The Sun. — London, England, 1841-11-24 00:00:00

MORNING SUN ..."ettiVrtz is sh o t b y C ount Hermann, he discovers till i l eret of Itis bi rt h , and on being appealed to by Count 1111411 n, Caspar swears never t o name th e Count as his Per secutor, and never to bring sh ame on hi s , mother, by e i v is e par alhlg the relationship subsisting between them. (1 4 . has nothing then to live for but love.l He loves Eve ,- 4 :Howard) the betrothed of Ernest (Mr. Seaman), et,,,,,_34t1ng Physician, who has been hi s g uar di an an d in . f, -;"'"r• She tells him she pities, and has the greatest ,k -- gnill for him, b u t th at s h e i s b etrot h e d to E rnest. B,."nulaission arrives from Vienna, to inquire into the zY or Caspar. He appears before it, performs his pro dose to Count Hermann and to his mother, and having ee ri e so, swallows poison. The piece is of French Petted, and therefore, as might have been the love-making of Caspar is rather more sentiment and polished then could have been ex- AlPeeted from a man who hail passed the greater Pri t t o f his life in a dungeon. It was too conventional. 4 ,, e introduction of many of the incidents also tended to Mute, we may be allo - wed the expression, the charac her, "spar Hauser, down to that of a melodramatic eh • There was, however, sufficient of the original i peter of that extraordinary being remaining . to . af ll' an actor of talent such opportunities of displaying th P c 'vevs 43 seldom occur on the boards of a minor the e ' and it was in the hands . of an actor of : 3 'ugnest talent. Mr. E. F. Saville's Caspar Hat!- xp r „,, a Personation of no ordinary character. His With °n of admiration and delight, not unmingled fir st ' e ar, on beholding • light and life for the Was l e on his emerging from his dungeon, a ver fine • piece of acting, and in the scene he ll e „ ,t , the Count, after the latter has shot Schwartz, ter r itbited a wild and savage energy that was perfectly ken - 116 Pattie terror at the lightning in the last thr e t w its most beautifully and naturally given, and ~iatighout the character he exhibited a power, a pathos, t„ b a kn owledge o f p i cturesque e ff ect w hi c h prove hi m dee I ' let only a man of first-rate talent, but one who has t, tPhY studied his profession. It is well worth a visit 11 1 , e Yietoria to see Mr. E. F. Saville's Caspar Hauser. 14 114 i : e " was conipletely. successful. The house, as was crowded. 1 401,11,1-4 Y . —__--- and COMMERCIAL NEWS. I 'll t I, CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. "ithtjunds maintained the firm appearance assumed cress ' Yesterday, and there was a good deal of bust taki,transacted, the advance being i per cent., and, thies"6,Qte lowest r a t es o f y es t er d a y, per cent. No ill r t L t urth -4- er has tr ans pi re d y e t c l a i m i ng s p ec i a l notice, I 'Mee to th e E xc h equer bill affair. Foreign m . 14 at present is very meagre, if we except only s lt Proving appearance o f thi ngs in Sp a in. Cons o l s the - -- int transf er were quote d 881, to 89*, while for th4ett l an et nent on Thur s d a y th e quo t a ti on was n o t higher s for b oa '. At th e c l ose o f t h e d a y , h owever , t h e prices t he: Were 88* to 89. Exchequer bills were much •QoeCet bein g mar k e d 9s. to 10s. premium, and India ialf, w ere 3s. t o 2 s . premium. The New Three-and- It ~,,,Per, Cents. range d f rom 98k to 99k, and the Three Nv ed - Z Annuities from 87k to 88. Bank Stock im :tie -0 . " 165 , and East Indi a Stock was firm at 249. 4 8 . , '"Oreh i el fin Market is in rather a good position, in I lleh," . ,ence of an i ncrease d d es i re to specu l ate i n Spa *re rl '' P ortugues e Securities. Spanish Active Bonds Ntequoted 221 and 231, closing at 23i- to I ; Portu- Pet c el , lC ew Five per Cents. were 321, and the Three j il t , t riat i - , ) , ts , 19 i—a slicrlit advance upon each, but with :.'i ",," 'wing. Colombian Six per Cents. were 19A to "(t k t z i l ' 4 Mexican 25* to I. Passive Spanish Bonds Ce nts, e t elti t in at 5; 1 4 to 6. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per T hey 51i to SQ. Lii Nrk j e t wcis not much business done in the Share LI e,s.o-day, but the bargains entered into were at I ,„"er e beevious rates. Birmingham and Southampton x7est er , s ett er ; London and Birmingham were 67 ; South k7° 1 143. r . 16 i ; Great Western New 6i ; and York an d nth 3i 16k 37 premium ; Brighton were 12. i, and nth stand 24 discount. London Joint Stock Bank NThe Wer e 2 4 • and Provincial Bank of Ireland 15:1 prem. C o r ri e ,is std a good supply of bills for remittance to 1 fallou t t ale and this bas kept up the quotations, be -12 14 ' I'4t'l t lv :—Paris, 25f. 72c. to 77f. ; Amsterdam, 1,•,! ) 1 Antwerp, 12 4 ; Hamburgh, 13 loi to i ; ~ ,i i„, iort, 150 • and Trieste 9 51 to 53. ‘! le follow ' . . hil f Ing are the official returns of the export! of A td r ° ll l the Port of London, for the week ending, s'll a Y last • tt Cora . to Hamburgh s. ". Rotterdam llO,OOO ... '.. British West Indies Calais 70,000 ""irs to Calais 130,000 „ ••• Rotterdamn 40,000 ••. liamburgh 58,000 h _tp tur. (Front the The Sun of last night.) I'bti for °°L COTTON MARKET, Nov. 22.—The de lishtiesr_otton to-day has been confined Ito the lower I the r LI ilknieFican, but holders will not submit . toa ‘ l t etY ;enen-e 11 :1 Prices, the quotation of Friday being IL4Winch hav e maintained. The sales are 3,000 bales, all v.titpo been taken by the trade. i' et ,ions at t h e MARKET, NOV. 22.—The tran -I,k ' , ,11:13.12u; ti O's! 18S6tock Exchange this day are in le ' ll v' th s, :* 0 /lares, 52;11;,0nd0n and Birmingham, 155; London and South Western, Ik tl Count.' Manche-ster Bolton, and Bury, 524; Mid -1/4k ties Qua, , 1 414 cuRar E , s , ter Shares, 201. f‘t a ver y' inani rna -c "k EXCHANGE, Nov. 22.—We have nd 0, have rather te Market, little business done, a <lliirinin i er a do_ award , w rd tendency. Manchester , \N I.6u -1_ ,.. gmligatitne'b23 Man v c a hester and Leeds, Quarters, tkit°Wards the _ ester and Liverpool District Bank, 14. 4, bi ls i ness A .clos . e of business yesterday there was _a a 4 4e e d " ° 2 1 . 1 . 1g in the British Securities, and Consols Oki, to 8 8 8 89 for Money and the present Account, +ie r t., Shave they opened this morning ; Exche- R 111 i ' i lS have also improved to 9 11 prem. ,N, i ',','e Foreign Market the speculation in Spanish i ' i llet t n! continues ; the Active Stock bits further ad 111‘1, 4 11 ,1 s morning to 234 ,i- ; Deferred, 114 12 ; Pas "l4 ,4. Portuguese Securities have also improved; Ol e „Per Cents. are 31- 4 - 3 32 . 1 ; and the Threes 14 hlla e i 'nglish Market continues without alteration. ~,'4l . : a !or Money have r . eached 89*, at which price ~.'' te d as been done during the morning; they are now kmt 74 et, b oth for M one y and the Account, 89; Three s, I t s. Redu ce d, 88 ; New Three-and -a-Half_p 3 er . Il e ' " 8 11; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 9 , it !I I th e Bills, 911 • and India Bonds, 2 3 prem. . Zl l ,s 4 SP, P ; () lselgn Market the principal business doing t i " l ish Stock, which have been done as high as pi, are now steady at 231 k ; Passive 5 : 4 1 ; De kg,,,Ne r ,1 2 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 321 ; Ditto, '''tt- 1-1. Cents 191 • Colo mbian,l9/ • Dutch Two l/aif ~ ~ . , _ t4 (1 4 th e h Per Cents., 511 ; Ditto Fives, 991. I \r,' with are Market there is not a great deal doing, vqe r ,, , the exception of the London and South r.vt4i4tr. Which have advanced from 531 to 55, there is I ti k; ori aol l° r l from former quotations. t ta h ', Account, 88* 89 ; ditto, for January, 89i- i ; 1 1 1 1 ',Ati l : se, 32 1 .1 ; Spanish, 231 i• A e LY li t T l :n n e f tl..ry and commercial . circles to-day there O k i -, ord i - interest transpiring. 1 1 ' th e ng to a statement published in our Jour 4, til e ittlennt of fomed Exchequer bills detained tll N ' l t th, c'aptroller General is 300,000/., and 84 a tti kt t a nd t _he majority of the holders are of clia tatt„ iko res pectability, and consequently, mus . t . have kili : l n?' 'we hayssession of them in a, . Jegitunate . :f) 'tl o% , e only to mention as some ,of .the names ‘.1.41 4 b N4 _of Messrs. Coutts for 40,0001., the London az •q; i. .tank. kr • qtv , Messrs. Scott, merchants; Mr. Hicks, 441 11 14 tai for Anderson. and others. The more the . 14 Lo h e and thought of, the more certain does it 1, 'lye e n 'ill ts B tr a - kle that payment to every holder who can ' l4 ustZ tre 'rward and honest possession of the forged , x nade. a sk h i CLOSING PRICES Ott Qt(ltitlz,. BRITISH FUNDS. at t t t. R ******* 165 India Stock ..... ....249 \ * ( 'tit ~., e (l. .... ....: 88 Ditto Bonds '' - )t 3 i eetit - `, 4 's ........ 881 'Ditto Old Annuities . Lied. INS Per e_, • ...... 971 :Ditto . New Annuities — 'ti .l'r tint, ......... 981 t Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 10pm clz tritirt ......... Ditto 5001.... 9 pin (k 1 11;0 1 "toexpi re Ditto Small. . 1 1 1 • ... kli. .59. -•• 12 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct — I 1 %0, ........ 12i India Stock for Acct — ...... Oi t t l . !Consols for Acct BB/ , 5 D „,,, FOREIGN FUNDS. Illi , 4e Cent.... _ Portuguese, 5 per cent. p._ ku r ee _ (.05174 olltis emit ...... ___ Ditto t New Ditto 32* C, N I '`Yre s ~ "• • ...... Prussian, 5 per cent — 0, 0 : ti N .: Per cell Russian, 5 per cent _ i , t to:', l4l l . '„ e ent•. Ditto, Metallic — t i V2 - Per cent: _ Spanish, 5 per cent 22i tlt4c? Per ..... ... . ..... Ditto, Deferred ... 12 L i ts k, s, , lit. • ...... french, 5 per cent. —f.... f. : c c .. 100,5 ' Per cent. ..._ Exchange 1,1 .