The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-31 00:00:00

MORNING- SUN when andparty projects ofcrw.t . e and untriedlegislation." when the Tories- discuss an act upon great- principies i'then we will join with our r Jontemporary in trunpeting their praises ; but till O je n, we shall take leay.l to be sceptical. Tory princijele—except it be the principle of s elf - interest--is a ci4racteristic feature we h ave y e t •t o discover in the fac'cion. Hitherto—at least for the last twelve year s- —the Tories have been remarkable only for their fir ig,rant, inconsistencies, abandoning one after another ev ery Vaeory they held most material to good governme t it. 'They have irwer marched in the van of public op= Jua n , but have always been dragged along like sull, Ai slaves, at its chariot-wheels. They have now 4 major• • j Parliament ; but they owe this, not to their s n IT its, not to their own fi xe d p r i nc i p l es , b ut to t h e demerit .s of the Whigs. To talk, therefore, of the " great prince des" of the Tories, is the rankest absurdity. ;quote the following from th e Ch ron i c l e :—" Si r "‘"`-'w •rt knows better than to state that he will maintain his own opinions in office. But, for all that, we know it his opinions Must be consistent with the opinions of ''"' ose who gave him his majority. The phrase that he W ill relinquish office the moment that he is not sup r •orted by the confidence of the House, means merely that : 11 .vhen he can no longer stay in he Still go out. It is the , walking down stairs to avoid being kicked down stairs." We agree with the Chronicle that for all Sir Robert Peel's fine boast of independence, he must in all essential natters be at the mercy of his supporters. How can 1 le be just to the Dissenters without offending the high 3hurch party ? How can he bring forward a liberal theme of education, suited to the character of the age, vithout provoking the fury of the Episcopal Bench ? hippoe_ed by Monopolists, how can he knock the fetters o ff die and commerce ? Bound to the interests of the IA rent landholders, how can he make such alterations in • he 'Corn-law as shall satisfy the community ? The "itr cost he can do will be to substitute the name of Re :1:0" rmfor the thing itself', and from time to time to hold ut hopes that he will never fulfil, because they are pur :'posely vague and indefinate. We predict that his Mi nistry will be one rather of negative good than of posi ' tire injury to the country ' The Monmouthshire Merlin thus speaks of the sup porters of the Corn-laws :—" We accuse the bread taxet s of being arrayed in a state of permanent conspi racy against every class of their neighbours, and more directly against the interests of the mining population. We state the grounds of this conviction to be, the prohi bition of access to foreign markets, caused by the land ocracy's refusal to accede to the principle of reciprocity • ' in trade—their endeavours to restrict the demand for corn to a limited home supply—and as the fatal, yet as the i'levitable consequences of all, the consequent lower •ing. of the labourer's wages, and decrease of the capi ta) ist's profit." The Cambrian expresses itself as follows on the sub fleet of the late Manchester Conference :—" The Man'. .hester Conference gives cheerful token that the mirds • of the Gospel are not forgetful of their sacred 4 tilling in their endeavours to succour the poor. The • •gans of the monopolists may denounce the,in as poli ti cal priests, as seditious sectarians, :is isnorant pre ss intermeddlcrs, and expend Yvon them their W ell-nigh inexhaustible vocabulary of insolent malig n! .nt abuse ; at least they cannot call them Priests of 1 1 , ial, or High Priests of Mammon. When monopoly is nounced by all the spiritual pastors of the people, who • e held in any degree of honour, its doom cannot be far .stant." The Manchester Times, allue.ing to the Earl of Ripon's • ipeee'a in the House of Lords says—" There is no finding I he fitting time fur these pt i ssessors of hereditary wis ' ie m. When the country was, silent upon the question ' ad! the Corn-law there wis no occasion for its discussion; 0 nd now, when men hr a maddened by the cpntinuance o f an intolerable oppression, it is not the time to . 11 ike it into consideration. His Lordship's reply is iat of the cow-hiding Virginian planter, " I shan't - • case hiding you, b ,?.cause you cry out:" But the tl le time is perhaps not far distant when the lash may hange hands. The Hereford Times says :—" The Liberal party, asi. a 'hole, is now diosrupted ; there is no grand connecting nk, holding all parties together, and affording a cable 'ith which the vessel of freedom may safely ride t anchor, in the harbour of any port for which she may 3 d estined. The numerous titles by `which the various se . c)..ions of the Liberals are distinguished, themselves are • ns of weakness., Old and new Whigs, Radicals, and C . faartists, are all by the Tories classed as Liberals." The Dover Chronicle speaks of the Tories in the fol- j b swing terms :—" The conduct of the dominant Tory • iajority, in refusing to meet the Corn-law question , 11 iirly, we hold to be one of the most cowardly, mean, , nd skulking subterfuges- ever resorted to by any set of b idividuals bearing the character of rational men—gen t :emen is out of the question." The Scotsman says of the Queen's Speech ;—" It t oldly addresses itself to the great and paramount ques - t ions of the day, and to the critical embarrassment in R 'filch the nation is at present placed. There cannot be 4 dou'al., that it speaks the genuine sentiments of her Ma ' je sty, and that, almost for the first time in the recent his . „, t4 'IT of Great Britain, the Crown entertains a large and y sympathy with the wants and wishes of the people." 11/101VZIF-MILADE-CO Nair=WE. The cod-fishery of France annually employs 600 -t . ranch ships and 13,000 'nen on the banks of New t( .undland. At Manchester some extensive sales were made last W eek in goods and yarns, though at no advance of price, %, hie th bloom continues. At Leeds the woollen It arkets are much more active. At Bury trade is very tit ill and languid, and numbers of operatives want work. A t Leicester the demand is ir,aproved, and a fair amount 1 01: Nish:Tess doing at low prices. The wool market at Bradford is also much betty a. 11.GitXrAy zac t rz t jur i. In Cambridgeshire there has been joyous harvest veather for the cutti zig and ingathering of the crops. n Nottingharishire, harvest has commenced and the e rops arc good. Accounts indeed from all parts show t hat the crops have ripened kindly and well, and they all be at i saturity within a week of the average of I easons. Z. AV?' AND POLICE. The PAdian maned Girolomo Capella, convicted at the Asses of scalding his companion to death ith boi'ting f i nd, was called up for judgment on Fri .T.,ord _Denman, in passing sentence, said it would have given him the greatest pleasure to have complied with the recommendation of the Jury for mercy had he thcraght it consistent with his public duty, but it was ne cof isary that examples should be Inade when these hor !l' ole crimes were committed. The only prayer, said 1 1: .s Lordship, which could be granted to the prisoner I..as his request that he might have time to reconcile imself kith God. The Learned Judge then passed I.entence of death in the usual form. The interpreter "explain e d to the prisoner as his Lordship proceeded. At 'toe close he requested the interpreter to call on him the ifollowing day, and to get him a priest, to whom he might Klonfes s.. • . At, the Central Criminal Court, th e trial of Richard, lar,gley, indicted for the murder of James Dixon on high seas, was postponed until next sessions, on the PI ea of the prisoner that he was an American, and ould not be tried in an Engrsh court. Thomas Lee and Willi.= Taversham, accused of Istealing and receiving moi.ley, the property of Mr. Elia son, of Drury Lane Thr.atre, pleaded guilty of the mis demeanor, and were E.entenced to be imprisoned for six :week s in the Penitentiary. Au Irishman of the name of Driscoll was convicted of ratliciously cutting and wounding one of his country nle-a, and sentenced tobe transported for 15 years. SPORTING. 'Partridge shooting will commence to-morrow, with prospect of much amusement tbr the sportsman. ;I: he covics ar e nwnerous in the corn-districts, and the D irds in general well-grown and strong. The part selected for the debut of Miss Fanny Kimble, at Covent-garden Theatre, in the approaching season, : 4 s,vve understand, that of Norma. NE ARTS. -At the meeti ng held on Saturday, to propose a fitting 111 (ty iorial to Sir David Wilkie, it was resolved and car that a statue be erected to him, and placed in the National Gallery. COURT—FASHIONASLXI. Sir Robert Peel left town at noon yesterday to wait 'upon her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Lord Melbourne returned to town yesterday morning from Windsor Castle. The Duchess of Sutherland resigned her appoint ment as mistress of the Robes, on Saturday last, which her Majesty was graciously pleased to accept. Lord Plunkett will shortly take his departure for the Continent, with the intention of making a tour of several months in Germany and Italy. Mr- Grote, late M.P. for London, is about to pass the ensuing winter in Italy. ' Tee Dowager Countess of Fortescue and Lady Eleanor I For tescue leave Castlehill, Devon, this week, for Weare Giunrd, near Bideford, Dublin. Earl Cadogan is expected in town to-morrow, from a its hing tour in Wales mid. Scotland. VLISCELLANEOUS. The poet Moore is liow on a visit to Dublin, and dined en Friday with the - Earl and Countess of Fortescue, The Vice-Regal establishment breaks up on the 16th of September. Upwards of 160 persons sailed last Monday from Bel fast for Greenock, thence to embark for Australia. 'ln the villages of Whaplode, near Spalding, the vicar is ninety-three years of age, the curate eighty-six, and the verger seventy. The curate has resided in the parish for 'upwards of fifty years, and still discharges the duties of 115 office. A Limerick Paper states that an eminent provision- Merchant of that city has an enormous rat-trap about twelve fer:t long and six broad, with walls four feet high. A rat-trap of these dimensions is much wanted in the Mouse of Commons, where, if well baited with lo aves and fishes, it wculd catch an astonishing number of To ries, who, just now, are quite ravenous from their long fast. AVe understand that the reason why so many of the more, 2 _ lighted Tories are opposed to a reduction of the umber duties is, an api nhension that it might possibly reduce the value of their own wooden heads. On Sunday evening a Greenwich steamer sunk from ttuirdn_,_ gon the a nc h or o f a b r i g . Upwards of two hun 'red d People were on board, bat they were all safely 'anel the cow. e of the present week, two more rooms at insixte t'llePten Court Palace are to be thrown open to public tion. 1 6: Pear „us O'Connor was liberated on Thursday evening, &oil York Castle. fr om superb young male tiger has been brought over ° n l the in'erior of S ou th America by Captain Thorns, the ship Arab, •as a pregpilt.to tile Queen. C I r-mmstances niter case}, as the cat said %hen .