The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-12 00:00:00

- EVENING SUN PETITION TO TIIE QUEEN. We have great pleasure in laying the following peti tion to her Maiesty before our readers. It was carried by a very large majority at a public meeting at the King's Arms Tavern, Philip-lane, Wood-street, and it does great honour to tho gentlemen assembled upon that occasion : TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. The Petition of certain Merchants, Manufacturers, and ir - others, agreed to at a public meeting, held at the King's Arms Tavern, Philip-lane, in the City of London, on Saturday, the 9th of October, 1841, Most Humbly Showeth, That your Majesty's petitioners, with hearts full of gratitude for your Majestys expressed sympathy for your suffering people, have learned with sorrow, alarm, and indig na ti on, that the Parliament has adjourned with out taking into its consideration the humane and wise • suggestions so earnestly recommended in your Majesty's graci ous speech on the assembling of the present Par - liament. From our daily pursuits, being all engaged in, and depending upon trade, your petitioners can, of our own knowledge, bear witness that There is a large portion of your Majesty's subjects, and that the most productive . and deser v i ng , una bl e to o b ta i n a sufficiency of the neces saries of life, in consequence of the artificial price to which they have been raised by unjust legal enactments, and the great reduction that has been made, of late -Years, in the price of human labour. .Your petitioners, with thei perfect knowledge that there are hundreds of thousands of our fellow-subjects in a condition bordering on starvation, and that daily ,numbers are dying from actual want, cannot contemplate the coming of winter without the most painful fears. Your petitioners, therefore, humbly and most earnestly Pray your Majesty, that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to use your Royal authority; and dismiss the pre .l, sent unfeeling House of Commons, the majority of which has not faithfully represented the desires and wants of your Majesty's people; but, to the great dishonour and injury of the nation, has disregarded alike their prayers and your Majesty's benevolent and just recommendation. Your petitioners earnestly pray your Majesty to call - together a new Parliament, that the cause of the present wide-spread and still spreading misery be immediately considered and some remedy found for your people's Sufferings, that they die not for want, surrounded by plenty, the gift of an all-bountiful Providence, and the results of their own industry; nor, like a neighbouring nation in the last century, be goaded by hunger and in justice into revolt against the institutions of their country ; institutions which your petitioners believe capable, if ad m i n i stered b y your Parliament in the spirit ofjustice, of giving protection, encouragement, and hap piness to all living under them. Fervently imploring the God of all to bless your Ma • • jes.y s efforts for the good of your people, Your petitioners will ever pray. INSURRECTION IN SPAIN. It has been ascertai,,ed that the whole is the work of secret French agency • the C ommerce taxes, not 111. counselled t Guizot onlyhe movement , but a ' higher per sonage, with having . The latest telegraphic despatch says that O'Don nell had already begun cannonading Pampeluna, and that the city not being able to resist the attack, had declared for him. At Vitoria no struggle at all took place. The Marquis de la Alameda and Ge r mend Piquero declared for Christina on receiving an .L order brought by Senor Egaua, and probably emanating from the provincial deputations. At Riboa the same 41, determination was shown ; this city is one of the strong `• holds of the Moderado party. St. Sebastian still held out for Espartero, and General Alcala, commandant there, having gone on towards Ber gara to suppress a movement, on his way to succour Ribero, retrograded to Tolosa on receiving a telegraphic despatch. Alunagorri, according to the Moniteur Parisien, has a hor e spoused th e cause of the insurrection. Don Carlos is ,tly to publish a proclamation to his partisns, enjoin them to strict neutrality in this quarrel, a which was not their's. But it is not the less certain that a great number of the officers who have rallied since the Ber taxa convention, already follow the banner of O'Donnell. The Gazette de France states that the French Go 11ln:tent had received hostile communications from r , 4dr hl, and that, in consequence, troops were sent off i, ll Saturday to the Pyrennees, immediately after a ' D oneil of Ministers. a The Bayonne Journal, the Sentinelle des Pyrenees, dates up to the 7th, and states that on Sunday, the 3(1 ,.; two hundred men of the 12th Light Infantry e ntered th e c i tadel of Pampeluna to reinforce O'Don 4alf e ll- In the aft ernoon a squadron of lancers an d ••b a company of infantry, the garrison of Tafalla, five leagues from Pampeluna, reinforced General Ribero. On the same day a convoy of rations was in tercepted; it was sent by the Alcade of Los Arcos , t 1) O'Donnell, with a letter, offering Lim that he might have all he wanted. O'Donnell then intimated to the Captain -General that if his communications were inter ; 'tepted he would bombard the city; but the Captain -Gene ral on his side sent far the relatives of Senores Carriquiri and Ribeo, merchants at Pampeluna, and who h a d ret i re d -to the citadel w i t h O'Donnell, and told them that they should answer with their lives for any harm that should 'come to the city. On the 4th a battalion of about 500 strong from the regiment of Gironne came to augment the garrison of .itnapeltina. It remained twenty-four hours at Villaba, two kilometres from Pampeluna, undecided whether to de ,.elare for Christina or for Espartero; but a detachment cim. the s ame reg i ment persuaded them to return to • 'ay. On the same day several of f icers, amongst whom Wse•O'Donnell's brother, entered the citadel. !IliAccording to correspondence from Bourdeaux, Gene- Leon was t o p roc l a i m the Regency of Christina at at zda Vitor drid 'ia.whilst G e n era l Pi quero should do the same - On e of O'D onne ll' s fi rst acts was to hoist a standard on the citadel, bearing the device—" I sa b e ll a t h e Second for ever, and the Regency of her august Mother." It appear that this is the preconcerted cry of war. General Ribero has ordered all the detachments of ;:„ 4 , 1 1c4 F105, Ronce vaux , U r d ax , Z ugarramur di , Eli sondo, un whers in the five towns to concentrate their force Pampeluna. 111 The citadel of Pampeluna was built by Philippe e Second to keep the Navarrese in subjection It one of the strongest in Europe, being situated on it ro ck, and h av i ng f i ve b ast i ons of stone, with ditches, lunettes, tenailles, and ravelins; every ditch is Icaandeil, In the midst of the citadel is au arsenal, l l gence by five streets communication may b e h a d w i t h p e five basti ons, which have casemates to lodge 10,000 en with three months' ammunition. It is separated full th e City by a n es pl ana d e , w hi c h l eaves t h e cannon I LI room to play upon the ity, and towards the oen t)lin try it is surrounded by c marshes' which render p ap -14'aolles impracticable. :TIDE XPEDITION TO CHINA. T he (From the Bombay Time s .) em' roncy to be pursued by the new expedition is p e Y as much the reverse as possible of that previously oe e -late d ill The conditions prim ar ily pr o p oun d e d are f lu :pore to be offered. These of course will be re , stri,. and ulteri o r measures procee d e d w i t h . T he vintst blockad e along the southern and west e r n coast hilt te , e i altnediat e l'y i nst i tute d. N o s hi ps w i ll be per il% ti to enter or to leave the river. Peace and war can the ; and we ha ve n o w f or th e fi rst t i me to teac h 'Paltesihinese that w e are rea ll y i n earnest; that we are not ,f 4rts, - ng with them i n a d ou bl e sense —b atter i ng t h e i r by th e and more th an pay i ng f or the damage we have done al': eno rmous prices given i n spec i e f or t h e i r teas. at care will be taken to avoid unnecessarily irritating - WhoraPla of Cant on , w h o are un d erstood to be on the le ss :'avourably disposed towards us. It is not with a help ll. Populace b ut w i th an arrogant nation that we war. eu ps. e qedition a f ter th i s will sail northward, and oc thr the beautiful island of Amoy, deeply embayed in I.orillutoasin land opposite the middle of the great island of th e ~ a. From this a part of the force will proceed in Aepeuirection of Chusan, which will not, however, we e , i '!ft, be taken possession of till a good many months t eel r s e ; the sickness having been so prevalent last Sep thes:r and October that it is considered better to let le„ 1: ,illontlis pass over before we trust our troops into a where last season so many of them found graves. igil°, however, on th e ma i n l and, opposite Chusan, :.th e be occupied as a place where communication with luretuterior, and good provisions may probably be se ,ilaiddrand whence a descent on Chusan can easily be whenever such a measure is considered expe- A s i i i* Uere and at Amoy the expedition will re c't six months—the delay at home of making 'si gn 11.ew appointments after Admiral Elliot's re ;then had been intimated, and his namesake's (1 is iduct admitted, having cost us another year. low ()11 as the tempests blow over, and the Yel win ea becomes again accessible, the Plenipotentiary tre l l: ne eed in person to Pekin, accompanied by the r 'Part of the squadron as far as ships of such bur l% be navigated in safety, and will probably have jeacset be with the Emperor under the 68-pounder Plif te :e.s of the Nemesis, Phlegethon, Proserpine, and e eers _ iron, steamers. Ulterior measures after this, of is t i t b e e , tnust as yet be matters of conjecture, but what he,relikeaa•j_tist stated, so far as it extends, may, think, •Tli e un• sti e i -nt eution, of course, is to compel from - the Cc • P~tatallistant indemnification for ell our public and lo sse . axp ed . s , compensation for the expense of Isait y. , Ilion required to constrain their own in !Nle an d to chastise their crimes ; with full and wn Oured cal ement for the insults which we have hei,list..,at their hands. These things refer alone to 0 44 h r,_ oee l , 4 ' Te_ho, Plenipotentiary is authorised to insist on e fend treaties as may ensure the maintenance 1 4 , - " ° . 