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

RNING StLIS CONDUCT ,OF THE BRITISH IN INDIA. ['We copy the following article from the Times of Tuesday, because we heartily approve of its principles, and because the reprobation it be•- stowsi on acts of brutal oppression, committed abroudi.!by our people, cannot be too widely spread, nor too much enforced. It may serve to' cheek similar excesses at home, and serve to snub that arrogant spirit, essentially Tory - and arl4fOcratic, from which all such excesses How.] We repeat frdm Saturday's paper the account of one of trio outran* in India, which, if our Correspondent's aeetei,nt of diem is fair, are about as atrocious as ever asgraced' Anglo-Indian history : " Kbelat i Ghilzie, an old fort, was thought to be a 'very proper place for a post of the Shah's troops, so two battalions and some horse were sent to take posses sion of the place. No opposition whatever was offered, but on the arrival of the force at its destination, three volleys of musketry were fired, and some salvos of artil -ICrY.---I believe in the Shah's name. This had a very equi vocal appearance in the eves of the G hilzies of the neigh liMerhood, who did not understand it; and asLieut. Lynch, the Political Agent, was riding past a small fort, at some li!t9e . distance, the next day, I believe, accompanied b;y an .1110,rt:of caval r y, he saw a body of men, thirty or forty an nuinber, who reti re d, as he advanced, towards th e gate. To'threaten them, he galloped towards them with the caval rYPlttietfselsav drew their swords, flourished them in the air, , andigot: into-the fort- Lynch summoned lheplace, and the citild, one of Shah Soojah's most stanch hdhtrent's in thoshiparts, sent word -that no evil was twarit, that thensenhad not understood, the movement, and.that he woubbpaaA2is respects next morning ; but this,wauld:not sultitge' fiery Lieutenant; an express was *erst;off for a regirvient",and , the guns, which arrived in the course of the night ; the place was attacked at once, . 4"1"4-74fe, t he- 41 - Attfir blown in, and the fort stormed ; but go n e o f t h e ,defenders, of the place were - killed, deSperately, t,htin g .• awl a) -gate, : le. poor chief among twb or three -survivors wounded. Sir scot tt iw i e r f; b ut the th _ tn aghten is. said lo have :been very angry at Governor -Genet-al's sentiments . hava made whether Lynch will be rtes his ' lo ;o n li ! tieilttipliayment, which he lime y ,„; rtes.' The affair' IMS not, however, ended. te Gliilzies, who are a powerful tribe of about 'OOO strong, turned out to a man, as might have been t e h xPeete use d ' "Ind- swore ma the ;: Koran to • have' revenge for insult and i n j ur y , an d f or t h e i nnocent blood of their people. No attempt was made to pacify them,.or to explain the affhir ; indeed, what explanation could be ? And they - are to be coerced." NOW, t us try to make this case our own. Sup pose French Canada in revolt, and the English popu lation engaged.in concert with a tribe of North Ameri can Indians in putting it down ; how should we feel at hearing that the, first act of a detached body of Indians, under the command of an insignificant chief, on arriving at tho post •which they were to occupy, had been to stores the position of an English officer of distinction, and massacre him with " all but four " of the Loyalists under his comMand;after an amicable message from him, professions of alliance, and an offered explanation of what ever might be suspicious to them, merely because his men had galloped about and brandished their 'swords in is Way which th e s aid i ns i gn ifi cant c hi e f di d not (as should be?) understand? Still more, how should •4we feel' if our allies, the perpetrators of this wanton slatighter, had been, not ignorant savag,es, - hardly know ing themselves what they were at, or against whom they were employed, but instructed Americans—Men who ' , Ought: to have learnt what national laws, faith, and mercy are—and, to draw the parallel closer, allies who lad shown no slight disposition to wrest from us the ter ritories which they were professing to protect ? What kind of compensation should we not demand ? How should we be satisfied at hearing that " the President's sentiments had not been made known, whether the American commander would be dismissed from his em ployment ?" Should we not say promptly and angrily, " You must do that, and more too : you have done a frightffil wrong; you must take the consequences : you must humble yourselves. for what you, through your inca pable agent, have done ; you must not encourage your in struments to think that human lives, the lives of their allies, are to be sacrificed in mere carelessness ; and if they do think so, you must, by some tignal example, convince them of the contrary ?" And if it so happened that we were at that moment the weaker party, and unable to right ourselves, what should we think of American jus tice and American mercy, if we heard that in New York people said, " It was a sad affair—quite a mistake, certainly ; but the English Canadians had- taken it up so warmly, that accommodation was impossible ; receding 'was out of the question ; • the matter must take its course ;. fresh troops, might be. easily : sent ou t ; - an d, if the quarr e l went on, English Canada must be ' coerced?' " Or let its put the matter to ourselves in another relation. If one of our own officers had committed this kind of rtrocity, not in the north of India, but in the centre of Europe —not, against a tribe of 5,000 Ghilzies, but against r, power able to take its own part, against_l7rance, or Russia, or Austria; and if it were a case in which the public feeling of Europe would plainly be called upon to express itself— not one in it hich the mouths' of 'complainants may, (if, indeed, they may) be stopped by extermination, but one where the character of our quarrel, if one ensued, would be known and judged by all civilized nations, who would all demand redress for the savage insult which had been offered to one—how would the English station, or at least all that is honest in it, be pleased at hearing doubts whether this officer, this standing outrage upon all Europe, would be continued by Lord Hill in his command ? Would not every one of us who are anxious for our country's character feel almost as if our personal honour were at stake ? -Should we not feel each of us half disgraced till all foreign Powers had been taught, .by some act of justice as strong as our laws allowed that the nation repudiated as an unbidden, unwarranted act of madness, the outrage of its servant=—was ready, was imp a ti en t to make all redress, all acknowledgment that could be asked for the injury for which it was unwillingly re sponsible ? Yet this would scarce equal what we ought to feel Lere, for it is the helplessness of the sufferers which goes liar to make the baseness of the imputed act. Let men - give to the weak what they dare not deny to the strong—to others, what they would enforce for them selves. Let us not think that these things have no disho nour in them because they are done a long way off, or to a wild people, or to a poor people, or to a weak people. We are running up an account in India that we shall Lave to settle.; our empire . will not stand these acts of ,cruelty, or rather the morality which is not appalled at them. Our Government has been an improvement on that of the native Rajahs, or it would not have risen; it must be an improvement on itself, or it will fill. If we fear not God, we h a d b est f ear man : we are ruling over millions by the muskets of thousands, and those thoii sands natives.; we are increasing those millions.—if in doing so we increase the odium in which they hold us, we are collecting a weight to crush us. "It will - not, nor: it cannot come to good." Our mere strength is a feather in comparison with the miss which is gathering over it. As a mere act of policy, we must be just and beneficent, as well as strong. Men tell us that we cannot appear to recede—that England must not apologize to a weak tribe—that the prestige of suceets will be destroyed. It will not. The shadow will follow the substance. In action we shall succeed by the discipline of our troops and the steadiness of - their commanders ; and we shall have the credit of suc cess. But we shall lose what is of more consequence than men think to avert that national rising which might sweep us away discipline and all—the prestige (as they call it) of truth, justice, and mercy.. Let those whose business it is act -; let them, that is, first examine. We hope a Conservative Government will make them. The alleged misconduct of this Lieute nant may be false. If so, It, is most necessary he should be cleared. But it may be true ;' there is a prima fade Case to demand inquiry. Audi altercim partem, but lose no time about it, for till it is fully done we lie under the stain of this act, and the not unnatural suspicion that there may be many more like it. 811IPWRE-7—' - CKED FIS H E RMEN AND IVARLNERS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. -..-.:l.4xcuoLy Loss LIFE. —The following letter has bee ' received 1i Sh wreck ed F West, the Secretary of the ishert y nen ir a . nd Mariners' Benevolent So ciety, 6., Iluckhasbi, ry, London Eyemouth, Sept: a, 1841. toSIn communicate t o y ou th e particulars of the followi g distressing_ case :—Oti the even i ng of Friday, the 6th instant, a fishing boat, named the Jabeze, belonging to this port., was lost of Marshall Meadows, betwixt this port and Berwick, whilst prosecuting the :herring fishery, and all the hands, five in number, drowned, viz., Thomas • Dougal, John Dougal, his son • George Dougal, another fisherman of the name of George Dougal, and ,John Grieve, a landsman, employed in the herring fishery. Thomas Dougal has left a family of five children ; t h e y oung e st son is seven years old, the eldest seventeen years. George Dougal has left a widow. and five children, the youngest Only' six inenths, the eldest not exceeding eight years of age. George Dougal has left a widow and seven children, and the widow seven months pregnant ; the youngest child is only eighteen months old, the eldest only ten years. Such a calamitous case has not occurred here fir many years, and I hope that the Committee of Management of the Society will lend all the assistance in their power. Your most obedient servant, • • (Signed) THOMAS BOWHILL, Treasurer of the Eyemeuth Branch. Edward West, Esq. ENGLISH M A NUFACTU itEs.