The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-11 00:00:00

IVIORNUNG SUN When your Minister looked with his own eyes upon this his very bowels were torn asunder. In stooping down from the walls, I made inquiries of the barbarians; they all said that several millions of taeis for the surrendered opium had not been paid, and, therefore, they requested the sum of one million of taeis in liquidation thereof, and they would immediately withdraw their soldiers and retire outside the Bogue ; that they had to make no other request ; and that then the people might go on in their customary way. I then asked them about the sur render of the whole territory of Hong Kong; and they replied that Keshen had given it them, and that an authenticated paper from him to this effect had been placed on record. Your Minister thought that the city was in danger ; that there had been repeated disturbances ; and that the whole people were prostrated in mud and ashes ; I there fore agreed to this pro tempore : moreover, I considered, again and again, that this was a solitary city to be fought against, and that both the fat and liver were greatly injured. There was, moreover, no battle-field for deploying a great army, and I could not do otherwise than beguile them to go out of the Bogue. Then we shall repair our forts, and endeavour to attack and ex terminate them, and recover our old territory of Hong Kong. Your Ministers beseech your Majesty to deliver us over to the Board that we may be punished, and also to direct that Ke, the Governor, and E, the Lieut.-Gover nor, be severely dealt with. Respectfully, we present a petition from all the people asking for peace: Your Minister is conscious of not being guiltless. A respectful memorial. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY. THE REVENUE. STANDARD.—In consequence of the 10th of Octo ber falling on Sunday, the Quarter's Revenue will be made up this evening. We understaud the account will show a trifling increase an the corresponding quarter of last year. There is a slight falling off in the Customs. • In the Excise there is an increase ; the Post-office re venue has slightly increased, but not to any amount. The principal increase is in the Sugar Duties, which confirms the soundeessof the opinions expressed by Mr. Gonlburn in May last, when Mr. Baring brought for ward his proposition for an alteration of the duty on foreign sugar. As we before said, however, we under stand that on the aggregate the amount of the quarter's income will be rather over the corresponding quarter of last year. GLOBE.—The American correspondence of a Morn ing Paper contains an intimation time the 31‘Leod affair is not likely to end in a war, because Sir Robert Peel has been placed at the head of the Government. We realty cannot see how the fact of the Right Honourable Baronet's accession to power can possibly affect the deci sion of the Jury in the case of M‘Leod, any more than the verdict of an inquest at which he ,night happen to preside, could be influenced by the return of Mr. Virakley as Member for Finsbury. Durit ' s the trial, that is by this time, we trust, at an end, we do not suspect that the Counsel on either, side attempted to give in evidence the change in the British Government, as being at all mate rial to the issue ; and it is therefore mere rhodomontade to declare that M‘Leod's case has a better chance of being satisfactorily disposed of now that Sir Robert Peel has been allowel to form a Ministry. The decision, then, that will be arrived at cannot in the smallest degree depend upon the recent formation of a Tory Cabinet ; and it would be absurd to ask whether the con duct of the British Government, in the event of the con demnation of the prisoner, will he differeat, now that the Conservatives are in place, from what it would have been if there had been still a Liberal Cabinet. In case of an un satisfactory result the Whigs had instructed their Minis ter to withdraw at once. Could the Liberals have done more, or will the Tories do less? And if Sir R. Peel sanctions this course, how on earth will his accession to place have lessened the chances of hostility ? With regard to any particular sympathy between the British Government and that of this United States, which might induce the atter to fall more readily into the former's views, it can hardly be . supposed that republican rulers can co-operate more cordially with Tories than with Liberals ; particularly when it is remembered that the English Co' servatives have greatly censured the Whig Ministry for not assuming a much snore de cided tone of hostility to the American authorities than was considered by Lord Melbourne's Cabinet either ne cessary or expedient. We ardently hope, and stronsts anticipate, as we did long before the 'Tories came into office, that peace will be maintained ; but the blessing, if we are allowed to enjoy it, will have been, under I'ro vidence, the work of the late and not of the present Go vernment, however strenuously the latter may strive to pilfer the merit of its predecessor's policy. COURIER.—There is nothing so disgusting in the whole range of party polemics as the wilful and habitual frauds and falsehoods perpetrated by Whig- Radical writers and parties on the Corn-law question, whenever the comparatively venial offence of absolute ignorance cannot be pretended. The Morning Chronicle is the most patent, because a diurnal, practitioner in the two schools both of ignorance and sys tematic aberrations from truth. A recent article' on the effects of the Corn-laws upon wages, or ra ther on the quantities of bread which certain rates of wages of the same descriptions of workmen will pur chase respectively here and abroad, is the last striking illustration of the correctness of the facts we have chal lenged. The writer, in the first place, commences with taking for granted, as an irrecusable authority, a report, ?I published some time since by Mr. Symons, on the ; comparative rates of wages in this country and on the Continent. Now, although we believe Mr. Symons to have executed his mission and made his inquiries in a much. more conscientious spirit, and with a more scrupu lous regard to truth, than the Smiths, Cobdens, and Bowrings, yet we are far from conceding that he pos sessed, or possesses, those indisputable and special qua lifications for such a task, without which any statement or opinion must be liable to prove extremely fallacious when brought to the test. If, however, the Chronicle had only fairly reported his authority, he would have ► acquainted his readers with the conclusion arrived at, , and partially avowed by Mr. Symons, that, with all the ; disadvantages of high-priced food the condition of the English labourer materially and physically is superior and much more enviable on the whole than that of the continental workman. As we have remarked on the want of special qualifications for exact research whit' a must, always tend to impeach the competency of drat gentleman as a standard authority in the case, it is only proper to state in our justification that, whatever may be his pretensions on the score of general principles, h e is so utterly wanting in all knowledge of the practical details of trading and manufacturing economy, as to be quite incapacitated even for instituting a comparison of wages betwixt British and foreign mechanics apparel itly of the same class, and engaged in the same descriptic n of labour. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. raox THE MORNING PAPERS OF sATuitrkr. CHRONICLE.—There is a continued pressmen in the Money Market, and the evident incapacity . of the Go vernment to grapple with the exigencies of ,he country, together with the financial wants of the Indian Eetehe quer, and the probability that Sir Henry Pottimge e may find it necessary to make a demonstration on Pekin, have all tended to depress prices and to shake confl dence. No less than 34 lots of land in the island of Honk; Kong had,been sold by public auction, and knocked down to various British residents and Parsee merchants at vari ous quit rents, amounting in all to 3,2381. per annum. Amongst the list of purchasers there are the names of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., for three lots, at 5651. per annum ; Messrs. Innes, Fletcher, and. Co., lot 16, at 1501.; and Mes srs . F ox , Macvicar, and Turner, for lot 33, at 2501. per annum. The Commissioner, on the 7th of June, issued a pro clamation, declaring to the merchants and traders of Canton, and all parts of the empire, that they and their ships had free permission to resort to, and trade at the port of Hong Kong, where they would receive full pro tection from the high &dicers of the British nation, and that there would be ,an immediate embargo upon the port of Canton, and all the large ports of the empire, if there should be the least obstruction to the freedom of Hong Kong. On the 10th of June he warned all her Majesty's subjects that he considered the enteance of British shipping within the river unsafe, and recom mended them to proceed forthwith to Hong liang. Those who had suffered loss by the pillage '3t the fac tories in Canton were requested to present an inventory of the particulars and amount on or before th e 20th of June. The private letters do not thrown any a ddi t i ona l li g ht on the state and prospects of the tea trade. It is evident that Captain Elliot i expects to slices. cl in keep ink;h Chinese e 'cep the trade with e at Hong Kong, and ing ope n and to that port the at mercantile depot. From the to Inofland a it • purchases extensive our Canton merc hants consider it a f avoura b le locality ; on trade ; but pending nego t i at i ons, and for carrying until the operations of Sir Gordon