4 1, - th e 0. 10 1 equitable footing for the future, so as to Z n l ens t _auce of such misunderstandings and col assity, of .ucise which have already occurred, or the Laapplied such rough remedies as that just about to eogs k i ses t ( 2 cuye them. Of course, with a power which i7Psts ser. , : :lo virtu e in treaties—no obligation in the `‘lfeficia,'tt agreements longer than they are considered 1, 4 444. .to to .c t aelf ; which from the Emperor d0wn ..414;f the meanest mandarin is not only false gaiseho. the of lies, b ut ostentatious and proud of ttte74.,' erely di p l omat i c document, however e°la Nt::r s „ v . ain vail rvauce, us ; and f o r ce or f ear a l one must We cannot for ever keep our ehe r ,,. l Chinese seas to protect us ; aryl from trea seise 4 A tnerefore, we are left no alternative but to ourseiv!" retain portions of territory adequate to protect ven ial , against the practice of those tinciples of uni eps_., ad faith which the Chinese havo P chosen to pre tr44l: themselves in all public arrangements, in con e iniction to the rest of the human race throughout ha earth, The vaireewtsi expressed by the mission which uc,tiv Jus t left u s the tiro those of men not to be trifled with ; line since Tartar arroo - ance ruled 4 4.ti na ' w ill the ft:tal error into which we have so in etirt,a_l,lepra, corrected, of fostering the belief that em we is above and beyond the rules which regulate bum: she is _ her pleasure, every member of the huin STATE OF THE POOR. MYSTERIOUS CASE. MANCHESTER, Our. 9.—This day, Mr. Richard Thel well, lately carrying on a most extensive business as a jeweller and silversmith, in St. Ann's-square, in this town, was brought before Messrs. Maude, Walker, and Armitage, on suspicion of being concerned in a very serious robbery, which was committed on his premises about seven weeks ago, when property to the amount of 9,000/. was stolen. A man named William Moobay was placed in the dock along with him, who had been employed as a porter in the establishment. Owing to , the singular nature of the charge, and the amount of property in question, the case excited the utmost inte rest, and the Court was crowded to excess. Mr. Thel well was some time ago made a bankrupt, and the rob bery had been committed at the time the assignees were in possession of the property, and when the bankrupt and his friends were in treaty for the purchase of it. Mr. Saunders, the Solicitor under the fiat, appeared in support of the charge. Mr. Thelwell was defended by Mr. Greene, Barrister-at-law. In stating the case Mr. Saunders said the robbery had been committed on the 22d of August last. The as signees under the fiat were chosen on the 12th of May, when a person named Horton, a jeweller in London, on behalf of himself and several others, applied to the assig nees not to proceed to the sale of the property forthwith, but to allow it to remain as it was, merely selling by private contract, to give the friends of Mr. Thelwell an opportunity of coming forward and purchasing it in one lot. The assignees, knowing that when the property was under Mr. Thelwell's control a previous robbery had been committed, two valuable communion services being stolen, felt that there was some danger from repeated at tempts of the kind, and employed a watchman to remain on the premises all night, and afterwards all day on Sundays. He did so for three weeks, and was then dis charged from further attendance on Sundays, by Mr. Thelwell's order, without the knowledge of the assignees. The robbery was committed on the third or fourth Sunday afterwards, when the man was absent. Sus picion attaching to Mr. Thelwell, it was found that on Saturday, the 21st of August, the day before the rob bery, he had taken his place by the P.m. train from Manchester to Parkside (the place of junction for the trains from Manchester, Liverpool, and Lancaster to London), not in his own name. Thence he had gone to Lancaster, also in a wrong name ; and on being asked to account for thi s c i rcumstance, just said he had gone there to see a friend, and then that he had gone to see a young woman. He had left Lancaster on Sunday after noon by the train which arrived at Parkside in time to meet the 7 P.M. train from Manchester to Birmingham, and by that train he had proceeded to London. In in vestigating the robbery, it had been found that a large heavy box had gone by that train from Manchester. On the morning of the robbery, during the hours of Divine Service, a woman saw two men carrying a box along Half-moon-street (a retired street near Mr. Thel well's shop). They were traced into King-street, where they got into a coach that was waiting, and drove to a place very near the house of the prisoner Moobay, in Hulme. The box could be traced no further than the railway station on Sunday evening. Superintendent Saw ley, of the Manchester police, proceeded to London, where, after some difficulty, he found Mr. Thelwell, on Tuesday evening, at the White Horse, Fetter-lane, in company with Mr. Horton, and two persons who said they were from Birmingham. Sawley told Mr. Thel well his suspicions, and advised him to go back to Man chester immediately, which he did. Nothing beyond a very strong suspicion was entertained until last night, when a lett e r was rece i ve d f rom M r. O' Brien, a magis trate of the county Sligo, accompanied by a copy of de positions then before him, from which it appeared that a man named Pat Rafferty had been there charged with stealing 70/. from a James Thelwell, the brother of the prisoner. Thelwell gave a very suspicious account of the way, in which he became possessed of the 70/., and Rafferty, whose sister had cohabited with James Thelwell, afterwards made a confession implicating the two prisoners and James Thelwell (who had been employed as porter by his brother) in the robbery in St. Ann's-square. He stated that the 701. had been handed over to him as his share of the property, various portions of which had been sold in Derbyshire and other places, and a fruit speculation had been there entered into by himself and James Thelwell. A quantity of this fruit was traced to the possession of the prisoner Moobay. On the premises being examined after the robbery, it was evident that no force had been used except from the inside. It was pretended to be said that a box-lock had been broken open, but the box had b een regularly and carefully unscrewed ; not a bit of wood remained in the worms of the screw, which would have been the case had it been forced off. It was suspected that there were du plicate keys, and that the premises had been entered in that way. This was strenuously denied, but it ulti mately turned out that there were duplicate keys, which had been missed since the time the commu nion plate was stolen. Beyond all doubt • the rob bery had been committed by parties well ac quainted with the promises, as was shown by their taking the valuable property and leaving the refuse. Superintendent Sawley was then sworn, and stated, that he was sent for on the night of Sunday, the 22d of August, by Mr. Gillow, who was in possession of the shop under the assignees. The outer yard door was un locked, and the door leading from the yard to the shop was open. He had no doubt the lock of the box had been unscrewed inside. He made inquiries, and on Monday traced the box up to near the prisoner Muobay's house. He searched the house, but found nothing. Moo bay was much alarmed. At the railway he learned that , the porters had placed a very heavy box on the luggage carriage of the seven P.M. Sunday train, but they did not know whether it was passengers' luggage, and none of them remembered carrying it up stairs. He then went to! London, and found Mr. 'Bidwell there on Tuesday ; be• then knew all about the robbery, as he said, by a let ter from his son that morning. He had only arrived in London at six on Monday morning. It was supposed in Manchester that he had gone on the Thursday pre viously, and this led to the inquiry about his going Parkside and Lancaster. The prisoner's brother James, Rafferty, and his sister, who had lived with James Thel well, had for some time dealt in fruit up and down the country, but they suddenly disappeared soon after the robbery, and nothing was heard of them till the com munication was received from the Magistrate in Ireland. Thomas Lee stated that he had been employed as a private watchman on the premises, in the first instance by Mr. Thelwell himself, and afterwards by the assig nees. He was instructed to remain on the premises from seven at night till eight in the morning. He then re ceived orders to watch on Sundays, and did so for two Sundays ; on the third Sunday Mr. Henry Thelwell, Mr. Thelwell's son, told him his father said there was no oc casion to stay on Sundays, and he discontinued it. He then used to leave the premises between seven and eight on Sunday morning, and return at night. They had a large dog, which he always left in the yard on Sunday mornings. On the night the robbery .was discovered they found the dog shut up in the cellar. It was a very ferocious dog, and would not have allowed a stranger to place it there. ' Mr. Gillow used to let wit ness in and out. He went with him to let him in on the night of the 22d of August. The witness then described the state in which the doors were found. Cross-examined--Mr. Gillow, the person employed by the assignees, knew that witness did not watch on Sun days before the robbery, and did not comploin of it. He was paid half-a-crown extra, by Mr. Thelwell, when he watched