The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-04 00:00:00

IJ EVENING SUN 7/ MAGAZINES. .1%, 411,1ri lr ,• • BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. This Magazine reached us at such a late period . on. Saturday, that we were unable to include it • among our us ua l per i odical notices. The Num ber is pleasantly varied, and will, we think, be much liked. It opens with the romance of " Richard Savage," which maintains its interest unimpaired. One scene, in particular, between the old steward, Ludlow, and the hero, when the former details to the latter the story of his wife's degradation, exhibits considerable vigour both of.. sentiment and expression. "Donnybrook Fair, " as may be anticipated from . its title, abounds in broad, hurnourous descriptive touches The " Hea rt an d t h e Key " i s an accou nt of the perpetration, and discovery, under very unusual circumstances, of a murder. The nar rative is told w ith earnes tness and feeling. The " Moated Grange . " is an anecdote of the sti rr i ng t i mes o the Cavaliers and Roundheads, and regards the " hair-breadth 'scapes " and ultimate capture of Walter Colville by a party of Cromwell's dragoons. the whimsical legend of the " Auto-da-Fe," Ingoldsby versifies with his usual felicity. The nature of the article entitled " Popular Admira tion for Great Thieves," is sufficiently explained by its title. It is an entertaining collection of '-common-places relating to Dick Turpin, Jack Shephard, Claude Du Val, &c. The author, however, with a little pains, might have rendered his article still more amusing, by giving us, in stead of hacknied anecdotes about modern thieves, details respecting some of the more noted prigs of antiquity, such as Cacus, Autoly cus, and that surprizing genius of whom Hero dotus speaks in his sketch of King Rhamsinni tus. The Spanish Chroniclers, too, would have furnished him with abundant materials. " A :Mystery" is a strange story, eloquently told by Miss Romer. It is a piquant compound of mys terious love and still more mysterious murder. From the pleasant melange, " Merrie England n the Olden Time," we quote the author's ac count of a visit which he paid some years since to Bartholomew Fair with *the late distinguished - wit and ,essayist, Charl es L am b : Many years since I accompanied my old friend, Charles Lamb, to Bartholomew Fair. It was his pet notion to explore the droll-booths; perchance to regale in the " pens:" indeed, had roast pig (" a Chinese and a female," dredged at the critical moment, and done till it crackled delicately), continued one of its tit-bits, he had bargained for an ear ! "In spirit a lion, in figure a lamb," the game of jostling went on merrily ; an d when the nimbl e fi ngers o f a caller d'industrie found their way into his pocket, he remarked that the poor '." rogue only wanted "change !" As little heeded he the penny rattles scraped down his back, and their frightful harmony dinned in his ears. Of a black magician, who was marvellously adroit with his daggers and gilt balls, he said, " That fellow is not only a tVegro man, Sir, but a necromancer !" He introduced himself to Saunders, whose fiery visage and scarlet surtouslooked like Mon mouth-street in a blaze ! and the showman suspended a threatened blast from his speaking -trumpet to bid him • welcome., A painted show-cloth announced •in colossal capitals that a two-headed cow was to be seen at sixpence a-head. Elia inquired if it meant at per our heads or the cow's? On another was chalked, " Ladies and gentle men, two pence; servants, one penny." Elia subscribed us the exhibitor's " most obedient servants," posted our plebian pence, and passed in. We peeped into the puppet-shows; paid our respects to the wild animals; visited Gynkell and Richardson; patronised (" nobly daring !") a puff of the Flying Pieman's; and, such was his wild humour, all but ventured into a swing ! This was a perilous joke I His fragile form canted out, and his neck broken ! Then the unclassical evidence of the Bartlemy Fair folk at the " Crownees 'quest." What ~.a serio-comic chapter for a posthumous edition of Elia's 4•: - Last Essays ! Threo little sweeps luxuriating over a dish of fried sausages caught his eye. This time he load have his way ! We entered the "parlour , " and on a din g y t a bl e - c l ot h , em b roidered with mustard and gravy, were quickly spread before us, " hissing hot," some of " the best in the fair." His olfactory organs hinted that th e " o d eur d es gra il lons " which invaded them was not that of Monsieur Ude, still he inhaled it heroically, observing that, not to argue dog-matic a lly, yet cat-egorically speaking, it reminded him of cur-ry. •" Lunch time with us," quoth Elia, " is past, and din ter-time not yet come," and he passed over the steam ing dish to our companions at the table d'hote, with a kind welcome, and a winning smile. They stared, grinned, a nd a ll th ree f e ll to. e left them to their en joyments ; but not before Elia had slipped a silver piece into their little ebony palms. A copious libation to " rare Ben Jonson" concluded the day's sports. dlidv ', ~ BRITISH MAGAZINE. In this Number, which besides a copious monthly register of religious and ecclesiastical information, contains intelligence respecting the progress of education, and several other useful mat ters, we find an interesting essay on "Antiquities," and some remarks on the "Church of Scotland" in the seventeenth century. --- FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY REVIEW Several amusing original papers, both in prose ate verse, make their appearance in this Num ber : one of the best is a moral ess a y un d er t h e t itle of the" Brahmin," which is not unlike some of the graver essays in Johnson's " Idler." On " Freemasonry" is a sketch of the progress of this institution from the earliest period, and is from the pen of the Rev. Dr. Oliver. SCOTTS PROSE WORKS. Cadell, Edinburgh, 1841. We have here the "Heart of Mid-Lothian," republished in two separate forms, first, in one duodecimo volume, and secondly, in an octavo pamphlet; and in both cases got up with uncom mon neatness, and at a price that cannot fail to bring it easily within the reach of almost all classes of readers. The "Life of Napoleon" is also continued in the same form, and when com pleted will make one handsome octavo volume. 'these are certa i n l y t h e b es t an d c h eapest edi tions of Scott's works that have yet appeared. PICTORIAL SHAKSPEARE. • C. Kniyht, London, 1841. In the present Part—which is the thirty seventh—of this splendid edition of Shakspeare, 'We have the " Venus and Adonis" and the' Rape of Lucrece," each of which is illustrated with a choice variety of wood-cuts, and short pertinent notes, which clear up the occasional/ obscurities of the text. The poems are to be completed in another Part. ALEXANDER'S EAST INDIA MAGAZINE. The best feature in this periodical is its miscel laneous Indian intelligence, which is very copious, and condensed with considerable tact, and brings lip the various matters of news to the latest pos sible period. Among the original papers we rind some amusing " Extracts fr.om the Journal ?fa Medicalis v Ocer," wherein he infors us that Infanticide ffi ery common in the vicinity of Cabool. POLYTECHNIC JOURNAL. Among other entertaining communications, we have here a curious essay, entitled " Ima g•inative Wanderings," which is from the pen of Mr. Forbes Winslow, and gives several amusing cases of absence of mind in the per son of Dr. Robert Hamilton, well known by his " Essay on the National Debt," who, it seems, " pulled. off his hat to his own wife in the streets, and apoL)gised for not having the pleasure of her acquaintance ; went to his classes in the College on the dark mornings with one of his wife's white stockings on the one leg, and one of his own black ones on the other; and would run against a cow in the road, turn round, and beg her pardon, and hope that she was not much • hurt." A " Chapter on Early Painters" con tains a brief biographical sketch of Giotto di bondone, who was born in 1276, and died in 1336, and attained great eminence as an artist. SMALLWOOD' S MAGAZINE. The best, or at any rate, the most instructive, 1 . I) ii. ki, ( „ 1„ rticle in the present Number, is a portion of a : 1 ,: 1 i !1u,,,i . . History of Venice," by the Rev. Dr. Shephard, ..4, 1. - :n'l 'which includes the period from the death of 1,, '. Valiero to the termination ()Nile war of Chiozza. 1 4 , 'rile chapters are carefully written, and the 5pi .,,,, t that a n i ma t es th em i s of the right sort. " The Co nfession" is an old , Sicilian tradition, put into '" .B 3r verse. In the "Diary of a Country Clergy -111,.1an» occur some pleasing reflections, suggested Y,„ the approach of autntnn . " Adventures of p a u re lsiY Man" is a sprightly sketch drawn, ap .+o.,, . °'.l: i - i'; 'lily, from the life. RING'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE. i .. 14 : ::' •; I :.it 0 A very promising monthly miscellany, con :;2:4t Veted by the classical and medical students of e --0 -.. I.',, i ng''s College. The cleverest article in the ..Z umber is a translation of Schiller's " Robbers." 5P,.. i.. • . 5''..45k.."... .