The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-02 00:00:00

EVENING -SUN- DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, Auc. 29.—Thc Java journals to the 12th contain a-very long and interesting article respecting the events in the district of Padang. This article, dated Batavia,- May 9, says In the Java Courant, of the 20th of March last, we made mention of the troubles which had broken out in the Upper districts of Padang, but which had bean speedily put down by the courage of the . troops Motioned there and the ability of their commander, The later accounts have confirmed this satisfacto6.7 intelligence, and gives many details of the Osurf:,ents, and of the movements of our troops." AUG. 27.—The Countess of Nassau (late Countess of Oaltremont) arrived here this morning in the :steam-boat Guttenberg. She took post horses to Dieren, intending, it seems to paSs some time with the Countess of Wassenar. TILE HAGUE, AUG. 30.—Yesterday his Majesty visited the fortress of Bergen-op -Zoom. The Second Chamber in its sittinc , to-day adopted unanimously the project of law for the division of the province of Limburg into cantons. ROTTERDAM, AUG. 29.—We rejoice to learn that in consequence of the favourable change in the weather, hopes are entertained of a good harvest. Thus we 'should never forget the hand of a wise Providence, and give utterance to complaints (of which we have lately heard so much), as we rather have - reason to rejoice and glorify that God who always intends our good.—Dutch raPen, Aug. 31. DUTCH FUNDS.--AmatanDam, AUG. 31 Money. BUIL Actual Debt, 234 per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Amon Syndic,4% percent................ Ditto, ditto, 334 p er cent. 7534 7R Commercial Company, 4!‘. per cent 155% 1 5054 Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... Loan 1i137, 5 per cent. 97 0734 RXchange on London, 12 0734 One month Two months ........• 11 1 9 % Hamburgh, One month 35 87% Twomonttis 33162% Dutch Papers, Sept. 1. 6 RLGIAIt/ bUNDs—tianesate, Am. 31. 53 Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. R— ot hschild's Loan, 5 per Cunt.........- Lo an o(Thirty Millions, 4 tier Cent. 93 3 per Cent. 71'6 191% " a n of City, 1`;:itl, 4 per Cent. , ---------- v E44O) . 90 Society at Comm. rce, 4},per Cent 1.34i Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ••• *. 74% Nationa I Society . -. Exchange on London (short)l 1 95 --Brussels Papers, Aug. 31. Thirtp..evei ..—__ A USTRI A N FUNDS.—VIENNA, Arc. 23 Five per•Conts. Metalhques Pater per Cents. Three per Cents. ....... Vane; Milt, 590 7 , 110. E. Aug. 9.6. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Auc • 24. BUIE, Mnney 107 Anatrian 5 per Cents. ........ Rank Shares lOl5 Anglo-Russian Loan lO 34 10,14 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Se:,es lO2 101% Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series 9S% 97X Ditto in Certificates Ncw.4 per Cent. (1840) BO% 5,.% Dutch Actual Debt, 2s. per Cent 50% t. 034 Ditto 5 per Cent — Polish Bonds New ticket Anglu- 1 / a nish Loan, 3 per Cent 71% 75% Notwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Can:.... l ,': % 10.:% sp.nish. New 5 per Cents. ..,. l5l, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS . DAY.) ECCLES RACES.— TUESDAY. The Garrison Hurdle Stakes of 5 Sovs. each, with a Whip added, mile and a half over hurdles three feet high, were won in two heats by Lieut. Gordon's Spider, aged, (owner), beating Mr. Helliburton's . Little Peter, aged, and Mr. Caldwell's Venture. The Gentlemens' Purse of 201., added to a sweepstakes of 3 Sovs. each ; the second saves his stake. Heats, thrive round and a dis. • Mr. Phillips na. Marquis, 4 yrs, (Clarke) 0 1 1 Mr. New ton's LP. dy Flora, 3 yrs Mr. Eqtwistle's Maid of Kent, 5 yrs 0 3 dr Mr. Hollinshead's Mischief, aged A good race. LIST GF NEW PATENTS. AUGUST, 1841. To Joseph Ratcliff, of Birmingham, manufacturer, for certain improvements in the construction and manufac ture of .hinges, for hanging and closing doors--being a communication. —Sealed 4th August —six months for in rolment. Owen Williams, of Basing-lane, London, engineer, for improvements in propelling vessels.—Sealed 4th August —six months for inrolment. John Lee, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, manufacturing chemist, for improvements in the manufacture of chlo rine. —Sealed August 4th—six months for inrolments. James IVarren, of Montagu-terrace, Mile-end-road, for an improved machine for making screws. Sealed 4th August--six months for inrolment. Stopford Thomas Jones, of Tavistock-place, Russell place, gentleman, for certain improvements in machinery for propelling vessels by steam or other power. Sealed 4th August--six months for inrolment. William Craig, engineer, Robert Jarvie, rope-maker, and Jame:, Jarvie, rope-maker, all of Glasgow, in the kingdom:nf Scotland, for certain improvements in ma chinery for preparing and spinning hemp, flax, wool, and other fibrous materials. Sealed 11th August--six months for inrolment. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Brighton Gazette.) PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. I.—lt is reported that C:ptain beans Dundas, Storekeeper of the Ordnance, is to have the command of the Impregnable, 110, under orders for the Mediterranean. Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Mason goes out in her, with his Flag-Captain, Smart, to join the Howe, 120. The Formidable, 84, has been commissioned at Chat lam by Captain Sir Edward Troubridge, one of the lords of the Admiralty. The corvette Dido will also be commissioned in a 'few days, at Sheerness. Lieut. C. Grey has been appointed Flag-Lieutenant to Admiral Sir Edward Codringtdn, G.C.8., vice Brown, promoted t o th e ran k o f Commander. The brigs 'Pantaloon, 10, and Viper, are ready for commission here, and will hoist the pendant next week. Rear-Admiral Thomas, C. 13., was to sail from Ply mouth on Monday, in the Dublin frigate, to assume the command of the squadron in the Pacific. At Snithead—lmpregnable, 110, Pique, 36, Scout, 18. In Harbour—Queen, Victory, Excellent, Royal George y:ieht, Illustrious, 'Warspite, Madagascar, Rapid, Echo, aLd' flag tenders. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic Returns for the Week endingAug.3o, 1841: Passengers Merchandise Darlington, Sept. 1. X 1,586 7 6 D. O'BRIEN, Sec. --- ALARMING FlRE—Yesterday morning a fire broke out on the premises of Mrs. Shaughnessy, of No, 33, Shoemakers-row, Blackfriars, which at one time threatened serious • consequences. The business carried on was that of a dealer in ladies' wardrobes, but the upper part was occupied by several families. At twelve o'clock the flames burst from the shop with great violence and the inmates were soon noticed at the windows im ploring assistance. • The ladders were brought from the station in P r i nt i ng -h ouse-square, and through their ex ertions all were safely got out, though one who had gone to bed tipsy, was with very great difficulty aroused. The engines soon after arrived, and in half an hour succeeded in extinguishing the fire. WINDSOR, SEPT. I.—An accident of an alarm ing nature tool, place to-day in the middle and lower ward of the Castle. A party had just alighted from an open carriage, and, the horses' heads turned towards the' town, When they became restive, and kicked and plunged fright fully in the narrow part of the entrance by the Norman g i a i te ; at last setting off at full speed, the carriage came in contact with a projecting• wall which divides the o . in the lower ward, and the poll, bar, and tra • ces the broken, they were freed from the over turned earria,c and'lretnirsue? their mad career down the hill toward; ' kin', gateway, against 'which they dashed tliemserhy-e.ts,leanVd aast trzß;ibit,irtottligirelel; to the ground. For a few seconds i e t r :- -were both killed, so violent was the shock ; nor Ts however, not.so :nuch hurt as was expected, the damage done to the carriage so great as the rapid pace, the continuous turning of the road, and the many o h_ structions - liable to be met with in it, would lead us to conclude. IMOF,t fortunately the road was free from par ties, and no frither accident occurred. ---- DEATIi OF VICE. ADBIIRAL FELLOWES.— We have to announce the demise of the above venerable naval Commander, who expired on Saturday last, at his residence, near Reading, Berks. The deceased was Lieu tenant in the Plueton in Ilowe's action ; and at the re duction of St. Lucia, in 1795, he commanded the Tour terelle, and was also in the command of the Alarm at Trinidad, in 1797. His commission was dated as fol low's ;—Lieutenant, April 22, 1793 ; Commander, April MO, 1795 ; Captain, December 7, 1795 ; Rear-Admiral, June 4, 1814 ; and Vice-Admiral, July 22, 1830. PRINCE ALBERT'S RIFLE.—His Royal High ness Prince Albert was pleased to honour Mr. Thomas Iteunedy with an audience in the presence of Viscount Melbourne and one or two others, at Windsor Castle, " 2 41 Monday l a st. M r . K ene d y i s a riflemaker in ~ 'hkjlmarnock, in the county of Ayr, and his . Royal ighness. having heard of his celebrity, ordered a gnn Io be made by him upon his most improved principle, re luesting that he should deliver it in person, so that his 'oyal Highness might have the entire nature of its ma nufacture explained by Mr. Kennedy himself. Mr. Ken 1112kly having b een i ntro d uce d b y t h e H on. M r , Anson, us received by hi s R oya l Hi g h ness i n t h e most unaf -Ited and cour t eous manlier. His Royal Highne ss ex itied the instrument with every possible minuteness, Iliad to be highly interested in Mr. Kennedy's peen -I_ll' variation in the t urn o f it, an d a f ter a l engt h ene d in iriew, and having obtained every information respect g it, condescended not only to express his unqualified I l ltrobation of the rifle, but to grant to the' manufacturer le tt ßoyal k warrant, appointing hi m hi s rifle-maker in liitirnoc. 