The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-07 00:00:00

MORN ING SUN 10 ~h l ~, " THE- NORTHERN MEETING. The annual reunion of the nobility, and gen[ry, and visitan:a of the north, previously to a general (!eparture for the south, commenced in Inverness on Wednesday ili last, and was very numerously attended by rcsidenters the Highlands and by visitors. Among others were Lord and Lady Lovat and family, Lord Ward, Lord and Lady Saltoun, Lord E. Hill, Mrs. Macdonald and friends; and Captain Foyers, Ness Castle, Mackintosh Mieldntosh, Cluny Macpherson, AffleAt Fraser, Esq., Culduth e l, Esq., M.Y. and Ludy A. J. RObertson of rushe s , Charles Edward Stuart, H:David stin, Es q ., of Cantray, W. G. Cumming., Esq., of Frederick , Dunbar, Esq., of 133ath, nugh boss, '.4q,,,of:Cr omarty; Michael Anderson, Esq., Royal Ter ,race!, Edinburgh. • `The. I ;ligbland sports commenced in the Academy • X,ark;. by a competition of pipers and dancers, who amounted to about twenty in number, and attracted a crowded assembly o f rank and beauty to ivitness the exhibition of their s kill. I n fro n t of t h e Plattbrni a spa cious and S u b stantial wooden booth was erected, whi ch was soon filled with spectators. Two of the Judges, Cluny Macpherson and Charles Edward Stuart,. ap peared in f u ll Hi ghland costume ; as did also the p iper s and dancers. COMPETITION OF P/P2 BF. ' Fourteen individuals - appeared to compete for the *liable prizes to be conferred ; the first prize consist •ing of ft.set of pipes worth ten guineas, the second prize . ,sum of five guineas, and the third of two guineas. -4 4-ntis Mackay, :late piper .to W. F. Campbell, Esq., erFolity,. new with Lorcl Ward—" The Finger Lock"— " od the , prize, manufactured by Cluny's piper, worth ' tett' gitineas," • Dtititat4faekay, piper to Cluny Macpherson—" The the 2d prize. Donald Cameron, piper to J. R. Mackenzie, of Scat lyneu,„..Aik; " , Viscount of Dundee's• Lament " --carried off IthaiSdrprizei': , Ei:: DANCING IN FULL COSTUME. Thelatizea under this head were--" Highland fling" , Prize, 2/. 2s. 3d Prize, beSt dancer of .; . :‘,oi)4l):o4lut4um,", 21. 2s. The successful competitors — )1 ? r 1111.1 James: rant, Battangorm, Strathspey, Ist prize for ."11,ighland Tuna " E lIAMMER —WEIG HT, 1 6LBS. , Ten competitors entered the lists for the prizes awarded ttie-above exhibition of prowess. The first prize of 5 guineas was gained by Donald Robertson, of Dingwall. PUTTING THE STONE. The first prize of 31. 3s. was gained by Duncan Ro bertson. FOOT R . Firstprize of three A guineas ClNG-ONE was MILE gained by Donald Gillies ; the 3d, of 11. ls., was won by John M‘Lash, servaj t4 ; 11. Baillle, Esq. (The second prize was not ‘4e4dely.) JUMPING A HEIGHT. The first prize of fire guineas was awarded to Archi bald Gunti,lnvertless,,for leaping a height of 4 feet 11 inches. The second prize of; 2/. 12s. 6d. was gained by Thomas Resivflafn; for jumping a height of 4 feet 10 inches. Several showers fell during the afternoon,- but were not sufficientlointerrupt. the, proceedings. The dinner at the Northern-Meeting -room was Succeeded by a fancy dress ball at night, which was attended by a large 'party of fashionables. ADDRESSES -TO THE -.QUEEN. -TO THE .PEOPLE -GREAT BRITAIN. • Fellow-Cotintrymen—The recent uncontradicted state ment of the Duke of Richmond, that he was Cabinet maker in Ordinary to the Queen—that the House of Commons was but the upper :_ervants' second table of the Peerage —that what are facetiously called the Repre sentatives of the people are only the Duke of Bucking ham's "gentlemen's gentlemen," and that the glorious majority of "ninety-one" are the mere nominees of the aristocracy —ha s induced you to "fly from petty tyrants to the Throne." Remembering that when the faction Which now holds the reins of government was formerly in office it systematically suppressed at the Horne-office all addresses from the people to the Monarch which coin- Pilfined of its corruption ; you would not let " the set-- pent sting thee twice," and most properly and reasonably solicited those inderendent and patriotic noblemen, t he Earl of Radnor and Lord Kinnaird, to use their i t ivileg e o f P eerage as a direct means of laying before ober Majesty your petitions at a personal audience. it: L ordsh i ps most promptly and cordially responded your call, and the result is embodied in the subjoined corr espondence. At the issue we have no reasonable ground to be disappointed., --So long as " her heart was istress of itself," her Majesty nobly stood by her sub- J°cts. By our own. supi neness , an d t h e corruption and cowardic e of the constituency, her Majesty has been delivered hound" into the hands ) your enemies, and M ust passively obey the harsh voice of the wicked' ma gician, until her people have the courage and the energy to butter down' the gates cf his stronghold and emanci- Pate her from the spell of hi:, enchantment. It is by thS " persuasive. farce," which - , in court language, is called " adviee" of her Majesty's tempi:wary advisers, and on their . eXclusive - responsibility, that a precedent IMS been established for invading alike the preroga tive of the Monarah' and the constitutional privilege 'the'of people of immediate mutual communication. aliejusttficatiOn which has been attempted for that itd vide, - that it has been - given to 'protect her Majesty , troth - incotiiiiience .thitrannOYance, is only an aggrava 4-the onginal Offence. It is less inconvenient for bt'elflijesty to see the Earl of Radnor or Lord Kin ntlied;.than to be inflicted' with the odious presence of g fait behind the arras," who, in the capacity of ~eonW,e S ecretary, .c , harges himself with th e d uty o f pre .6 )0w- petitions to the Queen ; and I am certain *Eli it is less annoying. to her Majesty to receive the ad .trisiesof her people, than to be compelled to assist at adjtistraent of a speech is which she is made to say What she cannot think. It is, however, a course not less f`eConstitutional than wise for her Majesty to deprive the ti ml by which she i s encompassed of all excuse for tributing their certain ultimate discomfiture to any act iLef*the monarchy. During the short p er i o d they have n already permitted to go at large, they have at .*kmlpted their own lives so often as to show that it is by atileide they hei r e xi ste n ce to fall. It is by restraint 'thine that their existence can be prolonged. Give them rope enough, and—but the proverb is somewhat musty. I remain, fellow countrymen, Your faithful friend and servant, SIDNEY SMITH. CORRESPONDENCE. No. 1. "Sir " A, Brook-street, Sept 29, 1841. / am quite ready to ask for an audience of her tttJest 7, and s h a ll h ave muc h p l easure i n presenting e adciresses you m en ti on , as I most cor di a ll y agree w i th h o e Prayer of them. I am now li v i ng i n town, and am at ai r li Z ot e , vary morning till one o'clock.—Your obedient " KINNAIRD. ` Sidney Smith, Esq., Secretary to the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association. ' No. 2. ee; Sir- "23 A, Brook- s t ree t, S a t ur d ay Ni g h t . ,‘ send you th e enc l ose d, w hi c h I h ave j ust re - Th o -- " !rota the Lord in Waiting, in answer to my lett e r. too g b h I re gret h er Majesty's determination, which, of 1 14 t.s el la: come to by the advice of her Ministers, yet I bf ,ItTee ti on that I am cer t a i n th at a ll t h e pet i t i ons w i ll t t'd befo re h er Majesty by the Secretary of State. thiiue.ounduct of Mi n i sters i n prorogu i ng Parliament at 3,48.1310tnent, it is impossible to speak in terms too se lieelh is, indeed, adding insult to injury, and most 02. iislh e . responsibility which they incur. From my *v./V*Bmm} knowledge, I can state that they have been ni d bY one- who is no partizan, but has the best fat,e42l,s'of knowing of the consequences which are to be ” i r ;Led from the course they are taking. th .; Ty belief, however is, that though we cannot hope th." ll4l r Robert Peel will bring forward the repeal of the m il t' Corn-l aws , yet he will be the means of their eou'ig repealed. It is satisfactory to find, from all ac re pt.% that he has done more towards it by his conduct p„,,,,4ltient during the last three weeks than all the agitation owthe subject. atrd„,," Duke( Of W e lli ngton ' s answer to Lord Radnor t)kt,'"YaeltprAres.helvirue is the saying, that one-half kilivrotid•-d w )1 oil not, kno6W the other half lives, or •; , • ‘. 14 Sir, your obedient servant, " KINNAIRD. 4 Sidney Smith, -Esq., Secretary to the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association." No. 3. " Windsor Castle, Oct. 2, 1841. IliZtotd--I have the honour t o i n f orm you, i n reply otitlitter of the Ist instant, that it is her Majesty's s et l `° that the 'petition you wish to present may be Du th rougli f :the Secretary of State for the Home De •47eat- "I r ema i n , m y L or d , your o b ed i ent servant, rt i 40 . the Lord liinnaird, &c." " BYRON." ' • • No. 4. " Grosvenor-street, Oct. 4, 1841. tleb i ,NVith much reluctance, and after great hesit.a kkee.:_nay° been induced by certain circumstances which 1 , 4 10 4 :',.rae to my knowledge, to give up my intention a , 0 9 'or an audience of her Alajesty, and of delivering Pt'r atdMajest y in person th e p et i t i ons w hi ch you for tetc t o me. B ut I h ave myself delivered them, with tar %P . *, to Sir James Graham, the Secretary of State took hous e Department ; and he voluntarily under teint,'?