‘WIZ 07:4% • THE, SPORTSMAN. In the article " Turf, by a Looker-on," thefe • are some severe remarks on the refusal of • - L 4 ird Mil ton to officiate as one of the Stew- a l% at the last Doncaster • Races. It ap- Pears that the Town Council of that place solicited his Lordship to undertake the v,)flice, whi c h he declined, on the plea that he did is not approve of the manner i n w hi c h rac i ng not conducted. We agree with the writer that this was not a sufficient reason for refusing to patronise an amusement which, no one can geny, h as been of great service by imoving The breed o f h orses. If black-legs ands wind -I,ers, and di s h onest jockies, backed occasionally by dishonest Peers and commoners, play foul trick s , such upright men as Lord Milton and his lather, and others of the same hie:ll p, hould com b ine to eject them from the Clubs, stam if ino ifrom all :respectable society. Some curious , (le. " ' )d) 1, extracts respecting the science of gunnery, and the best fowling-pieces will be found under the head " Review." The plates as usual are good. WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL. On Saturday the Westminster Hospital Medical School was opened by Dr. Hunter, late Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Andersonian University, Glasgow. From the high character which Dr. Hunter sus tained in Glasgow, both as a medical . practitioner and lecturer on anatlny, considerable anxiety was dis played to witness his debut in London; and, certainly, a more decidedly triumphant first appearance it has seldom been our good fortune to witness. The anatomical theatre was crowded by medical men high in the profession, go vernors of the hospital, and students ; throughout the proceedings the utmost interest was evinced by the audi tory, and at the close Dr. Hunter was greeted with the loudest bursts of enthusiastic applause. We regret that our space will not allow more than a passing glance at the sub stance of the lecture, "on the study of medical science." The lecturer divided his subject into four parts. The first was devoted to a review of the requisite preparatory studies and qualifications, in which the Doctor argued for a high standard of literary and scientific attainment as necessary to raise and maintain the tone and respect ability of the profession, and prepare the student for the successful prosecution of medical science. The second part of the lecture consisted of au interesting and lucid delineation of the different branches of medical science —the characteristics, extent, and connexion of each, and the relations they severally bear to the fundamen tal departments of anatomy and chemistry. In the third part of the lecture the proper method of studying medicine was entered upon, and besides urging upon the student the necessity of a practical investigation of every department of the science, and a regular system of reading .and study, some just and striking remarks were made on the moral training required for the high and responsible duties of the profession. The pre-eminent importance of medical knowledge formed the last part of the dis course, in which motives of various kinds were urged upon the student to its assiduous and successful cultiva tion. In conclusion, Dr. Hunter, acknowledging the peculiarly gratifying reception he had met with, expressed his personal obligations to the governors of the Westminster Hospital and their committee, for the honour they had conferred upon him in calling him from the comparative privacy of a provincial locality to 'the great metropolis, he might say, of the world—an honour he should endeavour to merit, not by words, but by his unremitting and zealous discharge of the duties of his situation. He begged also to say that he felt no small honour in having been appointed to open the school under the new and auspicious arrange ments which had been made —arrangements which had brought the school and hospital into bonds of more close and intimate alliance, calculated not only to secure permanency and success to the school as a seminary of medical learning, but also to devclope and secure 'the means of greater efficiency to the internal arrangements of the hospital itself. For his own part, nothing was nearer his heart than the success of this school, and from what he knew of the feelings and determination of his colleagues, no effort would Le wanting on their part to do every justice to the deptullinents of science over which they so ably presided, and to raise the reputation of the Westminster Hospital Medical School to the highest celebrity. After the Lecture, the friends of the School and of the Hospital, dined together at the British Coffee-house. Anthony White, Esq., the senior surgeon of the West minster Hospital, and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons, presided, and was supported by a large number of influential gentlemen. In giving the toast of " Success to the Westminster Hospital School of Medicine," the Chairman observed that the conflicting elements of which th e f ormer S c h oo l was composed, rendered its continued existence utterly im possible ; but the present School carried with it elements of harmony and concord. The Dukes of Northumberland and Buccleugh, Lord Eldon, and other influential noblemen, had become the patrons, and had subscribed most liberally to the fund, which had enabled the Committee of Management to carry into effect the purchase and the establishment of the Institution. In addition to Dr. Hunter's, he was glad to notice that the syllabus contained the eminent names of Professors distinguished in almost every branch of medical science and literature. Mr. Whit e , i n his con cluding remarks, sincerely congratulated the meeting upon the enlistment of men of such distinguished cele brity, and whose efforts were so well calculated to effect the high objects of medical education. CIRCUJT COURT, GLASGOW. The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened here on Wednesday by the Hon. Lord Meadowbank; Lord Med wyn, his colleague for this circuit, being prevented- by indisposition from taking part in the business of the Court. Gavin Scott, whose case has recently excited such a painful interest in this commercial community, was placed at the bar, on the charge of theft, breach of trust and embezzlement, and forgery and uttering. The prisoner was genteely attired in black; and is a young man of perhaps twenty-two years of age, of slender stature, with a mild and intelligent east of countenance, and conducted himself with firmness and a respectful demeanour. The prisoner it will be recollected, had carried off or defrauded his employers of property to the amount of 8,0001. The prisoner, on being interrogated, replied—" I am guilty, my Lord." Mr. MAXWELL. Scott's counsel, then addressed the Bench on behalf of the prisoner. He said that Scott had been traced to, and overtaken at, Marseilles, by Mr. David M•Gregor, and Forrester, the London officer, who accompanied him. Mr. M'Gregor was the only person who was able to identify Scott, and the Lon don officer had no warrant for his apprehension. Thus much difficulty might have arisen in the recovery of the remainder of the property, had any obstruction been thrown in the way by the unfortunate panel. But so far from this, the panel not only gave every facility for the recovery of what remained of the money, but he voluntarily agreed to accompany these persons to this country, and he did accompany them. The Counsel then produced certificates of the former fair character of the prisoner, and therefore craved the lenient considera tion of the Court for his unhappy client. The JUDGE sentenced him to be transported for life. COURT CIRCULAIC WINDSOR, SIINDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Royal Household, and the suite of the Royal Duchess, attended Divine Service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev.. Edward Southwell Keppell officiated. Yesterday her Majesty and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent walked for some time. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went on a shoot ing excursion to Swinley Park, attended by the Earl Delawarre, Lord Byron, Lord C. Wellesley, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. G. E. Anson (who dines with her Majesty this evening.) The party returned to the Castle at half-past one o'clock. _ _ _ Her Royal highness the Princess Royal was taken out yesterday. The Earl Delawarre, Earl Jersey, and Lard and Lady Ashley, left the Castle yesterday. Her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort took an air ing yesterday afternoon through the Long Walk in the Green Park, in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and attended by the whole suite. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert I'eel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of. Buckingham, the Earl of Aber deen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Ellenborough, and Sir Edward Knatchbull. The Council sat two hours and a half. His Excellency the American Minister transacted business on Saturday, at the Foreign-office. Mr. Patrick Colquhoun, Hanseatic Plenipotentiary at Constantinople, signed on the 6th September last, a Con vention of Commerce and Navigation with the Porte. 'The Right Hon. Sir Charles Bagot, Governor of Canada, had an interview with L or d Stanley on Satur day at the Colonial-office. Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, transacted business at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on Saturday. Mr. Stevenson, the American Ambassador, resigns his mission at this C9urt in the course of the present month, and leaves in the Great Western steamer on the 23d inst. for Washington. Colonel Greig and Mr. Kinnaird had interviews with Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office on Saturday. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel gave a Parliamentary Dinner to a party of Members of the House of Com mons on Saturday at his residence in Whitehall-gardens. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Gibraltar. LEEDS MEMORIAL TO HER MAJESTY. The following letter has been received from Earl Fitzwilliam Wentworth, Sept. 30 , 184 1. SIR—I have received the Address which the inhabi tants of Leeds have done me the honour to request that I would lay before her Majesty. As the Q ueen i s not at present holding .her ordinary Courts, it would not be pos sible to present it personally to her Majesty, without in truding upon her in a manner which I am sure the ad dressers would be the last to sanction. I shall therefore take the liberty of transmitting the Address through the accustomed channel which is open to me under these cir cumstances I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most faithful servant, John Goodman, Esq. FITZWILLIAM. Wentworth, Sept. 30, 1841. Sin—ln pursuance of the request of the inhabitants of the borough of Leeds; I herewith forward an address to the Queen, prayinc , her Majesty not tp prorogue Par liament until the " Public distresses shall have undergone full discussion." The Address proceeds from a meeting convened by the Mayor, and presided over by one of the Aldermen. May I beg that it may be laid before Her Majesty, and that for the information of the addressers, I may be apffised of its having been presented and received by her Majesty. I have j.R(. th Gi e g. honour to be Sir, Your most faithful Servant , s FITZ ILLIAM. Rt. Hon. Si r n era ) hain, Bart. &c. &c. &c. —Leed s Mercury. CORN LAWS AND FREE TRADE:— he public meeting to memorialise the Queen, held on Thursday at the Guildhall, was most numerously and respectably attended, and the speeches and resolutions such as the occasion demanded.---fiumithire Independent. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, lB4l. PORTUGAL. - - LISBON, SEPT. 27.—A very serious failure, and one by which most of the English cotton firms here will 'be large sufferers, has been announced this week. The great Spanish house of Corpas, Garcia, and Co., has stopped payment. It had become the subject of conversation be fore the departure of the last packet, this day week, that a large amount of their bills had been returned unpaid from Lon ion, and had not been taken up ; but it was thought at first, from the great number of respectable firms interested in supporting the house, that an arrange ment would be made to allow them to go on. A meeting of their creditors took place on Saturday (the 25th) when a statement of their debts and assets was produced, by which it appears that their engagements amount to upwards of 480 contos of reis (120,0001.), while their as sets are stated at 504 contos ; but of the latter only 280 contos are set down as goods on hand, and good debts. Their " bad debts " are stated at 125 contos, and " doubtful" ones at 98 contos. They offered to pay 50 per cent. in four years (viz. nothing in the first, 25 per cent. in the second, and 121 per cent. in each of the third and fourth), which the creditors refused ; and 'another meeting is called for to-morrow. I hear that they have since offered the following proposal— to pay 15 per cent. on the 31st of January, 1842; 10 per cent., Jane 30 ; and 10 per cent., December 31, 1842 ;' 5 per cent., June 30, and 5 per cent, December 31, 1843 ; and 5 per cent., June 30, 1844 ; total 50 per cent. These terms are much better ; but there is no guarantee that they would be executed. The house of Corpas and Company formed the chief medium between the English houses and the Spanish smugglers ; buying upon credit from the former, and selling on credit also to the latter; who were accustomed to take an assortment of cottons, &c., over the Spanish frontier, and when dis • posed of, returned to pay for them, and get another cargo. The rigorous and unprecedented measures adopted by the Spanish authorities against the trade haste contri buted very much to bring on the present catastrophe, of which, however, the immediate cause is said to be the failure of some firms at Manchester and London. The Portuguese firm of Ribeiro da Silva and Co. hold, it is said, 80 contos worth of Messfs. Corpas and Co.'s bills ; the great bulk of the remaining obligations are due to English cotton firms. This failure has caused great consternation here, and will be matter of serious incon venience to many. Some of the older firms had Molted shy at their bills for these twelve months past ; but they continued to get goods on credit up to the last. Mr. Knowles has also stopped payment, and called his creditors together, both in his own name, and also as procurator for the Brazilian house of Vicente Ferreira. da Silva. Mr. Knowles had been largely concerned in bill transactions with Corpas and Co., and was a creditor on that firm for some 20 contos of reis. The Senate has 'voted the Bill which went up last week from the Deputies to enable the Government to receive and apply according to law the revenues clue up to the end of June next. By this vote the Govern ment will be able, according to Senhor Avila, to meet all its expenses without a loan, to which he is op posed. He intends raising small'sums from time to time on the Decima, as it falls due. There was. a sum of 200 contos (50,0001.), which was to be paid in London on the Ist October, about which much anxiety prevails ; I believe the bank has agreed to furnish it, but am in doubt whether it will have reached England in due time. Senhor Avila is indefatigable, and really deserves great credit for the resources he has raised since he came in, which is owing, in a great measure, to the personal confidence - felt in him. It is reported also that some of the Receivers-General, who have long been in arrear, have been forced, to cash up. Certainly, by some means, money has been found, and all classes have received something; the Court, I believe, least of all. A band - of forty guerillas (mounted), that had had the boldness to traverse the Alentejo, and having crossed the Tagus to penetrate into the province of Hera, were fortu nately met at a village called Amarillas by a detachment of cavalry, and completely routed, on the 14th instant, nine being killed and several made prisoners ; while the others jumped off their horses, in order to escape and conceal themselves ; twenty-six horses were captured by the troops,at the time, and eight guerillas, as well as thir teen more horses, have since been taken by the inha bitants of Sarzedas. The people of the neighbouring districts were all up in arms in pursuit of them, so that it is to be hoped feo of them will escape. The 28th Caeadoresi 400 in number, have arrived at Olhao; Al garve, from Oporto, by the Vesuvio steamer, so that the course of the southern banditti will be arrested at length. Marquis Saldanha is expected to leave for Madrid in a day or two. General Macdonnell leaves to-day by the Braganza steamer for England. FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 30.—Two individuals, named Fre deric Grandneux, born at Cambray, aged twenty-eight years old, a cabinet-maker, and Louis Adolphe Gigot, born at Dontilly (Seine and Marne), thirty years old, both from Paris, are imprisoned in the Petits Carmes. These two persons, who are kept most strictly secluded from all intercourse, has just been subjected to a long examination by the Chief of Police. It appears that the arrest of these two persons is con nected with the late attempt on the lives of the French Princes.—lndependent. OSTEND, SEPT. 29.—Their Majesties the King and Queen arrived here this afternoon at four o'clock, accom panied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, to see her on board the steamer in which she will embark for England. BRUSSELS, OCT. I.—A storm which raged almost the whole of yesterday, obliged the Duchess of Kent to delay her departure for 24 hours. ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. .6.—Mehemet Ali is still here, Hiring. in a country seat near the city. M. Krupmer, the Russian Consul, has not been officially presented but pro bably will be before the Viceroy goes to Cairo. Mea sures are now taken in earnest to give up the Syrians; in the Pacha's service. They are to receive their arrears of pay before their departure. Their number is estimated at 10,000. Napier is very active in this matter. The last French steamer brought orders to Mehemet Ali to give up the expedition to Arabia (for which, however, nOpre parations were made.) It seems that this is owing to the influence of the English, who look with a jealous eye t o all that passess in the Red Sea. Achmet Menikli Pacha, formerly Minister of War, has resigned. TIM HAGUE, SEPT. 28. The Emperor of Russia left Warsaw on the 21st, to return to St. Petersburgh. The Central Section of the Second Chamber of the States-General had a sitting to-day, in which a Report was made on the proposed Budget. The Report is very long, and many retrenchments are proposed. The vote of the First Chamber, or the Chamber of Accounts, has caused a great sensation. An amended project of law is expected in the next sitting of the States-General. THE HAGUE, SEPT. 30.—1 n the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States-General to-day, at which the Minister of Finance was present, a message from his Majesty, dated Sept. 29, was received, accompanying a new project of law, containing instructions for the Ge neral Chamber of Accounts. It was reported to the Sections. , According to letters received from Berlin, :,his Ma jesty Ring William Frederick, Count of Nassau, has given up the intention, which we noticed some time ago, of spending the winter in the Prussian capital, and will come with the countess of Oultremont to the Loo, and probably very soon. - DUTCH FUNDS.—Ame'rekoate,liCer. 1. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Amort Syndic,4% per cent 92 9236 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent...... ............ - 7 b% :6% Commercial Company, 4% per cent l5l '543y Ditto (1335 and 1537) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. . 0 73, 98 Exchange on London, One month l2 07 1 4 Twomenths ......., II 07% Hamburgh, One month 35 68% . Twomonths 3.5 43% Dutch Papers, Oct. 2. BELO! AN 1! UNDS—Bnueene , OCT. 1. Actual Debt, 236 per Cent.. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lO l l4 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92% 3 per CenL ..... --Thirty.seven -- 71% (1.341 lOl% Loan of City, 1032, 4 per Cent. 90:0 Society of Commerce, 4 % per Cent 9314 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Col. National Society. s. — Exchange on London (short) Brussels Papers, Oot. 1. A USTIII A N FUNDS.—VIENNA, Sem% 23 Five per Cents. Metailiques Four per Cents. ..... -..... ....... ........... Three par Cents Sank Shares 1561 —Altgemeine Zeitung, Sept. '2i. HA MBU KG BORSENHALLE, Om LI Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. ......... 