% per cent.... French, 3 percent —f. —c t) mr ee N ito nt, 1825 Dutch, 2* per cent .51 5, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. G I . SHARES b e lt lttW,n i tern Rail wa y( 65 p a id) — , . 13it t ° 0 1. evi Shares (50 p a id s6* 14,41., fifth (4 paid) 1. 0 , t 1 1 arid Brighton (50 paid) 37i • bi,',4 an d Birmingham (90) ......... ... .. 157 ~ , 4.0,4 0 ' oNew Shares ( 2 paid) - 944 tk a f ' 1)4 1,114 Greenwich Railway (20 pd) .„ Di tto --ev , Shares (20 paid) 7ihtklo 1 / 4 ' 5 ,_ fiP• (6* paid) ...ia llo z : tun South Western bit to est ,er and Leeds (70 paid) . ... .. --- ot ith , 'quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 2* x (irk ' -a sbern and Dover (43 paid)... k blill " B7 ki t trd, ItSE North Midland Railway (50 paid) 10 4, crn OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). Atem t , igh t ***C P. 12 8 ;Gibraltar... 1101.. ......... 12 5 Leghorn • ... 30 45 ',,ilia,, .. • •••• •'• 2 11. 12 84'Genoa 25 90 11 r g h .... . ........ 12 7 Milan • 3l 4 i k lli, 4 •• ...... IN1 :11. 13 13b; Venice 47 to ,:ii:3;;;•., ........ • . 13 14 Naples .. . 39i hP h eiii t tc , litl%g l ' t ••• 25 60 Palermo, per oz •118k k 14 t1,: , ............ 25 85 Lisbon ' i 11 Nit c. ," 4 ' 1 •.... . ••• •• • • 25 4 0 Oporto s2* lk• rgb rt 0 , if : ...... 25 90 Rio Janeiro 27 Pli . '"rgh, a a n ' i le••• 150 i Bahia I, i N-• ... -s ••• 37i Buenos Ayres 0,„ Ile e : •ii ~ ..... 7 New York, 21 days sight 4611 ti, i ' tint () • ' c )1 ‘1. 53 Philadelphia 46 11jiTt ••• ........ ••• 955 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. 80(i'•• ........ ..... 36 'Portugal Gold Coin .E 3 17 5 Nt41 . 0 - • ~. .. '• •• ..... 36 Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9 vill t ai L ."• ..... •-• 36 New Doubloons OO 0 '].. .•••'•• ...... 36 New Dollars. 0 4 10* •• . ......._"•••••• 36 Sil • in Bars... 0 4 11* 11,, h e tit ______ „_......_4 2f k kii tti ktif Y cl Exeter, with a less population, and ! ) f 41 11 k tUres 1 `'e.- 1 , (4. d. - os . , las more depositors and a larger %,,Nr: Qrs a y .P, lts.than Manchester with its thousands 1 1 % t ile sitn9 artisans ;" and the with of Edinburgh, ): 1 4.,.k a pe4.Yl'ags' Bank System has not been in use for Fkik 4 ta tile n t 'd as in Manchester; actually rivals the fits Ti lt Itilaber and value of its business in these Z ti4 t l l 4l t hat the inference to be drawn from these i,ltri, a to,, k _ le debating leader of the Anti-Corn-law ; t et4,4and , lial'ac't Kadin to weigh his ad captandum re tit;lN4 oos e 4g a plausible answer to the mann 4, li b . , hand, he could not resist the temptation ' s ll l ' "'own u , f (= elan trap,_ ew party cheers, by giving circula r Glasgo w Argus. 1 CORN LAWS. MEETING .AT ST. MARGARET'S AND ST JOHN'S, WESTMINSTER. A preliminary meeting, called by circular of the inha bitants, friends of .commercial reform, of York-street, Westminster, and its neighbourhood, was held last-even ing at the Coach and Horses, York-street, for the pur pose of forming a branch Anti-Corn-laW Association fur the parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster. Mr. BUNGY took the chair at nine o'clock, and briefly stated the object of the meeting, and concluded by read ing the circular calling the meeting together. , Mr. HARRIS rose to propose the first resolution, that a branch Anti-Corn-law Association be immediately formed auxiliary to the Metropolitan Anti-Cern-law Association, for the purpose of forwarding the cause of free trade by petitioning Parliament, and other means that might be deemed advisible. Mr. HOGG seconded the resolution. Before it was put, Mr. BUBB said, he thought their first object was to obtain the Charter. The Corn-law people were trying to put down the Chartists, by throwing obstacles in the way, and preventing their holding public meetings. A short conversation ensued on this subject, and the resolution was put and carried. Mr. HATTERSLEY proposed the following resolution : —" That a Committee be now appointed, with power to add to their number, for the purpose of carrying out the foregoing resolution ; that Mr. Bungy be requested to act as Secretary ; and that the meeting do adjourn to Thursday week next." This resolution was seconded by a Gentleman, whose name we did not hear. The resolution was then put and carried. A short conversation then ensued between Messrs. Wickham, of the Parent Association, Mr. Huggett, and other gentlemen, relative to the prospects of the As sociation. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated at ten o'clock. REPUDIATED EXCHEQUER BILLS. A Correspondent has communicated to us the follow ing list of persons who hold the above description of do cuments, to the amount of above 300,0001. The list, we apprehend, is not perfect : Bank of En.gland £B,ooo Coutts and Co., bankers 40,000 Ransom and Co.,ditto 26,000 Price and itto 20,000 Curries and C0., d0., ditto 12,000 London Commercial Bank ll,OOO Bell and Co., solicitors Bell and Broderip, ditto 33,000 Shearman, merchapt John and W. Scott, merchants lichens, broker Barnes, ditto 12,000 Solomons, ditto 4,000 Harrison; ditto 6,000 Shaw, City Treasurer 40,000 Major Anderson £311,000 THE CORN-LAWS AND TOE DIS- SENTERS. The Rev. Mr. Wells, the minister of the Surrey Ta bernacle in the Borough-road, and the congregation connected with that place of worship, has set an example to the Dissenters of the various religious denominations in this country, which requires only to be known to be adopted, that of making a collection after the morning and evening service of Sunday, to promote the repeal of the Corn-laws. The above place of worship, which is of considerable size, is capable of containing about 1,200 persons, and upon Sunday evening there could not have been less than 1,000 present. _ _ _ Upon it being announced that the collection was finished, the Rev. Mr. Wells said that while the amount was being made up, he would give out a hymn, which was accordingly sung. Shortly after the hymn had terminated, the Rev. Mr. Wells announced that the amount of subscriptions was 231. Os. 9d., which, with some little deductions for the printing of the bills, announcing the intended collection, would be paid over to the Anti-Corn-law League; and as a notice of the collection would appear in the " Circular" of that Association, he was anxious to ascertain whether the congregation approved of the course which he had adopted. He thought the best and most satisfactory manner to arrive at that opinion would be by a show of hands, and therefore he would request all those who were in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws, and approved of the course which he had adopted, to hold up their hands. A forest of hands responded to this appeal. The Rev. Mr. WATTS—On the contrary, yours.— About a dozen *hands supported the appeal. The Rev. Gentleman observed that he was glad to find that his congregation approved of the course which he had adopted. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ASHDOWN PARK COURSING MEETING. MONDAY.—The Cup—Mr. W. Etwall's Westwind ran a bye ; Mr. Etwall's Eardrop beat Mr. E. Cripp's dog ; Mr. Baildon's Barrier, Mr. Stone's Saladin, Mr. Good lake's Gentility, Mr. Morant's Mischief, Mr. Agg's Aid de-Camp ran a bye ; Mr. Lawrence's Longstock beat Mr. Bennett's Berry ; Mr. Stone's Sprite beat Mr. Cripp's dog; Mr. Baildon'sßashfulran a bye. The Derby Stakes.—Mr. Goodlake's Gladiator beat Mr. Lawrence's Lamborne ; Mr. Etwall's Eton Boy ran a bye • Mr. Baildon's Barricade beat Mr. W. Etwall's Whifflr ; Mr. Morant's Mussulman beat Mr. Bowles's Bagdad ; Mr. Morant's The Moor beat Mr. 'Cripps's ; Mr. E. Cripps's ran a bye ; Mr. Baildon,s Byron beat Mr. H. Etwall's Will Watch; and Mr. Bail don's Barkley beat Mr. W. Etwall's Exchequer Bill. The Oaks Sta.kcs.—Mr. Bennett's Belter beat Mr. Lawrence's Lancet; Mr. Baildon's Barbara beat Mr. Morant's Margaret; Mr. Bowles' Bussora run a bye; Mr. W. Etwall's World's End beat Mr. Puzey's Parthinope; Mr. Agg's Amazon beat Mr. Goodlake's Madame Grisi; Mr. W. Etwall's Excuse Me beat Mr. E. Cripps' —; Mr. Agg's Alcohol beat Mr. Bennett's Buzzard; Mr. Baildon's Baffle beat Mr. Cripps' HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The Duke of Beaufort's hounds, Friday, at Chavenage Green ; Saturday, the Bell, Old Sudbury-10i. The Craven hounds, Friday, Great Shefford ; Satur day, East Woodbury Down-10i. Earl Fitzwilliam s hounds, Thursday, the Kennel-10. The Kendal Harriers, Friday, Milnethorpe— 9. The N.F.H., Thursday, New House ; Saturday, King's Copse. The Vine Hounds, Friday, Bramley-11. The Odiham harriers, Thursday, the Kennel-10. The Hursley hounds, Friday, Ashley Wood-104. The U.P. hounds, Friday, Wheelton-11. The Whitefield harriers, Friday, Norton, Gloucester road-10. The Carlisle hounds,Thursday, Sebergh am Bridge-10. The Wigton harriers, Friday, Hesket New Market-8. The Union harriers, Friday, Raby-9. The Eamont harriers, Saturday, Armathwaite-10i. Sir John Cope's hounds, Friday, West Green ; Satur day, Burfield Scrubbs. Mr. Brand's hounds, Friday, Hexton-14. Sir W. Carew's hounds, Thursday, Thorns. The F.8.H.. Thursday, Roserow-104. Mr. Watson's hounds, Thursday,Woodhorn Moor-10. Sir M. W. Ridley's hounds, Thursday, Higham Dykes; Saturday, Newton Underwood-10i. The Haydon hounds, Saturday, Gunnerton--9. The Allendale hounds, Saturday, Bruntridge. The Slaley Hounds, Saturday, Swallow Slip-9. The Torquay harriers, Thursday, Higher Rocombe, The Ayrshire hounds, Thursday, Stairbridge ; Satur day, Sornbeg-101. Boroughbridge harriers. Friday, Thornton Bridge, 101. Chesterfield harriers, Friday, Glasshouse Common, 94. Mr. Wyndham's hounds, Friday, KnoyleWindmill, 10. Lord Portman's hounds, Friday, Milton Park. The Middleton