The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-18 00:00:00

MORNING SUN As the one or the other disposition prevails, there will be general happiness or general miscry. A law, consequently, or a series of laws, which .li.nit the - resources sof, the com munity, and keep all classes, or the great majority of the industrious classes, in a con tinual state of apprehension, fearing for their fortunes, or fearing for their subsistence, -tend to corrupt the heart of man, and make him prac tice, though he can never prefer, mean vices instead of generous and noble virtues. It has been our frequent business to call atten tion to the existence of such laws, and when we add thereto the many other causes which exist in our -institutions for corrupting the heart of man, we see with admiration and wonder that society is still held together, and the busy hum of our congregated and most ingenious, orderly, and quiet millions still prevails, instead of Eng land being a wilderness resounding only to the war-whoop of the wild man. We have a Legis lature which claims obedience on the pretence of protecting the people, and cares only for en- riching the aristocracy or securing the wealth of the parsons. We have a Church which preaches doctrines that it never practises. The Legisla ture and the priesthood com!)ined act on the principles of rapacity and hypocrisy. Fortu nately their power is not equal to their wishes, or, following their example, all honesty would be extinguished. In a book just published, entitled " A Plea for the - Imprisoned," grounded upon extracts from the Prison Reports,* we find such cases as these : In a dark cell, at Ipswich. I found a prisoner lying upon the floor, who had been there for several days upon bread and water. His offence was for making a noise in the night. For that the turnkey had verbal orders to put him into the refractory cell, and there he was placed. In the same prison I found Seven youths in so litary confinement, who had been committed for refrac tory conduct in a union workhouse. They were first placed upon bread and water, but since they have been allowed a quart of gruel in addition. They had no books, and they never had been visited by chaplain or surgeon. One of them was sentenced to !bur months' (120 days and nights) solitary imprisonment ; another to two mouths ; and another had been confined for seven weeks. The sum of their offence was refractory conduct in a workhouse." What a horrible punishment for such an of fence. Why, a murderer could scarcely be doomed to anything worse than four months' so litary imprisonment. Talk of the crimes of the people, what are they to the deliberate crimes of the State The man was relieved of half his punishment by the accidental arrival of the In spector. "The poor clown was in fact shut up for only 49 days, without human intercourse, without the access of the surgeon for his bodily ails, or chaplain flu. his imbruted mind." A book was published some time back, called the " Crimes of the Law," but it will be very in complete if it do not also give us the crimes of the Magistrates, the crimes of the Legislature, and the crimes of the Piiesthood. The misfor tune is, that these classes think themselves the standards of right and wrong, each in his sphere, and that what they decree and what they do is necessarily just and perfect. Hence their ar rogance is unbounded, and without a blush or a doubt they perpetrate, as we have shown, almost unbounded mischief. Published by Mitchell, Bond-street. The Morning Post of Saturday admitted that there are many alarming symptoms in the social condition of Great Britain. "It is fearful," said our Contemporary, " to behold an enormous mass of people whose means of existence are scanty or precarious, and who have thrown off all restraint of reverence fir that which is placed above them." It is of some consequence, too, that the Tories have opened their eyes to the fearful condition of society; and to make • them still more aware of this fearful condition, we must direct their attention to the excellent paper in another part of The Sun, signed " J.W. Mass.tE." It will perhaps astonish them to learn that the youth in the manufacturing districts have in several cases only been prevented from forming themselves into bands of robbers, and taking what they want—as the landowners take away the property of other men without having dis tress to plead—by the entreaties, remonstrances, and prayers of their seniors. It is not, however, to be expected that the seniors will long be obeyed, if distress continues; and those who rely ex clusively on a police to keep order and pi.otect property will find that they lab Our under a great mistake When backed by the great majority of the - population the police is an Cadent force, but it will avail nothing against a hostile and starving multitude. As the Tories have found out that society is in an alarming condition, it may be expected that they should propose a remedy. The Post accordingly suggests more Church. It differs entirely from the Norwich people, and asserts that fewer pigs and more parsons would heal our disorders. The remedy recommended by the Post has been tried so often, and failed, that we should be inclined to try the opposite method—diminish the parsons and increase the pigs. It is quite certain that, since the Ministry of Mr. PERCIVAL, the Church has been the fa voured protegee of the State. She has had everything she has asked for. Great grants of money, and laws to put down her opponents. She has been almostmistress of the State. The result is a condition of society which even the Post feels to be a:arming. The Church has been amply tried, and the disease increases; - it is only reason.. able, therefore, to try another remedy, )3 y more .pigs the Norwich man weant tbod, pork being Mr. HEWETT'S favourite dish; and we seriously recommend, as th;., cure for the present alarming condition of society, an increase of food. LONDON : MON DAY, OCTOBER 18, 1841. We copy from the ,Spectator• an article ou the Census' of 1841, which 'shows that there has been a decrease in the agricUltural or rural population since 1831 of '2l per cent., and an increase in the town or manufacturing population of 12 per cent. It follows, according to onr Contemporary, that the increase of the town or manufacturing popu lation has been caused by tlunilies and parts of families moving from the agricultural districts to find employment and a living in the town dis tricts. In fact, as every one kn ows, this is continu ally occurring, and the majority of rural familik-fs send one or more of their members as clerks, • merchants, attorneys, porters, or servants, accord ing to their rank, to make their fortunes or find a subsistence in towns. Some few persons who make fortunes in trade or manufactures retire to the country; but the number is very small compared to those who in the morning of life leave the country for the town. To stop up the channels of trade, to impede the growth of manufactures, to limit the employment and the means of subsist ence is, our Contemporary concludes, to keep down the people to a limit e d number by starving then" - - We . have more confidence in the legislative wisdom of Mr. HEWETT and his like, touching food, than in the Earl of RIPON. The mob broke into that Nobleman's residence in 1815 because he was the active man in passing the Corn-law. The mob resisted the passing of that law to the best of their ability, though their means of resistance were uncouth. Now, at present, there is scarcely an impartiLl man in the empire who will not admit that the mob in 1815 were much wiser than the Earl of RIPON, and that, had_their ad vice been followed instead of his, the country would have been spared the calamities which the continuance of Corn-laws for twenty-six years has caused. ---- In that conclusion we entirely agree, and it is I o ne to which we have already and veryfrequently directed attention. Wehav e also, without hei stigmatized. the la ws w i i i tation, c 1 1 have this ef fect as mu rderous.or very criminal laws. Those who what has at all acquainted. with ' are been sail b y our ablest political wr it ers on the subject, must b e aware that to curtail the means of employi ng , f ee ding, and increab - aw, the population, is really to inflict on society " all the ills that flesh is heir to." T o allude to theiu all we 'must draw up a dismal et_:talogue, that . Ivould only terrify the reader, and even bring p olitical science into discredit, became that power whi-,_;h. the human being has of adapting himself, even to artificial circumstances, and almost of educing good froth evil, serves at all times to correct the errors and blunders of Statesmen, and palliates the mighty injustice they inflict on the people. There is, however, one principle which, from its effects But when the masses see this ignorance in the law-makers, when they see the law-makers sub jected to the common passions of our nature, and acting from the meanest and most despicable motives,—When they see them guilty of the groseq oppression, how can the masses continue to revereuee those above them ? The Post implies that the .people alone are to Llama fbr having cast off the 'restraint of reverence; but may it not also be the case that those above them no longer deserve reverence? The nobility were the leaders, the priests were the teachers of society; but now they neither lead nor teach the people, they only vex and oppress them. Let the nobility and the priesthood again resume their ancient duties, be again the guides and instructors of the people, if that be possible, and the people will reverence them quite as much as they deserve. in corrupting the mind, deserves to be briefly adverted to. Why do we look for generous and noble deeds . . to the u p per, or gent l e manly.ctas.ses, and whY is anything meat: or p : t ic e l d ou b ly '' mean and pal ful wlten practise& by 'Ale of them . Clearly b ecau%e they are aburr.iantly supplied, arid are comparatively. at t' -e i r case' IVIly, again, do vre -e7,iellse, sit flu* as we can excuse them, tueattno: s, pt.':ttyroggiug., overreae:iing, Or tiki!ig petty , advantages, v.iid all the low and sordid lairsni:s oi itucksters, sort ofofpedlars, pedlars., and such prsons"! 