—l am more im pressed with the wealth and resources of England since I left it, but lam less surprised at them. The compass of this Portuguese vessel was made at Wapping ; the quadrant in Holborn ; their knives are stamped "sheer steel ;" the bell for the watch, and the iron of the wind lass, are from an English foundry ; the captain uses an English watch, and calculates by John Hamilton Moore's " Seamen's Complete Daily Assistant ." " sail-m a k er " i s stamped on on e of th e sa ils, and Le passengers are dressed in TAlancliester prints or Leeds cloth. Every where it is the - mime-yott meet in the solitary mountain paths of the almost-unitnown islands, a pedlar with two square braes slung on each side of his ass, and see him in the villages te m p t i ng th e women with the bright handkerchiefs and gay, prints from Manchester. In the obseureSt village, the, neat blue paper needle-case from Birmingham hang s from a string at a cottage door-way, to tell that English needles are sold within ; and in grossing in an open boat between two of the remotest islands, Flores and Corvo, an English sailmaker's name • am! residence were printed legibly on the sail. V-- tells me that the other evening he had just landed in a fi s hi ng ; nun ! c t—a lonely place at the mouth of a deep ravine which parts two gloomy mountain ridges—when his reveries were disturbed by a fellow passenger, who, having caught sight of some village girls, suddenly ex claimed. " Look, those are all my prints."—.Residence in the Azores. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS MORNING.) WARWICK'. PACES—WEDNESDAY. The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs., with 30 added. Lori Chesterield's All Fours ;5 yrs, 9st 41b Mr. Denham's f by Pantaloon—Souvenir, 3 yrs, 7st slb Lord Warwick's Syria, 3 yrs, 6st 13 lb Mr. Isaac Day's Mulciber, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b Mr. Goodman's Sister to Glencoe, 3 yrs, 7st 21b Captain Pettat's Caliph, aged, 9st 61b, BETTING. —l5 to 6 against the Don, and 15 to 6 agst Caliph. Won half length. The Avon Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft, once round and a distance. (3 Subs.) Mr. Cooke's Sequidilla, ist 1116, walked over. The Warwick Cup, by subscription of 10 sovs. each ; 4 miles. (29 Subscribers). Mr. Wreford's Wardan, 4 yrs Bst. 31b (J. Day, jun.) 1 Mr. J. Day's Viola, 3 yrs. sst 81b Mr. Collett's The Dean, 5 yrs. Bst 131 b 3 5t02 on Wardan. Won by a length. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; h. f., with 50 added. (6 Subscribers). Mr. Holmes's Vulcan, 4 yrs, fist 7th 1 1 Mr. .T. Day's Tamburini, 5 yrs. Bst 1216 4 2 Mr. G'oodinan's Mungo Park, 4 yrs. ist Mr. Morris's Fat Jack, aged, Bst 71b The Hunters' Stake was not run for when our account left. ST. LEGER BETTING, 13 to. 8 on• Coronation, 5 to 1 agst Van Amburgh, 9 to I agst The Squire (taken), and 30 to 1 agst SatiriSt (taken). The Knight of the Whistle and Lampoon are talked of, but not at any price. Lanercost will not run for the Doncaster Cup. SOCIALISM. TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN. Sin--I observe, in your paper of last evening, a statement respecting the Socialists, which has been going the round of the weekly and daily press, and which purports to be extracted from an Anti-Socialist circular, of which I bad not previously heard. You preface the statement by heading it, " Approaching extinction of the wretched Socialists," and say it will be read with much interest, as it shows Socialism to be rapidly on 'the decline. Alkiis me to inform your readers, through pages, by the inser tion of this 16ter, that`'there • does not exist a more happy class of per Sons than the Secialists, because they possess the confidence of being enabled, not only to relieve themselves, batlike wise the whole of society, from the wretchedly, distressed state in which they arc now placed, by the daily-increasing powers of machinery ;,., an d, with re! ,. ard to their Society b e i ng on the cline, fshall be happy to furnish you such'sta tistieal information of their rapid increase, as shall convince the most incredulous of the error of such a statement. By order of the Central Board, I am, Sir, your obedient servant, WILLIAM GALPIN, Gen. Sec. Central Board Office, 57, Pall Mall, Sept. 8, 1841. [We copied the paragraph from a Tory paper. —ED. Sun.] • - THE FESTIVITIES AT WYNN STAY. The long-talked of festivities, destined to take place at Wynnstay, in Denbighshire,the noble baronial residence of the present Sir W. Williams Wynn, in celebration of his coming of age, and for which brilliant preparations have been making for the last three weeks, commenced the day before yesterday at this ancient seat. The mag nificent nature of the entertainments and reception may be supposed, when it is stated that the PereyA, London derrys, Cholmondeleys, and numerous others of the highest families of the realm, have hastened to partici pate in the pleasures of the occasion, and we therefore furnish, from actual investigation and other sources, an account of the park, mansion, and interesting vicinage, through which, for the next few days, so. many princely persons will meet together in pageants and festivities. The interior of the mansion at Wynnstay, in which these festivities are taking place, is in every part hand somely fitted up, and in many rooms approaches to magnificence. The several spacious apartments which it contains are ornamented with many excellent paint ings. Among those which may be more especially par ticularized, are three large family portraits ; a beautiful St. Cecilia by Sir Joshua Reynolds; together with an Orpheus, by Dance, afterwards Sir Nathaniel Holland. The house itself, the most delightful residence, per haps, in Denbighshire, consists of a long range of building, standing. on the spot where formerly stood the mansion of Madox ap Gruffyd Maelor. Part of it was rebuilt by the first Sir John Wynn, in the sixteenth century, and part of it by a late Baronet of the family ; the late Sir Watkins also recently cased and enlarged the whole. This mansion is situated on a spacious lawn, in a broad and open park, in which there are abundance of attrac tions.. for the gay parties that now fill its circuits. Fore most of thee is a column nearly a hundred feet high, erect ed to the memory of the late Sir William Watkins Wynn, by his mother, Frances Lady William Wynn. Next to this, there is an avenue nearly a mile in length, the borders of which are adorned with some superb oak and elm-trees, which- will form one of the chief scenes of gaiety and carousal, leading as it does in a continuous arcade from a handsome modern gateway direct to the hall. Again in the park there is one feature which gathers much attraction about it, not from any intrinsic beauty in the thing itself, but from an affecting remi niscence with which it is connected. It appears only in the shape of an old and venerable oak, which is named after Sir John Wynn ; and tradition has handed down the report, that to this spot he w•as frequently led to feel the old tree, after that most precious thing on earth had been taken from him—his sight. He loved, it is said, to linger under its ancient branches, and as the winds of autumn shook the leaves in fitful gusts around his head, he often sighed at the remembrance of his own blither summer days, and repined at the dark winter which, unalleviated by light, was about to visit his later years. Beautifully, too, through these parts, the Ri ver D ee pours its pleasant waters, brightening the whole of this estate, through which it runs for a distance of more than five miles in length. Along the banks of this fair stream is a fine drive in the park, on which two buildings are passed, and which we must not omit to no tice. One is a tower erected in commemoration of the battle of Waterloo ; the other a cenotaph,' after the design of the Capo di Bove, near Rome, to the memory of the officers and soldiers of the regiment of Ancient British Cavalry, who fell in Ireland under Sir W. Williams Wynn. The views from both these buildings are capacious, and afford many rich and striking pictures to the eye. The grounds are of consi derable extent in themselves, being about eight miles in circumference. Adjoining the mansion is a neat small building, for merly used for private theatricals by the grandfather of the present Sir William. On a wall within the court yard are tho following lines, inscribed, more than a cen tury ago, by Sir John Wynn, Bart. : _ . ._ . . Cui domus est victusque decens, et patria dulcis Sunt satis hive vitae, ceetera cure, labor." Bosomful of sweets and pleasures, . Glides his life who owns the treasures Of thardear and threefold good— • Country—home—and wholesome food : All beyond these three things fair, Are but gilded pain and care. The family name of the owner •of Wynnstay was originally Williams, the addendum of Wynn being made early in the last century, upon their coming into posses sion of the Wynnstay property. The descent of the family-, which is the most ancient in the Principality, is dated from Cadrod Harrd, or Cadrod the Handsome, a British chieftain, who resided at Tremaday, and was Lord of Tallybolion in the beginning of the 12th century. The most illustrious member of this house in modern times was :Sir William Wynn, of Gray's Inn, the first Baronet, so cre a t e d i n t h e year 1688. Gray's celebrated lawyer was Recorder of Chester, Solicitor-General dur ing the short reign of James 11., and also under his successor, William 111. Mention has alr ea dy b een ma d e o f the change of name in the family and estate ; but it may be interesting to state that the first 7 1zunt‘ of the mansion W• at-stay, arose from its situ a ti on on the famous dike. It also should b e remarked that the collection of ancient Welsh manu scripts mad e b y . t h at eminent antiquary, Mr. W. Maurice, of Cern v Braich, are now preserved in the Library at to as mostitandi‘,l- The park, which we have before adverted Wymnstily. °f in Cant ref situated, reaches as far as the village situated b . on, and the whole of the estate is f t ‘ve c h ,o N n a l n r3 t , , now called the Hundred of C B l r o o s t e nfi o e n ld th e outskirtsre tan tnl3n.stay are many relics of ' :a:rnh ita)ennhgart,,asitt)trizaubeoort the s g ex re a a m t i a n n e ti t q h t e li al ty : others may be mentioned uniillit