The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-29 00:00:00

4 1, MORNENG- SUN NEWSPAPER STAMP RETURNS Extract from a Return of the Number of Stamps issued to the several Newspapers in Eng land, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist day of April to the 30th day of June, 1841, inclusive; 4rtlered by the House of Commons : Average Daily Circulation. SUN 314,000 Globe Standard 250,000 48,000 Courier A Return of the Amount of Advertisement Duty paid by each Newspaper from the sth of January to the sth of July, 1841: — SUN 673 17 6 589 10 0 Standard Globe ... 5S:;,' n 0 Courier -1 47 7 0 APPRENTICE WANTED. Mr. PERRY, BOOKSELLER, PLYMOUTH, is in want of a GENTEEL, WELL-EDUCATED YOUTH, of good aedresq, as an APPRENTICE. A moderate pre mium required. Address, pre-paid. as above. IMPORTANT NEW WORK ON AMERICA. Now ready, in 2 v 01.?.. small Bco., with portrait of Sir John Henry and General Scott. _ A RUN ihroug'h the UNITED STATES, DURING the AU rUAIN of 1840. By Lieut.• Colonel A. M. MAXWELL K.H. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, 'Marlborough-street Just üblished, medium Aire., with numerous Illustrations, 213., THE STUDENT-LIFE of GERMANY. By WILLIAM 110 WITT, Author of r‘ The Rural Life of England," 8:c. From the Unpublished 3ISS. of Dr. Coinelins. " The historical passages are pregnant with solid learning. ..The darker colours of the pietare, the wild excesses, the poetical fervour. and the festive and chivalrous elements of which the youthful character is naturally composed, which is matured in open freedom, are all painted by a bold and truth ful hand To this book, then, dismissing all previous pre judices and prepossessions, we earnestly recommend the serious attention of everybody who is desirous of obtaining, at one view, a faithful panorama of the most picturesque class of edu cated life on the surface of Europe "—Atlas. London : Longman, Brown. and Co. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. I.IN;DER the 11ANAGENIENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, OCT. :19, Will be repeated, the New Comedy, entitled OLD MAIDS. Sir Philip Brilliant. 3lr. Charles Mathews ; John Blount, Mr. Harley ; Thomas Blount, Mr. G. Vandenhoff ; Robert, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Lady Blanche, Madame Vestris ; Lady Anne, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mistress Blount, Mrs. W. West ; Charlotte, Mrs. Humby ; Jane, Miss Lee. To conclude ..t; ith, compressed into Three Acts, the Comedy of WHAT WILL THE WORLD SAY ?—Hon. Chas. Nor wold, Mr. J. Vining ; Mr. Pye Hilary, Mr. C. Mathews ;- Mr. Warner, Mr. Bartley ; Captain Scrope Tarradlddle,;Alr. 4 W. Farren ; Lady orwold, Mrs. Glover ; Marian 3layley, Mrs. W. Laey ; i 1; De Were, Miss Cooper ; Tattle, Mrs. Orger ; Mrs. 'farm( -Idle, Mrs. Humby. Doors to I e epeneel at half-past Six—the performances to e-ammence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. tid. ; First and Second Circ'el, ss. ; Second Price, s . 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. tl.. • Gallery ls. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken Of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had so'.ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 1 )7, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE 3IANAbENIENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Wonderful Novelty! Two Equestrian Spectacles in one Even ing. " Blenheim" at. Half-pree, and more New Scenes in the Circle. THIS EVENING, OCT. 29, Will be presented the gorgeous Equestrian Spectacle, entitled CHARLF_;NIAGNE ; THE STEED OF CHIVALRY ! introducing Mr. Ducrow's magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, highlly-trained Palfrey, Fairy Polley, Equestrian Troop, and Companies of both Theatres. After which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in the Largest Arena in the World, in.which Madame Ducrow, Sig nor Hillier, the Great. American Rider, the British Horseman, Signor Felia Carlo, and the First. Artistes in Europe will appear. To conclude with THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, THE HORSE OF THE DISINHERITED; embracing all the Military Exploits of the Great Duke of Marlborough, Grand Reviews, Battles, and Glorious Victories. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. 'JNDER THE DIRECTION OF 3IR. OSBALDISTON. Unprecedented and splendid Novelty, Variety, and Attraction, and first week of another New Domestic Drama of most in tense interest. THIS EVENING, OCT. 29, Will be performedan interesting - Domestic Drama, called SIMON LEE; OR, THE MURDER OF THE FIVE FIELDS COPSE. Simon Lee, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Walter Hatherleigh, Mr. Dale; Japhet Jones, Mr. Gardner; Dicky Ding, Mr. Paul; Grace, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestie. Drama. After which, a New Domestic Drama, entitled K ATTY O'SHIEL, the FOLLOWER of the FAMILY. O'Dwyfr. Mr. Dale ; Augustus, Mr. Seaman ; Guyton Gray, Air. James; and Katty O'Shirt, Miss Vincent. To concluile with THE FLOATING BEACON ; or, the NORWEGIAN WRECKERS. Jack Junk, Mr. E. F. Se ; Marriette, Mrs. Lee ; Christine, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, I s.—tiallery, td. Halt-price to the Boxes *Mr, at Half-past Eight. To. morrow, Simon Lee, with Katty O'Shiei, and the Float ing Beacon. THE RAILWAY SUN. A-077(, , E._." _Vole Edition of the RAILWAY N 1.117 ig in preparation, and vrill be PUB ITED i,, the rourse of THIS' WEEK. THE CHINA SVN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Oct. 28, 1841. THE WEATHEIL—NuoN, OCTOBER? 8. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer.. - Highest 50 Lowest Barometer 29.75.—Wind N.E.--Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. M rung...—. 55 minutes after (). I Evening 11 minutes after 1. time they use tile power which they possess to make the evils of the law known, and to procure its destruction. If it be not just or right in those who make and uphold these laws, at least it is politic to take a different course, and inculcate obedience as a great virtue, the practice of which is necessary for the public welfare. Thus the Morning Post yester day contained a violent article against the Oppo sition press for encouraging hostility to these laws and their authors, for not recommending contentrtient under suffering, and patience to all the grievances which the aristocracy inflict on the starving and industrious population. It we were to follow its recommendation, what hope could we entertain of relief? For two hundred years, according to the Rev. C. NEVILE —and, according to better authorities, from the beginning of history—the aristocracy has acted on the principle of enriching itself at the expense of others. At no time has it ever thought of the people, or been driven from plun dering them but by their sturdy resistance. Ever organised and ever watchful, sitting like a spider in the centre of the community, with all the filaments and meshes of the laws under its control, with inexhaustible materials for spinning more, it re-connects its nets for circumventing the community, and seizes its prey whenever they are broken, and perpetually strengthens and extends them. For us to preach indiscrimi nate obedience to such a watchful and organised oppressor of the democracy, is to encourage the aristocracy in the commission of misdeeds. The Corn-laws are obviously a part of that great system of oppression which the aristocracy has woven round the democracy. Under the pretence of preserving what it calls social order, it has continually laboured to coerce the demo cracy into submission, and has sentenced the people, in spite of their noble and natural desire to improve their condition, and their strenuous exertions, to perpetual degradation. To succeed against such an undying and watchful corpora tion, the strictest rectitude and utmost wariness are necessary. Above all, justice must be fol lowed. It is, therefore, especially desirable for the democracy to distinguish between such laws as, from their own nature, deserve to be obeyed, and such as ought to be resisted. To assert that men are not to exercise their judgment on this point is to hand them over, bound like a victim to the stake, for the lawmaker to torment at his pleasure. Indiscriminate and blind obedience is not even required of a sol dier. If t a sergeant command a private to shoot his glonel, the soldier would not be justified in obeying; and, therefore, the soldier cannot be deprived of the power of judging whether he will obey or not." The blind obedience which is not required of soldiers, cannot be demanded of civilians, and conse quently before men can be reasonably asked to obey laws, they must be convinced that the laws are such as ought to be obeyed. We at least shall always feel it our duty, in spite of the objurgations of the Tory Journals, to tell our readers that laws to enrich one class at the expense of another—laws to restrict honest industry, which political society is constituted to protect—laws which are cruel or unjust—laws which unwarrantably interfere with individual liberty, to secure which ought to be the object of all law—we shall always avow the doctrine that laws which, like the Corn-laws, plunder the many for the sake of the few, are a violation of the first principles of political society, and ought not to be obeyed. Force may