The Sun. — London, England, 1841-11-23 00:00:00

kIVIORNING SUN 411 4Y;AND NAVY PROMOTION. 1 There are a variety of reports in circulation re ,atiVe tO the-, probable extent of the anxiously Sidespromotion; that the present state of the finances of the -;country will no t a d m i t o f t h e B revet b e i ng so • : : ! ,,L a ge as was at first hoped for. In the Navy it I t s-su pposed by th ose w h o b e li eve t h emse l ves to 1 , , „ ; ,°e M the secret, that the Flag promotion will lz ; .1' at. most i go below the year 1807, thus 14 i i' ,, l lg'7,M l Captain Charles Gordon; and that 1 3 .'h u tP=. tither ranks it will be limited to a cer q) fill,*niority, together with the length of 9',9ctual service s of each officer now hold .'i l g a -command or filling an executive situa j,°,o; thus, for example, promoting as it is said Litil those Commanders who have held that rank qi„ate4,3/ears, and who have been three years ac •f-:'-, ha ve employed; and all First Lieutenants who , l ave held commissions ten or perhaps fifteen * Years, and w h o h ave b een full six years of th i s 1 . 111 1.,, e , j r ! l se.-going ships, the - half of it as First e ai l iilant : and with regard t o the Mates, that .., - . 1 t hose who have passdseven years, and who .. l ave be en i n active service two-thirds of this --- P er !°,d, and are still serving in sea-going ships, At i csi "°e promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. We !leerily hope that these predictions will prove ...c0r z .,„.,.. ~ - m t h af —L, tor though they are not to the extent ia p ' was at one time expected, yet as these ar ..li,, Rgetnents seem founded on justice and fairness, Ike co nsider that th e y c annot but give satisfaction 14 Zi ft th e servic e . O ne t hi ng i s certain, viz., that '.r.ir 'First L or d o f t h e Adm i ra l ty i s most strcnu '''llsill his endeavours to obtain a considerable '':_tltiotion for the Navy ; and the authorities at fz. ki, iii,Horse- Guards, we know, are equally. active at,47l,iiialf of the Army. During the week Lord 06 ,-- ton, Sir Henry Hardinv,e, and Lord wi t tft„ 0 y Somerset,. have had several interviews h "he Premier and the Chancellor-of the Ex : e Nucl.. InAmidst the Royal favours that will no doubt I: l .hestow e d i n h onour o f t h e h appy event wh i ch, ' l le great joy of the nation, has just occurred, s anguinely hoped by both Services that her . V e sty may be grac i ous ly pl ease d t o ma k e pro ous and ne w nom i na ti ons i n th e O r d er o f t h e t ::.ni and w e t rust t h e M ar i nes w ill come i n f or • bq l r full s h are of these favours ; and could our di,,,ed Sove re i gn b e a d v i se d to enlarge this itguished O r d er t o a f our th c l ass, w h ere b y 14:light be conferred on the junior officers of bef -4- rmy and Navy who had gained r e p u t a ti on wi t c ' h re the enemy, it would, we know, be hailed fe ss . grateful ac k now l e d gmen t s b y b ot h t h e pro : 14°, n s. 'At the same period the alteration which fiti:ieen so oft en suggested might with equal satis • kielon be ma d e, t h at o f creat i ng al l t h e Compa n ions A l ghts; fbr it has, we are assured, often proved .p mortifying to many old and distinguished 4i.7 - t sy more especially to those who have been li a i i i ng with their regiments in Ireland, and who 43t tibeen twenty yeaN and upwards Companions .servle Bath —the proud reward of their gallant Ar Ett l f e , B in the field, in the Peninsula, and a t pre sq%oo —to find themselves' obliged to yield Ithf ed ence to some Lord-Lieutena n t' s K n i g ht, Vi e t' had Only gained that rank for steering the Itip.le.°Yld in a cock-b o at across a r i ver , or for hav hoVsome subordinate situation in the house lihoet Dublin! 'Tis time that these things ti lls ,d be amended; and no period can be more jih t P,Tious than the present, when England has he thous ti happiness of possessing a direct heir to I -11.°11 e•—.21Taval and Military Gazette. . I V T . ..... ~ , .8/ 4 HE EDITOR OF THE OBSERVER. 'a As the allusion in the Observer of this day to 114,40b1e Lord who has filled high diplomatic offices, Ab ly been connected with the Exchequer fraud," might 4 1 , i 3 ' h" supposed to apply to me, I lose not an instant igti e l 11 14 the most unqualified and indignant denial to Ilan imputation. k m ' Observer not being again published until next IY, I send a copy of this letter to the daily papers. 44 111 ' Sir, your mo s t o b e di en t h um bl e servant , e Y - street, Nov. 21, 1841. STRANGFORD. tOv r , E NTRATION OF THE WEST ...•LA S TEAM-FLEET AT SOUTHAMPTON. This (Prom the G reenoc k Ad ver ti ser .) tl epa large fleet is rapidly assemblin g a t the p o rt of eve r f tute, and the S out h ampton r i ver w ill soon present teas e d the most splendid scenes that has ever been wit the ri an y of our h ar b ours ; f oul t een steam-ships of th e gent siz e and power all of the same dimensions, I , 44l3 l , : : r oPerty o f the Royal ' Mail Steam Packet Com- Itr.v are rapidly corning forward to this station as they eir, su ccession comp l ete d . Th ree o f t h em, t h e es t i v ge i the Tweed, and the Solway, have already t t So ed i f , rom the place of their construction in Scotland, th e / .1; amPton, and others are soon expected from the.. lam es. the Mersey, and other ports, where -7 are r a tapabilitV ta Plu i lY Progressing. Already, however, the the -• the Company's ships has been shown by The fog ti, 67 ue fonowin base made. Ati on her trials earn arethefastest trips yet made by each yes 'to betdiltal3ney show the speed of these . large 43dA measured d that of any vessels of a similar distance of rather , more than S t 8 stat ute Miles has been performed on a trial as follows • the Clyde, 1 hour l 1 mid . , 13015*:;iit the rate of res an hour. 1 0 . th e Tweed, 1 h our 13 min., being at the rate of i;' :s ths miles an hour. _ 1 2 8 1 the Solway, 1 hour 17 min., being a t th e ra t e o f siting an hour. Tay, 1 hour 9 min., being at the rate of 133-. T h ltia hour trial ' s are the more interesting on this . accot . i n n e t s , ,N, 4 ,,... t hree of these ships have precisely identical engi the , Tay, the Tweed, and the Clyde ; and there the difference of speed is to be attributed solely to alight' differences in the form of the ships theme I tit; The chief peculiarity in the form of the Tay titre int roduction, to a considerable extent, of the 14 1 ,Prineipl e at the bow. The differences of these Sp t : 4 going rou n d l oa d e d f rom t h e Clyde to South (lt1 -4 "e equally re mar k a bl e . Th e di stance o f 15 tefolt! tat ute aides w as p er f orme d b y t h e l oa d e d s hi ps es ti , Ailey e , with 425 tons of coals, lh. 17m., being 12 Dour • iw'o d:, with 265 tons o f coa l s , lh. 16 m ., b e i ng td o • n o. 411 waY. With 250 tons of coals, lh. 24m., being 10 - i tt O. do kas li te me n rte a s . ner, the passages of the ships to South -110, f t Pa o f a speed which is the greatest attained by South ft th this class. The Clyde completed t e p Zhat s eikelyde to the Needles at Southampton in 6 'e Tweed in 56 hours, and the Solway in 73 5 ° 134:` distance of 650 st a tute mil e s; in weather by ,111,4 favourable. rmances of the ships give grounds for the 4Y st Li e C a " l ne hop es o f t h e success o f a ll t h e ot h er s hip s t r ib -e 41 0f ib iPanY, and augur w e ll for the prosperity of a tb ti e ut er - colonial communication, which will . con e lest nTo ordinary degree both to the prosperity t 1, lndies and of the mother country. t l it w JI.M.VNIMMINONMII,MO 1 1 4 11 : 111 g th e b ,,, 4 THER. IN THE METRocoPOLIS , .— ih t ;' it bi,,,,"u01e of Saturday night and thrOughout S f. 1 / 4 14 anetC„ 4 strong gale with heavy squalls i 4 1 ; hfreb," fl ' e r t, accompanied at intervals with heavy done to -elle accounts received from sea of or m ,. in 41y er , a , ‘ t° the shipping, particularly on the yels bee gloomy in the extreme, several _ b een lust with all their crews. .ot.v% ith ;me violence of the gale throughout Saturday .e l i;3 1 ; , e g rio 4 l 3: : n d oue of the shipping o v n ess th e Lßl n ver t i3 , u n staLi o i n d . it4fi tc , St. liat a l i Zt's Docks were ready fur se e a, 12p_t the tempestuous state of t s h c e on w s zt o be v r es t s h el 3 s r m, d ,e i r d e t," ‘ " eir departure. Nu o m n ero both u sides 'of the River Is. l ll4,`_Ll ti ed at the wharvesle moderated on Sunday night on c,use. ‘l74ly7 t L ith i l i t t e i a n v ued to le brow strong from S.S.W., (wee squalls. - Such boisterous weather at 1441 , 4°4 of the y y ear has not been experienced for many . • lok.-Pntation from Kensington, consisting of Ilt ' 4 4 l s ilts ,,, b ltrY, Chairman ; the Rev. Mr. Penny, Mr. ' 41 . ganson, Mr. Davies, Mr. Hymill (Vestry 1 4 .1 tie ( tr t 4lll l Mr. Bird, had a long interview with Sir t ` lam at th e H ome - o ffi ce yester d ay morn i n g,l , •c s. t ,e recent di scont i nuance o f li g h t i ng the road m s. of D a lh ous i e an d M r. Bl a k emore , mi ,P-'`iiclienc es of Sir James Graham on Saturday 4 . 1 1 111 1 t the Home-office. tt i ,` ri ll of RouAton and Co., at Lisbon, has e PaYinent. 