on a Sunday. Mr. Gillow deposed that he was employed by the assignees to keep possession of the property. When he first went a watchman was only employed in the night ; but on the 26th of June, Mr. Whitmore, one of the assignees, gave instructions to Mr. Thelwell to put a watchman on on tho Sun day. Mr. Thelwell afterwards said to witness that it was very unnecessary, as, he had not been in the habit of keeping one either at nights or on Sundays. Tho watchman was put on on Sundays, and was paid by Mr. Thelwell, on behalf' of the assignees. On the Saturday evening prior to the third Sunday of the watchman being employed, Mr. Thelis ell said it was very un necessary—it was only incurring extra expense to the estate. Witness told him he certainly ought to know best, bid if the assignees knew of the watchman being discharged they would find great fault. He was after wards discharged from Sunday attendance unknown to the assignees. During the Sundays he watched, Mr. Thelwell or his sons let him in and out, as they did until the 13th of August, when the assignees excluded them from the premises ; and witness then took posses sion of the keys and let the watchman in and out. On the morning of the robbery he was let ,Out a little before half-Past seven, and the premises Were left perfectly s ecure . The keys were in witn e s s ' s po ssess i on all day till he went to let the man in at night, and found the premises as described. Cross-examined—Did not inform the assignees of the watchman being discarded on a Sunday. Did not in form Mr. Hobson, by whom he was immediately em ployed, but concurred with Mr. Thelwell, owing to the experience he had had, in thinking it an unnecessary ex pense on'the estate. The reason was this—Mr. Thelwell had then every expectation of coming forward with secu rity to take the stock, which he would have made more of for the benefit of the creditors than the assignees could possibly have : done : and witness knew if he had told the assignees of the discharge of the watchman on Sundays, they would immediately have closed the shop, and not given Mr. Thelwell another chalice of coming forward with security. His reason for not informing the assig nees was out of friendship to Mr. Thelwell. He told him it would not do to let the assignees know, other wise it would put a stop to the whole negotiation. Did not think Mr. Thehvell was acting incorrectly. He ac knowledged he was remiss in not informing the assig ness that the watchman had been discharged on Sundays immediately after Mr. Thelwell was excluded from the premises on the 13th of August. Thelwell' Resexamined—Mr. u t o i a df t i Augustoh n a v e with t a ; po t an h ye e p as a s r i t g o n f ee i s t liNavadsnott osehcaltAdir.oTn ,sellin3etvrhgoo exPe h n e ses. The r from the Irish Altio b istrate, an d t h e deposi tions taken by hi m , h av i ng been handed up to the bench, Mr. Saund ers as k e d to have the prisoners remanded till w t h h e a had shown information every iin the parties cou ld b e b rought over from Ireland. Mr. Green e o p pose d the remand, as far as Mr. Thel dwieslplomsiatisonc,onntcearllnetitesM, tro g . Thelwell a e ll l 1 his power to the police, or to appear at any time when the Court thought proper to call him before it. In point of fact, there was not th e s li g h test evidence in the world against Mr. Thelwell. First of all, he was shown to be altogether absent from the place ; he went from Lancaster direct to London. It was attempted to throw suspicion upon him, because a large heavy box left the Manchester station the same night, and crossed Mr. Thelwell on -the way ; the supposition being that he bad got hold of that box. But how was that to be made out? The box undoubtedly left the Manchester station by the Manchester carriages, but the train from Lancaster consisted of different carriages, which wero The following letter speaks for itself. It is evidently written by a man imbued with religious feelings, and endeavouring i, ; o fr o o r n s i h t o h u e l l d ig b h e t . . s o u f b S ie c e r c i t p d o tur t et s o u a c s i e i e u r n ta n i l i e i r w it l e ly d the virtuous suffering in a land flowing with plenty. When the people find they are oppressed with taxes, and cannot obtain food to satisfy the cravings of hunger, whil e t h e no bl es and clergy, and all the higher classes have abundance, are they to blame in quoting Scripture as an authority against kingly government ? The conversation between the two boys gives a true picture of the condition of tens of thousands throughout the country—honest men willing to work, but unable to find employment : To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR —A circumstance came to my knowledge the other day which brought a passage of Scripture to my mind. if you will insert, it in your paper, with a few observations, you will oblige.—Last week as my daugh. ter was walking from Aterstham to Reigate, two boys were walking behind her, about thirteen or fourteen years of age ; one said to the other, " I have never suffered so much in my life as I have this last fortnight. If I could get some work to get food, I would not care about having any place to sleep. lam determined to go to gaol, I will not go so any longer." The other said, " Not go to gaol ?"—" Yes, I shall then have food and a place to sleep." Chap. xxx. of Proverbs, 7,8, 9 verses.— " Two things have I required of thee, deny me them not ; give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me ! lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, who is the Lord ; or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Sir, a wise Government will endeavour so to rule, that all may be so situated as not to place any one in poverty, to be tempted to steal—or rich, as to forget God. When God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt into the land of Canaan, every family had land, and if they borrowed money on it, every seven years it went back to the family again! so that none could get the land from their poor brother ; but Samuel told them if they had a king how ho would serve them ! he would take the best of their land, and give it to his favourites ! So that the king's favourites have got almost all the land ; they have forgotten God, because they are rich ! lam con fident there Will be no prosperity for the people till kingly Governments are done away. Your's obediently, W. C. Southwark, Oct. 11. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert left the Castle this afternoon for an airing, poney phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, attended by Lord Charles Wellesley and Colonel Bouverie on horseback. Sir James Clark arrived at the Castle this af ternoon at half-past five o'clock. Dr. Locock left the Castle to-day. The Duchess of Kent walked for some time this morning on the terrace of the Castle, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, and afterwards rode out in a poney phaeton. The Princess Royal has been taken out twice to-day. Prince Albert, accompanied by his Grace the Duke of Wellington, had an excellent hunt with the beagles about 12 o'clock, in the Great Park. His Royal Highness was attended by Colonel Bouverie, Mr. G. E. Anson, and Lord Charles Wellesley. His Royal Highness and the Duke were in at the death. Colonel Arbuthnot, 72d Highlanders, and Mr. G. E. Anson will have the honour of dining with the Royal party this evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cam bridge, arrived in town yesterday from their re sidence at Kew. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, and in the evening returned to Kew. The Lords of the Committee of Council on Education had a meeting at the Council-office yesterday. There were present the Lord Presi dent, the Lord Privy Seal, Lord Stanley, Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lord Granville Somerset. Dr. Kay was in attendance. Their Lordships remained in deliberation until six o'clock. Mr. Charles Buller had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Di - iwning-street. M. Fortique, the Venezuelan Minister, trans acted business yesterday at the Colonial-office. Lieutenant Moody, R.E., Lieutenant-Gover nor of the Falkland Islands, left town on Saturday: Despatches from the Governors of Honduras and the Bahamas were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. ()rid, and that I EXTENSIVE ROBBERY of PLATE, attached to the other at Parluicle. It bad clearly Item .ace a passenger's box, otherwise it would have appeared in and abuse, at i JEWELLERY, &c. the bill ;- there wriuld hate been - carriage to-be paid on .ace in turn. • I it at London, porters what h a d b ecome of it. And, assuming that it and it Mi g h t h ave beei-Ck noW n f rom the contained all the stolen property, there, was no connec tion shown between it and Mr. Thelwell. What had been Mr. Thelwelrs conduct ? Had he not come down to Manchester iminedktely when . desired to do so by Smiley? Then, With regard to the discharge 'of the . watchman froM attendance on Sundays, it was evident that Mr. Gillow himself thought there was no necessity whatever for his continu ' anco. As to the duplicate keys, there was no evidence in the world of any such existing, still less of Mr. Thel well being in any way connected with them. Mr. Thal well's brother, or Mr. Pat Rafferty might have had some thing to do with the robbery for aught that appeared, but there was no evidence affecting Mr. Thelwall. Mr. Saunders contended that there was a very strong case made out against Mr. Thelwell. After a conversation the Magistrates consulted, and then said, that without expressing any opinion as to the probability of his being implicated, and thereby affecting his character, they felt bound to call on him to find two sureties in I,OOC/. each for his appearance on that day week.