harriers, Friday, Upton Lovell. The H.H., Thursday, Nutley Church ; Saturday, Grey well Hill. Mr. Farquharson's hounds, Friday, Winford. Hambledon hounds, Friday, Swaumore House-101. The 8.V.H., Saturday, Stalbridge Hill. Col. G. Wyndham's hounds, Thursday, Valdoe Cop pice-113-. Carmarthen hounds, Friday, Bronwydd Arms-10. Pantykendy hounds, Thursday, Llanwch-9. Tivyside hounds, Thursday. Coedmore Lodge Gate, 10. Viscount Emlyn's hounds, Friday, Hoplas Gate-11. Pembrokeshire hounds, Thursday, Nayland—lo. EMIGRATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin—Seeing that a great movement is in embryo to seduce an immense troop of our suffering countrymen out to the inhospitable shores of Australia, in order that the cry of distress may be shipped away out of our hearing, I cannot but rejoice to find an able, influential, and ster ling advocate like yourself coming before th e wo rld, and lifting up his voice against the dastardly contrivance, in -sufferable deception, and reckless project of our enlight ened governors, who are busy to bring about this false and extravagant expedient. it The money-makers, land jobbers, ship-owners, emigration -agents, and emigration puffers have had quite too long their own way, and it is full time that we should be shown the other side of the picture. Hundreds of families who were doing well in England have been induced, by the lying advertisements of such parties, to give up the i r all , and sink themselves down in the illusive enterprise of emigration. Thousands, I can assert, are now pining away in our Australian pro vinces, without work , subsistence, or hope, who, had they stayed at home, and had common liberty been granted them for the play of their industry, would have been living in their native country, surrounded with comforts. Works have been printed and largely circulated to work 'upon the public feeling ; no money has been spared for this purpose (because it always afterwards pays) to get purchasers to the land sales ; but any attempt that has been made to interrupt, or cause a pause for considera tion, has always, by well-managed means,been putdown. Hence I am glad and grateful for the charity ycu have shown to arrest the current of rapine and destruction now in operation. Few, it is true, have spoken ill of the colonies ; but some have attempted to make people ac quainted with the prospects awaiting them. I read a pamphlet published by Smith and Elder, by a Mr. Dixon, who resided ten years in the colonies of Australia. He speaks very differently about an adventure to Australia to what those do who li ve i n L on d on , an d have an inte rest in sending their fellow-creatures into exile and po verty. But such works as this are put aside. They must not be brought into light ; no, no, it would never answer. But I trust it w ill answer you to persev ere, and write down all false, wicked, and inhuman imposi tions. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ONE 'WHO ONCE THOUGHT OF EMIGRATING. Leicester, Nov. 17, 1841. We have heard-that a Puseyite Curate of the Established Church at Lichfield was, on Sunday last, or dained a Romari Catholic priest.—Leeds Mercury. THE LATE LORD ELGIN. " INfoc,,Fc, Efrz xat xafiTt: PLUTARCII, Periel. ch. 13. This Nobleman, to whom England is indebted for. the most exquisite collection of statues and antiquities that ever adorned a land—monuments of art, which Plutarch spoke of in the phrase above, "as transcendant for their grace and for their beauty,"—died at his residence in Paris last Sunday. Hereafter the marbles which are called by his name will be the best monument to his remembrance, and their history a lasting memorial to the boldness and perseverance which he displayed on the occasion of transferring. from a foreign soil, and from the hands of illite rate and destructive Moslemin, the noblest relics of Athens, after they had lain almost unnoticed, and corroded by the lapse of 2,500 years. Thomas Bruce, K.G., late Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, and also Baron Bruce of Kinloss and of Torry in the peerage of Scotland, was born on the 20th of July, in the year 1766. Hav ing entered the army, he rose through its seve ral grades till he arrived at the rank of Lieute nant-General. His Lordship succeeded to the honours of his house on the demise of his bro ther in 1771. His Lordship's first marriage was with Mary, only child of William Hamilton Nisbet, Esq., of Dirleton, in the county of Haddington, on the 11th of March, 1799, and by this lady he had issue George Charles Constantine Lord Bruce, M.P. for Southampton, now Earl of Elgin, and three daughters, two of whom are now married. This marriage, however, being dissolved by Act of Parliament in 1808 (the Countess wedding sub sequently Robert Ferguso n , Esq., of Rait), he married secondly, on the '2lst of September, 1808, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of James Townsend Oswald, Esq., by whom he has seven children—viz., four sons and three daughters. The second son, Robert, is a Lieutenant.Colomel in the Grenadier Guards, and his first son a Ba chelor of Arts. • His Lordship, the sixth Earl of Elgin, eleventh Earl of Kincardine, and one of the representa tive Peers of Scotland, claims descent from no less illustrious root than the Royal House of Bruce, as is indicated by his name. The noble, but melancholy motto of the " Bruce of Ban nockburn" still blazes on his escutcheon, and its monosyllabic " Fuimus" points to the olden days of glory. Among his more immediate ancestors is the Sir Geo. Bruce of Carnocks, who carried on his great commercial works at that place, and who petrified King James for an instant when he was displaying to him his extensive works. The coal which supplied his immense salt-works was wrought at a distance under the sea, and then shipped at a moat under the sea-mark. James VI. expressed a desire to visit these great coal-works, and was conducted through them to the moat, but his Majesty was filled, says the old historian, with dismay, on finding him self in the midst of the sea. He was conducted back, however, in a pinnace, and sumptuously entertained by Sir George at his own abbey of Culross. For Edward Bruce also, one of King James's trustiest advisers, his Majesty enter tained such an affection as to dowry his daugh ter Christian with a marriage-portion of 10,0001. upon the auspicious occurrence of her union. The wife of William, the eighth Earl, whose maiden name was Janet Roberton, was noticed by Hamilton, of Bangour, amongst the first beauties of the time, and the Countess of Elgin, who died in 1810, filled, with great credit to herself; the im portant station of Governess to the Princess Charlotte. His Lordship had two seats, one of which was Archerfield House, and the other Broom Hall, both in the county of Fife. But the chaste and spirited sculptures which, from the hand of the immortal Phidias, adorned the Parthenon, and gratified the correct eye of Pericles and all Athens, form the most grand and noticeable feature of his Lordship's life, and to these which have given so great a celebrity to his name we at once proceed. Stepping forward at the critical moment, and rescuing these pre cious remains of art from the destroying hand of time, and from the more destroying hand of an uncivilized people, his Lordship bestowed a bene fit on the classical and artistic schools of Eng land, as well as spreading a taste for the Fine Arts over the kingdom at large, which will ever be held to his remembrance. The difficulties he had to undergo in that task, and the almost in superable obstructions which he overcame, will be seen in the ensuing account, which is that which generally was accustomed to fall verbatim from Lord Elgin's own lips:— The history of these venerated marbles may be thus succinctly told. Lord Elgin, when he had just been appointed Ambassador to Con stantinople, met with the celebrated Harrison, of Chester, at Edinburgh, and inquiring of him how he could best make his residence near Greece conducive to the promotion of architec ture, sculpture, and other arts, lie was advised by Harrison to have casts taken of the columns, sculpture, and architecture scattered through out Greece, and particularly concentrated at Athens, chiefly for the purpose of ascertaining the mode of " turning the volume," and having the real projection, with the real variety of light and shade, which must considerably surpass any drawing or draught. Mr. Harrison also advised Lord Elgin to take casts of whatever remains of monuments might still be in existence. Pitt, Dundas, and Grenville, when applied to by Lord Elgin to support his project, said they could not advance the public money for such an under taking. Lord Elgin, however, unassisted, sought out for the best English artists, moulders, de signers, &c., but finding that they were in full employ at home, and demanded an exorbitant price, he, upon the advice of a friend, secured the assistance of six distinguished Italians, who were enthusiastic in the cause, and with them repaired to the East. With this view he engaged Signor Lusieri, a painter of reputation, who was then in the service of the King of the Two Sici lies, together with two archite c t s , t wo mo dellers, and a figure painter. These six foreigners fixed themselves at Athens, in August, 1800, and prosecuted their enterprise with ardour. They were at first, however, greatly discouraged by the Turks, who at that period, namely, during the occupation of Egypt by the French, entertained an enmity against all Chris tians. The Turkish Government required from them as large a sum as five guineas for one day's inspection of the architectural remains. How ever, when the