The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-29 00:00:00

EVENING SUN EWSPAPER STAMP RETURNS. Extract from a Return of the Number of Stamps issued to the IF.4ral, Newspapers in Eng land, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist day of A pril to the 30th day of June, 1841, inclusive; ordered by the House of Commons : Average Daily Circulation. SUN 314,000 Globe 260,000 Standard 25o,eoo Courier 48,000 A Return of the Amount of Advertisement paid by each Newspaper from the sth of January to the sth of July, 1841: SUN £673 17 6 Standard Globe 5B 9 0 Courier 247 7 0 APPRENT:ICEMVA NTED. Mr. PERRY, BOOKSELLER, PLYMOUTH, is in want of a GENTEELWELL-EDUCATED YOUTH, of good address, as an APPRENTICE. A moderate pre mium required: Address, pre-paid, as above. IMPORTANT NEW WORK ON AMERICA. Now ready,: in 2 vole. small Bvo., with Portraits of Sir John Henry and General Scott. A RUN through the UNITED STATES, DURING the AUTUMN of 1840. By Lieut.-Colonel A. M. MAXWELL, K.H. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Marlborough-street. 14 , Just üblished, medium Svo. , with numerous Illustrations, 213., HE STUDENT-LIFE of GERMANY. , By WILLIAM HOWITT, Author of " The aural Life of England," &c. From the Unpublished MSS. of Dr. Cornelius. " The historical passages are pregnant with solid learning. ...... ...The darker colours of the picture, the wild excesses, the poetical fervour, and the festive and chivalrous elements of which the youthful character is naturally composed, which is nurtured in open freedom, are all painted by a bold and truth ful hand To this book, thee, dismissing all previous pre judices and loepoesessions, we earnestly recommend the serious attention of everybody who is desirous of obtaining, at one view, a faithful panorama of the most picturesque class of edu cated life on the surface of Europe."—Atlas. London : Longman, Brown, and Ca THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, OCT. 29, Will be repeated, the New Comedy, entitled OLD MAIDS. Sir Philip Brilliant, Mr. Charles Mathews ; John Blount, Mr. Harley ; Thomas Blount, Mr. G. Vandenhoff; Robert, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Lady Blanche , Mada me Vestris ; Lady Anne, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mistress Blount, Mrs. W. West ; Charlotte, Mrs. Hamby ; Jane, Miss Lee. To conclude with, compressed into Three Acts, the Comedy *f WHAT WILL THE WORLD SAY ?—Hon. Ches. Nor sold, Mr. J. Vining ; Mr. Pye Hilary, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Werner, Mr. Bartley ; Captain Scrope Tarradiddle,Plr. W. Ferree"; Lady Norwold, 'Mrs. Glover ; Marian Nayley, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Miss De Vere, Miss Cooper ; Tattle, Mrs. Orger ; Mrs. Tarradiddle, Mrs. Humby. ;Joors to Fe opened at half-past six—the performances to eommence at Seven. Dress Boxes, is. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 2s. • Gallery Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had so!ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 1107. New Bend-street. To-morrow, She Would and She Would Not, with What will the World Say? I'tOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Wonderful Novelty ! Two Equestrian Spectacles in one Even ing. " Blenheim "at liall-price, and more New Scenes in .the Circle. THIS EVENING, OCT. 29. Will be presentel the gorgeous Equestrian Spectacle, enlitled CHARLEMAGNE ; THE STEED OF CHIVALRY ! introducing Mr. Ducrow's magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, highlly-trained Palfreys, Fairy Pomp, Equestrian Troop, and Companies of both Theatres. After which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in the Largest Arena in the World, in which Madame Ducrow, Sig nor Hillier, the Great American Rider, the British Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear. To conclude with THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, THE HORSE OF THE DISINHERITED ; embracing all the Military Exploits of the Great Duke of Marlboreugh, Grand Reviews, Battles, and Glorious Victories. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Unprecedented and splendid Novelty. Variety, and Attraction, and first %Trek of another New Domestic Drama of most in tense interest. THIS EVENING, OCT. 29, Will be performed an interesting Domestic Drama, called SIMON LEE ; OR, THE MURDER OF THE FIVE FIELDS COP SE. Simon Lee, Mr. E. F. Saville; Walter Hatherleigh, Mr. Dale; Japhet Jones, Mr. Gardner ; Dicky Ding, Mr. Paul; Grace, Miss Vincent, the acknowledgtd Heti:sine of Domestic Drama. After which, a New Domestic Drains, entitled KATTY CYSHIEL. the FOLLOWER of the FAMILY. O'Dwyer, Mr. Dale ; Augustus, Mr. Seaman ; Gu)ten Gray, Mr. James ; and Ratty O'Shiel, Miss Vincent. To conclude with THE FLOATING BEACON ; or, the NORWEGIAN WRECKERS. Jack Junk, Mr. E. F. Sa ville; Marriette, Mrs. Lee ; Christine, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, l B. , rid. Halt-price to the Boxes stair, at Half-psst Eight. To. morrow, Simon Lee, with Batty O'Shiel, and the Float ing Beacon. THE RAILWAY SUN. NOME.—A New Edition of the RAILWAY SUN i$ in preparation, and will be PUB LISHED- in the coutvc of THIS WEEK. E CHINA SUN, AND THE ARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACII. Sun °l ice, Oct. 28, 1841. THE WEATHEA.—NooN, OCTOBER '29. ROY AL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer.. 47' Highest 431 Lowest Barometer 23.75.—Wind N.E.---Freezing Point 22 Deg. Plll }L WATER AT LONDON IP-CIDGE TO-MORROW r ,, irtfr :nitiutes afteer 1 I Eremng.... 46 ramutee after 1 The Publication of the Evening Edition of Txiz SUN corn inoneett at 5 nai.iutoti after Three. 7, 4 A 4 e " ‘ 1 7`, „44,4;74 31 fC ' P,,, 104 1 . '00447, ' J7l .0714;i4.4,<L LONDON: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1841. We hold, and have-lield for many months, and even years—n ay we have for that period, and while the WM..; were in office, continually taught—that the Co ' rn_ia s are suicidal an d mur derous laws; that they starve the people and blight the nationalapnrd harmony ; that they inter rupt intercourse an l d v ithc crime. maen other .d w z a t na tions ; sow the seeds o f dissension redolent of strife, Pestilen ce do not, therefore , now, for the first time, use such language for the purpose of the popular mind against the landlords, in creasing the difficulties of the Goveranumden t. Whatever reproaches of this kind other Journals may merit, we do- not choose this particular time for s h oot ing in the ears of the populace t h at the landlords desire to starve them." We have long held and deliberately expressed that ()pinion. Nor are there wanting Tories who also entertain and express it. In the 44th Number of the Fleet Pqpers, just published by Mr. OASTLER, he declares that the design of the New Poor-law —a landlord's law—is to bring the people to live on a coarser sort of diet. Whether they enact Corn-laws or Poor-laws, the same suspicion rests on the landlords ; and those who judge of their motives by the effects of their laws, will find ample justification of the suspicion. Holding the opinions which we hold on the Corn-laws, we shall not be scared by any kind of prejudice or vehement abuse by interested par ties from following them out to their just conclu sion, and affirming that it is as criminal to obey such laws as to enact them. We state this con ctug= undisguised now, as we have stated it be fore, and avow that in entertaining it we have endeavoured, and shall endeavour, to induce par ties to evade and overturn these iniquitous laws. Far from considering obedience a duty, we con sider that duty commands resistance, and that not those laws ought to be obeyed one moment beyond the period when they can be successfully resisted. Prudential considerations, undoubtedly, are T not to be cast a s id e. public force is yet ar rayed on the sid e o f i iniquity. Those who made pre the laws for their presumed benefit efit have still , the power to enforce oubed The community h a , s not yet declared against them and, therefore, at present it is prudent to submit to the iniquity which-we cannot success fully resist. All the Anti-Corn-law party, however, do this under protest, - and at the same time they use the power which they possess to make the evils of the law known, and to procure its destruction. If it be not just or right in those who make and uphold these laws, at least it