13e,:ause they are poor, i'vad plead the neee':isities . of their cow::lion. Prop grit' or affluence. is that e , . , ndition of individuals and of mtriety front wl:Teli the g tive destituti on f-alerous and en nobling 1 ii . t. acs spri Cr; ; while :;-2;:;-2;)t-,,a,, or compara , or ` be apprehension of want, is the pareiit of hard-heartedness, meanness, and low', despicable , vice. I. :ram want, poverty, and 411111.14144191114 ett.le eatalonvcrimes. All , e of _____. .. - '`e Prosperity 13,2f0re them, are / • ' ' ',kit - - i';'elk 'I. •fr •fflledi k lO -P , 1,--- ert ilness; kindness, and, ge 7 4, k„,nerosity,wyhile tli" .‘ . exdrse .4lspos• ition, - ; 'a're the I f ; cOn . Bequence 00'4ig Firehension of.'slaking-ill the scale of sucl4/ , or of falling into p‘v,rtY* The French Journals of Thursday have all been ree....ived. They bring a t-ood deal of in teresting rims from Spain, which will be found• in another part of The Situ.' In the lironitei,r o Thursday we find the following. official des patches front the • Spanish frontier, containing for the rnoit part repetitions of the intellige nce oubllsbed in The Sure of Friday. The first is the whole devateh of the ~ Ilth interrupted by nightfall : "Bayonne, Oct. " TILE GENERAL COMMANDING TILE 20TII MILITAIIT DIi'ISION TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. •" No further news from Madrid. The ordinary mails still due. Pumpeluna and Bilbao, on the 9th in the same situation. Urbistondo has had a slight engagement, without result, with Iturbe. Some villages in Alva, be yond the Ebra, have declared for the movement. General Alcala Still at TokAa: Colonel Fernandez collecting-. furcesat liergara. in f a v our of O'D o nnell. It is said he . ILS already 500 men. Bands forming in the any irons of .." Bayou!le, Oct. 12.. s'..;Tilt: Shill - PREFECT ' TO THE 3IINISTER OF TIIE INTERIOR. " A 133411i11 - I t o of the itegeut states that the banner revolt has been fal-rely unfurled in th, name of Queen Christina; and promises its prompt and energetic rei r s sion. On the 10th the citadel of. Pampeluna fired can non on the town. The consequences unknown. As serted that the feral deputation of Guipuzcoa is about to declare in favour of Christina. Saragossa has declared against the movement. The second regiment of the Guards, which had pronounced in - favour of the move megias submitted and returned into the town." " Bayonne, Oct. 12. "THE MARITIME CHIEF TO THE MINISTER OF THE MARINE. " Advices from Passages state that the deputation of Guipuzcoa has been to Urbistonclo at Bergara. Thought with the view of exciting a levy en masse in favour of the Queen Mother. Portugalette has pronounced for her, and Logroilo - for Espartero. A provincial battalion from Burgos, summoned by General Alcala, stopped at Vittoria with General Piquero. The return of General Alcala to St. Sebastian is expected." The two latter reached Paris only on the evening of the 13th, in consequence of the state of the atmosphere : " Bayonne, Oct. 13. " THE SUB-PREFECT TO THE MINISER OF THE INTERIOR. " On the 11th Pampeluna was again summoned to sur render. On the refusal of the Captain-General, the firing was continued, and caused great damage. The Regent has replaced Ribeiro by General Ayerbe from Arragon." Queen CHRISTINA, it appears, has given her Royal word that she will not quit Paris without the consent of the French Government. A stronger security than the" pledge of a dishon oured and dishonourable woman, was exacted from DON CARLOS when compelled to seek an asylum in France. Is Louts . PHILIPPE ignorant that by the laws of the Spanish Monarchy CHRISTINA, by her connexion with MUNOZ, cannot fill the office of guardian to the young QUEEN ? His MAJESTY iS perfectly aware that it is not yet three weeks since she gave birth to a second or a third little MuNoz, and yet hardly do the throes ot• travail cease to be felt when she sanc tions a murderous night attack on the palace of her own daughter, and againgi the lives of her guardians and protectors. Whereibre, then, is CHRISTINA not sent to prison to keep com pany with her Royal brother-in-law ? For what does she make war on . Spain ? Her daughter, whom she recognises as Queen, is Sovereign of that country. As the wife of MUNOZ, she herself can neither be Regent nor guardian of her daughter. She is, theretbre, without the shadow of a legitimate pretext for disturbing the peace of Spain, and ought to be proceeded against as the chief of a band of assassins. A few days since a suicide, attended with extraordi nary circumstances, cast a gloom over the commune of Watermael-Boitsford, near Brussels. On the preceding day, a well-dressed man, who appeared about 40, took a vigilante, and desired the driver to take him beyond the wood of La Cambre, to Boitsfort. Upon arriving at the spot he had named, he requested the driver to return to Brussels with a letter, to be delivered into the hands ;of M. his friend, living near the Canal. This was punctually performed. Immediately after the d'parture of the coachman, the stranger put his me lancholy purpose into execution, and, about two hours afterwards, his body was discovered on the causeway, near Boendael. On the left side was a wound inflicted with a pistol that was lying by his side ; there were also found near him a small phial containing a whitish liquid presumed to be poison, a flask of aniseed, ar.d a drinking-glass. In his pockets were found 33fr. and a note, without signature, as follows :—" To M. R--, at the Canal, near the Pig Market in Brussels, who will recognise the unfortunate person who has put an end to his life." M. R-- lost no time in repairing to the spot, and the corpse was found to be that of Jean Verbaere, tax-gatherer at. Beerzele, a married man and the father of duce children. Hitherto no cause has been assigned for the act. The Constantinople correspondence of the Constitu tionnel contains the following:—" Two remarkably beau tiful Turkish women have been recently carried of by some Russians. Their master—fur they were s?aves— laid a.. complaint before the Pale, 'and reclaimed them, with some jewels they carried off. The jewels were restored, but the women were placed under the protection of the Russian Chancellery, which refused to give them up, alleging that they were Georgians. One of them is really so, and speaks Russian with great fluency, but the other is a native of Constantinople. They had cost the Turk 15,000 piastres. It is generally be lieved that neither of them will be given up." As a pendant to this story, the Augsburg Gazette says that a female has been lately discovered in the ranks of a Turk ish regiment, in which she had served four years as a common soldier. She had left her home, in Anatolia, from being on bad terms with her husband. She was im mediately taken before the Sultan, this journal adds, and his Highness, after giving her several presents, directed that she should have liberty to go where she liked, with out being compelled to return to her husband. Baron d'Este, says the Echo of Lille, has been 'ar rested at the Porte de Gavel at that city. Ile was re turning into France from Belgium, and, being without a passport was taken into custody. This Journal adds that he was much dejected, and had his eyes filled with, tears. It was stated yesterday on 'Change that M. d'Este was going to return to Paris, and endeavour to settle his differences. The Correctional Tribunal of Brussels was occupied on Saturday with a charge of adultery preferred by Mr. J., aged 83, against his wife and a Mr. S. (ex-Captain) both 53 years of age ! The Court, in consideration of the extenuating circumstances, and that the damage caused to the husband did not exceed 25 francs, con demned the culprits to only 15 days' imprisonment. The Breton of Nantes, 12th inst., says :—" The Eng lish schooner Warlock, Captain Smith, from Sierra Leone, with a cargo of palm oil fur London, has put in at St. Nazaire. This vessel, which carried on the slave. trade under Brazilian colours, was taken by the British cruisers, and has been sent to England. The Havre papers state that, during a fire of a counting house and other commercial buildings in that town, on Saturday last, a pocket-book containing bills to the amount of 10,000 fr. was abstracted. On Tuesday morn ing, M. Lecoq, the owner, received an envelope contain ing one half of the bills, with a note evidently written in a disguised hand, intimating that as soon as the detainers of the rest bad gained their object they should also be restored. It is affirmed that Espartero intends to form on tt.. e other side of the Pyrenees a cordon of 50,0: - _ ,70 men against the intrigues of Maria Christina. - • at Paris ; it is supposed that . f iP _ Several members of the family Rothschild are now object of this family meeting is to come to ^ jonse . Tn t te t n r d i d s e to r s t amtdi Intaken g o n respecting liond a n the e xt fortendere I l v o h a i n ch t , b e 150 millions.