_.present them to the Queen before the final deter hortFo!the prorogation should take place ; to state 11Iltutther4lopesty the prayer of them, together with the ,40,••,,horsignatures appended to each ; and, in those c ol l ,_.71,0 ? „, 8 1' having been voted at a public meeting, et t b raette t ,,,qeed only by the Chairman, to draw'her Ma ttaaces / "c ) o to that particular. Under these circum iil, h ' av e trull u t the petitioners will not be disappointed .7 1/ ''Pr„ arre al e i tight it light not to persevere in request -, " • 'lv ; Perview with her Majesty. , 1 B. ; "" 11 V Your obedient humble servant, •t i " RADNOR. .erncretary to the Metropolitan Th e zutu rear.lavr Association." te addresses petitioning the Queen not to lament till the Corn-laws and distress Ilea._ ell in . t o s_ct red into, as delivered by the Earl of the nutei,....".0.4. Graham, for presentation, anr.unted to e.,,:7,ea.z229, from our largest towns, boroughs, 411 *h ilt t ULAIt h e kes__ I NclnalicE.— . .A. few days ago 60 41 2ga zekoe4rs,_•Tilorburn were unpacking a chest of hel l l%in a , e v 7)"lttlported in one of the late arrivals ACrure•of,the,a_ SOrered between the lead lining and te atli kt i t t /44t:72der of the Edinburgh Cukdontan table tlattei,of theP" 1796 (exactly 45 years ago), Periocr'ket 0 1110 f senior Thorburn, the vene ',eh • Th e C h est irmi regarding the tea trade of that kusetraiitileinowsp vv r as packed 1,500 miles above Canton, Illove,the,,,beenpril.which is in excellent preservation, . and no explanation is given to re -4:4,...,.te.r, how it has been preserved and tran3- • 0„-,;;: z . 1411 Y half a century after its publication.-- LITE RAT URE, FOREIGN QUARTERLY RUVIE W. No. LT: Black and Armstrong, London, 1841. The chief fault we find with the present Num ber of this intelligent Review, is the general sameness of its articles. They should have been far more varied, and not confined, with scat cely one exception, to books of travels. In Oth er respects, the - li'Uniber Is not amiss, beingwell written ; and in its literary criticisms sound and disCriminating. In the notice of a recently pub lished German work on some " Roman Tablets" .that have lately been discovered in Transylva is, the RevieWer takes the opportunity of passing a high encomium on modern German scholarship, If ancient relics," says he, " are to he ex. plained and iliustrated,..a• German Professor is sought out for that object; if a Series of ancient historians have been for some unaccountable reason thrown out of circulation, a German . sug. gests their publication, and a German edits them ; if theology is to he viewed, in counection with modern science, a German sets about the difficult task; if statistics. are required of the state of Europe, the Germans produce matters of higher eminence and utility than - anything on which Dr. Bowring' can alight." This is high praise, but it is not altogether undeserved. In the next passage occurs a sneer at Dr. Arnold of Rugby, whose classical acquirements are most unjustly spoken of; for he is, beyond a doubt, one of the readiest and ripest scholars of the day. " Sybil's History of the First Crusade" is a cle ver review, wherein justice is done to the late Charles Mills's History of these Quixotic expe ditions, which is mentioned as being " the largest and best connected work treating on the subject, which is accessible to the Enlish reader." Gibbon's episodical d e t a il s o f the Cru sades are perhaps the most meagre and inefficient portions of his great history. They are a starve ling banquet„ from which the reader rises up as hungry as . he sat down, and is, glad to turn to Milrs's volumes, where his 'hunger and thirst fur knowledge are sure to be abundantly satisfied. The Reviewer, in alluding to the first projectors of the Crusades, overrates, we think, the intel lect of Peter the Hermit. He by no means per formed the "actions of a sage," for he was little better than a crazy enthusiast, of whom the Church of Rome made a fitting tool. Through 611t-his march to Palestine, at the head of an un disciplined band of ragamuffins, lie evinced a deplorable want of judgment and foresight; and influenced benighted Europe solely by means of his headstrong fanaticism. " Hene•el's Travel s in Cashme re ' is a notic e o f a work which will surprise all who have been carried away by Moore's enchanting, descriptions of this valley in " Lana Rookh," - The Cashmerian beautieS turn out to be little better than frights; the men are for the most..part rude and igaorant,"instead of being bemire atid.sentimental; and the better educated, who, are.. chiefly merchants, - instead - of 'casting a languishing eye on some " young Nourtnahal," keep a constant sharp eye to :busineSs;,arid.are retriarkahle.,for nothing, so ,much as their knack at driving aliard bargain ! Ruppell's Travels in Abyssinia," " Kohl's Travels in Southern Russia," and " Sweden as it is," are intelligent reviews, interspersed with well-selected extracts. From the article entitled " The Women of Italy," we quote an arousing sketch of the do mestic habits and manners oeAmerican girls:— The independence of a Yankee girl—we make use of that obnoxious denomination, not through disrespect for the " smartest ration in creation," but better to desig nate the people of New England, that part of the United States where American manners are most characteristic ally developed—begins with the earliest stage of board, ing-school life. Early in the morning she walks out alone sometimes for a distance of miles to her academy ; who her tutors and companions, what her studies, what books she reads, what friendships or habits she con tracts, her parents scarcely ever care to inquire ; or it' asked, scarcely ever does she condescend to reply. In proportion as she grows, more complete and absolute does she acquire the mastery over her own actions. She chooses her dancing and music masters, her congrega tion, her minister. She subscribes to cotillion parties, shines off at a fancy fair or at a flower auction. She walks home late at night from a rout with her favourite partner, and takes a long tour by moonlight to enjoy the coolness and sentimentalism of the night air. She introduces her male friends to her mother, and sends out her invitations to tea without consulting the " old lady ;" finally, she informs her parents that her lover has " popped the question," unless, indeed, she prefers the eclat and excitement of a runaway match. And yet this unbounded latitude is scarcely ever attended with mischievous results. Thanks, perhaps, to natural cold- ness of temperament, or to the early marriages which in those wid e - s p rea di ng co l on i es are an d will long con tinue to be the order of the day, the American young lady very early acquires the calculating habits of the country. She is her own d uenna an d chaperon. Iler fancy and heart are always under the control of reason. She learns to value her admirers according to their worth. You never h2ar of a faux pas, or, if you do, you may be sure that all worldly advantages have been duly weighed, and that even that apparent imprudence is the result of the most consummate policy. Before she leaves school, a Yankee girl—God bless her I—has- a thorough knowledge of the world. She is up to every trick, secure against all dangers of amorous seduction. Else, what were the good of the million of novels she roads ? Her look is proud and daring ; her step firm and secure. THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN. 3 Tro Colburn, London, 1841. As a continuous, well-sustained narrative, the " Old English Gentleman" puts forth but slender claims to notice; the interest is kept up only by fits and starts ; and the incidents are of the most unconnected, fragmentary nature possi ble ; it; however, we regard the work merely as a series of sketches illustrative of provincial field sports, and the domestic habits of our rural . squirearchy, then it deserves high praise ; first, for its accuracy and judicious selection of de tails ; and, secondly, for the freshness and vigour of its descriptions. The author's heart is evidently in his task ; he writes con amore ; and the consequence is, that he imparts much of the pleasure to his readers that lie has himself experienced in writing. The two principal per sonages of his story are, Squire Scourfield, and his old Whipper-in, Torn Bolton; both of whom are strongly-marked characters, and drawn, we should say, from living originals. The first represents the sporting Squire of the present day, as correctly as Squire Weston represents the same character of Field day, and is intended to be the model of an old E:iglish gentleman—simple and manly in his habits, frank, cordial, and hospitable inn his nature, gifted with strong sense, and passionately devoted to all the robust out-of-door sports of his country. This fine old fellow's veteran Whip per-in is a portrait whose features are equally strik ing and attractive. To the simplicity of the child he adds the keen intelligence of the man ; is rough and curt ofspeech, but friendly and even affectionate iu his nature ; convivial and jocular in his cups; brave as a lion ; and so incurably wedded to certain sporting prejudices, that he would sooner lay down his life than abandon them. Tine interest of the story is restricted almost exclu sively to these two characters; for the females are tamely drawn, and possess no other requi sites than such as they always possess in novels— viz., youth and beauty. _Of the descriptions we have already spoken, ' They teem with anima tion and the account of . ‘it fox-chase, as detailed by the old Whipper-in to his son, over a bowl of punch by a Christmas fire side, is as full of graphic energy as a simi lar sketch, which we remember to have read some years ago in the " Quarterly Review," and which was attributed at the time—and we believe justly, to the pen of Mr. Apperley, better known as the " Nimrod" of our Sporting Ma gazines. STANLEY Bentiey, L TH ond O o R II, II 7 I . 8 4 3 1 Vo/s. This is a republication in three volumes of a tale that has already appeared, in successive portions, in the pages of Bentley's Miscel lany. It was then brought out anonymously but the author has now avowed himself. and proves to be a Mr. Cockton, who has cer tainly no cause to be ashamed of his present per formance. Stanley Thorn, as we have more than once taken occasion to observe, is a smart, bustling story, put together with much tact. T t h h e T TO sent LORD o us, t M accountingtOh it e P m E o T r p 1 i e .