o faagre Bill,at • thetempt the curious to Caer, called the Garthe n buildings, t, habitations acres of ground man y co l n ,e t s a t i i n g i e n s g o f possessors. Within two hundred of the: old Offa's Dike, along the top t)i . ~, ,, . e 3;a rds . of this there is 1 1 u the turnpike-road runs for al, considerable way. A fierce kettle at this pce between Prince Owain -cyfei.was fought English, attended with victory to t heancie nt B and the and which gave rise to a ver y excellent poem called;lols, " Hirlas Owain, or the Drinkin g Horn of Owain , l ' . posed by that Prince himse lf . c om . In visiting these and other celebrated spots in the vicinity, the rides and excursions of the illustrious guests will be greatly enhanced with pleasures. Amor, those who have already - arrived here to partak e O f th e splendid hospitalities of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, are the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, mi ss Percy, Marchioness of Londonderry, and Lady Prance s Vane, Lord Seaham, Earl and Countess of I'owis and the Ladies Herbert, . Hon. R. 11. and Lady Harriet Clive and Miss Clive, Viscount and Viscountess Dungan non, Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, Hon. Miss Irvine, Lord and Lady Delamere and Hon. Miss Chohnondeley, lion. Hugh Chohnondelev, M.P., &c., who, already with the elite of the beau motuit besides assembled, and the neighbouring gentry, number at least one thousand visitors. In digging :he trenches for the foundation of the intended fort at llomainville, a considerable number Of human skeletons have been disinterred. From their forms, the fragments of clothing, some cuirasses in Swedish iron, and other indications, they are presumed to be the remains of forei g n troops killed on the capture of Paris i n 1814 and 1815. The bones have been col lected by the Mayor of Romainville and buried in the cemetery. We are sorry to hear of the decease of M. Alex andre Adam, sen., of Boulogne-sur-:tier, which took place on the Ist inst., in his 81st year.—Gulignani. THE SUN, LOND )N, 1: I PUBLIC DINNER TO G. BING, ESQ., MEMBER FOR MIDDLESEX. A public dinner was given yesterday at Brantford, by the ReformPrs of West Middlesex, to George Byng, Esq., their venerable representative. A temporary building was erected for the occasion, which was tastefully decorated with variegated lamps, with flags and banners, on which we noticed the follow ing inscriptions :—" The Queen and liberty"—" The Queen and the people"—" Byng, the advocate of cheap bread, and the friend of the poor"—" Down with the monopolists, the robbers, and oppressors of the poor"— Who taxeth the bread of the poor, the people shall curse him"—" No surrender"—" Peace and free trade with all the world." The building was crowded to excess, and it was com puted that not less than 500 sat down to dinner. A space was appropriated foi• the ladies, in which a great pro- portion of tho beauty of the county was assembled. Shortly after tour o'clock, the Chairman, Sir William Clay, 13art., entered the room, accompanied by Mr. Byng, who was received with loud cheers, all the company standing. In thC seats beside him we noticed Sir T. Wilde, M.P., Viscount Ebrington. M.P.,Hon. C. P. Vil liers, M.P., Mr. Vernon Smith, M.P., Sir John East hope, M.P., Mr. Hubhouse, M.P., Mr. Thothas Dun combo, M.P., Mr. Ewart, M.P., Mr. Ward, M.P., Sir De Lacy Evans, Mr. Whitbread, Blunt, Esq., W. A'Becket, ESq., W. Coppock, Esq., and other gentlemen. Grace having been said, and the cloth, removed, The CII AIR3IAN said, that the first toast which, in dis charge of. his office, it was his duty to propose, was the health of her Majesty the Queen.—(Loud cheers.) To that toast he was sure they would give a cordial. welcome, not oit'V because they entertained that feeling of loyalty Whielfo.felt by every Briton;bitt becauSe, a:Reformers, they could not but be sensible that no Sovereign had ever filled the throne of these realms who had shown that they more respected the rights and privih:ges, or had more deeply, at least, • the well-being of the people at heart. Their relations, as Reformers, towards their Sovereign, had within a short time sustained an impor tant alteration. The councils of this country were no , -longer guided by members of the Liberal party, but he was sure they would be happy to show that that made no difference in the feelings they entertained towards their Sovereign. They well knew that she had submitted to that necessity—(Cheers)—imposed upon every constitu tional monarch, and which no constitutional monarch better understood than herself.— (Cheers.) But they, the 1-Zeforrners of Middlesex, should be proud to show, on that and other occasions, that theirs was no time• serving loyalty— (Cheers) —no divided allegiance.— (C4ers.) 1-10 was quite certain he spoke the sentiments u'tevery man who heard him, when he said, that by Ro member or section of that party, would ever be mani fested a want of that dutiful respect which was owing to her Majesty, and which was not only due to her as the Sovereign, but as the first lady of the realth.--(Cheers.) With these few words of preface, he would propose the health of her Majesty the Queen.—(Cheers, and three times three.) Air—" God save the Queen." The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The health of Prince Albert," and afterwards "The Duke of Sussex, and the rest of the Royal Family in England," which toasts were drunk with three times three, and longeontinued cheering. The CHAIRMAN then said he would call their attention to that toast which had more immediate reference to the object of their assembling that day—he had to propose the health of George Byng, Esq., their ve nera bl e repre sentative.—(Loud and long-continued cheering.) He had anticipated that a cordial welcome would greet the toast, and he was quite sure that their approbation of his Hon. Friend—the appro bation of. his conduct which was manifested by their cheers, was entertained by them iu common , not on l y with he electors of Middlesex, but also with those of the United Kingdom.—(Loud cheers.) - Where was the public man who had better deserved the approbation of his fellow-citizens ?—(Cheers.) Where was the Member of Parliament who had discharged with greater fidelity the arduous duties of a representative of the people ? (Cheers.) Others might have manifested as true a de votion to Liberal principles—others might have been as consistent in their public conduct—but to what other man had Providence given'the opportunity to display those qua lities through so long a career ? If he mistook not, it was now more than half a century since his Hon. Friend first entered upon public life; and now, after the lapse of that long period, they still found him support ing Lord John Russell—(Tremendous cheering)—with the same steadiness—even with the youthful energy— which he displayed in following the banners of Mr. Fox. —(Loud cheers.) And during that long career could one single instance be cited in which he had been found leagued . with the enemies of popular rights?—(Loud cheers)—in which he had not shown himself a steady friend of civil and religious liberty?—in which he had nut shown himself ready to defend, confirm, and extend the rights and privileges of the people ?----(Cheers.) Firm and temperate, prudent and uncompromising, just as he was in the outset, such he was—he would not say in the close, but in the latter portion of his career.—(Cheers.) In his youth he was not rash, in honoured age he had not shown himself timid —(Cheers.) As in the early portion of his public life he did not by his advocacy of rash doctrines alarm the • prudent and alienate the wise and good from the cause of Reform, so also in the later portion of his career he had shown no disposition to go over to . the•:Tories.—(Lond cheers.) He (the Chair men) did not think that even during the excitement of the Reform Bill, his Honourable Friend was one of those who preposed to swamp the House of Lords—(Cheers)--but, on the other hand, neither had he deserted the cause of the people.— (Cheers.) It appeared to him that 'the consistency of his lien. Friend was of that order which constituted the merit of public men.—(Hear.) Of this he was certain, that among•those qualities that best procured for public men that confidence on the part of the people, which was absolutely necessary for the healthy working of the political system—that high amongst them must be reck oned that honourable consistency of public conduct, of which the career of his Honourable Friend had offered so bright an example.—(Cheers.) On such a man, it appeared to him the public should, for their own sake, be anxious to heap every honour which it was in their power to oMr.—(Cheers.) It appeared to Min they should raise the name of such a man to that emi nence which the public estimation —which the approbation of a free people—..could alone confer, and where it would operate as an incentive to honourable ambition, and shine with steady splendour as a beacon light to cheer the patriot in discharge of his arduous, and not unfre quently, thankless task.—(Loud cheers.) He would not detain them by giving film proofs of what he had asserted respecting his Honourable Friend. To those whom he addressed, such proofs were unnecessary; yet he could not avoid referring to a late instance, in which he had proved his devotion to the cause of the people.—(Cheers.) What had been his conduct on the last great question which had agitated the minds of the people ? —a question on which he might have been expected to falter—a question on which he must have felt great difficulty, considering his peculiar position. B u t w h a t h a d b een M r . Byng's conduct re specting the Corn-laws ?—(Loud cheers.) He had se parated himself from his class, and differed from the men whom he loved—being himself among the most eminent landowners of the kingdom, and had shown that he .could form a judgment of his own on the greatest of all political questions, unswayed by bias even by that unconscious bias by which minds of the best men were - but too apt to be af fected.—(Cheers.) He had separated himself from his class, and had joined himself to that small but. illustrious band of statesmen and patriots, the Bedfords, Fitzwil hams, and Spencers—(Cheers)—men already dear to • their country, and whose conduct in this matter would endear them to their country still more—(Cheers) — men too wise to believe.the interests of the landowners could be separated from the interests of the whole com munity ; or, it it were so, too patriotic to seek for exclu sive advantages to be enjoyed at the expense of the rest of their fellow-citizens.