—La Gazette de France. It is rmed that the commercial negotiations between B^.:/gium and France, which seemed . to be broken oll; are r, , sunied. In support of this assertion it is added that Mr, Haumanna, bookseller, of Brussels, has arrived at Paris, specially instructed to treat on the subjeo4 of lite rary piracy. We do not know what truth there may be in this news, but it seems to us that the Belgian Commis sioners, who left Paris, it is said, for the pur pose of obtaining fresh instructiens, must have been very expeditious. As for the mission of Hau manna (if he has any mission), it appears to us wholly out of the usual way. The literary piracy practised in Belgium cannot be made the subject of a stipulation in the treaty; no compensation, no indemnity, can be asked in return for its suppression. This piracy is a robbery— a spoliation, contrary to the modern law of notions ; to enter into a discussion about this robbery, eteept to demand that it shall be immediately and Unconditionally put a stop to, would be only acknowledging the Belgians t to have a right, which they have not.—L e C ons tit ut i onne BOURSE-4'AM, THURSDAY, OCT. 14. ":".t ' Highest Lowest Last 'rend) 5 per Cents. ex; P r ice Price . ... l r -l ice 6 1 Prato P1r4170 4 per 51) ... 98 50 „ 95 50 ... t 8 50 3 " e a Cont,... 7O 50 -. 79 60 ... 79 40 .. 7:1 4C of eranc..: NI4S ..2345 . ..eigian Bank ;841 ' 1020 „ IG2O _lOl7 50 —lOl7 50 Belgian 5 pee onus. 1840 102% 10214 10251 1144, Dutch 2yq per Cents. 52 ... t 2 52 tl ... 21 ... .o'' 0 Passive .....« 4% .„ ... ... rea,oot4u lowan ;O4 104 ... 104 ... 104 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1841. 4 441,4;1(4,4as „, ~••• • &bp It t n NE W SPA L-ER STAMP RETURNS. Extract from a Return of the Number of Stamps issued to the several Newspapers in Eng land, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist day of April to the 30th day of June, 1841, inclusive ; ordered by the House of Commons: — Average Daily Circulation. SUN 311,000 Globe Standard Courier 43,000 A Return of the Amouo t t of Advertisement Duty paid by each Newspaper from the sth of January to. the sth of July,-1841: • SUN Standard . 589 10 0 G!obe 5Bl. 9 0 Courier - LONDON LIFE. 50, Condnit-street. ILIGHTS and SHADOWS of. LONDON LIFE, in 2 vo!s., post BW., By the Author of " Random Recollections," "The Great Me tropolis," &c. IS Now READY AT ALL THE LIBRRIES, AND AT ALL BBOOKSELLE•iS'. Saunders and Otley, Publishers, Conduit•street. THE NEW SPORTING NOVEL. • Now ready at all the Libraries , in 3 vols. , THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN; Or, THE FIELD AND THE FOREST. ' A SPORTING NOVEL. By JOHN HILLS, Esq. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. , U iDER.the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS, Tills EVENING, OCT. 18, Will be repeated, the Nevi Comedy, entitled' OLD MAIDS. Sir Philip Brilliant, Mr. Charles Mathews; John Blount, Mr. Harley ; Thomas Blount, Mr. G. Vandenhoff ; Robert, Mr. 'aster Lacy ; Lady Blanche, Madame Vestris ; Lady Anne, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mistr;ss Blount, Mrs. W. West ; Charlotte, Mrs. Humby ; Jane, Miss Lee. To eenclntle with Auber's Opera of FRA DIA VOLD.— The Mirquis San Carlo (Fra Diavolo), Mr. W. Harrison ; Lord Aliea.sh, Mr. G. Hurneastle; Lorenzo, Mr. Clement White; Lady Micas!), Miss Grant; Zeilina, Miss Rainforth. Doors te to opened at hall-past Six—the pertnrmances to emmence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Secend Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circ'es, ss. ; Second Price, ‘.ls. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 2'.; Gallery Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-offiee, from Ten till Four. where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had so'ely of Mr. Andrexs, osioasettar, I New Sond-street. To-morrow, Old Mai&, with Popping the Question, and The Poor Soldier. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS !ONES. Upwards of 200,c00 Perschs have witnessed the Equestrian Fetes and gorgeous Spectacle 3. Fif h Week of " Blenheim," the Waterloo of the Eighteenth Cen• ury. THIS EVENING. OCT. 18 Will he presented the successful Equestrian. Spectacle, called THE BATTLE OF ,BLENHED I ; OR, I'HE HORSE OF THE DISINHERITED; introducing Mr Dncrow'smag nificent Stud of Forty Horses, highliy.trained Palfres a, Fairy Polley?, Equestrian and Companies of both Theatres; amkracing all the Nlilitary Exploits of the Great Duke of Marlborough, Grand Reviews, Battles, and Glorious Victories. After which, NEW SC EN ES IN THE CIRCLE, in the Largest Arena in the World, in which Madame Ducrovr, Sig nor Hillier, the Great American Rider, the British Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear. To conclude with a New Melodrama, entitled THE IRON HAND; or. the DUMB CARRIER BOY and his PONY. The Dumb Boy by Le Pctit Ducroi,v. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. 'JNDETI THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSEALDISTON. Fifteenth week of " Susan Hopley !" Great and continued success of " The Black Domino," and first week of "31erry Jerry." THIS EVENING, OCT. 18 The highly interesting and pathetic Domestic Drama, called SUSAN HOPLF.Y; OR THE TRIALS AND VICISSI TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL. William Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Susan llopl"y, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine or l lomestie Drama. After which, THE BLACK DOMINO; OR, THE MYS TERY.—DonSvIvio, Mr. Osbaldiston ; Juliano, Mr. Seaman; Gil Perez, Mr. Gardner ; Le Compte Voisey, Mr. Howard ; the Black Domino, Miss Vincent.. To conclude with MERRY JERRY ; or, A REEFER'S INRON Z; S. —Jerry, Mr. E. F. Saville; Rattlin, Mr. Dale; Cam plin, Mr. Seaman; Darby, Mr. Gardner; Ellen, - Miss Lee. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.—Gallerl, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes mfr. at Half-past Eight. To. morrow, Susan Hopley, with The Black Domino, and Merry Jerry. THE RAILWAY SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, ALSO THE CHINA SUN. PRICE UPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Oct. 18, 1841. ;HIGH WALER AT,I.ONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning...... 41 'flittutos After 3 Evening tlminutes after 4. RAILWAI SHARES ____ ..... . .... Versailles, R. B _ . 308 75 ... .208 - 75 ... 308 75 ... 308 75 L.B. .... 2 8 75 .. 208 73 ... 208 75 .. 208 75 'to= 23 410 ... 410 itraseitirttoßale,shares red 2s7 50 237 50 ... .; 25 ... 236 25 _ Died at Swansea, l a t e ly, Mr. Alorgan William, aged 104 years and eleven months. He resided at Swansea (where the copper smoke is said to be so de structive to human life), for the last 77 years ! In his 99th year he walked to Llanelly (12 miles) in three hours. Died, on the 10th ult., at the house of the Rev. J. Johns, minister to the poor, Liverpool, Miss Margaret Hazlitt, sister of the late William Hazlitt, the distinguished essayist and critic, aged 71 years. HOLYHEAD.—Before daylight on the morning of Wednesday last, the 13th instant, three lights, the signal that a vessel was on shore, were exhibited on the Skerries Island. BoatS immediately proceeded there, and found that the brig Dido, of and for Liverpool from Benin, on the coast of Africa, Carpenter master, had been completely wrecked on the west point of the island during the preceding night. The vessel had be come unmanageable trom the loss of her main-yard and fore topsail, and was driven ashore during a heavy squall. Her cargo, which was of palm oil, was com pletely lost. The ship's company, with the w i,_ than of Mr. Morgan, the surgeon, were I: . l' ir saved ; but inual? ? , unhappily he and another medical name of Read, a passenger, 1 ..:05t .- rheir lives in en . efaleznan, of the deavouring to quit the wree - ` ..... - - The men, twenty-five in able portioy cendition l i ve b r a e vi i n an r d° P-'4 ' 11(4 money and. head 'in the most destitute lost their all. But the most respct 'Cr ene 'inhabitants immediately met at the Custum-Letise, and contributed handsomely towards l a e s, p c a n r ish their' relief ; by which means they Were all decentlyclad, :comfortably ludged, and furnished each with a sum of c landing o n s a t a t a passage to Liverpool. The mate having mortally stabbed one of his Shipmates while at Benin. b H I e t s - ,1 y a h n e d a d , subsequently delivered i ti n t t eddy to Beaumaris jail b • ofthe county • - . 