English had conquered Egypt soon after, and then restored it generously to the Turks, the greatest popularity was enjoyed by Lord Elgin's confederates. The original ob ject of Lord Elgin has been stated above ; but when he observed the state of things—that the Turks were daily mutilating the statues, and using their heads for cannon-balls, and that European travellers were every day coming and breaking the statues into fragments, and taking away portions--he altered his original plan, and determined upon transmitting to England, all the valuable monuments he could collect. Lord Elgin nett 'Obtained from the Turkish Govern meilt a full license to examine, measure, and remove whatever he pleased of these antique monuments, and lie proceeded accordingly toput to work at least three hundred workmen. Several eminent persons had attempted this achievement, and had obtained similar faculties from the Porte, but they had uniformly failed. When Lord Elgin and his associates bad sur mounted innumerable difficulties, and embarked their treasure, the vessel was accidentally driven upon a rock, and went down with all themarbles. However, recourse was had to Greek divers, by whose efforts they were all regained. Of the entire collection of the Parthenon marbles, it may not be unworthy of remark, that the only other piece of sculpture which was removed from its place for the purpose of ex port, was taken by M. Choiseul Gouffier, when he was Ambassador from France to the Porte. Lord Elgin's expenses in forming this collec tion were large and heavy, they amounted from 1799 toJan. 1803 t 062,4401., including 23,240/.for the interest of money, and according to a supple mental account, continued from 1803 to 1816, his additional expenses amounted to no less a sum than 74,0001., including the same sum for interest. The valuations or money prices set upon them before they were purchased by the Government for the British Museum, were widely different. Mr. Payne Knight estimated them at 25,0001., Mr. Hamilton at 60,8001., and the Earl of Aber deen's conjectural estimate of the whole, with out entering into particulars, was 35,0001. The Townley collection of marbles, which were in excellent condition when bought by the British Museum, were purchased in 1805 for 20,000/. ; and the marbles at Phigalia, in Arcadia, were bought at 15,0001. From these comparisons some estimation of their actual worth may be deduced. Considering how highly the cultivation of the Fine Arts has ever contributed to the reputation, character, and dignity of every Government by which they have been encouraged,' and that the maturing of the popular mind and its growth towards excellence is opened by the study of monuments of high art, our Administration did no mean service to their country by the pur chase of these inestimable models. Lord Elgin was in his 76th year. He was, in addition to his other titles and offices, a General of the Royal Archers of Scotland, a favoily trustee of the British Museum, and a member of the Privy Council. The Earl was at all times a generous patron ofliterature, science, and the arts. THE SUN, LONDON. WEDNESDAY, NOVENIRER 24, 1841. LITERATURE. FERRERS. 3 Vols. Bentley, London, 1841. The career of Lord Ferrers, who it may be re membered, figured rather awkwardly in the year 1760, with a rope round his aristocratic neck, at Tyburn, fir the wilful murder of his steward, is pourtrayed with consummate skill in this ro mance, which, commencing with the year 1750, when his Lordship was in the full vigour of his manhood, tracks him through all his vicious courses, keeping carefully in view the leading points of his Character ; and does not take leave of him till he stands at the foot of the gallows in a state of exceeding • embarrassment and per plexity. The story opens .with a night adven ture of this degraded Peer, who, accidentally en countering a young girl whom he had seduced, and who solicits his charity, fells, her to the ground, and rushes from the spot in the full conviction that he has been lier'inurderer. We next find him drinking with some congenial companions at a low public-house—and here we have a sketch of flash life in the Ainsworth style, only much better, because not so. _ repul sive or exaggerat ed—and then the scene changes, and we are introduced to a prayer-meeting at Lady Huntingdon's, which is interrupted by the sudden entrance of Lord Ferrers, half-drunk, who contrives to pick a quarrel with one of the gentlemen of ,the. party, and only escapes a duel with him, by the intervention of one of his low vagabond associates, Jem Gabel, who gets scent of his intentions, and rescues hiM from the clutches of his determined and incensed oppo nent. Shortly after this, his Lordship marries an amiable but-weak-minded yonng woman, the daughter of William Meredith, and treats her in so rufl:ianly a manner, that, after many in effectual attempts to soften the dogged ferocity of his nature;she insists on a divorce, sues for, and obtains it. Unfortunately, Lord Ferrers' steward, Mr. Johnson, had interested himself warmly in the case of the ill-treated Countess, and on him, accordingly, the Peer's vengeance now falls. After annoying hint in a variety of ways, and subjecting him to the grossest insults, he at length comes to the determination of mur dering him, so sends for him one day, on the pretence that he is anxious to have a settlement of the accounts between them, and, while he is ex plaining certain lAnsiness matters, shoots the un-. happy wretch through the body, who is immedi ately conveyed home, and expires in the arms of his daughter. Lord Ferrers is, of course, though not w;thout some difficulty, apprehended for this atrocious act; is conveyed to London, lodged, in the Tower, tried before the House of Lords, found guilty, and hanged at Tyburn ! This is but a meagre sketch—in fact, a mere outline—of the story, the best portion of which is taken up with an account of the adventures of a young man, named Hugh Bernard, an unacknowledged rela tive of Lord Ferrers ; of his early sufferings ; his hair-breadth escape from a den of infamy in Bath, and his still more surprising escape from the clutches ofcertain assassins in a lone house at Pad dington; of his intimacy with a repentant mur derer, named Foxton; and his final prosperity, and marriage with Sarah Johnson, the daughter of Lord Ferrers' steward. The whole of this epi sode—if episode it can fitly be called, which in eludes the greater portion of the narrative—is told with a terse, simple, manly vigour very un common among modern novelists. Vigour, in deed—but the vigour of health, not of convul sion—is the leading characteristic of Ferrers. There is no maudlin sentimality about it—no pandering to depraved tastes. The author treats vice as vice, and not as relaxed virtue. He does not interest us in his ruffians, or bid us admire the heroism and magnanimity of their nature. In a word, he is an anti-Jack-Sheppardist. When we say that we have read his tale with attention, and that that attention has never once flagged throughout its perusal, we pay hint no higher compliment than is his due. He has shown very superior powers of invention in weaving an interesting romance out of such meagre and unpromising materials as Lord Fer rers' life affords; and his sketch of Foxton, the heart-broken penitent—an admirably conceived and most forcibly executed character—satisfies us that his imagination and sensibility are fiilly capable of maintaining him in• the very highest walks . of fictitious literature. Such a tale as " Ferrers" has not appeared since the days of " Oliver Twist ;" and in some respects we prefer it to that well-known story, for, with equal spirit, it has far more refinement of thought and grace of expression. BIRTH OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—In the parish of Braintree, and at a meeting of the inhabitants held on Saturday, it was resolved to commemorate the event by raising a subscription to supply the poor with coals, &c., a Committee being formed for the pur pose, headed by the Vicar and the Churchwardens.— Essex Herald. PLYMOUTH. The Resistance frigate was taken into the north new dock on Wednesday, to be ex amined previously to being fitted for a troop-ship, as the Apollo. The Madagascar, 44, Captain Foote, was paid advance yesterday, and will proceed to the coast of Africa. The Harlequin, 16, Commander Hon. G. F. Hastings, was also paid yesterday, and will sail for China. The Ferret, 10, Lieutenant Commander C. H. Lappidge, was paid off yesterday, and immediately re commissioned by her present commander. The Bellona, 74, taken into the head flock last week, is to be fitted for a hulk. THE DUKE OF CORNWALL. We extract the following from the Manchester Times. It is a most appropriate mode of celebratin g the birth of the Prince, and we trust will be imitated throughout the country.— " We are glad to announce that a meeting, convened by the Mayor, of gentlemen of all political parties, was held in the Town-Hall yesterday, 'to consider whether any public manifestation should take place on the joyful event of the birth of an heir apparent to the throne of these realms, whether by a public subscription, as commemora tive of the event, to be expended in the purchase of blankets and warm clothing for distribution amongst the poor, or in any other way that the meeting may think de sirable." Amongst the gentlemen present we observed the Revs. R. Parkinson, C. D. Wray, and 0. Sergeant, canons of the Collegiate Church ; Mr. Maude, stipen-' diary Magistrate ; the:Boroughreeve ; Mr. M. Philips, M.l'. ; Sir Thomas Potter, Sir Charles Shaw, and Messrs. James Heywood, Robert Gardner, Rupert Ingle by, W. Langton, G. Hadfield, H. Newbury, R. Gill, J. Bazley, S. Cay, W. Crewdson, J. Fowden; S. Fletcher, T. olile T. Wh ee l er , J. H arter, Kershaw, Armitage, Will er t, , -"a s n p rci e \ n V , Ai e l r ili , da a nie n rsm d ' eClinhoaClplap:elbdtli.enil'A. resolution was passed unani mously, that, instead (If the usual festivities on such oc casions, a Loyal Fund should be raised to supply the poor with warm clothing and bedding. A Committee was appointed to forward the object of the meeting, and a subscription was commenced in the hall, the amount of which, we cordially hope, will be swelled into three or four thousand pounds before our next publication, and that such amount will be doubled before this day fortnight." DETERMINED SUICIDE IN A LUNATIC ASY LUM.