--- for th e following THE BANQUETle tterhas beets absence of Thomas Moore, Esq., to some irregularity it was onlyrece_iressed : Sloper " ban quet. Although it is dated the ll fom t r hof v S ed epte th m is be m r' o o r iv ni i n n g g by the gentlem a n t o whom it was ton, Se ptem to be y r ou a few days since , msd, w 11 e ,1841. DearOyeln w O'Dwyer —ln Inepartedexpressing my regret in Dublin, th a t urgent b us i ness wou ld call i before th e d a y o f t h e i nten d e d di nner t o Lord mto England Morpeth, name to what ever forgot t o b eg t h at you wou l d annex my. ever tribut e express i ve o f our respect an d gratitude may be pre sente d to hi s Lordship. We, in whose cause be has so ga ll ant l y fought, may well feel proud of a cham pion to wh ose ta l ents and character even the enemy h as borne cordial testimony. As to the prospect now before us, I should most certainly see some grounds for de spondence did I not feel confidence that there is a vitality in the cause of Irish freedom--a 4 certain spark of truth (to use the language of Lord Bacon), that will fly up in the face of those who seek to tread it out.'—Believe me, yours sincerely, Thomas Moore. To A. Carew O'Dwyer, Esq."—Dublin Monitor. VV. THE LATE VV. HARRISON, ESQ., Q.C.-- By the death of this eminent counsel, the following lucrative appointments. have become v acant:-'Counsel to the Lea- sury'and the War-office, and Attorney-General to the Duchy of Cornwall. THE SUN', LONDON, TIIIIRSDA Yt; -OCTOBER 7, IS4I. Pi r 9 G T j OF THE STATu TO AIZ KIM ra;; MANY." amTmoLD, S::PI'. 8, 184 would appear abilost an unheard-of thing, that after eighteen centuries had tonics t thrown their forgetful darkness over the nathe.and me mory of Arminius, that the very spot on which Iris patriotism t i h s i i i i n e a v g el e ol4d d , li s i l s lo p u e l r d . , a this v remote e re i i d n a ed y, a b n e d ho h l i c s i son. Yet so it is ; upon a hill that ovules** the broad extent of the liercyntan tnrest, ink w,haSf) , ,?;l l llPire, dark with shade," Armanius won the laurels .OEI4 fam e , there has for several years pa;t beerrerecting to him a monumental statue. At length : . the solid marble has been sculptured, and the artist's chisel completed its work, On the Bthinstant, at Deltmold, which. b or d ers on the ancient forest, and which is still,strewn with re lics of the ancient times, the. mayor .and authorities of the locality, with crowds of persyns from .all•partaiif the vicinity, were present at theinauguration of.lina• who m Germany, in her younger. days, acknowledged its. the deliverer" of her land and soil, •• . •,, „ " Who, then, was. Artninius?". exclaims. one-half the world at the present. dap,. Pewsindeed, know; and it is only the painful schylar, who throws open • his musty Tacitus, and bids you read the " Germany," that .can set before you whole pages, luminous with the achievements of Oda self-same'Arminius, and lustrous with eulogies on his prowess andpatriotism. Let not the reader Fear, nnw that he - awaits an - introduction to this ancient hero, that some " grim -Visigoth" will appear, prone to slaughter and ferocity; since he of whom we speak, before he became the sterner patriot, was as famous a yonng Knight as Chivalry ever loved, and as perfect in gallantry as the sweetest Junia or Octavia of Rome could desire. Arminius, though known to scholars best by this name from its Latin form in Tacitus, appears in the original German as Hermann, son of one of the Princes of the Cherusci ; his father's name was Sighner, which, in the old German, signifies afamous conqueror. The great German provinces on the banks of the Rhine, Elbe, and Saal, had long been, from their. turbulences, a thorn in the Roman side, and this Government, there fore, thinking to secure its most powerful men by adopt ing their sons,. and installing them in the honours . of Rome, transplanted many of the children of the Chiefs to its own soil, endowed them with a Roman education,: and wrapped them in the purple of its own bosom. Young Hermann, or Arminius, was one ofthese. Noble of bearing, and dauntless of courage, he rode proudly among the knights or equites of Rome, who little dreamed that in their glittering company Arminius wore the spurs and brandished the sword which was one day to be their sorest havoc. Princely- favour and the charms of learning were in sufficient to make the young barbarian forget his early associations and his country's gods. He bore in his heart remembrances of his home, hisMilldhood,•rind his own dark hills, and Roman education had the effect to. teach him how to conquer his instructors.- Regarding the Romans only as oppressors of his country, Arminius, a high patriot at twenty-one,•con ceived himself not hound to Roman courtesy or . care,.and in secret he, funned a powerful confederacy and forhented the hatred of his own German compatriots. - • -.. . An opportunity. 'don - (Ore(' itself, Whereby Aratinius; grieved that the Roman yoke should so severely gall his countrymen, rushed into the career marked ont'by him self of being his country's deliver. ArartiS . the Roman general, with some of the finest cohorts of the empire, - was•sent:to retake hint en his desertion, and ,aking with him; as a strange equipage, he brought a - multitude hullers, to try Arminius on his re-seizure. -Arminius, by ambuscade, annihilated them all. The lawyers, too, were .the especial object of the soldier's spite : one in stance alone will suffice :—A soldier having torn the tongue out of one of these legists, cried, as he held the trophy still wagging in his hand, " Viper, now cease to hiss I" At the first news of this terrible defeat, and the de struction of his most superb regiments, Augustus, in his palace at Rome, tore his garments, and for many months after, says an historian, was heard to cry aloud, " Quin tilius Varus, give me back my legions !' This great defeat of the troops of Yarns took place at Deltmold, the very spot on which the present statue is erected, and the whole vicinity of the place abounds to this day with military relics and memorials of the affair. At a later century, it was here that Charlemagne, on passing, found an image of a great warrior, whom they called Hermann, and which, he says, was the ob ject of the most fervent adoration of all the people whom he fought with, but which has long since perished. Heavy vengeance was now prepared by Rome against the youthful p a t r i o t. G ermanicus with his cohorts rushed down upon the German territory, defeated Ar minius, and his wife, then pregnant, was taken prisoner. This allows of one of those exquisite episodes, which, beautiful in their simplicity, so begem the pages of Ta citus. This great painter represents her with her hands folded, and her gaze fixed upon the bosom which then carried the son of the Deliverer of Germany—" Com pressis intra sinwn minibus, gravidam uterum intuens !" This son, of whom his beloved wife was pregnant when captive, was afterwards brought up at Ravenna, and un derwent misfortunes, the particulars of which Tacitus promises to relate, but they hav e no t reac h e d us. Nothing daunted by this defeat, Arminius rose up the prouder, formed a new confederacy, and his uncle Inguiomerus, a chieftain of great power, clad anew his hosts in iron, and marshalled them for another conflict. Shut up in the fastnesses of a woody and morassy land, Arminius waited the Romans, and in the attack that ensued produced much of a drawn battle. Germanicus rested for a whole year before he again ventured to attack this sturdy patriot, when the following singular circumstance took place :—Arminius had a brother, named Flavius, adopted into the hoatile.avoyi and serving under Roman arms. The two broth_eas bud a conference across the blue waters of the river which ran between them, and each urged the other, by every art of eloquence, to engage the other to his own party. Tacitus, who describes the scene, puts into the mouth of Arminius every noble sentiment of patriotism and inde pendence, but the ultimate issue was that they parted frowning, and with mutual reproaches and menaces. Germanicus passed the Weser. Two bloody combats ensued. The Germans were defeated. Arminius him self was disabled by a wound, and the young lion had but little power to romp in the battle. Ambition at last sums to have caught his eye, and the gold crown of his nation dazzled his heart. The treachery of his kindred, and the jealousy of his coun trymen interposed to hinder this assumption of sove reignty, and while yet the early strength of manhood was in his veins, and the fire of youthful patriotism un quenched in his eye, th e h an d o f assass i ns struck Armi nius to death, in his thirty-seventh year. Shortly before his fall, Adgantestes, Prince of the Celts, proposed to the Roman Senate to dispatch him by poison ; but the Senate took no notice of the offer. " Doubtless," says Tacitus, "Arminius was the de liverer of Germany. Twelve years he stood at the head of his country's armies, and contended, not. like other Kings and leaders, with the juvenile force of Rome, but with its mature strength." The historian further as serts that he was in his day " still celebrated in the songs of the barbarous nations, though unknown to Greece, and not enough noticed by Roman writers." In his own country, Brotier remarks in a note, even divine honours were long paid to him, under the title of the God Irmin,. He who dwells a moment upon the results of the re sistance and victories of Arminius, will find that the present age of Germany, remote though it be from the epoch of our hero, has many and pressing reasons why homage should be done to the name of this hero. By these victories Arminius preserved to Germany the ancient institutions which she now reveres, and kept in unmixed purity the primitive beauty of the German tongue. The whole character of Germany, literary and political, would have been different from what it now is had it not been fur him ; for had the Romans remained in quiet possession of the country, they would have given a tune to all things around them, as they have done in all other European regions. The language of the Ger mans has thus remained unmixed and uninfluenced by Latin. Had not Arminius crushed the Roman power in Germany, an idiom similar to the French and Spanish would have been spoken there, where now a language and literature exist of a peculiar and original character. What wonder is it, then, that the remembrance of this hero is so dear ?. What wonder that the poet should have sung ot• him in lofty measures.? Klopstock, the divine author of the " Messiah,". has written two poems, of which Arminius is in both the .majestic theme ; and Lohenstein's " Arminius" had the greatest success, at an epoch even when German taste was scarcely formed. Schmidt, the venerable historian of Germany, has drawn a fine picture of Arminius, whom, in common with his countrymen, he considers the first of patriqA Ilia new statue now invests him with a new immortality. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) • MANCHESTER.—There was little change in the market yesterday. Owing to the near approach of the time for closing the shipments to Russia, some descriptions of yarn, suitable for that market, were more earnestly in quired after, and, in some few cases, a slight advance was obtained. On the whole, however, the market was rather quiet, and prices remain, generally, without change. In goods there was no alteration, either of demand or price ; and all descriptions, except fustians, continue much depressed, notwithstanding the firmness of the Cotton market. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, OCT. 4.—The demand for goods to-day has been better than that of last Monday ; but there has been no change in prices. In the Wool market there is nothing to report, except that prices remain firm. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, OCT. s.—This WAS much the same sort of dull market as that of last week ; per haps no worse, but still cold and inanimate. The chief demand was for heavy woollen s for the home trade, and light .fancies for exportation. Prices remain pretty firm. Business in the warehouses is, on the whole, en couraging. A DIsCoVERY.---On Sunday week a boy who was nutting at Queen's Wood discovered what appeared to him to be a grave scooped out, and having the bold ness to enter in, discovered a tolerably large cave, and a butcher's knife and a roll of brimstone placed carefully in one corner. 'The boy immediately went to Prestbury and gave 11e alarm, and several constables were sent to riew the spot, who brought away the knife and brim stone. The lovers of the marvellous declared that mur der Was 'intended. happily, however, these wonder moiters Were doomed to be disappointed. It appears a native Prestbury, ho had en li ste d i n the Rifle not relishing hi s s i tuat i on, had deserted, and scooped out this cave as a place of refuge, where he made matches to travel with and sell for his subsistence, but being, unluckily fur him, pounced upon, he discovered p l a ce .of retreat, and thus unravelled the mystery. dpserter's name is Lan gstone.—Cheitentinm Free Pros. ' ' • TIDE P OOI3 .''FELI..OIV DEPRIVED ' PERSIAN GULF AND ABYSSINIA SICA - LiT. [LETTER, Pl-10111 Itf. TO THE EDITOR OF TIM sz_72y - . AInSSINLIN TRAVELLEH, DATED CAIRO, SIR-1 hate often joined in public reprolietion of the} SEPT. I, 1841.] inequality of punishment under' one lives e eSPeeiteller as' When I reached Moka, in April, 1840, the town regards cascz of apa;ill, often proclucitietilisq4hiq , and I was aband one d b y t h e E gypt i an troops , and the m er . crud result:. I never t.aw a•zt'onger ipatence,pf this . ch an t s o f t h e c o untry were i n terror of falling again than the , ou e re p Qrt ed i ny O urimpor 90 14 PvePlPg ' A 'into the power of the Belouins. Upon try return to 114 „ 1 ' 5 c,i.e 0 . the D a me of Foley, wi'tout e Mcka fr o m Aby ss i n i a , the i r f ears were rea li sed. Moka, s !'g o F )-t eP r9 "ck" ) " , tftrLnie oast the wily:remaining ere under the domination of Sherif Husseir, was ruined b) of a poor mac, named John Hays, who had,served his '.his avidity, and the principal merchants had flei t, kist , this.Gtherin that. service.. , The Mug's" Men. A French vessel, l'Africain, bad been forced trate first 'recomnaends,him to make foirte'comPcuse• to pay 200 tubule duty for entering port. Even whichr. the -injured man'truly-say,- morn had the Arab beats could not come to Atoka, for maw! ?Aod•heie stop to observe,_;thtit this fear of the brutality of the soldiers.. The English tbc:Mai'qalit Vt't'erford - eft- were worse treated, They had paid 10,000 talares ctt s, li . e . *Ould 1 400 ti thit'degin his 51.,, n the .value of for the right t o h o i st t h e Consular flan and Which to Mai wduld be . abont Wh at a 14onY,would beafter paying th e m a mo b h a d pu ll e d d own their to ti poof man, and t h en h ave walked 4 'vv . WU' fl,ig, the armed Engli s h vessel th ere h av i ng gone cisolance, at iiterty to commit, and buy off, other back to Aden to report the insult. The chief did net eeffeeces. Neat the Magistrate commits him for one liar the sengeaace of the English. Ho sa:d he hoped nronlls'i hard labour. 'The fault here is , perhaps, more - to resist* them ; but if no t strong enough, Le said he that of the law t h an t h e Magistrate. Now, Sir, I ear- would retreat t o th e m ounta i ns , a f ter h av i ng p ill aged neatly contend, a n d mppeal to just men of every party, , tl , e inhabitants. The English Consular Agent had that in al! such cases the pun:aliment should be double, fled to Aden. No European was allowed to moent or a fine, as compensation to the:party, levied on the on horseback. From Moka I went to Men. 1 goods of the crionne!, according to his station in life, have already described this establishment, which the from al, to 3,000/., and much more. Let no one start English call a new Gibraltar. From this important or smile; fur this, and nothing less than this, is perfect point the English will execute, without difficulty, their reason and justice. It ; the compensation be excessive divers projects upon the coast of Abyssinia. 'They fur the injured party, let a reasonable portion: go to hope also to monopolise the commerce of coffee, and charit a bl e p urpeasis ; and next, let- theta be a personal the scheriffs, by ruining Moka and Odeidea, serve, punishment, accor di ng to the aggravation and enormity without knowing it, the interest of Great Britain. I asked of the offence. If. I mistake not, in several countries a person of the colony one day whether &Wand would which we are accustomed to term lest trenched oiies, not reienge the insult ()tiered to its flier by the Bedouins rich, and even titled offender's; do - net ft' fiaos 'of' Moka? • fieti,P la . The answer was, " What would we alone. In the case before Oreireetryliacercely, a gain by it ?" I visited successively Barbela, Z"gla, step below murder :an fletest, a n d leefferi2iee e nwS; is :Tesjoura, and Mita, upon the w e ster n coast o f t h e made poor an d unhappy for; life. The woo tought, to:Red Sea. Everywhere I found that the English im have been sent to the Sessions, And the :eaPPMie;and pede the progress of French traveilert. It was im trouble of the prosecutio n taken" up- by a paternal Ex- possible for isle to enter into the interior, and six other ecative. A month truly, for maiming a -:fellow-sub- trevellersosho were there at the same time us-I was, ject in this scandalous manner! Seven years' hard were not more fortunate. In every port 1 found an labour would not have been an hour too much. The English ship-ofwar, and sometimes two. Besides, the case of this poor blinded man appears to me singularly East ludia Company has purchased Tajoura,_ the only pitiable ; and 1 sincerely hope public sympathy will be point through which foreiguers can penetrate into the directed to it. He appear s to b e at present in the Chou with some sort of security. When I came to Middlesex Hospital.— I am, yours respectfully, this town I was ill-received, and after vain negotiations Oct. 4, 1841. CANTABRIGIENSIS. the Chief' and the Cadi told me I could not proceed P.S.—I am not a person to approve of the " Galley without a pass from Aden. I directed my course to- Slave " system, but I really do think that such a tel- wards Massouah. I learnt on the way that the situa low as this would be appropriately placed, if working tion of the unfortunate inhabitants of Moka was not under some brand of public ob'ervation, and such a better. It was said that the Iman of Sena intended to punishment is exactly what would " tell." • attack the town, and that the British encouraged him. I was glad to find the French Consular Agent, M. De goutin, at Massouah. He had succeeded in getting the garrison changed, and the French flag respected, The news from Abyssinia was little satisfactory. Oubi mis t trusted Europeans, and he told M. Blandel that he was the lest thathee would alloWnto travel" in his dominions. :Yet at that very - time' *Mr: Catlin, English' agent in Tigre; hacCgeneco London with a mission from Oubi, • and presents for Queen yietoria. Nevertheless, a French non-commissioned . officer, M. Evin, entered Tigre,,wishing to get front. thence, -to Algiers or Zan zibar. • I was ping to Djedda,_ when a brig, commanded leipeetenesne Christopher, came -to .Massouah. The . Governor of .Aden hadd-sents us,on to take; despatches if necessary. Lieutenant Christopher came to Mas souah, to get details of the murder of Mr. Bayle, an Englishman, who had perished near Gondar. The vessel remained three days. The commander of fered me a passage, and I sailed with him on the 2d of July. On the 10th of the same month we arrived at Djedda. Osman