-'ed on the printer's frame. REPEAL DINNER TO MR. O'CON NELL, LAST NIGHT. Last night a dinner was given to Mr. O'Connell by the Repealers of London, at Highbury Barn Tavern. Mr. O'Connell himself presided. The room was crowded to excess, and there could not have been less than 700 persons present. On the right of the Chairman sat the Rev. N. P. Magee, L.D., Dillon Brown, Esq., M.P., W. J. O'Neil Dumont, Esq., and Mark Blake, Esq , and on his left was Mark Blake, Esq., M.P., The Very Rev Dr. Kinmen, Rev. J. Harrington, M. J. O'Connell, Esq.' and Sir Valentine Blake, Bart. On the cloth being removed, The CHAIRMAN rose amidst great cheering. He said the first toast they were aware would be the Queen — (Cheers)—a toast which at any time required no preface At the present moment, he believed, she lived with a' more throbbing interest in the breasts of her loyal sub jects, by having been vanquished by a selfish, sordid portion of the community.—(Cheers.) She was no longer her own mistress. She had fallen into the hands of a selfish faction.—(Cheers.) They might coerce her, but they never could extinguish her patriotic disposition.—(Loud cheers.) She had been the first Monarch of the House of Brunswick that really was attached to the liberties of the people, and above all, she was the only Monarch of her race that had , manifested an affectionate disposition in favour of her loyal subjects of Ireland.—(Great cheering.) He gave them, " The Queen, long life and happiness to her."—(Great cheering.) Band, " God save the Queen." _ _ The CIiAIRMAN said, the next he had to propose, in cluded in its ,scope many individuals. They were first called upon to show their respect to an exemplary young gentleman who had the good fortune and the merit to obtain the affections of our gracious Sovereign.— (Cheers.) They had next to shew their affection to a little young lady, the progeny of the last he had named. She was too young to have earned any thing for herself in the way of public affection ; but if she h a d as vet pro duced no personal virtues, she had this personal merit, she prevented a great mischief.—(Cheers.) Her person was a protection against one of the worst of human beings that ever existed, and he only wished them to reflect for one moment if at such a period as the present the sordid aristocracy had it in their power to place the Duke of Cumberland on the throne. It was too dreadful to think of.—(Cheers.) The circumstances of the country were bad enough now, but what would they be then ? If such were the case, he doubted if it would remain long so, There were some that would hare a short c u t.—(Laugh ter.) The next part of the toast was, " The Duke of Sussex, the liberal patron of civil and religious liberty." —(Cheering.) And to that he was directed to add the rest of the Royal Family resident in England.—(Great cheering.) The CitAinmAx then called on Mr. Hogan to propose the next toast, " The Repeal of the Union."- , -(Cheers). Mr. HoGAN then rose to propose the toast. Ireland, he said, had confided to him the toast of' the Repeal of the Union. It was for them to join him in the attempt to dissolve that union which had caused slavery and penury throughout the land, and it would run on in the state until there was a Parliament in Ireland, whether one or other of the fanctions ruled in England. It was impossible to have their rights developed—to have the in dustry of their sons developed, unless they had 'a domestic Parliament—(Cheers)—and unless her chief joined, Ire land would remain as she now was. The Liberator would be powerless unless they supported him, and unless the real chiefs of Ireland surrounded him.—(Cheers.) It was by these means alone that they could see him stand ing urging the Repeal of the Union.—(Loud applause.) Band, " St. Patrick's Day in the Morning."—(Cheers.) Mr. O'GOII3IAN then briefly proposed the health of Mr. O'Connell. Mn. O'CONNELL then rose and was received with the most deafening shouts, which lasted for several minutes. When silence was restored, he said there was but little of affectation in the readiness with which he declared to them that he never felt greater pleasure in addressing a public assembly than he did then.—(Cheers.) There was an animating spirit about him. His bosom's lord sat lightly on its throne. His heart throbbed for the great battle of the country over again.—(Cheers.) They had come to the period when there could be no submission to friends on the one hand or compromise on'4,ne other. They must now have Radical reform freln England—reform to the extension of the suffrege.—(Cheers.) He would use the words universal, suffrage but that it was not re quired. Even the Chartist, when lie used it, did not mean what he said, '4.s it would include a certain portion of the communit:;, who, although they were not without influ ence,. - i v was not necessary that they should have a vote ; } rat universal suffrage would .include them, and it would include the idiot, the lunatic, and the convict, and there fore he used the words general suffrage. England re quired further reform, and Ireland required the repeal of the Union.—(Great cheerine;) He had only been a Repealer for 40 years, and yet he seemed to himself to be but just beginning to enter into that career. He had certainly no antipathy to England or the English ; but England had done more injustice to Ireland than ever any other nation suffered. There never was such a history of plunder, massacre, and wholesale spoliation and deliberate confiscation. lie did not visit the crimes of former days on the present generation, but there were many hearts in En;',and, loyal hearts, that blushed for the deeds of ances tors.—(Cheers.) What virtues had th" 7 Tories? When did . they ever diminish a public 'eurthen ? When did they ever refuse to augment the public burthens r had they not incurred a d'atit of 800,000,0001. 1 5 They were economists when the income of Prime Albert was pro posed. But he would ask them Why they did not begin with taking off the salary of the King of Hanover?— (Cheers.) The only instance of Tory economy was in that of Prince Albert's allowance, and then they com mitted the crime of personal indignity to the Monarch on the throne. But they thought fit to give Queen Adelaide a hundred thousand a-year. If they were to propose to increase the suffrage, or abolish the property qualification, or make the constituencies equal, or re duce them to common-sense limits, he would then say, " John Ball, you are right; these are friends of free dom—these are the men who will extend political rights, and then he would say, John Bull, you are right to cry hurrah for the Tories. —(Cheers.) But it was the reverse. Suppose a man was taken up for smuggling, and was tried before my Lord Abinger, he would tell him, yon must submit to the law that you yourself have assisted in making. What would be the use of the man's say ing, "But place your honour's Lordships, I never had a vote at all."—(Loud laughter and cheers.) But John Bull gloried in his present position, and the party that had put 800 millions of debt on him, and who would impoverish the people to make the rich richer and the poor man still poorer—poor indeed. He was reasoning within commonsense—an article very rare in these cli mates, for if it were not would the Tories be triumphant? —(Cheers.) He remembered when he was hunting last year in Ireland, a young man was in his company who was a great romancer, and told a great many lies. He (Mr. O'Connell) said to a young friend of his, "If you can beat that I will give you a premium." He said he had read the Times newspaper for a whole month, and he had not discovered a single lie' in it. —(Great laughter and cheering.) It was unanimously agreed that his young friend had won. But that wager told the truth for once, for the devil himself would tell the truth sometimes, and it appeared in that paper that the late elections in England had cost 50 times as much as any rreeeding election. The Tories came forward with boa' their hands full, and they emptied the contents into the pockets of the electors. " Ireland," exclaimed Mr. O'Connell, " here, oh, here, are you avenged ; your oppressed, your faithful electors are avenged." I • saw myself a man take 751. out of his pocket, when he was asked for whom he would vote, and he said, " I never in the whole course of my life had one shilling of my own money. I have my landlord pressing for his rent, I can now pay him ten times over. I could hardly have sup posed there was so much money. I got it from the Tories, and I will vote for Mr. O'Connell."—(Tremendous cheers.) He (Mr. O'Connell) never flattered the great or mighty of the earth and he would speak plainly to the people. He had risked his existence readily, when he found the day was against him in Dublin, and he was exposed to considerable violence. But there is not a man of them now that does know that he (Mr. O'Connell) was right. They were then insti gated by a party to mischief. When the Tories apppealed to the country a cry was raised that the farmers were in danger, and bread would be cheap. The landlords will no longer be able to get in their rents, and there will be that blessing, they, the children, will have two slices of bread, instead of one.—(Cheers.) What would they now say to the common sense of John Bull ? They would recollect the story of John Bull and the Frenchman. The Frenchman was praising his country, and her arts, and said, "We invented ruffles to tv• e shirts, therefore our nation is superior to yours." " - i r es, ,, -. answered John Bull, ".but invented the sh i rt. „ But now John Bull is shirtless and e uffleless too, y e t still he'clings to that party that ',las made him s o .— 7 earth would be benefitted --(Cheers.) If any country o by the Corn-laws it would oe Ireland. H e represent e d two of the largest 11 7„ - cieultiiral counties in Ireland. He was for liberty, sP..e.ial and religious; for fr ee d om of human actions wher; they are unstained by crime; for freedom of human belief where it was sincere in the face of God. He cared, not what colour the human being possessed; he cared wet what dust he was of, whether he was parched by a tropical sun, or blanched by a northern atmosphere, or whether he was an inhabitant of the over-populated cities of China. He was the friend of his freedom.