—On Monday an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Manor House Tavern, Lordship-road, Stoke Newington, on the body of Andrea Bardese, aged fifty one, late superintendent of the Northumberland House Lunatic Asylum, who destroyed himself under the following circumstances :—Robert Parker, groom to ' Mr. Birkett, the proprietor of the establishment, deposed that the last time he saw the deceased alive was on Friday last, about noon ; he then appeared perfectly sane. About a quarter past eleven the same night he passed through deceased's sitting room, which he had to do for the purpose of reaching his sleep ing apartment, and saw deceased lying on the floor in one corner, with his waistcoat on fire. He went up to him, and, on extinguishing the flames, found.blood flow ing from a wound in his left breast. He raised an alarm, and Mr. Birkett, with Mr. Spencer, the medical gentleman of the establishment, came to his assist ance, and pronounced life to be extinct. He searched the place, and in the wainscotting he found, firmly fixed by the butt, a rifle-barrel horse-pistol which had recently been fired, and immediately above where the deceased was lying. Mr. Spencer, the surgeon, said the deceased was quite dead when he saw him. On examining the wound; he found that the ball had entered the chest, perforating the lower lobe of the left lung, passed through the apex of the heart, and lodged in the left shoulder blade. He saw him on Thursday, when he was much depressed, and had no doubt of its being de ceased's own act. Verdict — " Temporary insanity." SCARBOROUGH have °R U G jus witnessed H9 t Nioves.seld9a7 (Extract of a Letappallin g ac c id en t, the fatal results of which are wholly, and with ou t an y abatement, owing to the criminal apathy and negli 'colftkhisthtis niowno. After a stormy eight enc e morning, s till a h ar d gale and a heavy sea, the wind 8.5. E., when a sma ll g t o h f er the e was,authorities at c e oe sloop, apparently of 25 or 30 tons, was descried mak ing for the harbour. She had laboured through the waves till within a verr short distance (a few boats' lengths) of the pier, and of safety, when a heightened gust of wind and an enormous wave evorset her in an instant. Her crew, consisting of two men and a boy, held on as long as their strength in a tempestuous surge permitted. The was visible the latest, still holding 1 • poor boy up his hands as he sank. In a very short time they h a d a ll b disappeared. Had the life - boat el "ging to thi s pl ace been in readiness every o ne of t hem could have been' saved. But it was twenty minutes after the accid en t before the lifeboat touched the waves ; and so hone less was then the effort that, after proceeding about half-way towards the spot where the already broken fragments of the vessel were floating, she returned back again. The fact is, that the life-boat, instead of being kept under a shed upon the pier, or slung alongside its inner wall (whence also, it could be lowered into smooth water, instead of being, as now, forced through the breakers), is kept in a building on the shore': It was about half-tide when this accident occurred ; an d i t was necessary to procure horses to draw the b oat to t h e water's edge. But the greatest delay was occasioned by , want of men to man her. None are appoint e d f or t h e service, nor is there any fund from which the labour of volunteers can be rewarded. The ill-fated vessel is said to have belonged to Boston, and to have been a regular trader between that place and Scarborough. Her cargo was corn and apples. INTERNAL COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA. The progress of internal communication in Bengal is developed at great length in a report made in the month of August last to the Government authorities by the Military Board, which, besides containing an account of what has been done during the official year ending April, 1841. gives a general review for the past 20 years. In this review we find the Grand Turk-road from Calcutta, described as the main artery of communication throughout Bengal and Hindostan, extending to a length of 770 miles, with a general breadth of 30 feet, increased in some places to 40. It has already 1,402 bridges of various extent of open ing, has cost, exclusively of convict labour, 1,228,000 rupees, and is likely to cost 10 lacs more during the three years required for its completion. The r oa d from Pooree to Bissenpore, which connects Orissa with Bengal, and which is commonly known as the Jugur math-road, is held to be of the next importance, and has cost about 1.5 lees, or at the rate of 5,415 rupees the mile. The expense of the road from Calcutta to Kish nagur is estimated at 2,700,000 rupees, or 4,736 ru pees the mile for the 70 miles. The road from Sylhet to Gowhatty, the capital of Assam, across the Cassia hills, was in active preparation, and in this line of com munication the two torrents of the Bur-panee and the Boga-panee are to be spanned with suspension-bridges. The Deccan road from Mirzapore to Jubbulpore, a distance of 239 miles, and commenced in 1824, had been completed lately ; its cost in the fifteen years, exclusive of the labour of convicts, had been eight lacs of rupees. Another road, small in point of expense, but of great importance, was also in progress from the eastern frontier of Bengal, through Cachar, and across the Munipore bills to the limits of the Burmese empire. Besides these roads, which are stated to be the most prominent, a variety of district roads have added greatly to the local convenience of the people, and have pro- I portionately occupied attention. The total outlay for all the roads to which allusion is made has been 57,34,223 rupees, and from which there is no return. A toll on a road is unknown. The -canals which fringe the eastern part of the of Calcutta, and connected with the Isamuttee river , are of the highest importance to the welfare of the city, as the produce of all the eastern districts is thus brought to it with little or no risk. These have cost in the whole about 16i- lac of rupees, which now includes the erection of five suspension bridges. To improve Telly's Nullab, seven suspension bridges have been thrown across it at a cost of 179,381 rupees. The canals west of the Jumna have been repaired at an expense of 1,566,500 rupees, which, with a further out lay on the Dooab Canal, west of the Jumna of 579,164 rupees, makes, with other expenditure, a total outlay of 4,963,288 rupees, in con structing and repairing canals in the Presi dency. The canals are very productive of revenue, for the tolls on those in the vicinity of Calcutta ate said to yield on an average 121,800 rupees a year, while the annual average charge for their mainte nance appears to be about 45,000 rupees. Hence it is argued, that the Government cannot do better than lay out funds for their extension and improvement. In reference to these canals it is remarked, that while the toll remained at the rate of one rupee the 100 maunds, the proceeds were 126,000 rupees, but when the Go vernment liberally reduced the levy by one•half, they fell in the succeeding year to about 60,000 rupees. This fall, it was ultimately discovered, arose mainly from the corruption of the native collectors, which had been so far remedied by close observance, that in the last year (1840) the collection again rose to 122,000 rupees, showing that the State receives the same return as when the import was double its present amount. The canals east and west of the Jumna exhibit the most gra tifying results, not only in respect of the means they supply to the agricultural community for the irri gation of upwards of 100,000 acres of land, but in direct money returns. The sum expended on the canals west of the Jumna by the British Government has been 1,566,500 rupees, and the annual amount levied as water rent is 258,826 rupees, or more than 16i per cent. While the outlay has therefore been in the whole 15i lacs of rupees, the returns up the end of the year 1840 had been 21i lacs. In restoring the Dooab Canal, the cost to the Go vernment was 5 lacs and 80,000 rupees. The direct return in rupees up to the end of 1840 has been 5 lacs and 13,000 rupees. At the end of the official year, the whole sum expended by the Go vernment had been reimbursed to the public coffers, and an annual income of 6,000 rupees might be ex pected for the future. The tolls on the Nuddea rivers produce a clear annual surplus of I lac and 12,000 rupees. And now adverting more particularly to what has been done during the official year of 1840, we find that in the department of canals the Government has sanctioned an outlay of 23,000 rupees for deepening a canal in the Hid gelee district for the express object of facilitating the transportation of salt. The other expenses in connexion with canals have been incurred partly in reference to those near Calcutta, and party to those on the east and west of