is politic to take a different course, and inculcate obedience as a great virtue, the practice of which is necessary for the public welfare. Thus the Morning Post yester day contained a violent article against the Oppo sition press for encouraging hostility to these laws and their authors, for not recommending contentment under suffering, and patience to all the grievances which the aristocracy inflict on the starving and industrious population. It we were to follow its recommendation, what hope could we entertain of relief? For two hundred years, according to the Rev. C. NEVILE —and, according to better authorities, from the beginning of history—the aristocracy has acted on the principle of enriching itself at the expense of others. At no time has it ever I thought of the people, or been driven from plun dering them but by their sturdy resistance. Ever organised and ever watchful, sitting like a spider in the centre of the community, with all the filaments and meshes of the laws under its control, with inexhaustible materials for spinning more, it re-connects its nets for circumventing the community, and seizes its prey whenever they are broken, and perpetually strengthens and extends them. For us to preach indiscrimi nate obedience to such a watchful and organised oppressor of the democracy, is to encourage the aristocracy in the commission of misdeeds. The Corn-laws are obviously a part of that great system of oppression which the aristocracy has woven round the democracy. Under the pretence of preserving what it calls social order, it has continually laboured to coerce the demo cracy into submission, and has sentenced the people, in spite of their noble and natural desire to improve their condition, and their strenuous exertions, to perpetual degradation. To succeed against such an undying and watchful corpora tion, the strictest rectitude and utmost wariness are necessary. Above all, justice must be fol lowed. It is, therefore, especially desirable for the democracy to distinguish between such laws as, from their own nature, deserve to be obeyed, and such as ought to be resisted. To assert that men are not to exercise their judgment on this point is to hand them over, bound like a victim to the stake, for the lawmaker to torment at his pleasure. Indiscriminate and blind obedience is not even required of a sol dier. "If a sergeant command a private to shoot his colonel, the soldier would not be justified in obeying; and, therefore, the soldier cannot be deprived of the power of judging whether he will obey or not." The blind obedience which is not required of soldiers, cannot be demanded of civilians, and conse quently before men can be reasonably asked to obey laws, they must be convinced that the laws are such as ought to be obeyed. We at least shall always feel it our duty, in spite of the objurgations of the Tory Journals, to tell our readers that laws to enrich one class at the expense of another—laws to restrict honest industry, which political society is constituted to protect—laws which are cruel or unjust—laws which unwarrantably interfere with individual liberty, to secure which ought to be the object of all law—we shall always avow the doctrine that laws which, like the Corn-laws, plunder the many for the sake of the few, are a violation of the first principles of political society, and ought not to be obeyed. Force may compel obedience, but when the society lends itself to that work it takes the responsibility on itself, and incurs, as at present, those manifold evils which are ob viously a punishment inflicted by nature, and an admonition for society to alter its course. Far from adopting the convenient doctrine for its masters taught by the Post, we wholly repudiate the assertion that men are bound to obey all the laws, and limit the duty of obedience to thpse laws which we know or believe to be honest and just. From the remarks of our Contemporary, and erom the controversy they will engender, it is plain that this question of the duty of obedience to law is no longer a mere school question, but one of practical every-day life. Day after day, both in metropolitan and provincial Journals, it is undergoing and will undergo discussion. People will not be stopped short of any conclu sion to which reasoning fairly leads them, by the vehement assertions of the landlords, whom they hate as oppressors, or of the priests, whom they mistrust as deceivers. Interested men will no more be allowed to settle questions of po litics, on an assumption of authority, than ques tions of religion ; and if the aristocracy and the Church cannot defend their position and power by argument, they will not be suffered long to enjoy them. We have told them 'long ago, and repeatedly, that they are provoking a searching inquiry into the very foundations ' 'of political power and political society. That event has come to pass, and already men have gone to the very corner-stone of all their power, and discuss the right and duty of obedience. We - arc glad to see the Times taking up the cause of Reform in any shape, though we cannot admit that the great civil reforms effected by the Whigs were not of more importance than 'the reforms in the Army proposed by our Con temporary. Desiring, too, quite as much as the Times, a sweeping Reform in the Court of Chan cery, we cannot assent to its doctrines, that a reform in that Court, which dcals in general only with the property of the opulent, is of infi nite importance compared to the abolition of Church-rates, which interest the conscience of millions and the peace of half the parishes in England. We agree «•ith the Times in consider ing a reform of the army to be very important, and we rejoice to see it, on that point, taking the field against Conservatism. Our Contemporary said yesterday,— With some exceptions, so rare as to have no effect upon the argument, our officers rise in their profession, not according to their professional merits, but either upon death vacancies, which are few, er according to their pecuniary means. The monied man succeeds, as of course, to each commission, as disposed of by the last possessor, provided there bo no disqualification in point of character. Without money or a chance vacancy by sudden death or dismissal, all the science extant would not give its possessor a step. " The profession," says Colonel Mitchell, " bolds out no inducement therefore to the acquisition of professional knowledge ; the minds of military men remain dormant on military affairs." Add be stowed to this, that they generally enter the army at a very early acre, and with much less of education than is be likely to induce most . . men in civil professions, and thus, from or their in the very ue-innino. they fall I of predisposing. ...ey ,aIL into a track very little themn no a desire of improving their fa cultiescultivation, we cannot wonder and of direct motives to mental In this total absence both not more assiduously aL u r ltivated by the officers of the wonder th a t m ilit ar y sc i ence is of should marve l t h at so man y them employ themselves regular army, but r in intellectual pursuits at all. The present system, undoubtedly, prod uces a great many good officers and estimable gen tl emen . The opinion of society, th essentiale spirit of th e serv i ce itself, have a strong tendency and to encourage many of the virtues which are the most best men but still, theso pleonvigerasef selecting mere purchase the be in a soldier ; shall be the chi e f For the highest commands, it is trUe se lection is retained ; but the highest true, the is excl u d e d. power of ommends are no t command r of eigahtLi the only important ones. It is a serious s responsibilit y *hich we assume in placing a body of ix hun dred of our fellow - men und e r the eu tenant-Colonel—or even leaving a company or t one-tenth of that number at the orders of a Captainrp al Lieutenant —where such Lieutenant-Colonel, Captain, or Lieutenant is a person of a violent or vexatious p tera m l er, or of a dull, or perverse, or uncultivated ') , under standing, though perhaps a strict disciplinarian and a studious observer of those minor points which mak e a , regiment • It is too much tha t a countr y like ours shOutl leave it lo9k well on p arade. wholly fortuitous 'whether the persons who ought to possess tbi qualities necessary for officer's do actually possess them or not. It is tou much that the lives of our