunal, making application of Ar ticles 401, 194, 365, and 379 of the Code, condemns Marie Capelle by default, to all the expenses of the pro secution, and orders the restitution of the diamonds; and, considering that M. and Mine. de Leotaud have made them selves parties civiles, condemns them to pay the ex penses of the State, saving their remedy against the Curator of Marie Capelle. M. Moussur, Avon& observed to the Court, that no di rections were given as to posting up the judgment, and publishing it in the journals. The President replied—The Tribunal has deliberated, and judgment is passed. The Court broke up at three o'clock, and the audience retired amidst great agitation. - The Gazette des- Tribunaux gives the following in its supplement of last night :—We have this moment re ceived most positive information that the judgment will , be served on Mme. Lafarge on Tuesday (this day). She must lodge her appeal at latest on Saturday next, the 12th. In this case the anir will be heard again on Thursday, the 19th. " Mine. Laffarge, on receiving in her prison an account of the 'result of the trial, immediately addressed the fol lowing reflections to one of her friends, who has commu nicated them to us : "What a lamentable and ridiculous thing is a judg ment by default gained against an enemy deprived of arms to defend herself, of a voice to protest, and who is not allowed to fight until she has been enchained. It must be confessed, that the getting . , up of the scene of my defeat left nothing to be desired. Witnesses carefully prompted by the partie eivile had perfect memories, and sometimes were eloquent. One affirms that he can re proach M. Clavet with only one fault, and this single fault is his incontestible beauty. Another sends us to the desert to seek for women who are not light in conduct. Another affirms, with an air of triumph, that a small box cannot have been sent to M. Clavet, because a small box had been sent to M. de Laroche foucauld, who no doubt had reserved to himself the monopoly of all the small boxes sent into Algeria. M. de Leotaud has accepted his part with an heroic and continually smiling countenance. Mme. de Leotaud has sustained with admirable resolution the absent regards of her whom she accuses. In fine, on the bench of the defence, to support an accusation which cannot be doubtful to any one, two men are seated and are about to teach the world how a feeble and oppressed creature may be crushed. Your presence, M. Corali, 'did not astonish me; the stage was in view, the part was easy—you could display that courageous eloquence with which you know how to tell a woman that she is a tkief and a poisoner. That, however, which has in deed astonished me, and does astonish me still, is that aid was required for your eloquence and for the inno cence of Madame de Leotaud—it is that M. Odillon Bar rot shoitld be brought to your side, and to throw his name into the scale of justice, in order to make it turn in your favour. Full of respect for this new adversary, who came to contend against me although I was painfully alarmed by his appearance, I expected from this apostle of liberty and justice support to my just and legal pro testations. I expected—l was deceived. The great man became the advocate, and when my eyes sought his, in tending to express am innocent—believe and save me' —my grief was met with a disdainful smile. This was not all—M. Odillon Barrot did not protest when the tri bunal deprived my yaw; defender of the right of speak ing. • He did not demand that the eloquence of the heart should be heard in answer to the loud voice which wished to overwhelm me. Nor is this all yet. M. Odillon Barrot demanded a day's delay, in order to furbish up the arms destined to destroy a poor creature without defence My God ! is this justice ? Will you suffer me to be trampled upon ? Are there not on this earth noble and powerful men able and willing to protect and save a just cause? My God! come to my aid. I have no more tears to weep—l have no more pmvers to offer up to you. I have nothing left for my soul- but doubt and contempt. And you, M. Clavet, you are a base man! I cry aloud to you from the depths of my prison, I de mand of the world and of the press, that to your remorse they will bear my voice into the deserts in which you have concealed yourself. Why do you delay to come and avenge your own honour, as well as that of her whom you have betrayed? You have traversed the seas to make your fortune—why will you not cross them again to re-establish your reputation? One word—one word only was required from you, and you hive not come. Not being able to cast a denegation at me, you have cast a calumny against me—you have said that I was :Infa mous, but you have not been able to say that you were an honourable man. 0! come, sir! I wait for you, and, if I must sell even my mother's wedding-ring, I will furnish you with the means. "From my prison at Tulle, this 6th August. " MARIE CAPELLE." THE GUNPOWDER PLOT.— A new light is thrown, in the pages of Mr. Ainsworth's historical ro mance, entitled " Guy Fawkes," on this memorable con spiracy. The unwearied research of our admirable novelist has discovered that the Roman Catholic party were not alone to blame in the atrocious scheme which shook the nation—that if Guy Fawkes, Father Garnet, Catesby, and the other conspirators entertained mon strous designs, those designs were stimulated and se cretly encouraged by Cecil, Lord Salisbury, the crafty Minister of James 1., and, what is more amazing, by Lord Mounteagle, himself a Papist I If the kingdom at large was amazed at the event, matters were better under stood itt the Court, where the plot and counter-plot were clear to the perceptions of the favoured few. The new romance exhibits this in glaring and striking cohurs. '.Pass Parker and Brassy s fight will appear in Bell's Life in London of Sunday, August 15. Price of licits Fivepence. Office, 170, Strand. MANCHESTER CONFERENCE.