The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-19 00:00:00

EVENTING SUN INSURRECTION IN SPAIN. 4. posteript of the B ayonne S entinelle of the 14th men waterthat O'Donnell and hi s garr i son were i n want of wate. remained The Al ca ld e and the• inhabitants of the Bastan stanch to Espartero. Barcelona was tranquil on the 11th. The formation of a the C ommittee of Public Safety, " proposed by the Consti tutional, never really existed but in the imagina tion of the Journal _des Debats. Lerida, Tarragona, iialiecl Gerona, had declared f or E spartero. V a l enc i a was a similar ferment. The Duchess de la Victoria was at Malaga. The F r e nch Government received the following tele graphic despatches in the course of Friday : - ' BorgeaPeoreeet, OCT. 11 [arrived yesterday by the •'-se:-. ,aux courier].—The General Commanding the 31st ' lll , tary Division to the Minister of War.—General Van I d laten had dismissed the Commandants of Monjuiu, Sell Urgel, and deer Gardonft. The clay before 'y esterday a inz ee was issued. that every military man who, by *fit , or by word of Mouth, should approve of the rebel- lion. be immediately tried and condemned to e a tha A junta' of superintendence was created the day 11..efore yesterday at Barcelona by the municipality . and ~1 0 provincial deputation. A battalion of the• National voard is picketted in the Square of the• Constitution." " PE RPIGNAN, OCT. 13 [arrived yesterday by the Lyons nnurierl—The Prefect of the Eastern Pyrenees to the Minister of the Interior.—On the 10th inst. there was formed at Barcelona a junta, which the Constitu .9onal calls the Junta of Public Safety. A loan has are refused to been decreed, and, to insure its being paid, passports forts, all - persons. The militia occupies the and nearly all the posts. • Free corps are being or tutu:list _ ed in the dietricts .Fresh arrests have been made, inarindo executions. Van Haien is going to take the com et Saragoesa. Zabala takes his place." a BAYONNE, OCT. 13 [not received till yesterday, on the of the state of the atmosphere].—The Chief of evr e o t A e r t it iite office to the MiniSter of the Marine.—They of 6 - . me yesterday from Passages. The deputation festoelPtiscea' assembled at Bergara, has issued its mani • toil,: calling the Province to arms. There was fighting that eneral 6 at Villafranca. At St. Sebastian it was believed arm e d Alla was beating a retreat. He had dis the in : divided." ilia of roloso. St. Sebastian is very much " 13 eol eNE 0 ter of th I ' ct 13. to the Minis- The Sub-Prefect _ ~ - e ti terior.--,N o news from Madrid. Yesterday Minis -at two o' is _ clock the citadel of Pampeluna ceased firing. It is rirleportae that the town has capitulated. St. Sebastian there 4king preparations for resistance and it is thought that Gen Al•• 1 • arrive sl , het himself up in ea a will .an s . that [ A ug. ', • Th ,• e e Sentinel& d p , the 12th of October, Says :........ es yi•enees, of %!: 4 i A i the de t.,„ ee letter from Pampeluna, of llth, gives us ."4,,,siespecting the 'sufferings of that town. , , • tha esterday, the 10th, was a fearful day for us. More ~ a thousand. projectiles, thrown from the citadel, raraa the town and its public edifices. Neverth e- Less he t . ,population , sang froid and the firmness of the Was not f Guard bail or au instant shaken. The National • _ art seventeen men ldlled. It did some harm to _the artillery dlerinen of the • castle by means of two pieces of placed 9n the tower of San Lorenzo. The in surgents fire sse . . re continually on_ the tower, and the balls • t i a atcle do not hit it fall in the Calle Mayor and do much : nage ' Tn •daY, the 11th, the cannonade continues. tali' General Ayerbe,•at the head of seven infantry bat three and General Zurbano, with three battalions and • e seuadroas of cavalry, ' expected at Pampeluna hav e the f were .. nave a ternoo n of the 11th. Quantities of ammunition reached Pam •I from all points, which proves th at th „, pe una • e u Donnellite s are 'net masters of the snrronnd 111g country. . i n ~Don Francisco de Paulo reached Canfranc, in Spain, Lae afternoon of the llth." A letter P in th at orders have been . rom an the Deb a t s says greater vettreceived to send to St. Jean Pied-de-Port the er part of the garrison, leaving only two cempaniee fluid to do duty the prison. Colonel Devaux, of the sth of 4 , , at of the , the line, hes been invested with the command e‘4roops on this part of the Pyrenean frontier. - n extract the followin from the There of Bayonne of the 13th in . t. g ' Ilre have s •• . to the gt,', accounts from the province of Alava ~,.n at which •4 Pei tod nothing new had occurred. The I,;Oonnandant, General Piquero, had sent forces as far as serve d'ArgaiAttn, either to enforce . the levies Or ob • e t hemov fE- t • ' troops on. the- Cas tile side movements o espar ei o s te as • At Miranda del Ebro the National Militia Th ee " d utY, and covered elle passage of the bridge. ;rdfirst liattalion of Vittoria being organized and. , the Deputation has ordered a seemed to be formed. ge t e ll ,l YTing. men of Alavese Riojia. This is designed to C j'''' the left bank of the Ebro. In. ,Guipuzcoa h`: el Pez, formerly • O'Donnell's Adjutant-General, ;u;._ 3 been arrested. On the 9th, Urbistondo was s. th e . . e a ie n eellPation of Bergara, and Iturbe of . Zumar- Da - e ', "n that day the skirmish on the . heights of a f s e -r gn led to no decisive result: there were only t e -1v wounded, Urbistondo was expecting-reinforceen ents r of th . trorn Vittoria and Bilbae, and some young T in h'te e ?" ll try, who are in arms, and who were to jo fe l e ,' s dice, on the 10th Iturbe had fallen back on Villa,- °,T' and Urbistondo ' d the positions on.the hills occupia The most he n „ Zara, which the enemy had abandoned.. . deputation of thW rt aOt neat from Guiptiecoa is that the itif AnSVince has positively follow•ed the example of th 'e s •Y all ti Alava It appears that Iturbe, fearing that eePut t*.- in favour of the insurrec tion , a 1011 v ouki declare . ." l ent it • .confined in Ascoitia, but the t n ,„,, in meastire . . hem- eleers cce•tri e to .make their escape, and put t selv es 2YA t . • .. ea ti , tinder the protection of Urbistondo. The whole epee country from Villafranc"a to Irun continued tran md sub •• ; he Government. All we know of n ise aussite to t , mention. 4 5 ,,, ,ty is that nothing has taken place worth b "'ail f hasmarched from Bilbao towards ...Jai n , body 0 troops es, a , - , as eda and Carranza, with•the purpose of exciting the h as TrY to take up arms • for the Deputation. • An order "8 oe ei ho e ~..1 published at Bilbao authorising the . port to efee e , l o °lva flag. The 'General Juntas of Biscay are e 0 - " ed to assemble n the 12th, under the Tree O oern• • ° • N e e, 11 -a- At the moment of going to press, we del of the n ews which follows :—On the 11th, the cid- . laid t,;anTelttna continued its fire ; great destruction is Pla ce , hare' been occasioned by it, particularly in I) i n a° Castillo, the buildings in the neighbourhood e, e , g reduced to ruins. The news of the removal of the e - Patati e 41 -11 of Guipuecoa to Bergara is confirmed._ ilaae er • h - - 10th 6 ri as come into the field again ; he was on the to z A ranaz, wh ence i t i s said lie went on the 11th his v:autl2a. Ile h a d only seventeen men with him, and Pa rtis , of credit i n t h e country prevented his collecting iti e d a a us• The firing at Panipeluna commenced on ath„ Y ' at six in th e morn i ng, and was k ept up till six Z.ai t , - ev ening. , At eleven at night it was renewed a su s p end sustained till • six on Monday morning. After lea _ ion of two hours, it was once more opened, and L.! still continuing at twelve. The women and children 07. ti , , ,a1l bee „ n sent out of the place. During Sunday, Ilib e lisa entered the citadel with two companies. Gen.__ Ah ad 0, not being able to satisfy the demands of the E ~ T h es, has resigned his command to Brigadier Bayona. aiti o u n Sentiricae of Bayonne, in commenting on the po t, ,I,lf O'Donnell at Panipeluna, says— . .• het e Dining of the citadel was •no brilliant action, tile fruit the • ?lit of the Ist 0, 1) of fraud and deception. In night ° Nile D einne ll went to the uarters of the first battalion kao t ,, - e'egitnent of Estramadura, and making himself • e r e er e , to the sergeant of the guard, told him that, by ;o,lol_ of the Ca ptain-General, he was come to take the of t nild of the battalion, and lead it to crush the revolt 'tat • Ptiblie T heerona, which bad just proclaimed the Re tele sergeant replied that he individually was eft, z eZ i to follow him anywhere, but that the soldiers offi eie not stir a foot without the 'direct orders of their Chl rer" sed T - e Gen era l t h en addressed the men, but they tetu, he obey him. O'Donnell consequently left ~ t here " e a r went e ta, the quarters of the Merced, where 'Wh ole - -I. e i ' IV° Ompanies of the same battalion, and the 1 4; ' . te eerr °I the second. Here he succeeded better, because 4 11 a,: i :oote ett 31 c . eight of the officers joined him, and he was ac -I!r,e,. lutd by the Chief: of the Staff, Mir, an Aide-de . "ttntl P F Ribeiro and the commander of the battalion, le tee ° tiler ore ' One , . d -a, -yes ° , • cers sergeant however, suspecte •, • . ' elect they , aad led his company to the Quarter del Carmen, 'llo/leejoined the trooPs that had remained faithful ,• t tibie'„„ a a l ui, fine promises did the rest at the citadel. 4 . 1 1 the cite ,-arriguin were the treasurers. The arrival gos s , ...ilfadel of three companies of the regiment of Sara retto,nroe prevented the soldiers of Estramadura from havi o , n g to their duty, the sight of the other soldiers rane e : „g il . „'en them a degree of confidence in the emu -44'1e of a general rising of the country." Oar letters . (From the Presses ) i)titina r.r •from Bay9nne state that'the town of Pam eaneou4 st commenced hostilities by firing with two top of 3 ' wilieh they had suceeeded in hoisting to the I leral 4 t . i s l t9 ePle that leoks down upon the citadel. Ge st," o i l, eiro had uselessly sought to make them under rielieldolt t his means of attack was both,inconvenient and esp era Jo, this had been obliged to give way to the ex -1 o ige 11 4 t. tl " of the members ofthe and the unicipalit . b I ° l lB.l G il , inferior in orehe„ !nos. The Exaltados, being very Wher e l a se ' I anipeluna, are mere violent there than any 1 e Q.e oe e ratn - as n o • - '''Dontiell glad of being able to say that he ee t the es. , 'the i -s Pon .6- ... aggressor and so - throw upon others f si day t . d.' 1 . , '4ll that 0 the tsasters of a bombardment, ordered ie.l - 'IA treat moment all the fire of hie artillery to open. ie. itig bee nalther of cannon shots and sixty shells hay- I 'll : 1/1 W -4 j'l some h 1 war w as ones thrown into the town, a council . 