44; t4 ,ra t d i L"ther of Exchequer Bills examined and l tt ri, the holders as genuine, up to Friday evening is 2 , 1 ' 134 , and their value 18,769,9001. th rd pou-!1 extraordinary fact that a cuckoo was th2d in x ,.. l.l ng forth its: well-known note on 1 uesday, tisl 4 vlr. - I ' l ' l ' 4 , in the parish of Tolpuddle, near Dor -44-niiv he d s obSerVed by three individuals, who dis- Iv -v-_ t he CT about a dozen repetitions of the note, and e a . A r 1,!4----borset County Chronicle. tr:lititti7e been informed, on good authority, that tip,Lllllo t li t tl, a fine vessel of 1,400 tons burden, sailed ifjee el\ alln about the 29th of October, for the coast ~ea, was to purchase of the King of Ashantee Ilird Of :In. blacks, to reinforce the Dutch troops in the hi l t4 lity s "'a, and was to take in fifty soldiers at Hel -411,1 but a „ s a guard. • We mention this fact with great D ash all probably find another opportunity of l i . b e StitntillWntS 011 it. —Anti-Stt very Ileporter. 104dirIttlristruction of Oldham Branch Railway is Ohilrqbpith such unremitting energy and spirit, that l.ge the line, by extraordinary exertions, may * ;*••••Z/ } :, Pened the course of July or August, tot -"Pool Chronicle. 1 . 4 k lit- Sum I ReetFaq, PARKES AND WEBB. % ' 44 Y the , bodies funfortunate men, killed ies 0 these 41 1 • 111 , S t at the late fire in Blackfriars -load, were Gerge's Burial-ground, in the Borough co' h £ tl,e neourse of people ussembled to witness fill-nenrtiland ceremony. Previous to the starting th q . xi , a, Superintendent Murray (M division) 14.4e°listih'itte ofo Mr. Braidwood, informing him that t- riti on es the above division had entered into a tlit t c ?.di wi l . f °r the benefit of tee widow of Webb ; the taah,triars°o4 amouuting to C/- 13s, ld., he also put DREADFUL NIURDER and SUICIDE (Abridged from the Hull Rockingham of Saturday.) Two inquests were held last night at the Scul coates Tavern, Wincolmlee, betore John Thor ney, Esq., Coroner, and a respectable Jury, on the bodies of Robert Hickson, and Sarah Hick son, his wife. After having been sworn, the Jury proceeded to view the bodies. They were found lying side by side on a slight raised platform, in a small, neatly-furnished room in Owens-square, New George-street. The sight was a most appalling one, the throat of the - man being cut from ear to ear, whilst the woman's skull was literally smashed to pieces. The floor was deluged with blood, but partly covered with saw dust. Immediately over the corpses was a portrait of Hickson, painted in oil by himself, and said to be a correct likeness. In another part of the room was a painting of Christ, in the same style as the portrait, and most likely done by the de ceased. The Jury then returned to the tavern, where an inquest on the body of Robert Hickson com menced. Selina Hickson, a child seven years old, the daughter of the deceased, having been told the nature of an oath, which she appeared perfectly to comprehend, was sworn and said,—l am going of eight years old, an d li ve d w i t h m y father and mother. They quarrelled yesterday about marrying. I got my breakfast with them this morning. My father went out soon after break fast. He was -deaf and dumb. He came back at twelve o'clock to-day to his dinner. He came in dripping wet, and mother said she was so poorly she could scarcely wash for him, when he took a razor and cut his throat. He was angry because there was not a dry waistcoat for him to put on. Mother talked to him with her fingers. Father seemed in a passion when they were quarrelling, but I have seen hint worse before. We were getting our dinners, and so was mother when he came in. He took up a poker from the fireside and struck mother four or five times. She fell down on the hearth, and I never heard her speak again. Father took a razor from the cupboard top and cut his throat : then f ran out. Mary Lee was sworn, but her evidence - was unimportant. Francis Lee deposed—l am a mariner, and live in Owen's-court, near the deceased. Between twelve and one o'clock to-day I was getting my dinner, and I heard a screaming in the square. I heard a woman say, " Oh dear, Mr. Hickson has cut his throat." I went in an d found him sat on the floor against the drawers with his head knocking about and his throat cut. His wife was laid on the hearth bleeding. He was bleeding from the throat. I saw a razor lying on the floor partly covered with blood. I have known Ro- bert Hickson four or five years. Never saw any thing to induce me to believe he was not of sound mind. John Binning deposed—l live in Lucas-square, No. 9, and am a dealer in coals. Robert Hick- son has been in my employ off and on more than seven years. Was in my employ to-day as a coal-porter. He was at work to-day till half past twelve. He left Charter-house crane at half-past twelve or twenty-five minutes to one. I observed that he did not look as usual, and he made a sign to me that his depression was caused by his wife having; committed adultery. He said he would shoot the man. I understood his signs, and made him understand he must not do so. This was sometime before dinner. He helped me to deliver four half chaldrons, and was as keen of working as ever. By aJuror—l first saw him depressed on Wed nesday last. He never mentioned any thing re specting being jealous of hi s w ife till th at day. Have heard a man, named Charles Richardson, say that he had walked with Hickson's wife, and : would do so again. I told him he might be ashamed of himself. Richardson worked for me as well as deceased. He is about 20 or 21 years of age, and not married. Charles Richardson was sworn and said—l live in Aldborough-street, and am a coal-porter in the employ of Mr. Binning, Have known Ro bert Hickson eight or ten years. Have worked with him about twelve months. He made a great noise in the street either on Tues day or Wednesday, and seemed angry; but I could not tell what he meant by his signs. - He accused me of having been connected with his wife, but very little. Has never repeated the. ac cusation. He appeared quite lively this morning when he came to our stable, smoked his pipe, and offered me his tobacco box. I saw him at a quarter to one this afternoon at the corner of Charter-house-lane. By a Juror—Was never at Hickson's house but twice; last time was a fortnight ago. Never met his wife at Mr. Binning's stables. Have spoken to her in the street, but nothing more. I never met her by appointment, and have only walked the length of a street.with her when we met accidentally. Will swear that I never knew whether she was man or woman. Several Jurymen expressed , theniselVes as per fectly satisfied that.t.his:•:anitaras was morally guilty of the deaths of the deceased . -•: • ;Sohn Binning was recalled, and questioned by tl~e„Jury. He said—l taxed Richardson' with being too kind with Robert Hickson's wife, the morning after she had been at the stall. He said that was not the first time she had been there. Charles Richardson—l told Mr. Binning that was of no use her going to the stable, as her usband was in bed. The CORONER—You, Richardson, are guilty in the minds of the Jury, and have had recourse to perjury to cover your crime. I have no power over you, and you may retire. If you have caused the deaths of these two persons, I hope you will repent, for the offence is of a most hor rible description. The matter rests within your own conscience. John Hickson examined—l am brother to the deceased, Robert Hickson. About eight or nine years ago, he was very fresh and knocked two young men down in the street. We got him to bed and thought he was all right, but he got up and seized an old sword, with which he got upon a wall. We secured him, and he was quite sane in the morning. The Jury returned a verdict of temporary in sanity, caused, in their opinion, by the improper conduct of one of his fellow-workmen, with re ference to deceased's wile. Immediately afterwards, the inquest on Sarah Hickson, the wife, was held, when the Jury re turned a verdict of " Excusable homicide." DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY NEAR KENDAL. (Abridged from the Kendal Mercury.) A daring highway robbery, accompanied with extreme acts of violence, was committed on the evening of Satur day last, on the Kendal and Sedbergh road, about three miles from the former place. Mr. John Benson, who has travelled that road, as a carrier for upwards of 30 years, was passing along, on horseback, about half-past six o'clock in the evening, when he was suddenly attacked in a furious manner by some ruffians, who sprang out of a plantation by the road side, pulled from his horse, and savagely beaten on several parts of his body. They then robbed him of all the money which he had with him, and which consisted of 451. in bank notes, eight sovereigns, three guineas, and some silver, with which they decamped, leaving Mr. Benson lying senseless in the road. In the struggle the horse made off; and was not found until next day. Soon afterwards a person proceeding home from Kendal market found the sufferer in this deplorable condition, and he was con veyed to the Greyhound public-house, not very far distant from the scene of the robbery, to which place medical aid was promptly despatched. Infor mation of the robbery was speedily conveyed to Ken dal, and Mr. Wright, the Superintendent of Police, being told that one of them was tall and well-dressed, attended with policeman Grime s , went with all speed to the rail way station, to watch the travellers as they booked. Presently, a tall and fine-looking gentleman arrived, and on the sight of Mr. Wright seemed to hesitate about booking.. He was muffled up, and had every ap pearance of a commercial traveller. Mr. Wright imme diately suspected him of being one of the highwaymen who had robbed,Mr. Benson, and went up to him for the