107% (lank Shares 1605 Anglo_Russian Loan lO-3{ 108% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, let Se:ies lOl% 101% Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series ... 9 9 1% 93 Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) Dutch actual Debt, 2)4 pet Cent 50% Ditto s per Cent -- Polish Bonds New ticket e. 15936 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75% '75% Nnwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent... Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 15% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, OCT . 1.-13 7.—Two months, 13 5% Pcmasnunan, Sem% 24.—Two months, 311 1- 16 pence. RIGA, SEPT. 1.3.-Three Months, 3911 . bTOCKHOLD.I. serr.r24.—Seventy-five days, 12, 0. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BitaLirs, Sere. V.. __ Money St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. lu;3. 11:4 Prussian English Loin, 18311, 4 per eent 10:3 r- Xxeriange on London, three months 6 13% - -Prussian Stale Gazette. Sept. 29. SUDDEN DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN.—Yester day morning, at • eight o'clock, as Gilbert's omnibus was preceding to the Great Western Railway, one of the passengers was taken suddenly ill. The driver, who was called to, - immediately pulled up, when a gentleman apparently between forty and fifty years of age, was lifted out and conveyed in a state of insen sibility to Jones's coffee-shop, in West-street, where he expired before medical assistance - could be procured. The deceased gOt in at the Bank, and from some con versation which he had with a person who sat nest to him, it appeared that he was going by the train to Southall. In his possession were found a silver watch, and upwardS of Cl. in cash ; but there were no papers Upon him by which information could be gained relative to his name or place of abode. ALLEGED FORGERIES.--It is nIMOUred that forgeries to a considerable amount have been committed by a member of an old and highly respectable family in the western part of this county, on the branch of the Provincial Bank of Skibbereen.—cork Reporter. The General Steam Navigation Company's -packet the Ocean, J. Fife, from Rotterdam, arrived' off th e Custom-house yesterday, with the Dutch Mail, after a favourable passage of 22 hours ; also the Neptune, \Vhittingham, from Hamburgh, with titre Hamburgh Mail, after a favourable passage of 53 hour& DISTRESSED STATE OE- T iE • COUNTRY. ... • --0.-- . . . ~ GREATIMETING AT LIVERPOOL - TO , AD DRESS THE QUEEN ON THE EXISTING NATIONAL DISTRESS.. LIVERPOOL, SATURDA,Y Nicurr.—This evening a densely crowded and most enthusiastic meeting was held in the Amphitheatre, for the purpose of memorialising the Queen to institute an inquiry into the existing national distress. The Mayor of Liverpool; Thomas Bolton, Esq., who presided, issued the following an nouncement : . " Having received a requisition as follows, most nume rously and respectably signed, 4 We, the undersigned in habitants of the borough of Liverpool and its vicinity, considering it iMportant for the two Houses of parlia ment not to be prorogued until full inquiry into the causes of the present national distress has been instituted, do respectfully request that you will convene a town's meet ing to afford the merchants, traders, and others of this great community an opportunity of . expressing their sentiments on the subject, and of memorialising her Ma jesty the Queen,' I do hereby appoint this day (Satur day) the 2,d of October, at the hour of seven in the even ing, at the Amphitheatre, in Great Charlotte-street, for a meeting of the inhabitants, to take into consideration the subject againstnbjectoftthe p the rovosed requisition, pe taintidon to hertodeter Majesty as to meinfhvo ur of or the meeting shall appear proper and expedient. " THOMAS BbLTON, Mayor." Vie wording of this announcement left room for oppo sition on the part of those unfavourable to the object of the meeting, if, indeed, it did not appear to solicit it ; but the resolutions and the memorial were all carried without a single dissentient, although two Chartists, named Jones and Ambler, caused some interruption by endeavouring to tack a resolution for universal suffrage to the address to the Queen ; but, after some discussion, they consented to withdraw it, avowing themselves fa vourable to the object for which the meeting was called. The Amphitheatre was densely crowded, the pit, boxes, and galleries being all full. On the stage, in addition to a number of other highly respectable merchants and tradesmen, there were, J. Molyneux, W. Rathbone, R. Shiel, T. Blackburne, T. Moorcroft, R. V. Yates, D. Mathor, T. Mather, J. Crooke, C. Holland, James Har vey, jun., E. H. Harvey, B. Rathbone, T. Rathbone, Alderman Evans, Rev. J. M art i neau, J . R y l ey, J oseph Hornby, C. Rawdon, and L. Heyworth, Esqrs. The Mayon, on taking the chair, was received with enthusiastic cheering. lie said, that having received a requisition from 5+,500 - inhabitants of the town to con vene a public meeting to consider the great destitutibn which prevails in many parts of the country for the want of employment for the working part of the com munity, he had, in accordance with the requisition so numerously and respectably signed, called the present meeting to consider the subject. RorlEar KELLY, a working man, moved the first reso lution—" That we have heard with sur p r i se an d despon dency that the Legislature have delayed to take into con sideration the present alarming condition of the social and commercial interests of this country ; that the ap palling destitution of the working classes all over the country, to which our own town forms no exception, im-. peratively demands that this reckless and impolitic deter ' mination be recalled ; that irrespective of all party dis tinctions, and united only by our determined opposition to all monopolies, we are met to protest against this heartless and unnecessary delay ; that it is our opinion that the present national distress is mainly, if not altoge ther, to be attributed to the restrictions.which our com mercial tariff has placed upon national industry ; that of these restrictions, those which prevent the people from exchanging theirmanufactures in the open markets of the world for food, so as to supply the wants of a population increasing at the rate of 400,000 per annum, are most severe in their effects, and that no sufficient relief can be afforded otherwise than by an immediate considera tion of our tariff, commencing with the Corn and Provi sion -laws, with a view - to the adoption of the principles of free trade."—lt was hardly to be expected that a work ing man like himself, who was compelled to make his bed-root answer the purposes of parlour and kitchen, could find time for study so as to address with much ele gance so brilliant a meeting as the one before him.— (Hear.) When he glanced at the various countries of the earth, and saw the hand of a wise and bountiful Crea tor apportioning the diversified products of each, it was evident that the Almighty never intended that one nation should be deprived of the products in which another was rich.—(Hear, hear, and loud cheering.) If left to itself commerce would flow naturally, and the prosperity of this country would be unbounded. But it was checked by absurd and iniquitous laws, made for the benefit of the few to the injury of the many. The land lords were continually talking of the benefits which the Corn-laws conferred on agriculture. He had been re cently travelling in the north of England, between Dur ham and Newcastle, and he was astonished at the absence not merely of decent cottages for the peasantry, but at the poverty and meanness of the farm. houses. He did not see a decent farm-house, or a comfortable peasant's hut on the way. Our restrictive fiscal system was the cause of the existing distress; it worked well for the big landed proprietors, but ill for every one else. After stating that he was a Radical Reformer, the speaker ex pressed a hope that the object sought for by the meeting would be attained, in which hope he was sustained by the Times, which recently stated, that in consequence of the great number of petitions sent to the Queen, her Majesty would not suffer Parliament to be prorogued without instituting an inquiry into the existing distress, and Liverpool, in stirring, even though late as she had done on this question, hadnebly strengthened the hands bf the Queen. Mr. W. RATISBONE (of the firm of Rathbone, Brothers, the eminent merchants), in coming forward to second the resolution, said, he f e lt hi s first duty was to express his grateful 'acknowledgments to the Mayor, who, for the first time within his (Mr. Rathbone's) recollection, con sidering what were the wants and conveniences of the poor, had called this public meeting at a time when the poor could come forward to consider their own interests. The Mayor had his deep and lasting gratitude fur having taken this decided step, and for his feeling for the masses of the public. As this was a deliberative assembly it was desirable that they Nxh o e i t h er a greed to or diffisred from the resolution lie had to propose, should know what they were about. Mr. Rathbone said there was one part of it which he did not agree with, although he was about to second it, and that was in the expression of surprise that this matter had not been brought before Parliament im mediately. He for one did not expect it.—(Hear, hear.) He thought it was much mere easy for gentlemen to find fault and say that'others were wrong, than to find out that others were right.—(Hear, hear.) Never was any thing more insulting to a nation at large than Sir Ro bert Peel's statements that the late Ministry were wrong but that he must take till next February to consider what was right.