compel obedience, but when the society lends itself to that work it takes the responsibility on itself, and incurs, as at present, those manifold evils which are ob viously a punishment inflicted by nature, and an admonition for society to alter its course. Far from adopting the convenient doctrine for its masters taught by the Post, we wholly repudiate the assertion that men are bound to obey all the laws, and limit the duty of obedience to those laws which we know or believe to be honest and just. From the remarks of our Contemporary, and from the controversy they will engender, it is plain that this question cif the duty of obedience to law is no longer a mere school question, but one of practical every-day life. Day after day, both in metropolitan and provincial Journals, it is undergoing and will undergo discussion. People will not be stopped short of any conclu sion to which reasoning fairly leads them, by the vehement assertions of the landlords, whom they hate as oppressors, or of the priests, whom they mistrust as deceivers. Interested men will no more be allowed to settle questions of po litics, on an assumption of authority, than ques tions of religion ; and if the aristocracy and the Church cannot defend their position and power by argument, they will not be suffered long to enjoy them. We have told them long ago, and repeatedly, that they are provoking a searching inquiry into the very foundations of political power and political society. That event has come to pass, and already men have gone to the very corner-stone of all their power, and . discuss the right and duty of obedience. We are glad to see the Times taking up the cause of Reform in any shape, though we cannot admit that the great civil reforms effected by the Whigs were not of more importance than the reforms in the Army proposed by our Con temporary. Desiring, too, quite as much as the Times, a sweeping Reform in the Court of Chan cery, we cannot assent to its doctrines, that a reform in that Court, which deals in general only with the property of the opulent, is of infi nite importance compared to the abolition of Church-rates, which interest the conscience of millions and the peace of half the parishes in England. We agree with the Times in consider ing a reform of the army to be very important, and we rejoice to see it, on that point, taking the field against Conservatism. Our Contemporary said yesterday,— With some exceptions, so rare as to have no effect upon the argument, our officers rise in their profession, not according to their professional merits, but either upon death vacancies, which are few, or according to their pecuniary means. The monied man succeeds, as of course, to each commission, as disposed of by the last possessor, provided there he no disqualification in point of character. Without money or a chance vacancy by sudden death or dismissal, all the science extant would not give its possessor a step. " The profession," says Colonel Mitchell, " holds out no inducement therefore to the acquisition of professional knowledge ; the minds of military men remain dormant on military affairs." Add to this, that they generally enter the army at a very early age, and with much less of education than is be stowed on most men in civil professions, and thus, from the very beginning, they fall into a track very little likely to induce in them a desire of improving their fa cultivation etudes or their knowledge. In this total absence both predisposing cause., and of direct motives to mental regular , we cannot wonder that military science is of them employ not more assiduously cultivated by the o ffi cers of the The presengtood arm 7, hut rather should marvel that so many yes in intellectual pursuits at all. The opinion of society , sys tem,o_ undoubtedly, produces a great many and d an t d he estimable gentlemen. the service the virtues which are the tendency itself, have a strongto encourage many of me most . essential in a soldier ; but still, so longas of selee re tin pu g i vhe shall be the chief passport, the power best men is excluded. For the highest commands, is e t se lection is retained ; but the highes t ru e, the power of c.ommands are not the only important ones. It is a which we assume in placin a bod y Oe o r f loFs responsibility Bred of our fellow-men un der the eora six e o d r eight hurt of a Lieu tenant-Colonel—or even leaving a com p anymn or troop of one-tenth of that number at the orders of a Captain or Lieutenant—where such Lieutenant-Colonel, Captain, or Lieutenant is a person of a violent or vexatious - ten:k m : p e e, or of a dull, or perverse, or uncultivated under standing, though perhaps a strict disciplinarian and a studious observer of those minor points which make a regiment look well on parade. It is too much that a country like ours should leave it wholly fortuitous whether the persons who ought to possess the qualities necessary for officers do act u all y pos, • -s them or not. It is too much that th e li ves of possess our soldiers in war, and their regulation and happiness in peace, should be left the sport of accident —should depend upon the vague chance whether the party who has laid out his moneymilitary i n a step, be a ma n o f sense, education, and temper , or a headstrong dunce . After thus adverting to the evil, and pointing out the expense of buying out those who have bought in, the Times further says,-- Might it not be possible, then, to accomplish the change gradually, by buying up a certain number of commissions yearly, and appropriating them, together with those which fall 41 b) death or dismissal, as a loan et:on for a system of which a regular military educa tion should be an ingredient, and in which purchase should be superseded by selection ? If the change be one which it is worth our while to make, we should make it in time of peace, that its good effects may be ripened against the time of war. We do not think the expense would be so for midable that it alone ought to preclude a reform in the mode of Army promotion. It would not be necessary to shelve all the present race of officers. The Army might be weeded, and those who have bought commissions, which they are unfit to hold, might receive back the purchase money, or an annuity corresponding to it. No injustice would be done to those who are retained, if they were given the option of retiring, receiv ing their purchase-money, or of remaining, being secured in the annuity or pay of the rank they have purchased, but being deprived of the power of sale. The weeding would make room for those who were worthy to be kept, and a more rapid promotion would more than compen sate for the loss of the privilege of selling their commissions. We fear, however, that after the country had incurred this expense, we should find no fit and proper hands, under our present corrupt political system, in which to place the patronage of the Army. If promotion were to proceed by Ogiority, energy would be destroyed; men would never arrive at a chief command till their faculties were impaired, and disorder would ensue from the most vigorous talent being in subordinate capacities. If pro motion were to be determined by the Com mander-in-Chief, or an Army Board, it would 'be prostituted, as promotion in the Navy ever has been, to political and baser purposes, and a Tory half-pay list would show the scions of the aristocracy quartered as annuitants on the country under the assumed guise of having been its defenders. We should have the Army as profligately jobbed as the Navy is at present, and the only result of buying up the commissions would be to fix on the national purse another set of leeches who might, or might not, as chance dictated, be efficient officers. The testimony of the Times to the impro priety of the present system is valuable, for it testifies against the Conservatives; but we do not see how it is to be effectually remedied with out a greater infusion of the democratic prin ciple both into the Army and into the Govern ment. To give the soldiers a share in the elec tion of their officers, and to make the Govern ment equall - r onsi 'le to the whole people, ia ; d7of . 1 AI e t /.