—Since our laat, one hundred clergy Men and ministers,, in addition to those whose names we published on Saturday, and mak ing the whole number row three' hundred and eighty ; have signified their intention to bd present at the Confe rence on the Corn-laws, which is to ecuin..2noa its sit t;;;47, in the town on Tuesday nett. —Manchester Guardian. - SUDDEN DEA-TH.7ln ftri!pt instance of sud- Aen death occurred 'to ( ,Mr. )eadnutn, tie prop i t :or o f the Star figh gjwycliail). On 4toud# last tic p m /. rtu nate gentleman wth,i ri.ti;;,?; Bp ii047,0 4 m-Wie z ni l kiiton, on hmehaek, at a slow ppack , ,man observed his bat fall off, and picked it u p , but before he could give it him the deceased fell to the ground. Medical assi s tance ipmediately prOcured, but it was of - no at a il„ Th e deeeaseti i , ,A4' 31 ..1,10,:;fct to a disease of the heart, Tim SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1841. ___ TO SIR JAMES GRAHAM, BART. r SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE with Iziying before ,your:; hcstrt,rs your own opinions on the subject a • ttliF pbotAcAllPl+"Corn• I 'fill& that you are guilty in it of one of the most extraordinary perversions of Scripture on record; It is true that you only circulate it, as you say, second-hand, but that is no excuse for you. It is at least to be expected that you, who set tip for a " master in Israel," should have a full acquaintance with Scripture, and " not blindly follow a blind guide" into the slough of deception, if not of falsehood. But who is this Gamaliel, at 'whose feet you sit in such humble teachableness of disposition to im bibe Scriptural lessons in favoUr of monopoly for the landoWners and starvation for the people ? Verily I could but smile when I discovered it to be that "emi nent and dignified divine," a s y o u most facetiously call him, the arch-apostate of di s cord from Ireland, the eulogist of Jezebel, the Rev. Hugh M'Neile. will be kind, to you, Sir .Tines, and give you a hint not in future to pin your faith on the sleeve of such a spiritual Will-o'-tle-Wisp as this. I do not deny that the gentleman in question has words tit will. No ! no ! he has plenty of talk at his command ; but then too Often it is all talk and only talk with him. He is at best but a kind of slap-dash dealer in theology, noisy as a babbling brook in summer, and-quite as shallow. And yet you, forsooth, speak of him as " an eminent and dignif i ed di vine." If notoriety constitutes eminence, then , indeed , it must be conceded that Mr. M'Neile is not only eminent , but - pre-eminent, and not only that, but pre-eminently pre-eminent also amongst the advocates of intolerance and the champions of bigotry. But as to the second epi thet, ' which you bestow upon him, those who know him, will not only smile, but laugh outright, atsuch an astounding misapplication of language, while those to whom he is a stranger will be exceedingly amused when I tell them that this dignified divine, as you are pleased to • style him, is as wild, dashing, and, to use his own coun try's phrase, " rollicking" looking an Irishman as has ever been imported into this country either by sailing ve.tsel or steam-boat. Auspice Teucro:from such a master you borrow the errors which you wilfully or ignorantly, I suspect the former, attempt to palm upon the public. But I now proceed to consider this perversion of Scrip ture. In laying it before your hearers you had the unblushing audacity to assure them that it was taken " from that sacred fountain which contained les sons of pure knowledge." Yes, sir, the divine word does contain lessons of pure knowledge, but what -must we say of the spirit of him who, to subserve base and secular and worldly objects, presumes to pollute and de file that purity, by mixing up with it his own impure mis readings and misinterpretations. But you shall be con victed out of your own mouth. Here are your words, as taken from the reports of the Tory papers : " They would remember that the most ancient com mercial city was the city of Tyre, described in Holy Writ as sitting like a queen upon the waters, as the crown ing city, whose merchants are princes, 'whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth,' who was the mistress of the world, enriched by t l (ships of Ophir, and dealing in the dyed garments o; Rozrah. Yet a little but striking incident is related with is spect to this city. She was in the neighbourhood of a poor and apparently powerless kingdom, that of Judea. A quarrel arose between.them, and the inhabitants of Tyre were obliged to send an Ambassador and sue for peace at the hands of the King of Judea, and the reason assigned is, that their coun try was nourished by the King's country.'—(Hear, hear.) They did not grow their own corn.—(Hear, hear.)" Now, Sir, he who runs may read," and at once see through the gross delusion which you have here at tempted. How stands the case ? Yon, first of all, give a description of what, according to the Prophets, Tyre was in her days of magnificence and palmy glory, but, ven in that description, showing your ignorance of Scripture, by dragging into your picture of " the city of waters" part (If one of the most splendid predictions of the coming of the Messiah. But never mind that now. I am not going to lose sight of your grand fallacy, by trifling with nice criticism. You give us, I say, an ac count of what 'Tyre was in the days of the Prophets, who wrote six, seven, and eight hundred years before Christ, and then jump to conclusions in favour of the Corn-laws from a casual mention of a feud between her inhabitants and Herod, in the forty fourth year of the Christian era. Never was there a grosser imposition essayed upon the human un derstanding than this. The Tyre of the first period spoken of was the mistress of the seas. Her navies, which at once extended her power and ministered to the wealth and luxury of her inhabitants, penetrated to every accessible region of the then known world. She had, too, her land traffic with the country behind her, whence she could draw supplies of corn; while Africa, Sicily, and Sardinia, then known as " the granaries of the world," were open to her ships, us her sails whitened every sea, and her keels pressed every shore. But she was not such in the second epoch, in which you drag her forward as if still the same Tyre in the days 'Of Herod. A long and melancholy interval had elapsed. Ages, pregnant with great and sail events, had rolled between. Her glory had departed from her ; her com merce had been turned into other channels. Time and the sword had been at work with her. The Babylonian and the Macedonian had pressed heavily upon her. Old Tyre had been overwhelmed by the conquering arms of Nebuchadnezzar. New Tyre had only sprung up to undergo the same fate before the matchless power of Alexander the Great. So that only the name of her remained, although still clung to, it may be, with luid affection, by those who, in the time of Herod, inhabited the ruins of what now was but the shadow and ghost of what once was Tyre, but which for ages had been decaying, and was still decay ing., into the fulfilment of the prediction which spoke of a time to come, when she s hould be " as the top of a rock, a place to spread nets upon" — and nothing more—an almost deserted spot in a remote corner of the mighty and universal empire of Rome, while Herod him self, whose feud with her you weave into your sophistry, was but a