1.-Ic:lselit,,. and assembled by General Ribeiro ; the muniei- Pe, atte4 siee the officers of the National Guard were in Ci ener ' ae eessi, al Ribeiro tried topersuade the Council of the theauthoi4'Y. of evacuating the place—the laws of war not 5111 , 9 ,' 'lmre' then tl , ‘l. •of htunanit a defence itly ho , , .. a. awe y— . rd e , l' e ess of all success. The patriots ew •.• ap th • geers, criedout treachery, f ece 1 Rib ' • togive e eon .., , firih,.. _. the inland, ad gave it to General Bayonit. The .e,, etitie'r citadel continued. It is certain that it only le ~„, ' ele n. r a On . tile 12th at two o'clock in the afternoon, as a .ae. ' te4 a l l h , e des • 'h Pate announced y•esterday, because the 1 .; te e . w a 3 eva„. ete , f . . lad' for. the Esparterlan troops had no Th e , stopp the batteries of O'Donnell. . , to, . Con.,.tiu • / . ' •. 4 ,„" 4e cou . ctona at' the 10th, at Barcelona, gives • ‘,.iee 'te e at of an in , . • • • Cadiz some days before ~, , eVQ nts ~_, . - uriection at . ~, e 4 ,, e tr e lin emelt h a ppened in the Basque provinces •• ek , 0 "11 the-e T• . .. • the presses of Pa ‘ 4, erad 0 j 1 • hiss pop ulatio n broke Pub , ournal (fi/ Globo) seized the furniture and Dela' °` all kind' ^d b 11 in the principal - s Th is s quare e, eu urnt t len e author . ! around which they ehouted patriotic soegs. txetB,,es. ities did nothing to check or prevent these detachment f • `lel Q u , o the officers of the 2d Regiment of the ;11 t innlb er, ? i d hare just arrived here. They are forty in 3 I ~ Zi the te,,,', 1 n!' them superior officers, under ' the orders h t t;adier Lat ;.. 1 . ,(14,, . 40 , re th e _ orre. They came from Saragossa, uld Y were ';: . 11 4 it ,' foll ow o._ abandOned by their soldiers, who would ' , , , , i let . „wily the , . 1 / 4 111 to and They fled, carrying . , , ther e el '?' l ggage and the of the horses of t, fe, Fro ifortunate im greater part of nee ~ n- eeers. Theie ere given passports the i nhe end, after haying been a l p rey to the brutality ,u4talits of the Spanish frontier, after having been plundered and imprisoned at Etcho, they came in by Lescun and arrived this evening at Bedons, after three days' marching, fatigued to death and_ stripped of then. clothes. They - intend 'going to serve at Parnpeluna.- They will leave to-morrow- for this-destination."—Mexio rid des Pyrenees of the 14th. PORTUGAL. LISBON, OCT. 11. — 7 The senators are proceeding, though somewhat slowly, with the dismission of the finance projects. The alterations in the tariff, and the tax on the Portuguese colonial produce, have-passed this week. The duty on woollen cloths, which was 360 reis per pound weight before, has been increased to 600 reis, but not to 1,200, as Senhor Brandao proposed, and which, by the reports of three of the papers, appeared to have been adopted by the Deputies. The tax on the dividends here has met with great opposition; it isiloubted whether it will pas.i, as the Duke of Palatella, although originally one of its proposers, is now said to concur with the Finance Committee of the Senate in rejecting it The vacancy in the situation of ' Lord Chatnhe.rlain of the Queen's Household, " Mordomo Nor," occasioned by the death of Marquis Sampayo, has led to the usual in trigues. The person who had the best claim was the Marquis Saldanha, but ._several other candidates have been spoken of. It is reported that the Duke of Pal-. mella had asked for it, and offered to serve without salary. The wish of M. Dietz is said to be to get the Duke of Terceira to relinquish his present office of Master of the Horse, and become the Lord Chamberlain, which, how ever, he is loth to do, and to promote the Marquis of Santa Iria to the Mastership of the Horse. ' - Great complaints are made of the quantity of Spanish corn that is introduced into'Portugal by contraband. The Revoluctio -of the 6th contains a letter from Campo Maier, dated Sept.. 28, which says that in the two previous months 1,500 moos (4,500 quarters) of wheat, barley, and beans had been introduced from Badajos, Talavera, and PONOS by way of St. Pedro, notwithstanding there was a regular customs station there, with a director and. seven clerks, and a guard'of the 26th Cacadores. , Sortie sensation was excited here on Friday by the report that a Spanish vessel employed in the slave trade had been captured by the Portuguese, and was entering the Tagus ; and it was 'reported also that the Spanish Minister-had demanded that she should be given up, and.due compensation made.. I understand that this vessel, which bore the name .of " General Marinho," the Portuguese Governor of Mosambique, was, in fact, owned by Spaniards, and regularly traded in_ slaves be tween Mosambique and Cuba. She had been chased by our cruisers, and ran into Mosambique „under Portu guese.colofirs: • Being extunined by the authorities, both SPanish lull Portuguese papers werefound on board, the latter having been supplied her by M..Plumer, the acting Portuguese Consul at Ilava.nnah. The news of her capture arrived here some time since, and she has been claimed :by Senhor Aguilar, a claim which the Portuguese Government is not inclined to comply with. She is a large ship, and was out 165 days from Mosam bique, and 55 from Angola. . The Baron de Monte Pedial, a deputy, has resigned his seat, .because a motion of his respecting the abolition of flogging in the army was rejected by the Chamber without discussion.:. Large lots of nation - al property are dailyputting up for sale, and in consequence of the old paper money being admitted for a large proportion of the purchase money, and also for the debts cue to the extinct convents, the price of the. latter has risen considerably.. It was down at one time as low as 32, and is now quoted at 46 to 50. 145 contos of Government papers of different kinds, in cluding paper money, titulos on national property, and those called of " The Tree Operations," &c., were burnt last week by the Board of Public Credit. . lam informed.that the plan of conversion which Baron' Lagos is now endeavouring to induce the Portuguese Government to sanction is as follows :—The principal of the foreign loans to be converted into a four per cent. stock, the dividends being payable at. Lisbon ; the three years and a half of interest in arrear to be given up altogether, a commission of two and a half per cent. to be paid to the agent and other partieszengaged in effect-. ing. the conversion. .Comparing .I.llis. plan with. the one now carrying into effect in England, the superiority. of Baron Lagos's plan, as regards the pernianent_interests of the mass of the bondholders, is by no means appa rent. The agent and a few great houses would 'divide' 200,000/. (two hundred thousand pounds !) of coinmis sidn among them; bitt the Bondholders, Wile, tinder the Government plan, as passed last year, receive 2f percent. interest •on the principal -and arrears, say 2f- per cent. on - 1.171. 10s., which is equal- to , three per cent.. on the principal alone; and . have the - engagennent <of the Government , and- Cortes to-increase that interest pros, pectively, would „fer the sake of ,a temporary addi tional interest of one per .cent.. give up advantages that, .considering. the circumstances of Portugal, ought to be 'Viewed as. of no 'little importance. In the'first place; the independent and separate eha racter of the' Present' stock, by - Which, as-. 'English bondholders; they can 'call On their . own TovernMent .to support their claims—a consideration not to be despised. Then again, by the Act decreeing the conversion-in.pro— gress, the Coupons, if not. advertised a month in "advance, to be . paid in .due season in London, are, ipso facto, receiv-. able at .the Custom-houses here in. payment ,of uties,. and the inconvenience tbat would arise fronithis to any Ge- V - eminent here will ever .be a stimulus to it to discharge its obligations ; or, if We . can sUppose any future Go-' vernarent reckless enough to - break faith and comply with neither - alternati*e;"-the creditors are entitled - 'to look fir the whole bid if identifi4'With the stock-of this country, they must. expect- to share its , fate, withoht - the same means of protecting themselves in case. further sacrifices are called for. Add- to - these.. considerations, that, by.. receiving the money at Lisbon, they lose the difference of exchaneo between Lisbon and Loudon, .and are exposed to the risk and trouble of remittances: The Connnissary-in-chief, L. J. Ribeiro, • has 'been dismissed, and his place has heel: given to Senor F.ll. P. Ferran, the late Finance Minister, permission having been given by the Deputies for hiS leaving the Chamber for that purpose. It is believed that the post of Lord Chamberlain will not be tilled up at present. Marquis Saldanha .is expected to . leave by the next packet to . Cadiz. The Duchess of Victoria was at Gibraltar by the last accounts ; and it is believed that General Nar vaez was either there or in the neighbourhood. The .Revolucao to-day reports a ministerial crisis to be at hand, and alludes to Smiler Avila as about to retire. I trust the rumour may be unfounded. Senhor Avila has risen greatly in general estimation, and even his ad versaries praise hisintegrity, and another'change in that department would be another evil. The board of health has received strict orders to admit Newfoundland vessels on the same footing as formerly. Previous to this order reaching the board a Newfoundland vessel had entered, and was put into quarantine, but was immediately re leased on the arrival of the order front the Foreign, office. The Custom-house Director, M. Carneiro, took it into his head to refuse a clearance to the City of Dub lin steamer, which left yesterday for Madeira and Bar badoes, because she took a passenger from. Lisbon to Madeira. Our Consul, Mr. Smith, however, procured an order from - Senhor R. F. Magalhaes, which brought M. Carneiro t) reason. WOOL W ICH, OCT. 18. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Columbia steam-vessel, Master Commander B. W. Robinson, arrived at Woolwich on Saturday from 'Antigua, the West Indies,: vhich she left on.the 13th of September. She brought a number of invalids home, and is ordered to be paid off. • The Devastation steam frigate, one of the vessels lannched this season from Woolwich dockyard, and com missioned by Commander Hastings Reginald Henry, was taken out of tile basin on Saturday, being nearly ready for sea ' and will be tried down the river to-morrow (Tuesday). She is fitted with Maudslay and Field's patent double cylinder engines of four hundred horse power, and appears a handsome and substantially built vessel. Her gallant commander has invited a Lumber of his friends and others to accompany him to-morrow to:witness the superiority and capabilities of her Majesty's first class war-steamers of the present day. : The Comet steam vessel,. Lieutenant Commander F. C. Syer, was the first steam vessel employed in her Majesty's service, and her appearance alongside the Devastation is similar to a sparrowhawk beside an eagle, the bold prow and entire build of the latter combining every appearance of power, and "Of being irresistible when; in pursuit of the object it is intended to vanquish. STRIKE , OF THE MASONS AT WOOLWICH • DOCKYARD. On Monday last the masons employed under Messrs. Grissell and Peto's contract upon the new west dock at the Royal Dockyard, Woolwich, struck work. Messrs. Grissell and. Peto, in the expectation that the men, 130 in number, would, on reconsidering the matter, return to their work, continued to keep in operation the poWerful steam-engine erected for carrying off the water from the dock Where the masons were working ; but on Saturday evening, finding there did not appear any immediate probability of such being the case, the engine was stopped, and at 3 o'clock thi s afternoon the water had risen in the dock fully eighteen inches above what it was at the same hour yesterday, and the place presents a melancholy aspect, not one single person being at work connected with it, while all is in activity in the other parts of the yard. On making inquiries, we have ascertained that Mr. Allen, the head 'foreman, against whom the men have taken such a hatred, acted as foreman at the Woolwich Dockyard fur a period of,about two years ; and his most decided opponents admit, that as a workman or judge of Work, he is not 1,6 be excelled by any other artisan in. the kingdom, and this May account for the desire of Messrs. Grissell and Peto to retain in their service a possessing such qualifications. It is also worthy person d re m a r k , that during the two years ho superinte n d e d the workmen at the Woolwich Dockyard, no complaints were made against hint. 17kIE DEER SLAYER,—Such. has been the ex cessive popularity of the new romance, by the author of " The - Pilot," "Last of the MOhicans," &c., that the whole . of the first edition was ablorbed •in a week or two. And no wonder, considering the excitement and grandeur inherent, not only in the •plot itself, but in its accessories ; as., for example,Alie un rivalled descriptions of the lak e a nd its surrounding forests, which are made the scenes of the incidents—the vigorous delineations of the characters, from the reckless Hurry Harry to the l)eerslayer himself (our old acquaintance Leather-Stock ing, under another name),. and the pict ures of savage Indiap, life, and of the adventurous existen ce of the settlers in the Back-woods. In all this Cooper is in hi element the ; and "The Deer Slayer" is, acaordingly, equ al to best of his w or k s . A new edition has just been published. The disposal of a highly-valuable property at Tredegar Iron Works, Monmouthshire, is announced, and the mode proposed is a species of lottery, the price of each share being fixed at tel. The property is divided into lots. One prize , is no less Value than 4.000 guineas, this being the Tredegar Arms Inn, Trodegar.— Cambrian. ADDRESS OF THE LEEDS PAR LIAMENTARY REFORM ASSOCIATION, TO THE MERCHANTS, • MANUFA or HIRER 8, AND OPERATIVES OF THE WEST -RIDING OF YORKSHIRE : FELLOW COUNTRYMEN AND FELLOW SUFFERERS, — The alarming position in which your 'nearest and dearest interests are placed by the accession to alinn4-absoliete power of the aristocracy, a class recently. described by Mr. Byng, the Member for Middlesex, and one of their own body, " as having less feelings than any other class, - as heing distinguished for their love of power, their indul gence in luxury, and their not caring for the sufferings of others," demands imperatively your immediate and unceasing attention, and should convince you of the necessity and policy of seeking the only true remedy, in a further reform of the Commons House of Parliament. Your condition borders on the desperate already ; for four successive years the difficulties of the merchant and manufacturer, and the. distress of the operatives, have gone on increasing , in severity, and spreading. wider and wider. A large proportion of the manufacturing capital of the kingdom has been annihilated, and-as a natural consequence, an equally large proportion of the working class have either been thrown entirely out of employment or have • had . their hours of work reduced. A more gloomy prospect is that or the future. The unpa ralleled energy and buoyancy of British industry that has carried us, in spite of all obstacles, through-former periods of distress, now appears to be -overmatched .by insupe rable difficulties. Every year's additional experience, the report of every traveller who visits the seats of manufactures in Europe and Arnerica, .proves, with greater distinctness, that the selfish class legislation of our rulers is rapidiy destroying the sources of our ma nufacturing and commercial prosperity, and transferring them to other countries; and if - allowed to go On un checked, must eventually plunge 'us into a depth of disc tress, - greater even than that we now endure, and the consequence of which it is frightful to contemplate. We refer; among other proofs, to the following resolu . teen, passed unanimously at a meeting of 2,000 persons, held recently in this town, as a testimony to the correct ness of their melancholy statement:—. " That great and increasing distress has been expert.- enhed during the heat four years, by the mercantile and manufacturing - elasses of the woollen district, of which Leeds is the centre. That the condition of the .workneen engaged in the various branches of its staple trade, has been 'gradually deteriorated from the combined opera tion of a lessened employment for labour—a lower rate of remuneration for it—and the high price of all the ne cessaries of life, and more especially of flour and meat ; that the merchants have experienced unparalleled, and, in many cases, ruinous lasses, from the frequent and large fluctuations in the value of manufactured goods, and the frightful amount of insolvency which has taken place amongst the retail traders of the nation ; and that the manufacturers have suffered in a still greater degree than the merchants, because they have had to bear the loss arising from the partial employment of their machi nery, and- the consequent inadequate return upon their sunk Capital, in addition to those arising from extreme variations in the price of the raw material and the bank ruptcy of their customers." - We refer to Mr. Alderman Bateson's letter to the two Members for this borough, describing the rapid "progress made by the woollen manufaatureS of Belgium and Prussia ; whilst the exports of British woollens has de creased. Add -to these the results of the inquiries of the Unem ployed Operative Enumeration Committee, from which we.learn the appalling fact that in Leeds alone there are 4,752 families, consisting of 19,937 individuals, whose average subsiStence is no more than 1 lid. per week. ' Such being your condition, what are your prospects of relief ? Your present rulers, the corn-law aristocracy, with the Dillies of Buckingham and Richmond at their head, already fiercely threaten to turn out the Conserva tive Government of - Peel and Wellington with as -little ceremony as they have done the late Reform Ministry, should they venture-to' legislate for the whole people,. and- not for the-exclusive interests of their own order. They not only treat with indifference themselves the misery and destitution of so many of their fellow-coun trymen,; but with a tyrannic jealousy they stifle the cries for help, and the demands for inquiry, that a suffer ing peOple Would carry to the foot of the Throne, and to the bar of the House of Commons. .The worst is yet to botold. It plainly appears from various symptoms that's large and influential portion of . the dominant' class; are deliberately bent on reducing your numbers. and -influence' by increasing your distress. A scheme of policy more atrocious and insane never dis graced an educated and civilised community. - The charge is, too. serious and awful to . be lightly made.: we shall state .the indications that, joined to the acts of our rulers, .appear .to us conclusive. evidence that such inten tions me really entertained, • *We addithe as proofs - • First=e:The admission 'of our friends . amongst .the aris tocracy, and thank heaven we still have many, that their , Conservative brethren in - private conversation fearlessly . assert what-they dare not in public; that . the Manufac wring. interest As. already - too powerful, and must be • diminishede--the population too -great, and - must-- be- re dueed.a . . •.. • Senondly-,That the words which fell from Sir James Graham, the present e Hoine .Secretary, in the interview whiefi the Anti-Corn-law deputation had with him some time ago, left the same impression on their