4 , 10 911 Saturday morn i ng , about eight o'clock, a in juldi ng employed in the building of ore of the houses j k Longue Rue Neuve, Brussels, fell down, crushing I t i ll it6 ruins five workmen who were on it. One was th Q e,d on the spot, and the other four were carried to ick s u?spital St. Jean so' much hurt that their lives are illarired of. Neariy at the same monent a journeyman throe ° 'employed on a building rot far distant, fell . die d, Fil the floorings above forty feet, and instantly a, leixing a wife and five childr( n, of whom the eldest, () . f twelve .years old, was working with his unfor ,ptuui't!,tather when dent . happened. co,, t '"o statues of the Virpn_ Mary, of the 13th ne 4 , 1 13', 11 have been recently discovered at St. Germer, is fivaiS. They 'are I. ainted and gilt, and are fine -aiens of the art of that period. I 3 THE MAGAZINES. THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. - - The first article gives a continuation of the campaign in Syria, which, not on account of its length, or want of interest, we are sorry to see is not concluded. This is one great fault of this Magazine. The middle or conclusion of an his torical account is often brought out a month after the previous part, when the commencement is forgotten, or the reader has had recourse to some other publication to ascertain the result. One good article complete is infinitely better than ten better articles containing only the membra dis jeeta of a narrative. There are not less than seven or eight of these mangled articles in this number. The series entitled "England's Wooden Walls," though somewhat partaking of that cha racter, has not the same defects, as each part is complete in itself.. The present part gives a his torical account of the " Vanguard," now a ship of the line, but in 1588 only a ship of war of 500 tons, and gives an animated description of the share she had in the battle of the Nile. The fol lowing account, though sonic of it lnls been given before, will be read with interest During the heat of the action Sir Horatio Nelson received a painful, and as it was at first generally feared mortal, wound. He was struck immmediately over the right eye by a piece of langridge, the force of which was happily nearly spent. Although the pain was most intense, Nelson, on being led or carried below to the cockpit, desired, it is said, he might wait until it came to his turn, among the. numerous wounded, to be attended to. The surgeon, Mr. Jefferson, however, on discovering his presence, immediately proceeded to examine the wound, and found that a piece of the skin of his fore head, which had been cut to the bone, was hanging clown over the right eye, which for the time completely obscured his sight. Mr. Jefferson assured him there was no immediate danger ; but Nelson, deeming his wound mortal, requested M r . Comyn, his chap lain, to convey his dying remembrance to Lady Nelson, and at the same time ordered the Minoraut to be hailed, and Captain Louis to be thanked for coming so nobly to • the Vanguard's assistance. The surgeon, having dressed and bound up the wound, re quested the Admiral to remain quiet in the bread-room; but nothing conk' repress his zealous and enthusiastic disposition. He immediately ordered his Secretary, Mr. Campbell, to attend him in the bread-mean. that no time might be lost in writing to the Admiral ; but this gentleman, having himself been wounded, on be holding the blind and suffering state of the Admiral, became so much affected that he could not write. The chaplain was then summoned ; but the impatience of Nelson increasing every moment, he took the pen, and contrived to write a few words marking his devout sense of the success lie had obtained. Shortly afterwards, being left alone, the news that the French Admiral's ship was on fire spread along the decks and descended to the cockpit. Unassisted and unnoticed, amidst the general enthusiasm, Nelson contrived to find his way up the lad ders, and, to the astonishment of all, appeared again upon the quarter-deck ; and, intent on the duty of com passion, quickly despatched his first Lieutenant, Mr. Galway, to the relief of the perishing Frenchmen. He remained on deck till the awful explosion took place, which shook each ship to her kelson, when he was re luctantly persuaded to go to his bed. Restless still, •he got up, and, suffering as he did, he signed the acting commission of Captain Hardy for the Vanguard, in lieu of Captain Barry, who was nominated to go home with the despatches, as well as Captain Capers, for the Mutine. THE ECLECTIC REVIEW. This number contains a judicious and impar tial review of the new tenets of the Oxford monks. With the conclusion we entirely con cur. "We repeat it as our conviction," says the writer, " that if the sect whose principles are in culcated in these volumes (The Life and Ponti ficate of Gregory VII., by John W. Bowden) were only powerful enough to do it after its own heart, it would soon put a complete end to all liberty and all religion; in the place of the former it would substitute the tyranny of feudal Churchmen, and in the place of the latter the illusions of a frivolous and degrading supersti tion." The same good sense pervades an article on Temperance Societies. The writer is no ad vocate of the extravagant excess to which tea totalism is carried on in this country, and justly regards it as a sin to reject the moderate use of the good things which the Creator has provided for man. In commenting on a book written by a Dr. Thomson " on DigeStion" he quotes the following paragraph : Suppose a hundred individuals were to live on whole some tbod, and abstain from all alehoholic fluids ; and suppose another hundred, cateris paribus, were to use stimulating drink, which of the two sets should we anticipate to be most healthy at the end of a given period ? We do not believe that there would be two opinions on the subject. Dr. Thomson's incredulity is unreasonable. Most as suredly there would be two opinions ; and not a few would be found holding that opinion which Dr. Thona:- . son repudiates. We confess ourselves to be among the number ; and earnestly do we desire that the question should be carefully brought to the test of experiment. Were two hundred men, living in the same place, fol lowing the same employment, of the same age, and in a good state of health, to be chosen and divided into. two companies, one-half of them taking nothing al coholic; and the other half a moderate quantity of pure wine daily, we should, with much confidence, expect the balance of health and longevity to be in favour of the latter ; and the more numerous and care f u lly col lected the data from which the decision was obtained, the stronger should we expe c t th a t d ec i s i on t ' o b e i n favour of the temperate use of the fruit of the sine. In asmuch as God, who knows us altogether, has repre sented wine as a great blessing, we cannot but think that its use is conducive to the improvement of both body and soul! ALEXANDER'S EAST INDIA AND COLO- NIAL 4VAGAZINE: A somewhat intolerant article, entitled " Re sponsibility for the Government of India," leads the van of this month's papers. It assails the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and complains of the flagrant enormities com mitted under their arbitrary rule, and their al most total irresponsibility to the head govern ment of Great Britain, concluding with an opi nion of Lord William Bentinck's corroboration of these views. The common assumption that Herat as a defensive frontier is impregnable, and the " Key of the East " is next combated, where in the writer, apparently a military tactician, endeavours to show the fallacy of this position. Sedulous search is made by Lieutenant-Colonel Pogson to discover the lost tribes of Israel in Nepatil, Cabool, Delhi, &c., in the persons of the Brahmins themselves, alleging their descent from Abraham quasi dicas a Brahmo. Many ety mologies are less cogent, and many an hypo thesis less tenable. " Moral and physical influ ence of Climate," goes to prove that the very at mosphere exercises an action on the sensations, and that climate wonderfully influences the mental powers, and the absolute intellect. In confirmation of this the writer remarks : " I have just spoken of the influence of the confined air of the Swiss vallies on health—it is yet more re markable on mind. In the lowest tracts of the valley (if it be closely shut in), one-fifth of the inhabitants are idiots. 