1, one toawait his • ' „,, trial for t h e offence. There • are 216 Mechanics' Institutions in England, comprising 25,651 m em b ers an d su b scr ib ers, ', of whom about half belong to the class of workmen. -The average number of members, therefore, is 119. The 'number of lectures delivered 'yearly in these Institutions it about-1,198. ' The three great . means of usefulnes s i n Mechanics' Institutions are-Ist; Glasses for regular in *ll(AL:di i 2 dt Let i and 3d, LiVraries. , .... k‘d AtA R NEWS AND VittUr OptltiOn, " Who runs may read," FOREIGN. The French Government Journals appear to have received an intimation from the .Court to be less enthu siastic in their support •of Chri s tina, for the papers of Thursday rather deprecate any interference with the in ternal affairs of Spain. The Journal des Debats alone contends that the French interest must be maintained at all hazards at Madrid, and broadly asserts that France, and France only, must provide a husband for the young Queen. This is a question which France will not be allowed to settle after this free and easy fashion. On the 10th inst. General O'Donnell summoned the town of Paropeluna to surrender, and on receiving a re fusal, cannonaded it from the citadel. The summons was renewed on the 11th with the same result, when a heavy fire was opened upon the town, which did immense damage. O'Donnell was without provisions, and the troops of Espartero in possession of the town had en tirely cut off his supplies. The result of the cannonade of the 11th is not yet known. The following is an extract from the Courrier Francais, suggested by the reports of a financial crisis in England. We fear that the hatred of this country which it betrays is but too general even among the educated classes in France:—" A bad harvest, the interruption of labour in several of the manufacturing districts, the distress of the working classes, the deficit of the public revenue, and the embarrassment of the Bank of England all com bine to produce a position, which is anything but safe, and out of which even immediate danger may arise. In the event of a war with the United States, for in stance, Manchester would certainly be reduced to close her factories, and the Bank of England to suspend its payments. We do not desire this catastrophe. Nations are now closely connected with each other in questions of credit, and France has nothing to gain by the ruin, or even the derangement of English commerce ; but it is pleasant to see the situation of those proud islanders, who for a whole year dreamed of enchaining the world in their policy, and rendering it tributary to their trade. There they are trembling before a French fleet of twenty ships of the line, and sinking under the weight of a finan cial operation, scarcely amounting to 3,600,0001. sterling. A remarkable document, addressed by the Pope to the Governments of Germany, relative to mixed mar riages, will be found in another part of The Sun. The pretensions of the See of Rome are as preposterous as they were three centuries ago. Pt3I3LIC OPINION. The Times, in noticing Lord Ellenborough's appoint ment, which it seems is not yet settled, to the Gover nor• Generalship of India, recommends, as a point of great importance, that the Hindoos should be properly instructed in astronomy, observing—" Our readers "tire very generally aware of the prodigious advances which have been made of late years by the educated native po pulation in extricating themselves from their bloody and barbarous superstitions. Those superstitions, involving annually an amount of torture, obscenity, and immola tion, which, as practised under the very eye of the British authorities, must make humanity shudder, are for the most part based upon, and indissolubly identified with, certain wild chimeras of theirs, which they believe to be of divine origin, relative to the physical phenomena and go verning spirit of the universe. Of this description in particu lar, is their absurd and monstrous system of astronotny ; and since their ignorant misconceptions respecting the struc titre and changes of the material world form the very life and soul of their revolting polytheism, every person must see that, without necessarily attacking their reli gious prejudices in the first instance, the mere commu ideation to them of just scientific views in a popular form, accompanied by that rigorous demonstration which the acuter Hindoos can intelligently appreciate, would eventually involve, along with the demolition of what they deem a heaven-revealed science, a complete disbe lief in the pretended divinity of their worship. Their astronomy and their religion are, in their opinion, equally divine ; and they stand or fall together." The Chronicle observes, while comparing Sir Robert Peel with Pitt—" Without placing Sir Robert Peel in the first rank of Statesmen, it would be idle to refuse to him more than an usual measure of industry and ap plication, and the possession of extensive information on most of the subjects which occupy public men. Mr. Pitt, when he entered on office, could not have posseased any great stock of knowledge, from his youth. Even with out the evidence of Mr. Wilberforce, who knew him intimately, as to his sle••der stock of knowledge, a very cursory perusal of his speeches will satisfy any one that, however superior as an orator, in political information he was much below Sir Robert Peel. But he possessed what Sir Robert Peel has not from nature, and never, therefore, can have—the firmness of mind to act on his own convictions as to what would most con duce to the welfare of the country. He believed him self to be an honest man, and he would have suffered his right hand to be cut off rather than become the tool of the aristocracy."—lt is impossible that Pitt could have ever believed himself an honest man—commencing public life, as he did, as a Reformer, and then after wards becoming the great arch-enemy of Reform. As for his not consenting to be the tool of the aristo • cracy, he was never anything else than their tool—their cat's:paw. The Herald, speaking of M‘Leod's case, says --" It is always with feelings of pain, only equalled by the inten sity of our solicitude, that we advert to the case of Mr. Mq.eod. But the sense of duty that impelled us (in the commencement of those events, which, accumulating in rapid and fearful succession, have invested his position with an interest so absorbing and so profound) to appeal, on his behalf, to the outraged majesty of his country ; becomes but the more distinct and strong with the arri val of every mail from the United States, that brims us any intelligence of the aspect of his case. We write, at this moment, under a vivid impressicn of the enormous magni tude of the results involved in the fate of M‘Leod. This impression is based on the conviction that, between the . restoration of that individual, in safety, to the authorities of England—and war between England and the United States in the event of his destruction—there is no alter native. There is no middle term between these two extreme conditions. The wrong already done—the violence, outrage, and oppression, already visited on a British subject, whose acts have been reclaimed (so to speak), by his own Government, as their ! l a s — an d whicgn ised h reclamation of cit thema has 6 :en accepted and re by pl i ,has o f th e G overnmen t co ex of the United States-0 .oese things have left no loop natination'• hole through whie'• • • in ornatto ingenuity can now drag the prisoner out o f the political tempest ready to ourst on his devoted heakinto the favouring obscurity of a private culprit. It has been truly said that in the person of APLeod the greatne3s of the British nation is criminally arraigned before an illegal tribunal consti• tuted by the United States." We quote the following from the Postt—" It were idle to deny that there are many alarming symptoms in the social condition of Great Britain. It is feartlll to bohold en enormous hi?+M of people whose means of ex istence are telnly AtUt precarious, and who have thrown oft Alt it4tralut of reverence for that which is placed abbe them. Men of the disturbing and revolutionary school seem to find a degree of triumph in this very aspect of danger. See,' they cry, how matters really arc --you must do something —you must alter the laws— you must begin by repealing the Corn-laws.' We ana*er that changing the laws won't change the people, and that is the only change which can be effec tual. While the people of all ranks, or all de grees of property, in the crowded manufacturing dis tricts, are what they are, it id a moral impossibi lity that they should be tranquil, or wise, or happy. It is net in external circumstances, but in themselves that the mischief lies. Changes of the law would signify nothing beyond the moment. The desire of change— the ignorant expectation of advantage from change— would still be there, and presently would arise some new occasion for restlessness and disturbance. Satisfy the turbulent by repeal of the Corn-laws ! As well might you hand the thirsty man a teaspoon full. of water, and tell him never to thirst more. Our opinion is either that there is no hope at all, or that the true ground of hope is in the reform of the people, not in the reform of the law. And Who is to reform the people ? We answer that if it is.to be done at all, it is to be done by the Church." We quote the following observations from the Durham Chronicle.