- Moobay was also required to find sureties for his ap• pearance on the same day, when the parties in Ireland, whose evidence has led to this disclosure, will be brought forward. PRICES OP FOOD AT HOME AND ABROAD. The pric e o f white wheaten bread of the first quality, at Paris, is 70 centimes the loaf of 2 kilogrammes, which is scarcely equal to Gd. for the four pound loaf of Eng lish weight.: Bread of the first quality is sold in Lou den at 10d. for the four pound loaf. The best descrip tion of bread is, therefore, 66 4-6ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. There is a second quality of wheaten bread made in Paris, of which the price at present is 54 centimes for the loaf of 2 kilogrammes, or 41d. for 4 pound loaf of English weight. The highest quotation of the best flour in Paris on the 4th instant, was 65f. the 159 kilogrammes, which is equal to 40s. lid., the sack of 280 pounds English weight. The highest price of flour at Mark-lane yester day was 625. the sack. Flour, therefore, is 511 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris, where a man can buy 281 b. of the finest flour for 4s. ld,, whereas is London he can buy only 181 b. for the same money. The highest quotation of white wheat at Paris on the 4th instant was 35f. for the 1k hectolitre, which equals 535. sd. th e quarter. 'The highest quotation at Mark-lane on Monday was 801." per quarter : wheat, therefore, is 49 2-3ds per cent. dearer in London than in Paris; or a man can buy in London only one bushel of the best wheat • for ten shillings, while in Paris he can buy a bushel and a half for the same money. At Arras, on the 2d instant, the best wheat was sel ling at 23E the hectolitre, or 525. Bd. the quarter ; at Amiens, on the 3d instant, at 22f. 50c. the hectolitre, or 51s. 6d. the quarter ; at Dieppe, on the 3d instant, at 22f. the hectolitre, or 50s. 4d. the quarter ; at Nevers, on the 2d instant. at 20E the hectolitre, or 4.55. 10d, the quarter ; at Nantes, on the 2d instant, at 18f. the hec tolitre, or 41s. 3d. the quarter ; and at Tarascon, on the Ist instant, at 25f. the hectolitre, or 575. 3d. the quar ter. At Nantes, therefore, the port where the purchases of French wheat for the English market are most fre quently made, wheat is 91 per cent. cheaper than in London. At Danzig, on the 2d instant, the highest quotation for the best wheat was 535. per quarter, free on board. There were several English vessels in the port at that date ; but as it was known that the duty would be up again in England to a prohibitory point, none of those vessels could obtain cargoes, though willing to accept of very low freights. At Konigsberg, on the Ist instant, the highest quota tion of wheat was 525. 6d. free on board. Cured India beef of the best quality is now selling at Hamburgh at 5/. 6s. the fierce of 3361 b. For the same quality 81. is charged in London. The best cured beef, therefore, is 50 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The best navy beef (the quality generally used for victualling the Royal Navy) is selling in Ilam burgh at 41. 14 s . the fierce of 3041 b. The Lash Go vernment, as we first stated this day week, lately made a contract for 15,000 tierces of the same quality for the use of the navy, and the average price at which the con tract was closed was 71. ss, 2d. a tierce. Government, therefore, paid 2/. 11 s. 2d. more for each tierce of beef than the present current price at Hamburgh ; conse quently the country has, on this contract fur nary beef, been subjected to a loss of 38,375/., which may be looked upon as so much money taken from the tax-payers of the United Kingdom, and handed over to the landed aristocracy. At the same time, a contract was closed for 16,000 tierces of navy pork, at an average price of 71. 3s. Bd. the tierce. Pork of the same quality is now selling at Hamburgh at 4/. 17s. Gd. the tierce _; on this part of the cont rac t, th ere f ore, the country hasAven mulcted in the sum of 2/. Gs. 2d, for each ticeet e .orein the gross amount of 36,933/. 6s. Upon the 81;000 tierces of beef and pork purchased this year for the use. .of the navy, the people of England have been obliged . to pay to their own aristocracy 75,308/. 6s. more ;than they would have had to pay had there been a free trade foreign provisions. The present fixed importation•duty, on cured meat is 12s. per cwt. The best fresh beef is retailed in Hamburgh.at per pound. in London at 9d. The best freUt muttow; retailed in Hamburgh at 4d., and in London at Bd.phntl ;it must not .be forgotten thivt the mutton is of an:in-0 .ferior quality in Hamburgh, which is not the case kith beef. The best fresh pork is retailed in Hatnbaigh t t 4id. a pound, and i n L on d on at 9d. The inaportatiak , of fresh meat into England is totally prohibitederereaal .In New York the prices of fresh meat, thoughintbi neral somewhat higher than in Hamburgh, are consider ably lower than in London. The best beef at New York costs 12 cents. or 6d. per pound, and the best mutter, set Pork is retailed in New. York at 6 cents. or . 3d, er pound, which Is les s th an i s charged for it eitlier L p on+. don or in Hamburgh. An ox in London, fit for making into India beef, atal weighing about 70011 es. without th e offal, will cost aleemt 25/.; the same description Of ox fattened in. Holstein,would cost in Hamburgh about 10/. in autumn, and about 15/. in spring. The people of England, however, can derive no advantage from the comparattve cheapness of cattle in Hamburgh ; for let the ptice in England be ever so high, the importation of live stock is, at all times and under all circumstances, positively prohibited. P- P-' RESENT . IiOSPECTS Or THE IRON TRADE, —lt is truly astonishing, when we look back and con sider in how few years the iron manufacture has arrived at its present vast extent, and that this rapid increase has occasioned no heavy accumulation of stock. The iron trade, in common with all other trades, feels the effect of any general stagnation, but not from the over-pro duction, as with its growth, now channels of consump tion have kept pace. The endless detail into which the foundry trade branches itself, the almost universal fabrication which it embraces, consumes a very large proportion of the make ; in buildings iron is becoming a very general substitute for wood : railroads may also be mentioned as consuming a very considerable quan tity of manufactured as well as cast iron, but principally the former. It would be endless to show where it has been, within a few years, introduced, but we cannot omit noticing its recent application to the building of ships. The success attending these first trials cannot but lead to the conclusion that, for the future, ships will very generally be made of iron instead of wood, and, if so, what a field, it opens to the ironmaster, and how greatly it would add to the consumption! The plates of which the ships will be built must necessarily be of a very superior description of iron, involving a greater waste, and, consequently, increasing the consumption of pig iron ; and those works must be benefited the quality aad character of whose iron stands high, as, where the safety of hundreds or thousands of individuals is at stake, the very best iron alone should be used. With increased facilities of procuring iron at a reasonable price, Ame rica, and also France—provided that, in this latter coun try, the duties are reduced—will become large pur chasers ; and our iron trade, unlike many of th e ot h er manufactures, being alt oge th er the production of our own soil, will continue to give employment to hundreds of thousands of our population, to the great advantage of the country at large, as well, we trust, as the individual benefit to the ironmaster.—Scrivener' s History of the Iron Trade. How TO OBTAIN FREEDOM.- - Whether we look to ancient or modern history, to the history of other countries, or that of our own, we shall find that one or other of these modes has been, with scarcely any exception, the only road to obtaining relief from op pression. We shall be able, from time to time, to furnish innumerable instances of this ; and without pursuing the subject in chronol og i ca l or d er , we shall se l ect such cases as may present themselves most strikingly. The nearer we come to the present time the fewer instances shall we find of resistance by physical force, but the inure numerous the cases of moral resistance. In cases of fiscal oppression, the smuggler has been the greatest friend and assistant to free trade ; and when our Chan cellors of the Exehequer have been deaf to every argu ment, and duties of 40, 50, or 100 per cent. have been levied on commodities, let it but be shown that, in spite of all their expensive parade of coast guard and revenue cutters, and land waiters, and tide waiters, and custom houses, and custom-house officers, that the smugglers could import for 10 per cent., and that to a large ex tent ; and the Legislature have consented to the reduc tion.—Bread Eater's Advocate. REIGATE REGISTRATION.--An informality in the making of the poor's-rates, which prevented the electors of Reigate from paying them, being deemed a sufficient reason for disfranchising a considerable por tion of the constituency of the borough, a notice of ob jection to their votes was served, on the' part of Mr. John Flint, upon the overseer, according to the form prescribed by the Reform Act. The overseer, however, neglected to exhibit the same on the church door, by which he rendered himself liable to the pen a lt y o f 500/. When the Revising Barristers held their Court, in con sequence of the overseer neglecting to cause the objec tions to be publicly exhibited, they refused to hear the case, which, had they done, they would probably have have opened decided in favour of the objections, a n d so a favourable opportunity for wresting the borough from its present abject position.—A Correspondent. FIRST CATHOLIC APPPINTMENT BY SIR EDWARD SUGDEN.—The Right non. the Lgrd Chancel lor has been pleased to appoint Joseph CP eery, Esq., Barrister-at -law, to the office of Secretary for Lunatic 'Leary is a na- Wards of Chancery.