The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-06 00:00:00

EVEN' INO r STN IRISH MARKETS. DUBLIN MARKET NOTE for the Week emding OCT. 1, From 2 , 0 14 0 16 (1 1u 0 0 11 e 25 0 15 3 18 12 0 14 ti _ FASHIONS FOR OCTOBER. . (Prom the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine._ f Fashicii I) Coutils de laine, cachcmires barbaresque, moire a ttubnn colour, cPndre de roses, pekinets in small stripes, articulatly violet and black. some in Turkish patterns, armure perline glace, velours d es Indes, &c., are now taki ng . place of the light er mater i a l s f or dress. Re ingotes with peletiues have made their appearance seaso n ; when of muslin the pelerine is trimmed with lace, but in foulard, with gimp or forßilk em' ora i dered iu tambour, the embroidery coa ; ling tunic on th e s ki rt ; t h e corsage is a ; dre sses of l i ghter materials are generally made with double skirts, the upper one being embroidered in silk, chenille, or worsted ; the corsages are in folds °wr S quares or w i t h d raperee, s h ort t i g h t s l eeves. In .caliking dresses th e s ki rts are tr i mme d w i t h two rows '" ni ne, or en tablier, with biais and flounces of a More than usual width ; the bodies continue to be made ti ght, with revers a chale, trimmed with fringe ; some aro made full at the shoulders and waist, high on the sli colders, b ut low in front ; the sleeves continue tight with • , Jockeys t r i mme d w i t h f r i nge , or w i t h b ou i llons lengthways. For young ladies the prettiest style is a l arvae of tat-latent', with deep tucks divid e d by a row o f spots, worked in tambour. IQ fiehus there are several novelties, the collar giselle revers, the col a medaillon, and the collars a gerbes, 1 " Pretty accompaniments to a silk redin g ot e , f orm i ng stomacher of splendid e mb ro id er y, f rom t h e iscftas 'itt to t h e throat, encircled with lace ; many collars Adand cannezous are made with inlets of lace and some clo s i ng w i t h go ld b uttons, or w i th s i x small t7 b rooches, connecting with a gold chain. Caps i ntinue t o be made very flat, and almost adhering to c e cheek s ; the newest are a la Baigocuse a l'ingenue, t 0 favour are cons id ered decidedly to be again returning ; thos e ornamente d w i t h cameos are pre :ilreai'hut m ore s i mple ones are made of tortoiseshell. 441 with gold ; those enriched with diamonds and rre c ,eicos stone s are exclusively reserved for full dress. bawlr of filet are preparing, as also scarfs ; those ell°'eachemire are fashionable in Paris now ; one or two ajlteaux base also appeared, one was formed of an squa re in f u ll gat h ers at the throat, and with 'co trimmed all round with velvet i n van d y k es , an d u i fast e a 441 with j et out:ens ; anoth er was o f the Arnie -1 ri f orm, an en ti re c i rc l e, also trimmed with velvet en °/e, wlaich finishes in a hood. Bonnets have taken rather an oval form, and ir e co ot inues ery d eep at the ears ; the straight cottage a in f avour , t h ey are frequently almost vered by the violette of lace, which is attach ed to the form by a courcnne of r i bbon of the colour of ° bonnet, or demi guirlande of flowers. For autumn r Z lir , gauze b onnets are lined with satin ; capotes de ri z are ornamented with demi couronnes of teuilluge 114 v elvet, and a ruche at the edge of the bonnet. Flowers will be in greater variety than ever ; there ne e snowballs in velvet of every colour, beautifully s haded, wreaths of clematis and roses, with dewdrops ; and the last novelty is the chute d'EJintier, N k;I.IIItICAL PREFER LENT.—The R 4'LQO(I has returned from London, after accoin e p v l . ish. D inrg . ?id4t Ittst one of the objects of his mission, having, it is , been appointed to the Deanery of the Chaperßoyal, .‘ 4 1 , e4 4t by the death of the Rev. Dr. Bryce, Minister of 116 by The emoluments of the office are, we . believe, cud between 2001. and 300/. per annum; and w .n e ' , - , 7111 r(qlaity forgive the Doctor his Sunday travelling,_ in itZ'.ider.ation of having so comfortable an addition to . hi 1. 4 '" l t in view. We trust that Dr. 111'.4eod's clerical It t • , .• will, (•liven notwithstanding what has been said, show s •`4,ll,oartince on the present occasion.— Glasgow Argu . r 4 Il e King anti Queen, the Duke and Duchess °- (Yrkans the Duchess of Nemours, Madame Adelaide, 1) 411 e 4 th ' l' ' rin c s Clementine, left the Palace of Com iii Int! on Wednesday, ee s at half -past 12, for the Plateau 4 lvri 'l, l. e King and the Duke of Orleans At°t:.ll,,ted the i ‘ r v e l h e a l r e gers. His Majesty, accompanied• by far a s:" Z.I S 'Ad t, and attended by anumerous staff, rode to ti t le of 443 eorbeaulieu, where the troops, amounting nd o th e -1-1/11,4, had taken up a position under the conai.na eunivii-eWeu" de Nemours. The evolutions immediately Poiut & j e d, and were followed by the King to different "ntr ,); i lis Iktajest at one time placing luins . elf in the resi s i e -- It s quare Y formed by one of the regunents to lits kri n 4 attack of cavalry. After a sham-fight, which. wit' ~44 hour, the artily filed off beiore . the !tang, it e b ie ',"(= usual acclamations of Vice le Roz .r . Vive . ti. ti" , 1 .4 .._ On their return to Compiegne, their Majes whole of the troops drawn up in lv iin it e t i a t i° l i l l 4" l 4 tltieheAluiens road, and were again saluted Pal th r ee cheers, joined b a large body , - m i me lointhe field. Nor.eilis.t'ell.:lctio th e Palace I - • ar • Palac e at four o'clock. The Ministers , Nance and Commerce, and M. Salvundy, .the ltillti(!as4actr to the Court of Spain, the Spanish, Danish, AusitT''rian, Belgia.i. and Baden resident Ministers, ,4 the te ri•tl ian Charge d'Atfaires M. Montallo, Baron de Lelia:- Vi.,:eol'i'ilit3zutnell\•icise.tilbrittlefsesra:lit,he Countess do Chabanne , 4 111 , oilr e ' 1 elet, Saint Simon, Germiny, Generals . Dar which "it' d"Y. Thereand Dognereau, arrived in the was a grand dinner, after fer n -, the Cotirt arljourned to the theatre to witness per ' 04._nez-L3bytieo.iipany from t' ' .u. ,, Theittre du Gymnase. ketoun Tuesday last a Young man, named Isaac raoruin' V 9 (-) 11 1 to Air. o, was married, and next i r w e .g., was found din bed, by the side of his •--7-Clsester Courant. ,~ --~ ~ -a.. T FIE MARKETS-I'MS DAY. CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of all kinds of Grain this week have been mode rate► with a good quantity of Flour, coastwise. There being few buyers of Wheat, prices remained as on Monday. Barley, Beans, and Peas unaltered. Oats met a good de mand, and were rather dearer. Flour found a fair sale at last quotations. NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL. The supply of meat was rather short, trade was at an advance Of2d. per stone. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4t. ; Mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4 5.4 d . ; Lamb, 43. to ss. ; Veal, 3s. 803. to 4%. Bd. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. Bd. per stone of Blbs. The supplies of Game and Poultry were rather short. The demand was great, and prices were rather higher. Eggs in good supply, trade dull, and prices as last quoted. COLONIAL MARKET. _ The Market was fi rm, and fair purchases were made, both for home consumption and shipping at full rates. The public sales were light, but some large parcels of goods were declared for this and text week. The imports light from all quarters. TEA MARKET. The eemand was good, sad prices were firm : Is. I lid. paid for C ompany ' s Congou cash, and Is. I Id. the lowest point of the market tot free trade Congou. TALLOW MARKET. The market was dull, end prices still depressed. P. Y . . Cand! e on t h e spot was offered at 465. 6d. per cwt., but with few buyers. The arrivals large. WOOL MARKET. • %Ma demand for English and foreign Wool was good, and full rates were. paid. The Market wore a firm aspect. The ar tiyals keep small. i;erafc. 817 Wheat i perbattel at stone.... 16 :tole.-- I4ere 16 stone—. 412 Barley 62.3 Oats l4 sten!: ..... . n Fleur, per ewt. :77 Oatinea --- 8 stone.... Sold to Bakers only. 16,576 Cwt. Moor ....... ..... «•...•..•....•, 0J240 I 22 614 Average price Jt Wheat and 'lour 51, 8d per sack. Receipts of Flour, 12,149 iFtru: ........ •from 225. Od to 25; Od Gales of Do. 14.031 heron •••• from 17 8 . Od. to •21a .Od Tqlrir trom 10s. Od. to 15; Ott PRICE or Quarters. [.oat 1 Malt Quat tern • COltli MARKETS.— Oct. 2 Wheat-(per 20..t.)141 fit . tr.,33 (Id. (per 14st. .., 68.01 to 13 4 .00 ptrley ,(per 160..)11 0 1 5 0 Ifrks..s (per cwt II 41 a 6. 0 Oatmeal (per Od. to 16s Od beef, 4d. to 7d.--Aluttnn. sd. 06(t.— Veal, 4d to 6d Fork. 41d. to sd.—Fresh Buffet, led. to 11d per lb. PRICE OF ntrrrnft. To the Merch an t s . First Quality ... *O. ....... ••••••• 83. ••••••••-•••••••• Second ...... Third •• ••••••••• ••••••• •••••••••••••"•••••• •• t‘ • Fourth •••• •••• •• ~••••••••••• ....... ••• •75 •••••••••••••••••••••,, . ••• r 6 Fifth • ..... ...... 43 BLONMELL MARKETS.— Oct. 2 Per Cwt. 4. el. s. d. sd. d. :Sew Buttes . F4 Oto 51 C ttdes to 2 4 0 Oatmeal. 0 12 6 C 46 0 Rendered Lard 0 52 o 0 Per Erg. Flour, Second ..•... 41 • I •21 0 .----Househokl 0 42 0 1--- tJurths..... 20 0 Per Barrel. Rapeseed 26 0 01 Barlss ....... 10 ..... J 0 KILKENNY MAIKEIS. Wi.eat.perbarrel)2ls.fkl.to 35..0d. Beef s 4 - ier tr..... Os, ed. Os. rd. Barley 12 0 15 0 Muttc•rl ........... 0 5 o 8 Uat5........ l4 0 , 15 Pork ti 4 0 7 flour (per hag) 26 0 b 8 0 0 6 0 7 BUtter(perowt.) 00 0 100 0 irestt Butter ..... 0 0 1 0 Bacon Pigs .... 0 42 6 Sail Ditto : 0 6 013 Coals. 1 0 1 2 Potatoes ;per fit.) 9 0 :4 6 17 4 11 3 n 12 5 To the Country ~ 76e LLOYD'S SHIPPING -(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. 6. Wind S. to S. W. STANDGATE CREEK, OCT. S.—Arrived the Thompson, from Canstantinople. RAMSGATE, OCT. s. —Arrived the Neia Pruneira, from Hamburgli for Madeira, with loss of figure head and eutwater, having been in contact ; Indefatigable, Ant werp for Singapore ; Himalaya, London for Port Philip. DEAL, OCT. s.