Brem er , an d Sir Henry Pot tinge r are known, it is impossibl e to say to what extent mercantile transactions may be carried on. POST We have before us the names of three oth er . considerable firms in the tallow trade which, we regret to state, have given way le very general derangementVe refrain from the publi cation of them, owing to the that exists in this branch ofd _to had been some eighty i years in business, and business. One of the num ber more particularly referred em barrassments are under stood to have been occasioned p r incipally by the failure of the other two. Another party in the same line are, we hear, negotiating for time. iscuseion We have no wish to prolong ad • -*with one e scurrilityo.e who loses his temper, a nd resorts to I instead of fair argument, us is the case with our Con temporary of the arweicle. We will, however, ap peal to th e commerc i a l rea d ers o f that paler, upon o of them the m ore i mportant quest i on at i ssue . _i who are un h app il y h o ld ers o f t h e shares of of the Ueited Stat es Bank, the corrupt medium through which no l ess than three millions eterling have been ab 1 stracted fr om t h e poc k ets of Engl i sh capita li st, man y of whom relied upon - the integrity of its management for the entire of their revenues, may contradict us in the columns of the Chronicle itself if we be wrong in the as sertion we hazard, namely, that its City Correspondeet was, up to a late period, and until his advocacy of the rotten fabric would no longer be availing or tolerated, most prodigal in hie encomium on the establishment. We wish not to goad our discourteous assailant into any further displays of vulgarity, yet we can hardly forbear calling his attention to the fact, that the shares of the bank, so praised b y him, and which, sccording to his encouraging report, had "rallied " on the departure of the Britanuia to 7 dollars pe r cent , have sutfered a re lapse. Before th e G reat Western. quitted New York the had, as we have stated abov e , d roppe d to 5 1 , an d at this quotation they.were nominal merely. Mr. Just ice Bosanquct, who has been to the G ar ; ,,, n spa:, fl4r bemcit health,arrival iu tow% The Learned Gentleciztr:3 he2lth completely reatored. OCTOEER 11 1841. TII:E REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING No. I.—An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Gt 'eat Britain in the Years and Quarters ended 10th of October, 1840, and or Decrease on each head thereof. CTOBER 10, 1841. oth of Octobor, 1841, sheaving the Increase .........inso.... - A QUARTERS ENDED I YEAR QUARTERS ENDED . c l i . ,, , t 7 it e i I 1 Year ended Oct. 10. I Quarter ended Oct. .10.' • ...----__.--„, .........----„i ended 1 ......-- "Jan. 5, April 5, July 5, 1 Oct.'lo, Oct. 10, ' Jan. 5, April 5, July 5, Oct.• 10; Oct • 10, • • 1810 18,0 184.1 1840 1810 1811 1841 1341 181. 1811 Increase. Decrease. Increase. I Decrease. Customs.-Consolidated Duties- ...... .... 3,905,719 3,499,029 3,985,998 4,562,048 I - -3,644,292 3,527,826 3,767,034 4,256,828 - - - - - Sugar Duty applicable to Conscliciatecl : Fubd - 240,135 1,151,93fU - - - - 909,678 - - - - - , - • Sugar Duty applicable to Supplies 973,586 '733,159 - 1,10 0 , 3 2 9 --736,614 990,4X2 171,874 1,490,389 - - - - -- ..)- - - - Total Customs, 4,770,3415 4,'":7°,653 '` '14,934 I . 5 , 66 9; 77 20,152,131 4,980,9e6 4,518,50 4,1438,536 5,137,217 19,485,217 667,5 N 74,310 -- Excise 3,1 '1 ;,' - '7l 1,129,3:',6' ''',7l 1,9:51 i :.3,916,249 11,985,467 4,010,366 1,835,470 ' 7 ,795,312 4,16;(,86(1 12,85•,014 87.,547 ' 2;9617 Stamps 1,557,061 1,653,158 1,7x1,(.`1 1,751,417 6,716,317 1,5176,646 1,677404 1,650,821 1,7, 44 ,7C4 6,687,575 35,742 18 , 713 Taxes 1,3•.8 t,HYJ 1;9,0.:9 1,-47,803 332,507 3,744,172 1,786,771 22,945 2,030,696 3 4, ,17' 0 4,359,612 615,300 ••.... 12,647 Post Of lice 351,001 L 0,101) 10 •,(700 193,000 654,0171 18,009 93,000 119,000 116,000 426,000 26,5,000 7000 Crown Lands 40,0. 0 4 0 ,000 42,30 0 45 , 000 167 , 7,00 4 4 7,000 32,500 30,000 50,f,00 . 15.5,000 18,500 5 , ,503 Miscellaneous 18,600 '''' 3',180 4 , 1 17 • 24 ,382 81 , 479 12,131 49,! ; 26 18,235 15,325 9,•;,193 10,644 ...... 9,057 l'" - - - Total Ordinary Revenue 11,755,136 8,537,045 11,373,961 11,855,712 4',551, 2 74 11,1.31,L6 9,478,053 11,522,650 12,192,712 44,064,6411 1,998,491 988 3 114 329,457 47,117 Imprest and other Moneys 41,892 31,913 , 297,980 82,999 4: 4,": 84 37,546 32 151 19 7 ,935 , 97,805 3360,487 3 ' 4,297 14,806 - Re-payments of Advances 176 , ,370 119,7 6 '193,995 , 172,499 ' 656,140 , 151,949 93,996 143,510 122,074 43; 85,/ 107, 0, 2 50,125 , - Total Income 12,017,018 8,612,714 11,8.47,836 12,111;230 144,64;5,71,•5 I I 12,0E7,620 8,609,200 ' 11,8(14,175 12,352,951 1 44,313,946 1 1,498,191 1,230,7743 139,263 97,542 The Amount applied to the Consoli- I j Deduct De. Deduct dated Fund Ditto, as Advances, and to pay of!' Ex- I 1,250,313 117,592 chequer Bills, issued as Advances - Ditto, as part of the Ways and „deans . of the Year 3,13 5 3981 916,925 9,558,256 3,359,051 12,..0,118 , 3,120,597 C 36,219 4,917,733 1,816,041 10,790,619 I \ Increase' on Increase on • ,, Total _ 12,001,018 8,679,714 11,v67,8.36 .l 12011,220 I 44,665,798 il 12,087,6•..0 1 8,609,200 11,864,175 j 12,3.5,' 51 141,91 -,916 I 248,143 1 2•11,:21 ______ No. IL—lncome and Charge of the C onsolidated Fund, in the Q uar t ers end e d the Nth October, 1540, and the 10th October, 1841. i Quarters ended Oct. 10, —........-- INCOME. I 1810 elected for Dover hi the House of Cotnmons, and which he continued to represent till 1830, in which latter year, being returned both for that borough and Manchester, he took his seat in Parliament as Member for the latter place. At the period that Mr. Poulett Thomson was Member for Manchester, anr;.: President of the Board of Trade, he was chiefly distinguished for his free-trade opinions, and his intimate acquaintance with commercial subjects; on most political questions he showed himself a man of considerable talents. I Quarters ended Oct. 10. ?, 101,1 IS 31,6:)1 9 • , 0'24 10,009 t.,334,958 5,84:,151 11,180,1:0 3,551', 173 1,372,986 D 7, 3 12 40:),165 00,009 5,37H, , i51 N 644,409 11,025,2t0 F,U7.,519 1,418,ft4•4 5,6-18,400 ;34369 A,s,o,iso sary for the public serrice, and for maintaining the credit of the province. " honourable Gentlemen and Gentlemen, " I am confident that you will sympathise with me in the deep sorrow which I feel for the illness of the Go vernor-General, and in my hope that the sufferings with which it has pleased Almighty God to afflict him, may be but temporary. In the meantime, I would urge on you the propriety, on your return to your homes, of en deavouring to carry out the great improvements now in progress, and of inculcating on those by whom you will be surrounded, as well an oblivion of past differeneca as a hopeful spirit of enterprise and contentment for the future. In so doing you will best promote the perma nent interests of your country, and entitle yourselves tO the gratitude of your fellow•subjects; and may that Pro vidence which has heretofore so signally protected this land, prosper your endeavours." The Honourable the Speaker of the Legislative Coun cil then declared the Provincial Parliament prOrogued to the 25th of October next. The most remarkable speech by Mr. Poilett Thomson was delivered in the House of Commons on the 28th of March, 1830, on moving the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the taxation of the United Kingdom. This speech, published by Ridgway, of Piccadilly, immediately after its delivery, con tained .an able exposition of every tax then laid upon the people ; and the reformatory measures which Mr. Poulett Thomson proposed were such as gained him great approbation from both politi cal parties, from its temperate and excellent tone. It, moreover, exhibited great reading and research. The following. remarkable sentence is confirmed by the late discussions en this important queStion Whe ther we look to the petitions on the table, or consult the opinions of public writers, or consider the debates in the House, we shall find a diversity of opinion upon all subjects but one. Some eunsider a greater re - duction of expenditure necessary ; some deem further retunehment necessary ; some believe that relief might be afforded by a depreciation of the standard, by an issue of paper money; others condemn as the most injurious that could be adopted. Some look to a Parlia mentary reform as a remedy for our distress ; many attribute the sufferings of the people -to the system called free trade ; the more enlightened and reasoning part of society reject such an idea as absurd. In shoet, 'upon all these subjects difference of opinion exists. Upon one only, whether you read the voice of the people expressed at county meetings, or their prayers brought up to the table of the House, on one subjectonly is an opinion common to all—and that point is, that the system of taxation requires revision, that our imports press, too heavily upon the productive industry of the coun try:" On the present occasion, the usual salutes and guards of honour were dispensed with, and the attendance of the heads of departments. officers, &c. not required. The number of Bills to which the R.,yal assent was this day given was 67 Reserved for the signification oiler Majesty's pleasure 15 Previously sanctioned 2O Total paned this Sess!o- lO2 FLORIDA. (From the National Intelligencer.) EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM N OFFICER IN FLORIDA. In my last hurried note to you I mentioned having witnessed a scene here a few days before, which, in my humble judgment, put the famed story of Damon ar.d Pythias quite in the shade. I will now give you some of the particulars:— . Mr. Thomson's