—" War with America is the very worst evil that could befal this country; and we are thoroughly convinced that it is an evil which never would have hap pened had a Whig Administration remained in power. With the Tories at the head of affairs, we believe this disastrous result not improbable; for judging from past experience, we know that the most impolitic wars have obtained, and do still obtain, that faction's most hearty assent." The Dundee Chronicle, in an article suggested by the present state of the country, remarks as follows : " ShoUld the winter be a hard one, we defy the Tolies to rule without shedding blood ; we „defy them to check the clamours of a hungry mass of the manufacturing population without filling the prisons and convict hulks ; we defy them to eradicate - the deep-rioted hatred that lies in the breasts of the people, towards them and their proCrastinating Government, without bayoneting or bul• leting their hearts." The Herald, in refeeenee tt torti AlVithley's pamphlet, says;—" Whilst the Anglo 7 Protestant Catho lics—the Puseyites—are thinking Stiithisly Of - I'6llh the Church of England to that e itiYht. , , and Ro:ne is meeting them half wq, ienttl Alvanley has published a pamphlet, in whleh he contends that the State ought now to support all the priests of Ireland, whilst he would refuse all State assistance to the D issentin g would e the Catholic priests a Stat e S ti p endiar y , pastor, to which we are most decidedly opposed. It is enough for the Diesenter to be taxed towards the support of one true and Apostolic Church,' without being saddled with two." VlONZY—Tp.,Aos — coiviz aoicz. The celebrated Professor Heeren, of Gottingen Uni versity, has been commissioned, by the Hanoverian Go vernment, to make a careful inspection throu g hout Fran ce and Belgium countries, and tu inquire info the causes which have con. tiibuted to its it L i iie t iN development there during the past few year s . At a meetin g o f t h e s h are holders of the Bank of Man chester, held on Wednesday, the su r p lus fund, after every diminuti on, was stated at 19 , 000 /. The greatest di stress prevails at this moment among the working cl asses o f' t h e metropolis. The number of unemployed t a il ors an d s h oe makers is daily increasing, and the Spitalfields weavers are giving themselves up to despair. The scenes of misery and want, even in that distressed district, are quite unprecedented. The favourite Greek wine, the Vino Santo of the -Egeati, is often sold on the spot for a penny a gallon. The Marsala vineyards in. Sicily, are occupied" at present by English merchants.. 11.0.2Z1C LILT 7.77,1A1.. The large quantity of vegetable produce grown in the neighbourhood of Lichfield, may be inferred from - the fact that no less than 300 tons of onions have been posed of at the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other neighbouring markets, within the past year. NAVAL AND IZL,ITAI3.4'. The new Board of Admiralty have directed that 100 stout and muscular landsmen srall be entered imme diately for the navy, from 20 to 25 years of age. Great preparations are going on in the Royal Dock yards for fitting out numerous vessels of war. The body of the unfortunate man Wallace, who, it is alleged, was murdered by a warrant officer belonging to her Majesty's ship Wellington, at Sheerness, has been found about two miles from the spot where the occurrence took place. Ward, the accused party, is in close cus tody on board the Ocean. • LAW AND POLICZ. At Marlborough -street on Friday Mr. Laverty applied for summonses against Mr. and Mrs. Hunt, who had, on the 25th Of. September,-accused him falsely with inde cently assaulting Mrs. Hunt. The summonses were im mediately granted. At Bow. street Joseph Payboddy, a butcher, residing in Goodge-street, Tottenham-court-road, who was charged, on Monday last, with a person of the name of Biggs, with having forged and uttered a number of checks upon the bank of Messrs. Snow, Paul, and Co., of dm Strand, but who was admitted to bail till Tuesday next, was again placed at the bar on a charge of utter ing, two other forged checks of the sum of net each. After a lengthened examination the Magistrate, not judging it expedient to accept bail, the prisoner was re manded. At Union-hall six girls, inmates of Lambeth work house, were committed for twenty-one days to the House of Correction, for disorderly conduct, and break ing nineteen squares of glass ; and at the Greenwich Police court, three young healthy-looking women be longing to the Greenwich workhouse, were committed for twenty-one days to the same place fin' similar offences. • EFTER.ARY AND SCIENTIFIC. The bridge to be thrown over the river Shannon at Athlone, is progressing fast, and the excavations are already made several yards below the bed 'of the river. Lieutenant Stokes, of her. Majesty's sbip Beagle, has lately sent to the British Ausenin, a very large ,vea snake, belonging to the genus Hydras, which is nearly as thick as a man's thigh, and between five and six feet long. It is the thickest and most weighty poisonous snake known. The architect M. Charpentier has undertaken, for a sum of 450,000 francs (18,0001.), to restore the ancient basilica-of Longchamp, as a temple to be exclusively de voted to the performance of oratorios, and other sacred music of the great masters. FINE ARTS. The Committee appointed to superintend the restora tion of Crosby Palace, Bishowsgate-street, are bringing their labours to a close. This palace, with its " richly embowed roof," at which Sir Bartholomew Read, Mayor of London, entertained a s*lemn Embassy from Maxi milian of Germany—which Sir Thomas More occupied, and afterwards sold to " his dearest friend" Bonoisi, the Lucca merchant—which in 1594 the " rich Spencer" purchased, and " Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother," occupied for a time, was in later years turned into a Presbyterian meeting-house, and afterwards became a packer's warehouse ! From these degraded uses it has now been delivered, and its architectural splendour pre served to better times. COURT--riLSIIXONABLE. The Marquis of Exeter expects shortly to be honoured with a visit from the Queen Dowager at Burleigh. On Thursday her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda, who has been staying at Piermont-house, Broadstairs, upwards of two months, left for her resi dence at Blackheath. The Princess is in her 69th year, and is in apparent good health. The Earl of Aberdeen will give a grand dinner to morrow at Argyll House. . A sham fight took place on Friday in the Home Park at Windsor, before her Majesty and Prince Albert, be tween two companies of the 72d regiment.' Her Majesty is said to have express , -d a wish that her accouchment might take place at Windsor, but the many inconveniences which would attend this arrange ment forbid it. MISCELLANEOUS. On Friday, it, being the present King of Prussia's birthday, was inaugurated on.the Place of La Belle Al liance, at Berlin, a superb granite column, 42 feet high, and surmounted by a figure of Victory, in commemo ration of the successes of the Prussian army over Na poleon. On the 15th of this month, in 1555, Bishop Ridley gave a supper to his friends the night before he suffered. Tis supper presents some idea of the manner of living as well as the price of provisions, at that time ;--A pig, 11d.; a shoulder of mutton, 9d. ; a plover, 4d.; bread and ale, 3d. ; wine, lid. ; cheese and pears, 2d. , total, 2s. 6d. "Quiet yourselves," said he to his friends ; " though my breakfast will be somewhat sharp and pain ful, yet my supper will be more pleasant and easy." Lord Eliot, while riding to his office at Dublin Castle from the Chief Secretary's lodge on Thursday last, was thrown from his horse, and bruised and stunned by the fall. At the sham fight, which took place on Friday at Windsor Park, before the Queen and Prince Albert, it was observed that the old muskets, with Hint and steel, almost invariably failed, while the new ones, with per cussion.loeks, seldom or never missed fire. COURT CIRCULAR. WiNDSOR; SUNDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert, her Royal .Highness the DUchess of Kent and the Royal HOUsehOld, attended Divine Service this morning in the private 'chapel Of the Castle, The Rev, James Gossett, officiated. Her Majesty appears in excellent health. Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn and Colonel Si. George Cowper, Bart., arrived at the Castle yesterdai ons visit to the Queen. Yesterday her .Majesty and Prince Albert did Mr. Moon the honour of inspecting a valuable ring of bril liants presented to him by his Imperial Majesty the Em peror of all the Russias, as a mark of high consideration of their Imperial Majesties for his liberality and talent in promoting the fine arts. His Royal Highness the ])uke of Cambridge left his reAdence at Kew on Friday, to honour the Earl and Countess of Mayo with a visit at their residence, Birsted Lodge, near Bognor, Sussex. His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philipps thal left Marlborough House yesterday afternoon, to pay it 'Visit to ther loyal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, at their residence nt Itew, The Spanish Minister transacted business on Saturday at the Poreign•eitee: Lord Stanley, we are happy to state, is redveri ong from a severe fit of the gout. Despatches for the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and fur the Governor of Gibraltar, were sent off from the cclottial.oflice on Saturday evening. Dlspatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. FIRE IN JERMYN-STREET....