minds. thirdlThe following sentiments as expressed in the QUartelly Review, the Conservative Journal : " Before emigration is tried, let:us endeavour to occupy our waetti liinde. Millions Of acres are still nnreelaimed, both in -Great Britain . and Ireland: Stop . the gambling specuptions of- the manufacturers, -and drain off the sur plus populatiou from the towns into the country: Let landlords plant colonies on their commons, and bogs, and mountains, plant them under their Own eye, upon right principles of colonization, in organic bodies, with powers of self-government; with social privileges ; NN itil the germs of village institutions; especially with that first principle of life and organization, an efficient eccle siastical establishment in the centre. Restore something of the feudal spirit into our tenure of land. Raze, if you:like, to the ground i 'h4four overgrown metropolis," Here their design of reducing the manufacturing and increasing the agricultural population is to be effected by the apparently benevolent process of transplanting the distressed to their commons, bogs, and mountains— but to make this scheme answer previous distress must be created, and this is to be brought about by stopping the "gambling speculations of the manufacturers—in other words, closing the mills. Again, thei r i n t en ti ons are expressed in still plainer, language in the following quotation from the Rev.. Baptist Noel's t rac t o f " The Plea for the Poor :"—" One other remedy has been pro posed. A distinguished opponent of the rep ea l o f th e pre sent Corn-laws, after describing the present sufferings of the manufacturers, their lowered wages, and their increasing numbers, ends, 'I confess it is frightful to contemplate such a state of things and of society, but it can no longer be concealed; and yet the only remedy seems to be, to diminish the sources of employment, in order to produce future- or permanent good.' inadequate employment has stripped their dwellings hare, driven them to 'dark cellars, loaded the pawnbroker's shop with their pledged property, taken the clothes from their backs, crowded the hospitals, withered their limbs, and broken their spirits; and when it is utterly impossible that they should emi grate, and would be fatal to them if they could, the only means suggested for the alleviation of their misery is, that there should be a further diminution of their sources'of employment.' " Is not our case made out? Do not the aristocracy contemplate the reducing the manufacturing influence and population by increasing the distress? But the eon- . elusive sentence is yet to come.—What says - their daily organ of the press, the Standard?—" England would be as great and- powerful, and all .useful Englishmen would be as rich as they are, though one ruin shouki engulph all the manufacturing towns and districts of Great Bri tain." According to this, the whole manufacturing po pulation are useless, and would not be missed were they engulphed in one common ruin. These sentiments have not merely emanated from the editors of the Standard : that they speak but too plainly she secret wishes and intentions of an influential portion of the aristocracy, is too well proved by the unbending tenor of their actions, For had there been an honest in tention of doing justice to the industrious" classes, no op position, but, on the contrary, every facility would have been offered for the fullest, and freest, and most search ing inquiry into the whole subject of the condition of the people, and the causes of their distress. How can the people- attribute any but sinister motives to the dogged refusal to institute an inquiry, that their plainest duties as statesmen, as men, as Christians, made imperative upon them ? No disclaimers, no shuffling explanations will suffice to remove from the Corn-law aristocracy the charge we have brought against them out of their own mouths; unless accompanied by acts also ; by the offer, at least, of a full ; fair, and free inquiry into the distress of their countrymen. We cannot pass on without soliciting the deep attention of the merchants; manufacturers, and tradesmen, and • middle classes generally, to the comparative conduct of the working class and the landlord class, so far as a just respect for the property of others is concerned. Are you not often told that the ignorant demoralized working class have no respect for property, and are ready to plun der the rich whenever they have the opportunity, or when a strong temptation offers ? Consider, we entreat you, how—in periods of the deepest distress of the ope ratives, when -thousands have been wandering in the streets and roads, famished with hunger, asking is vain for work —you and your families have lived in peace and security to person and property in the midst of them ; wit, nessing, in innumerable instances, their admirable patience, their orderly conduct, and respect for the property of others, and gratitude for any acts of real kindness or charity. Contrast this with the conduct of the Corn-law aristocracy. They who, snore than any other class, live and prosper not upon their own labours, but on those of others. They, the wealthiest, most powerful, and splendid aristocracy in the world, and who are indebted for by far the largest aju working tune. see,ce odt ta,h e be; s s ,dee deny-. and nrycoh.f portion of those advantages to the labours of yourselves, y their industrious fellow - countrymen, the inhabitants of pshorpusl,ousc commerce,i the an m d ov e i o n l g oni forc ese s o f olt g h l e a:n e d v e . r k T s hhoepys who talk most loudly of maintaining inviolable the principle ooE tradesmen f tnh t ge h il e .asil s ;d ec , o u t fo r o i fw t ) y .hol o ot ; nat; gptltrahioin,ep, they property, t: coe , n , rsfyci a i4 n 3i.:o d i6netiiit a ,rso r ,i ft e dht t 3tzne h : 01, themselves the most daring and wholesale 'plunderers of the property of yourselves d ur ( x d a aenrndtgi all o e danger s and yaorue ing the means of earning it by your labour. Awake, then, fellow-countrymen, deeply the causestahkee deliverance Na y: et e er u la, r enre distress, e socfof your weakness, and summon up courage to meet those dan goeorose,ssaanrdy t f o oi m hold most dear, before it is too late. And now we invite you to the seri ous ecns i deration, of how far the evils that oppress the industrious classes are owing to their own faults or remissness. Whilst we fearlessly denounce that which is wrong in the conduct - of others, let us have the, manliness to avow our own faults by whatever means we learn thttu. ipw 1 5 it, TIVil SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY ) OCTOBER 19. 1 41. that, in the late appeal to the electors of the West- Riding, at the last general election, the strange and dis graceful result was Witnessed, of town after town, and lastly, the great constituency of the hiding itself re turning Tories, tools of the Corn•law Aristocracy, and enemies of the people ? Thouiands of the electors will indignantly exclaim that the is a mockery, that its free exercise is impeded by so many obstruations, en tails so- many sacrifices, that to possess the right is a curse, rather than the ennobling privilege of the citizen of a free State. Others will complain of the apathy pro duced by the.temporising policy of the late Whig Go vernment, often too ready to conciliate enemies, rather than satisfy the just demands of friends. Granted that the Reform Bill has failed in securing its intended objects . ; that th e Whi gs, though they have done much. for the p eop l e which we ought not to for- get, have not in all" cases been true to their best inter ests. What remedy ? Are the liberties, and rights, and dearest interests of the people in the keeping of the Whigs, or of any other political party ; or any where but in their own halide ? Now we come to the real root of our, weakness, and of our defeats. The people, the industrious people, with shame and sorrow be it spoken, have not been true to themselves. We have had no • cordial union amongst ourselves. The middle classes, - and th e b u lk of the electors, h ave aban doned themselves to the demoralising struggles of mere party politics ; and having obtained political rights themselves, have regarded with too - much of apathy, in some cases perhaps of jealousy and suspicion, the claims to the same political rights of their poorer brethren of the working class. The working classes have been too ready to listen'to the false and irritating suggestions of our common enemies, and to rank, without distinction, all who are not of their own class, and all who will not at once grant the whole o f t h e i r demands, as hostile to them. Let us profit by the stern, but wholesome, lessons of ad versity which is now our teacher—let there be in future amongst us more of justice and forbearance, more of 'sympathy and kind feelings towards others, and a greater vigilance and courage in the performance of our duties, no less than in the maintenance of our rights. We - must depend neither upon Whigs or Tories, but upon ourselves enly. must learn to place our strength fir:union founded upon the mutual concession of minor- differences—we must o rgan i se ourse l ves — we must meet in friendly conference and discussion in the sincere search after the true causes and remedies of the evils of our social state. Our main practical object will be to as certain the- best means of reforming our present degrad ing and corrupt representative 'system, so as to secure the full, fair, and free representation of the people in Parlia ment. In pursuit of this object we must not forget that no mere forms of Govermuent, however wisely and elaborately framed, can of themselves create a free and happy people. There can be no security for real pro gress unless the people first reform themselves ' -and by a generous emulation raise the moral stan d ar d of the indi vidual men who form the millions. All around us there are symptoms of the awakening of the people to a sense of' the mighty power for all good purposes that is within their reach by intellectual and moral culture. To promote these objects, the Leeds Parliamentary Reform Association was founded, and it is to exhort you to form similar