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F, VEN'ING SUN Si?ll4,ll'. of the PUBLIC JOURNALS MORAL TAM WORTH. • (From the, Ex,Eniner.) A miniature statue of the Premier, a full-length not . 3 span long, was exezutel the other day, to the admira tion of the curious in small matt.m.s. Toffs miniature statue would nevertheles be a gross ex t geration of the size of life, if the height of the great original were to be measured by some of the little d0in , .73 imputed to hint. We do not place credence in all that the world says even of S:r Robert Peel, nor do we rest implicit faith in the subjoined statement, which is published as " an extract from a letter from Mr. Acland," and re mains unetntradieted 1.3.031 THE DAILY FAI . EiLS OF YE.'sTERDAY. GLOBE.—One by one have thie journals of the Gd vcrament abandoned, as untenable, the strong-holds from which, when in oppo , .:ition. they kept up an incessant volley of vituperation against the Whig,. Ministers ; I adeec', they now confessedly find themselves reduced to the ex tremity of making the humiliating admission, that the ex isting Ministry obtained office by falsa pretences. Instead of there being irraConellcablo differences between the Whigs and Tories, there are, we are gravely told, really no differences worth speaking of between them. The former are assured that they may, with very great pro priety, afford to the latter their support, in order to enable them to carry on the Government—which, be 't remembered, they obtained by continually assert ing that the principles and policy of the former would inevitably sae the foundations of the Con stitution, and destroy the Altar and the Throne! An entire article in the Times of Thursday Was de voted to this insidious proj ; and on the following day the Standard, in an elaborAte disquisition, demon strated that it woul I be highly impolitic, and, indeed, be manifestly unconstitutional, for the Government to interfere with the Itcpi al Association of Ireland. Experience has abundantly proved," said the Stand ard, " that there are two, and bat two, effectual modes of obviating the ill effects of a seditious movemeat. The first is to put the sedition down with a strong hand— and this must be resorted to when immediate danger to the Sta.e is threr.tened. The other is to leave the evil to burn itself out—neither feeding it by concession, nor fanning it by feLble opposition. This litter is the course which a prudent and a firm Government will al ways prefer when it can be adopted with safety ; and this is, we doubt not, the course which the present Administra tion will pursue with regard to the O'Connell sedition in Ireland." In this counsel, offered to the "present Admi nistration," derived from " abundant proof," the result of " experience," is found a complete vindication of' the course adoptel by the late Government with respect to Mr. O'Connell and the Rereal Association. A fresh illustration is also afforded of the unprincipled opposi tion to which that Government was subjected by the Tories, both in Parliament, and by their organs out of doors. " There is in Tamworth a grammar school, founded by Sir Robert's father, for the gratuitous education of the children of the inhabitants, so long as a Peel shall represent the borough ; and I am credibly informed that the master (Savage by name, and, as it should seem, servile by nature) informed the boys a fear days since that be had received a letter from the Prime Minister, ordering him to discharge the children of all those who had signed the petition ? The way being thus prepared, the relieving officer and his colleagues went round to the parents of the children to inquire' if they had signed that important document. And the public may believe that some disclaimers were the con sequence." If there be any truth in this statement, some invalu able moral lessons have crowned the system of tuition adopted in the Tam worth Grammar School. Tne few lines, indeed, arc full of them—they overflow with morality. First, there is an established temple of knowledge wherein electors may be legally bribed, by the gratui tous education of their children, to return a Peel mem ber, whatever may be his opinions or qualifications— the school to be shut up the moment the borough ceases to be open to the descendants of its founder ; thus realizing one of the evils (that of offering a bribe in the shape of a reward contingent upon success) which it. is said the Ballot would produce. The infamy to be born of the ballot-box is bred already, it seems, in the Tamworth Grammar School. Next there is the teacher communicating to his pu pils, on the authority of the Queen's Prime Minister himself, the instructive and affecting lesson, that their parents have been guilty of some dark offence, whereof ingratitude to the dispenser of gratuitous education is the very least ingredient ; yes, guilty of something too mysteriously criminal for little boys to understand, but demanding the visitation of the sins of the fathers upon the children, by instant dismissal and disgrace. Then comes the edifying spectacle of the parents, when questioned by the scrutineers, disavowing their own petitions, and proclaiming their genuine signatures to be forgeries ; perhaps, fasteaing their proper pothooks upon other people, in their eagerness to avoid suspicion, and tracing their own legitimate crosses to a neighbour over the way. Sir Robert, when he boasts of the morality that abounds in Tamwortb, does not do it justice ; he should describe the agencies that are vainly employed to extin guish it. He would best show its triumph, by showing the workings of Toryism for its destruction. Recent events, sufficiently authenticated, would aid him, with out the assistance of this more apocryphal, though un • contradicted, story of the Grammar School. STANDARD.—" The waters are out; and the question is, are our new rulers engineers enough to let them off safely, ere they force a ruinous channel for themselves! The waters are out, physically as well as politically ; and the great statesmen, who, in default of corn, may ask us why don t we eat potatoes, will be well mew ered by the counter-question—will they guarantee us potatoes to eat . ? We tell the party who now stand at the helm of power, that they are responsible for whatever may ensue from their long-protracted policy." Such is the exulting tone in which an ex-Ministe rial Journal predicts the greatest calamity that can befal a people—a famine. Words cannot describe adequately all the horrors expressed in that one word ; but to announce 'amine as at hand, is an occasion of triumph, and even of mirth, with the Whig-Radical writer, because he assumes that for a famine the 'pre sent Ministers can be made responsible. It is, says he, the effect of their long-protracted policy. How long protracted ? They have been in office about six weeks, and these six weeks comprehend no part of " seed time," and but little of " harvest time," and if the six wteks comprehend both, earthly rulers aro not responsible for the weather. If any Ministers can be held responsible for the threatened calamity, surely the responsibility rests upon those who ruled for eleven years preceling its arrival, not upon the men who have occupied the station of Government for barely six weeks. But " the wish is father to the thought." We trust that there is no reason to apprehend famine or even scarcity. " The waters are not out," and if they were, thanks to the wisdom that suggested the Corn-laws, and to the firmness that maintains them, even the most unfavourable condition of the weather would not leave the country without a sufficient supply of food. Has the effect of the Corn-laws been to cause a greater or less amount of corn to be raised en our own soil ? Every one must answer that the effect of these laws has been prodigiously to augment the domestic supply. Here, then, is one mode, and that the most effecteal and satisfactory, in which the Corn-laws have operated to obviate famine. Let us suppose that but one-third of the corn land of England had been put out of tillage by a re peal of those laws—and the orators of the League anticipate one-half--what wool] be the effect of a de ficient harvest—a harvest yielding but half a crop? Why, Mr. M'Culloch, if we are not mistaken, has shown that to supply all the corn necessary for con sumption, would employ the whole marine of England, military and commercial. Let men judge, then, what would be the effect as regards famine, even supposing that prices would not rise abroad, of being driven to import three quarters ? Freight would of course rise ; profits would be made to rise enormously ; and this is the object of the share that the moneyed capitalists have in the present agitation. The effect of a repeal of the Corn-laws would be to at least double the price of food in a time of scarcity. COURIER.—That much and deplorable distress prevails in the manufacturing districts has never been eithar doubted or denied, but that its extent is, and for the last two ears has been, wilfully exaggerated to suit the dishonest views of unprincipled and revolutionary factions is just as undoubted and un deniable. Sir Robert Pce!, whilst admitting and lamenting the existence of the real evil, with much justice, and not less moderation, excised the wound of all the peg and dirt foully accumulated upon it by the false Menchester quacks of Gibsons, Cobdens, &c., so as to fester and inflame it the more, by way of a heartless job at the cost of the un suspecting victims. 