the Jumna. The former appear to have cost in necessary repairs a sum of about 14,000 rupees, independently of an iron suspension bridge at Ooltadanga, over the Circular Canal, amounting to 12,000 rupees. On the Dooab Canal has been ex pended 71,500 rupees in the construction of aqueducts, with the view to the further extension of the benefits of irrigation. The total amount of money expended in canals during the year under consideration was 2,57,813 rupees, the returns 4,69,197 rupees, being a 'Clear profit of 2,11,384 rupees. The new roads were progressing steadily. The road from Burdwar to Be nares is completed ;as far as regards earth work, to its full height and width. On this undertaking there had been an outlay of 6,00,000 rupees, and it will re quire an equal outlay to complete it. The road from Patna to Gya would have the benefit of a grant of 70,000 rupees, and for the road to Darjeching a revised estimate of 28,000 rupees would be appro priated. The proposed road from Agra to Bombay bad been negatived from the fact of the enormous ex pense it would entail. The total outlay in public works for that period was 9,69,686 rupees, which produced a return of 4,69,197 rupees, thus leaving 5,00,489 rupees as the difference between expenditure and ruturn. On this the India journals remark that it is an expenditure of less than one per cent. on the land revenues of these provinces, and that however much the public may be grateful for these improvements, it exhibits much nig gardness as compared with the revenue the Government authorities derive from the territory of which they are the useful and necessary embellishment. A correspondent who compliments us on the satis factory account we gave of the progress of Arracan a few days ago, wishes it to be stated, and which was not noticed among the causes which were laid before us as contributing to the increase in the wealth and popu lation of that province, that slavery was abolished there in the year 1834. He states further that Arracan is the only province in India where slavery has been totally abolished.—Times. AN AFFRAY WITH SMUGGLERS......- The Memorial of Pau relates that, a few days ago, a brigadier of gendarmerie, named Gasquet, and one of his men, Mas, were on the watch for smugglers near Mascuru, when they saw eleven men, all armed with bludgeons, and nine of them carrying packs, advancing by the road. Notwith standing the superiority of numbers, the two gendarmes determined to do their duty, and advancing towards the band summoned them to lay down their burdens. This being refused, the gendarmes proCeeded to make a seizure, and Gasquet received a severe blow with a bludgeon. He returned this with a shot from his carbine, and a lunge with his bayonet, but, being severely beaten about the body, and wounded in the leg, and at the same time believing that his comrade was killed, he contrived to escape into a wood, and thence made his way back to the village. Inas fought with great obstinacy until he was disarmed, and had no more means of defence, when he made a feint and fell as if killed. The smugglers, believing him dead, moved off, but, on second thoughts, retraced their steps, and determined to hang him on a tree in terrorem. Ilias, however, had contrived to drag him self into concealment among some rocks, and thus saved himself from his intended fate. Although the gendarmes fired only two shots, one of the smugglers was killed, and two wounded in the shoulder. All the survivors have since been captured, and are now in custody. THE BEY OF, TUNIS.—The Journal des hebats publishes the following details relative to the presenting four horses which the King of the French sent lately to the Bey of Tunis :—" The Bey, who has given in latter times so many proofs of zeal for the in terests of France, has just rec e ived, as a proof of his Majesty's satisfaction, four magnificent Norman horses of the purest blood, bearing rich harness, with Achmet Bey's arms, and a coachman and . out riders attired in the Royal livery. It was a curious sight • to see an equipage similar to that which, conveys Louis Philippe from his Pa lace of the Tifileries to his residence at Neuilly para ding the streets of Tunis. The Bey expressed his satis faction at this mark of his Majesty's favour, and, after thanking the French Consul and the officers of the Came icon, which conveyed the horses, Achmet Bey presented himself on the terrace of his palace, whence he could see the cortege defile, and such was his impatience to try hi s ne w equipage, that he had himself immediately con veyed by it to his palace of the Manouba, and t h enc e on the following day to Mahmoudieh, a country-house situate three leagues from Tunis, "to the astonishment of his fa n atic al subjects, wh o could not compr ehend how he suffe r ed a Christian coach , man to sit upon a seat hi g her than that npon which he was placed. Achmet Bey, in return, sent the King of the French his war-horse and magnificent trappings, three lions, an ostrich, .and sumptuous stuffs emb ro id ered with pearls, gold , a n d silver. Commander Poultier, of the Cameleon, received a gold snuff-b ox and splendid sabre, and each of his crew was pr esen t e d w i th gratui ties far exceeding in amount what would be considered munificent by European potentates." POST-OFFICE ANOMALY. -- A letter for London must be of at the l arge and i mportant agri cultural towrl of 1\ ewbury, distant from the Reading Station 17 miles and . a halt; a n d 5 6 m i les from London, only just one half hour later than in the city of Exeter, 44 miles from the Bridgewater Station, an d 195 m il es from London. A letter, without p a yi ng any fee, can b e posted at Taunton or Bridgewater half an hour later than in R ea ding, although one town is distant from it 123 miles, and the other 112, and the same train takes all the letters. WOOLWICH-MONDAY. ROYAL ARTILLERY. The officers of the royal artillery were highly gratified by the intelligence communicated to them last evening at the mess by a brother officer of high rank in the service, that an extensive brevet was resolved upon in honour of the birth of the Duke of Cornwall, the heir to the throne of Great Britain. It is fully anti cipated the brevet will extend to lieutenant-colonels of 1835 or 1836, and that it will promote nine of the senior captains, who at present rank as majors, to be lieutenant-colonels. The following remarks as to the protection against fire in a town of such importance as Woolwich may prove the means of allaying any fears existing regard ing it in consequence of the reports which have been spread throughout the country. In the dockyard there are five engines kept in good order, and during the time the Trafalgar was building, when nearly finished, there were always two engines upon that vessel with water tanks, and every necessary preventive against fire. In the Royal Arsenal there are six engines, the largest named the Globe, capable of discharging a ton of water per minute when its services are required. , There are two other patent engines, of the best construction, and three of a smaller description. The gunners and drivers of the Royal Artillery take these engines to the canal in the Royal Arsenal, and exercise them on the first of every month, to ascertain that they are in good working order. The Globe engine has two levers on each side, and it is a stirring sight to see fifteen men attached to each, sixty in all, at one time, working this powerful machine. In addition to these engines, there are two at the Royal Sappers and Miners' Barracks, and two at the quarters of the Royal Artillery at the garrison, besides those of the Royal Marines, a sufficient proof that every human precaution is taken against the destruction of property in this quarter by fire. NEWPORT. GROSS CHARTIST INTERRUPTION. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Newport hav ing been convened by the Mayor, Mr. Lewis Edwards, for the purpese of joining in a loyal address to the Queen on the birth of a Prince of Wales, at twelve o'clock, the hour appointed for the meeting, the National School room was completely crowded, and Mr. T. J. PHILLIPS having called on the meeting to appoint a chairman, Mr. TOWNSEND (the Chartist) moved, that Mr.rlughes, the late Mayor, should take the chair, instead of the Mayor of the day, Mr. Lewis Edwards. 'I he great majority of the meeting being Chartists, Mr. Hughes was appointed to the chair. A loyal and dutiful address was then moved by Mr. HAWKINS, and seconded by the Rev. J. FRANCIS, upon which, Mr. CRONIN, the Chartist, moved a counter address calling upon the Queen to release Frost, Williams, and Jones.—(Great cheering by the Chartists.) Mr. WELLS said, the address was a most reasonable one, and he would second it. Mr. DOWLING rose and appealed whether this was a fitting occasion for any such motion, and whether they would allow Newport to be branded with disloyalty. W. EDWARDS, the Chartist, who was imprisoned with Vincent and the others, then said, he wondered that Mr. Dowling should be carried away by the warmth of his temperament. Now was the time for them to address her Majesty for themselves; they never before had such an opportunity, and never should again. Her present Majesty was the best Sovereign which had sat on the throne since the days of Edward I. She sat on a throne which was founded on a bad system, and the people could never know peace or happiness till that system was wholly reformed. He prayed God to bless her as long as she lived, and when she died he hoped the monar chical government would be at an end in England. (Several gentlemen sitting round the table here rose and left the meeting, saying that every loyal subject ought to do the same.) The CHAIRMAN begged to call the meeting to the re quisition, which was to address her Majesty on the birth of a Prince. Mr. CRONIN said he had no objection to the address, but he should insist on his address being added to it.