The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-13 00:00:00

STING SUN SURREY SESSIONS—(THIS DAY). (Before Mr. BUCKLE and a Bench of Magistrates.) These Sessions commenced this morning at the Ses sions House, Horsemonger-lane. The number of pri soners in the calendar is 89 ; of these 23 can neither read nor write, 19 can only read imperfectly, 43 can read and write imperfectly, 3 can read and write well, and 1 has received a superior education. The Grand Jury having been addressed by the Chair ,man, retired to perform their duties, and shortly after returned into Court with various bills. George Williams, indicted for stealing a handkerchief and other articles, the property of William Ranger, at Capel, pleaded Guilty. He was sentenced to seven years transportation, having been previously convicted. James Draper was indicted for stealing at Bagshot a saddle, the property of Habakkuk Robinson. It appeared from the evidence, that on the 15th of August last the prisoner was taken into custody at Staines, on a charge of picking pockets. While on the road, in custody of a policeman named O'Toole, some persons accosted the prisoner and asked him what he was in custody for. The prisoner replied " I don't care about this, but it's about something else that I am afraid of being transported." The policeman asked him what he, meant by that, when the prisoner said " I am afraid about stealing a saddle at Bagshot, about nine months since, but another man was in that as well as myself." The policeman asked him who he had stolen it from, when the prisoner replied—" from Mr. Robinson. I drew the staple of the coach-house door, and a man named Rose went in and stole the saddle." The prisoner was taken before the Magistrates at Felton, on the charge of picking pockets, and was discharged for. want of evidence, but the policeman Butler stating to the Magistrates his belief that there was a warrant out against the prisoner at Bagshot, he was remanded for three days. On his removal the prisoner said to Butler, "If I am taken to Bagshot, I am safe to be transported," and be . then made the same statement to Butler, that he had previously made to O'Toole. He was then taken to Bagshot, and committed for trial on the present charge. It appeared from the evidence that Mr. Robinson's saddle was stolen in March last, and that it was found shortly afterwards in the loft of a person, named Fern 'dale, to whom the prisoner had previously offered it for sale, but who had refused to purchase it. The prisoner had told Farndale that the saddle was the property of a man named Rose, who had employed him to sell it. Farndale stated that he was not aware the saddle had been concealed in his loft. Mr. LOCKE having addressed the Jury for the prisoner, The CHAIRMAN summed up, and the Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment in the Guildford House of Correction, with hard labour. GUILDHALL.—(THIS DAY.). Mr. Martin, an Inspector in the City Police force, ap peared before Sir PETER LAURIE, to give some explana tion relative to the report of the case of a man named Green, which appeared in The Sun of Saturday. It was quite true that up to about six weeks ago no refreshment was given to the prisoners confined during the night in station-houses; but since that time an order had issued from the office of the City Commission, by which, under certain circumstances, 3d. was allowed at night, and the same sum in the morning, to procure coffee and bread for the prisoners ; but that order, by some accident, did not reach him (Inspector Martin) until this morning. With respect to the second charge, of his refusal to send a Messenger to let Green's family know where he was, he considered himself equally free from blame, as some nights, perhaps, there would be ten or twelve prisoners confined, and if he were to send a policeman to each per son's home all the men would be sent away from their legitimate duty. Sir I'. LAURIE said he wished that the regulations at the City station houses should approximate as closely as possible to those at the metropolitan ones. The admi• nistration of relief or food at the station-houses was a mat ter which required great cautionon the part of the inspector, as instances were almost daily brought to this Court in which unfortunate persons would break lamps and win dows, and commit other offences, for the purpose of getting the shelter of th e station house, and he thought if food were to be given there indiscriminately it would be holding out a dangerous inducement to such persons. The inspectosr should remember that the rates for the support of the police were raised from the very poorest of the population, as well as the wealthy classes, and therefore economy was indispensable. After paying Mr. Inspector Martin a high compliment for his general hu manity, and his anxiety to avoid anything like frivolous or vexatious charges, the worthy Alderman said he per fectly exonerated him from any blame in the transaction. BOW-STREET—(THIS DAY.) CRIDI COL—Patrick Murphy was placed at the bar before Mr. HALL, charged with having assaulted Cecilia Fleming, a very pretty-looking female, in Portugal street, last night. On the complainant being placed in the witness-box she said she did not wish to press the charge against the prisoner if he would expr ess hi s sorrow f or what he bad done. The Magistrate asked the prisoner if he would avail himself of the kindness of the complainant. Prisoner, with laughable gravity, placing his hand on his heart, said, "No, your 'Worship, this case shall be gone into, and I will take every punishment the law can inflict," at the same time trying to look pathetic at the complainant. Mr. HALL said, if that were the case the com plainant must proceed with the case. She stated that she was married and was passsing along Portugal-street, last evening, when the prisoner came up to her and after walking a short distance, he struck her violently on the head and tore her bonnet. Mr. HALL—Was there no cause for it ? Complainant hesitatingly—None, your Worship. Mr. HALL—You seem to have something behind that you wish to hide from me. Complainant simpering— Well, Sir, he formed an attachment to me. Mr. HALL—What before your marriage ? Com iolainant hanging her head—No, your Worship, since. The prisoner sighed heavily, and buried his face in his hands. Mr. HALL—What without the knowledge of your husband ? Complainant—No, your Worship, my hus band knew of it, and the prisoner visited our house. Mr. HALL said the prisoner had better take advan tage of the complainant's kindness, as, if he did not, he should be compelled to fine him, which perhaps would have the effect of lodging him in prison. The prisoner's heroic bearing evidently cooled, and he said he was sorry for what he had done, but he was excited by the female ; she had met him by appointment. Complainant—Yes, but you owed me some money. Mr. HALL said as the prisoner had expressed his sorrow the complainant was no doubt satisfied. Complainant said she was perfectly satisfied, and the parties left the Court together. Edward William Allen was placed at the bar charged with having embezzled the sum of 201., the property of a gentleman of the name of Butcher, residing at Malton, in Essex. It appeared that the prisoner was paying his addresses to a sister-in-law of complainant, and in January last they paid a visit to the complainant, and on their de- Larture he gave the prisoner 201. to pay to a h ouse i n ondon. This payment had never been made, and in March last the complainant received a letter from the prisoner stating he had paid the money when in a state of intoxication, but he could not tell to whom. He pro mised that the money shculd be re-paid, but it had not been paid, and the complainant came to London on Sa turday, and, seeing the prisoner, gave him into custody. Mr. HALL said the case was out of their jurisdiction, and he thought it would not amount to larceny, but only to a breuch of trust, and the only remedy would be a civil process. He would, however, bind the prisoner over to answer any charge that might be brought against him at the Sessions in Essex. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE: (RECEIVED THIS I)AY.) DONCASTER RACES. DONCASTER, SUNDAY AFTERNOON.—SCOtt'S lot, eon alsting of satirist Van Amburgh, Heslington, Black Beck, Auckland, and Attila, arrived this morning. LATEST BETTING. 7 to 4 on Coronation 16 to 1 agst Middleham 9 to I agst Satirist 20 to 1 agst Eringo 9 to 1 agst The Squire 30 to 1 agst Tearaway 16 to I agst Van Amburgh 30 to 1 agst Galaor 46 to 1 agst Osberton. • The following are expected to start :—The Squire, Middleham, Pagan, Cattonian, Osberton, f by Muley Moloch, out of Mystery, Coronation (at Sandbeek Park), Eringo, Galaor, Satirist, Van Amburgh, and Tearaway • RAILWAY RETURNS. -- - We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return applies and includes the money re ceived for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and merenandize s. d. Sept. 4. Birmingham and Derby Junction 1,344 19 1 3. Birmingham and Gloucester 2,102 18 8 5. Dundee and .Arbroath 309 10 0 5. Eastern Counties • 4. Glasgow and Ayr 1,691 9 5 4. Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock 1,049 0 2 Aug. 2a. Grand Junct. & Chester & Crewe 9,791 3 4 Sept, 6. Great North of England 1,352 4 5 . 5. Great - Western 14,844 16 2 4. Hull and Selby 1,091' 6 0 4. Lancaster and Preston Junction 584 16 10 3. Liverpool and Manchester 4. London and Birmingham 19,217 3 2 9. London and Blackwall 953 9 6 9. London and Brighton 8. Ditto Shoreham Branch 242 6 11 7. London and Croydon 9. London and Greenwich 935 18 6' 4. London and South-Western 7,379 19 5 2. Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 653 8 5 6. Manchester and Birmingham 343 18 7 Aug. 30. Manchester and Leeds ....... 5,066 17 4 Sept. 4. Midland Counties 2,904 11 0 4. Newcastle and Carlisle 1,770 11 3 5. Northern and Eastern 975 2 9 4. North Midland 4,896 4 10i 3. North Union 1,418 12 5 4. Preston and Wyre 660 1 5 5. Ulster 173 10 5 6. York and North Midland 1,783 7 8 T he railroad from Aix-la-Chapelle to Cologne was opened on the Ist instant with great eclat ; dinners, dances, and other diversions took place for three days. The fare to Cologne, a distance of 45 miles, is fixed at six shillings for the first class, four and sixpence the se cond, and three shillings for the open carriages. The numbe r of persons travellin g by it on the opening fully answered the most sanguine expectations of the share holders. • DREADFUL FIRE IN PICCADILLY. Yesterday evening, about half-past nine o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises No. 87, Piccadilly, in the pos- session of Mr. Salmon, a fruit salesman, which was at tended with most disastrous results. From the con fusion, and the circumstance of the police peremp torily refusing admittance within a certain dis tance of the house, we found it impossible to ascertain how, or in what part of the house, the fire originated ; however, the general opinion was, that it first broke out in the shop, and was caused by an escape of gas. About ten o'clock the house was in one mass of flames, and shortly after the roof fell in with a tre mendous crash. There being nothing but the bare walls standing the fire was soon got under. In a short time afterwards it was found that the roof and upper story of the Duke of Grafton's mansion, which stands next to Mr. Salmon's house, had taken fire, notwithstanding that the firemen kept the hose continually playing upon it. The utmost consternation prevailed amongst the domestics, as the roof was in flames in three different places at the back of the mansion, where it was found extremely difficult to bring the engines into play. The firemen succeeded twice in subduing the flames, when it broke out with redoubled violence, so much so as to induce the servants to meditate the removal of the furniture, par- titulary some very valuable paintings, which were on the first floor. Fortunately, about half-past twelve, it was so far subdued as to induce no further fears for the consequences. When the flames in Mr. Salmon's premises were got under, two firemen, named Weaver and West, entered the house, when a portion of wood-work gave way, and buried them beneath it. Every exertion was made to rescue them by the large body of firemen present ; but a considerable time elapsed before the rubbish could be removed so as to en able them to be got out, and when it was effected, it was stated that West was dead, and Weaver danger ously injured. Two cabs were called, in which they were placed, and removed to the Hospital. In consequence of it being Sunday, and the evening very fine, the vast number of persons who were promenaing in the western parks, congregated in the Green Park, and at one time there could not have been less than from 15 000 to 20,000 persons present. We are unable to state whether or not Mr. Salmon is insured LATEST PARTICULARS.—LOSS OF LIFE. The Fire was in a great measure got under about 11 o'clock, when, we regret to state, it was discovered that one person was killed, and another so dreadfully injured that his death is expected to take place hourly. The two unfortunate men both belonged to the County Fire Of fice, the name of the deceased is William West, and that of the other is Weaver. It appears that these two poor fellows, with Poynder and another fireman, had unper ceived entered the passage of Mr. Salmon's shop, for the purpose of cutting away some skirting which pre vented those on the outside from reaching a body of fire which was raging in the joists whicih supported the bal cony. Shortly afteYwards a crash was heard, followed by a loud and piercing cry, and the next instant Poynder rushed out of xfie passage of the private house of Mr. Nixon, and stated there were persons buried under the burning ruins. Several of the firemen instantly went in and saw one of the hands of West, who was heard to exclaim " Oh Lord, Oh Lord ! " followed by a deep groan. In about an hour and a half the firelren suc ceeded in getting him out, when the body presented a most dreadful sight. About five o'clock the men suc ceeded in extracting Weaver, who was found to have his thighs and ribs broken, but alive ; he was instantly con veyed to St. George's Hospital. The front of the pre mises in which the fire originated is expected every minute to fall in. The damage done to the residence of the Duke of Grafton is very great. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. (From the United Service Gazette.) We mentioned in our last Gazette that detachments bad been ordered to be held in readiness to embark from Ireland for the Mediterranean and the colonies. We now proceed to enumerate the strength of the re spective draughts which we then alluded to, and to give a detail of others which have since been added to the list : For the West Indies-4 officers and 31 men from the depot of the 33d Regiment. 1 Captain, 2 Ensigns, 2 Sergeants, and 60 rank and file from the depot of the 47th. 1 Captain, 2 Ensigns, 2 Sergeants, and 80 rank and file from the depot of the 52d. 1 Major, 1 Captain, 2 Ensigns, 3 Sergeants, and 80 rank and file from the depot of the 81st. For Jamaica-1 Major, 2 Captains, 2 First Lieute nants, 2 Second Lieutenants, 3 Sergeants, and 60 rank and file, from the depot of the 2d battalion, 60th ; 2 Captains, 2 Lieutenants, 2 Ensigns, 3 Sergeants, and 100 rank and file, from the depot of the 82d. For Bermuda—The service companies (complete) of the 2d battalion Rifle Brigade. For Malta-1 Lieutenant, 2 Sergeants, and 40 rank and file from the depot of the 19th; 1 Lieutenant, 1 Sergeant, and 30 rank and file from the depot of the 88th; 1 Lieu tenant, 1 Sergeant, and 30 rank and file, from the depot of the Ist battalion Rifle Brigade. For Corfu-1 Lieutenant, 1 Sergeant, and 30 rank and file, from the depot of the 97th. For Gibraltar-1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 2 Sergeants‘ and 50 rank and file, from the depot of the Ist battaliu Royal. 1 Major, 1 Captain, 1 Sergeant, and 25 rank and file, from the depot of the sth Fusileers. 1 Lieutenant, 1 Sergeant, and 40 rank and file, from the depot of the 7th Fusileers. 1 Captain, 1 Sergeant, and 40 rank and file, from the depot of the 46th. 1 Lieutenan t-Colonel, 1 Lieutenant, 1 Sergeant, 1 Drum mer, and 40 rank and file, from the depot of the 48th. All these detachments are to be embarked for Cork. The General Steam Navigation Company's Packet, the Ocean, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-house yesterday. The following is an extract from the letter of a foreigner, dated Lyons :—" The ninth session of the Scientific Congress of France opened here on the Ist in stant. It was a fine spectacle to behold all our popula tion joining our magistrates to honour this intellectual festival. It was not confined to savants and artists, but manufacturers, merchants, and even workmen quitted their atteliers, and the priests their churches, to become either members of or auditors at this Scientific Congress; so that this meeting is four or five times more numerous than any of the preceding ; the list amounted to 1,100 names. The Congress assisted at a high mass in our old metropolitan church before its installation. The com missaries of the fete put up the flags of all the European nations. The large ball was too small to contain the nu merous members who endeavoured to obtain an entrance. In accordance with the suggestions of a Par liamentary Committee, the Dean and Chapter of Dur ham have thrown the Cathedral (with the exception of the Chapel of Nine Altars) open to the public, for the purpose of enabling them to view the building, monu ments, &c. THE CORN-LAWS AND FREE TRADE WITH AMERICA.—A very important meeting took place in the Corn Exchange, Hanging Ditch, on Wednesday even ing, to hear a detailed statement from James Curtis, Esq., of Ohio, United States, " on the capability and willingness of the Americans to supply England with an abundance of corn, in exchange for our manufactures." Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., took the Chair. Amongst the gentlemen on the platform, besides Mr. Cobden and Mr. Curtis, we noticed Mr. Alderman Brooks, Mr. Wil liam Rawson, Rev. William Shuttleworth, and several gentlemen of the Anti-Corn-law League. Many hun dreds left the doors because unable to find even standing room.—Manchester Times. MODESTY.—The first of all virtues is inno cence ; the next modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it. We are glad to see that the grocers, druggists, drapers, &c., of this town follow up their rules of closing their shops at eight o'clock during the winter months, and we hope that others will follow their example, so as to conter a benefit on their journeymen and appren tices.—Sheffield Mercury. A statue of the late William Van Mildert, Bishop of Durham, has been brought from Rome, and it is to be placed in the Cathedral of Durham. [The Bishop of Exeter should look to this matter. There is a strong savour of heresy in going to Borne for a prelate, even in marble, and to place it in a cathedral too ! What can Dr. Phillpotts be about, that he is insensible to such a glaring instance of the Church in danger ?