'These street crying tinkers, who never mend one hole in the kettle without at the same time preparing two more for another day's occupation, swelled loudly and loquaciously in the Commons' House, where they had promised their ope rative hearers in the country such a terrible onset before hand, about the dreadful decrease in the funds of friendly or benefit societies, from the increase of claims arising from the alarming spread of destitution, a decrease of which in its amount they could know nothing, and of which they pretended to afford no authentic statistical details whatever, but rested its proof solely on the hollow ground of their own unsupported and valueless allegations. It may be conceded at once, that the funds of friendly societies could not be flou rishing in a season of depressed trade and de ficient employment, and singular would it be were such a fact possible. Courteously t /king for granted the veracity of statements so defective in evideece, how ever, Si: Robert procred :d to show from reel and official returns that, however benefit clubs might have esperieaccd the pressure of the times, savings' banks exhibited little sympat:.ctie accord riith the melancholy talc o n a comparison of their actual condition and pro gress with that of former years. When rudely chal lenged with havin g unfairly limited himself to the years moat favouratle to his argument--the same years as those p re vi ous l y re f erred to by the empty declaimers themselves—lie answered only by ran ;e of taking' the wider . years required, and still conclusively proving the same result. THE CENSUS MDCCCXLI. (From the Spectator.) The returns of the Census lately completed, we are informed, will show an increase of upwards of 30 per cent. on the population of 1831 in the great manufac turing districts, and a decrease of 2i per cent. in the agricultural districts. The rate of increase on the whole nation is about 12 per cent. The most rapid increase has taken place in Lancashire, Lanarkshire, and Forfarshire. These facts suggest two observations, which we address to the serious attention of all who have it in their power to influence the measures of Government or the Legislature. The first regards the bearing of the facts upon the Free Trade controversy. The rapid increase of population in the manufacturing and slight decrease in the agricul tural districts, have been mainly caused by the migration of labourers from the latter to the former. Ceteris paribus it will be found, that the ratio of children born in the country to the population there is at least as great as that of the children born in towns, and that the proportion of children who survive is not less. The population of the manufacturing districts has been increased by families flocking into them in search of employment and food ; the population of the agricultu ral districts has been diminished because numbers who could not find there the means of subsistence have gone to seek it in the manufacturing districts. The number of individuals who can support themselves within the com pass of Great Britain by cultivating the soil has passed its maximum ; all future additions to the population must earn their support by manufacturing industry, or they must starve. But, owing to the restrictions im• posed upon trade, narrowing nur market, the present field for manufacturing industry is already ; there are more people willing to work in the manufac turing districts than can find sufficient employment and wages to provide them adequately with the necessaries of lire. There is only one way to relieve our already superabundant population, and provide for inevitable increase—that is, to extend our markets by removing every restriction which prevents men from trading to any place where a profitable return is to be had. The produce of our soil can feed, clothe, and otherwise maintain, a certain number of human beings ; the fabrics into which our native mineral and other raw products, with those we import from abroad, can be worked up, avid buy food and other means of mainte nance from other countries for a certain number more : the ficl I of agricultural employment is filed up and running over ; the only resource for the surplus is to leave the country, or to add to the numbers of those already employed in manufacture 3. The restrictions on commerce, which narrow the field of menufacturing in dustry, are neither more nor less than laws for keeping down the people to a lithited number by starving them. Our second remark relates to the hearing of the facts stated above on the question of L'aeliamentary Repre sentation. At present the Representatives returned by the influence of the landowners constitute the ma jority of the House of Commons. How long will this be tolerated, seeing that a process is going on by which the population of the manufacturing districts is rapidly increasing and that of the agricultural districts gradually diminishing ? The returns of three firmer censuses give the following comparative proportions of families, in centesimal parts— Engaged in Engaged in Engaged Agriculture. Tia - Lf(?, &c. other;v'ise. Total. 1811 1821 1831 The seeming addition to the proportion of families not engaged either in trade or agriculture, in 1831, was owing to an improved mode of classification. On the two former occasions, labourers in the agricultural districts employed in mines, road-making, and the fistieries, had been classed as agriculturists, wherever they were accustomed to cultivate their own gardens or work in the fields during harvest; in the manufacturing districts, all pe-sons engaged in road-making, inland navi gation, cartaae,&c., had been classed as engaged in naanu factui es. In 1831,the families Of all such individuals were moved to the third column. Now, from 1811 to 1831 there had bcea a steady increase in the number of per sons employed in transporting goods, making roads, and the management of inland navigation in the manufac turing districts ; while the class of half-manufacturers half-labourers had gradually been diminishing in the agricultural districts, from the greater development of the factory-system. The progressive decrease, there fore, of the number of families dependent for support upon agriculture, as compared with the number de pendent on trade and manufactures, must be if any thing underrated in the table quoted above from the Population Returns. It appears, then, that the num ber of farali, , s dependent for support upon trade and manufactures, had for twenty years previous to IS3I exceeded that of the families dependent upon agricul turetoaring ; and since 1831 the population of the inanufac districts has increased thirty per cent , while ii,a,at ()dr., m th i O nu n t g io i n i7lty y al a di s s t t e r .a ic a t l a , h a a e s d expe r riened a posi tthe agricult r u „ ris e ts m a :e . becoming a smaller and process, miaority. Iler and smaller embrace execflustihv:lym diicit and The majority this case is not a mere ia - aj t o h r e ity w ; ea t i ! t l i e ly rni a n n o d rity in d te o l e li s ge n n ot t. and moncsed eapital t invested a Imines,ef tile The value a i e n h i nt trade, , a le ast e buildings, qual the agricultural e 4 a at nd le latter country ; and the former is increasing while the seems nearly to have reached its utmost limit;' The unskilled lab ourers o f the manufacturing di s t r i cts are quite e intelli gence to the agricultur a l labourersequal in ; while in the skilled artisans there will be found a c l ass to which The agri culturists an produce no p ara llel.upper and middle clams of thealanufactu r i ng interest are in poi n t of natural abilities and acquirement s those of the agriaultural inter es t. Eyein point of quite equal t o me re physical strength, it is a mistake to Supposethat the agriculturist? as a c l ass excel the manufacturing labourers. In e v e r y other res pect the manufacturin g classes are at least e q ual to the a gricultural, and in aptitude of combined operation they surpass theM as much as the do in numbers. Under these circum stances, it dnot in the nature of things tbat the " l an d e d preponderAncY" in the House of Commons should much longer b f tolerated. w e ,,,nelely state facts : the application is left to be made 0 Y the parties interested. Where the wealth, numbers, and intelligence of a nation reside, there will th e dower be also. The transfer of power from a retro graling to a growing interest cannot be averted either Is declamation or logic. 31- It. - 17 - 74ERN1AN The Honourable for leO the Purp ose Captain G )rd en viAt to Alaerdeen, during his recent the form of reelection, state of going through that Mr. Bannerman would be to s ome o f hi s f r i en d s be d e p r i ve d o f hi s Comtnissionership, an d as ,I e were info rme d a t th e time, went so far eve n a; t e orceation the G aze tt e i n which a successor would b , appeared, That Gazette, nos iwtiithout any new ap and several others poirttnent to Greenwich and, B as it had been most confidently alleged tlia'ataMr his place for life, our good citizens I; i‘ietilber had been to imagine annerinan held that the Gallant County with t e h n e v i e playing w a hoax, or getting up an idle story, w per bur, of keeping people front talking of a se?' ' ition to himself. It turns ont,hewe,,e. t _ serious Op po • , hat.he was so fir perfectly right ;—Mr. Bannerrnan's patent office ha s been taken from him and given to another. The Tories of Aberdeen ig,,efess to be very sorry for Mr. Bannerman, and very indignant at Sir R. Peel, and h VrOuld be uncharitalde to charge them all with insince rity ; but there can he little doubt that the qniat chuckte of the Constitutional is a truer exposition of the re.d feelings of a majority of them, than the lugubrious looks end sympathetic expressions they have been indulging for the last few days. Such of them as have a personal friend hip for Ms. Bannerman are no doubt grieved that be should have been so hardly dealt with, but the others arc right glad to find a W hi g disa p pointed, even if it should b e at the expense of Tory honour. One thing is clear ; the Tories will have