The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-14 00:00:00

MORNING SUN THEATRE ROYAL, _DRURY-LANE. A fancy ball, under the direction of Signor Vinefra, and at which Mademoiselle Cerito was to have appeared, was advertised for last evening at this theatre. It was announced that the danc ing would commence at ten o'clock, At that hour, however, there were very few pers.uis present ; and at half after ten the numbers had not materially increased. No musicians baying made their appearance, some symp toms of impatience were manifested, when Mr. Eliason advanced to the front of the orchestra, and addressed the audience as fol lows :—" Ladies and gentlemen, I am deputed by Signor Vinefra to state that he regrets ex ceedingly that it will not be in his power to pro duce Mdlle. Cerito this evening, as she is too - much indisposed to attend, and he desires me to -add that the money will be returned at the doors to all those who have purchased tickets." A :person in the gallery here called out, " Cannot we have some music ?" in reply to which Mr. Eliason stated. that he could say nothing on that subject, and retired. There was a slight mani festation of disapprobation at this announcement. The greater part of those present immediately left the theatre ; sonic few, however, lingered for . about half an hour longer, when the extinguish .mg of the lights compelled them also to retire. - CORN-LAWS. ':Last evening, Mr. Sidney Smith, the well-known Corn law Lecturer, delivered a lecture upon the Corn-laws in the Temperance Hall, High•street, Shoreditch. The hall was crowded to suffocation some time before the lec turer entered, the seats being principally occupied by l'Peratites. The raised seats in the hall were occupied by *great number of well-dressed ladies, who seemed to listen with much attention and interest to the learned lecturer. Mr. Sidney Smith entered the hall at about tare nty minutes to eigt, and was receied with loud ' ehe '' rl Pg• Soon afterwards the Secretary to the Shore ditelt Anti-Corn-law Association arrived, and the busi ness of the evening commenced by Mr. BINGLEY mo ving In o vi that Mr. Solomons should take the Ch a i r , which beino seconded, a persou in the room, who we understood to be a Chartist, rose, and said he wished to ask whether Mr. Solomons was a friend to free discussion.' Mr. Sotomows said, if he would be silent for a few minutes he would answer him. The object of that meet ing was not for discussion. He (Mr. Solomons) was an advocate for free discussion at all times. He had always been so, and he trusted that he shoulol never degrade feu aself as a man professing liberal principles.—(Cheers.) If i t was the opinion of the meeting that he should take the Chair, he should gladly do so, but he must state that /he object cf that meeting was a lecture, and not eiscms:on.—(Cheers.) The proposition was then submitted to the meeting, and carried without a dissentient. The CHAIRMAN then rose and said that he was happy ;to see so large a meeting convened for the purpose of furthering one of the most important considerations—one, iadeod, in which all were deeply interested. His first duty was to ask for silence for the learned lecturer. He 11 "tts satisfied that when he looked around him, and saw 'so many of the •fair sex, that would be a sufficient guarantee that the information they were about to re ceive, would be received with attention and good order. - -(Cheers.) He asked them for their support, and told them again that the object of the meeting was not dis cussion, and he hoped that no gentleman would forget the propriety of it, and interrupt the learned lecturer. Ile would, therefore, with their permission, introduce Mr. Sidney Smith to the meeting.—(Cheers.) And he •was certain that the information they 'would receive on the great and important question before them, would tend re ry much to improve their minds and induce them to dritw conclusions whereby to benefit the whole coin moitity. .a r. SIDNEY SMITH then came forward and was re ceii - ed with a burst of cheering, which lasted for some minutes. He said he was come there, not so much for the ourpose of delivering a lecture, as for the pur pose of asking them a question. That was what had brought them there ? Was it to say whether the _poor sh ould be fed—was it to say whether labour should have its rights ? He would not insult their understand ings by well a supposition. He believed they had come there to .act, for the time for action had come.— (Hear, Ilea:, and loud cheering.) The merchant was bankrupt, the manufacturer was without business, the industrious mechanic was without employment, the agricultural labourer was starving, the revenue had fallen short of the expenditui 1, the Queen had ap pealed to her people, and her people had answered to the best of their ability ; and yet all had been of no avail, for classes of society were suffering distress and misery throughout the country, although this coun try possessed means of wealth not enjoyed by any to the same extent. In this great metropolis there were hun vireds of individuals that wanted the common necessaries life, and yet, with all this accumulated evidence of -nikery, they saw one class, and one class alone, in this •convtry wallowing in wealth, while the other was in a :state of destitution, misery, and despair. That class wthich slid nothing for itself, which did nothing for the 'country, and arrogated to themselves the power of making tht: laws for the poor, were still seeking to in crease their yower; so that the great end of Government was altogether reversed—the greatest happiness of the .greatest number.—(Cheers.) If any one indulged in - ,the hope that the Tories would give them more than Itt te Whigs, he (Mr. Smith) thought the events of the las t month must have completely undeceived him. What a soecimen they had of the Tamworth quack doctor, who said he would do nothing for the patient till he had received the fee.—(Cheers.) If he were an honest man and w true patriot, he had it in his power to make this a happy %country as well as a great one. But now that he had r s •tceived the fee, he refused to do anything for th e • patient.—(Loud cheers.) He would turn to th a t individual who had been introduced into the Cabinet without office that he might not be responsible to the people—he who was extolled from one side or the country to the other as having acquired .his fame as being the best cutter of throats—that iron 2.hike, who gave up Salamanca to three days sacking, le. '1 the women to the violation of his atrocious soldiery, any 1, to crown all, he w;:o had looked on the death of —aud this man—this iron- M a rshal Ney—(Cheering) hear ted Duke—he who haver was capable of a nook• sentiment, was being beslobbered by the aris tocr icy as the greatest Of men. For what was he great ? This man v,'as Leing beslobbered by IN Thig and Tory, by the aristoc. - acy of both parties, as a d 'emigod. Let them listen tow hat he was about to read, I '4l the statement of this man, at the very time when tl ris party that do nothing for themselves, or any body Oc •, are lauding him to the skies,. What did this t man says t a time of the deepest distress, when the poor labourer w, as starving in the streets, and w.ho dared not go home, ft'r fear of b ein g dri v en to distraction by the cries of his 4..hildren for bread ? He says, "He had in the course of his life been in various countries in diffe rent parts of the world, and had opportunities of know ing the circumstances of the various classes of their in habitants ; but in his whole experience, England was the only country in which he had ever found that the poor man, if possessed of honesty and industry, would be quite • certain of acquirn , g a competence. Instances of the truth of this offers d themselves every day to every khody's observation, and it was only last week that as signal illustration occurred. In the very lowest rat. ks of life, not only could a competence be ac quired, but immense riches might be accumulated." 'Thus were the men who were starving insalted by this 'stat extent, which was no more than saying that every poor man mast neither be a dru.l.kard or idle, or he would be well off.—(Cheers.) It ,was only for them to rise in their strength, and teach Lords, Marquisses, Dukes, and slidinm scales—(Cheers) —their places. The time was come when they would no longer submit to their tyranny.—(Loud cheers.) They had been able to wrench from them Catholic Emancipation, and they were able to wrench from them these atrocious laws. The same strength which had raised the Revolution in 1668 could again crush the Aristocracy. The Learned Lecturer then took a very ext ended view of the working of the Corn-laws, entering eery largely into details. He con trasted the price of provisions in America with England. - AR America, where there were no Corn-laws, provisions mere less than one-half the price they were in Englrnd. 'rte Learned Lecturer rend to the meeting a weekly bil of a family residing in Cincinnatti, contrasting it with -shill of the same articles in England. In America the prices were— 3 stones of Flour, at Is. lid. 2oz. Tea, li-d.; i-lb. Coffee, 2d 0 4 lilb. Sugar, at sd. 41b. Beef, at 4d 1 4 31b. Mutton, at 2d. 21b. Bacon, at 2d. 21b. Butter, at 3d. 0 6 7 4 _.ln England the prices were— s. d. 3 stones of Flour, at 2s. 8d 8 0 2oz. Tea, Bd. ; alb. Coffee, 6d 1 2 lilb. Sugar, at 8d 1 0 41b. Beef, at 7d. 51b. Mutton, at 61d. 9`lb. Bacon, at Bd. 21 b. Butter, at ls. id. 17 71 T he Lecturer then went on by facts and arguments to pt ove that the Corn-laws were equally detrimental to the agricultural labourer as to the manufacturing one. The Cc rn-laws, he said, were only invented and maintained tot the purpose of raising and keeping up the rents of tiu landholder. The landholder's motto was— That crime is great in man or woman, Who steals a goose from off the common ; There is a crime which still was worse— Stealing the common from the goose ! tughter and cheers.) The Learned Lecturer then e Ided a very long lecture of nearly three hours, having ee l) . Ji. itened with attention to throughout. e CHaritmar: proposed a vote of thanks to the lec /Lire.; vith three times three, which was responded to 114 0 st . b eartily bj r . 