—(Cheers.) He believed his Honourable Friend had not been less diligent in giv ing practical effect,' to his principles. He appealed to his lion. Friends around him if they had ever known him absent from a division.—(Cheers.) lie, the father of the House of Commonsand, as he (Sir W. Clay) had called him, so he would express the wish, that his family were more like him—(Hear)—that they had more of a family likeness.—(Hear.) He had set an example of diligence and zeal which the youngest of them might be proud to imitate. However tedious the debate—at whetever hour it terminated, no man could say that he had not found Mr. Byng at his post.— (Cheers.) With these few words of preface, in which he had indulged rather to satisfy hiS - own feelings than from any impression that it was necessary to explain his merits, or to excite their enthusiastn, he would propose to 'them the health of George - Byng, Esq., their long-tried and consistent Member for Middlesex.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. BYNG, who was received with great enthusiasm, said lie rose to return them his most heartfelt thanks . for the honour they had done him in drinking his health, but it was impossible for him to find terms sufficiently strong to express his feelings. He was very certain, that if lie had represented any common place in this country, he never should have accepted the trust without having made up his mind never to betray his trust. He never could. Perfidy was not in hig nature. What could. they think of the man who accepted of a trust, and who afterwards converted the power the constituency had given him to gratify his own vanity di ambition, and nothing-else ?—((:lieers.) He felt particularly obliged •to those gentlemen who had done him the honour of in viting him to meet his brother Reformers. It was time that Reformers should meet—(Cheers)—and he hoped that their example would be followed,in every part of the country. The cause of Reform, they must ac knowledge, did not then stand as it had done. Ten years .o is n li s e o s i o .t f he tl i i n e o a s i t i ago they were able to carry reforms beyond the expecta tions a ' n the te rCr Crown.--(Cries situationlt•t aristocracy,' ;t o ng i c l y t R a e n f d o rrgearbsi,s against againsttheet I h e e t avowed o( a e lt r e ie r s ed ?of A ‘‘ i teturm .Ministry 11 - , / h .l i c ei v i had m done (At, ten times more, than any oth er Mi n i stry ever did fo r th e people of this' country, and which was backed most faithful' by the boverwrn— •- pealed to th e wo le Y the (Cs)---aP hem. lie had d ,t7inedrefn,cioslie ,Ministry had declared in the House of Commons than any other ri n ad d ' ( , ) t n r e , mo . r , e e which ver (lid, and he said that the last act of theirs ti been the cause of their dismissal, was worth an • act a they could Possibly name.—(Cheers.) There was 3 Reform which h a d d one the same good to the peopleno this country as th a t R e f orm, if they had been allowed of to carry it.—(Cheers.) A n d what was theirpro posal ? Great e x p ense h ad been incurred, and b o w was it to be met ? Common Ministers would have met it by additional taxation, but they found out a much better method, which, instead of adding to taxa don, would add to the revenue, and at the same time open the trade of the country to the whole universe.— (Cheers.) He (Mr. Byng) believed that there never was such distress as that which existed at the p:esent moment ; and if they could have given employment to our manufacturing labourers, they would have made • them not only hapey lee er.efel subjects.—(Hear, hear.) f If employed, :.hey' AVOItH have addiel to the - Wealth end stability of the country ; bin , as it was, their poor fellow. countrymen were absolutely iii. a • state of starvation,, (Hear, and cries of " Shame.") They had heard of such scenes of misery as had never before been experienced in this . country. They had hefted of them from . a person well informed, and much to be:believed in everything he said, that men were willing to give not only their labour but their skill ; and he had always reckoned that in ad dition to their labour men should be paid for their skill ; and yet men of that description had been known to pawn their clothes at night to obtain bedding, and again to pawn their bedding in the morning to obtain clothes. —(Cries of " Shame, shame.") The aristocracy Of the country had overpowered them.—(Hear, hear.) lie had always hoped to live under a Government of King, Lords, and Commons, but he found himself living under an erietocreey—(Cheers)—the worst of all Governments, because, with some iew exceptions, he believed they had lees feeling :ear their- fellow-countrymen than any ther inen.-!--(Clicers.) , They indulged in their love of power, of wealth, and luxury ; not caring fur the std . - ferings of their fellow creatures. Now, - he contended. that if they knew their real interests, they would think 01 their follow countrymen, and not thiele only of there- selves.---(Hear, hear.) He was certain that if they opened the trade Of this' country to all the world, and made all the corn and foed of the world one common stock, they would be able to send out additional manufactures to the amount of many millions, and would be repaid in food by those who could not afford to repay in any other .way. lie was certain that if all . the corn in the world was made into one common stock, it ' would raise the price acorn all over the world, and would also, of course, raise the price of food, which, with • the addition of Ete. duty, which, the manufacturers willingly offered, would certainly be a fair compensation to the agricultu rist.—(Cheers.) They never ought to hear of the agri cultural interest, and the fanded'interest, and the manu facturing interest ; there should be but one.commOn in terest—(Cheers)—and then the population of this coun try, which had increased so wonderfully, would add to their strength instead of adding to their weakness.— (Loud Cheers.) At that moment corn was selling at nearly 10s. a bushel. He had known the,same corn un der the present law, which he'' was now convinced was thoroughly injurious, selling at es. 3d.. and yet they were told that one great excellence of die law was, that it afforded bread eta certain fixed price: - AnOther effect that would result from the proposed alteration would be that it would reduce rents ; and if every thing became cheaper they could afford to do it ; and if they could not afford it, they were bound to do it. If they did not think of their fellow-creatures, • how could they think that Almighty- God would think, of them.—(Cheers.) There °tight to be unanimity c:g in their seve ral stations of landlord, tenant, and labourer. The landlord should' Wel 1 4 411 is tenants as for his own faMily. lie should render ihein 'ereev sort 'of assistance in his power, and !he would then have a right to call upon the tenant to love and 'cherish his labourers. It I , •a's most sAtisfiietory to him (Mr. B.) to know that thriSe when ho was best acquainted with, were most kind and liberal . to those etnployed under them. But that was not the ease in the greater part of England. In the greater part of England the agricultural labourer was treated almost as bed!) , as the manufacturing labourer. And what folly it was. How was it possible that a man who was not well feel and taken care of could give a farmer a good day's Work.—(Hear, hßar.) It was' im possible. He was sorry for an instant to compare his fellow man to a horse, or a cow; but where was the nein who expected a cow to give milk, or a horse to work, if it was not then taken care of ?—(llear, hear.) It Was shocking to compare the two things together, but he was obliged to do'so' to. express his feelings on the -subject. He begged pardon for detaining them so long. ,It was impossible lie could ever be. too. anxious to stand well in their good opinion, and when their connexion ceased, he should wish that they might all say, " We might have had a more eminent representative, but one of more honesty, consistency, and principle, we could not have had." (The Hon. Gentleman sat down amid loud cheers.) Mr. U7HomAS DUNCoMBE then rose to propose " The rights of the people, and may they have the zeal to protect, and the firmness to defend them." The Hon. Gentleman, in the course of an able speech, which We re gret we have not room to insert, said that the majority in the present House of Commons had been obtained by the grossest bribery ; that it was the spawn of corrup tion and intimidation which - `was encouraged by that clause in the Reform Bill, called the Chandos clause, and no wonder therefore they had a Chandos Parlia ment.—(Cheers.) Persons went about saying, " Give the Tories a fair trial," but it could result only in one thing, foul play to the people.—(Hear, hear.) The time was come when they must meet monopoly and oppression. and fight them hand to hand and foot to foot. The people must not only meet, but speak out, on occasions like the present. Not only intolerance, but ignorance was dis played by the present Cabinet. Let them look to the late speech of the Duke of Wellington. He (Mr. D.) was sorry that he was not better ' acquainted with the condition of the people to who;n he was so much .in debted ; for he had st a t e d t h a t t hi s was th e on ly coun try lie had visited where the poor man, so long as he was sober and industrious, was quite certain of obtaining a competency.—(oh, oh.) Could any 'thing display greater ignorance than that ? It could only be equalled by the declaration of the Same individual, that the old boroughmongering Parliament was the, perfec tion of the Constitution.—(Cheers.) They had .now an " expediency!' Cabinet, but expediency meant only that men's conduct could .be influenced by their fears, and when they knew this to be so it was for the millions in the country to speak out and to extort from the fears of a Tory Parliament that which they could never obtain from flu i r sense of justice.