—(Cheers, and hear.) We were to go through a winter—he was saying nothing for " stage effect," and nothing but what he solemnly believed—of appalling distress and pressure upon the poorer classes ; that winter we had to pass over, and those of us who were alive in February, would know how we were to be starved. If that was humanity, if that was a States man-like proceeding, he must acknowledge his, igno rance of what constituted either one or the other. We could not expect her Majesty's Ministers to enter into details till they had come into office; but that they who bad been twenty years in Parliament. who had had re ports upon reports, and details upon details laid before them, and yet could - not tell upon the commencement of office what were to be the great leading principles upon which this nation was to be governed, was a proof either of their duplicity or of their ignorance and incapacity for the duties they had undertaken.—(Cheers.) Whilst they were deliberating as to the measures they would adopt for relief, let him tell the meeting what was passing in the neighbouring towns. In Stockport the payment of wages was diminishing at the rate of 500,0001. per annum.— (Hear.) ' In the small district of Hyde the wages were diminishing at the rate of 50,0001. per annum.(Hear.) In the little town of Kendal wages were decreasing at the rate of 7,0001. per week.—(Hear.) Was there a heart which could contemplate and not feel the distress which must necessarily be created when such immense amounts were taken from the poor ?—(Hear.) how were they to live ? Where was our home market ? We were told that our home market was the best, but where were we to look for a home market, when the people had not wages even to buy bread ?—(Hear.) He would now go a little from home, and see what was doing in Ame rica at this time. He had a son lately returned from that country, who had been through the Lowell factories and various other faCtories in the country. The gentle yrieHgsievi.'N-1 interests of the gentle men of those establishments were pleased to show him the books, and 'to give him every opportunity of seeing that lie was not imposed upon ; and it appeared that at the very time when our manufacturers were not able to make one farthing of profit, they in America were mak ing from 10 to 15 per cent.—(Hear.) The girls were receiving two dollars and a quarter for the lowest wages, besides which, let it be remembered, they had board and lodging.—(Hear.) American food was low, but were wages low ? Food was high here ; wheat was at this moment from 9s. to 9s. 6d. a bushel ; and we had been told a great deal about wages, but were they high too ? were honesty of high or d : e t e s y w a G s r not ah a m t and(Hweaasrit hear, and a fa n l d lac N y, c4 th o n e i r o n e . :for o e T f , h t t t e : e say that wages de pended upon the price of food ? Those who said that u w e ho told us that the What, also, did v' t, Stanley., he s y. evils of the country were not owing to the New Poor law, but that he approved of that system ?—(lfear.) He had great pleasure in seconding the resolution, and t t r h u i :a k w ' h o h o f a t s t o/ r d l j d n a s:i them bread, and he would take it he bad great pleasure in seconding it not as a party great deal of pleasure, and thank man. He should be very glad indeed if her Majesty's Ministers would enthrone themselves in the hearts of ' tg o h ul a d further say, if they would really fromtit i)hrieeopeopleotflto the tiTitl b .: people, he doubted whether he should not become a Tory himself.--(" Hear, hear," and laughter.), Before he sat down, he should wish it to go before the public haw this meeting had originated, in order that the public might know that it had not ori ginated in what was commonly called the " broad cloth." The " broad cloth " did not think there was sufficient spirit in the town to convene it ; they thought that al though the people's pockets were empty, and their bel lies empty, their backs uncovered, and themselves pressed down to the earth, they had not spirit enough left to tell the Legislature of their misfortunes : there- Sege it was thought by a great many, who deeply felt for their distresses, that the peopl e were not yet ripe for giving expression to their distresses. —(Hear, hear.) In consequence of this the operatives, and he for one thanked theta for it,, had , bad w h at Lord Brough am called ` d a spur on the toe, and they gave to the "broad cloth " a spur on the heel too, and the meeting then en tirely originated with the Operative Anti-Corn-law As. sociation.—(Cheers.) Let our rulers lOok to this, and remeniblir it s —that whenever the great mass of the people once took a case into their own hands, they were omnipotent.--(Cheers.) (The MAYor. then put the resolution, and it was car vied unanimously, amidst tritimpliant cheers. Mr.. It : JONES, an operative who has much distin guished himself in Liverpool and the neighbourhood by the strong natural talent he has exhibited in th e agita tion of th Anti-Corn-law question, moved the second resolution, which is as follows :—" That we fully Con cur in the admission made by Lord Stanley, the present Secretary for the Colonies, on his re-election for North Lancashire, that the operation of the Corn-laws is, first; to raise the price of food above its natural level ; se condly, to increase the rent paid to the landlord pro portionate to the price ; and, thirdly, that the price of food has no effect on the rise and fall of wagess ; that, from these admissions, we are confirmed in our opinion that the landlord, not the farmer, is unjustly pi•otccted by a law which raises his rent above its equitabl s value ; that the consumer is taxed to pay for protectiosi ; that all provisions form by far the largest item in the ex penditure of the working class, so the working class is thus taxed more heavily than any other. •We are further of opinion that , the Corn-laws not only di rectly tax the wages of labour, but they indirestly di minish their amount, by destroying the natural 'propor tion which the supply of labour bears to she demo nd, and that by endea - vouring to limit us to a single country, they produce unnatural fluctuations, both in price and supply, disappointment the calculation of the far :ter, de range the currency, and render the prosperity of al classes dependent upon the most variable climate in the world." After some appropriate introductory observati Dns, Mr. Jones said, it appeared that Lord Stanley allowed that the Corn-laws had raised the price of fimd above the natural level, but Robert Jones, his wife and family, and hundreds of other families, had found that Out long before Lord Stanley ever thought upon it.—(Hear, hear.) It would have been a happy age for the working men of England if they had never found it out before Lord Stanley was made one of the Ministers of State ; but, unfortunately, it had been found out for twenty-five years and some months, that the Corn-laws had raised food of all descriptions, not bread alone. one half or nearly so in price above its natural level. If Lord Stan ley and all the other Lords, or nicknames, for call them what you might, it was immaterial to him, could see the misery there was at this moment in England, without going to miserable Ireland, it would make them nt once say, "We must repeal this iniquitous, this wicked law, that we have made to support our luxuries, at the ex pense of the happiness of millions of our fellow oountry men."— (Hear, hear.) Lord Stanley appeared to have admitted in the next place, that it was not for the benefit of the farmer that the Corn-laws were passed, but that it was in order that high rents might be obtained for the landlord. There were hundreds of men, respecable far mers at the time the Corn-laws were passed, who were at this moment spending the remainder of their days in the union workhouse, in wretchedness and misery. • These men were in affluence and happiness when the Corn laws were passed, and now thousands of them were upon the very threshold of beggary, through nothing else but the operation of those laws.—(Hear, hear.) The ,farmers might hold with the Corn-laws, and the landlords might also ; but if they would examine the question through , out with a little attention, they would see they were from the beginning to the end nothing but a delusion and a cheat upon the poor farmer. How so ? Why, in the first place, the landlords told him they had got a law passed which would insure high prices for his corn; but the event proved that there was somebody else who knew all about high prices as well as the landlord, and that was the great gambler in food.—(Hear, hear.) He found it out as well as the farmer, and made the most e.d . it. In such a year as the present he had not the least doubt that the landlords would be sowing more acres of corn than they had for several years back, because there was a high price for corn. The farmers themselves had gone to extremes in competition with one another in their own markets till prices went down, and the consequence was that we could get food enough, and buy it cheaper, when they were crying out and complaining of distress —(Hear, hear)—whezi the working men could fill the bellies of their children, that was the very time when these men made the loudest outcries of ruin and dis tress. Then they let their waste land, which they ought not to have cultivated, go out of cultivation ; then high prices came, and Lord Stanley might well say that the markets had been uncertain for the farmer us well as for the consumer. This, indeed, seemed to have been the sole object of these laws from the beginning to the end.—(Applause.) He (Mr. Jones) hoped now ,that the working classes of Liverpool would let the world know that they were determined to buy their food at whatever market they could buy it cheapest, and that they wanted all laws repealed which would half starve them or their families.