3IDNEA: S3IITH briefly returned thanks, and called. 1 1 101 them to come up and enrol their names as Mem "ere of the Branch Association. He was glad to see so man yof the fair sex at these lectures. They were in dnecinterei.ted in this question, for he believed that the Con 1-laws caused more young men to remain bachelors tlu ts anything else.—(Cheers and laughter.) He always Le Ito see the bonnets ; wherever they were they were 81 ' re to suzceed in any undertaking. The bonnets tlrt ied Slave Emancipation and the Penny Postage, and tel • could carry the repeal of the Corn-law.—(Cheers a ad laughter.). He concluded by proposing a vote of 'acs to the Chairman. T t ae CakutritAN returned thanks, and concluded by proposing three cheers for the Q;:een. Some two or three parties at the back of the hall ti, , ,.llipted an oppo sition, but they did not succeed in damping the sincerity and loyalty of the meeting, and three hearty cheers were given for the Queen. A cheer, as Mr. Sidney ,Smith said, always did his heart good when he heard it. It was a true British cheer, well worthy of the object. The meeting then separated. The Chartists attempted to frustrate Mr. Smith in his laudable endeavours, but they were in a miserable minority. SUPPRESSION of IN TEMPERANCE Yesterday a festival and meeting of the City and North of London Auxiliary for the Suppression of Intempe rance, took place at the Canonbury House, Islington. The extensive pleasure-grounds attached to the esta blishment were opened to the company at two o'clock, soon after which it was thronged by a number of re spectable-looking and well-dressed persons. Some of the company betook themselves to cricket and other athletic games, while the remainder either strolled through the grounds, and adjourned to where there was an excellent band of music in attendance, and tripped it merrily on the green sward until the bell announced, at five o'clock, that the tea and other refreshments were prepared fur the numerous visitors. Tea was laid in two large rooms communicating with each other, and every arrangement denoted a strict at tendance to the wishes and convenience of those present. As soon as the company had taken their seats, the Right Hon. Earl Stanhope, who is President of the So ciety, entered and proceeded amidst loud cheering to the top of the room, where he was handed to a seat by the Stewards, and presided as Chairman. After ample justice had been done to the mild beve rage which graced the table, and roll after roll, and round after round had disappeared—[by . -the-bye the waiters in attendance seemed stricken with something approaching to awe at the abdominal calibre exhibited by the Auxiliaries]—the company again returned to the pleasure-grounds, and resumed their amusements. The Noble Earl took his seat on a rustic chair at the upper part of the field, attended by several gentlemen, and seemed highly gratified with the joyous and animating scene before him. At seven o'clock all the party re-assembled in the rooms where tea had been served, and the Noble Earl again resumed his position as chairman. After the Secretary had read letters from several clergymen and gentlemen, apologising for their non attendance, The Noble CHAIRMAN rose and said, he wished those who brought the charge against teetotallers of being melancholy and morose were present that clay to witness what had passed, and they would find that tee totallers were able and willing to enjoy the plea sures of life better than others—better, he would say, because they could not be debased by drunk enness, their health or mental capacities injured by it, and they could not make themselves obnox ious to the company by those discords which too fre quently disgraced what are called convivial meetings, even in high places. They were told, on high and holy authority, that health is better than riches, and none dis pute the effect of temperance in preserving it = therefore the improvement of health was in itself alone a sufficient recommendation for inducing persons to join those So cieties. When he became a teetotaller himself he strongly recommended others to do the same, because it improved not only the health of the body, but also the powers of the mind.—(Hear.) No man had a right to enter into any inquiry relative to the private habits of another ; but he should say of himself, that feeling this to be a great moral reformation, of infinite importance to the improvement of the people, he rejoiced to bear his humble testimony to the beneficial effects of tempe rance upon both.—(Cheers.) If additional evidence were wanting, he would appeal to the personal observation of every one who heard him ; he would ask the inmates of hospitals what brought them there ; he would seek the cause of the majority of cases of insanity, and he would find that they were to be primarily attributed to the effects of intemperance. From these considerations, they were bound to be not only temperate them selves, but, as far as their example and in fluence reached, to endeavour to promote tempe rance in others. He considered the spread of tempe rance amongst that class whose interests were the greatest of all, and whose rights he would ever advocate —lie meant the working men—to be of paramount im portance, not only to themselves, but to society in the aggregate. What this class spent in strong drink ought to be expended in increasing not only the quantity but the quality of their food. He would appeal now to the middle classes of society and tell them that what is annu ally expended in intoxicating liquors is equal to, if not greater than, the whole sum which is collected for the public revenue yearly. He would suppose the case of a man who did not consider himself intemperate, but who drank half a bottle of wine every day (and this was by no means an unusual quantity); that might pro duce no visible effect upon him, but his annual expendi ture for wine would amount to 451. In all cases of ex penditure, the first question should be, can we afford certain items, and, if we can, the next should be, could we not turn them to better purposes. If this expenditure were for an actual gratification, some excuse might pre sent itself, but it arose merely from habit, and that a habit which is more or less injurious to health, and lays the foundation of intemperance, which shortened life, and prevented people from enjoy ing it, and prevented persons from making the full use of their mental faculties. There were many who said they would drink without being intoxicated. To those he would say " Beware, lest you fall," for there was no certain medium point between intemperance and total abstinence. The Noble Earl then contrasted the superior physical powers of the Mahometans to those of Europeans, which he attributed to the abstinence from wine enacted by their religion, and continued, that he knew a gentleman who, determining to be very temperate, ordered his servant to bring only a certain quantity of brandy mixed with water daily, but his palate be coming gradually more accustomed to it and requir ing stronger stimulants, he went on desiring the servant to increase the quantity of brandy and decrease the water, until at last, one day, upon giving the usual order to the servant, he was told it was impossible to decrease the water further, as he had just got the brandy as it came from the rectifier's.—(Laughter.) It was thus that habits of imtemperance grew imperceptibly. After some further observations the Noble Earl concluded an able and eloquent address amidst loud cheering. Mr. BUCKINGHAM, the well-known temperance dele gate, addressed a long and eloquent speech to the meet ing, which we regret space only permits us to give an abridgment. In alluding to the statement in the speech of the Noble Chairman, that as much was spent on intoxicating liquors as equalled the amount of public revenue, he said, if there was one thing more than another in which Great Britain was more proudly pre-eminent amongst other nations of the earth, it was for her public charities ; yet statistics proved, beyond doubt, that the income of them did not amount to more than one million—one-fifth of the amount spent upon intoxicating liquors. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Buckingham concluded by saying, the meet ing ought to be proud of the Nobleman who honoured them by taking the chair that night. Ile was the friend of the poor man as well as the Peer, or of the magnates of the land. He therefore felt proud in pro posing a vote of thanks to their Noble Chairman. Earl STANHOPE having returned thanks, and several other gentlemen having addressed the meeting, it sepa .ted. TRICKS OF THE TORY JUDGES.