300 feet up, the peasant is weak in the in tellect, but idiotism rare—a little higher, he is a boor of ordinary capacity-3,000 feet up, he is peculiarly and, strikingly intelligent—keen in his eye, firm in his foot, healthy in his aspect, and powerful in intellect. In an cient times there was a similar difference between the Boetians and Athenians—the sluggish - and unimagina tive mind of the one being exactly what we should have expected from their breathing the air of bogs, marshes, and low land. while the mental glory and - restless acti vity of the Athenian corresponded with the splendour and purity of the air of Athens." i‘ The language of the Chinese" deters us by it s very title from further acquaintance, for we should utterly despair of ever mastering its bare Radical s , cabilities much less their thousand inexpli and combinations." The Transmigra tion of So u l s " evinces that there is a split among the Brahmins on reason of this divtihsiios t lir i t t ic i l n e a o y f b b e el p ie i f o , us s l o tta o t pe b d y see with gladness the souls of iliviendinoaoyarYidetMaho - g r o e t a . l t l i y ie ar t i r d u i e n c er u e i c s- t tt t li r ll a ae i t- ismigrating into theinheotadlyl' military trip in the , gun-shots, and skirmishes, but tc Rough notes of a Chris tian. Murree HiPs " by some British troops is full of i s e Pi s c i s ngular capture of three Banyan e ß n e d l o s c i e t e i donkies. THE BRITISH MAGAZINE . The sands of Joppa ha d t hi s peculiarity, that though they were arid, they nevertheless spark_ led. The British Magazine, in the case of many of its papers, possesses the aridity, but wants the sparkling lustre. " Reflections on Ruins," h ow _ ever, retrieves it from absolute dulness, and it even grows delightful as it bewails the decay of ancient beauty. From the controversy ou " Law ful Baptism " we reverently refrain, leaving it to our godfathers and godmothers to adjust, wile ther we should be plun g ed into the water - pool, ur be decently sprinked at the font. A letter from a Country Clergyman treats on the prac ticability of observing daily service in our churches, but he fears that very often he should have only the pulpit above and the clerk below, and nothing but his friend' the clock opposite to him. A multitude of minor canonical matters, such as " O n W ear i ng Hoods"—" Lights on the Altar," &c. &c., close the number. SPORTING MAGAZINE. This Number contains two engravings—one representing the " Interior of a Sportsman's Tent in India ;" and the other, " A Stricken Mallard." The first is a very lively picture, and exhibits two sportsmen amusing their evenings leisure by a game of chess in a canvas tent, the walls of which are thickly hung round with all sorts of sporting implements. Of the literary articles, the most generally amusing is the _second- series of ' 4 'Scenes Old Sports in Foreign Lands." THE .SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1841. POLITTP,CHNIC JOURNAL No. 25. TVellington-s'reet, Strand. The " Moral Treatment of Disease" is a medi cal paper, which endeavours to show the great instrumentality which the mind possesses towards the cure of bodily disease. This the author styles the " Metaphysics of Medicine," and Kant has himself shown how powerfully the effort of the will can rule and conquer physical disease. To the scientific, but to them alone, will the achievements 'of " Kieseritzkiz, the Livonian chess player at the Paris clubs," be acceptable. The articles of " La Trappe," and " Latin and Italian Literature in the Fourteenth Century," lead the reader back into the dusky past, when all his time should be engaged in pushing on into the bright future. A subsequent paper on the " Mammoth Iron Steamer," squares some somewhat better with the arc, and " Mr. Bain's Electro-Magnetic Printing Telegraph" better still. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS VROlt THE MORNiNd PAPERS OF THIS Dit.Y. POST.—Sir Robert Peel having acknowledged in em phatic language his Sympathy with the distresses of the working people in the manufacturing districts—a sympathy which 'every right-hearted man 'must feel—his party op ponents are not 'satisfied that he should have any credit for this sentiment. What signifies it, say they, that he feels pain at the condition of the distressed working people, since at the same time he opposes the measures which would reliever : them ? But is this assertion true ? Does Sir R. Peel oppose measures which, if carried, would relieve the distress of the people ? The unscrupulous opponents who try to excite popular odium . against him know that he does not. There arc, no doubt, some who believe that the passing of such measures as the defeated Ministry recommended would tend to mitigate distress in the manufacturing districts ; but of that number it is sufficiently notorious that Sir 11. Peel is not one. He believes exactly the opposite. He thinks that such measures as have been pro posed would aggravate the existing distress. This ap pears.to be not only his opinion, but the opinion also of large majorities in both Houses of Parliament, and of a large majority of the Parliamentary electors of the United Kingdom. And yet in the face of this, for the purpose of exciting odium against Sir R. Peel, it is as sumed that the proposed measures would certainly have mitigated the distress, and therefore that he who opposed these measures can have no practical and genuine sym pathy with those who are suffering ! We can scarcely. imagine a greater stretch of impudence than that of the party writers who assume that the new system of taxa tion devised by the late Ministers would certainly have relieved the distress which exists in the manufacturing districts. We are not surprised at it, however, when we call to mind that in his closing speech on the Address Lord J. Russell assumed that the measures proposed by his Giivernment, and rejected by Parliament, would have given employment to the labourers who are now unem ployed. CHRONICLE.—We have copied from a Contempo rary Journal a report of a case at Bow-street, on Tues day last, in which an individual of property, and con nected with the first families in - the countrya-was held to bail by Mr. Jardine. We always reluctantly insert cases of this description, and are not sure that public morals would not gain by the absolute excluSion of them from newspapers. We now notice the case merely with reference to the point of bail. The object of hail is to prevent the escape of the accused party, by which the ends of justice may be defeated. The case tbr which Mr. Bankes was held to hail, is one which men of fortune, conscious of the truth of the charge, seldom meet. We do not wish to prejudge Mr. Bankes. Notwithstanding the very suspicious circumstances, detailed in the report, he may have been a coward, and not a criminal. But what we ask, and what the public are every where asking, is, how came Mr. Jardine to demand no higher bail for the appearance of Mr. Minims than he would have demanded in the case of a mechanic or la bourer for any trumpery assault ? Is Mr. Jardine so raw, so little acquainted with the world, as not to know that in a cas e in which a rich man has a strong motive to escape from justice, he can always obtain two sureties for the paltry sum of 100/. each ? A rich man can have little difficulty in indemnifying his sureties, when the sum is only 1001 ; and, from the Bishop of Clogher downwards, it is a matter of notoriety that bail is no obstacle to the escape of rich parties. Mr. Jardine very probably thinks that public morality is not benefited by giving notoriety to these disgusting cases; and, as we have said, we could wish never to see them in the columns of a newspaper. But when a case of this sort is brought before a Magistrate—when the Magistrate actually knows that the accused party is a man of great wealtn (and Mr. Jardine knew right well who Mr. William Bankes was), we ask, if it is proper that such trifling bail should be demanded ? What is this but strengthen ing the general impression that in England rich men may always count upon impunity ; and that men suffer, not for their offences, but their poverty ? Of all inequa lities the most offensive is that which wears the mask of equality. To hold a drunken cobler for a trumpery assault to bail for an amount equal to that demanded for a man of rank and wealth, for an offence which carries with it exclusion from respectable society, is a species of equality which cannot be too much reprobated. TIMES.—We rejoice that we may at last congratulate the country upon the final transference of power from the hands by Which it has been so long unworthily wie'ded, into those of an administration which promises to be as durable as the stanchest Conservative can desire. It must be admitted, by all whose judgment is not utterly warped by faction, that it would be difficult to imagine a Government which should combine in its personal com position more of the elements of stability than that of Sir Robert Peel. "Whether we look to the experience, the ability, the influence, or the character of its mem bers, we find in each a certain guarantee of success. lho Duke of Wellington gives to it not only the lustre of his g reat name—a name which, like that of royalty, is a tower of strength—but the weight of a judgment which, upon all matters relating to foreign policy, and the internal and external defences of the nation, is looked up to even by his political opponents as little less than oracular. The new Premier and the new Colonial Secretary are men who far surpasS in eloquence and intellectual power all their competitors in the House of Commons; and, in the 'House of Lords, there is no man who can be com pared, in these respects, to Lord Lyndhurst (now for the third time Lord Chancellor), except one whoae mercurial and erratic genius has long disqualified him for coope ration with any political party. The acceptance of office by noblemen in whom the agricultural interest places un bounded confidence is a complete answer to the insinu ation, of which we have already heard so much—that the champions of that interest are unwilling to as sist in such a modification of the present Corn laws as Sir Robert Peel has intimated his intention to propose, for the purpose of remedying the abuses and evils connected with the present scale of duties. We ne ver gave them credit for being so unreasonable, and we now see, in their accession to the -Government, a most satisfactory security for the accomplishment of those ne cessary changes, without the slightest disturbance of the union existing between all branches of the Conservative party. The separation of the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer from the Premiership, is most judicious, and will form a salutary constitutional precedent for the future. ADVERTISER—Even were the demon of monopoly to lay his clutches on - every other article of trade, it might be supposed that at least one solitary exemption would be made on behalf of food. To tax the staple article of human food is to