Pacha, Governor of the Iledjaf, had, it was said, received orders to send troops into the Yimen, and to take possession of it in the name of his master ; but the want of money pre vented him from executing this project. The inha bitants of Djedda, and especially the merchants, support the yoke of the Sultan with impatience, and if they did not fear the English, they would revolt in fey cur of the Pacha of Egypt. I met the younger M. d'Abbadie in this town ; he had not been able to penetrate into the interior. He had left his brothers at Odeida, and they were to meet at Massouah. M. d'Abbadie assured me that the English had already taken possession of Tajoura, and that the Governor of Aden had sent a present of cannons, and a sum of a hundred thousand talares to the King of Chao. The attempts of the English upon the coast of Abyssinia show the truth of my reports respecting the country, and belie the rumours spread by some w t ao represent this country as without resources. U`afortu :lately, the r.4hbourhood of the great Indus, the taking of Aden, and the acquisition of Tejoura, enable the English to show their flag frequently upon the Red S,a, and give them a decided superiority over us." THE NV ES LE YANS. , TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Slit—l beg le %ye to call your attention, and, through your valuable and well-conducted paper, that of the public, to the-tyrannical and unjustifiable interference of the:heads of the ''Wesleyan' Methodists over their flocks. We may talk. as We' please :of the crue lt y p r a e, tised by the Church o( Roma over:her subjects,- but: I very much doubt, if, in the time when her power was almost universal, shki ever practised so much tyranny and cruelty over her subj Jets, as that 'how practised by the head s o f th e. Wesleyst'n Methodists, through. their : modern Inquisition , --The.'Conferenee; They have pro-. hihited their ministers front attending to, or advocating, the cause of tet totelism, out of their own circuit. And ' they cannot do so without leave, of whom? 1 suppose ofJabez Bunting, or some other - of their modern Popei. Yet, these are the men who profess to have so much anxiety for the welfare of their flocks ; who pretend to take so much trouble to save souls. Ana not only is their conduct Most cruel in this respect, but in others equally so, which you will find by looking at the rules which they passed at their I.tst Conference. What can be more cruel tiers their conduct, with respect to the non-attendance of their ministers at the late Manchester Conference, to advocate the cause of the half-starving of their flocks ? if they do not very soon alter their conduct, methinks that the people will very soon run away from tie Conference, and, in a few years, there will not be left even the name of Methodist. VERITAS. FEVER AT MANCHESTER. • TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin—l urn somewhat surprised at the statement made by the Right Hon. Sir R. Peel relative to the statistical returns given to him as regards the number of patients admitted into the fever wards of the Manchester Fever Hospital. In the years 1837 and 1838 I acted as clinical clerk to Dr. Bandsley, and during that time I find, on referring to.my note-book, that I visited in' the neigh bourhood of Deans Gate, from November, 1837, to April, 1638, 1,085 persons, all of whom were labouring under typhoid fever. The result was lamentable in the extreme, inasmuch as one in three died, and this great mortality was solely attributable to the large numbers that occupied small dwellings, together with the scanty pittance that they had been compelled (according to their own statements) to subsist upon for some time previons to the attack. I have, during the above time, visited nei less than ten persons in one cellar, all labouring under the worst form of typhoid fever. They had no cover ing, nor yet had they a bed whereon to lie, except some kind neighbour sent them a pair of sheets and a bundle of straw, which to them answered every purpose of a bed. This is one case out of many that I'Could relate, where numbers of persons were huddled together, during my attendance in that neighbourhood. The squalid Wretchedness and poverty, which was the chief . charie teristic of every house I visited, told its own tale. I hope, Mr. Editor, you will give publicity to the above state ments, and when the Right Hon. Baronet at the head- of her Majesty's Government again gives a statistical ac count of patients admitted, he will likewise state the num ber of out-patients that could not be received, within the walls of a fever hospital. I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, T. 11. IV A RDLE ORTH, Surgeon. Rochdale, Oct. 5, 1841. THE LEIGH CONSOLIDATED MINING COMPANY. The annual genural meeting of the above Company Was held yesterday at the Office, 23; Threadneedle• street, for the purpose of receiving the Directors' Report and the statement of the Company's accounts from the Secre tary. Mr. HEYMAN took the Chair. The SECRETARY read the advertisement, calling the meeting together, with the minutes of the last meeting. The CHAIRMAN then called on the Secretary to read the Report from the direction, from which it appeared that although not so satisfactory and encouraging to the Shareholders as the last Report in its several bearings,, yet there was ground lint congratulation to the Directors. The prospective improvement bad induced Captain Sincock, the superintendent of the N‘orks, to recommend to the Directors the erection of a steam whim, &c., for the more effectual prosecution of the works. Acting upon this recommendation, the Directors had made a call upon the shareholders of :is. on each share, in order to carry out this recommenda tion, but the returns had not realised their expectations, and they were therefore obliged to forego the advan tages of the proposal, and appropriate the funds so raised to the current expenses of the mine. In June last the mine increased in value at Christor, insomuch that it more than paid its cost. But although the mine was paying the cost, the Directors thought that it would be necessary to call for a further 55.. on each share, in order to carry into effect other improvements. The SECRETARY then read the report of Captain Sin. cock respecting the proceedings and working of the mines. lie then read a balance sheet of the Company, and it appeared that the amount paid for various pur poses by the Company was 7,172/. Os. 3d4 whilst the receipts had been 7,422/. 145., leaving a surplus ga i n to the Company of 2501. 13 s . 9. The liabilities still out standing were 4371. 105. 6d., whilst the assets were 940/. 13s. Pd. ; , Showing 4 balance in favour of the Com pany of 5101, ad.. 3d... • - • ;1%1 f ( Mr. BuinsEir inquired . th 3 Secretary what the raising would be during the next! The SEcitErAny--.4l.e.bundved and fif t y t ons . Mr. BinnsEV l —Whatdo:you.calculat e that will bring ? The SECRETARY. , --900/: • • • ::?.i•Jri Mr. BinnsEr--,And :what waist:the cost - offaising,? The SEcRETARX--001. , : Irr w ,• • Mr. CURLING moved Mid 'tth'..s4.mit l seconded, the motion, that the report and ':iceOutits' teoisre4, l ; ;,,, was carried. In answer to a question • fronit , a PrOprietobOvhia could not catch, 7n ;3 0, joi The CHAIRMAN said—Fifty shares, op wirli th,esalls were not responded to Within the tin'.4 the,y not aware that hg,pos, One gentleman was in' pain at the - time.'-'fAhd ainithek y K as .shawl:hest:tht4er.e:f°threrlylek.anh:oi: Shareholder,thirty, paidohno some, ding t N a y e n nt d srees-saeddmistotedmoarnyn,ot3.-on, _say Tr, A PROPRIETOR moved that the tivo'Si\atelfoldbrs should be re-admitted on payment of the lait'oall. The CHAIRMAN—Of course we:AV:y*4e The motion having been seconde: ; The CHAIRMAN said, there was nothillig ftirthex!W ore the meeting, unless any gentleman wisheti 'to manse y observation. tar. lhansgy—l will bet any gentleman,itt•this room a wager that their shares will be: worth this time next year.--(A laugh.) - The CHAliimiN—We think they are worth' that now, Sir. No Shareholder appearing desirous of availi ng hi mself of Mr. Birdsey's offer; A vote of thanks was proposed to The...Chaim:6i, and the meeting NS as dissolved, I,l!,viiig sat about 20 minutes. In the Toulon port news we fital that the Germ reux, of the line, • was' making preparations for putti ng z . ‘ . • ~ to sea. Several steam-boats had receivedy orders t o ta ke in coal, and be i•eady - td depart -it'a moment's notice. The hospital steamer Cerbere hasqstitted for Algiers, with twelve Wheel% 1,61' other passengers, a n d n i nety soldiers of different regitnentek ''Tho'llitoti'. Steitner, sent to Tunis %dill — despitCre - not r—:- C - 91piamandant L eray, was hourly expeetediAck7. e Al 7 11. ' Afl '":l°T tl3 1 n ci SHOCKING ACCIOENV* 4 -PlifBViihNyriw t illy t i last, as Mr. Richard'. il'aTieViihd l , li!e:Villiarti iilaili were returning home friiiii 1/Kgittihrt!iriWilUdile tair, in their gig, accompanied; by' ME . 'lctiOrleiliid:lllr. Lane,' the foriner• of the same place, in iiiioth'er gig, .:\Y!IOn' about' half a mile from the latter 'place . the: otte-,-;Prly'aileinpted to pass the other ; in doing' So, it is iiipposed - the step of one gig caught the wheel or the other and upset it, , . rea a manner that'lle;thed instantly ;- Mr. liai§ter; was Liu% pitchingO rn w i il g,- u o r t o tt n Ai his head jot ie s ty and ac ti • l r 3 e d i r :ii i i s ) . l: k i s u tie i r i : n; so .8, i , a rid . but not seriously.—Wilth Paper. . ''. ,etter from Naples gives the following ac count of an extrrordinary case lately brought before the Criminal Tribunals of Sorrento and Otranto. In the former of these towns lived a family, consisting of a man, named Ilieronimo Pascolo, his son, Gasperino, aged 31, and Nunziata, the wife of t.Lt latter, a woman of 19, of such rare- beauty, that several painters of Rome had visited Sorrento for the purpose of painting her portrait, and introducing it into altar-pieces for the churches. These three persons were living in great harmony, until a friend of the husband insinuated that Nunziata was faithless. Gasperino r.