mock Prince, a phantom king, tolerated, from motives of policy, by the mistress of the world. And now, Sir, let me ask you, whether you are not utterly ashamed of the manner in which y o u stated your argu ment to the Dorchester e l ec t ors ? In your premises you set before them Tyre when Queen of the Seas, when every land was bridged, if I may so say, to her by her navy, and the productions of every country were within her reach and her command. In y ou r conclusion, you speak of Tyre; ruined, d eso l ate, shorn of her commerce and her greatness, with a few inhabitants on a barren rock, who, without any corn-growing land of their own, were compelled to buy food from their neighbours, and then you triumphantly exclaim," They were at the mercy of those neighbours, because they did not grow their own corn." No, Sir, that was not the reason ; at all events, not the only reason. They did not grow their own corn in the days of the Prophets, but their commerce opened the world to them. If th e crops f a il e d i n o ne region of the earth, they could suppl y themselves from another. If one country were hostil e to t h em ; t h ey cou ld approach the markets of another. B ut t hi s s t a t e o f things had not eiadured., and they were now dependent upon Herod and his people for corn, because they had lost their trade and commerce. The . inhabi tants of T yre , f ro m lording it over the world and dictating from their ships to all nations, had shrunk into the dwellers upon a barren rock,. with no means of sustenance, but what their fisher men's nets supplied them with, with no fertile land to cultivate for their own support. And vet on this founda tion you dare to build an ar gumen t in favour of your food-monopoly, and rake up an anology between this Englandonistress of the ocean, and with capabilities, if free and fair scope were given to them, for trading with all the world and for importing, food from every corner of the globe. For shame, for shame, and you a would-be statesman ! And was it in wilfulness or ignorance, was it in your own blindness or in a contempt for the intellect of your hearers, that you thus exposed yourself at Dor chester ? In either case you are alike inexcusable and alike deserve to be held up to public scorn and ridicule. For to-day, farewell. To-morrow or next day, I shall have another word or two to say you. A CLERGYMAN OF THE CHURCH OF . ENGLAND. August 10, 1841. During her Majesty's and the Prince's brief stay at Pansaiiger, two occasions are said to have happened when the Royal . pair surprised the rustics by appearing among them. These trivial occurrences we are aware are in themselves but of little importance ; but, as they are calculated to show the real kindness and unostenta tious habits of the Queen and her illustrious Consort, we give them. Her Majesty is, as our readers may be aware perhaps, habitually an early riser. During her stay at Pansanger she was abroad as early as seven o'clock, in company with Prince .Albert. On one of these morning excursions she was desirous of seeing a charming little lodge situate in a dell on the left as you pass through the Park from Hertingfordbury. The rustic party were quite unprepared for so distinguished an honour, and accord ingly the gamekeeper addressed them at first with less homage than he would have paid to his Sovereign. He was fortunate enough to discover his error in time, and ironic reparation for his mistake by showing his illus trious visitors his different specimens of game, many of them exceedingly beautiful and of uncommon kinds, mid with which they seemed exceedingly pleased. The affec tion the royal pair discovered towards each other not a little, we believe, astonished the rustic. H e appears never to have suspected Queens and Princes of such 'vulgar sympathies as those which arc experienced by the com mon herd. How was his wonder raised at hearing her Majesty address the Prince as "my dear." It would have comported more, no doubt, with his notions of regal eti, quette for her Majesty to have addressed him as " Your Royal Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, &c. &c. &;e." but no such thing was. the case. Here is a reve lation for married folks. Don't be frightened of being thought vulgar through cherishing those natural and in teresting emotions which husbands and wives ought eve r to feel towards one another, for your Queen thinks it no t unbecoming her to display them.—On anot h er occasion the Prince, who was pas:ing through a gate at Hertino._ fordbury, was recognised by a lad. lis R o y a l Hi g h ess, serving the boy's amazement , accosted him, " Well, m y m an, yon don't know me." " y - es, I do," replied the urchin, " You are Prince Albert." The Prince smiled, alga ashed him how he knew. " Bocause," N oi,a the boy, by no means. disconcerted, oof the hair y ou h ave got there, " and with this he drew his iingt.rs neross his upper lip. These are circumstances trifling in themselves, •yyv aware, and only &rill their inirek, hymn the per sons with whom we associate the/in " Fame ationfor tuna pares stint ; qui magnus imperio prcediti iu execiso gmet'd by "o g(! ( ').( 1, tetateat agunt, cumin meta cuncti mortales novere." We do not se:: a Queen every day, and neither is the British interest. Such curiosity is laudable.. throne alwayo the ti'n4t . 4`llo"l fIY so '4 .4 , 1 y as srie who presides at it ivho feel no admiratiOn for the over the British 1 14 thqh . Every little incident relating to - 136' this stoicism far parts of possesses our common natutei finest s e tt r ipl from us. —Herts Wormer., Pvt.' :- The factory, where you may inspect this "Jim CroW" is flu• cast, and on , your way thither yon might as well inquire in the City about the present state of the Corr: 7 trade, and the working of the sliding scale, before yOu get on the Blackwall Railroad. • Suppose you called, in the plain garb of a man of business, on some - of the great merchants, the Barings, the Larpents, the Hub bards' and proposed to them to join you in an importa tion of wheat from abroad. You might tell them that you had plenty of money, knew the country well, were aware of the state of the crops. and sure that wheat was wanted. and that it was, therefore, the proper time to bring it ; but I will wager my existence that you would meet a refusal in such words as these :—Thank you for your confidence, but must decline the business-ImA enter on such neck•breaking affairs—the Corn-trade is na turally full of hazard, but with the present system it is hazardous five times over, sure to burn our fingers— the moment there is the least chance of want, up jump prim; abroad, higher than here, in anticipation of a low duty ; and when they have