assume an attitude of anta gonism to the Creator and Benefactor of the world. It is virtually to incur the guilt of audaciously telling the Divine Being to his face that the bounties of his provi dence shall be intercepted in their course to his depen dent creatures. It is on the part o:' m mopolists an avowal, by actions, if not in words, that his benificent purposes shall be frustrated, and that the beings whom be has made shall be deprived of that food which he meant for their sustenance. And such is the appalling effect of the Corn-laws at this moment ! Myriads of God's creatures are at this instant enduring the horrors of starvation through the operation of these accursed imposts, who, but for them, would never have known what it is to want their daily bread ! The Royal Duke, after laying down the axiom that the prosperity of a great manufacturing and commercial nation depends on foreign trade, and access to foreign markets, concludes his protest by asserting the self evident principle, that a system of fiscal laws which ex cludes foreign produce, by imposing high duties on it, for the sake of protecting particular interests, impedes. on the one hand, the free course of industry, and on the other, enhances artificially the cost of subsistence. The present position of this country affords a painful proof of the truth of this position. Our trade is not only im peded, and, indeed, brought to the very verge of extinc tion, by the fiscal restrictions and prohibitions which stain the Statute-book, but millions of our population are suffering as much from the effect of these restric tions and prohibitions, as if Divine Providence had vi sited the land with the calamity of famine. The protest of his Royal Highness against mohopoly, in every shape or form it may assume, appears at a most seasonable moment. HERALD.—We perceive that the third edition of the Times is dated " twelve o'clock" yesterday afternoon. That is, about the same time 'that Sir Robert Peel was starting, by the Great Western Rai!way, to wait upon her Majesty with the list of a Ministry FOR "authenti cation" in the only way in which that authentication could be procured—namely, " by the high and indis pensable sanction of her Majesty." Now, we are enabled to state, on the authority of our Windsor Correspondent, that Sir Robert Peel quitted the Royal presence at two P.M., so that by no possibility could any " authentic" list have been published -0" r even heard of in London, until two hours and a half, or three hours, probably after it had been gravely published by the Tunes. Unless the influence of this latter has accomplished the prayer of the two lovers in the Oar= " Ye gods ! annihilate both space and time," we must demur to any such idle pretensions to " authen ticity" as it has claimed for a paper in which one mate rial error at least, upon its own showing, had been in corporated throughout the entire of its first and second impressions. The third left the . .Times still at issue with the Post on-tbe question of the Duke of Richmond's presence in the stew Cabinet. " Non nostrum—tantos componere lites." Yet we have some right to remind both our Contemporaries that„.,.so long ago as the 21. q ultimo, we published (with the permission of the party by whom it was communicated) a list of the pro bable constitution of Sir Robert Peel's Ministry, before any of our brethren had promulgated any intelligence on that subject. The point on which we were permitted to speak with most confidence was, the intention, on the part of the Conservative leader, not to oppose the re-election' of the Whig Speaker, Mr. Shaw Lefevre. The public will not have forgotten, pro bably, the very angry comments which that publication drew down upon us, from contemporaries of all parties. The predicted re-election of the Speaker, however, seemed to be the " head and front" of our offending. Some of the profoundest arguments in the world .were launched against us day after day to prove that such a notice was preposterous—that such a course would be instantly suicidal to the Conservative party. It may be a, very great hardship, but it is a very certain fact, that the nomination and re-election of Speaker eventuated precisely and literally as we had foretold. SUICIDE OF AN OCTOGENARIAN.— On Tues• day an inquest was held before Mr. T. Charsley, Coroner for Bucks, at the Swan Inn, Denham, about two miles from Uxbridge, on view of the body of Thomas Jude, aged 80 years, who hung himself under the following circumstances :—From the evidence it appeared that the deceased was a pensioner at Is. per diem, which was all he had to support himself with. Latterly two of his sons having become out of work, were a great burden on him, which preyed upon his mind, and made him very low spirited, und un Friday morning he wus found har=- ing in an outhouse near his own dwelling, quite dead rs and cold.—Verdict, " Temporary insanity," MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) lIERALD.—The commercial advices from Manches ter -and Liverpool to-day are extremely unfavourable. The anticipations under this head yesterday of more failures in the former place are realized. In addition to the one already reported, accounts of three more failures have .been received to-day; and of three also in Liver pool, the names of which it is not necessary to mention, as probably some of them may be enabled to resume business by seasonable arrangements. There is no rea son to doubt now the truth of a statement received from a respectable source some time since, to the effect that one, if not more, of the Lancashire joint-stock banks had been obliged to solicit, and had received assistance from. the Bank of England, and probably only 6n the express condition of curtailing their discounts, and calling in their advances. With scarcely more than one exception that of the Manchester and Salford Bank, joint-stock banking appears to have been extremely ill understood in its principles, and mismanaged with singular indiscre tion in practice, in the cotton manufacturing districts. TIMES.—The Government Securities were a trifle flatter to-day, not because of the extent of sales, or the delivery of • stock, which was made on account of the bargains concluded some few days since, although both these circumstances are said to have had their due weight on the market; but the more prominent cause ascribed is the withdrawing of money by capitalists who wish to participate in the profit which is expected to be realized in the approaching negotiation of the French loan. This has made cash scarcer for all purposes, and even at the Stock Exchange it is worth from 4i- to 5 per cent., and where accommodation has been pressing; it is under stood 5 per cent. has been actually paid. As compared with. the current quotations yesterday, the • decline is nearly one quarter per cent. The accounts, both from Liverpool and Manchester, are such as not to be at all acceptable to the trading interest, as they announce the failure of three or four firms, the principal of which were two houses at Liverpool of some importance. One of these, Messrs. J. Maury and Sons, are engaged largely in the cotton trade, and, having encumbered themselves with too great a stock, and being moreover disappointed of remittances, which, in regular course, should have arrived by the Great Western, are compelled for the present to ask time for the liquidation of their en gagements. Their liabilities are said to amount to upwards of 60,09 C/, of which 20,0001. are fully secured. Ultimately, it is supposed, no loss will accrue, and the creditors will receive full payment. This house has always maintained a high character. The other Liverpool house, Messrs. Anderson, Gar row, and Co., is connected with the Canada trade, and although it may occasion some little excitement among those engaged in that branch of commerce, it will produce no great effect generally, notwithstanding the firm is ac knowledged to be one of some importance. The Man chester failures are of. houses of no eminence, although they comprise a large amount of liabilities. Among the tea speculators in Mincing-lane the publi cation of our telegraphic despatch from Marseilles, ad vising the arrival of the overland mail, with accounts from China to the 20th of May, produced but a momen tary excitement, inasmuch as the news by this source does not give them sufficient data on which to found their operations. Teas during the day fluctuated about Id. per lb., because of the stated determination of the Emperor to resist, that being the only fact the speculators could lay hold of. CHRONICLE.—The news from China had no influ ence on the value of the public Securities ; the details,• however, are looked forward to with anxiety. The accounts from Manchester and Liverpool this morning are unsatisfactory. We regret to learn that several houses extensively concerned in business have been obliged to lay a statement of their affairs before their creditors. _ _ Business in the Foreign Market has been again con fined to Spanish Actives, in which Stock some consider able purchases were effected. The withdrawal of the Bill for the sale of the Island of Fernando Po is also looked upon favourably, as it was considered an injudici ous scheme, calculated to give rise to a strong opposition in the Cortes, on the ground that it might lead to a par tition of territory. The price asked from the British Gos;.ernment for the Island of Fernando Po was 60,0001., and it is understood that the Spanish Ministry have con trived means for obtainiiia that sum elsewhere, which will be remitted s to England in payment of interest on the Indemnity Bonds. The Bill authorising a loan of 60,000,000 of reals having passed into a law, it is re ported that the Spanish Government have made impor tant progress towards the final arrangement of obtaining the money, a part of which will be appropriated towards the payment of the Three per Cent. interest on the capi talized Coupons. SUN.