no cause to blame their chiefs for imitating the suicidal policy that the Whigs practised on their first accession to office. So far from allowing places over which they have complete con t ro l t o b e held by political oppo te.ntr, they se em reso l ve d t o err r a ther on the oppo goesrid!, a s d mak e a c l ean sweep, even where their we Is questionable. Mr. Bannerman had every reason to believa that his situation was one that cou l d not be aff ecte d b y a' change of Ministry. It was con stituted by eiv _ t a patent, for the completion of which an pa id fr „„7 ,tamp was necessary ; the salary was not charitarletneinstiblic exchequer, but from the funds of a by at least one Member and it had been held previously the opposition. of Parliament who voted with As yet, w e a re • in ntglorant of what steps Mr. Banner man has takenn is Wan matter ; but, if he has not by any act of Mr. llope, we d ' o acquiesced in the appointment of not think that he should his place, and set sir en all bands case is admitted ß obert Peel at defiance. The . ands to be a new one, and the reasons that are a sionership what it wa 9sl g ued for making the Commis not before, .._ m!titeL... ........2u5ive place, seem very inconc a l purely a political Aberdeen Herald. , The evening before last, as several gendarmes were trying to separate some men who were fighting jia a street outside the Barriere de la Courtille, they were resisted, not only by the combatants, but also by a crowd of people, who were witnessing the scene. During the scuffle that ensued, one of the gendarmes received a most dangerous wound in the thigh from a knife, and was obliged to be removed to am hospital in a coach. Two of the men who were creating the disturb ance were arrested. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATn. Shortly ate' ten o'clock, on Satnrday night, Robert Benton, * Ce coachman to Lord Core try, residing at 103, PiccadaY, suddenly expired while singing in the concert-row? of the King and Prince of Wales public-house, in r ick ' street, Piccadilly. The circurnatance, as rnight ex pected, created an extraordinary senfttion theughout the room. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Three p , . , rzons were yesterday charged heron) Mr. Alderman Lainson with attempting to drown themselyei at Blw_7kfriars-bridge. • The first vas Henry Te n aged 40 years, whom George Brissenden, a City policeman, saw on Sunday afternoon standing at the water's edge in a way that ex cited his suspicion, and upon approaching and question ing him the prisoner confessed he had come there to drown himself, and said he was determined to do it. Witness caught hold of his collar, and the prisoner dropped on his knees in order to full into the water. Mr. Alderman LAINSON observed that it was, no doubt, convenient not to do that before he felt himself safely held by the collar. He asked him Ns hat he had to say about the matter. The prisoner said he was driven to desperation by ill usage from his wife. She had- pawned everything she could take, and turned his children out of doors. The prisoner was remanded, that some inquiry might be made about him. Ellen Sallivan, 30 years of ago, who stated herself to be a married woman, was next placed at the bar. Mr. C. Farina, staying at the Cathedral Co!Tee-house, St. Paul's Churchyard, stated that about five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, he saw the prisoner sitting on one of the steps at the causeway, close to the water, as if waiting there until she should be immersed when the tide ro;e sufficiently. He called the attention of Bris senden to her. She was sullen, and would not answer their questions ; but she admitted she had come there to drown herself. The policeman said she cried very much, and refused to give her address. He urged her to go home, but she said she would not ; she had determined to finish her life. lie took her into custody, and she afterwards said she was in great distress ; she had two children, and her husband had been out of work a year. She gave an ad dress in Drury-lane, and Mr. Farina very kindly gave him some money to go and relieve her family, but he was unable to find her home. The gaoler said she had stated in the prison that she lodged in Whitecross-street. She gave some Explanation in an undertone respect ing her address. 'l"slr. Alderman LAINSON said he should take care of her for a day or two till she became more calm, and some inquiry should be made about her. Catherine Pretty, a shoemakers wife, who came from St. Giles's to Blackfriars• bridge to drown herself on Wednesday night, because her husband found fault with her careless sewing (she assisting him in his business), was again brought up. She was now on good terms with her husband, and was anxious to return home. Mr. Alderman LAINSoN gave her up to the cars of her husband, with an admonition. KENSINGTON POLICE. Mr. Henry Morland, a person of fashionable ap pearance, described as proprietor and manager of the Royal Kent Theatre, Kensington, appeared before Mr. Paynter, the sitting Magistrate, on a summons to show cause why he detained a Dutch clock, eight cane-bot tomed chairs, one washing-stand, and other articles, the property of James Chambers Hutchinson. The complainant, on coming forward to be sworn, said, " There is a lady, I see, present who is passing her self off as Mrs. Morland, against whom I intend to pre fer a charge of bigamy, if not of polygamy, and with the proofs of which I am prepared. I have, therefore, to request that she may be detained until after this case is gone into." Mr. PAYNTER said, if such were his intentions he had better give her into the custody of the police, when the case would come before him in the usual way. Mr. Hutchinson then gave Mrs. Morland into the cus tody of Inspector Smith, of the 'l' division, who was pre sent, and she was removed to the charge-room. _ _ In a few minutes afterwards Julia'Elizabeth Morland was placed at the bar, charged with having intermarried with James Chambers Hutchinson, her former husband, William Cook Seward, being at the time alive. The accused was a remarkably good-looking female, between 20 and 30 years of age, and was dressed in a crimson dress, with deep orange scarf shawl, and a white chip bonnet, with a profusion of white ribands and ostrich feathers, and wore round her neck a gold chain, to which was suspended a gold watch. Mr. Hutchinson deposed that he was an attorney's clerk, and resided in Dean-street, Holborn. On the 20th of July, 1831, he intermarried with the prisoner at the parish church of St. Pancras, the certificate of which so lemnity he produced. He had subsequently ascertained that she had been previovsly married in the city of Exeter in the year 1826 to a person named William Cook Seward, who was afterwards transported to New South Wales, and he produced a certificate from the Colonial office, certifying that Seward was alive whoa the returns were made in 1839. Mrs. Morland acknowledged that she had been mar ried to Mr. Seward, and also to the complainant. Mr. PAYNTER inquired at what inn at Exeter it was that Mrs. Morland had lived ? Mrs. Morland replied at the Wheatsheaf Inn, which her father had kept for several years. She then proceeded to state that she was but 12 years and six months old when her mother took her to church, a child with a pinafore on, and married her to her first husband, Mr. Seward, for (as she was understood to say) a consideration of 1,0001. After Seward was sentenced to transportation the complainant, Mr. Hutchinson, became acquainted with her, and led her to suppose, as did also, his Solicitor, to whom he referred her, that her marriage with Seward was not a legal one, and it was under that belief that she had married him. When she married him she was quite inexperienced, not being 19 years of age, and since then she had kept him fur seven years in all the idleness and debauchery of a skittle-ground, he never, from the day of their marriage, having done a single day's work. Mr. PAYNTER then said he was of opinion that the first marriage was a valid one. He was, however, not inclined to keep her locked up in custody for so long a period as would be necessary to procure evidence from Sidney as to her fir3t husband being still living. lle would, therefore, take her own bail for her appearance to answex the charge whenever required to do so. Mr. Morland then offered to enter into the required surety. The charge against Mr. Morland for detaining the things was then gone into. Mr. Morland admitted having the articles in his pos session, but contended they did not belong to Mr. Hut chinson. The fact was, he said, that when Mr. Hutchin son came out of prison for debt, in January last, he claimed one-half of the things which were in Mrs. Mor land's possession, which were delivered up to him. The other half he (the defendant) contended the complainant had never Nought, paid • for, or went to prison for, but they were bought by or given to Mrs. Morland. Mr. Hutchinson admitted Mrs. Morland had bought them, but it was during the years she was living with him as his wife. The articles in question were inserted in his schedule as excepted articles. Mrs. Morlandsaid, the fact was the articles in ques tion were all seized by the landlord fur rent, who had given her a few of the things back, and had half kept her while the complainant was in prison. The chairs had been ,given her by a lady residing at No. 52, Sloane street, and the mattress, another of the articles claimed, by Miss Tallont, of No. 10, York-place. The complainant declared the things were moved from his lodgings by Mrs. Morland while he was in prison through her extravagance, and that before he came out of prison she and Mr. Morland were living as man and wife. After a deal of violent contention between the par ties, the defendant consented to give up the property claimed upon the production of an offico copy of Mr. Hutchinson's ts:;hodule, provided they were theroin men tioned. Mr. M-ari defended his . cause , said, " The case ha- , crated a very -great interest in the public raind ; bat I e , lie -co that the •mtention of Mr. Grove, in what hs stated, was not prccisely in the se:cle in which it has been taken ;" adding, he mu3t &cline re-hearing the ease, but he Nvould recommend Mr. Drury to lay the facts before the Police Commissioners, who no doubt would order the case to be investigated. Mr. Drury, after condemning Lovell for various alleged acts of impropriety as an officer, and after thanking Mr. Jeremy for the urbanity with which the application had listened to, assuring him that he would prosecute the inquiry before the Commissioners, left thi Court. CROYDON POLICE. ENCROACHMENTS BY RAILWAYS ON PUBLIC HIGH WAYS.