• • tr rnent of the aris toicidatT, g , aps, secu e good officers and justice to all. Without so e changes of that kind, all other contrivances will be mere pallia tives, and the monied and landed aristocracy, in spite of them, will continue, as at present, to make the Army subserve their convenience rather than be the defence of the country. The Paris Journals of Tuesday have been duly received. They bring some interesting news from the Spanish frontier, confirming the sup pression of the insurrection, and the arrival in France of most of CHRISTINA Muxoz's parti zans. In addition to the correspondence be tween the ex-Regent and the Spanish Minister, published in our columns of yesterday, the 3.la nitezer Parisien has a concluding letter from the Minister to the ex-Regent's Secretary, from which we make the following extract:— All that is said in your Lordship's communication on the events of Barcelona and Valencia, on the origin of the actual government of Spain, on the legality of its measures, on the accomplishment of the Treaty of Bergara, and other similar things which I have no need to repeat, seems to me to constitute a new manifesto on the part of her Majesty. If it is such, I do not know whether it ought to be made by the medium of a private secretary ; but what I do know is that if, after the Spa nish people and army have just demonstrated their loyalty and devotedness, this manifesto needed any answer, it is not to me that the honour of making one would belong. The Government, the Cortes, the Spa nish nation in fact, will settle what is best suited to their interest and dignity. One of the French Journals states that on Monday M. OLOZAG A went to St. Cloud to de mand from the KING the removal of Madame MuNoz from Paris. The Sentinelle de r Armee explains the rumour that an army is about to be stationed on the Pyrenean fron tier, by stating that General Harispe's division, on the western palit of the line, is to be increased to 16,000 men, and that of the General de Castelane's, on the eastern part, to 14,000, making a total force of 30,000 men. Extract of a letter from Bayonne:—" The Sub-Prefect of this place set out on the 22d inst. for Sare, where the refugees are arrived. Lieutenant-General Lahitte, Inspector-General of Artillery, arrived on the 19th at Bayonne, to review the troops of the garrison and the artillery. The 25th of the line is expected here from Perigueux. A squadron of chasseurs has arrived here from Pau, and another squadron has gone to St. Jean Pied de Port. M. Bart, Prefect of the Hautes Pyrenees, has arrived at Pau. The Phare, of Bayonne, of the 22d inst., gives the fol lowing supplement :—" Several Generals, many officers and soldiers, or peasantry, who had taken part in the movement of which O'Donnell gave the signal, have come into France for refuge, entering by Sure. At the departure of the person who brought us this news 300 refugees of all classes had already arrived, and were every moment being succeeded by more. The names of the emigrant Generals are Urbistondo, Claveria, and Lardizabal, and of the Brigadiers Larrocha, Gabarre, and Hidalgo de Cisneros. On being informed of what had taken place at Vittoria, O'Donnell gave orders for his troops to evacuate the Citadel of Pampeluna; and, consequently, Lieut.-Col. Izquierdo, O'l)onnell's Aide de-Camp, and Ribed, the banker, followed by 200 men, set out for France, and entered by the Aldiides. The of ficers and soldiers have all been sent by the authorities to Mauleon. O'Donnell was himself expected at the Al dudes last night. General Firmin Iriarte, Commandant of the National Guard of Bilbao, and two merchants of that town, landed this morning at the Socoa." The Memorial of Pau says :—" While Espartero's secretary, Gurrea, was conducting Brigadier Norzagary to prison at Madrid, the latter formed the idea of shoot in.. the Secretary and making his esc a pe, but Gur rea observing' that the prisoner kept his bands in his pockets, and hearing the noise of the lock of a pistol, immediately presented his own at the throat of the Brigadier, and kept him in awe until he was searched. This was soon done, and a pair of loaded pistols taken from him." We have received the Barcelona Journals to the 20th inst. The Constitutional states that on the arrival of Don Francisco de Paulo at Bedons, on the 11th, where he stopped only for an instant, he was received by a cavalcade of young men, who escorted him to Urdos, where the Alcalde and the notables of Canfranc, the fron tier town of Spain, were waiting for him. Immediately on passing the frontier to enter Spain, Don Francisco found an escort of 30 soldiers of the line and 20 National Guards, whom, in acknowledgement of his reception, he invited to a repast in the open air. The Constitutional says that an officer of rank had been arrested for attempt ing to seduce some, of the soldiery of Barcelona, and calls upon the Junta to be vigilant, adding that conspi rators are at work in Catalonia to bring about a coun ter-revolution. In the number of this journal of the 20th we find an article against the French Go vernment, the furious temper of which may be judged of by the following extract : " The French Government," says the Constitucional, " constantly moves on towards despotism. Italy sprinkled with tears Poland covered with tombs, and Spain, which is reeking with blood, behold with grief liberty expiring in the hands of France, of that nation the most generous, the most liberal of the universe. But liberty is more powerful than those who attempt to stifle it."—The Constitutional mentions a re port that General Pavia was on board the French brig of war the Surprise, and was going to seek refuge in France. According to this journal a magnificent tablet, with the names of the Halberdiers who defended the Palace at Madrid in the night of the 7th inst., is to be put up in the hall of the political Governor of the pro-. vince at Barcelona. The pompous impudence of some political writers is amusing. For example, a writer in the Post yesterday says :—" There are four different ways of settling the Government of Spain:-Ist. A soi-disant republic com bined with a dictator. 2c113 , A marriage betwixt the young Queen and the son of Don Carlos. 3dly, An union betwixt a son of Don Francisco and his Royal cousin. 4thly, A marriage between the same young Princess and a Prince of the house of Cobourg." To sup pose that a Government can be settled by marrying a young girl to either one of three youths, implies that the people are to go for nothing. The Government of Srain—a country, like our own, in a state of rapid transi tion, with a prodigious mass of ecclesiastical and civil grievances to redress, with ages of usurpation to over throw —cannot be settled by any such means, nor in a .short time. In all the transactions which may take place henceforth, the people and the press of Spain, will have much to say, and it is the very essence of political 9uidnuncism to talk of settling the Government by marry ing a girl to a boy. --- MESSRS. HOEHOUSE AND CO.'S BANK RUPTCY.—Another meeting took place yesterday (Wed nesday), before the Commissioners, Messrs. Gunning Batchellor, and Dowding, when the room was again filled with creditors, mostly from the country. About 130 additional p roo f s were added to the list, for debts amounting to 6,640 L, making the total sum proved, 184,8201. 14s. 4d. The Commissioners signed an order to the Assignees for the investment of 10,0001. in Exche quer Bills, and the meeting was adjourned to Friday, the 29th inst.—Bath Chronicle of October 28. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1841. of these, 1,289 were pauper patients, confined in four houses, three of which are of great magnitude; the other, 1,209 were private patients, distributed among licensed asylums. LAW AND FbLZCE. At Hatton-garden on Wednesday a young man of the name of Wilcox, said to be a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, was committed to take his trial for stealing books from the British Museum. John Robinson, a valet in the service of Mr. Smart, of Park-place, Chelsea, was fully committed to Nawgate, by the sitting Magistrate at Queen-square, for making two desperate efforts to stab a fellow-servant with a table-knife. SPORTING. An osprey was shot a few days ago in the neighbour hood of Clun by a gamekeeper of the Earl of Powis. A superior specimen of the preregine falcon, a rare and valuable bird to the fowler, was also netted on Monday last at Acton. c tirr—raSHION.A.BLE. Lord Monteagle had a long interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer on Wednesday morning in Down ing-street. Lord Stanley, we are happy to hear, is nearly re covered, and has resumed his official duties. The Duke of Norfolk has arrived in town from Farn ham Hall, Suffolk. The Duchess of Hamilton arrived on Saturday at Bath, on a visit to Mr. Beckford. Lord Palmerston and his Lady arrived in Sligo at eight o'clock on Wednesday night. MISCELLASTEOUI3. The aurora borealis, as seen from Wick on Saturday last, was extremely brilliant. A mountain flood carried away several houses in the neighbourhood of Doonbeg, County Clare, on Sunday last, with the loss of two lives. DARLEY MOORS.—There was a heavy fall of snow on Darley Moors, near Matlock, on Thursday morning last, with ice of a considerable thickness ; it had a singular appearance among the sheaves of corn set up in the fields of that neighbourhood. A letter from Milan mentions the death of the Duke of Cannizaro, well known in the London fashionable circles. He died almost suddenly, in consequence of taking three pills.—From the fatal effects of these pills, one would almost be tempted to suppose that they had been prescribed by the Tamworth quack-doctor. A cannon, cast in the foundry of M. Poucet, at Liege, measuring eight feet in length, and weighing 2,486 Eng lish pounds, was lately proved with 61 discharges, at the last of which it burst. No cast-iron cannon at Liege ever sustained more than 59 discharges. The grain of the metal was very fine and close. We understand there is no truth in the rumour that an eminent M.P. (late of the Surrey theatre), whose name, from motives of delicacy, we refrain from men tioning, has been engaged by Macready to play Othello at Drury-lane, during the Christmas holidays. A Morning Contemporary, speaking of the late Ban bury Conservative dinner, says, that it is a proof that the Conservatives of that borough have at length roused themselves from their "lethargic stupor."