got the duty down in September, they will knock the prices down, and punish those who are too late with their cargoes—they always have some low stuff in store pir that. We shall be Caught in ti double trap—high prices abroad, and a high duty here we are not clever enough for such busineSs ; if 'there was a fixed duty, there would be 6, chance, but now there is none. Thank ye for your confidence, but must de cline it. Leaving . the - se cautious, solid, and wealthy merchants, I would have you go to the Bank, and get there 'five one thousand pound notes, and then proceed to Mark-lane, ruminating the while a little on the low duties in Sep tember, and the strange circumstance that they won't import wheat, though they agree -- with you that it is wanted. When you get to the Corn-Exchange, walk boldly up to the stand of some Corn factors, say Messrs. Kaye and Emm, mighty shrewd people they—up to everything. Pull out your five bank notes, you are sure then to pass for a respectable man, and they won't ask your name. As Mr. Raumer says that you look very much like an honest Gorman, you might pass yourself off for one, and whisper in their ears, " I rant to make a little infestment." " You can't come at a better time," says Kaye, " it's all up with the crops and no mistake." " Vell, vat do you recommend?" " Why, beans to be sure, man. We have just a 'parcel .cm board the Sliding Scale, Captain Slip, from Egypt, off Atkin's wharf; at 225." " Veil, but vy beans ?" " Why, they must have them to mix, and we are working the duty." " Veil, but my mind vas made up of veat—vat haf you cot ?" " There's a cargo of Odessa, at 535., including freight, a capital sample. not yet passed Gibraltar, and may just be in for the shilling, duty; and if you give us two shillings more, the seller warrants a six-and-eightpenny duty by the 23d September!" "Put von't the Booty be down sooner—there's shust now such a :rent want of vent ?" " Pooh, nonsense ;" says Kaye, ,1 " the averages can't be worked round sooner ; besides, it don't suit them to have the shilling duty before the shipments from the Mediterranean are on the coast ?" Put, von't de noo Ministers alter dem dooties, von dey see dat no vent is entered for consumption ?" " Stuff 1" says Kaye, " they are a pack of asses—and you know Sir Robert Peel has distinctly declared that he prefers the present sliding scale." Hearing your name pro nounced, you polour up, and, apprehending discovery, you, in an agony of your soul, cunningly pop out, "Vat an ass Sir Ruppert Beel must pee,"—decline the bar gain, button up your notes, and, with a hasty bow, slide amongst the crowd, but not fast enough to save your auriculars from the pleasing titillation of "to be sure.he is !" If these two experiments should not satisfy you, that, under the sliding scale, wheat does not always come in when people want it, you might direct your steps to some deep calculator about the Royal Exchange—some man after your own heart, who does not mind principles, but delights in figures and statements—some gnat com mercial or political arithmetician, who would govern the world by statistics and the rule of throe ; who treats men as he would halfpence ; and, provided he can handle his nine numerals with their naughty sister, and can show the averages to have been good averages for ten or a hundred years, does not care one straw whe ther death has reduced the number of consumers to the extent of the supplies, or commerce has accommodated the supplies to the wants of the consumers. These men of figures in the City are a strange set, and have the ability to prove almost everything with their statements. When they want to prove that an article must fall, they show you a long account of storms and overwhelming supplies from the coast and the west, from Russia and from Buenos Ayres ; but when they are for the rise, their figures are all like a capital 0 ; zero is the only cypher they can write, blight in the fields, rot amongst the sheep, epidemics killing the calves, unlimited demand, and a total cessation of production are at their disposal ; their paper is patient, their imagination only fertile in barrenness, and their ingenuity wandering amongst deso lation. You must, therefore, be a little on your guard, and take nothing for granted but what can be proved by Parliamentary returns ; but go over with them the his tory of the corn trade since the end of 1837. In 1838 wheat advanced in price from the very first day ; the winter was dreadfully severe ; the spring unfavourable ; the summer late, cold, and wet ; and prices had reached 70s. to 80s. in the beginning of Au gust. There was nearly a million of quarters of wheat in the bonded warehouses, but none was entered for consumption,. even on the 7th of September, because the average was one halfpenny under 73s.—say 725. 1 lid. Nor was this all, for by the 26th of October of this—the first of a succession of years of famine—the duty was again as high as 225. Bd. Of this horrible, this infamous state of things, you, the great statesman of the age, as piring to guide our youthful and humane Sovereign, and to control her subjects with your paternal sway, said most complacently, on the I.sth March, 1839, "But when the pressure came, was there any serious difficulty in pro curing a supply 2" Ye Gods ! was there any thing but difficulties—the difficulties of the sliding scale ? There has been a pressure for six months—an extreme dearth for three, and a famine for six weeks. It was as noto- • rious as the sun in heaven I And you talk in the House . ' of Commons only of the average of nine years ! What are six weeks of famine in the average of nine years, ending in September, 1833, as you coolly say, nothing—abso lutely nothing ! To him, whose every single morsel which he pokes with his golden fork between his teeth costs more than a hardworking man's pay for a day, six weeks of famine are of course nothing ; they go in the average, and that, for the nine years ending in Septem ber, 1838, was not more than 545. and odd pence per • quarter of wheat, as you observed ; but to the humble and overworked hind in Dorsetshire, with 6s. 6d. a week, and a sleeping berth in the hay-loft ;- to the poor sempstress whose thousand stitches can earn her at the utmost one penny in the hoar (as I live, this is the truth) ; to the widow laundress, who, up at three every morning, labours through weeks, months, and years, and takes in washing at a penny the piece, to preserve to herself and her poor orphans a shadow of the honest independence, which in the lite time of their sire was just sufficient to keep them from the parish and the workhouse; to market, fish, and chair women, to weavers and factory girls, to