—One of the Superintendents of the London and Brighton Railway attended More Messrs. Sutherland, Warrington, and Adams, the presiding Magistrates, for the purpose of making an application, on behalf of the Directors of that Company, to stop up one of the public footpaths in the parish of Croydon. The Superintendent stated that he was instructed to apply to the Magistrates for their sanction to stop up al together what had heretofore been a public footpath of the parish of Croydon, but which was at present crossed by the railway. Persons who used the footpath were now obliged to go across the rails, and the Directors feeling that this might lead to some accident, were de sirous that the footpath, which was of very little con venience to the public, should be altogether stopped. Mr. ADAMS expressed his opinion that the application was of rather an extraordinary character. He did not know what right the Railway Company had to lay their rails across an acknowledged public footpath, and when they found the inconvenience of the proceeding, that they were to apply to the Magistrates to shut out the public from the use of the footpath altogether. If they had acted legally, and in accordance with their own Act of Parliament, they should have built an arch over the footpath, and carried their railway across it. The Superintendent said that there were two arch ways within a very short distance of the footpath in ques tion, under which the public might pass without having occasion to go over the railway. The only object of the Directors was to prevent accidents. _ _ Mr. ADAMS said, that if they wished to avoid acci dents, they should have done in the first instance what their own Act of Parliament directed, which was, to make an archway for the free passage of the public, under their railway. lie (lid not see what right any set of speculators for their own interest, for in such a light railroad proprietors must be looked upon, had to carry on their line, just where they pleased, without caring at all for the rights of the public, and when they found that accidents were likely to ensue, that they were to exclude the public from their rights. The Superintendent said there were archways at a very snor distance, under which the public might pass. Ir. WARRINGTON said he did not Consider that this at all altered the question. Why were railway proprietors to act in this arbitrary manner ? The fact was, how ever, that they presumed upon their power and their wealth, and did really just what they pleased, because they well knew that no individual could attempt to go to law with a powerful body. In this case the Com pany had thought proper, without any notice, to carry their railway across a public footpath, and having done this, when the public found the inconvenience, they now sought to shut them out from the use of it altogether. The other Magistrates concurred in the view taken of the matter by Mr. Warriny,ton, and the application was unanimously refused. TIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1641. CURIOUS CHARGE of MPOST URE. (Abridged from the Cheltenham Chronicle.) At the public-oflice, Cheltenham, on Saturday, the 9th instant, Mr. Williams said he had a case of great importance to bring before the notice of the Magistrates. There was a man in this town, under the name of Rem brand, who called himself a chiropodist, and professed to kill corns. He extracted frown those corns what he called roots, and charged ss. for each of those roots. It appeared, in point of fact, that instead of extracting any thing like a " root," he put a pair of pincers to the corn, and apparently took out something, but, instead of taking out something, he took out nothing, and showed to the person upon whom the operation was performed something like a fibre, which, he pretended, was the root of the corn, but which was in reality nothing but a piece of bristle. A gentleman who was present had ac tually paid him Si. 155., at the rate of 53. per bristle. A lady, who had a similar operation performed upon her, lead a number of these bristles in her possession, and a gentleman in Court had anothe;. Mr. Williams then proceeded to call the attention of the Maistrates to the following clause in the Vagrant Act, which he thought would reach a vagabond of this description : " Every person pretending to or professing to tell for tunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose upon any of her Majesty's subjects." He (Mr. Williams) would suggest that one of the gentlemen who had been im posed upon should go with a policeman and bring Mr. Itembrand before the Bench. STEAM ENGINES IN FRANCE. (From the Moniteur Industrial.) Mr. Henney said he was decideily of opinion that he ought to be brought up. _ _ If intelligence be, as it is asserted, the distinguish ing characteristic of our population, we must confess that good sense is a quality for which we are less re markable. By the t.,!rrn "good sense," we mean a just appreciation of that which is good and useful ; which stops not at the present, but seeks to penetrate into the future ; it is, in our opinion, the quality most desirable for a nation to possess, for it is the source of many others, and the surest guarantee of prosperity and strength. Good sense is a safeguard against the influence of prejudice, which has done, and still con tinues to do, so much mischief in France. It has been the work of many years, and of great efforts on the part of our most distinguished manufac turers, to make the French people believe that it is possible to construct steam engines in the French manufactories. The government and public administrations, who in general escape with difficulty from being affected by the common prejudices, have hitherto ordered from England the engines which they required for their steam vessels ; and up to a very recent period our large establishments, although prepared to contend with the foreigner, solicited in vain a share in their construction. Our readers will recollect with what energy and con stancy we have sustained this national cause. At length we have reason to believe we have gained our point. In ordering engines from England we are obliged to submit to onerous conditions, and to delays without end. The English manufacturers, profiting by, or rather abusing, the infatuation which exists amongst us on this subject, but which, it must be confessed, has some grounds in the superiority of their work, impose their own laws upon the purchasers ; so much so, that the orders which are addressed to them partake more of the character of requests. The orders given to our own manufacturers, and given as an act of grace, have been, on the contrary, surrounded with the most rigorous conditions. Tile following are our remarks on this subject on the 2d of Feb., 1840 : A policeman was sent, and returned in a few minutes with a foreigner, dressed in the pink of fashion, who gave his name as Lee Rembrand. He was followed shortly after by another gaily-dressed young man, whose face was adorned with a pair of bushy whiskers and fine black moustachios. He said his name was Nieman. Mr. Rembrand—l vent to know vy I come here ? Mr. Williams—You are brought here for imposing on these gentlemen. Mr. Rembrand—Who is the gentleman who vill stan' the conseconce for taking avay my charactere, by sending policemen to my residongs ? The Rev. Charles Parker, of Sarsden, Oxfordshire, stated—l came to Cheltenham on Monday last. Being very much pained with corns I called at Mr. Beavan's, chemist, High-street, to ask him if he could recommend me to any chiropodist. He showed me an advertise ment in one of the papers, which directed me to 138, High-street. The terms of the advertisement were— fee, ss. per corn. I went accordingly, and called upon Mr. Rembrand, who was engaged at the time. I saw the taller one (Nieman) and went into his room and took off my boot;. He called a young man (Rem brand), who came in to operate on my foot. He began to touch my toe, and after he had got my foot in his hand he said, " you will find there is more than one corn in this toe, and my charge is ss. for every corn ; but I shall perform a perfect cure, so that you will not know that you ever had a corn, and your feet will be as complete as though you had never been tormented with one." Rembrand then began to operate, and with a pair of pincers he pinched my cern, and seemed to draw a point from it, with which he pricked my hand, and said, " There, sir, that is one corn." He put it in my hand, and it ap. peered like a piece of bristle. I took very little notice of it, taking for granted what he said, and blew it off. It is the same sort of thing as that produced by Mr. Clarke. I spoke once or twice while he was operating, and the other person (Nieman) observed that he (meaning Rembrand) did not speak English ; for though he had been in England some time he had made no use of his time, and had not learned the lan guage. He went on, appearing to take out several of these things, and showed each of them to me. He called each a corn. I forget the number he pulled out of the first corn. He then took a great many from a soft corn, between the toes. I think he appeared to take twelve from that. When be had finished the ope ration Nieman said he thought he must look at them to see how it was done. He said, " This is thoroughly done; now, Sir, you will never be troubled again." When it was finished he said, " The charge is 81. 