—(Cheers.) e ' The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The Army and Navy." . . ~ Sir DE LAcv Evares briefly returned thanks, and pro posed the health of their late Member, Mr. UAW, on whom he pronounced a very high eulogi u Or, .and valid' was drank with much cheering. e , ' • . e!' Mr. WARD, M.P., in an eloquent speech, proposed, " Extension of the suffrage, and vote by. • ballot," which was drank with loud cheers. Mr. VILLIERS, M.P., in proposing " Peace and free trade with all the w old," said that the principles of peace and free trade were intimately connected, since every person engaged in connnered must be opposed to the barbarous policy of war, which was too much in favour among smile of the rulers of this country. That their honoured guest would live to see the triumph of both principles was not only his hope but his expectation. The opponents of free trade had been justly said to stand between God's providence and man's necessities. He did not expect to be defeated, but he saw no cause for despair ; on the contrary, he believed that time pre sent . crisis would end in a very general and decided reaction in favour of the principles he advocated.— (Hear, hear.) . With respect to the present Ministry. he had no reason to believe them faithless, and he had therefore every reason to believe them mischievous.—(Cheers.) A struggle between them there must be, and the sooner they, cleared time stage for it time better. Let King Rent ge on the one side, and the Queen and the people on the other—the world would look on, and God speed the right.—(Cheers.) lie would back the people against the Peers.—(Cheers.) They always had succeeded when they' had been right —and he said free-trade was the natural right of man, and that it ought not to be controlled, unless some great and general good was the consequence. No landholder had the right to deprive the industrious people of the fruits of their indUstry, any more than he had, in feudal times, to rob them of their property, or to violate the honour of their homes, lie was not suffered to inflict the one injury now, and he (Mr. V.) did not see why he should be permitted to do the other.— (Hear, hear.) Free trade would be an antidote to war, and the best practical promotion of the Christian pur pose of peace and good will amongst men. Down, therefore, with the Monopolists, who were the foes of the common weal, and who opposed every object which reason and religion prompted them to pursue.—(Cheers.) Mr. HonuousE peopesed" Lord John Russell and time Liberal Members of time House of Commens,", which was drank with greet enthusiasm. Sir Tuoni - As WILD}, M.P., returned thanks in a long and able speech, in which he reviewed the conduct of the Whig Ministry, and contrasted it with that of their opponents. They had done much, and if they had not done more, it was because they were not b e tter sup ported by the people. The people had little to expect from the present Government, time, like the Gallant Candi, date for a certain borough, who had been twice before_ a ttili%th:swejpvard as was Court-inertial, Sir Robert Peel had been, “.twicg.p,j,(ar' and had been found wanting., The iionQijr,q,bie And Learned Gentleman then adverted to the contingt pc,,the Tories out of power, and asserted that thit , y.flad.,no right to force themselves into power, without.making known the principles on which they were about to govern. He hoped that the Opposition would be conducted on the great principles they had advo caled when in office, and that they would persevere political life should j e ll : cease i t r h s e u r might ort; that evening beStowed on their , rgy ieTp k ir 0 honoured Member for his upright and consisteqem p ritcl.dactililae receiven 6t 7 —namely, the grateful approbation of an erdighto l o peork ,. Mr. OTWAY CAvi3 proposed `` The 4bcral Adminis tration of Ireland." Viscount EBRINGTO'N, AI.P., briefly r e t urne d t h an k s. Sir JOHN EAsmok, in proposing th e toast o f " C i v i l and religious liberty,v said, that after the eloquence they had heard that evening, it was not his intention to oc cupy them at any length of time, : but he could not pro pose the toast without glancing at the good fortune woieh he had experienced in haying .1 1 ; 1 3 1 ,9 praetap il l,,an Dias theiN,, eii r ei:able illus tration of its aim and meapiag i bar n and respected representativeAo, j ust oil h ori j r , w4he uniforM and steady advocate of ein ItnA ren . gipiwilgoixty., lie begged leave to thank him very sincerely,ffir,Ale,x pressions of his benevolent sympatby with hAsAyessed fellow countrymen,, who were suaerinw under privations far beyond his power to describe, and which he IVas satisfied nothing but the exercise of t4p, ,principles he had so well advocated that evening Ivould be abfe to alleviate.—<Cheers.) Mr. Ew.tia, M.P., proposed, "Freedom of trade, commerce, and manufactures," which was drank with loud clicer.,. After several other apprOpriate toasts, ►chich werere spondedto with enthusiasm, the meeting separated. A ' lecture on Idolatry was delivered at the Old . Ilill chapel, Brighton, on Monday afternoon, by Gurney, Esq., to a crowded assembly. The 'co ot." Gods," consisting of I a black stone with a hole throu g h the • centre, in th e crev i ces o f w hich tltiterceersp of o . c wood of a n v aiious assortment ompe and sizes, zes, he stated the natives considered a God to reside and that proper persons were employed to pour water through to heep him cool in that hot climate, (India), a large shell, bunch of feathers, &c. The feathers are supposed to pOssess the power of healing wounds when placed on the injured parts. The Gods of• Images were those con stantly worshiped by the inhabitants of those countries. —Brighton Guardian, • t i'..tdul 0-1 211011,. ~:1: btt) . :e4:13.2:: sE TE MBE 11, e4l. TB [EVES' Q UARREL. . . . `Foi 4 'Sev6ral daVs' we have been addressed in anoriy monsdelttits;::written evidently by persons acquainted with.whe t is-passing in some small. Conservative circles. all assuring us that the Protestant cause is threatened by the new Ministry, and urging us to resume the p itiwt we occupied in 1829. We vainly sought to obtain per sonal interviews with the writers of these letters, in the hope that we might by reasoning calm their appre hensions, if they really . entertained any, which we more than doubted. Our anonymous correspondents were ton cunning ; they were willing enough to commit us to .falsehood, but they would not commit them. selves. We had no difficulty, hoWever, in dis covering who they were from the nature of the proofs of •hustility to the Protestant cause with which their communications • overflowed these proofs being that certain Irish Protestant leaders had been neglected in the disPosal of offices ; and all possible un certainty was removed by an intimation, given to us in a letter of Monday, that the line which it was found we would not take, would be seen adopted by a most re• spectable Irish journal of the same day. As that journal was, to our knowledge, in a great measure influenced by an individual, we were at no • loss to know from whom the threatened mischief proceeded. Circumstances of a private, we might say of a personal, nature render it improper for us to name the individual, but Irish Protes tants can be at no loss to fix upon him when we say, that he is the last man in the empire whom the Protestants of Inlaid ought to trust. This morning we looked into the Irish journal to which we had been referred, and with equal sorrow and surprise we, saw in that able and respectable organ of Protestant principles the threatened attack upon Sir Robert Peel's Government. This has determined us not to remain silent ; for when we find men, of whose talents we have had proof for many years, and whose integrity we can never doubt, thus grossly imposed upon, what may not the less informed class of Irish Protestants fear? Having said so much to explain the causes, and to show the minute dimensions of the pretended discon tent in the Conservative party, we shall now enter into the details of our distasteful task. We know , that in doing so, we shall give a day ' s triumph to the adversaries of Conservative principles ; but better give them the triumph of a day, than permit the growth of an evil which, unchecked, must render their triumph final, and end in the ruin of Protestantism in Ireland, as ruined it will be if the Irish Protestants do not heartily commit themselves with the present Governmeitt. The following is an extract from the leading article of the respectable journal to which we have referred, as being misled into an expression of discontent : . ."For ourselves we must speak candidly. We cannot but tech wills surprise and regret upon arrangements zelilch, however excelleist and unexceptionable in gene ral, appear to exclude Ir, 1 slid from her fair share cf power and patronage in the Administration. Some few posts back we gave ,willing credit to &?' Robert Peel for a desire to do justice to Ireland in this respect. One or two miner appointments seemed to indicate that the Conservative leaders of Ireland were about to receive that consideration in the Cabinet, which not merely their services to the Conservative cause, but the importance of the country itself demanded ; and we could not contem plate the possibility that the tide of preferment was to rest at those shallows, and that the heads of the party in Ireland were not to share in the honours and employ• ment,s of which Scotland had secured for herself a rea sonable portion at least, and which England was enjoy ing from a cornucopia. In the Cabinet, indeed, we have the Duke' of Wellington, in himself a host, and Sir Henry Ilardinge, an excellent man ; but neither of them, inthe restricted sense we speak of, heads of the Irish party. But, neither in the class of secondary officers, Sibrr in the Boyd household, is Ireland fairly represented. We have no desire at all to embarrass Sir Robert Peel. As the' organ of the Conservatives of Ireland, we fought his battles long and faithfully ; and it is because we desire to see his Government flourishing and per manent that we take leave to remonstrate on an over sight which might tend to diminish the confidence of Ire land in his Administration.