all the thousands, nay, millions, who keep their accounts in pence and far things, to whom a shilling's expenditure would be ruin, and to whom a pound is an inconceivable and unattain able possession ; to these one week's dear and bad bread acts as a disastrous catastrophe, and six weeks of famine are an eternity of pain, anguish, or tune, disease, and ofteu death. The six weeks' starvation is the iron that enters into their soul, and the balm of your nine years' average of fifty-four shillings will by no means heal the wound, restore health and strength once lost, replace the rags pledged or sold, and cure the ills of minds and bodies smitten by the in famous system which I have feebly described in my seventh . letter, saying " That it gambled with people's wretchedness—played hazard with your penny averages—and had found in the life and death of millions a legitimate and fertile mine for diabolical speculation and infamous profit!" A Sir, your new acquaintance, the man of figures, in raptures with a visitor of a congenial mind, will tell you v.-ith high glee that on the Ist of January. 1.830, the average price was 78s. 2(1., therefore f a r b e y on d a famine price. 1t remained so till the 22d of March, When linly 572,900 quarters of wheat, or ten days' consumption, haul been entered. Now, after this did we, or did we not, want further supplies of foreign grain ? The averages fell, and by the 2d of August, when the harvest began, the price had , receded to 2s. under famine rates, namely, to GSs. 2(1., and the duty was only 16s. Bd., with an addition of 800,000 quarters entered at duties averaging above 10s. Bd. But by the 20th of September the duty was again down to 6s. Bd., and the prices up to 71s. 10d. ; therefore, in these seven weeks there must have been an enormous want of wheat, but the entries were only 26,000 quar ters, so that, whilst famine during the harvest drove up prices, next to no w heat was supplied by the aid of your sliding rule. But between the 20th of September and 23(1 of November prices fell to GOs. ; the wanto, there fore, I suppose, were not so pressing ; the duty again rose to 20s. Bd., but the supplies were increased by 600.000 quarters, at an average duty of 10s. ! This 'is the history of the year 1839, when, in consequence of the moderate crops of 1837, and the decidedly bad ones of 1838, the people of this country endured unheard-of suf ferings and immense pressures ; the prices constantly ranged at what we both agree (and it is th (only thing in which we agree) to call famine prices. The duties were maintained at an average rate of above 10s. Th e corn trade ruined every one engaged in it—the suppli es were chiefly poured into the markets when the duti% were high, and were small when they were low— t h e Bank was obliged to borrow money in Paris to avoid stopping—and you ridiculed the solemn warnings and predictions of Mr. Mark Philips, because not, sustained by oflical documents I Our man of figures will give you all these details with a glow of delight ; fir what do es he care for distress or prosperity ? To him men ar t !I ' figures, an d figures idols to be worshipp e d ; his accounts are correct, his statements accurate, his averages g'6od average ,, , an d he is charmed to find that the returns from hospitals, poor-houses, and 1,4 of;1 ..-. mortality, ("ov um, by a proportionate increa3o of wiretchudness, the sum of his calculations to a iliinute 'fraction. In 1840 we begin; with an average price of GGs. 10d receding by tho 14th February t o 645. I Id., but being; on the 4trl April up to G9s. Gd. ; good wh ea t constantly a b ove l'Os., or ulna. you call famine pric es , b ut onl y 37,800, quarters of foreign wheat entered fur consum. ' i on . Our wants now became probably urgent, for itn additional 320,000 quarters, fa. 040 wee 's „,e,,'s consumption, were, entered up to thu MA 4,,ky at a duty of 16s. Bd. The pre:iSUTe itc i - k v 044).w insufferable, and by the 4th of ~ ,ii . .o,4llher, Ns usual, the prices were up to 715., the duty down to 2s. 8(1., but all the while only 42,000 quarters i we re,upplied- to satisfy. th ese wants. From this day, hoWever,;,the wants apparently diminished, prices fell,. and duties rose ; cn th e 11 t h of Sq.tember, that - `l4: to tsai-, within one, short week, we had the el:kr:ix:low plan tiny of 965 1 000 quarters cp . tev v 4 4i; a, duty of Gs- 811. on the 2d of October it had grown to 1,280,000 quar f tors, with the duty at 16s. Bd. ; on the 20th of October, • F -'•. it) tlVenty-six and ei , ,!-htponce. Read that, you states nam;'.'you lover of your country, you leading star of the l? ;ratan race, you, who. in your speech of the 15th of 16;:i9, sneer at the "cold-blooded econondst re garding money as the only clement of -- natural happi puss ;" you advocate for slipping and sliding rules, which wheel and jump about more than ever Jim Crow did, but which, instead of convulsing us with innocent sport, threaten to convulse the political stability of the empire, to exterminate every notion of common sense and huma nity, and have spread more destruction, misery, and mischief than a hundred battles ! Surely a fixed duty of 1 or 5 or 8 or 10 shillings would not have teazed and worried farmers, merchants, dealers, millers, bakers, and consumers, as this silly, childish, cruel game of slipping and sliding evidently did, and inevitably must do ! POLITICAL LOAN TRACT SOCIETIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn,—By inserting the suggestions of your Cor respondent " Ballot" on the above subject, you have conferred a favour, not only (Hi the writer of that letter, but also on the public. It is a sub ject which, at present, has been scarcely thought of; but, nevertheless, it is one of paramount im portance. I perfectly concur in the sentiments of your Co.respondent, and have long, thought that if the political regeneration of the people is to be effected, it must be by such means, in com bination with the other departments of the press now in 7 operation. _ Hitherto the people have been appealed to more as mere corporeal or animal beings than as rational and intelligent. agents. Their passions have been roused without their judgments being enlightened. So long as such a system continues they will remain the victims of caprice or cor ruption, and alternately be driven from one extreme of the political to the other, ac cording to the passing circumstances of the moment. Formerly this pernicious system might be inevitable—when the whole of the people were shrouded in the darkness of ig norance there was no way open to their affections, except through their inferior propen -I:iities. Now a new state of society has arisen, demanding a totally