soldiers in war, and their regulation a nd ha pp iness in peace, should be left the sport of accident—should depend upon the vague chance whether the party who has laid out his money in a military step, be a man of sense, education, and temper, or a headstrong dunce. After thus adverting to the evil, and pointing The testimony of the Times to the impro priety of the present system is valuable, for it testifies against the Conservatives but we do not see how it is to be effectually remedied with out a greater infusion of the democratic prin ciple both into the Army and into the Govern ment. To give the soldiers a share in the elec tion of their officers, and to make the GoveruL ment equally responsible to the whole people, instead of being the mere instrument of the aris tocracy, might, perhaps, secure good officers and justice to all. Without some changes of that kind, all other contrivances will be mere pallia tives, and the monied and landed aristocracy, in spite of them, will continue, as at present, to Make the Army subserve their convenience rather than be the defence of the country. , The Metropolitan Police, in addition. to a variety of modes already in practice of annoying respectable publicans, as well as offending public feeling, have lately hit upon a new system, which, with the exception of one instance, occurring in the City, we are happy to say has been hitherto without effect. Not being allowed, when on duty, to enter a public-house to take refreshment, they seem inclined to subject other persons to the same restrictions, and have lat terly been very active in laying informations against landlords for selling spirits and beer.tO persons whom they consider of doubtful charac ter. They have repeatedly arrested unfortunate girls in the street, who were giving no annoy ance to any human being. In almost every in stance within the last month, they have been reprimanded by the Magistrates for this officious and cruel interference. Some of them, convicted of swearing falsely against these poor creatures, have been reported to the Commis sioners without the result being known, and others, whose conduct was too gross to be over, looked, have been suspended or allowed to make their escape. A Correspondent of a Morning, Contemporary, hitherto favourable to the New Police regulatims, makes the following coin- munication, in which we regret to say there is too much truth : I have heard, and I believe it to be true, that police men often extort money from women under the threat of taking them to the station-house ; and, if this is per mitted, I wish to know what woman is safe ? But I maintain that the liberty atilt) subject is grossly violated by any person being taken into custody who has not po , sitivcly offended in a very decided way . the public de corum which it is necessary to maintain in our streets. It is surely approaching very near to inquisitorial powers when the subaltern officers of the law are permitted to inquire into the private characters of persons whom they may either see frequenting the streets or the taverns. If this system is permitted to exist, it will not stop here, and the police will be at last but a corps of spies, and the tools of an inquisitorial power, which may be carried to any extent. The Chief Clerk at the Mansion-house, who has so long filled the office with credit to himself and great benefit to the City, and whole opinion, from long experience, is entitled to 'great weight, described them astyrannical, the power entrusted to them, he said, was enormous, and enormously abused, and something must be donetO prevent " respectable people from being completely over ridden." The tyrannical conduct of these men, supposed to have been abetted by the Government, returned a Tory for Westinin ster ; and, had another come forward, would have achieved what neither money nor influence ever before accomplished. Two of the Liberal City candidates, it is firmly believed, lost their elections for the same reason. But the dread of this new . body was not con fined to London ; . it extended throughout the whole of England, particularly among a very influential body of electors, the 'publicans, and Contributed more than any other cause (ex cept the Corn-law question), to turn the balance against the Government. Yet, notwithstanding all these proofs of hatred to this inquisitorial system, manifested by the spontaneous feelings of free-born Englishmen, an ex-Ministerial Evening Paper, in a heavy pharisaical article, more than a column in length, and written, it is said, by the Member for Lambeth, denounces those who will not crouch to tyranny, and lauds this.obnoxious Act to the skies. It is imrnacu-. late. Daily miracles are performed by it. Father MATHEW is a mere drone in the great work of regenerating the . lower classes, coin pared with Mr. HAWES. "No restraint," says the Globe, "is imposed on any one, except those who require to be restrained jfrom doing themselves positive injury, and who are prone to insult and outrage public decorum ;" and thus exultingly concludes :—" The law improves, as we have seen, the habits of the people, and conse quently .tends to raise their character in the estimation of other nations." It is melancholy to see a paper professing Liberal principles so mischievously influenced 'by party, prejudices, and so utterly forgetful of a principle which the Whigs profess to prize above all others —the liberty of the subject. The most abject partizans of CHRISTINA MU- Noz find a difficulty in attempting to advocate her atrocious defence of the insurrection in Spain. There is something in the conduct of this woman so utterly abandoned—so entirely dead to every sentiment of gratitude and paren tal tenderness—so indifferent to the magnitude' of the crimes committed in her name—so callous to the sufferings and death of the misguided dupes of her avarice, ambition, and thirst of re venge, that even the unscrupulous champions of every assumption of despotic power in Princes shrink- fr om t h e o bl oquy o f un d e rtaking her defence at the b ar o f public opinion. Destitute alike of de cency and shame, she, in order to in crease the listof the alleged crimes of the Sp — ailigt G overnment, unblushingly charges the Executive Government at Madrid with the very acts com mitted by herself; while Regent of the kingdom, in the name of her august daughter. In vainly attempting t o exculpate herself from t h e guilt of immediately agd directly kindling the civil arrest the downfa. of CHRISTINA MUNOZ. There was not even a mountain robber in the Penin sula, who thought it worth his while to unfurl a rag at the end of a pole in her name, either as guardian, of hei children or as Regent of the kingdom. Even her well-beloved MuNoz fled without shouldering a musket in her defence, or once offering to resist the popularly-established Government of the Spanish FABIUS, ESPARTERO. As to the third alleged cause, the usurpation of the Royal authority, we may observe, that in a constitutional monarchy, where the represen tative principle is the basis of law and Govern ment, there can be no usurpation where the whole nation is a consenting party. Now all Spain promptlyacquiesced in the sentence of the abandonment of the guardianship of her children and of the Regency, pronounced by the Cortes against CHRISTINA MUNOZ. Not a municipality raised its voice in defence of Madame MuNoz, who, by her connection with a menial, had vir tually resigned the guardianship of her children by FERDINAND. The fourth cause embraces two distinct charges. Of the obseivance of the Treaty of Bergara we . have said enough above to disconcert the parti- zansof Madame MUNOZ. As to the hypwritical babble about the Basque fueros, enough that it Was by the Government of Madame Muxoz that they were declared to be for ever abolished. Her rebellious partizan, MONTES DE OCA, now a prisoner in Spain, and one of the confreres of the rebels O'DONNELL and LEON, countersigned as Minister of the Interior, the very decree by which CHRISTINA MuNoz, as Regent, abolished the Basque fueros. So much for CHRISTINA'S veracity. Respecting the fifth cause, we can only say, that if CHRISTINA &luNO2 regarded the secret joy with which all Spain beheld her removal from the guardianship of wards whom she plun dered, as'neither more nor less than a "stupor of prcifbund grief," she must regard objects through a very different medium from that of the rest of the