—(Cheers.) The old Ministry—the " old M nistry" they were called, but for his part he bundled them all, Tory, Whig, and Radical, in one ruck together —even condescended to go so low as to take off I s. per cwt. from potatoes. That was something, and he supposed every Irishman would thank them for that. Mr. Jones, at considerable length, and in a peculiar style, proceeded . to show that the working classes paid by far the greatest proportion of the poor rates, and to contend from this circumstance that the landed aris tocracy should neither look down Upon them with con tempt, as he apprehended they did, nor refuse them the benefit which would arise from the cheapening of bread. Mr. LAWRENCE HEYWORTR, Magistrate, presented himself, on the question of the bread-tax, a tax which was hurrying thousands to the grave. In Manchester the poor-rates in March were double those of the preced ing year. Must there not, then, b e d ou bl e th e num b er of paupers? And the poor wretched rate-payers were being constantly summoned before the Magistrates for the payment of poor-rates. As a Magistrate, his heart bled to see poor rate-payers, constantly summoned, as they were, for the payment of their rates. But it was said that the Corn-laws were a benefit to the farmers and the peasantry. How stood the case? In twelve agricul tural counties the poor-rates had increased during the last three years of dear bread 10 per cent.— a clear proof that the peasantry were reduced to paupers by the Corn laws—making every tenth man a pauper, and com pelling the other nine to feed him.—(Hear, hear.) Those accursed laws compel the poor man to pay twice the price he ought to do for his bread. if a labourin„r , man and his family spend 2s. 6d. per week for bread, and being obliged to spend ss. for the same quantity when corn was dear, was it not clear that they spent 2s. 6d. more than they ought. The sum thus taken from five millions of the labouring classes amounted annually to thirty-two millions, taken from the pockets of the poor to enrick the coffers of the wealthy. This amount was taken from the manufacturers, for the poor were obliged to put into their bellies what they would otherwise spend on their backs. And then there was a• cry of over-pro duction By a Liverpool cotton circular, into which he looked a day or two back, it appeared that 150,000 less bales had been taken than were taken during the cor responding period of the previous year. This ivas the result of the existing system. The speaker read a ta bular statement of the number of cotton mills which had been compelled to stop in the neighbourhood of Oldham and elsewhere, which he mainly attributed to the work ing of the bread tax. He also read the report of the factory inspectors ; and, as a proof of the suslering" throughout England, quoted a recent speech made by Mr. Stewart in the House of Commons, and concluded by eloquently denouncing the misery and destitution which the Tory system of upholding monopolies had entailed upon the country.—(Cheers.) _ _ _ Mr. LAWRENCE HEYWORTH, before the resolution passed, wished to mention an important fact, which he had unintentionally omitted. He had spoken of the distress, but he had not told them of the disease and death which were to be found stalking through the country. Since corn had become so dear, the number of deaths had in creased in the manufacturing towns telly per cent., and four per cent. all over the country.—(Hear, hear.) Some people condemned them because they called these laws bloody laws ; but if they were the occasion of creating an increase of forty per cent. in parties carried to a prone- ture grave, what could they designate them but as bloody and as wicked laws.—(Loud cheers.) The resolution was then put, and unanimously carried. Mr. CHARLES HOLLAND, merchant, moved the adop tion of a memorial to her Most Gracious Majesty, humbly praying her not to prorogue Parliament till the dis tress of the nation had been taken into consideration. Sir Robert Peel's proposal was to wait till next February or March. Although this plea was thus advanced by Sir Robert Peel, he did not believe it was the real motive which prevented him from bringing forward measures of relief. He believed the Right Hon. Baronet was too shrewd, too intelligent, and too well informed of the state of the nation, not to believe that the existing distress was severe beyond any to whi c h our recollection 'could carry us. But what was the fact? Not that he doubted the distress, but he felt that the Cabinet whi c h h e had drawn together were perfectly unmanageable upon the subject of the Corn-laws.—(hear.) In the very face of his declaration the other day, at the election for Tam worth, that his party were united, and that he was at the head of an united Cabinet, were protests made by at least half a dozen of the Cabinet during the late elections binding them not to allow any alteration of consequence in the laws which so completely fettered our commercial policy.—(Hear.) Had we not the declaration of Lord Stanley, at Lancaster ' • of Sir James Graham, at Dor chester; and of Sir Edward Knatchbull, that they were opposed to any material change ; and of the noble Duke of Buckingham (the author of the Chandos clause) to the farmers of Buckinghamshire, that he would not con sent to any change whatever ?—(Hear, hear.) Had we not all these men belonging to the Cabinet which Sir Robert Peel said was an unanimous Cabinet and united on this great question ? These were the real ditli culties in the way. He knew he could not coerce the men he was conneted with to come into any of these plans which he himself saw—which it was impossible he should not see and understand—were essential to the welfare of the whole nation, namely, to release us from ,the bonds and trammels of those who held this nation as with a yoke of iron in the tyranny of the landowner. —(Hear, hear.) his game was this :—" Distress," he said, " during the ensuing five months will rise to that point that the starviug millions will show themselves in such a form, and with such features, that my Noble Colleagues will be frightened into some concessions— (Hear)—they will see they must join with me in alter ing and mending ;" or, as his own hopes indeed might be, " I shall see some improvement from sonic casual circumstance, from the opening of some new market. After a large importation of foreign corn at a low rate of duty, bread will be cheap, and so we shall be able to creep on ; and then we have the spring before us, and the possible chance of a goOd harvest. Should these concurring circumstances unite, and we be able to keep the people quiet during all this state of suffering, then I may be able to introduce such a modicum of ameliora tions into the system as will satisfy my friends that the institutions of the country are safe, and the landed in terest secure ; and it is firm as a rock against all shocks of danger from the feelings and sufferings of the masses." —(Year, hear.) His (Mr. Holland's) opinion was that this was the policy which would guide Sir Robert Peel's movements. The Rev. Mr. GILES, Baptist Minister, took credit to himself for having, in total disregard of obloquy and misrepresentation, attended the National Conference of Ministers of all denominations in Manchester against the Corn-laws. In the progress of that conference he had suggested an additional stanza to the national anthem, which was received with marked approbation, and now he took leave to propose another addition in the follow ing line's, to be sung in the streets of Tamworth:— " Oh, all ye men of State, Move not the people's hate By your delay ; But, as you are in power, . Improve the present hour, Give us cheap bread and flour By Christzras-day."—(Cheers.) A party of the name of Jones here caused some dis turbance, but was obliged to desist. Mr. Alderman BLACKDURNE said he advocated the memorial, not that he expetted it would produce any effect, but because he thought it right that the great com munity of Liverpool should declare its opinion upon this subject. Our noble representative having said that the Corn-laws had nothing to do with distress, and that no thing was needed to be done for the relief of the country in this way, it was, he thought, quite right that the in habitants of Liverpool should tell the Queen that they differed from their Representative, and considered the Corn-laws one great cause of that distress, and that till they were repealed, all other plans for obtaining relief would prove ineffectual.—(Cheers.) The memorial was then put and carried unanimously amidst great cheering. The meeting separated a few minutes past eleven o'clock, having occupied upwards of four hours. GREAT PUBLIC MEETING AT SWANSEA. On Tuesday evening last a public meeting was held in Mount Pleasant Chapel, in this town, for the purpose of " petitioning her Majesty not to prorogue Parliament till both houses have considered the recommendations contained in the Royal Speech respecting the restrictions on trade, especially on corn." Public meetings in this town had hitherto been held in the Town-hall erected at the expense of the inhabi tants, but the worshipful, the Mayor, refused its use for this purpose on the present occasion. The chapel, which will hold at least one-third more than the hall, was com pletely full. Colonel CAMERON was in the Chair. Sir J. MORRIS having made some remarks upon the extraordinary conduct of the Mayor, The first t esolution was proposed by Mr. SANDERS, and seconded by the Rev. C. TuoairsoN, who acted as delegate from Swansea to the Manchester Conference. The second resolution was moved by the Rev. Mr. JONES, and seconded by Mr. II OGER WAL KER. Mr. H. VIVIAN, M,P., rose to move the third reso lution, and was received with great cheering, declaring that he entirely concurred in the object of the meeting. The Hon. Gentleman then read a communication which he had that morning received from a friend of his in the United States, who, the meeting would perceive, was a man of talent and great observation. The letter was as follows : " Having an opportunity of sending letters to England, I am about to inflict on you another dose of American polities. Ido so, beeause lam anxious that you and our Whig friends should know as much as possible about the state of party and party feeling here in relation to Eng land, a correct knowledge of. which is not always to be obtained from