different mode of tactics for developing and wielding its energies. The schoolmaster has walked abroad, and in his benevolent tract has dispensed to the millions the acquisition of the art of read ing, and. the elements of many other branches of knowledge, from which have sprung a disposition and • a capacity for thinking. This new element- in the constitution of society has been too much lost sight of; if not entirely ne glected, by politicians.' It is true we have a daily and weekly press, unprecedented for its talent and extent, and that the spirited and un flinching support which The Sun has given to liberal principles, has done much to dissipate the ignorance of the people. Still there are great numbers of men who never see these excellent mediums of political intelligence, and who are even ignorant that such a paper as The Sun exists. Lectures, too, have been instituted, and have aided, in a good degree, the newspapers in supplying the public taste for information. But it will be obvious, on a moment's reflection, that these) are extremely inadequate to meet the exigencies of the case we are deploring. Amongst other causes which render them only partially applicable, may be mentioned, disin clination on the part of many to attend, want of time with others, and not unfrequently the want of means. The only feasible plan, at the pre sent juncture, calculated to meet the evil, is to furnish them at their homes, without cost, with the materials for thinking. The religious world, being wise in their day and generation, have long taken advantage of this new feature in society, and are spending an nually considerable sums of money in the dis tribution of their tracts. Why has not this bfen done, ere now, in the political world? Every true Christian and philanthropist must be desirous to intbrm the mind and im prove the condition of the people for' this as well as for a future state. Indeed, it is a short-sighted policy, and one subversive of their own aims not to do so. It is an indisputable fact that ignorance, famine, and misery, form but a barren soil for the growth of exalted virtue or pure religion. Nor do I see any formidable obstacle to its adoption. Only let a tithe of the money now squandered at elections, ostensibly to promote the people's good, but which operates solely in debasing their mental and moral character, be appropriated to this object, and the desired ame ' lioration will be attained. Without a moment's delay, " Political Loan Tract Societies" should be formed. throughout .the . land. These Societies should immediately engage competent persons to wiite a series of plain and common-sense Addresses, appealing to the popular understand ing "and ' feeling., upon all political questions which affect the well-being of the community. Let persons be appointed, gratuitous if possible, in every town, village, and hamlet in the king dom, to distribute them to every house. It may be predicted, almost with absolute certainty, that were a plan of this kind established, and ener getically prosecuted, that by its influence the salvation of the country would be achieved. Should you, Sir, deem these hints worthy a corner in your valuable and independent paper, their insertion will oblige your obedient servant and constant reader, R. J. • Leicester, August 10. SYNOD OF 2.RGYLL. (From the Edinburgh Advertiser.) The Synod of Argyll met at Campbelton on Wednes day the 4th inst. _ _ -7 1'he Rev. Duncan M'N&ib, of Campbelton, and Dr. M'Naughton, of Arran, were respectively proposed to fill the Moderator's Chair, when the latter was unanimously elected. The Rev. Mr. M'Leod was elected Clerk. After some routine business, the Committee on Over tures reported that two had been submitted. The one signed by the Rev. Mr. M'Crea, and others, was in sub stance as follows:—" Whereas great evils have arisen to the Church from her disobedience to the Civil Powers ut the country which are ordained of God; and wheree: s she still retains the Veto Act, out of which all t}', ese evils have sprung; it is hereby overtured to the p po ' General As sembly that the Church abandon her * resentsition, and that she suspend the said Act • .1 anu return to that obedience to law and times and orderly onduet in th e mainte nance: of which, P itst she has enjoy e d so many blessings." The se . eoild overture was si gne d by * and was to this effect :—" Whereas Dr. M'Kay mid others. the Church has orought.into great trouble and pe rils by decision, o f some of the Civil Tribunals of the country, in i ",rious to the spiritual rights and independ en„"?,of *i .M - Chureli and people of Scotland ; and w h ereas a D'l'..has been proposed to be introduced into the Lee-is -I.ature by his Grace the Duke of Argyll, which has been approved of by a great majority of the General Assem bly as calculated. to secure these rights ; it is overtured to the Synod of Argyll that the Synod record their high satisfaction of the said Lill, and that they appoint a Committee to draw up resolutions to be laid before his Grace, expressive of their sentiments of satisfaction with the Bill, and gratitude to that Nobleman, to whey& house the interests of the Church of Scotland have been in former times dear." Al.ter considerable discussion, the Synod decided that the overtures be t a ke n up separate l y , and that Mr. I,l 4 Crae's he taken up I;rst. It was then moved and seconded that the Synod ap approve of the overture, and transmit the same to the General Assembly. Dr, APE:AY moved that the overture be dismissed, Which was seconded. A long discussion " followed, after which, on the vote bein g taken, 20 vued tr ansmit and.2o aga i nst, when the Moderator gave his casting vote iti favour of transmit. The Synod afterwards proceeded to the consideration of the secon d overture, when, after a long discussion, 21 voted approve of the said over.ure, and 20 dismiss. Ti.e other business being disposed of, the Synod closed its sedernnt, and fi xe d to meet at lnverary in Augus t next year. theT h f e 1; aueed, P eebles, at their meeting on the move, at that btee e r time Twee Argyll' s Bill at their up the consideration of the Duke of ..,ur 3 D.,ctor at the same meeting in August. The Rev. ltienseb! l:I.IYIE(s)ft VI — the Presiivte r r mg' flit ra l a 'e pp n ro o v ti a c l e o o f f tilts. B i i ti ll te . n intention ter, D r . -r? ils e m ra e x t ,e o a n i t e te v ( 4 , 4th inpsots.ttpoolcwon_shiidser the . ma - the ' üb' motion on . ts ,:-.. Pet (11: the Duke of Argyll's Bill,. on account of its Peebles been withdrawn in the meantime; Mr. Elliot i iTeebles - .Loved that the Presbytery proceed to its con sil,deralion, which was seconded by Mr. Robertson of Lldlestone, and the roll having been called and votes '.nallted, it was carried to proceed by a majority of six to four. Mr. RopEnTsoN then moved, " That whereas the Bill lately introduced into i'arliament by his Grace the Duke of Argyll does not appear to bo calculated to relieve the Church from her present ditEculties ; and whereas the said Bill, if passed into a law, would be a fertile source of dissension, animosity, and strife in parishes, the Presbytery dis4pprove of the Bill, and instruct their Moderator to intimate this deliverance to the Noble m iltice Duke;" which was secon ded b y Mr. Elliot, and a g reed to without a vitt'. Whereupo .1. Dr. Burns gave that, on their first eeting at.er the sitting of Puglia ' meat, he would move the Ileshyaery to petition both llou.ses of Parliament that, in any measure to be passed on the subject. of Church I atronage, all the essential p r ineipleg of the late Bill ct the Duke of Argyll be in corporated therein. ..........