- Official appointments are the types of policy. We should like to' see the policy of the new Administration indicated by such unequivocal demonstrations. " With respect to the Irish Administration we had something to say—part of which is anticipated in the following letter, received, whilst we were committing the foregone thoughts to paper, from an influential cor • respondent " `TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING MAIL. " September 6. " Sir—No small surprise, and I fear I must add al.lrm, has been excited amongst a numerous body of your readers, by the consultation which appears, by the Lon- don papers, to have been held between our new Lord Lieutenant., his Secretary, and the Marquis qf Normanby. Heaven forbid that we are to have more of ' following in the footsteps of a predecessor !' Many go so far as to infer that it is intended to throw over, or sell the Protes tant party altogether ; bat although this idea may be absurd, there is no doubt of the excitement and curiosity produced by the interview above alluded to, and we natu rally look to our leading journal, in which we all feel confidence, for some explanation of an affair which at present seems perfectly unintelligible. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, K' A SUBSCRIBER TO THE EVENING MAIL.' " We confess our inability to explain, in any satisfactory way, the untoward interview of which our friendly correspon dent corppluins. We trust—indeed we feel assureth—that his apprehensions, sharpened by the sufferings of the last fen yeaq,tir6 too vivid. For Lord De Grey we feel all the respect mid confidence due to his talents and cha►ituter; and his administration shall receive at our hands all the sup port, which, on ,experience, it shall deserve. We have no wish tci add to the difficulties of his position ; on the con trary, it is our earnest desire that he may be able to surmount them •all with honour to himself and benefit to the United Empire. But we warn him that his path will be beset with temptations and dangers, which it wit require great firinneSs 'to aroM. If he seek to conciliate li)es that are really irreconcilable—if he neglect the friends who are able and willing to serve him, and by whose co operation alone he can govern the country in the free and generous spirit of the British Constitution—if, for a false popularity, he surrender his discretion, or worship expediency by the compromise qi principl2—we warn and admOnish him befortihand that he will not add to his honour or his happiness by coining to Ireland. But we hope, indeed we know better things of his Lordship, and trust that our duty will consist not only with a hearty welcome, but a zealous endeavour to sustain and facili tate the measures of his administration." Such is the welcome prepared for a Conservative Ad ministration in Ireland, but we have snore to add from the London Correspondence of the same journal : " Lord Eliot's appointment to the Chief Secretaryship in Ireland is still .the cause of great uneasiness hero. His Lordship has many faults, aud, amongst them, an.in ordinate love of popularity. How many a statesman's character has been wrecked on this shoal, particularly in Irelanc, it were needless to enumerate. " Those who know Lord Eliot best have great fears lest his Lordship's fame be compromised before he is long in his new office. He is a strange compound—this Lord Ltot. Coid and distant with those upon an equality with him, he is at the same time too familiar with those who can minister to.his vanity—and there is no reason to doubt that he will lack sycophants in the new sphere of his action, Under all the circuthstanCes, therefore, the great danger is that Lord Eliot will sacrifice•too much to popularity. It will be right, however, before pro nouncing any decided opinion, that he have a fair trial' and let him be judged by his actions in Ireland, and not by his previous character."—Standard. How TO KEEP A PRISONER.—The Boston Post relates the following mode of practice of the late Sampson Wood, once Sheriff of Middlesex county, Mas sachusetts ; "He often had to convey desperate prison ners from one part of the county to another, and when night came, he used to iron himself hand and foot to his prisoner, and go to bed, and address him thus :—" You can now go to sleep if you like, or let it alone. For my part, I shall go to sleep. You can't get away without waking me up, and carrying me with you. You have got one free arm and one free leg, and so have I. Yet you hay make out to kill me ; but if you do you'll have to carry my carcase with you, and that will be proof enough to get you hanged for - murder. So )ou see I shall stick to you like death . to a dead nigger, any way you can fix it. Good night.' It is hardly pecessary to say, that with this queer measure of precaution no prisoner attempted to escape from Samson." RAILROADS IN. IRELA ND.—Tile counties of Clare, Limerick, and Cork, and the cities of Limerick and Cork, have unanimously adopted p e titions to the Legis lature, in support of railway undertakings, which, it is expected, will shortly be commenced. The will and codicil of the late - Mr. James Wood, of Gloucester, was proved on Saturday in the. Registry of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Coun cil, by Sir Matthew Wood, Bart., Mr. Jacob Osborne, and Mr. John .Surman, the surviving executors. The property (personally) is sworn under 1,000,000/. The probate amounts to 13,500/. The legacy duty is 10 per cent., except upon that portion given to Mrs. Uoodlake and Mr. Surman, which will pay 6 per cent. • • LANCASTER AND PRESTON RAILWAY.— We believe we are right in saying, that this is the best managed railway (as respects the cost of working) in the kingdom. By the last official statement, it is shown that the total cost, including Government duty, is only 25 per cent. upon the receipts.—Lancaster Guardian. THE WEATHER.—Since this day week the weather has been exceedingly variable, but, on the whole, very unfavourable for the harvest. This bad weather, we learn, has also prevailed very extensively, both in Scotland and the south of England, and we fear its conscquepces will be seriously injurious to the crops. The temperature has also become much lower, and there have been several cold, frosty nights.--31anchester Guardian. ' DUBLIN, SEP. 6.—lt is stated to-day that Mr. Pennefathcr, Q.C., is to be the new Lord Chancellor. Lefroy, who sought the Chancellorship, is to be ap peased by a peerage, and his son is to be appointed Chairman of Kilmainham, vice Blacker, who resigns for the occasion. The general opinion here is, that Mr. Lucis, late Member for Monaghan, will be the new Under-Secretary. Mr. George Alexander Hamilton has also been much spoken of for the same office. By some it is asserted that Sir Robert Peel is unwilling that any Irish Tory should bc placed in this important Offi ce . WOOD PAVING FOR ST. GEORGE ,TH E MARTYR'S,. SOUTH WA RK.—Yesterday a Vestry was held at the Church of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, for the purpose of applying to. the Commissioners of Pavement's to lay down in Church - street, and that portion before the sacred edifice, a wood-paving instead of renew ' ing the stone. One of the chief reasons alleged by the Rev. Mr. Horton, the Rector in the-Chair, was to pre . vent the interruption during Divine service, occasioned by . coaches and' vehicles. The motion for the application was finally agreed to. Over the doOr of a vender of varieties in a coun try Tillage is—“ Licentious dealer in Backey and 6nuti." THE NEW FOREST. For the first flair miles or thereabouts after passing Redbridge, which crosses the narrowest portion or the Southampton Water at its inland extremity, the country bordering - upon the Forest is highly cultivated, and seems to hold forth a promise of- affording some pretty good runs with hounds according with the general character of many , other hunting countries ; but beyond that dis tance the features of the scenery become gradually changed into those of a' wild'woedland'distiiet, abound ing in heather, f'rn, furze, and such other growths as are usually found in the light, uncultivated soils, the whole being embeliir,hed by a profusion of oak, beech, thorn, and divers other trees, growing in fantastic luxuriance wherever the wild hand of Nature has cast them, and assuming forms and combinations such as Art 'could • never realise, and which take captive the soul of a be holder whose heart is not "in the habitations of men." Grassy glades, illumined partially by such rays of the sun as can force their way through the maze of trees by which they are environed, and forming a splendid con trast of light and shade, ever and anon present them selves to the eye of the traveller, and seem to speak of days long gone by, when similar spots are haunted by bold Outlaws in Lincoln Green, ready to try a bout at quarter-staff with any bluff yeoman whose pockets were supposed to contain wherewithal to repay the peril of the venture. Occasionally small troops of deer are seen scudding across these open spots, or browsing leisurely among the high fern which nearly conceals them from sight ; and so lone and tranquil are these wilds that the mind is carried away by the idea that in the present cen tury a region so undisturbed by man is not to be found in cultivated England ; and hence, easily reverting to days of yore, imagination-almost leads one to listen for the whistle of the grey-goose shaft from the bow of some second Robin Hood, or the requicscat in pace of his " Curtal Friar" over the body of some antlered monarch of the herd. If there be at the present moment such a being as a determined misanthrope in the world, many portions of the New Forest will afford him a retreat that will seldom be molested by his fellow-men, and where he may pass his days in savage solitude "unknowing and unknown." Independent of fox-hunting, the New Forest presents to the man fond of sporting in general a rich fund of amusement, provided he can obtain permission to follow his favourite pursuits unmolested. Great numbers of wild fowl of every description—ducks, teal, widgeon, geese, &c. &c.