—The Public Securities wore a less buoyant appear ance to-day, in consequence of the preparations for the fourth of the month, and also owing to the rather unfa vourable tenor of the advices by the Overland Mail. For immediate transfer Consols were 891 to 81, closing at 89 to and for Account 90-k to ; Exchequer Bilis were not higher than 14 to 16 premium, and East India Bonds dropped to 2 premium and par ; Bank Stock was firm at 169 to ; the New Three•and-a-Half per Cents. were at 9.4 to I, and the Three per Cents. at 90 to h. The Foreign Securities did not appear to participate in the declina of our own Stocks, Spanish Bonds having gone higher, in fact, on account of the favourable advices received from Madrid. The Actives advanced to-day. to 211 and 214 ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. were at a rise to 30i to 301, Mexican Bonds were at 261, Colom bian at 20,4 to and Brazilian at 664 to 67, being for all a slight improvement. Austrian Metalliques were at 10.9 A-, Danish at 79k, and Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents. at . 51:1 to 52. .Railway Shares were rather pressed on the market and dropped in value. Great Western Shares wore 1.5:4, the New 5,A, the Birmingham 69 to 70, and the New 22 premium.' Brighton were 21 to 3a, Croydon 1, and North Midland 35 discount. Colonial Bank Shares were 41 premium. • The expresses published early in the day giving the contents of the telegraphic despatch in anticipation of the Overland Mail caused some excitement in the Tea market, but parties were generally indisposed to operate until further details shall be received, and prices did not vary much. Company's Congou was 2s. 3id. per lb. cash, closing at that rate on 'Change, sellers. THE LATEST IMPORTED. FROM TILE NEW YORK PAPERS. MURDER AND SUICIDE. LYME, CT., JULY 28.—Our community was much agi tated yesterday and to-day by an awful occurrence here. Atwell Tucker, one of the residents, yesterday morning purchased at Warren's store three pints of rum, which he drank in the course of the forenoon. In the after noon he met old Dr. Noyes, with whom he had previously a quarrel, and followed him for about a mile, threaten ing to shoot him. The Doctor finally escaped and took out a warrant for the apprehension of Tucker, and gave it into the hands of, Huntley, the constable, who imme diately proceeded to serve it. A short distance from the village he saw Tucker in a field near the road. He alighted from his waggon, and proceeded to the colprit, who fired and shot him through the bowels, inflicting a wound so serious that the unfor tunate man lived but fifteen minutes. He has left a wife and five children entirely dependent upon him. He parted from his wife in full health half an hour be fore the occurrence, and the first information she hack of it was when he was brought home a bleeding corpse. A guard was placed around Tucker's house last night. This morning he was tracked into the woods, and it was ascertained that he was concealed in a swamp near • the jumping rocks. The spot was surrounded, when the re port of a gun was heard close at hand. On proceeding to the spot whence the sound proceeded, Tucker was found stretched on the ground, a disfigured corpse, part of his head blown entirely off. He was a murderer, he was a suicide, all through the influence of rum, rum, rum. When sober, Atwell Tucker was an excellent work man, and an honest man, but when under the influence of liquor, he was as furious as a tiger.—New York Ad ertiser. . Some Yankee has invented a new kind of ink, called " the love letter ink." It is a sure preventive against all cases of " breach of promise," as the ink fades away and leaves the sheet blank again in about four weeks after being written upon! MorrmoNs IN NEW JERSEY.—The Trenton State Gazette states that the Mormons have two societies in Nfonmouth county ; one at Hornor's town, and the other at Tom's River. About. 100 belong to the former, and seventy or eighty to the latter. They have also meet ings regularly once a week at New Egypt, besides occa sionally meetings at other places. Ex- President Van Buren lives very quietly and hap pily now at Kinderhook. _ _ FANNY ELSSLER.—We understand that Fanny Elssler left town on Tuesday, en route for Philadelphia, where she has some business to transact. It is still uncertain whether she will return to Europe or not by the Great Western. We would say, " Don't go, Fanny —you can make $BO,OOO in the coming year--why throw such a cluster of grapes away?" SINGULAR.—Miss Clifton lost recently, while bathing, a diamond ring, worth $l,OOO, given to her by the Mar quis of Waterford. Next day a shark, a sort of marine Bill Wiley, called upon her, and returned the ring for eight per cent. reward. Go to New Haven—you can go for a shilling. Go to Hartford—you can go for a dollar. Go to Albany —you can go there, too, for a dollar. Go to Staten Island—you can go there for sixpence, and get an excursion downthe bay into the bargain, and be brought home, too, if only you do not go ashore. Go on the Fishing Banks—you can go and be gone all day for a shilling, and be jammed half to death in the crowd. Go somewhere—go every where—it's so very cheap. Pray don't stay at home. CORPOREAL PUNISHMENTS AT POLICE-Or- FICES.—A few days ago a lad of the name of Peter Moore, about,fourteen years of age, was taken before the Magistrates al Union-hall, charged with having stolen some account bsooks from his master, and selling them for waste paper. Upon being re-examined he was or dered by the Sitting Magistrate to be flogged and dis charged. The boy was accordingly taken back, and the constable who had taken the boy into custody was in formed by the gaoler that it was his duty to inflict the punishment upon the lad. The constable not approving of thus bi•ing made to perform the executive part of the law, refused, and ultimately applied to the worthy Ma gistrate upon the subject, when he was informed nat it was his place as well as his duty to flog the boy. Accord ingly he carried the sentence into effect, entertaining at the same time strong doubts as to the legality of what he hid done, and a statement was subsequently made to the Superintendent of the Division of the circumstances, and which was afterwards communicated to the Commis sioners of Police. The result has been, an order has been issued froth Scotland-yard to the Superintendents, and which was yesterday read to the various divisions, pro hibiting any constable in future to carry out any order'of Magistrates to flog any prisoner whom the Magistrates might order to receive corporeal putilihraelit, it being no part pf their duty. MUSICAL WORLD. A pleasant weekly miscellany, containing se veral musical criticisms and original papers con nected with that attractive science. THE LYRE. We have here the four first Numbers of a new musical and theatrical register, which is pub lished weekly, and from the skill and attention to details with which it is conducted, bids fair to become a favourite. The original communica tionsare, in general, tersely and neatly w r itte n; one, in particular, on the " Scenery of the Olden Theatre," is full of curious and minute information. THE MIRROR. No. 247. _Hugh Cunningham, London. The monthly ,Part of this lively little melange appears with four wood engravings ; the first of which is from Louis David's painting of the " Death of Socrates," exhibited in the Louvre in 1787, accompanied by explanatory letter-press. The remaining three are engraved from the jo cund scenes of "Village Festival." The articles are, as usual, sprightly and pleasing. HALL'S IRELAND, Part 11. How and Parsons, London, 1841. There is not the slightest perceptible falling off in this clever and impartial work, which, on the contrary, seems to grow in interest as it pro ceeds. The present part is chiefly confined to details respectin g th e C ounty of Y Tipperary, of whose chief town, Clonmell, its antiquities, scenery, wealth, &c., the Editor furnishes us with some curious and entertaining particulars. Facing the title-page is an excellent map of the - Queen's County and the King's County, with the addition of two plates, representing a view of Luggellard, in the County of Wicklow, and the the Abbey of Holy Cross in Tipperary. The first is the best, and with its luxuriant combination of hill and, dale, wood and water, jutting capes and promontaries, realizes all that we can conceive of the beauties -of that fairy scene which has been so eloquntly described by Olian. FINE ARTS. PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM FAWCETT. Johnson, London, 1841. This is a full-length-portrait, engraved by Lupton, from an 'original painting by George Patten. We cannot undertake to say whether it be a likeness or not, but as a work of art it is creditable to the engraver's judgment. HAYMARKET THEATRE. An original farce, from the pen of Mr. Bernard, was produced at this theatre last evening, under the title of The Boarding School. The scene is laid at a village in Devonshire, during the reign of the redoubted Swing, in 1839, where Lieut. Varley (Webster), Capt. Harcourt (J. Webster), and Cornet Kavanagh (F. Vining), of ficers in command of the district, prefer raising the flame of Love to extinguishing the flames of Swing, and ac cordingly sit down in form to lay regular siege to a boarding•school for young ladies, kept by Mrs. Grosde nap (Mrs. W. Clifford). After making the regular ad vances by serenades, letters, &c., they each make a lodge ment in the heart of a younglady, the Captain taking pos session of that of Miss Caroline Blythe (Mrs. Stirling), while those of Julia Manvers (Miss Charles), and of. Miss Mary Mite (Miss P. Horten), the daughter of a