world. The self love must be 'indeed miraculous which discovers in ill-con gealed joy and suppressed hatred and contempt a sorrow too' deep for tears, and a commiserating indignation too intense for muscular action. But when in a whole year that sorrow finds neither a tongue nor a sword, it becomes ahnost amusing to hear it pleaded as the still existing cause of national lethargy. As religicotand the POPE are thrown in by -warof , lnake-weightsi it is hardly fair to make more than a:passing allusion to them. Of the first, the Holy See will hardly accept CHRISTINA Muzlez as a spotless champion, unless, by way of making reparation for the past she assist in tbunding as many convents and monasteries as she enriched herself by suppressing. And even :wei:e , she to do thiS, we doubt whether she would be as acceptable at the Vatican us Don Cantos. CHRISTINA'S participation in the rebellion in Spain is now indirectly, but most conclusively, avowed by herself. She glories in the crimes that have been committed—exults in the blood that,ha4 been shed. Instead of appearing ap palled with horror at learning that murder has been committed under the roof which covered her children, she applaUds the daring intrepidity of the murderers. Her rehearsal of the part of a :distressed mother separated . froni her children is dlsguiting. Has she not two or three little MinsozEs to dandle, one of whom engaged her attention more when REGENT than both the Royal infants ? At ten years old 'the education of the youifg - QUEEN was so neglected by her mother that she could not read or write a word; while the very money allowed to supply 'the wants of her wardrobe was unscrupulously/added to her Royal mother's state perquisites. Yet this woman makes a parade of her sufferings and indignities as a Sovereign, and of her agonised feelings as a widow and a mother ! Not 'Mu tented with plundering Spain of her gold, and robbing her Of her tranquillity, the ex-REGENT parades a demand upon her sympathy 1 The Peninsular SEMIRAMIS is an adept in all the con triVittices by 'which humility, credulity, vanity, an unsuspecting singleness of purpose are made theAnpesofcraft,avarice, andprolligateambition. The Paris Journals of Wednesday have all reached us. Their contents arc more than usu ally uninteresting. A letter front Toulon, of the 22d inst., an nounces that the sivadron of Rear-Admiral CASY got under wek;h on the evening of the 21st for Brest. The Veloce steamer left Toulon on the 20th for Constantinople, with the Baron DE BOUR QUENEY on board. The pompous impudence of some political writers is amusing. ; For example, a writer in the Post yesterday says:--- , -" There are four different ways of settling the Government of Spain:-Ist. A soi-disant republic com bined with a - dictator. 2113, A marriage betwixt the young Queen and the son of Don Carlos. idly, An union betwixt a son of lion Francisco and his _Royal cousin. 4thly, A marriage between tho same young Princess and a Prince of the house of Cobourg." To sup pose that a Government can be settled by marrying a young girl to either one of three youths, implies that the people vire to go for nothing. The Government of Spain —a country, like our own, in a state of rapid transi tion, with a prodigious mass of ecclesiastical and civil grievances to redress, with ages of usurpation to over throw—cannot be settled by any such means, nor in a short time. Et all the transactions which may take place heneerorth, the people and the press of Spain, will have Much to say, and it is the very essence 'of political quidnunciam to talk of settling the Government by marry ing a girl Wa boy. We leartf that, in addition to the estates of Pen heame, Clugsidn, and Dalreagle, Major Stopford receives 300,0001. by the will of the late Mr. Blair, of Penning hame, to be laid out in the )urchase of land, which, with the above estates, is to be put under 'entail.—Galloway Register. THE LARGEST PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT EVER. KNOWN.—TiIe Brtish empire extends over 2,800,000, square miles, I nd contains a population of 179,235,000 souls.--New - ,rork Paper. out the expe nse o f b u yi ng ou t those who ha ve ■ bought in, the Times further says,— Might it not be possible, then, to accomplish the change gradually, by buying up a certain number of commissions yearly, and appropriating them, together with those which fall in b) death or dismissal, as a foun dation . fur a system of which a regular military educa tion should be an ingredient, and in which purchase should be superseded by selection ? If the change be one which it is worth our while to make, we should make it in time of peace, that its good effects may be ripened against the time of war. We do not think the expense would be so for midable thgt it alone ought to preclude a reform in the mode of Army promotion. It would not be necessary to shelve all the present race of officers. The Army might be weeded, and those who have bought commissions, which they are unfit to hold, might receive back the purchase money, or au annuity corresponding to it. No injustice would be done to those who are retained, if they were given the option of retiring, receiv ing their purchase-money, or of remaining, being secured in the annuity or pay of the rank they have purchased, but being deprived of the power of sale. The weeding would make room for those who were worthy to be kept, and it more rapid promotion would more than compen 7 sate for the loss of the privilege of selling their commissions. war in Spain, the ex-Regent adduceb no fewer than five causes f the revolutionary outbreak with which she chrgcs the Spanish GoVernment. Called upon to (Vend her own conduct, she first sbufilingly equivcates, and next, poceeds to impeach the intrity of her accusers. As many of our readers' my not lave much attended to her manifesto pulished in The Sim of TueSday, we quote from it the causes alleged by her, of re attempted CIRISTINA revolution in Spain:— " Those causes of to be found —l. In the attempts of Barcelona and 4 alencia ; 2. In the vicious origin of the Governmen' constituted in Madrid, the work of the revolution )f September ; 3. In the usurpa tion of Royal auterity, in the illegality and un ruly injustice of he measures of Government in numerous and flagant infractions of the constitu tion and the laws 4. In its imprudent and scanda lous obstinacy in vicating the faith pledged at Bergara, and trampling undr foot the ancient and venerable fueros of the generou Basques and Navarreso ; 5. In the violent and iniquitos usurpation of the Queen's right to the guardianship If her illustrious daughters, a usur pation which loyal Saniards viewed with stupor equalled only by their profond grief, because they witnessed on this and several othc occasions the contempt entertained for divine and humn km ' • and because they . saw the honour and dignity c the mother of their Sovereign seri ously offended. In this uninterrupted series of violent attempts against all hat was most worthy of respect and most sacred in the ration, against the holy religion which it professes, and egoist the common father of the faith ful—all those acts if iniquity, oppression, and political insanity which havcscandalized the world—the Chris tian world—and crelly exasperated the nation, behold the principal, the ral cause, the efficient cause, of the last insurrection, witch the excess of so many evils had rendered inevitable. We fear, however, that after the country had incurred this expense, we should find no fit and proper hands, under our present corrupt political system, in which to place the patronage of the Army. If promotion were to proceed by priority, energy would be destroyed; men would never arrive at a chief command till their faculties were impaired, and disorder would ensue from the. most vigorous talent being in subordinate capacities. If pro motion were to be determined by the Com mander-in-Chief, or an Army Board, it would be prostituted, as promotion in the Navy ever has been, to political and baser purposes, and a Tory half-pay list would show the scions of the aristocracy quartered as annuitants on the country under the assumed guise of having been its defenders. We should have the Army as profligately jobbed as the Navy is at present, and the only result of buying up the commissions would be to fix on the national purse another set of leeches who might, or might not, as