manner of delivery greatly hurt his speeches, since he usually spoke ha a lengthened lugu brious tone. His enunciation was nevertheless very dis tinct, sufficient to render him audible in all parts of the house. His gesture was but small, and consisted chiefly of moving his right arm to and fro, turning his face to the Members of that side of the House he addressed. His replies were often happy, and then his utterance was rapid, and apparently more easy. In December, 1830, Mr. Poulett Thomson was ap pointed by Earl Grey, to the Vice-Presidency of the Board of Trade, when he was made a Member of the Privy Council. He continued in that office until he was selected by the late Government to succeed Sir John Colborne (now Lord Seaton) in Canada. Mr. Thomson, succeeded to the immediate administration of this pro vince, and arrived at Quebec on the 16th of October, 1839. On the 19th, he . assumed the reins of govern ment ; and soon afterwards visited Toronto, and other parts of the. country, holding sessions of the then ° existing Legislatures of Upper and Lower Canada. On the 10th of August, IE4O, her Majesty was pleased to raise Mr. Thomsom to the Peerage of . the United Kingdom, by the titles to which we have already alluded at the head of our memoir, as a mark of approbation, no doubt, of the manner in which he conducted the im portant Government intrusted to his care. On May 20th last. his Lordship, while still in delicate health, left Quebec for Kingston, for the purpose of °peeing the first Session of the United Legislature of Canada, but which from the alarming character his indispositicn had assumed, he was only destined to close by deputation. It Wasintended that this ceremony • should take place in ' his Excellency's apartments a few days after, but his Lordship was un able to undergo the fatigue, and in acieordance with the previsions of the Act of Union, a Commission was issued, appointing . Major-General Clitherow 'tZ) be Deputy-Go vernor for the purposes therein mentioned, which, we believe, were confined to the giving the Royal sanction to some of the Bills passed during the Session, referring others for the signification of her Majesty's pleasure, and proroguing the Provincial Parliament. Lord Sydenham's seat was at Roehampton, in the county of Surrey, England, which latter is a pleasant hamlet ; at the western extremity of Putney Heath. At the time of Henry VII., this little village had but 14 houses, they have now increased to about fifty or sixty, of which Lord Sydenham's was a neat and elegant build ing. The Earl of Portland formerly resided here, in 1628, who was Lord High Treasurer to Charles 1., and a great favourite of that King. In the neighbourhood was a chapel, ornamented with a painful. , of the last supper, by Zucchero, but this was pulled down in 1777, and gave place to the present edifice, in which the above mentioned picture still remains. His Lordship's last illness was severe, though of but short duration. On the 7th ult., while riding for exercise in the neighbourhood of Kingston, his horse stumbled and fell with him, by which his right leg was fractured near the ankle, and also received a severe con tusion above the knee. The accident was unfortunate in every respect, and still more so in its fatal conseqUences; but it was not of a character to excite alarm, except in connection with its anticipated influence upon the gout, to which his Lordship was, we believe, subject from early life, to which he had been a martyr almost ever since his arrival in Canada, and from a severe attack of which he had scarcely recovered when the la mented accident took place. The fears anticipated were but too fatally realised. The gout returned, as we are informed, with redoubled violence, and a painful illness of a few days, which his Lordship bore with f or tit u d e , put an end to his mortal existence. A party of Indians was recently discovered by sorry: of our troops, who succeeded in capturing three of their warriors ; the rest of the party, consisting of three men, and women, and children, cumbering in all about twenty, fled. The captives were brought to this place, where they were interrogated by the Colonel (Colonel Worth), during which it was discovered that twe of them bad been concerned in killing and' burning a mail rider some time in March last. They were told that for this crcel act of theirs, they would be hung in fifteen days, unless within that time the rest of their people should come in. They were then placed in chains, and were permitted to send nut the third man of their party, with a talk, to bring is the rest of their people, while they were committed to the guard. The man thus sent out returned in five days. bringing with him a warrior by by the name of Holate Fixico, and some women and children, among whom were the mother and sister of one of the prisoners, whose name is Talof Hadjo. The scene which follows may be dramatised thus : Scene, an open court in front of the Commanding Offices quarter—lndiana are discovered seated under the trees, among them Rotate Fixico (Pythias) on the grass, in the Indian posture—Talof Hadjo (Damon) in chains, on a bench, his head resting against the trunk of a tree, looking towards the heavens, with a countenance indicative of resignation—his mother and sister lying upon the grass at his feet, the mother weep. ing at the fate which awaits her son—the Colonel and other officers are discovered at a distance from the group of Indians. Colonel, to Holate Fixico--Where are the rest of the people sent for ? Holate—They are separate 3, and cannot be found. Your troops have scattered them, and they have taken different paths. Colonel—Know you not that unless they ard brought in, those men (pointing to the prisoners) will be hung ? —(A pause. The Indians disconsolate, but apparently resigned.) If I send you out for the people will you bring them in, in time to save their lives? Helate—They have gone off, and I know not where to look for them. Like the frightened deer, they have fled at the presence of your troops. Colonel—lndian can find Indian. If they are not here in ten days, these men will surely die. Holate—The track of the Indian is covered ; his path is hidden ; and cannot be found in ten suns. Colonel to Ta!of—Have you a wife ? 'falof—My wife and child are with the people. I wish them here that I may take leave of them before I die. The administration of the Government now devolves on his Excellency Sir Richard Jackson, Commander of the Forces in the province, until further instructions shall have been received from home. In person Lord Sydenham was rather above the middle size, and of somewhat slender make. lie was of dark complexion, and his hair black. His dress was always plain. His Lordship was nephew of Lady Taylor, wife of Sir Charles William Taylor, Bart., and cousin of Lord Brougham and Mr. W. Brougham, Master in Chancery. As the deceased Lord Sydenham was unmarried, the title becomes extinct. Lord Sydenham was, we belie,. o in his 47th year. Colonel—Do you love your wife and child? Talof—The dog is fond of its kind, and I love my own blood. Colonel—Could you find the people that are out ? Talof—They arc scattered and May not be found. Colonel—Do you desire your freedom ? Talof—l see the people going to and fro, and wish to be with them. lam tired of my chains. Colonel.—lf I release you will you bring in the people within the time fixed ? Talof—You will not trust me. Yet I would try. Colonel—lf Holate Pixico will consent to take yetr chains and be bung in your place if you should not re= turn, you may go.—(A long pause. Talof continues throughout the scene with his eyes fixed on the heaveus —his mother and sister now cast imploring looks to wards Ilolate, who, during Cle last few questions, has struggled to maintain his composure, evincing, by the heaving of his breast and his gasping:, as though the rope was already about his neck, that to is ill at taw... all eyes are turned towards hint--.ho rftovers, and with the li u o tr at o e s ...._ t composurel have nti „, an ife) dfirmncss repli es —) or child, or rnotbM.. it is hmisocrceohifiaointn'etsih_aataßedheaibstbieu.lhlislikv ete,thaLn et h m t. consent o. to take But do deceive yourselves : So sure as Talof Had;: . ; . l erinks ten days 8 0 l A a. c d ies , Leath of not the people within uVg. , With 'c'ne utmost solemnity the two I n di ans were t" c.: - .1 =lreland to the armory •where theit• Chains were transferred, and in Warn minutes atter Talof was oa his jnarncv. "I , .sterday a messenger arrived br in, in cv g . in ittt g p !ig e o e p t i 'e e e , t a h n a Tale!dt might H t b iljo e u ell7t s t e o d n t his e * .t a o k . nantrow or next day. There is rn.Dte truth than pc'etry lb he tgrit , going. And what makes it iiaore remarkable, when compared with May of Damon and Pythias is; that in sane nesse a strong and devoted friendship x itte'd tiltween the parties, while in the other there ap pears no such feeling, bat the sacrifice offered by Hulate arose from a purely n 01.4 and disinterest-d rite tive ; a desire to save the life of Otte *hitt he conti dered of more consequence than hiirrell. Pythias placed the utmost faith in tLe promise of his friend to return at the appointed time. The noble Lilac had no such assurance given him. Ua the contrary, he well knew it was barely probable that Talof would rettun with his people to save his life. last year, . so tlilt the supply has not to extend over so I_,ng a pzriod of consumpt!oo, and the therefore, concludes that there is no's , / in the kingdom a sufficient supply until the Ist of October, 1842. The Mark Lane Express of Monday says : " Tuough the utmost exertions were used by fwiee-s in al! parts of the country to get in