—/?egister. [Mr. tive of our city, and nephew to our worthy townsman to the genuine ability and legal John O'Connell (Kerv-hall). We understand he owes his selection simply knowledg e ev i nce d i n hi s published works, whi c h at tracted the notice of his Lordship ; and we hail this early indication o f ; patronage bestowed •o n mer i t alone, aloof from all party coxisideritticalq - --South ern Reporter. OLYMPIC THEATRE. This pleasant little theatre opened last even ing fbr the winter season, under the manage ment of Mr. G. Wild. During the recess the theatre has been newly and elegantly fitted up, a new dress circle has been tbrmed, the stage has been relaid, a new proscenium has been painted, and the front of the upper circle has been adorned with various de signs from the pencil of Mr. Wilson, jun. The appearance of the interior has been greatly im proved by these judicious alterations, and the Olympic is now one of the most elegant little theatres in London. Mr. Wild has been fortu nate in securing the services of a most talented and efficient company, among whom is that most delightful songstress, Mrs. Waylett. The performances commenced, last evening, with the burletta of First Impressions, in which Mrs. Waylett as Constance, sang her beautiful ballad of " Kate Kearney," as she can only sing it, and was, as a matter of course, rapturously encored. After the burletta we had a comic ballet, admirably performed by a company of juveniles, pupils of Mr. Frampton; and then, for the first time, a new comic drama, (an adaptation from the French,) entitled Cousin Peter. The scene is laid in the house of Gibelon (Mr. Halford), an officer in the French police, on whose wife Cecile (Mrs. Waylett), a certain Marquis de la Foix (Mr. Fitzjames), entertains certain designs, in pursuit of which he has entered the house clandestinely, while he has managed to have Gihelon called away on a false alarm. A certa!n Nicholas Bonne (Ross), a plebeian thief, has also entered the house in pursuit of certain designs on the lady's diamonds. The lady, after her husband's departure, dis covers that they are in the house; and, as the scene is in the dark, adroitly plays off the thief against the Marquis as her cousin Peter, who is asleep in the next room, and will be alarmed if he make any noise, while the Marquis in his turn is played off against the thief, until Gibelon's return, when both are taken into custody. The situations were excessively comic, and were made the most of by i those engaged. The piece was com pletely successful.. The burlesque of Billy Taylor concluded the evening's performances, NV ild him self' being the "gay young fellow," while the part of Mary Wagstaff, the heroine, was admir ably sustained by that exceedingly clever actress and singer, Miss Le Batt. Mr. Calcott is the leader of the orchestra, which is complete and efficient ; and our old friend Baker has iresumed his post as stage manager. The house was ex ceedingly well filled. A SCENE ON BOARD THE TURKISH FLAG sAIr AT ACRE.:—A Colonel of the Turkish troops on board shortly found his way to the divan, which I had again occupied. He was accompanied by a little negro boy, carrying his pipe. The latter lit the chibouk with due form, and presented it to his master, when I . bad an opportunity of witnessing what I think may be termed a proof of innate politeness in the Turk. It is a compliment which a Turk always pays to an equal to offer him his pipe, after he has himself taken a few w hiffs ; but at a moment like this, when one was not sure of the head on his shoulders from one minute to the other, it was hardly to be expected if any body lit a pipe he should go to such lengths as to think of doing so for !molter. On the contrary, my friend offered it me as he would have done at any other time ; and, I doubt not, would have been alike .offended had I refused him the compliment of accepting it. The little negro boy was still more cool and unconcerned than his master. The Colonel having been called away to attend upon Selim Pacha, who was on the poop, young Sambo at once scrambled on the divan, as far as possible out of the window, impressed apparently with a great desire to see what all the noise was about outside. A stream of shot, during the action, continued to pass, ploughing up the water a few yards astern of the ship. The shot striking in the water and rebounding upwards again, seemed to amuse the little negro vastly, and I could not hut envy his ignorant equanimity, when, as frequently l i i i t e t a le rer fei t l h e a w n w us e u u a ld l to rub where w h happened, p w e e n r e e d , s o i t n t e i Nr g. • u a l h d d c t o h m e e After an hour's firing a gun in the hands and show his teeth from eartoear withef very delight. fortress large dimensions, id w ie rs w ob h s i e e r h ve h d ad to se b x e ere s i o y le v, ly . d eun i d rec ed te t d he atour ship,main mast, was tho ug ht t o h ave been fired from i Lane and Mr. W a lt on p o inted against sev t eral ea or a tl in the maim deck guns, and which shortly had the effect of silencing its lire.—United Service Journal. ETIQUETTE OF THE ROAD.—The Oxford Chronicle mentions, on the authority of a passenger by the " Rival," Cheltenham coach, that that coach over took the Queen -and Prince Albert, between Slough and Colebrook, on Saturday week, when hor Majesty sent one of the outriders to acquaint Mr. Trussler, the coach man, that he was allowed to pass, her 3lajesty being desirous of foregoing the usual etiquette, rather than prevent the due arrival of the coach. Lord Eliot arrived by the Liverpool mail packet this morning, and immediately proceeded to the Secre tary's Lodge, in the Phoenix Park. His Lordship was expected at the Castle in the course of the day, to enter upon the duties of his office ; but he did not come to town, having been fatigued from the effects of the Toy age.—Dublin „n conduct throughout the w TIIE SUN. LO )ON, TrESDAlt,tidttillEit 12, 1841. SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGA TION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS. (From the Norwich Gazette.) The anniversary meeting of the "members and friends " of this Society was advertised to take place on. Thursday last ; when the Rev. R. Crofts, who was de puted by the Parent Society, and other gentlemen, it was stated, would explain the objects and operations of the Society ; Lord Wodehouse being also announced as the Chairman of the morning meeting. On the day previous to the meeting a bill had been put into circulation signed " A Philanthropist," urging the Chartists to attend. At twelve o'clock, the hour for the meeting, the Lord Lieutenant (Lord Wodehouse), the Right Hon. and Rev. Lord Bayning, the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean, the Hon. and Rev. J. T. Pelham, and a large body of the Clergy had assembled, and a number of ladies had also entered the Hall to be present at the meeting. Several well-known Chartists had taken the front row of seats in. the area, and it was quite evident that the intention was to interfere with the course of the meeting. Lord WonEtrou - sE, in taking the Chair, said it was usual to commence meetings of this kind with prayer. Appropriate prayers were accordingly read by the Rev. C. Chapman. Lord WODEHOUSE then rose and said—lt is my duty —(lmmediately the interruption commenced, one of the Chartists calling out " The Chairman has not been ap pointed yet." The DEAN said—This is a meeting of the members and friends of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and it has been announced that Lord Wodehouse would take the chair. Rev. C. CHAPMAN—I wish to say, once for all, that we are prepared to put down those who are come here with the determination to disturb this meeting. lam fully convinced that most of the Chartists are here at the in stigation of some one else.—(A Chartist—" It is false.") If any one of you can show that you have been so in stigated, and will give us information as to the parties, I can only say that it shall answer your purpose. HURRELL—The spirit of truth is guiding us, and if that misguides us,w e can 't h e l p i t. Lord ° WODEHOUSE again attempted to address the meeting, but was again interrupted by the Chartists. A CHARTIST —Last week I heard a gentleman saying that the Church was prosperous, and because I said the people were starving I was told that I should be sent to prison. —(Increasing noise.) The Rev. R. CROFTS, M.A. (Rector of North Ockon don, Essex, and Chapl a i n t o ' t h e Bi s h op of Salisbury), who had been; deputed by the Parent Society, endea voured to obtain a hearing. He said this is a meeting called together of the members of the Socipty who were invited to hear and . explanation of the objects and operations of the Society. I will presume you are friends. Are you aware of the objects of the Society ; they are to give spiritual assistance to English emigrants to our colonies. Have none of you friends in Australia, friends who have been obliged to leave this country and seek_ employment elsewhere, because the population here is so large? And would you not wish that those friends should have in struction and assistance? I myself have friends there.— (Laughter, interruption, and much noise ; and it was evident that it would be impossible to go on with the proceedings.) Lord WODEHOUSE rose and said—l move that this meeting do now adjourn. His Lordship immediately left the chair and retired from the Hall.—(Noise and uproar from the Chartists, one of whom called out, " I move that Mr. Clarke take the chair;" loud cheers from the Chartists.) Clarke, the Socialist, who was in the front row with the Chartists, climbed up the front part of' the orchestra and planted himself in the chair amidst loud huzzas from the Chartists. CLARKE addressing the gentlemen on the platform— You shall be all heard if you will only attend to me now in the chair. The policemen present were called and immediately obeyed the summons of the Rev. C. Chapman, who charged them to take Clarke into custody, and two of the policemen handed Clarke off to the Hall, amidst much excitement. T. HEWETT, a Chartist —You'll never have another public meeting in this Hall £ can tell you.