- On Saturday night, shortly before tett &Ouch % Mitch eAcitement was created in the neighbourhood of Piccadilly by the sudden outbreak of a fire on the extensive premises of' Mr. Pierce, ironmonger and stove manufacturer, on the north side of Jermyn-street, five doors from the Hay market. Mr. Superintendent Baker, with two inspectors and a strong body of police of' the C division, were ttIOPt promptly in attendance, and almost at the same moment the engine of Pit, James's parish and that of the County Fire-office toilet - Lai the spot. at which time dense volumes of smoke were issuing from all the tipper windows. Carter, the foreman of the County Fire-office, instantly entered the premise;, and found the flames raging furi ously in the back building at the rear of the shop, and fast extending themselves up the staircase leading to the show-room on the first floor, when, with the assistance of Drane and Bishop, two policemen of the C division, and some of the neighbours, he combated with the flames until a branch of one of the engines could be brought to bear upon them. The engine of the brigade from the King-street, and that from the Chandos-street stations, as wibil as the West of England and other engines of the brigade from &c,. however, poured in in rapid succes3ion, and before eleven o'clock, by the com bined exertions of the firemen, the fire was completely subdued, The damage done is very considerable, but the premises are, we understand, insured in the Royal Exchange kire , 4lloe, and Mr. Pierce's stock in the Alli ance Fire-office, roi .t,bool. • BANK OF MANCHESTER.—ANNUAL MEET. , INCi or PROPRIETORS.—The twelfth annual general meeting Of the tirtinriettfrs of th,s bank was held i n the large room of the I.York ttnf6i ! on Thursday last, and was numerously attended. Mr. :I, C. Dyer, the Chairman of the Board, occupied the chair. The Report of the Directors was read, by which it appeared that the net profits of the year, ending the 30th June last, were 50,8301 1 out or which two dividends of 2i per cent, gall had been paid to the proprietors, melting to gether 37,0511., and leaving a balance of 13,7791., which had been carried to the reserved surplus fund. Adding that Atittl td the pfeViolis feeerved fund (36,6420 gives a sum of 50,4211. ; and deducting froth info siim the total estimated amount of losses to Ist July last, viz. 31,1001,, there would still remain a balance of 18,321/. at the credit of the reserved surp!us fund. 'The Report stated angst other, things, that th , .! establishment ceased to' be a Whit of issue on the 19th of July last ; that the amount of the paid-up capital is 741,0311., and the num ber of proprietors 515. Messrs. J. C. Dyer, John BrOwn, and Samuel Prince, retiring Directors, were re elected. ; aud. Mr. John Potter was elected in the place of Mr. Thomas 011ivant, resigned.—Manchester Guardian. CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Saturday an in• quest was held at the Orchard House, Poplar, on the body of Jeremiah Connor, aged 50, who had been for fifteen years superintendent of the Royal Cement manu factory at Poplar. It appeared he was examining a part of the machinery, which was worked by steam, when his clothes were caught between the shaft and some cog wheels. and he was turned round repeatedly and his clothes all torn off his body before the machinery could he stopped. The deceased was well acquainted with the nature of the machinery, and was sober at the time. The arm and thigh of the deceased were severely fractured; he was removed to an hospital, but was not there more than a few minutes when he died. Verdict—Accidental Death. _ - —...... It is now definitively fixed, should no unex pected occurrence take place to prevent it, that the Court will return to Buckingham Palace from Windsor on Wednesday next. Her Majesty's recent slight in disposition was in no way connected with the important event in which the nation is so deeply interested. Her loyal subjects will rejoice to hear that she is in the en joyment of perfect health. It is probable that the event -to • which all are looking forward with such intense anxiety will not take place until the 'first, or .possibly • the second week of November.—Observer. MORNINWSUN LITERATURE. AONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 15.—The inquiry for Cotton this week has been to a fair extent from the trade,- and has been met pretty freely by importers of American, at last week's prices. The middling qualities are perhaps not so easy to buy, owing to the demand being chiefly for that description. Brazils continue very heavy, and for sawginned Maranhams lower prices have been taken; other sorts without change. At the public sale to-day, every thing was bought in ; 3,000 American and 200 Surat have been taken on speculation, and 150 Ame rican and 250 Surat for export. LIVERPOOL SIIARE MARKET, OCT. 15.—Very little doing, the only quotation marked is the Eastern Conn ties,7l ex div. . MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 15.—The Market continues steady at former prices. We have had some business transacted in Manchester and Leeds at 57/ ex 4 Shares ; the latter are selling at Iss. prem. Manchester and Birmingham have been sold at 214 ; North Midlands are 34 to 354 dis. We have some in quiry for Midland Counties, and London and Birming ham New Thirds. There has been no sale in Bank of Manchester Shares since the meeting on Wednesday last ; they may be quoted at 5 to 54 per Share. The intelligence received by the packet ship Sheridan, from New York, the details of which are published in another part of this paper, is considered in the City to be of an unfavourable nature ; . and Consols, which closed last night at 88% for Money, opened this morning at 87% 88 ; and 884 s fin. the Account ; Exchequer Bills are steady at 1 1s. 13s. preen. In the Foreign Market no alteration has taken place. Spanish Active Stock, is now quoted at 20%; Deferred, 9j- 10% ; Passive, 4% ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 29 30 ; ditto, Threes, 18k. The Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of England, compared with the last statement, shows an increase in the circulation of 111 4 00C1., a decrease in the deposits of 523,0001., in securities of 139,0001., and in bullion of 262,0001. The Continental Exchanges were much firmer again yesterday, and bills upon Paris and Amsterdam were much higher. Consols have since further declined to 88 for the Ac count. The English Stock Market continues flat and heavy. The following are the fluctuations during the morning : Consols for Money, 88 87% 4 4 ; and for Account 884 87% 886 88 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 86k % ; Three-and-a-Half ditto, 96 4 96 ; Bank Stock, is now quoted at 164 ; India do., 244; do. Bonds, 2s. prem. to par; Exchequer Bills, 1 Is. 13s. prem. There has been a fair business doing in the Foreign Securities, but no material alteration has taken place. Spanish Active Stock has been down to 194, but are now 20%; Deferred, 9% ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 291 ; Ditto Threes, 18 ; Brazilian Bonds, 52 534 ; Mexican, 24t; Colombian, 191; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. ; Five per Cents. 98%. There has been but one transaction done' in the Share Market, and that has been in London and Brighton, the Shares of which have receeded to 384 4. Consols, money, 87-1- ; in November, 88%; Spanish, 20% 4. Both markets are flat. No intelligence of the Caledonia steam-ship. Now the intelligence has been received respecting the seizure of an American subject, and the high pitch of exasperation to which public feeling has risen on both the British and United States side of the frontier in relation to M'Leod's trial,' many parties here incline to the opinion, that the Great West ern steamer brought over despatches the other day from Mr.. Fox, in which these matters were represented in a strong light, and that some intimation of it having trans pired in influential quarters, this was the occasion of the panic in the Funds. The Produce Markets have been good this week for Colonial articles, but not very cheering for other staples. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 164 India Stock ...244 3 per Cent Red. 866 Ditto Bonds 2 pr 3 per Cent Cons BB% Ditto Old Annuities ... 36 per Cent Red.. New 36 per Cent 976 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 13 pm New 5 per Cent — , Ditto 5001... Long Annuities to expire I Ditto Small. . Jan. 1860 .. 12% Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 l2 3-16 India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. FO itEIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. 47% Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic.. Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 206 Ditto, 1824. l9l Ditto, Deferred 96 Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 18'45, 5 per cent 'Exchange f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent. .. 