--BristolPaper. The beautiful planet Venus was eclipsed by the moon on the 12th instant, in the morning; immersion at thirty minutes past six, and emersion forty-two minutes after seven. • SPORTING. —The following notice was served on a neighb our days since by a farmer of Broad clist sir_i ad few by o not fill satisfied by your taking such libertys over my ground :---,. wich means i forbid you And all Gather Sporting c haor , s from trepesing over the SAM with Ought m y liber ty. " _Western Times. VIVIPAROUS CUCti t ra ordinary circumstance to M ol llEß.—The following ex place Ashford, the seat of the Itc ( v. N. at Goddington, near (Mr. Pilcher) on opening a cucumber, m". The gardenerdi scovered several young plant s which had perfected e their seed-leaves ; t hose he immediately placed in a frame, and in the course of a few weeks he will be cutti • ng fruit from them, and at the same time from the parent plant,. which is still in good health a nd vigour.—Kent Her ald. THE LATE MURDER IN NEWCASTLE. --A man of the name of John Grey, a shoemaker, who had been some time in custody on suspicion of being one of the persons who murdered John _Anderson, in Blue Anchor Chare, Quayside, has been discharged, He proved satisfactorily that he was not near the place of the murder during the night on which it was perpetrated. A woman of the name of Hill has since been appre hended by the police, and there is reason to suppose, from the contradictory statements . she has made, that she is acquainted with the actual parties who committed the outrage. The evidence before the Coroner led to the conclusion that the violation of the unfortunate woman's person was the object of her assailants ; but from cir cumstances which have since come to light, there is a supposition that the deceased was robbed of some arti cles of trifling value.—Durham Chronicle. Several Members of the Cabinet had interviews with Sir R. Peel on Saturday morning at Whitehall. The Right Hon. Baronet was visited in the course of th e da y by several influential Members of the Conservative party. A HINT TO TOADIES.—It is stated that Miss Southme d _ id a , a venerable spinster, who died the other day b in St. '• well' s, had made awill equally amongst all her relations. About two years ago she altered her will, and left because h e n ever called upon nor troubled her." — Western Times. A salmon was taken last week inthe T . rive r ' i”, near Cardigan, weig hing 311 b . s. and measuring 4 feet in length, and 2 feet in girth.— Wales Independent. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1841. SUNDERLAND ELECTION. Friday morning, Lord liowick arrived in this town, and immediately commenced his canvass, accompanied by a large number of the most influential of the Liberal party. Shortly after twelve o'clock, pursuant to public an nouncement, his Lordship addressed the inhabitants from the balcony of the Bridge Inn, and was heard with an unusual degree of attention, and received with loud applause. - After a few introductory observations, the Noble Lord spoke as follows :—Gentlemen, you must in general be aware what are the principles on which I come forward to solicit your suffrages ; you must be aware that I stand here as a member of the great party which has taken a very conspicuous part in the affairs of this country. I have been a humble but sincere supporter of the measures of that party from the year 1825 to this time. I supported the abolition of the Test and Corporation Acts, by which our Dissenting fellow-countrymen are now placed in a station of equality with their fellow-subjects of the Established Church. I supported the emancipation of our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects ; I supported measures during the former Government of the Duke of Wellington, calculated, by degrees, to remedy the then glaring defects in the representation, and when all these efforts failed—when by the blind resistance of our op ponents to even the most trifling and cautious measures of improvement a great change became ultimately ne cessary—when this took place, and the Reform Bill was brought forward, I had the honour to hold a sub ordinate situation in the Government by which that measure was proposed, and of it I was a most earnest and sincere supporter.—(Applause.) Gentlemen, since . . that time I have s filled the situation Of a Member of the Government ; I was a Member of the' Cabinet by which a change in our municipal institutions was pro posed and carried—a change by which the principle of self-government was introduced into the great towns and cities of this empire—a' measure which, in the first instance, was only applicable to Scotland, which was afterwards extended to England, and ultimately, after three or four years of delay and resistance by our oppo- nents, was extended (though I regret to say in a some what crippled shape) to Ireland.—(Loud applause.) Gentlemen, this will be sufficient to give you a general knowledge of the political principles on which I now claim your support. I cannot but believe that in this town, which derives the right of returning Members of Parliament from the Reform Bill, a person like myself connected with the Government by which that measure was carried, and closely connected with the head of that Government—(Hear, hear)—l may feel some confidence that from you I shall receive support—(A shout of " you're safe," and applause)—against any member of that party by which all these great measures of improve ment and reform to which I have adverted have been strenuously and obstinately opposed. ~ But, gentlemen, there is another ground on which, at this parti cular moment, I make bold •to appeal to you for your support. You are aware our opponents tell us the questions to which I have adverted are now settled, that there is no longer any dispute on the subject, that they do not wish to repeal the Catholic Emancipation Bill, the Test and Coporation Acts, the Parliamentary Reform and the Municipal Reform Acts —that these matters are all settled, and that on these points there is no difference between us. Gentlemen, I think you mustadmit this is, after all, but a very weak and inefficient argument ; you must believe in the pro gress of human affairs, new questions are constantly arising, and that those who, in times past, on questions now settled, have been found to take a part which ex perience has shown to be a wrong one, who have resisted to the latest moment at which resistance was possible those great and necessary improvements —you have a right to presume that such a party is not to be depended upon for effecting further im provements, if they .are required. But, Gentlemen, this is not mere conjecture. At the present mo ment you must all be aware that the country is greatly divided upon subjects of extreme impor tance to the well-being of every man among you. You know that the great line of distinction between opposing parties at this moment is respecting the financial and commercial policy recommended by the two great par ties into which the country is divided. On the one side you have a party insisting upon maintaining what they call protection, and insisting upon maintaining, under that name, restrictions—arbitrary restrictions by law— upon almost every branch of our industry; above all, re striction upon the trade in the first article of human subsistence—l mean corn.—(A shout of "Protection, Sir.") On the other side you have those (and it is among these we have taken our stand) who are of opinion that the languishing commerce of this country can only be made to revive, that new energy can only be given to the productive powers of the empire, by a cautious, but at the same time, a decided advance towards a more li beral commercial policy.—(Applause.) For myself, from the first moment I had a seat in the House of Commons, I have uniformly supported this opinion ; in the years 1827 and 1828, immediately after I had entered the House, the Corn-law was the principal topic of discussion. It was at this time, as you are aware, that the act now in force was passed. At that time I was one of a very small minority by which the principle of that Act was strenu ously opposed. I was then too new to the House of Commons to take much part in discussion, but as far as my vote went it was given on every division in favour of every amendment proposed for making the system more liberal, and more especially in favour of the prin ciple of rather adopting a fixed than a sliding scale of duty. Gentlemen, experience appears to me fully to have confirmed the justice of these anticipations of the mischievous effects of the existing Corn• law, which at that time influenced my vote, and the votes of those with whom I acted ; I think it impossible practically to ob serve the operation of the present Corn-law without being satisfied of its being most deeply injurious to all classes in the community. As one deeply interested in the con tinued prosperity of the landed interest, with which my personal interest is entirely bound up, I have uniformly held that it is most mistaken and short-sighted policy for ourselves to adopt this selfish system of excluding the competition of foreign corn from our markets ; I think the justice of this opinion has been proved by the result. I remember since this act was passed, nearly half of the years which have gone by have n been years of agricultural distress. I know in the years 1833, 1835, and 1836, a large proportion of the time of the House of Commons was occupied by the consideration of complaints, and just (complaints, of agricultural distress. If I look on the other side I also see the law which in many years worked most disadvantageously for the landed interest, working still more so for the manufacturing and commer cial interests. Can any man doubt the stagnation of trade of which you have cause to complain at this moment in this town ? Can any man doubt the difficulties by whieh all the great branches of industry are encumbered, arise very much from the consequence of bad harvests, aggra vated by :he existing Corn.law—a law which seems care fully and studiously devised for the purpose of filling all classes with vain expectations which are not to be realised.