—Wrnd S. W.—Arrived the Eleanor, from the westward. Arrived from the River, Nunez, for River Gambia. Put back, the Earl of Durham, for Cal cutta ; Albina, 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- Inour, from Quebec. bI)VER, OCT. s. —Arrived the Flora, from Bremen for ' °ll o Rico, with loss of sails. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. s. —Wind W. to S.S.W., fresh S breezes and squally.—Arri ve d th e V olunteer, Hull for ierra Leone, leaky. Sailed the Walmer Castle, for Cal cutta. Wrirmorrir, OCT. S.—Arrived the Sultana, from Rio Janeiro, and sailed for Antwerp. • PLYMOUTH, OCT. s.—Wind S.W. strong gales.— Arrived th e P alestine and Alfred, London ' for Sydney, New South Wales ; M'lnroy, Parke, Monte Video. FALmouTH, OCT. 4.—Wind E.S.E. to S., fresh gales.— Sailed the Montrose steamer, for Vigo. CARDII•I, OcT. 3.—Sailed the Monarch, for Syra. CLYDE. OCT, 4.—Arrived time Ida, Wilson, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Sophia, Quebec. Sailed the Icho, for Jamaica ; Albert and Superb, for Demerara. DUBLIN, OCT. 3.—Arrived the Amazon, Fife, from St. John's, New B runsw i c k . • SHIELDS, OCT. 3.—Arrived the Thomas Young, from Quebec ; William Ladd, Wyman, New Orleans. HULL, OCT. 4.—Arrived the Wilson, from Quebec. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Co lonel Bouverie and Mr. G. E. Anson, enjoyed the sport of pheasant shooting .this morning in the Great Park, near Sandpit Gate.. The Princess Royal has been taken her usual airings. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert left the Castle in a pony phaeton, the Prince driving, fol lowed by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, Lord Byron, and Sir F. Stovin in carriages, and attended by Lord Charles Wellesley and Colonel Bouverie on horseback. Mr. G. E. Anson will have the honour of dining with the Royal party this evening. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Jones, arrived in town yesterday from his residence at Kew. His Royal Highness paid a visit to the Duchess of Glouces ter at Gloucester House ; and also visited his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal at Marl borough House. In the afternoon his Royal Highness returned to Kew. Sir Charles Douglas had an interview with Sir Ro• bert Peel yesterday at his official residence, in Down. ing•street. Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, transacted busi- ness yesterday at the Foreign -office. Colonel Angelo had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarencc has arrived in town' from Ireland. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. RLACKFRIARS' REGATTA. On Monday the thirteenth annual wager for prizes given by the inhabitants of Blackfriars, took place be tween five free watermen plying at Blackfriars-bridge. The men selected to row were Robert Ware, green ; dames Gill, white ; Joseph Matthews, pink ; Thomas Ware, yellow ; and John Ware, blue. The heats were from the upper side of Blackfriars-bridge to Barraud's roads, near the Teniple stairs, down to Southwark-bridge and thence upwards to the same place, and down to Blackfriars-bridge ; the first three boats in the first heat to start for the rand heat. Soon after two o'clock the men were at their respective places, and it was soon evident how the heat would terminate. White and pink were no Where ' and the other s were as f o ll ow :—yellow first, green second, and blue third. At. 4 o'clock the three brothers took their stations to row the grand heat. Thomas Ware took a slight lead up to Barraud's-roads, but Robert Ware was close on him. Little alteration took place till near Blackfriars-bridge where the wager was to be decided. A little above Capel's wharf there were five or six barges dropping with the ,tide ; John Wa re , w h o had then th e i ns id e station, rowed in shore, while his brothers went out into the stream at nearly a right angle. The fight was for second place, for yellow was too far a-head to be caught up ; and after a hard struggle yellow came in first by about two boats' length, green being second, and blue three lengths after green. There was an immense crowd on the bridge to witness the wager, though the weather was far from inviting. CRICKET. On Friday, O c t o b er 1, a match was played on the Bol ton ground between the Rev. Mr. Bird. and ten gentle men of the Bolton Cricket Club, and Capt. Bedford, Lieut. Rose, and nine non - commissioned officers and privates of the 60th Royal Rifles. The game terminated as follows : Bolton. Rifles. First Innings 3l Second ditto 70 the Rifle s h av i ng a l most succeeded in beating their mita gonists in one innings. In the evening,' the offiCers of the Rifles entertained their antagonists at dinner at their mess. 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 rather a ner vous place, where the river widens to an immense ex panse, before it suddenly contracts again to form the rapids and cataract of Niagara. The first idea, to a stranger, on reaching the spot is—supposing the engine should get out of order, is the vessel to go down the fall, which is boiling up at about two miles below ? There is, however, I believe; very little real danger, as it is the site of the traject, or common ferry between Chippewa and the New York shore at fort Schlosser, at that celebrated spot where Captain Drew and his dauntless militia sailors cut out the Caroline in the darkness of the night, and sent the pirate vessel flaming down into the abyss below. A deed more heroical was never p erformed by Briti s h sea men, and though the policy of it at the time was ques tionable, yet what good man can grieve that the laws of nations were, perhaps, for a moment lost sight of, when it was as notorious as noon day, that, for the sake of gain and desperate spite, the wicked ship was constantly carrying over to Navy Island swarms of ragged adven• turers, eager to imbrue their unholy weapons in Cana dian blood, and stolen cannon to be pointed at a shore whose' people were at peace with the United States, but were deemed, nevertheless, fit subjects for a demoniac bombardment, and afterwards for midnight assassination ?" —The Canadas in 1841. --- DEATH OF A POLICEMAN BY VIOLENCE. —On Sunday last James Carroll, late a police- constable belonging to the H division of Police, No. 160, expired at the London Hospital from the effects of serious in jaries inflicted on him by a ruffianly gang of coster 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 duty near Club-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, he 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 he 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 him with his stall; and two of his companions, arein custody. Two of the parties impli cated in the murder were brought before the Magistrates at Worship-street yesterday, and remanded till the re sult of the Coroner's inquest is known. COSTUME OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. —Woollen cloths were long the chief material of angle and female attire. When new, the nap was generally very long ; and 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 has been variously interpreted to mean satin or very fine linen ; scarlet and rayed or striped cloths, of Flemish, French, or Italian make ; pers, or blue cloth, for the manufacture of which Provence was famous ; russet, say or serge, and blan chet or blanket, a name which, it is believed, was then given to flannel. The furs named are squirrel and miniver. RUSSIAN IRON SHIP. —The Dundee Adver tiser says, " Our harbour just now presents an uncom mon novelty, in the shape of a remarkably fine-looking iron-built brigantine named the Ironside, of 264 tons register, which arrived here from St. Petersburgh, with a cargo of flax, on Monday last. The Iron Side is finished in every respect in first-rate style, and is well worthy the inspection of connoisseurs. The greater buoyancy of vessels of this description is sufficiently evident from the fact (if other proofs were wanting) that the Ironside, notwithstanding her great tonn age , was ena bl e d to load up at " Petersburgh Town," which can only be accom plished by schooners or brigs of small tonnage. Nor are her sailing capabilities less, for she performed her voyage from St. Petersburgh in 12 days. The Ironside was built at Liverpool, nearly three years ago, and belongs to London owners. PETER PRIGGINS AND THEODORE HOOK.-- A new work of fiction, from the pen of a writer who so suddenly started into celebrity as did the author of the incomparable " Peter Priggins," must excite general in terest; but when it is understood that the new work, en titled " The Parish Clerk," is the last which passed under the hand and editorship of the great humourist we have just lost, it will be sought with eager curiosity. The merest hasty glance at this new work will show that, like its irresistibly droll predecessor, it bears the Wok spirit in every . pay.; and ver y 'f requently his hand and seal. So conviCiniusly,; indeed, is this the case, that in all probability many persons will refuse to be . lieve; aS''theY did in regard' to' " Pet er P r i gg i ns, " that the work - does not owe its fraternity to the author of 1 ` Sayings and 'Doings." It is certain that the anony mous author (about whom there has been considerable mystery and curiosity) is the most vi gorous and spirited disciple of the Hook school of humour that we have yet had. Several of the Cabinet Ministers visited Sir Robert Peel yesterday morning. ISLE OF SKYE.—DISTRESSING OCCUR. RExcli.