—lf a good ' dinner will not rouse a Tory from his " lethargic stupor," we know not what will, especially when we learn that, in the present instance, " the viands were excellent and the wines splendid." In these few words we have the whole secret of the Banbury Tories' activity. The pros pect of a good dinner stimulated them to unwonted action. Alexander M'Leod, whose trial at Utica excites so much public interest, is a native of Forfarshire, Scotland. In a street leading from the Whitechapel-road are to be found eight shopkeepers who rejoice in the following names : Slaughter, Death, Angel, Demon, Black, White, Green, and Gray. Mr. Catlin, in his - entertaining work on the American Indians, observes, " The son of a chief, a youth only eighteen years old, distinguished himself in a singular manner the day before our steamer reached the village, by taking to himself four wives in one day !"—This is as bad as taking four doses of physic in one day, when one would have been more than sufficient. Had the rash youth been living in England, his friends would instantly have issued a commission De Lunatico Inquirendo against him ! One of the Brighton railway trains, on Monday, con veyed 160 passengers, a proof of the confidence of the public in the safety of the line. Mr. Forester, the experimental chemist of William street, Islington, who has been committed to take his trial for shooting at a policeman, according to the evidence of Dr. Munro laboured for some time past under strange delusions. He fancied that his head was turned round, his face behind, and the hind part of his head was in front. The gross sum received from visitors to the armoury in the Tower during the year ending February 1, 1841, was 2,2971., and the receipts of the Jewel House, from the Ist of February to the 31st December, 1840, amounted to 1,5471. The Dublin Orangemen must indeed be reduced to a low ebb in the Corporation, when they boast that, though not able to return one of their own party, they have suc ceeded in some instances in securing the return of the least objectionable Radicals. The strike of the journeymen paper-stainers of Paris has now continued since the Ist instant, and prosecutions for a coalition have been instituted against them by several of the masters of the Faubuurg Saint- Antoine and the guarder de Popincourt. " The number who have thus thrown themselves out of employ," says the Droit," is said to be 845, and they demand an additional pay of 50 centimes a-day, stating that, since they are obliged to take for assistants young men 16 or 18 years of age, instead of children as they did formerly, they would not be better paid at this rate than when the re ceived only 4f. a-day. ' MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. Considerable uneasiness prevailed in the City this afternoon in consequence of the total suspension of business in Exchequer Bills, and the anxiety manifested upon the report that forged documents in imitation of these Government Securities were in circulation, and that the holders of them would not be likely to obtain their redemption from the Government. The Funds declined in consequence of this state of things, and money is likely to become tighter. Consols for Money fell from 881 to 881 and 87i, at which they closed, and for Account they dropped to 88* and 88. Exchequer Bills were done at 9s. to 12s. premium, and India Bonds at 2s. premium. Bank Stock was higher, viz., 164, and India Stock im proved to 244. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 98 to 981 • and the Three per Cents. 871 to 87. There was no feature in the Foreign Market worth notice. Spanish Active Bonds were done at 201 to 201; Portuguese New Five per Cents. were heavy at 291 to 1 ; Brazil Stock was not so firm, having fluctuated from 561 to 58; Mexican Bonds were at 241 to *, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 511 to . Shares were generally dull, but the Brighton were brought to market rather extensively at a decline of about 21. per share, as all further running on this Rail way will be suspended till it is thoroughly repaired. They were done at 131 to 161 discount. Great Western Shares were at 101 to 11, the New at 51, Birmingham Thirds at 191, South Western at 124, and York and North Midland at 28} premium. Blackwall Shares were 19, Midland Counties 18, Manchester and Birmingham 12, and North Midland 34 discount. London and West minster Bank Shares were 1 to 11 discount. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 27.—The busi ness done in the Cotton Market to-day is to a moderate extent, the sales amounting to 2,500 bales, all of which are taken by the trade. The market closes in favour of the buyer. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, OCT. 27.—The fol lowing are the transactions at the close of the Stock Ex change :—Eastern Counties Debentures, 71 ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 23k; Great Western, 201. Shares, 7i; London and Birmingham New Shares, 23/; Midland Counties, 304. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, :OCT. 27. Our market to-day presents no new feature, very little busi ness has been transacted. The sales are London and South Western, 51f ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 21 ; Northern and Central Bank, 41. Bs. 9d.; Manchester Assurance, 91. By the arrival of H.M. schooner Spider papers from Rio de Janeiro to the Ist of April have been received. On the 27th of August the Minister of Finarce nresented his estimates to the Chambers. According to the various tables presented by his Excellency, the total deficit amounts to 8,817,693,191 reels (1,100,000 sterling). Of this sum 3,425,713,517 reels is for expenses not contem plated, incurred and to be incurred in 1840-1841 and 1841-1842, and for which sum a supplementary credit is asked, and 5,391,976,674 reels is the estimated excess of expenditure over the revenue in 1840, 1841, and 1842. His Excellency, after submitting his estimate, left to the judgment of the Chambers to determine the manner in which the deficit is to be provided, and we sincerely trust that the decision will be such as will support the honour and reputation of the country. Exchange upon England on the 31st August, was 30f 1 ; and the 6 per Cent. Local Stock, 701. By the same arrival papers from Buenos Ayres to the 14th August have been received, but they do not con tain any news of importance. Exchange upon England, 21d. The tota number of vessels in port on the 6th was 107. The English Stock Market closed very firm last night. Consols were last quoted at 88+ for Money, and 88i 1 for the Account ; and opened this morning at the same quotations. No quotation for Exchequer Bills at present. In the Foreign, Spanish Active Stock, 201 1 ; Portu guese Five per Cents. 294 i; Ditto Threes, 17* 18+ ; Brazil Bonds , 56 58. Very little doing at present. The business doing in the Stock Exchange up to the present time has been but limited. The English Stock Market is not so firm as at the opening, Consols having receded to 88i for Money, and 881 for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced 'are now 87e ; ditto, Three and-a-Half, 961 ; Bank StOck, 164 ; India Stock, 2434 244 ; Exchequer Bills 9s. 12s. prem. Spanish Active Stock has improved a little; the quota tion is now 20i a ; Deferred, 101. Portuguese Fives, 29 1 / 2 ; Brazilian Bonds, 57 ; Danish, 784 ; Mexican, 24i ; Dutch Five per Cents., 99i 1 ; ditto Two-and-a- Half, 51+. The principal business doing in the Share Market has been in Brighton Shares. The line throughout is closed for to-day in consequence of some defect. The following are the prices during the morning-361i 3 5 :1 1 1 34114 34; London and Croydon, lli; North Midland, 65. The Dutch Mail has just arrived. The Two-and-a- Half per Cents. came 51 1-16 it, and the Fives 99 9-16. Consols, Money, 884; Account, 8134 Mexican, 244 *; Spanish, 20} 4 . - The termination of the insurrection ,Spain has now been secur e d mos t fully . by the retirement o f . O'Donnell and the other insurgents across the frontier into Fr a n ce . I n th e opinion of rang well informed Spaniards the. Duke of Vittoria will now push detachments of troops to the French frontier, and thereby effect with ease the Cus toms cordon, which, had the late insurrection not oc- • , • • 'ee — e „ 416_,.. 