— (Tremendous cheering.) Such was his political creed. He need hardly say, he should devote his whole exertion' to Ireland. Ireland had not -so many friends that she could spare to lose him. It was the thought of bene fitting Ireland that made him young again ; but he was young enough.—(Laughter and cheering.) • He had not spent his youth in intemperance—and now a green old age had come upon him.—(Cheers.) He had sat in the Irish Parliament in Dublin.— (You will sit in it again.) It was there he spoke his first speech, when he trembled to hear his own voice, and his ears shrunk as it were at his own voice. He was tolerably well acquainted with it now.—(Cheers.) since that period there was not a single princin political life that was not developed in '..mat srAL,;: ' and (Cheers.) He had changed nothing in t'is prinek if he had changed in his body he had with the change experience.—(Hear.) :rears rtidd soon pass over him and he should be in the g_rare:z.-(No, no.) They could not add one hour to him. res, he soon would be in his ' grave, but he would he in the Irish Parliament first, —(Tremendous cheering, which lasted for several trio mutes.) After that cheer, he could only say with Johnny I Gil • " I wish you'ma be all there 'CO see." In future he would get the London NeWtpapers to print his ad nEa n t g standla n d dresses, and if there should be a prosecution, he would s b u a i t i c l o a r t couldit in a He lri c . o sh ul o d n s e t . an — d (G an re E at ng ch li e s e h r j in u g ry ) , His cause was fixed. Ireland dall the :else her to an independentean had _ qualities to nation, andthen only would she be prosperous. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman sat down amidst the most enthusiastic cheering. The CHAIRMAN' then proposeA The People, the true source of power." k MR ()WALLY reptled, and proposed Dr. Meyer, and three times three. Dr. MEYER respon4ed. Whatever he had clone was not for one man, but for the country ; and his conscience told him he wairight.---(chers.) .That was a glorious day for them, for they. .had amongst them the father of their native land.—(Chceri„) : Let them be true to them selves, and, above alt, - 4ticic to their liberator.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN theirproposed Mr-Dillon Browne and Mr. Blake the Members foeMaso. Mr. Ini,Lor ; r BROWNE replica, and after a few other toasts, the meeting separated. • The gallery was filled with ladies, who seemed to take a deep interest in the proceedings, joining in the cheers given to Mr. O'Connell. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice EnsKINE.) Charles Munday and William Henry Dacres, the master and the mate of a steam-vessel called the, Richmond, were in dicted for killing and slaying Edward Lewis. Air. BODKIN stated,that on the 16th of August last the deceased was in company with several young men fishing in the river above • fllichmond-bridge, ready opposite the scat of the Duke of Buccleugh. Four of the party were. in a punt, and two others were in a skiff attached o tl e punt. The pa4ies were in this position about five o'clock in the afternoon, and the steamer Richmond at that t ime was coining fi mu Twickenham, and the young men having their backs towards the steamer, did not perceive it approaching, when it struck the punt, and the whole party were precipitated into the water. The whole of the party succeeded in extricating themselves except the deceased, who was unfortunately drowned. Verdict—Not Francis Pearsc, 31, was indicted for feloniously cutting stud wounding Henry Deale, with intent to maim and disable him, or to do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Ballentine appeared for the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence, that on the 3d inst. the pro secutor, the prisoner, and several other men, were in a public house together, and the prisoner quarrelled, and Pearse made a blow at Deale, which he warded off, and then in his own defence, struck the prisoner in the face, and the prisoner almost instantly made a blow at his side, which caused him to feel a slight pain, but at that time he did not know that he had been stabbed, and he went hoire, when he found that his clothes had been cut through, and that he had received a severe wound in the side ; and after it had been dressed by a surgeon he was conveyed to the hospital, where he had re mained down to the present time. Upon the prisoner being taken into custody a knife was found upon him, the blade and handle of which were smeared with blew', and the size of the blade =responded exactly with the cut in the prosecutor's clothes. Both the prosecutor and the prisoner were intoxicated when the affray took 'place between them. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was ordered to be kept to hard labour in the House' of Correction for two years. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1841. LORD PONSONBY AND •ti THE SUN.", ••": (From the Morning Chronicle.) CONSTAXTIIIOPLE, AuClifsT 7. (From OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The Sun has ian article (quoted in Galignani's Mes senger, July 13), in which, after observing that the cor respondent of the Chronicle at this place had repeatedly asserted that all The Sun had stated relative to Lord Ponsonby's enmity to Mehemet Ali was false, it declares that it is better informed upon this subject than other journals, and that the " semi-official" contradictions of these journals can have no value. It then seeks to esta blish the truth of its declaration, by - re-publishing two letters extracted from the correspondence laid before Parliament. - • Now, the correspondent of the Chronif /.3 begs ,most respectfully to assure The Sun that, in • ended l miring to refute the attacks so unfoundedly and unjustly levelled against Lord Ponsonby, he alluded much more to the diatribes of foreign journals than to the observations, no matter how acrimonious, of those of his own country, and above all those of The Sun. For, as The S (even in the very article in question) had always lauded the policy of Lord Palmerston, whose agent, Lord Pon senby, acted under his orders ; who was, from the very nature of circumstances, identified with his em ployer, and who devoted hiMself to carry out the mea sures of his employer, the correspondent of the Chronicle was not prepared to find The Sun praising the one and condemning the other. Had the British Ainbassador at Constantinople neglected to execute his chief's instructions, And had failure ensued, then the agent might have been separated from the em ployer, and visited with sevetwensure ; but when mea sures applauded by almost all'parties were recommended by government, and successfully carried into effect by. the Ambassador, it it more than unjust and incon sistent to ascribe praise to the former, and to cast blame upon the latter. If The Sun's authority 'be as - good as he asserts, he need not be told that, whatever might have been Lord Ponsonby's motives, it is an unques tionable fact that Syria would not have been restored to its lawful sovereign, at 'all events without a doubtful and sanguinary campaign, had not Lord Ponsonby dsiplayed the most timely decision and promptitude ; consequently, if praise be due to any one for the issue, no man is more deservedly entitled to a large portion of this praise than he with whom the suggestion ori ginated, and ,by whom the operations were urged to a speedy and successful crisis. _ _ - As' relates to ;the charge i.;'-f' personal enmity against Mehemet Ali, ascribelf-tel P , ,i , - , 0n14- no officiaLor semi-official communication, no Foreign-office language, is required to prove its want of foundation. The whole secret of Lord Ponsonby's hostility to Mehemet Ali may be comprehended and explained in a few words. The Egyptian Pacha's plans, and those of his foreign supporters, were long known to the British Ambassador. The latter saw in this Pacha the indefatigable and artful representative or instrument of a system diametri • cally opposed to the general interests and long esta blished policy of England—a system inimical to the peace of Europe, and utterly subversive of that balance of power which even France herself has recently come forward to maintain. Lord Ponsonby saw in Mehemet Ali—and he must have been blind not to see—a man who, from motives of insatiable ambition and personal aggrandize ment, would have plunged all Europe into war, reckless, as he himself (the Pacha) declared, whether he rose or sunk in the attempt. - Consequently Lord Ponsonby thought, and hundreds thought with him, that to pursue half measures with such a man was merely to quench the flame for a moment, that it might produce a more dan gerous combustion at some future period. But this is no more a proof of Lord Ponsonby's personal enmity to Mehemet Ali than the attack upon .Canton, too long delayed, is a proof of Lord Auckland's hatred to Lin, the doughty- Pacha of that place. The object of the French government, and of M. Thier,,, was to ruin British interests in the East—to assume a protectorate over Egypt—to strengthen the Pacha at the expense of the Porte, and to obtain such a supremacy at Constantinople, as would control all the Sultan's actions, and exclude the influence of all other powers. This end was to be obtained through the agency of Mehemet Ali, and if foiled in the attempt, the compensation for diplo matic failure was to have been war—war at least with Englund, at the will and time of France. It was, therefore, the bounden duty of Lord Ponsonby, as. it would have been that of any other British EnVoy, to counteract this scheme, and to seek by every means, in his power to weaken the agency to be employed. It was his Lordship's duty to prevent the instrument from being rendered serviceable in the hands of those whose object it was to direct its point towards Great Britain. It was his duty to impede all attempts to establish a protec torate in Egypt, and to resist all efforts on the part of France, to assume undue preponderance at the Porte. At all events, it behoves Lord Ponsonby to be before hand with France, and to urge the striking of such a blow against Mehemet Ali, the instrument, as might anticipate M. Thicrs's avowed intention of making war at his own convenience. In fact, whilst M. Thiers and his party were chuckling over their vernal pro jects of