—(Applause.) We were told when the law was passed that the descending scale of duties insured the consumer from the difficulties and distress arising from high prices. Has that proved to be the case ? What benefit is it to you the duty descending to one shilling, if, by a complicated arrangement of the law, the whole of that which might be paid in duty really goes to com pensate those who before sustained great losses, or the payment of the rise in price on the other side of the water, which takes place in consequence of the capricious and uncertain manner in which the ports are opened ? Why, if the consumer be equally to pay an increased price, it seems better that the money which may be realised should go into the public treasury, and relieve you from other taxes, rather than it should be wasted by an arrangement advantageous to nobody but the gam bling speculator.--(Loud applause.) Such, shortly, are my views upon the great question which now occupies the attention of the country. I must further state with reference, to the recent change of Administration, that if I should be returned by your votes as a member of the Commons, it will not be in my power to place any confidence in the new Administration.—(Applause.) I shall undoubtedly not offer any factious opposition to the government of Sir Robert Peel.—(Hear, hear.) When ever his measures appear to me to be right, and calcu lated to promote the good of the country, those mea sures, notwithstanding my want of confidence in him and hie government, shall receive my fair and sincere sup port.—(Applause.) But upon all questions which imply confidence in that Administration, it will be impossible for me to vote in his favour ; I say it will be impossible, because during the 15 years I have been in Parliament, I have found myself almost. uniformly taking a different view of public affairs and of public interests to Sir Robert Peel ; because, if I look back to Sir Peel's past career, it appears to me he has shown himself most lamentably de ficient in that foresight and judgment as to what are the real interests of the country, which are the most essential qualities of the real statesman.—(Applause.) And, gen tlemen, if this is my judgment with respect to Sir R. Peel, whose talents, notwithstanding, I greatly admire, and al lies whom he has called to join him in the Cabinet cer tainly do not tend to conciliate more of my confidence to hint. I will not go through what might be so invidious as any discussion of the personal claims to your confi dence of all the different members of. the Cabinet, but I cannot avoid recalling to your recollection that in this Cabinet are included two persons whose opinions on all questions of commercial policy, and more especially the question of the Corn-laws, are diametrically opposite to those I entertain, and which I think mustsbe entertained in this great commercial town •, of course you are aware I allude to the Duke of Buckingham and Sir Edward Knatchbull. You know when the present Corn-law was passed both these persons, then having seats in the House of Commons (the Duke of Buckingham being then the Marquis of ChandOs) were the leaders of what I may call the ultra agricultural party, who contended the protection e ven o f th e existing Corn-law was in sufficient. You know up to the latest time, within one or two years, on which they have made public speeches on this subject, they have protested against the slight alteration of that law, and you know also that they are the parties who have uniformly held language the most opposed to every thing like an improvement in our com mercial policy. This being the case, it is totally impos sible I should place any confidence whatever in the Ad ministration m.hich has been lately formed, but at the same time I ant bound to admit that the country has de cided in their favour. The verdict of the country (I will not now inquire for what reasons) has been given against those Ministers who lately were in her Majesty's coun cils. For one, lam not discouraged by this event. I think there are many reasons, into which I will not now enter, that may explain what has occurred; but I am perivaded, though the power and patro nage may for the present be transferred to our op ponents, there is a steady advance of public opi nion in favour of those great principles of liberal po licy on which I am now here to solicit your votes. (Applause.) It is upon this conviction I appear among you. I have to• day canvassed some portion of this town, an d on that canvass undoubtedly my success has been more than equal to my most sanguine hope.—(Applause.) canvass ; I shall endea- I shall immediately resume my your as far as possible to see every elector, and I trust I shall continue to` receive the same - general assurances of support with which I have hitherto been honoured. Gentlemen, I know not that there are any further ob servations with which I need at present detain you.—(A voice, " The Poor-law.") I shall of course be ready to give explanation on any point on which explanation may be demanded, but for the present I shall take my leave of you, and when the day of nomination comes. then I will,perhaps take the liberty of stating.to you somewhat more in detail the opinions, and the grounds of those opinions, I entertain. His Lordship then withdrew amidst enthusiastic marks of approbation, and, accompa nied by his friends, immediately resumed his canvass. TBE ELECTIONS. CARDIFF. The Judge-Advocate has been here two or three days, during which he has visited the tributary boroughs of Cowbridge and Lantrissent. Mr. Tynte, it is said, op poses him. It was expected that the election would have taken place on Wednesday, but, as, from some mistake in the Crown-office, the writ has not up to this morning reached the High-Sheriff, the election cannot take place previous to Friday. The Judge-Advocate left this morn ing (Sunday) for town to attend a Council. DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS, SEPT. o.—The King and Queen are expected at Ostend on Saturday. The Ami de l'Ordre says:—" We have re ceived frontier information from the Grand Duchy of Luxumburg, which authorises us to say that the accession of that country to the Ger man Customs Union will be shortly completed. Notices have everywhere been posted up an nouncing the free importation to and from Ger many of corn, tanners' bark, and sonic other productions. Travellers are no longer stopped at the Russian Custom-houses on the frontier, or, rather, there are no Custom-houses on that side. Russian Custom-house officers are sent to the frontiers of Belgium. The accession will be complete in the month of October next." The Courrier de la Moselle gives a similar ac account. _ _ BRUSSELS, SEPT. 10.-It seems now that the King and the Queen of the Belgians will stop at Paris some time longer before they return to Os tend, where they will stop a day or two, and be at Lacken on the 18th or 20th of this month. We understand that the Belgian Commissioners, who are at Paris to negotiate a treaty of com merce with France, have just applied to M. Tarlier for a report on our book trade. ANTWERP, SEPT. 9. The British Queen steamer arrived in our road this morning at eight o'clock. This magnificent vessel excited the ad miration of the spectators who crowded the Quay's. The few persons admitted on board im mediately after its arrival are lavish in their praises of the elegance with which it is furnished and the good arrangements of the chambers and saloons. The British Queen carried the Belgian, English, and American flags. The accession of the Grand Duchy . of Luxem burg to the German Customs Union is no longer doubtful. The sacrifices made by Belgium to prevent this incorporation have not been able to hinder it. After such a result the Belgian Go vernment may ask itself whether there is not ground to revoke certain measures adopted by us, on account of our former connection and sympathy with that country. We learn, in fact, that the Minister of the Interior is engaged on a plan to this effect. The revocation of the law of June 6, 1839, is spoken of. The Luxemburg Commissioners, summoned to the Hague by King William 11., are enjoined to observe the strictest secrecy. The Commis sioners, nine in number, are divided into three sections; they have met several times in the King's palace ; some of their sittings have been prolonged till midnight. The majority in each section was composed of independent men. THE HAGUE, SEPT. 8. —On Friday next, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Frederick of the Netherlands, and the young Princess Louisa, will set out for the chateau of Scheldau, near Eidmansdorf, in Silesia, which belongs to the Princess Frederick. After stop ping there some days they will go to Potsdam, and after a short stay there return to the Hague. THE HAGUE, SEPT. 9.—ln the examination of the budget for 1842-43, the sections of the Second Chamber ofthe States-General, remarked in general that it by no means answered the expectations that were entertained with respect to economy and the simplification of the financial administration. It was expected that Ministers would have profited by the many observations made by the States-General in the examination of peeceding budgets, whereas this budget is scarcely different from that of 1841. DETMOLD, AUG. 27.—President Eschenberg is gone to Berlin on a mission, as we hear, relative to the accession of our principality to the Ger man Customs Union, which is expected to take place at the beginning of the next year. WARSAW, AUG. 29.