the remainder of their crop during the fine weather experienced the first three weeks in September, some quantity of corn was stil abroad 'when a return of rain interrupted their la bours ; indeed, it appears from the reports which have reacted us since our last, that there is more grain re• maining in the fields in some of the backward districts than we were disposed to believe, and as the weather has this week been of a .very unfavourable nature, we fear that serious injury has been done. The humid state of the atmosphere is likewise greatly deteriorating the condition of the corn in stack, and pievcnts farmers thrashing out freely. We sincerely trust, therefore, that the change which has taken place to-day (the wea ther having been bright and clear since last night) may continue. The accounts received respecting the yield of wheat are increasingly unfavourable, and thoug'a it is certain th it a larger breadth of ground was under this grain than was ever known before, the total produce will prove decidedly short of an usual average ; to most of the best wheat.growing counties the deficiency per acre is estimated at one-eighth, and in less favoured districts the falling off will, we fear, prove still greater. Independent of the actual loss in measure, the inferio rity of the quality, and the difference in weight (the samples which have hitherto appeared averaging three to four pounds per bushel less than the produce of 1840) will materially add to the total deficiency ; net withstanding, therefore, the large quantity of foreign wheat which has just been cleared for home consump tion, it is probable that a further considerable impor tation will be required before the autumn of 1842, and many well informed parties expect to see a !ow duty curly in spring. The trade in wheat has maintained a very firm tone at the principal provincial markets held during the week, but•no change of importance has occurred in prices." The following is a copy of the Monthly Circular, issued on Thursday by the Messrs. Sturge, of Bir mingham : " Birmingham, 10th month, 6th. " During the latter part of the pit month, the weather was unfavourable for securing the late harvest ; and, although in the midland counties little remains out, except beans, there is yet a considerable quantity uns?.. cured, not only in the north of England, Scotland, and Ireland, but on the hits in Wales, and some of the western counties of England. " The yield of the new crop is, withput exception, more or less complained of, and we believe it to be a much worse produce than last year, proha'iiy fully one fifth below an average per acre ;and, as the weight and quality are also inferior, there will be a still greater de ficiency in the produce of flour from it. 1,900,000 quarters of wheat and flour were liberated ut the Is: duty, and we believe at least 2,000,000 quarters more will be freed at from 2s. Bd. to 103. Bd. per quarter, being the greatest quantity ever realised in so short a period. " The farmers have brought their new wheat to mar ket freely ; but as there is scarcely any old English left, and the new from its quality and condition requiring a large admixture of old, there has been no disposition to give way in price, notwithstanding the above enormous supply of foreign ; and as it is rapidly going into con sumption,the opinion is general that improved rates will shortly be realised, especially as it is evident that Ire land will requiro far more wheat and flour than her own produce, the crop there being also deficient in most dis• tricts of that country, and the consumption of wheat and flour rapidly increasing. Although the distress of the labouring population of England and Scotland may compel them in many cases, to substitute potatoes for bread, there is every reason to suppose, th it most of the foreign wheat will go into consumption during the present year, and that a further importation of from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 of quarters will be required before another harvest ; and, were it not for the inferior quality of the Eagii,h wheat, the duty might possibly be again low in De. camber; netwithsta oding, it will exceed 20s. per quar ter before the end of tl:e present month. Purcha , ,ers are at present cautious in sending out foreign orders ; but there is such a general expeetition that further supplies will be required, and that the duty will again be Is. early in the spring, that many are only waiting to see how far prices will recede at the different foreign shipping ports. New English wheat sells at 7s. to Bs.; all, Bs. 2d. to 83. 9 t, ; Spanish red and white, 83. 6d. to Bs. ; Baltic red, Bs. 6d. to 83. 81. ; French, Bs. 4d. to Is. 6d. per 621 b. here ; Dantzig and B sltie white, Bs. 6d. to Bs. 9d. ; Odessa hard, 7s. 9d. ; soft, 7s. 9d. to Bs. Id. per 601 b. at Gloucester. 38,000 quarters were released at Gloucester at ls. duty, but little of which rema:na in first hand. " We have had a free sale for malting and grinding barley, aad good supplre3 of both have rather advanced in price. The crop is likely to prove, in every respect, below an average ; and a great part has been much impaired by the weather. Making is worth 36g. to 428. per imperitd quarter ; grinding, 30s; to 328. per 39211)8. at Birmingham. _ _ " Our supplies of oats have been moderate, and the price of old firmly rnainfainct!. Thera are, r.t present, scarcely any in Gloucester ; and we are aware of but very few shipments on the passage. The new Irish arc very inferior to last year : this will, of course, cause an increased demand for all for some months to come. We quote old hlack at 2213. 6d.; white, 235, to 2-Is. ; new black, 225. per 3121b5. at Gloucester. " The large quantity of Egyptian be a n s offering, free and in bond , bas reduced the price about 2s. per quar ter on old descriptions. New English sell at 15s. to 163.; old, 16s. to 17s. ; Egyptian, 14s, 6d. to 15s. per 1961b5. here. "'Tile few peas on the market arc held at 15s. 6d. per 1961b5. at Gloucester." These three sources of information widely differ in the tone which pervade 3 them. The Banker's Circular is a paper in the moaopohst interest, highly favourable to the most flattering view of the state of affairs. The Mark Lane Express is a very well-informed paper, strongly attached to the bread-taxing interest, and which, until very lately, has held out the harvest as likely to be a full average. Messrs. Sturge have al ways been disposed to take a rather more gloomy view of the state of thing:. Nevertheless, they all agree that there will be a very great deficiency. _ _ We believe the Duke of Wellington is not insensible to the dangers of his position, and there are signs of his yielding on the question of the Corn-laws. He declares that he will not be "intimidated"—which he has done twice before on two memorable occasions when he was preparing to give way. He repudiates the no tion that he means to make no alteration in the Corn laws, and the Duke of Richmond explains that his threat to turn the Ministers out was contingent, not on alteration generally, but only on an II?. duty. But we must say we despair of anything like vigorous or com mon-scare views from the men now in power.—Liverpool Journal. FB - VR IN CARLISLE. Tö Tat Eoli . c,ft CIF iift CARtine JOURNAL. Sir-4 hand you the following statement of the num ber of patients admitted in the Carlisle House of Re covery; rAdteti With typhus feiief, during the last six years. I And it stated in the Report for the years 1836-7 that the average number of patients admitted in each year suite tho optulhg df the house till that time, eni• bracing a period of seventeen years, had been 63 de ducting eziSeq of starlet fever and small-pox, which are not hieltidOd itt illy stlitatiefit, the itVertige; number of ad missions up to that time iit typhus alone would not ex ceed 56 or 57 per annum: Adlititted, dffetted With Typhus, From Ist Sept. 1835 to 31st Aug. 1866 81 riiui Ist Sept: 1836 to 31st Aug. 1837 ... 74 VOOtti iili Pept: 1837 to 31st Aug. 1838 ... 281 Front Ist Sept. 1838 to Sisi Ag - , 3889 ...;' 98 P n rotii Ist Sept: 1839 to 31st Aug. 1846 .., 108 . ist Sent: 1840 tti 31st Aug; 1841 232 On referring- to the Report, 111111 the great number of adinilons; in the years 183 7- 8 , ascribed to fin epide= iyitus • which visited Carlisle as well as other large towns of the ' kingdom in the autumn of 1837 but the steady and .ferful increase since the year net alvear td be attributable to any such cause-- - -indeed; it is stated in otii 4 last Report that the only epidemic rhi : o l epic! be said to have prevailed during the then iir6edini r ftttel 111 , .41s was measles, and that Umber of lever eases during the whole autumn, when the was very great, " the atmospheric conditions s - e.7ed pro' phipus. to the ,public health." With ict:Pb.di iti the class of seeiety to which the pa tients in general belong ; I find that out or 150 patients admitted . Ist Deeember ; 1839, and Ist December, WA 130 Were paid for by the relieving officers ; only 18 of these 180, however, were brought from the workhouses, the remainder having been removed directly from their own habitation to the hospital. I may observe, that on the Ist January last, it was found necessary, on account of the state of the funds, to raise the charge for admission of p auper pat i ents from 7s. ' to -10 s. 6d. per week ; but I do not know whether or not this alteration has affected the number of admissions. . Yours very truly, T , T, RAILTON, Secr e t ar y. Carlisle, sth 9q9ber,l THE HARCES ES' OF TIIE COUNTRY. The harvest is now generally secured, with the ex ception, perhaps, of a few out-lyieg pAt‘:ll , ..l of oats in Scotland and t he north o f E ng l an d and Inland, and from the "th ras hi ng out, '* _ ----..,.............................. place, data - have been obtained to form a toicrab7e no. - e i which has already t klzen OTA TE OF TH E BOROU G H STOC K ' .' ten of its general results. The. following co .. nu'os the roirr.