—not only frequent it in immense flocks during the winter, but are likewise bred there ; the snipe-shooting is in many parts superexcellent ; and hares, rabbits, partridges, and black game are also abun dant, to say nothing of pheasants, which are in many parts preserved by the landed proprietors bordering on, or in the centre of, the . Forest, although I believe they are not fed on the Royal preserves. I have likewise either heard it asserted, or read in some periodical, that some few packs of grouse are occasionally met with by the shooter ; but of this fact, although I made particu lar inquiry, I could not obtain any certain intelligence. The Royal Chase is looked. after by thirteen keepers, who have each his separate walk ; but in spite of their numbers and vigilance, poaching, especially deer-steal ing, is carried on, as I was informed, to a pretty consi derable oient. One or two of the gun-makers in South ampton arc the best men to apply to for the purpose of being put in the right way to obtain permission to shoot in the Forest, and I presume that the key that will open the head-keeper's heart is not made of iron. - The fisherman will find abundance of sport both on Southampton Water and in the rivers which run into it. In the former are to be caught by the merest novice with a hook and line great quantities of whiting, haddock, and flat fish ; a net will procure the greater delicacies of grey mullet and bass-fish. In the latter are .eels, jack, perch, and small fry, together with 'a remarkably fine species of salmon, which readily fetches in the market nearly three tunas the price of that sent up from Scot land.—Old Sporting Magazine for September. THE NEW NovELs.—We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, has just published the following new works of fiction, which can be had at all the libraries:-1. Charles Ches terfield, or the Adventures of a Youth of Genius, by Mrs. Trollope ; 3 vols., with numerous illustrations by Phiz.-2. The Pic Nis Papers, by various hands, edited by Charles Dickens, Esq. (Boa); 3 vols., with numerous illustrations by George Cruikshank, &c.-3. Tom Bowl ing, a Tale of the Sea, by Capt. Frederic Chamier, R.N.; 3 v 015..-4. James Hatfield, and the Beauty of Butter mere, a Story of Real Life, by Edmund Carrington, Esq.; 3 vols., with illustrations by R. Cruikshank.-5. The Love Match, a Novel, by Mrs. Moberly; 3 vols.-6. The Trustee, an Historical Romance, by the author of " The Provost ofßruges ;" 3 vols.-7. De Clifford, or the Con stant Man, by the author of " Tremble," and "De Vere ;" 4 The Marriage Mart, or Society in India; 2 vols.-9. The Moneyed Man, by Horace Smith,. Esq.; 3 vols.—And 10. Greville, or a Season in Paris, by Mrs. Gore; 3 vols. _ _ _ FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—A few nights ago, a child belonging to a man named Hetherington, hav ing that day died in the port of this town, the neigh bours gathered to the wake, in the upper part of the house, where the corpse lay ; the rooms were crowded by persons who were amusing themselves with the usual games practised on such occasions, when the loft fell, carrying with it the corpse and sorrowing visitors ; a large beam, which supliorted the loft, came down on the mother of the corpse, who sat in the room on the ground floor, and fractured her skull. A young man was so severely injured that he died on the following day, and 15 other persons were seriously injured, who still remain in a very precarious .state.—Ballishannon Merril. A TURKISH BIBLIOMANIAC. —A few days ago a Turk, who, for the last twelve years, was well known' in Constantinople as an itinerant seller of zertle pillau richly coloured with saffron), died, and to the astonishment of everybody he left a library of books ivltieh cost him upwards of 3,0001 He was flirmerly a schoolmaster, and had quite a passion for book 3 ; but, finding that teaching little boys to recite and chant the Koran did not furnish him with the means of indulging his bibliomania, he took to selling pillau. his large kazan, placed on a stand and carried like a • sedan chair, was constantly surrounded by hungry de xourers, who spooned their allowance of the delicious preparations into their widely-extended mouths with evident gusto, the quoddatu Hodja, apron_ down, stand ing by with a ladle, ever ready to serve new customers. No one would have suspected that all the while he was thinking of purchasing another book to add to his al ready ample stock ; but all his gains took that direction, and he frequently gave as m uc h as 501 . f or a s i ng l e wor k His sin and heir, who lOves pillau more than books, has determined, instead of play, on selling the more pre cious library, ofAvhich a catalogue is now in circulation. The whole are manuscripts, and the value of many of the works is much deteriorated in consequence of their having lately been printed. We are told that they are principally on religious subjects, or perhaps some literary treasure (as the "Appendix to Vassif's History of the Ottoman Empire," for instance) might have been found in the collection.- 7 -Oricntal Observer. The obsequies of the late Samuel Welles, Esq., the eMinent banker, were perforined 'on Thursday last. Nearly all the Americans; his countrymen, then here, and very many of his distinguished French acquaint ance, assembled before nine o'clock at his elegant chateau of Sure:kw, in order to pay an earnest tribute of esteem for his memory. The funeral procession to the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, included a great number of private equipages, and suited in every respect his social rank and personal consideration. At the grave, a brief and terse eulogy of the defunct was pronminced by the Rev., Mr. Birch, the excellent pastor of the Reformed Church of the Rue Taitbout. Mr. Welles . was born at Boston, in the United States, in 1778. He inherited a fortune, which, after receiving a thorough : mercantile education, he speedily enlarged by intelligent and energetic -enterprise. In 1816, •he founded the house of Welles. and , Co,, in. , this capital, and that of Welles and Greene at Havre. His, faculties of observa tion and decision with regard to both financial and poli tical queStions, and his phibity, sedulousness, Ind ex . attitude in. business, were such as to assure him final success. Those whp,held frequent communion with him, must have been struck With his acuteness, lucidity, and sound sense, on whatever practical 'subject. While he accumulated wealth, he exercised a constant and bril liant hospitality. In domestic life the habitual cheer fulness of his demeanour contributed much to the hap piness of his family and the gratification of his guests.— Galignani. • TUE CORN-LAWS.—DAY OF PRAYER AND ll:mimATlos.—lt is a singular coincidence that .the very day on which the New Tory Ministers first take their seats as Alinisters in the two Houses of Parliam e h t , should have long before been appointed by the Man • Chester Conference of Clergymen and Ministers, as a day to be set apart for prayer and deep humiliationhefore God, in respect of the great privations and sufferings of the poor, arising from the present oppreSsive Corn-laws.; Monday last was duly observed in the way recommended by the Conference in many congregations in this town. The chapels were open for Divine service ; prayers in accordance with the occasion were offered by the minis ters to Him who bath given plenty and abundance to his creatures, that he would be pleased to turn the hearts of those who deny them the bread already given them in the bountiful providence of God. There is, we repeat, a striking significance in this solemn humiliation in many a congregation of serious, earnest people, throughout the length and breadth of the laud, on the very day that a Duke of Buckingham and other aristocratical makers and upholders of the oppressive and unjust Corn-laws, rush to their seats of power and place—awhile (would we could say a brief while) to sway the destinies of this mighty empire. —Manchester Guardian. A FEMALE MISER.—Thc other day a person named Croft waited upon Mr. Stronger, the relieving officer for Greenwich, and stated that she believed an old woman, named Elizabeth Barron, the widow of a college-man, was in a most destitute condition, having been without food several days, adding, it was the im pression of herself and neighbours that unless immediate assistance was rendered the poor woman would be found starved to death. Mr. Stronger immediately proceeded to the hovel where the woman lived, and ti,und her as described, in a most miserable and pitiable condition. In answer to Mr. S. she stated that such was her extreme rovertv that she had not tasted food fOr a considerable time. He got up for the purpose of sending her relief, when he thought he saw some money on a ledge in the room. Upon looking further he found 4s. Gd. The old woman seemed confused and stated it was not hers, and then it was for rent. Mr. Stronger's suspicions were aroused by this circumstance, and he requested to be allowed to look into an old box that stood in the room ; this she refuSed, but he without ceremony proceeded to overhaul its contents, when he fbund 32/. ss. Gd. in shillings and sixpences, wrapped up separately in pieces of paper and old rags, the greater part of the money being quite black, and evidently had been there many years, 461. in gold, wrapped up in the same manner, one shilling's worth of copper, two silver watches, a number of table Plate, gold brooches, and teaspoons , an d ot her a rticle s of MORNING SUr rings and pins, and a large stock of excellent wear ing apparel. Upon this discovery of the old hag's trea sure ueing made she was exceedingly mortified, and ex pressed in no very measured terms her regret that her carelessness in leaving out the few shillings should have. brought to light the property, that for years and years her days, her nights, and health, had been consumed in collecting. • It has since been ascertained by Mr. Stronger that this wretched woman has actually been in the receipt of Is: 6d. 'per week for a length of time from one of the Unions in London. It also appears that two or three months ago she was robbed of a live-pound note and twenty sovereigns by a pensioner, but fearful of a discovery - the old woman would not bring the thief to justice. WHIG OPINIONS OF THE SUFFRAGE OR SO VEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.