—(Three cheers were proposed for the Charter, and " three groans for the parsons.") After the Noble Chairman had left, the Dean, the Her. Mr. Crofts, the Rev. Mr. Yates, and several other clergymen and gentlemen stopped, and endeavoured to reason with the Chartists, but the greatest confusion and noise existed. Mr. WINTER came to the front of the hustings and addressed the Chartists, but amidst the 'confusion the only remark we could hear was this :—" I tell you, that by the course you are pursuing, you are setting every honest man against you." llnworr—The parsons are robbers, plunderers, and Murderers. Mr. WINTER.—It is false. A GENTLEMEN on the platform.—Who are your best friends ? llEwErr—Not the parsons. You do not work, Sir. Mr. WINTER.—Who is it to whom you would be glad to send in your dying hour ?—the clergyman. Who is it that will attend you at that trying moment !—the clergyman. If you attended your church you would not act as you are now doing. One man said—My name is George Lamb—l assure you, gentlemen, as I now stand here, if you put me int o ; prison I sh a ll b e g l a d o f i t, for I shall have more food there than I have now. lam a native of Norwich, and have worked for Mr. Willett 15 years; I know the dif ference between the discipline of the workhouse and the prison, having been in both places. I was put into a workhouse in the county, and for getting over the wall • was sent to Walsingham prison, where my treatment I!&ter than in the workhouse. Another—'Tis no use; you shall never have another public meeting. The Ladies had chiefly left the Hall, and most Of the supporters of the meeting. HEWETT--We want more bread and less bibles, and more pigs and less parsons. Another—The parsons are the worst set of beings on the face of the earth. Mr. WINTER—They are the best friends of the poor, and many of you who have caused this interruption are the mon whom they have supported. Some of you who arc the loudest against the parsons would be the first to call upon them when in difficulties.—(Cries of " You always was a lazy fellow ; you are no use.") The Very Rev, the DEAN also attempted to address the meeting, but with no better success, and amid the cries of " Who robs the labourer oftis hire," &c., &c. HEwETT—You are all robbers of the poor, you 'have robbed them so much that we are all turned parsons ourselves, and don't want you. The Rev R. CROFT suggested that they should hear each other ten minutes quietly. HuaßELL—Allow us a Chairman, and we will discuss any subject with you.—(Laughter.) Now, do not go away, or before you depart allow me to say to you that we should not have opposed you as we have done if you had treated us fairly. Your party has put out a paper, called the Protestant Herald, that in the first number chose to belie us in a most unjustifiable manner. If you treat us well we will not oppose your being heard, but will calmly discuss this, or any other question, with you, but we will not be treated in this disrespectful manner. When I read the Scriptures I find the great author of your religion bore patiently the taunts of his enemies, and when he was reviled, reviled not again. We want to see you, who profess to be his followers, manifesting something of his spirit, and not to endeavour to crush us beneath your feet. Her. R. CROFT—I am glad to find that some of you are disposed to hear reason. Allow me now to say quietly, that this Society provides schools, churches, and clergymen, for your fellow -countrymen who go abroad. lam a stranger amongst you, and know no thing of the Protestant Herald, nor have I aught to do with the income of the clergy. I am, Ido not deny it, a clergyman, or, if . you prefer it (for I do not object to the term) a parson in another county, and, I trust, I labour to benefit the poor in my own parish. I wish to observe, that this was a meeting of the members and friends of this Society, who had decided that Lord Wode house should take the chair on this occasion, and the Society does not want people to come to discuss, but to hear—(Laughter) —th e statements that I had to make to them of the way in which the funds had been expended. (Laughter.) We do not come to your meetings to discuss the Charter—(" No, we do not hold our meetings in this way") —nor do we inter rupt you. If you called together a meeting of the friends to the Charter, I, not being a friend to the Char ter, should not come with a number of persons to inter rupt you.—(L aug ht er .) Y ou would think it very unfair if I did. But surely you will allow us to exercise our benevolence on the objects of distress. I have always been a supporter of the popular rights, and who is it that build your hospitals, and visit the beds of the dying, but the clergy ?—(A. voice, "The Catholi cs .' Another voice, "I say th e people.") You complain of the rich, but you could not live without them.— (Cries of " Oh, yes, we could ; give us the land and we will try.") I say you could not lire without the rich, or the rich without you.—(Cries of " Marcus.") Who is Marcus ?—(Cries of " Marcus," " Malthus.") Oh Malthus ! Ido not agree with Malthus ; but he is not a parson you know.—(A voice, " Yes hods," and " Where is Miss Martineau ?") Well, Miss Martineau is not a parson. —(Laughter.) But neither with Miss Martineau nor with Malthus do I agree ; but, I repeat, I came here to tell you what we have done with the money subscribed by the friends of the Society.—(A Chartist, " Yes, but show us what you have done with our money. How much do you get a year ?") I was going to tell you what had been done amongst the convicts.—(" What have you done with Frost ?") Why, it was brought as a charge against the late Government, by the Conserva tives, that they had been too lenient with him.—(Laugh ter. "We are going to send off three ship loads of parsons to exchange for Frost, Williams, and Jones. If you think it's God's will to remove the over-population, take a rope and hang yourself, you will be one the less. Lend us twenty millions of money as you did for the slaves.") IMr. CROFT.—Do you grudge the slaves their liberty ? ("No, but you try to enslave us.") One man from amongst the Chartists, whom we had observed very noisy, got upon a form and said: I was six years in the West Indies, between, St. Thomas and Bar badoes, and saw how the slaves ate and drank, and I do, standing here, say, so help me God I would rather be a slave in the plantations than be as lam now. The men that had slaves had an interest in them as their property, and that they should be able to do their work; and five Englishman would do as much in one day as 20 of them. —(Mr. Croft " With the whip.") Y es, w i th the whip. In the morning the whip did crack certainly, as our bells ring; but after that there was a certain time allowed for them to get to their work; and if they were after that time, they were not flogged, but the driver merely ran after them with the whip, and they might p er h aps occasion ally get a cut at them. (Mr. Croft shook hia head.) Then when they were in the field they d ug a square hole for four or perhaps six sugar canes; but they were always singing, and were merry. Now, what is the case with me ? I am a slave to the classes above me. I work hard and cannot get food for myself and children, and I have no one to own me or to care for me. Every one with whom I deal is endeavouring to take all he can from me: they have all an interest in cheating and not in feeding me; and I therefore lie down on my pillow with an empty stomach. I am, therefore, whipped in the belly, while the black slave was only beaten on his fat back. HEIVETT.—I know a man who has only had fire dinners since last Easter, and you cannot produce a parson in that state. Several others said they could find many in similar distress, and if Mr. Croft would go round with them they would take him to them. HE wErr.—And while your Church has an income of ten millions a year. The Rev. C. MORSE said, that many of the working clergy had not so much as a well-paid mechanic--501. a year. IlgwErr.—The greater the shame on those who grasp the property. The Rev. C. Monstc —lf you had a living would you give it to me, or if I had a living should I give it to you ? HEwErr—You are all paid better than a working man, and you are only a set of idlers. Did you not call us ignorant ?—(No.) Hewett then complained that but 30,0001. was granted for the purposes of education, while 70,0001. was voted for building the Queen's stables. The parties then left the Hall, the Chartists assuring them they would come again and have a look at them in the evening. In consequence of the interruption in the morning, it was announced that the evening meeting would not take place. I - CLARKE, who was taken to the Hall, was brought up before Captain Money, and was charged by the Rer. Mr. Chapman with combining with others to disturb the meeting. Captain MONEY remarked that he had done so, and Clarke asked him if that was the information he had received, or his own opinion, for he had not heard it so stated. Captain Money said it certainly was his own opinion. Cl ar k e rep li e d that he was not correct in his surmisings, for he went there alone, and had not con sulted any one. He was voted, he believed, unanimously into the Chair at a public meeting in St. Andrew's Hall, and all lie did was to presume to take it, when he was given into custody by the Rev. Gentleman, and taken away by the police ; and he was ready to answer any charge. There was no evidence against him, and he was discharged on giving his word to appear to answer any charge when called upon ; and he returned .back to the Hall, where the meeting had just- broken up, and where 'he was cordially received and warmly cheered by the Chartists assembled on St. Andrew's Plain. PALMERSTON'S PROSODY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-My dog Belcher ran two dead heats against a bitch of the name of Hermione. I want to know how the word is to be called—for at the wrangle which I al ways has—one gent. calls the bitch Hermyown—another kind of a dog-stealing sort of a chap says Hermine ; but the Londoner as owned the same called her Ermione. There was an Irishman there, who kept screeching, Arrah, my honey ;" but whether he meant anything or not, I don't know. I thinks myself the Cockney must be right, as I see my Lord calls Ilione, Hillionnee. So I guess, whenever you can't get one in of your own, you clips the H.