—As an indicatioti of the distressed state of the most precise arid authentic idertnation we can r.t prc poorer alas Of faft4pityers iti this; borough, we may sent meet with : , O Flllent:ton that no less than 300 persons were Sttrunaoned THE WHEAT CR 0 p.--The Bankers' Circular cony haw%) the Magistrates on Wednesday last, for . non payment of the poor -rates. Besides this striking fact, tains an elaborate and careful calculation of the produce of the present harvest, in which the writer arrives at the we may also state, iat there were upwards of 50 feesh following results :—Teat, as compared with the harvest applications for relief made to the relieving officer of for 1840, the present harvest will he defieent in the this township alone, on Tuesday last. There aro 17 b average qua n ti ty of wheat. and i ts quality for yielding townships in the St oc k port Union and have and relief is dis good flour, equa l to 2,400,000 quartors. To meet thi s pensed by three reli eving o ffi cers • enormous fallog off, a greatly increased quantity of number of applications for relief one day to to one of leer land has this year keen brought into wheat cultivation only ; what tho number of applications I . . other two may be, it is impossible, for us to say ; bat, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, yielding sn increase ; doubtlees, they will be in the sameproportion, and we of 1,950,000 quarters more than IS4O. Added to this have no doubt that there have been at teast qOO fresh 900,000 quarters of foreign' corn . have this year hex!: .given the I , plications he:lrd at the sittiiik t ,.. a ,the 13c rd this chy. libcri,ted more than ilst ,±..,-- IL:: 'ng the , _,1.,-: ~ , . _,,. _ klt thi r ,; ~.o ec . t o prevn the Oldariellq . iv. fact, that disc ciency 800,000 quarters, and no wore. Tben, ti,e pre- i deep and heart-rending, is steadily on the increase_ in sent harvest is fully a fortni;ht later than the harvezt of ! his borough and neighbourhood,,,Stcchport Chronic l e. :..... DINPkER at the. MANSION-HOUSE TO I - lER NTAJESTY'S MINISTERS. On ftturday a. splendid entertainment was given by Lho Bight Hon. the Lord Mayor to her Majesty's Mini sters. The- entertainment was considered a private one, and the Lord Mayor accordingly limited the invitations to meet the members of the Administration to his brethren Or the. Court 'of Aldermen and a fell/ of his most intimate friends. We noticed amongst-the company Lady Peel and Miss Best, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Wharn eliffe, .the Earl of Lincoln, Lord Haddington, Earl of Rpon, Sir James Graham, Lord Granville Somerset, Lord Stanley, Mr. Goulburn, Sir George Murray, Sir Henry Hardinge, Sir Edward Knatchbull, the Hon. E. Gladstone, Mr. George Dawson Darner, Sir Geo. Clerk, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Captain Seymour, Sir Lowry Cole, the Hon. William Gordon, Mr. Alexander Pringle, Mr. John , Young, Mr. Joseph Jones, Mr. Hughes Hughes, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Laurie, Mr. Cornelius Wilson, Mr. Thomas John son, ',Mr. Charles Johnson, Mr. Weston, Dr. Stebbing, Mr. John Freeman, Sir James Shaw, Mr. Masterman, M.P. ; Alderman Lucas, Alderman Thompson, M.P. for the county of Westmoreland, Sir John Key, Sir Peter Laurie, Cowan, Humphery, M.P. for South wark, Farebrother, John Johnson, Gibbs, Sir George Carrol, Farncomb, Wilson, Thomas Wood, Brown, and the Lord Mayor elect. There were about 60 present. The LORD MAYOR, when the cloth was removed, pro posed, " The health of her Majesty, Queen Victoria," under whose mild and auspicious reign he trusted the country would enjoy the greatest blessings. The toast was drunk with applause. His LORDSHIP next proposed, "The health of Queen Adelaide." The LARD Mavon then proposed, " The healths of Prince Albert. the Princess Royal, and the rest of the Royal Family.'—(Applause.) The Loan MAvon then rose to propose, " The health. of Sir Robert Teel and her Majesty's Ministers."— (Cheers.) His Lordship considered it a very great pri vilege that the citizens of London were permitted to have the honou!' of entertaining the Ministers , of the Crown, and it was a most gratifying thing to him to see so many Members of the Adthimetration present. It was also a consolation to know that her Majesty's Min isters were men experienced in the art of governingee. (Cheers.) He was most happy to see theni in power, an;!. long might they remain. —(Loud cheering.) Sir R. PEEL rose in his own behalf, and on behalf of the other Members of her Majesty's Government, to re turn their most grateful and respectful acknowledgments for the _compliments the company had been pleased to pay them. IL was not only authorised to return thanks for those Members of the Government who were present, but also for those absent, and to express the deep re ' gret of the latter that they wemprevented from having the honour of personally thanking the distinguished com pany for the compliment.—(Cheers.) One Noble and Illustrious Member of the G overnmeht —(Cheers)—would certainly have been present that day if he had not re ceived a command from her Majesty to attend at Wind sor.—(Cheers.) He (Sir R. Peel) was convinced that no thing but that command would have prevented the Noble Dale from accepting the invitation of the Chief Magis trate of the City of London.—(Cheers.) Her Majesty's Government were deeply impressed with the importance, of the favourable opinion of the City of London, and he trusted that their exertions for the national benefit would make them possess and deserve the confidence of the great community of which the municipal body was the fit re presentative.—(Cheers.) He hoped that the Adminis tration would be successful in their efforts for the public. good. He wished more strongly than by the expression of thanks to testify the feelings of himself and his col leagues on this occasion; and he could not do it more agreeably to himself than•by proposing "The Health cif the Lord Mayer of London.' —(Loud cheers.) He had had the honour of proposing that toast upon the entrance of his Lordship upon his high office, and of alluding to the incident of his Lore:ship's resolute cond uc t w h en a boy, only fourteen years of age, in'shutting the gates of Christ's Hospital against an infuriated mob, as ominous of the firm and resolute manner in which he had acted in defence of the law in the after transactions of his life.— (Cheers.) In the name of himself and his colleagues, he proposed " The Health of the Lord Mayor, and that long life and happiness might attend him." The toast was drunk with much enthusiasm. The LORD MAYOR ' in returning thanks, said that h e ' entered upon the office with doubt upon his mind as to his ability to perform the duties effectively ; but the important assistance he had received from his brother magistrates had made his task an easy one comparatively with his apprehensions.--(Cheers.) /Es Lordship then proposed, " The Army and Navy."—(Loud cheers.) • - - Lord HADDINGTON returned thanks upon the part of the service to which he had - the honour to belong. Op portunities had of late years , very seldom presented them selves for the exertions of the naval strength of this coun try, but whenever any opportunity did present itself, the British seaman discharged his duty to the admiration of the world.—(Cheers). It was scarcely necessary to ad vert to the recent occurrences on the coast of Syria,where proof's were given under the able command of Sir Robert Stopfurd of the bravery and skill of the service, and where the seamen showed that, whether ashor or afloat,' they were ready to spill their blood for their country. —(Loud cheers.) If the necessities of the country re quired 'that theßritish navy should again sweep the seas, he was convinced that the same spirit, energy, and valour would be exhibited.--(Loud cheers.) Lord WIIARNCLIEFE proposed . the health of the Lady Mayoress. The LORD MAYOR returned thanks, and expressed her Ladyship's gratitude fur the honour done her by the attendance of so numerous a body of her Majesty's Mi nisters. His Lordship next proposed the health of the Lord Mayor Elect.—(Cheers.) Alderman P.lntE returned thanks in a few expressive words. He had been placed by the livery of London in a situation which would soon introduce him to the chair which the Lord Mayor so ably filled, and he should en deavour to follow so admirable an example.— (Cheers.) Sir C. S. HUNTER, in returning thanks for the toast of the aldermen who had passed the chair, said that they had been looking forward to the incident they now.wit nessed, in seeing the present men in power with great auxlety.—(lmmense cheering.) It was now thirty years since he had sat in the chair which was so well filled by the Lord Mayor, and it delighted him to see the return of the good old feeling of the country.—(Cheers.) He hailed the prosperous calm which the nation was about to enjoy, after the storm to which it had been so long exposed, and, as he was now the father of the City, he begged leave, in the name of his young gentlemen, to return thanks for the very distinguished honour. Alderman T. WOOD returned thanks for the toast of " The Aldermen below the Chair." He trusted, that after the great struggle which had taken place, peace and happiness would pervade the land. The LORD 3/1.4.Y0a then rose to propose the health of the Duke of Wellington, which he _knew the company would not think of separating withoutsaoing honour to. —(Great cheering.) His LORDSHIP said. he felt great pleasure in 'proposing " The Representatives of the City." Mr. MASTERbIAN, M.P., returned thanks. He assured the company, that having been placed. by the consti tuency in the proud situation of one of their,representa tives, he should do all in his power to merit their , confi dence.