Associations, that we now earnestly appeal to you. Men of Yorkshire—Let every town, let every village, have its Reform Associition, and let us run a friendly race of competition, in advancing each to our utmost ability The great cause of Peace, aneLiberty, and,well rewarded Industry. Let us help ourselves in a righteous course, and God will help us. J. G. MARSHALL, Chairman. MR. FRERE and the FUSE MITES. Some time sine' a pamphlet, entitled, (" a Tract for these Times,' was published and extensively circulated 'throughont the United Kingdom. - •A Mr. R. Norman, it appears, distributed the tract" among his brother pa rishioners, This fact carne to the ears of Mr. Frere, the Rector, who sent the following letter, to Mr. Norman : "Cottenham—The Rectory, Aug. 5,-1841. ";Sla. NORMAN— I write 'to inform you. that, in pur suance of my duty as rector of this, parish, I presented you yesterday to the Bisimp of this diocese,, for. circu lating' ainong my parishiOners a tract, ,entitled `Tract for these Times,' tending to dissuade persons from going. to the Bishop to be confirmed; and containing, Among other things that impugn the pubilo 'Worship of God • established in the Church of England, 'the assertion that the Prayer-book does not agree with the Bible. I have to acquaint you that the punishment fOr this crime is excommunication, and that you cited in the Ecclesiastical Court and condemned in costs. As, however, my sole desire is to vindicate the honour of ,God and his Church before men ; apd, by ma ki ng you sensible that' you have been guilty ,of a heavy offence against both, to prevent your cornmitting.the like in future ; and as I have no wish to:trouble you, or have you in any way punished, I requested the Bishop to stay proceedings against' yon for ten' days, which his Lordship has readily granted. If you, there fore, will withdraw all the - copiN , Of this trat' Which you can remember having circulated , -among my pa rishioners ; and. will deliver them; together with as many more as you may happen to have now in ydur poisession, to me, on or before Monday next, Oth inst., and if you will further, on or b,efore the same day, acknowledge your fault in haying circulated these tracts, and will set your hand to the acknowledgement. pf it which I hereNith send you, consenting that, I shall cause the same to "be read - pilbliely in Church; .on some Sunday which I shall appoint," during the time of Divine Service, I will stay the proceedings against you altogether. "JOHN` FRERE, Rector. " To Mr. Norman." Mr. Norman's astonishment increased when he perused the subjoined communication : ." THE RECANTATION OF ROBERT NORNAN OF THE PARISH OF COTTENHAM. I, Robert Norman, of the parish of Cottenham, in the diocese of Ely, acknowledge myself guilty of having distributed in - the parish a tract, entitled Tract for these Times,' tending to persuade persons from going to the Bishop to- be confirmed, and imapngning the public worship - of God established in the -Church Of England ; and, among other false and wicked assertions, declaring that the Prayer-book does not agree with the Bible. I, Robert Norman, having been brought to see the wickedness - of.thesc :assertions, do repudiate and renounce them lam heartily sorry that I have contributed to disseminate them. I humbly ask for giveness of God and his Church, and I pray God not to lay this sin to my charge. And, further, I hereby promise and de c l are , t h at . ' w i ll ne v er aga i n , by word or deed, by circ u l a ti on of printed papers or otherwise, op pose or impu gn th e m i n i sters, or liturgy, or rites and ceremonies of the Ch urc h o f E ng land. In witness hereof, I have this day hereto set my hand. Cottenham, the day of August, in the year of our Lord, 1841." Mr. Norman did not think proper to take any notice of the recantation, and Mr. Frere, in consequence, for wardel the following note to him ; and the upshot of the business was, that Mr. Norman refused to sign the recantation " Mr. ROBERT NORMAN—As I am to see the Bishop to-morrow, and he will expect an answer, I request that you will send me, by ten o'clock this evening, anything in excuse or extenuation which you may have to offer to his Lordship, that I may present it to him. " Yours, truly, " J. FRERE. " Monday, Aug. 10, 1841." The Liverpool- Correspondent of The Sun com plains, that Captain de Peyster, of, the packet-ship Sheridan, instead of delivering the parcels to the agents for the papers, sent hit bags to the Post-office, by which much time was lost before the news the papers contained could be made public. • The complaint is not grounded strictly on fact. Captain de Peyster not only allowed the bags to be opened on board his ship in the river, but every news-agent present was permitted to take the parcels addressed to him. It is quite true, that a few parcels went to the Post-office, but they were mixed up with letters, and there was not time to sort them for prior delivery. A long acquaintance with the comman ders of the New York packet-ships enables us to say, that they are, one and all, extremely anxious to accom modate the public, and particularly the press, by the de livery, immediately on their arrival, of the newspaper parcels ; ar.d we have stated sufficient to show,• that Captain de Peyster did, on his arrival on Friday last, do every thing that any reasonable man had a right to ex pect to facilitate the delivery of the papers contained in his bags.—Liverpool Albion. RATHER TOO BOLD.—A few evenings since two men entered the Rising Sim public-house, haring generously determined togive Mr. Foxwell, the landlord', the benefit of their patronage, and ordered- a supper, which was quickly dispatched. They then retired to bed, and on the following morning ordered breakfast. They pretended, by their conversation, to be. rather un easy : one said to his companion, " I wonder where ' master ,is staying, he ought to have been here before this time ;" then, addressing himself to Mr. Foxwell, he said; "We put a lot of cows to keep last night at , Farmer Blacker's, li v i ng a little w a y o ff , and expected master here to let us have the money to pay for them, and also to discharge our reakoning ; but if ,you will lend me eleven shillings, this man can gO on with the cows, and I will wait for master and pay you the whole together." The apparent straight-forward honesty of the man excited no s us p i cion, and his r equest was granted. Mr. Foxwell, however, thought it would be prudent to see the cows discharged, and to get a further acquaintance with his guests. Away the men trudged, with hearts as cheerful as the "Rising Sun _,, ; but all at once a cloud passed and darkened the scene—one of them was taken very ill, and was assisted into a house by the way-side, during which his-.unfeelincr companion made himself s carce,. and ran away. The' sick man wondered where he was gone, and desired Mr. Foxwell to step out and look for him. Raving done so, behold the almost dying man suddenly recovered, and, seeing ' the coast clear, started off at a greyhound pace ; so that when the landlord returned, a few minutes afterwards, from his unsuccessful search, the whole truth came upon him like a thunder-clap, and he at once found that he had been made the dupe of a couple of vagabonds, of " whom so great a nu mber are ab out, living by their wits."—Somerset County Gazette. YOUNG LADIES AT TABLE. --It is all non. g sense about young ladies not. ! a ting ;rowin g g i r l s con sume a very respectable quantity of victuals, And although some mothers encourage them in the hypocrisy of eating a substantial meal in private, that they may dine more genteely at table, misses in expectation of a husband may credit us when we say, that a man who is stupid enough to believe that their soft cheeks and plump limbs are produced by starvation, is not worthy of their hand ; he who really possesses the ir h ear t should ne ver h ave cause to suspect them of hypocrisy or dec e it ; even to the eat ing of apple, or the dis sec tion of a gibl e t p i e .— Chant bers's London Journal. Aflocks of wild Several large fo wl have lately been sees crossing Weymouth Bay ; their early appear ance indicates a severe and early : waiter.—Sosterset County Gcaette. LITERATURE. JOVEXILE SCRAP-BOOK. Fisher, London, 1841. " The object of the present volume," observes the Editor, Mrs. Ellis, in a modest, unaffected ' preface, is to " blend amusement with instruc tion," an object in which she has happily suc ceeded. Short, familiar stories, adapted to the capacity of young readers ; poems, chiefly of the ballad school, characterised by ease and melody of versification ; descriptions of foreign scenes and foreign manners; and sylvan home sketches, full of truth and simplicity ;—these various articles constitute an agreeable melange, which will be perused with avidity by those for whose instruction and entertainment it is in tended. The plates, which are sixteen in num ber, are most of them skilfully and carefully eve cuted ; and amongst the best, are those which are illustrative of African scenery. The view of the " Entrance to the Kowa River, Cape of Good Hope," is a very beautiful landscape sketch, and bears no indistinct resemblance to one of the scenes in the lake districts of the North. The broad, winding river, is bounded on either side by moun tains, which shelve down to the water's edge ; here stretching out into promontories, clothed with luxuriant woods; and there descending almost perpendicularly into the stream. The appear ance of a boat or two on the river, and of a dusky groupe of native Africans who are bivouacking by a watch-fire, near a tall, spreading tree, en joying themselves, no doubt, after the dangers and fatigues of the chase, impart life and variety to a landscape which could scarcely be consider ed complete without some such accessaries. The " Idiot" represents a wild, rocky,. mountainous landscape, with a back-ground of sterile moor. On the summit of one of the crags, and just at its edge, an idiot boy is seated, utterly unconscious of the peril of his situation, which realizes Col lins's fearful description of Danger. " Temple of Clitumnus, near Spolito," is a sketch which will remind the reader