chance dictated, be efficient officers. To show the uter worthlessness of this woman's testimony, we shll go through these charges in the order in whim they are made, that the public may see what truh there is in them. We have, first, the attempts of Barcelona and Valencia. Thes. attempts at insurrectionary movements were made by the -Ultra-Liberals, because ESPARTLIO sought to carry out the arti cles of the Treay of Bergara, by appointing officers who belt high ranks in the • army of Don CARLOS, butwho were parties to the Treaty, to places of publi, trust under the Constitutional Government. Tle appointments, however inju dicious, attested the good faith of the Spanish GOternment. In the second place, the origin of a Govern ment cannot be vtious which is based upon the popular choice of a nation in the free exercise of : - Its liberties. Span fought for seven years for ISABELLA and CARLOS. Not a shot was fired to THE SUN, LONDON, TRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 1841. il P v .l, A g 7), ,, „_, CPL. ‘lll Pi :R. %Ai ta 6 ite 6 AND 10 Vibtir OPttito;ri. " Who runs may read." TOIZEIGN. From Madrid we have news of the 20th inst. On the 19th EsparterQ left that city for the Basques, amidst the acclamations of the people. Never before was he universally popular in Spain. To prove to the world that his GoVernment is not based on a military despotism, he has left Madrid without a single soldier of the line, trusting entirely to the loyalty, fidelity, and zeal of the National Guards. Could his traducer, Louis-Philippe, attempt such an experiment of his popularity among the citizen's of Paris ? Montes de Oca has been shot at Vittoria by command of General Rodil. This unfortunate Christine partizan was for some time Minister of the Interior. To the honour of Martin Zurbano, for whose head Montes de Oca offered 100,000 reels, we have to record that when De Oca was delivered up to him, he made an effort to save him. Zurbano is one of the most ruthless men in Spain, and assuredly would have shot De Oca had he not been his personal enemy. Borso di Carminati has also been shot. These exe cutions, with that of the unfortunate General Leon, include all that have yet taken place in Spain for the revolutionary attempt. The Regent is disposed to act with great leniency . towards the insurgents. The following significant paragraph is from the Ga zette de France. It is needless to say that the holder of the pen alluded to is no less a personage than the citizen King :—" The answers of Christina to M. Olozaga were only sent on Saturday, after it had been ascertained that O'Donnell had entered France. It is unnecessary to say under whose influence those answers were made. They were written by the same pen, that wrote the protest Of the Queen-Mother—and it is not a Spanish pen." The Gazette de France also states that a great deal of ill-humour has been excited at the Tuileries by the failure of O'Donnell's expedition ; and that on the other hand, M. Guizot is very angry that the conspiracy should have been concerted between the Camarilla of the Palace and the Hotel of the Rue de Courcelles. He has written everywhere to say that his Ministry was a com plete stranger to it. But proofs of the co-operation of the French Government are coming in from all quarters. The Pacha of Egypt has allowed all descriptions of British goods to pass to and fro between Alexandria and Suez on payment of a transit duty of 1 per cent. PUBLIC OPINION. In commenting on the rumoured appointment of an English Bishop to the See of Jerusalem, the Times has these observations :—" If the views of our bishops in this matter are really such .as they have been repre sented to be (and we cannot doubt it), it does seem not a little extraordinary, that Jerusalem rather than Con stantinople should have been selected as the place for the new prelate's residence ; that (in combination with that circumstance) a clergyman of the Jewish race should have been selected for the bishop ; and, lastly, that the plan should have originated with the King of Prussia."— It does indeed seem extraordinaryZthat a clergyman of the Jewish race should have been selected for the Bishop-- so extraordinary that we cannot bring ourselves to be lieve the rumour. How can a prelate, who, being of the Jewish race, must necessarily have strong sympathies with the Jews, acquit himself as au exemplary Christian pastor ? Duty will suggest one line of conduct, old family associations another. At every step of his Epis copal career he will be hampered with his Israelitish connections ; and the inevitable result will be, his utter inability to adopt any definite rule of conduct. He will be a Bishop only in name and in income, but this is not the sort of diocesan wanted in Jerusalem. The Morning Herald anticipates the speedy downfal of O'Connell's influence in Ireland, observing:—" The Earl of Shrewsbury first threw a bucket of water into Mr. O'Connell's face, and he had scarcely recovered the use of his vision, and done stamping with rage and wringing his clothes, when Mr. Sharman Crawford struck him a dangerous blow under the fifth rib ; while engaged in abusing that honest gentleman, his friend, Mr. O'Brien, has administered to his posterior quarter a most stinging kick ; and young Mr. Porsonby has gladly seized the opportunity produced by the pain of this blow, to snap his Whigish fingers in his Carlow patron's face. The straw is every where moving,' Mr. Daniel O'Connell, and just and impartial government by Lords De Grey and Eliot will totally extinguish you. Retire, then, as grace fully as you can, at once ; do not wait to be hissed and hooted from the stage on which you have been so long ' strutting and fretting,' by the very who once received you with ' thundui . s otapplause. " ir the Irish Government be conducted on the broad principle of justice, then indeed Mr. O'Connell's popu lar influence will be greatly diminished, for he is the chosen champion of his country's wrongs, who makes them known through him; and in proportion to the ex tent of her grievances, is the extent of his power of agitation; but we have no reason to believe that the Tories will so manage matters, as to leave Mr. O'Connell few or no wrongs to complain of, and to seek redress for ; they will be pretty sure to give him plenty of em ployment in this line, and so maintain his influence unimpaired. The Chronicle remarks, in reference to the extinction of the old Dublin Corporation—" Nobody but an *Eng lishman or a Scotchunca, who bad lived in Dublin under tie old system, can form anything like a proper estimate of the selfish manners, the insolent rapacity, and the vulgar impudence of the Orange Corporation of Dublin. Very few of the respectable Protestant citizens had any thing to do with it. Noisy and needy partizans; shabby traaimen, and brawling topers, composed the bulk of its members; and not a few of them, the chief portion of whose lives had been spent in toasting the glorious and immortal memory, Protestant ascendancy, and perdition to the Pope, were men whose intellectual capacity bare• ly enabled hem to comprehend that Protestant ascend ancy meant the old Corporation, and the Protestant faith keeping the bloody Papists' dOWn. Latterly there was a kind of external decency thrown over the conduct of the old corporation, as it felt that it was getting old and was about to die. But the whole. spirit was still there—the old trust-in-God-and-keep-your-powder-dry' spirit."—Twelve years ago, when Orangeism was in all its glory, and anticipating a long reign of corruption and misrule, who would have predicted the so speedy demo lition of its strong hold in the Dublin corporation? Were Alderman Beresford, of Riding-house notoriety, now living, the shock of its destruction would have killed him; or if ho could survive that, never could he have survived the presence of his arch-enemy O'Connell in the Mansion Hoase, as Catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin! The Post says:—" However much we lament the cri minal violence of the opposition with which the present Government is assailed, and however much to be re gretted the immediate consequences upon the minds of the distressed populace may be, we think the Conserva tive Government is not unlikely to gain strength by it in the end. The policy of that Government is evidently to einbrace within its pale all who are friends of rood order, and of moderation and good sense in political matters, whether they have been heretofore called Tories or Whigs. The Opposition, by Which it is so virulently assailed, is that of desperate and outrageous instigators of political violence ; and we do not see hew respectable men of any party can fail to be disgusted with this, and to be predisposed to take the side on which this disgusting violence is not."