—About ten days ago Mr. Lindsay, officer of Excise in the Island of Harris, to all appearance cam e :n —hie mansion to i and aby promontoryatb in w h tl i i c e h f , j ) h l l t o s w i i h n t g h t manner ea, sb hy o . ot t i w ng lo s d o o l g an s. -"e h e if se is , was oda accompanied, m fo p r a n tl ic ie d p t rp i o s s e sa o h f i On the f o ll ow i ng m o rning seam coming home at night. created muc h h l a va a s rm in t a o de bis for au h h im ) , dogs lyi ng b es id e some bi r d s w hi c h h while on the promontory mentioned w a e c r found t had been heen le two shot, i no trace wh a t ever cou ld b e found of Mr. t) dsa s is lip st p zos s e i d lel t v h i a n t g I l . i o e ck m t u he s e t r liavu lost butl t fruaot!trill,,, into the on t .e situated and sea, whi c h a t t h at p l ace i s o f very cons id era bl e d e pth. He had on hi s person at the time a heavy shot-bag, which, toge:her with his gun, would probably have caused him to sink immediately. His remains have not been found. He was much respected in the place, and has left a wife and numerous family to lament his un timely end.—Edinburgh Witness. STATE OP TRADE.—The demand for cotton last week was very active, and prices are firm, with a tendePcyto improve. The autumn demand both for cot ton ani 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 Tinies. WINDSOR, TUESD.IY.—EIer Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lc(ly Anne Maria Dawson, left the Castle for town this morning, but returns in the evening to the Castle. The Queen and Princd Albert rode in a pony phaeton to Adelaide Cottage this morning. THE ,S LONDON. WiiMNEMA V, OCTOBER 6. 1841. RATES OF POSTAGE - . (From the London Gazette of last Evenin;.) TREASURY WARRANT Whereas by a warrant, dated the 19th day of March, 18 11, under the hands of three of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, the said Comnissioners, in excl.- cise of the power for such purpose vested in them by an Act; passed in the third and fourth years of the reign •of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act for the regulation of the duties of postage," did (amongst other things) direct that on every letter, not exceeding half an ounce in weight, posted in or addressed to Hamburgh, trans mitted by the pest, and passing between Ham-• burgh and any of the countries or places men tioned iu the schedule thereto, through the United Kingdom (conveyed between Hamburgh tied the United Kingdom, direct by packet boat or private ship), there should be charged and taken the rate of British postage set opposite the name of every such country or place in such schedule ; and that on every letter, not exceeding half an ounce in weight, posted in or addressed to Lubeck, transmitted by the post And passing (tither direct or via Hamburgh) between Lubeck and any of the countries or places mentioned in the schedule thereto, through the United Kingdom (con veyed between Lubeck or Hamburgh and the United Kingdom, direct by packet 'boat or private ship), there should be charged and taken the rate of British postage set opposite the name of every such country or place in such schedule And by another warrant, under the hands of three of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, dated .the .31st day of August last, the said Coinmissioners did, in exercise of the power or authority in them for such purpose vested, direct that on every letter posted in or addressed to Bremen, transmitted by the post between Bremen and ally of the countries or places mentioned in the schedule thereto, through the United Kingdom, conveyed direct by packet boat or private ship between the United Kingdom and Bremen or Ilamburgh, Cuxhaven, or Hanover, there should be charged and taken the rate of British postage set opposite the name of every such country or place in such schedule ; and in each of the said warrants, progressive additional rates of postage were directed to be charged and . taken on letters transmitted as therein mentioned, exceeding half an ounce in weight, according to the scale of weight and number of rates in the said As contained, contained, estimating and charging each' additil 5 7 .. y at' the sum which any such letters would be' Charged with under such warrants if not exceeding half an ounce in weight ; and in each- of the said warrants power was reserved to the Commission ers , for the time being, of h er 'Majesty's Treasury, or an y three of them by warrant, under their hands, at any time thereafter, to alter or repeal any of the rates thereby altered, and the regulations thereby made, and to make and establish any new or other rates or regulations in lieu thereof: - And whereas in consequence of the treaties with the post offices of Hamburgh, Lubeck, and Bremen, and the intended reduction of the rates of postage on letters transmitted between the United Kingdom and Panama, it is expedient that the several rates of postage men tioned in the schedules to the said warrants, and thereby -charged on letters conveyed to or from Hamburgh, Lu beck, or Bremen, through the United Kingdom, should be altered: Now we, the undersigned, being three of the Corn missioners of her Majesty's Treasury, in exercise of the powers or authorities in us for such purpose vested in and by the said Act, and the said warrants, do hereby direct and declare, that the several rates of postage mentioned in the, schedules contained in the said respective . warrants, and thereby charged on letters 'conveyed between Hamburgh, Lubeck, or Bremen, and any of the countries or places mentioned in such - schedules, through the United Kingdom, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed, on and from the 11th day of October next. And we, the said Commissioners, in further exer cise of the powers or, authorities in us fur such pur pose veined in and by the said Act, and the said war rants, do hereby further direct; that, on and from the said 11 th day .of October . next, there shall be charged and taken, in lieu of the rates of postage hereby repealed, the rates of postage following (that it to say); on every letter not exceeding half an ounce it weight, posted in or addressed to Hamburg"), trans nutted by the post, and passing between Hamburgh and any of the British colonies, or , Any foreign country through the United Kingdom (conveyed between Ham burgh and the United Kingdom direct by packet boat or private ship); add on every letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, posted in or addressed to Lubeck, transmitted by the post, and passing tither direct or via Hamburgh, between Lubeck and any of the British colonies, or any foreign country through the United Kingdom (conveyed between Lubeck or Ham burgh and the United Kingdom, direct by packet boat or private ship); and on every letter not exceed ing half an ounce in weight, posted in or addressed to Bremen, transmitted by th e p ost b etween Bremen and any of ? the British colonies, or any foreign coun try, through the United Kingdom (conveyed direct by packet-boat or private ship between the United Kinvdom and Bremen, or Hamburgh, Cuxhaven, or stanover) ; there shall be charged and taken an uniform rate of British postage of sixpence, for the conveyance of every , such letter between Ham burgh or Lubeck, or Bremen, Cuxhaven, or Hanover, and any part of the United Kingdom ; and also such a further or additional rate of British postage for the conveyance of every such letter between the port in the United diipgdozn. of the .departure Or arrival_ the packet or ship conveying the same, and the co lony or foreign country to or from which the same shall be forwarded, as shall from time to time, be charged and payable for British postage on letters, not exceeding half an ounce in weight, posted or delivered at the port in the United Kingdom of the departure or arrival of the packet or ship conveying the same, and transmitted direct between such port and such colony or foreign country. And we further direct,,that on every letter trans mitted as is mentioned in this warrant, exceeding half an ounce in weight, there shall be charged and taken progressive and additional rates of postage according to the scale of weight and num ber of rates in the said Act contained as to letters, estimating and charging each additional rate, at the suns which any such letter would be charged with under this warrant if not , exeeeding half an ounce in weight. And we further direct, that the terms and expressions used in this present warrant shall be construed to have the like meaning, in all respects, as they would have had if inserted in the said A c t. - And we further direct, that this warrant shall come into operation on the 11th day of October, 1841. Provided lastly, and we hereby declare and direct, that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners, for the time being, of her Majesty's Treasury, or any three of them, by warrant under their hands, at any time hereafter, to alter or repeal any of the rates hereby altered, or the regulations hereby made, and to make and establish any new or other rates or regulations in lieu thereof, and, from time to time, to appoint at what time the rates that may be payable are to be paid. Whitehall, Treasury-chambers, the 30th day of September, 1841. HENRY BARING, A. PRINGLE, J. MILNES GASK ELL. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—Whilst it is the policy of the party now in power to deny, or at least to underrate, the distresses of the people, there is a strong tendency to exaggerate the difficnities in which the nation itself has been handed over to the care of the present Government. Now it is true that embarrassments have arisen—chiefly, however, from the uncontrollable course of events, for which no human wisdom could have provided ; but, as Lord Melbourne last night most distinctly sad em phatically declared, the affairs of the country have not been left to the men now in office " in a dangerous or enormously difficult state," nor is there any barrier to the restoration of prosperity, that will not give way before a bold and vigorous, but at the same time an enlarged and liberal policy. We know that the mo• tive of the Tories in overrating the extent of the ma lady is to claim undue merit for the expected cure ; and the present condition of the country is made to look very black, that it may be contrasted here after with its brighter aspect—as water is rendered unnaturally and unnecessarily dark and muddy, to show the virtues of a filter—or as a most rude and illegible scrawl is exhibited in a writing-master's show-board, for the purpose of demonstrating the improvement that " six lessons' can accomplish by a peculiar system of instruc fief' in the art of caligraphy. We shall expect that, after some few months have elapsed, we shall be asked by Sir IL Peel's journals "to look on this picture . -and on this"— when the exaggerated daub now painted to order, in which every object is purposely black"ned to a most unsightly pitch, will be contrasted with a tuLthiu in which the opposite extreme will be reached, and where everything will be highly and brilliantly coloured in the blaring hues of overdrawn prosperity. We shall have speci mens, too, of the improvement effected in the national prospects, after so many lessons from Sir Robert Peel— lessons which, from past experience, will, we have no doubt, be sufficiently severe, and may at least have the merit of finishing the education of the public in the art of properly appreciating a Conservative Government. STANDARD.—The Rouse of Commons did not sit last night, but the proceedings of the House of Lords were so unusually lively as to2compensate for the silence of the other House of Parliament. Lord Minto commenced the business of the night with au apology for 'hiS dispensation of patronage as First Lord of the Admiralty. His Lordship mentioned some twenty promotions which he justified by rules laid down by his predecessors. This would be very well if the twenty officers promoted had been time only promotions made during the five years and up wards of the Noble Lord's administration, or if the twenty, or any of them, had been objected to spe cially. The truth, however, is, that in five years Lord Minto has made, not twenty, but five times twenty—perhaps ten times twenty—appointments, and of those which he mentioned last night few, if any, were the appointments objected to. Qui s'excuse s'accicse," says the pithy proverb, Lord Minto, unchallenged—uncharged by any one, cams forward to startle the House with a defence wholly unexpected ; and this defence ought to have been a complete one. When a man's conscience tells him that he ought to defend himself against the sus-. picion of having abused his patronage, it will not do to present so lame an apology as Lord Minto offered last night. It will not do to say that " out of hundred or two hundred appointments that I have made, see, here are a score perfectly in rule ;" for the obvious inference is, that the others will not bear the light. We could without difficulty find ma ny, very many, appointments made by Lord Minto, to which his rules will not apply, and which cannot be justified upon any grounds ; but we willingly resign the matter to our excellent ecntemporarv, the United Service Gazette, %hich has a• kind of property in his Lordship and his doings —a property paid for not only in money, but in long servie;,s, for which the Noble Lord ought now to be grateful for to the active Vigilance of the journal in question 'he' owes it that the schedule of charges of abuse of patronage against .him, heavy as it is, is not much heavier. COURIER.L—The proceedi ngs i n t h e H ouse o f L or d s last night p resent a f ew strikingly noticeable points, It does not surprise us' to find the Whig ex-First Lord of the Admiralty betraying symptoms of touchy uneasi ness at the nature and tendency of the notice for a return of the Commissions (with the name attached) issued since June by the Admiralty, distinguishing those issued after the 30th of August, the date of the Virtual extinction of the late Government, as we have a tolerably strong suspi cion that the infarma t ion derivable from these returns, and the light they will throw upon the doings of the Admi ralty in the interval between the suspended vitality of the Whig Government and its. final dissolution, will serve neither to enhance the character of that department over which the Noble Earl presided fur impartiality, nor to excite regret fur its loss in the profession more im mediately subject to its influence. But if Earl Minto fancies that his lame and impotent attempt ut vindica tion lust night will weaken the force, much less dis prove the charge, of favouritism and partiality in its distribution of patronage, in its promotions and appoint ments, that have been publicly urged against the late Board of Ad m i ra l ty, and his Lordship as its head, or if he supposes that such explanations as he gave will o u t we i g h the evidence of the official me zette,, inv a lid at i ng the • returns sought for, and holding u p hi s ad ministration of naval affairs as a model of disinterestedness and impartiality, we must take th e liberty of' undecei v i ng hi m ; as to us the studied c are w i t h which he shirked the real gravamen of the charges- o f w hi c h he so pathetically complained, and the • ene•erness he evi nce d to encounter and demolish totally ' different ones, afford confirmation 'strong as holy writ —not of th ese c h arges being well foundedalthough of that they f urn i s h a pregnant indi cation—but of his Lordship's consc i ousness of inability fairly to meet and refute them : If we recollect rightly, the charge against the Noble E a rl was one of' nepoti sm , o f s h ow i ng un d ue and undeserved favour to his own relatives and con nections, as well as to those who' were known to agree in political opinions with the Whig Government. And certainly the number of Elliots appointed and promoted to offices of emolument and re sponsibility, gave colour, if not substance to it ; and then the vast number of promotions that took place •!- on the 'eye ,of his departure from Office the choppings • Rio changes that oc curred, creating vacancies and furnishing fresh supplies of patronage,: looked, to speak in the mildest terms of it, very suspicious. But how has the Noble Earl attempted to explain away those ugly appearances? Why, by citing those instances of promotion that were in accordance with the rules and precedents that usually regulate such matters. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London Mercantile Journal of October 5.) SUGAR.—The demand for West India Sugar has increased, but it is . still almost limited to th e m iddli ng bright gro cer y, and strong grey and yellow descriptions for refining, and a good'business• has been done in these sorts, but not to the extent that it might have been, had the supply afforded a better assortment of samples ; the prices realised are a shade higher than last week in most instances. Of the lower qualities, however, the market presents a gOod show,; but they are still com paratively neglected, and in most instances have been sold 6d to is lower. Good Antigua has sold at 66s to GGs 6d, middling and good middling Jamaica at 64s to 65 s Gd, low middling St. Vincent's at 59s 6d, low mid grey Trinidad at 655, and brown Tobago at 54s per cwt. The transactions during:the week amount to about 2,900 hhds and tierces. To-day the prices of West India Muscovado Sugar was very fully maintained, and the demand was steady; both the grocers and refiners were purchasers, and. up wards of 1,000 hhds and trcs tare disposed of; the good bright grocery sorts, however,' formed the bulk of the sales, and were rather higher. ' . By public_ auction 100 hhds Barbados's sold briskly and at Gd to I,s per cwt advance on previous rates, viz., at 57s 6d to 68s for low to fine-yellow, and one lot very line at 70s per cwt. Miunnurs.—There was a fairdemand, and at publ sale 546 bags went rather higher for the best sorts; low to middling yellow fetched 53s 6d to 575, good to fine 59s to 64s 6d, and middling brown 45s to 49s 6d. EAST Isaac.—The public sales of Foreign East India Sugar were large to-day, consisting of 6,000 bags Ma nilla, 566 bags Siam, and 2,358 baskets Java; they went off quietly, but th e b u lk was so ld at i s d ec li ne ; Manila,' middling yellow went at 17s to 18s ; good to fine brown las to 17s ; Java low'to good white 20s to 24s ad ; low grey to good yellow 16s 6d to 19s 6d ; Siam middling white 20s per cwt. FonEtoN.—The market is quiet, .and at public . sale 298 chests sold a shade lower, low to good white sold at 20s to 23s 6d, brown 15s V) 17s per cwt. kfloating cargo of B a hi a S ugar was so l d a day or two ago, the white at 21s 6d and the brown at IGs deliverable in Holland. • TEA.—The market was very dull and heavy last week up to Friday, and scarcely any transactions took place in free trade descriptions ; but the firmness dis played by the holders prevented any depression in prices. On that day, however, .sv “. large public sales - we.Te—torinigAlt,fottvetrtii- isen- n' ta-aeilonAook: plat* l• the trade appear e d more ez i rous to purchase, and the sales opened w i t h a f u room and a brisk competiti on for black Tea, th e b e tt er sorts 'et ,wllic•,- realis e d an ad id vance of ld per lb. on previon. r,, , t-,, while the lower qualities brought full prices. Green Tea was, however, nearly all taken in, and at easier rates ; low Gun powder sold 2d lower. Of 12,480 packages passed auction 6,0 . 00 were sold. Congou ordinary to good or dinary at }s 10d to is lld, middling to strong blackish leaf 2s Id t o 2 s 4d ; fi ne 2s 5d to 9s Bhd. Those sales closed yesterday fully supported the prices of Friday, and of 5,000 packages that remained over rather more than one-half was sold. Company's Congou has met a more ready sale since Friday, and the cash price has ad vanced to ls. 11d. per lb. COFFEE.—There was a somewhat better demand to day for home consumption sorts, but more particu larly for the better sorts, and the market looks rather firmer : 60 casks Berbice, chiefly of unclean quality, mostly sold at steady prices, middling at 100 s 6d, and unclean ditto at 84s ; 77 bags fine ordinary pale and co loury Ceylon realized 70s to 71s per cwt; 420 bags com mon East India were withdrawn. SPIRITS.