rich cheesemonger, are respectively surrendered to the Lieutenant and Cornet. The officers have just managed to scale the walls of the play-ground when Mrs. Gros denap, accompanied by Farmer Holly (Mr. Clark), the father of a pupil in prospective, enters, and re she utters the words, " And now Sir, you will see my pupils at their amusements," turns, and perceives each of these three young ladies with an officer at her feet. The si tuation told admirably, producing roars of laughter. . The officers thus foiled send off Mrs. Grosdenap on a. fool's errand, by a pretended letter from the Earl of Aldgate, who is desirous of placing his daughter at her establishment, and then introduced themselves as deputies to the writing-master, the geography-master, and the dancing-master. These respectable gentlemen hav ing been waylaid and nearly murdered by a Swing mob on their way to the school, they make the most of their time, and have got the consent of the „ladies to elope, when Mrs. Grosdenap returns and disconcerts all their measures. They escape out of a window. She raises an alarm of thieves, and the officers re-appear in their pro per characters, and are welcoMed by Mrs. Grosdenap as her preservers from the villains who had entered her dwelling, evidently for some very horrible purpose. The Captain replies to her welcome, by a most flattering eulogy, and all the officers joining him in expressing a hope that every one will be as well satisfied with Mrs. Grosdenap's boarding-school as they have reason to be the curtain falls. The piece was most 'successful, and deservedly so. The dialogue is carefully written, and is full of good hits, and the in cidents and situations are broadly humorous. The character of Cornet Kavanagh was evidently originally written for poor Power, and the melancholy thought of the unfortunate fate of that exquisite actor, and most worthy and kind-hearted man, prevented our en joying the farce so heartily as we should other wise have done. F. Vining acted the character most judiciously. He was evidently aware of the disadvan tage under which he was placed, and, therefore, with -excellent taste, avoided everything that could raise a comparison between himself and poor Power. Web ster's Dancing-master was the richest thing we have seen since Liston's Opollo Belvi ; and the Farmer Holly of Mr. Clark was a trifling part made of consequence by the excellence of the acting. This gentleman is exceedingly clever, and bids fair to take high rank in his profession. David Rees acted the part of James, a Billy Lack-a-day sort of servant with great unction. His appearance on the stage was the signal for a roar. Mrs. Stirling's naivette told excellent in the character of Caroline Blythe, the unsophisticated good tempered school girl, and Miss P. Horton and Miss Charles as the vulgar and the sentimental young lady were both admirable. Mrs. Clifford as Mrs. Grosdenap was the very personification of pompous ignorant quackery. At the fall of the curtain Webster announced the piece for • repetition every evening amidst the most flattering of all applause, for a broad farce,, the hearty laughter of a crowded house. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.— The Queen and Prince Albert left the Castle a quarter before four o'clock this afternoon, escorted by a party of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, under the command of Lieut. Vyse, for Claremont. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal and her at tendants were taken in one of the Royal carriages. Her Majesty's Suite, and that of Prince Albert, occu pied three carriages and four. In the forenoon her Majesty and her Illustrious Con sort enjoyed a walk in the Park. Sir R. Peel arrived about twelve o'clock, and left a little before two o'clock. The Hon. Miss Paget will join the Royal party at Claremont this day, and the lion. Miss Lister is ex pected to arrive at Claremont to-morrow, to succeed the Maids of Honour at present in attendance on her Majesty. The Earl of Liverpool arrived at his town residence on Tuesday evening, from his seat, Buckstead Park, near Uckfield, Sussex, the Noble Earl having received a de spatch from Sir Robert Peel. His Lordship had an in terview with the Right Hon. Baronet. Sir Robert Peel dined on T ues d a y evening with the Duke of Wellington at Apsley House. Yesterday morn ing, Sir Robert left town for Windsor Castle, to have an audience of the Queen. The Right lion. Baronet had an audience of her Majesty soon after twelve o'clock, and afterwards took his departure from Windsor Castle for town. Sir Robert arrived in Whitehall-gardens soon after four o'clock, and was shortly afterwards visited by his Grace the Duke of Wellington The following No blemen and Gentlemen also arrived in the course of half an hour at the residence of the Right Hon. Baronet : Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Wharncliffe, Sir James Graham, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Mr. Goulburn, E ar l o f lladdington, Lo r d Ellenborough, Earl of Ripon ' Sir H. Hardinge Earl De Grey, Laird Eliot, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Sir Thomas Fremantle, and Sir G. Clerk. The meeting broke up at h a lf-p as t fi ve o ' c l oc k , w h en the Duke of Wellington took his departure, and was shortly followed by Lord Lyndhurst, the Earl of Ripon, and several of the Noblemen and Gentlemen attending the meeting. The Duke of Buceleuch paid a visit to Sir R. Peel yesterday afternoon after his return to town. The Earl of Jersey went yesterday to Osterley - Park, Middlesex, from his seat, Middleton Park, near Bieester, Oxford. His L or d s hi p received yesterday a despatch from Sir R. Peel. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge went from his residence at Kew yesterday to Richmond Park, and spent the forenoon shooting. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess Augusta of , Cambridge arr i ve d i n town yesterday morn ing from Kew. Their heir Roy a l Hi g h nesses returned to Kew in the afternoon. Sir John Miley Doyle, X.C.8., C apta i n E. C. Richards, and Mr. Henry Mier, on the part of the Naval and Military clauriauts on the Government of Port uga l, accompanied by Mr. Eike, their Secretary, had an inter view on Saturday with Viscount Palmerston. " How long did Adam remain in Paradise before he sinned?". asked an amiable cara sposa to her loving husband, Till he got a wife," answered the husband, calmly. _ AFFAIRS OF CANADA. CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE AF FAIRS OF CANADA, 1841. COPY OF A DESPATCH FROM THE RIGHT HON. LORD SYDENTIAM TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL. Government-house, Montreal, 27th Sept., 1840. Mr Lonn—l have the honour to inform you that I re turned to this city on Thursday last, the 24th inst. I ,shall transmit to your Lordship by the next mail, copies of the various addresses which I have received during; my tour, and of my replies. In the meantime it affords me the most sincere satisfaction to be enabled to say that, through the very extensive district of country , which 1 have visited, comprising nearly the whole of the province of Upper Canada, the best possible spirit prevails From the province line to Amherstburg and Sand wich, from Lake Erie to Penetanguishine, I have every where found a determination to forget past differences and to unite in an endeavour to obtain, under an Act of Union, those practical measures for the improve ment of the country which have been too long neglected in the struggle fur party and personal objects. At To ronto, even, where party spirit reigns with more vio lence than in any other part, the general feeling of the province at last prevailed over the opinions of the ex tremes and I met there with a most cordial reception from all parties, and I had the . opportunity, of which I was glad to avail myself, of doing much to soften down the asperities which had existed. Amongst the British inhabitants of this part of Lower Canada, I am tao happy to say that the same good feeling . reigns, and the same confidence in the principles upon which I have conducted my government, and in the exertions I have made to introduce improvement. The citizens of Montreal had prepared a public entry for my return, which I have reason to know would have been most numerously attended, but this I was com pelled from illness to decline, • Of many of the French Canadians lam sorry to say that the reports which reach me are not so favourable; great efforts are made by some few of the leaders of the old Papineau party to mislead the people, and they are seconded in the most mischievous' manner by Mr. Neil son of Quebec. But, although they may be successful in imposing on the credulity and ignorance of the habitans so far as to obtain the return to the United Legislature of a small party of violent men opposed to British con nexion, I am satisfied that they will not again induce the peasantry to support any . attempts at disturbance. I should do injustice to my own feelings if I were not to state to your Lordship the impression which has been left on my mind by the inspection which I have made of the Upper Province. It is really impossible to say too much of the advantages which nature has bestowed upon it, especially- that part of the country which lies between the three lakes—Ontario, Erie, and _Huron. If these great advantages be properly used, I foresee that in the course of a very few years that province must become one of the most valuable possessions of the British empire. Its population may be trebled, and its products increasad in an immense ratio; whilst, if properly governed, its inha bitants will, I am satisfied, become the most loyal, intel ligent, and industrious subjects which her Majesty can number.