--Every approximation to wards a Chartist Constitution of the Legislature—that is to say a Constitution regarding numbers as the sole basis of power—is, pro tanto, an approach to the anerchy which results from giving legal weapons for the war of the poor with the rich—from giving legal mastery to numbers simply, unqualified by possessions. That mas tery has never been used, and • never will be used, but in one way. • Those who think it conducive to the progress of social reforms that they should be commenced by cheating a legislature whose natural tendency and pro peesity must be the overthrow of privilege, and the in vasion of property—(and they have neither read his tore nor marked mob oratory, who deny the passiene and instinct of subversion, which lurk in the multitude, and which their delegates must necessarily satisfy di rectly or indirectly, by the modes of sanguinary violence, or of legislative fraud and chicane)—those echo think vastly extended-constituencies the best inetrutnent of social recerms—and an instrument which we must have. without Reform Bill restrictions, in order to effect any farther public improvements—mar consistently blame the. RefOrm Ministers for having refused to aid them in feaMing that instrument, and forcing it through a second struggle with the aristocratical powers of the State. Those,on thecontrary, who believe that on the avoidance of such a struggle depended our avoidance of civil dis cord, or unbalanced democracy (which in an old coun try necessarily draws discord—because spoliation—after it) must feel their gratitude due to the Whig Govern ments, precisely on the same grounds, as the promoters of that democracy deem them worthy of censure. It is not then for their much railedat " finality " that we blame the late Ministers. We believe with the Lords Mercury and the Morning chronicle, that the Parlia mentary constituency wants expurgation m uc h more than exteneion.—Globe. TIIE• WELSHMAN AND THE PAPER.—He used to take in a fork - tight-old " daily London paper," which, hi his remote corner of Wales, would arriv e by and three, and four at a their, according to the car rier's visits. Once there was an account, in the first paper he opened, that a great battle in ;Spain had been fought, in which the Welsh regiments had signalizA themselves, and the next paper was to contain lists of names, &c. Of course every mother, sister, and sweet heart expected to find their own favourites among the heroes, and besought the old Welshman to open the se cond paper instantly ; but he coolly locked it in a drawer unopened, saying, " To•morrow you shall hear, but mine is a daily paper, so there, cannot be two for the same day." - - ENLIGRATION.—There are three ships at Loch thaddy, North List, taking in emigrants from the neigh bouring parishes of Harris and South . Uist, for Cape Breton. The Earl of Dunmore gives one pound sterling ahead to the most destitute families from his property.— Edinburgh Advertiser. The district of the South Staffordshire coal field is said to support., by its mineral riches alone, •a po pulation of upwards of 200,000 individuals. A WESTMORELAND JURYMAN.—We believe that the character of a Westmoreland juryman is pretty generally known, and although they do not rank the Very highest in the scale of excellence, there may occasionally be found glimpses of originality and symp toms of independence of thought and action which would far exceed the demure punctiliousness of more accom plished juries. The following is a case in point:— A worthy farmer, whose crops were ready for housing, after having been for some time exposed to bad weather, was most unwillingly obliged to leave all and attend at Appleby to decide some momentous case or cases, and by his verdict vindicate the righteousness ,of the law. Many a time and oft did his racked ingenuity devise liberating things for his devised absence from the wigs and robes, white, black, and scarlet, of which he was so uneasy a spectator. At length, grown desperate in his impatience, he summoned courage and walked up to the Judge—took hold of his bristly top pan and pulled it as submissively and respectfully as he knew how, and got himself delivered of the follewing most humble request:— " I say, sir, I've Bitten rae hay down, and I sud like et gang yham, if ye'l excuse me, if ye pleas like." The Learned Judge looked unutterable things at Johnny Roe, but asrured him if what he wanted was to leave the Court and go home, he could not interfere, and he must do his duty.—Kendal Mercury. SIR JOSHUA WALMSLEY.—He had arrival in Liverpool by the railway, after a journey of consider able length, and on alighting from the carriage he found a difficulty in , using his right leg, owing to a stiffness ap parently caused by holding it long in the same position. On attempting to walk, two of the muscles close to the knee suddenly broke, and so completely disabled him that he was obliged to be conveyed home. Sir Joshua is confined to his residence.— Liverpool Courier. _ _ Mrs. Bray describes some of the foaming rivers of Switzerland as like nothing but dirty soap suds, as if it had been washing day with the mountains'. A reward of- one hundred - pounds has been offered for the discovery and conviction of the murderer or murderers of Jane Anderson, 11'hose. body was found lifeless, with • marks of -violenee 'upon - it, some weeks ago. in Blue Anchor (Mare, on the Qua- side, in this town. — Tyne Mercury. TINNITUS URIUM.—The Lancet of yester day contains an interesting communication from Mr. J. Harrison Curtis 'on - the natnrUnnd treatment of tinnitus aurium, or singing in the ears; one' of the most distress ing symptoms to Which persons with impairiA hearing are liable. He considers tlu.t it is dependent in almost every instance:- on constitutional causes, and can rarely be even alleviated by any measures, which are not di rected to improve the general heal!. It is symptoma tic of a' disordered and weakened state of the general nervous system, more especially of the ganglionic appa ratus. Whatever will improve the general health and impart nervous energy will therefore be of service. With this vieW,Mr. Curtis has been lately using the ar nica montana,-*ith which he has been very successful. Ile became . acquainted with its use when on a visit to Germany during the autumn of last year. his employed there very largely.-Observer SUDDEN DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN.—The Rev. George Preston, of Dean's Yard, Westminster, died on ,Monday night, after a very few hours' ill ness. This gentleman had, , filled the situation of Second Master of 'Westminster School for a number of years, with much credit to himself, and to the great benefit of the boys, as a tutor. Immediately his death was known, the inhabitants of Christ Church, New gate-street, of which the lamented gentleman was rec tor, held a meeting, when a memorial to the Governors of Saint Bartholomew's Hospital (in whose gift the living is, alternately with the Dean and Chapter of Westminster), praying that they would appoint the Rev. G. Everard to fill the ,vacancy, he having for up wards of six years performed the whole duty, was una nhnously adopted and signed. THE CRINIE OF INFANTICIDE AND CON CEALMENT OF BIRTH.—On Tuesday no less than three inquests were held by Mr. Baker and Mr. Payne, the Coroners, on the bodies of children whose deaths were alleged to have been caused by violence. Two out of the three wero on bodies found in the Thames. injlrisies:k:iatsbilYidesirable. Like many ILLNESS OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL...•••• CLAII EN ONT, MONDAY EVENING.—The Princess Royal is sufficiently indisposed to excite some alarm in the minds of the medical attendants. Sir James Clark ar _rived here yesterday, . and shortly afterwards, in conic quence of the symptoms which manifested themselves, he went hack to London to seek the additional aid of Dr. Locock.' In the afternoon Dr.. Locock returned to Clare . writ with Sir James, and, after an hour's consultation, Dr. Locock took his departure for town. Sir James re mained at Claremont 'during the night, and left this morning at eight. At that time the Princess Royal was, somewhat better. - Sir James Clark, however, Pos . " from London again this morning, and arrived a t Clar? - Mont at half-past six . ' o'clock.. It was expected that Sir James.would not have taken. his departure till to-inorr;!:: moaning, but after preparing some Royal infant ' (who was somewhat better) at Mr. Nevin er surgeon, of this Tillage, he left by the last train, p South 'Western Railway, for town. On Toes- SHOCKING SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT.-- r . J o hn li riht, day afternoon, as a bricklaer, named s caffolding of was going up a ladder to the second-floor;medicine foi:..el,s, stu , eo s .rg e's-in .the some houses in Back Church-lane, load on his back he was feeling his eZe. ° :r, and in making East, he fell backwards into the roadway. Having oiliealli'idildgera, which he thought was several rat the top, and in an in a grasp at them he found he was . s . ev . e . rely „ frac tu red, which his ble is much andsttin slant he received e b i a v c e l d : w o a t r h d e s r . endangered. . a t the west end of that city AND THE CHEESE, -....Th e THE NEGRO thaedt-I;iltin-making negro, named " Par sthise,r„e Boston Post says, d t h e grocery stores in that neigh 'nor° than bourhotxl. rather f colour, he prides himself upon die other gentlemen 0 and ' he is always fur up or a bet thickness of his s kull, and well l . • battering iec r L am ii . e l t ' i h w e n o t t o h o e i r c hutting posers, upon his who hovers 17; h ° o ° ve l- rn t o [ t i i r n hard . a bet in a store that he could butt in the day he head atleure. enough fora a d h estt ee e , bet to drive it through a very large cheese, which head i ( s )i P a was to b e covered %1, ith a crash cl o th, to keep hi s woo l clear o f - cheese crumbs. The c h eesy, t h us enveloped, %vas placed in a proper position, and Parsis, starting off like a locomotive, buried his head up to his ears in - the inviting target. Parsis now began to feel himself irre sistible, and talked up " purty considerable." A plan, however, was soon contrived to lake the conceit out of him. 'there being some grindstones in the store fir sale,'one of them was privately taken up, awl mapped up in the same manner as the mwese had been, and looked precisely as if it were a second cheese, and Par sis readily took another bet fur Linepenee, that he would butt his head through it as easy as he sent it through the first. The interest of the spectators in the operation became intense. Everything was carefully adjusted, and upon the word being given, Parsis darted like an arrow at the ambush grindstone—he struck it fair in the centre, and the next instant lay sprawling in the middle of the floor, upon which he recoiled. }or some minutes he lay speechless, and then he raised him self slowly on his knees, and scratching his head, said, with a squirming face—..“ fiery hard cheese dat, masse Dey skim de milk too much altogedder before dey make him; oat's a fact."