----- On Saturday last, the Royal Company of Archers, the Queen's Body Guard for Scotland, shot, in Hope Park, for the price, the annual gift of her Most (iiseions Majesty, uhen, afierone of the most beautiful displays of archery in the hidory of the Royal Com p:my, it •vas gained by Nathaniel .pens, Esq., of Craig aiiquhar.—Edinburih ildrettiso . EVENING SUN. II EA TR IA Y A RKE"I"f C. A , two acts, entitle.. Foreign ifra ex . •o Anne, , : - )arced as t, et - snarl a ihr the first ti The followina?7-, an outline of the plot :—The Marehica :ass of Dumbarton (Mrs. W.. Clifford), holding a high of, at , in the Court of Queen Anne, has managed to bri:a about a marriage between her daughter, L a dy Bell (..Tina P. H or t on ), and the Count St. Louis (Mademoiselle Celeste), - a young French nobleman, Attache to the French Embassy, only 16 years of age, and the s p o il e d d ar li ng of the ladies, treated and considered as a child by every one, al though deeming himself a man. The scone opens on the morning of the marriage, on which day St. Louis is presented at' Court. The sth article of the marriage contract is to the effect that instantly after the marriage the Count and his bride shall be separated, and not see each other again until he shall have attained the age of twenty-one. The Count entreats his mother-in-law to rescind this article—she refuses—he is a mere child. Ile entreats his wife to run away with him, she refuses to run away with a child. He becomes enraged, and deter mines to prove to them that he is a man. He meets with Sir James Courtall (Webster), a libertine courtier. who persuades hint that it is necessary he should make love to every woman he meets, and as the Count is not very au ‘ fait at English, kindly provides him with billets suited to all sorts and conditions of wo men. The Count, thus provided, determines to make love to the first lady he meets, who chimer to be the Lady Grace (Miss Charles), the affianced of Sir James Courtall, and accordingly sends her one of these billets. whilst another-is sent to the Baroness Fitzstowtz (Mrs. Stirling) ci-divant Mrs. Feddle. The late Mr. F., a tailor, haring died and left her with a large for tune, she, as she describes it, baited her hook with a plum, and caught the Baron Fitzstoutz (Sinclair), a perfect model of decorum. She had known the Count. in former days, when the late Mr. F. was tailor to the French Embassy, and therefore feels a great interest in his safety and well-being. Such is the state of affairs at the end of the first act. The scene of the second act is laid in the Count's own apartment. Lady Grace enters, and the Count flatters himself he has been successful ; but she returns him his note, telling him it is the very note which Sir James, Courtull had written to Lady Bell. While she is proceeding with her explanation a great uproar is heard, and he has only time to thrust her into a closet, telling her he will clap his hands as a signal that all is safe, when the Baronness Fitzstoutz enters, and after boxing his ears for his impudence in making love to her, tells hint she is come to warn him that his mother-in-law has got an order for his arrest. Immediately the Marchioness of Dum barton is announced, and the Baroness becomes the tenant of another closet, Opposite to that occupied by Lady Grace. The Marchioness, who is accompanied by her daughter, have scarcely left the room before Sir. Tames Courtall and the Baron Fitzstoutz enter for the purpose of quizzing the Count, and tell him that before be can bee considered as a man, he must have been engaged_ in an intrigue and a duel—an iffair of love and another of honour being .us necessary to the completion of the manly character as ss beard. Ile says, with regard to the first requisite. he will give them immediate proof, and, directing the eyes of Sir James to the closet of the Baronness, and those of the Baron to the closet of Lady Grace, claps his hands. Sir James and the Baron are in exstacies of de light, each taking the other for the dupe. "But the duel, Count," says Sir James. " I will have two," re plies the Count ; and, directing their attention to the opposite closets, again claps his hands. These two situations told amazingly, and were received with thun ders of applause. They fight, and Sir James and the 'Baron are wounded. Lady Bell, horrified at the idea of the danger of the Count, pro seeds to his residence, and finds him just after his return from the duel. In reply to her reproaches. he asks what harm there can be in tt child doing thee e things. She acknowledges he is no longer .a child, tool consents to remain with him, notwithstanding the oppo sition of her mother, mutual explanations take place, Sir James is united to Lady Grace, and the curtain falls. Celeste acted St. Loins with great vivacity and elegance, and her broken English added vastly to the interest of the part. She was rapturously applauded throughout,. and was called for at the conclusion of the piece, and la J . ceired with the usual honours. The Baron and Baron ass were excellently acted by Strickland and Mrs. Stirll eg , the latter was the quintessence of good-humoured, seam hearted vulgarity. The scenery and furniture were splendid, and in the purest taste, and the pied; has evi dently been got up with the greatest attentuma. Webster announced the comedy for repetition every evening, amidst the unanimous applause of a very crowded house. SALE of the KEYNSHAM ESTATE. The estates of Keynsham cleave not to their master- Though they have been in the hands of the Chandos Dukes since the time of the Sixth Edward, they are now evanishing from their possession, fading like the subtle._ illusion of the Arabian mirage from the sight and remem— brances of