-1. have, &c. SYDENHAM. The Right Hon. Lord J. Russell, &c. LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO LORD SYDENIIAM. COPY OF A DESPATCH FROM LORD JOHN RUSSELL TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD SYDENHAM. Downing-street, July 6, 1841. Mr Lonn—Her Majesty's Government have received with much regret the account which your recent com • munications to me convey of your severe bodily indispo sition, and I have received the Queen's commands to ac quaint you that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to sanction your return to this country on a leave of ab sence for six months, as soon after your receipt of this despatch as the exigencies of the public service in Canada may admit. I have, &c., J. RUSSELL. RESIGNATION OF LORD SYDENHAM. COPY OF A DESPATCH FROM THE RIGHT HON. LORD SYDENHAM TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL. Kingston, July 21,1841. MY LORD—As it is probable that the sittings of the Legislature will be protracted to the end of this month, and the state of my health, as your Lordship is already aware, renders it of great importance to me, that I should be able to quit this country early in the autumn, I think it right, without actually waiting for the termination of the session itself, to enable her Ma jesty's Government to take the necessary steps for the future conduct of of here by formally requesting your Lordship to place at the foot of the Throne my re signation of the office with which the Queen has honoured me, and my humble prayer, in order to meet the possible contingency of the arrival of my successor being delayed beyond the period to which I have referred, that I may receive her Majesty's gracious permission (if it should not already have been accorded to me) temporarily to devolve the government upon the officer next in com mand. The task which, by her Majesty's commands, I un dertook two years ago is entirely completed, and I have the satisfaction of feeling assured that the great objects of my mission are answered. The union •of the two Canadasis fully perfected, and the measures incidental to that great change have•been successfully carried into effect. Etfective departments for every branch of the public service in this province have been constituted, and the future harmonious working of the constitution is, I have every reason to believe, secured. I have likewise the gratification of learning, that in another of the provinces of British North America com prised within my government the endeavours which I made whilst I temporarily assumed the direction of af fairs there, confirmed as they have been by your Lord ship's directions, which have been so ably carried out by Lord Falkland, have been completely successful in restoring harmony there, and in producing the practical results. I can, therefore, with perfect confidence in the future working of the great change which it has been my good fortune to assist in bringing into operation, surrender into other hands the powers with which I was honoured through the gracious confidence of my Sovereign, al though, from the deep and heartfelt interest with which I take in the welfare of these magnificent possessions of the Queen, I shall do so with feelings of deep regret.—l have, &e. S VDENHAM. _ The Right Hon. Lord J. Russell, &c. THE QUEEN'S ACCEPTANCE OF LORD SYDENHAM'S RESIGNATION. COPY OF A DESPATCH FROM LORD J. RUSSELL TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD SYDENHAM. Downing-street, Aug. 18, 1841. MY LORD—I have received and laid before the Queen your Lordship's despatch of the 21st July, tendering to her Majesty your resignation of the office of Governor- General of the British Provinces in North America ; and I avail myself of the opportunity of this day's mail to inform your Lordship that the Queen has been pleased to accept your resignation. Her Majesty has further commanded me to express to your Lordship her inten tion of conferring on you the Order of the Grand Cross of the Bath, as a proof of her Majesty's gracious appro bation of your services. I have, &c., J. RUSSELL. The Right Hon. Lord Sydenham, &c. PROGRESS OF THE PROVINCIAL GOVERN- MENT. C)Pli OF A DESPATCH FROM TIIE RIGHT HON. LORD SYDENUAM TO LORD J. RUSSELL. Government-house, Kingston, August 4, 1841. MY LORD—I had the honour to receive, via New York, by the Gnat Western, your Lordship's despatch (No. 397) conveying to me leave of absence from my post for six months, in consequence of the serious in disposition under which. I have suffered, and I lose no time in requesting your Lordship to be good enough to lay at the foot of the throne my. humble acknowledg ments to the Queen for this mark of her Majesty's con sideration. It will be my anxious endeavour that the interests of her Majesty's service should not suffer through this, or through the resignation of my office, which I had the honour to transmit to your Lordship last mail. I shall not avail myself of the Queen's gracious per mission to absent myself until I have entirely com pleted the work which d have in hand, by bringing the present session of Parliament to a close, and by taking all the steps incident to the measures which will have then probably received their cmpletion ; and with regard to some of these even, namely, the financial arrangements to be made for the province, in accord ance with my instructions, my presence in England may, I hope, not be altogether without value. I expect to be able to complete ails by the middle or end of September, when I shall proceed home ; but of this I shall be able to judge more exactly in the course of a short time, and I shall then apply to the o ffi cer commanding the naval station at Halifax to furnish me, if he conveniently can, with a vessel which may convey myself and my suite to England, of which I trust your Lordship will approve. I have, in the meantime, great satisfaction in statinc , that the anticipations which I expressed in my confi dential despatch of the 25th of June last have been fully realised. The proceeding; of the House of Assembly were at first retarded - by the necessity of' making arrangements and laying down new rules and regulations for the con duct of business, and by the proceedings in the matter of election petitions, in which the laws of the two pro• winces were different, and great confusion and embar rassment naturally' arose ; but this delay was rather pro ductive of advantage than otherwise, as the Members from different parts of the province had thereby the op portunity of becoming better acquainted with each other's views and opinions, and the difficulties inherent to the union of the representation of two countries hi therto so distinct and separate gradually wore off. But latterly the Legislature has been able to devote itself to the practical business of the country, and, I am happy to say, has made great progress, and with great advantage. Many measures of public utility have been gone through, and amongst them three measures of great im portance, introduced by the Government, have already passed the House of Assembly, and are before the other House—a Bill for the establishment of a Board of Works, conferring the most extensive powers upon that depart ment, and thus enabling us to proceed safely and se curely in whatever may be undertaken on the public ac count or with public aid ; another for th e establishment. of district courts of justice ; and a third for the naturali zation of aliens, a subject of the deepest interest to many of the inhabitants of the province. A Bill for the esta blishment of district Vouncils in Upper Canada, similar to the ordinance which I passed in the Lower Province. is in Committee, and will, I have little doubt, be shortly passed ; and the other measures are all, mor e ,or l ess, i n a state of great forwardness. I have, 4.e., SI:DENHAM. The Right Ho. Lrdl: Russell, &c. EVENING SUN ILLUSTRATIONS OF ARISTOCRA TIC LAW-MAKING. 40rP - - - " The cause of the general distress will be found in , selfishness and misgovernment springing from the great mon st er evil, the monopoly. of legislation." Nonconformist, No. XVIII. We select from the daily papers, immediately suc ceeding our remarks upon the aristocratic principle, the following illustrations o f th e m i ser y flowing from the system of hereditary legislation —the germ of all mono polies, and the well-spring of selfishness : " At the Guildhall yesterday, no leSs than four indi viduals were brought before Mr. Alderman Kelly, who committed offences for the mere purpose of gaining the temporary shelter of a station house, and the chance of a crust of bread. Crime, therefore, is better off in Eng• land titan poverty. - To be entitled to protection, shelter, and food, a man must be a criminal.. Such a fact, though there' were only one in a year, instead of crowding upon - us four in a day, would be an unerring indication that our legislation requires revision. " The process of debasement and degradation seems to be this ; scarcity of employment and scarcity of food, as they are felt in class after class, make one class press down on the other, and squeeze out the lowest to utter destitution. Amongst the humble classes there is a great deal of charity ; they help each other ; but when all find it difficult to live, they are obliged to deny succour to the most distressed, who are driven to commit offences that they may drag out their miserable existence a feW days or weeks longer. We are much afraid that the misery which thus forces itself into public notice, bears . only a very small proportion to that which hides itself, and perishes in obscurity. We are much afraid, too, that reckless despair instead of blithe and careful hope, is becoming, from continual disappintment, the prQva lent 'disposition of our people ; and that those who deny them bread and a fair field-for their exertions, will have to answer, not only for starving many Out of existence, but for the moral debasement of all."