supremacy and war, Lord Ponsonby acted as became the Envoy. of the greet nation he repre sented. Acre fell ; ,M. Thiers ; and Mehemet Ali fell ; and the influence of Great Britain rose in an in yen° ratio. _ _ Politicians may differ as to the lengths to which it might have been expedient to carry coercive measures against Mehemet rlli, But to do less than did Lord Pon sonby would have been a dereliction' of duty, and it yet ramains to be proved whether it was politic to prevent his doing more. Here, again, there is no evidence of• personal enmity to the man, however decided might haye been his Lordship't hostility to thy - system represented by the man. The Sun has re-published two letters, which it considers as conclusive proofs of the soundness of its opinion. It calls Lord Ponsonby's despatch " furious." Now, the forcible arguments developed in that letter are as far from being passionate as th e reply from Lord Palmerston is far even from attempting to refute these arguments. The British Government and its allies did not disapprove of the reasoning, or deny the truth of Lord Ponsonby's doctrines. But M. Guizot's Administration required fi)s tering, and in order t o support that Administration, the Four Powers made concessions that would not,.perhaps, have been yielded under any other circumstances. But this concession was not produced by the Four Powers questioning the justness of Lord Ponsonby's provisions, or because they considered his hostility to Mehemet Ali's system as too strongly pronounced, but because they wished to strengthen M. Guizot and to conciliate France. This concession was, in plain terms, a sacrifice made to France, but not a confirmation of Lord Ponsonby's mity to the Egyptian Pacha. Supposing any other man to have been in Mehemet Ali's place, and to have followed the same course, Lord Ponsonby must have pursued a similar line of conduct. And supposing Mehemet Ali or his successor to renew this system, any Ambassador at this Court must act as did Lord Ponsonby, or he will betray his duty to his coun try. But this, again, will only show that he studies o the real interests of Great Britain and those of Europe ge rally' and not that he is ac t ua t e d by sentiments of per sonal animosity to the existing Pacha of Egypt. Speaking abstractedly, it m ust be a matter of indif ference whether Lora Ponsonby entertains personal likings or dislikings towards Mehemet Ali ; but when these personal feelings are declared to be prejudicial to the public service, and to influence political combina• tions, then it becomes the duty of every impartial writer to endeavour to prove that such personal feelings do not, and never did exist. This is the only motive that the Correspondent of the Chronicle has for venturing to reply to the talented journal abovenamed. WOOLWICH. li9l(At4 AATILLERYI- Y.llll:Wil.i. i INN it o Ifl itiltirtie-GENERAL. On Saturday evening Lieut.-General the Right Hon. Lord Vivian, G.C.B. and Q.CIL; arrived at the gar rison at Woolivith tlt Sek-qi Vbibtitt by .Coritalit J. 11. Aiclas,.• 0.14, ; Royal NaVy; recently Clerk of the Orditahee , COlonel C. Fbx; Seeretary to the bf ,thb . l th Missril% o.l.Hti the officers ot toe 1 6Y•ps, as being the last time he would meet them as head of the Ordnance departintht: The Officers who sat down to dintihr iii the tplefidid it3es4-fom of the Roptl Artillery Were all belonging to the Oft.ti4nce de pattnient, acid to the tittniber ot 100: _ Liettt4=o-etiOral lkorti.OlOondleldo 41W/ Ad 0$0:1I: etAtinikmiaht of the Garrison ; Was in - the Chair, and passed a high encomium on the merits of Lictiti.General Lord Vivian: The Afttster.Geinbrali iii rethiliing thanks, expressed himself in the highest terms Of the efficiency O r the Ordnante corps; mid added; that fof the last six years he hit'!had the htintitir of being plittbfl fit the head Of the departffieht he had found the officers every thrng he could desire, and it was with feelings of no ordinary, hind he appeared amongst them for the last time iii that capaeity: The doffing was speht in the greatest hatmohy, miXed with regret; as the riiaster.Clentral, from his uniform kindtieSS and yttteiltioh to the ihterest of the corps, was . a great fat ilfith with the officers, It is said. to be the intention of Lord Vivian to retire to his seat in CornWaltott vacating the various offices he holds as Mastet•Gentral of the Ordnance, Amongst ethos his :Ala as Choir's-fah of the Board of Ordnance, Colonel bt the Royal Artillery, Colonel of the corps of Royal and Captain of the Gentlemen Cadets at the Royal Military AcAdefily at Woolwich. Oehtiat daScoyne, whose death we announced on Saturday, entered the army early, and-was appointed En sip in the :oth Foot on the Bth of February, 1779. He had not been long in this Regiment before he hefting Ertslgn in tht6 COldstreaiti•GUards. Oh the 18th of Mow, 1784; he tkas (*titled Lieutenant and Captain ; on the 3d of May, 1796, he because Culanel by brevet and after t 4 iavr of about tiCe 4ta‘ . .t r the 7 th ftit i promdte . tt aut., by the title of Lietit.:Colonel: On the 20th of April, 1802, he was made a General; , three fears aft& he became Colonel Of the 7ih iiM, oh the 2.stit bc,Ap , r3:l 2 443, pot,: thb 12th of August, ti. M; invested . with the title of General. General '3.,coyne served With,. ihe- Guards .in Flanders: He was rev i el Ipuridea ll in . air et,.Lipeellei,, an ,sch r serittntiy, ,the tlib Ati+ttt 14 ! k;ll! Jlliillt3 Abelevoinby . s division from Alouvaix to Rou• "mix, Emit the eff•!Ct.§ Qf this wound in his head he frequently suffered very acutely hi his We; days. THEATRICAL Gossip.—Covent-Garden opens on the 6 of September. It is reported that a lady of rank, in whose family genius seems to be hereditary, will make her debut at this theatre early in the season.— On dit that Miss Ellen Tree has objected to take the part assigned to her in Sheridan Knowles's new drama.—The VandenhotTs are at, Southampton, where a Miss Montgomery has made a mot successfut debut as Juliana, in the Horeymoon. A provincial critic says, " Miss Alontgomery possesses great advantages of person, is an excetent study, and acts with gracefulness and confidence:" LIGHT HquEs.--,pxperiments wcre making on the p'rciduction of carburetted hydrogen gas, from the bark of white birch, for the purpose of gaining a good and cheap light for the light houses en the coast of the United States.... Nova Scotia Gazette. PORT UGAL. FALMOUTH, AUG. 28.—The Montrose steamer arrived this afternoon; with the Spanish and Portugal mails. The dates are—Gibraltar, August 19th ; Cadiz, 20th ; Lisbon, 23d; and Vigo, 25th. Left at Cadiz, the Spanish frigate Cortes, French brig Voltigeur, and corvette I guara ; a t Li s b on , h er lajesty's brig Espoir ' and French corvette Coquette. LISBON, AUG. 23.—The Chamber of Deputies gets on very slowly with the financial, projects. 'The chambers have now been assembled three months since their last adjourn ment, and nearly six months from the first opening of the session ; and there is a strong feeling of the necessity of bringing the present session to a close, before doing which, however, it is necessary that the supplies should be voted, and means provided to meet, not only the ordinary expen diture, but various extraordinary items which tall due before the Chambers would meet again in the ordinary course. It seems almost impossible at the present rate of progress that the twelve important financial projects of the Special Committee can all be discussed and passed ; but the general feeling of the necessity of the case may, perhaps, lead the Chamber, the great majority of which decidedly supports the Government, to give some kind of vote of confidence, which, if adopted by the Senate, allows the Ministry to carry out the measures in question. . _ The relations with Spain continue unsatisfactory.. It is now pretty widely known that the Spanish Minister has demanded that no deposits of foreign (that is English) goods, which are prohibited entry into Spain by the fiscal laws of that country, shall be allowed to be formed in the Po:tugues towns adjacent to the frontier. The Government here, it is also understood, has decidedly refused compliance with this demand, a compliance with which would, indeed, involve a violation of the privileges guaranteed by treaty to British sub jects, viz., of settling and carrying on business 111 any part of Por tugal; nor does it appear w hat right Spain can have to call upon Portugal to assist in the exeeution of Spanish fiscal laws, and to break up any establishments that Englishmen or others may have formed . at Elves or Bra g an za , b ecause smugg l ers may ava il themselves of them., if pain be jealous of her own indepen dence, she ought to respect the equally independent action of Portugal ; and not allow her Ministers here to pursue a course which would appear to be dictated by a desire to pick a quarrel with Portugal, and to urge unreasonable demands, which, when refused compliance with, open the door to hostile interference; the real object being to favour the views of the party with which Senor Aguilar has chosen to connect him self, and to establish a Spanish influence in Lisbon in place of au English one, and perhaps upon the ruins of the monarchy itselt• There were accoUnts from Oporto a few days since of 15 boats having arrived there by the Douro, from Spain, with costs tOr warehousing under the Douro Convention, so that Spain is now reaping a'l the benefits of that measure; and will probably be able to export considerable quantities to England this year. It is not likely that much, if any, can be sent from Portugal. The harvest in corn, as well as in wine and oil, will not prove a plentiful ohe. From the islands (Azores) some corn may be sent. There are, indeed, orders here ' • but the price, 1 believe, is limited to 60s. a quarter, which is considerably under the present price of wheat here. Bread is, in fact, very nearly, if not quite as dear here as it is in London. The one pound loaf here costs 40 reis, which is as nearly as possible equi valent to 24d., or to 9d. the quartern loaf. Good wheat is worth testoons, or 750 reis, the alquiere,* being about double the price at which it may be bought at Salamanca, and in the neighbouring provinces of Spain. Of course it is smuggled over the land frontier in large quantities ; it used at one time to be admitted at a duty of 2 testoons the alquiere (neatly 20s. a quarter). The Government here would gain a !arse revenue by again admitting it, even on these terms; but bad as the Corn-laws arc in England, and jealous as th e English landowners are of preserving their virtual monopoly, the