-solved upon ascertaining the truth or falsehood of this charge, the denun ciator having been unable or unwilling to point out the • party for whom the wife had sacrificed her honour, pretended that he was going on a journey for several days, and secreting himself when his wife imagined that he was absent, entered her bed chamber at night. Here he saw Nunziata in a sleep, which appeared to him to be that of innocence, and he was about to retire, all doubt and jealousy removed, when she suddenly awoke, and left her bed. The hus band placed himself in such a situation as not to be seen by his wife; and watched her movements. She left the room, followed by Gasperino, grasping his dagger and entered the bed-room of her -father-in-law. Gas perino, convinced by what he had witnessed, that his own father was the criminal who had poisoned his domestic peace, rushed upon the guilty pair and stabbed them both. The father died im mediately, and Nunziata, gave no sign of life. Gasperinu then went and delivered himself up to the officers of justice, avowing what he had done. lie was tried by the Criminal Tribunal of Sorrento, and con demned to death on the ground that he had acted with premeditation, although the wife, who had recovered from her wounds, admitted her criminality, and de clared that she had merely married the son in order that she might have more frequent opportunities of inter cOurse with the father, with whom she was ie. love. On a 4 appeal to the Supreme Court of Naples the sentence of the Criminal Tribunal of Sorrento was confirmed, but the law officers of the Crown took some legal objections, and demanded that both decisions might be reversed, and a new trial granted. This was done, and Gasperino being brought before the Tribunal of Otranto, was ac quitted. We are informed, however, that his mind had received too severe a shock for him again to renew his relations with the world, and that he has entered a con vent of Trappists, with the intention of devoting the remainder of his life to prayer. A law exists in the s:ate of New Hampshire, in America, under which any woman from another state or country, who has lived two years within New Hampshire, and has not been claimed by her husband, has a right to a decree of di vorce. A young lady, native of New York, has recently availed herself of this privilege. She was married to the Count de Ilauteville, a Frenchman, hut, being dis contented with her lot, fled into New Hampshire, and hiving remained thstro the stipulated time unmolested, obtained her divorce, and with it the right .of keeping hey child, the fruit of her marriage: ' The Handelsblad of Amsterdtim!:says ,, In consequence of the resignation of U. Varstolk Van Soclen, and the non-acceptation 9f• pvrtfo4o of' Fo by 3r. Van 'ZifylCn an Nievelt, it has be4a swig otreted . sliceessiiiily . to 1 perkons ' 'Min have all :hown , thernselv es melinettt ttl'lte c ept it,' unless cer tain preliminary stipulations should agreeAto. A re part is current that the budgeoyill be withdrawn. In the small town of Puy Latirens i tti the Tarn, is a young man so decidedly lunatic that, though convicted of robbing a church; he was discharged; and' suffered to- Ketuain at liberty. He has always shown un antipathy to Children, and has become their terror. A few days ago, while standing near a public fountain, a little girl, who did not know him, came to fill her pitcher. The insane youth accosted her kindly, and said that if she rested in a certain manner on the iron rail whichwas round the tank, she would fill her vessel more easily and more safely. The poor girl did as he advised-IMt while she was stooping, he suddenly seized her, threw her over into the water, and walked away. Fortunately another man came to the fountain in time to draw her out before life was extinct, though she is in much danger. The mischievous madman, is in custody. A young man timed Bertin, of Doncourt aux Templiers, in the Meuse, sought a young woman of, that pl ace i n marr i age, b ut h er parents per emptorily refu se d th e i r consent , a l t h oug h t h e at tachment was mutu a l. Yi e ldi ng t o t h e v i o l en t feel ing thus excited, he prevailed upon his sweetheart to give • him a rendezvous in a neighbouring wood, where he, immediately on her approaching, shot her with a gun, and killed her instantaneously. Taking up the lifeless and disfigured body, he carried it home to the poor girl's mother, and, laying it • down at her feet, said, " There's your daughter ; marry her to whom you will !" He then fled, and has not since been seen. PAYING FOR PEEPING.—A tradition in Italy reported that Pope Clement-, anxious to know the secrets of the other world, consulted one of his most faithful v echaplains.been as r e l o ' h m i s p ais religiousaat as tchoen character w , ho appears of whom t Pope o says- -- Al " And bid him go to hell, to hell he goes," ;procured a _ necromancer, who took him down t o. th e in fOtiarri;gions, and there showed him a red-h o t habita trd which *devils were constructing for hi s master, Oidinerit.' 44404 intelligence, it is said that the Pope curing the rest of his life. It is certain that he died with a troubled conscience.—Campbell's Life V i r Oiz'rch: I .NOraiiimberland and Newcastle Yeomanry -11 a Piguounted Cavalry:assembled at Newea s tl e , on F r i day last, for ei g ht d a y s ' d u ty. So warlike are their a pp earance, that very. few women or , children have been seen in the. streets ever, since. To add to the variety of their amuse ments,' they employed , themselves to-day (Monday) in carrying the newly-married and downthe 'ranks.— I Tyne Mercury. S PPiNG INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) LONDON, OCT. s.—Wind this day at noon, variable. • DIaL, OCT. 4.—:-Wind - .L•T.E.—Arrived the Emily, Graves. from Shields, for 'Aden ; Lord Brougham, . northward, and sailed westward Salem, of Belfast' , _ Ar , rived from the river and sailed, the :John Fleming; for Madras; Funchal, ..!•Tewfoundiand ; Troughton, Conston . unople; Treazurer, Malta. • . _ . • LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 4/7,-Wilkt4 X.'d..-,-,-;ArrixedA tr; the / Andes, Garey, f rom Jmnaie -Itirtfess Sailed the Melton, for Barhadoes ; Strabo, NeW Or -4 leans, Arrived off, the Columbus, from Pernambuco ; Caledonia, St. John's,-New Brunswick. FORTSAIOUTII, OCT. 4:—Wind N.E. -to 11 - Sa-.o2tr" rived the Chapman, from Quebec -; John Fleming; bob don for Madras. • FALMOUTH, OCT. 3.—Wind lir:E. to E.5.13.--airiiid the Montrose (steamer), from Vigo. Sailed the Pandora Packet; for the West Indies. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 4.—Wind N.N.E, to Ball—Ar rived the Steadfast, from Portsmouth, for Sierra Leone ; riuna, Aque, Miranaichl. Sailed the Tortolie, Sydney ; Dart, Fayal. I3EtirAsT, OCT. I.—Arrived the Pearl, from Allan t. MILL ) OCT. 4,—Arrived Sir William Scott, Quebec. YARMOUTH ROADEL—Arrived Ann and Mary, Quebec. YAnuourn, OCT. 4.—The Chesterfield, from Grange mouth to Hamburgh, has come i n t o t h e h ar b our very leaky, and must discharge, having been on shore on limsborough Sand. HARWICH, Ocr. 4.—The Billy, from Shields to Malden, was assisted in here this morning with three feet water in ber hold, having sprung a leak off Southwold. LONDON, OCT. 6.—Wind S. to S. W. SrANHOA.TE CREEF, OCT. s. —Arrived the Thompson, from Canstantinople: RAMSUATE, OCT. s. —Arrived the Nein PrUneint, from Hamburgh, for Madeira, w ith l oss o f fi gure h ead an d cutwater, having been in contact • Indefatigable, Ant werp fur Singapore • ' Himalaya, London for Port Philip. DEAL, OCT. s.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Eleanor, from the westward. Arrived from the River, Nunea, for River Gambia. Put back, the Earl of Durham, for Cal cutta ; Albino, Bremen for New Orleans, after being on shore on Margate Sands. LIVERPOOL, OCT. s.—Arrived the Columbus, Green, from Pernambuco, sailed Ist ult. Sailed the Kingston, for Africa ; Burley, Sydney, New South Wales ; Lu neira, St. Vincent ;Columbia, steamer, Halifax ; Isabella, Malta ; Rambler, Rio Janeira. Off port, Agnes, Gil mour, from Quebec. DOVER, OCT. s.—Arrived the Flora, from Bremen for Porto Rico, with loss of sails. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. s.—Wind W. to S.S.W., fresh breezes, and squally.—Arrived the Volunteer, Hull for Sierra Leone, leaky. Sailed the Walmer Castle, for Cal- - CUM]. WEYMOUTH, OCT. s.—Arrived the Sultana, from Rio Janeiro, and sailed for Antwerp. PLYMOUTH, OCT. s.—Wind S.W., strong gales.— Arrived the Palestine and Alfred, London for Sydney, New South Wales ; M'lnroy, Parke, Monte Video. FALMOUTH, OCT. 4.7—Wind ,E.S,E. to .S., fresh gales.— Sailed the Montrose steamer, for Vigo. CARDIFF, OCT. 3.—T-Sailed the. Monarch, for Syra. CLYDE. Oct', 4.--Arrived,thei Ida, Wilson, from St.- John's, New Brunswick r,Sophia, Quebec. Sailed the Echo, for Jamaica ; Albert and Superb, for Demerara. ,; DUBLIN, OCT. 3.—Arrived the Amazon, Fife, fr om St. 414'8,.New Brunswick. • Sumais,Qcr. 3.—ArriTecl tho. Thomas Yor mg . ; f rott , :ans. Quehoc ;. IVymani Now Q& ILULL,.. OCT. fie—Airind 1114 Viri/i0H, 0 4 1 1 , 062 quebdc.• DEATH OF MP.. FRASE Wt.= Ir .—The publisher of Fraser's Maga z i ne di e d an S"..turday last, after a pro tracted illness, brought on., as it is supp ose d, b y t h e at tack of Mr. G. Berkeley.. Literature has thus lost an earnest supporter, liter,ry men a generous patron, and a large circle of frist.uls one beloved as a very brother. It is often true } 'fiat an intimate acquaintance, by unveiling defect's of character, weakens the reve rence, respect, and esteem first felt. This did not apply to Mr. Frasr..r. One learned slowly but surely to love him, and t.iey who knew him best, loved'him most. His fine taste, his ardent attachment to literary pursuits. and his sacrifices h the sere ice he loved, endeared him to the most dif,tinguished literati of the age. His unfeigned faith, IP:anility, and trne Christian conduct, exemplified in triutic life, and Tet more richly developed on a death bed, showed that the loss of many is indeed the gain of one. THE CLIMAX OF THE ALDERMAN'S DIS CRACE.