--The Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar arrived here the day before yesterday. on his return from Petersburgh, and having vi sited the Prince Governor, left us again yesterday. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMBTXRDAM, SEPT. 10. Monet. Bills. Actual Debt, '2)4 per Cent 51% 51% Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Arno' t Srndic, 4% per cent.... ............ Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 755( 75% Commercial Company, 4% per cent 155% 155% Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ..... Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97 % - 97% Exchange on London, One month.... .... . 12 0754 Two months ..... Hamburgh, One month 35 68% Two months 35 43 Dutch Papers, Sept. U. HbLUTAN UNDS—Baussmo, SEPT. 10. Actual Debt, 2y4 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Ccnt Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 9:3 - _ 3per Cent. ..... —.Thirty.seven--- 7ll ---------(1840) lOl3 Loan of City, 1`232, 4 per Cent... ...... Society ef Commerce, 4 per Cent 93N Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent. ............ NationalSeciety. ... — Exchange on London (shot t) —Brussels Papers, Sept. 10. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, SEPT. 4 five per Cents. Metalliques FOMf per Cents. •................"... Three per Cents. Bank Shares ... 1572 —4l4reineine Zestung. Sept. 8 - HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, &Pr. 10,, Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. •......... ....... ..... 0000000 ..... 107% Bank Shares l6OO Angle-Russian Loan lO-% 1084 Russian 5 per Cent. Rst series,.Cortlficate Inscription, Ist Setics o. 102 101% Russian 3 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series 934 93 Ditto in Certificates Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 86% 86 Dutch ,cttial Debt, 214 per Cent :.0% so Ditto 5 per Cent Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 75. 75% N,.t wegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cant. l(_3( 104 k Spanish, New 5 per Cents. l6 EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, SEPT. 10.-13 s'.—Twe months, 13 4. PETEREBURGII, SErr. 3.—Two months, 394 pence. RIGA, SEPT. 2. —Three Months, 39N . brocauomis, SEPT. 3.—Seventy-five days, 12. 0. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bzemv, Seer. E. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 ~. per cent. 104% 104 1 4 Prussian English Loan, 1&30, 4 per cent 102 101% .11; xct,an g e on London, three months 6 18% —Prussian State Gazette. Sept. 8. THE CONTRASTS. A BALLAD. By SN. SIDNEY. I saw Sir Robert Peel proceed with gravely cheerful face,: After long absence, to resume his unforgotten place; I asked the cause of his return—an old man answering said, He's sent to save the people, Sir, by giving them DEAR BREAD. I saw a band of shouting squires, with horse and hound, and horn, Go galloping across the fields where sprouted the green corn ; An aged pauper breaking stones in answer to me said, They care not how they crush the corn—they thrive upon DEAR BREAD. I saw a beauty in the park, not famed for chastity, Bespatter with her chariot wheels a modest passer by ; Rich jewels decked her lovely arms, rich gems adorned her head, All given, they say, by one of those who thrive upon DEAR BREAD. In France's brilliant capital I heard a young Lord say, Let merchants, manufacturers, and such low men decay ; For we're the salt of all the earth, well born, by God well bred, And tho' we choose to live abroad, we'll make them eat DEAR BREAD. PART 11. I saw a grieving artizan beside a workhouse bier, His three pale children, hand in hand, were standing grieving near ; I said to him, my honest man, 'tis vain to mourn the dead ; He answered not, but cried—Oh, Lord ! wilt thou deny us bread? I paced our merchant cities, and I found them strangely still, The ironworks were silent, and mute the cotton mill ;; And round stood groups of starving men—my heart was filled • - - • with dread, As I heard them hoarsely murmuring, the laws deny us bread. rprophesy the day will come, when all the hardy North, Arid Lancashire and Warwickshire, shall send their millions forth. And Staffordshire and Derbyshire shall mind], by famine led, And cry, in one resistless voice—Proud Lords, untaa our b read. And we're supported by the Queen, the glory of our baud, Duke; Cleveland, Bedford, Devonshire, and noble Suther land ; The Earls of Spencer, Leicester, too, are ready all to head The peaceful battle that shall give to all of us cheap bread. DISTRESS IN MANCHESTER.--THE CORN-. LAWS.—BOROUGII MEETING.—By a requisition, adver tised in the first page of the Manchester Guardian, we observe that, in the opinion of many hundreds of our merchants, manufacturers, and tradesmen, of all classes, the extensive and extending distress in this town and neighbourhood, is the result of the corn and provision laws. They propose to consider. the propriety of me morialising the Queen not to prorogue the two Houses of Parliament till they have entered upon a full consi deration of these mischievous laws. The Mayor, to whom the requisition was presented, has convened a borough meeting for Thursday next, in the Town• hall, and has requested the requisitionists to attend a preli minary meeting on Tuesday. We regret to announce the death of the Mar chioness of Bute, which took place on Friday at Weimer Beach. Her Ladyship was in the forty-eighth year of her age. Her Ladyship before her marriage was the Lady Maria North, eldest daughter and co-heir of the third Earl of Guildford. The deceased Marchioness had no issue. _ _ ----- The folks are so uncommon dull down at Ver mont, that it takes ten men to make a joke. AN ANCIENT WARRIOR.—There is now iving in the house of industry an old man named Joseph Watson, who entered the 4th battalion of Royal Artil lery in 1776. He was wounded in the right thigh at Mud Island, near New York, and obtained his discharge in 1779, and a pension of 6d. per day, consequently he has received from Government, during 62 years he has existed since he left the army, the sum of 5651. 15s. Pretty well for gime years' service.—Hamphi re Inde pendent. AMERICAN Furr.—" Mrs. Grimes, lend me your tub."--- 7 " Can't do it—all the hoops are off—its full of suds—besides, I never had one—l washes in a barrel —and wants to use the tub myself." SECRECY.—What is mine, even to my life, is per's L love ; but the secret of my friend is ut mine.— ' Sir P. Sidney. CHIPPENHAM. This election is fixed for Tuesday. DORCHESTER. Sir James Graham arrived at Dorchester on Friday. The election will take place to-day (Monday). EAST KENT. At present there has not been any open manifestation of opposition to the re-election of Sir Edward Knatchbull. In the course of yesterday Mr. Delamark Banks, the High-Sheriff, issued his proclamation, by which he has appointed the election for to-morrow (Monday) week, MARLBOROUGH. Here some mistake has arisen, only one precept having arrived; the election for one Member will therefore take place on Tuesday. MONMOUTH COUNTY. Proclamation was made here this day (Saturday), ap pointing Monday, the 20th inst., for the election of one Knight of the Shire, in the place of Lord Granville Somerset, who has been appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. NEWARK. On Saturday the retuininiC)fficer made proclamation of his intention to proceed to the election on Tuesday next. Mr. Gladstone arrived here on Wednesday, and immediately commenced canvass. Mr. Gisborne is re ported to stand on the Whig-Radical interest. On Friday Mr. GLADSTONE addressed the constituency from the Clinton Arms in the market-place. His great desire was to do all in his power to better the condition of the labouring poor. He did not, however, think that the much-mooted question of repealing the Corn-laws would produce that effect. On the contrary, it would most probably reduce the agriculturists of this country to the state of the Russian or the Polish serf—(Hear) — and thinking thus, he felt it to be his solemn duty as a guardian of the people's interests to warn them against delusive hopes, which would only flatter them to their destruction. In the evening Mr. Gladstone was entertained at Gil strap's Hotel, by a select party of his supporters. STATE OF TRADE. - - - - - FORFAR.—The beautiful weather now set in will enable the reapers to conclude the harvest in this quarter very soon. On some farms it is already finished, at least, all cut down. The crop is, according to all ac counts, above an average ; in short, nature appears to have done her work well ; but, to the great mass of man kind, her bounties are of little avail. They are more than counterbalanced by the machinations of selfish men. Small, indeed, will be the working man's share of the fruits of the earth this season ; he has not the wherewithal to procure them. These remarks are pecu liarly applicable to this town and neighbourhood at the present time ; work is so very scarce, and wages so very low, that starvation in the midst of plenty seems to be our lot. Our social condition is every day becoming more degraded, and how, in such a state of things, can it be otherwise ? A sullen, gloomy apathy has, to all appearance, seized the minds of our working population, produced by excessive toil and scanty food.—Dundee Chronicle. ASHBURTON.—The privations the working classes are driven to in this town and neighbourhood are truly de plorable, for want of work, and from the high price of food.