—The Cambridge In dependent Press announces that the Duke of Manchester Lord Lieutenant of 'the county of Huntingdon, has re signed, and Chat the Earl of Sandwich has been appointed in his stead. During the next few weeks there will, no doubt, be many other resignations, of which this is merely the forerunner. It is further stated that at least four Irish Judges, one Scotch Judge, and one English Judge are all ready to resign, though they have been for many months—some of them for years—sensible that they had become inadequate to per form the duties of their office, but they would not resign while the Whigs were in office, because they would with hold from the Whigs the power of appointing their suc cessors. Now the Tories are installed, they will resign. These worthy men, then, hold office after they are worn out, with a view of serving a party. They wish, in fact, to appoint their successors. With all due respect to those learned men, we are of opinion that this is a most depraved ambition, and that their conduct deserves the severest reprobation. "CHEAP FOOD MEANS LOW WAGES."—The Air and Calder Company have just reduced the wages of their boatmen one-fourth ; and this at a time when bread is almost at a famine price. Here we have another practical refutation of the miserable Tory sophistry, that high-priced food means high wages. Be it remembered that this reduction in wages is effected by a company whose wealth knows no bounds. Would, or dare they, have attempted such a step, bad food been cheap and trade brisk ? Answer, ye blue- smock'd slaves, who to a man do the tyrant Company's bidding at the Municipal Elections. Would ye not have spurned the tyrants, and sought a nd found another m ar k e t f or your l a b our? Wh en w ill the working man open his eyes ? Here we have disgusting exhibition of a Company actually wallow and whose shares are p a yi ng more thanloo cent, i n terest ; the first to take a d van t age o f th e net A grind down the wages of th e poor ! —L eeds I times, 4 11— i n wealth, the in g Times. ING SYSTEM.—Captain Ma 4. of Norfolk Island, c. onochi, Superintendence THE 5001 . 5 has lately ` l, e 1 850 doubly made an experiment upon . ~... f_ . and trebly convicted felons there, which is v,,? n rt the attention of the advocates of th e silent and .separate . systems at home. On the occasion of her MNesty s butiiday, th e Captain ordered fresh pork to be issued, Instead of salt meat, rum and sugar to make ac'sunch, a play to be acted by the convicts (whether the Begg Opera or Jack S . Sheppard is not said), and fireworks to be let off at at night . . I n the morning, the whole 1,850 men played cricket, and other games; at dinner, every man had a bumper of punch to drink the Queen's health, after which the air was r,:nt by three tremendous shouts, Captain Moco nochie standing by and seeing every glass served out. The men then resumed their sports, and in due time the play was acted in the large mess - ro om. At ei g ht, every man retired peaceably to the barracks. Not a single in stance of tumult, disorder, or accident occurred during the da nor was a single man in confinem ent that evening or next y, day. It may be thought that Captain Maco noclue had gone too far ; that he was incurring a most tremendous risk by letting loose 1, 850 fe lons in a small secluded island, with the very trifling means he possessed of resistance ; but he had exact ed from thorn on the previous day a pledge that decorum should be preserved ; and that every man at eight o'c lock, when the bugle sounded, would retire to his quarters. He had told . them solemnly, that on redeeming their ple d g e his future confidence and their welfare would dep end ; and lie had a full reliance that an indulgence never before granted on the island would not be abused. The event proved that he was not deceived.--Quarterly Review, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1841. STRAWBERRIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-I observe in the last number of Chambers' Edinburgh Journal an amusing article on straw berries, which, nevertheless, contains one passage which seems to me not correct. It is asserted that the name of the fruit was bestowed on it either from the berries being brought to market on straw run through them, or from straw being laid under to cultivate them. Both suppositions are made in forgetfulness of some common prin ciples of language. The strawberry is an in digenous production of our soil, and must undoubtedly have been named before art had fallen on a peculiar method to string the berries together, or to cultivate them. At the same time a peculiarity of the strawberry-root is mentioned, which ridicules the source of its name. It is said to propagate itself by its layers striking root in the ground, so that one plant will fill a garden, or strew itself over a large space. The name, then, is not pro perly straw, but strew berries, though when or how the vowel became changed I know not. Their present name in German is Erdlwil i( but the German word struen, used mtgly,m , the same sense as to strew, is, I 14ayeillo doubt, the real source of the name strtt*tierry. Your obedient servant, CRITICUS. CHARTISM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sts—The subscribed will feel greatly obliged by the insertion of the following address in your paper : To the Originators of the Plan for the Formation of a National Aslociation for Promoting the Political and Social Improvement of the People. - Esteemed Fellow-men—Looking back with grateful remembrance to the many services you have rendered to the cause of Democracy, honouring you for your virtues and moral worth, and sympathizing with the sacrifices you have made on our behalf, we feel that, under the present circumstances, we should be guilty of the foulest ingratitude if we did not stand boldly forward and pro claim our entire confidence in your integrity and patriotism, and your devotedness to the principles of the People's Charter. Treating with scorn and indignation the calumnies which men, who assume the name while they violate the principles of Chartism, have levelled against you,— we hereby assure you of our approval of the plan which you have recommended for the attainment of the People's Rights, and the improvement of their moral and social condition. As men struggling for righteous objects, we desire to obtain them by righteous means. We think they need only to be understood to• be appreciated, and that the assent of an united, intelligent people, once obtained in their favour, no power (however mighty) can prevent their adoption as the law of the land. Believing the ignorance and moral degradation of the working classes to be the grand barrier to the creation and demonstration of that enlightened public opinion on which alone we rely for their eventual adoption, we accept your plan as the one best calculated soonest to remove that mighty incubus, that at present weighs down the spirit of Reform, and allows faction, violence, and misrepresentation, to libel and disfigure the fair face of freedom. Impressed with these sentiments and views, our ar dent longings for the consummation of our principles will permit us no longer to remain in silent inaction. We call on you—we entreat you—again to take the post of honour, which your character and past services en titlei you to. Let us boldly take up our position, and vindicate to the world the spirit and principles of Char tism ! Let us show in our organization our principles of action, meetings, speeches, and every proceeding, that reason and philosophy, and not the impulses of our passions or the contracted notions engendered by party and factious feelings; are the impelling motives which actuate us to struggle for the moral and political eleva tion of our class. Yet the moral and intellectual energy of man is the mighty lever destined to uproot the strongholds of tyrannic assumption, and place the sons of men in that just and equitable relation to each other which will usher in the reign of universal peace and good-will on earth, Earnestly hoping that this, our heartfelt appeal, may incline you to the rescue of our glorious cause, We subscribe ourselves, Your Brother Democrats I James Savage, 27, Mape street. Charles H. Neesom, 68, Hare-street, Bethnal-green. James Williams, 58, Stanhope-street, Clare-market. James Hoppey, 4, Cleveland-street, Fitzroy-square. John Rogers, 8, Herfurd-place. 11. B. Marley, 31, Charles-street, Hampstaad-road. Joseph Turner, 42, Store -street, Bedford-square. William Hodge, Hemming's-road, Charing-cross. George T. Wood, 4, Stepney-green. W. Burton, 6, Finsbury-square. E. Mariner, 10, Ruddock's-buildings, Finsbury. John Halford, 14, Dugget-court. Arthur Dyson, Kingsland-road. William Watson, 1, Bedford-court. R. T. Webb, surgeon, 18, Wyndham-street, Bryanston square. Charles Savage, 4, Chapel-street. W. T. Walker, 1, Cornwall-row. Joseph Thorkham. 