laws and Legislators of this country are still more bigoted : foreign corn is not even allowed to enter Lisbon at all on any pretence ; nay, only this last week, in consequence of a parcel of 500 quarters having come here from the north of Y'ortti gal, which there was some reason to suppose had been smug gled in from Spain (not by the Douro, which was not opened till June, but over the land frontier,) Senhor Derramado, a landowner in the Alentejo, brought forward a motion to pro hibit altogether the importation of corn from the north of Portugal into the South, on the plea that the northern pro vinces did not produce more corn than they required for their own consumption, and that, therefore, if they did export, it must be corn previously introduced by contraband. '1 he mo tion was referred to two Committees, one of which, that of agriculture, has reported in favour of it ; the other, that of commerce and arts, against it. H owever , as th e agriculturists I are the strongest, should not be surprised if it were to pass. A rencontre took place lately between a body of smugglers, who were endeavouring to introduce contraband goods into Spain, and some Spanish troops, in which thirteen of the smug glers are said to have,been killed. In consequence of the large number of Spanish troops on the frontiers, Senhor R. F. 11agalhaes is reported to have questioned the Spanish Ministe r on the subject, and did not, I imagine, receive a very:satisfac tory reply. '1 he bull fight (amateur) in support of the contribution for the sufferers by the earthquake at Viha da Praia, came off with great eclat, aid without- any serious accident, on the. 19t1.. The Queen and King Consort came in from Cintra, on the oc casion. The Infanta Donna Anna, all the Ministers, the Duke 'and Duchess of 'ferciera, the Marquis Sal danha, in fact most of the people of note were present. Above 4,000 tickets were disposed of at a cruzada nova each, inde pendent of the boxes, and the whole proceeds are said to amount to not less than 6001. Eighteen bulls were bsited ; the mounted combatants were two landholders from Salta- Sierra, A. E. da Costa Frcire and J. Ferreira Roquette, both former friends of Dom Miguel, but who, like Sedvem, the first bull-fighter in Portugal, have followed the example of other potentates in acknowledging the Queen. Sedvern first offered his allegiance at Alhandra, and kissed the Queen's hand there, which excited no small sensation, he having been the personal friend and companion of Dom Miguel. The King and Queen returned to Cintra after the bull fight. The great festival of our Lady of the Pena was to take place yesterday, with a procession from the palace at Cintra to the convent, and illuminations and fireworks in the evening. The Diario to-day quotes the price of wheat as follows: q Per Aluiere. Portugal (Contine n t) h ar d w h eat a b oard ship 640 to 690 reia Ditto ditto despatched in corn-market ...... 680 to 760 Ditto soft wheat aboard ... 6 Ditto ditto despatched i n . . 7420 ' Is:ands wheat aboard ship .... , --- to Ditto ditto despatched i n corn -market 'lle wheat from the ist i ,' s i s, 1 7 o t' %;1 ° I understand, chiefly soft wheat. 'faking the a...-,rage of 650 reis the alqeiere, the prim per quarter woul:L oe 13 milreis, ova 64 per Marten As. bd. af * 2 0 .t . iquieres are equal to a tpart c r of 8 b us h e l s ; t h e pr i ce .. (50 reis the alquiere is therefore 15 milreis the quarter, which at the exchange of 54d. the milrea, is 675, 6d. FRIGHTFUL. • ACCIDENT.---On Wednesday night, between nine and 'ten o'clock, another Of those dreadful accidents to which all area liable who venture in the ricketty swings and " tarn ovens" at fairs, occurred to a young married woman of the name of Esther Bon sey. On the afternoon in question, the htf4Eh woman, accompanied by her husband and A party of friends, proceeded to Camberwoll fair, and, after visiting the shows, &c., determined upon getting chit , tins` Ot the swings for a ride. The party atieotdioloy went into one, and at their own request it was propelled to the greatest height the machine would allow. In this w the swing had beets going on for several ntihiltes, when Mrs. Homey suddenly rose front hull' seats and at the instant of the highest elevation, she was pitched but head foremost to the ground,* fell Of at !"vast twenty or thirty feet. The violence with which she fell Was &cad: ful, and the screams of those in the t wing alai:t:ett all those who heard them. As soon its ale the machinC was stopped, and the poor Wthian wits F r ;,ect . from the ground. She was petfctily insert:ll e, an d was w r oling profusely ft ' errt the mouth ..and ears. OM _wits . cOnVeyed most P ro mptly to r L-trY's Itmptutl what`tom iltsei- tai"d she suffering koiti Vetrei - n skull. - 6he now tits without hope or recovery,' It Oj s iii4 kik)t I.* ascertained whethe r s h e had been seiit'd With g i ddiness, or that it had beeiveaustd 44t. YPit bi t foolhardiness, she being at the time in N. state of excitement, but not arising front Whiz feRSS drinking. The Nouveilisie tIlAt 1 . 4 7Qiii‘ k • " mission of the diet A s o AikoViA'OeAra 4.e;v:n irom the Deputy for 'Arg l4 #l %f G.;4.1 t-Aiime of the grieraucfl of that tatiten,% 'tfte :itNi3ct of the convents. The majority of iiitituission is understood to have decided that the con vents of Mari, Hermetschwyl, and 13aden, should be re-esta blished, and those of Wettingen and Bremgarten should con tinue to be suspended. The Report has not yet been pre • sented to the Diet. The praise of railway travelling was rather ori ginally advocated by a companion of ours whose admiration was chiefly excited by its putting an end to high way robberies. " tqr," said he, "it has extinguished one of the most exten sive, dangerous, and worst species of crime. A footpad, Sir, cannot put a pistol to the boiler, and stop the train by threaten ing to blow Its brains out, so that the passengers ma be plundered at leisure."-I,,,iterary qa4ctte. • Put fo y paot y ds can place some obstruction on tin e lind; ioverturn twentcar ag es, and tob 200 passen gers at t h e i r leisure." NAVIGATION of the EUPHRATES. [Connected with this subject, and so immediately brought to interest the public by very recent advices, we have much pleasure in throwing a farther light upon these important Asiatic measures.--. Ed. Lit. Gaz.]. • A short time ago there appeared in the newspapers a brief statement of the arrival of two steamers at Balls, on the Euphrates. Our readers, who all along had full and complete accounts of the Euphrates expedition, will be glad to hear of the successful termination of this enter prise. It will be remeriabered that, after the loss of the Tigris:steamer, the Euphrates attempted the ascent, but failed on account of her deep draught of water, which amounted 'to three feet, while the Tigris only drew eighteen inches. Colonel Chesney and the officers of the Euphrates Irdingreturnedto England; the charge of the steamer left was entrusted to Captain Lynch, of the In dian- navy, who, between that period and the present, effected two very remarkable exploits : first, the ascent of the river TigriS as far as close to where it receives the Great Zab, and where he was not stopped by want of water, but by the force of the current; the second Ivan, to take the steamer from the river Tigris to the Euphrates by the most northerly of the canals on the alluvial plain of Babylonia. In the accomplishment of this latter task the paddle-boxes were sometimes sus pended over hard and dry ground. Government, however, never abandoned the original undertaking, and between that period and this no fewer than four iron steamers, of light draught of water, and constructed for river service, have been sent out to the Eurphrates ; but unfin'tunately with inefficient crews, or the ascent of that great river would have been before at tempted: Two of these steamers (we believe the Nilo cris and Semiramis) have now accomplished what puts beyond 'all-doubt the long-vexed question as to the pos sibility of navigating the river Euphrates. We are noCat the twelfth limit., going to run over again the important commercial and political advantages, and, still more, the great advantages to progressive civi lization, which the opening of such a navigation offers to Great Britain, • and to sympathizing humanity, wherever it is to be found. Let us hope that, while other nations are talking of these things, England will be doing them. We have it in our power to mention one or two curious little facts in connection with the progress of these events, The successful result of the mission sent by the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge to the patriarch of the Chaldean. Christians in Kurdistan, and which mission sprang out of the Euphrates expe dition; has not failed to awaken the greatest interest amo*, all to_whofn the -filia—of_the.. Eastern Christian nations posseSses the slightest attraction ; but it inllu enced still more strongly the opposing churches of the New World, one branch of which had already a very extensive mission at Urinujeh in Persia, and close to the Chaldean mountaineers. Two missions have, in consequence, reached Mosul this spring and summer. The -first is composed of two reverend gentlemen with their wives, one of whom is to remain at the Mesopotamian capital, the other is to take up his residence in the mountains. These parties are Congregationalists ; and a third (Dr. Grant), who has already distinguished himself by his labours among these interesting people, has lately left Constantinople, also on his way to the same field of good works. In the meantime the Episcopalian mission from the United States has not been inactive among Christians with whom it especially feels called upon to ally itself in brotherly and religious affections, since they belong to one of the oldest apostplical churches in the world, and one which has not protested against, for it has never tainted or corrupted by, Romish heresies. We learn, by our private advices, that the Rev. Mr. Southgate, of the United States Episcopal Church, and known by his travels in eastern countries, has arrived at Mosul, and is in hopes of inducing a Chalthan bishop to return with him to visit his brethren of the New World. In this activity for the welfare, and wish for the friendship of the Chaldeans, which has suddenly sprung up, England has alone been slow in her operations. Mr. Rassam is now her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Mosul, where he will do all that is in his power to keep up the friendly alliance which was established by the mission, of which he was a member. A learned and reverend