—During the past week, the coat of arms of Ald Thompson, engrave]) in stone, in front of Mr. Homer's hotel, has been ruthlessly obliterated by the orders of the worthy host. This is certainly the " unkindest cut of C." Nothing remains now of" the slippery eel" but the recollection of his political tergiversation, and that cannot be forgotten.—Sunderland Herald. ---- --- EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.—In the first class carriage, next to the engine of the train to which the accident happened on the Brighton Railway, on Satur day, with only one second class carriage intervening, were two ladies and a gentleman, who, with others in the same carriage, escaped without the slightest injury, al though the carriage was smashed nearly to pieces, and one of the ladies had her veil and clothes cut into shreds. ST. PETERSBURGII,' SEPT 24.—The Impe rial Standard on the Aviuter palace announced to-day to the inhabitants of ,th4 j capital, that his Majesty the Em peror has returned from his journey to Warsaw. We are informed that the Brougham, which sailed on Saturday - With the Now Zealand Company's se cond staff of .surveyors for Port Nicholson, passed the Downs on Sunday with a fair wind and cheering pros pects. It carries outs principal engineer and two assist ants, accompanied by their wives ; alSo ten cadet engi neers. The Brougham is accompanied by a transport, carrying 300 emigrants, Men, women, and children. A few evenings ago groans were heard in a house which is building in the hue d'Arcole, and, on entering it a well-dressed young man was found with five wounds in different parts of his body, inflicted with a knife. He refused to give his name or his residence, or to reveal who were his assassins. On Thursday morning this young man, who had been removed to the Hotel Dieu, where he maintained the same reserve, expired. The account of the affair having become known, and a young man, who had recently succeeded to a handsome fortune, being missed, several persons . went to the Hotel Dieu, and recognised the body to be that of the missing person, - whose name and address they gave ; adding also some information, from which it would appear that on the night of the murder he had a large sum about him, and must have given a rendezvous at the spot where he was found, from a horrible propen sity of which he was already suspected by those who knew him. LONGEVITY.—There is now, living at White parish, nalr this city, a woman named Heath, who has attained the age of 106 y ears . Sh e i s in good health, and retains her faculties. Her daughter has lately been on a visit to see her ; the two number nearly 200 years, the daughter being considerably more than 80 years of age. The elder dame is'comfortably provided for by the lady of a Magistrate in the parish, and expresses her gratitude in warm terms for being enabled to live out of the Union, of which she has great horror ; as her own words plainly but emphatically prove—" I would rather lie down and die out of door, than go into one of them Unions."—Salisbury Herald. SABBATH OBSERVANCE.—We learn that a meeting of the subscribers to the Tontine News-room is to be held on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of considering and deciding upon the propriety of shut ting up that establishment during the whole of Sun day. We trust that there will be a full. muster of the subscribers who are not bit with the intolerant spirit of fanaticism now abroad, for the purpose of signally defeating this attempt, ,:lf; f successful in .the east end of the town, of co u r se it w ill nex t b e tried to shut up the Royal Exchange Room also. The proprietors however, had better take care of lending a•toCi ready ear to any such proposal, as, if carried into from what we have heard, inevitably lead put Jarge seces sion on the p a rt o f th e su b scr ib ers . - Neither the Ex •:hange nor Tontine Reading-rooms need' 'be matter of offence to those who do not frequent, them—no man is compelled against his inclination to enter their door— and we would therefOre recommend those who disapprove of their being open to mind their own affairs, and leave others to do the same.— Glasgow Argus. EDINBURGH, OCT. 4.—Early on Saturday forenoon, the Castle esplanade exhibited an appearance of unusual stir, in consequence of its being rumoured that a soldier belonging to the 53d Regiment was to be drummed out for stealing. About eleven o'clock the re giment marched down to the esplanade, and d rew up i n line, in the centre of which the culprit was stationed, when in presence of all his comrade s , his f ac i ngs, but tons, and every thing which related to the regiment were cut off by the sergeant-major, who also stamped upon his knapsack in large letters the word " thief." --Teem plete the degrading spectacle, the delinquent was then marched round the regiment, and after thesprescribed forms were gone through, he was then allowed to depart. Before quitting the espianide h e t oo k off his jacket and knapsack, and threw them back in the direction of the regiment ;• they were got hold of by some boys, who soon' tore them in shred s . The offender had been con h he received orecffieicv e e r d ' 8 15 7 room lashes. abo u three e was Zttif s ' i ;Cif ef ' ur st e e , a f l o i r ng w f h r i o c m an old offender. Rubini will reach Spain on the 30th inst. and stay at the bilk° of Osuna's, where apartments are pro pared for him, and a carriage at his disposal. He is to get B,ooof. or 7201. for six nights' singing, and 2001. for two extra ones, besides his travelling expenses being paid. FEELING TOWARDS LORD MORPATH IN IRELAND. —The progress of this estimable Nobleman through the province of Leinster has been one continued triumph. Addresses have been presented to him from nearly all the principal towns,in,the county , of Wexford. Oh 11'ednesday last the people of Ross met his Lord ship at Mount Garret Bridge, about a mile from the town. " Shortly after three o'clock," says the Wexford Inde pendent, " a hearty cheer from the county Kilkenny side announced his Lordship's approach, which was re sponded and re-echoed by the multitude at the county Wexford side of the bridge. The bands ther. struck up ' See the conquering hero comes,' and the vast procession advanced at a quick step; and though the rain was inces sant, and flooded the roads, still the bands played with out intermission till the procession arrived in front of Shanahan's hotel. By this time there could not be less than ten thousand persons present , it and cnnsider ar ing the extreme wetness of the day, 3 t be admit muted that it was a vast body, though cert ai n we e that his Lordship would have been greeted by the cheers of day were 30,000 of our brave and temperat e people if le the favourable. Lord Morpeth then entered the hall of the hotel s and was ushered into the great room by the Messrs., Talbot, OTer4'4.ll, &c. Mr. O'Ferrall instantly raised, the windovis front of the street, when the cheering' beearue ka•eruentlong? Alter 'the cheering had •subslitcreil Mr. O'Ferrall commenced reading the address in a clear MORNING iSI and animated tone of voice. His Lordship afterwards • addressed th e meet i ng, and at the conclusion said, he hoped yet to have it in his power to advance theinteresta of Ireland.' The King and Queen, the Duke and Duchess of Orleans, the Duchess of Nemours, Madame Adelaide, and .the Princess Clementine, left the Palace of Com .piegne on Wednesday, at half-past 12, for the Plateau eleXarigny, where the J,iying and the Duke of Orleans Monnted.their-chargers. ,His 3.lajesty, accompanied by Marshal Soult, and attended by a numerous Staff, rode totbe farm of. Corbeauliett, .where the troops, amounting to 18,000 men, had taken up a position under the command 1 : of the Duke de Nemours: The evolutions immediately . eaamenced„ and were followed by the King to different . points; his• Majesty-at: one time placing himself in the - 'centre of 'it:tigitare- formed -by one of the regiments to resist an attaok:of eaValry. . After a sham-fight, .which lasted an7ihottr, -- tha army filed oft before the Xing, with the usual acclamations of Vive k Boi I Viva la Refine 1 On their return to • Compiegne, their MOP ties found the whole of the troops drawn up in line along the -Amiens road, and were again saluted with three cheers, joined by a large bode of spec tators, who had hurried from the field, The hoyal party re-entered the Palace at four o'clock, The Ministers of Finance and Commerce, and M.: Sulvandy, the Ambassador to the Court of Spain, the Spanish, Danish, Hanoverian, Belgian, and Baden resident Ministers, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires, M. Montano, Baron de Schee. ten, the Duchess d'Albufera, the Countess de Chabannus, Viscount and Viscountess de Germiny, Generals Dar.. riule, Pelet, Saint Simon, and Doguereau, arrived in the course of the day. There was a grand dinner, after which the Court adjourned to the theatre to witness per* formances by thecompany from the Theatre du Gymnase, CLERICAL PREFERMENT...--The - Rev. Dr. IPLeod has returned from London, after accomplishing at least one of the objects of his mission, having, it is said, .been appoi n t e d t o t h e D eanery o f t h e Chapelfßoyal, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Bryce, Mini ster of Aberdour. The emoluments of the office are, we believe, somewhere between 2001. and 300/. per annum; and we can readily forgive the Doctor his Sunday travelling., in consideration of having so comfortable an addition to his income in view. We trust that Dr.. APLeod's clerical brethren will, notwithstanding w h a t h as b een sa i d, s h ow a forbearance on the present occasion.:— Glasgow Arau r . On Tuesday last a young' man, named liaac Becton, groom to Mr. 