11 11ri; ° . WSW t • m 0 '1" Ztit o§tar. LONDft : FP.IDAy, OCTOBER 29, 1841. We hold, and have held for many months, and even eyears—nay, we have for that period, and gs were in office, continually taught—that theN Corn-laws are suicidal and mur derous laws; that they prosperity the people and blight the national pros that they inter rupt intercourse and harmonyof; with other na tions; sow the seeds sse a ns d ion ; and are redolent of strife, pestilence, do not, therefore, now, for the n firs e t rin e le. We such language for the purpose o f "'le, use the popular mind against the landlords, and the difficulties of the Government. Whatever reproaches of thin kind other Journals may merit, we do not choose this particular tim e for „ shout i ng i n th e ears of the populace that the landlords desire to starve tben,:,' have long held and deliberat e l y expressed that Ve opinion. Nor are there wanting Tories who • also entertain and express it. In th e 44th N um b e r of the Fleet Papers, just published by Mr. ()As-11.Eu, he declares that the desig n o f the New Poor-law--a landlord's law—is to bring the people to live on a coarser sort of diet. Whether they enact Corn-laws or Poor-laws, the same suspicion rests on the landlords ; and those who judge of their motives by the effects of their laws, will find ample justification of the suspicion. Holding the opinions which we hold on the Corn-laws, we shall not be scared by any kind of prejudice or vehement abuse by interested par • ties from following them out to their just conclu . sion, and affiriniug that it is as criminal to obey such laws as to enact them. We state this con elusion midisgatied now, as we have stated it be fore, and avow that in entertainincr it we have eude avcired, and shall endeavour, to induce par ties to evade and overturn these iniquitous laws. ar f rom eon -4(1 , 9111g. obedience a duty, we con sider that duty commands resistance, and that those laws ought ' not to be obeyed one moment I r ) e e s yi s o t i e u ( l i the Period when they can he successfully Prudential considerations, undoubtedly, are not to be east aside. The public force is yet ar rayed on the side of iniquity. Those who made the laws fur their presumed benefit have still the power to enforce obedience. The community bas not yet declared against them ; and, therefore, at present it is prudent to submit to the iniquity which we cannot success fully resist. All the Anti-Corn-law party, however, do this under protest, and at the same -*~-. - • SUMMARY OF NEWS AND f t Übitt eptuton. " Who runs may read." POARION. The Paris Journals of Tuesday are a good deal occu pied with the correspondence between the Spanish Am bassador and Christina Munoz. Those on the side of the Opposition declare truth to be on the side of the Minister. The Debuts and the Presse are reduced to silence. The National says :—" We have not courage to dwell upon points so little hono ura bl e i n th e conduct of this woman, who dares not, who cannot, deny the truth of the words ascribed to her by M. Olozaga, and who avenges herself by violent abuse of the Spanish Government. We must have pity on the vanquished—we must excuse the irritation of defeat : these bursts of passion are the accents of despair." The Siecle thinks the correspondence so little favour able to the Queen, that it would, it says, have sup pressed it, considering that she has already paid the penalty of her errors, if it had not felt itself bound by a sense of duty to publish it. The Constitutionnel observes, with great brevity, that the letter of I. Olozoga dispenses with the necessity, on the part of the editor, of pointing out the contradic tions which are contained in tie Queen's statement. The Courrier rancais also observes :—" The decla ration vvhiolit ; Queen pretends to have made to M. OJAI_ •• etrically diff e rent f r om the l a nguage gil Thy 0 zaga in his dispatch to General Alcala ; but it is diffic tto believe that the representative of the Cabinet of adrid—he who so proudly called upon Maria Christina to disavow the rebels who were using her name—could have listened patiently to so bitter a protest against his Government." The Courrier Francais asserts that the Spanish Minis ter proceeded on Monday to St. Cloud, to demand the expulsion of Christina Munoz from Paris. The Sentinelle of Bayonne says:—" The following is a specimen of the zeal of the people for the cause of Maria Christina. Sixty young men of the province of Guipuzcoa have entered France for the purpose of escap ing from the Fuerists, who wished to compel them to take up arms in favour of the insurrection ; and we are assured that inhabitants of other parts of the Basque country have arrived at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, under similar circumstances." According to the late census, there are in the 12th arrondissement of Paris 6,078 poor families, comprising 830 persons above 75 years of age blind or paralytic. There are in these families 3,329 men, 5,292 women, 2,667 boys, and 2,872 girls. "In the evening receptions at St. Cloud," says the France, " Louis Philippe assures the visitors at the Palace that the affair of APLeod and of Canada will be settled pacifically." The official Messager states :—According to a telegra phic dispatch received yesterday, O'Donnell, Piquero, Jaureguy, Urbistondo, and Iriarte, have entered France. The number of refugees is nearly 1,200 soldiers and peasantry, and 405 officers. The Regent pis said to be expected at Irun. Four battalions have already entered the town. It is added, that they are about to move in echelon from thence to Urdax, and effect the establish ment of custom-houses. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Post is full of righteous indignation at the tone adopted by the Opposition Journals, observing : This is the time they take for shouting in the ears of the populace, that the landlords desire to starve them--that the landlords are deliberate plunderers, murderers, and worse than murderers ! This is the time that, for the furtherance of a mere party purpose, they aggravate every bad symptom of the times, and endeavour to en graft public ferocity upon private distress ! Such con duct deserves stronger reprobation than words can ex press. It is in the highest degree criminal, and though it may not be so in such a sense as to be touched by the law, every man who detests moral crime as well as legal crime ought to give his aid towards abating the nuisance, of so vile an opposition to common justice and the com mon safety."—lf a vile opposition to common justice and the common safety be manifested anywhere, it is among the Tories who, though perfectly aware of the existing state of the country, refuse to trouble their heads about a remedy, but coolly rest content with letting things take their own course. As for the Opposition Journals, they but adhere strictly to their duty in speaking of things as they are ; and declining to shut their eyes to the des titution of the working-classes, in order to further the party interests of the Monopolists. The rage of the Post at their free-spoken truths is the best proof that they are acting rightly. Speaking of the state of affairs in Canada, the Herald says :—" Until Canada—now within a shorter distance of England than Edinburgh was from London a century ago—be thus made an integral portion, or constituted into outlaying counties of the United Kingdom, it is in vain to anticipate any great advancement of its prospe rity. The commercial greatness of Canada and the con version of its physical conformation into the means of increasing the defence of the British empire, can only be established by the completion and construction of such enormous public works as are quite beyond the grasp of a mere dependency. The improvement of the naviga tion of the St. Lawrence, and the navigable communica tions of the great inland seas, must be regarded as great national works, essential to the prosperity and safety of the empire." The - Times has an article on the subject of the prover bial delays in Chancery, in the course of which it ob serves :—" It is curious to look back at the antiquity and continuity of the evil. It was the fashion of the Liberals, in the latter period of Lord Eldon's Chancel lorship, to lay the fault upon his habits of hesitation: and for two or three years, while the agitation of the subject could be made to answer a political purpose, and to annoy the Ministry through the sides of the Chancellor, the patriots took up the grievance ; not, indeed, with any view to relieve the pressure of the evil, but for the pur pose of inculpating their political opponents—just as the manufacturers of distress in the north of England have lately been getting up their statistics of poverty and pri vation, without contributing a fraction to assist the suf ferers : so much more ready are their sympathies than their sixpences. But the grievance of the Court of Chancery was vastly more ancient than the days of Lord Eldon."---No one doubts that the delays in Chancery were a subject of complaint long before the days of Lord Eldon ; but he did nothing to reform the evil, notwith standing that at one period of his career, he possessed as much, and perhaps more power to do so, than any Chan cellor whether before or since. To all proposals for in quiry he invariably turned a deaf ear ; and it was not merely to " answer a political purpose," as the Times hints, but to promote a great public good, that he was so often urged by the Opposition to take the matter into his serious consideration. The Chronicle says:—" The Times of yesterday com pliments Sir Robert Peel, for the interest he feels on the subject of popular education. The time is happily chosen. Such praise is like vitriol in a green wound. But the education required for bettering the moral and intellectual condition of the poor is not likely to be ob tained in schools where a corrupt vote is payment from the parent, and to sign a petition procures a boy's expul sion. By the Leeds report it appears that in that town alone there are upwards of 15,000 children who do not go to school at all, besides allowing 10,000 for such as are too young, or are unavoidably prevented. The fact is a frightful one. It could not happen, were the poor properly cared for by the Legislature. It is a horrible disgrace on a country, possessing millions per annum for educational purposes."