--The Rum market continues, very dull and prices without variation ; a few Jamaicas of good clean quality 33 overproof have been sold at 6s 2d, and some small parcels of good brown Leewards, 11 per cent. overproof at 2s 3d, 14 to 19 over at 2s 4d, 21 over at 2s 3d, and 31 to 37 over at 2s 8d to 2s 10d per' gallon. In Brandy or Geneva no alteration worth re porting, the former article continues to be well sustained CASSIA LlGNEA.—Prices are firm, but there are few buyers ; 250 chests offered at public sale were bought in at 96s for fair mid quality ; 94s offered. PEPPER. —The market is firm, but with little business doing ; 260 bags common Eastern were bought in at public sale at 3.0 per lb; white continues in demand, and 247 bags of fair quality . sold by the hammer at 6d to 6id per lb. 5.i00.-1,180 bags 200 boxes :Petri were offered at public sale, when a part, of middling brown quality, sold at 15s Gd to 16s Gd pet' cwt. The market continued very firm to-day, and a fair demand existed for sound clean Congous. which realised rather higher prices than at the public sales, and are with difficulty to be met with ; is 11d to 2s is the cash price.,•and the former figure is now the lowest point of the market, except for anything out of condition. Twankays pre also inquired after, and Is Ild to is 11d, cash down, have been paid. for ordinary quality. In the finer sorts of Tea there is not much business doing, but prices are fully maintained. Company's - Congou has brought is 114 d per lb, cash, with very few sellers at that price: The express, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, is hourly looked for. _ DlCE.—Bengal is rather more inquired after, and holders are rather firmer ; sales in mid white Bengal at lOs Gd per cwt. INDico.—The quarterly auctions commenced this morning. Previous to and during the progress of the sales 351 chests were withdrawn; There was an evi dent desire on the part of buyers to hold back, conse quently the biddings were dull, and though the proprie tors gave great support, a decline was almost generally established. 906 chests passed auction, and 410 were bought in. The price, as contrasted with the July sal , s, show the following result :—good and fine shipping qualities par to 3d discount, ordinary and middling ditto 3d to 6d discount, good and fine consumers 3d discount, and ordinary and very low ditto 4d to Gd per lb lower. TALLow.—The market is dull, and fine yellow Candle is offering at 47s 6d per cwt on the spot. The accounts from St. Petersburgh yesterday are to the 15th September, which state that 2 3,000 c as k s Tal low were shipped off from the I st instant. Th e tota l quantity shipped off this season was 95 , 00 0 casks, aga i nst 99,000 at the same period last year. The sales s i nce t h e last post day were about 6,00 0 casks, at a declin e o f 2 to 3 ther o s. us ._T last h e p r i ces o f common being 124 to i t s o h 1 0 25 i l s continue rs c to be . firmly sustained, and the market still looks h ea l t h y. There have been few transactions privately, b ut a b out 90 tuns offered at public sale found reudy buye rs at ad vanced prices —viz., from 30/ to 331 per tun for mid to fine pale. Pale Seal cannot be bought below 35 lOs or 361 per tun. Sperm Oil remains at former qu o t at i mm. with a small business doing . Linseed Oil h as b een taken off freely at 32s per cwt. Rape Oil very fi rm i n price, and the great scarcity of the article precludes purchases. Olive Oil is still on the advance, and is much wanted. Cocoa Nut Oil supports previous rates, and the demand is steady with a reduced stock ; 97 pps 50 hlids fine Cey lon Oil were offered at public side on Friday, when a part sold at 411 to 41l 5s ; 19 tanks of inferior quality, were however bought in at 37/ 5s to 371 lOs ; 20 casks packed out of tanks were also bought in at 38/per ton, duty paid. Some few sales have been made in Palm Oil at about 33/.los per ton. (EexcitijtclbtluyrY4hs years ago), Caled on i an S INGU LAR COINCIDENCE.- A few (jayseah reris ag o tv g al o while ofs Orange h r e e A k l o e Messrs., Ls ; T i l m i o p r h o u r t r e n d w i c u re on u e n o p t a . ck a i l i e ig laate from China, they ' discovered between the lead li n i ng and .a bf i o e tt r o c m ury o ! o tl f ie da b t o e x 2 a 2d czy pt o , f l7 th , e 6 containing a letter of the senior. Mr. Thorburn, the vene rable partner of the firm, regarding the tea trade of that period. The chest was packed 1,500 miles above Canton, where the newspaper, which is in excellent preservation, must have been put in: and no explanation is given to re move the mystery ho,v it has been preserved and trans mitted back nearly half a century after its publication._ Caledonia.' Mercury. . . IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Oct. 5. The SPEAKER entered the House a Quarter .before Four o'Clock, and shortly after prayers had been read, Sir Augustus Clifford, the Usher of the Blrek Rod, ap peared at the table and summoned the House to the House of Lords, to hear the Royal Assent given to seve ral public and private Bills. The SPEAKER returned at a few minutes after Four, and informed the House that the Royal Assent had been given by Commission to several Bills—..(for which see Lords' report). Dr. BOWRING presented a petition, agreed to at a public meeting in Dublin, complaining that the slave trade had of late greatly increased, especially in the Brazils and Cuba, and stating that branches of English companies furnished the funds for workin the mines in those countries. The petitioners' prayed the House to take the subject into its consideration. Mr. 'THORNILY presented a petition from an indi vidual riamed.James Hardy, of Liverpool, against the sliding duty on foreign corn. Mr. W. ELLIS presented a petition from the Leices ter Working Alens' Anti-Corn-law Association, complaining of the distress occasioned by the present Corn-laws, and praying for their repeal. . Mr. HINDLEY presented a petition from the borough of Warrington, complaining of .the coercion and intimi dation practised at elections for the borough, and praying for the adoption of the ballot as the only remedy for the Mr. HAWES presented a petition from the congrep tion of Protestant Dissenters of Dunstable, complaining of the present system of Corn-laws, and preying for their immediate repeal. The Hon. Member also pre sented; on behalf of his Hon. Friend the Member for Northampton (Mr. R. Currie), two petitions from, th e county of Northa m pt on , an d a petition from 'a Baptist congregation in Northampton, to the same effect. Mr. FERRAND presented a petition from an indivi dual named Thomas Smith, of Hampstead, in favour of the present Corn-laws. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented several petitions from' Leeds, Sheffield, and other places in,Yorkshire, praying for the abolition of the silent system in workouses. Also a petition from a Mr. Clerk of Bath, in favour of the Charter ; and several other petitions to the same effect from Nottingham, Manchester, and Leeds. Also a petition from a Mr. William Ransall, of Essex, in favour of Universal Suffrage ; also a petition from Pershore, in Worcestershire, praying for the liberation of political prisoners ; also petitions from several 'districts of the metropolis, complaining of the traffic-in human bones, and praying for inquiry into the same. • Mr. P. STEWART presented a petition from Paisley against the prorogation of Parliament. Mr. YORKE presented a petition from a place in Yorkshire, praying the House to institute an inquiry into the laws regulating relief to the poor. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from the Rev. John William Norris, Minister of Winslow Chapel, Cheshire, praying for a Committee of Inquiry into the merits of an invention in machinery having a power equal to that of 1,000,000 horses. Mr. LYALL presented a petition from a town in New Brunswick against any alteration in the timber duties, and praying for the continuation of the protection they hitherto enjoyed. Mr.COBDEN presented a petition from Sunday-schools connected with the parish of Eccles, against the Corn law. The Hon. Gentle man presented several other petitions to the same effect. Mr. CRESSWELL presented .% petition from Liver pool, praying that no further expense might be incurred in the transmission of the Indian mails. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL presented a petition from T. Steele, Esq., an Irish Protestant Gentleman, calling the attention of the House to the remarks of the editor of a French newspaper, upon the obligation of her Ma jesty at her coronation to declare the Invocation of Saints and the ceremonies of the Mass to be idolatrous, and praying the House would pass an Act to• abolish such declaration as being preposterous in metaphysics, inconsistent in ethics, and contrary to common sense; that it.was opposed to the principles of the Church of Eng land .to say that the invocation—not the worship of saints —was idolatrous ; and that it was accusing Catholics of an excess of faith, as Mr. Erskine declared that Warren Hastings was not accused of those crimes which he was permitted by England to commit, but fur the excess which he committed beyond that permission. The following is the petition : " To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament , assembled, the petition of Thomas Steele, Esq.. of Lough O'Connell, in the county Of Clare, a Protestant of the Church of England, re spectfully showeth— " That in the month of November, 1837, the editor of a Paris newspaper in an editorial article, commenting on the declaration required by the existing law to be made by the Sovereigns of this realm after their acces sion to the throne, wrote to the following effect : I 'hat Queen Victoria, by being constrained by the institutions of England, to make from the throne in the House of Lords, the solemn declaration that the invo cation