—(Cheers.) He could not help saying that he re joiced in being in Parliament time enough to form one of tration.—(lmmense the glorious majority of 91 that voted a denial of con& dente in the tilen ex,:sting Aeminis cheering.) He rejoicetl i too,' that her Majesty had ac commodated her feelings to what he really believed to be the sincere wish of the nation At lar!.;e.— (Great cheers.) The LORD MAYOR proposed the Sheriffs, Mr. Ma"nay and Mr. Rogers, and the former returned thanks. The company began to move away at half-past ten, and at eleven the last carriage left the door.' '.A • MELANCHOLY • ACCIDENT.--TWO MEN DROWNED.—On Thursday forenoon, a fishing-boat from - Broughty Ferry, while coming up the river, was upset at a short distance from the harbour, by sudden squalls of wind. Four men, William and George Gaul, Alexander Lorimer, and John Jonaldson, were within her at the time. William Gaul and Lorimer had had the fortune, with the assistance of George Gaul, who was an excel lent swimmer, toget hold of some of the oars, and were thus enabled to support theinselves till assistance was given ; but George Gaul and Lorimer, having laid hold of one of the fish boxes, which was incapable of supporting them above water, sunk to rise .no more. George Gaul was a married man, and has left two children ; Donaldsen is unmarried. Wm. Gaul and Lorimer, atter remaining some time in the water, were taken up by a boat belonging to David Knight, at Broughty Ferry, which, immediately bore down t!„1 the spot where the accident occurred. At the moment of the accident, a boat,...with ,Captain Hale on board, be longing to the American Ship 4ariposa, passed within a short cable-length of the, drowning men ; and according to the account of the SurviVers, although those on board the American boat WV'the";nfiident, and must have heard the cries for assistance ( . 2aptain Hale left the sin fortunate men to their fate. Captain Hale addressed a letter to the Dundee Advertiser, stating that he tried to save the unfortunate men, but his vessel was so heavily Juden, that had he - persevered she would have beeu swat e cl.—.l,7nidee Chronicle. "; Saturday at the li re ntford Pett y Sessions, l.p. _ was brought up before George Baillie , -ier, Esq., the sitting Magistrates, —mined on a charge of cutting Mr. James Pete, a It appeared ' -ving been RNI-Nr(-i' S ADEI AWE GALLERY. We enjoyed, on Satarchiy, s everal delightful hours st this theatre of varied enteriainment and lastrue tion. We stood for a long while, and with infinite gratification. beside the laboratory of Mr. Miles,' 'the' ingenious ex hibitor of . a glass-blowing apparatus. which, ocellili.l no more than six inches square produces interestins, miniatures of all th e resu lt s obtained in those giglin feet glass-works, whose tall chimnies rise two hu ndred above the banks of the Avon and the Thames. A-nw u ri s ,, the most curious producti ons of Mr. Miles's. ingenui"r, were fillets • for ladies' head-dress, conaposed of pleit ei f glass fibres, as .brilliant n .the hues upon th e breast 0 the bumming-bird, and scarc e ly more brittle than Idia rubber. . Immediately connected with this portion of the Pr a tt % ~ tical course of scientific instruction. provided for public in this valuable institution, is the course 'V' M. Clarken t.ures now in progress of delivery, by Mr. E. on the polarisation of light. This gentleman, who .a optician and matheatical instrument' maker. end n ni; certainly a most mathematical mind, professes, a 11, oat heretical and whimsical contempt of mathematics. - Y•' notwithstanding • his denunciations of the pride of Cara". bridge, he has evidently reason to be as proud of his tic". quisition of Cambridge lore as of that practic al expe rience upon which he prefers to pride himself. • subject of polarised light, was not only au interestinng g In his introductory lecture Mr. Clarke stated th a t the branch of optical science, but of vast importance housewifery- and in the arts, to all those who have 1,1 ca,sion to use utensils of glass. A very smal l low ledge of light, in the condition improperly c aned " lensed," would enable housekeepers to ascertain a ° V; 1 , 114 the purity of the glass plates and vessels whi ch P c) n purchase, and enable artists to determine the fitnes s o r, the colours which they employ. Before this prop ertY„ light was discovered, the optician, however skilled. ligurl,,. meass of selecting glass that was purely hoincsren eQ sl He was consequently obliged, first,. to grind and P cas the glass before he could ascertain its equal refract i oll ' ob- In ninety-nine cases out of one hundred he did not ‘e taro, after enormous labour and expense, a lens of tri i. transparency and perfect curvature which lie reall?; e l .: t, •Now he has only to apply the test of polarised which enables him at once to select the pure To tavern- keepers, and all who use . muc h glass, ' I which boiling water has to; he poured, as Jad,ge •• of this science is -of great importttncei'S for, by the same test, the quality a L ra g p 4ss sesse 2 caa be ascertained. The lecturer Proce„,,iffe .to explain that, the term " polarised light" was O a r s ' s - - priate and risliculots:. there being nothing of pcbritY 0 ": perly so understood) light under.. the condition:. (iri which the name is applied. What is called Pla'rraei light is simply WHITE, orordinary light, i a state et anon vision, altogether different from the prismatic 5e1 33 ,1 t is of white light into the coloured rays of sthic i ' • - t his composed.' •The simplest mode of e ffectiis:!r,isSe division of white light is, to . place horizontally' a ror matersato of glass, blackened on one side, with the blackened'', o r face upwards, or the back of a Russia bound he" l "' eli any mahogany or other dark wood, that ems been f r-°%s ai polished, so as to get the reflected light from it.l oor apply this for the purpose of detecting badly-mad, g t hst-, or glass that is not of an equal refraction, or to will not admit of a sudden elevation of ternper 3tur :sesv. the great annoyance of the thrifty housevvitey,hes pieces, say eight or ten of thin crown glass, two long, by one and a half wide, must be P. laced together, and held in a slanting position , tie r ase .right hand, so as to allow the °b caeli to admit the polarised light to pass to his eye., o l a ce take the glass to be examined in the left hand, allu ss ; it between the reflecting surface and the plates of R a i 2 X and, if it be a tumbler that is under examination , g• t w i s cross developing itself in the bottom of the ves se ' :sure indicator that, if boiling water be poured in , goes a crack right across the bottom • or, should th ' ' or tician obServe the glass developing p e culiar Inl irks „ f i ts slight tinges of colour, he is aware of its not beins , „, for optical purposes. The lec;sirer then coneltideavu4 showing a variety of very interesting experiments discs, the gas polarscope magnified 1,000 'Limos oil %br e° othe rs r the largest being 24 feet diameter. - Among st was a figure of Columbine 20 feet high. • Tile observed that polarised light was by no Weans Compli mentary mentary to the ladies —the figure before th."'m columbine to be as white its marble; but, as it bY. 311. „; as she ran into the opposite extreme, changing ns-that ebony black. At the conclusion, Mr. Clarke sta:e ssiott it was his intention to give those lectures in sn et ' e c k. every Monday and Thursday, at.half-past three act In the evening Major Beniowski delivered' lee ,. ,e - on Mnemonics, to a' class which has been formed 5 05 16 'we last reported the very great success of his first e° a t,.. of lectures. We observe that he persists in extolling his, merits of Feinagle, upon whose system he thigh'„ wai i hrenotypics are based. There are undoubtedlY rinciples common to the two systems. But the l en'"f i r g Major has rejected all the absurcUties of the Luxembts'leg Professor, and we do not think he ;9 justified in defen"ithe, them. The very great success of his , own system 'f ar to adult pupils of his first course of six lessons goea rem persuade us that • his simple, intelligible, and e esi lYfor . membered mnemonics, might be made av effecting, in the education of the young - , that railrosni;tai pidity of progress which Feinagle promis,d , b ut 11 % ig has yet succeeded in realising, except in .suchearers s stances' of genius and "memory combined 'as' , u t 1/I puted and highly educated exile, Beniowski, yresell his own person: nilabl, SIP.. H. LE FLEAINGSENiII - )17S the north of England. Ho v n .- es—_ aesa;)fleittt?? younger b o ll tie 'l h r il e l, , w itil e This distinguished officer was closely connec -c ` e 4l °- Senbouse, of -.Nether Hall, which has been settled in Cumberland from a v er3. de' mote antiquity ; and, by the female line, he vr 3s , is- . 