155., being after the rate of 53. for each of these roots." There were 35 of these extracted from the three corns. I said " I have not so much as 81. with me, but I will give you Si. now, and if I find myself perfectly cured I will give you Si. more." He took the note, and desired me to write my name upon it. There was some conversation be tween them, and an apparent reluctance to receive the .5 1. , but they subsequently took the money. After this they presented me with a book, in which there were a number of statements of cures performed by them, and in which they wanted me to write my name. I said could not do so, as I did not know that I was yet cured. They put a 1 ttle plaster upon each of them, which they said would smooth the skin, but on g.oing out I found exactly the same pain as I felt before. I then went to the Montpelier Baths, and mcationed the circumstance to the man who attends the baths, and who is a corn cutter. He looked at my corns, and said that they had not been cut at all, and, to con vince me, pinched up a piece of the corn. He said they were impostors, and had taken in a lady the day before in a similar manner. " The English manufacturer on the day on which the order is given, receives a third of the price agreed on. The French manufacturer receives nothing and has to give security. The signature of the former to the con tract is deemed sufficient, whilst the latter, if he wishes to be accepted, must be provided with the signature or security of a respectable banking-house." It is but just to acknowledge that matters are al tered. Notwithstanding the many grounds which they had for discouragement and disgust, our principal menu facturers,.having a knowledge of their powers and con fidence in the future, have at length succeeded in van quishing these absurd prejudices, as far, at least, as be ing admitted to the honour of a joint execution of the work with the English contractors. Our readers may have seen in our Journal of the 26th of last month the announcement of the receipt of the engines furnished by Messrs. Schneider, Brothers, of Creuzot, for the steam-boat Pluton. A Commis sion, composed of Navy officers and engineers, and named by the Vice-Admiral, Maritime Prefect of Brest, devoted three sittings to the examination and proof of these engines, and came to the following conclusions : " Ist. That all the conditions of the agreement had been faithfully fulfilled, and that all the forge-work and castings had been executed with remarkable care. " 2d. That the power of the engine was superior to that of the English engine in the Veloce, the model prescribed. " 3d. That in testing its full power outside the road stead . of Brest, the resuAs of the experiment had been moat satisfactory, the engines having constantly worked with the greatest regularity, and with an ease of move ment which proved the perfect adjustment of its diffe rent parts." It has been pretended for a long time, with that want of reflection and obstinacy of prejudice which show the absence of good sense, that we should never attain this perfection of adjustment which distinguishes the works of the best English manufacturers. Here is a recent and well-authenticated answer. We could cite several others, less important it is true. But what a difference was there then in the tools of our establishments ! Mr. Richard William Clarke, chemist, Cheltenham— I went to Mr. Rembrand this morning, at the desire of Mr. Parker, to have some corns extracted. He had a sort of sharp instrument like a penknife, with which he cat some small particles on the surface of the corn. After he had cut it, be put some liquid on the corn. He then took a pair of tweezers, and appeared to be squeezing very hard, as if using great force, but I felt nothing on my foot more than the pressure of his hand. After using this force he took the tweezers from the corn. The tweezers had something between them with which he pricked my hand. He then told me " I wish you to understand that this is a corn." I told him I had no intention of paying him for every such corn. He then endeavoured to persuade me to have more taken out. He then went through the same pro ce3s, and I observed that there was nothing on the corn. He showed me another larger. I asked him for it, and he then pulled it out of the pincers. It is the same as I now produce. He wanted four pounds for the cure of both feet. I agreed to gave him one pound for the cure of one foot. After this one pound wa3 agreed upon no more fibres were produced. He merely scraped and cut the corns. I produce the corn so called, which I tank from the tweezers. It appears to me to be a bristle. It seemed to me very improbable that it was ever in my flesh. Ile said he would show me the orifice where it came out of. After the operation was over I asked him to show mo the orifice, upon which he said, " I have cut it out."—((,aught r.) I paid him the 1/. . . _ Mr. s ClArke cross-examined--W hen I went to these geatle.nnn I wt not fully convinced that they were imposters. If I found out that they were impostors I certainly went there for the purpose of bringing tLe case before the Magistrates. When I took the piece out of the pincers I imagined that it was not taken out of my corn. I agreed with him to cure my corns, and they callel the small thing that I produce a corn. The Magistrates committed them to Northleach for 14 days. .• Our principal engine manufacturers are now provided with all the tools which are used in the most important of the English workshops. But in addition to this, they have improved upon them and invented other instru ments. The foremen and workmen of our manufac tories are on the road to improvement. The courageous sacrifices of the master manufacturers themselves, in the midst of so many difficulties and obstacles, have at length naturalized in France this powerful and magnifi cent branch of industry, so little appreciated, so mis takingly judged of during the first years of its introduc tion. The success already obtained will be the source of new successes ; and we are happy to think that Go, vernment will no longer hesitate to afford the manufac ture that protection and encouragement which events may render necessary. We hope, also, that the spirit of association better enlightened, and recovered from the injuries caused by a false industry, will bring new energy to the manufacture of large engines for steam boats. If we have not spoken of locomotives it is not that we do not attach to them also a very great importance. But the proverb is well known, qui pent le plus peut Ic moins (who can do more can do less). The perfection in the workmanship of copper and of wrought and cast iron, obtained by our principal establishments, can leave no reasonable doubts respecting the power to construct excellent locomotives. The great line of railroad from Stetsbourg to Basle is very well served by French locomotives. The Ang!omania, which we know influences the engineers and English stokers employed on our rail roads, has assured, up to this, a pi eference for English locomotives ;'when the least accident is heard of it is immediately conjectured that the fault must lie in a French locomotive, whereas, it is more frequently to be attributed to one of English construction. We ourselves, can bear testimony to this. The prejudices to which we have alluded were con tracted at an early period, and the grounds for them cease to exist. Soon, perhaps, we shall have occasion to judge them more severely, and to those who will confidently assert that the French locomotives cannot sustain a comparison with the English, it must be per mated to us to say that this opinion is neither just nor national. POLICE CORRECTIONNELLE DE MENTAL DERANGEMENT FROM VALOGNES. (From L'Audience, Path Journal.) Ether Lelandais, Paul Leboulanger (her husband), residing at Bricquenec, and Anne Flambard, of Barne vill.!, were all placed on the bane des prevenus, on a charge of practising sorcery. Esther Lelandais is a woman of great knowledge and science she consults the cards, and she is acquainted both with the future and the past. To those who con sult her she predicts, first a few reverses of fortune, which are generally to he followed by great happiness and good fortune. But her power does not stop here. Does a poor mother fear that the chances of the drawing of the recruitment will go against her son, she goes to Esther Ltd mdais, who will secure to him a "lucky number." Has another, an absent child, whose return she is anxiously awaiting, Esther Lelandais will give her consolation. A young maiden has been deceived, and is a mother ; she is poor, and consults Esther Lelandais, who puts her en train to brine „the faithless lover to book. An old maid wants a husband, Esther Lelandais finds her one ; or has another been se] need, Esther Lelandais will bring the delinquent to, book, and make him marry the mother of his child. Has this girl quarrelled with her lover, or that desponding one been vanquished by a rival, Esther Lelandais will restore the lovers to e telt other's arms in the one case, and make the rival an object of hatred in the other. Does a woman complain of a bad husband—Esther Lelandais will change the man's character, and render him the most attentive of devoted husbands ; and should there be a hidden treasure in an old