the London newspapers. Petitions have lately been presented to Congress from various parts of the north, praying for a repeal of Clay's Compromise Act, and for an increase of the tariff. During the dii cussion which arese on one of t*em, about ten days since, Mr. Adanls (formerly President of the United States) spoke strongly in favour of protective duties, and of counteracting the attempts of Foreign Go vernments against American industry and commerce.' Adverting to the recent proceedin g s in England; on the subject of free t ra d e an d the Corn-laws, and the de feats NV hich the British Ministry had sustained thereon, he hoped that before the American nation consented to act upon such a system, they would have something more definite before them than the report of a House of Commons Committee, or the recommenda tions of an English Administration. Let Great Britain set the example of free trade, and it would then be time enough for America to meet her in a like spirit. Several other. Members spoke in favour of the proposed tariff, and one of them (a Mr. Irvin, of this State), went so far as to question the sincerity of the Whig Ministry in re gard to free trade. The Southerners, whose incomes in a great measure depend on the sale of their cottons to the English, spoke strongly against the proposed altera tions of the tariff. One of them (Mr. King, of Georgia) told the House that, instead of quarrelling with the English Corn• laws, they ought to rejoice at their con tinuance. Their effect, in the first place, was to raise enormously the price of bread, and, consequently, the price of labour in England. That increased, of course, the cost of their manufactured goods, and made it more difficult for their manufacturers to compete with those of America, both in our own and foreign markets. If by the repeal of the Corn-laws the price of bread should be reduced in England and increased in America, the cost of manufacturing would be increased in the latter and reduced in the former ; and it would, consequently, be more difficult for us to compete with them.. it could not, therefore be the interest of the American manufac turers to seek or desire a repeal of the British Corn-laws. " But how stood the matter in regard to the grain growers, of America ? At present they had access to the markets of Great Britain, through the colonial ports of Canada and New Brunswick, at a very low duty. [This is very true; the greatest wheat-growing state at present in the union is Ohio, and it is astonishing (if I may believe some of its best-informed inhabitants) how large a portion of its produce finds its way through Canada into England.] The grain growers of the European continent could not avail themselves of that advantage, and, consequently, their grain could not come into competition with that of the Americans. If the Corn-laws were repealed, the grain of the continent being cheaper, from its vicinity to England; than the grain of America, would exclude the latter from the British market, to which they have now the advantage over all other foreign corn growers, of exclusive access through the colonial ports. Thus, both the manufac turing and grain-gro..vine• interests of the United States would be greatly injured by a iepeal of the British Corn laws. There is much truth in what Mr. King says— that it is trot for the interest of the Tariffers to admit it —as they would then want a precedent or pretext for their protective system" • • • • • • " I will tell you why I do not think that America will soon become a great manufacturing power, unless Eng land—Toryfied England—by persevering in the present impolitic system, shall compel her into it. There is an old Greek proverb, quoted by Eschylus, that Obe dience is the mother of prosperity or well-doing.' Now, this is a virtue which our Anglo-Saxon democrats do not possess in the highest degree. From all I c a n le arn on the subject, there is little or no subordination in their manufactories. The workers' are completely masters, and settle wages and everything else at their own plea sure. Alt, Sir (said a little master manufacturer to me a few weeks since), your Corn-laws are ruining you, and our loco-focoism is ruining us.' He then gave a la mentable account of the self-sufficiency and domineering spirit of the workmen. The only exception he made was in favour of the women (the gals,' as he called them), who were pretty orderly and decent behaved.' Another' reason why manufactures are not soon likely to flourish here is; that the same spirit which leads men to pre fer the freedom of the wilderness to the prison ships' of the ocean, gives them also a greater taste for the axe and the spade than for the loom or the spinning-jenny. But for the absurd war of 1812, it might have been cen turies before the Americans would have dreamed of be coming a manufacturing people ; and even now, I believe, were we to reform our commercial policy—were we (as Ministers proposed) to repeal the present Corn-laws, and honestly and fairly to adopt a system of free trade, I sincerely believe that three parts of the existing manu facturers of America would be extinguished. The peo ple, the sovereign people of America—were not their pride roused, and their passions kept in a perpetual fever of excitement by reports of England's monopolising and hostile policy—of her attempts to force all her commodi ties on the Americans, and to take nothing of them in return—would not much longer consent to pay double price for so many necessaries and conveniences of life as they do now ; they would soon be as eager for English manufactures as they are now prejudiced - against them. I have never conversed with an American storekeeper who did not say that he should sell half as many articles again if there existed a freer system of trade between the two countries." The information contained in this letter with respect to the difficulty of establishing and maintaining manu factories in the United States, is, I think, peculiarly in teresting and important, as there can be no doubt that the Americans are making the most strenuous efforts to supply themselves with manufactured goods hitherto drawn from this country, and even to establish works for the manufacture of iron and other metals. It must, I think, be evident to every one how much the prosperity of this country depends on its manufactures. Ido not for an instant mean to disparage other interests, or to assert that they should be sacrificed to those of the ma nufacturer ; but of this I am convinced, that if the ma nufacturing interests flourish, all other interests will prosper.—(Cheers.) If there is a demand for menu thctured" gpods, there will be a proportionate call for labour, which will have its effect in insuring to the labourer adequate wages, and to the agriculturist a ready sale for his prcduce. It is to the manufacturing in terest that we have to look for the employment and sup port of the increase of our population. I expressed this opinion some time since—at my election; since then the census has been. taken, and partially published, and the result proves that I was right in this portion; for it ap pears that the population in the rural 'districts has re mained almost stationary, the great increase being in the towns and manufacturing districts. Ido therefore fully concur in the proposal that a memorial be addressed to her Majesty for delaying the prorogation of Parliament un til the causes of the existing distress in the manufactur lttOhioNsf sending ing districts shall have been investigated.—(Cheers.) Mr. R. AUBREY seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. RuvrEn moved the fourth resolution, which hav ing been seconded, • C to A3 t t h E e ttoNi bu io i l t o . t i i .t e . . i l i ground, lioe carried by acclamation. d a a n resolution as an 1 . amendment, but I t iV THE OPERA E sep l i ' l l r i a e texi me . eting, after a vote of thanks to the Chairman, GENERAL' MEETING OF On Tuesday evening last, the members Associa tion'for the purpose ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIA ofl held a general meeting a memorial to the Queen the distresses of the not to prorogue Parliament until it had taken into consideration country. - pe tition were framed and ordered to GLOUCESTER. beAprmestelnnt°rtdial and . A meeting of the united religious congregations in this c ity was held in the Countess of Huntingdon's chapel on Tuesday evening, when petitions to her 'lllajesty were unanimously agreed to. NEWCASTLE. A requisition, signed by upwards of six hundred' of the merchants and others of Newcastle, has been pre- EVENING SUN . . . sented to the Mayor, requesting him 'to call a public rneeting to consider the propriety of petitioning her Ma jesty the Qu een to delay the prorogation of 2,ltriimmint. The MayOr h as fixed Tuesday (to-morrowyor the inert ibg, at the Guildhall. . d • NEW BRENTFORD. A meeting was held here on Friday evening last to address the Queen against - the intended prorogation of Parliament. Notwithstanding the wetness of the evening, the attendance was very. numerous and respectable and an address to the Queen was adopted for presentation. DARTFORD. ~ On Friday evening a numerous meeting was held in the Town-hall, Dartford, to sign a memo-ial to her Ma jesty to abolish the infamou s b rea d- tax, Mr. Hadley in the Chair. The meeting was addressed by Messrs. Cal low and Tier ; after which.between 100 And 200 names were appended to the memorial. A similar memorial is also being signed in the adjoining parish e Bexley. STOCKPOnT. • A memorial, from Christian ministers of venous de nominations, assembled in Zion Chapel, Stockport, on the 23d of September, has been sent to Sir J. Graham, for presentation to the Queen. FALKIRK. -- • On Menday last another meeting of our Stentmasters was held on the all-engrossing subject of the Corn-laws. The Stentinasters are chOsex by the raerchants and trades for the Purpose of assessing the inhabitants to supply the town with water. &e., and they continue in the manage- Merit of the town's affairs until our (hitherto nominal) wn-Council shall be empowered to enter on the dis jiarge of their appropriate functions by the proposed new Municipal Bill. It was agreed, at the meeting of Monday, to memorialise the Queen against proroguing the present Parliament, until the C orn - l aws i s su bj ecte d to a thorough legislative revision. The votes here—for Mr. Gartshore's motion, adopting the mem Id, 12; for Mr. James Aitken's amendment, for rejeeti 5. MONEY MARKET and CITY' =NEWS. FROM VIII ItIOUNING PAPER 6 OF TID Y 3 D.Y. TlMES.