of saints and the sacrifice of the mass were super stitious, idolatrous, and damnable, was compelled to wreak an out ra g e on t h e religious feelings of her Catho lic kindred, of her Catholic subjects, of her Catholic allies, and of the Catholics all over the world. • " The French editor furthermore animadverted on the violatiOn of all the courtesies and decencies of so ciety••which the Royal Lady was compelled to - commit, henAtia_. mos Lilts& ting-. from the throne, in the presence of her own Earl Mar shal, the Catholic Duke of Norfolk, and of O'Connell. " Petitioner respectfully prays that your honourable House will, without any delay, pass an Act for the aboli tion of those absurd and iniquitous oaths and declara tions —preposterous in metaphysics, iniquitous in ethics, arrogant blasphemy in religion, and counnon ruffianism with respect to the usages of good society. " If Deists or Atheists, and as such treating with derision all belief as matter of mere religious faith in any doctrine without intuition or demonstration, were to make this declaration, such Deists or Atheists would not be guilty either of iniquity or absurdity, they would be only consistent with their own principles. But your Honourable House will, as petitioner confidently hopes, admit that the Protestant, who himself believes as matter of mere religious faith in the sanctified and incompre hensible mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation, has no right, according to the principles of metaphysical reasoning, to brand as superstitious, and idolatrous, and damnable, the belief, as matter qf faith, of his Ca tholic sisters and Catholic brothers (all mysteries being alike incomprehensible) in the incomprehensible mystery of the Real Presence—the . mvstery,Of transubstantiation. " Petitioner, a Protestant of the Church of England, respectfully affirms, that as a Protestant he does not possess the right, according to the principles of religion, to brand in such terms of arrogant and blasphemous con tumely the invocation' (not the worship), for the inter cession of the saints in heaven. " Petitioner prays leave to state to your Honourable House, in illustration of his argument, that Mr. Erskine, afterwards Lord Erskine, observed in one of his speeches that England, sanctioning as she did enormous iniquity in the government of India and of her other foreign de pendencies, had no right to place herself in the moral chair, and to impeach Warren Hastings—impeaching him, as she did, not for the actual gross amount of the wickedness which he committed in his government of India, but for the EXCESS of the wickedness which he committed there, above the quantity of wickedness which England herself gave him her sanction to perpetrate. " Now, petitioner boldly affirms that Protestants have no right to revile and devote to damnation Catholics, re viling and devoting them, not for • the whole faith which they hold in mysterious incompreliensibilities, but for . the EXCESS of their faith, above the faith of Protest ants themselves, in utterly incomprehensible mysteries. " And your petitioner will ever pray." BRIGHTON RAILWAY. Mr.WAKLEY presented a petition from an individual calling the attention of the House to the accident on the Brighton Railway, and complaining of the inefficient state of the engines. A petition was read by the Clerk against the return of the present sitting Member for Sunderland. Mr. HAWES gave notice that in the course of the next Session of Parliament, he should call the attention of the House to the report of the Commissioners on the Ecclesiastical Courts; also that to-morrow he should move for a return of the highest prices of wheat during each year since the passing of the present Corn-law. in the cities of Paris and London. He should also put on the paper for to-morrow a notice of motion for certain returns relating to the importation of. sugar. That motion, however, he did not intend to press to-morrow, but he should make a motion on the subject next Session. Major BERESFORD moved for copies of certain cor respondence which had passed between the Lords of the Treasury, the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and the Board of Ordnance, relating to the leasing of certain Crown lands in the borough of Athlone (as we under stood).—Agreed to. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. Dr. BOWRING moved for returns of the number of stamps issued to the different Newspapers in the months of July, August, and September ; and an account of the amount of advertisement duty paid by each; in continua tion of former returns.—Ordered. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET moved for certain returns relating to the management of lunatic asylums. —Ordered. Lord ASHLEY moved fora return of the commissions of lunacy front 1835 to 1841.—Agreed to. Lord DUDLEY STUART moved for copies of all the correspondence which had taken place with the Board o Controul and the Foreign-office, relative to British trade with Java.—Agreed to. Mr. HAWES presented a petition from the Commit tee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, expressing their deep regret at the continued existence of slavery, and praying the House to take immediate steps for its entire extinction. MR. 11PLEOD. Sir C. NAPIER wished to know from the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government with respect to the liberation of Mr. M'Leod. He understood that con siderable excitement existed in America on the subject, and he thought it therefore extremely important that steps should be taken for protecting Mr. M'Lood in the event of his release. Sir R. PEEL said he was sure the Gallant Officer would see that it would not be possible to give any in formation of that kind without great inconvenience.— (Hear, hear.) He hoped that he would not press the question. On the moticn of Lord G. SOMERSET, the Amend ments of the Standinf , Orders relati ng to P r i vate fills, recommended by the Committee which sat last Session, were agreed to. PROROG-ATION OF PARLIAMENT. Mr. BROTHERT.ON inquired whether it was the intention of the Right Hon. Baronet to take any steps with regard to the Addresses and Petitions which had hem adopted recently at several meetings, praying het: Majesty not to prorogue Parliament without taking into consideration the question of the Corn-laws. Sir R. prxr, saidoit, was the intention of his Right Hen. Friend the Secretary for the Home Department to gt, tlowit EA) Vv indsor and lay before her Majesty all the 'petitions that had been presented on the subject. On the motion of Captain BOLDERO, returns were ordered of the number of muskets supplied by the Ord nance to her .Majesty's navy, stating the description, with any alterations that had been made, and by what authority, since the year 1834. The Hause then adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS, Oct. 5. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat on the Woolsack at Half-past Three o'Clock. Lori Abinger and the Earl of Carnarvon took the oaths and their seats. ROYAL ASSENT. The Royal assent was given to. day by Commission to the Administration of Justice Bill, the Expiring Laws Bill, the Navy Pay Bill, the Foreign Bishops Consecra tion Bill, the Frogmore Lodge Bill, the Royal Gardens Bill, Riddle's Estate Bill, Marlborough's Estate Bill, and Clayton's Name Bill. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lord Wharncliffe. The House then adjourned during pleasure. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at the usual hour. On • the motion of Lord ELLENI3OROUGH, tho Exchequer Bills Funding Bill was read a third time and passed. DRAINAGE OF TOWNS. The Marquis of NORMANBY said he wished to call he attention of the Noble Duke to a subject of great Parliamentary interest, and in which he (the Marquis of Normanby) personally took great interest. Last Session he had brought in Bills for the drainage of towns and the improvement of buildings, which Bills were approved of by that House, both as to details as well as principle, and were sent down to the other House, where the prin ciple met with no opposition, but as respected some localities the details cave rise to much discussion, in consequence of which he found it would not be able to pass that House during the present Session. He had mentioned the subject to his successor, and he now wished to ask the Noble Duke whether the Go vernment had determined to adopt those measures so far as the principle went? If the Noble Duke would give him that assurance he would leave them in the hands of the Government, but if no such assurance was given he would take that opportunity of giving notice that he would himself bring them into the House on the first day of business next Session, and trust to his Noble Friend the Member fur Dorsetshire to conduct them through the other House. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said that he had commu nicated with his Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State fur the Home Department on the subject, and expressed to him the anxiety he felt for the success of those measures, but his Right Hon. Friend very justly replied that the Bill would have to undergo the investigation of a Committee of the House of Com mons, as it had in that House ; and as a new opposition bad arisen to some of the details of the Bill, it would be impossible to proceed with it in the present Session. With respect to the question of the Noble Marquis, all he could say was that no member of the Government had looked into the Bill, and they were therefilre not vet prepaitd to say whether they would be taken up as Go vernment measures, but this he would promise, that the Bills should receive their attentive consideration during the recess. The Duke of WELLINGTON said, that he had sup ported the Bill last Session, and if again introduced he should support i t. The Marquis of NORMANBY said, be was 'quite satisfied with the Noble Duke's assurance, and, therefore, unless the Government should do so, he would himself bring in the Bill again, and trust to the assistance of the Noble Duke. POOR-LAW COMMISSION BILL. On the motion of the Duke of WELLINGTON, the POor-law Commission Continuance Bill was read a third time and pass's]. Also the Exchequer Bills- Fund ing Bill. Lord MF,l,lt )URNE presented several petitions, pray ing the House to take the Corn-laws into consideration. THE CORN-LAWS—THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. The Earl of RADNOR wished to allude to the subject of the immediate prorogation of Parliament, a subject which excited the greatest interest in the country. He had last night understood the Noble Duke (the Duke of Wellington) to disclaim all intention upon the part of the Government of taking the subject of the Corn laws into their consideration.