1, Cornwall-row. John Eiger, 26, Philip-street, Kingsland-road. Thomas Wade, 29, Red Lion-street, Hoxton. G. Bennett, 4, Compton-street, Clerkenwell. R. W. Woodward, 9, Lock's-gardens, Clerkenwell. Robert Cubitt, 18, Cromer-street. THE CORN-LAWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Srn—Feeling, amongst many others of your readers, grateful for the able and Christian manner in which you advocate the repeal of the unjust and cruel bread tax laws, I am induced to trouble you with a few observa tions upon those unchristian laws. It is certainly sur prising how strangely men who make a profession of religion appear upon this subject to disregard the plainest precepts of morality. Hence they very conveniently, in their eagerness to resist any change in these laws which they deem prejudicial to their own interests, disregard some of the most awful passages of Scripture. Have they no reason, then, to fear the threats contained in the Epistle of James, sth chapter, verses 1,2, 3, but espe cially the 4th verse, " Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth." In these cases, alas ! the innocent suffer and the guilty escape; that is, they escape the punishment of their crimes in this life ; but it does not follow that they will escape it ultimately. These dispensations I cannot but think furnish the strongest proof of a future state of retribu tion. Can there be multitudes of poor wretches suffering the heaviest calamities arising from crimes in which they had no share, while they who perpetrated them are not only free from all the evil effects of those crimes, but are enjoying great wealth, great honours, and power, ac quired by the commission of them. Can this take place under the government of a Being infinitely wise and in finitely good, and yet there be no other state in which these glaring iniquities will be corrected. What, then, is wisdom, or justice, or goodness ? Are they all words without a meaning ? I have the honour to remain, Sir, yours respectfully, A CHRISTIAN. MR. ROEBUCK AND HIS CON- STITUENTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin—Your remarks on the proceedings of Mr. Roe buck are in unison with the sentiments of a large majo rity of his constituents. Great surprise has been felt that he should have left the House upon Mr. S. Craw ford moving an amendment to the Address, in favour of an extension of political power ; but his reasons for so doing have caused still greater astonishment. For one who prides himself in the name of Radical to talk of giving Sir Robert Peel a " fair trial" is indeed an ano maly. The Whigs complain of having been frustrated in the work of Reform by the opposition of Peel and the Conservative party, and yet Mr. Roebuck, forsooth, would have us believe there is a chance of good resulting to the country from his (Sir R. Peel's) Premiership! If Mr. Roebuck is yet ignorant of the feelings of the 60,000 persons he is the representative of, let him con sult the following Protest, agreed to unanimously, but a short time ago, at a very numerous meeting convened for the purpose, and which Protest was supported in a most lengthy, eloquent, and argumentative speech by Colonel Napier : a THE PROTEST OF THE NON-ELECTORS OF BATH, " Declared— " That by far the larger portion of the male adults of the city of Bath have no voice in the election of repre sentatives to serve in Parliament. " That, therefore, the election of Lord Duncan and John Arthur Roebuck, Esq., is a matter in which they have not been permitted to participate. " That they, the non-electors of Bath, hereby protest against their exclusion from representation, and declare that, though they respect, personally and politically, the Honourable Gentlemen selected for representatives of the city by a small portion of the inhabitants, their re turn has not been legally sanctioned by the great body of those persons who are most interested in matters of legislation. " That on the day of nomination, when the choice of representatives was submitted to the people, a vast ma jority—at least five hundred to one—declared in favour of Lord Duncan and J. A. Roebuck, Esq. ;. notwith standing, a poll was demanded by the opposite parties, and the great body of the people were denied the privi lege of recording their votes. " That, therefore, the non-electors of Bath hereby protest against the election of Lord Duncan and J. A. ltoebuek, Esq., hoping thereby to secure a material alteration in the law of election—an alteration that shall extend (under certain restrictions) political power to all the male adults of the United Kingdom." Mr. Roebuck will do well to attach due import ance to this testimony of a desire on the part of his constituents to obtain such changes in our laws as shall make the Government at all times, and in every sense, responsible to the people. Soon after the division on Mr. Sharman Crawford's motion had taken place, a public meeting was held in the Corn-market, by per mission of the Mayor. One of the speakers, alluding to Mr. Roebuck's conduct, said he deemed it a great " are fiction of duty." A few of Mr. Roebuck's friends pre sent shouted " No, no;" these were rece i ve d w i th louder ex .ciamalions of " Yes, yes." The speaker then pro posed tile following resolution, which was carried unani mously:— " That the thanks of this meeting be respectfully ten dered to Mr. Sharman Crawford,. Mr. Wallace, Mr. T. Duncombe, and the other Members of Parliament who supported the endeavour to bring the people's claims be fore h e r Mttesty the Queen ; and this meeting is of opinion that such attempt was well-timed, and that its being brought forward was not a " want of respect to the country." IF Mr. Roebuck desires•to be the virtual representa tive of the people of Bath, he will avail himself of any and every opportunity to advocate the people's claims tee political power. We deem the representation of the people of infinitely more importance than the personal attacks of the Times on Mr. Roebuck. Ile, however, it appears, attaches more importance to himself than the people. We hope better things.—Your's, AN ELECTOR. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-I 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 find 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 thep+selVes, they are indulging the failietrrCi'i 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 ! 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. 11, 1841. THE HARVEST. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. - - - EAST LOTHIAN, SEPT. 11. Sin—Although the weather has rather been broken, I am happy to say we are getting on famously with the harvest, and with the symptoms of a very little late sown spring. We shall have all the white corn cut to day, and all the beans before this day week, and the crops altogether much better than I expected. Indeed so far as I am concerned I feel perfectly satisfied with it, and to show you the quality of the wheat, I enclose you a sample of some just taken from the field to-day. (Wc have received the sample of wheat, which is firm in the grain, and of beautiful quality. We may at the same time mention as a proof of the great convenience of the new system of postage, that the letter and sample were transmitted at the small charge of a twopenny stamp.) FOREIGN CONSECRATION OF BISHOPS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-Au Act of the fourteenth of Charles the Se cond, entitled " An Act for the Uniformity of Public Prayers and the Administration of Sacraments and other rites and ceremonies, and for establishing the form of making, ordaining, and consecrating, Bishops, Priests, and Deacons in the Church of England," in the form for " the consecration of Bishops," orders and directs that when the Bishops present to the Archbishop " the godly and well-learned man to be ordained and conse crated Bishop," he " shall demand the King's mandate for the consecration, and cause it to be read." How then can there be any doubt on the question whether the Archbishop has power to ordain without leave of the Crown ? If the Archbishop had placed this form of consecration before the civil lawyers they would not have been puzzled on this point. If it be intended by a side-wind in the new " Foreign Consecration Bill" to repeal the rubric in the " Form of Consecration of Bi shops" in the Act for Uniformity, &c. &c., and allow the Archbishops to consecrate Bishops without the King's mandate, it ought to be most strenuously op posed. The Church has already too much power in its bands, and it ought not to have this enormous authority conceded to it. If Bishops be necessary in foreign parts it will be quite sufficient that the Crown should deter mine of the expediency of each consecration, and issue the Royal mandate accordingly. I am, Sir, your's, &c. • Ilfracombe, Sept. 9, 1841. R. W. D. [This letter and some others were duly received, but were accidentally mislaid.] SIL VlO PELLICO. Another of Europe's tuneful sons—another . of her high soulded patriots, has been gathered to dust and darkness. The Semaphore of Marseilles has delivered the tidings of Silvio Pellico's death. When to the inspiration of the poet and the glory of his song, there is added the fervour of the patriot and his consequent nobility of soul, it may justly be appre hended that the harmonious combination of the two, will produce a character which shall challenge the ad miration, not only of contemporary, but after-times. This it was that Byron aspired to be, but Missolonghi quenched in death the high deires of his soul. This Pellico became, by the bias of circumstances, around him. But, above all, it is beautiful to observe in the pages of this good man's life, how both the flame of the poet and the magnanimity of the patriot were softened down into a lovely mildness—a Christianized beauty, by the amiable religion which, supreme in Pellico's soul, swayed all his other thoughts and passions. The amaranths of the poet may be his, and his, too, the laurels of the patriot, but assuredly his brow, above all, will be ennobled with the crown of the patient Christian martyr. Silvio Pellico was born at Saluzzo, in Piedmont, about the year 1789, together with a twin-sister, named Rosina. His mother, a native of Savoy, belonged to the house of 'foamier, and the name of his father was Onorato. Silvio, in common with not a few men of genius, was of extremely delicate constitution ; one illness succeeded another, and during the intervals of these trying attacks, Silvio was attended by a priest of the name of Mana vella, to prepare him for a public school. Silvio, in his youth, was constantly subject to men tal delusions. Sometimes, after having experienced some sudden alarm, he was accustomed towards the close of the day to behold a number of strange fantastic shapes running all around him ; and even when lights were brought