purpose of speaking to him. A s soon as Mr. Wr i g h t touched him, he made a terrific spring, and at one bound cleared the whole of the steps at the f ron t o f t h e R a il way S ta tion, but stumbled a little from the very heavy shake he received on alighting. As soon as th e gent l eman i n disguise sprang ofPlr. Wright, determi ne d to secure hi m, also cleared all the steps at a bound, and seized him, when a dreadful struggle ensued, during whi c h b o th were on the ground. Policeman Grimes came up, and, with the help of others , h e was, though with great diffi culty, taken to the station, and from thence was co nve y e d to Kendal on Sunday evening. It has been ascertained that he is a person of the name of Christopher lon, who for some years kept the Black Bull public •house in Kirkland, Kendal, from which he removed to Li7erpool about twelve months ago, where it is understood he has been keeping a low beer-shop. lon had formerly lived as a servant with Mr. Ben son' and knowing his habit of generally pr o c e eding. ' from Kendal on Saturday evenings with a quantity of money on his person, it is presumed he had gone to Kendal for the especial purpose of committing the rob berg. Mr. Benson was so far recovered as to be able to visit Kendal on Wednesday. In consequence of so many alarming and desperate robberies in the neighbourhood, the Secretary of State for the Home Department has been requested that a Government reward might be offered, and a pardon held out to any accomplice. TORY REVERENCE FOR CONSECRATED G BOUND.—The Shropshire fox hounds had a fine roll, on Saturday last. Reynard made his way towards High Ereall, and finally entered the churchyard there, and made repeated attempts to gain the sanctuary of the sacred edifice, by jumping at the windows to gain ad mission. The sportsmen and dogs entered the church yard, pele-mele, galloping over the graves, and poor rey nard was torn piece - meal , —Staffordshire Examiner. ( r ( - r e e l • THE SVNTUESDAY ~ ~ LONDON, TUESDAY ~ , NOIrEIV:i.BER 23, 1841. THE FRENCH NAVY. The Constitutionneloo an article on what it calls the dislocation of the French navy and the discharge of a portion of the crews, gives some details of the way in which seamen are raised, which may be new to some of our readers. It informs us that in the year 1681, when tile number of seamen employed in the commerce of all countries was 20,000, of whom only five to six hundred haled under the French flag, an ordonnance was issued, declaring every man, who should have embraced the profession of a seaman, and been enrolled as such, should, up to the age of fifty, be liable to be called upon for the service of the State, and that this ordonnance, sanctioned by subsequent legislation, is now in force, and is applicable to all seamen whether engaged in the merchant service, or the coasting or fishing trade, al though it has been so far modified in practice, that the men, when taken for the Royal navy, are kept only for a limited time ; and then dismissed with an understand ing that they will not be called up again, unless on an emergency. It appears also that, when a seaman has reached the age of forty years, he is no longer liable to be called on to serve the State. The Constitutionel considers that this law was absolutely necessary, and that it must be in principle still enforced, and observes that the English impress system is but another and more brutal mode of manning the navy. But ou- Contemporary suggests the propriety of further modifir cations and ameliorations, with a view of rendering the service less repugnant than it now is, and which ap pears to be so great that although the registers of the seamen liable to serve in in France show a force 0f107,000, the desire to evade, and the means of evading, the service are such, that, according to the statement of Baron Tupinier, the Director of the Ports, there are only .53,000 really available to the State, and the Constitu tionnel tells us that iu order to avoid this maritime con scription, not less than 12,000 of the best sailors of France arc at this moment engaged in the merchant service of other States. In addition to the regular supply of seamen, there is in France a force called equipages de ligne, which is composed of men taken out of the conscriptions for the laud. The men thus raised and sent to sea become, says the Constitzitionnel, good sailors, and it recommends that this source of supply should be carried out to a greater extent. The system of volun. tary enrolment is not one which our Contemporary sets much value on, for it informs us that M. Lange, a naval commissioner who was sent to England by Admiral Duperre, to study the system of maritime recruiting, has returned with a conviction that it begins to appear insufficient even in time of peace ; but it may here be observed, that it is precisely in time of peace that the difficulty of obtaining recruits for the royal navy must be greatest, for it is then that seamen are able to find employment in the mercantile navy, frequently at a higher rate of wages, and always with a degree of liberty which they cannot have on board the ships of the State. A time of peace, when a sailor can obtain employment in the merchant service, with liberty to change from master to master until he finds a berth to his mind, instead of entering on board a Government ship, where he Must serve for a certain length of time, and without the faculty of change, is not the most fa. vourable for voluntary enrolment. In time of war, when an immense number of merchant seamen must necessarily be thrown out of bread, they must enter into the royal navy or starve. REGULATIGNS OF THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. (From the Medical Gazette.) The Ccuncil of the Royal College of Surgeons has shown some judgment in the new regulations which have recently been put forth. They appear to us to be part of a system which is not yet fully developed, but which we incline to think will be very advantageous to the profession and the public, if fait ly carried out. The amended regulations hare added six months to the study of the practice of physic in a recognised hos pital, making it in all twelve months, but the practice of physic and that of surgery may new be followed at the same time, instead of separately, as formerly ; so that two objects are gained—aa augmentation of study, and a diminution of the time of attendance. The first year, it may be presumed, will be occupied by most students in the laboratory of an hospital or dispensary, or in that of a private practitioner, and the three re maining years at a public hospital and school which has been recognised by the Council as competent for the purposes of instruction. A vacation of three months is allowed in each year, and as the period for the lec tures on anatomy is fixed to be from October to May, the principal part of each annual session must of course be during that season. The time allotted for positive study is twenty-seven months, but by the regulations they cannot be consecutive. We have reason to believe that the diminution of the term preseribei by the re gulations of the 20th of August, 1839. has taken place to meet the wishes of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons, and with the view of equalizing the code of regulations for the three Royal Colleges. A slight increase of hospital study in Edinburgh will now ef fi‘ct this object between, the London and Edinburgh Colleges. The increase of the study of the practice of physic has taken place, we understand, in consequence of the conferences which were held between the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Society of Apotheca rie, in the spring of this year; and, we apprehend, with the view of so arranging ,the system of education, that a member of the College of Surgeons wish ing to praAise as an apothecary, 'May - undergo his examination in pharmacy, and ;stick' points as relate to general practice, by the Society of Apothe caries, without reference to the course of study pre scribed by them, and without having been an ap prentice. The two examinations form one whole ; the one faculty system being divided into two or more parts between the existing constituted bodies, neither inter fering with the other. We do not precisely know whether this was the real object of the parties, but it is quite evident thst the Apothecaries' Act would pre vent its consummation, unless repealed, or its offensive clauses were removed ; and we hope, for the character and honour of all the parties concerned, that one or other will be done. The stringent enforcement which is announced, of the registration of students in London at the College, and by their respective teachers in other places, three times a year, will go far to prevent those false and forged certificates under which many have attempted, and some have obtained, the diploma of the College. Interlineations, erasures, or alterations, now render a certificate inadmissible ; and we hope the Court of Ex aminers and their Secretary will strictly adhere to this resolution. Nothing will, however, fully prevent the evil, but a regular register of attendance kept at each hospital and school ; and we trust the time is not far dis tant when this will be insisted upon every where. The laxity which has taken place amongst teachers of late has been, and is, very extraordinary with respect to the accuracy of these certificates ; and the manner in which some students have