house, this " cunning woman" will convert it into a " treasure trove." INTOXICATION. The drunkard injures and enfeebles his own nervous system, and entails mental disease upon his family. His daughters are nervous and hysterical ; his sons are weak, wayward, eccentric, and sink insane under the pressure of excitement, of some unforeseen exigency, or of the ordinary calls of duty. This heritage may be the result of a ruined and diseased constitution, but is much more likely to proceed from that long-continue] nervous ex citement, in which pleasure was sought in the alternate exaltation of sentiment and oblivion, which exhausted and wore out the mental powers, and ultimately pro duced imbecility and paralysis, both attributable to dis ease of the substance of the brain. How far the mono mania of inebriety is itself a disease, and may be more the development, the consummation, than the com mencement of a hereditary tendency to derangement, this is not the place to point out ; but tliere ii every reason to believe that it not only a,:tsuptao, a n d rea d ers more deleterious, whatever latent taint may exist, but vitiates or impairs the sources of health for several gene rations. That the effects el drunkenness arc highly inimical to a permanent healthy state of the brain, is often proved at a great distance of time from the course of intemperance, and long after the adoption of regular habits. Some time since, I was called u p on to treat a remarkably fine boy about sixteen years oil, among whose relations no case of derangement could be pointed out, and for whose sudden malady no cause could be as signed except puberty and a single glass of spirits. His father, however, had been a confirmed drunkard, was subject to the delirium and depression following inebriety, and died of delirium tremeps. The boy recovered. His case presented macy points of interest. His head increased rapidly, and the two hemispheres were of unequal size. The disease was intermitt en t ; t h e pat i ent pass i ng a wee k in furious incoherent madness, and the succeeding week in perfect tranquillity and consciousness. These states were separate] or connected by a short and pro• found sleep or lethargy, differing altogether from the patient's ordinary sleep, and recognised by him as the culminating point o f hi s di sor d er. A t present I h ave two patients who appear to inherit a tendency to un healthy a c ti on o f t h e brain from mothers a d d i cted to drinking ; and another, an idiot, whose father was a drunkard.-1)r. Brown on Insanity. On Sunday afternoon the vicinity of Regent's• park adjacent to the Diorama was the scene of dis graceful riot and tumult, in consequence of a field preacher having indulged in the expression of senti ments not congenial to the feelings of his auditory. The latter at first contented themselves with hooting and hissing the speaker, but as he persevered in his line of argument his hearers lost all patience and commenced an attack upon him, and a few retainers of his who sur rounded his'rostruni. The preacher in turn headed his supporters, and stick in hand turned upon his assailants. A general skirmish ensued, in the course of which many heavy blows were exchanged. The fight assumed a serious appearance, when the police came in view and the two belligerent parties fled. In short there is nothing too ditlicult for the clever ness of Esther Lelandais! But all her power depends upon this simple fact—that her patients give her their money or their valuables. The public prosecutor had, however, looked with jealous eyes upon her talents, which he was illiberal enough to regard as a system of "cscroquerie," and she and her husband had accordingly been apprehended. The other prisoner, Ann Flambard, was not accused of being an accomplice, but had been detected in sending a fee of five francs to the renowned Esther Lelanduis. No less than thirty-four witnesses were forthcoming on finding that the " witch" was trapped. Some had, it appeared, become undeceived since they had paid for their experience ; but the faith of others was un shaken. An unhappy mother whose son, in spite of the sage's prescience, had found himself a sailor on board the ship Friedland, draw back with horror from the bench on which sat the redouLtable prisoner, and seemed to fear that she might be bewitched by the very contact. On the other hand, a }eung man spoke up for the old beldame, and said that he had through her interposition drawn a lucky number and escaped the conscription. A woman, whose son had been drawn in 1839, de posed, " I had heard of the boasted powers of Esther Lelandais, and went to Bricquenec to consult her. Having dealt the cards, she drew the nine of spades and said, I our son will be drawn ; however, if you will give me five francs 80 centimes, I will get you out of the difficulty.' I gave her the sum she required, and she then addressed these word r, to her husband. Put your shoes on, Paul, and go off to Velogn e s w ith t hi s letter to my Monsieur d'Afaires. On the next day I went to her, when she told me her Monsieur d'Affaires re quired two francs more. I complied with the demand, and she then produced a paper, upon which was a number, and told me to kneel down and say five paters and five eves for the souls in purgatory, adding that she would be by that means ena bl e d to c h ange ' the number. Other narratives of a similar character were made to , the Court, who sentenced E s th er L e l an d a i s to five years imprisonment for her sorcillages, and her huskincl to er - --- three nil,nths' imprisonment 'for partioipa llo g I° fraudulent p r acti c es. I I he bighe:v. i ri.e o f P RI C E I( i- ;I 1 1 2 : 1O F the ßl l i lk A r : 1) P 1:11 i ' i 8 1 ° d I" th°4lb; THE IV S • :.oaf. Good Bred may be had at NI l'lth:ES OF SEEDS. Per Cwt. I Per Quarter, ... ..„ ....s , - Sew English Ree Clover...sos £ os St. Fein ... .............•• .',r; ac , 40 Old I Atta Dit'o New Foreign Di,to s s-s Rye G,ass.... ............. _ ....' ° 3 ...: s 56s SOs Pacey Grass ............. .. ! oi 51 Olt DiLto DU to ... -s -s -s linseed, for fe,tling...-1 5 7), triS i Nzv i) W itt h o ite p t i 7 t l t o o ver 4gs tss 72s DR.°, for sowing ..........5 4EO 5.1 •ew 'fre - oil Old Ditto l'r foliton 12 - 264 -s -s .4-163ss, Canary...... tti,tria0:.y..f..e..r....c....r..u....5...1i...i...t1.g.........:.? : L.4 : d: 1 51 s •Itas 70si . Per B“shSl.od to 1 54 / 4 B gush Carraway -s 4(5s 50s' White Mnst..rd•.••• . ' Vs .- Foreign Ditto PRICE OF Coriander II Town Tallow .. XII JO ( 5 Melting Stuff ............ • ...i 4 Yellow Russia White Soap Ditto PRICE OF - R o: , : k '' s 4-4 TALLOW,s. _sos ; ~1 3r a r s o rc F 3A. P. D . ~.i ...................................................... t o Price of Tallow (as stated by the 'fallow Melters) .............. l ‘0 0 1:,, FO, O l A_(( D ;;, itor.ttd,t,opeeslviro.,:eu.tiogsi.h;e.........o... .............. i...1...)...5....‘...........,.....:: I_Bs. g PRICE JF OIL. Rape Oil, brown, per ton... ........................ .......£bA g Ditto, refined ............................. . ............... 0 :1 0 Linseed' Oil ............. • .. 3 ' ................................... Is t o Lins-ed Oil Cake at tli. Mill (per IWO) ............... 11 0 Itape ,ake, per ton ..................................... .... COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market day, 0 -. d. t . d. . 9 Walls End Har well. ...... . . 21 . cli 9 ! Walls End He lton ........... , 9 Wall; End Laranon •• s 0 . 1 ! ) t i %Va. ' s End Pemberton ..!..._ 9 1 Walls End Russell's Hato t 2 0 W a lls End Stewart's ......... t o 0 Walls End Whltwell ..... ...: , 2 9 South Pelton . ................. !„ 9 Walls End Caratloc .............. y i 9 Walls End Hartlepool ..... 14 0 Reynold's Hartlepool ...." gi 0 Tennant's Hartlepool...... 9 0 0 Walls End Adebide ...... ....,,/ 0 Walls End Bowburn ........ i / 9 Walls End Evenwood ...... i fs 0 W ills End Gordon .... ...... , cl 6 VVails'Ethi Tees Iletton ... . ; 0 Wal iEnd Tees ................ .. 6 ,Blythe .......................... « l . v '"wPen .. ................. ....... 4 • Hartley ....................... ..... RN 111ARKEIL!:/" .• 1 peat, Buddle's West Hartley lB 01 Llolywell Ma n lB 0 Old Tan MA l4 Ord's Redline) Smith's Pontop l4 6 TanflAd Moor l9 81 . West Hartley Wylam Walls E d Bewieke and Co. 19 11 Walls Fnd Derwent ... 15 0 Walls End (4osforth Walls End Hedley lB C Walls End Hilda lB Ii Walls:End Hotspur Walls End Killtugworth 19 := Walls End Nor,humberlaad 18 0 Walls End Riddell's l9 3 Eden Main IS 6 Walls Endßelmout W. E. Braddyll'aletton Y CO COUNTRY CORN MARKET• de/Pto Wheat. Barley. Oats. 2 ...... „,„-- °3°S. -.- ---. . 7 --- -- --...---- " tg, I r. tO I" Per Quarter. s. to s. a. to S. S. to I. L ."-- ge 45 .0 Carlisle SS 73 33 il 46 -- 38 ...: 40 Hexham 63 81 .7, 3 3 1 Morpeth 5O C 4 26 l9 27 3 6 6 '5 ... 40 Penrith 6B 32 2t 4O Sheffield — 65 23 24 -- Ai 3 5 ,d• WinchestLr 55 60 28 33 20 26 40 -- 4.d 1.6 • 0 6 Per Bushel. s.. s.d. . ,., o 0 06 Carmarthen 6 d Ii '7 9 o s.t d 0 4 0 0 0 2 s.d. 3 5 6 Z 3 o'' 00 Cowbridge 79 S 0 00 40 00 30 5 0 r, , 56 twansea 76 84 40 44 26 3 0 56 u 00 '0 0 / A Per 8011. A 11 6 - A 10- Barnardeastl 13 0 17 0 90 10 0 40 74 9 • - A - 6 9 • i i 0 Durham X 136 156 80 90 5 9 g 9 00 N o go 1 0 4 Richmond 12 0 20 010 0 11 0 60 74 10 0 n ~: 9 0 ' Stockton ILS 0 19 6 9 0 9 0 6 0 7 0 9 0 “ " SCOTCH MARKETS. 3 ; Bea Wheat. Barley. Oata. -- --• 95 -- -- -- -- --.-----;;---------- 3 31Lnlj ; I tberdeen - t o , t 1 36 30 Berwick 36 53 18 24 15 21 3 0 1 - 4 0 00 ~.. Coldstream - ..,',.' SP Cupar (Fife? 48 65 126 31 IS 22 2 , / qs - 51 Dunbar .. - 59 65 25 28 21 24 3 7 -- c ras Elgin 53 60 26 0 7 22 25 49 "„,,- .... , Inverness Kelso ~....,- 48 51 24 '27 17 20 30 ;I:, 43 Kirkaldy Perth 6O 67 30 40 25 35 41 n ou rdrf• Tho size of the measure varies throughout the , El ADDINGEON CORN MARKET . I.o o o e i Wheat. Barley. Oats. 135 ,0 2, 44i od First F6s Od 35s (16 2Ss 06 I 46° An 39 06 Second 66, Od 32s rd 25s 61 494 ... ....5. Third. GOs Od 30s Od 23s Od 4Cs 06 Average 3/, 6.5. 