they only seemed to withdraw into the less luminous parts and corners of the room. At first he would make a great outcry, and try all means of avoid ing this singular species of persecution, and on these oc casions the good Lady Nonna was in the habit of consol ing him. " And what are they like, my pretty Silvio ? What sort of faces had they ?" " Ah," replied the boy, " they have got long faces (so long), just like the Signora Nonna's." Perhaps this odd passage of Silvio's life may be, in some measure, cleared up by observing that the lady possessed the mysterious book of the Seven Trum pets ; and it is probable that the child's imagination, being excited by perusing its strange legends, may have assumed this form of evening dreaming. About this time Silvio's twin-sister, Rosina, possessed of great beauty, was on the eve of marriage with a dis tant relatve in Lyons, and he accompanied her and his mother into France. Here for a space of four years he delivered himself up to his studies, -and had almost for gotten his native land, when a poem of Foscolo's, called I Sepolcri (the Tombs), appeared in 1806, and was read by Silvio. His heart gushed out anew in love for his country. The skies of France no longer wore the same transparent hue. The deep brilliant blue of Italy alone haunted his imagination. He grew abstracted, his friends questioned him ; till at length Silvio confessed that some poet on the other side the Alps had given him the Mal du Pays. " Who is he ? What is his name ?" was the inquiry; "and would he recite them a few of these magic verses ?" Pellico, in a deep fervent tone, gave an impro vised version of almost all the exalted passages. In a few days afterwards he quitted France for Italy. At Milan he was called to the Professorship of the French Language, at a period when it merited the title of the Athens of Italy, and in the society of Monti and Foscolo, and celebrated men of various nations, his poetical genius rapidly matured. Ippolito, Pindemonte, and Breme, were, among other contemporaries, objects of his highest regard. The following is a trait of Pel lico's frankness of mind : Monti one day meeting Pellico at the Cafe Verri, addressed him on the subject of his quarrel with Foscolo. " Well," he said, " will you no longer deny Ugo's en mity and malice ? Ungrateful as he is ! who brought him into notice ? The Sepoleri would have remained unknown to this day. He owes his honours to me, and, by a single word, I could consign them to ignominy and neglect." "There, dear Monti," replied Silvis, "y ou are wrong. You brought this poem into high esteem, to be sure ; but they, whose eyes you have opened, now partake the light, and can judge of colours as well as yourself. Before that, indeed, you might have treated them to the sound of the trumpet, and then have assured them it was the colour of scarlet ; but this is now out of your power." Monti struck his forehead. About a year subsequently a distinguished actress, with whom Pellico had been much struck when young, aw yed it ; it was re peated as allotted to the re-appeared at Milan. P ellico an d his friend Breme re cognised her, and Silvio's p la y of Francesca was brought nowo the a ppa stage. aNaples,io Aa u and with still increasing success. The Neapolitan Govern ment h ad fallen, and Silvio's chief family returned to Turin ; but P ellico remained alone d The 1 s r t c Florence,l l She played all th e I ta li an boards,laice character r la r at Milan, the guest of Count Briche, and afterwards be came the tutor of his son. He next went to reside with Count Porro, with the same views of directing the edu cation of his sons. On his return to Milan he again resided at the house of his friend Count Porro, with whom he lived on terms of the strictest intimacy, and where he met the most dis tinguished men, both foreigners and natives, of his time. It was there he became acquainted with Madame de Stael and Schlegel, then at the head of the critical writers of their respective countries. It was there he first saw Lord Byron, Mr. (now Lord) Brougham, Thor waldsen, the sculptor, Davis, with numbers of enlight ened travellers of various countries. Pellico had shortly before translated the " Manfred" of Byron. The latter requested to see the manuscript of his drama of Francesca, which had not then publicly appeared. Two days after his Lordship received it lie himself returned it into Pellico's hands, abserving, " You won't be angry if I have translated it ?" lie had in fact translated it into English verse ; and he then added, " You ought to have translated the Manfred' into verse." In 1819, Lodovico Breme put forth an edition of the " Francesca, with the above-mentioned translation of Byron's " Manfred." Pellico now contemplated the establishment of a pe riodical work, to be entitled " The Conciliator," as an element for the social and moral improvement of the people, and a means of reconciling the then dis cordant elements of public feeling. Count Porro devoted all his energies and resources to the under taking i but the oppressive Austrian Government watched this band of " Conciliators" with a jaundiced eye, and men who proposed to be the liberators and en lighteners of the people were dreadful to their thoughts. A storm burst upon the heads of the " Conciliators;" Count Porro was one of the few who had early enough the precaution to escape, while others were condemned to expiate the crime of loving their country in dungeons and on the scaffold. The suppression of this high intel lectual school, in which the young and beautiful spirit of Italy, once more about to become bright, and glad, and lofty, was hurriedly effected. Arrests followed ar • rests, and Austria grasped her victims. Pellico was about to visit his friend Pietro Maroncelli, and inquired for him at his house. The answer was, he was arrested. Him self had scarcely entered the City of Milan before some one advancing close to him whispered in his ear, " The police fro after you !" " They know where lam to be found," was the answer ; " I am going to wait for them." He went, and they were in readiness for him. His pa pers, poems, tragedies, correspondence, were all seized, and he was compelled to follow his inquisitors to the po lice prisons of Santa Margherita. The account of " My Ten Years Imprisonment" by Pellico is, indeed, a long detail of misery; exquisite for its lovely facts and language, and soul-touching from its unaffected pathos. The main charm of. this book of Pellico lies in the singular calmness and placid beauty of its tone. It is, says an elegant critic, one long tragic monologue, and the scene is a succession of prisons. And yet it presents a picture so interesting of a refined and amiable mind labouring against the most trying of earthly calamities—long and continued solitary impri sonment ; it exhibits him under so many touching as pects of weakness or strength—of patient mental exer tion, or the weariness and sickness of hope delayed—it is brightened by . so many interesting little episodes— glimpses of existence, as it were, seen through prison bars ; it is instinct throughout, .with so kindly a spirit towards mankind, so anxious a desire to discover good even in evil, that it possesses the history of a romance combined with the truth of reality. It is at once an his torical document and a psychological picture, drawn, as the author himself says, from no motive of personal vanity, but as a legacy to those who may be placed under circumstances as trying. The circumstances of Pellico's imprisonment, which we have above but cursorily alluded to, are so well known to the world at large, that it would be but vain reitera tion on our part to again recount them; suffice it that we refer to the long-hoped for period of his release. The Ist of August, 1830, was a Sunday. Pellico had returned from mass, and was preparing with his fellow prisoners his table for a sorry meal, when Wegrath, the Superintendent, entered, and conducted him to the Di rector of Police. This personage, taking a paper from his pocket, said, in courteous tone, " Gentlemen, I have the pleasure, the honour, of announcing to you that his Majesty the Emperor has had the kindness to grant you —. Here he stopped, and Pellico expected some diminution of punishment, but he added—your liberty. Maroncalli and Pellico left their dungeons. They crossed through. Styria and Carinthia. As the happy evening of the 17th of September dawned, Pellico had reached Turin. Who can attempt to describe the transport and conso lation his heart received when Pellico again saw and em braced father, mother, and brothers. He was once again in the bosom of home, and blessed Providence that he had quenched all his past sorrows in the bounding trans • ports of his present happiness. The latest tidings of Silvio Pellico come to us through Miss Sedgwick's " Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home," in which, among the other illustri she met with in her journey through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, was the amiable object of our present memoir. "We have seen something here," says she, " that will proba bly interest you more than all the pictures in Italy—Sil vio Pellico. He lives near Turin, as librarian to a cer tain Marchese. We wrote him a note, and asked the privilege of paying our respects to him, on the around of being able to give him news of his friends, and our dear friends, the exiles who were his companions at S_pielberg. He came immediately to us. He is of low stature, and slightly made : a sort of etching of a man, with delicate and symmetrical features ; just enough body to gravitate and keep the spirit from its natural upward flight—u