of Byron's exquisite pic ture of the same scene in the fourth Canto of " Chide liarold." In this striking landscape we know not which most to admire, its natural or its architectural beauties. It needs little fore sight to predict that' this Scrap-book will be among the most popular of the juvenile Annuals. LIFE- AND TIMES OF LOUIS PHILIPPE. Fisher, London, 1841.. In this volume we have a biographical sketch of the present . King of the French, from the period of his first appearanee, when a youth, under the banner of the Republic, down to the imprisonment of the Orleans family, after the death of Egalite, by order of the National Con vention. The work is to be continued in monthly Parts ; and as the subject abounds in interesting materials, we suppose it will require at least six more Parts to bring it to a conclusion. - The spirit in which the Memoir is written is . one of moderation and impartiality, wherefore we in cline to augur well of its success. The present Part contains two engravings, the most attractive of which is a sketch of Louis Philippe teaching geography at the College of Reicherau. This print is taken from an original painting in the Palais Royal, of which its - Royal owner is de servedly prOud. DISEASES -OF THE HIP-JOINT. By W. Coulson. Longman and Co. A new edition of this valuable work, which we understand has met with a most favourable re ception from the medical world, has just made its appearance. It has received considerable ad ditions, including a chapter on puerperal affec tions of the joints, with which the ordinary dis ..ease§ of the hip is, in some cases, liable to be confounded. The ex t ens i ve practice of Mr. Coul •sim in scrofulous diseases generally, as one of the Medical Board of the Sea Bathing Infirmary at Margate, has enabled him to bring to bear much important information on a class of disease's the pathology of which has hitherto been involved in .some obscurity; and, as he has judiciously ob served, with reference to the expediency of clas sifying the symptoms and treatment according to the structure principally affected or inflamed, " the few opportunities which occur to those-en gaged in the most extensive.practice i of examin ring the disease in its earliest stage, and the rapi dity with which all the parts become involved in the re:lder this branch of inquiry re . - plete with difficulty." To the non-medical read er, and particularly to those who are suffering under this most formidable and protracted:com plaint, the chapters on the Causes and Treat-. meat of Diseases of the Hip-joint will he peculi arly interesting and instructive. Some of Mr. Coulson's views are novel, and opposed to the• generally received system of :treatment; it is, hoWever, but justice to him to add, that where he differs from those who have preceded him on the subject, he does so with due.deference.to the high medical authorities with whom he is at issue, while, at the same time, he maintains his own opinions with sound argument and the re sult of that best of all t eac h ers in medical as well as other departments of science, namely, prac, tieal experience. _ LAST MOMENTS' OF LORD SYDENHAM. The death-bed scene of this lamented nobleman was as impressive and characteristic, and as worthy of a page in history, as that of any hero or statesman in her re cords, who died, like him, in the service of his country. The following account is extracted from the letter of an eye-witness _ _ _ " For about a week after the accident (a fall on horse back by which his leg-was broken, and at the same time a deep and painful wound inflicted just above the knee) he appeared to be going on tolerably well, and although he himself repeatedly expressed doubts as to his re covery, there was nothing to lead us to suppose, nor did the medical men give us to understand, that his presenti ment was more than the natural consequence of the low ness produced by weakness. " On Monday, however, the 13th, spasms came on, first in the leg, and afterwards in the stomach and throat ; yet still we had no idea that a fatal result would. ensue. The prorogation bad at first been fixed for Wednesday, and subsequently, at the request of the Assembly, post poned till Friday ; and so little prepared were we then for what was to follow, that during Thursday the Go vernor-General was employed in giving his decision on the several bills which had been passed, and in revising the draft of the speech which, at his desire, had' been prepared for him. " On Friday morning his Mess increased so much that he was obliged to put off the prorogatior., and after consultation with his medical advisers, hi determined -to prorogue the Parliament by de putation: General Clitherow ' being the senior mili tary officer at present at Kingston, was selected for the purpose, and prorogued the Parliament on Sa turday morning at twelve o'clock, giving at the same time the Royal assent or reservation to the Bills, which had all previously received Lord Syden ham's decision, and almost all of them his sig nature. In the night of Friday occurred that great, change which made it evident that Lord Syden ham's illness was rapidly approaching to a fatal termination. Every one of his• symptoms was fear fully aggravated, and even those who had before hoped most were forced to confess that hope was now vain. He was perfectly conscious of his own state, and about two o'clock en Saturday afternoon he, together with all his establishment, received the sacrament. He then dictated to Mr. Dowlin g his will. To all his establishm en t h e l e ft some token of his regard. He desired to be remembered to Lord John Russell, to whom he bequeathed a memorial of his friendship, and when that part of his will was read over to him, he exerted himself to say, with em phasis, though interrupted by violent spasms in the throat, Dowling, Lord John is the noblest man it has ever been my good fortune to know.' He then took leave of us all individually, saying something kind to each. To Mr. Murdoch, Civil Secretary, he expressed a wish that .he should write the his tory of his administration in Canada. He repeatedly mentioned his continued interest in this coun try, and his satisfaction that the Parliament was prorogued, the great institutional measures he had de vised and proposed to Parliament passed into law, and the purposes of his mission accomplished. To his Pri vate Secretary he said' Good bye, Grey, you will defend my memory—mind, Grey, you will defend my memory!' He then spoke kindly to Major Campbell and Mr. Baring, adding (motioning with his hand to all): Now leave me alone with Adamson (his chaplain) to die.: " The rest of that day and the whole night were spent by him. in prayer and conversation with his chaplain. During this period he suffered very much, but his mind never for an instant failed, nor appeared to be clouded by his approaching death. Once or twice his spasms were so severe that we were afraid he was gone ; but it was not until seven o'clock on Sunday morning that we were summoned into his room to see him breathe his last. At this moment all pain seemed to have ceased ; his countenance had resumed its usual expression ; he. gave one long steady look upon us all around the bed, and expired at five minutes past seven o'clock. " I cannot conclude without adding my confident be lief that in Canada Lord Sydenham has not left one personal enemy, and that his death in the service of his Queen and this colony, for whose welfare he died a ' martyr (since there can be no doubt that the severity of the two winters he passed here, acting on a constitu- - tion not over strong, alone rendered him unequal to bear the effects of an injury, not otherwise of a fatal cha racter), will be hallowed to its good, that over his un timely* grave past differences will be forgotten, a spirit of charity grow up and flourish, and all parties unite cor dially to carry . out the policy and administer the laws which his master mind devised and his master hand enacted. "In compliance with his own request, he is to be buried at Kingston. His remains will find a fit resting place among the inhabitants of that town, which owes to him its selection as the capital of united Canada , and his best monument will be the future prosperity of . the colony itself, destined, no doubt, to become a wish ' ty prosperity founded on that and magnificent empire-s -a union and those institutions, to perfect which he devoted every faculty for the last two years of his life, and which he died in the very act of completing," • Lord Sydcnhatn had just accomplished his ferty-secon year a few days only before big death. SYNOD OF GLASGOW AND AYR. The half-yearly meeting of the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr was held in the Tron Church on Tuesday last. Mr. Stewart of Erskine brought forward a memo rial, to the effect that, whereas the state of farm ser vants, male and female, as to education, religious habits, and morality, is ver y d ep l ora bl e , an d is fast deterio rating in country parishes—and whereas, from the migratory habits of this class, the institution of re medies likely to cure the evil does not lie with Kirk Sessions and Presbyteries, whose jurisdiction is limited to small localities, but with the Synod, whose jurisdic tion extends over a whole province —this Synod should adopt such measures as they, in their wisdom, shall see fit, to remedy the evils, and recommend the subject to other Synods. Mr. Stewart supported the overture, and moved that it be adopted. Mr. M'Farlan, of Renfrew, seconded the motion, which was agreed to ; and, after some discussion, it was also agreed, that a Committee be appointed to in quire into the nature and extent of the evils referred to, and the best remedy which can be provided therefor, and to report to next meeting of Synod. Mr. Fleming brought forward an overture, to the effect that, while it is gratifying to observe the progress of Church extension, and in providing for the means of promoting a knowledge of the truths of the Gospel, there is reason to fear that personal and family religion is not making progress with the means of grace--the Synod should inquire how far this was attended to throughoht their bounds, and appoint a sermon to be preached on the subject on any Sabbath convenient in the month of November next. After the Rev. Gentleman had stated his reasons for bringing forward the overture, a lengthened discussion ensued as to whether the overture was not too indefi nite, personal and family religion being the subjects of ministrations at all times. In the course of the dis cussion, Mr. Brewster inquired whether the overture referred to faiiaily worship, to the mere form and pro fession of Christianity, without its power and spirit.