—The plain meaning of this flourish of words is, that all who refuse to believe in the political foresight and stern Spartan-like integrity of the Tory Government are desperate and outrageous instigators of violence ; and that ,all sagacity, all honesty, all love of order and decorum are confined within the narrow pale of Toryism 'lite following is from the Cork Southern Reporter : " The old and decrepid Corporation is no more ; it is gone to the tomb of the Capulets, after existing, as a Protestant ascendency institution for 185 years. It would, in a short time, have died of inanition if it were not thus strangled by the strong arm of the law, without the regret of any party, and amidst the scoffs and *r ings of the people. The Corporation of this City was established in its late form in the reign of Charles IL, avowedly for the reason of maintaining Protestant ascen dency in Church and State." • Speaking of some recent Tory appointments, the Limerick Reporter remarks as follows:—" The profes sions made by Lord Eliot in his speech to the electors of Cornwall.have been eitherly utterly forgotten or were never intended, when made, to be worked into practical effect. The recent and coming appointments argue not only a total oblivion of them, but a perverse anxiety to outrage the people in every imaginable manner." The Nottingham Review makes the following remarks on the distressed state of the country :—" The manufac turing towns are swiftly hasting to ruin. In Notting ham, the meagre famished appearance and squalid coun tenances of men walking along the streets, or dragging sand-carts from door to door, is truly heart-rending ; we have many, every day, begging at our doors ; the cruel Poor-law Commissioners prohibit relief out of the work house to the able-bodied who are unemployed, and rather than go into the house, some beg, others steal, and many sicken. and die !" IVICOATET—TILAIM—c ores ram% c E. The greatest manufacturers of Havannah cigars are Cabanas, Hernandez, Silva, and Rencareuil. 1). Her nandez employs about fifty men in his manufactory : of the best common cigars a good workman can make-1,000 in a day : of the " replies," which are carefully and beautifully rolled, 600 ; so that the daily issues from that immense fabrica are about 30,000 cigars, which gives nearly 1001. a day. Paying the different duties levied upon their importation, retailing, &c., the best Havannahs can be sold in London at 51. per thousand, which is 18d. for 16, or about lid. a piece ; instead of which they are charged 30s. to 405., and from 3d. to 4d. a piece. The trade between Sydney, New South Wales, and .Bristol is daily increasing. In 1839 five ships went out; in 1840, seven ; and in return a ship-load of wool came from that colony to Bristol. This year it is expected there will be more both of shipping and imported wool. STATXSTZCS. At Bethlehem Hospital there are 156 patients in cus tody, 108 of whom are employed : viz. 40 shirt-making ; 4 dressmaking ; 4 patchwork sewing ; 5 knitting stoek iugs ; 3 fancy work ; 1 tambour work ; 21 laundry ; 17 making and mending clothes ; 7 making straw bonnets, hats, baskets, &c.; 2 millinery; 2 lace-making; 2 em broidery. NAVAL aND IVIXLITAI;LT. . On Tuesday, after the 73d Regiment had been in spected by Major- Gcneral Sir Hercules Pakenham, Lady I'akenham presented the regiment with new colours. They were very splendid, and inscribed with the names of the three places where this brave regiment had dis tinguished itself, " Seringapatam," " and " Waterloo." LAW AND POLXCE. It nppears from a Report made to the Court of Corn mon Council yesterday, that the members of the Court IZSCELL.ELNEOVS. The Tyne Mercury relates the following curious anec. dote :—" A most singular blunder was committed at Barnard-castle last week, by a poor woman residing in Thorngate, the wife of a labouring man. She was deli vered the previous week of a child, which was pro nounced to be a boy, and being rather a weakly plant, the Minister of the Church was sent for. The rites of baptism and christening were performed, and the young ster was named " Richard." About a week afterwards, however, a neighbour discovered the bantling to be a little girl !"—To mistake a Tory for an old woman is a natural enough mistake, the resemblance between the two being so striking ; but to mistake a little girl for a little boy, is a blunder that could only have been made by one who had a true Irish genius for blundering. We ardently hope that during the year of his Mayor alty, Mr. O'Connell, as sworn preserver of the peace, will not be called on to issue a warrant to take himself into custody as a disturber of that peace in his capacity of Repeal Agitator. The public, it seems; will not lose the pleasure to be derived from Vauxhall-gardens. The intention of the parties in possession of the property is, according to re port, to open it next summer as a place of amusement. Under the head " Voracity of the Trout," the Shef field Iris says :—" A singular instance of the voracity of this species of fish was witnessed the other day by one of the disciples of honest Izaack, whilst fishing in the neighbourhood of Chatsworth. The trout was ris ing and running gaily, and among others which he hooked, a fine one rose to his fly, and was taken, which had immediately before seized another fish, which was only half-swallowed, the tail still protruding from his mouth."—This trout must have been a Tory, of the Dundas-and-Bathurst breed. At a late meeting of the Dublin Repeal Association, Mr. O'Connell announced his intention of presenting a petition to the House of Commons. in his robes as Lord Mayor, in favour of a Repeal of the Union ! MISSING by the Bishop of Exeter—the fat rectory of Stanhope of Aldermen, who occasionally officiated at the Town Hall, Southwark, have, in accordance with the opinion of the law officers of the Crown, ceased to give their attendance in that Court: At the Surrey Sessions yesterday, Daniel Mould, aged 21, and David Cox,aged only 17, connected with a gang of depredators who have long infested the neighbourhood of Bletchingly, were sentenced to be transported for seven years, for assaulting and robbing a youth of the name of Flaherty. • Thomas .il'Garry, a constable in the B division, was sentenced by Mr. Gregorie, the Queen -square Magis trate, to be imprisoned, and kept to hard labour, for one month, for being drunk while on duty. k.X.ISCTIONEERING. On Tuesday last a public dinner was given at Alnwick to Lord Howick, in celebration of his Lordship's return for Sunderland, by the Liberal electors of North Nor- thumberland. The company was numerous, and Lord Howick's eloquent address occupied an hour and a half. THEATRICAL. Last night Madame Vestris was attacked with sudden indisposition while performing at Covent Garden, in the new comedy of Old Maids. The farce of Brother Ben was, in consequence, substituted. Miss Adelaide Kemble is daily engaged at Covent Garden Theatre, rehearsing the part of Norma, the cha racter selected for her debut on the metropolitan stage. COURT—FASHIONABLE. Lord and Lady Ashburton are now at their new man sion at Anglesea, near Gosport. Lady Beresford left Boulogne on Wednesday last for Paris. . Lord Cottenhama and his Lady were on a visit to his brother, the Bishop of Worcester, at the Palace, last week. The noble guests left Worcester on Friday. Lord Leigh left Stoneleigh Abbey last week for St. Leonard's-on-Sea. zumouns OF TILE DAY. It is by no means settled that the Hon. W. Temple will permanently represent Queen Victoria at the Court of the King of the Two Sicilies. That Embassy would have been occupied by Lord Burghers'', had not his Lordship's diplomatic abilities found more important oc cupation at Berlin. It is not said how his Lordship's musical taste will be occupied in the Prussian capita]. LLO YD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY LONDON, OCT. 29.—Wind this day at noon, N. to N.E MARGATE, OCT. 28.