—Were the Tories to endeavour to correct this state of things, and propose some scheme of national education, we should have little faith in its efficacy, for it would be sure to be conceived i n a nar row, sectarian spirit, and be productive of far more harm than good. It is not by a Tory Ministry, such as we now see at the helm, that a really useful and enlarged system of national education will ever be carried into practice. The York Courant observes, with reference to the re cent spread of incendiarism :—" This is what we ask for, and what we think the signs of the times require, and that which it is the immediate and solemn duty of the Government to attend to—that they should make an inquiry into those things—that they should not shut their eyes to the alarming indications of discontent to which we have alluded, but that with all diligence and since rity they should set themselves upon the work of seeking out the cause, and devising a remedy." The Worcester Chronicle contains the following re marks:—" Despite the remonstrances of starving mul titudes, the Tories prorogued Parliament without show ing the slightest indication of compassion for the pre valent distress, or of an intention to devise, at an early period, measures for its relief. It would seem that this Tory neglect of the prayers of a long-enduring people has stung them into madness. The counsels of rage have superseded the calm dictates of reason and reflection. Swing went out with the Tories ;he returns to welcome their advent to power with bonfires raised of homesteads and corn-ricks. While it gives us unfeigned sorrow to notice these atrocities, we cannot conceal our belief that they are owing in no small degree to the cold neglect with which the popular cry of distress has been met by the Tories." MONEY—TRADE—COIVIIMEERCE. At the adjourned meeting of the masons lately em ployed at the new Houses of Parliament, held on Wednes day at the Craven Head, Drury-lane, the sums sent in by different Societies 'for their support, consisted of 501.. from a Society of Carpenters ; 10/. from the Pimlico Carpenters ; 50/. from the Carpenters of Grosvenor square ; 751. from a Masons' Society of London ; 30/. from a Society of Tailors ; 10/. from a Painters' Society; 201. from the Hope Friendly Society; 10/. from Captain Ackerley; making a total, up to the present moment, of 2 r a 5 16 1 5. o; c i i v e i t t i h es a an n d um ß b o ek e .o s f . weekly subscriptions from seve- Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, and his late distin guished visitors recently subscribed 480 /. to alleviate the distresse s of the unemployed miner s in Ruabon and Wrexham. At Port Natal, Cape of Good Hope, about 4,000 Bri tish subjects occupy a large tract of c ountr y , on which three towns have been founded, and a regular Go vernment organized. The cape colony would greatly improve, if means were provided by G . vernment for the grad ua l i n flux of 2, 000 or 3,000 emigrants an nually, by which capital would follow, and the revenue of the colony increase. S'Xiii.TISTICS. From the results of the Census just concluded, it ap pears that the population of Great Britain and Ireland, in the present year, amounts to upwards of 27,000,000 of smils, which is an increase of about 2,000,000 since• 1831. If the population of the Colonies be added to this, her preseut Majesty is the Sovereign of one hundred millions of subjects. From a return to the House of Commons it appears that the total number of persons confined in lunatic asylums, within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Commissioners, during last year, amounts to 2,498: cured, he could scarcely have hoped to do without ex citing a good deal of discontent. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bulk Stock ... 164 I 3 per Cent Red. B7 3 per Cent Cons BBh 3 per Cent Red.. 96b New 3} per Cent 9B New i+ per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan 1860 l2b Oct 1859 l2 3-16 Jan. 1860. l2b FOREIGN Austrian, 5 per cent.... Belgien, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds 57 India Stock Ditto Bonds Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities — Es. Bills, 1,000/....2id 12 pm Ditto 5001— . 7 pro Ditto Small. . Bank Stock for Acct — India Stock for Acct — IConsols for Acct BBb 4 FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto 291 Prussian, 5 per cent. _ . Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent.— Ditto, Metallic — Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 2o} Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred. ..... Danish, 3 per cent 7B} French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek,. 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 24i French, 3 per cent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825, Dutch, 2} per cent. ... 511 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent 99i SHARES Great Western Railway (65 paid) 76 Ditto New Shares (50 paid s si Ditto Fifth (4 paid) 7a London and Brighton (50 paid) 34} London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 8 London and Birmingham (90) Ditto Thirds (32 paid) sl} London and South Western London and Crovdon Railway (Trunk) I li Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ...... 21 Midland Counties Railway (lOU paid) North Midland Railway (100 paid) York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 784 STRIKE OF THE MASONS. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Woolwich was held last evening in the theatre of that town, having been called by the Committee of Masons, lately em ployed on the New Houses of Parliament, for the pur pose of laying before the inhabitants of Woolwich, all particulars connected with the masons' strike. The meeting was called for seven o'clock, and some time before that hour the theatre was thronged in every part, the boxes being filled with well-dressed females. Mr. MADDOX having been called to the Chair, briefly addressed the meeting, and called nn JOSEPH DAVIES to address the meeting. He said he was happy to see so many ladies as well as gentlemen, present, because it was a couvincing proof that they sympathised with the present situation of the working men.—(Hear, hear.) He begged to lay before them the particulars of the origin of the late strike amongst the masons—Hear, hear)—and the conduct of Mr. Allen. The first case to which he would allude was that of a young man, who, on the death of his mother, was refused leave of absence to see her decently interred. Mr. Davies then went into the particulars of this case, which were given in our report of the first meeting, held at the Craven's Head, in Drury-lane. Ho then called on the Secretary to read the correspondence with Messrs. Grissell and Peto relative to this case. Mr. T. CARTER, the Secretary, then read the corre spondence, in which Messrs. Grissell and Peto stated that the difference between the young man alluded to and the foreman arose from the length of absence re quired, he insisting on having a fortnight. He (the Secretary) knew that he only asked for a week or a fort night, and he was only granted two days, although he had to go to Manchester and back. Mr. DAvis continued. The next case he would refer to was that of a man who had broken his leg in working at the Houses of Parliament, and who, on his return to work, after his recovery, was told by Allen that he wanted no hobbling fellows there.—(Shame.) The next case was that of a man who went to the death-bed of his wife to receive her dying breath, and as soon as she was dead he returned to his work, and then was told that he might go back to his wife, and die with her and be d--d. It was for the tradesmen of Great Britain to say whether the working-men should be treated in this manner. They had to contend with wealth and might, and it was only by energy that they could put down this tyranny and monopoly, which was a disgrace to a civilised country.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then called on the Secretary to read the rest of the correspondence with Messrs. Grissell and Peto. Mr. T. CARTER then read the rest of the correspondence. Mr. Woon said he rose to address them on a most im portant, but not a pleasing subject. He congratulated them on the sympathy evinced by the people of Wool wich, and the masons had come to the determination of having their just and inalienable rights. They had heard of the conduct of Allen, and they were all aware that that man was a being with moral and intellectual powers. He hoped the day would never come when Eng lishmen would have to be driven with a whip. They did not live in the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries, or th• dark ages as they were called. What man of principle or feeling would ever have treated an individual, on the occasion of the death of a parent, as Allen had done?— (Cheers.) What man of principle would ever have used such language as Allen had done to a man who had re ceived a most material injury in his service ?—(Hear, hear.) What man of feeling or of prineiple would force men to attempt a certain quantum of work which would at once destroy the physical energies and bring on a premature old age and a premature grave?— (Cheers.) _A fair day's work for a fair day's wages ought to be the principle of every man.—(Cheers.) The conduct of this man Allen had been most inhuman. The men had determined not submit to it, and had deter mined to support that station in society which the work ing man ought.