falsified them, and then de clared in the most solemn manner that they were true, is more extraordinary still. We hear that the College is instituting inquiries into several acts of this kind, and we trust that the guilty will be punished in such a way as will deter others from committing a like offence. The list of the members for the current year (the College year begins in August), contains, for the first time, the date of each diploma, some of them so far back as 1770, the owners of which, we suppose, are long since dead ; but the Council, it appears, have no means of ascertaining this fact, except by calling on the mem bers to register themselves annually at the College during the months of May and June. No great num ber, it seems, have done this, as most of the old ad dresses have been omitted in the present list, and those -which have found admission are few and far between..r. Asti the Council have, however, an nounced ; atheir idtention to omit the names of all Inember's , Wlth 'shall not have registered in 1842 and 1843, the list will, we have no doubt, soon be come sufficiently perfect. The professed object of the Council is, to furnish the public judges, magistrates, clerks of the peace, boards of guardians, &c., with a correct list of qualified surgeons ; and it is so desirable for the bulk of the profession that such a list should exist, that we hope the wishes of the Council will be aided by all the members to the best of their ability. Mr. Warburton proposed in his bill to tax each mem ber by Act of Parliament, and to make places for a re gistrar, clerks, &c. ; the Council of the College of Sur geons offers to do it for nothing. Independently of the present list, containing the names of several hun dreds, perhaps thousands, who are dead, the new list will do away with a great evil which prevails in many places, and in Ireland in particular—viz., the practice of erasing the name and date from the diploma of a man who is dead, and inserting that of the person who wishes to appear to be a member of the College. Tae Council, it is true, by its late announcement de claring all diplomas to be spurious or forged in which alterations or erasures exist, have struck forcibly at this evil ; but nothing can be so effectual a protection to the public and the profession as a correct list published annually of all qualified surgeons —a list which any one may purchase for Is. When we compare the present regulations for the Museum and Library with those which formerly ex isted, we perceive a great change to the better. The Museum may be said to be open to the public on four days of the week, instead of three, as formerly ; it is no longer a private, but a great public institution. The disabilities under which the members laboured with regard to it and to the Library, have been removed, and a member of the Council possesses no privilege be yond the members of the College generally, except that of electing into the Council. The efforts which the Council have made with the Poor-law Commissioners and the Government, to secure the employment in all public situations of qualified per sons, do them great credit ; and they may rely upon it, that as long as they continue to act for the advantage of the public and of the profession only, they will meet with the support of both. The Manchester Courier, in noticing a fire at Runcorn, states that there is not a single lire-engine in the town or neighbourhood, although there the popula tion is 8,000, and the place contains a vast amount of s hip-building property. LEGALISED MURDER: " Can such things be?" Aye ! can such things be? and in 'the nineteenth century, too, that the enlightened people of this country should not only sanction a law which dooms a fellow creature to death, but congregate in thousands to wit ness his execution on the scaffold ? It is true that such is the fact—it is true that a miserable wretch who had been guilty, in a moment of maddened fury, of an enor mous crime, was doomed, according to law, to die the death—it is true, that he was " hanged by the neck until he was dead"—it is true, that there were thou sands present, men and women, to witness the clenched hand, the convulsed limb, the blackened face, and the heaving chest of the dying victim of an unwise, and worse than an Ashantee barbarian law—nay, it is true, that the last words that reached the ears of the " con demned," were either yells of execration, or sounds of delight at the human butchery about to take place ; last, and worst of all, a portion of the press of the United Kingdom, has been found to defend the practice of extinguishing a life, which God had given, and which no man has a right to take away. . The crime for which Blakesley has suffered thelast extremity of a barbarous law - is indefensible, so far as punishment is concerned, both in -law and-ire ,equity, towards every member of sdelety ; 1 but that any man or any body of men have a right to deprive a human being of existence, we utterly ,deny. We take up a new position upon this subject, and we urge as an argument that the very fact of the miserable wretch having fallen a victim to the barbarous law of his coun try, is a proof that murder is the greatest of crimes. He committed an unintentional murder, so far as the murdered person was concerned, and both law and re- Haien say " Theis Ali& do no murder ;" and yet by a judicial process —a mere form of unnecessary proof—the murder is legalised by the deprivation if the victim of The , privateiadividual---the' subject of accusation —stabs one of_his fellow creatures to death ; the act is proved; the doom of death is pronounced; but in order that the right of taking away life may not be with out its areniplar, the law by its practice must commit another murder, and thereby - sanction that for which the original murderer is doomed to death ! Horror of horrors ! Only think of a human being, possessing many of the feelings of our common na ture, imprisoned, tortured by the presence of others, and strung up, like a mad dog, for the amusenvnt of ruffians, while his father, and mother, and relatives were sitting in sackcloth and ashes—mourning his fate, broken-hearted, thrilling with terror—the hopes of the family blasted, and doomed to an unacquired But we can go no further ; for the more we think of the matter, the stronger is our disgust, anckhe greater our abhorrecee of thepunishinent of death. It is years ago since,in a journal which we trust will be conducted in a manner toeommand the respect of its readers, we advocated the abolition of punishment by death ; and it is with insuppressible pleasure that we find it maintain an honourable consistency upon the subject. We allude to the Morning Advertiser, from which we make the following extract : " Our hostility to the infliction of the extreme penalty is grounded on a firm persuasion that such punishments arc at once barbarous, unjust, and inexpedient. Their barbarity and injustice we have proved on repeated pre vious occasions—though their barbarity and inhumanity stand not in need of any proof. Who can reflect on the circumstance of a fellow-creature being hung up in the public streets, and in the presence of thousands of the mosi, depraved of mankind—for the bulk of the spec tators consist of persons of this character—and not shudder at the thought. And anything at which the mind of the better class of society thus instinc tively revolts, must be of an essentially barbarous nature. But public executions are not only bar kirous, and the offspring and relicts of barbarous ages, they outrage every feeling of decency ; for what can be more indecent than ushering a rational and im mortal being into the presence of his Judge, from a pub lic scaffold, in the very centre of the city ? The law does not allow an ox, or sheep, or pig, or any other ani mal, though without intelligence, and without a soul, to be killed in the public streets, and yet it dooms human beings to be slaughtered by the hands of a person spe cially appointed for the purpose, in the most centrical locality in London, in the presence of tens of thousands of individuals. On the abstract injustice of capital punishments we do not now touch. We have, we trust, made that sufficiently cle it on previous occasions. When the advocates of these punishments undertake to show us by what right, revealed or natural, legislatures or governments arrogate to themselves the right of•tak ing, away the life which the great Creator alone could and did confer:---vie shall be prepared to meet them, and to demonstrate that no legislature or government, either has or can have any such right. We shall then find it no difficult task tp provethat they who claim for themselves the right to deprive a fellow-creature of life, do in effect seek to Snatch from Heaven's hand the balance and the rod, Usurp his rights, and be the God of God.'" In these sentiments we cordially concur ; they breathe the spirit of wisdom and humanity ; and although, for the present, there is no hope of carrying them into practical effect, we doubt not that the time is not far distant when barbarism will give place to civilisation, and legalised murder shall no longer be known in the land. —British Queen. ENGLAND BY A FRENCH ARTIST. 