Buckingham. Nevertheless, the prices realised.by the Duke forlis broad acres were certainly fine equivalents, as will appear on statement that the Keynsham property, consisting of 1,183 acres of land, having on its superfices sundry farm-buildings, public houses, quarries of limestone, and two wharfs; the yearly rental of which is estimated at 3,000/. Ter • annurti, per- duced, even though some few lots were bought in by, the proprietor, the handsome sum of 70,0001. One lot; Which . consisted of no more than 44 acres, number -47 in the g Auction Catalogue, sold for the golden heap of 4,0001.,.E while lot 56, containing only a couple of roods and t• and twenty perches, realized no less than 3001. Soil, of Golconda could scarce fetch more. The property thus disposed of on Wednesday and Thursday last at Bristol, lays claim to no an tiquity. In the time of William the Conqueror, Keyne- 4 . - iiiffliad the following descrition : " The KingbOld S CAINF.SHAM. In the time orVing Ed ward it gelded for forty hides. The arable is or.e hundred caruentes. Thereof are in demesne fifteen 'aides and a half, and there are ten carucates, and tworty 'servants, and seventy villanes, and forty cottagers, with sixty three ploughs. There are six mills of sixty shillings rent, and one hundred acres of meadow, and one him- • dred acres of pasture. Wood one mile long, and a g much broad. It renders one hundred and eight. poun is. by tale. It did render fourscore pounds." The legendary history of this estate will. It rhaps be read with interest. Keynsham, say the Monkish Chronicies of the four teenth century, derived its name from. one Neytui, a Bri tish virgin, in the year 490, daughter of Prince Bra genus. This charming lady, wher she arrived at years of maturity, attracted multatudef of admirers, and man were the noble persons who Y'eight her in marriage. All overtures, however, fell unheeded upon her ear, for she had consecrated. her v; . .rginity by a perpetual vow. Therefore the Britons called her Keyn-Wyryf, which means, by interpretf .t i on, K eynu, the Virgin. With a mind prune p) F.eezedness and solitude, Keyna deter mined to 'seek sune solitary spot or w ild e rness wh e re she in;- . 6 t feud herself round about with a holy privacy, 9 .:ed dedicate her days to praise and devotion. Tying on . her broidcred sandals, she journied along till she came to. the blue waters of the Avon, and after seard,ng about: the greenwoods of these parts, found a woot.y and se cluded spot, which pleased her greatly. Whereupon Shea forthwith made a request to the Prince of t ie country,.. that she might there be permitted to pray az al live Italy* in peaeeful retirement. " Ready am I," said the Prince,'- " to grant you your request, fair Virgin, but, truth to saw the place so swarms with deadly serpents, that neither' man nor beast can live therein." To which the Virgint replied that she firmly trusted she should be able to drive all the venomous brood out of the country. Hero j. upon the pl ace was granted her. Now Keyed was . 11 chaste and h o l y ma id , a b oun di ng D. the 'lgo urs prayer, and strong i n t h e ferveiic ies of the spnit. Aaron lifted up the serpents in the wilderness,toßeye as, by the mighty efficacy of her prayerfuln'es Una C o o rn ll a ti t ll u lt implorations, was invested by heaven wi t thi th s e uP place h gifts over the serpentry that g flames of fire, and the celesiilaildede a u b s ou with which : the the Chronicle, Inc: yns aniphisbmnas. Thus, continuessa this day, continues the drove out all the serpents, and thus became armed extirpated the s entire e brood of den dly resemble the windings Monk, the stones in Key e u and :• t_ tields as if th e y of serpents through all t t l had been so framedor snake-stones. by the name of bya .11:=.,0f the engraver, going Puke is the last representative, in of which the p ; 0 the bands of the Chandos the time of I%ewit rd the Sixth, in thcesixth year of his (1552), it being e then granted to Thomas Ilfrdges, the sum of 9221. 2s. This Thos. rei l g i l :ynshant r e ir a c i os aC .f. the second son of Sir Giles Bridges, or Bridges in the county of Gloucester, and brother of Coberlo',S , • r John' Bridges, created Baron Chandos, of sodd e - y in Gloucester, April 8, 1554—a family which dew Castles • from b • hof 1 their origin younger lane t old rived - >ries. This Sir Thomas was of the Court of 3lontgon't . • the Eighth, and one of those who attended the in consideration Henry • - King's funeral, bearing the dragon - standard. In the sale which was made on Thursday, besides the. ston e quarries, particular reservation was made of the tithes and advowson of the parish, and from parcels in the origieal deed of conveyanee,:which was at that time , riven by the King to the above-mentioned Thomas Bridges, and which, up to this time, have remained in the hands of the Duke of Buckingham, will be seen of what this reservation consisted. Accordingly we find therein conveyed, " All that the rectory and church of Keynsham, and right of patronage of the same, and all tithes called the Strews-Tything ; also all houses, lands, barns, tithes, glebes, tithes of grain and hay, and all other tithes, as well aa oblations and profits belonging to the said rectory; also all the tithes of Chewt on ," &c. &c. When, therefore, it is considered that so great n reser vation of. patronage and monetary profit is still retained by the Duke of Buckingham, this, and the simulta neous transfer into his coffers of so rich a plonib as 70,0001., will very materially tend to stifle many hard longings after the mills, quarries, and cavities of Keyn sham. JAMES HATFIELD AND THE BEAUTY OF BUTTERMERE.—WO are old enough (says a Contem porary) to remember when the fate of James Hatfield. and the 13e my of Buttermere made a greater sensation in England than any public event. All were interested in it. The story is new revived, and although facts are not literally adhered to, they are not more departed front than might have been expected, and the whole are eom bined,and the subject is altogether managed with such skill and talent us to produce a very entertaining work, gsrnecentiLng Thui te highest which, from its nature, will, we have nu doubt, be moat extensively, read. Mr. Crttikshraik has been in his hap. piest mood in illustrating the work, and he evinces mom si t :g ste m a a n tt d er j usual :unu t r id e - r personages o. the period fi e n v d er m i t ' l i e s h in which the cataar - - h it p penal... Lord Clunclford figures appropr'wt ° I P * e Il e y m the tvork, and the Prince Regent, Tom Moore, A oa the scene, with that celehrat' ' b than wll . sce. appear -t. uattty, wit, and (Hs" sipatedlady, the Duchess of DQvum.l , ; -.re.