— (Interruption.) He heard some " cbicking" in the body of the meeting. So far as his observations went, he found that the Pharisees of our Lord's Day had their counterpart in our - own day.—(Cries of " Oh, ob.") - He proceeded to inquire whether by personal religion they implied that they were to use their utmost endeavours to procure bread to every human creature, and to obtain a repeal of unrighteous laws. The speaker was here interrupted by numerous calls of “aquestiou." After a good deal of confusion, the Chairman interposed his authority, and order was restored. It was agreed that the Synod should recom mend to ministers to be especially diligent and faithful in promoting not only personal, but also family religion and worship, and in enjoining on heads of families the important duty of taking all care that their servants and children shall be duly instructed in the Shorter Cate chism, and other standards of the Church. On Wednesday the Synod met at eleven o'clock, when a report was presented by Mr. M'Farlan of Ren frew, Convener of the Committee on Sabbath Desecra tion, against the running of the mail by railway on Sabbath, or the use of railway trains on the Lord's Day for any purpose whatever. After some discussion, it was ultimately agreed to petition Parliament and memorialise the Postmaster-General on the subject. Mr. Stow then introduced a memorial in favour of the Glasgow Normal School. He supported the claims of that institution upon the Synod at considerable length, and it was ultimately agreed to recommend that collections be made within its bounds for the - benefit of the school. Mr. Brewster entered his dissent against the pro posed recommendation, on account of the distress which at present prevails in Paisley. He thought the mem bers of that Court should appropriate any funds at their disposal to the relief of the starving operatives of the country, before they applied them to any other pur pose whatever. The papers were read in the case of Mreßrewster, as to preaching in the Chartist church on a Sabbath in May last, and Mr. Brewster was heard on a preli minary objection, and was answered by a member of the Paisley Presbytery. On the motion of the Rev. Dr. Buchanan the whole case - was remitted to the Presbytery of Paisley. , • • s The Synod adjourned till seven o'clock• evening, when they took up another case from Paisley, in re ference to a quarrel between Mr. Brewster and one of the Superintendents of the -Poor within his parish. Parties were heard, Mr. Brewster speaking upwards of three hours on the point. After which the decision of the Presbytery of Paisley in the case was affirmed. The Court then adjourned till the next half-yearly meeting in April. - • CORN-LAMS AND THE CHARTER. --- (From the Manchester Times of S a t ur d a y.) A meeting of the Youn g Men's Anti-Monopoly As sociation took pl ace at th e Corn Exchange, Hanging Ditch, last night, when Colonel Thotripson was to be present to address them, and the , public were invited to attend. By half-past seren o'clock, the time announced for the proceedings to commence, there could not be less than 2,000 persons• present, and the Colonel,' on his entrance, was greeted with loud cheers. Mr. Hol land, surgeon, was called to the chair. Colonel Thompson was received with loud cheers, and listened to throughout, with a few interruptions only from the Chartists, who on this occasion had assembled again to play their old game' of interruption. Speaking of the agitation for the' Charter, and that for the re peal of the Corn-laws, he said much difference of opinion existed as to which ought to be sought for first. He said, boldly, that he wanted to obtain the Charter, and therefore he came here to advocate the repeal of the Corn-laws. He quarrelled with no man for holding a different opinion on that subject, but he said the way to carry an important fortress was to advance upon the weak point first,and not upon the strong one. He knew there were those who said, " carry the Charter, and then we should be able to carry ever y thi ng else." Now hear his feelings on the subject. He had already said that the policy of a skilful general was not to attack the strongest point of the enemy's fortification, but the weakest. Now he had some doubt for that reason whether they ought to seek the Charter first. The story that if they got the Charter first they should be able to secure the repeal of the Corn-laws afterwards, reminded h m of a story he used often to hear when a youth—about the way to catch birds. The way was by getting near enough to put a little salt on their tails.—(Laughter.) Now he stood not there to deny that fact, but simply to ask how they were to place the salt on the birds' tails?--(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He proceeded t o argue th at the Corn-laws were the weakest point of attack, by a comparison of the strength of the two parties (the Chartist and anti-Corn law) in the House of Commons ; and observed that while the Chartists had only about 39 supporters in the House of Commons, the repealera mustered 200, or more than five times as many. At the conclusion of his speech Mr. Birch, a mem ber of the Association, addressed the meeting in an able speech, and moved—" That this meeting views with disgust the conduct of Sir Robert Peel and his associate monopolists, in advising her Majesty to pre rogue Parliament, without considering the destitute condition of the labouring classes; but that fully con vinced of the necessity for the total, immediate, and unconditional repeal of the corn and provision mono polies, we pledge ourselves never to cease our efforts till we have attained that object, and the obnoxious laws are swept from the statute book. Mr. CULVERWELL seconded the resolution, and read some statistics taken at Coventry, showing the effects of high price of food in increasing mortality—the in crease being at the rate of from 77 in 10,000 in the years of plenty (1833.4-5) to 121 in 10,000 in the years which had succeded 1836. At the conclusion of this address, when the Chair man was about to put the motion, the Chartist, Chris topher Doyle, accompanied by Leech (the two men who disturbed the meetings at the Town Hall), ad vanced to the platform, and Doyle insisted upon stating his sentiments, and proposing an amendment. The CUAIRMAN assented to his proposition, and ex pressed his willingness to allow full scope to free dis eussicin. A great part of the meeting, however, expressed their disapprobation, and Doyle stood a considerable time amidst a storm of invectives, vainly striving to get a hearing. VINCENT, of Bath, and LEECH, both came forward in turn to request the meet i ng to listen ; but the answer was, they would hear them or _anybody but Doyle ! Doyle, however, persevered, an d a t length succeeded in Uttering a few sentences and read ing his amendment, which w as i n f avour of the Charter. LEECH seconded the amendment, add asked if the middle class and working class interests were the same, as had been stated, why did not the former come forward and give the working classes a just participation in the fruits of their labour? If there were so many more Members in the Commons for repeal than for the Charter his ~e medy was to sweep the House away altogether.—(Avoice—'° How would you do it ?" and laughter.) He admitted that was n hard question, and the way to do t and the applica tion of the means must be put in face at the same time. He then proceeded 'to argue that the cause of that the people' s di stress was mach i nery,_ ;nd denied tb Colonel Th ompson ' s adv i ce to operate Ton t h e Legis lature by ag i tat i on at the e l ect i ons wou l ahave a bene ficial result. Mr. FMNIGAN came forward to answerhitn amidst great cheering, and said that he thought, when an amendment was put to a meeting, it lught to have been based upon something like argument in support of it, but be had heard nook They had he a rd som ething about machinery' a neryn:iarainiL ththene stringent rules of the factories, where gut he should be at work, was not allowed to read ; admitting it to bo true—was that a reason why to aristocracy, for their own benefit, should tax the food of the hungry and starving operative ?—( Loud cheers.)' But Mr. Leech had said the House of Commons, with 200 members for it, would not give Repeal ; then from what rule of common sense did he draw the inference that with only 39 advocates in the House they were more likely to get a Cbarter?—(Loud cheers.) He _EVENING SUN said the people, were in misery, but he denied the Corn laws were the cause of it. Did he bring anything like facts to prove that they were not ? He admitted the Corn-law was a great evil, and a bad law ; had be said a wor d to shew that a repeal of it would place the people in a worse position ?