'The following representation of English manners is made by a writer in the Quotidienne : " Two things are much talked of concerning London, the comeliness of the peop:e, and the cleanliness of the streets. For my part I was struck with the ugliness of the inhabitants, and the filth of the thoroughfares. " I was told, again, of the beauty of the banks of the Thames ; I found them very inferior to those of other great European rivers ; scenery or landscape they have none. It is only as a maritime and commercial river that it can be looked upon indeed as marvellous. " We are told, again, that the soil of England is better cultivated than ours. This we may allow, but, on the other hand, France possesses a deal more of pic turesque and graceful landscape and woodland scenery. " The appearance of London is immense, rich, sump tuous ; be it so. But the aspect of Paris is elegant. London is, in a commercial point of view, prodigious ; but it is a mere bodge-podge of things that annoy one. Paris is more complete, more finished. If the London streets are wide, and of interminable length, the streets of Paris have an air of majesty not to be found in those of London. If London, from its wealth, is the first city itt the world, Paris is the first from its intellectual qualities. All that money can give or can procure you will find in England ; not so in intellectual researches. In London people not only wish to be rich, but to ap pear so ; in Paris we are less anxious for public admi ration; we are more modest, and our instincts are far more refined. In London the mansion of a nobleman or of a wealthy man is right upon the street, staring you in the face, courting admiration ; in Paris it is hid den with care in a court and garden, and thus sheltered from the prying eye of the public. "If we acknowledge that the English are a busy people, more stirring than the French, who are so fond of lounging, we must add, that the English appear in the walk as a heavy, calculating species. The French. man, on the contrary, has a vivacious and inquisitive look, animated by a cheerful heart. If an Englishman meets a relation or an intimate friend, be assured that he will not lose a moment, if he is on business, in ex changing a few words with him. The Frenchman, on the contrary, will forget his most important affairs to give himself up to the pleasures of chit-chat with his friend. The two nations put me in mind of the fable of the ' Hare and the Tortoise. " The man who first compared England to a magni ficent steamboat, regular in its march, going and com ing, about its affairs, should coMpare France to a beau tiful sailing iesSel, often impeded in its coarse by con trary winds, but always noble, grand, and picturesque. " It is said that the parks in London are superior to our promenades. I do not absolutely deny that, but the London parks haVe not the appearance that be longs to a 'great city—they are too rural. The little river that flows in St. James's Park displeases me, for it intercepts circulation; and the tame ducks that are on its waters remind me of a farm, and lam inclined to inquire for Clarissa Harlowe to feed them. Some will say that Hyde Park is preferable to the Bois de Boulogne. It is not so —or, if it is, place it to the account of the Serpentine River, which flows through it to Kensing ton. And mark, that the English people, who pretend to be so chaste and so modest, allow little blackguards of all classes to bathe in the waters of this river, so that a noble lady, or a delicate miss, may be sure of finding, when she goes out to take a morning's walk, a naked male population swimming in the river or running upon its banks. " Of a Sunday, you find in the parks itinerant preachers, who gather round them groups, like Punch in our Champs Elysees—sometimes a Wesleyan, some times a Lutheran, mount a chair or a tub, and very often these sermons end in a general fight. All these sacred orators are mere spouters without talent—they will talk and talk for ever. Indeed, I have remarked that there exists in England an intellectual malady, which I should call a mania of being a speaker. " The immorality of Paris is much talked of, parti cularly by the English ; but it is nothing compared to that of London. Would you believe that in a country where religious feeling is carried to austerity, where the Sunday is so sanctified that the most innocent re creations are forbidden on that day, that debauchery reigns triumphant, without restraint—wild, disgusting, hideous. In Paris, vice seems to be accompanied by remorse and shame—there, it is the result of misery, of hunger, or of neglect ; in London, vice is vice for vice sake, from a delectation that is felt in its enjoyment, and may be looked upon as a sort of business among the English. What odds to the disgusting features of de bauchery in London, is drunkenness. " The English are not aware that the focus of in tellect is in Paris, and they fancy themselves original when they are mere copyists. The English are too proud, however, to lay hold of customs actually in fashion with us, but they go and look for types and figures in our former history. The British aristocracy of the 19th century are a proof of my observation. Like the aristocracy of Louis XIV. it is magnificent, luxurious, and hypocritically religious ; and be assured that it is because Louis XIV. danced in the ballets of Fontainbleau that Queen Victoria sings at this day at the concerts at Windsor. The English, therefore, have no originality ; they have only manias." This very amusing, and well-informed ! Frenchman, promises on some future day a sketch of the domestic manners, the ladies, the politics, and on the state of the tender passion in England. , A FEMALE IMPOSTOR. Some. few years ago, a young and beautiful woman made her appearance in the Iles d'Hyeres, and became the attraction of all the gallants of the place, but con fined her favours to the veterinary-surgeon of a regi ment of horse-chasseurs, recently arrived from Africa, and with whom she came to Paris, he being in charge of Arabian horses sent by Abd-el-Kader as a present to the King. She was then known by no other appella five than "La Belle Laure." Yesterday the same being made her appearance before the Correctional Tri bunal, still young and handsome, but meagre, pale, and exhibiting all the traces of long distress or devouring passions. She was brought there on the complaint of a woman, named Dallichamp, and a journeyman boot maker, named Mahuret, who related the following story. In March, 1839, the prisoner arrived at the Hotel des Etats-Unis, by the diligence, under the name of Mme. Dubost de Ligny, acd immediately wrote to Madame Dallichamp, requesting a visit from her, and, on her re fusal to come, went to her apartment, and by talking familiarly of several persons of Lyons known to Madame Dallichamp, gained her confidence, and prevailed upon her to receive her as an inmate, to furnish her with food and clothing, and even money, though the poor woman had no more than what she earned by making umbrellas and parasols, a work she offered to teach her guest. Her first story was that she had formed a too close intimacy with a person at Lyons, named Dubost, an acquaintance of her hostess, who was to come to Paris to marry her. In course of time she changed her tone, and declared that she was the daughter of the Count de Ligny, who had from mercenary motives forced her to marry the Count de Weracqui', who was 70 years of age : that having committed herself with Dubost, she had fled from Lyons, to avoid the vengeance of her husband and father. This new tale only increased ber interest with her dupe, and drew also into the snare the complainant Mahuret. In the course of time the soli-disant Coun ters was delivered of a boy, who was sent to Montargis, the two deluded people paying all expenses. This, however, was not without hope of profit, for by way of recompense the Countess gave them a written engage ment for , 10,000 f. She still kept up the cheat by re ceiving and writing almost daily letters, as from persons of the highest distinction, the postages of which, to an amount of 600 f., were paid by her victims. At length, urged by their well-meaning instances, and probably finding this source beginning to fail her, she went to Aignan•le-Due, near Chatillon, under pretence of im ploring pardon of her offended relatives, but in truth only to explore a new mine. Here, however, she failed, and was taken up as a vagabond. At first, Madame Dallichamp and Mahuret claimed her, and obtained her discharge, paying all the costs. Soon afterwards, how ever, they became enlightened as to the real character of their protegee, and placed her in the hands of justice as a swindler, who hall defrauded them of more than 7,000 f. The enterprising lady, at the bearing, confi dently asserted her being the daughter of Count de Ligny and the wife of the Count de. Weracque, and that she had a right to assume the title of Countess d'Aidemont—that all these branches of her family were rich and powerful, but refused to tell where they or their property were, from fear of the anger of her father. The facts of the complaint, however, being' proved, the triple Countess was condemned to imprisonmer4 for 13 months.