— (Loud cheers ; ) The aristo cracy thought they should be like slaves in the West Indies, but they were determined novel to submit to such tyranny, nor to be trampled on by any man.—(Cheers.) They would exert themselves and secure to themselves the reward of their labour, which every working man ought to have.—(Cheers.) He hoped that every working man would come forward and aid them in the stiuggle, and show to the world that they approved of the procedure, and were deter mined to support the common struggle against tyranny, by doing which they were only sup porting themselves. It was not only their own wel fare, but that of their children also. What would the aristocracy be without the working men ? They, per . - haps, would say, why do the =en of Woolwich strike - ? He answered, it was out of sympathy with their fellow workmen, whose interest was their interest. It was un der these considerations that the men turned out at the Houses of Parliament, and were determined never to resume their employment until their grievances were put down.—(Cheers.) They were opposed, certainly, by the police, who even prevented them speaking to the " Blacks." But a good cause did not want arms to pro tect it.—(Cheers.) Their Society had existed for eight years, and would exist for years to come, and was deter mined to hold the station of rational beings.—(Cheers.) Mr. PARKER begged to ask the Chairman how many men had turned out ? The ChAIRMAN said 222 had turned out, and 130 were on the works at present. Mr. PARKER inquired how many of those who had turned out had returned? The CHAIRMAN said, only one to the Houses of Par- liament, and four to the other works. Mr. PARKER said, it was a source of gratification to him to find that only one person had returned out of so large a number, It appeared somewhat extraordinary that a body of men, having wives and families turned out, without, as the papers had stated, any thing to turn out for. How could it be possible that men • would throw themselves out of employment when they had nothing to complain of ? The fact answered for itself. He must express, though, his honest indigiation towards the press. The right of labour had been somewhat in fringed, for not only the press but the Government had taken up the question. How could they then expect that working men would pay that deference to Govern ment which all Governments ought to command?— (Cheers.) The men work hard enough, and why should they be oppressed? He, for one, would do his utmost to protect tne masons against the man who bore that name, but who disgraced it. His conduct was disgraceful to Englishmen ; it was disgraceful to all; and he hoped that they would be able to rouse all England to resist oppression. The first object was to get lands; and he hoped that the working men would so take up the sub ject, that it would gain the attention of the Legislature. The resolution he proposed was to the effect that the meeting cordially agreed in the step taken by the masons. Let them keep within the law, but let them appeal to the Legislature against such oppression. When thou sands were stalking through the land in a state of starva tion, it was time they put their shoulder to the wheel. The resolution having been seconded, was put and carried amidst the most enthusiastic applause. Mr. WALTON said, it became the duty of every work ing man to discontinue his support of those Papers which had misstated their case, and calumniated the masons. He then alluded to the statements which lately appeared in the Times and other papers, which statements he had brought before the last meeting held at the Craven Head, Drury lane (an account of which appeared in the speech of Mr. Walton, in our Report of the meeting). The Times, he continued, had acted most disreputably towards the working men. He then referred the m to a letter in the Morning Advertiser, signed Admonitor, who stated that he believed that Messrs. Grissell wad Peto were very in dulgent to the men. He (Mi. W.) would give them. proofs, whichwas more than Admonitor could do, that they never had been indulgent to the men. When the men first complained, Messrs. Grissell and Peto said if the state ments could be proved they would discharge Allen. They took a young man with them to prove those state ments, and then Grissell and Peto said they had lowered their dignity in giving the men an audience, and sent them away. And this was the man who had been raised to his present opulent position by the men he bad thus treated.—(Cheers.) Thus did these papers try to uphold capital and crush the working man. A working man would address them with r respect to the Weekly Dispatch, and he (Mr. W .) hoped that every working man would resolve to oppose those papers, and take in only those who were on their side. He (Mr. W.) would combat tyranny in whatever shape it might appear.—(Cheers.) Mr. M'DoNaLD said he was quite an amateur ; but, as the object of all dramatists was to hold up the mirror to nature, and it was the working man's object to hold up the mirror to truth, he rose to continue th e su bj ect of the Press. From the Times they could expect nothing, but from the Dispatch they might have expected better things. The first article in that paper to which he would allude was that on the 14th of October, wherein they said that the masons wanted Messrs. Grissell and Peto to pay the same wages to a bad workman as to a good one, Ile need hardly say how false was this statement. The Weekly Dispatch stated that the charges brought by the men had been explained away. Why, the only refu tation they . offered with respect t o th e man w h o wa nted to bury his wife was to say that no one could believe it. Strange explanation this. . They had failed to explain those charges er to rebut them. He (Mr. APDonald) knew a man to have crushed his fingers, and he only ----- a went to get some water to wash them, and for that b id was discharged by Allen.—(Shame.) The indiiidi alluded to was ready to prove the charge. _ The man here rose and said he was not discharged, bl he was threatened that if he did not resume his eorx. he should at once be discharged. He was then working at Woolwich. . Mr. MWoNALD continued.—He had made a rauct, oi'tall but that mistake did no t l e ssen the inhuman cond A th i e le a n reh il ite a c w t Barry' l''' s q ' to Pr° l 7 o to ul t d h r e e n ad ew a heottnesrdefsroomf .I,C4ihriairalineseta, that the masons had always severally a fair day i work. Mr. Barry stated that heohnieulnotlii ng to complaia of with respect to any of the masons. Thus did theMsPaedh calumniate them, whilst they might have ° P ee :Jo the pen of the editor to have opposed the attacks o, 0 monopolist's paper; he therefore hoped that owl Per s° o who had hitherto read that paper, would cease to d;s i _t . and oppose every coffee- shop or public-house that took i?, A 'WORKING MAN proposed a resolution to the ID the ing, to the effect that they ought not to sup Po rt Weekly Dispatch and Advertiser newspapers.out aa or Mr. NrcuoLsort seconded the resolution with ment, which was then put, and carried unanimouslr ed to The CHAIRMAN then asked if any person ivi* n address the meeting, when — in C th a e pt n . a tc:c o E f e a LE jo lt u r y o j se ae , k an t d ar s , a a id nd he h h e slept along side of two jolly marines. He would n O 4 , cupy their attention long, but he came there or 0 mind as clear as any female's in the place• —(A 111 01 0 The Gallant Captain then went in to a variety of s tate d not at all bearing upon the subject of the meeting, a ° The CHAIRMAN rose to call him to order. • jOB Captain ACKERLEY—You sit down, Sir, you I ) l e " l e ts here, aad I will be heard. (Here there was a _li f ig, uproar in the theatre, laughing, screaming,. r, 0 t he aphpaedn feodto7reyileosocicers. hisses, all sorts of noises calculated to fro , v listeners from their propriety.) A WORKING MAN in the galhey rose ar.d A dd i s p% Captain Ackerley said, I gave you 3 d. f ora piece, at Home Fair, that was not worth half a farms i ' ..isd Captain AcIERr.EY—I took you for a d---ct treated you as such. A scene of uproar and confusion h ere aro"? Which resolution nn to propose. utterly beggars description. I 1 21 " $ u p w the b—• he said, I will fire red-hot bullets into him. The CHAIRMAN here rose to try to restore —Tl'hllenn,otlobokie looking gut d0wn—....01, Captain ACKERLEY—For God's sake sit cle ° lv r n cl ' e ri #s.if iltiat An able-bodied mason here came behind thatti: ova Captain, and without more ado, took him g s t a rar the waist and carried him out, the Gallant Office r 0 0. gling like a child in the herculean grasp of th e °3 7, viog Order was then.restored, and a vote of thauka te i, been proposed to the Chairman, the m eeting sePa.ra BELGIUM. fir BRUSSELS, OCT. 24.—The Englislimali • g r. 8 c e v ', , r . l'a i .. accused of defacing public monuments, statues, ..,atifjoi. addressed to the tribunal of the first in,tance It •'12,0 0 g to be set at liberty, • • • Bl ount ° francs. His on giving bail to the a e a - • applicationCbar les A• a ged '''' ~:liarron— ative of Hamburgh, was transferred by the U P frl i t to the frontiers of France. He has been eq e chief the kingdom as a foreigner, by order oft 4) .' to le h in as ok j e u , st been reject, 1 , year s, a the Police. i trigiot BRUSSELS, OCT. 25.