1 ? scended from a family of yet higher antiquity and - t ete -"-- tinction, though of late years fallen into decay' .. . a id founder of which was Michitel the Fleming, first - -i- c - t ee of Gleaston, in Furness, after the Conquest, one °' et five greater Barons who shared Lancashire under Fe % d of Poitou, and who afterwards passed into Curab el l e rk with Ranulph. de Meschiens, its first Norman i ~,,) r where he acquired large possessions, some small :e n d tion of which yet remain with those of his name see blood to this day. About seven years ago, sere. H. Senhouse retired temporarily from actire . ree l, vice to his native country, where he ,actl ul a- . partly by purchase, an estate, the former broo trimony of the Senhouses, Seascale Hall, ti ' be twelve miles south of Whitehaven. Here to t built a handsome house, interested himself ill, I d ' ea. affairs, and employed his ever active voll'oeo several local topics. He was one of the principal P r ve de ters of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway, he !loss several efforts to obtain an exploration of the solid? t he of Cumberland in search of coal, and lie engaged In- o eef unsuccessful attempt to procure a line of railwali c os Morecambe Bay, to join a more northerly line. Atwood. unite the manufacturing districts in the west of S, cc e eJsc: with those of England. He directed his attehtl ° `: e . pd '' . very closely to the hydrography of the coast, whic h se - . previously been very much neglected, and of wlliec7, re: veys were just then entrusted to naval officers, anu e i r of . ferenee to the harbour of Whitehaven, on the rep w oe, which Sir John Rennie; Mr. Walker, Captain Dee,e"ote and other eminent persons had been consulted, nr ootr i- . anything like unanimity of opinion. Ile c e ls - buted anonymously to the local papers, e o n ieion borate essay, valuable ' as showing the , r oot , of a seaman of great experience and excellent Pl", g i pr.. on the proper mode of constructing artificial tiu; ) , on boors—a most important department of enecine t . ll ' e '.ori c which there is not a single systematic or scientlfic extant. s he ` vs While engaged in these and similar pursttits , o ar , . suddenly called out on active service. Of the O ci oes ' energy, and skill with which he discharged - t he re ss Bcl. entrusted to him but one opinion Iran been °:q .) of e t ho' He perished just at the moment when, after a li fe r te at'l rious service, he found himself in a position T eo ful l pendent command, which promised to lead t° ' display of his talnts for it. a t 6 0 ' 1 ' In politics this e gallant officer was, from co lv h e d h e • firm and decided Liberal, and would, probably, lee( liag been spared a few years longer, have occupied ebereteo' political position in the western division of Cu° elle° In private life he was a most amiable and et c- rct te man, and his death will be a subject of deep reg ioe tva the extensive circle of friends by whon he vin_ Arice7 and esteemed: His lady, daughter c.‘f the De ter;, to Admiral Manley, survives, along with tw o della lament his loss.—Liverpool Journal. a rognomoreomminftwo... I. Ole° _ e Zen iv A GOOD J 0 Z:E.—The late Duke il , - 1. one , wee one of the kindest-hearted sportsmen S e `Z e g o .j, His ultimate death, as every one knows, e ,,,.,, e o le re bt e. bite from a pet fox that had previously I 'e Y ' ) 11 1 : 1 1 .3 Gli` e . e d I shall never forget my first interview wit h ctor tel r a Shortly after I joined the sth (we were th el the gua,,,,, in Dublin), I was ordered on duty as officer or , t • L., at the Castle ; his Grace was Loi d-Lieu tetribloieco-0 Board of Green Cloth held its sittintes, an i ive we r ' ,• en guard were strange hands just arrieed. ... ea a en i „, the room assigned us near the Castle gates , 1 " o f , ro° l e less free-and-easy sort of half sportsmen, b : '.tin o'o, strolled in to us, and sitting down to our taNlhe LI g goieg.; of the sports of the season and . the fun tu" . r apt 111 . 0 in the Irish metropolis, I did not care to iitte,! ed a t 11 _ 1 05 but Delville, a young cornet of Dragoons, 10 014 i ere ptou e „ through a glass, and made one or two sreq, c°l l e far fr ot o replies to the stranger's observations, willte"' -, ht° 9- t ae T . tiontas Batp.. Eq., iiid €.lharles ice._ being affronted at, the other took in great gooti rx., l eer . 11 , e for the fourth ii.t ? t•fy be ex.... chuckling with leughter, and kicking his le l s : t D e g table as if actually ';lancing with delight. At a_ ..v, , or ed, ‘,., and wonndirigi Whit ititelit to itir„ deliberately rang the bell. 'rhe o rderly " orderly` . j" 7l' '- c l tate'llefi teti6Firig hi Suticni tietif HOMMOO.. that on the If th of Adgdet lest the fit'iseefrero , s• c‘ Orderly, who is tha,' , fellow?" asked Pte 'i L ill e l 'en' • - ire AloAitti. be reaping for Mr. Pottle , kii,e told that , how he felt when the 'eel) , was " His Grace ~,g ot 3° I ' ' ~ tl sm e n! Good " s ',) e we 4 - Lieutenant I" On the following Morning, in ee'ilklitereces of' es ;spate , tn , a , nt . " Good day, ee . ,,ne " heartily. as '' rber• . as to the amount. The prisoner said tie voti4-1 not knee tlet.2 . en! said his Grace, lane Int; __, ne e el . Oct. ?..,_ vt, the spot, and high words ensued, upon which the, prisoner s I out of tt.''''.'. room.—Old Grace,, . 4 gah_‘_ : _, e d W I ,ri and 0, raisinga large.hoe, swore he would knock Mr.Petefet,Yielee, A GooD PUN..--Are you acc t ua T i% newe r I , t n_' o ,o out, Mr. Peto ran in and closed with him ; they both rid, t---, the Araster of Ealiol College ' wile , 5 0 re 0 0, .: and upon assistance corning Mr. Peto rose up and rtifit,t perfect or excetimt pun than his. ~ le" cetee.c lee .., instantly exclaimed that the prisoner had struck him with told how, in a late dispute among the le L" , s uc h vt- 61 , 4 4W , a reaping-hook. The blood was then flowing from a the Lord Chancellor struck the table with. ,'a s cr, t NW' e -nit Were wound in the leg. Since that time Mr. that he split it: " No, no, no, replied the . e . ;i . t t, , , , ,fiffs , reu. - ; h a , luten lying in a most dangerous state, and is not o I can hardly persuade myself that h e e ~ , 10 c, ..ti: - . „..-0 1 the Prisoner, therefore, has been for th 1 I believe that he divided th .0 ( t er' yet out of dee,- 61r. Pete's depositions have been Ti , n • owe. i , the present remanded. . t . . oh. - rda) f A 1 01 d not taken, and if he shoul , • le able ,o attend on the 23d , five o'clock yeste i. , ~, be ' d i . • between four and ~, e. ,,, , r o ..c t the case would be Tete) e'one hest', an the prt- Maddox of the 1,1,m , ~t , I , to instant, noon, as Inspector ~ • , . ~,„ir boa , v o ~, SOIICT ‘ll ' te fur trial on- the ,„. 'll be committed to Newee is er,_ passing . . 1., et t the constable::,, • attention wee ~ 1, he capital charge at the sessions of t .he Central Criminal woof Surrey side of the river, their , o ppos l L' to, “ Coart. The prisoner is a most determined and ferocious lying in the mud, hear*? „, e , in d it 00 el j s ' ornethine . character, and has before been in custody for biting off h f Upon pon coming, to the spot, theY e i a n e r ein os e a man's ear at Ealing. On another occasion he also l t v he a la r bay of a man, which they irnmedl Ix' u , the ,ecc Tio bit a man's eye nearly out, and likewise nearly decapi i and brou.tht it ashore. Upon oxaminatto _ tiro . , ver,,,e , r some tated another with a scythe. d to have been in the water for i t 'ila ° e d ' appeare • The celebrated Musard is encased to conduct deceased had no coat on. anti his se r,, en f o o t' . t, ' -, imble hexing L i t . ,a e' ell the orchestra of the Royal AcadeMy of Music in Paris ; turned u p ; and, from a ti. ~,, trl a . : 4 , of J ' to have been, 1,., &tying toe Carnival, 9 Tld his stay 5.7.1 London will, there- hi s pocket, it is Fipposei, . , .. u , ~L ;,.. , 1 - 1110 1 fors, he or a ve,-,'y :),' , ,rt i;Jration. NoNelties at the Ella- ', told appears . - 11 to th e " s't ~, ~,, ~.,out ic,ty >eels . " lisp Opera are the order of the- day,. and the attendance wa s procured, . and the body was removed c.. oner s inqn 5‘ is nightly respectable and numerons. - :- Waterloo Church, to await a Col' Customs.—Consolidated Duties 4,572,049 Sugar applicable to the Consolidated Fund Total Customs 4,SUWIS Excise 3.05,957 Stamps 1,751,417 Taxes Post Office Crown Lands 45,0, Miscellaneous, hnprest and other Monies 5.,9. Repayment of Advance= 17'2,199 I 11,0:0,13j To Cash brought to this Account to be applied to pay Oa' Deficiency 8i115.... 150,000 11,18J,159 CHARGE. 4,`2.W,528 4,`2Z6,82 llPermanent Debt. Fferrninable Annuities !interest on Exchequer bols isstsetl to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund ,11-:.inkins Fund. 1:111e Civil List 11')ther charges on the Consolidated /qid 11For Advances, and to ray off Exchequer bills issued for Advances 4;153,564 1;72 - 2,701 e20,1e0 116,00./ 5 , ,501 15;125 7,5 n.) 1 2.2,37.1 l lThe Arno' irit of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge - on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended July 5, 1810, and laid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1911 I , The A , .count issued in the Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1811, in part of the sums granted by Parliament out of the Consoli d? sed Fund for Supply services The 'Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1811 150,01'0 I Total Charge 11,025,%60 Tho Sur', uQ The probable amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet tile charge cn the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1811 RTI VMS THEUNEMPLOYED OPE (From the Leeds TiLles, of Saturday, Oct. 9.) Boar:wog or LEEDS.