divine of Oxford has, we have heard, offered. his services to visit the mountaineers; and for them, as for all classes of Christians in the East, we sincerely hope that the residence of a Bishop in the Mediterranean Sea will be replete with many advantages. The next interesting fact that it is in our power to communicate concerns more general civilization ; and it is to the effect, that a gentleman, also connected with the Euphrates expedition, and holding an official situation at Baghdad, has had sent over to that place various of the latest improve ments in agricultural implements, and among those es pecially a number of ploughs, a press for cotton, &c. &c. These he intends to bring into full operation, with the assistance of natives only ; as also improved means of ir rigation ; besides whilh, he is going to introduce the cultivation of cotton and sugar, for both of which the country is admirably adapted. These movements are calculated to have a great effect upon those countries with the progress of time. We have been led into this momentary digression con cerning the advance of civilization in Western Asia, from having rend this week a letter, running the round of the newspapers, from one of the officers of the steamers en • gaged on the Euphrates, who, in the feelings naturally suggested by their triumphant success, calls attention to the prospects now held out in the East, and . truly ex claims, '` may civilization, flying on the wings of com merce, tarry with it the blessings . of the Gospel of sal vation !" We would beg. have, however, in. relation to this letter (which has appeared in a Liverpool journal, and been copied genet ally by the press), to set the public right upon a few facts. - The Yezidis are not, as has been calumniously stated by the Christians of the East, worshippers of the devil. nor of a peacock ; but they are among all Orientals who arc not Christians, those who are most open to receive its saving light. The names of almost every place noticed in the letter are calculated to mislead. Perisalom is Perisabor ; Pylor of Xenophon, Hu Aat, Pylee, of Xenophon; Euri is Erzi, or Ezra ; Thapsacus is not at Al Der the mo nastery, but at Al liammam, near Rakkeh ; Raceaba is Rahabah, the Rehoboth of the Scriptures ; Tenobia is Zenobia. The crusaders can scarcely be expected to have ex tended their power to Jiaber, when they were so often defeated at Herren, which is not more than twelve miles from their stronghold, Edessa. And the Taurus is at a much greater distance than the writer appears to ima gine, when he says the distant Taurus re-echoed the royal salute fired at Balis, or Baulus, as he writes it—the ancient Barbalissus. He thinks that the river may he navigated to the heart of Taurus. This is not so impro bable as may appear at first sight. The cataracts of Sa mosata, noticed by Pliny, are rapids of no importance ; and there are only five rapiEls, one of them a fall of a few feet, between Ergan Kalehsi and Malatiyah. The new iron steam-boat, which passes the rapids on the Danube above Orsovar, perhaps overcomes as great obstacles. — Literary Gazette, Aug. 21. Under the circumstances we have not thought it noces , sary to print the letter: at any rate this week. —Ed. CORN-LAWS.—',The farmers and tenantry can not eventually Stiffer from a repeal of these laws. A. lower price hit earn and cattle will be favourable to them no der every tie* do the qtiestion, and their rent and tithe must be lowered in proportion, Where leases exist (an article not very rife with landicrrcid since the Reform Bill), a power can be given to abrogate them, Their pooltralk§ tints their county-rates will be diminished one half, Content and honest among the labourers 4111 gifrotitii4 Their hoinesteads, and the odious rural po lice be as ttl MO wolf in their districts. I be lieve a review of the cofittiOt of their ancestors , would prove than the farmers of the praNent day are neither as opulent, as .contented, or as iiapc . 7 a mai a then as the tenet* El rEffiner times ; also that n:: st of the present •, race farm iiponliofitived at high intt-2: st ' . ag , A l5 - well lttibWni MO a large pfopottibii of them die 14.4+114 farlies edt;e.ated and brought tip beyond their useful spaefti and left to the mercy of a scornful world. On this then* intiet more might be said, and on the gambling speculationsi Of large taken with a view of high prices for corn and produee i and supported by the erroneous system of .country brinks, Let me now ask, who then will suffer from a repeal of these lit*.tt The answer is simple. Those who imposed. , them;. those who, as legislators, in 1815, compelie(Wie Cabinet of Lord Liverpool to enact laws to raise the price tff agfiCalttlfal procluce, in order to keep up the high rents if land, and remove from' the shoulders of the landed ititefeqt; including the titheowners, that burthen of the w*ittoti and extravagant expendi ture in the late iVilf hid imposed upon the nation. The avowed object of these laiit WOO to keep up wheat to 89s. per quarter on the average of pan, and other rod ties of rural produce in proportion ; but the Miegtots of these Can-latts were not adepts at their own projects, and they did not etteeted: They then altered them in 1822, which laws theft beefttid ft tifeliibition, and still failed in keeping up the prices, thtiflg 10ptocitic tive crops. George Canning, who hdeBY - 14 Pftitniet in 1827, did not scruple to aid the landed propriettfn ifl - their new scheme of a sliding scale of duties and ave rages. This discovery had the happy effect of destroy ing all legitimate trade in earn, and keeping up its price to at least one-third beyond the Calititietital 11/ICett, and ' thus kept the people of this mighty empire in a state, of famine. It was also a proscriptio'd elf British manufac tures ; a bar upon commerce ; and protludcd Ilk rreces sity of that stringent and severe administration of ktior-; laws that has now severed the operative classes from the plasters and landlords, and laid the foundation . of an i` of woes AA' the British isles.—Lord Teynham on the ccarn-tawa. P itEACHERS • 15 OC • TItINE OF COMPEN- Naiicitt:.--1 Was lately, .confirmed in these desires by hearing a Wit oj At eht]rett: The preacher, a man esteemed for his htbddoxs, tinfultled lit the ordinary manner the doctrine of the last ju dgitient. He assumed that judgment is not executed in this world; that the width' are sttecessful ; that the good are ; _SO then urged from re2Son and from Scripture a Ehttieetaiitihn id he mi& t t b6th parties in the next life,. No offence appeared to be tateri by the aingiegiiioti at this (idea trifler As far as I could observe, when the meetitig broke up, they separated without remark on the sermon. Yet, what was the import of this teaching? What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men, whilst the saints are poor and despised ; and that a compensation is to be made to these last hereafter, by giving them the like gratifica tions .another day—bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne ? This must be the compensation intended ; for what else? Is it that they are to have leave to pray and praise, to love ind serve men? Why, that they can do now. The - legitimate 'inference the disciple would draw was, " We are to have such a good time as the sinners have now ;" or, 10 push it to its extreme import, " You sin now; we shall ! in by and 14; we would sin now if we could ; not being successful, we expect our revenge to- morrow. " .--znitnerson's Essay on Coppessati" • • • , WEEKLY STATEMENT OF LON DON LETTER, AUG. 30, 1841. THROUGH THE GENERAL POST. Four weeks ending Aug. 28, 1841 Corresponding period of 1840 Ditto as nearly as can be given of 1839 Increase since 1840 on the four weeks' letters 1,514,572 Ditto 1839 ditto 3,895,553 THROUGH THE DISTRICT POST. Four weeks ending Aug. 28, 1841 Corresponding period of 1840 Ditto as nearly as can be given of 1839 .... Increase since 1840 on the four weeks' letters 161,943' Ditto 1839 • - ditto 654,645 TRACTISTS, LA.UDISTW, SACIIE VERELISTS. (CORRESPONDENT OF THE BRIGHTON GUARDIAN.) About the year 1330 a small number of clergymen ? . at their meetings in the Common Room of Christ Col lege, OxfOrd, entered into an agreement to employ whatsoever literary power they might possess, or could in any way bring into aid, for the special purpose of de crying and discarding that 'system of religious faith and practice, which, since the days of Queen Elizabeth, has been called Protestant. - • Dr. Pusey, Professor of Hebrew, was I believe, the first to make a public declaration, in an Caford pulpit, of his abhorrence of the name of Protestant. The wri tings of a young enthusiast, named Fronde, were then published by the Associated Anti-Protestants, expres sive of their wishes, but with a view of feeling their way with the public, lest a sudden declaration of open war on the Established Church and on those opinions and sentiments in which Dissenters and Churchmen com monly unite, should excite alarm and promote revulsion.' Pamphlets were published in rapid succession, an con demning the character of manners of the present tir.vies, and all uniting in wholly attributing such evil to a geno ral relaxation of submission to the Chu* and the clergy, and all claiming unconditional reverence for the Church, and obedience to its canons, and subjection at all times, and under all circumstances, to the clergy, as the heavenly-endowed successors of the Apostles, I vested with full spiritual authority, with full powers to discern spirits, to bear the keys of heaven and of hell, and to open and to close the gates of salvation or damna tion, according to their decision—all requiring a return to all the rites, forms, and ceremonial practices of the Church of Rome, not expressly forbidden by Act of Parlia ment —all advocating opinions of ancient usages, candlei on altanz, holy water at church doors, crossing of breasts and foreheads, genuflexions, confeiisions to obtain absolution, with tables of fees forsuelr offices; invocations of saints for heavenly intercession, prayers for the dead to obtain re demption from purgatory—all utterance of prayer to be delivered with faces turned to the east, especially by priests or deacons, and in churches—in fact, all forms of ritual observed in Romish churches and chapels. Prayers for special or paramount protection addressed to the Virgin are, I believe, omitted, and prayers for the Pope of Rome which declare his temporal supremacy. (See• Dr. Wiseman's " Invitations to a full avowal , of entire return to the Bosom of the Antient Church." See also " Introductions to Rev. Dr: . Arnold's Sermons on Christian