24% ;French, 3 per cent —l. c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625 j Dutch, 26 per cent. ... 51i Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et !Ditto, 5 per cent 99 SHARES Great Western Railway (65 paid) 74 Ditto New Shares (50 paid Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 386 London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 86 • TILE MIRROR. Li,nbird, London. t • It is always with pleasure that we ref er to. bis: oldest and, in some respects, best of the cheaP literary periodicals, by which of late years so much information and wholesome entertainment• has been diffused over every part of the ear,t l : t o where the .English language is spoken, an 1. iIi!1 which have happily falsified Napoleon's p redie tion that in times of peace the booksellers would fill the world with nothing but trash• In the last N umber of this excellent work, amongst a variety of articles of great merit, we find one. especially worthy of th e most serious attentiOPflici It is from the pen of Mr. Fennel, the known author of " A Natural History of Qua drupeds," and it is entitled "An Essay upon the • Effects of Music upon Men and Anima ls ' Although in some particulars we differ from the author's views, we consider the information COn: veyed in his essay respecting the beneficial effects of music upon the health of the youcl e ' and upon the temper of persons of all ages/ to tie • valuable in a very high dearee. We could ro e help smiling, however, at the credulity of O il . of his historical references. He tells us Oa; " Tyrteus, the Spartan poet, by certain ver se which he sung to the accompaniment of ga tes i so inflamed the courage of his countrymen, they achieved a great victory over the ges.,. ° s nians, to whom they had submitted in , se! e i t ; previous conflicts. Timotheus with his 1 °1;4 could move the passions of Alexander as e. pleased, inspiring him at one moment with to greatest fury, and soothing him i n the next il l e the most gentle and placid state. Shak s P ear says music can " ravish savage ears And plant in tyrants mild humility.' Love's Labour Lost, Act IV. Scene 1;1_ The truth of this assertion is a b u ndantly both in ancient and modern history. pythaoratos instructed a woman, by the power of musi c / 4 ( arrest the fury of a young man who carne to '' s' her house on fire ; and his disciple, Empedoeleot used his lyre with such success as to Pr es , e another person from murdering his father vge the sword was unsheathed for that purPas e ' on fierceness of Achilles was allayed by playiagilits the harp, on which account Homer live s i vith nothing else out of the spoils of A:660 1 % ld a nd the same instrument Damon quieted wr„iiar drunken youths ; and Asclepiades, a to manner, brought back seditious multitudes temper and reason." il oht This History is apocryphal. We thcrffss it was pretty well established that Alexander, •be insensible to the influence of music---tht e is could not perceive the harmony of 1 1( w:bey verses, which he loved only for the exploits 'on recorded—and that the effects produce d ti i ;ot. him by Timotheus were purely fabulou s, by withstanding the brilliant use made of thefiloa. • " glorious John" in the immortal Ode t Sidie cilia. We believe that much of the " flit history" quoted by Mr. Fennel rests upon, j' a ir better foundation. The following sensib ie b e re servations are the only ones which we can afford room. to extract : t h t 11/ It would, unquestionably, be rash to suppose ~-1:0/get men who are not pleased with the concord cn ; g goe sounds would commit those crimes against the P-cate• and the State which the poet says they are fit to OC cat er Certainly they must lack a reverence for, or the P, to appreciate, that which is harmonious ; but thisricle' cal defect, if I may so term it, may show its Mute . Mute.stroying things of less consequence than life an' 43111 Lord Chesterfield, if he did not dislike music, cerlfo rearded the practice of it as no accomlishment; "Advice to his Son," lie says, "I cannot avail playing upon any musical instrument illiber al in illiberal tleman. Music is generally reckoned one of the seen arts, and not unjustly; but a man of fashion, who die piping or fiddling at a concert, degrades his OW I1 3 „ to nity. If you love music, hear it; pay fiddlers to Pi e i, 3o a you, but never fiddle yourself. It makes a g ent g atil appear frivolous and contemptible, leads him frtlidit into bad company, and wastes that time whicp, s , o f i i otherwise be well employed." Such is the opi,ol°'sgat'' exquisite; but I cannot agree with his LordshlP! tore ing and other fashionable sports seem to me o ° lc tas 0 1 ' 4 likely to lead young gentlemen into bad soc iet y layivg of betters, gamblers, jockeys, &c., to wit) than Ili a es ° upon the violin. His advice, that if one loves 10 Turic . should not learn to play it, reminds one of th e lalsercea who, seeing some English gentlemen dancing, ° w hy do to them, "If you like that sort of amusement, you not get your servants to do it for you?" NEWSPAPER REPORTIN,A fa. .1..0 CHINA. a 1 f (From the Canton Register of June 1a",,,' ent ° l a t ff is ai i r n s ier d e r s a ti w n n g up as b i y t shows 'ding wh o LOCAL NEWS.—The following is a brief statB-ker tk. Chinesethe late important public. a es ter . _ e j os --- IMPORTANT INVENTION IN LACE MACHl prevalent among the bulkof -' NERY.—Considerable numbers of our mechanics, during so recently took place, and is on the whole rains „ r • the last few days, f have been gratified and astonished b blf e", the inspection o a novel arrangement of mechanical the people regsera. rect. The account of matters sent up to %A ll- ' u7rt liar'' movement, which •applicable kindsof is to all will be ,* widely different from this .-- „ dur i ,,f chine • • ie. The object is to dispense with large drums, chains, plates, and many other contrivances that the third watch (Friday, 21st of May, 11 to 1 111 ;,, a r50 1 t are in use at present, to enable the proprietors of lace- the great Generals, Yihshan, &c., ordered the 0Fm„.7 4 ant; machines to alter their fabrics with as little trouble and soldiers from every encampment to take,fire . .Pr e i'fig as small a cost as possible. It is well known, however, fire-ships, and attack the rebellious foreigrier s . ,Yhelt; that numbers of industrious deservieg men are ruined anchor in the Taiwongkaou (Macao passage.) ' abe'l" in the lace trade, by the constant request for fresh pat- tie lasted till daylight, during which time serera,devil° terns and meshes, and the incapability of a'l the present belonging to the foreign ships were burned, seve ° f t aela plans for producing them, only at the sacrifice of more imps (foreigners) were taken alive, several tens °was el [tine and money than they can afford, or the articles, were killed, and a part of the Company's bol t s trie tl i when produced, would pay back again ; and the conse- stroyed. The gates of the city were kept mos eas i ilt quence is, they are obliged to go on making unsaleable shut, and the people were not allowed to pass out 7,0° 0 ,', goods, and selling themfor any price they may be offered, "On the 2d day (Saturday, May 22d), a t tel,,:i et ees7 however lowenot only to their own loss, but with the cer- the devil's imps embarked on board a fire -ship ‘ ae gpo ° s ) ; tainty of bringing down the prices of the goods of others steamer), and sailed up to Neisheng (near Ts a gre e that are more saleable. The where they made use of fire-arrows apparatus, which occupies rockets) a". W' ( , aeo n very little room, can be made for a trifling sum compared guns, with which they attacked and smashea a• to with any of the modes now in use, and when once a and burned several tens of carrying vessels. v ii e¢ We, a plied, the pattern can be altered without loss of time, ao n the 3d day (Sunday, May 23) the de e car lea and only the expense of a few pasteboard cards. It con- early off the Fa-tee creek, where they seized talleulayaive, sists of a number of small tapits and jacks, which play on off several passage-boats (these were for the en tes eeo!, an axle that goes through the whole of the tapits. The of the troops). They then commenced a sin/001.1e jacksare selected by means of cards, and taken in or attack on the Leipaoutoy, or Sha,meen fort, tb e e e , e 14 11 `,4 out of work by the instrumentality of two bars, that ad- paoutoy, or Dutch Folly, and along the s ide or 'SI^ berr g vance and recede by means of a double crank, which is They used their fire-arrows, with which th ° l,o o o6lo connected at each end of the said bars by links ; a lever, several hundreds of houses, shops, and shed.' per, oo is i with the chisel or nose cut to operate on as many tapits' to the inhabitants on the banks of the r l . / de the c as there require various heights in the bar with which it eastern, southern, and western quarters outs l a i jay s a,e) is conneeted, viz., if the bar attached to any one lever walls. The lire lasted uninterruptedly for two jo y ? „.111 wanted moving ten gates from top to bottom by two "On the sth day of the moon (TuesclaYd strolisd gates at a time, only four tapits and a dead stop would they landed above Neisheng, and mark e es, a tta c iie n be required ; but as the model has been seen, and we towards the great northern gate, where hey ; t t.o , understand a machine, with the apparatus at work, can and captured the square fort and the rouno ",, lit e, tP be seen in a few days, it will be unnecessary for us to directing their course to the small northern 15 • tb e f give further particulars.