—Galignani's Messenger. UGHT P USE YISM. Puseyism is a great and growing evil. Though es sentially and primevally a theological system, it contains within it the seeds of the most absolute political ty ranny. It is impatient of toleration to opinions, civil or religious, which are opposed to itself. It bas all the persecuting spirit of Popery, as t h at sp i r it h a s be en exhibited in inquisiti ons , d ungeons, stakes, and scaffolds. It is even worse th an P opery, inasmuch as, the perse cutions instituted by th e l atter were, in almost every instance, for religious opinions at variance with the Romish Church ; whereas Puseyism takes cognizance of liberal opinions in civil and political matters, and would consign to the dungeons, if not to the scaffold, any one who ventures to question its authority. It ar rogates to itself an authority above that of the Sove reign or the Constitution, and, could it only command a majority in Parliament, it would reduce the Queen to the extreme condition of a mere machine, and would compel her to act as its puppet. _ - Such is the system which is now making such rapid progress in the land, and %%hid), if not speedily at tacked, will soon overrun the entire religious Esta blishment of England. Already three-fourths of the clergy of that Church are deeply tinged 'with this despotic system. Should it ever obtain the ascend ancy in this country—and there is too much reason to fear that it is rapidly tending that way, it will, at one fell stroke, deprive us of all that is' liberal in politics, and deny us the right to worship God according to the dictates of our consciences. The existence of Dissent would be incompatible with its supremacy. It would compel uniformity with a rigorous hand,—it would supersede the Constitution altogether, and demand a univesal and prompt obedience to its new authority, under the penalties of imprisonment and death. Such is the nature of Puseyism. It is as bad re y, than the rankest Popery, whilei re ligiously, sliyt, s and teo worse more civllo be dreaded, than th e R oman lo eto Catholic faith, inasmuch as it works its pernicious pur poses unseen and unt:er false pretexts ; for it assumes a Protestant name though essentially a Popish system.— British Queen. The Antwerp Papers announce that tiv nego tiations for a commercial treaty between Belgium and France are again renewed with activity. It would be gratifying to see a spirit of liberality introduced into the commercial relations of countries with each other, which would benefit mankind at large; but we are sorry to hear opinions decidedly expressed, by persons inti mately acquainted with trade in France, that the class interests there will prove too strong for the Government, and that they will not permit the Ministers to offer to foreigners such equivalents as would be considered by either Belgium or England reciprocities for the favours demanded in return. • CHAMBER OP , OMMERCE.,--. 4 .-Vg p 6oi a l general meting of this body 'was held on Wednesday at the Exchange, S. T. 'Hassell, Es 4., President, in the chair, when motions' were passed 6'l:lavatory o f th e great services rendered b the proprietors of the L on d on Times newspaper, in 'first announcing the names of the swindlers who intended to defraud the leading bankers of Europe, and in afterwards proving the correctness of their information before a Court of justice, at great labour and expense. The opinion of the meeting was, that these eminent mercantile services deserved more than the thanks of the mercantile com munity ; and the Chamber approved of the design of I the London Committee to raise so me suitable and lasting testimonial of the obligation of the mercantile world to the proprietors (as they refuse any ind emn i f i cation), and that a subscription of not more than two guineas from each being g mitttee was headed by five firm be commenced in Hull, to be transmitted to the Lon don guineas Committee, subscription ap pointed to carry out the resolutions,fron-ites'Cielhiamstbibesrc, which were moved and seconded by G. Liddell, James Henwood, T. Hol derness, Charles West, Thomas Wilson, G. Cammell, George Buckton, and John Terry, Esqrs. The Chair man reported that he had received a letter from Sir Ed ward Parry, who will be in Hull this day, to consult the merchants, shipowners, and masters, as to the advan tages of the Caledonian Canal being completed at public expense.—Hull Rocking/win. Several most daring attempts to burn the pre- Mises of Mr. Harrison, a respectable farmer, residing at Hortield Hill, were made in the course of Tuesday night last. The furniture in the reorns of the house was set lire to in ten different places, and but for the most vigi lant attention on the part of the family, must have ended in the destruction of the house, stables, &c. Suspicion has fallen on a girl named Keates, a servant in the house, who is in custody.—B ristol Mercury. The benefits of the Irish Municipal Reform Bill are already apparent in Dublin in various ways; amongst others, Catholics, who have been always entitled to the freedom of that city, but whom the extinguished Orange corporators would never suffer to attain it, are now freely admitted, on producing the necessary proof of their claims. This will, more than anything else, rescue the representation from the Tories. Indeed it is already felt than this is the last time an anti-Liberal can repre sent the city of Dublin. BERNARD CAVANAGH CA. OUT AT LAST READING, SATURDAY.—This fellow,.. whose plausible and successful duplicity completely deceived several of the most eminent scientific and medical bodies in London, has, at last, been detected in his imposture, and he is now serving out his term of imprisonment of three months, with hard at the tread-mill, in the gaol of this town, as a rogue and vagabond, to which he has just been sen tenced by S. Chase, Esq., the Mayor. Cavanagh arrived here on the 12th instant, taking up his quarters at the sign of the Black Boy, a public-house in Broad-street, accompanied by the same man, named Tiernan, who assisted him in pursuing his various sys tems of hypocrisy and imposture, while he was levying contributions upon the public in London. The knave, immediately after his arrival, issued a catching handbill, of which the following is a copy ; " EXTRAORDINARY PIIENO3IENON. " The celebrated Bernard Cavanagh (from the county of Mayo); who has excited so much attention from the medical and scientific world, on account of his excessive powers of 'abstinence, which are attested beyond all doubt, is now in this town, and invites all inquirers into the cause of so singular a phenomenon to pay him a visit at the Black Boy, Reading, during his stay. A few of his philosophical friends in London, wishing to gain som e additional light upon this case, have advised him to give this general invitation, and make no distinct charge for admissions ; but as the expenses of travelling about the country with his brother (who eats lihe other men) will be beyond their means, any friendly donations will be thankfully received." Things went on swimmingly for some days, and the I fellow and his companion were reaping a pretty plentiful harvest, although there was nothing charged foradmission to see " the fasting man," the impostor leaving the gra tuity he looked for to " the liberality of the curious ;" and there is not the least doubt, had it not been for the timely and, indeed, extraordinary discovery of the cheat, that he and his worthy coadjutor would, before they left the town, have walked off with a very handsome sum ga thered from the numerous visitors who flocked to the Black Boy to see this " eighth wonder of the world." He was apprehended with his "Man Friday," Tiernan, on Thursday, through the instrumentality of a Mrs. Hatt, the wife of a labouring man, residing in Crown street, by Mr. Houlton, the superintendent of the Read ing police, upon the charge of being a rogue and vaga bond, and a rank impostor. He was then taken before the Mayor, and the following evidence was produced against him - Harriet Hatt being sworn stated, in substance, as fol lows :—On the preceding evening she went, accompanied by some fri en d s , to see the fasting man, at the Black Boy. She asked him several questions on the subject of his abstinence from food, which he an swered very unsatisfactorily, except that be stated lie had not eaten a morsel of any one thing for the last five years and a half. Witness bought one of his books, containing an account of his life and abstinence from food, for which he was paid 6d.