Life, its Course, its Hindrances, and its Helps," preached at Rugby, 1841.) The pride of young divines, at Oxford and elsewhere, is flattered and fostered by the carefully-instilled tutorial persuasion that, by the imposition of hands in ordina tion, they have been invested with Apostolic dignity, authority, and power, superior to those of all other mortals, whatever be their station in society ; and the result, as might be expected, is especially manifest in their con versation and address, by an assumed air of pomposity. of dogmatic assurance, and of coarse insolence, modi fied, indeed, in some degree, according to the grade in society in which they have moved in their earlier youth, but warranting an expectation, to the rising generation, of a rank harvest of Wolseys and of Bonners—of relent less partisans, but not of humble Christians. Lord John Russell was loudly cheered on his way down to the House yesterday by the crowd as sembled in Palace-yard. His Lordship, who was in his carriage, was accompanied by his Lady, andhoth seemed highly gratified by the reception they met with. The Tunis correspondent of the Constitutionne. writes, on the 18th ult.:—°° The arrival of the Neptune and 'Montebello has produced a good effect both upon the natives and Europeans. In the midst of reports, which are daily gaining consistency, of an attempt me ditated upon this Regency by the Turks, it is natural to conceive that the French Government has felt the ne cessity- . of insuring the Bey against any such measure. The defensive preparations making at the Goletta are confirmative of this. The day after the arrival of the above ships, Captain Leray, of the . Montebello, who carries a Commodore's flag, had a ecnference of three hours with the Bey, and immediately thereupon, the garrison of the Goletta was increased from 1,200 to 6,000 men. It is certain that, if the Bey is supported by the French Government, he may make an effective resistance, and render it difficult fur the Turks to force a landing. The Goletta is well for tified ; the Bey has 16,000 men equipped and drilled in the European manner, and in a few days can line his coast with armed Bedouins. A few days ago six sailors of one of the Bey's corvettes jumped into the sea, and attempted to swim to the French ships, although the distance was more than a league. Four reached the Neptiine, one was drowned, and the sixth devoured by a shark. • It appears that they had been ill-treated, and sought protection under the French flag. Captain Leray felt himself bound s however, to give them up to the Bey. but first stipulated that their desertion should be par doned, and that they should be kindly treated in future. We are expecting shortly the arrival of the Andromeda. and it is believed that this squadron will remain on our atation several months." CORN MARKETS IN FRANCE.—PARIS, AUG. 17.—The market was not so animated to. day as on the last market day (Saturday) ; but there has not been any alteration in the quotations of wheat on the Corn Exchange or _Halle, the price of wheat of the first quality remaining at 30f. to 31f. for the hectolitre and a half, corresponding at the pre sent course of exchange in Paris on London, for bills at one nfonth's date, or short paper, 25f. 30c. " money" per pound sterling, with 455. laid. and 475. sd. for the English Imperial quarter. It is expect ed, however, that a decline may take place, as the advance of last week in the principal markets from which the supplies of Paris are generally received was occa s:oned by a deficiency in the quantity brought forward. The labours of the harvest, which progresses with much activity, engross the whole attention of the cul tivators, so that they were unable to bring their produce to market. In flour there has not been so much business doing as on Saturday last, and prices have declined from one franc to one franc fifty cents. on those published officially on Monday last. The principal cause of the present comparative dulness and the fall in the 'price may be found in the very fine weather which has prevailed during the last few days. ' From the provinces, eighteen markets are reported to have advanced ; six to have declined; actual stagnation is not stated of any place ; five markets are said to be very steady ; from six places the accounts' mention no alteration ; and from the remainder there has not beer any intelligence received since the last market day. IVIR. THURTLE, the Senior Clerk of the Ad miralty, has just retired on a pension of 7501. per annum, after a service of forty-one years, during which he has ob tained the esteem of every person connected with the depart ment. Mr. Worth succeeds from the second to the first class of Clerks by this retirement. ' The Univers says, " A letter from Tangiers, sth inst.. informs us that the Emperor of Morocco has just authorised an expeditionary cruise against all the Powers which have not official representatives at Tangiers. If the King of Sardinia, who is in this category, should bo a ttacked by the privateers of Morocco, we recommend him to take advantage of the occasion for doing at Tan giers what we have done at Algiers." Among the most conspicuous illuminations on Thursday evening, was that of Mr. F. Shoberl, jun., in Rupert-street, Printer to his Royal Highness. It con , sisted of the Prince's motto ' Treu and Fest (true and faithful), beautifully displayed in variegated lamps, with ••• the itials I'. A. and a Star, surmounting the Royal Arms R Eiuk. ' FOR THE DESTITUTE DEAF AND - • -neeting of this useful and mach-needed in- Dusts. —The first '-iday last, at the Crown and Anchor siitNfien took place on -e in the Chair. The object of • an a s s:lur mp fo mo r y : m h in e ebnersof 'littera f Stra.vid, Lord Calthei t will respect this charity eppeays to be to prom.: •' f youth and adult deaf and &tab. Various mot. e vise provided for, be procured for them, trades taught, or other, . so as to render them, in a degree at least, usefat society. Particular regard is intended to be taken i+ to their moral and reltous welfare. ORPHAN WORKING SCHOOL, CITY•ROAD. —Through the kindness of the managers of the exhibition of Haydon's picture of the Anti-Slayeryonvention, and Mr. Catlin, the proprietor of the Museum of North American Cu riosities, at Egyptian Hall, the children of this institution have been gratified ,by a free admission to both places, to their infi nite enjoyment. We understand that the managers of the Atitl , Slavery exhibition are willing to afford the same gratifi etiOn to oilier schools on an a I pp.ication being made to there for this ptivpose , that'great vicissitude N,JOLEOrefI COACHMAN.—The Journal des slfrequently produce Tinorr Debate obser:Ps? ealtnitles. As an t:Mreplification of the truth of this oos , e i - VoMoti, the Debate statesl:2at. an individual yarned Potiero, had torttietit thq honour to ()flit:. n a Is. Emperor Napoleon', *tt f by his f a n, ;rcluced to solicit p Company w o - have as coachman in the Pompon remakes, ; la . st Portier . , iate as state conflate! t charge of all interments in Paris: was struck when in the act of lifting a coffin inthito iWar a- o: , with We apopateglexy, and lad to learn t died en the sp hat Lord Beresford , al ot. thodth still very ill, i s somewhat b e tter than he has bee n for daysy_ast. Tile Hal* Journal s t a tes that theunfortu, gate Irish emigratttsi who were saved from the shipwreck o the William Brown, the. and their sufferings in the g jarticulars of which ut, our readers will remember, have been sent over to North America, by ial house at Havre, which gave them a gratuitous passagee the kindness of a commercial on board the Richmond. News has been receivredoftteir having landed safely, and of a subscription of d OO dollars having been raised for them in Virginia, which has furnished them with the means of ' ruching their desti nation, Indiana. ic LooK OUT I"—A deputation from one of ex • the colonies waited on the Duke of Wellington, to plain the object of their miss ion to this country. His Grace received the deputation with all courtesy, but po litely declined hearing their statement. at length, on the ground that there was no probability that he would per sonally have to decide thereon. His Grace, however, added his recommendation that they should remain in London for a week or ten days, when, remarked the Noble Duke, there will doubtless be a responsible and efficient Colonial Minister to appeal to. The Commerce states that a gentleman, with his wife and hiS niece, was attacked on Sunday evening in the Bois de Boulogne by two footpads, who attempted to rob them. While the gentleman was defending him self with his cane, the cries of the ladies brought some persons to their assistance, and the assailants made off. MORNING SUN ........ , 1 . LITERATURE. 1.818 H. CAVENDISH'S DEBATES. ' - Part IV Longman, London, 1841. ' The present Part of this curious and useild. - work contains the debates of the House of Com mons' as reported by Sir H. Cav en di s h , d ur i ng . -the n iiSession of 1770. Burke,• of course, figures .p eutly the speakers, but his - 11 among ' ;speeches are seldom given but in outline, which 1 :is to be regretted, for no man ever expressed Emself more eloquently or instructively -on all. anatters connected with legislation. We find-rilicr l q several of Lord North's speeches; but' in vain` ire look for that wit and sprightliness for which. ! Wraxall and other of his contemporaries have. assured us he was remarkable ; nothing can be duller than the tone of his remarks, or more tho. r 1 Toughly practical and blisiness-like than their substance. Judging from th e s p ec i mens o f hi s oratory before us, we should say that Lord North l! 'ad no more of the wag. in his nature than Lord A lthorp, whom no one was ever yet . hardy en ough to accuse of a joke. Among the debates . is :that memorable one on-. the Remonstrance of - Hi , City, of London to the King, calling for the Di& volution of Parliament and the Removal of Evil Ministers; in the course of which we find a spirsr,:ed speech by Alderman Beckford, which Sir IL Ca7endish has given very fully, and whi c h pi eve's' him to have been a man of more do quence and political sagacity than the world has generally given him credit fbr being. At the en 1. of the part, which closes the first volume, there is an interesting private 'journal of John, fourth Duke of Bedford. LONDON CHARIVARL Parts I and 11. Bryant, London, 1841. An amusing little miscellany, embellished with caqicatures, and containing several lively and sal vastic sketches, both in verse and prose. Th e workappears weekly, and also in monthly Parts. xy,sORE'S POETICAL WORKS. Vol. X. WO we here the closing volume of the corn pletest an d handsomest editi on o f M oore ' s P oems that has ye . t appeared. it conta i ns hi s popu l ar prose' rornau•ce, " The Epicurean," in which there is more eloquence than fecline,-; and an unfinished Poen;. ; entitled " Alciphron," which we noticed sonic. tinsineain The _Sun, when was first published by Mr. Macrone. The vo lume, as usual, is embellished with two en gravings. The Mormons, says the Nova Scotian, have armed and organized, in some parts of the Union, for purposes of defence. RiorlNG.