—(Cries of " No, no.") He would be glad to find he had misunder stood the Noble Deice. The question was one deeply connected with the national welfare and our commercial prosperity. Distress might exist in a coun try, although there might be plenty of food in it ; and that was now the case in England, for the people had not the means of purchasing food. That was a fearful state of things, and one which deserved the immediate consideration of Parliament. He had by him a letter which he lately received from a gentleman in the country professing his own political opinions— for he was what was called a Radical—(A laugh)— and his correspondent stated that the feeling throughout the country was, that the people had nothing to expect from Parliament ; that everything was to be attained by I;eslence rim& Mat' nuitting - teoattrttrgranted to ' argu ment or common-sense.—(Hear.) He (the Earl of Radnor) had always observed that there was a singular aversion to discussion upon the part of Noble Lords opposite. If the Parliament were now prorogued, and popular out rages should take place during the winter, and it say thing should be done by the Government next Ss . nen, would not that be a repetition of the lesson tang} 1n ih people by the granting of Catholic Emant it 6 . a? Would they not again be taught that that was conceded to . violence which was refused to argument and common sense?—(Hear, hear, hear.) Ile would now read their Lordships a passage from another letter which he had received from the same individual, in which the writer stated that now the Government had got into office they were endeavouring to persuade the people that there was no distress. Now with respect to the question of distress, it was remarkable that while the existence of that distress was admitted and deplored, documents were produced which went to show that there was no distress at all. With regard to that part of the ques tion, however, he had that morning seen in a newspaper, purporting to be a petition to the House of Commons, signed " A Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London," which stated certain facts relating to the admissions into the Fever Hospital at Manchester during the last ten years. During the first five years, which were years of manufacturing prosperity, the number of admissions amounted to 2,459, and the number of deaths to 309, while during the last five .years, which had been y ears of distress, the number of admissions amounted to 4,639, and the number of deaths to 853, being nearly 18 per cent. on the admission. Was it not matter worthy the consideration of Parliament, when such multitudes were complaining of distress— when medical men were publishing books, calling on the clergy to exert themselves to assist in endeavouring to devis:s some remedy for that distress, which was affecting so deeply both the corporeal and intellectual welfare of the people? Under such circumstances it was most painful to see the Government turn a deaf ear to their applications, and Parliament dismissed without having considered the subject. Me repeated that he thought the Government was incurring a grave responsibility in advising her Ma jesty to adopt the step of proroguing the Parliament. The gentleman to whom he h a d b e f ore a ll uded in another part of his letter stated that the Government should re collect that the greater number of the Chartist leaders were now out of prison, and that they were endeavouring to persuade the working-people that a repeal of the Corn. laws would do them no good.—(" Hear, hear," from the Duke of Richmond.) The Noble Duke seemed to be of the same opinion. Would he agree with the other doc trines of the Chartist leaders, that all the land ought to be taken into immediate cultivation, that the present possessors of the land had no right to it, but that it ought all to belong to the State? The writer then went on to say that great dismay pre vailed in Manchester, on account of the Chartist meet ings, and that if justice were done to the people, it would put an end to all those absurdities, and the people who live by promulgating them. The letter was from a very plain man, but one who very well under stood the subject. He hoped Noble Lords opposite would lay these things to their hearts, and that some thing should be done before the prorogation.—(Hear, hear, from the Opposition.) The Duke of WELLINGTON said that the erson who advised h e r M a j es ty oug ht t o cons i der well before he submitted his advice ; and he (the Duke of Wel lington) would do so. But he would tell the Noble Lord opposite what he would not do. He would not allow himself to be intimidated by the Noble Lord and his correspondent —a Radical, the Noble Lord called him—(A laugh)—from doing his duty, let the consequences be what they might which should follow upon the advice which, to the best of his judgment, he should think it his duty t o su b mit to his Sovereign' . (Hear, hear, from the Ministerial benches.) It was his (the Noble Duke's) opinion, that there was not a wiser order upon their Lordships' Standing Or ders than that which provided that reference should not be made to former d ebates—(llear)—wi l d he thought that when Noble Lords thought proper to pay no at tention to that order, and to refer to former speakers, they ought to be correct as to what passed, and not at tribute words to other Noble Lords which never were uttered--(Hear, hear)—nor give a meaning to those words which the Noble Lord to whom they were attri buted never could have intended to convey. If the Noble Lord (Radnor) had attended to what occurred last night, he would have known that it was not him, but the Noble Viscount opposite (Lord Melbourne), who alluded to the subject.—(Hear.) The Noble Viscount said that if he (the Duke of Wellington) would give notice of bringing the Corn-laws under the consideration of the House, he would secu re a f u ll atten d ance o f M em bers. His (the Noble Duke's) answer to that was, that he would not announce any intention which he did e n a o r t entertain, in order to insure a full attendance.—(Hear, h ear.) Ile was sure the Noble Viscount opposite would _ allow that what he alluded to, was the attendance_ ear f Members in the present Session of Parliament.- 0 Melbourne.) y fro is in co L un or t d menttilatfur Noble In fact, meant now. not i i i ce e did shou l l l d ot b t e hin g l ive t n h the Noble Viscount meant no such thine months, or any distant period.--(Hear, hear.) In I li fo — rd that it would He perfectly agreed with the He was not prepared what he stated was perfectly true. bring a large number of t p h e e rs i\- o 'o ns to the House. But What he stated was that it was a large and to bring forward at the present time a review of the Corn-law. serious question, which required consideration in all its parts, and must be so considered in all 'its parts and all its bearings in reference to commerce and finances, and the other questions with which the Corn-law was connected EVENING NUN by the late Government in different communications, lts well from the Throne as from Ministers, in both Houses of Parliament, It was true he- brought in the existing law and advised- its adoption, and he could not recollect whether it met with the opposition of the Noble Lord op posite or not ; but he had at different times since discussed the question, and had endeavoured, by perusing important documents connected with the principle of the law, to refresh his memory on the subject. He had some knowledge of the subject, but it stood in a different light now from what it did when he breug,ht it forward in the first instance, because they had' the . knowledge of the last, the preceding, and the other sessions to guide them. Therefore the ques tion now stood in a different position from what it did some years ago, and they must give it deep attention, and not eubmit any scheme on the subject to this or the other House of Parliament which was not fully considered, and considered not only with reference to the other questions with which it had been connected in the different motions made in the other House of' Parlia ment, and discussed in that House, but considered also in reference to treaties with other Powers, and the treaties of other Powers with each other, and combining with those considerations the general relations connected with the social system of the country. He agreed with the Noblo Lord that it was a most serious question, and not to be taken up in a hurry, but must be maturely considered. The Noble Lord had mixed up with the debate of last night some conversation:which occurred two nights before, and had taken erroneous views on that occasion also, What he said wet, that in tome parts of the country great distress existed, but that the distress did not arise from any want of food in the country. What he said was that there was no danger of want of provisions. The Noble Lord himself had stated that there were 1,700,000 quarters of corn in the country, and he (the Duke of Wellington) knew that there had been 1,200,000 quarters in store at the commence. ment of the present Session of Parliament, making - in all