3,1 11 1204. . dr. DALKEITH CORN MARKET. . ite . 'ii Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. Pe% 4 1 ,' 01 klrst .. . 000 ... 84s to 35s gd 80, Od 476 N A 44 0 J I 1 Second 7os Od 32s 641 ~5s 4d 4 ° A A" - 4°l Third s9s 01 2 2 s 3d 18s Ott 404 ••• d, GLASGOW CORN Mt RKET.,,, 4 , d. ;06 Wheat.. per 2401 h. s. d. s. d. 1 Oats. Per ' '''''' l'. / 66 t° 206 6. 6 d' 4 06 1 8 V ° o o6 v ° ............. • 00 , per !mu' 93 ............. 9j tr . 9 9 ........... ) 90 Atish ...'" 1q g 58 per 1 41 O • MON ...... • GLASGOW CORN Mt R. Wheat, per .2401 b. s. d. s.d. Oat", dritish, old :440 to 37 0 I Triqb ......... . --new ..... ... 300 3to I British....... Canada, free s. 0 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b English 24 0 28 6 Scottish 24 0 27 0 Irish Beans English ... Scottish ..... Pease, Scot Oatmeal,pe Flour, per rertsw TH JI E CANAAS IN 1841.—These a t • nt.' ing and instructive volumes, the prod uc tion et . e i ' s l i e Jen t Colonel Sir Richard Bonnycastle, an officer leg t i v eatta ll in the Colony, are not less full of .pleasant I .,anice s ,i t ; than valuable knowledge. We meet with mo st ble '- and interesting notices of the natural historYtiff clever scriptions of the commercial resources, Out s , 1 4 1, °: Sketches of the inhabitants of both the Cat ni ," - peci tv i thing worthy of observation seems to have e's - o re S e n,„ author, and with a talent which does not ofte ll „F. 4 l ', itself in such productions Lieut.-Colonel 13°°.';ettlit. has rendered his work as much a resource to Wood as an acquisition to the libraries of the less arm 0 ..0 ° at home. Besides the sterling attractions e`p v A pP"d the volumes possess others likely to be ecr i _ a '',44l 2 ,: ciated in their way, in several beautiful eng`-tranir' some of the most picturesque features in this 110 10 nary country.—New Monthly. ei The Seuslan Mercury of St. Etie nri n d Lyons, states :—" The examining Magistrate tool cureur du Roi, attended by a brigadier of ge7 ha aiee," went a few days since to a manufactory at St' r ibi , ° ll-- and seized several pieces of black and blue bl• Several warrants of arrest have been issued, 1 on whose premises these ribbons have been risel brought in here on Saturday,and confined in °ll ' This seizure seems to be connected 1 n nue arres made a few chi) ago at Lyons." BELGIAN RAILROAD. The soutoerber to will be further opened, on the Ist of Save,lll 5;41 Jurbise ; and on the 16th of December (t a. r yice `: 1 " birthday) to Mons. Important changes in the ° w ool" the other great lines are announced by a Lieg e t J i aon i a the Tribune, as intended to. take place ° l / 1 , Two fat trains are to run daily between Piro P i g Brussels, in which there will be no carriages sui fiell:, gences, which will not stop at any intermediate it , tiv: i and which will consequently make the journsl, usiir o hours. Two other trains will stop at a ll Twe e ' stations. It is also said that the carriage of 0111 bt° will be charged much higher than at present ; hope that statement is incorrect.-11russet w i t h the r nj 10 S/ , 10 0 ,. SILVERTLATED CORNER —, r - n S 4i,- - sA it• T. COX SAVORY, Manufacturing Silversmith, sau-,et hill, London (Seven doors from Gracechurch-street) Car'ior plate, i o the prices of the followity , patterns of strongly Dishes, with silver handles and edges, and silver sm engraving the crest or coat of arms : 1 0 0 The Gadroon Pattern. .00 Four Strongly Plated Corner Dishes and Covers..• - 0 Four Extra Strongly Plated Corner Dishes sea 19 lg Covers .................. ............................. The Flower Pattern. n • 0 Four Extra Strongly Plated Corner Dishes an 13 a t tb Covers .. N.B. The covers are made with ... hanforvPard moveable. .... they form extra dishes. Drawings of the above • any part of Great Britain cr Ireland, postage free• i,Oll to t bs C. J. DENT begs to acquaint his rec r.eSt the Public that he has just had the konour of subjoined letter from the Admiralty : 1 64 10 (Copy.) „f Admiralty, .I.llth u se s'• Sir—The annual trial of chronometers for the r c , 0 Majesty's Government having now terminal -4s -'„ a , t o o'ol' mended by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiral'), th e ,bo you that their Lordships have directed nse to pur, ch ... a ll istat . ", lowing chronometers at the various prices s ec6 oo , respectively, ss Dent, No. 1,b71 55 ft elo o Dent, No. 1,606... .... . 44 ,g .00,; Dent, No. b,621 - (pocket). ~ SO " Their Lordships having been pleas ed, in erd er i .pert' ° ' superior performance of 1,571, to assign to it n • t increased price to that usually given. /an t ' " I am, Sir, your most obedient ser _ ars . F. BEA vfortr, }WV . "Ti Mr. Dent, Chronometer Maker, 62, Str lA ebia' i3 Ct tb s Out of SO Chronometers, by various Makers ,1 - 0 0••i0 the late trial by order of their Lordships, t4„,.... c e jitiO., above three, with two selected for the Niger r's; be others, enables Mr. Dent to affirm that he belie l "% t ot 11/ year supplied their Lordships with snare Cbronol't, use of the Royal Navy than have been furnishes' Ant teat rd any other Maker. It affords Mr. Dent, additional pleasure to stataii-elonallop to their Lordships' high recemmendatien he owe the Niger having made a Gold Chronometer, presented t o pedition by his Royal Hig h ness Prince Albert. , s gitells e d Dent's Lectures en Chronometers, Clocks, O p , , 0 000 / • be obtained at 12, Strand, price one s hilling , "' ' customers gratuitously. Present price of Two-day Chronometers, ' t 6 • Id --- - ---=--- of On On I. e s l to st t l e i ly in , st., at Gower-street, Bedford-stln°e' or, Esq., of ß a l t ß lau Ti l r it S r . . ' l°l "a c park, r" ty ladoyiti.tfhßoolb7etrht i L o l , o t ):l a , t E c sq l;l , 4 ( , , , t i a On the 16th inst., Mrs. Not'er, We •t-square, "' , On the 16th inst., at ' 'lteg„nter, Chester-terrace , b s f' ISe Esq., of a son, still-born. - ' i io die° . 1 MARR I E D. i ras - Co o On the 12th of August at Nuseerabad, in t" e /di , die t the tidy pangs Service, to Elizabeth, the sixth dau the Rev. H. Pratt, A.M., Chaplain Hl f • C:arsite nf P rig Kennedy, C. 13., commanding ' the Rajpootsna of General 1)0 1tha t " youngest daughter On the 16th inst • • • -.. Wilts, I le )l i,dyb er , at Chilton loliat, 1 Mundy, Esq., , 1 bella, t. roe noYal Horse Artillery, , C o o .f nr wrarm l t in Littleoi4r. sa folio On the pith inst at St. Mar's 'Lambe', ' e late '' Marten Hubert, ' •' ' . . 'daughter of the jun., to Anne, only .fl.' Wnollms iaug i - errace. . Tralicorg e h inst., at Warmiitster, J. LinclsaY of ~, of Cla hter • . pliam-park, Surrey, to Eliza, second daug ,tba r i' ep 11. T. Mayne, Esq., of Park-hill, Croy(10, North Wales, ninoin - i stlP t ster. On the 18th inst., at St. George's Church, -.' moy , t cl , to ol , co r , eldest daughter of George Johnstone, Esq., I " te and Camden-place, Bath. 1 / ire ° ' . D III: D. 1 ne, w On the 10th inst., in Gloucester-place, Caro line, lii iso Hume, Esq., M.D., of Brent-end, Hanwell. of 0 relict Ann , A. On the 12th inst., at Ila.mmersmith , lfrlt• Hohner, Esq., late of Southwark. oi. ghft'rerld rt.:vole:, L. Bewielt, aged 70. Os"' e ' ldP On the 13th inst., at Hallaton Hall, Leicestershire' ' 1415 ,1 On the 16th inst., at the School House , . 4 ,410 1 ‘ Hannah, the wife of the Rev. Stephen Donne.v,iwerth,tio`,o. On the ' 16th inst., Mrs. Betty Dawson , a l 1100 1 ) Ittie V ' of the late Joseph Dawson, Esq., of St. John's, oda, waOrinse'yth, Esq is ( 6q ) f t. On the 16th inst., at !Winger, Great Mt . ; s 19 On Nancy, the wife of Mr. George Stacy, aged s " l , l eo .toc o ' On the 17th inst., in Arlington .strect, Cam f T. Horsburgh, aged 70. On the 17th inst., Mr. S. Ashton, of Gl'a' j rzi3 ° . :l: l !: . o ll' : On the 17th inst., Elizabeth, wife o f mr. 0 s' Cloudesley-street, Islington. On the 17th inst., in Ciouked•lane, Willia m fic t ' ri a nt thews Esq., aged 3s. L i o nten — 1 , On the 18th tilt., i Cecil-street, Strand, Gaitskell, R.N., aged 37. (41 14. 6 J l eo ----- -0 V— v? London: Printed and Published by munD, 0 itr 3 No. 112, Strand, at 7'he Sun O ffi ce, 1 1 ' ' 9 '18 414 the county of Middlesex, Tuesday, October I P GREENWICH POLICE. Yesterday Michael Murphy, the young man who was committed a short time ago by Mr. Grove, on a charge of assaulting and attempting to stab Sergeant Lovell, applied to Mr. Jeremy for a warrant against that officer. The applicant was accompanied to the Court by Mr. Drury. Mr. JEREMY, who evidently was not aware that Murphy was the individual whose case had created such attention, requested him to state the nature of his appli cation. Murphy replied, that a month ago last Satur day he was at home at night, when a lodger was brought in quite drunk by Lovell, who then went away. After he had gone the lodger said something to the appli cant which Lovell overheard, and he immediately broke open the door and rushed in, saying to the lodger, " You rascal,:is that your thanks for bringing you here?" The applicant told him it was not intended for him, when he (Lovell) said," I want none of your sauce," and seized him by the hair, adding, " I'll pull the top of your skull off," and dragged him out of his father's house to the station-house, where ho was charged with creating a disturbance, and attempting to stab Lovell. Ile (the applicant) was taking his supper when Lovell broke open the door ; but ho put the knife clown, and never in the least offered or intended doing any injury with it. Mr. JEREMY said in such a case notice should be given to the superintendent, who would order the policeman to attend before him, for the case to be