more shadowy Dr. Channing ! His manners have a sweetness, gentleness, and low tone, that correspond well ' with his spiritual appearance. He was gratified with our good tidings of his friends, and much interested with our account of his godchild, Maroncelli's little Silvia. His parents have died within a year or two. " I have been very sorry to heir some of his countrymen speak distrustfully of Pellico, and express an opinion a reluctant one—that he had sunken into willing subjec tion to political despotism and priestly craft. It is even said that he has joined the order of Jesuits. I do not believe this, nor have I heard any evidence adduced in support of it, that tends to invalidate the proof of the incorruptibility of Pellico's soul contained in Le Mie Prigioni (My Imprisonments). He is a saint that cannot fall from grace. There seems to me nothing in his pre sent unqualified submission incompatible with his former history and professions. His phase,of the Christian cha racter has always been that of sufferance. He is the gentle Melancthon, not the bold and valiant Luther; the loving John, not the fearless Paul." LITERATURE. THE PLAYFELLOW. Knight, London, 1841. This is one of a series of tales which it is pro. posed to publish quarterly. It is from the pen of Miss Martineau, and inculcates sound, useful truths, such as were inculcated in her " Illustra tions of Political Economy." The scene of the story is laid in Norway, and it abounds in ani mated descriptions. CRUIKSHANK'S OMNIBUS. The present Number, which is the Fifth, of this lively periodical, contains several humour ous plates, executed in Cruikshank's most cha racteristic manner,—to say nothing . of a full length portrait of Madlle. Rachel, in her fa vourite character of Mary Stuart. The prose and verse are both excellent of their kind ; and we may mention, in particular, a witty jeu d'esprit entitled " A Song of Contradictions." DUBLIN REVIEW—No. XXL Dolman, London, 1841. We cannot congratulate the Editor on the ea- 1 tertainment or the variety he has furnished us • with in the present number. The articles are few in number, and their paucity is . not atoned for by their excellence. Among the best is an essay on the subject of" German Prose Writers," in which we find a just and vigorous sketch of the celebrated Lessing, " who," says the Re viewer, "boldly withstoo the prevailing common ness of thought and style, vigorously attacked and discomfited the much-lauded French taste, and spread far and wide in his numerous writings the elements for the improvement of German litera- • ture. He sought utterly to annihilate the imita tion of French errors. He looked upon the age of Louis XIV. as weak and contemptible. The ancients he honoured from the very bottom of ' his heart, and earnestly recommended the study of them to his countrymen; but his admiration was grounded on a true insight into the nature and merits of the classic master-pieces; while for the French perversions and improvements, as they were denominated, lie had the most intolerant scorn. With all his reverence for the productions of the past, lie was not one-sided, as he had a keen and just appreciation of the literature of England, Spain, and Italy, then but little known to Germany, so dissimilar from that of Greece and Rome ; and . laboured to introduce an acquaintance with its best works, as an antidote to the feeble and artificial as exhibited by that of France." We certainly do not agree with the remarks here made on the literature of Louis the Fourteenth's reign. It was au artificial age as regarded man ners; but not so as regarded wit or eloquence, for it was the age of Moliere and Massillon —one, the great master of pulpit-eloquence, and the other of humour; and each in his line, nearly equally removed from the purely conventional or artificial. " Southern Africa in 1840," re commends the emigration of Irish labourers to ' this colony, as opening out finer prospects to them than either the Canadas, or the boasted Australia have it in their power to afford. " Moral and Intellectual Condition of Catholic Germany" states that Catholic science in that country has to struggle against numerous disad vantages ; but adds that, in spite of all obstacles, it has achieved wonders. " The Liturgy of the Anglican Church" is a heavy and tedious theo logical disquisition, which, so far as we can per ceive, has neither beginning, middle, nor end. The one or two remaining articles are of the usual average. SMITH'S STANDARD LIBRARY. Smith, London, 1841. We have here three more Numbers of this cheap and popular Miscellany, containing repub lication of" Bryant's Poems," and " Voltaire's Charles the Twelfth," together with a transla tion of " Goethe's austus," made expressly, it seems, for this edition. The Numbers are got up in superior style, as regards print and paper. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION. A thick octavo, presenting verbatim reports of the proceedings which took place during the June season of the last year, by the Convention held in London towards the total abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade. The infamous op pressions which exist in this modern " House of Bondage"—the millions of whose victims stretch from. France to the Brazils, from the land of Mahomet to the limits of Patagonia—have here their grievances presented to British sympathies, for the purpose of British exertions being made in their behalf, and it is hoped that power will be found adequate to the demand. KNIGHTS PICTORIAL EDITION OF SHAK SPEARE. The present part contains the play of Antony and Cleopatra. The engravings and vignettes are cut with a clear and accurate fineness. The frontispiece, exhibiting Antony in the Market place with the " rare Egyptian" seated by his side, groupcd with the pillars of Isis and Apis, is choicely finished. STOP?ING THE SUPPLIES. (From the Manchester Times.) A rumour has reached us of the intention of holding a preliminary meeting in this town, to deliberate on the grave question of refusing to pay any direct taxes to the Government, until the Corn-laws be abolished, in imita tion of the • course adopted by Earl Fitzwilliam and others, durinc , the agitation for the Reform Bill. We think any such course would be illegal, if carried out by a public meeting, or recommended by any Association. Individuals may refuse to pay assessed taxes in money without violating the law, which provides for such cases by a distraint and sale of the property of defaulters. To stop the supplies, so far as the assessed taxes go, it would be only necessary for the Corn-law abolitionists to obey the law by quietly and peaceably letting its officers take their course. We question if any auctioneer in Man chester, or other towns of Lancashire, would be found willing to sell goods so distrained, and we are sure there would be no purchasers. A respectable Correspondent has furnished us with the following note on this important subject :—" We have heard from several quarters repeated intimations that in this town parties of the highest respectability have re solved they will not voluntarily pay any more taxes to the revenue till the trade in corn is free. We believe the resolution is not confined to secular persons. How will it appear if Ministers of religion, whose hearts bleed for the oppression of their brethren, and who have resolved to mingle their sympathies with the poor and suffering; shall be dragged to prison, or their property confiscated, for the maintenance of an unrighteous system." HAMBURGH MAIL. HAMBURGH, SEPT.r 6.—The following is the Supple mentarys Convention to the Treaty of Commerce and Na- vigation of 29th September, 1825, between the Senates of the free Hanseatic cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and:Ham burgh, and her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, signed at London the 3d of August, 1841. The ratifications were exchanged at London on the 28th of August, 1841 : " Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on the one part, and the Se nates of the free Hanseatic cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh (each State for itself separate) on the other part, being desirous of improving and extending the commercial intercourse between their respective subjects and citizens, have, with this view, and in confor mity with the stipulations of the eighth article of the Convention of Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and the free Hanseatic Republics, signed at London on the 29th of September, 1825, resolved to conclude a Convention which shall be considered as Supplementary to the sbove-mentioned Convention of 1825. " Her Britannic Majesty and the said free Hanseatic Republics have therefore named, as their Plenipoten tiaries for this purpose; that is to say— " Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Hon. Henry John Viscount Palmerston, Baron Temple, a Peer of Ireland, a member of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Hon. Order of the Bath, a Member of Parliament, and her Britannic Ma jesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and the Senates of the free llanseatic cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, Edward Banks, Doctor of Laws, a Member of the Senate, and one of the Syndics of the free Hanseatic city of Hamburgh, &c. &c., who, after having communicated to each other their re spective full powers, found in good and true form, have agreed upon, and concluded, the following articles : "Art. 1. The Senates of the free Hanseatic cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, hereby agree, that British vessels coming from countries not being part of the dominions of her Britannic Majesty, shall hencefor ward, together with their cargoes, be admitted into the ports of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh; and such vessels shall on their admission pay dues not higher nor other than those which shall be paid, iu similar circum stances, by vessels belonging to Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburgh, and the duties to be paid upon the cargoes of such British vessels shall not be higher nor other than if such cargoes had been imported in vessels belonging to Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburgh. And in consideration thereof, her Britannic Majesty agrees that from and after the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Convention, the vessels of the said free Hanse atic ports shall, together with their cargoes, be admitted into the ports of all her Britannic Majesty's possessions; and such vessels shall, on their admission, pay dues not higher nor other than those which shall be paid in simi lar circumstances by British vessels ; and the duties to be paid upon the cargoes of such Hanseatic • vessels shall not be higher or other than if such cargoes had been imported in British vessels. " Art. 2.