„ and her friends gave him-another 6d. before they left.' ' The next morn ing witness had occasion to go to a Chandler's shop in Southampton -street (which is a long distance from the Black Boy), and while she was sitting in a room behind the shop she saw a man enter, who, notwithstanding his disguise, she was certain was the prisoner. He had a handkerchief tied round his forehead which nearly co vered his eyes, and a large patch upon his nose. As soon as he came in he asked for a saveloy and a quarter of a pound of ham, which he particularly wished to be cut pretty fat, .and a small loaf. He was served with these articles, for which he paid, and then went away. Witness then directly proceeded to the Black Boy, where she discovered that the prisoner had been gone out a short time before, to take a walk; and after wait ing there for upwards of an hour she saw him return, but he ;had then doffed his disguise and appeared as usual. She mentioned her suspicions to the landlord of the house, who then communicated with the police. John Croaker, the landlord of the neck Boy, stated that the prisoner came to his house very late on Friday evening, and inquired if his brother (describing him as a man who carried a pack) had arrived. Witness told him that a man, answering that description, was in the house and in bed. He then showed witness one of his bills, and said that he was the man it related to. He asked if he could be accommodated with a bed, and he was told he could. lie and the man Tiernan had been living in witness's house from that time until they were appre hended. The bill witness saw in the room (exhibited by the prisoner) was placed there without his consent. The impostor, upon being called on for his defence, said it was of very little use his saying anything, as after what had taken place he supposed he should not be be lieved ; and, therefore, perhaps he had better say nothing. At last lie said, " I did eat, fbr the Lord caused me to be hungry." The iNfivon then addressed the prisoner, pointing out to him the disgraceful conduct he had been pursuing in deceiving and gulling the public by gross artifice and imposture, and telling him that it was his determination, at least for a time, to put a stop to his deceptions upon the public. The " fasting" impostor was then sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and hard labour, as a rogue and vagabond. The fellow's worthy colleague, John Tiernan, was then sentenced to one month's imprisonment for hawking without a license. The man with the pack, whom Cavanagh called his brother, had, very fortunately for himself, taken his de parture from Reading, and thus escaped, very probably, a similar punishment. It will xiow be seen if the tread-mill will not bring an appetite to the " fasting" man, and, at the same time, the impostor to his senses. PORTUGAL. The Montrose steamer arrived at Falmouth on Satur day. 'We have received files of Peninsular papers, as well as correspondence from Lisbon. The Montrose ar rived at Gibraltar on the 9th inst. ; the steamer Oriental arrived there on the Bth, and left for Malta on the fol lowing day. The barque Magnet arrived on the 9th from Vourla, and in bringing to went in contact with her Majesty's ship Hastings ; the barque having no qua rantine flag flying, boat's crews of the Implacable and Hastings with their officers went on board to render assistance, when they were all placed in quarantine. Se veral meetings had been held at the health-office, and it was understood that some means would be adopted to remove the men to another vessel, the master of the Magnet having died of plague before her arrival at Gib raltar. The steamer's dates are—from Gibraltar 11th, Cadiz 12th, Lisbon 15th, off Oporto 16th, Vigo 17th. On the 13th, off Lisbon, she passed a French Go vernmen t steamer going southward. LISBON, Nov. 15.—The Finance Minister's budget, which had already been approved of in the lump by the Chamber of Deputies, has since undergone a pro forma examination in detail, the result of which has been the approval of every one of its items without the slightest alteration. The following are in round numbers, the principal heads of expenditure Contos. Home department 1,326 Finance ditto Justice ditto Marine and Colonial ditto Foreign Affairs ditto 232 General charges 1,428 Board of Public Credit for payment of interest on home and foreign debt—viz., for home 2 ,215 debt For foreign ditto 1,075 War department 2,953 Extraordinary charges (instalments on the Pal merston claims, and others) 694 The total amount of expenditure for the year is esti mated at 10,984 contos, and the revenue, supposing the new taxes to produce the sums expected from them, at 10,332 contos. The deficit would therefore appear to be only about 652 contos ; but considering that no new source of revenue in this country has ever brought into the treasury more than two-thirds, at the very utmost, of its estimated produce, it is fair to presume that the same will happen in the present instance, in which case of course the deficit will swell to a much larger figure. One of the opposition journals, in a series of calculations, supported by very plausible reasoning, rates it as high as 3,786 contos. In this, probably, there is some exag geration. The Cortes were to have closed on the 13th instant, but did not, as the budget question could not be got through the Senate in time. They are, however, to be closed to-morrow or the day after. The difficulty of mustering a sufficientpumber of senators to form a House has proved all along a great hinderance to the despatch of business. Three days out of four nothing can be done on that account. The expected recognition of this Government by Russia, Austria, and Prussia, has not yet formally taken place by the appointment of diplomatic agents to this Court. Russia and Prussia have not yet named any; but Austria, I learn, is about to send Baron Mareschal as Envoy Extraordinary to the Queen of Portugal. The Ministers to be sent from hence, besides the Marquis de Saldanha, who has already set out for Vienna, through Madrid, are . Baron Renduffe to Prussia, and M. Ferreira Borges to the Russian Court, both as Charges d'Affaires. These new appointments have added considerably to the expenditure of the Foreign Affairs department. There have been several more failures here. The English house of Roughton and Co., and two Portuguese firms, those of Borges and Bastes, stopped payment last week. A great proportion of the loss in all these three cases, as in the preceding failures, has fallen upon the British merchants here. This has, indeed, been a most disastrous year in Lisbon. DECREE RESPECTING THE PAYMENT OF THE PORTUGUESE FOREIGN DEBT. We publish the following translation of a Royal de cree, dated Nov. 9, 1841, respecting the nature of the revenues to be applied to the payment of the Foreign Debt in Portugal : " We, Donna Maria, Queen of Portugal, &c., do hereby make known unto all our subjects, that the Ge neral Cortes have decreed, and we have sanctioned, the following law : " Art. 1. The Board of Public Credit is to be hence forth charged with the payment of the interest on the external Consolidated Debt, in conformity to the first article of the law of the 15th of July, 1837, whereby that Board was created. " Art. 2. In order to meet this new charge, the Board of Public Credit shall be endowed interest with ter e t s h t eu followingpo n t ditional revenues—viz., he ad s or other allowances of " 1. , The deci n m o a enb i t- m th p e ost sa : r t i h e e by the Board, or in departments sub- Con solidatedheedmlelpcolimoni3e.ae d persons t e e i S t iza impost upon the sale or barter of real porord ;4 3e .. ar;y l Te: he additional three per cent' to be collected at the sea•port Custom-h ouses, and ' hus f . ou o rp e e ) r of c Li en s t b .' o a n t . the Sete Cazas ' (or land- port Custom " 5. The annual sum of 100 contos paid from the cof ferr, 0 6. f ` S The an e n t n e n C l s a n z m as.' of 340 contos, paid from the cof fers of the chief Custom -house of Lis e bon. " § If th e revenues of which this article treats should not produce sufficient for the full payment of the first dividend to become due after the publication of the pre sent law, the Board of Public Credit shall, from the day on which said dividend becames due, receive directly one-third of the revenues of the Chief Custom-house of Lisbon and Custom-house of Oporto, until the sum re quired for the said payment shall have been completed. " Art. 3. The revenues which, in conformity to the dispositions of the preceding article, are to form the additional endowment of the Board of Public Credit, shall be administered and collected by the same Board, with exclusive application to the ends for which they are intended, and shall not on any principle be diverted there from, under the sam e p a i ns an d p e nalties imposed by the to 9th article of the law of the 15th Ju1y,1837, the revenues applied to the payment of the in terest the Consolidated Home Debt. i n regard on incumbent l A nb r e t n . t 4. up l n u n o t r h d e er ß t o h n a r t d th of e mity to thepaymentpnblbioe o r _ f dt.hte,_nienwecohnafrogr•e punctuality the Board is authorised to presentindispenslaablshould Credit, with the issue e a b l s l l o s n o r r o b n o t n i d l e s m pay y a b d l i e s o a n t ntthirnee the months' d money a t t n e n , rk a n o t d , the sums required, provided such discount should never exceed half the annua l interest on the respective loans. •‘Art. 5. If this new incumbency should render it ne cessary for the Board to employ a greater number of clerks, the Government will transfer to the Board, from t h e Treasury or any other finance department, such number of clerks as may be absolutely necessary, pro vided that there shall in no wise result therefrom any MORNING SUN increase of expense, however small, nor any injury to the service of the Treasury or other department. " Art. 6. All legislation to the contrary is repealed. (Signed) " The QUEEN. (Countersigned) " ANTONIO JOSE D'AVILA. " Palace of Necessidades, Nov. 9, 1541." AN APPEAL TO THE GENEROUS PUBLIC. TO THE EDITOR OF TEE SUN. SIR-I observe with pleasure in your valuable Paper, there are contributions and subscriptions open for the relief of the distress of the labour ing classes of the town of Paisley. My anxious prayer and wish is to see a general fund, call it the British :National Fund, for the relief of every distress of the manufacturing classes throughout England, including printers, tailors, me chanics, and every trade that is in want of employ. If the goodly inhabitants of every market town and large village in Eng land were to form Committees composed of gentlemen and respectable tradesmen, and so licit subscriptions for the same, I think great good would be done if the head ofevery family were to