—Nottinglioni Mercury. burned an encampment. fear) , Mr)? hof As - fo "On the 6th day (Wednesday, 26t ren ch tol' s. On Saturday, at the meeting of the Marylebone attacked and stormed he Tangpaoutoy (F lhe cus. e er. Vestry, a letter was read from the proprietors of Rankin's and using their fire-ar t rows, thee burned al, t he r: e eg patent wood paving, offering to lay down the material houses and chop-houses along the ba nks devil l's ' -i ir for three years, or any other period, at an annual charge Thus, whether by - -he de' c i s ecf r land or by water, t of three shillinge per yard, instead of at once charging took ossession of all our strong places. Towlrhi, if, ° „,•'t sixteen shillings per yard for it. A letter from a Mr. ing the Hon , merchants anc linguists beg: - an aftt`•ee Perkin offered ° to pave all Oxford-street with wood at ship, Yu, the Kwan,gchowfoo to meet 111( '',.,• a e , 14 0 Leh ehillings per square yard, to be paid for as coin- for peace. Elliot wanted them to pay, the P„•; c a 'lib piked. Thie latter proposition was passed over by opium, 6,000,000 dollars, and lima[et' , 5 e - :c e che ° ai d being ordered to lie on the table. The adjourned debate within which the full ' • tbe 1 0 ' 1 ' ; n1 45; r SC amount was 0 ee ea Ti e JO as to the farmer proposition of the proprietors of Ran- war- 1 • kin's patent was then opened, and of course soon ended he alsos nps should afterwards leave the 13 0 " f ig die Hong l ' ) c't ° by its rejection, as a far more favourable one had been nowthe insisted upon the island of coluse: sa e o_ ,l now made ; and, as it was afterwards proved that in payme h h e t gnt h :le s r t i . era i l (Yishan) lre,oo,°sJele; proportion to the annual cost of the lent parts of the the 7th day(Thursday, pled sum 0 . eg _ a e he I; et , s 1 macadamized portion of Oxford-street that the employ- 1,000 000 t - . 01'.7,: ties t,i0 6 1 5, , o account. Regarding the `i due ll' o eo B ment of this splendid specimen, when used •eitere there t • erritory, we must wait till he has made a . : e ao was most wear and tear, and on a hill, which Would to the Emperor and got h is If on the subject, the ct o effectually try its qualities, would only exceed the cost when he will be able finally t decide• of the present repair in three years by sixty pounds, the " Thus s ° lof day) 0 ,on the Bth day (Friday, 28t 1 e a to 1 3 proposal was adopted, gates were again opened, and people aIIOW REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.—On Monday and in." ill • ----------I--'-----_7 0 01) o f last, as one of the Derby and Birmingham trains was rilnie te s I- SP' titli - a travelling at the usual speed, when on this Side of Tam- A new kind of institution ..as -, las ~ ,ci worth, the crank axle of the engine broke in the middle Scotland, which is robbing the Mechan ores, 0 30' ' s eio of the " throw," and the driving wheels consequently their members, and which provides lect or the ceased working I but such was the speed at which the at a very cheap rate, admitting inclividusiss. 10 train was going, that it proceeded more than a quarter sum , of ld: for each evening's entertainment'• 'por e t he rr„ s s.-- -- ' 5 , 10 „ ti t of a mile before it stopped. Had it been a four instead EXTRAORDINARY .OAIC 1 '• Apt 'd dil eix-wheeled engine, the under wl 1 k la - imme _ at _. _ _, . lee I would have now ()Towing in Brook Wood, near Broo,. e na ~bt , di ely slipped off the rails, and a tremendous con- • ' iy l l° . herb parish of Buckfastleigh, it remarkab the cession must' have followed, which •in all probability , would three feet • • fand w hich, t ° in circum erence, w i the have caused less of life. As it was, the engine kept on 60 feet, has scarcely a protuberant branco. . 1 / t orn 5 d the line, and no damage was dune either to carriages or oVer t,l 'Pe /1 09 , Amongst the articles recently rec deo is e l t patseagers. A similar circumstance happened to an en- e lea ...- Pa es eo gine on the :North Midland Line. As the quarter to four wreck of the Royal George were sons , as. le , _ p re ea t o'clock train from Leeds was approaching the Amber- for marking linen, with the name ore te the!,: e nle y gate Station, it was delayed a considerable time in con- 1781, which evidently formerly belonge" of t i l e Pv" : ‘ Sir P. H. Durham, who was at the tim e " 'Of sequence of. the breaking of the axle of the working e els 1 ,.. a midshipman on board. wheels, at or near the throw. Fortunately no further et g ...0•1 / 13 , 1 %) , 11 , accident occurred. The coal train being near at hand, THE STRIKE OF MASO - e - : he 140 5- yrs; the engine belonging thereto was attached to the passenger u pon the contractors for the erection °"- steal° et train, and took it forward to Chesterfield, where it was ment, Trafalgar-square, and the Ne w aite sonse e il r , met by the pilot engine from the Marsbro' Station, Woolwich, receiving information that the fooe ery s ttl ii , which conveyed it to its destination. A corresponding works had " struck," these togentlesne%use C gl e fr e 't accident occurred the same afternoon to an engine on whole of the circumstances the A a t air ..../eisecle eery' the Grand Junction ; but in this, as in the two pre- day morning Messrs. Grissell and Pet° r ec to til ,e e ceding cases, the passengers and carriages escaped in- swer to their communication, which wr da eralti o t arp jury in consequence of the engine having six wheels.— that the Lords Coornissioners of the mattersadd' t eie (t lt e Derbyshire Reporter. after perusing the communication in the' to 1 4 CASE OF POISONING BY LAUDANUM.—The " perfectly s'atisfied to leave the s t hew to , e la not pres ehein nn of following case of poisoning is reported from the Middle- contractors') hands; they would n trust to l e f l o f vvoul tru fp A 5 ~ i t sex . Hospital, in the Lancet of this week :—A man was completion of the work, and the occasion. „orL' e , et` admitted, a short tinie since, into the hospital, about six every effort in their power on . ~ los up J oe ti hours after having taken an ounce of laudanum, contain-. of masons at work on Saturday la t hat , i i s ) a l e o 0 ing 26. g rains of opium. At the time of admission h e hundred, and it is stated to be certain eo..eas , (ta ie oo l d was apparently lifeless •; the surface of the body was cold, be at least 130 masons at work on .! 1 e n ee ' a e l . eee r ..o ,e countenance pale and livid. lips purple, pupils contracted ing. A number of masons arrivint.,,, ~ I _l- e v ,, , iot a .1 . 0 v .4, i i i to a mere point, respiration scarcely perceptible, p u l se S a turday we re not put to work un " 0 7 h 1 ,;',a ,C°L to °W o re h a rdly to be felt. The laudanum was removed by t h e their s t r ength. They stated that f __ tee edo a ee ter s t eat stomach -pump ; bat, in spite of every exertion, the Scotland a few hours after them ),,_ e " co ot i r: bo ar , ,, o o pulse became more unfrequent, and was at ti mes employment at the New Houses. -,le a i ti e; -i: 0 5 ' 0 0 imperceptible, when recourse was had to electro- so confident in their resources for 0vi'..., 0 . or, e e ns be wa ntlk'a. to e magnetism, which was applied by means of they anticipate there will not he end oj e .i e ii a small battery , with c oil and contact-breaker, •the New Houses of Parliament b) t • a pe" jita' ; 0 1 ' r 0' One wire was applied to the neck, and the other to the week. Gar ''' cdee e , 0 4 c region of the heart or epigastrium, and by these a suc- ARTESIAN WELL A T w i t h 0- lo opSif 0 cession of very powerful shocks was given. Its good 1 lowering of the tube is likely . to me et . , tee „ :te e, e e effects were very apparent. The muscles of respiration : culties than were at first anticipatede .A2esetitte'ly,i.)l;ce were set in action, and the diaphragm contracted pow- 1 executing this operation, an obstact I' s ' eet epic e e +w' ¢• erfully s the chest was more fully expanded, respiration . a depth of about 300 metres, which s n: bs - to le, r votP i i o f was more perfectly . carried on, and a corresponding ins- . dered the descent of the tube. Tbi e e e •reil t ~ 0 0 1 ' 4( 0:Y e provernent was observable in the countenance. The M. Mulot can give no account, offe,,r'_,; 7 .tis fo.v a l) pulse imereved and became more poweifal, becoming .and they have evorked for eigh o t na. l btain anY 510,1 t... 10, steady when the current was interrupted for a few n ew power without beinn• able t o ,til , ,_„. nits !,,,,,i , V t ic. minutes. This a lication was continued for several result. Almost the whole of the .0 0 l ifja e a a P ste esr , hours, and was finally successful—thus clearly establish- taken up again, and must be put d c.. %f lo gs 4 ing tile, influence of eleetreselagnetism under circum- ciple. The water continues to bri.n, up ; of sant l . — lnvento r's Advocate. stances hitherto considered hopeless. • - * I -