—Arrd. Olivia, Flushing, with loss of anchor and chain. The stern of a vessel marked "FAizabeth, of Hull," has been washed on shore here. RAMSGATE, OCT. 28.—S1d. Indefatigable, Singapore; Helen, Buenos Ayres; Active, Pernambuco; Aurora, Surinam; Dwina, Ellen, and Esker, Charleston; Briton, Smyrna. The tinisouthetl, bound to Bilbao, in proceed ing to sea, ran against the East Pier, carried away bow sprit, &c., stove bows, &c., and remains. DOVER, OCT. 28.—Thetis, Hartlepool to Weymouth, on shore, near Dungeness , went to pieces yesterday morning, during a havy gale at N.E., materials and stores saved. DEAL, OCT. 28.—Wind N.N.E. strong breeze.—Arrcl. from the River, and sld. Cornwall, Cape Maryland, New Orleans ; Arno, Mobile. The Danish schooner Aperade Packet, is wrecked on the Long Sand; crew saved. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 28.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Queen Mab, China; Enterprise, Calcutta ; Ries Effendi, Monte Video; Occur de Lion, Rio; Thomas Bettersley, Demerara ; Leviathan, Cuba ; Courtney, New Orleans; Leander and Ocean Queen, Savannah; Rival and Renard, Constantinople. I'ORTS3IOUTII, OCT. 28.—Wind N. E.—Ard. the Lord Eldon, London, for Bombay. Sld. St. Vincent Planter, Jamaica. OFF HASTINGS, OCT. 28.—Palembang, Texel, for Batavia. -- COWES, OCT. 28.—Ard. Edward, Stockholm, for Rio. YARMOUTH, OCT. 27.—The Clonmel, from aterford to Suuthton, is on shore near Newtown Creek. FALMOUTH, OCT. 27.—Wind N.E. to N.N.E., fresh gales and squally.—Seabird, London, for Cape Coast Castle ; her Majesty's steamer Pluto, Southton, for Madeira ; G. Ponsonbury, Newry, for London, with loss of anchor and chains. PENzANcE, OCT.•27.—John and Mary, from Bangor to Goole, foundered this morning seven miles to the southward, having been in contact with the brig Matile of Rochelle, crew saved. Two ships and about 100 wind-hound vessels are anchoring in the roads. KINGSTOWN, OCT. 27.—A large vessel is wrecked off Slyne Head, and a great quantity of planks floating about, part of the stern, with Earl of Erroll on it, has come on shore. Conic, OCT. 26.—Arrd Blair, Batavia ; Matchless, with loss of sails, spars, &c., having encountered heavy gales 2d and sth inst. Sld the Sir E. Paget, Sydney. Arrd off; Lord Lambton, Honduras. OFF TIIE OLD HEAD OF KINSALE, OCT. 25.—Ayrshire Lass, St. Domingo ; master, mate, and one seaman dead. WESTPORT, OCT. 25.—Arrd Carolina, St. John's, New Brunswick, with loss of bulwarks, sails, &c. ; the Kentville, sailed five days previous for this port. LIMERICK, OCT. 26.—The Native, which sailed yes terday for Glasgow, has put back leaky. SHIELDS, OCT. 27.—Frederica, Sharlan, in attempting the harbour this morning, got on the Herd Sand, and it is expected will become a wreck crew saved. BRIDLINGTON, OCT. 28.—Adolphus, Dunkirk to Sun derland, is totally wrecked six miles to the southward ; crew saved. SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. (RECEIVED THIS I)AY.) MURSDAY.—Handicap Plate of 501. fur 3 yrs old, &c., 1). 1. Mr. J. Day's Tamburini, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b (Conelly) 1 Mr. Litchwald's Miss Stilton, 3 yrs, Est Mr Payne's Welfare, 4 yrs, Bst 21b Mr. Stirling's the Pocket Viper, 3 yrs, sst Mr. Goodman's Isabella, 6 yrs, 7st 121 b ; Lord Ex eter's Silistrin, 4 yrs, 6st 71b, and Mr. Eddison's Ruler, 4 yrs, Est 716, were not placed. Bettin 6 -2 to 1 agst Welfare, 4 to 1 agst Ruler, 9 to 2 agst Tamburini, 5 to 1 agst Isabella, and 10 to 1 agst Creole. Won cleverly by a length. NURSERY STAKES BETTING.-3 to 1 agst Game Lass filly —offered ; 5 to 1 agst Skipton--taken. Match, 500 Sovs.-5 to 4 on Ralph. The following additional races have been made for Friday and Saturday. FRlDAY.—Handicap of 20 sous. each. T.Y.C. Compensation, 6 yrs, Bst 81b ; The Genius, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b ; Wirrestrew, 5 yrs, 7st 41b ; Ermengardis, 3 yrs, 7st 21b ; Tragedy colt, 4 yrs, 6st 101 b ; Palemon, 3 yrs. 6st 71b ; and Abydos, 3 yrs, Est 41b. MATCHES. 50, h. ft., first half of Ab. M.—Sister to Glencoe, Bst 71b agst c by Camel, out of Cecilia, Bst 31b. 100, h ft., D.M.—Vulcan, Bst 71b, agst Scutari, Bst 51b. 50, first half of Ab. M.—Bridal, Bst 71b, agst Topsail, Bst 41b. SATURDAY.—Match, 100, h. ft.—Vulcan, Bst 101 b, agst Cameleon, 7st 121 b. At the Herne Bay Steeple Chase, on Tuesday, the first race was won by Mr. H. Powlett's Perfection, and the second by Mr. Davis's Little Robert. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. We regret to say there was some ground for the ru moured indisposition of her Majesty Queen Adelaide. Our readers, however, will be delighted to find from the accompanying medical certificate that her Majesty is now better : " Sudbury Hall, Oct. 27, 1841. " Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has been suffering for the last few days from catarrhal affection, which is now gradually giving way, and her Majesty is better this morning. " D. DAVIES, M.D." It is with great regret that we inform the public that Mr. Thomas Philipps, a geneeman well known and valued in the musical world, and for many years n favour ite singer at the leading theatres, met with a most shock ing accident, on Wednesday last, on the Birmingham and Liverpool Grand Junction Railway, and which, we are sorry to say, has ended in his death. We understand it was purely accidental, caused entirely by his own impru dence, and that no blame whatever is attributable to the railroad people. The melancholy accident occurred at the Ilartfi)rd station, where he alighted for a few moments, and was attempting to regain his seat wh e n th e tra i n moved onwards and threw him under the wheels, break ing both his legs and causing his death almost instanta neously. Mr. Philipps quitted the stage several years ago, having secured for himself a comfortable independ ence, and had latterly devoted his time and talents in giving lectures upon vocal music. lie was much appre ciated as a lecturer, and the Directors of most of the literary and scientific institutions in the tuetropolis were in the habit of availing themselves of his talents. As a private individual he was much esteemed by a large of acquaintance, who must bitterly lament so awful a ter mination to his earthly career Gol asd the same before, 948. The English Stock Market continues flat and b s erig Consols have further decl;n:d to 87 1 for Money, s7,lce for the Account, which is a fall of near 4. per cent,, Si, yesterday morning. Thrt e per Cents. Reduced 108, '6 4 861- ; Three and Half ditto, 9C4 1 ; Bank Sto 163+ 164 ; Exchequer Bills not quoted. Aet The principal business doing in the Foreign 315-1,;c13 is the settlement of the Half-monthly Account, vvtlio has gone on well up to the present time.-- 13 1 11 ,1 to Bonds have been done at 57, but have since receuel; 55; Colombian are 18! 19 ; Mexican firm at 'Of Spanish Active Stock, 20/ 4.; Dutch Two-and 4" per Cents. 511 ; ditto Fives 99. .ato o Very little doing in Shares. London and Br l b„ o tca are heavy at 15 dis; London and Birmingham arc at 156 ; Great Western, 75-i 76i • North .IW."'" Thirds, 9 ; York and North Midland, ' 78i. TWO O'CLO Consols, Money, 87 ; 1 ; Ditto, Account, 881 ; can, 241 ; Spanish, 201 1. gif• QUARTER TO Tri'` — te the The mere rumour that Government might dislin'-,ooa payment of the surreptitious bills, led to 3 ° i , o it deal of excitement late yesterday afterno on, bat l a for parties are of opinion that there is no gron ll ps iD apprehension on this point, as the Governmen t , fact no choice in the matter, and must liquidate a be. Money tight in the City, with the prospect ° pot coming more so, if the Exchequer Bill ma rket be speedily righted. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. ..2 43 India Stock ...... .•... • A pr Ditto Bonds ......... . ..... IDitto Old Annuities Boi Ditto New Annuities.:; phi ,Ex. Bills, 1,00 0 /... 31 " Ditto 500/...- ..... pto Ditto Small. ••• Bank Stock for Acct... India Stock for A c ct.... 1 - 5 :4 Consols for Acct ...... ..• Bank Stock 1631- 3 per Cent Red B6l 3 per Cent Cons BB 3i per Cent Red 93a New 3i per Cent 9B New 5 per Cent — Long Annuities to expire Jan 1860 .. 12i Oct 1859.... — Jan. 1860. _l2a FUNDS. cent Portuguese, 5 pe r Ditto, New Ditto ......... Prussian, 5 per cen t ' "' Russian, 5 per e Dsvitatnoi,shlll7llistapere ... ...... en Ditto, Deferred ...... t French, 5 per cent. . E F : e e l ! I c a h n , g 3 e • p • • e • r • - c Eli t te :s 2 g e c r en ce t n ...... .. SHARES 76 Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid 6 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid ).. td Ditto New Shares ( paid) 15 6 Leaden and Birmingham (90) Ditto Thirds (32 paid) ............ London and Greenwich Railway (20, -pd) Ditto New Shares (21 paid) ..........•••• Ditto Scrip. (61 1 paid) North Midland Railway (100 paid) ...... ..• Ditto Thirds (10 paid) ..................... 7Ei York and North Midland Railway (50 paid ) -rN A THE MARKETS—THIS m CORN EXCHANGE. A ll. The . supp7;Fs of Grain this week have been „n l ion ja) of Flour good. English Wheat obtained )..bioller prices, and Foreign met a good demand a t rail'''. jig° terms. Other Grain firm, at previous quotation' met a ready sale at former rates. SMITHFI ELD MARKET. b u t 0 1° of The supply of Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs was on. 1 rate, the demand dull, and prices withoutalter an e t . Calves the supply was plentiful, the trade brit. Wl': previous prices were fully realised. Beasts, 4 4 9 ' lO 44 ; 429 ; Pigs, 483 ; Calves, 21 9 . Beef , 3s. 6• 55. Mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 10d. ; Veal, 4 s. 4d. ,"' Pork, ss. to ss. 6d. en d COLONIAL MARKET. c letn,e The market was firm; from the home trade 11- 0 , ) was good, but the shippers operated with cautin imports were fair. pit f) FO1:EIG. Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent lO2l Brazilian 80nd5.... ssi Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 ler cent — Ditto, 1824. Danish, 3 per cent 7Bb Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 24i Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. CRIMINAL COURT—('PHIS OLD COURT.. he P re , Samuel Whapbam, aged 38, who during .t. dictin to d sessions had pleaded not guilty to three of prc v it charging him with uttering forged Bank c 'd v erve notes, was this morning placed at the bar, all his plea of not guilty and pleaded Guilty. 0 4 Sentence deferred. „ t , e a 0 ,;.110t . POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.—Thornas Poor, al, ban k indicted for stealing a post letter containing° vi l. per value 51., the property of the Postmaster-Gene prise/ It appeared from the evidence that th a gr bo r was a shopman in the employ of Mr. Pa we ;lo. s° • 9 o o residing 7; in Maddox-street, Regent-stree t, n tAee., the was also a receiving-house for the l'na' r ter ll3 ,teC the 21st of September last, Hugh Jones, a P` l 'd le' o e employ of Mr. Myers, of Conduit-street, Pos!fi v g directed Mrs. Myers, Herne Bay, at the ree ei 'd epo .. „'" f er of Mr. Dawes. In that letter Mr. Myers it. i r ate a five-pound note and a piece of cambri c ' m ail °, l ' reached its destination. James King, a sh °l3— , arl' e e ss ' Dawes, had received the letter from ,Thn e l i acl a c t , placed it in a drawer, to which the witnessoe le so t The prisoner had assisted King in sorting er iva ° 10 3 that evening. The next morning the pri:on iso per., e 3 into the City, and a person resembling the If i d rec e !fli° changed the note at the Bank of England, and four sovereigns and twenty shillings in s " nis; - 01 10 person changing the note had written 44 ri "5 o fn t° and address on the back of it , lio jer, 107, Oxford-street." The handwriting wa, by Mr. Dawes as resembling that of !" t! 10 1 3 0 1 He was taken into custody, and on seareinnlecloseefe ing the piece of cambric, which had been 1 0 0 r 6 if° Mr. Myers in the letter was found there, an d 5 ° 5 • -00e r I'o ll reigns were also found there which the prls,,, pre og said her husband had brought home on t''aeat Wednesday. The prisoner received an ece ' ratter. The Jury without hesitation found the prian T l e e A o r (I , t r• and he was sentenced to transportation f or 12/yr: 'oe' The Attorney-General, Mr. Shepherd, 0;20° riey conducted the prosecution, and Mr. . 1 " • P e t fended the prisoner. ,le A t t „ ANOTHER POST-OFFICE ROBBERY. ---0.'7" v 07",„ bone, aged 38, was indicted for stealing-li fp , containing one sovereign, he being employed nera c 03 1 : 40"„ Itappeard that in consequence of var.°A - e i c ien'yoPf of the miscarriage of money letters in the y A, t he ith o r district, in which the prisoner was ernPlni7 t he l'i e tt e t office authorities, in order to test 0 / , s ire c i i October last, enclosed a marked sovereig. 60 01 v r' directed Mr. E. 2,l`Gowan, 16, Great Wil l oa tb e io Haymarket, and placed the letter among t s „, ii soner was sorting, so as that it should be .g l i o f %n o r that trees ite' deliver. Mr. M`Gowan, who had been app about to be done, gave information th o l e lie/ had not been received by him. Thep r e is to elt o; te r mediately arrested and searched, and th i , g _ ou pe j reign was found in his pocket, and on es-. 0 11.,, the t ree closet, to which the prisoner had been dur'"owore r r herd coe, ' ' e underneathofthemo nitnhgo, sink.fragm entsthe erin e f of th e torte sn The prosecution in this , as in th shep eg conducted by the Attorney-General, Du &int, Mr. Gurney. ' s ea th e 0 0 1° Mr. CLARKSON', for the defence, ra ised ,_ fte r e to whether, under the circumstances, t ad bP saandrc')oz Yost-letter, t d e e r d , 1 3 been consideredposted, in consequence.that l e 13 The ATTORNEY-GENERAL contended ~0 1p rtr • tile 1 ()" w it °' the sovereign being the property 0 1 ,a co neral, was Ancient to sustain the see°. „ t o e li t indictment. 'nt for 31.° Mr. BarOII"GURNEY reserved the, pOl stehettitehiet hinadivnieral eot ry as 01 The Jury found the prisoner GuiltY. EVENING SUN GOVERNMENT NOTICE RELA TIVE TO EXCHEQUER BILLS. pub" lie order, as far as possible, to reliev e the pnv lie from the anxiety occasioned by the recent disclosures as to the forgery of Exchequer Bills, the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chan cellor of the Exchequer think it rig ht to nounce that there is no reason to believe that any Exchequer Bills issued in March or June last by the Paymaster of Exchequer Bills Ira n their office, in regular exchange for bills of an antecedent date, are other than genuine; They think it right further to give notice, that all Exchequer Bills brought to the office of the Comptroller-General of the Exchequer, will be examined and compared with the counterfoils in the said office, and such as correspond with the counterfoils will be certified as genuine, an" stamped accordingly. The First Lord of the Treasury and the Chan cellor of the Exchequer have caused this notifi cation to be made, at the earliest period at which it was possible to make it, consistently with a du o examination into the circumstances of the case. Downing-street, Oct. 28, 1841. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW S CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCIC. A L IVERP OOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 'B:—The deraani for Cotton to-day has been very limite d, and the t°,‘t3, sales do not exceed 3,6 00 bales , all of whic h are taliell the trade. The Market throughout the day has been fel quiet, and prices are without the lea st change tot° Saturday. ,„ b si- L IVERP OOL SHARE MARKET, OCT. 28.-1 411 s• ness done in the Share Market to-day is to a limited e:c tent, • the following are the transactions—Grand J11,11ce; tion, 190 ; London and Birming ham, 156 ; 1N Shares, 231. o WO M ANC HESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 20. have no particular change to note in our Market to-dai; business but limited. The sales are Li v e r p ool and Mcr, chester, Quarter Shares, 46 i ; Ma n c hester and Le 561 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 24 ; London and BirIPLI/' ham, 321. Shares, 23k. From the official notice published respecting quer Bills, it inferred that business will soon re 0113? - mence in these Bills, without a guarantee , as the still' will be sufficient to warrant the validity of the Bills. THE FUNDS. g ad The English Stock, Market opened very 1 ,5 heavy. Consols are 87i 88 ; Ditto, for Account, Sabi. A In consequence of the non-arrival of the French there is but little business doind'in the Foreign Secuf.i;s Spanish Active Stock opened flat at 26* whic% l r decline of per cent. upon the closing price of yor day. No alteration in any of the other Securities. There are no arrivals to-day from any' quarter. HALF PAST The Ilamburgh mall, with the letters and paP el loi Tuesday, have just arrivei. The exchange on Bnesi. comes half schillinglower,the quotation being'l3*