—Sun, Aug. 12. The people are fast getting to know that forcible re sistance to the law is absurd, for the aristocracy have provided, and can provide against this—they can starve a sufficient number of the poor into ignorance and en listment as soldierS, and arm them to keep down the rest, and make them pay the instruments. Whilst the mass are foolish enough to be incited to force and rebellion, and the aristocracy can vote themselves secret service . money, they will never want for spies to incite the igno rant, and gibbet them as terrible examples at once of • folly, fraud, and bitterness. Both sections, too have con- • curved in drilling and organizing a police soldiery that could he made more effectual for both purposes. If they ' would win equal laws the people must not resort to vio lence. If the practice of seeking a prison instead of the • union should generally obtain among the starving and roofless that they may obtain food and shelter, the aristo cracy will find it a more difficult thing to deal with than. an outbreak of physical violence. TWo men were tried during the present assizes far kill ing a sheep, not with any felonious intent,. but that . they might be transported—the aristocracy having most benevolently enacted that the act, irrespective of the motive, shall be so punished ; and these_ poor wretches, desiring to be sent out of this happy country, gave in formation against themselves, that they might avail them- . . selves of the wretched provisions of this blind law, made by the " Corinthian pillars of polished society." It is not only blind, but merciless, for the Judge said he had no discretion. Would such a law, with such a punishment, exist if poor men were represented in Parliament? Thus society is suffering the natural consequence of .converting the new unic'n-houses into a prison, and of evading the claims of the wretched upon technical points, whilst the. poor grow desperate from want of food, clothing, and shelter. There is now, we fear, but little difference be tween the two shelters, except that relief is secured at once in the one case, and is protracted in the other. By this absurd law our wretched poor have now the power to compel the country to pay the expense of their emi gration to a place where they may be better off, and can not be worse. We proceed with our extracts:— " CAUSE AND EPTECT.—The uneasy . state of the public mind in Ireland, produced by the prospect of a Tory Government., has induced her Majesty's representa tive to recommend that an addition be made to the mili tary force in that country. We have, of late years, had the pleasure of reporting- a reduction in the army sta tioned there: We have now the unpleasant duty of stating that a regiment of cavalry is ordered to proceed to Ireland forthwith, to be followed by two infantry re giments."—Sun. This is quite consistent with Lord John's intimation to the electors of London—which the Morning Chronicle called a state paper. In the outset of that pledge-myself-to-nothing docu ment, he volunteered this intimation to his _'..fory cousins : " It would be inconsistent with my notions of public duty to harass the Government of the day by vexatious opposition, still less to deny to the Crown the means of maintaining the reputation of the country abroad, and in ternal quiet at home." Lord Ebrington, a pet Whig, is carrying out the hint, —if the section cannot give good measures, they can make the people submit to bad ones. The passage, being translated, means, " It would be inconsistent with my notions of duty to my order to deny to the ' order' the means of compelling the people to submit to laws in volving their starvation." 'lead again the paragraph—he falsely assumes that some one uad asked him to harass the Government by a • vexatious opposition, and to denyto the Queen the means of maintaining the reputation and peace of the country. Men resort to false assumptions lb veil dishonest or indi rect purposes—his purpose was to tell the people that he considered the interests of his " order" more important than theirs ; and that though he was going out protest ing in words against the prohibition-of-food lawz, he meant that the Tories should have the soldiery to com pel them to submit. to those laws. He well knew there was no other cause for apprehension at home, and that the Crown was never more popular. Contrast the - Queen's present visiting tour with the apprehension as to the late King's visiting the citizens. We do not object to the purpose ; but we point out the anxious and Unnecessary volunteering of the information, to show that the love of " the order" is paramount to the love of the country ; that is, as we use the word, of the interests of the people. With the aristocracy it is the class first, and then the people ; but the class at all events—it must be so whilst we have privileged classes irrespective of living merit. We proceed with our illustrations of the effects of . aristocratic selfishness and its spirit : "GAME PRESERVES.—The extent to which the system of game-preserving is carried is almost incredible ; for not alone in the ranks of our proud and overbearing aristocracy are game-preservers to be found—the 'mania extends to tradesmen,—aye, to Liverpool tradesmen too, —and we are bound to say that the proceedings of the latter class are often characterised by a spirit of petty vindictiveness and spleen generally unknown amongst despots of a more elevated grade. We spoke of Lord Stanley preserving lands not his own ; the same remark will apply, in an equal degree, to the Earl of Sefton. The latter Nobleman commences with his preserves at Croxteth, and extends it through Kirby Simmonswood, Aintree, Sefton, Thornton (a township in which he scarcely owns an acre of land), Altcar, to the sea—a space, as the crow flies, of some twelve miles in length, and averaging two miles in width. Lord Sefton should not put the county to expense for punishing tres passers on twenty-four square miles of laud. Some years ago his lordship's keeper, Joseph Warner, of Altcar, was, left for dead by some poachers, who were transported for the crime ; but the expenses of the prosecution were borne by. the county. Within our recollection one of Lord Skehnersdale's keepers in Latham, was shot dead by a poacher, who was never taken. In Anglesea, the convict Chub now lies under sentence of death for the murder of a gamekeeper. We 'repeat s then, game pre servers should dip into their own pockets, and not into those of the public to pay for their whims."—Liverpool Albion. It is not only the expense to society, but the moral destruction of the men, and their unfortunate, and from thenceforth miserable, wives and ;families. From that time, too, the bereaved wife may be. shut up in a new union, if she cannot drag up her helplesschildren, though able to maintain herself—in this way women are constantly the victims of bad laws, and of the temptations of dis tress and misery into which they are plunged by the prisonminti ~and transportation of their fathers, 1 1 u 6 " bands, and sons. " A FREE-TRADE .MISSIONARY FROM THE UNIT ED _ _ _ STATES.--An address was. delivered on Tuesch_il_ywri eve .if " w ing to the memb e rs of th e M anc h es ter Anti Association, by J. Curtis, Esq., of Ohio, upon the capabilities Of that country authorised the • and provisions. He stated that he was . a _ othing public voice in the United States to stahtuenttn nothing was exchange was more desired by his countrymen than of Eng their agricultural produce for the mant interest l whilst he Eng land. He was listened lo with gret:!owing to su North by the the rich re sources went into a great variety of factl, ai n the close of his ad dresssrtinously tendered to him of the great west,' a vote of thanks was unatu d thetowns of the king - don' • Mr. Curtis intends to by the meeting. We understand capabilities of the make a tour through the for the purpose of explamt deficiency of food for our United States to supply the , Bread -tax Circular. population."—flub-Brea d-tax that if cur aristocratic legis- Can any economist, doubt in America to pay the im mense-qators permitted our ) b , their flour, that 'our mer sums they owe us . prinenipa? d tkeir debts, and our work menchants would have been pi kept in employ ' Now, mark h ow these gew-gaw titles seduce those who onc e were generous, and in some degr e e di s p ose d t o e qual rights and equal laws :- 9 , we hear it rumoured that Sir Francis Burdett is at Drayton Manor, fishing for a Peerage."--Sun. . This plague spirit runs away with every thing that is generous and noble in men's nature. It ii not alone the . . renegades and the demented whom the law of primogeni- tare, and the folly of hereditary titles seduce from the nobility of nature, and convert into subservient cringing idlers ; but those who have been great and useful, when they get dry and shrivelled, are made Lords„and become. the parents of idle and useless men and women, despising work and promoting corruption and patronage, that they may be placed or pensioned upon society. The stippres-' sive effects of hereditary titles are more injurious than the positive, and they are blighting and destroying. It is the black jaundice of the body social. CURIOUS AND IMPORTANT I N VENTION,--, Messrs. Young and Delcambre, of London, are said to hare constructed an ingenious machine, which will place the moveable types used in printing, in the sauw posi - tion, with regard to the spilling of words, as they are .. now placed by the compositor. By means pf this ma chine, a column of a newspaper, containing 12,000 types, is composed, including what-is technically called " justi- • fication," and putting into lines, in tivt) hours, which is • six hours less than an expert compositor will accomplish the task by hand. . • I 4 I