—{Loud cheers.) If, as Leech had said, the factory system was the cause of all the evil, how was it that the agricultural labour ers of Ireland, where there was no factory system, were so badly off, even worse than our operatives ? (Great applause.) After speeches from Mr. Acland, Mr. Vincent, and some others, The amendment was put and negatived, the CIAIR. MAN declaring the original motion carried by a large majority, to the no small chagrin of the intruders. The meeting separated a little before twelve o'clock. DEATH FROM ALLEGED ILL- TREATMENT BY A QUACK DOCTOR. An inquiry of a highly important nature took place on Saturday last, at the Town-hall, Hertford, before Mr. T. Sworder and a very respectable and intelligent jury, touching the death of Mrs. Chymist, wife of Samuel Chythist, baker, of Cheshunt. The inquiry lasted up wards of five hours, and a mass of evidence was pro duced, the chief facts of which are as follow :—The de ceased was afflicted with a cancer in her breast, for which she had been under the care of several medical men, amongst others, Dr. Kerrison, of London, and W. Saunders, of Wormley, and her husband was in duced to bring her to Hertford about six weeks ago to consult a man named Isaac Chamberlain, who has for some time past set up as a medical prac titioner, and as such has obtained consider a bl e noto riety. Chamberlain, according to the evidence, at once undertook to cure Mrs. Chymist, and lodgings were ac cordingly taken for her at a person's, named John Nichol son, upon Bull-plain. From the statement of the wit nesses it appeared that when deceased came to Hertford six weeks ago, the cancer presented the outward appear ance of two small wounds, eaeh no bigger than the point of a pin, from which there was a slight discharge. Chamberlain proceeded to rub the breast with oint ment, and a powder every day, and to cut and scrape away the flesh with a knife until a wound was produced eight inches and a half long by four inches and a half wide, and about one inch and a half deep, extending from the middle of the chest to the armpit. Mr. Woodhouse sur geon, Hertford, was applied to by Chambeilain himself to attend the woman on Thursday morning last, as she had exhibited symptoms of labour. Mr. Wood house, however, was not at home, - and the woman was the same day delivered of a seven months' child. A message was sent to Mr. W oo dh ouse t h at h e nee d not attend; Mr. Woodhouse, however, went to see the de ceased on Thursday evening, and found her in a highly dangeroas state, her pulse beating at 150, and the wound in the dreadful state described. Mr. Woodhouse imme diately procured the attendance of Mr. Davis, another surgeon of Hertford, and an anodyne was adminis tered, and a poultice put to the wound. They both felt, however, she could not live. Mr. Woodhouse called on Friday morning, and found the deCeased much worse, and he then told her she could not live. She, however, strange to say, expressed unabated confidence in her " doctor' (Chamberlain); 'and thought she should get well: She died in two hours afterwards. It was the opinion of the three medical men examined (Mr. Woodhouse, Mr. Davies, and Mr. Shillitoe) that she died from irritation produced by improper treatment, which had also brought on premature labour. The Jury found a verdict of manslaughter against Isaac Chamber lain, and on Sunday morning he was taken into custody while attending service in a dissenting , chapel in Hert ford. The person placed in this serious situation has positively obtained considerable practice as a doctor, although he is a butcher by trade, and worked in Hert ford as a journeyman butcher. S 11 0 P- WOMEN. _ - The number of young women employed in drapers' shops is said to be about 2,500. In some of these shops there are as many as thirty girls occupied from morning to night at the counter. These girls have, for the most part, received a fair education, and are re markable for the gentility of their appearance and man ners. They invariably board and live in the houses of their employers. Their yearly salaries, in addition to their board and lodging, vary from 10/. to 301. In perhaps about a dozen instances, when the parties are' known to be very experienced shop-women, 35/. and 40/. are given. In one single case, that of a young woman, who is, or lately was, in the employ of a house in Blackfriars-road, the princely salary of 100/. was given. This young woman is said to exhibit wonderful resources as a saleswoman . She discovers the oharac ter and peculiarities of her customers, as if by a species of intuition, and so completely adapts herself to them, that it is impossible to withstand her insinuating man ner, when pressing on them the purchase of articles. Her persuasive powers are so great, that she not only induces ladies to purchase articles for which they have no immediate use, but in cases where they did mean to snake purchases, she induces them to purchase three times the quantity of articles they contemplated before entering the shop. In many, if not most of the drapers' shops, a small commission, varying according to cir cumstances from one shilling to halt-a-crown per pound, is allowed to the young women who can prevail on cus tomers to purchase shawls, gown-pieces, and other arti Iles, which have gone out of fashion. This commission is allowed them as an inducement to put all their inge nuity into requisition to get rid of articles which have ceased to be in demand. And some of the more inge nious of these saleswomen thus add, I understand, very considerably to their fixed salaries. I know one in stance in which a female adds in this way, on an ave rage, 110/. to her 40/. salary, making in all 1501. per annum. It is right, however, to mention that I am not aware of any other shop-woman who turns her bu siness talents to an equally profitable- account.--Lights and Shadows of London Life, by the Author of " The Great Metropolis." The Liverpool Mcchanics' Institution is by far the most extensive and splendid Institution of the kind in the kingdom. The buildings of the Institution cost no less than 15,000/. ; it contains upwards of 3,300 mem bers,-850 pupils in three day schools,-600 pupils in fifteen or sixteen evening:classes,—it has fifty teachers regularly employed, whose salaries amount to 5,0001. a year,—a library of 7,000 volumes, with 1,300 readers and a daily distribution of 200 volumes,—and public lec tures twice a week, attended by audiences varying from 600 to 1,300. The Lyons papers state that the storm of the 2d inst. made sad ravages in the Jura mountains. Ten houses were either entirely thrown down or seriously damaged by the hurricane in the Communes of Sept moncel and La Maura. More than 2,000 pine-trees were torn up by the roots, or broken to pieces, some of them being 150 years old. Part were cut off, by fragments, of the roofs of houses, and carried to a distance of more than a mile. Much minor destruction was of course done. Three persons are said to have been wounded, but no loss of human life is mentioned. TILE BALLOT.---A Correspondent writes :--. The Tories of this city have become not only converts to the Vote by Ballot, but have resolved on carrying has been established at a public-ho use , an d i t has their conversion into practice. - A Tory F r i en dl y So ciety been announced by advertisement that tlae members will be elected by ballot. Whether a band-box will be used for the blue candidates, or whether the Carlton Club ballot-box will be lent for the occasion,. we' have no means of learning.—Hereford Times. ACCIDENT ON THE GHENT AND BRUSSELS RAILROAM — We have often noticed with uneasiness a dangerous practice of the railway conductors--that of passing from one carria g e to an o th er w hil e the tra i ns are in rapid movement. A fatal accident happened on Saturday in consequence of this fool-hardy habit. One of the conductors in a train travelling from Ghent to Brussels fell off while passing along the side of the car riages and had'both his legs cut off by the wheels, which went over him._Brussels Paper. • THE NORTHERN WHALE SHITS.--DUNDEE, OcT. 16.-13 y the arrival of the Princess Charlotte at this port to-day, the success of the fishery is reported as having been extremely deficient. The above vessel le ft the-ice on the 21st of September last, bringing a ea r t g: of four fish and sixty tuns of oil. The condition o f mn b .i.. other ships fishing in those seas is reorted by the C fish, mender to be as follows--viz. Ale xander, "q thirty-eight tuns of oil ; Caledonia, clean; t a l l: ciambier, 1 four fish, ninety butts; Abram, one ditto; Lo rd one ditto; Lady Jane, clean; Chieftain, three n the night EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT. c keeper of Mr. of the 24th of September last, as the ln _ ro, f hunting Thomas Walker was proceeding sout h of the Marquis quarters in, Glendochart, the propel cart, with four of Breadalbane, in a spring eove that had been tamed r e u e elove, teen dogs and two white hares horse, when about one by the son of Mr. Walker, the men Inn, suddenly ,and all a r, dogs, a , were m an ' c ' • No became restive, and backing , us rush i ng river. person precipitated into the i m pe_t i llo ver and how he lived to give saw the accident but the driver, 'for on being questioned mile and three quarters from flyer , the alarm is still a with twelve of the dogs he could say he was in the wael,butd how he could not tell. Next had got out a2; 3l "' h o r s e with the shafts was found e r, the . very little alongthe matter, excepting that morning; how- veters of a mile below where the accident about thr:e-e the ( precipitated over a number of falls 90 feet in perpendicular height. The -quarte rs dead, of course, for in that dis tance from 10 to .., varying '• 80 discovered about i 0 or yards only from the cart was .1 had left the road. where it i place tanee happened, i t 1 v OF TRADE:—At the wee kl y meetin DECAY o f the Bi r mingham Anti-Corn-la w Association last week Mr • J os eph Sturge said he h a d b een at Gloucester, where he had been informed by one o f the clerks, that one hundred and eight large vessels, laden with timber had landed in that port last year, and that this ear ' , in the same per i o d, th e y h a d not had fifty timber ve s sel s in port.—(Bear.) He (Mr. Sturge) attached importance to that fact. They knew that the timber thus imported was chiefly used in building houses and making ma chinery, and so great a falling off showed an evident de cline in the trade of the country. THE GARRISON OF PARIS. ---The Commerce states, that the garrison of Paris is composed of 25,000 men, which, added to the troops employed at the forti fications, raises the number to 50,000. " With such 'a force," observes the Commerce, " Paris ought to be well guarded."' a . . The net fishing for salmon in Tweed closes this \ay (Friday). Tho take during the week has been good, bt consisted principally of trouts, which are now getting oti of condition. Th e season as a whole has, as we have i staid on former oc cas i ons, been considerably above an 1 averse.---Berwick Advertiser.