—Private letters from Philadeli )him. speak of the acts dl the extra Session of Congress it. terms of satisfaction, not so much from the merits a the mea sures that have become law, as from the fa et that they hare set many agitated. questions at rest.. 'Thus the Land Bill, though there are different opinio tut us to the advantage it will bring to the States, has set tle 1 a ques tion with which every succeeding Congress has been oc cupied, and the Bankrupt Bill disposes of cone that has been in agitation for 30 yew's. The Bev( it ate Bill, being but a temporary measure, is still expect el to be a fruitful source of discussion at the regular r.• Session of Congress. In these letters a wonder is impressed that the price of " United States' Bank" tihztres is really so high as it is, since the notes are at 30 I discount, and it cannot be expected that the stock will boar any thing. The difficulty may be solved by the cir etnnstsince alluded to yesterday, that the stock has but . t vane* as an instrument of speculation, which has no rc:rent' e .to its intrinsic worth. The ruin caused by the /failure of this infamous institution has been dreadful. a milt 1: as fallen upon those who were totally unable t o bear i. Many persons in Philadelphia are described t s having for many years lived on the dividends as their I only pro perty, and these are now thrown into a atal i of utter destitution. HERALD.—Nothing positive has yet trai itpired fur ther than what was known before respecting the discre ditable. operations in Brazilian Stocks by wile: i th e cre di t of that empire has been nefariously trifled T, 'tat by un principled speculators who, by some means c r other, be came cognisant of the fact that the fand s - weee not forthcoming, or were kept back from some ceeelvi or other, for the payment of the dividends on the 'l4 current. It is, however, understood that tome of the habitual dealers in Brazilian Stock on the Stock liichange ure on the . scent of the , parties who ware the chief operators there, and, from the broker s en i pl o y e d, i t surely cannot e impossible to get at the. principal or principals, if more than one. In some q aarters the party, for some affect to believe that one prey. only was concerned, is already guessed at with, it is conceived, tolerable certainty, but whether the guess be founded on any evidence more or less direct, or is merely presumed from former disreputable transactions of the male kind, and the consequently damaged character of the person, does not appear. The various loan agents -of the Bra zilian Government will be and are no doubt anxious to forward the objects of inquiry, and to afford every in formation in their own power which may assist in arriving at practical results, for such is not only the straightforward course of their duty, but also it is a matter which would seemp concern their own interest and reputation, as capita lists and loan-contractors, that the credit and honour of Brazil should not be suffered to be idly or fraudulently sported with by any party who by chance, or from some necessity real or imaginary, was so far admitted behind the scenes as to become cognisant of what was going of and therefore was aware of the probability of the non payment of the dividends. That the confidence of the Brazilian Minister has been abused, and the embarass ments of his position taken advantage of in some unscru pulous manner, there can be no question, whilst it will not be denied that the result is a " heavy blow and great discouragement" to the credit of Brazil. POST.—The Morning Chrortith has systematically defended for some time past the injurious conversions at tempted to be forced by non-paying States on their fo reign creditors, and its, countenance of such proceedings has, we do not hesitate to say, greatly damaged the in terests of a vast number of British sr.bjects who have un fortunately allowed themselves to be ensnared in the toils laid for them by foreign tricksters. The . Chroniek has done its best within the last two or three weeks to justify the alleged attempt of Senor ltull to put the Treasury . billholders of Spain upon a footing of equality with the holders of the ordi nary stock. We have shown over and over again that the special guarantees of the Treasury bill holders are such as to entitle their claims on the Spanish Government to be considered apart from those of the general mass of creditors. There are but too many in stances of broken faith in the case of the ordinary claims of foreign bondholders on record, but any lapse as re gards Tresiiry paper was unknown until Spain and Por tugal gave us examples. . Portugal has some amount standing over, as well as Spain, but Portugal has, at all events, done herself the credit, and foreigners the justice, to pay up the interest accruing upon her Treasury bills with the strictest punctuality. Spain has paid nothing, and when it was given out that the Treasury bills issued through her Ambassador and Sir Isaac • Lyon Gold smid were to be confounded with the' interminable claims of the general creditors in a three pee ee.nt. scheme of capitalisation, and the act. 'was loudly com plained of, the Morning Chronicle gratuitously stepped forward as an approver of the measure. What, then, must be the mortification of the conductors of that paper to find that Senor Rull, however niuch he may have laid himself open to censure by the long silence he has ob served upon a subject so vitally affecting' : the honour of his Administration, repudiates with expressions of scorn the advocacy they have volunteered of the criminal in tention ascribed to him ? Senor snuff his never, it seems, once contemplated any reduction of an emount of the claim of the Treasury billholders. SADLER'S WELLS. This pleasant little theatre still continues its prosperous career, under the able management of Z .Ir. It. Homier. We visited it on Saturday evening, and witnessed the performance of the new drama of Jai.:k Ketch. This new drama, which is from the pen or '4lr. G. Alman, is of the Jack Sheppard school, and is :illustrative of the career of a certain John Ketch, fronathe days of hia hiS apprenticeship to a rope-maker, viten he sees and falls in love with the hanginan'a dauuliter, through a life of crime as a highwayman and traitor up to the termi nation •of his career, when, in order b save his own neck, he consents to become the finisLr of the law to one of. his old associates in treason atid:piraev, a certain Jacobite knight, known as Sir Gregoini with the Gash. In justice to Jack, however, we shoria.' state that ho sturdily refuses " to accept office" until it is clearly proved to him th a t t h e said Gregory! had, in h:® earlier days, murdered his (Jack's) father. i n a piece is admirably got up ; th a situations .00f powerful, and the scenery, as it alws Ts is at this toe .. etre, magnificent. The first act cone hides with a iir.s! animated scene, representing Fairlop ,Fair in the height of the festivity. 'l - he second, with a rand tebleaar tinn. vent, embodying a &Kull of Jack's;, and rolo" en i ,„ Tyburn Tree at the time of an exeunt-ion, and the place concludes with the stoppage' of the proc, sssien on its b v o r wi to Tyburn, at St. Giles's, and the olfe.ing of of to Sir Gregory of the Gash. llonner I"3ttala ; while the piece, and a tine bold highwayman izereine, was Mrs. Ilonaer, as Barbara Allen, very interesting and pathetic. cove nnd an excellent low 'comedian of the John I d Mr. Hubert, .j ai r in the our old favourite Collier,. elicited r oars ( e-maker and an respective characters of a drunktt r ic y ^ the piece se aristocratic valetudinarian, lected with great taste by Mr.„:''tVe c oUrratulate Mr. airs, was very well performeu vement icli has taken Bonner on taus sallymared P r i ° lt of the it.e care since Mr. P ore old English. place in the epartinc.,•git _ r o . f ha the o . (n)irnei,t\usest,riali which, Irish. coined Win we have Mr. T. Lee, perhaps C ih o e ll m in e s io h_a d s ra h: n u : l t t e l a le m i e n t a h. n te_ agi r to setu 0, t O l e ' a roar as Pat 1.1 ooney. The left,audience with the new d mina of the talent c `'`' c o f mystery and murd 'et. from the t ine tl n ie ts a ncrial: The house fRS crowded of the veteran J. 0 pan to excess. r t tk ' ae s i 1: ;./a ant, INM3-iENLCHLTS°TEEi i s .— C i E 'At . AY. AlS ‘ E' PSI?"3IITTVEINNCGEGSAARLITcu STAKES. 6 to 61 1 aul'g'itt Thei e a Bß — lui t ei a ri k .e en and aft er erg's (al Tered 16 to 1 ag st Orelia 90 to 1 ugst Bosphorus 20 to 1 agst Johnny 20 to 1 agst Bob Peel 1110STYN MILE. 3 to 1 agst Lampoon 5 to 1 agst Prince Ca.radot: e regret to state that the Mun;cipt 1 Coq ‘ion of this city arc loser:shy the failure of ;Messrs. 04- house, a considerable sum being lodged in their :triafs! at the time of their stoppage. Tne Uorwal. nospital has a balance o:nearlx aud this ;;nited Hospital. about 4001. The deposits o. the Con.znitteva of they Church-Buildin g Soc iety, the Curates' fund, and a Diocesan Board. of Education, amount to. 2 ,2V0L T 9O funds of the B at h Friendly Society starid on the sa . footing as deposits for Assesse*Taxas, ;/cythst the isr anll balance due to that Society is sair.—.Th Herefi. RONINiY MARSH, Om 1. .0 wing Qv the gales that have blown from the S.W. during the whole of the week, together with the WI tides, tha,.sc l ,,, has to a considerable extent inuuda'‘cd the low lanqin Romney M ars h . In numerous ; :astances flee sheefi being dest roye d , ifat 4o been removed to th e highcv rntounds to s. them ito