—We learn t hat their , andat Brussels their ch t i i l l d l children will end n nf o tDceoeme;lb.tio)eside in tile ~0 to er. „, , 'll t It is next week, as we hear, that the is- ,13 b i' Pei' Paris. 01 ,010 n g BRUSSELS, OCT. 26.—We hear that Mr. ' I - r , 1 03° la ' ham Villiers, Member of the English House°, h i s ce',,: has arrived at Brussels. A Journal says, tha t ,:j3elg ill " - brated antagonist of the Corn-laws, has comel u ns. to study our political and commercial inst ituti° _....... Kaittteisatieeankjteeal, . _ 't he DUTCH 'MAIL,_:,_ Chamber °l' THE HAGUE, OCT. 25. -- Second t. 4 .3- o f States-General:— • tef ginl s ng , A message from his Excellency th e or theme s of Finance was read, stating that his. We s igeta v or with respect to the nomination of the two t he n or the General Chamber of Accounts, by wirT re ased c n ot bar of Members of that Chamber is to be slit, tsilitielo forma* to Art. 1 of the law of 3d Clet• 1 1 4 wk i r igs' exercise his right of nomination, but, acr e ` the s;rder 200 of the fundamental law, will wait for, ee , itt tion of three candidates to each of these Pc bein; to select one out of each list. esol t g eP or t l3l M. Luzao expressed a wish that that 113 , 0 use of a peculiar nature, might be printed for 0 1 ~.,ie . Members, which was unanimously a greed w and colq. co ' 0 . A message from the Minister of Mar ine o lied , t ill 1,1 0. ' of the 22d of October was read, a cconT - toe ntiv . i . t he formity with Article 59 of the fe" °° Li i t are f or th° with a statement of the revenue and exPen terD en" ter East Indian colonies in 1841; a similar sts,-,1000,1 West Indies, and a third for the coast of, u o bit ther with all the necessary documents• a the C h fi rog e The public sitting was then closed, At it ii 1 0 0 0 formed into a Secret Committee, in whi c ' t iti.o" a pi tl that the Committee appointed to draw_uP - ght answer to the Speech from the Throne, brc'u ~e ti , ° Report. . 1 1 he , , blo ily sa l . a 1 THE HAGUE, OCT. 24.—1 t is genera - Aye , hel l ' his Majesty Kin; William Frederick ball flce of intention of coming to the Hague, auJA i v/ as ecit te rtho i return with the Countess to Berlin. In c- v isit ° ; 01 ' this resolution, we learn further that the ott rt t ° I Majesties with the Royal Family and th 1 101 en lil sterdam, will not now take place. „ 1101 9 e a , is affirmed that his Excellency Baron eg tl r',. ti oe' strat i a)ra s ,ininrdse r . esolved, and is sc riou''?:, c i r e l P: toriii making great reductions in the Budget c 4. t li t of - - ,,,.40• Director-Generaldol Ei f e p foreign a 2 His r, department, has s a i resolved lbe that separatedfro m th e m et h il e t e n der is 1 .0% made a Secretary-tGdeenPearraat.,a 01 ile , ,,, ° ' THE HAGUE, OCT. 26.—SECOND CO' 4 ';la frldii ,, , STATES GENERAL.—A paper was reee' l l e bit vo l t ; Brick Jacobs at Amsterdam, stating that f is i r .b o ' re s .e vered the secret of directing the cours e ° s iblel t be,' % that the weather being favourable,. it is ea t o sell ol>ll,l India in a fortnight ; that he had o li f f e ' r :, b il e s u i o t ., ) , : tt li i o ( tr i cret of the atmospheric citadelle (as William I.', but without success,. tha t ,. s iave,s' not that he had the choice of selling i' l .. 0 310/13 As s. „ 0 , , t o France, but prefers offer:ng it to . this ';b it cv pr oa President proposed that this paper, th °° b e r efe • s hould ' ee l to* )/ be classed with ordinary , petitions, 01 . ~.400 e , the Committee of Petitions. This wsL a y Atio'i e ee ti r TRIESTE, Oct. 18.—(From the Ittli t of t re' e . The latest accounts from Syria, of the sta t e e r feeti n f or el, try, are very favourable ; tranquillity is l) d e ilf coo. c o t be tablished everywhere ; commerce bee S ent fr,_ e q , t , tive, and many goods which used tO be now ES, 0 0• 0 ,, stantinople to Trebisond, by caravans, w o: et ti o fr:i i , much shorter and most sate route, by 1 . 1 ,, 3 .g0 fj ord It is hoped that that the regular steitt ode d it' oo cls r Constantinople to Syria will soon be el"f oce of g. ~,, P, 0 This would greatly promote the cenveY e l i, Aleg;01 0 0 passengers from Adana Tarsus he t PQ c s o l o l bekir, and Mossul ; and besides th o 4% more Aleppo and Constantinople would g .miles.—Hamburgh Borsenhalle, Oct. 2 3 . 6 a. gf" 131!Itj DUTCH FUNDS . -Asts.raltDafir 00 0. fi_• Amen Svndic,4s per cent .................... 7 5,1 I P.; A ji c t t t u4l d D itt s o bt s , 12 p % er pceerxi.en.t.............................................. 1 :0 1 : i t, 1 ,4 , 1111 44 Ditto, ditto, 3}fi per cent. ................... , I gIA (21 4 Commercial Company, 44,4 per cent ..••••"' " .. l el* Ws Ditto (1835 anti 1837) 5 per cent. ..... .. ... 9 10 Loan 1837, 5 per cent. ............... ... ....... .. 1 ,4 3 ..... Exchange on London, One month ..... .•••• _ 1:3 ii Two m onths ......0". 3 5 _,, Hamburgb, One month .......""• .... 35 P. Two months ...... Dutch Papers, Oct. 26. cf c•r• g 45 '514 I , ELUI AN PU N DS-- 13 sU is BO . ........ 10 1 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. .....•• •.. . . .••"'', 99 Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cl , t , .Cen t . ,... .... 1 4 ,, Loan of Thirty Milions 4 per . ......... 1 .."....--: Her ( • en "...."' l o g °l ' s --Thirty.svven----- - "". . . ...... Lg (1 :40)••• ....... Loan of City, 1c32, 4 per Cen t ...... ................. Society ot Commerce, 4 y,, per Cen ... _,..... ~! Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent. ....... .....: 00: , , 0 NationalSocsety. .................... ........."..... ,' Exchange on London (shod) .. .::: i g 00 —Brussels Papers, Oct.; 7 „ ,0., (141 :„,. . 1 1 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--•'•-• .......-,,, I I live per Cents. Metalliques . ....... ...."... ...... ....... to Foer per Cents. ......... ............ " ........ ..•••'''..." Three par Cents. ................. .... ..... •••"....,... . 0 Bank Shar6.3 ....... ............... ......0 2 1 0 ....ttigenicine Zeatzni, clef. 2 3 - , s Ocl'opt , ' / HAMBURG BORSENHAI4.• . 0 10/ 0 0 ARussian S per Cent. Ist series, Cor tifiew- .. ....,. • le o rs A an u n s ek t io. % , , a1itnaur55e5p1ie.nr...C.L0a.e.n..t.n5............................................................,.....;:......%..........:..............,..7 it 0 14 4, 1 , 41 . 1 ,i_ ~ ...... . „,. ~ Inscription, Ist Series ..................... • 3d an d 4 ' gt , v ols Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. .... .... 07 , 5erie5........ " .............. ..........."••••:.. .... Os Ditto in Certificates ....................... .....• „.... Lo / New 4 per Cant. (1840)..... ..................... ..... , , Dutch ~Actual Debt, 2%, pe, Cent .......... ....,. ~0 1 Ditto 5 per Cent ................... r oii o g Polish Bonet. .......................................... ~ , '„ 6 1.... New ticket . ... - ................................ ....:. 1, ; ; ; Anglo-Da:11;h Loan, 3 per Cent.......•••'" ..... " 15 N..twegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cura:.. ......•'.. el l Spanish, New 5 per Cents. ...... • ........ _. 4 . f." of ' -- ------'j—'r'" -------- ,., ao iso AO l e.. 111 POLAND' fA - IPf; 1 ii o o rs io WARSAW, OCT. 3.—The Counc that 0 ) note kro;ll published a notice to the effec t re e rell gon e r d• (fourteen in number, whose names a_hoiaccove taken advantage of the amnesty, 13111 ',, e 0 1 ' and whose absence has but lately u 1 1% It if their property is to be collf .... l :: tec/ * 0 ce , , 0 1. V B E U M R D N E :3 , _, Wrci l) ,, ,3 FOR ?NOVEMBE R , lila x the 0 0 3 o ir EditOrc6o7v.iso 001ersoioi Humorists, Thomas Hood, will _ on g Oil , $ f 3 P I A 1 variety of interesting articles.. ?tin vn ,bina_ o f 1 , 7e .i . to r e nent are :—The Happiest Man I. ll , i ' vo ilageb , 1e 0 P i .1350 unNdeErWtheiVi°l4l. t ;fl °f ll° d u 01 l the Road, by the Editor.—ThS ixll-Groinetisf 10b , ethy 101 l to a Club ; or, what pay I._ vial ° c or , fir Exemplified by Extracts from trie ro _ leo p tea ; _ y . , ) , all, Esq., a Member of the Pang Under' v e tar o re Poole, Fs Graduates anti or. o f ~4tel let , o r L cb a ba l e k P o l' irt l it icni Proctor's Note-Book, by the Aut! t d‘ , fles itos or o ce, i ; gins." No. 2. The Historyd Liven—Jacques Cocast, they un t h , , 0 •t to --.„ehilie-stito- to'. Douglas Jerrold, Esq.—A _,? . . l N i e ,--i. ” 54 ,, A jo ial, 1/ 0 0.- , fA be er cot pe i ' io,f_pDaualvidrlrNy'i:l,k i e . More 5 N,ll. op' lit'.' .pr - .trf 0 10,4 or, Sheer eb, The Agonies of Cotnpositton. „ her i . of 4,04 , view .I) 1 ° 11 t , habl t for ; 6 YA takes a Lodger. A New Vi va len • t it t 1 /' • - thepre eat en o r, -4 , / A Digression touching. us .„,,,,, ri ; . vs 4, later .70. 0 l'ak lbryenJehohlniu.‘charmoto 10 0 az e. -.170.-1r,j,..-- Chapter XIII. An Ingemoi3a j -.' fa 1 , , Money to great Advantageb Poug i ' s Wel t.° 11 1 nager in Search of a Star, by Char les aP 1J 0., 1 ,1 Strange Passage in the Life i p ast 1411'' 01 Drawing-room Amusement. . the _in, E de r ~ i 4 THE WEATEBII..---DUriq _ ce of ; 0 1 u0.. e 0 ‘% snow, accompanied, in sow d se as i e y .01. . advance , oi lightning, which, at this .11s r ou nd a le sent week,' there has . been itecionisittiannueauiis,. ioso ,itli ef t i bi e ts" ,/ c p f y rather remarkable. The ,h 1 ._ the 1 371 covered with snow, as though i n the Courattt. MORNING .UST 4! la n , t a i'Aid e( of and 4,,, 27 ,0 0( fve o 4:h q St4l Irpi ; QuE L 1%1l