nearly 3,000,000 quarters. lle therefore concluded that there could be no distress arising from the absolute want of corn. There was distress, Do doubt, owing to want of work, deficiency in the wages of labour, and other grounds, into the consideration of which he would not at present enter; but he never heard from any one whatever of any practical measure which could relieve such evils. They were the consequences of a variety of causes which Parliament, if it sat till next February, could not remove. He was sorry to have troubled their Lordships, but he thought it right at. least to state what had actually passed on a former occasion. Lord KINNAIRD wa; glad of the Noble Dukes ce planation, because it removed an erroneous impression which had gone abroad. The present Government was brought into power by monopoly, and it could hardly be expected that any effectual measure for the alteration of the Corn-laws would be passed by them. They called for time, and he believed they required it. for the materials of which the Government was formed were of so heterogenous a nature that a considerabk time must elapse before they could concur upon any one measure, or perhaps it would be requiree, to turn one or two of the Members out of the Cabinet in order :to bring it to a proper mind. He had certainly th oug h t , a f ter the speech of the Noble Earl, and the speeches which had been extracted from the lion. Baronet at. the head of the Government, that they were prepared to state to the house the principles upon which that Government was formed. Like the Noble Lord who had preceded him, he would warn their Lordships of the danger of delay. He received daily accounts of the great distress which prevailed, and of the danger of postponing the consideratlOn of measures of relief. The Government was ttling upon itself a heavy responsibility ; and it Ir9 s nothi ng more nor l ess ban burkin g th e question te, prorogue Parliament with .. out considering the starving condition of the people. The Duke or WELLINGTON said that with re ference to the prorogation of Parliament the Noble Lord must be aware that he had asked a most improper question. He did not know what the Noble Ltird meant by the word " monopolists ?" The Duke of RICHMOND said the Noble Lord must have been after the stag - hounds when he (the D u k e o f Richmond), had made die speech referred to. What he had said was, that if Sir Robert Peel came into office and was mad enough to support the Bs. fixed duty, he would tell him and those who supported him that the landed interest, who had helped him into power, would not have the slightest hesitation in turning him out. He had made use of no threat, but he only answered the arguments of his Noble Friend. He would not be led on that occasion into a dis cussion of the Corn-laws. He was not one of those who thought that the Corn-laws ought never to be altered, but if they were altered, protection should be afforded to the agricultural interest. His Noble Friend had been reading the productions of the Anti-Corn-law Committee at Manchester, and no doubt thought he had correctly stated his (the Duke of Richmond's) sentiments; but he thought it would be hest to make ihis explanation. Lord CLIFFORD (of Chudleigh) was happy to hear from the Noble Duke that there was no fixed time to which Parliament was to be prorogued, and therefore that the . people might entertain some hope that their distressed condition would be taken into consideration much earlier than was generally sup posed. He had no fear for want of food in the country, but what he dreaded was increase of discentent, for which he saw no remedy except a temporary coining forward, on thepart of the aristocracy, especially that part that had shown themselves the riehest at thelasteke.niook„ Thig country was burdened with a debt of 800 t r , and while it was so, it would be impossible for there to frame a Corn-law such as they might do if it did not exist. The very fact of the delay so strenuously upon by the i,resent Government, showed that the work of governing the country was one of considerable difficulty. The country had a right to expect their Lordships to come forward with that assistance w hich would be necessary for the suste nance of the poor during the time which her Ma jesty's present Government delayed their measures. While he was on his legs he begged to oive notice that early next Session he would move for the appointment of a - Committee to inquire whether it was not in the power of the Governor of Madras to protect her Majesty's subjects according to the law as set tled in 1833. That inquiry was rendered necessary because the Noble Lord, the Pr6sident of the Board of Control, appeared to be as unable to understand that law as his (Lord Clifford's) speeches.--(Hear.) The Marquis of NORMANBY did not know whether it was necessary to trouble their Lordships with a rather extraordinary letter he had received from a Mr. Lacon, ho had charged him with having taken steps to suppress: the production of certain papers with reference to proceedings that had taken place in the borough of Great Yarmouth. The letter was written in complete misapprehension of the facts, for their Lordships were aware that the correspondence was not produced, because the Noble Earl who had put the question to him had not moved for it. SLAVERY. Lord BROUGHAM rose to call the attention of their Lordships to a subject of very great importance, and on which, as there existed happily no difference of opinion in this House or the other House of Parliament, and as there indeed was a singular unanimity on the would be the less neces sar y f or hi m -to trou b le question in every part o f th e ki ng d om, i t their Lordships at any very considerable length. The subject was the slave-trade and slavery, and he believed there ex:sfed in no part of either House of Parliament or the country any description of persons who felt otherwise than the strongest and most intense desire to see that traffic extinguished, and to see the state of slavery as universally as with all prac ticable expeditidn extinguished. The ground upon which he felt it necessary to trouble their Lordships on the present occasion, was, that great misapprehen sion, he understood, had gone forth on the state of the law respecting both slavery and the slave trade, as it at present existed in that country. He had presented a petition to their Lordships, ten or twelve days ago, containing a variety of allega tions upon that subject, and he had distinctly stated at the time that the truth of the allegations and the responsibility for the accuracy of these statements must rest upon the respectable petition ers who had brought the matter before the House. It would appear that a large amount Of the capital of the country was embarked not only in maintaining slavery in foreign settlements, but actually in supporting and maintaining the- slave -trade itself. He deemed it to be expedient, in going over the different settlements. to specify those parts in which he understood be from th e b est attention he could give, not to contrary to the l aw as i t now stood—those settlements which lie deemed t o b e o f d oubtful character, thoseandi.. ite a d. set tlements in whi c h it was elearly and distinctly prre alley °1 .e Now, as to the first class, th ose things which in the p e ti t i on to have been done by British subjects, -0 ; t he and which h e too k to be clearly contradictoryrt'l3; world, law was that any British subject, in anylg; r : slave ' trade whether in that part of the world L a n ny was lawful or illegal—that any world where subject even in a part 0- but encou raged slave-trade was not only allowed, country)hat that raged by law (if there-were such British subject, was a slave-trading, if partaken in by a r t o life was that British British, felony. Liable to transportation Ad m iralty—liable to be within the jurisdiction of the s if that slave-trading act transported for fourteen years, it subject, if he committed thatft‘ in the Admiralty juris was committed otherwise. though not within the Ad diction. In like manner, act of on the 'high seas, or ., of slave trading were miralty jurisdiction . , tn was allowed, and he .would country where slave trading the law of the country, it was a suppose encouraged British subject was liable to be taken for which a committed by a Britit'srhadsinughject, though in a colony or felony, and tried in settlement of the Briti s h C rown, or if taken an this country, he was li a bl e to be tried as if the act were committed in th e county of kid dlesex, and on being convicted to be transp or t e d as a felon for 14 years. He (Lord Brougham) tru s t e d, a f ter stating this be he should notquoted, as lat e ly, t o hi s great astonish ibllro a brought into n ient, be had been, as having said that it depended on the law of the foreign country whether a British subject committing certain acts was guilty of felony or not ; whereas he had most expressly stated that the law of foreign countries was utterly immaterial as regarded a British subject, and it was even certain, no doubt, that if a foreigner, not a British subject, committed an act of slave -trading within our settlements, he was also liable to be dealt with, if within the Admi ralty jurisdiction, as if he had committed piracy and felony, and to be transported for life; if not, to be trans ported for fourtee n y ears. The only question was, did any given act amount to an act of slave-trading or not? Several of the facts mentioned in the petition, which ha had presented to their Lordships, appeared to him nut to amount to slave-trading —others were of a doubtful description, and others were, in his opinion, clearly and undoubtedly, acts of slave -trading within the mean ing of the Act. If a p erson were to fit out a vessel to traffic with a slave factory, and if he were to sell goods., to 'the persons residing in that slave factory, although lts , ' Q ~~; %' .°4 . -;~ ;~; -fi I /