— Western Times. Trade is improved. Wools are firm, and yarns have advanced id per lb. Still the state of business is any thing but satisfactory ; the general distress in the country has long incapacitated the working classes from purchasing as usual, there is consequently such an ab sence of the ordinary demand as to make even the dimi nished supplies of the last few years greater than what the market will absorb ; a vast deal of business had been done to no profit, and in many instances to actual and repeated loss, the competition in the meantime is unpre cedentedly severe, and the prospects on the whole under existing circumstances, are anything but encouraging.— Leicestershire Mercury. Though we have heard of no further failures this week, and some which took place in that preceding turn out to be merely temporary, we are sorry to say that we can report no further improvement in the state of trade, either local or general. Our docks are crowded with shipping, but the only sign of life on the export side is in the emigrant vessels, which are exporting, not the products of capital and industry, but the hands and skill which vainly seek employment at home. We believe business was never known to be so dull with the trades men of Liverpool, or money so scarce, as at the present moment.—Liverpool Journal. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, SEPT. 11.—George Welsh Owen, Esq., of Tiverton, has presented the Rev. George Welsh Owen, of New Inn Hall, to the rectory of Calverleigh, in the county of Devon, to which he has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese. Lord Portman has presented the Hon. and Rev. Sid ney Godolphin Osborne, of Brazennose College, to the vicarage of Bryanston-cum-Durweston, in the county of Dorset. The Rev. F. Downes, Panter of Trinity College, having been recently appointed by the Society for Pro pagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts a chaplain to Prince Edward's Island, in the diocese of Nova Scotia, took his departure a few days since, to that place, ac companied by his lady and four children. The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. William Lee to the vicarage of Stanton-upon-Arrow, in the county of Hereford • and also the Rev. James Sabben to the incumbency of gt. Dennis with Naburn, York. The Lord Bishop of Winchester has presented the Rev. John Daintry to the rectory of Patney, in the county of Wilts. The foundation stone of the new parocial school, in St. Thomas's parish, in this city, was laid a few days since, by Miss Tawney, the daughter of the Mayor. The choristers from Christ Church sang part of the 72d Psalm after the stone was laid, and the vicar offered up a prayer, and concluded a pathetic address with the fol lowing words :—" 0 that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness, aad declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men." PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN - - Sin—l scarcely know how to express the indignation that I felt on seeing it calmly announced that Sir R. Peel, after passing a few necessary votes, intends to prorogue Parliament till January or February next ! Good God, Sir, is it possible ? Are these fellows mad? Do they wish to drive us to rebellion ? Or are they, as some here charitably believe, utterly ignorant of the distress and suffering so long and so patiently borne by the people ? It may be that, surrounded by luxury, re moved from the very sight of poverty, and feeling nothing of its gripe themselves, they are indulging the fatal error of unbelief as to our real condition, and ac tually think with the Duke of Wellington, that every honest man is sure of a competence, if willing to work! What infatuation I What heartless mockery ! How long will it be endured ? Will nothing but a popular out break of the starving millions convince these lordly aris tocrats of the danger of trifling thus with hungry, angry men ? Pray, Sir, let your voice be constantly heard on our behalf, and warn these men in high places that if they should dare to separate to enjoy their hunting and shooting, without first having done something to relieve the distress of the nation, on their heads will be all the awful consequences of so mad a course. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A WORKING MAN. Manchester, Sept. n, 1841. SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A PAUPER IN A UNION WORKHOUBE.—On Friday Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, and a numerous Jury sat in the Board-room of the West London Union Workhouse, West- street, Smith field, to determine the cause of the suicide of Ei. Wilkinson, aged 64, an inmate of that workhouse. Several of the guardians of the union were present. Isaac Stephens, a pauper, said he had known deceased for two years, and saw him last alive in the water-closet between three and four o'clock on Thursday morning. Witness spoke to him, and received no answer, and left him in the closet. He saw no more of him until dawn, when deceased was brought up stairs dead. Deceased was a very still, quiet man, and would hardly answer when spoken to. Several other inmates of the work. house were examined. They said that latterly deceased appeared rather queer," and was in the habit of walking to and fro silently in the yard, looking very ill. They alsc proved that, having found the door of the water-closet fast ened inside, and hearing within a noise like that made by a person snoring, they burst the door open, and foundde ceased sitting on the seat of the closet, with his throa: cut, and a fork sticking in the wound. He was quite dead, and a kitchen knife, stained with blood, lay by weresoldoss of blood as tc his side. Mr. Mott , ma ster of the w orkhouse, said de ceased had been under his care f or about twelve years. in i )i d .. e Lynch,eease's throat was an inch workhouse,chd surgeon to tht He was extremely de af, and on that account was very uncom municative. There was nothing otherwise parti cular about him, and witness could not account for the commissionna and da of faa half rash tnh e d depth and thre e i nc h es i n l engt h. None o were,fthe wound clt , but several of the lesser cause death. Witness k new of not hing that could cause which ief vessels produced cl e iv h id a e deceased to commit suicide, unless from a feeling of de , spondency, the effect of frequent illness. Verdict, " Temporary insanity." A foot race took place on Tuesday afternoon last, on the North Road, near the Town Moor. New castle, between a man named Gillie, belonging to Tweed mouth, and a person known in Newcastle by the appella tion of " the Doctor." The race was for 40/. a-side, and the distance was about 140 yards. The " Doctor'' won by about three and a half yards. The race was run}, in fourteeu soonds.—Durhant Chronicle. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. NRO3I TPE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY GLOBE.—The Times takes twenty years as the pro bable duration of the Conservative Ministry, while we should be sorry to give much more than twenty weeks' purchase to the present holders of office for the whole of their prospective salaries. We are greatly puzzled to know the data upon which our Contemporary has come to the result he has announced; for if he had only fairly followed the rules of Cocker —if he had taken the new Cabinet as a given number—if he had divided it, as it is doomed to be divided, by Ireland and the Corn-laws--if he had multiplied by other embarrassments, added universal distrust, and subtracted national confidence — if he had remembered that while some twenty or thirty . go into place, there are necessarily about eight or nine times that number remaining over—he would, we think, by adopting all these arithmetical rules, come to the general result that twenty weeks is much more likely than twenty years to be the extent of existence enjoyed by the Conservative Government. But though, like the witch in the fairy tale, we utter a fated prediction over the birth of the Tory Cabinet, we will atone for our malice by foretelling to the newly born Opposition a career of speedy success and perma nent prosperity. It is amusing to observe the perti nacity with which the would-be-ministerial and hope to-be-official organs of the press are proclaiming the perfect unanimity of the Tory party, which is said to be in as compact a condition as any " bundle of sticks" within the dominions of her Majesty. We do not think it necessary to revert to the incipient differences that have already begun to show them selves in Conservative quarters. We do not mean to pat on the back either of the litigant parties, in whom we are happy to observe the commencement of a large developement of the organ of combativeness, which we trust, for the good of the nation, will ulti mately lead to the same extraordinary result as that which attended the quarrel of the two Kilkenny cats, where the devouring of one by the other is said to have been quite reciprocal. The Irish disagreement among the Tories is only the beginning of the end—it is the first jarring note of the discord that is about to ensue, and we shall watch its progress with but trifling interest, because we foresee the result almost with certainty. STANDARD.