—Your's, Sir, A FARMER. Died, Sept. 14, at Cuckfield, Sussex, Mrs. De Poggi, in her 97th year. Mrs. De Poggi was a descend ant of the ancient family of Lewis, of Yorkshire, now merged into that of the Earl of Huntingdon. She had known intimately Sir Joshua Reynolds, Garrick, Hannah More, Paoli, the Corsican patriot, &c. ; and her nume rous and pleasing anecdotes of these and other cele brated characters will long be remembered by those who had the privilege of hearing their recital.—Here ford Times. LONDON MOBS IN THE LAST CENTURY. —ln the Annual Register for 1765 it is emphatically stated in the notice of the election of Stephen Theodore Jansen, Esq., to the Chamberlainship of the City of Lon •don, that " ho was the first Sheriff for a long time that ventured to see justice executed at Tyburn even in cases that seemed to require it most, without the aid of a military force." In 1763 we learn from the work that "as soon as the execution of several criminals, con demned at last session at the Old Bailey, was over at Ty burn, the body of C orne li us L an d ers, executed for steal ing about 501. out of the house of Mrs. White, in Lamb street, Spitalfields, was carried and laid before her door; where, great numbers of people assembling, they at last grew so outrageous that a guard of soldiers was sent for to stop their proceedings, notwithstanding which they forced open the door, fetched out all the salmon-tubs, most of the household furniture, piled them on a heap and set fire to them, and, to prevent the guard from extin guishing the flames, pelted them off with stones, and would not disperse till the whole was consumed." Next year a similar scene was enacted :—" The criminal, condemned for returning from transportation at this ses sions, and afterwards executed, addressed himself to the populace at Tyburn, and told them h e cou ld w i s h t h ey would carry his body, and lay it at the door of Mr. Parker, a butcher in the Minories, who, it seems, was the principal evidence against him ; which being ac. cordingly done, the mob behaved so riotously before the man's house that it was no easy matter to disperse them." In lighter matter the easily assembled and excited com monality of London seems to have been animated with a reckless self-willed spirit of contradiction. Nothing delighted it so much as to take the punishment of a pick pocket or similar delinquent into its own hands, and duck the offender ; except, peiliN3s, to rescue its victim from the police if they chanced in some moment of unwonted vigilance to lay hold of him, and offended at the inter ference of the officers iof regular justice with those of irregular justice, to allow him t o escape.—. Knight's Pic torial History of England. A letter from Hamburgh, in the Constitutionnel, relates the following traits of benevolence on the part of M. Solomon Heine, the Jewish banker of that city. The Lutheran church of the parish in which M. Heine resides being much out of repair, it was resolved to raise a sub scription to repair it, and M. Heine was waited upon by the three churchwardens, and requested to open the sub scription list with his name. M. Heine, after having inquired what the expense of repairing the church would be, and having been informed that it would amount to 30,000 current'marcs (about 44,000 fr.) declined heading the list, but told the churchwardens to call upon the most wealthy of their parishioners of their own religion, and said he would give the same amount as that per son, -whatever it might be. The churchwardens called upon M. de Bauer, who put down his name for 22,000 fr., being half the estimated expense, and, returning to M. Heine, that gentleman imme diately gave them an order upon his cashier for the same amount, thus completing at once the entire sum which was wanted. The other instance of gene rosity in M. Heine is the following :—A few days ago, before the date of the letter from which we take this account, a tradesman of great respectability called upon M. Heine, and entreated him to lend him 33,000 bank mares (45,000 fr.) to take up a bill which was due, adding, that, if the bill were to be dishonoured, it would be his ruin, and offering to prove to M. Heine, by his book, that lie was really in the position which he described, but wanted only time to meet his engage ments. The banker went home with him, and, having examined his books, remonstrated mildly with him for having over-speculated, but immediately afterwards gave to him a paper, folded as a letter, saying, " This is all I can do for you at present." He then took his leave hastily. When he was gone, the borrower un folded the paper, and found his own acceptance for the 33,000 mares, with the receipt for the mares at the back. THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN ; OR, THE FIELDS AND THE WOODS.—" Though unlike any other novel with which we aro acquainted," observes the Naval and Military Gazette, " this work is a novel, nevertheless, and a most lively and entertaining one, full of character and humour, and still more full of those true and vivid pictures of rural life with which the fields and the woods abound." " The Old English Gentleman," in short, fills a hiatus hitherto left in our novel literature. This is a sporting romance ; and there is no sport, per taining to the fields, the woods, or even the flood, that has not its chapter, describing its characteristic features and its appropriate incidents and pecularities ; nor is there one which does not give birth to a racy and original character ; from the huntsman, the whipper-in, the game keeper, the trapper, the poacher, and all their several auxiliaries, up ,to the " Old English Gentleman" himself, the spring and presiding genius of all. NAVAL STATIONS.— There i s a report that it is the intention of the Admiralty to replace the Admirals on the South American and Cape stations as they for merly were ; that is to say, that Admiral Thomas is to be stationed at Rio Janeiro, and Sir Edward King to have the Cape and African' command as before. Lord John Hay is to go into the Pacific with a blue broad pennant in the Warspite. It has long been deemed proper and right that the West India command should be divided above all others, as it is far too large for any one flag officer, extending as it does d latitude There ought to be a C overommofifty - dore to- egres of e intend our our South A ustralian colonies and N ew Zealapnd, &c., more particularly so as the French have a force in those seas.—. Navel a n d Mil itary Gazette. Two evenings ago, a man, by his seditious vo ciferations, collected a crowd round him in the rue Saint Martin, and led his auditors to the rue Vertbois and the rue Saint Appoline, continuing his senseless exclama tions, but without being able to excite any sympathy in his auditors. At length a police-officer came up, and, without any opposition, seized the agitator, and took him before a Commissary. He proved to be an old offender, who had a sort of mania for rendering himself notorious, and had before been in custody for similar proceedings. The insurrection in Navarre will probably delay Prince Francisco de Paulo's visit to Madrid. " The Duke of Orleans," says the Temps, ,1 in turning from Chantilly stopped at Champlatreux, and took breakfast with Count Mole, and made an engage ment to dine with him three days after. It is said that another ex-President of the Council is invited tomeettie Prince Roy a l. Thi s i nv it a ti on g i ves grou nd for belief that the Prince is willing to bring about a reconciliation between two h ea d s o f Cabinets, who have long rivals. We co n f ess w e do not anticipate any grea t re been place."fromais meeting, and even doubt much if it will take SEIZURES OF SLAVERS..—Capt .A. Ward, of s a s n e i l l I o w , a i s n o th ff e G sh ay ip . G S a r l o e t m ia , s 7 h h o o n Mr. Hatch, afternoon, informed of the passenger w fr h o i Head yesterdayfrom v A e l n e d am to e this port ! Express, that when the ship left St. Helena, there were seven vessels, with seven hundred slaves, at that place, prizes to her Britannic Majesay's cruizers. The last of the seven arrived on the 2d of Alarcb, and had thrown overboard sixty dead slaves in sight of St. Lielena.