— (Great uproar, and cries of "Put the amended address.") Much desultory conversation ensued, and every endeavour was used to induce the Chartists to withdraw their amendment. Mr. Cronin said he would not abate one iota of his amendment. The Chairman, finding further efforts useless, dissolved the meeting, without agreeing to any address. TR A NSYL VA NIA. The Suabian Mercury, under date Vienna, 12th inst., states that the aborigines or Magyars of Transylvania were endeavouring to gain the ascendancy in that province, but the German part of the population were resisting strenuously. The greater part of the Transylvanian comitats, inhabited by Hunga rians, had presented petitions to the Emperor, praying his Majesty to incorporate the principality with Hun gary. On the other hand, Transylvania, which enjoys a Constitution conferring many advantages upox the,inha bitants, would not wish to resign it. The opening of the Transylvanian Diet is fixed for the 15th inst. Among the exhumations that have lately taken place at Bakewell Church, for the purpose of laying the foundations of the part of the building about to be re newed, has been the coffin of the celebrated Dorothy Vernon, the story of whose elopement from Haddon Hall is familiar to all who have visited that romantic edifice. Lady Dorothy died in June, in the year 1584, and though 257 years have elapsed since her interment, the hair was found to be undecayed, and firmly adhering to the bone of the skull. In the hair there were half a dozen pins in a state of excellent preservation. SALMON FISHING IN THE TAVE RIVER.— Several very fine fish have been taken in the Tave river, near St. Clears, with the fly, affording the gentlemen engaged some very excellent sport. Captain Rowan, the week before last, took a fine fish, weighing upwards of 241bs, and several others of a smaller size. Sir Joseph Leeds caught one, weighing upwards of 201bs, in the same river. Thomas Williams, Esq., and several other gentlemen, have also been very successful. The weather, for the last month, has been unusually fine for this season of the year, and very favourable fbr this sport.— Carmarthen Journal. ANTI-CORN-LAW DELEGATES.—A meeting of the delegates from the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Associations was held on Monday in the Hall of the Cen tral Society, Strand, to receive a report from the Con ference held at Manchester on the 17th inst., and to de termine on the best means to carry the resolutions passed at that meeting into effect. There was a large and in fluential attendance, and Mr. Prout was Chairman. A report was submitted from the Manchester meeting, which embodied the resolutions there carried, and pro ceedings were adopted to give the recommendations they contained practical effect. The following extract from a letter written by an intelligent and most respectable gentleman of Boston, in the United States, confirms the statements we pub lished some time ago respecting the Hunters' Lodges. The letter is dated the 31st October :—" 'Webster will continue in office, and his continuance is an assurance that peace will be preserved. I sat next to him at dinner last evening. He has in his possession evidence of an immense chain of lodges and secret associations for an invasion of Canada, extending from Cleveland, in Ohio, to Burlington, in Vermont, bound together by secret oaths, embracing two or three Members of Con gress, and having their head-quarters at Kingston, Upper Canada. It is supposed that these lodges number 60,000 people. The new Bankrupt-law, passed last Session, will disperse them, as this will discharge people who choose to take the benefit of it, from their debts, and the new patriots are thriftless vagabonds, who take up their new calling, as they have failed in their legiti mate business. A discharge from their debts will enable them to resume business."—Morning Chronicle. INCENDIARY FIRE AT CU - DDESDON, CLOSE TO THE BISHOP OF OXFORD'S PALACE.—A most alarm ing and destructive fire broke out on Wednesday morn ing, the 10th, about five o'clock, on the farm of Mr. Gale, a large and most respectable farmer at Cuddesdon, about six miles from Oxford. It destroyed one large barn, about fifty yards long, twelve piggeries, and a loose place used for the same purpose, part of a cow house, one cart hovel, three hay ricks, one wheat rick (supposed to have contained forty loads of corn), two bean-straw ricks, a thrashing machine, two hay making machines, five chaff boxes, a great num ber of ploughs, four loads of wheat in sacks, six carts, three or four of them being nearly new, on e waggon, and from two to three thousand sacks of pota toes of a very fine sort. We understand there is no doubt of its being the diabolical act of some incendiary. The village church was within a few yards of the fire, and at times was considered in danger ; had the wind been in that direction, in all probability the sacred edi fice would now have been a mouldering ruin. We were sorry to see the beastly state of intoxication which some of the parties were in, having drunkrathaebere so much belonging once interfered non duet. to others who had been hard at Work. The drunken nn fellows behaved in a very disorderly so such disgraceful rs t m ore fightstl an to put a thatstop to . Mr. Gale bears a most excellent character in the parish as being a good neighbour and master, and no 6 cause can be as siffned for the perpetratio n o f oxford Chronicle. so diabolical an act.— CORONER'S INQUEST.--.on Monday an in quest was held before Mr. Payne, on the body of Robert Atkinson, aged 38, a carpenter. lt appeared in evidence that the deceased was employed at the New Sun Fire Office, now being erected in Bartholomew-lane, near the Royal Exchange. On Friday afternoon last he was on a scaffold, 50 feet from the ground, holding a brace which they were fitting into the butments of the build ing. The brace slipped from his arms, caught him, and threw him backwards off the scaffold into the street. He was immediately after the accident brought to that hos pital. Mr. Walton, house surgeon, said deceased was admitted soon after the accident in a state of great col lapse. He died the following morning, from having the breast-bone broken, and the vessels beneath it torn through, from having the left hip-bone fractured in two places, and the right thigh bone removed from its arti culation, besides rupture of th‘vessels of the left kidney- Verdict—" Accidental Death. WS • W A heavy gale on Saturday from the VV. • . obliged several vessels to put into Falmouth harbour. Among those which ran in for shelter were her Majesty's ship Illustrious, 7• , , Captain Erskine, from Portsmouth, for New York, with the Governor-General of the Ca nadas, Sir C.Bagot, on board ; and her Ma j est y 's steamer Volcano, from Plymouth for Liverpool. We have to add the lo ss of M. Theaulon, the well-known vaudevillist, to the list of recently-deceased dramatists. He was in his 54th year, and had, either alone or in copartnership, been the author of no less than 250 pieces. At the Debtors' Court at Norwich last week, j. iV. Foyster, a carrier from Southwold, attributed his insolvency to the penny postage, which he said took 1001. a-year off the van, which would have amounted to 4,000 parcels yearly. MORNING SUN • SOUND AND FURY. The Post is in a terrible rage. Racks, daggers, wretches, miscreants, traitors, " diabolical spirit," " ex asperated falsehoods," and " a satanic ingenuity," run through its columns in all the mazes of metaphorical confusion. The Post's leader of Friday last is, in fact, a perfect chef-d'oeuvre of naiaiserie and abuse. From beginning to end it is stuffed with hard words and Bil lingsgate epithets, nor indeed would it be easy to discover what it is all about, were it not for one little passage which, like a gleam of light breaking through the cir cumabient gloom, enables one to catch a faint glimpse of its gist, origin, and design. After ne ar ly th ree quarters of a column of dark, obscure, unintelligible rhodomontade, from one single loophole the following little stream of light is suddenly thrown upon us : " Perhaps but very few of the aristocracy and gentry may be aware that the most influential journal of the ex-Ministerial party has not scrupled to turn to the ac count of faction even the charitable exertions which a severe winter renders incumbent upon such as can afford to help the poor. it has been represented to the poor and needy that, but for the law, which the aristocracy uphold for their own exclusive advantage (meaning thereby the law for protecting British agri culture from foreign competition), they might have twice as much meat, twice as much soup, and twice as much bread, from charitable sources, as they can have under present circumstances." " Angels and ministers of grace defend us!" what a pity it is that Anti-Corn law writers, who feel it incumbent on them to depict in the strongest terms possible the accumulated evils of that iniquitous law,—what a pity it is that they will not cut and mince, and soften and polish, and gild their phrases ; that they , will not adopt a sort of mollified euphuism in order to please the delicate sensibilities of the too susceptible Post. But they will not, and " there's the rub," no matter how the nerves of this fashionable morning lecturer may be ruffled and dis turbed. Amicus Plato, miens Socrates, sed magi: arnica yeritas. The trutb must and will be told, no matter to what extent interesting mammas and sen timental young ladies may be terrified at the rough ex pressions which the iniquitous Corn-laws draw down upon the heads of their monopolising and guilty de fenders. But the article of the Post appears in won derfully appropriate time, after the meeting which was held at Sheffield on Monday last. The truth was there spoken out, and in pretty plain terms too. " What was the reason of all this?' said Mr. Ibbotson, alluding to the prostration of the American market. " Because the Americans have nothing to give us in exchange for our goods ? America has an abundance of what our people are dying for." Aye, but then step in the Corn-laws, and prevent our starving millions from being fed. " Tell it not in Gatb though, proclaim it not in the streets of Ascalon," lest one rose-leaf may be ruf fled upon the couch of the lady-like Post. In fact, a more puerile and contemptible piece of unredeemed and unredeemable balderdash never disgraced the columns of the Post before. And at the " heel of the hunt " the Post recommends that it is now high time that there should be a sort of surveillance or espionage esta blished over the press—whether public or private though it does not say. A very proper suggestion, in deed, to be thrown out by the leading journal of the Tories.