subscribe Is. per week, every Society of the different trades who are in employ ls. per week, servants in every establishment that is in constant employ—in fact, every person who is not in actual want, I feel assured would come forward with their Gd. per week, others ld. per week, according to their means. This, col lected with the bounties of Royalty (if applied to our beloved Queen would be at the head of so glorious a cause), the nobility, and gentry of this country, would procure for every starving family in England daily bread. Oh ! then, let not a widow's prayer or appeal be made in vain. She seeks not gain or fame— she is a humble and unknown individual, who feels that if something is not done for the relief of the thousands or our distressed country men, they must die in our streets from hun ger and cold. What a disgraceful record in the annals of Great Britain, to be handed down to posterity that England's indus trious sons were allowed to starve and die in this our land of plenty ! May God put it into the hearts of those men who have so much of this world's treasure, to come forward with their 200/., or 5001. They well know, where much is given much will be required--he that giveth to the poor, lendeth to the Lord. A WIDOW. DRAMATIC INTELLIGENCE. There is a strong rumour (we can yet treat it as nothing else) that we arc not only to have C. Kemble, but his daughter, Mrs. Butler, again on the stage after Christmas. This, in fact, as tar as regard one of the individuals we have named, is only a repetition of infor mation which we communicated to our readers several months ago, when we adverted also to the supposed cause of the re-return of C. Kemble to the stage. Since then we were told (as we believed) that there was no such reason for the renewed experiment of our modern Betterton ; but the story is revived, and it seems put upon a fair footing when it is said that the veteran still hankers after a new opportunity for public exhibition on the boards of Govent-garden ; and we are most happy to hear that his health and strength are such as to en able him to sustain parts like Hamlet, the Stranger, or Penruddock. With regard to the statement that C. Kemble is to be supported by Mrs. Butler, we must be permitted to doubt it until the intelligence reaches us in a more authentic shape. We can see no sufficient ground for such a course, and many against it, with out adverting to the facts that Mr. Butlr is a rich man, and that Mrs. Butler always avowed her aversion to a profession to wh.ch she was only driven by the necessi ties of her family. There is another report current of considerable in terest, to which we have not hitherto adverted, because we waited to hear some confirmation of it. We allude to the assertion that Mr. Young also is about to revisit the glimpses of the foot-lamps, and to go through a round of his principal characters. One of these ru mours seems inconsistent with the other, for C. Kemble and Young would take much the same line of parts— Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, &c. lf, indeed, they could be induced to appear in the same tragedies, as for in stance in Othello, it would form a most singular attrac tion ; but Young would be quite sufficient of himself to fill a theatre for many nights. They could hardly act together in Venice Preselect, for though Young was and would be famous as Pierre, a younger tragedian than Mr. C. Kernblc, at seventy, must be found for Jaffier. It is said that the Queen has especially re quested Mr. Young to take his place again upon the boards, that she may have an opportunity of seeing what good tragic acting of the old school really is ; but we doubt the truth of what we are told upon this point now just as much as we did a season or two ago, when a report of the same sort was got up in town as an ex cuse for C. Kemble again to come forward in public. Such an excuse cannot be wanted by Mr. Young, if he think fit to give himself the trouble of getting up some of his great parts. He retired in the vigour of h:s life, and that only a comparative!y few years ago ; and if he will consent again to gratify the town, all we can say is, that the town ought to be, and will be, very much obliged to him. We mentioned seine time since that the Sub• Co mmittee of Drury-lane had come to the resolution of ex pending a considerable sum of money upon the house beyond what was originally calculated. It now appears that Mr. Beazley, the architect of the theatre, has made his report, and the result is, that 2,000/. will not cover the necessary outlay. Of course, in a building of such magnitude, even 2,0001. will go a comparatively little way ; but when, as some months ago, it was ge nerally stated that 5001. only would be expended by the Committee, the inadequacy of the amount could not fail to strike everybody. We think that the pro prietors will have reason to think themselves very well off if the whole of the first year's rent to be paid by Macready be not absorbed by the inevitable repairs. We are happy to learn that these works will not inter- fere with die commencement of Macready's experiment on the 27th of December next, as we announced early in the autumn. Of course, under the terms of his en gagement at the Haymarket, he will not be able to lend his personal aid as an actor until after the 15th of January. We see that Webster still keeps in his bills the announcement of Macready for such parts as Wol sey, king John, &c., and if they really are produced towards the close of the season at the Haymarket, the performances will be very useful to Macready as a spe cies of public rehearsal before he undertakes them on his own boards. The great success of Peake's compound comedy Court and City at Covent-garden gives us unfeigned pleasure : it will fill up the off-nights of Miss A. Kemble's vocal performances very admirably, a n d we hope profitably. Madame Vestris will have some cause until the mi ddle to regret that she deferred antd t h h e e tphie r e e nc p e r t e o. s a entatio n of it from last season ; and certainly to put it in rehearsal y of it No h v y em- in ddlela fair chance. f just ay. o afterfavour o f some C h Christmas, s o t m t bees; pieces 1840, asbeen received with the hear tiestgb e e a r , n c l e 8 approbationl , wasnevertheless ;hardly and it whatever giving h This was throwing co ld Water upon capabilities it with a yen name), we will venture to 13 s part (under a different say that the great tragedian peformance in W. Parse the e ssor has made it. The comedy combines the comic i n c o s t uc observe that Miss. to render it what his company, whole strength of th e company, isexcellently acted throughout. Gce.llebntily. We Romer, Wilson , a nd iu eet are singin g at Birmingham, and we hope to good houses. It is much to be lamented that they should at this mo ment be, as it were, banished to had been driven away by the success of Miss A. Kemble. W e have often said that it is the fault of our English opera singers, and of themselves only, that they are not now at Drury-lane. Had they rallied round Eliason as they ought to have done, and supported him heartily in his undertaking ar Drury-lane, they might have had good salaries, and have been in the enjoyment of a re putation which would have rendered Miss A. Kemble's triumph less complete. We hear that Eliason has turned his attention to opera in another department— as a composer—and that he has at this moment ready a piece which has met with the bigb approbation of all the musical judges who have bad an opportunity of hearing it. We do not know the subject, but we un derstand that Eliason has taken care to avoid the error of many modern composers, by procuring a well-con structed and an interesting story. It is a singular fact that Meyerbeer was obliged to come to Paris in order to obtain words adopted to his style of composition. Scribe has furnished him with them. When C. Kean quitted London it was generally supposed that he woul d return to the Ha y market be fore the end of the current season. It now appears that he is not expected in town until soon after the 15th of March, when Webster will commence his new - s eason. As soon as C . Kean shall have gone throug h a few of his princ i p al p arts, he will brin g o ut the play, with a Spanis h stor y , which Sher idan Kn it, ne w l" has written for him. He will be su pported in ow- , an d in the other plays where a tragic actress of ern • irience is re quired, by Eden Tree, who has been perform ing him at Liverpool, Manchester, &e. We shall with be m os t happy to have her among us once more , b vinced that she does not consult her own being con reputation by being only seen in London at long intervals. S P unday Paper. The severe indisposition of the Very Rev. the Dean of Down, at his residence near Downpatrick, con tinues.—Belfast News Letter. CHURCH-RATE QuAsHED.--On Thursday a meeting of the inhabitant household ers was summoned to be hld at the parish church, Stoke, to levy a Church rate. The notice was short, and not extensively pub lished. The people, however, met in numbers, and did their duty by quashing the rate.— StaffordskireExam iner. BRISTOL, SUGAR MARKET, Nov. 19, Sugars remain very firm, and the better qualities rather dearer. We have still the same observation to make re lative to our market ; " hardly any thing doing for want of a supply." We have no Mauritius, no Bengals, and the show of West India, during the Week, not worth notice.—Bristol Mercury. ~• 5