—ln consideration of the privileges extended to British trade and navigation by the first article of the British Convention, her Britannic Majesty further agrees that all goods, fares wares, and merchandise, being the produce of the States of the free Hanseatic cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, or of the other States of the Germanic Confederation, or of the Sates comprised in the Germanic Union of Customs, and which may be imported in any foreign vessels from the ports of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, or from any port situated on the Elbe or Weser, into the ports of the British possessions abroad, including Gibraltar and Malta, shall also be permitted to be imported from the said ports of the free cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, into the ports of the said British posses sions abroad, including Gibraltar and Malta, in vessels belonging to Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, built, I owned, and navigated, as stipulated in the fifth article in the Convention of Commerce and Navigation, con cluded on the 29th of September, 1825, between Great Britain, on the one part, and the free Hanseatic cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, on the other part ; and such goods, wares, and merchandise, being the pro .' duce of the free Hanseatic Republics, or of the other States of the Germanic Confederation, or or of the States of the Germanic Union of Customs, and so imported in Hanseatic vessels into the ports of the said British pos sessions abroad, i including Gibraltar and Malta, and all goods, wares, and merchandise, exported in Hanseatic vessels, built, owned, and navigated, as aforesaid, from the ports of the British possessions abroad, including Gibraltar and Malta, to any foreign country whatever, shall pay no higher or other duties than if the same were imported or exported in British vessels. "Art. 3. The present Convention, which shall be con sidered as supplementary to the Convention concluded between Great Britain and the free Hanseatic Republics, on the 29th of September, 1825, shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London as soon as possible within the space of six weeks. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same and affixed the seals of their arms. Done at London, on the third day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one. (Signed) " PALMERSTON (L.S.) " BANKS (L.S.)" ST. PETERSBURGIT, AUG. 31.--The Emperor will set out in a few days to review the troops in Lithuania and Poland. It is probable that his Majesty will also visit Warsaw. 'The health of the Empress Alexandria is better than it has been for the last three years. This happy circum stance is chiefly to be ascribed to the use of medicated baths. A Joint-stock Company in England has obtained the Emperor's permission to make an iron railway from Moscow to St. Petersburgh, and will begin its operations perhaps this autumn, but certainly in the spring. Five years are allowed to complete the whole line, which will be 33 miles longer than the common road between Mos cow and St. Petersburgh, because it is to pass through to Bybinsk, in the Government of Yaroslaw, on the right bank of the Volga, because that town carries on the most extensive corn trade with St. Petersburgh. All the ves sels laden with the produce of the South which come up the Volga to the North must stop here. ST. PETERSBURGH, SEPT. 4.—The town of Orel was partly destroyed by fire on the Bth of July. The Ca thedral, the Court of Justice, and 70 houses are reduced to ashes. The coffers and the archives were saved.— Haniburgh Papers, Sept. 10. BELGIAN s llNDS—BatissiLs • SEPT. 11. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, per Cant— Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per 93 Sper Cent. « ..... 71 101/ Loan of City, 1:32, 4 per Cent. 9O Socle ty et Commerce, 4Ni per __2 3 % Bank of Belgium, 5 per ..... .4 Nationa I Society . Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Sept. 11. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, SEPT. 4, five per Cants. bletalliques ........ ..«. ......... Four per Cents. ............ ••••••••••••••••• ............ 97 } 4 Three p :r Cents. Bank sliiirGs —AUgemeine Zeiturig. Sept. 8 HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Sirs. 10. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. 107% Rank Shares Angle. Russian Loan l o ,li 108li Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cortificate ION Inscription, Ist Svies lO2 101 N Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) B6l S 6 Dutch Actual Debt, 2s. per Cent to 50% Ditto 5 per Cent Polish Bends 149 New ticket Angle-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75.4 75}0 Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent... 1(234 10.1, Simmisli, New 5 per Cents. 16 EXCHANGES .10.0 Su O T w t 4 .LON months,D O N 1.3 4. HAMBURG, s itpT PETERSBURGH, Seen 3.—Two months, 3IN pence. RIGA, SEPT. 2, —Three Months, 39k. STOCKHOLM. Sem 3.—Seventy-five days, 12. 0. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-11Eaue, Sen. E. Thirty-seven. 'Elite. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 44 per cent....».«.« 10i 3( 104 U Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102 101 h Litchange on Landon, three months 6 18% —Prussian Slate Gazette. Sept. 8. A large ship arrived in the river on Wednesday, from Miramichi, bearing the extraordinary name o f Peel's One," in memorial of that statesman's cele brated majority in the last Parliament.—Liverpoo l Chronicle. "If I were so unlucky," said a military officer, " as to have a stupid son, I would certainly make him a parson." A clergyman, who was in company. calmly replied, " You think differently, sir, from your father." A full snipe was shot by the Rev. C. G. Owen, on Blackdown, in the parish of Loddeswell, on the 2d of September, weighing upwards of half a pound —very nearly nine ounces.—Devoaport Chronicle. We were amused the other day at a little boy (says the John o'Groat Journal). He was . seaT na d uj o r n ed the a step of a stair weeping bitterly, arid had just reeovered from a rather severe illness, which had left . him very weak. "What is the matter, Andre, ?" person of him in passing. My legs wmna g ang ," was the reply. Loan FuRTESCUES RETURN.—His Lord ship and his amiable Countess have been obliged to put back by stress of weather, and the steamer i n w hi c h t h ey set sail, with hi_s . Lordship on boa r d, now li es at t h e wooden jetty in Ki ngstown harbour.--Dublin Mail MORNING S N _....____ MIDDLESEX SESSIONS-...-M 0 ND AT. .......s s __„_ . 17 X (Before Mr. WALESBY and a full Bench of Magistrate - 4='; ) q4-, 4 64 t The calendar contained a list of 56 prisoners, of wh k,-/ 1:-...., / ......- 2 , 33 were charged with felonies of a trifling nature. :'l,44 . leSti - ,,,i , !'''', In the case of William Scales, the shipowner, Jeo ' V \\•, , ,' .-- Tift-r-!' Scales, the master of the Emerald Isle, and Wit ! ' .0kc.:. 7 :& _._ 4 ___ N.: % Cowell, the shipowner and linen-draper of Liverpo `ry.),;y, - ---s il 'N ' whom it will be recollected were charged with an assault• ir...::..4----• - •.., at the Brunswick Pier wharf, on the 19th of last montkr4 4 v 44 !, Ai :4 k . uron Captain Patterson of the Railway steamer, and Mr. Dyer, the Pier Master, Mr. BALLANTINE prayed the Court to discharge the recownizances of the p rosecutors in consequence of the defendants having consented to pay ten guineas to the Dreadnought hospital-ship, five guineas to the widow of a late servant of the Railway. and the costs of the pro secution, in addition to acknowledging themselves to have erred. It will be remembered that the defendants attempted to leave the Railway steam-packet without tickets, and. that led to the assault. Mr. PRENDERGAST, for the defendants, concurred in the application, which was granted. CORONER'S INQUEST. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER. Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, a Coroner's In quest was held before Mr. Carter, and a highly respect able Jury, at the George public-house, Bankside, on the bodies of John Clemence, aged 27, John Joseph Oxley, aged 34, and Robert Clarkson, aged 27, who, with Joseph Thomson (not yet found), were drowned in the River Thames, about half-past one o'clock on the night of Friday last. The following witnesses were called : Edward Reader sworn—l am waterman on board the Pearl Gravesend steam-boat, which was lying off South wark-bridge, on Friday night. About ten o'clock Clarkson, Oxley, Thomson, myself, Wheeler, and Mr. Gunn, the steward, went to the George public-house, where we re mained until half-past one o'clock, when we all left to go on board of the Pearl, as we all slept on board. Clemence was a stranger to me. On saying he wanted to go on board of the Orion, to which he belonged, he was offered to be rowed to her. The boat belonging to the Pearl, which was a skiff, was then unfastened from the stairs, and Clemence entered, followed by Clarkson, Oxley; and Thomson. Wheeler then said, "row, and put three on board, and then return for the rest." I then pushed the boat off, Clarkson having the sculls. When the boat had gone about twenty yards from the shore I heard some one cull out that either Clarkson, or Thomson, was overboard, but which I cannot say, and the rest seemed to go over. I heard no one cry out. There was barely any light at the time of the accident. An alarm was in stantly given, and the drags were procured, and in the course,of half an hour Wheeler and another man found the body of Clemence. The other two bodies were after wards found, but the body of Thomson has not been re covered. I cannot say what caused the accident. We were all sober at the time.. Ingram Gunn—l am steward of the Pearl, and tire evidence given by the last witness is perfectly-correct. CORONER—Did you see anything in the conduct of Thornton or Clarkson to lead you to suspect that either one or the other of them intended to destroy himself ? Gunn—No, I am quite satisfied the deaths of all was the result of accident. The Jury returned a verdict that the three deceased persons were accidentally drowned in the River Thames. The notorious convict, Macho John, who escaped from the district prison in Kingston, and for the capture of whom a reward is offered, is, along with the rest of his fellow-escaped convicts, committing dreadful outrages and highway robberies in the Red Hills, in the parish of St. John. The authorities in this parish hav ing been made acquainted with their daring felonies, a detachment of fifteen armed policemen, with a ser.;eant, were sent out, accompanied by some of the proprietors and overseers in St. John's, the latter end of the last and beginning of this week. The habitation of the ruffians is said to bein some retired spot, which is un- known to all but themselves.—St. Jago Gazette, July 31.. MAPLE 'SUGAR.—Gen. Chaney Eggleston has the most extensive camp in Ohio, situate in Auburn. (Geauga) county. - His sugar house is furnished with fixtures and apparatus for manufacturing 500 lbs of sugar per day. A reservoir capable of containing 60 or 80 barrels, receives the sap, whence it is drawn into iron pans, placed over a large furnace to be boiled down, and transferred again to a large kettle for " sugaring, off." 2.700 trees have been tapped this year, though the. season has not been a favourable one for making sugar. Some seasons he has made as much as 10,000 pounds. The quantity made by him in one season, three or four years ago, brought sl,2so.—Cincinnati Republican. TA MWORTH.—We understand that Mr. Ae; land is too well acquainted with the pernicious infla•- ence which the Bread-tax and the absetice of the Ballot exercise upon political freedom, to calculate for a mo ment on shaking Sir Robert Peel's position with the electors of Tamworth. Mr. Acland presents himself with full expectations of defeat ; merely designing to demonstrate by the issue how utterly abject is the condi tion of the British voter, and to render the opportunity available for imtilling a spirit which shall rise superior,, if possible, to physical thraldom. It is for these objects; we approve of Mr. Acland's movement.—Staffordshist Examiner. THE BRADFORD ELECTION.--We are glad to learn that the prospects of the Liberals of D:adford are daily improving ; and that, in every probability, Mr. Busfeild will take his place at the head of the poll on Wednesday . next. The canvass proceeds most vigorously on both sides, and the more successfully on the side of the Free Traders that they have 'refusal to set on foot the foul practices of their opponents: —Leeds Times. CONGREGATIONAL MEETINGS ON THZ CORN-LAWS.—In accordance with the recommendation of the Conference of Ministers, held at Manchester on the 17th ult., that Christian congregations should observe the Gth instant as a day of humiliation and prayer, on account of the: state of the country, and the effects of the Corn-laws, that recommendation, was complied with within this borough and the neigh bouring townships. The congregations of Mawdsley street Chapel, and Duke's-alley Chapel, assembled, in pursuance of a previous arrangement, at the former place, when there was a numerous and most respectable assembly. The services, consisting of singing, prayer, anl exhortation, were conducted by the Rev. W. Jones pastor of the Mawdsley-street congregation. On the same day, similar services were held at the Baptist Chapel, Moor-lane, which were conducted by the Rev. W. Frazer, pastor of that congregation. The lower part of the chapel was well filled; several persons engaged in prayer, and an address was delivered, pointing out the duty of professed Christians in the present distress, and the necessity of using every possible means for the re moval of the cause of it. The meeting lasted about an hour and half. At HaLshaw Moor, and at other places in this vicinity, there were meetings for the same object. A LAZY FELLow.—There was a fellow in the Far West so excessively indolent, that once, when he was pushed down a hill, he ran on for three days and nights, being too lazy to stop himself.—Missouri Gazette. A GENUINE HOSTLER'S BILL.—" To Anos, 3s. 6d. To Agetinonimom, 6d." Which, being ren dered into English from its present Greek form, stands thus :—To a Horse, 3s. 6d. To a getting on him home, Gd. A tradesman of Shrewsbury travelling in a taxed cart, on the Atcham-road, was on Sunday charged a toll of 10s. 4d. in passing throngh Emstres gate, for having the name of the owner of the cart affixed on the wrong side of it.—Cambrian. NEW MODE OF ADVERTISING TOR SITII.A. noNs.—On Wednesday afternoon two unemployed. ope ratives were seen in the streets of Stoekton-upon-Tees with a board suspended between them, inscribed—" To Let."—Gateshead Observer. The house of Mintz, at Trieste, has published a declaration contradicting the report of its failure, given, by the German papers, and stating that at no period has it been under the slightest embarrassment. HATS. —The three-cornered cocked hat was • worn in France, in the last century, of such a size, that it served as a parasol in fine weather, an umbrella in case of rain, and a sort of state canopy on occasions of ceremony. CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.—On the 28th of August, the landlords of England made her MaJesty a present of a Tory Premier, and on the same day the Queen received fro m South America a present of a ti g e , r LYmE.—We have now li v i ng i n our delight f u l and healthy borough ten individuals ° , whose unit i az a et e e s . amount to nearly 1,000 years.—Somerset County n ant by It is stated that Mr: Sergeant Atcherlevya: a candidate for the representation of Rip the Chancel the promotion of Sir Edward Sugden to t ill be lorship of Ireland.—.Neweastlz Journal Bombay that he B°lll ..four and a half A gentleman writes from reached India from Spithead in thiileyz, very pleasant. was awful, go i n g and coming, days, and found the trip, as far Sul," aw f u and no air stir ersciing ; ring At Su ; ez, the number however, otfhpea passengers a bottle of Born had eaten and drank up ev erything Arab dow at half a bay water was retailed from an the Red Sea, as far F it c s leck until run-rise, when ° o below, where the therm°. the whole were obliged t?fgey r a u s p A ee d . en, T e to r u ) g , loineJusbleaplt Sit: They were obliged also to tpke meter stood at 100 deg. engers, left behind by the fo4er nineteen additional p steamer reached Bombay, the eat ablesfood, and when the were entirely exhausted.—Hamp shire Telegraph. ~. N• JOHN STUART WORTLEY.— THE 1 - 10 • . of the Secretaries of the Board of Controul' last as one . . Ministry in consequence no small This gentleman was set down in the Post of Saturday among the Leeds Tories, who were sum to meet y b circulars, which are said (but wee hope falsely) to have been prepared on Sunday, in ex pectation of another election for the 'West Riding. It turns out, however, that the Hon. Gentleman has re ceived no office ; and of course the peace of the Riding is not likely to be disturbed.—Leeds Mercury underr too t k h e p l n a e ce THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—To show what early hours the Duke of Wellington still continues to keep, it may be mentioned that his Graceovas walking in the Parks between seven and eight yesterday morn ing; and that he attended Divine Service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, at a quarter before eight o'clock. The Noble Duke was there before the Reverend Official and his attendants, and waited for nearly a quarter of an hour before he could get access to the Chapel. AN EDITORIAL GENIUS.—The New Era, American Paper, says, " There is an Editor down east, who is not only his own compositor, pressman, and devil, but keeps a tavern, is a village schoolmaster, Captain in the Militia, mends his own boots and shoes, makes patent; ; Brandreth pills, peddles essence and tinware two days in I - theto all wv l e t e h k i s , , ahnedhaitslwa,awyisfe and sixteen se when the minister happens to be missing. In addition sixtenenonson the Sabbath children."