investigated without granting a summons. He wished to know why the ap plicant had not applied before? The applicant replied that ho had been committed for one month by Mr. Grove. Mr. JEREMY, after looking over the deputation taken on that occasion, said he did not think he could, again hear a case that had been disposed of by his brother Magistrate. Mr. Drury here rose and said, ho much regretted that the case had not been brought before Mr. Jeremy, whose honest and honourable conduct on the bench assured him that the case would have been treated with impar tial justice. • _ _ - Mr. JEREMY said ho could not allow such an opinion to be expressed. Mr. Drury repeated with great energy, that he was convinced that if Mr. Jeremy had examined the wit nesses instead of Mr. Grove, the case would have ter minated differently, adding, that it was not his opinion only, but the opinion of the public. If po licemen were to be allowed to forcibly enter houses, and drag persons out by the hair of the head, without such conduct being inquired into, then no more " Jus tice for Ireland" in England. What can be expected when the Irish are told they will swear anything ? " I repeat," added Mr. Drury, , 4 that the case was not heard with equal j ust i ce. The first witness placed in the box, on the applicant's behalf, was threatened by Mr. Grove to be committed for perjury. Another had told him, after the case, that he was so frightened by Mr. Grove that lie could not speak. I regret that the applicant had not the benefit of your adjudication." Mr. JEREMY —I cannot consent to be complimented at the expense of nay colleague. By your statement you do not give your countrymen much credit for courage when before the. Court. I suppose you were not fright ened ? - Mr. Drury—Not in the least, your Worship, although Mr. Grove threatened-to commit me: Had he treated me outside this Court as he did in it, little as I am, he should have answered for his conduct. - : Mr. JEREMY, who smiled at the warmth with which THE WEATHER AND CROPS: The continued and heavy rains of last week flooded some of the waters in this district to an extent greater than has been experienced for several years, and the damage done to the property on the banks has in some cases been very serious. The greatest damage seems to have been done by the Till, which rose to a very great height, and overflowed nearly all the low lands in the neighbourhood of Wooler, and in the lower part of its course. Oa one farm alone nearly 300 acres of arable land were lying under water, of an average depth of two feet. A considerable quantity of the corn standing in stooks was carried away, and the turnips suffered still more severely. Wooler, Etvart, and Dodilington baughs were one complete sheet of water. The Glen was very large, being fed by the Col lege and the Beaumont, which came down from the hills very much swollen. The damage that the Glen has done in its course, to dykes, caulds, bridges, and corn in stooks, between Newton and its junction with the Till, is very serious. Wooler Water was also very large, and must have done much injury to turnip fields in its course, for the turnips floated down in great numbers. All these waters running into the Till, caused it far to overflow its banks, and the corn and other articles seen hurried down by the torrent gave ample evidence of the ravages that had been com mitted. Oa Thursday, the communicatirn with Wooler was cut off, the bridge over the Till to the north of that place, and the lands in its neighbourhood, being submerged to such a depth as to render passage impossible. The Eye also came down very large on the same day, and caused considerable damage through out its course.—Berwick Advertiser. A letter from the neighbourhood of Wooler says : We have had a most tremendous deluge ! Embank ments demolished, and corn and turnips carried down to the sea. Such was the overflow of the waters that the communication with the North was for some time cut off; and some idea may be formed of the general state of the country when I mention that on my farm there were nearly 300 acres of arable land under water, two fcet deep on an average. Nolives, so far as I have heard, have been lost.—Edinburgh Evening Courant. Unfavourable as were the earlier and middle parts of the harvest, they are far surpassed in disaster as it ap proaches towards a termination. Rile, rain, nothing but rain, every day ; and no ordinary rain either, for it falls in even-down torrents. The land is coin completely soaked, the stre inalets have swollen into rivers, and the rivers are everywhere in high flood. But the worst of all is, that in the high and late districts, a large portion of the crop is still in the fields ; the great bulk of this consists of oats, and a part of beans and peas. The former is already greatly da maged, and with a week more of the present weather will be almost entirely lost ; the pods of the litter have begun to open, and a great lose must be sustained even if the weather should immediately settle.—Scolsuzan. The past four or five days have been marked by squally, cheerless weather, the rain, with little ces sation, coining down in torrents—to the utter destruc tion, wo regret to learn, of extensive breadths of the still unhoused and unstacked corn crops, and the conse quent ruin and destitution of hundreds of the small and struggling farmers with whom the Western and Northern districts of this and the surrounding counties abound. The late potatoe crops, in the flats, are re ported as, in many cases, sour and unsuited for human use. A dismal look-out this for the dependent poor of the community, and they, it is too true, form a large portion of it.—Cork Southern Reporter. RESULTS Os' TIIE HARVEST.—According to the accounts that reach us from all quarters, the late crops have been greatly injured—in many instances nearly destroyed—by the continued severity of the weather and the great qnantity of rain that has constantly saturated the earth and put a stop to all harvest operations. A considerable breadth of grain, especially oats, is still out upon hilly and backward soils. The damage thus suffered must, of course, have rendered the harvest much more deficient than had been calculated upon a month ago.—Duhlin Evening Post. BRIGIITON, OCT. 18.--The weather for some time past has been very boisterous, and last night the wind was very high. It is feared much damage has taken place at sea, as during the week several broken spars, deals, &c., have been washed ashore. Her Majesty's steamer Comet, bound for Portsmouth, was compelled to run into Newhaven harbour last week, where she remained several days. The Lord Melville now running between Dieppe and Brighton, experienced very severe weather during her last voyage home, and on arriving off Brighton, was up wards of ten hours beating about before she could get into Shoreham harbour. A vessel laden with Irish pro visions, belonging to Mr. Bass of this town, named " The Brighton," had a narrow escape yesterday in running into. Shoreham, the seabroitking, completely over her, but - fortunately succeeded in getting in safely. The poor fishermen have been great sufferers in consequence of not being able to put to sea, and for the last week or ten days Brighton has been supplied with fish from the London markets. In the town chimney pots have been flying about in all directions. On Saturday a whole stack of chimneys wait lown down in George-street, fortunately no one was passing at the time. Great dambge is done by the floods from the heavy rains. In the western part of Sussex the rivers Adur and Arun have in many parts overflown their banks, and the fields in the neighbour hood of Arundel, Petworth, Beding, Steyning, &c., are one sheet of water. In the eastern part the river Ouse has overflown its banks in the low parts, covering the meadows with water. The Lord Melville, Captain Cheeseman, for Dieppe, was lying in Shoreham harbour yesterday with her passengers on board, amongst whom were Lady Seymour and family, but up to 12 o'clock last night Captain Cheeseman was unable to put to sea. KEEN SATIRE.—A facetious Abbe, having a box at the Opera-ho use i n Paris, was turned out of his possession by a Mareschal as remarkable for his ungentlemanlike behaviour, as for his cowardice and meanness. The Abbe, for this unjustifiable breach of good manners, brought his action in a court of honour, and solicited permission to be his own advocate, which was granted. He then pleaded to the following effect :--- "'Tis not of Monsieur Souffein, who acted so nobly in the Jast Indies, that I complain ; it is not of the Due de Crebillon, who took Minorca, that I complain ; it is not of the Comte de Grasse, who •so bravely fought Lord Rodney, that I complain ;—but it is of Mareschal who "took my box at the Opera,-house, and never took any thing else." This piece of satire so sensibly con vinced the Court that the complainant had already in flicted punishment sufficient, that they refused to grant him a verdict. SPECIMEN ToRYISM. — A co mmercial tra. yeller has written t o i n f orm us . that having a few days since driven into th e town o f Northallerten in York shire after dark, he was surprised. to find the streets unlighted, and nearly the whole town in darkness. On inquiring into the cause, he found that the proprietor of the gas-works having at the last election given his' sup. port to Mr. Wrightson the Liberal candidate, the Tories of the town, who,.it appears, have at present the upper hand in municipal matters, have entered into a combina tion to use no more gas in their shops, nor in the streets. - This piece of folly and t yran ny is almost too monstrous for belief, but is, nevertheless , a fact attested by mo re than one respectable eye-witness. — Berwick Advertiser. 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