—AIbeit not much accustomed to any community of feeling with the Whig-Radical party, we must at the moment sympathise with the resentment pro voked by Sir Robert Peel's taciturnity as to his proposed financial arrangements. It would be the most convenient thing in the world for us, who raust•write upon some topic six days of the week, to have questions of so much interest as the arrangement necessarily involves to pull to pieces or to recompose .according to fancy, and to anticipate their fate in Parliament. As it is, the Whig-Radical journals have a decided advintage over us : they have a Ministry to abuse. For us, our game has been run down — the slain vermin affords no more sport. "Execution has been done upon Cawdor," and " we war not with the dead." Doubtless we have before us those two pro mising topics, the Corn-laws and the wrongs of the O'Connellites—topics that seem to be now as little capable of exhaustion as they were 25 years ago, when Mr. Moore pleasantly and prophetically sung of " Eternal Corn and Catholics ;" thus proving his double title to the name of Yates. But the themes that never end are not always the " themes that never tire." We and our readers are threatened with enough of " Corn and Catholics" for the rest of our lives, and we may all like a little rest from them for the remaining five days of the recess. We say that " Corn and Catholics" are to haunt us for the rest of our lives, and we say it upon the evidence of experience. Twelve years ago " the Catholic question" was, we were told, set at rest for ever, and here we have it at the end of the twelve years as fresh and green as in its infancy at the end of the last century. Mr. O'Connell would have a trope upon the last epithet. We invite his attention to it. If, then, the Catholic question has for twelve years sur vived the time when, if it had been a decent and reason able sort of Catholic question, it ought to have " parted in peace," why may not the Corn question manifestla like perverse vivaciousness ? Analogy tells us that if the Corn-laws were absolutely repealed in 1841, we must still expect "it Corn question " in 1853 : it may be in the shape of a proposed penalty upon the growth of wheat, or a bounty upon the import of foreign grain, or perhaps a disfranchisement of the agricultural classes, for which, indeed, their condition of universal pauperism, after 12 years, or much less, of a free corn trade, will afford a very sufficient reason. The corn question and the Catholic question come of a family too long-lived for any of the existing generation to hope to survive them — they are the children of perverse rapacity and factious discontent ; the parents are all but immortal, and it is to be feared that such will prove the progeny. COURlER.—Numerous and vast were the difficulties which the overheated imagination of faction had con jured up, as the unavoidable accompaniments of Sir Robert Peel's accession to power ; but of all, the chief and greatest was Ireland. " What can Sir Robert Peel do with Ireland" was the ques tion with which Whig-Radicals of every class de lighted to puzzle, if not affright their opponents. " Displace the Whigs—rob Ireland of so precious a trea sure as she esteems the Whig Government to be, and you will first agonise her with grief and then convulse her with rebellion." Beware of Ireland, was their constant cry; she requires a strictly impartial Government, as the condition of her allegiance to the British Crown—and that you, surrounded as you are with red hot Orangemen, cannot offer or guarantee her. Well, like all the other vast difficulties, that presented by Ireland is no sooner approached than it is found to have dwindled down into the merest insignificance ; Ire land presents to a Conservative Administration no peculiar danger or difficulty whatever. Well, Ireland shares the fate of the rest of the empire. Thursday last saw the final extinction of her darling Whig Govern ment ; and yet as we learn from our Irish Contempora ries, she continues as geen and as gay and her people as blithesome, and loyal as ever. The procession which con ducted Earl Fortescue to the grave of his Vice-regal autho rity is described to us as a most melancholy one in every sense of the term ; the mourners were lamentably few, the mere hangers-on about Dublin Castle, but their grief was unaffectedly profound. No more job-appoint ments—no more showering of places of emolument and trust on hungry Whig Barristers, to the exclusion of the worth and eminence of the profession—no more lip denunciation of repeal and soothing rewards for re peelers. Was not this sufficient to convulse Ireland from the Giant's Causeway to Cape Clear ? and yet despite all these incentives to grief and avenge ment she seems wonderfully placid and tranquil. One thing we may, therefore, safely predicate—there will be no rebellion in Ireland this time. A heavy blow and great discouragement that to the prophets of the Whig press, as to the leaders of the threatened opposition. Ireland, it now appears certain, as far as the opponents of his Government are concerned, has ceased to be a formidable difficulty in Sir Robert Peel's path ; nay, their tone has recently been greatly modified ; they no longer speak of his Government in the furious accents of de fiance—and such are his Irish appointments, that even Mr. O'Connell himself, with all his ingenuity and all his unscrupulousness, can scarcely find cause to quarrel with them. The moment we were assured of Earl de Grey's appointment to the Viceroyship, and of Lord Eliot's to the Secretaryship, the confidence we before felt, that a Conservative Government had nothing to fear as regarded Ireland, was strengthened into conviction. LISBON.-SEPT. 6. The Parliamentary iebaies during the past week have been still on the taxing projects of the Government. A Bill for revoking the decree of the 16th of January, 1837, whereby a bounty, or differential duty of 15 per cent., was granted in favour of the national flag, occu pied three sessions, and its principle was admitted after a very stormy debate on Saturday by a majority of 36 votes, 74 members only being present. The Mer cantile Association of Lisbon presented a petition nume rously signed against this revocation, and a deputation from this body waited upon the Opposition ; others of the same tendency were sent from Oporto, Caminha, Fi guera, Lagos, and St. Übes, whilst one respectably, though less numerously signed, praying for its annul ment, was got up by some merchants of this city, and also presented to the Legislative Assembly. To-day will commence its discussion by sections ; and it is thought an amendment, proposed by M. Oliveira Borges, to lower the rate of duty from 15 to 8 per cent. is likely to be approved of, notwithstanding the known objection of Government to such a measure. Ministers have presented a plan to the Cortes for the re-organiza tion of the National Guard, which is to be composed of two divisions, active and stationary ; in the first, to be enlisted, under a certain census or payment of taxes, persons from the age of twenty to forty years, and the second, of from forty to sixty. The officers are to be chosen by the Government from among those who, from the elections of their comrades may have a superiority of votes. Upon some question arising in the Chambers relative to the alarming increase of the Guerillas in the Algarve, and their maintaining a serious political character, lately augmented by Miguelite parti sans from Lisbon as well as Italy, the Ministers of War and Foreign Affairs, in admitting this fact, stated the want of military force, and more especially the means for car rying on any further active operations. The latter Mi nister also mentiored, that the Spanish Envoy at this Court had made, by order of his Government, an offer of troops to co-Operate for the extirpation of these ban dits, who infest both countries indiscriminately. Two regiments, the 7th Infantry and 2d Cacadores, are about, it is said, to march this garrison for the Alemtejo. A few days since, two daring marauders, brothers, Antonio de Mello and Joze de Mello, were mortally wounded in an intrepid resistance in Monte das Assumados against a detachment of the Queen's troops. Contrary to general expectation the Marquis de Sal danha will, in a very short time, proceed to Vienna as Plenipotentiary to the Austrian Court. The Noble Mar quis goes via Madrid, intrusted with a secret mission for that G overnmeut, which, it is understood, is to endeavour ' to prevail upon it to• do away with the strong Spanish Cordou so recently stationed on the frontiers to prevent British goods being passed into Spain. The launching of the line-of-battle ship Vasco and Gama on the 2d instant, at which their Majesties _e Court attended, afforded an interesting spectacle. . Ijh s. French war corvette Idianna and the Britilshinrig, which poir came up, and anchored off the arsenal, place, as well as on the river, thousands o 1 s assembled. The novelty of such an event I of all classes curring in Lisbon), together with the . a ): not often witnessed n o ( e i f i i tn often i i d u o a n l ' of eo t nl he t the Queen has es y uto.bricenbdeforrecblaritltlioantheiys. and d w ocean cihai.ldexpireoduced a scene a 1 1-T e l i s r o n n bheeerne upongraciously such o r c i c y a a s s i e o d n s t . o mantling the Espoir, with Coquette, with the order of nants of the French corvette . thedleleeirrdaletireajolii e C U a t ; Tower and Sword Loyalty and Merit ; and two rendered at at the fire on the 2d ult. at the Thesouro V . Christ, for their efficient servi e c ib es o rend d On Monday last sentence of death was passed upon • the hideous assassin, Francisco de lianas Labo, who, the Court of CO however, has yet two appeals, oue to EVENING Si N sation (Relacao),. the other to the Supreme Tribunal of Justice ; his execution is therefore not likely to take place for some time to come. Exchange upon London at 30 days' sight, 33id. to 54d. per milrei. COURT CI tiC ULA4t , y ti The Queen will h o ld a P r i vy C ounc il at; o'clock to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon at Wind sor Castle. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert 'and the Princess Royal arrived at the Castle, from Claremont, soon after five o'clock yesterday afternoon, escorted by a party of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, commanded by the Earl of March. The Royal suite, in cluding Lady Portman, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Lister, Baroness Lehzen, Earl of Listovvel, Hon. C. A. Murray, General the Hon. Sir W. Lumley, Colonel Wemyss, and Sir E. Bowater, also arrived at the Castle from Claremont This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert attended Divine Service in the Private Chapel of the Castle, the Hon. and. Rev. Edward Southwel Keppel officiating. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Al bert left the Castle for an airing in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving. In at tendance were Lady Portman, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Lester, Earl of Listowel, Colonel Wemyss, and Sir E. Bowater. The Hon. and Rev. E. S. Keppel will have the honour of joining the Royal circle at the Castle this evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glouces ter, attended by Lady Georgiana Bathurst and the Eari of Denbeigh, left Cambridge House, at half-past ten o'clock on Monday morning, for the terminus of the London and Birmingham Rail way in Euston-square, and left town for Sudbury Hall, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. A Convention, reducing the rates of postages between Great Britain and Bremen, was signed on the 30th August here, by the Earl of Lich field, as Postmaster-General, and Mr. Colquhoun, Diplomatic Agent for the Hause Towns here. Similar treaties were some time since signed by the Earl of Lichfield and Dr. Banks, Syndic of Hamburgh, on behalf of Hamburgh and Lu beck. By these treaties the sea postage has been reduced to 6d., and 'the inland postage, in these States, to 2d. per 1- oz. The Right Hon. G. R. Dawson, and the Hem. Sidney Herbert, visited Sir Robert Peel at his residence in Whitehall-gardens. The Earl of Mountcashel and the Right Hon. Sir Charles Bagot, had interviews with Lord Stanley on Saturday at the Colonial-office. The Danish Charge d'Affaires transacted busi ness at the Foreign-office on Saturday. The Duke of Wellington had a dinner party on Saturday, at Apsley House. Sir Robert Peel had a select party at dinner on Friday, at his residence in Whitehall-gardens. Despatches from the Governor of Gibraltar were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Lord- Adolphus Fitzclarence arrived in town on Saturday, from LeaMington. IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE. COMMUNICATION FROM COL. CRICHTON, THE LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF FERMANAGH, AN]) COPY OF SIR R. PEEL'S ANSWER. " Crom Castle, Sept& "SIR—In consequence of the manner in which you have been attacked during the late debates in the House of Commons, in allusion to a certain offensive seal which has been affixed to the return of the Member for the county of Fermanagh, I, as Lieutenant of, this county, considered it my duty to call a meeting at the earliest moment; for the purpose of giving the gentry an opportu nity of disconnecting the Conservative party from the conduct of the individual who has so rashly caused the stigma to be cast upon us. " I feel much pleasure in forwarding to you a copy of the protest, signed by all the principal gentry at present in the county, expressive of their disapprobation of such conduct, and of the insult offered to the feelings of the Roman Catholics. I have likewise sent copies to each of our Members, in order that, they may make what use of them they may think proper in the House. " I trust this document will remove from your mind any impression that the gentlemen and landed proprietors of this county are capable of fostering the feelings: imputed to them, or of disgracing by such unworthy and un haritable actions the party whose principles you ad v oc a te. " I have the honour to remain your humble servant, " JOHN CRICHTON, Lieutenant of Fermanagh. " To the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, &c." " Enniskillen Court-House, Sept. 4. " In consequence of a correspondence having appeared in the last publication of our county papers, and our at tention being called to the report of a speech said to have been made in Parliament by Sir Robert Peel, alluding to certain circumstances regarding the conduct of our High Sheriff in the recent return of our County Mem bers, in which the Right Hon. Baronet states he has been asked whether he interded to associate with parties who have offered a deep insult to the religious feelings of their countrymen, Szc., " We take the earliest opportunity, at a meeting con vened by the Lieutenant of the county of Fermanagh, of entering our decided protest in condemnation of an offensive seal having been affixed to the return of the writ, as disavowed by our late High Sheriff, and we totally disconnect ourselves with the person or persons who could be guilty of any act which could impair the kindly feelings that up to the present period have so happily existed in Fermanagh between all classes of her Majesty's subjects, and we feel it right to state, that in no part of the empire does greater tranquillity or more marked obedience to the law exist than in our loyal and united county. " Signed by JOHN CRICHTON Lieutenant, Crom Castle, and thirty-five gentlemen o ithe county." " Whitehall, Sept. 9, 1841: " Sir—l hasten to acknowledge the letter which I have had the honour of receiving from you, and of the document which accompanies it, expressing, on behalf of the principal gentry of Fermanagh at present in the county, their marked disapprobation of an act to which public attention has been recently called, and which was calculated to wound the feelings of our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects. " I assure you that this document was unnecessary with a view to remove from my mind an impression un favourable to the body from which it proceeds. I could not entertain a doubt that the gentlemen of Fermanagh would deeply lament and entirely disapprove of the act in question. " But though the document may be superfluous for the particular purpose for which it was intended, I have re ceived with cordial satisfaction the communication which you have made to me. " I rejoice that at a public meeting of the gentlemen of Fermanagh, convened by yourself as Lieutenant of the County, sentiments such as those of which you have been the organ should have been expressed, so calculated to discourage throughout Ireland provoking and irritating demonstrations of party feeling and to remove the causes of dissension and The proceeding which you have adopted is calculated to g ive strength and confiden ce t o th e G overnmen t, which i! has been my duty to form in obedience to the commands of her Majesty. " It assures me that the course which I have firmly resolved to pursue with respect to the adminiatration of Irish affairs will meet with the cordial support of those whose friendly co-operation is almost essential to its suc cess. " My firm persuasion also is, that it will be followed by consequences much more important than any that are connected with mere party interests, that by setting the generous example of forbearance, and by allaying angTY feelings, it will go far to paralyse the agitation by which Ireland has been distracted, and to enable the real friends of that country (whatever be their religious d distinctions) to lay the foundati ons o f internal peace and social improvement. " I h a ve, B.x. " ROBERT PEEL. " Lieutenant-Colonel John Crichton, Crom-Castle, Belturbet." —__ Sir Edward Sugden's appointment as Irht ish s Chancellor will probably appear in to-niorrow nig' y ben offered to Gazette. Mr. Blackburn will be Attorne-General for Ireland. The Solicitor -Generalship bas e Mr. Pennefather, but as that gentleman is out of town (at Totteridge) his determi nation is not yet known.— Evening Paper. S UNDER LAND ELECTIN.—JUSt at the time of going to press w e have learnt t h a t Lord Howick ha s s a candidate for Sunderland. consented to offer hims elf a or ning, and will address the His Lordship arrives this m electors at noon. We trust the Noble Lord will meet ,Colonel Th - omps that enthusiastic reception which he so justly de withLiens Durham n rh t a h m e serves.—Sunder Lind Ilerall. Dungannon. NI and,e u n i, d o e r r d stand, p un on has left towSnufoNrDSEußnidellrraiDid, for the puose of canvassino. the Chronicle. field, Mr. wr.''b eAretiwaroeo,d MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On the 20t h or 91st Mr. Littleton, eldest son of Lord Hatherton, will lead to the altar the Lady Margaret Percy, eldest daugh ter of the Earl and Countess of Beverley. The preliminaries for the marriage of rums Hume Campbell, Bart., Au be Sir Hugh only daughter of Lieutenant-en 1 ., and Miss Fuller, G.C.H., and Lady Fuller, and ' era Sir Joseph Fuller, already arranged, and niece of Lady Peel, are we understand the is to take place this autumn. solemnization George Colman, getting out of a hackney coach one night, gave the driver a shilling " This is a bad shilling, Sir," said Jarvey. " Th en is all right," said George, with his inimitable chuckle ; " all right ; yours is a bad coach." The footpath from the Hampstead-road, through the fields to Hampstead, which has hitherto been unin terrupted, has lately been obstructed by an enclosure, apparently formed without any other object than to rob the public of their right. The paling crosses the foot path in two places, and causes great inconvenience of females and children. we trust the parish of St. Pancras will not - submit to this nuisance. It is evi dently an attempt to shut out the public from there fields, to which they have an undoubted right. 1i 6d' tb°, (ea t tbf ice" ,ho b, 00" (0 0 T pi ITCSe