—Ja ktaica Paper. EVIPINING SUN T MI SSO URI RIVER. The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance aid character from all the other rivers in the world ; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, R is i s v ieprp,i whic h . From r is o m the the place m o fr u o t m h whencethe mo ment we enter its muddy waters from the Mis sof th el l a 'e m llo n w ow S w to ri n: ing, to its junction with the Mississippi, a distance of 2,000 miles, the Missouri, with its boiling, turbid waters, sweeps off, in one unceasing current ; and is the whole distance there is scarcely an eddy or resting-place for a canoe. Owing to the continual falling in of its rich alluvial banks, its water is always turbid and opaque, having at all seasons of the year the colour of a cup of chocolate or coffee with sugar and cream stirred in !t. To give a better definition of its density -and opacity, I have tried a number of simple experiments with it at this place, and at other points below, at the results of which I was exceedingly surprised. By placing a piece of silver (and afterwards a piece of shell, which is a much whiter substance) in a tumbler of this water, and looking through the side of the glass, I ascertained that those substances could not be seen through the eighth part of an inch : this, however, is in the spring of the year, when the freshet is upon the river, rendering the water, undoubtedly. much more turbid than it would be at other seasons ; though it is always muddy and yel low, and, from its boiling and wild character and uncommon colour, a stranger would think, even in its lowest state, that there was a freshet upon it. For the distance of 1,000 miles above St. Louis, the shores of this river (and, in many places, the whole bed of the stream) are filled with snags and raft, formed of trees of the largest size, which have bee n un d erm i ne d b y the falling banks and cast into the stream ; their roots becoming fastened in the bottom of the river, with their tops floating on the surface of the water, and pointing down the stream, forming the most frightful and discouraging prospect for the adventurous voyageur. Almost every island and sand-bar is covered with huge piles of these floating trees, and when the river is flooded, its surface is almost literally covered with floating raft and drift wood ; which bids positive defiance to keel-boats and steamers, on their way up the river. The scene is not, however, all so dreary there is a redeemi ng =- eee nnu carpet e d shores, which hem in this huge and terribl e d e f orm ity of waters. There is much of the way through, -where the mighty rOrests of stately cotton wood stand, and frown in horrid dark and coolness over the filthy abyss below ; into which they are ready to plunge headlong, when the mu d an d so il i n w hi ch they were gentled and reared has been washed out from underneath them, and is with the rolling current mixed, and on its way to the ocean. The greater part of the shores of this river, however, are witimut timber, where the eye is delight fully relieved by wandering over the beautiful prairies ; most of the way gracefully sloping down to the water's edge, carpeted with the deepest green, and in distance, softening into velvet of the richest hues, entirely beyond the reach of the artist's pencil. Such is the character of the upper part of the river especially ; and as one advances towards its source, and through its upper half, it becomes more pleasing to the eye, , for snags and raft are no longer to be seen ; yet the current holds its stiff and onward turbid character. It has been, heretofore, very erroneously represented to the world, that the scenery on this river was monotonous, and wanting in picturesque beauty. This intelligence is surely incorrect, and that because it has been brought, perhaps, by men who are not th e b es t j u d ges i n th e world f Nature's beautiful works ; and if they were, they always pass them by, in pain or desperate dis tress, in toil and trembling fear for the safety of their furs and peltries, or for their lives, which are at the mercy of the yelling savages who inhabit this delight ful country. • One thousand miles or more, of the upper part of the river, was, to my eye, like fairy land ; and during our transit through that part of our voyage, I was most of the time rivetted to the deck of the boat, indulging my eyes in the boundless and tireless pleasure of roaming over the thousand bills, and bluffs, and dales, and ravines ; where the as tonished herds of buffaloes, of elks, and antelopes, and sneaking wolves, and mountain-goats were to be seen bounding up and down and over the green fields ; each one and each tribe, band, and gang, taking their own way, and using their own means to the greatest advantage possible, .to leave the sight and sound of the puffing of our boat ; which was, for the first-time, saluting the green and wild shores of the Missouri with the din of mighty steam. From St. Louis to the falls of the Missouri, a distance of 2,600 miles, is one continued prairie; with the exception of a few of the bottoms formed along the bank of the river, and the streams which are falling into it, which are often covered with the most. luxuriant growth of forest timber. The summit level of the great prairies stretching off to the west and the east from the river, to an al mostrboundless extent, is from 2 to 300 feet above the level of the river ; which has formed a bed or valley for its course, varying in width from two to twenty miles. This channel or valley has been evidently produced by the force of the current, which has gradually exca vated, in its floods and gorges, this immense space, and sent its debris into the ocean. By the continual overflowing of the river, its deposits have been lodged and left with a horizontal surface, spreading the deepest and richest alluvion over the surface of its meadows on either aide ; through which the river winds its serpentine course, alternately running from one bluff to the other, which present themselves t its shores in all the most picturesque and beautiful shapes and colours imaginable ; some with their green aides gracefully sloped down in the most lovely groups to the water's edge, whilst others, divested of their ver dure, present themselves in immense masses of clay of different colours, which arrest the eye of the traveller, with the most curious views in the world. These strange and picturesque appearances have been pro duced by the rains and frosts, which are continually changing the dimensions, and varying the thousand shapes of these denuded hills, by washing down their sides and carrying them into the river. Amongst these groups may be seen tens and hundreds of thousands of different forms and figures, of the sublime and the picturesque ; in many places for miles together, as the boat glides along, there is one continued appear ance, before and behind us, of some ancient and boundless city in ruins—ramparts, terraces, domes, towers, citadels, and castles may be seen—cupolas and magnificent porticoes, and here and there a soli tary column and crumbling pedestal, and even spires of clay which stand alone—and glistening in distance, as the sun's rays are refracted back by the thousand crystals of gypsum which are imbedded in the clay of which they are formed. Over and through these groups of domes and battlements (as one is compelled to imagine them), the sun sends his long and Oiling rays, at morn or in the evening ; giving life and light, by aid of shadows cast to the different glowing colours of these clay-built ruins ; shedding a glory over the solitude of this wild and pictured country, which no one can realize unless he travels here and looks upon it."— Catlin's America. NARROW ESCAPE OP AN INDIAMAN IN THE RIVER.—On Saturday morning, as the large ship Lon don, Capt. Shuttleworth, from Calcutta, with a general cargo,. valued at upwards of 100,0001., was proceeding up the river for the London Docks, in tow of the Samson and Don steam tugs, she, by some mismanagement, was run stem on the ground a little above the Dolphin, near to the Lower Shadwell entrance of the Docks, and re mained fast. She was subsequently safely moored in the east basin of the London Dock. THE DUKE Op WELLINGTON.—On Sunday morning the Duke of Wellington, who was unattended, proceeded on foot from the Castle to attend Dili" service at the Chapel of St. George„Windsor. Upon his Grace arriving in the choir the verger 4 1 ,?=1: b f that the Duke's stall, as one a the •ICalgli''' ' a the Garter (on thee north side), was occult ti n ; • stranger, who, Upon an intimation being .gi_ k _ vr44l, ,h a pel, immediately retired to . another paßt - of. _ 1 07 0 ,, i etill. and the Duke then "took possession °fit' ...cpue gf , The chaunt for the day was Itennett'S __,,,, ,(01. 17,,raeit , ing • Oxford), but upon Dr. Elvey, the . 0 0rIf i thifited *to ' that the Duke was present, he immedate Y.._,,..,0u1d rd the lay clerks and choristers that .1).?! . .e7711r0rd changed to that composed by hi5.ur.7,.,0°4 the Vtst Mornington (which, is considered t toifY" met at ire of the service, the Duke r d Charles Wellesley., door of the chapel by his son, pieces of cathedral music &tan Marsha! to her Majesty, and Clerk of the Equerries the Chief Equerry verie, one and Lieutenant-Colonel Bou all i e d him on his return to Prince Albert, who accompanied 0 i i wore the ribbon and ). wa .a s t the conc.lo9n . to the Castle. The Duke, afterwards filled th e same jewel Heiywedroanatte the 4 Royal or sec on d ary theatres, 7 appeared in ex ce ll e n t .• health. oldest of the F renc h M. Aude, who w days ago, aged 88. He was died two dramatic authors, y, of the Order of th as e G t ar he ter, at one time Secretary to the Marquis de C arracciol Li office pieces, most of whi c h were Viceroy of Sicily, for Butfon. favourably received and yet died in great 'distress, as i n hi s time the r i g hts of authors produced them but a m ere p i ttance. F years he exist e d on a small pension granted b fi ytl e i n e Society of Dr amat i c Authors. We ounce the death o f B aron d'Alla d th r e, e writerlso have to announce of several pleasant vaudevill es . WORMS IN GRASS LAwris.--A quarter o f ort he him l est fifteen an ounce of corrosive sublimate to three gallons of water (put on with a gardener's water-pan) will bring the worms to the surface, when the greatest part of them die (but they ought to be picked oil) ; this process does not in the least injure the grass. It was tried in the month of September last, on a b owling -green in Penritb, 32 yards by 45, when 22 stones weight, of 14 pounds to the stone, were taken out of it, besides several small quantities got in making the first experiment. HORNSEY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. This, the last 811QW of the season for that admired flower the dahlia, in the'neighbourhood of the metropolis, was held in the Assembly-room of the Mother Red Cap Tavern, Upper Holloway. Notwithstanding the - ad vanced period of the season, and the unpropitious rains, the show of flowers w as very good. THE NELSON TES TIMONIAL.—The work men are proceeding actively with the pedestal on which the statue of Lord Nelson is to be placed in Trafalgar square, which has nearly much notice. attained its height, and attracts