—Sunday Times. Dr. Locock is a native of Northampton, and a son of the late Major Locock, who formerly commanded the volunteer corps of that town. His fellow-townsmen are speculating on the probability that the Doctor will shortly be elevated to the dignity of a Baronet. THE LATE HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT TURN• HAM-GREEN.--On inquiry on Monday at the residence of Mr. Pan, the gentleman who on the evening of Fri day last was robbed and stabbed by footpads on the high road near Turnham-green, it was ascertained that the unfortunate gentleman, who is of an extremely nervous temperament, was going on favourably. On Sunday, inspector Morgan, 'l' division, had an interview with Mr. Pau, in the presence of Mr. Dodsworth, his medical at tendant, when he related the particulars of the murderous attack in nearly the same words as he had previously stated to Mr. Dodsworth. His recollection of the occurrence is, however, so confused, that he has no remembrance of how he reached his residence. The 13 sovereiguS, of which he was roltbed, were contained in an old red purse, with yellow metal slides, and the pocket-book, which contained three bankers' checks, not filled up, and other memorandums, was a Russia leather one. It was at first supposed that the ruffians had probably come by the same omnibus with Mr. Pau from town ; but that now appears not to be the case, as that gentle man alighted from the omnibus with which he came from town at Hammersmith Broadway, and thence pro ceeded in another omnibus to within a quarter of a mile of his own residence. The alarm occasioned through out the neighbourhood by the daring and murderous outrage is beyond description, most persons being afraid to venture out after dark, the darkness on the roads, from the discontinuance of the gas lamps, affording every facility for the operations of evil-disposed persons. Ever since the police received information of the occurrence, Inspector Morgan and other active officers of the T divi sion have been strenuously engaged in endeavouring to discover the perpetrators of the outrage, which, owing to Mr. Pau being unable in any way to describe either their number or appearance, is a matter of great diffi culty ; but although no person is yet in custody on the charge, we understand there are reasons to believe they will not long escape the hands of justice. RIBMABD WEEKS.—This old Greenwich pen sioner, who has been lately bequeathed 120,0001., has been a resident of the Lunatic Asylum, Bethnal-green, whither he was removed last year from Greenwich Hos pital. Although it was reported that he was entitled to a large sum, is was not believed until Mr. Phillips, the governor of the asylum, received a letter announcing the death of Week's aunt, and her bequest to him of 120,0001. This joyous intelligence had no effect upon the maniac, as he was in his own imagination a prince of immense wealth, and possessed of upwards of 15 palaces at Greenwich. Mr. Phillips is the chief object of Week's imaginative bounty, as he is always conferring honours, titles, wealth, and bags of diamonds upon him. Very little is known of Week's origin. He had been a midshipman, but from some impropriety of conduct it is supposed was placed before the mast. He is about sixty years of age. His wife resides at Greenwich, support ing herself by needlework ; in manners she is superior to her present, or rather late, station in society. A Com mission de lunatico inquirendo has been issued against "Weeks, for the purpose of properly disposing of his enormous wealth. He will, it is supposed, voluntarily reside with Mr. Phillips, to whom he is greatly attached. RANKIN'S WOOTI PAVEMENT.—The piece of wood pavement laid down a few years back, as an ex periment, in the narrow but much thronged street, in front of St. Gilos's church, is now removed, and another piece, on the scientific plan patented by Mr. Ran kin, is being laid in its place. The specimen of this new and most ingenious kind of pavement, deposited at the Royal Polytechnic 'lnstitution, had previously excited public curiosity, but that curiosity is incr ease d now that the pavement is actually to be used:in the streets. The workmen at St. Giles's are continually questioned as to the peculiarity of its arrangements, the block s being so contrived as to be laid down with great rapi dity, and to present a surface when down, which se cures a firm foothold for the horse in greasy and wet weather as well as dry. This much needed improvement is being carried into effect by order of the Paving Com mittee of the united parishes, of which Mr. Thiselton Dyer is Chairman. ionf Illustrious,gcabnuatdFALMOUTH,dad oN,nn_ otht c o board,smNi rC v in. ccßha 2 taoe l gr — udt H the er G M ove a r j n e o s r ty -G s en s e h r i al p otiffl this s e m po o r r t n l i as ng t , ems:heenn she removed to a berth in the harbour. At noon, the several commanders e f h i r respects p ee M t a s j e t s o ty h 's i s Excellency packets, witho on board. The Illustrious will proceed on the change of weather. The Volcano, steamer, put in also yesterdays and to-day attempted to tow off from under the high land of St. Anthony the Lapwing packet, which in work ing out of the harbour to go to Plymouth missed stays on the lee shore, and brought up, but was far from being in danger with the prevailing wind. In accomplishing this duty, the Volcano carried away the Lapwing's bow sprit and fore-yard, Sze., and bilged one of her boats, SUS -. taining herself, likewise, a great deal of injury. LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.—On Thursday morning a fearful explosion of fire-damp occurred in No. 6 Pit, Whifiet, whereby two men were instan taneously killed, and five or six others so seriously in jured that many days must elapse ere they can resume their employment, or be considered fairly out of dan g er. —Edinburgh Paper. The Gazette du Midi of the 16 t h ( Marseilles fd p o a er p mp e r oe ) rr lb c yj o np n d t e a i eps n u s it ys a s a rf l o o rt n ( g va report aeu c f istie the aant sta) t i r t e i a a r l %Ai ,olf Major -aG A e f e a en r ee q rr ui aol s f, d e c ph u uy s t e )js:The sitting dhee at tack on the Government , and th I:1 1 a l t y i c Opinion 11 f. d e o F n o t r h b e i wroteniiuu3 su a u sctereocunrsgu Crown ,n tt m l a p lN h tv l 3 e, ,we t rass e n pu t rn i o t led i L a c t u a t C h e ° d e u r p i li t ee prose before e a t r f u s.s o d r . e ‘ t 1 1' 11:1 s s C o d o n e u , lr the h o o e r b f i former n A was ssz e ds oncee o f f e n V d a e D d u completespeeches political for v the prosecution view o f thea n db state t o h t e h defenceosdf Francee s. Two embraced and q u hees. a r policy since 1830, a nd the discussion was carried on with muc h talent and earnestness on we re put to the Jury, first , whether M. de Forbin's pamphlet was a provocation to disobey the laws (he hay itngin s recom mended the closing of the doors against the agents of the census) ; and, secondly, whether the writ ing did not bring into hatred and contempt the King's Government. The Jury, after a few minutes' consulta tion, acquitted M. de Forbin on both questions. The trial and verdict have caused much excitement in the south of France. _ _ A letter from Geneva of the 16th inst., in the Commerce, says :—There is still great agitation here, al though there is reason to hope that reform will be ac complished by the force of public opinion and in a legal way. On Saturday evening (the 13th) young men were parading the streets shouting, and on the following even ing, the Marsellaise was sung at the theatre. Gendarmes were patrolling the streets the whole night, and the po lice were on the alert, as if serious disturbances were expected. Up to the present time, however, no real tu mult has occurred. It appears certain that in the Legis lative session, which is to commence the first Monday in December, the question of reform will be submitted to the representative Council. It is said that the Catholic priests of the canton have prepared a protest, which is to be published in the event of any modification of the Poor-law U n i ons compr i sing the population lBl4 o f t h e b orough of Manchester ando nnTsu Salford, i aa u cf t io h n with their imm e di ate neigh b ourhood, con tain altogether no less than 354 ,142 i n di v id ua l s. g si 00 -•