—Two neighbours, and old settlers of respectable connexions, it is said, had a quarrel recently in Sussex Vale, N. 8., respecting a spring of water. One of them (Harri3ol.9 shot the other (Cleveland), in the knee. Amputation restOted. Harrison fled, but a hue and cry had issued against him,.—Montreal Paper. M. Odillon Barrot has been named President of the Council-Generai of the Aisne. BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE.—About 150 of the supporters of Sir Benjamin Hall and Sir Charles Napier,. belonging to the west quarter of the borough, met on Tuesday at the Mechanics' Institute Tavern, to celebrate the return of the Liberal Members. Mr. Williams, of Oxford-street, was in the Chair. After the usual loyal toasts, the Chairman gave " The two Members for the Borough of Marylebonc." Sir Benjamin Hall only was present, and gave as a reason fe'r the absence of his colleague the intense interest which he took in the questions before the House of Commons, and also the novelty of his situa. tion, but assured the meeting that the Gallant Officer would in the course of the evening meet his constituents. He at the same time briefly stated the preceOings which had taken place in the House of Commons, and in reference to a statement made by the Chairnan, said he would support every =aloft for a reform in Church and State. Major Revell then proposed a toast to the following effect, that the corrupt county constitu. encies and the pocket boroughs be transferred to Schedule A, and that the country should be represented by thereat reprew.vtatives of the people. Mr. Savage afterwards gave " The glorior..s ma jority of 1,271 which returned the two Members;" and m.ide a suitable speech for the occasion, which was responded to with loud cheers. We regret that the length of the debate in Pat lia ment prevents us from giving a more full account of the pro ceedings. •‘ We learn from Rome," says the Moniteur Parisien, " that the Papal Government has just forbidden the reacting in public of the Gazette de France. Until lately this= was the only French journal permitted in the cafes and other public establishments at Rome. The political doctrines and principles lately professed by the Gazette de France have, it is supposed, led to the prohibition of it by the Government of the Pope. The Mersager says, that the admission of this journal into the states of the Church is forbidden." AN EXPERIMENTAL TRIP.—(From a Cor respondent. )—On Thursday morning last a new steam-car riage, built by a company of gentlemen at the West. end of the town, started on an experimental trip from London to Hastings, where they arrived in the afternoon, within one mile oellastings, when, unfortunately, the boiler burst. The carriage was brought into the town of Hastings, and on Friday it was repaired, and on Saturday morning the party left Hastings, on their return to London. in eescending long and steep hill, within one mile of Sevenoalis, the skid or drag-chain broke, and they descended the bill at the rate of 63 miles per hour, and fortunately reached the bottom of it undamaged in person, although in the descent they every moment expected to be dashed to pieces. On their attempt ing to proceed up the opposite bill into 6evenoaks, it was found impossible, the whole of the machinery being broken and out •of place. With the assistance of ten horses it was conveyed to the Crown Inn, at Sevettnaks, igheili it remains, much damaged. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE SERPENTINE. Yesterday a young man of : the name of Samuel Jones, a footman, was drowned in the Serpentine under the following circumstances :—At six o'clock the deceased and a number of other persons were bathing on the south bank of the river, when he suddenly sank. This was observed by several of those who were near him, and they called out to the boatmen of the Royal Humane Society, several of whom soon attended with. the drags, and after some time had elapsed the body was found. The attempts that were made to restore animation were un availing, and the body"now awaits an inquest to be held upon it, which Mr. Higgs has postponed till this day, in order that inquiries may be rrjtE t ENTOMBMENT OF GENERAL HARRISON.— The Cincinnati Gazette gives the following description of the final resting place of the body of the late President:—" The tomb is a simple vault, with nothing merely for show, and none of the decorations of art. Its situation is very beautiful, with reference to either the river or the country in its rear. A few trees, of the original growth of the forest, stand around it. By another year the grass will be creeping up its sides, and the wild flowers be bending towards it." CUSTOM-HOUSE lIOBBERIES.—A gentleman lately returned from the Continent sent home, by the Steam Conlialny, on the sth of July from Biberich, on the Rhine, a portmanteau and a small deal Lox, to be left at the Custom house in London until his return. This baggage was not re ceived until the 15th of August, and the following is the ex pense to which he was subjected :—Sight entry to land two packages, 4s. 6d. ; paid for freight and disbursements from Rotterdam, 11. Is. Bd. ; ditto lighterage from vessel, 2s. 6d. ; ditto landing, wharfage, warehousing, &c., 3s. 6d. ; ditto porterage and booking, 2s. 6d.; ditto attending the arrival of each boat ciuring ten' days to inquire for the packages, and commission for examining, 10s. 6d. ; carriage to Kensington, 3s. ; total, 9.1. Ss. 2d. _ _ The Court of Assize of Lyons has been occu pied with the trial of the man named Collot, who, as we ' r. The guilty,fac t men tioned in June last, had murdered his uncle, in that city, and had o a afterwards t theesw a c r a d s s e wer mutilatede clearly h proved,ibodys in niae prisoner horrible was foundmanne and sentence of death was passed on him. A soldier on duty at the prison of Orleans was, a few days since, attacked by one of the large dogs which are kept to guard that building, and before any assistance could reach him was severely bitten. The infuriated animal was obliged to be shot, in order to release the man from his gra , P , as no one dared approach him. The Gionzale delle Due Sicilie s tates that the crops in Sicily are most promising, and that the harvest is likely to surpass the good one of last year. A Correspondent at Genoa writes The ac counts of bad weather to the north of the Alps are almost in credible to the residents here. Since the middle of May we have only had two rainy days, and even then were not pre vented from sitting out of doors by the sea-side in the evening." A. letter from Berlin states that, although in Prussi a th e wea th e r has been this summer unusually cold and rainy; it has been excessively warm in Southern Russia, and the harv e st has been abundant. The writer observes, that the year 1816, s o disastrous to the harvest of some of the countries in Europe s o favourable to Southern Russia, that the pro sperity . o f Odessa, from its trade i n corn, dates from that p eriod. It is added, that all she circumstances of the present year are analogous to what occurred then. A NAILER 1—" Papa," said a juvenile pas ,;,.r the coach-top, a few days „ on y, ago, why has the guard - 'awn in his horn ?" "To send that waggon to one side, jest -„ ." said the lad's father. '1 he little fellow made no obser en,'" • ''me • butwhen c ation at thew • he got home he said, " Mamma what do yon . think The guard of our coach blew a waggon and horses 'o Oils aide of the road!" " Come, my boy," said the youngster's maim, "don't make fun of me with your travellers' stories." The morning before last, at an early hour, a Garde Charnpetre, on duty in the environs of Montmartre, heard two pistol shots, and running to the spot from whence the sound proceeded, to his astonishment saw two young and pretty women re-loading their pistols, which they had jisst dis charged, in a duel. The man interposed to p'lt an end .to the combat, and uuder the pretext of escorting the fair dueilists through the barrier, crcempanied them thither, and imniesli ately-gave them in charge. They passed several hours in tlu'l guard-house before they were released. DIED,—At the Royal Naval Hospital, Ply- mouth, on the 21st instant, Captain Hugh Nurse, R.N., aged' 45 years. He held the command of the African station in her Majesty's ship Trig. " James's Naval History" records his command of a tender of her Majesty's ship Tyne, in the West Indies, in the year 1820, when he highly distinguished himself in a desperate and successful conflict against a very superior pi ratical force, in which action he was most severely wounded. He was sincerely beloved by all who knew him. Among the last fashionable arrivals in Paris we notice the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Lord Sheffield, and General Murray. The Duchess Dowager of Leuchtenherg went to visit the tomb of Napoleon at the Invalides, where she re mained on her knees for more than a quarter of an hour, and was for the whole time in tears. After leaving the Invalides, her Serene Highness went to see the Artesian Well at Grenelle. Whilst there the Duchess recognised amongst the employes an old Sergeant-Major of her Guard, when N ice. Queen of Italy, named gallon, whom she addressed with great kindness, and gave him a handsome proof of her benevolence. A member of, the Parisian " swell mob" was arrested a few days ago while endeavouring to com mit depredations in an hotel in the Rue Vivienne. He was dressed in the first s'yle of fAshion, had alighted from a ca brolet at the door, and ran up stairs without being noticed by the porter. His movements had however been watched by a person in the house, who communicated his suspcition to the master, and the man was by them secured while trying to get into a room, and sent to the Prefe cture of Police. On arriving there he was recognised as a well known thief, named Eugene L., alias Count de Beauclerc, after whom the police had been on the look-out for some time for former offences. On being searched, 60 false keys were found on him, and 400 fr. in gold.'