'Popham, was married, and next moraing,.was found dead in bed, by the side,of -his bride.— Chester Courant. •THE CUTTING-OUT OF . THE CAROLINE.— .If.you,proceed out of the Welland in a Canadian steam boat, you will pass into the river Niagara at rath e r a ner vous place, where th e r i ver widens to an .intru4r,se ex panse, before it suddenly contracts again to ' fortis the rapids and cataract of Niagara. The fist idea, to a .stranger, on reaching the spot is—sune„ s i ng t h e engine should get out of order, is the ve sse f to go doien -the fall, which is boiling u p a t R h on e two miles below ? There is, however, I believe, very li - e :,..1e real danger, as it is the site -. of the traject, or cortu r .'on ferry between Chippewa and the New York s h o 7e at fort Schlosser, at that celebrated • .• 'Spot where C- - r... ..ain Drew - and his dauntless militia sailors cut out tbs; Ca'roline.in the darknesser the night, and sent t ;i li e P' .:rate vessel flaming down into the abyss below. A. , need more.herctical was never perforthed by British sea- - men, and thoui;h - the policy of it at the time was ques tionable, yet what gooct man • can grieve that the laws of , s t nations were, perhaps, for a moment lost sight of,- when .-:.1 ;it was as notoriout as noon - day, that, .fOr the salte-Of ,gain and desperate spite, the wicked ship was constantly carrying oVer to Navy Island swarms of ragged rtdven s turers, eager to imbrue their unholy weapons in Cana dian blood, and stolen cannon to be pointed at a shore whose people were at pence with the United States,- but were deemed, nevertheless, fit subjects for a demoniac bombardment, and afterwards for midnight assassination?" —The Canada: in 1841. DEATH OF A POLICEMAN BY VIOLENCE. —On Sunday last James Carroll, late a police-constable belonging to the II division of Police, No. IGO, expired at the London Hospital front the effects of serious in juries inflicted on him by a ruffianly gang of cosier mongers. It appeared that On the . Morning of the 15th of last month, the attention of the deceased was drawn to a disorderly set of costermongers who were returning from Chelsea fair, whilst 'on ditty near Chub-row, Bethnal ; green. One of the fellows, in passing him by, said he once had three months of it for " brushing a fly off a policeman's nose," and he should like to do the same again. Carroll, however, took no notice of this, but finding the parties immediately after had attacked a private watchman and pelted him with stones, lie went to his assist ance, and was himself instantly attacked. He drew out his staff to defend himself, and the instant he did so one of the costermongers, named Smedley, snatched it from - him, and with a desperate blow with it on the head felled him to the ground. He was otherwise ill-used, and was reduced to such a state that he was obliged to be in stantly removed to the London Hospital, where he lin gered until Sunday last, when lie died from the effects of the injuries. The deceased has been for some years in the force, and was a very steady and inoffensive man, and within the last three weeks his wife and four chil dren, whom he used formerly to support in Ireland by remitting them his pay, have arrived in town, and are now deprived of their natural protector. Smedley, the man, who struck 'hint with his staff, and . t . Wo of his companions, are in eustody.. Two of the parties impli 'cated in the murder Were brought before the ,Iti b eiStrates at 'Worship-street yesterday, and rem a nde'd': till the re sult of the Corcner a inquest is known. COSTUME OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. —Woollen cloths Were long the chief material of male and,fernale attire. When new, the nap.was generally very long ; . end after being worn for some time it was customary to have it shorn ; indeed, this process was re peated as often as the stuff would bear it. . Thus we find the Countess sending Hicque, the tailor, to London, to get her robes re-shorn. Among the materials for dress mentioned, are linen, sindon, which ha,slteert.variously interpreted to mean satin or very fine 11004e, egar t et an d rayed or striped cloths, of Flemish, Fretlch i ,or It a li an make ; hers, or blue cloth,. fozwltbe,xt.antztitcoice,of which Provence was famous ; russet, say or! I; erga r aild luau diet or blanket, a name which, it is believed, was then given to flannel. The furs named are squirrel auttminiver. RUSSIAN IRON SHIP.—The Dundee Adver tiser says, " Our harbour just now p resen t s -a n uncom mon novelty, in the shape of 'a remarkably fine-looking iron-built brigantine named the IronsidO, of ;234 tons register, which arrived here - fr?iin St. Peteysliurgh, with a cargo of flax, on Monday laSt. The rtes e knsi4e.ii-finish‘ed in every respect in first-rate style, and is well worthy the inspection of- connoisseurs. Th e greater buoyancy of vessels of this description is sufficiently evident from - the fact (if other proofs were wanting) that the Irotisiele, notwithstanding her great tonnage, wa s enabl e d t o l oa d up at " Petersburgh Town," which can only be accom plished by schooners or brigs of small tonnage. Nor are her sailing capabilities less,lor she performed her voyage from St. I'etersbnrgh in 12 days. -The Ironside was built at Liverpool, nearly:three - years ago, and belongs to London owners. STATE OF TRADE.—The demand for cotton last week was very active, and prices are firm, with a tendency to improve. The autumn demand both for cot ton and woollen goods, is very brisk at present, and large quantities of twist are going to Russia and Poland pre vious to the closing of the Baltic by the ice. There is a better feeling in the cotton market than there has been at any time previously during the present year.—Liver pool BOULOGNE. An unprincipled scoundrel at Calais wrote to one of the London papers, and the Cap tain of the French mail spread the report at Dover, that the City of Boulogne had foundered outside of our har bour on Thursday morning, and from 26. to 1.50 perish ed. Now no blame can be attached to the Calasians when they praise up their port, but every man of common feeling will, and must be indignant, when, to serve a base purpose, they cast dismay and terror into the bosoms of hundreds, who have friends.en board:a boat s by lying; wilful, maliciously lying, like the above. how they coufd havo.thought of : the City of Boulogne astonishes us, par ticularly as she, %vas leaving the harbour ; had they spread the ;report.of - settle crazy boat, it would have been anothenthing., What a deplorable state they must-be in, at . Calais for . passengers, when they find it necessary to have recourse to each bale means to gain temporary fa° vour.---Boulopa e - Gazette,- Oct. 4. Arrangements have been completed between the contr ac t ors f or t h e Brighton day mail and the Direc tors of the Brighton Railway for the conveyance of the day mail by railroad. The contract commences this day, and the mail will start at its usual time-=namely, e!c' e P o'cloCk. The night mail will still continue 4!- " ! heretofore. W e un d erstand i t is contemplate 4 at, 155, another delivery o f l etters i n Br i ghton in t h 6 bd the day (three in all), which will be a great "T u n e e the tion to mer c h a nt s an d ot h ers res id ent there. Opening of th e ra il way severa l o f t h e co aches 1: i taken off th e road. There are, however, still eleven, in cluding the night mail. ALARMIAG FIRE AT CiiILDwALL. —On twelve o' clock, a Sunday forenoon, between eleven a nd large Dutch barn, ave been fire was discovered to be raging ~ sent to the different • word was ofthe parish en at Childwall-house, Salisbury. Immediately two fire -stations in Liverpool, when accompanied by a large gines, and the West of, England,to the spot. Fortunately body of firemen, proceededwhich enabled the firemen to there was very little grind,. a farm belonging to the Marquis of in which it broke out. In deposited of oats, value about Gtki., b : l ea l t t n e ; produce of thirteen acres four the incoming tenant, Mr. Ro oct the e n: h. h n a e oran t t h i, e a. ei fi lr( r ie e h to demp the g. d the property of sympathy was expressed, gerson, for about 250/ worth of hay, There was also very'.o intelligent, respectable, tenant,and ailigtholosd• Rot i e n t a h s t l e i r s o an p u i t ri e g e t o . i i n n g A o t the tin ti firs men o j b c e ltv s l e i i i u l e th e v r e o , gT : t , was sold, but not delivered. building, to the amount of 2001., we The damage the b p t a r a s i r o t h u o s e f m w i a s i n li . c a burning exerted belonging i s themselve s toh piles of straw, and throwing them down SO SS to enable the water from the engines to penetrate, in which occupation they were at times almost suffciaated. J. S. Leigh, Esq., of Childwall-hall, and Mr. White house, of the West of England Fire-office, were early on the spot, directing and assisti ng i n t h e suppression of the fire. By twelve o'clock at night the fire was so far subdued that the parish engine and firemen woo withdrawn, leaving the West of England : engine (which office, we hear, is principally interested) tore main on the Spot all night and all next dar, to play upon. the burning masses as they were removed toAhe-acboui ing fields, two of 'which were covered with eartloads of the partially-burnt hay and straw. It is fortunate' that the farm buildings on, the other side of the and dia not catch fire, as also those in the occupation of gr r iVe; the idjoining tenant. in which case the amount of losS wou4 have been 5,0001. or 60001. at least, We are terry ;OA ' there is reason to fear that the fire is not the moult esi accident, the grounds for 'which we are not at present at liberty to state.—Liverpool Courier.