—A- good deal has been said of late, both in and out of Parliament, of the dest.to tion-and misery existing in . tho country. Mr. Sir arnen Crawford, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Stewart, and others, have made representations in the ac use as regards Rochdale, Manchester, Paisley, and other manufacturing towns and districts, at which humanity shuddere. We have not heard much regarding Leeds ; but verily we need not go beyond the bounds of that uorough in search of pictures of extreme distress. Sir Robert Peel and other members of his government have endeavoured to explain away the statements of the above-named gentlemen ; or, when this wets found impossible, they have aimed at making cut a case of great exaggera tion. They, or others for there, may make a sineler attempt in regard to the statistics of distress with which we are prepared in regard to this borough ; would that they could explain away the hunger and the raggedness of the hungry and the shivering ! Our readers will have noticed the short reports which have appeared regularly in our paper for sorer. weeks past, of the proceeding of a number of rrsrina called the Unemployed Operative Enumeration Cain mittee. That Committee has uow completed it s statis tical labours, and has resolved to lay the ice tilt before a general meeting of the inhabitants on the. evening of this day week. To that meeting we reeluest all who possibly can to repair. The benevolent need no iacitc went to this conduct ; .and there are a sufficiency of motives to induce the ea'culatinw politician and the merely curious to attend. At Aldem, our good member, remarks in a letter he addressed to the Secretary of the Committee a few days age—" to ascer tain the real extent of the distress of the country is the first step towards providing a remedy for it." Details will be laid before the meeting ; but mean time we may submit a few facts with which we - have provided ourselves ; awl really it does not surprise us that such men as Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington proles themselves sceptical as to the state ments of Messrs. Crawford, Cobden, Gibson, Sze. ; for we feel persuaded that there are thousands in Leeds who will feel disposed to set down the following state ments as altogether chimerical. Will it be credited that there are in this borough 747 families, consisting of 3,960 individuals, subsisting upon ls. 4d. per head per week ?—that there are 214 families, consisting of 1,294 individuals subsisting on 411 d. per head per week? —that there arc 1,946 families, consisting of 5,776 in dividuals, who have no visible means of subsistence whatever ?—and will it be believed that the average subsistence per head per week of 4,752 families, con sisting of 19,937 individuals, is nothing more than !lid.? These are astounding statements, but they are statements which the Enumeration Committee f ee t warranted to put forth, after having made a searching 'investigation—after haer:ng visited the number of fami, lies above stated. It is quite possible that the enumerators may baye been misled in some instances to a certain extent, 'This we presume, they will not be disposed to deny ; but after making ali reasonable cl!owances—say that we &- duct 50 per cent. from the above statements, and what . a fearfully dark picture st . ll remains ! Surely we have said enough to stir the sympathies of every heart in which there is one drop of the milk of human kindness—enough to induce those who know nothing of all this experimmtally, to ask, Is it so ? and if they find that this question must be answered in the affirmative, to put the question, Why is it so? and how can it be alleviated or removed ? Such questions ought to'be put immediately. Winter is approach ing, amd the damp, comfortless cellar, without fire, without food, without furniture, without even a bed, in many instances—is that a place, and are these circumstances, in which human beings should be doomed to live ? But the fact is undeniable, that many in this borough are existing in such circum stances —many who would willingly better their circum stances could they do so by honest and unceasing la bour. This leads us once more to reprobate that igno rant, and foolish, and false expression of the Duke of Wellington's, that in this country every industrious man may obtain a competency—leads us to reprobate that policy which, to pleasure, sporting legislators. refuses to inquire, even, into the extent and the cause of such fear ful misery. Let us just ask what is the general ten dency of such a state of things? Can it be otherwise, than towards demoralisation—towards theft, towards robbery ? The five or six thousand in Leeds who are represented as having no visible means of livelihood, what shall we say of them ? In olden times it was said that " min do not despise a thief if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry "—has this rule or law, been abrogated ? Does it consist with the requirements of modern civilisation—that a man may first be robbed of his rights as a man—be forced, in fact, to become a thief or die, and then not only be despised, but punished for theft? This may seem a curious question, aud one full of meaning ; but it is a question which has been practically answered no later than this day week, in a police court of the sue • tropolis. A youth is brought before Mr Greenwood, a magistrate, charged with theft ; the theft is not de nied ; the culprit says that he stole from necessity, after applying in vain for parochial relief; his story is found to be true ; and the confessed thief is dismissed without even a reprimand ! Do not matters appear to have reached a crisis ? The extent of this misery is such as calls loudly for al'eviation ; but the fact of its extent almost inclines a person to shrink from encountering it. Twenty thousand individuals existing cn 1 lid. per week each !—Say that only half this number are in such circumstances, and still this is a number which it is altogether impossible for private charity permanently to react'. Such' a disease demands a radical cure— palliatives can never reach its root. Speaking of this matter suggests the idea of another of the Dako of Weliing!on's famous expressions. He stated in the House of Lords, a few evenings ago, that the distress existing in the count - y could not b e t h e e ff ect o f a scar city of corn ; for no less a quantity than 1,700,000 quarters had lately bee n i m p or t e d at a low duty ; nod besides, we h a d t h e whole produce of the present har vest on hand. Very true ; but what matters it to those who have nothing to buy with, that there is plenty of corn in the count ry ? This remark of the Duke's illustrates a fact, which we should wis h to be universally known :as such—that there is plenty and to spare in England for all its inhabitants ; that there is plenty in the world, and to spare for all its inhabitants : hence, the cause of all this suffering lies not in the nature of things ; of course, it flows from the institutions of man. " I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word :"—we thank the Duke for illustrating that the scarcity under which se many of our fellow-mortais—ner fellow-immortals, are pining, is not from Heaven, hut that it is from man— from such men as the Duke of Wellington, who im piously stand between a tatnishieg population and the bounties of Heaven. But tl.is cennot—tbis must not endure. 4 , Vulgar tyrants, hush, beware ! Bring not down the avalanche !" TBE LATE LORD SYDENHAIIL The Rimht Hon. Charles Poulett Thomson, Baron Sydenham and Toronto, and, Governor-General. of al' her Mltjesty's Provinces on ttl, Continent of Arueri , , n • whose demise took place on the - vial ult., at hisresid..:tice' Alwington-house, near Kingston, was the eldest son 01 Mr. J. Poulett Thomson, of Roehampton and Austin Friars, and brother of . Mr. George Ponlett &rope, M.P. for Stroud, who, on his marriage in 1821, assumed the arms and name of Scropo by sign manual. Until his accession to offite in 1830, the late Governor-General was connztted with the well-known mercantile firm of Thomson and Co.; in the City of London. nothing rema;kable, as far as we are acquainted with his public history, till the year 1826, vi4en he was AMERICAN PAI'ERS. CAS A] -- Bp the death of Lord Syttenham on the 19th inst., the Government of the l'rovince devolves upon Sir Richard Jackson, until the arrival of the new Governor-General frJrn England. He has accordingly assumed the reins of government pro tem., and entered upon the duties of his office. Parliament was adjourned by commission, by ?Nor_ General Clitherow. The following was the officio!. form of this announcement : " Government House, Sept., 1841. "His Excellency the Governor-general has been - pleased, under the Seal of Arms, 'to nominate, consti ;orc'Eessq,-I Major-Gene ral t e Commanding ,andappo int h J e o r h A n f a C j s i t t h y e , s r o the Province heretofore I.lpKr Canada, to be Deputy- Governor for the purposes - „dentioned in the said Com mission." At a few minutes af",er twelve, Major-General Clithe row, the Deputy-Governor, accompanied only by Cap tain Clitherow, ;sale-de-Camp, and T. W. C. Murdock, Esq., Chief secretary to :he Governor-General, came into the L.egislatiVe Council Chamber, where that body were then in session. The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod having been commanded to require the at tenil.ance of the Assembly, the Speaker and a large ntun bel: of the Members made.their appearance at the bar. After a number of Bills bad been presented and signed, • the Deputy-Governor made the following speech : "Honour a bl e Gentlemen a the Legislative Council, and Gentlemen of the House of Assemble-, "In eousequenca of the severe indisposition of the Go yernor-General, I h ave b een deputed by him to signify to yo u h er Majesty's pleasure on the several Bills which you have passed during the session, and to relieve you. from further attendance in Parliament. In performing this duty I beg to coneTatulate you on the many im portant measures which you have been enabled to per fect, and on the general harmony which, notwithstanding the difficulties incident to the first meeting of a new Le,?-is:,.tul.e? has marked your proceedings. entleatun the iitmse o f At::ein;ly, "I thank you in the name of her Majesty for the readihers with which you have voted the supplies um% A